Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0, kppp, and default route

2002-11-13 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 23:14, Brian Schroeder wrote: I use kppp at home to dial my ISP. After upgrading from Mandrake 8.2 to 9.0, I found my internet connection didn't work. I checked my firewall rules, resolv.conf, all messages files, etc. and couldn't see anything wrong. I

[expert] MDK 9.0 performance vs 8.1

2002-11-13 Thread pesarif
hello, with the new binutils (with combreloc) and the newer kernel (2.4.19 vs 2.4.8) and gcc 3.1 and i would imagine other benefits, how much faster is mdk 9.0 compared to 8.1 in starting kde3 applications, kde3 itself and in general, has performance changed by very much (linux is pretty slow

Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)

2002-11-13 Thread Vox
This time Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 07:28 PM, Vox wrote: Absolutely. I had the privilege of listening to Theo give a talk at CanSec West 2000. Of course, he knocked Linux a lot (but had the highest praise for OpenBSD, of

Re: [expert] Fetchmail SMTP error

2002-11-13 Thread Luke Vandervort
Hey thanks, I think that solved my problem, Im now having problems writing the new mail to my drive, but im sure thats a stupid permission problem, i'll fix that later on today... thanks . On Tuesday 12 November 2002 06:37 pm, James T. Nelson III wrote: Without more information, I can't

RE: [expert] How to unmount /var?

2002-11-13 Thread Franki
have you considered booting from the mandrake CD... and typing rescue ??? I have resized my partitions this way before.. in fact, I made a new temp var directory copied everything accross.. set it up in fstab and rebooted in normal most.. then resize the old one,, or do whatever you wanted..

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0, kppp, and default route

2002-11-13 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Brian, Hi Steffen, Hi List! Brian, all you've said I tried and didn't work since MDK 8.1. I did so a suid script. Now, Steffen, thank you for your observation and I'll try it at home. Afterwards I keep you all informed. Cheers, On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Steffen Barszus wrote:

[expert] Urpmi feature request

2002-11-13 Thread Jim Hubbard
This may not be the place for this, but I thought I'd float the idea here first. I'd like to suggest a couple of new options for the urpmi tools: an --upgrade-status option and a --noauto option. The --upgrade-status option would essentially do a urpmi.update -a and a urpmi --update

Re: [expert] Avifile player

2002-11-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:32:52 +1100 Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a rpm -i *fontconfig* to install the packages and that worked fine. The aviplayer would not run. Now I carnt remove these packages. Reinstalling the old packages gives the following when trying to run aviplay.[root@sandy

Re: [expert] KDE3 takes long to load up !!!

2002-11-13 Thread Roger Munoz
It worked ! Thankyou for the help and feedback. Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Roger Munoz wrote: I am connected to LAN and my /etc/hosts has exactly the same format as yours but still kde3 is very slow on boot up! Try killing the .MCOP* files. I.e., bring

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp missing

2002-11-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 November 2002 07:56 pm, Andreas Weiss wrote: Todd Lyons wrote: snip above snd-card-es1938 snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es1938 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 [...] Just out of curiosity, make sound-slot-0 point to

Re: [expert] How to unmount /var?

2002-11-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Dave, On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Guntner wrote: Michael Viron grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Or linux single (without the quotes). You're aren't on the /var partition when you are trying to unmount it, are you? No, but it was almost as good. sheepish grin I forgot that /var/spool

Re: [expert] DevFs Daemon in 9.0

2002-11-13 Thread Joe Braddock
---Original Message--- From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/12/02 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] DevFs Daemon in 9.0 Running DevFs Daemon sits on the bottom of the screen what seems like forever before boot proceeds further. I've installed 9.0 on other boxes,

Re: [expert] Partition size limit in the OS?

2002-11-13 Thread Philip Webb
021112 David Guntner wrote: When I run diskdrake in the GUI to examine things, it shows the partition as properly now being 21G, instead of 19G as before. However, when I do a df -k to show partitions from a shell window, I get: Filesystem1K-blocks UsedAvailable

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to workin linux????

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Holt
You know, I noticed this thread but thought it was for something else (duh!) Anyway, I'm using an MA401 wireless card right now on my thinkpad and it's worked on mandrake 8.2 as well as mandrake 9.0 right from install. I also installed slackware 8.1 a couple of weeks ago to try it out and it

Re: [expert] KDE3 takes long to load up !!!

