[expert] devfs 2.4.18 trouble

2002-03-11 Thread Ronny L Nilsson
Hi Has anyone tried upgrading a standard mandrake 8.1 to kernel 2.4.18 and gotten it to work properly? I get loads of boot errors with devfs: [ cut from syslog ] ... devfs_register(tts/0): could not append to parent, err: -17 ... devfs_register(dsp): could not append to parent, err: -17

Re: [expert] Continious Download

2002-03-11 Thread Nguyen H.Vu
Hari Yellina wrote: Hi, I am trying to find a application where, I can download even once I got diconnected and starts once I resume my internet connection. In windows I use download accelarator. Is there any application does the same thing in Linux. wget may be the best. It is console

Re: [expert] Continious Download

2002-03-11 Thread Leopold Palomo
A Diumenge 10 Març 2002 11:25, Hari Yellina va escriure: Hi, I am trying to find a application where, I can download even once I got diconnected and starts once I resume my internet connection. In windows I use download accelarator. Is there any application does the same thing in Linux.

[expert] Bastille firewall setup

2002-03-11 Thread Nick Thompson
Hello, With LM8.1 I am trying to shore up my machine using Bastille - I don't need anything complex. Setup went fine, but now I'm tring to understand what it has done. iptables -L says: Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination DROP tcp -- anywhere

[expert] setting up home network

2002-03-11 Thread Darren King
Right now, I am using a mandrake 8.0 machine to connect to the internet using dhcp (home cable). I want to set up a network so my windows xp (gaming machine) can connect to the internet through my linux machine. I want to hide the windows machine behind the linux one to keep it safe. Do I have

[expert] Netscape Crash

2002-03-11 Thread Hari Yellina
Hi All, We made a point of sale application using netscape as a front end and java server side. Touch screen based application. Problem is ::: Netscape craches every 1 min and I am afarid how to stop this crashing. Any help will be very helpful. Regard, Hari Yellina. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Netscape Crash

2002-03-11 Thread udo rader
could you provide us with more details about the crashing (try using strace to find out what's happening). netscape in general and netscape java especially don't have the best reputation in being too stable anyway ... another option might be to use a different java version - which one do you

Re: [expert] devfs 2.4.18 trouble

2002-03-11 Thread jarmo kettunen
On Friday 08 March 2002 21:53, you wrote: Hi Has anyone tried upgrading a standard mandrake 8.1 to kernel 2.4.18 and gotten it to work properly? I get loads of boot errors with devfs: [ cut from syslog ] ... devfs_register(tts/0): could not append to parent, err: -17 ...

Re: [expert] setting up home network

2002-03-11 Thread J. Craig Woods
Darren King wrote: Right now, I am using a mandrake 8.0 machine to connect to the internet using dhcp (home cable). I want to set up a network so my windows xp (gaming machine) can connect to the internet through my linux machine. I want to hide the windows machine behind the linux one to

Re: [expert] Netscape Crash

2002-03-11 Thread Hari Yellina
HI Udo, I am not using Java Applets. It is jsp . So we get HTML and Javascript on the browser. after making a booking . or going to few pages. It crashes and whole application goes out. As I read in few places, every one says netscape is gonna crahs alwaya. But here the clients are gonna

Re: [expert] Netscape Crash

2002-03-11 Thread Oscar
El lun, 11-03-2002 a las 12:36, Hari Yellina escribió: Hi All, We made a point of sale application using netscape as a front end and java server side. Touch screen based application. Problem is ::: Netscape craches every 1 min and I am afarid how to stop this crashing. Any help

Re: [expert] devfs 2.4.18 trouble

2002-03-11 Thread Ronny L Nilsson
You should also upgrade new dfsd daemonDon't remember where to get.. Devfs is somehow buggy according messages in kernel list.. I simply disabled devfs and recompiled kernel,no more errors. ok, I shall try that. Thanks. Another problem also occured when I did an update, my keyboard

Re: [expert] Cannot print to cups 1.14 from Windows 2000 SP2

2002-03-11 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 11 March 2002 03:52, you wrote: Hi. I'm running cups 1.14 on a current Mandrake Linux cooker.  Since I've updated to 1.14, I cannot print from my Windows 2000 machine anymore :( Leaving CUPS to one side, how is your samba setup? Is it also upgraded squeakily clean??? --

