Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread rikona
Hello Jack, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 4:14:37 PM, you wrote: Is there a way to get the output of swish-e to operate as an 'integrated viewer'? JC I don't know for sure, but I think that Nautilus or Konqueror would fit JC the bill there. Both have intense MIME capabilities. Interesting idea.

Re: [expert] Simply Brilliant

2003-10-22 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 22:09, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:40, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:36:09 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: yeah. I remember those scripts. Got a note that my windows box was infected with some dang virus.

Re: [expert] nforce2 ATA problem?

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:47, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I got a new nforce2 mainboard recently and attached an old hard drive which BIOS identified as ATA66 drive. But according to dmesg output,it's ATA33. Using hdparm utility, it is a udma2 drive. Isn't ATA66 drive be identify as

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread rikona
Hello HaywireMac, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 9:36:11 PM, you wrote: H The Trusted Computing Initiative is not to be trusted at all. Each of us has to convince someone 'new' of this each week (or less). This may be attempted politically, and we will need a LOT of support if that is the case. H

[expert] weird webmin problem in firebird: wrokaround

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
From bugzilla: going to about:config in firebird and setting keyword.enabled to false kept localhost from keywording to spams are us. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:20:55PM -0700, rikona wrote: [...] In the M$ world, the address book is NOT your friend, and should be BLANK. [...] It doesn't matter that much anymore, as the latest generation of viruses gets their addresses from Usenet and the web cache as well, so there's still

[expert] Lecteur CD tue par l'install 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread TAMONE Francois - System Engineer
Bonjour, L'installation de Mandrake 9.2 depuis le CD no 1 a rendu inopérant le lecteur de CD (IDE) de mon pc. Il s'agit d'un Dell Optiplex gx270 tout neuf. La BIOS du PC rapporte Unknown device pour le controlleur/slot concerné par le lecteur de CD alors qu'auparavant, il était détecté. J'ai

[expert] Re: Simply Brilliant

2003-10-22 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:40:40PM -0400, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:36:09 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: yeah. I remember those scripts. Got a note that my windows box was infected with some dang virus. Reported to the ISP that I don't run windows.

Re: [expert] Making your own Mandrake DVD?

2003-10-22 Thread Seppo Jarvinen
Been a while since I asked this, now I'm stuck here... I did the conf files and now mkcd says this: ./MakeCD -dm 1 mkcd: mkcd: Depslist creation switch mkcd: Building the discs getDiscList: discs 1 WARNING: disc 1 not defined orderGroups: ordering metagroups I need to run it through MakeCD as I

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Richard wrote: [Terrible quoting job snipped in its entirety] I fixed my Mdk9.1, with info I read on this list some time back, as root: edit the following line in fstab, /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 to /dev/hda1

Re: [expert] NIC not starting with Mandrake 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Robert Fisher wrote: I have just installed 9.2 onto an IBM ThinkPad 390E laptop with 256Mb ram. It worked fine with 9.1 but now the NIC, although recognised at intallation does not start by itself. It is a Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/Modem and gets detected fine except

Re: [expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux

2003-10-22 Thread Gary Hodder
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:45, Mark Williamson wrote: Hi All, Just wondering if there is a hard drive, of better still, a directory compression scheme, that can be mounted, something like the old dos double space.. I remember its nickname, double trouble. I know there is cloop kernel

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 9:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:56, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 20 Oct 2003 10:54 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Jack Coates escribió: There are virii that use Java, Javascript, Flash, you name it, and then there's the evil code

Re: [expert] strange sound system problem?

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, [big5] Vincent Chen wrote: I got a strange sound system problem here. If I login from local console,the sound system works perfectly. But if I login from remote X session,I got sound device permission error. It seems that sound device owner is root during system start but

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 12:06 am, Charlie M. wrote: October 21, 2003 03:25 pm, rikona wrote: [..] AW That's what puzzles me. She would never open an executable. She AW would never agree to running one. Java and javascript are AW disabled for mail. She is set to read and write plain

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 10:20 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 12:52:52 PM, you wrote: AW The problem is that she is part of a mailing group for her job. AW The people are trustworth, in that there is no way that they AW would intentionally cause problems, and

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Two real quick comments and then I'm out of this thread... 1) This thread has nothing to do with running Mandrake. 2) She really needs a firewall, hardware firewall prefered. For ease of use, installation and administration, reliability and

