Re: [expert] SSH Server problem

2003-08-14 Thread Jack Coates
look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Jack On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:11, João Candido A. Milasch Filho wrote: Hi! I sent this message b4 to newbie list, but I got absolute no answer. I hope someone can help me here... Thus, I tried to run telnetd from xinetd, no success, tried to

Re: [expert] Tool to set the monitor refresh rate

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Olaf Marzocchi Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:26:51 +0200 : Is there a tool to set the monitor refresh rate without manually editing the Xfree config file? It would be nice to add such section to the tool Mandrake already ships inside MDK control center. How about xvidtune? You open a xterm,

[expert] Font question -- Helvetica not accessible

2003-08-14 Thread deedee
I tried sending this to the newbie list, but there were no takers. I'm hoping someone here can help me. For some reason, I'm getting the following messages as xsession errors: The font -*-helvetica-boldoblique-r-narrow-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the

Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:44:00 + : If you use KDE the is a power management section in the kcontrol control center that will allow you to set warnings at whatever percent level you want. (worked for mine) And what is this KDE flummy playing frontend for? I don't use

Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!

2003-08-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:10, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Jack Coates 13 Aug 2003 10:13:26 -0700 : On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ... BTW: I recognized one more related thing: gkrellm shows battery-status either as 0% or -1%, totally independent of the real

[expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem

2003-08-14 Thread deedee
I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 14 August 2003 07:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router On average, about once a week I have to reboot my router. No apparent reason - just that no Internet connection works any more. After a reboot, all is well, both on this box and all others on the net.

Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Jack Coates 13 Aug 2003 10:13:26 -0700 : On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ... BTW: I recognized one more related thing: gkrellm shows battery-status either as 0% or -1%, totally independent of the real situation. It even shows 0% when the battery pack is out and I

RE: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-14 Thread Frankie
I had the same problem with my DSL504 router.. I found the hidden directory where Dlink keeps their pre release firmware updates. I installed the newest one they had.. and lo and behold it worked, my router has been running nonstop for about 4 weeks now without a reboot. Be careful though, if

Re: [expert] urpmi force

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 6 2003 11:12 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: There is a way to install a rpm even if it is already installed with --force when using rpm, but the question is exists a similar option for urpmi. --allow-force, there's also --allow-nodeps Use sparingly and with

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Bown
Ummm, for every CPU running 2.4 or above Eh ? A cpu cant run anything on its own, therefore no problem, Just to prove the point , remove the ram, disconnect the hard drive, now run linux Richard On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:01, Andy Davidson wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:24:30AM -0400,

Re: [expert] GPG/KMail fun...

2003-08-14 Thread Luca Olivetti
Mark Watts wrote: This just seems to be only affecting messages which are signed and I dont have the key for... Any ideas? Get the public keys you are missing? Bye -- Que les importa a las viudas, a los huérfanos, a los desvalidos si las masacres se hacen en nombre del totalitarismo o en el

Re: [expert] start x windows from remote login

2003-08-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 09:46, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, What's the best way to startx using remote login? Regards, Norman if you want the whole desktop, xdmcp. If you just want one app, and then run it. http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:36:11AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:24, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Guess I'll have to run 2.6 then *grin*

[expert] [OT]Burning DVDs (not necessarily movies!!!)

2003-08-14 Thread stefmit
I have - finally!!! - bitten the bullet and purchased myself a nice Sony DVD burner (IDE). I would love to hear from other people (probably off-line) using such a device, and their experience with the multitude of options, as well as their success/failure rate. So far - I found growisofs as

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-08-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 2:49 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 02:28, Anne Wilson wrote: Under kde, the startup wav doesn't play, but I haven't noticed any other lack of sound. Not only does xmms work correctly, but I'm getting sounds when emails arrive. I'm not worried

[expert] sftp ssh

2003-08-14 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, Since ssh now supports sftp. Is it still recommended to use sftp on port 115? Or it is preferred to sftp into port 22 instead? Where in the log do I see sftp connection? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

SUMMARY: Re: [expert] Experience with LM and Dual-processor boxen?

