Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: Any rpms to upload? Texstar has them... I'm using them... so far so very good. One problem with Konq but it's a bug with KDE. you will always get a horizontal scroll bar if you have a vertical one James Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] setting up CVS server on mandrake9.1

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:35, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, I have CVS running on a Mandrake 9.1. Users can log in to CVS but when they try to import a module they receive an error; Cannot access /home/cvs//CVSROOT Permission denied. are the users in group cvs? If not they won't be able

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:52, Miark wrote: Apparently so. When I loaded KDE today, the KDE bootsplash was a Penguin herding a group of Winblows icons--I must have urpmi'ed some Texstar 3.1.3 RPMs without realizing it. Miark Yep Texstart marked his spot! On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:21:51

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: Any rpms to upload? Texstar has them... I'm using them... so far so very good. One problem with Konq but it's a bug with KDE. you will always get a horizontal scroll bar if you have a vertical one James I'm

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: Any rpms to upload? Texstar has them... I'm using them... so far so very good. One problem with Konq but it's a bug with KDE. you will always get a horizontal scroll bar if you have a vertical one James

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:46 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: The only ramification of using su in an xterm to become root is that any program you run from that shell thereafter is run as root; the rest of your desktop is running as your logged-in user, and is unaffected. The odd thing is that no-one

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:28 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 23:43 schrieb Brant Fitzsimmons: Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Felix Miata wrote: Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 12:59 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Bill Mullen wrote: It's not really our place to shield them from the knowledge of how to do it. Logging into X as root is risky, and therefore not recommended. There are times, however, where it may be more convenient, and even more

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:45, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:02 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 02:53, James Sparenberg wrote: Felix .. sorry, not to prefer one over the other. I just never use

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:46 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: The only ramification of using su in an xterm to become root is that any program you run from that shell thereafter is run as root; the rest of your desktop is running as your logged-in user, and

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 13:24, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Felix Miata wrote: Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular user. I hate to bring up

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-08-01 Thread Joerg Mertin
On Friday 01 August 2003 00:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 14:32, Anne Wilson wrote: [...] Thanks Bill. It's late now, and I'm shattered after today's fight with it. I'll try that tomorrow and let you know what happens. At least, having recovered once, I do feel a bit

[expert] Squished fonts on some web pages

2003-08-01 Thread Jeremy Gregorio
A few web pages I point mozilla at (notably theregister.co.uk) have weird font problems. The text will look as though it's squished or compressed a bit. Highlighting the text makes it display correctly. I don't seem to have this problem with konqueror. I've tried upgrading mozilla to 1.4

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 00:21, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:45, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:02 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 02:53, James Sparenberg wrote: Felix .. sorry, not to

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 8:36 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:46 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: The only ramification of using su in an xterm to become root is that any program you run from that shell thereafter is run as root; the rest of

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-08-01 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Stef, On Friday 01 August 2003 04:18, stefmit wrote: [...] I see that everybody insists in this cp -a issue. As I said in my previous emails, directed to Anne only: cp is NOT the best choice of doing this. I had problems in the past caused by hardlinks, I think even device files (when

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 00:49, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 13:24, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Felix Miata wrote: Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell mdkKDM I want to login as

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Brant, please try to read somthing about the philosophy on Unix type systems. Root can destroy anything on your system. Also - if everyone would use it's Unix system as user Root - the Virus Problems Microsoft Systems do have - would also exist under Unix. Another reason not to do things as

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Stodden
Joerg Mertin wrote: Just remember - it make no difference where you move a partition's content under Linux. The only problem that could show up is with Lilo/Grub - but if you adapt fstab accordingly, and the directories exist - it works. If by mistake you delete the partition table - and had a

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread charlie
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 05:49 am, Felix Miata wholly or partly mentioned :- Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular user. Unless you edit /etc/inittab and runlevel to id:3:initdefault: then at the login :- root and

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Thursday 31 July 2003 07:45 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:57, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Bill Mullen wrote: The question remains, Why would anyone want to login to a full X session as root? ... Because they want the

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 9:44 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 00:21, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:45, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:02 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Sergio Javier Belkin
Is the best phrase that I read in the list so far. Very Good Anne! El Vie 01 Ago 2003 04:21, Anne Wilson escribió: Why does everyone insist on telling others what they must do? 'Linux is about choice', right? -- Obed Liberty Software Libre al desktop http://obed.com.ar

