Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:01, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell

Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-07-01 Thread Steve Cox - dig
On Sunday, 29 June 2003 01:32, John Wilson wrote: On June 27, 2003 09:56 am, Steve Cox - dig wrote: Hi there, This might be a little bit newbie, not sure. I want to keep an eye on my ip address off my adsl line, as it changes I would like a scirpt to run, basically uploading to a hosted

[expert] Another request idea

2003-07-01 Thread Jim C
How about mosfett's screensavers and widgets and things? Those would be cool. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] HELP - ext3 filesystem data loss?!

2003-07-01 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, My computer gave me a message during boot up saying that there were problems in my root filesystem. He proceeded to check them and then suggested that he could fix them but that some data might get lost. I pressed yes and let him proceed. During the recovery process some inodes and

[expert] nat without shorewall

2003-07-01 Thread saini stronne
Hi, I have a firewall/router linux between modem and workstation. And from my workstation where is mdk9.1 I translate to laptop but when I have set this up in control-center shorewall went on in workstation which prevents any sharing between laptop and workstation. How do I setup address

[expert] mounting a samba dir writable by an ordinary user with a space in his name ...

2003-07-01 Thread edoardo
Hi I need to mount a windows-exported directory to be writable when logged in to my linux machine with my ordinary user account. The windows sysadmin gave me a username with a space in between - this trips up the mandrake control center UI tool Now, if, after login I execute *as root* mount -t

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 30 Jun 2003 09:32:01 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:01, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a

[expert] 2.4.21 Variable HZ Howto

2003-07-01 Thread Dave Sherman
James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:43, Robert Crawford wrote: Dave, Sounds like you had great success! So, we now know at least that Hz patch can be added to the already heavily patched Mandrake kernels. Could you please post some info on the two minor patch failures, and how you

Re: [expert] mounting a samba dir writable by an ordinary user with a space in his name ...

2003-07-01 Thread David Rankin
Try, username=MYDOMAIN\\Edoardo Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need to mount a windows-exported directory to be writable when logged in to my linux machine with my ordinary user account. The windows sysadmin gave me a username with a space in between - this trips up the mandrake

Re: [expert] rpm db problems

2003-07-01 Thread Björn Olsson
James, What are these files for? I've got two of them in my folder and one of them seems to contain info from some installed rpms, among other things. /Björn Olsson ___ They are the temp files created when

[expert] Linux Journal terminology questions

2003-07-01 Thread Jim C
I've been reading Linux Journal and I am getting confused over a couple of references. What are they talking about when they use the phrase application server. This could be the server portion of a client-server app or it could be a system that exports /usr/bin mounted as a share etc. What

Re: [expert] Linux Journal terminology questions

2003-07-01 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3590 days Jim C. wrote: I've been reading Linux Journal and I am getting confused over a couple of references. What are they talking about when they use the phrase application server. This could be the server portion of a client-server app or it could be a system

Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues

2003-07-01 Thread Azrael
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 10:40, charlie wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:10 am, Azrael had this to contribute :- I tried to remedy this with adding 'hdc=ide-scsi' to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf but no change. Am I supposed to edit /etc/modules.conf ? This is what I already have in

[expert] mount in fstab

2003-07-01 Thread David Hlik
Hi, how can i mount ISO image, from install CD in automatic from fstab i tried /mnt/data2/Instalacie/Programy/Linux/Mandrake-9.1/Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso iso9660 /mnt/inst3 loop=/dev/loop0 0 0 but it does not work. Thanks for help -- David Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Changes to the ps command

2003-07-01 Thread Guillaume Marcais
Isn't it a move to behave accordingly to some POSIX standard? Which is probably out of the scope of Mandrake... Just a guess, Guillaume. On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 18:09, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:11, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: I have been running Mandrake since version

Re: [expert] Linux Journal terminology questions

2003-07-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 02:02 pm, Jim C wrote: I've been reading Linux Journal and I am getting confused over a couple of references. What are they talking about when they use the phrase application server. This could be the server portion of a client-server app or it could be a system that

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-07-01 Thread chort
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/ directory and allow apache to enter the home directory so as to read ~/public_html/ (which would allow someone to do something like http://yoursite.com/~preador/). That's pretty much the

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:37, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child continues it's run... Problem is when I put a similar case into an RPM and it runs it. It hangs.

Re: [expert] SUdden Crashed with Mdk-9.1 (X-Windows running Amok).

