[expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
Hi all, Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Format c: ? (that'll save you from a lot of future grief as well :) ) -- ./mvh Christian Jul Jensen I'm not quite sure what I'm participating in. I joined the conversation because I wanted to type the word esperanto and email it to thousands of people for no reason at all. :-) -- Allen Smith @ TYPO3-devel-list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
That would be nice, but my Infrastructure Manager would not be impressed. -Original Message- From: Christian Jul Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:20 AM To: Expert (E-mail) Subject: Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Format c: ? (that'll save you from a lot of future grief as well :) ) -- ./mvh Christian Jul Jensen I'm not quite sure what I'm participating in. I joined the conversation because I wanted to type the word esperanto and email it to thousands of people for no reason at all. :-) -- Allen Smith @ TYPO3-devel-list -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 01:20, Christian Jul Jensen wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Format c: ? (that'll save you from a lot of future grief as well :) ) Cold. Truly Cold. (but I like) James -- ./mvh Christian Jul Jensen I'm not quite sure what I'm participating in. I joined the conversation because I wanted to type the word esperanto and email it to thousands of people for no reason at all. :-) -- Allen Smith @ TYPO3-devel-list __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
Umm...for a server, use desktop to connect to the win box and the select shutdown. I usually have a toolbox set up somewhere with all the fun little reskit tools. Theres one called shutdown.exe that works a treat on a workstation or server - easiest way is connect to the toolbox and then run shutdown from there to shutdown the target. Format C: is probably the best way though On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:33, Tony S. Sykes wrote: That would be nice, but my Infrastructure Manager would not be impressed. -Original Message- From: Christian Jul Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:20 AM To: Expert (E-mail) Subject: Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Format c: ? (that'll save you from a lot of future grief as well :) ) -- Andrew George --- Memory fault - where am I? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
just ssh in and shutdown, cygwin has both, or u could install one of the hundreads of trojans that have this feature for windows :) JG ps its not polite eticate to have such a large signature Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Thanks, Tony. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] XDMCP connexino failed
Hi, i have a server with Mandrake Linux 9.0 installed with X session (GNOME used) launch at startup. I tried to connect on this server with a X client on a windows laptop. When i launch it, it browse the network to setup a list of available server. But i can't see my server. If i try to connect directly by supplying the IP address of this server it failed too. Where should i have to look for this? I ve tried to watch in the gdm.conf, in the /etc/X11/xdm directory but i found nothing relevant to my problem. Regards Laurent Mesuré Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ncurses-devel mdk
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:21 -0800 Bharath Sankaranarayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ncurses-5.2-25mdk but I could not find on rpmfind.net the same development version You need libncurses5-devel-5.2-25mdk It will be on you 9.0 cds and in the 9.0 dir of any of the Mandrake mirrors. In Mandrake 97% of the time when you need a devel pkg it will libfoo#-devel, with foo being the name and # being the .so version which the devel package provides. Charles Hire the morally handicapped. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No Floppy?
I tried the first step and for whatever reason, it would mount the floppy, but gave IO errors whenever I tried to access the mount point. So, I did the second item. The syntax I had to use was: mknod 0 b 2 0 and I created the 0 device in the directory you specified and linked it. I then retried mounting and lo and behold, the magic happened! Thank You James! Now I need to add the floppy to the removable device menu at the desktop. Again, Thank You! On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:15 am, you wrote: This should allow you to create at least one floppy device ... First I would enter / make sure a line like none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 (it's actully all one line but word wrap in the e-mail client makes it more) then put a floppy in and try and mount it manually see if devfs created it... IF not. It can be created manually. As root cd to /dev mkdir floppy cd floppy mknod b 0 floppy 2 0(note those are both zero's not oh's) cd ../ ln -s floppy/0 fd0 This will create a config situation identical to all of the mdk 9.0 boxes I've checked. For whatever reason MAKEDEV is still there but no longer works in it's place we have mknod that requires more work to configure...*sigh* James On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 19:05, Tom wrote: What have I overlooked? As root, I tried: cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV fd and it comes up with a don't have permission error Then I tried: modprobe floppy and still no floppy devices. I am using the 7 CD box set of Mandrake 9.0 I am trying to configure the Internet services before connecting the machine to Internet and was attempting to use the floppy for transferring configuration files from another Mandrake machine (8.1) __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] StarOffice Quickstart for Gnome2?
Hi Everyone, Just downloaded my copy of StarOffice from MandrakeClub. Does anyone know of a GNOME2 quickstart applet/script for StarOffice or OpenOffice? I have already tried the ooqstart-gnome rpms and also tried to build it from source but was unsuccessfull. Anyone? --Sandeep Today's tip: Uninstall the default Mozilla installation in Mandrake9 (All the mozilla packages) and install Mozilla 1.1 from http://www.mozilla.org in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/ (same location as default Mandrake mozilla installation). Now, Try using it directly or from Galeon. You will be amazed at it's speed and smooth scrolling!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help with fetchmail/fetchmailconf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been running postfix on my system for a long time, primarily for sending mail, receiving mail from my yahoo pop mail account. I am now trying to setup fetchmail to work with postfix and procmail plus spamassassin to act for both incoming and outgoing mail. I have fetchmail 6.1.0 and fetchmailconf. I ran fetchmailconf to configure fetchmail during an initial test but now the test is over and I want to change its polling behavior. I try to run fetchmailconf now and it errors out with this: [praedor@lapdog praedor]$ fetchmailconf Can't read configuration output of fetchmail --configdump. This has happened twice. I can only run fetchmailconf once. After that, it is impossible because it errors out. What is the problem here and how do I fix it? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93PpU1i/6R1B/Yh0RAuBWAKCCEqUgqyHBi1HXJBFWzDCVscDyAACePQ4S fjwcr2+8rEVCiTe5PYv6H2U= =Of+E -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] A test-ignore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Testing. Nothing to see here. Carry on. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93QSE1i/6R1B/Yh0RAtXFAJ9bxspDEQLGTmqsZ2Op1G6g34PV1wCghVTm +a/h3mDWkOOB0m+phigcmZc= =Vemv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Testing once more
