Re: [expert] Noise

[Vox]

On September 1993 plus 3727 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:15 am, many eyes noted that Kwan Lowe wrote:
  What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds?
  If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops.
  Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there.
  I turn every app I see off, but still no result.

 Probably some sort of log. You can try sending logs to a remote server or
 shutting down syslog entirely to help troubleshoot. Take a look in
 /var/log and see if there are any files that are growing or with recent
 timestamps:

 $ cd /var/log
 Sort by size
 $ ls -lSrh *
 Sort by date
 $ ls -ltr

 Possibly try:- 

 find / -type f -mmin 01

 that should tell you what files have been written in the last minute.

 Also maybe try:-

 ps auxwww

 that should show you all the running processes and might be of help?

  I've been following this threadand it just came to my
  mindcheck if FAM is runningfam polls the HD every so often
  and then warns whichever programs need warnings about HD
  changes...I'm starting to think it's fam that's doing you in.

  Vox

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of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
technology than everyone else.   -- Donald B. Marti Jr.


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Re: [expert] menu in bash script

[Artemio]

 Thanks all for the help and direction.
 You are all very kind.
Always glad to help! :-)

 The case why I asked for this help is that we have a project to install
 Linux servers on several locations with the same/very similar settings.
 Unfortunately, the hardware is varied between locations so 'ghosting hdd
 is not the solutions.
I'm too about to write an auto-rescue-install for my own linux distro :-P

 Thanks again.
Good luck!



Artemio.


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RE: [expert] shorewall

[Richard Bown]

I can confirm that.
I would really help if the drak config of shorewall was as the person
who wrote shorewall intended.

the only thing that the drak config is useful for is keeping out
unwanted visitors while you manually the sholewall files to do what you
wnt, and after that it works like a dream.
Its easier to configure than bastille.

The drak conf of shorewall is non compliant with shorewall,
it does'nt understand any protocol apart from tcp  udp and the use of a
colon on port range is'nt recognised, that makes it pretty basic with
what can be done from the gui.

And it would have helped if Ulogd was used to handled to log enties,
syslog gets very full otherwise.

thats my two penneth,,,now breakfast

Richard
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 05:24, Jack Coates wrote:
 I have three production Shorewall installs, two of which are on 9.2. If
 it was broken, I wouldn't have been online for the last month :-) I'll
 buy that Webmin's configuration of Shorewall is broken, or that drakfw's
 configuration is broken, but 9.2's Shorewall is just fine.
 
 On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 13:45, Lawson, Jim wrote:
  Thomas I will Monday. I installed iptables and it works. 9.2 shore wall is
  broken. I did the same think I did at home for 9.0 in control center and it
  works. Just on 9.2 it's broken.
  
  -Original Message-
  From: Thomas Backlund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:27 PM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [expert] shorewall
  
  
  From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
   Did this below still nothing everything stops... Can you help more Please.
  
  
  the three last lines of /etc/shorewall/routestopped should be:
  --- cut ---
  #INTERFACE  HOST(S)
  eth0
  #LAST LINE...
  --- cut ---
  
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] shorewall]# service shorewall check
   Loading /usr/share/shorewall/functions...
   Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...
   Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf...
  
   Notice:  The 'check' command is unsupported and problem
reports complaining about errors that it didn't catch
will not be accepted
  
   Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities:
  NAT: Available
  Packet Mangling: Available
  Multi-port Match: Available
  Connection Tracking Match: Available
   Verifying Configuration...
   Loading Modules...
   Determining Zones...
  Zones: net loc
   Validating interfaces file...
  Warning: Invalid option (routestopped) in record net eth0 detect
   routestopped
  
  remove the 'routestopped' from /etc/shorewall/interfaces
  
  so the four last lines in that file should be:
  --- cut ---
  #ZONEINTERFACE  BROADCAST   OPTIONS
  loceth0 detect
  neteth1 detect
  #LAST LINE ...
  --- cut ---
  
  
  btw, as I forgot to ask before, what internet connection do you have?
  is it a dsl? and does it get it's ip through dhcp or is it static?
  
  if you have dsl that uses PPPoE or PPPoA,
  you need to change /etc/shorewall/interfaces to:
  --- cut ---
  #ZONEINTERFACE  BROADCAST   OPTIONS
  loceth0 detect
  netppp0 detect
  #LAST LINE ...
  --- cut ---
  
  and if it's also using dhcp, you need it like this:
  --- cut ---
  #ZONEINTERFACE  BROADCAST   OPTIONS
  loceth0 detect
  netppp0detect  dhcp
  #LAST LINE ...
  --- cut ---
  
  
  and of course restart shorewall after you have made the changes
  --
  Regards
  
  Thomas
  
  PS.
  sorry for the delays in answering, I had to leave my computer for a while...
  
  
  
  
  
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Re: [expert] shorewall

[Thomas Backlund]

From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Thomas I will Monday. I installed iptables and it works. 9.2 shore wall is
 broken. I did the same think I did at home for 9.0 in control center and
it
 works. Just on 9.2 it's broken.


What do you mean you installed iptables ???
Shorewall is an iptables based firewall?

and my firewall is running MDK 9.2 now without any problems...

Regards

thomas




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[expert] Moving a partition

[Adrian Golumbovici]

Hi all,

Have another prob and couldn't find any answer yet. 
On my firewall I have a 3 hdds and /usr is on hdc1. Now hdc1 is a 3.2 GB hdd and 
started to fill up. Since I have lots of space on the main drive where / is, I 
wanted to move /usr to be one of the "normal" directories on the / partitions. 
Unfortunatelly most howtos on the net refer to moving from a hdd to another. I 
don't want to have a separate partition for /usr, but merely to move it inside 
the partition where / is (so where it would have been if I didn't have the 
wonderfull idea of putting it on a small separate drive...). Any fast painless 
way to do it? I am pretty new to fstab and mtab. I messed with them a couple of 
mdk versions ago, but was more like "messed them up and had to reinstall". 
:)

Best regards,
Adrian

Re: [expert] spamassassin?

[Bill Mullen]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, dfox wrote:

 This used to work but I think partially due to my recent problem, spam
 assassin won't start up anymore. I get execvp: no such file or directory
 when doing 'service spamassassin start. I think it's time to start the
 thing again from telinit 1 to be sure. No wonder I am getting so much
 spam in my inbox.
 
 Thoughts? I figure execvp is a call to look for a file, but heaven knows
 which one at this point. In removing and reinstalling postfix, anything
 could have happened. Months ago, I set up spamassassin as a per-user
 filter run through procmail.

Is /usr/bin/spamd even still there? And /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf?

My thoughts on this are that it's high time that you copied off all of
your tweaked config files (after going over each one with a fine-toothed
comb and a magnifying glass) and wiped that compromised box. Really now,
David, what in $DEITY's name are you waiting for? Even if you sort out one
problem like this one after another, you still won't know a) that it isn't
still accessible by whoever got in, or b) that they won't return and undo
any repairs that you make now at some point in the future (or do worse).

The first Linux box I ever ran (which had Caldera OpenLinux2.2 on it; this
was before I discovered Mandrake) was cracked, and I learned then the hard
way that there is only one sane course of action in that situation - blow
it all away and start over. BTW, that was also *why* I discovered Mandrake
(7.1), so I suppose that the SOB actually did me a favor, in a way ... ;)

Just my $0.02USD ...

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[expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

[Stefan Rijnhart]

Hi,

Mandrake has now released the public isos of 9.2 on their ftp sites. 

Does anybody know if this release is based on the LG-friendly, updated kernel? 
In the root of the download location, there is a README.LG file, that tells 
the user to update their CD ROM firmware before installing 9.2 

Of course, I am aware of the fact that LG is to blame. Still, updated boot 
images would constitute a good fix, imho. If these new boot images exist, 
would it be possible for me to get them without downloading a whole iso?

cheers,
Stefan.



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Re: [expert] Moving a partition

[Stefan Rijnhart]

Hi Adrian,

This is actually straightforward on Linux, which is why we like it :). Just 
boot into a different system, like with a boot disk or live image (e.g. 
Knoppix), and copy the contents of your /mount/point/of/dev/hdc1 to 
/mount/point/of/rootdir/usr with the rsync command:

rsync -av [source/] [desitination]

Read the rsync man page and mind the trailing slash on the source. The hard 
part is to know your drives' partition tables, which you already do. Note 
that the 'df' command is a comfortable way of finding out what is mounted 
where, instead of reading /etc/mtab. 

cheers,
Stefan.


Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 10:51, schreef Adrian Golumbovici:
 Hi all,

 Have another prob and couldn't find any answer yet. On my firewall I have a
 3 hdds and /usr is on hdc1. Now hdc1 is a 3.2 GB hdd and started to fill
 up. Since I have lots of space on the main drive where / is, I wanted to
 move /usr to be one of the normal directories on the / partitions.
 Unfortunatelly most howtos on the net refer to moving from a hdd to
 another. I don't want to have a separate partition for /usr, but merely to
 move it inside the partition where / is (so where it would have been if I
 didn't have the wonderfull idea of putting it on a small separate
 drive...). Any fast painless way to do it? I am pretty new to fstab and
 mtab. I messed with them a couple of mdk versions ago, but was more like
 messed them up and had to reinstall. :)

 Best regards,
 Adrian


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Re: [expert] Moving a partition

[Artemio]

To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P

In your fstab you will see something like this (I use reiserfs everywhere):

#for your /
/dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 #hda1 is my root - see what's yours

#for your /usr
/dev/hdc1 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2

So what you have to do is:

1. become root

2. go to single-user mode: 
# init 1

3. unmount /usr partition:
# umount /usr
and check if /usr directury is now empty
# ls /usr

4. mount /dev/hdc1 to temporary location:
# mkdir /mnt/usr
# mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/usr

5. now your /usr directory points to / partition instead of /dev/hdc1 - so 
copy (recursively) all data from /mnt/tmp to /usr directory:
# cp -R /mnt/usr /

6. now you have all /usr partition on your / partition - exactly what you 
needed. go to /mnt/usr and check if it is ok. now unmount /mnt/usr:
# umount /mnt/usr

7. go to runlevel 3 and checkout if you have what you wanted
# init 3

8. remove the line from fstab that mounts /dev/hdc1 to /usr - you don't need 
it anymore.


That's all. Good luck!


Artemio.


Adrian Golumbovici wrote:
 Hi all,

 Have another prob and couldn't find any answer yet. On my firewall I have a
 3 hdds and /usr is on hdc1. Now hdc1 is a 3.2 GB hdd and started to fill
 up. Since I have lots of space on the main drive where / is, I wanted to
 move /usr to be one of the normal directories on the / partitions.
 Unfortunatelly most howtos on the net refer to moving from a hdd to
 another. I don't want to have a separate partition for /usr, but merely to
 move it inside the partition where / is (so where it would have been if I
 didn't have the wonderfull idea of putting it on a small separate
 drive...). Any fast painless way to do it? I am pretty new to fstab and
 mtab. I messed with them a couple of mdk versions ago, but was more like
 messed them up and had to reinstall. :)

 Best regards,
 Adrian


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Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

[Glenn Burkhardt]

I'm getting close to the cause of the problem - I started doing a survey of
several different machines, all running MDK 9.1.  Some had all the fonts, some
didn't.  The ones that didn't had missing entries from the file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1.  Specifically, the entries for 75dpi 
and 100dpi were missing.

Which utility maintains this file?

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Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

[Thomas Backlund]

From: Stefan Rijnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Hi,

 Mandrake has now released the public isos of 9.2 on their ftp sites.

 Does anybody know if this release is based on the LG-friendly, updated
kernel?
 In the root of the download location, there is a README.LG file, that
tells
 the user to update their CD ROM firmware before installing 9.2 


As stated before...
They are the same as the ISO's on the MandrakeClub and the ones shipped
of to paying customers...

 Of course, I am aware of the fact that LG is to blame. Still, updated boot
 images would constitute a good fix, imho. If these new boot images exist,
 would it be possible for me to get them without downloading a whole iso?


It's better that people actually fix their broken h/w ASAP...
as this is a vulnerability that could be exploited by
maliciuos programs...


--
Regards

Thomas



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Re: [expert] Moving a partition

[Bill Mullen]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Stefan Rijnhart wrote:

 This is actually straightforward on Linux, which is why we like it :).
 Just boot into a different system, like with a boot disk or live image
 (e.g.  Knoppix), and copy the contents of your /mount/point/of/dev/hdc1
 to /mount/point/of/rootdir/usr with the rsync command:
 
 rsync -av [source/] [desitination]
 
 Read the rsync man page and mind the trailing slash on the source. The
 hard part is to know your drives' partition tables, which you already
 do. Note that the 'df' command is a comfortable way of finding out what
 is mounted where, instead of reading /etc/mtab.

[Quoted text snipped, because I can't be bothered cleaning up after top 
posters, but don't want that nonsense to appear in messages I send g]

It should be mentioned that there is one more step in the process - fixing
the /etc/fstab file to reflect the new configuration. If this bit is left
out, his previous /usr partition will be mounted again just as it has been
in the past (right over his fresh new copy of the /usr tree), and the only
difference he'll notice is that he now has a lot less free space on his /
partition than he did before. :)

To the OP:

First off, the advice is sound, as far as it goes. Me, I'd use the rescue
system on CD #1 to do it; it doesn't have rsync, I don't think, but using
cp -a ought to do the trick nicely. But using Knoppix is much easier, if
for no other reason than it makes entirely separate mount points for all
detected partitions automatically (but remember, you'll need to remount
your / partition in read-write mode to be able to write to it - but that
can be done by right-clicking on its icon, and choosing that option from
the menu shown).

But before you shut down to boot whichever CD-based system you choose to 
use, make a copy of your /etc/fstab file, doing this at a root prompt:

cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old

Then, still at that root prompt, edit /etc/fstab with your favorite editor
(kate is good for this sort of thing, if you don't like CLI editors):

kate /etc/fstab

Delete the line that refers to your current /usr partition, then save the
file. Now you can boot to that CD and copy the files over, and when you
reboot back to your on-disk system, the system will use the new versions
of those files (the ones on the / partition), and not the old.

Don't delete the old files or remove the disk on which they reside until 
you are satisfied that the system boots and runs properly in all respects. 
If you run into a problem, boot to the CD again, and copy /etc/fstab.old 
over /etc/fstab, then reboot - and all will be back like it was before, 
with the system mounting (and then using) your old /usr partition.

HTH!

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Re: [expert] Moving a partition

[Stefan Rijnhart]

Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 13:16, schreef Bill Mullen:
 It should be mentioned that there is one more step in the process - fixing
 the /etc/fstab file to reflect the new configuration. If this bit is left
 out, his previous /usr partition will be mounted again just as it has been
 in the past (right over his fresh new copy of the /usr tree), and the only
 difference he'll notice is that he now has a lot less free space on his /
 partition than he did before. :)

Excellent! I was about to reply to myself about this. Humble apologies about 
top posting as well.

cheers,
Stefan.

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Re: [expert] Moving a partition

[Richard Urwin]

On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 11:34 am, Artemio wrote:
 To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P
 5. now your /usr directory points to / partition instead of /dev/hdc1 - so
 copy (recursively) all data from /mnt/tmp to /usr directory:
 # cp -R /mnt/usr /

NO.
That will lose symbolic links and reset user and timestamps.
use:
# cp -a /mnt/usr /

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Re: [expert] Moving a partition

[Adrian Golumbovici]

Thanks guys. It worked like a charm. Used cp -Ra :)

Best regards,
Adrian
- Original Message - 
From: Artemio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Moving a partition


 To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P

 In your fstab you will see something like this (I use reiserfs
everywhere):

 #for your /
 /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 #hda1 is my root - see what's yours

 #for your /usr
 /dev/hdc1 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2

 So what you have to do is:

 1. become root

 2. go to single-user mode:
 # init 1

 3. unmount /usr partition:
 # umount /usr
 and check if /usr directury is now empty
 # ls /usr

 4. mount /dev/hdc1 to temporary location:
 # mkdir /mnt/usr
 # mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/usr

 5. now your /usr directory points to / partition instead of /dev/hdc1 - so
 copy (recursively) all data from /mnt/tmp to /usr directory:
 # cp -R /mnt/usr /

 6. now you have all /usr partition on your / partition - exactly what you
 needed. go to /mnt/usr and check if it is ok. now unmount /mnt/usr:
 # umount /mnt/usr

 7. go to runlevel 3 and checkout if you have what you wanted
 # init 3

 8. remove the line from fstab that mounts /dev/hdc1 to /usr - you don't
need
 it anymore.


