Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails

2002-10-29 Thread hans privat
hi Toshiro, have tried out now a lot of possibilities like portmap:ALL in hosts.deny, hosts.allo and vice versa on two hosts of my LAN, the result is : entry in rh8-box - hosts.deny : portmap:ALL - restart with service nfs restart - the connected host does NOT have any succes on any exported

Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails

2002-10-29 Thread hans privat
hi Todd, have tried out but am getting a new error : jojo.domain.at:/mnt/cdrom: Invalid argument mozart.domain.at:/mnt/cdrom: Invalid argument the line in my /etc/exports looks like this : /mnt/cdrom jojo(ro) mozart(ro) the same entry I have in mozart and am getting NO errormessages as well as

Re: [expert] importing X / watching TV via local net

2002-10-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Monday 28 October 2002 13:49, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Yes, I know this option (net streaming?) despite of not trying yet because I don't think that my PII 300 will be fast enough for the job :-). Anyway, if I'd try net streaming, from where should I start? Many thanks, Cheers,

[expert] Send AOL IM from the console?

2002-10-29 Thread Barry Michels
I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to compile yet. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0

2002-10-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
Hi ! I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a computer of our Linux User Group. I have several issues there, but will post them one by one. Since there are some newbies there I tried to show them drakxconf. I was really upset on that tool: calling drakxconf on commandline I got the following menu: -

[expert] adding mirrors for urpmi

2002-10-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
I tried yesterday to add a source for urpmi over the mcc - Software-installation panel. I tried several times but it seems the graphical tool : - do not accept alternative names of the hdlist-file - have no comprehensive output for discovering the errors at least i take the bash and did a

[expert] mounting of smb-ressources , jints on reading

2002-10-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
Hi There! A friend of mine has several win2k workstations and one Mdk 9.0 workstation. Discovering and mounting some directories of the win stations was a task of seconds. Later that evening we discovered , he was not able of writing to that dir's. So I thought this is an easy thing, take a

Re: [expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0

2002-10-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 13:16, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a computer of our Linux User Group. I have several issues there, but will post them one by one. Since there are some newbies there I tried to show them drakxconf. I was really upset on that tool:

Re: [expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 11:53 am, Milos Prudek wrote: Yes we have seen this as well. On Mandrake 8.2 as well. The manual mount clears the problem. Absolutely. Is there no way to make supermount work? Just another note on supermount. I am using 8.2 with a self-built kernel

Re: [expert] Send AOL IM from the console?

2002-10-29 Thread J. Grant
micq.org is using the same protocol as AOL but wthi icq, it is console based. Perhaps you could use this instead JG Barry Michels wrote: I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to

Re: [expert] Send AOL IM from the console?

2002-10-29 Thread J. Grant
micq.org is using the same protocol as AOL but wthi icq, it is console based. Perhaps you could use this instead JG Barry Michels wrote: I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to

Re: [expert] serious problem in mandrake 9.0

2002-10-29 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:21 am, faisal gillani wrote: Well i this is the 2nd time it has happend to me i just installed mandrake 9. last night i shutdown my pc home pc this morning when i opened the pc Xwindows is not starting ... only command promt comes, in the place of gui a blank

Re: [expert] Possibe to use jigdo or emulate it on Mandrake CD's?

2002-10-29 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:23 am, ddc_prueba wrote: Can jigdo be used to download Mandrake CD's? If not possible, I guess mounting the iso and rsync'ing it would be ok, but what have to do then to make the boot sector be there when burning it again? If a better method can be used, please

Re: [expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0

2002-10-29 Thread Lieven Van Acker
I did about 6 different installations, and I can confirm this bug in drakxconf on every single one of the installations I performed. Moreover, drakconf simply doesn't work: Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to 'GtkObject' at /usr/sbin/drakconf line 857. Can't call method

Re: [expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0

2002-10-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:00, Lieven Van Acker wrote: I did about 6 different installations, and I can confirm this bug in drakxconf on every single one of the installations I performed. thanks. I had not seen this on my own install since I did not use it at all. But after seeing it at

[expert] Help! X11 Memory Leak

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Mereness
I'm running MDK 9.0 and the stock nv driver. I have 256 MB RAM so it took several days before X brought my system to the breaking point. On my older system with a VESA driver 16-bit color, the X process clocks in at 24 MB (the size column in top). On the nv system with 24 bit color, X begins

[expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Werner
Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got first-time (I think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because the display was all messed up. I had basically three vertical bands

