Re: [expert] X on Fujitsu Lifebook doesn't start after installation, worked on LM8.0, doesn't on LM8.1!

2001-10-23 Thread Marcio Cordero
No, I won't flame you back but I did try all this. As I said (maybe I wrote the wrong file but I meant inittab) I have runlevel 5 as initdefault, and also I did tell DrakX installation and later reconfiguring with XFdrake to start X at every boot. I guess I'll have to check what does the kernel

Re: [expert] how to free cache from physical memory space?

2001-10-23 Thread oscar
Randy Kramer escribió: Oscar wrote: Run an application in Windows. Fast!... but... suppose the application hangs. What happens to windows?... Run an application in Linux. Less fast... but... suppose the application hangs. What happens to Linux? The security has a price ;-) You have

Re: [expert] how to free cache from physical memory space?

2001-10-23 Thread oscar
Fred Biehl escribió: It would also be a good indea (at least for testing pourposes) to redirect the cached memory to the swap area. I think it's not a good idea... please read my message about cache and swap. if you cached your disk in your disk... what do you gain? -- . --- |o_o |

[expert] Graphics card recommendations

2001-10-23 Thread Joseph Gardner
Greets all, I'm in the market for a new graphics card (finally) and would like recommendations on something that I can use for gaming. Kindest regards, -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, Requires Windows 9x or

[expert] dual booting with Win2k

2001-10-23 Thread Mike Rambo
One of the guys I work with is interested in putting Mdk8.1 on his workstation to try to learn to use it. His box presently dual boots Windows98 and 2000 and he uses both systems at times depending on what he has to do. He has a 30GB hard and therefore has enough room for all three systems. Are

[expert] APC server (No-break)

2001-10-23 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Mandrake-fellows! I use a APC BackUPS 500 no-break and I set the apcupsd server to work in network (MDK 8.0). I have 3 satellite computer connected to the master (where apc serial cable is connect). When I have a power failure, the master computer shutdown but the satellites not!

Re: [expert] dual booting with Win2k

2001-10-23 Thread Mike Rambo
Thanks - I'd hate to trash his system trying to get him to switch ;-). Since you mentioned lilo/grub regarding the config file I hope it's safe to assume lilo will work in this regard as well as grub? I understand lilo better cuz I've used it longer and would prefer to use it if possible. Mike

Re: [expert] mail server problems

2001-10-23 Thread Craig Sprout
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Daniel Anderson wrote: Dan-- What does your fetchmail log say? Simply connection refused? Can you telnet to port 110 to talk directly to the pop server? What email client are you using on the Windows side? Sorry, I have more questions than answers. I have heard news

Re: [expert] mail server problems

2001-10-23 Thread Mike Rambo
Patricia Ballad wrote: I've had a similar problem with my ISP (ATT @Home) refusing connections from my linux box. Solution: I put together a bare-bones system w/ old parts I had lying around, loaded Win95 and a proxy server. Now the ISP is happy (it's getting connections from a windows

Re: [expert] realserver playlist

2001-10-23 Thread Woody Green
There are many ways to do this, but the easiest way I think is to do: find /path/to/mp3s -type f -name *.mp3 playlist.txt You will get a list of files (no directories) that end in .mp3 complete with path info. This command will also rescind down any subdirectory in the top directory you

[expert] moving from high to low security.

2001-10-23 Thread mick tooher
Hi All, I'm trying to install mandrake 8.1. I had nearly everything working except samba. I was messing arround trying to fix my samba problem when I moved the mandrake security level from low to high. Wierd thing happened as in my tcsh shells could not find the basic commands under /bin. I

Re: [expert] Error messages in mail!

2001-10-23 Thread Michael D. Viron
---8--- Subject: errors rotating logs errors occured while rotating /var/log/pacct { stat of /var/log/pacct failed: No such file or directory -8--- Do a touch on /var/log/pacct. That will fix it. (Basically it is trying to rotate a log file that isn't there). Michael --

[expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Jerry Sommerdorf
Can anyone tell what program is listening to port 110. I look at the process running and I can't find any that are running pop3. I am running a Domino server and I get an error message that port 110 is not available. any help would be great. Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] procmail question

2001-10-23 Thread Expert User
Hi, When I moved from 8.0 to 8.1 my .procmailrc file is not working... This is what I have in my procmail file: -rw-r--r--1 expert bapat 24 Aug 12 18:46 /home/expert/.procmailrc 8- :0: * ^TOroot Mail/sys -8 All the mail to 'root' is

Re: [expert] X on Fujitsu Lifebook doesn't start after installation, worked on LM8.0, doesn't on LM8.1!

