Re: [expert] realtek rtl8180 wlan card -- drivers/modules.
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 01:05, James Sparenberg wrote: Seems that there is a known bug in the sourcecode (why it doesn't want to build.) Someone clued me into a howto that might get you going and get the modules to build. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/x101.html Thanks to some of the guys over on Debian. Seems this card is to say the least a PITA. Once done this should be what you need in /etc/pcmcia/config card realtek, Rtl8180 manfid 0x, 0x024c bind rtl8180_24x Hmm, I'd read the article and that's where doubt hit me. I'm not that much in the clear whether the card I have is definitely a V4 cause cardctl doesn't give Rtl1880L or RealTek (me being case sensitive ;o)). BTW I did find out that this Sweex card is a Edimac clone..that's just to make it more intricate:o) Personally I agree it looks like the best option and the way I see It (and what realtek proposes) is to first try the prepared binary (thinks the Suse one comes closest to our kernel) driver. Then if that doesn't work, roll my own. I'll give it a go tonight (I'ts morning here), thanks for the handholding :o) -- Good luck, HarM Mandrake HowTo's More:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:15 am, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that was all. don't know what I did wrong. I read that. I wondered if it was coming to the first eof that confused it, but then why get part of the last page? Odd Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:15, Mark wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, Mark. I've been following this, and it doesn't look promising, so I wonder if it's time for a dirty solution. Could you not pdf2ps all the files, open them in SOWriter, then cut and paste into one file, save that as a new pdf? I know it's not elegant, but it might work. Anne Hi Anne, I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that was all. don't know what I did wrong. Did you try the (dirty) way I proposed in my previous mail? Over here it works fine. I just catted 28 .pdf files into one 7.1mb chunk. Pictures et all copied fine giving me a 298 page file. Takes longer too load than to make thoug:o( BTW the (big) intermediate .ps file wasn't loadable strangely enough, the .pdf is. -- Good luck, HarM Mandrake HowTo's More:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] realtek rtl8180 wlan card -- drivers/modules.
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 00:14, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 01:05, James Sparenberg wrote: Seems that there is a known bug in the sourcecode (why it doesn't want to build.) Someone clued me into a howto that might get you going and get the modules to build. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/x101.html Thanks to some of the guys over on Debian. Seems this card is to say the least a PITA. Once done this should be what you need in /etc/pcmcia/config card realtek, Rtl8180 manfid 0x, 0x024c bind rtl8180_24x Hmm, I'd read the article and that's where doubt hit me. I'm not that much in the clear whether the card I have is definitely a V4 cause cardctl doesn't give Rtl1880L or RealTek (me being case sensitive ;o)). BTW I did find out that this Sweex card is a Edimac clone..that's just to make it more intricate:o) Personally I agree it looks like the best option and the way I see It (and what realtek proposes) is to first try the prepared binary (thinks the Suse one comes closest to our kernel) driver. Then if that doesn't work, roll my own. I'll give it a go tonight (I'ts morning here), thanks for the handholding :o) One thing to note is that they mention a point about removing // on line 128 to correct a compile error. (just in case) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome
On Monday 01 September 2003 20:55, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:01:23 -0700 lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 01:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:47, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi all! I am co-using mouse and monitor with an MS XP Home Client through one of those mechanical switchboxes. XPH manages to loose mouse and get it back working after switching, but Mandrake is loosing contact with the mouse until I log out from session then it comes alive again. Anybody encountered this before? Thanks! Niclas Yes a number of people have. Mine did this as well, the quick workaround is to do ctrl-alt-f1 and then switch when leaving Linux. Then ctrl-alt-f7 when you come back to it. Problem is in the way the mechanical ones work (which is why XP has trouble as well) restarting console mouse (service gpm ) if installed will also get your mouse back. James For what it is worth... I had an old Belkin KVM switch. Everytime I switched back to Linux, my mouse died. I ended up kill Xwindows and going back. I got tired of it. Quite by accident I have found that the linksys 4 port little KVM works like a dream. NO more problems at all. OTOH my Belkin OmniViewSE has worked flawlessly for over 2 yrs. Lee I do not think it is as simple. I believe there is a parameter(s)/program in the installation which affect this. Mandrake 7 and 9 versions have the problem. I did not experience this with version 8.2. Same boxes, same mouse, same switch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 03:18 am, many eyes noted that Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:51, Mark wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX Well...when I first loaded 9.1 thats how I had to do it to get a boot floppy. Have you tested the bootdisk? LX That's a good point, as explained in an earlier email. I have been caught with a Red Hat bootdisk [only once] that looked fine when mounted, but didn't boot the system when needed. Later examination showed the files were there but empty. First boot is from the hard drive and a few alterations made, and in Mandrake 91 a bootdisk created as described. Then the system rebooted with the bootdisk. This put away in a safe place, and then just keep booting from the hard drive. Any new kernels built, but the standard kernel retained and booted into if problems occur. Though I have to admit with Mandrake this has only ever been necessary on one occasion. On one machine, I experimented making only a bootdisk without a hard drive boot at all, and that worked very well and I think, from memory just as quick as a hard drive boot or very close. But it was disconcerting to mount the disk and there seemed to be nothing on it. I think that was what it was. Mount it and:- 0 files. I think that was right. So reaction = manure! But put it in the drive when turning on the machine and it booted like off the hard drive. I can only assume that the floppy was a lead into the boot sector on the hard drive. Though never having done this. I would imagine a good way would be to install, but place the boot sector on the floppy instead of the hard drive during the process. Then boot into the system with the floppy in the drive and install lilo within the system. That should, theoretically, give you the ideal bootdisk and a normal hard drive boot as well? I might try this in a future install if I remember. LX -- I am not afraid of storms, because I am learning to sail my ship. Louise May Alcot. This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:58 am, many eyes noted that David E. Fox wrote: Define successful? Doing it without running out of disk space would be successful. Of course, if it actually boots the right partition it would be even better. Does both these. I've been able to do this in 9.0. LX and I hashed over this; it seems that the kernels are SoBig :) now that there's not enough room on the floopy for syslinux/grub (or lilo)/initrd and the kernel. Boots the system with some problems identifying the CD ROM as an SCSI device with dialogue to change devices, asks does one want to run the configuration Have you done this with 9.2? No I don't as yet have a copy of 9.2 I may not create a boot floppy the right way? This is also on a standard kernel. 2.4.21-0.13mdk Hmm. How big was that? 1.3mb 1337954 Aug 25 08:47 vmlinuz-2.4.22-1mdk Format floppy to DOS filesystem Place into the floppy drive but do not mount Back in the old days: format floppy cp /boot/zImage /dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdX That's from memory, and I may have the parameters reversed. It was always a trick remembering the order for rdev. The intent is to simply ocpy the kernel onto a good floppy and then rdev it -- this sets the root device, which you'd fill in with wherever your root happened to be. If we go back to that mode, at least the kernel will fit on the floppy by itself. If not, it's time to figure out why the kernels in 9.x are SoBig ;). In particular, lots of stuff is modularized so they're not in the monolithic kernel image. Otherwise, hack drakboot to make disks with more sectors per track than the default DOS format. After all, we aren't running DOS, so why stick with 1.44mb floppies if you can tweak the format for 1.6 meg? I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this with Mandrake, though have to admit that I have never looked into it either I seem to just write to CD now. In the old days [about 18 months ago] of 8mb RAM and 830mb hard drive it all went onto floppy. Charlie David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- -- I am not afraid of storms, because I am learning to sail my ship. Louise May Alcot. This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mouse problems.