 That's all. Good luck!


 Artemio.


 Adrian Golumbovici wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  Have another prob and couldn't find any answer yet. On my firewall I
have a
  3 hdds and /usr is on hdc1. Now hdc1 is a 3.2 GB hdd and started to fill
  up. Since I have lots of space on the main drive where / is, I wanted to
  move /usr to be one of the normal directories on the / partitions.
  Unfortunatelly most howtos on the net refer to moving from a hdd to
  another. I don't want to have a separate partition for /usr, but merely
to
  move it inside the partition where / is (so where it would have been if
I
  didn't have the wonderfull idea of putting it on a small separate
  drive...). Any fast painless way to do it? I am pretty new to fstab and
  mtab. I messed with them a couple of mdk versions ago, but was more like
  messed them up and had to reinstall. :)
 
  Best regards,
  Adrian









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Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

[Stefan Rijnhart]

Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 13:01, schreef Thomas Backlund:
 It's better that people actually fix their broken h/w ASAP...
 as this is a vulnerability that could be exploited by
 maliciuos programs...

Good point. Btw, LG does not seem to think so, tagging their firmware updates 
as 'For Mandrake Linux 9.2 Installation Only' :-(

Still, as someone who is concerned with promoting Linux on the desktop for the 
computer-illiterate, I regret having to remark 'Installing this user friendly 
operating system can render your cd-rom drive unusable' , instead of 
'Although this is an LG friendly installer, your drive might still be 
vulnerable. Please proceed as follows'

cheers,
Stefan.


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Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

[Stefan Rijnhart]

Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 12:56, schreef Glenn Burkhardt:
 I'm getting close to the cause of the problem - I started doing a survey of
 several different machines, all running MDK 9.1.  Some had all the fonts,
 some didn't.  The ones that didn't had missing entries from the file
 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1.  Specifically, the entries for
 75dpi and 100dpi were missing.

 Which utility maintains this file?

Not being an X person at all myself, but have you got the following packages 
installed? 

XFree86-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-75dpi-fonts

Stefan.


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Re: [expert] Moving a partition

[Artemio]

Adrian Golumbovici wrote:
 Thanks guys. It worked like a charm. Used cp -Ra :)
LOL!!!

Always glad to help.

Good luck!


Artemio.


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Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

[Richard Urwin]

On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 1:11 pm, Stefan Rijnhart wrote:
 Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 13:01, schreef Thomas Backlund:
  It's better that people actually fix their broken h/w ASAP...
  as this is a vulnerability that could be exploited by
  maliciuos programs...

 Good point. Btw, LG does not seem to think so, tagging their firmware
 updates as 'For Mandrake Linux 9.2 Installation Only' :-(

I may be wrong, but the GIF image appears to be marked on the site as 
HTML/Text. It took a couple of tries to read it because it needs to be saved 
to local storage, just clicking on it doesn't work...

Doesn't this mean that windows users will get LF/CR fixups when they try to 
download it? If so only Linux users will be able to view it. I haven't tried 
it, so I might be talking rubbish.

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Re: [expert] Noise

[Kwan Lowe]

  What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds?
  If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops.
  Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there.
  I turn every app I see off, but still no result.

I'm dumb. Your information about it stopping in init 3 just didn't take
the first time I responded. Though it is possible that logging is causing
the issue, more likely it is something like some sort of automount daemon.
Look for something like automount, autorun, or magicdev in your process
list. Try stopping them to see if the activity stops.

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Re: [expert] menu in bash script

[Kwan Lowe]

 The case why I asked for this help is that we have a project to install
 Linux servers on several locations with the same/very similar settings.
 Unfortunately, the hardware is varied between locations so 'ghosting
 hdd is not the solutions.

I wrote the following script to do something similar. It was used to
install an embedded system with a canned set of packages. There are a
couple other files associated with it that I've long lost, but it's easy
enough to figure out.

http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/install_system




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Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

[Michael Holt]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 22:17, Bill wrote:
 hmmm kinda weird. Here is the results of some nslookup stuff
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ nslookup qualxserv.net
 Note:  nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
 Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead.  Run nslookup with
 the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
 Server: 66.47.48.51
 Address:66.47.48.51#53
 
 Non-authoritative answer:
 *** Can't find qualxserv.net: No answer
 
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ nslookup qualxserv.com
 Note:  nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
 Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead.  Run nslookup with
 the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
 Server: 66.47.48.51
 Address:66.47.48.51#53
 
 Non-authoritative answer:
 Name:   qualxserv.com
 Address: 65.246.197.37
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ nslookup
 Note:  nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
 Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead.  Run nslookup with
 the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
  set type=mx
  qualxserv.net
 Server: 66.47.48.51
 Address:66.47.48.51#53
 
 Non-authoritative answer:
 qualxserv.net   mail exchanger = 10 ns1.qualxserv.com.
 qualxserv.net   mail exchanger = 10 qxssmtp3.qualxserv.com.
 
 Authoritative answers can be found from:
 qualxserv.net   nameserver = ns3.qualxserv.net.
 qualxserv.net   nameserver = ns1.qualxserv.com.
 qualxserv.net   nameserver = ns2.qualxserv.com.
 ns1.qualxserv.com   internet address = 65.246.197.32
 ns2.qualxserv.com   internet address = 65.246.197.33
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ telnet ns1.qualxserv.net 25
 Trying 65.246.197.32...
 Connected to ns1.qualxserv.com (65.246.197.32).
 Escape character is '^]'.
 220 qxsdns1.qualxserve.com ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail 
 Service 5.5.2650.21) ready
 
 
 There is the answer. Previously they were using qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. as 
 there mail server for .com now for .net they are using ns1.qualxserv.com and 
 qxssmtp3.qualxserv.com. so its just a forward to there working .com email 
 servers.
 
 if we do a mx record lookup for .com we get qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. that 
 server is not answering for port 25 stuff. Interestingly enough they have the 
 same number assigned to there email servers which is 10 I thought that was a 
 no no. 
 
 Man I have been outa the internet systems stuff for two years now and can 
 still do this stuff. Im so far out of the loop now seeing how I just got my 
 trucking drivers license (class a) with all endorsements to look for work in 
 the trucking industry. I gave up on the computer industry. 

Hey I just learned something!  Could you explain the '10' thing to me?

I drive a tow truck for AAA during my down-time between jobs.  I don't
have the cdl stuff, but there seems to be plenty of cars running into
each other to stay busy :)
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[expert] LG Drive and VMWare

[Kwan Lowe]

Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is
in a virtual VMware machine?


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Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

[Jack Coates]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 06:57, Michael Holt wrote:
 ... 
  if we do a mx record lookup for .com we get qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. that 
  server is not answering for port 25 stuff. Interestingly enough they have the 
  same number assigned to there email servers which is 10 I thought that was a 
  no no. 
  
  Man I have been outa the internet systems stuff for two years now and can 
  still do this stuff. Im so far out of the loop now seeing how I just got my 
  trucking drivers license (class a) with all endorsements to look for work in 
  the trucking industry. I gave up on the computer industry. 
 
 Hey I just learned something!  Could you explain the '10' thing to me?

MX records have a priority option between 1 and 100. Higher priority
gets first choice of delivery, lower priority is essentially backup.

 
 I drive a tow truck for AAA during my down-time between jobs.  I don't
 have the cdl stuff, but there seems to be plenty of cars running into
 each other to stay busy :)

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Re: [expert] Disapearing menu's

[Jack Coates]

It's fixed now. I updated all the KDE stuff, ran updatemenus -v as root,
and ran menudrake as the affected user, then chose save. It took a few
minutes to take, and it may not have been until the next time I
installed an RPM.

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:58, James Sparenberg wrote:
 On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:07, James Sparenberg wrote:
  On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 04:34, James Sparenberg wrote:
   All,
   
  Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs
   to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde.  Would anyone
   who can check, test and let me know?
   
   James
  
  Update,
  Per my question they are now in Cooker and Vincent is porting the
  patch to 9.2 as we speak.  I'll keep ya'll posted.
  
  James
 
 Just got word that the fix is in updates Would those who have been
 fighting this please check and let me know the results?  The problem
 seems to have been in kde-libs.
 
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Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

[Tom Brinkman]

On Friday 14 November 2003 03:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
 Tips for using kmail -

 Set up two profiles - it doesn't matter that they are using the
 same mailbox and smtp - one with reply-to set if you need it
 for other purposes, and one without for the list (together with
 suitable sig if you wish.

