Re: [expert] cron question

2000-06-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:30:34AM +0200, Sebastian Dransfeld wrote: -> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Alex V Flinsch wrote: -> -> > idea 2 -- -> > -> > do you really need to waste all that memory running netscape to get -> > the url? From the above, you just need to hit some website every few minutes to -

Re: [expert] IP Masq / networking

2000-06-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:38:05AM -0400, ken bonner wrote: -> -> -> Hello all. -> I have read a couple of messages here on IP masq, and was kind of hoping that -> it would get a bit deeper, but no luck! -> -> I am thinking about setting up an old 486,or one of my 'trash' pentiums with -> ip

Re: [expert] Windows 95 !!!

2000-06-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:22:45PM +0100, Ted Wager wrote: -> -> Hi.. -> Sorry abt the title... -> I have just inherited a Dell computer with a 4 gig h/drive.it has been -> partitioned into 2 2gig'sI have the win95 cdrom's but no driver disks for -> the cdrom drive..I wanrt to remove the

Re: [expert] Partition Table

2000-06-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:33:27AM -0500, John Burke wrote: -> -> - Original Message - -> From: "Norman Carver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:36 PM -> Subject: Re: [expert] Partition Table -> -> -> -> 3. Simply deleting hda5 (NTFS)

Re: [expert] IP Masq / networking

2000-06-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:00:01AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> Hi ! -> -> On the LAN boxes the gateway should be the masqing linux box and on the -> linux box the gateway will be the router or the IP of the ISP (if they -> gave you an address). Ask them what IP you should assign to the gat

Re: [expert] SawFish problem

2000-06-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 08:25:23AM +0100, Ted Wager wrote: -> On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Espen wrote: -> > Thanks, Anton!!! -> > That did the trick! -> > -> > BTW, with a 56k modem, does anyone know how long it -> > takes to download Helix-Gnome? -> > -> -> Hi -> When you choose the bits you

Re: [expert] mailing lists in kmail

2000-06-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:32:02AM +0200, Gillard Roland wrote: -> Hi! -> -> I wish to go on using kmail but I need sending -> mail to a list of colleagues, -> is there a way using an extra file? Look up how to do aliases in the docs for your MTA, which is probably sendmail. --

Re: [expert] Partition Table

2000-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:34:39AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: -> Since I have inadvertently caused a bit of a flap and some consternation, -> let's see if I can document how partitioning works on PCs. If anyone can -> fill in my question marks, or correct me, please do. ->

Re: [expert] ld.so problems

2000-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:23:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> On 31 May, Lee Willis wrote: -> > Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -> > -> >> hda2 is an extended partition, both according to the file system ID and what -> >> it does: it hol

[expert] Partition Table

2000-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
Since I have inadvertently caused a bit of a flap and some consternation, let's see if I can document how partitioning works on PCs. If anyone can fill in my question marks, or correct me, please do. Any one hard drive on a PC can have up to 63 partitions on it, not all of which can hold file sys

Re: [expert] ld.so problems

2000-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:25:55PM +0200, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: -> Charles Curley wrote: -> > -> > On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:36:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> > -> This is my partition table: -> > -> -> > -> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 se

Re: [expert] ld.so problems

2000-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:52:22AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> On 31 May, Charles Curley wrote: -> > ->Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System -> > -> /dev/hda1 1 277 2094088+ 6 FAT16 -> > -> /dev/hda2

Re: [expert] grep complexity

2000-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 06:46:44AM -0700, Joe Sheble wrote: -> Could grep be any more difficult to figure out? I'll admit I'm new to -> Linux, but so far everything I've set out to do (set up a server, set up -> sendmail, set up Apache, set up PHP, etc...) I have accomplished fairly -> easy. Exc

Re: [expert] ld.so problems

2000-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:36:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> On 30 May, Civileme wrote: -> > -> > There is another problem associated with this -> > -> -> Hmmm... looks like it was never created... -> -> > Where is your swap partition located physically on the disk? -> > -> -> T

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION - install / kernel compile

2000-05-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 05:52:57PM -0400, Alex V Flinsch wrote: -> On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: -> > How about compiling a kernel that is optimized for your CPU at install -> > time. How many times does one change CPU types after installing linux -> > on that machine. ie. AFAIK my Athlon mach

