from CD/Floppy, however. This should work for both OS's.
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Thanks very much for your answer. Unfortunately I was unable to find it in
the June issue table of contents, nor via search at linux-mag.com
http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-06/toc.html
Would you happen to have a closer reference?
Thanks very much beforehand.
Thanks also for the encouraging replies
what it is good for. It
must be good for something.
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save me a lot of trips to the computer chop shop
if I could test my own hardware.
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be
surprised at all to evenually see an open source verison of Windows or
to see them adopt Linux in the next 10-15 years.
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. RULE is a RedHat
based project to eliminate this problem.
Jim C.
Dick Gevers wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:01 -0700, Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake:
Lessee... It is the English (and therefore European) version... June
There is an interesting article in Linux Magazine's June edition that
may pertain to this. The subject is a project called RULE (Run
Up-to-date Linux Everywhere).
It comes with an XFree86 replacement called Kdrive that may be of interest.
Jim C.
Dick Gevers wrote:
Hi all,
Mandrake has
USB 2.0 external hard drive?
Adrian Golumbovici wrote:
Hi all,
A few linux versions ago I remember you had to have your boot partition under 8GB to boot. Since one of my systems is dual boot and linux was installed after winblows, I had to leave the first partition to be for it and only resized
compressed file size turned out to be to big for a couple compression
utilities as well as the FAT32 file system which is why I had to go with
rsync. I keep music and video on mine.
Jim C.
Wow,
Can go with mindi/mondo (urpmi mind) would take care
of it.
Or, in my case, buy a cheapo drive $30.00 gives
Turns out, it's a kernel bug. Probably introduced by the patch itself.
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 01:02, Jim C wrote:
...
table nat, append a rule, eth0_masq source of 192.168.1.0/24 destination
any, action masquerade.
Uh-oh, that doesn't make any sense. Perhaps the intent was to use -i
by default as well as the old 2.96
compiler. I'm thinking its another kernel bug. :-(
Apparently the openmosix project could use a few good Mandrake guys. ;-)
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Thought of using the hostname command in a script executed at startup?
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I have a client box I just installed that works fine with the exception
of the fact that only local users can use the su command.
I suspect it is something simple but I've not been able to find the
problem so far.
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Yeah, when looking at it, that is what I thought too at first but you
see that all through the trace and it only becomes a problem at this point.
Also keep in mind that it works find on a non-mosix kernel. This would
seem to indicate that it is a kernel issue not a shorewall issue.
So here is
Well I looked at that section of the .config file and this did not appear to be the case. Also it doesn't cause an error until it reaches the NAT section of the shorewall commands. Later, when I can restart the box with that kernel, I'll get a trace so we can see exactly what command it is
Mandrake kernel?
Doesn't that seem odd?
P.S. Thanks for the assist. :-)
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Anyone know why the 2.4.20 openmosix kernel hates shorewall? It doesn't
want to process the NAT section.
I sure wish there were some Mandrake based MOSIX kernels. This RedHat
stuff is a pain. For example, I had to re-do one of my partitions
because there was no XFS support.
Jim C.
Want
MASQUERADE
+ iptables -t nat -A eth0_masq -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0
-j MASQUERADE
iptables: Invalid argument
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ stop_firewall
+ set +x
Jim C wrote:
Well I looked at that section of the .config file and this did not
appear to be the case. Also it doesn't cause an error
Have I got the format of this correct?
paralellalias:ssh(cdrom1):lions:tigers:bears
or perhaps it should be something like
paralellalias:ssh(removable):lions:tigers:bears
I was going to use this below for the media but figured the parantheses
kinda ruled it out.
Installation\ CD\ 1\ (x86)\
Help indexing tool still doesn't work but again that is a KDE bug.
Have a look:
KDE Control Center | System | Help Index
Any rpms to upload?
Texstar has them... I'm using them... so far so very good. One problem
with Konq but it's a bug with KDE. you will always get a horizontal
understand why this is but what is the fix?
