Re: [expert] Security warnings
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: Hi Gang, I keep getting this in my mail and also in my logs. Is this normal? *** Diff Check, Wed Jul 5 04:01:57 EDT 2000 *** Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine : - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 747/httpd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 784/perl - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 718/master - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:cfengine *:* LISTEN 600/cfd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* LISTEN 587/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 587/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* LISTEN 587/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 587/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN 490/portmap - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* 784/perl - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* 490/portmap - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 30057/httpd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 825/perl - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 748/master - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:cfengine *:* LISTEN 630/cfd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* LISTEN 617/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 617/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* LISTEN 617/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 617/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN 520/portmap - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* 825/perl - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* 520/portmap *** Security Check, Wed Jul 5 04:02:06 EDT 2000 *** Security Warning: World Writeable files found : - /home/bob/http - /tmp - /tmp/.X11-unix - /tmp/.X11-unix/X9 - /tmp/.font-unix - /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 - /var/lib/svgalib - /var/lib/texmf - /var/lib/texmf/ls-R - /var/spool/fax/outgoing - /var/spool/fax/outgoing/locks - /var/spool/postfix/maildrop - /var/spool/postfix/private/bounce - /var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp - /var/spool/postfix/private/cleanup - /var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus - /var/spool/postfix/private/defer - /var/spool/postfix/private/error - /var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail - /var/spool/postfix/private/local - /var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite - /var/spool/postfix/private/smtp - /var/spool/postfix/private/uucp - /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup - /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr - /var/spool/postfix/public/showq - /var/spool/samba - /var/tmp These are the ports listening on your machine : Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 747/httpd tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 784/perl tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 718/master tcp0 0 *:cfengine *:* LISTEN 600/cfd tcp0 0 *:nntp *:*
Re: [expert] RH and other distro users
Civilemewell conceived, well thought out, and well stated. Alan Civileme wrote: It is a clear and distinct message to me when other distro users show up on this mailing list for help... A very hopeful message for the future of amicability. By george, I'll help them with no distinction. Of course my advice may not be as well researched, because I haven't seen the other distros in a while and I don't know immediately where to look for the tech support doc, but then they should know free advice is well worth what they pay for it. So why are those folks here? 1) Their distro has a "cathedral-style mailing list", with _bona-fide_ "experts" instead of users struggling to help each other out. We all have seen what happens to people who become too impressed with themselves and their own knowledge. 2) The mailing lists for their distro are flame magnets. 3) Their own distro has NO mailing list As long as they don't advocate their distros here, I don't think I have a problem. If other distro users are showing up here and they are well-received, they'll be with us soon enough. Now is not the time to deviate from a winning strategy, or from being our friendly selves. I really don't think helping out people in need is raising the entropy of the universe, nor do I believe it constitutes tortious conduct. Best regards, Civileme
Re: [expert] DSL Help Needed
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: "Ralph F. De Witt" wrote: Hi to all: I have finally bit the bullet and ordered DSL service. This will be provieded by GTE, of course Linux is not supported as a OS, and to make matters worst the last time I read the networking man and how to's I ended up haveing to reinstall both my Winbloz machine and LInux. I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and have all the security updates installed. I am hoping some one can give me the info I need to get it installed and set up. I thank you in advance for your help and advice in this matter. -- Ralph F. De Witt Proud user of Mandrake 7.1 Linux Register Linux User ICQ #49993234 No Windoze were broken in the making of this Message. Well, to make matters *_BAD_* there are networking/DSL combo cards that fit your PCI slot and are software driven with Windows drivers. Make sure you have an Ethernet and a crossover cable to an external DSL modem. If it is IPairGain, you do NOT need a crossover--it works strictly as a bridge to the remote gateway--and you use the same IP on your ethernet that the gateway uses and the crossover is handled on that end. If, as is more likely, it is in bridging mode, you need a crossover cable and to configure for either static IP or dhcp as spec'd by GTE. Finally, if it is in routing mode, you will have an IP and a need to configure the DSL modem to export routes to the LAN(ethernet side) and to the WAN(twisted-pair phone cable) side. Whatever you do, do NOT take the "card-based DSL modem". Make sure it is an external so you don't get something driven only by proprietary software. Remember, if there is a binary-only linux driver, you then have unaudited and inauditable software INSIDE the core of your operating system. Very few of us migrated to linux for that. Civileme I thank you for your prompt reply. I am told that GTE's dsl is bridged. I am led to believe that the modem will be an external one that plugs in to an ethernet card and does not take a crossover cable but a straight cat 5 cable and the service is dhcp based and should be easy install. I hope to avoid this. I am told that I will still retain my 56k dial out capabilities so I will not configure or change anything unless I am sure it will not kill system and plan to confer over modem to ensure a minimum of hassle when the day of install comes which I am told will be July 26th. Ralph -- Ralph F. De Witt Proud user of Mandrake 7.1 Linux Register Linux User ICQ #49993234 No Windoze were broken in the making of this Message.
Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?
Simon Robertson wrote: SNIP previous messages I am trying to install kde2, but with kdevelop it keeps asking for a dependency libg++.so.2.7.2, would you have any idea where I could get this. I think I definatly need this library as I am at the stage where I unchecked dependencies and everytime I now enter kde2 at login it brings up the bug window and wants me to send an E-mail, which I attempt but nothing happens. Thankyou if you can help, Simon. SNIP again As Ron said--no kdevelop now is the time to use rpm -e on it all; then remove the directories for kde2; then reinstall everything EXCEPT kdevelop. That lib is missing right now and kdevelop is broken without it. Relax--two more betas are planned. Civileme and has been tested by me with Mandrake 7.1 (except kdevelop has a missing library). Is this critical? Yes. Result: no kdevelop.
Re: [expert] DSL Help Needed
I thank you for your prompt reply. I am told that GTE's dsl is bridged. I am led to believe that the modem will be an external one that plugs in to an ethernet card and does not take a crossover cable but a straight cat 5 cable and the service is dhcp based and should be easy install. I hope to avoid this. I am told that I will still retain my 56k dial out capabilities so I will not configure or change anything unless I am sure it will not kill system and plan to confer over modem to ensure a minimum of hassle when the day of install comes which I am told will be July 26th. Ralph On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: "Ralph F. De Witt" wrote: Hi to all: I have finally bit the bullet and ordered DSL service. This will be provieded by GTE, of course Linux is not supported as a OS, and to make matters worst the last time I read the networking man and how to's I ended up haveing to reinstall both my Winbloz machine and LInux. I am using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and have all the security updates installed. I am hoping some one can give me the info I need to get it installed and set up. I thank you in advance for your help and advice in this matter. -- Ralph F. De Witt Proud user of Mandrake 7.1 Linux Register Linux User ICQ #49993234 No Windoze were broken in the making of this Message. You have to see whether your DSL modem spits out straight Ethernet or PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE). If regular ethernet, then just run the dhcp client and act as if you are on any other Ethernet LAN. Maybe someone else can help if GTE makes u use PPPoE. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+ -- Ralph F. De Witt Proud user of Mandrake 7.1 Linux Register Linux User ICQ #49993234 No Windoze were broken in the making of this Message.
