Re: [expert] KDE start up is too slow!!
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 03:44 pm, many eyes noted that Kaveh Gh wrote: I've installed mdk-9.0 on a 40Gb western-digital (WDC-4000C) HDD several times and never seen any problem with installation and boot-up of system or KDE start-up. snip No problem with the hard drive? hdparm -tT /dev/hda might tell you something? Charlie. -- When crows find a dying snake, They behave as if they were eagles. When I see myself as a victim, I am hurt by trifling failures. Shantideva 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] Print problem
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I sent some large print jobs from kword to my usb printer. Just before the end of the first one the printer stopped. I can't get it working again. I have tried deleting all jobs from the print queue, but every time I try to send a job it says 'Media Tray may be empty' - which it isn't. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Brain often starts working once I've pressed 'send' g I sent an email to print and it was OK, so I figured that there was something in the kmail printout that was troubling it. As there were large graphics on the pages I sent it one 'current page' at a time, and it's printing fine now. Anne That's not bad, I usually have to get a few answers back before the obvious hits me in the head :) Actually, it's not entirely solved. Several pages have printed ok, but one page insists on printing with a large white square in one picture. I've tried it 3 times, with the identical result. Much head-scratching g 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] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, ed tharp wrote:
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 18:14, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
So it comes down to what appears to be permissions on /dev/video0, since root
can run it.
I've changed it (as has Anne) umpteen times, even opening it to 777 status
but no go, I've also added every group (but root) to my user account and that
does not make a diff. either.
We're wide open for ideas here. :-)
who owns /dev/v4l/video?
ie;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] et]# ls -all /dev/vid ('tab' key pressed)
video video0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] et]# ls -all /dev/video0
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Sep 28 16:07 /dev/video0 -
v4l/video 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] et]# ls -all /dev/video
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Sep 28 16:07 /dev/video -
v4l/video0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] et]# ls -all /dev/v4l/v
vbi0video0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] et]# ls -all /dev/v4l/video0
crw---1 et sys 81, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/v4l/video0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] et]# ls -all /dev/v4l/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ./
drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ../
crw---1 et sys 81, 224 Dec 31 1969 vbi0
crw---1 et sys 81, 0 Dec 31 1969 video0
It may be worth noting that permissions on this and many other devices are
controlled by the settings within one's /etc/security/console.perms file.
I wrestled with a similar problem recently, trying to get xawtv to work
reliably on a 9.1 system with an older, Mach64-based ATI TV Wonder card. I
ended up having to go with using sudo to run it, and created a menu entry
and a desktop icon that invoked xawtv via sudo for the system's owner. So
far, so good, but I would have preferred to find a more elegant solution.
As this isn't a problem on 9.0 and earlier releases, something is borked
in this regard on 9.1, I strongly suspect ... but what?
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Re: [expert] Print problem
Hi Anne, I suppose you use cups, then try to go on cups configure web page and look if the printer is on otherwise restart it and should work again. Angelo --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I sent some large print jobs from kword to my usb printer. Just before the end of the first one the printer stopped. I can't get it working again. I have tried deleting all jobs from the print queue, but every time I try to send a job it says 'Media Tray may be empty' - which it isn't. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Brain often starts working once I've pressed 'send' g I sent an email to print and it was OK, so I figured that there was something in the kmail printout that was troubling it. As there were large graphics on the pages I sent it one 'current page' at a time, and it's printing fine now. Anne That's not bad, I usually have to get a few answers back before the obvious hits me in the head :) Actually, it's not entirely solved. Several pages have printed ok, but one page insists on printing with a large white square in one picture. I've tried it 3 times, with the identical result. Much head-scratching g 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to make adsl-start available for users?
Or you can use rp-pppoe-gui packet at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ so that you have an icon and you can allow users to use adsl. Angelo --- Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I can only adsl-start by logging as root. How can I make adsl-start available for all users? I tried sudousers but no avail (It is more than likely that I did something wrong but I don't know what). Many thanks Ed As root in a terminal, call visudo. This is the vi editor operating on /etc/sudoers. Press 'I' to insert some text and, since I have done this for me, and not wanting to give a password when I call adsl-start, you might want to insert something like the following if you want that: rolfALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/adsl-start, /usr/sbin/adsl-stop, /usr/bin/rdate and so forth. I put it right under root's line. To save, press 'Escape' and type :wq The command to execute is sudo /usr/sbin/adsl-start, for example. I create an icon on the desktop with that as the command to execute. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
This is a 9.1 machine with all updates installed. Has been running just fine for a long time now. No recent changes apart from security updates and none of those for a week or more. Everything ground to a halt. Managed to kill X after a long wait for a response to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Seemed OK, but then stopped again 10 minutes later. Had to reset at that point. Here are the messages from the system log that seem perhaps relevant. Do they mean anything to anyone? TIA Brian Oct 6 16:02:28 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0) Oct 6 16:02:56 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: mkia_add_page_ref: couldn't make b1f31000 present Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: Merge: _M_map_winpg: mapping of a14b6000 to b1f31000 failed, prot = 6, err = -14 Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) Oct 6 16:03:27 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Oct 6 16:03:27 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print problem - Got It!
Solved the problem. First I tried the option to replace the picture, reloading the original one into the document. No go. Then I opened Gimp and re-saved the picture, in case there was a fault. Again, tried replace, but this time with the new picture. Then I noticed that if I clicked on the picture just about where the problem starts I had a small white block. Was it really not loading the new picture? So, I deleted the frame and recreated it, putting the new picture in. No white block, wherever I clicked. It prints fine. Conclusion - possible bug in kword. Anne On Monday 06 Oct 2003 8:22 am, R N dev wrote: Hi Anne, I suppose you use cups, then try to go on cups configure web page and look if the printer is on otherwise restart it and should work again. Angelo --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I sent some large print jobs from kword to my usb printer. Just before the end of the first one the printer stopped. I can't get it working again. I have tried deleting all jobs from the print queue, but every time I try to send a job it says 'Media Tray may be empty' - which it isn't. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Brain often starts working once I've pressed 'send' g I sent an email to print and it was OK, so I figured that there was something in the kmail printout that was troubling it. As there were large graphics on the pages I sent it one 'current page' at a time, and it's printing fine now. Anne That's not bad, I usually have to get a few answers back before the obvious hits me in the head :) Actually, it's not entirely solved. Several pages have printed ok, but one page insists on printing with a large white square in one picture. I've tried it 3 times, with the identical result. Much head-scratching g 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- 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
[expert] supermount
Hi All I suspect this has been round before.I had'nt noticed it as I rarely use a floppy these days. But that friend noticed it ,( I suspect I have misspelt friend, in his case maybe the r is missing). I've checked my machines and they all do the same. Which ever app uses the floppy drive first time dos'nt release it, so the next time its used with a different app you get the error message that the device is busy. eg. when starting with nautilus then win4lin or mtools Whats the preferred option in fstab for the floppy ? WM = gnome Thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print problem
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I sent some large print jobs from kword to my usb printer. Just before the end of the first one the printer stopped. I can't get it working again. I have tried deleting all jobs from the print queue, but every time I try to send a job it says 'Media Tray may be empty' - which it isn't. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Brain often starts working once I've pressed 'send' g I sent an email to print and it was OK, so I figured that there was something in the kmail printout that was troubling it. As there were large graphics on the pages I sent it one 'current page' at a time, and it's printing fine now. Anne That's not bad, I usually have to get a few answers back before the obvious hits me in the head :) Actually, it's not entirely solved. Several pages have printed ok, but one page insists on printing with a large white square in one picture. I've tried it 3 times, with the identical result. Much head-scratching g Anne Anne, If you print it to file does it look the same? ie if you print it to a pdf document etc. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 00:27, Brian Parish wrote: This is a 9.1 machine with all updates installed. Has been running just fine for a long time now. No recent changes apart from security updates and none of those for a week or more. Everything ground to a halt. Managed to kill X after a long wait for a response to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Seemed OK, but then stopped again 10 minutes later. Had to reset at that point. Here are the messages from the system log that seem perhaps relevant. Do they mean anything to anyone? TIA Brian Oct 6 16:02:28 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0) Oct 6 16:02:56 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: mkia_add_page_ref: couldn't make b1f31000 present Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: Merge: _M_map_winpg: mapping of a14b6000 to b1f31000 failed, prot = 6, err = -14 Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) Oct 6 16:03:27 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Oct 6 16:03:27 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Brian, A little googling around and I found that it is memory related. In that either the box is running out of memory and can't swap so the VM is trying to kill off processes to stay alive or, you have a memory stick going bad. Run memtest86 or a similar memory testing program overnight if you can. It boots on it's own from a floppy or you can do a urpmi memtest86 and it will give you another boot option in lilo (grub not sure) and you boot to that. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Texstar KDE 3.1.4
No Wine was not the reason... the reason was just a stupid mistake from myself. Having my old KDE compiled from source I forgot to unset some env variables... Sorry for the inconvenience ! Dam On Sunday 05 October 2003 21:47, James Sparenberg wrote: You have wine installed don't you? Reason I'm asking. http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-bugs/2002/08/0154.html Seems like all of kdelibs didn't get installed. Here locally I did urpmi --auto --auto-select and kde went in with only one very minor hitch. The same one I always have with texstar's rpms for kde. I had to move artswrapper to suid and all was well. Greg is right about posting this on the kde-3.1.4 thread on Texstar's site. He's really good about helping in cases like this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] [OT] Reply-to (was: ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root?[...])