[expert] urpmi: weird behaviour

2003-08-01 Thread Sergio Javier Belkin
When I use urpmi, the cd start to sound, it's very strange, Do somebody know why? -- Obed Liberty Software Libre al desktop http://obed.com.ar - Baje el manual para el nuevo usuario de GNU/Linux de http://www.obed.com.ar/doc/

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-08-01 Thread Sergio Javier Belkin
El Vie 01 Ago 2003 04:49, Joerg Mertin escribió: However - I think it is time to have something like clone program for Linux - that will do it. The software exists, Mondo Rescue, it's a great tool, but the lastest version are a little buggy. But, it woul be great if Mondo is optimized for

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 31 July 2003 09:27 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:52 pm, Miark wrote: Apparently so. When I loaded KDE today, the KDE bootsplash was a Penguin herding a group of Winblows icons--I must have urpmi'ed some Texstar 3.1.3 RPMs without realizing it.

[expert] Shorewall DNAT advice / help

2003-08-01 Thread |nSaNe
Hiya, I want to be able to run some software on my workstation that requires users to connect to port 9000. This read as a pretty simple task, but has gotten more and more complicatd that finally, I am looking for help (not for the first time and I am sure it wont be the last) I was sure

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 10:14 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: /etc/fstab: [snip] /dev/hde10 /holding ext3 user,defaults 1 2 [snip] Yup. Get rid of that user, option. Unmount and remount (as root). Then: rm -fR /holding/* cp -a /usr/* /holding/ That

Re: [expert] urpmi: weird behaviour

2003-08-01 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 1. August 2003 16:22 schrieb Sergio Javier Belkin: When I use urpmi, the cd start to sound, it's very strange, Do somebody know why? Its a bug in urpmi. I think it should be fixed in the urpmi update, but I may be false here. Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Dumbell question on urpmi

2003-08-01 Thread Ken Thompson
I feel like a fool, but how do you update the urpmi database?? -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Making Mandrake RPM's

2003-08-01 Thread Tru64 User
Hi, I had a post here few days ago about RPM agonyand was educated that it was because i was not using Manrake specs but rather Redhat. Now, I am in dare need to make proftpd-1.2.8 rpms for mandrake. The current available rpm, 1.2.5 does not have large file support. It started support large

Re: [expert] Dumbell question on urpmi

2003-08-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 09:15, Ken Thompson wrote: I feel like a fool, but how do you update the urpmi database?? urpmi.update -a -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Making Mandrake RPM's

2003-08-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:57, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, I had a post here few days ago about RPM agonyand was educated that it was because i was not using Manrake specs but rather Redhat. Now, I am in dare need to make proftpd-1.2.8 rpms for mandrake. The current available rpm, 1.2.5 does

Re: [expert] Making Mandrake RPM's

2003-08-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:57, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, I had a post here few days ago about RPM agonyand was educated that it was because i was not using Manrake specs but rather Redhat. Now, I am in dare need to make proftpd-1.2.8 rpms for mandrake. The current available rpm, 1.2.5 does

Re: [expert] Making Mandrake RPM's

2003-08-01 Thread Tru64 User
thnx. R. --- Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:57, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, I had a post here few days ago about RPM agonyand was educated that it was because i was not using Manrake specs but rather Redhat. Now, I am in dare need to make proftpd-1.2.8

Re: [expert] Dumbell question on urpmi

2003-08-01 Thread Tru64 User
urpmi.update (?) Richard --- Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel like a fool, but how do you update the urpmi database?? -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =

[expert] where is ssl-error_log ?

2003-08-01 Thread Stefano Pogliani
I am struggling in having an Apache virtual host defined to support SSL. I have seen, though, that in the ssl/sss.default_vhost.conf file, the error log for the SSL connection is defined to be logs/ssl-error_log. Actually, in the /var/log/httpd directory I can only see a ssl_error_log file

Re: [expert] X as Root

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
charlie wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 05:49 am, Felix Miata wholly or partly mentioned :- Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular user. Unless you edit /etc/inittab and runlevel to id:3:initdefault: then at the

Re: [expert] Root/SU Exit

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 Aug 2003 8:36 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: The odd thing is that no-one ever bothered to say that after a root terminal session you could switch back to user immediately by typing 'exit'. It suddenly became so much

