[newbie] graphical boot up under 8.2
hiho all, I am wondering why i haven´t already read such a question here (or did i miss it ?). Anyway - as the subject says - how can i get rid of this graphical bootup screen - it SUCKS ! I want the normal text bootup back, black background and linux kernel messages floating down my screen. I already searched in deja which turned up with the solution to uninstall the bootsplash rpm and removin the quit option from the append line in lilo.conf. It didnt solve my problem - in 8.1 one was able to switch off this feature in mandrake control - but this isnt possible any more, the option is gone (why ) So - can anybody provide a solution to this (i am pretty sure there are lots of u who want to kick this graphical bootup too ;) greets --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network
At 18:59 12.03.2002 +, you wrote: Hello all, I have my network up and running great. I can access the Linux machine from the win box. Could some give me a point in the right direction on how to access the win box from Linux? Thanks -- Registered Linux user #225209 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com samba is your friend ;) ! www.samba.org http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba.html --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network md8.1 w/ w2k for lan and internet
At 16:28 11.03.2002 -0700, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ya'll will have to type real slow because I am from deep in the piney woods of east texas and can't read very fast. In fact so far back in the woods that chickens wear overalls. I have a toshiba cable modem that uses usb (mandrake set it up and it works. Yea!). I have a nic and with a crossed cat5 to my w2k machine (no hub). I want for the w2k machine to be able to get to the internet. With very little knowledge on the subject, what should I do. Thanks Rick rick, i can suggest u following way : 1) goto http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmlan.html and follow the steps there to get a working win-linux lan 2) goto http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cipc.html and follow the instructions there to get your mandrake box masquerading all the traffic from the windows box. because that is what u want to do - u want to mask all traffic that goes from the win box to the internet (via the linux router) additional sources of information would be : the IP-Masquerading Howto the IP-Tables Howto (this is a linux-firewall) Netfilter-Howto u will find all this howtos and much more at www.linuxdoc.org btw. - mandrakeuser is a great source of information - and the guides are imho great for newbies. hth --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network md8.1 w/ w2k for lan and internet
At 16:28 11.03.2002 -0700, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ya'll will have to type real slow because I am from deep in the piney woods of east texas and can't read very fast. In fact so far back in the woods that chickens wear overalls. I have a toshiba cable modem that uses usb (mandrake set it up and it works. Yea!). I have a nic and with a crossed cat5 to my w2k machine (no hub). I want for the w2k machine to be able to get to the internet. With very little knowledge on the subject, what should I do. Thanks Rick rick, i can suggest u following way : 1) goto http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmlan.html and follow the steps there to get a working win-linux lan 2) goto http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cipc.html and follow the instructions there to get your mandrake box masquerading all the traffic from the windows box. because that is what u want to do - u want to mask all traffic that goes from the win box to the internet (via the linux router) additional sources of information would be : the IP-Masquerading Howto the IP-Tables Howto (this is a linux-firewall) Netfilter-Howto u will find all this howtos and much more at www.linuxdoc.org btw. - mandrakeuser is a great source of information - and the guides are imho great for newbies. hth --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] clock keeping correct time?
At 22:28 11.03.2002 -0500, you wrote: * Carlos Arigós [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11 Mar 02 21:53]: Install rdate rpm. As root, type: rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu hwclock --systohc Enter I don't know how to automate this task; any idea? I added it to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local u could also use crond - man crond - man crontab. regards --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus
At 06:46 12.03.2002 -0500, you wrote: I am new to Linux, just getting familiar with installing software and command lines. What is a good Antivirus program to use with Linux? Are there any freeware ones that are worth using? Thanks in advance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com hi, in general - u dont need an antivir-scanner for linux because there arent really lots of linux-viruses. but u can - of course use your linux box to scan for windows viruses. personally i have a linux server, running avmailgate from www.antivir.de which scans all incoming email for windows viruses before they can reach my windows box behind. so that would be a task for an antivir-program under linux ;) --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus
At 06:46 12.03.2002 -0500, you wrote: I am new to Linux, just getting familiar with installing software and command lines. What is a good Antivirus program to use with Linux? Are there any freeware ones that are worth using? Thanks in advance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com hi, in general - u dont need an antivir-scanner for linux because there arent really lots of linux-viruses. but u can - of course use your linux box to scan for windows viruses. personally i have a linux server, running avmailgate from www.antivir.de which scans all incoming email for windows viruses before they can reach my windows box behind. so that would be a task for an antivir-program under linux ;) --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
At 12:52 12.03.2002 -0600, you wrote: Lake Mary, Florida (town just north of Orlando). It's 79 here. Brr. :) Scott Burrows Austria(no cangaroos and boomerangs here *g*) 20° Celsius --dave -Original Message- From: DanLori Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all g. sanders wrote: On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:48, you wrote: Paul Vortex wrote this on his reply to programs running on wine post, and since there is this trend in the past 2 days in the list where people are posting things that are not neccesarily == ( never mind the spelling ... hint would be nice to add a spell checker in Kmail /hint) related to the list objectivs :) Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ?? starter: Name: Hanan Country: Fairfax, VA United States IP: .. nah ;-) San Diego, CA USA Where it's 8:48 am, and already 70 out. :-) (it's going to be great beer weather today!) --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comhttp://www.mandrakestore.com Dan Buchanan Chicagoland (far north burbs) USA where it's been in the low 20s at 6:00 and might get to 50 today. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Halt command
joan, another solution would be to add your username to the /etc/shutdown.allow file and then shutdown your machine with shutdown -h now as that user --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cron ???
At 14:12 24.12.2001 +0800, you wrote: [root@smtp /root]# cat /var/spool/cron/root # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. did u see this line ? *g* # (/tmp/crontab.8868 installed on Mon Dec 24 10:11:33 2001) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/bin MAILTO=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 9 * * 1-6 $PATH/killall fetchmail 0 9 * * 1-6 $PATH/fetchmail -d 300 0 17 * * 1-6 $PATH/killall fetchmail 0 17 * * 1-6 $PATH/fetchmail -d 3600 Hi! above is my cron setting ..I create .. But it does not work ...? Can someone help me ...what is my mistake ... ? u have to edit /etc/crontab in order to get this working - edit the file with an editor of your choice and insert the cron jobs above (dont forget to set the user the cron jobs should be running as). then save and killall -HUP crond - this will restart the cron service and your jobs should run properly. greetings --quay Best Regards, SKLIM +6012 391 3638 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 and mandrake-update
At 18:33 20.12.2001 -0500, you wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2001 18:21, you wrote: At 21:47 20.12.2001 +, you wrote: hi derek, 1) why the hell is the window which lists all the updates so SMALL ? on my screen the list of all the updates is about 2cm in height - with scrolling arrows next to it. its not possible to resize the list - to see more packages at one time, so there are only about 5-8 visible at a time. this is really annoying. True the default window size is small, but if you grab that little grey box at the bottom right of the window you can drag it out and resize it. i can drag the overall window ? - but not the small list of packages ? hmmi will give this a try 2) i choose the packages that i want upgraded - and it begins to search for the packages - after a while it replies an error occured while fetching package x Yes that seems to happen. Some mirrors seem to be considerably worse than others. sourceforge for example has always given me trouble in that respect. Since I switched to sunite.se, I have had no trouble. yes i thought of that too and tried mirrors in austria, germany, france and the sunsite mirror u spoke of. the only package which i was able to download was the mozilla upgrade - nothing else worked. despite of this mandrake-update isnt able to fetch the file - this SUCKS ! 3) sometimes i am not able to start mandrake-update at all - it loads partially - leaving me with a grey main-window I find just getting a few files at a time has more chance of success than a mega upgrade. u r right - but i didnt do a mega-upgrade. for example i tried to upgrade samba-client and server - and mandrake-update came up with a bunch of about 8 packages which the samba packages were depending on. i also tried to select just single packages - which didnt work tooi think the mandrake-update app is simply not ready for use... another thing i hate about the desktop-linux is that there is no browser that can view websites properly. regardless which fonts/font-size/browser i use - i always get bad-looking fonts - not so smooth like ms-ie shows. Well my fonts look terrific, on my desktop and in all my browsers, Konqeuror, Opera, and Galeon, and I wonder why yours does not. One thing might be worth checking. If you open kde Control CenterLookNFeelFonts Open up the drop down list of fonts. If you do not see adobe-helvetica, and mdk-helvetica in that list, then you may be suffering from a KDE 'bug' I had myself recently. The symptoms would be really ugly fonts, and the font appearance would improve if I disabled alti-aliasing in kde. Could it be a video card deficiency? My fonts look great in all 3 of my computers, one with Geforce256, one with Geforce2MX, and the 3rd a crummy old laptop with heaven knows what graphics chip. hmm-.i use a geforce2 pro - and it was recognized by the mandrake-installer with no probs... HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Just thought I would jump in here, if you are using a 56K modem the downloads on the Mandrake update sites can take quite some time. ehm -no, i am using a 512 kbit adsl line - so that should be no prob. And the box will be grey with nothing on it for a while, until it gets enough data transfered or until the transfer starts. hmmm - it doenst look like that - its simply frozen I have been on some sites that I waited for up to 10 minutes before I got an indication of a download occurring. So, I guess what I am saying is try it again and let it sit there for what you begin to feel is an unreasonable amount of time because the servers seem to be slow. well - i dont have to wait that long - because it tells me that it cant download the packages after about 2-3 mins the grey window i spoke before comes up when i initially start the application -not the download. --quay -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake 8.1 and mandrake-update
