I'm running a Quantum Fireball 10gig. on this machine
and a Western Digital 30gig. as backup. :-)
vern
Vic wrote:
I looked on the supported hardware list and I could not find anything
about harddrives.
I just wondered if Quantum Fireball and Seagate (older 1Gb)
drives are supported in
Tried running kmail from KDE 1.92, on mandrake 6.1, and have run into
a small problem, namely this:
[ajmitch@ajmitch ajmitch]$ rpm -qf `which kmail`
kdenetwork-1.92-0.2721mdk
[ajmitch@ajmitch ajmitch]$ kmail
BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c: 210:
_dl_check_map_versions: Assertion
Try timeconfig
AMG
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Vincent Danen wrote:
How the heck do I change my timezone? I just noticed I've got EDT on
here and I tried changing it in linuxconf but all it does is call
hwclock. I kinda want to have an accurate timezone on this
machine... =) Thanks.
tzselect?
Stew Benedict
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Vincent Danen wrote:
How the heck do I change my timezone? I just noticed I've got EDT on
here and I tried changing it in linuxconf but all it does is call
hwclock. I kinda want to have an accurate timezone on this
machine... =) Thanks.
--
Hello experts!
I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and
installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my
system a few times and never been able to get my zip working under
What do you have TIMEOUT set to in lilo.conf?
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Marco Fioretti wrote:
= Hello,
=
= Thanks to all who made suggestions for my LILO
= problem (it would not recognize the default label,
= i.e. it would not start after 5 seconds as set up
= in /etc/lilo.conf.
=
= I have tried
Yeah, that's happened to me too. I've installed ML7.1 maybe a dozen times
(essentially the same each time) and sometimes kdesu is there, other times
not.
kf
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Marco Fioretti wrote:
= Hello,
=
= while setting up my LM 7.1 box, I decided to run
= printerdrake (as root). An
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] How to use JDK 1.2.2 with StarOffice52
Craig Woods wrote:
Thanks Mike,
I got it, installed it, and I still do not see that the
Give VMware LOTS of RAM! My work machine is a P2-450 with 384MB of RAM. I
give 160MB to the Windows session and turn off all swap file capability.
Why? VMware disk performance is very weak. RAM is a good way to compensate
for that. Although many benchmarks indicate that VMware has 90% or
Read the instructions on vmware.com. They give explicit instructions in the
installation guide on how to get the tools installed. They are in a
mountable floppy disk image that comes with VMware.
-Original Message-
From: Seak, Teng-Fong
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 8/4/00 12:25 AM
Jeff,
I think they may have made ISO's that were .486.mdk.rpm that were
compiled for the 486. But you'll have to look.
Tim Keller
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Malka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 10:40 AM
To: expert mandrake
Subject: [expert] Mandrake
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on an Ultra Enterprise 1 with a SCSI
CD-ROM drive.
At the ok prompt I type 'boot cdrom' and it begins the boot process. At the
boot prompt on the "Welcome to Linux-Mandrake 7.0" screen I press enter or
type 'expert' and press enter. It continues the boot
I have 2 machines running Mandrake 7.0, one of which refuses to allow a
login as root. Any password, even the correct one, is "Incorrect". You have to
log in as a user, then su to root. This woks reliably.
The machine in question is an AMD K6/2-350, 64MB of ram, 4.3 Gig for
ok...I'm a little confused here. If the toolbox is already included in
this version of VMware how do I use it. The only thing that happens when I
click on "Install VM toolbox" is it asks me if I want to read the
documentation. I haven't seen how to use it yet.
--
Mark
"Carver, Paul, NLSOP" wrote:
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on an Ultra Enterprise 1 with a SCSI
CD-ROM drive.
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: XM-5401TASUN4XCD Rev: 1036
Type: CD-ROM
Could you try to put your CD-ROM at a higher ID (say, 3 or 4)
just to check ???
Any idea how to do this? I don't really know anything about Sun hardware. To
the best of my knowledge, this is a standard Ultra Enterprise 1 with
internal hard drive and CD-ROM drive. I haven't opened the case. Is
This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus programs
avalible for Linux? I've looked but never found any and never seem to even
hear mention of any. Is it necessary? If not, why? Thanks.
Jason
Could you try to put your CD-ROM at a higher ID (say, 3 or 4)
just to check ???
Any idea how to do this? I don't really know anything about Sun hardware.
To the best of my knowledge, this is a standard Ultra Enterprise 1 with
internal hard drive and CD-ROM drive. I haven't opened the case.
Thus spake Kikta LCpl Jason M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus programs
avalible for Linux? I've looked but never found any and never seem to even
hear mention of any. Is it necessary? If not, why? Thanks.
