Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:57, eric huff wrote: Is this still true (the article is a few years old)? It says you can't update a kernel with software manager. I did last week (since i didn;t know any better), and it worked fine. I can't actually check what they said about lilo because i have since reinstalled. (no, not cuz of the kernel :) eric Eric, Now that Urpmi is IMHO perfected not so true. The installer is now intelligent enough to know to install kernels. But it must be done seperate from all other updates. The reason is strictly due to a requirement put in by MDK so that there is minimal chance of oops. I actually do kernel upgrades this way. urpmi --update kernel (the update switch can be skipped but it makes sure I get the MDK kernel not one from club etc.) So far on about 6 boxes (9.0 and 9.1) with 5 of them done remotely not one has burped on me. James On Tuesday 17 June 2003 06:05 pm, Craig wrote: Have a look here, http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php This will outline how to update your kernel, it is not difficult. On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:49, Rodrigo wrote: Hi All ... I have downloaded the kernel updates for mdk91, but the rpm -Fvh kernel etc doesn't work ... Does exist a special way to update the kernel ? rodrigo dgfuch __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I Found my Martians
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 11:52 pm, Vox wrote: Actually, that's only part of the whole thing :) A martian packet is one that comes from a network that shouldn't be sending packets to that interface. If you get a packet from 192.168.1.54 on your public (ie. internet) interface, it'll get marked as martian because a packet from a private interface shouldn't come to the public interface. Same happens with improper headers without identifying source...they get marked as martians because the interface can't confirm it comes from a valid source. Thanks, Vox. It all helps the understanding g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 01:39, Larry Sword wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: Here's a concise sure-fire manual way to upgrade the Mandrake kernels with the new rpm versions Mandrake issues. Upgrading with vanilla kernel.org sources with any extra patches differs, and is a little more complicated, but for Mandrake rpms, the steps below are all that's needed. 1. Download the new kernel and kernel source rpms to their own directory you create in /home (two rpms). 2.Open a console, su to root, and cd to that directory. 3. Type: rpm -ivh *.rpm 4. After they install, check the following locations: 1. /etc/lilo.conf. You should now see the new stanza for the new kernel at the bottom. 2. /boot. You should now see items for the new kernel there. 3. /usr/src. There should be a new directory there for the new kernel. 4. /lib/modules. There should be a new kernel modules directory there. If all that checks out, you have done it, and can reboot, and choose the new kernel in the lilo boot screen. The old kernel will still be listed, and available. That's all there is to it with the Mandrake rpm kernel updates, as all copying and editing is done automatically. Robert Crawford Yep this is the way it's done.. but it sure is questionable why in the Mandrake notice on the kernel, *MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:066 : kernel the have the following: To upgrade automatically, use *MandrakeUpdate*. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package(s) from one of our FTP server mirrors http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php and upgrade with rpm -Fvh *.rpm. :-P Larry I saw that too- surely they don't really mean -Fvh. I must be a typo and/or an oversight. I know I'm really careful, but still have a lot of typos that I miss, so I can't really fault anyone else. Still, on something as important as a kernel upgrade procedure for newbies, it's imperative to give correct instructions. I know I was confused at first by a lot of the outdated and contradictory kernel how-tos posted on the internet, but once I did it myself a few times and messed up, and discovered where the newbie pitfalls were, it became simple. Now that I understand what the goals are, and why, I'm fearlessly recompiling and patching experimental kernels like an expert, even on my main non-testing box. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I Found my Martians
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 2:29 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I had an experience with martians recently. I was getting connection attempts from 192.168.100.1. I initially told my firewall to block all invalid addresses, but a day later I discovered that it was my cable modem (Motorola Surfboard SB3100). The device had a full Web configuration interface and its own DHCP server, and I only discovered this three years after buying it! I'm not slow, I'm just fashionably late! :) Reason number 512 on we at least looking at the instructions might be worthwhile *large evil grin* James Oops - another example of seeing the reply to a message that never came through - I never got Sridhar's. Are we all having this problem? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SUMMARY:: [expert] Suggestions to help Minimize List Email Traffic
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 19:06, Tru64 User wrote: OK, well said ppl. We (mandrake experts) don't want changes!. Got it. Changes make sense sometimes and sometimes they do not. Your UNIX list is mostly expert list, I guess. They are guys who know netiquette, are used to maillists and are disciplined enough to follow the routines you described. So it works there. Mandrake lists, whether newbie or expert, are kind of a mixed bag if you look at the users. Also ppl come and go (especially come) more often than in your pro Unix list. Implementing those routines would not actually work here, I am afraid, and an attempt to do that could simply break the existing messy, funny, offtopicky but actually well-working community. Or it may turn into kind of a Please no off-topic/cut the quotes/no HTML-nagging that I have been participating as well and which actually only increases the amount of OT postings without any other significant effect. How about encouraging people to post final summaries then? At least we will know what solved their problems. In many cases, i read arguments but at the end never knows what resolved the issue. This is an excellent idea, and I will try to remember and do this. Although, as you see, in more philosophical cases even summaries could cause further discussion :-) Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??