hiho all i just booted mandrake 8.1 again - after about 2 months of using windows2k i felt like giving mandrake 8.1 again a try. when i booted up 8.1 the first time after installing i was really pleased by the new kde 2.2 and all the apps it came with. just a few minutes ago i thought about applying all the security and bugfix updates - and i tried mandrake-update. mandrake-update, it didnt work with 7.2 and 8.0 (at least for me) - i had thought that meanwhile mandrake would have managed to get it working - but no. i created a new source for the downloads - chose a server and i got a list of all the updates that were available. so far so good - but : 1) why the hell is the window which lists all the updates so SMALL ? on my screen the list of all the updates is about 2cm in height - with scrolling arrows next to it. its not possible to resize the list - to see more packages at one time, so there are only about 5-8 visible at a time. this is really annoying. 2) i choose the packages that i want upgraded - and it begins to search for the packages - after a while it replies an error occured while fetching package x a) why cant it tell WHICH error ?? b) i made sure to use the correct server - i tried logging manually in the server - and i checked the proper directory - i also checked whether the regarding file was definitely on the server - and it was ! despite of this mandrake-update isnt able to fetch the file - this SUCKS ! 3) sometimes i am not able to start mandrake-update at all - it loads partially - leaving me with a grey main-window and its not possible to close it any more - so i have to kill it every time by opening a console - suing to root and then killing it by pid (if i want to kill it with the pid monitoring program under X i certainly get u are not permitted to kill this app - why cant it ask for the superuser-password allowing me to kill it out of X ?? - instead it forces me every time to open a console and killing it as superuser - this is time-consuming, complicated and frustrating !) now please dont tell me things like download the rpm file manually and install it using command line rpm because i know how to handle rpm command line - but why use it if there is a X-utility that does it with a few clicks ? i know people are proud of being able to use console - and i am too - but if there is the possibility to safe time and make things easier and faster - why not use it ? another thing i hate about the desktop-linux is that there is no browser that can view websites properly. regardless which fonts/font-size/browser i use - i always get bad-looking fonts - not so smooth like ms-ie shows. has anybody of u been able to get mandrake-update working - or to get a browser that shows smooth good looking fonts ? dont misunderstand me - i like linux - and i am using a linux server that handles mail-dns-samba-antivir-ftp-telnet and so on. but this is console - and it works well... but what does not work - in my eyes - is the X-part of linuxso - are u experiencing the same problems i do - or is it just my lack of ability to get things working smooth under X ? should i use gnome rather than KDE ? - are apps working better under gnome ?? i mean - regarding desktop-functions/programs windows is far superior to linux. i currently run win2k and it runs perfectly stable - all programs are running without any problems - under linux i am running into endless loops, requiring me a high amount of time to - for example - simply install a program (everybody of u knows : dependencies that require dependencies that requireetc.) i can understand that this is frustrating newbies that use linux first time - as it does me - and i am using linux now for about 1.5 years. (although i was using more console than X) so - please dont flame - we´re on the same side ;) i am just really sick of non-working apps under X that *should* make life easyier - but dont do. all suggestions/advices/opinions are welcome ;) --quaylar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 and mandrake-update
At 21:47 20.12.2001 +, you wrote: hi derek, 1) why the hell is the window which lists all the updates so SMALL ? on my screen the list of all the updates is about 2cm in height - with scrolling arrows next to it. its not possible to resize the list - to see more packages at one time, so there are only about 5-8 visible at a time. this is really annoying. True the default window size is small, but if you grab that little grey box at the bottom right of the window you can drag it out and resize it. i can drag the overall window ? - but not the small list of packages ? hmmi will give this a try 2) i choose the packages that i want upgraded - and it begins to search for the packages - after a while it replies an error occured while fetching package x Yes that seems to happen. Some mirrors seem to be considerably worse than others. sourceforge for example has always given me trouble in that respect. Since I switched to sunite.se, I have had no trouble. yes i thought of that too and tried mirrors in austria, germany, france and the sunsite mirror u spoke of. the only package which i was able to download was the mozilla upgrade - nothing else worked. despite of this mandrake-update isnt able to fetch the file - this SUCKS ! 3) sometimes i am not able to start mandrake-update at all - it loads partially - leaving me with a grey main-window I find just getting a few files at a time has more chance of success than a mega upgrade. u r right - but i didnt do a mega-upgrade. for example i tried to upgrade samba-client and server - and mandrake-update came up with a bunch of about 8 packages which the samba packages were depending on. i also tried to select just single packages - which didnt work tooi think the mandrake-update app is simply not ready for use... another thing i hate about the desktop-linux is that there is no browser that can view websites properly. regardless which fonts/font-size/browser i use - i always get bad-looking fonts - not so smooth like ms-ie shows. Well my fonts look terrific, on my desktop and in all my browsers, Konqeuror, Opera, and Galeon, and I wonder why yours does not. One thing might be worth checking. If you open kde Control CenterLookNFeelFonts Open up the drop down list of fonts. If you do not see adobe-helvetica, and mdk-helvetica in that list, then you may be suffering from a KDE 'bug' I had myself recently. The symptoms would be really ugly fonts, and the font appearance would improve if I disabled alti-aliasing in kde. hmmi do have the adobe-helvetica and some other fonts - and i selected them in my browser but still some of my fonts are so sharp edged if u know what i mean... (i remember this KDE-Bug, i had to install a fonts package when i was dealing with this problem in version 7.1 i think) but i could try to disable anti-aliasing - didnt find this option yet - where is it ? The fix is simply to delete the file ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals Next time I logged in the file got created again, and my fonts became beautiful with every font appearing in the list. has anybody of u been able to get mandrake-update working - or to get a browser that shows smooth good looking fonts ? Yes and yes dont misunderstand me - i like linux - and i am using a linux server that handles mail-dns-samba-antivir-ftp-telnet and so on. but this is console - and it works well... but what does not work - in my eyes - is the X-part of linuxso - are u experiencing the same problems i do - or is it just my lack of ability to get things working smooth under X ? Could it be a video card deficiency? My fonts look great in all 3 of my computers, one with Geforce256, one with Geforce2MX, and the 3rd a crummy old laptop with heaven knows what graphics chip. hmm-.i use a geforce2 pro - and it was recognized by the mandrake-installer with no probs... HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cant receive any email
At 12:45 18.12.2001 +, you wrote: i cant get any email from any of my pop accounts, no matter which email client i try they all come back with an error connecting to pop.email.net ..etc . i do seem able to send email ok andwill have to use the 2k box on the lan to receive my email .. David are u sure u configured your email client under linux properly ? proper pop server and port (110) ? do u have any firewall rules present that could prevent fetching mail ? u could try to open a console under linux an telnet manually in to see wether its the email client´s fault (which i dont think) telnet pop.email.net 110 this will connect u to your pop server at port 110 user user pass pass this will auth u and let u view your mailbox (list) give it a try and supply more info. --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IP settings
At 03:15 04.12.2001 -0500, you wrote: How do I manually set or change my IP thru the terminal? Does it have something to do with ifconfig? Thanks. yes it does have something to do with ifconfig, read the manual page for ifconfig - it will tell u all the available options. --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection sharing
At 17:57 04.12.2001 +1100, you wrote: I have just dedicated one of my machines as a Linux server. Installed Mandrake 8.1 and chose server partitioning. Almost everything works great! That is it does immediately after I set up internet connection sharing, but after a server reboot I can no longer use the shared connection until I configure it again. i.e. I use the wizard in DrakConf. It tells me that this is already configured. I click on the Configure button anyway and it reruns the scripts and everything works again. Reboot and it's no go. It's a dialup connection and it still dials OK - is then accessable from the server, but not to the client machines. I'm planning to do the server tutorial stuff and learn what's behind the wizard, but right now I need a quick fix (don't we all!), or at least a starting point on where to look for a diagnostic. As always, any help is much appreciated. cheers /Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com hmmu could try to locate the script that runs behind the wizard by searching for it in the /etc/rc.d/ path. as internet connection sharing is done by ipchains or iptables (as long as u do masquerading and not caching - and i assume u use masquerading) there should be ipchains/-tables commands in the script that sets up the internet connection sharing. so try to grep for all ipchains/iptables commands located in scripts in the /etc/rc.d/ path: grep ipchains /etc/rc.d/* or grep iptables /etc/rc.d/* if u use iptables. this will give u an output for all scripts in this path that have ipchains or iptables in it. maybe u are able to find the responsible script this way. this is only a guess - i really dont know what the wizard does - since i do almost everything in console... give it a try --quaylar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Problem - Please help if you can thanks :)
At 11:24 04.12.2001 +, you wrote: hi neil, this error indicates that your ftp client was not able to establish a data connection to your home pc at target port 20 (this is ftp-data). so either u have a firewall at work that doesnt allow traffic from/to port 20 or - and this is more likely - u have set up some firewall rules on your home pc that prevent input/output traffic to/from port 20. check your firewall rules - try setting all policies to ACCEPT - and try again connecting from the outside world i.e. your office. if this works - u have a firewall problem. --qu Hi all I have proftpd setup at home and here at work i'd like to access it. At home I tried it out and it works fine over the home network... using cuteftp here at work produces the following log... basically it hangs a while on Connecting data socket... and then says Failed to establish data socket. What is causing this? I've changed the actual IPs concerned to IP addresses here... just in case - am paranoid! :) Thanks for any help Neil PS I also use apache to serve pages and that's working np. STATUS:Connect: Monday 14:07:46 12-03-2001 STATUS:Connecting to IP addresses here STATUS:Connecting to IP addresses here (ip = IP addresses here) STATUS:Socket connected. Waiting for welcome message... 220 ProFTPD 1.2.2 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [nrpmedia] STATUS:Connected. Authenticating... COMMAND: USER neil 331 Password required for neil. COMMAND: PASS 230 User neil logged in. STATUS:Login successful COMMAND: TYPE I 200 Type set to I. COMMAND: REST 100 350 Restarting at 100. Send STORE or RETRIEVE to initiate transfer. STATUS:This site can resume broken downloads COMMAND: REST 0 350 Restarting at 0. Send STORE or RETRIEVE to initiate transfer. COMMAND: pwd 257 /home/neil is current directory. COMMAND: TYPE A 200 Type set to A. STATUS:Retrieving directory listing... COMMAND: PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (IP addresses here). COMMAND: LIST STATUS:Connecting data socket... ERROR: Failed to establish data socket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem setup help required
At 10:48 27.11.2001 +, you wrote: Can someone guide me step by step in simple language please how I install a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster Modem on 8.0? Many thanks Gordon gordon, try out this excellent guide : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cppp.html hth --qu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] linux on a Dell I 4100
hiho ppl ! i am thinking of buying a new Dell Inspiron 4100 notebook and was wondering whether anybody could give hints/advice regarding its compatibility with linux. i already searched the linux-notebook.com website - but unfortunately its rather outdated (at least regarding the Dell notebooks) this NB has a built in 3com 56k modem and 10/100 LAN chip. According to some deja.com posts this is a hardware modem and should therefore work under linux. but i am simply not sure and would be glad if anybody could post his experience. additionally all recommendations for linux-compatible notebooks are welcome ;) regards and TIA, --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail
