Re: [expert] Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread David E. Fox
: # find . -type f /var/log -mtime 30 | xargs rm That gets rid of files modified over 30 days ago. Adrian David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change

Re: [expert] spamassassin?

2003-11-15 Thread David E. Fox
move. - Douglas Adams David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

[expert] Help - my box has been compromised!

2003-11-05 Thread David E. Fox
Folks - especially postfix people - I need some help - my box seems to have been turned into an open relay. I am running the same postfix configuration file I had installed when I was running 9.0 and later versions (currently I am running 9.2/cooker).. I have not been able to post to the

[expert] help - my box might be a relay

2003-11-04 Thread David E. Fox
? I can attach my configuration if needed. I have basically kept the same one intact since I initially reinstalled 9.0 and upgraded to various levels of cooker over the past few months. HELP ;) David E. Fox

[expert] wma file conversion?

2003-09-23 Thread David E. Fox
to do anything but segfault. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-13 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-13 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [expert] 9.1 /home in 9.2

2003-09-13 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-13 Thread David E. Fox
I'm accessing my system via remote ssh from my parent's house and will be on my way to Portland, OR tomorrow. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-12 Thread David E. Fox
not a happy camper and I didn't even No, leave it in, it sounds better that way :). But audacity does include quite a bit of tools for audio file editing. I've only managed to scratch the surface. David E. Fox

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-12 Thread David E. Fox
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[expert] asf files / mplayer saving

2003-09-12 Thread David E. Fox
about this, issue #94 of Linux Gazette, although it's emphasizing ecasound and encoding local FM through a radio card. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-12 Thread David E. Fox
nothing. ?? No progression of the bar, no I just posted about an issue with it but then I was trying to import an mplayer dump stream directly. That doesn't seem to work. David E. Fox Thanks

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread David E. Fox
for windows) and just log onto your system remotely from the uni and send mail using elm? Francisco Alcaraz David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-06 Thread David E. Fox
native linux and back then if you had floppies with bad sectors, you were essentially out of luck. Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas David E. Fox Thanks for letting me

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-06 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-02 Thread David E. Fox
fixed this problem -- now there's no kicker panel on my kde. D*thing came up in twm :( Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] spoofed?

2003-09-02 Thread David E. Fox
Get a router/NAT/firewall that enables spoof protection. Well, yep. I was hoping for something I could do in software to detect and or stop this gremlin. HaywireMac David E. Fox Thanks

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread David E. Fox
DOS format. After all, we aren't running DOS, so why stick with 1.44mb floppies if you can tweak the format for 1.6 meg? Charlie David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
#2 inserted. I'm off to rebuild the rest of the urpmi database, thanks to plf.zarb.org. Gotta love that site... Richard Urwin David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
:(. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy

[expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
each of these processes is one that's waiting in the run queue, which of course, they are. Oh well, reboot time again. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] urpmi problem

2003-08-29 Thread David E. Fox
downloaded, nothing seems to have been. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [expert] urpmi problem

2003-08-29 Thread David E. Fox
, tnen you reset urpmi sources and start over afresh. I've had to do that a number of times. Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 David E. Fox Thanks for letting

Re: [expert] mc hang

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [expert] im sick and tired of this!

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
is there as of now. :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave

2003-08-17 Thread David E. Fox
of them in one fell swoop (tm). Rob David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave

2003-08-16 Thread David E. Fox
the filenames are usually long with lots of saces like 'foo fighers 1 of 14 something song.mp3 :) Kiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-16 Thread David E. Fox
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[expert] eroaster

2003-08-16 Thread David E. Fox
just installed eroaster and can't get it to work. I'm on cooker 9.2 at the moment. seems there are some issues with python: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfox]$ Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-1.2/gtk.py, line 127, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a)

Re: [expert] Pan articles expiry

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
solved that last problem by nuking the .pan directory and starting over. Anne David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
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[expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
to work. I imagine folks here have tried this before. Any help? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
and run them through en masse with xmms-diskwriter. Seems like it might actually work. I added the files and selected the diskwriter and it's a disk writin' :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me

Re: [expert] decoding a VBR mp3

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
in the future. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

[expert] cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread David E. Fox
anyone else noticed this? Are there settings I should pay attention to? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread David E. Fox
:). : LX David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

[expert] PDF haywire

2003-08-14 Thread David E. Fox
ATM and will check on this after I do another upgrade. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-06 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)

2003-08-06 Thread David E. Fox
RealAudio COOK, whatever that is. It points out that libcook.so.6 is not installed. I don't seem to have that library here. I tried variants of 'urpmf /usr/lib/cook' - nothing. David E. Fox Thanks

Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)

2003-08-05 Thread David E. Fox
for the 'cook' lib, but it says it can't find a demuxer plugin for the url I specified. In the error details, I get a message that the demuxer failed to start, but that it did find a demuxer plugin. John Drouhard David E. Fox

[expert] About to plunge.

