[expert] Serious bug in linux (I think)

this too, someone please let me know. Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair

Re: [expert] Building a custom install floppy...

Quoting Julia A. Case ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Basically I'm trying to use a USB CD to install linux on a USB harddrive (don't ask, it's a laptop...) To this end I built a custom kernel with the stuff needed... The trouble is when I make the boot floppy with the blank.img and copy over vmlinuz

Re: [expert] runnig Mandrake 8.0 with 2 cpu

and then run lilo to make the changes take effect? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair

[expert] Building a custom install floppy...

since the ethernet card is a pcmcia card... Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 for Sparc

Quoting Alex Yung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I would be interested but I only have a Sparc 5. I'd like to make different versions for both the Sparc and the UltraSparc so that the UltraSparc would be pure 64bit. Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor

Re: [expert] Zugang zu www.adac.de mit MDK80 verweigert??!!

you and the server... Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take

[expert] SMP systems (continued)

over 2 CPU's... That the task scheduler doesn't make efficent use of the extra CPU's... Also is it possible to do something like dedicate a single CPU to just doing filesystem I/O? That would make using software RAID almost as fast as using a hardware RAID controller. Julia -- [ Julia Anne

Re: [expert] remote x

opinion it uses way too much bandwidth and isn't as secure is running SSH with X11-forwarding and a local X server... Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux

Re: [expert] OpenSSH Frustrations

: Actually, sshd runs as a stand alone daemon not via the inetd so unless it is compiled with libwrapers adding anything to /etc/hosts.allow won't affect sshd... It actually sounds like the sshd is not even running, please double check that. Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

... Luckily I had backups... The server is a fairly busy web and mail server, and I run all sorts of 'extras' for my users. Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining

Re: [expert] Can you believe it?

the .bz2 file... you might want to upgrade your tar install Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true

[expert] openldap install

I installed openldap and all the libraries from LM8.0 today but when I try to start the server it complains No objectClass top defined in schema I've searched all over and can't seem to figure out how to fix it... Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor

[expert] wish core dumping...

I was trying to run a TCL/TK app when I realised that wish just core dumps on my machine... I tried updating to the Cooker versions of both tcl and tk but the same thing still happens... I'd really like to run FaxMail, so could someone shed some light on this? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case

[expert] running everybuddy on a remote terminal

72 minor_code 0 Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 1181 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really

Re: [expert] XDMCP, and glx extension?

Quoting Gregor Maier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Looks like the X-Server running on your Win32 machine is not capable of doing GL stuff... Don't know if there are X-Servers for win which can do this. Actaully the xwin-32 application is in beta with GL support. Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case

[expert] Re: mailing list trouble

Quoting Julia A. Case ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): All of a sudden I stopped getting email from the list... I sent a few messages and have recieved private responses so I know my email is getting to the list, but I'm just not getting anything from it. Well, I'm getting email from the list again

Re: [expert] MD 8 - WEBMIN

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Re: [expert] tar question

, but a start... Thanks for all the help, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair

[expert] mailing list trouble

All of a sudden I stopped getting email from the list... I sent a few messages and have recieved private responses so I know my email is getting to the list, but I'm just not getting anything from it. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor

[expert] mp3c, nice little tool...

-- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ] PGP

[expert] odd reboots

straight and then all of a sudden it reboots 3 times in one day... One of the reboots is even logged in the last log, which would seem to indicate that someone rebooted it, but no one else has access to that... Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor

[expert] tar question

Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor

[expert] smbd questions

) \\computer\username but it didn't connect... I did a smbadduser and set a password so that isn't the trouble... Can anyone add anything here? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own

[expert] w oddness...

with ssh which I haven't) Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you

[expert] Oddities in xwindows

happened in both Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 on a UltraSparc 10

I just purchased an UltraSparc 10 for myself... I'm wondering how hard it would be to re-compile all the Mandrake 8.0 SRPMS for sparc? The new machine should be here in a week and I can try, but I was wondering if anyone else tried it. Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe

[expert] USB External CDRW

There was a thread a while back about USB CDRW's, but it didn't go far... Does anyone have any info on how to make them work? Do you need the scsi-emulation drivers like for IDE drives? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large

Re: [expert] USB External CDRW

disk... does having a real scsi controller confuse it? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows

Re: [expert] xinted make dependency problem?

files to force it to recompile and link, all is ok. I'm new to this. Am I missing something? Thanks Karl Cunningham -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining

Re: [expert] Wu-ftp

have to install then I will be glad for you and if I am able to setup my ftp server I have lots of mp3 for you :)) Just a recomendation, wu-ftp has had numerous security holes in it... I'd recomend either proFTP or ncFTPd for much more secure anonymous FTP Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case

[expert] updating ssh

If I use the automated update procedure to update my ssh files it breaks... and I need to go back to v2.5.2p2 and then things work again... looks to be a conflict in the library files. Thanks Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer

(forw) [expert] ip fowarding

I think I got this by accident. Julia - Forwarded message from Jørgen Traun [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:48:30 +0200 From: Jørgen Traun [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdk i686) To: Julia A. Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert

Re: [expert] updating ssh

Sorry about that, I'm using Mandrake 8.0 Thanks, Julia Quoting Bryan D Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Paul Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday, Jun 22, 2001, Julia A. Case wrote: If I use the automated update procedure to update my ssh files it breaks... and I need to go back

Re: [expert] gtk-- rpms

Quoting Laurent Duperval ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Where does one fing the gtk-- rpms? I looked on rpmfind.net but it isn't there. It also doesn't look like is distributed with the 8.0 distro. try http://www.gnome.org Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside

Re: [expert] scp without password (secure copy)

, but I'm pretty lost. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Mads -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true

Re: [expert] APC UPS shutdown script? How does it work?

with software to shut windows down, but don't say a thing about Linux. How do I get it to work with my server? Advise would be great, but if you can just point me to the right docs, I don't have a problem reading. Thanks -- David C. Rankin Nacogdoches, Texas -- [ Julia Anne Case

Re: [expert] Upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 over network?

. Is there a way to do an installation over a network (from an FTP site, for example? TIA. -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true

Re: [expert] Configuring VMware for raw disk?

and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you

[expert] Using MUR

When I try to run drakupdatesetup I get the following error drakupdatesetup: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpm.so.0: undefined symbol: ufdio I've tried reloading the rpm packages to no avial... Anyone have any ideas? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships

[expert] the saga continues...

I managed to upgrade enough packages by hand to get the tools to do a LiveUpgrade... but when I was done and rebooted, ssh didn't work, apache was dead, php was messed up and half of my passwd file and group file was missing! There has to be a better way... Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case

[expert] Remote upgrade to 8.0

permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax Illegal instruction (core dumped) [root@morn cdrom]# Next I tried running Vnc as root and doing it that way... it starts to load and then dies with a seg fault. Any ideas? -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships

[expert] superuser access

Is it possible to set up the machine so that only people in the wheel group can use the su command? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux

[expert] libsafe

I keep getting libsafe errors when I try to read an email message with mutt, is there an upgraded version? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux

Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions

Yes. startx will start a session alt-shift-f7 and start :1 will start one on alt-shift-f8 Julie Quoting faisal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can i have two Xwindows at once like on shift f1 root shift f2 have normal user login ?? -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside

[expert] X drake tools...

These tools worked GREAT during setup. But when I wanted to run them from the command line none of them work, I get pages of error output. If any one wants to see the output I'll send it to the list. Thanks, Julie -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor

Re: [expert] X drake tools...

/run_program.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/libDrakX/keyboard.pm line 11. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/drakxconf line 7. Julie -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships