RE: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1 NON COMPILING MODULES

2001-10-28 Thread richard.bown
I went back a version and installed mdk 8.0 and the telnet server dos'nt function on that either. howver the telnet server does act ok as a client, so the prblem is not a service or xinitd function.. BUT.. I 'm still absolutly screwed with this build. I 'm unable to get the NAT function of

[expert] Devfs, M8.1 and Ps2 mouse

2001-10-28 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
Hi, I've upgraded Mandrake 8.0 to 8.1 and I am having problems with mouse detection. It seems it is due to devfs support configuration. When X Windows starts, either on system bootup or just after doing 'killall X', mouse does not respond. If I do CRTL + ALT + F1 and I go back to X with ALT

Re: [expert] nfs

2001-10-28 Thread Benjamin Niemann
On Saturday 27 October 2001 23:33, you wrote: How long should it take to mount an nfs volume? I've got a computer with using xfs and it takes a good 5 minutes to mount from the same network. When done mounting the transfer is about as good as it gets 80Mb/sec on 100Mb/sec NIC cards.

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 and Intel fortran 5.0

2001-10-28 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Hi Eduardo, I have installed ifc 5.0.1 (evaluation version) on my 1.8GHz Pentium 4 system running LM 8.1. This is the only way that I can get a performance much better than with a Pentium III. Unfortunately, I was not aware of the new architechture used in the Pentium 4, and the problems

[expert] Problems with agp ?

2001-10-28 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I get the following error message when running dmesg: - Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M agpgart: Unsupported AMD chipset (device id: 700e), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1. agpgart: no supported

[expert] window emulator

2001-10-28 Thread Harold Hartley
I have heard there are 3 windows emulators for linux. I know of wine and win4lin, but can't remember the other one. Does anyone know of the other one. thanks Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] window emulator

2001-10-28 Thread H McM
vmware On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:32:00 -0500 Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard there are 3 windows emulators for linux. I know of wine and win4lin, but can't remember the other one. Does anyone know of the other one. thanks Harold Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] window emulator

2001-10-28 Thread Salane King
vmware On Sunday 28 October 2001 08:32, you wrote: I have heard there are 3 windows emulators for linux. I know of wine and win4lin, but can't remember the other one. Does anyone know of the other one. thanks Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] nfs

2001-10-28 Thread Greg Sarsons
I use the ip address. When I issue a rpcinfo -p 192.16.x.x it comes back right away with all the info. Greg On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 05:44, Benjamin Niemann wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 23:33, you wrote: How long should it take to mount an nfs volume? I've got a computer with using

[expert] Old DOS games?

2001-10-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
Can I run old DOS games on Mandrake via some emulator, those old bastards that require 600k low mem? If so, what is the best/easiest way? Best regards Søren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Some Toshiba laptop problems with MDK 8.1

2001-10-28 Thread Quintin Holmberg
my preliminary web searches do not find any information on getting 8.1 to work but, i will look a little further for you. kde is an environment with many packages and upgrading it could take some time. i would recommend going to www.kde.org to see what they have to say about it. inevibably,

Re: [expert] Some Toshiba laptop problems with MDK 8.1

2001-10-28 Thread Quintin Holmberg
ok ... here is some more information i went to http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and looked up that model. i found some information on installing suse 6.3 at http://loge.math.uni-sb.de/~holger/L/toshiba.html. they have their xf86config file there and in the monitor section they have: Section

Re: [expert] window emulator

2001-10-28 Thread Ron Marriage
Actually there are others. You might want to check out Plex86 which is a free program similiar to VMWare. http://www.plex86.org/ A list of other Windows emulators can be found at: http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Emulators/Microsoft/ Ron H McM wrote: vmware On Sun, 28 Oct 2001

Re: [expert] window emulator

2001-10-28 Thread James W. McComas
I just installed VMWare 3.0B on ASUS A7M266 1.4G MB. Installed OK and runs OK except network connections. Probably a config error. I am using W98SE as the OS. Ron Marriage wrote: Actually there are others. You might want to check out Plex86 which is a free program similiar to VMWare.

Re: [expert] Secure Disk Partitions

2001-10-28 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Well here's just my un-orthodox guess: Create a new user and group on your machine and give it ownership of that disk partition. Or maybe just pick an already existing group and put the partition in that group. As you can probably tell, I'm just guessing here 'cause I've never had to try

[expert] Gnome freezes at random times

2001-10-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
My Gnome freezes quite often. Stuff as downloads and my CD player keeps going (I can even see the progress of the download), but Gnome dosn't catch any mouse/key events. My mousepointer works fine, I just cant click anything. After a while, Gnome unfreezes again (the time varies). I cant see a

[expert] scsi acess...