Viruses are *much* harder to
Thus spake Carver, Paul, NLSOP ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[..]
PRTY - open
ID1 - open
ID2 - jumpered
ID4 - jumpered
I tried it with just ID4 jumpered and then with just ID2 jumpered. Both ways
it errors saying "can't open boot device" and then defaults to booting
Solaris from the hard drive.
Ok, when this machine boots up, if I try to login it takes forever (like 10
minutes) and generally rejects the password on the first attempt. On the second
attempt it takes 5 minutes or so and accepts it and all future login attempts
happen as one would expect.
Other (potnentially related)
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:06:12PM -0400, Kikta LCpl Jason M wrote:
This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus programs
avalible for Linux? I've looked but never found any and never seem to even
hear mention of any. Is it necessary? If not, why? Thanks.
What do you mean
Kikta LCpl Jason M wrote:
This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus programs
avalible for Linux? I've looked but never found any and never seem to even
hear mention of any. Is it necessary? If not, why? Thanks.
Jason
Jason,
Try:
There is an AVP (Antiviral Toolkit Pro) antivirus version for linux.
You can visit www.avp.com for more information.
There is available a trial version from
ftp://ftp.avp.com/pub/avp30linux.tgz
Erramu.
This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus
programs
avalible for
Jeff Malka wrote:
I know that Mandrake is configured for a Pentium or better, but I like it so
much that I wonder if it would work on a 486 laptop?
I am running Mandrake on a i486 DX2 66 without problems, so it should
work with your laptop.
May you live long and spamless,
Andreas Bergstrøm
amavis.org
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Handelman
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 11:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Anti-Virus for Linux
Kikta LCpl Jason M wrote:
This may be a stupid question, but
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 6:14 AM
Subject: [expert] usb zip drive
Hello experts!
I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
Don't know what I did, in fact I believe
Some time ago, someone posted a link to a page that listed and defined all
the port numbers and their purpose. Does anyone still have that link please
?
Thanks, Charley
- Original Message -
From: "Deryk Barker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Anti-Virus for Linux
Thus spake Kikta LCpl Jason M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus
Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote:
Read the instructions on vmware.com. They give explicit instructions in the
installation guide on how to get the tools installed. They are in a
mountable floppy disk image that comes with VMware.
-Original Message-
From: Seak, Teng-Fong
To:
Daniel Woods wrote:
This will work...
cd {directory}
ls -t | head -1
or
ls -t $HOME | head -1
Using ksh (on Unix), this next line works to only accept files
x=`ls -t | head -1`; if [[ -f $x ]]; then echo $x ;fi
except that I could not get this to work
Hi Mark,
I have been running VMware from the beginning and have even beta tested some
of their releases. Most of the questions you are asking are readily
available in the documentation on their web site. The only network card
VMware supports at this time is the AMD adapter. This driver is used
OK, how do I give away a file? I am working on a cgi script which will
write a file, test.file, once per execution. It runs as nobody:nobody. I
need to hand the file off to an appropriate user.
Here is a list of the directory:
ccurley@charlesc $ ll
total 11
drwxrwxrwx2 ccurley ccurley
Well, for myself it was on a PC not a Sparc, but it looks
like your symptoms are the same: look above, it says
"detected scsi disk ...". Also, /dev/sdb is specifically
for _hard disk_ in linux, _not_ for CD-ROM.
The boot messages definitely showed sdb being detected as a Toshiba
CD-ROM.
I have 2 machines running Mandrake 7.0, one of which refuses
to allow a
login as root. Any password, even the correct one, is "Incorrect".
You have to
log in as a user, then su to root. This woks reliably.
The machine in question is an AMD
Sounds like you set security to too high. You cannot login
as root. Only as a user then su.
At 08:53 AM 8/4/2000 +, Declan Moriarty wrote:
I have 2 machines running Mandrake 7.0, one of which refuses to
allow a
login as root. Any password, even the correct one, is "Incorrect". You
I think this not works cause of group permisions.
Perhaps you need to create a new user in a new html group and map their
home in /home/html and set the group ownership of /home/html to the
group of this new user.
Some like this:
adduser -g html -d /home/html -M -n html_up
chown -R .html
Perhaps you have an empty /etc/securetty ???
deleting your /etc/securetty you'll be able to log on as root from
everywhere
I have 2 machines running Mandrake 7.0, one of which refuses to
allow a
login as root. Any password, even the correct one, is "Incorrect".
You have to
log in
Hi,
this is the output when i type mount...
