[expert] Grub configuration: LM/ hd0 and Win98/ hd1

2000-12-04 Thread Mika Joukainen
Hi! Does anyone have some ideas (good) how to configure, I would say quite typical system, so linux lives on the first physical hd and win-system on the second one. I installed LM7.2 out of the box and I got ready made grub config, fine. Everything is working BUT I have two partitions on my

Re: [expert] Lilo install on MBR

2000-12-04 Thread EagleIce
Duh..:-s On Monday 04 December 2000 01:13, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:58, EagleIce wrote: default = linux set a default that exists ;) the label linux doesn't exist in any of your entries :) -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Netscape error message -- Bookmarks have changed...

2000-12-04 Thread EagleIce
Interesting information, thank's for that. But like I said earlyer the problem just dissappeared without me doing anything at all. ei On Monday 04 December 2000 03:26, Mark Weaver wrote: it sounds like what they're telling you is that you've got a run-on process and the tech has supplied you

Re: [Re: [expert] NTFS support]

2000-12-04 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Dan, Does NT 4.0 (Patch 6) reads FAT32 partitons? Or just FAT16? On a double boot system with Linux, FAT16 would be the only common nominator then...(If Win2K is not an option...) Viktor with win2k you get to choose whether to use ntfs or fat32. linux can work with either. tom

Re: [expert] Postfix or Sendmail

2000-12-04 Thread Buchan Milne
You can use a standard ISP mailbox with fetchmail (no need for a domain name, though they can even get your domain name's mail sent to a single mailbox) - which means your mail will always be delivered with no errors. There is a mail server (MTA) made for offline use, see masqmail at

[expert] Second stage install hangs

2000-12-04 Thread EagleIce
I've got a Celeron on my home box! The one at work I'm fighting with is Intel Pentium II, well known IDE harddrive (don't remember it's name but it's not WD) my employer bought this 'used' box (cheap punk) from a low down hardware store for doing book-keeping such in Excel Words. What

Re: [expert] Grub vs lilo

2000-12-04 Thread Buchan Milne
drakboot keeps the two config files in sync, so it's best to use it unless you need to add options that don't work with drakboot yet (the password/restricted options seem to have a bug). Buchan Svante Signell wrote: My question is more oriented how lilo and grub work together (or don't).

Re: [expert] NTFS support

2000-12-04 Thread Buchan Milne
Daniel Woods wrote: Tom Eastman wrote: I'm about to install Windows 2000 on my computer, I know that linux could read Windows NT NTFS partitions just fine, but can it read Windows 2000 NTFS? with win2k you get to choose whether to use ntfs or fat32. linux can work with either.

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-04 Thread Buchan Milne
Please try to only quote the most important part of previous postings, your last mesage on this thread had about 12k of quoted material which you did not even refer/reply to. Some users read their mail on slow connections, it is onlt courteous not to increase the amount of junk they receive.

Re: About your post on [expert]

2000-12-04 Thread EagleIce
Genuine Intel, Celeron (Mendocino), ei On Monday 04 December 2000 03:38, Asheesh Laroia wrote: What processor and motherboard do you run? I'm asking because I'm considering adding a 256MB DIMM to my AMD K6-2 300 (on the VIA MP3 chipset), and I was wondering if it was compatible. Thanks

Re: [Re: [expert] NTFS support]

2000-12-04 Thread Buchan Milne
There is a freely avalailable FAT32 reader for NT, but there is no way to get NT (even sp6a) to write to NTFS. There is also a read-only NTFS reader for win98 (and one for dos which works in win95). These are available at http://www.sysinternals.com/ http://www.sysinternals.com/ntfs98.htm

Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic?

2000-12-04 Thread Buchan Milne
Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a linux equivalent to Partition Magic. diskdrake is enough for most things you would want to do. The only thing it can't do that I have seen, is format NTFS. In the version that shipped with 7.1 you could still make a partition table that listed an NTFS

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread Stew Benedict
You might try using alsactl: /usr/sbin/alsactl: invalid option -- ? Invalid switch or option needs an argument. Usage: alsactl options command Available options: -h,--help this help -f,--file # configuration file (default /etc/asound.conf) -d,--debug debug mode

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:06:19 Stew Benedict wrote: You might try using alsactl: [...] You can then just add one line in rc.local - alsactl restore In 7.2 it is done automatically. See: Launch 'alsamixer' in a terminal. It is not very fancy, but works fine. Adjust your settings. Save

Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic?

