[expert] Can't install into Intel D865GLC MB with SATA drives

2003-10-16 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please let me know when you do build the disk (and drivers) for this. My machine is basically unusable until this happens. I don't understand how M$ can work and install without special drivers! Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Can't install into Intel D865GLC MB with SATA drives

2003-10-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 00:38): Hello, I'm trying to load Mandrake on a brand new P4 2.8ghz system using the Intel D845GVAD2, with two 10K ROM SATA drives. I have an IDE CDROM drive attached. What SATA controller? That board does

[expert] Can't install into Intel D845GVAD2 MB with SATA drives

2003-10-14 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm trying to load Mandrake on a brand new P4 2.8ghz system using the Intel D845GVAD2, with two 10K ROM SATA drives. I have an IDE CDROM drive attached. Mdk 9.0 would not find the CD Drive - died right away. Mdk 9.1 would load some more from the CD, but then would fail looking for the

[expert] Trying to get a IDE Onstream 30GB tape drive working

2003-10-05 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm trying to get a IDE OnStream 30GB tape drive working with LM 9.0. I found some docs that said that kudzu would auto install the drive under Redhat 2.4.x kernels, but 9.0 doesn't seem to have that. I did install harddrake, but it just comes up with a black screen for about 5 secs

[expert] Kernels witn 9.0

2003-02-08 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can previous version kernels be used in 9.0 without problems? In other words, can you simply install the 8.2 kernel files into a 9.0 box? What about the 2.2.x kernel from a 8.2 disk? Are there other packages that depend on the kernel that would need to be brought in? Bob Want to buy your

[expert] Maxtor 120GB Drive doesn't work under 9.0

2003-01-17 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all, After going through a couple drives, multiple motherboards, and different versions of Mandrake, I've now come to the conclusion that Mandrake 9.0 won't talk to my Maxtor 120GB drive. When I try to use fdisk, it says Unable to read /dev/hdc. Yet the same drive and motherboard work

[expert] Re: Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyways, does 2.2.7a fix this 2GB file limit problem? How long has this problem been around (this is the first I've heard of it, but I'm not a samba user). It most certainly does. I posted something here, didn't get any replies, so I went to the Samba list, where the issue was discussed hot

[expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-10 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey Mandrake, I see there is still no regular update to Samba to fix the very nasty 2gb file limit. So, I checked cooker. There -is- one in there, but the cooker packages won't install on a 9.0 machine! I'm getting endless dependencies. What's up with this? Is it possible to ask for an

[expert] Re: MLM munging - was cron smbtar

2002-12-28 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please, let's not get into the reply-to argument. What is FAR, FAR worse with this mailing list is that digest people get an incorrect reply-to!!! It doesn't get to the list! I've mentioned this a few times, but it never seems to get fixed. So, I have to correct each and every message that I

[expert] Apache problems

2002-11-01 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, It seems that on every Mandrake box I have, regardless of version (7.1, 8.2, 9.0), today I got the following email from each box: Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ] Reloading httpd: [ OK ] Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ] Reloading httpd: [ OK ] Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ]

[expert] Error in postrotate from LM90

2002-10-20 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've noticed this each weekend in my mailbox for root: error running postrotate script run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 The syslog.1 and start of the syslog show nothing out of the ordinary. What could be causing this? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Apache died this morning on 9.0RC2

2002-10-01 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a 9.0RC2 box, as well as a couple other boxes (8.2, and a 7.1 updated) that, suddenly this morning, generated an error email, and apache stopped. Here's some example emails: Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ] Reloading httpd: [ OK ] Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ] Reloading httpd: [

[expert] frequent HD access in LM8.2

2002-08-20 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've noticed on my last few installs of Mandrake 8.2, that I get a tiny bit of hard disk access, once every 4 seconds or so. I've looked in the logs, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary, and there is nothing going on. What would explain this? Bob Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've got a client who has a Windows app that runs ODBC connections to a file server. The software company wants the client to set up a MS SQL server to supposedly fix the problems we are having. I'm a little familiar with MySQL, but is it a direct drop-in replacement for MS' product?

