Re: [expert] [OT] Copernic equivalent for Linux?!?

2003-03-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 11:28 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 05:58 pm, stefmit wrote: Sorry for the OT, but I am feeling so frustrated now ... I meant to ask this question for a while (Google didn't turn any positive results), but it is now when I am in dire need of an

[expert] Sorry all

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
Seems I'm double posting my replies I'm running the latest Cooker here and trying to figure out why it's started this all of the sudden... Please forgive me... James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Any CVS wizards out there?

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:25, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 23:50, James Sparenberg wrote: All, Ok having a problem with CVS permissions on our CVS server. Seems that when people check stuff in it's setting the ownership as that user... Then no one else can check it out.

[expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
:/ I just bought another 512MB DDR PC333 module for my PC and now my linux won't boot anymore. I tried an update from CD, installer doesn't work either. Memory just went through a 3 hours memtest86 and no error found. Windows handles it OK (I have a dual boot with Win2k pro). It just loads lilo,

[expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives...

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a system with 3 harddrives in it (hda = Windows, hdb = spare (part XFS, part FAT32) and hdc = Linux (resierfs). I installed Windows first, followed by 9.0 on hdc, and chose to install lilo to hda's boot sector. This has been working just

Re: [expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives...

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
I think that happens cause of the auto remapping of your drives. I think hdc becomes hdb when you pull hdb out. So modifying lilo.conf and replacing hdc with hdb, running lilo afterwards, removing hdb and rebooting should solve it. - Original Message - From: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [expert] samb file permission

2003-03-07 Thread Ken Walker
Your force create mode = 660 is only going to give you __wx_wx___, in other words, the creator can only write and execute ( or get access to a folder ) and the allocated group can only write and execute ( or get access to a folder ) none of them can ever see the file, wherever it is. which means

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Forgot to mention. Starting the rescue I can go to console and do whatever the rescue stuff allows you to do. :) But since it freezes so early I also cannot find anything in the logs related to it and dunno what could I change (if anything) so I would make the system boot. Funny stuff is also that

Re: [expert] OT - Not ready while 123 runs

2003-03-07 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 03:37, Ric Tibbetts wrote: And just what does any of this have to do with MDK? I don't particularly care what will, or will not install on XP. This isn't the place for it. Ric Nothing. And everything. BTW, it was supposed to go to the OT list. A careless click did it

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won'tboot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Adrian, Try this, take out your new memory, go to Linux, install entreprise kernel (it supports large memory) from MDK cds, then check lilo if new kernel is their, reboot your system, check if can loggin the new kernel, then halt your system, put back your new memory then power on and

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 05:30 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: :/ I just bought another 512MB DDR PC333 module for my PC and now my linux won't boot anymore. I tried an update from CD, installer doesn't work either. Memory just went through a 3 hours memtest86 and no error found. Windows

RE: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Another. So you have 1G or more? I know the stock kernel won't handle mem above 1G. Does the rescue CD get you into linux? The enterprise kernel is what you want for large mem (for mdk provided kernels) Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Greg

Re: [expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives...

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think that happens cause of the auto remapping of your drives. I think hdc becomes hdb when you pull hdb out. So modifying lilo.conf and replacing hdc with hdb, running lilo afterwards, removing hdb and rebooting should solve it. Shouldn't do

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adrian, Try this, take out your new memory, go to Linux, install entreprise kernel (it supports large memory) from MDK cds, then check lilo if new kernel is their, reboot your system, check if can loggin the new kernel, then halt your

Re: [expert] Any CVS wizards out there?

