Re: [expert-it] invio di e-mail automatico

2001-03-15 Thread Michele Armati
marco signoretto wrote: salve a tutti, sto cercando il modo di realizzare uno script che invii automaticamnte una mail per informare determinati utenti remoti, ogni qual volta si verifichi il cambiamento dell'indirizzo ip pubblico di un server. come fare? grazie in anticipo per i vostri

[expert-it] INFORMAZIONI ADSL

2001-03-15 Thread Andrea Monaci
CIAO Mi potete dire quali sono i providers che offrono un collegamento ADSL (con un IP statico), per i privati padovani, veloce IN PRATICA. Da questo, potete capire che non vorrei mettere ADSL tanto per dire che io ho un tale collegamento MA vorrei uno che mi garantisca, in ogni momento, una

Re: [expert] Beta 8.0 experiences

2001-03-15 Thread claude
I too noticed all these symtoms along with one other. On install I accidently put a write-protected floppy in to be used as a recue disk. When I hit ok the next step apeared unusualy quick. I happpend to look and notice that the disk indicator was off and the disk had not been writen to.

Re: [expert] These lists need to be BBS!!

2001-03-15 Thread Rial Juan
Set up a mailfilter. Most email clients support this, and if your mail arrives at your box directly (like in my case) it's also pretty trivial to set up a procmailrc. If you need help on the procmailrc, just drop me a line. but send it to me instead of the list, otherwise I might miss it. On

[expert] network problems

2001-03-15 Thread Tom Stockton
Hi What would cause my 2 machine network (connected by crossover cable) to only send data one way down the cable. If I run tcpdump on both interfaces and ping each other then I can see pc1 receiving arp requests and replying , but pc2 only shows the outgoing arp request, it does not see the

Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 Beta???

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Weaver
Scott, I wouldn't think this would be the case with 8.0 since this version contains the filesystem changes that 7.2 does, which is why there were problems upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 as opposed to doing a fresh install. They made a few changes in the 7.2 version to where some things were located

Re: [expert] Updating tio KDE 2.1

2001-03-15 Thread Olivier
On Thursday 15 March 2001 05:12, Ron Stodden wrote: I have now used this technique to update a Mandrake 7.2 virgin install KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.1. . 5. After reboot, some panel items were lost replaced with a useless KDE gear. This is easily set right by K - Configure Penel - Add -

Re: [expert] XMMS skins

2001-03-15 Thread RedRat
hi Got hold of some skins for XMMS in tar.gz format. Any idea how to add them to the skins already present in XMMS? Copy them to your ~/.xmms/Skins/ Directory. You also can copy them to /usr/share/xmms/Skins, so any user on your system, can use them (need to be done as root). timo

Re: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?

2001-03-15 Thread Mike MacCana
What have you missed? A single space. append=" hde=ide-scsi" Should be it. Mike On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Can you do an "lsmod" and post the results along with those from "cdrecord -scanbus". A list of your modules.conf would also be handy. CDRW is a can of worms if

RE: [expert] linux's installation

2001-03-15 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I dont know, I wonder if something with lilo may have changed. I have seen other posts on Mandrakes mailing lists that people cant make a bootdisk and/or lilo wont install for them Do we all have some other problem I don't know what other problem I could have. The system is a PII-450, 256M

RE: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?

2001-03-15 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
Do a modprobe ide-scsi, setup the link in /dev Brian -Original Message- From: Mike MacCana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:36 AM To: Bill Kenworthy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working? What have you missed? A single

RE: [expert] linux's installation

2001-03-15 Thread Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE
There is a warning stating that Mandrake 8.0b1 will not install on a Western Digital HDD or a KT133B or MVP3 chipset. -Original Message- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:12 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

[expert] Problem with dynamic dns / bind ?

2001-03-15 Thread Andrew Judge
Hmm... I have a problem with something somewhere, but I can't figure it out. 1. I use 7.2 as the gateway and win clients. 2. I have tzo dynamic DNS service, although my IP is now static. 3. I'm running bind as a caching only name server, but use it on only some clients Sometimes when I try to

RE: [expert] linux's installation

2001-03-15 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I thought I read only drive =8.4G. Regardless, I was attempting to install to a 6.4G IDE Fijitsu drive, WD is my ScSi drives which are only for storage of data Brian -Original Message- From: Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:04

Re: [expert] Ports needed? and config for security.

2001-03-15 Thread Matthew Micene
At 03:06 AM 3/15/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: do I need any other ports?? You probably do need to open DNS, otherwise you won't be able to do things like, surf the web, do hostname lookups to find anything out there, etc. I attached a firewall that I wrote that is pretty simple, should be easy

[expert] Help? USB ports

2001-03-15 Thread donald hinds
How do you tell HardDarke or Linux to look on USB ports for devices? I have a supported (ZOOM USB) modem (linux-USB.org). LM-7.2 sees my TWO USB ports. When I run HardDrake to install a modem, it gives me options of Serial, ISDN and so forth, but not USB. What file to I change (and

[expert] The BUG (race condition) is in PING -- NOT in your hardware...

