Re: [expert] Duplex Printing

2002-10-19 Thread Norman Zhang
: - Original Message - : From: Barry Rountree [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:11 AM : Subject: Re: [expert] Duplex Printing : : This is the wrong way of doing it, but it works. : : Open up KPresenter (or any other K application, perhaps).

Re: [expert] Duplex Printing

2002-10-19 Thread Norman Zhang
- Original Message - From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Duplex Printing : Which of the drivers for HP 2200D are you using? : : Are you using CUPS? : : Did you set up as root with

Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-19 Thread PlugHead
Say, I just noticed this as well, but it appears that JG is correct. On my windoze directory, I saw: [rootjack-in jdyer]# ls -l /mnt/win_c snip dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root 8192 May 26 17:23 Program Files/ snip Now, I thought this was controlled by the umask=0 parameter in my

Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-19 Thread PlugHead
[rootjack-in jdyer]# chmod g-w /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files [rootjack-in jdyer]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root 8192 May 26 17:23 /mnt/win_c/Program Files/ (Notice, no write for anyone, despite the fact that this was a change to group permission. I'm

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-19 Thread Serge Hänni
Am Fre, 2002-10-18 um 13.28 schrieb Randy Kramer: I'd love to hear Mandrake's reasoning for releasing the ISOs in 728334336, 73358 and 478511104 sizes... I think I've heard the reasoning for similar decisions in the past -- IIRC, they want CD1 to be capable of a standalone

[expert] Openoffice has stopped working

2002-10-19 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since today Openoffice is no longer working... and I've done nothing (AFAIK): [quiniquinipt quini]$ oocalc not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 1, byte 1 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 185

[expert] mounting nt5 ntfs partitions

2002-10-19 Thread Steffen Barszus
Hi! I've tried today installing some ttf from my winXP-partition. While doing that I saw that the MCC does not react anymore. While discovering the problem I have tested accessing my three ntfs partitions. On hda1 and hda6 there are no problems, but on accessing hda5 aka /mnt/nt2 all

[expert] problems in the kde-adressbook

2002-10-19 Thread Steffen Barszus
Hi ! A week ago I posted a problem with the de-adressbook of Mdk 9.0 . I'm sure everyone else will have this problem, since I had this problem on 3 different machines. So has anyone a suggestion on how to solve that or a workaround ? The problem: The colums width' of some entries is a lot to

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 12:39 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: What does MakeCD/mkcd expect to see as source? I have the current 3 ISOs mounted; but I suspect it may want an rsync tree... if so, do you have a quick tip for creating one from the ISOs (prefer not to waste

[expert] firewall-script

2002-10-19 Thread hans privat
hi, here I have the script for my firewall-masquerade of rc.firewall-2.2.1 and that's the points, I don't know what to fill in : + DNS= #set to your DNS server(s) that you get zones from

Re: [expert] mounting nt5 ntfs partitions

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 05:28 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi! I've tried today installing some ttf from my winXP-partition. While doing that I saw that the MCC does not react anymore. While discovering the problem I have tested accessing my three ntfs partitions. On hda1 and hda6 there

Re: [expert] mounting nt5 ntfs partitions

2002-10-19 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Samstag, 19. Oktober 2002 16:15 schrieb Igor Izyumin: It appears something is trying to execute a binary file that is not an executable. The kernel tries to load a module for that. Not sure if this is related to the crash. In general, Linux support for NTFS is very sketchy. Microsoft

[expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-19 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
Hi all, i want to make one little question. Here it is... :) - I would like to make backups or my user folder on the home, that is, i want to make a multisession CD that i could go creating folders with the contents of my /home/gonzalo like every month or week. How can i do that?. I have a ASUS

Re: [expert] How to get on 'network neighbourhood' in 9.0?

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Pearce
Try LinNeighborhood works for me jason On Tuesday 15 October 2002 22:14, you wrote: Dear all, My University loves M$, to the highest degree! A problem I face with using Linux is how to see and access all those computers on the 'Network Neighbourhood'. It always seems like such a challenge

Re: [expert] Localization problems

2002-10-19 Thread Denis Kukharev
18 ïËÔÑÂÒØ 2002 22:51, ÷Ù ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ: I've got Mandrake 8.2 and need russian localization. When I select russian language and country Russia in KDE, it's OK (windows, menus, etc. all in Russian) except icons on the Desktop! Icons named in English appear correctly, but russian names of icons

