[expert-it] s'abonner

2001-11-21 Thread @QIl
Hello expert-it, subscribe aqil -- Best regards, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert-it] Connessione ad Internet KO

2001-11-21 Thread Valerio Spadoni
At 10.28 17/11/2001 +0100, you wrote: Come mai hai configurato tutto a mano invece di usare un dialer come KPPP, wvdial (e gtkdial)? Funzionano piu' che bene. Veramente ho cominciato con kppp, ma visto che non funzionava ho provato ad affrontare il problema dalla radice... Ciao Ciao

[expert] Using ulimit to limit resource usage by Apache.

2001-11-21 Thread Robert Fargher
We're running a web server, hosting several hundred virtualhosts, most of whom use PHP. Since there is so much use of PHP, I've compiled it into Apache, rather than as a loadable module. Rather frequently, it seems that a httpd process (we've tracked it happening) will go rogue and

[expert] disk repartitioning (after Windows XP)

2001-11-21 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan
The new computer I just bought has Windows XP. I'd like to re-partition my (20 GB) hard disk keeping most it for Mandrake 8.1. Does the disk re-partitioning software that comes with Mandrake 8.1 work with a disk originally formatted for Windows XP? Note: Partition Magic has a new version 7 for

[expert] Problem Reading CD-R discs with 2.4.3 kernel on MDK 8.0

2001-11-21 Thread Arnab_Ganguly
Hi, I am using a MDK 8.0 on an Intel Celeron with 128M RAM and most things are working very well except for one problem, which is very troubling at times. I simply cannot read a CD-R disk properly, whenever I copy something from a CD-R to the hard disc the program exits with a message like Could

Re: [expert] Active ethernet on BNC

2001-11-21 Thread Pierfrancesco Tateo
The connection are ok , is the autodetection not working properly forcing 10base2 with diagnostic under dos it works properly Pierfrancesco kons Richard Bown wrote: On many dual port ethernet cards, the rj45 is enabled automatically if the BNC port is not terminated with 50 ohm

Re: [expert] pop3 off topic

2001-11-21 Thread Pipit
Hello kons, If your server support, you can use : dele 1 - 204 (try also not use space) or on windows, usually i use this program : http://www.fantastica.com/digilex/cmail.html otherwise, make a perl program, telnet to the pop3 and loop from 1 to 240 and delete the number. --

RE: [expert] pop3 off topic

2001-11-21 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
Thanks Pipit, the problem sorted it self out when the link was restored, with a download of over 500 mails. Just deleted at my end.. Thanks anyway Regards richard -Original Message- From: Pipit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [expert] Kernel and PCMCIA

2001-11-21 Thread Mészáros Balázs
Hi Make sure, that the kernel PCMCIA support is not compiled into the distro version, because it is not working. So if that is the case, recompile the kernel with all the kernel-pcmcia options disabled, configure the pcmcia package, and it will hopefully recognize your devices Balazs Meszaros

[expert] Password lenght is only 8 characters ?!

2001-11-21 Thread Ivaylo Toshev
Hi there, I've just installed Mandrake 8.1 and discovered that the password length is only 8 characters, thath means that if you set your password, for example as pass12345678, the system will authorize you if you type pass1234, or pass1234-BLA-BLA. There is shadowing on the system, i think

[expert] CUPS remote printing

2001-11-21 Thread Guillermo J. González Rodas
Hello, I want to know if somebody had printing remotely using CUPS. I've tried the lp -d printer@host file but I've got the message server- error-service-unavailable. I look at the documentation but I didn't find how can I make de printing service available. What could be wrong in

Re: [expert] disk repartitioning (after Windows XP)

2001-11-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 04:52:58 -0500 (EST) Jerry L. Kazdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new computer I just bought has Windows XP. I'd like to re-partition my (20 GB) hard disk keeping most it for Mandrake 8.1. Does the disk re-partitioning software that comes with Mandrake 8.1 work with a

RE: [expert] damn shockwave

2001-11-21 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I had the flash/shockwave problem until last night I installed lesstif, kdebase-nsplugins, and let kde rescan for plugins (in the kontrol panel) and it works, slow as a duck in konq, but it works Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Angus Beath [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

2001-11-21 Thread David ..
If it's a webserver only, then you don't need SMTP From: LeTortorec, Jean-Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Ports to keep open Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:06:27 -0500 I'm trying to limit the ports open on a Linux box.