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:14:55AM +, Dick Gevers wrote: Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks! As the list archives don't seem to work[0], please allow me one question: *Why* does this list have a Reply-To, anyway? To me, a Reply-To set to the list always seemed a rather stupid idea, as it makes the default to reply to the list - and accidentally replying to the list when it isn't intended is a lot more embarrassing than accidentally just sending something to a single person instead of the list. In the latter case I just resend it, in the former case I won't be able to retract the mail... Also, good mail programs have list-reply functions, anyway - so what's the added functionality? Thanks for enlightening me, Thomas [0] on archives.mandrakelinux.com, I get Can not connect to search daemon - are there other archives? -- - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print problem
On Monday 06 Oct 2003 9:19 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I sent some large print jobs from kword to my usb printer. Just before the end of the first one the printer stopped. I can't get it working again. I have tried deleting all jobs from the print queue, but every time I try to send a job it says 'Media Tray may be empty' - which it isn't. Any ideas, anyone? Anne Brain often starts working once I've pressed 'send' g I sent an email to print and it was OK, so I figured that there was something in the kmail printout that was troubling it. As there were large graphics on the pages I sent it one 'current page' at a time, and it's printing fine now. Anne That's not bad, I usually have to get a few answers back before the obvious hits me in the head :) Actually, it's not entirely solved. Several pages have printed ok, but one page insists on printing with a large white square in one picture. I've tried it 3 times, with the identical result. Much head-scratching g Anne Anne, If you print it to file does it look the same? ie if you print it to a pdf document etc. James It's too late to tell now, as I've overwritten it. However, it did look the same in GhostView preview. When I created the new frame/picture the preview was fine, and so was the print. 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] supermount
On Monday 06 Oct 2003 9:16 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All I suspect this has been round before.I had'nt noticed it as I rarely use a floppy these days. But that friend noticed it ,( I suspect I have misspelt friend, in his case maybe the r is missing). I've checked my machines and they all do the same. Which ever app uses the floppy drive first time dos'nt release it, so the next time its used with a different app you get the error message that the device is busy. eg. when starting with nautilus then win4lin or mtools Whats the preferred option in fstab for the floppy ? WM = gnome Hi, Richard. Mine is none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 and supermount works fine for me. 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] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci -- Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Reply-To
T. Ribbrock wrote: *Why* does this list have a Reply-To, anyway? To me, a Reply-To set to the list always seemed a rather stupid idea, as it makes the default to reply to the list Exactly as it should. This is a public discussion list, not a public question, private reply list. If replies aren't public, 1-the public doesn't know any exist; 2-the public can't correct bad replies; 3-there is no discussion, just one side of a conversation. -- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Proverbs 9:10 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
Re: [expert] supermount
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:08, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 06 Oct 2003 9:16 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All I suspect this has been round before.I had'nt noticed it as I rarely use a floppy these days. But that friend noticed it ,( I suspect I have misspelt friend, in his case maybe the r is missing). I've checked my machines and they all do the same. Which ever app uses the floppy drive first time dos'nt release it, so the next time its used with a different app you get the error message that the device is busy. eg. when starting with nautilus then win4lin or mtools Whats the preferred option in fstab for the floppy ? WM = gnome Hi, Richard. Mine is none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Hi Anne here's mine and the user bit is missing ummm ! Quick edit and give it a try none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,co depage=850 0 0 Richard -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Discussion: Ready for SATA?
On 5. October 2003 at 14:48, James Sparenberg wrote: Do you know of a list of chipsets that are correctly supported? I've not been able to find one. yet. in latest kernel from mandrake we can see support for these sata controlers: PDC20318 (SATA150 TX4) Adaptec AAR-1210SA SATA HostRAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller unfortunately, kt600 chipset isn't still supported. but i found email about this in l-k, where someone wrote that jeff garzik write this driver already.. -- member of Advanced InternetWorks group - http://www.ainetworks.sk professional home page - http://tibor.pittich.sk personal home page - http://c0re.phuture.sk pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] How to make adsl-start available for users?
Am Samstag, 4. Oktober 2003 10:13 schrieb Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes: Hello I can only adsl-start by logging as root. How can I make adsl-start available for all users? I tried sudousers but no avail (It is more than likely that I did something wrong but I don't know what). Many thanks Ed The way i would use is LineControl. The server is running as root and the clients connect over the network. No fiddling with rights and a gui. The server is package linesrv on contrib and the client is klcc (a kde tray app). You can see some screenshots on http://linecontrol.sf.net. Not exactly what you have asked for, but maybe it helps :) Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Discussion: Ready for SATA?
From: Tibor Pittich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5. October 2003 at 14:48, James Sparenberg wrote: Do you know of a list of chipsets that are correctly supported? I've not been able to find one. yet. in latest kernel from mandrake we can see support for these sata controlers: PDC20318 (SATA150 TX4) Adaptec AAR-1210SA SATA HostRAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller unfortunately, kt600 chipset isn't still supported. but i found email about this in l-k, where someone wrote that jeff garzik write this driver already.. In my kernel-tmb series in contrib I have that patch so it should support both intel and Via SATA chipsets, but since I don't have the h/w I cant test it myself... So if anyone feel lucky... please give them a try... Both HighPoint and Promise does have drivers and sourcecode for many of their sata controllers, but you have to compile them yourself for now, and it does not work for everybody... They will at some point probably get integrated in the kernels, but they need to be rewritten to use the libata interface instead of the older cam interface... same goes for newer cmd, sis and sil chipsets... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound card
Richard, ... I should have added that I don't use the builtin 0.9.0rcX Alsa-support which is part of the 2.4.21-0.25mdk kernel. It didn't work for me, see below, but I use Win4Lin as well. My mobo is a Asus P4PE, Intel 845PE chipset, with onbord-sound AC97/AD1980 connected to the ICH4 southbridge. I am sure your mixer-settings for CD are O.K. Look for them in AlsamixerGUI. If everything else fails you could build a new kernel from source as I did. A new kernel built from the MDK-kernel-source (_Alsa-support must be switched off_ by unchecking Advanced Linux Sound Architecture in make menuconfig before patching with the Win4Lin-patches and recompiling!), the two kernel patches extracted from the respective Win4Lin-package, and the alsa 0.9.5 packages: driver, lib, utils downloaded from the alsa-project-site worked perfectly with the intel8x0-Alsa-module which is appropriate for my mobo ... though I don't recommend you this somewhat complex procedure if another way is possible. So I omit detailed instructions here. What I recommend you is to wait for the upcoming MDK _9.2-kernel_ which has Alsa 0.9.6 built-in and support from Netraverse. -Joachim Richard Bown wrote: Greetings Gurus and mega intelligent beings Still got problems with this one. First of all the modules wer'nt loaded, so I manually loaded all the required OSS modules. Partial success got some sound...some ! so then ran draksound which preferred the Alsa modules so I let it load them, and again some sound. I ran modprobe and all the alsa modules listed below are there. BUT no audio playback from the CD , yes the cable is connected. and the audio in win4lin is also non functional. Its not a duff sound card as it works with winXP.. fingers down throat ! Just to make it worse, grotty pheonix bios dos'nt allow the onboard card to be disabled, so I cant just throw in a nice soundblaster or similar. suggestions please TIA Richard On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:50, Joachim v. Jena wrote: For your soundchip choose the OSS-module i810_audio.0 or the Alsa-module snd-intel8x0. Use harddrake. Before test if these modules are installed. The output of modprobe -n -v i810_audio should be similar to /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o and of modprobe -n -v snd-intel8x0 similar to /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq-device.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd-rawmidi.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd-page-alloc.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd-timer.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-pcm-oss.o -Joachim Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, integral sound card on a mobo. Listed by hard drake as ICH4 845G/GL chip set AC97, any ideas what maybe compatable with it, as sound is not configuring.. BR TIA Richard __ 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] No one answering on newbie :-(
hi Thanks for the advice. I now no longer have to change the default route in the gateway (linux) routing table. Unfortunately, after trying everything I could possibly think of, there is still nothing that makes the ME machine able to connect to the net unless I run drakgw. I did pretty much everything you said (Jack) but to no avail... I didn't set a GATEWAY in /etc/sysconfig/network because the ip that my dialup connects to switches between 202.0.46.81 and 83 and it seemed happier with policy: masqnetACCEPT locnetACCEPT fwnetACCEPT netallDROPinfo allallREJECTinfo #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE than policy: #SOURCE DESTPOLICY LOG LEVEL LIMIT:BURST masqnet ACCEPT fw masqACCEPT fw net ACCEPT net all DROPinfo all all REJECT info The thing is thatit still connects fine after I run drakgw. I tried to have a look at the log messages and see what drakgw was doing that I was not - I'm just not that clued up yet - sorry. Also, manually starting and stopping dhcpd doesn't seem to work sometimes, particularly when I disable drakgw. It takes quite a lot of fiddling to get it on at all and then it doesn't do anything. Sorry if I sound a little fresh, but I'm still learning about all this stuff! Below is most of the last part of my log messages. Directly before this is just a whole screed of modprobe entries. Can't really work out what do try next. I would hazard a guess that there is some service that drakgw is starting that is not started automatically on startup. DHCPD is not started on startup either. It is set to (in drakXServices) but doesn't. No idea why - there seem to be quite a few services checked to be started which aren't running... still lost Cheers Anton Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr1 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr2 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr3 