[expert] Color limiting icewm

2002-08-20 Thread ddc_prueba
I have a Xserver that has to work in 8bpp mode. Problem is that window manager is eating up all colours. kwin (KDE's wm) goes fine, but it's too big for the little machine to go smooth. icewm it's ok bat I haven't found how to color limit it or how to change the colour table it uses. Any help or

Re: [expert] need help for Mesa ...

2002-08-20 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi benjamin, first at all thanks for your answer. yes, I'm using blender as well as I would use mindseye. and especially for that mindseye I need OpenGL (Mesa, and glut) I'm planning to do some jobs in modelling, animations and pictures. Have done such jobs a few years ago on a Suns-Sparc 10

[expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time

2002-08-20 Thread Holger Schurig
In history, I used Red Hat from 5.2 till 6.2, then I switched over to Mandrake. However, with Mandrake (including 8.2) I sometimes have the effect that an application doesn't get killed, but instead eats 100% of cpu time. This happens to many console based applications, but one way to

Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time

2002-08-20 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dimarts 20 Agost 2002 09:24, en Holger Schurig va escriure: The strange thing: this happens mostly with ncurses-based applications, but not with all. mc, the midnight commander, works very well. Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc.

Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time

2002-08-20 Thread Holger Schurig
Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc. That keeps mc loaded and eating 100% cpu cycles. Tryed under Mandrake 8.2 and Debian Woody... Strange, not on my system. I have a self-compiled KDE 3.0.2, so my console is konsole. The used su is

Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time

2002-08-20 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dimarts 20 Agost 2002 15:42, en Holger Schurig va escriure: Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc. That keeps mc loaded and eating 100% cpu cycles. Tryed under Mandrake 8.2 and Debian Woody... Strange, not on my system. I have a

[expert] Wondering about Bugzilla for LM 9.0beta3 bug reports

2002-08-20 Thread Bruce Saunders
Even though I have read the documentation, I apparently don't know how to use Bugzilla. I obtained an account, submitted four bugs, received emails confirming their submission, but when I try to query them I keep getting zarro(sic) results found. Can anyone give me a clue about what I am doing

RE: [expert] Wondering about Bugzilla for LM 9.0beta3 bug reports

2002-08-20 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
How are you searching for your bugs? If you give me the URL (don't have it handy) for MDK's Bugzill, I can try to help you out... David -Original Message- From: Bruce Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert]

[expert] Resend to LX on nobody's UID...

2002-08-20 Thread J. Craig Woods
Damn sympa giving me fits again. Let try this one! Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I've noticed that the account nobody on this system has a user id of 65534. Is this correct? I'm asking because back in the day I used to make backdoor admin accounts using UID numbers higher than 65535. I thought

RE: [expert] Wondering about Bugzilla for LM 9.0beta3 bug reports

2002-08-20 Thread Bruce Saunders
Thanks David It's qa.mandrakesoft.com. I just go there, login, and at the query page I just type in a word from the subject lines on the bugs I submitted where it says subject, with 'contains any of the words/strings selected'. Also, the status selected is 'new, assigned, reopen'. Bruce ---

Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time

2002-08-20 Thread Todd Lyons
Joan Tur wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:24:51PM +0200 : The strange thing: this happens mostly with ncurses-based applications, but not with all. mc, the midnight commander, works very well. Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc.

[expert] Swap space

2002-08-20 Thread Clorden
Hello. Does anyone know what is *exactly* the maximum size of a swap partition on an i386 platform? Some howtos say it is about 2 GiB, but I need to know the exact number of hd blocks as to optimize the space used on hard disks. And how many swap partitions can I have? Thanks. --

Re: [expert] how to install a Usb Cable modem without network card...

2002-08-20 Thread Larry Sword
Rui Maia wrote: Anyone knows how i can install an Motorola 4200 SurfBoard USB Cable Modem withou having a network card in linux ? Thank you -- Rui Maia * e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Third Hard Drive

2002-08-20 Thread John Lowell
I'm in the process of downloading the 9.0 beta for a look. I'd like to put it on a third drive I have on this, my principle, system rather than on an ancillary system I'd typically use for testing. I'd be better able to keep an eye on it that way. I've hear that installation on a third drive

Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive

2002-08-20 Thread et
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 07:23 pm, you wrote: I'm in the process of downloading the 9.0 beta for a look. I'd like to put it on a third drive I have on this, my principle, system rather than on an ancillary system I'd typically use for testing. I'd be better able to keep an eye on it that

Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive

2002-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 16:58 -0400, John Lowell wrote: What I had in mind here was booting from the 3rd drive, any problem in this respect? No, if you have your LILO in the MBR of the first disk. wobo -- ... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet)

Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive

2002-08-20 Thread John Lowell
Thank you, gentlemen! John Lowell - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 16:58 -0400, John Lowell wrote: What I had in mind here was

[expert] What to use to analyse Apache logs?