Re: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()

2001-11-21 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 20:25, Brian Schroeder wrote: I asked for help on this problem once before, but, unforutunately, no one felt qualified to respond. So on behalf of my hair, which doesn't want to be torn out, if anyone can enlighten me on this I would appreciate it. Any PHP-based app

Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

2001-11-21 Thread bascule
also with ftp, people behind firewalls using passive ftp won't be able tp transfer as you haven't opened range of ports for them to use (PassivePorts directive in proftpd.conf), scp would be simpler bascule On Tuesday 20 Nov 2001 4:06 pm, you wrote: I'm trying to limit the ports open on a

Re: [expert] Some oddities with the kernel-source rpm

2001-11-21 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
I think that Bill's reply speaks for me. RpmDrake should at least tell the user that the package is there. And/or there should be a release note pointing that. Besides, whats is more dangerous, installing a kernel or removing it? RpmDrake let a user remove it. Finally, as I told you, and

Re: [expert] CUPS remote printing

2001-11-21 Thread Mark D'voo
run kups, it'll take you through a 30 second wizard to get printing to work mark On Wednesday 21 November 2001 18:59, you wrote: Hello, I want to know if somebody had printing remotely using CUPS. I've tried the lp -d printer@host file but I've got the message server-

[expert] Where is my drive space

2001-11-21 Thread Chuck Lalli
I just noticed a problem on my 8.1/cooker install. Recently when installing a new package I ran out of space on /usr/local. DiskDrake shows my /usr/local mounted as hdg1 with 8.8 G. It is formatted as a Reiser partition and is the first 1154 cylinders of 2490 cyls (19G) on a Maxtor

Re: [expert] disable dsl connect on boot [newbie]

2001-11-21 Thread skidley
On 21 Nov 2001, Paul Rodríguez wrote: Hi, I asked this on the newbie list, but got no response. I was hoping someone here would know how to fix this. How do I manually disable connecting to the internet on startup? I have an adsl connection that I setup in Mandrake Control Center to

Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

2001-11-21 Thread Daniel Woods
If it's a webserver only, then you don't need SMTP And no one has a real need for port 113 (authentication). I'm trying to limit the ports open on a Linux box. If I reduce the list to : - SMTP/25 - ssh/22 - proftp/21 - http/80 - https/443 - authentication/113 Do you think that

Re: [expert] CUPS remote printing

2001-11-21 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
Guillermo J. González Rodas wrote: Hello, I want to know if somebody had printing remotely using CUPS. I've tried the lp -d printer@host file but I've got the message server- error-service-unavailable. I look at the documentation but I didn't find how can I make de printing service

RE: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()

2001-11-21 Thread William R. Nash
You will need to load php-mysql to connect to the mysql server with php. Sorry i read over that on the list you have php-pgsql. Bill Nash. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Schroeder Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:15 PM To:

[expert] cdrw cant burn

2001-11-21 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I have a recent iinstall of Mandrake 8.1. Using devfs, how do you burn a cd with cdrecord? Cdrecord gives: [root /dev] cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI

[expert] Nec 7700A CDRW

2001-11-21 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've selected 10x to burn 530Mb to a 10x compatible RW and it has took 11'36 ... That's about 4x??!! Does any of you have this writer? Is it working fine? Thanks!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat

Re: [expert] Nec 7700A CDRW

2001-11-21 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 Nov 2001 8:46 pm, you wrote: Hallo! I've selected 10x to burn 530Mb to a 10x compatible RW and it has took 11'36 ... That's about 4x??!! Does any of you have this writer? Is it working fine? Thanks!! ;) What software did

Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
No one? A while ago I was forced to partially open 113 again as apparently some irc servers require an ident before allowing a connection to be established. A bit of experimentation found that they were happy with an ipchains reject, but failed if the packet was just dropped (DENY) BillK On

Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

2001-11-21 Thread Ralph Forsythe
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Brandon Hutchinson wrote: Just make sure you are using an up-to-date SMTP agent. I don't think Sendmail has had a remote root exploit since 1997, but has had some recent local root exploits. I don't know if identd (113) is actually needed, although I think remote MTAs

Re: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()

2001-11-21 Thread Brian Schroeder
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm afraid php-mysql is in my list. It's probably my fault for listing so many packages. Brian. From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake-expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect() Date:

Re: [expert] VIA686A Error Message on a non-VIA686A mobo

2001-11-21 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 23:45, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: The problem is not with the ALiMagik or Via chipsets at all! It's with the brain damaged Winbond Clock chip used on almost all Via and ALiMagik motherboards. YECCH! Thanks for the info. Your only recourse is to disable this error

Re: [expert] Firewall Log Question

2001-11-21 Thread Leif Madsen
I have to agree with Tarragon here. It doesn't look to me like any sort of hacking attempt as it looks like their firewall is just recieving packets to ports which they are blocking and it is dropping them. It very well could be a machine on their network which has the IP address of 192.168.X.X

Re: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()

2001-11-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm afraid php-mysql is in my list. It's probably my fault for listing so many packages. I found that I had to disable SQL safe_mode in /etc/php.ini [SQL] sql.safe_mode = Off Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Firewall Log Question

2001-11-21 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:08, Leif Madsen wrote: I have to agree with Tarragon here. It doesn't look to me like any sort of hacking attempt as it looks like their firewall is just recieving packets to ports which they are blocking and it is dropping them. It very well could be a machine on

[expert] Konqueror Bug

2001-11-21 Thread Expert
Konqueror disapears when you get a midi file in a web page. It leaves this thing http://kittypuss.org/dialogue.gif And I can't fix it, please help. Btw, no one knew the answer on the newbie list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Corp Server iso errors?