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi1 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi2 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi3 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine drakgw[3199]: [drakgw] Have network card: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine drakgw[3199]: [drakgw] Available network cards: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:06 machine drakgw[3199]: Choosing network device: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:09 machine drakgw[3199]: Using LAN address 192.168.0 Oct 6 23:13:09 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: modprobe iptable_nat Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: Reconfiguring network parameters of eth0 Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: running: chkconfig --add shorewall Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: running: service /dev/null shorewall restart Oct 6 23:13:11 machine logger: Shorewall Restarted Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Configuring a DHCP server on 192.168.0.0 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /usr/sbin/update_dhcp.pl Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Updating CUPS configuration accordingly Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Starting daemons Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups status /dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd status /dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd stop Oct 6 23:13:11 machine dhcpd: dhcpd shutdown succeeded Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named status /dev/null 2/dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: shutting down Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1870]: exiting Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named: named shutdown succeeded Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_down /dev/null Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Shutting down interface eth0: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Shutting down interface ppp0: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine ifplugd[836]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 down'. Oct 6 23:13:12 machine ifplugd[836]: Program executed successfully. Oct 6 23:13:12 machine ifplugd[836]: Exit. Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Shutting down loopback interface: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
Re: [expert] supermount
Hi Replying to Anne I had user missing from that line , so I added it and rebooted. Exactly the same happens, even tried killing nautilus. So I changed the fstab entry to ext3 mtools works so does win4lin :) If I manually mount the floppy drive Nautilus can see the contents but mtools and win4 lin cant until I unmount it. So next read the Nautilus help file, so right mouse click on the desktop and select disks floppy and nautilus cant mount it. So it seems that nautilus dos'nt release the mount for other apps to use when supermount is used for the floppy. ps ax shows that for each floppy or cdrom icon on the desktop nautilus has an active process. Any more thought s please Richard On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:18, Richard Bown wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:08, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 06 Oct 2003 9:16 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All I suspect this has been round before.I had'nt noticed it as I rarely use a floppy these days. But that friend noticed it ,( I suspect I have misspelt friend, in his case maybe the r is missing). I've checked my machines and they all do the same. Which ever app uses the floppy drive first time dos'nt release it, so the next time its used with a different app you get the error message that the device is busy. eg. when starting with nautilus then win4lin or mtools Whats the preferred option in fstab for the floppy ? WM = gnome Hi, Richard. Mine is none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Hi Anne here's mine and the user bit is missing ummm ! Quick edit and give it a try none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,co depage=850 0 0 Richard -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9: Thinkpad R40 and DMA xfers
Testing with hdparm, I found that use_dma was off, and enabling it gives an error with Thinkpad R40. I would like the tenfold increase in disk transfer speed; can anyone assist on how to achieve that? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Discussion: Ready for SATA?
On 6. October 2003 at 13:09, Thomas Backlund wrote: unfortunately, kt600 chipset isn't still supported. but i found email about this in l-k, where someone wrote that jeff garzik write this driver already.. In my kernel-tmb series in contrib I have that patch so it should support both intel and Via SATA chipsets, but since I don't have the h/w I cant test it myself... So if anyone feel lucky... please give them a try... nice, this works for me, thanks thomas for notice. if i read all correct, this is only temporary solution for via sata controllers. jeff have documentation from via and he still work at native driver. support through sata_via works only in scsi emulation mode, but it works :) some logs: . sata_via version 0.10 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE402 bmdma 0xD800 irq 20 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE000 ctl 0xDC02 bmdma 0xD808 irq 20 ata1: bus reset via SRST ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:407f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 ata2: bus reset via SRST ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE007 ata2: thread exiting scsi1 : sata_via scsi2 : sata_via Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0Rev: 0.71 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table . # hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.00 seconds = 56.67 MB/sec -- member of Advanced InternetWorks group - http://www.ainetworks.sk professional home page - http://tibor.pittich.sk personal home page - http://c0re.phuture.sk pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] [OT] Reply-to
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:14:55AM +, Dick Gevers wrote: Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks! As the list archives don't seem to work[0], please allow me one question: *Why* does this list have a Reply-To, anyway? To me, a Reply-To set to the list always seemed a rather stupid idea, as it makes the default to reply to the list - and accidentally replying to the list when it isn't intended is a lot more embarrassing than accidentally just sending something to a single person instead of the list. In the latter case I just resend it, in the former case I won't be able to retract the mail... Also, good mail programs have list-reply functions, anyway - so what's the added functionality? If I understand you, there is no need to set your mail agent's reply-to to the list. In fact, if you leave reply-to unset, all replies to mail you send will be sent back to the address you are sending from, except in such cases as the mailing lists, where replies ought to be automatically sent to the list, not you. The list is a public forum, not a private resource. If someone wants to make a private reply to a mail on the list, it is incumbent upon them to reply only to the individual, not incumbent upon everyone else to change the automatic behavior everytime they wish to reply to the list. Simply leave your reply-to unset. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to Thanks for enlightening me, Thomas [0] on archives.mandrakelinux.com, I get Can not connect to search daemon - are there other archives? These pages contain other list archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Reply-to (was: ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root?[...])
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:55, T. Ribbrock wrote: ... [0] on archives.mandrakelinux.com, I get Can not connect to search daemon - are there other archives? Google, and add site:mandrakelinux.com to the end of the search string. e.g.: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=t+Ribbrock+site%3Amandrakelinux.combtnG=Google+Search -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Spamassassin help request
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have fiddled some with my spamassassin but it is still just too slow. I am running it in daemon mode (spamd and spamc) with bayes filtering on. Spamassassin email analysis on my laptop is too slow to live with (about 20 seconds per message). Several questions with the first: How do I add a mailing list like this one to my whitelist? The whitelist appears setup to deal with from addresses, not to addresses. Since all list mail is To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some other variation of this, I can't see how to setup my whitelist for this. My next question is about how to reduce spam analysis time down from 20+ seconds to something more realistic. Here are the entries to my user_prefs file, exluding whitelist: score RCVD_IN_RBL 10 score RCVD_IN_RSS 1 score RCVD_IN_DUL 1 score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4 use_bayes 1 score BAYES_00 0 0 -6.400 -6.400 score BAYES_01 0 0 -6.600 -6.600 score BAYES_10 0 0 -6.400 -5.801 score BAYES_20 0 0 -5.801 -3.101 score BAYES_30 0 0 -1.246 -1.604 score BAYES_60 0 0 2.002 2.002 score BAYES_70 0 0 2.637 2.637 score BAYES_80 0 0 4.1 4.1 score BAYES_90 0 0 4.2 4.2 score BAYES_99 0 0 4.300 4.3 What should I add or remove from the above to make this work faster? - -- Of course GWBush loves huge deficits. He owns lots of T bills which finance the debt. The higher the debt, the more money he makes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gX8oaKr9sJYeTxgRAmSBAJ0VIXsVhMnsiTKndOVajDx28HxPmgCgjRc6 U/zvu5HB/UoVG5c0ODTSpm4= =Buaa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Traci Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci I would suggest booting with one switch at a time and see if you can get a full or clean boot. I've noticed that the requirement for booting with or without a switch changes with the kernel and even the amount of memory, say updating from 512MB to 1.0GB. Try them all. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:42, Anton wrote: hi Thanks for the advice. I now no longer have to change the default route in the gateway (linux) routing table. Unfortunately, after trying everything I could possibly think of, there is still nothing that makes the ME machine able to connect to the net unless I run drakgw. I did pretty much everything you said (Jack) but to no avail... I didn't set a GATEWAY in /etc/sysconfig/network because the ip that my dialup connects to switches between 202.0.46.81 and 83 and it seemed happier with policy: masqnetACCEPT locnetACCEPT what network is your loc zone defined as? fwnetACCEPT netallDROPinfo allallREJECTinfo #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE than policy: #SOURCE DESTPOLICY LOG LEVEL LIMIT:BURST masqnet ACCEPT fw masqACCEPT fw net ACCEPT net all DROPinfo all all REJECT info The thing is thatit still connects fine after I run drakgw. I tried to have a look at the log messages and see what drakgw was doing that I was not - I'm just not that clued up yet - sorry. strace drakgw | grep etc might tell you. Also, manually starting and stopping dhcpd doesn't seem to work sometimes, particularly when I disable drakgw. It takes quite a lot of fiddling to get it on at all and then it doesn't do anything. Sorry if I sound a little fresh, but I'm still learning about all this stuff! Below is most of the last part of my log messages. Directly before this is just a whole screed of modprobe entries. Can't really work out what do try next. I would hazard a guess that there is some service that drakgw is starting that is not started automatically on startup. DHCPD is not started on startup either. It is set to (in drakXServices) but doesn't. No idea why - there seem to be quite a few services checked to be started which aren't running... still lost Cheers Anton Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr1 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr2 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr3 