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On 6 Nov 2003 at 10:49, Jack Coates wrote:
based on these scans and the vger results, I don't think postfix is
misconfigured at all; the attacker is logging in and sending those mails
from localhost. format the drive and start over.
And install
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On 16 Oct 2003 at 10:40, Eric Fernandez wrote:
Add the main source of the 9.2 branch and you can get it with urpmi
through FTP. But I agree it is nice to have it on the 3rd CD.
Can you put that in English for me? I finally got urpmi to add
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On 21 Oct 2003 at 16:44, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
Hmmm I can find no reference to a command called drakclub on the
club download page or in the Definitive Manual. Where (and HOW!) is one
supposed to find out about this stuff?
Drakclub
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On 22 Oct 2003 at 15:06, Gonzalo Avaria wrote:
Hi experts..
I would like to know if anyone have used Mondo or MkCDrec, and if you have,
Does it work?? That´s all. Thank you -- Gonzalo Avaria S. Linux User from
the end of the World CHILE
I use
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On 20 Oct 2003 at 10:49, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
I just finished my install and have the exact same problem.
Then all the scripts need to be fixed :-( I've tried most of them, and
none of them works as they stand.
I've sent emails to
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On 20 Oct 2003 at 22:24, James Sparenberg wrote:
Doc,
with mine since I disable all desktop Icons I insert then type
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk
Poof it works.
It must be all that clean living you do. When I do that, the system sits
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On 21 Oct 2003 at 12:20, Markus Ueberall wrote:
I mounted the stick myself and put the following in my /etc/fstab (after
that, an icon called /mnt/usbstick appeared on the desktop the next time I
used it)--ignore any linebreaks:
none
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On 21 Oct 2003 at 13:22, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
You will have to modify the script if you want to use it to add a
source.
Well one hates to seem like an idiot, but exactly what is the point of
these scripts if when one does exactly what the
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On 19 Oct 2003 at 21:17, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
I went to the club site, clicked the Downloads box, and then the
MandrakeClub mirrors script link (which is the first link in the
text on the page), which gets me to:
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I have a USB flash memory stick (FAT formatted) that I am trying to read
under 9.2. It works fine on the same brand new laptop under Windows XP Pro
(of course).
Under 9.2, when I plug in the stick, a /mnt/removable icon appears on the
desktop, but
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On 17 Oct 2003 at 17:18, Jack Coates wrote:
You're using plf.zarb.org's script, right? I just tried and had trouble, so
I switched to MandrakeClub's script and it worked.
I don't understand the question.
I went to the club site, clicked the
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On 16 Oct 2003 at 20:59, James Sparenberg wrote:
No, the violation would be if it wasn't available at all. Since it is
available via urpmi and or the web.
I couldn't find anything about obtaining the kernel sources for 9.2 in the
wiki. Perhaps
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1. Install Mdk 9.2, selecting most of the desktop client packages.
2. After the install is complete, install Moz 1.4 (from the CDs)
3. KDE start menu loses a ton of stuff that was there before step 2.
Help! How do I get all those menu items back?
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On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote:
Noted this before ...
What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the
select System and select MenuDrake.
There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-(
Is there a way to run MCC
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On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
Type mcc.
Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no
terminal on the menu either!
And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X -
- - so I
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On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote:
I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems to
be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found there is
a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran
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Ah!
I realised that I could log in with IceWM, and that allows me to create a
terminal... which allows me to run menudrake.
So, problem solved. Thanks for the pointers.
Doc
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On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:54, James Sparenberg wrote:
K press alt-f2 this will give you the run command. You can then type
konsole, xterm, or whatever one you like and you will get your terminal.
Man, where is this stuff documented? I have been using
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OK, a really simple question:
where is there a definitive howto describing exactly how to install 9.2 on
a laptop that already has XP on it, in such a way that one can boot either
OS at the end of the installation?
