[expert] Unmount supermount without reboot

2000-12-22 Thread Viktor Lakics
Does anyone know how to unmount (suspend supermounting) a supermounted removable disk without editing out the corresponding entry in fstab and reboot? Eg. to use ext2fsck on a zip disk? Thanks: Viktor Viktor Lakics Through the Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [expert] Unmount supermount without reboot

2000-12-22 Thread b5dave
See one of the most explicit and simple man pages ever written: $ man supermount On 22-Dec-2000 Viktor Lakics wrote: Does anyone know how to unmount (suspend supermounting) a supermounted removable disk without editing out the corresponding entry in fstab and reboot? Eg. to use ext2fsck on a

Re: [expert] X Font server or Sockets are not working properly

2000-12-22 Thread root
"E. Kuch" wrote: Howha, Using Mandrake 7.1 Standard-Installation with updates. Problem: After a little crash while compiling a new kernel I restarted my box. When I type "startx" at the prompt it says: ---snipp--- ... _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

Re: [RE: [expert] Unmount supermount without reboot]

2000-12-22 Thread Viktor Lakics
b5dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See one of the most explicit and simple man pages ever written: $ man supermount This script will only remove the fstab entry (supermount option). And you still have to reboot to make the changes effective... My question was doing something with it WITHOUT

Re: [expert]

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Hillary
Is the version of KDE 1.99pre. If it is then update it with the rpms on the mandrake mirrors. That version has that bug in it and it has been fixed in the 2.00 release. If you do have that version then maybe you should report it as a bug at kde. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "a

[expert] Error in Apache

2000-12-22 Thread Irwan Hadi
I'm configuring Apache 1.3.14 with Mod Perl 1.24_01 and PHP 4.0.3pl1, and I got a problem in which when Apache wants to run a perl script (for PHP script there is no problem), for example for this script [root@is cgi-bin]# cat hello.cgi #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); # #

[expert] KDM problem

2000-12-22 Thread Mike MacCana
I read and commented / uncommented the relevant lines in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 which Mandrake put in there to get around the bug. I'm also using KDE 2.01 for Mandrake from the KDE site. And now I get a proper KDM background. Mike -- Mike MacCana

Re: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

2000-12-22 Thread Buchan Milne
I believe hdparm is actually a utility to set the kernel parameters. That is why, for instance, when the ata100 driver first appeared in the kernel, there was a new hdparm to use to enable it. You can also get around the whole thing by passing kernel options at boot, like "ide0=dma", which is

Re: [expert] Unmount supermount without reboot

2000-12-22 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 22-Dec-00 by Viktor Lakics: Does anyone know how to unmount (suspend supermounting) a supermounted removable disk without editing out the corresponding entry in fstab and reboot? Eg. to use ext2fsck on a zip disk? umount /mnt/zip -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key

[expert] kernel: init not found - using 7.1 kernel on 7.2 with ReiserFS

2000-12-22 Thread Buchan Milne
In an attempt to get our CD-RW server back up and writing CDs, I have installed the kernel 2.2.16-9mdk from the 7.1 updates. After doing the mkinitrd and editing the lilo.conf file etc, I rebooted. The kernel mounted the root partition ro, then had the following 2 error messages: Cannot open

RE: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

2000-12-22 Thread Peter FREIMANN
I'm almost posotive if you grep'd these directories for hdparm their would be a line their. no - you are wrong - there will be a special "append=opti" parameter for the kernel in lilo.conf that tells the kernel ide driver to do the tuning itself ...

