On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Albert E. Whale wrote:
Today I found that several unwanted guests have been able to connect via
ftp (not any more!). I also found some mysterious files 'running' on
the server. I was able to detect the processes using the monitor
utility (or top). However, I was
On 23 Jan 2001, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
Isn't RedHat playing with fire and making us play with fire by using
software who is either a regular provider of security problems ie
wu-ftpd (what is wrong with proftpd?)
proftpd is at least as much of a security problem as wu-ftpd.
Take a look
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Gordon von Miller wrote:
When I get the cdrom for Mandrake6.1, will I need to get a boot disk? I have
Mandrake6.0 installed. Although my bios says it will load from the cdrom, it
never has.
Will Mandrake accept a13 gig harddrive?
I'm using it on a 25 gig harddrive
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Alain Terriault wrote:
I'm curious to know how you do backup, soft you use and device ?
"Real people don't make backups. Real people upload their stuff to ftp
servers and let the world mirror it."
-- Linus Torvalds.
I have to state that according to this
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, pavement wrote:
recently i installed mandrake 6.1 and compiled generic scsi support,
scsi emulation, and scsi cdrom support into my kernel as i have an atapi
cd/rw, and need it for cdrecord to function. all is well but something
weird happened. when i booted up after
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, William Ahern wrote:
I'm running 6.0 locally, and like it (esp the Perl update prog.). Would
anybody think twice to using the 6.1 distrib on a live server? I'm switching
from OpenLinux 1.2 after a root compromise, and REALLY want to have
a secure system (but, need the
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
Also the DVD may not work. I'm not sure what the current
status of DVD drivers for linux are.
It is still a problem with standard kernels because of lacking UDF
filesystem support - using Mandrake helps, however, since we're shipping a
patched
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
[havok@ns1 havok]$ BitchX Hav{}k atlanta.ga.us.undernet.org
Don't do this... {} is a shell escape!
I'm quite sure what you want to do is BitchX 'Hav{}k' atlanta.ga.us.undernet.org
Segmentation fault
Not getting this...
LLaP
bero
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Tired of
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
This looks like the same problem I am having?
Sep 19 19:19:53 pitbull postfix[342]: fatal: My hostname pitbull is not a
FQDN. Set myhostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf
Sep 19 19:19:54 pitbull sendmail[357]: starting daemon (8.9.3):
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Felipe Almeida wrote:
I have a doubt here! I used fetchmail do grab my mail from my ISP POP3
mail server and it did grab them. But when I opened Pine to read the
messages it didn't show them. I looked at the /var/spool/mail/myusername
and the messages weren't there.
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Drake wrote:
The cdrecord program that comes with the XCDRoast cannot record 80min CD's.
Due to it's out of it's capacity. Just like it cannot do multi session cd's
on some sony drives. And in order to record cd's in linux you need the
cdrecord program (it run's on the
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Fred Frigerio wrote:
It worked thanks a lot. Do you guys know where I can find more info about
rpm, besides the man pages?
RPM howto (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO), and of course www.rpm.org
I figure there has to be a way to search through
a series of *.rpm and find the
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Al Smith wrote:
Prove it.
Did you know that most of the bugs in the Red
Hat release are fixed in Mandrake?
Maybe "most" is exaggerated, but Mandrake 6.0 fixed a number of RH 6.0
bugs. Consult the RPM changelogs for details.
Yes, I know, it also introduced a couple
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Erik Wasser wrote:
Reading news "offline" is very uncommon under linux and similiar OS.
Normally you install a local newsserver and read the news from localhost.
My favorite for doing it in this way is inn (newsserver) and tin (for
reading)
For a beginner, I prefer
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Harald Schreiber wrote:
metamail: invalid mailcap entry : application/pdf: xpdf %s
So I looked at /etc/mailcap and found the above line.
I reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The bug tracking system at bugs.linux-mandrake.com is under construction
and doesn't work
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
Are we who use MDK affected in any way?
or everything has been fixed and patched?
AFAIK this is just an announce that XF86 3.3.5 is available and fixes a
lot of 3.3.3.x and 3.3.4 stuff.
Cooker and Cassini have had 3.3.5 forever.
LLaP
bero
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Kit Ngan wrote:
Hope it is not... at least fix the software raid problem on
kernel-2.2.13-4mdk,
Please see if the new raidtools package (uploaded yesterday) fixes it...
ip virtual aliases problem first
Which problem? Seems to work here...