Re: [expert] setting up home network

2002-03-11 Thread Sheldon E. Newhouse
I have this kind of setup with only one nic in each machine. But I have a static connection to the internet. Maybe with DHCP you want one card for the local lan and another for the DHCP. In any event, here is my setup, including WIN XP. I have a multiport switch which is connected to the

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-11 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... sda ran for the door shrieking: Yeah, I've been playing with the different filters, and the gimp does a lot, I was just looking for something a little bit more automated - does that make sense? No not really, best thing is learn how to use the application. Alright, thanks

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-11 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 20:26, Pierre Fortin wrote: Ooops... forgot to add that I needed to hit Return after sending the GET; so the full instructions are: telnet server 80 GET http://some_other_server HTTP/1.0 Return Without the extra return, the command just sits there as you

[expert] USB mouse - only verticaal cursor movement

2002-03-11 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
When I plugged the PowerScroll USB mouse into my box a driver was loaded saying that a mouse was found. I didn't find any complaints in the log. After some searching I linked /dev/usbmouse to /dev/mouse. After some more searching I concluded I do not know whot protocol should I use for my mouse

Re: [expert] devfs 2.4.18 trouble

2002-03-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
As another noted, devfs is broken. You could rebuild the kernel with devfs set off OR you could blow off the rebuild and simply add the append = devfs=nomount statement to your lilo file for each kernel version and your devfs problems will go away. Kind of funny. I have no real problems

Re: [expert] Netscape Crash

2002-03-11 Thread udo rader
hmm, that doesn't sound too good. if you say that the only thing you need is to display HTML and js, then try a very irrational thing: switch off java support (not javascript). I know of cases where the presence of the java-virtual machine alone made netscape crash over and over though java was

Re: Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux flavours

2002-03-11 Thread irexbeta
I enjoy it because it's easy to install and configure =) From: Gary A. Garibaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/03/11 Mon PM 03:10:35 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux flavours On Sunday 10 March 2002 08:17 am, you wrote:

Re: [expert] devfs 2.4.18 trouble

2002-03-11 Thread Ronny L Nilsson
Kind of funny. I have no real problems with devfs with the 2.4.8 kernel but when I'ved tried any of the teens (2.4.13 on up to .18) devfs has been totally wrecked. It appears to be somewhat of a pain to get usb working without devfs too, so that is more fun to toss into the mix. For

[expert] Updates

2002-03-11 Thread irexbeta
I downloaded all the updates (security and otherwise) in RPM form and burned them to CDROM. I was wondering if I could use the software updates app to update my installation of Mandrake 8.1 from that CDROM? Thanks! Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Updates

2002-03-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:22:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded all the updates (security and otherwise) in RPM form and burned them to CDROM. I was wondering if I could use the software updates app to update my installation of Mandrake 8.1 from that CDROM? Afraid not. Your cd

Re: [expert] Updates

2002-03-11 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Monday 11 March 2002 03:22 pm, you wrote: I downloaded all the updates (security and otherwise) in RPM form and burned them to CDROM. I was wondering if I could use the software updates app to update my installation of Mandrake 8.1 from that CDROM? Thanks! Robert Robert, I would think

[expert] Qpopper problem...!

2002-03-11 Thread Ing. Manuel Haro Márquez
Hi everybody...! I have installed my web email server in a MDK 8.0 system, I can receive and send messages to anyplace, my problem is that mi qpopper (Pop3 server) is working wrong because I can´t send or receive my messages from the server to my terminal. The smtp server is Postfix and the

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup

2002-03-11 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
Nick Thompson wrote: Hello, With LM8.1 I am trying to shore up my machine using Bastille - I don't need anything complex. Setup went fine, but now I'm tring to understand what it has done. iptables -L says: Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination

Re: [expert] Updates

2002-03-11 Thread Hoyt
On Monday 11 March 2002 03:43 pm, you wrote: But you do not need to do it that way. If you are fairly sure that you will have no unsatisfied depends and/or conflicts then: mount /mnt/cdrom and: cd /mnt/cdrom or the directory if you created such on the cdrom. Then do: rpm -Uvh *rpm This will

RE: [expert] Dns Script

2002-03-11 Thread Martin Ignacio Lange
Thanks a lot that really helped... I don´t know why I didn´t look up there before. Regards, Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sábado, 09 de Marzo de 2002 11:02 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-11 Thread Michael Viron
The latest apache, 1.3.23, disables the passthrough feature by default -- I'm not sure about the 2.x series, since I've not used it. Michael -- Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database Administrator / Web Statistician Simple End User Linux At 09:18 AM 3/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Sun,

