Re: [expert] Cannot guess host type error - solved

2002-08-25 Thread Phil
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:27, you wrote: Hello all, After a fresh install of MDK 8.2 I'm now getting can not guess host type errors when I run configure. I had this error a couple of years ago and I cannot remember how I corrected it. Host type is a configure option. Another error is ,

: Re: [expert] Still problomes...SSH or X [Rewrite]

2002-08-25 Thread Stefan Sten
Thanks for the help Vox, I got it working right now, unfortunately running the insecure variant, xhost + ip.of.remotehost did the trick. But I will take a look at the page about OpenSSH later this night. ---Ursprungligt meddelande--- Från Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum 25/08/2002

Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend

2002-08-25 Thread dfox
Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). ksendfax (part of kde) might be a possibility, but I don't know if it would tailor

RE: [expert] Spam protection

2002-08-25 Thread David Stevenson
OK guys, I played it safe. I spent more time on trying to discover why Postfix was not working, at 5 AM on Saturday morning I noticed that my AV scanner was dumping scanned mail into sendmail. What I thought it was doing was dumping it via smtp on a backdoor port to postfix. Although I had

[expert] Postfix SpamAssassin

2002-08-25 Thread David Relson
Greetings, I'm struggling to get SpamAssassin working properly with Postfix. I think I'm close, but things aren't working quite right. I've read the helpful documents at http://advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html, http://advosys.ca/papers/filter.sh.txt, and

[expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?

2002-08-25 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hello All, I have been looking at various distributions on the net but have always liked Mandrake and have used it in the past with great success. What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x

Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?

2002-08-25 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Sunday 25 August 2002 17:04, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as well via NFS and Samba along with

Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?

2002-08-25 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Thanks for the response Chuck. I guess that I'll just have to keep investigating the problem a little more. Thanks again, Lonnie - Original Message - From: Chuck Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Minimalist

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2002-08-25 Thread James Sparenberg
Report from the field (so to speak) I just downloaded and installed 9.0 beta 4. the box seems to be sitting here like a rock... 5 hours and no even a hint of a crash. In short I can find bugs, but it's a lot more solid on this box than 8.2. Feels like 8.1 so far. Some notes for the

Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?

2002-08-25 Thread James Sparenberg
Lonnie. If you are looking to get that small embedded Linux will carry you further than any of the desktop dirsto's. At that size you are not going to be dealing with the same needs as you would with a full desktop. The /bin directory alone is larger than what you need. (6.8 megs) Peanut

Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?

2002-08-25 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hi James, Thanks for the information and I will look into those distributions to get a feel for what they can do. I have also found the Linux Terminal Server Project as well and it might be a good starting point as well because the project is close to an advanced terminal which will be running

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in slocate. slocate is there. Apparently there was a big

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread David Relson
At 03:44 PM 8/25/02, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in slocate. slocate is

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 12:44, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in

[expert] Mandrake 9 beta 3 bug report

2002-08-25 Thread Lorne
I installed Beta 3 on a brand new Gigabyte 2.2 P4 box. It has a promise raid controller with a Radeon ATI all in wonder card. The Boot loader thrashed my MBR. My guess is because I'm installing this on a standard IDE drive and the boot loader is on the promise mirrored drive. I CAN boot

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday August 25 2002 02:44 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: This has been discussed on the [cooker] list. The discussion got rather confused but I _think_ that, if you keep on doing rsync or urpmi --auto-select with a cooker host, you pick up the up-to-date packages anyway although no flag

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday August 25 2002 01:41 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Report from the field (so to speak) I just downloaded and installed 9.0 beta 4. the box seems to be sitting here like a rock... 5 hours and no even a hint of a crash. In short I can find bugs, but it's a lot more solid on this

[expert] E-mail conversion

2002-08-25 Thread James Sparenberg
Ok I'm convinced evolution is a great tool. One question does anyone know of a way to convert Sylpheed Mail to Evlolution Tried exporting as mbox but evo can't read that, and no direct conversion is available. Any ideas anyone? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] rpmrc

2002-08-25 Thread skidley
I've read the RPM Howtos and I'm trying to get an .rpmrc setup so I can build rpms as normal user. I had this setup before but I dont have my old config files to go by. I have this in my ~/.rpmrc topdir: /home/skidley/rpm and I get this error: bad option 'topdir' at /home/skidley/.rpmrc:1 Is

Re: [expert] Proper UID for Nobody ?

2002-08-25 Thread Woody Green
It is not unusual for nobody to be 65535 (16 bits) on various systems. On an MDK system, I might get worried a little as nobody is usually 99. Woody On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 21:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I've noticed that the account nobody on this system has a user id of 65534. Is this

Re: [expert] rpmrc

2002-08-25 Thread Vox
skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read the RPM Howtos and I'm trying to get an .rpmrc setup so I can build rpms as normal user. I had this setup before but I dont have my old config files to go by. I have this in my ~/.rpmrc topdir: /home/skidley/rpm That stuff now goes in

Re: [expert] rpmrc

2002-08-25 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 23:06, skidley wrote: I've read the RPM Howtos and I'm trying to get an .rpmrc setup so I can build rpms as normal user. I had this setup before but I dont have my old config files to go by. I have this in my ~/.rpmrc topdir: /home/skidley/rpm Try removing the space

[expert] Re: rpmrc

2002-08-25 Thread skidley
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:06:26AM -0400, Skidley wrote: I've read the RPM Howtos and I'm trying to get an .rpmrc setup so I can build rpms as normal user. I had this setup before but I dont have my old config files to go by. I have this in my ~/.rpmrc topdir: /home/skidley/rpm and I get

Re: [expert] auto logout

2002-08-25 Thread Woody Green
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 22:24, Mark Weaver wrote: Dan Cox wrote: Is there a way to auto logout inactive users? I have seen something about TMOUT variable, but when I set it in /etc/profile and login at console I get bash: TMOUT read only or something similar. So my question is how do I get

[expert] Video Memory and the i815 Chipset.

2002-08-25 Thread James Sparenberg
Ok one box 4 distro's Mandrake 8.2 Mandrake 9.0beta 4 RedHat 7.3 SuSe 8.0 In my never ending quest to find out why 8.2 crashes so often I've run across this ... Mandrake 8.0 claims I have only 4096K of video ram Mandrake 9.0 claims I have only 16384k of video ram RedHat and Suse both see the