[expert] Netcraft

2003-02-04 Thread Jay
Does anyone know how to prevent Netcraft from detecting all kinds of information about your system. For example, instead detecting Apache-Advanced Extranet server, it would only list Apache. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 22:15, Will Styles wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 05:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: J.P. Pasnak wrote: snip If you want to change it on a per-user basis, create an '.Xdefaults' file in your home directory and add the following lines: --- Xcursor.size: 16

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:01, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 22:15, Will Styles wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 05:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: J.P. Pasnak wrote: snip If you want to change it on a per-user basis, create an '.Xdefaults' file in your home directory and add

[expert] Multiple network interfaces on one host

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Chou
I already use a mandrake (8.0) box for my home NAT/firewall, and my home network at present is wired only. I would like to have a wireless access point hosted from this box as well, to have a little mobile computing available for the folks at home. I've tried one appliance wireless

Re: [expert] Netcraft

2003-02-04 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
this link will tell you how to do this: http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/1219#hid hth dianne --- Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to prevent Netcraft from detecting all kinds of information about your system. For example, instead detecting Apache-Advanced Extranet server,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian fonts on occasion and have had trouble. Thanks. http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/6.0/patch.html HTH

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles

2003-02-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:51 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne just a thought here that might work mv .mozilla to mozilla (removing the leading dot) so you don't lose anything. Then start NS7 first. Since it won't have a . file to access it will have to create it's own. Then start mozilla

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-04 Thread Ron Stodden
et wrote: so, ron, is there any change in te error mesages if you use su - instead of su? is that the only message, and does kpackage work? does it start at all? su not involved at all.SuperUser Terminal from KDE menu, then enter password in the resulting terminal. kpackage started and

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-04 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 07:22, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Feb 04, 2003 at 09:54:32AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: .. Well, be that as it may, did DrakX ever advertise this windows-alike behaviour? Did it say that if you did a package upgrade install that it would do what you seem to

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-04 Thread Ron Stodden
Todd Lyons wrote: Not quite. See the prompt above? It had already exited. The messages you see afterward are from kdeinit killing itself and its child processes off. Do it again and instead of hitting Ctrl-C at this point, press Enter and you'll get a prompt as well But why? Surely a

[expert] rpm error.

2003-02-04 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I am getting this error when I try to use mandrakeupdate... rpmd: region error detected; run recovery. What is recovery??? trying to rebuild the db gives the same error.. Not sure what to do about it.. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [expert] rpm error. update!

2003-02-04 Thread Franki
I did: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* rpm --rebuilddb To see if that would fix it... now I am getting this error when I try the rpm --rebuilddb error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor-c_get: Input/output error Any one know what the problem is and how to fix it.. This is a live mysql server, and I can't

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 04:59 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 07:22, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Feb 04, 2003 at 09:54:32AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: .. Well, be that as it may, did DrakX ever advertise this windows-alike behaviour? Did it say that if you

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-04 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I take responsibility for posting OT on the list. I would do it again but perhaps in doing so I should have specified an off-list, direct reply to me rather than in the list. Newsgroups are sometimes too slow and I needed info ASAP (like within

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 04:01 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:01, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 22:15, Will Styles wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 05:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: J.P. Pasnak wrote: snip If you want to change it on a per-user basis,

Re: [expert] rpm error. update!

2003-02-04 Thread et
TOP post have you tried this ? from the errrata page... Why: The installer misconfigured the medium description of Contribution packages. Solution: Insert the Installation CD (CD-ROM #1) and issue the command urpmi.update cdrom8 as root On Tuesday 04 February 2003 07:43 am, Franki wrote: I

Re: [expert] Multiple network interfaces on one host

2003-02-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:17, Mark Chou wrote: ... 1. Is it possible to have a wireless nic (in conjunction with a MDK box) act as a wireless access point? I'm assuming yes provided I use HostAP. yes 2. What configuration parameters are necessary? Do I specifically need to have the

Re: [expert] getting RPM headers

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Sorry if you get this as a dupe but after about 14 hours... it hasn't appeared. Got a wild hair up my other side and tried this. # rpm -qip http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/Apache-ASP-2.37-3mdk.noarch.rpm (this is all one line but my line wrap messed it up.) And it

