Re: [expert-it] Connessione ad Internet KO

2001-11-14 Thread Valerio Spadoni
At 08.57 12/11/2001 +0100, you wrote: Ciao, potrebbe essere un problema di impostazione HW o di... cavo telefonico lungo! Non sto scherzando: a me succede proprio con il pop wind con un cavo di una decina di metri, ma la connessione mi va in time-out dopo qualche minuto. Riguardo alle

[expert] problems installing mdk8.1 on a Tyan MP S2460 motherboard

2001-11-14 Thread J Grant
hello If anyone can answer any of these problems or get them fixed in the next release I would appreciate it. I have a tyan MP S2460 mother board with dual Athlon 1.2Ghz cpus. I have had several problems, SCSI cards did not work and could not load second stage. now i got it working with a

Re: [expert] Enough! What is wrong with linux and cdwriters?

2001-11-14 Thread Altoine B
Praedor wrote: This is driving me mad! I have a Teac cd-rw set as the slave to my cdrom master. MOST of the time I am unable to burn CDs, I get messages that the device isn't scsi or it has the wrong driver but once in a while I am able to burn a CD, but then no more. I just burned a CD,

RE: [expert] problems installing mdk8.1 on a Tyan MP S2460 motherboard

2001-11-14 Thread Franki
dunno about your specific problem, but it could be similiar to mine,, getting linux to work properly with a KT266A chipset, since that chipset is really new, linux doesn't recognise the different parts of it,, (it gets the ide controller since that is the same as many other via chipsets) but

[expert] Re[2]: Best Video cards for Linux?

2001-11-14 Thread Onur Kucuk
JH On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:56, you wrote: First of all I must say I am not an nvidia fanatic or so, I dont like the drivers be closed-source either. But I believe that nvidia cards are the best opengl cards around,and despite the source is closed, nvidia is doing a great job for linux. For

RE: [expert] Will Mandrake 8.1 run on this system?

2001-11-14 Thread Quintin Holmberg
What do you know ... that's my laptop (except for the UXGA screen). I run LM8.1 without any problems. The only catch will be changing over to the nVidia drivers. He will have to go to nVidia's Linux download site, get the drivers and configure them post install. There are pretty good

[expert] blackbox mouse

2001-11-14 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Hey all! I was wondering if someone knew of a way to adjust the mouse sensitivity in blackbox? thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] tuxracer won't start

2001-11-14 Thread Mike Rambo
A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box after installing 8.1. He, and I when I later tried it, is seeing an error Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I have grepped through the RPMS on all three CD's looking for Xlib, xlib, GLX, or glx and found only one rpm containing

RE: [expert] blackbox mouse

2001-11-14 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
This is probably better posted to the Blackbox list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] after searching in their archive at: www.mail-archive.com but to save the trouble here's a couple of ways: Use xset like in [submenu] (Mouse) {} [exec] (Fast) {xset m 7 10} [exec] (Normal) {xset m 3 6} [exec]

Re: [expert] Star Office 6.0 beta

2001-11-14 Thread David E. Fox
I installed real pronto on a P2 35Hz 383MB so the problem's seems be your glibc or a faulty download. I'm having a real hard time getting clean I had the same problem (faulty d/l). I thought something was wrong when after over 1/2 an hour after typing in the command to start the system, it

Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start

2001-11-14 Thread Jun Liu
Did you enable glx module in /etc/X11/XFree86-4 file? Normally it looks like 'Load glx' in Module section, of course, it requires your video card supporting GLX. Good luck /Jun On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 08:42:04AM -0500, Mike Rambo wrote: :A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box

Re: [expert] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-14 Thread Randy Kramer
Sergio Korlowsky wrote: I use KMail to retrieve my email from several sources, and IT WORKS! Yes, Mandrake 8.1... But at the same time I want to tell you... You mentioned, 'I can send email' NO, (You create email, compose email with KMail) but NEED PostFix to send it. KMail is a mail

Re: [expert] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-14 Thread Ian Land
You mentioned, 'I can send email' NO, (You create email, compose email with KMail) but NEED PostFix to send it. KMail is a mail 'client' the server part used by mandrake is PostFix. Just to keep things clear. Well, strictly speaking you don't *need* Postfix, or any SMTP server on

Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start

2001-11-14 Thread Oscar
Mike Rambo wrote: A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box after installing 8.1. He, and I when I later tried it, is seeing an error Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I have grepped through the RPMS on all three CD's looking for Xlib, lib, GLX, or glx and found only

Re: [expert] Home directory permissions.