2002-11-13 Thread Andreas Weiss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try killing the .MCOP* files. I.e., bring the machine back to the [xkg]dm login screen. From a console session, rm -rf .MCOP*. Login to KDE. what are these files for? are tey important for any program? regards, andreas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Using Liux to recover an hw raid 0 set

2002-11-13 Thread olaf_lists
Hi, my old mobo Asus A7V133 broke down so now I have 2 of the 3 disks useless: they were set as RAID 0 via BIOS, now they gave me an ECS mobo without raid controller and I'm scared I could lose datas if I connect these 2 disks to another controller. Luckily, the first disk (with Linux, MDK9) is

[expert] LM 9.0 - Install Fails - SCSI Disks

2002-11-13 Thread Albert E. Whale
Can someone PLEASE explain to me why on Earth I cannot install LM 9.0 on a SCSI based system? It was running 8.2 fine, and my upgrade failed (something about the RPM Database rebuild failed, which then lead to an X Windows CRASH). After that I attempted Twice to Install LM 9.0. Each time fails

[expert] LM 9.0 - Fails with AHA-2940 Controller

2002-11-13 Thread Albert E. Whale
OK, I give. THe cdrom.img image on the Boot Floppy Does not Work! Any Suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security,

[expert] IPTABLES NAT script doesn't work in 9.0

2002-11-13 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Hi all, I've been spending some time trying to migrate from MDK 8.1 to 9.0. I faced numerous problems, but now there is one left which I can't figure out. I have a script for IPTABLES which act as a firewall and doubles as a NAT/MASQ for the other machine in my tiny network. The script functions

Re: [expert] IPTABLES NAT script doesn't work in 9.0

2002-11-13 Thread Sridhar
Check if ip_forward is set to 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf -Sridhar Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Hi all, I've been spending some time trying to migrate from MDK 8.1 to 9.0. I faced numerous problems, but now there is one left which I can't figure out. I have a script for IPTABLES which act as a

Re: [expert] IPTABLES NAT script doesn't work in 9.0

2002-11-13 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
yep it is. SainTiss told me that in the newbie list (thanks!). As I said, I can ping/resolve hosts fromthe client, but it does not transfer (large chunks of?) data. Weird. Perhaps it has smthing to do with msec? Sridhar wrote: Check if ip_forward is set to 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf -Sridhar

Re: [expert] Avifile player

2002-11-13 Thread Gary
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:57:57 -0500, you wrote: The video card has nothing to do with the problem. /usr/lib/libqavm-0.7.so.0 is provided by libavifile0.7-0.7.18. So you still have it installed instead of -16. All the 'new' pkgs must be removed before the others will work. Do: urpmi -e

[expert] DVD-R Burner with drakbackup

2002-11-13 Thread Richard Gerald Houser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am unable to get backups to a DVD-R drive to function with drakbackup. ~ I have tried cdrecord-dvdhack binary by moving out the original cdrecord and then replacing with this executable, but I get a message that DVD writing is not supported.

[expert] ALSA kernel question

2002-11-13 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: ALSA kernel question Hi All, I am just wondering what the ALSA modules are in the kernel are for. I downloaded and installed ALSA0.9_RC5 the other night, but there was not much change in my sound quality (ie no bass). I'm still trying to get my sound working right. So, if the

Re: [expert] cdrecord mitsumi drives

2002-11-13 Thread Richard Houser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Way, way back, I used to burn disk at once on this drive (4x2x8, right?) under Mandrake Linux kernel 2.4.8-6mdk or so. I did remember upgrading a firmware for either that drive, or it's predeccessor the 4x8 no rewrite version. Perhaps you just need

[expert] Samba and /etc/fstab

2002-11-13 Thread Matthew O. Persico
If I wanted to put a mount entry into my /etc/fstab file for my XP Samba mounts, what would happen if the XP box were not available? Doe the boot process just hang? -- Matthew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Samba and /etc/fstab

2002-11-13 Thread Franki
don't do that if there is a chance that the XP box won't be up when you boot... it'll cause probs.. better that you make a new bash script put it in /usr/sbin and put all your mount commands in there.. ie: #!/bin/sh smbmount /blah/blah. smbmount /blah/blah. save it as mountXP or

RE: [expert] Samba and /etc/fstab

2002-11-13 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:43:32 +0800, Franki wrote: don't do that if there is a chance that the XP box won't be up when you boot... it'll cause probs.. better that you make a new bash script put it in /usr/sbin and put all your mount commands in there.. ie: #!/bin/sh smbmount /blah/blah.

Re: [expert] LM 9.0 - Install Fails - SCSI Disks

2002-11-13 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 13. November 2002 22:18 schrieb Albert E. Whale: Can someone PLEASE explain to me why on Earth I cannot install LM 9.0 on a SCSI based system? It was running 8.2 fine, and my upgrade failed (something about the RPM Database rebuild

[expert] any thoughts on this rpm error?

2002-11-13 Thread Rob
# rm -rf /var/tmp/ [rootrwideman2 share]# rpm -ivh --allfiles --replacefiles --force /root/freeswan-1.98b-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:freeswan ### [100%] warning: created