2003-08-14 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about LM and dual-processor boxen. It sounds like no one has had any problems, except that there was one caveat that one must run the latest 9.1 kernel to avoid some IRQ-related performance problems.

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 3:29 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 04:26 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Greg - Twiki entry, please? On-board devices worry people when choosing

RE: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Davidson Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 5:00 AM There are too many numbers running around. The $699\$1399 numbers are the before Oct 15/after Oct 15 price for a single-cpu server. The $199 number I

Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 04:12 am, Magnus Wirstrm wrote: Hi I know this is a little bit of topic but can anyone recommend a good program that converts MP3 to Wave with really nice quality ? Thanks Magnus You've probably already got XMMS installed - just install the diskwriter plugin for

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 Versus 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 8. August 2003 02:21 schrieb John Drouhard: On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:49:08 -0400 Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: correction Really how do I get in to expert mode in drakxconnect. I know how to in harddrake Type drakconnect in the terminal as root. At the first screen,

Re: [expert] SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02:05 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Normally I go to Best Buy, or Walmart and purchase the Power Pack edition, but I have been looking for Mandrake 9.1, and have _not_ been able to find it. I can find SuSE 8.2, and Red Hat 9.0, but no Mandrake, what gives? Hell I

Re: [expert] nifty tool

2003-08-14 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 01:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: ... My favourite app for such circumstances is Synergy: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ ... Just installed stable after x2vnc barfed a few times, this looks cool. I like the idea of screensaver synchronization.

Re: [expert] Super FreeS/WAN

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone tell me if Mandrake kernels have this or normal FreeS/WAN patched into them (I'm particularly interested in the NAT traversal and Aggressive mode stuff). Atleast current Cooker kernel is using SuperFreeS/WAN, If IRC it got included sometime after

Re: [expert] Aiptek VGA PenCam Trio

2003-08-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 07 Aug 2003 5:06 pm, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: Just picked one of these up from my local walmart for $30. It doesn't seem to want to work. Kamera and gphoto2 can't detect/communicate with it (Kamera complains about bad perameters, gphoto2 just can't seem to find it). The camera is

Re: [expert] SCO

2003-08-14 Thread charlie
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 02:47 am, Eric Fernandez wholly or partly mentioned :- These are donations given to Free projects supported by Mandrake: Mandrake Linux Open Source developments, not to the Mandrakesoft company.These donations cannot help Mandrakesoft (the company) decrease its debt, which

Re: [expert] Procmail configuration sample

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Pogliani wanted us to know: In the examples I saw, the default was always to $HOME/Mail Mail gets delivered to a default (what you might call INBOX) of /var/spool/mail/${USER}. This is also where UW-Imap expects INBOX to be. All other

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Lawson, Jim wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) XFS has a dump utility... non of the other FS's do (JFS or Reiserfs). There is a dump for ext2/3 but you'll have to use snapshoting with LVM or ELVM to keep dump from hanging (unless you want to umount

Re: [expert] Python Question

2003-08-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:15:22 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it would be best offline dunno. But would anyone know the python equivalent to grep Number $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals | awk -F= '{print $2;}' For the life of me I'm stumped... but that's no

Re: [expert] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Phil G.
On 11 Aug 2003 19:39:03 -0400, Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using ./popfile.pl , it requires an ENTER press before

Re: [expert] urpmi force

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 18:47, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: Thank everybody! 'man urpmi' can be your friend too... El Jue 07 Ago 2003 03:38, Tom Brinkman escribió: On Wednesday August 6 2003 11:12 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: There is a way to install a rpm even if it is already

Re: [expert] Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and9.1]

2003-08-14 Thread Charles-Roberts
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 20.51 05/08/2003, you wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 6:39 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Probable correct. Check the /etc/resolv.conf file to verify the entries for nameserver. That would have the nameserver for the lan, but surely he is looking for the primary and

Re: [expert] Sis 7012 audio

2003-08-14 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 11.25 06/08/2003, you wrote: I know that i810 allows XMMS to play, even if I don't hear anything. MDK by default chose ali and I got errors at boot, i810 should be fine (it's the module recommended in the page linked by Kwan Lowe. I tried the latest MDK kernel (not cooker). Sound not

