invocation of ta to produce:
/var/log/samba/log.server2
but it doesn't. Is there something I don't understand?
Thanks in advance,
Bill Shirley
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Thanks for that Bill, but removing the entry from rmtab made no
difference.
regards
Brian
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:15, Bill Shirley wrote:
Look at the files in /var/lib/nfs and edit the one that has the
incorrect entry (rmtab, I think).
Bill Shirley
-Original Message
Look at the files in /var/lib/nfs and edit the one that has the
incorrect entry (rmtab, I think).
Bill Shirley
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Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re
[root@elmo sysconfig]# cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
ARC=false
UTC=true
ZONE=America/New_York
Bill Shirley
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Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:19 PM
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See comments below.
Hope this helps,
Bill Shirley
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 3:05 AM
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Subject: [expert] DHCP and Dynamic DNS
how to make this magic, contact me.
Hope this helps,
Bill Shirley
connected to your
keyboard and print it locally.
James
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 06:52, Carlos Cifuentes wrote:
I am conected with telnet to a remote server. How i
can
print files of this server in my local printer
Hi,
I shot myself in the foot once and got this exact same behavior. I
had messed up my DNS and MY postfix couldn't resolve MY host name.
I had accidently deleted the host name that resolves to postfix's
$myhostname.
Hope this helps,
Bill Shirley
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
man sleep
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy Judge
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 5:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] shell script function to pause / wait
What is the function to have the script pause for n
I am having a problem on my LM 7.1 server running postfix. I need another pair of
eyes to help me with this.
I am getting entries in the /var/log/main.info like:
Dec 2 21:15:17 server1 postfix/smtp[21898]: connect to
ASPIRIN.DII.utk.edu[128.169.76.123]: No route to host (port 25)
Dec 2
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of gene
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 2:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Postfix: No route to host
At 12:14 PM -0500 12/4/00, Bill Shirley wrote:
I am having a problem on my LM 7.1 server running postfix. I need
another pair of eyes to help me
Yep, you were right. They just started blocking port 25.
Thanks,
Bill
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Balaji Ramani
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 3:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [expert] Postfix: No route to host
It may
You might want to get a free account at www.yi.org or www.dyndns.org. From your linux
box you just update their DNS when your IP address changes. Then use nslookup to find
your IP address.
If you opened an account with userid xxxyyy then "nslookup xxxyyy.yi.org" will show
you your IP
It is just logrotate doing its job. After moving the log file, logrotate must restart
syslogd for it to create a new log file.
Bill
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Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 9:37 PM
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Go to Edit, Preferences in Kdat and enter you tape drive name. Mine is /dev/tape.
FYI, your tape drive will whir the tape everytime the SCSI bus is reset and everytime
you insert a tape. A SCSI reset happens when you boot up. This doesn't mean that the
OS is doing anything, it's a hardware
You need irqtune. You can set the serial ports to a higher IRQ priority than the
disks.
Bill
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tommiy Rant
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 4:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] 7.2
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jean-philippe
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] switch /usr partition ?
pgeorges wrote:
"David M. Kufta" a écrit :
I have a
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Puff@NLE
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Postfix filing up my /VAR!!!
Hello,
I just had a machine go down on me yesterday. Kept giving me
Try using these options for pppd:
nodeflate
noaccomp
noccp
nopcomp
novj
novjccomp
I had a problem similar (no pppd crash, pppd just stalled) to yours that was solved by
using them. Lots of info on the web about pppd having problems with vj compression.
Search for "ppp stall" or "pppd stall".
Good point. He should get /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny setup BEFORE
he enables telnet access.
But that is not his problem right now. He said it's not listening. No
server there. If it were there he might get a connection refused.
Bill
You should also check the /etc/hosts.allow
I am now running
[root@elmo msg]# rpm -qa | grep sympa
sympa-2.7.3-7mdk
on a LM 7.1 system. My mail program is:
[root@elmo msg]# rpm -qa | grep postfix
postfix-19991231-6mdk
I have these entries in my aliases file:
listmaster: root
sympa: "| /var/lib/sympa/bin/queue sympa "
pop-3 is how you retrieve your mail from a server. "on demand" is fine
for this and isn't causing your problem. You provide so little
information about what you are trying to do, I doubt anyone will
be able to help you.