 Create a folder to receive list traffic.  Then use Settings 
 Configure Filters to send all mail there.

 Right click on the new folder, select Properties, and you can
 associate the folder with the mailing list, and also set it to
 use the profile you have created whenever you send while in
 that foler.

 HTH

 Anne
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action is to reply to sender (the OP), even when 'Reply-to' is 
unset. The only work around I've found is  Settings | Configure 
Toolbars, and add the Reply to Mailing-List button to the 
toolbar. Should work in older versions also, with no need for 
separate folders.

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[expert] Re: Noise

[Björn Lundin]

Kwan Lowe wrote:

  What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds?
  If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops.
  Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there.
  I turn every app I see off, but still no result.
 
 I'm dumb. Your information about it stopping in init 3 just didn't take
 the first time I responded. Though it is possible that logging is causing
 the issue, more likely it is something like some sort of automount daemon.
 Look for something like automount, autorun, or magicdev in your process
 list. Try stopping them to see if the activity stops.
 

Thanks all for suggetions.
I see in fstab that my floppy and cd:s are set up with supermount, which 
works. But no process, that looks like a supermounb deamon to me, is
running. Someone suggested FAM, but its not running. 
Artsd was running, but not the bad guy. Stopping it does no difference.

I did suspect some process (in Kde) was logging something, but
'find / -type f -mmin 01' did not show any changed files, when run 
a coiuple of times. 
My filesystems are reiserfs, and not mounted with noatime option

I'm getting curious now. Am I the only one with this behaviour?
By the way, this is ML 9.1 with Texstar's Kde 3.1.4

Anyone with other things I can try? This isn't all that important,
just VERY irritating

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Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

[Stefan Rijnhart]

Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 15:21, schreef Richard Urwin:
 I may be wrong, but the GIF image appears to be marked on the site as
 HTML/Text. It took a couple of tries to read it because it needs to be
 saved to local storage, just clicking on it doesn't work...

 Doesn't this mean that windows users will get LF/CR fixups when they try to
 download it? If so only Linux users will be able to view it. I haven't
 tried it, so I might be talking rubbish.

It's the same for the firmware updates:

  Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=crd-8322b linux.zip;
  Content-Type: text/html

However, Internet Explorer honours the file name extension rather than the 
content-type, meaning that the gif looks probably better in IE than it does 
in Konqueror (text, indeed), but only because IE and the LG content 
management system are broken in concurrent ways!

Interesting parallel here.

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[expert] Clean up old logs

[Adrian Golumbovici]

Hi all,

My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 
years now. While trying to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log 
files from various stuff. On the other hand I am not sure which are from what... 
:/ I was wondering if there is something like a script or such to clean up 
/var/log of logs older than ... let's say 1 or 3 months. Is there such 
thing?

Best regards,
Adrian

Re: [expert] Re: Noise

[Eric Huff]

   What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds?
   If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops.
   Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there.
   I turn every app I see off, but still no result.

 Thanks all for suggetions.
 I see in fstab that my floppy and cd:s are set up with supermount,
 which works. But no process, that looks like a supermounb deamon
 to me, is running. Someone suggested FAM, but its not running. 
 Artsd was running, but not the bad guy. Stopping it does no
 difference.
 
 I did suspect some process (in Kde) was logging something, but
 'find / -type f -mmin 01' did not show any changed files, when run
 
 a coiuple of times. 
 My filesystems are reiserfs, and not mounted with noatime option
 
 I'm getting curious now. Am I the only one with this behaviour?
 By the way, this is ML 9.1 with Texstar's Kde 3.1.4
 
 Anyone with other things I can try? This isn't all that important,
 just VERY irritating

I have had the same thing at times. There was a thread on newbie
awhile back.  There was talk of it being fam related, and also just
reiser doing it's job.

See if you can find it in the archives: i posted the ?, stephen kuhn
and others had some thoughts.

In the end i decided nt to worry about it...

eric

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[expert] hard drive activiy: how to tell from top lie utility

[Eric Huff]

I quickly looked thru the top man page, but didn't find anything.

Is there a program like top that will show hardrive activity base on
process?  Ideally it would just be a column in the top readout. This
would be useful in Björn's hard drive noise thread, too.

thanks,
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[expert] Re: Clean up old logs

[Björn Lundin]

Adrian Golumbovici wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying
 to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various
 stuff. On the other hand I am not sure which are from what... :/ I was
 wondering if there is something like a script or such to clean up /var/log
 of logs older than ... let's say 1 or 3 months. Is there such thing?
 
 Best regards,
 Adrian

You are not running logrotate ?

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Re: [expert] Clean up old logs

[David E. Fox]

 My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying =
 to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stu=

Please don't post HTML.

Adrian, isn't logrotate working? Or do you want to clean the stuff up 
now? At any rate, find would do the job:

# find . -type f /var/log -mtime 30 | xargs rm

That gets rid of files modified over 30 days ago.

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Re: [expert] spamassassin?

[David E. Fox]

 Is /usr/bin/spamd even still there? And /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf?

Yes to both.

 My thoughts on this are that it's high time that you copied off all of
 your tweaked config files (after going over each one with a fine-toothed

You're right -- I'm procrastinating on this one. I'm just reticent to do 
it because it means going out and getting a bunch more RPMs of things I
already have again.
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Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

[Michael Holt]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:22, Jack Coates wrote:
 On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 06:57, Michael Holt wrote:
  ... 
   if we do a mx record lookup for .com we get qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. that 
   server is not answering for port 25 stuff. Interestingly enough they have the 
   same number assigned to there email servers which is 10 I thought that was a 
   no no. 
   
   Man I have been outa the internet systems stuff for two years now and can 
   still do this stuff. Im so far out of the loop now seeing how I just got my 
   trucking drivers license (class a) with all endorsements to look for work in 
   the trucking industry. I gave up on the computer industry. 
  
  Hey I just learned something!  Could you explain the '10' thing to me?
 
 MX records have a priority option between 1 and 100. Higher priority
 gets first choice of delivery, lower priority is essentially backup.
 
  
  I drive a tow truck for AAA during my down-time between jobs.  I don't
  have the cdl stuff, but there seems to be plenty of cars running into
  each other to stay busy :)

So then having two servers with the same priority level would be either
/ or?  Or would it just hose your servers?
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Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

[Bill]

That is what my understanding was. you wouyld asign like 5 to your primary 
email server and 10 to the backup. Assigning the same number would just make 
things a little screwy. 


On Star Date Saturday 15 November 2003 08:51 am, Michael Holt sent this 
sub-space message. 
 
 
  MX records have a priority option between 1 and 100. Higher priority
  gets first choice of delivery, lower priority is essentially backup.
 
   I drive a tow truck for AAA during my down-time between jobs.  I don't
   have the cdl stuff, but there seems to be plenty of cars running into
   each other to stay busy :)

 So then having two servers with the same priority level would be either
 / or?  Or would it just hose your servers?

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[expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

[R N dev]

hi,
 i've  just upgraded my mdk 9.1. At the end of
installation i had this error during lilo
installation:

lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO
(dev 0x1600): invalid argument

and i didn't find any way to install lilo 
so I decided to use grub and started without any
problem any idea?

thanks
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Re: [expert] Clean up old logs

[Adrian Golumbovici]

Sorry about the html. I turned it off. :)

Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running?

ps aux | grep logrotate

didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it
work)?
I see some logs archived (with .gz ending) in /var/log but don't really need
them (they just take up space). Anything older than 30 days should be
irrelevant.

Best regards,
Adrian
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Clean up old logs


  My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While
trying =
  to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various
stu=

 Please don't post HTML.

 Adrian, isn't logrotate working? Or do you want to clean the stuff up
 now? At any rate, find would do the job:

 # find . -type f /var/log -mtime 30 | xargs rm

 That gets rid of files modified over 30 days ago.

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[expert] Re: Clean up old logs

[Björn Lundin]

Adrian Golumbovici wrote:

 Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running?

look in the crontab or int /etc/cron.daily 

 
 ps aux | grep logrotate
 
 didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it
 work)?

It's not a deamon, its started by cron, run and then dies.

 I see some logs archived (with .gz ending) in /var/log but don't really
 need them (they just take up space). 

proberbly logrotate, that what it does, switching logfile for processes,
keeping the old ones compressed.