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Anbody know how I can find out if I've got the patch for this?
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You'll need libpng3-devel, ImageMagick-devel, XFree86-devel, IIRC ...
it shouldn't need too much else. If you already have xplanet-1.0.1 on that
box, uninstall it before installing the RPM that this will produce. Then
get my scripts and run the install.sh script. Make sure you have wget. :)
_It reflects Microsoft_s desire to co-exist with Linux; the company
doesn_t want to be left out and there is room for both,_ says Faisal.
_There is this thing that Microsoft is supposedly the evil guy and
Linux the good guy -- this is not true._
cough bullshite cough
Actually they probably
?) startup script too.
Probably what I really need to know is where the screensavers are kept.
The names in KDE don't seem to match up with files.
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Thing is that if you are running Linux as a kioske sort of thing you
...
Jim,
Haven't done it. Except for the default entry of kworldclock but in
the kcontrol -- look n feel -- backgrounds on the first tab (labeled
background) in the mode button the 3rd item is Background program.
This
Caveat: If you're running MDK 9.1, the Xplanet version in the 9.1 contribs
(v1.0.1) will not work with my script system; rebuild the .src RPM for MDK
9.0 (v0.94) on the 9.1 system instead, and they should work well.
I am running on the texstar KDE 3.1.2 rpms.
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What chipset is your USB?
First off, thanks man. I'm using grub to boot (since I'm still on
...
arrangements can sometimes lead to unexpected behavior like this ...
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OK so I posted this and it said that it had already been fixed in CVS.
Problem is that I just upgraded to texstar's latest KDE version, 3.1.2 I
believe, and it has the same problem.
Looks like I wont have to worry about it maybe. Found this in bugzilla::
After setting the paths for htdig in
Help me out here guys. It seems to me that f you are running multiple
cards from the dhcp server then the system will expect to treat each as
a different subnet without running them all through a switch.
Hmmm... might it not also be possible that out there somewhere is an
adapter that will
Lee,
Perhaps easier method would be to find one of the older hubs that had
both a cable and cat 5 connectors. (Usually found in the junk stores
and swap meets for around 5 bucks to a dollar US.) Then hook the coax
cable up to, then plug in the Xbox to it with a short cat 5. They
usually only
in my 9.1 distro that will do DVDs. I could use some tips.
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I'm trying to add a source for the texstar stuff at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/
I've tried it with urpmi.addmedia but I think I am getting the with path
wrong. Pointers anyone?
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I'm trying to add a source for the texstar stuff at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1
/rpms/ I've tried it with urpmi.addmedia but I think I am getting the with
path wrong. Pointers anyone?
Jim C.
urpmi.addmedia texstar
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub
Argh! I went here before and missed the texstar entry!
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 6:33 pm, Jim C wrote:
I'm trying to add a source for the texstar stuff at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mand
rake/9.1/rpms/ I've tried it with urpmi.addmedia
I had the path wrong.
James Sparenberg wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:11, Jim C wrote:
I'm trying to add a source for the texstar stuff at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1
/rpms/ I've tried it with urpmi.addmedia but I think I am getting
Perhaps they will make a good mobile if you combine them with outdated
memory chips and AOL CD's.
;-)
For speed. The pro100 edged out the 3c905 (especially when using
...
it's pretty even. (anyone need a collection of bad netgear and linksys
nics?)
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Depending on the motherboard and the type of card. Could it have been
two cards wanting the same irq and BIOS disabling one of them?
Actually I didn't think to check the BIOS.
Thanks for the idea. :-)
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interface.
Nah... I'm really thinking that there is something wrong with that box.
That and I have niether hardware nor money just this instant.
Unemployment sux.
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Convincing her to have penguines instead of puppies would be a pretty
tough sell.
Richard Bown wrote:
Hi Bill
beautiful green puppies on a green background, thats of course mozilla
green,
maybe it should have been penguines
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 19:23, Bill Beauchemin wrote:
If you want
line.