At 12:14 31.10.2001 -0800, you wrote: Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm configuring fetchmail and procmail to retrieve and sort my incoming mail. I'm on a single-user machine runing 8.1. The fetchmail part was easy, and I think I have an idea of how to write procmail recipe. My question is, where do I put the .procmailrc ? I'm sorting mail in order to put it into different Mail folders in different home directories. I have fetchmail running as a daemon. It dumps the mail into /var/spool/mail/paul. Depending on the To: field, I'm going to move the mail to either my home directory or my wife's. According to what I've been reading, Linux invokes procmail if it finds the .procmailrc file in the logged-in user's home directory. But, since I'm moving mail into different home directories, I need procmail to be run by root, even though either myself or my wife will be the logged in user. How do I do this and where do I put the .procmailrc file? put it in /etc/procmailrc (without the leading .) this will make the file globally used. --quay -Paul I can type 'man' really fast now Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail
At 15:43 31.10.2001 -0500, you wrote: Will this work?? The man page says nothing about /etc/procmailrc. u sure ? and whats this then : man procmail If no rcfiles and no -p have been specified on the command line, procmail will, prior to reading $HOME/.procmailrc, interpret commands from /etc/procmailrc (if present). Care must be taken when creating /etc/procmailrc, because, if circumstances permit, it will be executed with root privileges (contrary to the $HOME/.procmailrc file of course). read more carefully ;) --quay On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, quaylar wrote: At 12:14 31.10.2001 -0800, you wrote: Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm configuring fetchmail and procmail to retrieve and sort my incoming mail. I'm on a single-user machine runing 8.1. The fetchmail part was easy, and I think I have an idea of how to write procmail recipe. My question is, where do I put the .procmailrc ? I'm sorting mail in order to put it into different Mail folders in different home directories. I have fetchmail running as a daemon. It dumps the mail into /var/spool/mail/paul. Depending on the To: field, I'm going to move the mail to either my home directory or my wife's. According to what I've been reading, Linux invokes procmail if it finds the .procmailrc file in the logged-in user's home directory. But, since I'm moving mail into different home directories, I need procmail to be run by root, even though either myself or my wife will be the logged in user. How do I do this and where do I put the .procmailrc file? put it in /etc/procmailrc (without the leading .) this will make the file globally used. --quay -Paul I can type 'man' really fast now Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security for Mandrake
At 05:14 25.10.2001 -0400, you wrote: Hi all, This is probably a FAQ, but I can't find the answer in the e-mails I have so far Some background is needed. In common with quite a few people, I would expect, I'm a long-time Windows hack trying out Linux because of Borland's Kylix, aka Delphi for Linux. I'm starting from as near zero knowledge of Linux as makes no difference. Living in a very rural area of Pennsylvania, I have a choice of exactly one cable access provider, and they're a bit paranoid, to put it mildly. They've managed to configure their access systems in such a way as to (deliberately!) prevent use of a router as a hardware firewall, unless you buy their much more expensive commercial access. Now, when my machine is booted in Windows, I see an average of something like 30 unauthorised access attempts a day (the 24.x.y.z IP address of most cable modems is an open invitation). So far as Windows is concerned, I use Zone Alarm as a software firewall, and everyone is reasonably happy (even if I'm still a bit annoyed about having a perfectly good router sitting on my desk doing nothing). I have two questions. 1) Is there an equivalent to Zone Alarm for the Linux world - a software firewall that will work out of the box? yes there is - its called ipchains for 2.2.x kernels and iptables for 2.4.x kernels. ipchains/iptables is a part of linux and it offers the possibility to build up a real packet filter firewall by configuring a set of rules for your computer. if u really want to understand what ipchains does and how it does - and if u want to build up your own firewall with your own ruleset i would suggest u reading : 1) for ipchains the IPCHAINS-HOWTO 2) for iptables : man iptables, netfilter-hacking howto, iptables-howto, packetfilter-howto if u just want a quick and easy firewall u can try bastille firewall or tiny firewall (i dunno whether its the same) u can configure it with a gui within the mandrake control center (drakconf), theres a menu-item firewall under security. i dont know much about it because personally i prefer to build my own rules, but basically what it will do is, ask u a set of questions and build a ruleset related to your answers. search the mailing list archives for subject bastille and it should come up with numerous postings regarding bastille firewall(its a frontend to ipchains/iptables i think) 2) If there isn't such a firewall, I'm being swamped by the amount of documentation that I need to read - is there a Newbie's guide to Linux security out there somewhere that will mean that I can block out the hackers while I'm learning the rest of the OS? an excellent source for documentation of all kind is www.linuxdoc.org - they offer all the howtos and also guides (check these out - theres a linux security guide too i think) Thanks, hth --quay - !-- If privacy is outlawed,only outlaws will have privacy -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord and my ricoh burner
At 18:47 24.10.2001 -0500, you wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2001 03:53 pm, you wrote: At 15:51 23.10.2001 -0700, you wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2001 02:42 pm, you wrote: hi ppl i have lm 8.1 and cdrecord version 1.10 i just tried to burn an audio cd (mp3 files converted to wav) with eroaster and upon clicking the burn button i got this : scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'RICOH ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW MP7080A ' Revision : '1.30' Have you tried any of the other ones? I used gnome-toaster last night to burn a couple of iso's and they burnt well...'just like mom's' ;-) hi michael i tried x cd-roast - but since it uses cdrecord as well it didnt work. after that i tried to burn my wav files via command line - not setting the -dao option and thus burning in TAO mode. this worked - but i would have liked to burn DAO over a nice gui does gnome-toaster use another program than cdrecord ? --quay -- -michael- Have you tried getting the latest cdrecord from rpmfind.net? Yours may be corrupted. A fresh install may get it going correctly. HTH latest is 1.11 - i have 1.10 - i dont think there are too much changes in this version furthermore i think its simply a problem of cdrecord not supporting DAO for my burner - but theres nothing i can do about this - unfortunately...i will gice cdrdao a try do u know of other cd - burning programs ? --quay -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord and my ricoh burner
At 15:51 23.10.2001 -0700, you wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2001 02:42 pm, you wrote: hi ppl i have lm 8.1 and cdrecord version 1.10 i just tried to burn an audio cd (mp3 files converted to wav) with eroaster and upon clicking the burn button i got this : scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'RICOH ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW MP7080A ' Revision : '1.30' Have you tried any of the other ones? I used gnome-toaster last night to burn a couple of iso's and they burnt well...'just like mom's' ;-) hi michael i tried x cd-roast - but since it uses cdrecord as well it didnt work. after that i tried to burn my wav files via command line - not setting the -dao option and thus burning in TAO mode. this worked - but i would have liked to burn DAO over a nice gui does gnome-toaster use another program than cdrecord ? --quay -- -michael- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake 8.1 on promise ATA100 controller
hiho ppl ! is someone out there having the same problem i have ?: installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 controller of motherboard ASUS A7V KT133). i have a 30 gig IBM hd on the primary promise controller jumpered as slave (i already tried master) and i´m getting L 01 01 01 01 etc. at starting of LILO... according to the lilo users guide this would occur when the bios doesnt recognize the drive or when theres a geometry mismatch. so i tried setting the disk=/bios=/sectors, cylinders, heads= options in my lilo.conf, but all to no avail is there any special linux driver for the promise controller ? any hints ? i would highly appreciate any help, greetings --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 on promise ATA100 controller
At 13:51 05.10.2001 -0400, you wrote: On October 5, 2001 01:26 pm, quaylar wrote: hiho ppl ! is someone out there having the same problem i have ?: installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 controller of motherboard ASUS A7V KT133). i have a 30 gig IBM hd on the primary promise controller jumpered as slave (i already tried master) and i´m getting L 01 01 01 01 etc. at starting of LILO... according to the lilo users guide this would occur when the bios doesnt recognize the drive or when theres a geometry mismatch. so i tried setting the disk=/bios=/sectors, cylinders, heads= options in my lilo.conf, but all to no avail is there any special linux driver for the promise controller ? any hints ? I have the same controller and I have had that problem. You've got two hard drives that have been marked down as the bootable drive and I'm not just about where LILO is installed. For example, I had a drive that had Windoze installed on it and when I installed LM I installed it and LILO to a different hard drive. Diskdrake assumes you know what you're doing and isn't going to go look for other hard drives being marked as bootable and this is what leads to the conflict you see. To fix it, boot into rescue mode and run fdisk on the hard drive you don't want to be booting from and turn off the bootable partition. u sure that that will work if i turn off the bootable flag from my first hd (win2k running) then i wouldnt be able to boot it ??? since i boot my os´s with nt loader - i installed lilo in the root partition of the corresponding drive instead of the MBR. i think there has to be another solution - there were some postings on deja that said that there would be a special driver for linux to make it work with the promise controller - but up to now i wasnt able to find it --quay Richie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 on promise ATA100 controller
u sure that that will work if i turn off the bootable flag from my first hd (win2k running) then i wouldnt be able to boot it ??? The bootable flag just lets the BIOS know which hard drive to give control to. It does not effect a partition's ability to boot an OS. yes - and i want the bios to give control to the first hd on the via controller - because it holds the nt loader - which has an entry for linux (bootsect.lin on my c: drive) since i boot my os´s with nt loader - i installed lilo in the root partition of the corresponding drive instead of the MBR. The Win2000 NT Loader is very tenacious-- it's not going to give up control just because you have LILO installed on another partition. yes - i dont want it to give up control ;) it has an entry for linux anyways - so i should but it up fine. i think there has to be another solution - there were some postings on deja that said that there would be a special driver for linux to make it work with the promise controller - but up to now i wasnt able to find it The driver was necessary for 2.2 kernels but the module for running the Promise ATA100 controller is included with 2.4 kernels (including LM8.x). yes - i wondered about that - since linux was showing up something labeled promise controller at bootup. meanwhile i came across this on usenet : it seems that lilo doesnt know which drive to boot from because the bios doesnt recognize the drive - and thats right - bios cant recognize the drive because its hooked to the promise controller which has its own bios... so how can i solve this prob ? --quay PS : btw - every email of u is coming twice - any reason for this ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 on promise ATA100 controller
theres one more thing i just remember : when first installing lilo - i got the messages : Warning : BIOS drive 0x83 may be inaccessible ! what confuses me about this is : 0x83 would be secondary slave - so it would be my LS120 floppy disk drive. it seems to me that lilo is trying to access the LS120 drive - when i boot up in linux and all the 01 are appearing on the screen the little green led on the LS120 is flashing in similar frequency the 01 are appearing. does this look familiar to anyone ?anyone who might shed some light on this one ? --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet refused
At 14:20 22.09.2001 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2001 14:01, John Clegg wrote: for some reason I can't quote your message. this is regarding telnet working at first but not after a reboot. Go into the mandrake control center, it's likely on your desktop. Then system services. See if you can find telnetd in there. Is on boot checked? If not check it and reboot. Your telnet daemon should be up and running. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com check your /etc/inetd.conf file whether your telnet server is commented out or not... otherwise check your hosts.allow and hosts.deny as well as eventually existing ipchains rules... --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LiLo conflicts with Win NT - What to do?
