Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
OK replying to myself is bad :) made some progress , but sorted the process of collecting mail to evolution. Not sure how to deal with an alias. The host name of this machine is gb7tf.org.uk, which I use freeparking to redirect from. I setup one of the e-mail aliases at freeparking to point to the dyndns site with the hostname rf-engineer.homelinux.com., which is updated with the dynamic address of this machine. . So I need to get postfix to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,which at the moment its rejecting. I'm still going to need to setup a pop sever on my sons firewall machine as he uses winyuk OS. Thanks Richard On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 06:47, Richard Bown wrote: Hi I have a mjor problem with e-mail here, and its nothing to do with Mandrake9.1. Since my ISP has really got into bed with microyuk, their POP3 server can take anything up to 10 mins to authenticate the password. so Evolution keeps asking for the password, and gets it knickers in a right twist as I check for new mail every 10 mins.it always recovers in the end :) So what I'm trying to do is bypass my ISP on incoming mail. I do have a dynamic address as I'm on cable here. About 10% of my mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is then redirected to my ISP and I POP it from their site, that e-mail address also get spammed badly by porn sites at times. I use the mail filters to catch most of it, but some still gets thru. So wht Ive done so far:- Installed postfix, set up an account on dyndns pointing to this machine What I want to do is divert the subscribe list mail , which is about 98% of incoming via the dyndns alias to port25 ,so postfix accepts it. As the smtp server on my ISP seems to behave I can deliver outgoing mail to that. The incoming mail is the bit I'm stuck on. Getting mail that postfix has acceptted delivered to my mail client Evolution. Do I need to install a pop server to interface between postfix and evolution ? I know this is a bit of a daft question to some, but with most things linux the first time trying to get something to work without help is an uphill struggle. TIA Richard -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message
On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:45, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E Fox wanted us to know: installing a new DVD/CDRW combo drive last weekend. I rebooted the system (which had been rebooted before, successfully) and the system hung completely at finding module dependencies (I think). My cooker box did the same thing a couple weeks ago. Only way to get a good bootup was failsafe mode. It gets better, I promise :) This probably better belongs in Cooker ML. - -- Blue skies... Todd On a simular lines: Since 2.4.21-0.13 booting my laptop hangs if my pcmcia CD-Rom is inserted. Not starting pcmcia services and starting manually and/or inserting the card after boot solves that. On top every now and then the CD will not unmount requiring me to stop devfsd first. The latter happens on my desktop system (supermount=disabled) too. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] script problem..
experts,
I'm trying to run this script I got out of O'reilly's LINUX SERVER HACKS
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$|++;
my $host=' /bin/hostname';
chomp $host;
while(1) {open(LOAD,/proc/loadavg) ||die couldn't open /proc/loadavg:
$!\n;
my @load=split(/ /,LOAD);
CLOSE(LOAD);
print \033]0;;
print $host: $load[0] $load[1] $load[2] at, scalar(localtime);
print \007;
sleep 2;
}
I copied it line for line, and when I tried to run it I got the message:
Bareword LOAD not allowed while strict subs in use at ./tl line 11.
Execution of ./tl aborted due to compilation errors.
If anyone is using this book or is reading in now, this script is on page
120~121.
hack #59 constant load average display in the tilebar.
Question: what do I have to change to make this script work? help plz.
P.S. I've NEVER programmed before...NEVER!
TIA...
