Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
This will not only remove the offending ::, it will remove any duplicate entries it finds (a couple of which you also have in yours), as well as any entries pointing to dirs which do not exist. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Bill Mullen wrote: This will not only remove the offending ::, it will remove any duplicate entries it finds (a couple of which you also have in yours), as well as any entries pointing to dirs which do not exist. If you find seeing the output of the script

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
intended, if that file has the same name and the :.: appears earlier in the PATH than the directory in which the intended file resides. Obviously, it is *far* more important that such an entry not be part of root's PATH than a user's, but it's a risk in the latter case as well. -- Bill Mullen

Re: [expert] spamassassin?

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
suppose that the SOB actually did me a favor, in a way ... ;) Just my $0.02USD ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
partition. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Top posting because that's where the cursor happens to be is like shitting your pants because that's where your ass hole is. - Blinky the Shark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
, and try again. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Mullen
the same value for the $myhostname, $mydomain and $myorigin variables, in case you're wondering. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

Re: [expert] Ethernet Problem

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Mullen
is unplugged, which should keep ifplugd from reacting. Hopefully. :) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Setting sb.o to use IRQ 5

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Mullen
/kernel-doc-version/sound/Soundblaster Also, see the modules.conf man page. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want

Re: [expert] Trying to fix a few things after installing 9.2

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
: mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN This may be commented out in the default main.cf file, IIRC. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
that pertain to your sending system(s). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Just trying this out-Testing

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
? If so, it has a valid rDNS entry as well, which is nice to know. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:26, Bill Mullen wrote: Including the output of postconf -n, run on the Postfix box, might be helpful also, as would the re-inclusion of the two sets of headers; all that matters is the last couple of Received: headers from

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:06, Bill Mullen wrote: Okay, I think you should at least change the myhostname = line, found in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. Having the short hostname of your Postfix box here does you no good, as it is of utterly no use

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:49, Bill Mullen wrote: ... Quite true, and one's best recourse in that situation is using the ISP's server as a relay, at least for the problem domains (I have to do that with a few). OTOH, that isn't what's happening

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
*does* (forward, at least). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
to installed packages only, I just use rpm. For more on the urpm* family of apps, see: http://www.urpmi.org -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
to wait to make any more changes to see if this has any effect. You did either restart or reload Postfix after making the changes, right? If not, the main.cf change won't take effect until you do. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning

Re: [expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
comments within that file for more on this. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] chkrootkit and mailing results to root

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
. If you're interested in setting up a config like mine, I'd be happy to help out in any way I can. And just about anything beats using a spam magnet like Yahoo for any real purpose, other than perhaps as a throwaway address ... ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
is equivalent to vi -R (and quite a bit easier to remember) ... gview is the same as gvim -R, also ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

Re: [expert] Need some docs on administering Mandrake systems

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
/bin/view/Main/MandrakeSpecific Some other links: Urpmi http://www.urpmi.org Msec http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry

[expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
, and I was unable to find any way to convince it otherwise ... what am I missing here? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

Re: [expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 8:44 am, Bill Mullen wrote: Anne, I was interested in updating the link on this page to point to the current version of popfile, and I noticed that there appears to be no way to log myself in; it insists that I am TwikiGuest

Re: [expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 10:28 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 8:44 am, Bill Mullen wrote: Anne, I was interested in updating the link on this page to point to the current version of popfile

Re: [expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
any specific experience as regards the upgrade, as I had never tried the app until today, and opted for the current version. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been

Re: [expert] xtart and a new session

2003-11-09 Thread Bill Mullen
the next available display automatically, and launch your session on that. Hans is a regular contributor to the alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people

Re: [expert] urpmi vs rpm

2003-11-07 Thread Bill Mullen
and that the rpm matches your distro. You end up in the same place. I'll only add that using urpmi is more like rpm -Uvh than rpm -ivh. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body

Re: [expert] ls all dir and subdir?

