Re: [expert] SSH Server problem
look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Jack On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:11, João Candido A. Milasch Filho wrote: Hi! I sent this message b4 to newbie list, but I got absolute no answer. I hope someone can help me here... Thus, I tried to run telnetd from xinetd, no success, tried to configure the listening ports to the standard ports, and got no success. Shorewall is not installed, iptables is empty, netstat shows listening entries corresponding to the service I tried to run, but i can connect only from my local machine. no friends could connect to my computer. Thanx all!!! Hello all, me again! As I sent before, I'm trying to use SSH server in home, to access on my work. But as I said b4, my work firewall is blocking almost all outgoing ports. So, i have to use SSH on the port 80. I successfully ran the daemon on the port 80. To see that, I just netstat -pln, and saw an entry like this: LOCAL FOREIGN 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 sshd blah blah Whel, with that, I knew it was listening correctly on the port 80. So to try it out, I tried from the same machine I was running sshd to use ssh. So I did: $ ssh -l my_user_name -p 80 127.0.0.1 It worked fine. Then I asked a friend to connect on my ssh server, and told'im to do: $ ssh -l usr_name -p 80 200.100.100.100 (where 200.100.100.100 was my internet IP address on that time). But he couldn't connect. My firewall was disabled, I cleared out my lname (or something like that) but my friend was still unable to connect on my ssh server. Anyone knows what can I do to figure out whats happening? Regards! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tool to set the monitor refresh rate
*** Olaf Marzocchi Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:26:51 +0200 : Is there a tool to set the monitor refresh rate without manually editing the Xfree config file? It would be nice to add such section to the tool Mandrake already ships inside MDK control center. How about xvidtune? You open a xterm, su to root, start xvidtune. After adjusting everything to your liking (and the limitations of your hardware) you can CP the modeline into your XF86Config. man xvidtune wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Font question -- Helvetica not accessible
I tried sending this to the newbie list, but there were no takers. I'm hoping someone here can help me. For some reason, I'm getting the following messages as xsession errors: The font -*-helvetica-boldoblique-r-narrow-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) The font -*-helvetica-bold-r-narrow-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) The font -*-helvetica-boldoblique-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) Helvetica including the iso8859-1 character set appears to be on my system, which is ML 9.1 (I have the PowerPack). I've updated the kernel to 2.4.21-25 and used drakfont to capture some of my truetype fonts from the VFAT partition, none of which were helvetica. I notice that the Help for SO6 is now messed up, as well as gnumeric and the dialog boxes for xine. What happened? How can I get that character set accessed again? I've tried rpm -U --force with the 100dpi and 75dpi font sets, but that didn't solve the problem. I've reinstalled, and just like the first time, everything was fine. Then, at some point, after using drakfont to capture truetype fonts from my VFAT partition, the problem appears. Is there a bug in drakfont that causes this? Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks, deedee __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:44:00 + : If you use KDE the is a power management section in the kcontrol control center that will allow you to set warnings at whatever percent level you want. (worked for mine) And what is this KDE flummy playing frontend for? I don't use KDE and with important things I want to keep it as near to the CLI as possible so I can always manage even if there is no GUI. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:10, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Jack Coates 13 Aug 2003 10:13:26 -0700 : On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ... BTW: I recognized one more related thing: gkrellm shows battery-status either as 0% or -1%, totally independent of the real situation. It even shows 0% when the battery pack is out and I use the power cord only. wobo gkacpi Is there a RPM or a source? Did not find it. http://www.google.com/search?q=gkacpibtnG=Google+Searchnum=10 I just installed a small applet in GNOME, a battery meter in the task bar which shows my battery with 0%. It says Battery 0% (Full) and an exclamation mark tells me that System runs on Battery which is wrong. Battery is not even inside the laptop. I put it out and the laptop is currently running on a/c power. don't forget acpi=on for your kernel -- you really do want it with that laptop. Doesn't work. I get an error message during boot: kernel: ACPI-1121: *** Error: Method execution failed[\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_._Q1E] (Node c12fef60), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT All in one line- wobo That doesn't look good. I've deleted your earlier messages, what kind of laptop is this again? I assume an ACPI-only model if you've got IRQ-routing problems and APM can't see the batteries. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Am I providing you the correct information? If not, what do you need? Is there another utility -- GUI or CLI -- that will allow me to set up an Internet connection with this modem? I have the ML 9.1 PowerPack. Thanks, deedee __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: router reboots
On Thursday 14 August 2003 07:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router On average, about once a week I have to reboot my router. No apparent reason - just that no Internet connection works any more. After a reboot, all is well, both on this box and all others on the net. I am not able to find any common denominator leading up to the problem. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Hmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with lease time. My Dlink 604 uses a web page for configuration, and at one point you can adjust the lease time from a single hour up to a week. I have it set for a week, but I've never went longer than that to see if there is a lease issue. When booting up from any of my other 2 comps on the same LAN (and going thru the router), I get a boot up message to the effect that infinite lease time is used. Can any one else bring light to the murkiness here? :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!
*** Jack Coates 13 Aug 2003 10:13:26 -0700 : On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ... BTW: I recognized one more related thing: gkrellm shows battery-status either as 0% or -1%, totally independent of the real situation. It even shows 0% when the battery pack is out and I use the power cord only. wobo gkacpi Is there a RPM or a source? Did not find it. I just installed a small applet in GNOME, a battery meter in the task bar which shows my battery with 0%. It says Battery 0% (Full) and an exclamation mark tells me that System runs on Battery which is wrong. Battery is not even inside the laptop. I put it out and the laptop is currently running on a/c power. don't forget acpi=on for your kernel -- you really do want it with that laptop. Doesn't work. I get an error message during boot: kernel: ACPI-1121: *** Error: Method execution failed[\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_._Q1E] (Node c12fef60), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT All in one line- wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] OT: router reboots
I had the same problem with my DSL504 router.. I found the hidden directory where Dlink keeps their pre release firmware updates. I installed the newest one they had.. and lo and behold it worked, my router has been running nonstop for about 4 weeks now without a reboot. Be careful though, if you flub it up, you might have to ship your router back to SMC to be reflashed. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router On average, about once a week I have to reboot my router. No apparent reason - just that no Internet connection works any more. After a reboot, all is well, both on this box and all others on the net. I am not able to find any common denominator leading up to the problem. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi force
On Wednesday August 6 2003 11:12 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: There is a way to install a rpm even if it is already installed with --force when using rpm, but the question is exists a similar option for urpmi. --allow-force, there's also --allow-nodeps Use sparingly and with caution ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
Ummm, for every CPU running 2.4 or above Eh ? A cpu cant run anything on its own, therefore no problem, Just to prove the point , remove the ram, disconnect the hard drive, now run linux Richard On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:01, Andy Davidson wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:24:30AM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Let's not generate our own FUD. The $1399 is for a server, not a desktop. The fee for a single-user desktop is only $199. No, I'm not paying that, either. andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GPG/KMail fun...
Mark Watts wrote: This just seems to be only affecting messages which are signed and I dont have the key for... Any ideas? Get the public keys you are missing? Bye -- Que les importa a las viudas, a los huérfanos, a los desvalidos si las masacres se hacen en nombre del totalitarismo o en el sagrado nombre de la libertad y la democracia. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] start x windows from remote login
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 09:46, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, What's the best way to startx using remote login? Regards, Norman if you want the whole desktop, xdmcp. If you just want one app, and then run it. http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:36:11AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:24, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Guess I'll have to run 2.6 then *grin* Well, we all will file for Chapter 11 then and be in (a) good company (pun intended). wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] [OT]Burning DVDs (not necessarily movies!!!)