[expert] NFS mounts fail
I seem to have a problem between two NFS server, mounting each others stuff, the one is a SuSE6.1 machine running 2.2.16 (same with 2.2.13) and the other a Mandrake 7.0 machine, running 2.2.16 (same with 2.4.0test2) as well. Mounts located on the SuSE machine to the Mandrake machine work just fine, but v.v.: nogo.. on the Mandrake machine: /etc/exports: See exports(5) for a description. # This file contains a list of all directories exported to other computers. # It is used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. #/usr/src/linux 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro) #,no_root_squash) #/usr/doc 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro) #/cdrom 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro) /usr/src *.thuis.nl(rw) /home/mbr/download *.thuis.nl(rw) #/mnt/cdrom2*.thuis.nl(ro) #/mnt/cdrom3*.thuis.nl(ro) #,no_root_squash) SuSE machine: /var/log/messages (during init): nfs_read_super: get root fattr failed nfsd_fh_init : initialized fhcache, entries=512 nfs: RPC call returned error 111 RPC: task of released request still queued! RPC: (task is on xprt_pending) nfs_read_super: get root fattr failed /etc/fstab: XXLTurboSlakkie:/usr/src/linux /usr/src/linux nfs noauto,nosuid,rsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,retry=1,bg,retrans=1,soft,acregmin=60,acregmax=1 XXLTurboSlakkie:/home/mbr/download /home/mbr/download nfs auto,nosuid,bg,soft,retry=1 #192.168.0.1:/home/mbr/download /home/mbr/download nfs // this one will also fail.. SuSE machine: root@TurboRouter:/etc knfsstat Server rpc stats: calls badcalls badauthbadclntxdrcall 0 0 0 0 0 Server nfs v2: null getattrsetattrroot lookup readlink 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% read wrcachewrite create remove rename 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% link symlinkmkdir rmdir readdirfsstat 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% Client rpc stats: calls retransauthrefrsh 0 0 0 Client nfs v2: null getattrsetattrroot lookup readlink 0 0% 2 100% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% read wrcachewrite create remove rename 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% link symlinkmkdir rmdir readdirfsstat 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% Mandrake machine: [root@XXLTurboSlakkie mbr]# /usr/sbin/nfsstat Server rpc stats: calls badcalls badauthbadclntxdrcall 0 0 0 0 0 Server nfs v2: null getattrsetattrroot lookup readlink 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% read wrcachewrite create remove rename 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% link symlinkmkdir rmdir readdirfsstat 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% Client rpc stats: calls retransauthrefrsh 37 2 0 Client nfs v2: null getattrsetattrroot lookup readlink 0 0% 5 13% 0 0% 0 0% 26 70% 0 0% read wrcachewrite create remove rename 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% link symlinkmkdir rmdir readdirfsstat 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 6 16% 0 0% root@TurboRouter:/etc mount -a mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on XXLTurboSlakkie::/usr/src/linux, or too many mounted file systems mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.0.1:/home/mbr/download,or too many mounted file systems Anyone an idea what's going on? Cheers, -- /* Manuël Beunder. (aka MBr) - http://how.to/sblive the SB Live! Linux page - 'You must be the change you wish to see in this world. -Gandi' */
RE: [expert] Remote Access of Root
Do a 'su -' to have the same path and environment as root. -Original Message- From: Ken Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: woensdag 5 juli 2000 15:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Remote Access of Root Log in as a regular user to the remote machine and then do an 'su' to root once you're logged in. -Original Message- From: Richard Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 5, 2000 5:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Remote Access of Root I have Mandrake 7.1 up and running and for maintenance purposes I want to log on remotely as root for telnet and ftp from another system. Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this?
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to direct a question to the Mandrake team. Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of the Mandrake team hang out in this list apparently the ones who hang out either don't know the answer or choose to remain silent on that one No idea which. :-) ? ok what is the question excatly i didn't followed the thread... /Chmouel Technical Support/
Re: [expert] Linux still wont boot
No, this is a dead Mandrake 7.0 :( At 10:37 PM 7/5/00 -0500, Craig Woods wrote: A lot of really good advice has been rendered on this particular issue but, in ageement with Steve B., this sounds like a Red Hat system, and I think our bandwidth is for Mandrake issues. "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: "Bruce E. Harris" wrote: I am at a loss. The kernel upgrade problem still exists. created a new lilo.conf on another computer (had to make the floppy ext2 since my desktop under linux will not read dos partitions). I can not get vi to work, even /bin/vi (file not found). I got the new lilo.conf installed, but can not run lilo to install it. I did find lilo, even cd into the directory where it lives and tried lilo and ./lilo, (file not found). Help please Bruce You need soemthing like /mnt/mydisk/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/mydisk/etc/lilo.conf -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Linux still wont boot
vi is there, I see it but Mandrake will not... This is not a Redhat system, but Mandrake 7.0. and yes, I am careful to post the right questions to the right list. I can see all the files I need to use, but Mandrake will not. BRuce At 10:37 PM 7/5/00 -0500, Craig Woods wrote: A lot of really good advice has been rendered on this particular issue but, in ageement with Steve B., this sounds like a Red Hat system, and I think our bandwidth is for Mandrake issues. "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: "Bruce E. Harris" wrote: I am at a loss. The kernel upgrade problem still exists. created a new lilo.conf on another computer (had to make the floppy ext2 since my desktop under linux will not read dos partitions). I can not get vi to work, even /bin/vi (file not found). I got the new lilo.conf installed, but can not run lilo to install it. I did find lilo, even cd into the directory where it lives and tried lilo and ./lilo, (file not found). Help please Bruce You need soemthing like /mnt/mydisk/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/mydisk/etc/lilo.conf -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?
Civileme (and others), KDE2 includes an improved new version of kDiskFree (kdf), an exceptionally useful utility that shows you the status of all your disk partitions, handles all your mount and umount needs according to /etc/fstab, and offers you a konqueror window on any mount point. kDiskFree may be left on the desktop "rolled up". It totally replaces any need for those annoying and ugly desktop device mount/umount icons, which may be removed. Ignore the error dboxes for mount and umount - there is no error. In KDE1, kDiskFree was an add-on rpm and was included in all Mandrake releases up through 6.1, after which it was dropped for no known or discoverable reason despite my ongoing protests. The 6.1 kdf RPM could be installed and worked in 7.0 and 7.1 - The good news is that if KDE2 is installed, the new kdf from KDE2 may be run permanently by KDE1 by running /opt/kde2/bin/kdf , then exit the terminal. In this mode kdf survives shutdown and login. To use its features, just "unroll" (double-click on the title bar) it. - Another useful tip from Ron G. I strongly hope and strongly suggest Mandrake realises the value of this during the KDE install and omits all those ugly desktop mount icons in future in favour of standardising on kdf for all runtime disk partition management under the KDE GUI. No more deaf ears, Mandrake? -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Mandrake Linux.