There are lots of howtos for
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On 17 Oct 2003 at 11:38, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
D. R. Evans wrote:
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OK, a really simple question:
where is there a definitive howto describing exactly how to install 9.2 on
a laptop
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Are the club urpmi scripts supposed to work with 9.2?
I keep getting errors when I execute them: retrieve of source hdlist (or
synthesis) failed; no hdlist file found for medium xxx.
I tried several, and all the ones I tried behaved the same way --
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On 17 Oct 2003 at 15:52, Jack Coates wrote:
probably slammed mirrors -- try adding --wget to your command line.
Nope. No change.
retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium xxx
examining synthesis file
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For years I have been a happy user of the Windows-based Papermaster98
software. All my important documents for the past five years or so are
stored in Papermaster cabinets.
Now that I am trying to move as much as possible of my life over to
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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.
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Does anyone have any wisdom they would care to share in regards to running
Mandrake on a dual processor box?
I am thinking in particular of dual-Athlon boxes, and in particular
particular (!) of buying a Cybertron dual-Athlon box, and would like to
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A couple of people suggested the steps described below (Edoardo and
Charles).
It worked for me. Thanks very much, gentlemen.
Doc
Remove the downloaded java plugin.
From Sun, download thge new jdk 1.4.2 - it is mentioned in the mozilla 1.4
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I just installed Mozilla 1.4 on a stock LM 8.1 system.
The installation appeared to go fine.
When I go to news.bbc.co.uk, I am told that I have to download a java plug-
in. I do this, and the plug-in says that it has installed correctly.
Now when
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I sent this yesterday, but I never saw it posted. So I'll try again.
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Has anyone succeeded in getting arbour 0.9beta2 (i.e., the current pre-
release version) to build under LM?
I have two LM systems (one LM 8.1 and one LM 9.0) and both of
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Has anyone succeeded in getting arbour 0.9beta2 (i.e., the current pre-
release version) to build under LM?
I have two LM systems (one LM 8.1 and one LM 9.0) and both of them fail
when trying to build JACK (which is a prerequisite for arbour).
The
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Does anyone have a working yudit configuration that they'd be willing to
share with me (and explain) off-list?
I installed yudit but can't seem to display any non-Latin characters (e.g.,
Greek), even though there are a bunch of Unicode fonts
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In a networking program, I am getting an ENOBUFS error return from calls to
sendto() when trying to pump a large amount of data out.
The documentation for ENOBUFS says that it means that the kernel could not
allocate sufficient buffer space.
How
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The current issue of Linux Journal has an interesting story about a
program called spambayes: interesting enough that I wanted to try it on
my gateway/firewall machine.
This machine is running LM 8.2 (on the grounds that if it ain't broke,
don't
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On 7 Nov 2002 at 15:15, D. R. Evans wrote:
Using MCC, I just removed the gcc 2.95.x rpms, and installed the LM 9.0 gcc
3.2 rpms (including dependencies).
Inside MCC, if I now do a search on all the packages that contain gcc, the
only ones
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Using MCC, I just removed the gcc 2.95.x rpms, and installed the LM 9.0 gcc
3.2 rpms (including dependencies).
Inside MCC, if I now do a search on all the packages that contain gcc,
the only ones present are from 3.x. BUT if I do a g++ -v I get a
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On 23 Oct 2002 at 10:41, Colin Walker wrote:
Thanks for that. A quick email to Gwenole came up with the answer
Get the glibc SRPM and look for EXCLUDE_FROM_STRIP=, add
libpthread-0.9.so.
In the cooker there are two kinds of glibc:
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Since I didn't receive any replies one way ot the other about LM 9.0 and
the HP Pavilion 523N, I purchased one yesterday. LM 9.0 sticks when trying
to install X.