In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: The machine had been idle for a while, went to logout from KDE, no mouse Machine is an older board, AMD K6-2 500, only 64 MB SDRAM. Still functioned OK. Attempted to re0install from the CD. Mouse seemed to work OK until I reached the mouse configuration screen. Select the mouse (Generic 3-button on /dev/ttyS0) and suddenly no mouse again. Tried all the above with a different mouse, still no go (in fact I had no mouse available even from the first screen of the installer)... Hmm... Tried the first mouse on a second machine, running Win 98SE. Worked perfectly, no problem. OK, problem with the serial port or mobo, perhaps? Dragged out another mobo, this one was AMD K6-3 300, 128 MB. Guess what, no mouse It seems that the problem only occurs under Linux (Mandrake 9.1 with the original generic kernel), the drivers are loaded and the ports correctly detected. It is apparently not the mouse itself, nor is it the board or chipset causing this. So far, I've tried 1 trackball,and 2 different mice, as well as trying a different cable from the headers. Nothing makes the slightest difference. The machine is my secondary machine, used by my house-mate and her daughter. They need to use the mouse (they have no idea otherwise), so I need to work out the problem fairly urgently. Need more info, please ask... -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Network printing
The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net Any ideas, please? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mouse problems.
Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. I have gdm set not to start on boot using 8.2, as I've found it conflicts with the mouse driver used by X. YMMV... When I've had the occasional mouse failure under X, I find that popping out to a root console (Alt-F1) and running mousedrake solves the problem. Once the mouse is working, it's worth looking at the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Confi-4, whichever version of X I'm using). Once XF86Config is sorted, restarting X to test might be a good idea. Hope this helps! -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org cassiopeia up 10 days and counting kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Mouse problems.
Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1, with the default kernel (haven't got round to rebuilding yet). I have gdm set not to start on boot using 8.2, as I've found it conflicts with the mouse driver used by X. YMMV... Found that one out when I was still using 8.2, and haven't used gpm since (I still can't see the point of a mouse in a console). When I've had the occasional mouse failure under X, I find that popping out to a root console (Alt-F1) and running mousedrake solves the problem. Once the mouse is working, it's worth looking at the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Confi-4, whichever version of X I'm using). Once XF86Config is sorted, restarting X to test might be a good idea. I have yet to look at XF86Config-4, that's next on the agenda. Running mousedrake didn't help at all, either in the console or from mcc. I'll have a further look at the config, see what I can figure there... Hope this helps! -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network printing
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:52, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net Any ideas, please? Anne either fix dns, or put that machine into /etc/hosts -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 21:34, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:09 pm, David Rankin wrote: Well, you're right about there being something suspicious about the way XP does business. Browsing win98 clients is just slow as sh you know. That's even after the registry tweaks that are supposed to fix the browse problem. Secondly, MS crippled XP to allow no more than 5 simo network connections rendering it useless as an impromptu file server. I have XP pro at home, but it is also on the same box as linux rendering it useless to test the file transfer issue. There is an answer somewhere...and let me know when you find out what it is. Unfortunately with 2 young children, my wife working on her doctorate and both of us working full time jobs, it will be one of those things that will probably get solved by some clever fellows out there, but I am going to send this trace to a real sharp engineer and see if he can decode it more than my limited abilities. I'll let everyone know if he figures it out. I can say it only encourages me more to complete the transformation away from uncle billie and his gang of thieves. G I know... I make good money fixing their s#$t, and we will probaby never be 'rid' of them but I ended up setting up two physical boxes (I hate the slow herky jerky of VMware) with a KVM switch. I can switch back and forth between XP and Mdk. I really appreciate everyones ideas. Maybe a microsoft engineer will pop in here an decode this mystery for us. hahahah and then charge us for it, and send to SCO so they can put it in the kernel. hahaha... no... I've been helped so many times in here, I believe in giving back to the community. IF I figure it out. Maybe I should write the samba.org folks. They are pretty clever eh? -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:23 pm, David Rankin wrote: Lorne You got me?? Beyond some tangential knowledge of the past packet fragmentation issue and the CIFS protocol, I don't have any rabbits to pull out of my hat. As far as smb is concerned it seems M$'s implementation of smb(CIFS) is new and unique to XP/2000. I suspect in implementing CIFS for XP, M$ has only loosely followed the RFC and has done so by design. The site I posted earlier but can't find now, the ubhix something like that suggests that the CIFS variety of smb has done just