Re: [expert] 2.4.20 MOSIX kernel hates Shorewall

2003-08-14 Thread Jim C
Yeah, when looking at it, that is what I thought too at first but you see that all through the trace and it only becomes a problem at this point. Also keep in mind that it works find on a non-mosix kernel. This would seem to indicate that it is a kernel issue not a shorewall issue. So here is

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 3:18 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:29 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However, although I have the RealPlayer plugin in Mozilla,

Re: [expert] rpm database corruption -severe

2003-08-14 Thread kwan
/usr/lib/rpm/db_dump Packages-ORIG | \ /usr/lib/rpm/db_load Packages (now, I don´t get the command here) = What is the final command above? Why the \ just after the pipe? It was probably a line continuation character. The \ was probably meant to go on the

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:24, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee Vance in Chicago

Re: [expert] Re: cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 21:57:13 +1000 Alex Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David E. Fox wrote: Why are you not sticking with Gcombust? Is there something it can't accomplish that you need done? Well, I'll have to think about it. gcombust will do the job, and I've had luck with it. At

Re: [expert] a pop-up remote command

2003-08-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:51, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I look for a command that could be used to pop-up a message in a remote Display, like using smbclint -M for winblows. Many thanks in advance. Cheers, I use winpop for that. Works just like the windows version and

[expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread logic . 7
I wonder... Will SCO come after me if I just switch to my copy of Caldera E- Desktop, the technology release that has an early 2.4 kernel? For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay?

[expert] XMMS plugins

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
I'd like to use an effect plug-in, but just _one_. As far as I can tell, you have to use all them or none of them which strikes me as remarkably stupid. No other plug-ins work like that in XMMS. Do you folks know any to use only one (besides un-installing the other plug-ins)? Miark Want to buy

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 11:36 am, Felix Miata wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here,

[expert] Re: Procmail config

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Pogliani wanted us to know: 1. what would I have to do to teach my system to place my /var/spool/mail/stefano mbox file into my $HOME/Mail directory? Basically you put a directive at the end of the procmailrc that will just deliver

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Kiran
I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different machines only once was I able to recover by removing the journal, fsck'ing and rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use ext2(probably the same amount of grief in three times the time) before ext3. I have however had no problems with

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 05:03, J.C. Woods wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee

Re: [expert] Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]

2003-08-14 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 08.42 06/08/2003, you wrote: Try one of these options... First, if you only have your own machine, and are not sharing the connection with any other machines, use K--Configuration--Packaging--Remove Software to remove Shorewall from your system completely. Your connection should work fine

[expert] urpmi force

2003-08-14 Thread Sergio Javier Belkin
There is a way to install a rpm even if it is already installed with --force when using rpm, but the question is exists a similar option for urpmi. Thanks in advance and please Don't pay atention to the absurd SCO's claims! -- Obed Liberty Software Libre al desktop http://obed.com.ar

Re: [expert] nifty tool

2003-08-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 01:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: ... My favourite app for such circumstances is Synergy: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ ... Just installed stable after x2vnc barfed a few times, this looks cool. I like the idea of screensaver synchronization. -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] start x windows from remote login

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
I think you're looking for vnc (tightvnc, actually). It allows you to log into the WM of your choice from a remote X workstation. Install tightvnc and tightvnc-server on the machines. On the server, type vncserver and give it a password. On the client machine, type vncserver 1.2.3.4:1 enter the

Re: [expert] EXT3 File Corruption?