2003-03-07 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have a different problem, I'm just hijacking james's thread though :) I have been unable to get cvs diff -uN to work, the -N flag should include new files in the patch. I can not add files to the local repository with cvs add which I believe I should be able to. I do not have a cvs

[expert] Another kde(?) oddity

2003-03-07 Thread Anne Wilson
If, from an email, I click on http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29632.html Netscape opens up with file:///home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/9857.0.29632.html in the address box, and links do not work. I have to delete the url, then go back to the email and copy and paste the

RE: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won 't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread engage
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. Another. So you have 1G or more? I know the stock kernel won't handle mem above 1G. Does the rescue CD get you into linux? The enterprise kernel is what you want for large mem (for mdk provided kernels) Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 06 March 2003 03:42 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Mandrake 9.0. I was just trying to run a search for lesstif (rpm -qa|grep lesstif) and found myself waiting forever for an answer. I then just downloaded the lesstif rpm and tried to install it. Nothing. It does the

Re: [expert] Sorry all

2003-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 07 March 2003 04:00 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Seems I'm double posting my replies I'm running the latest Cooker here and trying to figure out why it's started this all of the sudden... Please forgive me... James We forgive you... We forgive you... grin Gotta keep a sense

Re: [expert] OT - Not ready while 123 runs

2003-03-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 07 Mar 2003 08:51:05 -0400, Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 03:37, Ric Tibbetts wrote: And just what does any of this have to do with MDK? I don't particularly care what will, or will not install on XP. This isn't the place for it. Ric Nothing. And

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-07 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks all. I will keep your suggestions in my good-to-know file. As it turns out, I didn't have to do any of this stuff, at least this time or exactly as suggested. I had tried running rebuilddb several times which produced a spike of CPU

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread engage
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. Hi Adrian, Try this, take out your new memory, go to Linux, install entreprise kernel (it supports large memory) from MDK cds, then check lilo if new kernel is their, reboot your system, check if can loggin the new kernel, then

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won'tboot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:10:06 + Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled furiously: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Adrian, Try this, take out your new memory, go to Linux, install entreprise kernel (it supports large memory) from MDK cds, then check lilo if

Re: [expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives...

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
well.. in my case it helped when I had the prob (though can't remember exactly which drive was remapped in my case. Can you post your lilo.conf? Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:08 PM Subject:

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
I know, that is why I am wondering why it freezes including the install CD. Even if I would have to have a enterprise kernel (as I read in some other answers), the installer should provide at least an alternative kernel for such situations. It reminds me of the 3G problem on Windows NT and I hate

Re: [expert] OT - Not ready while 123 runs

2003-03-07 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 09:18, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Is the subject header a reference to the old Microsoft internal slogan, Windows is not done until Lotus 123 won't run? Yes, it is. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Any CVS wizards out there?

2003-03-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 08:31, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I have a different problem, I'm just hijacking james's thread though :) I have been unable to get cvs diff -uN to work, the -N flag should include new files in the patch. I can not add files to the local repository with cvs add which I

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
This is getting weird. With selfcompiled kernel and high memory support still same freeze. With enterprise kernel still freezes. With mem=960M as parameter still freezes. :/ What the heck?!? Huh?!? I am running out of clues here... Anyone faced same problem at any point? Best regards, Adrian

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 March 2003 08:30 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: I know, that is why I am wondering why it freezes including the install CD. Even if I would have to have a enterprise kernel (as I read in some other answers), the installer should provide at least an alternative kernel for such

[expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
SCO has decided to sue IBM for $US1 billion for alleged intellectual property infringement regarding IBM's contributions to GNU/Linux. SCO's actions are NOT good for Linux or open source, and we the community should not stand for it. PCLinuxOnline has decided to respond by boycotting SCO and its

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won'tboot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Yes, I agree it doesn't seem right. So, what's your mobo? Did you check any unusual parameter in bios (e.g. for 0S/2 memory?). Do you run winblows too? Other possibility is a possible incompatibility between your memories, I suppose. Are they equal models? On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Adrian

Re: [expert] Another kde(?) oddity

2003-03-07 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:12, Anne Wilson wrote: If, from an email, I click on http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29632.html Netscape opens up with file:///home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/9857.0.29632.html in the address box, and links do not work. I have to delete the url,