[expert] Problems with regex.h
I've tried to compile a program using regex.h and this is what I get: In file included from test_regex.c:3: /usr/include/regex.h:352: parse error before `size_t' /usr/include/regex.h:352: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union /usr/include/regex.h:359: parse error before `:' /usr/include/regex.h:368: parse error before `:' /usr/include/regex.h:372: parse error before `:' /usr/include/regex.h:376: parse error before `:' /usr/include/regex.h:380: parse error before `:' /usr/include/regex.h:383: parse error before `:' /usr/include/regex.h:386: parse error before `:' /usr/include/regex.h:450: parse error before `size_t' /usr/include/regex.h:521: parse error before `size_t' /usr/include/regex.h:524: parse error before `regerror' /usr/include/regex.h:525: parse error before `size_t' /usr/include/regex.h:525: warning: data definition has no type or storage class I've upgraded my version of glibc-devel to glibc-devel-2.1.3-5mdk but the problem persists. Any idea?, thanks.
Re: [expert] RH and other distro users
I second that! An awesome thought. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 1299563 On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Civileme wrote: It is a clear and distinct message to me when other distro users show up on this mailing list for help... A very hopeful message for the future of amicability. By george, I'll help them with no distinction. Of course my advice may not be as well researched, because I haven't seen the other distros in a while and I don't know immediately where to look for the tech support doc, but then they should know free advice is well worth what they pay for it. So why are those folks here? 1) Their distro has a "cathedral-style mailing list", with _bona-fide_ "experts" instead of users struggling to help each other out. We all have seen what happens to people who become too impressed with themselves and their own knowledge. 2) The mailing lists for their distro are flame magnets. 3) Their own distro has NO mailing list As long as they don't advocate their distros here, I don't think I have a problem. If other distro users are showing up here and they are well-received, they'll be with us soon enough. Now is not the time to deviate from a winning strategy, or from being our friendly selves. I really don't think helping out people in need is raising the entropy of the universe, nor do I believe it constitutes tortious conduct. Best regards, Civileme
Re: [expert] RH and other distro users
Alan, I've heard that Mandrake is RedHat enhanced. I don't know this for a fact, but I've seem a lot of similarities between the two. You could say they're 1st cousins. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 1299563 On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Alan N. wrote: Civileme wrote: It is a clear and distinct message to me when other distro users show up on this mailing list for help... A very hopeful message for the future of amicability. By george, I'll help them with no distinction. Of course my advice may not be as well researched, because I haven't seen the other distros in a while and I don't know immediately where to look for the tech support doc, but then they should know free advice is well worth what they pay for it. So why are those folks here? 1) Their distro has a "cathedral-style mailing list", with _bona-fide_ "experts" instead of users struggling to help each other out. We all have seen what happens to people who become too impressed with themselves and their own knowledge. 2) The mailing lists for their distro are flame magnets. 3) Their own distro has NO mailing list As long as they don't advocate their distros here, I don't think I have a problem. If other distro users are showing up here and they are well-received, they'll be with us soon enough. Now is not the time to deviate from a winning strategy, or from being our friendly selves. I really don't think helping out people in need is raising the entropy of the universe, nor do I believe it constitutes tortious conduct. Best regards, Civileme I'm running RH 6.2 at the moment. I susbscribe to this list since there are lotta good people here and I've learned a tremendous amount. 2 reasons I'm running RH.. When 7.0 came out there were just too many problem's being reported. I'm not good enough in Linux to fix some of these on my own. Also, as of tonite I own a CD burner. I didn't before, and I burnt a RH CD at work beacuse I needed to make a few work projects that I wanted to run Linux on. Now that I have a burner, I will probably upgrade ( new install ) of Linux when KDE 2.0 comes out and appears on Mdk.. I will probably go back to MDK since I think they are really making it easier for some of us less knowledgable.. Alan
Re: [expert] Remote Access of Root
You can telnet in as root if you really want to, all you have to do is (as root of course) vi /etc/securetty At the end of the file append: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 What this file does is say what ttys are allowed to login as root. Doing the above essentially allows all. Not suggested for a production system, but quite useful otherwise. -David Talbot On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: You cannot telnet in as root. Telnet in as a regular user the su to root. Even better USE SSH. SSH encrypts the connection and allows root log in! - Original Message - I have Mandrake 7.1 up and running and for maintenance purposes I want to log on remotely as root for telnet and ftp from another system. Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this?
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Try it at http://forum.mandrakesoft.com Our own version of slashdotg I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! John
Re: [expert] RH and other distro users
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: I'm running RH 6.2 at the moment. I susbscribe to this list since there are lotta good people here and I've learned a tremendous amount. 2 reasons I'm running RH.. When 7.0 came out there were just too many problem's being reported. I'm not good enough in Linux to fix some of these on my own. Also, as of tonite I own a CD burner. I didn't before, and I burnt a RH CD at work beacuse I needed to make a few work projects that I wanted to run Linux on. Now that I have a burner, I will probably upgrade ( new install ) of Linux when KDE 2.0 comes out and appears on Mdk.. I will probably go back to MDK since I think they are really making it easier for some of us less knowledgable.. I second this. While I may be more technically competent than some of the "newbies," I recently upgraded from Mandrake 6.0 to RedHat 6.2 for many of the same reasons you (Alan N.) list. I was happy with Mandrake 6.0, except I wanted KDE 1.1.2 and the highest I'd been able to upgrade it to was 1.1.1. When I tried to upgrade to 1.1.2, I screwed the pooch and lost my X completely. What was I to do? Reinstall. At that time, the latest release was 7.02. I didn't want to upgrade to that because of all the "bugs" that I'd read about on this list. So, I upgraded to RH 6.2. When KDE2 comes out, I'll likely reformat and reinstall, salvaging my /home directory and some other "storage" type directories. :-) I'm expecting that KDE2 will likely come out around the end of this year, and since Mandrake appears to offer a new version about twice a year, a new version of Mandrake will (hopefully) be available around the first of 2001! :-) Of course, I'll probably wait until 2nd quarter of 2001 to make sure that all the bugs are worked out, but... :-) John
[expert] Extending Timeout on kmail
Hi, With kmail, I frequently get "Timeout while waiting for server" error messages. This is especially so when I'm not dialling in, but accessing my mail from my work place. Does anybocy know where I can change the default values to extend the timeout periods? I think it probably means that I have to recompile, but can anyone point me to where to start? TIA -- Ronald
Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?
This lib is necessary by kdevelop. Get libg++-2.7.2.8-9.i386.rpm by rpmfind.net Eric Civileme wrote: Simon Robertson wrote: SNIP previous messages I am trying to install kde2, but with kdevelop it keeps asking for a dependency libg++.so.2.7.2, would you have any idea where I could get this. I think I definatly need this library as I am at the stage where I unchecked dependencies and everytime I now enter kde2 at login it brings up the bug window and wants me to send an E-mail, which I attempt but nothing happens. Thankyou if you can help, Simon. SNIP again As Ron said--no kdevelop now is the time to use rpm -e on it all; then remove the directories for kde2; then reinstall everything EXCEPT kdevelop. That lib is missing right now and kdevelop is broken without it. Relax--two more betas are planned. Civileme and has been tested by me with Mandrake 7.1 (except kdevelop has a missing library). Is this critical? Yes. Result: no kdevelop.
