Re: [expert] Visual lilo

2000-11-29 Thread skidley
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Scott Tyson wrote: Lilo has a visual login menu when you boot but I don't think it has one for configuration. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/29/2000 at 5:16 AM faisal scribbled: Is there any visual lilo in mandrake "i mean with graphic stuff" all i

Re: [expert] Remote printing to file.

2000-11-29 Thread Till Kamppeter
"Miguel P.C." wrote: El Vie 24 Nov 2000 14:11, escribiste: Thanks, it sounds great but ... I have some other unix clients w/o samba and in which I cannot install anything, but I'd like them to be able to print too ... so I'd like to do it with lpr ... any suggestions? CUPS can

[expert] Kernel Options - Frame Buffer and Voodoo 3 3000 AGP

2000-11-29 Thread Tony K. Olsen
Hi Everyone, Quick question for any MDK 7.2 users who have Voodoo 3 3000 AGP video cards. If so, what options did you compile into the default kernel source to use the video frame buffer? I see support for other video cards in the kernel source but nothing for the Voodoo

Re: [expert] ApplixWare

2000-11-29 Thread Kip Stahl
Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Nov 28, 2000 at 07:22:41AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: Does anyone have any experience with this beast? I'm getting sick and tired of WPO2000 for Linux crashing on me all the time and am looking [...] I've had generally excellent results with Applixware

Re: [expert] copying bootable CD

2000-11-29 Thread Larry Marshall
You should be able to do a cd to cd burn of the 7.1 disk and it will be bootable (as long as the original is bootable). That's what I would think too Scott. It's unclear what I'm doing that caused me to produce a non-bootable CD but I've done it twice and the darn things just won't boot (I

[expert] Apache /PHP4

2000-11-29 Thread Bruno Damour
Hello, I have updated my config to LM 7.2 and I am trying to recover the tools I had previously : Webmin and phpPgAdmin. I had to install mod_php ans now it seems to work the apache welcome screen functions at http://localhost, only when I try to connect to to webmin (which _is_ running as

Re: [expert] KDM -- Sawfish desktop dead!

2000-11-29 Thread EagleIce
Hello Benjamin! No, I'm not ready to believe that your SawFish is dead, it may look dead but if you push the middle mouse-button you should see a menu popping up with most of the information you need! But it doesn't have a panel or icons or anything else to show, instead it seems to be just a

[expert] Alternative keyboard layout

2000-11-29 Thread EagleIce
Hi, I have problems trying to configure my keyboard layout (in KDE2, LM 7.2) to be able to change between two different ones (swedish and icelandic). My default is swedish but I also need to be able to use icelandic layout, this was very easy to configure in KDE1 but in KDE2 icelandic doesn't

Re: [expert] WP8 and CUPS now WORKING

2000-11-29 Thread Till Kamppeter
This will work with EVERY printer, this Tektronix driver is only for spitting out coloured PostScript, the translation from PostScript to the printer's own format is then done, as usual, by the CUPS RIP (Raster Image Processor) or GhostScript. So you can buy every printer well supported by

[expert] Security

2000-11-29 Thread bill
Since re-subscribing to this list I have noticed an increase of un-authorized attempts to access my main Linux Server. It may be only a coincedence, however perhaps sharing a few of our log files could be useful to see if there is a pattern. Not everything which would overwhelm this already

Re: Re: [expert] Visual lilo

2000-11-29 Thread xylonite
try 'klilo' regards fay At 11/29/00 6:11:00 AM, you wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Scott Tyson wrote: Lilo has a visual login menu when you boot but I don't think it has one for configuration. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/29/2000 at 5:16 AM faisal scribbled: Is there any

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Matthew Micene
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 11:36 am, you wrote: hmm.. seems like that the kernel only thinks it has 64M ram, but adding append="mem=256M" to lilo just makes it freeze after bootup, had to remove this earlier because of that error. This might be my problem, but still, shouldn't X with