Re: [expert] Lecteur CD tue par l'install 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread J.C. Woods
TAMONE Francois - System Engineer wrote: Bonjour, L'installation de Mandrake 9.2 depuis le CD no 1 a rendu inopérant le lecteur de CD (IDE) de mon pc. Il s'agit d'un Dell Optiplex gx270 tout neuf. La BIOS du PC rapporte Unknown device pour le controlleur/slot concerné par le lecteur de CD alors

[expert] mandrake 9.2 freeswan problem

2003-10-22 Thread jakub urban
hi all i have problem with ipsec on mandrake 9.2 kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk and freeswan-2.01-1mdk, when i start ipsec, i've got this error message 22 11:56:06 barbucha ipsec_setup: /usr/lib/ipsec/eroute: pfkey write failed, returning -1 with errno=22. any idea? thanks jakub urban full log:

Re: [expert] nforce2 ATA problem?

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 7:16 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:47, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I got a new nforce2 mainboard recently and attached an old hard drive which BIOS identified as ATA66 drive. But according to dmesg output,it's ATA33. Using hdparm

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 6:16 am, Eric Huff wrote: Once I get to the Index, I think the organization is good, it is just very hard to find the index. I added a Table Of Contents link at the very upper right. I think it is very easy to find. Not sure thet Knowledge Base is the best name

Re: [expert] Lecteur CD tue par l'install 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not aware of any cases where the installation of Mandrake has modified the firmware of a CD reader, the firmware of a motherboard, nor the settings in the bios. I have experienced CD readers that stopped working during and shortly after

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.2 freeswan problem

2003-10-22 Thread J.C. Woods
jakub urban wrote: hi all i have problem with ipsec on mandrake 9.2 kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk and freeswan-2.01-1mdk, when i start ipsec, i've got this error message 22 11:56:06 barbucha ipsec_setup: /usr/lib/ipsec/eroute: pfkey write failed, returning -1 with errno=22. any idea? thanks

[expert] 2 soundcards + usb webcam microphone

2003-10-22 Thread Jozef Riha
hw: audigy sound card, via onboard sound card, usb webcam with microphone sw: mandrake 9.2 (final), using alsa i am trying to set up my configuration thus /dev/dsp is audigy (while most of the program sends sound there), the other dsp (2, 3) is webcam microphone and via onboard). however

Re: [expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:56, Gary Hodder wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:45, Mark Williamson wrote: Hi All, Just wondering if there is a hard drive, of better still, a directory compression scheme, that can be mounted, something like the old dos double space.. I remember its

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:04:12 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The largest advantage most users have is that the true experts at doing things like this... won't because they have to much to lose. That's why I hope you see my point, this guy is applying altogether too much

[expert] The Man on Software Patents

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
Yes, Richard Stallman hisself: http://www.newsforge.com/business/03/10/21/114.shtml?tid=85 -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Williamson
Have found some things http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue18/e2compr.html http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/deepak/papers/spe99.html I even found some info about cramfs still researching. Cheers Mark On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 21:02, Mark Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:56, Gary

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-22 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 04:12, Bill Mullen wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Richard wrote: [Terrible quoting job snipped in its entirety] I fixed my Mdk9.1, with info I read on this list some time back, as root: edit the following line in fstab, /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 6:16 am, Eric Huff wrote: Once I get to the Index, I think the organization is good, it is just very hard to find the index. I added a Table Of Contents link at the very upper right. I think it is

Re: [expert] Simply Brilliant

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:09:39 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The word remember is an indication of past tense. Further enhanced by the later word dropped. The reference was to a past result of this kind of operation. Not a reference to it's applicability in this

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 11:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: No he didn't do this. What he said was that a piecemeal attempt at security is not a solution, instead it's a path to death. True security occurs will all parts are in concert. What good is a firewall if the chat software allows

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 23:11, rikona wrote: Hello Jack, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 4:14:37 PM, you wrote: Is there a way to get the output of swish-e to operate as an 'integrated viewer'? JC I don't know for sure, but I think that Nautilus or Konqueror would fit JC the bill there.

