Re: [expert] KDE Login Manager Wallpaper

2000-11-22 Thread Christopher Woods
On Tuesday 21 November 2000 11:27 pm, you wrote: According to the Klogin help information, kdm can no longer set a wallpaper background, and thus the Kontrol centre is wrong in offering that option. I'd we'll just have to wait until 2.01 or later for this to be fixed. Hi, Does

Re: [expert] more crashes than the Indy 500.

2000-11-22 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, you wrote: Though this same card under mdk 7.2 caused problems where in X my mouse was represented by a large white block, regardless of what I did with the X display options that box was always there in place of a mouse cursor. This only occurs in 7.2 though, 7.1

Re: [expert] Mod_perl + EmbperlMdk 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread Antti Linno
Ok, I added lines below to httpd-perl.conf . Added to proxied and non-proxied sections. Directory /home/*/public_html Files ~ "*\.epl$" DefaultType text/html SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler HTML::Embperl Options +ExecCGI +Includes +Indexes

[expert] 7.2 Sound problems

2000-11-22 Thread Bruno Damour
Hello again, Well, after the night I'm coming back with good new and many questions : 1. I was wrong - there _was_ actually something wrong in the parazmeters I tried in Harddrake, I retrieved them from my windows system config dump and I was able to hear the tests sound (2). The problem was

[expert] ppp-on-demand

2000-11-22 Thread Dovydas Kulvinskas
Hello, Who knows how to configure on demand pppd with network sharing and firewall capabilities? I used this link http://www.nic.com/~cannon/Linux/ 1. I configured my modem. 2. included /etc/modules.conf alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias

Re: [expert] 7.2 Sound problems

2000-11-22 Thread jarmo
Be Happy I have Creative 128PCI and basically it have worked,as it's working now in LM2BUT without MIDI. I remember i had difficulties with midi in LM7.0 also,but in LM7.1 everything worked ok.So something wrong with 7.2 must be seen similar messages here earlier (about midi),not seen any

[expert] Missing Headers

2000-11-22 Thread Matthew J Fletcher
Hi,. Does anybody know where (or what) c++io.h is ?, it does not seem to be part of libstdc++ libstl or libc,. but kde2 needs it to compile. regards --- Matthew J Fletcher NPD Firmware --- ** Serck Controls Ltd, Rowley Drive,

Re: [expert] Glibc_2.2

2000-11-22 Thread Ryan La Mothe
Dear Tom Berkley, So, what you are saying is that because I asked a question that has been plaguing more than just myself, and it isn't any less intelligent than hundreds of the other posts I see on this newsgroup, you have to act like a total as*hole to me? What's the deal. The answer I

Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand

2000-11-22 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 22-Nov-00 by Dovydas Kulvinskas: 6. ppp0 starts on-boot, and ppp0 is default route. Starting ppp0 it hangs exits with error mesage: "Bringing up interface ppp0: Failed to activate ppp0, retrying in the background" This is an *old* bug. if you bring up a ppp on demand connection

Re: [expert] 7.2 = loss of productivity

2000-11-22 Thread EagleIce
On Tuesday 21 November 2000 15:58, Wayne Wilson wrote: [snip] So Gnome is unuseable, X-Window seems problematical (is the Sawfish windowing system broke in 7.2?), No, I promise you Gnome works wonderfully when the system is working properly, I've experienced that myself. But unfortunately

Re: [expert] serious boot problem with 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread EagleIce
On Tuesday 21 November 2000 16:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where on your disk does this installation of Mandrake happen to be? Is it the only one on the drive, or are there "others"? What are you using for the bootloader -- grub or Lilo? One harddisk: IDE 13GB; 1) /hda1 Win98 on 2,7GB, 2)

Re: [expert] serious boot problem with 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread EagleIce
On Tuesday 21 November 2000 16:51, civileme wrote: Well, if you have SuSE installed, One harddisk: IDE 13GB; 1) /hda1 Win98 on 2,7GB, 2) /boot 38MB (Mandrake) 3) /boot 46MB (SuSE) 4) /hda5 SuSE 7.0 on 5,4GB 5) /hda6 swap 133MB 6) /hda7 swap 133MB 7) /hda8 Mandrake 4,4GB then a) mount the