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Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
On 27 Jul 2003 09:17:40 +0100 Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I need to get postfix to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,which at the moment its rejecting. Won't help for dyndns; but my postfix handles multiple domains -- documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix I'm still going to need to setup a pop sever on my sons firewall machine as he uses winyuk OS. Or install the imap (contains ipop) rpm, and start ipop service on your linux box, and make sure the the firewall passes port 110 inbound if you need to get mail from your server from the outside. I'll leave the choice of OS as firewall for others to shoot at... : Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
Thanks I'll have a good read of it BR Richard On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 12:39, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 27 Jul 2003 09:17:40 +0100 Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I need to get postfix to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,which at the moment its rejecting. Won't help for dyndns; but my postfix handles multiple domains -- documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix I'm still going to need to setup a pop sever on my sons firewall machine as he uses winyuk OS. Or install the imap (contains ipop) rpm, and start ipop service on your linux box, and make sure the the firewall passes port 110 inbound if you need to get mail from your server from the outside. I'll leave the choice of OS as firewall for others to shoot at... : __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:28:53 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Well, I rebooted the server, and it was able to move the 650 Mb without choking, but with almost constant errors. I will burn out my orange LED on the hub soon if this keeps up. And there don't appear to be any kernel messages about this. Rob This sounds exactly as you describe... collisions! They are due to a number of reasons; but some things to check: 1. Bypass the hub with a direct (rolled) cable. If this works (check collisions in ifconfig), then replace your hub with a switch which doesn't suffer from the following... Note: some hubs are really switches... A real hub is a cheap buffered repeater -- the buffer is rather small (acts like an elastic buffer); it snaps when a sending NIC's crystal is out of specs -- the snap results in the hub sending a jam (collision) back to the sending NIC. Bypassing the hub eliminates the hub's elastic buffer. I'm surprised you're able to send that much data if this is the problem though... 2. Near end collisions: are your cables direct, or running through hookups around the house? Poor connections and not enough twists in the pairs or poor cable at the sending end can result in near-end collisions due to crosstalk from sending signal back into sender's receiver circuitry -- hearing itself. 3. If your NIC is an Intel eepro10, consider trying something else... I had this very problem when transferring large files... interestingly, the apparently random failures were at exactly the same point on any specific file. 4. If you're using coax, you may have termination problems (no need to discuss now unless you have coax). This is a start; but the problem is most likely hardware... although, until it's found *and* fixed, never say: It can't be foo... : Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test please ignore
test mail to check I've bypassed my isp's lousy pop3 serverplease ignore -- richard bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] script problem..
* Gavin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030727 06:30]:
I'm trying to run this script I got out of O'reilly's LINUX SERVER HACKS
[snip]
I copied it line for line, and when I tried to run it I got the message:
Bareword LOAD not allowed while strict subs in use at ./tl line 11.
Execution of ./tl aborted due to compilation errors.
Not sure why it didn't work, except that `/bin/hostname` needs to be
in backticks, not single quotes. This works for me on the command
line:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$|++;
my $host=`/bin/hostname`;
chomp $host;
while(1) {
open(LOAD,/proc/loadavg)
|| die couldn't open /proc/loadavg: $!\n;
my @load=split(/ /,LOAD);
close(LOAD);
# print \033]0;;
print $host: $load[0] $load[1] $load[2] at ,
scalar(localtime), \n;
# print \007;
sleep 2;
}
I commented out the lines with the octal print codes and added a
newline for each line. I don't have that book so I don't know what it
is really supposed to do, but I hope this helps.
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Re: [expert] Realtek 8139
On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:57 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming from. http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html Given that Donald Becker has completely panned the 8139too driver, why is it included in the Mandrake distribution? I would think that they'd only want the better code, instead of a module denounced as buggy or at best a sub-optimal implementation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] script problem..
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 06:08, Jan Wilson wrote:
* Gavin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030727 06:30]:
I'm trying to run this script I got out of O'reilly's LINUX SERVER HACKS
[snip]
I copied it line for line, and when I tried to run it I got the message:
Bareword LOAD not allowed while strict subs in use at ./tl line 11.
Execution of ./tl aborted due to compilation errors.
Not sure why it didn't work, except that `/bin/hostname` needs to be
in backticks, not single quotes. This works for me on the command
line:
yeah, I'd assume a typo at line 9 or line 11, something like a missing
quote or semicolon.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$|++;
my $host=`/bin/hostname`;
chomp $host;
while(1) {
open(LOAD,/proc/loadavg)
|| die couldn't open /proc/loadavg: $!\n;
my @load=split(/ /,LOAD);
close(LOAD);
# print \033]0;;
print $host: $load[0] $load[1] $load[2] at ,
scalar(localtime), \n;
# print \007;
sleep 2;
}
I commented out the lines with the octal print codes and added a
newline for each line. I don't have that book so I don't know what it
is really supposed to do, but I hope this helps.
just prints hostname, load average, and time every two seconds. The
octals are unfamiliar to me too -- I was assuming color codes, but when
I ran it with them in it didn't produce any text to STDOUT, just a
series of newlines. A little Googling shows that they are intended to be
color codes, must not be interacting nicely with aterm though.
