Re: [expert] 3dwm windows manager, how?

2002-05-10 Thread Curtis H
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to test the 3dwm windows manager; I have downloaded from cooker the files: 3dwm lib3dwm libmeshio libmeshio-devel omniorb installed all, but now I have not idea about how to start this windows manager. Xtart doesn't

[expert] samba as PDC and share for Domain Admins ?

2002-05-10 Thread maxxik
Hi ! I have one trouble with my LM 8.1, 8.2 and samba as PDC : i cant add any user in group Domain Admins %( when i do share readable only for internal samba group called Domain Admins - i cant accees to it ! when i try i have Access denied in my smb.conf : user, admins

Re: [expert] VIA disaster!

2002-05-10 Thread Udo Rader
This crusade against VIA is ridiculous to me. Here at work we have about 25 computers working around, some of them are under very heavy duty as database servers or even worse as parts of a cluster. Approximately half of them is VIA based, even my workstation that I'm writing this is based on a

Re: [expert] Computer Market (Was VIA disaster)

2002-05-10 Thread civileme
Udo Rader wrote: This crusade against VIA is ridiculous to me. Here at work we have about 25 computers working around, some of them are under very heavy duty as database servers or even worse as parts of a cluster. Approximately half of them is VIA based, even my workstation that I'm writing

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel.2

2002-05-10 Thread James
On Thu, 9 May 2002 16:05:39 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 May 2002 14:32:48 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a footnote, I don't recommend usin newer kernels unless you also either monitor the cooker ML, or at least check it's recent

[expert] 8.2 Install second ide cdrom bug

2002-05-10 Thread Keith Bambery
I am really looking for the correct place to send bug reports. Can someone please direct me to the correct place for this. I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 and my second ide dvd drive was recognised and configured except the scsi emulation was missed. I had to add it to the append=devfs= ...

[expert] Fixing a broken RPM??? Help please!

2002-05-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Hello all; After a recent thunderstorm my Mandrake 8.2 box became highly unstable. The problem was traced down to a bad memory module. Once the module was replaced everything EXCEPT Rpm worked correctly. Now RPM segfaults all the time. I suspect that something is amiss with RPM itself. I

RE: [expert] VIA disaster!

2002-05-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
No there -ARE- serious problems with the Via and ALiMagik. It's not a crusade against these companies, just facts... The clock timer problem, dma push problems, etc. Want even more affirmation? Check out the documentation for the Nvidia Drivers under Linux where they list a slew of problems

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel.2

2002-05-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 10 May 2002 02:04:37 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to put in my $10 worth (I'm expensive). Since I believe 2418-8 the kernels have been compiled with gcc-3.0.4 but this will shortly change to gcc-3.10 which as of yesterday is the default compiler having now

Re: [expert] Portsentry on LM8.2?

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 10 May 2002 12:25 am, Sevatio wrote: LM8.2 What happened to Portsentry? Is LM8.2 using something else in its place? IIRC, it was left off the CD's for space reasons. Check the cooker archive, I believe there was a disscussion of this a few months ago. In the meantime you

[expert] adding interbase module to php

2002-05-10 Thread meta
I have install package php, php-common, mod-php, php-mysql, php-pgsql. Now If I wanna use interbase (already installed in my machine), how can I configure my php-engine so I can work with my interbase php-based? -m- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] smbfs Permissions Debacle

2002-05-10 Thread Martha Jo McCarthy
I feel I am likely missing something obvious here but I need another pair of eyes: I am trying to mount two shares that exist on an NT server. I am running Mandrake 8.2. techmjm is a user on the NT machine with read write access to everything. The password supplied in credentials is correct.

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install second ide cdrom bug

2002-05-10 Thread Alastair Scott
On Friday 10 May 2002 10:07 am, Keith Bambery wrote: I am really looking for the correct place to send bug reports. Can someone please direct me to the correct place for this. I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 and my second ide dvd drive was recognised and configured except the scsi

Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci

2002-05-10 Thread Mike Rambo
Running setup didn't help unfortunately. What I've finally had to do to get even partial operation is to install a card into the AGP slot in this box. That will finally fully disable the integrated video. So now instead of a Radeon 7000PCI and integrated s3 trio3d I have the Radeon and an ATI

Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci

2002-05-10 Thread Mike Rambo
Running setup didn't help unfortunately. What I've finally had to do to get even partial operation is to install a card into the AGP slot in this box. That will finally fully disable the integrated video. So now instead of a Radeon 7000PCI and integrated s3 trio3d I have the Radeon and an ATI

RE: [expert] Paranoid install unable to ping.

