Re: [expert] ps2pdf problem in Mandrake 8.2
kwan == kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kwan The Sourceforge project for Ghostscript shows at least 5 bug reports kwan similar to what you experienced. For now I'm dropping back to the kwan version shipped with 8.1, since that one seems to be free of the kwan problems. I thought about doing that, but rpm -e ghostscript shows a lot of dependencies. Did you find a magic way around that? kwan You should be able to use the --oldpackage option to RPM to downgrade. Thanks, I hadn't known about that option. However, I decided to upgrade to a version after the bug was fixed instead. I got the RPM at: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs704/linux/ghostscript-7.04-1.i386.rpm -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ps2pdf problem in Mandrake 8.2
Laura == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Laura Is anyone else having problems with ps2pdf in Mandrake 8.2? I have Laura some files that aren't converting right. I don't think I had a Laura problem like this before I upgraded. I can email a pointer to the Laura files to anyone who wants to look at them. I found a workaround: ps2ps file.ps tmp.ps ps2pdf tmp.ps file.pdf This is undesirable, since the file ends up a lot bigger, but it seems to fix the problems with the display of the ps2pdf output. The person who suggested the workaround was running Debian, so it's undoubtedly a Ghostscript problem, not a Mandrake problem. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ps2pdf problem in Mandrake 8.2
kwan == kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kwan The Sourceforge project for Ghostscript shows at least 5 bug reports kwan similar to what you experienced. For now I'm dropping back to the kwan version shipped with 8.1, since that one seems to be free of the kwan problems. I thought about doing that, but rpm -e ghostscript shows a lot of dependencies. Did you find a magic way around that? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ps2pdf problem in Mandrake 8.2
Is anyone else having problems with ps2pdf in Mandrake 8.2? I have some files that aren't converting right. I don't think I had a problem like this before I upgraded. I can email a pointer to the files to anyone who wants to look at them. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2
Roger == haaserd Roger writes: Roger In order to get the test-cgi script Roger in cgi-bin to work, I had to modify the commonhttpd.conf Directory / Roger setting to look like the 8.1 commonhttpd.conf settings: Roger Directory / Roger # Options -All -Multiviews Roger Options FollowSymLinks Roger AllowOverride None Roger # Order deny,allow Roger # Deny from all Roger /Directory Thanks, this turns out to be the answer. I did the kosher thing and put it in httpd.conf. Now does someone want to explain to this relative newbie at apache configuration (although not at running linux) why the default commonhttpd doesn't allow access to the default root? The configuration as distributed does not work out of the box. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2
Larry == Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry Laura Conrad wrote: I just upgraded my machine from 8.1 to 8.2, and now whenever I try to access a page on the webserver I get something like: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. It worked fine on 8.1. Is there something I need to change in the apache configuration files? Larry Try: https://localhost/ When I do that, Netscape makes me click a whole bunch of buttons before telling me I'm forbidden to access that site. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2
Roger == haaserd Roger writes: Roger In order to get the test-cgi script Roger in cgi-bin to work, I had to modify the commonhttpd.conf Directory / Roger setting to look like the 8.1 commonhttpd.conf settings: I find I can get what worked on 8.1 to work on 8.2 by using the commonhttpd.conf from 8.1. I have done some (so far unsuccessful) experiments modifying the 8.2 one, but it really isn't what I most feel like working on. If anyone knows where the changes are documented, I'd be willing to read it and see if it helps. (I have tried the Changelog on the apache.org website and it didn't enlighten me.) Otherwise I will continue just using the 8.1 version, presumably missing whatever new features are enabled in the 8.2 one, but being able to use my old directory structure and scripts. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] documenting upgrades
I was hoping when I upgraded to 8.2 from 8.1 that the process would have gotten more painless than it was the last time I tried it. It may be better than it used to be (at least things booted with no hassle), but I've still been working most of the last two days on things that don't work any more. Here's what I can remember doing; I may well be forgetting things that were minor for me but might be real hassles for someone with a different experience of LINUX: When I configured the mouse, this time there was an option to say there was a wheel, which I have. I took this, and the mouse configuration was completely unusable until I finally managed to boot without X and run the mouse configuration program. For some reason the upgrade program didn't recognize my downloaded disks, so nothing that's on the ext and supp disks got upgraded, unless I specifically asked for it. This is probably why I haven't had to fiddle with xemacs the way I have on the last two upgrades. I think urpmi also wasn't recognizing the disks, so I added them as new sources. The pysol version shipped is incompatible with the python version shipped, so I had to download the pysol that works with python 2.2 from the pysol site. The Group that sends the mail for the mailman mailing lists had changed to a gid that isn't defined. So I had to reconfigure mailman. I think this is probably a bug. I had to put back the apache commonhttpd.conf from 8.1, as I couldn't make the one with 8.2 work for my system, and I can't find any documentation of what changed. On the plus side, I do seem to be able to print out of the box on my HP Laserjet 5000, without the giant black vertical lines and the wrong paper size messages I got on 8.1. Is there any chance that this kind of thing could be documented somewhere? I know there's this list, but it's a pretty high-volume list, and I don't always find searching the mandrake.com site really helpful. If there's some documentation of this sort that I've missed, could it be pointed to more prominently? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Apache on 8.2