2000-12-04 Thread ai4a
Tom Berkley wrote: gnu parted is supposed to do the same as pm but i haven't used it yet so i can't yet say first hand. suspect its time to mess with it next time i get ready to try yet another distro 8-) tom berkley

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating

2000-12-04 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 02:10:11 Tim Faehnle wrote: Okay, Does Mandrake 7.2 come with 4.0.1 or not? I'm confused by Mandrake install. (it's buggy and ill-designed, but that's a different discussion) It comes both with 3.3.6 and 4.0.1, that is the part that can be confusing you. install is

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-12-04 Thread civileme
On Thursday 30 November 2000 09:18, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, gene wrote: 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

[expert] overwritten tar archiv on tape

2000-12-04 Thread Linke, Thomas
Hi, i had a big tar archive on a tape. A new small tar archiv was created and the same tape. Have anyone a idea, how I can recover the non overwritten parts on this tape. Thomas -- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] linksys pcmcia 10/100 card probs

2000-12-04 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I just purchased a Sony Vaio notebook. Mandrake 7.2 works well with it. I do have a couple of problems with it though. I can't get sound to work. It is a ESS Maestro that doesn't work with my current kernel 2.2.17. Harddrake lists it as ES1987S. My main problem is the linksys 10/100 card. I

[expert] problems running Java applets.

2000-12-04 Thread george . jones
I had just installed MDK7.1 on my laptop las week when I d/l'ed the 7.2 iso's. I hadn't had a chance to do any work on it when I decided to wipe it clean and install 7.2. In Netscape, Everything Java worked fine. After the 7.2 install, It doesn't. Any cluse as to why? Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] 7.2 Install causes segfault

2000-12-04 Thread civileme
On Thursday 30 November 2000 21:32, you wrote: I'm using a Duron, and though CPU detection is incorrect in that it detects the CPU as an AMD Athlon, it still works fine I have no idea why it's detecting a P3 for you though, that's bizarre. Just thought i would confirm that it does work

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-04 Thread civileme
On Thursday 30 November 2000 21:39, you wrote: In my case, Winblows gets the correct amount of memory... Forcing the detection in Lilo as suggested had the impact of freezing the system, until I reverted it ... The problem is hardware related: the kernel does not see the memory, even if

RE: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread Bill Piety
Thanks for the hints all. I've used alsactl, store restore, etc. The odd thing is that I've never had alsa issues before. From the first install some months ago all has been fine. Just all of a sudden this crops up. I'll definitely try the various tips tonite. -Original Message- From:

Re: [expert] Pine

2000-12-04 Thread Gary de Montigny
Mark Weaver wrote: Wait...I'm confused here. How is it that linuxconf has changed anything? Let alone the permissions on an entire directory so that it doesn't have the proper read/write/exec permissions. All Linuxconf does/is, is an interface with which to configure the system. It's

[expert] sshd and simple networking

2000-12-04 Thread SIR admin
i'm trying to get sshd working. it's not accepting connections. :/ here is the error message i get. i have a feeling it's the way my hosts.allow/deny files are set up. can anyone give me a hand? ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host my hosts.allow file: in.sshd :

[expert] Updating RPM to Ver. 4.0

2000-12-04 Thread Animal
Hi! I have a Mandrake 7.0 box witn RPM package version 3.0.3, glibc 2.1.3and i want to updateto RPM V. 4.0 wich requiere glibc 2.2. I download glibc V.2.2 and try to install with kpackage, but i get not satisfied dependencies: rpmlib(VersionDependencies) = 3.0.3-1,

Re: [expert] problems running Java applets.

2000-12-04 Thread Greg A.Bur
You probably don't have a java runtime environment installed (jre) You can get one from http://java.sun.com/ or http://www.blackdown.org/ I myself would recommend the Sun version. Just make sure you read all of the documentation pertaining to installation before you attempt to install it.

