Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-19 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 03:13 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:57, Greg Meyer wrote: If you want a pointy-clicky config interface and you don't like DrakConf, use Webmin -- it doesn't have that problem. It's also better at handling complex config than DrakConf.

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-19 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 09:24 am, Timothy Brown wrote: After you get it started now go to your browser and go to https://localhost:1 make sur you have https Right, I know how to access it manually. I was just wondering if I missed a K-menu entry to start a browser with that URL.

Re: [expert] I think it's safe to say the 2.4.22 kernel series is screwed

2003-11-19 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 05:41 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 02:54 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: At least with regards to sound. I must now give up on any 9.2 stock kernels. I have now failed to get my fully functional sound system to work in 9.2 using:

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-18 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Now I'll have to beat the Sparenberg drum - this clearly deserves a bug report. I can't do it yet, since I've just ordered my 9.2 boxed set, and don't have 9.2 installed on any systems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 17 November 2003 12:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful, it is really quite broken in 9.2, especially as related to Network

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:06 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Glenn Could I be so bold as to trouble you to do a cut and past of the above e-mail into a bug report? I'm quite sure you aren't alone with your problem. Thanks. James http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com I'm ahead of you.

Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Looks to me like dummy mode is turned on, so no actual write should occur. Turn off dummy mode, and try again. But the operation should work in dummy mode, shouldn't it? Anyway, I tried it in real mode, and the same thing happens. The Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request occurs at the very

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I'm getting close to the cause of the problem - I started doing a survey of several different machines, all running MDK 9.1. Some had all the fonts, some didn't. The ones that didn't had missing entries from the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1. Specifically, the entries for 75dpi

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 15 November 2003 09:04 am, Stefan Rijnhart wrote: Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 12:56, schreef Glenn Burkhardt: I'm getting close to the cause of the problem - I started doing a survey of several different machines, all running MDK 9.1. Some had all the fonts, some didn't

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Executing 'fc-cache -f' has fixed the problem. The Qt fontlist program now finds all the non-scaled fonts. There doesn't seem to be any documentation of 'fc-cache' in the fontconfig source. So probably one of the updates was botched. [EMAIL PROTECTED] glenn]# cat

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
It looks like the post-install for the 100dpi font rpm doesn't update the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1, but only the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.cache-1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ rpm -qp --scripts XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk.i586.rpm postinstall scriptlet (through

[expert] cd writer fails...

2003-11-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I can't get a CD writer to work - all the device configuration seems OK, and the model is listed as known to work on the main compatibility list (http://wt.xpilot.org/cgi-bin/winni/lsc-orig.pl), and, Herr Schilling lists it as one of the units he has to play with. Cdrecord 2.0

[expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I've been porting some of my applications to Mandrake 9.1 from 8.1, and I can't seem to get a Lucidatypewriter font. Is there something odd with the way the Qt libraries have been built? I tried running the example program from the QFontDatabase manual page that lists all the fonts, and

Re: [expert] programms disapearing..

2003-11-06 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Thursday 06 November 2003 11:49 am, Markus Gonaus wrote: Am Don, den 06.11.2003 schrieb Vtucatz elPunishar um 17:38: hi everybody, is there a linux virus deleting random stuff on the drive? At least there is a rootkit, which can hide files. (Adore). If you want to be shure about this,

Re: [expert] Help on scripting

2003-11-05 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
sed -e s/$/#/ text.txt newtext.txt On Wednesday 05 November 2003 09:17 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear All, Again, I'm pleading for your help. I have this text file consisting: ; ;

Re: [expert] How to configure fax4cups?

2003-11-02 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
if however I try lpr -Phylafax -J number /etc/hosts I get tons of blank pages created to send (approx 30) I thought that CUPS was supposed to sort out the conversion of simple text files to whatever format is required? Peter The problem is in CUPS, although there

Re: [expert] How to configure fax4cups? (revised attachment)

2003-11-02 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
if however I try lpr -Phylafax -J number /etc/hosts I get tons of blank pages created to send (approx 30) I thought that CUPS was supposed to sort out the conversion of simple text files to whatever format is required? Peter The problem is in CUPS, although there

Re: [expert] Berkley DB

2003-11-01 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:27 am, Anguo wrote: Hello, I can't find which package has the Berkley DB. any idea? thanks, anguo There are 3: db1-1.85-8mdk db2-2.4.14-7mdk libdb3.3-3.3.11-13mdk And, of course, the GNU work-alike: libgdbm2-1.8.0-19mdk See www.sleepycat.com to figure

[expert] Re: does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?

