Re: [expert] adding themes w/sawfish and helixgnome

2000-07-06 Thread Matthias Richter
Armand wrote on Fri Jul 07, 2000: > "Alan N." wrote: > > > > Has anyone had any problems adding new themes to sawfish after > > installing helixgnome? [...] > Is sawfish the default wm for helixgnome? I don't even know! I've > tried to use the Solaris-CDE theme from the gtk theme package > unsu

Re: [expert] Problem downloading 7.1 ISO file

2000-07-06 Thread Norvell Spearman
bobby dowling wrote: > > I just finished downloading from sunsite.utk.edu and free.fr ...no problems > with either iso image. > > If every site you download from stops at the same point downloading the same > file (weird!), then maybe the problem is on your end...? > > > > >Hi, > >I tried to do

Re: [expert] adding themes w/sawfish and helixgnome

2000-07-06 Thread Armand
"Alan N." wrote: > > Has anyone had any problems adding new themes to sawfish after > installing helixgnome? [snip] > > Alan Is sawfish the default wm for helixgnome? I don't even know! I've tried to use the Solaris-CDE theme from the gtk theme package unsuccessfully. Help! Armand -- Linu

Re: [expert] Cannot install 7.1, why!?!?

2000-07-06 Thread Armand
"David G. Thiessen" wrote: > > Xperts - > > I have tried every possible way to install 7.1 but every time it > crashes, saying > something to the effect of "Out of memory" [snip] > Thanx, > Dave My friend had a similar problem so I posted about it and Civilme gave me a good reply (below). But

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > > Try it at > > > > http://forum.mandrakesoft.com > > > > Our own version of slashdot > > > I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on > that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! >

[expert] gnome-core install problem

2000-07-06 Thread Schroeder, Brian
I got the following error when trying to install the gnome-core package from the "cooker" : rpm -Uvh gnome-core-1.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm gnome-core unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic Segmentation fault Has anyone else seen this? (I have installe

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Mark Weaver wrote: > > Have you tried re-creating this directory? sorry if you already stated > this in an earlier post. I don't have that one in my inbox any longer, but > it seems to me that would be the next logical step in the process. > > I would think that /tmp would be an important part o

Re: [expert] Problem downloading 7.1 ISO file

2000-07-06 Thread bobby dowling
I just finished downloading from sunsite.utk.edu and free.fr ...no problems with either iso image. If every site you download from stops at the same point downloading the same file (weird!), then maybe the problem is on your end...? >From: Chunnuan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL

RE: ip_masq modules Was: Re: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?

2000-07-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Various places. h323 is available seperately PPP patch for VPN, etc. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Johnson, Jr. |Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:15 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: ip_masq modules Was: Re: [expert] be

[expert] Problem downloading 7.1 ISO file

2000-07-06 Thread Chunnuan Chen
Hi, I tried to download the iso file of the 7.1 LM from the download sites listed in their website. The download always became stalled after 7%. I tried many sites but found the same problem. Has anybody out there seen the same problem? Is there a site which has so such problem? Thanks a lot, Chun

Re: [expert] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (fwd)

2000-07-06 Thread Civileme
Mark Weaver wrote: > > Ok...I've been trying to understand why I'm getting these message all > evening. They only started this evening and I'm not getting them from > every domain I'm mailing to. Only a few of them. could someone please > enlighten me as to why I'm getting them and how to help "p

Re: [expert] Security warnings

2000-07-06 Thread Civileme
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: > > > You DO have webmin running on 1. Unless you plan to do > > remote control, fire up netscape and > > > > http://127.0.0.1:1 > > > > login is root > > password is root's password > > > > Go to Webmin Configuration->IP Access control and tick "allow > > only from

ip_masq modules Was: Re: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?