What is the mail server named? Are you using sendmail, postfix, etc.?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] pop-3
the mx record is on my providers domain
how would I see the mx record there?
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From: "Bill Shirley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: [exp
rm -Rf /var/log/news /var/log/mail
mkdir -m 755 /var/log/news /var/log/mail
It works, been there, done that.
Bill
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Johnson, Jr.
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 11:38 AM
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I far as I know there is only a LM 7.02 iso version for i486.
Burned a CD with it a couple days ago.
Bill
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Jean-Philippe Gois
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:57 PM
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Cc:
I don't understand, dhcpd should just use the address of the NIC. How
does it know "the address is already in use"?
Perhaps there is more that one dhcpd running on the box. What does the
log file say? What does the output from ifconfig say? What does your
dhcpd.conf file say?
Bill
Seems overly complex to me. You should run dhclient to get a IP address
from you ISP for one NIC card. Set the other NIC card for your private
LAN IP address (say 192.168.0.1). Run dhcpd to serve out private IP
addresses
for the other computers. Run a DNS server on your box so you don't need
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Buchan Milne
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [expert] startup in what looks like single mode
Read the line above "you have been dropped to a shell,
If you are talking about NFS exports:
I had a hard time exporting a directory on LM 7.02 a few months back. It
seams
that /etc/exports is _totally_ ignored. After digging thru the docs, I
found out
that /etc/exports is only implemented when you run exportfs -a. This,
however,
does NOT work
I've seen this kind of information from fdisk when you partition a drive and
then change the geometry in the BIOS. Have you tried turning LBA off in the
BIOS?
Bill
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From: Matt Stegman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 5:38 PM
To:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 4:57 PM
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Subject: [expert] 7.1 network problem
I'm having trouble with a new 7.1 install. I'm not sure if its a
network config or security
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Leopold Palomo
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 6:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Bill Shirley
Subject: Re: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba
Dear Bill,
I wouldn't want to disturb you
You sure didn't provide much information!
Send a:
cat /etc/smb.conf
ls -l /path/up/to/share/name
ls -l /path/share/name
and maybe someone can help you. One of my shares look like this:
[billprivate]
comment = stuff for install/admin
path = /home/lan/shares/billprivate
Title:
Did anyone understand my posting? Did anyone at Mandrake verify this problem? Am I on track here, or totally ignorant of how ipchains works?
(Pffft, pffft, is this thing working? Testing, one, two, three. Testing.)
/archives.html
Bill
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Behalf Of Leopold Palomo
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 5:50 PM
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Cc: Bill Shirley
Subject: Re: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba
Bill Shirley ha escrit
smime.p7m
Title:
I don't know what when wrong with the original message. (I'm using Outlook 98, maybe that should be my first clue). But here it is:
There is a bug in netconf. Please follow the description of the problem below.
I want to forward traffic between my two subnets, 192.168.1.0/24
Hey John,
I had the same problem with 7.1. Disable PS/2 mouse in BIOS. The mouse
still won't work until you choose serial mouse at GUI install. (This
selection is before disk partitioniong.) After that proceed with using
mouse.
Worked for me,
Hope is works for you,
Bill
-Original
Yes, I did an install on /dev/hda1 and then configured hdb1 and hdc1 for
raid0 (for / mount) -- hdb3 and hdc3 (for /boot mount) on a couple of 20G
drives. (/dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdc2 are 128M swap). I mounted /dev/md0 as
/mnt/root and /dev/md1 as /mnt/boot. Then:
cp -ax /boot /mnt/boot
cp -ax /
PPPoE is in LM 7.1. I haven't used it thought.
Bill
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From: james.fogg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:11 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [expert] PPPoE and DSL
I might be ready to hang myself.