[expert] Connection to ODBC database

2002-06-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have a client that is using a Windows program to access a database file on a Samba share. The program is using Windows built-in ODBC drivers. Question: how can I make database queries to this file? The only info I've got so far is that it is a Fox pro database. It's not being

[expert] ORBZ spam blockers shutting down

2002-03-20 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, this is really sad news. ORBZ, the open mail relay checking system, is shutting down. http://derf.cc/orbz_shutdown.txt Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Problems with Beta 4

2002-03-14 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I just did two installs of Beta 4. Hope this is the right place to put this. #1. I didn't see a Press F1 for text setup screen. I needed this for one machine, and I finally got it after several tries, but still don't know when it was looking for it. #2. In both text and graphic

[expert] Module for Adaptec 2903

2002-02-26 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Is there any module available for the Adaptec 2903 SCSI card? Thanks. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Where is HDPARM??

2002-02-25 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Messing around with Mandrake 8.2 beta 2.. I still can't find hdparm. What package contains this program? Also, is this the appropriate place to submit bug reports? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Adding SCSI tape backup

2002-02-21 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I just recently added a SCSI tape backup to my Mandrake 7.1 system. I used an Adaptec 2903 PCI card. What do I need to do in order to be able to access the tape drive? I tried messing with various programs, but no go. Thanks. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] HDPARM in 8.2Beta

2002-02-06 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the replies re: PCAnywhere. Will check out Wine and see if it works. Next question: I just installed 8.2beta on a machine. Where is HDPARM? Isn't that a program that comes with the kernel? It would be really nice to have some searchable database that you could scan to find what

[expert] PCAnywhere for Linux?

2002-02-05 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a PC Anywhere client (NOT a host) port for Linux? I'd like to be able to stay in Linux when having to dial-in to various Winders machines I have to take care of. Yes, I know about the various other programs that exist that do the same thing, but I need to be able to talk to a PC

[expert] IDE Tape Drives

2001-12-09 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Gang, Can I (easily) use a Travan 4 or 5 IDE tape drive with Mandrake? Any difference between IDE and SCSI? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Samba XP

2001-11-12 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try using smbpasswd -a username to add the user to the smb users. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: [Security Discuss] Problems with Kernel source 2.2.19-2mdk

2001-10-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, there is a major problem with the Kernel upgrade for Mandrake 7.1 at least, if not 7.x. Aside from the missing files in the source to be able to compile a new kernel, communication to my IDE drives seems to crash the kernel totally. For example, I have a script that uses mirrordir to

[expert] High ping times over dialup PPP

2001-10-17 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've recently set up a link between two Mandrake 7.1 boxes using modems. I've got the boxes connecting properly, and passing traffic. However, I noticed that there is a bit of delay... a little more than a normal dialup. I did some tests and found: Dialing up from a Windows 98 client

[expert] Excessive Collisions with Samba

2001-10-17 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another question... On a couple of other MDK boxes, I am running a Samba server to talk with Windows 98 clients. It works, but when I copy files from the Windows machines TO the Mdk boxes, it takes forever... I noticed there are tons of collisions on the ethernet line. These collisions occur

RE: [expert] Is it safe to upgrade apache yet??

2001-10-01 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check your errorlog for httpd. In mine, the problem was bad (changed) permissions for /var/log/httpd. Bob Crap, I got this just after I did it... now i can't get it working and can't even seem to get the old ones working again either... what a pain in the ass... I am at a complete

[expert] Apache update

2001-09-22 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Gang, With all the messages about problems with the latest Apache upgrade, I'm a little leary of installing it. Were there any significant security holes in 1.3.12 or 1.3.14? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Where's PHP 4 for 8?