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Still nothing to see here. Keep moving. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93Qis1i/6R1B/Yh0RArUSAJ0cXRP0/pdUtKlVo+zKu9gQ5Ubi2ACeIOzN ncxjbJmBSCcqt1PzzcpcTpQ= =XSxM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Digital camera advertisment
Hello friends, I would like to buy a digital camera with usb conection; I would like to have it fully runing with my Mandrake 9.0 and gphoto2. But, I am very confused; lots a lots of cameras; someone are listed as mandrake 9.0 supported hardware; some more in the gPhoto2) supported cameras. Obviously the newest cameras are still not supported, particularly those with USB Mass-storage driver. Do you have experience in those digital cameras?, if the answer is yes, I would like to know your comments and experience; please!, help me to select one appropriate. Thanks so much in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Digital camera advertisment
On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:38 am, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Hello friends, I would like to buy a digital camera with usb conection; I would like to have it fully runing with my Mandrake 9.0 and gphoto2. But, I am very confused; lots a lots of cameras; someone are listed as mandrake 9.0 supported hardware; some more in the gPhoto2) supported cameras. Obviously the newest cameras are still not supported, particularly those with USB Mass-storage driver. Do you have experience in those digital cameras?, if the answer is yes, I would like to know your comments and experience; please!, help me to select one appropriate. Thanks so much in advance I hooked up an Olympus D-380 via USB and it popped up as a removable storage device. I didn't try very hard but Gphoto2 didn't easily connect to it. I could browse to the flash on the camera and download files with ease. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Digital camera advertisment
Hi, I added the following to my /etc/fstab since the Mandrake 8.2 days and it still works fine with MDK9 too. /mnt/digicam /mnt/digicam supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,--,user,umask=0,ro 0 0 I just plugin in my digicam and copy stuff from /mnt/digicam which is shown as a drive on my desktop. Hope this helps. --Sandeep tarvid wrote: On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:38 am, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Hello friends, I would like to buy a digital camera with usb conection; I would like to have it fully runing with my Mandrake 9.0 and gphoto2. But, I am very confused; lots a lots of cameras; someone are listed as mandrake 9.0 supported hardware; some more in the gPhoto2) supported cameras. Obviously the newest cameras are still not supported, particularly those with USB Mass-storage driver. Do you have experience in those digital cameras?, if the answer is yes, I would like to know your comments and experience; please!, help me to select one appropriate. Thanks so much in advance I hooked up an Olympus D-380 via USB and it popped up as a removable storage device. I didn't try very hard but Gphoto2 didn't easily connect to it. I could browse to the flash on the camera and download files with ease. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help with fetchmail?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however. In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message there in my inbox. I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never appeared on my system here. I am using kmail and have set it for local mail. I have tried pointing it to /var/spool/mail/praedor and /var/mail/praedor with no affect. No new messages ever appear. I cannot find where fetchmail is placing the mail. Where might I look to find the location fetchmail is stashing messages? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93Q6K1i/6R1B/Yh0RAqjuAJwOTqJOgr4GzuEixOh6T5x8PYvFkACcDxwN e5daWul1KiiSYo7K/vrT++c= =AQW3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 Networking === ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That's why Odyssey is still powering my boxes -- the little engine (release)
that could.
Now Pierre, don't hold back, go ahead and tell us how you really
feel
Pierre Fortin wrote:
I don't like this resorting to this kind of post, and I'll probably start
a small war; but I need to vent...
rant
So far, 9.0 has been more irritation than help... I have a new IBM
ThinkPad A20m which moves around with me. So... as I move around, I
setup my environment for each new type of location... the unit is called
gypsy for obvious reasons.
Anyway... in NC, gypsy connects to my main LAN -- setup everything and
all worked fine in the default profile.
Next, in SC, gypsy connects to another LAN -- same parameters, except for
the DNS servers, so I setup profiles NC and SC.
Last night, I got around to setting it up for dialup... and there started
the descent into hell...
Summary:
* MCC/NetworkInternet is thoroughly confused with 3 profiles (not incl
default)
location interface status net_access
NC eth0 down connected
SC eth0 down connected
DialUp modem down connected
This SUX cuz the there's no LAN connection and the modem can't even be
dialed up because...
* devfsd keeps clobbering my /dev/modem -- I want/need it to be:
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root12 Nov 20 22:32 /dev/modem - /dev/tts/LT0
NOT:
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 5 Nov 20 22:04 /dev/modem - ttyS0
which does NOT work with an internal Lucent LinModem...
# ll /etc/devfs/conf.d/
total 16
-rw-r--r--1 root root 983 Aug 30 12:19 dynamic.conf
-rw-r--r--1 root root 105 Nov 20 22:04 modem.conf
-rw-r--r--1 root root 103 Oct 30 20:25 mouse.conf
-rw-r--r--1 root root 105 Nov 20 22:04 ttyS0.conf
Gee... any chance conf in {modem,ttyS0}.conf is really just the
abbreviation for confusion...? Somehow, I doubt {modem,ttyS0}.conf are
intended to be used at the same time...
# for f in /etc/devfs/conf.d/*; do echo - $f; cat $f;done
- /etc/devfs/conf.d/dynamic.conf
# dynamic desktop and co
REGISTER.*/part.* EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/part.script
add $devpath
UNREGISTER .*/part.* EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/part.script
del $devpath
REGISTERv4l/video.* EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/webcam.script
add $devpath
UNREGISTER v4l/video.* EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/webcam.script
del $devpath
REGISTERusb/scanner.* EXECUTE
/etc/dynamic/scripts/scanner.script add $devpath
UNREGISTER usb/scanner.* EXECUTE
/etc/dynamic/scripts/scanner.script del $devpath
REGISTERusb/rio500 EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/rio500.script
add $devpath
UNREGISTER usb/rio500 EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/rio500.script
del $devpath
REGISTERusb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script
add $devpath
UNREGISTER usb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script
del $devpath
REGISTER(usb/lp.*|printers/.*) EXECUTE
/etc/dynamic/scripts/lp.script add $devpath
UNREGISTER (usb/lp.*|printers/.*) EXECUTE
/etc/dynamic/scripts/lp.script del $devpath
- /etc/devfs/conf.d/modem.conf
REGISTER^tts/0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink tts/0 modem
UNREGISTER ^tts/0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink modem
- /etc/devfs/conf.d/mouse.conf
REGISTER^psaux$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink psaux mouse
UNREGISTER ^psaux$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink mouse
- /etc/devfs/conf.d/ttyS0.conf
REGISTER^tts/0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink tts/0 ttyS0
UNREGISTER ^tts/0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink ttyS0
* just enabling modem access resulted in shorewall being silently
enabled... When I tried to switch back to LAN mode, I was unable to
connect to ANYTHING...
