Re: [expert] Installing apps using gcc-2.96 with 9.0

2002-10-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 06:29, Andy Weller wrote: This is driving me crazy - I just can't see what the problem is here. I have set gcc-2.96 as the standard with 'update-alternatives --config gcc', but this application still doesn't want to install correctly. Looking at the shell blurb (below)

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-05 Thread James Sparenberg
Seems to have come onboard with 3.0.0.I love it... final move to make me switch away from Windowmaker...Though I still go back and forth. James On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 16:17, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday October 4 2002 02:19 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: James Sparenberg wrote on Fri, Oct 04,

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 12:48, Charlie wrote: On Friday 04 October 2002 12:57 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Or you can chose my method KDE Control center -- Desktop --- uncheck enable desktop icons. Gets rid of all of them. *grin* James Hmmm. Everyone's complaining about the

Re: [expert] burning a data disc

2002-10-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 14:38, Michael Holt wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:13:53PM -0700 : I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I

Re: [expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits thestreet...

2002-10-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:32, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 21:12:31 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 October 2002 05:37 pm, you wrote: It seems every time a new distro hits the street, one or more of my systems decides it wants attention... yup... I get weird

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:10, Mark Stewart wrote: Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... I have my Mdk8.2 box setup on our corporate network with a static IP. Call it mybox.foo.com. I have a laptop running Win2K that lives on our wireless LAN and uses a DHCP-allocated IP

Re: [expert] burning a data disc

2002-10-05 Thread Michael Holt
Well, it's odd; I've burned data discs before, I just don't remember when the last time was so I'm not sure which version of Mandrake I was using at the time. I usually only upgrade when something won't work without it. I'm going to dig out my notebook and start writing things down again

Re: [expert] Woo Hoo! 9.0 installation woes - Thanks to all for the help!

2002-10-05 Thread David Guntner
Rolf Pedersen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: I've created a /var/mandrake partition on my system. Under that, I've been able to take the ISO files and mount them temporarily so that I can copy the files off of them. What I've done is basically mirror the

Re: [expert] Probelms on shutting

2002-10-05 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi Thomas, I had this problem to. First I disables the autofs in the run levels. Kill the 2 proccess's that were made by autofs, ones a /net mount. This will remove them from mtab. Comment out the 2 lines in auto.master. This will allow it to shutdown properly and restart without trying to fsck

[expert] How to use rpmdrake in 9.0??

2002-10-05 Thread David Guntner
Well, I finally managed to get 9.0 installed on my machine. Yeah! :-) However, it seems that rpmdrake has had a *serious* overhaul. Can someone please tell me how to use this thing now? There's nothing which appear anywhere that lets me define sources (such as security updates and so on).

RE: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-05 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
You are right, but I use CD-RW to burn MDK ISOs and 700 MB CD-RW are not cheap. Olaf At 21.53 04/10/2002, you wrote: Just curious.. Have you been out to buy blank CDs lately? Not meaning any offense here, but I buy 200 or so every other month, and its getting quite hard anymore to even find 74

Re: [expert] How to use rpmdrake in 9.0??

2002-10-05 Thread Vox
David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Help? Anyone? Go to Mandrake Control Center then Software Management...you'll find everything there Vox -- Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger For info on safety in the BDSM lifestyle

[expert] PDAs syncing under linux ??

2002-10-05 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! Where can I get info about PDAs able to sync data with linux programs? I don't want to switch to win to do that... I've read Palm is supported. What about Pocket PCs? Would you purchase Palm or Micro$oft's ?? 8-? Thanks in advance. -

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 05 Oct 2002 00:09:39 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:10, Mark Stewart wrote: Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... I have my Mdk8.2 box setup on our corporate network with a static IP. Call it mybox.foo.com. I have a

Re: [expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits the street...

2002-10-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 04 Oct 2002 23:38:22 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, And people wonder why we give our computers names... The do have personalities... least I think they do. (I have a comp at work that crashes every time the founder sits down at the keyboard of it but never

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-05 Thread Dave Seff
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 00:00, Todd Lyons wrote: PlugHead wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:33:20PM -0400 : Why must /root be on the same file system as / ? Just a guess, but... If there was a problem mounting your /root partition, at boot time, wouldn't you be screwed--because you

Re: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-05 Thread et
On Saturday 05 October 2002 05:02 am, you wrote: You are right, but I use CD-RW to burn MDK ISOs and 700 MB CD-RW are not cheap. Olaf mind if I ask, just 'cause I never thought about it before, what the advantage would be of using rw? At 21.53 04/10/2002, you wrote: Just curious.. Have

Re: [expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits the street...