2003-08-03 Thread David E Fox
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[expert] About to plunge

2003-08-03 Thread David E Fox
that's a good sign. So, here goes 9.2 :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard

[expert] i'm up

2003-08-03 Thread David E. Fox
, and along the way picked up a number of extra things, like k3b, gcombust, mplayer, audacity, etc. Booting with the mm kernel gives me sound so at least that is working. David E. Fox Thanks

Re: [expert] Making / Verifying 9.2beta ISOs

2003-08-02 Thread David E Fox
for $1.00 audio tapes I used to get when I was a kid -- only good for speech (i.e, mp3's) and not serious stuff :). Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] time drift

2003-08-02 Thread David E Fox
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Re: [expert] kcheckers

2003-07-30 Thread David E Fox
I had to edit the Makefile and specify the location of $(QTDIR), then specify that qmake lives in $(QTDIR)/bin before make qmake would succeed. After doing that, make fails: I first tried it and couldn't make it work. Then I remembered having to set QTDIR first (/usr/lib/qt3) and then it went

Re: [expert] kcheckers

2003-07-30 Thread David E Fox
at compiling but some others need RPMs. But I haven't tried to make an rpm in a very long time :(. It's becoming ever more popular. Jack Coates David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Test

2003-07-28 Thread David E Fox
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[expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread David E Fox
I think I found a problem in /etc/lilo.conf Originally I had /dev/ram3 in the 2.4.19-35 image, and that didn't work. Also I noticed boot= set to /dev/hda, which is /var, and my boot is on /dev/hdb. However, I have a boot.0300 file. I'm going to switch it back to /dev/hda for now. I think my lilo

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread David E Fox
. It was the reason why I lost /dev/hdb7, my more or less up to date cooker with all the goodies :). I'm gonna save off this message and compare it to the existing /etc/lilo.conf. David E. Fox Thanks for letting

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread David E Fox
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Re: [expert] DVD stuff

2003-07-21 Thread David E Fox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] DVD stuff I get the following list of installed packages: xine-win32-0.9.13-3plf libxine0-0.9.13-3plf xine-ui-0.9.13-2mdk Diego - I had install problems with urpmi so I tried to feed this list to urpmi via 'urpmi --media plf `cat file` It says no such

Re: [expert] DVD stuff

2003-07-20 Thread David E Fox
Somebody scribbled about [expert] DVD stuff OK, so I've got a DVD player in my server and in one of my client systems. I've never used them for more than reading CD roms though. Today I got a wild hare and decided to try one. I tried to use xine + a I had xine working yesterday :( Have had

Re: [expert] Compile problem

2003-07-20 Thread David E Fox
I'm trying to follow instructions to install a new ov511 driver, as there is a problem with the one included in 9.1. I'm extremely green at this. I'm getting errors referencing include files, and I know I Kernel headers should be in kernel-source (or kernel-headers) rpms. I think they

Re: [expert] booting a kernel compiled with athlon results inkernel panick :/

2003-07-20 Thread David E Fox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] booting a kernel compiled with athlon results inkernel panick :/ Oh well... I did make clean. I didn't think that I need to do make mrproper or distclean just to compile for other target. is this really required?!? I'd think it would be a good idea. Also you

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-20 Thread David E Fox
Somebody scribbled about [expert] GPG and signing rpms. Ok, Went to this page. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 I did as well today in preparation for remigrating to cooker (ps I would like very much a gtkatlantic rpm) and ran into something strange. Also I got some wierd

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-07-15 Thread David E Fox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw So thought I'd try the MP3 to audio procedure. Opened a new audio project and drag 'n drop 19 MP3's and started the burn. I did uncheck That's pretty much a summary of what I want to do. From looking at the k3b prog it seems quite doable. I have

Re: [expert] Is Mail Server Down or have I been unsubscibed??

2003-07-14 Thread David E Fox
It was Bastille Day today in France, so it could have been a crash that no one was around to notice (unlikely since Linux doesn't crash :-p) or the list was If you see any short penguins with epaulets and hands inside their coats, shout vive l'Empire Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] wierd probs with tape drive

2003-07-07 Thread David E Fox
issue? Please i need these files :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [expert] wierd probs with tape drive

2003-07-07 Thread David E Fox
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[expert] No Sound (again)

2003-06-20 Thread David E Fox
Tired of the endless no sound messages I got it fixed once in 9.x when I used a cooker kernel.. I've taken the plunge and gotten cooker latest mirrored. I did a HD install just a few minutes ago. My kernel is Linux m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com 2.4.21-0.1mdk #1 Wed May 7 04:38:19 CEST 2003 i686

Re: [expert] NO MAIL TODAY?