Re: [expert] Glibc_2.2

2000-11-22 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 21-Nov-00 by Ryan La Mothe: I have a question...What is the deal with EVERY SINGLE RPM needing Glibc_2.2? What is exactly is the reason and how do I acquire Glibc_2.2 without seriously messing everything up on Linux? Sounds like you've run into the problem that many of us are

[expert] I fixed it!- was: serious boot problem with 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread EagleIce
Thank's all for your concern: Chris Spencer, Civileme, Rune Kallhovd and others which names I've lost. This seems to have been the problem: I noticed one thing different in the Mandrake fstab file (I can access the LM files from SuSE) compared to the SuSE fstab, in Drake I read: /dev/hda8 /

Re: [expert] I fixed it!- was: serious boot problem with 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread flupke
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:49:43PM +0100, EagleIce wrote: thank's all for your concern: chris spencer, civileme, rune kallhovd and others which names i've lost. this seems to have been the problem: I noticed one thing different in the Mandrake fstab file (I can access the LM files from

[expert] CUPS problems under Mdk7.2

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Massey
Hi, I'm having some problems getting CUPS working with Mdk7.2 (download edition). On install CUPS found my Canon BJC-210SP fine, but the test page didn't print out properly - looked to me like the test page was a postscript file which the printer didn't like. I thought this was something I could

[expert] Linux articles from Linux Journal

2000-11-22 Thread Mads Rasmussen
Have a look at this site, there are some really cool articles from Linux Journal written by Marcel Gagné. http://www.salmar.com/marcel/nfljwritings.html Mads Rasmussen / CiT Systems www.cit.com.br Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] I fixed it!- was: serious boot problem with 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread Buchan Milne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Rune; if you haven't got another Linux installed then perhaps you should consider installing one to be able to access your Mandrake and check the fstab file. I always have one Linux in shape when testing another one..:-) I do that with a slack CD. No

Re: [expert] I fixed it!- was: serious boot problem with 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread EagleIce
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 14:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:49:43PM +0100, EagleIce wrote: thank's all for your concern: chris spencer, civileme, rune kallhovd and others which names i've lost. this seems to have been the problem: I noticed one thing

Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand

2000-11-22 Thread Dovydas Kulvinskas
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 22-Nov-00 by Dovydas Kulvinskas: 6. ppp0 starts on-boot, and ppp0 is default route. Starting ppp0 it hangs exits with error mesage: "Bringing up interface ppp0: Failed to activate ppp0, retrying in the background" This is an *old* bug. if you bring up

Re: [expert] New (server) install of LM 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread Andy Judge
Is this a new install or are you trying to upgrade a new install? My install went off without a hitch with Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It should be all there and working when you install. You are trying to setup Nuke right? Should work no probs on the development install. I believe the packages

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 DHCP stability . . .

2000-11-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:41:59PM +0100, Robert Fox wrote: I have LM 7.2 on one machine using a realtek 8139 10/100 Ethernet card, the DHCP host is (unfortunately) a Win2K machine with a 3Com 3C905 10/100 card using network sharing . . . When the Linux box fires up - it finds it's address

Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand

2000-11-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:38:38PM +0200, Dovydas Kulvinskas wrote: Another problem which is tricking me, that it calls ISP every 3 min, I think that i'm doing nothing, no requests to internet. Could you look through the info before, maybe i somewhere made a mistake and it loop's? More

Re: [expert] I fixed it!- was: serious boot problem with 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread EagleIce
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 14:54, Chris Spencer wrote: On November 22, 2000 06:49 am, you wrote: I noticed one thing different in the Mandrake fstab file (I can access the LM files from SuSE) compared to the SuSE fstab, in Drake I read: /dev/hda8 / ext2 noauto,user,rw 1 1 which

RE: [expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2?

