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Installing Ubuntu on Mandriva

Posted: 27 Apr 2006 06:20 AM PDT

Thanks a lot for your answer. Gave me enough courage to go ahead and do
it :-), now that I know what to look for.
Thanks,
Deepesh

configuration of display through command line?!?!

Posted: 26 Apr 2006 09:13 PM PDT

NUPUL wrote: 

vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ....?

CC

Which type of ISO download to get?

Posted: 26 Apr 2006 11:45 AM PDT

Dave wrote: 
 

Did not mean to sound condescending. Apologies.

Generally you want the source files as last hope back up OR you have special
patches for them you want to compile into them. The is mostly for installations
with a large number of users and specialized applications. You can usually get a
5-10% execution speed increase by compiling it on the machine it runs on so a
program has to use up a lot of time you are paying for to make that worthwhile,
say a database program with a lot of users so the time saved will add up even if
only one second per search. I am sure there are other reasons.

If you knew about those reasons you wouldn't be asking the question. I have
been through five releases of RH/FC and used one source file once -- which
didn't help. I don't bother downloading them at all rather rely upon what is on
sourceforge and such for the latest and the occasional legacy version.
 

Don't know SUSE but for FC I went to the KDE configuration panel to look around
and when I clicked on wireless I was told it was not configured, which is good
because I have no wireless devices. But it offered to configure it for me.
Always take all the help you can get.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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booting problems

Posted: 26 Apr 2006 06:10 AM PDT

during the installation in bootloader configurations it showed hda1 and
fedora 4 and want me to choose the default partition i selected hda1
which is i assume windows and by the way
my first hard disk is IDE AND SECOND ONE IS SATA I INSTALLED FEDORA ON
SATA
DISK PARTITION creating the swap an installation partition i bought it
afetr my first hdd becomefull

in think you are correct but grub is showing only d partiton in the
bootconfiguration menu during installation how can i direct grub
towards c partition how can edit bootconfiguration
Edit/Delete Message

DVD playing on FC5

Posted: 25 Apr 2006 05:01 PM PDT

"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <net> writes:
 
 

There is no legal opensource player. Windows has a number of for pay closed
source viewers. There may even be some for Linux.

 

And libdvdcss is available from sites around the world (except in the USA).

 

Can Kubuntu Dapper/Mandriva 2006 sharea common /home partition?

Posted: 25 Apr 2006 08:32 AM PDT

Michael Badt wrote: 

It is possible to share, using KDE configs between two versions is a
MAYBE, and back it up before you try.

If it doesn't work, have separate copies, use bashrc to create a
symbolic to the "right" one, hard link files like the address book if
(only if) the format didn't change.

Make backups before trying!

--
bill davidsen
SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com

networking problem

Posted: 25 Apr 2006 07:03 AM PDT

Beef wrote: 
 
I assume this was a typo (192.168.0.1?) 

Do you get "Destination Host Unreachable" errors, or do the PINGs just
vanish? 
[Routing tables look OK.]

A couple of thoughts:
- temporarily turn all firewalling off (if you are feeling paranoid,
disconnect from the outside world first).
- make sure neither machine is filtering PINGs
- run "tcpdump -n" or ethereal at both ends and look for ARP traffic
- borrow a hub, connect both machines and the firewall to the hub, and
see if the problem goes away. [I know this sounds weird, but I've seen
hardware SNAFUs where this made a difference.]
- use a crossover cable instead of a hub. (Regular cable if one or both
NICs can autosense)

configuring sendmail to accept verification for other server

Posted: 24 Apr 2006 07:44 PM PDT


Bill Davidsen wrote: 

Odd. I:
[root@webserve mail]# hostname -s
hostname: Unknown host
When I made the hostname changes I just restarted the service: network.
Thought that'd be enough. Guess not.
I reboot the machine, and now all the logs refer to itself as
"webserve" instead of "fileserve". So, guess that's fine now. =) Thanks
for the advice!
But I still get "hostname: Unknown host" when I hostname -s.
 

Well, on the local machine I made sure to add the following to the MC:
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.domainname.com')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`domainname.com')dnl

and rebuilt sendmail.cf

On the remote server I have in:
/etc/mail/access
Y.domainname.com RELAY
local-IP-address RELAY

and /etc/mail/relay-domains
Y.domainname.com
local-IP-address

All that sounds like it should be enough... in fact! on the local
server in /var/log/maillog I don't get the errors anymore, I get:

Apr 27 15:41:51 webserve sendmail[2427]: k3RKfpWa002427: from=liam,
size=53, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<domainname.com>,
relay=liam@localhost
Apr 27 15:41:51 webserve sendmail[2428]: k3RKfpRB002428:
from=<domainname.com>, size=383, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<domainname.com>,
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Apr 27 15:41:51 webserve sendmail[2427]: k3RKfpWa002427:
to=com, ctladdr=liam (500/500), delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30053, relay=[127.0.0.1]
[127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k3RKfpRB002428 Message accepted for
delivery)
Apr 27 15:41:52 webserve sendmail[2430]: k3RKfpRB002428:
to=<com>, ctladdr=<domainname.com>
(500/500), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=120383,
relay=smtp.domainname.com [72.3.xx.xx], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
(k3RKfjXk013713 Message accepted for delivery)

Which seems OK, until I get the email back saying:

The original message was received at Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:41:46 -0500
from webserve [64.19.xx.xx]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<com>
(reason: 550-Verification failed for
<domainname.com>)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
.... while talking to celticbear.com.: 
<<< 550-Verification failed for <domainname.com>
<<< 550-unrouteable mail domain "webserve.domainname.com"
<<< 550 Sender verify failed
550 5.1.1 <com>... User unknown
<<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA


*sigh*
Well, I appreciate the feedback and assistance. =)
Thanks!
Liam
 

RedHat Linux 7.3 Question

Posted: 24 Apr 2006 05:56 PM PDT

Bill Davidsen <prodigy.com> writes:
 

That is not the problem. Millions still user Windows 95.
The problem is that the security updates have never been applied and do not
exist. Ie, that machine is wide open to attacks.
So my conclusion is the same-- get a newer version!

