Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
On stardate Mon, 8 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: Michael Holt wrote: I do have another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size of fonts

Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32 part...

2002-04-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
»faisal gillani« sagte am 2002-04-08 um 21:03:58 -0700 : what might be causing this ? How are you trying to access your site? How did you setup the aliases? What are the permissions on the directories up to the directory holding your site? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote:

Re: [expert] HELP-weird log messages appearing every 15 seconds or so

2002-04-09 Thread Roberto Armenteros
That was a great answer, thank you very much, I am going to start checking what you suggested. Roberto... --- Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since i upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 I am getting the

Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32part...

2002-04-09 Thread KevinO
faisal gillani wrote: but it seems it only works when i copy the whole site into /var/www/html which i dont want .. what might be causing this ? Have you tried to make a symbolic link under /var/www/html that points to your fat directory ? How about changing the Document_Root entry in

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
Michael Holt wrote: OK, that makes sense. I'm new to vi but really enjoy the ability to move around by keystroke and not have to mess with the mouse. I was wondering if there was a sort of common way the *nix people have done that I haven't seen yet; there are so many tools in the *nix

[expert] Two different IPs with 1 Ethernet card

2002-04-09 Thread Thanasis Koutras
Hi! I have a PC with an Ethernet card in my LAN and I was wandering if there is a way I could add a second network with a different IP, mailserver, ftp server and so on Could anyone enlighten me on this? TIA Thanasis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] NFS Troubles

2002-04-09 Thread Sevatio
OS: LM8.2 Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense? - I've tried to not have

Re: [expert] Two different IPs with 1 Ethernet card

2002-04-09 Thread Sevatio
Yeah, one of the ways that you can do this is to use linuxconf. -Networking - Server tasks tab - IP Alias for virtual hosts - eth0 - fill in the additional IP numbers. Sevatio Thanasis Koutras wrote: Hi! I have a PC with an Ethernet card in my LAN and I was wandering if there is a way I

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread Brian Parish
Thanks for the heads up Lyvim. Stupid question follows: I am now downloading the rpm for what they call the Mandrake UP kernel. What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction), or am I supposed to know that? I assume this is the right one, but only by process of elimination i.e. not

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread Nick Thompson
Uni-Processor, i.e.only one processor - not SMP. Brian Parish wrote: What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly

2002-04-09 Thread Sevatio
Have any of you had a problem with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard rebooting suddenly in the middle of running apps? Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Two different IPs with 1 Ethernet card

2002-04-09 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Or you can do this way, as discussed before: Just like main config file, just add :X to the name: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 . . . /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:X and for example ifcfg-eth0:0 DEVICE=eth0:0

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-04-09 Thread daRcmaTTeR
- Original Message - From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ExpertMandrake-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:31, Hoyt wrote: As someone who considers himself a journalist

Re: [expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly

2002-04-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
Sevatio wrote: Have any of you had a problem with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard rebooting suddenly in the middle of running apps? Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Fotheringham
If you did install it yourself then you may also want to check that there are no updates for the motherboard manual. The manual that came with our A7M266-D had the IDE activity LED wire going into the keyboard lock! Not until I looked through the updated version on the Asus website did I realise

Re: [expert] NFS Troubles

2002-04-09 Thread Lars Nordin
Looks like some of the necessary NFS programs(mountd?) never started so the shutdown scripts are complaining. I would try uninstalling nfs-utils-clients package or otherwise don't run the netfs start script - that is if you are not using _any_ networked drives. On Tuesday 09 April 2002 06:16

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
Brian Parish wrote: See what I mean - stupid question! Thanks Nick On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 21:01, Nick Thompson wrote: Uni-Processor, i.e.only one processor - not SMP. Brian Parish wrote: What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction) The only stupd question is the question not

Re: [expert] NFS Troubles

2002-04-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
Sevatio wrote: OS: LM8.2 Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense?

Re: [expert] NFS Troubles

2002-04-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lars Nordin wrote: Looks like some of the necessary NFS programs(mountd?) never started so the shutdown scripts are complaining. I would try uninstalling nfs-utils-clients package or otherwise don't run the netfs start script - that is if you are not using _any_ networked drives. No, he

Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32 part...

2002-04-09 Thread faisal gillani
well i havent tried a symbolic link .. but have edited he documentroot entry in httpd.conf can you tell me how to do this symbolic link ? thanks Faisal KevinO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: faisal gillani wrote: but it seems it only works when i copy the whole site into /var/www/html which i

Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32 part...

