[expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?
I'm getting a tonne of spam from the *.em5000.net domain (amongst others) and I've been adding their IPs in by hand into my ipchains list of nodes to deny connections to port 25, but damnation, do they ever have a lot. I was wondering if there was a way either in ipchains or iptables to block out entire netblocks from connecting to a particular port number. Like em5000's got the following: # whois -h whois.arin.net 64.37.121.98 Cybercon, Inc. (NETBLK-CYBERCON-BLK-3) CYBERCON-BLK-3 64.37.64.0 - 64.37.127.255 Twistedhumor.com (NETBLK-CBCN-64-37-121-96) CBCN-64-37-121-96 64.37.121.96 - 64.37.121.127 If not, can anyone come up with a good solution that might be able to provide a similar result? Thanks in advance, __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 8.1 On Older Hardware
Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any tips on installing Mandrake 8.1 on older hardware. I acquire a lot of Pentium I boxen, that I like to attack with Linux, and have recently been having trouble installing Mandrake 8.1 on machines with less than 64Mb of RAM, and the like. Generally, my machines only run minimal window managers and aren't subject to a heavy workload. However, I have been having difficulties trying to setup a new Internet gateway for my local network, running into segmentation faults in the installer, and whatnot. So, if someone could offer any assistance, I would be *most* appreciative. Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 On Older Hardware
Ashley, Two suggestions. One when the intial screen comes up press f1 for more options and chose the text installer. This requires a lot less ram. If it's a really low memory device (less than around 32 megs) you might want to check out the RULE project at http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/rule/index.html they are working on an installer to install up2date linux down to 8megs in size. James On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:33:48 +0800 (WST) Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any tips on installing Mandrake 8.1 on older hardware. I acquire a lot of Pentium I boxen, that I like to attack with Linux, and have recently been having trouble installing Mandrake 8.1 on machines with less than 64Mb of RAM, and the like. Generally, my machines only run minimal window managers and aren't subject to a heavy workload. However, I have been having difficulties trying to setup a new Internet gateway for my local network, running into segmentation faults in the installer, and whatnot. So, if someone could offer any assistance, I would be *most* appreciative. Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot Loader Solved but more problems, now kernel panic
Hi again. This is my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/es-latin1.klt lba32 prompt timeout=5000 message=/boot/message-graphic menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi quiet vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi failsafe read-only other=/dev/hdc1 label=windows table=/dev/hdc map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/hde1 label=windows2 table=/dev/hde map-drive=0x80 to=0x82 map-drive=0x82 to=0x80 Later , Jorge Giménez - Original Message - From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Boot Loader Solved but more problems, now kernel panic What actually do you mead as no Luck? Did you make the changes in lilo.conf and then run, as root, lilo- c and this did not work? Were you not sucessful in making changes to th lilo.conf file? Can you post your lilo.conf file for the list to view? Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this! I caught your message when I was back scanning the threads. Lyvim, No problem, thanks for replying! Lyvim, Questions: Have you ever tried any of the dcop (or kdcop) stuff for interprocess communication among apps? Does it work under Enlightenment? Well, the only thing that I can say is that the dcop stuff is active, definitely. No doubt. I can see the dcop links in my home directory are valid when X and E are running. Now...the real question would require a test between two applications, or something similar. The problem is that I never run KDE, so I don't know wether my everyday operations include real interprocess communications functions or not. I'm still fascinated with transparent Eterms, and the occasional MS Word document imports. Wellof course then there's Baldur's Gate 2, also. Can you give me a test to run? I use the middle button alot to paste selections from other areas, but I don't think this is what you are referring to. What would constitute a valid test? Just the fact that dcop is active is encouraging. I found some stuff I recorded on my home TWiki (guess it's time to move it to WikiLearn) -- read the third paragraph below and try some of the commands listed below that: (PS: I agree, I don't think middle button pasting is a valid test of dcop -- don't think dcop has anything to do with that (but I could be wrong).) quoted from Advogato, http://www.advogato.org/article/242.html Some of this already works in KDE 2, posted 11 Feb 2001 by tackat What if the Unix GUI didn't need a mouse? What if every application could be controlled solely with the keyboard? This is already possible in KDE 2 for a long time via DCOP. Fire up kwrite (make sure you don't have two kwrites there at the same time -- otherwise you have to add the pid to those commands) and type into your favourite xterm: --snip-- dcop kwrite KWriteIface insertText 'Windows rocks!' true dcop kwrite KWriteIface setCursorPosition 0 8 true dcop kwrite KWriteIface insertText 'sux! KDE ' true dcop kwrite KWriteIface shiftHome dcop kwrite KWriteIface writeFile 'conquer_your_desktop.txt' --snip-- or check your Mail using KMail by entering: dcop kmail KMailIface checkMail or bind the command dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface? lock to your Pause-key using kmenuedit. That way you can start kscreensaver by pressing the Pause-key. To explore the possibilities you might want to use kdcop. /quote Did you hear that BeOS has sued Microsoft? Yes, but there is too much news -- I have trouble remembering most of it. If they win, I think I'll remember that. regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to set up KDE3 compiled from CVS?