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-08-01 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 10:14 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: /etc/fstab: [snip] /dev/hde10 /holding ext3 user,defaults 1 2 [snip] Yup. Get rid of that user, option. Unmount and remount (as root). Then:

RE: [expert] setting up CVS server on mandrake9.1

2003-08-01 Thread James D. Parra
An ls displays the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ls -la home/cvs total 3 drwx--3 500 cvs72 Jul 31 16:11 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 216 Jul 31 09:17 ../ drwxrwxrwx3 root cvs 1112 Jul 31 17:15 CVSROOT/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /] cvs is a group

Re: [expert] X as Root

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
Bill Mullen wrote: If he wants to, fine. If someone else wants to tell him how, fine. I was merely trying to get him to examine his thinking, and perhaps come to the realization that he is taking risks of which he may not be aware by doing this, and that there are safer alternative ways to

Re: [expert] Root/SU Exit

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 5:49 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 Aug 2003 8:36 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: The odd thing is that no-one ever bothered to say that after a root terminal session you could switch back to user

Re: [expert] X as Root

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
James Sparenberg wrote: Wanna bet... 2 days ago I helped someone recover because he'd learned rm * (btw it was RH where the default isn't aliased to -i )... and did it in the wrong directory. (he'd meant to do rm core* but forgot the core) Now tell me... is there a gui equivilent to that? In

[expert] Errant behaviour in PCMCIA service

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Pankonin
Hi all. I have a strange issue when starting pcmcia and have been unable to pinpoint the problem (my system is MDK 9.1 - 2.4.21-0.13): When I type service pcmcia start (or restart), the script restarts itself repeatedly for about 3 to 4 minutes (it slows down a lot once the system fills up

Re: [expert] LILO v GrUB

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
Anne Wilson wrote: As for lilo and grub - I've never even tried grub, since lilo works fine for me. I use GrUB because of its simplicity. Configuring means simply editing a text file. Nothing to run afterwards. This makes chroot on rescue boots unnecessary, which makes explaining rescue over

RE: [expert] setting up CVS server on mandrake9.1

2003-08-01 Thread James D. Parra
An ls displays the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ls -la home/cvs total 3 drwx--3 500 cvs72 Jul 31 16:11 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 216 Jul 31 09:17 ../ drwxrwxrwx3 root cvs 1112 Jul 31 17:15 CVSROOT/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /] cvs is a group

Re: [expert] Root/SU Exit

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Pankonin
On August 1, 2003 11:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Hmmm - I suppose the 'd' stood for something? disconnect? -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible Registered Linux User 246938 There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 00:49, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: I've done it a number of times. Why?... I build boxes for people and when I build the box it has no user. I nonetheless have to configure/setup

Re: [expert] Making Mandrake RPM's

2003-08-01 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 1. August 2003 17:57 schrieb Tru64 User: Hi, I had a post here few days ago about RPM agonyand was educated that it was because i was not using Manrake specs but rather Redhat. Now, I am in dare need to make proftpd-1.2.8 rpms for mandrake. The current available rpm, 1.2.5

Re: [expert] LILO v GrUB

2003-08-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As for lilo and grub - I've never even tried grub, since lilo works fine for me. I use GrUB because of its simplicity. Configuring means simply editing a text file. Nothing to run afterwards. This makes chroot on rescue boots unnecessary, which makes

Re: [expert] Dumbell question on urpmi

2003-08-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 01 August 2003 10:36 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 09:15, Ken Thompson wrote: I feel like a fool, but how do you update the urpmi database?? urpmi.update -a Thanks Jack and Tru64 User. -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [expert] setting up CVS server on mandrake9.1

2003-08-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:17, James D. Parra wrote: An ls displays the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ls -la home/cvs total 3 drwx--3 500 cvs72 Jul 31 16:11 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 216 Jul 31 09:17 ../ drwxrwxrwx3 root cvs 1112

Re: [expert] Making Mandrake RPM's

2003-08-01 Thread Tru64 User
Mmmh..This list never fails to amaze with new tricks.gotta try them out first R. --- Kwan Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:57, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, I had a post here few days ago about RPM agonyand was educated that it was because i was not

[expert] MySQL update, and restarting problem.....

