Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Arcana am Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:50:29PM -0400: as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache Hmm?

[expert] realplayer woes

2000-10-19 Thread Kelly Edwards
To ALL: Recently i have found that my realplayer is giving me segmentation faults when I try to use it. When the player opens up it is fine...then say I click the Take5 button it closes about 5 seconds later and gives me a segmentation fault. Also if I go to a web site and attempt to

[expert] RPC error

2000-10-19 Thread faisal
can anyone take a look @ my dmesg tell me whats wrong with my NFS ? telerror Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Telnet problem

2000-10-19 Thread faisal
It says "Socket operation on non-socket " when i try to run telnet deamon manually thanks Faisal Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-19 Thread Buchan Milne
Arcana wrote: As for the performance: the Duron outperforms the Celeron, so as a Celeron replacement, it absolutely boots Intel. However, don't expect it to perform as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing

[expert] kde2

2000-10-19 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I finally have a workable KDE2. I followed someones link posted on here, downloaded all the tar balls and installed. Takes forever (it seems) it compile, but in the end, KDE2 works like a champ. After about 4 different downloads of Mandrake RPM's and all failing attempts. I do have one problem

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-19 Thread Roland Hightower
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: So sprach Arcana am Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:50:29PM -0400: as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and graphics) so the Duron, basically being the

[expert] Where i can find Kde 2

2000-10-19 Thread Maximo Monsalvo
Where i can download Kde 2 , is nesesary install Xfree4.0 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-19 Thread Buchan Milne
Sorry, I should have shown more explicity where the quote starts and ends See below. Buchan Milne wrote: Arcana wrote: As for the performance: the Duron outperforms the Celeron, so as a Celeron replacement, it absolutely boots Intel. However, don't expect it to perform as well

Re: [expert] ssh

2000-10-19 Thread Michael
If you want a basic howto guide (scp's manual can be confussing) let me know. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Stephen Carville wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: - Thank you. That

RE: [expert] Where i can find Kde 2

2000-10-19 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
www.kde.org has kde2 for mandrake and others. -Original Message- From: Maximo Monsalvo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:38 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] Where i can find Kde 2 Where i can download Kde 2 , is nesesary install Xfree4.0

[expert] startup in what looks like single mode

2000-10-19 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
When I restart my PC, linux (Mandrake 7.1) comes up like it is in single mode. I get some kind of error stating that it is trying to mount loopback, and cant cause it is already mounted the I get the "you have been dropped to a shell, enter root password or CTRL-D for normal startup" CTRL-D

Re: [expert] ssh

2000-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thank you, I would appreciate a basic howto for this. praedor Michael wrote: If you want a basic howto guide (scp's manual can be confussing) let me know. [...] On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Stephen Carville wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: - Thank you. That was the

[expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type: [root@db2 mail]# rm * you get: bash: /bin/rm: Argument

Re: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread Jim Holthaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories.

Re: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread J.A. Magallon
Turgut Kalfaoglu said at Ò[expert] logrotateÓ. [2000-10-19 17:06] Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when

Re: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type: [root@db2 mail]# rm * you

Re: [expert] ssh

2000-10-19 Thread Dany Allard
Take a look at sftp, works great for me. There is some info on this page http://www.mcknight.de/jftpgw/howtouse-sftp.html Hope that helps Dany Allard Praedor Tempus wrote: Thank you. That was the trick. I am now able to connect via ssh to my system. Next question: How

[expert] How to compile a kernel with the same options of the default one?

