[Cooker] `Missing' imap module solved.

2001-02-15 Thread Leon Brooks
During an update to Mdk 7.2 I lost use of the imap module in PHP. It had indeed been installed during the update, but the configuration line for it (and several other PHP modules) in /etc/php.conf had been commented out by the installer! -- Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?

Re: 3DFX problem since 7.2? Re: [Cooker] Long pause going to X from virtual console

2001-02-19 Thread Leon Brooks
Prana wrote: Jason Straight wrote: On Sunday 18 February 2001 21:54, you wrote: Let me guess, your video card is 3Dfx Voodoo? Yes it is. Can someone please explain what the problem with 3Dfx card here? Hrhmhmh I set up Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a DELL computer with 3DFx Voodoo on my

[Cooker] Suggestion (with examples) for /etc/rc.d/init.d/ scripts

2001-02-24 Thread Leon Brooks
Since the last (7.2) update to BIND, I've been seeing complaints in syslog about it being unable to write the PID file in /var/run/named.pid - to cut a long story short, since it's now running as user ``bind'' it no longer has write permission in /var/run/ and the killproc function in

Re: [Cooker] ssh error

2001-02-24 Thread Leon Brooks
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Neal Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sebastian Dransfeld wrote: When I'm logged inn to a remote server with ssh, I get this errormessage: Couldn't read from random pool "/dev/urandom": Resource temporarily unavailable Same error over here... Only saw it once

Re: [Cooker] A suggestion

2001-02-24 Thread Leon Brooks
Pixel wrote: James Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may well be too much work at this point, but it would be very nice if the Mandrake installer followed the example of the Solaris 8 installer and got all the configuration possible out of the way beforehand. Get the network -

Re: [Cooker] mouse use very tedious

2001-02-24 Thread Leon Brooks
Pixel wrote: Jan Vicherek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess that's a bug, that the OK button doesn't get keyboard focus. yep, that's a bug, that i really don't know how to fix :-( but if i can, it will go away! While you're on the topic, can you please make sure that diskdrake is

Re: [Cooker] A suggestion

2001-02-24 Thread Leon Brooks
Steve Wray wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] the only pb is that i doesn't warn that installation is over, except for X configuration. Just reboot on installed system and call XFdrake. Oh well in *that* case it should give a comforting message which would stop

Re: [Cooker] Mips support

2001-02-24 Thread Leon Brooks
Ray wrote: I know this may be the wrong place but alot of knowlege is on this board. I am getting a SGI Challenge L server with r4400 processors and was wondering if anyone knows of a linux version/distro that will work? I have an Indigo2 and apparently must use one of the BSDs, also a

Re: [Cooker] Annoying groups added to system (how to fix)

2001-02-24 Thread Leon Brooks
Don Head wrote: Since I'm in a posting mood, I'm going to list another minor annoyance/pet peeve thing. There's 4 groups on my system, not added by me, that are GID 500 or greater. 500 and up is my user GID space. I usually move 500+ and up from /etc/group and /etc/passwd from system

[Cooker] display export during install (was: mouse tedious)

2001-02-25 Thread Leon Brooks
Pixel wrote: you can already export the display when making a network install. Try booting with "linux display=192.168.1.xxx:0" Oooh! Fancy! (-: Perhaps some more snippets of info like this could find their way into the installer help screens? That way, more people will know and appreciate

Re: [Cooker] email headers

2001-02-25 Thread Leon Brooks
Nora Etukudo wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:25:11AM +0100, andre wrote: In the headerfiles of your cooker emails are writen Sorry, but IMHO, people w/o unix mail clients won't see those headers at all. :-( Even Outlook will let you see them but 99% wouldn't think to ask. Oh, and under

Re: [Cooker] Mozilla bloat (was: nVidia/Netscape)

2001-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
Steve Wray wrote: And mozilla is very close to bloatware already... and its not even finished yet! Unlike most bloated projects, most of that bloat actually does something useful. What I would like to see in Mozilla is a kernel-modules-style granularity, so that (for example)

Re: [Cooker] What about Plex86?

