Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread Warren Doney
The kernel release notes @ uk.linux.org seem to suggest that the module needs to be re-compiled. Lucent actually got in a 3rd party developer to do it in the 1st place, he indicated, when he gave the driver to linmodems.org, that Lucent were only interested in dialog with actual manufacturers,

[expert] Copy HD to HD

2000-06-20 Thread aman66 . bbs
Dear All, Is there any command to copy HD to HD ,like command line "diskcopy" under DOS ,my friend tech me dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024k,but must run it under single mode. anyone tell or me? or another good command to use?thanks regards, -- Author¡Jaman66

Re: [expert] Postfix and Procmail

2000-06-20 Thread AG
Hi Glyn! On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.0 with a dial-up connection. My mail system involves Postfix to send , fetchmail to collect on POP3, procmail to distribute, mutt to read, write and generally be man's best friend! It works! It

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 19-Jun-00 by Daniel Woods: Is there a command line version (non X-version) of DrakConf. I hate working inside XF86Config file, it is not friendly. DrakConf is a frontend launcher for the various Drak tools. While this frontend doesn't have a text mode, many of the tools that it

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel Woods
I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an 800x640 test passes, it gets

Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?

2000-06-20 Thread Andrew George
I'd try it in the .login script or (never tried this but would the following command work in rc.local) exec command 'su user' 'user password' Huge security hole though Andrew (PS just guessing here) On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Civileme wrote: Sevatio Octavio wrote: Typically if I wanted to

Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?

2000-06-20 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Thanks for the help everyone. Now I know that I must use the "su" command to accomplish this. I.E. - #su - username -c /programname Seve -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:21 PM Subject:

Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?

2000-06-20 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 19-Jun-00 by Civileme: I would simply put it into the appropriate user's .bashrc (or whatever shell you are talking about) The problem with this approach rather than su user -c "command" from /etc/rc.d/rc.local is that you get a new instance with each login shell. Since I

Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?

2000-06-20 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 20-Jun-00 by Andrew George: I'd try it in the .login script See my response above for how this can be a problem or (never tried this but would the following command work in rc.local) exec command 'su user' 'user password' Because rc.local runs as root, no password is required to

RE: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?

2000-06-20 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
This is how I start a half-life dedicated server from my rc scripts. This can be modified to use for just about any application you wish to run upon startup near the end ofthe start case #need to set/export the HLDIR for use with find/su HLDIR=/home/hlds/hlds_l export HLDS #incae we crashed

[expert] Named Server Freezeup?

2000-06-20 Thread Russell Rademacher
I never thought this will come to pass but it seems it finally happened. But then again.. it might not. I have this problem with the BIND Server and after consultation with several resources, I cannot seems to find the damn problem. Currently, I have over 1920 domains right now...and

Re: [expert] PPPoE and DSL

2000-06-20 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
PPPoE is supported with Mandrake 7.1, the RPM should also work with the previous versions. http://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.1/Mandrake/RPMS/rp-pppoe-1.7-1mdk.i586.rpm Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, james.fogg wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:10:38 -0400 From:

[expert] rpm2html

2000-06-20 Thread Vincent Danen
Anyone here using rpm2html? I'm running it on my system to list a bunch of distros like Mandrake and RedHat and SuSE and more, but I also want to export my own RPMs to the list. All of my RPMs are in the /home/ftp/pub/custom subdirectories and I want to make RDF files out of them and put them

Re: [expert] Binding sound to $DISPLAY

2000-06-20 Thread RaStuS
Yes Allen, I read it too. It said to use e-sound you would probably have to use Gnome becuase KDE doesn't support it. Because of the connotation in the wording of probably having to use Gnome, I didn't bother pursuing the issue, and was hoping another solution came to light. Thanx for

[expert] KDE2

2000-06-20 Thread Espen
Hi! I've tried to install KDE2Beta2 on Mandrake 7.0. The only dependency problem I got is this: libkonsole.so.1 is needed by kdebase-1.91-1 But I was not man enough to find out what package I was missing. So I ignored deps and installed all of the packages. But does anybody know what

Re: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?

