Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-11-20 Thread Stefano Pogliani
I think I certainly need some more help here. 1. You're not actually copying to the xfs filesystem, only to the directory /mnt/backup. Does this mean that there is some other step to be done after formatting an XFS partition? What does it mean writeing to a directory without copying to a

Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-11-20 Thread Luca Olivetti
Stefano Pogliani wrote: I think I certainly need some more help here. 1. You're not actually copying to the xfs filesystem, only to the directory /mnt/backup. Does this mean that there is some other step to be done after formatting an XFS partition? What does it mean writeing to a

Re: [expert] cron / at

2002-11-20 Thread Christian Jul Jensen
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sridhar wrote: I am using anacron straight out of an install from disk and have not configured anacron. anacrontab seems to contain default values. Should I do anything in anacrontab? No. I think your problem might be that anacron is not started at all. Try 'chkconfig

Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-11-20 Thread Stefano Pogliani
I do not have the command: mkfs.xfs on my system. Is it in some RPM I did not install ? /stefano Luca Olivetti wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: I think I certainly need some more help here. 1. You're not actually copying to the xfs filesystem, only to the directory /mnt/backup. Does

Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-11-20 Thread Luca Olivetti
Stefano Pogliani wrote: I do not have the command: mkfs.xfs on my system. Is it in some RPM I did not install ? # rpm -qf $(which mkfs.xfs) xfsprogs-2.0.0-1mdk (this is under mdk 8.2). If you don't have it installed that explains why you couldn't create an xfs partition. Bye -- Luca

[expert] Solution to problem in XFree 4.2.0 (repost)

2002-11-20 Thread Carsten Schurig
Hi, first of all I hope this will get through to the ML, as I'm not subscribed. I just liked to test Mandrake 9.0 and had the same problems with a blinking XFree 4.2.1 and my ATI 3D Rage LT Pro AGP card. Looking for a solution, I found the thread XFree 4.2.0 (repost) on the Mandrake site but I

Re: [expert] network goes dead

2002-11-20 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:29:43 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, has anyone else noticed the network connectivity in Mandrake 9.0 goes dead periodically? It's very annoying and it seems to be linked to Shorewall firewall

Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-11-20 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Thanks a lot indeed. Now it seems to work ! Is there anything special I need to know in order to administer an XFS partition (some special commands, some special maintenance etc) or, for the sake of using it, it is just like an ext2 one ? Best regards and thanks a lot /stefano Luca Olivetti

Re: [expert] network goes dead

2002-11-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:04:34 -0500 (EST) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:29:43 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, has anyone else noticed the network connectivity in Mandrake 9.0 goes dead

[expert] Software for small newsgroup archive

2002-11-20 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, subject tells it all. I have a small local newsgroup stored away in my leafnode spool. As the ISP is too lazy to maintain an archive I thought about providing that on my Website. As I said, it's small. Is there any software for that or a howto or something how I can go about that? wobo --

Re: [expert] xinitrc problem

2002-11-20 Thread Matthew Van Horn
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Nov 2002, Matthew Van Horn wrote: Since I upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0, I am having problems using my old (8.1) ~/.xinitrc If the file even exists, then startx will not work. I don't know what the cause is, can someone point me

Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-11-20 Thread Luca Olivetti
Stefano Pogliani wrote: Thanks a lot indeed. Now it seems to work ! Is there anything special I need to know in order to administer an XFS partition (some special commands, some special maintenance etc) or, for the sake of using it, it is just like an ext2 one ? Look at the other programs in

Re: [expert] xinitrc problem

2002-11-20 Thread Matthew Van Horn
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Nov 2002, Matthew Van Horn wrote: (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Nov 20 23:15:30 2002 Can you send/post the relevant portions of the above file? The log in this email was truncated. I don't really know what's

Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-11-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Stefano Pogliani wrote: What does it mean writeing to a directory without copying to a filesystem ? I see that Luca has answered your questions -- just elaborating a little here: A mount point is nothing more than an empty directory created by mkdir. When you mount a

[expert] How to make /proc available to apache user?