that. I've been suspicious of a change in the way XP does business, but can't put my finger on it. I may take my traces to an Extreme engineer and see if he can lay his finger on it. I don't have a test machine to confirm what you are seeing, but it sounds identical to the samba 2.07 problem that gave win98 fits. Another site that looks promising is http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-optimize.html See 7.2 Socket Options. You may be able to either rule in or rule out the fragmentation issue by follow the test specified. I am not seeing fragmentation in the trace. It does do things slightly differently, but I've had a hard time really dissecting it today. I'm going to read and tinker with the above suggestions I think. For now, I'll just have to transfer from linux to xp. I use my mdk box more often anyhow. :) I have the bigger drives in the XP box. Guess I'll just use the XP box for storage. hahaha Good luck. -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax For those in Texas - Vote NO to prop 12 on September 13th. They're your constitutional rights. You can either vote NO to keep them or vote yes (or do nothing) and let the insurers and HMO's take them away in the name of corporate greed. Your choice. - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:29 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:26 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 I DID go to a web site to download tweaks. There was a little executable that
Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:14 pm, elPunishar wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to allow this ? Check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny Make sure that you are either allowing all if you connect from different ip addresses or allowing the ones you do use to connect with, or that you are not denying all by default. You also may need to configure the sshd server to allow connections, it may be set to refuse access by default. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network printing
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net Any ideas, please? You need to add an entry to your /etc/hosts file that specifies an IP address for anne-linux.lydgate.net which is the machine that is broadcasting the printer connection. Without an entry to your /etc/hosts file, your machine is trying to connect to anne-linux.lydgate.net and the DNS server is saying that it does not know how to resolve that hostname. I assume that you are not running your own DNS server and DHCP server or else those would be setting the nameserver to the DNS and the DNS would be resolving the hostname for the box. On my local network, I use not FQD names as hostnames and on each machine, I need to add the IP addresses for all of these machines to the hosts file. Like: 192.168.0.125 anne-linux.lydgate.net 192.168.0.125 tom-linux.lydgate.net etc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Mouse problems.
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:17 am, Alex Fisher wrote: Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1, with the default kernel (haven't got round to rebuilding yet). I have gdm set not to start on boot using 8.2, as I've found it conflicts with the mouse driver used by X. YMMV... Found that one out when I was still using 8.2, and haven't used gpm since (I still can't see the point of a mouse in a console). When I've had the occasional mouse failure under X, I find that popping out to a root console (Alt-F1) and running mousedrake solves the problem. Once the mouse is working, it's worth looking at the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Confi-4, whichever version of X I'm using). Once XF86Config is sorted, restarting X to test might be a good idea. I have yet to look at XF86Config-4, that's next on the agenda. Running mousedrake didn't help at all, either in the console or from mcc. I'll have a further look at the config, see what I can figure there... Silly question perhaps, but have you tried different mice during the install? I know if you select the wrong one, it will not work. ?? Hope this helps! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation
On Wednesday September 3 2003 05:39 am, Charlie wrote: I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this with Mandrake, though have to admit that I have never looked into it either I seem to just write to CD now. In the old days [about 18 months ago] of 8mb RAM and 830mb hard drive it all went onto floppy. fdutils, includes among other utilities, superformat. But it's only for formatting DOS file system floppy's. Won't work for an ext2 boot floppy. It will format a DOS floppy up to 1992k, but anything over 1600k an the floppy will become increasingly unstable. The problem with boot floppy's for past year are so is the ever increasing size of the kernel and initrd images. It's also one of the main reasons that the 'rescue' option was added to the 1st and 2nd install CD's. So who needs a boot floppy anyhow? ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:13 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents Just an update for you all... upcoming MDK 9.2 has cifs support in both kernel and Samba 2.2.x / 3.x ... What will be the benefit kernel level support? You wouldn't need samba to connect? Yep. it adds native cifs vfs support... some features mentioned by one of the developers: - more stable than smb protocol - faster - large file support 2GB - works with windows 2003 - ... You can read about it at: http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html and the only reason that you need to install samba-client is to install the mount.cifs helper wich simplifies mounting/unmounting... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] threading in Kmail...
Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2rc1 still no pppatm support?
