Something to add to my earlier mail:
After upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 I am now unable to enter the /mnt directory
in any way under any login, including root as the system hangs if I try cd
/mnt.
I have a suspicion that this is due to the devfs daemon running and messing
up things. I could not
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 01:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I am sorry to have to post this email to this mailing list, but it
is the only Mandrake list I subscribe to.
I purchased the 8.1 CDs from MandrakeStore about 5 weeks ago (the
money was charged to my Credit Card accordin
I must be doing something wrong, then. I can't seem to get it to work with
my Toshiba PDR-M60. When I modprobe usb-storage, it gets loaded, but no
/dev/sd* device exists. an lsmod shows that usb-storage remains unused. Can
you think of anything else I might try?
Thanks!
On Sunday 28
Hi all,
I apologise if an aswer to the prob has been posted in the last few
days, but my isp has turned his webmail server off.
Ive now subscribed directly from work
this only applies to 2.4 kernels not 2.2
I'm not the only person to get this problem, ie the kernel compiles ,
but not the
this isn't really a solution to compiling the kernel but more just a
question about a different alternative.
why not just rpm the kernel? the latest, greatest kenel for mandrake
can be aquired at
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kernel. i used to
compile my own kernel for the
Thanks Michael:
This is information which is NOT in the instructions in the on-line manual.
just grab the source for 2.4.13 and blow away the source for 2.4.3 when
you are done.
if this is the first patch you are applying you would use the following:
gzip -cd /path/to/patch | patch -p0
Ok all,,, well Quintin Rony
just had a look on rpmfind.net and I see 2.4.13-2mdk is on there,
it would be nice to be able to customise, but I can get round the Ham
stuff at the moment
by tunnelling through the firewall, instaed of putting the apps on the
firewall.
One thing that is important
I'm sure there are many people who have implemented UCE controls in
PostFix and have yet to realize they are missing a lot of messages from
the Mandrake lists simply because of this problem...
Mandrake: PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE... Fix your DNS problems... if you need
help, there's no shame in
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:49:23 +0100
kons Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok all,,, well Quintin Rony
just had a look on rpmfind.net and I see 2.4.13-2mdk is on there,
it would be nice to be able to customise, but I can get round the Ham
stuff at the moment
by tunnelling through
Thanks Micheal
Thats the info I needed:)
Michael Osten wrote:
Here is how I have modules compiling on my Mandrake system.
go to rpmfind.net and get the RH kgcc package.
edit /usr/src/Makefile
change the two references to gcc to kgcc
compile as usual
--
Michael Osten
Hi Group:
I am progressing in the patch work. Can someone point me to the
location of the kernel on my system? The patch asked which file I
wanted to patch, and I assume that would be the kernel, but I cannot
find that on my 8.0 system. Thanks, again, Dennis in Victoria
Want to buy your
Remember:
There are no stupid questions; Only stupid people asking questions!
hah. kiddin.
Kernel is always at: /usr/src/linux
I always start with a fresh kernel from: kernel.org
It is a tar extrating to current dir linux dir.
cd /usr/src ; tar xzvf /tmp/kernel*gz
Ill
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:23:19 -0500
dmyhand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Group:
I am progressing in the patch work. Can someone point me to the
location of the kernel on my system? The patch asked which file I
wanted to patch, and I assume that would be the kernel, but I cannot
find that
What is your route table looking like?
netstat -nr
what about ping and traceroute?
ping my interface ip
ping my nameserver's ip
ping www.walgreens.com
traceroute my printerservers ip
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:33:10 -0600 (CST)
Jason Bodnar [EMAIL
According to the changelog on the 2.4.13-2mdk kernel:
supermount upgrade:
* options passed to subfs should work when you change the cd
* bug: cd /mnt/cdrom/any_dir; ls -l; switch cd; ls BUG should have gone.
* That means that there is no more supremount bugs that I have heard of.
* supermount
Thanks... thats what I wanted to hear :)
Texstar wrote:
According to the changelog on the 2.4.13-2mdk kernel:
supermount upgrade:
* options passed to subfs should work when you change the cd
* bug: cd /mnt/cdrom/any_dir; ls -l; switch cd; ls BUG should have gone.