2000-11-22 Thread Perez Serna Carlos Enrique
in the /etc/host.allow ALL : ALL ok. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Problem with the print quality in 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
To do not lock out yourself out of your machine do the following: 0. Make sure that you do not have any hard disk partition which is nearly full with df -k Espcially the partitions containing /tmp, /etc, and /var should not be full. 1. Download the newest version of cups, cups-drivers, and

Re: [expert] 7.2 Sound problems

2000-11-22 Thread Vic
Cool, I am thinking about getting a sblive in the future, how well does midi work and did it autoconfigure both sound and midi? Thankx On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Tom Berkley wrote: SB Live works wooonnderrrfuly combined with my bose amp, this place rocks or tranquils

Re: Re: [expert] I give up on linux

2000-11-22 Thread Vic
No way are you serious? Gates does not own Apple. On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, xylonite wrote: gates own mac now. when you buy mac it's mean you support windowz too *grin* At 11/21/00 12:19:00 PM, you wrote: If you must give up linux, at least,- at least get a Macintosh, it would be

Re: [expert] Netzero problems

2000-11-22 Thread Mwinold
i have changed the password to the encrypted version but still cannot log on

[expert] PPTP-Client on Linux Closes unexpectedly

2000-11-22 Thread Albert E. Whale
I am connecting my Linux Mandrake 7.1 server (2.2.17 kernel) to a Windoze NT PPTP Server. My PPTP connection works fine from Windoze 98 SE (sigh!), however, I get repeatable failures from my Linux Connection. Here's one type of failure: warn[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:239]: discarding out-of-order

Re: [expert] is this list seeing double yet again???

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Berkley
That may be one of the problems, but I think that some people need to check address to lines and make certain that they haven't picked up more than one occurrence of [EMAIL PROTECTED] when they poke the reply button in their mail browser. Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i guess you are

Re: [expert] is this list seeing double yet again???

2000-11-22 Thread Mwinold
i guess you are refering to the double copies of email, i think it may be the users fault since not all emails are duplicated so everybody please quit double clicking on your send button

Re: [expert] final straw with pppd

2000-11-22 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 21 November 2000 02:25 pm, root wrote: - kppp can connect to the ISP, but when pppd is run from the command line, the connection mysteriously dies before the PAP handshake is even complete. Did you try CHAP? I have both a pap-secrets and a

Re: [expert] Glibc_2.2

2000-11-22 Thread Guy McArthur
The simple answer is, only the MandrakeCooker rpm's are linked against glibc 2.2, right? Any rpm for Mandrake 7.2 is glibc 2.1. Now what libc version does redhat 7 have? -- -- ---- -- Guy "Smiley" McArthur icq # 17470307 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ - __

[expert] mode lines

2000-11-22 Thread pablito
That cute little mode line configurator -- does it work only with the 3.3.6 version of XFree86, or does it work with the 4.0 version as well? running either version, the extra mode lines didn't seem to make a difference. Occasionally I got a menu saying that the extra resolutions were there, but

Re: [expert] final straw with pppd

2000-11-22 Thread Balaji Ramani
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 12:50, you wrote: Try increasing the timeout in the chat script. The problem might be that the timeout might be too small for chat to complete the serial connection. Balaji I have both a pap-secrets and a chap-secrets file, both identical. The ISP uses only

Re: [expert] I give up on linux

2000-11-22 Thread Mwinold
? well some people have all the bad luck, me i like linux i just cant get the darn thing online, to many windows ap isp's around here

Re: [expert] I give up on linux

2000-11-22 Thread Mwinold
uhm yes they do they are the major stock holders of apple computers! didnt you ever watch that biography on tbs called the pirates of silicon valley?

[expert] Telnet Delays

2000-11-22 Thread mail
Hi, When trying to telnet into my gateway box, I get : Trying 192.168.0.1... Connected to lin1.mynet.hom. Escape character is '^]'. Where it hangs for a few mins before giving me a login prompt. Now I know this is a mandrake list, however the server is running Redhat, though the only

Re: [expert] is this list seeing double yet again???