Re: [expert] Another kde(?) oddity

2003-03-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 07 Mar 2003 2:59 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:12, Anne Wilson wrote: You are in better shape than I am. Since I installed Netscape when I click on a link nothing happens. I have to copy/paste. And no change was made to the ~/.gnome/Gnome! As a matter of

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-07 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 March 2003 09:40 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: SCO has decided to sue IBM for $US1 billion for alleged intellectual property infringement regarding IBM's contributions to GNU/Linux. SCO's actions are NOT good for Linux or open source,

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won 't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. Another. So you have 1G or more? I know the stock kernel won't handle mem above 1G. Does the rescue CD get you into linux? The enterprise kernel is what you want for large mem (for mdk

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. Hi Adrian, Try this, take out your new memory, go to Linux, install entreprise kernel (it supports large memory) from MDK cds, then check lilo if new kernel is their, reboot your

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:41, James Sparenberg wrote: ... Not an expert on this one here... but if you run man console-helper you'll see that this is another one of those programs in front of a program designed to run the program behind it programs... (is this confusing enough?) Kind

Re: [expert] cron tar

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:02, Colin Jenkins wrote: ... I did break up the copy into smaller parts, but can't see how the problem can be with tar, as it runs ok from the shell, but fails only from cron. :( sniff, snuffle... smells like environment variables, if not user permissions. What's

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
and that if the installer doesn't freeze in the meantime like it is my case. :) Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 06:40, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: SCO has decided to sue IBM for $US1 billion for alleged intellectual property infringement regarding IBM's contributions to GNU/Linux. SCO's actions are NOT good for Linux or open source, and we the community should not stand for it.

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
ASUS A7V8X motherboard. I didn't change anything in config between the installation of new module and linux not functioning anymore. I do run winblows 2000 professional (dual boot) as it is the only way to play some games for now. I am still fiddling with wine and winex so I can throw windoze

Fw: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Here is an answer I got from someone trying to help. If there is a fault in high-mem maybe someone could fix this before the release? On the other hand, Joerg since you seem to know more about this problem, could you post it as a bug in the mandrake bugzilla? I would really like to see this

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-07 Thread Jim C
smacks forehead Arrgh! Half the people I know belong there! ;-) Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:45, Vox wrote: There is hope that we can now someday end the (mutual) suffering! http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.shtml ;) (Bit of an old link, but I just tripped over

[expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
SIGH... I recently noticed that all my users' home directories had 755 permissions... changed this to 700 and now it's back to 755... What's the point of separate userids if msec allows each user to read another's directory?? Will there be a more secure default in 9.1...? If not, then I

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread civileme
On Friday 07 March 2003 01:30 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: :/ I just bought another 512MB DDR PC333 module for my PC and now my linux won't boot anymore. I tried an update from CD, installer doesn't work either. Memory just went through a 3 hours memtest86 and no error found. Windows

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Also I checked and mem=960M doesn't help and the enterprise kernel has same problem. I tried lowering the mem value even further and with 900 didn't work. With 800 it worked (both distro kernel and enterprise). :/ Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Adrian Golumbovici [EMAIL

[expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
I have been struggling with a problem on my machine since I reformatted and reinstalled Mandrake 9.0. Basically, anytime I attempt to rip a CD, my mouse goes absolutely bonkers. I run KDE 3.1 for my desktop, and rip CDs with Grip. I have run using my CDRW drive and my DVD/CD drive. I have

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Joerg Mertin
Well, I had similarities once regarding this - but it was due to the PCI-Bus. Try going into the CMOs Setup, and put in Failsafe settings. Make it slow as possible - eventually also turn down the CPU-Speed, and then try the install again. It might give you something ... Another thing to try is

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
It works with mem=800M (tried various but not all). But I wanted to warn you guys that the enterprise kernel has same problem! Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [expert] new

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Actually I wanted the A7N8X too, but they didn't have it when I had money to burn. :) I am going to give the mdk12 enterprise from the cooker a go and let ya know if at least that one works. Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Joerg Mertin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] OK, what am I doing wrong when compiling a new kernel?!?