Re: [expert] Fujitsu MO640 SCSI drive troubles

2000-05-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:13:27PM +, Thomas Lockhart wrote: -> > Tom, have you considered reformatting the drive to use 512 byte sectors -> > like the rest of the world? -> -> afaik that is not an option. The drive has 2048byte physical sectors; -> until Fujitsu built that drive the largest

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION - install / kernel compile

2000-05-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: -> How about compiling a kernel that is optimized for your CPU at install -> time. How many times does one change CPU types after installing linux -> on that machine. ie. AFAIK my Athlon machine is running the same kernel -> as m

Re: [expert] High definition console

2000-05-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 05:14:45AM -0700, Anton Graham wrote: -> Submitted 29-May-00 by Charles Curley: -> -> | You can do this without Twin. Emacs will run a shell in a windows (M-x -> | shell). And you can switch virtual consoles using Fx where x is the -> | console number you

Re: [expert] upgrading 6.0

2000-05-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:12:49PM +0200, Patrick Erler wrote: -> hallo expert! -> -> i plan to upgrade my mandrake 6.0 to 7.1. i made the usual -> modifications to my existing system (dns, apache, senmail, samba etc.) -> is the upgrade/installation-procedure aware of my changes and respects -> i

Re: [expert] My suggestion for the install process on the New Distro....

2000-05-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 04:37:31PM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: -> S.M.A.R.T. should do this for you. -> -> It should remap bad spots and warn you of any as they occur. Though the -> messages are still a bit cryptic... "This drive is developing problems... -> please replace". Actually, that er

Re: [expert] Out of room on / filesystem

2000-05-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 07:28:35PM +0100, bascule wrote: -> out of interest civileme, why can you not move /etc ? is it a boot time -> thing? -> -> bascule Yes. /etc/mtab is necessary for mounting drives, so you have a nice Catch 22 if you have to mount /etc to get at it. /etc/fstab is also ofte

Re: [expert] future distro ideas

2000-05-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:11:13PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> :~>I am not sure what you are referring to here. -> :~>We had a power outage and I was all worried because -> :~>everyone talks about what happens when you don't -> :~>cleanly boot out of Linux, but it came back up fine. -> :~>It for

Re: [expert] My suggestion for the install process on the New Distro....

2000-05-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:55:29AM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: -> -> -> -Original Message- -> From: Charles Curley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 4:47 PM -> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Subject: Re: [expert] My suggestion for the insta

Re: [expert] NFS Error: RPC:Program not registered

2000-05-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 12:48:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> I'm trying to mount a drive thats on a Suse6.3 box on my Mandrake7.0 -> box via NFS. The Suse box is sergei, the mandrake box is ludwig. -> I added -> / ludwig -> to the /etc/exports file on sergei and -> / sergei -> to the /e

Re: [expert] High definition console

2000-05-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:08:55PM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote: -> Hello, -> this is both a suggestion for next release of Mandrake, -> and a search for somebody who has already solved the -> same problem. -> -> On servers and/or low resources PCs, it would be very -> nice (to save resources) if

Re: [expert] Can not mount a Win2K partition

2000-05-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 05:14:33PM -0400, L0rd DarkF0rce wrote: -> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -> Hash: SHA1 -> -> I have a Win2K partition on my machine and I need to transfer data -> from it into my Linux PArtition, but for som ereason I can not mount -> it. Can anyone point me in the r

Re: [expert] My suggestion for the install process on the New Distro....

2000-05-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:43:32PM -0500, Ivan Trail wrote: -> Hello, -> -> I think the best place to help with the Mandrake distro would be these two -> points which would be considered part of the install process. -> -> 1) When the Install is formating the partitions, and check for badblocks i

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION: defaults, please

2000-05-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:36:25PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: -> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:26:51PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> -> (I hope you do not get this twice on expert list) -> -> - -> -> Hi, folks! -> -> -> -> What follows is probably a si

Re: [expert] Best way to install Postfix?

