Re: [expert] mail server problems

2001-10-23 Thread Craig Sprout
is going on? Any opinions will be appreciated. +---+ | Craig Sprout | Send lawyers, guns and money| | Billings, MT | to get me out of this. Quick! | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | --Warren Zevon

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Craig Sprout
. You can use lsof or netstat -p to show what programs are listening on what ports. HTH. +---+ | Craig Sprout | Send lawyers, guns and money| | Billings, MT | to get me out of this. Quick! | | http

Re: [expert] OpenLDAP for login

2001-10-22 Thread Craig Sprout
the current order, (files ldap nisplus nis) to (ldap files ...) +---+ | Craig Sprout | Send lawyers, guns and money| | Billings, MT | to get me out of this. Quick! | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | --Warren Zevon

Re: [expert] OpenLDAP for login

2001-10-22 Thread Craig Sprout
as an address book than an authentication structure, so take everything I say with a pound of salt! :) +---+ | Craig Sprout | Send lawyers, guns and money| | Billings, MT | to get me out of this. Quick

RE: [expert] [INFO] need info about mail relay

2001-10-01 Thread Craig Sprout
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: yeah or even better, postfix.org Have you considered www.sendmail.org? Don't forget exim.org or qmail.org +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT

Re: [expert] binfmt-0000 frantically trying to load

2001-09-20 Thread Craig Sprout
in the right direction. (Or it may not -- you know how these things are...) :) +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net

Re: [expert] The CodeRed -- BZZZT! it does not work

2001-09-03 Thread Craig Sprout
. Believe me, I am as annoyed with Code Red as anyone, but this just isn't the Right Way to handle it, IMO. +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately

RE: [expert] The CodeRed -- BZZZT! it does not work

2001-09-03 Thread Craig Sprout
. :) +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | by incompetence. -Napoleon | +---+ Want to buy

Re: [expert] GRUB, stage1, freeze

2001-09-01 Thread Craig Sprout
. +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | by incompetence. -Napoleon | +---+ Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] ipchains problem on 2.4.9

2001-08-30 Thread Craig Sprout
or not. +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | by incompetence. -Napoleon

Re: [expert] Konquer question

2001-08-25 Thread Craig Sprout
. +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | by incompetence. -Napoleon

Re: [expert] backspace in vi

2001-08-25 Thread Craig Sprout
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Abraham Mandac wrote: If so, what are the legal arguments? In your .vimrc file, add the line set bs=2 That's all you need! +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT

Re: [expert] IDS for Linux

2001-08-24 Thread Craig Sprout
to go! +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | by incompetence. -Napoleon

Re: [expert] ext3 support in 8.1?

2001-08-22 Thread Craig Sprout
I simply wanted to see if ext3 would be yet another option available in the future to Mandrake users. In the 8.1 beta, you can choose between ext3, reiser, and IIRC, xfs. +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice

Re: [expert] 8.1 b1 ?

2001-08-17 Thread Craig Sprout
2.2 (already), and kernel 2.4.8 (IIRC). Should be a load of fun! :) +--+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net

Re: [expert] Cable modem.

2001-08-14 Thread Craig Sprout
. +--+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | by incompetence. -Napoleon | +--+ Are you in the Code Red

Re: [expert] Why do I have ~/tmp?

2001-08-08 Thread Craig Sprout
override that in your .vimrc. I'm just too lazy to look right now! +--+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT | which is adequately explained | | http://www.mtsprouts.net

Re: [expert] gnome-perl Make errors

2001-07-24 Thread Craig Sprout
://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] am I the only person this is happening to?

2001-07-13 Thread Craig Sprout
to Newbie and Expert, it will show up here twice. I could be wrong -- it's happened before! :) --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] am I the only person this is happening to? (Wandering OT)

2001-07-13 Thread Craig Sprout
the cupie doll ;-) I knew when I woke up that today was my lucky day! -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

Re: [expert] script help ...

2001-07-05 Thread Craig Sprout
is the program to which you want to answer yes.). --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] How to reset root password

2001-07-05 Thread Craig Sprout
, and remove the root password. Restart the machine, log in as root with no password, run passwd :) and you're back in business! --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] attached error log...