* That means that
Thanks Alan and Michael:
I had always heard there are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of
inquisitive idiots around. Peace, Dennis
Alan W Jurgensen wrote:
Remember:
There are no stupid questions; Only stupid people asking questions!
hah. kiddin.
Want to buy your
Hi all , me again !
I just remotely loggged into my machine at home going in sorta via the
back door.
I'l briefly explain, I hav'nt been able to get prerouting with dnat
functioning properly yet.
I have 2 ether ports, 1 on a cable modem the other to a local network.
I have 2 ports which xinetd
Hi,
There is not much hope that someone on this list will answer a devfs related
question. I made a similar query more than once about a weird mouse behavior
after upgrading to MDK8.1 and none had a clue.
(message: [expert] Devfs, M8.1 and Ps2 mouse)
I had experienced the same problem as you
On 31-Oct-2001 Alan W Jurgensen wrote:
What is your route table looking like?
netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 eth1
24.28.72.0
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 7:19 am, you wrote:
Hi all , me again !
I just remotely loggged into my machine at home going in sorta via the
back door.
I'l briefly explain, I hav'nt been able to get prerouting with dnat
functioning properly yet.
I have 2 ether ports, 1 on a cable modem the
David Guntner wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone make some recomendations for web-based E-Mail interfaces for
Linux? Something free would be preferable, though low-cost ones would be
considered as well. I'm looking for something which will let you access
your local mailbox and send mail.
It would be
Ive tried a lot, be careful, lots of crap out there. Squirrel Mail is the
best. Its just like those commercial variants.
http://www.squirrelmail.org
There is a wonderful api for writing plugins for extending its
capabilities. I recommand it highly and use it in a number of commercial
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 20:14:11 +0100
Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
There is not much hope that someone on this list will answer a devfs related
question. I made a similar query more than once about a weird mouse behavior
after upgrading to MDK8.1 and none had a
Hello there,
I have installed OpenOffice 638C as root with the /net option.
Then as normal user and under KDE 2.2.1 then the setup and/or start of
soffice fails immediately with a segmentation fault.
Under FVWM2 the things go well!
Does anyone know whats the problem here?!
StarOffice 5.2 is
After much trial and error I determined the cause of this problem: TCP Explicit
Congestion Notification support is built into the stock Mandrake 8.1 kernel and
is not turned off at boot time. Obviously, the root of the problem is
walgreens, etc. having bad routers (not sure why my print server
As I posted on this list 08/26/2001:
Enter the line
echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
in file
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
It is then possible after a reboot.
-- Bjarne Thomsen
Jason Bodnar wrote:
After much trial and error I determined the cause of this problem: TCP Explicit
Congestion
Has anyone gotten the Seti client to run in Linux? Every time I try to
set up the account I get an Illegal Instruction error when I tell the
program where the computer is located (it doesn't matter which option I
choose. All four options return this error), or if I try to log in to
my present
I'm trying to upgrade my kernel, and I can't seem to be able to get past
2.4.7 (which I am currently running). I have installed all the packages that
it requires, along with whatever those ones require :)
I am getting this error:
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C).
perl:
I'm not sure what the issue is with your setup, however I managed to get my
seti client running perfectly right out of the tar.gz file.
Have you tried either A)
redownloading the tar.gz file
b) redecompressing the files?
Thanks,
Nelson
- Original Message -
From: dmyhand [EMAIL
This is really an attempt to help Mandrake look more professional... I
too have to get my own DNS act together; but my little home network is not as
critical to being exemplary in this business climate as yours.
Here is the result of probing Mandrake's DNS from
Does anyone know what's changed in DHCP from 7.2 to the 8.x series of
Mandrake? I've tried just about everything to get my cable modem going in
8.1, to no avail, whereas in 7.2 it just goes through the install process,
asks how I want to configure it, I select LAN, then DHCP, and I leave
hostname
here are a couple questions so i can get troubleshooting information.
what does an ifconfig output?
at the command line as root type 'ifconfig'.
is eth0 listed in that ifconfig output?
if it is not, type 'ifup eth0'. let me know what the output is
if it is, type 'ifdown eth0' then 'ifup eth0'.