2003-03-07 Thread Carlos Cifuentes
make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage (Image nor image) make modules make modules_install make install and (with the new kernel) depmod -a Adrian Golumbovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do:make menuconfigmake depmake cleanmake bzlilomake modulesmake modules_installliloEverything works

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 09:23, Pierre Fortin wrote: SIGH... I recently noticed that all my users' home directories had 755 permissions... changed this to 700 and now it's back to 755... What's the point of separate userids if msec allows each user to read another's directory?? Will there

[expert] Borked printer setup...Kcontrol wont let me fix it

2003-03-07 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I errantly added a printer via kcontrol (administration mode). The printer name appears whenever I start up the print manager from kcontrol and I can click on it as a user, but if I click on it as administrator, the printer manager locks up. I

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won'tboot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Adrian, man you got me, I have clue no longer but testing another memory module taken borrowed from a friend or somenthing. I hope you can solve your problem. Good luck. Cheers, On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: ASUS A7V8X motherboard. I didn't change anything in config

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won'tboot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Maybe Joerg had point the right problem. I was just wondering if you could get a 1Gb memory module to test and could so discard any possibility of being the mobo the origin of your problems. On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Also I checked and mem=960M doesn't help and the

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-07 Thread J.P. Pasnak
Pierre Fortin said: SIGH... I recently noticed that all my users' home directories had 755 permissions... changed this to 700 and now it's back to 755... What's the point of separate userids if msec allows each user to read another's directory?? Will there be a more secure default in

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Please do test it if you can borrow a 512MB module. If it really is a bug it should be fixed before release. I would be happy if anyone can help confirm the bug. For me I need to pass mem=800M also for enterprise kernel and still cannot install/upgrade anything because of it. :( Best regards,

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:27 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have been struggling with a problem on my machine since I reformatted and reinstalled Mandrake 9.0. Basically, anytime I attempt to rip a CD, my mouse goes absolutely bonkers. I run KDE 3.1 for my desktop, and rip CDs with Grip. I

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 06:40, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: SCO has decided to sue IBM for $US1 billion for alleged intellectual property infringement regarding IBM's contributions to GNU/Linux. SCO's actions are NOT good for Linux or open source, and we the community should not stand for it.

[expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
I have 384M of RAM and I'm using VMWare. Currently I give it 128M to play with, which because of that shared memory tmpfs Solaris-like voodoo is implemented under /tmp. For whatever reason, my system has set a maximum size of 188M on /tmp. Since upgrading (downgrading) my VMWare image from W98

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Tibor Pittich
On 07. mar 2003, 11:24, Jack Coates wrote: How can I increase the amount of tmpfs space in /tmp? check your kernel documentation: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt ... tmpfs has a couple of mount options: size: The limit of allocated bytes for this tmpfs instance. The

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:31, Tibor Pittich wrote: On 07. mar 2003, 11:24, Jack Coates wrote: How can I increase the amount of tmpfs space in /tmp? check your kernel documentation: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt ... tmpfs has a couple of mount options: size:

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
Any ideas? I am at a loss, and the original installation of Mandrake 9.0 did not have this problem. Have you changed any of the dma settings for your burner. Mandrake 9.0 turned them off by default, and I am thinking the high cpu utilization of not using dma is causing the mouse to

RE: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-07 Thread Franki
maybe we should be doing the opposite, and supporting IBM in this.. they are after all the biggest company promoting and helping the linux movement.. sell, IBM products and services and let them know we are on their side in this one... rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD drive? You can use hdparm to do this. Great little utility. (I'm assuming you do have IDE and not SCSI drives, right?). --

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Seff wrote on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:13:59PM -0500 : On this topic, does anybody know of any project that aims to be a drop-in replacement for exchange? I run an all Linux IT shop EXCEXT for Exchange because our sales people are literally

Re: [expert] OK, what am I doing wrong when compiling a new kernel?!?