2001-10-23 Thread Larry Sword
Marcio Cordero wrote: No, I won't flame you back but I did try all this. As I said (maybe I wrote the wrong file but I meant inittab) I have runlevel 5 as initdefault, and also I did tell DrakX installation and later reconfiguring with XFdrake to start X at every boot. I guess I'll have to

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Jerry Sommerdorf
If I want to use the Domino pop3 server, then the pop3 line in /etc/inetd.conf should be disabled. I will take a look at the line and see what it looks like. I thing that the line is enabled by default. Jerry Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote: pop3d is a service of inetd. look at /etc/inetd.conf

[expert] Domino Server on 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Jerry Sommerdorf
Anyone running a Domino server, and if so, any one having problems with it crashing? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 02:45 PM 10/23/2001 -0200, you wrote: pop3d is a service of inetd. look at /etc/inetd.conf and find that line: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d be sure that the line is enabled (without a # in the beggining). HTH orlando of course, inetd isn't used in 8.1,

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 12:07 PM 10/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: If I want to use the Domino pop3 server, then the pop3 line in /etc/inetd.conf should be disabled. I will take a look at the line and see what it looks like. I thing that the line is enabled by default. Jerry Actually, you would disable it by either

Re: [expert] Importing Oracle SQL scripts into MySQL

2001-10-23 Thread Jim Dawson
Even if the scripts use standard SQL commands, you may need to do some editing. The syntax of many of the Oracle SQL commands is kind of funky. Even MS SQL Server uses a more standard SQL syntax than Oracle. -Original Message- From: Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert

[expert] Xinerama on Mandrake 8.0 with Matrox G400

2001-10-23 Thread DelaCruz, Carlo
Hi, Can someone help me configure my Matrox G400 dual-head for Mandrake 8.0? I've already successfully configured it for Windows98, so that I know the hardware and all connections are okay. However, I've not been able to make it work in Linux. I've been able to set up each monitor

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Jerry Sommerdorf
Do I have to just delete the file to prevent the pop3 server from starting, or is there a file I need to edit? Michael D. Viron wrote: At 02:45 PM 10/23/2001 -0200, you wrote: pop3d is a service of inetd. look at /etc/inetd.conf and find that line: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root

[expert] httpd PHP

2001-10-23 Thread Julio Rodriguez
Hi... Today I wake up with the idea of install the php module for my apache v 1.3.22 and I thought that it would be an easy job but of course... i was wrong... the first thing I did was run 'httpd -l' to see a list of my modules compiled in... so a noticed that the mod_so was missing, so I

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
you don't have to delete the file... just comment the line with a # in the beggining of the line. orlando Jerry Sommerdorf wrote: Do I have to just delete the file to prevent the pop3 server from starting, or is there a file I need to edit? Michael D. Viron wrote: At 02:45 PM

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 04:02 PM 10/23/2001 -0200, Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote: you don't have to delete the file... just comment the line with a # in the beggining of the line. orlando That would be true if he was using 7.1 or earlier, since they use inetd (and hence inetd.conf). For 7.2 and letter, you need to

Re: [expert] rpmfind.net

2001-10-23 Thread Brad Felmey
On Sun, 2001-10-21 at 13:38, David Boles wrote: Does anyone know what is wrong with this site? Try http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net Much more stable. -- Brad Felmey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] rpmfind.net

2001-10-23 Thread David Oberbeck
Or the french mirror: http://fr.rpmfind.net/ HTH, DGO On Tuesday 23 October 2001 13:17, you wrote: On Sun, 2001-10-21 at 13:38, David Boles wrote: Does anyone know what is wrong with this site? Try http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net Much more stable. -- Entropy Requires No

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Jerry Sommerdorf
Michael, I'm not able to verify ipop3 att. I looked at this file earlier and if I remember correctly it was set to disable =yes. I will check on this later. If is set to disable, any idea as to what other program would be listening on port 110. Thanks Jerry Michael D. Viron wrote: At 04:02

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Craig Sprout
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jerry Sommerdorf wrote: Michael, I'm not able to verify ipop3 att. I looked at this file earlier and if I remember correctly it was set to disable =yes. I will check on this later. If is set to disable, any idea as to what other program would be listening on port 110.