At 10:54 20.09.2001 +0200, you wrote: Hi there! I recently tried to install Mandrake on the very same HD (3GB for WinNT boot(C:), 20 GB for NT (D:), 18GB for Mandrake) like my current Win NT. Everything worked fine, until I tried to start NT again. NT could not find Disk D, where all the applications are stored. The Diskmanager told me, there was an unknown partition. setting the FS type under linux from 85 to 5 enhanced the problem not significantly. After removing LiLo from the mbr NT worked again. Now my question is: Does anybody know how to install LiLo without harming the partitiontable information NT requires? I would appreciate any hint on how to do this. Couldn't really find anything... Andreas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com hiho andreas well - u mean u were able to boot into windows nt ? but u werent able to start any applications ? hmm - under win98 i know this problem doesnt exist because it doesnt see the linux ext2 partitions at all. under win2k one is able to hide the unknown partitions, thus making them invisible to windows - so they are not occupying drive letters. under win NT arent u able to hide the unknown partitions ? or - assign the unknown partition another drive letter than D ? (i assume that the unknown partition is a primary and your former D part. is a logical drive) so win nt re-assigns the drive letters - making the first 2 primary partitions C and D and then following your partition with your windows nt apps. u could also try to re-install linux - installing it *not* to a primary, but secondary(logical) partition (i think it should be possible - consult your manual) hth --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LiLo conflicts with Win NT - What to do?
At 10:54 20.09.2001 +0200, you wrote: Hi there! I recently tried to install Mandrake on the very same HD (3GB for WinNT boot(C:), 20 GB for NT (D:), 18GB for Mandrake) like my current Win NT. Everything worked fine, until I tried to start NT again. NT could not find Disk D, where all the applications are stored. The Diskmanager told me, there was an unknown partition. setting the FS type under linux from 85 to 5 enhanced the problem not significantly. After removing LiLo from the mbr NT worked again. Now my question is: Does anybody know how to install LiLo without harming the partitiontable information NT requires? I would appreciate any hint on how to do this. Couldn't really find anything... Andreas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com hiho andreas well - u mean u were able to boot into windows nt ? but u werent able to start any applications ? hmm - under win98 i know this problem doesnt exist because it doesnt see the linux ext2 partitions at all. under win2k one is able to hide the unknown partitions, thus making them invisible to windows - so they are not occupying drive letters. under win NT arent u able to hide the unknown partitions ? or - assign the unknown partition another drive letter than D ? (i assume that the unknown partition is a primary and your former D part. is a logical drive) so win nt re-assigns the drive letters - making the first 2 primary partitions C and D and then following your partition with your windows nt apps. u could also try to re-install linux - installing it *not* to a primary, but secondary(logical) partition (i think it should be possible - consult your manual) hth --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Port forwarding
At 09:39 01.08.2001 +, you wrote: Can anyone shed a little light on how to configure port-forwarding or port redirection from a Mandrake 7.2 SNF firewall to a mandrake 8.0 web-server? I realize that SNF has it's own web-server built-in, but this is for a special configuration. Examples would be very helpful. Mostly, I can't figure out which package/utility to use. You have to use ipchains for that, afaik. You can find more on www.mandrakeuser.org Paul ipportfwd is the magic word. there is a single section in the ip-masq howto that explains portforwarding. it also specifies a source where to download the portfwd utility. check this out...: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.8 hth --quay
Re: [newbie] RAM full
At 23:23 12.06.2001 +0200, you wrote: I'm using a Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium 3 with 128MB RAM, on a newly installed system. I found it a bit slow and quite a bit of the programs - like KDE mediaplayer - won´t start up. I found out that with NO programs started from the desktop by me, the RAM is nearly full! I can see, that I'm running Apache, postgreQql and mySql . My question is, where do I turn these off from the startup procedure, so I have more RAM to use as user? I have installed the developer install, as I want to learn to program and use XEmacs. Thanks, Gunner gunner, type in ntsysv in a console and u will be prompted for what services should be run on startup and which not. i think u can also do it with linuxconf and i am almost sure that mandrake has implented another nice graphical gui under X. but since i only use console mode i dont know where u can find it. i would be interested, if u know it, please tell me..;) hth --quay
[newbie] mailserver with antivir
hi all ! i would like to use an antivir program with my email server. has anybody of u experience with avmailgate from www.antivir.com what i´d like to know how it works, its manual is not very good. if anyone uses it, maybe u can explain me whether this is right or not : 1) mails are coming in (in my case via fetchmail) 2) they are handled over to antivir which is sitting on port 25 3) antivir scans all mails and forwards them to the local smtp server (i.e postfix, sendmail etc) 4) the local smtp stores them via procmail in the corresponding mail dir.. now, what my problem is : 1) i dont want to install a smtp server, does anybody know whether antivir can forward the mails it scanned directly to procmail ? 2) i noticed that one has to create a /usr/spool/antivir folder for the mails, why that ?..i thought procmail would store the mails in the default mail spool dir ? (/var/spool/mail/user in my case) or maybe u can recomment any other scanner ? any help would be greatly appreciated. greetings --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
[newbie] PAM problem
hi all ! i am experiencing following problem : i am trying to login to my qpopper (pop3) server and get following PAM error : PAM_pwdb[2237]: authentication failure; (uid=0) - mylogin for pop3 service does anyone know why this happens ?.. this is mysterious because my user login doesnt have uid=0..neither gid=0. this is my /etc/pam.d/pop3 file : #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so debug shadow nullok can anyone give any hints on this ? --quay
RE: [newbie] PAM problem
At 14:45 01.06.2001 +0200, you wrote: with isp are you shure it sisn't pop2 . Ben de man running LM8.0 using KDE2 DT on a AMDk6-3-450mhz 196ram voodoo2 and rivatnt 2, 6,4 gb hd and tv-card (pinnacle tv rave) and CDRW 4/4/24 and DVD 40/12 hi its not the server of my isp but my OWN..and i am using pop3 --quay
[newbie] md5 passwords
hi all i think i found the solution to my qpopper problem. it seems that qpopper cant deal with my md5 encr. passwords- i remember i chose md5 at install-time, but now i would like to change it back to dont use it, so i am able to user qpopper does anybody know how i can disable md5 passwords on my LM 7.2 system ? --quay
[newbie] pop3 server problem
hi all ! i have following problem with the pop3 server that came with mandrake 7.2 (imap package, ipop3d executable): it always complains about a invalid format of my mailbox file. although its a standard unix mailbox format, created by procmail which delivers my mails into the mailbox. if i delete all my mails out of the file, the pop is able to open the mailbox, but as soon as any mail is stored in the mailbox, the pop server is unable to open the box and i get above error message. can anyone give any hints on what this might be ?, the man page of ipopd says it is pretty much plugn play, so i dont understand why its causing so much trouble with the mailbox. thx for any help, greets --quay
[newbie] imap/ipop3d UW problem
hi all ! does somebody of u use the imap/pop server from the university of washington ? i am experiencing following problem : May 21 18:25:44 localhost ipop3d[3448]: Can't open INBOX (file /var/spool/mail/user): not in valid mailbox format what does this mean ? if i open the mail file i can read all those mails pretty fine, so why does ipopd complain about a invalid mailbox format ? can anyone give any advice on this ? thx --quay - -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
[newbie] pop3 server problem
hi all ! i am running lm 7.2 and ipop3d on my inet gateway. when i try to connect to it via telnet to port 110 from my windows client i get this: +OK POP3 x.localdomain v7.64 server ready +OK User name accepted, password please -ERR Unable to open user's INBOX above occurs after entering the users password. i checked /var/spool/mail/user and its set with correct permissions (owned by the user with rw set). i am fetching my mails via fetchmail and i filter them via procmail which delivers them to my mailbox. has anybody any adice on what might be going wrong here ? is there something i have to configure for ipop3d ? ( the man page lists absolutely no config file, in fact the man page is very short). thanks in advance, --quay
Re: [newbie] Can't log-in first time as root
At 10:18 14.05.2001 +0200, you wrote: Hello, can somebody advise me why I can't log in direct as a root? First I can log as any user except root, than with su as a root. It happens after last installation M8. I have used default security level. Is it in security level setting? yes definitely.i remember that i too setted at installation time to disallow root logins. If so, how can I switch it back? unfortunately i dont know that.maybe somebody on the listcan give a solution to this. I've installed M8 four-five times and this problem became for first time. Thanks, Michal. --quay
[newbie] various email issues
hiho all ! i am planning to set up my own email server, i read several howtos and man pages but there are still some things which are not clear to me. first let me describe what i want to do : 1) i want to fetch email from various pop3 servers 2) spam-filter them 3) scan their attachments for viruses 4) transfer them to my windows client behind my gateway (where all this should take place) ad 1) as far as i know for this to be done one needs the programm fetchmail. now i have some questions regarding this: a) why in the world does fetchmail want to send the emails it got from the pop servers via sendmail and local port 25 ? i want them to stay on the gateway in the users directory, and i dont want them to be sent elsewhere ... b) i saw that one can create .fetchmailrc files to poll email in certain periods of time. but what if i want to fetch my email via my windows client NOW and not next time cron starts fetchmail ? is there a way to have fetchmail see that it should fetch mail NOW ? ad 2) i know that i can use procmail for this and what i first want to do is : filter all spam mails with certain words in their subject. now what i did so far is, creating a procmailrc file that contains following entry :0 * word to trigger filter here /dev/null now there are lots of words which occur in spam mail and instead of writing such an entry for each of them---is it possible to to an OR expression in the * section ? just to list all words there and say : if this word occurs OR if this word occurs OR- /dev/null ad 3) where do i have to call the email virus scan programm - in the procmailrc file ?.a filter that matches ALL emails and then as an action scan them for mails ?..which expression DOES match ALL incoming mails ? 4) i use ipop3d on the gateway to get the mails in my users mailfolder on my windows client. now if i telnet to port 110 of my gateway i get following after entering the correct user/pass: -ERR Unable to open user's INBOX what can cause this ?. i know the emails are there because if i check my /var/spool/mail/user file they are all there.. and last but not least, can anybody recomment good tutorials/guides/how-tos or other sources that cover these topics ? thx for your efforts, --quay
Re: [newbie] delaying eth0...
