RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, AFAIK not so. The software manager will download the upgraded RPM if used correctly. I had no trouble going to 2.4.8-12mdk via the installer. It lilo'd my system properly as well and picked up the PBM and other libraries needed for recompilation, since I requested that the headers and

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I went to 2.4.8-12mdk last night on a ReiserFS machine without any problems. (I did reserve a ext2 /boot partition originally though...) -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Hensley |Sent: Thursday,

[expert] gets error: fsize is exceeded by using su

2001-09-07 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
I get a strange error when I tra to log in as a user by su after setting the password su fails with the message that the maximal file size is exceeded (Die maximale Dateigröße ist überschritten) This error comes when working in XWindows not at the console. Whats the error? Ciao, Jürgen --

RE: [expert] Netscape wish using up memory

2001-09-07 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Cheers Laurent - perfectly acceptable answer from Jeff, and I can see the logic behind it. Thanks for looking into it for me. Satisfied my curiosity anyway! Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Laurent Duperval

[expert] ne.o and kernel 4.2.x

2001-09-07 Thread rjp
Hi. I am using a rether modified Mandrake 7.0 Kernel replaced to 2.4.5 + bintools + pppd etc to suit. (done by source build) Whilst my lan works on W2K, on linux I cannot ping anything except the local machine and the broadcast 192.168.1.255 address. cat proc modules : ppp_deflate

Re: [expert] OT CD writer question.

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Mitch Thompson wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 11:40 am, you wrote: opps, and i forgot to add that --- yes, if i look at a failed CD i can see that the burn has processed. the laser is working -- at least to some degree. i can't say it's working right, but it is burning onto a blank CD.

Re: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 September 2001 10:40 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 17.33 04/09/01, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:21 am, Ron Johnson escribió: [snip] My Linux takes more time to load than my W98. More than 2'.

Re: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:40 am, FLYNN, Steve escribió: This might be a silly question but how do I actually perform this pre-linking act. I've only just upgraded to MDK 8.0 from 6.5 so I've never had this problem before, but I have noticed a considerable difference

[expert] new system bought

2001-09-07 Thread Admin
Greetings... I just bought a system from my company... it is: Compaq Deskpro workstation P II 400 mhz If you go here: http://www3.compaq.com/support/parts and insert this serial #: 6910BZL2A733 into the search box...you'll get my basic system. I want to know if 8.0 will support this

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Ron Johnson wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 10:28 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 10:16 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Sounds like the KDE folks made a pretty good decision. If you run X 4.1.0, KDE 2.2 turn on Anti-aliased fonts, I *guarantee*

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 September 2001 02:22 am, Jose M. Sanchez escribió: The software manager will download the upgraded RPM if used correctly. I had no trouble going to 2.4.8-12mdk via the installer. It lilo'd my system properly as well and picked up the PBM and other libraries needed for

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Gregor Maier
The main reason for initrd's is not filesystems. There aren't that much important filesystems the kernel must know before loading modules and they can easily be build into the kernel itself. The reason are more the SCSI-Controllers, Network card (for network boot). Since the kernel must have

[expert] X server problems after upgrade

2001-09-07 Thread Jay
Hi All, Just wondering where to look for answers. If you need more info please ask, and tell me where I can find it for you d:-J The problem is that I upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0. X was working fine before then and I really wish that the installer had skipped the X set-up and left it in a working

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Harold Hartley
with all the stuff with the kernel 2.4.7, I feel since Mandrake will soon be releasing the 8.1 version I'll update my whole system instead of bits and pieces of it.. since it looks like the 8.1 release will have the 2.4.8 kernel to it and any new or newer lib files also.. saves on problems as

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
I thought I heard someone say end of September... Edmund -Original Message- From: chronos . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date Hi all, Had a quick question, when is version 8.1

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Harold Hartley
The 8.1 release was stated around the end of september from a article on another web site, but I could be off.. On Friday 07 September 2001 09:54 am, you wrote: Content-Type: /; name=Attachment: 0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 September 2001 08:54 am, chronos . escribió: Hi all, Had a quick question, when is version 8.1 supposed to be released to the public ? thanx, chornos. Beta 3 is just out, looks like the planned October release of 8.1 is right on track. From lurking on the cooker list,

Re: [expert] gets error: fsize is exceeded by using su

2001-09-07 Thread Sadin Nurkic
At 01:50 07/09/2001, you wrote: I get a strange error when I tra to log in as a user by su after setting the password su fails with the message that the maximal file size is exceeded (Die maximale Dateigröße ist überschritten) This error comes when working in XWindows not at the console. Whats