2003-06-19 Thread David E Fox
Anyone know the French for stuff happens? Something like cette list avoir besoin d'un lavemant' ? (high school french -- 3 years, but that was 20+ years ago). -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread David E Fox
action it might help in finding the common thread. If it doesn't die... I'd go back to urpme urpmi sounds like a cool sig (and it even rhymes) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] third test to list

2003-06-11 Thread David E Fox
Are my messages getting through to the list?? Anne, I sent this one directly to you as well to see if you get it. If you do, check the Got it ... :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
There is compupic for linux. I just use KDE's konqueror for pic renaming, and storing. There Speaking of KDE and Konqueror, did anyone else notice some of the new features in 3.1? There's a number of new tools available specifically for image gallery and related applications. FWIW. I haven't

Re: [expert]

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
Troy Arnold Network Specialist gag, not another blatant web spam. Kick it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
But I am starting to have too many pictures and I need to organize them. In= the windows environment is known the ACD-See package to do that, including= Dunno what ACD-See does, as I've never used it. But you might try using the new Konqueror in 9.1 - it's got some features that might be of

Re: [expert] Unknown processes...

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
The most likely culprit is Mailman and Python, and memory is the quickest and easiest fix. I'd run top in a terminal, then sit and watch One thing is supposedly postfix is better at this than sendmail is. There was one time I sent off a (non-spam!) mailing to 200+ addresses, basically at once

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-02 Thread David E. Fox
I can make do assumptions about the systems of the end user... nor about their knowledge level. I can understand that. The end user will just get the data and import it into their favorite spreadsheet or what have you. And it's a given that html is not something that is going to come into a

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread David E. Fox
I have to write a webapp with a downlaod option for the data.. at present the format is in .csv (comma seperated values) OK, most if not all spreadsheets can take CSV. (csv is nearly identical to Basic DATA statement format, without the DATA tokens, in case anyone's wondering). It seems you

Re: [expert] Enlarging Swap

2003-04-01 Thread David E. Fox
Now that I have created (add) another swap partition to have memory enough to suspend to HD, my doubt is what should I have to put in lilo append? I don't think that's an issue. How much total RAM do you have? IMHO you can just add both swap partitions in /etc/fstab and have them autoattach on

Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-04-01 Thread David E. Fox
I've had good experiences with SpamPal. It's free. Thanks for the tip. Not only that, it'll fit on a floppy, and the installation doesn't look too difficult. I'll pass it on. now if I can find a floppy that actually works :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Enlarging Swap

2003-03-31 Thread David E. Fox
original one. So can I mount both (at different HD) and System will see them as just one? That would be great! Sure. Just resize the NTFS partition smaler and make a new partition using the extra space, then tell Diskdrake to format and use as a swap partition. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-03-30 Thread David E. Fox
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... use fetchmail to pop the mail from SBC, then deliver to a local postfix. Use postfix's tools to bounce via RBL if that floats your boat, or just I would figure that's the easier way to go -- at least for me, since I have already configured

Re: [expert] Enlarging Swap

2003-03-30 Thread David E. Fox
- Is there any other way of resizing ReizerFS and Swap partitions without using another HD? AFAIK no with Reiserfs. I never tried it, but it's not really an issue if you can save off the orig data in the partition somewhere and then remake the partitions, and restore. I've done that a

Re: [expert] How do you get Realplayer plugin to work?

2003-03-26 Thread David E. Fox
I select to listen to audio via the realplayer plugin, nothing happens=20 because it freezes up. How do you get the plugin working under KDE/Konquer= I don't need to use artsdsp, but nevertheless it still wants a plugin for realplay. I once was able to get this working - and it seems to work

Re: [expert] upgrading

2003-03-25 Thread David E. Fox
well, that sux. I'm sure that the upgrade from cds will break tons of things. That's the reason I switched to freebsd :) Mine (via 9.0 urpmi) went fairly smoothy - despite that an upgrade downloaded over 600 megs' worth of new RPMS :(. There was a little glitch with apache (having both apache

Re: [expert] upgrading

2003-03-25 Thread David E. Fox
There was a thread (not more than a week ago) in the cooker mailing list where they were experimenting with this. Seems the result was an I don't yet subscribe to cooker and haven't seen that thread, but it is interesting to see how far 'out of spec' their boxes were before they attempted

Re: [expert] upgrading

2003-03-25 Thread David E. Fox
sucessful CD based upgrade from 8.0 to 9.1 the other day.. The really neat one was trying (just for fun) to go from RH 7.0 to MDK 9.0 it I used to have RH 5.0 and a bunch of additions and finally decided to upgrade to 7.2 around October 2001 when I got a bigger drive. In the course of

