[expert] Re: urpmi..great tool...just need to finalize a few question

2003-11-19 Thread Björn Lundin
Jason Williams wrote: cut Does urpmi have the ability to pull security patches down and automatically install? This might help you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ cat /etc/cron.weekly/update_mdk #!/bin/bash #Keeps the system updated urpmi.update -a --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select

[expert] Re: Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: Cool! I may not have had an answer but I hope I helped in finding it. James Well, you and Eric kept me from giving up, which I actually did, but changed my mind :) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: cut In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime that like a fool I didn't even ask Bjorn about it. Looking at it now, I think diskdrake should suggest noatime as default when writing to fstab, for resiserfs? As I recall, I did not choose anything when

[expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-17 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 15:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I now have 9.2 installed on my laptop via FTP. It was about a 4 hour experience for me. Draksound is not able to detect the ISA card, and is not useful for this card. Everything is working pretty well, except for

[expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-16 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it. But what in Kde? /Björn err... puncuation would help let me try again. What I see that you use that I don't are, iptables, shorewall, netfs nfs and lisa, linuxconf httpd and atd. I've got

[expert] Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
Kwan Lowe wrote: What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there. I turn every app I see off, but still no result. I'm dumb. Your information about it stopping in init 3

[expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi all, My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stuff. On the other hand I am not sure which are from what... :/ I was wondering if there is something like a

[expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running? look in the crontab or int /etc/cron.daily ps aux | grep logrotate didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it work)? It's not a deamon, its started by cron, run and then

[expert] Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
I have had the same thing at times. There was a thread on newbie awhile back. There was talk of it being fam related, and also just reiser doing it's job. See if you can find it in the archives: i posted the ?, stephen kuhn and others had some thoughts. I found the thread, and it states

[expert] Re: Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :) Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread, it would be nice to have a utility like that. /Björn The questions I would have (Yeah I know more questions no answers *grin* ) are 1.

[expert] Noise

2003-11-14 Thread Björn Lundin
Hello list! What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there. I turn every app I see off, but still no result. The thing is, the computer is in my bedroom, and I experimented with

[expert] Re: Kmail po3-filters

2003-11-10 Thread Björn Lundin
Jarmo wrote: Has anyone got pop3 filters working in Kmail? If I greate forinstance filter message contains html delete from server filter does not work. If I greate mail filter as above and set action move into trash it works like a charm. I'm tired to see that html-crab and would like to

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

2003-09-30 Thread Björn Lundin
But the first need is to actually get the sound in. music -r a_wav_file.wav Will create a 'cd-quality' recording of what you feed into 'line in' of your soundcard music, see below What can I use that will give me some feedback as to whether it is actually hearing anything? music -p

[expert] RS-6000 and Mandrake ppc

2003-09-20 Thread Björn Lundin
Hello List! Before I try to get my hands on an RS-6000 from IBM (a small 43 p), I'd like to know if anyone had success with the ppc-variant of Mandrake on such a machine? We have some spare ones at the office, that used to run Aix, but it would be fun to Linux on them. /Björn Want to buy your

[expert] Re: Re: USB key drives and linux

2003-09-11 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: Try in the kcontrol program LookNFeel-Behavior-Devices and see if that is checked and if this kind of device is checked to run. It's possible that texstars system has different defaults than MDK's James Jepp, thank you, all devices but harddrives were

[expert] Re: USB key drives and linux

2003-09-10 Thread Björn Lundin
Guy Van Sanden wrote: On my Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3, it just popped up on the desktop as Harddisk (sda1) (unmounted) It used to do that on KDE 3.1.2 for me too, but when I got KDE 3.1.3 (Texstar), it doesn't show anymore :( (on the desktop) Any ideas? (Well it's not that big problem,

[expert] Re: connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-03 Thread Björn Lundin
elPunishar wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to allow this ? tnx greetings, stu

[expert] Re: Python Question

2003-08-14 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg 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 great accomplishment. Sorry if it's a bit OT but I don't

[expert] Re: TMOUT + PATH

2003-07-26 Thread Björn Lundin
Todd Lyons wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/profile.d]$ grep TMOUT * msec.csh:if ( ${?TMOUT} ) then msec.csh:set autologout=`expr $TMOUT / 60` msec.sh:[ -n $TMOUT ] typeset -r TMOUT What you could do is comment out that line, which will make it not be readonly any more, but honestly it

[expert] TMOUT + PATH

2003-07-24 Thread Björn Lundin
Hello! I couldn't decide if this is a newbie or expert question, so expert it is... starting a shell, I get bash: TMOUT: readonly variable Now, I found a promising link at google, pointing to mandrake mail archive but: An error occured while loading

[expert] Re: USB-Stick

2003-06-21 Thread Björn Lundin
phriedrich wrote: Hallo, a friend of mine has a USB-memory-stick, I have never tried to connect it to my Mandrake 9.1, but I want to try it...so what line you would insert into fstab to enable auto-mount/umount of that medium? An example would be very nice, thanks for every help

[expert] Re: Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread Björn Lundin
Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: So what is different, that's making it work? Most probably the Kernel and linked tools, Libraries will be the tricky parts. Here, I think, Anne was asking what made my post go through this time. I had a line starting

[expert] Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-10 Thread Björn Lundin
Joerg Mertin wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-10 Thread Björn Lundin
When reading my own post I see nothing, here it is again... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-10 Thread Björn Lundin
Björn Lundin wrote: Now it's getting silly, I try a last time (There _is_ a message below) Now - I do have a fairly well knowledge of Mandrakes capabilities, and for my Desktop - I have no problem using it. However - a Server means for me, that all my backups are going on it, it has

[expert] Re: KDE 3.1.2 impressions?

2003-05-27 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:24, Robert Crawford wrote: I've been struggling with Texstar's 3.1.2 for a week, and have really messed up my main box- probably my own fault, but as yet I've not figured it out, and nothing I've learned at pclinuxonline has worked so far. Tex