2000-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: [snap] > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_icq > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_h323 > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_pptp > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ipsec These modules don't exist in the 2.2.16 tarball I grabbed from http://www.kernel.org/

Re: [expert] NEC PowerMate 2000

2000-07-06 Thread Civileme
Theo Brinkman wrote: > > Congratulations! Laptops are fun things to install Linux on, aren't > they. > > My Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT has a few strange quirks you have to look > out for when you install, but nothing quite so picky as your NEC. > > Everything goes fine, except that if I pick 80

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread bobby dowling
The people on cooker have answers, but you just have to be careful not to ask too many non-cooker related questions, I guess. >From: Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start >Date: 06 Jul 2000

[expert] Framebuffer/SMP

2000-07-06 Thread Steve Browne
Are all precompiled SMP kernels now going to be framebuffer-enabled? I DON'T WANT framebuffer. I DO WANT SMP. There's my vote. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread Steve Browne
On 06 Jul 2000 11:21:29 -0700, you wrote: >John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > ? ok what is the question excatly i didn't followed the thread... >> Thanks. :-) The question was why you folks put the stuff in /tmp and >> later in /root/tmp that causes X to go bad when you delete it

[expert] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (fwd)

2000-07-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Ok...I've been trying to understand why I'm getting these message all evening. They only started this evening and I'm not getting them from every domain I'm mailing to. Only a few of them. could someone please enlighten me as to why I'm getting them and how to help "postfix" get through this witho

Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?

2000-07-06 Thread root
Civileme wrote: > > Simon Robertson wrote: > > > > > I am trying to install kde2, but with kdevelop it keeps asking for a > > dependency libg++.so.2.7.2, would you have any idea where I could get > > this. > > > > I think I definatly need this library as I am at the stage where I > > unchecked d

Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?

2000-07-06 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I strongly hope and strongly suggest Mandrake realises the value of > this during the KDE install and omits all those ugly desktop mount > icons in future in favour of standardising on kdf for all runtime > disk partition management under the KDE GUI. No

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Have you tried re-creating this directory? sorry if you already stated this in an earlier post. I don't have that one in my inbox any longer, but it seems to me that would be the next logical step in the process. I would think that /tmp would be an important part of the file system and a server s

Re[2]: [expert] Security warnings

2000-07-06 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo Civileme! on Thursday, July 06, 2000, 8:22:13 AM, you wrote: C> "Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: >> >> Hi Gang, >> >> I keep getting this in my mail and also in my logs. Is this normal? >> >> *** Diff Check, Wed Jul 5 04:01:57 EDT 2000 *** >> >> Security Warning: There is modifications for port

Re: [expert] Sound Device

2000-07-06 Thread Sarang Lakare
Harry Flaxman wrote: > > I have a Soundblaster PCI 512. The device won't init during the Linux > IPL process. Says the device is busy.Yes, I see my sound card listed in > /etc/conf.modules. I was assuming there is a lock file for the device. The > configurator, soundconfig won't do anythi

[expert] Security warnings

2000-07-06 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> You DO have webmin running on 1. Unless you plan to do > remote control, fire up netscape and > > http://127.0.0.1:1 > > login is root > password is root's password > > Go to Webmin Configuration->IP Access control and tick "allow > only from listed addresses" then type in 127.0.0.1

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > > Try it at > > > > http://forum.mandrakesoft.com > > > > Our own version of slashdot > > > I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on > that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ? ok what is the question excatly i didn't followed the thread... > Thanks. :-) The question was why you folks put the stuff in /tmp and > later in /root/tmp that causes X to go bad when you delete it? You we put nothing in /root/tmp only DrakConf

Re: [expert] NEC PowerMate 2000

2000-07-06 Thread Theo Brinkman
Congratulations! Laptops are fun things to install Linux on, aren't they. My Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT has a few strange quirks you have to look out for when you install, but nothing quite so picky as your NEC. Everything goes fine, except that if I pick 800x600 LCD for the display, I can only

[expert] kernel panic in supermount

2000-07-06 Thread Sarang Lakare
When I leave my machine for 7-8 hours, my monitor goes into power saving and never comes back. When I looked at the log files, I saw a kernel panic! This is the log message Kernel panic: SUPERMOUNT panic (device 0/3): supermount_put_write_access: filesystem not write accessed This is the detail

[expert] [OT] differences between sparc64 and i386

2000-07-06 Thread Christopher Quale
Sorry to go off topic, but I would like to get the perspective of the very knowledgable people on this list. Background: I am writing a program using the "R" language (a high level statistical language, similar to the "S" language). I am able to dynamically load *.so.0 libraries (written in C

RE: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?