I have - finally!!! - bitten the bullet and purchased myself a nice Sony DVD burner (IDE). I would love to hear from other people (probably off-line) using such a device, and their experience with the multitude of options, as well as their success/failure rate. So far - I found growisofs as being the best tool for +RW, but it won't allow me to read DVDs created with it, on any (two - so far) of the other regular DVD players I have (Ricoh and Toshiba). Sorry for the OT - please contact me off-line. Thx, Stef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 2:49 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 02:28, Anne Wilson wrote: Under kde, the startup wav doesn't play, but I haven't noticed any other lack of sound. Not only does xmms work correctly, but I'm getting sounds when emails arrive. I'm not worried about the loss of the startup wav, just the fact that it appears to have disappeared when I changed to the new /usr, so may have more significance. So far, I have run kmail, mozilla, gimp, xsane, AisleRiot, kword, xmms-cd, win4lin, mcc, kuickshow and kwikdisk. Everything seems to be fine. Anne Anne have you gone into kcontrol -- System Notifications and checked to see if KDE forgot it's supposed to play a sound on startup? Only reason I ask is because it has happened to me. The settings where there and once I re-told it to play it, it did so happily. James - I think it was that simple, so there's probably nothing at all to worry about. Unless someone screams at me to stop, this evening I shall delete the old /usr files to reclaim the space. Thanks, that's a relief Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] sftp ssh
Hi, Since ssh now supports sftp. Is it still recommended to use sftp on port 115? Or it is preferred to sftp into port 22 instead? Where in the log do I see sftp connection? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SUMMARY: Re: [expert] Experience with LM and Dual-processor boxen?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about LM and dual-processor boxen. It sounds like no one has had any problems, except that there was one caveat that one must run the latest 9.1 kernel to avoid some IRQ-related performance problems. Thanks again. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x362912B8 iQA/AwUBPzGPGmnXrLw2KRK4EQLV+wCg8r5jfHSs/qzjsvsESTOXOl0joVkAoOER 3QU6YIIHLpX1kgCAibMd0ciS =OoT2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1
On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 3:29 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 04:26 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Greg - Twiki entry, please? On-board devices worry people when choosing new mobos, and there's not much info easily available. Yes Ma'am bows head sheepishly! I must defend myself holds head up high! I went to the wiki to add this info and saw that I had already put it there in June when I set up the hardware compatibility page. Thanks for checking, anyway. I know I nag, but I do believe that this is a valuable resource, so worth working for. I agree 100%, which is why I set that page up to begin with (at your suggestion of course). BTW, I don't think you are a nag, I was just making a feeble attempt at humor. I had been previously quoted on the Cooker ML, during the discussion about where I should put my Cooker HOWTO, about not being a big fan of wiki's, but I am a total convert after being convinced to use it by Vincent. I've got one up at work now too. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Davidson Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 5:00 AM There are too many numbers running around. The $699\$1399 numbers are the before Oct 15/after Oct 15 price for a single-cpu server. The $199 number I quoted is the before Oct 15 price for a single-user desktop machine. See http://www.sco.com/scosource/description.html They do not give the after Oct 15 price for a desktop. So you can sort of pick your own amount that you're not going to pay. [My desktop has Apache running on it. So which would I owe if I were going to pay? :-) ] OK, will the amount I am not going to pay then is 1 cent.. they will not get one cent out of me... The reason they are doing this, is very very simple.. they have dropping revenue and no way to improve the situation since SCO unix is not the best choice unix anyway. (IBM is not complaining about AIX, neither HP about HP-UX or Sun about solaris being made worthless by Linux.) SCO just don't have anything else thats making money and they had to do something to stop their shareprice going down the toilet. The only way to make the company of interest to the shareholders is to engage in legal action. As for charging for linux, well they are furthering the scare tactics, trying to show how Serious they are.. They might even scare a few away from linux or to buy a license... Problem is that anyone that pays it, can sue them later if they are found to have no case. I think that its a safe bet that SCO won't be part of the IT industry's future, they have burnt every bridge accept M$ and M$ doesn't want Unix around either. I think IBM and Novell should get together and counter sue SCO for making unproven claims and trying to extort their linux clients. Have SCO barred from making such claims till its proven in court. In other words, put up or shut up! IBM and Novell can also sue that their linux business has been hurt by SCO's unproven claims and sue for damages. I am surprised at how little action has been taken in the US to counter this.. they should be following the Europeans and have it ruled that SCO must prove their claims before being able to try to extort customers. rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 04:12 am, Magnus Wirstrm wrote: Hi I know this is a little bit of topic but can anyone recommend a good program that converts MP3 to Wave with really nice quality ? Thanks Magnus You've probably already got XMMS installed - just install the diskwriter plugin for it (and go to the audio plugin section to enable it), then any MP3 or OGG that you click on (or even multiple selections or entire directories) will be converted into the WAV format. If you are going to burn those converted WAVs to an audio CD I'd highly recommend that you run normalize on it first. normalize -m *.wav is the actual command, methinks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 Versus 9.0
Am Freitag, 8. August 2003 02:21 schrieb John Drouhard: On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:49:08 -0400 Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: correction Really how do I get in to expert mode in drakxconnect. I know how to in harddrake Type drakconnect in the terminal as root. At the first screen, there should be a check box for Expert Mode. John Drouhard Yep I think that is right. I don't have any network-card built in so I can't say where to click exactly. If you do not find it, Put MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=1 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx where x is a number (f.i ifcfg-eth0 ... as you need it) Greets Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SCO
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02:05 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Normally I go to Best Buy, or Walmart and purchase the Power Pack edition, but I have been looking for Mandrake 9.1, and have _not_ been able to find it. I can find SuSE 8.2, and Red Hat 9.0, but no Mandrake, what gives? Hell I can even get Debian pretty easily. :P Jonathan G. Shilling Senior LAN Administrator Jonathan: I've seen previous Mandrake versions at CompUSA, but I haven't been there for some time so I don't know if they would have the current edition. (I sorta blew my hardware budget in May). It's been a while since I've seen Mandrake at any of the office supply/bookstore/mass market outlets, and then it was usually an older version. I've been getting the PowerPack directly from Mandrake. Two reasons: First, it maximizes Mandrake's profit on the deal -- they don't get much on the in-store sales. Second, it shows up about five or six weeks after the release. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nifty tool
Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 01:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: ... My favourite app for such circumstances is Synergy: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ ... Just installed stable after x2vnc barfed a few times, this looks cool. I like the idea of screensaver synchronization. It barfed? I've been running it about 12 hours straight without a hiccup. I was amazed when I absentmindedly copied something in a window on Mandrake and pasted it in a window on the Win2000 box. I was thrilled when I finally realized what had just happened. I see the program referenced above can do the same thing. Nice feature. I'm not really into the screensaver sync because of my propensity to work for quite a while on one box. No use having the unused one creating heat when it doesn't need to. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkcustom KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Super FreeS/WAN
From: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone tell me if Mandrake kernels have this or normal FreeS/WAN patched into them (I'm particularly interested in the NAT traversal and Aggressive mode stuff). Atleast current Cooker kernel is using SuperFreeS/WAN, If IRC it got included sometime after the 9.1 Release... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Aiptek VGA PenCam Trio
On Thursday 07 Aug 2003 5:06 pm, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: Just picked one of these up from my local walmart for $30. It doesn't seem to want to work. Kamera and gphoto2 can't detect/communicate with it (Kamera complains about bad perameters, gphoto2 just can't seem to find it). The camera is detected on the usb bus (Shows up with it's correct id and everything). I've got a bad feeling they changed the chipset along the way and so it won't work, but I thought I'd ask if anyone's had any luck with the newer iterations of the thing. I'd be neat if it worked (I wanna take pictures of my action figure collection for a rather pointless web site :). Failing that, can someone recomend a digital camera for under $50 (maybe for under $75)? Thanks again. Jeremy Gregorio I recently downloaded a long database of webcam models and compatibility, but I can'tremember where I found it. It would either have been from a link on the TWiki page, http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeReferences or a google on something like linux compatibility webcams. I think the PenCam was not supported (I noticed because my granddaughter has one), but some very cheap webcams are. Meanwhile, try this link: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/devices.php Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SCO
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 02:47 am, Eric Fernandez wholly or partly mentioned :- These are donations given to Free projects supported by Mandrake: Mandrake Linux Open Source developments, not to the Mandrakesoft company.These donations cannot help Mandrakesoft (the company) decrease its debt, which can only occur by selling products. Eric So to donate to Mandrake directly, buy their products? Seems like a win win situation. Charlie -- Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. Stephen Leacock 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] Procmail configuration sample
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Stefano Pogliani wanted us to know:
In the examples I saw, the default was always to $HOME/Mail
Mail gets delivered to a default (what you might call INBOX) of
/var/spool/mail/${USER}. This is also where UW-Imap expects INBOX to
be.
All other mailboxes usually exist in ${HOME}/mail or ${HOME}/Mail,
depends on your imap server. I think UW uses ${HOME}/mail. So
configure your .procmailrc to do something like:
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
snip
# Regenerate From lines to make sure they are valid
:0 fhw
| formail -I From -a From
# Header inserted by SpamAssassin
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Flag.*YES
Spam
# I don't want all the bug tracking emails at my home
:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/null
:0:
* ^X-Loop.*cooker@
Cooker
:0:
* ^X-Loop:.*expert@
Expert
# Send all bounces into a special folder
:0:
* ^From.*MAILER-DAEMON
MailerDaemon
# CRON jobs come from root, so capture to a special folder
:0:
* ^From:.*root@
Root
1. if the format of the file in /var/spool/mail/{username} is the
same of the one supposed to be in $HOME/Mail nor if a difference
in format would make any difference at all
If you're using UW-Imap, it by default uses mbox style which is the same
as /var/spool/mail/${USER}.
2. how to make the username in /var/spool/Mail/{username}
parametric so that it actually gets the username of the current
account
Not sure what you're asking. You don't want to filter your emails into
that directory. That's where they go by default. The general thought
process is that the mails run through procmail and check through each
rule. If it makes it to the end without matching anything, it gets
delivered to the default location of /var/spool/mail/${USER}. The mail
system knows what the username is.