2000-05-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:50:29PM -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: -> -> -> On Thu, 25 May 2000, James wrote: -> -> > Since I will now be using Postfix with Mandrake 7.0, I am wondering if the -> > best way to install Postfix is with the RPM from the Mandrake RPM's, or -> > download the source from

[expert] DISCUSSION: installation info gathering

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:26:51PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> (I hope you do not get this twice on expert list) -> - -> Hi, folks! -> -> What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on -> these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully! -> -> [ANNOUNCEM

[expert] DISCUSSION: defaults, please

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:26:51PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> (I hope you do not get this twice on expert list) -> - -> Hi, folks! -> -> What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on -> these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully! Anything you ca

Re: [expert] [discuss] config progs should work both in X and console mode

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:01:53PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> :~>Is it possible to think about an install program that works just the same (not -> :~>two different versions!) in text AND graphic mode (with fb for example)? -> :~>This could be an aswer to which do not do the same work twice, one

Re: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:03:49AM -0400, Andrew Vogel wrote: -> Hey everyone. I've got a small network set up at home... Mandrake Linux -> 7.02 networked to my Windows 2000 machine via a hub. I've got a printer -> (Panasonic KX-P1124) attached to the back of the Windows machine. -> -> I'm lookin

Re: [expert] Improvement: Install by functions

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:08:23PM -0400, Bill Shirley wrote: -> Let me start off by saying I have been running Linux for over 5 years. Over -> the years I have learned a lot about Linux. However, there is still a lot I -> do not know. There are many packages out there that I know nothing about

Re: [expert] Fujitsu MO640 SCSI drive troubles

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:05:28AM +, Thomas Lockhart wrote: -> I've finally upgraded my home machine to Mdk-7.0-2 from RH-5.2 (I've -> been running my laptop and a couple of other machines on it for a few -> months). -> -> I am having trouble accessing my Fujitsu MO640 disk drive. My old ->

Re: [expert] Distro improvments: A solid IDE

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:26:38PM -0400, Payne Stanifer wrote: -> The biggest problem, well not problem, but ease of use issue I have is in -> all of the Linuxes I have tried there isn't a solid IDE (integrated -> devlopment environment). I haven't used the latest Kdevelop, but the one I Hmmm

Re: [expert] Printing et al

2000-05-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:52:28AM +1200, John Rye wrote: -> Hi all -> -> After several weeks of reinstalling the reinstall from the -> previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think) -> running..Well sort of... -> -> I have have a couple of problems which have stump

Re: [expert] How to read a 8mm tape with xerox docutech files

2000-05-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:38:14PM +0200, Leopold Palomo wrote: -> Thank's alot to Charles, Lars and Ronald J., -> -> Tomorrow I will try to do all of your ideas, -> -> but Ronald J, I did the tar command, and I only obtain one file. -> -> Charles, I don't understand very much how to avoid the

Re: [expert] Help! Need Best web page uploading technique!

2000-05-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:35:15AM +0800, Edwin Linux Fan wrote: -> I'm new to this webmastering thing. -> I can put webpages in my /home/httpd/html directory by going super user. -> But it's really a drag... upload to an uploads dir or user dir, then telnet, then -> manually copy to /home/httpd/

Re: [expert] Mandrake security mailing list

2000-05-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:15:08PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> We differ from redhat on many points, and this reflects on different -> security problems. We claim to be COMPATIBLE, not "based on" RedHat, but I -> understand your problem: -> -> You cannot be sure if we looked at problem and foun

Re: [expert] Welcome to new expert list

2000-05-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 02:51:12PM -0500, ibi wrote: -> Denis, -> I don't know if deleting two work messages is a good idea, but I think -> filtering swear words in the subject line is great! Maybe you could also -> post a little note that MUG mail should not be submitted in a foreign -> language

Re: [expert] Network Frustration

2000-05-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 10:22:12AM -0600, Ken Thompson wrote: -> Hello all. -> I've been lurking for several months soaking up info as fast as I -> can but still have a problem with networking my linux boxes -> together. It seems that no matter which distro I use (RH 6.2 - -> LM 7.0 - LM 7.1b) I s

Re: [expert] reboot after power failure

2000-05-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 11:33:14AM -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: -> -> -> On Sat, 20 May 2000, John Aldrich wrote: -> -> > Yeah. My UPS saved the bacon for me this morning -- I woke -> > up to hear my UPS beeping at me. The power was off, so I -> > quickly came and shut down the linux box. -> ->

