[expert] Is overwriting /etc/group values expected behaviour in an update?

2002-05-15 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, It may have been the setup update from Mandrake Update that overwrote a group value in the /etc/group, but something did about the time I ran Mandrake Update. Namely, the group file had staff with value 50, instead of the standard ftp (for legacy reasons), but when Mandrake Update was run,

[expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Tremaine
Hello List I have just installed MDK 8.2 in VMware and cannot find where wmware-linux-tools are located (after doing the preliminary install from vmware itself. In every previouslinux distro that I have used I would have used "locatewmware-linux-tools". However, for some reason I cannot

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Mathews
Yes, and so are the Promise controllers; however, the soft RAID is a better setup, and since either way you are using the CPU... Somewhere, I saw a comparison technically speaking between a Promise card and Linux Soft RAID. SoftRaid was far superior in all aspects. :) Finally, from what I

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 May 2002 6:18 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the ones you can buy as add-in PCI cards? Tom's reviews never seem to give them much attention. How do they perform? Do

Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
slocate (the s is for secure) Terry Tremaine wrote: 1) Is there a reasonable substitute for locate other than find? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread James
On Wed, 15 May 2002 09:28:18 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 May 2002 6:18 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the ones you can buy as add-in PCI

Re: [expert] Zip FS corruption with MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Nicolas ROBAUX
Le Mercredi 15 Mai 2002 03:36, vous avez écrit : Before I started toying with various combinations to try to figure out what is to blame, I thought I would ask if anyone else has had this same problem? (Perhaps you have it and don't know it.) If so, please let me know. Since I I had

[expert] Commercial Apps CD1 - is this the correct name?

2002-05-15 Thread J. Grant
Hello, I'm interested to know why Commerical Apps CD1 is called that? As in actual fact the entire GNU/Linux Madrake distribution is commercial. Well, there is nothing wrong with commercialising high quality Free (open source) software. In fact very glad Madrake is commericialising it. Perhaps

[expert] manual pages duplicate?

2002-05-15 Thread J. Grant
Did anyone else get the power pack with the reference manual? I feel so lucky, the there is a duplication of pages 45-76 right at the begining of it, then it starts straight off at page 13! perhaps someone from mdk might want to sugest that your publisher save their paper instead though.. JG

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-15 Thread Petar V.
Thanks to Steve, Dave and James... Conclusion: Opera staticly cmpiled also didn work, but I went back to Opera 5 and works great. Now, for sure, resolving the conflict with netscape 62 and Opera 6 would probably took too much time, so it'll be allright like this... till next issue of opera or

Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Damon Lynch
If you installed KDE or Gnome, look under the menu: Applications / File Tools. Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] setting path in mdk - (Qs. 4 MDK GURUs)

2002-05-15 Thread Gadir --
How to put a group of folders into my PATH environment LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. LD_LIBRARY_PATH TCL_LIBRARY environmental variable. these are needed to run my ns simulator... any idea... regards gadi _ Get your

Re: [expert] IDE-SCSI problem

2002-05-15 Thread Daryl Johnson
I do believe you will find an rpm for mt on your cd. Install it and all will become magically available. regards Daryl n Tuesday 14 May 2002 14:10, you wrote: Hi All, Following on from my problem with a HP Colorado IDE tape drive, I have found the following message in the 'dmesg' output.

[expert] email virus scanner for Postfix

2002-05-15 Thread Bill
Is there a virus scanner like Mailscanner for postfix? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] manual pages duplicate?

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 18:28 +0900, J. Grant wrote: Did anyone else get the power pack with the reference manual? I feel so lucky, the there is a duplication of pages 45-76 right at the begining of it, then it starts straight off at page 13! Not in my reference manual (English version) of

Re: [expert] Is overwriting /etc/group values expected behaviour in an update?

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Viron
That's expected, and the reason why groups defined by the administrator(s) typically start in the 500 range. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux At 06:29 PM 5/15/2002 +1200, you wrote: Hi, It may have been the setup update from Mandrake Update that

Re: [expert] setting path in mdk - (Qs. 4 MDK GURUs)

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Viron
Define these in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux At 06:06 PM 5/15/2002 +0800, you wrote: How to put a group of folders into my PATH environment LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. LD_LIBRARY_PATH TCL_LIBRARY

Re: [expert] setting path in mdk - (Qs. 4 MDK GURUs)