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Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
Lawson, Jim wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) XFS has a dump utility... non of the other FS's do (JFS or Reiserfs). There is a dump for ext2/3 but you'll have to use snapshoting with LVM or ELVM to keep dump from hanging (unless you want to umount the filesystem before dumping...) If you care about real backups go with XFS. It's also (in my tests) faster than the others... -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Python Question
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:15:22 -0700 James Sparenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps it would be best offline dunno. But would anyone know the
python equivalent to
grep Number $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals | awk -F= '{print $2;}'
For the life of me I'm stumped... but that's no great accomplishment.
Sorry if it's a bit OT but I don't have any visible friends who know
python. *grin*
James
No time to give the entire script, gotta hit the road... but I might
start my trek with this (of course, it's early, I'm rushed AND groggy...):
import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input([$HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals]):
key,val = line.split(=)
...
HTH
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Re: [expert] Background execution
On 11 Aug 2003 19:39:03 -0400, Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using ./popfile.pl , it requires an ENTER press before you get your command prompt back. What causes this, and how do I fix it? Somewhere in this thread: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4788postdays=0postorder=aschighlight=popfilestart=15 is a complete, working script for starting/stopping popfile. -- Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi force
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 18:47, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: Thank everybody! 'man urpmi' can be your friend too... El Jue 07 Ago 2003 03:38, Tom Brinkman escribió: On Wednesday August 6 2003 11:12 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: There is a way to install a rpm even if it is already installed with --force when using rpm, but the question is exists a similar option for urpmi. --allow-force, there's also --allow-nodeps Use sparingly and with caution ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and9.1]
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 20.51 05/08/2003, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 6:39 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Probable correct. Check the /etc/resolv.conf file to verify the entries for nameserver. That would have the nameserver for the lan, but surely he is looking for the primary and secondary dns servers from his isp? In /etc/resolv.conf I have no DNS for the local LAN (I have a 8139 eth card, but not used), so it's empty, and in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf I have the primary isp DNS (my isp has only one DNS...). Can you ping that dns used by your isp? Wow! Great idea! No, I cannot. :-(( It doesn't matter what I use to create the connection, the wizard inside MDK control center or KPPP (I use KDE), the modem establish a connection but then nothing. Not only, if I create the connection with the wizard KPP doesn't even see it! I had to create a connection with KPP anyway. Do you have a firewall installed? If so, which one? because that could be part of the problem. Since Knoppix can see it and Mandrake can't, I suspect firewall issues. I tried to stop iptables via DrakServices (inside MDK control center), it was already stopped, and shorewall (that was started), and nothing changed. Then I checked the DrakFirewall page, only FTP and SSH allowed (shorewall was stopped anyway). With shorewall started, should I enable DNS? if I understand the meaning of that page, not: I don't offer DNS services to anyone (just to be sure) Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com With iptables stopped, issue the following command: iptables -L note the upper case L If the chains are set to drop, do the following: iptables -P INPUT acceptnote the uppercase iptables -P OUTPUT accept iptables -P FORWARD accept HTH charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sis 7012 audio
At 11.25 06/08/2003, you wrote: I know that i810 allows XMMS to play, even if I don't hear anything. MDK by default chose ali and I got errors at boot, i810 should be fine (it's the module recommended in the page linked by Kwan Lowe. I tried the latest MDK kernel (not cooker). Sound not working. I'll have to recompile the module i810. I'll try to recompile it without recompiling the whole kernel, correct me if I'm wrong: patch ... to merge the patch; make modules to have the module recompiled; cp the module to the module directory /lib/modules/... I hope not to break anything. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.20 MOSIX kernel hates Shorewall
Yeah, when looking at it, that is what I thought too at first but you see that all through the trace and it only becomes a problem at this point. Also keep in mind that it works find on a non-mosix kernel. This would seem to indicate that it is a kernel issue not a shorewall issue. So here is what I think the question is: What kernel feature is shorewall trying to use in those last couple of lines? ever see Sesame Street? They've got this really cool song, it goes One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not the same... :-) Try using run_iptables instead of iptables. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 3:18 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:29 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla, if I click on a link I get a download of an .exe file that contains pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0661480_0101_00_0002.ra Does anyone know how I can get these sound samples? It's a great way of checking out new artists. Anne Have you checked the Helper Application section of Mozilla Preferences to make sure the real media mime types are there? I tried setting them to play with xine, and then tried play with mozilla, but all I get are system freezes or crashed mozilla. I also tried changing the settings in kde file associations. All suggestions gratefully received, as I can't leave moz as unstable as this. Anne Do you have the mimetypes audio/x-pn-realaudio and audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin? I had the first, but not the second, so I tried to add it, but clearly I got it wrong. I guess my question is now the same as Stefano's. Can you tell us exactly what should be in those two entries? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm database corruption -severe
/usr/lib/rpm/db_dump Packages-ORIG | \ /usr/lib/rpm/db_load Packages (now, I don´t get the command here) = What is the final command above? Why the \ just after the pipe? It was probably a line continuation character. The \ was probably meant to go on the line above. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:24, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 05/08/2003 at 21:35 GM http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/32187.html ---Small slice of the article - Linux users face a serious question. Is $699 too much to pay for a good bath? The $699 scrubbing fee is exactly how much SCO wants for one CPU's worth of a Linux license, and that's just for the time being. Come October 15, the single CPU fee jumps to a whopping $1,399. This is the latest word from SCO handed down by Mr. Clean himself - SCO CEO Darl McBride, during a Tuesday conference call. SCO had been holding out on exactly how much it planned to charge Linux users for their use of what it claims is borrowed Unix code, but now all has been made clear - crystal clear. . LX Guess I'll have to run 2.6 then *grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: cdbakeoven first try bad
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 21:57:13 +1000 Alex Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David E. Fox wrote: Why are you not sticking with Gcombust? Is there something it can't accomplish that you need done? Well, I'll have to think about it. gcombust will do the job, and I've had luck with it. At the same time though, I like the interfaces in cdbakeoven and k3b better. They also (supposedly) are able to just drag and drop the mp3 onto the thing and go off and convert burn all by themselves -- with, supposedly, the extra software to do this. At least k3b is up front about what software is needed and lets you know what it finds. cdbakeoven is a little lacking in this. At least that's my impression. Plu k3b has video cd support but I haven't tried this - it's on the 'to-do' list now that I can rip dvd's supposedly - but that's the subject of another set of posts :). I'm giving gcombust another try - drag and drop an mp3 into it and see what it does. I'll use a CDRW so I don't coaster :). Speaking personally, I do not like gcombust at all. I've yet to find a gnome app which I like the looks of, let alone anything else. Usability-wise, it is difficult to go past Xcdroast. I've tried K3b, it's shit IMO. I tried gcombust some time back (Mandrake 8.2 IIRC), and found it not as easy as Xcdroast to use. I haven't used it since (in fact I haven't installed Gnoe since. One or two apps, but then only because there was no alternative for what I needed). What about Eroaster? Thats a good one. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a pop-up remote command
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:51, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I look for a command that could be used to pop-up a message in a remote Display, like using smbclint -M for winblows. Many thanks in advance. Cheers, I use winpop for that. Works just like the windows version and does opperate between linux and windows (or linux to linux) without a problem. Just have to enable it on the windows end and it works. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
I wonder... Will SCO come after me if I just switch to my copy of Caldera E- Desktop, the technology release that has an early 2.4 kernel? For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 05/08/2003 at 21:35 GM http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/32187.html ---Small slice of the article - Linux users face a serious question. Is $699 too much to pay for a good bath? The $699 scrubbing fee is exactly how much SCO wants for one CPU's worth of a Linux license, and that's just for the time being. Come October 15, the single CPU fee jumps to a whopping $1,399. This is the latest word from SCO handed down by Mr. Clean himself - SCO CEO Darl McBride, during a Tuesday conference call. SCO had been holding out on exactly how much it planned to charge Linux users for their use of what it claims is borrowed Unix code, but now all has been made clear - crystal clear. . LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] XMMS plugins
I'd like to use an effect plug-in, but just _one_. As far as I can tell, you have to use all them or none of them which strikes me as remarkably stupid. No other plug-ins work like that in XMMS. Do you folks know any to use only one (besides un-installing the other plug-ins)? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 11:36 am, Felix Miata wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here, what's your trouble. My nephew did a hd.img install yesterday, and can't ping anything on his local network, much less reach the internet to do updates. The built-in sound doesn't work either. I'm just guessing the installer botched his eth0 and sound configuration. I gave him necessary instructions for verifying /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network were properly set. You have to pass noapci acpi=off to the kernel at boot time with this motherboard. I don't think it is the KT-400, but the BIOS implementation on the Soyo board. Hit esc at the lilo menu and type linux noapic acpi=off all should be well. If this does work, add noapic acpi=off to the append line of your /etc/lilo.conf file and rerun lilo. If he installed as his uncle does, he prolly doesn't even know what Lilo is. ;-) I think he can handle adding that to /boot/grub/menu.lst with mc. -- A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.Proverbs 29:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Procmail config