Re: [expert] chown for normal users

2000-05-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 07:53:02AM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: -> -> Fascinating. -> -> The behavior about which you are complaining is not compliant with -> normal Unix behavior, but I've verified it: A normal user can't chown a -> file, even if he initially owns it and is attempting

Re: [expert] A simple script

2000-05-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:57:00AM +, Lang Zhi wrote: -> Hi. -> I need to backup some files every day. So, we use cron right ? -> The file format is like this : abc.2519. -> So the next day, the new backup file will be named abc.2520 and so on. -> -> The problem here is, how do i get

Re: [expert] hard shutdowns

2000-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:46:23PM -0400, Bruce E. Harris wrote: -> I am having a problem, that may soon result in the loss of data and I am not -> sure what to do or how to fix it. -> -> When ever I shutdown Mandrake using KDM shutdown or reboot or init 6, my -> system does shutdown, but hangs a

Re: [expert] OT: Linux Newbie

2000-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 06:49:19PM -0400, Bruce E. Harris wrote: -> Excellent points PJ. Unfortinatly I see this poor conduct on just about every -> mailing list I am on now or ever have been on. -> -> Might I add, if someone feels their question was not answered it could be no -> one has the ans

Re: [expert] OT: Linux Newbie

2000-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 05:27:02PM -0500, Pj wrote: -> Hello List, -> -> My comments are not intended to start a thread or a flame. Please -> contact me privately if you feel compelled to comment. -> -> I am a newbie, a fact I do not hide. I joined this group several months -> ago to learn- wh

Re: [expert] How to read a 8mm tape with xerox docutech files

2000-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Leopold Palomo wrote: -> Hi, -> -> I need to recover information from a 8mm tape (8200 ...) write by a -> Xerox Docutech 135 and I don't know how to do exactly. Talking with -> xerox people they said that the information is stored with a normal unix -> ta

Re: [expert] Ethernet problem

2000-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 07:14:33PM +, Jim Hodgers wrote: -> I have been using Suse (5.1, 6.1 and 6.3) and decided to see what all the -> hype about Mandrake was. I like what I see with one exception. With Suse my -> ethernet card was always auto-configured and just was there. Mandrake -> refus

[expert] "unable to open an initial console"

2000-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
I am in the process of building a process for doing a bare metal recovery of a Linux computer. I can back up all of the data to tape just fine. What I need is a subset of a working system so I can install that subset from a zip disk, and then run the restoration from tape. I can build a zip disk

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:51:51PM +0100, Nick Kay wrote: -> At 15:40 18/05/00 +0200, you wrote: -> >Anton Graham wrote: -> >> -> >> Submitted 17-May-00 by Harlan Whitley: -> >> -> >> | [-- octet-filter file type: "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows" --] -> >> | -> >> | WINA20.386: DOS/

Re: [expert] PPPd and ISDN

2000-05-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:05:43AM +, Lang Zhi wrote: -> Hi. -> I get this error message while trying to connect to my ISP via ISDN line. -> -> May 16 09:58:20 gkar pppd[743]: Serial connection established. -> May 16 09:58:20 gkar pppd[743]: Using interface ppp0 -> May 16 09:58:20 gkar pppd[7

Re: [expert] BASH Shell games

2000-05-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 08:57:16AM +0100, Lee Willis wrote: -> Charles Curley wrote: -> -> > Why is this failing? -> -> I must admit I didn't even look at your example beyond thinking that it -> was overkill ;) -> -> As far as I can see what you are lookin

Re: [expert] BASH Shell games

2000-05-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: -> Charles Curley wrote: -> [snip] -> > if [ /etc/fstab -nt $metatada/fstab ] || [ ! -f $metadata/fstab ] ; then -> > echo "Copying $metatada/fstab in from /etc." -> > cp /etc/fstab $metadata;

[expert] BASH Shell games

2000-05-10 Thread Charles Curley
Why is this failing? I want to test two files, source and target. If the target does not exist, or the target does exist but is older than the source, I want to copy the source to the target. If the target does not exist, the file is copied. If the source is newer, no copy occurs. The code is:

[expert] ILOVEYOU worm & Linux: origin of story

2000-05-10 Thread Charles Curley
Someone on the list mentioned the possibility of the love bug worm infecting Linux. I may have found the origin of that wetware virus. http://www.theregister.co.uk/000510-11.html -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/