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to direct a question to the Mandrake team. Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of the Mandrake team hang out in this list apparently the ones who hang out either don't know the answer or choose to remain silent on that one No idea which. :-) ? ok what is the question excatly i didn't followed the thread... /Chmouel Technical Support/ Thanks. :-) The question was why you folks put the stuff in /tmp and later in /root/tmp that causes X to go bad when you delete it? You recall the hubub when 7.x came out and people started emptying their /tmp directory only to find they had to reinstall X to get it working again??? We recently had another case of that in here and told 'em the sad, sad story about how you DON'T delete stuff in /tmp or /root/tmp. :-) John
[expert] Sound Device
Wasn't able to find an answer for this one on Newbie. I have a problem with the sound device being busy. Where can I find the lock file for the sound device? Thanks. -- ___ Harry Flaxman http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907
Re: [expert] Sound Device
If you could give a bit more info: did you cat /etc/conf.modules, and do you see your sound card? What kind of card do you want Linux to use? CRAIG Harry Flaxman wrote: Wasn't able to find an answer for this one on Newbie. I have a problem with the sound device being busy. Where can I find the lock file for the sound device? Thanks. -- ___ Harry Flaxman http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907
Re: [expert] Sound Device
I have a Soundblaster PCI 512. The device won't init during the Linux IPL process. Says the device is busy.Yes, I see my sound card listed in /etc/conf.modules. I was assuming there is a lock file for the device. The configurator, soundconfig won't do anything with it either, says it's busy. Thanks. Harry Craig Woods wrote: If you could give a bit more info: did you cat /etc/conf.modules, and do you see your sound card? What kind of card do you want Linux to use? CRAIG -- ___ Harry Flaxman http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907
Re: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba
Thanks Bill for the answer, I thought that you had forgotten me. No help, because I still have the problem. I thought the you had to put the users there, but no. I will try to update to the last version. Otherwise, thanks a lot. Best regards, Leo Bill Shirley ha escrit: Leo, The smbusers files is used when the Windows logon and linux logon do not match. If my Windows logon is xyz123 and my linux logon is bill then: bill = xyz123 would map requests from windows user xyz123 to the linux user bill and would get user bill's access rights. Hope this helps, Bill begin:vcard n:Palomo;Leopold x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;Catalonia version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;-29952 fn:Leopold Palomo end:vcard
[expert] Book Recommendation
I am looking for some book recommendations in regards to setting up an Linux based webserver, with security, email (smtp and pop3), and a secure SSL certificate. I would want to use Apache, an email application usable with PHP, mySQL, etc Any suggestions? thanx! Joseph (Joe) Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm http://www.wizaerd.com 3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas a little bit of everything...
[expert] Swap Device
I originally configured. my Mandrake 7.0 accidentally with NO SWAP device. It was misconfigured and somehow the system thought it was on hda6, which it is not. I have repartitioned one of my hard drives , hdc1, to be the swap file. The fstab entry is proper. The device has been partitioned and formatted under DOS. I have tried this with no formatting and formatting. I get an error message that the kernal doesn't support the filesystem swap. hdc1 is not mounted, and the OS goes to turn on swapping and fails. If I look at linuxconf under KDE.it shows the device being set up for swap. I get no swapping at all, and my system just keeps grabbing real ram until it fills up. Oh yes, I have tried mkswap and get an error that 130048 is larger than device which has 0 size. Wondering if there were any tips on this one, that someone could give me. Thanks. Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907
[expert] ssh 2.2 on Mandrake 6.1
I have two boxes both running Mandrake 6.1, and ssh 2.2 from SSH Communications (http://www.ssh.com/). On both machines I can log in to one machine only, charlesc. I cannot log into the other from either machine. Here is a test run: root@charlesc # /usr/local/bin/ssh -v tester debug: hostname is 'tester'. debug: Unable to open /root/.ssh2/ssh2_config debug: connecting to tester... debug: entering event loop debug: ssh_client_wrap: creating transport protocol debug: SshAuthMethodClient/sshauthmethodc.c:99/ssh_client_authentication_initialize: Added "publickey" to usable methods. debug: SshAuthMethodClient/sshauthmethodc.c:99/ssh_client_authentication_initialize: Added "password" to usable methods. debug: Ssh2Client/sshclient.c:1097/ssh_client_wrap: creating userauth protocol debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:350/ssh_common_wrap: local ip = 192.168.1.3, local port = 2799 debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:352/ssh_common_wrap: remote ip = 192.168.1.12, remote port = 22 debug: SshConnection/sshconn.c:1853/ssh_conn_wrap: Wrapping... debug: Ssh2Transport/trcommon.c:593/ssh_tr_input_version: Remote version: SSH-2.0-2.2.0 SSH Secure Shell (non-commercial) debug: Ssh2Client/sshclient.c:399/keycheck_key_match: Host key found from database. debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:189/ssh_common_special: special packet received from connection protocol: 3 debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:189/ssh_common_special: special packet received from connection protocol: 4 debug: Unable to open /root/.ssh2/identification debug: Ssh2AuthClient/sshauthc.c:309/ssh_authc_completion_proc: Method 'publickey' disabled. debug: Ssh2AuthPasswdClient/authc-passwd.c:82/ssh_client_auth_passwd: Starting password query... root's password: debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:189/ssh_common_special: special packet received from connection protocol: 6 Authentication successful. debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:538/ssh_common_new_channel: num_channels now 1 debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. Failed to allocate pty! debug: Ssh2ChannelSession/sshchsession.c:1683/ssh_channel_start_session_completion2: starting session failed: result 0 debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:512/ssh_common_destroy_channel: num_channels now 0 debug: Got session close with exit_status=0 debug: destroying client struct... Connection to tester closed. debug: uninitializing event loop This may be related to an X problem: I can run X, and start applications up normally. But I can't seem to launch an xterm from the pop-up menu or from emacs' shell mode. Emacs reports that the shells (xterm and nxterm) both dump core, but gives no further error message. ccurley@charlesc $ uname -a Linux charlesc 2.2.13-7mdk #1 Wed Sep 15 18:02:18 CEST 1999 i686 unknown -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley PGP signature
RE: [expert] Sound Device
Normally this is the result of a misconfigured device. I.E. the device is not utilizing the resources the modules are trying to initialize it for. Your best bet is to remove all the sound modules from memory... I.E. "lsmod" awe_wave 170956 0 sb 36884 0 uart401 6480 0 [sb] sound 64184 0 [awe_wave sb uart401] soundlow 300 0 [sound] soundcore 3524 7 [sb sound] Then "rmmod" each one until they are all gone. Note you'll have to modify the order... Finally try running soundcfg again from the console. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf |Of Harry Flaxman |Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 4:18 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Sound Device | | |I have a Soundblaster PCI 512. The device won't init during the Linux |IPL process. Says the device is busy.Yes, I see my sound card |listed in |/etc/conf.modules. I was assuming there is a lock file for the |device. The |configurator, soundconfig won't do anything with it either, says it's busy. | |Thanks. | |Harry | | |Craig Woods wrote: | | If you could give a bit more info: did you cat /etc/conf.modules, and do | you see your sound card? What kind of card do you want Linux to use? | | CRAIG | | | |-- |___ | |Harry Flaxman |http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman |ICQ # 22086907 | | |
Re: [expert] RH and other distro users