2002-05-10 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
I've got this at the end of my firewall script to allow me to do pings. echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts HTH David -Original Message- From: Len Pikulski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:19

Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci

2002-05-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 10 May 2002 10:27:31 -0400 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Mandrake customized version of XFree86 4.20 in the 8.2 release or is it the standard stuff from the XFree86 project? How do I figure out what drivers are used and what drivers are available - seems

Re: [expert] smbfs Permissions Debacle

2002-05-10 Thread Brad Felmey
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 08:39, Martha Jo McCarthy wrote: It will not let me change the permissions to writeable to everyone when it is mounted. No, you can't. You must do that at mount-time. Here are the two lines in my fstab: //192.168.5.6/shared /mnt/serv/shared smbfs\

Re: [expert] Midi - Karaoke

2002-05-10 Thread Dirk Röhricht
Please unsubsribe "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from your list Ron Stodden wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Oscar wrote: What is your sound card? Maybe a SBLive? Not SBLive. Onboard. Sound Mixer tells me it is a SigmaTel STAC9708 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel.2

2002-05-10 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
I certainly hope that this is good news. A year ago I read that gcc optimization for my new P4 at the earliest was expected with gcc-3.1 around April 2002. Now I have installed gcc-3.1 as the default on my LM 8.2, and, yes, I did see that kernel-2.4.18-16mdk has been compiled with gcc-3.1.

Re: [expert] Computer Market (Was VIA disaster)

2002-05-10 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
This was NOT ment as a crusade against VIA, but a warning against a particular Motherboard/chipset combination: A7V266E+KT266A. Actually, it specifically happens when you copy a few BG of files (each about 16MB) from an SGI machine running IRIX64 to the A7V266E+KT266A running LM 8.2, and it

[expert] IDE_SCSI problem fresh 8.1 install with tape drive

2002-05-10 Thread David Stevenson
Hi All, I have just completed a machine swap on my file server which boasts a HP Colorado 14GB IDE/ATAPI drive. I have never had a problem with this prior to 8.1. The scsi component was always missing, I found that I had to add the ide-scsi option into LILO in the 'append' section, hdd=ide-scsi

[expert] linux and netware

2002-05-10 Thread Jonathan I. Nori
Hi! Now, I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, so just bear with me for a minute. Can I set up a linux box, Mandrake or otherwise, that will emulate a Netware Bindery box and allow drive mapping through NDS? I want to be able to move some storage space off the netware boxes and onto a linux

[expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread Jean-Yves Le Metayer
Hi list, In default configuration of Mandrake 8.1, awk is a link to gawk /bin/awk - gawk gawk --version GNU Awk 3.1.0 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2001 Free Software Foundation. Here below is described a bug of this version : sample ASCII file (sample.txt) -- ab

Re: [expert] smbfs Permissions Debacle

2002-05-10 Thread Gary Dunn
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 05:37, Brad Felmey wrote: On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 08:39, Martha Jo McCarthy wrote: It will not let me change the permissions to writeable to everyone when it is mounted. No, you can't. You must do that at mount-time. Here are the two lines in my fstab:

Re: [expert] smbfs Permissions Debacle

2002-05-10 Thread Brad Felmey
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 15:16, Gary Dunn wrote: On my LM 8.1 box man fstab points me to man mount for those options, and there, around line 850, I find: Mount options for ntfs [snip] uid=value, gid=value and umask=value Set the file permission on the filesystem.

