I suspect that this message comes from my NIC but I'm not sure. So far
everything on my Mandrake v9.0 system works fine - I just see a lot of these
messages when I run dmesg.
I can't tell you the exact kernel version I'm running, but I could post it on
the list tonight. The NIC is built into
For a true SCSI tape drive (not an IDE tape drive that is accessed as a SCSI
tape drive using the ide-scsi module), you do not need to run makedev nor
re-install - just load the scsi tape module (note the SCSI controller module
has to be loaded first). I think that even the module will be
To answer several questions, the NTFS read problem only applies when the disk
is attached to the system as a normal disk (i.e. via IDE, SCSI (and may be
even a SAN)) and not over the network.
Think of it this way, when you export a filesystem via samba do the clients
care that the underlying
From info page for bash
`TMOUT'
If set to a value greater than zero, the value is interpreted as
the number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary
prompt when the shell is interactive. Bash terminates after that
number of seconds if input does not arrive.
On Monday 21 October 2002 07:34 pm, Jane Gray-Luhr wrote:
Anyone heard of a beta NFS for Linux that is built with TCP protocol?
Linux can run NFS over TCP as a client, see:
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
For more questions see the Linux NFS mailing list:
On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:55 pm, Steve Browne wrote:
...
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
This works for me on an ext2 system. Not sure about ext3 and the
others. Warning: depending on your CPUs and drive sizes, the transfer
can take a LONG time. Like, five hours.
Have you tried increasing
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:20 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Hi there. For a really great web site all about NFS go to:
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/
Actually a better site on all things Linux NFS go to:
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
This is where the most up to date Linux NFS
See
http://kirch.net/unix-nt/
http://www.kegel.com/nt-linux-benchmarks.html
http://people.freebsd.org/~andreas/unix-vs-nt/
This is one of a series of articles on IPC, threads, memcpy, sockets and
pipes and comparing the differences in speed. It indirectly tells you have
fast your app will
.
-Original Message-
From: Lars Nordin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 10 April 2002 14:22
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tony S. Sykes
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy
I have that situation with my ISP and I have to configure proxying at
the
application level - so I have
I have that situation with my ISP and I have to configure proxying at the
application level - so I have to configure netscape/konqueueror for web and
ftp proxy.
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 03:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
-Original Message-
From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Postfix is just an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) and all it does is route mail.
It sounds like you are talking about a MRA (Mail Retrieval Agent) which gives
a user remote access to their mail box - you want to look into imap or pop3
servers and their configuration. If you just want users to pick
Looks like some of the necessary NFS programs(mountd?) never started so the
shutdown scripts are complaining. I would try uninstalling nfs-utils-clients
package or otherwise don't run the netfs start script - that is if you are
not using _any_ networked drives.
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 06:16
I'm trying to instal openssh-server and it complains about msec not being set
(see error below) but even after I run msec (msec 2), I get the same error.
I noticed that /etc/security/msec/security.conf was missing so I created a
link to /etc/sysconfig/msec from that path, but these had no
I have a Mandrake v8.0 system that has been upgraded from Mandrake 7.2 and
7.1.
The problem I have is that the system automatically logs me in as it should
at boot up but when I log out instead of going to the KDM screen, it logs me
in again.
How can I track down how the system is
Cool!
My guess is that ipv6 forwarding is set(?) - I think that ipv4 forwarding and
ipv6 forwarding are two different modules but I could be wrong. Could any of
the NAT'ing or firewalling interfere with the IPv6 routing?
You might want to post this question on another more IPv6 centered list.
Can you give us any data on memory usage?
Memory shortage is my first guess.
Does kswapd take a lot of processor time - if it is then the system is
working hard to manage memory due to a shortage.
Run top then hit M
How is the disk I/O? This can cause the keyboard slowness but not the high
Try using either an ansi or at386 TERM on the SVR4 box since the linux TERM
is most similar to those.
Another option is to take the Linux TERMCAP/TERMINFO entry and get it working
on the SVR4 box so that it has a linux TERM entry - see google or google
groups for your specific UNIX.
On
Look for IBCS (sp?) modules - this is Intel Binary Compatibility System (or
something similar).
My understanding is that you need the program, whatever components are needed
for IBCS, and the shared libraries from SCO system for SCO binaries to work.
This is how guys 3-4 years ago first got
I'm trying to use the pptp-client-1.0.2-5mdk package to connect to a MS VPN
server but I don't think I'm calling the program correctly.
The documentation says:
pptp my.pptp.host debug name cananian remotename ntdialup \
172.18.0.2:172.18.0.3
In my case the remote IPs are dynamic - given out
I just went through this the other day and someone else may be wondering why
- and some of the programs won't let you know that they can't open certain
device files (but running strace program will).
If you are running Mandrake v7.2 and kmp3 dies with a segmentation fault or
kscd won't work
I've been running LM 7.2 for a while w/o problems and I've been using this
hdparm tuning string:
hdparm -c3 -m16 /dev/hda
After switching to the 2.2.19 kernel, I get this message:
error message:
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr:
This would be better asked on one of the comp.unix.sco.* newsgroups but here
is the answer anyway :)
If you are using the scoadmin GUI, realize that it can only scan for other
SCO boxes with printers (and I believe that it even says that some where on
the menu or documentation). I have
Thanks for the response, I reinstalled win2k and then Linux and I was very
careful not to disturb the partition and ditto - I have win2k and Linux dual
booting w/o problems.
BTW I want to thank the KDE and Mandrake folks on the whole Kmail packaging -
I wanted to transfer my e-mail from win95
Previously, when installing LM v7.2 on to a spare partition of a Win 95
system it was no problem to get them to dual boot via LILO or GRUB.