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Pogliani wanted us to know: 1. what would I have to do to teach my system to place my /var/spool/mail/stefano mbox file into my $HOME/Mail directory? Basically you put a directive at the end of the procmailrc that will just deliver mail to a mailbox without checking to see if it matches anything. This is actually how I do it myself. Here's the end of my config file: :0: Inbox 2. if I avoid to set the DEFAULT directive in .procmailrc, in principle I would not have to care about the location of my mbox file, right? So, the interest in moving the mbox file from /var/spool/mail into $HOME/Mail is simply because of quotas... right ? Correct. In my case, I had a system originally with a /var partitiont hat was kind of small. So moving everything to /home (which was much larger) made sense for me. You may have adequately sized partitions which means you don't need to go through any contortions like I did. In addition, I would add another advantage in doing what you suggest. When I moved from 9.0 to 9.1, I backed up a lot of things (including my $HOME) but, for some strange reason, I forgot to backup /var/spool/mail So, when I restarted my 9.1 system, I lost all mails that where still in the default inbox this would have never ghappened if it was under HOME... Good point. So, one reason more to learn how to safely move this file under HOME. 3. I heard other people talking good things about courier-imap. On the other hand, MDK still provide UW as a default. What is your point of view? Which are the advantages/disadvantages of one package versus the other ? I have a lot of experience with courier-imap. I like it, but it doesn't work the same way as UW does. It takes a bit more to setup coruier. If you're having problems with UW, then Courier is something that should wait a bit for your skill level to advance. In that same light, this conversation is much better suited to the Expert Mailing List than here in Cooker. I suggest we move it over there. - -- Blue skies... Todd http://www.mrball.net Public key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc Development is like evolution and there is no turning back. Linux kernel 2.4.19-24mdk 7 users, load average: 1.62, 1.32, 0.60 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/MncjIBT1264ScBURAr0UAKCjMTypoeCmAZyQBZITOJChTYGG/wCgqIIK JdDChFl9i25l+TAiv2K56Tk= =ffBj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different machines only once was I able to recover by removing the journal, fsck'ing and rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use ext2(probably the same amount of grief in three times the time) before ext3. I have however had no problems with reiserfs in the last year or so. And that includes alot of unplanned/emergency shutdowns/poweroffs/powerlosses etc on both my laptop and desktop. YMMV. My plan is not to use ReiserFS again, because I see no advantage, ext3 seems to do everything I want certainly everything I need. In that it has never failed any task, even with some extraordinary power outages and outrages. ReiserFS was only used as a trial, and it works well enough. HTH Charlie -- Kiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 05:03, J.C. Woods wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 05/08/2003 at 21:35 GM http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/32187.html ---Small slice of the article - Linux users face a serious question. Is $699 too much to pay for a good bath? The $699 scrubbing fee is exactly how much SCO wants for one CPU's worth of a Linux license, and that's just for the time being. Come October 15, the single CPU fee jumps to a whopping $1,399. This is the latest word from SCO handed down by Mr. Clean himself - SCO CEO Darl McBride, during a Tuesday conference call. SCO had been holding out on exactly how much it planned to charge Linux users for their use of what it claims is borrowed Unix code, but now all has been made clear - crystal clear. . LX Hey LX, At about the same time as when they pry my gun from my cold, dead hand, they can have the money too drjung Amen, brother. :) LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Filter That, Beach! --Lanman, MDK Newbie List Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]
At 08.42 06/08/2003, you wrote: Try one of these options... First, if you only have your own machine, and are not sharing the connection with any other machines, use K--Configuration--Packaging--Remove Software to remove Shorewall from your system completely. Your connection should work fine after that... But I'd like to have a firewall... should I use guarddog? if yes, I hope someone inside MandrakeSoft will remember this bug when making 9.2. If you are sharing the connection with an other machine, you need Shorewall to enable the sharing. So Try this... Open the Mandrake Control Center, click on Security and select the Firewall entry on the Right-hand side. In the next dialog tick the top box Everything (no firewall) and click OK. (Unless you have a static IP and/or sensitive material on your machine, this is enough for you. I ALREADY have that option set, but, while enogh for the time being, I will need SSH and FTP starting from September. If you want to fine-tune_ your firewall rules and policies, I recommend installing Webmin, and using that to set up the firewall. It offers much finer control over the ruleset. Do I need Shorewall or guarddog installed or not? One of these procedures should work for you (My system... Mandrake 9.1/KDE3.1 on a Celeron 366, 384 MB, with a second machine sharing via eth0.) OT: do you use that box for production? is it slow or not? I had (have) a cel400 with sis620 and it was unusable at all (224 MB RAM, voodoo card). It wasn't even able to play divx. Thanks for your help. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] urpmi force
There is a way to install a rpm even if it is already installed with --force when using rpm, but the question is exists a similar option for urpmi. Thanks in advance and please Don't pay atention to the absurd SCO's claims! -- Obed Liberty Software Libre al desktop http://obed.com.ar - Baje el manual para el nuevo usuario de GNU/Linux de http://www.obed.com.ar/doc/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nifty tool
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 01:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: ... My favourite app for such circumstances is Synergy: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ ... Just installed stable after x2vnc barfed a few times, this looks cool. I like the idea of screensaver synchronization. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] start x windows from remote login
I think you're looking for vnc (tightvnc, actually). It allows you to log into the WM of your choice from a remote X workstation. Install tightvnc and tightvnc-server on the machines. On the server, type vncserver and give it a password. On the client machine, type vncserver 1.2.3.4:1 enter the password, and you're in. Replace the 1.2.3.4 with the IP of the server, obviously. Miark On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:46:03 -0700, Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What's the best way to startx using remote login? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] EXT3 File Corruption?
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:41, Todd Lyons wrote: I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2. So why does it do this on bootup, on the root filesystem? What is the advantage to this option, which has no background explanation, and leaves only a very short amount of time in which to make a decision? I've always found it confusing and leaving me wondering what the heck is the right thing to do.. Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HARD DRIVE PROBLEMS WITH REISER!! HELP
Help I have an IDE Hard drive that holds my /home partition that will not mount. It is /dev/hdb1 and the drive has only one partition. I have tried reiserfsck with the --check option and it tells me that I have a bad superblock or that a hardware error has occured, but, it does not write any entries into the log I specified and give no other details. I need a utility that will allow me image the drive, ignoring any areas that are bad. I need a utiltiy that will check and fix physical bad blocks on a drive long enough to get the information off the drive. The utilities need to work with reiserfs. Suggestions very welcome. Best regards Dalton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI
To Whom It May Concern In a dual attempt to both obtain what I thought of being advertised as a good reference book for MDK specifics, and to support the MDK developers (as I do by buying their packages) - I have ordered and recently received the MDK Definitive Manual. Do NOT think of spending $39 (!!) + $11 SH on this! The quality of the book is horrible (it started falling apart after a few pages flipped), the whole book is totally unprofessionally made, and the content is for retarded DOS users: a definitive manual missing fundamental things such as urpm* (CLI) usage (not even for beginning stuff, let alone more advanced features) makes the worse book purchase I have ever made (and I buy a lot of books). Hopefully one day someone will write something worth O'Reilly publishing, as an MDK-specific reference book. Until then - long live the printouts from the web pages or from MDK email list archives, as handy references. Do not waste one penny on The Definitive Manual ... Stef Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems using gdb in 9.1
If you are using XFS for your root file system, this is a known problem (Bugzilla #4000, 4158), and can be corrected by installing the recently released kernel (kernel-2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm). On Monday 11 August 2003 10:48 am, Magnus Wirström wrote: Hi everyone. This is my first posting to this list. I have a problem and i am not sure if this is the right place to send this. If it is not i apologize :) I am trying to debug an application that i'm writing. When i set breakpoints and run the program it gives me something like this: Breakpoint error -2 Cannot insert breakpoint in address x. Application may already be running in system. Now ... These are not the exact words it uses but it gives the general idea of the error message. If you wanna have the exact message, let me know (not sitting by my own computer). GDB have never done this before when i used an older Mandrake version. I have tried kdevelop, xxgdb and gdb with same result. Also tried to reboot my system to make sure it is not running. I am quite a newbie when it comes to C++ in linux so i might as well be i'm doing something wrong here. But it would be nice to at least to know if it is only my computer that have this problem. Thanks :) Have a nice day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH Server problem
