[expert] testing-please ignore

2002-05-19 Thread Michael van der Kolff
I'm setting up CMU Sieve... just ignore for the time being, please Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] kde3 upgrade?

2002-05-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 May 2002 00:20, you wrote: Is there any doc on how to upgrade to kde3? I'm using 8.2. Darren Hey, Let us know how you fare :-) Personally I always ended up in an awfull mess with all sorts of strange bugs and flaws after upgrading an existing running KDE version. The rest of

Re: [expert] postfix and aliases

2002-05-19 Thread J. Craig Woods
David Relson wrote: I had mail.mydomain.com as a PTR record to the A record for mydomain.com. I think that postfix didn't realize that the two names were equivalent, so it was forwarding the message and getting into trouble. David, you did correct the aforementioned RR's in your

[expert] Mandrake start-up sequence

2002-05-19 Thread Jesus Arocho
Is there a book or file that describes the mandrake startup sequence? My interest is in the script files. I cannot find this for KDE either. Thanks for any help. Jesús Arocho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Samba user logging in getting root user rights

2002-05-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Hi list, I've got Samba running a my Mandrake server and I've been seeing something surprising in my log. here is the log entry: May 18 21:26:17 mdw1982 smbd[9992]: markw logged in as admin user (root privileges) none of the other users logging in get these kinds of privileges. Any one have

Re: [expert] kde3 upgrade?

2002-05-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:20 +1000, Darren King wrote: Is there any doc on how to upgrade to kde3? I'm using 8.2. Darren How about looking at http://www.linuxmandrake.com ? It's there, right on the frontside in the news section. Or if you prefer not to look at the Mandrake website,

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 09:05 -0400, Hoyt wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 11:43 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: What I do not like are those list nazis (while, being a german, I don't really appreciate the term) you mentioned. I agree -- using that term for these people does a disservice

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
- Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps) On Friday 17 May 2002 06:29 pm, you wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: BTW: No offense intended,

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 19 May 2002 15:44:54 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you used any IBM drives made in the past year? Until about a year ago IBM drives were renowned for their reliability, and I used to recommend IBM to all my friends. Since then, they have suffered reliability

Re: [expert] ssh and X

2002-05-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 06:19, Joan Tur wrote: Es Dissabte 18 Maig 2002 15:04, en [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: On Sat, 18 May 2002, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! After having logged in my remote computer via ssh I can run text based programs but I get Remote host denied X11 forwarding

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Steve Browne
On 19 May 2002 00:25:02 -0400, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 22:11, KevinO wrote: IBM I heartily second this. I set up a web company on IBM's over three years ago, and they've been running 24/7 ever since. Last week the technical director told me it was one of the best things I ever did;

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-19 Thread et
well let le do a couple of things with this thread... 1) Top Post...(yea,,, maybe it will kill the thread) 2) it's worth noting that on more than one occasion, in linux related material, not sponsered by MDK, (like reviews of different distros) I have seen these two lists as the reason one

Re: [expert] kde3 upgrade?

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 May 2002 05:48 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 19 May 2002 00:20, you wrote: Is there any doc on how to upgrade to kde3? I'm using 8.2. Darren Let us know how you fare :-) Personally I always ended up in an awfull mess with all sorts of strange bugs and flaws after

Re: [expert] postfix and aliases

2002-05-19 Thread David Relson
At 07:44 AM 5/19/02, you wrote: David Relson wrote: I had mail.mydomain.com as a PTR record to the A record for mydomain.com. I think that postfix didn't realize that the two names were equivalent, so it was forwarding the message and getting into trouble. David, you did correct the

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 23:50, Tom Brinkman wrote: Most of those links (and others) refer to IBM HDD's over 40GB havin problems. I just recently had a 10 month old, IBM 30GB 7200rpm ata/100 2mb drive fail. My Linux drive ;( Mechanical problem. The drive was used 24/7, but after being

Re: [expert] Mandrake start-up sequence

2002-05-19 Thread Bill Davidson
On Sun, 19 May 2002 07:47:17 -0400 Jesus Arocho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a book or file that describes the mandrake startup sequence? My interest is in the script files. I cannot find this for KDE either. The docs that come with mandrake are quite good. You may have it on your

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Nelson Bartley
Question for you guys, why do you dislike WD hard drives? I've currently got a 20GB 7200 in my server and it runs beautifully. It's quiet, I've never had a problem with it, and it's plenty fast. I know of all the IBM hard drive problems, however where are these WD problems comming from? NB On

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 19 May 2002 08:50:50 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:51 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I did a quick web search and found a few relevant pages: http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/24896.html

[expert] Konqueror shortcuts with mozilla?