Citerar Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yep this is the way it's done.. but it sure is questionable why in the Mandrake notice on the kernel, *MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:066 : kernel the have the following: * To upgrade automatically, use *MandrakeUpdate*. Since rpmdrake/urpmi knows that kernels have to be installed, not upgraded, it works as it should... -- Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iki.fi/tmb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I Found my Martians
Ok, now i know i am not going crazier. I have seen this, too, Anne. I was about to look into wether it was my isp. Whenever this has happened, sure enough it's in the archive, and obviously some people got it, but i didn't. I'm glad you mentioned it. How would we go about trying to get the list server fixxed, in the case of a drastic problem? eric Oops - another example of seeing the reply to a message that never came through - I never got Sridhar's. Are we all having this problem? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Web site guru needed - CLOSURE
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 2:58 am, Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 1:43 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Discuss the problem with the Mozilla developers on irc://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla. There may need to be a bug filed. Sorry - I said I was not very savvy on irc. I tried it, but got c [19:48:07] Connecting to mozilla.org, port 6667... [19:48:07] * E * Can't connect to host: Connection refused so I obviously did something wrong. Can you give me push in the right direction? In the Mozilla window menu is Chatzilla (unless you have a very old version). Open that. Before you do, it's a good idea go into prefs and change the nick to something other than IRCMonkey. Once it starts, there will be a catalog of channels in the first or second tab. Click on the #chatzilla link for help with Chatzilla; click on the #mozillazine link for help with user issues; click on the #mozilla link for help with problems you believe are the result of a Mozilla bug. There is a CZ FAQ at http://www.moztips.com/index.php?id=7 I did chat to the developers - quite a long chat, actually. It seems that there is one routine(?) that happens in two pages, that looks for an 'event' which it doesn't find. The cause of the problem was unclear, except that they felt it was looking for something windows-centric. As agreed with them, I emailed the bank's webmaster, explaining the problem. The reply started with the disclaimer that they do not support mozilla, but did go on to say that my comments had been passed to the programmers, for consideration in future updates to the site. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I Found my Martians
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:55:41 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - another example of seeing the reply to a message that never came through - I never got Sridhar's. Are we all having this problem? Anne Hmmm... too bad we don't have access to the list servers... missing posts and duplicated posts -- gotta wonder if one of the servers has a glitch where it forwards the wrong msg at times... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] SASL and Postfix
Hey everyone, I'm trying to set up postfix to authenticate smtp clients before relaying mail. I've added #SASL server directives smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated check_relay_domains smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes to postfix's main.cf and I've added pwcheck_method:sasldb to /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf Using saslpasswd I've added a user and a password. I've changed the permissions of sasldb to 644 in /etc. The problem I'm having is that no one can authenticate when relaying mail through postfix. Postfix keeps responding Authentication failed. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks for your help, Randy PS. popping mail is working fine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] messed up ide-scsi config
hello, some of you may remember, a short time ago i had this problem while replacing an existing cdrom (with scsi emulation) with a new ide harddisk. well, in the process of trying to fix the problem someone suggested i remove scsi_hostadapter and ide-scsi from my /etc/modules.conf, and hdc=ide-scsi from lilo.conf. that didn't help back then but ever since i cannot use my cdroms like before.. (the additional harddisk is gone now) i can't use them to burn cds or dvds anymore and i cant install any new software from the mandrake cds.. i can mount them manually tough: mount /dev/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom mount /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom both work fine for just normally accessing data on the discs, but not for burning or installing. what am i to do ? or respectively, what exactly did i mess up ? tnx for any help! greetings, le stu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How might I get ACPI to work with mdk9.1?