2002-10-05 Thread et
On Saturday 05 October 2002 02:38 am, you wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:32, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 21:12:31 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 October 2002 05:37 pm, you wrote: It seems every time a new distro hits the street, one or more of my systems

Re: [expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits the street...

2002-10-05 Thread et
On Saturday 05 October 2002 09:20 am, you wrote: On 04 Oct 2002 23:38:22 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, And people wonder why we give our computers names... The do have personalities... least I think they do. (I have a comp at work that crashes every time the

[expert] Re: mdk 9.0 and 3D games

2002-10-05 Thread Serge
Hi Does anyone has an AMD 1300 cpu , an Asus mobo and an ATI Radeon 64 DDR? With Mandrake 8.1 all the 3D games worked fine, and so did openuniverse. With Mandrake 8.1, part of the 3D games worked, openuniverse segfaulted. With Mandrake 9.0, openuniverse still segfaults but cannon smash and

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-05 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 05 October 2002 12:27 am, James Sparenberg wrote: snip That happened on a box at work... So just for grins I had them uncheck the box...apply restart kde then recheck it they came back... your milage may vary. James Interesting. Thanks James. I'd probably try that if I

Re: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-05 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 17.54 05/10/2002, you wrote: On Saturday 05 October 2002 05:02 am, you wrote: You are right, but I use CD-RW to burn MDK ISOs and 700 MB CD-RW are not cheap. Olaf mind if I ask, just 'cause I never thought about it before, what the advantage would be of using rw? Since I upgrade MDK

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-05 Thread Charlie
On Friday 04 October 2002 06:01 pm, Darwin Gottfried wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 13:48, Charlie wrote: [] I installed Dolphin my desktop came with _no_ icons at all at first boot. The enable desktop icons button is checked. I've had this happen, where there aren't any desktop icons

Re: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-05 Thread et
On Saturday 05 October 2002 01:04 pm, you wrote: At 17.54 05/10/2002, you wrote: On Saturday 05 October 2002 05:02 am, you wrote: You are right, but I use CD-RW to burn MDK ISOs and 700 MB CD-RW are not cheap. Olaf mind if I ask, just 'cause I never thought about it before, what

Re: [expert] camera usb-storage auto mount?

2002-10-05 Thread kiran
I wish I knew this a bit better, but supermount should mount volumes automatically. Here is my floppy listing from /etc/fstab: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=-vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 That of course should all be on one line. so try to

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-05 Thread et
On Saturday 05 October 2002 11:35 am, you wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 00:00, Todd Lyons wrote: PlugHead wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:33:20PM -0400 : Why must /root be on the same file system as / ? Just a guess, but... If there was a problem mounting your /root partition, at

[expert] libstdc++ deps

2002-10-05 Thread Jason Guidry
error: failed dependencies: libstdc++.so.4(GLIBCPP_3.1) is needed by audacity-1.0.0-3mdk This is on a fresh install of 9.0, and I have the regular ol' libstdc++.so.4 dep taken care of. several google searches yield nothing WTF are these libs??? TIA -- jason

[expert] mt command

2002-10-05 Thread Dennis Cardinale
Does anyone know why none of my Mandrake installations include the mt (magnetic tape) command? From what package is mt installed? Thanks, Dennis Cardinale Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] What does msec want in 9.0?

2002-10-05 Thread David Guntner
Well, I finally managed to get ML 9.0 installed on my box, thanks to lots of help from everyone here. However, it looks like a number of things have changed (I'm not entirely sure that they're all for the better, but that's just me :), and I'm having a number of problems. The most pressing,

Re: [expert] camera usb-storage auto mount?