2003-11-06 Thread Bill Mullen
: tree -d [dir] To include hidden files, as well as regular files: tree -A [dir] HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying

Re: [expert] POP filters in KMail don't work

2003-11-02 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Artemio wrote: The other day I would telnet my mail server and talk to him via POP3 to delete unwanted mail, and then I almost started writing my own application to do this job! :-) There already is an app to do that job - kshowmail, in contribs. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL

Re: [expert] autoconf and automake

2003-11-01 Thread Bill Mullen
]:~$ urpmq --fuzzy autoconf The following packages contain autoconf: autoconf2.5 mozilla autoconf HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me

Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?

2003-11-01 Thread Bill Mullen
, and a separate /boot is not the default arrangement on Mandrake distros, as most users have no particular need of one. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable

Re: [expert] Fetchmail problem

2003-10-30 Thread Bill Mullen
into the /etc/fetchmailrc file being used by the daemon (as the daemon can tell when that file has changed since the last poll, and will auto-reload it). As always, TIMTOWTDI; there's no need to build it into the app itself. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Bill Mullen
0666 v4l 0666 root.sys That *might* do what you want (you'll need to reboot afterwards, for it to take effect, AFAICT). HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most

Re: [expert] msec level 4

2003-10-26 Thread Bill Mullen
Or, alternatively, to limit access to only coming from the LAN: sshd : 192.168.0. Note the trailing dot. That syntax translates to 192.168.0.*. Be sure to urpme telnet-server sometime soon, though! ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-24 Thread Bill Mullen
for that library installed as well. As far as gcc is concerned, it doesn't think that the library is installed, because it cannot locate the -devel files for it. :( HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
/lilo.conf, had not been modified). So, your step 1 changes a valid fstab entry into an incorrect one, and your step 2 is wholly superfluous. Back to the drawing board, I'd say. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP

Re: [expert] NIC not starting with Mandrake 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
to bring up the network before the pcmcia devices have been initialized. If this is what's going on, rename one of the links so that YY is a higher number than XX. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which

Re: [expert] strange sound system problem?

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
that the local users have. This does not bring the sound to the client system in any fashion, of course - options for doing that were mentioned by someone else - but just gives remote users access to the server's sound hardware. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Mullen
of the appropriate line in /etc/fstab (i.e. the portion of the line that is just before the 0 0, and already contains some comma-separated options). HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-20 Thread Bill Mullen
://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#virus -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' -- Dave

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread Bill Mullen
(one hopes g) or in the flow of the code itself. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need

Re: [expert] symlinks to vfat partition

2003-10-16 Thread Bill Mullen
can be handy when linking to files or dirs on removable media. :) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-09 Thread Bill Mullen
. ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

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

2003-10-09 Thread Bill Mullen
. ISTR that he alluded to having a dodgy disc #2, from which he could not read properly. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread Bill Mullen
? I am assuming that I should not have to do what I did above and copy my personal .fetchmailrc to /etc/fetchmailrc. That's exactly how I did it the first few times, until I got comfortable enough with the fetchmailrc syntax to just write them from scratch. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Bill Mullen
. As this isn't a problem on 9.0 and earlier releases, something is borked in this regard on 9.1, I strongly suspect ... but what? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-04 Thread Bill Mullen
consider that answer a definitive one, please. I'd suggest trying to find someone who's actually done that at least once, and ask them about it. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half

Re: [expert] web mail server

2003-10-04 Thread Bill Mullen
is another option, but I've never wrestled with that. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be. Want

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-03 Thread Bill Mullen
and the time-tested *nix sysadmin practices which have worked for decades. Just my $0.02USD ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Norman Zhang wrote: I'm going to increase the RAM to 1GB today. Be sure to install the enterprise version of the kernel (from the CDs or from the update mirrors), as you need to use that to access =1GB of RAM. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Mullen
on a separate partition for exactly that reason. I also back up /etc and certain subdirs of /var before the install, to be able to quickly get the new system's settings and data as I want them. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-10-01 Thread Bill Mullen
optimal results on his setup, FWIW, but what mattered was that *that* was the only control that had record set to on; a few other combinations would lead to the clicking that Anne described. YMMV, HTH. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Computers make it easier

Re: [expert] Morphix changed my Login?!

2003-10-01 Thread Bill Mullen
can assure you I will *not* be recommending this to *anyone* to try out Linux... Why not? :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it. -- Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] TightVNC ?