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-12-04 Thread Ron Heron
as trying to access my smtp server (and access was apparently Nov 28 23:59:07 duck kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 63.98.105.3:8 208.xxx.xxx.xx1:0 L=60 S=0x00 I=6793 F=0x T=114 (#1) Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but this isn't a relay attempt. It´s just

[expert] Need rsh capability in Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-04 Thread David C. Hoos, Sr.
Hi, I purchased the Mandrake Complete 7.2, yesterday, and installed it today. I we\as disappointed to find that garden-variety ftp and emacs are not included in the distribution. However, I can live with gftp and xemacs(I think), but I really need rsh. I am using it on a private network, so

[expert] security problems ,,help

2000-12-04 Thread Maximo Monsalvo
I have the followen lines in the messages log files this is malicius attack ? Dec 3 23:20:15 linux inetd[17048]: connection from 200.176.106.246 Dec 3:23:35:05 linux PAM_pwdb[17124]: (su) session opened for user nobody by (uid=99) and much more = Maximo Monsalvo Guspamar S.A Responsable

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-12-04 Thread gene
At 8:25 AM -0800 12/4/00, Ron Heron wrote: as trying to access my smtp server (and access was apparently Nov 28 23:59:07 duck kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 63.98.105.3:8 208.xxx.xxx.xx1:0 L=60 S=0x00 I=6793 F=0x T=114 (#1) Someone please correct me if I am

Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs

2000-12-04 Thread Ken Thompson
On Sunday 03 December 2000 08:03 pm, you wrote: You know...if I didn't know better I'd say you both were trying to install Mandrake on Celeron processor machine with Western Digital hard drives. It's a hardware issue. You may want to look at the drives, or the chipsets on the mobo's

Re: [expert] linksys pcmcia 10/100 card probs

2000-12-04 Thread Matthew Wright
[root@mill log]# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "Linksys", "EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V2)", "V2.0", " " manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab function: 6 (network) Socket 1: no product info available I haven't had any problems with this card, I switch back and forth between static and

Re: [expert] problems running Java applets.

2000-12-04 Thread Anthony Russello
Okay, what version of glibc is included in Mandrake 7.2 and installed by default? I just downloaded the latest sdk for java since apparently i need it in order to install Star Office (keep hearing you guys talking abut it, so I figured I'd give it a go) but I don't know how to tell what version

Re: [expert] problems running Java applets.

2000-12-04 Thread Doug McGarrett
One thing about StarOffice that does not seem to be widely known: It replaces your desktop with its own. You may find that's not to your liking. Or maybe it is--if you are setting up a "general use" system for a secretary, or something, everything needed would be in one place. But I don't like

[expert] gnome pilot conduits

2000-12-04 Thread jsternesky
Title: gnome pilot conduits OK, I think I have got past my gpilotd issue, I can now connect to my visor. I uninstalled the gnome-pilot and gnome-pilot conduits. Searched the files system and removed all gpilot and gpilot conduit references. I even uninstalled pim-conduits. Downloaded the

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating

2000-12-04 Thread Tim Faehnle
Thanks for your help, Juan! It seems hard to find straightforward information like that (unless I missed something in the Mandrake docs), but I guess that's what this list is for. Linux documentation seems so spread out. But I'm learning and hopefully I'll be someone helping others on a mail

[expert] Postfix: No route to host

2000-12-04 Thread Bill Shirley
I am having a problem on my LM 7.1 server running postfix. I need another pair of eyes to help me with this. I am getting entries in the /var/log/main.info like: Dec 2 21:15:17 server1 postfix/smtp[21898]: connect to ASPIRIN.DII.utk.edu[128.169.76.123]: No route to host (port 25) Dec 2

Re: [expert] security problems ,,help

2000-12-04 Thread Matthew Micene
On Monday 04 December 2000 10:48 am, you wrote: and much more = More logs would be helpful to really determine if there was a break in, however maybe the questions below can give you a place to start looking. Dec 3 23:20:15 linux inetd[17048]: connection from 200.176.106.246 Dec 3:23:35:05

Re: [expert] problems running Java applets.