Il mar, 2003-06-17 alle 16:46, Ronald J. Hall ha scritto: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 08:42 am, Nisco wrote: Reboot(to append the right acpi=on string on the kernel) If thats /etc/lilo.conf that he's appending that to, then he'll need to run (as root): /sbin/lilo or the changes won't be recognized, no matter how many times you reboot. :-) sorrry :)) tooo right! Cesare Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] setting up a apcupsd slave
Hi List! MDK 9.1 and apcups 3.10.5. After a while I got my master apcupsd working. Had to set: NISIP 127.0.0.1 in apcupsd.conf file. Trying something similar to a slave box, via ethernet, I got: FATAL ERROR in apcaccess.c at line 278 tcp_open: cannot connect to server localhost on port 3551. ERR=Connection refused My slave apcupsd.conf file is: ## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ## UPSCABLE ether UPSTYPE backups LOCKFILE /var/lock BATTERYLEVEL 10 MINUTES 3 TIMEOUT 60 ANNOY 30 ANNOYDELAY 30 NOLOGON disable NETSERVER on NISIP 127.0.0.1 NISPORT 3551 EVENTSFILE /var/log/apcupsd.events STATTIME 0 STATFILE /var/log/apcupsd.status LOGSTATS off DATATIME 0 UPSCLASS netslave UPSMODE net NETACCESS true NETTIME 10 NETPORT MASTER 192.168.0.10 USERMAGIC abcdefghijklmnop1 Did someone got a slave box configured and working? BTW, under MDK 8.0, I never had problem. Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Cheers, --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] script help
Hey thanks Mark! Sorry to take so long responding; I forgot to renew my
domain name and wasn't getting any mail - please don't ask :}
thanks again! mike
Michael Holt wrote:
Hey,
I'm looking for some help on my little backup script for my server. I'm
not a real savvy scripter so please bare with me :)
I googled around awhile back and put together a bu script that has
served
my purpose well until now. It's just a few lines as you will see and I
use it with cron to make a cdrw every morning at 3am.
Now the info on my server is starting to outgrow just on cdrw (jpgs and
such) so I would like to know how I can modify my script to be able to
exclude either certain files or directories. I imagine that sed would
be
involved, but I don't completely understand that tool so I'm hoping that
someone might be able to give me some pointers and maybe even explain
how
the code will work in that setting. Well, here's what I've got now:
Michael,
attached you'll find the one i've been using and it works flawlessly. I
can't remember his name, but it was a gentleman here on the expert list
that sent me a copy of his and I used his as a guide to cook this one up.
enjoy...
--
Mark
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Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R)
Linux User Since 1996
Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1
ICQ# 27816299
#!/bin/sh
#MAILTO:mdw1982
# ##
# variables for the program:
# ##
TAPE=/dev/st0;
HOME_FILES=/home;
DOCUMENTS=/mnt/arc_2/Documents;
WWW=/var/www;
MAIL=/var/spool/mail;
DATABASE=/var/lib/mysql;
MP3=/mnt/mp3;
LOG_PATH=/home/mdw1982/;
LOG_DIR=backup_log;
DATE=$( date +%m-%d-%Y );
# ##
# functions for program:
# ##
message(){
echo .This is the Tape backup program..;
echo --- ;
echo ;
echo I've successfully completed the nightly backup of the system;
echo for $DATE;
echo ;
echo The Log file containing the backup's contents has been written;
echo to $LOG_PATH.;
echo . END OF TRANSMISSION ;
}
# does the directory to receive the backup logs exist?
# if not then we're going to create it...
checkLog(){
for i in $( ls -d /home/mdw1982/* ); do
ITEM=$i
if [ $ITEM = $LOG_DIR ]
then
FOUND=true
else
FOUND=false
fi
done
}
# ##
# main program :
# ##
# putting all the goodies to the tape
find /bin /boot /etc /home /root /var /mnt/arc_2/Documents /var/www -print
| grep -iv \./var/ftp | sort | cpio -oaBc -O /dev/tape
# writing out the logfile to disk
cpio -iBct -I /dev/tape /home/mdw1982/backup_log/$( date +%m-%d-%Y
)_bkup.indx
# compressing the logfile
gzip -1 /home/mdw1982/backup_log/$( date +%m-%d-%Y )_bkup.indx
# outputing message to email
message;
# exiting the program
exit;
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Re: [expert] Suggestions to help Minimize List Email Traffic
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 01:39 am, Wolfgang Bornath had this to contribute :- My $200,000.00 Life must be hard for people who regard their opinion not worthier than $0.02. wobo Intriguing thought. Charlie -- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Erich Fromm This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??