 

Problems reinstalling grub/lilo (they always hang at boot time ...)

Posted: 24 Apr 2006 03:42 PM PDT

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:35:24 +0200, Olaf wrote:
 
<snip> 
I'm glad you were able to track it down.

[OT] My daughter's boyfriend wasn't as lucky when his laptop suddenly
refused to boot last Sunday. I hope I am making progress telling
people that XP is not the only game in town. He might have been able to
use an XP setup CD in rescue mode like you did, except for the fact his
system was sold without one. The setup files were on the harddisk itself
only. He also had a restore CD, which could be used as the method of
last resort, to reset the system with the initial ghost image. He was
able to use Slax to get his files for school before sending it back for
repair under warranty. It's not unusual for GNU/Linux to come in and save
the day when pursuing viruses/rootkits/etc. Final word: make backups.
ntfsclone is a very good tool.


--
Douglas Mayne

Apache->PHP-mail()->sendmail problem Debian 3.1

Posted: 24 Apr 2006 02:39 PM PDT


Hi!

I doing some progress here.
Now it is 'only' PHP-mail() that dont talk to sendmail as it shuld do.

My /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
[...]
define(`_USE_ETC_MAIL_')dnl
include(`/usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
VERSIONID(`$Id: sendmail.mc, v 8.13.4-3sarge1 2006-03-22 22:41:17 cowboy Exp
$')
OSTYPE(`debian')dnl
DOMAIN(`debian-mta')dnl
dnl # Items controlled by /etc/mail/sendmail.conf - DO NOT TOUCH HERE
undefine(`confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY')dnl #DAEMON_HOSTSTATS=
dnl # Items controlled by /etc/mail/sendmail.conf - DO NOT TOUCH HERE
dnl #
dnl # General defines
dnl #
define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.smarthost.se') dnl
dnl #
dnl # SAFE_FILE_ENV: [undefined] If set, sendmail will do a chroot()
dnl # into this directory before writing files.
dnl # If *all* your user accounts are under /home then use that
dnl # instead - it will prevent any writes outside of /home !
dnl # define(`confSAFE_FILE_ENV', `')dnl
dnl #
dnl # Daemon options - restrict to servicing LOCALHOST ONLY !!!
dnl # Remove `, Addr=' clauses to receive from any interface
dnl # If you want to support IPv6, switch the commented/uncommentd lines
FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Name=MTA-v4, Port=smtp')dnl
dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Name=MTA-v4-1, Port=smtp,
Addr=mail.mylosal.dom')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Name=MSP-v4, Port=submission')dnl

I want one interface collect mail from my '*.mylocal.dom' !

dnl #
dnl # Be somewhat anal in what we allow
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',dnl
`needmailhelo,needexpnhelo,needvrfyhelo,restrictqr un,'dnl
'restrictexpand,nobodyreturn,authwarnings')dnl
dnl #
dnl # Define connection throttling and window length
define(`confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE', `15')dnl
define(`confCONNECTION_RATE_WINDOW_SIZE',`10m')dnl
dnl #
dnl # Features
dnl #
dnl # The access db is the basis for most of sendmail's checking
FEATURE(`access_db', , `skip')dnl
snl #
dnl # The greet_pause feature stops some automail bots - but check the
dnl # provided access db for details on excluding localhosts...
FEATURE(`greet_pause', `1000')dnl 1 seconds
dnl #
dnl # Delay_checks allows sender<->recipient checking
FEATURE(`delay_checks', `friend', `n')dnl
dnl #
dnl # If we get too many bad recipients, slow things down...
define(`confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE',`3')dnl
dnl #
dnl # Stop connections that overflow our concurrent and time connection
dnl # rates
FEATURE(`conncontrol', `nodelay', `terminate')dnl
FEATURE(`ratecontrol', `nodelay', `terminate')dnl
dnl #
dnl # If you're on a dialup link, you should enable this - so sendmail
dnl # will not bring up the link (it will queue mail for later)
dnl define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE',`True')dnl
dnl #
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
dnl #
dnl # Masquerading options
FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
dnl #
dnl # Default Mailer setup
MAILER_DEFINITIONS
MAILER(`local')dnl
MAILER(`smtp')dnl
[eof]

Did I forgot something for my local Apache ( www-data ) to acess sendmail ?
Or PHP mail() funtion.

--
73 dé SM7JQB

Partition sizes?

Posted: 24 Apr 2006 01:55 PM PDT

I ended up putting /boot and swap on the 9GB (sda) and everything else
is / on the 36GB. The rest of the 9 is free so I can move stuff around
later if needed but this way I can learn how much space /var, /usr, etc
will be taking up without running the risk of partitioning something
too small.