At 19:14 17.04.2001 -0500, you wrote: Actually, I guess i should of said it's a 3Com 509b in a PC. type "dmesg |more" and have a look at the part where eth0 init takes place. also see /var/log/messages. i think it probably gives a message somewhere for the reason of the delay. when i had this problem it was due to the fact that the support for the 3c509 has to built as a module and not in the kernel. (at least its my assumption, since it worked after i compiled it as a module) hth --quay
[newbie] counting up/down transfer
hi all ! i have a dsl connection with limited transfer volume (approx 4 GB) and therfore i would like to count the traffic going in and out my box. i have ipchains installed on my linux server and i think i remember that i somwhere read that its possible to do this "counting" via ipchains. what i want to do is count every byte in and out and write it dynamically, or lets say every hour into a variable. has someone done this before with ipchains, or is there any other convenient way to do it ? thx for any help --quay
Re: [newbie] my time is broken and I can't fix it PLEASE RESPOND
to disable GMT set "UTC=false" in /etc/sysconfig/clock --quay
Re: [newbie] Documents about Linux
At 10:38 30.03.2001 -0800, you wrote: I too would appreciate the same documents. So far most of the ones I have go right over my head with no info on commands for me to get familiar with first before actually typing them in and sitting back to see what happens. Thank you in advance. check out this one : http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/LDP/sag/ and this one : http://www.linuxnewbies.org/ also u should get tons of information bei searching for "linux" "newbie" "guides" or "linux command reference" via google. ;) hth --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
[newbie] autologin again
hi all ! i have a question regarding the auto-login feature of LM 7.2: i want autologin to auto-login as a specific user, but in console mode ! the README says that one would have to create a autologin file with USER and EXEC values. now i dont want LM to start X (like the sample in the readme), dont even have X installed, its only the internet server for my lan. furthermore README tells to change default init runlevel to 5 whereas console mode would be 3, wouldnt it ? can anyone give advice on how to get autologin to auto-login to console ? greets, --quay
Re: [newbie] REMOVE ME
At 08:35 21.03.2001 -0800, you wrote: TAKE ME OFF THIS LIST PLEASE! REMOVE ME! - Original Message - From: "mta2001" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:22 PM Subject: [newbie] test http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 just to break this thread..
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and multi processor
At 08:20 21.03.2001 -0600, you wrote: How do I set up multi-processor support in Mandrake? Regards, Jason hi jason, u would have to compile support for it into your kernel..check out : http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO.html hth --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
[newbie] choosing packets under 7.2
hi all.. i am just about installing 7.2 and theres one REALLY annoying thing going on : whenever i come to the point of choosing which packages to install, i choose from the main packages and i know when counting the MBs in brackets i ALWAYS get below 1 GB. now whatever i choose - regardless if i go back and deselect packages - mandrake ALWAYS tells me that it could only install 65 % of the packages i chose. why the hell does it say so ???..i know for sure that the packages are below 1 GB (and i do have a 1029 MB drive). this is driving me crazy, its hell to add all the different packages i lack later... i first tried a text only install and there it worked without any problems ! Furthermore the text-only install doesnt provide a partition utility whereas the gui does---why ??? i was only offered to decide between the existing partitions or the hd i wanted to install mandrake to. now i have 1 IDE and 1 SCSI disk, i wanted the / system to be on IDE and /usr to be on SCSI. but mandrake only allowed me to put the whole system EITHER on IDE or EITHER on SCSI ( and it created the partitions itself - it didnt ask me if i wanted to create them myself ! - btw i was in expert mode !) this is really disappointing, those things make installing mandrake a pain ! has anyone else experienced those things ? --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
[newbie] autologin in 7.1
heyho all does anybody know whether the autologin-package of 7.2 will also work on 7.1 ? --quay
Re: [newbie] autologin in 7.1
At 02:50 16.03.2001 -0800, you wrote: Hi, The auto login works for me on 7.1, even though it was designed for 7.2!! Ok? Thomas Adam - hmm..shouldnt autologin install a /etc/sysconfig/autologin file ?..i installed 1.0.0-3, it had only 8 kB (is this possible ?), but i dont have a /etc/sysconfig/autologin file. u have an idea what went wrong ? --quay
Re: [newbie] Telnet/IP MASQ
At 10:31 12.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: I dont know what I changed, but I can telnet into my Linux machine (Firewall) from my internal network, however I can do it from the internet. well.if u are the only user on your internal network and no security concerns are against it u could allow the whole internal network (or just one machine) to access services on your server. i did this on my router to allow my internal network access the linux box : ipchains -A input -s 192.168.0.0/24 (my internal net) -d 0/0 -i eth0 ( the lan card for my internal net) -j ACCEPT What is the ipchain command I need to allow me in again?, I also cant ftp, access the apache website in my linux server. And my other question is what is the difference in IPCHAINS for INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD, I am confused as to the meaning of these well..as the name says, INPUT is the chain for all packets that are coming into your machine (regardless which interface, either from your lan or the internet) OUTPUT is the chain for all packets leaving your machine (to the internet or to your lan) and FORWARD is the chain for all packets which are just passing the server, for example if u have a masqed machine behind your linux server, all the packets coming from the masqed machine (destined for lets say the internet) will traverse the FORWARD chain. that is why u would have to have a masq target in your FORWARD chain (if u are doing masquerading ;) ) i recommend the ipchains howto at www.linuxdoc.org , it has a very good description of the different chains and how they are handled. HTH, --quay Thanks Nadin
Re: [newbie] 3com card problem
At 14:57 12.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: Well it still didn't work. I am at a complete loss. I even tried another 3c509 card I had just in case this one was bad. No diffrence. It just does not see the card. Anyone have any more ideas? post the output of following commands : dmesg cat /proc/ioports cat /proc/interrupts cat /proc/devices is your card recognized at bios initalization, that means does it show up when u power up your computer (after the ram count) ? --quay - Original Message - From: "Quaylar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 3com card problem At 02:51 12.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: I have a model 3c509b ethernet card. I use a utility from 3com to disable PnP. I get the following error message when using modprobe 3c509 at command prompt: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/3c509.o: insmod/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/3c509.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/3c509.o: insmod 3c509 failed can anyone advise on how to fix this problem and get my card working ? THanks, Jeff hi jeff, this is what worked for me : 1) enable pnp on your 3com card 2) set irq and io with the 3com utility according to the free resources on your machine 3) set "pnp os=no" in your computers bios 4) on next bootup your bios will init the 3com card and linux will recognize it with the parameters u have set before in your 3com config utility, upon loading the 3c509 module. try this (it HAS to work) and come back if any problems occur...:) regards, quay
Re: [newbie] Telnet/IP MASQ
At 13:57 12.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: crap I meant I can access myLinux machine through telnet, ftp and XDMCP from my internal network, however I cant do any of it from the internet. I want to be able to do it. I have pmfirewall installed, but I also have fbuilder installed, and it might be fbuilder however I have no idea how to get rid of it(fbuilder) and any scripts. (My linux machine is my connectionr(firewall) to the internet Thanks Nadin i once installed pmfirewall, i think its just a nice config utility for ipchains. i cant advise u how to set pmfirewall to allow ftp/telnet but i can tell u the direct way to do it: these commands will allow *anybody* to ftp/telnet into your machine from the internet : ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -p tcp --dport 20 -j ACCEPT these 2 are for ftp (port 20 is ftp-data) ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -p tcp --dport 23 -j ACCEPT and this is telnet, u can simply add these 2 commands to your /etc/rc.local, however i would recommend to read the ipchains howto and build a *custum* firewall to your needs, its important to really understand what u are doing when building a firewall. unfortunately i dont know what XDMCP is so i cant tell u the ipchains rule to allow it, maybe someone else can help here. greets, --quay
Re: [newbie] adsl and connection loss
At 18:12 10.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: your dsl provider... I missed it if you said it earlier.. ah...its yc:networks www.ycn.com but i dont assume u know it, its an austrian isp (since i am from austria) well.since i posted, the mysterious disconnection has never appeared again..so maybe it was just a bad line... greets --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
Re: [newbie] 3com card problem
At 02:51 12.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: I have a model 3c509b ethernet card. I use a utility from 3com to disable PnP. I get the following error message when using modprobe 3c509 at command prompt: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/3c509.o: insmod/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/3c509.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/3c509.o: insmod 3c509 failed can anyone advise on how to fix this problem and get my card working ? THanks, Jeff hi jeff, this is what worked for me : 1) enable pnp on your 3com card 2) set irq and io with the 3com utility according to the free resources on your machine 3) set "pnp os=no" in your computers bios 4) on next bootup your bios will init the 3com card and linux will recognize it with the parameters u have set before in your 3com config utility, upon loading the 3c509 module. try this (it HAS to work) and come back if any problems occur...:) regards, quay
Re: [newbie] adsl and connection loss
At 17:51 08.03.2001 -0600, you wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2001 10:15 am, Quaylar wrote: i know for sure that its not the isp, because they say they dont have an idle timeout.. --quay and you've never caught 'em in one of their lies ? yet ;) hehe.no..they dont lie..i believe them.*g*.they are cool guys since they dont have a download limit on their adsl account and they allow server operation (i got a static ip adress too) --quay -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] automatic login?
