Re: [expert] MDK9.2 package arrived - Qs and comments

2003-11-13 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 1:09 am, Damon Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:21, Daryl Johnson wrote: U, except by this time half of the menu entries had disappeared :o) Didn't feel inclined to add them all under the circumstances. Did you see the errata page re. the update-menus

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 package arrived - Qs and comments

2003-11-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 3:44 pm, stefmit wrote: Hi, fellow MDK-ers. I may be repeating myself, but I am not as much of a MDK geek, as a network person trying to use (and paying for it!) the MDK solution as underlying system for my network and security tools ... this as an introduction (to

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 package arrived - Qs and comments

2003-11-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
[...] Had this one myself - twice. Encountered having done a clean 9.2 install. Resolved by doing a clean 9.1 install and then upgrading to 9.2 I've had no re-occurrence of the problem. (BTW doing a clean 9.2 install also gave me some n/w configuration problems. Mdk still need to

[expert] KNode Surprise

2003-10-04 Thread Daryl Johnson
Is it possible I am missing something? It appears to be impossible to save filters in KNode. I set one up last night, closed down KNode - and it was gone this morning. Did it again, closed KNode, just to check, restarted and the filter was gone. Hm. regards Daryl -- We can found

[expert] Video Crashes The Box

2003-09-21 Thread Daryl Johnson
Can anyone suggest why it is that when I load Xine, or play a mpg it crashes the m/c and returns me to the log-on splash screen. Well, I suppose that means it crashes the user rather than the m/c. Logging on and repeating the action allows Xine to run, or the mpg to be played (using Kaboodle)

Re: [expert] Experience with LM and Dual-processor boxen?

2003-08-14 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 10:56 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:26, Daryl Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 9:08 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have any wisdom they would care to share in regards to running Mandrake

Re: [expert] Experience with LM and Dual-processor boxen?

2003-08-06 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 9:08 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have any wisdom they would care to share in regards to running Mandrake on a dual processor box? I am thinking in particular of dual-Athlon boxes, and in particular particular (!)

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 4:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a

Re: [expert] Mozilla - KB Freezing

2003-06-09 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 8:45 pm, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daryl Johnson wrote: The last couple of days Mozilla has been freezing on me to the extent that I have to kill the processes. Delete the file 'XUL.mfasl'. (Make sure mozilla is not running

[expert] knode peculiarity

2003-06-02 Thread Daryl Johnson
I've just noticed that when I post to newsgroups a copy isn't retained anymore. (It used to be.) Is this deliberate or have I missed some subtle set-up key somewhere? regards Daryl -- If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100,

Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91

2003-05-29 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:43 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 22:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Peeps, There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 users that have been

[expert] Where Is Everyone?

2003-03-09 Thread Daryl Johnson
OK, what's happening? regards Daryl -- Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. -- Ambrose Bierce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] postgreSQL / PGaccess

2003-02-26 Thread Daryl Johnson
Is anyone using this combination successfully? regards Daryl -- Help! I'm trapped in a PDP 11/70! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] OT - This Damn List

2003-01-29 Thread Daryl Johnson
There are 361 newsgroups that include the keyword 'politics' on my usenent server. It can't be beyond all the clowns currently clogging up my Mandrake Expert list to take their blasted arguments re the US/Irag conflict over to one of those groups. AT LEAST TAKE IT OFF THIS LIST. regards

Re: [expert] HP JetDirect

2003-01-19 Thread Daryl Johnson
We had a n/w Brother laser printer in the office and were able to just browse in to the ip/port numbers. Is this possible for you? regards Daryl On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 3:10 pm, tarvid wrote: Trying to setup an HP LJ IIIsi with a JetDirect card. The local net is 192.168.0.0. The printer

Re: [expert] Recognising Linux Burned CDs Under W*v

2003-01-18 Thread Daryl Johnson
There appears to be something seriously wrong with the setup here. The writer (an HP 9100) appears to be /dev/scd0 mounted as /mnt/cdrom2. Permissions are as follows: /dev/scd0 Block Device rw-rw daryl cdwriter scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/cd /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target2//lun0/cd

[expert] Recognising Linux Burned CDs Under W*v

2003-01-16 Thread Daryl Johnson
OK I give up. CDs seem to be like a foreign country to me. It doesn't matter if I use Gnome-Toaster or X-CD-Roast. Any cd I burn is visible in my linux box but once it is inserted into one of the Windoze machines (W2K, W98, NT4) I just get a message 'please insert cd'. Bugger damn and hell

