[expert] cups printing problem while connected to DSL

2003-03-11 Thread W. Kasberg
I suddenly have a heavy printing problem: while beeing connected to the internet (via rp-pppoe-gui and DSL) I cannot print. kprinter does not show any printer. After closing the DSL all printers appear agian. This came up recently. I have installed: -- cups-common-1.1.18-1.1mdk

Re: [expert] Kmail POP filter

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 1:17 am, engage wrote: On Monday 10 March 2003 03:32 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 11:21 pm, engage wrote: Is anyone using this (Settings-Configure POP filters)? I'm trying to get it to delete HTML e-mail from the mail server instead of

Re: [expert] Simple question about netstat - not in man pages.

2003-03-11 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 0.0.0.0 = any Further to this, if you see a service listening on 0.0.0.0, it actually means the service is listening on all available (and future) interfaces. tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp

Re: [expert] Simple question about netstat - not in man pages.

2003-03-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:50, Vox wrote: 0.0.0.0 = any On TCP/IP networking, 0 as any octet of an IP is, for all purposes, a universal globing. That's why I hate people who set their LANs to use 192.168.0.x as their IPs...it drives me crazy, even if it's valid :) Vox Hi Vox:

Re: [expert] Simple question about netstat - not in man pages.

2003-03-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 06:58 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:50, Vox wrote: 0.0.0.0 = any On TCP/IP networking, 0 as any octet of an IP is, for all purposes, a universal globing. That's why I hate people who set their LANs to use 192.168.0.x as their IPs...it

Re: [expert] Simple question about netstat - not in man pages.

2003-03-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 07:58, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi Vox: I don't know if I understood what you meant by universal globing and why you hate 0 in IPs. As long as 0 is not the ending octet, it has no special meaning in IP addresses. The same applies to 255, or to any power of 2 number.

Re: [expert] Slow FTP and POP3

2003-03-11 Thread et
And even more important to _me_, where did you find a hosting/co-location service using Mandrake? On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:49 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 13:58, Miark wrote: It's me, O, Lord :-) I Googled the situation and found the answer: ident lookups. I have

Re: [expert] Simple question about netstat - not in man pages.

2003-03-11 Thread Vox
This time Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:50, Vox wrote: 0.0.0.0 = any On TCP/IP networking, 0 as any octet of an IP is, for all purposes, a universal globing. That's why I hate people who set their LANs to use 192.168.0.x as

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 1:18 pm, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I'm trying to get to grips with both this one and the one that follows it. Bear with me, it's brain-spinning g you may not have an hda and hdb, but, when 'what ever' wrote your 'lilo.conf', it thought you need to have them. so,

Re: [expert] Simple question about netstat - not in man pages.

2003-03-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:50:52 -0600 Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On TCP/IP networking, 0 as any octet of an IP is, for all purposes, a universal globing. That's why I hate people who set their LANs to use 192.168.0.x as their IPs...it drives me crazy, even if it's valid :) Get over

Re: Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Joe Braddock
I'm not sure if this is the case or not, but might this problem be due to how your drives are partitioned as in primary vs extended partitions? Could it be that if your OS, doesn't matter which is actually in an extended partition, that LILO need to mount the primary partition containing it to

Re: [expert] Simple question about netstat - not in man pages.

2003-03-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:58, Pierre Fortin wrote: Get over it... your statement is factually incorrect what you are probably referring to is the old-style [sub]net broadcast address Classfull: 192.0.0.0: old-style broadcast -- last 0 only (Class C) 162.198.0.0: old-style broadcast

Re: Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 1:02 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: Hi, Joe I'm not sure if this is the case or not, but might this problem be due to how your drives are partitioned as in primary vs extended partitions? Could it be that if your OS, doesn't matter which is actually in an extended partition,

[expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread James Conner
I'd been using Mofset's Liquid style on KDE 3.0.5a on MDK 9.0 for quite a while. I wanted to upgrade to KDE 3.1, but didn't want to lose Liquid. I installed KDE 3.1 from here: ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-addon/KDE 3.1 MDK 9.0/rpms First I had to download all files into a subdirectory and

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:47, James Conner wrote: I'd been using Mofset's Liquid style on KDE 3.0.5a on MDK 9.0 for quite a while. I wanted to upgrade to KDE 3.1, but didn't want to lose Liquid. I installed KDE 3.1 from here: ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-addon/KDE 3.1 MDK 9.0/rpms

Re: [expert] Simple question about netstat - not in man pages.

