Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-18 Thread Nick Kay
At 06:14 18/05/00 -0700, you wrote: Submitted 17-May-00 by Harlan Whitley: | [-- octet-filter file type: "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows" --] | | WINA20.386: DOS/Windows executable Excuse me, but *what* is this? It's the gate handler from DOS (as I vaguely recall) What is it

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-18 Thread Nick Kay
At 15:40 18/05/00 +0200, you wrote: Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 17-May-00 by Harlan Whitley: | [-- octet-filter file type: "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows" --] | | WINA20.386: DOS/Windows executable Excuse me, but *what* is this? Some virus ??? I ran strings against

Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail

2000-04-20 Thread Nick Kay
At 07:29 20/04/00 -0700, you wrote: Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background information... I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP through US West VDSL. The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time because of the DHCP. I have a Windows

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-07 Thread Nick Kay
At 10:53 07/04/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi ! Firewall - quick and easy for Mandrake or Redhat linux: Start netcfg and go to the routing tab and turn on network packet forwarding by highlighting the box. Then add the following lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall file: /sbin/depmod -a

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-04 Thread Nick Kay
At 07:45 04/04/00 EDT, you wrote: Stephen F. Bosch said: Entering "mx 3" does not prevent X from autostarting. Here is the lilo.conf stanza: image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk label = mx vga = normal append = "mem=124M" root = /dev/hdb8 read-only Again --

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-03 Thread Nick Kay
At 18:13 02/04/00 EDT, you wrote: Stephen Bosch said: What could be overriding the inittab line? Have you got 'startx' in any of your startup scripts? Sure don't. Taking the other guy's question as a clue, I commented out the last line of inittab: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

Re: [expert] Sharing PPP connection through a Mac...

2000-03-30 Thread Nick Kay
At 13:47 30/03/00 +0200, you wrote: I have my Linux box networked with my Mac, on an AppleTalk network. On the Mac, I have an ISDN adapter, and would like to be able to share the connection from the Linux box. Is this possible over the AppleTalk network? The adapter comes with a software

Re: [expert] Can someone please explain..

2000-03-21 Thread Nick Kay
At 01:56 21/03/00 -0800, you wrote: I've tried various X-windows interfaces and I am amazed to find that after browsing through KDE, GNOME, XFCE3, WindowMaker, Afterstep, ICEWM, and Plain_X11.. NONE of them have a windows properties selection that allows for the editing of screen resolution!

Re: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work

2000-02-22 Thread Nick Kay
At 09:55 22/02/00 -0500, you wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: I found out why my eepro100 won't work, but I can't seem to fix it. Even though my nic is not in the slot next to AGP, my AGP card and nic both have IRQ11. I have no idea why it still works in windows. It

Re: [expert] Apache Virtual Web Servers

2000-02-21 Thread Nick Kay
At 08:25 21/02/00 -0700, you wrote: I'm using a Man 7.0 firewall with multiple IP's redirecting port 80 to an internal machine running Apache 1.3.11. I'm trying to set up multiple webs on this machine. When I browse from the Internet to these domain web servers I'm only pulling up the

Re: [expert] Photo quality printers

2000-02-10 Thread Nick Kay
At 21:48 09/02/00 +, you wrote: Anyone any suggestions for photo quality printers under Mandrake? Thanks Phil -- Phil Risby The same Phil Risby who used to be on Caldera? If so greetings from Sussex, UK. from another ex-Calderan. President PR Yacht Solutions Division of FernWood

Re: [expert] How do you make an ISDN connection (Fritx AVM PCI - aka BT Speedway PCI)

2000-02-04 Thread Nick Kay
At 11:11 04/02/00 +, you wrote: How do you make an ISDN connection to the net with mandrake 7? TIA DS (Nottm UK) - http://www.santon.clara.co.uk/ - Start here:-

Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)

