[expert-it] Korn shell programming

2001-07-31 Thread MILITE Alessandro
Title: Korn shell programming Salve Siccome ho installato l'ultima versione di linux Mandrake, volevo sapere se e come, è possibile attivare la Korn shell per poter imparare a lavorare con questo tipo di linguaggio. Saluti a tutti Alex p.s (scusate per la banale domanda ma sono un

Re: [expert-it] Korn shell programming

2001-07-31 Thread BanaSouKi
MILITE Alessandro wrote: Salve Siccome ho installato l'ultima versione di linux Mandrake, volevo sapere se e come, è possibile attivare la Korn shell per poter imparare a lavorare con questo tipo di linguaggio. Saluti a tutti Alex p.s (scusate per la banale domanda ma sono un

Re: [expert-it] Fwd: Spostamento directory

2001-07-31 Thread max
Il 12:28, lunedì 30 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Il 23:48, lunedì 30 luglio 2001, scrivesti: Salve, ho installato win4lin 3 e la partizione linux è diventata piùttosto affollata, vorrei spostare tutta la directory home in un'altra partizione ext2 che ho già creato. Mi chiede se è

Re: [expert-it] Fwd: Spostamento directory

2001-07-31 Thread Fabio Coatti
Il 18:06, martedì 31 luglio 2001, scrivesti: Ho trovato un esempio perfettamente calzante ma con la dir /usr nel manuale di riferimento di mandrake, credo che con /home le cose non dovrebbero cambiare. Mr. mandrake suggerisce di copiare dentro la nuova partizione tutta la dir con il

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 FREQ and VMware, Mozilla etc.

2001-07-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Brian Schroeder wrote: From: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 FREQ and VMware, Mozilla etc. Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:56:45 +0300 (IDT) On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Brian Schroeder

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-07-31 Thread Jay DeKing
To allow users other than root to shut down the computer safely: 1. Start up the userconf utility (you will need the root password) 2. Select user accounts 3. Select the user to whom you wish to grant the ability to shut down. 4. Under the Privileges tab, activate the Granted button next to the

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-07-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jay DeKing wrote: To allow users other than root to shut down the computer safely: 1. Start up the userconf utility (you will need the root password) 2. Select user accounts 3. Select the user to whom you wish to grant the ability to shut down. 4. Under the Privileges

[expert] Cannot compile imap-2000c from source on LM8.0??

2001-07-31 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Has anyone else had this problem? I am using LM8.0 and imap-2000c will not compile from source. I am wanting to use Apache ToolBox to compile everything for me but it keeps failing on the imap-2000c package. So I tried to install it by hand and iget the same error make[3]:***[osdep.0] Error 1

Re: [expert] Can you believe it?

2001-07-31 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Jul 20, 2001, Craig Woods wrote: Still hacking away at rebuilding the bind 9 src file, I have added openssl-devel, libxml, libxml-devel, numerous updates, and a parser named byacc, and now I am closer than ever. This is what I now get at the end of a very long compile

Re: [expert] CD Writing and the Via 686b southbridge

2001-07-31 Thread Nima S. Panahi
Well, I have actually bin hit quite a bit of times with the bug. I treid many things and could not get the corruption to stop. I finally gave up when it became clear it was a chipset thing. However, no problems with CDRW, only when I am doing large transfers between these two drives. So , it is

[expert] OT....Any Nessus user out there...help

2001-07-31 Thread Gavin
I just installed Nessus on my system ML 8.0, My security is set to medium and I'm behind tiny firewall. everytime I try to start nessus I get the message: Authentication failed or Can't connect to host I downloaded the rpm's and rebooted the system, nessusd was running but still till this

[expert] auto dailer for mdk8.0 with isdn

2001-07-31 Thread Oren Gozlan
hi, i'm looking for isdn dailer that can detect disconections and redail... anyone ??? -- - Oren Gozlan Mobixell Networks Inc. p: +972 9 776 0121 f: + 972 9 740 7373 c: +972 54 536 047 www.mobixell.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[expert] Logging uptime

2001-07-31 Thread Mads Rasmussen
I would like to log the uptime of our systems, just I cannot see into the future to expect when a system crashes so an aproach that logs, like 1 time per hour should do it. I guess you could run a crontab script that just cat's the uptime output into /var/log/uptime This however will be

Re: [expert] bug in gettext support of php rpm?