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: Alan, I've heard that Mandrake is RedHat enhanced. I don't know this for a fact, but I've seem a lot of similarities between the two. You could say they're 1st cousins. Not any more. It *used* to be "RedHat + enhancements." Now it's a separate distro. However, it's about 95%+ RedHat compatible in that RedHat rpms will work on Mandrake and vice versa. John
Re: [expert] RH and other distro users
Well spoken - Hear -Hear... On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: It is a clear and distinct message to me when other distro users show up on this mailing list for help... A very hopeful message for the future of amicability. By george, I'll help them with no distinction. Of course my advice may not be as well researched, because I haven't seen the other distros in a while and I don't know immediately where to look for the tech support doc, but then they should know free advice is well worth what they pay for it. So why are those folks here? 1) Their distro has a "cathedral-style mailing list", with _bona-fide_ "experts" instead of users struggling to help each other out. We all have seen what happens to people who become too impressed with themselves and their own knowledge. 2) The mailing lists for their distro are flame magnets. 3) Their own distro has NO mailing list As long as they don't advocate their distros here, I don't think I have a problem. If other distro users are showing up here and they are well-received, they'll be with us soon enough. Now is not the time to deviate from a winning strategy, or from being our friendly selves. I really don't think helping out people in need is raising the entropy of the universe, nor do I believe it constitutes tortious conduct. Best regards, Civileme -- Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services 1801 Wayne Dr. Payette, Idaho 83661 Ph. (208) 642-7101 (888) 642-7101 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Computer Sales - Service and Repair Internet Web Site Design
[expert] Kernel Panic in Supermount
When I leave my machine for 7-8 hours, my monitor goes into power saving and never comes back. When I looked at the log files, I saw a kernel panic! This is the log message Kernel panic: SUPERMOUNT panic (device 0/3): supermount_put_write_access: filesystem not write accessed This is the detailed log with timings : Jul 5 22:56:42 vx15 modprobe: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep Jul 5 22:56:42 vx15 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 Jul 6 00:40:00 vx15 modprobe: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep Jul 6 00:40:00 vx15 insmod: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep Jul 6 04:02:00 vx15 anacron[5788]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2000-07-06 Jul 6 04:02:03 vx15 kernel: Kernel panic: SUPERMOUNT panic (device 0/3): supermount_put_write_access: filesystem not write accessed Jul 6 04:02:03 vx15 kernel: I am running Linux Mandrake 7.1 (kernel 2.2.15-??mdk) I have a CD-RW (PlexWriter 8/4/32A). any ideas? thanks sarang
Re: [expert] Sound Device
Followed your advice Jose...did a lsmod and a rmmod for all the sound modules. Problems with soundconfig sitll did not go away. Now, I went into the modules/misc directory and got rid of the hardware driver entirelysb0. The system complained that it was busy. I have moved the file so I can restore it if I have to. I now get an error message in soundconfig that says 'error in modprobe call'. None of the sound modules load. Do I need to move this device back or what? Are there any replacement device files that I can use. I've heard the Ensoniq 646 driver works with my card, but have no way to implement it now. Thanks for the helpful starting advice! Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769
Re: [expert] Extending Timeout on kmail
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi, With kmail, I frequently get "Timeout while waiting for server" error messages. This is especially so when I'm not dialling in, but accessing my mail from my work place. Does anybocy know where I can change the default values to extend the timeout periods? I think it probably means that I have to recompile, but can anyone point me to where to start? This SHOULD have gone to the KMail list, so I'm CC-ing my reply there... :-) Anyway, I, too, would like to see a more configurable timeout.
RE: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?
I hope you installed MASQ and are maquerading all of the computers. CuteFTP, 3DFTP and almost all FTP clients (including the browser) work with masq properly IF you've loaded the ip_masq_ftp module. The ports you "left" open will interfere with Masq working with other applications as well. Make sure you load ALL if the Masq modules... I.E. /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_autofw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_mfw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_portfw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_user /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_icq /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_h323 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ipsec /sbin/modprobe ip_gre /sbin/modprobe ipip /sbin/modprobe rarp And have properly set up masq... Remember that you -MUST- turn on routing in Linuxconf (or manually), even though the first thing your firewall rules should do is deny routing! Then try a simple MASQ setup... I.E. sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.0.0.0/8 -d 0.0.0.0/0 And check to see how FTP works with this. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: turgut kalfaoglu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:07 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] best way to firewall FTP? | | |-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | |I recently installed my first firewall at a customer's site |running Mandrake 7.1.. | |It was a classic setup, and I wish I had more examples than the |HOWTO manuals. | |The Linux PC has two ethernet cards, one hooked up to the internet, |the other, to their local network. | |Local network wants to use FTP, naturally.. Both via browsers, via |"cute things" |like GetRight, or just via their web browsers. I was forced to leave open |a large hole, like ports 1024 - 5999 and 6010: .. Is there a |better way, short |of installing Squid (the machine doesnt have the horsepower for squid).. | |Thanks, -turgut | |- -- |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Put "Send PGP" in Subject to obtain my |PGP signature. |Find-It! Web Search Engine: http://find.egenet.com.tr |http://bbsturk.bbs.tr | |-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- |Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 |Charset: noconv | |iQCVAwUBOWMk8zJjYwErN0xZAQGUWwP+LDKIvGQbPqg3Wr7sSAc47+xRDvnqD0kG |oY6OGIHHi5e32jaHwghql85+W3csBrebsG/iYre9FyFM9p+ZCbU8bUgFQQL+cXy9 |x1D/K1eSn8fT8e8v/iGBDLzxCcgWLFuQvxR8gqmmI8GkgKOv/k8yzyrH0W16N3L7 |0wXTxi6vq0k= |=k4RT |-END PGP SIGNATURE- | | |Windows Error 01C: Uncertainty error. Uncertainty may be inadequate. |
[expert] [OT] differences between sparc64 and i386
Sorry to go off topic, but I would like to get the perspective of the very knowledgable people on this list. Background: I am writing a program using the "R" language (a high level statistical language, similar to the "S" language). I am able to dynamically load *.so.0 libraries (written in C) to do computationally intense tasks in R functions. I am doing all the memory management using calloc() and free() and am absolutely, 100% sure there are no memory leaks. The function that calls the C code is repeated many times over. Problem: When I run the program on an i386 linux machine, the memory aggregates as the number of times the function runs within the R program, until I exit the R interpreter, at which time all the memory is released. However, running the recompiled (for sparc64 linux) program on a recompiled (for sparc64 linux) version of R, there is no such memory aggregation (or at least it is minimal compared to i386). Question: Could this be a 32bit vs. 64bit thing (I did not write any architecture specific C code, standard ANSI-C with double type arrays and matrices)? Is this a difference between how memory is handled between the two ports? I know that there could be a difference in the way the R program is written for the two architectures, but aside from that, is there something at the OS level that could be one explanation for this? Again, sorry to go off-topic, but I enjoy reading and respect the opinions of the contributors to this list. Many thanks, Chris P.S. email me personally if this question is too off the deep end for the list.