RE: [expert] mandrake 2.1 upgrade

2000-12-22 Thread Zelck, Guy
Brian, Out of curiosity, are you certain that the LookNFeel things still work in kcontrol? Mine didn't. I turned out that a lot of *.la files were missing. I think the scripts in the packages must have deleted them. I got them back from the 2.0.1 packages and now everything works. 1) Every

Re: [expert] Re: Konqueror in KDE 2.1 (and 2.0) has problems with rendering

2000-12-22 Thread Buchan Milne
Maybe in the final release of KDE 2.1 they will have finalized KMOZILLA, then you should have decent rendering in a light browser. I haven't managed to keep Galeon working for very long, although it's quite good (small, good rendering thanks to mozilla) Buchan Praedor Tempus wrote: I just

Re: [expert] Printers Mandrake 7.2 - afternotes

2000-12-22 Thread Trevor Farrell
For the interest of anyone that might have contributed or been following this thread, or for someone searching the archives to find the solution to a similar dilemma: I now have the HP950c and can comment: 1) My usual rule is "never buy second hand unless you know what you are buying". I

Re: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

2000-12-22 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 21 December 2000 22:30, you wrote: Alex wrote I have the following at the end of rc.local # hdparm stuff echo -n "Harddrive optimizations" /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hdb /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -k 1 /dev/hde and . Bill wrote:

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Personal Security Mangler

2000-12-22 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 20 Dec, Pete Jordan wrote: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have reinstalled Mozilla 0.6 and am trying to make it work with secure web pages. I tried installing the PSM but am not permitted as a user to do so, so I did it as root. Has anyone actually managed to get the PSM

[expert] Clearcase on Mandrake

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Belanger
Rational Software has recently released Clearcase 4.1 for Linux. The only "officially" supported distro is Redhat 6.2. (BTW: Clearcase is full-featured(and expensive) source code control software) Postings to the CCIUG mailing list report a lot of failed attempts to get clearcase working on

[expert] How to run script at X-login - xsession doesn't work

2000-12-22 Thread Lars Nordin
Earlier while running v7.1, I tried configuring both .xsession and Xsession to run commands when I login to my system (after logging in via KDM) like the .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc scripts do, but neither one worked. I worked around it by putting a shell script in

[expert] cdrecord problem: solution

2000-12-22 Thread Buchan Milne
To all those who are having problems with cdrecord under 7.2, I have found a workable solution (just in time, I am going away and people want to use our CDwriting server). The solution was to compile a kernel (2.2.18) from vanilla (in my case also patched for ReiserFS) source, remembering of

RE: [expert] mandrake 2.1 upgrade

2000-12-22 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
Yes Look and Feel settings work for me. I saw the /usr/bin/removemimetypes since I installed the RPM's via console. After each package installation, that line would pop up on my console line. I did not run that it must be in the RPM is what I figure. I dont know. I lost a lot of my Look and Feel

Re: [expert] Clearcase on Mandrake

2000-12-22 Thread Rusty Carruth
Mark Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rational Software has recently released Clearcase 4.1 for Linux. The only "officially" supported distro is Redhat 6.2. (BTW: Clearcase is full-featured(and expensive) source code control software) ... The problem appears to be related to NFS patches

Re[2]: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

2000-12-22 Thread Rusty Carruth
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot, like "ide0=dma", which is what I use on my custom kernel with udma66. Well, I've not used the hard drive optimizations because of the "warning - data damage likely" comment. Has anyone had data loss from hdparm? What events could happen to cause

Re: Re[2]: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Hillary
I have never had a problem, and from what I have read about hdpram is that data damage can occur on old or flaky hardware, so anything newer than about two years onld is fine. Have a look at http://www.linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/Filesystem/75.html and

Re: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

2000-12-22 Thread Buchan Milne
It depends what you try and do ... though normally hdparm will just kill the system if you give it settings you sohuldn't. If you aren't using hdparm, you should see what your ide controller can do (using hdparm -i or -I should show you a bit). Then, based on your HD and IDE specs, try some

RE: [expert] cups not working properly

2000-12-22 Thread Vic
Cool thanx! :)) On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, b5dave wrote: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ Read the text file. These are LM7.2 rpms are are supposed to work 'out of the box". On 21-Dec-2000 Vic wrote: Cool,. where can I find the url of this site? On Wed, 20 Dec 2000,

[expert] PHP SRPM modification for --with-regex=php?