Re: [expert] nfs & rpc question: "Program not registered"

2000-05-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:10:44AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: -> I have been able to nfs mount the root partition of a computer for over a -> year with no problems. Recently, power went out, affecting both of the -> computers involved, causing both to die a horrible death. As

Re: [expert] OT: perl question

2000-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:33:50PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: -> Is anyone out there really good with perl? I'm having some trouble with a -> CGI script I'm writing and am hoping someone can help me (sorry for this -> being slightly OT). What I'm trying to accomplish is a way to parse input ->

Re: [expert] OT: /root

2000-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
Pj, I just checked DataFellows' web site and did not see any reference to the notion that the Love Bug worm runs on Linux. I am highly skeptical that it does for two reasons: 1) It is VBScript based, and I am not aware of any VB Script interpreters for Linux other than Netscape. 2) Few, if any, L

Re: [expert] XMMS

2000-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:07:32PM -0500, Gary Bunker wrote: -> You can't mount an audio CD, so that's not a problem. Here's the -> series of steps I take to use XMMS with CDs. Hope it's easy to follow: -> -> Open Playlist, and say "New List" to clear out anything that might be -> in the way. -

Re: [expert] XMMS

2000-05-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 06:56:15AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: -> On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:20:45PM -0700, AG wrote: -> -> Just select +DIR from the playlist buttons and select the mount point of your -> -> CD as the directory. -> -> That didn't work for me. I tri

Re: [expert] XMMS

2000-05-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:20:45PM -0700, AG wrote: -> Just select +DIR from the playlist buttons and select the mount point of your -> CD as the directory. That didn't work for me. I tried mounting the CD, but it didn't like the default file system. How do I specify the file system at mount time

Re: [expert] tape backup and perl program

2000-05-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 10:17:25PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: -> I've written a perl program to handle my tape backups and it isn't quite -> working the way I want it to. I tried a program called flexbackup and -> that didn't work the way I wanted it to either. -> -> Can anyone suggest a good t

Re: [expert] A small base to start from.

2000-05-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:54:42PM +0100, Ian Wales wrote: -> I'm looking to bing linux into my place of emplyment (big time) but do -> not feel to easy about it with consulting others. -> We already use GNU/Samba and many others but not the OS. -> -> I want to start with a DNS server. To do this

Re: [expert] Good-bye.

2000-05-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 09:34:22AM -0700, Russ Johnson wrote: -> Yup, seems to me there was a reason I was required to read EVERY message in the -> forums I did support in -> -> Also seems to me that mandrake isn't doing this, but should be. -> -> Russ ->

Re: [expert] A spare console

2000-05-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 11:36:38AM +0200, Piero wrote: -> Could anybody help me with the following? -> -> I have two computers, a desktop (with Linux) and a notebook (without Linux). -> Is it possible to connect the notebook to the desktop (via a serial port, for -> instance) and use it as consol

Re: [expert] Good-bye.

2000-05-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:11:21AM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: -> -> I don't know what the deal is, but I'm getting inudated with messges -> from *all* the Mandrake lists (devel, newbie, cookier, expert) even -> though I'm only subscribed to a couple. -> -> This situation is intolerabl

Re: [expert] [newbie] Two Questions

2000-05-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 08:37:31AM -0400, Monty Malik wrote: -> Hi all, -> -> Just a few questions. But first my configuration. -> -> I am running Mandrake 7.02 on a PII 400 with 128M Ram, using -> enlightenment as a windows manager. -> -> Now down to the questions: -> -> Samba Problems: ->

Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

2000-05-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:29:12AM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote: -> Jon, -> -> Are you not aware that Unix, and so the entire Internet and Linux, -> are case sensitive? -> -> FAKEFOO.COM and fakefoo.com are entirely different domains - and will -> be, for ever and ever. -> -> Jon wrote: -> -> > ..