[expert] kernel panic in supermount
When I leave my machine for 7-8 hours, my monitor goes into power saving and never comes back. When I looked at the log files, I saw a kernel panic! This is the log message Kernel panic: SUPERMOUNT panic (device 0/3): supermount_put_write_access: filesystem not write accessed This is the detailed log with timings : Jul 5 22:56:42 vx15 modprobe: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep Jul 5 22:56:42 vx15 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 Jul 6 00:40:00 vx15 modprobe: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep Jul 6 00:40:00 vx15 insmod: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep Jul 6 04:02:00 vx15 anacron[5788]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2000-07-06 Jul 6 04:02:03 vx15 kernel: Kernel panic: SUPERMOUNT panic (device 0/3): supermount_put_write_access: filesystem not write accessed Jul 6 04:02:03 vx15 kernel: I am running Linux Mandrake 7.1 (kernel 2.2.15-??mdk) I have a CD-RW (PlexWriter 8/4/32A). any ideas? thanks sarang PS: I have been trying to send this email for a while.. sorry if you get this twice!
Re: [expert] NEC PowerMate 2000
Congratulations! Laptops are fun things to install Linux on, aren't they. My Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT has a few strange quirks you have to look out for when you install, but nothing quite so picky as your NEC. Everything goes fine, except that if I pick 800x600 LCD for the display, I can only get 640x480 for the resolution, so I cheat and pick a generic monitor capable of 1024x768@70Hz (what it will drive on the external VGA port), and configure it for 800x600x24 (bw icons in Netscape don't bother me that much, I've actually gotten used to them). 1.) Sound isn't configured, so I configure it. 2.) No problems. 3.) Shut the laptop down and take it into work the next day. 4.) Boot up and discover that I've lost my keyboard by the time I get to the login prompt. * 5.) Discover that GRUB doesn't just take 'single' appended to the commands it sends. 6.) Tell it not to start sound during bootup. 7.) Login as root. 8.) 'cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d' 9.) 'mv S45pcmcia S98pcmcia' 10.) 'reboot' 11.) everything works fine. * Somebody's GOT to fix this one. I know it has something to do with the sound driver, because if I tell it not to start sound during bootup I still have the keyboard until I start the sound and return to the login prompt. - Theo Civileme wrote: From the NEW-TOYS Dept. It arrived and was placed in the arms of this system administrator. i810 Chipset, LCD Screen 64Mb of SO-DIMM memory, a tiny foortprint and WinNT. First item was to find a witness to erasing the NT partitions (they were FOUR 15-bit FATs, no less) on the 6.4G HDD. WinNT was never booted so we will be applying to NEC under EULA for a refund as we return the unopened CDs and still sealed manual with its certificate of authenticity. Now on to Mandrake 7.1 The install went smoothly, normal use, expert mode (why expert? I'll get to that) Everything is in--network is set up and doesn't work (no security downloads) and then we have the X server. No configuration works--Cancel and do not run X at Startup Startup--login as root and run Xconfigurator. Now it works on the test, but sets up in 800x600 in 15-bit color Well when the graphical login comes it is 640x480--I need three monitors tro accommodate all the info. Luckily Alt-click grabs windows anywhere to move them around. Networking showed the NIC recognized but "Enabled" wasn't ticked. I ticked and quit quit/activatechanges and lo we had networking light and networking too. Change X resolution was next--would not accept any sane combo. So click on the house-up one level, /etc/X11/XF86Config change VideoRAM to 8192, and uncomment the line. By now, most people would have turned the air blue because the screen blanks for redisplays if you look at it crossways Very annoying! quit DrakConf, ctrl-slt-backspace login as root run DrakConf-Change X Resolution-Show all NOW we can select 1024x768 in 16 million colors (actually 16777216) or 4 billion colors 800x600 For some weird reason agpgart.o for the i810 will not accept 800x600 so we go 1024x768 in 16 bit depth so netscape doesn't look too crappy. The 24 bit depth works but netscape doesn't like it. THis results in a steady screen after quitting and another ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X. BY golly, count the Powermate 2000 as linux-neutral. It is a bit of a pain in the posterior to set up but it does work. Civileme
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ? ok what is the question excatly i didn't followed the thread... Thanks. :-) The question was why you folks put the stuff in /tmp and later in /root/tmp that causes X to go bad when you delete it? You we put nothing in /root/tmp only DrakConf has a stupid bug to leave temporary files in ~/tmp/ recall the hubub when 7.x came out and people started emptying their /tmp directory only to find they had to reinstall X to get it working again??? We recently had another case of that in here and told 'em the sad, sad story about how you DON'T delete stuff in /tmp or /root/tmp. :-) John don't delete while running X server but you safely delete them before running X (and it's what we do in the initscripts). -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Try it at http://forum.mandrakesoft.com Our own version of slashdotg I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! i can deign everything since there is emacs binding ;) -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
[expert] Security warnings
You DO have webmin running on 1. Unless you plan to do remote control, fire up netscape and http://127.0.0.1:1 login is root password is root's password Go to Webmin Configuration-IP Access control and tick "allow only from listed addresses" then type in 127.0.0.1 and any other addresses you care to access webmin from and SAVE. Then look around--you have one of the most powerful administration tools in your own control. Want to configure servers, stop processes, set up boot defaults, look at disk partitioning? It's all there and more. Civileme Hello, Yes, I am using Webmin - really nice tool! It is password-protected, so I'm not that concerned at the moment. Is that all that the long text was trying to tell me, or are there other ports open? Bob
Re: [expert] Sound Device
Harry Flaxman wrote: I have a Soundblaster PCI 512. The device won't init during the Linux IPL process. Says the device is busy.Yes, I see my sound card listed in /etc/conf.modules. I was assuming there is a lock file for the device. The configurator, soundconfig won't do anything with it either, says it's busy. Your problem is not with lock files. If the module (sound driver) is not correct, then often it gives this error. I have a PCI 128 and I couldn't get it to work with the default ens1371 driver. The driver dosn't work properly with new Creative PCI (128, 256 etc) cards. The best option for you is to download the Alsa sound drivers from www.alsa-sound.org and install them. Installing them is a little bit pain.. but the end result it that it works!!! I wonder why we're still using OSS when Alsa is so much better! -sarang
Re[2]: [expert] Security warnings
hallo Civileme! on Thursday, July 06, 2000, 8:22:13 AM, you wrote: C "Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: Hi Gang, I keep getting this in my mail and also in my logs. Is this normal? *** Diff Check, Wed Jul 5 04:01:57 EDT 2000 *** Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine : - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 747/httpd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 784/perl - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 718/master - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:cfengine *:* LISTEN 600/cfd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* LISTEN 587/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 587/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* LISTEN 587/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 587/inetd - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN 490/portmap - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* 784/perl - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* 490/portmap - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 30057/httpd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 825/perl - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 748/master - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:cfengine *:* LISTEN 630/cfd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:nntp *:* LISTEN 617/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 617/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* LISTEN 617/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 617/inetd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN 520/portmap - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* 825/perl - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* 520/portmap *** Security Check, Wed Jul 5 04:02:06 EDT 2000 *** Security Warning: World Writeable files found : - /home/bob/http - /tmp - /tmp/.X11-unix - /tmp/.X11-unix/X9 - /tmp/.font-unix - /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 - /var/lib/svgalib - /var/lib/texmf - /var/lib/texmf/ls-R - /var/spool/fax/outgoing - /var/spool/fax/outgoing/locks - /var/spool/postfix/maildrop - /var/spool/postfix/private/bounce - /var/spool/postfix/private/bsmtp - /var/spool/postfix/private/cleanup - /var/spool/postfix/private/cyrus - /var/spool/postfix/private/defer - /var/spool/postfix/private/error - /var/spool/postfix/private/ifmail - /var/spool/postfix/private/local - /var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite - /var/spool/postfix/private/smtp - /var/spool/postfix/private/uucp - /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup - /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr - /var/spool/postfix/public/showq - /var/spool/samba - /var/tmp These are the ports listening on your machine : Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 747/httpd tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 784/perl tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 718/master tcp0 0 *:cfengine *:* LISTEN