2002-05-15 Thread J. Grant
Something odd i noticed some PATH dirs are repeated, but i have only ever done commands like PATH=/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH I didnt get around to working out why it was happening JG Michael Viron wrote: Define these in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile. Michael -- Michael Viron

[expert] PNG Icons wasn't displayed in KDE after mdk 8.2 update

2002-05-15 Thread Thierry TERRIER
Hi, I had uptated Mandrake 8.2 with the following files: aspell-da-1.4.21-1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-1.11-0.a20.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-cdda2wav-1.11-0.a20.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-devel-1.11-0.a20.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-dvdhack-1.11-0.a20.1mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-1.1-48.1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 10:26 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2002 18:02:12 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And ... I believe it's not quite time to upgrade an AMD system till the Thorobreds come out. Are the Thoroughbreds really that good? From what I have read,

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: So you've got a mouse that communicates at 150 bytes/sec on a bus that has been RL evaluated at 5.7 Megabytes/sec; that's 38,000 times more bandwidth than the mouse requires. This is an invalid evaluation however, because I still don't know how fast you can type. ;) But,

Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Baker
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 02:31 am, you wrote: slocate (the s is for secure) Terry Tremaine wrote: 1) Is there a reasonable substitute for locate other than find? WOW--I was wondering that myself! Thanks for asking (and answering) the question. Nick Want to buy your

[expert] Writing DVD-R

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
Can I write DVD-R disks with mdk? does CD-record do this or do I need some other tool? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Writing DVD-R

2002-05-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 15 May 2002 15:21:39 +0100, Nick Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I write DVD-R disks with mdk? does CD-record do this or do I need some other tool? Cdrecord will do it. Take a look at http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html for

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 15 May 2002 01:07:11 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 23:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How is the CPU usage of USB compared to the 'legacy' ports (serial, parallel, PS/2, etc.)? The legacy ports were designed for older systems, so they cannot suck up

[expert] Adding screen savers in KDE

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
I have installed the xscreensaver and GL savers and would like to add them to my kde configuration. I got them going once before by running kappfinder, but this also changed my K-menu in a way that clashes with the default mdk layout. Can I add the screensavers without messing up the K-menu?

[expert] suspicious .procmail!??!

2002-05-15 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Suddenly, my ~./procmail.rc became suspicius and and seems not to be working! Any ideias? Ricardo Castanho -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user ==

Re: [expert] MDK 82 - localhost:631 not possible to connect

2002-05-15 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 15 May 2002 15:30:12 +0200 Pierfrancesco Tateo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi after installation of MDK 82, and configuration of the printer if I try to start the administration tool for printer : not possible to connect but the printer is installed correctly and do not print

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 01:18, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the ones you can buy as add-in PCI cards? Don't know yet, you've got me started on CPU utilization numbers. ;) I'll give you the bean spill when I get thru distilling this

Re: [expert] Commercial Apps CD1 - is this the correct name?

2002-05-15 Thread civileme
J. Grant wrote: Hello, I'm interested to know why Commerical Apps CD1 is called that? As in actual fact the entire GNU/Linux Madrake distribution is commercial. Well, there is nothing wrong with commercialising high quality Free (open source) software. In fact very glad Madrake is

[expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze

2002-05-15 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
I need some help (again): We have encountered a total freeze while copying files from an SGI/IRIX system (using NFS) onto a local disk on a PC with an Elitegroup K7S6A/SiS745 MoBo, and more than 1Gb RAM, running the LM 8.2 enterprise kernel 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise. This was repeated many times on

Re: [expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze

2002-05-15 Thread Nicolas ROBAUX
Le Mercredi 15 Mai 2002 19:10, vous avez écrit : I need some help (again): We have encountered a total freeze while copying files from an SGI/IRIX system (using NFS) onto a local disk on a PC with an Elitegroup K7S6A/SiS745 MoBo, and more than 1Gb RAM, running the LM 8.2 enterprise kernel

[expert] 8.2 and IBM ThinkPad i1250

2002-05-15 Thread Alfredo Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I have now LM 8.1 PowerPack, and 8.2 DE. Is it now safe to use any of these on an IBM ThinkPad i1250? I still can not understand why I can use SuSE 7.2 and not LM 8.x. Thank you. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems)

[expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-15 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List, We are testing a parallel file system in our cluster. So I made a full copy of /home directory to this new FS. However I would like to be sure that all files copied are strictly identical, I mean, is there any command to compare all binary/ascii files between the original and

