Re: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-19 Thread Ron Marriage
Hi Angela, I'll put my 2 cents in also. I run linux Mandrake 8.0 I run it at home on a home network with a mix of other mandrake and one windows machine. Installation and setup are terrific. Everything is recognized and I don't spend days trying to get sound, printer, or video to work. It

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] free news group servers

2001-07-19 Thread Bob Y
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:52:20 +0300 (EET DST) Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find lists of open news servers at http://www.newzbot.com huh? I wasnt aware that someone was giving NNTP feed for free on the net. Is anyone aware of anywhere giving a full feed for free?

[expert] NTFS -- Thanks, everyone!

2001-07-19 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My thanks to everyone who wrote in concerning the question of NTFS vs. VFAT in Win2000 for my dual-boot LM 8.0/Windows2000 system. Since I do little sharing of files between Linux and Windows, I selected NTFS as my file system for Win2000. Everyone seems to admit that it is

Re: [expert] misuse of rpm -q ??

2001-07-19 Thread J.P.Pasnak
On July 19, 2001 02:28 am, Abraham Mandac wrote: I just recently built libIDL from source (libIDL is one of the libraries required to be able to build mozilla). snip $ rpm -q libIDL invokes this message: package libIDL is not installed No 'rpm -i', no entry in the RPM database, equals

[expert] Telnet Links in Mozilla Galeon - How To Fix?

2001-07-19 Thread Sevatio
Netscape will activate xterm when you click a telnet hyperlink but Mozilla Galeon will just say that it's not recognized. How do you get Mozilla and Galeon to recognize Telnet Links on webpages? Thanks, Sevatio

[expert] gcc and libstdc++

2001-07-19 Thread Abraham Mandac
I need to rebuild my gcc. Apparently, it isn't working well. On an attempt to build mozilla, running the configure script returned an error message that said something was wrong with the g++ component. The version of gcc I have right now is 2.95.2 . It says on the gcc web site that the latest

[expert] glibc-2.2.2 with gcc-3.0

2001-07-19 Thread Gregor Maier
I compiled and installed the gcc-3.0 src rpm from the cooker (this took some time due to the LOCALE problem). I installed all generated gcc-3.0 rpms Then I tried to recompile the glibc-2.2.2 src.rpm (the one from the LM 8.0 release). It worked fine. When I tried to update (--upgrade) it I

Re: [expert] misuse of rpm -q ??

2001-07-19 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 19 July 2001 02:28, Abraham Mandac wrote: I'm assuming that 'rpm -q' doesn't work in this case because rpm was never involved in the build process. But I'd like to be absolutely sure. What do you guys think? That's the reason, if it isn't in the rpm database, then rpm -q can't

Re: [expert] please help with compile fault on rpm source

2001-07-19 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 19 July 2001 01:15, Expert wrote: ./transport.c ./transport.c:203:21: nanoftp.h: No such file or directory ./transport.c:204:22: nanohttp.h: No such file or directory ./transport.c: In function `initializeTransport': ./transport.c:210: warning: implicit declaration of function

Re: [expert] mdk 8.0 on a laptop

2001-07-19 Thread Al Baker
I had Mandrake 8 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 (256 ram, GForce2 chip, DVD, etc). You'll probably have a few gotchas: - Nvidia drivers (obviously), search mandrakeforum.com for Nvidia, I wrote the instructions for setting it up (specifically for the Go chip on this laptop) - Sound (for some reason if

Re: [expert] linux/unix administrator

2001-07-19 Thread Ron Marriage
I use the man pages all the time. Even those things I do often, I tend to make into alias or scripts, so have to refer back to man pages and other reference sources sometimes even for those. If I had to keep all the posssible switches, possible combinations for all the commands in my head, well,

[expert] vmware and virtual samba

2001-07-19 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, installed host os: Mandrake 8.0 installed vmware: eval version of Vmware Workstation Installation of vmware was easy as a pie, also the following installation of the guest os: WIndows98. The very last reason for Windows on my pc is gone now: I can access my digital camera through the

[expert] Autodial on Linux

2001-07-19 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Hi all. I am with a little trouble to make a application in perl. I must do a dial on demand script in perl , with intelli gence to alter the number, login, password, etc... on the fly, with out using any GUI, must be a script. Well, I didn't see any module o