I just upgraded my machine from 8.1 to 8.2, and now whenever I try to access a page on the webserver I get something like: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. It worked fine on 8.1. Is there something I need to change in the apache configuration files? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No sound after 8.2 install
Stephen == Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen Sound worked fine with my SBLive! card and LM 8.1. With 8.2, no sound. Stephen An lsmod showed a surprisingly large number of sound modules loaded, Stephen mostly alsa related. Stephen Have others had trouble with sound and 8.2? No, mine just worked, but I was running alsa on 8.1, too. Maybe it doesn't know how to upgrade to alsa from OSS? I haven't done more than run timidity, and the get the sound working on pysol (which I had to fiddle with because 8.2 ships with a version that doesn't work with python 2.2. I'm surprised that didn't get better testing.) Here's my lsmod: Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15160 0 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2816 1 (autoclean) isofs 25792 1 (autoclean) inflate_fs 19328 0 (autoclean) [isofs] vfat9788 0 (autoclean) fat31384 0 (autoclean) [vfat] mga 100496 1 agpgart31552 3 via82cxxx_audio18144 0 uart401 6336 0 [via82cxxx_audio] emu10k157984 1 ac97_codec 9568 0 [via82cxxx_audio emu10k1] sound 57292 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401 emu10k1] soundcore 4068 9 [via82cxxx_audio emu10k1 sound] nfsd 69536 8 (autoclean) lockd 49344 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 62964 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] lp 6464 0 parport_pc 22088 1 parport23968 1 [lp parport_pc] af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean) usb-uhci 21668 0 (unused) usbcore59072 1 [usb-uhci] ne2k-pci5120 1 (autoclean) 83906416 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci] st 27316 0 (unused) rtc 5912 0 (autoclean) advansys 86316 0 sd_mod 11512 0 (unused) scsi_mod 93244 4 [sr_mod st advansys sd_mod] And here's my /etc/modules.conf: pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci #alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio #alias sound-slot-1 emu10k1 probeall scsi_hostadapter advansys alias eth0 ne2k-pci probeall advansys advansys below advansys sg alias sound emu10k1 post-install emu10k1 /usr/share/emu10k1/setemu # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.3b --- alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=81 snd_device_uid=0 options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=0 snd_id=CARD_0 snd_dac_frame_size=128 snd_adc_frame_size=64 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- alias sound-slot-1 emu10k1 -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apache on 8.2
Charlie == Charlie Bebber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charlie You might check your log files (/var/log/httpd IIRC). You'll probably Charlie find your answer in your error-log or something similar. It says: [Mon Mar 25 17:56:06 2002] [error] [client 209.245.100.140] client denied by server configuration: /etc/httpd/htdocs Does that tell you what I should do? There is no /etc/httpd/htdocs. There is an htdocs directory if I install apache-source, but the index.html.en file there says: pThis page is here because the site administrator has changed the configuration of this web server. Please strongcontact the person responsible for maintaining this server with questions./strong The Apache Software Foundation, which wrote the web server software this site administrator is using, has nothing to do with maintaining this site and cannot help resolve configuration issues./p This isn't my idea of helpful documentation. I've made progress since I discovered the problem; I still can't access: http://localhost/ http://localhost/lconrad/homepage/index.html http://serpent.laymusic.org/ ... but I can now get to: http://serpent.laymusic.org/mailman/admin/groupname which is a cgi script directory which I've explicitly enabled. But the html directories that commonhttpd explicitly seems to enable still don't work. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apache 8.2 cont
Dr John == root [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dr John Not sure where Larry was heading but let's head in that direction. Dr John Laura, can you get into webmin at https://localhost:1? I don't think I have webmin installed; I've never used it. netscape hangs for a while when I try that, and then says the server isn't responding. If you can, Dr John you might want to take a look at httpd.conf, and see if you have your Dr John directories set up with correct permissions. If you are comfy with vi, Dr John just use that on httpd.conf. That is the way I would go What should they look like? /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf has the following for the directories I can't get at: commonhttpd Directory /var/www/html commonhttpd # commonhttpd # This may also be None, All, or any combination of Indexes, commonhttpd # Includes, FollowSymLinks, ExecCGI, or MultiViews. commonhttpd # commonhttpd # Note that MultiViews must be named *explicitly* --- Options All commonhttpd # doesn't give it to you. commonhttpd # commonhttpd Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews commonhttpd # commonhttpd # This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can commonhttpd # override. Can also be All, or any combination of Options, FileInfo, commonhttpd # AuthConfig, and Limit commonhttpd # commonhttpd AllowOverride All commonhttpd # commonhttpd # Controls who can get stuff from this server. commonhttpd # commonhttpd Order allow,deny commonhttpd Allow from all commonhttpd /Directory And httpd.conf has the following for the directory I can access: httpd Directory /home/mailman/cgi-bin httpd AllowOverride All httpd Options ExecCGI httpd Order allow,deny httpd Allow from all httpd /Directory So what should I change? Using a text editor isn't a problem. Knowing what text to change is. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cd writer no longer detected after kernel upgrade