Re: [expert] Localization problems

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 10:45 am, Denis Kukharev wrote: 18 ïËÔÑÂÒØ 2002 22:51, ÷Ù ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ: I've got Mandrake 8.2 and need russian localization. When I select russian language and country Russia in KDE, it's OK (windows, menus, etc. all in Russian) except icons on the Desktop! Icons

Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-19 Thread Michael Holt
I haven't used the multisession option myself (under linux), I've done it in the past under windows but it's not very efficient. Everytime you open and close a cdr it takes actually quite a bit of room on the disc http://www.roxio.com/en/support/cdr/multisession.html This is a windows

[expert] what port

2002-10-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Hi list, I installed a new firewall today on my server, Shorewall. I'm really impressed with this package and I've gotten everything configured except for printing. Anyone know what port needs to be open so that printing can resume? On the LAN I've got 137-139 open because the printer is

[expert] jpilot and pine

2002-10-19 Thread Michael Holt
Hello, I'm looking for a method to sync my visor pda with pine which is my email client. I've been looking around on the net, but haven't found anything. Any thoughts? Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-19 Thread g
Ron Stodden wrote: It's a difficult situation, but optical technology, while having enormous potential, is far from stable and mature - and we have another generstion of incompatibilities (ie more expense on drives) among optical devices ahead of us as DVDs and DVD writers emerge and CDs

Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 09:19 -0700, Michael Holt wrote: I haven't used the multisession option myself (under linux), I've done it in the past under windows but it's not very efficient. Everytime you open and close a cdr it takes actually quite a bit of room on the disc

[expert] Still having problems with desktop links

2002-10-19 Thread Ken Thompson
Licq, Everybuddy and most near anything I try to make a link to refuses to run. Licq will run as root. I've downloaded ant tried Yahoo Messenger and it works OK as user.. I can send a strace of licq if it will help.. One thing I've noticed with all programs starting from the CLi is this error:

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:39:08 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: What does MakeCD/mkcd expect to see as source? I have the current 3 ISOs mounted; but I suspect it may want an rsync tree... if so, do you have a quick tip for creating one from the ISOs

[expert] how to use LS-120 ?

2002-10-19 Thread hans privat
hi, have a little problem in understanding the following: have an LS-120 drive. in dmesg I can see it as a hdc, which would be correct. In the file /etc/fstab I can see again as an entry : floppy on /dev/hdc ... options i.e. but in /dev I doesn't have an entry hdc - all what I can see here are :

Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-19 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 11:07, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi all, i want to make one little question. Here it is... :) - I would like to make backups or my user folder on the home, that is, i want to make a multisession CD that i could go creating folders with the contents of my /home/gonzalo like

Re: [expert] how to use LS-120 ?

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 12:32 pm, hans privat wrote: hi, have a little problem in understanding the following: have an LS-120 drive. in dmesg I can see it as a hdc, which would be correct. In the file /etc/fstab I can see again as an entry : floppy on /dev/hdc ... options i.e. but in

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....OpenOffice keeps on closing !!!

2002-10-19 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi, Thanks for your suggestion. But, I don't think it is that way. Firstly, I do not have any OpenOffice instances running/open initially. Secondly, If we do have an instance of OpenOffice running then it is designed so as to use that as a server process thus speeding up the loading of any

[expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi All, If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any of the Software Install, Software Uninstall after starting the Control Center, it

Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-19 Thread J. Grant
Hi bascule, PlugHead and W. Kasberg, PlugHead you are correct, linux inteligently maps the limited FAT readonly/system/hidden/archive to its attempt at the unix equiv. Thus system is root only, hidden is root too (with no read access to dirs i think) readonly does not have read flag for

[expert] Re: **SOLVED** Potential serious problem with Shorewall.

2002-10-19 Thread Sebastien Routier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Eastep wrote: | | | Sebastien Routier wrote: | | Hi, | | Using Mandrake 9.0 and Shorewall 1.3.8 | ... | | My PC has two or three NIC: | - eth0 connected to my cable modem. | - eth1 connected to my hub. | - usb0 connected to my Zaurus, this

[expert] syslog - mysql

2002-10-19 Thread tarvid
looking for the easiest way to get syslogs in mysql. I want to do things like find all the user machines that attempted SMTP connections through the border gateway router. we do a lot of remote logging so ideally this is a syslogd daemon replacement rather than client replacements. Jim Tarvid

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:56:25 -0400 Sandeep Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-19 Thread Randy Kramer
On Saturday 19 October 2002 05:35 am, Serge Hänni wrote: CD3 is the International-CD. There is all the translation stuff on it. Serge, Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Localization problems

