[expert] Should I upgrade to latest KDE

2001-08-20 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi, I seem to remember, that there was a date issue with KDE, in as much as if I havn't upgraded from the original KDE that is supplied with Mandrake 7.2. it would stop working. 'IF' (A big if I grant you) I remember correctly, the advise was that if I hadn't upgraded by a certain date it (KDE)

Re: [expert] Should I upgrade to latest KDE

2001-08-20 Thread Digital Wokan
KDE isn't going to stop working by any given date on purpose. If it stops working, it's a bug. I've never seen GPL software with an expiration date put in it on purpose. Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, I seem to remember, that there was a date issue with KDE, in as much as if I havn't upgraded

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:29:08 -0400 Bruce E.Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: BE I am looking into these various mail clients but need one that BE supports SSL BE since my secure mail server demands this. Any recommendations? I am BE using BE Mulberry, and Netscape but they are slow.

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 17.04 19/08/01, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:23, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I'm going to change mail program (I am currently using Eudora) in order to switch to Linux completely. Now I need to know which one is faster because I have

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 18.18 19/08/01, you wrote: Since I use a mapped home directory - the same one from both machines - I have all of my messages available wherever I am. Polarbar stores mail as individual pop files making it very easy to access messages even outside of the mail client. Individual POP files? one

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 17.40 19/08/01, you wrote: Go to sylpheed.good-day.net Sylpheed 0.5.3. isIMHO about as fast as they get. As usual, YMMV. Give it a try. It is an excellent MUA. Mike First: what does YMMV mean? Second: thank you for all your suggestions, I will try every app you mentioned. I would have

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??

2001-08-20 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Already did. I grabbed it as soon as I saw your email. It is quick and I do like it but too bad no SSL support. Bruce On Monday 20 August 2001 06:12 am, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:29:08 -0400 Bruce E.Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: BE I am looking into these various

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 20.01 19/08/01, you wrote: Currently I use Pine for all my email needs. It's complete, robust and secure, but most people turn it down since it is console based. Your call, but my recommendation is pine. I will try EVERYTHING: my decision must be wise. Anyway, I think pine uses

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??

2001-08-20 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 18.29 19/08/01, Bruce E.Harris wrote: I am looking into these various mail clients but need one that supports SSL since my secure mail server demands this. Any recommendations? I am using Mulberry, and Netscape but they are slow. Best Regards, Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Should I upgrade to latest KDE

2001-08-20 Thread Digital Wokan
Keep your eyes open. Like I said, there may be a bug which would time limit KDE 1, but I'm not aware of it. I know it wasn't time limited on purpose. (If it is.) Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, Thanks - I was stupid to think that there was, but I had to ask the question as I had thought that

Re: [expert] Should I upgrade to latest KDE

2001-08-20 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi, Thanks - I was stupid to think that there was, but I had to ask the question as I had thought that there was something that I read to that effect. Sorry for the noise. Digital Wokan wrote: KDE isn't going to stop working by any given date on purpose. If it stops working, it's a bug.

[expert] Ipv6 support

2001-08-20 Thread IPv6 project
Hi all, I was told that Mandrake 8.0 is IPv6 enabled. However, I can not use it to implement IPv6 !!!.I guess to have IPv6 enabled is not enough to directly use it. What should I do to get IPv6 working, any additional patches that I should run?. any body can help ? Regards Gadir

RE: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 beta1 problems...

2001-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
I went a different route. Since I use Gnome instead of Kde I did not install kdepim. There is a newer release of kdepm available from cooker. Install it and it should properly rewrite those entries. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Sergio

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread Gabriel Fortuna
Hiya And yea, on Monday 20 August 2001 14:15, verily Olaf Marzocchi doth wroteth: First: what does YMMV mean? Your Mileage May Vary: Means that you might not get the exact same results as someone else... If your heart is set on Eudora, try running it through WINE.

Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 06:15:51AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice before I try building 8.0 versions of these from the Cooker SRPMS? If you wait a bit

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:25:29 +0200 Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: snip I didn't ask this in my previous mail, but it's important: which mailers support multiple POP3 accounts and smtp outgoing mail? (my technical language may be wrong, please correct me if needed).

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:15:04 +0200 First: what does YMMV mean? You Mileage May Vary Just an American expression, meaning you may not have te same experience. Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a

Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, Aug 20, 2001, Digital Wokan wrote: I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice before I try building 8.0 versions of these from the Cooker SRPMS? Be patient... that's all I can say. =)

[expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Digital Wokan
I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice before I try building 8.0 versions of these from the Cooker SRPMS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] mandrake 8 install on megaraid system?

2001-08-20 Thread Mathew Hennessy
Jerry wrote: Works ok with my megaraid 3 channel. I'm not mirrored tho, straight raid 5. Detected w/ no problems during install. Thanks. My mirror (2 drives in a 1U) was detected during the installer boot, but when device detection occurred it returned with timeouts :/.. It's a

Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Digital Wokan
Thanks. I know you guys are busy doing bug squashing for 8.1. Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 06:15:51AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice

Re: [expert] Why is the Reply-To header...??

2001-08-20 Thread Digital Wokan
Gets worse. I get bounce messages from one of those servers. Been awhile since those got in the headers though so I can't remember which one it was. Pierre Fortin wrote: Sorry if this has been covered before... I'm still catching up on my mail and have not yet seen this discussed...

Re: [expert] Get route conf

2001-08-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
Eduardo P. Román O. wrote: Who know, how can i get the config of the router from my linux Haven't done this in a while since I don't use my Cisco any more... writing the config to a net device with tftp: ln -s /tftpboot /home/tftpboot /etc/xinetd.d/tftp: service tftp {

Re: [expert] adding stuff to Mandrake's kernel

2001-08-20 Thread DM
AFAIK, the .config file that goes with the kernel sources is the one that built the vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk kernel. in fact, that is what i used to build 2.4.7 and the kernel i build was much smaller because i disabled some things i didnt need. the file /boot/config-2.4.3-20mdk is the same as the

Re: [expert] logrotate and syslog

2001-08-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote: Hi! I have a doubt... I'm using a LM7.2 machine to store log from some Cisco routers in my network. I observed that the logs weren't being rotated nor compressed. So I read the man pages and changed the /etc/logrotate.conf, so now the Cisco log files are

[expert] Why is the Reply-To header...??

2001-08-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
Sorry if this has been covered before... I'm still catching up on my mail and have not yet seen this discussed... Using NS4.78, if I hit Reply, I get: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if I hit Reply All: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [expert] nslookup is where?

2001-08-20 Thread civileme
On Monday 20 August 2001 08:44, Stephen Boulet wrote: Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen [root@civileme tester]# nslookup Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run

[expert] nslookup is where?

2001-08-20 Thread Stephen Boulet
Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] nslookup is where?

2001-08-20 Thread M. Osten
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Stephen Boulet wrote: Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen nslookup has been depreciated. use the dig command now. if you *really* want nslookup, you can find it on http://www.rpmfind.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied

2001-08-20 Thread DM
when i added rlogin, rexec and rsh on my /etc/securetty file it looks like this: snipped till the end tty10 tty11 rlogin rexec rsh rsh stuff worked after i added those. --- John J. LeMay Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Reply to message from Darcy Brodie, CJL [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 19

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 August 2001 07:19, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 17.04 19/08/01, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:23, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: [snip] Mailboxen with 8000+ messages Delete those

[expert] KDE 2.2, printing of single, selected pages fails...

2001-08-20 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
Hello together, printing of some selected pages in kdvi, kghostview etc. fails so all selected pages are printed in one sheet/paper!!! Has anyone else seen this bug!!! Ciao, Jürgen Hammelmann -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] address: J. Hammelmann, Brühlstr. 6 phone: +49-7034-61578,

Re: [expert] KDE 2.2, printing of single, selected pages fails...