2000-11-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:25:14AM -0800, Tom Berkley wrote: That may be one of the problems, but I think that some people need to check address to lines and make certain that they haven't picked up more than one occurrence of [EMAIL PROTECTED] when they poke the reply button in their mail

Re: [expert] final straw with pppd

2000-11-22 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Balaji Ramani wrote: Try increasing the timeout in the chat script. The problem might be that the timeout might be too small for chat to complete the serial connection. What value might I try? I think it was at 40 or something... can you give me exact syntax? Thanks, -Stephen- Keep in

Re: [expert] Telnet Delays

2000-11-22 Thread Jack Malone
I'm seeing this same thing on both mandrake 7.2 an suse 7.0. I'm wondering what is the problem too. jack Hi, When trying to telnet into my gateway box, I get : Trying 192.168.0.1... Connected to lin1.mynet.hom. Escape character is '^]'. Where it hangs for a few mins before giving

[expert] Help Req'd Changing Resolution in 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread mail
I'm trying to set my resolution to 1152x864 using X v4 in mandrake 7.2, however the X server ignores this setting and defaults to 1024x768 According to my config file for X v3 I have the modelines for it, and it was my default resoltion for Mandrake 7.1 Any Ideas? Here's a snippet of my

Re: [expert] final straw with pppd

2000-11-22 Thread Balaji Ramani
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 13:19, you wrote: Balaji Ramani wrote: Try increasing the timeout in the chat script. The problem might be that the timeout might be too small for chat to complete the serial connection. What value might I try? I think it was at 40 or something... can you

Re: [expert] Re: 3c905B

2000-11-22 Thread stephen
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:39:20AM +0100, mike veltman wrote: On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, you wrote: Tom, The eth0 card is SMC-ultra hardware assigned IRQ 3 at io 280. So I am not nuts Mandrake has a problem with 3c905b cards! Funny because I have two of them in my system and never had

Re: [expert] is this list seeing double yet again???

2000-11-22 Thread gene
I have recently started getting double copies of everything, so I don't think it's people clicking send twice or people subscribing twice. It seems to be too systematic for the former and impossible to be the latter since I haven't done anything signing-up-list-wise between the days of single

[expert] Configuring a printer, cups, etc. It's begining to be a classic

2000-11-22 Thread Leopold Palomo
Hi, well, I can print. I don't have any problems with the permissions, queues, etc. The question is what I print. I have a normal, standard, classical hp 520. I was very happy when I knew that there's another drivers with a lot of options, the hpdj. I can configure my printer with the hpdj

Re: [expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2?

2000-11-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:26:26AM -0700, Daniel Woods wrote: in.telnetd:10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1 or if you want to be able to telnet in from anywhere... in.telnetd:ALL Using ALL on telnet and ftp is a VERY bad idea. They should be restricted to only trusted IP numbers. Even

[expert] Re: VNC and Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread Collins, Terry
I was wondering if anyone has successfully been able to use startkde with VNC viewer.

[expert] Mandrake Auto-Install replication

2000-11-22 Thread Deven Phillips
All, I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.2 from the auto-install floppy for replication. It is actually the same machine that initially installed from, and I reboot and attempt the automated install. The auto-install appears to run through smoothly. When I reboot is when the

Re: [expert] Help Req'd Changing Resolution in 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread Anthony Russello
Question, are you editing this in the XF86Config file, or the XF86Config-4 file? I spent about 3 days trying to get my scroll button on my mouse to work, editing the XF86Config file, only to discover, in a frenzy of anguish, that it actually uses the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 Others might

Re: [expert] Hdparm options for a Maxtor

2000-11-22 Thread Chris Spencer
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Leopold Palomo wrote: I have configured my Maxtor HD91080D5 drive with this parameters: hdparm -u 1 -d 1 -c 1 /dev/hda I have read that there are the -m parameter that can optimize a lot the hd but is dangerous. Can anyone tell me if have tested this parameter with a

Re: [expert] Re: 3c905B

2000-11-22 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
The eth0 card is SMC-ultra hardware assigned IRQ 3 at io 280. So I am not nuts Mandrake has a problem with 3c905b cards! 3C905B what? There are a number of these, and I don't really know the difference.The most recent ones I've bought personally are 3C905B/TX(something) and they work

[expert] Kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-22 Thread Bunty Vue
Title: Kernel 2.2.17 I'm trying to find kernel 2.2.17 on the linux ftp site and can't find it. Anyone know where I can get it? -bunty Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Ron Heron am Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:38:35PM -0800: This is a matter of how you look at it. If you have an ext2 partition, you can make that partition reserfs. The issue is that you copy the contents of the partition to a temp location, run mkresierfs, and Okay, if you have