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Speaking of which, I am pretty sure that there is a way to fix this
without logging out of X but what is it? Used to be that all I had to
do was restart console mouse services and viola! Things have changed
since then however and I no longer know how to do this.
Jim C.
Anne have similar
I'm using a Radeon 9100 PowerColor and it has TV Out, CRT and DVI .
Seems to work OK in Linux.
Jim C.
Anne Wilson wrote:
The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any s-video
input. I took it back to the vendor, who said they didn't have one
that I could use (I want to attach
I don't suppose there is an inexpensive hardware router/Firewall/switch
out there that will do DHCP relaying?
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Might want to check through msec's files to find out if it is doing
anything in regards to this.
Use locate to find them.
Jim C.
Hi List,
With MDK 9.1 in two boxex, when using rsh I'm prompted to passwd:, i.e.,
it's not rlogin automatically (after set .rhosts etc.). During
installation I set
I don't suppose there is an inexpensive hardware router/Firewall/switch
out there that will do DHCP relaying?
Jim C.
If you have an old machine around (486 is OK) have a look at
www.smoothwall.org
I have an old K6 III but I can't get it to work with anything. Think
there might
Arrgh! My Samba-LDAP setup won't add machines automatically any more
and I've spent all day today trying to find the bug.
Prelim stuff checks to make sure it isn't something other than Samba-LDAP:
The setting in dhcpd.conf appears to be correct:
host kaliklak
{
hardware
No. The problem has not been fixed. I keep emailing mandrake about the
problem, but they don't seem to care. I think they need to pull some new
XFS patches from the SGI guys and see if that works. The SGI kernel
doesn't have this problem. Nor does any of the 9.0 kernels that mandrake
has
as root.
This will be helpful in testing. Note that service shorewall stop
will temporarily axe all network connectivity. Don't use it if you are
accessing from a remote system.
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K, I've never been able to get my Lexmark up on the server so that it
can get print jobs from both worlds (i.e. Linux/Windoze)
Error I get on the 'doze side is A StartDocPrinter call was not issued.
Situation:
Prniter is a USB Lexmark Z53 (also has paralell printer plug)
Tried it with the
It would seem from the thread that the problem is xfs ... MDK didn't
...
problem? Arguing kernels when the problem is xfs seems hardly
productive. But that's just me.
James
Not to be peaveish (seriously) but I was just trying to argue potential
solutions from the user's viewpoint.
Want
How about mosfett's screensavers and widgets and things? Those would be
cool.
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is a Content Management System (CMS). Isn't this something similar
to CVS?
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Looks like I wont have to worry about it maybe. Found this in bugzilla::
After setting the paths for htdig in the help index control panel in kde, the build index
button still doesn't seem to work.
/--- Additional Comment #1
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3294#c1 From Mandrake
files,
operator manuals etc. etc. It especially proved helpful when help
documents turned up in odd places.
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Minor detail to add, in man, /search_term takes you to the first
occurrence, pressing 'n' proceeds to the next occurrence.
Woody
Your forgetting that new users will be comming from a strictly GUI
environment, aren't you? ;-)
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will be comming from.
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Searchable help files... Searchable help files... Searchable help
files... Searchable help files... Searchable help files...
;-)
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Man, if they did nothing else, I would just want the KDE help search
engine to work.
It's not to much to ask.
Guy Van Sanden wrote:
Is there any information yet about what will be new in 9.2?
I mean, are they hoping/going for kernel 2.6, kde3.2?
I'm just curious what'll be changing.
Guy
Get sneaky. Use a dhcp relay agent and actually put your machines ON
thier network. ;-)
Hi
Does anyone know how I can rewrite addresses to the outside?
What I want to do is this, I have an internal Email server with local
users.
My provider allows outgoing Emails only if the 'From' is an
Is possible, but it's not what i want. Imagine that i go to the cafe, i pay
for two hours, but i only use one. Tomorrow a go to the cafe again and i
would like to use the hour that i didn't use today.