[expert] Mail attachment

2002-03-11 Thread Martin Ignacio Lange
Is there a way of attaching a file using mail command so that I can make a shell script to mail me a log file to another mail periodically? Thanks in advance Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michael Viron Sent: Lunes, 11 de Marzo

Re: [expert] Mail attachment

2002-03-11 Thread Hamster
no need for an attachment. use a pipe. cat logfile | mail whoever Is there a way of attaching a file using mail command so that I can make a shell script to mail me a log file to another mail periodically? Thanks in advance Martin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 06:07:46 -0800 (PST), Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday... sda ran for the door shrieking: Yeah, I've been playing with the different filters, and the gimp does a lot, I was just looking for something a little bit more automated - does that make sense?

Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux flavours

2002-03-11 Thread Cheryl Brannan
On Sunday 10 March 2002 05:33 am, Hari Yellina wrote: Hi. I am just wondering , why u guys are using mandrake over other linux flavour . Can u guys tell me the advantages, Thank you, Hari Yellina I saw a computer show last year (The ScreenSavers) where it was presented as a

[expert] I have no CD mount entry on my desktop

2002-03-11 Thread Gary Bond
How can I get the CD mounting icon/utility on to my desktop? I had reformat the drive that had my home directory, when I made a new user the desktop is now missing the CDrom mounter. __ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-11 Thread Brad Felmey
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:32, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: So I'll have a look over the rim and check out Hancom Office (included in MDK 8.2). Anybody has some insight in this? My personal opinion is that exposure to HancomOffice takes a lot of the shine off of OpenOffice/StarOffice. It's not free

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:31:24 -0600 Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest apache, 1.3.23, disables the passthrough feature by default -- I'm not sure about the 2.x series, since I've not used it. When I found this, I checked the www.apache.org (2.0.32) and it was either correctly

[expert] How and where to get source RPM

2002-03-11 Thread newbie
I have a off-the-shelf inistallation of Mandrake 8.1. And I'm wondering how and where to get the source code of those binary RPMs. I specificly interested in the source of iproute2-2.2.4-9mdk.I guess apt-get source doesn't work :) Any help is appreciated! -newbie Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux flavours

2002-03-11 Thread Hari Yellina
Thanks Hoyt, It was a good answer, As a beginerr I want to stick to this Mandrake as u guys are very well know with this product. Regards. Hari Yellina. - Original Message - From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [expert]

[expert] KDE kamera module supported in kde2.2.2?

2002-03-11 Thread Guy Zelck
Hi all, I've read and I see that KDE's Configuration Panel offers a way to choose among digital cameras. I can choose the model I borrowed from work which is a Canon Powershot Pro70. Pushing the Test button does nothing. Opening Konqueror and begining the URL with kamera: or gphoto: just pops

Re: [expert] How and where to get source RPM

2002-03-11 Thread Brad Felmey
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 18:29, newbie wrote: I have a off-the-shelf inistallation of Mandrake 8.1. And I'm wondering how and where to get the source code of those binary RPMs. I specificly interested in the source of iproute2-2.2.4-9mdk.I guess apt-get source doesn't work :) Go to

Re: [expert] How and where to get source RPM

2002-03-11 Thread newbie
Thanks Brad. By the way, I saw a hdlist.cz file on one of the mirror site. Do you know how to unzip or read a .cz file? Thanks, -newbie Brad Felmey wrote: On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 18:29, newbie wrote: I have a off-the-shelf inistallation of Mandrake 8.1. And I'm wondering how and where to

Re: [expert] How and where to get source RPM

2002-03-11 Thread Brad Felmey
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 19:23, newbie wrote: Thanks Brad. By the way, I saw a hdlist.cz file on one of the mirror site. Do you know how to unzip or read a .cz file? IIRC there's instructions on the linux-mandrake.com site in the cooker section about dealing with those. I custom-hacked it once

Re: [expert] How and where to get source RPM

2002-03-11 Thread newbie
Also, I'm trying to setup a source (repository) for source RPMs. I'm using rpmdrake, to create a new source, here is my setting: Type of source: ftp New source's name: source-code url: ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/8.1/SRPMS relative path to