2001-10-28 Thread Rui Maia
I had made the block file /dev/scd1 for my second scsi emulated drive...the cdrw, and now, i can't mount the device, it gives me an error of no media found. Although i can write with xcdroast and i can import session Anyone can help me ? Thank you * Rui Maia

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 - Printing from Netscape 6.1

2001-10-28 Thread Larry Sword
gnerd wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and can print test pages from the CUPS config tool OK, but Netscape 6.1 won't print (although it says it printed successfully). I assume it's looking for lpr vs. CUPS. The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 740. Anyone know how to make it work? Oh,

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 - Printing from Netscape 6.1

2001-10-28 Thread James W. McComas
I have 6.1 on both 8.0 and 8.1 and it prints OK with CUPS on an EPSON 880. Larry Sword wrote: gnerd wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and can print test pages from the CUPS config tool OK, but Netscape 6.1 won't print (although it says it printed successfully). I assume it's looking for lpr

Re: [expert] window emulator

2001-10-28 Thread Gerald Merten
vmware is another one. Jerry From: Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] window emulator Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:32:00 -0500 I have heard there are 3 windows emulators for linux. I know of wine and win4lin, but can't remember

[expert] PATH=$PATH:/foo in .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2001-10-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
I want to append to my PATH. Should this go in my .bashrc or .bash_profile? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] window emulator

2001-10-28 Thread Herman Jalink
On Sunday 28 October 2001 18:42, Gerald Merten wrote: vmware is another one. Jerry From: Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] window emulator Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:32:00 -0500 I have heard there are 3 windows

Re: [expert] PATH=$PATH:/foo in .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2001-10-28 Thread David E. Fox
I want to append to my PATH. Should this go in my .bashrc or .bash_profile? Mine are in .bash_profile. I suppose either can be used, as .bash_profile sources .bashrc. That might not be universal, since my .bashrc/.bash_ profile are several years old and predate Mandrake. -- Stephen

Re: [expert] PATH=$PATH:/foo in .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2001-10-28 Thread ltiu
either one will do well On Sunday 28 October 2001 10:04, you wrote: I want to append to my PATH. Should this go in my .bashrc or .bash_profile? Mine are in .bash_profile. I suppose either can be used, as .bash_profile sources .bashrc. That might not be universal, since my .bashrc/.bash_

[expert] need to reinstall?

2001-10-28 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are still some apps and configs that won't work in 8.1. I tried to change the SCSI adapter in Harddrake to the correct model number but the change did not occur. And I can't get internet connection sharing working even though it shows

Re: [expert] Bastille Part II (The answer)

2001-10-28 Thread Lee Roberts
I know something about networking but not enough to be dangerous yet. It looks like I'm going to have to spend a lot of time figuring out what all this ipchains coding means. I looked at the rules that were created by Bastille and it's far more complicated than what I could do manually. It's a

Re: [expert] Bastille Part II

2001-10-28 Thread J. C. Woods
Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Internet Protocols (UDP( connectionless Short for 'User Datagram Protocol', a connectionless protocol that, like TCP, runs on top of IP networks. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP/IP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send and receive

Re: [expert] rejecting sites mail with postfix

2001-10-28 Thread David E. Fox
On Saturday 27 October 2001 01:39 pm, you wrote: Are you sure..? :^) I thought it was too but the file dates said otherwise... /etc/access.db was newer (by one minute) than /etc/access after I ran 'service postfix restart' so I figured that it got the new rules in place. Still, some of

Re: [expert] Cameras

2001-10-28 Thread Woody Green
On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 16:06, David Boles wrote: -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

Re: [expert] Firewalling

2001-10-28 Thread Woody Green
Make sure that the ipchains compatibility module isn't loaded first. rmmod ipchains You will also want to run drakconf and in the services section, uncheck (turn off) ipchains. iptables and ipchains are mutually exclusive. Woody On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 11:36, jarmo kettunen wrote:

Re: [expert] JRE 1.4 beta doesn't work with Mozilla nor Netscape

2001-10-28 Thread Woody Green
After extensive testing trying to get 1.4 beta2 working with Opera 5.05, I've come to the conclusion that the java plugin supplied by Sun is broke. Running opera at the command line and watching the output when I visit java.sun.com, I get: Error in initializing function pointer xislocked_fn

Re: [expert] PATH=$PATH:/foo in .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2001-10-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Which files are used by bash is not straightforward... I'm doing some investigations in this area and have some surprising results... I'm documenting it at http://pfortin.com/Linux/bash/ Any feedback (offline) appreciated. Pierre ltiu wrote: either one will do well On Sunday 28 October

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 - Printing from Netscape 6.1

2001-10-28 Thread gnerd
H. Well, it's working now, after shutting down and rebooting. Thanks to everyone who responded! Mike Larry Sword wrote: gnerd wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and can print test pages from the CUPS config tool OK, but Netscape 6.1 won't print (although it says it printed successfully).