I'm not sure what your problem may be but I've been using seti@home for two
years with linux and have never had any problems. I will email you the tar
file I'm using.
Gary
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 13:26 pm, dmyhand wrote:
Has anyone gotten the Seti client to run in Linux? Every time I
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 06:51 pm, Dennis Myhand wrote:
Okay, this may be the first point of trouble. The only thing I can
download from Seti is a tar file. No tar.gz is available. I have
installed the tar file a number of times, and always from a fresh download.
I still get the same
Dear George All,
I've also had the same problem, and I'm still
waiting for it to be resolved. I ordered the
download disks and pre-ordered the Powerpack on
October 4. I know that the Powerpack isn't ready,
but I expected the download disks to arrive weeks
ago - so far, nothing has been
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, dmyhand wrote:
Hi there!
I have been running Seti@home for an year or so...
First things first!
Have you registered yourself at Seti@home?
Have you downloaded the last version?
Are you using the same e-mail (the one you've registered with) to run
seti?
You should run it as
On the subject of Seti@home:
For those of you who have been running it on your Linux box, how well does
it run? Does it suck up a lot of CPU? My setup is 256M of memory with an
AMD K6-2 550MHz on a 100MHz motherboard. I've been running the screensaver
client on my Windows 98 SE box for a
3.03
s wrote:
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 06:51 pm, Dennis Myhand wrote:
Okay, this may be the first point of trouble. The only thing I can
download from Seti is a tar file. No tar.gz is available. I have
installed the tar file a number of times, and always from a fresh download.
Hi!
A friend has asked to 'transfer' some files saved on SCO UNIX file system
to msdos on Linux!
Is this possible? Can mount a SCO unix file system and copy the files?
[]s Ricardo Castanho
--
==
Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 =
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Guntner wrote:
On the subject of Seti@home:
For those of you who have been running it on your Linux box, how well does
it run? Does it suck up a lot of CPU? My setup is 256M of memory with an
AMD K6-2 550MHz on a 100MHz motherboard. I've been running the
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote:
Hi!
A friend has asked to 'transfer' some files saved on SCO UNIX file system
to msdos on Linux!
Is this possible? Can mount a SCO unix file system and copy the files?
[]s Ricardo Castanho
--
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dennis Myhand wrote:
When I first registered at Seti (on line) I made a mistake!
I could NOT run seti... I can't remember the messages!
I was trying to run it with 'that' email... no way (only as root!)
But then I downloaded again and submited the 'correct' email!
From then
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, J. C. Woods wrote:
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote:
Hi!
A friend has asked to 'transfer' some files saved on SCO UNIX file system
to msdos on Linux!
Is this possible? Can mount a SCO unix file system and copy the files?
[]s Ricardo Castanho
--
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, J. C. Woods wrote:
Why MSDOS? You can setup a NFS mount, and copy directly to Linux. Try
a man nfs. It should point you in the right direction.
Thanks for helping! But according to the msdos fs well, that's not my
choice! ;-)
But it's a good question!
I'll ask this
I currently have it setup in $home/Setiathome, $home/downloads/setiathome and
$home/documents/Setiathome. It takes about 24 - 27 hours for all three to
complete on a Duron 750 with 512meg.
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 18:47 pm, David Guntner wrote:
On the subject of Seti@home:
For those of
For those of you who have been running it on your Linux box, how well does
it run? Does it suck up a lot of CPU? My setup is 256M of memory with an
Here (Athlon 1000mhz) it runs extremely well. I get a working set every eight
hours or so, and my machine is mostly otherwise idle during the
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, J. C. Woods wrote:
Why MSDOS? You can setup a NFS mount, and copy directly to Linux. Try
a man nfs. It should point you in the right direction.
Thanks for helping! But according to the msdos fs well, that's not my
Many thanks to both Kevin Leif for the help on this one.
So it looks like iptables do the job very well with the
bastille-firewall config.