Nov 19 23:25:37 gypsy drakgw[27131]: running: chkconfig --add shorewall
Nov 19 23:25:37 gypsy drakgw[27131]: running: service /dev/null
shorewall restart
Nov 19 23:25:41 gypsy logger: Shorewall Started
Nov 19 23:25:41 gypsy drakgw[27131]: Configuring a DHCP server on
192.168.1.0
Nov 19 23:25:41 gypsy drakgw[27131]: launched command:
/usr/sbin/update_dhcp.pl
Nov 19 23:25:41 gypsy drakgw[27131]: Updating CUPS configuration
accordingly
Nov 19 23:25:41 gypsy drakgw[27131]: Starting daemons
Nov 19 23:25:41 gypsy drakgw[27131]: launched command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups status /dev/null
Nov 19 23:25:42 gypsy drakgw[27131]: launched command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups stop
Nov 19 23:25:43 gypsy cups: cupsd shutdown succeeded
Nov 19 23:25:43 gypsy drakgw[27131]: launched command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd status /dev/null
Nov 19 23:25:43 gypsy drakgw[27131]: launched command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/named status /dev/null 2/dev/null
Nov 19 23:25:43 gypsy drakgw[27131]: launched command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop
Nov 19 23:25:44 gypsy named[1246]: shutting down
Nov 19
RE: [expert] ncurses-devel mdk
Thanks for all those who have posted. I will give it a shot. Bharath -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ncurses-devel mdk On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:22:21 -0800 Bharath Sankaranarayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ncurses-5.2-25mdk but I could not find on rpmfind.net the same development version You need libncurses5-devel-5.2-25mdk It will be on you 9.0 cds and in the 9.0 dir of any of the Mandrake mirrors. In Mandrake 97% of the time when you need a devel pkg it will libfoo#-devel, with foo being the name and # being the .so version which the devel package provides. Charles Hire the morally handicapped. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:49:13AM -0500, Praedor Tempus wrote: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : Hash: SHA1 : : Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with : my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop : mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo : to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however. : : In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message : there in my inbox. I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never : appeared on my system here. : : I am using kmail and have set it for local mail. I have tried pointing it to : /var/spool/mail/praedor and /var/mail/praedor with no affect. No new : messages ever appear. I cannot find where fetchmail is placing the mail. : : Where might I look to find the location fetchmail is stashing messages? Try looking through /var/log/mail/* and seeing where postfix says it's delivering the mail? /var/log/mail/info should tell you where it's being delivered to, and /var/log/mail/errors should show you if it's being bounced. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Digital camera advertisment
Thanks for the information; I will try with other camera. Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) I hooked up an Olympus D-380 via USB and it popped up as a removable storage device. I didn't try very hard but Gphoto2 didn't easily connect to it. I could browse to the flash on the camera and download files with ease. Jim Tarvid -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] nagios contrib rpms won't run cgi's, solution
Just to save someone else a few hours... If you're running at msec 4 and you install Nagios 1.0.6b from the contrib rpms... 1) the WWW interface is its own rpm, get nagios-www. 2) msec 4 mangles the permissions for nagios's logs every hour -- edit /etc/security/msec/perm.local and put this in: /var/log/nagios current 755 /var/log/nagios/* current 664 /var/log/archives current 664 back to your regularly scheduled programming, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Digital camera advertisment
It seems to be a usefull help; thanks so much -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) El Jue 21 Nov 2002 17:58, Sandeep Khanna escribió: Hi, I added the following to my /etc/fstab since the Mandrake 8.2 days and it still works fine with MDK9 too. /mnt/digicam /mnt/digicam supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,--,user,umask=0,ro 0 0 I just plugin in my digicam and copy stuff from /mnt/digicam which is shown as a drive on my desktop. Hope this helps. --Sandeep tarvid wrote: On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:38 am, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Hello friends, I would like to buy a digital camera with usb conection; I would like to have it fully runing with my Mandrake 9.0 and gphoto2. But, I am very confused; lots a lots of cameras; someone are listed as mandrake 9.0 supported hardware; some more in the gPhoto2) supported cameras. Obviously the newest cameras are still not supported, particularly those with USB Mass-storage driver. Do you have experience in those digital cameras?, if the answer is yes, I would like to know your comments and experience; please!, help me to select one appropriate. Thanks so much in advance I hooked up an Olympus D-380 via USB and it popped up as a removable storage device. I didn't try very hard but Gphoto2 didn't easily connect to it. I could browse to the flash on the camera and download files with ease. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wrong. The new message WERE coming in and being processed by procmail into their respective KMail folders. The thing is, they never show up as new and unread messages (red text), instead showing up as already read, making it hard to track them. praedor On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:49 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however. In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message there in my inbox. I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never appeared on my system here. [...] - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93REI1i/6R1B/Yh0RApMpAJ9WNi4PXYf3p2Z4GaPh7BCKyTERBgCfZbON OgwHVbFLoD2BjeYo3FTvhiM= =Ab+m -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XDMCP connexino failed
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto take two of these and call in the morning if it still hurts :-) On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 04:29, Laurent Mesuré wrote: Hi, i have a server with Mandrake Linux 9.0 installed with X session (GNOME used) launch at startup. I tried to connect on this server with a X client on a windows laptop. When i launch it, it browse the network to setup a list of available server. But i can't see my server. If i try to connect directly by supplying the IP address of this server it failed too. Where should i have to look for this? I ve tried to watch in the gdm.conf, in the /etc/X11/xdm directory but i found nothing relevant to my problem. Regards Laurent Mesuré Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Test-Final to group
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Final test here, promise - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93RQ91i/6R1B/Yh0RAuEmAJ9f/MWn31Z7sSQHeHsmvWhqbCvPTQCfXKMW VVhq7vYet6kXmsYZQVJsqhw= =SHTy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.0 Networking Woes
eth0 eepro100 eth1 e1000 Both cards are starting fine BUT for eth0, eepro100 driver, says (dmesg):: eth0: 0 multicast blocks dropped. e1000: eth1 NIC Link is Up 10Mbs Half Duplex (connected to 10Mbs LAN for now, thats why) device eth1 entered promiscuous mode I can't ping out/in from either of these interfaces! m.. Flushed iptables, stopped shorewall (disabled from starting in chkconfig) What else could a man do? Any clues? Under 8.2, same network configuration, works perfect. = __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Postfix, procmail working now, I think. A few pointers
I think I have fetchmail-postfix-procmail working now on my system but for one thing I miss. I use Kmail as my mail client and I like the color coding it does for new/unread messages vs read messages. Is there a way to bring back the coloration when one is using fetchmail + postfix as the MTA + procmail? I am not sure which of these apps, if any, are responsible for kmail no longer coloring new messages (or if it is a flaw in kmail) but any help along these lines would be greatly appreciated. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
I can think of a few options, none of them good. 1: Install VNC on both machines. 2: (if W2k Server) Install Terminal Services Remote Administration mode, Use a linux RDP client to connect to the W2K. I have seen a RDP client for Linux but can't remember where, a quick Google search should point you in the right direction. 3: (if W2K Server) Install the Telnet service on the W2k box. Execute the 'Shutdown' command via telnet. This requires the telnet service be configured to use Kerberos authentication and the Linux box be in the same kerboros domain. This would introduce many nasty security holes and I'm not sure it would work anyway. 4: Install a web server (IIS or Apache) and make CGI/ASP script to execute the 'shutdown' command. -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:55:45 - Subject: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk Hi all, Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No Floppy?