[expert] dosmod on wine

2000-05-03 Thread Charles Curley
I am trying to run a pure DOS program under wine. I get the following message: err:module:MZ_InitTask Failed to spawn dosmod, error=No such file or directory When I run a locate on dosmod, it appears to not be there. I don't see a dosmod package, either. This is on Mandrake 6.1. Brilliant idea

Re: [expert] Heads UP!!!-help

2000-05-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:01:45PM -0400, Lane Lester wrote: -> Pj said: -> -> > New virus loose called "Kugoe Says Not Today" which is executed thru our -> > old friend Outlook Express using HTML. -> -> Is this any problem for us Linux users? Another list I'm on is swapping the -> Kak virus b

Re: [expert] Heads UP!!!-help

2000-05-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:07:04PM -0500, Pj wrote: -> New virus loose called "Kugoe Says Not Today" which is executed thru our -> old friend Outlook Express using HTML. -> -> Idiot friend sent me a piece of the virus code. I don't know what to do -> with it. -> -> Pj I suspect you can safely

[expert] Newbie->expert crossover

2000-05-02 Thread Charles Curley
There appears to be some sort of crossover from the newbie list to the expert list. I am (so far as I know) only on the expert list, and am getting mail posted to the newbie list. I suspect that I am not the only person who would be grateful for a fix. -- -- C^2 No windows wer

Re: [expert] add 2nd HDD and Colorado 350?

2000-04-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 07:23:21PM -0400, David G. Thiessen wrote: -> i picked up a Colorado 350 and a Western Digital 540MB HDD. -> -> i would like to add these to my box, but, I can find no info -> for how to hook up the Colorado Drive. It came with a cable -> that -> has a part labeled TO TAP

Re: [expert] dump/restore

2000-04-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 07:41:58AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: -> I just bought a 20GB tape drive for my server and have a question about -> dump. I'm using it like: -> -> /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 / -> /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 /home -> -> When I do this, it looks lik

Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:06:46PM -0400, Bill Shirley wrote: -> I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per -> second. Divide kbs by 10 ( 8 bits = 1 byte, plus one start and one stop -> bit) to get KBs (kilo-bytes per second). As pointed out by another post, A nit pic

Re: [expert] Re: FTP privileges

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:26:58AM -0700, James wrote: -> Charles Curley wrote: -> :That would involve giving FTP access to root areas of the system, which -> :is potentially insecure. I advise against it. -> -> What if I were to give ownership, or add a name to the group of t

Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 08:20:31PM -0400, Bruce E. Harris wrote: -> I ran linux 3 at the boot prompt, then logged in as root, and discovered by -> local ip was pounded out (#). I fixed it the started kdm. All seemed ok, then -> rebooted and now all works. Kinda strange. Not at all strange. X uses

Re: [expert] Windows 2000 bootloader and Mandrake

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 07:58:33PM -0400, Hawk82 wrote: -> Is there a way to use the Windozes 2000 bootloader to boot into Linux -> instead of using LILO? -> -> I heard there is a HOW-TO on it, but I can't seem to find it. -> I have a feeling to accomplish this task I would have to edit the boot.

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:32:02PM +0200, Hans Schneidhofer wrote: -> hi, -> -> have downloaded toppage, but how can I give it a chance to try out ? -> calling toppage_wine /usr/local/toppage/bin/toppage -e results in -> -> wine : can't exec '/usr/local/toppage/bin/toppage -e' : error=0 -> wine

[expert] Data rates and payload

2000-04-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 05:58:33PM -0400, Bruce E. Harris wrote: -> Thanks for the advice, Linux is back, firewall is working, life if good. -> -> I did get an email from my ISP telling me I am running at the max home user DSL -> speed the offer. Still, why would a 300K file take 30 sec to d/l if

Re: [expert] FTP privileges

2000-04-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:23:28PM -0700, James wrote: -> I am impressed by the security settings for Mandrake which seem to hide -> and disallow certain read functions.. but I wish to make backups of my -> server and I am not allowed direct copy of certain directories to my -> remote computer.

Re: [expert] "Hydrogen" new release?