Just install 9.2rc1 on my gaN400pro2 and it looks well. No boot problems or mbr errors like 9.1, but still have no support for my usb adsl modem. This is the end for having standard pppAtm support inside mandrake? Any madrakeusers will have to compile kernels or manual install drivers for using adsl usb modem? TIA Evaristo250 P.S. just give make mrproper xconfig dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install command and going to see what happend. :-) -- Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Are you sure you never delete a mail until the whole thread is finished? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Without having a definition of REALLY screwed up I can tell you this. Threading in kmail is done based on some ID in the header - forget which. This ID has been in the mail RFC's since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Many proprietary mailers have a callous disregard for standards and don't put the message ID in the header. Even worse, some put their own ID in the header. Lotus Notes and Outlook are 2 of the worst offenders that jump to mind. So, instead of doing things the right way, mailers are forced to have a kludgy threading by subject. Kmail does not at this time thread by subject. It has been fixed in the latest dev branches but is not scheduled until KDE3.2 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57350 On a partially related subject - complaints about kmail should be sent to http://bugs.kde.org/ -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark Belanger wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Without having a definition of REALLY screwed up I can tell you this. Threading in kmail is done based on some ID in the header - forget which. This ID has been in the mail RFC's since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Many proprietary mailers have a callous disregard for standards and don't put the message ID in the header. Even worse, some put their own ID in the header. Lotus Notes and Outlook are 2 of the worst offenders that jump to mind. So, instead of doing things the right way, mailers are forced to have a kludgy threading by subject. Kmail does not at this time thread by subject. It has been fixed in the latest dev branches but is not scheduled until KDE3.2 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57350 On a partially related subject - complaints about kmail should be sent to http://bugs.kde.org/ -Mark Hi Mark, thanks for the info. That definately sheds a lot of light on the matter and probably the very reason why threading in Kmail appears to be screwed up. Based on this information it's not likely a problem with Kmail, but rather due to the messed up nature of the headers in the message itself. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Are you sure you never delete a mail until the whole thread is finished? Anne Hi Anne, It doesn't appear to affect things one way or the other when that happens. Mozilla, Netscape, and Pine all do threading wonderfully. I've always wondered though about what was ailing Kmail cause I've seen this odd behavior in it for quite some time. I just happen to be in one of those moods this morning that I wanted to use Kmail for a time. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
September 2, 2003 02:44 pm, Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back I've got to drop to init 1 and then go to init 5. Yep, but the last update seems to have cured it for me. Not some of the other troubles though. Partitions mounted twice, once normally, then once as scsi devices? Which display manager are you using? I tried mdkkdm, kdekdm, gdm, and xdm and all did the same thing. I never bothered to do anything more than vote for the bug. Init 1 then init 5 seems too bothersome when I could just log in at the console and startx to get back the desktop. :-) I'm lazy I am!. Charlie -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker; kernel 2.4.22-4mdk 10:26:15 up 10:03, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.25, 0.28 Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -- Helen Keller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:58 pm, Mark Belanger wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Without having a definition of REALLY screwed up I can tell you this. Threading in kmail is done based on some ID in the header - forget which. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that was all. don't know what I did wrong. Mark, someone else mentioned that they did not think it would work because it was a binary format. That could be it. Otherwise the cat command would have worked. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:06 pm, Mark wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've noticed, after loading 9.2RC1 that message threading in Kmail is still REALLY screwed up. anyone have a word to this point that could give me a clue as to whats going on here? Are you sure you never delete a mail until the whole thread is finished? Anne Hi Anne, It doesn't appear to affect things one way or the other when that happens. Mozilla, Netscape, and Pine all do threading wonderfully. I've always wondered though about what was ailing Kmail cause I've seen this odd behavior in it for quite some time. I just happen to be in one of those moods this morning that I wanted to use Kmail for a time. That's odd. KMail threads beautifully for me if it's a thread that I leave entire. What version are you using? Mine is 3.1.0 Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 02:04, Jesús Arocho wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 20:55, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:01:23 -0700 lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 01:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:47, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi all! I am co-using mouse and monitor with an MS XP Home Client through one of those mechanical switchboxes. XPH manages to loose mouse and get it back working after switching, but Mandrake is loosing contact with the mouse until I log out from session then it comes alive again. Anybody encountered this before? Thanks! Niclas Yes a number of people have. Mine did this as well, the quick workaround is to do ctrl-alt-f1 and then switch when leaving Linux. Then ctrl-alt-f7 when you come back to it. Problem is in the way the mechanical ones work (which is why XP has trouble as well) restarting console mouse (service gpm ) if installed will also get your mouse back. James For what it is worth... I had an old Belkin KVM switch. Everytime I switched back to Linux, my mouse died. I ended up kill Xwindows and going back. I got tired of it. Quite by accident I have found that the linksys 4 port little KVM works like a dream. NO more problems at all. OTOH my Belkin OmniViewSE has worked flawlessly for over 2 yrs. Lee I do not think it is as simple. I believe there is a parameter(s)/program in the installation which affect this. Mandrake 7 and 9 versions have the problem. I did not experience this with version 8.2. Same boxes, same mouse, same switch. All I know is that when I had a mechanical one ... it did this. Then it died, I bought an electronic one .. and the problem disappeared. It does seem to be related to the switches ability to handle the mouse, not the other way around. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Mouse problems.
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 05:17, Alex Fisher wrote: Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1, with the default kernel (haven't got round to rebuilding yet). I have gdm set not to start on boot using 8.2, as I've found it conflicts with the mouse driver used by X. YMMV... Found that one out when I was still using 8.2, and haven't used gpm since (I still can't see the point of a mouse in a console). That I can kinda answer. The mouse was originally invented for the console, to allow cut and paste and highlighting from one virtual tty to another. When I've had the occasional mouse failure under X, I find that popping out to a root console (Alt-F1) and running mousedrake solves the problem. Once the mouse is working, it's worth looking at the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Confi-4, whichever version of X I'm using). Once XF86Config is sorted, restarting X to test might be a good idea. I have yet to look at XF86Config-4, that's next on the agenda. Running mousedrake didn't help at all, either in the console or from mcc. I'll have a further look at the config, see what I can figure there... Hope this helps! One question do you get any error messages related to the mouse in either /var/log/messages or /var/log/XFree86.0.log or perhaps dmesg. Reason I'm asking is that I've one box at my old office. Asus p/5 mobo with a k-6500 that under SuSE 8.1 did not under any circumstance want to recognize the mouse after install. (problem was solved by installing another version, cowards way out.) But it kept complaining that it couldn't find the dev for the mouse. Turns out that it was assigning the wrong dev. If I remember right SuSE wanted to use /dev/mouse but this was assigning /dev/psaux. Been awhile but check the logs and this might lead you to the right road. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network printing
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:52, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net vi /etc/hosts? Any ideas, please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network printing