2001-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
Digital Wokan wrote: I hate rebooting just so I can use PCAnywhere to access one of my employer's servers when it goes South. Two other options: 1. Use VNC instead, because it's portable and you can get btter compression; and/or 2. Upgrade the server to Mandrake 8.0 shortly, and see if

Re: [Cooker] SiS

2001-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I start my SiS 6326 computer up with 8.0b with linux-framebuffer. When i start X in Depth 24 it generates on the right side of my screen 2 very large 'stripes'. I know that i have reported this earlier and the fact that you first have to switch screens to see X

[Cooker] Definitive answers please: kernel patches

2001-03-03 Thread Leon Brooks
1. Do the kernel sources shipped with Mandrake 8.0 include the security patches, or not? If yes, do I need to do anything special (config option, edit file, set envar etc) to build a security-patched kernel from these sources? If no, what must I do to convert the shipped

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 + 8.0 bloated and resource hog!

2001-03-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Pete wrote: He had chosen an expert install and wanted to know what packages he needed. Windows doesn't even *have* an ``expert'' install! He then asked me why everything was installed by default, The reasonable presumption is made that if you install something, you want to run it.

[Cooker] Re: Mdk8 for i386/i486/i686

2001-03-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Michael Brown wrote: Seconded. Since (I think) we're up to 3 CDs anyway, IMHO all of the installer should be *386* capable (ie come with floating point emu, even if optimised for 486 or better) and enough of the fundamental utilities (init, modprobe, depmod, bash, maybe a dozen or twenty

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft mode

2001-03-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Shannon Matteson wrote: So far I have gotten two people to install LM 7.2 and two more interested in trying it, but my job would be much easier if there was this "Microsoft Mode" for installation... Refuses to install on DR-DOS machines, like Win 3.1? Obliterates any non-FAT non-NTFS

Re: [Cooker] VNC modifications different in 8.0?

2001-03-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Where do I make a change to the PATH statement so that it is affected for ALL users? effective for all users? try /etc/profile Also, could someone please tell me how to restart the inetd daemon without having to re-boot? Formal (works for any service installed

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft mode

2001-03-12 Thread Leon Brooks
Shannon Matteson wrote: So far I have gotten two people to install LM 7.2 and two more interested in trying it, but my job would be much easier if there was this "Microsoft Mode" for installation... Refuses to install on DR-DOS machines, like Win 3.1? Obliterates any non-FAT non-NTFS

Re: [Cooker] ssh dies all the time

2001-03-26 Thread Leon Brooks
Jason Straight wrote: [ssh] only seems to [die] when I am sitting idle at a prompt or have tail -f going but nothing comes across for a while, almost like an idle timeout. You're working through a masq/NAT, I bet. Get the TransmitInterlude patch (http://chaos2.org/~jacob/code/openssh/). --

[Cooker] KDE 2.1.1

2001-03-27 Thread Leon Brooks
How hard to put in 8.0final? (-: -- It's possible to do that. If you've got a basket with 3 oranges in it and you take 5 out, then you have to put 2 oranges in again in order for it to be empty. -- Peter Gutmann

[Cooker] YAIR beta2 from hdd ISOs, with suggestions

2001-03-27 Thread Leon Brooks
The installer presumed that it had both ISO images handy, but did not ask for the second one before trying to install stuff from it. There is no way to tell which packages live where ahead of time. I suspect that the installer is thinking in terms of a complete unpacked directory tree on HDD

[Cooker] better 72beta_mkcd.sh instructions

2000-09-26 Thread Leon Brooks
To clean off .listing files: * Change to the appropriate directory in your local mirror * Type: find . -name .listing -exec rm -vf {} \; If you want the instructions to clean off EMACSish backups as well, extend the second instruction to say: * Type: find . -name .listing -o

[Cooker] ISO making script

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
Is the cooker list archived somewhere? 72beta_mkcd.sh was totally broken on my (Mandrake 7.1) system. The genfilelist command does not exist either in my distro or in the mirrored files. Where can I get one. To discover this, I had first to find out after much waiting that the 72beta_mkcd

Re: [Cooker] ISO making script

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
Alexander Skwar wrote: 72beta_mkcd.sh was totally broken on my (Mandrake 7.1) system. What script? Where did you get it from? From the 72beta FTP page on www.linux-mandrake.com The genfilelist command does not exist either in my distro or in the mirrored files. Where can I get one. Look

