On Monday, Sep 10, 2001, Mulus wrote:
has anyone had any problem with changing user directive in
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to user and group root, in Mandrake 8.0 ?
httpd service can not start if I change the directive to user/group
root.
any help would be appreciated.
Why would you want
Just a short question about this.
If I use original (kernel.org) kernel sources and then build a new kernel
should / must I copy the header files from KERNEL-TREE/include/linux to the
appropriate location (/usr/include/linux)
Gregor
On 09-Sep-2001 civileme wrote:
On Sunday 09 September 2001
I get very poor fonts in Konqueror. In fact I cannot
even read the messages on this news group. I'm using
Netscape. Can anyone offer some suggestions?
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On Sunday 09 September 2001 19:36, Ron Johnson wrote:
Hello, all.
A search through Google doesn't show any.
Thanks.
Use the source code. Also you can get some documentation in a roundabout way
from downloading rpmlint and reading that python source. It is wonderful for
examples of use
On Sunday 09 September 2001 23:52, David Guntner wrote:
Dan Hensley grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 15:06, David Guntner wrote:
What I ended up doing was copying the kernel from the rescue floppy
(actually the MDK8.0 install floppy) onto /boot, then pointing lilo.conf
On Monday 10 September 2001 01:15, Mark wrote:
Can windows media files such as .wmv be viewed in Linux other than
porting the ms media player across. I really don't have any other need
for windows products bar this one and don not wish to install windows at
all. I can't seem to find any
changing the httpd user to root is a BAD Idea, it wo0uld give super-user
privlidges to processes run as a remote web server connected to your box.
don't do it. veery bad luck, much less opening your wallet to every script
kiddie in the internet.
On Sunday 09 September 2001 23:21, Mulus wrote:
On Sunday 09 September 2001 07:42 pm, David Guntner escribió:
Brian Schroeder grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Maybe: Could the folks at Mandrake modify the MandrakeUpdate
program to print out some wise words of advise, instead of doing
what is asked, whenever someone tries to upgrade the
Couldn't MandrakeUpdate simply be modified to NOT display kernels? Prevent
the problem from showing up at all in the app and confusing people:
Well, the kernel was there in the MandrakeUpdate window so I updated it.
Why did it show up in the window if you are not supposed to update it this
Hello,
My system lost power last night, and now I can't get X to run. Says
something like can't find fixed fonts.
Is there a simple fix, or do I have to reinstall X again?
TIA,
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service xfs start
Then start Xwindows...
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Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
Hello,
My system lost power last night, and now I can't get X to run. Says
something like can't find fixed fonts.
Is there a simple fix, or do I have to reinstall X again?
Restart the xfs server with: service xfs start
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Praedor grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Couldn't MandrakeUpdate simply be modified to NOT display kernels? Prevent
the problem from showing up at all in the app and confusing people:
Well, the kernel was there in the MandrakeUpdate window so I updated it.
Why did it show up in the window
civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Monday 10 September 2001 10:59, David Guntner wrote:
Does anyone from Mandrake read this list? :-)
Both Vincent and I read it, and we have requested such a change. Whether it
actually gets done is up to the developers of MandrakeUpdate.
Oh, I
Strangely enough, I got mplayer to play wmv files,
but then in the terminal window it tells me:
asf format detected so maybe there are more
than one kind of wmv files?
On Monday 10 September 2001 12:15 am, so spoke Mark:
Can windows media files such as .wmv be viewed in Linux other than
On my 8.0 system, I'm using Reiser FS for all partitions except for /boot,
which is ext2. I've seen on the web page about how 8.1 will have support
for ext3 (which I presume is new?) in the kernel. And I've seen comments
here which suggest that there are 8.1 beta testers on the list who are
Hello,
I'm having a very anoying problem since I've upgraded
Linux Mandrake 7.2 to 8.0 on two computers.
The first computer has a hard disk of aprox. 5 GB,
four primary partitions: the first two are NTFS, the
third is the Linux system partition, and another Linux
swap partition
The active
On Monday 10 September 2001 04:17 pm, civileme wrote:
And don't blame me--I suggested the kernel be named.
kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.dont.use.update.on.this.or.get.ridiculed.and.die.i586.
rpm
lol!
-s
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even better, it should display the kernel, and if it is ticked, it should
download the RPM and
popup a message with instructions on what to do,, (ie not install it... just
save it somewhere like /var/cache/grpmi)
The kernel needs to show up there because many would not know to install the
new
I asked about connection sharing a short while ago, and got plenty of
respones about doing it with ipchains. Todady i decided to make it work with
ip tables, and found a very simple script for doing it that i thought others
may be interested in. Is in the ip-masquerade-simple howto at
On Monday 10 September 2001 16:08, you wrote:
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Subject: Re: [expert] Problem with kernel upgrade
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:50:37 -0700
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To: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On
besides, I wouldn't want to have to type that into an console either,,, to
many chances for typos :-)
kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.dont.use.update.on.this.or.get.ridiculed.and.die.i586.r
pm
Why not just set Mandrake update to popup a kernel and alsa warning and not
upgrade if the package starts with
mplayer, eh? Can it do STREAMING .ASF, for all those sites that only stream
Windows Media Player format? I don't mean download a .ASF file, and then
play it when it's completely transferred; I mean real-time streaming (like
we can with RealPlayer)?