2002-05-19 Thread Stephen Boulet
Does anyone know if it's possible to use konqueror's internet shortcuts with mozilla? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Rebuild kernel error

2002-05-19 Thread Fedneg
Hello: I'm trying to make: rpm -rebuild -target athlon kernel-2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm but I get this error messages: /usr/bin/gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 May 2002 10:26 am, Nelson Bartley wrote: Question for you guys, why do you dislike WD hard drives? I've currently got a 20GB 7200 in my server and it runs beautifully. It's quiet, I've never had a problem with it, and it's plenty fast. I know of all the IBM hard drive problems,

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 12:05, Tom Brinkman wrote: I've got a APC BakUPS 500, had it for a long time ;p Normally, just leavin the house for a day or so, I'd leave the system runnin. But this last time I was gone for 8 days, so I shut it down. It's been shutdown that long before.

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread darklord
On Saturday 18 May 2002 10:11 pm, you wrote: IBM I just bought 4 more from : http://www.mwave.com I currently have at least a dozen modern IBM HDs spinning 24x7 here. I've never had a problem with any of them. They're real fast with or without raid. hdparm reported 35MB/s throughput with

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread darklord
On Sunday 19 May 2002 03:16 am, you wrote: Ugh. This is not good at all. And it is true that my information is slightly dated; the two IBM Deskstar's I have here are about a year old. Where did you get this information? Any links? LX No, that certainly would not be good. The question

[expert] Help with Anti-Aliased Fonts

2002-05-19 Thread Chris Spencer
I have been pulling out my hair trying to get this to work correctly and I dunno what the heck is wrong. I'm hoping someone can help. I am running KDE 3.0 and have anti-aliased fonts turned on. They render very nice and I am pleased with that. However, I have noticed that when I go to certain

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread dfox
been shutdown that long before. 'Sides, if a HDD can't stand to be off, get 'cold' (room temp), then restart it's defective IMO. Well, yeah, that's self-evident :). Besides, most (non-Linux) usage of the drives feature frequent powerup/shutdown cycles, so that should be nothing new.

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 09:15, Steve Browne wrote: On 19 May 2002 00:25:02 -0400, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 22:11, KevinO wrote: IBM I heartily second this. I set up a web company on IBM's over three years ago, and they've been running 24/7 ever since. Last week the technical

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 01:44, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Have you used any IBM drives made in the past year? Until about a year ago IBM drives were renowned for their reliability, and I used to recommend IBM to all my friends. Since then, they have suffered reliability problems, and the return

[expert] KDM broken in KDE3

2002-05-19 Thread Chris Spencer
Today I did some cleaning up and removed all of my KDE2 packages except for KDE2 libs and QT2 libs. As a result, KDM from KDE 2.2 is gone. After I did an init 1/init 5, when X started I was prompted with GDM instead of the new KDM. I did some snooping through logs and found that the problem

Re: [expert] Rebuild kernel error

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 May 2002 11:06 am, Fedneg wrote: rpm -rebuild -target athlon kernel-2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm snip error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86578 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86578 (%build) I can't figure out what's going wrong

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 09:06, Charles A Edwards wrote: I have a 60GB Deskstar that I got in late Dec. It is not the 60GXP, which is the drive that IBM had the QC problem with but is based on either the 75GXP or the 120GXP, most likely the 120GXP. As to the 120GXP itself the following is

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread civileme
Nelson Bartley wrote: Question for you guys, why do you dislike WD hard drives? I've currently got a 20GB 7200 in my server and it runs beautifully. It's quiet, I've never had a problem with it, and it's plenty fast. I know of all the IBM hard drive problems, however where are these WD problems

[expert] Problems with telent

2002-05-19 Thread Joe Davidson
I have an out-of-the-box 8.2 installation on Intel. When I boot up, the only failure I get is proftp. I have connectivity, I can browse with Mozilla. When I open a shell window and say telnet , I get a no such command message. When I open ktelnet and try to connect to anything,

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 May 2002 9:26 pm, civileme wrote: And I am still seeing 8 times as many reports of problems with install or stability from WD owners as from Seagate owners. I rarely see any from Maxtor owners, and even the slew of reports lately

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Felix Miata
Nelson Bartley wrote: Question for you guys, why do you dislike WD hard drives? They are the hardware equivalent of Internet Exploder, designed for windoze, which means compliance only with WD/M$ standards, not industry standards. Other drive makers have conformed to the various ATA specs