Re: [expert] Apache SERVER_NAME quick Q

2002-05-10 Thread David Rankin
Hmm.., but what if I have BIND running and host.resolve set to BIND, hosts? James wrote: Ok did a test. and got the following. If you have something like this in /etc/hosts. 10.0.0.1 my.box.com my where 10.0.0.1 is your IP number, my.box.com is the full name of the box, and my is the

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread kwan
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jean-Yves Le Metayer wrote: Here below is described a bug of this version : sample ASCII file (sample.txt) -- ab AB AB ab cd CD CD cd [snip] simple awk file (simple.awk) { line++ } ! /^[A-Z]+/ { print

Re: [expert] linux and netware

2002-05-10 Thread kwan
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jonathan I. Nori wrote: Hi! Now, I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, so just bear with me for a minute. Can I set up a linux box, Mandrake or otherwise, that will emulate a Netware Bindery box and allow drive mapping through NDS? I want to be able to move some

RE: [expert] linux and netware

2002-05-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Under Mandrake 8.x a kernel rebuild is -NOT- needed as the modules are already present. No NDS support though... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:56 PM |To: |Subject: Re:

[expert] Chkrootkit shows nothing ??

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Stiefel
A few days ago, I got some KWrited docs popping up on my Mandrake 8.1 desktop (Security warning: World Writeable files found followed by a long list of files located on both hardrives). I am a linux newbie and assumed the popups were the product of some kind of monitoring utility that I had

RE: [expert] linux and netware

2002-05-10 Thread kwan
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Under Mandrake 8.x a kernel rebuild is -NOT- needed as the modules are already present. No NDS support though... Indeed it is! I was searching trying to find my notes on the project but came up blank. What I do recall was the the DOS mode drivers

RE: [expert] Paranoid install unable to ping.

2002-05-10 Thread Len Pikulski
Thanks much!!! As you probably know it worked great. Have you seen any docs on the different levels of security during the latest Mandrake 8.2 install?? It would be nice to know the other differences. Thanks again *** On Fri, 10 May 2002, JOHAM,DAVID

Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci

2002-05-10 Thread Ron Heron
Once you do the XFree86 -configure, you can successfully reconfigure the resolution from the control center. I just did the 7000 upgrade last night. OTOH, if I run XFree86 -configure I do get a configuration that at least starts up. I can log in and KDE seems to work ok - haven't tried

Re: [expert] Apache SERVER_NAME quick Q

2002-05-10 Thread David Rankin
Ok, I'll dig into that. My 7.2 box is running right now and it 'digs' just fine. I'll crank up 8.2 when I get home and see whats up: [david@Nemesis david]$ dig 3111skyline.com ; DiG 8.2 3111skyline.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY,

Re: [expert] Chkrootkit shows nothing ??

2002-05-10 Thread J. Craig Woods
Daniel Stiefel wrote: A few days ago, I got some KWrited docs popping up on my Mandrake 8.1 desktop (Security warning: World Writeable files found followed by a long list of files located on both hardrives). I am a linux newbie and assumed the popups were the product of some kind of

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install second ide cdrom bug

2002-05-10 Thread civileme
Keith Bambery wrote: I am really looking for the correct place to send bug reports. Can someone please direct me to the correct place for this. I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 and my second ide dvd drive was recognised and configured except the scsi emulation was missed. I had to add

Re: [expert] Chkrootkit shows nothing ??

2002-05-10 Thread Jones,Daniel E.
You don't recall the names of some of the files, do you? Whether a particular file being world-readable is a security problem depends entirely on which file it is. It is entirely possible that one of your applications is saving files with this permission. Did this occur shortly after you

Re: [expert] Chkrootkit shows nothing ??

2002-05-10 Thread db
Daniel Stiefel wrote: A few days ago, I got some KWrited docs popping up on my Mandrake 8.1 desktop (Security warning: World Writeable files found followed by a long list of files located on both hardrives). I am a linux newbie and assumed the popups were the product of some kind of

[expert] Making load file for repeated 8.1 CD installs ?

2002-05-10 Thread db
Due to my inexperience, I seem to find myself reloading Mandrake 8.1 a lot. (And for that matter, my second boot Redhat 5.1). The worst part is going thru all the packages and selecting the ones I want or need. I suspect there is a way to save all those selections on a file and invoke them

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jean-Yves Le Metayer wrote: Here below is described a bug of this version : sample ASCII file (sample.txt) -- ab AB AB ab cd CD CD cd [snip] simple awk file (simple.awk) { line++ } !