2000-01-12 Thread Nick Kay
At 02:55 12/01/00 -0600, you wrote: That's a relief! I was sure you were kidding, but it's nice to see it reinforced in print. Thanks!!! Ahem "http://wso.williams.edu/~aramos/upsfire/" :-) nick@nexnix Pj Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, ibi wrote: Axalon, Please

Re: [expert] Listening port for Sendmail

2000-01-11 Thread Nick Kay
At 12:01 10/01/00 -0700, you wrote: Nick; Qmail, Postfix and sendmail all talk the SMTP protocol on port 25 - shutting that off will stop them working. All these mailers envoke /usr/lib/sendmail for each message sent. Port 25 is only used when sendmail is running as a daemon and therfore

Re: [expert] Unsuccessful Reinstall of L-M 6.1

2000-01-11 Thread Nick Kay
At 14:22 10/01/00 -0500, you wrote: I have been unsuccessfully trying to reinstall L-M 6.1 on my computer the last two days. About halfway through the format of hdb1 (my second and designated Linux HD) I repeatedly receive this message install exited abnormally... received signal 7...

Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)

2000-01-10 Thread Nick Kay
At 21:00 10/01/00 +1300, you wrote: I've got an old 486 here that my friend wants to use as a firewall/proxy, but I can't install either mandrake or redhat on it due to the lack of ram (8mb) and it being a 486. On both, it stops at loading 2nd stage ramdisk. It's quite screwed, at least for

Re: [expert] Listening port for Sendmail

2000-01-10 Thread Nick Kay
At 22:54 10/01/00 +0800, you wrote: Hi, At work, we have a Class C address with it's own mail server. My Linux box is configured with sendmail to reply to mail addressed to me via my ISP. Corporate IT is clamping down on smtp servers due to spammers. Is there anyway to close down my

Re: [expert] LCD Panel Blinking (second Try)

2000-01-07 Thread Nick Kay
At 09:06 07/01/00 -0500, you wrote: Hello all; I have send this message few days ago. For some reason it did not make it. So here it is. I have installed LM 6.1 on a notebook computer which has a Trident 9397 video controller. The LCD panel blinks every 30 seconds or so. When I am in

Re: [expert] 20 GB Hard Drive Problem

2000-01-05 Thread Nick Kay
At 11:14 01/01/00 -0800, you wrote: I have a Maxtor 92049U6 20Gig. hard drive. The specs that are printed on the case are: Cyl = 16383 Heads = 16 Sectors = 63 This doesn't make sense becaues I have an 8Gig with the same Cyl./Head/Sector information! According to the Maxtor web site, all

Re: [expert] FTP port range

1999-12-20 Thread Nick Kay
At 04:37 20/12/99 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I'm setting up a firewall on my mandrake 6.1 box, and am trying to lock down as many ports as possible. Does anybody know what range of ports *active* ftp connections use? Thanks, Tim Try this for taking the sweat out of firewall design:-

Re: [expert] Internal Modem on a notebook ( Compaq Armada 700 )

1999-12-20 Thread Nick Kay
At 09:17 20/12/99 +0100, you wrote: Hi gents, My boss has just given to me a notebook Compaq Armada 700. After having problem to configure XFree on it ( the video card is a Rage Mobility P ) everuthing is going OK. Now my Linux ( Mandrake 6.1 ) doesn't recognize the internal Modem ( I suppose it

Re: [expert] IP-aliasing

1999-12-03 Thread Nick Kay
At 10:00 03/12/99 +, you wrote: On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi, The ifup-aliases script included in the initscripts of Mdk6.1 is buggy. An update is available through MandrakeUpdate of the initscripts. update your initscripts package and it will work just fine... I have to

Re: [expert] Rescue.img

1999-12-01 Thread Nick Kay
Well son of a, ok not my fault. I just double checked the iso on my ftp and your right. I have no clue how that happened. I don't have a 6.1 boxed set to check the other disks, I do know it was tight on space and they stuck a bunch of stuff elsewhere, I was pretty sure it was on the 6.1 beta but