2001-07-31 Thread Jan Dittberner
Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Jul 31, 2001 at 06:53:55PM +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote: I just tried to use the gettext support in php, but this seems to be broken in the Mandrake 8.0 package. An strace of php running my test script gave this: lstat64(/var/www/locale,

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Franki wrote: I can report that the postfix snapsnot I got off the site works great with 7.2 only thing is you have to install it with --nodeps (it complains about db3, but the specfile is tellin it to use glibc-devel anyway, so it works great, its now going onto a couple of my boxes,

RE: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-31 Thread Franki
This is the URL I got them from... Its a member of this list very kind he is too, saved me alot of dicking around.. http://webspinners.uwf.org/~mviron/mdk72/SRPMS/ rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. C. Woods Sent:

[expert] Stupid mail question

2001-07-31 Thread Wayne Stout
Greetings, everyone. I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but here goes. If I want to use fetchmail/procmail for message retrieval and filtering, do I also have to use Sendmail or postfix? I want to keep using my isp's mail server for sending, but all the talk I've seen on various lists

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Franki wrote: This is the URL I got them from... Its a member of this list very kind he is too, saved me alot of dicking around.. http://webspinners.uwf.org/~mviron/mdk72/SRPMS/ rgds Frank Yes, Michael has been a tremendous help to us. His new samba-2.2.1a src rpm worked

Re: [expert] Stupid mail question

2001-07-31 Thread Rusty Carruth
Wayne Stout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, everyone. I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but here goes. If I want to use fetchmail/procmail for message retrieval and filtering, do I also have to use Sendmail or postfix? Not unless you want to also receive mail on your

Re: [expert] Logging uptime

2001-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mads, If you have python 2.1, look at uptime.py at .http://ronandheather.dhs.org/html/python.html When run in daemon mode, every 10 seconds, it updates a data file, and in client mode, it dumps the data file in one of 2 readable modes

[expert] TVGuide javascript pop-up window fails

2001-07-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I am having a javascript problem when using Galeon/Mozilla on the TVGuide online page. Java and Javascript are enabled in the Settings menu and Java works fine everywhere else. For some reason, the pop-up window with program details that's supposed to appear when clicking on a

[expert] LM8.0-Freq and iptables

2001-07-31 Thread Daniel Woods
Has anyone installed LM 8.0-Freq (June 20), and is using its' 2.4.5 kernel with iptables for firewalling and MASQ'ing ? # iptables -L iptables v1.2.1: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong version Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. # rpm -qa | grep

Re: [expert] Cannot Compile using gcc-2.96: Header Problems

2001-07-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Arnab_Ganguly wrote: snapshot1.png Please avoid using snapshots of terminals 1. they take up a lot of space (that image was 49kb, compared to around 1kb of text) 2. I can't copy text from there to use it to search in places What you should do is to mark the text in the

RE: [expert] WindowMaker wierdness

2001-07-31 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Is your system swapping to the hard drive when this happens? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] WindowMaker wierdness I've noticed the

Re: [expert] WindowMaker wierdness

2001-07-31 Thread etharp
are you running dns? are you on a dial up? are you connected to the internet (or a dns server) when this happens? On Tuesday 31 July 2001 18:53, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Is your system swapping to the hard drive when this happens? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-07-31 Thread Darcy Brodie
Thanks for all the suggestions. I did finally set the halt and shutdown commands to UID root, and that has solved my problems. Darcy Jay DeKing wrote: To allow users other than root to shut down the computer safely: 1. Start up the userconf utility (you will need the root password) 2.

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-07-31 Thread Jay DeKing
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 h:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jay DeKing wrote: To allow users other than root to shut down the computer safely: 1. Start up the userconf utility (you will need the root password) 2. Select user accounts 3. Select the user to whom you wish to

Re: [expert] wallpaper?!?! Here's the link.

2001-07-31 Thread Hoyt
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 10:44 pm, Jaime Herazo B . methodically organized electrons to state: * Ron Stodden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Huh? Why?When you already have it! Erm, no. He's got a point. He's refering to the background that's shown on the snapshot, not to the snapshot

Re: [expert] Logging uptime

2001-07-31 Thread Jaime Herazo B .
* Mads Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Any other approaches? I've used uptimed in the past, and worked fine. http://cx.capsi.com/code-uptimed.html --- Jaime Herazo Barrios/\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ

Re: [expert] wallpaper?!?! Here's the link.