2003-10-29 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Looks like this was a known problem. I hope it's been fixed - but I'm not inclined to experiment further: Re: data loss From: Eric Sandeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glenn Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: I'm using XFS with Mandrake 9.1

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-25 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 25 October 2003 08:53 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:20:29 -0400 Glenn Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 17:20, James Conner wrote: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-25 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 25 October 2003 01:27 am, James Sparenberg wrote: OK Since Greg did such a clear job of stating the problem and a work around above, I just used his words, to submit a bug report. It's number #30 if anyone here would care/be so kind as to add to it. James Where was the bug

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 17:20, James Conner wrote: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates fix quite a few of the bugs that have been troubling people lately. Glad to see that

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Friday 24 October 2003 08:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Oct 2003 1:20 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: It's bad enough that over 300mb of fixes were posted against 9.1. This is an attitude I just can't buy. It's not 'bad enough' - they could always do what M$ does, and not release

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:19 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: James Conner wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends system, I'll do it on mine after I back everything up. Everything went peachy,

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:53 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:20:17 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates

[expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?

2003-10-21 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my .bashrc file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt

Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?

2003-10-21 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 06:37 pm, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Glenn Burkhardt wrote: I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my .bashrc file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing

Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?

2003-10-21 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Have you only seen this with XFS, or with other filesystems, too? Will ext3 be more robust for power failures? gracias... On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:03 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Glenn Burkhardt ha scritto: I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting

Re: [expert] Spamd and sa-learn

2003-10-20 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 20 October 2003 11:47 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Now I use spamd with spamc called from a procmail recipe. The user is nobody instead of me. So, does doing sa-learn, etc still work? Does user root or nobody make use of the learning I give to spamassassin via sa-learn? On

Re: [expert] Can't Start KDE

2003-10-01 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 12:31 am, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 06:19 pm, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I had one system hang, now everytime I start KDE I get KDE Session Manager (ksmserver) caused an SIGSEGV error. I deleted .kde from /root. But problem still persists. How

[expert] too many sgi_fam connections

2003-09-25 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I had a startup problem with Mandrake 9.1 - the /var/log/messages file was being filled with lines like: Sep 25 06:21:06 phoebus xinetd[1909]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected Sep 25 06:21:07 phoebus xinetd[1909]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam from no

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Sunday 14 September 2003 08:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: The programmer has a human readable interface, and dumps and receives intel hex format. All I need to do is the equivilent to cat file.hex /dev/Stty0 after issueing the relevant send command to the progammer. I'm not familiar with

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Richard Urwin wrote: I need a serial terminal program to talk to a microcontroller programmer I have just acquired. After googling for half an hour or so there seemed to be only one: Minicom. It's a console-based beastie and it doesn't do file send/receive (I don't need any protocol just dump

Re: [expert] Problems using gdb in 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
If you are using XFS for your root file system, this is a known problem (Bugzilla #4000, 4158), and can be corrected by installing the recently released kernel (kernel-2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm). On Monday 11 August 2003 10:48 am, Magnus Wirström wrote: Hi everyone. This is my first

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 11 August 2003 01:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:51, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:26:18 -0400 Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) James S. Lawson Put my vote

Re: [expert] What to do when qt2 libraries are needed (MDK 9.1)

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 11 August 2003 12:03 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I downloaded the nethack rpm from nethack.org but it requires qt2, while I have only qt3. Should I install it by force or something else? Anyway, how dare Mandrake remove NetHack from the distro? :-) Thanks Olaf You'll need to get

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 11 August 2003 05:53 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 11 August 2003 01:36 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Have all the problems ReiserFS had with NFS been fixed? The last time I looked, which was a while ago, there were still threads on the ReiserFS mailing list about problems

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-27 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:57 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is

Re: [expert] How to configure fax4cups?