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

2000-11-29 Thread Rial Juan
Is the mandrake reiser-patched kernel in some way different than the plain vanilla kernel with patches applied? Because I can't access my mandrake reiser partitions with a patched stock-kernel, which is due to a different hash-function (can't seem to find the tea-hash Mandrake uses anywhere on

Re: [expert] User management utility

2000-11-29 Thread Anthony Russello
You can create a script to create sequential passwords in hexadecimal numbers for each person. If the spread sheet is an excel spreadsheet, then just export the column to a text file. Then an easy to write script, or simple copy/pasting would be usable to create the user accounts

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread J.A. Magallon
Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] said at ÒRe: [expert] Slow systemÓ. [2000-11-29 17:36] On Wednesday 29 November 2000 16:02, you wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:07 am, you wrote: Installed Mandrake 7.2 on my friends computer (AMD Duron 700 with 256mb ram and a 30G

[expert] Problem: installing in Expert mode

2000-11-29 Thread Peteris_Krisjanis
When I'm going in Expert mode and finished making partitions and accepted it, after formation and veryfing bad blocks I received error 'no hdlists found'. In Newbie mode, everything going OK. What it can be? And in fact, as it is my first installation of Mandrake, I can say only best - very

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 17:52, J.A. Magallon wrote: hmm.. seems like that the kernel only thinks it has 64M ram, but adding append="mem=256M" to lilo just makes it freeze after bootup, had to remove mmm would not your mobo have an i810 or i815 (or in general, it has an on-board

[expert] Setting up joysticks

2000-11-29 Thread Spencer
Can anyone possibly tell me the proper procedure for setting up a joystick. I'm running LM7.2 and want to set up a MS Sidewinder Pro. Thanks in advance cu:-) Spencer Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] I'VE BEEN HACKED!!! Need upgraded wu-ftp for 7.1

2000-11-29 Thread Daniel Woods
Bob, Right now the three biggest security threats to Linux are... 1/ not having wu-ftpd installed with the latest fixed version wu-ftpd-2.6.1-7mdk 2/ using sunrpc port 111 for NFS (stat.d exploit) 3/ using an older version of bind/named (DNS)

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Scott Walker
And ideally you specifiy it in K on my laptop for example it's append mem=" 130496k" try that. "J.A. Magallon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 29/11/2000 11:52:31 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Scott Walker/MTL/BAM/ActiMedia)

[expert] Mandrake PC shut down

2000-11-29 Thread Vu Nguyen
Hi everyone I have an BP6 motherboard with dual processors 500MHZ celeron. When I tried to installed Mandrake 7.02 it does not automaticly shut down by software as it suppose to. (With ATX motherboard, it will automaticly shutdown by software) Does anyone know how to setup this. Thank

Re: [expert] Apache /PHP4

2000-11-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Nov 29, 2000 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Bruno Damour wrote: I had to install mod_php ans now it seems to work the apache welcome screen functions at http://localhost, only when I try to connect to to webmin (which _is_ running as says my system)at http://localhost:1, I get the message

Re: [expert] problem burning CDs with cdrecord

2000-11-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Kyle wrote: [kyle@nahuatl kyle]$ cdrecord -v -speed=2 dev=0,0,0 Mandrake72-ext.iso Note: speed should be 2 The parameter is speed=2, not -speed=2. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]

Re: [expert] Who Is List Maintainer?(time for Sympa retirement?)