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi1 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi2 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi3 okay, that's kinda weird -- it's trying to load tokenring and FDDI support modules. Oct 6 23:13:05 machine drakgw[3199]: [drakgw] Have network card: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine drakgw[3199]: [drakgw] Available network cards: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:06 machine drakgw[3199]: Choosing network device: eth0 Oct 6 23:13:09 machine drakgw[3199]: Using LAN address 192.168.0 Oct 6 23:13:09 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: modprobe iptable_nat Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: Reconfiguring network parameters of eth0 Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: running: chkconfig --add shorewall Oct 6 23:13:10 machine drakgw[3199]: running: service /dev/null shorewall restart Oct 6 23:13:11 machine logger: Shorewall Restarted Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Configuring a DHCP server on 192.168.0.0 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /usr/sbin/update_dhcp.pl Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Updating CUPS configuration accordingly Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: Starting daemons Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups status /dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd status /dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd stop Oct 6 23:13:11 machine dhcpd: dhcpd shutdown succeeded Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named status /dev/null 2/dev/null Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: shutting down Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1878]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53 Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named[1870]: exiting Oct 6 23:13:11 machine named: named shutdown succeeded okay, drakgw shuts everything down when you tell it to commit changes. Oct 6 23:13:11 machine drakgw[3199]: launched command: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_down /dev/null Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Shutting down interface eth0: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine network: Shutting down interface ppp0: succeeded Oct 6 23:13:12 machine ifplugd[836]: Executing
[expert] test - no content
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Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Traci Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci Traci, Another suggestion would be to try the noinitrd switch. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request
On Monday 06 October 2003 10:41 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have fiddled some with my spamassassin but it is still just too slow. I am running it in daemon mode (spamd and spamc) with bayes filtering on. Spamassassin email analysis on my laptop is too slow to live with (about 20 seconds per message). Several questions with the first: How do I add a mailing list like this one to my whitelist? The whitelist appears setup to deal with from addresses, not to addresses. Since all list mail is To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some other variation of this, I can't see how to setup my whitelist for this. A lot of this depends on what you consider slow. My own setup takes about 40-60 seconds per message for filtering, I figure a lot of that is from the RBL checking, I use RBL lists extensively and some of them are a little slow to respond to queries. One suggestion, if you know that you want to whitelist mailing list messages, why send them through spamassassin at all? Simply setup a procmail recipe to put those messages directly in your spool, that way, you don't waste time doing header and body checks on messages that you would have whitelisted to reduce the score of those checks on anyway. In short, why do the checks if your whitelisting score will reduce the score to the point that the checks are superfluous? Something like: :0H * ^List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool/mail/user will put all Mandrake Expert messages into user's mail spool and will essentially bypass spamassassin if that recipe is used first, before the one that sends all remaining mail to spamassassin. My next question is about how to reduce spam analysis time down from 20+ seconds to something more realistic. Here are the entries to my user_prefs file, exluding whitelist: score RCVD_IN_RBL 10 score RCVD_IN_RSS 1 score RCVD_IN_DUL 1 score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4 use_bayes 1 score BAYES_00 0 0 -6.400 -6.400 score BAYES_01 0 0 -6.600 -6.600 score BAYES_10 0 0 -6.400 -5.801 score BAYES_20 0 0 -5.801 -3.101 score BAYES_30 0 0 -1.246 -1.604 score BAYES_60 0 0 2.002 2.002 score BAYES_70 0 0 2.637 2.637 score BAYES_80 0 0 4.1 4.1 score BAYES_90 0 0 4.2 4.2 score BAYES_99 0 0 4.300 4.3 What should I add or remove from the above to make this work faster? It might help if you told us what you consider realistic to be. I would suggest removing the RBL checks altogether if you really want to speed things up. With those, you are always going to be limited by the speed of the Internet and the DNS servers you are querying. Even with RBL timeout set relatively low, I think that it is cumulative, so a 10 second time out with 4 RBL checks adds up to a potential 40 second delay. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if suid would make a difference? Although, I'm using mdk9.1 on this particular machine and the only thing is, I have devfs=nomount in my lilo.conf. Other than that, all I did was urpmi the gnomemeeting packages and then I went to the gnomemeeting site this morning and grabbed the latest mandrake rpms and urpmi'd them. My problem is a bit different, but I'm able to bring the program up with no problems. Stupid question, and it really shouldn't matter anyway, but what kind of camera is it? but what would suid give as an advantage over having to go to root now anyways? I mean I can su and it runs fine - just not my normal user account. Its a Logitech 3000 Quickcam (usb). Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:04 pm, ed tharp wrote: who owns /dev/v4l/video? [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ ls -al /dev/video0 crw---1 darklord sys 81, 0 Jun 12 22:35 /dev/video0 I put this because there is no /dev/v4l on my system. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if suid would make a difference? Although, I'm using mdk9.1 on this particular machine and the only thing is, I have devfs=nomount in my lilo.conf. Other than that, all I did was urpmi the gnomemeeting packages and then I went to the gnomemeeting site this morning and grabbed the latest mandrake rpms and urpmi'd them. My problem is a bit different, but I'm able to bring the program up with no problems. Stupid question, and it really shouldn't matter anyway, but what kind of camera is it? but what would suid give as an advantage over having to go to root now anyways? I mean I can su and it runs fine - just not my normal user account. Its a Logitech 3000 Quickcam (usb). Thanks. do you have an nvidia video card? running Nvidia drivers? -- ++ 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] Spamassassin help request
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I also run spamassassin (daemon mode) on my desktop system (much better hardware: Athlon XP2700+, 512 MB Ram vs Celery 366 and 256 MB Ram in my laptop, for instance) and even though my desktop is stuck with a dialup it still processes emails in one second or less - using bayes and the same rules. My laptop uses an ethernet connection and takes no less than 20 seconds per message. The main difference between the systems with regards to spamassassin is that the laptop has had a lot more sa-learn data applied. I use the laptop to acquire the vast bulk of my emails so it has had more opportunity to learn spam. As your reply did help out a bit with my understanding of the checks, I altered my rbl check to 5 instead of 10. I would consider no more than about 2 or 3 seconds per messages the max, given what it does to the usability of kmail. In any case, concomittent to sending the first message, I altered my filter list so that list mails are before spam analysis (using kmail). The expert list is good about not receiving spam in it but other lists I am a member of get spam posted fairly regularly so I have been passing all messages through spamd to hit them. The main problem with the long processing times is that kmail is entirely unusable while the check is ongoing. You cannot even write an email because the entire app is is limbo while the spam analysis (per message) goes on. If it didn't hang kmail for the length of time the spam check was ongoing I wouldn't mind as much as I could read emails that made it through and send/queue messages for sending but as it is... praedor On Monday 06 October 2003 10:42 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 10:41 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have fiddled some with my spamassassin but it is still just too slow. I am running it in daemon mode (spamd and spamc) with bayes filtering on. Spamassassin email analysis on my laptop is too slow to live with (about 20 seconds per message). Several questions with the first: How do I add a mailing list like this one to my whitelist? The whitelist appears setup to deal with from addresses, not to addresses. Since all list mail is To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some other variation of this, I can't see how to setup my whitelist for this. A lot of this depends on what you consider slow. My own setup takes about 40-60 seconds per message for filtering, I figure a lot of that is from the RBL checking, I use RBL lists extensively and some of them are a little slow to respond to queries. One suggestion, if you know that you want to whitelist mailing list messages, why send them through spamassassin at all? Simply setup a procmail recipe to put those messages directly in your spool, that way, you don't waste time doing header and body checks on messages that you would have whitelisted to reduce the score of those checks on anyway. In short, why do the checks if your whitelisting score will reduce the score to the point that the checks are superfluous? [...] - -- What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy. - --James Madison -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gZE4aKr9sJYeTxgRAlmbAKCZxk5cEq5PLEK/l6ryWNbeqRP8mgCfYtyT 68ARWOnoZSafEAggNapzeto= =FI1u -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Monday 06 October 2003 11:58 am, ed tharp wrote: do you have an nvidia video card? running Nvidia drivers? Yep, sure do - is that an issue? Its a Ti4200, BTW...using the latest drivers. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trying to get a IDE Onstream 30GB tape drive working
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a IDE OnStream 30GB tape drive working with LM 9.0. I I have it working in 8.2 with the stock kernel, so it should work out of the box in 9.0 too. Probably you have to manually setup scsi emulation for the drive and/or load the osst module, maybe also create the device files (devfs would create them but they change every time you load the module, at least under 8.2). *DON'T* use ide-tape, is buggy as hell. Documentation used to be available at www.onstream.nl or linux1.onstream.nl, but both of these seem to be down now. 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
[expert] Archives (was: Reply-to)
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:38:15AM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:55, T. Ribbrock wrote: ... [0] on archives.mandrakelinux.com, I get Can not connect to search daemon - are there other archives? Google, and add site:mandrakelinux.com to the end of the search string. e.g.: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=t+Ribbrock+site%3Amandrakelinux.combtnG=Google+Search I'll try that next time, thanks. Pity that the official archives don't seem to work - or was that a fluke? Cheerio, Thomas -- - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Opensource ERP software with MySQL back end? Anyone know of one?