[expert] Configuring a printer, cups, etc. It's begining to be a classic

2000-11-22 Thread Leopold Palomo
Hi, well, I can print. I don't have any problems with the permissions, queues, etc. The question is what I print. I have a normal, standard, classical hp 520. I was very happy when I knew that there's another drivers with a lot of options, the hpdj. I can configure my printer with the hpdj

Re: [expert] Hdparm options for a Maxtor

2000-11-22 Thread Leopold Palomo
I forget to say that I have a MB BX, with a PII 266 Do you think that I can put your parameters without risk? Leo Chris Spencer wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Leopold Palomo wrote: I have configured my Maxtor HD91080D5 drive with this parameters: hdparm -u 1 -d 1 -c 1 /dev/hda I have

RE: [expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2?

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel Woods
the file inetd.conf was used before, but it appears that in 7.2 Mandrake has moved to an Inet super daemon with a better reputation for security named xinetd. You'll find the configuration files in /etc/xinet.d/ There is a configuration file for each service. xinetd gives you many

Re: [expert] Hdparm options for a Maxtor

2000-11-22 Thread Chris Spencer
On November 22, 2000 04:15 pm, you wrote: I forget to say that I have a MB BX, with a PII 266 Do you think that I can put your parameters without risk? Leo A definate probably. Do a hdparm -i /dev/hdxx to get information about your drive so that you know what it supports. Also make sure

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Ryan La Mothe am Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 02:30:57PM -0600: problem...EVER. This is a truly awesome FS, although I have been wondering why some of my apps appear to freeze up sometimes for a couple of seconds Yeah, I noticed that too. Especially while creating an ISO with mkisofs the

Re: [expert] Netzero problems

2000-11-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Bob Puff@NLE am Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:32:28PM -0500: DO this: change your NetZero password (in the Windows program) to: "abcde". Now your encrypted password you need for Dial up networking will be: "0a1" (that's number 0, five a's, and number 1) Excause my ignorance, but

Re: [expert] Re: VNC and Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-22 Thread Sridhar G
Yes, I am using a win client. Sridhar --- "Collins, Terry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone has successfully been able to use startkde with VNC viewer. = Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement

Re: [expert] Mandrake Auto-Install replication

2000-11-22 Thread BillK
Used to have this on an old 486: the "Li" is actually a message saying "I got this far through the boot". There are fixes but I have not the time to search for them. Try "man 5 lilo.conf" for how to set the verbose flag for progress messages. I think I found the original solution in the RedHat

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-22 Thread skidley
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Bunty Vue wrote: I'm trying to find kernel 2.2.17 on the linux ftp site and can't find it.  Anyone know where I can get it? -bunty The Linux ftp site? what the hell is that? there are 1000s of Linux ftp sites. Go to www.kernel.org for all your kernel needs

Re: [expert] Telnet Delays

2000-11-22 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
When trying to telnet into my gateway box, I get : Trying 192.168.0.1... Connected to lin1.mynet.hom. Escape character is '^]'. Where it hangs for a few mins before giving me a login prompt. What you're seeing is the result of inetd in action. If you go to the console of your box regardless

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Mwinold
all good no bad i dont think there is a bad to reiser fs

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Mwinold
well this is the only thing i liked about windows when it came to file system converting, i was able to convert the whole system without moving any files. into a new filesystem without any problems i wish i could do that here with my ext2 sysytem into rieserfs

[expert] Filesystems

2000-11-22 Thread Anthony Russello
Hey all, I've just recently had the pleasure to read over the testimonials of ReiserFS users. Good to see that it works, now I'd like to try it. But first, I do want to read up more about it. What is the homepage for ReiserFS if anyone happens to know. I'd rather red up on all the

Re: [expert] Hdparm options for a Maxtor

2000-11-22 Thread Anthony Russello
A definate probably. Do a hdparm -i /dev/hdxx to get information about your drive so that you know what it supports. Also make sure what kind of DMA your hdd controller handles. But in all likelyhood you shouldn't have a problem. Just out of curiousity, and my apologies for eaves dropping

Re: [expert] Hdparm options for a Maxtor

2000-11-22 Thread Chris Spencer
On November 22, 2000 06:24 pm, you wrote: Just out of curiousity, and my apologies for eaves dropping :), when I run hdparm -i /dev/hda, it diplays the possible modes. Now, I'm just guessing, and please let me know if I'm right or wrong here, but the mode with the asterisk beside it is the

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Mwinold
what do you think for an average user is the file system stable enough and offer enough advantages to warrant switching file systems??