2003-08-14 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:41, Todd Lyons wrote: I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2. So why does it do this on bootup, on the root filesystem? What is the advantage to this option, which has no

[expert] HARD DRIVE PROBLEMS WITH REISER!! HELP

2003-08-14 Thread Dalton Calford
Help I have an IDE Hard drive that holds my /home partition that will not mount. It is /dev/hdb1 and the drive has only one partition. I have tried reiserfsck with the --check option and it tells me that I have a bad superblock or that a hardware error has occured, but, it does not write any

[expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI

2003-08-14 Thread stefmit
To Whom It May Concern In a dual attempt to both obtain what I thought of being advertised as a good reference book for MDK specifics, and to support the MDK developers (as I do by buying their packages) - I have ordered and recently received the MDK Definitive Manual. Do NOT think of spending

Re: [expert] Problems using gdb in 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
If you are using XFS for your root file system, this is a known problem (Bugzilla #4000, 4158), and can be corrected by installing the recently released kernel (kernel-2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm). On Monday 11 August 2003 10:48 am, Magnus Wirström wrote: Hi everyone. This is my first

Re: [expert] SSH Server problem

2003-08-14 Thread PlugHead
You don't have an _external_ hardware firewall (like a cable/dsl router), do you? Those will block all incomming traffic by default... (Probably a dumb question.) Failing that, are you using xinetd for sshd as well? On my system, I simply disable it and run it as a daemon. It should be

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Albert E. Whale, CISSP
stefmit wrote: Instead of arguing amongst ourselves, why not taking the complaint directly to SCO? As someone on the Linux Users of Northern Illinois (LUNI) group correctly pointed out ; ... From the Register article we have the number: 1-800-726-8649 where we can call and give SCO our

Re: [expert] SSH Server problem *SOLVED* (sort of)

2003-08-14 Thread João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho
Well. I got an answer to my problem. About a year ago, my adsl provider blocked about all reserved ports, and thats why I can't use'em. Although I told you before that they were unblocked by the ISP. Then, I fall on another problem: The work's firewall! So, I'll need to get a list of unblocked

Re: [expert] k3b and supermount problem

2003-08-14 Thread R N dev
thx anyway, if i find the soluction i'll post it Angelo P.S. i think k3b is very good too but supermount is useful. --- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used xcdroast, but k3b is so cute!! I cannot helping using it, even without supermount. On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, R N dev

Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:16:39 -0700 : Doing some google searches I've run across just two Mentions of this ... Seems it's kernel related as you'll see. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-25/1591.html The second site is in german and related to a

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.0???

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
The 9.1 RPMs should work in 9.0 (I think). What happens when you try using them? Miark On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:13:37 -0400, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 August 2003 03:48 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, a friend of mine just asked me if there are KDE 3.1.3 RPMS for

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]

2003-08-14 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 12.23 08/08/2003, you wrote: The rule is routestopped IIUIC... It doesn't always work properly, as I've tried adding the IP numbers and hostnames of my two machines to that rule. Stop Shorewall, and even those hosts in the list are blocked. It is indeed a PITA to set up. I've found the Webmin

Re: [expert] cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:56, David E. Fox wrote: I'm using what seems to be an old version of cdbakeoven after someone (who shall remain nameless) suggested I try cdbakeoven after letting him know of my issues with k3b crashing in the midst of a burn. (On that, I can simulate the writing and

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 Versus 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2003 17:58 schrieb Lawson, Jim: Hi, Can some explain why Mandrake 9.1 will lose the internet connection sharing over night if I shut off the hub to my internal LAN. But Mandrake 9.0 has no problems with this. Its probably ifplugd. It detects that the network is

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:36:22 -0400, Glenn Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 August 2003 01:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:51, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:26:18 -0400 Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used these?

Re: [expert] Motherboard recommendation

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Axtell
Is repair not an option? With the state of manufacturered components the way they are due to so many bad caps in the supply chain, I'd rather a repair if I wanted full compatibility with my existing components. From http://www.motherboardrepair.com/ I just ordered some caps to fix a Soyo

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:47, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 11 August 2003 11:59 pm, Kiran wrote: I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different machines only once was I able to recover by removing the journal, fsck'ing and rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-14 Thread Stefano Pogliani
My helper list is empty, my plugin list is full. And nothing happens when I get to .ra files or others... Simply proposes to download them to the local disk /stefano John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference

Re: [expert] 2.4.20 MOSIX kernel hates Shorewall

2003-08-14 Thread Jim C
Well I looked at that section of the .config file and this did not appear to be the case. Also it doesn't cause an error until it reaches the NAT section of the shorewall commands. Later, when I can restart the box with that kernel, I'll get a trace so we can see exactly what command it is

[expert] mandrake wireless WEP problem?