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Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 01:17, Richard Bown wrote: OK replying to myself is bad :) not at all :-) Of the stuff people post to the list, about 50% goes unanswered, 25% gets answered by the original poster, 25% someone else answers. If we didn't talk to ourselves, 25% of the problems would never get solutions posted. made some progress , but sorted the process of collecting mail to evolution. It's all do-able, but divide and conquer the problem set. 1) get your machine to accept inbound mail for the right domains. Sounds like you're on the right path for that with postfix and the dynamic DNS place. 2) For local delivery, you might as well just use the local spool -- see screenshot. 3) For delivery to other people, you'll want pop or imap. Both come with urpmi imapd, but there are firewall considerations, security considerations, etc. Do yourself a favor and look up stunnel, secure pop and imap are actually quite easy to set up. 4) It's fun to send messages too, and then there's MTA spam and virus filtering, mailing lists, c... Not sure how to deal with an alias. The host name of this machine is gb7tf.org.uk, which I use freeparking to redirect from. I setup one of the e-mail aliases at freeparking to point to the dyndns site with the hostname rf-engineer.homelinux.com., which is updated with the dynamic address of this machine. . So I need to get postfix to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,which at the moment its rejecting. I'm still going to need to setup a pop sever on my sons firewall machine as he uses winyuk OS. Thanks Richard On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 06:47, Richard Bown wrote: Hi I have a mjor problem with e-mail here, and its nothing to do with Mandrake9.1. Since my ISP has really got into bed with microyuk, their POP3 server can take anything up to 10 mins to authenticate the password. so Evolution keeps asking for the password, and gets it knickers in a right twist as I check for new mail every 10 mins.it always recovers in the end :) So what I'm trying to do is bypass my ISP on incoming mail. I do have a dynamic address as I'm on cable here. About 10% of my mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is then redirected to my ISP and I POP it from their site, that e-mail address also get spammed badly by porn sites at times. I use the mail filters to catch most of it, but some still gets thru. So wht Ive done so far:- Installed postfix, set up an account on dyndns pointing to this machine What I want to do is divert the subscribe list mail , which is about 98% of incoming via the dyndns alias to port25 ,so postfix accepts it. As the smtp server on my ISP seems to behave I can deliver outgoing mail to that. The incoming mail is the bit I'm stuck on. Getting mail that postfix has acceptted delivered to my mail client Evolution. Do I need to install a pop server to interface between postfix and evolution ? I know this is a bit of a daft question to some, but with most things linux the first time trying to get something to work without help is an uphill struggle. TIA Richard -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... attachment: gkrellShoot_07-27-03_085828.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
Hi Jack well a fair progress. I can send mail to myself routing it thru the mail redirectat freeparking, to dyndns and thru postfix on this machine , with evolution pulling the mail from /var/spool/mail. However there a small snag I send a mail from evolution to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thats sent to smtp.blueyonder.co.uk which sends it to freeparking which redirects it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] which sorta flys past dyndns to postfix on this machine. My hostname here is gb7tf.org.uk in /etc/postfix/aliases richard:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in /etc/posfix/virtual [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard in etc/postfix/main.cf mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain rf-engineer.homelinux.com ##thats all 1 line virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $mydomain masquerade_domains = $mydomain virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical relayhost = smtp.blueyonder.co.uk I did get some help with the mydestination line on the club site tnx so what happens is the mail arrives addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BUT it arrives in evolution as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and thats also the reply address which is not so good. At least I can send mail to myself and it takes a few 10's of seconds now , compared with up to 10 mins via my ISP's popserver, also their pop sever can take up to 30 mins to authenticate the password The marvels of microsoft :) Any ideas where where that missing part of the address is going on my system. The last time I played with mail servers was on NOS which is a clone of the NOS written by Phil Karn nearly 20 years ago. And then rewrite files were called rewrite files. TIA Richard On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 17:02, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 01:17, Richard Bown wrote: OK replying to myself is bad :) not at all :-) Of the stuff people post to the list, about 50% goes unanswered, 25% gets answered by the original poster, 25% someone else answers. If we didn't talk to ourselves, 25% of the problems would never get solutions posted. made some progress , but sorted the process of collecting mail to evolution. It's all do-able, but divide and conquer the problem set. 1) get your machine to accept inbound mail for the right domains. Sounds like you're on the right path for that with postfix and the dynamic DNS place. 2) For local delivery, you might as well just use the local spool -- see screenshot. 