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 07:05, Tom wrote: I tried the first step and for whatever reason, it would mount the floppy, but gave IO errors whenever I tried to access the mount point. So, I did the second item. The syntax I had to use was: mknod 0 b 2 0 Been a while since I'd done it you're right. and I created the 0 device in the directory you specified and linked it. I then retried mounting and lo and behold, the magic happened! Thank You James! Hot dang got it right *grin* Now I need to add the floppy to the removable device menu at the desktop. Again, Thank You! On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:15 am, you wrote: This should allow you to create at least one floppy device ... First I would enter / make sure a line like none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 (it's actully all one line but word wrap in the e-mail client makes it more) then put a floppy in and try and mount it manually see if devfs created it... IF not. It can be created manually. As root cd to /dev mkdir floppy cd floppy mknod b 0 floppy 2 0(note those are both zero's not oh's) cd ../ ln -s floppy/0 fd0 This will create a config situation identical to all of the mdk 9.0 boxes I've checked. For whatever reason MAKEDEV is still there but no longer works in it's place we have mknod that requires more work to configure...*sigh* James On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 19:05, Tom wrote: What have I overlooked? As root, I tried: cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV fd and it comes up with a don't have permission error Then I tried: modprobe floppy and still no floppy devices. I am using the 7 CD box set of Mandrake 9.0 I am trying to configure the Internet services before connecting the machine to Internet and was attempting to use the floppy for transferring configuration files from another Mandrake machine (8.1) __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Curious question about KDE
Whatever happened to the ability to hover over a music file and have it play? Also what happened to the icons that when you hovered them changed to an open folder icon? Just curious as I have installed mdk 9 and lost these couple of things from 8.1. Brian D. Klar - CVE Network Engineer WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] evolution and dictionaries.
All, OK got 1.2 evo from the cooker installed in on my 9.0 box... the small changes they have made do improve the product. But I've got a question or two on dictionaries. On my 1.08 install I had spell checking working. But after the 1.2 install... it doesn't. Going into the preferences I can find the section to chose my dictionary... but no way to add one. Note again that under 1.08 it worked and nothing has been removed. Ideas? -- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CLI app/script for activating modem
I've always handled modem internet connections via a GUI app like kppp. What would be the method for doing this from the command prompt? praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Curious question about KDE
On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:47 am, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: Whatever happened to the ability to hover over a music file and have it play? In konqueror, select: View-Preview-Sound Files Also what happened to the icons that when you hovered them changed to an open folder icon? Just curious as I have installed mdk 9 and lost these couple of things from 8.1. Brian D. Klar - CVE Network Engineer WPAFB -- Thomas K. Gamble Los Alamos National Laboratory Advanced Diagnostics Instrumentation (C-ADI) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] devfs do not create node for parport zip drive
I have a IOMEGA ZIP drive connected on my parallel port on a freshly installed Mandrake 9.0 system. devfs is enabled. dmesg tell me: ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2 ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2 scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface Vendor: IOMEGAModel: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: CD-RW GCE-8400B Rev: 1.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 snip Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 And indeed: # ll host1/bus0/target2/lun0/ total 0 brw-rw1 alainroot 11, 0 déc 31 1969 cd but the only path available in /dev/scsi/host0 is empty: # ll host0/bus0/target6/lun0/ total 0 devfs does not create /dev/sdaX !!! Have you heard of that bug before ? How can I force devfs to create the file and the /dev/sdaX symlink ? How do we create these device file again and what should the major minor be ? Thanks! FD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CLI app/script for activating modem
On Thursday 21 November 2002 02:43 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I've always handled modem internet connections via a GUI app like kppp. What would be the method for doing this from the command prompt? praedor man pppd can be your friend Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?
On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:49 am, you wrote: Something has gone wrong here. I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with my local postfix and procmail. I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes. It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however. In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message there in my inbox. I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never appeared on my system here. I am using kmail and have set it for local mail. I have tried pointing it to /var/spool/mail/praedor and /var/mail/praedor with no affect. No new messages ever appear. I cannot find where fetchmail is placing the mail. Where might I look to find the location fetchmail is stashing messages? praedor Praedor, you did say you are using procmail, right? If so, you can do (as user) a: procmail -v and lots of useful info pops up, including the last line which shows your system mailbox. HTHs! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:42, Jim Dawson wrote: I can think of a few options, none of them good. 1: Install VNC on both machines. Could you explain why you consider VNC a not good option? Just curious. -- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Solutions Group, LLC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
I am curious as well about your reason(s), but I can see three things that could annoy me: - It is not scriptable. - It requires a GUI on the UNIX side either X or frame-buffer. - It requires a mouse on the UNIX side. bye. /Sebast : [ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]### Sub : IDE device names in Linux LOST #084 IDE devices (HDD/ CDROM) Linux names 1. Primary master /dev/hda 2. Primary slave/dev/hdb 3. Secondary master /dev/hdc 4. Secondary Slave /dev/hdd [EMAIL PROTECTED]### : -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:31 PM To: Mandrake-expert Subject: Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:42, Jim Dawson wrote: I can think of a few options, none of them good. 1: Install VNC on both machines. Could you explain why you consider VNC a not good option? Just curious. -- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Solutions Group, LLC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mailboxes size on Postfix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom wrote on Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:58:59AM -0500 : I found additional info from the Postfix folks: message_size_limit = bytes (i.e. message_size_limit = 1000 for 10 Meg) is for message size limits. mailbox_size_limit = bytes (i.e. mailbox_size_limit = 10 for 1Gig) is for mailbox size limits. In the future, run 'postconf' and it will show you all the configurable settings. Just poke thorugh there and find the one that you want to change. In your case, what was getting you was the default setting, the value that got inherited if you didn't specifically set it in the configuration file. For future reference, a REALLY good command to keep handy is; rpm -qs 'packagename' | grep bin This will list all the files in the package that have bin in it. In this case, I'm trying to find all the files in either bin or sbin directories, ie executable files. I happened upon postconf one day by accident. Blue skies... Todd - -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience.| | http://www.mandrakelinux.com |--unknown origin | Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93Vmdlp7v05cW2woRAu0EAKCid/QCqsw+qU+EoUZIKkBQcmoLIACfWCCf 3fBS2Ll/uyIME3KBc9MtGUI= =s5fF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fast user switching