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent Chen
Dear all, I tried to connect to mandrake 9.1 to an wireless AP. When WEP disabled, everything works fine. After WEP enabled, I can't access network. I believe it's WEP key problem. My AP an PCMCIA card use 13 hex digit as WEP key and works fine under windows xp. How can I set up WEP key under

Re: [expert] IPTABLES

2003-08-14 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mié, 13-08-2003 a las 05:07, Thomas Gamble escribió: I have been trying to get iptables set up on my gateway machine, but it isn't working like I think it should. I have the following entry in the rc.firewall script to block incoming SYN packets: EXT_IF=ppp0 IPTABLES=//sbin/iptables

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wanted us to know: My nephew did a hd.img install yesterday, and can't ping anything on his local network, much less reach the internet to do updates. The built-in You have to pass noapci acpi=off to the kernel at boot time with this

[expert] cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread David E. Fox
I'm using what seems to be an old version of cdbakeoven after someone (who shall remain nameless) suggested I try cdbakeoven after letting him know of my issues with k3b crashing in the midst of a burn. (On that, I can simulate the writing and just use k3b for the conversion and do the actual

Re: [expert] cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread David E. Fox
Why are you not sticking with Gcombust? Is there something it can't accomplish that you need done? Well, I'll have to think about it. gcombust will do the job, and I've had luck with it. At the same time though, I like the interfaces in cdbakeoven and k3b better. They also (supposedly) are

Re: [expert] What to do when qt2 libraries are needed (MDK 9.1)

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:27:27 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have it running just fine on 9.1 I installed it from source no problems, that is i installed nethack from source ;-) This is not true actually i think i did urpmi to install it, has been a while since i did that

Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!

2003-08-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:22, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:42, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:44:00 + : If you use KDE the is a power management section in the kcontrol control center that will allow you to set warnings at whatever

Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 11 August 2003 12:36 pm, stefmit wrote: Hopefully one day someone will write something worth O'Reilly publishing, as an MDK-specific reference book. Until then - long live the printouts from the web pages or from MDK email list archives, as handy references. Do not waste one penny

Re: [expert] gnome-print-devel

2003-08-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Phil G. wrote: How can I get gnome-print-devel? I haven't been able to find any rpms in the usual places. Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] rolf]$ urpmq --fuzzy gnome-print The following packages contain gnome-print: gnome-print libgnomeprint15-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED] rolf]$ urpmq --sources

Re: [expert] VMWARE $

2003-08-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 18:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 14:05, Joseph Loo wrote: I tried your suggestion. It comes back with this instead The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.21-0.13mdkcustom) does not match your running kernel (version 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp).

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 11 August 2003 01:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:51, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:26:18 -0400 Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) James S. Lawson Put my vote

[expert] Problems using gdb in 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Magnus Wirström
Hi everyone. This is my first posting to this list. I have a problem and i am not sure if this is the right place to send this. If it is not i apologize :) I am trying to debug an application that i'm writing. When i set breakpoints and run the program it gives me something like this:

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Anne Wilson
I don't see the point in going back to ext2. Ext3 is just ext2 + journal, so you would be changing nothing in the file system, just losing the journal. FWIW I've been using ext3 for around 18 months and despite the occasional bad shutdown I've lost nothing. I see no point in changing. Anne

Re: [expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!

2003-08-14 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Mate, make sure you remove acpi=off and check if it work. Worked for me yesterday when installing a new Laptop of a friend. However - I don't know if the suspend stuff works - at least we could see the battery charge level etc. and hitting the powerbutton performs a clean shutdown. Anyone

[expert] Wma to ogg it was MP3 to Wave

2003-08-14 Thread Nisco
Btw ayone of you has an idea about how to create ogg files from m$ wma? thanks in advance Nisco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] net-snmp v. ucd-snmp ? Anyone knows the differences ?