The way, as shown on the site, still works ... I did the latest kernel update in this manner the other day. It is the way I was initially shown and have stuck by this method since, I have had no problems with kernel updates as a result of doing it this way. On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:57, eric huff wrote: Is this still true (the article is a few years old)? It says you can't update a kernel with software manager. I did last week (since i didn;t know any better), and it worked fine. I can't actually check what they said about lilo because i have since reinstalled. (no, not cuz of the kernel :) eric On Tuesday 17 June 2003 06:05 pm, Craig wrote: Have a look here, http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php This will outline how to update your kernel, it is not difficult. On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:49, Rodrigo wrote: Hi All ... I have downloaded the kernel updates for mdk91, but the rpm -Fvh kernel etc doesn't work ... Does exist a special way to update the kernel ? rodrigo dgfuch -- Cheers, Craig. Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk Current Linux Uptime: 2 days 23 hours 50 minutes. Registered Linux User: 228534 Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How might I get ACPI to work with mdk9.1?
Il mar, 2003-06-17 alle 18:25, Matt Osborne ha scritto: Thanks, I'm getting a little closer to fixing this. Made sure acpi=yes in lilo then ran /sbin/lilo as root, installed the packages and then rebooted. acpi was working somewhat, it could tell when I had the AC plugged in and when it was on battery, but it could not read the battery charge level and when I ran the following it did not seem to detect the battery ]# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state present: no Try ]# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state Bye Cesare Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NO MAIL TODAY?
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 11:20 pm, Bob Read wrote: Has there been little/no mail on this list today? If there has been any volume of mail today, would someone please let me know directly? TIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob: Same thing here, although it looks like some folks did get mail. It got fixed here (EDT) about midnight. Anyone know the French for stuff happens? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I Found my Martians
The list server has exhibited all sorts of sporadic problems for as long as I've
been a member (since early 2000). Are they still using Sympa? Mailman seems to
be norm for most newer lists.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:14:58 -0700, eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, now i know i am not going crazier. I have seen this, too, Anne.
I was about to look into wether it was my isp.
Whenever this has happened, sure enough it's in the archive, and
obviously some people got it, but i didn't.
I'm glad you mentioned it. How would we go about trying to get the
list server fixxed, in the case of a drastic problem?
eric
Oops - another example of seeing the reply to a message that
never came through - I never got Sridhar's. Are we all having
this problem?
Anne
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Re: [expert] I Found my Martians
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 07:17, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:55:41 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - another example of seeing the reply to a message that never came through - I never got Sridhar's. Are we all having this problem? Anne Hmmm... too bad we don't have access to the list servers... missing posts and duplicated posts -- gotta wonder if one of the servers has a glitch where it forwards the wrong msg at times... The servers went down sometime around 3:18AM 06/18 and didn't get back up until about 45 minutes ago. --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Suggestions to help Minimize List Email Traffic
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 02:16, charlie wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 01:39 am, Wolfgang Bornath had this to contribute :- My $200,000.00 Life must be hard for people who regard their opinion not worthier than $0.02. wobo Intriguing thought. Charlie Either that or they value it in 1900 US dollars (.02 would have gotten you a meal back then) *grin* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SASL and Postfix
** Randy Jonasz (Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2003 17:23) Using saslpasswd I've added a user and a password. I've changed the permissions of sasldb to 644 in /etc. The problem I'm having is that no one can authenticate when relaying mail through postfix. Postfix keeps responding Authentication failed. Is there something I'm missing? Just to make sure, you have installed the proper plugin? wobo -- Public GnuPG key available at http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1 - IRQ Balancing still not fixed...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 it works for me(tm) without any problem, that very same kernel: Linux deus.mitica 2.4.21-0.18mdksmp #1 SMP Tue Jun 3 20:25:42 CEST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux quintela$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0:17962871925337IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2 0IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 4:195240IO-APIC-edge serial 8: 1 0IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 14: 7472 8162IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 17 11IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 34576 34687 IO-APIC-level eth0 17: 0 0 IO-APIC-level AMD 768 NMI: 0 0 LOC:37215143721509 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 quintela$ Installing enterprise, but shouldn't bmake a difference. What processors are you using? Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+8ByYBn4EFUVUIO0RAhWQAJiPQCQHKdhFLo0q6EY1ODOe1RqLAJ45Bt0L znQtZ77Wn/W+g09kYIdjWg== =fjjy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
