Yeah...yeah...yeah... that assembly code was nice, just too much pushing and pulling
for me. One of my school projects was to get a Northstar Advantage Z80
microprocessor-based business machine (it actually had 2 [get that--two!?] 360k 5 1/4
inch floppies!!! Brandy-spamkin' new!) to play music
Submitted 25-Jul-00 by Christopher Cox:
Well man dump yielded no results here. I use either tar or cpio.
A standard way that Unix backs things up is with cpio.
If Mandrake would fix their version, backup would be:
I have seen you say this a few times, so I decided to check out the
problem.
Submitted 25-Jul-00 by Alan Blundell:
The installer changed hda3 (extended partition containing hda6, 7,
and windows drive 'D:') to type 85 'Linux Extended')
I fixed this by changing the partition type to 'extended' (type 5) with
linux fdisk, which fixed things again, but it had me worried
I'm trying to run an X app from a remote box locally.
Here are my steps:
1) xhost +remote-host-ip
2) telnet to remote-host-ip
3) export DISPLAY = local-host-ip
Then, when I try running kmail: kmail: cannot connect to X server local-host-ip
What might I be doing wrong?
-- Stephen
Mark Weaver wrote:
Ok...I'm still a little foggy on this console stuff. I'm only half
there. So, if my desktop freezes as it has once or twice since I've
started working with Linux,(about 14 months), and CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE
doesn't take me out of X, then will CTL-ALT-Fx (x = 1-6) get me there
Hi all,
I am planning to build a new system.
What will be the approx price to assemble a 700+ Mhz system.
I have a choice of buying a complete system from one of the Linux harware
guys or building my own. Which will be cheaper.
If building my own can i rely on online purchase of components,
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 02:48:58 +0100, you wrote:
What I had in mind was (1) a Linux only solution and (2) using a tape as
the backup device. The reason is that many of my company's customers
(rural telephone cooperatives) would like to become ISPs and my
supervisor wanted me to come up with a
Thus spake John Aldrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch
cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally forever!
I took a class back in the early 80's on how to program in RPG. The
funny
Thus spake Mark Weaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Didn't anyone use Assembler back then? I thought that came before
COBOL?
Indeed it did. The first high level language in general use was
Backus's FORTRAN, although he himself did not originally envisage it
as being a portable language, rather that
What type of NIC is it?
Original Message
On 7/25/00, 9:56:16 AM, "fasi74" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding [expert] Nic problem:
I was using mandrake 7 normally until i added another NIC now its is not
showning it gets detect on kudzu but cant configure it need help quickly
.
Disable cron in startup services ;-)
Mike
Hello list,
I'm running LM 7.1 as a server (samba).
Everey hour I get the following massage as root from root (cron daemon):
can't open "var/run/news/shlock" permission denied
Any idea ?
Thanks
Ante
Hmm, Based on that I decided to try running kruiser as root before
changing any permissions. I su'ed and started kruiser from konsole, I
then logged in with my user name/password and it worked. Is this a
I could get it to work by setting suid. But I don't know about security
concerns.
I have my linux 'gateway' setup to Dial-on-demand.
Works great (well, almost).
At the moment, if i try to connect with mIRC from
my Windows Workstations, it takes 8-12 seconds before the gateway dials
up. Is there any way I can shorten this time, without affect internal
network
stephen boulet wrote:
I'm trying to run an X app from a remote box locally.
Here are my steps:
1) xhost +remote-host-ip
2) telnet to remote-host-ip
3) export DISPLAY = local-host-ip
^
I think this is the problem, you should have:
export DISPLAY =
I sometimes get this with securekernel
All I usaly do is locate the program dest instalation ie: /usr/local/betro then
I look for a /bin or a executable in there and then link it to bin,sbin or so
ie:
ln -s /usr/local/betro/bin/betroftp /usr/sbin/BETROFTPD
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Marco Fioretti
On 25 Jul 2000, stephen boulet wrote:
Date: 25 Jul 2000 22:14:35 -0700
From: stephen boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Running an X app from remote host
I'm trying to run an X app from a remote box locally.
Here are my steps:
Hello,
after connecting my two computers, and configuring them,
I have noticed that, while I can ftp and telnet at the
maximum speed between the two, something weird happened
on the "client", i.e. on the one that should use the
other as its Internet Gateway.
(Gateway = 192.168.1.1, Client =
I was using mandrake 7 normally until i added another NIC now its is not
showning it gets detect on kudzu but cant configure it need help quickly .
Hello there
I am a Windows NT Network Administrator "MCSE" now i would like to extend my
skill go for Linux Administration. now the question is that does my
being an Nt administrator help me in any way with Linux.?