Re: [Cooker] ISO making script [take III]

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
Leon Brooks wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: 72beta_mkcd.sh was totally broken on my (Mandrake 7.1) system. What script? Where did you get it from? From the 72beta FTP page on www.linux-mandrake.com Works much better now that I've upgraded my rpmtools RPM (see comment in attached, updated

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
John Richard Smith wrote: When it come to new programme(s) for future release ,kindly consider:- b) Do something to get a CD writer operational.What about writing Unix drivers or perhaps something along the lines of ghosytscripts for cd writers Unix drivers? Have you seen how many utterly

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
Pixel wrote: Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing which _would_ help in this area is to load CD support as a module rather than building it in, that way the funny ATAPI CDE burners (TraxData etc) can be got working under Mandrake without a kernel recompile. As things stand, the CD

Re: [Cooker] Platform specific list (was: DELISTED)

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
Leif Sawyer wrote: Leon Brooks [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: John Richard Smith wrote: Much as I like to hear all the news,and much as I am interested to hear about MD7.2 developement I cannot handle 185 e-mails a day. Send them to a different mailbox (your Outlook Express can do

[Cooker] zero-reboot install

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
This was an interesting technology which I saw in the Caldera Tech Preview, and worth adopting if it can be done neatly: if the installed kernel is the same as the boot kernel (ie, same version, not secure-patched, SMP or the like) then there is no reboot at the end of installation. The system

[Cooker] pruning obselete RPMs from a mirror

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
This works for me. There is probably a neater way of doing it in PERL. I made it case-independent because it was The Right Thing(tm) to do, and ``-lo-!'' two of the RPMs (DrakProfile and DrakSync) had changed from dual-case to lowercase during mirroring. I don't know if that's how it's supposed

[Cooker] Re: ISO making script [take V]

2000-10-04 Thread Leon Brooks
Kees de Bruin wrote: I've just installed your script here Not _my_ script, just on its way to being so - comes closer to working for me than the one on the 7.2beta FTP page at Mandrake does... and after some minor modifications I still get an error on the call to genhdlist_cz2 to order the

Re: [Cooker] ISO making script [take IV] Troels' script

2000-10-04 Thread Leon Brooks
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:27:26AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: I'm beginning to suspect that this script author didn't use BASH. I've added a I use the scripts from Troels Liebe Bentsen, which I attached to this mail. All you need to call is ./genisocooker and make sure

Re: [Cooker] zero-reboot install

2000-10-04 Thread Leon Brooks
Dr Michael Powell PhD wrote: Pixel wrote: Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure Mandrake would like, as a feather in their caps, to be able to claim ``zero reboot'' Linux, that is, you start your machine up once for installation and *never* shut it down. alas, this is *very* hard

Re: [Cooker] Cooker as a tough forum

2000-10-04 Thread Leon Brooks
Dr Michael Powell PhD wrote: "RedHog (Egil Möller)" wrote: besides cooker is a tough forum, if you say anything at all everybody spends their time rebuking you and lose focus of what we're trying to do here. Odd, here was me thinking Cooker people were too busy for this kind of stuff.

Re: [Cooker] TradeClient Anyone?

2000-10-05 Thread Leon Brooks
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:56:36AM -0800, William H Bouterse wrote: I have recently begun to work with TradeClient. I am amazed at its maturity and looks like it rolls many of the desires of PIM/Mail/Misc apps into one. Perhaps someone with more expertise in this area

Re: [Cooker] Brain dead problems with KDE 2

2000-10-05 Thread Leon Brooks
Con Kolivas wrote: The trashcan is no more than a folder. If I delete multiple files of the same name to the trashcan it asks me if it is ok to overwrite them. It should automatically add an extension and put them in the trashcan regardless of what is in it already. Also the option of "empty

Re: [Cooker] xmms-1.2.3-3mdk

2000-10-05 Thread Leon Brooks
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "michael nazaroff" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: though we can't exclude xmms from the distro! :-/ I've tried freeamp and it works fine. All sound seems to work with my setup(I have SndBlaster Live). So I'm assuming that there is something wrong with xmms. I