2002-04-09 Thread faisal gillani
well i didnt have any alias .. the whole fat partitoon have full read write access as defined in the fstab . i am accessing the site from both locally from other workstations ... thanks faisal Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »faisal gillani« sagte am 2002-04-08 um 21:03:58 -0700 :

Re: [expert] HELP-weird log messages appearing every 15 seconds or so

2002-04-09 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
did you by any chance enabled or configured ipv6 on yours system? --- Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since i upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 I am getting the following log message from the kernel. Apr 8 22:30:36 rarmente kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:50:da:da:c7:57:08:00

Re: [expert] Two different IPs with 1 Ethernet card

2002-04-09 Thread Ken Nowack
--- Thanasis Koutras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have a PC with an Ethernet card in my LAN and I was wandering if there is a way I could add a second network with a different IP, mailserver, ftp server and so on Could anyone enlighten me on this? TIA Thanasis The way I

[expert] KDE3 install fairly well... just a few things to fix

2002-04-09 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
I installed KDE3 last night on my 8.1 box. All in all a good experience. There were some deps I needed to fulfill, probably around 10 or so. KDE3 comes up just fine, as long as you are user. The KDE3 is listed in the kdm login screen dropdown. (I installed KDE3 alongside of KDE2.2.x However I

[expert] HP scanjet 7400c

2002-04-09 Thread Thomas Gamble
Has anyone successfully installed this scanner? I checked the mandrake hardware compatibility list and it's not listed as either supported or unsupported. So far I have been unsuccessful in getting it recognized as a USB scanner. The sane frontend/backend/xsane packages are all installed and

Re: [expert] smbmount error

2002-04-09 Thread K Montgomery
Thanks for posting this! Whenever I mounted a Samba share after installing 8.2 (with the 2.4.18 kernel), an ls of the share directory would hang, and then ls anywhere would hang. I was never able to kill the processes, and eventually I would have to reboot. This patch solved the problem! -

[expert] OT: Can someone test a tab problem for me with konqueror 2.2.2 or 3.0?

2002-04-09 Thread Randy Kramer
I've discovered a problem with konqueror 2.2.1. I will report it to kde if it has not already been solved in 2.2.2 or 3.0, and I'm wondering if someone here who has 2.2.2 or 3.0 installed could test this and let me know. This will probably be easier for someone who is already familiar with

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, somebody correct me if I'm wrong but if you really want to protect that deleted file, then you must unmount that drive, or there is a chance some other background app/daemon may use the space in question...isn't that right? Sounds like a good point to me! Randy

Re: [expert] Filters

2002-04-09 Thread Bryan Whitehead
procmail recipe: :0: * ^FROM.*aol.com /dev/null :) On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 08:06, Jarmo Kettunen wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 16:42, you wrote: A lot of spam can be blocked by the ISP... however, many ISPs are incompetent in this respect. My ISP uses an upstream SP to handle mail; I

Re: [expert] smbmount error

2002-04-09 Thread Brad Felmey
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:54, K Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:36, Bo O. Erichsen wrote: found the patch for the bug: http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/00-smbfs-2.4.18-codepage.patch.gz i guess it's patched in the next kernel package.. ? Thanks for posting this!

Re: [expert] NFS Troubles

2002-04-09 Thread Bryan Whitehead
actually /net is amd. It's in the package am-utils. service amd stop chkconfig --del amd On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 06:52, J. Craig Woods wrote: Sevatio wrote: OS: LM8.2 Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC:

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-04-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 22:49, daRcmaTTeR wrote: good heavens! who got this one started!?! ;) Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR Hoyt is a *real* journalist (one of the good ones) and I used to contribute a computer column to a local business newspaper. So when we ran into each other critical mass

[expert] klyx error

2002-04-09 Thread kwan
Is anyone running the Klyx latex frontend? Since at least the version shipped with KDE 2.0 it has been unusable because the background and foreground colors are black. If I do a highlight of the text area it will show that there is in fact proper text, but it is impossible to use. I'm checking

[expert]

2002-04-09 Thread kwan
I've noticed another problem with the 8.2 installation/upgrade. I did an Expert Install on a disk with a /boot, /, and /home/ partitions. Only /home was not formated. Installation is flawless. If I re-create a previously defined user from the command prompt and specify the UID, the next login