2000-06-20 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I know I can't imagine Microsoft saying, "Oh, ASP isn't working on your IIS? Well, I wrote IIS, so send me your error log and we'll see what we can do." Wow. Thanks. Maybe not Microsoft, but last year a guy at Cisco issued a new IOS just for

Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User -

2000-06-20 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Thanks very much. I used a modified version of your script and it works great. Seve -Original Message- From: Daniel Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert Linux list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread James Sparenberg
This one sounds more like a hardware problem than a software problem. Try looking to see if there are controls for horz and vert on the back of it. A lot of older monitors had them externally. The newer ones do it from a superimposed control panel. If you can't find any, you could if you

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread Piero
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread rpotratz
Those sync values are for a VGA ( 640x480 ) monitor and will not do 800x600. Your X-Windows problem is probably vitual desktop which could be changed, but then some applications would not fit on your screen. RRP Daniel Woods wrote: I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1).

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread Tom Massey
Warren Doney wrote: The kernel release notes @ uk.linux.org seem to suggest that the module needs to be re-compiled. Yeah, looks that way from the error messages I was getting. Lucent actually got in a 3rd party developer to do it in the 1st place, he indicated, when he gave the driver

Re: [expert] Compiling kernel-2.2.16-4mdk

2000-06-20 Thread Dennis Robertson
Guillaume Rousse wrote: Are you sure you've installed kernel-source-2.2.16 rpm, and not kernel-2.2.16 only ? -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine. Of course you were right. I took the quick fix, not the right one. Thanks.

[expert] Opening Files

2000-06-20 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello, Iasked this on the mutt list but the responses don't work. I created files as mailboxes in ~/Mail using touch. In kfm operating on files with identical icons and permissions some open when clicked while others present the "open with" screen. How do I get all files on my system (or at

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread Tom Massey
Civileme wrote: Well, you are free to pursue this BECAUSE others have worked very hard to bring themselves and you this freedom. *snip* In the mean time, while waiting for manufacturers to come to their senses, I will not install binary-only drivers or buy products which require them.

RE: [expert] KDE beta 2 and 7.1

2000-06-20 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I could not get the RPM's to work on my MDK 7.0 machine. It has been stated that the .tar files are to be used, As they are more reliable at this time. And they worked fine for me at least. -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000

[expert]

2000-06-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm having a hard time getting my Palm III to HotSync with Mandrake. I'm running the following: - Mandrake 7.1 Developer install, security medium - Helix Gnome 1.2 - Whatever versions of pilot-link, gpilotd and gpilot are installed by default (I'm at work) - Palm OS 3.1.1 I've set the

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread Larry Sword
Daniel Woods wrote: I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an 800x640

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: In the mean time, while waiting for manufacturers to come to their senses, I will not install binary-only drivers or buy products which require them. Civileme Well put, my friend! I have the same sentiment! At least Creative Labs supplies source code for

Re: [expert] ipmasq question (dont you get sick of these?)

2000-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: ok...i am running ipmasq, and i have it set up and working like i want it. tonight i had a special situation arise that was out of my control, and i need to know how to resolve it ASAP. i need to connect to an ftp site that is running on a nonstandard port,

[expert] modprobe

2000-06-20 Thread Cecil Watson
Anyone know what this is and what is producing it? modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0001 Thanks in advance, Cecil

Re: [expert] Supermount configuration

2000-06-20 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Also sprach mar, 20 jun 2000 : Guillaume Rousse wrote: Seems i've lost supermount capacity in some manner, and i can't retrieve it. I've the last kernel 2.2.16-4, with supermount as a module, and a correct fstab, but no way. I can load the module manually, using lsmod, so it's not a

Re: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?