Re: [Cooker] Xconfiguration panic

2000-10-05 Thread Leon Brooks
Georgi Mikhailov wrote: I tried to install beta3 version on Toshba Satelite 470 CDT. Using Xconfigurator I choosed Monitor whith FH 31.5-37.7, FV 50-90 GCard Chips Technologies CT65554 depth16 800x600. I succeded to start xserver, but after logout it crashed reporting an err message. I

[Cooker] apache 1.3.12-30mdk broken

2000-10-05 Thread Leon Brooks
(Cooker) Perhaps there are later versions on other mirrors (I get mine from mirror.aarnet.edu.au). This RPM set asks for "libmm.so.1" but should apparently be asking for "libmm.so.11". -- And sooner or later, one of your cats will step on your keyboard while you're in the middle of editing

Re: [Cooker] XFree bug

2000-10-07 Thread Leon Brooks
Ed Wilts wrote: The XFree on the beta 3 CD contains a bug in configuring the SiS 6326 card. I wouldn't call that a bug. Your mileage varies *enormously* in getting hardware acceleration to go on the 6326 cards, even identical cards with consecutive serial numbers. Without accel, everything is

Re: [Cooker] Ulysses does not install

2000-10-07 Thread Leon Brooks
"Ernesto [ErneX] Gonzalez Aroca" wrote: I've tried to install Mandrake 7.2 with no success, the cd loads ok and then gives an error trying to mount the cdrom drive. I have installed redhat, mandrake 7.0 - 7.1 with no problems on the same machine. Have had what appears to be the same problem.

Re: [Cooker] UPDATE: XFree86 4.0.2 NOT 2b released anytime soon

2000-10-07 Thread Leon Brooks
neognomic wrote: Below is copy of email Mr. Dawes was kind enough to send me. That was our plan, but it didn't work out that way. I've changed that page to say "sometime in late 2000." A little more precision would be nice. (-: Does Mr Dawes have even a definite month in mind? Can you ask,

Re: Sv: [Cooker] Mandrake's look feel

2000-10-07 Thread Leon Brooks
Zeljko Vukman wrote: Leon Brooks wrote: More detail would be useful. They don't start? Crash out? Is there an error message? Menu-edit is replaced by menudrake, but this beautiful thing doesn't work. It doesn't crushes, there isn't an error message, it starts, but when I change icons

Re: [Cooker] [OT] frozen electrons!

2000-10-08 Thread Leon Brooks
Michael Powell wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Millions of electrons died to bring me this message. Was it worth it, Warren Doney? Electrons don't DIE or MOVE! They do die. Vacuum anomalies can result in an anomalous positron wiping out an ``innocent bystander'' normal electron, leaving the

Re: [Cooker] Install ideas

2000-10-08 Thread Leon Brooks
Shalrath wrote: For starters, since theres a number of absolutely required packages, the entire lot of those could be installed while the user is selecting additional packages. Caldera OpenLinux does something like this. btw, there are times when i want a mandrake box that doesnt have any

Re: [Cooker] [OT] frogs (was: RC1 iso)

2000-10-08 Thread Leon Brooks
Jason Straight wrote: Windows - install, reboot, video driver, reboot, sound driver, reboot, modem driver, reboot, network driver, reboot, network settings reboot, printer reboot. Sounds like Yellanup Swamp, behind our house at the Porongurup Range near Albany, Western Australia. Perhaps

Re: [Cooker] de-KDEisation

2000-10-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Guillaume Rousse wrote: neither as everything begining by k is KDE dependant : happily for the kernel :-) What a terrifying thought! Kernel panic: you need at least a Voodoo 5000 to boot. )-: -- To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password

Re: [Cooker] [OT] frozen electrons!