2000-12-22 Thread Chris Cioffi
Hello all: After installing the PHP rpms that come with Mandrake 7.2 I discovered a bug in a PHP application I use (MyThreads, can be found @ sourceforge). The problem is that the PHP rpm was compiled with '--with-regex=system' and my app seems to need '--with-regex=php' (the default). I went

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Personal Security Mangler

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
How do you do that? If I try to install Mozilla as a user, I am not permitted since it wants to install to /usr/local/mozilla and in a normal, basic setup, users are not permitted to write to or alter /usr/local directories or files. It is not an option to install it into my home

[expert] Postfix

2000-12-22 Thread Steve Hagerman
Hello: I am trying to figure out how to get the Postfix server setup to act as a secondary server for a domain and I really cant find any info on how to do this. I have also encountered a problem I figured well cant figure out the Postfix server then why not go with Sendmail. Well that brought

Re: [expert] kernel: init not found - using 7.1 kernel on 7.2 with ReiserFS

2000-12-22 Thread Ron Heron
You mentioned running mkinitrd, and editing lilo.conf, but did you ever run lilo? - Ron --- Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an attempt to get our CD-RW server back up and writing CDs, I have installed the kernel 2.2.16-9mdk from the 7.1 updates. After doing the mkinitrd and editing

Re: [expert] mandrake 2.1 upgrade

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
I know it has appeared before but at the time it wasn't a problem so I ignored it... I upgraded to the Mandrake KDE2.1 rpms and upon trying to install kdeaddutils, one gets the dependency for libkscan.so.1. Doing a search for libkscan on rufus.rpmfind turns up diddly. Going to Mandrake

Re: [expert] mandrake 2.1 upgrade

2000-12-22 Thread Larry Marshall
What is libkscan Can't answer this one. and is it really needed? By inference I can suggest an answer to this one. If you install KDE2.1, installing thd kdeaddutils rpm with --nodeps, everything seems to work. I've been running it for a few days now and it's the first time I've felt LM7.2

Re: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

2000-12-22 Thread civileme
On Friday 22 December 2000 17:53, you wrote: --- Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: controller. Can't wait to see what a decent HD (IBM 30-75GXPs) can do. I have a 30 GB 75GXP switched to ATA100, after the hdparm tuning(I don't remember the parameters, I am at work) I get around 35

Re: [expert] Postfix

2000-12-22 Thread civileme
On Friday 22 December 2000 18:18, you wrote: Hello: I am trying to figure out how to get the Postfix server setup to act as a secondary server for a domain and I really cant find any info on how to do this. I have also encountered a problem I figured well cant figure out the Postfix server

[expert] Ping Error

2000-12-22 Thread SoloCDM
Something is seriously wrong with our network. A station with Win 9x still believes another workstation exists, even though the other workstation is disconnected. When it was connected, I was able to use the other workstation to view the files of the workstation in question. Next, I tried to

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Personal Security Mangler

2000-12-22 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 22 Dec, Praedor Tempus wrote: How do you do that? If I try to install Mozilla as a user, I am not permitted since it wants to install to /usr/local/mozilla and in a normal, basic setup, users are not permitted to write to or alter /usr/local directories or files. It is not an option

Re: [expert] X 4.0.2 and the RPM database

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
This...problem...does it occur if you install the Mandrake rpm? Unfortunately, it is presently on rufus.rpmfind in the Cooker directory, SO IT REQUIRES THAT DAMN GLIBC2.2. I have downloaded the src rpm and hope to build it on my 7.2 system but wonder about this rpm database "problem". It

Re: [expert] Postfix

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Steve, The best way I've found to turn off Postfix and begin to use Sendmail was to first "uncheck" postfix in the startup services in Drakeconf, and uninstall it. Then you need to reinstall Sendmail and this can only be properly accomplished if Postfix has been uninstalled because the two

[expert] 3.3.6 - 4.02 Upgrade

2000-12-22 Thread Bill Piety
I'm finally going to take the plunge. I've downloaded the new binaries from XFree (4.02) for my MD 7.1 box with the original kernel. tnt2 m64 atc 32m agp card. There's been lots of threads discussions bout this card (lots of "uh-oh's", too) - is there now a single source faq/how-to for what I'm