[expert] Unfixable RPM DB corruption in 8.2

2002-04-09 Thread Jon Leech
I recently upgraded from 8.0 to 8.2 on a P3-733 machine running an Acer MB (M25D, I think). After a week or so, and without being certain of the exact sequence of events leading up to this, the RPM database seems to have become corrupted. 'rpm -q --all' lists 537 packages, ending with an

Re: [expert] NFS Troubles

2002-04-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
Bryan Whitehead wrote: actually /net is amd. It's in the package am-utils. service amd stop chkconfig --del amd NO again! This is getting old. Don't you people read what is posted here. MAN AUTOFS! This service is what creates /net. Are you smoking crack? If you want to reboot, and not

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread Femme
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 04:41 am, you wrote: Thanks for the heads up Lyvim. Stupid question follows: I am now downloading the rpm for what they call the Mandrake UP kernel. What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction), or am I supposed to know that? I assume this is the right one,

Re: [expert] smbmount error

2002-04-09 Thread J. Craig Woods
Brad Felmey wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:54, K Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:36, Bo O. Erichsen wrote: found the patch for the bug: http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/00-smbfs-2.4.18-codepage.patch.gz i guess it's patched in the next kernel package.. ? Thanks for

Re: [expert] Unfixable RPM DB corruption in 8.2

2002-04-09 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 18:59, you wrote: Acer MB (M25D, I think). After a week or so, and without being certain of the exact sequence of events leading up to this, the RPM database seems to have become corrupted. 'rpm -q --all' lists 537 packages, ending with an old

Re: [expert] smbmount error

2002-04-09 Thread Brad Felmey
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 19:18, J. Craig Woods wrote: OKAY, maybe I am on a toot but I have not experienced any difficulty with mounting win2000 shares. I am using kernel 2.4.18-6mdk. I am using samba 2.2.3a-10mdk. What gives? Shit, if you guys need a patch, I want one too If'n it

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread J. Grant
Uni-processor or Simetric multiprocessor should not have any effect IMO. its just the kernel driver module right? and thats going to the GFX card anyway. I used UP modules on SMP kernel fine before i think. JG J. Craig Woods wrote: Brian Parish wrote: See what I mean - stupid question!

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread J. Grant
anyone got a mandrake box with more than 2 cpus then? I have a dual machine here, but aint seen any triple cpu motherboards ever for x86 JG Not a stupid question. STands for IIRC, Uni-Processor. As opposed to SMP Symetric Multi-Processor. IE, you have one CPU. SMP has 2 or more.

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread Jason Guidry
J. Grant wrote: anyone got a mandrake box with more than 2 cpus then? I have a dual machine here, but aint seen any triple cpu motherboards ever for x86 uhh, er...d00d, SMP==_Symmetric_ multiprocessing. yes, there are quite a few boards that run 4 xeon processors. none for AMD...yet.

[expert] Mobile Postfix Accounts

2002-04-09 Thread nDiScReEt
Anyone know how to configure postfix or provide a link on how to setup postfix so that my users can check their mail from within the internal network and abroad on the road? -- Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. Linux

Re: [expert] CPU bug

2002-04-09 Thread dfox
Hi, I found this information in the hardware list information, which is CPU Bug: foof What does it mean? My CPU hasefection? What is your CPU? Most modern CPUs (P100? possibly and above) should be immune to the F00F bug. That's a particularly nasty bug that exploits an invalid (intel)

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread Robert Fargher
On April 9, 2002 08:09 pm, J. Grant wrote: anyone got a mandrake box with more than 2 cpus then? I have a dual machine here, but aint seen any triple cpu motherboards ever for x86 Nor will you. 3 is not a power of two. :-) -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] CPU bug

2002-04-09 Thread Li Tan
Thanks, I am running a Mobile Pentium 266MHz CPU with mandrake 8.2 Li - Original Message - From: dfox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [expert] CPU bug Hi, I found this information in the hardware list information, which is

Re: [expert] HELP-weird log messages appearing every 15 seconds or so

2002-04-09 Thread Lorne Shantz
To add to a previous post... check all your nics to see if perhaps it IS one of your own boxes. If it is then it makes the search much easier. The next step will be if you want to dig deeper is to do a packet trace of this traffic and find out what the payload is. That will be useful to determine

[expert] CPU bug

2002-04-09 Thread Li Tan
Hi, I found this information in the hardware list information, which is CPU Bug: foof What does it mean? My CPU hasefection? Thanks Li