2001-11-21 Thread lonnie
Hello All, I have recently downloaded and burned up the corp server 2 CD iso's so that I could install a minimal server with Xwindows and just a web server without all of the EXTRA packages that seems to get installed. The problem is that the install proceeds ok, up to the point after the

[expert] ram drive mapping iso?

2001-11-21 Thread lonnie
Hello All, Is there a way to mount an ISO image as a ram drive so that I do not have to keep burning CD's on images that do not work cleanly? Thanks in advance, Lonnie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lost win manager exec paths

2001-11-21 Thread hardcorepush
I once again figured this out before an answer. IN a directory /etc/X11/wmsession.d are several text files with exec paths to the window mangers. They must be entered into kdm login manager exactly as listed (case sensitive) to make them work. I dont know why they disappeared . but they are

Re: [expert] ram drive mapping iso?

2001-11-21 Thread Anders Bruun Olsen
On Thursday 22 November 2001 02:20, you wrote: Is there a way to mount an ISO image as a ram drive so that I do not have to keep burning CD's on images that do not work cleanly? I don't think you can do it as a ram drive, but you can mount the image directly to a dir: mount -o loop -t

RE: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()

2001-11-21 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 01:03 PM 11/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: You will need to load php-mysql to connect to the mysql server with php. Sorry i read over that on the list you have php-pgsql. Bill Nash. Bill, Note that he does in fact have php-mysql installed, as well as php-pgsql. Michael -- Michael Viron

Re: [expert] Firewall Log Question

2001-11-21 Thread eduardo
Thanks for your help. With this I sent a small description about how network has bean setting up and the hardware that the we are using. Network 1 : 10.10.X.X / 255.255.0.0 (The Other Company/Firewall) Network 2 : 192.168.5.X.X / 255.255.0.0 (My company) The Switch we have 2 Vlans. The

[expert] Where'd My Icons Go?

2001-11-21 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, I went to launch a program tonight, and was startled to see all of the icons for the different groups in KDE are gone - replaced with KDE's default question mark icon. The same goes for most applications. Any ideas on what might have caused this? Also, any ideas on how to get

[expert] LM8.1 -- no sound

2001-11-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Just downloaded and installed LM 8.1 (clean, fresh install). I have so far had only one problem that mystifies me: sound. I had no problem whatsoever having LM 8.1 detect and configure my new SB16 ISA card. I was able to hear both Linus' voice and the midi sample just like

Re: [expert] Firewall Log Question

2001-11-21 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:41, eduardo wrote: Thanks for your help. With this I sent a small description about how network has bean setting up and the hardware that the we are using. Network 1 : 10.10.X.X / 255.255.0.0 (The Other Company/Firewall) Network 2 : 192.168.5.X.X / 255.255.0.0 (My

Re: [expert] Where'd My Icons Go?

2001-11-21 Thread Timothy R.Butler
Oh, stupid me. I found the problem. I was trying to get Corel Photo-Paint 9 to install, and PP9 includes menu-2.1.5rpm, straight from Corel Linux/debian. Normally this wouldn't pose a problem, but since Mandrake was smart, and reused debian code for their menu management system, the PP9 code

[expert] VNC is either really slow or doesn't see mouseclicks

2001-11-21 Thread Roger Haase
Hi, I have installed VNC from the Mandrake 8.1 distribution on two different systems, an AMD 450 and an AMD 700. The AMD 450 is trying to be a monitorless, keyboardless, mouseless server running Mandrake 8.1 and vncserver, which I start via my .kde/Autostart. On the AMD 700, I run

Re: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()

2001-11-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Brian Schroeder« am 2001-11-21 um 12:55:23 +1030 : php-mysql-4.0.6-3mdk mod_php-4.0.6-5mdk The php-mysql and php versions don't match. Try to install the same versions. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage:

Re: [expert] ram drive mapping iso?

2001-11-21 Thread David E. Fox
I don't think you can do it as a ram drive, but you can mount the image directly to a dir: mount -o loop -t iso9660 -r /path/to/file.iso /path/to/mountdir Theoretically, you could, just loopback mount it on a mount point that is mounted on a RAM disk. But you'd need a CD's worth of RAM to

Re: [expert] ram drive mapping iso?

2001-11-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »David E. Fox« am 2001-11-21 um 23:00:56 -0800 : But as a corrolary, have people tried installing from an ISO image via loopback mount? That would make it kinda cool since not everyone That's supposed to work, although I've tried it myself. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote:

Re: [expert] cdrw cant burn

2001-11-21 Thread Expert User
Looks like the sg module is not loaded. Do 'insmod sg' as root and try cdrecord -scanbus again. The /dev/scd0 device is not used for the Recording. Only for reading CD. Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a recent iinstall of Mandrake 8.1. Using devfs, how do you