Re: [expert] gets error: fsize is exceeded by using su

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Allan Lucas
Quoting Sadin Nurkic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 01:50 07/09/2001, you wrote: I get a strange error when I tra to log in as a user by su after setting the password su fails with the message that the maximal file size is exceeded (Die maximale Dateigröße ist überschritten) This error comes when

Re: [expert] gets error: fsize is exceeded by using su

2001-09-07 Thread Sadin Nurkic
'Sorry' for suggesting a look at the archives, I've just seen this pop up very often in the past few weeks and checking the archives is a lot quicker than waiting a few hours or days for an answer :) In the archives is exactly where I found the answer when I got the same error a few weeks ago. I

Re: [expert] gets error: fsize is exceeded by using su

2001-09-07 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
Am Freitag, 7. September 2001 13:49 schrieben Sie: IIRC there's a limit.conf file in /etc but I don't know what you can do with it - but I think it's worth a try. it was the /etc/security/limits.conf, it was set to prevent writing core files! Thank you! -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] SU File size limit exceeded

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Ekong
Why is this, what does Bastille do that causes this error? Eric * John Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010831 18:50]: On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:43, you wrote: Everytime I try to su in a terminal-window I get the following: File size limit exceeded now this only happens in X, on the

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread cb
After messing with this stuff until 05:00 this morning, I noticed some things that I hope will have been fixed before the real 8.1 ships. On a box with only SCSI disks, if one goes into 'rescue' mode with either 7.2 or 8.0, it'll for some reason realise there's a reiserfs filesystem on the

Re: [expert] Redirect to internal network

2001-09-07 Thread Laurent CREPET
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:54:24PM -0400, Joe Aldeguer wrote: Hello all, Has anyone been able to succesfully make the (redirect to internal servers from public networks) work on the Linux Mandrake Firewall? It works fine for me. I redirect ssh from the firewall to my workstation, and

Re: [expert] Inspiron 8100 with Linux-Mandrake 7.2

2001-09-07 Thread Ric Tibbetts
civileme wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:46, Jeffrey Twu wrote: Hi all, When I try to install Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on an Inspiron 8100 machine, it gets to Configuring PCMCIA cards ... early in the install program and freezes. Is there any way around this? I can't use

OT: Cooker Lurkers -----Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Expert
(Raises hand) I do it, how many Cooker Lurkers do we have? On Friday 07 September 2001 09:30 am, so spoke Tom Brinkman: On Friday 07 September 2001 08:54 am, chronos . escribió: Hi all, Had a quick question, when is version 8.1 supposed to be released to the public ? thanx,

Re: [expert] man pages

2001-09-07 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Moved to: /usr/share/man Ric Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote: Where have the man pages gone? e.g. /usr/man etc? TIA, -sen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 3Com ADSL USB modem model 3CP994218

2001-09-07 Thread Oscar
Anybody knows if the 3Com USB ADSL modem model 3CP994218 is supported? I cannot find it in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 Thanks, óscar. -- Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] man pages

2001-09-07 Thread Sheldon E. Newhouse
OK, I found it there. I was a bit disappointed that the old commands 'man' give nothing. E.g. 'man find' produces nothing. I saw that one can get the man pages from the desktop. But for remote logins that is not too useful. What does one use to replace the 'man' command with remote logins?

Re: [expert] man pages

2001-09-07 Thread etharp
On Friday 07 September 2001 18:49, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote: OK, I found it there. I was a bit disappointed that the old commands 'man' give nothing. E.g. 'man find' produces nothing. ehh, try man locate? I saw that one can get the man pages from the desktop. But for remote logins

Re: [expert] SU File size limit exceeded

2001-09-07 Thread hardcorepush
its the last line in file rob On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 06:57:29 -0400 Andrew George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:15, Eric Ekong wrote: Why is this, what does Bastille do that causes this error? Eric One of the questions in Bastille asks if you want to set limits (can't

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Ok, you lost me with the reference. What Zombie? -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of J. Craig Woods |Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:20 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re:

Re: [expert] new system bought

2001-09-07 Thread Felix Miata
civileme wrote: With that drive mounted, I think You will be OK for Linux, though it is possible that you have an unsupported symbios53C8xx card instead of the more common ncr 53c8xx (both are symbios but one works and the other does not.). Please tell me more. How are they different? All my