[expert] problems with cron.daily

2000-11-22 Thread Tib
Every day at 4am, the cron.daily job runs. No big deal, except that it spits it's output to every console and terminal screen attached to the box :P This isn't too huge of a problem really since only myself and two other people have shell access, but still, it is both bothersome and a little

Re: [expert] Mandrake Auto-Install replication

2000-11-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:38:42 BillK wrote: Used to have this on an old 486: the "Li" is actually a message saying "I got this far through the boot". There are fixes but I have not the time to search for them. Try "man 5 lilo.conf" for how to set the verbose flag for progress messages. I

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 DHCP stability . . .

2000-11-22 Thread Joe Baker
Usually I've discovered this kind of symptom is attributed to logging issues where a daemon is trying to discover the name of the IP address of the machine requesting the service. By creating authoritive DNS zone files for your network or simply entering names for each of the IP addresses

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread John D. Kim
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all good no bad i dont think there is a bad to reiser fs I am prepared to start switching over to reiser but I have a question. I build my own kernels, no rpm kernels for me, thanks. Do I need to specifically rebuild my

Re: [expert] Hdparm options for a Maxtor

2000-11-22 Thread Anthony Russello
I know what you mean. :) Keep it up - its a great way to learn. Good luck! -Chris You're telling me. I need to buy a new notepad :) Thanks for the answers, now all I need is to find this fabelled ReiserFS homepage which everyone seems to be talking about, but no one knows the URL for

Re: [expert] problems with cron.daily

2000-11-22 Thread Anthony Russello
Take this as you will, but can't you just include a redirection to a file instead, possibly in a directory only root has access to? Every day at 4am, the cron.daily job runs. No big deal, except that it spits it's output to every console and terminal screen attached to the box :P This isn't

Re: [expert] problems with cron.daily

2000-11-22 Thread Tib
Actually - YES! I'd love to! only problem is that I don't know where the command is running from :/ it's ending up in root mail already, but as for why it spouts all that stuff to every active connection/terminal I have no idea! it's rather frustrating to be up late and sudddenly have all that

Re: [expert] Filesystems

2000-11-22 Thread Kelley Terry
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 05:13 pm, you wrote: But first, I do want to read up more about it. What is the homepage for ReiserFS if anyone happens to know. Try this site: http://www.namesys.com/ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing

Re: [expert] Mandrake Auto-Install replication

2000-11-22 Thread Deven Phillips, CISSP
Okay, It seems that perhaps I didn't explain the situation in enough detail. I have a VA Linux Full-On 2500 with the following configuration: Mylex AcelleRAID 150 4 - 9.1GB SCSI SCA Hard Disks in a RAID 5 array handled by the Mylex BIOS 24x CD-ROM 3.5" Floppy Drive I went through the Mandrake

[expert] Logitech extreme digital 3D joystick and SBLive card

2000-11-22 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'm having trouble getting my joystick to work. I have a Logitech wingman extreme digital 3D and a soundblaster live card. When I try to load the logitech module, I get: [root@mozart /root]# insmod joy-logitech Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-logitech.o

[expert] Please, a need some help configuring a printer, cups, etc.

2000-11-22 Thread Leopold Palomo
Leopold Palomo wrote: Hi, well, I can print. I don't have any problems with the permissions, queues, etc. The question is what I print. I have a normal, standard, classical hp 520. I was very happy when I knew that there's another drivers with a lot of options, the hpdj. I can configure

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:48:19PM -0500: what do you think for an average user is the file system stable enough and offer enough advantages to warrant switching file systems?? If you mean home systems by "average user", than my answer is a definite YES, because

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all good no bad i dont think there is a bad to reiser fs I am prepared to start switching over to reiser but I have a question. I build my own kernels, no rpm kernels for me, thanks. Do I need to specifically rebuild my kernel to be able to handle reiser? I just

RE: [expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2?

