Re: [expert] VPN

2002-02-04 Thread jarmo kettunen
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 06:22, you wrote: > Hi All, > > For those who are setting up VPN, which software would you recommend to > link travellers to an application running on MDK 8.1 and a samba server ? I > already evaluated "PPTPD". > > Thanks > > Richard Hi Richard There's not much

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Skippi
Ok -- making progress I think. In the fetchmail configuration editor I found where it ask you to tell it the "local delivery agent". So I put "sendmail" in there. Then when I test fetchmail it can not find sendmail. Turns out that I don't have access to sendmail as user, but it is in my path

[expert] apm-scripts and X locking, bug in etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/5Xfree86?

2002-02-04 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I have worked on getting the X display to lock automatically when I use APM on my laptop. I used the standard scripts provided by the package apm-scripts. I run KDE and the locking is thus governed by the following part of the shell-script: w |tail +3 |awk '{print $1, $3}'|grep -v '-'|g

Re: [expert] Re: System freeze on kernel compilation -- Mozilla display problem

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Hmmm... That's strange... I think the problem is on my end. I received a few automated "This server does not accept mail from spammers!" message bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (they actually went to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I own the domain) because of my recent posts to this

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
On February 4, 2002, skippi wrote: S> Is this a deamon which is suppose to be running in the S> background? Sendmail is not a daemon, but a program that can be invoked everytime you send the mail. It will take care of queueing and relaying the mail appropriately. What is appropriate depends

Re: [expert] System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Nguyen Hung Vu
Have you checked MUO site? We have to reconfigure system: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html#conf as well as lilo or grub http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html#lilo good luck Hung vu >>This process used to work perfectly, but now the >>process freeze

[expert] spam email server when i post: putterman.com

2002-02-04 Thread J. Grant
Hello, on sending email to this list I get an automated email from this person below telling me not to send them spam. Does anyone else get this message? If so I would like to sugest that they are removed from this list and if anyone can send them a mail without it getting sent back let them k

[expert] Re: System freeze on kernel compilation -- Mozilla display problem

2002-02-04 Thread J. Grant
Hello, The clear line after X-UIDL seems to mean Mozilla can not identify the To: eg it thinks after X-UIDL is the Body of the email! has anyone else noticed this problem? I have recieved several like this lately. I have 0.97 installed JG - Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:58:20 +110

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Hello Ken, ditto, Low level formats are not performed on modern IDE drives. Only the manafacturer can do this using specilized eqipment. What is now known as a low level format is simply over writing the data on the disk that to if you use destructive testing. i normally keep "low level" format

Re: Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Skippi
Thanks Mario -- what you told me to do does in fact work. I can read the email in my terminal. Looks like the problem is my mda settings -- whatever the heck those are. Ok, next dumb question. Can you tell me how to use this sendmail thingy? Is this a deamon which is suppose to be running in

[expert] Re: System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I should add that I tried to run mkinitrd manually (after power-cycling from the system freeze) on the new kernel to get an initrd image. Needless to say, my system froze hard again. I then tried replacing some packages (like mkinitrd, initscripts and setup) from Cooker, but the problem persists.

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Hello Skippi, looks like you have a sendmail problem. what happens is fetchmail after downloading the mail passes it on to an mda like sendmail. to check whether this is infact your problem try the using the "--mda /bin/cat", "--keep" and the "--fetchlimit 1" options. if you can then read your fi

[expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Skippi
Howdy all. Here is the deal. I am currently doing email in Linux using Spruce & that is working just fine. I want to migrate to Pygmy. Here is the rub. Pygmy needs an external program to fetch mail. So I have been trying to set up fetchmail, but it's not syncronizeing with the servers where

[expert] VPN

2002-02-04 Thread Sesame Galeo
Hi All, For those who are setting up VPN, which software would you recommend to link travellers to an application running on MDK 8.1 and a samba server ? I already evaluated "PPTPD". Thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakesto

Re: [expert] System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Steve Kieu
> 5. Run 'make modules_install && make install'. I nerver did that, I just 'make modules_install' and manually copy the bzImage file from arch/i386/boot to /boot and manually modify lilo.conf. always work :-) > > This process used to work perfectly, but now the > process freezes my whole > co

Re: [expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-04 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Monday 04 February 2002 18:55, you wrote: > I downloaded and installed the crossover plugin. The only problem I am > having is no sound. The only plugin I installed was the Quicktime plugin. > It starts OK but there is no sound whatsoever. > > Please don't tell me it wont play properly with t