Yesterday I used the Mandrake Update Wizard to upgrade my system (because there was an irritating problem with CUPS, ghostscript or tetex, which does seem to have been fixed), and foolishly allowed it to upgrade the kernel (from 2.4.26 to kernel-2.4.8-34.1mdk). After I finally managed to put the links right so I could reboot, I tried to use my SCSI cd writer, and cdrecord -scanbus does not detect it, although /proc/scsi/scsi lists the SCSI devices, including the cd writer, fine. In the past, when debugging things like this, I've rmmod'ed the SCSI module and modprobe'd it again and something gets fixed. This time, when I try to modprobe advansys, I get a Segmentation Fault. Does anyone know whether there's a problem with the 2.4.8-37 advansys module, or if there's something else I need to do to get cdrecord working with the new kernel? And while I'm complaining, why does the Mandrake Update Wizard remove the old contents of /boot but not update the links to reflect the new contents, or do the mkinitrd for me? It seems to me that a real wizard could have done everything I did to cause the boot to be successful. And if the Wizard is too lazy to do the upgrade right, it should leave the old stuff so that the system is still bootable. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] scanner device unknown
Pierre == Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like the scanner should be at /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/something, but that directory is empty. What program is supposed to create the generic entry that you have? I also don't have any links from sgn to the /dev/scsi/... files. Pierre AFAIK, the entries are automatic at bootup if the scanner is on. No, not on my system. Pierre If not, doing: Pierre echo scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0 /proc/scsi/scsi Pierre would do it after bootup... the numbers refer to the Pierre above host/bus/target/lun numbers. That doesn't give any errors, but doesn't produce a file, either. Pierre See also, /usr/src/linux/scsi-generic.txt It's greek to me. As I said, the scanner stuff has just worked for me on several revs of Mandrake, so I have no idea what's supposed to be making these devices, or what could have screwed it up. When I reboot HardDrake says Checking for new hardware, but then doesn't see anything. Is there a way to tell HardDrake that it doesn't know about the scanner, so that it will think it's new and do its thing again? And see if it's the correct thing this time? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] scanner device unknown
I have a UMAX Astra 1200S scanner, which I was using with no problems under Mandrake 8.0. I don't remember having to do anything painful to configure it. I had to reinstall to get to 8.1. The scanner is clearly known to the bus (listed in /proc/scsi/scsi, and in HardDrake), but xsane-find-scanner doesn't find it, and HardDrake says: Device: Unknown The other devices on the SCSI bus are detected fine. I haven't changed any SCSI ID's since things were working. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can use my scanner? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] scanner device unknown
Pierre == Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pierre but... I too had problems initially, and all I seem to recall doing is making Pierre the symlinks and permissions which now read: Pierre # ll /dev/scanner /dev/sg5 Pierre lr-xr-xr-x1 root root8 Oct 22 07:19 /dev/scanner - /dev/sg5 Pierre lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 36 Oct 22 07:15 /dev/sg5 - Pierre scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/generic Pierre # ll /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/generic Pierre crw-rw1 pfortin root 21, 5 Dec 31 1969 Pierre /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/generic Pierre ^^^ Pierre Adjust your sg# and host#/bus#/target#/lun# to wherever your scanner is at... It looks like some device file didn't get created. I originally had a link from /dev/scanner to /dev/sg, which didn't work. It looks like the scanner should be at /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/something, but that directory is empty. What program is supposed to create the generic entry that you have? I also don't have any links from sgn to the /dev/scsi/... files. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] site copy?
Bruce == Bruce E Harris Bruce writes: Bruce Hi, I remember a Gnome app in MK 7.2 that made copying a Bruce website pretty easy but cant find it in MK 8. Does any Bruce remember the name and if there is a MK 8 version of it? wget? I seem to be using wget-1.6-7mdk. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Adding a new SCSI Card - after initial installation
Stephen == Stephen Kitchener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen I am having a problem with a SCSI Card that I have added to an already Stephen installed Mandrake 7.2 System Stephen The BIOS detects the card and drive ok on boot, and when the card was Stephen first installed and Mandrake was booted it was detected as a new piece Stephen of hardware. I must say at that point that was all I had connected, no Stephen drive was attached at that time. Stephen The Drive and card are NOT displayed during the boot sequence, is this Stephen because I am not booting from a SCSI device ?, and when the system is Stephen up, I have to modprobe the card for me to see the card Stephen and CD Drive. My guess is that it's because the boot is using an initrd that doesn't know about the SCSI device. Stephen The card is added to /etc/modules.conf as Stephen alias scsi_hostadapter advansys Stephen alias scsi0 advansys Stephen Do I need to pre-install and/or modprobe the card on boot ? in addition Stephen to the lines above. This sounds like exactly the problem I just had. In my case the solution was to comment out the initrd lines from /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo. In my case I had had another scsi card when I did the install, and the initrd that was built on install attempted unsuccessfully to load the module for the old card, and never tried to load the module for the new card. Your problem may be different from mine, in which case the solution may be too. I never did figure out how to build and load the right initrd, which I gather you need to do only if you're booting from a SCSI device, which neither of us is doing. Stephen I am getting strange seek errors when I am writing a CD, is this because Stephen I have added the card and drive after the system has booted ? I'd be surprised; if it's finding the drive at all I would think the seek errors are something else. Try playing with lower write speeds. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Where does it find what modules to load?