2003-08-01 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all. This is on a Mandrake 9.0 system. I just updated MySQL to 3.23.56 and now when I try to restart the mysql server I get this message: Starting MySQL ServerYou are required to change your password immediately (password aged) Changing password for mysql (current) UNIX password: Even

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 10:18, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 00:49, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: I've done it a number of times. Why?... I build boxes for people and when I build the box it

Re: [expert] Root/SU Exit

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
Peter Pankonin wrote: On August 1, 2003 11:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Hmmm - I suppose the 'd' stood for something? disconnect? I think so, but thirty years was a long time ago. ;-) -- A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

Re: [expert] X as Root

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 09:47, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Mullen wrote: If he wants to, fine. If someone else wants to tell him how, fine. I was merely trying to get him to examine his thinking, and perhaps come to the realization that he is taking risks of which he may not be aware by doing

Re: [expert] LILO v GrUB

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 10:03, Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As for lilo and grub - I've never even tried grub, since lilo works fine for me. I use GrUB because of its simplicity. Configuring means simply editing a text file. Nothing to run afterwards. This makes chroot on

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 05:49, Ken Thompson wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 07:45 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:57, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Bill Mullen wrote: The question remains, Why would anyone want to login to a full

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 07:36, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 09:27 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:52 pm, Miark wrote: Apparently so. When I loaded KDE today, the KDE bootsplash was a Penguin herding a group of Winblows icons--I must have urpmi'ed

Re: [expert] MySQL update, and restarting problem.....

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:40, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all. This is on a Mandrake 9.0 system. I just updated MySQL to 3.23.56 and now when I try to restart the mysql server I get this message: Starting MySQL ServerYou are required to change your password immediately (password aged)

Re: [expert] Squished fonts on some web pages

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 23:02, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: A few web pages I point mozilla at (notably theregister.co.uk) have weird font problems. The text will look as though it's squished or compressed a bit. Highlighting the text makes it display correctly. I don't seem to have this

Re: [expert] Root/SU Exit

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
David Guntner wrote: Anne Wilson grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Friday 01 Aug 2003 5:49 pm, Felix Miata wrote: This is the old fashioned way, something I learned in 1973. Hmmm - I suppose the 'd' stood for something? Nope. Control-D is simply used as an end-of-file indicator.

Re: [expert] Making Space - I'm back

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 00:49, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Stef, On Friday 01 August 2003 04:18, stefmit wrote: [...] I see that everybody insists in this cp -a issue. As I said in my previous emails, directed to Anne only: cp is NOT the best choice of doing this. I had problems in the past

Re: [expert] Root/SU Exit

2003-08-01 Thread David Guntner
Felix Miata grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Nope. Control-D is simply used as an end-of-file indicator. If you EOF a *lot* of different program inputs, it will end that program (or at least, end it from looking for further input :). In the case of a shell prompt,

Re: [expert] Making Mandrake RPM's

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:57, Tru64 User wrote: Hi, I had a post here few days ago about RPM agonyand was educated that it was because i was not using Manrake specs but rather Redhat. Now, I am in dare need to make proftpd-1.2.8 rpms for mandrake. The current available rpm, 1.2.5 does

Re: [expert] X as Root

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
James Sparenberg wrote: directing anything at you per se. Oh and BTW had one today. Someone asked why when they logged into MDK as root the screen went grey. Turns out this guy (as many are) was red/green color blind. So much for the warning *grin*. Maybe someone who gets listened to

RE: [expert] X as Root

2003-08-01 Thread Jonathan Shilling
James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 09:47, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Mullen wrote: If he wants to, fine. If someone else wants to tell him how, fine. I was merely trying to get him to examine his thinking, and perhaps come to the realization that he is taking risks of which he may

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Brant, please try to read somthing about the philosophy on Unix type systems. Root can destroy anything on your system. Also - if everyone would use it's Unix system as user Root - the Virus Problems Microsoft Systems do have - would also exist under Unix. Another reason

Re: [expert] Root/SU Exit

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 9:25 pm, David Guntner wrote: Felix Miata grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Nope. Control-D is simply used as an end-of-file indicator. If you EOF a *lot* of different program inputs, it will end that program (or at least, end it from looking

Re: [expert] MySQL update, and restarting problem.....

2003-08-01 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Yup, webmin will change it with no problems after I start the server with /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --skip-grant-tables but then when I restart mysql normaly service mysql start it has the same message: Starting MySQL ServerYou are required to change your password immediately (password aged)

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 7:52 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 01:09, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 Aug 2003 8:36 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:46 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: The only ramification of using su in

Re: [expert] MySQL update, and restarting problem.....

