Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-27 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi James, the security level is standard and carnt go lower in MCC. The security permissions is level 2. Just did a telnet from another box and it hasnt timed out where the dumb terminal has, looks like its a agetty thing. Tried S1:345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -t 28800 9600 ttyS1 but that didn't

[expert] exporting the local CDROM fails

2002-10-27 Thread hans privat
hi, cannot find out, why my exported CDrom cannot be mounted on my remote hosts (neigbourhood in the same IP-sequences like 19.168.10.0) have an entry like this in/etc/exports : /mnt/cdrom/ mozart(ro) jojo(ro) and after doing a : service nfs restart I get this message : [roothanna

[expert] Can't find X includes ??

2002-10-27 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'm trying to compile kacpi-06 in order to have a battery monitor (I have to use acpi), but I get the following error when running ./configure... no idea on how to solve it 8-? - --- checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X

Re: [expert] Using Kmail with postfix/fetchmail/procmail question

2002-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
021027 Ronald J. Hall wrote: I've got postfix/fetchmail/procmail setup I use Kmail I set the mail folder to: /home/darklord/Mail/inbox I have a dial-up connection. I logon, fetchmail does its thing, I can run Kmail and my mail is there. If I leave Kmail running, I never get mail, although

[expert] problem in Mandrake 9 while mounting win200 ntfs partitions

2002-10-27 Thread faisal gillani
i have just replaced my mdk 8.2 with 9.0 ... but there is a problem which is that .. when i mounted my win2000 ntfs partition it mounts , but after some time i am not able to access the partition as when ever i try to move in the partition the whole system hangs i get error like the device seems

[expert] Using the Data base function in OpenOffice

2002-10-27 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Everyone, I have been looking at using the OpenOffice just like a Access database using the document http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/openoffice.org-mysql.txt but every time that I give it a go the OpenOffice that come with Mandrake 9 mainly seg faults , I installed the drivers for

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-27 Thread Robert Crawford
Jack, I've got experience with KT133 and KT266A, AMD athlons. I've researched it for about 2 years, and the consensus is overwhelmingly that what AMD says about cpu temps is wrong in practical terms. As my own experience (and that of many others) shows conclusively, anything over 45C. is going

[expert] Tomcat installed by RPM can not run

2002-10-27 Thread Lars Ole Christoffersen
Hi I have just installed (ot at least tried to) Tomcat 4 by using the rpm's from jakarta.apache.org. However I am unable to get i started, It is supposes to run line a deamon, and when I start it from the /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat4 -start it returns an OK, but there is no webserver available on port

Re: [expert] Tomcat installed by RPM can not run

2002-10-27 Thread Lars Ole Christoffersen
Hi again I have now discovered that the same problem exists in the number 2 example, when I execute it as root??? Very strange indeed Any idea is welcome. This means if I execute the start script as root I can not se the localhost:8080 (local host on port 8080) What cnages do I need to do, so

[expert] looking for fdisk-gurus ...

2002-10-27 Thread hans privat
hi, have discovered a problem on my harddisk. the fdisk-call shows as follows : Befehl (m für Hilfe): p Festplatte /dev/hdb: 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren, 627 Zylinder Einheiten: Zylinder mit 16065 * 512 Bytes Gerät boot. Anfang EndeBlöcke Id Dateisystemtyp /dev/hdb1 * 1

Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive

2002-10-27 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 August 2002 3:43 pm, et wrote: On Tuesday 20 August 2002 07:23 pm, you wrote: I'm in the process of downloading the 9.0 beta for a look. I'd like to put it on a third drive I have on this, my principle, system rather than on an

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 16:31, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Jack Coates wrote: Hi, I have a machine (naturally a fairly important one) which I built and which is fairly unstable -- give it ten to twenty days, and it will suffer a video lock up or a disk error that forces a reboot. FIC AZ11

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-27 Thread Jack Coates
I didn't mean to imply that 60C is normal operating temperature, but rather the highest observed peak: SYS Temp: +37.6°C (limit = +80°C, hysteresis = +70°C) CPU Temp: +40.8°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +55°C) On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 06:38, Robert Crawford wrote: Jack, I've got

[expert] just a test

2002-10-27 Thread Udo Rader
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Re: [expert] Using Kmail with postfix/fetchmail/procmail question

2002-10-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 October 2002 07:33 am, you wrote: i use Mutt, but Kmail shouldn't be different in principle when receiving. Fetchmail gets mail from ISPs delivers it to the general mailbox; Procmail processes this material delivers it to your ~/dir/file of choice. with my computer name

[expert] FYI: WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC...

2002-10-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
This is a quick overview of what I ran into after my friends got their WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC... Pierre - Hopefully the installation issues in the following will be addressed by Mandrake if they don't want their distro viewed in a bad light... Recently, I suggested to a

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-27 Thread Robert Crawford
40.8C. cpu temp is reasonable, but on my KT133 I've found anything over 45-46C. tends to give me random weird problems. I run about 39-41C. average. If your average cpu temps are running over 45C., I would be suspicious. Also, even though 37C. seems like it's low for sys temps, I would think

[expert] dhcp-configuration fails ...

