More precise than my earlier post...
My ISP uses CHAP auth for its dialup. I have the trace of my
connection below - what is going wrong?
Thanks,
tom
Aug 2 23:51:29 lyra pppd[4792]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0
Aug 2 23:51:52 lyra pppd[4792]: Serial connection established.
Aug 2
When I try to use XFdrake it freezes at 'Preparing X-Window
configuration'. The freeze is complete and can't be exited using
Alt-SysReq. I have ended up restarting the machine umpteen times
because of this bloody thing. I've been syncing before typing 'XFdrake',
but even so this cannot be good
for RedHat and trying that?
I'm coming in late to this conversation so apologies if this has already
been suggested.
-Original Message-
From: Tom Strickland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:34 AM
To: expert-mandrake
Subject: Re: [expert] XFdrake freezes
I recently transferred my hard drives to a friend's machine to help
him sort a problem out. I had to reconfigure X to get things
moving. When I came home and tried to reconfigure X, I found that
XFdrake completely freezes. What gives? I've done it enough times
before. This is a total freeze - I
I'd like to download more recent kernels and patch them up to be the
equivalent of an update to the Mandrake-supplied kernels. Where can I
find a patch list? Hopefully I've missed it and it's somewhere in the
distribution.
Thanks,
tom
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:17:48PM +0200, Laurent CREPET wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:56:42AM +, Tom Strickland wrote:
I'd like to download more recent kernels and patch them up to be the
equivalent of an update to the Mandrake-supplied kernels. Where can I
find a patch list
on
our server.
If we're delivering our mail as coming from ourcharity.org.uk and it's
being relayed through our ISP's SMTP server (BT), wouldn't it get
blocked at some point by spam filters?
Thanks,
Tom
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:07:07PM +, Tom Strickland wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:33
at some point by spam filters?
Thanks,
Tom
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:07:07PM +, Tom Strickland wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote:
Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our server is about to be connected to the Internet through a dialup
Thank you Rusty!
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:00:57AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote:
Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
I should have been more clear in my last posting: my main question was:
If we're delivering our mail as coming from ourcharity.org.uk and it's
being relayed
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:17:10AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote:
Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm - sounds great for my home machine, but not so great for the
charity. The idea is to set up a minimum administration system so that
an administrator is only needed to check the logs
Our server is about to be connected to the Internet through a dialup
modem. Naive question:
Is it OK to give our network/server any old domain name? To the
outside world we will be the domain set by our ISP, but can I set the
domain in our LAN to something like smith.jones?
Thanks,
Tom
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote:
Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our server is about to be connected to the Internet through a dialup
modem. Naive question:
Is it OK to give our network/server any old domain name? To the
outside world we
I am about to re-configure a simple Class C network of Win98
machines/Linux server to give the Win machines access to the
internet. I'll be using Postfix as a collection/relay point to relay
mail through the ISP's SMTP server when we go online.
I just want to check a few details on hostname:
Is
ping!
Matthias, Chris: Thanks for the suggestions. I have found the
solutions to both. The first is simple and is going to make me look
very stupid. I deserve it and must be punished. The second has had me
stumped for a while...
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:17:51AM +, Tom Strickland wrote:
Another
I can't open configuration tools such as draknet or DrakConf as a
normal user. If I start them as super user, then they work
fine. When I click the DrakConf icon as a normal user. I tried
starting it from the command line, but couldn't get anything to
happen - I get:
execl() error, errno=13
If
Another problem:
Recently the computer started freezing at startup unless I did the following:
1) start as single user
2) start syslog:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
3) carry on the startup (ctrl-d)
logrotate isn't working either - it complains:
# logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
error:
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:06:49PM +0100, Matthias Grund wrote:
Another problem:
Recently the computer started freezing at startup unless I did the following:
1) start as single user
2) start syslog:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
3) carry on the startup (ctrl-d)
Change the priority
I have tried the tar method:
# cd /var
# tar -cf - . ; (cd /var-new; tar xpf -)
... and got a load of warning messages to the effect of 'socket not
copied' for some files belonging to amavis and postfix. Looking
/usr/share/doc/tar-1.13.17/NEWS, I find that tar no longer archives
sockets. I have
Attached are dmesg's from the two boots.
I am having other problems with my primary hd, unsure if they're related.