2003-09-26 Thread Bill Mullen
get the wallpaper and the clipboard and calendar icons and nothing else. It appears hung at that point. Update libqt3 to the version out on the updates mirrrors, it fixes a bug that affects KDE 3.1 running over VNC. Use this page to set up sources: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon -- Bill

Re: [expert] What a bunch of baloney

2003-09-21 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Oh, and Vincent, I'd vote for a ban if this guy continues his bad language. Seconded. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Bill Mullen
topics. This is especially true in computer-related areas, when the talk turns to software code and the legions of coders that produce it. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour

Re[2]: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, rikona wrote: They looked OK, so I sent it. It was done with a quick and dirty script I wrote. Apparently the script was a bit too dirty. :-) This email implements the same result with a different script. Is this better? (They again look OK here.) -- Bill Mullen

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Mullen
the address is the same as appears in the Reply-To: - so it looks as if I'm replying to myself), but it could be argued that I'm just a curmudgeon as regards this sort of thing. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot

Re: [expert] have I been hacked??

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Mullen
box. I run firestarter as the firewall. Besides watching the traffic, installing and running chkrootkit is a good way to test for whether or not your system has been compromised. There is an MDK RPM for it for the recent (9.x) releases; it's in contribs, IIRC. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-19 Thread Bill Mullen
*that* one happen before. Lastly, the To: header had my name, but the list's address; perhaps that mailer app just doesn't comprehend mailing lists very well? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-19 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 07:57, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, rikona wrote: Hello Bill, Thursday, September 18, 2003, 10:49:06 PM, you wrote: BM rantmode=list-Nazi BM BTW, please unset your Reply-To: header

Re: [expert] How do I get ext3 journal available on initial mount of /?

2003-09-19 Thread Bill Mullen
, but the behavior you describe is hardly the sort of thing that I would describe as booting fine ... :-/ -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker. - Mike McDermott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] separate partition for /etc

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
within /etc that takes up a lot of space, then you *may* be able to place it elsewhere and symlink to it; whether that will work will depend on which file/dir it is. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot

Re: [expert] dial-up modems

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
, if you can come up with a few more loonies, consider an inexpensive external *serial* modem, such as a Zoom (a brand I've had particularly good luck with) - you'll be glad that you did, IMHO. It's hard to go wrong with a hardware serial modem. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

Re: [expert] eth0 doesn't get IP through dhcp - Problem vanished

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
is to not use DHCP at all, and configure yourself a static address. Doesn't answer the why, but fixes the what once and for all ... :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
reason it won't override an explicit setting, if one already exists in a message. Thanks. :) /rantmode -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker

Re: [expert] Very sorry for the hijacked threads

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Mullen
on it and resolving to mend his ways. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. - Andy Rooney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Mullen
/urpmi.update --wget -a' alias ua='/usr/sbin/urpmi --wget --auto-select' Typing uuua gets all my sources synced, and picks out the updates. I purposely do not use the --auto switch with the latter, as I prefer to see exactly which packages are selected before I allow it to proceed. ;) -- Bill Mullen

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-16 Thread Bill Mullen
or such nonsense to view the site, I just fire up Opera and copy the link over ... or skip it entirely. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:39:22 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Edit the three variables to suit. The DN variable should be a hostname that has an 'A' record in ZoneEdit's DNS. You'll need lynx installed too, of course. That should

Re: [expert] hdlist7cz

2003-09-13 Thread Bill Mullen
synthesis.hdlist7.cz hdlist7.czpubkey7 synthesis.hdlist8.cz Hmm, I did not know this, they seem to have sent me a different build. Looks to me like what I'd expect from CD#1 of the PowerPack version. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Mullen
ZoneEdit's DNS for the specified hostname to point to that IP address. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Thanks - Delete default gateway permanently using CLI, how?