2003-07-01 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hia Folks, I can now reproduce the X-Windows Running Amok stuff. OK - here's what you gotta do: Start X-Windows, Work as usual. Start the Mandrake Control Center - Hardware - Start the Printer configuration utility Play a little bit around with the Printer stuff - so that it loads the Printer

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 01 Jul 2003 14:45:24 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:37, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child continues it's run...

Re: [expert] Linux Journal terminology questions

2003-07-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:02, Jim C wrote: I've been reading Linux Journal and I am getting confused over a couple of references. What are they talking about when they use the phrase application server. This could be the server portion of a client-server app or it could be a system that

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-07-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 June 2003 11:00 am, Ken Thompson wrote: Praedor, Take a look at Smoothwall --- http://www.smoothwall.org It just works. As for mandrake, did you set your default gateway on the laptop to the address of your desktop?? It should have

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:57, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 01 Jul 2003 14:45:24 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:37, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works as expected.. the parent

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 01 Jul 2003 15:51:18 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On your point.. yes ... I agree that rpm could more affectively handle the database. There is no reason why it should lock the db after it figures out if all dependencies are met unless it's actively writing to the db.

Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-07-01 Thread John Wilson
On June 28, 2003 08:59 pm, Steve Cox - dig wrote: Oh I wish we had that kind of service here in South Africa. At very best our telco lets the line stay up 24hours then dropps it. Sometimes you get to keep the same ip, mostly not though. To top it off they are busy fixing a piece of cable on

Re: [expert] cd burning scanning

2003-07-01 Thread charlie
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:14 am, Jonathan Dlouhy had this to contribute :- The main one is that copying an audio CD takes forever. The other one is that scanning then faxing is kind of a pain, and the quality of the scans I get is not so hot. I'd appreciate any direction or help. What are you

Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot? [SOLVED]

2003-07-01 Thread SainTiss
Problem was that the FORWARD_IPV4 variable, which used to be set in the /etc/sysconfig/network script, got unset somehow... Everything is fine now Hans On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 00:29, SainTiss wrote: Ok, anyway, I've tried to change the IP addresses now so that they are in different subnets, but

[expert] Mandrake 6.1 nfs lock daemon

2003-07-01 Thread Marsden MacRae
Our aging server is running Mandrake 6.1. we've just discovered we need the package containing the nfs lock daemon. Naturally we found this out well after Mandrake stopped supporting 6.1 and took the packages down. We have the original CDs but it doesn't seem to be on them. 7.1 nfs packages

Re: [expert] Changes to the ps command

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 12:50, Guillaume Marcais wrote: Isn't it a move to behave accordingly to some POSIX standard? Which is probably out of the scope of Mandrake... Just a guess, Guillaume. more than likely you are right... but I like my version better *grin* James On Mon,

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-07-01 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3590 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/ directory and allow apache to enter the home directory so as to read ~/public_html/ (which would allow someone to do something

Re: [expert] Bittorrent

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 04:33, richard bown wrote: Hi all Ive been using bittorrent on windows for a while, works fine So I thought I'd try the linux version of the client, so downloaded the rpm from cooker built it and installed the files and the gui. Its been written in python, and each of

Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday June 28 2003 10:20 pm, Brian Parish wrote: I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back

Re: [expert] 2.4.21 Variable HZ Howto

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 05:30, Dave Sherman wrote: sniped Thankfully, the failed patch bits are easy to fix. The patch program generates *.rej (reject) files for each failure, so you can see what was attempted to patch, and look at the pristine file to figure out where it should go. The two

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-07-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 08:08, Praedor Atrebates wrote: ... Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend but it completely borked my ability to connect to the internet, seemingly

Re: [expert] SUdden Crashed with Mdk-9.1 (X-Windows running Amok).