2001-07-31 Thread Jaime Herazo B .
* Hoyt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Everyone is so lazy. Here's the link. What's wrong with being lazy? lazy people invented perl and are the best sysadmins! :) Anyway, i was not looking for it, i prefer Anime backgrounds :) --- Jaime Herazo Barrios

[expert] Re: UTC Time Standards

2001-07-31 Thread SoloCDM
James C. Gibbs stated the following: try ZONE=MST7MDT I discovered that some program in LM8.0 didn't create /etc/localtime; instead, it copied the entire /usr/share/zoneinfo directory and sub-directories to /etc and renamed zoneinfo to localtime. After removing /etc/localtime (zoneinfo) and

Re: [expert] Stupid mail question

2001-07-31 Thread Jaime Herazo B .
* Wayne Stout ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, everyone. I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but here goes. If I want to use fetchmail/procmail for message retrieval and filtering, do I also have to use Sendmail or postfix? I want to keep using my isp's mail server for

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 FREQ and VMware, Mozilla etc.

2001-07-31 Thread Brian Schroeder
I had actually read that, but assumed it was specifically for an SMP kernel. I have since tried booting into 2.2.19 and 2.2.17 (my old 7.2 kernel) - with the same error! However, following your recommendation, I started looking back through the mailing list archives. I found a suggestion that

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-07-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Darcy Brodie wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. I did finally set the halt and shutdown commands to UID root, and that has solved my problems. I believe that you are over-trusting your local users. 'halt' and 'shutdown' have a couple of dangerous switches (halt -f,

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-07-31 Thread Darcy Brodie
The problem with telling the users to use the ctrl-alt-del method is that these same non-computer-technical users also use some windows and DOS machines at this time. If I start telling them to use the ctrl-alt-del to shut down the computer, that would start a MAJOR problem, as they would start

RE: [expert] wallpaper?!?! Here's the link.

2001-07-31 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Ssshhh... Don't say that too loud you may hurt some fragile sensibilities here! -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hoyt Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:57 PM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: Re: [expert] wallpaper?!?! Here's the link.

RE: [expert] Cannot Compile using gcc-2.96: Header Problems

2001-07-31 Thread Arnab_Ganguly
Thanks, I realize that and best of all I have managed to solve the problem. The Mandrake 8 CD from Linux Central came with a corrupt glibc-devel. I just installed glibc-devel again and my problem is solved, compilation is done! Arnab -- From: Tzafrir Cohen[SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: [expert] Make new (https) certificate (using SNF)

2001-07-31 Thread Kurki, Juhani ActeFI
Hi, Go to www.openssl.org and there to contribution page and grab the ssl.ca-0.1.tar.gz package, (http://www.openssl.org/contrib/ssl.ca-0.1.tar.gz) read README file and make your certificate. It's fairly easy with this kit. Best rgds Juhani From: Darren Wyn Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

[expert] wallpaper?!?! READ PLZ!

2001-07-31 Thread Dennis Kalpedis
i saw a wallpaper in a screenshot on the mandrake page it is http://www.linux-mandrake.com/screenshots/traktopel12.jpg and i was wondering whoever has that backround could you send it to me? i would really appreciate it thanx in advance TazgodX ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: [expert] wallpaper?!?! READ PLZ!

2001-07-31 Thread Jaime Herazo B .
* Ron Stodden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Huh? Why?When you already have it! Erm, no. He's got a point. He's refering to the background that's shown on the snapshot, not to the snapshot itself. The snapshot probably has a lower resolution than the original, has some windows in front of

Re: [expert] bug in gettext support of php rpm?

2001-07-31 Thread Paul Cox
On Sunday, Jul 22, 2001, Jan Dittberner wrote: I just tried to use the gettext support in php, but this seems to be broken in the Mandrake 8.0 package. An strace of php running my test script gave this: lstat64(/var/www/locale, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fstat64(1,

Re: [expert] bug in gettext support of php rpm?