2001-07-03 Thread Craig Sprout
Your font server (xfs) is not running. Make sure that xfs is started, and you should be able to boot into X just fine. bc wrote: error log attached, i could not get up into KDE? any ideas? tks, bc...

Re: [expert] MD 8 - WEBMIN

2001-07-02 Thread Craig Sprout
At 08:10 AM 7/2/2001 -0600, Dave Peat wrote: Hello, I am trying to get webmin to run, but it will not. I open the browser, type http://localhost:1/http://localhost:1/ and I get: Try https://localhost:1/ Webmin runs over a secure connection. HTH. --- Craig Sprout Network

Re: [expert] w oddness...

2001-06-28 Thread Craig Sprout
/messages (or it might be syslog, I haven't looked that closely). --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] Where is the password screensaver

2001-06-27 Thread Craig Sprout
/should/ be the user's password. If you don't know the password, you should be able to drop to a console [CTRL]-[ALT]-[F1] and from there, you can log in as root, and kill the screensaver process. That's the brute force approach. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine

Re: [expert] Oddities in xwindows

2001-06-27 Thread Craig Sprout
don't think it is a mutt problem... This also happened in both Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 IIRC, Konsole sets xterm as your TERM environment variable. You might try this: 'export TERM=linux' Then fire up mutt and see what happens. HTH! --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine

Re: [expert] Network sniffing, how?

2001-06-26 Thread Craig Sprout
analyzer that is, IMO, one of the most useful network tools you can have in your arsenal. www.ethereal.com -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] GCC 3.0 - Question on GPL

2001-06-20 Thread Craig Sprout
program. It doesn't much matter if you compile it with gcc, cc or any other compiler. Libraries are a little different, and fall under the LGPL, and I'm not very familiar with that at all. Just my .02. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http

Re: [expert] apache and php

2001-06-19 Thread Craig Sprout
application/x-httpd-php-source .phps (I left the .php3 in there, as I have several scripts that have the .php3 extension.) This should do the trick. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] hosts.deny...

2001-06-11 Thread Craig Sprout
So basically my question is: who is adding new entries in my hosts.deny file and what can I do to make it stop? Are you running portsentry, or any other type of IDS? Porsentry, IIRC, will dump ip's of breakin attempts to hosts.deny. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts

Re: [expert] scp without password (secure copy)

2001-06-11 Thread Craig Sprout
a blank password on these. That should do the trick. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] Most Popular Linux Broswers

2001-06-11 Thread Craig Sprout
to run. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] Most Popular Linux Broswers

2001-06-11 Thread Craig Sprout
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Craig Sprout am Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:12:35PM -0600: From http://grail.sourceforge.net: Ah, thx! Hmm, not even HTML 4.0 capable? Hmm, I haven't yet checked it out - can it handle frames? I have no idea. I just remember that I had heard

Re: [expert] RiserFS

2001-06-11 Thread Craig Sprout
Yes, you can choose the FS you want in setup. If your SuSE is already on reiserfs, you're OK, but more like as not, it is ext2, so you will have to re-format all your partitions. Brandon Caudle wrote: I have Suse 7.1 on one of my Linux boxes and I want to go to Mandrake 8.0 but I want to be

Re: [expert] cute RPM output..

2001-06-08 Thread Craig Sprout
:) -t You should be able to rpm -i --force kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm (That made my day. I'm still laughing.) -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

Re: [expert] Most Popular Linux Broswers

2001-06-08 Thread Craig Sprout
Probably the most popular browsers are Opera, Netscape 4.x, Konqueror, Galeon (which is based on mozilla's gecko html rendering engine), and Mozilla -- not necessarily in that order. There are probably others, but I think these are the best-known. Don't forget lynx and links! :) -- Craig

Re: [expert] Mandrake and Mandrake Cooker

2001-06-08 Thread Craig Sprout
OOzy Pal wrote: Evert time I want to download something from the rpmfind.net I find files for Mandrake and Mandrake Cooker. What is this Mandrake Cooker? Here's one for the FAQ, I guess... http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts

Re: [expert]

2001-06-07 Thread Craig Sprout
This crystallized my thoughts eloquently! Twice. :) (Sorry for the OT...back to my cave...) Garini Juan Pablo wrote: -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] odd link generated during machine boot

2001-06-01 Thread Craig Sprout
Desktop Communications Protocol, and is a kind of IPC for KDE programs. This link behaves like a socket, and is only a valid link when KDE is active. Here's the scoop on DCOP: http://k-lug.com/doclib/KDE20Development-html/index.html Hope this wasn't redundant. --- Craig Sprout Network

Re: [expert] changing the KDE-fixed font - how?