 Anything older than 30 days should be 
 irrelevant.

man logrotate will help you to set that up, by tweaking /etc/logrotate.conf

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[expert] Re: Re: Noise

[Björn Lundin]

 I have had the same thing at times. There was a thread on newbie
 awhile back.  There was talk of it being fam related, and also just
 reiser doing it's job.
 
 See if you can find it in the archives: i posted the ?, stephen kuhn
 and others had some thoughts.

I found the thread, and it states that it is reiser that checks its
journalfiles, but I have a hard time to belive that, when I notice 
that it stop in runlevel 3. That would then mean that I don't have
journaling when I don't have a GUI. I think it's Kde related, but I give
up. 

 
 In the end i decided nt to worry about it...
 

well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :)

Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread,
it would be nice to have a utility like that.
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Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

[Kwan Lowe]

 lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO
 (dev 0x1600): invalid argument

 and i didn't find any way to install lilo
 so I decided to use grub and started without any
 problem any idea?


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Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

[Derek Jennings]

On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 5:32 pm, Björn Lundin wrote:
 Adrian Golumbovici wrote:
  Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running?

 look in the crontab or int /etc/cron.daily 

  ps aux | grep logrotate
 
  didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it
  work)?

 It's not a deamon, its started by cron, run and then dies.

  I see some logs archived (with .gz ending) in /var/log but don't really
  need them (they just take up space).

 proberbly logrotate, that what it does, switching logfile for processes,
 keeping the old ones compressed.

  Anything older than 30 days should be
  irrelevant.

 man logrotate will help you to set that up, by tweaking /etc/logrotate.conf

 /Björn

And if you turn your computer off at night you will need to install the 
anacron RPM. The cron job to run logrotate is scheduled at 4am each morning. 
If your computer is switched off at night it will never run. Anacron will run 
missed cron jobs for you.

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Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

[R N dev]

80 Gb.
fstab:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
55668348  19565436  33275072  38% /
none192772 0192772   0% /dev/shm
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
  11906740   9620424   2286316  81% /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
  10999056   3102756   7896300  29% /mnt/other

Anyway i re-configured lilo on mcc and now it works
well.
Angelo

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  lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO
  (dev 0x1600): invalid argument
 
  and i didn't find any way to install lilo
  so I decided to use grub and started without any
  problem any idea?
 
 
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Re: [expert] Clean up old logs

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Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Clean up old logs


didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does
 it work)?

It's not probably going to be running. Do you have a /etc/logrotate.d or 
an /etc/logrotate.conf file? It's not a boot time service but it gets run 
out of cron -- typically 4am on Sundays when the lines are not too 
busy ;).

What it basically does is let you keep a certain number of week's worth of 
log files. For instance if you have 5 weeks of logs for foo, you'd 
typically see (after 5 weeks, of course):

/var/log/foo
/var/log/foo.1.gz
/var/log/foo.2.gz
/var/log/foo.3.gz
/var/log/foo.4.gz
/var/log/foo.5.gz

Now, pretend it's the sixth week. First it will get rid 
of /var/log/foo.5.gz, then move 4 to 5, 3 to 4, 2 to 3, 1 to 2, 
gzip /var/log/foo, and touch a zero byte /var/log/foo so you can start 
over. Neat huh?

In your situation, you may not have a standard log file but if it's one 
that periodically grows, you can add it to the existing logrotate 
configuration. Some are not set by default or have longer than weekly 
rotate times (likely httpd for one I believe).


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Re: [expert] Re: Re: Noise

[James Sparenberg]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:38, Björn Lundin wrote:
  I have had the same thing at times. There was a thread on newbie
  awhile back.  There was talk of it being fam related, and also just
  reiser doing it's job.
  
  See if you can find it in the archives: i posted the ?, stephen kuhn
  and others had some thoughts.
 
 I found the thread, and it states that it is reiser that checks its
 journalfiles, but I have a hard time to belive that, when I notice 
 that it stop in runlevel 3. That would then mean that I don't have
 journaling when I don't have a GUI. I think it's Kde related, but I give
 up. 
 
  
  In the end i decided nt to worry about it...
  
 
 well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :)
 
 Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread,
 it would be nice to have a utility like that.
 /Björn

  The questions I would have (Yeah I know more questions no answers
*grin* ) are 

1.  Does this happen when you log into other WM's like Ice or Gnome
etc.  This will narrow the problem down to something kde related or
not.  dividing the world in half.  

2.  Could you do an ls of /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and post that.  It will tell
us what gets started just for runlevel 5 for sure.


I'm running the same setup as you 9.1 + kde3.1.4 from Texstar + reiserfs
and don't have this condition.  So something you have that I don't is
doing it. 

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[expert] problems accessing sendmail from other host on lan

[faisal gillani]

Well i have a PC running sendmail  pop3 deamon . when
i try to access sendmail  pop3 services from locally
on the same pci am sucessful . but when i try to
access smtp services of sendmail from over lan i can
find it .. i mean the PC dont have any firewall
installed .. 
when i port scan it from network i can see pop3 port
open but sendmail smtp port isnt open .. what can be
wrong ? i dont understand .. sendmail services arent
accesable.

also if you guys know any sendmail mailing list then
tell me where i can ask 
this question .. sendmail questions email address
didnt do any good .


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Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

[Derek Jennings]

On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 7:30 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote:
 Oh shucks. Then maybe that was it. Since last electricity invoice almost
 let me broke I started to shut it down at night (that is for the last 6
 months).

 :)


Just install it. It will start as a service automatically. No config is 
necessary

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Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

[Eric Huff]

 Thx. Do I have tp set anything special for anacron? Do I need to
 run it also as a demon?

If you like the gui:

run the mandsrake control center (mcc at the cli) 
system
drakxservices in upper right

then select anacron for boot, and might as well hit start too (to
run it now).


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Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

[Eric Huff]

RE anacron

 
 Just install it. It will start as a service automatically. No
 config is necessary
 
 derek

Whoops.  I guess it's not installed and shut off, my last email
doesn't make much sense...

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[expert] Mobo advice

[Terry Smith]

Today's local Fry's sale flier features an

Abit KD7A mobo (ATX form factor, socket A) using the VIA KT400A chipset
with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU/fan included. Price $129.99.

Anybody have anything to report..good/bad...on this mobo and its ability
to run under Mandrake? It has onboard LAN and sound (AC97 codec)

TIA.

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Re: [expert] Color with echo in shell script (was: [expert] menuin bash script)

[Jean-Pierre Denis]

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Hi,

Adolfo Bello wrote:
  jipe wrote:
  
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   menuA[1]=$(echo -e  \e[1;34;46m-1-\e[0m\tCopy /etc/dhcpd.conf)
 
  I would like to get more details on how to display color in shell
  script and on terminal.
 
  Can anybody point me the a good reference docuement. I did not find
  anything in the man pages.

 just have a look here:

 http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/colorizing.html

 Also take a look at:

 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html


Thanks guys, this is was I was looking for.

J.C. you could post your perl script and let us know where to find it !


Thanks,
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[expert] Re: Re: Re: Noise

[Björn Lundin]

James Sparenberg wrote:

 well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :)
 
 Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread,
 it would be nice to have a utility like that.
 /Björn
 
   The questions I would have (Yeah I know more questions no answers
 *grin* ) are
 
 1.  Does this happen when you log into other WM's like Ice or Gnome
 etc.  This will narrow the problem down to something kde related or
 not.  dividing the world in half.

Well, I like Kde so much, I don't have any other wm installed.
I'll try installing blackbox or fluxbox...
later
Now, when I've installed Fluxbox, I notice NO disk activity.
(Writing this in Fluxbox, I like the silence, but it's a bit sparse)
 
 2.  Could you do an ls of /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and post that.  It will tell
 us what gets started just for runlevel 5 for sure.

Won't do a whole lot of difference now, but here goes.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ ls /etc/rc5.d/
S03iptables@S12syslog@   S25netfs@  S44acpid@   S65dhcrelay@ 
S90webmin@
S04acpi@S13slpd@ S25shorewall@  S55sshd@S75keytable@ 
S92lisa@
S05harddrake@   S14nfslock@  S26apmd@   S56xinetd@  S80spamassassin@ 
S98postgresql@
S05lm_sensors@  S18sound@S30dm@ S60cups@S85httpd@
S99devfsd@
S10network@ S20random@   S40atd@S60nfs@ S85numlock@  
S99linuxconf@
S11portmap@ S20xfs@  S40saslauthd@  S65dhcpd@   S90crond@
S99local@

In addition, a comparison with chkconfig --list reveals that the only
service thats on in runlevel 5, and not in runlevel 3 is dm
(diplaymanager?) which makes sense.