[expert] VERY slow dhcp response for ethernet

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have a 3com 900TX card in my home system running Mandrake 7.2. After the initial install, it worked beautifully, with dhcpcd quickly getting an ip address (from my DSL router). Not too long ago, I downloaded and built a 2.2.18 kernel from a tarball. I tried some options that I usually

Re: [expert] Error in Apache

2000-12-22 Thread Al Baker
Try it in your cgi-bin? Permissions correct? Execute it from the shell, see what kind of error output there is.. --- Irwan Hadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm configuring Apache 1.3.14 with Mod Perl 1.24_01 and PHP 4.0.3pl1, and I got a problem in which when Apache wants to run a perl script

[expert] Your server?

2000-12-22 Thread Al Baker
I was wondering what flavor of linux (or BSD), people run on their home servers (web, mail, etc). I was thinking that a custom install of mandrake7.2 might not be bad for server, then again many run redhat6.2, and there's always the possibility of BSD... -Al

Re: [expert] Your server?

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Friday 22 December 2000 07:50, you wrote: I was wondering what flavor of linux (or BSD), people run on their home servers (web, mail, etc). I was thinking that a custom install of mandrake7.2 might not be bad for server, then again many run redhat6.2, and there's always the possibility

Re: [expert] Error in Apache

2000-12-22 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 06:46 AM 12/22/00 -0800, you wrote: Try it in your cgi-bin? Permissions correct? Execute it from the shell, see what kind of error output there is.. It works finely if I execute it in shell ./hello.cgi

Re: [expert] How to run script at X-login - xsession doesn't work

2000-12-22 Thread Amit Bapat
try to put the script in $HOME/.xinitrc or $HOME/.Xclients. Look the X startup scripts and you'll find that it looks first for .xinitrc in your home dir and then looks for .Xclients. You can use either of them but not both. Make sure the file is executable. Original Message Follows

Re: [expert] RPM simply doesn't work

2000-12-22 Thread Simon Cousins
I have reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formated the partition and installed over it), but now I can't seem to install anything with rpm. All rpm packages I try to install cause my system to start working intensively, the disk(s) work like they never have before and I can't do

[expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
What am I missing/doing wrong here? I have webmin installed and it is running. Whenever I try to connect to "http://localhost:1/" or "http://localhost.localdomain:1/" it fails. In konqueror I get an error message that the "connection is broken". If I try to connect from mozilla,

[expert] NFS bug... bug#1806

2000-12-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
I just discovered a fully reproducible NFS problem... Decided to install StarOffice on my PII-200MMX system; the main install worked fine over NFS. Then, when I went to copy over the SO5.2 patch files, I noticed that 4 of the 18 files *always* ended the copy with: [pfortin@pfortin program]$ cp

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Roger Sherman
Type shttp instead of http. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: What am I missing/doing wrong here? I have webmin installed and it is running. Whenever I try to connect to "http://localhost:1/" or

Re: [expert] RPM simply doesn't work

2000-12-22 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Saturday 23 December 2000 00:07, Simon Cousins wrote: I have reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formated the partition and installed over it), but now I can't seem to install anything with rpm. All rpm packages I try to install cause my system to start working intensively, the

Re: [expert] Re: [Dri-devel] DRI direct (still, IRQ?) sloow

2000-12-22 Thread Larry Sword
Svante Signell wrote: I've been digging some more into this issue. A new version of XFree86 (XFree86-4.0.2-1mdk) is installed, a new kernel (kernel22-2.2.18-1mdk), a new glibc (glibc-2.2-21mdk) etc. The problem remains :-( All seems to be due to an IRQ assignment problem. cat

[expert] What's wrong with XFree86-4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
I downloaded the src rpm of XFree86-4.0.2 for mandrake and have tried building it for my mandrake 7.2 system. I have met all dependencies and it gets pretty far along in the process...probably very close to finishing but then it dies with: -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DSHAPE -DXINPUT

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Roger Sherman wrote: Type shttp instead of http. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: What am I missing/doing wrong here? I have webmin installed and it is running. Whenever I try to connect to