2001-05-29 Thread Craig Sprout
to service requests. This has happened one or two times, as well. --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

[expert] Problems with my page...

2001-05-25 Thread Craig Sprout
Thanks to all of you who have taken time to contribute your comments and help to my little FAQ project. I hope to get some more work done on it this weekend, and hopefully double the current number of FAQ's. I had some problems over the past 24 hours, and as much as I would like to say that it

[expert] Expert FAQ

2001-05-23 Thread Craig Sprout
, corrections and so forth, are more than welcome. You can email me at this address, or the one on the FAQ page. You can find it here: http://www.mtsprouts.net/craig/expertfaq.php Thanks for your feedback. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http

Re: [expert] Is there any way to skip the X configuration ...

2001-05-23 Thread Craig Sprout
should be presented with a boot prompt. You can enter `text' there. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

[expert] MandrakeExpert FAQ

2001-05-20 Thread Craig Sprout
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who also frequents mandrakeexpert.com. I have started to compile a FAQ, which can be found at http://www.mtsprouts.net/craig/expertfaq.html Comments, additions, corrections, etc. are more than welcome. Thanks for your time.

Re: [expert] Stability Concerns

2001-05-17 Thread Craig Sprout
like even Netscape doesn't bind up like it used to! :) (Just  -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

Re: [expert] httpd.conf CGI Problems

2001-05-16 Thread Craig Sprout
with apache. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

Re: [expert] Apache database?

2001-05-16 Thread Craig Sprout
support, which can be used for authentication, building dynamic pages, and so forth. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

Re: [expert] What happened?

2001-05-16 Thread Craig Sprout
in the right direction. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

Re: [expert] Junkbuster no longer works

2001-05-16 Thread Craig Sprout
and /var/log/junkbuster/junkbuster? This should give you a good start. Make sure that whatever uid junkbuster is running as has permission to write to that file. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

Re: [expert] Apache 1.3.19 mess

2001-05-09 Thread Craig Sprout
/ in that error_log, which would be very helpfult to look at! -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

[expert] Apache 1.3.19 Errors -- followup

2001-05-09 Thread Craig Sprout
of it. Disclaimer: I am not even close to being a C programmer, so I may have broken something that I don't even know about, but it's been running well with mod_ssl, mod_php and so forth without any problem. --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http

Re: [expert] Hacked?

2001-05-03 Thread Craig Sprout
certainly no expert on this, so if any expert does want to correct me, I'm more than willing! :) -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/

Re: [expert] Firewall / Router Advice

2001-04-27 Thread Craig Sprout
. I haven't touched iptables yet, and as I understand the situation, there are still some potential security problems with iptables, so you may want to steer clear for now. Once you get the kernel rebuilt, have a look at the Firewall HOWTO to get started with ipchains. HTH. -- Craig Sprout Network

Re: [expert] Urgent! Xserver broken -- footnote

2001-04-26 Thread Craig Sprout
! -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] Urgent! Xserver broken -- Help!

2001-04-26 Thread Craig Sprout
my other message...) -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] Xserver broken -- Still broken

2001-04-26 Thread Craig Sprout
At 09:37 AM 4/26/2001 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Unfortunately, when I type the command Just as a follow-up to list: The disk was full, thus xfs can't open a socket, and X dies horribly! --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sprout
rumblings that the 6.x version of SO will load the applications separately, so that will cut down the start time, and amount of resources it consumes. At least in theory. --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] VI and highlighting

2001-04-21 Thread Craig Sprout
At 06:32 AM 4/21/01 -0400, you wrote: Hello list, This is embarrassing, but there's something I've forgotten how to do and in fact, I've forgotten where I'd written it down to, but I would like to enable syntax highlighting in VI terminal editor. Could some kind soul remind me how this is done?