Hi, I have compiled KDE3's arts, kdelibs and kdebase from CVS, and installed it in /opt/kde3. Now, what's the best way to actually start using kde3, i.e. In which script should I set the QTDIR, KDEHOME and KDEDIR variables? How can I add KDE3 to the Mandrake's KDM login manager? Maybe other things I may have forgotten? Thanks, Frederik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] procmail qmail config
nDiScReEt wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: There are at least two ways to do this: Assuming you only want to share mail among computer on your home LAN, and they are all Linux, I think the simplest way is via a shared directory. Simply pick one of your computers to be the main computer for the purposes of mail, then share your ~/home/mail directory (or Mail, or whatever) on the network. On the other computers, simply point your mail client to that shared directory. One disadvantage -- the computer you designated as main should always be up when you are using any other computer to look at mail, so all the mail gets to and stays in that shared directory. (I do this in Windows, and I even (for a short period) read the mail on the Windows main computer using Netscape 3.0x on Linux.) The next way is somewhat similar, except set up an imap server on that main computer, then read your mail from the other computers using an imap client. Thank you for replying and providing me with such vital information! The computer that I want to grab and share all my email from will and always is up (it is my router/server). Isn't there an inherent flaw or security issue with imap? I will go with either if and only if I can read my email on either computer with any email client. From mutt and sendmail to mozilla messenger and mircosoft outlook. altoine, Don't know about the security flaw in imap, but if there is one I would expect that there is a fix or it is being worked on -- and it probably depends on which imap server you run. There may be some issues with things like transmitting clear text passwords, but again, I assume there are workarounds for that. But, if you want to use any mail client it gets tougher. Many mail clients store their read mail in file folders and there is not a common approach among all mail clients. You might be able to access the inbox (like /var/mail/username (or similar)) by putting it on a shared directory, but many mail clients would want to store read mail in a slightly different location and slightly different format. I don't know of an easy way to deal with that. I know that Netscape Navigator (at least in the 3.0x versions, and I suspect since then) let me access mail on a Windows partition from the Windows or Linux version of Netscape. I stopped using the client in Linux (and just read my mail in Windows) because Netscape 3.0x under Linux is much clunkier than the Windows version. Assuming the 4.x and 6.x versions are still compatible (with each other), such an approach might be satisfactory -- I'm guessing they are nicer clients. Notes: * Netscape 3.0x under Linux would not allow me to resize the panes (IIRC) and seemed to use bigger everything so less text was visible on the screen. * I did try reading the Windows Netscape 3.0x mail files with Linux Netscape 4.7x -- it worked, but the indexes were not compatible, so everytime I switched from Windows to Linux or vice versa (or my wife read some mail) there was a long delay while (I believe) the mail files were reindexed by the active client. Good luck, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?
I can't answer this question, but I'd like to piggyback a related question (I think). Background: I'm learning about email, procmail, postfix, pop servers, etc. I've become aware (I think) that if you have a shell account at your ISP you could potentially run Procmail on the ISP's machine, and filter mail (based on your rules) and discard it without ever downloading it to your machine. (This would at least save me some connect time or bandwidth, and others paying for connect time, some money.) Question: Is there a way to do something similar without having a shell account at your ISP. Or, does everybody with an account at an ISP have at least some sort of shell account, because your email address does represent a user account on the ISP's email server? And, if so, can you set up Procmail with your own rules there? Aside: I'm aware of tools like kshowmail that (and my ISP's webmail thingie), which let me look at the mail on my ISP's server and consider deleting stuff, but my ISP's webmail thingie is so slow it makes me believe I am not saving any bandwidth (and I know I'm not decreasing my connect time -- it's going up). Randy Kramer Schlomo Schwartz wrote: I'm getting a tonne of spam from the *.em5000.net domain (amongst others) and I've been adding their IPs in by hand into my ipchains list of nodes to deny connections to port 25, but damnation, do they ever have a lot. I was wondering if there was a way either in ipchains or iptables to block out entire netblocks from connecting to a particular port number. Like em5000's got the following: # whois -h whois.arin.net 64.37.121.98 Cybercon, Inc. (NETBLK-CYBERCON-BLK-3) CYBERCON-BLK-3 64.37.64.0 - 64.37.127.255 Twistedhumor.com (NETBLK-CBCN-64-37-121-96) CBCN-64-37-121-96 64.37.121.96 - 64.37.121.127 If not, can anyone come up with a good solution that might be able to provide a similar result? Thanks in advance, __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] probally a daft question BUT
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:13:41 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) studiouisly spake these words to ponder: well I'll be dipped! so _thats_ how patch works!! I've been wondering about that for the longest time but just never got around to figuring it out. That's awesome! Yeah at first it got me as well - but it's important to be in the right place and understand the diff (pun) between -p0 and -p1 etc. FWIW I had a dream last night in that I was watching a windows system do a patch - it would exec a few lines, stop, have the HD shudder, sit for a while, exec a few more lines, etc. :) One of my early experiences in Linux was just being awestruck when doing a patch (and that was on a reaal old system by today's standards) and having the lines just fly so fast on the screen you couldn't see what was going on. I mean, this thing has to do _some_ file manipulation, right? :) And who said penguins can't fly! -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 9:05am up 4 days, 1:41, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.15, 0.22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Booting from a SCSI DVD