I guess i will have to write a program for myself :-(
Sorry if I seem a little scrambled
Please ignore my last post about redoing the map.
If you want a full firewall then you will probably want to have
a Linux/Mandrake machine in place of the Linksys. The firewall/
Linux box must do NAT. If you are just dealing with a standard
Why? I've been using it on my home net but it
if I did it backwards... that way Samba would tell Mozilla that it
is a file/directory rather than a link.
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Did you consider using Cat 6 cable instead of Cat 5?
I'll confirm the above I've got a site with 9 - 15 boxes behind a
linksys firewall/router/wireless box without a hiccup. (the number
changes with laptops.) The point here is ... don't swat flies with
sledgehammers. I know a guy that has
of Linux.
Jim C.
OK, so I've had this old K6 III laying around and I've been wanting
to ...
Clues anyone?
Jim C.
Jim,
What card is it? PCI or ISA?
James
It is a PCI card but I do have ISA slots.
Want to buy
it on
another box. Also this card worked fine on 9.0 and I think on 9.1
Clues anyone?
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of
dmseg and /var/log/messages but I don't see any hint of eth1. It is a
Netgear which I heard is problematic when used in tandem with an Athlon
but this box is a K6-III. I had theorized that this would make a
difference.
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On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:59, Jim C wrote:
OK, so I've had this old K6 III laying around and I've been wanting to
...
Clues anyone?
Jim C.
Jim,
What card is it? PCI or ISA?
James
It is a PCI card but I do have ISA slots.
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Olaf,
If I'm understanding you right then, OpenMosix is a kind of Grid
Computing for Linux?
It's been a while since I messed with OpenMOSIX.
OpenMOSIX is basically just a kernel patch and subsequent setup of a
config file here or there. The kernels at the site are RedHat kernels
but
Is it possible to run MNF from CD Rom or floppy?
What I want is a read-only firewall box without a hard drive.
If not what are some other products out there that might serve me better?
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shrugHe'd mentioned that he wanted it cross-platform.
If all machines are Linux then NIS and NFS will do exactly what you
...
I belive LDAP is a bit more than you want for just a few machines.
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I want to rig up an automatic logoff for users who have forgotten to log
out. Thing is that I have a Samba-LDAP deal and I'ld have to find a way
to log the user off from a WP Pro box as well as linux and unmount the
Samba/NFS shares.
Clues anyone?
Thanks,
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What you are talking about is generally reffered to as single signon
(i.e. one signon for all machines). Difference is that you are looking
for a cross-platform deal.
There are 3 primary systems for doing this, one for Windows called
Active Directory, one for Linux which is a combination of
David,
I presume that you have a fat32 partition because you have W$ on the
machine. So, the short answer would be scandisk or chkdsk under W$,
there being no fsck.vfat AFAIK. If you don't have W$, then I can only
guess that using fat32 is a result of severe personality problems and
refuse to
Battlenet, as I understand it, has been a problem for quite some time with all
You can say that again. We haven't even been able to get MechWarrior IV
to network in Windows XP over our local net. I'm beginning to wonder if
there isn't a firewall issue but we did try it with the firewall
is the best way to do this?
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Arr!! I feel your pain.;-)
# cat cdrom.img /dev/hda
I learned a *lot* about Linux that night...
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Where can I find out about the differences between Samba 2.X and 3.0?
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I would also like to have this info.
When printerdrake asks to change printing system, eg
from lpr to cups, where does it make the changes?
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one probably *should* deny, right?
Franki,
Mostl likely the reason you've not found it is cause it doesn't exist. At
...
Then in any event you're screwed.
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Describe what happens, please.
I have 2 cds of Linux Mandrake 9.1 .. but cant seem to install the Server
configuration i saw in the
screen shoots of mandrake 9.1 in the Drake control
center ..