2000-11-29 Thread Ron Stodden
David Mihm wrote: Verif y you have formail and the path is correct. This creates a dot file (.msgid.cache) to hold the mail ids of mails and compares all other mails to them, thus removing duplicates. You still get them shoved down your pipe, but at least you don't see them in your mail

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Sarang Lakare
My KDE 2.0 + XF4.0.1 system (LM 7.2 obv.) takes up just 47 MB when I start.. and then goes up to around 90 when I open up a lot of stuff.. thats okish i guess. -sarang On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:50, you wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2000 11:36 am, you wrote: hmm.. seems like that

Re: [expert] copying bootable CD

2000-11-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Larry Marshall wrote: You should be able to do a cd to cd burn of the 7.1 disk and it will be bootable (as long as the original is bootable). That's what I would think too Scott. It's unclear what I'm doing that caused me to produce a non-bootable CD but I've done it twice and the darn

Re: [expert] ApplixWare

2000-11-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Nov 29, 2000 at 06:33:12AM -0500, Kip Stahl wrote: Hmmm... I borrowed a copy of 4.4.1 from a friend who is willing to sell it to me. I'm not *too* concerned about printing since I don't usually print too much unless it's on the Wintendo, but I certainly don't want a broken

[expert] LCP error

2000-11-29 Thread Ted Wager
Hi.. I cannot connect to my isp ..They tell me I have LCP extensions enabled The problem has occurred over the last couple of weeks..I used to get a first time connect but not anymore..I have not edited any files so am sure the problem is not at my end.My isp uses chap authentication and it

[expert] Hack Kernel - which version is it?

2000-11-29 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Could someone tell me the exact version of the hack kernl that comes with 7.2? Many thanks Eduardo Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] LCP error

2000-11-29 Thread Ted Wager
Hi... When I try to connect to my isp I now get LCP errors...I have not altered any files and I did get a first time connect but now I cannot connect at all to btinternet.com...It uses chap authentication and I think they have made alterations there but they will give no help..Anyone any ideas

Re: [expert] Hack Kernel - which version is it?

2000-11-29 Thread pgeorges
"Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" a écrit : Hello Could someone tell me the exact version of the hack kernl that comes with 7.2? hackkernel-2.4.0-0.31mdk.i586.rpm Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] 7.2 upgrade problems

2000-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
Upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 (.iso files) goes well until the configuration of X. Probing is OK and everything is well, but finishing gives the following error message: /mnt/dev/null/.kderc not a directory and a hang here. Well we all know that dev files are not directories :( Something wrong with

[expert] Using the route utility..

2000-11-29 Thread Stefan Srdic
I've been reading through a book of mine which describes many, if not all, of the basic commands for the Linux platform. While reading through the administration section I noticed quiet a few goodies about the route comman. As it appears, you can set your own MSS and RWIN to a given route by

[expert] Aurora

2000-11-29 Thread David M. Kufta
I have installed aurora on a 7.2 system and can get it to boot fine to init runlevel 3, however when issuing the command to startx display is lost I obviously have neglected somehow to export display variables to X can anyone offer direction as to what may be the problem here ? I have looked

Re: [expert] Mandrake PC shut down

2000-11-29 Thread Don
For some reason I find this in the dmesg file on my system, and with APM disabled on the BP6 mainboard I can not get a full shutdown in Linux-Mandrake 7.2 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13) apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. Don On Wednesday 29 November 2000

[expert] KDE Konsole: Linux Console setting?

2000-11-29 Thread Ronnie Whipp
I generally use Konsole for a terminal, even when there is a choice. Originally, with RedHat(6.2) or LM7.0 the Linux console setting gave you a special font which was very useful (chrs 120+) for doing graphics on text windows, etc. Upgrading to LM7.1, this font is missing - it should be

Re: [expert] I'VE BEEN HACKED!!! Need upgraded wu-ftp for 7.1

2000-11-29 Thread Tom Berkley
Get rid of wu-ftpd and install proftpd. Works great in 7.1. Tom Berkley "Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: Hi gang, Last night, my webserver machine (Mandrake 7.1) was "defaced". The hacker got root access, and uploaded a script that went into every virtual host and replaced the index.htm(l) file