Hi I currently have the following setup: IDE controler #1 - channel #1HD - channel #2(not used, I want to leave the HD alone) IDE controler #2 - channel #1DVD - channel #2Zip250 I have an IDE Tape drive which I want to use and therefore I need to get an IDE channel back from the current setup. I bought a SCSI DVD but I cannot boot from the SCSI DVD now although I seem to have te right BIOS setup. Does anybody have a SCSI DVD out there? Thanks for any suggestion. Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 On Older Hardware
On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:33 am, you wrote: Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any tips on installing Mandrake 8.1 on older hardware. I acquire a lot of Pentium I boxen, that I like to attack with Linux, and have recently been having trouble installing Mandrake 8.1 on machines with less than 64Mb of RAM, and the like. If they are all similar, do an install on one machine (add ram temporarily) and configure it properly (or pull the drive, mount it in a machine that can do an install and move it back). Then you can boot the other machines from a floopy-based distro like tomsrtbt, set up partitions and whatnot, clone original install over the network. Or, use mkCDrec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/) to create a CD-based clone and install it on the other machines. This would be my choice for a lot of boxes conigured the same way, especially with CD burners in the US$100 range. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:51:23 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, If you have your own domain/IP, you can use PostFix' anti-spam features to greatly refuse spam before it gets delivered... Most spam comes through open relays and by blocking mail from any known open relay, we can virtually shutdown anonymous spam. This will eventually force the spammers to use their own resources and might make prosecution more likely; but that's orthoganal and argumentative... :^) I've noticed that since I've begun submitting spam relay hosts to http://ordb.org/submit/, spam attempts have dropped off to a trickle. In fact, the spam *attempts* (blocked by postfix) have dropped from ~50-70/day to a few every couple of days... It's fun to be a spam fighter... :^) For more info, see my postfix page at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix -- also, easy to miss but potentially useful for the mail-header-challenged is http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/ORDBing.html It's fun seeing the spammers having to find new open relays from a dwindling list and probably having to now maintain a growing list of targets-to-avoid (aka known spam-fighters) who will further reduce their resources if they spam us... :^) Pierre I can't answer this question, but I'd like to piggyback a related question (I think). Background: I'm learning about email, procmail, postfix, pop servers, etc. I've become aware (I think) that if you have a shell account at your ISP you could potentially run Procmail on the ISP's machine, and filter mail (based on your rules) and discard it without ever downloading it to your machine. (This would at least save me some connect time or bandwidth, and others paying for connect time, some money.) Question: Is there a way to do something similar without having a shell account at your ISP. Or, does everybody with an account at an ISP have at least some sort of shell account, because your email address does represent a user account on the ISP's email server? And, if so, can you set up Procmail with your own rules there? Aside: I'm aware of tools like kshowmail that (and my ISP's webmail thingie), which let me look at the mail on my ISP's server and consider deleting stuff, but my ISP's webmail thingie is so slow it makes me believe I am not saving any bandwidth (and I know I'm not decreasing my connect time -- it's going up). Randy Kramer Schlomo Schwartz wrote: I'm getting a tonne of spam from the *.em5000.net domain (amongst others) and I've been adding their IPs in by hand into my ipchains list of nodes to deny connections to port 25, but damnation, do they ever have a lot. I was wondering if there was a way either in ipchains or iptables to block out entire netblocks from connecting to a particular port number. Like em5000's got the following: # whois -h whois.arin.net 64.37.121.98 Cybercon, Inc. (NETBLK-CYBERCON-BLK-3) CYBERCON-BLK-3 64.37.64.0 - 64.37.127.255 Twistedhumor.com (NETBLK-CBCN-64-37-121-96) CBCN-64-37-121-96 64.37.121.96 - 64.37.121.127 If not, can anyone come up with a good solution that might be able to provide a similar result? Thanks in advance, __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything
On Saturday 23 February 2002 18:34, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:17:25PM -0800, Michael Holt wrote: 6:04pm... Expert ran for the door shrieking: FLAMED BY YOU NAZI FROG COCKSUCKERS eh? Nazi frog ___ ?? Dude, do frogs even *have* ..? :-P no, no, the frog does the sucking, not is the suckee damn and I was going to let this thead die too... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec mail (twice)
Thanks a lot, this was due to an error in the config file and also a domain name problem. With root@localhost everything works fine now. Francois At 16:54 23/02/02 +0100, you wrote: Look in /etc/security/msec/security.conf Maybe this update has corrupted or changed this config file. In this file you should find: MAIL_WARN=yes MAIL_USER=root And you must look in /etc/postfix/aliases to see who is receiving the root mail. Saludos óscar. El sáb, 23-02-2002 a las 13:42, FL escribió: Of course the mail system is running on two servers without any problems. Because this is the same situation on two MDK box I'm running. I really think it has been done via an update, but don't know wich one. Francois Le Samedi 23 Février 2002 11:18, Oscar a écrit : El sáb, 23-02-2002 a las 10:52, FL escribió: I was used to receive mail from the cron.daily check made by msec. For a few weeks : nothing happens, I can read the msec messages in /var/log, but no mail at all. Any idea ? Francois Is the mail subsystem running properly? saludos óscar. -- .-. oo| /`'\ Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 (\_;/) http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kernel IP virtual server?
