Hi, all.
I'm having a problem, and I think it's with slocate. Every so often, my hard
drive will go nuts and just start grinding uncontrollably, taking up all my
system resources and forcing a hard shutdown (with the attendant problem of
fsck having to fix everything on boot-up). Is there
How do I make it so that all of the users on my box start up with the bash
shell? What happened to the user configuration that was part of the Control
Center?
-- STephen
Dear friends:
WARNING: TRY ONLY AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
The subject of using raw disks, that is, real disks, in VMware has been
raised on our list a number of times, including by myself. The detailed
information is readily available in detail from VMware's Help menu.
I clicked on Help in VMware.
On Mon, 28 May 2001 09:43, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Chris Spackman wrote:
On my machine, it is postfix. Make sure it is running. The only change i
had to make was to get roots mail delivered to my normal account. That
was an option in one of the postfix config file
On Mon, 28 May 2001 01:32:42 -0400
Brian Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having a problem, and I think it's with slocate. Every so
often, my hard
drive will go nuts and just start grinding uncontrollably, taking up
all my
system resources and forcing a hard shutdown (with the
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Andrew George wrote:
can also put in in /etc/postfix/aliases.
Or /etc/aliases (they are symlinked)
for postfix don't forget to run postailias /etc/postfix/aliases to that the
changes make it into the hash tables postfix uses
or, for the sendmail expatriates:
Hi.
I have problems with fonts in LM 8.0. It looks horrible.
You can see the example I put at http://www.ua.es/personal/oscar/fuentes/
I'm following discussion about this problem at www.mandrakeforum.com and
www.mandrakeuser.org
This is my solution, but It's not complete, It's only first aids:
-
Hallo,
I'm using LM 7.2 with sendmail-8.11.0-3mdk and procmail-3.14-3mdk. Now I just
want some mails being forwarded from one user to an other.
I created a .procmailrc file but the mails won't be forwarded. I get the
following errors in the logs:
procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile
Hi,
I've been able to run the memory test so far (Memtest86 - I downloaded it
from the Net, since I couldn't see it in my images directory); just one
cycle of all the tests - no errors. I'll probably leave it running
overnight sometime to see how that goes. As for the changing the drive - I
I've seen something similar to this before. It happened when I didn't use the
-J option on mkisofs.
Usually when I want to burn a cd of a directory, I just do:
mkisofs -r -J /path/to/where/data/is | cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -
-- Stephen
On Sunday 27 May 2001 10:24 am, rob wrote:
On Sun May 27, 2001 at 12:21:08PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote:
This is driving me mad! (OK, not really, it is just a frickin' game) I have
heretic2 from Loki. I also have M8.0 installed on my Athlon 700 system.
Under 7.2, same system, I could play heretic2 without problems - WITH
Will Woods wrote:
Hi,
I have just done a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 after having used 7.2
with no problems for some time. I am trying to install two different
I have this problem with perl and Oracle 8i...
When I upgraded my glibc2.2, all gone fine...
Good
To all who offered suggestions and help I say Thank You very much.
It appears that disabling Aurora has solved my boot problem. Thank you
again.
--
David Boles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ABD0
I am running three hard drives, with linux raid level 0 being used for a
three partition raid. The one hard drive has a partition of 6gig for a
windows install, and another partition that is part of the raid. What i want
to know is it a bad idea to try to install windows 2000 into the 6gig
Hello
Has anyone been able to get an intel web cam to work?
Thanks, Mike
Although I can't give instant directions on how to solve the problem, I
assumed that the slocate database was being updated -- I guess I assumed
that every so often was like once a day. (And Mandrake (7.2) includes a
script in run-parts to update the slocate database once a day.
I plan to find
On Monday 28 May 2001 12:57 pm, you wrote:
I've had a Create and Share for a couple of monts (USB) that I still haven't
gotten to work. I don't know if it's possible...
Hello
Has anyone been able to get an intel web cam to work?
Thanks, Mike
I used to be able to modify and compile a working kernel.
Using L-M 8.0 and previous versions
BEFORE with an AMD K6-2 500 with 192 Megs od PC100 Memory - modify the
kernel to use this CPU and change a few settings. Compile and install. No
problems.
BEFORE with an AMD Duron 750 upgrade, with
On Monday 28 May 2001 12:45 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
Although I can't give instant directions on how to solve the problem, I
assumed that the slocate database was being updated -- I guess I assumed
that every so often was like once a day. (And Mandrake (7.2) includes a
script in run-parts to
OK... several problems:
0. not sure if your sources are this way too; but both files I got contained
^Ms as though the files originated in a DOS system. I've attached my winfix
script to fix files that come from DOS-based systems. BTW, this is one of those
very subtle reasons why you can get
Little more information?
What window manager, what user are you running it as,
do you have any plugins installed?
I run pure enlightenment, with only the perl plugins
that come with LM8.0. I also run under a standard
user as opposed root... no problems.