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread J. Craig Woods
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Ok, you lost me with the reference. What Zombie? -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | | I went to 2.4.8-12mdk last night on a ReiserFS machine without any | problems. (I did reserve a ext2 /boot partition originally though...) | | -JMS |

Re: [expert] Resolution of rsh failure

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Walsh
John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: Last week I was trying to troubleshoot and fix a problem where my LM8f1 machine would not allow my LM72 client to rsh/ssh to the machine as ROOT. Other users could gain access with no problem. My thanks to all why offered suggestions. However, the only way I've

[expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The constantly changing APIs/libraries. Moving from mdk7.2 to 8.0 required a complete reinstall to make sure no ghosts from the past remain to cause problems. This is because massive amounts of upgraded libraries were introduced, and many

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread chronos .
Hi all, Had a quick question, when is version 8.1 supposed to be released to the public ? thanx, chornos. On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:25:50 -0400 Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with all the stuff with the kernel 2.4.7, I feel since Mandrake will soon be releasing the 8.1 version I'll

[expert] gets error: fsize is exceeded by using su

2001-09-07 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
I get a strange error when I tra to log in as a user by su after setting the password su fails with the message that the maximal file size is exceeded (Die maximale Dateigröße ist überschritten) This error comes when working in XWindows not at the console. Whats the error? Ciao, Jürgen --

RE: [expert] gets error: fsize is exceeded by using su

2001-09-07 Thread Gregor Maier
Looks like the disk quotas for that user is full. When a X-sesion starts it writes something to harddisk (homedir, I think). On the console it doesn't. Use quota to check if that's the problem. Another possibility would be that the disk is full. On each filesystem there is some space reservered

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread J. Craig Woods
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: I went to 2.4.8-12mdk last night on a ReiserFS machine without any problems. (I did reserve a ext2 /boot partition originally though...) -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] So you now live with a zombie :-) If you go to kernel 2.4.8-14, this little creature will still be

Re: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 September 2001 06:49 am, Mark Weaver escribió: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:40 am, FLYNN, Steve escribió: This might be a silly question but how do I actually perform this pre-linking act. I've only just upgraded to MDK 8.0 from 6.5 so I've never had

Re: [expert] VPN between 2 offices with LM Firewalls

2001-09-07 Thread Dave Sherman
On 06 Sep 2001 22:14:12 -0600, Darcy Brodie, CJL wrote: Question: Going through the VPN, can I make a continous connection as long as the workstation is running, and allow it to send information to the Unix Server, as well as receive print information to a local printer connected to

Re: [expert] SU File size limit exceeded

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew George
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:15, Eric Ekong wrote: Why is this, what does Bastille do that causes this error? Eric One of the questions in Bastille asks if you want to set limits (can't remember the exact one). it then writes a few parameters in /etc/security/limits.conf to set limits for file

Re: [expert] man pages

2001-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 September 2001 05:49 pm, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote: OK, I found it there. I was a bit disappointed that the old commands 'man' give nothing. E.g. 'man find' produces nothing. I saw that one can get the man pages from the desktop.

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread civileme
On Friday 07 September 2001 09:54, chronos . wrote: Hi all, Had a quick question, when is version 8.1 supposed to be released to the public ? thanx, chornos. It will be released when it is ready. That means a good journaling filesystem and most of the major bugs gone. No deadly

Re: [expert] new system bought

2001-09-07 Thread civileme
On Friday 07 September 2001 07:47, Admin wrote: 6910BZL2A733 Well, I went to the site and I cannot tell if your motherboard (a COMPAQ proprietary on which I could dredge no information) even has an IDE channel. You can look inside the case? If so, look for a header with 40 pins on the

Re: [expert] man pages

2001-09-07 Thread Sheldon E. Newhouse
OK, It's just setting MANPATH. I now feel better. I guess after upgrading many systems, I just expected, say a link from /usr/share/man to /usr/man Thanks for the info. -sen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How knows log ....

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Looks like you've been attacked, but your kernel is turning them away. Basically somebody is giggling your doorknob, but the deadbolt is locked. What firewall software are you running? ipchains or iptables? actually, since it's port 53 that is showing on that

Re: OT: Cooker Lurkers -----Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Felix Miata
Expert wrote: I do it, how many Cooker Lurkers do we have? How does a cooker user and a beta tester differ? I tried unsuccessfully to get both 8.0 8.1B1 to install XFree correctly on my 7.1 machine, and have 8.1B3 downloading right now. -- The highest glory of the American Revolution was