Re: [expert] Problem with Urpmi/RpmDrake under 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rob Blomquist wrote: I am not able to access my installation CDs nor any of the usual sites at PLF, Texstar, or Club_comm after the upgrade. How can I fix this problem. I remember it after the 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade, but forget how to fix it. Rob This sounds like a case of urpmi sources not

Re: [expert] Bittorrent bandwidth maximization

2003-10-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, I've looked at the faqs and I've read the expert list. I'm still getting a max of 7.6 K/sec download speed where I should be seeing between 70 to 90 K/sec. I fiddled with the download.py file, finally changing it to: ('max_upload_rate', 0, 'maximum kB/s to upload

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
I have always used the Index link on the blue bar, but the problem there is that it just does not stand out. Is it possible to make that entry bold? I presume it is on a page template, somewhere. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebPreferences defines the title bar. It's not

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
When I get some time later, I will make a new page with a proposed home page layout, that way, you can see what I am talking about without changing anything just yet. That's cool. I was planning to start trimming the home page and moving a lot of the TWiki stuff to contributing. If that's

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 03:34 am, KevinO wrote: Two real quick comments and then I'm out of this thread... 1) This thread has nothing to do with running Mandrake. This thread has a lot to do with network infiltration and an extreme lack of bandwidth

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 03:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] She wouldn't have to Anne. Read about Gibe at your favourite security information source. Like this one: http://sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibef.html Well, it made interesting

[expert] Can't REALLY disable shadows

2003-10-22 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I apparently made a mistake. Mandrake 9.1, kde 3.1.4 (texstar). I once selected enable shadows in the control center and now, no matter what, I cannot make them go away forever. It has been deselected and applied 4 times now and I still get

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 4:32 pm, Eric Huff wrote: I have always used the Index link on the blue bar, but the problem there is that it just does not stand out. Is it possible to make that entry bold? I presume it is on a page template, somewhere.

[expert] Hdparm problem

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode last night: # hdparm -X70 /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: setting xfermode to 70 (UltraDMA mode6) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Input/output error The drive is ATA 133 and I believe UDMA mode6, consequently. Any ideas on

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 06:08 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: snip And somehow we are led to believe that getting into a room with a bunch of corporate representatives from various companies will somehow result in a superior product than the free marketplace of

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 5:07 pm, Charlie M. wrote: October 22, 2003 03:23 am, Anne Wilson wrote: As for how it works, I thought that only Outlook address books were vulnerable to this. She keeps her av up to date, and did not send any mails after the report, apart from the one to me

Re: [expert] Hdparm problem

2003-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode last night: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: (null): *

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: It's not editable by mortals, but i think you (Anne) have the power to edit it. I can probably add/delete entries there, but I can't make it show Index in bold. (I had tried before, without success. All you get is *Index*)

Re: [expert] Hdparm problem

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:14 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode last night: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 AdvancedPM=yes:

Re: [expert] Hdparm problem

2003-10-22 Thread Ray Warren
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:55:09AM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode last night: # hdparm -X70 /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: setting xfermode to 70 (UltraDMA mode6) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Input/output error The

[expert] 9.2 KDE screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Pedro Capiscol
Hi friends. I upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 and now I have no screensaver with KDE. I can see de screensavers in Gnome, and of course have installed the xscreensaver and xscreensaver-gl package. Any idea. -- Regards. -- Pedro Capiscol http://www.LinuXauen.net Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 6:28 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: It's not editable by mortals, but i think you (Anne) have the power to edit it. I can probably add/delete entries there, but I can't make it show Index in bold. (I had tried

[expert] Mondo or MkCDrec

2003-10-22 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
Hi experts.. I would like to know if anyone have used Mondo or MkCDrec, and if you have, Does it work?? That´s all. Thank you -- Gonzalo Avaria S. Linux User from the end of the World CHILE Registered User #329224 (counter.li.org) Box #213779 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?

2003-10-22 Thread Luca Olivetti
Glenn Burkhardt ha scritto: Have you only seen this with XFS, or with other filesystems, too? Only with xfs, but that's because it's the only filesystem I use ;-) Bye -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? -

Re: [expert] 9.2 KDE screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:46 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi friends. I upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 and now I have no screensaver with KDE. I can see de screensavers in Gnome, and of course have installed the xscreensaver and xscreensaver-gl package. Any idea. There should be a lot of info

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:31 pm, Charlie M. wrote: I don't know about your own experiences, but everytime I have been involved in a product development effort designed by a committee, I have not been overly impressed with the final results. Again, YMMV. My own personal experiences