LLaP
bero
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Karsten Römling wrote:
However, a modprobe softoss2 loads the module,
I haven't tried softoss yet (I don't see why it should be done in kernel
space when timidity does it in userspace...), but:
where the Heck do I place the sound patches? May I use the ones provided
for
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Dovydas Kulvinskas wrote:
cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2'
Get gcc = 2.95
LLaP
bero
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Thanks for the translation. For those that are mono-lingual, there's a free
translator on line. Just go to:
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
The translator sucks, though. ;)
"Richtlinien-Linux, Fenster saugt" is its
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Aaron W. wrote:
I am running mdk 6.0 and have updated my kernel to 2.2.9-27mdk. I want
to compile a more customized kernel so I went to download the source and
there are several rpms for the kernel. I know I need the source and headers
rpm but do I need the rest of
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
If you want to compile a custom kernel, you're better to download the
source directly from www.kernel.org. The Mandrake source rpms have a lot
of extra patches included and you might pull out your hair while compiling
it ;-)
On the other hand, we
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jason Antonacci wrote:
I am experiencing the same problem w/ a similar PPro box using SCSI and IDE
drives. The system specs are slightly less though. The 2.2.9-11 SMP Kernel
stops after a PCI bus scan which dumps a table to the screen.
2.2.9-11 has some known bugs...
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
I'm still having problems, even after compiling my own
kernel from the 2.2.12 sources.
What's the problem with 2.2.12?
A couple people have
mentioned to me that EGCS is "known" to have problems
compiling kernels. Have you folks experienced this?
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
Anyone know where I can find an RPM of kernel 2.2.12? I compiled my
own yesterday, but I'm having some problems that I'm hoping will go
away by using a pre-compiled kernel.
Get 2.2.13-2mdk from cooker or cassini
(http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker,
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Sengir wrote:
How would I go about installing the PPP module in the kernel without
recompiling it?
If you're using the default Mandrake kernel, the PPP module is there.
It will autoload; if you need to activate it manually (though I don't see
why anyone would need it),
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
Which RPMs will I install and in what order? Since this is an SMP machine,
You'll need only the kernel-smp package, and maybe kernel-source and
kernel-headers if you want to do development.
I know the kernels I need are the "SMP" kernels, but what
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
I've got a dual-processor Pentium Pro 200 mhz system. I'm installing
Mandrake 6.0 on it. I plan to upgrade the kernel, etc after installing from
the CD. Which RPM files (specifically) should I install and in which order?
You generally need only one of
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Civileme wrote:
Did somebody hack kde and forget to tell me? The files on the mirrors
should be .rpm not .gz
check http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake/updates/6.0/RPMS/
You will find *.rpm.gz files
Use a different mirror then - gzip'ing RPMs is a stupid idea
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Jan Rocho wrote:
Where can I find the C header files? In which package?
glibc-devel
LLaP
bero
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On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Bob Jiggins wrote:
Mandrake 6 does just this for hda and hdb - then skips over hdc for
some reason. I tried reinstalling RedHat5.2 (joy - it worked!) - then
changed the kernel to 2.2.10 (and others 2.2.* incidentally) and
watched - no hdc on boot! So back to
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Bob Jiggins wrote:
Despite all the various pieces of advice offered I could not get it to
work - seems the kernel did simply not regosnise its presence. My
Redhat5.2 installation on boot prints to screen the manufactures
name etc of hda, then hdb then hdc - 'CDROM
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Dennison wrote:
Ok, I have Mandrake 5.3 installed from the CD-Roms. I can't seem to get
the ls --color option working COMPLETELY. Most of it works. I get the
green executables, the blue directories, and the aqua links, but none of
the other stuff works.
eval
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
How difficult would it be, and wat problems would it cause to update
the pgcc to the new gcc2.95 I'm really looking forward to using the new gjc
front end and improved c++ features but I don't want to break my compiler and
libs.
You will
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Aaron W. wrote:
I do not use at or cron for anything and before I dissable them I was
courious if the system needs them for its own use.
Cron is used for various things like cleaning up the logs, getting the
whatis database to current and such.
LLaP
bero
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Patrick Putteman wrote:
VMware can be made to work with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel, IF you compile your
own. It won't work with the 'out of the box kernel' from the mandrake
mirrors.
Any clue what you need to change when you compile it yourself (i.e. leave
some options out?)
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Aaron W. wrote:
I would like to take a look at it.