RE: [expert] problem mounting cdrom

2001-10-28 Thread Lawrence G.
I installed mdk 8.1 on my box at home and work. I have the same problem with both, can't mount the cdrom. I've read the info help files about making changes to the etc/fstab file. I'm doing something right. Anyone that doesn't have this problem reply to this message with the line that shows the

Re: [expert] Cameras

2001-10-28 Thread Bob Young
I use the same technique. It works with the Fuji Finepix 1400, the Casio QV series, the Toshiba PDR series, and I have viewed reports that it works with the Olympus models as well. If it's a USB camera, there should be no problem with mounting the memory card as a SCSI device, and then reading

[expert] Remote access to linux box

2001-10-28 Thread Matthew O. Persico
I would like to use my Linux box in server mode - that is, never log into it from the console. In particular, I'd like to log in using my Exceed xserver starting an xterm after login via an REXEC call. This is the way we log into my machine at work. It does not work at home. I get an error to

Re: [expert] Remote access to linux box

2001-10-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
it would be much more secure if you piped the X display through an ssh connection via the X-forwarding mechanism. Anyways, if it is inside a firewall, and you are not accessing it over the internet, you need to set the DISPLAY variable. Otherwise, the xterm will not know which display on which

Re: [expert] rejecting sites mail with postfix

2001-10-28 Thread Daniel Woods
David, I am trying to block some spam sites from gaining entry into my system, and I run my own mail server (no pop - smtp right to my dsl address) and according to the manpages, it would appear that I should put the trouble- some sites in /etc/postfix/access, one per line, along with a

[expert] Apache Proxy server problem + httpd error message

2001-10-28 Thread trus
Hi everybody I've got the following problem: We had a proxy server running on http://10.0.0.3:8080/ (Apache Server). It was running fine, but now, it's not. I know I ran Comanche and edited httpd.conf, but didn't modify anything. Now, whenever, I type http://10.0.0.3:8080/; in my browser, I

Re: [expert] problem mounting cdrom

2001-10-28 Thread Eric Paynter
On October 28, 2001 08:44 pm, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: My fstab is *exactly* like this! It mounts but no permission to read! The permission is set to user:cdrom! My permissions look like this: dr-xr-xr-x3 root root 2048 Sep 26 06:10 cdrom/ Have you tried a

Re: [expert] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem

2001-10-28 Thread Larry Sword
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, I tried nearly 2 weeks but still could not solve the installation problem of Mandrake-Linux 8.1. Detail as follows : Configuration of the PC for Linux box CPU AMD K2 350 Hard Disk3.6G ATA-33 RAM 128 MB ISO Images were download to a

RE: [expert] Linux ISP

2001-10-28 Thread Franki
I don't know about all the packages you describe, but with postfix, you will probably have to compile it to support Mysql backend... I imagine you will find the same for proftp and the others... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: [expert] re :telnet-server mdk 8.1

2001-10-28 Thread richard
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 00:52, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Oct 29, 2001 at 12:19:14AM +, richard wrote: Well after reinstalling again, the telnet server IS running, albeit getting rid if the telnet-client proved to be a pain, it took several uninstalls using rpm drake to get rid of if

[expert] re :telnet-server mdk 8.1

2001-10-28 Thread richard
Hi experts, Well after reinstalling again, the telnet server IS running, albeit getting rid if the telnet-client proved to be a pain, it took several uninstalls using rpm drake to get rid of if it . Once the telnet-client was out the server went in and worked all but one bit.. Telnetting

Re: [expert] problem mounting cdrom

2001-10-28 Thread Eric Paynter
On October 28, 2001 03:32 pm, you wrote: I installed mdk 8.1 on my box at home and work. I have the same problem with both, can't mount the cdrom. I've read the info help files about making changes to the etc/fstab file. I'm doing something right. Anyone that doesn't have this problem reply

[expert] Linux ISP

2001-10-28 Thread Galileo
I'm looking for suggestions for building a linux only isp. So far my solution look like this: Postfix+Cyrus using autentification try pam from a mysql database for smtp/pop3/imap access. Replex for mail administration. Freradiusas radius server since it can be configured to

Re: [expert] problem mounting cdrom

2001-10-28 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Eric Paynter wrote: Hi! My fstab is *exactly* like this! It mounts but no permission to read! The permission is set to user:cdrom! Any ideas? Ricardo Castanho /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 ^.. with NO line

[expert] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem

2001-10-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, I tried nearly 2 weeks but still could not solve the installation problem of Mandrake-Linux 8.1. Detail as follows : Configuration of the PC for Linux box CPU AMD K2 350 Hard Disk3.6G ATA-33 RAM 128 MB ISO Images were download to a Windows ME box with Anti-Virus

[expert] Remote Login and VNC

2001-10-28 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I was trying to set up some remote access to a Mandrake box and had a couple of questions that I can't seem to find in the VNC docs. 1) Is anyone using the VNC service in the initscripts to start VNC-Server for two or more people. The initscript looks fairly straightforward for one user,

Re: [expert] problem mounting cdrom

2001-10-28 Thread Larry Sword
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Eric Paynter wrote: Hi! My fstab is *exactly* like this! It mounts but no permission to read! The permission is set to user:cdrom! Any ideas? Have you added youself to the cdrom group? Ricardo Castanho /dev/hdb