[expert] apcupsd

2001-01-12 Thread Dovydas Kulvinskas
Hello, I connected Linux box to the same UPS as NT. Communication cable connected to NT machine. But i need to shutdown Linux box as well. How can i do it? Networked apcups program is written with Java and i havent such a resourses. Linux runs on 486 with 12Mb it works as dial-on-demand

Re: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-12 Thread Buchan Milne
Stupid question, but do you guys have Javascript enabled. Koqueror seems to default to haing it disabled Christopher Molnar wrote: I'm trying to track this down as well, since I have the same problem. Can you do the following for me: rpm -qa|grep kde rpm -qa|grep qt and post the

[expert] Many Port Requests

2001-01-12 Thread SoloCDM
I'm getting many udp port requests through ipchains on 137/netbios-ns. Is this the port NTs use for the nameservers or is it a cracker? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:.

[expert] ftp server (wu-ftpd)

2001-01-12 Thread xylonite
hi all i've problem with ftp server (wu-ftpd) i use mandrake 7.2 powerpack deluxe (7cd) when i connect with client windowx --- #ftp hantu.com Connected to 202.190.136.51. Compiled-in modules: mod_core.c mod_auth.c mod_xfer.c mod_site.c mod_ls.c mod_unixpw.c

[expert] copy - duplicate ethernet

2001-01-12 Thread guran
Hi I have had that duplicate problem since Mdk7.2 was issued, and have changed to Debian on the Internet. I have a ASUS P34V board with Intel III 933 MHz, 256 MB Compaque 133 MHz ram, an IBM 30 GB (not used at UDMA 66) because of this problem. Harddrake usually puts 8139too as eth0 and rtl8139

RE: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager

2001-01-12 Thread Zelck, Guy
Hi, Seriously, It does work on the the latest RPM's, just not alot of themes to pick from. Does anyone have any information on the paths that the pixmaps, wav, and background images go? The themes are stored in a disguised tar.gz archive with extension kdetheme or sth. close to that.

Re: [expert] Many Port Requests

2001-01-12 Thread Cecil Watson
Yes, this port is used by SMB. netbios-ns 137/tcpNETBIOS Name Service netbios-ns 137/udpNETBIOS Name Service netbios-dgm 138/tcpNETBIOS Datagram Service netbios-dgm 138/udpNETBIOS Datagram Service netbios-ssn 139/tcpNETBIOS Session Service netbios-ssn

[expert] copy - duplicate ethernet

2001-01-12 Thread guran
Hi I have had that duplicate problem since Mdk7.2 was issued, and have changed to Debian on the Internet. I have a ASUS P34V board with Intel III 933 MHz, 256 MB Compaque 133 MHz ram, an IBM 30 GB (not used at UDMA 66) because of this problem. Harddrake usually puts 8139too as eth0 and

RE: [expert] Many Port Requests

2001-01-12 Thread D. Stark - eSN
That's the NetBios port. Windows (95, 98, NT without WINS) pukes out TONS of broadcast traffic (each machine continually announces its exsistance on the network, any shares it might have, trades dessert recipies, I don't know). If there's an upside, I do not believe it is a routable protocol, so

Re: [expert] copy - duplicate ethernet

2001-01-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
guran wrote: Hi I have had that duplicate problem since Mdk7.2 was issued, and have changed to Debian on the Internet. In my case, LM7.2(2.2.17) is fine; this only happens with 2.4.0. I've backed out 2.4.0 because the system is quite unstable with it. Pierre

Re: [expert] Stop X11 and KDM from listening

2001-01-12 Thread Balaji Ramani
To turn off X11 from listening on port 6000, run it with the argument "-nolisten tcp". I am still trying to figure out why kdm is listening on 1024. Balaji On Wednesday 10 January 2001 15:41, you wrote: Bryan Brown wrote: I did a nmap scan and noticed that X11 is listening on port 6000