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS rpmfind.net Why not use urpmi? If your urmpi is synced with the latest cooker there's a 2.4.21 rpm but not a 2.4.20 one. kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk to be more precise. JG Want

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices.... NOT THE ANSWER

2003-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
System temperature is nice and cool, relatively -- I ain't in a big hurry to stick my hand in there :-). Mine 'seems' that it should be cool as well - I have a full tower case with three case fans as well as (naturally) the fan on the heatsink and a small motherboard fan. Yet, sensors on my

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
Indeed. The industry seems to have decided that the floppy is a dead media -- that's fine, as they do suck, but I wish the industry would Well they are convenient but offer so limited storage as to not be all that useful anymore. And zip / ls-120 aren't as common and nowhere near standard

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices.... NOT THE ANSWER

2003-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
You need to edit that section of /etc/sensors.conf. As it says: # Asus won't release a datasheet so this is guesswork. Possibly, but I haven't a clue as to how :(. (and please don't say 'emacs /etc/sensors.conf' :( Jack Coates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread David E. Fox
The installation program runs from a RAMdisk when you have 64MB or more of memory. If you have less, as you do, the installation program must run So that's it. I'm not affected by lack of RAM, but it's good to see a coherent explanation. On the same issue - how much RAM does the installation

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread David E. Fox
I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I Hmm. That's kind of hard :(. I thought Miark summed it up best - the installer can't ask for other CD's if the installer has to be on the CD and not on a

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread David E. Fox
The kernel will run without the kernel source installed though won't it? But I guess that would stop me compiling other apps on the upgraded machine? Sure, having the sources installed isn't necessary unless you want to compile your own kernel or want to peek :). But some packages may want the

Re: [expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?

2003-03-21 Thread David E. Fox
I was tempted by the lure of a digital video recorder. I suppose by that you wish to digitize analog video (vcr) into video files. I found this http://www.geocities.com/slothmud/VCR-HOWTO-3.html It seems great, my tv card is working fine with xawtv, so i checked vcr Hmm. I don't have a tv

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-19 Thread David E. Fox
Don't forget to pick the max mailbox size up for postfix if that's what you're using. By default it's set at 50 Megs, which roughly translates Good idea. I checked, and the settings are at about 50 megs so I should be fine. Still, my incoming mailbox is pretty darned big so I really should

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
the meeting is often the time at IHOP. If you go next month maybe I'll run into you. I'll be in the back on a laptop running 9.1 Hmm. I don't attend the meetings due to work - it's difficult to get over to Cisco from South San Jose and I take a bus :(. I had no reason to suspect you were

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
The line to get plfs gpg sig is. (where # is the command prompt) # lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc | gpg --import OK thanks. been there done that :) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
Lets put it this way... since cooker hit beta I've averaged about 450 mails a day on that list... topping out at 800 one day... do I read them allno way in H### But I do read a lot of subjects. wow...! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
The drakautoinst method I'm imagining would avoid all the issues and (most of the) complications involved with using urpmi (or apt-get or similiar program) to upgrade an installation. In terms of package management the I've been trying that method more or less with success for many different

Re: [expert] Pentium4 motherboards keeping ISA slots

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
I'm enrolled in a project for automating a telescope for robotic use. It's our aim to control the whole system under Linux. A google search on 'linux and telescope automation' shows a link at lowell university where someone is apparently doing just that.

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-15 Thread David E. Fox
(You wouldn't be talking about Rick Moen here would you *grin* ) How'd you guess? :) Yeah Rick and I've butted heads a few times in SVLUG. He used to be really prolific, but I haven't heard from him in a while. I mostly lurk in SVLUG anyway. 1. Space... pulling down roughly the equivalent

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-15 Thread David E. Fox
Outside of that...never had a complaint, as long as you keep a generous amount of space in your /var (10gig partition in my desktop Yeah, I needed 670 emgs :). I'm still doing the auto-select. I'm glad I put in 'contrib' - I also had a slow mirror in .ca for plf, so I deleted and replaced

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-15 Thread David E. Fox
I never do --force --nodeps on an urpmi unless I absolutely know what's going on. --noclean will save you from having to re-download I would not normally either, but the apache issue seemed to require that. Anyhow the upgrade went smoothly -- took maybe 5 hours to download and install

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-11 Thread David E. Fox
Is it possible to use drakautoinst to automate an effectively upgrade a machine from one release to another? Rather than try to use the upgrade Should be. I've wondered the same thing, although not in the context of drakautoinst. Debian (for instance) allows you to do a dist-upgrade (aka

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