Larry == Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So where is Mandrake 8 getting the idea it should load the old modules? And how do I tell it to load the new ones? Larry Your system is probably trying to load the removed ethernet Larry card because it's still listed in one of the following Larry files: Larry /etc/sysconfig/hwconf Larry /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-ethx Larry Trying to remove it using Linuxconf -Networking-Hostname Larry and IPnetworking devices. Remove or modify the entries in Larry Adaptor 1 or 2 or x. I tried that, and it still wants to load eth1 at bootup. I did a grep in /etc for eth1, and the only place I could find it was in ./sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, so I have removed that. Is there any documentation of this kind of thing? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Where does it find what modules to load?
Jose == Jose M Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jose The installer makes a pretty good estimate of your SCSI Jose devices then creates an INITRD image which contains the Jose appropriate modules. Would it make sense to run the installer in expert mode and have it do its thing with the new card? Jose If yours is not booting from a SCSI drive or has a SCSI hard Jose disk, you could omit the initrd entry in /etc/lilo.conf, run Jose lilo and be done. Thanks, this seems to be what I needed to know. I am now booting fine. As you point out, this wouldn't be the case if I were trying to boot from the SCSI drive, but I'm not. Jose But if the system needs to find a SCSI Jose hard drive initially (so it can FSCK, etc. or boot from it) Jose you need a new initrd image that has the module for your new Jose scsi card. And something else, because just running mkinitrd didn't work. Laura I want to get this off before I try rebooting. I've run: Laura cd /boot Laura mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.3.later 2.4.3-20mdk Laura rm initrd.img Laura ln -s initrd-2.4.3.later initrd.img Jose Eh, you also have to specify WHICH SCSI modules it has too Jose preload on the mkinitrd command line. The mkinitrd man page says: manmkinitrd automatically loads IDE modules, all manscsi_hostadapter entries in /etc/modules.conf, and manraid modules if the system's root partition is on manraid, which makes it simple to build and use kernels manusing modu lar device drivers. So this looks like a bug. In any case, I ran: mkinitrd --with=advansys /boot/initrd-2.4.3.advansys 2.4.3-20mdk and linked boot.img to the output, and when I booted it still tried to load the old module. So there's something I still don't understand about initrd's, but since I don't really need them, I won't worry about it. I do think someone at Mandrake should be worrying about the problem of how you document hardware changing, though. A lot of stuff just works, but for the stuff that doesn't, like removing a network interface and changing SCSI cards, we need better documentation than I've managed to find. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Where does it find what modules to load?
Larry == Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a grep in /etc for eth1, and the only place I could find it was in ./sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, so I have removed that. And that ended up working. Is there any documentation of this kind of thing? Larry In Linux-Mandrake HardDrake does a good job of detecting and setup new Larry hardware. Larry I would recommend a read of the HardDrake User Guide. Other excellent Larry sources of various config files can be found in the Config-HOWTO. Larry If you installed the full documentation peruse the Linux-Mandrake Larry Installation/User Guide and the Reference Manual and the index of HOWTOs Larry and Mini-HOWTOs. I'm sure this is good general advice, but I do read such things on a regular basis, and don't remember anything about sysconfig/network-scripts. A google search (which is much easier to do now that I know the answer) on sysconfig/network-scripts mandrake didn't turn up anything obviously useful. So I repeat, is there anywhere that documents the specific places where the ethernet interfaces are defined? And if not, shouldn't there be? Preferably pointed to by something that a reasonably educated user would think of looking at, like man modules.conf or the ethernet howto, or something. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Where does it find what modules to load?
