Re: [expert] ATTN Eric and Anne regarding TWiki

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Huff
Note this, I'm not complaining one bit. However I'm in a bit of a quandry in that I can't find 1. The pages I put up before. Hmm... Which pages were they? It is possible they were added to other pages cut and paste style, and even more possible that they were moved around. If you do a

Re: [expert] [OT - Q] Fwd: Mandrake newsletter: Mandrake Linux 9.2 pre-orders being accepted

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Huff
I have a question for some of you, who may be closer to the Mandrake happenings: it is my understanding that a direct purchase from Mandrake is much more helpful to them than a regular store one. From what i hear, the best way to support them is thru the club and download, if that's an

Re: [expert] numlock

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Huff
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:13:47 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. /etc/rc.d/init.d/numlock has to be run on boot. If you boot into runlevel 5 (multiuser graphical environment) then you have in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d a link like @S85numlock which points to /etc/init.d/numlock 2. You

Re: [expert] numlock

2003-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Eric Huff schrieb am Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:10:59 -0700: Mine looks like this: MY_TTY=`tty` case $MY_TTY in /dev/tty[0-9]*) [ -f /etc/sysconfig/numlock ] setleds -D +num $MY_TTY;; esac unset MY_TTY If i understand it right, since i don't have /etc/sysconfig/numlock, that would

[expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James
I finally got my 9.1 Mandrake working wonderfully as a server. All my virtual web pages work wonderfully.. and now I am ready to open an FTP connection so I can finish uploading a ton of files from a different computer. Only problem is, I don't know how to get FTP to work in this version. I've

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 01:12, James wrote: I finally got my 9.1 Mandrake working wonderfully as a server. All my virtual web pages work wonderfully.. and now I am ready to open an FTP connection so I can finish uploading a ton of files from a different computer. Only problem is, I don't

[expert] HAM sotfware..VOIP

2003-10-08 Thread Richard Bown
Hi all I know there are a few Hams on this list as I've spotted the odd callsign on sig files. Applications like Echolink which which only runs on windows are getting very popular. However it cant be run on Win4Lin as no input devices are supported. Attempts so far to run on vmware have no been

[expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James
James Sparenberg wrote: :First question here for me is what is the result of :/etc/init.d/proftpd status I get: proftpd dead but subsys locked I get that even after I type service proftpd start :Second what is the result of :rpm -qa | grep proftpd I get proftpd-1.2.9rc2-2 Thank you for your

[expert] Bug Reporting Micro Mini How to

2003-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
All, I've added to the Twiki in the form of a mini how to on proper bug report submission. Feel free to adjust. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BugReporting Eric. Thanks for the info it's in the tree now and all seems well in that respect. James Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 02:18, James wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: :First question here for me is what is the result of :/etc/init.d/proftpd status I get: proftpd dead but subsys locked I get that even after I type service proftpd start cd into /var/lock/subsys and remove the 0 byte file

[expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James
Thanks for the reply! I've removed the 0 byte file, and I've also removed the proftpd version I had. I then typed urpmi proftpd but got this reply: no package named proftpd Where do I get Mandrake's version? I went to both my 2nd and 3rd CD.. the 3rd CD has the anonymous ftpd version, but it

Re: [expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 08 October 2003 05:06 pm, James wrote: I've removed the 0 byte file, and I've also removed the proftpd version I had. I then typed urpmi proftpd but got this reply: no package named proftpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documents]# rpm -qa |

[expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James
Fajar wrote: :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Documents]# rpm -qa | grep proftpd :proftpd-1.2.7-1mdk :If for some reasons you can't do it using urpmi, use the graphical :package installer, and search proftp The rpm -qa | grep proftpd returned nothing. When I go to the graphical installer, the only ftp program

Re: [expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
http://rpmfind.net in most cases will have your rpm. But you better update your package lists, perform a urpmi.update -a If you dont have additional sources created for getting packages, check out easy urpmi at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php This will create a command line to

Re: [expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Robert Crawford
gftp has always worked perfectly for me on Mandrake, and Gentoo. I highly recommend it. Robert Crawford On Wednesday 08 October 2003 7:13 am, James wrote: Fajar wrote: :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Documents]# rpm -qa | grep proftpd :proftpd-1.2.7-1mdk :If for some reasons you can't do it using urpmi,

[expert] creating /multimedia folder with 777 permissions.