2000-04-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:40:03PM -0400, Hoyt wrote: -> -> - Original Message - -> From: "Asheesh Laroia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:43 PM -> Subject: [expert] "Hydrogen" new release? -> -> -> > I was surfing my local linux-mandrak

Re: [expert] Network card causes modem to disappear

2000-04-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:29:33AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: -> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -> -> On 23 Apr 00, at 18:03, Charles Curley wrote: -> -> -> > And in which case the card is out of spec. The PCI spec requires that -> > software be able to assign a

Re: [expert] Internet problems

2000-04-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:47:42PM -0700, Tom H wrote: -> -> -> ->I have hooked up my Linux (Red Hat 6.1) to the DSL I am running Ip ->Masqurading on the system and it is routing to the internet for the ->other 4 systems. The strange thing is I am unable to astablish a ->c

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:08:48AM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: -> -> > Charles Curley wrote: -> > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:37:04AM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: -> > > -> -> > > -> > Assuming your ISP is providing you with only a single IP addres

Re: [expert] Norton Antivirus and Bloodhound

2000-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 02:49:08PM -0800, Civileme wrote: -> The "local" Alaska Linux Users Group reports that Norton Antivirus and -> Bloodhound, Norton's newer "heuristic" virus hunter, is claiming LILO is -> a boot sector virus in newly installed dual-boot systems. Clearly a complaint to Nor

Re: [expert] Network card causes modem to disappear

2000-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 07:59:17AM +0200, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: -> "D. R. Evans" wrote: -> > So I'm wondering, is there any way to get a device-by-device listing of -> > what's occupying the various IRQs? (One hypothesis being that something -> > else was sitting on IRQ 5 and moved to IRQ 10 wh

Re: [expert] meaning of [a-z]

2000-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 08:53:34AM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: -> -> Not an emergency but it's been bugging me for a while and traffic seems -> to be relatively light right now . . . -> -> -> -> Throughout most of my Unix life a command like -> -> ls -d [a-z] -> -> would list

Re: [expert] RPC-program not registered

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 02:30:18PM +0200, Hans Schneidhofer wrote: -> hi Ron -> and the mandrake-linux-community, -> -> have resolved the problem : rpc:program not registered -> -> portmap, nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients was succesfully installed during -> update and/or install-process. But one

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:37:04AM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: -> -> > Assuming your ISP is providing you with only a single IP address, you want -> > something along these lines: -> > -> > ++ -> > | Comp B |---\+---+ -> > ++\---| H | ++ +---+ -> >

Re: [expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 11:24:29AM -0400, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: -> Charles Curley wrote: -> > -> > -> The NTFS driver works fine in Linux. The _read_ driver, that is. I -> > -> haven't tried the 2.3 writeable driver. It's marked *DANGEROUS* in the ->

Re: [expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 08:10:50PM -0500, Matt Stegman wrote: -> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Charles Curley wrote: -> > Mess-DOS uses FAT-16, not FAT-32, so it is limited to a partition of 2 -> > GB. NT 4 with no SPs also has this problem for FAT partitions. As far as I -> > know,

Re: [expert] HTML help suggestions

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 08:44:40PM -0400, David M. Kufta wrote: -> Hello list, -> I know this is off topic for this list, however with the wealth of -> knowledge available I thought I might inquire as to where I could -> possibly get some help to upgrade some old web pages to html 4.0 -> standard

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:51:54AM -0400, Eric L. Brine wrote: -> -> > Thank you as well from me..I just joined the list two days a go and -> > missed some of the postings. I just bought the hub last week, got the -> > linux machine working, and had no idea of the implications. -> -> Check th

Re: [expert] IP Masquerading, The ABCs of

2000-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 05:13:38PM -0400, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: -> "Eric L. Brine" wrote: -> > -> > > Even if masquerading works in this situation, you STILL have packets -> > > with 192.168.0 headers going out onto the local subnet, and if your ISP -> > > notices this, you're going to get your

Re: [expert] Printer

2000-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 05:59:04PM -0400, John wrote: -> -> I am running Mandrake 6.1. I tried to setup my printer so I can print out some -> pictures that I have, and they come out in ASCII only. I have a Cannon BJC 620. -> -> Anyone have a clue how to fix this problem? -> -> Thank you Have

Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of

2000-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 03:45:35PM -0400, George Czerw wrote: -> ** Reply to message from Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 15 Apr -> 2000 12:20:32 -0600 -> -> > Odd. I checked; 4.61 does not use a plugin to display pngs. Oddly enough, -> > my mime type is s

Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of

2000-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 01:54:26PM -0400, George Czerw wrote: -> ** Reply to message from Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 15 Apr -> 2000 09:24:14 -0600 -> -> -> > -> I would like to be able to view .png images on netscape. Would any of you know

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