 I'm running the same setup as you 9.1 + kde3.1.4 from Texstar + reiserfs
 and don't have this condition.  So something you have that I don't is
 doing it.

Well, it's a nice setup, don't you think :)


Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it.
But what in Kde?
 
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[expert] question for 9.2 users re:htdig and kde help centre

[bascule]

does this feature work now? i really liked it when it used to, indexing all 
the documentation on my box was really useful

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Re: [expert] Mobo advice

[Greg Meyer]

On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:18 pm, Terry Smith wrote:
 Today's local Fry's sale flier features an

 Abit KD7A mobo (ATX form factor, socket A) using the VIA KT400A chipset
 with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU/fan included. Price $129.99.

 Anybody have anything to report..good/bad...on this mobo and its ability
 to run under Mandrake? It has onboard LAN and sound (AC97 codec)

That board should be fine, the KT400 and KT-400a series is well supported in 
Linux.

BTW, you can get that board for $75 at Newegg with free shipping.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactorycatalog=22manufactory=1283DEPA=1sortby=14order=1
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Re: [expert] Mobo advice

[Terry Smith]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:56, Greg Meyer wrote:
 On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:18 pm, Terry Smith wrote:
  Today's local Fry's sale flier features an
 
  Abit KD7A mobo (ATX form factor, socket A) using the VIA KT400A chipset
  with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU/fan included. Price $129.99.
 
  Anybody have anything to report..good/bad...on this mobo and its ability
  to run under Mandrake? It has onboard LAN and sound (AC97 codec)
 
 That board should be fine, the KT400 and KT-400a series is well supported in 
 Linux.
 
 BTW, you can get that board for $75 at Newegg with free shipping.
 
 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactorycatalog=22man
 ufactory=1283DEPA=1sortby=14order=1

Thanks Greg. Newegg has the CPU w/heat sink and fan for $72. So the
total, from them, would be $147.

I'll take a look at it tomorrow when I go to the store.

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Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

[Jack Coates]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 10:01, Bill wrote:
 That is what my understanding was. you wouyld asign like 5 to your primary 
 email server and 10 to the backup. Assigning the same number would just make 
 things a little screwy. 
 

yeah, it'll basically just round robin. An additional wrinkle is that
many (most?) MTAs will try to send to the domain's A record if none of
the MX's respond.

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Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

[Jack Coates]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:13, R N dev wrote:
 hi,
  i've  just upgraded my mdk 9.1. At the end of
 installation i had this error during lilo
 installation:
 
 lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO
 (dev 0x1600): invalid argument
 
 and i didn't find any way to install lilo 
 so I decided to use grub and started without any
 problem any idea?
 
 thanks
 Angelo

Same thing happened here with two systems... dunno why, but grub isn't
bad so I'm not complaining too loudly.

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Re: [expert] Mobo advice

[Greg Meyer]

On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:12 pm, Terry Smith wrote:
 Thanks Greg. Newegg has the CPU w/heat sink and fan for $72. So the
 total, from them, would be $147.

(I'm sorry, I didn't catch that the deal at Fry's included the CPU and 
heatsink.  That's definitely a better deal (depending on the cpu of course)
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Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

[R N dev]

 
 Same thing happened here with two systems... dunno
 why, but grub isn't
 bad so I'm not complaining too loudly.

Ok, but it could be a bug and perhaps it would be
nice to give feedbacks
 


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Re: [expert] Mobo advice

[Terry Smith]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:58, Greg Meyer wrote:
 On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:12 pm, Terry Smith wrote:
  Thanks Greg. Newegg has the CPU w/heat sink and fan for $72. So the
  total, from them, would be $147.
 
 (I'm sorry, I didn't catch that the deal at Fry's included the CPU and 
 heatsink.  That's definitely a better deal (depending on the cpu of course)

It's an Athlon XP 2200+ ...with a best price in the $70-$75 range so
Fry's is a better deal. I'm in Seattle at the moment and the box I want
to rebuild is on the east coast so I'm going to wait until I return
there (in a couple of weeks) to see what I can scavenge off the old box.
I can always mail order at that point, even though I may end paying a
few more bucks.

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Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

[Michael Holt]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 10:01, Bill wrote:
 That is what my understanding was. you wouyld asign like 5 to your primary 
 email server and 10 to the backup. Assigning the same number would just make 
 things a little screwy. 

Ok, that would make sense.  I'm still confused as to why one would let
me in and one wouldn't - I think they need to hire a new engineer :)
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Re: [expert] Re: Re: Re: Noise

[James Sparenberg]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:32, Björn Lundin wrote:
 James Sparenberg wrote:
 
  well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :)
  
  Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread,
  it would be nice to have a utility like that.
  /Björn
  
The questions I would have (Yeah I know more questions no answers
  *grin* ) are
  
  1.  Does this happen when you log into other WM's like Ice or Gnome
  etc.  This will narrow the problem down to something kde related or
  not.  dividing the world in half.
 
 Well, I like Kde so much, I don't have any other wm installed.
 I'll try installing blackbox or fluxbox...
 later
 Now, when I've installed Fluxbox, I notice NO disk activity.
 (Writing this in Fluxbox, I like the silence, but it's a bit sparse)
  
  2.  Could you do an ls of /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and post that.  It will tell
  us what gets started just for runlevel 5 for sure.
 
 Won't do a whole lot of difference now, but here goes.
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ ls /etc/rc5.d/
 S03iptables@S12syslog@   S25netfs@  S44acpid@   S65dhcrelay@ 
 S90webmin@
 S04acpi@S13slpd@ S25shorewall@  S55sshd@S75keytable@ 
 S92lisa@
 S05harddrake@   S14nfslock@  S26apmd@   S56xinetd@  S80spamassassin@ 
 S98postgresql@
 S05lm_sensors@  S18sound@S30dm@ S60cups@S85httpd@
 S99devfsd@
 S10network@ S20random@   S40atd@S60nfs@ S85numlock@  
 S99linuxconf@
 S11portmap@ S20xfs@  S40saslauthd@  S65dhcpd@   S90crond@
 S99local@
 
 In addition, a comparison with chkconfig --list reveals that the only
 service thats on in runlevel 5, and not in runlevel 3 is dm
 (diplaymanager?) which makes sense.
 
 
  I'm running the same setup as you 9.1 + kde3.1.4 from Texstar + reiserfs
  and don't have this condition.  So something you have that I don't is
  doing it.
 
 Well, it's a nice setup, don't you think :)
 
 
 Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it.
 But what in Kde?
  
 /Björn
 

What I see that you use that I don't iptables shorewall netfs nfs and
lisa, linuxconf httpd and atd.  I've got nessusd smartd and win4lin,
that you don't have. I'm suspicious that Lisa is what is polling your
HDD but not sure.  In my case as well dm is the only diff between rl 3
and 5.  My initial reaction would be to turn off (if possible) the ones
you have that I don't one at a time then if it doesn't stop turn it back
on and go to the next one.  

As for the 9.1 + texstar combo.  Yes love it.  That's why my laptop
won't be in a hurry to move to 9.2.

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Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

[Jack Coates]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 14:04, R N dev wrote:
  
  Same thing happened here with two systems... dunno
  why, but grub isn't
  bad so I'm not complaining too loudly.
 
 Ok, but it could be a bug and perhaps it would be
 nice to give feedbacks

yeah it would be, but unfortunately I am not a student any more :-) I
try to do bug reports when I get a chance, but I frequently don't get a
chance.

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Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

[Glenn Burkhardt]

On Saturday 15 November 2003 09:04 am, Stefan Rijnhart wrote:
 Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 12:56, schreef Glenn Burkhardt:
  I'm getting close to the cause of the problem - I started doing a survey
  of several different machines, all running MDK 9.1.  Some had all the
  fonts, some didn't.  The ones that didn't had missing entries from the
  file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1.  Specifically, the entries
  for 75dpi and 100dpi were missing.
 
  Which utility maintains this file?

 Not being an X person at all myself, but have you got the following
 packages installed?

 XFree86-100dpi-fonts
 XFree86-75dpi-fonts

 Stefan.