I live in a rural area of
When you run lilo and is says:
Warning: /dev/hdb is not on the first disk
it is telling you "I will write the boot program to /dev/hdb but your BIOS
will probably never look for the boot loader on hard drive B!" You are
probably booting the lilo on /dev/hda which now points to a kernel
I am trying to NFS export a file on my LM 7.02 system. I have put the
directory in /etc/exports but still can not access the export from my other
linux system. I have:
(bugsbunny = 192.168.2.11)
(elmo = 192.168.2.1)
[root@bugsbunny rc3.d]# cat /etc/exports
/mnt/loop0
So what's in /etc/resolv.conf?
What does nslookup www.linux-mandrake.com say?
Bill
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From: McDonald, John GSM1 (SIMASD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 5:11 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [expert] Re: DISCUSION Upgrade (fwd)
well i
, Bill Shirley wrote:
- I am trying to NFS export a file on my LM 7.02 system. I
have put the
- directory in /etc/exports but still can not access the
export from my other
- linux system. I have:
- (bugsbunny = 192.168.2.11)
- (elmo = 192.168.2.1)
If you are going to be consistent
Before taking that route you might investigate:
http://www.bizland.com/
which will give you a free subdomain.bizland.com with website and e-mail.
Or, if you have your own domain name but use a dynamic IP address you might
check out:
http://www.dyndns.com/
along with:
I am assuming that printing works from Linux.
The part you are interested in is the global section of smb.conf:
printing = lprng
print command = /usr/local/bin/lpr -P%p %s -r
lpq command = /usr/local/bin/lpq -P%p
lprm command = /usr/local/bin/lprm -P%p %j
Note
Let me start off by saying I have been running Linux for over 5 years. Over
the years I have learned a lot about Linux. However, there is still a lot I
do not know. There are many packages out there that I know nothing about.
What is "nhm", "samba", "bind", "wuftp"? Some of these I have used,
#1 I cannot even PING anything.domain.com
Who is running the DNS for DOMAIN.COM? You need a entries for
ANYTHING.DOMAIN.COM.
Does "nslookup anything.domain.com" work?
Bill
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From: Edwin Linux Fan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:48 PM
To:
You said:
/common 192,168,1.2(rw,no_root_squash,insecure)
shouldn't that read:
/common 192.168.1.2(rw,no_root_squash,insecure)
I don't think you need the "insecure" param either.
The above is on the boss.somewhere.com box.
On the client (192.168.1.2) NFS box, you should be using:
mount -t
I assume you have a ATX case. Have you looked in the BIOS setup for a
power-on option?
Bill
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason
Venkiteswaran
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 8:22 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] reboot
You're new kernel is /vmlinuz . Lilo.conf points to /boot/vmlinuz . Create
a new kernel a million times and it still will execute the old kernel. I
can't imagine why L.M. delivers it this way! Either:
1) cp -a /vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz
2) change /etc/lilo.conf to image=/vmlinuz
or better
3)
I have:
vga = 0x0f05
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Woods
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 9:58 AM
To: Expert Linux list
Subject: [expert] vga=? LILO options
When you bootup, you can enter 'linux vga=ask', selecting
You know, it's amazing how little information you've given us.
Although, I'm no DNS guru I have configured my DNS server and, I far as I
can tell, it works correctly. If you need help, for starters, post your:
/etc/HOSTNAME
/etc/resov.conf
/etc/named.conf
/var/named/localhost (or
If what you're are saying it true, registering all combos of mixed case
domain would be rather expensive. Try:
TrIb.CoM
trib.COM
Trib.coM
TRib.com
TRIb.com
TRIB.com
TRIB.Com
They all work. Domain names are not case sensitive.
Bill
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Donno. From mandrake 7.2:
[root@bugsbunny /lib]# locate libstdc
/usr/doc/libstdc++-devel-2.95.2
/usr/doc/libstdc++-devel-2.95.2/ChangeLog.libio
/usr/doc/libstdc++-devel-2.95.2/ChangeLog.libstdc++
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.2/libstdc++.so
, not of the
servers on the other end of the pipeline.)