Re: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Mikko Lipasti
Hi Tim, On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:15, Tim Werner wrote: Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got first-time (I think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because the

Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card

2002-10-29 Thread Simon Ree
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless

RE: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Werner
Mikko, Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give me many options -- it seemed to be making most decisions for me. I was surprised, in fact, that it installed boot manager with linux as default without even asking. I couldn't figure out how to change the default OS later, which is why I

[expert] Help! X and HP Pavilion

2002-10-29 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I didn't receive any replies one way ot the other about LM 9.0 and the HP Pavilion 523N, I purchased one yesterday. LM 9.0 sticks when trying to install X. The defaults it selects are 1024x768 70Hz and vesa. But when the installation goes

Re: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 October 2002 09:56 am, Tim Werner wrote: Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give me many options -- it seemed to be making most decisions for me. I was surprised, in fact, that it installed boot manager with linux as default

Re: [expert] WindowMaker

2002-10-29 Thread Alan Carbutt
Actually, I guess my last post was misleading. I usually do a re-install and not a by the book upgrade. The only things I didn't change from 8.2 to 9.0 was /home and /var. Then I had to install from scratch because I flubbed something in the partition table. In any case, WindowMaker has

RE: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Morrell
I find that the VESA driver usually works on XFree4.x on the unsupported cards. No acceleration though and not sure if you can go bigger than 1024x768. You can change your default boot OS by editing the /etc/lilo.conf file. Change the line with default=linux to default=windows or whatever the

Re: [expert] Help! X and HP Pavilion

2002-10-29 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29 Oct 2002 at 9:08, John O'Shaughnessy wrote: What type of graphics chip does the Pavilion use? If it is an Intel i830, you may suffer from the Xfree problems described here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html Ah! That

Re: [expert] g++ executable not found?

2002-10-29 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 28 Octubre 2002 00:10, en Charles A Edwards va escriure: On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 23:48:22 +0100 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libqt3 is installed... should I install libqt3-devel ? 8-? Yes. Also you need gcc-c++ Thanks (again).

Re: [expert] floppy timeout and I/O error

2002-10-29 Thread Larry Sword
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: |I wanted to mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy and that was completely |unsuccessful. My /var/log/messages got filled with the messages listed |below. |This is with supermount disabled. |Does anybody know how I can get around

Re: [expert] PATH for $QTDIR , etc.

2002-10-29 Thread Frank
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 00:55, Randall Jonasz wrote: man bash for bash shell. If you want the path vars to be global, put them in /etc/profile; if you want them visible only to one user, put them in ~/.bash_profile. Cheers, Randy Thanks, Randy! Looks like I've got to brush up on my

RE: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Werner
Mike, Thanks for the info and advice. I tried re-installing in expert mode, which allowed me to configure the boot manager, so that part I'm happy with. As far as X is concerned, right now it's pretty much a disaster. I tried all sorts of configurations, and I either get a test screen that

Re: [expert] user sshd does not exist

2002-10-29 Thread bascule
this is the line todd: /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-user openssh $1 sshd /var/empty /bin/true the add-user usage says that $1 is the 'num installed', can you explain that to me and expand on the /bin/true point that james raised? i figure that something is substituted for the $1 but i don't know

Re: [expert] BUG: drakxconf in Mdk 9.0

2002-10-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:53, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:00, Lieven Van Acker wrote: I did about 6 different installations, and I can confirm this bug in drakxconf on every single one of the installations I performed. thanks. I had not seen this on my own

RE: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Morrell
I agree that XFree is still not as bullet proof as it should be. This is probably mostly due to the lack of card/chipset data from the video card makers as well as just the pure difficulty in writing drivers. There are lots of cards that are working well and I would suggest to anyone that wants to

RE: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Werner
Mike, Thanks for your encouragement. I would indeed like to spend more time on this if I can get some help with it. I had to return the video card on my first PC system (it was a Diamond Viper) for an ATI Mach32, for just the reason that Diamond considered their specs to be proprietary and thus

Re: [expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-29 Thread Todd Lyons
Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:05:55AM -0500 : Is there no way to make supermount work? Just another note on supermount. I am using 8.2 with a self-built kernel 2.4.19-9mdk. Supermount works fine on this system. Perhaps the 2.4.19 kernel in 9.0 is re-broken for

RE: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:29, Tim Werner wrote: Mike, Thanks for the info and advice. I tried re-installing in expert mode, which allowed me to configure the boot manager, so that part I'm happy with. As far as X is concerned, right now it's pretty much a disaster. I tried all sorts of