2001-08-21 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course, the upside is that future updates should be very easy to do (unless something major changes again), just because of the way Apache, mod_perl, PHP, et. all have become modularized by Jean-Michel. It's a better way to do things, but wreaks some havoc initially on the older

[expert] Codered worm hits

2001-08-17 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How many have you had? According to my logs, as of right now, I've got 897. (This would be a fun competition! I've got 10700 so far! Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[expert] RPM V.4 for 7.x MDKs

2001-08-13 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, It seems that most all the RPMs coming out now are made with the version 4 RPM, which doesn't work on Mandrake 7.x distros.. Is there a way to install the new RPM on the older machines? Also, I notice that the Digest reply-to address is -STILL- wrong, months after I first reported

[expert] Sendmail is set-uid root problem

2001-07-16 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No Message Collected

Re: [expert] 486-100MHz HP Netserver, will it work under linux?

2001-06-23 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have several Mandrake 7.1 firewall systems running on 486 processors with no problems. I say give it a shot! Bob 486 processors are not running on any current version of Mandrake, to my knowledge.

[expert] Networking Expert needed!

2001-06-14 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've got a problem with one of my ISPs that I'm 95% sure is on their end, but I want to get some opinions of the experts here, and know what exactly to tell them. Scenerio: Mandrake 7.1 Box with two ethernet cards, one on ISP #1 (DSL), another one on ISP #2 (T1). Default route is set

Re: [expert] Networking Expert needed!

2001-06-14 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Orlando, Thanks for the reply. you set T1 ISP as your default and your replys from ping to the DSL ISP comes from the T1? like that: ping DSP-ISP reply (coming from T1-ISP) xxx ms ??? well... if this is the behaviour... the error is your side :-) the reply from a

Re: [expert] Networking Expert needed!

2001-06-14 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HI Pierre, Thanks for the reply. Ok, here's a little more detail: DSL ISP: Machine IP: 64.65.206.24 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 (I actually have 32 IPs, but that's the mask they say to use, and it does work properly, even if I ping

Re: [expert] Networking Expert needed!

2001-06-14 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can only suspect you are experiencing the rule which states: a packet from netX cannot be routed through netY and back to netX [EXCEPT if the final destination is netZ]* One more thought. If a http request is made from netX to a machine on netX, and the machine generates reply packets

[expert] Apache database?

2001-05-16 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am looking for a program to run on Mandrake that will emulate some of the same features on the Apache server as ColdFusion... Specifically, I need to create a password-protected area on a website that allows users to search a database of professionals based on state, name, etc., and

[expert] Weird PING problem

2001-04-26 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Gang, Here's a weird problem I'm trying to work through. Mandrake 7.1 machine has two network cards: Card A on 1.2.3.4, with default gateway set to 1.2.3.1. Card B on 20.0.0.20. Both networks connect to the outside world. Problem: I can successfully ping the 1.2.3.4 address, but I

Re: [expert] FrontPage Extentions..

2001-04-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there an RPM out there to make these work? I am using the one from AdvancedExtraNet with 7.1, and it works. However, I still have a problem that so far, no one has seemed to be able to even acknowledge, let alone fix. WHen FrontPage 2000 clients try to publish, it goes for a while, then

Re: [expert] Memory Leak

2001-04-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Timing chatter on the IDE bus Some DVD-ROMs on VIA chipsets can cause corruption of install-time data on hard disks past kernel 2.2.15. WD and Maxtor of same speed or a slower WD with a fast Maxtor master will just eat your data with timing chatter. And since WD doesn't do the CRCs

[expert] New Postfix version

2001-03-02 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I was having a problem with emails having uppercase letters being rejected by Postfix on my Mandrake 7.1 machine. After checking with the Postfix folk, I found that this was a bug fixed over a year ago. I searched, and found that ALL mandrake Postfix RPMs are from the 1999 version,

[expert] Frontpage 2000 publish breaks MDK 7.1

2001-02-06 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am running the Mandrake Apache Advanced Extranet Server version 1.3.12 that came with 7.1, and the Frontpage 4.0 RPM that was on the advancedextranet web site (which incidentally, is down). Apache and frontpage have been working fine, but today I had a client who is using FP2000 try