2001-08-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have found it impossible to print from kghostview (don't know about kdvi). Kghostview renders pdfs fine but no matter how I try to print it, to a postscript file or to the printer or too a pdf, it fails every time. The printer produces one blank page regardless of how many pages the actual

Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 08:16:25AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: Thanks. I know you guys are busy doing bug squashing for 8.1. Actually, I'm not squashing anything for 8.1... =) I'm squashing stuff for 8.0 and 7.x... =) Sometimes that's a little more difficult than squashing the new stuff tho.

Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Digital Wokan
Yes. I still remember the PHP upgrade nightmare in Mandrake 7.2. Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 08:16:25AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: Thanks. I know you guys are busy doing bug squashing for 8.1. Actually, I'm not squashing anything for 8.1... =) I'm squashing stuff

Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 01:25:17PM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: Yes. I still remember the PHP upgrade nightmare in Mandrake 7.2. Hmmm... if you remember that one, you'll remember this one for quite a while to come as well. Of course, the upside is that future updates should be very easy to do

[expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall

2001-08-20 Thread Alan
This is an odd problem. The on-site docs seem to be less than useful. (Too much time spent with remedial firewall instruction and too little telling where the damn config scripts live.) Note: This is at a friend's house that is about 45 miles away. Not easy to get to, so some details may be

Re: [expert] Upgrading to KDE 2.2

2001-08-20 Thread Aleksey Y Naumov
Greetings, Could you describe how you did the upgrade? I am having a few problems as I attempt to do it. Did you install over 2.1.1 or remove it before? I also downloaded RPMs from ftp.kde.org - for Mandrake 8.0 i586 (should I download devel and static-devel RPMs?), but I get failed

Re: [expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall

2001-08-20 Thread root
The configuration for it is in: /etc/Bastille There is a utility to set it up. I dont remember the name, look in /sbin I think it is there. There is also a graphic utility. As for turning it on or off, there is a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d just for that. I suggest you try turning it off, try

[expert] floppy file system?

2001-08-20 Thread Nick
I know that this is not really on our topic, but I am about to start banging my head on the table Is there a way to format a floppy with ext2 or something that Linux will recognize and still preserve the long file names? Sorry for the trouble and thanks very much!

Re: [expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall

2001-08-20 Thread Gerard Perreault
Its name is: bastille-firewall Technically, this is what is in it: #!/bin/sh # # bastille-firewall Load/unload ipchains rulesets # # do not rename this file unless you edit /sbin/bastille-firewall-reset # # chkconfig: 2345 5 98 # description: A firewall/packet-filter script for

[expert] Re: floppy file system

2001-08-20 Thread Nick
Thank you! The only trouble is that if I use a DOS formatted floppy it dumps my long fine names. When I try to put them back as they should be they don't function properly for some reason. -- - Nick Registered Linux User #225209 _ Do

Re: [expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall

2001-08-20 Thread joy_ping
hi, i would say get off of this bastile-crap and use pure iptables-scripts. dont know if bastille uses iptables, but you learn more, and it is really no magic to set up your firewall by hand. it is easy to configure, you can set special rules for special ports, and you know what you do, and some

Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Digital Wokan
I don't use Mandrake Update. I haven't tried it recently, but I remember having difficulty figuring out what packages were updated at a glace. I usually rpm -Fvh * and take care of problems as they pop up, or I use kpackage (which for some reason now throws an error before installing each

[expert] Re: X Failure on New Mandrake 8 Install

2001-08-20 Thread Felix Miata
tty7 screen is blank with blinking cursor in upper left corner. Other tty's produce expected login prompts that work as expected except for a welcome surprise: video mode instead of the customary 80 X 25 is the proprietary Tseng 100 X 40 mode. Awesome! A portion of the last third of

[expert] Upgrading to 8.1...