2003-03-11 Thread Jim C
Thanks to everyone who has answered this. You've cleared up things a great deal for me. Jim C. Vox wrote: This time Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: The -l just lists ports that are in the act of listening, whereas active connections are listed separately. For instance,

Re: [expert] Slow FTP and POP3

2003-03-11 Thread Miark
James, For FTP, I edited /etc/proftpd.conf to include the following line: IdentLookups off and then restarted ProFTP with /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd restart For POP/POPS I edited ipop3 and pops in /etc/xinetd.d/ to include log_on_success = yes instead of what it was(=+

Re: [expert] Slow FTP and POP3

2003-03-11 Thread Miark
Actually I didn't--it's our box, not theirs. Miark On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:23:34 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And even more important to _me_, where did you find a hosting/co-location service using Mandrake? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:47, James Conner wrote: ... Now I had to get Mofset's Liquid. I looked for an updated rpm and it didn't exist, so I went to his web site to get the tarball. He claims on his web site( http://www.mosfet.org/liquid.html ) that Mandrake uses a non-standard directory

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 1:18 pm, g wrote: I'm trying to get to grips with both this one and the one that follows it. Bear with me, it's brain-spinning g not having been into hardware, i can understand how it is confusing to you. i am looking forward to your comments on 'one

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 5:00 pm, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 1:18 pm, g wrote: I'm trying to get to grips with both this one and the one that follows it. Bear with me, it's brain-spinning g not having been into hardware, i can understand how it is confusing to

Re: [expert] How to mend a stupid slip?

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:11:52PM + : Konqueror-Settings-ConfigureKonqueror-KonquerorBrowser. Uncheck the Enable completion of forms setting or lower the number to 1, login, and then log back out. That should clear it to

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread James Conner
On Tuesday March 11, 2003 04:18 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: snip It is simply wrong that Mandrake breaks kde, its a lie . full stop. The only thing that mandrake changes is the location of the menus, since it uses debian-style menu-entries as far as I know. But so debian would break kde too.

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread James Conner
On Tuesday March 11, 2003 04:52 pm, Jack Coates wrote: snip In this month's Linux Journal, there's an article about KDE's Desktop Sharing which makes it very clear what one needs to do to compile software for KDE on Mandrake. It agrees with your process. Perhaps Mosfet should consider a

Re: [expert] Shorewall - DL'ed fm shorewall website

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wrote on Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:28:10PM -0800 : So basically the local network and the firewall box can talk to anyone but, as defined below, not anyone can talk back. Not quite. If you send a packet out, a reply coming back in (aka talk

Re: [expert] LT Win Modem on Notebook Computer

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:02:41PM -0500 : Dear all, I am using a notebook computer and I installed Mandrake 9.0. The problems I am having is that my notebook cannnot get on internet. My notebook has a LT Win Modem and I

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Conner wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:25:27PM + : Well, some distros put KDE in /opt/kde and some, like Mandrake, put it in /usr. Granted, there are pros and cons on both sides. I'm not starting this thread to discuss that, I just

Re: [expert] Shorewall - DL'ed fm shorewall website

2003-03-11 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No. You're allowing people to ssh directly to your firewall. That's not safe. At the very least use tcpwrappers to limit what IP's can connect to the sshd daemon. Even better, limit it to key based ssh'ing (ie no interactive login). Make

[expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, MDK9.0, I can't print from mozilla or mozilla based brousers. The only printer that shows is a postscript printer. I have a Deskjet 841c (cups) on the network that works for everything else. I searched the archives but didn't find an answer that works. Looks like others have had

RE: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Can you print from KDE 3.x? If so, try making your print command kprinter --stdin and that should get you going... David -Original Message- From: Daniel Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:49 PM To: Expert Subject: [expert] mozilla and printing Hi,

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 7:49 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, MDK9.0, I can't print from mozilla or mozilla based brousers. The only printer that shows is a postscript printer. I have a Deskjet 841c (cups) on the network that works for everything else. I searched the archives but didn't

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Anderson wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:49:16PM -0500 : Hi, MDK9.0, I can't print from mozilla or mozilla based brousers. The only printer that shows is a postscript printer. I have a Deskjet 841c (cups) on the network that works

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 7:51 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Can you print from KDE 3.x? If so, try making your print command kprinter --stdin and that should get you going... That's the one I was trying to remember. Thanks David. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Daniel Anderson
Thanks Todd. That fixed it. And thanks to all who responded. Dan On Tuesday 11 March 2003 02:56 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Anderson wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:49:16PM -0500 : Hi, MDK9.0, I can't print from mozilla or mozilla based

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 11:56, Todd Lyons wrote: ... Change your print command to either 'lpr' or 'xpp' in Mozilla (go into Properties in the print dialog). You probably don't have xpp installed by default, so you'll need to manually install it. I recommend it as it's super and works GREAT.