2003-07-20 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 19 July 2003 03:41 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Now onto next problem. I can send a PS file using lpr -Phylafax -J number ./testprint.ps works fine if however I try lpr -Phylafax -J number /etc/hosts I get tons of blank pages created to send (approx 30) I thought that CUPS was

Re: [expert] How to configure fax4cups? - Part Solved

2003-07-19 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 19 July 2003 03:41 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Glenn Thanks for that, it was the ref's to sendfax in the script which was incorrect. I had tried to use the MDK 9.1 versions and the later download of 1.23. I have also had both the MDK 9.1 of hylafax and the latest download of the

Re: [expert] ntp error

2003-07-08 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
ntpd is not configured for general use 'out of the box'. Its default configuration assumes that you have a timeserver on your local network, whcih is on subnet 224.0.1.1. The documentation good - read it. You have to choose some time servers on the internet, and add entries for them in

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 07 July 2003 02:27 am, Sevatio wrote: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio It works without problems for me on 9.1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 07 July 2003 03:59 pm, Richard Bown wrote: I'm running supermount with 3 cdroms, two burners , no problems with K3b as long as you tell it to eject after burning. But I must admit there is the occasional time when something crashed that no matter what you try that damn drawer just

Re: [expert] kernel bug still not fixed

2003-07-06 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I've built a stock 2.4.21 kernel, and applied the patch SGI XFS snapshot-2.4.21-2003-06-23_01:45_UTC and I can run the debugger. There are still a bunch of drivers to get straight, if I want to use it (which is why I prefer getting a kernel from Mandrake). This is 1.3 release.

Re: [expert] kernel bug still not fixed

2003-07-04 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Friday 04 July 2003 03:46 am, you wrote: No. The problem has not been fixed. I keep emailing mandrake about the problem, but they don't seem to care. I think they need to pull some new XFS patches from the SGI guys and see if that works. The SGI kernel doesn't have this problem. Nor does

Re: [expert] what gives? Broken gdb in Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-04 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
This is Bug #4000: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4000 It's been marked RESOLVED on 2003-07-01 with the comment: This bug is related to a product which is not any more in MandrakeLinux. As a consequence is now marked resolved with the OLD resolution. But I would argue that XFS was

Re: [expert] kernel bug still not fixed

2003-07-04 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Friday 04 July 2003 12:16 pm, Jim C wrote: No. The problem has not been fixed. I keep emailing mandrake about the problem, but they don't seem to care. I think they need to pull some new XFS patches from the SGI guys and see if that works. The SGI kernel doesn't have this problem. Nor does

[expert] what gives? Broken gdb in Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-03 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
After getting Mandrake 9.1 installed and getting my system back in order, I sat down to do some debugging and discovered I couldn't. Even for this simple program: t.c: main() { printf(hello world\n); } couldn't be run under the debugger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] glenn]$ gdb t GNU gdb

Re: [expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1

2002-02-24 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I think I finally came up with a solution I like. The user's private resource file ~/.Xresources can include these lines: *Background: LightGrey XTerm*background: white 'xterm' needs a separate resource, unless one likes its background to be grey. But Tcl/Tk applications and Xemacs seem to be

RE: [expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1

2002-02-23 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I finally found out what's happening - the default color for the background has changed. If you run 'xrdb -query | grep Back' you'll see that the background color has been changed to #f0. If this resource is removed, the problem with viewing the 3D effects of the buttons in Xemacs and

[expert] WordPerfect 8 Mandrake 8.1

2002-02-23 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
You're lucky! I can't even get it installed. How did you do it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1

2002-02-23 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I was a bit hasty with my solution. Using 'xrdb -remove' deletes ALL the resources, not just one of them. This script seems to work: #!/bin/sh # # Remove the *Background:#f0 resource, so certain apps have better # contrast xrdb -query | sed -e /^\*Background:/D | xrdb -load But

Re: [expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1

2001-11-19 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
This a apparently a new feature of xemacxs 21.4 - I picked up a copy of the source, and built. There are no 3D buttons... ;-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1

2001-11-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Anyone know what happened to the fancy 3D toolbar buttons on other 3D effects in Xemacs for Mandrake 8.1? All of a sudden, they're gone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] mail and lock files

1999-11-22 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Is there any place in particular to find out about the theory and operation of lock files and the various mail processors used by Mandrake? Without having done the builds myself, it's not entirely clear what's been shipped. From the source code, it appears that: procmail is configured to use