2000-10-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Michael Powell PhD wrote: Electrons don't DIE or MOVE! Leon Brooks wrote: They do die. Vacuum anomalies can result in an anomalous positron wiping out an ``innocent bystander'' normal electron, leaving the anomalous electron to replace it. Again! electrons do not die they have

Re: [Cooker] war against zombies (was: nfs daemon)

2000-10-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Jason Straight wrote: I think that for security reasons all network services should not be started by default until configured to do so by the user no matter what they say the machine is going to be used as. Anyone who plans on running a server of any kind should at least know what service

Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

2000-10-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Joshua Jackson wrote: Top shows that I'm using 70MB RAM free, but Gkrellm says that I have 170MB free. I guess I'm not so much concerned about the number difference, as much as, why isn't Linux more RAM managing? Actually, your top shows 7MB of RAM free, not 70MB. This is as it should be;

Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

2000-10-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Joshua Jackson wrote: I guess it's possible that I just have lame hard drives that get slower the more they're used. No, that's another Windowsism called ``fragmentation,'' in which Windows' (well, MS-DOS' if you want true honesty) crazy semi-linear allocation scheme results in bitmap

Re: [Cooker] kernel-Upgrade does not modify grub boot menu

2000-10-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Ed Wilts wrote: I'm not sure how well behaved rpm -U is on a kernel (and I'm not going to find out!) Badly. Generally it butchers the existing setup, creates odd files (like ``vmlinuz--a'') and doesn't even come close to getting the new kernel correctly installed, even with LILO. How do I know

Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Joshua Jackson wrote: Let me see if I'm catching what you're saying... /dev/hda1 = fat32 (/win98)(obvious) /dev/hdb1 = swap /dev/hdb2 = ext2 (/) /dev/hdc1 = fat32 (/misc)(mp3's and stuff) /dev/hdc2 = fat16 (/backup)(obvious) You're saying that even though I'm not running windows at the

Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:16:37AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: If the swap space in use (your screenshot shows only 4MB, a trivial amount) gets much above your RAM size, and note that you should have allocated at least twice Why? If he isn't even using the 128 Megs he

Re: [Cooker] funny things ....

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Meir Faraj wrote: [root@localhost myscripts]# find .. -name "*.class" | rm rm: too few arguments so rm doesn't see the pipe ;-) Should it? I would do: rm $(find .. -name "*.class") or find .. -name "*.class" -exec rm {} \; -- A father is someone who carries pictures where his

Re: [Cooker] The two Ron Rons, the two Ron Rons... (-:

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Ron Stodden wrote: Cooker has been posting each message twice for a few days now. Today it started posting one of the duplicate messages and returning the other with a mailbox full message, which I have just been deleting. Strange things in sympa-land... I think you're subscribed twice,

Re: [Cooker] [OT] frozen electrons!

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Dr Michael Powell wrote: Leon Brooks wrote: Electrons don't DIE or MOVE! They do die. Vacuum anomalies can result in an anomalous positron wiping out an ``innocent bystander'' normal electron, leaving the anomalous electron to replace it. Again! electrons do not die they have the possiblity

Re: [Cooker] [OT] frozen electrons!

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Tim McKenzie wrote: Thereby supporting our conclusion that the dear doctor is using his fathers email and lacks the ability to change his name. God help the person that would have to read the "doctors" thesis. =) It's OK, a positron would annhilate it. (-: -- I have never let my schooling

Re: [Cooker] NVidia and the art of consumerism

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
guran wrote: I just wanted you to make, what I thought, a smart move, not to leave the gaming industry loosing money on Linux. The smartest move would be to write a nice email to NVidia, setting out your reasons for wanting them to open-source their drivers. If you phrase it in terms of

Re: [Cooker] nvidia - futurum

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
guran wrote: If your idea of business and craftsmanship within the graphic field does not stand up to this test, I fear that you might have a meager 'futurum'. FIX IT! Oh, yes, _very_ polite... -- I really hate this damned machine I wish that they would sell it. It never does quite what I

Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Joshua Jackson wrote: I do find it odd, though, that X will use up an extra 50MB's, seemingly, if left alone for 12 hours. I say this, because I rebooted at like midnight and it showed like 80MB used, then I went to bed and when I got up and checked around noon it said 125MB used. If I'm

Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

2000-10-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Joshua Jackson wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Why? If he isn't even using the 128 Megs he allocated, what good should it do to allocate = 256 MB as you suggest? The old-school way of configuring swap space was, if I remember correctly, twice as much as you have physical RAM. Now, that does

Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

2000-10-11 Thread Leon Brooks
Meir Faraj wrote: the only problem in linux is the lack of support and the peoples we ALL need to blames is HARDWARE CONSTRUCTOR . I think that encouraging hardware manufacturers to release drivers or at least share enough information for one of us to write a driver is far more productive than

Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

2000-10-11 Thread Leon Brooks
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:34:45PM +0300, Meir Faraj wrote: Excuse me but I mean by blame tellingthem than there are now a lot o peoples using linux and if there hardware will not supported by linux they will drop a lot there clients to competitors that does;-) In

Re: [Cooker] Apache?!?