It has been released by now, and is in the Cooker version of Mandrake.
I am running Mandrake 6.0 is there an rpm for it or do I need to
compile it from a atr ball?
There is an RPM -
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Ken Wilson wrote:
I am doing some C programming on my recently installed Mandrake 6.0. As far
as I am aware I have the latest kernel and all the updates. However, I am
having troubles compiling a small test program with pgcc(gcc) and suspect
the libraries are missing or
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Lang Zhi wrote:
Hi,
Can Linux or X11 support 2 or more graphics card at once , like the
Windoze98 idea ?
XFree86 4.0 will.
LLaP
bero
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, mcooper wrote:
I have been trying to install taper for about an 15 mins and finally tracked the
problem down to the ncurses package. I was trying to find out witch package had
the Lib that taper was asking for.
What lib do you think is missing? Last time I checked, the
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Aaron W. wrote:
Thanks, it's sometimes the easy things we miss but yes I did check. It
is not listed, only the 550. The 550 uses the svga server so I tried that.
Thats why I was wanting to know if anyone had found a way to make it work.
You might want to try XFree86
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jason Bodnar wrote:
I'm a recent convert from SuSE to Mandrake.
Congrats. ;)
I installed 6.0 the other night and it works perfectly except for a
pretty major problem with emacs in console mode.
The problem can be fixed by updating the kernel package. There was a minor
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, mcooper wrote:
Well if you look into the package file list in kpackage their is 18 or so
files that have Red X beside them. It's not just my machine ether. all the
machines I checked had the X's. the taper program was looking for libform.so.4
it was listed in the rpm
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Vincent Danen wrote:
I did a complete fresh install of Mandrake linux 6.0 last night (previously
was using RedHat 6.0). My problem is metamail, which wasn't a problem with
RH6. Everytime metamail is run or called (ie. via lynx) it says "metamail:
Can't open temporary
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Karen R wrote:
421 service not available, remote server has closed connection
This error message usually leaves a more detailed record of what happened
in /var/log/messages. What does it say?
LLaP
bero
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
Hi!
Hi, and welcome back! ;)
I am currently writing the 'kernel' section for MA and I wondered
about this: M is applying some patches to its sources.rpm. So what if
an user wants to avoid the whole source.rpm for an updated kernel
version and instead
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
Well, after just about everything broke at the same time, I hope this machine
will now run for a while :)
Well, give me its IP and I'll run teardrop and friends... :
Hum, sorry, but I don't think I understand your reasoning. On the one
hand you say it
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
All packages mentioned can be found at
http://coruscant.netrevolution.com/pub/SSL
Can you sync them with ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.de/pub/crypto4mandrake? I
think I have a more current version of mod_ssl, and I've added ssh and
lynx-ssl.
LLaP
bero
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Jim Adams wrote:
Sorry guys if I opened a stinky can o' worms. But I really would like to
know what has been substituted for /opt/kde?
/usr
Oh yes, BTW, what the heck
is a "MOC". On this side of the Atlantic it is a type of leisure shoe.
What does it have tro do with
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Istvan Kovacs wrote:
i want to run framebuffer console but i can't activate it. i compile the
kernel as usual, copy it to /boot, edit lilo.conf adding my new kernel +
vga=ask. (the same as i did when i was testing openlinux 2.2 and
worked). but when i run lilo it says:
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Konstantin Boldyshev wrote:
If sys_exit call in a user program is missing such program hangs and
cannot be killed. At all (kill -9 and SysRq will not help). Even if you
kill that terminal - program itself remains anyway. Only way to kill -
reboot.
Thanks - finally a
Just noticed kernel 2.2.9-26mdk still has the defunct processes problem
for processes owned by root; the problem is fixed only for normal user
processes (which should at least fix the security implications).
Expect a 27mdk later today or tomorrow.
LLaP
bero
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
Out of man hdparm:
--
-d
Disable/enable the "using_dma" flag for this drive.
This option only works with a few combinations of drives and
interfaces which support DMA and which are known to
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
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Message-Id: 9906132241301769900@ebb
Will the 4.08 version of Netscape from M 5.3 work on 6.0?
Haven't tried it, but theoretically it should work.
4.6 crashes several
times each day (esp the
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
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Message-Id: 990611164037870300@ebb
- bug (?): I was able to shutdown the system as a normal user from the kdm
login screen. Comfortable but not secure.