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
Have you tried re-creating this directory? sorry if you already stated this in an earlier post. I don't have that one in my inbox any longer, but it seems to me that would be the next logical step in the process. I would think that /tmp would be an important part of the file system and a server such as "X" wouldn't be able to run without it. Maybe I'm speaking out of turn here, but where else would it write the temp files to if not to /tmp. I'm not sure about the permissions, but it's worth a try. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 1299563 On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to direct a question to the Mandrake team. Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of the Mandrake team hang out in this list apparently the ones who hang out either don't know the answer or choose to remain silent on that one No idea which. :-) John
Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I strongly hope and strongly suggest Mandrake realises the value of this during the KDE install and omits all those ugly desktop mount icons in future in favour of standardising on kdf for all runtime disk partition management under the KDE GUI. No more deaf ears, Mandrake? everything is relative to each person 8). -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?
Civileme wrote: Simon Robertson wrote: SNIP previous messages I am trying to install kde2, but with kdevelop it keeps asking for a dependency libg++.so.2.7.2, would you have any idea where I could get this. I think I definatly need this library as I am at the stage where I unchecked dependencies and everytime I now enter kde2 at login it brings up the bug window and wants me to send an E-mail, which I attempt but nothing happens. Thankyou if you can help, Simon. SNIP again As Ron said--no kdevelop now is the time to use rpm -e on it all; then remove the directories for kde2; then reinstall everything EXCEPT kdevelop. That lib is missing right now and kdevelop is broken without it. Relax--two more betas are planned. Civileme Civileme, I found the old red hat library 'libg++-2.7.2.8-9.i386.rpm' in www.freshmeat.net, though there seems to be a problem of a lot of red hat icons in K menu overruling kde icons when they are common. So I would not recommend the use of this library even though it works. Also a lot of desktop icons are not recognised ie '?' and there is no access to the .kdelnk properties, would you have any idea what is wrong? Thankyou, Simon and has been tested by me with Mandrake 7.1 (except kdevelop has a missing library). Is this critical? Yes. Result: no kdevelop.
[expert] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (fwd)
Ok...I've been trying to understand why I'm getting these message all evening. They only started this evening and I'm not getting them from every domain I'm mailing to. Only a few of them. could someone please enlighten me as to why I'm getting them and how to help "postfix" get through this without going postal on his sorry, overworked, mail-sorting behind? It's getting somewhat frustrating. thanks, -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:57:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender This is the Postfix program at host localhost.localdomain. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mx1.anc.net[208.133.27.6] said: 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must exist Tom, Tell that mis-understanding part to one of my 3 HDD's on my system. Used FIPS on it once a long time ago when I was new to Linux, and it hasn't been the same since. That "useful" little utility scrambled it's eggs so bad that I wasn't sure I was going to get it back. I wasn't able to get it back until I went at it with Partition Magic, and luckily was able to rescue most of the data on the drive curtousy of Norton Utilities. I got lucky. Some I've known weren't so lucky after using FIPS. So, it's not a "belief" it's a cold, hard reality of experience. One that thankfully I've learned from. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: something else I forgot to mention. NEVER use FIPS on a HDD that you intend to use all the time, or one that you intend to keep. Use FIPS and you're welcoming any and all problems that you can imagine on your HDD. Overlapping partitions is one of the most common problems associated with the program and just the beginning of your sorrows. -- Mark Mark, you're welcome to that belief if you wanna keep it, but user lack of understanding and use shouldn't be blamed on perfectly good utilities. Biggest problems with partitioning and formatting drives for any OS, with any OS's tools, is most all of us do it only on rare occasions an aren't that sharp at using the tools. Next source of heartache would prob'ly be the hardware some of us trustingly buy. Last on the list would be the OS and the utilities that come with it, includin FIPS. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
On 06 Jul 2000 11:21:29 -0700, you wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ? ok what is the question excatly i didn't followed the thread... Thanks. :-) The question was why you folks put the stuff in /tmp and later in /root/tmp that causes X to go bad when you delete it? You we put nothing in /root/tmp only DrakConf has a stupid bug to leave temporary files in ~/tmp/ When I boot Mandrake 7.1, the run list says at one point "clean-up /tmp". So /tmp is cleared out on every boot. /root/tmp is where the X files are that you shouldn't delete. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Framebuffer/SMP
Are all precompiled SMP kernels now going to be framebuffer-enabled? I DON'T WANT framebuffer. I DO WANT SMP. There's my vote. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
The people on cooker have answers, but you just have to be careful not to ask too many non-cooker related questions, I guess. From: Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start Date: 06 Jul 2000 11:22:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [216.71.84.35] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBB2E90A800A5D82197D1D8475423132E0; Thu Jul 06 19:51:21 2000 Received: (from sympa@localhost)by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA30726for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:49:49 -0500 Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20613 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:49:56 -0500 Received: from cassini.us.mandrakesoft.com (pool0541.cvx19-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.246.31]) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02828 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chmou@localhost) by cassini.us.mandrakesoft.com (8.10.1/8.8.7/Chmouel Boudjnah - Sendmail - 04/12/98) id e66IM6U09369; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:22:06 -0700 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 06 19:55:30 2000 X-Authentication-Warning: cassini.us.mandrakesoft.com: chmou set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0007052200500F.01684@slave1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00070609023905.30325@front Organisation: MandrakeSoft In-Reply-To: John Aldrich's message of "Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:02:08 -0400" Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.6 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 564 Precedence: list John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Try it at http://forum.mandrakesoft.com Our own version of slashdotg I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! i can deign everything since there is emacs binding ;) -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] NEC PowerMate 2000