Hey everyone, I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've disabled ipvsadm with chkconfig as, after reading the man pages, I don't think I need it. But I'm curious to know what module it's looking for so I can compile it into the kernel? Thanks for your help, Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making Mounts accessable to all users
Hello Dave: /dev/sda4 is owned by root:root. I did try chowning it to root:users, then I chowned the mount points to root:user. so the permissions for the device were lr-xr-xr-x root:users /dev/sda4 and the MOunt point was drwxrwxrwx root:users /mnt/zip after mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip, the permissions of the mounted zip drive are drwxr-xr-x root:root /mnt/zip On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 05:42, David Stevenson wrote: Have a look in 'dmesg', look for the device that matches your zip disk. then 'ls -al /dev/'your zip device'. This should show you who owns and what group the device is in. For cdroms, this could be 'root' owned and group 'disk', you could then add group 'disk' to each user. This is a stab in the dark. ATB Dave. On 23 Feb 2002 23:26:05 -0800 Nexist Xenda'ths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: No effect. I have noticed that I get the same effect when I mount my floppy. My fstab looks as follows (indented lines are continuations of the preceding line): /dev/hdb6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec, codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync, exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0, codepage=850 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=777, nosuid,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb9 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 All help is most appreciated. On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 13:47, James wrote: No expert here and probably I'm wrong, but taking a look at my own fstab and what I have for the floppy, maybe adding nosuid before exec would help. Acording to the man page nosuidDo not allow set-user-identifier or set- group-identifier bits to take effect. (This seems safe, but is in fact rather unsafe if you have suidperl(1) installed.) So unless you are using suidperl you shouldn't break anything and it should prevent lockouts. Otherwise I'm not sure. To quote (sorta) Dirty Harry, Do you feel lucky. James On 23 Feb 2002 10:13:32 -0800 Nexist Xenda'ths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 01:43, Oscar wrote: El sáb, 23-02-2002 a las 06:40, Nexist Xenda'ths escribió: I appear to have 'user' specified. that line of my fstab is as follows: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 Should I add user again? Try modifying the line, and putting umask=777 instead of umask=0 Saludos óscar. Unfortunately, that had no effect. everyone except for Root has read only access. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?
you should be able to use an entry like this: 64.37.64.0/18 to define what to block in your deny line These 'spam companies' are starting to get so out of hand now. DM360, etracks, freejokesforyou, targetedemaildirect, customoffers, and ROI have been an especially big problem in the last few months. On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 01:28:38 -0800 (PST) Schlomo Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schlomo I'm getting a tonne of spam from the *.em5000.net Schlomo domain (amongst others) and I've been adding their IPs Schlomo in by hand into my ipchains list of nodes to deny Schlomo connections to port 25, but damnation, do they ever Schlomo have a lot. Schlomo Schlomo I was wondering if there was a way either in ipchains Schlomo or iptables to block out entire netblocks from Schlomo connecting to a particular port number. Like em5000's Schlomo got the following: Schlomo Schlomo # whois -h whois.arin.net 64.37.121.98 Schlomo Cybercon, Inc. (NETBLK-CYBERCON-BLK-3) CYBERCON-BLK-3 Schlomo Schlomo 64.37.64.0 - 64.37.127.255 Schlomo Twistedhumor.com (NETBLK-CBCN-64-37-121-96) Schlomo CBCN-64-37-121-96 Schlomo Schlomo 64.37.121.96 - 64.37.121.127 Schlomo Schlomo If not, can anyone come up with a good solution that Schlomo might be able to provide a similar result? Schlomo Schlomo Thanks in advance, Schlomo Schlomo __ Schlomo Do You Yahoo!? Schlomo Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games Schlomo http://sports.yahoo.com Schlomo -- Brian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Home Page: http://www.brimac.com/~brianmac Fine Photos: http://www.brimacphotography.com Art for Sale: http://www.artbrowser.com Classified Advertising: http://www.sellit2000.com Feel good? Don't worry; you'll get over it! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?
are you looking for IPtables? On Sunday 24 February 2002 11:01, you wrote: Hey everyone, I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've disabled ipvsadm with chkconfig as, after reading the man pages, I don't think I need it. But I'm curious to know what module it's looking for so I can compile it into the kernel? Thanks for your help, Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen
Yesterday... Rich Buckner ran for the door shrieking: Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:53:34 -0800 From: Rich Buckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Joham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen On Wednesday 20 February 2002 02:42 pm, David Joham wrote: a) If you're using Ogle, AFAIK in the United States it is technically illegal because you're using libdvdcss. [snip] I don't think it is illegal to use Ogle or libdvdcss to watch dvds that you own. What I understand to be illegal is the distribution of libdvdcss by, for example, posting or linking to it. Rich Correct Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything
3:54am... jipe ran for the door shrieking: Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 03:54:18 +0100 From: jipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything Le Dimanche 24 Février 2002 03:25, vous avez écrit : Ta mere est tellement grosse que quand elle va au restaurant on ne lui donne pas le menu, on lui fait un devis. your mother is so fat when she goes to a restaurant, one doesn't give her a menu, one does a ? That's as much as I get from 20 yer old high school french :) an estimate... bye jipe Please provide translations for your sig file - us poor americans want to get in on the humour too! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1
I think I finally came up with a solution I like. The user's private resource file ~/.Xresources can include these lines: *Background: LightGrey XTerm*background: white 'xterm' needs a separate resource, unless one likes its background to be grey. But Tcl/Tk applications and Xemacs seem to be OK with light grey as a background, so I think I'm done for a bit. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] prelude output
hi, I've configured one of my boxes to be my firewall and have installed various packages for increasing security on the fw-box, one of them is prelude. does anybody of you have an idea what this output of prelude means (that I sometimes find in the automated daily system check-mails): CUT- Feb 20 08:32:40 isis prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x40019600, count=3... Feb 20 08:32:43 isis prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x40019600, count=1... Feb 20 08:32:46 isis prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x40019600, count=2... Feb 20 08:32:48 isis prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x40019600, count=1... CUT- do I have to press the big red panic button or is this just to ignore? thanks udo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] prelude output
Hi Udo, I don't know about prelude, but you might want to check out PureSecure by Demarc (demarc.org). It uses snort to detect questionable network activity, logs it all into a database (MySQL), and brings it all together in a VERY nice web front end. IMHO, it's the best network intrusion detection software available. (Just my $0.02). :) -S --- udo rader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I've configured one of my boxes to be my firewall and have installed various packages for increasing security on the fw-box, one of them is prelude. does anybody of you have an idea what this output of prelude means (that I sometimes find in the automated daily system check-mails): CUT- Feb 20 08:32:40 isis prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x40019600, count=3... Feb 20 08:32:43 isis prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x40019600, count=1... Feb 20 08:32:46 isis prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x40019600, count=2... Feb 20 08:32:48 isis prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x40019600, count=1... CUT- do I have to press the big red panic button or is this just to ignore? thanks udo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?