2000-06-20 Thread David Talbot
Your problem probaby is that you haven't set your HTTP header: print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; Needs to be the first line of any web perl script. Let me know if that solves it. -David Talbot At 01:14 AM 6/20/00 -0400, you wrote: Wow. Thanks so much. I know I can't imagine Microsoft

[expert] fonts in 7.0

2000-06-20 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Is there an easy way to add windows fonts for usage in Linux with 7.0 ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)

Re: [expert] PPPoE and DSL

2000-06-20 Thread Christopher Quale
You may want to try the "roaring penguin" PPPoE client software: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe.html I used it to get my brother in law connected to Pac Bell DSL. It is pretty easy to install and even comes with firewall scripts to get IP Masq working (as long as your kernel supports

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 - Daniel Woods, you wrote: | I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). | It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having | a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor | at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and |

[expert] Gnome background not accepting changes

2000-06-20 Thread Andrew George
Hi, Anyone else had trouble with changes to the background in Gnome resetting to the default every time the user logs on? I thought it might be a permissions thing, but I cant find anything with odd permissions in either .gnome or .sawmill dir's Andrew

Re: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel Woods
In the error log, when I try to POST to www.mathjmendl.org/cgi-bin/visitorbook.pl, it says, "Premature end of script headers." Most likely the first line of the script is incorrect. It should be /usr/bin/perl. Or a missing CGI script line... print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

[expert] disc full

2000-06-20 Thread maiplace
Ihave lm 6.5. installed to half capacity of 2 gig hda3. I usually run korganizer, staroffice5.1 from turbolinux, and recently, cbb and then karchive. First problem occurred when working w/staroffice which suddenly did not allow me to enter data into spreadsheet cell.Then seemed OK when

Re: [expert]

2000-06-20 Thread George Czerw
350870381** Reply to message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:25:02 -0700 Matt, I'm using 7.0-2 and have been successfully using Jpilot and Kpilot with my Palm V. Of the two, I personally prefer Jpilot. Never tried Gpilot. Goto: http://jpilot.linuxave.net/

[expert] text:disk full

2000-06-20 Thread maiplace
Oops, sorry about html. I have lm 6.5. installed to half capacity of 2 gig hda3. I usually run korganizer, staroffice5.1 from turbolinux, and recently, cbb and then karchive. First problem occurred when working w/staroffice which suddenly did not allow me to enter data into spreadsheet cell.

[expert] NFS Hair-Puller

2000-06-20 Thread Ken Thompson
Hello all, I've been fighting with NFS for several months (off and on) and still run into a screwball problem. I can only connect (or mount, if you will) one way. Machine 1 (boss) will not connect to machine 2 (darkstar) to mount the exported directory. I can ping, telnet and FTP to darkstar

Re: [expert] fonts in 7.0

2000-06-20 Thread Gary Bunker
Just install the DrakFont RPM from the 7.1 distro. :-) Otherwise, you have to copy TTF files (ensuring the extension is lowercase), then run ttmkfdir, etc, as described in several different tutorials written much more clearly than I write. I've grabbed the DrakFont RPM and am using it on a

Re: [expert] fonts in 7.0

2000-06-20 Thread Norvell Spearman
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: Is there an easy way to add windows fonts for usage in Linux with 7.0 ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) You should be able to download install the rpm for DrakFont (it's a GUI program) from the 7.1 distribution and

Re: [expert] disc full

2000-06-20 Thread Civileme
SNIP the blasted HTML Check /home/(yourusername)/.netscape/cache for subdirectories it is safe to rm -R -f ~/.netscape/cache from a commandline when logged in as any user. I have occasionally recovered as much as 95 MB this way. Civileme

[expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Paul Gratz
Hi all, I hope this doesn't cover too well trod ground but I couldn't find any good answer to it in the archives. I recently decided to switch to Mandrake from Red hat when 7.1 came out. One of the statements I saw sent around about it was that it natively supported the HPT366 UDMA66 interface

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Vic
I just type hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda for the first ide drive On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi all, I hope this doesn't cover too well trod ground but I couldn't find any good answer to it in the archives. I recently decided to switch to Mandrake from Red hat when 7.1 came out. One of

Re: [expert] disc full

2000-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: SNIP the blasted HTML Check /home/(yourusername)/.netscape/cache for subdirectories it is safe to rm -R -f ~/.netscape/cache from a commandline when logged in as any user. I have occasionally recovered as much as 95 MB this way. You can also check

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Danielyou should probably not stick a metal screwdriver (the metal changes the adjustment, so when you remove the metal screwdriver, the setting you just carefully arrived at changes) in those holes. There are special plastic ones for that purpose. Radio Shack sells a pack of five different