2002-10-19 Thread Denis Kukharev
19 ïËÔÑÂÒØ 2002 20:18, ÷Ù ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ: Can you try different fonts in KDE's font panel? Yes, but with no effect. I've found out the following: when I set anti-aliasing in KDE's font panel, I get russian letters in Desktop! Still Konqueror and other programs don't want to do well... And I'd

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Sandeep Khanna wrote: If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any of the Software Install, Software Uninstall

[expert] Mandrake 9.0 CD ISO SIzes

2002-10-19 Thread Will Merkens
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:01:09 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday October 16 2002 09:58 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: ARGHHH! Worse!!! What appeared to be under *700*, wasn't: 681836544 Mar 18 2002 Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso

Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-19 Thread Michael Holt
I've also found that cd/rw's can be a risk - they do on a occasion, corrupt information. I have proof of that sitting on my desk. The problem is that you don't know ahead of time when that's going to happen, so I would make sure to use a more proven back up media on regular occasions (maybe

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-19 Thread Ron Stodden
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:39:08 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you must 'loop mount' the ISO images, then you can copy out all the files and get the tree back. That can't be all... that gives a tree with Mandrake/{RPMS,RPMS2,RPMS3} which is what got us

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I kind of understand what you are saying here. It does make sense. And, Yes, I saw the root being logged out at the shell prompt after a certain period of inactivity. So, Does that mean, this same principle is also applied to the Mandrake Control Center?

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread David Guntner
Sandeep Khanna grabbed a keyboard and wrote: If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security It could be that it's using some kind of cookie (or something) to

Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-19 Thread Ron Stodden
J. Grant wrote: Hi bascule, PlugHead and W. Kasberg, PlugHead you are correct, linux inteligently maps the limited FAT readonly/system/hidden/archive to its attempt at the unix equiv. Thus system is root only, hidden is root too (with no read access to dirs i think) readonly does not have

[expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Richard Laframboise
Hi List, I have an IDE CD burner - Plextor 8/4/32A - How can I address it as if it was a SCSI device ? Purpose : To make backups Thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Wow, That was very quick. I am enjoying being on this list. Another person (Alastair Scott) also mentioned something similar. I had a little doubt/hint about it myself but, wasn't surte until you guys are also confirming my doubt. Hope it is the way we think it is. I am going to experiment

Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-19 Thread Barry Michels
On Saturday 19 October 2002 03:17 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: Also, Windows file names permit only one period (after which is the extension), whereas Linux files can have an unlimited number of periods. This means that when Windows has to handle a Linux file, it renames it so that all the

[expert] Still poblems compiling on Mandrake 9.0

2002-10-19 Thread dfox
Hep There seems to be missing files, /lib/crt0.o - however, there is a /usr/lib/crt1.o file, which glibc-devel provides. There also seems to be a missing libc.a file in /lib. My issue is that I cannot compile even the simplest hello world type program, and I get the following output. I've

[expert] MySQL not starting at boot

2002-10-19 Thread David Guntner
This question was asked by someone else earlier, but I never saw a response. Sorry if one was given and I was just being blind... :-) I've done chkconfig --add mysql so I know it should be starting. When checking the comments at the beginning of the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql script, I see: #

Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-19 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:06, Michael Holt wrote: I've also found that cd/rw's can be a risk - they do on a occasion, corrupt information. I have proof of that sitting on my desk. The problem is that you don't know ahead of time when that's going to happen, so I would make sure to use a

Re: [expert] Still poblems compiling on Mandrake 9.0

2002-10-19 Thread dfox
Hep There seems to be missing files, /lib/crt0.o - however, there is a /usr/lib/crt1.o file, which glibc-devel provides. There also seems to be a missing libc.a file in /lib. My issue is that I cannot compile even the simplest hello world type program, and I get the following output. I've

Re: [expert] MySQL not starting at boot

2002-10-19 Thread SainTiss
Hmm, what if you manually tell chkconfig to enable it at runlevels 2345? like this: chkconfig --level 2345 mysql on Hans On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 21:51, David Guntner wrote: This question was asked by someone else earlier, but I never saw a response. Sorry if one was given and I was just

Re: [expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday October 19 2002 02:15 pm, Richard Laframboise wrote: Hi List, I have an IDE CD burner - Plextor 8/4/32A - How can I address it as if it was a SCSI device ? Purpose : To make backups I've got the same burner, it's slave on ide1 (hdd), and ide-scsi makes it