Re: [expert] httpd PHP

2001-10-23 Thread Randall Jonasz
I'm not sure if this will help, since I've always compiled apache first, php second. If libphp.module is already compiled, shouldn't you use activate-module in apache's configure script? The other thing to check is that the following entries are in your http.conf file: LoadModule php4_module

[expert] Live update - What is it?

2001-10-23 Thread emammendes
Hello What is the live update on the installation Cd number 1? Does update LM 8.0 form within a root session? Many thanks Eduardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] dial and send all email

2001-10-23 Thread David Savolainen
Hello Mulus Have you looked into using fetchmail to get mail off the server? I suggest reading the section on doing mail the unix way at www.mandrakeuser.org Very helpful! Best of Luck, David Mulus wrote: Hello expert, how to dial automatically to isp and send all queued email, and

[expert] Cameras

2001-10-23 Thread David Boles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am considering buying a digital camera for personnel use and i would like some suggestions, I like this camera because, this one works well, etc. Of course it would HAVE to be Linus compatible. - -- David Boles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

[expert] cdrw .../dev/scd0

2001-10-23 Thread Rui Maia
Anyone can tell me how can i create the device /dev/scd0 or...scd1or ...i delete it by mistake :-( Thank you * Rui Maia - E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Página Pessoal: http://www.mega.ist.utl.pt/~rfpm * Want

Re: [expert] Cameras

2001-10-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:06:27 -0400 David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: DB I am considering buying a digital camera for personnel use and i would DB like DB some suggestions, I like this camera because, this one works well, DB etc. DB DB Of course it would HAVE to be Linus

Re: [expert] Domino Server on 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:11:53PM -0500, Jerry Sommerdorf wrote: Anyone running a Domino server, and if so, any one having problems with it crashing? I'm running RNext Beta3 on Mandrake 8.0 and it's stable enough (considering the beta). do you have any problems on 8.1? please share the

[expert] Problem with the Gnome Desktop

2001-10-23 Thread Will Shiver
Subject: Problem with the Gnome Desktop When using only Gnomegmc as my file manager it does not correctly display the desktop icons . The icons file on the desktop are the correct files from .gnome-desktop directory but that do not display the correct icons and the .desktop file

Re: [expert] Cameras

2001-10-23 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 15:06 pm, you wrote: I am considering buying a digital camera for personnel use and i would like some suggestions, I like this camera because, this one works well, etc. Of course it would HAVE to be Linus compatible. I've had the OLympus Camedia D-460 Zoom since

[expert] I think my KDE is broke

2001-10-23 Thread Joseph Braddock
I think my KDE 2.2.1 is broke (Mandrake 8.1). At first I thought that it or the xserver was hung and the cpu was locked. I noticed that the hard drive was thrashing around quite a bit. I found out that the system wasn't locked, but the keyboard only responded every few minutes

Re: [expert] PHP/Apache on MDK 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Cox
On Sunday, Oct 21, 2001, Theo Brinkman wrote: That did it. Thanks! Sweet! Glad I could help. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 2 days 21 hours 38 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] kernel booting in 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Payne Stanifer
I am just now trying Mandrake 8.1. The install went well, no problems. Lilo is working like a charm. When I select Linux from the menu, the little languages icon pops up, then it says booting 2.78 at the bottom and just freezes. Can someone help me out here. Any info would be appreciated.

[expert] any chance of some help /

2001-10-23 Thread richard . bown
Hi having probs with an upgrade from 7.1 to 8.1 with the disto kernel 2.4.8-26mdk. supermount dont seemto work very well, and I got probs with masquerading, and the telnet server is not being seen. I ve tried a install twicw with different results, I also need to put the ax25 utils in the

[expert] Appletalk

2001-10-23 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi People, I use atalk at a MDK 7.2 box and it's works well. I tried to set atalk at another box running MDK 8.0 but I got it: /etc/init.d/atalk start nbp_rgstr: Connection timed out[ OK ] Can't register iracema:Workstation@* nbp_rgstr: Connection timed out

[expert] Error messages in mail!