Re: [expert] testing...ignore

2003-01-02 Thread Daryl Johnson
Look, you know none of us can resist these ignore messages... ;o) -- Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #29: THE JUDGE: Now, as we begin, I must ask you to banish all present information and prejudice from your minds, if you have any ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-27 Thread Daryl Johnson
Well, I can't resist jumping in to this one based on that old thing about 5% of the world's population consuming 40% of it's resources. Always remember that in the US you get the best politicians that money can buy ;o) If you're a christian I seem to remember something about 'he who is without

Re: [expert] NVIDIA has posted new linux drivers!!! mdk 90 rpms available from the site

2002-12-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
And they work wonderfully well with the smp kernel :o) Flightgear is running at last! regards Daryl On Thursday 12 Dec 2002 9:40 am, Simon Naish wrote: Right on time, after the threads to do with mdk82 rpms and mdk90 eh! Course they might've been listening, but I doubt it ;o)

Re: [expert] diskdrake sucks

2002-11-05 Thread Daryl Johnson
And yet curiously, when you run DiskDrake, the first message you get is an injunction to ensure that your data is backed up o Anytime you decide to re-partition or resize your drive(s) you are dicing with (disk) disaster. It is pointless to complain afterwards about the effects of a

Re: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-26 Thread Daryl Johnson
to an advocacy group. regards Daryl On Saturday 26 October 2002 3:40 am, you wrote:  Daryl Johnson wrote: [...]   Just my 2 euros worth.     regards     Daryl  maybe you ought to pull your head out of your euro ass and hear whats  being said. Or don't they us Microsoft products on your side

Re: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
In which case remember that this is a world-wide mailing list and, despite the apparent belief of the US that what they want is the same for all of us, it's not. Go and fight out your political battles on an advocacy group. If you want to ask for support against DMCA or similar by all means

Re: [expert] OT: PDA Question

2002-09-02 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Monday 02 September 2002 4:13 pm, you wrote: This all depends - on you. There are two kinds of pda users, there's the people who want an address book/diary type of thing - which the Palm is a WONDERFUL example of (guess what I use?) or the people who want to do all singing dancing stuff -

Re: [expert] Re: Sound Is Impossible

2002-08-11 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:48, you wrote: An addendum to my sound card problems of 6 weeks ago. I have sound using OSS but not ALSA, it's not uncommon to get sound server error messages when I forget and try and use a KDE sound app. Clearly artsd is missing the boat somewhere. As a rare

Re: [expert] Re: Sound Is Impossible

2002-08-11 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Sunday 11 August 2002 17:46, you wrote: [...] Are you running the /usr/bin/artswrapper suid-root? I'm sure there are yup -rwsr-xr-x root root ... many who would frown heavily on doing this, but I run it suid (mode 4755), and have had much better sound quality as a result. If you

[expert] Re: Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-13 Thread Daryl Johnson
OK things move on - with a degree of embarrassment :o/ Following on from some of Larry Swords comments I ran the card down to the European web site (makes sense, I bought the card in Scotland). I had the opportunity here to d/l a manual. Query, if there is a manual available why wasn't

[expert] Re: Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-13 Thread Daryl Johnson
OK things move on - with a degree of embarrassment :o/ Following on from some of Larry Swords comments I ran the card down to the European web site (makes sense, I bought the card in Scotland). I had the opportunity here to d/l a manual. Query, if there is a manual available why wasn't

[expert] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to

Re: [expert] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Friday 12 July 2002 17:55, Larry Sword wrote: Daryl, [...] Since there are a number of SoundBlasters out there can you provide more info on your sound card, the 4.1. Is it a Live or the new Audigy series, or an older card? Larry Al I can tell you is in the posting :o( The box says

Re: [expert] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Friday 12 July 2002 13:46, civileme wrote: Daryl Johnson wrote: [...] 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 8001 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at cc00 [size=64] Capabilities available only

[expert] Sound Problems

2002-06-29 Thread Daryl Johnson
Well, on the path of getting a soundblaster card running (ens1371) I find that I'm short of some devs /files. MAKEDEVS sound doesn't give me the results, in fact it results in an error message (operastion not permitted - yes, I am root) Any suggestions are welcome. regards Daryl -- A

[expert] MDK 8.2 /dev/dsp soundblaster Problem

2002-06-24 Thread Daryl Johnson
Well, I guess this is a common enough problem but for now I'm damned if I can work my way around it. A few months back I built myself a new m/c, twin processors, loads of disk and memory, even added a nice flat panel display. All went well and my local lan worked well under samba also. I

Re: [expert] IDE-SCSI problem

2002-05-15 Thread Daryl Johnson
I do believe you will find an rpm for mt on your cd. Install it and all will become magically available. regards Daryl n Tuesday 14 May 2002 14:10, you wrote: Hi All, Following on from my problem with a HP Colorado IDE tape drive, I have found the following message in the 'dmesg' output.