Re: [expert] Multiple network interfaces on one host

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:17, Mark Chou wrote: I already use a mandrake (8.0) box for my home NAT/firewall, and my home network at present is wired only. I would like to have a wireless access point hosted from this box as well, to have a little mobile computing available for the folks at

Re: [expert] Multiple network interfaces on one host

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 07:18, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:17, Mark Chou wrote: ... 1. Is it possible to have a wireless nic (in conjunction with a MDK box) act as a wireless access point? I'm assuming yes provided I use HostAP. yes 2. What configuration

Re: [expert] Multiple network interfaces on one host

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:34, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:17, Mark Chou wrote: I already use a mandrake (8.0) box for my home NAT/firewall, and my home network at present is wired only. I would like to have a wireless access point hosted from this box as well, to have a

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian fonts on occasion and have had trouble. Thanks.

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carroll Grigsby wrote on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:39:08PM -0500 : With all due respect, putting this thread in the same category as that mess last week is a huge leap. For one thing, this hardly a controversial topic. I did not say it was the

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:55, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:12:59PM +1100 : Todd Lyons wrote: Not quite. See the prompt above? It had already exited. The messages you see afterward are from kdeinit killing itself and its child processes off. Do it again

Re: [expert] MDK9 with Apache 2 with Load Balancing

2003-02-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Wideman wrote on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:54:13PM -0600 : What are the options of doing this? MDK9 with Apache 2 with Load Balancing I have 4-Win2k boxes doing this now with IIS but i want to convert it to Linux/BSD or some form there of.

[expert] Ethernet MTU limit

2003-02-04 Thread ddc_prueba
Hello world... I was to play with MTU ethernet parameter in my LAN to see if I can get any speed improvement and found out that I can't get it more than 1500!!! Here is command and error: [root@athlon root]# ifconfig eth0 mtu 1600 SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument [root@athlon root]# ifconfig eth0

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:55 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the

Re: [expert] Ethernet MTU limit

2003-02-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 10:38, ddc_prueba wrote: Hello world... I was to play with MTU ethernet parameter in my LAN to see if I can get any speed improvement and found out that I can't get it more than 1500!!! Here is command and error: [root@athlon root]# ifconfig eth0 mtu 1600

[expert] new 9.0 install dropping ssh/dns traffic

2003-02-04 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hi. I recently had an 8.x box go up in flames, so I rebuilt it with a clean install of 9.0. I configured the firewall using the control center to allow WWW, SMTP, DNS, and SSH traffic inbound. While mail and web traffic is flowing in normally, traffic to named and sshd on ports 53/22 respectively

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:12:59PM +1100 : Todd Lyons wrote: Not quite. See the prompt above? It had already exited. The messages you see afterward are from kdeinit killing itself and its child processes

Re: [expert] new 9.0 install dropping ssh/dns traffic

2003-02-04 Thread Jack Coates
/etc/hosts.allow On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 11:00, Christopher Kolar wrote: Hi. I recently had an 8.x box go up in flames, so I rebuilt it with a clean install of 9.0. I configured the firewall using the control center to allow WWW, SMTP, DNS, and SSH traffic inbound. While mail and web traffic

RE: [expert] password change script

2003-02-04 Thread Brian York
We are going to put in a MS Active directory soon. That is for use by around 20,000 clients can will linux work with active directory as in the way of a universal password Brian -Original Message- From: Ric Tibbetts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 11:08 PM

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles

2003-02-04 Thread mycal62
hi , did you try looking in : file:/usr/local/netscape/defaults/profile Only thing I could find. what is the exact problem you are having? I've just gone through a bit of a pain to get my netscape 7 working properly after a new install. I had to create a new profile , delete the default

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Pedersen wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:05:28AM -0800 : second barrage of stderr messages edited into my attempt. Is there not some way in the program's code to exclude these messages from the terminal, once the prompt has been returned,

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Pedersen wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:05:28AM -0800 : second barrage of stderr messages edited into my attempt. Is there not some way in the program's code to exclude these messages from the terminal, once the prompt

Re: [expert] new 9.0 install dropping ssh/dns traffic

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:00 pm, Christopher Kolar wrote: Hi. I recently had an 8.x box go up in flames, so,,, what did you do to get the smoke out of them little boxes,,, and what color was the smoke??? sorry i don't have more info about the real problem, are you saying you can not ssh