I have stopped automount by running autofs stop and amd stop.. so nothing
is running i guess.. nor is supermount running. so where is the problem?
need help immediately.
thanks
sarang
[root@vx15 /etc]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount:
I have Linux-Mandrake version 7.1 Install on my machine which has an AMD
process, ASUS motherboard and 256 MB of Ram. The problem that I am have is
that linux only detects 64 MB. I have determined that it is not a hardware
failure as a friend of mine with the same config is having the same
I can mount manually a SMB filesystem without problems, but i cannot
mount this throug the fstab file.
I like to mount this with the supermount utility.
Anyone can tell me how likes the etc/fstab line for it??
Thanxs in advance.
Erramu.
Submitted 04-Aug-00 by Sarang Lakare:
[root@vx15 /etc]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
Take the disc out of
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Sparks, Charley pushed some small plastic letters in this order:
Some time ago, someone posted a link to a page that listed and defined all
the port numbers and their purpose. Does anyone still have that link please
?
Thanks, Charley
If you are running any form of
no, the disk is not hot atall!! I think its more of a technical problem!
-sarang
Turn on auto amd again
Try the simple stuff first :)
mount /mnt/cdrom
thats it
Cheers
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System Administrator Network Operations
Inherent Technologies Inc.
office (503)224-6751 ext 224
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Allen Bolderoff wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Don't see a point why the Helixupdate should be included in
distribution.
maybe not everyone has a T1 to the net?
some people (in australia for example) pay for every MB they receive, *and*
have to download over
my amd, autofs and supermount never worked.. I had emailed this list about
my supermount problems.. came to know its not good.. so removed it.. later
tried autofs adn amd.. none of them worked.. so after that i was doing raw
mount so far.. and suddenly it stopped working too!
any other ideas?
Probably because people are human and the install process is slightly
different in 7.1.
Pj
At 04:09 PM 8/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
this is the Nth time that someone is complaining that 7.0 detected a piece
of hardware and 7.1 didn't.. 7.0 installed flawlessly and 7.1 didn't... why
does this
If you look at the source that applet is not javascript, it is a
ScrollAd.Zip which SO Linux can not handle
Go to any page at www.zdnet.com , check the source and you will see that
you
do indeed have support for javascript in SO.
Charles
Please pardon my ignorance, but I've just looked
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Pierre Fortin wrote:
Daniel Woods wrote:
This will work...
cd {directory}
ls -t | head -1
or
ls -t $HOME | head -1
Using ksh (on Unix), this next line works to only accept files
x=`ls -t | head -1`; if [[ -f $x ]]; then echo $x
Submitted 04-Aug-00 by Charles Curley:
OK, how do I give away a file?
Only root can do this. The reasoning is as follows: I compile my own copy
of a program, chmod 4555, and then give it to root. Now I have an
unaccounted for suid process that can do anything it wants to.
For the same
Hey Jeff, if you go to the Mandrake web page, you can download the version
that's optimized for i486. It's in iso format so you have to have a cd
burner or you can compile your own kernel and just optimize it yourself for
the i486 (the iso way, in my opinion, is much easier!).
Mark Weaver wrote:
ok...I'm a little confused here. If the toolbox is already included in
this version of VMware how do I use it. The only thing that happens when I
click on "Install VM toolbox" is it asks me if I want to read the
documentation. I haven't seen how to use it yet.
There
Gary Travis Roberts wrote:
I have Linux-Mandrake version 7.1 Install on my machine which has an AMD
process, ASUS motherboard and 256 MB of Ram. The problem that I am have is
that linux only detects 64 MB. I have determined that it is not a hardware
failure as a friend of mine with the
Gary,
I had the same problem on my Athlon 900Mhz box which had 128 Megs of
pc133. Well some how the bios fried on me (NOTE: remind me not to do that
again) After returning the motherboard to the manufacture and getting a
different one with a different cpu 1Ghz :) with the same ol'
Best thing is don't run as root. Other than that, go to www.linuxberg.com
and you can do a search for antivirus programs there. There are some.
Mike
This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus programs
avalible for Linux? I've looked but never found any and never seem to
Hello,
as requested by several people, there you have my
/etc/fstab and
/etc/lilo.conf, together with my original posting.
Thanks in advance
[root@polaris marco]# more /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
So, what should we do? This doesn't look as an optional
package, does it? Why does this happen, and what is the
RPM to install it from by hand?
Marco
Yeah, that's happened to me too. I've installed ML7.1 maybe a dozen times
(essentially the same each time) and sometimes kdesu
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
Hello experts!