[expert] Setting Max Thruput

2001-01-30 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have a linux Masq box that has three ethernet cards: eth0 = connection to the internet eth1 = private network #1 eth2 = private network #2. Networks 1 and 2 both talk to the internet via IP Masquerading. All is well. Now, I need to put a limit on the bandwidth for private network

[expert] IP forwarding, not masquerading

2001-01-30 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consider this scenerio: - | BOX 1 | | BOX 2| | eth1+ Private net #1 | eth1+ Private net #3 Internet --+eth0 | 192.168.1.x

[expert] updating a file within a script

2001-01-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I need to have a shell script (and/or CGI) be able to modify the contents of an existing file (to which it has permission). Let's say that somewhere in the file "test.conf", there is a line that says "test=on". I would like to be able to change that one line to "test=off" or

[expert] PLEASE FIX REPLY-TO in this list!!!

2001-01-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would someone PLEASE fix the REPLY-TO address for the digest of this list?! Replies get sent to "expert-request", which then fail. Bob

[expert] Pain in the Arse - Linux Stability

2001-01-06 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Once again, I am chiming in on requesting a -stable- version of version 7.1. 7.1 seems to work on a lot of systems (if you can get past the blasted CDROM installer lockup bug!), and its updates are a known. Is there anyway someone can make an updated ISO file of the master CD with all the

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-23 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm, I've been using Webmin all this time without SSL, and I can't seem to make it work WITH ssl... I have to use http://localhost:1 to connect. How do I enable SSL for Webmin? Bob

[expert] Terminal Server?

2000-12-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the netware server for a Linux box? Thanks. Please CC your replies directly to me. Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Hardware vs System Clock

2000-12-09 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you get Mandrake to auto adjust for Daylight Savings Time? Bob Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Setting Hostname

2000-12-09 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have noticed that on a 7.1 Install, when I boot the machine and have DHCP enabled for my internet connection, SOMETIMES the machine takes on the name of the first part of the reverse IP lookup of the IP address assigned thru DHCP, ignoring my setting. How do I get DHCPcd to NOT change

[expert] RPM Error: Wrong Architecture in LM 7.1

2000-12-07 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help! I have put together a small masq box, and now whenever I try to add a RPM package, I get the error "Incorrect Architecture!" (or something similar). I can use the switch to ignore this, but that doesn't help when using Webmin or Mandrake Update. There must be a config file that is

[expert] Updated 7.1 ISO files?

2000-12-07 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there such a thing as updated ISO files (for burning) for Mandrake version 7.1? After seeing all the problems with 7.2, I really want to stick with 7.1, but I'd like to have all the updated packages installed the first time. If such a thing doesn't exist, how can it be created? I have

[expert] Finding files based on date

2000-12-01 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, In the close inspection I've been giving my machine since it was hacked, I see that there was a 100kbit/sec upload averaged over 5 minutes.. that is a lot of data. I don't see any new files to account for this, and suspect the hacker might have uploaded something naughty. Question:

Re: [expert] Finding files based on date

2000-12-01 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't work. At least in the form: find /etc/* -amin 8 Seems to return some files that have been created long ago. The actual files do seem to change with time. Example: [root@main postfix]# date Fri Dec 1 22:55:43 EST 2000 [root@main postfix]# find /etc/*

[expert] I'VE BEEN HACKED!!! Need upgraded wu-ftp for 7.1

2000-11-28 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi gang, Last night, my webserver machine (Mandrake 7.1) was "defaced". The hacker got root access, and uploaded a script that went into every virtual host and replaced the index.htm(l) file with his own file. His "defacement" included his email, and a link to his site:

[expert] Netzero problems

2000-11-21 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DO this: change your NetZero password (in the Windows program) to: "abcde". Now your encrypted password you need for Dial up networking will be: "0a1" (that's number 0, five a's, and number 1) have fun! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

