Scirious

People, as I was talking to some other guy in the Networking forum Mandriva 2006 is miss behaving on my machine. First it was a problem (not yet solved) with my gaming connection speed. Now I'm also having troubles with Nvidia driver I install from URPMI repositories. Everytime I try to run anything that needs 3D acceleration (even glxgears) it kills Xserver and goes back to login screen. However tha same does not occur with the driver installed with Nvidia's installer. If I use their stock installer it just runs fine. Anyone knows why?

Thanks in advance,

Scirious.

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

Well, there is only one game I play, which is Unreal Tournament 99. I only play this game, so I cannot tell about others. Nonetheless it is strage how Mandriva is miss behaving on my machine. First this connection problem and also I can't get any 3D acceleration if I install Nvidia's driver from a rpm. If I do it useing Nvidia's installer it's all right, but if I use the rpm I can't even run glxgears becuase it kills X and goes back to login screen. Actually, I'm going to discuss Nvidia's driver problem in another forum, but I also have to solve this connection problem cause it is very strange.

I'm behind a router! I have a cable connection and I share it between two computers I have at home. Haever, when I took this test the second computer was off and router setup is the same for both systems. What could be the reason for so differen results?

People, I'm not sure if this should be posted here. But it relates to network in many ways. Actually, it relates to a bad settled network. The problem is that when I download something I can maximize my bandwidth, but when I play a game on a server near me my ping goes beyond 400. However, at the same time I tried it in Fedora Core for and my ping was in between 15-30.

Any one knows what might be happening?

Thankns in advance,

Scirious.

EDIT: I forgot to say that firewall was disabled during the install process and never enabled again!!!

Well, my problem is we're not going to have a Windows server any more. Only Linux server. I just want DNS to resolve the names form the machines that will have dynamic IP.

Scirious.

Well, just one more question I forgot to ask. Is there a way to get DHCP server to update DNS server so every machine can be found by it's name? Something like Active Directory does with Windows Dynamic DHCP?

Thanks,

Scirious.

1. iptables for firewall using shorewall, squid proxy server for content management, i presume you mean blocking access to sites when you mention content management.

Yes, content management! I mean, blocking access to sex sites, to instant messengers and things alike.

2. OpenLDAP can be used for this no problem. Not sure how you'd get the Windows machines to look at ldap.

Well, I believe LDAP is able to authenticate Windows users as well as Linux ones. But if it isn't then I'll have to switch to Samba as a PDC.

3. Never used cvs or svn, but is possible I would have thought.

These are the easiest ones.

Have a think about each option, how much load it's likely to take, and figure out whether it requires a separate server. Also, make sure you set up more than just the basic file systems. By default, you get /, home and swap. For a webserver, but /var on a separate partition, that way if your website gets huge, plus log files, it won't drop your system by reducing the available disk space on / partition.

I haven't yet really thought about server load and partitioning scheme. I'm only sure of three things: 1. We're going to have three powerfull machines to act as servers; 2. the machine responsable for sharing internet connection is the one supposed to have the highest load; 3. for partitioning scheme I'm going to use LVM2, so I can alter partitions space as needed.

A simple cron job can be configured to apply all updates to your system each morning. Place a file in /etc/cron.daily, give it a name, maybe secupdate with contents of:

 

urpmi --update --auto-select --auto

 

chmod +x secupdate will make it executable, and that will run every morning and make sure all updates are applied to the system. Important!!!

Actually I desagree with this. I don't think server updates should be done automatically, but rether be execute by the server admin and watche closely. It is even better to have a test machine to test updates before they go into prodution servers.

I've been reading a lot and talking to a lot of people, but haven't yet decide. I've already chosen somethings that didn't work as expected and I don't want to make the same mistake again.

Thanks for your suppor;

Scirious.

Well, it is not really what I want, but what I have to achieve. And I have to build servers for doiong the followiong:

1. Sharing connection with firewall protection, content blocking and bandwith throttle with QoS;

2. Windows and Linux workstations authenticating in OpenLDAP. (All services that require username and password will have to use OpenLDAP for authemticanting);

3. CVS or SVN repositories authenticated;

4. A file server with samba;

5. Intrusion detection;

6. Webserver with support for JSP and PHP.

I think this is the most important things to do. And of course I wiant to have little maintance with it.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Scirious.

Well, friends, I'm not sure if this is the rigth place to ask such thing, but I couldn't guess a better one.

I'm considering using Mandriva 2006 as a server in my work to futurally substitute SUSE servers. For this reason I'd like to know for how long Mandriva supports updates for a specific version.

Can anyone give me this info?

Also, anyone here has experience how Mandriva behave as a server that could share?

Thanks in advance,

Scirious.

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

People, thanks for your support. It happened to be my instalation. I don' t know what I did wrong, but I just uninstaled it and reinstalled the deriver (and the new kernel that was required) and the game worked. The only difference was that, after the first install, I updated my system. However, I have one more question. When I connect to a server near me, my ping is around 50, when it normally was 15-30 on other distros. I have already disabled firewall (at least I belive so), so what else should I chack?

Thanks,

Scirious.

Have anyone ever managed to run Unreal Tournament 99 in Mandriva? I use to run it without problems in Ubuntu and SUSE. However, in Mandriva I can see frame by frame. I don't know what I need to setup or install.

For instance, glxgears give-me the following results:

1193 frames in 5.0 seconds = 238.539 FPS

1456 frames in 5.0 seconds = 291.141 FPS

1448 frames in 5.0 seconds = 289.562 FPS

1446 frames in 5.0 seconds = 289.012 FPS

1446 frames in 5.0 seconds = 289.144 FPS

1450 frames in 5.0 seconds = 289.752 FPS

1455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.996 FPS

1454 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.657 FPS

1459 frames in 5.0 seconds = 291.726 FPS

1457 frames in 5.0 seconds = 291.317 FPS

1426 frames in 5.0 seconds = 285.147 FPS

1455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.959 FPS

1460 frames in 5.0 seconds = 291.998 FPS

1465 frames in 5.0 seconds = 292.909 FPS

1468 frames in 5.0 seconds = 293.497 FPS

1460 frames in 5.0 seconds = 291.849 FPS

1479 frames in 5.0 seconds = 295.552 FPS

My video card is: "NV18 GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x" and I'm using the officail driver that I got from their website, since I could not use Xorg Oficial driver after instalation.

Thanks for your support,

Scirious.

Well, I'm impressed with te fast reply!!! My problem is: if I remove the bundled version of Firefox to install the new 1.5 version from Mozilla site and if I install Java followoing the instructions on SUN's page what will happen if I try to update my system with URPMI GUI and it tries to install a software that has any of these as a dependencie? Will it install the older version and break my system?

Thanks for the response,

Scirious.

Hi, people! I'm new to this forum. I've been a SUSE user that is going to migrate to a different distribution. Currently, the one that I'm going to choose is Mandriva or Ubuntu. If I chose Mandriva I may even join the club as soon as I can get a credit card. However, I haven't yet decided because of small details.

In SUSE there is a tool to manage software that is called yast and in Mandriva there is urpmi. Yast has a small feature that helps me a lot which is it's abilaty to install RPMs even if it's dependencies are missing. This way I can install java myself, bypassing RPM databese, and if a package requires java I can just tell yast to ignore the dependencie, since I know it is already installed. Does URPMI (GUI) allow such thing?

My second question is: There is any java 1.5 package build especifically to Mandriva? I mean, so I don't need to install SUN one and deal myself with PATH creations and firefox plugins? And is there any version of Firefox 1.5 build to Mandriva?

Thanks for your support;

Scirious.