[expert] Any problems with NEC LCD 1550V monitor?

2002-05-10 Thread Phil
Hello, I'm about to replace my CRT monitor with an LCD monitor mainly because of RF interference to my radio equipment. The monitor that I'm considering is an NEC LCD 1550V Multisync. Online reviews show this to be an economical and all-round useful monitor. However I'm concerned by reports

Re: [expert] Making load file for repeated 8.1 CD installs ?

2002-05-10 Thread Brad Felmey
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 19:09, db wrote: Due to my inexperience, I seem to find myself reloading Mandrake 8.1 a lot. (And for that matter, my second boot Redhat 5.1). The worst part is going thru all the packages and selecting the ones I want or need. I suspect there is a way to save all those

Re: [expert] Chkrootkit shows nothing ??

2002-05-10 Thread Jones,Daniel E.
I have a pretty plausible guess for what is going on, and it is not a compromise. First, all the files in /usr/share/apps/kcsd/cddb are related to the CD player that comes with KDE. (that's the kscd part.) CDDB is a database of track information on lots of CDs that can be accessed over the

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread kwan
On Fri, 10 May 2002, civileme wrote: Not strange at all... in a terminal window, run locale Check the value of LC_COLLATE If it is en_US this is quite normal, the collating sequence is AaBbCc, etc. If you want the result you seek, make your program use upper as suggested or set

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread nDiScReEt
On Friday 10 May 2002 08:02 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002, civileme wrote: Not strange at all... in a terminal window, run locale Check the value of LC_COLLATE If it is en_US this is quite normal, the collating sequence is AaBbCc, etc. If you want the result you seek,

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread kwan
On Fri, 10 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could forgive myself if I hadn't just answered an 'ls doesn't sort right question' about two minutes before the above. But then I did: export LC_LOCATE=C awk -f simple.awk sample.txt Weird, same errors... :/ (note stupid syntax error).

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread kwan
On Fri, 10 May 2002, nDiScReEt wrote: export LC_LOCATE=C awk -f simple.awk sample.txt Weird, same errors... :/ (note stupid syntax error). Do you have dyslexia? As far as I know, no. But I do make similar errors very often. More likely I was doing a 'locate' and got the word

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could forgive myself if I hadn't just answered an 'ls doesn't sort right question' about two minutes before the above. But then I did: export LC_LOCATE=C awk -f simple.awk sample.txt Weird, same errors... :/ (note stupid

[expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-10 Thread David
I have bought a new harddrive and would like to _move_ my current Mandrake installation over to the new drive without having to re-install. Is this possible? How would I go about doing so? My guess is that it is _not_ possible to do so while booted into Linux. tia Dave --

Re: [expert] Chkrootkit shows nothing ??

2002-05-10 Thread David Relson
Dan, The messages about world writeable files are from Mandrake Security (better known as /usr/sbin/msec). The first time it runs, it tells you about all the anomalies it detects - unusual file permision, etc. After that, each time it runs it compares what it finds (today) to what it found

Re: [expert] Apache SERVER_NAME quick Q

2002-05-10 Thread James
That one I don't have and will have to rely on someones else to be able to duplicate. James On Fri, 10 May 2002 16:32:55 -0500 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm.., but what if I have BIND running and host.resolve set to BIND, hosts? James wrote: Ok did a test. and got the

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread James
On Fri, 10 May 2002 17:43:40 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jean-Yves Le Metayer wrote: Here below is described a bug of this version : sample ASCII file (sample.txt) -- ab AB AB ab cd CD CD cd [snip] simple awk

Re: [expert] Strange behavior of AWK in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-05-10 Thread James
On Fri, 10 May 2002 16:14:34 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jean-Yves Le Metayer wrote: Here below is described a bug of this version : sample ASCII file (sample.txt) -- ab AB AB ab cd CD CD cd

Re: [expert] Making load file for repeated 8.1 CD installs ?

2002-05-10 Thread Michael Viron
Actually, it also saves a file called replay_install.img in the /root directory, so that could be the floppy image you need to install the same waynot sure as I've never used it. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer, General Education Online Core Systems Group,