Re: [expert] Need a little help with my firewall

1999-11-30 Thread Nick Kay
At 04:30 30/11/99 -0800, you wrote: I didn't have time to become an ipchain expert before bringing up a firewall on a home server. (It's like the internet is a parrona filled river and my server is a piece of meat!) so I went out to : http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html

Re: [expert] 6.1 bugs: rpm 2.2.13-22mdk kernel

1999-11-24 Thread Nick Kay
configured. I changed my processor to a PPro, and turned SMP off. I left everything else at default. Ran 'make bzImage'. gcc quickly dies with multiply defined stuff. Can we have the errors that the compilation threw out? It's most likely that there is a kernel configuration problem. A

Re: [expert] [devel] Fw: Kernel 2.2.13-29mdk

1999-11-22 Thread Nick Kay
At 10:01 22/11/99 -0500, you wrote: Has anyone looked at this problem yet? Erm - which problem?? :) ttfn nick@nexnix

Re: [expert] sendmail as gw?

1999-11-17 Thread Nick Kay
At 12:02 17/11/99 +0100, you wrote: Hi.. I need to setup sendmail as a forwarding gateway for 3 domains... like this: internet - sendmail gw - real mailserver. How is this done? I've looked around, but haven't found any examples on how to do it. Maybe I suck at searching? :) use the Smarthost

RE: [expert] restricting connections to installed software

1999-11-10 Thread Nick Kay
At 00:26 10/11/99 -0500, you wrote: Ah, I see what you are getting at. A per-executable (or whatever) licensing/seat type deal? I don't know of any way to do this (aside from putting each binary to license into a separate directory?) That defeats the purpose of 'max connections' then,

Re: [expert] CGI errors

1999-11-09 Thread Nick Kay
At 22:00 08/11/99 -0700, you wrote: I know this isn't a Mandrake specific question, but this is the best resource for linux issues I've found. I'm configuring Apache 1.3.6 to run CGI scripts. I keep getting a 500 internal server error. The error_log is saying that there's a premature end of

RE: [expert] CGI errors

1999-11-09 Thread Nick Kay
At 08:49 09/11/99 -0500, you wrote: Content-type: text/html\n\n HTML body More specifically: print ("Content-type: text/html\n\n") ; print ("HTML\n") ; print ("BODY\n") ; etc. Assuming one is using perl of course. He'd only specified that he was using cgi

[expert] NIS, Linux SunOs

1999-10-22 Thread Nick Kay
Hi All, Anyone had any experience using a Linux NIS server with Solaris 2.4 clients? If you have the time please get in touch as I have a ton of questions to ask. ttfn nick@nexnix

Re: [expert] XFree86-xfs problem

1999-10-18 Thread Nick Kay
At 13:01 18/10/99 +, you wrote: Dear friends: I have a strange problem that apparently was caused by my foolish tampering with the ttfonts directory. For whatever reason it broke the X Font Server. I have corrected it since, but I get the following strange result. I wanted to uninstall

Re: [expert] aic7xxx module

1999-10-18 Thread Nick Kay
At 14:10 18/10/99 +, you wrote: Hi We are running 6.0 on a DELL dimension XPS D266 (128 Megs) and sometimes LILO hangs during the following event: Loading aic7xxx module I can boot from the floppy to get around this, it is just annoying. Can anyone tell me what the aic7xxx module is and

Re: [expert] Why is Mandrake/Redhat listening on tcp port 98?

1999-10-12 Thread Nick Kay
At 07:41 12/10/99 -0400, you wrote: Hi all, So, why does Mandrake/Redhat listen on tcp port 98? Rick, That's the port Linuxconf listens on if you have it configured as a network service. ttfn nick@nexnix -- PRICE GAUGING! In the past eight weeks the price of 128meg sdram has gone from

Re: [expert] Sendmail .mc files...