I have MS Access front end with MySQL back end working in my office. MSAccess via CrossOver office on Mandrake is horrible. So, I am looking now to probably go with ERP (or ERP/CRM) software that I can get freely out there. I have no IT budget, I am the IT budget, so I have to do something. Any ideas where I could find software like that. I do want it to run on MySQL, since that I have working perfectly. Apollo - Visit CARMEL MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT website http://carmelme.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Reply-to
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:12:08AM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote: If I understand you, there is no need to set your mail agent's reply-to to the list. Personally, I hardly ever set a Reply-To... In fact, if you leave reply-to unset, all replies to mail you send will be sent back to the address you are sending from, except in such cases as the mailing lists, where replies ought to be automatically sent to the list, not you. The list is a public forum, not a private resource. I agree, but to me, the principle of least surprise works the other way round: If I hit reply, I expect to reply to the sender, not the list - that's the way it always works. In my case, if I want to reply to the list, I hit list-reply, not reply. If someone wants to make a private reply to a mail on the list, it is incumbent upon them to reply only to the individual, not incumbent upon everyone else to change the automatic behavior everytime they wish to reply to the list. But the Reply-To header of the list does change the automatic behaviour - reply and list-reply now work the same, which would not be the case if Reply-To wasn't set at all... On second thought, I realize that I might be forgetting that there are too many mail clients that don't have list-reply, which is a pity. Great functionality. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to Thanks for the pointers! I admit I'm not convinced, but I see that I'm in a minority here, so I'll shut up now (and promise not to set Reply-To... ;-) ). Cheerio, Thomas P.S.: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker Duh - should've thought of that one... :-/ -- - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
Hu... and if that's the case (a module is corrupted), you can have a look at badmem: it will lock bytes reported as wrong by memtest86 so you would be able to still spend 0$ and use much of that module ;-)) El lun, 06-10-2003 a las 10:30, James Sparenberg escribió: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 00:27, Brian Parish wrote: This is a 9.1 machine with all updates installed. Has been running just fine for a long time now. No recent changes apart from security updates and none of those for a week or more. Everything ground to a halt. Managed to kill X after a long wait for a response to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Seemed OK, but then stopped again 10 minutes later. Had to reset at that point. Here are the messages from the system log that seem perhaps relevant. Do they mean anything to anyone? TIA Brian Oct 6 16:02:28 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0) Oct 6 16:02:56 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: mkia_add_page_ref: couldn't make b1f31000 present Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: Merge: _M_map_winpg: mapping of a14b6000 to b1f31000 failed, prot = 6, err = -14 Oct 6 16:03:01 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) Oct 6 16:03:27 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Oct 6 16:03:27 daw kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) Brian, A little googling around and I found that it is memory related. In that either the box is running out of memory and can't swap so the VM is trying to kill off processes to stay alive or, you have a memory stick going bad. Run memtest86 or a similar memory testing program overnight if you can. It boots on it's own from a floppy or you can do a urpmi memtest86 and it will give you another boot option in lilo (grub not sure) and you boot to that. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request
On Monday 06 October 2003 11:58 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I also run spamassassin (daemon mode) on my desktop system (much better hardware: Athlon XP2700+, 512 MB Ram vs Celery 366 and 256 MB Ram in my laptop, for instance) and even though my desktop is stuck with a dialup it still processes emails in one second or less - using bayes and the same rules. My laptop uses an ethernet connection and takes no less than 20 seconds per message. The main difference between the systems with regards to spamassassin is that the laptop has had a lot more sa-learn data applied. I use the laptop to acquire the vast bulk of my emails so it has had more opportunity to learn spam. Are you downloading messages? If so, to two separate machines? How do you reconcile which machine, laptop or desktop, gets which mail? Or do you have multiple accounts, each going to a different machine? On my desktop machine, I run Postfix and retrieve mail with fetchmail and use Postfix to deliver locally. I then use IMAP to allow me to read mail remotely while leaving mail stored on the local machine. Because the spamassassin check is done as mail is received, I don't need to worry about the specific timing of how long spamassassin takes per message. As your reply did help out a bit with my understanding of the checks, I altered my rbl check to 5 instead of 10. I would consider no more than about 2 or 3 seconds per messages the max, given what it does to the usability of kmail. Again, if you pull your mail from the spool after spamassassin has been run with procmail (via fetching mail, filtering with procmail and then delivering to the local spool), Kmail's performance becomes immaterial because the filtering is done prior to retrieval by Kmail. I would recommend some similar setup on your laptop, that way, your mail is all stored in a central place, but you still have access to it from remote as long as you have a connection to the machine. If you need to pull mail down to your laptop machine, why not let fetchmail pull the mail, run through procmail and then use procmail to deliver directly to the local spool and you can use Kmail to retrieve from the local spool. You won't need to worry about process time that way since mail is processed in the background, separate from what Kmail is doing. In any case, concomittent to sending the first message, I altered my filter list so that list mails are before spam analysis (using kmail). The expert list is good about not receiving spam in it but other lists I am a member of get spam posted fairly regularly so I have been passing all messages through spamd to hit them. The main problem with the long processing times is that kmail is entirely unusable while the check is ongoing. You cannot even write an email because the entire app is is limbo while the spam analysis (per message) goes on. If it didn't hang kmail for the length of time the spam check was ongoing I wouldn't mind as much as I could read emails that made it through and send/queue messages for sending but as it is... See above. Having Kmail route to procmail would appear to be your complaint, not spamassassin. If you let procmail do it's business with spamassassin prior to attempting to gather mail with Kmail, the delay becomes a non-issue and Kmail is always usable. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
diego schrieb am 06 Oct 2003 19:02:06 +0200: Hu... and if that's the case (a module is corrupted), you can have a look at badmem: it will lock bytes reported as wrong by memtest86 so you would be able to still spend 0$ and use much of that module ;-)) Now this IS a great advice! I have a module here in my desk that memtest reported has some bad bytes (only a few). If I could get that to work with locked bad bytes it would increase my desktop's memory up to 1GByte! If this works then this advice may be one of the most important advices I received this year. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
I agree it really was great info. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung? diego schrieb am 06 Oct 2003 19:02:06 +0200: Hu... and if that's the case (a module is corrupted), you can have a look at badmem: it will lock bytes reported as wrong by memtest86 so you would be able to still spend 0$ and use much of that module ;-)) Now this IS a great advice! I have a module here in my desk that memtest reported has some bad bytes (only a few). If I could get that to work with locked bad bytes it would increase my desktop's memory up to 1GByte! If this works then this advice may be one of the most important advices I received this year. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
Bill Mullen said: It may be worth noting that permissions on this and many other devices are controlled by the settings within one's /etc/security/console.perms file. What is the best way to view/edit this file? I checked it out with VI, but I was wondering if there were something better suited? I wrestled with a similar problem recently, trying to get xawtv to work reliably on a 9.1 system with an older, Mach64-based ATI TV Wonder card. I ended up having to go with using sudo to run it, and created a menu entry and a desktop icon that invoked xawtv via sudo for the system's owner. So far, so good, but I would have preferred to find a more elegant solution. As this isn't a problem on 9.0 and earlier releases, something is borked in this regard on 9.1, I strongly suspect ... but what? I think as well, and not backed by facts but only supposition; when we start adding several multimedia apps / hardware to the computer, are we not losing the inherent security? I realize it´s not a good idea to run as root, even behind a firewall. I´ve wiped out similar named directories before by not obeying the rules, boy that hurts! But when you´re talking about a device driver - while not a purist approach - is it that important? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:58:48 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem with the long processing times is that kmail is entirely unusable while the check is ongoing. You cannot even write an email because the entire app is is limbo while the spam analysis (per message) goes on. If it didn't hang kmail for the length of time the spam check was ongoing I wouldn't mind as much as I could read emails that made it through and send/queue messages for sending but as it is... Why not invoke spamassassin from procmail. I have all incomeing mail pushed through spamassassin useing a machine wide procmailrc in /etc/procmailrc. This would mean that the spam filtering would be totally indepentant of kmail and not lock it up. Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Evolution 1.4.5 Tex problem
I tried to install Evolution 1.4.5 from tex, but it fails to load (error in shellcode.so I believe) Is it working for someone here? I'm on Mandrake 9.1, using KDE Thanks Guy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
Ronald J. Hall said: but what would suid give as an advantage over having to go to root now anyways? I mean I can su and it runs fine - just not my normal user account. Its a Logitech 3000 Quickcam (usb). Thanks. Well, as far as the suid, it would get you working without having to do ´su´ everytime. Is it a good answer? No. I have a Logitech quickcam as well (I don´t know about the 3000 part), and my setup consisted of pluging it in. The only thing I can figure is that you either have a higher default security than I, or it´s the devfs thing. I only say devfs, because it´s the one thing I don´t use. I have had problems with zip drives, flash card readers, pda, I think even my scanner has had problems. When I disable devfs, everything starts working. I don´t remember if you said you use devfs or not, but I don´t have a clue what else it could be. You just shouldn´t have to start hacking your system to pieces - like I said, it works fine here. Logic would say, it has to be something fairly obvious. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] interesting story