Also what should i know to be a good Linux Admin ? I heard linux users have
to
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Darryl Gibson wrote:
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 01:16:33 -0400
From: Darryl Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback
Mark Weaver wrote:
Ok...I'm still a little foggy on this console
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 17:39 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Thanks to all of you for sharing your history :] But that makes me think.
Now we heard all those "old timers". What will we (the youngsters at about
age 20) be telling in 20-30 years?
We will be trying to explain what those
At 10:25 PM 7/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
Hi all,
Sridhar,
The voice of experience speaks when I say if you do not know the in's and
out's of hardware/software, and do not know precisely what you are doing
inre to building a Linux box..save yourself a lot of headaches and money;
let Tom at
E$ and F$ this must be a NT system - check your user premissions on that
computer. One way past this is that when it prompts you for password use
administrator then you have full premission to mount and check the drives.
And yes the goto console and su root then run kruiser is usaly more secure
The Altairs didn't have Assemblers for quite a while.
It was about the time that a little company called Microsoft started
producing them that I saw the first batch... Cobol predated this due to it's
use in Mainframes.
Though you could always play with 370 Assembly code... YUK.
-JMS
Mark Weaver wrote:
Didn't anyone use Assembler back then? I thought that came before
COBOL? Personally I love Assembler. So much more control, although COBOL
does have it's good points too.
--
Mark
Yup, for about 7 years batch CICS on MVS (big iron), Intel on the
PeeCee (under CPM
Hi,
I have a Canon CanoScan FB630P (Parrellel Port Scanner) which I am
probably dreaming but wish to run in Linux. It happens to be the only
thing keeping Windows on my system which is dual booting with LM7.0.
If there is anyone out there with information (addresses, downloads or
which is the
Outlook and Exchange both do POP and SMTP. Exchange has its own MTA and will
either handle SMTP independently or it will forward to an SMTP gateway.
John Aldrich wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Outlook 2000 DOES do threading. I'm using for this list now. I have to use
Outlook as
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
Submitted 25-Jul-00 by Alan Blundell:
The installer changed hda3 (extended partition containing hda6, 7,
and windows drive 'D:') to type 85 'Linux Extended')
I fixed this by changing the partition type to 'extended' (type 5) with
linux fdisk,
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Alan Blundell wrote:
I've just joined this list, so apologies if this has been brought up before
(couldn't find it in the digests ...).
There _have_ been a few posts about problems with 7.1 installs. I had a
couple myself, which I thought were pretty serious:
Sarang!
...I'm speechless! Thankyou. I'll be chewing on this for a while.
--
Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote:
Mark Weaver wrote:
Ok...I'm still a little foggy on this console stuff. I'm only half
there.
When I Install ManDrake 7.0 from CDROM, it appears messages like
below:
Initializing CDROM...
in second stage install
-X11TransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect : errno = 111
-X11TransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect :
:) ... my wife thinks the same thing about me sometimes. -- in reference
to last comment. At first I hated Assembler because I was so stinkin
confused what with ALL the stuff that was going on at once and all the
rules that you had to know all at once to use it, and just when I THOUGHT
I was
Dear friends:
Just bought and installed LM 7.1. The installation went fine but I have
one urgent problem:
Normally when I log off from my default desktop, KDE, into the
console, I have no problem, but sometimes, and I emphasize, SOMETIMES, I
end up landing in pitch darkness. That is, the screen
Dear friends:
Just installed LM 7.1 from CD.
DrakConf's "Change X-Resolution" does not work. It shows a little
screen that says: " Preparing to change resolution." And that's it. The
actual dialogue box for changing the X-Resolution never shows up. It
freezes and I have to turn it off with
A couple of my posts never made it.
I just figured it was the lists moderator forwarding them to Tech's instead
of the list.
Christopher Cox
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:59:02AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch
cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally forever!
I took a class back in the early 80's on how to program in
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:15:31PM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote:
Then I tried to access a cd by saying ls /amnt/tab and I can't see any
cdrom directory.. Is it created automatically or am I suppose to create it
beforehand.
That's the only shortcoming of autofs. You don't know which directories
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:30:29PM -0600, Steve Browne wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 02:48:58 +0100, you wrote:
What I had in mind was (1) a Linux only solution and (2) using a tape as
the backup device. The reason is that many of my company's customers
(rural telephone cooperatives) would
These small things bring a really bad reputation to linux.
Don't exagerate. It's just you that's having problems, not the whole
Mandrake "community".
It has been stated that Supermount has some major issues. Therefore
in my thoughts it is unstable. Should it not carry a (experimental)
tag
Sridhar G wrote:
Hi all,
I am planning to build a new system.
What will be the approx price to assemble a 700+ Mhz system.
I have a choice of buying a complete system from one of the Linux harware
guys or building my own. Which will be cheaper.