2000-10-11 Thread Leon Brooks
SHadowX wrote: I have the latest apache from cooker installed, now it says forbidden when anyone tries to run a perl cgi script in users home dirs. why? What changed from the 7.1 release? PERL is now done from a separate daemon (but normally started when the main Apache daemon starts). No, I

Re: [Cooker] OT - IDE Management

2000-10-12 Thread Leon Brooks
Thierry Vignaud wrote: when you can put 6 scsi disks in a raid0, it makes a difference against eide which can only use 2 (4 on new raid66/100 motherboards) disks because of the silly master/slave hierarchy. Ummm... as I understand it, Linux now knows how to drive more than 2 IDEs per

Re: [Cooker] Open Sourcing your drivers - why NVidia haven't

2000-10-12 Thread Leon Brooks
Tim wrote: We all know that the Nvidia line of video cards are growing in popularity and that they are indeed some of the best cards out on the market. However, I believe you are missing out on a bigger share of sales due to the closed nature of your driver developement. Allowing your

Re: [Cooker] OT - IDE Management

2000-10-12 Thread Leon Brooks
Francis Galiegue wrote: On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Sebastian Fischer wrote: Ummm... as I understand it, Linux now knows how to drive more than 2 IDEs per controller, not sure if you need to do surgery on a cable or what the new head-count limit is, but I remember a recent linux-kernel list message

Re: [Cooker] 7.2 DrakX

2000-10-14 Thread Leon Brooks
Ron Stodden wrote: Pixel wrote: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel seems to assign which adaptor gets eth0 and eth1 by a set of unknown rules. the rule is quite simple though: first card found is eth0, second is eth1 and so on. So to exchange eth0 and eth1, change the

[Cooker] Re: [OT] PuTTY (was: Outlook)

2000-10-17 Thread Leon Brooks
"Koloseike, Jason" wrote: Why is it after this lovely post, there are many emails from a few select posters that I can't read. ``The Microsoftman hits, you have no mail.'' (-: BTW, I was not one of them. It's not like I chose to use Outlook, and as a Linux user, I know Outlook sucks. You

Re: [Cooker] TradeClient (was: Resizing NTFS)

2000-10-17 Thread Leon Brooks
Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Hi, The company I work for is preparing to roll out a new set of laptops in the near future. My current craptop (sorry, I hate the thing) is due to be replaced by one of those new ones. The hardware configuration of the new laptop is very nice, but the software

[Cooker] [OT] sacrifices to Lord Bill (was: PuTTY (was: Outlook))

2000-10-18 Thread Leon Brooks
Zeljko Vukman wrote: It is obvious that some people on this mailing list do not understand that: 1) some of us (unforunatelly) have winmodems, Where do you live? I'll dig out an external 56K modem and snailmail it to you if the postage ain't too steep. 2) some of us are forced to use M$

Re: [Cooker] HTTPS on qa

2000-10-18 Thread Leon Brooks
Frederic Crozat wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgeorges) writes: Here is my bug report. I can't connect to http://qa.mandrakesoft.com right now, as it seems overloaded (connection refused). You must use HTTPS :)) https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ Now, here's a fabulous idea: put up an http service

Re: [Cooker] Ready to go ?

2000-10-18 Thread Leon Brooks
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: "Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why do I need to have grub if I use LILO? because our dear pixel want like this, i believe he has no reason. God also has no reason some time, pixel hes like god, he do by feeling and color of sky. If we could understand

Re: [Cooker] About winmodem....