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 12:55 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:43 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see

RE: [expert] password change script

2003-02-04 Thread Jack Coates
see pam_ldap. On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 11:32, Brian York wrote: We are going to put in a MS Active directory soon. That is for use by around 20,000 clients can will linux work with active directory as in the way of a universal password Brian -Original Message- From: Ric

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 15:37 -0500, et wrote: one of this thread was the one you offered to test for Preador, the Star office presentation that gave an error when saving to Powerpoint, but could be cut and pasted to a new file, and saved with no problem, and Anne had a I think that one was

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:15, Todd Lyons wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:39:08PM -0500 : With all due respect, putting this thread in the same category as that mess last week is a huge leap. For one thing, this hardly a controversial topic. I did not say it was

Re: [expert] Multiple network interfaces on one host

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Chou
OK, this is encouraging. Just a few more questions please (Jack et al.). I've already read the wireless howto (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/). I just want to make sure I get a card which will work in conjunction with HostAP, want to get a nic with firmware know to work.

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 03:53 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 15:37 -0500, et wrote: one of this thread was the one you offered to test for Preador, the Star office presentation that gave an error when saving to Powerpoint, but could be cut and pasted to a new file,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 16:15 -0500, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common thread _that_ _we_ _know_ _of_. Yes, that sounds right,

RE: [expert] MDK9 with Apache 2 with Load Balancing

2003-02-04 Thread Robert Wideman
This is in my home. I dont have $20k to do this. I work on BigIP at workDell Storage Support at HQ in Austin. I just want to load balance port 80 mainly. I think i found a way to do this. http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/ Thanks tho. Rob What's doing the load balancing? A dedicated

Re: [expert] Ethernet MTU limit

2003-02-04 Thread ddc_prueba
Thank you very much. I'll read docs on the link's page tomorrow and see if I can get any speed up ;-)) El mar, 04-02-2003 a las 19:56, Jack Coates escribió: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 10:38, ddc_prueba wrote: Hello world... I was to play with MTU ethernet parameter in my LAN to see if I

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-04 Thread Brian Schroeder
Out of interest, does anyone know if Staroffice patches can be applied to Openoffice installations? Could it be done? Would it break things? Brian From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 5:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and

[expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Chou
Now that Mandrake has announced their product end-of-life policy (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/productlifetime.php3), I really need a sustainable upgrade strategy. I've always struggled with rpm updates, basically downloadling source rpms and building them myself. Mandrake package

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 15:44, Mark Chou wrote: Now that Mandrake has announced their product end-of-life policy (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/productlifetime.php3), I really need a sustainable upgrade strategy. I've always struggled with rpm updates, basically downloadling source rpms and

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Mark... On Tuesday 04 February 2003 03:44 pm, Mark Chou wrote: What do most of you do to keep your machines up to date with necessary features and security updates? Do you pretty much re-pave each time for a newer MDK distro, or

Re: [expert] Ethernet MTU limit

2003-02-04 Thread Toshiro
I was to play with MTU ethernet parameter in my LAN to see if I can get any speed improvement and found out that I can't get it more than 1500!!! Here is command and error: [root@athlon root]# ifconfig eth0 mtu 1600 SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument [root@athlon root]# ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500

Re: [expert] Ethernet MTU limit

2003-02-04 Thread stefmit
I was just going to reply to the original message, but I stopped, thinking that a million and one people will jump all over. But now I have to intervene: the statement below (if - taken in the context of the question - may imply that we are still talking about 1500 bytes) is incorrect. The

[expert] Problem with .rpmmacros / rpm build setup

2003-02-04 Thread Jim C
Well I got that last bug but now I have another. This last line in my rpmmacros file is causing trouble: # Where scripts are found (like find-requires-nonvidia) %_my_bindir /lclusr/jim/bin %_my_rpmdir /lclusr/jim/rpm ... %__find_requires

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Chou
Jack, If I were to install a linux firewall appliance today, I'd probably go with LEAF/LRP, or firewalls such as smoothwall, coyote, etc. However, 2+ years ago, when I embarked on this, I believe 2.4 kernels started penetrating the major distros, and one of the draws was stateful packet