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Mullen
... gShield probably uses the latter, or turns it on directly by writing to /proc. You can set yes here if you like. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Erik Evjenth wrote: This all works fine, but I have not found a Linux replacement for Dynamic DNS Client 5.0 Piece o' cake. :) Run this script periodically (say, as a cron job): = #!/bin/sh # # Script to update

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 4:07 am, Bill Mullen wrote: The format of the file is explained in the comments at the top of the file itself, and further info is in the console.perms man page. I would think that to prevent the switch of the v4l device's

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Mullen
the filesystem type in there. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Mullen
, even after you log in as anne. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Bill Mullen Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:14:37 -0400 (EDT) : /dev/hda7 /usr default 1 2 which I inserted for my /home /dev/hda7 /usr fstype default 1 2 You might want to mention the filesystem type in there. ;) Of course. I put

Re: [expert] Enabling Power management under Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-08 Thread Bill Mullen
a surprising amount of money. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-08 Thread Bill Mullen
collections in released distros, only in Cooker is the main source also an update source. I could well be wrong, but I think that's what's going on here. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold

Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-08 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I had actually suggested that earlier (everything except the kernel), but I believe he wanted a way to do the actual update using a GUI. I strongly suspect that when the OP

Re: [expert] How to create a public folder on imap server

2003-09-08 Thread Bill Mullen
#3.4 See also: http://www.washington.edu/imap/ http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html http://www.imap.org/ -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin

Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Bill Mullen
*does* somewhat inhibit the spread of the viruses in question, the ISPs are not getting a lot of flak over it from the bulk of their client base, either. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car

Re: [expert] Interesting times with sound

2003-09-06 Thread Bill Mullen
the end of this month. The EOL policy page is here: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/productlifetime.php -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend

Re: [expert] Interesting times with sound

2003-09-06 Thread Bill Mullen
, but if it is, then once you've set up the plf, contrib, and update sources for urpmi properly, urpmi xmms-cdread should pull it in. Use the page at: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron

Re: [expert] Re: Virus guys!

2003-09-04 Thread Bill Mullen
That is the machine that sent the virus-laden post to the list(s). Oddly enough, I never received it here ... I guess that sympa's erratic behavior can sometimes be a boon ... :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron

Re: [expert] Postfix TLS ? certificate creation ...

2003-09-04 Thread Bill Mullen
to see - and, therefore, be able to use - them. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients

2003-09-04 Thread Bill Mullen
this in detail? Sure - here are three (in the optimal order for reading, IMHO): http://samba.netfirms.com http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/ HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Bill Mullen
text files. Appending pdf files this way must surely break them? You can combine /any/ file types with cat. Whether or not this breaks pdf files' readability, I have no idea. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those

Re: [expert] OT: DNS question

2003-08-30 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, yankl wrote: If I own a domain yankele.com do I need to get mail.yankele.com register or can I assign it to myself? If you own yankele.com, you own all subdomains thereof (*.yankele.com), and can create as many of them as you wish. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] urpmi problem

2003-08-29 Thread Bill Mullen
about 9.1 final? AFAICT, Texstar hasn't released any RPMs for Cooker. AIUI, both main and contrib are static repositories, whose contents do not change once the release is final. All the other urpmi sources will change from time to time, but these two will not, and are set in stone. -- Bill Mullen

Re: [expert] urpmi problem

2003-08-28 Thread Bill Mullen
kdegraphics kdenetwork You'll get more feedback on the connection process, so you'll be more able to determine what's going wrong here. I have the urpmi command aliased to urpmi --wget on my system, and urpmi.update is similarly aliased. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU

Re: [expert] Login from Windows and Linux

2003-08-28 Thread Bill Mullen
is it posible to set up both systems under a domain? Rather that a workgroup? If so how? You'll need Samba. See the tutorial at: http://samba.netfirms.com -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-28 Thread Bill Mullen
? Buy more beer. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Problems with nvidia acceleration!

2003-08-28 Thread Bill Mullen
that, to create the module that will work with that kernel. To do this, you will need to install the corresponding kernel-source RPM first. 3) Fix the date on your system (see attribution line above). HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds

Re: [expert] Cannot reach host localhost

2003-08-25 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I had to reboot this morning - there were 131 mails waiting for me at Tiscali, and I could not get them. I'm sure a 'service restart' was what was needed, but what service? Fetchmail? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Bill Mullen
booted up, Linux should see the additional drives properly, though you may need to add a parameter or two to your append= lines in /etc/lilo.conf to get the kernel to identify the controller's I/O addresses and IRQ correctly. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1

Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC

2003-08-16 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I still have internet connectivity but the prompt and echo $HOSTNAME are still the MAC address. Because you haven't restarted networking yet (service network restart). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0

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