Hi Anne, James is rihgt. If you don't have a decent DNS running within your LAN, you need to keep the canonical-Name - IP-Address translations in the /etc/hosts files on both systems (Printer-Server and Client). Also - make sure that Cups allows printing from this IP-Address. Default it denies it ... Cheers Joerg On Wednesday 03 September 2003 19:19, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:52, Anne Wilson wrote: The only other mandrake box in the house does not have a printer. Today I needed to print from it. Using mcc/printerdrake it picked up all four instances of the printer on my box. However, any attempt to print a test page comes up with an error saying unknown host anne-linux.lydgate.net vi /etc/hosts? Any ideas, please? Anne -- Disc space -- the final frontier! | 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
Re: [expert] Network printing
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:59 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, James is rihgt. If you don't have a decent DNS running within your LAN, you need to keep the canonical-Name - IP-Address translations in the /etc/hosts files on both systems (Printer-Server and Client). Hi, Joerg. My reply earliers doesn't seem to have got through. What I said was: Thanks, Bryan and Jack. You are both right, I'm sure. That box is a very low spec and hardly capable of anything, so I've never spent much time on it. I'm sure that's what it is. I've been thinking about it while I was out this afternoon and came to a similar conclusion. I'm going to replace the puny disk that has no room for manouver, sometime in the next day or two and re-install. It's a temporary fix, though, as I intend building a better machine in a few weeks. Meanwhile, I'll get essential services only running, but fixing the dns does count there :-) The router is acting as dns server, and could cope with the ip, but not with the name. I did have this box acting as dns server at one point, then changed my mind. I might change it back again :-) Thanks again, both of you Also - make sure that Cups allows printing from this IP-Address. Default it denies it ... Now this I haven't come across. Where do you set it? I have printed from the windows machines on the lan, though. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Charlie M. wrote: September 2, 2003 02:44 pm, Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back I've got to drop to init 1 and then go to init 5. Yep, but the last update seems to have cured it for me. Not some of the other troubles though. Partitions mounted twice, once normally, then once as scsi devices? Which display manager are you using? I tried mdkkdm, kdekdm, gdm, and xdm and all did the same thing. I never bothered to do anything more than vote for the bug. Init 1 then init 5 seems too bothersome when I could just log in at the console and startx to get back the desktop. :-) I'm lazy I am!. Charlie Yeah, I can do that as well, but all the others that use the comp literally choke when they see a console login screen. and getting them to use command line stuff to start anything is like pulling teeth. Myself and my grand daughter Alex are the only real geeks in the house. As for what display manager I'm using, its kdekdm. I had this problem for a short time once before. I can't recall exactly if it was a time I upgraded KDE, or if it happened when I upgraded to 9.1 from 9.0. The darndest thing is that i can't clearly recall exactly how I fixed it. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help using a IBM microdrive on a laptop with Mandrake 9.1
Hi there, I am having some problems using my IBM microdrive on my laptop, wich has Mandrake 9.1 installed. The microdrive is working fine, I can use it without problems on my Ipaq (running linux as well) the card services seem to detect it ok, but it starts creating processes in a loop as follows: 24133 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/dynamic/scripts/part.script del /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 24142 ?R 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/drakupdate_fstab --auto --del /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 24143 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/dynamic/scripts/part.script del /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 24772 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/dynamic/scripts/part.script add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 24781 ?R 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/drakupdate_fstab --auto --add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 24782 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/dynamic/scripts/part.script add /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 I have tried to look for diferences between the /etc/pcmcia/ide scripts of the ipaq and the laptop, but I am starting to feel it is out of my league and I rather not mess my fine setup without guidance... May it be because I have re-organized my /etc/fstab ? # root /dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 1 1 # # virtual none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 # # data /dev/hda6 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 /usr/src ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hda10 /apps ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hda7 /var ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 # # removables none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrecorder autoro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=utf8,sync,umask=0 0 0 --- Thanks, Bruno Silva Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: connect with ssh to my box
elPunishar wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to allow this ? tnx greetings, stu Any firewall running? /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf les_csharp_12_p2.pdf les_csharp_12_p3.pdf les_csharp_12_p4.pdf les_csharp_12_p5.pdf les_csharp_12_p6.pdf les_csharp_12_p7.pdf I would like the contents of the above list of files to appear in this file: CSharp_LESSON12.pdf Solution: ??? Mark Have a look at http://DocMorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/default.htm Among other services you can upload upto 10 pdf files and it returns one. You have to register for an account but it doesn't cost anything. Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Changing Mouse
I did install the mouse and it booted up without any problems. Just shutdown, unplug old one, plug in new one, power up, notice keyboard isn't working, shutdown, jiggle keyboard plug, power back up, keyboard works, mouse works. Mouse works great! It just has two side buttons(not configured) that can be accidentally pressed and are annoying. I guess I just have to get used to that. Not worried about the extra buttons right now. Thanks for the advice. Jim On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:53 pm, mike wrote: I made a similar change and it was just power down change and powerup no big deal. if you need to make any changes though it should prompt you during boot up or you can after through the control tool mcc . ( Mandrake Control Center ) James Conner wrote: I'm using a MS Intellimouse(with ball) on MDK 9.0. It's currently identified as the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection And works just fine. I just bought a MS Intellimouse Optical and want to install that. Both are going to use the PS/2 port. My question is this: Is it going to be just a shutdown, switch mice and power back up? Or am I going to have to do some kind of setting changes to get it to work? If so, what changes need to be made? Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- 2:01pm up 24 days, 22:18, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Changing Mouse
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:50 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:40 am, James Conner wrote: I'm using a MS Intellimouse(with ball) on MDK 9.0. It's currently identified as the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection And works just fine. I just bought a MS Intellimouse Optical and want to install that. Both are going to use the PS/2 port. My question is this: Is it going to be just a shutdown, switch mice and power back up? Or am I going to have to do some kind of setting changes to get it to work? If so, what changes need to be made? Jim Good news Jim. This is Linux. Power down and reboot Mickeysoft stuff. You should just be able to do a service gpm restart after changing the mouse. G Being that this is a PS/2 mouse, it's probably not a good idea to hot swap it. I did install the mouse and it booted up without any problems. Just shutdown, unplug old one, plug in new one, power up, notice keyboard isn't working, shutdown, jiggle keyboard plug, power back up, keyboard works, mouse works. Mouse works great! It just has two side buttons(not configured) that can be accidentally pressed and are annoying. I guess I just have to get used to that. Not worried about the extra buttons right now. Jim -- 2:01pm up 24 days, 22:18, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
Use redirection. creates file appends to file. cat blah newblah This will cause blah to be appended to newblah However I really don't think this will work with a pdf. pdf's aren't plain text... but hey worth a try. Nigel Wilkinson wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf les_csharp_12_p2.pdf les_csharp_12_p3.pdf les_csharp_12_p4.pdf les_csharp_12_p5.pdf les_csharp_12_p6.pdf les_csharp_12_p7.pdf I would like the contents of the above list of files to appear in this file: CSharp_LESSON12.pdf Solution: ??? Mark Have a look at http://DocMorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/default.htm Among other services you can upload upto 10 pdf files and it returns one. You have to register for an account but it doesn't cost anything. Cheers Nigel 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] postfix smtp auth docu ?