The defaults it selects are 1024x768 70Hz and vesa. But when the
installation goes
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On 29 Oct 2002 at 9:08, John O'Shaughnessy wrote:
What type of graphics chip does the Pavilion use? If it is an Intel i830,
you may suffer from the Xfree problems described here:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html
Ah! That
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Does anyone know whether LM 9.0 will install and run OK on an HP Pavilion
523n?
I've spent some time scouring the web and can't find any indication one way
or the other, so before I found myself out $800 I thought I'd check here to
see if anyone
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Ok, this shot is better...that one only was showing 3 msgs because
Please stop this now. I have been using the same editor for 18 years and
the same e-mail client for ten years. Now you're putting me in grave danger
of going through the agony
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On 5 Sep 2002 at 12:43, Udo Rader wrote:
well, contributed things may sometimes not meet the same
quality-expectations that you have for mandrake-native packages.
but to be honest, I never had problems so far with any of the contrib
stuff, so
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A long question with (I hope) a simple answer:
On my LM 8.1 system I have to install a newer version of autoconf. Using
the rpm from rpmfind.net for autoconf 2.53-7, it says that it requires perl
= 5.6.0. LM 8.1 rpm says that it has perl
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I need to be running Apache 2.o.40 or later in order to run a subversion
server. However, I note that even in the SRPMs in the cooker there doesn't
seem to be anything for Apache 2.x.
Does anyone know if there a reason for the lack of Apache 2.x
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On 4 Sep 2002 at 23:10, Udo Rader wrote:
it is in cooker, but you'll find it under contrib.
Ah; thank you. I don't rsync the contrib files, which is why I didn't see
it. Does the fact that it's only in contrib mean that it is even less safe
to
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The reflector seems to have swallowed this, so I'll try again...
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A long question with (I hope) a simple answer:
On my LM 8.1 system I have to install a newer version of autoconf. Using
the rpm from rpmfind.net for autoconf 2.53-7, it says
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FWIW, I think a good argument cxan be made that Mandrake's decision to
require larger CDs is a bit of a false economy. It is bound to cause some
non-negligible percentage of people problems (as we have already seen).
It isn't obvious (to me,
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This has to be something simple:
1. I installed the talk client, ytalk, and the talk server on my LM 8.1
system, using the RPMs on CD #1.
2. I set talkd to start at boot time (under xinetd)
3. The xinetd.d/talk entry looks like this:
disable =
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On 27 Jun 2002 at 4:13, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
-V tells you what Sox is doing as it does it. Otherwise you don't see
too much.
I don't see anything even with it :-(
If not, then there's something very amiss, cause sox usually tells
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H my hopes rose briefly when I started reading this thread. I
wasted a couple of days a few months ago, trying to figure out how to
record sound. Without success. For a few brief moments, I thought that
Lyvim's excellently detailed posts
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Having seen no further postings on this topic for the past few days,
perhaps I can ask a couple of simple questions:
1. has anyone here succeeded in getting an HP deskjet 920C to work via the
USB port under LM 8.1?
2. If so, would you be willing
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On 25 May 2002 at 22:02, Larry Sword wrote:
Okay, a look for the I already done that.
Always a good idea :-)
Have doubled checked that the usb cable is fully connected to the
printed and the computer? I know, but I have went on several jobs
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On 26 May 2002 at 19:07, Andrew George wrote:
try plugging the printer in and then run a dmesg and see what messages it
sees -- Andrew George ---
Absolutely nothing happens when I power the printer on or off, or when I
unplug
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On 26 May 2002 at 9:40, Alastair Scott wrote:
Also, is the printer connected directly to the motherboard USB ports, or to
a hub?
Directly. I have tried both ports on the motherboard.
Doc Evans
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On 26 May 2002 at 9:12, Cesar Santos wrote:
Hi
Have the same problem here. HP LaserJet 1000 Series works fine with
Windows
2000 USB port but cannot put it to work with Mandrake 8.1 or Mandrake 8.2 or
SuSE 8.0. Autodetect process
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Sigh... yes, it's Yet Another Post about CUPS. Or perhaps it's a post about
USB; I'm not sure.