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Onto my third day using the new 9.1 edition. In case anyone's
I just installed 9.1 onto one of my client systems today. Mainly
because I couldn't get my new Radeon video card to work.
Unfortunatley, I seem to have messed up my LDAP authetication setup. I
have everything configured according
This is how you would fix it in Mdk 9.0 and it is probably similar in 9.1
1. Go to KDE Control Center | Look and Feel | Window Decoration
2. Change the Window Decoration to match your needs.
Be aware that in 9.0 there was a check box at the botton of the screen
that provided access to the
I'm a little confused here. Shouldn't adding memory to a box mean you
don't need as much swap?
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
Hi List!
I got more Mem to my box and now my swap partition is not adequated.
My main partition is ReiserFS. I could use DiskDrake to resize fat32 bits
in the past
I've had good experiences with SpamPal. It's free.
Hi. I'm posting this on behalf of our worksite which has been inundated
...
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Vincent Danen wrote:
I'd really like to know where you heard that from. Beat them with a wet
noodle or a 100lb sledge... your choice. At any rate, it's very wrong.
I'll take the wet noodle since it may have been a case of failing memory
on the part of my brain. The fact that I don't remember
I've a question about ssh also. Isn't it true that after one logs in
with ssh, that further communications beyond login are not encrypted?
Doesn't this imply that if one logs in as a user and then wants to su to
the super user once you are there, that this is *not* secure?
If this is true, how
I'm making a statement of personal/political basis.
I figure that the French probably have as little control over their
government as we here in the US have over ours. I just wish the Middle
Eastern extremists could see this.
Government should be run more like an open source project, anyway.
the
binaries from the old rpm and left the menu entries alone.
No, I did not. I just went to the site and downloaded the last one that
was not a pre-release. Anyway, the problem seems to be that the config
script can't find QT.
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Actually, I might have a better idea.
What about editing the config script instead and sending mosfet a patch?
Todd Lyons wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
At the time that Liquid was written, Mandrake was using the qt libs
which were named libqt and were referenced during linking as -lqt.
(670major+232minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Yikes, I'm actually starting to understand this crud!
The Four Horsemen must be saddling up right about now as this is surely
a sign of the coming apocalypse. ;-)
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I've a few Athlon boards that are fairly recent and some of those have
ISA slots.
Have you considered the possibility of rounding up a crew to write a few
drivers instead?
Jim C.
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...
Thanks in advance,
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the controls and stuff on it. I can set it up but print
jobs just sit there in the spool directory. I can print to it fine from
another Windows box so it shouldn't be a network issue.
Tips? Ideas? Clues?
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Thanks to everyone who has answered this. You've cleared up things a
great deal for me.
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Vox wrote:
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The -l just lists ports that are in the act of listening, whereas active
connections are listed separately. For instance
Oooo! I'll byte! I've tried installing it before and couldn't get it to
work.
Jack Coates wrote:
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:47, James Conner wrote:
...
Now I had to get Mofset's Liquid. I looked for an updated rpm and it didn't
exist, so I went to his web site to get the tarball. He claims on
Liquid 0.9.5 on KDE 3.0.x bombs on the configure. Can't find qt3
despite the fact that it is installed.
Now I had to get Mofset's Liquid. I looked for an updated rpm and it
...
on its success or failure?
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I've got two different Mandrake 9.0 boxes and linuxconf segfaults on
both. Any ideas? Are there some issues in regards to linuxconf/Mdk 9.0
I should know about?
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Can somebody cross check me here?
I've got shorewall from the shorewall website, instead of from Mandrake
as suggested in the shorewall guide. It seems to be much easier to use
and I've set it up on my server/gateway box.
Later I'll have some hardware available to seperate the gateway from the
don't even list netstat, like
Sobell's Unix System V; A Practical Guide.
The dumb part is that this has got to be something simple. Perhaps,
when I have the funds, I should invest in a book specifically on TCP/IP
that covers netstat in detail.
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