Re: [expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:36:32 -0500 "Kevin Fonner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > win image is a floppy iamge utility. You can read and write floppy images > to and from floppys. It also allows you to open a floppy image and work > with the files right on the image. dd does a great job of reading

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:21:21 -0800 (PST) Teng-Fong Seak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > well...as it turns out after performing a LL format > > on this drive, a > > Maxtor 13.5 Gig, the best I could get out of it was > > 2GB's. I found the > > utility on Maxtor's w

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:07:02 -0800 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > Mark, >Sorry to hear about the drive... got a couple of my own... However they > can still be useful. I've found that when someone who considers themself > knowledgable in computers comes o

Re: [expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:55:27 -0700, Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded and installed the crossover plugin. The only problem I am > having is no sound. The only plugin I installed was the Quicktime plugin. > It starts OK but there is no sound whatsoever. > > Please don't

[expert] Printer Issues.

2002-02-04 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've just upgraded to 8.1, and I'm having printing issues again. The only driver I could get to work for my setup (HP DeskJet 855c slung off the print server of my SMC Barricade 7004ABR) was the HP 600 driver labled as being from HP. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which package that came from,

[expert] System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I have been having problems recently with kernel compilations and installations. Here are the steps I take: 1. Download the vanilla kernel source from a kernel.org mirror. 2. Extract it and patch it. 3. Run through the configuration process and edit the Makefile. 4. Run 'make dep && make clean &&

Re: [expert] Korn (Mail Monitor) & Chime

2002-02-04 Thread Gerard Perreault
I also created a script which I have it run when I get mail. It resets the sound volumes before playing, just in case they were turned off, too low or too high. It also won't play any sounds after 10:00 PM (until 7:00 AM) so if I work at night it won't disturb anyone. Gerard Perreault [EMAIL P

[expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
I downloaded and installed the crossover plugin. The only problem I am having is no sound. The only plugin I installed was the Quicktime plugin. It starts OK but there is no sound whatsoever. Please don't tell me it wont play properly with the retarded arts? Please? praedor Want to buy

Re: [expert] SSH

2002-02-04 Thread Lee Roberts
I'm trying to log in to my linux box FROM the internet. SSH works fine within the LAN. It's looking like a config problem on my laptop because a couple of friends were able to get a login screen. At 10:41 PM 2/3/2002 -0800, James wrote: >Just a question so I can understand. Are you trying to con

Re: [expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin Fonner
win image is a floppy iamge utility. You can read and write floppy images to and from floppys. It also allows you to open a floppy image and work with the files right on the image. dd does a great job of reading and writing however It doesn't loow me to quickly flip through the images to see wh

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Teng-Fong Seak
> well...as it turns out after performing a LL format > on this drive, a > Maxtor 13.5 Gig, the best I could get out of it was > 2GB's. I found the > utility on Maxtor's website, which in itself I > thought was amazing > considering their site is ridiculous to navigate. Maybe try partition magic.

Re: [expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread kwan
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote: > Has anybody ever got around to writing a gui program to managing floppy images sort >of like winimage. > What does winimage do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin Fonner
Has anybody ever got around to writing a gui program to managing floppy images sort of like winimage.   Thanks,Kevin Fonner[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Galeon upgrade

2002-02-04 Thread richard
Hi all recently upgraded galeon, which was resonably successful except I seem to have a missing file, but nor sure which one.. If I look at the following file with galeon there is a row of flags on the bottom rows, file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html I now have a row of blank icons. any id

[expert] Setting $MAIL to $HOME/mbox or $HOME/mail/mbox

2002-02-04 Thread Tim Holmes
After having a server die because of an old HDD, we've lost all the mail in the $MAIL. Which on the server is set to /var/mail/$USER. I was snooping around, and found this, in /etc/postfix/main.cf. # The mail_spool_directory parameter specifies the directory where # UNIX-style mailboxes are kep

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread James
Mark, Sorry to hear about the drive... got a couple of my own... However they can still be useful. I've found that when someone who considers themself knowledgable in computers comes over, I hand them one of the bad hdd's and accidently "drop" it in the process. The look on their face makes t

Re: [expert] docs for adding window managers to gdm

2002-02-04 Thread Darren King
Dont know where the docs are but most of the config stuff is under /etc/X11. Darren On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 06:16, lawrence g wrote: > I was wondering where documentation could be found for configuring gdm. > Specifically for adding window managers to the list that are available > to log onto the

Re: [expert] docs for adding window managers to gdm

2002-02-04 Thread lawrence g
I was wondering where documentation could be found for configuring gdm. Specifically for adding window managers to the list that are available to log onto the system with. Thanks, Lawrence G. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Ken Thompson wrote: >On Monday 04 February 2002 07:36 am, you wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of >> some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on >> your disk at the factory when they did t

Re: [expert] encrypted file system of choice

2002-02-04 Thread mandrake
I've heard that this will be a feature in 8.2. Could those of you playing w/ 8.2 b1 give some feedback on it? -c On Sat, 02 Feb, at 07:15:15 -0800, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> done said: > Is there an encrypted file system of choice one uses with mandrake 8.1? > The file systems I have done some rea

Re: [expert] major openSSH install screwup?