I just bought a deskjet 920C and spent several unhappy hours trying to
install it on a USB port. Rather than trying to list everything that I've
done
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On 25 May 2002 at 16:33, D. R. Evans wrote:
So, here's what happens when I try the kups tool:
1. I click on Printer | Add printer/class
2. I click on local printer (parallel, serial, USB)
3. I click on USB ports
I get a windows saying You
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I rebooted my system, and the following appear to be all the USB-related messages
that appear at boot time.
Maybe there's something in them that will indicate to someone why kups
can't find my printer?
The messages about USB product 0/0/0 look
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On 26 May 2002 at 11:24, Ron Stodden wrote:
What you didn't kbow was not to install a new or additional printer by
any of the obvious ways - they don't work.
Argh! And other, stronger words. But thank you for telling me this; at
least I
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On 25 May 2002 at 18:17, Larry Sword wrote:
I don't have a usb printer so this is a shot in the dark. Try the info
provided in this doc, esp. on mknod /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html
I have a
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On 25 May 2002 at 18:17, Larry Sword wrote:
I don't have a usb printer so this is a shot in the dark. Try the info
provided in this doc, esp. on mknod /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html
This URL says to look
Sorry if this is a repeat. I posted it yesterday, but it never came
back to me.
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When I couldn't get my brand-new Visor to sync, I went back and read the
threads on USB and Visor syncing, especially the stuff related to devfs,
and thought that by following the instructions I had solved my
On 17 Feb 02, at 16:08, lornes wrote:
I'm not sure if it would be helpful to mention this here as well, but I
believe I've found a bug in the standard PS/2 wheel mouse driver.
I have done this on numerous hardware platforms and it does the same on
all. The only common thread here I
On 12 Feb 02, at 15:50, Praedor Tempus wrote:
The problem appears, for some reason, to be intermittent. I don't know if
it works in netscape because I don't use/have it, just the directories so
the plugins have a home. I do have lesstif installed.
This is KDE 2.2.2 on Mandrake 8.1.
On 5 Feb 02, at 12:52, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
I beg to differ with you.
I have a Dell PowerEdge Server sitting right next to me. It is running
dual Intel PII processors. To get it working as SMP, I had to order a
matched set of processors. I tried it with un-matched sets, and it wouln't
My kids have been on at me to buy a new colour printer for some time. I
would not buy another Epson after my experiences with the last one, but
I was wondering in general about how well USB printers seem to work
under LM8.1. Anyone here have any advice, or any URLs that I could go
look at?
On 26 Jan 02, at 9:48, William Bouterse wrote:
Have you considered SoundStudio?
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/studio/SoundStudio-1.0.6.tar.gz
It has always worked for me since LM 6.x, though I must
admit I have never tried it under KDE and 'aarts' as I use other WM's
It
On 25 Jan 02, at 11:41, Nick Thompson wrote:
Just a thought, as I never recorded through arts, have you enabled full
duplex operation in the kde control center-sound-sound server-sound I/O
tab? I think you need to do this to play and record at the same time in
It wasn't. I experienced thirty
Thanks for the recommendations for programs to record audio.
So far (about three hours) I can't get any of them to work, but I'll
keep on trying. mpegrec (in its wavrec guise) looked like it was
oging to work, but it never actually wrote anything to disk. The others
just entirely killed sound
This is an embarrassingly simple question to ask on an expert list, but
perusing the Web and archived lists for half an hour didn't turn up
anything very promising, so I figured that I'd just embarrass myself
and ask anyway.
What program do people recommend for recording audio? Specifically,
On 17 Jan 02, at 7:17, Lee Roberts wrote:
Nope. No beeps whatsover. No video display. Nothing. The CPU fan runs
though and I hear some noise from the drives as I normally do. The D-panel
diagnostic lights are all red. The manual says that combo of colors
indicates a bad CPU but when I
On 14 Jan 02, at 15:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
Mark D'voo wrote:
I just deleted my /usr/local/share directory, how do I recover with
reiserfs
Got a good backup?