[expert] DHCP isn't working in 7.1

2000-11-18 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I just built a new MDK 7.1 machine to use as a Masq box. Tried it on my DSL modem, and for some reason, DHCP doesn't seem to work. Everything works fine if I manually set the IP address, but I should be able to use DHCP.. I am using DHCP on a MDK 6.1 system with the same DSL modem, so

[expert] Problem with wu-ftp

2000-11-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am trying to set up ftp-only users. I have created the users (using Webmin), but if I have the shell set to any of the following, I can't log in with ftp: /etc/ftponly /bin/sh /bin/false All the other shells work fine.. but I don't want the user to be able to telnet in. My docs

Re: [expert] MIRRORDIR and COPYDIR don't work right

2000-11-13 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mirrordir *isn't* broken. It's designed to do exactly what it says, create a mirror. That means it recreates the directory structure exactly as it is on the source machine, under the specified target directory (in your case /tmp). It may not be what you want, but that's what it's supposed

Re: [expert] MIRRORDIR and COPYDIR don't work right!

2000-11-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try rsync, wget, fmirror I will check into those. I have been using WGET, and it works, but my main beef is that it seems to recreate the entire source directory tree at my destination, even if I specify the destination. Tried a bunch of switches, and couldn't get it NOT do do that.

Re: [expert] MIRRORDIR and COPYDIR don't work right!

2000-11-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try this : mirrordir -v --no-chown --exclude-glob ".in.*" \ ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/ \ /mnt/linux2/ (change the last directory to your own destination). FWIW, I just tried this. It seems to put the files in the right place, but I'm still getting all sorts of

[expert] MIRRORDIR and COPYDIR don't work right!

2000-11-10 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm trying to use COPYDIR (or MIRRORDIR) to copy an entire web site from one server to mine. I am using the syntax: copydir -v ftp://username@domain name//home/user/www /home/user/http The program starts, asks for my password, then starts copying files. However, it tries to copy a

[expert] Postfix filing up my /VAR!!!

2000-11-06 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I just had a machine go down on me yesterday. Kept giving me "no free space on drive" errors. It turned out that my /VAR partition was messed up, and after forcing a check, indeed it was full. I found a directory called MAIL inside /VAR/LOG that had THOUSANDS of files in it, taking

[expert] Apache 1.3.12 MOD_SSL

2000-11-06 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running the Apache server version 1.3.12 from the MDK 7.1 disk. I want to be able to have secure pages. I installed OpenSSL 0.9.5, but mod_ssl wants a more recent Apache server. 1.3.12 is working really nicely at the moment, and I hate to rock the boat. Where can I find a mod_ssl

Re: [expert] Sympa doesn't work

2000-11-03 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had the same problem getting Sympa to work. Mandrake 7.1 didn't come with the DBfile perl module. I did manage to find it and get it installed, but boy, this should have been packaged with the Sympa RPM!!! I think you can get it from CPAN. Do a GET DB_File Bob On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, bill

[expert] Mail from CGI scripts

2000-11-01 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for everyone's input - I figured out how to get sendmail mail to do the right thing. However, my question becomes this: how can I configure my MDK 7.1 such that when a CGI script is executed from a given virtual host, it puts the virtual host's name on the "from: " domain? I have

[expert] mail from CGI scripts

2000-10-27 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have a user that has a frequently-accessed CGI script that is like an auto-responder - simply sends a message to the mail address the user types in on this form. The problem is that the From: part of the message says "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", of which nlenet.net is the name of the

[expert] IP Port to serial port?

2000-10-27 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All linux Experts! I am looking for some simple code that will allow me to telnet into my machine at a pre-defined port number, and connect directly to one of the machine's serial ports, so that data I send goes out the serial port, and vice versa. Flow control not necessary. This seems like

[expert] PGP Messages

2000-10-10 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can we please knock it off with the PGP messages? THose of us on Digests have a hard enough time, and this just makes it worse. Thanks. Bob Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] CGI Script

2000-10-02 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Can someone write me a quick CGI script? I've been messing around, and can't seem to get this working. I want to have the script read the REMOTE_ADDR parameter, create a text file with the IP and some added info (for a http link), and save it to a certain location. That's all it

[expert] Is LESS busted?