This can be configured in kcontrol (load
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, David Rodgers wrote:
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I could throttle the
bandwidth down for each connection but can't find an ftp deamon with that
capability
Have you had a look at the "throughput" directive in
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Lang Zhi wrote:
Is Oracle 8.05 run on Mandrake 6 ?
Oracle had release patch for glib2.1 for RedHat 6 and you need to install
the compatible bin-utils rpm etc .. to make it work.
In this case, it should work on Mandrake 6, too - we're almost 100%
compatible with RH 6.
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
It seems that on dual processor
systems that lilo can hang the kernel because it ends up overwriting
some of it's memory space. Lilo therefore needs to be compiled with
the LARGE_EDBA option.
Thanks - I've put a new lilo in the updates directory.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Roberto Angelo wrote:
what is kernel-ibcs...rpm ???
IBCS=Intel Binary Compatibility Specification. You need it if you want to
run *BSD or Solaris binaries on Linux.
While it's installed in ny system the
kaudioserver hang in KDE (only for the kernels 2.2.7)
Are you
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jeremy Lunn wrote:
When I installed Mandrake the other day, I was using esdplay from KDE
with no problems... no when I try to use it, it doesn't work... it
doesn't give any errors... it just doesn't do anything... how can it be
fixed?
Did you load the sound module?
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Pat Grismore wrote:
After installing the latest .rpm(24) with kpackage, I was touring the
different windowmanagers, got locked up somehow and had to do a hard reboot.
Very probably doesn't have anything to do with initscripts 24 - works here
without problems.
Init: No
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Stephen Gava wrote:
I'm thinking of standardising several Linux machines on a lan by
installing Mandrake 6.0 on them.
Good idea. ;)
but I was wondering, since Mandrake says it is 99.9% RedHat
compatible, whether I can upgrade the RedHat machines directly to
Mandrake
WindowMaker 0.60.0 and postfix 19990601 RPMS and SRPMS are available for
testing from your favorite mirror (let me know if there are any problems).
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake/updates/test
LLaP
bero
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
Has anyone running the 2.2.9-19mdksmp kernel has problems installing
VMWare 1.0? When trying to install it says that the kernel source tree
is for the non-smp kernel. It looks like that kernel that was compiled
in that source tree was the
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Görkem Çetin wrote:
Also since the Turkish fonts are not contained in the kbd package, the
Turkish installation is messy, too..
Does
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake/updates/test/RPMS/console-tools-19990415-14mdk.i586.rpm
fix the problem?
LLaP
bero
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
Won't work - cd /usr/src/linux ; make menuconfig will.
Right, If I knew the options that the kernel and modules were build with,
I've attached the .config file to this message. You can also get it from
the kernel SRPM, if you have the sources.
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Brian Chamberlain wrote:
open an xterm window:
bash: /etc/profile.d/alias.sh: No such file or directory
Does anyone know which rpm sets this up?
bash
LLaP
bero
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
I made a short digest of the trouble postings made to this list and put it
up at the mentioned address.
Just a couple of things:
* Fails to unmount the root device during shutdown
Edit /etc/inittab and remove the #-sign before the
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
What do you get with -mpentium -march=pentium -O6? Should be better...
Very slightly better, but still a bit slower that -m486 -O6.
This is odd... Which CPU are you using exactly?
You'll very probably get better results with -mpentium
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
I have problems while running Mandrake pgcc compiled quake2 mod. If I use
default options from id Makefile quake2 server segmentation faults on
startup. If I remove all optimisations - it segfaults after client connect.
strace log shows
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
Hi there!
I am pondering buying a notebook that will run Mandrake-Linux decently
*without* having to spend 300 bucks for a XI Graphics X server.
Experiences anyone?
Works fine on my cheapo medion p133mmx - the VGA chipset is a NeoMagic
MagicGraph
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Yann-Erick Proy wrote:
The computer is a low end Pentium class (P75, P90?), with 40 MB RAM, a 1 GB HD,
a low end graphics card and NE2000 PCI ethernet. It is intended to act as a cheap
Internet ISDN gateway for a customer's LAN.
Everything goes fine until I end
On Sun, 2 May 1999, EVRUS wrote:
Well, I think I need to put the updated packages in place of the old ones
(especially the KDE packages, that on my cd are alpha version =
kdexyz-1.1-0.1alpha1rh5x.i386.rpm), but...my question is...will the
installer recognize the new packages or not?
If you
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