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Don
Hi Paul, I am running NT4.0 and Linux 7.0-2 smp mode on the ide3 port. Nt is on hde drive, and linux is on the second drive at hdf. I do not have any hard drives on the ide1 ide2 or ide4 ports. My CD-ROMS are on ide1 port, and this setup works very well. I have a very stable system, and am

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Civileme
Vic wrote: I just type hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda for the first ide drive On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi all, I hope this doesn't cover too well trod ground but I couldn't find any good answer to it in the archives. I recently decided to switch to Mandrake from Red hat when

Re: [expert] fonts in 7.0

2000-06-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: Is there an easy way to add windows fonts for usage in Linux with 7.0 ?? drakfont-0.40-13mdkit's in cooker and 7.1 Adds a little GUI that gets your windows TT fonts and make them available to all X apps with just a few clicks. No muss, no fuss

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Steve Browne
Hi all, I hope this doesn't cover too well trod ground but I couldn't find any good answer to it in the archives. I recently decided to switch to Mandrake from Red hat when 7.1 came out. One of the statements I saw sent around about it was that it natively supported the HPT366 UDMA66

Re: [expert] Binding sound to $DISPLAY

2000-06-20 Thread RaStuS
Gnome itself may not be the hog, but the applications for it have the propensity to use libs and toolsets from many sources (not just GTK). This has the effect of loading a whiole slew of libs if you plan to actually run any apps in Gnome, as opposed to just looking at it. I'm not religious,

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread James Sparenberg
At 07:08 PM 6/20/00, you wrote: Danielyou should probably not stick a metal screwdriver (the metal changes the adjustment, so when you remove the metal screwdriver, the setting you just carefully arrived at changes) in those holes. There are special plastic ones for that purpose. Radio

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-20 Thread Paul Gratz
Hmmm well actually hda is not on the hpt366 its drive hde In anyevent I tried that on hde and after a few seconds this is what happens: [root@gratz1 /root]# hde: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 12 hde: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady

Re: [expert]

2000-06-20 Thread R_Yeo
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time getting my Palm III to HotSync with Mandrake. I'm running the following: Looks like a permission problem? My permissions are as follows and it works fine: crw--- 1 ron tty4, 64 Jun 15 05:00 ttyS0

RE: [expert] disc full

2000-06-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
|-Original Message- |From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:55 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] disc full | | |On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: | SNIP the blasted HTML | | Check /home/(yourusername)/.netscape/cache for |

Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?

2000-06-20 Thread Jomar Villafane
Why don't you ping it and get the IP address? J - Original Message - From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:20 AM Subject: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To? I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck

Re: [expert]

2000-06-20 Thread kaygee
Matt, I think Ronald has hit on something else here too. My Pilot wouldn't sync with Jpilot for the longest time until I changed to using /dev/ttyS2. For some reason that's what the serial port was at on my computer. Maybe yours is set up the same. Worth a try at least. Keith --

Re: [expert] Pilot Problems

2000-06-20 Thread Jay Summet
I use Kpilot, and I've found that even when Kpilot is running, the palm won't "hot-sync" until the actual program that interfaces with the serial port (called kpilotDaemon) is running. Try running a terminal (alt-f2, type xterm) and then running kpilotDaemon in the terminal so that you can view

[expert] getting the Mandrake 7.1 source CD

2000-06-20 Thread Jeff Lee
Are there any ftp sites with ISO of the Mandrake source RPM CD?

Re: [expert] getting the Mandrake 7.1 source CD

2000-06-20 Thread LinuxGeek
hi ! go to ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/distributions/Mandrake-devel/SRPMS/ it's not iso but it's all there... :-) Jeff Lee wrote: Are there any ftp sites with ISO of the Mandrake source RPM CD? -- --- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ /

[newbie] Internet Server Question(Maybe)?

2000-06-20 Thread James Little
Here's the deal. I have a DSL connection that all the computers on my LAN share. We have an extra phone line that noone calls cause it used to be our dial-up internet connection. My brother is cheap and doesn't want to pay for his own internet acount, so here's what we did in windows 2000.