At 00:06 10.03.2001 +, you wrote: On Friday 09 March 2001 8:51 pm, you wrote: Sure, it's an option right in the install of Mandrake 7.2 When it asks if you want to automatically start X answer yes. Then when it asks you if you want it to automatically log in a user say yes and enter the user and password. Or, if you have aready installed, you can set a user to autologin in userdrake, or if you have upgraded to kde 2.1b2 then it is built into kde as an option (in kcontrol i think) and what do i do in LM 7.1 ?.i chose server installation and i dont have "userdrake", is there a config file to edit to set a user to autologin ?. --quay -- Microsoft is not the answer, its the question. And the answer is no. www.badran.co.uk
Re: [newbie] adsl and connection loss
At 09:24 10.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: so... Qua why don't you tell us a name which name ?
RE: [newbie] adsl and connection loss
At 18:10 06.03.2001 -0600, you wrote: Mine did the same thing after some idle time, a friend told me that if I set my email to check every 10 minutes or so, it would keep the connection alive and stay connected. I tried it and it works, give it a try. so u think its an idle timeout ?.but wouldnt it then always disconnect after the same amount of time ?. ok...maybe somthing on my network is causing traffic in unregular intervals.that my explain it... but if theres an idle timeout value .it must be able to set it...dont u think so ? -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
[newbie] masq and napster
hi all ! i have set up a linux adsl router and i have enabled masq and ipchains on it. so far i can do everything from my windows box behind it (mail/irc/web/ and so on) except napster. i read the napster+masq howto and i read various deja topics about this issue. this is what i did to get it working : 1) i opened my firewall to all connections coming from port or port 8875 (the napster servers) 2) i did a portfw for ports 6699 and 6700 to my local win box. 3) forwarding is enabled (of course, otherwise i wouldnt be able to use all the other services) napster still remains at "geting info" state and never begins downloading. i use napster 2.0 beta6 has anybody ideas about this ? and one furhter question : i just got a 512/64 adsl line, and i am using it over the linux router. now when i am accessing websites, speed is REALLY slow, i think my earlier isdn line was faster than this. (i am heavily disappointed) i tuned the win settings with the tune program from speedcorp which made it a little faster, but it still sucks ! on the other hand i can get (at really good times, from servers in my country) max. 50 kB/s download rate. can anybody give an advice on how to "tune" the linux router or the win box ? greets --quay ------ -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
Re: [newbie] remote access
At 03:43 07.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: My linux box has a 24/7 cable modem connection. If I put a modem on my linux box, would it be possible to dial in to it from a remote site, say with my laptop from work, and get onto the internet? Thanks. i am sure that that is possible but wouldnt u then be forced to pay the phone bill from your works laptop to your computer ?..wouldnt u ?.. wouldnt it be cheaper to connect from your works laptop directly to the internet ?...(internet account of your company ?) --quay
RE: [newbie] adsl and connection loss
At 05:44 08.03.2001 -0600, you wrote: I don't know if it is an idle timeout or not, some ISP's from what I understand are setup to timeout connections if they are idle for a period of time. That's what was going on with my connection. Since then, I changed the company I was using for my ADSL/ISP and have had no problems with timeouts. i know for sure that its not the isp, because they say they dont have an idle timeout.. --quay
RE: [newbie] adsl and connection loss
At 18:10 06.03.2001 -0600, you wrote: Mine did the same thing after some idle time, a friend told me that if I set my email to check every 10 minutes or so, it would keep the connection alive and stay connected. I tried it and it works, give it a try. so u think its an idle timeout ?.but wouldnt it then always disconnect after the same amount of time ?. ok...maybe somthing on my network is causing traffic in unregular intervals.that my explain it... but if theres an idle timeout value .it must be able to set it...dont u think so ? -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
RE: [newbie] attached to : repost : lan problems
At 21:22 06.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: Got in late on this, but here goes. Do you know if the eth0 card is on the LAN and the eth1 is dsl? Maybe the are reversed. no i know which card is dsl and which card is lan... anyways i solved the mystery : i plugged out the lan card from the win machine rebooted shut down plugged it in again rebooted and then i was able to ping the linux box..i dont know why it didnt work, maybe it wasnt plugged in properly.;) (although the little green LED was shining.).anyways...it works now. --quay
Re: [newbie] repost : lan problems
it has to be a configuration failure somewhere, i just switched the lan card on the linux box and it still doesnt work. has anybody suggestions on common conf. mistakes in win2000 and linux ? --quay
[newbie] adsl and connection loss
hi all ! i am using a alcatel 1000 adsl modem on my mandrake 7.1 linux box. i build up my connection over pptp. no problems establishing connection, but after an unpredictable amount of time my connection drops. it doesnt always happen, sometimes my machine is 3 h online, sometimes its only 1h. when i look at system console there are no error messages, it just seems that the connection was shut down properly (without me causing it) it just says : pppd : LCP terminated by peer connection terminated connect time blah blah sent ...bytes, received ..bytes exit i understand that the connection was dropped by my isps server but i dont know why; i know for sure that there are no "server side" connection timeouts from my isp. is there an option somewhere for the pppd that configures an idle timeout ? and what is this LCP thingy ? thx in advance, --quay ------ -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
RE: [newbie] repost : lan problems
At 17:29 04.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: Go back to basics... With your lan card you should have gotten a utility disk. On that disk are two important programs (assuming that you are using a 10base2/10baseT card). The first program sets up the hardware on the lan card. It allocates IRQ's/IO, etc and permits you to test the settings. Built into the same program or separate from it is another utility which permits you to set up once machine as a MASTER and the other as a SLAVE for testing purposes. Hopefully both lan cards are identical. Connect everything up. Boot up from a dos disk and use the LAN CARD's utility disk. Check the settings for conflicts. There is a self test in there too. Run it and make sure it passes. Make sure that both cards are set to 10base2, NOT 10BaseT. yes they are both set to use 10base2.i already used the config utils.-... Finally use the Diagnostic utility to send packets back and forth from the two machines. Does this work? If not you have a hardware problem. If it works you have a configuration/software problem. -JMS hmm.unfortunately the 2 cards are not identical, but i have the config utility for both, so i will try what u suggested. btw. my cabling is ok, i checked the cable and the connectors/resistors today with another network and it worked pretty fine. --quay
Re: [newbie] repost : lan problems
to all accidentally reading this : the ips ARE DIFFERENT it was just a mistype ;) --quay
RE: [newbie] repost : lan problems
jose, today i tested my wiring : over the 15m BNC cable (with both T and resistors connected) i have 9 ohm resistance. T-conns are ok. resistors have 58 ohm. are this values ok ? --quay
[newbie] repost : lan problems
hi all ! im reposting because i still have my win-linux lan problem. let me describe: i have 1 win2k box and 1 mandrake box. win2k : 1) surecom ep325 configured to utilize BNC port 2) no resource conflicts 3) LAN connection is up with 192.168.0.1/24 4) firewall is down mandrake box: 1) 3com 3c509 : initialized - no resource conflicts - modules are loaded - using BNC port 2) eth0 is up with 192.168.0.1/24 3) routes are set properly by linux 4) ipchains is down the 2 boxes are connected via thin ethernet coax, cable lenght approx. 10m, terminated at each end. wiring and terminators are known to be ok, because switching them for new ones didnt solve my problem. problem : ping timeouts from win - linux and vice versa...100% packet loss plz, i would appreciate any advice, this is driving me crazy... --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
RE: [newbie] repost : lan problems
At 17:45 03.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: I hope that your ethernet addresses were a mistype... You have both machines with the same address according to your message, which of course will not work! -JMS hi jose, yes u are right, it was a mistype. i would have noticed such a dumb failure because i checked all settings approx. 100 times. of course linux box is at 192.168.0.1/24 and win box is at 192.168.0.2/24 u know, after your last reply i posted that my lan was working. i dont know why it did, but just a few days ago i tidied up all the cables under my desk and among others i unplugged the BNC cable at both ends. i plugged then in again, installed a 2nd nic in my linux box to connect it to my new adsl modem, and when i rebooted my local lan was (again) gone. i think its the same problem as it was before (still i dont know), it cant be the 2nd nic because its recognized correctly, routes are ok and i already established a adsl conn over it. so whatever it is.slowly i am beginning to think it should be in "x-files".:) --quay
RE: [newbie] repost : lan problems
At 19:48 03.03.2001 -0500, you wrote: Thinnet networks are subject to something akin to "standing waves". The signal "bounces" off of one end of the cable and back. This results in an "echo" which is 180 degrees out of phaze with the next incoming wave... The two cancel out and you end up with a dead spot on the cable, where if you plug something in, you get no response. The Ethernet terminators are there to reduce or eliminate this, which is why they are at the physical "ends" of the cable. They are not always successful. You may be seeing the same. i switched terminators to no avail. You may have a bad "T" connector as well. I've seen more bad "T" connectors than one would expect. Check your lan cables. Make sure that the center pin is not being pushed into the socket when you plug it into the Ethernet card or T connector. ah...i checked the lan cables and indeed 1 of the 2 center pins was pushed into the socket. i pulled it out to make sure it hits the receptacle. and i noticed that the center pins of the 2 T connectors i was using, were not as long as the center pins in 2 other T-connectors. so i switched them too. but it still doesnt work. This will also cause problems. The center pin must not move so it can penetrate the receptacle. Since your LAN setup worked for awhile look for a physical problem of some sort. mhm...i too think it has to be something physical, i tink i will buy a new cable/connectors/resistors... maybe it helps. thx.. --quay -JMS
Re: [newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them
At 21:55 28.02.2001 +1300, you wrote: Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately after them when a directory listing is performed. What does this indicate? wde i think this is indicating that they are executable --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
Re: [newbie] Who is connected?