2001-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi all, If this looks familiar, read on... PING 64.53.54.1 (64.53.54.1): 56 octets data 64 octets from 64.53.54.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=4452.8 ms wrong data byte #0 should be 0x3b but was 0x3737 da b0 3a 88 9e e 0 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21

Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 Beta???

2001-03-15 Thread Marc
I installed it from scratch. Or I should say, I made the effort. But installation failed over and over again. I downloaded the two ISO images from Mandrake 8 beta1 but with installation of the packages I got several interrupt at instalation stating: "Some important packages could not be

[expert] Where is C++?

2001-03-15 Thread Jay Woods
I could find it in 6.2. One used /usr/bin/g++ (which pointed to pg++). I am unable to locate it in 7.1 nor in 7.2. ---Jay

[expert] Mdk 8.0 xmms-avi and avi-file

2001-03-15 Thread Ron Heron
I am had problems with installing avifile on the 8.0 distro. Avifile is needed to play avi's with the xmms-avi plugin. Here are the details of my fun-filled adventure: 1) avifile-0.6.0-0.beta4.2 gave me the following dep errors: avi-codecs is needed by avifile-0.6.0-0.beta3.1

Re: [expert] LILO problem with LM7.2

2001-03-15 Thread Tom Cada
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just istalled LM7.2 on my new drive (20GB). It's got a 13GB Win98 partition and the rest for LM7.2. The install goes fine, but LILO doesn't install. I tried with every distro I own and the same thing happens, LILO refuses to install. In order to get the thing to

[expert] How to log iptables rules?

2001-03-15 Thread Mads Rasmussen
If you compare iptabels of 2.4 with OpenBSD's netfilter you notice something is wrong when it comes to logging. OpenBSD does logs very easily and with a lot of info, just what you expect from a firewall. BUT!!! I cannot get any info out of iptables, just a little tiny bit. Say, how do you log

Re: [expert] network problems

2001-03-15 Thread Robert
Hi Tom, I've had very similar problems. When I tried this list I got no reply for an answer, so it's not solved. However, I found that if I run ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 on one machine, sometimes both, everything works fine. I might bother putting those in the rc.local. Robert On Wed, 14 Mar

Re: [expert] Where is C++?

2001-03-15 Thread Daniel Woods
I could find it in 6.2. One used /usr/bin/g++ (which pointed to pg++). I am unable to locate it in 7.1 nor in 7.2. ---Jay /usr/bin/gcc # ls -lF /usr/bin/gc* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 Sep 4 2000 /usr/bin/gcc - /usr/bin/colorgcc* -rwxr-xr-x2 root root86256 Apr

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Does anyone have a suggestion for a parallel port flatbed scanner that is under $150 and will work with Linux? Jeff, it is my understanding that none of the parallel scanners work with Linux. Frankly, I can't imagine buying one these days since USB scanners are more common. Cheers ---

[expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Jeff Malka
Does anyone have a suggestion for a parallel port flatbed scanner that is under $150 and will work with Linux? Do any of the scanners listed in PC World's "top ten" scanners work on Linux. Very frustrated. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185

Re: [expert] network problems

2001-03-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Check out the "route" command. It is possible that your gateway is the wrong device. All installs of Mandrake on my machine (and recently a laptop at work) have had the gateway default to either the wrong device or ip number (.254) which kills network function stone dead - packets go out, but

[expert] superuser access

2001-03-15 Thread Julia A . Case
Is it possible to set up the machine so that only people in the wheel group can use the su command? Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [

Re: [expert] network problems

2001-03-15 Thread claude
Hi, I had some thing simmilar (not the same) where comp A would receive pings from either comp B or comp C but not could not reply. I had two NIC's on comp A and they were both on the 192.168.1.0 network. It turned out that this caused an ambiguity. This is because it is assumed that if

Re: [expert] dual provider connection.

2001-03-15 Thread Bug Hunter
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo I tried to connect my network about two seperate provider (router) to the internet, with complete different IP Subnetworks. The router are external connected to my Linux firewall with two public interfaces connect to provider router.

Re: [expert] superuser access

2001-03-15 Thread Bug Hunter
yes. put su in the wheel group chgrp wheel su chmod g+x,o-x,u-x su that will only let root and wheel group members execute su. On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Julia A . Case wrote: Is it possible to set up the machine so that only people in the wheel group can use the su command? Julia

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Jeff Malka
Jeff, it is my understanding that none of the parallel scanners work with Linux. Frankly, I can't imagine buying one these days since USB scanners are more common. Sorry to hear that. My old system does not have USB I guess I will have to continue using my ancient scanner under windows.