If building my own can i rely on online
Civilme,
You'll be missed by all of us and are definitely needed... I hope
someone sends his outlook a really nice love letter. hehe
Nightwriter
At 07:03 AM 7/25/00, you wrote:
Civileme wrote:
A political appointee has decided that he can't use kmail and must have
outlook. Today
- Original Message -
From: "Sridhar G" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Mandrake Expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 1:25 AM
Subject: [expert] Building a new Lm system
Hi all,
I am planning to build a new system.
What will be the approx price to assemble a 700+ Mhz
Dear friends:
Thanks to two list members, one on the KDE list, I understand the
problem of why sometimes when I log off from KDE, I end up in a blank,
dark screen instead of the console. Here is the explanation from Kevin
of the KDE list:
"The problem I think, is that you are not being switched
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:08:18AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
Hello,
after connecting my two computers, and configuring them,
I have noticed that, while I can ftp and telnet at the
maximum speed between the two, something weird happened
on the "client", i.e. on the one that should use
Is anyone aware of a graphical FTP program that will allow you to open multiple
servers (more than 2) concurrently and where I can download it?
Thanks...
Dave
3) export DISPLAY = local-host-ip:0
Thanks to those who replied. This did the trick.
Another way is to use ssh x-forwarding, you can use the ssh from
www.ssh.com, or openssh, but X-forwarding is broken on Openssh in LM7.1,
you must manually do "xauth merge /tmp/ssh-/cookies" where
Is anyone aware of a graphical FTP program that will allow you to open multiple
servers (more than 2) concurrently and where I can download it?
Thanks...
Dave
fasi74 wrote:
I was using mandrake 7 normally until i added another NIC now its is not
showning it gets detect on kudzu but cant configure it need help quickly .
Huh? Tell us what you are trying to do and we will give you a step
by step.
Like:
Are you adding a LAN to a gateway machine?
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Ok...I'm still a little foggy on this console stuff. I'm only half
there. So, if my desktop freezes as it has once or twice since I've
started working with Linux,(about 14 months), and CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE
doesn't take me out of X, then will CTL-ALT-Fx (x = 1-6)
It sounds like I'm not the only one who never sees their posts in the forum.
I believe mine get thru simply because I see the responses from other folks
on this list. Yesterday, I unsubscribed/resubscribed to the list, thinking
that might help (it didn't). I guess the list server hates me. g
My company appears to have tied themselves quite closely to MS. The mail
servers are NT boxes requiring domain logins which to me means no POP and no
SMTP. I don't know enough about Outlook/Exchange to know what protocol the
client/server system uses. I do know the system normally acts like an
I've only seen this behavior with NT boxes. NT creates pseudo shares for
every local drive.
-Original Message-
From: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] samba
Hmm, Based on that I
Looking at the files in my Mandrake 7.1 install I see a whole lot of files
that appear unnecessary and that I would like to delete to save disk space.
Some obvious candidates are:
/usr/lib/linuxconf/help.de , help .es, etc (all the help files in languages
I do not speak)
Is it safe to delete
You have to do some homework. I just got thru looking at various
sales spots, and I figure that I can put together an Athlon 800MHz
machine with an Abit KA7-100 mobo, 128 MB PC133, and 15 GB IBM
ATA-100 hd, using presently available (that I have) monitor, sound
card, video card, mouse, CDR, and
Submitted 25-Jul-00 by Alan Blundell:
The installer changed hda3 (extended partition containing hda6, 7,
and windows drive 'D:') to type 85 'Linux Extended')
I fixed this by changing the partition type to 'extended' (type 5) with
linux fdisk, which fixed things again, but it had me
Thus spake Greg Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[...]
But that internet was definitely a hoot at 112 baud!
112? I can clearly recall working with an acoustic coupler over a line
so noisy that 110 was the best we could manage.
But my favourite speed, nopt that I ever used it, but it was in all
the
I have successfully used flexbackup (freshmeat has it). This provides a
friendlier command line front end to afio, cpio, tar, etc.. From what I could
glean afio is a much more robust (i.e. fault tolerant) and high performance
alternative to cpio.
Hope that helps.
Steve
Mark Weaver wrote:
Hello there
I am thinking of shifting my server from intel to AMD ethalon is this a
good idea ???
I am a Windows NT Network Administrator "MCSE" now i would like to
extend my
skill go for Linux Administration. now the question is that does my
being an Nt administrator help me in any way with Linux.?
In the narrow technical view, not really. In a broader view, yes, it
helps immensly because
Actually the best way for you to find out just what you need to know is
for you to actually attempt to install Linux on a machine and get it
running. I'm sure you will soon see the areas of your present knowledge
that apply and what areas you are lacking in.
In answer to your second question,
The mailing list software really get's on nerves. I sent this mail
yesterday to capital E, and it hasn't shown up. At least for me.
When will Dennis be back?