Bill Shirley wrote:
This has been my experiance. Maybe you don't live at my house!! Maybe
you
don't use my ISP!!
Bill
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ptah
Sent: Friday, April 28
n "/lib/aic7xxx.o", after I am
told that linux is Loading the module. Finally the kernel panics,
being "Unable to mount root fs" - which is understandable if it can't
load the SCSI driver.
Brian.
Bill Shirley wrote:
First, edit your /usr/src/linux/Makefile and change:
IN
hen
change schellenberger:503 to look like nobody.
Hope this solves it,
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T.
Schellenberger
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 12:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] empty smb passwords?
Bi
hellenberger
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont
start
Bill Shirley wrote:
Then maybe we don't use the same servers!! Just try to dl from microsoft
mid-day.
I have seen a few servers drive my line to
: [expert] X or console wont
start
Bill Shirley wrote:
I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per
I have a 128K ISDN line and the maximum through-put I have seen on it is
about 15K per second. Few servers will actually dish out a download that
fast!
What are you
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 2:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] empty smb passwords?
Bill Shirley wrote:
Yes.
Yes, I have that, I've tried both hand-editing the /etc/smbpasswd file
to have the strange
"NO PASSWORDXXX" form, and using "smbpasswd schellenb
3.) Changing the group for a user will only affect any NEW files.
Change to his directory and run: chmod -R username.librarians *
to fix existing files.
What is it you want to do with readers librarians? Tell us how you want
it to work.
Bill
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From: [EMAIL
Find where the floppy cable plugs into the motherboard (or ISA card if old
machine). Note which side pin 1 is on (pin 1 on the cable has a red
stripe). Unplug the floppy cable from the motherboard and plug it into the
socket labeled TO FLOPPY DATA. Plug the part labeled TO FLOPPY CONTROLLER
I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per
second. Divide kbs by 10 ( 8 bits = 1 byte, plus one start and one stop
bit) to get KBs (kilo-bytes per second). As pointed out by another post,
some of those bytes are IP overhead. If you have 432 kbs then your maximum
Yes.
Do you have these set in your global section?
null passwords = yes
# You may wish to use password encryption. Please read
# ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation.
# Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents
encrypt passwords = yes
smb
First, edit your /usr/src/linux/Makefile and change:
INSTALL_PATH=
to
INSTALL_PATH=/boot
Optional step:
ADD a new image section to lilo so you can boot the old kernel if needed:
Edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a section just like the one label=linux:
image = /boot/vmlinuz.old== change
I just moved my / and /boot over to raid1 partitions. It works. There is a
trick to setting up lilo for /boot on raid1. I uninstalled lilo and
installed lilo-21.4.1 from a ftp site before I got it working. However, I
think it may work with the stock Mandrake lilo.
I started off with
What is the benifit of UNUSED RAM?? RAM used for cache can be cashed in
(pun intended). It will be flushed and used for programs, data, buffers,
etc. when needed by the kernel.
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Necrotica
Sent:
AFAIK, fstab is in the /etc directory and can't be accessed to find the
mount point for /etc .
Can you pass the kernel the partition name for /etc at boot time like you
can for / ??
If so, then:
mkdir /etc/usr
ln -s /etc/usr /usr
Hope this helps,
Bill
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From: [EMAIL
If you have another Linux computer on the network, you can do what I did. I
don't have a CD-ROM burner so I downloaded the iso to my Slackware Linux. I
mounted the iso with a loopback device (mount -t iso9660 -o
ro,loop=/dev/loop0 /path/to/iso.image /mnt/cdrom). I then setup the NFS
export for
I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple
boot loader. And it's free!
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
Hope this helps,
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirk McElhearn
Sent:
the 'primer'.
Pj
Bill Shirley wrote:
I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a
mutiple boot loader. And it's free!
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
Hope this helps,
Bill
One time I had problems installing Windows 98 from my CD-ROM that was a
slave on IDE channel two. Changed the CD-ROM to master on that channel
(there wasn't any master on channel two) and everything went ok.
Bill
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