You don't have an _external_ hardware firewall (like a cable/dsl router), do you? Those will block all incomming traffic by default... (Probably a dumb question.) Failing that, are you using xinetd for sshd as well? On my system, I simply disable it and run it as a daemon. It should be possible to run it thru xinetd, but I'm not sure why you would. If you do, you may need an /etc/hosts.allow entry like: sshd: ALL (Not sure if/how having it on port 80 will affect things... But make sure that there are no conflicting services (like apache) bound to port 80.) Also, have you tried looking for the relevant log files? There should be an xinetd.log somewhere--according to the man page at least... If nothing else, try grep -r xinetd * and grep -r sshd * from the /var/log directory. HTH, -Jason On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:11 pm, João Candido A. Milasch Filho wrote: Hi! I sent this message b4 to newbie list, but I got absolute no answer. I hope someone can help me here... Thus, I tried to run telnetd from xinetd, no success, tried to configure the listening ports to the standard ports, and got no success. Shorewall is not installed, iptables is empty, netstat shows listening entries corresponding to the service I tried to run, but i can connect only from my local machine. no friends could connect to my computer. Thanx all!!! Hello all, me again! As I sent before, I'm trying to use SSH server in home, to access on my work. But as I said b4, my work firewall is blocking almost all outgoing ports. So, i have to use SSH on the port 80. I successfully ran the daemon on the port 80. To see that, I just netstat -pln, and saw an entry like this: LOCAL FOREIGN 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 sshd blah blah Whel, with that, I knew it was listening correctly on the port 80. So to try it out, I tried from the same machine I was running sshd to use ssh. So I did: $ ssh -l my_user_name -p 80 127.0.0.1 It worked fine. Then I asked a friend to connect on my ssh server, and told'im to do: $ ssh -l usr_name -p 80 200.100.100.100 (where 200.100.100.100 was my internet IP address on that time). But he couldn't connect. My firewall was disabled, I cleared out my lname (or something like that) but my friend was still unable to connect on my ssh server. Anyone knows what can I do to figure out whats happening? Regards! -- = The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it. -- Discworld wildlife (Terry Pratchett, Sourcery) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
stefmit wrote: Instead of arguing amongst ourselves, why not taking the complaint directly to SCO? As someone on the Linux Users of Northern Illinois (LUNI) group correctly pointed out ; ... From the Register article we have the number: 1-800-726-8649 where we can call and give SCO our opinions. From a pay phone (actually many, many phones), where SCO has to cough up $0.25 per call. http://luni.org/pipermail/luni/2003-August/012555.html Stef Thank you IBM for cuing SCO. You can find the Linux News (update hourly) at http://www.no-junkmail.com/news.html -- Albert E. Whale, CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Founding Board of Directors of Pittsburgh FBI - InfraGard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH Server problem *SOLVED* (sort of)
Well. I got an answer to my problem. About a year ago, my adsl provider blocked about all reserved ports, and thats why I can't use'em. Although I told you before that they were unblocked by the ISP. Then, I fall on another problem: The work's firewall! So, I'll need to get a list of unblocked outbound ports. Is there any way to see what outbound ports are unblocked? We got some sites that scan my incoming ports. Thats not hard to make a program that scan for outgoing ports, but I kind of not have time to do so. If anyone knows how how to look for outgoing unblocked ports, tell me, because the network admins dont want to just give me a port that I can use. ;( Thanks all for the answers. PlugHead wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:56 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:11 pm, João Candido A. Milasch Filho wrote: Hi! I sent this message b4 to newbie list, but I got absolute no answer. I hope someone can help me here... SNIP Anyone knows what can I do to figure out whats happening? Is your isp blocking inbound traffic on port 80 to prevent web servers from running on the network? That would be a cruel catch 22 if it is true. Work only allows outbound on port 80, while home allows all inbound but port 80. Actually, it could be worse than that. You may not even have a real ip address. Sometime an ISP will act as subnet on the internet, in order to conserve IP addresses (much like a local router would do, but on a larger scale.) If you're on a dial-up connection, this is most likely the case, and may be even if you have a broadband connection. If your IP address starts with 192. or 10., that's a dead giveaway, but there are other reserved ranges as well that I don't know off the top of my head. Can your friends ping your ip address? If so, this is not (probably, unless they're really ping'ing someone else) your problem. -Jason = When treading water in a circle of sharks, a wizard will always consider other wizards to be the most immediate danger. (The Last Continent) 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] k3b and supermount problem
thx anyway, if i find the soluction i'll post it Angelo P.S. i think k3b is very good too but supermount is useful. --- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used xcdroast, but k3b is so cute!! I cannot helping using it, even without supermount. On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, R N dev wrote: But xcdroast works well! so i think it's just a configuration parameters problem. I'm trying to discover the problem. --- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, faced the same problem. I gave up supermount. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- --- 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:16:39 -0700 : Doing some google searches I've run across just two Mentions of this ... Seems it's kernel related as you'll see. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-25/1591.html The second site is in german and related to a thinkpad ... you can be the judge better than I on what if any relevance it has to your situation http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~diesch/linux/r40.html But on the second one he/she talks about almost an identical error message to the one you are getting. Same error number (ACPI-1121) at any rate. Thanks for the links, I'll have a look lateron. I must admit that I haven't done too much reading on this problem so far because I'm in the middle of setting up a complete community site for German MDK users, so I'm a bit distracted from this here problem. ;-) [advertizing] German users may have a look at http://mandrakeuser.de. It's not much there ATM but I'm working on it and there'll be something after the WE. [/advertizing] Hope this helps rather than adding confusion to the problem. One question does acpi -b or apm return any batter info at all? # acpi -b No support for device type: battery # apm No APM support in kernel # Very unsatisfying! wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.0???
The 9.1 RPMs should work in 9.0 (I think). What happens when you try using them? Miark On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:13:37 -0400, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 August 2003 03:48 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, a friend of mine just asked me if there are KDE 3.1.3 RPMS for 9.0. Anyone know if there is such an animal?? My guess is it definitely won't happen as an official upgrade provided by MandrakeSoft and since Texstar isn't building for 9.0 anymore, quite unlikely that it will happen within the community. You might try proposing it on the Club and see how many votes you get. My advice is that if your freind really wants KDE 3.1.3 would be to upgrade to 9.2 when it comes out, skipping 9.1 completely. He could also always install from source This is the same trouble we had with backporting KDE 3.0 to 8.2 and prior. SOme asked for it, no one ever did it. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]
At 12.23 08/08/2003, you wrote: The rule is routestopped IIUIC... It doesn't always work properly, as I've tried adding the IP numbers and hostnames of my two machines to that rule. Stop Shorewall, and even those hosts in the list are blocked. It is indeed a PITA to set up. I've found the Webmin interface to be the easiest and best I've used so far I'll remember Webmin next time. After configuring Intenret Connection Sharing, now I can use internet. In fact, Internet works only afetr configuring ICS, every time I have to reconfigure it to have internet working. I think I'll install guarddog. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cdbakeoven first try bad
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:56, David E. Fox wrote: I'm using what seems to be an old version of cdbakeoven after someone (who shall remain nameless) suggested I try cdbakeoven after letting him know of my issues with k3b crashing in the midst of a burn. (On that, I can simulate the writing and just use k3b for the conversion and do the actual writing with cdrecord). But cdbakeoven was worth a try so I grabbed it off of a cooker contrib mirror - at least I think it was one; the rpm hasn't been updated since last August. cdbakeoven-1.8.9-5mdk is the rpm I installed yesterday. It seems easy enough to operate, yet there must be something wrong in the setup - especially the programs it uses to do the conversion(s) from mp3 to wave format suitable for audio CDs. I got a burn all right, but I got a burn of only 1/4th or so of what I expected, and when I popped the CD into my CD player, I got white noise. Another coaster, I guess. Has anyone else noticed this? Are there settings I should pay attention to? Why are you not sticking with Gcombust? Is there something it can't accomplish that you need done? LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 Versus 9.0
Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2003 17:58 schrieb Lawson, Jim: Hi, Can some explain why Mandrake 9.1 will lose the internet connection sharing over night if I shut off the hub to my internal LAN. But Mandrake 9.0 has no problems with this. Its probably ifplugd. It detects that the network is down and takes the interface down. I think you can configure it not to do so in drakconnect in expert mode. HTH Steffen James S. Lawson Network Administrator (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- P.S.: Could you make your sig a bit smaller ? Its more then you have written. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:36:22 -0400, Glenn Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Monday 11 August 2003 01:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:51, Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:26:18 -0400
Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad)
James S. Lawson
Put my vote in for xfs. Been using it exclusively except for windows
shares for 2 years.
If I can't break it, it can't be broken.
Lee
I've got Reiserfs on about 16 machines right now. Not a single byte of
data lost in the last 2 years (realated to file systems.) I know that
Knoppix and other distro on a disk releases use xfs. Basic
conclusion. I'm sticking with reiserfs. (and from what I'm reading.
Reiserfs4 is going to change the way we do things ... totally. sounds
sweet)
James
Have all the problems ReiserFS had with NFS been fixed? The last time I
looked, which was a while ago, there were still threads on the ReiserFS
mailing list about problems with using an NFS server on a Reiser file system
(despite many protestations by Herr Reiser on their web site that all NFS
problems had been resolved!).