3) For delivery to other people, you'll want pop or imap. Both come with urpmi imapd, but there are firewall considerations, security considerations, etc. Do yourself a favor and look up stunnel, secure pop and imap are actually quite easy to set up. 4) It's fun to send messages too, and then there's MTA spam and virus filtering, mailing lists, c... Not sure how to deal with an alias. The host name of this machine is gb7tf.org.uk, which I use freeparking to redirect from. I setup one of the e-mail aliases at freeparking to point to the dyndns site with the hostname rf-engineer.homelinux.com., which is updated with the dynamic address of this machine. . So I need to get postfix to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,which at the moment its rejecting. I'm still going to need to setup a pop sever on my sons firewall machine as he uses winyuk OS. Thanks Richard On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 06:47, Richard Bown wrote: Hi I have a mjor problem with e-mail here, and its nothing to do with Mandrake9.1. Since my ISP has really got into bed with microyuk, their POP3 server can take anything up to 10 mins to authenticate the password. so Evolution keeps asking for the password, and gets it knickers in a right twist as I check for new mail every 10 mins.it always recovers in the end :) So what I'm trying to do is bypass my ISP on incoming mail. I do have a dynamic address as I'm on cable here. About 10% of my mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is then redirected to my ISP and I POP it from their site, that e-mail address also get spammed badly by porn sites at times. I use the mail filters to catch most of it, but some still gets thru. So wht Ive done so far:- Installed postfix, set up an account on dyndns pointing to this machine What I want to do is divert the subscribe list mail , which is about 98% of incoming via the dyndns alias to port25 ,so postfix accepts it. As the smtp server on my ISP seems to behave I can deliver outgoing mail to that. The incoming mail is the bit I'm stuck on. Getting mail that postfix has acceptted delivered to my mail client Evolution. Do I need to install a pop server to interface between postfix and evolution ? I know this is a bit of a daft question to some, but with most things linux the first time trying to get something to work
Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9 The command you're looking for is urpmf. http://www.urpmi.org/en/man-html/urpmf.php Nice! :) I'll try and remember that. The urpm* family of commands is IMHO the best of Mandrake's innovations. Yes, I'll agree with that. They are pretty slick tools. HTH! -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, richard bown wrote: My hostname here is gb7tf.org.uk in /etc/postfix/aliases richard:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in /etc/posfix/virtual [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard in etc/postfix/main.cf mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain rf-engineer.homelinux.com ##thats all 1 line Ensure here that there is a comma after localhost.$mydomain. virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $mydomain Make this line myorigin = $myhostname. This is where the gb7tf is getting trimmed off from your mails. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Partition Commander 8 Reviews?
I was just wondering if any of you have used Partition Commander 8 and what you thought of it. I need to be able to resize Ext23, ReiserFS Windows 2000 Server NTFS partitions. Is this software up to the task? I've used Powerquest Partition Magic Powerquest Volume Manager (for MS Servers) and I think Powerquest puts out some junk that most of the time reports errors rather than do the job that's needed. Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
Hi Bill On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:08, Bill Mullen wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, richard bown wrote: My hostname here is gb7tf.org.uk in /etc/postfix/aliases richard:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in /etc/posfix/virtual [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard in etc/postfix/main.cf mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain rf-engineer.homelinux.com ##thats all 1 line Ensure here that there is a comma after localhost.$mydomain. No there was'nt , but there is now virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $mydomain Make this line myorigin = $myhostname. This is where the gb7tf is getting trimmed off from your mails. now its:- virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $myhostname masquerade_domains = $mydomain virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical relayhost = smtp.blueyonder.co.uk stoppped postfix and restarted now the bad news, is my return address ok on the list, it should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?? looks like gb7tf is getting stripped off everything at this end Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mailforward.freeparking.co.uk (mailforward.freeparking.co.uk [207.35.205.40]) by gb7tf.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222B9936F5 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:08:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from [195.188.213.7] (helo=smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk) by mailforward.freeparking.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 19grou-0006s1-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:08:40 -0400 Received: from 82-37-132-160.cable.ubr01.telf.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.37.132.160]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:08:41 +0100 Subject: test From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Realtek 8139
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 08:19, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:57 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming from. http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html Given that Donald Becker has completely panned the 8139too driver, why is it included in the Mandrake distribution? I would think that they'd only want the better code, instead of a module denounced as buggy or at best a sub-optimal implementation. Two reasons I can think of. It's expected by people so they get less hassle including it than removing it. It's more of a pain to remove it from the kernel than it's worth. Again note that this is opinion not fact. I don't speak for them. james Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Realtek 8139