RE: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Alan, You'll have to excuse my friend...he hasn't been himself this week. :) *grinning a sadistic grinch-type grin* I'm not too sure "who" he has been but it hasn't been himself. Please! no flames Rog...I was only kidding! :P Mark Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Question about OpenSSL: RPM vs sources

2000-12-22 Thread Michael O'Henly
Hi... I'm having trouble understanding why the "products" of RPMs and sources (in this case, anyway) should be so different... Linux-Mandrake 7.2 "openssl" and "openssl-devel" RPMs (version 0.9.5) These install a few binaries, two libraries

Re: [expert] Question about OpenSSL: RPM vs sources

2000-12-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.23 Michael O'Henly wrote: Hi... These install a few binaries, two libraries (libssl.so and libcrypto.so), and documentation. Dynamic libraries, loaded at runtime. OpenSSL sources (version 0.9.6) ---

Re: [expert] RPM simply doesn't work

2000-12-22 Thread Simon Cousins
I have reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formated the partition and installed over it), but now I can't seem to install anything with rpm. All rpm packages I try to install cause my system to start working intensively, the disk(s) work like they never have before and I can't do

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Simon Cousins
Type shttp instead of http. Or even https g https://localhost:1/ -- Simon Cousins [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's a Debian and where can I buy one?

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
Spaciba. That was it. If you do the "webmin" from an xterm, it neglects to tell you to use the https://, opting for http:// On Friday 22 December 2000 06:52 pm, you wrote: Type shttp instead of http. Or even https g https://localhost:1/ -- Against stupidity, the gods

Re: [expert] What's wrong with XFree86-4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Friday 22 December 2000 06:15 pm, you wrote: I downloaded the src rpm of XFree86-4.0.2 for mandrake and have tried building it for my mandrake 7.2 system. I have met all dependencies and it gets pretty far along in the process...probably very close to finishing but then it dies with:

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Nitin Raja Bhatia
Hello Praedor, Webmin uses ssl to ensure a safe connection and to avoid simple packet sniffing techniques that someone may attempt when you login to webmin, therfore you must use HTTPS instead of HTTP. so, from the local box: https://localhost:1 Happy Holidays to Mandrake Users around

Re: [expert] Your server?

2000-12-22 Thread Chris Cioffi
Right now it's a expert install of Mandrake 7.2. For mail I'm using a tarball installed qmail/vpopmail/imap/twig thing. It used to be RH 6.2. I'm going to play with Free/Open BSDs next month. (I should have anothher machine so I won't have to take my active mail server down.) Chris -

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Roger Sherman
Erk! Thats what I meant to say...not shttp... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Nitin Raja Bhatia wrote: Hello Praedor, Webmin uses ssl to ensure a safe connection and to avoid simple packet sniffing techniques that someone may

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Roger Sherman
LOL...yeah...I just realized that...my dyslexic name is Bob, by the way ;-) peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: Type shttp instead of http. peace, Rog

RE: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Roger Sherman
Oh man...;-) peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Alan, You'll have to excuse my friend...he hasn't been himself this week. :) *grinning a sadistic grinch-type grin* I'm not too sure "who" he has been but it

Re: [expert] What's wrong with XFree86-4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Mike MacCana
xf86 wacam is support for wacom tablets - those stylus / surface combinations that allow you to draw with a pen like object instead of a mouse. My hunch is that there should be a configure option to get rid of this support. Alternatively there might be a wacom development package you need to

[expert] XFree86 memory leak?

2000-12-22 Thread jason-snyder
I noticed that X seems to be slowly growing in memory usage though my usage of X hasn't changed much. I have a habit of leaving my dedicated Linux box in X for months at a time with 8 virtual terminals and I typically have 12 to 25 windows / terminals open at once. I don't have exact numbers,

Re: [expert] Error in Apache

2000-12-22 Thread Dan Woods
Irwan Hadi wrote: At 06:46 AM 12/22/00 -0800, you wrote: Try it in your cgi-bin? Permissions correct? Execute it from the shell, see what kind of error output there is.. It works finely if I execute it in shell ./hello.cgi The real problem is that the file is in DOS format, instead of