Hi Folks, tried to configure the smtp-auth stuff on my Mdk-9.1 box. However I'm still having problems with the authentication through sasl. Anyone has some documentation links laying around ? Note - my Mail-System is based on: Sasl (Standard installed thru cyrus-sasl-2.1.12) Postfix 2.0.6 cyrus-imapd: 2.1.13 for delivery. In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html Anyway - authenticaiton through: [EMAIL PROTECTED] smurphy]$ telnet sun.solsys.org 25 Trying 10.0.2.1... Connected to sun.solsys.org (10.0.2.1). Escape character is '^]'. 220 sun.solsys.org ESMTP Postfix (2.0.6) (Solar System) EHLO solsys.org 250-sun.solsys.org 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 1024 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH PLAIN 250-AUTH=PLAIN 250-XVERP 250 8BITMIME AUTH PLAIN c211cnBoeQBzbXVycG...Blablabla 535 Error: authentication failed quit 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. Anyway - anyone has a hint on it ? Also - does anyone knows why there are 2 library sets installed ? for sasl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -qa | grep sasl libsasl2-2.1.12-1mdk cyrus-sasl-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-plain-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-plug-plain-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-1.5.28-5mdk Thx for any hint Joerg -- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool. -- Albert Camus | 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
Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 04:40 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: ..snip Note - my Mail-System is based on: Sasl (Standard installed thru cyrus-sasl-2.1.12) Postfix 2.0.6 cyrus-imapd: 2.1.13 for delivery. In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html Can you post a copy of the section of your sasl in your /etc/postfix/main.cf for reference? Mine looks as so: smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous And finally, some smarthosts, although not mine, require smtp_always_send_ehlo = yes to be present since not all MTA's automatically send ehlo upon connect and some smarthosts require that. You also need to put your clear text password into a file and then use the hash routine to has it, not all will accept passwords in the clear. My ISP does not. The last step was the one that I needed to complete along with putting the has for password maps in before I was able to get SMTP AUTH to work with Postfix. ..snip Anyway - anyone has a hint on it ? Also - does anyone knows why there are 2 library sets installed ? for sasl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -qa | grep sasl libsasl2-2.1.12-1mdk cyrus-sasl-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-plain-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-plug-plain-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-1.5.28-5mdk Thx for any hint You may also need to install the libsasl2-plug-digestmd5 and libsasl2-plug-crammd5 to get it to work. Again, some systems won't accept plain authentication, they require md5 or some hash to authenticate. If you load these packages and try this, let me know if it still doesn't work. I found a howto setup on SASL SMTPAUTH for Postfix somewhere which is where I got my settings from, I can probably find it again. It has a walkthrough for figuring out what authentication the smarthost supports and how to configure for it. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
On September 1993 plus 3654 days Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that was all. don't know what I did wrong. Mark, someone else mentioned that they did not think it would work because it was a binary format. That could be it. Otherwise the cat command would have worked. I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The real problem isn't that the file is a binary, but that the reader of the file doesn't like headers-in-the-middle-of-a-file. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:07, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3654 days Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that was all. don't know what I did wrong. Mark, someone else mentioned that they did not think it would work because it was a binary format. That could be it. Otherwise the cat command would have worked. I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The real problem isn't that the file is a binary, but that the reader of the file doesn't like headers-in-the-middle-of-a-file. Vox I think (but I can't swear) that the problem is file headers. The PDF has a header that gives data like length etc. So when you cat them together the first header is wrong. The second is in the middle etc. I agree that the only way is to cvt to ps then merge then convert back to pdf. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?
Joerg Mertin wrote: In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html [...] Also - does anyone knows why there are 2 library sets installed ? for sasl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -qa | grep sasl libsasl2-2.1.12-1mdk cyrus-sasl-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-plain-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-plug-plain-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-1.5.28-5mdk That's because almost all the software in mandrake 9.1 uses sasl v1 (libsasl7), while cyrus-imapd needs sasl v2 (libsasl2). IIRC the saslauthd that came in the 9.1 package is from the v2 library, and it's incompatible with v1 (used by postfix), so you cannot use saslauthd. You can either try another authentication method (sasl v1 can use pam directly *but* if you're using /etc/shadow postfix won't be able to read the file due to insufficent permission) or try use pwcheck, i.e in /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf you can put pwcheck_method:pam or pwcheck_method:pwcheck Don't forget to start the pwcheck daemon in the latter case and to configure /etc/pam.d/smtp in the former. 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] forgotten knowledge...