2001-07-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jul 31, 2001 at 06:53:55PM +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote: I just tried to use the gettext support in php, but this seems to be broken in the Mandrake 8.0 package. An strace of php running my test script gave this: lstat64(/var/www/locale, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,

Re: [expert] wallpaper?!?! READ PLZ!

2001-07-31 Thread Clovis Sena
hi, I believe that it is using window maker themes, so you could check at http://www.themes.org where you find a lot more of window maker themes. thanks. Clovis. At 22:07 31/07/01 +1000, you wrote: Dennis Kalpedis wrote: i saw a wallpaper in a screenshot on the mandrake page it is

RE: [expert] update evolution in mdk 8.0

2001-07-31 Thread Clovis Sena
wow, thats a lot of things. I think gonna let it to try this weekend. thanks a lot. clovis At 09:22 31/07/01 -0700, Curtis H wrote: Hi Clovis, It took me a few days to get all the dependencies figured out, but I got it running. I thought I'd try and upgrade both evolution to 0.11 and

[expert] WindowMaker wierdness

2001-07-31 Thread george . jones
I've noticed the same thing in LM 7.2 and 8. Every now and then, WindowMaker stops responding to the keyboard. After about a minute, it will respond again. Anyone know why? --- This message (including any attachments) is

[expert] MDK 8.0: 'who' not showing X11 users

2001-07-31 Thread Thorsten Gecks
why is the command 'who' or 'w' not showing any X11 users ? I was used to get them displayed in previous versions. ciao Thorsten Gecks

Re: [expert] bug in gettext support of php rpm?

2001-07-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jul 31, 2001 at 09:41:27PM +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote: [...] Can you do me a favour and try the php-4.0.6 rpms I built and put on www.rpmhelp.net? They seem to work fine over here, but I'm only using gettext() on my workstation at the moment which is running 4.0.6 (have not yet

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 FREQ and VMware, Mozilla etc.

2001-07-31 Thread Pete Jordan
Brian Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This version of vmware is supposed to support Mandrake 8 and the 2.4 kernel. But is that 2.4.3 only? Is there a problem with the 2.4.5 that comes with FREQ? Your problem is with vmnet which is a kernel module - I would not be at all surprised if

[expert] [Urgent] New kernel problems

2001-07-31 Thread mandrake
Hello, We are trying to install kernel 2.4.7 on Mandrake and keep running into problems. This is what we have done. Configured the kernel with make menuconfig. Configured ReiserFS, RamDisk and Dac960 support as modules. Compiled, installed kernel. Compiled, installed modules. ran: mkinitrd

Re: [expert] ip_masq in 8.0 ?

2001-07-31 Thread Stephen Boulet
No joke. I installed the kernel-2.4.6-5mdk kernel from cooker, and my iptables script wouldn't work. Then I installed the iptables rpm and it did. There is both an iptables and an ipchains rpm. -- Stephen On Tuesday 31 July 2001 02:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 30 Jul at 22:53:27

Re: [expert] bug in gettext support of php rpm?

2001-07-31 Thread Jan Dittberner
Paul Cox wrote: On Sunday, Jul 22, 2001, Jan Dittberner wrote: I just tried to use the gettext support in php, but this seems to be broken in the Mandrake 8.0 package. An strace of php running my test script gave this: lstat64(/var/www/locale, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,

[expert] Help with AMI MG80649 IDE RAID Mandrake 8.0 installation

2001-07-31 Thread Joan Paul Stear
Hi Civilme, I am so stupid, I bought an IWill KA266-R DDR motherboard, qty2 256DDR memory, an athlon 1333 processor and qty2 40GB IBM harddisks. All went well in setting up the disks as raid0 and loading windows98se. I have partitioned the raid disks for linux swap, / , and /home as well as

Re: [expert] wallpaper?!?! READ PLZ!

2001-07-31 Thread Ron Stodden
Dennis Kalpedis wrote: i saw a wallpaper in a screenshot on the mandrake page it is http://www.linux-mandrake.com/screenshots/traktopel12.jpg and i was wondering whoever has that backround could you send it to me? Huh? Why?When you already have it! Bring up the URL in your

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-07-31 Thread DM
hi using 'sudo' is another way to make a user execute commands as root or any other user. all you need to do is add the shutdown command for all the users or groups that are authorized to run it. no need to change permissions, etc on any of the unix binaries. 'sudo' is available in rpms and