1999-10-01 Thread Nick Kay
At 23:08 30/09/99 -0700, you wrote: It's not that difficult - only about 10 lines in each. And now you have full control :) I'll send you mine if you get stuck. Ive upgraded sendmail twice on two production mail servers (both bsd type machines). Ive done it before but the final .cf files

Re: [expert] Sendmail .mc files...

1999-09-29 Thread Nick Kay
At 19:54 28/09/99 -0700, you wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Andrew Morton wrote: Keith Woodworth wrote: I want to build a custom .cf file for sendmail but was wondering does the rpm file for sendmail have the mc files to customize the config file? You need the sendmail-cf RPM. Under

Re: [expert] Apache documents unfound

1999-09-27 Thread Nick Kay
At 11:50 27/09/99 +0200, you wrote: Hi I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 with Apache 1.3.6 binary (src not installed), it works well with localhost. I see the mandrake welcome page but I can't find the htdocs file to lay down my documents. Has anyone any idea of what went wrong? Thanx a lot Try

Re: [expert] kppp starts pppd feebly, Network Configurator starts pppd like a champ

1999-09-24 Thread Nick Kay
At 12:17 23/09/99 -0600, you wrote: I found that I needed to use the scripting facility in kppp to get connected. It works transparently after it's set up so you just have to click on the kppp icon (or docked app) and then Connect to get on. My kppp setup is at home, but I'll bring it in for

Re: [expert] kppp starts pppd feebly, Network Configurator starts pppd like a champ

1999-09-23 Thread Nick Kay
At 09:25 23/09/99 -0600, you wrote: When I dial up to the net via Network Configurator (netcfg), everything works great. I get on the net, and everything works perfectly. I did a "ps --cols 1000 ax | grep ppp" and noticed that Network Configurator starts pppd with many options: /usr/sbin/pppd

Re: [expert] Fetchmail

1999-09-21 Thread Nick Kay
I think the faulty part of the system is /etc/sendmail.cf. But without /var/log/mail is only guessing for beginnners. (Whow, is my english bad.B-) A heck of a lot better than my German. :) ttfn nick@nexnix

[expert] Token Ring

1999-09-20 Thread Nick Kay
Hi All, Anyone have any good sites for token ring drivers? Specifically Olicom 3140 IBM 859533-based cards. TIA nick@nexnix

Re: [expert] Pulling out my hair.

1999-08-25 Thread Nick Kay
At 21:07 24/08/99 -0400, you wrote: Is there some secret I am missing to seting up my version of linux-mandrake 6.0 to run as a server on a win95 network? I have followed all the howto's, books, guides, prayers, chants, and etc. But all my win95 workstations say "no domain server found or you

Re: [expert] status of aic78xx raid

1999-08-25 Thread Nick Kay
At 00:38 25/08/99 -0400, you wrote: Kenneth Kline wrote: I currently own a box that has a adaptec u2 raid system. It consists of the adaptec raidport III controller aro-1130ca2 on a supermicro p6dgu. I am currently limited to running nt, I want linux back. I have tried to contact redhat,

Re: [expert] status of aic78xx raid

1999-08-25 Thread Nick Kay
At 06:49 25/08/99 -0400, you wrote: Nick Kay wrote: At 00:38 25/08/99 -0400, you wrote: Kenneth Kline wrote: I currently own a box that has a adaptec u2 raid system. It consists of the adaptec raidport III controller aro-1130ca2 on a supermicro p6dgu. I am currently limited

Re: [expert] Telnet over dialups

1999-08-23 Thread Nick Kay
Please disregard. Customer destroyed his hard drive - I had to reinstall from scratch and this time telnet works fine. thanks all. nick At 12:41 23/08/98 +0100, you wrote: Any kind souls who replied to this, please resend as I managed to blow away my pop3 mailbox over the weekend and so