Viestissä Sunnuntai 27 Heinäkuu 2003 22:54, James Sparenberg kirjoitti: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 08:19, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:57 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming from. http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html Given that Donald Becker has completely panned the 8139too driver, why is it included in the Mandrake distribution? I would think that they'd only want the better code, instead of a module denounced as buggy or at best a sub-optimal implementation. Two reasons I can think of. It's expected by people so they get less hassle including it than removing it. It's more of a pain to remove it from the kernel than it's worth. Again note that this is opinion not fact. I don't speak for them. james AFAIK the reason we need to keep the current 8139too is that is's supports more functions that we actually use, and more cards, and it is constantly updated, to get the bugs out of it (even by DB afaik...) One thing we could do is add the DB:s own driver as an alternative driver for people to use just in case... I'll ask Juan/Nicolas what they think about it... That way everybody would be happy ;-) Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 05:11, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:28:53 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Well, I rebooted the server, and it was able to move the 650 Mb without choking, but with almost constant errors. I will burn out my orange LED on the hub soon if this keeps up. And there don't appear to be any kernel messages about this. Rob This sounds exactly as you describe... collisions! They are due to a number of reasons; but some things to check: 1. Bypass the hub with a direct (rolled) cable. If this works (check collisions in ifconfig), then replace your hub with a switch which doesn't suffer from the following... Note: some hubs are really switches... A real hub is a cheap buffered repeater -- the buffer is rather small (acts like an elastic buffer); it snaps when a sending NIC's crystal is out of specs -- the snap results in the hub sending a jam (collision) back to the sending NIC. Bypassing the hub eliminates the hub's elastic buffer. I'm surprised you're able to send that much data if this is the problem though... 2. Near end collisions: are your cables direct, or running through hookups around the house? Poor connections and not enough twists in the pairs or poor cable at the sending end can result in near-end collisions due to crosstalk from sending signal back into sender's receiver circuitry -- hearing itself. 3. If your NIC is an Intel eepro10, consider trying something else... I had this very problem when transferring large files... interestingly, the apparently random failures were at exactly the same point on any specific file. 4. If you're using coax, you may have termination problems (no need to discuss now unless you have coax). This is a start; but the problem is most likely hardware... although, until it's found *and* fixed, never say: It can't be foo... : Pierre, I'd say you probably are right on the money here. I've got or rather had (they were sold for scrap) some 24 port cardinal hubs that where guaranteed to give you collisions like mad. Not when used alone, but when used with each other look out. I only install switches now. Much safer. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Richard Bown wrote: Hi Bill On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:08, Bill Mullen wrote: virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $mydomain Make this line myorigin = $myhostname. This is where the gb7tf is getting trimmed off from your mails. now its:- virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $myhostname masquerade_domains = $mydomain Remove the above line, you don't need it. You are using your FQDN hostname on this system as your mail domain, and are not relaying mail from other SMTP servers running on other systems within your LAN with names like host.gb7tf.org.uk; if you were, you'd leave this in and change the value to $myhostname. virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical relayhost = smtp.blueyonder.co.uk stoppped postfix and restarted now the bad news, is my return address ok on the list, it should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it appeared properly in the From: header in your test message. ] Received: from 82-37-132-160.cable.ubr01.telf.blueyonder.co.uk ] ([82.37.132.160]) by ] smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); ] Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:19:18 +0100 ] From: richard bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Realtek 8139
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 13:58, Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Sunnuntai 27 Heinäkuu 2003 22:54, James Sparenberg kirjoitti: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 08:19, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:57 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming from. http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html Given that Donald Becker has completely panned the 8139too driver, why is it included in the Mandrake distribution? I would think that they'd only want the better code, instead of a module denounced as buggy or at best a sub-optimal implementation. Two reasons I can think of. It's expected by people so they get less hassle including it than removing it. It's more of a pain to remove it from the kernel than it's worth. Again note that this is opinion not fact. I don't speak for them. james AFAIK the reason we need to keep the current 8139too is that is's supports more functions that we actually use, and more cards, and it is constantly updated, to get the bugs out of it (even by DB afaik...) One thing we could do is add the DB:s own driver as an alternative driver for people to use just in case... I'll ask Juan/Nicolas what they think about it... That way everybody would be happy ;-) Regards Thomas Sounds fair enough... IMHO Davicom and Realtek rank right up there with WD hard drives... but ... what do I know. Heck I'm trying to tell earthlink that DNS for one of their networks is down (I'm trying to send one of their customers mail.) and they keep telling me to turn off my computer disconnect all cables and restart the system. *sigh*. James __ 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] advice please postfix ect.