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos Cifuentes wrote on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:41:25PM +0100 : lilo Everything works fine, but beside the new compiled kernel I cannot boot any other pre-existing kernel in my lilo.conf. :/ I answered this one already I

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread civileme
On Friday 07 March 2003 08:23 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Also I checked and mem=960M doesn't help and the enterprise kernel has same problem. I tried lowering the mem value even further and with 900 didn't work. With 800 it worked (both distro kernel and enterprise). :/ Best regards,

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ultimately, I rebooted after all this. I then found that root and user were able to query the database and install rpms again. At this point I don't know if my repeated --rebuilddb attempts actually worked but stalled before closing the process or what, but it is

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Miark
On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD drive? hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX as root where X is the letter of your drive. And put it in some suitable place, like /etc/rc.local although I remember Tom suggesting a better spot

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-07 Thread Jim C
Can one check one's self in after misusing rm -rf? ;-) Jim C wrote: smacks forehead Arrgh! Half the people I know belong there! ;-) Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:45, Vox wrote: There is hope that we can now someday end the (mutual) suffering!

Re: [expert] OK, what am I doing wrong when compiling a new kernel?!?

2003-03-07 Thread Jim C
Try this, dude: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/kernel.html It is a nice little Kernel rebuild HOWTO that includes lilo. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] cron tar

2003-03-07 Thread Jim C
This script work without any errors when run from the command line (only fails when run as a cron task) Have you checked your non-intereactive environment? Write short script that dumps the output of the env command to a file and then put it into cron. Next, examine the contents of the file and

Re: [expert] Sorry all

2003-03-07 Thread Jim C
Bless you, my son. You are forgiven. ;-) chuckleI even have a certificate from the ULC that says I can forgive others sins. ;-) Seems I'm double posting my replies I'm running the latest Cooker here and trying to figure out why it's started this all of the sudden... Please forgive me...

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread diego
Consolehelper is a program that makes you enter root/admin/... password before executing the program itself. There are programs that need to be run with more priviledges and this is like a graphical version of sudo... El jue, 06-03-2003 a las 20:42, Brian escribió: I just had some strange

Re: [expert] Re:[OT] Copernic equivalent for Linux?!? ... now we'retalking search fundamentals!

2003-03-07 Thread Miark
Anne, At Google, use a minus to exclude words, and the word OR. AND is otherwise implied. For example: music download now -media player ogg OR mp3 -microsoft would look for downloadable music MP3s or OGGs, but exclude any pages touting Media Player or Microshaft. Miark On Thu, 6 Mar 2003

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread Brian
For some reason, it was not prompting me to enter su password nor was it launching net_monitor. I had fears of a rootkit, despite what chkrootkit returned, so I did an MD5 checksum and there were inconsistencies. I wiped the root partition and restored a safe backup. All is well, although I

[expert] finding security holes

2003-03-07 Thread Leonardo
i've just finished setting up a mdk9.0 server with postfix, mailman, iptables and apache. Things are going fine, but I would like to know how can I detect any security breaches on my system to prevent possible hackerinvasions. I've been using the netstat command but there should be

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:41, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:31, Tibor Pittich wrote: On 07. mar 2003, 11:24, Jack Coates wrote: How can I increase the amount of tmpfs space in /tmp? check your kernel documentation: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:45, Brian wrote: For some reason, it was not prompting me to enter su password nor was it launching net_monitor. I had fears of a rootkit, despite what chkrootkit returned, so I did an MD5 checksum and there were inconsistencies. I wiped the root partition and

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:07, Jim C wrote: Can one check one's self in after misusing rm -rf? ;-) Well then heck none of us would be on the outside. PS about 4 months ago my 2 year old taught himself this command you know the random monkey syndrome. Now I make sure I'm logged out

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 12:16, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD drive? You can use hdparm to do this. Great little utility. (I'm assuming you do have IDE and not SCSI drives, right?).