The NFS problems were fixed a long time ago. I use NFS + ReiserFS here with no
problems whatsoever.
When you choose a filesystem, you need to consider what you will be doing with
it. IMHO, ReiserFS is best for ordinary desktop computing tasks, so I use it for
most of my partitions. Where I need a little more reliability (like on / and
/boot) I use ext3 with full data journalling. I have been through numerous
crashes and power failures, and those two FSs have never failed me.
XFS is optimised for large files, and from what I've seen its small file
performance is not very good. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are editing
huge (at least hundreds of MB) files on a frequent basis. I don't know much
about JFS, other that it isn't of much use on a desktop system. Files on JFS
take up twice as much space, and the filesystem requires periodic
defragmentation (although it isn't nearly as bad as FAT in DOS/Windows). On the
plus side, it is supposed to be very fast in certain server tasks.
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Re: [expert] Motherboard recommendation
Is repair not an option? With the state of manufacturered components the way they are due to so many bad caps in the supply chain, I'd rather a repair if I wanted full compatibility with my existing components. From http://www.motherboardrepair.com/ I just ordered some caps to fix a Soyo myself. The board's over a year old, so I doubt the warranty would cover it, and I want to get the machine up ASAP (I can always fix the board later for my own use). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:47, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 11 August 2003 11:59 pm, Kiran wrote: I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different machines only once was I able to recover by removing the journal, fsck'ing and rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use ext2(probably the same amount of grief in three times the time) before ext3. I have however had no problems with reiserfs in the last year or so. And that includes alot of unplanned/emergency shutdowns/poweroffs/powerlosses etc on both my laptop and desktop. YMMV. My problems have been about the same. One Maxtor 13Gb HD, and I have had 3 ext3 installations of 9.0/9.1 fail in one month. I switched to ReiserFS, XFS and ext2 and have had no problems in the months since. ext3 no more! Rob I've lost plenty of data to ReiserFS (three partitions of my own and one client's PV200 disk array) and haven't lost any to ext3. Repeat after me: it's a filesystem, not a backup. It's software, it's fallible, there is some combination of conditions and events that will make it do The Big Spit all over you. When that time comes, if your only remaining choice is reiserfsck you are likely going to be in a world of hurt. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
My helper list is empty, my plugin list is full. And nothing happens when I get to .ra files or others... Simply proposes to download them to the local disk /stefano John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference that my plugins are .so files ? They should be, actually. Your helper applications list should be empty, also. The plugins take care of calling the apps when needed. /stefano Larry Sword wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: The Helper Applications list is EMPTY on my mozilla installation. Do not know why. I have lots of plugins that are declared to be installed (xine plugin, shockwave flash, default, javarpnp, nppdf) but NOthing in the Helpers. So, may I ask you a favour? 1. how could I install an Helper for each of the plugins ? 2. also, I found 4 plugin directories on my system: mozilla, mozilla-1.3, mozilla-1.3.1, netscape. I have Mozilla 1.3.1. Should I keep all of the directories ? thanks a lot. Best regards This is for an older installation but still works for the new Mozilla. I saved them from an old message, sorry didn't save the author's name... --- - 1. If you don't have the player already, hit up this link and get it. 2. Go ahead and install it. 3. On my system, the executable installed to /usr/bin/realplay. Find out where it went on yours, and keep that info handy. Now comes the fun part. Getting it to work with Netscape. According to help file for the G2 player, it will only play real audio and real video. But, that is incorrect as you will soon find out. 4. Open up Netscape and click on Edit and then Preferences. 5. On the new screen that appears, click the little arrow next to Navigator and then Applications. On the right, you should see a list of all the mime types already in the system. This is where we will be adding in the info to configure the G2 player. Now, my system didn't have any of the stuff that follows set up, but your might have a start. So, before you add anything listed below, look to see if it is already there and add/modify as needed. 6. Click the New button to bring up a new mime type. 7. Enter the following settings, then click the OK button to save them. Description: RealMedia File MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s The description doesn't matter, but the rest does. Make sure to click the box next to Application to enable G2, and don't forget the %s part or it will just open G2 and not stream. If G2 installed somewhere other than /usr/bin/realplay, replace that part with your path. Another thing to watch is that you but the . in front of the suffix. 8. Add all of the following using the steps 6 7. Description: RealVideo File MIMEType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Sufffixes: .rv Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File 2 MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Now, your G2 player should work great with Navigator. But say you hop over to live365.com and want to listen to for awhile. Well, live365.com sends you am mp3 play list, not a standard stream. This is nice if you're sitting behind a firewall and your administrator has blocked streamed data. To get this up and running on you Linux box, add this last part into Netscape, again using steps 6 7. Desciption: Live365 MIMEType: audio/x-scpls Suffixes: .pls Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s So, now maybe you want to hop over to MP3.com and have a lsiten over there. No problem. look down the list for MPEG Audio. Once you find it, click on it, then click on edit. Change the following: MIMEType: audio/mpeg Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) We have to add another one now. Follow step 6 7 to add this one in. Desciption: MPEG Audio 2 MIMEType: audio/x-mpegurl Suffixes: .m3u Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) That should do it. Now the G2 player will handle all that media from the web with little or no hiccups. Enjoy! We would like to hear your feedback. Hope you fine them helpful and Thanks to the author of these instructions. Larry 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.20 MOSIX kernel hates Shorewall
Well I looked at that section of the .config file and this did not appear to be the case. Also it doesn't cause an error until it reaches the NAT section of the shorewall commands. Later, when I can restart the box with that kernel, I'll get a trace so we can see exactly what command it is canning on. It probably doesn't have the firewalling modules compiled for it -- I know the -mm kernel doesn't. Try copying the lib/modules/[kernel-version]/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ directory from another 2.4.20 mandrake kernel, then run depmod -a and see if you get lucky. 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
[expert] mandrake wireless WEP problem?
Dear all, I tried to connect to mandrake 9.1 to an wireless AP. When WEP disabled, everything works fine. After WEP enabled, I can't access network. I believe it's WEP key problem. My AP an PCMCIA card use 13 hex digit as WEP key and works fine under windows xp. How can I set up WEP key under mandrake 9.1 and what's the format? Thanks, Vincent Chen - ¨C¤Ñ³£ Yahoo!©_¼¯ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - À°§Aºâ¥X³Ì¦X¾Aªº¨D¾¤è¦V http://fate.yahoo.com.tw/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IPTABLES
El mié, 13-08-2003 a las 05:07, Thomas Gamble escribió: I have been trying to get iptables set up on my gateway machine, but it isn't working like I think it should. I have the following entry in the rc.firewall script to block incoming SYN packets: EXT_IF=ppp0 IPTABLES=//sbin/iptables $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXT_IF -p tcp ! --syn -j ACCEPT yet ethereal shows these getting through: Source port: 1302 (1302) Destination port: 135 (135) Sequence number: 2684291305 Header length: 28 bytes Flags: 0x0002 (SYN) 0... = Congestion Window Reduced (CWR): Not set .0.. = ECN-Echo: Not set ..0. = Urgent: Not set ...0 = Acknowledgment: Not set 0... = Push: Not set .0.. = Reset: Not set ..1. = Syn: Set ...0 = Fin: Not set dunno about that one, and i don't have the time to study it.. i'll check it out later. I also have the following: $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXT_IF -p tcp --dport 135 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -j DROP why check source address when you are trying to block it completely? Remove the -s 0.0.0.0/0 and try again. And where exactly are you trying to block them? Wouldn't it be simpler if you just blocked them at INPUT? Also, check the order in which you add the rules. If prior to this rule you added a rule that sends these packets to ACCEPT, then iptables will think it already knows what it has to do and won't bother checking with the next one. which should block packets detined for port 135, but also seems ineffective. What might be the problem? The above is just a snippet from the rc.firewall script. I can post it in its entirety if that would help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wanted us to know: My nephew did a hd.img install yesterday, and can't ping anything on his local network, much less reach the internet to do updates. The built-in You have to pass noapci acpi=off to the kernel at boot time with this motherboard. I don't think it is the KT-400, but the BIOS implementation on the Soyo board. Hit esc at the lilo menu and type Good catch. Look to see if the ethernet IRQ is 16 or higher (use the ifconfig command). If so, then the mobo is using apic for the ethernet device. Pass noapic and you should see the IRQ drop to 15 or below and then the NIC will probably magically start working. If it's already at 15 or below before you pass noapic, then it will probably not make any difference. - -- Todd Lyons| Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. Professional Geek| If you get lost, then you can drop it on the Consultant| ground, wait 10 minutes, and ask the backhoe http://www.mrball.net | operator how to get back to civilization. Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk load average: 0.00, 0.34, 0.46 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/NEPnIBT1264ScBURAmQQAKCnap/KqPIy0CKEbEfpbR+1bNPyHgCg28q8 8nLYluqr3L4G1hTNT3nATec= =gNvc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cdbakeoven first try bad