Re: [expert] test message

2002-05-15 Thread Daryl Johnson
Rats! On Monday 13 May 2002 18:49, you wrote: please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill your neigbor's cat. -- To err is human, to purr feline. To err is human, two curs canine. To err is human, to moo

RE: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-15 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Isnt mirrordir, or copydir what you are after. File for file you can use diff. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Comparing

Re: [expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze

2002-05-15 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Actually it is on purpose that I did not mention VIA and the PCI latency problem in the subject line. I believe that we have two different problems (unfortunately). The K7S6A was a replacement for an Asus A7V266E with a VIA KT266A chipset. The reson was that we had similar lock-ups, often

Re: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-15 Thread James T. Nelson III
'diff -qr olddir newdir' should do the trick Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List, We are testing a parallel file system in our cluster. So I made a full copy of /home directory to this new FS. However I would like to be sure that all files copied are strictly identical, I mean,

[expert] gcc-colorgcc broken

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Brown
I am using mandrake 8.2 and have gcc 2.96-0.76mdk installed (the standard distribution version) and installed gcc-colorgcc 2.96-0.76mdk If I try to use gcc I get this error; # gcc Can't exec /usr/bin/gcc-3.1: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 230. open3: exec

Re: [expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze(news)

2002-05-15 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Have you seen this! [RHBA-2002:085-11] Kernel panic on SMP systems with ext3 file systems is now fixed. I am not sure if this problem is solved in the Mandrake kernel. -- Bjarne On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 21:58, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: Actually it is on purpose that I did not mention VIA and the

Re: [expert] Error while compiling MDK8.2 kernel - loop.c

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 May 2002, Robert Goshko wrote: I am in the need to recompile the kernel on my new Compaq 725 laptop to get the sound card to work (new version of the ac97_codec.c), but I'm getting an error when i compile the modules (make

Re: [expert] suspicious .procmail!??!

2002-05-15 Thread David Guntner
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Suddenly, my ~./procmail.rc became suspicius and and seems not to be working! Any ideias? For starters, the file name needs to be .procmailrc (with no dot between procmail and rc, but *with* the leading dot). For anything

[expert] errors on snf installation

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Kaleve
Hi, just tried to install Mandrake SNF 7.2. Got the following error message during installation: insmod'ing module via-rhine failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 486 what does this mean? Furthermore my NICs aren't recognized. These are two D-LINK DFE-530TX, which are listed in the

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:23 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: What's this attachment of your mail? Looks like ist went through a StarOffice or Outlook wringer, look at the '^M' signs at the end of

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:23 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: What's this attachment of your mail? Looks like ist went through a StarOffice or Outlook wringer, look at the '^M' signs at the end of

Re: [expert] errors on snf installation

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 May 2002 10:40 pm, you wrote: nsmod'ing module via-rhine failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 486 what does this mean? The via-rhine module is used for the DFE-530tx (i have the same card in a few machines). For some

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 22:59 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:23 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: What's this attachment of your mail? Looks like ist went through a StarOffice

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 10:52, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I don't have any URLs; I'm just heard/read anecdotes about this. It just may be that USB devices do more than their PS/2 and serial versions. For instance, I read a review on the USB optical Intellimouse a few months ago. The reviewer

Re: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-15 Thread James
You could dodiff -r dirctoryA directoryB somefile.txt. I use this method to verify that multiple burns of a CD (test models for QA) are identical. It checks all the files on a box and lists either the difference if it's an ascii file or a message if the binaries are different. For a

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 15 May 2002 13:02:09 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 01:18, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: With regard to IDE controllers, I can tell you that a HPT37X IDE controller is better than anything I've seen yet for IDE drives; including the Promise options. I've

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: yup! they shouldn't be klinging-on to the messages any more. What do you mean? The attachment is still there. wobo I don't see them anywhere. they're gone on this end. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User #186492 Want

Re: [expert]

2002-05-15 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 19:51, James wrote: All, Just found this at http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=1332PHPSESSID=df764edd16c 338af9b6960937c4bd1a7 It starts KDE in under 2 seconds on my box (1gig celeron) it has both fast starts for kde and kde3 ... basically it

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:20, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: yup! they shouldn't be klinging-on to the messages any more. What do you mean? The attachment is still there. wobo What attachment? I haven't see any attachments in those messages Jarmo. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-15 Thread dfox
now THIS is the kind of info i like from an Open Source based community. ;o) thanks :) by the way, my old Operating Systems book says something about Unix filesystems and inodes, An inode contains information about where to find a file, like what blocks on the disk it occupies, and also