2000-10-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I want to test kernel 2.4.0 but, at the same, I want to compile with the same options of a standard mandrake 7.0 kernel. Is it possible? If so, how? Many thanks Eduardo Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert]

2000-10-19 Thread Shawn Hafen
ok so i just installed mandrake 7.2 and it rocks! im running a toshiba satellite 4100xdvd w/ 4meg trident cyber video card, etc.. i have never had this problem before but ever since moving to 7.2 i have a one centimeter gap at the bottom of the screen like the picture was adjusted to move up a

Re: [expert] startup in what looks like single mode

2000-10-19 Thread Buchan Milne
Read the line above "you have been dropped to a shell, enter root password or CTRL-D for normal startup" and it will probably tell you you need to run fsck on a partition (most likely root). So run fsck (fsck can only be run on unmounted partitions, which is why you got this message) after

[expert] 7.1 on 486

2000-10-19 Thread George McConnell
will 7.1 not install on a 486? i'm trying to load a stripped down eMail station (no X) and booting up off floppy, i get No coprocessor found and no math emulation present. Giving up. i tried booting up in expert mode, but same result. any way around this? would an older, or diff distro work?

Re: [expert] 7.1 on 486

2000-10-19 Thread Jim Holthaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, George McConnell wrote: will 7.1 not install on a 486? I think 7.1 will only work on Pentium or better. Try Redhat, Debian, or SuSE if you want a current linux distro that runs on a 486. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation:

[expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Deno
LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2) (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001019091828) Two days ago I asked your opinions about linux: where we are, what is good, what is bad, where should we go etc. Well, I got what I asked for: 71 answer so far. I'll try to summarize what You said so

[expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness

2000-10-19 Thread Mike Rambo
Yesterday we got called out for problems at one of the elementary schools and was surprised to find that the server was the source of at least part of the problems. The complaint was that server resources couldn't be accessed - and turned out to be true. The server is a file printer server for

Re: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread gene
At 6:06 PM +0300 10/19/00, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type:

Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness

2000-10-19 Thread Jim Holthaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but

Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet

2000-10-19 Thread Stephen Bosch
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: What Mandrake version do u use? Mdk6.0 uses "pump" for dynamicly assigned addresses. v6.1 also may use pump. Newer versions use dhcp. Pump handles dhcp *and* bootp -- if you aren't using pump you need dhcpcd. Dhcpd is the server daemon -- you need the client.

Re: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Oct 19, 2000 at 06:06:12PM +0300, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when

Re: [expert] 7.1 on 486

2000-10-19 Thread Jean-Philippe Gois
George McConnell wrote: will 7.1 not install on a 486? It will, but you have to download a dedicated iso file. You'll find one at www.linuxiso.org/download and at most ftp mandrake mirrors. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com:

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Publish upgrade-packs instead of new distros. This is probably one of the most important. What I (and I would think a lot of other users) need is an easier upgrade path. That is, one that doesn't require blowing away the previous installation and config files. Let's face it, even Micro$oft

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:18:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2) (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001019091828) Two days ago I asked your opinions about linux: where we are, what is good, what is bad, where should we go etc. Well, I got what I

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Larry Marshall
This is probably one of the most important. What I (and I would think a lot of other users) need is an easier upgrade path. That is, one that doesn't require blowing away the previous installation and config files. Let's face it, even Micro$oft managed that (they just blow away every other

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff Malka
Absolutely! Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Austin L. Denyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is probably one of the most important. What I (and I would think a lot of other users) need is an easier upgrade path. That is, one that doesn't

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Larry Marshall
Keep all the packages up-to-date Probably not a popular opinion but it makes more sense to keep most of those packages one version behind the cutting edge in your official distributions. All you need to do is look at what's going on right now with RH7.0 to see that being on the edge can

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System - BeOS M0andrake

2000-10-19 Thread alann
Gavin Clark wrote: Speaking of BeOS, I want to check it out but their docs keep mentioning windows when installing it. This box is just mandrake. Can I get BeOS to install without MS? Thanks, Gavin Sure, thats the BEST way to do it.. Matter of fact many BeOS "tryer outers" are

Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness

2000-10-19 Thread Mike Rambo
Jim Holthaus wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but the only way I

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Uhm...that already exists doesn't it? I've upgraded from 7.0-7.1 without losing any of my setup. I've also done the upgrade from 7.1-7.2beta on one of my non-work computers. Where's the problem? I've not tried the latest releases, but upgrading 6.5 to 7.0 didn't work - I had to totally