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:03, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hia Folks, I can now reproduce the X-Windows Running Amok stuff. OK - here's what you gotta do: Start X-Windows, Work as usual. Start the Mandrake Control Center - Hardware - Start the Printer configuration utility Play a little bit

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-07-01 Thread kiosk
Thank you so much, Robert, for an elegant description of a process which has been to some extent mysterious for me for some time, despite my experience in compiling kernels for various Slackware installations. I intend to experiment with a 2.5.xx kernel in the hope that my E7205 chipset will be

Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

2003-07-01 Thread Brian Schroeder
Yep. That's done the trick. It works properly now. Thanks for your help. I have now run into another problem: full-screen graphics programs (in particular, games) only display the top half of the screen. It may be caused by something else, though. I haven't spent any time debugging it

Re: [expert] Linux Journal terminology questions

2003-07-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 02:02 pm, Jim C wrote: I've been reading Linux Journal and I am getting confused over a couple of references. What are they talking about when they use the phrase application server. This could be the server portion of a client-server app or it could be a system that

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-07-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Sunday 29 June 2003 09:08 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 June 2003 11:00 am, Ken Thompson wrote: Praedor, Take a look at Smoothwall --- http://www.smoothwall.org It just works. As for mandrake, did you set your default

Re: [expert] Linux Journal terminology questions

2003-07-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 02:02 pm, Jim C wrote: I've been reading Linux Journal and I am getting confused over a couple of references. What are they talking about when they use the phrase application server. This could be the server portion of a client-server app or it could be a system that

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 05:24, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 30 Jun 2003 09:32:01 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:01, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a

Re: [expert] Changes to the ps command

2003-07-01 Thread Miark
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:11, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: I have been running Mandrake since version 6. My recent install for 9.1 has developed a compatibility issue with PSAD (Port Scan Attack Detector). What is the reason (or Login) behind the deprecation of the dash

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-07-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 02:54:21PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Hmmm... really strange. I wonder if something with the ESS drivers changed... I can't duplicate this here; I've been using xmms quite happily with the 18mdk and the other kernel we're working on. I've fwd'd this message to

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-07-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 08:47:48PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was read/execute perms. Changing to level 3 gives back the

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-07-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
OK, I don't understand this...I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.21-0.18mdk from updates for 9.1 and tried to install it but I get a message about my current kernel-source-2.4.21-1mdk being newer. Huh? I'm pretty sure that the update is newer. Am I wrong? Should I install it anyway? praedor

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-07-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 July 2003 09:52 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: OK, I don't understand this...I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.21-0.18mdk from updates for 9.1 and tried to install it but I get a message about my current kernel-source-2.4.21-1mdk being

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-07-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jul 01, 2003 at 09:57:25PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: OK, I don't understand this...I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.21-0.18mdk from updates for 9.1 and tried to install it but I get a message about my current kernel-source-2.4.21-1mdk being newer. Huh? I'm pretty sure that

[expert] LM and arbour

2003-07-01 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone succeeded in getting arbour 0.9beta2 (i.e., the current pre- release version) to build under LM? I have two LM systems (one LM 8.1 and one LM 9.0) and both of them fail when trying to build JACK (which is a prerequisite for arbour). The

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-07-01 Thread Robert Crawford
Janet, Frankly, I'm no expert, and don't really know exactly what the relevance of kernel.h is, except that it's generated at boot time. I seem to have multiple versions, but they are all exactly the same content. Very curious. I'm sure many people on this list know far more than I do on the

Re: [expert] snooper

2003-07-01 Thread Jason Greenwood
ethereal/tcpdump should do what you require. Cheers Jason chris wrote: Hi all Does linux have same program snoop in Solaris? how do I get it and install? I would like to use it to analysis the network packet? Thank you

[expert] 9.2 cooker printing 'boxes'

2003-07-01 Thread dfox
This seems only to apply to 9.2 (cooker) and although the test pages through cups admin print out good looking test pages, printing from within kmail (for instance) print out just a number of small boxes. -- David E.

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 19:26, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 02:54:21PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Hmmm... really strange. I wonder if something with the ESS drivers changed... I can't duplicate this here; I've been using xmms quite happily with the 18mdk and the other

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child continues it's run... Problem is when I put a similar case into an RPM and it runs it. It hangs. RPM will not continue until child runs it's course.

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-07-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 21:14, Robert Crawford wrote: Janet, Frankly, I'm no expert, and don't really know exactly what the relevance of kernel.h is, except that it's generated at boot time. I seem to have multiple versions, but they are all exactly the same content. Very curious. I'm sure

Re: [expert] snooper

2003-07-01 Thread chort
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, chris wrote: Hi all Does linux have same program snoop in Solaris? how do I get it and install? I would like to use it to analysis the network packet? Thank you The Linux/BSD equivilant is tcpdump, the syntax is very similar IIRC. There are also several

[expert] snooper

2003-07-01 Thread chris
Hi all Does linux have same program snoop in Solaris? how do I get it and install? I would like to use it to analysis the network packet? Thank you Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com