Jose == Jose M Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jose The files are in /lib/modules/2.x.x Jose You should make sure that the entries in /boot all point to Jose the right place, especially the softlinks. Jose In addition, because you have a SCSI adaptor you will need Jose to use the mkinitrd utility to build a special bootable Jose kernel image with the appropriate SCSI module included. Shouldn't HardDrake have done that for me? Jose it still tries to load the old modules Jose Eh, what's wrong with this? The fact that I removed them from modules.conf. Jose It's loading the old modules because your configuration Jose loads an existing kernel. I thought the point of modules was that you didn't have to rebuild the kernel to load different ones? Jose If you built new modules you should have rebuilt your kernel Jose as well so that everything is consistent, and also copied Jose over map files, etc. I didn't build anything. I put in a new SCSI card, and wanted it to load the module for the new one instead of the module for the old one. On Mandrake 6.x, you achieved this by editing conf.modules to load the new one instead of the old one. There's obviously something different in Mandrake 8. It looks to me like a bug in HardDrake that the configuration doesn't get saved. Jose Make sure the boot is loading what you think it is, and run Jose lilo just to be sure! The boot isn't managing to load the old stuff, because the hardware isn't there any more, but it is definitely not loading the new stuff, or I would have my SCSI hard drive when I boot. Alexander So sprach »Laura Conrad« am 2001-07-22 um 23:56:38 -0400 : I have. It doesn't say anything at all about either tulip or ncr53c8xx. But the boot sequence is definitely trying to load both of them, and not loading advansys, which is the current scsi card. Alexander Hmm, maybe create a new initrd. See mkinitrd I want to get this off before I try rebooting. I've run: cd /boot mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.3.later 2.4.3-20mdk rm initrd.img ln -s initrd-2.4.3.later initrd.img So you're betting that it will now load the right stuff? Or do I still have to do something with the map files Jose alludes to? Even better would be if after loading the advansys module, it detected all the devices connected to it and configured them, but that might be another message. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Where does it find what modules to load?
Laura == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Laura I want to get this off before I try rebooting. I've run: Laura cd /boot Laura mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.3.later 2.4.3-20mdk Laura rm initrd.img Laura ln -s initrd-2.4.3.later initrd.img Laura So you're betting that it will now load the right stuff? If that's what you were betting, you would have been wrong. It still tries to load the old stuff, and I still have to load the advansys module by hand. So what else do I need to do? I really want it to forget that there ever was an eth1 interface and a ncr53c8xx SCSI card. And to remember that there is now an advansys card that it needs the module for. How do I tell it that? Or how do I tell HardDrake or DrakeConf to tell it that? Laura Even better would be if after loading the advansys module, Laura it detected all the devices connected to it and configured Laura them, but that might be another message. This actually did happen. That is, on bootup, it did probe the scsi card and configure the scanner for me. Which it hasn't done before since I put the new card in. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] Where does it find what modules to load?
I've modified a couple of things about my hardware configuration since installing Mandrake 8, and told both the configuration GUI and /etc/modules.conf about them, and when my computer boots it still tries to load the old modules. This is just a nuisance in the case of the ethernet card I removed, but in the case of the new SCSI interface card, it means I have to boot without the SCSI device and then insert the module and mount the hard drive separately. And I still haven't managed to get linux to recognize the external devices attached to the card. So where is Mandrake 8 getting the idea it should load the old modules? And how do I tell it to load the new ones? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Where does it find what modules to load?
Ken == Ken Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ken Check out /etc/modules.conf I have. It doesn't say anything at all about either tulip or ncr53c8xx. But the boot sequence is definitely trying to load both of them, and not loading advansys, which is the current scsi card. Ken On Sunday 22 July 2001 22:34, Laura Conrad wrote: So where is Mandrake 8 getting the idea it should load the old modules? And how do I tell it to load the new ones? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Sound editing software that does not suckfault
expert == expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: expert Does anyone know of sound editing software that does not expert suckfault like mixview or run poopy like SoundStudio? I use snd. Ecawave is probably good too, but can be a pain to install. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] Where's mt?
I'm struggling with trying to get some files off a backup tape, and I can't find the 'mt' command, which would let me be sure it was rewound, etc. It was there the last time I needed it (probably Mandrake 7.0 or even 6.x). Where has it (or its functionality) gone? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] xhost problem
tech == tech DStevenson writes: tech Does anyone have any suggestions as to what would stop xhost tech allowing incoming connections for other xserver on the same tech network. I don't know what happened, but I started having similar problems when I upgraded to Mandrake 8. My solution is to put the xhost+ commands into my .xinitrc file. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] script help ...