[expert] CDWriter Question

2000-10-19 Thread David M. Kufta
I have installed 7.2 on a system and after install adde a CDRW ide/atapi drive. I configured the drive as described at MUO website and when I mount the drive with the command mount -t auto /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom it will only mount the cd read only. I have no clue why it is mounting in read only. I

Re: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address

2000-10-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach JASON SNYDER am Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:29:46PM -0700: This seems like a cluggy way to do things. Is there a more elegant way to keep ipchains and dhcpd information up to date? I would especially Hmm, you might have a look at one of the dhclient packages that are available for the

[expert] ./configure problem

2000-10-19 Thread Jon
I get this error everyonce in a while when trying to configure and make a program. It does not happen with every application, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to correct it. Can anyone shed some light on this error for me: checking for KDE headers installed... configure:

RE: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread Bill Shirley
rm -Rf /var/log/news /var/log/mail mkdir -m 755 /var/log/news /var/log/mail It works, been there, done that. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Johnson, Jr. Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [expert] 7.1 on 486

2000-10-19 Thread Bill Shirley
I far as I know there is only a LM 7.02 iso version for i486. Burned a CD with it a couple days ago. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Gois Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [expert] CDWriter Question

2000-10-19 Thread Michael
Is it a SCSI or IDE CDRW? If it is SCSI you will probably have to configure it to pretend it's ATAPI for the purposes of writing to it. I've set up a few different CDRW's so let me know what your using and maybe I can help. :) *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for

Re: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address

2000-10-19 Thread Greg Stewart
Download and examine the pmfirewall scripts from http://www.pointman.org. They do exactly what you need and you might be able to simply incorporate those scripts into your current firewall scripts...or, vice versa. --Greg - Original Message - From: "JASON SNYDER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] A

RE: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness

2000-10-19 Thread Bill Shirley
I don't understand, dhcpd should just use the address of the NIC. How does it know "the address is already in use"? Perhaps there is more that one dhcpd running on the box. What does the log file say? What does the output from ifconfig say? What does your dhcpd.conf file say? Bill

RE: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address

2000-10-19 Thread Bill Shirley
Seems overly complex to me. You should run dhclient to get a IP address from you ISP for one NIC card. Set the other NIC card for your private LAN IP address (say 192.168.0.1). Run dhcpd to serve out private IP addresses for the other computers. Run a DNS server on your box so you don't need

RE: [expert] startup in what looks like single mode

2000-10-19 Thread Bill Shirley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Buchan Milne Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] startup in what looks like single mode Read the line above "you have been dropped to a shell,

Re: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address

2000-10-19 Thread BillK
One thing that has been worrying me for awhile is the number of people who use home brew ipchains scripts and who may not *really* understand how it works! I hope you have tested it for holes etc! Go the pmfirewall or other well known script way and be sure of what you are doing when you

Re: [expert] CDWriter Question

2000-10-19 Thread Nick Webb
Well, that's what you want. You don't want to mount the cdrom to write to it! You only need to use mount to read a disk, use cdrecord (console) or other program (cdrtoaster and Xcdroast are my favs) to write/rewrite CDs. I'm assuming the instructions on LM site were to instruct you on how to

[expert] Flickering X - Reboot seems only cure

2000-10-19 Thread Logos
I have a curious problem... Sometimes when I leave the machine running and the power management daemon shuts the monitor off, when I press a key or move the mouse to bring the display back up, it continually flickers with mouse movement. This doesn't happen all the time, but enough to be

RE: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness

2000-10-19 Thread Phil Connor
I don't understand, dhcpd should just use the address of the NIC. How does it know "the address is already in use"? Nope! try setting the ipaddress for DHCPD as .0 example 192.168.20.0 and then set your range to start with your nic address like 192.168.20.20 - 192.168.20.40 Perhaps there is