Re: [expert] linux/unix administrator

2001-07-19 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Speaking of Linux Administrator. Is there anyway to get a position as an entry/mid level position as a Linux Admin. I would love a position like that. On Thursday 19 July 2001 21:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Although i am a Windows NT/2000 Administrator but i have learn quiet a few

Re: [expert] linux/unix administrator

2001-07-19 Thread John LeMay
On Friday 20 July 2001 00:57, you wrote: Well Although i am a Windows NT/2000 Administrator but i have learn quiet a few skill of Unix/linux administration .. And learning day by day ... now all i want to know that as a unix admin is it my respinsibility to know all the command switches all

[expert] kde control panel

2001-07-19 Thread David M.Kufta
I'm running a LM-8.0 install and after using kde for a week or so I seem to have lost all entries in the control panel. I remembered to use kbuildsyscoca and make-menus -v, however I still have a blank control-panel. I saw threads on this problem with 7.2 installs but nothing for 8.0 All

[expert] PLZ help, probs after kernel update

2001-07-19 Thread Andreas Müller
Hallo all, I've updated my kernel from 2.2.17 2.2.19 with Mandrake's update software. Unfortunatly this did not work the way it should. After rebooting in my logs I've found an entry saying kernel 2.2.17, even with the newer kernel being installed. Then lots of modprobe errors, the modules from

Re: [expert] Alacatel Speed Touch USB installation

2001-07-19 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-19 17:45 * Incoming subspace signal from lqlee [EMAIL PROTECTED] : All, Now I try to install Alacatel Speed Touch USB on Redhat 7.1. kernel is 2.4.6. but it is very difficult to install step by step according to the manual, does any professional person make a package ,

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-19 Thread Brandon Caudle
- Original Message - From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:45 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 July 2001 23:43, Expert wrote: One must

[expert] Still no luck with bind 9 src rpm

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Woods
Greetings, (Speaking of Unix SA, I have found patience and perseverence to be quintessential skills that have saved my ass a time or two.) Thanks Jose S., A.V. Flinsch, Civilemen, and Joan T. for info on the patch program. I installed LMDK7.2 as a server, and consequently did not pick up

Re: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-19 Thread ninjaz
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Brandon Caudle wrote: - Original Message - From: Peter Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brandon Caudle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [expert] linux distribution Dear Brandon Caudle Sorry I don't catch your meaning

[expert] Email attack?

2001-07-19 Thread Nima S. Panahi
I recieved this email at my server for panahi.com. It was sent by server outside of panahi.com, but labeled as if it was from our domain to our domain. It seems to be an attack but I cannot figure out an attack on what. Should I be worried , should I check other logs..? Please help if you know. I

RE: [expert] Email attack?

2001-07-19 Thread Angus Beath
It looks a bit like a buffer overflow exploit, I'm not sure which one though. Perhaps if you go to www.securityfocus.com and have a look at some of their info on this stuff it might give you a better idea. I'm on the vulnerabilities-development list but I haven't seen this particular one. Good

[expert] Installing 2.2.1a over LM 2.2.19 and Samba 2.09

2001-07-19 Thread root
Is there any graceful way to install Samba 2.2.1a over Mandrake 7.2 with 2.2.19 kernel and Samba 2.09? I get a glibc dependency problem. The following is the output I get from an attempted glibc install to satisfy the samba 2.2.1a dependency requirements. I got glibc-2.2.3-2 from cooker. Is this

[expert] UPS, PowerChute or NUT

2001-07-19 Thread mick tooher
Hi All, I was wondering if anybody out there has got the APC Back-UPS up and running under mandrake. I tried the red-hat rpms of PowerChute (available from the www.apcc.com) and they loaded nicely in Mandrake 8.0. However the soltware could not communicate with he serial-input port /dev/ttyS0. I

Re: [expert] Remote shutdown for a windows and unix environment

2001-07-19 Thread jherazo
Ok. My take on this is yes, a perl script. About the identities of the hosts, depending on how you have organized the network you could use either a name lookup (someserver is windows, someother is unix), identification from /etc/hosts by ip, or in any other case you could use queso to identify

Re: [expert] vmware and virtual samba

2001-07-19 Thread Philipp Hellmich
Hallo! When you say Allow Acces to the hostfile systeme (in the vmware-config prog) , vmware configure samba automaticly, but be sure taht the normal samba service is disabeld! But from my own experience I can say, that this feature is not working very well, I had serveral problems with ist,

[expert] linux/unix administrator

2001-07-19 Thread fasi_74
Well Although i am a Windows NT/2000 Administrator but i have learn quiet a few skill of Unix/linux administration .. And learning day by day ... now all i want to know that as a unix admin is it my respinsibility to know all the command switches all the time can i get help from a manual book or

Re: [expert] mdk 8.0 on a laptop

2001-07-19 Thread Glen Sagers
No experience with this laptop, but a couple of generic Mdk8 on laptop things http://www.linux-laptop.net/ not mandrake specific, but a really good resource for gotchas, workarounds, etc, by laptop model. NTFS 5 read does work, at least on my desktop. (don't dare try write!) Partition

[expert] misuse of rpm -q ??