2000-07-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I hope you installed MASQ and are maquerading all of the computers. CuteFTP, 3DFTP and almost all FTP clients (including the browser) work with masq properly IF you've loaded the ip_masq_ftp module. The ports you "left" open will interfere with Masq working with other applications as well. Make

Re: [expert] Extending Timeout on kmail

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Hi, > With kmail, I frequently get "Timeout while waiting for server" > error messages. This is especially so when I'm not dialling in, but > accessing my mail from my work place. > Does anybocy know where I can change the default values to > extend t

Re: [expert] Sound Device

2000-07-06 Thread Harry Flaxman
Followed your advice Jose...did a lsmod and a rmmod for all the sound modules. Problems with soundconfig sitll did not go away. Now, I went into the modules/misc directory and got rid of the hardware driver entirelysb0. The system complained that it was busy. I have moved the file so I can

[expert] Kernel Panic in Supermount

2000-07-06 Thread Sarang Lakare
When I leave my machine for 7-8 hours, my monitor goes into power saving and never comes back. When I looked at the log files, I saw a kernel panic! This is the log message Kernel panic: SUPERMOUNT panic (device 0/3): supermount_put_write_access: filesystem not write accessed This is the detail

Re: [expert] RH and other distro users

2000-07-06 Thread Ken Thompson
Well spoken - Hear -Hear... On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: > It is a clear and distinct message to me when other distro users > show up on this mailing list for help... A very hopeful message > for the future of amicability. > > By george, I'll help them with no distinction. Of course my > adv

Re: [expert] RH and other distro users

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Alan, > > I've heard that Mandrake is RedHat enhanced. I don't know this for a fact, > but I've seem a lot of similarities between the two. You could say they're > 1st cousins. > Not any more. It *used* to be "RedHat + enhancements." Now it's a separate distro.

RE: [expert] Sound Device

2000-07-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Normally this is the result of a misconfigured device. I.E. the device is not utilizing the resources the modules are trying to initialize it for. Your best bet is to remove all the sound modules from memory... I.E. "lsmod" awe_wave 170956 0 sb 36884 0 uar

[expert] Swap Device

2000-07-06 Thread Harry Flaxman
I originally configured. my Mandrake 7.0 accidentally with NO SWAP device. It was misconfigured and somehow the system thought it was on hda6, which it is not. I have repartitioned one of my hard drives , hdc1, to be the swap file. The fstab entry is proper. The device has been partitioned and

[expert] Book Recommendation

2000-07-06 Thread Wizaerd
I am looking for some book recommendations in regards to setting up an Linux based webserver, with security, email (smtp and pop3), and a secure SSL certificate. I would want to use Apache, an email application usable with PHP, mySQL, etc Any suggestions? thanx! Joseph (Joe) Sheble a.k.a.

Re: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba

2000-07-06 Thread Leopold Palomo
Thanks Bill for the answer, I thought that you had forgotten me. No help, because I still have the problem. I thought the you had to put the users there, but no. I will try to update to the last version. Otherwise, thanks a lot. Best regards, Leo Bill Shirley ha escrit: > Leo, > The smbuse

Re: [expert] Sound Device

2000-07-06 Thread Harry Flaxman
I have a Soundblaster PCI 512. The device won't init during the Linux IPL process. Says the device is busy.Yes, I see my sound card listed in /etc/conf.modules. I was assuming there is a lock file for the device. The configurator, soundconfig won't do anything with it either, says it's bus

Re: [expert] Sound Device

2000-07-06 Thread Craig Woods
If you could give a bit more info: did you cat /etc/conf.modules, and do you see your sound card? What kind of card do you want Linux to use? CRAIG Harry Flaxman wrote: > Wasn't able to find an answer for this one on Newbie. I have a problem > with the sound device being busy. Where can I f

[expert] Sound Device

2000-07-06 Thread Harry Flaxman
Wasn't able to find an answer for this one on Newbie. I have a problem with the sound device being busy. Where can I find the lock file for the sound device? Thanks. -- ___ Harry Flaxman http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907

[expert] ssh 2.2 on Mandrake 6.1

2000-07-06 Thread Charles Curley
I have two boxes both running Mandrake 6.1, and ssh 2.2 from SSH Communications (http://www.ssh.com/). On both machines I can log in to one machine only, charlesc. I cannot log into the other from either machine. Here is a test run: root@charlesc # /usr/local/bin/ssh -v tester debug: hostname is

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: > John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to > > > direct a question to the Mandrake team. > > Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of the > > Mandrake team hang out in th

Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?