That's your only hope.
I know that Civileme disagrees with me (he
On 14 Jan 02, at 18:50, Randy Kramer wrote:
D. R. Evans wrote:
I know that Civileme disagrees with me (he says to use frequently-
backed-up CVS), but this is the One Good Thing about Windoze. It's
called GoBack.
And, it's built into Windows (since either Win2000 or the ME). Wonder how
About a month agt, I used the Software Manager to de-install gcc as it
came with LM 8.1, and then manually installed gcc-2.95.3 from the GNU
site.
I noticed the other day, though, that the software manager still says
that original gcc is installed. I removed it (again) and as far as I
can
On 2 Jan 02, at 22:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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you might want to look at leafnode...it is geared much closer to what you
are after and is reasonably simple to set up...
Thanks. I spent some more time
My advice, which is probably worth just about what you're paying for
it, is to stick with 2.96.
Probably for 99.9% of the programs you are likely to try it with, gcc
3.0 will be fine, and possibly better, than 2.96. But that 0.1% might
be a real killer. 2.96 might not (perhaps) produce as
conclusion is that this method is not for the faint of heart
and there must be an easier way (perhaps leafnode).
Doc Evans
On 3 Jan 02, at 7:53, D. R. Evans wrote:
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This seems like a pretty basic question, but I've spent several hours
digging through some hideously complicated documentation and I have
this awful feeling that I'm on completely the wrong track -- and I'm
certainly no closer to solving my problem than I was when I started.
I have a small
Problem: trying to find a consistent configuration that will allow
RealPlayer AND other audio players to work.
1. I started with a system that seemed to be able to play sound OK. I
admit that I hadn't tried to break it, but it seemed to be able to do
all the normal things (play CD, MP3, etc.)
On 24 Dec 01, at 7:36, Mark Weaver wrote:
If you want to get bastille-firewall running, in Mandrake Control Center
there is a firewall config utility that gets the process started. It's
called Tiny Firewall. run this wizard and it will configure and start
I wish that they had named this
On 24 Dec 01, at 12:21, Lee Roberts wrote:
At 09:59 AM 12/24/2001 -0700, D. R. Evans wrote:
It took me a non-trivial amount of time to figure out what was going on,
and then remove all the Bastille rulesets so that I could put my own
iptables firewall in place.
Wouldn't iptables -F do
I installed the rexec from the LM 8.1 distro, changed the configuration
so that disable = no (instead of disable = yes), but I cannot connect
to it from a remote system, even when I try to do so manually.
Does anyone have rexec working with LM 8.1? and, if so, are there any
suggestions as to
Never mind. I didn't realise that I needed to stop the xinet daemon.
Doc
On 16 Dec 01, at 11:53, D. R. Evans wrote:
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I installed
I have LM 8.1 installed and am experiencing problems with the gcc 2.96
compiler.
I tried using the 3.0.1 version that also says that it's installed (gcc
-V 3.0.1 ...) but that gives an error, saying that it is incorrectly
installed :-( (I didn't install it explicitly; it simply appeared when
Now that I have LM 8.1 installed, trying to build one of my programs, I
see a zillion copies of the following form of warning:
Warning: pasting x and y does not give a valid preprocessing token.
gcc -v returns 2.96 as the version number, but I can find no
documentation for 2.96 on the GNU
Hmmm... this seems to be a widely reported problem with the gcc 3.x pre-
processor. They are only warnings so it shouldn't really matter, except
that, as I mentioned, they might obscure some more important and
unexpected warning.
There doesn't seem to be any way to turn off this warning :-(
After all the problems trying to get LM 8.1 to boot properly, I ended
reformatting and reinstalling from scratch.