2002-10-05 Thread Fernando Pintabona
Have you tried using -t msdos instead of -t vfat ? Maybe the memory isn't using fat32, but fat16 instead... Fefo On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 20:19, kiran wrote: I wish I knew this a bit better, but supermount should mount volumes automatically. Here is my floppy listing from /etc/fstab:

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-05 Thread Hesham Khonji
From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] /root and / Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:27:41 -0400 On Saturday 05 October 2002 11:35 am, you wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 00:00, Todd Lyons wrote: PlugHead wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at

Re: [expert] libstdc++ deps

2002-10-05 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 12:30, Jason Guidry wrote: error: failed dependencies: libstdc++.so.4(GLIBCPP_3.1) is needed by audacity-1.0.0-3mdk This is on a fresh install of 9.0, and I have the regular ol' libstdc++.so.4 dep taken care of. several google searches yield nothing

Re: [expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
Vox writes: Eduardo Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem with 9.0: Mandrkae terminates with my logon session without any warning or messages. It does that automatically. How can I get rid of this annoying behaviour? That's part of msec's stuff...you set a high

Re: [expert] mt command

2002-10-05 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 12:50, Dennis Cardinale wrote: [...] (magnetic tape) command? From what package is mt installed? mt-st-0.7-1mdk.i586 [...] -- Cheers dg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [expert] mt command

2002-10-05 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, The package on this 8.1 system is: mt-st-0.6-2mdk This contains the commands you need to talk with SCSI Tape drives manually (e.g. from the command line). You will probably need these even if you use something like BRU, which uses a GUI on top of the command line

[expert] Lots of things broken in 9.0....

2002-10-05 Thread David Guntner
Having finally installed 9.0, I'm finding things that aren't working like they should. The msec problem I described in a message that hasn't turned on up the list yet that I could see, and now this: /usr/bin/mailq and /usr/bin/newaliases don't exist anymore. When I do a ls command, I see

Re: [expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-05 Thread David Guntner
KhoGuan PhuaN grabbed a keyboard and wrote: If you don't think so, and want to stick to level 4 or 5(paranoid level), edit /etc/security/msec/level.local, which does not exist by default, to create a customized setting for TMOUT: from mseclib import * set_shell_timeout(0)

Re: [expert] What does msec want in 9.0?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
David Guntner writes: Well, I finally managed to get ML 9.0 installed on my box, thanks to lots of help from everyone here. However, it looks like a number of things have changed (I'm not entirely sure that they're all for the better, but that's just me :), and I'm having a number of

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-05 Thread Toshiro
I agree. However I Dont run EVERYTHING as root nor am I a new user. Also being an IT Manager I DO occasionally su to root and ssh into my company's machines as root to do admin stuff so I really would not want to blast away my ssh keys nor my root env. hmmm is it possible to ssh as a

[expert] MandrakeUpdate question.

2002-10-05 Thread Dimitry
I am running Mandrake 9.0 in KDE. In Mandrake Control Center--Software Management--Software Sources Manager, there are 4 sources: CD1, CD2, CD3 (of the distro) and "update_source". I wanted to remove "update_source" so I can change the FTP mirror, but I accidentally removed all sources. How

[expert] fsck,d ext3 partition

2002-10-05 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, I have a major problem. I have MDK 8.2 on hdb1 ext3. Previously had 8.1 on hda2, installed 7.2 in its place ext2, mounted hdb1 as ext2 to retrieve some files, had a problem with 7.2 requiring a hard restart, and fsck checked and screwed the ext3 partition so that it won't mount when

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-05 Thread Jan Wilson
* Toshiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021005 16:02]: I agree. However I Dont run EVERYTHING as root nor am I a new user. Also being an IT Manager I DO occasionally su to root and ssh into my company's machines as root to do admin stuff so I really would not want to blast away my ssh keys nor

Re: [expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
2002-10-06 04:50, David Guntner writes: KhoGuan PhuaN grabbed a keyboard and wrote: If you don't think so, and want to stick to level 4 or 5(paranoid level), edit /etc/security/msec/level.local, which does not exist by default, to create a customized setting for TMOUT:

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-05 Thread martin
Yeah I know what you mean. My thoughts are that unix boxes don't dynamically build an arp table for their segment. they only look on bootup or when somebody broadcasts looking for a connection via the hosts file. Microsoft netbios (aka Lan Manager) does chatter endlessly. Though this does ensure

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-05 Thread Dave Seff
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think you can ssh into root. You can. Even with an 'out of the box' install Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Mandrake 9.0 libiberty missing

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Ruhland
I just installed Mandrake 9.0 and it seems there is no 'libiberty.a' in '/usr/lib' or '/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2'. There is, however, a '/usr/include/libiberty.h'. Did something go wrong during install or is it broken? Want to buy your Pack or Services from