Craig == Craig Sprout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig At 12:35 AM 7/5/2001 -0700, faisal gillani wrote: i am stuck in how can i give the answers to the command automatically ... is it possible ? Craig As long as the answer is 'y', there is a command called Craig 'yes' that will output nothing put y's. You can pipe that Craig output to fsck (which, I assume is the program to which you Craig want to answer yes.). It's even easier than that; there's a -y option to fsck that answers everything yes. Which I always use; it's not as if I ever know that I want an different answer. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] cdrecord won't
I'm trying to run cdrecord 1.10 on Mandrake 8, and it keeps complaining about the arguments I give it, although I'm telling it exactly what cdrecord -scanbus tells me. I get: [root@serpent mstation]# cdrecord -dummy dev=0,6,0 cdimage.fromcdread Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero. [root@serpent mstation]# I was able to run cdrecord 1.9-6mdk before I upgraded to 1.10, but now if I downgrade back to 1.9, it tells me: [root@serpent mstation]# cdrecord -dummy dev=0,6,0 cdimage.fromcdread This version of cdrecord only works with a 2.4 Linux kernel. [root@serpent mstation]# I do have a 2.4 linux kernel, so it is clearly confused. Any ideas? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)
pete == ninjaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pete Here are my versions of packages I gather would be related: pete drakxtools-newt-1.1.5-100mdk pete perl-base-5.600-30mdk pete perl-libwww-perl-5.50-1mdk pete rpmdrake-1.3-52.1mdk pete perl-5.600-30mdk pete drakxtools-1.1.5-100mdk pete The specific file that it's failing on is in drakxtools-newt: pete $ urpmf my_gtk.pm pete drakxtools-newt:/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm pete You may want check to see if you've got them installed and update if pete needed by hand. (eg., rpm -Uvh rpmdrake-1.3-52-mdk.i586.rpm ) Thanks, that was the problem. It's working now. I should point out that my upgrade to Mandrake 8 crashed, so there have been a number of problems like this. Without a working system to look at, it isn't easy to figure out what needs to be installed. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)
Ron == Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron First Question: run rpmdrake from the command line. I must not be installed right. I get: [root@serpent /etc]# rpmdrake [2] 31204 [root@serpent /etc]# Can't locate Gtk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/libDrakX /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 16. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 16. Compilation failed in require at /usr/X11R6/bin/rpmdrake line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/X11R6/bin/rpmdrake line 6. [2]+ Exit 2 rpmdrake Guessing that it's a gtk related thing that isn't installed, I did: [root@serpent /etc]# rpm -qa | grep gtk libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-1mdk libgtkxmhtml1-1.2.13-1mdk libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-1mdk What else would I need? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)
David == David E Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Some of this is osmosis. I think my point is that that's true now, but maybe if we raise the consciousness of people who write about such stuff, the documentation will eventually be more useful for more people. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] Configuring KDE as easily as X11 (was: How to get desktop apps without using the desktop)
mg == mgrello mike writes: mg What are you using? wmaker. mg BTW, I started using X before there were big books mg ;-) and I can run K well enough to get information like this mg from it (well, and run KMail). I can too, but I don't like to, because it ignores my .xinitrc and does the wrong thing about the window focus. And obviously there must be a way to fix this, but I really did spend quite a bit of time trying to find it and failed. With wmaker, it was pretty straightforward. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] JRE
Alan == Alan N [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan Can anyone tell me WHAT JRE works with MDK 8? I've tried Alan several, blackdown, IBM, etc. I have YET to get this working Alan with mdk 8 and better more konqueror. I've followed all the Alan dir's and still no luck. I must be doing SOMETHING wrong. I'm running an application on jre1.3.1. I haven't attempted to make it work with a browser yet. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] JRE
Scott == Scott Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scott A little off topic here, but what is this x-face header in
Scott your email Laura?
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show you a small picture, by which you could identify me. It's called
an x-face. Maybe there are other mail readers that show them, but I
only know about *emacs.
--
Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] procmail question
Christopher == Christopher W Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christopher My .forward file looks like this (same as other Linux versions): Christopher |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -ptoY -f-||exit 75 #cwa Christopher The fetchmail process acts like the .forward and procmail Christopher don't even exist. I've had trouble getting .forward files to work with sendmail; are you using sendmail? Of course, postfix may work like sendmail in this case. Check the permissions on your .forward file, and make sure it isn't a link. The permissions may need to be set to not be readable by anything other than the owner. Run sendmail by hand with all the verbosity turned on and see whether it complains about something. See if there are relevant messages in /var/log/maillog. If it is sendmail, there's a variable called DONTBLAMESENDMAIL or something like that that might have to be set. Fetchmail is probably innocent in this case; once it downloads the mail it (usually) passes it on to your local mailer (by default postfix), and that's what should be respecting your .forward file. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)
Ron == Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron MandrakeUpdate is part of Mandrake 7.2 and not part of Mandrake 8.0, Ron where it has been replaced by the more functional Software Manager Ron which has been given a desktop icon. 7.2 and 8.0 are NOT compatible. Is there a way to run this for those of us who don't use the standard desktop? Is there a way to find any of this stuff for those of us who never log into X as root? Is there a way to get the root desktop without logging out of the user window manager and not having email and all the other stuff in the *emacs environment? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)