Printerdrake still doesn't work, even after a completely clean install,
but I got the printer working by using the CUPS administration tools
directly.
Now for what I think is a
About 25% of the time when I try to boot my newly-installed LM 8.1
system, I see the following:
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 1
usb.c: USB bus 1 deregistered
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 1
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
The system then hangs and I have to power it down to get a reboot
Not only is my kernel panicking; I am panicking as well :-(
Here's what happened:
I installed LM 8.1 yesterday. Today I tried to add a local printer.
Just after starting the Printdrak procedure, the system became
completely unresponsive, leaving me no option but to power down.
When I powered
In LM 7.2, I found that setting up ipchains to provide a very flexible
firewall was rather easy.
Having installed 8.1, I saw the Drakconf option to build a firewall,
and stepped through that. It seemed extremely primitive (much too high
level; just to give one example: it says things like do
The responses in this thread so far have not been encouraging.
I wonder if there are any other power users (i.e., people who work
their system pretty hard) who have had experiences that refute the
postings so far.
I am running 7.2, but the lack of library support for recent packages
is
On 5 Oct 01, at 2:15, Franki wrote:
he made it sound easy, I have not yet needed to try it..
civileme makes everything sound easy :-)
That probably comes from the fact that he seems to understand
everything :-)
Doc Evans
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On 22 Sep 01, at 7:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED],Eric Paynter wrote:
On 21 Sep 01, at 19:55, Eric Paynter wrote:
On September 21, 2001 07:03 pm, you wrote:
I don't know how this happened, but suddenly I can no longer install
rpms from my LM 7.2 installation CDs.
When I start rpmdrake I
I don't know how this happened, but suddenly I can no longer install
rpms from my LM 7.2 installation CDs.
When I start rpmdrake I get a message that RpmDrake was unable to find
any package. Please, check your installation. If you made an NFS
install, check the NFS directories are still
On 30 Aug 01, at 22:31, Mitch Thompson wrote:
Well, I've shot myself in the foot with CUPS, again. I had it working,
then I upgraded to 1.1.10, and now it doesn't even print if I downgrade
back to 1.1.9.
This sort of thing always makes me long for a program that does the
same thing under
The same thing has happened again, this time caused by the printer
running out of toner partway through a big job.
So I have done an lprm. I have used the web interface and told the
printer to STOP. I have cycled power on the printer. I have told the
admin interface to REJECT all jobs.
And
On 22 Aug 01, at 22:04, DStevenson wrote:
On the machine with the pinter attached:
lpq - to show what jobs are in the queue
cancel [job id] - to kill the job
Always works for me.
Nope. cancel is the same as lprm, and that's the first thing I
always try, in the forlorn
On 22 Aug 01, at 23:49, jipe wrote:
what's the size of the buffer of your printer? i don't think that lprm can
empty it!
by
No. But powering the printer down and then back up sure does. And then
it immediately gets filled again because the Linux box keeps throwing
stuff out /dev/lp0
Argh!
I am running LM 7.2 with CUPS enabled.
My printer somehow got confused and I powered it down and back on. But
the Linux box is sending it garbage (presumably because it is in the
middle of sending a file).
I did an lprm, expecting that to clear everything. The status reports
say that
Thanks for ytour suggestions. Civileme suggested that I should upgrade
the BIOS, so I'm in the process of figuring out how to do that
properly. It looks like, even though it's a brand new machine, a new
BIOS version has come out.
I have set up a much simplified version of logging as well, to
On 16 Jul 01, at 23:13, Davy Durham wrote:
remember something like that happening to me on 7.x what it was, was
some process compressing /var/mail and /var/news ... after a long time
running it would just take longer and longer... I'd just delete anything
in /var/mail and /var/new
I had thought that I had pinpointed the process that was causing my
disk occasionally to lock on solid (to the point where I can do nothing
except power down my machine) but it seems, after more than a week
without problem, that I was mistaken.
I am running LM 7.2 without modification on a
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