2002-11-20 Thread David Guntner
I've got a php script running a web page, which needs to be able to do things like ps to determine if other processes that it will start and stop are running. I've discovered that (apparently) by default, the /proc filesystem isn't available to the apache user. When I do a su - apache to be

[expert] patching kernel 2.4.18

2002-11-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have never quite gotten how to patch kernels. I have a patch for upgrading wireless extensions to version 15 that I would like to apply to kernel 2.4.18 (unless someone knows of a 2.4.18 kernel that already contains this patch as well as

Re: [expert] How to make /proc available to apache user?

2002-11-20 Thread David Guntner
Never mind, I found it. :-) I just assumed that /proc was readable by everyone, but found it was set to 750. I hadn't noticed it because my regular (non-root) user ID belongs to the adm group, which still has read there. Changed it to 755, and now the web application is working fine.

Re: [expert] network goes dead

2002-11-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:04:34 -0500 (EST) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:29:43 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, has anyone else noticed the network connectivity in Mandrake

Re: [expert] patching kernel 2.4.18

2002-11-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have never quite gotten how to patch kernels. I have a patch for upgrading wireless extensions to version 15 that I would like to apply to kernel 2.4.18 (unless someone knows of a 2.4.18 kernel

RE: [expert] patching kernel 2.4.18

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
read this... its from a kernel hacker... its how I learned, though i have only used it once or twice.. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue32/ayers1.html install the source, put the patch in there, and run it with; patch -pl wireless-extensionsv15.patch a proper patch file contains the src file

[expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I am trying to scp some files from one host to another but no success. shh deamon is running as can be seen below: ps -ef | grep sshd root 10890 1 0 09:13 ?00:00:00 sshd root 14620 14542 0 15:35 pts/400:00:00 grep sshd However when I try scp 9611947.PDF

Re: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Tru64 User
Hi, Enable debugging (option -vv) to see exactly why the connection is being denied. Or better yet, run strace -o output.file ssh rest_of_command That should trace the whole call, and u will be able to see where the problem occurs. Can u ping this machine? telnet to it? Other basic network

[expert] hostname

2002-11-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this question pops up periodically and I have asked it myself. How does one assign a hostname to their system without breaking it and so that it comes up every time one boots? I managed to get my laptop to be called lapdog.ravenhome.net but

Re: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hi Many thanks. 1) scp --vv gives: Executing: host xxx.xxx.xxx.xx, user eduardo, command scp -v -t /home/eduardo/ SSH Version 1.2.33 [sparc-sun-solaris2.6], protocol version 1.5. Standard version. Does not use RSAREF. bertie: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh1/ssh_config bertie:

RE: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
you appear to be getting blocked by hosts.deny (tcp wrappers).. or by a firewall iptables/chains rule, but most likely hosts.deny.. do you have a high security setting in msec??? put something like: ssh 123.123.123.123 In hosts.allow and try it again. (replace the 123... with your IP

Re: [expert] hostname

2002-11-20 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi, Try the file /etc/sysconfig/network Also, Most of the network related files in /etc/sysconfig/ can help you understand things a little better. --Sandeep Praedor Tempus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this question pops up periodically and I have asked it myself.

Re: [expert] hostname

2002-11-20 Thread James Sparenberg
cd /etc/sysconfig Edit the file network... from then on whatever you put in the hostname colum will be the reality for that box. James On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:44, Praedor Tempus wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this question pops up periodically and I have asked

Re: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Eduardo Mendes wrote: Hi Many thanks. 1) scp --vv gives: Executing: host xxx.xxx.xxx.xx, user eduardo, command scp -v -t /home/eduardo/ SSH Version 1.2.33 [sparc-sun-solaris2.6], protocol version 1.5. Standard version. Does not use RSAREF. bertie: Reading configuration data

RE: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Franki
is the other machine using portsentry??? if so, you may well have become blacklisted by that machine.. (its happened to me many times) that would explain why ping/telnet isn't working either. To fix it: flush your iptables rules ) iptables -F remove yourself from hosts.deny and restart

Re: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Your trying to use a ssh version that is too old. ssh v 1.2.33 (commercial) only supports protocol version 1.x, not 2.0 that is used with 3.2.0 ssh. upgrade your ssh client on the client side. if regular ssh works, then your remote machine has fallback turned on (it will fire up sshd v1.x

Re: [expert] html front end to pine?