Julia == Julia A Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Julia I run the standard KDE desktop as a normal user and when I Julia run the software manager it prompts me for the root Julia password... Also there is available from the menus a root Julia terminal... But my point is that I don't run KDE as a user. I could never figure out how to configure it. Those of us who started using X when you bought a large book with an index are GUI-challenged. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (M DK 8: mandrake update fails)
David == David Joham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David In KDE (and I think GNOME) your desktop directory is David directly under your home directory. My username is davidj, David so in Mandrake 8, I have a directory /home/davidj/Desktop David In there are a whole bunch of shortcut files. Open the one David you want and the binary file you want to run is in the David Exec line. David HTH It does. Thanks. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)
civileme == civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: civileme Look in Contribs and seek MandrakeUpdateRobot. If you have civileme PowerPack, it is on supplementary software CD. Thanks, that answers the specific question. The general question still stands: if someone says there's a program on the desktop called Useful Program, how do I find the name of the executable and/or RPM that corresponds to that program? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Playmidi reports `/dev/sequencer unknown' with Soundblaster PCI64V
PMN == Peter Møller Neergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PMN - playmidi with option -e or option -a hangs for a while and then PMN exits. I suppose it is playing the file, but sends the output to a PMN device I cannot hear. PMN I tried following your advice and use sfxload. Unfortunately, that PMN seems only to work with AWE devices, not with my Ensoniq 1370. So is PMN there a special program to load sound fonts on that card? My SBLive card uses the Ensoniq 1370 hardware. And I use sfxload to load the soundfonts on it. I remember the documentation not making that very clear, but that is what you do. Specifically, the disk that came with my card had a directory with soundfonts in it somewhere, and I copied them to my hard drive, and now when I want to use MIDI I say: sfxload /usr/local/lib/sfbank/8mbgmsfx.sf2 So see if you can find some files named something.sf2 and try loading them. Another thing I've had to do to use jazz as a sequencer is to tell it to never reset the MIDI, since otherwise it seems to unload the sound fonts. So you might want to make sure you aren't running anything that does that. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Playmidi reports `/dev/sequencer unknown' with Soundblaster PCI64V
Peter == Peter Møller Neergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Does anybody know how to solve this problem. I had the same problem on Mandrake 8, and I solved it by downloading alsaconf and running it. I think my problem came from still having old modules around. After I ran alsaconf, I wasn't getting the MIDI errors any more, but I still wasn't hearing the MIDI files playing, so then I remembered that you have to sfxload some soundfonts. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] I still need to know about the version of a boot sector
In a question about something else, which has since been answered, I had written: Laura What is the Version of a boot sector? How would I change Laura it if I wanted to? What is causing it to expect version Laura 21.7? I just ran into the error message that prompted that again, while running mkbootdisk. I reran the mkbootdisk script with -x, and found that it's a LILO message: + /sbin/lilo -r /tmp/mkbootdisk Fatal: First boot sector is version 20.0. Expecting version 21.7. mkbootdisk does in fact chug along writing to the floppy for a while after giving me that message, but the designation Fatal doesn't lead me to want to trust the disk. So what should I do to make LILO happier? And meanwhile, do I have a boot disk? And if not, how do I get one? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] What do people use for an address book?
Neal == Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neal So, in sum, I need to easily integrate address book, syncing Neal program, Visor, and mail client. What are people finding to Neal be an effective solution for this? I'm using bbdb, but I think that's only any use if you read your mail in *emacs. Getting the sync between the .bbdb file and the pilot address book is non-trivial, but I managed to get it going, and could tell someone else how. Anyway, what you need for that is BBDB (at sourceforge), SyncBBDB, and pilot-link. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Error running Bastille
John == John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Just a quick note - from the sounds of things you didn't John uninstall the rpm. No, it was more of a mess than you're guessing. My previous experiment wasn't with an RPM, and I'd trashed my src directory since I installed it, so I didn't really have a clean way to uninstall. Or not one that I knew about before starting the mess. John Anyway, glad you got it working, congratulations :-) Always John feels good to solve a problem in linux-world, doesn't it? Yes. On to tape backup/restore. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] Error running Bastille
When I run InteractiveBastille -x on my Mandrake 8.0 system, I get this error message: About to run through config file... Fatal: First boot sector is version 20.0. Expecting version 21.7. Line to follow is 18 What is 18 a line in? What is the Version of a boot sector? How would I change it if I wanted to? What is causing it to expect version 21.7? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Error running Bastille
Laura == Laura Conrad (me) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Laura When I run InteractiveBastille -x on my Mandrake 8.0 Laura system, I get this error message: Laura About to run through config file... Laura Fatal: First boot sector is version 20.0. Expecting version 21.7. Laura Line to follow is 18 Progress report: I decided that the LILO section would be the only thing that wanted to do anything about the boot sector, so I answered those questions differently and didn't get this error. However, now when I run the firewall, I can't get fetchmail to run. It can connect to the POP server, and see the mail, but it hangs on downloading the message. I had tried an earlier version of Bastille with the same result. Has anyone hit this problem and solved it? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Error running Bastille