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 11:19 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:07, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3654 days Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used cat do combine the files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that was all. don't know what I did wrong. Mark, someone else mentioned that they did not think it would work because it was a binary format. That could be it. Otherwise the cat command would have worked. I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The real problem isn't that the file is a binary, but that the reader of the file doesn't like headers-in-the-middle-of-a-file. Vox I think (but I can't swear) that the problem is file headers. The PDF has a header that gives data like length etc. So when you cat them together the first header is wrong. The second is in the middle etc. I agree that the only way is to cvt to ps then merge then convert back to pdf. James Probably, but not the only possible answer. Consider HTML. A file is defined to be: HTML blah blah /HTML If you cat two pages together you get: HTML blah blah /HTML HTML blah blah /HTML and that is not valid HTML. It's possible to build a browser that can read it, but a browser would not be expected to. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Filter mail: bcc case
I want to filter mail from different mailboxes differently, but I don't know how to determine where the mail has been sent to when my address is included in the bcc: field. Normal mails have my address in the to: or cc: field (and I use them for my filters), but what about a mail with my address in the bcc: field? it's always empty. I use fetchmail and procmail. THX Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wacom tablets and linux
I just installed in my Palm IIIc the opensource utility palmwac that turns the Palm into a Wacom (UD series) tablet. Is there a way to have MDK 9.1 automatically recognize it and set the XF86Config-4 file? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Adobe Acrobat Reader not working
I downloaded the Reader from adobe.com and installed it but it doesn't work, it doesn't even start. Has anyone had the same problem? If so, how to cope with it? [I prefer the Reader from Adobe because it's able to follow links inside the pdf file, while KGhostview and xpdf are not able to do it, they don't even allow to scroll pages one after the another as the Reader does, not to speak about antialias] Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Adobe Acrobat Reader not working
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:57:29 +0200, Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the Reader from adobe.com and installed it but it doesn't work, it doesn't even start. You can download it from MandrakeClub. Works like a charm. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Mouse problems.
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:39:07 -0700 lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:17 am, Alex Fisher wrote: Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1, with the default kernel (haven't got round to rebuilding yet). I have gdm set not to start on boot using 8.2, as I've found it conflicts with the mouse driver used by X. YMMV... Found that one out when I was still using 8.2, and haven't used gpm since(I still can't see the point of a mouse in a console). When I've had the occasional mouse failure under X, I find that popping out to a root console (Alt-F1) and running mousedrake solves the problem. Once the mouse is working, it's worth looking at the pointer section in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Confi-4, whichever version of X I'm using). Once XF86Config is sorted, restarting X to test might be a good idea. I have yet to look at XF86Config-4, that's next on the agenda. Running mousedrake didn't help at all, either in the console or from mcc. I'll have a further look at the config, see what I can figure there... Silly question perhaps, but have you tried different mice during the install? I know if you select the wrong one, it will not work. ?? Hope this helps! I beat the heck out of mdk 9.1 a couple of weeks ago about my mouse because I was using the same one through my kvm on a win2k box without a problem. Later it failed on the win2k box, I trashed it, and all is well with both machines. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joeb wrote: Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back I've got to drop to init 1 and then go to init 5. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com There's already been a bug report submitted on it. I think you can also get the dm back by logging in at the console prompt and typing: service -f dm (you will need to be root or su to root). After that, you won't get kicked out of the dm until you reboot and logout the first time. Hopefully, it will be fixed for RC2. Joeb Awesome...thanks Joeb. By the way...when is the scheduled release date of RC2? - -- Mark Hopefully, not until it's finished! It seems that the RC introduced a bunch of problems that weren't in the last beta. Most, but not all seem to be cleared up in cooker. I haven't actually heard of a release date. Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] DNS server
I don't know if this is a question for the newbie or expert list, but I'll try on this one. Currently, I have problems with my ISP DNS servers (they are unreachable more than half the time). I'd like to build a DNS server on my computer so I'll be able to use my Internet connection efficiently. To resolve my problem, this DNS server must forward to a parent DNS (other than my ISP's... is it possible to use root DNS's as forwarders?) I don't have a domain name (I'd like to have a local zone and all other things going to forwarders). Is my solution possible under Linux (I know it's possible under M$ LooseDows Server's DNS service.) If it's possible, where can I find informations about this, or what tool can I use to define my zones? BTW, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on the machine I'd like to use, and I'll upgrade it to 9.2 as soon as it's stable. Thanks for your help and advice. +---+ | Albert Charron| | System Administrator - Trisotech Inc. | +---+ | Linux Registered user: 157482 | |- Registered computers: 164158, 195048, 205791, 205792 | | www.linuxcounter.org | +---+ | E-mail written under Mandrake Linux 9.1 with Mozilla 1.4 | +---+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:04 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Joerg Mertin wrote: In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html [...] Also - does anyone knows why there are 2 library sets installed ? for sasl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -qa | grep sasl libsasl2-2.1.12-1mdk cyrus-sasl-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-plain-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-plug-plain-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-1.5.28-5mdk That's because almost all the software in mandrake 9.1 uses sasl v1 (libsasl7), while cyrus-imapd needs sasl v2 (libsasl2). IIRC the saslauthd that came in the 9.1 package is from the v2 library, and it's incompatible with v1 (used by postfix), so you cannot use saslauthd. You can either try another authentication method (sasl v1 can use pam directly *but* if you're using /etc/shadow postfix won't be able to read the file due to insufficent permission) or try use pwcheck, i.e in /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf you can put Actually, I am using smtpauth currently with Mdk 9.1 and it works fine. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Filter mail: bcc case
for my filters), but what about a mail with my address in the bcc: field? it's always empty. My headers come in like this, but i imagine this is isp specific: Delivered-To: ehuffy-ehuffy:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
Joeb penned: Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. I whole-heartedly agree and encourage a slip to foster stability and a polished release if required. I have tried virtually all version of mdk since 7.0. I am still running 7.2 as a server because of the problems that have been left in all releases since 7.2. To call 8.2 a victory in polish I think misses the mark. But to be fair, 8.2 was born during the fight to go from gcc 2.96 to the 3.0X variety that gave all of the major packages headaches or hangovers depending on how you look at it. Bottom line, forget focusing on just getting the next number release out to stay ahead in the numbers game, get the next release out right. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if 9.2 is as clean and reliable as 7.2 was/is, the mdk folks will have hit a home run. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying... Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joeb wrote: Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back I've got to drop to init 1 and then go to init 5. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com There's already been a bug report submitted on it. I think you can also get the dm back by logging in at the console prompt and typing: service -f dm (you will need to be root or su to root). After that, you won't get kicked out of the dm until you reboot and logout the first time. Hopefully, it will be fixed for RC2. Joeb Awesome...thanks Joeb. By the way...when is the scheduled release date of RC2? - -- Mark Hopefully, not until it's finished! It seems that the RC introduced a bunch of problems that weren't in the last beta. Most, but not all seem to be cleared up in cooker. I haven't actually heard of a release date. Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. Joeb 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] postfix smtp auth docu ?