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 13:18, Richard Bown wrote: Hi Bill On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:08, Bill Mullen wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, richard bown wrote: My hostname here is gb7tf.org.uk in /etc/postfix/aliases richard:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in /etc/posfix/virtual [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard in etc/postfix/main.cf mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain rf-engineer.homelinux.com ##thats all 1 line Ensure here that there is a comma after localhost.$mydomain. No there was'nt , but there is now virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $mydomain Make this line myorigin = $myhostname. This is where the gb7tf is getting trimmed off from your mails. now its:- virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $myhostname masquerade_domains = $mydomain virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical relayhost = smtp.blueyonder.co.uk stoppped postfix and restarted now the bad news, is my return address ok on the list, it should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?? looks like gb7tf is getting stripped off everything at this end The return address is fine because it is ... and should be ... the lists address, not your personal address. However in the from portion I do see the address you want/need. James Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mailforward.freeparking.co.uk (mailforward.freeparking.co.uk [207.35.205.40]) by gb7tf.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222B9936F5 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:08:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from [195.188.213.7] (helo=smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk) by mailforward.freeparking.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 19grou-0006s1-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:08:40 -0400 Received: from 82-37-132-160.cable.ubr01.telf.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.37.132.160]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:08:41 +0100 Subject: test From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PCTEL HSP56 on LMR741/748 Mother board
Im done, i have hit with the wall so many times, i have tried everything, howtos, linmodems.org, and i can not work this probles around, i haven't installed the modem yet to use it with linux, i am using a very old DOS modem wit jumpers, man, it can be so slow. I would thanks a lot, if anybody can help me with this. I have a linux mandrake 9 box. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCTEL HSP56 on LMR741/748 Mother board
Luis Duran wrote: Im done, i have hit with the wall so many times, i have tried everything, howtos, linmodems.org, and i can not work this probles around, i haven't installed the modem yet to use it with linux, i am using a very old DOS modem wit jumpers, man, it can be so slow. I would thanks a lot, if anybody can help me with this. I have a linux mandrake 9 box. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com What have you tried and what were the results? Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: Make this line myorigin = $myhostname. This is where the gb7tf is getting trimmed off from your mails. masquerade_domains = $mydomain And this line too. - -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Security is like an onion. It's made | | http://www.mrball.net | up of several layers and makes you cry. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --Howard Chu| Linux kernel 2.4.19-24mdk 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/JK+dIBT1264ScBURAv7fAJ9kkpB9p54riAA4KF4I+cyx0aWT6gCdED5o bzkTYen3512S6TMDjJYXJbU= =8oBF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
Am Sonntag, 27. Juli 2003 20:12 schrieb richard bown: Hi Jack well a fair progress. I can send mail to myself routing it thru the mail redirectat freeparking, to dyndns and thru postfix on this machine , with evolution pulling the mail from /var/spool/mail. However there a small snag I send a mail from evolution to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thats sent to smtp.blueyonder.co.uk which sends it to freeparking which redirects it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] which sorta flys past dyndns to postfix on this machine. My hostname here is gb7tf.org.uk in /etc/postfix/aliases richard:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in /etc/posfix/virtual [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard in etc/postfix/main.cf mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain rf-engineer.homelinux.com ##thats all 1 line the domain/host rf-engineer.homelinux.com is either virtual or it is in mydestination but never both. Think of it. mydestination defines the domain/hostpart which postfix consider as final destination to himself. virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $mydomain masquerade_domains = $mydomain virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical relayhost = smtp.blueyonder.co.uk I did get some help with the mydestination line on the club site tnx so what happens is the mail arrives addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BUT it arrives in evolution as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and thats also the reply address which is not so good. You have to rewrite the recipient address (use the canonical map) At least I can send mail to myself and it takes a few 10's of seconds now , compared with up to 10 mins via my ISP's popserver, also their pop sever can take up to 30 mins to authenticate the password The marvels of microsoft :) Any ideas where where that missing part of the address is going on my system. The last time I played with mail servers was on NOS which is a clone of the NOS written by Phil Karn nearly 20 years ago. And then rewrite files were called rewrite files. TIA Richard And, if you are in doublt what postfix is doing look in the logs. Martin -- H E L I X Gesellschaft für Software Engineering mbH Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 D-60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 http://www.helix-gmbh.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
Am Sonntag, 27. Juli 2003 22:18 schrieb Richard Bown: Hi Bill On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:08, Bill Mullen wrote: Ensure here that there is a comma after localhost.$mydomain. No there was'nt , but there is now There is no need for a comma. Postfix uses whitespaces or commas to seperate. Martin -- H E L I X Gesellschaft für Software Engineering mbH Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 D-60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 http://www.helix-gmbh.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