At 07:59 27.02.2001 -0800, you wrote: Hi people I just could setup a ppp server, and it is working well But I need to know who is connected to what port! I use /etc/ppp/pap-secrets to validate users If I do like root this: ps x|grep pppd I get the number of conections but no the user who is conected, how can I khow that? ICQ. 53342816 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered#201647 CV Tel 57 1 6283000 ext 3445 ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot. wont show "w" or "who" all users logged in ?..try it.. --quay
[newbie] a few questions to 7.2
hi all ! i just decided to do a fresh install of LM 7.2, really nice - it found all my hardware already in the installation procedure. so far its pretty cool.. but there are a few things i would like to know : 1) how do i get rid of the graphical boot procedure ?.i would like to have my old "terminal style" bootup back. 2) i know the config tools : printtool/setuptool/sndconfig and the various X configs, but is (or are) there any new config tools i should have to know about ? 3) my isdn card was properly recognized, i loaded the hisax module manually and it went pretty fine without any failure, after editing my config files for the isdn connection , i tried to bring up the isdn interface manually by "ifup ippp0" and got following error : "/dev/isdnctrl : no such device" the point is.there is a /dev/isdnctrl file... so whats going on here ?...do i have a broken isdn pakage ? i know that the isdn rpms that came with 7.1 were broken.but are these too ? has anybody experienced the same problem ? thx for any help... --quay ------ -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
Re: [newbie] NumLock
At 10:40 18.02.2001 -0300, you wrote: How can I start the NumLock key in initialization ??? type "ntsysv" on a console and select numlock --quay []`s Lcio Costa (From Brazil) _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] no PCi cards in Mandrake 7.2
At 17:57 18.02.2001 +1000, you wrote: hi i have just installed Mandrake 7.2 but for the life of me i cannot get the NIC(intel PRO100B) or the sound card (creative vibra 128) to work. i can cat /proc/pci and they are listed but when i go in thru hardDrake i cannot modprobe them. what if u try to manually modprobe them ?..at console.try it and post the error message maybe there are no modules compiled for them ?.. if u set pnp os = no in bios, the bios itself should allocate the resources.but anyway.. post the error message.. --quay I had an earlier version of Mandrake 7.0 up and running fine so i know they work. I have turned off the PnP in the bios and tried again but no luck. system specs are:: P111 733 Abit BE6-11 MOBO 128 Mg RAM fujitsu 3.2 HDD tnt2 Vid card Creative Vibra sound card Intel Pro100B NIC
[newbie] resource conflict with 2 nics
hi all. im going to get adsl, so i installed a second nic in my server. a surecom ep-325 pci card. i recompiled kernel - built the modules - loaded the modules everything went fine, upon bootup both cards (a 3c509 as ath0 and the surecom as eth1) are recognized correctly. eth0 (the 3com) is showing up IRQ 10 eth1 (surecom) is showing up IRQ 11 whenever i try to bring up eth0 i get a resource conflict, so i checked /proc/interrupts and saw that eth1 was indeed using IRQ 11 whereas IRQ10 was used by my SCSI controller. my conclusion : eth0 was using IRQ 11 before, but the surecom card (pci) is set to use IRQ 11 only, so eth0 had no free interrupt. my cards are initialized by the bios, so i knew there were only 2 ways: 1) set the surecom card to use another IRQ than 11 2) set the 3com card to use another one than 10 ad 1) trying the config util that came with my surecom card i had to notice that i wasnt offered to change the irq of the card it was fixed to 11 (why that ?.isnt it possible to change the IRQ of PCI cards manually ? ) ad 2) i also wasnt able to change the irq of the 3com card with the config progr. so i decided to set "pnp os=yes" and let linux do the resource allocation. setting 3com to IRQ 12 (free) in /etc/isapnp.conf, after a reboot i got the same failure again, again the 3com was trying to use IRQ 10 instead of what i told it to use (12) having a look at isapnp.conf again i noticed that linux had commented out the line, saying IRQ 12, by itself. the 3com card is set to PnP, may this be the reason for this behaviour ? i dont think that it can be that difficult to solve this resource conflict, im sure im pretty close to it, but there must be somthing im missing, can anybody help ? greetz, --quay ------ -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power For confidental email plz encrypt with PGP
Re: [newbie] How to turn off network tasks. - security question
At 18:31 15.02.2001 -0300, you wrote: I ran nmap on my system and found that I have a lot of open ports (apparently I have a lot of network services running). For example, MySQL, FTP, HTTP, etc. My question is, how much of a security risk is this, and how do I shut of these services and/or close these ports? Does the x11 port need to be left open for x to function? I know this must be a common question, I tried researching all over the place, but I can't seem to get a good understanding of how to actually do the stuff. Thanks, all! -Paul R paul, head over to /etc/inetd.conf and comment all services out that u dont want to offer... --quay
Re: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo
At 06:34 15.02.2001 -0500, you wrote: I got it on my laptop now I cant get it off. How do I tell lilo to hit the hills and give me back control of my computer? "fdisk /mbr" in a dos environment will wipe the mbr and lilo (if it was installed in the mbr) but beware if u have a dual boot system, dunno how this would effect the boot loaders of windows --quay
Re: [newbie] Digest/Archive?
At 07:11 12.02.2001 -0800, you wrote: All, Can anyone tell me where to find an archive of past messages. I hate to ask questions that have already been answered. TIA, CR i think u can access the archives at the site where u subscribed to this list.. or try a search in www.deja.com/usenet --quay
[newbie] Lilo problems......
hi all. i have following problem: i want to make a backup of my existing root filesystem which resides on a 500 MB IDE disk, hda for this to work i chose a second 500 MB IDE disk and copied the whole disk via norton ghost, hdb then i rebooted, mountet the duplicate (hdb) and installed lilo in the MBR of hdb by issuing "lilo -b /dev/hdb" in the etc directory of hdb. i got : "ignoring entry boot=" and : "warning : /dev/hdb is not the first disk" i ignored these warnings because i knew hdb would get the first disk by plugging out the old hda and jumpering hdb to master. so i continued : another reboot, plugged out the old hda, re-jumpered hdb to master (which made it hda) and (tried) to boot linux... the only thing i got was : LI nothing else.then my machine locked up. has anyone any advice on this ?..what am i doing wrong ?...i cant imagine.this HAS to worki have a 1:1 copy of the root fs, lilo.conf is ok and lilo is in the MBR.so.i cant imagine why this doesnt work. thx for any advice u can give... --quay ------ -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
Re: [newbie] What is the commandline X config program?
At 16:10 05.02.2001 +0800, you wrote: Hello all, there are: XF86config XF86Setup setuptool Can someone please tell me what the X config program is from the commandline. I used to use YAST from SuSE, and now I cannot remember what other programs there are to configure it. Thanks =) SkYE Zankoku na tenshi no youni.
Re: [newbie] RPMs
At 12:32 04.02.2001 -1000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to install rpms that I have downloaded, this is the first time I actually install one so any help will be appreciated Thanx! Julio either use "kpackage" (to have a gui) by typing "kpackage" at a console in X, or install them by command line with the command : rpm -ivh file "man rpm" will provide u with much more information on the different options for installing rpms... --quay -- Life gets boring when your computer is working good and there's nothing else to troubleshoot .
Re: [newbie] disk partitions
At 08:42 03.02.2001 +, you wrote: did you change the partition in /etc/fstab? yes i did...the new user partition is correctly mounted..but its too small...anyway... - Original Message - From: Quaylar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:24 PM Subject: [newbie] disk partitions hi all... short question regarding disk partitions. as my original 500 MB /usr partition was too small i decided to use a 1GB scsi disk for my new /usr. i made a 1:1 copy of my /usr partition using norton ghost, extending the partition on the scsi disk to 1GB. now i mounted the partition on the scsi disk as /usr expecting it to be 1 GB, i issued a df and got: 1k-blocks used available use% mounted on /dev/sdb1524292 509100 0 100 /usr (skipping the /dev/hda1) when i do a fdisk /dev/sdb i get : /dev/sdb1 1-1017 1054598+83 Linux so it seems that i have indeed a 1 GB partition on my 1 GB scsi disk--but df says that its only 500 MB ..how is this possible ? thx for any advice. --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
Re: [newbie] Adding software
At 19:54 02.02.2001 +1030, you wrote: Hi to the group. I am very new to Linux and would welcome some help. I have installed Mandrake 7.2 and think it's the best I've tried. Firstly would someone please take me throught the procedure for installing new software both from a CDROM and from the internet. If I have to type anything in would you please tell me where to put it. ( gee, that leaves me open ) I'd very much like to try the browser Konqueror and would welcome a list of things I have to do to get it on my machine. Many thanks, Ozgeek hi linux mandrake uses the rpm-mechanism, most programs are coming in so called "rpm-packages" which u can download from various sources from the internet i.e. freshmeat.com (or org ?), tucows.com, linuxberg.com. the other way is to install them from the cdrom u got with your mandrake distro. u will find the rpm packages under /Mandrake/RPMS of your binary cd. u have 2 ways of installing those packages : 1) do it from the command line with the command "rpm -i(install)v(verify)h(print hashes) *.rpm" 2) do it in X enverionment (i assume u use KDE) with the program "kpackage" if u dont have a link in your start menu, open a terminal and simply type "kpackage" this will open a gui for package managment, where u can see all the installed packages on the left side, and where u can install new packages by selecting "file/open" and then choosing the /path/*.rpm file u want to install. hth... --quay
Re: [newbie] Can't Surf???
At 19:53 02.02.2001 +0800, you wrote:
Jason,
I am also using USR modem with Netscape in Linux Mandrake 7.1.
If your modem connects OK; did you set up Netscape by {filemenu -Edit
-preferences - setup all the parameters}. Just my $0.002
At 01-02-2001 -0500, you wrote:
Hello,
I have small problem and can't seem to figure it out.I recently
purchased a non-winmodem. External US Robotics modem. I can hook up to
the net via my isp. The computer dials logs in and everything seem to
be great. However, when I attempt to use the web browser I cannot
access any site. I am using the netscape browser that came w/ linux
mandrake 7.1. The browser appears to be searching for the site but
never leaves the "startup" screen for the browser.Any ideas??
and did u set up correct nameservers ?
/etc/resolv.conf should contain both of your isps nameservers.
--quay
[newbie] disk partitions
hi all... short question regarding disk partitions. as my original 500 MB /usr partition was too small i decided to use a 1GB scsi disk for my new /usr. i made a 1:1 copy of my /usr partition using norton ghost, extending the partition on the scsi disk to 1GB. now i mounted the partition on the scsi disk as /usr expecting it to be 1 GB, i issued a df and got: 1k-blocks used available use% mounted on /dev/sdb1524292 509100 0 100 /usr (skipping the /dev/hda1) when i do a fdisk /dev/sdb i get : /dev/sdb1 1-1017 1054598+83 Linux so it seems that i have indeed a 1 GB partition on my 1 GB scsi disk--but df says that its only 500 MB ..how is this possible ? thx for any advice. --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
Re: [newbie] Whats the user and pass to DL at ...