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At Mon Sep 10 19:27:50 2001, civileme wrote:
Reiser -- Fastest in our benchmarks. Still crashes or slows IO intolerably on
nfs after a day or two of heavy use. Stability problems exist with
I thought this was supposed to be addressed in 2.4.8 or later. Not so?
jas
--
Jason Van
Franki grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Why not just set Mandrake update to popup a kernel and alsa warning and not
upgrade if the package starts with kernel... or alsa that shouldn't
be that hard at all...
Alsa should not be upgraded via MandrakeUpdate, either??
(No, I haven't done
On Mon Sep 10, 2001 at 05:17:22PM -0400, Michael Moore wrote:
Again, this would be an EXCELLENT idea. With all the problems that are
caused by someone doing a kernel upgrade in MandrakeUpdate (and it's NOT
unreasonable for someone who hasn't heard about the problem to think that
if it's
Try xfs.
I've been using reiserfs on all partitions for more than half a year, mostly
because of journaling. I have 600Mhz PIII with 128Mb RAM and the system
always seemed rather sluggish to me. I blamed it on kde, but when I I tried
xfs, everything started to fly, the wait times decreased
Hi,
Is it possible, and if so how, to have my Win95 act as my printer server for
my Linux box? I cant get MK 8 to print and have gone to the darkside to print
and it is becoming a real pain to work in Win all the time or ftp files over
for printing.
TIA
Bruce
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Subject: Re: [expert] Reiser FS or ext3?
On Mon 10 Sep at 17:47:20 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said:
Ive
I've been running qmail on boxes with reiserfs filesystems for years and
I've never had any problems with the two existing co-operatively.
Like I said, its just something i read on a comparison about the two. I cant
even remember the details of the problems.
--
Tom Tomahawk Badran
Well,
The first time I was updating, I actually read all the info for each
package, and it had the same do not use mandrakeupdate to update this
warning...
That was on 7.2, dunno about 8, but I am assuming it would be the same???
rgds
Frank
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On Monday 10 September 2001 11:25, you wrote:
On my 8.0 system, I'm using Reiser FS for all partitions except for /boot,
which is ext2. I've seen on the web page about how 8.1 will have support
for ext3 (which I presume is new?) in the kernel. And I've seen comments
here which suggest that
Bruce E.Harris wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible, and if so how, to have my Win95 act as my printer server for
my Linux box? I cant get MK 8 to print and have gone to the darkside to print
and it is becoming a real pain to work in Win all the time or ftp files over
for printing.
TIA
Bruce
El Lun 10 Sep 2001 20:59, escribiste:
Hi,
Is it possible, and if so how, to have my Win95 act as my printer server
for my Linux box? I cant get MK 8 to print and have gone to the darkside to
print and it is becoming a real pain to work in Win all the time or ftp
files over for printing.
El Lun 10 Sep 2001 18:41, escribiste:
Hello,
I'm having a very anoying problem since I've upgraded
Linux Mandrake 7.2 to 8.0 on two computers.
The first computer has a hard disk of aprox. 5 GB,
four primary partitions: the first two are NTFS, the
third is the Linux system partition, and
Hi Everyone,
Q. In the process of upgrading to KDE 2.2 on my Mandrake 8.0 system, I
defined a new source for the downloaded rpm files and now for some reason,
which I can't decipher, I am unable to run the Software Manager. How do I
remove the new source via the command line?
Hi Everyone,
Q. In the process of upgrading to KDE 2.2 on my Mandrake 8.0 system, I
defined a new source for the downloaded rpm files and now for some reason,
which I can't decipher, I am unable to run the Software Manager. How do I
remove the new source via the command line?
I have tried to add my win95 ptr thru Webmin--Samba, Swat and printerdrake,
and every time it wants to load a cups driver--and that is is whole source of
my inability to print fm Linux. Not sure what to try now.
Bruce
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On Monday 10 September 2001 10:08 am, civileme wrote:
On Sunday 09 September 2001 19:36, Ron Johnson wrote:
Hello, all.
A search through Google doesn't show any.
Thanks.
Use the source code. Also you can get some documentation in a
Tmpgenc can convert MS video formats to mpeg. Http://www.tmpgenc.com .
You might be able to get it to run with Wine.
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On 9/9/01, 10:15:05 PM, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [expert]
Viewing .wmv files in LInux without using windows???:
Can windows media files
On Monday 10 September 2001 12:25 pm, you wrote:
On my 8.0 system, I'm using Reiser FS for all partitions except for /boot,
which is ext2. I've seen on the web page about how 8.1 will have support
for ext3 (which I presume is new?) in the kernel. And I've seen comments
here which suggest
What kind of printer and what kinds of problems are you having?