2000-09-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've noticed on every Linux box I have here (different versions of Mandrake) that using the command LESS to view the contents of a file always drops one line per page. This happens via telnet, or even if I'm at the console. It appears the status line at the bottom covers up text, and when

Re: [expert] Frontpage server extensions with LM 7.1

2000-09-19 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your mileage might vary, but it's supposed to translate everything (www.test.com, etc) back to "test.com". You might also want to use the "UseCanonicalName on" directive. I think the last time I tried the "UseCanonicalName On", it added my default domain name to everything in the log, which

[expert] Sendmail set uid? Postfix!

2000-09-18 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am getting the following error in my log: sendmail: warning: sendmail is set-uid root, or is run from a set-uid root process However, I am running Postfix, not sendmail! Does postfix give off this error? I think I did have sendmail installed at one point, so it is possible it is still

[expert] Frontpage Server Extensions

2000-09-12 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been working on this for a while now, with no success. I did figure out the library weirdness I posted before - it seems that two of the files I downloaded of the FP extensions were funky. Anyway, my problem remains: if I create a virtual server named test.com, with a server alias of

[expert] xxx.. has different size in shared library - URGENT!

2000-09-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have pulled any remainder of hair out trying to fix this problem. I am trying to get FrontPage server extensions working on my MDK 7.1 system. I've been trying a lot of stuff in the past two days, all to no avail. I recompiled Apache from the sources, only to find that perl and php support

[expert] The lights are on, but no one's home

2000-09-01 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Tonight, I was watching the lights on the switch I have connecting my DSL line to my servers, and saw a prolonged, intensive activity to one of my machines that is a web server, amongst other things. During this activity, I telnetted in, and took a peek at the logs to see just what was

[expert] Re: Another IPChains Question

2000-08-31 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, everyone seems to be missing my point. I am familiar with how to do what you are suggesting. Here's the deal: I want to allow 3 different LANs to access the web, but not each other. This part is no big deal. I have a linux box that will be this

[expert] IPCHAINS help

2000-08-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm really wondering if there is a IPFWADM that I can still use with my 2.2.15-4mdk kernel. I have one on my Mandrake 6.1 box, which I believe is using 2.2.14. I believe you use 'ipmasqadm' instead, which (I thought) was the 2.2.x version of ipfwadm. Or, at least, It Works For Me

[expert] Re: Another IPCHAINS question

2000-08-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's a lot of reading material on his site. I was looking at the Trinity OS firewall script, and he is still using ipfwadm for port forwarding. He's using ipmasqadm portfw (all the docs I've found recommend this method) in

[expert] Duping HDs in Linux

2000-08-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Next question: I have a Linux system I want to replicate a couple of times. There is about 350 megs worth of data on a 1 gig HD, and I want to copy the data to some 500 meg hard drives. man dd Ok, did that, clueless. Says it converts and copies files. Example? I want to

Re: [expert] Another IPCHAINS question

2000-08-28 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've read and re-read and re-read the IPCHAINS how-to, and I still can't figure out how to accomplish port forwarding with mandrake 7.1. Do a net search on "Trinity OS" and "David Ranch", and do what the man says. There's a lot of reading material on his site. I was

[expert] Copying data to another HD

2000-08-28 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Next question: I have a Linux system I want to replicate a couple of times. There is about 350 megs worth of data on a 1 gig HD, and I want to copy the data to some 500 meg hard drives. None of the disk cloning software wants to let me do this, as my destination is smaller than my source.

[expert] IPCHAINS - need help!