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread David Rankin
probably bugbear.b or a variant -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 10:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] Since the worm uses it's own smtp engine or co-opts the Windows one it may not matter whether she sent anything, and it would have been possible for the worm to send copies of itself to any

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Since the worm uses it's own smtp engine or co-opts the Windows one it may not matter whether she sent anything, and it would have been possible for the worm to send copies of itself to any system that it could find with it's own

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 12:38 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: chomp For the average non-technically inclined computer user any GNU/Linux/Open Source system is easier to secure and maintain as secure. Simply because there are so many ways to work toward the

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 11:38, Bryan Phinney wrote: ... No offense taken here, I was just plugging my .02 pence in to the discussion. Everytime that I see someone suggesting that open source developers cooperate with industry more, work with committees, etc., I almost always get visions of

Re: [expert] 9.2 KDE screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Pedro Capiscol
Hi. El Miércoles 22 Octubre 2003 18:32, Greg Meyer escribió: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:46 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi friends. I upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 and now I have no screensaver with KDE. I can see de screensavers in Gnome, and of course have installed the xscreensaver and

Re: [expert] 9.2 KDE screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:17 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi. El Miércoles 22 Octubre 2003 18:32, Greg Meyer escribió: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:46 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi friends. I upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 and now I have no screensaver with KDE. I can see de

[expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
How to? I've got a game, Jedi Academy that works under WineX but you have to copy both CD's to /mnt/cdrom since it won't release the drive to change CDs. When I try to copy the 2nd CDs' contents into /mnt/cdrom though, I get a disk full error - and no - its not full. Or rather - it is, its

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:53:18 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You're absolutely correct as far as I can tell. I guess that means we're in total agreement. (-: Motion carried! We nuke Redmond! er, that *was* the motion, right? where's the minutes... -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ #

[expert] Devfsd

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am not a big fan of devfs, and had problems with it under Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. I see that the upgrade of 9.2 gave me devfsd and I now have mixed devfs and normal entries on my system. Is it possible to uninstall the devfsd package and still run Mandrake? Or have the problems with devfs and

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-22 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Oct 2003 at 10:40, Eric Fernandez wrote: Add the main source of the 9.2 branch and you can get it with urpmi through FTP. But I agree it is nice to have it on the 3rd CD. Can you put that in English for me? I finally got urpmi to add

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-22 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 2003 at 16:44, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Hmmm I can find no reference to a command called drakclub on the club download page or in the Definitive Manual. Where (and HOW!) is one supposed to find out about this stuff? Drakclub

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. You could make /mnt/game a symlink to a directory on your /home partition and then copy and start the game from there. Does it have to

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Bill
On Star Date Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:17 pm, HaywireMac sent this sub-space message. Motion carried! We nuke Redmond! er, that *was* the motion, right? where's the minutes... Wasnt there a second motion? Something about getting a rope and finding Bill Gates :) Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 02:17 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:53:18 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You're absolutely correct as far as I can tell. I guess that means we're in total agreement. (-: Motion carried! We nuke

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread mandrake
Another option: Do we want to call it Index, or Table Of Contents ? If it was also bold, it would stand out from being bigger, too.. I think Index is OK there, but Table of Contents is probably better in the right-hand column. I'd leave that just as you have it. I was just thinking that

[expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread afi
Hi folks, I downloaded the 9.2 Powerpack CD's, and went on an adventure. Well, 9.2 has several annoying install issues especially with a broken KDE install. For example: -consoles don't get installed properly -old nvidia video drivers don't get overwritten with the new one

Re: [expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam

2003-10-22 Thread Albert Whale
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have logged directly into my popmail server (yahoo) via the web and find that the spam message isn't being repeatedly sent - the same message is causing a problem over and over. Yahoo tagged it as spam and put it in my

Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I downloaded the 9.2 Powerpack CD's, and went on an adventure. Well, 9.2 has several annoying install issues especially with a broken KDE install. For example: -consoles don't get installed properly What

Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 23:15, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I downloaded the 9.2 Powerpack CD's, and went on an adventure. Well, 9.2 has several annoying install issues especially with a broken KDE install. For

Re: [expert] Mondo or MkCDrec

2003-10-22 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22 Oct 2003 at 15:06, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi experts.. I would like to know if anyone have used Mondo or MkCDrec, and if you have, Does it work?? That´s all. Thank you -- Gonzalo Avaria S. Linux User from the end of the World CHILE I use