Re: [expert] Kernel Options - Frame Buffer and Voodoo 3 3000 AGP

2000-11-29 Thread Anthony Russello
I used the mandrake XFree86 4.0.1 Are you using the 3dfx.o kernel module with XFree 4.0.1? or with the custom X server on the website? Anthony Russello wrote: I just recently swapped a Voodoo3 3500TV AGP into my Linux machine (quite a waste seeing as how there don't seem to be any TV

Re: [expert] linux on dell

2000-11-29 Thread Tom Berkley
I have 7.1 on my inspiron 7000 and it works fine. If the sound is the same in the 3800 then its the Maestro 2 and the kernel has a sound driver for it that can be compiled in or used as module. Both work. For a good nic use the 3Com 3CCFE575BT 10/100 works perfectly. Beware the 3CCFEM656, the nic

Re: [expert] problem burning CDs with cdrecord

2000-11-29 Thread Kyle
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:59, you wrote: Kyle wrote: [kyle@nahuatl kyle]$ cdrecord -v -speed=2 dev=0,0,0 Mandrake72-ext.iso Note: speed should be 2 The parameter is

Re: [expert] problem burning CDs with cdrecord

2000-11-29 Thread Kyle
Another problem I note is that during a large part of the fixation process, my X Windows seems to hang. I can move the mouse and the Netscape logo will do its little animation and the clock continues to blink, but I can't move any windows. Hmm, time to look at interrupts?? Best, Kyle

Re: [expert] LM7.2 Macmillain Beta -- details

2000-11-29 Thread stephen
who keeps the box and manuals ? :-) On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:29:33PM -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Here are the details of the 4-CD Macmillain version that contains KDE Beta 1.99 instead of the promised KDE 2.0 Final: LINUX-MANDRKE 7.2 ISBN: 1-57595-452-4 @2001

Re: [expert] khotkeys in Mandrake 7.2?

2000-11-29 Thread Tom Berkley
type this locate hotkey you will get some interesting stuff one of which is /usr/bin/khotkeys which belongs to the package ... use the command rpm -qf /usr/bin/khotkeys and you will get: kdebase-2.0-7mdk Tom Berkley PS Hope these clues inspire your curiosity to look in a few new places.

Re: [expert] WordPerfect won't print to CUPS

2000-11-29 Thread Till Kamppeter
bill wrote: I keep wanting to try out a new printer one of these days. I hear Lexmark released drivers for its Z52 ? in the city of Anchorage I notice a Epson 900 for 179$. Would either of these be likely candidates? The driver of the Z52 is proprietary (no free/open source software) and

Re: [expert] ApplixWare

2000-11-29 Thread Till Kamppeter
Charles Curley wrote: I've encountered the problem with 5.0 on Red Hat 7.0, so you may not see it at all. On the other tentacle, I don't know if they support CUPS. You can change the command line at will, so if they don't, you can probably fi that quickly. they spit out postscript or HP PCL

Re: [expert] Apache /PHP4

2000-11-29 Thread Buchan Milne
Bruno Damour wrote: Hello, I have updated my config to LM 7.2 and I am trying to recover the tools I had previously : Webmin and phpPgAdmin. I had to install mod_php ans now it seems to work the apache welcome screen functions at http://localhost, only when I try to connect to to

Re: [expert] Printer problem (want A4 but get Letter)

2000-11-29 Thread Till Kamppeter
What version of Linux Mandrake are you using? In Mandrake 7.2 there is a particular driver (even more than one) for your printer (when the cups-drivers package is installed) and one can set the paper size easily even without KLJet. Till Bertil Wergelius wrote: I have configured to print

Re: [expert] Kernel Options - Frame Buffer and Voodoo 3 3000 AGP

2000-11-29 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Are you using the 3dfx.o kernel module with XFree 4.0.1? or with the custom X server on the website? Anthony Russello wrote: I just recently swapped a Voodoo3 3500TV AGP into my Linux machine (quite a waste seeing as how there don't seem to be any TV tuner drivers for the card, but it was

RE: [expert] Can't get VMware to configure on my system.