2002-02-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Feb 01, 2002 at 10:08:29PM -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: > I tried to update to openssh*-3.0.2p1-1.4mdk and got an error message: > OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 90581f, you have 90602f. You've got a newer version of openssl than what is provided in updates and what openssh is buil

Re: [expert] SMP not Same

2002-02-04 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Not only do they have to match speed & type, but they have a stepping number that must match as well. On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 03:00, ed tharp wrote: > real short answer... NO.. > > > On Sunday 03 February 2002 21:55, you wrote: > > I have motherboard Intel C-440GX+ with single Pentium Xeon 550

Re: [expert] Connection to PHP has failed

2002-02-04 Thread James
Mike, I've recently done the same thing. The only difference is, is that I'm still using my original httpd.conf. (The install didn't remove it, rename it and defaulted to using it, even though commonhttpd.conf etc are there.) I'm lazy and have a bunch of virtual hosts so it was easier to use t

RE: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Dwaine Felch
Most hard drive manufactures provide a utilities disk downloadable for free; on the drive is a program which will zero the drive which is the state it was when new. Low level formatting a IDE drive is very risky not cut and dry like SCSI, chances are a low level would ruin it for sure. If writing

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Ken Thompson
On Monday 04 February 2002 07:36 am, you wrote: > Hi, > > It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of > some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on > your disk at the factory when they did the factory low level format. The > system boar

Re: [expert] question on dual linux install

2002-02-04 Thread Wayne Stout
At 04:18 PM 2/2/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The only thing I can add to the advice you've already been given is some personal experience. What I've always done during the install of the 2nd (or 3rd, 4th, etc) linux distro is at the bootloader stage. I have a

[expert] Connection to PHP has failed

2002-02-04 Thread Mike Rambo
I just installed the updated apache/perl/php packages on my mandrake 7.1 box. I followed the instructions on the support website including the edits to commonhttp.conf to enable php. The apache server itself works and I get the default index page distributed in the package by mandrake. When I try

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Hi, It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on your disk at the factory when they did the factory low level format. The system board bioses I have seen do not call the proprietary factor

Re: [expert] SMP not Same

2002-02-04 Thread ed tharp
real short answer... NO.. On Sunday 03 February 2002 21:55, you wrote: > I have motherboard Intel C-440GX+ with single Pentium Xeon 550 Mhz cache > 512 (Katmai familiy). I want add 2nd processor. Can I mix processor with > different type (e.g. Xeon 800 from Coppermine familiy with different cac

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
some time back i came across this utility from seagate called "sgatfmt4" it is a dos based program but it could work with any disk, provided you entered some details of the hdd like no of cylinders etc. mario Mark Weaver wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Sesame Galeo wrote: > > >At 19:21 2002-0

Re: [expert] MySQL _answers_ needed

2002-02-04 Thread SA
On 2/3/02 2:25 PM, "Jason Guidry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, after applying every "fix" for this i can find, i need an answer. > > i get the following when trying to connect to mysql > > Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) > Make sure that this is the

[expert] shutdowning machines with crossed NFS mounts

2002-02-04 Thread Pierre Astier
Hello, I am running 2 machines with crossed NFS mounts : machine A mounts disks of machine B and vice versa. The mounts use default nfs options. I could never find a clean way to shutdown the machines : the shutdown hangs when trying to umount all disks because some are still busy. The busy o

Re: Re[4]: [expert] Booting

2002-02-04 Thread no ads
--- Onur Kucuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > na> So I start the installation in expert update > mode, and > na> then what? I can create a boot disk, but after > that I > na> still have to correct the problem I have with > booting. > na> Thanks for your help > > > Actually I had suggested upg

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:21:45 -0500, daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > > I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be in > need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could suggest > that would help me accomplish this and bring the disk bac

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Nelson Bartley
really easy, Maxtor has a tool on their website. You just have to find it in their mess. I wish I could be of more help, but I haven't had to use the utility in a year or so. NB On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 19:21, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > Hi List, > > I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and