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread Brian
Yeah, I couldn't rule that out. I'm behind a firewall, but there were simply a lot of oddities in the way my system was operating. I could have taken a month to track them all down, repair everything and learn a whole lot in the process, or I could start with a relatively clean slate. I'm

Re: [expert] www.TrueMajority.com

2003-03-07 Thread David Guntner
Adolfo ortiz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [A bunch of unrelated stuff] Oh god, *this* again And exactly what makes you think that this has anything at all to do with Linux, let alone Mandrake Linux. Everything in its place. This is not a political mailing list. Had I *wanted* to be on

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:20, James Sparenberg wrote: ... Jack is your lilo set to clean /tmp on reboot? er, kind of irrelevant with tmpfs :-) m -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD drive? You can use hdparm to do this. Great little utility. (I'm assuming you do have IDE and not SCSI drives, right?).

Re: [expert] www.TrueMajority.com

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wrote on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:35:46PM -0800 : Oh god, *this* again Chill guys. He was booted from the list within minutes of having sent that. Blue skies... Todd - -- MandrakeSoft USA

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 07:16 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD drive? You can use hdparm to do this. Great little utility.

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-07 Thread Vox
This time Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: smacks forehead Arrgh! Half the people I know belong there! ;-) Only half? :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to

Re: [expert] samb file permission

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Walker wrote on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:35:05AM - : Your force create mode = 660 is only going to give you __wx_wx___, in other words, the creator can only write and execute ( or get access to a folder ) 330 is --wx-wx--- 660 is -rw rw

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:36, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:20, James Sparenberg wrote: ... Jack is your lilo set to clean /tmp on reboot? er, kind of irrelevant with tmpfs :-) ooops missed that part sorry. (heads to coffee machine pushes mud button) I'll be coherent

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Golumbovici wrote on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:30:00AM +0100 : I just bought another 512MB DDR PC333 module for my PC and now my linux won't boot anymore. I tried an update from CD, installer doesn't work either. Memory just went through a 3

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:55:41AM -0800 : SCO has decided to sue IBM for $US1 billion for alleged intellectual property infringement regarding IBM's contributions to GNU/Linux. They are of course shooting themselves with this

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Golumbovici wrote on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:23:13PM +0100 : Also I checked and mem=960M doesn't help and the enterprise kernel has same problem. I tried lowering the mem value even further and with 900 didn't work. With 800 it worked (both

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 07 Mar 2003 09:42:49 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack, Thanks for the info... but I just gotta rant about msec... : On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 09:23, Pierre Fortin wrote: SIGH... I recently noticed that all my users' home directories had 755 permissions... changed this to

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:09:20 -0600 (CST) J.P. Pasnak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin said: SIGH... I recently noticed that all my users' home directories had 755 permissions... changed this to 700 and now it's back to 755... What's the point of separate userids if msec allows

[expert] How much kmem?

2003-03-07 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In a networking program, I am getting an ENOBUFS error return from calls to sendto() when trying to pump a large amount of data out. The documentation for ENOBUFS says that it means that the kernel could not allocate sufficient buffer space. How

Re: [expert] finding security holes

2003-03-07 Thread civileme
On Friday 07 March 2003 02:23 pm, Leonardo wrote: i've just finished setting up a mdk9.0 server with postfix, mailman, iptables and apache. Things are going fine, but I would like to know how can I detect any security breaches on my system to prevent possible hacker invasions. I've been using

Re: [expert] finding security holes

2003-03-07 Thread Leonardo
I'm very sorry!!! I didn't know that i was writting messages in html. I've had some problems with my home mdk box so i'm using (unfortunately) outlook. I'll try to figure out if there's any option that can disable the html format on e-mail messages. Anyway, thanks for the answer.I can't afford a

[expert] how to install kylix3 in the MDK 9 ?

2003-03-07 Thread Emerson de Mello
Hi All, A long time ago I asked if it was possible to install the Kylix3 in the MDK 9. Well, I tried but I had a problem. The following message of error was shown: Error Code: -10 And my RPM DB was corrupted. I saw that the problem involves rpmdb, because the version of my rpmdb is 4.0.4

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