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 22:17, HaywireMac wrote: Motion carried! We nuke Redmond! Yeah, I second that!! E, what's Redmond?;) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Bown
Lets compromise do both On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 21:17, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:53:18 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You're absolutely correct as far as I can tell. I guess that means we're in total agreement. (-: Motion carried! We nuke Redmond! er,

[expert] OggEnc problem

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Sawchuck
This is a weird one, and I have tried *everything* I can think of... Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week, yesterday, it appears that everything works fine (used Grip, ripperX, MythMusic) to encode the ripped .wav files 925-30, but they are only 16-20 K, when they should be

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 02:42 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: On 16 Oct 2003 at 10:40, Eric Fernandez wrote: Add the main source of the 9.2 branch and you can get it with urpmi through FTP. But I agree it is nice to have it on the 3rd CD. Can you put that in

Re: [expert] OggEnc problem

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:14 pm, Tim Sawchuck wrote: This is a weird one, and I have tried *everything* I can think of... Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week, yesterday, it appears that everything works fine (used Grip, ripperX, MythMusic) to encode the ripped

[expert] Devfsd

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am not a big fan of devfs, and had problems with it under Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. I see that the upgrade of 9.2 gave me devfsd and I now have mixed devfs and normal entries on my system. Is it possible to uninstall the devfsd package and still run Mandrake? Or have the problems with devfs and

Re: [expert] OggEnc problem

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:27:37 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: GM Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week, yesterday, GM it appears that everything works fine (used Grip, ripperX, MythMusic) GM GM Are you running cooker? vorbis-tools broke

Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Dearing
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 17:15, Greg Meyer wrote: I think the official 9.2 release should be delayed a little for these things to get fixed. Experienced users should have no problems fixing these install isues, but for new users it would be a big dissapointment. Unfortunately, it is

Re: [expert] OggEnc problem

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:41:36 -0700 Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:27:37 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: GM Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week, GM yesterday, it appears that

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: Although the best security for Windows that I've found is the installer for Mandrake Linux and the Use Entire Disk option. (-; Wow, what a great sig that would make! -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread David Rankin
Oy Greg, Have some mercy on the poor sods that find typing e:\install.bat a CLI experience...the man's right; a warning is called for, so as not to put off real Newb's too much. They are the targeted consumer group, aren't they? There can be no doubt. That's the only plausable explanation

[expert] msec and Directory permissions......

2003-10-22 Thread Ralph C
Hi all, I have Bynari Insight Server installed and it installs everything inside /opt/is4/ directory as a chroot jail, where it runs it's own services like Postfix, Apache, Proftpd, etc... msec is changing the permissions. I need to make msec skip this directory and all sub dirs. How do I do

[expert] msec and Directory permissions......

2003-10-22 Thread Ralph C
Hi all, I have Bynari Insight Server installed and it installs everything inside /opt/is4/ directory as a chroot jail, where it runs it's own services like Postfix, Apache, Proftpd, etc... msec is changing the permissions. I need to make msec skip this directory and all sub dirs. How do I do

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. You could make /mnt/game a symlink to a directory on your /home partition and then copy and start the game from there. Does it

[expert] ECMP and iproute2

2003-10-22 Thread Dave Seff
Does anybody at Mandrake know if iproute was compiled using gcc 3 against the 2.4 kernel? I know it's kind of a dumb question but I am trying to do Equal cost multipathing ( using 2 ISP's at the same time) and I am am running across a strange but common problem. It seems that I have set

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread deedee
On 10/22/2003 3:58:16 PM EDT, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I've got a game, Jedi Academy that works under WineX but you have to copy both CD's to /mnt/cdrom since it won't release the drive to change CDs. When I try to copy the 2nd CDs' contents into /mnt/cdrom though, I get a disk full error - and

Re: [expert] msec and Directory permissions......

2003-10-22 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:37, Ralph C wrote: Hi all, I have Bynari Insight Server installed and it installs everything inside /opt/is4/ directory as a chroot jail, where it runs it's own services like Postfix, Apache, Proftpd, etc... msec is changing the permissions. I need to make msec

[expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread James Conner
For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates fix quite a few of the bugs that have been troubling people lately. Glad to see that Mandrake is on top of this to release patches.

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:20:17 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates fix quite a few of the bugs that have

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:20:17 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates fix quite a few of the bugs that have been troubling people