Joe
On Monday 10 September 2001 01:43 pm, you wrote:
I have tried to add my win95 ptr thru Webmin--Samba, Swat and printerdrake,
and every time it wants to load a cups driver--and that is is whole source
of my inability to print
On Monday 10 September 2001 01:15 am, you wrote:
Can windows media files such as .wmv be viewed in Linux other than
porting the ms media player across. I really don't have any other need
for windows products bar this one and don not wish to install windows at
all. I can't seem to find any
On Monday 10 September 2001 06:43 pm, Daniel Axtell wrote:
I just finished installing Mandrake 8.0 a new WD 200bb Caviar drive.
After rebooting the first time, the console came up with this error
message:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady Seek Complete Error}
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84
Dave Sherman wrote:
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
Following earlier suggestions, I tried to run
service xfs start, but it made no difference. I even removed all the
XFree86* rpm's and reinstalled them. Again no difference.
Here are the error messages.
Any ideas? Do I have to do a complete reinstall?
TIA,
-sen
_FontTrans*. . . Connect:
In an mdk8.0 install, how does one select the 2.2.19 kernel?
BillK
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On Monday 10 September 2001 10:59, David Guntner wrote:
Praedor grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Couldn't MandrakeUpdate simply be modified to NOT display kernels?
Prevent the problem from showing up at all in the app and confusing
people:
Well, the kernel was there in the MandrakeUpdate
El Lun 10 Sep 2001 10:22, escribiste:
I get very poor fonts in Konqueror. In fact I cannot
even read the messages on this news group. I'm using
Netscape. Can anyone offer some suggestions?
What is exactly the problem? Ugly fonts? Good fonts but bad font display?
Only in Konqueror?
Salu2,
I was under the impression that for sheer performance you can't beat
reiserfs
if you want nfs then don't use it... but for nearly anything else, it seems
fine...
I don't use anything else nowdays...
rgds
Frank
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On Monday 10 September 2001 12:25, David Guntner wrote:
On my 8.0 system, I'm using Reiser FS for all partitions except for /boot,
which is ext2. I've seen on the web page about how 8.1 will have support
for ext3 (which I presume is new?) in the kernel. And I've seen comments
here which
I changed the fixed width font in lookfeel to
dec-terminal and now it's much better.
I do have a question about Netscape and fonts, I
cannot find a .Xdefaults file in my home (Gary)
directory, there's one in /root but it doesn't seem to
apply when I login as a Gary. I would like to fix the
On Mon 10 Sep at 17:47:20 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said:
Ive seen benchmarks which suggest it is slower than reiserfs generally. Its
main advantage is that you can convert existing ext2 partitions to ext3
without reformatting them (not relevant in your case i believe). Ive also
read
Hi,
Still running some LM7.2 systems and have had some occasions where X would not
start.
LM7.2 comes with XFree86 v3.3.6 and v4.0.1; but shortly after installing 7.2,
XFree86 v4.0.3 came out and I installed that manually...
4.0.3 changed the ownership of xfs to xfs.xfs... however, xfs
For all the reasons different operating systems exist, so exists reasons
for using each.
It's a matter of rational choice. One needs look at ones requirements,
then pick the proper OS.
Linux is great for some things, as is Mac, and even Windows. Each has
it's place.
Use what works for
I just finished installing Mandrake 8.0 a new WD 200bb Caviar drive.
After rebooting the first time, the console came up with this error
message:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady Seek Complete Error}
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
The drive is brand new, but the
Hello,
I'm hoping that there is someone who can help. I sent this message
several times and got some suggestions which did not work.
After a system crash I lost the capability to start X.
I get the error messages
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
could not open default font 'fixed'
Dohh! Sorry about that.
I have not tried that yet, is there a url I can test it with?
I would like to know that myself now that it has been
said, excellent question.
Thanks
On Monday 10 September 2001 12:48 pm, so spoke Mike Leone:
mplayer, eh? Can it do STREAMING .ASF, for all those sites
Couple of days back I started hearing funny noises from my HD. Sometimes LM
8 stops and drops me to the prompt advising me run fsck manually.
I am not sure if any precious data exists on the bad blocks. Hop do I mark
the bad blocks so that it will not be used by the file system.
I tried to boot
On Monday 10 September 2001 09:26 pm, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
Hello,
I'm hoping that there is someone who can help. I sent this message
several times and got some suggestions which did not work.
After a system crash I lost the capability to start X.
I get the error messages
failed
Hello Everyone,
I appreciate some help getting my joystick working. I modprobed joydev,
ns558 and analog, but when I jstest /dev/js0, I get no such device?!
Any ideas? Using 2.4 kernel the sound card is SB64. Thanks in advance,
Cecil
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