I'm using what seems to be an old version of cdbakeoven after someone (who shall remain nameless) suggested I try cdbakeoven after letting him know of my issues with k3b crashing in the midst of a burn. (On that, I can simulate the writing and just use k3b for the conversion and do the actual writing with cdrecord). But cdbakeoven was worth a try so I grabbed it off of a cooker contrib mirror - at least I think it was one; the rpm hasn't been updated since last August. cdbakeoven-1.8.9-5mdk is the rpm I installed yesterday. It seems easy enough to operate, yet there must be something wrong in the setup - especially the programs it uses to do the conversion(s) from mp3 to wave format suitable for audio CDs. I got a burn all right, but I got a burn of only 1/4th or so of what I expected, and when I popped the CD into my CD player, I got white noise. Another coaster, I guess. Has anyone else noticed this? Are there settings I should pay attention to? 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] cdbakeoven first try bad
Why are you not sticking with Gcombust? Is there something it can't accomplish that you need done? Well, I'll have to think about it. gcombust will do the job, and I've had luck with it. At the same time though, I like the interfaces in cdbakeoven and k3b better. They also (supposedly) are able to just drag and drop the mp3 onto the thing and go off and convert burn all by themselves -- with, supposedly, the extra software to do this. At least k3b is up front about what software is needed and lets you know what it finds. cdbakeoven is a little lacking in this. At least that's my impression. Plu k3b has video cd support but I haven't tried this - it's on the 'to-do' list now that I can rip dvd's supposedly - but that's the subject of another set of posts :). I'm giving gcombust another try - drag and drop an mp3 into it and see what it does. I'll use a CDRW so I don't coaster :). : LX 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] What to do when qt2 libraries are needed (MDK 9.1)
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:27:27 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have it running just fine on 9.1 I installed it from source no problems, that is i installed nethack from source ;-) This is not true actually i think i did urpmi to install it, has been a while since i did that though so I'm not sure ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- 02:31:13 up 2:51, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.23 Tue Aug 12 02:31:13 EDT 2003 Fine day to throw a party. Throw him as far as you can. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:22, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:42, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:44:00 + : If you use KDE the is a power management section in the kcontrol control center that will allow you to set warnings at whatever percent level you want. (worked for mine) And what is this KDE flummy playing frontend for? I don't use KDE and with important things I want to keep it as near to the CLI as possible so I can always manage even if there is no GUI. wobo go to /proc/acpi and have a look. you may also like the acpi client -- try acpi -V. Wobo, Doing some google searches I've run across just two Mentions of this ... Seems it's kernel related as you'll see. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-25/1591.html The second site is in german and related to a thinkpad ... you can be the judge better than I on what if any relevance it has to your situation http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~diesch/linux/r40.html But on the second one he/she talks about almost an identical error message to the one you are getting. Same error number (ACPI-1121) at any rate. Hope this helps rather than adding confusion to the problem. One question does acpi -b or apm return any batter info at all? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI
On Monday 11 August 2003 12:36 pm, stefmit wrote: Hopefully one day someone will write something worth O'Reilly publishing, as an MDK-specific reference book. Until then - long live the printouts from the web pages or from MDK email list archives, as handy references. Do not waste one penny on The Definitive Manual ... Stef Stef, consider yourself lucky - at least you got it. I ordered the 9.0 version and never got it. I contacted Mandrake about it: mdkstore-cseu: 05:05 03:13 : Reply received Dear Customer, Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. Your parcel should has been lost by the post. Do not worried, I will sent your parcel today in priority mode. Again, I am so sorry about your order. Best regards, Marie == [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 01:05 07:29 : Incident created I ordered the v9.0 big book of everything grin some months ago, debited to my card and I've never received it. Any ideas why? Ronald J. Hall 464 Conley Fork Road Prestonsburg, KY 41653 6068863389 Thanks much! *but* I still never got it. :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnome-print-devel
Phil G. wrote: How can I get gnome-print-devel? I haven't been able to find any rpms in the usual places. Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] rolf]$ urpmq --fuzzy gnome-print The following packages contain gnome-print: gnome-print libgnomeprint15-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED] rolf]$ urpmq --sources libgnomeprint15-devel file://mnt/hd/Mandrake/RPMS3/libgnomeprint15-devel-0.37-2mdk.i586.rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] rolf]$ Try the package on CD3 Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VMWARE $
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 18:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 14:05, Joseph Loo wrote: I tried your suggestion. It comes back with this instead The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.21-0.13mdkcustom) does not match your running kernel (version 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp). Even if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel. Any more suggestions? One suggestion. cd /usr/src/linux then cp Makefile Makefile.bkp (keep a copy) The vi Makefile and change this line EXTRAVERSION = -0.25mdkcustom to EXTRAVERSION = -0.25mdksmp and then do a make dep. Now the versions should match. James OOOps forgot to mention. cp the .config to config and then copy the config file you use (in /boot) to ./.config before making dep (probably not needed but it ensures that the config for the kernel you use matches the config in the dir.) James Thomas Backlund wrote: Viestissä Sunnuntai 03 Elokuu 2003 19:11, Joseph Loo kirjoitti: The problem is that the smp is tacked on the end under uname -r. It will not recognize it because of that. [...] Just go to your kernel source tree (/usr/src/linux) and do: #make mrproper #cp arch/i386/defconfig-smp .config #make oldconfig dep and then rerun your vmware-config.pl ... Regards Thomas 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
On Monday 11 August 2003 01:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:51, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:26:18 -0400 Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) James S. Lawson Put my vote in for xfs. Been using it exclusively except for windows shares for 2 years. If I can't break it, it can't be broken. Lee I've got Reiserfs on about 16 machines right now. Not a single byte of data lost in the last 2 years (realated to file systems.) I know that Knoppix and other distro on a disk releases use xfs. Basic conclusion. I'm sticking with reiserfs. (and from what I'm reading. Reiserfs4 is going to change the way we do things ... totally. sounds sweet) James Have all the problems ReiserFS had with NFS been fixed? The last time I looked, which was a while ago, there were still threads on the ReiserFS mailing list about problems with using an NFS server on a Reiser file system (despite many protestations by Herr Reiser on their web site that all NFS problems had been resolved!). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems using gdb in 9.1
Hi everyone. This is my first posting to this list. I have a problem and i am not sure if this is the right place to send this. If it is not i apologize :) I am trying to debug an application that i'm writing. When i set breakpoints and run the program it gives me something like this: Breakpoint error -2 Cannot insert breakpoint in address x. Application may already be running in system. Now ... These are not the exact words it uses but it gives the general idea of the error message. If you wanna have the exact message, let me know (not sitting by my own computer). GDB have never done this before when i used an older Mandrake version. I have tried kdevelop, xxgdb and gdb with same result. Also tried to reboot my system to make sure it is not running. I am quite a newbie when it comes to C++ in linux so i might as well be i'm doing something wrong here. But it would be nice to at least to know if it is only my computer that have this problem. Thanks :) Have a nice day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
I don't see the point in going back to ext2. Ext3 is just ext2 + journal, so you would be changing nothing in the file system, just losing the journal. FWIW I've been using ext3 for around 18 months and despite the occasional bad shutdown I've lost nothing. I see no point in changing. Anne On Tuesday 12 Aug 2003 7:59 am, Kiran wrote: I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different machines only once was I able to recover by removing the journal, fsck'ing and rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use ext2(probably the same amount of grief in three times the time) before ext3. I have however had no problems with reiserfs in the last year or so. And that includes alot of unplanned/emergency shutdowns/poweroffs/powerlosses etc on both my laptop and desktop. YMMV. My plan is not to use ReiserFS again, because I see no advantage, ext3 seems to do everything I want certainly everything I need. In that it has never failed any task, even with some extraordinary power outages and outrages. ReiserFS was only used as a trial, and it works well enough. HTH Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!
Hi Mate, make sure you remove acpi=off and check if it work. Worked for me yesterday when installing a new Laptop of a friend. However - I don't know if the suspend stuff works - at least we could see the battery charge level etc. and hitting the powerbutton performs a clean shutdown. Anyone here with ACPI managed to use the suspend to RAM/Disk stuff ??? Thx Cheers Joerg On Wednesday 13 August 2003 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, I know this line from former times when I used ISDN to cennect to the internet. :) Now I have a brandnew laptop. Specs see http://bug-e.net/Webgine/ Problem is: When running on battery it gives no warning whatsoever, it dies in the middle of work when the battery runs dry. Suspend mode works (when I shut the lid it goes down to sleep and wakes up when I open the lid. apmd is activated and running. lilo.conf says: append=acpi=off (amongst other options). Is there anything I can do short of sitting there with a stopwatch? wobo -- What fools these mortals be. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Alt2)| | Web: http://www.solsys.org: Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | PGP Fingerprint: AF0F FB75 997B 025F 4538 5AD6 9888 5D97 170B 8B7A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wma to ogg it was MP3 to Wave
Btw ayone of you has an idea about how to create ogg files from m$ wma? thanks in advance Nisco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] net-snmp v. ucd-snmp ? Anyone knows the differences ?