Yes, both packages are installed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] glenn]$ rpm -qa | grep dpi
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk

I've discovered by experiment that adding the missing lines in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1 for the non-scaled fonts, viz.,

100dpi 0 .dir
75dpi 0 .dir

fixes the problem.  I've been digging, and it looks like the program 
'fc-cache' (part of fontconfig) is supposed to maintain this file, and the
other  font-cache files in the font directory.  But I haven't been able to 
find any documentation on it yet.  There are notes in mailing lists that 
indicate that one can force the files to be updated with 'fc-cache -fv', but 
I'd like to find some documentation before trying it.

I think that when I applied updates to the system, one or more of the XFree86 
packages didn't force an update during post install.  There were so many 
updates to 9.1, and I've applied most all of them, especially all the XFree86 
updates.


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Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

[Glenn Burkhardt]

Executing 'fc-cache -f' has fixed the problem.  The Qt fontlist program now 
finds all the non-scaled fonts.  There doesn't seem to be any documentation 
of 'fc-cache' in the fontconfig source.  So probably one of the updates was 
botched.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] glenn]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1 
encodings 0 .dir
Speedo 0 .dir
TTF 0 .dir
Type1 0 .dir
mdk 0 .dir
misc 0 .dir

[EMAIL PROTECTED] glenn]# fc-cache -f 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] glenn]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1 
encodings 0 .dir
Speedo 0 .dir
TTF 0 .dir
Type1 0 .dir
mdk 0 .dir
misc 0 .dir
100dpi 0 .dir
75dpi 0 .dir



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[expert] Install hangs on a laptop 9.1 and 9.2

[Paulo da Silva]

Hi!

I am trying to install MK 9.2 on a laptop - Compaq Presario 2541.

In normal GUI mode, the install runs fine until a screen with

Installing driver for bus/firewire Texas Instruments|TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394
Controller (PHY/Link) 1394a-2000
appears! Then the computer remains hanged!

Is there anyway to bypass this?

This already happened with 9.1.

I also tried the expert mode but it hangs early displaying only
the header and footing of the initial text screen, I think the one where
loading ... message should appear.
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Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

[Glenn Burkhardt]

It looks like the post-install for the 100dpi font rpm doesn't update the 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1, but only the 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.cache-1:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ rpm -qp --scripts 
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk.i586.rpm 
postinstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh):
umask 133
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
mkfontdir || :
/usr/bin/fc-cache . || :
/usr/sbin/chkfontpath -q -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled

So if the entry doesn't exist before installing the font package, some 
programs (at least those that use Qt) won't be able to use the font.

Here's what happens if the entry doesn't exist:

== first, remove the font package entirely:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
encodings 0 .dir
Speedo 0 .dir
TTF 0 .dir
Type1 0 .dir
mdk 0 .dir
misc 0 .dir
75dpi 0 .dir
MathML 0 .dir
100dpi 0 .dir

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# fc-cache
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
encodings 0 .dir
Speedo 0 .dir
TTF 0 .dir
Type1 0 .dir
mdk 0 .dir
misc 0 .dir
75dpi 0 .dir
MathML 0 .dir

== then, install the font package:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# rpm -i XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk.i586.rpm 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
encodings 0 .dir
Speedo 0 .dir
TTF 0 .dir
Type1 0 .dir
mdk 0 .dir
misc 0 .dir
75dpi 0 .dir
MathML 0 .dir

== But this fixes it:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# fc-cache
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
encodings 0 .dir
Speedo 0 .dir
TTF 0 .dir
Type1 0 .dir
mdk 0 .dir
misc 0 .dir
75dpi 0 .dir
MathML 0 .dir
100dpi 0 .dir




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Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU

[Greg Meyer]

On Monday 10 November 2003 02:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:
 On Monday 10 Nov 2003 2:18 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
  I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP
  client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can
  connect to the server using the server's fqdn.  When I am inside the
  firewall, I can connect to the server by making an entry in my /etc/hosts
  file for it that aliases it's private ip to it's netbios name (it is an
  Exchange 5.5 server).  In order to connect, I simply change the
  servername in kmail depending on where I am.
 
  So now my question, is there any way to set up my hosts/resolv.conf/tmdns
  to look for the server in the local network first and if it cannot find
  it to look it up in the DNS so that I don't have to constantly change the
  setup in kmail?
 
  Since the local addressing scheme in place at my company is quite unique
  I would even be open to doing something like having a script called in
  rc.local check to see what the network ip block of the local network is
  and writing out a hosts file that would have an entry for the server if I
  am on the right network, although I have no idea how to actually
  implement that.

 You mean something like:

 cp /etc/hosts.base /etc/hosts
 if (/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 192.168.7/dev/null)
 then cat /etc/hosts.extra  /etc/hosts
 fi

 (test it first, of course)
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction,  For posterity's sake 
here is what I have done.  I took this challenge as an opportunity to get 
more familiar with shell scripting.  Despite the fact that there are probably 
many improvements that can be made to make it more universal, it works for my 
needs.  I post it here for future reference for anyone looking for a similar 
solution.

#!/bin/bash
#This is the network startup script that is handy for a laptop
#computer that has to move between different networks.  We are booting with a 
#base modules.conf and hosts file and appending it based upon the network 
#profile we want to maintain.  The reason modules.conf is involved is that on 
#some network we want the wireless interface to be eth0 and on others we want 
#it to be eth1.  By using the aliases in modules.conf, we can load the 
#interfaces in any order we like.

#Define variables
#Set the profile
PROFILE=$1

#You must be root to run this script, so we test and then exit if
#whoami does not return root
if test `whoami` != root ; then
echo You must be the system administrator to run this script
echo Please become root user and try again
exit
fi

#Test and make sure a profile was specified
if test $PROFILE =  ; then
echo You must specify a valid network profile
echo Syntax: network.sh profile
exit
fi

#Give some feedback to the user
echo Setting parameters for $PROFILE networking profile

#Set up hosts and modules.conf
#The related hosts.$PROFILE files should contain the addresses on the local 
#net that need to be resolved by name.  The related modules.conf.$PROFILE 
#files should contain the proper aliases for the order we want the network 
#interfaces to load.

cp /etc/hosts.base /etc/hosts
cat /etc/hosts.$PROFILE  /etc/hosts
echo Creating hosts file... done.
#The copying of modules.conf.base must be done as part of the initscripts so
#that a basic modules.conf file is available at boot that does not contain
#any network aliases.  This is so the other hardware modules can be loaded
#but no network interfaces are brought up by before we know what profile we
#want to run under.  Perhaps this can always be done at shutdown, but is
#probably better as part of rc.sysinit.
cp /etc/modules.conf.base /etc/modules.conf
cat /etc/modules.conf.$PROFILE  /etc/modules.conf
echo Creating module aliases... done.

#If we get this far we can bring up the interfaces
echo Bringing up the network interfaces
ifup eth0.$PROFILE
ifup eth1.$PROFILE
echo done

echo Profile $PROFILE loaded
-- 
/g

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[expert] cd writer fails...

[Glenn Burkhardt]

I can't get a CD writer to work - all the device configuration seems OK, and 
the model is listed as known to work on the main compatibility list
(http://wt.xpilot.org/cgi-bin/winni/lsc-orig.pl), and, Herr Schilling lists it 
as one of the units he has to play with.

Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'LG  ' 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM
 
The error log from 'gcombust' is:

Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
atapi: 1
Device type: Removable CD-ROM
Version: 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info: 'LG  '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8080B '
Revision   : '1.04'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1024000 = 1000 KB
FIFO size  : 4194304 = 4096 KB
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Track 01: audio   45 MB (04:28.49) no preemp 
Track 02: audio   35 MB (03:31.80) no preemp 
Track 03: audio   54 MB (05:21.53) no preemp 
Track 04: audio   36 MB (03:38.93) no preemp 
Track 05: audio   63 MB (06:17.10) no preemp 
Track 06: audio   44 MB (04:26.00) no preemp 
Track 07: audio   33 MB (03:20.40) no preemp 
Track 08: audio   37 MB (03:42.02) no preemp 
Track 09: audio  165 MB (16:21.04) no preemp 
Track 10: audio   41 MB (04:04.06) no preemp 
Track 11: audio   27 MB (02:44.96) no preemp 
Track 12: audio   31 MB (03:06.17) no preemp 
Lout start:  620 MB (61:26/40) = 276340 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 6
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6)
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11231 (97:32/19)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359847 (79:59/72)
Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 27
Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
Blocks total: 359847 Blocks current: 359847 Blocks remaining: 83507
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy TAO mode for single session.
/usr//bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
Track 01:0 of   45 MB written.
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Writing  time:5.020s
Average write speed 734.8x.
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
/usr//bin/cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
/usr//bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 
100%.