I originally bought a new motherboard due to DMA reset errors. I still
get them if I try to switch DMA on, but at least the computer doesn't
freeze anymore. I'm using an Abit KT7, so
In addition to what seems to be a reasonably thorough security effort,
try installing djbdns and kicking out BIND. Use postfix, not sendmail,
disable telnet/ftp (but you know these last three). I had this idea
for my network, what do people think:
Using kernel 2.4, it should be far easier to
Noticing that I only have 54 megs left on my / partition, I decided to
slot in a second hard drive on hdd and partition it up for /tmp /var
and a second swap. I created new mount points: /tmp2 /var2 and
formatted the hard drive using diskdrake. Problem: I accidentally left
one of the drive's old
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:07:32PM +, Arnoud de Jonge wrote:
Noticing that I only have 54 megs left on my / partition, I decided to
slot in a second hard drive on hdd and partition it up for /tmp /var
and a second swap. I created new mount points: /tmp2 /var2 and
formatted the hard
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:51:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote:
Try #fdisk -l /dev/hdd
This should paint a good picture for you of what the problem is.
#fdisk -l /dev/hdd
- gives no response (just a new cmd prompt)
#fdisk /dev/hdd
gives:
Unable to open /dev/hdd
--- Tom Strickland [EMAIL
' in my normal bootup. I am
puzzled.
--- Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:51:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote:
Try #fdisk -l /dev/hdd
This should paint a good picture for you of what the problem is.
#fdisk -l /dev/hdd
- gives no response (just a new
,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
I am confused!
--- Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:43:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote:
hmmm, are you sure it's on hdd? hdd is the slave of the first ide
slot
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:26:24AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote:
On 02.24 Tom Strickland wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:43:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote:
hmmm, are you sure it's on hdd? hdd is the slave of the first ide
slot.
AFAIK, hdd is the slave in the SECOND ide channel
What does
# rpm --rebuilddb
do?
Civileme
I should have mentioned that I have already tried this.
[root@lyra tom]# updatedb
[root@lura tom]# rpm --rebuilddb
Further checks on the rpm database reveal that some of the packages
that I recently updated using MandrakeUpdate seem to be duplicated
in
I have been having problems getting rpm to work on mdk 7.2. At the
moment, when I try to upgrade cups by downloading the rpm, I get:
[root@lyra mdk7.2_updates]# rpm -Uvh cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk.i586.rpm
cups#
error getting record /bin/sh
Thanks for all the replies. Thanks for setting me straight over serial ports
too. Wish I could remember where I read it... Anyway, I'll use the
'Linux/Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base' at the 'Winmodems are not modems'
site: http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
to find a decent PCI
tom strickland wrote:
tomtell him to buy an external serial modem (not usb).
No! Soon it will be difficult to buy motherboards with ISA slots. No ISA
slot - no ISA bus - no serial port. I need a future proof modem, as he
will be upgrading his computer within the year. Personally, I would
My friend is about to buy a modem, and he'd like it to be compatible with
linux. Buying PCI would be more futureproof than isa or serial. I know that
winmodems don't work under linux - most software modems in other words. I
know that pci modems don't work on linux at the moment (not without
snip
What you need to do is this:
Draft up a 'charter' for the use of the Internet within the company.
Make sure that this charter contains clauses such as "All Internet
resources are to be used for Company businss only", "The Company
reserves the right to monitor any and all Internet traffic
I run a network for a charity (MIND in the UK), Win98 clients served by
Linux-Mandrake, with a dialup Internet connection. We are about to open up
the access to the internet, but my boss wants to be able to track what
people browse. I came up with the plan of publishing a user's browsing logs
snip
Since company time is an issue, you might want to consider blocking sports
sites, chat rooms, games, and maybe even porn sites. People are human and
it wouldn't be the first time an employee had a little fun on company time.
Then, if you still want to track them set an invisible cookie that
I use nacctd and a perl tool that comes with it. It gives the date/time,
the workstation's name and the site's name. I run a cron job nightly that
emails this info to myself and my boss, you could just as easily put it on
a web page.
Stew Benedict
Thanks Stew, I'll take a look at it.
Tom
OK - I accidentally allowed the install of 7.1 to enable DMA on a machine
whose BIOS doesn't support it. Of course I'm getting crashes - luckily no
data loss so far. I tried using hdparm to disable dma, bith on normal login
and single user login, but each time the system freezes, and the next
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