[expert] Telnet over dialups

1999-08-20 Thread Nick Kay
Hi all, I've just configured a machine for dial-in access (so I can look at a web page that gives status info) and I don't appear to be able to telnet in from a windows client. I used mgetty+sendfax on the server. Anyone aware of any security switches for telnet that would prevent

[expert] PCI modems (oh no, I hear you say)

1999-08-12 Thread Nick Kay
Hi All, Anyone heard of a Linux compatible PCI modem? I'm kitting out a 2u rack system and there are no ISA slots available. (I'd rather not use an external device, but) ttfn nick@nexnix

Re: [expert] PCI modems (oh no, I hear you say)

1999-08-12 Thread Nick Kay
At 21:55 12/08/99 -0700, you wrote: actiontech makes an internal pci modem that is compatible with linux. if you cant find one locally email me and I will get you one. And yes it has its own processor and its not a win modem. they run about 100$ Thanks for the reply. I've just been through their

[expert] PPP dial in server problem.

1999-08-06 Thread Nick Kay
Hi all, I'm trying to set up an M6 system for dial in access but the pppd dies with the error "Peer is not authorised to use remote address 192.168.200.3" where the remote address is specified in options.ttyS1. There is no mention of this on dejanews or alltheweb. Any one else seen this?

Re: [expert] PPP dial in server problem. Fixed

1999-08-06 Thread Nick Kay
Amazing how making a post seems to clarify the mind :) To fix this you need to have the address of the incoming machine in pap-secrets. Didn't used to, but you have to now. ttfn nick@nexnix (btw I posted the fix so perhaps this will get into the archives for someone else in the future) At

Re: [expert] Block device not recognised - no CDROM!

1999-07-30 Thread Nick Kay
At 11:55 28/07/99 +0100, you wrote: Hi and help! I hope there's somebody who can help with this. There seems tro have been a fair bit of traffic about zip drives and 'kernel not recognising /dev/? as block device' etc. I have the same problem but with a cdrom and cannot shoehorn the ideas on

Re: [expert] Sendmail - sender domain must resolve ?

1999-07-29 Thread Nick Kay
At 17:12 29/07/99 MYT, you wrote: I saw this in /var/log/maillog Jul 30 01:51:53 students sendmail[1558]: BAA01558: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=eng@[202.184.36.9], reject=451 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must resolve Whats happening here ? I can sent the mail out

[expert] Raid controllers

1999-06-04 Thread Nick Kay
Hi All, Anyone have any experience or comments on RAID controllers for Linux? I need a hardware RAID-5 solution, the AMI offering is too expensive and the DPT drivers give my kernels the hiccups. All thoughts gratefully recieved. tar nick@nexnix

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.60

1999-05-19 Thread Nick Kay
At 20:00 19/05/99 +1000, you wrote: Is every one else having problems with netscape 4.60 on mariner 6.0 pre? When running netscape from the command line it dies when I try to view sites with java applets. I get the following error: [root@duncan /root]# netscape librvcore.so: cannot open shared

Re: [expert] somewhat OT, but surely expert's... ;-) ('dumb' NT-box on Linux)

1999-04-19 Thread Nick Kay
At 15:22 19/04/99 +0200, you wrote: Hi! It's springtime and so I decided to try out something new. Maybe someone can hint me at some docs/sites/etc about this: Currently I have three installations here on three different HD's (IDE only): Linux, WinNt and Win98. I swap the drives using a drive

Re: [expert] Off-Topic - Multiport NICs

1999-03-25 Thread Nick Kay
. On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Nick Kay wrote: Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:05:23 + From: Nick Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Off-Topic - Multiport NICs G'day all, Apologies for being off topic but does anyone know

Re: [expert] Reading Netware (3.x) partitions under Linux

1999-01-17 Thread Nick Kay
At 16:05 19/11/99 -, you wrote: Hi, I would like to get files from an old Novell server that has been shutdowned and from which only the disks are remaining. So, I've connected the SCSI disks to my PC, but Linux can't mount the Netware partitions. I've look around on the web, and finally