Any ideas??   Is the old firmware level (1.4) an issue?

Thanks.

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Re: [expert] Re: Re: Re: Noise

[James Sparenberg]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:01, James Sparenberg wrote:
 On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:32, Björn Lundin wrote:
  James Sparenberg wrote:
  
   well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :)
   
   Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread,
   it would be nice to have a utility like that.
   /Björn
   
 The questions I would have (Yeah I know more questions no answers
   *grin* ) are
   
   1.  Does this happen when you log into other WM's like Ice or Gnome
   etc.  This will narrow the problem down to something kde related or
   not.  dividing the world in half.
  
  Well, I like Kde so much, I don't have any other wm installed.
  I'll try installing blackbox or fluxbox...
  later
  Now, when I've installed Fluxbox, I notice NO disk activity.
  (Writing this in Fluxbox, I like the silence, but it's a bit sparse)
   
   2.  Could you do an ls of /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and post that.  It will tell
   us what gets started just for runlevel 5 for sure.
  
  Won't do a whole lot of difference now, but here goes.
  
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ ls /etc/rc5.d/
  S03iptables@S12syslog@   S25netfs@  S44acpid@   S65dhcrelay@ 
  S90webmin@
  S04acpi@S13slpd@ S25shorewall@  S55sshd@S75keytable@ 
  S92lisa@
  S05harddrake@   S14nfslock@  S26apmd@   S56xinetd@  S80spamassassin@ 
  S98postgresql@
  S05lm_sensors@  S18sound@S30dm@ S60cups@S85httpd@
  S99devfsd@
  S10network@ S20random@   S40atd@S60nfs@ S85numlock@  
  S99linuxconf@
  S11portmap@ S20xfs@  S40saslauthd@  S65dhcpd@   S90crond@
  S99local@
  
  In addition, a comparison with chkconfig --list reveals that the only
  service thats on in runlevel 5, and not in runlevel 3 is dm
  (diplaymanager?) which makes sense.
  
  
   I'm running the same setup as you 9.1 + kde3.1.4 from Texstar + reiserfs
   and don't have this condition.  So something you have that I don't is
   doing it.
  
  Well, it's a nice setup, don't you think :)
  
  
  Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it.
  But what in Kde?
   
  /Björn
  
 

err... puncuation would help let me try again.
 What I see that you use that I don't are, iptables, shorewall, netfs nfs and
 lisa, linuxconf httpd and atd.  I've got nessusd smartd and win4lin,
 that you don't have. I'm suspicious that Lisa is what is polling your
 HDD but not sure.  In my case as well, dm is the only diff between rl 3
 and 5.  My initial reaction would be, turn off (if possible) the ones
 you have that I don't, one at a time, then if it doesn't stop the polling, turn it 
 back
 on and go to the next one. 

Sorry about that
  
 
 As for the 9.1 + texstar combo.  Yes love it.  That's why my laptop
 won't be in a hurry to move to 9.2.
 
 James




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Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

[James Sparenberg]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 17:09, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
 It looks like the post-install for the 100dpi font rpm doesn't update the 
 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1, but only the 
 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.cache-1:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ rpm -qp --scripts 
 XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk.i586.rpm 
 postinstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh):
 umask 133
 cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
 mkfontdir || :
 /usr/bin/fc-cache . || :
 /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -q -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
 
 So if the entry doesn't exist before installing the font package, some 
 programs (at least those that use Qt) won't be able to use the font.
 
 Here's what happens if the entry doesn't exist:
 
 == first, remove the font package entirely:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
 encodings 0 .dir
 Speedo 0 .dir
 TTF 0 .dir
 Type1 0 .dir
 mdk 0 .dir
 misc 0 .dir
 75dpi 0 .dir
 MathML 0 .dir
 100dpi 0 .dir
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# fc-cache
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
 encodings 0 .dir
 Speedo 0 .dir
 TTF 0 .dir
 Type1 0 .dir
 mdk 0 .dir
 misc 0 .dir
 75dpi 0 .dir
 MathML 0 .dir
 
 == then, install the font package:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# rpm -i XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk.i586.rpm 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
 encodings 0 .dir
 Speedo 0 .dir
 TTF 0 .dir
 Type1 0 .dir
 mdk 0 .dir
 misc 0 .dir
 75dpi 0 .dir
 MathML 0 .dir
 
 == But this fixes it:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# fc-cache
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
 encodings 0 .dir
 Speedo 0 .dir
 TTF 0 .dir
 Type1 0 .dir
 mdk 0 .dir
 misc 0 .dir
 75dpi 0 .dir
 MathML 0 .dir
 100dpi 0 .dir
 

Glenn  
Could I be so bold as to trouble you to do a cut and past of the above
e-mail into a bug report?  I'm quite sure you aren't alone with your
problem.  Thanks.

James

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Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

[James Sparenberg]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:34, Jack Coates wrote:
 On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 14:04, R N dev wrote:
   
   Same thing happened here with two systems... dunno
   why, but grub isn't
   bad so I'm not complaining too loudly.
  
  Ok, but it could be a bug and perhaps it would be
  nice to give feedbacks
 
 yeah it would be, but unfortunately I am not a student any more :-) I
 try to do bug reports when I get a chance, but I frequently don't get a
 chance.
 

Jack,

   Watch the spinning ball You are getting sleepy you want to
file a bug report  *grin*

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Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

[Charlie]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:59 pm, many eyes noted that Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
 Any ideas??   Is the old firmware level (1.4) an issue?

 Thanks.

LG? One wonders?

Charlie

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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help
the rabbit.
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Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:27 pm, Charlie wrote:
 On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:59 pm, many eyes noted that Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
  Any ideas??   Is the old firmware level (1.4) an issue?
 
  Thanks.

 LG? One wonders?

 Charlie

Don't think so. First, Glenn has a CD-RW. The LG screwup only affects plain 
old CDs. Second, his model (8080B) is not one of the listed model numbers:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3
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Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

[Bill Mullen]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

 I can't get a CD writer to work - all the device configuration seems OK,
 and the model is listed as known to work on the main compatibility
 list (http://wt.xpilot.org/cgi-bin/winni/lsc-orig.pl), and, Herr
 Schilling lists it as one of the units he has to play with.
 
 Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
 scsibus0:
 0,0,0 0) 'LG  ' 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM

So far so good, ide-scsi emulation seems to be working.

 The error log from 'gcombust' is:
 
[snip]
 Blocks total: 359847 Blocks current: 359847 Blocks remaining: 83507
 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy TAO mode for single session.

Looks to me like dummy mode is turned on, so no actual write should occur.
Turn off dummy mode, and try again.

HTH!

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Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

[dfox]

Somebody scribbled about [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin
These are tricky html or other type of spam, they are plain text. 
 Generally they are viagra messages.  The one that really galls me is
 one that uses the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of the 
 actual

It is getting ever more popular to obfuscate the filters. Spammers might 
just have woken up to the fact that most of their mail is getting killed 
by filters. The majority of spam I am seeing now have various 
obfuscations - such as using high ASCII characters, accent marks, 
periods, odd punctuation in the subject and that sort of thing.

Bodies are even more stranger. I've seen spam where the only legible item 
in the body was the link, buried in the middle of the spam, and the whole 
rest of the message looks like:

;weafl;ewjkajeiajwe;ia
gjaegjk
aefjajj fjkl;weaj;ejklaefj;aejaf
j; wekla;fjkaje4iajajkef 
   wejlfj;efaj http://gogetcash.com 
aef;aljkajkljl;kwefjl;ka

like that :).

 minutes later that damn message is back and spamassassin let it come
 right through.

Would the scores be raised by learned spam? Oftentimes one sees a lot of
spam that you know is definitely spam but there's not sufficient checks 
that would raise the score and put it into the bucket. Since Spam 
Assassin looks at specific things for scoring, it may be that the spam in 
question didn't trigger a specific nono that SA is looking for.

What the hell?  I REALLY want to nuke the computer from which this
 comes.  I was doing so well there with nary a spam for weeks getting

I started that approach sometime back but ran into trouble getting it to 
work in postfix (per host type refusals). Sooner or later I will try to 
get it working again. 


praedor

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]   on your hard disk.
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