2000-12-04 Thread george . jones
Ok... just d/l'ed and installed Java2 Runtime Environment (j2re-1_3_0-linux-rpm.bin) and still cannot pull up applets... BAH!!! Maybe I need to downgrade to 7.1. "Greg A.Bur" [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 12/04/2000 10:14:47 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread Joan Tur
Hi! I think you're wrong... i've got an AC97 sound and modem card, but it isn't working under Linux -no drivers-. Model is Avance Logic (Realtek?) ALS300+ See you... praedor escribió: On Friday 01 December 2000 08:20 pm, you wrote: I had a similar motherboard and hte sound worked

Re: [expert] Postfix: No route to host

2000-12-04 Thread gene
At 12:14 PM -0500 12/4/00, Bill Shirley wrote: I am having a problem on my LM 7.1 server running postfix. I need another pair of eyes to help me with this. I am getting entries in the /var/log/main.info like: Dec 2 21:15:17 server1 postfix/smtp[21898]: connect to

Re: [expert] problems running Java applets.

2000-12-04 Thread george . jones
Ok... I tried to access my sites (sorry, they're on my companies intranet) with Konqueror in KDE2. Where the applet SHOULD load, I have an error "Java Applet is not loaded (Java interpreter disabled). How would I enable it? Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 12/04/2000

Re: [expert] Postfix: No route to host

2000-12-04 Thread Balaji Ramani
It may be possible that your ISP is blocking SMTP traffic. Some of the ISP's do that. To send mail, use their SMTP server as a relay. I think they don't want their customers to send mails directly to avoid spam. Balaji On Monday 04 December 2000 12:14, you wrote: I am having a problem on

Re: [expert] Need rsh capability in Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-04 Thread David C. Hoos, Sr.
Hi, I looked for rsh, but didn't find it. Is it in some rpm? Thanks a lot for the quick reply. - Original Message - From: "EagleIce" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 04, 2000 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Need rsh capability in Mandrake 7.2 Hi, both emacs and

Re: [expert] problems running Java applets.

2000-12-04 Thread salane
KDE Control panel web browsingKonqueror browserJava/javascript tab On Monday 04 December 2000 15:12, you wrote: Ok... I tried to access my sites (sorry, they're on my companies intranet) with Konqueror in KDE2. Where the applet SHOULD load, I have an error "Java Applet is not loaded (Java

Re: [expert] Need rsh capability in Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-04 Thread EagleIce
Hi, both emacs and rsh 'are' on the CD's. I'd never run Linux without emacs! ei On Monday 04 December 2000 17:31, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: Hi, I purchased the Mandrake Complete 7.2, yesterday, and installed it today. I we\as disappointed to find that garden-variety ftp and emacs are

Re: [expert] Networking problems(solved)

2000-12-04 Thread Kelley Terry
On Sunday 03 December 2000 03:01 pm, you wrote: 2. Where to disconnect/change user of autologin (except rpm -e) autologin is edited from drakconfiggraphics configuration. You have to work all the configuration for your display first so be careful. On my system it tries to change the

[expert] Joysticks

2000-12-04 Thread Spencer
Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] XFree86 can't start second Xwindow

2000-12-04 Thread Dave Peat
Hello and thanks in advance. Here's the situation. I had a HP PII 333 running Mandrake 7.1. I could run multiple X Window sessions for different UNIX/Linux servers from this machine by doing the following: X :1 -query server I had to get rid of that box and it was replaced with a DELL

[expert] mail as set-uid root process problem

2000-12-04 Thread praedor
If I send mail as a user, I always get this message: send-mail: warning: sendmail is set-uid root, or is run from a set-uid root process First off, I do not have sendmail installed, it is postfix, but nevertheless I would like to eliminate this problem/message. How do I do this? Who should

[expert] Setting up a mail cronjob

2000-12-04 Thread praedor
I am not terribly up on scripting and assume that for what I want to do, it will require a script. I have a DSL connection with a dynamic ip from uswest. Every couple of days my ip address changes. I would like to keep myself, no matter where I am, abreast of the ip address of my system and

Re: [expert] overwritten tar archiv on tape

2000-12-04 Thread victorgv
"Linke, Thomas" wrote: Hi, i had a big tar archive on a tape. A new small tar archiv was created and the same tape. Have anyone a idea, how I can recover the non overwritten parts on this tape. Thomas If you have DAT tape you are in trouble, actually search dejanews i remember some

[expert] Reiser,hackkernel,ext2 et al

2000-12-04 Thread bill
I forgot to save the recent thread on this subject, but it was my understanding that: 1hackernel.mdk and reiser don't mix well together? 2If using hackkernel on instll then use standard linux ext2 files. Is the above basically correct if one wishes to keep the chaos down on a test system?