John == John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John So you'd like to know where it's hanging, right? EIther the John pop server is hanging, or your machine is. Here's a few John things you can try off the top: Thanks for all the good advice; I'm sure I'll use some of it later. I realized after writing this that the likely reason that I was getting the same result I got last time was that there was still junk lying around from the last experiment, so I removed the Bastille RPMS, all the stuff that was still named bastille, put back the RPMS, and ran it over again, and this time it seems to be working. That is, it may or may not be blocking anything nasty, but it isn't blocking the things I want to do. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] 6.1 TeX
I understand from the comp.text.tex newsgroup that there was a bug in the hyphenation algorithm in RedHat 6.0, which I am hitting on my Mandrake 6.0 installation. I have a 6.1 CD which I haven't gotten around to doing anything with. Does anyone know for sure if this is fixed on 6.1? Or on a subsequent RPM? The bug is apparently in the Babyl package of LaTeX. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Samba won't print
"Axalon" == Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sharename Type Comment - --- public Disk Public data Disk Data IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server) Axalon I see nothing of Type Printable/Printer make sure you have Axalon "printable=yes" on the share.. I have made progress since writing this last night. Following up on something I found at www.samba.org, I inserted the following lines into the global options section: printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes print command = /usr/bin/lpr My current printers section looks like: [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print public = Yes guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes And I now have: [root@serpent samba]# smbclient -L serpent Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.0.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Domain=[CONSORT] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.3] Sharename Type Comment - --- public Disk Public data Disk Data IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server) lp Printer Server Comment ---- RECORDER laptop running windows SERPENT Samba Server WorkgroupMaster ---- CONSORT SERPENT And now windows sees the printer, and thinks it has printed to it. I still have the error message in log.nmb: [1999/10/04 12:05:21, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(362) find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name CONSORT1b for the workgroup CONSORT. Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. which seems to happen every 15 minutes or so whether I'm fiddling with samba or not, but I also get: [1999/10/04 09:50:00, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(488) recorder (192.168.1.2) connect to service lp as user smbuser (uid=509, gid=234) (pid 9327) [1999/10/04 09:52:24, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(514) recorder (192.168.1.2) closed connection to service lp in log.recorder, and there is a file in /var/spool/samba. So I suspect that samba is doing its thing correctly, except that it's putting its spool file where lpr isn't looking for it. Does anyone know what the right print command is? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Samba won't print
"mike" == mike hooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mike I had the same problem. The fix is: mike 1. Using the print tool app, check where your default spool mike directory is. It should be /var/spool/lpr It's /var/spool/lpd/lp mike 2. Put this path in the [Printers] section, not the default mike var/spool/samba mike 3. Finally, check the the var/spool/lpr directory has global mike write permission on it. If you don't, you'll get an error mike message back from Windows, and it will mark the device mike offline. I have, and samba thinks it's doing fine, and a file does appear in /var/spool/lpd/lp with owner smbuser and group smb, but a job does not appear on the print queue, and nothing prints. Are you sure there isn't a lower level print command than lpr that I should be using? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Samba won't print
"Laura" == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Laura I have, and samba thinks it's doing fine, and a file does Laura appear in /var/spool/lpd/lp with owner smbuser and group Laura smb, but a job does not appear on the print queue, and Laura nothing prints. Laura Are you sure there isn't a lower level print command than lpr that I Laura should be using? I found it -- it's in the SMB-HOWTO. print command = lpr -r -h -P %p %s Thanks to everyone who responded. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] Samba won't print
I have Samba working just fine for sharing files, but I want to use the computer connected to the Unix box on the windows box. I have tried both the printers section in the default configuration file, and the printer section in the "SAMBA Server Step by step guide", and neither one works for me. This is on Mandrake 6.0. The whole /usr/doc/samba-2.0.3/DIAGNOSTICS.txt seems to be fine. The workgroup name is CONSORT; the unix server is serpent, and the windows box is named recorder. In the /var/log/samba directory, I get messages like: [1999/10/03 21:25:09, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(362) find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name CONSORT1b for the workgroup CONSORT. Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. although "smbclient -L serpent" says: [root@serpent samba]# smbclient -L serpent Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.0.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Domain=[CONSORT] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.3] Sharename Type Comment - --- public Disk Public data Disk Data IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server) Server Comment ---- RECORDER laptop running windows SERPENT Samba Server WorkgroupMaster ---- CONSORT SERPENT [root@serpent samba]# Windows has the printer marked as "use offline", and when I attempt to change that, it tells me: Cannot connect to this network printer. Make sure your network is working properly, and that the network share you are connected to exists. Has anyone had a problem like this and fixed it? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
[expert] permissions are changing on my files
I have a ~/bin directory with a bunch of scripts in it. Recently, I have noticed that scripts that have been executable for months are having their x permissions removed. The only thing I've written that would be even looking at (and as far as I know not touching) those files is my backup script, which does a a: tar cf - --one-file-system $FS 2/dev/null | tar xvf - 21 /backup/backup .log The problem seems to be limited to scripts which do not have a .sh extension on them. Is anyone else seeing this? Is there an easy (easier than putting a .sh extension on a bunch of scripts that call each other in ways I probably don't remember exactly) fix? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