2000-07-06 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
This lib is necessary by kdevelop. Get libg++-2.7.2.8-9.i386.rpm by rpmfind.net Eric Civileme wrote: > > Simon Robertson wrote: > > > > > I am trying to install kde2, but with kdevelop it keeps asking for a > > dependency libg++.so.2.7.2, would you have any idea where I could get > > this. > >

[expert] Extending Timeout on kmail

2000-07-06 Thread R_Yeo
Hi, With kmail, I frequently get "Timeout while waiting for server" error messages. This is especially so when I'm not dialling in, but accessing my mail from my work place. Does anybocy know where I can change the default values to extend the timeout periods? I think it probably

Re: [expert] RH and other distro users

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: > I'm running RH 6.2 at the moment. I susbscribe to this list since > there are lotta good people here and I've learned a tremendous amount. > 2 reasons I'm running RH.. When 7.0 came out there were just too many > problem's being reported. I'm not good enough i

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > Try it at > > http://forum.mandrakesoft.com > > Our own version of slashdot > I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! John

Re: [expert] Remote Access of Root

2000-07-06 Thread David Talbot
You can telnet in as root if you really want to, all you have to do is (as root of course) vi /etc/securetty At the end of the file append: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 What this file does is say what ttys are allowed to login as root. Doing the above essentially allows all. Not suggested for a product

Re: [expert] RH and other distro users

2000-07-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Alan, I've heard that Mandrake is RedHat enhanced. I don't know this for a fact, but I've seem a lot of similarities between the two. You could say they're 1st cousins. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 1299563 O

Re: [expert] RH and other distro users

2000-07-06 Thread Mark Weaver
I second that! An awesome thought. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 1299563 On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Civileme wrote: > It is a clear and distinct message to me when other distro users > show up on this mailing list f

[expert] Problems with regex.h

2000-07-06 Thread Mario Galan
I've tried to compile a program using regex.h and this is what I get: In file included from test_regex.c:3: /usr/include/regex.h:352: parse error before `size_t' /usr/include/regex.h:352: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union /usr/include/regex.h:359: parse error before `:' /us

Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?

2000-07-06 Thread Ron Stodden
Civileme (and others), KDE2 includes an improved new version of kDiskFree (kdf), an exceptionally useful utility that shows you the status of all your disk partitions, handles all your mount and umount needs according to /etc/fstab, and offers you a konqueror window on any mount point. kDiskFree

Re: [expert] Linux still wont boot

2000-07-06 Thread Bruce E. Harris
vi is there, I see it but Mandrake will not... This is not a Redhat system, but Mandrake 7.0. and yes, I am careful to post the right questions to the right list. I can see all the files I need to use, but Mandrake will not. BRuce At 10:37 PM 7/5/00 -0500, Craig Woods wrote: >A lot of really goo

Re: [expert] Linux still wont boot

2000-07-06 Thread Bruce E. Harris
No, this is a dead Mandrake 7.0 :( At 10:37 PM 7/5/00 -0500, Craig Woods wrote: >A lot of really good advice has been rendered on this particular issue but, in >ageement with Steve B., this sounds like a Red Hat system, and I think our bandwidth >is for Mandrake issues. > >"Brian T. Schel

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to > > direct a question to the Mandrake team. > Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of the > Mandrake team hang out in this list apparently the ones who hang > o

RE: [expert] Remote Access of Root

2000-07-06 Thread Jeroen Verhoeven
Do a 'su -' to have the same path and environment as root. -Original Message- From: Ken Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: woensdag 5 juli 2000 15:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Remote Access of Root Log in as a regular user to the remote machine and then do an 'su'

[expert] NFS mounts fail

2000-07-06 Thread Manuël Beunder
I seem to have a problem between two NFS server, mounting each others stuff, the one is a SuSE6.1 machine running 2.2.16 (same with 2.2.13) and the other a Mandrake 7.0 machine, running 2.2.16 (same with 2.4.0test2) as well. Mounts located on the SuSE machine to the Mandrake machine work just fine

Re: [expert] DSL Help Needed

2000-07-06 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
I thank you for your prompt reply. I am told that GTE's dsl is bridged. I am led to believe that the modem will be an external one that plugs in to an ethernet card and does not take a crossover cable but a straight cat 5 cable and the service is dhcp based and should be easy install. I hope to a

Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?

2000-07-06 Thread Civileme
Simon Robertson wrote: > > I am trying to install kde2, but with kdevelop it keeps asking for a > dependency libg++.so.2.7.2, would you have any idea where I could get > this. > > I think I definatly need this library as I am at the stage where I > unchecked dependencies and everytime I now ent