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: Trouble is, it doesn't work, and hasn't done since these appeared in lilo that was a part i was not sure about. if lilo.conf had been working. this puts a whole different light on subject. Since it was not there from the start, I am beginning to wonder if something I did

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Preston-Campbell
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 03:51 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 11:56, Todd Lyons wrote: ... Change your print command to either 'lpr' or 'xpp' in Mozilla (go into Properties in the print dialog). You probably don't have xpp installed by default, so you'll need to manually

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Jim C
Oooo! I'll byte! I've tried installing it before and couldn't get it to work. Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:47, James Conner wrote: ... Now I had to get Mofset's Liquid. I looked for an updated rpm and it didn't exist, so I went to his web site to get the tarball. He claims on

Re: Re: Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Joe Braddock
Are the ATA66 controllers connected to anything? If not, is the controller disabled in CMOS (the hde and hdf correspond to the 3rd and 4th primary controller). Of course, disabling the controller in CMOS might cause nothing to boot as your drives might change from hde/hdf to hdc/hdd, so you

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 7:56 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Anderson wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:49:16PM -0500 : Hi, MDK9.0, I can't print from mozilla or mozilla based brousers. The only printer that shows is a postscript printer. I

RE: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Not having ever used xpp, can anyone compare/contrast it's features and capabilities vs. the KDE print system? I'm a huge advocate of the KDE system since it wraps a very easy to use and polished interface around a lot of neat features (print to ps, pdf, email, fax etc) as well as providing all

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:46:19PM + : Change your print command to either 'lpr' or 'xpp' in Mozilla (go into This is a big help. The remaining print problem for me is in printing text files from KEdit or KWrite. Margins

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread mycal62
Hi Jack, tried it on my system as you outlined and it compiled and installed fine except for the transparent menus :-( athlon xp 1700+ epox 8kta3pro MB kde 3.1 on a Mdk 9.0 system did the transparent menus work for you ? Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:47, James Conner wrote:

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:50:26PM -0800 : Looking at the screenshots on the xpp homepage, my first impression of the interface was that it wasn't as polished or user-friendly as KDE's printing system. However,

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Jim C
Liquid 0.9.5 on KDE 3.0.x bombs on the configure. Can't find qt3 despite the fact that it is installed. Now I had to get Mofset's Liquid. I looked for an updated rpm and it ... on its success or failure? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 8:44 pm, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: are you saying that you had both drives on ata100 controller and it was working. now it has diff layout? Yes. I have made no change to the physical layout. The drives are where they have always been. I was booting between windows

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 9:51 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:46:19PM + : Change your print command to either 'lpr' or 'xpp' in Mozilla (go into This is a big help. The remaining print problem for me is

Re: Re: Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 7:29 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: Are the ATA66 controllers connected to anything? If not, is the controller disabled in CMOS (the hde and hdf correspond to the 3rd and 4th primary controller). Of course, disabling the controller in CMOS might cause nothing to boot as your

RE: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Hi Todd. Thanks for the reply. As an FYI, you can do the same thing with the KDE print system as well with the kprinter wrapper application. try cat file.txt | kprinter --stdin (optionally with --nodialog) or kprinter file.txt I use kprinter in this manner with all of my non-KDE apps

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 9:50 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Not having ever used xpp, can anyone compare/contrast it's features and capabilities vs. the KDE print system? I'm a huge advocate of the KDE system since it wraps a very easy to use and polished interface around a lot of neat

RE: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:50, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Not having ever used xpp, can anyone compare/contrast it's features and capabilities vs. the KDE print system? I'm a huge advocate of the KDE system since it wraps a very easy to use and polished interface around a lot of neat

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
Try James Connor -- I just pointed out an article, he's the one compiling :-) On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:01, mycal62 wrote: Hi Jack, tried it on my system as you outlined and it compiled and installed fine except for the transparent menus :-( athlon xp 1700+ epox 8kta3pro MB kde 3.1 on a

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Anne... I've been avidly following this discussion regarding ATA100 drives because I saw something quite akin to that just last week. I formatted and installed two ATA100 drives, both on the primary cable as Master/Slave, and did a