Hi Folks, Anyone could tell me what the main differences are between net-snmp and ucd-snmp ? I'm wondering why the php-package do require the net-snmp-mib package ? I had written quite some apps using the ucd-snmp package - which are all broken now. Seems the SNMP Extensions from net-snmp are different from the ucd-snmp which where in the php-4.0.x version. Anyway - would be nice to know what is different, advantages/disadvantages on all apps - so I can decide if I want to port the code to net-snmp or not. Thx Cheers Joerg -- Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed] | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Alt2)| | Web: http://www.solsys.org: Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | PGP Fingerprint: AF0F FB75 997B 025F 4538 5AD6 9888 5D97 170B 8B7A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PDF haywire
OK Well I have received a pdf file from overseas I want to print out. It's only 4 pages, and it's about 190K. Neither konqueror or kghostview will read it, but xpdf or acroread will. Printing is not possible as it launches a perl from kprinter that quickly gobbles up all RAM and swap (and I have 256 emgs RAM and 800 megs roughly of swap). pdfinfo says: Title:CRI article 7 p34-37 OK Author: G4 User Creator: QuarkXPressª: LaserWriter 8 Z1-8.7.1 Producer: Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 for Macintosh CreationDate: Mon Jul 28 13:29:44 2003 ModDate: Mon Jul 28 13:29:44 2003 Tagged: no Pages:4 Encrypted:no Page size:666 x 907 pts File size:190038 bytes Optimized:yes PDF version: 1.4 Is that of any concern? It doesn't just seem to be this file alone, but other pdf files I have also can't be opened with the KDE tools. I am running cooker ATM and will check on this after I do another upgrade. 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
[expert] VMWare 4 and USB scanner
I'm trying to use a USB scanner in VMWare, but it reports that Linux won't let it go: The specified device appears to be claimed by another driver (usbscanner) on the host operating system which means that the device may be in use. VMware Workstation cannot safely take control of the device until the host driver is unloaded. How do I get rid of the usbscanner driver, and is there a way to temporarily disable it? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Background execution
I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using ./popfile.pl , it requires an ENTER press before you get your command prompt back. What causes this, and how do I fix it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.20 MOSIX kernel hates Shorewall
Jack Coates wrote: okay, let's hunt this down together, shall we. for i in `rpm -ql shorewall`; do echo $i sudo grep -c run_iptables $i; done Okay, that came from /usr/lib/shorewall/firewall. less it and /run_ip -- okay, it's a wrapper that provides a graceful exit in the event of iptables barfing. Because the line in question isn't using the wrapper, you don't get a graceful exit. iptables -t nat -A eth0_masq -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQUERADE now let's man iptables and walk through it. table nat, append a rule, eth0_masq source of 192.168.1.0/24 destination any, action masquerade. Uh-oh, that doesn't make any sense. Perhaps the intent was to use -i in order to specify an interface? eth0_masq is clearly one of your interface names. I'll lay odds that you are correct and see if I can make some changes but do you have any idea why it works with a regular Mandrake kernel? Doesn't that seem odd? P.S. Thanks for the assist. :-) Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Tool to set the monitor refresh rate
Is there a tool to set the monitor refresh rate without manually editing the Xfree config file? It would be nice to add such section to the tool Mandrake already ships inside MDK control center. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] does Mdk's php support mysql?
On Mon Aug 04, 2003 at 07:24:50AM -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote:
I'm trying to learn some php/mysql and i've came across this
error message whenever i try to load a one-line php file
that connects to a local mysql database:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in
/var/www/html/test2.php on line 3
I've googled a bit and it seems that my php module was
not compiled with mysql support enabled?
I'm using stock mdk packages libphp_common430-430-11mdk
mod_php-4.3.1-1mdk, has anyone here got mysql working with these?
could this be a config problem?
You need to install php-mysql. urpmi php-mysql should do the trick.
Hot damn! urpmi -a php skipped that one! could that be a glitch
in urpmi?
btw, thanks Vincent!
Could be... I've never actually used the -a option before... never even
really new it existed... =)
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Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:12:07 +0200, Magnus Wirström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I know this is a little bit of topic but can anyone recommend a good
program that converts MP3 to Wave with really nice quality ?
Thanks
Magnus
Try this:
http://seismo.ethz.ch/linux/mp3_wav.html
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Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:24, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Lawson, Jim wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) XFS has a dump utility... non of the other FS's do (JFS or Reiserfs). There is a dump for ext2/3 but you'll have to use snapshoting with LVM or ELVM to keep dump from hanging (unless you want to umount the filesystem before dumping...) If you care about real backups go with XFS. It's also (in my tests) faster than the others... Well, that makes three of us now that run numbers and are saying that XFS is faster. Bryan Whitehead, Civileme, and yours truly. LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Filter That, Beach! --Lanman, MDK Newbie List Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] GPG/KMail fun...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following image demonstrates a problem I'm having with a fresh 9.1 install, using an existing gpg key... http://www.innocentbystanders.com/~mwatts/kmail.jpg All other types of gpg signed message are processed correctly; fully trusted keys are ok, as are invalid signatures (well, they're displayed correctly). This just seems to be only affecting messages which are signed and I dont have the key for... Any ideas? Cheers, Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/O1K7Bn4EFUVUIO0RAkveAJ9BBqx6fMV9APs1OPlTaW44icVWggCgrlDi 7kVgCiCKTGUzE4yc9d1Vz9g= =Q89C -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT]Burning DVDs (not necessarily movies!!!)
Let me know what you find out. I too just bought the Sony and I am trying to learn the DVD burning process. I don't even know what tools are available much less the compatibility of the formatts +/- etc... Which is the preferred format R+, R-?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax - Original Message - From: stefmit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake-expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:04 PM Subject: [expert] [OT]Burning DVDs (not necessarily movies!!!) I have - finally!!! - bitten the bullet and purchased myself a nice Sony DVD burner (IDE). I would love to hear from other people (probably off-line) using such a device, and their experience with the multitude of options, as well as their success/failure rate. So far - I found growisofs as being the best tool for +RW, but it won't allow me to read DVDs created with it, on any (two - so far) of the other regular DVD players I have (Ricoh and Toshiba). Sorry for the OT - please contact me off-line. Thx, Stef 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
[expert] gnome-print-devel
How can I get gnome-print-devel? I haven't been able to find any rpms in the usual places. Phil -- Using Mandrake Linux 9.1 www.mandrakesoft.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ActivePerl users
Anybody here use ActivePerl in Winblows? If so, could you gimme a shout off-list? Gracias, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What to do when qt2 libraries are needed (MDK 9.1)
On Monday 11 August 2003 12:03 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I downloaded the nethack rpm from nethack.org but it requires qt2, while I have only qt3. Should I install it by force or something else? Anyway, how dare Mandrake remove NetHack from the distro? :-) Thanks Olaf You'll need to get the Qt 2 shared object libraries from somewhere. Try an older Mandrake distribution. Otherwise, you'll need to pull the Qt source and compile it yourself (takes an hour - sigh...). Or get the nethack source, and compile against the Qt3 libraries. It will most likely work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!
Hi, I know this line from former times when I used ISDN to cennect to the internet. :) Now I have a brandnew laptop. Specs see http://bug-e.net/Webgine/ Problem is: When running on battery it gives no warning whatsoever, it dies in the middle of work when the battery runs dry. Suspend mode works (when I shut the lid it goes down to sleep and wakes up when I open the lid. apmd is activated and running. lilo.conf says: append=acpi=off (amongst other options). Is there anything I can do short of sitting there with a stopwatch? wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What to do when qt2 libraries are needed (MDK 9.1)
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:03:05 +0200 Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the nethack rpm from nethack.org but it requires qt2, while I have only qt3. Should I install it by force or something else? I have it running just fine on 9.1 I installed it from source no problems, that is i installed nethack from source ;-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Aug 12 00:24:24 EDT 2003 00:24:24 up 44 min, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.08, 0.14 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? That's all part of their FUD campain. They may try to charge for it, but there's no way they can sue for it. Say I write a book and publish it. Then along comes publisher B who takes huge sections of my book and publishes it under another name, which is clearly copyright violation. You bought the book from publisher B. Can I sue you for copyright infringment because you purchased and read the book? No. But I can go after publisher B. I've seen that very analogy presented by various legal analysts. They want to slow the adoption of Linux in corporate environments (since Linux is beating UNIX by far more than it is Windows in those environments), and hopes that there will be companies that will pay rather than take a chance of being sued for copyright violation. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