2001-11-14 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael, Thanks for the response and clarification / corrections! (I might eventually learn how to handle all this stuff.) (Just a minor nit, on my Mandrake 7.2, my pages are stored in /home/httpd (and I'm sure I didn't create or move the directory) -- maybe the change occurred with Mandkrake

Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start

2001-11-14 Thread Onur Kucuk
Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 3:42:04 PM, you wrote: MR A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box after installing MR 8.1. He, and I when I later tried it, is seeing an error MR Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. MR I have grepped through the RPMS on all three CD's

[expert] Forcing UID/GID for certain directories/trees?

2001-11-14 Thread Brad Felmey
Hello, I have a certain directory tree that I'd like to ensure always has the same owner/group for the contents therein, regardless of who created or last modified those contents (let's disregard the security implications for this discussion). Something similar to how umask works for

Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start

2001-11-14 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2001 14:42 schrieben Sie: A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box after installing 8.1. He, and I when I later tried it, is seeing an error Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I have grepped through the RPMS on all three CD's looking for

RE: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing

2001-11-14 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: RE: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing Ok... got it half working now. The front end of it (cable modem to eth0) is working and I have internet connectivity. The back end (eht1 to hub) is working also, the dhcp server is setup and I can ping the pc's. The problem was that I had the

RE: [expert] Forcing UID/GID for certain directories/trees?

2001-11-14 Thread Rony Shapiro
Hi, Linux gives you part of the functionality you want via the 'setgid' flag on the directory: [...] a file's permissions have three special components, which affect only executable files (programs) and, on some systems, directories: 1. set the process's effective user ID to that of

[expert] Installing 8.1 on compaq ML530

2001-11-14 Thread tbeason
I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on a compaq ML530 with a Smart Array 4200 raid controller. To get the install cd to boot I have to use linux mem=640M. The installer partitions and formats the disks and starts installing the packages but hangs after finishing any where from 12% to 75%. Any

Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start

2001-11-14 Thread Mike Rambo
Juergen Hammelmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2001 14:42 schrieben Sie: A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box after installing 8.1. He, and I when I later tried it, is seeing an error Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I have grepped through the

Re: [expert] Forcing UID/GID for certain directories/trees?

2001-11-14 Thread David Guntner
Brad Felmey grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I have a certain directory tree that I'd like to ensure always has the same owner/group for the contents therein, regardless of who created or last modified those contents (let's disregard the security implications for this discussion). Something

Re: [expert] Forcing UID/GID for certain directories/trees?

2001-11-14 Thread Brad Felmey
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 10:46, Brad Felmey wrote: Hello, I have a certain directory tree that I'd like to ensure always has the same owner/group for the contents therein, regardless of who created or last modified those contents (let's disregard the security implications for this

Re: [expert] NFS LM8.1 server, AIX client problems

2001-11-14 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: I just checked, and this was done by the tech guys for the AIX client. I added the nfs_use_reserved_ports=1 to /etc/rc.uc.posttcpip so that he's be able to do his mounting... With this I was able to mount, however the problem is still that I can't

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread skidley
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, David Oberbeck wrote: Greetings all, I'm having problems with telnet-client-krb5 (version 1.2.2-11mdk). The new telnet fails when attempting to connect to Solaris 7 servers. The version of telnet supplied with 7.2 works as expected, the one with 8.1 does not.

[expert] FreeSwan Ipsec and 8.1

2001-11-14 Thread Taylor James T NPRI
I have been trying for the past few days to get the Freeswan rpm that came with 8.1 to work. I know that my configuration is valid because it works on Slackware. Is there a known problem with 8.1 and Freeswan or have I forgotten to do something? -James Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start

2001-11-14 Thread Wayne Stout
At 01:03 PM 11/14/2001 -0500, you wrote: Thanks to all who helped. The laptop I was messing with doesn't have 3d graphics which explains why it wouldn't work there. My co-workers box has an 8MB ATI 3d rageII+ pci card. The 8.1 installer loaded XFree4 by default. I'll make sure that glx and dbe

[expert] Up and running

2001-11-14 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: Up and running Ok... I went home for lunch and fired up the Internet Connection Sharing. It went off without a hitch! HA! No more 486 running Freesco for me! Thanks a lot guys. My one and only gripe is the lack of an expert setting in ICS. Something that allows more control over what

[expert] Javascript failure in KDE/Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
I was perusing space.com's site (http://www.space.com) and decided to take a look at satellite images (http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/index.php). I clicked on the image to expand it and it brings up a javascript window...with nothing in it. It doesn't appear to work in linux