Hi Brian, thanks for the reply, --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should be able to use an entry like this: 64.37.64.0/18 to define what to block in your deny line So that just takes care of the 64.37.64.x nodes, right? They own 64.37.64.0 - 64.37.127.255, so would you have to do the same for 64.37.[65-127].0 to get the entire netblock? And I know I should brush up on my networking skills, but for future reference, how did you come up with the /18 notation? These 'spam companies' are starting to get so out of hand now. DM360, etracks, freejokesforyou, targetedemaildirect, customoffers, and ROI have been an especially big problem in the last few months. Oh god, I don't even want to look at how many etracks machines I've got blocked out. Hell, I wish I *could* receive the $250 or whatever it is that you're supposed to be able to get out of these bastards for each unsolicited email. I might be able to retire! :) Thanks again, -s __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Randall Jonasz wrote: I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've disabled ipvsadm with chkconfig as, after reading the man pages, I don't think I need it. But I'm curious to know what module it's looking for so I can compile it into the kernel? Hi Randy, The error that you're getting on boot is, as you probably guessed, caused by the fact that IPVS has not been compiled into the kernel. You won't find any option in menuconfig or the like, as it is an external patch that you must apply to the kernel source before you compile it. MandrakeSoft patch their kernels with the IPVS code before release. This is why you didn't get the error with the default 8.1 kernel, which is I assume what you are running. Chances are, you probably don't need it anyway. So, to save you some headaches you could do remove ipvsadm - this will fix the error you get when booting the kernel: urpme ipvsadm-1.19-1mdk If you really do need it, and want to patch the source accordingly, I suggest you investigate further. The following URLs should be useful: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Joseph.Mack/mini-HOWTO/LVS-mini-HOWTO-4.html I hope this is of some help to you. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?
Schlomo Schwartz wrote: Hi Brian, thanks for the reply, --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should be able to use an entry like this: 64.37.64.0/18 to define what to block in your deny line So that just takes care of the 64.37.64.x nodes, right? They own 64.37.64.0 - 64.37.127.255, so would you have to do the same for 64.37.[65-127].0 to get the entire netblock? And I know I should brush up on my networking skills, but for future reference, how did you come up with the /18 notation? You might be looking for 64.37.0.0/16 This would deny the entire block from machine 64.37.0.1 through machine 64.37.255.254. You can see a primer on CIDR notation on: http://jodies.de/ipcalc Hope this helps. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] leafnode/fetchnews need help
I've been getting Usenet articles for sometime off and on using the leafnode/fetchnews NNTP reader. I can get the groups I want to read with no problems but fetchnews seems to go overboard, and is now trying to get *all* news out there, even some in binaries newsgroups, and if left to continue, it'll just fill up my /var/spool/news partition, which I've had to move off to a higher-capacity drive partition due to disk problems I've just started to have with a 6 year old 1.6 gig Maxtor. I use knode to read the news, and partly because of disk problems I've had to basically reset my /var/spool/news partition and rerun fetchnews. The result - all sorts of odd groups including regional ones (se.foo.bar) and the ones I usually read I can't get to, and others that have articles in /var/spool/news (i.e., actual article files) I can't get knode to acknowledge there are articles there. Maybe it's looking at overview files that haven't been built yet, and not actually looking at the article files in the directories? Anyone here been using leafnode etc? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] GTK Themes in Mandrake 8.1
Hello everyone. I've got an annoying problem. A while back I imported some GTK themes. Now, not only can I not delete them (where are they?), but if I change to another widget set I still get remnants of one of the new ones I installed. For example, if I use High Color Default for my widget style, some of the old widget colors are still there. I hope this makes sense, and I'll appreciate any help anyone can give me. Peace, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Sunday, February 24, 2002 California raisins murdered: Cereal Killer suspected Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx
Hello My system is set up not to use the graphic login window (somehow this won't allow me to use multiple Xs) so I need to call KDE I simply issue the command startx -- :.0.0 (or 1.0 or 2.0 ...) . For gnome I have tried startgnome but What I've done is to put lines for both window environments in my $HOME/.xinitrc. A quick edit with vi, comment out the one you want to run and put a # comment just before the line you don't want to run, then save startx. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 13:54, dfox wrote: [..] What I've done is to put lines for both window environments in my $HOME/.xinitrc. A quick edit with vi, comment out the one you want to run and put a # comment just before the line you don't want to run, then save startx. You could also use Xtart. Which will show you a curses menu of the WM's installed and allow you to select which one to use. I've been using it for a couple months now, I like it. deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx
On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:16 pm, you wrote: You could also use Xtart. Which will show you a curses menu of the WM's installed and allow you to select which one to use. I've been using it for a couple months now, I like it. What package provides Xtart? Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:02:04 -0800 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should take care of all from .64.0 to .127.255. It's based on the mask, like 255.255.255.0 would be the same as /24, which is a full class C block of 256 addresses. It seems like there's a program available or included with mandrake which will do all this calculating for you, maybe someone else knows the name of it. There's also some good info on netmasks here and there which could explain it much better than I could. There is an IP subnet calculator available at http://ipsc.sourceforge.net/software.html to make life a little easier. On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:08:45 -0800 (PST) Schlomo Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schlomo Hi Brian, thanks for the reply, Schlomo Schlomo --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schlomo you should be able to use an entry like this: Schlomo 64.37.64.0/18 to define what to block in your deny Schlomo line Schlomo Schlomo So that just takes care of the 64.37.64.x nodes, Schlomo right? They own 64.37.64.0 - 64.37.127.255, so would Schlomo you have to do the same for 64.37.[65-127].0 to get Schlomo the entire netblock? And I know I should brush up on Schlomo my networking skills, but for future reference, how Schlomo did you come up with the /18 notation? Schlomo Schlomo These 'spam companies' are starting to get so out of Schlomo hand now. DM360, Schlomo etracks, freejokesforyou, targetedemaildirect, Schlomo customoffers, and ROI Schlomo have been an especially big problem in the last few Schlomo months. Schlomo Schlomo Oh god, I don't even want to look at how many etracks Schlomo machines I've got blocked out. Hell, I wish I *could* Schlomo receive the $250 or whatever it is that you're Schlomo supposed to be able to get out of these bastards for Schlomo each unsolicited email. I might be able to retire! :) Schlomo Schlomo Schlomo Thanks again, Schlomo Schlomo -s Schlomo Schlomo __ Schlomo Do You Yahoo!? Schlomo Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games Schlomo http://sports.yahoo.com Schlomo -- Brian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Home Page: http://www.brimac.com/~brianmac Fine Photos: http://www.brimacphotography.com Art for Sale: http://www.artbrowser.com Classified Advertising: http://www.sellit2000.com A conclusion is where you got tired of thinking. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?
Randall Jonasz wrote: Hey everyone, I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've disabled ipvsadm with chkconfig as, after reading the man pages, I don't think I need it. But I'm curious to know what module it's looking for so I can compile it into the kernel? Thanks for your help, Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Using make menuconfig Under Networking options... under IP: Virtual Server Configration... Maybe this is what you are looking for?? Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian?
I'd rather see the effort put into a 486 version of Mandrake than into a Debian-Mandrake. I'd rather see APIC support fixed. I'd rather see the Auto Install Floppy option fixed. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?
Hi Ashley, Cool! Thanks for the info. Cheers, Randy On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Ashley Reynolds wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Randall Jonasz wrote: I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've disabled ipvsadm with chkconfig as, after reading the man pages, I don't think I need it. But I'm curious to know what module it's looking for so I can compile it into the kernel? Hi Randy, The error that you're getting on boot is, as you probably guessed, caused by the fact that IPVS has not been compiled into the kernel. You won't find any option in menuconfig or the like, as it is an external patch that you must apply to the kernel source before you compile it. MandrakeSoft patch their kernels with the IPVS code before release. This is why you didn't get the error with the default 8.1 kernel, which is I assume what you are running. Chances are, you probably don't need it anyway. So, to save you some headaches you could do remove ipvsadm - this will fix the error you get when booting the kernel: urpme ipvsadm-1.19-1mdk If you really do need it, and want to patch the source accordingly, I suggest you investigate further. The following URLs should be useful: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Joseph.Mack/mini-HOWTO/LVS-mini-HOWTO-4.html I hope this is of some help to you. Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -- As a general rule of thumb, never trust anybody who's been in therapy for more than 15 percent of their life span. The words I am sorry and I am wrong will have totally disappeared from their vocabulary. They will stab you, shoot you, break things in your apartment, say horrible things to your friends and family, and then justify this abhorrent behavior by saying: Sure, I put your dog in the microwave. But I feel *better* for doing it. -- Bruce Feirstein, Nice Guys Sleep Alone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Grammar checker
Hello All, Does anyone know of a grammar checker for Linux? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx
On Sunday 24 February 2002 05:48 pm, you wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:45:07PM -0500, Hoyt wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:16 pm, you wrote: You could also use Xtart. Which will show you a curses menu of the WM's installed and allow you to select which one to use. I've been using it for a couple months now, I like it. What package provides Xtart? It's a package on it's own. Look on your cd's or the ftp site. If you have the version of Mandrake 8.1 that you downloaded, it's on the second CD. -- Jonathan Dlouhy Sunday, February 24, 2002 California raisins murdered: Cereal Killer suspected Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] adaptec ava 1502-a
Hi, I have a Microtek Scanmaker E3 with an addaptec ava 1502-a scsi card, both of which are reported to work with Mandrake Linux , according to the supported hardware list. However I can't seem to find a module for this card. A generic module maybe? Can anyone tell me how to set this up? I'm running Linux Mandrake 8.1 with the 2.4.8-26mdk kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dan -- 7:55pm up 16 days, 11:35, 1 user, load average: 1.15, 1.03, 1.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal
I'm with you, Hoyt, re: the 486 version of Mandrake. There's still a lot of legacy hardware out there that could use the Mandrake ease of use touch with optimized performance. They'd probably have to ditch X and go with some kind of SVGA solution (or maybe port one of the PDA Xes), but IMO it would be worthwhile. Mike Hoyt wrote: I'd rather see the effort put into a 486 version of Mandrake than into a Debian-Mandrake. I'd rather see APIC support fixed. I'd rather see the Auto Install Floppy option fixed. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?