2000-10-19 Thread Leon Brooks
Meir Faraj wrote: 1) some of us (unforunatelly) have winmodems, Where do you live? I'll dig out an external 56K modem and snailmail it to you if the postage ain't too steep. winmodem work with mandrake 7.2? Probably not. Probably requires a kernel patch. AFAIK only one kind of WinModem

Re: [Cooker] Installation

2000-10-19 Thread Leon Brooks
Jesus Arocho wrote: the reboot proceeds up to the point where the login is requested, at time which the screen begins to blink at twice per second. I tried to type and managed to enter 'root'; but cannot tell when the characters are recognized while at the password prompt. X is failing.

Re: [Cooker] reiserfs? anyone?

2000-10-22 Thread Leon Brooks
"Brian J. Murrell" wrote: Is anyone successfully using Reiserfs? Yes, including on install (just set the partition type to ``Reiserfs'' and it all works). I've not lost a partition yet and some of the machines I've installed with it get very clumsily treated. Two caveats, Reiser will not

Re: [Cooker] reiserfs.o

2000-10-22 Thread Leon Brooks
Zach Etienne wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Using mdk 7.2 rc 1 with reiserfs, I decided to upgrade to the latest hackkernel (2.4.0-0.35mdk) using rpm -Uvh and then following the instructions on your website for people using reiser file system, I installed the stock

Re: [Cooker] TradeClient Anyone?

2000-10-22 Thread Leon Brooks
Jean-Michel Dault wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, William H Bouterse wrote: I tried TradeServer, the M$Exchange replacement. It's a proprietary gui over open-source back-end packages. openldap, proftpd, cyrus imap, apache... I'm trying to replace their product with some php3-based ldap admin,

Re: [Cooker] Mdk 7.1 ISO updates

2000-10-24 Thread Leon Brooks
Shalrath wrote: Is there any reasons why the ISOs are not rebuild regularly to include all the updates? Im thinking that this might be a viable idea actually.. Have isoname-inst.revision.i586.iso or something. I cant see what good can come from maintaining old packages. Consistent bug

Re: [Cooker] PHP4 and MySQL option

2000-10-24 Thread Leon Brooks
David R Newman wrote: The PHP4 that is part of cooker currently does NOT have the MySQL option set properly - hence when trying to enable it for apache with MySQL (like for PHPNuke) it does not work. Mind you, that was for php-4.0.2-3mdk, so I don't know if the later version broke it, or

[Cooker] 7.2rc1 installer bug

2000-10-24 Thread Leon Brooks
ReiserFS is notorious for reporting slightly more disk space free than it actually has. Installing 7.2rc1 from ISO onto ReiserFS in a limited-space situation produced odd results: about a third of the way through the installation of RPMs, a message appeared listing half a dozen apparently

Re: [Cooker] Re: Konquerer / Java problem

2000-10-25 Thread Leon Brooks
Doug Roberts wrote: Konqueror does not properly handle Java applets in Odyssey. Here are a couple of URLs to demonstrate the problems. The JVM installed was Sun's jdk1.3. http://www.quote.com/quotecom/livecharts/default.asp http://www.mids.org/weather/us/latest.html I don't have a

Re: [Cooker] Bochs

2000-10-26 Thread Leon Brooks
Chris Spencer wrote: Out of curiosity, why is Bochs, a product owned and released under the LGPL by Mandrakesoft, not included with the distro? Because plex86 is on the way, and looks like doing some things better? (-: -- I wouldn't touch ActiveX with a 10-foot polecat. I might, however, let

Re: [Cooker] installing sshd in clients

2000-10-26 Thread Leon Brooks
Bryan Whitehead wrote: I rely on SSHD to connect to these clients securly all the time. And they are all workstations. SSHD is 185k of magic. No resone not to install it on a workstation. Hear, hear! (-: -- "Try moving off NT easily. You can move from Solaris to HP/UX to AIX or DEC easily

Re: [Cooker] Where's sounddrake ?