I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and
installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my
system a few times and never been
I just tried to install the latest version of OpenSSH
(openssh-2.1.1p3-2mdk.rpm) and it gives me the following error:
rpmlib(VersionDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 is needed by openssh-2.1.1p3-2mdk
Why would this require an older version of the RPM installer? The version
that comes with Mandrake
At 02:41 PM 8/4/00, you wrote:
So, what should we do? This doesn't look as an optional
package, does it? Why does this happen, and what is the
RPM to install it from by hand?
Marco
Marco,
the rpm I have installed is kdesu.0.98-14mdk.rpm hope this helps.
Yeah, that's
IIRC, regardless of proper XFree86 video support, you still be able to match
whatever screen resolution and bit depth you are currently running in X. If
you are not running XFree86 3.3.6, you won't have the necessary performance
hooks that VMware wants, but it should still work.
I would venture
But isn't the version on the website 7.0 for 486 instead of 7.1?
Matt
-Original Message-
From: Mike Tracy Holt
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 8/4/00 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake of a 486?
Hey Jeff, if you go to the Mandrake web page, you can download the
version
that's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Try this on your local linux box:
"more /etc/services"
Jay
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Some time ago, someone posted a link to a page that listed and defined all
the port numbers and their purpose. Does anyone still have that link please
?
Thanks,
Put your Installation CD in the drive
mount -t iso9960 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
rpm -Uhv kdesu
then hit the Tab key, then the Enter key. Hit the tab key for filename
completion and because I can't remember those long filenames. If this
installs it (and it
I got a DEC 520
terminal and I would like to hook it up to my linux box via a serial
connections. I haven't looked to hard but are their any howto's on the
subject? 1. I got my inintab containing entries for both my
serial portss ttyS0 ttyS1. 2. I run ps -aux and my 8
terminals are
man login
man securetty.
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, kf wrote:
Are you trying to log in as root remotely? If so, this is disallowed by
default on many Unixen as a security hole. Can't remember just now which
file it is you need to edit. Anybody?
kf
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Declan Moriarty
this usually happen when you choose high security install.
in this type you're not allow to login as root in your console, but you
have to login as user and the su.
try medium security.
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
I have 2 machines running Mandrake 7.0, one of which
it means you kill yourself. Off course that is very unsecure, cause you
can login as root from remote.
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, LINUX_1 wrote:
Perhaps you have an empty /etc/securetty ???
deleting your /etc/securetty you'll be able to log on as root from
everywhere
I have 2 machines
Yes, actually 7.02, but that's not really that old.
Mike
But isn't the version on the website 7.0 for 486 instead of 7.1?
Matt
Hey Jeff, if you go to the Mandrake web page, you can download the
version
that's optimized for i486. It's in iso format so you have to have a cd
burner
Submitted 04-Aug-00 by Marco Fioretti:
So, what should we do? This doesn't look as an optional
package, does it? Why does this happen, and what is the
RPM to install it from by hand?
1) install it :)
2) Sure it is. There are other packages that can do essentially the same.
Take your pick.
3)
read install manual. If you have lilo, insert append="mem=256M" (if I
remem correct) into lilo.conf, run lilo .
- Original Message -
From: "Gary Travis Roberts" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 1:04 PM
Subject: [expert] Memory Problems
I have
Hello experts!
I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive.
Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and
installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my
system a few times and never been able to get my zip working
I don't know if this is your answer, but when I was VERY NEW in Linux, (
I'm still new, but not as bad! ),
I installed Mandrake 5.2 or 5.3. I had never gotten my zip working and
it was the parallel port version.
One install, I happened to have a formatted zip disk in the drive and
Mdk
Kenneth Kline wrote:
I got a DEC 520 terminal and I would like to hook it up to my linux
box via a serial connections. I haven't looked to hard but are their
any howto's on the subject?
Have a look at the Text-Terminal HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html (May also
I keep getting a confirm message returned each time I try to reply to the
list, what's going on?? I have tried with both upper and lower case "E" in
the "Experts" in the address..
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Ken Thompson wrote:
I keep getting a confirm message returned each time I try to reply to the
list, what's going on?? I have tried with both upper and lower case "E" in
the "Experts" in the address..
You're most likely posting from an address other than the one you used
to sign up with; I
Daniel Woods wrote:
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Pierre Fortin wrote:
Daniel Woods wrote:
This will work...
cd {directory}
ls -t | head -1
or
ls -t $HOME | head -1
Using ksh (on Unix), this next line works to only accept files
x=`ls -t | head
Daniel Woods wrote:
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Pierre Fortin wrote:
Daniel Woods wrote:
This will work...
cd {directory}
ls -t | head -1
or
ls -t $HOME | head -1
Using ksh (on Unix), this next line works to only accept files
x=`ls -t | head
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