2000-11-29 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I've found in the past that Mandrake has shipped the kernel source and headers configured for the uni-processor kernel. Then, when you go to use vmware on an smp system you get errors installing it about mismatched headers. What you need to do is get the .config from

[expert] Compile Help.....

2000-11-29 Thread ATL Oledog
Trying to compile kernel. What could this mean? And how do i fix it? [root@trinity linux]# make bzImage make: *** No rule to make target `include/linux/autoconf.h', needed by `include/config/MARKER'. Stop. [root@trinity linux]#

Re: [expert] Mandrake PC shut down

2000-11-29 Thread Tom Berkley
the apm is what shuts down the machine. apm is not safe with smp and is diabled automatically. i do not know any of the details, however, you get to turn the power off manually on your bp6 just like i do with mine. as long as you use smp, you get to shut off the machine manually. if you boot the

[expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-11-29 Thread gene
There is an ip number that started showing up in my postfix logs as trying to access my smtp server (and access was apparently denied each time). I assumed that someone was trying to use my machine as a relay. To make sure that they can't get through, I blocked the ip address using ipchains.

[expert] Login security flaw or setup problem

2000-11-29 Thread lasaltech1
Hi, I have noticed something very disturbing. I have just installed MDK 7.2 on my notebook and whenever I reboot my machine, everything comes up nicely -- so nicely that I don't even have to login! Yes my default account has a passwd and all but I somehow seem to bypass that stage. Am I

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-11-29 Thread Pj
I have a personal firewall set up on my Winbloze box. As soon as I made it active I noticed I was being scanned constantly from a machine with the same DNS. After four hours, I used ARIN to find the DNS and Netblock owners and sent appropriate messages. I haven't been bothered over much since.

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-11-29 Thread Ace Frehley
You are not alone, I've also been attacked by someone from this alter.net site. Do a google search for alter.net and you should find more information. From my searches, alter.net is a small? ISP in BC canada... On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:17:42 -0800, you wrote: There is an ip number that started

[expert] System lockup with Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-29 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
I've had a lot of problems installin Linux Mandrake 7.2 at my friends computer. Sent a mail earlier about a problem with the system being terribly slow, and got a lot of good help on this, but encountered another problem (with might be related?) afterwards. I'll try to get this as specific

[expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
Installed Mandrake 7.2 on my friends computer (AMD Duron 700 with 256mb ram and a 30G 7200rpm ide disk), but everything seems to be going terribly slow. Recompiling the kernel took about 8 hours, running X and even the light wmanager blackbox runs terribly slow. Anybody have any clue what

[expert] LM7.2 Macmillain Beta -- details

2000-11-29 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Here are the details of the 4-CD Macmillain version that contains KDE Beta 1.99 instead of the promised KDE 2.0 Final: LINUX-MANDRKE 7.2 ISBN: 1-57595-452-4 @2001 Macmillain USA The User's Manual gives the date of publication as November, 2000. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 16:02, you wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:07 am, you wrote: Installed Mandrake 7.2 on my friends computer (AMD Duron 700 with 256mb ram and a 30G 7200rpm ide disk), but everything seems to be going terribly slow. Recompiling the kernel took about 8

[expert] LM7.2 Macmillain Beta -- details

2000-11-29 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Here are the details of the 4-CD Macmillain Linux-Mandrake Complete version that contains KDE Beta 1.99 instead of the promised KDE 2.0 Final: LINUX-MANDRKE 7.2 ISBN: 1-57595-452-4 @2001 Macmillain USA The User's Manual gives the date of publication as November, 2000. I spent

[newbie] 3c509 not operative

2000-11-29 Thread Tim Faehnle
Hi, I have a problem: My 3c509b ISA does not work with 7.2, nor did it it work with 7.1. I selected the correct module at install, but it hasn't ever worked. I've gotten it to work before with RedHat 6 and dhcpcd, but I'm having trouble with it now. I'm connecting to the internet through a