I tried to do the same with Win 2k but I don't know if it can't be done via
LILO or if I just screwed up the Win 2k partitions during the LM v8.0
install.
What are you trying to do?
If you are trying to just send and receive mail then KDE Kmail or Netscape
Messenger are sufficient and they can talk directly to your ISP/company's
mail server.
If you want to send mail internally on your Linux box - not between
systems - then there is no
- Original Message -
From: "Ritesh Ahya" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail!
Lars thanks for your information, actually i was trying to answer someone,
but the information you
1) do a man on gettimeofday() - there are books on Unix programming that
would show you this step by step
2) I haven't done it before but it is a stty setting, see stty - how you
would call this from inside a program I don't know
- Original Message -
From: "vick Julius" [EMAIL
What are you trying do?
Setting up an MX record are for those setting up an e-mail server for the
Internet being able to deliver mail to your domain. The named.conf and
associated DB files contain the name to IP (and IP to name) mappings that
all internet hosts need in order to connect to the
ter for my
server
Lars Nordin wrote:
What are you trying do?
Setting up an MX record are for those setting up an e-mail server for
the
Internet being able to deliver mail to your domain. The named.conf and
associated DB files contain the name to IP (and IP to name) mappings
that
al
Add to the list tcpdump (CLI) and X-windows based ethereal.
As far as advice on what to look for, I can't give you much but you may want
to ask this on a more network oriented newsgroup (see deja.com for a list)
or mailing list. I would recommend two things though - try to track down
why NIS
rom. Also what
would be the syntax for that. For instance what would i need to state in
order to give the io port of the device.
Thanks.
Ira
-Original Message-
From:Lars Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:01:19 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAI
It sounds like you have a EISA DPT card - www.dpt.com may not exist anymore
since adaptec bought them up (so you may have to go to www.adaptec.com).
I've used DPT SCSI controllers in the past and they worked fine (this was on
Unixware). It sounds like you have the correct driver EATA but you may
--Original Message Follows
From: "Lars Nordin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] How to run script at X-login - xsession doesn't work
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:13:22 -0500
Earlier while running v7.1, I tried config
What you are looking for is PoPToP - a VPN server for Linux for MS WindowsXX
VPN clients.
The link I saved is apparently old but go to a search engine and look for it
unless someone else on this list has the updated home page for it.
- Original Message -
From: "Andrew Judge" [EMAIL
It does almost sound like hardware - when you run RH or Debian do you stress
the system to see if it dies?
(like running several instances of "cp /dev/hda /dev/null" or "find / |
cpio -o | compress /dev/null")
I was going to say that memory may be an issue but you have ECC RAM and that
should
My apologies since this concerns a Red Hat v6.2 system and not a Mandrake
one but I may be some kind sole could help with this one.
I'm backing up a RH system using an old Exabyte 2500SX 8mm DAT (SCSI) which
requires using several tapes. When I back up the system, it works fine -
when it hits
Earlier while running v7.1, I tried configuring both .xsession and Xsession
to run commands when I login to my system (after logging in via KDM) like
the .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc scripts do, but neither one worked.
I worked around it by putting a shell script in
I had the same problems; I ended up having to run XFdrake to configure X;
rebuilding the symbolic links in /etc/rc5.d/ for "network" and "portmap" -
this was why NFS was failing to start on my system no lo0 or eth0 devices!
Be warned if you try to upgrade kdebase that you will get a cpio unlink
Like I posted before check the links in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or /etc/rc.5d/ for
the script "network" in /etc/rc.d/init.d. I had the same problem upgrading.
I was able to get the network running again by simply running "ln -s
/etc/rc.d/network/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/SXXnetwork" where 'XX' is some two
- Original Message -
From: "Ron Heron" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?
Now if ReiserFS only supported quotas ...
no streams support
What do you mean by
good Linux Admin ? I heard linux users have
to
do a lots of programing too do i have to do that as well ?
thankyou
Faisal
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Noble Systems Corporation
www.noblesys.com
/UX and Sun Solaris.
Jasper
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
www.noblesys.com
I'm seeing occasional errors from bind on my Mandrake 7.0 system. They look
like this:
Jun 22 14:07:49 blast named[13158]: bad referral (co.uk ! iacl.co.uk)
Are these normal? If not, what could/should I do about them.
Thanks for your advice!
Tony
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
www.noblesys.com
I thought it was a kernel/glib/filesystem issue that really didn't have much
to do with the word size of the hardware.
You would figure that you could have the kernel compensate by doing the
pointer/offset math 32-bits at a time and hence enable it to do a lseek on a
64 bit value on IA32
... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create
executables.
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
Thanks!
I installed libstdc++-devel and that did the trick.
Now I have to get the X and probably the KDE libs as well - I installed my
Mandrake box as a desktop, not planning on doing any develpment on it.
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Sebastian Dransfeld wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Lars Nordin wrote
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
an upgrade. I have to admit that I did
gloat a little during the ILOVEYOU virus thing since Linux/kmail is in no way
vunerable)
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
for the help
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
you know if the system can
read and identify the data.
One thing that may be important is the blocksize used.
See if 'mt' can show what the blocksize is of the data on the tape and then
maybe you can match it using 'mt' again.
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
, Ron Stodden wrote:
Jon,
Are you not aware that Unix, and so the entire Internet and Linux,
are case sensitive?
FAKEFOO.COM and fakefoo.com are entirely different domains - and will
be, for ever and ever.
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
I'm sure there is a general HowTo on this but I use a similar configuration
both at work and at home.
First make sure that the Windows Networking is working correctly.
From the command line, run "smbclient //host/printer_share -P" - this
should give a ftp like connection where you can give a
or hosts.deny.
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Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
server any longer so I've lost some of my
incentive as well.
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Noble Systems Corporation
http://www.jinsa.org/
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