Theo Brinkman wrote: Congratulations! Laptops are fun things to install Linux on, aren't they. My Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT has a few strange quirks you have to look out for when you install, but nothing quite so picky as your NEC. Everything goes fine, except that if I pick 800x600 LCD for the display, I can only get 640x480 for the resolution, so I cheat and pick a generic monitor capable of 1024x768@70Hz (what it will drive on the external VGA port), and configure it for 800x600x24 (bw icons in Netscape don't bother me that much, I've actually gotten used to them). 1.) Sound isn't configured, so I configure it. 2.) No problems. 3.) Shut the laptop down and take it into work the next day. 4.) Boot up and discover that I've lost my keyboard by the time I get to the login prompt. * 5.) Discover that GRUB doesn't just take 'single' appended to the commands it sends. 6.) Tell it not to start sound during bootup. 7.) Login as root. 8.) 'cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d' 9.) 'mv S45pcmcia S98pcmcia' 10.) 'reboot' 11.) everything works fine. * Somebody's GOT to fix this one. I know it has something to do with the sound driver, because if I tell it not to start sound during bootup I still have the keyboard until I start the sound and return to the login prompt. - Theo Yeeks--I don't like the thought of losing the keyboard. I tested sound today and it was there. The NEC PowerMate 2000 is a Desktop with a 15-inch LCD and everything else built into the base. No modem. It comes in P-III 500 and Celeron 433 (100MHz FSB) flavors for about the same price. I found some for about $1000 below list and snapped them up with available year-end funds. Color it Linux-UNfriendly. The user wanted the Corel Linux OS that came with the WordPerfect Office 2000 instead of the Mandrake install that I had fun with. His experience was 3 reboots every 5 minutes and no harm done to the Mandrake already resident. Tying Kbd to Sound is a most interesting shortcut. I'll remember that one. Civileme
ip_masq modules Was: Re: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: [snap] /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_icq /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_h323 /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ipsec These modules don't exist in the 2.2.16 tarball I grabbed from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2. Where did you get them? Also, these modules weren't compiled: ip_masq_app.c ip_masq_autofw.c ip_masq_mfw.c ip_masq_mod.c ip_masq_portfw.c How do I compile them myself? Thanks, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Security warnings
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: You DO have webmin running on 1. Unless you plan to do remote control, fire up netscape and http://127.0.0.1:1 login is root password is root's password Go to Webmin Configuration-IP Access control and tick "allow only from listed addresses" then type in 127.0.0.1 and any other addresses you care to access webmin from and SAVE. Then look around--you have one of the most powerful administration tools in your own control. Want to configure servers, stop processes, set up boot defaults, look at disk partitioning? It's all there and more. Civileme Hello, Yes, I am using Webmin - really nice tool! It is password-protected, so I'm not that concerned at the moment. Is that all that the long text was trying to tell me, or are there other ports open? Bob Yes, others are open, fairly standard ones. I'd tend to want to kill off wu-ftpd and make sure innd has the appropriate false setting for verifycancels in innd.conf. Civileme
Re: [expert] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (fwd)
Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...I've been trying to understand why I'm getting these message all evening. They only started this evening and I'm not getting them from every domain I'm mailing to. Only a few of them. could someone please enlighten me as to why I'm getting them and how to help "postfix" get through this without going postal on his sorry, overworked, mail-sorting behind? It's getting somewhat frustrating. thanks, -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:57:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender This is the Postfix program at host localhost.localdomain. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mx1.anc.net[208.133.27.6] said: 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must exist Welcome to DUL hell! Some folks chose a simple solution to an obvious problem and decided nonexistent domains and Dial-Up Listed IPs should be trapped and bounced "to prevent spam". Their singular lack of success should tell the story. I have some unkind conjectures about these decision makers. I keep imagining them using a sledgehammer to crack an egg, an elephant gun to swat a fly, and a fire hose to get a drink. But if you want to, there IS something you can do about it. First go to www.yi.org and get yourself a name. then spec what you would like forwarded (as in host resolution)... I would recommend the CNAME record. Then get his script and call it from rc.local adding a while [1] do; at the top, a test to see if ppp is active (look for the lock file) with the update in his script to be performed if it tests true and a sleep 600 after the fi and before the done. Then go to DrakConf-Networking-Basic Host and change your host name to whatever you have chosen, like Upset_with_Instant_Gratification_Solution_Seekers.WeaverMark.yi.org Alternatively, change your mailer routing to use the SMTP on port 25 of your ISP's mail server. The second is easier, but the first is more fun g. Civileme
[expert] Problem downloading 7.1 ISO file
Hi, I tried to download the iso file of the 7.1 LM from the download sites listed in their website. The download always became stalled after 7%. I tried many sites but found the same problem. Has anybody out there seen the same problem? Is there a site which has so such problem? Thanks a lot, Chunnuan
RE: ip_masq modules Was: Re: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?
Various places. h323 is available seperately PPP patch for VPN, etc. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Johnson, Jr. |Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:15 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: ip_masq modules Was: Re: [expert] best way to firewall FTP? | | |"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: |[snap] | /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc | /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_icq | /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_h323 | /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp | /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp | /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ipsec | |These modules don't exist in the 2.2.16 tarball I grabbed |from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2. Where did |you get them? | |Also, these modules weren't compiled: |ip_masq_app.c |ip_masq_autofw.c |ip_masq_mfw.c |ip_masq_mod.c |ip_masq_portfw.c |How do I compile them myself? | |Thanks, |Ron |-- |+--+ || Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | || Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| || Most underused word: think | |+--+ |
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
Mark Weaver wrote: Have you tried re-creating this directory? sorry if you already stated this in an earlier post. I don't have that one in my inbox any longer, but it seems to me that would be the next logical step in the process. I would think that /tmp would be an important part of the file system and a server such as "X" wouldn't be able to run without it. Maybe I'm speaking out of turn here, but where else would it write the temp files to if not to /tmp. I'm not sure about the permissions, but it's worth a try. No, no. In 7.0, Manrake put PERMANENT files into /tmp. Contrary wo what Chmouel said, it FAILED if /tmp was deleted and re-created, even if X wasn't up at the time, and even if you rebooted. The easy fix is to re-install the font server. (Of course, you must also re-create /tmp and all that, but the Mandrake bug was much worse than that. It does appear, however, that it's fixed in 7.1.) -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 1299563 On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to direct a question to the Mandrake team. Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of the Mandrake team hang out in this list apparently the ones who hang out either don't know the answer or choose to remain silent on that one No idea which. :-) John -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] gnome-core install problem
I got the following error when trying to install the gnome-core package from the "cooker" : rpm -Uvh gnome-core-1.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm gnome-core unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic Segmentation fault Has anyone else seen this? (I have installed the other dependent packages.) I am running 7.1 on a dual-processor pentium. Brian. -- Brian Schroeder | ,-_|\ Origin Energy Resources Ltd |Forever is a long bargain. / \ Adelaide Australia | \_,-*_/ GPO Box 2576 Adelaide 5001 | GERMAN PROVERB v PH +61 8 8217 5782 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Try it at http://forum.mandrakesoft.com Our own version of slashdotg I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! John It seems pretty obvious that they DIDN'T think about it. It's been fixed in 7.1 anyway, as I understand it. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