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Marzocchi wrote on Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:30:58PM +0100 : In Windows XP I'm are able to switch between users without closing the apps. With enough ram (I have 256 MB on my p4 1800), the whole thing is fast and pretty useful: you don't have to close apps (when I surf I keep open at least 7 windows and/or tabs) and both people can work inside their environment. Since you are seemingly better at Linux than the other person, you let them login from the kdm screen. For YOU to get into X, you just press Ctrl-Alt-F2, login as your regular user, and run 'startx [ desktop ] -- :1'. This will start up a second X session with a second desktop running as your user. To get to the first user's desktop, press Ctrl-Alt-F7. To get to your desktop, press Ctrl-Alt-F8. Note that there is *** NO *** security when doing it this way. He could watch you press those keys and quite easily switch over to your desktop when you're not looking and smoke your home directory (and I'm not talking 420 either). Blue skies... Todd - -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience.| | http://www.mandrakelinux.com |--unknown origin | Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93Vr2lp7v05cW2woRAuZTAJ9peN/jLq09KovW0dXd9l5bDXnZ5wCeKHqD ERpQm8IpWUYOu897wVv0+lg= =Y+ML -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Obtain root privileges with unsecure software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Marzocchi wrote on Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:00:10PM +0100 : Is it possible, for a user who already has an account in a linux box, to become root by compiling and starting a program known to be vulnerable? Your question is a valid one, but there are only a few scenarios where htis is bad. 1) If the program being compiled is suid root. Well, if the user is only a user, the program he's trying to exploit cannot be owned by root because _he_ is the one trying to compile/install it. This is not possible. 2) If the program being compiled interacts with kernel space somehow, even as a regular user, it's possible it _could_ be exploited, but htis requires a kernel level exploit. If you're keeping up with the updates, this won't be possible. 3) If the program he's compiling is interacting with some other program (think bind, postfix, etc) that is exploitable, then yes, it could. But at the moment, I don't know of any exploits. 4) The idiot could be compiling and running mass exploit scanning tools. If he does that, he deserves to be castrated anyway. What you should do is rewrite his code so that it checks what IP address he's coming from and then flood pings himself. Then make all of his home directory immutable so that he can't change it. And you put it in his .bashrc so that it runs it automatically. --- or something like that. Permissions based OS's are your friend. That doesn't mean you let anybody and everybody have accounts on your box. You must watch them closely. However, them compiling things can only do damage to their user constraints. The core OS will keep running and core apps will keep running unless he exploits something at those levels. Blue skies... Todd - -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience.| | http://www.mandrakelinux.com |--unknown origin | Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93Vyjlp7v05cW2woRAnTzAJ9AdINmsSmCp7Zes0YOJYxVgdBp7QCgg/tU Nrkoo8w4zr/zxC9P88gTTv0= =gfSW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Pogliani wrote on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:14:43PM +0100 : Is there anything special I need to know in order to administer an XFS partition (some special commands, some special maintenance etc) or, for the sake of using it, it is just like an ext2 one ? There is one known bug with XFS. Apparently Mandrake grabbed one of the public XFS patches at precisely the wrong time when there was a bug in it. It is only present when running the enterprise kernel with XFS partitions that I know of. If you're using the regular or smp or secure kernels, it probably will work just fine. Blue skies... Todd - -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93V4Olp7v05cW2woRAllDAJ9siOTD8TqWTSAbj8DCQPhhpWO0VACfU111 svZTexOLUHf+gvhIZ9ym3xg= =oZz2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xinitrc problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:39:53PM +1100 : Since you are going from 8.1 to 9.0, this is a major step (8--9) and compatibility may not be assumed. This is true. The upgrade process is really intended to go from the previous release. If it happens to work ok from two or three releases back, but you are just lucky that you have the right combination of packages (or that you don't have the wrong combination :) Blue skies... Todd - -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com cat /boot/vmlinuz /dev/dsp #for great justice Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93V5vlp7v05cW2woRAh53AJ9Gp9qIw3Hdqhcfa3VSf3nR0f4LkQCdF+UB Av1uXWg/LCTImANiiFBArgc= =F6xW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hosts.deny and ftp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:50:35PM -0800 : cd to /etc/xinetd.d and edit the proftd file where it says disable = yes change it to disable = no and restart xinetd. Mandrake also provides helper scripts to do much of this for you. You can probably guess what these do, but look in the manpage if it's not clear: chkconfig proftpd off chkconfig proftpd on chkconfig --list proftpd chkconfig --add proftpd chkconfig --del proftpd Note that these do not start or stop a service, only configure them to start or stop at runlevel changes and boottime. It will modify those settings in the xinetd.d directory for each service it knows of. Blue skies... Todd - -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93V/7lp7v05cW2woRAlOaAJ45AZgwjbn0CbYcARlKfKii+8Ei2wCfTo4Z Q/Tq17U80rOqg2SegLFWvYk= =URgS -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ncurses-devel mdk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bharath Sankaranarayan wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:05:50AM -0800 : ncurses-5.2-25mdk but I could not find on rpmfind.net the same development version You need libncurses5-devel-5.2-25mdk It will be on you 9.0 cds and in the 9.0 dir of any of the Mandrake mirrors. In Mandrake 97% of the time when you need a devel pkg it will libfoo#-devel, with foo being the name and # being the .so version which the devel package provides. Another interesting point to note is that 95% of that 97% you will be able to get by with using just 'urpmi foo-devel' because of things like this: [todd@fiji ~/RPM/SRPMS]$ rpm -q --whatprovides ncurses-devel libncurses5-devel-5.2-27mdk So you could type 'urpmi ncurses-devel' and it will know that the package it needs to install that provides that is libncurses5-devel. Blue skies... Todd - -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Security is like an onion. It's made | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | made up of several layers and makes | | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | you cry. --Howard Chu| Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93WCflp7v05cW2woRAi5nAKCaa2XCceUOoreaOdoOL16vAz4qvQCfZyT7 wwbESBt0pO5idji/jaAZKbA= =f5h1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IPTABLES NAT script doesn't work in 9.0 {SOLVED}