[expert] Viking USB Modem

2001-04-20 Thread Craig Sprout
the acm module, and that took nothing to fix. So, after all that, I guess I will be nabbing some ISO's over the weekend, since reports on 8.0b3 are pretty much useless at this point. :) But, I did say that I would keep you posted on the modem, and I have! -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator

[expert] OT, but hopefully humorous

2001-04-20 Thread Craig Sprout
You don't suppose that M$'s pages scan for user-agent, do you? http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/craig/user-agent.gif It's silly, but hopefully ya'll will get a Friday laugh out of it... -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] OT, but hopefully humorous

2001-04-20 Thread Craig Sprout
-- not necessarily the browser. :) I noticed that it was a lot less funny after I posted it. I guess that's the kind of week it's been. :D -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

[expert] HP Pavilion N5150 Laptop

2001-04-19 Thread Craig Sprout
boxen are going to be getting an upgrade. Just thought I would report my success. If you're interested, I'll keep you posted on the USB modem. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

[expert] Erm...

2001-04-19 Thread Craig Sprout
I just finished hitting the send button on my last message, and saw that 8.0 was hitting the streets... D'oh! Don't pay any attention to me... -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] HP Pavilion N5150 Laptop

2001-04-19 Thread Craig Sprout
Marcel Pol Re: Quanta Compile Problems. The next message (and all subsequent) from Till Kamppeter have the munged reply-to. Maybe sympa got updated between Mon 14:57 and Mon 16:15 (MST7MDT)??? -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

[expert] mandrax

2001-04-19 Thread Craig Sprout
Mandrax does seem to be behaving rather badly. I don't know postfix and sympa well enough, but I strongly suspect that one of them is doing some re-writing on the outbound mails. I had a post this morning that didn't show back up in my inbox for 2-3 hours, and a couple of others got intercepted

Re: [expert] Checking Mail with Netscape instead of Kmail?

2001-04-03 Thread Craig Sprout
a POP3 or IMAP server running on your Linux box. Then you can set up Netscape to retrieve mail from any account that you like. Incidentally, you should alias root to a regular user account, so that you aren't transmitting the root password to check root's mail. --- Craig Sprout Network

Re: [expert] Need Help going rc.3 to rc.5

2001-04-02 Thread Craig Sprout
David Rankin wrote: something like /etc/rc.d/rc 5? Let me know. I have learned to look (ask) before leaping (executing) to keep from landing in hot water... `init (or telinit) 5' will do the trick for you. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http

Re: [expert] Need Help going rc.3 to rc.5

2001-04-02 Thread Craig Sprout
may try [L-ALT] + [L-ARROW] to cycle through your available tty's and see if the display is there? Also, what does your /etc/inittab file say for default run level? -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] Environment changes

2001-03-13 Thread Craig Sprout
-- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] Web Mail System

2001-03-09 Thread Craig Sprout
of mine swears by it, and a local ISP uses it for webmail. I don't have a url handy, but Google is your friend. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

OT: Re: [expert] fortune-mod-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm

2001-03-08 Thread Craig Sprout
. (I'll crawl back into my cave now.) -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] operating system switch tool?

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Sprout
weeks). I forget the name. It is called plex86 and is located at plex86.org. I haven't had any chance to play with it, other than build it, so I can't speak as to how well it works. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] cannot execute file.

2001-03-02 Thread Craig Sprout
se without the start argument). What am I not doing right? Try ./mwaved start, or move the mwaved file to a directory on your PATH. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert]

2001-02-27 Thread Craig Sprout
following lines: ##if [ -x /usr/bin/linux_logo ];then ## /usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f /etc/issue Then edit /etc/issue to look more palatable. YMMV. :) -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] Logging into NT domain.

2001-02-22 Thread Craig Sprout
your Linux box, then you would issue this: mount -rw -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //pc6077/zip /home/me/sambamount This should do the trick. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com

Re: [expert] mbr

2001-02-22 Thread Craig Sprout
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Ira M. Bargon III wrote: I installed mandrake 7.2 snip fdisk /mbr That will get your mbr back to booting windows, but you will lose lilo/grub.

Re: [expert] Eth) - What Do I Do Now?

2001-02-19 Thread Craig Sprout
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: I'm changing a Linux partition from SuSE6.4 to Mandrake7.2 and am having trouble getting the Mandrake to realize that there is an ethernet card. I ran pmpdump and got the following: It's been a while since I've messed with PNP, but, I

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Craig Sprout
on the NT box, you should be OK, and it will prompt you for your password. -- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com