2001-08-20 Thread Neal Lippman
I am currently running 7.2 with 2.4.4 kernel. I passed on upgrading to 8.0 because I am (mostly) happy with my current system, and didn't want to risk breaking things. However, 8.1 seems to include many things I have been waiting for (KOffice 1.1 - maybe KWord won't crash every time I close

Re: [expert] Upgrading to KDE 2.2

2001-08-20 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
After downloading all files for the upgrade I did a rpm -qa | grep kde. I then move all the listed files into a separate directory. From that directory I did rpm -Fvh --test *. I then corrected any dependency problems by adding or removing some programs. Once I got a clean return on rpm

[expert] 8.0freq3 windowmanager problems

2001-08-20 Thread Angus Beath
I'm not sure if this is the case with 8.1beta as well, but I upgraded from 8.0 freq 2 to freq3 and couldn't get any of my windowmanagers, bar KDE to work. I use enlightenment and it screwed up royally. I've had to re-install from scratch. This isn't a big problem, I'm just curious if anyone else

[expert] IBM Netfinity 5100 with ServRAID controller

2001-08-20 Thread Brent Lea
I am trying to install Mandrake 8.0 on an IBM Netfinity 5100 with a ServRAID 4L controller. There are six 36GB drive attached to the 4L in a RAID 5 configuration. The system, controller, and drives are all at the lates level of their BIOS. Problem #1 When I start the install process,

Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 06:19:50PM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I don't use Mandrake Update. I haven't tried it recently, but I remember having difficulty figuring out what packages were updated at a glace. I usually rpm -Fvh * and take care of problems as they pop up, or I use kpackage

Re: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied

2001-08-20 Thread Larry Sword
John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: ** Reply to message from Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:42:03 -0500 Have you tried adding the name and IP to /etc/hosts? For that matter, have you tried running your ssh connect command in verbose mode? If so, run it again, and

Re: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied

2001-08-20 Thread Larry Sword
Larry Sword wrote: Scratch the previous message. Appears that I didn't read fully or correctly, I see you are running and connecting as root. Larry John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: ** Reply to message from Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:42:03 -0500 Have you

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread David E. Fox
I will try EVERYTHING: my decision must be wise. Anyway, I think pine uses the same MBOX format of every other UNIX mail manager, isn't it? I've found myself going back to elm after trying the other GUI mailers like kmail etc. The GUIs are nice, but painfully slow on an underpowered box

Re: [expert] Upgrading WINE

2001-08-20 Thread David E. Fox
I have Codeweavers-wine installed on my MDK8.0 and I want to upgrade it because a new WINE version has been released. Can I download WINE (that I just did a wine upgrade from winehq.com. Codeweavers seems to just be another variant of the stuff that comes from winehq. I opted for the

[expert] Building RPMS as regular user

2001-08-20 Thread cb
I did this many moons ago, but can't remember exactly what I'd done to set it up. I simply had a regular user account that had its own SPECS, BUILD, RPMS, SOURCES, and SRPMS directories in it where I could build RPMS without being root. I'm pretty sure I copies over the default rpmrc to

Re: [expert] pppd deamon died halfway through!!!

2001-08-20 Thread faisal gillani
thanks for the help friend .. but sorry to dissapoint you but my pc dont have a ppp0 interface ... yes the modem is there but no ppp0 interface ... my moden is isapnp US robotics 56k sportster ... what to do now thanks Fasial --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, all this info is readable

[expert] Building a custom install floppy...

2001-08-20 Thread Julia A. Case
Basically I'm trying to use a USB CD to install linux on a USB harddrive (don't ask, it's a laptop...) To this end I built a custom kernel with the stuff needed... The trouble is when I make the boot floppy with the blank.img and copy over vmlinuz and try to boot it just hangs after the message

[expert] Quotas on big harddisk

2001-08-20 Thread Linke, Thomas
Hi, I try to set quotas on big harddisks, but I recive a errormessage, if I go over 4GB. ( cannot change current allocation ). This happend on different maschines with LM 7.2 and ext2 filesystem. Is there a limit? How can I limit diskusage about 20GB on ext2 or another filesystem like