[expert] GDM Locale Probs
Hi folks, I have a problem with the recent versions of GDM (gdm2, that is)... No matter what language I set in the GDM greeter, when I start Gnome it uses English as language for all its texts. In the shell all LANG Variables are correctly set... I would appreciate any help, Andreas Spengler
Re: [expert] Major RAM Problem
Not RAM=128Mb, BUT mem="128MB" or is it mem=128? Payne Stanifer wrote: I am having troubles with Linux not recgnizing my 128mb of ram. I added the append RAM=128MB to my lilo.conf, but it didn't work. By the way, this is caldera 2.3. Please help. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions
Re: [expert] Major RAM Problem
Alwyn Schoeman wrote: Not RAM=128Mb, BUT mem="128MB" or is it mem=128? Payne Stanifer wrote: I am having troubles with Linux not recgnizing my 128mb of ram. I added the append RAM=128MB to my lilo.conf, but it didn't work. By the way, this is caldera 2.3. Please help. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions It is append="mem=128M" -- John E Connell Vineyard Christian Fellowship Multimedia Team Leader Milan MI 48160
[expert] Modem Speed
Hello everybody, Does anyone know how can I spped up my modem connection. In W98 I changed the MaxMTU, MaxMSS, and the Default TTL in the registry and it worked very good. I wonder if it is possible to change in Linux Thank You!
Re: [expert] Re-running /sbin/lilo?
Payne, Edit your lilo.conf file in the /etc directory and then just type "/sbin/lilo" (minus the quotes) and your set. If you have any errors it will let you know. (you should do this all as root btw) Regards, Dana On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: How do I re-run my /sbin/lilo so Linux will recognize my 128MB of RAM? Thanks. Payne
Re: [expert] Re-running /sbin/lilo?
Payne Stanifer wrote: How do I re-run my /sbin/lilo so Linux will recognize my 128MB of RAM? Thanks. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Dear Payne, If you have already changed your /etc/lilo.conf you just need to write lilo on the console. It will work. Alejandro Arredondo
Re: [expert] Netscape issue, redux
Opera is quite obviously pre-alpha -- a promise delivered and little else. I've downgraded to Netscape 4.51, and so far, I've not had the problem. Of course, it's only been a few minutes ;-). -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: No the beta version of Opera is awful. The last stable version of Netscape seems to be 4.08 IMHO Yes, I've seen that problem too. I've read that Netscape 4.51 - 4.61 introduced more bugs than it fixed. You might try going back to 4.51 and see if it still occurs. Also the beta version of opera is out -- if the html is fairly simple, it might work better.
[expert] KDE-1.1.2 Miscellaneous problems
I have just installed Mandrake/Helios on my K6-2/300 and am using the KDE desktop only. I have several questions. I have installed and configured kwvdial (as root, initially). It dials out, connects to my ISP and stays connecte, but every app that I try, Netscape mail tool and XFMail, as two examples, gives me an unknown host error message. I'm sure that it must be something really simple that I've failed to do, but I don't know what. I'm using Netscape Communicator v4.7 (used it pre-Helios without any problems) and put an icon on the icon bar. When I attempt to open it using the icon it opens and immediatly closes, and generates /usr/local/netscape/lock. If I then click on the icon again I get the usual already running message and it opens and stays open.. I can open it with Alt-F2 /usr/local/netscape/netscape without this sort of behavior. Assistance will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
[expert] Asking about kernel
Dear all (specially Mdk team also oxygen tester), I'm using mdk 6.1 now. I was try to compile the 2.2.13 (from kernel.org) and use the ide patch (cause my Ali 15XX). But, after i compiled kernel, kppp said my kernel not support ppp. But if i check there was a ppp.o under the /lib/modulexx/newone. So now i back to the original 2.2.13-7 After i compare with the 2.2.13-7mdk, i fount that the modules config file has many entry, rather than mine. Why ? Any idea ? Also i now try to install the new kernel from oxygen. What is the different from kernel with this word at the name : secure, fb, linus ? Which one must i use ? Has it support Ali 15XX ? Thanks for your attention. Best regards, Pipit @ http://pipit.dhs.org or http://ying.dhs.org/~pipit
[expert] Star Office help
I installed Star Office 5.1 in my computer. I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 I have tried to run Star Office and I get the following errors: ./soffice : line 130: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ''' ./soffice : line 147: syntax error: unexpected end of file I installed it as root in another partition (/mnt/DOS_hda1/linux/Office51) Any suggestions? Maybe it is something with the Glibc2 libraries Thank You Alejandro Arredondo
[expert] ark (kde archiver) problem
I'm using kdeutils package as shipped on Mandrake 6.1 cdrom. kdeutils-1.1.2-4mdk It seems that ark program (archiver) is broken: when I open tar.gz file in it the seconds from the time information are concatenated with the name of the compressed file (as found in the archive) and I'm not able to browse through the archive. Is this fixed in some of the future versions, and if yes, in which? -- v Davor Cengija [EMAIL PROTECTED] === "Please allow 30 days for delivery"
Re: [expert] xemacs info files
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Mike Fieschko wrote:
"Davor" == Davor Cengija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Davor I recently installed xemacs packages from my ML 6.1
Davor distribution CD.