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 May 2002 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm still a little leery about maxtor reliability. What's your take on that? LX Can't say, I've only had it a few weeks. First one too, Maxtor's have never been an overclockers favorite. IBM and Quantum always held the crown for

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread James
On Sun, 19 May 2002 10:07:23 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 17:51 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: In my last post I was writing from memory, so some of the details were not quite accurate. For example, IBM is only (!) selling 70% of its HDD

[expert] Re: Introduction on ADSL

2002-05-19 Thread Barebull98
Please take off you r e-mail list.Bill Steward

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread James
On 20 May 2002 00:25:02 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 23:50, Tom Brinkman wrote: Most of those links (and others) refer to IBM HDD's over 40GB havin problems. I just recently had a 10 month old, IBM 30GB 7200rpm ata/100 2mb drive fail. My Linux

Re: [expert] KDM broken in KDE3

2002-05-19 Thread Damian G
So my question is, what file do I need to edit so that the KDE3 KDM will point to KDE3 when I select it from the list? -Chris use KDE Control Center to do that. Go to system -- login manager ( i'm sorry bu ti think you will have to look for something like that, my installation is not

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread James
I think the 33mhz bus is the root cause of a lot of problems. Video has improved not because of faster cpu's but because so much of what used to travel on the buss is now done on the card. My hdd may be able to read faster than ever before but it sure doesn't help when even at 66mhz it exceeded

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread James
Charles I've got a 1993 vintage Samsung that's still running strong ... It runs 24/7 and was shipped in the comp from Korea to the US. The story seems to be over all. Don't buy WD Quantum and Fijutsu . the jury is still out. Take your chances on the rest someone is bound to get a bad

Re: [expert] KDM broken in KDE3

2002-05-19 Thread James
On Sun, 19 May 2002 13:37:46 -0600 Chris Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I did some cleaning up and removed all of my KDE2 packages except for KDE2 libs and QT2 libs. As a result, KDM from KDE 2.2 is gone. After I did an init 1/init 5, when X started I was prompted with GDM instead

Re: [expert] KDM broken in KDE3

2002-05-19 Thread Chris Spencer
Damian, Thank-you for your help. I'm embarassed that I missed the most obvious thing. :) Everything is working great now. Thanks again! -Chris On May 19, 2002 05:36 pm, Damian G wrote: use KDE Control Center to do that. Go to system -- login manager ( i'm sorry bu ti think you will have

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread civileme
James wrote: I think the 33mhz bus is the root cause of a lot of problems. Video has improved not because of faster cpu's but because so much of what used to travel on the buss is now done on the card. My hdd may be able to read faster than ever before but it sure doesn't help when even at

Re: [expert] KDM broken in KDE3

2002-05-19 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 19 May 2002 17:54:40 -0600 Chris Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damian, Thank-you for your help. I'm embarassed that I missed the most obvious thing. :) Everything is working great now. Thanks again! -Chris no problem. i'm glad it worked. see ya. Damian Want to buy

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread civileme
civileme wrote: James wrote: I think the 33mhz bus is the root cause of a lot of problems. Video has improved not because of faster cpu's but because so much of what used to travel on the buss is now done on the card. My hdd may be able to read faster than ever before but it sure doesn't

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 19 May 2002 14:22:46 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, IBM was a natural choice until this string of incidents. WD is out of the picture, since they don't correctly follow the ATA spec. That leaves Seagate and Maxtor. Not really; that's sort of a mule blinder

Re: [expert] Konqueror shortcuts with mozilla?

2002-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 19 May 2002 10:41:26 -0500, Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible to use konqueror's internet shortcuts with mozilla? The KDE bookmark editor can export to Netscape format, which works in Mozilla as well. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Geeks

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 19 May 2002 16:42:04 -0700, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles I've got a 1993 vintage Samsung that's still running strong ... It runs 24/7 and was shipped in the comp from Korea to the US. The story seems to be over all. Don't buy WD Quantum and Fijutsu . the jury is

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread James
On Mon, 20 May 2002 13:03:56 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002 16:42:04 -0700, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles I've got a 1993 vintage Samsung that's still running strong ... It runs 24/7 and was shipped in the comp from Korea to the US. The story

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread dfox
Form what I've seen, they're focused on the 'budget' market (OEMs, etc.). Hmm. Any idea what the set-top boxes might use (tivo, dish network, mp3 players etc.) ? One would seemingly want to have at least as good (if not better) reliability because these drives can easily get more usage (in