Hi all, well I solved my problem. Thanks to all that read this. Since there is a guy which can't run his Mon Mothma firewall (funky name ain't it?) and another with problems with a webserver, let me tell you what I did. And in the end someone may tell me *why* it did work. I must confess I don't get it. As I said before, the configuration was identical as fair as I could tell. That includes the MTU of all interfaces- particularly eth0, which was set to 1460 (and still is in MDK 8.1). I set it that way since I was getting fragmentation-related problems; I snipped the packets and they were arriving from the other machine with a lenght of 1460, so I set it that way and it worked (in 8.1!). Back to the MDK9: after James' mail I decided to snip the packets again (should have done that before, I know, but istalling tcpdump looked boring- why it isn't isntalled by default?). After packets like: * 00:04:40.291559 53.226.226.200.in-addr.arpa.ig.com.br 200.225.86.47: icmp: aguia.localdomain unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1460) [tos 0xc0] * (aguia is the masqued machine) There would be no more transfers. Just for fun, I tried lowering the MTU of the eth0 interface- no good. Then I set it to 1500 - and ops, it worked. Kind of magic (well, this is Mandrake Linux after all!) In all my experience, *LOWERING* the MTU solved icmp/fragmentation related problems (as in James case). So can someone please tell me what is happening? why does a MTU of 1500 works in MDK 9 and do not work in MDK 8.1? and why , oh why, a MTU of 1460 works in MDK 8.1 and not in MDK 9? The only thing I can figure is that *smthing* changed in the TCP/IP between kernels 2.4.8 and 2.4.19. Then, for the guys having this kinda problems related to IPTABLES, capture your packets. Should you see that there the data transfer stops after smthing like: icmp: masqued. unreachable - need to frag (mtu ) thy fidging with the MTU of your network. Good luck, gentleman(and ladies). Wooky -- Discussing this document with a US citizen may be an offence. From the disclaimer of Security Holes Fixed in Linux 2.4.19, by RH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastien Routier wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0500 : I am curious as well about your reason(s), but I can see three things that could annoy me: - It is not scriptable. - It requires a GUI on the UNIX side either X or frame-buffer. - It requires a mouse on the UNIX side. And cygwin gets rid of all three requirements, hence cygwin really is the desired solution. Blue skies... Todd - -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Security is like an onion. It's made | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | made up of several layers and makes | | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | you cry. --Howard Chu| Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93WD0lp7v05cW2woRAkUKAKCLucZUyypWtOv2dSaPgdwVrApobACeKTMM Z7CIT7OzEzC5OHE8etTwVpM= =EQdc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] APM Suppport for Mandrake 9
I have a laptop with mandrake 9.0 2.4.19-16mdk installed. I have been noticing that although I have APM support, my batteries lose their capacity faster than on Windows XP on the same box ( Dual Boot). Does anyone know if the APM support is present on mandrake stock kernel or must I perform a custom compile. If I have to do a custom kernel compile, could some one tell me what options do I have to keep ( A must). I have e100 builtin, pcmcia support needed (must I use the one from kernel or pcmcia sources) APM, APCI etc .. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Changing Konqueror default web page
This is probably a stupid question, but I have tried to change Konqueror's default home page via Settings - Configure Konqueror, as well as the KDE options, but nothing seems to work (I'd like the browser to come up blank). Mozilla makes this much easier, but loads slower... Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Where is gtk-config
Which package contains gtk-config? I can not gtk-devel packages on my Mandrake 9.0 CDs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fast user switching
It is not at all difficult to configure the runlevel 5 (or 4 if you're so inclined) to open TWO X sessions simultaneously, with kdm/gdm/xdm/whateverdm included. Then you just switch with CRTL-ALT-F7/8. You might lock the screen when leaving a session if your brother have a tendency of nosing around. Wooky Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Marzocchi wrote on Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:30:58PM +0100 : In Windows XP I'm are able to switch between users without closing the apps. With enough ram (I have 256 MB on my p4 1800), the whole thing is fast and pretty useful: you don't have to close apps (when I surf I keep open at least 7 windows and/or tabs) and both people can work inside their environment. Since you are seemingly better at Linux than the other person, you let them login from the kdm screen. For YOU to get into X, you just press Ctrl-Alt-F2, login as your regular user, and run 'startx [ desktop ] -- :1'. This will start up a second X session with a second desktop running as your user. To get to the first user's desktop, press Ctrl-Alt-F7. To get to your desktop, press Ctrl-Alt-F8. Note that there is *** NO *** security when doing it this way. He could watch you press those keys and quite easily switch over to your desktop when you're not looking and smoke your home directory (and I'm not talking 420 either). Blue skies... Todd - -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience.| | http://www.mandrakelinux.com |--unknown origin | Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93Vr2lp7v05cW2woRAuZTAJ9peN/jLq09KovW0dXd9l5bDXnZ5wCeKHqD ERpQm8IpWUYOu897wVv0+lg= =Y+ML -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Discussing this document with a US citizen may be an offence. From the disclaimer of Security Holes Fixed in Linux 2.4.19, by RH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Changing Konqueror default web page
You're right, Konq's way of doing this is a little goofy. To start up blank, you can do the following: 1) start Konq 2) type about:blank in the URL bar 3) go to Window-Save View Profile Web Browser 4) (optionally) set it to save the window size 5) Hit OK If your Konq starts with the Konq splash screen, there's a short cut in the section called Tuning Tip that does all of this for you. It doesn't let you save window size (important for me since I like Konq to start maximized) but it is a little simpler. HTH David -Original Message- From: Dan Axtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Changing Konqueror default web page This is probably a stupid question, but I have tried to change Konqueror's default home page via Settings - Configure Konqueror, as well as the KDE options, but nothing seems to work (I'd like the browser to come up blank). Mozilla makes this much easier, but loads slower... Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] UT2003 and linux
I have runing fine Ut2003 demo, but when I like to buy the programe just a windows release is avalaible :-( Is there any linux release or do I need the windows installation and a linux-server package? thanks for the help in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
Hi, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastien Routier wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0500 : I am curious as well about your reason(s), but I can see three things that could annoy me: - It is not scriptable. - It requires a GUI on the UNIX side either X or frame-buffer. - It requires a mouse on the UNIX side. And cygwin gets rid of all three requirements, hence cygwin really is the desired solution. Do you mean with ssh? Is the cygwin ssh integration with the windows passwd file? JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] ncurses-devel mdk
Todd: Thanks for your reply. I have not used urpmi as I am a recent convert from Red Hat. I will try this out. Thx Bharath -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ncurses-devel mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bharath Sankaranarayan wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:05:50AM -0800 : ncurses-5.2-25mdk but I could not find on rpmfind.net the same development version You need libncurses5-devel-5.2-25mdk It will be on you 9.0 cds and in the 9.0 dir of any of the Mandrake mirrors. In Mandrake 97% of the time when you need a devel pkg it will libfoo#-devel, with foo being the name and # being the .so version which the devel package provides. Another interesting point to note is that 95% of that 97% you will be able to get by with using just 'urpmi foo-devel' because of things like this: [todd@fiji ~/RPM/SRPMS]$ rpm -q --whatprovides ncurses-devel libncurses5-devel-5.2-27mdk So you could type 'urpmi ncurses-devel' and it will know that the package it needs to install that provides that is libncurses5-devel. Blue skies... Todd - -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Security is like an onion. It's made | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | made up of several layers and makes | | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | you cry. --Howard Chu| Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93WCflp7v05cW2woRAi5nAKCaa2XCceUOoreaOdoOL16vAz4qvQCfZyT7 wwbESBt0pO5idji/jaAZKbA= =f5h1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where is gtk-config