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:56:13 -0500 "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, it is my understanding that none of the parallel scanners work with Linux. Frankly, I can't imagine buying one these days since USB scanners are more common. Sorry to hear that. My old system does not have

[expert] Urgent -- can't log into KDE! from console

2001-03-15 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I decided to experiment today with XFCE. It's a great and neat and beautifully designed and very intuitive desktop environment that allows you to access all of KDE and Gnome (and X and console) applications. I certainly recommend it. Alas, during installation, i.e. while running

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Sorry to hear that. My old system does not have USB I guess I will have to continue using my ancient scanner under windows. What a shame. Can't you buy a USB card? I thought that was possible. If so, it might be a cheap way to be able to buy a Linux-compatible scanner. That's pretty

Re: [expert] Urgent -- can't log into KDE! from console

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Be that as it may, I can't now seem to log into KDE. I have rebooted several times, as I usually do into runlevel 3, and from the console I think your problem has a simple solution. At the login prompt, look at the bottom of the dialog. It should say xfce. Note that you can select here.

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread William Bouterse
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:56:13 -0500 "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, it is my understanding that none of the parallel scanners work with Linux. Frankly, I can't imagine buying one these days since USB scanners are more common. Sorry to hear that. My old system does not have

Re: [expert] Urgent -- can't log into KDE! from console

2001-03-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I decided to experiment today with XFCE. It's a great and neat and beautifully designed and very intuitive desktop environment that allows you to access all of KDE and Gnome (and X and console) applications. I certainly recommend it. Alas, during

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Sword
Jeff Malka wrote: Jeff, it is my understanding that none of the parallel scanners work with Linux. Frankly, I can't imagine buying one these days since USB scanners are more common. Sorry to hear that. My old system does not have USB I guess I will have to continue using my ancient

[expert] Can't log into KDE! from console -- Solved!

2001-03-15 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Chuck: Right on target! /usr/bin/xfce_remove did it! I then logged into KDE. Then logged out. Then logged into xfce with the command startxfce (instead of startx xfce), then logged out again, and am now writing to you from KDE to thank you. See you soon in XFCE. I am really impressed by

RE: [expert] Urgent -- can't log into KDE! from console

2001-03-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benjamin Sher Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:42 PM To: XFCE; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Urgent -- can't log into KDE! from console Dear friends: I decided to experiment today

Re: [expert] Urgent -- can't log into KDE! from console

2001-03-15 Thread Tom Massey
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Be that as it may, I can't now seem to log into KDE. I have rebooted several times, as I usually do into runlevel 3, and from the console typed: "startx KDE" (without the quotes). I also tried startx kde. I then tried startx Gnome. Nothing works.

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Marshall
You can purchase an older scsi scanner and pci scsi card and they work MUCH BETTER than the USB devices. Can you define "MUCH BETTER"? Do you mean the transfer rate is faster or that they work better with Linux for some reason? If the former, in my experience this hardly matters. A 39$

Re: [expert] network problems

2001-03-15 Thread Robert
No!! Messing about with the route and ifconfig commands never worked in my case at least. After the ifdown/ifup sequence the routes are unaffected anyway. I find it interesting that I have the same nic involved, the Netgear FA311. Thanks for trying to help though, I think you are the only one

Re: [expert] Menuconfig don't work

2001-03-15 Thread mwinold
i think that is one of the microscopic things i liked about win2k is if i didnt like something on the menu or i wanted to add something i could right click on where i wanted it or what i wanted to delete and make the change right then and there, if i could write code better i would change it

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Bruce Endries
Just a thought, but why not get a SCSI scanner? I just bought one on eBay that is like new for $61 including shipping. If you don't have a SCSI card, you can get one of those too. I would think you could get both scanner and card for under $150, and SCSI tends to work better than parallel and

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 10:03, you wrote: I cannot remember where the qt2-2.3.0 rpms were placed for Mandrake 7.2. I could download the qt source and build it (again-I did it on my fast desktop) but I'd rather just go for the binaries for my rather sluggish I don't see why you'd need to

Re: [expert] Where is C++?

2001-03-15 Thread Jay Woods
The rpms in general are on the installation disks and were installed. The gcc-chill-2.95.2-7mdk is not and so was not installed. Apparently a complete install is needed to get the g++ packages (which is a useful piece of information). I was able to execute g++. However, the include libraries for

Re: [expert] network problems

2001-03-15 Thread Bug Hunter
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Robert wrote: No!! Messing about with the route and ifconfig commands never worked in my case at least. After the ifdown/ifup sequence the routes are unaffected anyway. I find it interesting that I have the same nic involved, the

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Jeff Malka
You can purchase a USB interface card, made those motherboards without onboard USB ports. They are quite inexpensive these days. I have not looked into that option. Thought it had to be part of the motherboard construction. I'll look into it. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Jeff Malka
Good idea. I will need to look into that. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: William Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [expert] scanner under $150? On Thu, 15 Mar

Re: [expert] Where is C++?

2001-03-15 Thread David Rankin
Jay Woods wrote: The rpms in general are on the installation disks and were installed. The gcc-chill-2.95.2-7mdk is not and so was not installed. Apparently a complete install is needed to get the g++ packages (which is a useful piece of information). I was able to execute g++. However,

Re: [expert] Ports needed? and config for security.

2001-03-15 Thread John Murphy
On Thursday 15 March 2001 09:52, you wrote: At 03:06 AM 3/15/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: do I need any other ports?? You probably do need to open DNS, otherwise you won't be able to do things like, surf the web, do hostname lookups to find anything out there, etc. I attached a firewall that