Hey, Just thought this was an interesting story about mickeysoft being a security risk (like that was new information). Download the pdf here: http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] interesting story
Really a good paper thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:42 PM To: expert Subject: [expert] interesting story Hey, Just thought this was an interesting story about mickeysoft being a security risk (like that was new information). Download the pdf here: http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Thank you for these suggestions. I'll be trying both later today. Just a quick question, if I use noinitrd how does the system know which img file to use? Traci On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:41, Larry Sword wrote: Traci Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci Traci, Another suggestion would be to try the noinitrd switch. Larry -- Traci Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not real up on procmail filter writing (or the cryptic language of procmail). I have run postfix locally in the past but haven't lately...I have set it up to run again now. I have never had it work with spamassassin or procmail before. Here's what I'm interested in then, and perhaps you could provide hints(?): I want all email that _doesn't_ come from someone in my email addressbook or the expert mailing list to pass through spamassassin. I assume I would still be using spamd/spamc? How might I create a procmailrc recipe to do the above? Just dinking around I produced something like: This first is intended to sidestep spamassassin: :0f * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !an email address * !an email address * !an email address ...etc... | spamc This part is intended to have spam routed to /dev/null (based on something I saw on the web, though I don't know how it would work wrt spamassassin...perhaps I should have procmail look for some spam tag in the headers that spamassassin places?): :0 H: * ^(X-UCIRVINE-SpamCheck:) | /dev/null Is this workable or totally offbase? On Monday 06 October 2003 10:42 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...] Something like: :0H * ^List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool/mail/user will put all Mandrake Expert messages into user's mail spool and will essentially bypass spamassassin if that recipe is used first, before the one that sends all remaining mail to spamassassin. [...] - -- What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy. - --James Madison -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gcbxaKr9sJYeTxgRAqmVAKCrdnJDVBL3JRcBP8WJBWj7CNjbwACfWTTQ QqucAbBtTTh5QvZxfLgk6aU= =jS71 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sarg
How can I make sarg reports viewable Via https? I can go to the webmin page and drill down to the directory and open the page but I wanted to view it via a short cut on the webmin intern phase. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
Wolfgang Bornath kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Maanantai 06 Lokakuu 2003 20:35): diego schrieb am 06 Oct 2003 19:02:06 +0200: Hu... and if that's the case (a module is corrupted), you can have a look at badmem: it will lock bytes reported as wrong by memtest86 so you would be able to still spend 0$ and use much of that module ;-)) Now this IS a great advice! I have a module here in my desk that memtest reported has some bad bytes (only a few). If I could get that to work with locked bad bytes it would increase my desktop's memory up to 1GByte! If this works then this advice may be one of the most important advices I received this year. wobo As we have the badram patches in upcoming 9.2, here is how to do it: (it was added in 2.4.22-0.7mdk) run memtest, choose the following: (c)onfiguration (6) Error Report Mode (2) BadRam Patterns (8) Restart Test When the test have run, and found some bad ram, it will show a line like this: badram=0x09c17d18,0xfffc this line that is reported is exactly what you need to add to your lilo append line, and the kernel will map that memory area as forbidden area that no program will use, not even the kernel... Thanks to the badram patch I didn't have to discard a 512MB module due to a 4kB bad area in that module (that's what the above badram=... example fixes) -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request
On Monday 06 October 2003 03:48 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am not real up on procmail filter writing (or the cryptic language of procmail). I have run postfix locally in the past but haven't lately...I have set it up to run again now. I have never had it work with spamassassin or procmail before. Procmail is not that hard to work with, however, if you want to simply the process and have webmin installed, it has a control panel for procmail in the servers tab. You can create recipes there using easy stuff like ^From: whoever and then filter that way for people that you know. I use the List owner header for Expert and Newbie mailing list so I don't need to worry about spoofing, they are more likely to spoof the From header than to spoof the list-owner header. Here's what I'm interested in then, and perhaps you could provide hints(?): I want all email that _doesn't_ come from someone in my email addressbook or the expert mailing list to pass through spamassassin. I assume I would still be using spamd/spamc? How might I create a procmailrc recipe to do the above? Just dinking around I produced something like: This first is intended to sidestep spamassassin: :0f * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !an email address * !an email address * !an email address ...etc... I would write some of these directly to the spool :0H * ^List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool/mail/user That way, you not only skip the spamassassin check but any other recipes that you add subsequently. If you are pretty sure that you want to see the message, that allows you to do so without worrying about extra recipes getting tagged or wasting time routing the mail through any extraneous activities. This is useful for stuff like virus checking recipes like nkvir, if you ever want to use them. So, stuff from my local domain/machine skips the virus check since I am not in the habit of sending viruses to myself. Other messages go through the virus check but may skip spamassassin. Others go through the whole thing. | spamc This part is intended to have spam routed to /dev/null (based on something I saw on the web, though I don't know how it would work wrt spamassassin...perhaps I should have procmail look for some spam tag in the headers that spamassassin places?): :0 H: * ^(X-UCIRVINE-SpamCheck:) I use: :0 * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES for spamassassin and then put in dev/null or you can route to a spam folder and screen it before deletion. For myself, anything with a score of 8 or more goes to dev/null and between 4 and 8 goes to a spam folder for checking. | /dev/null Is this workable or totally offbase? It is workable although you may want to split the email addresses up into separate recipes. It checks them one at a time and once routed, it doesn't need to check them again. If you use procmail to route the mail, put the most frequent sender first, then lesser as follows and that should cut down on processing time, not that you will notice any more anyway since it will all be done in the background. If you are concerned about speed, the faster you dispose of a message, the less time it takes procmail to process and deliver it. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To partially answer myself...I have fetchmail, postfix, and procmail working - or at least, procmail is partially working. I have a recipe that checks to make sure an email isn't from anyone in my email address or from any of the lists that I am a member of, then it is supposed to check to see if the X-Spam-Status: Yes header exists and, if so, pipe the message to /dev/null. The first part is working. The expert list and others are not getting processed by spamassassin. The problem is the second action, to pass spam to /dev/null. I generated a fake spam message and have been using it by sending it to myself. It gets processed by spamassassin and my kmail filters properly identify it as tagged spam and dumps it in my trash folder. I shouldn't even SEE the message, however, because I thought I had procmail setup to dump such mails to /dev/null. Here's a synopsis of the first working procmail recipe: :0f * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !someone@att.net * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !someone@purdue.edu * !someone@yahoo.com * !someone@msn.net * !someone@yahoo.com | spamc -f This works. Mails from the expert list or from any of the particular emails listed do not get processed by spamassassin. The second recipe is: :0fH: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes | /dev/null I have tried several different variations of this with regards to the :0f entry. I have tried :0f, :0fw, :0fW, and so on to no avail. How do I get procmail to use this second recipe? praedor On Monday 06 October 2003 02:48 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am not real up on procmail filter writing (or the cryptic language of procmail). I have run postfix locally in the past but haven't lately...I have set it up to run again now. I have never had it work with spamassassin or procmail before. Here's what I'm interested in then, and perhaps you could provide hints(?): I want all email that _doesn't_ come from someone in my email addressbook or the expert mailing list to pass through spamassassin. I assume I would still be using spamd/spamc? How might I create a procmailrc recipe to do the above? Just dinking around I produced something like: This first is intended to sidestep spamassassin: :0f * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !an email address * !an email address * !an email address ...etc... | spamc [...] headers that spamassassin places?): :0 H: * ^(X-UCIRVINE-SpamCheck:) | /dev/null Is this workable or totally offbase? On Monday 06 October 2003 10:42 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: [...] Something like: :0H * ^List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool/mail/user will put all Mandrake Expert messages into user's mail spool and will essentially bypass spamassassin if that recipe is used first, before the one that sends all remaining mail to spamassassin. [...] - -- What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy. - --James Madison -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gdSzaKr9sJYeTxgRAp0dAJwOpZzg2IeZoURcPnz3X+K/bFlaDQCfX1O8 RpTSQMKGrrxuw1vNwcpe0g4= =z6Lf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:46:43 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a synopsis of the first working procmail recipe: :0f * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !someone@att.net * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !someone@purdue.edu * !someone@yahoo.com * !someone@msn.net * !someone@yahoo.com | spamc -f This works. Mails from the expert list or from any of the particular emails listed do not get processed by spamassassin. I'm not an expert but what I think is happening is anything not listed in the email addresses is being piped into spamc, which is what you want, but as soon as procmail has performed an operation on a mail it does not process any recipes that follow on that mail. I would suggest putting your working part in /etc/procmailrc (or wherever your global file is) and the second recipe in a personal .procmailrc in your home directory that gets processed by a second invokation of procmail. Also I would suggest changeing it to :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !someone@att.net * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !someone@purdue.edu * !someone@yahoo.com * !someone@msn.net * !someone@yahoo.com * 256000 | spamc -f This will mean that any message that doesn't match the email addresses and is smaller than 250 kb will be piped into spamc. According to the documentation most spam isn't bigger than a few k and working with big messages can bring SpamAssassin to its knees. The change in the first line adds a lock to prevent the message being mangled The second recipe is: :0fH: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes | /dev/null Spam will be marked so if you put your second recipe in .procmailrc in your home directory it will filter out the spam. A few pointers about the second recipe, try :0 * ^X-Spam-Status:.