Hi Charles, I looked under Networking options, but there is no ip virtual server listed. I'm using kernel sources from kernel.org and Ashley pointed out, this feature is added on by Mandrake. It is not apart of the stock kernel. Thanks for your help anyway! Randy On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, ai4a wrote: Randall Jonasz wrote: Hey everyone, I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've disabled ipvsadm with chkconfig as, after reading the man pages, I don't think I need it. But I'm curious to know what module it's looking for so I can compile it into the kernel? Thanks for your help, Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Using make menuconfig Under Networking options... under IP: Virtual Server Configration... Maybe this is what you are looking for?? Charles -- Cabbage, n.: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's
I'll try doing it with the data tag, but here is the site i got my original information off of. http://linuxdocs.org/sln/cdcommands/ the pertinant section: Writing an ISO to a CD-ROM using cdrecord Assuming that all you want to do is create a CD based on the ISO 9660 file system standard, you can quickly burn the CD using the following command: cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,0,0 src.iso src.iso is the source filename of the ISO you are burning to the CD-ROM. hmm. I'll let you all know the results of cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,1,0 -data mandrake_file.iso Thanks. -Brandon On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 18:35, Salane King wrote: do cdrecord --scanbus first to determine the dev= numbers Brandon Dorman wrote: Hey guys, Finally got beta 3 cd 1 and cd 2 downloaded! Joy of joys! However, I've never burned an iso before in linux! I just now burnt both cd's only to disover now that they are still on there as, .iso and aren't bootable or anything! Bummer. (I'm assuming cd1 of even the mandrake beta would be bootable, after all I'm sure they want to test the installer as well. :-)) My cdrecord options look like this: cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,1,0 MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso How can I modify it to expand the iso onto the cd and allow me to boot from it as if I had bought it? Again, much thanks. -Brandon cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,1,0 -data mandrake_file.iso should do it... -- I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc. I adopted instead of them I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or so it appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition. In answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appeared or semed to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction. I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right. -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is 8.2 upgrade working???
On Saturday 23 February 2002 11:07 pm, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:01:37PM -0600, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello (again) I wonder whether upgrading 81. to 8.2 beta3 is a easy job. I don't want to lose any data. I remeber that using the upgrade option on 8.1 wasn't a good choice. Ed: I haven't had any luck with upgrades - I tried it with b2 from 8.1, messed it up. Ended up doing a clean install, leaving ~home intact. Thanks. I think I will have to go for a clean install. Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:16:46 -0500 gnerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with you, Hoyt, re: the 486 version of Mandrake. There's still a lot of legacy hardware out there that could use the Mandrake ease of use touch with optimized performance. They'd probably have to ditch X and go with some kind of SVGA solution (or maybe port one of the PDA Xes), but IMO it would be worthwhile. I agree with the need for a 486 Mandrake. (I ahd to reinstall windbloze to my Libretto because I can't get a version of Linux that installs to it any more (hdd crash)) However shouldn't need to go with a mini X, after all 3.x X was running back in the days (not so long ago either) of RH 5.2 and Mandrake 6.0. Granted you won't have the latest AGP card driver but, I've never found an AGP card that worked well from an ISA slot *grin*. James Mike Hoyt wrote: I'd rather see the effort put into a 486 version of Mandrake than into a Debian-Mandrake. I'd rather see APIC support fixed. I'd rather see the Auto Install Floppy option fixed. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] leafnode/fetchnews need help
Not to worry it stops fetching from groups you don't read - check your config settings - it's heavily commented. Well, I can set the expiration date for what's needed - which is all right. But I read that texpire(8) is thread-based rather than article- based - what effect should that have (if any)? I'm used to having it expire an article based on the file times. Set up texpire to uh delete articles after the desired number of days. Already done - but if it's taking N days to pull down everything in alt.binaries.*, texpire never gets to run, and the disk runs out of room. It's been running for two days now and /var/spool/news (5 gig partition) is about halfway full. I thought I understood /etc/leafnode/filters, as it seems to be relatively easy. I added a filter rule - '^Newsgroups:*[, ]alt.binaries*' to filter out any binaries newsgroups, but it's being ignored, and running applyfilter doesn't help, as it just spits out a 'no filter file' message. Besides, if I understand leafnode correctly, it should not request news groups which I did not ask for via reading the 'placeholder' article. That is what happened the last time I set this up (perhaps six months ago or so) - strange newsgroups just started appearing by themselves, such as alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica :). Nothing in the documentation suggests this should happen. The wierd thing is, before I was having hard disk problems, it was running relatively smoothly, except for the odd binaries groups. After resetting /var/spool, it's fetching *every- thing* including all top level domains (uk,de,es,relcom,etc.) Well of course it's going to pull everything from your upstream spool, that's what news-servers do - you're basically running a full spool I looked at slrnpull, and had some problems with it - for starters, it inexplicably was only able to fetch a few articles (maybe 3-5) from the newsgroups. locally and leafnode is a news-server. If you don't want the full features that leafnode provides, I really suggest you take a look at I can live with the features - it's a lot easier to set up than inn, of course. I've slogged news before (dialup UUCP via Cnews) and it's sure nice to have DSL for this, and it's been on my personal to-do list once I had DSL and enough disk space to commit. Did you install the rpm package? I really suggest you use the source package direct from the sourceforge site. Doing it this way one reads I'll try that too. I did install the RPM. I'd hoped that the newer leafnode would have fixed the previous problem - but it seems to have made it worse. minor. What you should be doing is using cron to automate everything leafnode does including texpire. That's already been set up - texpire is in cron.daily, and fetchnews is in cron.hourly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Grammar checker