2002-10-27 Thread hans privat
hi, was trying to install DHCP and share with mandrake-control-center but it seems, that some progs cannot be read from CD 2, so the install-procedure fails. now my question : does anyone know, which files should be there on CD 2 for install the step : share connection - and if I can or have

Re: [expert] Using Kmail with postfix/fetchmail/procmail question

2002-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
021028 Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 October 2002 07:33 am, you wrote: i use Mutt, but Kmail shouldn't be different in principle when receiving. Fetchmail gets mail from ISPs delivers it to the general mailbox; Procmail processes this material delivers it to your ~/dir/file of

Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails

2002-10-27 Thread Toshiro
El dom, 27-10-2002 a las 06:58, hans privat escribió: hi, cannot find out, why my exported CDrom cannot be mounted on my remote hosts (neigbourhood in the same IP-sequences like 19.168.10.0) have an entry like this in/etc/exports : /mnt/cdrom/ mozart(ro) jojo(ro) and after

Re: [expert] Can't find X includes ??

2002-10-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:27:55 +0100 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! Install XFree86-devel Charles --- Any given program, when running, is

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-27 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
The chassis temp. cannot be lower than air temperature: if you get 23-24 even when outside the air is at 28, you have problems with the sensors! It's obvious. Olaf At 19.07 27/10/2002, you wrote: 40.8C. cpu temp is reasonable, but on my KT133 I've found anything over 45-46C. tends to give me

Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails

2002-10-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 October 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: El dom, 27-10-2002 a las 06:58, hans privat escribió: hi, cannot find out, why my exported CDrom cannot be mounted on my remote hosts (neigbourhood in the same IP-sequences like 19.168.10.0) have an entry like this in/etc/exports :

Re: [expert] Can't find X includes ??

2002-10-27 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 27 Octubre 2002 21:35, en Charles A Edwards va escriure: On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:27:55 +0100 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the

RE: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town - Enemies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-27 Thread Mcleod, Ian
So any suggestions on how to get a 'general' list going? -Original Message- From: Steffen Barszus [mailto:st_barszus;gmx.de] Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 7:11 PM To: expert-en Subject: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town - Enemies Purchased by Gates Hi

[expert] g++ executable not found?

2002-10-27 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'm (still) trying to compile kacpi-0.6 but I get a new error: - --- checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.0.3) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! - --- libqt3 is installed... should

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-27 Thread Robert Crawford
Olaf, Quite correct- the chassis temp can't be lower than the air temps. However, in my case, I have a duct leading outside air directly to the cpu fan, plus two 80mm case fans blowing outside air in, and I removed the top 5.25 bay plastic cover to serve as an exhaust hole. Works great. Since

Re: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town - Ene mies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:40 +1100, Mcleod, Ian wrote: So any suggestions on how to get a 'general' list going? I have to agree with steffen although I did not trash all the mails. Some of it was ... err ... amusing. But this kind of discussion belongs to the linux advocacy newsgroup. It's the

RE: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town - Ene mies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-27 Thread Mcleod, Ian
That's what I thought - I am on other 'technical' groups that enjoy a bit of intellectual biffo - as long as it relates to Linux.. I believe a Mandrake-general list would be nice.. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:wobo;wolf-b.de] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:25 AM

Re: [expert] g++ executable not found?

2002-10-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 23:48:22 +0100 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libqt3 is installed... should I install libqt3-devel ? 8-? Yes. Also you need gcc-c++ Charles --- The solution of problems is the most characteristic and peculiar sort of voluntary thinking.

Re: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town - Ene mies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-27 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Sunday 27 October 2002 23:55, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:40 +1100, Mcleod, Ian wrote: So any suggestions on how to get a 'general' list going? I have to agree with steffen although I did not trash all the mails. Some of it was ... err ... amusing. Thanks but I

[expert] how to pay for Mandrake Club membership with Amex?

2002-10-27 Thread Mcleod, Ian
Is there any way to pay for Mandrake Club membership with American Express? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Custom CD#3

2002-10-27 Thread Brian Schroeder
Given that the International CD for mdk9.0 is about 450M, I thought I would try to create my own cd#3 by removing some packages I didn't want (eg. OpenOffice help for a number of languages), and adding extra top-level directories with other useful stuff from elswhere. I ended up with an almost

[expert] Printing problem with Gimp and Mdk 9.0

2002-10-27 Thread Phil
Hello All, Since installing Mdk 9.0 I am experiencing a problem with printing from the Gimp. I have not had this problem before and all other applications (and the test page from the Mandrake control centre) print correctly. When I try to print a picture kprinter displays an error message that

Re: [expert] Printing problem with Gimp and Mdk 9.0

2002-10-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Phil wrote: Hello All, Since installing Mdk 9.0 I am experiencing a problem with printing from the Gimp. I have not had this problem before and all other applications (and the test page from the Mandrake control centre) print correctly. When I try to print a picture kprinter displays an error

[expert] Need more help with fetchmail/kmail

2002-10-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, this is the only odd thing I have left. The postfix/fetchmail/procmail combo is collecting the mail just like its supposed to. I have it polling every 5 mins. I can open Kmail, and hey-magic-presto! all my mail is waiting to be perused. If I leave Kmail open...no more mail. (its set to

[expert] modem woes

2002-10-27 Thread bascule
i have a modem in a server box that i wish to use of my cable connection goes down, i can dial out using minicom but when i launch kppp (via ssh from another box) i get 'modem doesn't respond), if i launch: #ifup-ppp0 i have to crtl-c to get a prompt back and i get error 35 lookin at

[expert] Consultation

2002-10-27 Thread Sabesan
Dear Sir or Madam:I’m a lecturer at department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. We are using Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 distributions of Linux operating system.I have a problem that how to boot a particular operating system from two different operating systems(say

Re: [expert] Consultation

2002-10-27 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 October 2002 9:53 pm, Sabesan wrote: Dear Sir or Madam: I'm a lecturer at department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. We are using Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 distributions of Linux operating system. I have a

RE: [expert] Consultation

2002-10-27 Thread Mcleod, Ian
What is this for? map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com