[expert] Konsole Problem

2001-01-12 Thread Ajmal Ali
I'm having a problem with Konsole (KDE2) It doesn't see to keep its history (i.e it seems to read from bash_history but doesn't write new entries to it) I can see the history for things i've typed durign my konsole session, but as soon as i shut down konsole and restart it, my commands are not

Re: [expert] No xinetd for wu-ftpd update in Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-12 Thread Bill Piety
Jude wrote: The wu-ftpd-2.6.1-8.4mdk update for Mandrake 7.1 requires xinetd, but I could not find a simple xinetd RPM for 7.1. All I could find were Mandrake 7.2 xinetd RPMs. Any hints on where to find an xinetd for 7.1? Or a wu-ftpd update that does not require xinetd? Thanks.

[expert] Where is path?

2001-01-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I once thought I understood this but now I guess I do not. If I run "env", my path appears thus: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: /opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:

Re: [expert] No xinetd for wu-ftpd update in Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jan 11, 2001 at 02:56:40PM -0800, Jude wrote: The wu-ftpd-2.6.1-8.4mdk update for Mandrake 7.1 requires xinetd, but I could not find a simple xinetd RPM for 7.1. All I could find were Mandrake 7.2 xinetd RPMs. Any hints on where to find an xinetd for 7.1? Or a wu-ftpd update that

RE: [expert] Konsole Problem

2001-01-12 Thread D. Stark - eSN
How are you exiting out of the Konsole session? Do you hit the button in the corner, do you Ctl-D, or do you 'exit'? If you hit the button in the corner, it may not be exiting the session gracefully, and thereby not transferring the bash_history from memory onto disk. It's just a guess. Try

Re: [expert] Many Port Requests

2001-01-12 Thread mike ryder
Go visit www.grc.com and follow the links to test your shields - it is alarming how much detail can be retrieved with port 139 open. I was running samba on the net gateway and ipchains did not appear to block the information - so currently I have disabled samba until I find a better idea - or

[expert] pppd becoming unstable

2001-01-12 Thread William Bouterse
My ppp connection has become very haphazard. At times I will have to kill, restart, dozens of times before it takes. It will work fine but when it dies for whatever reason it now becomes a major chore to get it back up again. ps ax shows it running and external modem lights are all on but no

[expert] keeping a ram song

2001-01-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
Someone in a newsgroup once described how one could save and keep the real file for a song or other realplay clip rather than just the compact file that directs your realplayer to the actual file. It seems that the *.ram file is copied to your system (at some point) and if you can find it,

Re: [expert] Where is path?

2001-01-12 Thread Adam Clater
check /etc/profile and /etc/profile.d/ and /etc/bashrc -- linux distributions have a habit of using "extra" profile options. On 12 Jan 2001 10:38:08 -0700, Praedor Tempus wrote: OK, I once thought I understood this but now I guess I do not. If I run "env", my path appears thus:

RE: [expert] Many Port Requests

2001-01-12 Thread D. Stark - eSN
I'd be glad to asist you with the ipchains rules. If you'd be willing to email either the list (or me) with your current ipchains rules, without specific IPs of course. ipchains is a very fickle beast. A lot of times what looks like it should do the job in fact doesnt, and its not just a

Re: [expert] Where is path?

2001-01-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
Praedor Tempus wrote: OK, I once thought I understood this but now I guess I do not. If I run "env", my path appears thus: If you re-arrange the paths one per line, and look for groupings, you see this: PATH= /bin: /usr/bin: /usr/X11R6/bin: /usr/local/bin: /usr/X11R6/bin:

RE: [expert] keeping a ram song

2001-01-12 Thread D. Stark - eSN
If you cat the compact file, it'll often be a link to the REAL file. Use wget to pull down that real file. Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001

[expert] Asus P2B-D SMP and Promise UDMA66

2001-01-12 Thread Cecil Watson
I have a SMP P3 system on a P2B-D motherboard. I have ATA-66 drives and I've purchased a Promise controller card to utilize the drives. The problem is that the system locks up when I try and install 7.2. The lockup occurs after the drives are found, the I/O and IRQ are displayed then