2000-10-26 Thread Leon Brooks
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Daniel Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to upgrade my LM7.1 version of sounddrake to see if my sound card could be auto-recognized. However I don't find *any* sounddrake in devel or cooker ? What happened ? merged in harddrake. However, this means that

Re: [Cooker] Re: OpenOffice

2000-10-26 Thread Leon Brooks
Vadim Plessky wrote: On Friday 27 October 2000 02:14 am, Steve Fox wrote: | Vadim Plessky wrote: | Gnome/Helix guys wanted to "split Staroffice into small (Corba?) | modules, then re-assemble package from these modules" | I like this idea. But lloks like it will not happen in nearest 6 |

Re: [Cooker] Re: OpenOffice

2000-10-28 Thread Leon Brooks
Vadim Plessky wrote: Does it mean Sun is going to promote own office suite? /read: go againt MS head-tohead? / What I know from press and their site, Sun's intention was to sell StarOffice as server-based office suite. Bonobofying OpenOffice would actually be a step in that direction, since

Re: [Cooker] ssh: end of discussion: MS make the right decision ?

2000-10-28 Thread Leon Brooks
Ben Reser wrote: the Acceptable Use Policy of @Home (http://www.home.com/support/aup/) only prohibits the following servers: * "host shell accounts" host shell account == ssh | telnet | rsh | rlogin? -- "My enthusiam for this meal can't even be described by a scalar." -- Dan Eisenbud,

Re: [Cooker] ssh: end of discussion: MS make the right decision ?

2000-10-28 Thread Leon Brooks
"Brian J. Murrell" wrote: from the quill of Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Franck Martin wrote: 99% of the people buying Mandrake do not have access to cable Of more relevance would be the proportion of Mandrake users having cable modem access. Can we just agree that the majority of us

Re: [Cooker] what you call 7.2final is FAR from stable.. (not?)

2000-10-30 Thread Leon Brooks
Christian Bricart wrote: Checking for new hardware/etc/rc5.d/S05kudzu: line 68: 158 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/kudzu $KUDZU_ARGS -t 30 [FAILED] Yeah, kudzu from 7.2rc1 _froze_the_machine_ on startup (a Via VT82C598AT

Re: [Cooker] ssh (public services)

2000-10-31 Thread Leon Brooks
James Sutherland wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Brian J. Murrell wrote: from the quill of James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's the policy my cable co runs, more or less: no "public" servers (no anon-FTP etc), but SSH, FTP (users only), password-protected WWW

Re: [Cooker] Mdk 7.2 installation and 32M RAM

2000-10-31 Thread Leon Brooks
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Matias Griese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried to install Mdk 7.2 on two computers which both have only 32M of RAM (image was network.img). In both signal 9 is received after loading mdkinst_stage2.gz. I got it now. You probably used the FTP install, which

Re: [Cooker] Mdk 7.2 installation and 32M RAM

2000-11-01 Thread Leon Brooks
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My 486 with 12 Mo RAM runs with RedHat 5.2, with no X-server. But it can export an xterm on an external XWindows server (WinNT with exceed or Solaris or Linux) why should I upgrade it? Mandrake 7 is good for faster and

Re: [Cooker] pre-releasing to consumers

2000-11-01 Thread Leon Brooks
Robert L Martin wrote: MICROSOFT DOES NOT PUT KNOWN BETAS ON SALE Really? Who told you that? (-: -- "Actually this is a common misconception...I do *not* in fact have a lot of time on my hands at all! I just have a very very very very bad sense of priorities." -- Dean Engelhardt

Re: [Cooker] Some point in releasing (was: I am puzzled...)

2000-11-01 Thread Leon Brooks
Pixel wrote: we had 2 possibilities: [2] - name the updated-7.2 7.2.1, but marketing people don't accept this. They were happy enough with 7.0-2, so why not call the downloadable 7.2-2? Or 7.2pl1? The whole basic point (raison d'etre, is that the right French?) in release numbers is not to

Re: [Cooker] ssh

2000-11-01 Thread Leon Brooks
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Brian J. Murrell am Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:35:50AM -0800: I have never been limited in any way from getting my cash out of the bank either. I bet you are. If all the customers of a bank go there and demand to withdraw all their deposits, you won't get

Re: [Cooker] ssh (public services)

2000-11-01 Thread Leon Brooks
"Brian J. Murrell" wrote: from the quill of Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] My vendor (Optus) records all the usage, drops the high and low 5% of users to arrive at an average usage figure on a 14 day rolling average. Any individual user who exceeeds 10 times this

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