Re: [expert] user sshd does not exist

2002-10-29 Thread Todd Lyons
bascule wrote on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:43:39PM + : this is the line todd: /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-user openssh $1 sshd /var/empty /bin/true the add-user usage says that $1 is the 'num installed', can you explain that to me and expand on the /bin/true point that james raised? i figure

[expert] HP Pavilion and hibernation

2002-10-29 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
Dear Experts I was able to build my own 2.4.19-16mdk kernel with ACPI and also got the 2.4.19-17mdk kernel to work, however the ACPI S3 option knocks out the system and I will have to restart (with lots of fsck happening, of course). So my question is if anybody has got hibernation to work on

[expert] Screen sleep not truly dark

2002-10-29 Thread John O'Shaughnessy
Running MDK 9.0 on a Dell Latitude C400, I notice that when the screen goes blank, the display is still lit. Is there a configuration option somewhere to actually get it to not light the display? Thanks, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Screen sleep not truly dark

2002-10-29 Thread Todd Lyons
John, this is the Mandrake Cooker mailing list, not the Mandrake 9.0 support list. If you want support for 9.0, join the Mandrake Expert mailing list. This list is for development of the next version of Mandrake Linux. John O'Shaughnessy wrote on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:43:52PM -0600 : Running

RE: [expert] Screen sleep not truly dark ???? ------- definately not cooker!!

2002-10-29 Thread Franki
Hi Todd, you sure your reading the right mail?? this is the expert mailing list, not the cooker devel.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:todd;mandrakesoft.com]On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [expert] Screen sleep not truly dark ???? ------- definately not cooker!!

2002-10-29 Thread Todd Lyons
Franki wrote on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:40:28AM +0800 : Hi Todd, you sure your reading the right mail?? this is the expert mailing list, not the cooker devel.. Sorry, I'm sick right now and my awareness is a little dim. Again, sorry. Blue skies... Todd -- ...and I will

Yep! but ....Re: [expert] Scanner! Should be simple, but...

2002-10-29 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Em Ter 29 Out 2002 04:31, Alan Shoemaker escreveu: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi Alan, I was just trying to be sure I've done everything right, *before* contacting the author. Thanks anyway! Ricardo Hi! I've posted this msg on the newbie list as they were talking

[expert] Snort not successfully raising eth0 to promisc, kernlog says it is.

2002-10-29 Thread Eli Stair
I'm just noticing that when I run Snort the interface I have specified in the config file to listen on isn't actually entering promiscuous mode. The log says that it is, however ifconfig shows differently. I can manually bring it up with ifconfig eth0 promisc, and drop it the same way. I

Re: [expert] Help! X and HP Pavilion

2002-10-29 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:54 am, D. R. Evans scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Ah! That wasn't the answer, but to find out what chip it uses (since it sure ain't obvious on the mobo) I went to the HP web site and there saw a reference to ProSavageDDR KM266 graphics. So I switched

Re: [expert] HP Pavilion and hibernation

2002-10-29 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 05:03 pm, Jan Hendrik Mangold scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: I am dying to not have to boot into XP anymore, so please throw me a bone here ... :) Try the newest Cooker kernel. I hear that it features ACPI support. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A

Re: [expert] FYI: WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC...

2002-10-29 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:22:26 -0500 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Oct 2002 12:04:02 -0800 Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:05, Pierre Fortin wrote: This is a quick overview of what I ran into after my friends got their

[expert] X eating memory

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Mereness
What can one do when X eats up more memory the longer it runs? Please help. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] floppy timeout and I/O error

2002-10-29 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:53, Larry Sword wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: |I wanted to mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy and that was completely |unsuccessful. My /var/log/messages got filled with the messages listed |below. |This is with

[expert] need help to configure X

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Werner
Hi, I'm still trying to get my PCI SiS 5598/6326 video card to work on ML9.0. Yesterday Mike suggested that I configure it as 'vesa', but from the X Configuration install step, that selection is only available under XFree-4. I tried it anyway, and got the following errors: (EE) no core pointer

[expert] Completely OT - to the sys admins, is there a spammer's blacklistfor child pornography?

2002-10-29 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
There is quite a bit of expertise in this group and I would like to call upon it to help with this particular problem. Hey I like pOrn like the next guy but we are talking about kids (3-9). When you have spread eagle shots it is sexual exploitation, period. This is on the ngs and it was even