Re: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Make sure you have JavaScript turned on globally in the "Java/Javascript" settings of Konqueror. HTH. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.2.17, KDE 2.1 on both a laptop and a desktop machine. This problem occurs on both. I have an

Re: [expert] Transferring Outlook Express mail to NS

2001-01-12 Thread Phil
On Thursday 11 January 2001 19:25, you wrote: Is there a guide/easy way to transfer all my archived email in Outlook Express 5.x to the Netscape Communicator 4.75? I'd sure love to burn this Win98 partition:) I did just this nearly a year using oe2mbx. I think I got it from freshmet.net.

RE: [expert] keeping a ram song

2001-01-12 Thread Vic
No fellas, its a bunch of bull, they lied to you I tried it, all I get is : (try: 6) = `index.html' Connecting to 7070:80... connect: Invalid argument Retrying. --15:59:24-- http://7070:80/ (try: 7) = `index.html' Connecting to 7070:80... connect: Invalid argument Retrying. --15:59:24--

[expert] Mdk, NTFS, and Win2000

2001-01-12 Thread Mark Belanger
This info is probably readily available so flame me if you must. I plan on installing Mandrake 7.2 on a laptop that contains a single NTFS partition (Win2000 Pro). DiskDrake cannot resize an NTFS partition. My question is,,, If I resize the partition by other means(i.e. partition magic) will

[expert] help

2001-01-12 Thread John Farley
im not sure im sending this to the right place but let me xplane then mabe some one can help im running mandrake 7.1 the modem will connect and im using the termminal -based authentication the ip is set for dyamic ip address the dns is www.msn.com default gateway login script Expect accounting

Re: [expert] Mdk, NTFS, and Win2000

2001-01-12 Thread Cecil Watson
Partition Magic will do the job! I have dual boot any disto and Win2K, so I cannot help you on that end. Mark Belanger wrote: This info is probably readily available so flame me if you must. I plan on installing Mandrake 7.2 on a laptop that contains a single NTFS partition (Win2000 Pro).

[expert] Advanced Partitioning Q

2001-01-12 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
OK, I think this is advanced. Anyway, I am trying to install 'Drake 7.2 on a system with a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 and three 'Cuda 36G 10K drives. When I try to setup my partitions with the install gui (in advanced mode, of course) I am receiving this error: ext2 formatting of rd/c0d0p8 failed I

Re: [expert] Konsole Problem

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Spackman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:55:46PM -0500, D. Stark - eSN wrote: How are you exiting out of the Konsole session? Do you hit the button in the corner, do you Ctl-D, or do you 'exit'? If you hit the button in the corner, it may not be exiting the session gracefully, and thereby not

Re: [expert] mpg123 device still busy

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Spackman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:05:14PM -0600, duane voth wrote: Chris wrote: Thanks for all the advice. So far no luck. Specifically; turning off the sound-at-startup option in DrakConf had no effect after rebooting. That is, sound was not started, but mpg123 still gave the same "device

[expert] RPM v4 + lsof

2001-01-12 Thread Robert Engel
I'm tring to install lsof, but I have version 3.0.4, and when I try to install lsof 4.47-5 I get the error only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM error: lsof-4.47-5.i386.rpm cannot be installed So... I tried to install a newer version of RPM... but of

Re: [expert] Mdk, NTFS, and Win2000

2001-01-12 Thread Brian Hartman
On Friday 12 January 2001 05:29 pm, you wrote: This info is probably readily available so flame me if you must. I plan on installing Mandrake 7.2 on a laptop that contains a single NTFS partition (Win2000 Pro). DiskDrake cannot resize an NTFS partition. My question is,,, If I resize the

[expert]

2001-01-12 Thread Robert Engel
I'm tring to install lsof, but I have version 3.0.4, and when I try to install lsof 4.47-5 I get the error only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM error: lsof-4.47-5.i386.rpm cannot be installed So... I tried to install a newer version of RPM... but of