RE: [expert] Postfix: No route to host

2000-12-04 Thread Bill Shirley
I solved it. I called my ISP and it seems they just started blocking port 25 to stop spammers from using their systems. I wish they had sent my a message and save me a few hours trying to figure out what I screwed up. Thanks, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [expert] Postfix: No route to host

2000-12-04 Thread Bill Shirley
Yep, you were right. They just started blocking port 25. Thanks, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Balaji Ramani Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Postfix: No route to host It may

Re: [expert] Setting up a mail cronjob

2000-12-04 Thread praedor
On Monday 04 December 2000 06:35 pm, you wrote: [...] I would like to setup a script that simply sends mail to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail account. Simply running "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wont work since it subsequently wants a "Subject:", ctrl-D to end the message, and a "Cc:". I assume I

RE: [expert] Setting up a mail cronjob

2000-12-04 Thread Bill Shirley
You might want to get a free account at www.yi.org or www.dyndns.org. From your linux box you just update their DNS when your IP address changes. Then use nslookup to find your IP address. If you opened an account with userid xxxyyy then "nslookup xxxyyy.yi.org" will show you your IP

Re: [expert] Setting up a mail cronjob

2000-12-04 Thread Andy Judge
I would use tzo.com. They offer various services beyond just ddns. It costs some, but I have only had the best service from them. You could not go wrong and they are very knowledgable in Linux and various services Andy - Original Message - From: "praedor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: [expert] mail as set-uid root process problem

2000-12-04 Thread Ran Hooper
I just set mine to nobody. Be advised that linuxconf really thinks it should be set uid root, so advise caution when using this utility. I think I read somewhere that webmin also thinks it should set uid root too, but I cannot confirm this. Regards, Ran Hooper I get paid while I'm on the

Re: [expert] Setting up a mail cronjob

2000-12-04 Thread A V Flinsch
On Monday 04 December 2000 21:42, you wrote: On Monday 04 December 2000 06:35 pm, you wrote: [...] I would like to setup a script that simply sends mail to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail account. Simply running "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wont work since it subsequently wants a "Subject:",

Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-04 Thread Stephen Boulet
No. :( Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Setting up a mail cronjob

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Cours
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, praedor wrote: I am almost there with this command: mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will produce a message with a subject of "ip update message" and add my email to the "To:" field. It does leave an empty message body and doesn't send a "ctrl-d"

Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Cours
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: No. :( Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence I just spent a few minutes going over the Mandrake site and couldn't find any mention of a joystick under the "Features" section. A search of Mandrake Forum for

Re: [expert] edit PATH environment

2000-12-04 Thread Tom Berkley
put the command in the .kshrc file in your home directory or better edit the path command in the .bash_profile in your home directory to include the /usr/local pathname. tb praedor wrote: On Sunday 03 December 2000 07:13 pm, you wrote: You can do this by issuing this command:

[expert] imap on Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-04 Thread Amit Bapat
This may sound stupid. But it is happening. I have installed Mandrake 7.2 with High Security Setting. I edited /etc/xinetd.d/imap file to change the line disable = yes to disable = no and then restarted xinetd with /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd reload. Now when I use netstat I see that xinetd is

[expert] Supermount

2000-12-04 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
After trying to get supermount up and running for two days I've gotten this far: - compiled and installed 2.4.0-test11 with the supermount patch - modified /etc/fstab with 'supermount -i enable* After this I ran this command 'mount -t supermount -o fs=iso9660 dev=/dev/scd0,--, /mnt/dvdrom/'

[expert] Supermount

2000-12-04 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
Downloaded 2.4.0-test11 and the supermount patch, compiled and installed everything, just one problem. I ran 'supermount -i enable' to modify /etc/fstab, this worked perfectly, but I'm having problems understanding how exactly to use it. When I ran the mdk kernel before (the first 30 minutes