Re: [expert] How and where to get source RPM

2002-03-11 Thread Brad Felmey
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 19:42, newbie wrote: Also, I'm trying to setup a source (repository) for source RPMs. I'm using rpmdrake, to create a new source, here is my setting: Type of source: ftp New source's name: source-code url:

[expert] Seeking maintainer of mandrakeforum.com

2002-03-11 Thread Brad Felmey
I'm either blind or there's just not a maintainer listed on the site. A front-page link is broken, there's no link to MandrakeClub in the titlebar-thingy, and view modes are saved but not working in profiles. -- Brad Felmey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] USB mouse - only verticaal cursor movement

2002-03-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Do you have a USB-to-PS/2 adapter? I had that problem with the Logitech Cordless MouseMan+ that came with my Freedom Pro Cordless set, plugged it into PS/2, and it worked flawlessly, wheel and all. You could try fiddling with the protocol, but I just gave up instead. (This is actually on a

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-11 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 18:51, Brad Felmey wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:32, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: So I'll have a look over the rim and check out Hancom Office (included in MDK 8.2). Anybody has some insight in this? My personal opinion is that exposure to HancomOffice takes a lot of

Re: [expert] Seeking maintainer of mandrakeforum.com

2002-03-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 11 March 2002 09:42 pm, Brad Felmey wrote: I'm either blind or there's just not a maintainer listed on the site. A front-page link is broken, there's no link to MandrakeClub in the titlebar-thingy, and view modes are saved but not working in profiles. Brad: Maybe we're talking

Re: [expert] 2 Linux on single machine

2002-03-11 Thread Skippi
You most certainly can. I have two installs on my box. I am still learning so I use one to test new programs, and mess with and such as that. Thus, when (not if, when) I kill it, I can boot into the other one have a fully working system until I get time to reinstall the one I killed. It's

Re: [expert] Seeking maintainer of mandrakeforum.com

2002-03-11 Thread Brad Felmey
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 21:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Maybe we're talking about two different things here, but I just went to the forum home page at www.mandrakeforum.com/index.php and there's a link to the MandrakeClub in the left hand column -- second entry from the top. Actually where it

Re: [expert] USB mouse - only verticaal cursor movement

2002-03-11 Thread Hoyt
On Monday 11 March 2002 09:48 pm, you wrote: Do you have a USB-to-PS/2 adapter?  I had that problem with the Logitech Cordless MouseMan+ that came with my Freedom Pro Cordless set, plugged it into PS/2, and it worked flawlessly, wheel and all. You could try fiddling with the protocol, but I

Usage of chroot [ was: Re: [expert] 2 Linux on single machine]

2002-03-11 Thread Nguyen Hung.Takeshi
Hello all, I have Kondara and Mandrake installed on /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda4 respectively. The reason I use Kondara is it support Japanese, chinese very well. I wonder if I can use chroot to start apps in /dev/hda2 (kondara) when I jumped in Mandrake? Hung vu Skippi wrote: You most

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-11 Thread James
On 11 Mar 2002 22:28:08 -0500 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 18:51, Brad Felmey wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:32, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: So I'll have a look over the rim and check out Hancom Office (included in MDK 8.2). Anybody has some insight

[expert] Webcam Problem

2002-03-11 Thread Hari Yellina
Hi All, I have a web cam. I am very excited to use , But dont know what to do in linux. Can you guys suggest so I can look u all at some point of time. Regards, Hari Yellina www.yellina.org

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-11 Thread James
On 11 Mar 2002 09:18:58 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 20:26, Pierre Fortin wrote: Ooops... forgot to add that I needed to hit Return after sending the GET; so the full instructions are: telnet server 80 GET http://some_other_server HTTP/1.0

[expert] Wanna beta test HoneyPort? (inspired by LaBrea TarPit)

2002-03-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
Looking to have some fun with obnoxious 'net users and slow down their antics...? If so, I'm looking for a beta tester (or two or three :^) of my very simple HoneyPort which is a sticky port for those scumbags... :^) Pierre Tired of getting spam retries after setting up anti-spam features?

Re: [expert] Netscape Crash

2002-03-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Why on earth are you using *Netscape 4.x*? Can you throw Mozilla in there in its place? It is orders of magnitude more pretty and more stable. (Use the Classic theme so the [l]users believe it's NS 4.x.) -- Asheesh. udo rader said: hmm, that doesn't sound too good. if you say that the only