Re: [expert] test message

2002-05-15 Thread Daryl Johnson
Rats! On Monday 13 May 2002 18:49, you wrote: please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill your neigbor's cat. -- To err is human, to purr feline. To err is human, two curs canine. To err is human, to moo

[expert] Apache Startup

2002-02-07 Thread Daryl Johnson
Um, when you set apache running and browse in using your ip no, a wonderful startup screen shows saying Welcome To Your Domain and prints out lots of detail about Apache and Mandrake etc. Well, I was wondering, what's the address (ie the path) of that file, perchance...? regards Daryl

[expert] Apache Startup

2002-02-07 Thread Daryl Johnson
Um, when you set apache running and browse in using your ip no, a wonderful startup screen shows saying Welcome To Your Domain and prints out lots of detail about Apache and Mandrake etc. Well, I was wondering, what's the address (ie the path) of that file, perchance...? regards Daryl

Re: [expert] TEST

2002-02-03 Thread Daryl Johnson
Grow up - and don't assume that other people's mothers don't swear. Test, please ignore. We're having some difficulty with the mailing list. Thank you for your understanding $HIT! What should I do? I didn't ignore it! You'll probably have your list privledges revolked

[expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread Daryl Johnson
/c they log on to ie a network drive mapped to /home/studentName on the desktop. Is this possible? Maybe it's easy and just something I haven't come across before? I'd welcome any suggestions. regards Daryl Johnson -- The most delightful day after the one on which you buy a cottage

Re: [expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread Daryl Johnson
you mount samba with each directory (/home/studentname) with a user/password? So, the directory is always mounted, but only the student that is the owner will have access to it, when logged... HTH orlando Daryl Johnson wrote: Anyway, cutting to the chase we have three spare servers

Re: [expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread Daryl Johnson
that will be something like NET USE * /DELETE it will break all shared network connections that you have made after logon. Daryl Johnson wrote: It happens this way as a matter of course though doesn't it? I mean I accept what you say and understand that the /home/studentname directory

[expert] Linux - Bridge

2001-11-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
I have a need at my college to use a machine to bridge two networks. It's my intention to configure two n/w cards, one for the first n/w and one for the second. The first n/w contains a firewal, the second doesn't. Are there any factors I should be looking out for? regards Daryl --

Re: [expert] Compiling Samba

2001-07-27 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Friday 27 July 2001 07:22, DM wrote: hi albert what i normally do to see how the package was compiled is get the source RPM and check the config options used to build it. [snip] Another option of course is to obtain the source then ./configure, make, make install and make clean :o)

Re:[expert] Upgrading LM 7.2 Samba 2.09 to Samba 2.2.1a Impossible?

2001-07-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
to the extent that my linux box is now receiving succesful log-ons from NT4 as a domain controller. regards Daryl Johnson

Re:[expert] Upgrading LM 7.2 Samba 2.09 to Samba 2.2.1a Impossible?

2001-07-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
to the extent that my linux box is now receiving succesful log-ons from NT4 as a domain controller. regards Daryl Johnson

[expert]

2001-04-21 Thread Daryl Johnson
Uhhh, well, I found that when I wanted to compile a kernel using 2.4 I was able to use Reiser FS options so long as I selected the experimentel kernel options right at the start of xconfig matrix. Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

[expert] mkinitrd but what?

2001-04-14 Thread Daryl Johnson
a good example would help immensely Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates winmail.dat

RE: [expert] mkinitrd but what?

2001-04-14 Thread Daryl Johnson
Thanks Tom, that seems to have worked. Despite compilingin SCSI and tape support however I STILL can't get my Seagate Travan drive to peep! How difficult can it be? Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

[expert] Samba Gotcha

2001-04-09 Thread Daryl Johnson
a workaround for this or am I limited to waiting for Samba v3 regards Daryl Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates winmail.dat

RE: [expert] Samba Gotcha

2001-04-09 Thread Daryl Johnson
I'm using medium security - how would I know the differencebetween kernels? Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Segerdahl Sent: 09 April 2001 09:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert

RE: [expert] Samba Gotcha

2001-04-09 Thread Daryl Johnson
clients without any problems. Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates 07710 908817 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Tharp Sent: 09 April 2001 11:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Samba Gotcha could this be a problem

[expert] Telnet Problem

2001-03-31 Thread Daryl Johnson
is a server but I can't telnet in and log-on? telnet is live in inetd.conf ie it isn't commented out or anything. What is wrong? Am I missing something blindingly obvious? regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates winmail.dat

[expert] Kudzu - Unwanted Intervention

2001-03-29 Thread Daryl Johnson
. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates winmail.dat

RE: [expert] I just don't grep this...