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 14:13, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Yup, webmin will change it with no problems after I start the server with /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --skip-grant-tables but then when I restart mysql normaly service mysql start it has the same message: Starting MySQL ServerYou are required to

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 08:30, Miark wrote: On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 02:39:47 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texstar has them... I'm using them... so far so very good. One problem with Konq but it's a bug with KDE. you will always get a horizontal scroll bar if you have a

Re: [expert] X as Root

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 12:33, Felix Miata wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: directing anything at you per se. Oh and BTW had one today. Someone asked why when they logged into MDK as root the screen went grey. Turns out this guy (as many are) was red/green color blind. So much for the

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 out anywhere yet?

2003-08-01 Thread Miark
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 02:39:47 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Texstar has them... I'm using them... so far so very good. One problem with Konq but it's a bug with KDE. you will always get a horizontal scroll bar if you have a vertical one James I'm not seeing

[expert] Kernel Update - NVIDIA Driver Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Litterick
I have just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a computer with a Geforce 4. I am or should say was using the standard NVdriver that was installed automatically with Mandrake 9.1. When I first installed Mandrake I had the same problem then was I do with the secure kernel but the enterprise kernel worked

[expert] keybaord layout

2003-08-01 Thread Alberto Castillo Pompeyo
Title: keybaord layout Hi, I just installed ML 9.1, I have a laptop with US keyboard, but sometimes I need to use a Spanish keyboard layout, with ML 9.0 I had configured KDE with both layouts by selecting them from the Configuration-KDE-peripherals-keyboard dialog, but with the new version

Re: [expert] Kernel Update - NVIDIA Driver Problem

2003-08-01 Thread David Guntner
Jeffrey Litterick grabbed a keyboard and wrote: My question is what is the best way to get the NVdriver module loaded correctly in the new kernel. For right now I changed my X driver from NVIDIA to nv and it works but I lost all 3d acceleration. I would like to avoid if possible downloading

Re: [expert] mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:53, Felix Miata wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: As for turning off mdkkdm. Go to /etc/sysconfig and edit the file desktop. Make it say KDM GDM or XDM and you will again have a fully functioning Linux box. OK, the updated kdebase-kdm

Re: [expert] keybaord layout

2003-08-01 Thread Toshiro
El Vie 01 Ago 2003 21:11, Alberto Castillo Pompeyo escribió: Hi, I just installed ML 9.1, I have a laptop with US keyboard, but sometimes I need to use a Spanish keyboard layout, with ML 9.0 I had configured KDE with both layouts by selecting them from the

[expert] VMWARE $

2003-08-01 Thread Joseph Loo
I have mandrake 9.1 install on my system. I am running the smp version and trying to get vmware 4.0 up an running. Everytime I try to do the vmware-config.pl, it prompts for the include headers. There is the default /usr/src/linux/include. Everytime it tries to configure it, it come back with

Re: [expert] mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 19:29, Felix Miata wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:53, Felix Miata wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: As for turning off mdkkdm. Go to /etc/sysconfig and edit the file desktop. Make it say KDM GDM or XDM and you will again have a

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread charlie
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 05:36 pm, Bill Mullen wholly or partly mentioned :- The odd thing is that no-one ever bothered to say that after a root terminal session you could switch back to user immediately by typing 'exit'. It suddenly became so much more convenient. I use Ctrl-d, myself. The

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-08-01 Thread charlie
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 05:03 pm, Anne Wilson wholly or partly mentioned :- The odd thing is that no-one ever bothered to say that after a root terminal session you could switch back to user immediately by typing 'exit'. It suddenly became so much more convenient. Anne Does it never end? I have

[expert] Making / Verifying 9.2beta ISOs

2003-08-01 Thread dfox
Hello Now that the 9.2 beta cd's are out, I'm busily downloading them, and burning my own ISOs for the first time :) (well, I did burn 9.1 and that was a disastrous install). Anyway, I get 'input/output error' at the end of the first ISO if I try to 'md5sum /dev/cdrom' or dd the disk over

[expert] kde 3.1.2 clock issue

2003-08-01 Thread dfox
Has anyone experienced clock problems? It's been OK up until now. I don't know when it started, but all of a sudden my KDE clock was off. I thought something was amiss in drakconf (system time) since I had recently run drakfloppy and drakboot to make sure my lilo and etc was all ready to go