Davor Since it's completelly new editor for me, I
Davor definitelly need documentation, but xemacs claims there's
Davor no e.g. xemacs-faq.info file (xemacs-info package is
Davor installed and {mandrake}[~]$ locate xemacs-faq
Davor /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.4/info/xemacs-faq.info-1.bz2
[snip]
I un-bzipped the files and they then became available. If there's a
way to keep them bzipped and have them available, I am unaware of it.
I found the sollution:
(defun setup-bzip2 ()
(progn
(nconc Info-suffix-list '((".info.bz2" . "bzip2 -dc %s")))
(nconc Info-suffix-list '((".bz2" . "bzip2 -dc %s")
(add-hook 'Info-mode-hook 'setup-bzip2)
--
v
Davor Cengija
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
===
"Please allow 30 days for delivery"
[expert] Radius
Right now I have an overloaded server, running Radius, my accounting program, Web, FTP and mail. I need to separate these functions, but of course they all need authentication. I have thought of rsync or NIS, but would perhaps like to see if RADIUS can be made to work. Here is what I want, as an example. My Web server, www.nook.net, requires that my users be able to FTP to and from it to load their web pages. This is no problem as they are on the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. Instead, I would like to remove their entries from these files, and have the authentication be done against a remote Radius server, which will contain their passwords (either on the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files, or on the /etc/raddb/users file). In other words, if the Radius server can authenticate remote logins from the terminal servers, it should also be able to authenticate logins to other computers. What I need is a Radius authentication CLIENT module that would work with RedHat/Mandrake linux. I have not been able to locate any such. All I see is Radius servers, but no clients. Can anyone help me in locating something like this? -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] Star Office help
Alejandro Arredondo wrote: I installed Star Office 5.1 in my computer. I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 I have tried to run Star Office and I get the following errors: ./soffice : line 130: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ''' ./soffice : line 147: syntax error: unexpected end of file I installed it as root in another partition (/mnt/DOS_hda1/linux/Office51) Any suggestions? Maybe it is something with the Glibc2 libraries Thank You Alejandro Arredondo I have just done the same thing, ie. Star Office 5.1 on Mandrake 6.1 No problem, its fresh in my mind :-) First open the Star Office ( if you downloaded it) archive to wherever you want it put If you want several users to be able to use it run setup /net as root otherwise just run setup as a user Answer the questions which will be asked of you If doing a setup /net you will; need to now log in as user go to the new installed location ( /usr/local/Office51) by default and find the bin directory run setup from there, answer another load of questions When done start it from /home/useraccount/Office51/bin/soffice this should all work on a standard Mandrake 6.1 Hope it helps Phil
Re: [expert] Radius
At 11:57 AM 12/28/99 -0900, Ramon Gandia wrote: Right now I have an overloaded server, running Radius, my accounting program, Web, FTP and mail. I need to separate these functions, but of course they all need authentication. I have thought of rsync or NIS, but would perhaps like to see if RADIUS can be made to work. Here is what I want, as an example. I have not seen such either. We have used rdist to push updates from a master password server over to ftp, www, etc servers via cron. Works fine. Maybe you could use the PAM capabilities too? I know mandrake has PAM.
Re: [expert] More RAMproblems
Payne Stanifer wrote: I added the line append="mem=128mb" to my lilo.conf and I ran the /sbin/lilo , but Linux still doesn't see my 128 MB of RAM. Do I have to reboot before it will see the RAM, or what? Someone please help. Payne PS Thanks for all the help so far. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com yes, you have to reboot. Jack -- Linux: because you can't do a sig like this in Windows. 6:52pm up 25 days, 1:35, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.27, 0.79
Re: [expert] Asking about kernel
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: Also i now try to install the new kernel from oxygen. What is the different from kernel with this word at the name : secure, fb, linus ? Which one must i use ? Has it support Ali 15XX ? fb kernel is the "Frame Buffer" kernel for better support of poorly supported video cards and such, AFAIK. Other than that, I can't be sure. I am GUESSING that the "linus" kernel is the straight kernel that Linus has released with no mods.. John
Re: [expert] Modem Speed
i would like to know too Alejandro Arredondo wrote: Hello everybody, Does anyone know how can I spped up my modem connection. In W98 I changed the MaxMTU, MaxMSS, and the Default TTL in the registry and it worked very good. I wonder if it is possible to change in Linux Thank You!