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:49:46PM -0800 : Which package contains gtk-config? I can not gtk-devel packages on my Mandrake 9.0 CDs. [todd@fiji ~/RPM/SRPMS]$ urpmf gtk-config man-pages-fr:/usr/share/man/fr/man1/gtk-config.1.bz2 libgtk+1.2-devel:/usr/bin/gtk-config Blue skies... Todd - -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. --Larry Wall Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93WX+lp7v05cW2woRApK6AJ9eeNrvGVACilTn1aaIJpT0P0yZswCfYDzH xSOuciC8MNMeBJqRzqN8+MQ= =jFLb -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] UT2003 and linux
I thought the Linux release was in the same box as the Windows release, but I can't seem to find any documentation to prove that. In any case, if you're going to buy this, I recommend tuxgames.com. I've dealt with them in the past and have had very good luck. Also, if it isn't Linux, they don't sell it. So it's pretty safe to assume that what you're getting from them will run on your system. Here's a link: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=89 HTH David -Original Message- From: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] UT2003 and linux I have runing fine Ut2003 demo, but when I like to buy the programe just a windows release is avalaible :-( Is there any linux release or do I need the windows installation and a linux-server package? thanks for the help in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: I have runing fine Ut2003 demo, but when I like to buy the programe just a windows release is avalaible :-( Is there any linux release or do I need the windows installation and a linux-server package? thanks for the help in advance The Linux installer is on disc 3 of the boxed set. You need to be running a very fast machine with the proprietary nVIDIA drivers (as well as an nVIDIA video card) and lots of memory and disk space. Here are a couple of things to need to know to install it. Have two xterms open. Mount the cdrom from one and do the install on the other. Use the full path to the setup binary. You will need to mount and unmount a number of times during the process. Also there is a difference between what is written on the discs and what the installer calls for. (It thinks that there is a play disc, disc 1 and disc 2 instead of discs 1, 2 3.) Just offset by one and it should work. If it does not like the disc, just try another. ]: BTW, it works great as long as you have a very fast machine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
David, thanks so much for your help El Vie 22 Nov 2002 00:08, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) escribió: I thought the Linux release was in the same box as the Windows release, but I can't seem to find any documentation to prove that. In any case, if you're going to buy this, I recommend tuxgames.com. I've dealt with them in the past and have had very good luck. Also, if it isn't Linux, they don't sell it. So it's pretty safe to assume that what you're getting from them will run on your system. Here's a link: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=89 -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
Thanks a lot for the clues Alan. El Jue 21 Nov 2002 16:44, alan escribió: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: I have runing fine Ut2003 demo, but when I like to buy the programe just a windows release is avalaible :-( Is there any linux release or do I need the windows installation and a linux-server package? thanks for the help in advance The Linux installer is on disc 3 of the boxed set. You need to be running a very fast machine with the proprietary nVIDIA drivers (as well as an nVIDIA video card) and lots of memory and disk space. Here are a couple of things to need to know to install it. Have two xterms open. Mount the cdrom from one and do the install on the other. Use the full path to the setup binary. You will need to mount and unmount a number of times during the process. Also there is a difference between what is written on the discs and what the installer calls for. (It thinks that there is a play disc, disc 1 and disc 2 instead of discs 1, 2 3.) Just offset by one and it should work. If it does not like the disc, just try another. ]: BTW, it works great as long as you have a very fast machine. -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
Alan, My machine is a Pentium III 800 256Mb RAm and with a Geforce 4 Ti with 64 Mb; the demo is runing in it like a charm. See you -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] UT2003 and linux
I purchased UT2003 at Walmart, there is no mention of Linux on the box but the linux installer is located on CD3, I haven't had a chance to try it myself, I have too much other junk on my HD...and haven't had time to make room :-( ..but I did check CD3 for the installer. http://linuxworld.com.au/article.php3?aid=368tid=8 On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:08, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I thought the Linux release was in the same box as the Windows release, but I can't seem to find any documentation to prove that. In any case, if you're going to buy this, I recommend tuxgames.com. I've dealt with them in the past and have had very good luck. Also, if it isn't Linux, they don't sell it. So it's pretty safe to assume that what you're getting from them will run on your system. Here's a link: http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=89 HTH David -Original Message- From: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] UT2003 and linux I have runing fine Ut2003 demo, but when I like to buy the programe just a windows release is avalaible :-( Is there any linux release or do I need the windows installation and a linux-server package? thanks for the help in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Riddle
Can someone help! I have been trying to explain the way bash (Bworks as follows. (B (B$PS1=\\u -2 returns user (B$PS1=\\\u-3 returns user (B$PS1=u -4 returns \u (B$PS1=\u -5 returns \u (B$PS1=\\u -6 returns \user (B$PS1=\\\u-7 returns \user (B$PS1=u -8 returns \u (B$PS1=\u -9 returns \u (B$PS1=\\u-10 returns \user (B$PS1=\\\u -11 returns \user (B$PS1=u -12 returns \\u (B (BI can understand somewhere around; (B (B$PS1=\\\u-3 returns user (B (BBut more than that, I can't figure out why bash respond (Bas it does. What the logic behind it? (B (B+-+ * Get your own Jmail account.|URL= http://www.jmail.co.jp (B|--jmail--| * Get your own home page.|URL= http://www.servance.jp (B+-+ * Get your own domain.|URL= http://domaintorou.com/ (B Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
The third CD of UT2003 has a Linux installer. I couldn't tell you how _well_ it works, but it's there. Miark On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:59:17 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have runing fine Ut2003 demo, but when I like to buy the programe just a windows release is avalaible :-( Is there any linux release or do I need the windows installation and a linux-server package? thanks for the help in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
- It is not scriptable. - It requires a GUI on the UNIX side either X or frame-buffer. - It requires a mouse on the UNIX side. That pretty much sums up Windows too sans the UNIX reference (ok ... they do have perl for windows so I guess it is scriptable) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:44:46 -0800 (PST) alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are a couple of things to need to know to install it. Have two xterms open. Mount the cdrom from one and do the install on the other. Use the full path to the setup binary. You will need to mount and unmount a number of times during the process. Yes, and * If you have supermount enabled, disable it with supermount disable * Use the FULL mount command to mount the CDs. If you use mount /mnt/cdrom it won't work. You must do a mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom or whatever your CD drive is /dev/cdrom, or /dev/hdc, etc. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Making a SMTP server in my box.