*Yes /dev/null You don't want the f or the | because you are not piping it to a programme and you don't want the second : because you don't want a lock on it (I don't remember why but all the FAQ's say this). I would also suggest that in the .procmailrc in your home directory you put the following (adapted for your setup) at the beginning of the file so procmail knows where to send messages that match nothing but MAKE SURE the destination exists MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox # You had better make sure it exists Also make sure that .procmailrc in ~/ is not world or group writable. Like I said, I'm not a guru so please don't risk loosing valuable emails. Good Luck Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Archives (was: Reply-to)
From: T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:38:15AM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:55, T. Ribbrock wrote: ... [0] on archives.mandrakelinux.com, I get Can not connect to search daemon - are there other archives? Google, and add site:mandrakelinux.com to the end of the search string. e.g.: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=t+Ribbrock+site%3Amandrakelinux.combtnG=Google+Search I'll try that next time, thanks. Pity that the official archives don't seem to work - or was that a fluke? Or use MARC: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertr=1w=2 Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
I'm glad it might be usefull to someone (I have used sucessfuly it in the past). Have a look at (googling around will lead you here): http://badmem.sourceforge.net/docu/BadMEM-HOWTO.html It does not waste resources as what it does os just install itself as a resident kernel module (not swapable) into those specific locations, so it locks them but will never be used. The only thing to accomplish is to try to put the good module(s) first to guarantee that lilo, the loader, etc get executed properly just upto the module load. El lun, 06-10-2003 a las 19:42, Lawson, Jim escribió: I agree it really was great info. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung? diego schrieb am 06 Oct 2003 19:02:06 +0200: Hu... and if that's the case (a module is corrupted), you can have a look at badmem: it will lock bytes reported as wrong by memtest86 so you would be able to still spend 0$ and use much of that module ;-)) Now this IS a great advice! I have a module here in my desk that memtest reported has some bad bytes (only a few). If I could get that to work with locked bad bytes it would increase my desktop's memory up to 1GByte! If this works then this advice may be one of the most important advices I received this year. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
Thomas Backlund schrieb am Tue, 7 Oct 2003 00:09:48 +0300: As we have the badram patches in upcoming 9.2, here is how to do it: (it was added in 2.4.22-0.7mdk) run memtest, choose the following: (c)onfiguration (6) Error Report Mode (2) BadRam Patterns (8) Restart Test When the test have run, and found some bad ram, it will show a line like this: badram=0x09c17d18,0xfffc this line that is reported is exactly what you need to add to your lilo append line, and the kernel will map that memory area as forbidden area that no program will use, not even the kernel... Thanks to the badram patch I didn't have to discard a 512MB module due to a 4kB bad area in that module (that's what the above badram=... example fixes) Thanks, Thomas, this one will make it into the TipsTricks section of the upcoming website for German Mandrake users. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Reply-to
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:56, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:12:08AM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote: If I understand you, there is no need to set your mail agent's reply-to to the list. Personally, I hardly ever set a Reply-To... In fact, if you leave reply-to unset, all replies to mail you send will be sent back to the address you are sending from, except in such cases as the mailing lists, where replies ought to be automatically sent to the list, not you. The list is a public forum, not a private resource. I agree, but to me, the principle of least surprise works the other way round: If I hit reply, I expect to reply to the sender, not the list - that's the way it always works. In my case, if I want to reply to the list, I hit list-reply, not reply. I don't get the mail from the sender ... I get it from the list. The reply to isn't set it's exactly as it should be ... from the sender. Which in this case is the list server. Not you or any other individual. If someone wants to make a private reply to a mail on the list, it is incumbent upon them to reply only to the individual, not incumbent upon everyone else to change the automatic behavior everytime they wish to reply to the list. But the Reply-To header of the list does change the automatic behaviour - reply and list-reply now work the same, which would not be the case if Reply-To wasn't set at all... On second thought, I realize that I might be forgetting that there are too many mail clients that don't have list-reply, which is a pity. Great functionality. Dunno what list reply you refer to. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to Thanks for the pointers! I admit I'm not convinced, but I see that I'm in a minority here, so I'll shut up now (and promise not to set Reply-To... ;-) ). Cheerio, Thomas P.S.: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker Duh - should've thought of that one... :-/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Mullen said: It may be worth noting that permissions on this and many other devices are controlled by the settings within one's /etc/security/console.perms file. What is the best way to view/edit this file? I checked it out with VI, but I was wondering if there were something better suited? Depends on what you like. I like VI others like Emacs... still more like kedit, gedit or some other graphical editor. It's a taste think more than anything else. I wrestled with a similar problem recently, trying to get xawtv to work reliably on a 9.1 system with an older, Mach64-based ATI TV Wonder card. I ended up having to go with using sudo to run it, and created a menu entry and a desktop icon that invoked xawtv via sudo for the system's owner. So far, so good, but I would have preferred to find a more elegant solution. As this isn't a problem on 9.0 and earlier releases, something is borked in this regard on 9.1, I strongly suspect ... but what? I think as well, and not backed by facts but only supposition; when we start adding several multimedia apps / hardware to the computer, are we not losing the inherent security? I realize it´s not a good idea to run as root, even behind a firewall. I´ve wiped out similar named directories before by not obeying the rules, boy that hurts! But when you´re talking about a device driver - while not a purist approach - is it that important? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
James Sparenberg said: What is the best way to view/edit this file? I checked it out with VI, but I was wondering if there were something better suited? Depends on what you like. I like VI others like Emacs... still more like kedit, gedit or some other graphical editor. It's a taste think more than anything else. I was looking for more like ´g_edit_your_security.frontend´ VI works just fine, I wasn´t sure if there exits a preferred method for editing the source file. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Archives (was: Reply-to)
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:46, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:38:15AM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:55, T. Ribbrock wrote: ... [0] on archives.mandrakelinux.com, I get Can not connect to search daemon - are there other archives? Google, and add site:mandrakelinux.com to the end of the search string. e.g.: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=t+Ribbrock+site%3Amandrakelinux.combtnG=Google+Search I'll try that next time, thanks. Pity that the official archives don't seem to work - or was that a fluke? Cheerio, Thomas Moving servers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:09, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 11:58 am, ed tharp wrote: do you have an nvidia video card? running Nvidia drivers? Yep, sure do - is that an issue? Its a Ti4200, BTW...using the latest drivers. I don't know if it is an issue for you, but I had to issue a couple of commands to get other permissions straight for some programs. have you tried as root with out the quotes; cd /etc/security/ chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* and see if it helps. -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] numlock
Hey all, Small annoyance... I have the numlock rpm installed and numlock is enabled during boot. When I startx though, I lose numlock. I think it used to work, to tell the truth though, I´ve been too busy to really think about it. Where can I go to make it stick on? Mandrake 9.1 Fluxbox -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:35, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: diego schrieb am 06 Oct 2003 19:02:06 +0200: Hu... and if that's the case (a module is corrupted), you can have a look at badmem: it will lock bytes reported as wrong by memtest86 so you would be able to still spend 0$ and use much of that module ;-)) Now this IS a great advice! I have a module here in my desk that memtest reported has some bad bytes (only a few). If I could get that to work with locked bad bytes it would increase my desktop's memory up to 1GByte! If this works then this advice may be one of the most important advices I received this year. wobo Wobo, If you do this successfully care to put in the twiki how you did it? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound card
Richard, Richard Bown wrote: Many thanks for that Joachim. I'm sure the mixer setting s are OK, as turning pcm and line up to full I could hear the background noise, and the mic worked OK as well. I suspect my friend has the same mobo, unfortunately you cant disable the sound card in the bios, pheonix bios is horrible !! What I could do as a short term fix is to put another sound card in and load the modules for that card. Please correct me if I'm wrong , if the modules are loaded for the additional sound card, and not for the inboard sound card, that will work until I can load MDK9.2 on Yes it will. No need to disable the built-in soundchip. -Joachim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request