Re: [expert] MySQL not starting at boot

2002-10-19 Thread David Guntner
SainTiss grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hmm, what if you manually tell chkconfig to enable it at runlevels 2345? like this: chkconfig --level 2345 mysql on # chkconfig --level 2345 mysql on # chkconfig --list mysql mysql 0:off

Re: [expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Richard Laframboise
Thanks Tom for the info but how can I configure my ide cd to be known as a scsi device At 15:50 2002-10-19 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday October 19 2002 02:15 pm, Richard Laframboise wrote: Hi List, I have an IDE CD burner - Plextor 8/4/32A - How can I address it as if it was a SCSI device ?

Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-19 Thread bascule
interesting, is this a recent thing? i've been a newbie for a few years and when i first read about umask=0 etc. i don't recall this, also i suspect that where plughead and i have been issuing chmod commands that these resulted in 'virtual'? changes, that if i boot into win9xp i would find

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday October 19 2002 02:20 pm, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Note: This is a HTML message. For security reasons, only the raw HTML code is shown. If you trust the sender of this message then you can activate formatted HTML display for this message by clicking here. This is Kmail's 1.4.7

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Sorry, Just keep forgetting to select Options-Format-Plain Text Only in Mozilla Mail --Sandeep Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday October 19 2002 02:20 pm, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Note: This is a HTML message. For security reasons, only the raw HTML code is shown. If you trust the sender of

Re: [expert] /mnt/removable

2002-10-19 Thread bascule
hi jack, i've grepped my entire system! there the word removable cropped up in the perl scripts drakconf and diskdrake but i don't think that's responsible for my problem - note, i don't speal perl - it also popped up in lots and lots of howtos etc. but nowhere could i find anything that seemed

Re: [expert] problems in the kde-adressbook

2002-10-19 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dissabte 19 Octubre 2002 12:34, en Steffen Barszus va escriure: Hi ! A week ago I posted a problem with the de-adressbook of Mdk 9.0 . I'm sure everyone else will have this problem, since I had this problem on 3 different machines. So has

Re: [expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday October 19 2002 04:00 pm, Richard Laframboise wrote: Thanks Tom for the info but how can I configure my ide cd to be known as a scsi device They have to be, otherwise they wouldn't work at all, even under windoze ;) There is no such thing as an 'Integrated Drive Electronics/

Re: [expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Saturday 19 October 2002 05:00 pm, Richard Laframboise wrote: but how can I configure my ide cd to be known as a scsi device You need to pass hdx=ide-scsi to your kernel at boot. Different procedure for LILO and Grub, but you should be able to figure it out by looking at either

Re: [expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Richard Laframboise
Thank you for all the help. I finally got it working. The Plextor CD-RW was added after the installation of the OS and would not be detected properly. Even if installed, afterwards, the ide-scsi module. Because I am evaluating a solution to protect specific server configurations, I had no regrets

[expert] Mailer problems? Last 20+ posts are missing body part!!! Just me??

2002-10-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
Dunno if this body part will get through; but the last bunch of messages all came in with the body part completely missing... just the Mdk footer... Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Richard Laframboise
Thanks Greg for the info. I actually checked out my lilo.conf and it does reflect what you are mentioning in your answer. This part will be added to new knowledge. Thanks again Richard At 20:08 2002-10-19 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 19 October 2002 05:00 pm, Richard Laframboise wrote: but how

Re: [expert] Mailer problems? Last 20+ posts are missing body part!!! Just me??

2002-10-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 19 October 2002 08:01 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Dunno if this body part will get through; but the last bunch of messages all came in with the body part completely missing... just the Mdk footer... Pierre Pierre: There haven't been any problems here. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] how to use LS-120 ?

2002-10-19 Thread James T. Nelson III
You probably need to do a 'modprobe ide-floppy'. I actually tried putting 'hdc=ide-floppy' on the append line in lilo, but that didn't work for me. I don't use it very often, so I didn't play with it anymore; I just do the modprobe whenever I need floppy access. HTH Jim On Sat, 2002-10-19 at

Re: [expert] Adding fonts in V9.0 lockup MCC

2002-10-19 Thread James T. Nelson III
Is your NTFS partition mounted 'rw' or 'ro'? I don't use NTFS, but last time I checked, it was read-only support (or possibly write support was an 'experimental' option and disabled by default). When you add True-Type Fonts, you still need to have a 'fonts.dir' file. Is mcc trying to create