2000-08-26 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've read and re-read and re-read the IPCHAINS how-to, and I still can't figure out how to accomplish port forwarding with mandrake 7.1. Consider the following scenerio: LM 7.1 box with 3 network cards: eth0 - IP of 1.2.3.4 - outside internet connection eth1 - IP of 192.168.1.1 -

[expert] Another IPCHAINS question

2000-08-26 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On a somewhat related topic, consider this scenerio: I want a linux box to function sort of like a switch, passing through internet traffic, but isolating each network device from another. Example: eth0 = connection to a Masqing box (192.168.1.x network) eth1 = office 1 (192.168.1.41-50) eth2

[expert] Bash prompt

2000-08-12 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I recently did something to my system (don't know what yet!), and it seems that a number of things suddenly got changed, like my ethernet card aliases. No problem, fixed that up. However, when I log in with Telnet, I get: bash-2.04$ Instead of: [bob@r0 bob]$ (Meaning user BOB at

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10 times faster? Me thinks you are dreaming. Bandwidth is bandwidth, and there's only so much. Whether you set up 10 simultaneous downloads or do only one, you are going to get the file in the same period of time. Actually, I found at least with a dialup with Win95 and Netscape, downloading

[expert] A mess of questions!

2000-08-10 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have a number of questions in this one message. If you know the answers to any of them, please reply! Also, please CC your reply directly to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! #1. I am running NAMED from BIND on a couple machines, mostly for a caching nameserver. Named is putting a

[expert] port forwarding

2000-08-06 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Gang, I'm trying to redirect a couple ports on my masq box so that I can get through to a Win95 PcAnywhere client. On a Mandrake 6.1 box, I did the following: ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 64.65.206.24 5631 -R 192.168.2.10 5631 ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L 64.65.206.24 5632 -R

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-08-02 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Norton's Ghost http://www.ghost.com does NOT support windows 2000 (just checked) and does NOT support any Linux ext2 O/S. The version 5 of Norton Ghost does INDEED support ext2. I have used it a couple times to clone a hard disk, and it even resized a partition correctly. Bob

[expert] Updated LM RPMs

2000-07-17 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Is there is a site that has ALL of the latest RPMs that come with the Linux Mandrake 7.x disks? I am looking for the equivalent to Red Hat's ftp site. Looked around on linux-mandrake.com, and saw nothing. Thanks. Bob

Re: [expert] Dial on Demand

2000-07-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe I'm not getting it right, but I went to your information and built the files. I did the ifup ppp0 and it dialed. I did the ifdown ppp0 and it disconnected. I then made chat-isp and modified the options files. I also made the isp file in peers. When I tried to invoke pppd call isp,

[expert] My HD doesn't want to spin down !!

2000-07-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on a i586 (intel PIIX ide controler). The purpose of this computer is "just" firewalling and forwarding so i would like my hard disk to spin down after a few time but even if i specifie a spin down time of 5 seconds (hdparm -S 1 /dev/hda), it doesn't stop. I

Re: [expert] More Error Messages!

2000-07-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kheader is an initscript that creates a dummy header file in /boot if you're running a stock mdk kernel. If you recompiled your kernel without an mdk extension and have an older (more than say 2 months) version of the initscripts RPM, it erroneously reports failed (somebody left off the

Re: [expert] Dial on Demand

2000-07-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think this user has the same problem as I have, that there are NO prompts from the ISP's interface which waits until pppd sends some LCP packets before continuing the handshake. My reading indicates that the PPP session should commence to send the LCP packets after the chat script exits

Re: [expert] Dial on Demand

2000-07-12 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Bob and all, Bob, this is excellent and works really well! Now if we could get it to initiate kppp ...so you could see the modem traffic and see throughput without looking at the log. Haven't put it in the rc file yet...but works really well from the terminal so far. We are

Re: [expert] Dial on Demand

2000-07-12 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was wondering. What happens to the connection when the app initiating the connection is closed or dies? Hey Mark, It will connect, probably not transfer any traffic, then disconnect after the idle timeout occurs. Also, for some reason when I tried to start the process of installing this

[expert] More Error Messages!

2000-07-12 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Gang, I solved a couple of the problems I last reported. Have two more that I still can't resolve: #1. upon bootup, I get the following: rc: Starting kheader failed Everything else loads OK. What is KHEADER? I must have broken this recently, as it worked before. #2. I get a warning

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