On Monday 06 October 2003 04:46 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: listed do not get processed by spamassassin. The second recipe is: :0fH: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes | /dev/null I have tried several different variations of this with regards to the :0f entry. I have tried :0f, :0fw, :0fW, and so on to no avail. How do I get procmail to use this second recipe? Use: :0 * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES /dev/null BTW, you might want to not top-post before one of the other sticklers brings it up. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution 1.4.5 Tex problem
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:23, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I tried to install Evolution 1.4.5 from tex, but it fails to load (error in shellcode.so I believe) Is it working for someone here? I'm on Mandrake 9.1, using KDE Thanks Guy Guy, Bunch of dependencies (thank you urpmi!) later. I'm sending this e-mail to you. I just did urpmi.update -a then urpmi --auto --auto-select and let it run for a bit. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Mullen said: It may be worth noting that permissions on this and many other devices are controlled by the settings within one's /etc/security/console.perms file. What is the best way to view/edit this file? I checked it out with VI, but I was wondering if there were something better suited? Depends on what you like. I like VI others like Emacs... still more like kedit, gedit or some other graphical editor. It's a taste think more than anything else. cat,, so you just read it I wrestled with a similar problem recently, trying to get xawtv to work reliably on a 9.1 system with an older, Mach64-based ATI TV Wonder card. I ended up having to go with using sudo to run it, and created a menu entry and a desktop icon that invoked xawtv via sudo for the system's owner. So far, so good, but I would have preferred to find a more elegant solution. As this isn't a problem on 9.0 and earlier releases, something is borked in this regard on 9.1, I strongly suspect ... but what? I think as well, and not backed by facts but only supposition; when we start adding several multimedia apps / hardware to the computer, are we not losing the inherent security? I realize it´s not a good idea to run as root, even behind a firewall. I´ve wiped out similar named directories before by not obeying the rules, boy that hurts! But when you´re talking about a device driver - while not a purist approach - is it that important? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++ 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] Re: Reply-to
On Monday 06 October 2003 06:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:56, T. Ribbrock wrote: snip On second thought, I realize that I might be forgetting that there are too many mail clients that don't have list-reply, which is a pity. Great functionality. Dunno what list reply you refer to. In KMail, a Reply to Mailing-List tool can be added to the toolbar. Perhaps other mail clients offer the same option. Good blood-pressure-keeper-downer. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Unloading usbscanner
I need to stop Linux from using the usbscanner driver (or module, or whatever it is) so that VMWare can take control of my Epson 1260 USB scanner. How do I do that? By the way, I ask because when I try to connect my scanner in VMWare, it says, 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. tia, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Traci Collins wrote: Thank you for these suggestions. I'll be trying both later today. Just a quick question, if I use noinitrd how does the system know which img file to use? Traci noinitrd This boot time option disables the two phase boot-up operation. The kernel performs the usual boot sequence as if /dev/initrd was not initialized. With this option, any contents of /dev/initrd loaded into memory by the boot loader contents are preserved. This option permits the contents of /dev/initrd to be any data and need not be limited to a file system image. However, device /dev/initrd is read-only and can be read only one time after system startup. See: man initrd Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Reply-to
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 18:56:16 +0200 T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, if you leave reply-to unset, all replies to mail you send will be sent back to the address you are sending from, except in such cases as the mailing lists, where replies ought to be automatically sent to the list, not you. The list is a public forum, not a private resource. I agree, but to me, the principle of least surprise works the other way round: If I hit reply, I expect to reply to the sender, not the list - that's the way it always works. In my case, if I want to reply to the list, I hit list-reply, not reply. snip You know most MUA's don't have a list reply, dont you? And i am not just referring to Outl*.* -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] VPN + proxy configuration?
Hello expert, I would like to set up a VPN to my ISP. My network setup is: ISP - local router/firewall - local net - computer A,B,C... Is it possible to configure the VPN on comp A as follows: local net - [ VPN client - local proxies - browser, news, mail, etc clients] The local proxies currently operate as 'localhost', and the clients are set up to use a 'localhost' proxy on the appropriate port, say 80 for HTTP. The local proxy of most interest is Privoxy. It makes browsing nicer and more private. How can I set this up in Mandrake? My ISP has available a Cisco IPSEC client for linux, if it is needed. The usual VPN setup is as follows: local net - [ VPN client - browser, news, mail, etc clients] What I am most interested in is ADDING the local proxies to the chain. Also, I have the local net, with Win machines, set up to share files and printing. If I allow this VPN tunnel to my ISP, thus making a direct connection to my local net inside the router/firewall, will that essentially compromise my security by allowing others to see my local network and files? If so, is there a way to prevent this (perhaps by setting up a vpn network zone in the Mandrake firewall)? -- Thanks, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Monday 06 October 2003 07:28 pm, ed tharp wrote: I don't know if it is an issue for you, but I had to issue a couple of commands to get other permissions straight for some programs. have you tried as root with out the quotes; cd /etc/security/ chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* and see if it helps. Oh that stuff - yeah, thats pretty standard and I do it almost out of habit whenever I install nvidia stuff. grin thanks though! Er, wait a minute - why do you change to /etc/security then change permissions/ownership in a different place - /dev/nvidia? I don't quite understand that.../dev is not in /etc/security. Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] numlock
I have the numlock rpm installed and numlock is enabled during boot. When I startx though, I lose numlock. I think it used to work, to tell the truth though, I´ve been too busy to really think about it. I have the same problem. I think it *might* have started with a recent X update? I use pekwm 9.1. -- 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] KDE start up is too slow!!
Dear All, As I've had a problem in X start-up( it was too slow ), I've taken a look in /etc/hosts file. I have a NAT, DHCP server act as a gateway to the outside and it has not problem. but one of my stations in my private LAN had prob. I've added the localhost.local-domain localhost names to /etc/hosts file and reboot the PC. The problem was solved! It's ok that the reason of prob was some network misconfiguration. So, thanks for your help. --- Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 03:44 pm, many eyes noted that Kaveh Gh wrote: I've installed mdk-9.0 on a 40Gb western-digital (WDC-4000C) HDD several times and never seen any problem with installation and boot-up of system or KDE start-up. snip No problem with the hard drive? hdparm -tT /dev/hda might tell you something? Charlie. -- When crows find a dying snake, They behave as if they were eagles. When I see myself as a victim, I am hurt by trifling failures. Shantideva 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 = Kaveh Gh. Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Reply-to
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:49:02PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: I don't get the mail from the sender ... I get it from the list. Well, here, all mails are From: the person who sent it, which makes sense, as the list server just re-sends them. But the Reply-To header of the list does change the automatic behaviour - reply and list-reply now work the same, which would not be the case if Reply-To wasn't set at all... On second thought, I realize that I might be forgetting that there are too many mail clients that don't have list-reply, which is a pity. Great functionality. Dunno what list reply you refer to. Then your mail program doesn't seem to have it. In mutt, if I hit r for reply, I reply to the sender, i.e. to whoever is in From:, unless it's overruled by Reply-To:. When I hit g for group-reply, I reply to all mailaddresses in the header (From:, Cc:) and if I hit L, I do a list-reply, i.e. I reply to the mailing list (though I have to tell mutt to which mailing lists I'm subscribed). As I said, great functionality - pity that not all mail clients have it. Cheerio, Thomas -- - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Unloading
Miark mused: I need to stop Linux from using the usbscanner driver (or module, or whatever it is) so that VMWare can take control of my Epson 1260 USB scanner. How do I do that? By the way, I ask because when I try to connect my scanner in VMWare, it says, 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. tia, Miark I don´t know if you´ve been here already, but... http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/devices_usb_ws.html -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
James Sparenberg schrieb am Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:58:36 -0700: Wobo, If you do this successfully care to put in the twiki how you did it? James Will do but maybe not before end of month. Too busy now with 9.2 manuals on that very machine. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting
On Monday 06 October 2003 02:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as far as the suid, it would get you working without having to do ´su´ everytime. Is it a good answer? No. I have a Logitech quickcam as well (I don´t know about the 3000 part), and my setup consisted of pluging it in. The only thing I can figure is that you either have a higher default security than I, or it´s the devfs thing. I only say devfs, because it´s the one thing I don´t use. I have had problems with zip drives, flash card readers, pda, I think even my scanner has had problems. When I disable devfs, everything starts working. I don´t remember if you said you use devfs or not, but I don´t have a clue what else it could be. You just shouldn´t have to start hacking your system to pieces - like I said, it works fine here. Logic would say, it has to be something fairly obvious. Right, I understand what you're saying. Nope, devfs is disabled here, both in /etc/lilo.conf and under services, and I used the default (low) security setting when I installed, so I dunno... Thanks for your input though. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