2001-03-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
of petulnce when that need isn't filled. Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates While it is always good advice to "Read the Fine Material" available, it is not the only advice to give. Sometimes just a few clues are helpful, sometimes a whole primer needs to be written that _isn't_ i

RE: [expert] Fed Up with Drivers

2001-03-21 Thread Daryl Johnson
Have a look in /lib/modules/your version number/scsi for aic7xxx.o Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jhart Sent: 21 March 2001 11:44 To: Expert List Linux (E-mail) Cc: Bob Jeffries (E-mail) Subject

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.2 and reiserfs

2001-03-18 Thread Daryl Johnson
You need to check the very first box 'y' for code maturity and experimentals in xconfig, then this option will be available when you get to it Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leopold Palomo Sent: 18

RE: [expert] Re: Human centric computers (was: I like cups)

2001-03-14 Thread Daryl Johnson
Is there a chance you guys could take this discussion to a more suitable forum please? There must be some linux advocacy groups in alt. or comp. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates [...]

RE: [expert]

2001-03-11 Thread Daryl Johnson
2) If you fire up DrakConf you will see an icon Called Startup Services. Click on it and I think you will find it's use pretty self-explanatory. ;o) regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Collins

RE: [expert] kernel panic, can not mount root fs

2001-03-10 Thread Daryl Johnson
months ago there was another version that reads AND writes. Does anyone know what the file system is that I'm thinking of? I'll check my old notes and see if I still have the name somewhere. Just a suggestion... Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [expert] Backspace problems in Konsole

2001-03-04 Thread Daryl Johnson
uhhh... stty erase backspace used to work for me regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of learning user Sent: 03 March 2001 07:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Backspace problems in Konsole I just installed

RE: [expert] NIS Help

2001-03-04 Thread Daryl Johnson
There's a very good FAQ on this available on the NetBSD site. I'm sorry I can't remember the site address but a search will show it up. regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Theo Brinkman Sent: 04 March 2001 22:57 To:

RE: [expert] Changing HD

2001-02-28 Thread Daryl Johnson
There is actually a Howto on this which gives step by step instructions including 3 (I think)ways of getting around the difficult bit. The basis is that you run both diska at once using a specified mountpoint for the new disk. Transfer all your files to the new disk and then er...

RE: [expert] Mandrake 7.1

2001-02-26 Thread Daryl Johnson
My take on this is that the kernel in the distribution includes compiled in support for i-386, however should Joergen want to just have an i-386 kernel he can recompile then from the sources? regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

RE: [expert] Mandrake 7.1

2001-02-26 Thread Daryl Johnson
me if I am wrong though. NeoFax -Original Message- From: Daryl Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] My take on this is that the kernel in the distribution includes compiled in support for i-386, however should Joergen want to just have an i-386 kernel he can recompile

RE: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

2001-02-26 Thread Daryl Johnson
Assuming that your cable is properly configured and not shorting out the card(s). The proto-network has no common communication protocol. Try running Samba. There is a good Howto on the subject. regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [expert] prompt mode for rm - rmdir - etc.

2001-02-25 Thread Daryl Johnson
If you are logged in as root then edit .bashrc in the root directory, else edit the .bashrc file in the /home/name directory and comment out the line for 'alias rm=rm -i' (I think that's the line) at the same time you may care to examine the other aliases in the file. The effects will become

RE: [expert] HP UX compatibility... Correction!

2001-02-24 Thread Daryl Johnson
It's not so much the system it was compiled under as the PROCESSOR IT WAS COMPILED FOR! (See previous posts on this thread). Once again, to the best of my knowledge Sun use a risc processor, as such, unless you are attempting to run on the same processor there is just NO chance that the binary

RE: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Daryl Johnson
Sounds to me as if you may need to check the docs (extensive) that came with Samba. I have had similar problems with Samba and the problem was finally resolved when I imported a file into the Windows (NT in my case) registry which reset the windows machine to accept un-encrypted passwords.

RE: [expert] HP UX compatibility...

2001-02-23 Thread Daryl Johnson
The only HP-UX I have used has been on HP Risc processor boxes. If the s/w was compiled for one of these then it certainly won't run on a pc. Regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ace Frehley Sent: 23 February 2001 21:00