2001-10-23 Thread Expert User
Hi Folks, I just completed installing MDK8.1. WOW!! It is wonderful. I use KDE and now anti-aliasing is available for my card. It looks wonderful. OK now to the problem and question I have: I am getting a mails from cron daemon everyday (this is second day only) that read: ---8---

RE: [expert] Error messages in mail!

2001-10-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
touch /usr/log/pacct You should then restart your system or the processing accounting daemon which is probably dead because it cannot handle the non-existance of this file. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Expert User |Sent:

[expert] Importing Oracle SQL scripts into MySQL

2001-10-23 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
Hello! I need some help/advice regarding databases. At college we are using Oracle 8i as server for our DB lab classes. The teacher give us some exercises, that I can only do at classes, since I don't have Oracle at home. I tried the Oracle 8i personal edition. Horrible... 600M of disk space,

Re: [expert] POP3 server 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
pop3d is a service of inetd. look at /etc/inetd.conf and find that line: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d be sure that the line is enabled (without a # in the beggining). HTH orlando Jerry Sommerdorf wrote: Can anyone tell what program is listening to port

Re: [expert] dual booting with Win2k

2001-10-23 Thread Andrea Fabris
No prob. I use the same configuration and grub as boot loader. grub calls the w2k boot manager when booting windows partition, so he can continue to use both w2k and w98. If he has some problem he has only to use the fixmbr util shipped with the win2k console One note: i had some problem cause

[expert] mail server problems

2001-10-23 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi all, I'd like to get some opinions on this problem before I contact the isp. I've been running fetchmail to get my mail every four hours for several months now,with no problems until oct 8,when the mail server,postoffice3.bellatlantic.net ,stopped accepting my connections. I am unable

Re: [expert] dual booting with Win2k

2001-10-23 Thread Andrea Fabris
Yes it works either. However i prefer grub because it gives u more control durign the booting phase. Thanx to grub architecture i found the mapping problem on mdk8.1 Because of grub let u edit the booting sequence at boot time, u have more control Regards Andrea Fabris - Original Message

Re: [expert] dual booting with Win2k

2001-10-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:32:23 -0400 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks - I'd hate to trash his system trying to get him to switch ;-). Since you mentioned lilo/grub regarding the config file I hope it's safe to assume lilo will work in this regard as well as grub? I understand lilo

RE: [expert] dual booting with Win2k

2001-10-23 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
I have the same setup on this machine; it's simple setup using the nt bootloader (which has always worked without a hitch for me). Install mandrake as normal but when you get to the point where you need to install the bootloader, tell it to use lilo (graphic or text - doesn't matter) and then

Re: [expert] Problem with the Gnome Desktop

2001-10-23 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 October 2001 19:13, Will Shiver spouted off about [expert] Problem with the Gnome Desktop: Subject: Problem with the Gnome Desktop When using only Gnomegmc as my file manager it does not correctly display the desktop icons . The

Re: [expert] procmail question

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Cox
On Tuesday, Oct 23, 2001, Expert User wrote: When I moved from 8.0 to 8.1 my .procmailrc file is not working... This is what I have in my procmail file: -rw-r--r--1 expert bapat 24 Aug 12 18:46 /home/expert/.procmailrc 8- :0: * ^TOroot Mail/sys

Re: [expert] export DISPLAY via ssh

2001-10-23 Thread Ken Hawkins
Thanks...I was trying to figure this one out too.. Ken Woody Green wrote: Here is the guilty party: ( in your $HOME/.bashrc ) # Need for a xterm co if we don't make a -ls [ -n $DISPLAY ] { [ -f /etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh ] source /etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh export

Re: [expert] how to free cache from physical memory space?

2001-10-23 Thread Randy Kramer
oscar wrote: Mmm... I don't know if we are talking about the same. I will explain me in a better way (and excuse my english, please) 1. We have the cached memory. When the system reads a file from the disk, the data will remain in a RAM memory area called cache. When the system must read