2003-10-08 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I want to create /multimedia folder with 777 permissions. I have perm.local in /etc/security/msec/ which reads like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msec]# cat perm.local /multimedia/root.root 777 Still folder is not having permissions as desired. What to do? -- L.V.Gandhi 203,

Re: [expert] HAM sotfware..VOIP

2003-10-08 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 04:57, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I know there are a few Hams on this list as I've spotted the odd callsign on sig files. Applications like Echolink which which only runs on windows are getting very popular. However it cant be run on Win4Lin as no input devices are

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread David Rankin
Worse comes to worse, try: # vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd service ftp { disable = yes socket_type = stream wait= no user= root server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd server_args

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
you know what I do when I want to transfer a big bunch of files? scp -r big-buncha-files [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/new/home/of/files You can also use: scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/big/buncha/files /new/home/of/files It's a little more CPU-intensive than FTP'ing them, but who cares? It's also a lot

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks all, I have it working in a desireable fashion now. I am once again using fetchmail + postfix and, now, spamassassin to deal with my incoming mail. Procmail is properly directing a subset of my mail to my mailbox directly and passing the

Re: [expert] KMail bookmarks XML to HTML

2003-10-08 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:28:49 +0200 Tomas Rett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I convert the bookmarks.xml file from KMail to another format, for example the bookmarks.html file of Mozilla ? Click on Bookmarks - Manage Bookmarks - then I think (not using Kmail anymore) under File there is an

Re: [expert] [OT] t-shirt?

2003-10-08 Thread michael
James Sparenberg mused: On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 20:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Anyone know if Mandrake has ball caps or t-shirts? Maybe a bumper sticker? I´d like to brag about using mdk. They did now it would seem they don't... James bummer... -- Michael Holt

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread David Guntner
Praedor Atrebates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks all, I have it working in a desireable fashion now. I am once again using fetchmail + postfix and, now, spamassassin to deal with my incoming mail. Procmail is properly directing a subset of my mail to my mailbox directly and passing

[expert] forcing a complete logrotation

2003-10-08 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cannot recall the command and reading the man pages doesn't really help me (all too often the man pages are either out of date or too cryptic for someone not well-versed with a given app). How do I do a logrotate on all logs? My laptop doesn't

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:30 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Thanks all, I have it working in a desireable fashion now. I am once again using fetchmail + postfix and, now, spamassassin to deal with my incoming mail. Procmail is properly directing a subset of my mail to my mailbox directly

Re: [expert] numlock

2003-10-08 Thread michael
James Sparenberg mused: I don't have/use fluxbox so I'm not sure there. Would seem that the config file for that also has an overide that needs to be changed. Is there a .fluxbox file in your home dir? James There´s a startup file under .fluxbox where you can start other programs from;

[expert] Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I'm running software RAID on 9.0. I would like ask what's the best way of setting the swap partition? I currently have two swap partitions of identical (not mirrored) setup on both drives. I heard mirroring swap is waste of time. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] numlock

2003-10-08 Thread michael
Wolfgang Bornath mused: Bah, another place to search for the solution To me this is of rather academical interest. I boot my desktop maybe once a month and all I have to do to set numlock is to push a single key button. What do you think, how much fat will I burn, pushing this button

Re: [expert] forcing a complete logrotation

2003-10-08 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:04:10 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cannot recall the command and reading the man pages doesn't really help me (all too often the man pages are either out of date or too cryptic for someone not

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the reply but the problem was: I had a ~/.fetchmailrc. It worked so long as I started fetchmail myself. If I tried to start fetchmail thus (as root) /etc/init.d/fetchmail start or if I started up MCC and then tried to start fetchmail

Re: [expert] forcing a complete logrotation

2003-10-08 Thread Larry Sword
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cannot recall the command and reading the man pages doesn't really help me (all too often the man pages are either out of date or too cryptic for someone not well-versed with a given app). How do I do a logrotate on all

Re: [expert] Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:11, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I'm running software RAID on 9.0. I would like ask what's the best way of setting the swap partition? I currently have two swap partitions of identical (not mirrored) setup on both drives. I heard mirroring swap is waste of time.

Re: [expert] HAM sotfware..VOIP

2003-10-08 Thread Richard Bown
Hi Dan, Yes that very much proves the point. There is a vast amount of s/w that can be used, buts very its fragmented, and some was written when both Mandrake and Redhat were in their infancy. Some require ancient versions of ncurses to work, as well as some old libs. For Packet use there really

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread David Rankin
Good point, but it presupposes that the other comuputer is a Linux box and not some inferrior breed that doesn't understand scp ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message -

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
samba then? Mount a linux filesystem via samba to the inferrior breed. Richard --- David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point, but it presupposes that the other comuputer is a Linux box and not some inferrior breed that doesn't understand scp ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.

[expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I'm running software RAID on 9.0. I would like ask what's the best way of setting the swap partition? I currently have two swap partitions of identical (not mirrored) setup on both drives. I heard mirroring swap is waste of time. you heard right. Best set up is this: X = total RAM *

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread David Guntner
Praedor Atrebates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks for the reply but the problem was: I had a ~/.fetchmailrc. It worked so long as I started fetchmail myself. If I tried to start fetchmail thus (as root) /etc/init.d/fetchmail start or if I started up MCC and then tried to start

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
trying to figure out why Samba isn't working... two hours looking for alternatives network transfer mechanisms... one hour sneaker-netting the data with removable media... six hours downloading pscp.exe and simply transferring the files... priceless :-) I mean, honestly. I've got nearly ten

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:19, Norman Zhang wrote: ... So it is a good practice to setup multiple swap partitions on different drives. LM knows how make best use of it? Regards, Norman yes -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Lawson, Jim
Have you tried swat. I think it makes it a little easier. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:30 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP trying to figure out why Samba isn't working... two

RE: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
except it conveniently deletes all the comments. Even if it was perfect, how is that different than the whole sendmail heinousness? I have a policy against software that requires an external configger anyway; Webmin, Swat, Linuxconf, Comanche... if it's too complex to configure directly without a

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 03:31 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:19, Norman Zhang wrote: ... So it is a good practice to setup multiple swap partitions on different drives. LM knows how make best use of it? Regards, Norman yes Hmm, I thought (referring to an

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Samba? i have a default smb.conf that i take with me everywhere i have a jobit works all the time!!, All i have to change is workgroup name and share name, thats it. Since the 2.2, works ok. --- Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to figure out why Samba isn't working... two hours

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:01, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 03:31 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:19, Norman Zhang wrote: ... So it is a good practice to setup multiple swap partitions on different drives. LM knows how make best use of it?

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
hOn Wed, 2003-10-08 at 08:16, Jack Coates wrote: you know what I do when I want to transfer a big bunch of files? scp -r big-buncha-files [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/new/home/of/files You can also use: scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/big/buncha/files /new/home/of/files It's a little more

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:09, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Samba? i have a default smb.conf that i take with me everywhere i have a jobit works all the time!!, All i have to change is workgroup name and share name, thats it. Since the 2.2, works ok. Post that sucker in the TWiki if you

Re: [expert] HAM sotfware..VOIP

2003-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:23, Richard Bown wrote: Hi Dan, Yes that very much proves the point. There is a vast amount of s/w that can be used, buts very its fragmented, and some was written when both Mandrake and Redhat were in their infancy. Some require ancient versions of ncurses to

Re: [expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:06, James wrote: Thanks for the reply! I've removed the 0 byte file, and I've also removed the proftpd version I had. I then typed urpmi proftpd but got this reply: no package named proftpd Where do I get Mandrake's version? I went to both my 2nd and 3rd CD..

Re: [expert] forcing a complete logrotation

2003-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:04, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cannot recall the command and reading the man pages doesn't really help me (all too often the man pages are either out of date or too cryptic for someone not well-versed with a given

Re: [expert] HAM sotfware..VOIP

2003-10-08 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 04:57 am, Richard Bown wrote: There are linux apps to do the same thing ie, echolinux. I managed to get the driver compiled, but the gui throws up many errors when compiling. I have echolinux running on a 9.1 system. Exactly what errors are ocurring when you

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread David Rankin
Nope, won't work over the net. To do it would require a pptpd vpn connection on top of samba. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Ricardo (Tru64 User) [EMAIL

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread David Rankin
Here is a generic conf, works with about 99% of the samba config needs out there. Canibalize as necessary: [EMAIL PROTECTED] david]$ cat /etc/smb.conf # Global parameters [global] workgroup = RB_LAW server string = RB_LAW Samba Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Praedor Atrebates wrote: In the end, I copied my ~/.fetchmailrc file to /etc/fetchmailrc so that I could run the fetchmail daemon. How does one normally setup the daemon instead of running personal instances of fetchmail, that is, how is /etc/fetchmailrc normally created?

[expert] fax server

2003-10-08 Thread michael
AAA I´m losing my mind!!! I´ve been messing with this all day and I´m now I´m even more confused! I´m trying to setup a fax server on one machine using hylafax. I´ve done everything as the instructions on the hylafax webpage asked (at least I think). I´ve got the modem working on the

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-08 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:36:28 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: hell, this is a one-liner :-) for i in `ls *.wav`; do lame -buncha -options $i; done alias that sucker in your .bashrc like this: function mp3enc() { for i in `ls *.wav`; do lame -buncha -options $i; done } and in

[expert] KMail bookmarks XML to HTML

2003-10-08 Thread Tomas Rett
Hi listers, how can I convert the bookmarks.xml file from KMail to another format, for example the bookmarks.html file of Mozilla ? -- Ing.Tomas RETT tel.: +420 2 4403 2121 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CHMU, Na Sabatce 17, 143 06 Praha 4 - Komorany Want to buy your Pack or