Al
--- Darrell Scott [EMAIL
On my machine (LM 7.2), slocate is executed via a script called
/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron - I like having it run every day, because I
am always looking for some file or another, deleting files, adding
files, etc. I get frustrated when a file I *know* is there doesn't show
up when I do a locate
I just installed Mandrake 8.0 on machine that will act as a server for an
internal network (using the 192.168 range of addresses). I have dhcp working
so when my clients boot up they get an ip assigned by the server. I would
like to set up dns internally so as each client can be located by
Last time I checked, there was NO USB driver for the Intel Create and Share
(see http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/).
Intel won't release specs, which makes life difficult. Shame, because it's
a great little webcam.
Darrell
From: Brian Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I found some strange things after I installed 8.0
If I check permissions for audio, they are like this:
lrwxrwxrwx1 root audio 6 May 22 19:16 /dev/audio - audio0
crw---1 lsarang audio 14, 4 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/audio0
Is this really correct? From how I understand
Wich version of rpm do you have?
[root@dors archives]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/librpm.so.0
rpm-4.0-26mdk
On Wed, 23 May 2001 12:01:04 -0700, Julia A. Case said:
When I try to run drakupdatesetup I get the following error
drakupdatesetup: error while loading shared libraries:
i've updated the artsd shipping with lm 8.0 with the security update
rpms (arts, libarts). now, when i use xmms with the arts output plugin
and play a wav with artsplay (from within licq), artsd will crash. when
started from a terminal its outpud reads:
[artsd] ** Warning ** MCOP ObjectManager:
It was replaced by xinetd, (/etc/xinetd.conf)
Al
--- Bill Beauchemin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What Happened to the /etc/inetd.conf file in LM8.0?
I went to edit it to
install Qpopper after setting up LM8.0 for the first
time and no can
find.
I finally gave up on cooker (for now). Did a clean install of 8.0
and it seems to work pretty well. I was going through uninstalling
packages I don't use (using Software Manager), and I noticed something
kind of odd. I had done an upgrade of a dozen or so packages that were
newer than what
here's what i've tried so far (unsuccessfully):
1. cooker/xfs/4.0.3 blank screen with some garbage at top.
2. cooker/xfs/3.3.6 same.
3. red hat 7.1/xfs (i know) Server freezes or crashes.
4. mandrake 8.0/4.0.3 Server freezes or crashes.
I'm downloading the
Greetings all:
I am getting the following error when I try to start INND by typing service
innd start
Starting INND system: sh: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: Permission denied
My system is running Linux Mandrake 8.0 with all updates applied up to
today. I originally un-installed INN and
What's the best way to set up a dual boot system
between Win2000 Pro LM 8? I've used Boot Magic with LILO on the Linux
partition and just LILO before. I'm worried about interference with the
Win2000/NT bootloader? What are my options? Thanks.
Jason
On Monday 28 May 2001 09:06 pm, kiktajm wrote:
Jason,
I have Win2K and LM8 on my system. It's really easy, as long as you install
Windows first, *then* Mandrake. Mandrake will detect your Windows partition
and create an entry for it in Lilo. Lilo preempts the Windows bootloader, so
you
Hi.
Has anybody been able to get spanish, french, portuguese or whatever language
accents in aterm with MDK 8.0? I am trying to configure portuguese
accenting in it but haven't succeeded. Whereas accenting works perfectly
in konsole and xterm, there've been no way to do the same with either
fyi, I've managed to isolate and fix my GIMP problem!
When The GIMP starts for the first time (after the initial setup dialogs), a
number of windows appear: Layers, Toolbox, etc. I simply closed all of them
bar the toolbox, created a new image, and then experienced my problem.
If I leave the
well, i'm stumped. tried a non-kde WM (icewm). no difference (e.g. the same
blank console window with colored crap along the top). i'd love to know why
this worked in 7.2 - if it's just an older (but more stable?) X server, i'd
cheerfully downgrade :(
xscreensaver is different from KDE's screensaver!
FOR KDE'S SCREENSAVER
=
Make sure you're NOT running xscreensaver! A quick ps -A | grep
xscreensaver can verify that.
Set the screensaver on via the KDE control center (LookNFeel-Screensaver).
FOR XSCREENSAVER
Dear friends:
Looks like I was wrong. KDE's screensaver does work but only when set to 3 or
so minutes. I UNinstalled xscreensaver (rpm -e xscreensaver) and configured
KDE's screensaver (Control Panel, Look Feel). I set it for 3 minutes to
test it. The screensaver came up perfectly after
Dear Gary:
Thanks so much for telling me (and us) about the KDE Control Center,
PowerControl, Energy feature and its effect on KDE's screensaver. I unchecked
the Energy display feature and hope that this time KDE's screensaver works
the way it should and every time.
Thanks so much again.
Dear hoyem,
somehow I am unable to get software manager working for me.
I did as you have said.
I have deleted the CD1 and CD2 from the source list, which
were there earlier ...
how to get them back...I tried all the possible ways...
If I select http, and click update
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