I realise the originating mail was a bit confusing, but I was using the
system in a
non-standard setup. It also looks as if using nmap from within a system
Hi,
OTOH, for a one time copy, FTP might be fine. the ncftp client supports a
recursive 'get' command. Much simpler than setting up NFS, _if_ you've an
ftp daemon running...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of J. C. Woods
Sent: Thursday,
With all the anthrax scare in the postal service, some mail service will see
delays in delivery.
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 11:52 pm, you wrote:
I also wished to support Mandrakesoft by obtaining the CDs
directly from them. The last message informed me that they had
handed a parcel to
Hi All:
I am patching my kernel (Mandrake 8.0, 2.4.3 kernel, wanting to go to
2.4.13 and higher as they become available). Patch 2.4.11 is labeled as
patch-2.4.11-dont-use. Can I skip this patch and go on with 2.4.12? I
thought they had to be applied in numerical order?
Second question is,
Good arguement Quintin,,,but in the Ham radio section of the kernel I
suspect the modules for ax25 and netrom are in but the drivers for kiss,
6pack , bpqether,scc...etc probally are not.
It still however, even if they are in, dos'nt solve tehe problem as to
why the kernel cpompiles easily and
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:01:43 -0600
Dennis Myhand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All:
I am patching my kernel (Mandrake 8.0, 2.4.3 kernel, wanting to go to
2.4.13 and higher as they become available). Patch 2.4.11 is labeled
as
patch-2.4.11-dont-use. Can I skip this patch and go on with
Hi,
Quintin Holmberg writes:
[...]
i mean, we trust mandrake ... right? i personally would not presume to
believe i could build a better, more efficient or secure kernel than
they can. this is their job ... they are banking their entire
livelyhood on this. if they screw me, there are
The *are* indications as to what is happening... you just need to find
them... :^)
Check:
/var/log/messages
/var/log/mail/{info,errors,warnings}
If you can't find the problem there, post the result of:
grep -v -e '^ *$' -e '^ *#.*' /etc/postfix/main.cf
Pierre
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Manuel Haro
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 07:49 am, Quintin Holmberg wrote:
why not just rpm the kernel? the latest, greatest kenel for
mandrake can be aquired at
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kernel. i used
i mean, we trust mandrake ... right? i personally would not
presume to
I had the same problem. I did eventually receive the package. I sent
two e-mails with no response to either. This does reflect a degree of
disregard for the customer and a lack of commitment to quality in all
aspects of their business. But, the product is good enough for us to
ignore these
one of the other replies shows a common trouble shooting technique i
often use. try running the problem apps from the command line (i
generally do it without the at the end) and see what the output is.
if you can't solve it yourself from the output, send it to me and maybe
i can interpret it.
Hi , I'm also seeing the same problem unmountng the cdrom, I'm making
the assumption the kernel is 2.4.8 as on the distro images,
a horrible bodge to get round this is to start the cd player from the
apps menu, and use the
eject key...at least it allows the cd to be removed. Strangly enough it
also run the command #postfix check
Was this an upgrade to 8.0? When I upgraded to 8.1, my postfix was broken
with a permissions problem. I had some other problems, so I installed
fresh, and now I have no problems with postfix. The check command will
tell you exactly what may be failing.
Ron
Hi,
Can anyone make some recomendations for web-based E-Mail interfaces for
Linux? Something free would be preferable, though low-cost ones would be
considered as well. I'm looking for something which will let you access
your local mailbox and send mail.
It would be nice if it would let
Thus spake Nelson Bartley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I'm not sure what the issue is with your setup, however I managed to get my
seti client running perfectly right out of the tar.gz file.
Me too, ditto the xsetiahome display client.
--
|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have
Okay, this may be the first point of trouble. The only thing I can download from
Seti is a tar file. No tar.gz is available. I have installed the tar file a
number of times, and always from a fresh download. I still get the same
problem. Thank again, Dennis
Deryk Barker wrote:
Thus spake
I'm trying to build some firewalls on a LM 8.0 box with kernel 2.4.7-12.3
and iptables 1.2.2. I'm trying to convert some rules I had on a
2.2 box written with ipchains, based on what I read in O'Reilly's Building Internet
Firewalls.
What I can't fathom is why I can type in some rules at a
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