2000-11-22 Thread Joe Baker
Check the file /etc/hosts.allow It should have an entry like in.telnetd:10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1 or if you want to be able to telnet in from anywhere... in.telnetd:ALL the file inetd.conf was used before, but it appears that in 7.2 Mandrake has moved to an Inet super daemon with a

Re: [expert] I give up on linux

2000-11-22 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, you wrote: I give up on linux. Now I boot in and usb just decides not to work. You spend sooo much time trying to get the hardware working (which it very rarely ever does), then you do something so small like change a character in some file, or click the worng button,

Re: [expert] Network Printing

2000-11-22 Thread Alain
Le Mercredi 22 Novembre 2000 13:15, vous avez écrit : Your servers are Linux machines, and you run your client now under Linux, too, all Mandrake 7.0. Why don't you try to choose "Remote LPD" in the printer configuration tool? Then you will be asked for the IP of the server (do ifconfig on

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Tom Eastman am Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:13:44AM +1300: Can someone tell me some horror stories about ReiserFS destroying their system? I've heard/experienced NOTHING but good things about it so far. I want to hear the other side!! Me too! I also always hear to be cautious wrt

Re: [expert] Printer Complications

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
SoloCDM wrote: Thanks! I'm using LM 7.0 and it doesn't have a cups directory. Also, the ^ printing problem is fixed. How did you install CUPS on your 7.0? Either the RPM package for 7.2, the RPM

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Eastman
This is interesting... I've been playing with Mandrake 7.2 for about 2 weeks now, and I'm running pure ReiserFS just coz it sounded like a fun thing to do... In fact, ext2 has been downgraded to a module in my kernel! hehehe. ReiserFS is to be used with caution to be sure... but not only

Re: [expert] Mandrake Auto-Install replication

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Eastman
I don't know if this is any help... but I have NEVER gotten lilo to work on my computer... ever. It ALWAYS dies at LI just as you've descibed. On the other hand... where LILO has never succeeded... GRUB has NEVER failed. 8-) Before grub came along I was always booting linux using "loadlin"

[expert] Htdig

2000-11-22 Thread Gary de Montigny
Hello, I am having problems getting htdig to build the database on Mandrake v7.2. I keep getting the error "DB2 Problem... missing or empty key value specified". Any idea? Thanks -- / Gary de Montigny / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / TeleSoft Systems / http://telesoft.ca Keep in touch with

[expert] Transcript Error

2000-11-22 Thread Gary de Montigny
Hello, This is my second post so I hope someone can help me out. I am running Linux Mandrake 7.2 and when I post a message from Pine (lastest security update installed) I get the following error: Nov 21 07:47:09 bonnie sendmail[32376]: eALDl8Z32376: SYSERR(gjd): Can't create transcript file

Re: [expert] Two questions about cups

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: I had a problem with the printer connected to my LM system and printing from my Win client. I had configured the Lm printer thro' samba as 'dj400'. Had to modify my printers.conf in /etc/cups dir From Default Printer lp to Default Printer dj400 restart

Re: [expert] Printer Complications

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Can you check the permissions and ownerships of /var/spool/cups/ and /var/spool/cups/tmp? They must be: # ll -d /var/spool/cups/ drwx--3 lp sys54 Nov 21 11:25 /var/spool/cups// # ll -d /var/spool/cups/tmp drwx-T2 lp sys35 Nov 17

Re: [expert] CUPS Fonts Printing Problem

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
mail wrote: i tried the fontpath variables (as well as copying the fonts to the existing font directory, but no luck, I've read that Cups does support ttf, but no info on how. Have you already read http://localhost:631/documentation.html? I do not know what there is written about TrueType,

[expert] LM 7.2 DHCP stability . . .

2000-11-22 Thread Robert Fox
I have LM 7.2 on one machine using a realtek 8139 10/100 Ethernet card, the DHCP host is (unfortunately) a Win2K machine with a 3Com 3C905 10/100 card using network sharing . . . When the Linux box fires up - it finds it's address no problem - and continues happily along in the boot process.

Re: [expert] Network Printing

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
PatMc wrote: I am trying to setup a printer on my 7.0 machine. The printer's in question are connected to samba machines on my home network. One is a 560c and the other is a Panasonic 2023 on separate machines. The box I'm trying to set up is dual boot and prints fine to either printer