2002-11-20 Thread Michael Holt
Sunday, David Guntner mused: Michael Holt grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [...] I would like to make an html front-end to access the mail program (or pine) something similar to yahoo or hotmail but without all the crappy ads and weird email you get on those. I know I can come up with

[expert] IRQs

2002-11-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just cannot believe this. I have a laptop (IBM Thinkpad) with absolutely no available IRQ resources. None. The only things attached to this is a phone cord for the modem (linmodem/winmodem). Every single IRQ is used up such that I cannot insert any pcmcia cards while connected via modem

Re: [expert] network goes dead

2002-11-20 Thread Jack and Melissa McSwain
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 09:45 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Jack and Melissa McSwain wrote: BTW has anyone noticed a dramatic increase in hack attempts in the last 2 to 3 weeks? Port scans show all the ports are stealth, and I have no servers running or installed, but they still manage to

[expert] Try another way to connection share via wlan

2002-11-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I have just about given up trying to share my laptop's modem connection via wlan connection with my desktop. I have picked up a modem for my desktop and would like to try to share a connection that way. Thing is, my laptop HAS to be the wlan

[expert] Mandrake/Linux Quality of Service and packet prioritization

2002-11-20 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Hello all, I have a friend who is setting up an ISP co-op who's asked me for information on how to set up Quality of Service and packet prioritization on Linux (and particularly Mandrake). Sadly, I know nothing about the topic. Can anyone give me some pointers on where to go to get me/him

[expert] Problems trying to use rexec in mdk 9.0

2002-11-20 Thread Alfredo C. López
I'm having troubles running rexec in mandrake 9.0 I suppose the problem is the server running trough xinetd. The command rexec -l login -p paswdd k1m1.domainname ps gives this error k1m1.domainame: No such file or directory rexec: Error in rexec system call, rexec: (The following system

[expert] anybody sucessfully patched staroffice with pp2?

2002-11-20 Thread Udo Rader
hi, has anybody out there sucessfully patched mandrake's staroffice-rpms against the recent patch (pp2) from sun? http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-StarOffice; the patch binary always tells me that it found an installation in

[expert] Turning off Root login

2002-11-20 Thread Brian York
How can I turn off root login for the console? Don't mean to ask stupid questions just forgotten. Thanks Brian Brian York Network Specialist Northen Kentucky Univ. IT, Servers and Operations 859-572-5121 AC 220

Re: [expert] Turning off Root login

2002-11-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Brian York wrote: How can I turn off root login for the console? Don't mean to ask stupid questions just forgotten. edit /etc/securetty and remove the entries. You'll need to have the file there at least, even if it's empty. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Problems trying to use rexec in mdk 9.0

2002-11-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Alfredo C. [iso-8859-1] López wrote: I'm having troubles running rexec in mandrake 9.0 I suppose the problem is the server running trough xinetd. The command rexec -l login -p paswdd k1m1.domainname ps gives this error k1m1.domainame: No such file or directory

Re: [expert] Mandrake/Linux Quality of Service and packet prioritization

2002-11-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Hello all, I have a friend who is setting up an ISP co-op who's asked me for information on how to set up Quality of Service and packet prioritization on Linux (and particularly Mandrake). Sadly, I know nothing about the topic. Can

Re: [expert] Turning off Root login

2002-11-20 Thread David Guntner
Brian York grabbed a keyboard and wrote: How can I turn off root login for the console? Don't mean to ask stupid questions just forgotten. I'm assuming that you're running at a msec level less than 4, at which point root login gets disabled by default. :-) Edit /etc/security/level.local