- Forwarded message from Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000
Greg Stewart wrote:
Nope, hadn't that particular thrill...but I do remeber the card readers and tape..
assUme you mean "mag" tape here... :^)
And, only heard about the plug boards when I was first learning programming.
"Wrote" more plugboards than I care to remember (IBM407 Accounting
Pj wrote:
Well, ya all make me ashamed to admit to learning keypunch-- compliments of
IBM-- for Caterpillar. The mainframe, I believe, was in its infancy at then.
Pj
The 026 or 029 punch? :^) Wow... I've forgotten the sorter and card
interpretter (080?) models... "ol'timers" setting
Deryk Barker wrote:
Thus spake Mark Weaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch
cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally
forever!
Only if you had to punch the cards one hole at a time, by hand (as I
did with the
One certified, now wait.. *certifiable* NT Admin to another, the only really
beneficial thing that will help you understand Linux networking is the general
networking knowledge from MCSE. If you took the course from Microsoft (as opposed to a
technical college that incorporates the courseware)
Greg Stewart wrote:
What I learned was that you basically had to "build" a circuit that performed a
particular function.
Kinda' like a Light Brite, but instead of pretty pictures, it was actually worth
something... :)
That's a pretty good analogy! The only difference was that the wiring
Dear Charles Curley,
thanks a lot for the answer. In which month will be published your wonderful
article?. I came from Catalonia, and I have some difficulties to find this
magazine. I have access to the translation version. However, I will try to
pay attention in it.
And, well, I have check my
Ben,
Actually yes. I have a real good idea what's going on. X 4.0 is still very
buggy and it might be a real good idea to install and use X 3.x until they
get the bugs worked out of X 4.0. I tried X 4.0 the first time I tried
Mandrake 7.1 and it didn't work very well. I had a terrible time
Ya know... I had the same problem when I installed LM7.0 using XF86 3.3.6 on a Gateway
with an OEM spec'd 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee video card. Most of the time when I exited X,
the screen would go blank and console would not show up. A few times I was able to
blindly type
shutdown -h now [enter]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I don't know...is this list moderated?
- --
Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Christopher Cox wrote:
A couple of my posts never made it.
I just figured it was the lists moderator forwarding
Well I suggest that you get a copy of Linux with some documentation and try it
out. It also helps to know a good deal about the hardware you plan to run
Linux on. Good Luck,
Don
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Hello there
I am a Windows NT Network Administrator "MCSE" now i would
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:59:02AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch
cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally forever!
I took a
Until you get it solved: When you logout and get just the blank screen,
try CtrlAltBkspc; this is supposed to kill the X server. If that
doesn't do it, hit CtrlAltF1 (or CtrlAltF{2 - 6} if F1
doesn't do anything). This should switch you back to a console where
you can login as root and do a
Dear Charles Curley,
thanks a lot for the answer. In which month will be published your
wonderful
article?. I came from Catalonia, and I have some difficulties to find
this
magazine. I have access to the translation version. However, I will try
to
pay attention in it.
And, well, I have check my
user Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X and come to console..
If the above dosn't work then try putting the kbd in raw mode by pressing
Alt-SysReq-r and then the above keys..
I had teh above problem once and I think it was coz I had a trident blade
3D adn the default X server didn't work well with
your problem seems to be with X.. try installing using text mode install..
I am not very sure how to do that.. hopefully someone will answer u're Q..
or read the README or somethign thats provided with the install CD.
but lemme tell you taht I too have a Trident Blade 3D and I could install
Try a text install.
yuyue wrote:
When I Install ManDrake 7.0 from CDROM, it appears messages like
below:
Initializing CDROM...
in second stage install
-X11TransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect : errno = 111
After uprgrading a working 7.0 install on a Compaq laptop to 7.1, DNS no
longer works correctly. I can ping by IP, can ping localhost, but get a DNS
error if I try to ping by domain name. I have looked through the mail
archives and found a few posts with similar problems, but there were no
Dear friends:
Well, correctly guessing that some of my problems, at least, might have
been caused by XFree86 4.0, I decided to do a completely new install
from my LM 7.1 CD's. The problem I had earlier with changing the
X-Resolution was, I gather, clearly one of the effects of using XFree86
4.0
What version of glibc are you utilizing?
The following was gleaned from technet.oracle.com, and I quote:
"Note: Use only glibc 2.1for both Oracle 815 SE and Oracle 815 EE.".
Have you examined any orther error logs?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to install Oracle 8.16 enterprise edition
excellent idea :).. in our computation/memory expensive tasks, AMD athelon
750MHz is 10% faster than Intel P III 800MHz
-sarang
(resent from two days ago; did not get through to the list! Retrying
with a "cap E" in the address)
OK, I've got a hosed system, and would appreciate some suggestions on
how to fix it. System details are: dual PPro, SCSI disks only (except
for a CDROM), tulip-chipset PCI ethernet, a sound card,
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