At 18:22 02.02.2001 -0500, you wrote: I tried to DL some files from http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kfirewall and it ask me for user and pass, How I can I obtain a user and pass? -- "Bloated confidence can impair the reality of the situation" Tony i downloaded several things from rpmfind.net and i was never asked for user/pass..hmm...but maybe i already set them in my browsers prefs try : anonymous/your email adress in fact.u can take any email adress..;) --quay
Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86
At 00:21 31.01.2001 -0800, you wrote: Type XF86config at the command line and dabble with it as root. theres also a command XF86Setup and Xconfigurator which provide a gui for what XF86config does..i dont remember the the case of the command, maybe its XF86setup or something.try it... and theres the command "setuptool" which will provide a gui to configure various things, among them also X.. --quay [oldie, but still a newbie] *8-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how i could configure my xfree86. If you have the knowledge= please tell me the whole command for doing this (i am a newbie:one day).= =20 i want to do this because i get this error when i type startx: (EE) No devices detected=20 datal server error=20 no screens found=20 X connection to :0.0 broken=20 (explicit kill or server shutdown) i was wondering could this be that its not detecting my voodoo card and is = trying to use my disable i810 c __ www.edsamail.com
Re: [newbie] Activating Mulitcast
At 09:54 29.01.2001 +, you wrote: I need to activate IP multicast on my linux (mandrake 6.2) install. I am reliably told I need to do the following: ifconfig etho multicast route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0 However, when I try these I end up with an error "interface eth0 not found". I'm guessing that this might be because my kernel doesnt have multicast activated. hmm...as far as i know..(and i am a newbie 2)if it says "eth0 not found"then u simply have no correctly installed network card.. or.and in this case it is obvious : u didnt bring up the interface..: "ifconfig eth0 multicast " only configures..and does not bring up.so issue a "ifconfig etho multicast up" and have a look.(hmm..btwi think i remember something about ifconfig saying that it would add a "up" by default if someone forgets it., so...maybe u really havent installed your card right)... but anyways.try it with "ifconfig etho multicast up" and come back again if it doesnt work... So: (1) Am I along the right lines? (2) Can I do this without re-compiling the kernel (I'm a complete newbie and dont fancy it much) hm...dunno thisi recompiled the kernel although i dont need multicast..if u want to get familiar with linux and get a good working system u will not get around this.. (3) I had a quick look at following the instructions on how to compile the kernel, and failed very near the start because I dont have a linux directory under /etc/src/. Does that mean that you dont get a default source?, I also dont fancy an 18mb download from ftp.kernel.org particularly when I havent a clue which version I need (or which version I am currently running). u get a kernel source...but on some installs (in my case server install) the kernel sources are not installed by default. u will find them on your mandrake cd under "/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-sources*.rpm" and u can then install them by "rpm -ivh kernel-sources*.rpm" i think it will prompt u for unresolved dependencies...but i dont know which exactly.simply install what it demands hope i was able to help a little bit...;) --quay I just need a simple way to activate multicast, please help! p. The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of The Capital Markets Company. http://www.capco.com ***
Re: [newbie] Stuck! Can't update anything with Mandrake Update.
At 01:25 29.01.2001 -0600, you wrote: I have had no end of trouble with MandrakeUpdate freezing up everything. I sent a note to Mandrake support, and they replied I should install 'MandrakeUpdate-7.2-19mdk.i586.rpm' which I tried to do. It requires 'librpmio.so.0' which I found in 'rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm'. That, however requires 'libc.so.6(glib-2.2' which is not yet available on any Mandrake update servers. It IS available from Red Hat and I'm wondering if I should install that, or will it just require an endless list of dependancies. Meanwhile, I'm stuck and can't update anything. MandrakeUpdate locks me up solid EVERY time I attemt to inatall anything and I have no option but to pull the big switch. Many thanks to anyone who may be able to shed some light on this. I have installed 7.2 Deluxe Powerpack (McMillan) unfortunately i cant shed some light on this...i can only sayi now have linux mandrake since version 6.2...(dunno when they implemented mandrakeupdate), and mandrakeupdate did *never* work.it didnt freeze my machine.it was only working endlessly..endlessly searching for updates..so i gave up using it and now i download my updates manually from the "updates" directory of various mandrake mirrors. just a suggestion.;) --quay -- Cheers! -Ron
[newbie] upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2
hiho ppl. i followed the earlier thread about the question wether 7.2 is worth upgrading and many of u said it is. so my question to this is : ive made bad experiences with upgrading from 6.2 to 7.1, i had a working install of 6.2 where everything was working (took me months !) and after the upgrade almost nothing was working any more.all the settings gone and nothing than problems.. so is there something i have to especially take care of when upgrading to 7.2 (from 7.1) to avoid screwing up my entire system ?... or.has somebody of u made experiences like this ?. greets --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
RE: [newbie] upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2
alright.many thanks to u guys for those hints..think i will prepare a clean installation of 7.2 instead of upgrading and fiddling around trying to get things working again...;) --quay
[newbie] disk partiton problems......
hi this is a ..hmm.more general than mandrake-related problem..but maybe someone can help me on this though: i have 2hdd in my P200 server: hda :500 MB : hda1 swap 64 MB hda2 ext2 linux extended 440 MB hda5 ext2 root partition hdb: 500 MB: hdb1 500 MB /usr part. now i got several things working on my system and i want to make a backup of my hole system to be able to simply put out the 2x500 hdds and put another hdd with my backup system on in. for this reason i have one 1 GB scsi disk which i want to transfer my existing system to. i want sda to carry : 100 MB swap 200 MB root 700 MB /usr (because i do not have enough space on the IDE disk.500 MB are too less) so i got norton ghost, created a boot disk and booted into ghost, ready to do a partition to partiton copy of my IDE drive to the scsi drive. problems: 1) i want to decrease the size of the root partition on the scsi drive to 200 MB (from the original 440 MB on the IDE) to get more space for /usr, but ghost will only let me copy the existing root partition to a part. on the scsi drive that is at least as big as the original. so my 1st problem is how to manage to decrease root partition from 440 MB to 200 MB..because there are only 90 MB actually used from the 440. 2) i already tried to leave the root partition untouched, copying it with the full 440 MB, just to get things working for now, everything seemed to work ok, i rebooted with my normal linux system on the IDE drive, mounted the scsi root and edited lilo.conf to contain : boot=dev/sda (i have a linux standalone, so i want to use the MBR for LILO) and i set the pathnames for the rootpart. accordingly to /dev/sda5 then i issued a : lilo -C lilo.conf -b /dev/sda from the command line in the /mnt/sda/etc/ directory to install LILO in the MBR of the scsi disk. i also modified fstab to contain the valid drive names. then i rebooted, set my bios to boot from scsi ( i made sure that my scsi disk is ID0, since i found postings on deja stating that u can only boot from ID0 scsi) and got following from LILO : LI nothing more..then my machine hangs.. i tried to go the other way, installing LILO in the root part. and setting the bootable flag with fdiskno change. LILO just seems to be unable to start from the scsi disk.. has anyone any hints on this ?.. -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
RE: [newbie] Activating Mulitcast
At 16:22 29.01.2001 +, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Quaylar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Activating Mulitcast At 09:54 29.01.2001 +, you wrote: I need to activate IP multicast on my linux (mandrake 6.2) install. I am reliably told I need to do the following: ifconfig etho multicast route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0 However, when I try these I end up with an error "interface eth0 not found". I'm guessing that this might be because my kernel doesnt have multicast activated. hmm...as far as i know..(and i am a newbie 2)if it says "eth0 not found"then u simply have no correctly installed network card.. or.and in this case it is obvious : u didnt bring up the interface..: "ifconfig eth0 multicast " only configures..and does not bring up.so issue a "ifconfig etho multicast up" and have a look.(hmm..btwi think i remember something about ifconfig saying that it would add a "up" by default if someone forgets it., so...maybe u really havent installed your card right)... but anyways.try it with "ifconfig etho multicast up" and come back again if it doesnt work... okay, well heres the first problem. I dont even have a network card! I wasnt aware that eth0 was relating to a network card. Do I need a network card to activate multicast? Basically, this is single installation of linux and I'm doing some Java development that requires multicast IP to be activated. I dont connect to a network (and dont want to) I just want to activate multicast. any ideas? following is a short cut from the multicast howto (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO.html): If you want just to send and receive, you must say yes to "IP: multicasting" when configuring your kernel. If you also want your Linux box to act as a multicast router (mrouter) you also need to enable multicast routing in the kernel by selecting "IP: forwarding/gatewaying", "IP: multicast routing" and "IP: tunneling", the latter because new versions of mrouted relay on IP tunneling to send multicast datagrams encapsulated into unicast ones. This is necessary when establishing tunnels between multicast hosts separated by unicast-only networks and routers. (The mrouted is a daemon that implements the multicast routing algorithm -the routing policy- and instructs the kernel on how to route multicast datagrams). Some kernel versions label multicast routing as "EXPERIMENTAL", so you should enable "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" in the "Code maturity level options" section. for details check out the complete howto @ provided url. maybe this gets u on the right way..;) anyways..i dont understand what sense it makes to activate multicast without a network card.. --quay
Re: [newbie] linux-win lan thoughts.......
At 15:59 21.01.2001 -0800, you wrote: are you using DHCP on the windows machines or static IP's? i use static ips.no DHCP Quaylar wrote: hiho... as u will possibly know from various earlier posts i am trying to connect a linux and a win machine through thin ethernet. up to now i was having the problem that the 2 machines were not able to ping each other although everything was set right on both sides.. now i found a posting on deja where a guy described the same problem, he was stating that his lan was working IF: he first powered up the win machine and THEN the linux machine.. so i tried this and it really worked, the lan works when i am first powering up the win machine and then the linux machine, vice versa i get ping timeouts.. has anyone of u already experienced this or can anyone give any hints on this phenomenon ?... any thoughts will be appreciated..;) --quay -- -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Knowledge is power
Re: [newbie] What file was it?
At 19:46 21.01.2001 -0800, you wrote: Hello! I just forgot what file and where is the file that I can enter commands so that it starts off daemons? I guess its like an autoexec.bat for windows but Im looking for the one in Linux. I want to start a oidentd daemon everytime I boot up. Thanks! are u talking about "ntsysv" ?..this command will open a small gui and let u choose wich services to run at startup, among others it will allow u to start the service "INET"... --quay __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