2002-08-20 Thread Andrew George
Hi guys, the title pretty much says it all. I want to look at total traffic and be able to analyse the logs for intrusion attempts any suggestions? -- Andrew George --- Why are many scientists using lawyers for medical experiments instead of rats? a) There are more

[expert] devMAKEDEV packages

2002-08-20 Thread newslett
Ok, maybe this is a dumb question but here goes If one is running the dev filesystem is it possible to upgrade these RPM's without using the installer?? I am under the impression that dev gets loaded fairly early on and it becomes a real pain to upgrade these as a result. Any ideas are

[expert] Asus A7V333 power supply question

2002-08-20 Thread Phil
Hello All, Because my present system is a bit sluggish with KDE 3 I'm interested in upgrading to an Asus A7V333 motherboard with an XP 2000+ CPU. However, I'm not completely sure what the recommended power supply is. The AMD site recommends many power supply brands but I couldn't find any

Re: [expert] What to use to analyse Apache logs?

2002-08-20 Thread David Relson
At 05:40 PM 8/20/02, you wrote: Hi guys, the title pretty much says it all. I want to look at total traffic and be able to analyse the logs for intrusion attempts any suggestions? -- Have you looked at webalizer? I believe it's pretty good for analyzing apache logs :-) However, it may not be

Re: [expert] Asus A7V333 power supply question

2002-08-20 Thread Jason Guidry
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 19:15, Phil wrote: Hello All, Because my present system is a bit sluggish with KDE 3 I'm interested in upgrading to an Asus A7V333 motherboard with an XP 2000+ CPU. However, I'm not completely sure what the recommended power supply is. Buy the highest watt PS from

Re: [expert] devMAKEDEV packages

2002-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:18:16 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, maybe this is a dumb question but here goes If one is running the dev filesystem is it possible to upgrade these RPM's without using the installer?? I am under the impression that dev gets loaded fairly early on and it

Re: [expert] What to use to analyse Apache logs?

2002-08-20 Thread J. Craig Woods
David Relson wrote: At 05:40 PM 8/20/02, you wrote: Hi guys, the title pretty much says it all. I want to look at total traffic and be able to analyse the logs for intrusion attempts any suggestions? -- Have you looked at webalizer? I believe it's pretty good for analyzing apache

[expert] frequent HD access in LM8.2

2002-08-20 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've noticed on my last few installs of Mandrake 8.2, that I get a tiny bit of hard disk access, once every 4 seconds or so. I've looked in the logs, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary, and there is nothing going on. What would explain this? Bob Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Randy Kramer wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: What if you just did something like this. 1) ping ISP... a) if icmp echo request == 'yes' then do the mail thing else run ifup command kick mailque fi what-cha

[expert] lame server resolving

2002-08-20 Thread Jay
Hey, my syslog has a dozens of entries similar to the following lame server resolving 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa' (in 'xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa'?): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53 all with different IP's... As far as I can tell, some client is asking my server for information on an IP but my server

Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Randy Kramer wrote: kwan, Thanks! I've got several choices now ;-) Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a script that I use to check connectivity: #!/bin/bash STATUS=`ping -c 2 -q 11.22.33.44 2/dev/null` CODE=$? if [ $CODE -gt 0 ]; then echo Link is down.

Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-20 Thread Todd Lyons
Mark Weaver wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:04:16PM -0400 : So (thinking on paper), something like: snip if count = maxtries (wow, do I forget valid syntax ;-) ) then wait 30 (??) (give the modem a chance to connect)

[expert] 9.0 beta 3 bug report

2002-08-20 Thread Lorne
Hey guys I'm tired and maybe a little cranky. It has gotten pretty darned hard to give bug reports. Maybe I've lost the proper URL to get there, but I just got a denied when I tried. So maybe one of the folks doing development will read this. Just tried the Beta 3 on an old ALR 4

[Fwd: [expert] lame server resolving]

2002-08-20 Thread J. Craig Woods
oops, forgot about sending it to the list.. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson ---BeginMessage--- Jay wrote: Hey, my syslog has a dozens of entries similar to the following

Re: [expert] lame server resolving

2002-08-20 Thread Todd Lyons
Jay wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:53:23PM -0400 : lame server resolving 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa' (in 'xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa'?): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53 As far as I can tell, some client is asking my server for information on an IP but my server doesn't have that information? Is that

Re: [expert] 9.0 beta 3 bug report

2002-08-20 Thread Todd Lyons
Lorne wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:12:57PM -0700 : Hey guys Pentium pro CPU's, with a Mylex raid controller. Locks up solid right after the graphic hit enter or F1 to continue. No idea what is happening since it Something serious has changed between this and the old version.

Re: [expert] lame server resolving

2002-08-20 Thread J. Craig Woods
Jay wrote: Hey, my syslog has a dozens of entries similar to the following lame server resolving 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa' (in 'xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa'?): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53 all with different IP's... As far as I can tell, some client is asking my server for information on an

Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-20 Thread J. Craig Woods
Todd Lyons wrote: Mark Weaver wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:04:16PM -0400 : So (thinking on paper), something like: snip if count = maxtries (wow, do I forget valid syntax ;-) ) then wait 30 (??) (give the modem a chance to

[expert] MandrakeSecure: Making the most of OpenSSH

2002-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
Sorry for the cross-post, but I know there were a few people looking forward to this and I think they are on either of these lists. My paper on using, managing, and otherwise mucking around with OpenSSH is now on the MandrakeSecure website. Comments welcome, contributions with other info that

Re: [expert] devMAKEDEV packages

2002-08-20 Thread newslett
Sorry, you're absolutely right, mounted is correct, poor terminology on my part. Yup, was going to wait till the RC as you suggested unless there was an easy peasy way round it but alas there seems not to be. Thanks anyway. Cheers, Jason Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2002