2003-08-14 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Folks, Anyone could tell me what the main differences are between net-snmp and ucd-snmp ? I'm wondering why the php-package do require the net-snmp-mib package ? I had written quite some apps using the ucd-snmp package - which are all broken now. Seems the SNMP Extensions from net-snmp are

[expert] PDF haywire

2003-08-14 Thread David E. Fox
OK Well I have received a pdf file from overseas I want to print out. It's only 4 pages, and it's about 190K. Neither konqueror or kghostview will read it, but xpdf or acroread will. Printing is not possible as it launches a perl from kprinter that quickly gobbles up all RAM and swap (and I have

[expert] VMWare 4 and USB scanner

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
I'm trying to use a USB scanner in VMWare, but it reports that Linux won't let it go: The specified device appears to be claimed by another driver (usbscanner) on the host operating system which means that the device may be in use. VMware Workstation cannot safely take control of the

[expert] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using ./popfile.pl , it requires an ENTER press before you get your command prompt back. What causes this, and how do I fix

Re: [expert] 2.4.20 MOSIX kernel hates Shorewall

2003-08-14 Thread Jim C
Jack Coates wrote: okay, let's hunt this down together, shall we. for i in `rpm -ql shorewall`; do echo $i sudo grep -c run_iptables $i; done Okay, that came from /usr/lib/shorewall/firewall. less it and /run_ip -- okay, it's a wrapper that provides a graceful exit in the event of iptables

[expert] Tool to set the monitor refresh rate

2003-08-14 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Is there a tool to set the monitor refresh rate without manually editing the Xfree config file? It would be nice to add such section to the tool Mandrake already ships inside MDK control center. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] does Mdk's php support mysql?

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 04, 2003 at 07:24:50AM -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote: I'm trying to learn some php/mysql and i've came across this error message whenever i try to load a one-line php file that connects to a local mysql database: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect()

Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave

2003-08-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:12:07 +0200, Magnus Wirström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I know this is a little bit of topic but can anyone recommend a good program that converts MP3 to Wave with really nice quality ? Thanks Magnus Try this: http://seismo.ethz.ch/linux/mp3_wav.html --

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:24, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Lawson, Jim wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) XFS has a dump utility... non of the other FS's do (JFS or Reiserfs). There is a dump for ext2/3 but you'll have to use snapshoting with LVM or

[expert] GPG/KMail fun...

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following image demonstrates a problem I'm having with a fresh 9.1 install, using an existing gpg key... http://www.innocentbystanders.com/~mwatts/kmail.jpg All other types of gpg signed message are processed correctly; fully trusted keys are

Re: [expert] [OT]Burning DVDs (not necessarily movies!!!)

2003-08-14 Thread David Rankin
Let me know what you find out. I too just bought the Sony and I am trying to learn the DVD burning process. I don't even know what tools are available much less the compatibility of the formatts +/- etc... Which is the preferred format R+, R-?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC

[expert] gnome-print-devel

2003-08-14 Thread Phil G.
How can I get gnome-print-devel? I haven't been able to find any rpms in the usual places. Phil -- Using Mandrake Linux 9.1 www.mandrakesoft.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] ActivePerl users

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
Anybody here use ActivePerl in Winblows? If so, could you gimme a shout off-list? Gracias, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What to do when qt2 libraries are needed (MDK 9.1)

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 11 August 2003 12:03 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I downloaded the nethack rpm from nethack.org but it requires qt2, while I have only qt3. Should I install it by force or something else? Anyway, how dare Mandrake remove NetHack from the distro? :-) Thanks Olaf You'll need to get

[expert] Laptop dies unexpectedly!

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, I know this line from former times when I used ISDN to cennect to the internet. :) Now I have a brandnew laptop. Specs see http://bug-e.net/Webgine/ Problem is: When running on battery it gives no warning whatsoever, it dies in the middle of work when the battery runs dry. Suspend mode

Re: [expert] What to do when qt2 libraries are needed (MDK 9.1)

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Gordon
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:03:05 +0200 Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the nethack rpm from nethack.org but it requires qt2, while I have only qt3. Should I install it by force or something else? I have it running just fine on 9.1 I installed it from source no problems,

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread David Guntner
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? That's all part of their FUD campain. They may try to charge for it, but there's no way they

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