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:57:37 +1000 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Does anyone know of a grammar checker for Linux? My boss. *grin* *sorry* -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot Loader Solved but more problems, now kernel panic
Jorge Giménez Mayorgas wrote: Hi again. This is my lilo.conf I really don't see anything wrong with your lilo file, except the exceptional long timeout=5000 setting. Suggest you change to a more reasonable 50. From your lilo file: You have the Linux partition as /dev/hde1 with lilo at /dev/hda. Looks okay. I believe that the problem may be that when initial booting you may require to pass a parameter when linux is booting: linux nobiospnp this works with some boards with the KT266A Chipset. If the lilo is not properly installed then you need to redo that. Try here: Emergency Recovery http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/arecov3.html Additionally you may wish to restate the problem you are having, as I no longer have your first message. It caused my netscape to crash when trying to respond. -- boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/es-latin1.klt lba32 prompt timeout=5000 # This sure is a long timeout? message=/boot/message-graphic menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi quiet vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi failsafe read-only other=/dev/hdc1 label=windows table=/dev/hdc map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/hde1 label=windows2 table=/dev/hde map-drive=0x80 to=0x82 map-drive=0x82 to=0x80 - Later , Jorge Giménez - Original Message - From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Boot Loader Solved but more problems, now kernel panic What actually do you mead as no Luck? Did you make the changes in lilo.conf and then run, as root, lilo- c and this did not work? Were you not sucessful in making changes to th lilo.conf file? Can you post your lilo.conf file for the list to view? Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:03:24 -0500 Daniel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Microtek Scanmaker E3 with an addaptec ava 1502-a scsi card, both of which are reported to work with Mandrake Linux , according to the supported hardware list. However I can't seem to find a module for this card. A generic module maybe? Can anyone tell me how to set this up? I'm running Linux Mandrake 8.1 with the 2.4.8-26mdk kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dan Dan, If kudzu doesn't see it when you boot up, you can try what I did with my cdrom burner. Put in disk one of the installer. Tell it you don't have any other disks, chose update and don't chose any packages. The re-install goes real quick and in my case picked up the cdrom-burner and activated it. James -- 7:55pm up 16 days, 11:35, 1 user, load average: 1.15, 1.03, 1.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] devfs, hdc=ide-scsi (Mdk 8.1) and the symbolic link /dev/cdrom
I have recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1 (better later than never). This has caused me problem with the handling of my CDROM drive and CD-writer on my computer; I have both, the CDROM is /dev/hdc and the CD-writer /dev/hdd. I prefer to have both drives being emulated SCSI using ide-scsi. I therefore have hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi among my load options to the kernel. This creates the SCSI devices just fine. However, the symbolic link /dev/cdrom gets wrong; it points to the non-existing /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 rather than /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 or /dev/cdroms/cdrom3. It appears that this link is maintained by devfsd. However, do I tell it to link it to the correct file? /Peter -- http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html ``When you have had all the experiences, met all the famous people, made some money, toured the world and got all the acclaim you still think--is that it? Some might be satisfied--but I wasn't'' -- G. Harrison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's
Hmm, It seems that the issue may lie in older CD-ROM drives; I did a quick test (8 non-critical systems) and 1/2 of the systems will boot the ISO - 700 MB and 650s, and half will only boot from a 650 disk (these tended to be older drives). All CD-ROMS, however, will read both sizes. One for the weird books... AFN, DGO On Saturday 23 February 2002 19:14, skidley Wrote Thusly: On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, H.McM wrote: Me neither... David Oberbeck wrote: Burning a 650 iso onto a 700 MB disk makes it unbootable... Hmm, not for me! Randy Kramer Me three! -- Entropy Requires No Maintenance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Services not running on bootup
I had to reset my system while running. Now when the system boots up none of the services startup. I have to manually start them to have my LM 8.1 running. I presume the file system mus have been screwed up. When I shutdown the system, it cannot unmount some partitions reporting that "cannot link to /etc/mtab~", what is the function of mtab? Can anyone explain how can I restore my services and a normal shutdown process. Thanks Sridhar
[expert] Services not running on bootup
I had to reset my system while running. Now when the system boots up none of the services startup. I have to manually start them to have my LM 8.1 running. I presume the file system mus have been screwed up. When I shutdown the system, it cannot unmount some partitions reporting that cannot link to /etc/mtab~, what is the function of mtab? Can anyone explain how can I restore my services and a normal shutdown process. Thanks Sridhar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] devfs, hdc=ide-scsi (Mdk 8.1) and the symbolic link /dev/cdrom
On Monday 25 February 2002 01:44 am, you wrote: pmi fi;e I have recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1 (better later than never). This has caused me problem with the handling of my CDROM drive and CD-writer on my computer; I have both, the CDROM is /dev/hdc and the CD-writer /dev/hdd. I prefer to have both drives being emulated SCSI using ide-scsi. I therefore have hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi among my load options to the kernel. This creates the SCSI devices just fine. However, the symbolic link /dev/cdrom gets wrong; it points to the non-existing /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 rather than /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 or /dev/cdroms/cdrom3. It appears that this link is maintained by devfsd. However, do I tell it to link it to the correct file? /Peter try turning off devfs by adding devfs=nomount to the append line in lilo.conf -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