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:04, Luca Olivetti wrote: Joerg Mertin wrote: In SMTP Auth mode - I'm not able to authenticate using some of the doc. pages as http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html [...] Also - does anyone knows why there are 2 library sets installed ? for sasl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -qa | grep sasl libsasl2-2.1.12-1mdk cyrus-sasl-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-plain-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-plug-plain-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-1.5.28-5mdk That's because almost all the software in mandrake 9.1 uses sasl v1 (libsasl7), while cyrus-imapd needs sasl v2 (libsasl2). IIRC the saslauthd that came in the 9.1 package is from the v2 library, and it's incompatible with v1 (used by postfix), so you cannot use saslauthd. You can either try another authentication method (sasl v1 can use pam directly *but* if you're using /etc/shadow postfix won't be able to read the file due to insufficent permission) or try use pwcheck, i.e in /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf you can put pwcheck_method:pam or pwcheck_method:pwcheck Don't forget to start the pwcheck daemon in the latter case and to configure /etc/pam.d/smtp in the former. Bye Mine doesn't work with either of these, but saslpasswd works. Only problem is that every few months I add a user and spend a few hours trying to remember why it isn't working :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS server
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:59, Albert Charron wrote: I don't know if this is a question for the newbie or expert list, but I'll try on this one. Currently, I have problems with my ISP DNS servers (they are unreachable more than half the time). I'd like to build a DNS server on my computer so I'll be able to use my Internet connection efficiently. To resolve my problem, this DNS server must forward to a parent DNS (other than my ISP's... is it possible to use root DNS's as forwarders?) yes. Go to http://www.tldp.org and read the BIND howto, it'll help make it all clear. Alternatively, try out that Safari trial membership and read the O'Reilly DNS and BIND book :-) It has a lot of outdate v4 information, but it also has v8 configs which include just the sort of thing you want to do, and those will generally work with v9. As an aside, Safari is pretty dang cool. Only problem I've run into is that it doesn't have Mastering Regular Expressions, so I had to bring my paper copy to work :-( -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:07 pm, Vox wrote: I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The real problem isn't that the file is a binary, but that the reader of the file doesn't like headers-in-the-middle-of-a-file. Vox That makes sense - cat works fine here for most AVI/Mpegs but not all. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:07 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: Yep. it adds native cifs vfs support... some features mentioned by one of the developers: - more stable than smb protocol - faster - large file support 2GB - works with windows 2003 - ... You can read about it at: http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html and the only reason that you need to install samba-client is to install the mount.cifs helper wich simplifies mounting/unmounting... Thomas Cool! Well I think I'm going to go on over to samba.org and enlist their thoughts on the slowness issues. Maybe this native support will solve the slowness. ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:01 pm, David Rankin wrote: Joeb penned: Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. I whole-heartedly agree and encourage a slip to foster stability and a polished release if required. I have tried virtually all version of mdk since 7.0. I am still running 7.2 as a server because of the problems that have been left in all releases since 7.2. To call 8.2 a victory in polish I think misses the mark. But to be fair, 8.2 was born during the fight to go from gcc 2.96 to the 3.0X variety that gave all of the major packages headaches or hangovers depending on how you look at it. Bottom line, forget focusing on just getting the next number release out to stay ahead in the numbers game, get the next release out right. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if 9.2 is as clean and reliable as 7.2 was/is, the mdk folks will have hit a home run. I would second that, however when I merely suggested the above, I was snarled at. ??? I really think if they could do the above, some big corp might take them under their wings like SUSE got. ? Just a thought. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying... Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joeb wrote: Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back I've got to drop to init 1 and then go to init 5. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com There's already been a bug report submitted on it. I think you can also get the dm back by logging in at the console prompt and typing: service -f dm (you will need to be root or su to root). After that, you won't get kicked out of the dm until you reboot and logout the first time. Hopefully, it will be fixed for RC2. Joeb Awesome...thanks Joeb. By the way...when is the scheduled release date of RC2? - -- Mark Hopefully, not until it's finished! It seems that the RC introduced a bunch of problems that weren't in the last beta. Most, but not all seem to be cleared up in cooker. I haven't actually heard of a release date. Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. Joeb --- - 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] DNS server
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Albert Charron wrote: I don't know if this is a question for the newbie or expert list, but I'll try on this one. Currently, I have problems with my ISP DNS servers (they are unreachable more than half the time). I'd like to build a DNS server on my computer so I'll be able to use my Internet connection efficiently. To resolve my problem, this DNS server must forward to a parent DNS (other than my ISP's... is it possible to use root DNS's as forwarders?) I don't have a domain name (I'd like to have a local zone and all other things going to forwarders). Is my solution possible under Linux (I know it's possible under M$ LooseDows Server's DNS service.) If it's possible, where can I find informations about this, or what tool can I use to define my zones? BTW, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on the machine I'd like to use, and I'll upgrade it to 9.2 as soon as it's stable. Thanks for your help and advice. Hi, You can do all you need to do to configure your DNS through WebMin. There's a config utility for that as part of Webmin. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