Re: [expert] RPM v4 + lsof

2001-01-12 Thread BellSouth
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:27:17 -0500 (EST), Robert Engel said: I'm tring to install lsof, but I have version 3.0.4, and when I try to install lsof 4.47-5 I get the error only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM error: lsof-4.47-5.i386.rpm cannot be

[expert] Fw: incorrect work of windows background

2001-01-12 Thread Francisco José Cháves
The default windows background, (white background, blue lines) in Mandrake 7.2 doesnt works properly. The borders of the windows appeas with the lines as the background. The background frequently changes to background black and white lines when I open konkeror and others windows (like help

Re: [expert] Mdk, NTFS, and Win2000

2001-01-12 Thread Mike MacCana
Yes, Mandrake will automatically allow you to boot Win2K from either bootloader. Just select Windows from the menu. You'll then arrive at NTLDR, where you can select different options for loading Win2K. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport

[expert] copy?? - ethernet

2001-01-12 Thread guran
Hi I finally succeeded in installing cooker, and checked my /etc/modules.conf = for eth0 was given: 8139too I am confused and intend to change it to rtl8139. Observe only one ethernet was given. regards guran P.S. Proudly sent from mdk7.3 - Thanks.

Re: [expert] Mdk, NTFS, and Win2000

2001-01-12 Thread Mark Belanger
Thanks to all for the feedback. To be specific - I *know* that I can resize the partition. I'm concerned that since Mandrake/Linux has trouble with NTFS, Linux will have trouble creating an MBR(master boot record) that can boot a Win/NTFS partition. Can anyone verify that lilo or grub can

Re: [expert] Mdk, NTFS, and Win2000

2001-01-12 Thread Brian Hartman
On Friday 12 January 2001 10:28 pm, you wrote: Thanks to all for the feedback. To be specific - I *know* that I can resize the partition. I'm concerned that since Mandrake/Linux has trouble with NTFS, Linux will have trouble creating an MBR(master boot record) that can boot a Win/NTFS

[expert] OT - HW RAID Config Issue

2001-01-12 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
I just wanted a quick sanity check. I've installed a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 (see earlier note) with three Cheetah's attached. After almost every reboot, the controller reports a drive failure on the disk closest to the controller, but with the highest SCSI id, 2. There was one exception where the

[expert] StarOffice Printing Smudgy -- Solved!

2001-01-12 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Just solved the StarOffice smugdy printing problem with the help of StarOffice tech support ($25 per incident). Well worth it. It took a good half hour to figure it out. You need to use the Printer Setup on the Desktop (NOT the Printer Setup under File), then click on "Match

[expert] Framebuffer on the console

2001-01-12 Thread Bill Thompson
Hi, I've lost my way trying to get the matroxfb framebuffer to work correctly when booting up on a non-graphics logon. I'm using the non-LM 2.4 kernel with LM 7.2. Is matroxfb_base the correct module to use? If not, which of the kernel modules should I use? And how - so that the Tux logo is seen

[expert] Linuxconf update

2001-01-12 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Hi all: Has any one had problems with the new Linuxconf update. I tried to download it from several sites and had Mandrakeupdate tell me either it was unsigned or that it was not properly signed, or my Gnupg was improperly installed. At any rate it would not install even if I tried to force

Re: [expert]

2001-01-12 Thread Tom Berkley
one solution is to get redhat's rpm update for redhat 6.2. that particular version was released to take care of the problem that you are having except tom berkley Robert Engel wrote: I'm tring to install lsof, but I have version 3.0.4, and when I try to install lsof 4.47-5 I get the

Re: [expert] Linuxconf update

2001-01-12 Thread Tom Berkley
No. I downloaded the linuxconf rpm's (from sunsite mirror) and checked them with rpm -K and they checked OK. Install went fine too. However, I only use update to tell me if there are updates, then I go get them, ftp them into my updates directory, check them with -K, and install them after ogling