RE: [expert] KDE-1.1.2 Miscellaneous problems
I had this problem too. The only solution I found was to check the "disable local dns's" button in the kppp setup. This worked imediately. Kevin Kallsen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] KDE-1.1.2 Miscellaneous problems Importance: High I have just installed Mandrake/Helios on my K6-2/300 and am using the KDE desktop only. I have several questions. I have installed and configured kwvdial (as root, initially). It dials out, connects to my ISP and stays connecte, but every app that I try, Netscape mail tool and XFMail, as two examples, gives me an unknown host error message. I'm sure that it must be something really simple that I've failed to do, but I don't know what. I'm using Netscape Communicator v4.7 (used it pre-Helios without any problems) and put an icon on the icon bar. When I attempt to open it using the icon it opens and immediatly closes, and generates /usr/local/netscape/lock. If I then click on the icon again I get the usual already running message and it opens and stays open.. I can open it with Alt-F2 /usr/local/netscape/netscape without this sort of behavior. Assistance will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Re: [expert] Syntax to add an extra append
Payne Stanifer wrote: I need to add the infamous append = "mem=128M" to my lilo.conf , but I already have an append and when I add the extra append it tells me I have a syntax error on line * and that I have an extra "append". What do I need to do to add the extra append? Thnks for everyone's continuing support. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com You can have numerous "items" in your ONE line append file. Here is an example of one I use. append="mem=128M hdc=ide-scsi" Just Hit the Space bar and add the next item. Larry
Re: [expert] Radius
This is the problem of every ISP, and I haven't found a way around it yet. But it's on my work schedule. NIS is not secure, because it lets you "ypcat" the /etc/shadow file, unless you make big modifications to it. In other words, don't even think about it. Radius authentification would be doable under PAM. The problem is, you still need /etc/password to get the location of the users directories. It would be okay for mail though. On my systems, I had to heavily modify Radius to accept the expiration date in the shadow file, and to check is the shell is in /etc/shells, to give access to mail only and not dialup for some users. Radius lacks many features unfortunately... There is a "passwdd" software on freshmeat that lets you synchronize password files. I haven't had the time to check it out yet. If you do try it, i'd like to get your comments about it. I remember seeing a Radius module for PAM, but I don't remember where I saw it. Anyways, you'd still have problems with the users directory... Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Ramon Gandia wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:57:26 -0900 From: Ramon Gandia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Radius Right now I have an overloaded server, running Radius, my accounting program, Web, FTP and mail. I need to separate these functions, but of course they all need authentication. I have thought of rsync or NIS, but would perhaps like to see if RADIUS can be made to work. Here is what I want, as an example. My Web server, www.nook.net, requires that my users be able to FTP to and from it to load their web pages. This is no problem as they are on the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. Instead, I would like to remove their entries from these files, and have the authentication be done against a remote Radius server, which will contain their passwords (either on the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files, or on the /etc/raddb/users file). In other words, if the Radius server can authenticate remote logins from the terminal servers, it should also be able to authenticate logins to other computers. What I need is a Radius authentication CLIENT module that would work with RedHat/Mandrake linux. I have not been able to locate any such. All I see is Radius servers, but no clients. Can anyone help me in locating something like this? -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970 fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] Re-running /sbin/lilo?
if your system is having a hard time seeing all the memory add this line to lilo.conf append="mem=128" then run lilo [you @yourmanchine]#lilo How do I re-run my /sbin/lilo so Linux will recognize my 128MB of RAM? Thanks. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Dear Payne, If you have already changed your /etc/lilo.conf you just need to write lilo on the console. It will work. Alejandro Arredondo
Re: [expert] Star Office help
Well, you installed into a vfat partition which may cause some cross-filesystem incompatibilities This is new to my experience. Do you have room to put the SO into an ext2 filesystem? Civileme Alejandro Arredondo wrote: I installed Star Office 5.1 in my computer. I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 I have tried to run Star Office and I get the following errors: ./soffice : line 130: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ''' ./soffice : line 147: syntax error: unexpected end of file I installed it as root in another partition (/mnt/DOS_hda1/linux/Office51) Any suggestions? Maybe it is something with the Glibc2 libraries Thank You Alejandro Arredondo -- ship.nwarctic.yi.org--a workstation running LM 6.0 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4:01pm up 6:30, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.09
Re: [expert] Modem Speed
William English wrote: i would like to know too Alejandro Arredondo wrote: Hello everybody, Does anyone know how can I spped up my modem connection. In W98 I changed the MaxMTU, MaxMSS, and the Default TTL in the registry and it worked very good. I wonder if it is possible to change in Linux Thank You! Not with Kppp But with Linuxconf you have control of most of those parameters If your modem is going to be up all the time you are on, just set the parameters in linuxconf and forgrt Kppp altogether Kppp Load will still work Civileme