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread g
Dave Laird wrote: decided in a rash moment of heat, to put one drive as primary/master and one drive as secondary/master. The second drive disappeared. did you change fstab and lilo.conf? peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: Yes. I have made no change to the physical layout. The drives are where they have always been. I was booting between windows and Mdk 8.2 before I installed 9.0. there is a diff with 8.2 and 9.0. what i do not know. something to do with how booting is handled. if you do

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'afternoon, g... On Tuesday 11 March 2003 02:24 pm, g wrote: did you change fstab and lilo.conf? Yup. I looked in dmesg, and everything matches. I think the problem is with the MB BIOS, since the secondary drive is a 120 G EIDE on an 80 pin

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:55:37PM -0800 : Liquid 0.9.5 on KDE 3.0.x bombs on the configure. Can't find qt3 despite the fact that it is installed. At the time that Liquid was written, Mandrake was using the qt libs which were named

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:59:12PM + : I tried adjusting them on one printer layout, but KEdit brings up the kde print interface, which appears to ignore what has been set via xpp. Is this your experience? Yes. But for

Re: [expert] LT Win Modem on Notebook Computer

2003-03-11 Thread ZeroFighter1969
Hi, Todd Thank you for your explanation for the modem. I tried to do it, but I could not make it. MDK9.0 does not recognize the modem after installing ltmodem-kv_2.4.19_16mdk-8.26a9-1.i586.rpm. When I tried to get on web using kppp, kppp was trying to initialize the modem, but it won't proceed

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Anthony Moulen
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 05:05 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:50, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Not having ever used xpp, can anyone compare/contrast it's features and capabilities vs. the KDE print system? I'm a huge advocate of the KDE system since it wraps a very

[expert] Apache - ScriptAlias Invalid command

2003-03-11 Thread Rick -Gilligan- Uschold
I installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 from a cd about a year ago. Recently, I tried to get the Apache web server going. It woks, except that it won't run cgi scripts. I set the exact same configuration that currently works for linux Mandrake 7.0, running on the exact same machine, in a different

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-11 Thread David E. Fox
Is it possible to use drakautoinst to automate an effectively upgrade a machine from one release to another? Rather than try to use the upgrade Should be. I've wondered the same thing, although not in the context of drakautoinst. Debian (for instance) allows you to do a dist-upgrade (aka

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:22, David E. Fox wrote: Is it possible to use drakautoinst to automate an effectively upgrade a machine from one release to another? Rather than try to use the upgrade Should be. I've wondered the same thing, although not in the context of drakautoinst. Debian

Re: [expert] Help! root full but can't find a cause

2003-03-11 Thread David E. Fox
du -xsh /*Summary of the size of all dirs that are on /-partition serach the biggest dir and then go to that dir and do the same.=20 Hey - that's a very useful command. ;) It lists directories that could be located on their own file systems, though. Adding -x according to the man page for

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-11 Thread David E. Fox
Q: what's the difference between doing it with a cooker directory and a release directory? A: Someone at MandrakeSoft changed the label from cooker to release. Hint: they didn't tell urpmi about that. Hmm. An interesting approach, but it's dependent on timing. If one would updagte to cooker

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:58, David E. Fox wrote: Q: what's the difference between doing it with a cooker directory and a release directory? A: Someone at MandrakeSoft changed the label from cooker to release. Hint: they didn't tell urpmi about that. Hmm. An interesting approach, but

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:58, David E. Fox wrote: Q: what's the difference between doing it with a cooker directory and a release directory? A: Someone at MandrakeSoft changed the label from cooker to release. Hint: they didn't tell urpmi about that. Hmm. An interesting approach, but

Re: [expert] Help! root full but can't find a cause

2003-03-11 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:45 pm, David E. Fox wrote: du -xsh /*Summary of the size of all dirs that are on /-partition serach the biggest dir and then go to that dir and do the same.=20 Hey - that's a very useful command. ;) It lists directories that could be located on their own

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-11 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Tue 2003-03-11 at 22:25:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I gave up on Debian in disgust when I used apt-get to fix a security problem in gcc and it helpfully upgraded the kernel and glibc to a version that made my build environment useless. urpmi occassionally makes decisions I

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-11 Thread Vox
This time James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: As urpmi exists I wouldn't think it would work. I've seen the distro upgrade done on debian.. If you aren't too far out of date it works eventually. But if you are way out of date it has a real chance of