[expert] Standy Mode

2001-11-14 Thread xsturm
Hey group, I have looked everywhere to see if I could stop Drake from powering down to standby type mode when my monitor goes black. I have stopped the apm daemon but still nothing. Any ideas??? Xsturm -- It's a beautiful day...don't let it get away... ~U2~ Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] 8.0 to 8.1 Upgrade

2001-11-14 Thread Albert E. Whale
Me thinks thou art preaching to the choir. I agree, if the only solution to get 8.1 running is an install, then the CD should check the value of /etc/mandrake-release and only permit an install for all non 8.1 systems. Admin wrote: then, WHY even offer a upgrade feature...if it causes

Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start

2001-11-14 Thread Oscar
El Mié 14 Nov 2001 16:56, escribió: Mike Rambo wrote: A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box after installing 8.1. He, and I when I later tried it, is seeing an error Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I have grepped through the RPMS on all three CD's looking

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings skidley, sarcasm Firstly, I would like to thank you for your extremely helpful, timely, and insightful response. Responses such as yours highlight the sterling quality of on-line help that one sometimes encounters on the 'net. /sarcasm Secondly, on secure internal trusted

Re: [expert] Kernels

2001-11-14 Thread Timothy R.Butler
Hi J.P., Thanks. I'm planning to wipe out my SuSE 7.1 install and replace it with LM 8.1, but I wanted to make sure mdk-patched kernels that were newer than 2.4.8 were being released before I did. :-) I'll wait unitl -7mdk before trying it... Best, Tim Try cooker, which has

Re: [expert] Kernels

2001-11-14 Thread skidley
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi everyone, I was just wondering if someone could point me to where I might be able to find a newer kernel (e.g. 2.4.11 or 13) for Mandrake 8.1? Thanks, Tim You can go to www.kernel.org and get 2.4.14(the latest stable) and build

[expert] SSH updates

2001-11-14 Thread Marcus Breiden
Hi, I'm trying since days to install the SSH updates to my 8.1 but I always get source not found, source corrupted etc. the other updates are working fine. any idea? Tschüss Marcus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Gee that's rather trite and myopic. Let's see, I use telnet to test and debug daemons. I also use it to configure non-unix devices, such as printer servers which only communicate with telnet. Telnet is also useful when talking to winblows boxes, etc. Damn, I guess I'm just don't care about

RE: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
While you express my sentiments exactly, please don't damn the rest of us due to a sophomoric adolescent on the list... Some people do try to help when possible. I believe it was Robin Williams who said; @#$*holes do vex me! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Mandrake and courier-imap -- anyone experienced this problem before?

2001-11-14 Thread Charlie Bebber
Hey there. This experience has been quite trying. Here's the breakdown: - Mandrake 8.0 - qmail-1.03 - courier-imap-1.3.12 - Squirrelmail webmail 1.2.0-rc2 (and the CVS version from Tuesday) - apache-1.3.22 - vpopmail-5.0 - qmailadmin-1.0 Everything works quite well until a user actually gets

Re: [expert] Kernels

2001-11-14 Thread Jun Liu
And you can download kernel SRPM from cooker, and compile it youself. On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:01:34PM -0400, skidley wrote: :On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Timothy R. Butler wrote: : : Hi everyone, : I was just wondering if someone could point me to where I might be able to : find a newer kernel

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread David Oberbeck
Jose, On Wednesday 14 November 2001 16:18, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: While you express my sentiments exactly, please don't damn the rest of us due to a sophomoric adolescent on the list... Some people do try to help when possible. I certainly don't put the majority of the list members in

Re: [expert] user permission for cd-rom (8.0)

2001-11-14 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
Thanks very much! Jose El Miércoles 14 Noviembre 2001 08:39, Larry Sword escribió: Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: What about the mnt dir itself? I had that problem when it changed to 700 or similar when I upgraded to M8.1, probably cause I changed security level. Where can we

Re: [expert] Kernels

2001-11-14 Thread Timothy R.Butler
You can go to www.kernel.org and get 2.4.14(the latest stable) and build it yourself or go to the mandrake website and find a cooker mirror and get the latest cooker kernel as an rpm and install it.(I never recommend this method I always like to build my own so I can add in only what I need

Re: [expert] realplayer

2001-11-14 Thread Jun Liu
Did you mean to invoke realplayer in netscape when necessary? On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:28:01PM -0500, Harold Hartley wrote: :Has anyone figured out how or if possible to choose the browser of choice to :come up when realplayer calls for a browser.. : :Harold : :Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] realplayer

2001-11-14 Thread Harold Hartley
I'd like to see it invoke konqueror instead of netscape.. or any browser I may choose.. On Wednesday 14 November 2001 06:52 pm, you wrote: Did you mean to invoke realplayer in netscape when necessary? On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:28:01PM -0500, Harold Hartley wrote: :Has anyone figured out how

Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script

2001-11-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Try su - -c 'command' Normal su (and kdesu I think) inherit the current user environment, the dash tells it to spawn a new one based on root. There are differences in the default path etc when running programs in this way which can cause obscure failures. BillK On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 07:27,

Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script

2001-11-14 Thread bascule
thanks, i sort of see what you mean, this might explian why kdesu doesn't do it, though #su password #./somescript does work without the dash, unfortunately, it's not a reason that might explain why a cron job run as root (setup with webmin) that calls the script would fail, would it? i have

Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script

2001-11-14 Thread William Kenworthy
You can use the dash with kdesu as well I think. Also, do some reading man cron and I think you will find that cron actually uses a particular restricted environment, hence your errors. I have got around this in the past by putting the job in a script file that sets the environment and which is

Re: [expert] blackbox mouse

2001-11-14 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Mitchell, Edmund wrote: This is probably better posted to the Blackbox list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] after searching in their archive at: www.mail-archive.com but to save the trouble here's a couple of ways: Use xset like in [submenu] (Mouse) {} [exec] (Fast) {xset m 7 10} [exec] (Normal)

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread skidley
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, David Oberbeck wrote: Sorry if I offended you. I agree it is simple to use telnet on an isolated network without access to the internet. But what if someone within that network likes to crack into your personal data. I mean a 7 year old could easily view anything transferred

Re: [expert] Kernels

2001-11-14 Thread skidley
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Timothy R. Butler wrote: You can go to www.kernel.org and get 2.4.14(the latest stable) and build it yourself or go to the mandrake website and find a cooker mirror and get the latest cooker kernel as an rpm and install it.(I never recommend this method I always

Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script

2001-11-14 Thread bascule
from man cron and man 5 crontab it seems that only SHELL, LOGNAME and HOME are set, since the script itself can specify a shell? i assume there is some additional environment variable that is set in a console that affects the running of urpmi, thanks for the pointer bascule On Thursday 15

Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script

2001-11-14 Thread bascule
further to my previous reply, i tried adding the following to my little script: ENV=~/.bashrc export ENV then i tried ENV=/etc/bashrc export ENV but in the end adding the following which are part of /root/.bashrc: PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

Re: [expert] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Pierre, Have you checked with your ISP to see Could you please explain in more detail about if there is a popper process still running for your userid..? But I can't understand why with the same settings including password and login Eudora running on OS Win can download the emails.

RE: [expert] SB Live Synth?

2001-11-14 Thread Michael Leone
From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I mentioned to Tim, you have to follow the directions or else it will not appear. I followed the directions (reprinted below). Still have them printed out here. SB Live was configured from Mdk Control Center, after removing all sound modules. See

[expert] interface lo

2001-11-14 Thread skidley
I have a problem that is baffling me. At boot interface lo is not brought up although it is included in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script. I am not familiar with the syntax of the script but its in there. Also in the script /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo there is ONBOOT=yes. I added it

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread kons Richard Bown
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Gee that's rather trite and myopic. Let's see, I use telnet to test and debug daemons. I also use it to configure non-unix devices, such as printer servers which only communicate with telnet. Telnet is also useful when talking to winblows boxes, etc. Damn, I

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread J. C. Woods
kons Richard Bown wrote: But of course I must be stupid like the rest, ! -- Richard Bown Ericsson Microwave Systems AB SE-431 84 Mölndal e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +46 31 74 72422 mobile +46 7098 72422 Well you said it, and, afterall, you do work in Sweden. What do you get home

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread kons Richard Bown
J. C. Woods wrote: kons Richard Bown wrote: But of course I must be stupid like the rest, ! -- Richard Bown Ericsson Microwave Systems AB SE-431 84 Mölndal e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +46 31 74 72422 mobile +46 7098 72422 Well you said it, and, afterall, you do work in

[expert] unclutter your cursor

2001-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
Back with Red Hat, and then beginning with Mandrake 6.0, I used this little (14k) utility to make the cursor disappear after about 5 seconds of no mouse movement. IOW's, get it to heck out'a the way ;) The cursor will re-appear where it was as soon as you move the mouse again. It's been a

Re: [expert] unclutter your cursor

2001-11-14 Thread Mitch Thompson
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 10:28, Tom Brinkman wrote: Back with Red Hat, and then beginning with Mandrake 6.0, I used this little (14k) utility to make the cursor disappear after about 5 seconds of no mouse movement. IOW's, get it to heck out'a the way ;) The cursor will re-appear where