Hi experts. I needo to make a question. Like a year ago i did something i don't know how to repeat. I set up my host (local.host) to be the smtp server. It sent mails until i had to reinstall linux and never worked again. So the question is, how can i make my PC a smtp server (only for me) so i can send emails??? that's all. saludos = Gonzalo Avaria Alumno de Licenciatura en Fisica Facultad de Cs. Fisicas y Matematicas Universidad de Concepcion CHILE _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
Any performance tips, Alan? I'm running it at 800x600, and with all the detail turned off, or to the lowest setting possible, and the game play still sucks. In WinblowsXP, I run with almost everything turned on or at Normal and at 1280x768 and the game play is smth. I have a GeForce 4 MX 460. Miark On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:44:46 -0800 (PST) alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: I have runing fine Ut2003 demo, but when I like to buy the programe just a windows release is avalaible :-( Is there any linux release or do I need the windows installation and a linux-server package? thanks for the help in advance The Linux installer is on disc 3 of the boxed set. You need to be running a very fast machine with the proprietary nVIDIA drivers (as well as an nVIDIA video card) and lots of memory and disk space. Here are a couple of things to need to know to install it. Have two xterms open. Mount the cdrom from one and do the install on the other. Use the full path to the setup binary. You will need to mount and unmount a number of times during the process. Also there is a difference between what is written on the discs and what the installer calls for. (It thinks that there is a play disc, disc 1 and disc 2 instead of discs 1, 2 3.) Just offset by one and it should work. If it does not like the disc, just try another. ]: BTW, it works great as long as you have a very fast machine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.0 clobbers partition active flag.
I have successfully installed 9.0 on three machines. Two are all OK. On the third, Linux runs, as initiated by XOSL or by its floppy, but always after exit the active flag on the C drive (which contains XOSL) is clobbered, leaving an unbootable machine which requires an MSDOS FDISK run from the Windows startup floppy to fix it. This machine is Pentium 2, 300MHz, 64MB, 20GHB hard disk, and runs Windows 98 faultlessly. I have installed two 9.0s, expert, all selected except servers, LILO, in different partitions on this machine and both have this problem. Not very encouraging for my customer, is it?Frankly, very embarrasing. Anybody got any ideas what to do? Why would anything in runtime Linux ever have reason to look at the active flag in the MBR on C:? Let alone change it? Beats me! -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making a SMTP server in my box.
Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi experts. I needo to make a question. Like a year ago i did something i don't know how to repeat. I set up my host (local.host) to be the smtp server. It sent mails until i had to reinstall linux and never worked again. So the question is, how can i make my PC a smtp server (only for me) so i can send emails??? that's all. saludos Use localhost.localdomain for your local name (/etc/hosts), and set up postfix to send your mail (smtp, port 25). Mandrake provides some pretty good online documentation for this little exercise. Cheers, drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Riddle
ath1410 wrote: Can someone help! I have been trying to explain the way bash works as follows. $PS1=\\u -2 returns user $PS1=\\\u-3 returns user $PS1=u -4 returns \u $PS1=\u -5 returns \u $PS1=\\u -6 returns \user $PS1=\\\u-7 returns \user $PS1=u -8 returns \u $PS1=\u -9 returns \u $PS1=\\u-10 returns \user $PS1=\\\u -11 returns \user $PS1=u -12 returns \\u I can understand somewhere around; $PS1=\\\u-3 returns user But more than that, I can't figure out why bash respond as it does. What the logic behind it? Review the two HOWTO's: 1. BASH Programming-Introduction HOW-TO and 2. From Power Up to Bash Prompt This probable is answered as a string comparsion operators. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Riddle
Larry Sword wrote: ath1410 wrote: Can someone help! I have been trying to explain the way bash works as follows. $PS1=\\u -2 returns user $PS1=\\\u-3 returns user $PS1=u -4 returns \u $PS1=\u -5 returns \u $PS1=\\u -6 returns \user $PS1=\\\u-7 returns \user $PS1=u -8 returns \u $PS1=\u -9 returns \u $PS1=\\u-10 returns \user $PS1=\\\u -11 returns \user $PS1=u -12 returns \\u I can understand somewhere around; $PS1=\\\u-3 returns user But more than that, I can't figure out why bash respond as it does. What the logic behind it? Review the two HOWTO's: 1. BASH Programming-Introduction HOW-TO and 2. From Power Up to Bash Prompt Should be: Bash Prompt HOWTO @ http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/ This probable is answered as a string comparsion operators. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] linux_logo on thinkpad
Hey all, I just noticed something interesting the other day and can't seem to find the answer for it. I have a thinkpad 600e that I use for most of my day to day work and I just started thinking about the possibility of upgrading to a faster notebook. Then I realized, I don't even remember what type of cpu I have in THIS notebook. Anyhoo, I tried looking at /proc/cpuinfo and found something interesting - it reports my processor as a 92MHz pentium 2. I checked my bios and found that it is actually a 366MHz - why the difference? Does it have something to do with being a mobile processor? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.0 Networking === ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 00:04, Pierre Fortin wrote: * just enabling modem access resulted in shorewall being silently enabled... When I tried to switch back to LAN mode, I was unable to connect to ANYTHING... The default Shorewall configuration is setup for an ethernet card (eth0). It blocks access to everything on ppp0 (the dial up connection). This link provides a proper configuration: http://shorewall.net/standalone.htm Hopefully future Mandrake releases will configure Shorewall during install. Wouldn't want dial-up users to give up on Mandrake when there's no Internet connection. -- Robert Wohlfarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? -- Matthew 6:25b Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Communigate Pro
Has anyone setup communigate pro server for linux? Thanks Brian