2001-07-19 Thread Abraham Mandac
I just recently built libIDL from source (libIDL is one of the libraries required to be able to build mozilla). Apparently, all went well; 'make install' placed the library files exactly where the documentation said it would put them. We all use 'rpm -q' to check the version of installed

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 July 2001 23:43, Expert wrote: One must remember, age is irrelevant, one's own skill level and handicap (if applicable) is what is to be considered. Besides, why use a tarball, if you can get an RPM? If you don't want to use the

Re: [expert] mdk 8.0 on a laptop

2001-07-19 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 22:29, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am looking at a gettting Dell Inspiration 4000 or 8000 laptop (which ...). Only extras are 256M memory and cdrw. Has anyone installed mdk 8.0 on a similar beast, and how successful. It will have to live with win2000, at least

Re: [expert] who would like to explain?

2001-07-19 Thread jarmo
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 22:00, you wrote: Stop compiling/recompiling. Leave it strictly alone, it is not required. If you are still new to linux the only excuse you have for trying to compile a kernel is to support some piece of hardware, or some service that is not in the ready made

Re: [expert] who would like to explain?

2001-07-19 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 13:11 +0300, jarmo wrote: Yes Good point of view... But My point is...Why drive with overloaded truck or why try fit 6 inch shit into 2 inch pot? Point in LM 8.0 (and most modern Linux distros) is: during installation it looks what size the truck is and what needs it

Re: [expert] linux/unix administrator

2001-07-19 Thread civileme
On Friday 20 July 2001 04:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Although i am a Windows NT/2000 Administrator but i have learn quiet a few skill of Unix/linux administration .. And learning day by day ... now all i want to know that as a unix admin is it my respinsibility to know all the command

Re: [expert] linux/unix administrator

2001-07-19 Thread M. Osten
On Friday 20 July 2001 04:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Although i am a Windows NT/2000 Administrator but i have learn quiet a few skill of Unix/linux administration .. And learning day by day ... now all i want to know that as a unix admin is it my respinsibility to know all the

Re: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-19 Thread Brandon Caudle
- Original Message - From: Peter Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brandon Caudle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [expert] linux distribution Dear Brandon Caudle Sorry I don't catch your meaning You mean you now use Debian or Freebsd? Which one good

Re: [expert] Autodial on Linux

2001-07-19 Thread jherazo
* Leonardo T. de Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all. I am with a little trouble to make a application in perl. I must do a dial on demand script in perl , with intelli gence to alter the number, login, password, etc... on the fly, with out using any GUI, must

[expert] Next Freq release

2001-07-19 Thread Steve Ackerman
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Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Jul 18, 2001, David Rankin wrote: Who's Building the Samba 2.2.1a RPM for Mandrake? Samba.org and rpmfind.net still have 2.2.0. And depressingly enough, the 2.2.0 rpm is built for i686. I'm not adverse to building my own from the SRPM, but if someone is going to the trouble to

[expert] simple vu-meter for linux

2001-07-19 Thread joy winter
hi all, im searching for a simple vu-meter for the line-input of my soundcard. does anyone heard about a small tool for this, or a project going on to develop something like this?? any hint apriciated g. z. ---===/\/ * pingfm.org - webcastin every sunday * 20:00-21:00 CET at dfm

Re: [expert] simple vu-meter for linux

2001-07-19 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
Look for the Xoscope package (I think it's included in LM). it is a small osciloscope that uses your sound card... joy winter wrote: hi all, im searching for a simple vu-meter for the line-input of my soundcard. does anyone heard about a small tool for this, or a project going on to

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Leone
From: Brandon Caudle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake? Come on, I'm a 15 year old kid here who just installed 2.2.1 from the gz file, your on the expert list why need rpm? you can customize the package. To keep your RPM database of installed