[expert] hosts.deny and ftp

2002-11-20 Thread Perry Ler
anyone knows which application is controlling the hosts.deny? if i have an ip been throw into this file, which application shld i restart so that box from that ip can come into the server again? The only method i know is rebooting the machine but that is kind of stupid. how do i get the

Re: [expert] network goes dead

2002-11-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:44:26 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:04:34 -0500 (EST) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:29:43 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Mandrake/Linux Quality of Service and packetprioritization

2002-11-20 Thread Seth Zirin
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:30, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I have a friend who is setting up an ISP co-op who's asked me for information on how to set up Quality of Service and packet prioritization on Linux (and particularly Mandrake). Sadly, I know nothing about the topic. Can anyone

[expert] No Floppy?

2002-11-20 Thread Tom
What have I overlooked? As root, I tried: cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV fd and it comes up with a don't have permission error Then I tried: modprobe floppy and still no floppy devices. I am using the 7 CD box set of Mandrake 9.0 I am trying to configure the Internet services before connecting the

Re: [expert] Turning off Root login

2002-11-20 Thread .
So, you don't have to leave the console entry in /etc/securetty? I thought that was necessary to be able to su to root. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Brian York wrote: How can I turn off root login for the console? Don't mean to ask stupid questions just forgotten.

Re: [expert] make an rpm list on disk

2002-11-20 Thread Donna and Matthew Persico
On 20 Nov 2002 00:23:16 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:33, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:47, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am transplanting my cdrom, video card and hard disk from a dual CPU PII 266 box to a single CPU PIV 1.7GHz box. I

Re: [expert] make an rpm list on disk

2002-11-20 Thread Donna and Matthew Persico
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:03:18 +1100, Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am transplanting my cdrom, video card and hard disk from a dual CPU PII 266 box to a single CPU PIV 1.7GHz box. I am betting that I can simply choose the non-smp kernel when I boot up to get me

[expert] SCSI disk driver compilation

2002-11-20 Thread Gareth Hash
Hello, The server on which I am trying to install Mandrake requires the mptbase and mptscsih drivers. I found the source code, however I am having a hard time figuring out how to compile them. Also, should the disk be ext2 or ext3 formatted? Does a kernel need to be on the disk as well? Thank

[expert] 9.0 Networking === ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

2002-11-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
I don't like this resorting to this kind of post, and I'll probably start a small war; but I need to vent... rant So far, 9.0 has been more irritation than help... I have a new IBM ThinkPad A20m which moves around with me. So... as I move around, I setup my environment for each new type of

Re: [expert] cron / at

2002-11-20 Thread Sridhar
Hi, chkconfig shows anacron is 'on' for levels 3-5. When I type service anacron status, it reports anacron dead but subsys locked. I tried to delete subsys file, but I still have the same problem. Cheers -Sridhar Christian Jul Jensen wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sridhar wrote: I am using

Re: [expert] No Floppy?

2002-11-20 Thread James Sparenberg
This should allow you to create at least one floppy device ... First I would enter / make sure a line like none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 (it's actully all one line but word wrap in the e-mail client makes it more) then

Re: [expert] hosts.deny and ftp

2002-11-20 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 17:25, Perry Ler wrote: anyone knows which application is controlling the hosts.deny? if i have an ip been throw into this file, which application shld i restart so that box from that ip can come into the server again? The only method i know is rebooting the machine but

[expert] ncurses-devel mdk

2002-11-20 Thread Bharath Sankaranarayan
Hello all I downloaded the kernel 2.4.19-16mdk source but could not install it as it depends on ncurses-devel. I did a check on my system to see which version of ncurses i have and i have ncurses-5.2-25mdk but I could not find on rpmfind.net the same development version. Could someone pointme

Re: [expert] hosts.deny and ftp

2002-11-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:18, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 17:25, Perry Ler wrote: anyone knows which application is controlling the hosts.deny? if i have an ip been throw into this file, which application shld i restart so that box from that ip can come into the server