Re: [expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?

2001-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
M. Compaq still does that, I believe. Still, a 2.88MB drive should read a 1.44MB floppy... - -- +---------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Jeffers

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
a TV. Am I understanding you correctly? - -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81| || | "All machines, no matter how complex, are considere

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
ake upgrades chancy. - -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81| || | "All machines, no matter how complex, are considered to be | | besed o

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
esktop PC user, > > they will have to totally rethink the installation process for 8. > > > >Version 8 is a step BACKWARD as far as ease of installation and use > > go. > > > >Ken - -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeffer

Re: [expert] Nautilus

2001-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
KDE!!! (Not sure, though, if Konqueror would fire up xmms if you inserted an audio CD.) - -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA

Re: [expert] Can't login?

2001-11-27 Thread Ron Johnson
; - Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:37 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Can't login? > > > > - From the console, do you do graphical or text-mode login?

Re: [expert] Can't login?

2001-11-27 Thread Ron Johnson
this makes any difference. > > Ideas? Thanks. > > Oh yah.. if I hit alt-F12, doesn't seem to say anything either. - From the console, do you do graphical or text-mode login? - -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Hom

[expert] Yet Another "Where Did My Icons Go??"

2001-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
ll there. Some programs (like kword-1.1 & Control Center) now die with SIGSEGV. Anyone have a clue? Sincerely, Ron - -- +----+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheathe

Re: [expert] not a good experience with LM8.1!

2001-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So yours is faster than his? Still, I'm *extremely* surprised by the time it takes yours to get to the CLI login prompt. On Thursday 04 October 2001 07:20 pm, John Rye wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:14:37 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <

Re: [expert] not a good experience with LM8.1!

2001-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
ll "server" daemons... > Startx to stable KDE : > 2 mins 50 Are AA fonts disabled? That might mitigate things. - -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA

Re: [expert] not a good experience with LM8.1!

2001-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
an improvement. I'd be interested to know whether Orkunt is running NTFS or FAT. Also, I'm stunned that win2k is "really fast" on such an old system. It's definitely NOT fast (just adequate) on my 128MB RAM PIII 550MHz box running NTFS. - -- +---

Re: [expert] Best way to upgrade from KDE-2.2 to 2.1.1

2001-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 October 2001 08:38 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Monday 01 October 2001 07:04 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > So if it screws up, I can go over and beat you up??? > > Heh... Gonna "open up a can of whup-a$$" on m

Re: [expert] Best way to upgrade from KDE-2.2 to 2.1.1

2001-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 October 2001 07:07 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Monday 01 October 2001 06:37 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, all. > > > > Should I do like

[expert] Best way to upgrade from KDE-2.2 to 2.1.1

2001-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. Should I do like I did when moving from 2.1.1 to 2.2 and de-install 2.2 (very painful), or can I go the easy way and "rpm -Uhv"? Thanks, Ron - -- +--------+ | Ron J

Re: [expert] spaces and command line

2001-09-16 Thread Ron Johnson
y copies. > * >* > > > Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited > Registered Office 2 Rougier Street > York YO90 1UU > Registered in England Number 3253947 > A member of the Norwich Union

Re: [expert] Documentation for rpm-python/rpmmodule?

2001-09-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 September 2001 10:08 am, civileme wrote: > On Sunday 09 September 2001 19:36, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hello, all. > > > > A search through Google doesn't show any. > > > > Thanks. > >

[expert] Documentation for rpm-python/rpmmodule?

2001-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, all. A search through Google doesn't show any. Thanks. - -- +----+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA

Re: [expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:58 am, Randy Kramer wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > You have nothing else to do with your phone line, or have gotten > > a 2nd "modem-only" line. > > Or he runs the download over night,

Re: [expert] Problem with kernel upgrade

2001-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
what you > booted with? Something else? Yes, it looks in /lib/modules/ $ ls -1 /lib/modules/ 2.4.3-20mdk/ 2.4.6-3mdk/ 2.4.7-12.3mdk/ 2.4.9/ - -- +----+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeffer

[expert] upgrading a remote linux system

2001-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson
especially if either box is Difficult To Get To. Ron - -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | |

Re: [expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson
with MS > crap aside), and here is the salient point, compared with what will > be available, this is severely lacking. So what do we do but to keep > receiving the great bounties of upgrades? I mean these are real, > measurable improvements, not marketting gimmicks. Why would you pass >

Re: [expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson
g a set of big files. Wow. That was a *big* phone bill for a college student. - -- +----+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | |

Re: [expert] Su problems within KDE

2001-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson
display driver? This same sort of problem was discussed earlier this week on the list. Try going back ~2 weeks. - -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

[expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
y for the mass market desktop. Comments? - -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | || | ~500K sq mi are needed for the population of the w

Re: [expert] man pages

2001-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
ne: $ manpath /usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:\ /usr/lib/perl5/man - -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | |

Re: [expert] First Code Red(Win) and Now Telnet Worm X.c (BSD) OT FYI

2001-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
internet. "Here, sniff the line. See my password!!!" SSH (port 22) should be used instead. - -- +------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [expert] dumping two file system on the same media

2001-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
gt; script - let say : > > #!bin/bash > dump ... /home > dump ... /work Note that Linus *strongly* discourages using dump under 2.4.* kernels. I wish I had the link. Somewhere at lwn.net... - -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, J

Re: [expert] How knows log ....

2001-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:48 pm, Eduardo P. Román O. wrote: > This appear a lot of time in my log; > Sep 2 02:35:32 myhost kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 > XX.XX.XX.XX:50255 YY.YY.YY.YY:53 L=72 S=0x00 I=31582 F=0x4000 T=64 > (#1)

Re: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 September 2001 10:40 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > At 17.33 04/09/01, you wrote: > >On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:21 am, Ron Johnson escribió: [snip] > My Linux takes more time to load than my W98. More than 2'.

[expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Monday 03 September 2001 11:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday 03 September 2001 10:28 pm, Ron Johnson escribió: > > If you run X 4.1.0, KDE 2.2 & turn on Anti-aliased fonts, I > > *guarantee* you'll start cursing up a storm. It makes K just > > unusably sl

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Monday 03 September 2001 10:28 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 September 2001 10:16 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Sounds like the KDE folks made a pretty good decision. > > If you run X 4.1.0, KDE 2.2 & turn on Anti-aliased fonts, I &

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Monday 03 September 2001 10:16 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 03 September 2001 06:56 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > [snip > > > >>It wasn't that it was hogging the CPU. what was making me crazy was > >>the fact that wi

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Monday 03 September 2001 06:56 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: [snip > It wasn't that it was hogging the CPU. what was making me crazy was > the fact that with 128MB of RAM there were so many processes running > taking care of Nautilus and all the others that it started hitting > the swap! and THAT was

Re: [expert] Single Network Firewall

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:39 pm, John W wrote: > Can the Mandrake Single Network Firewall support more than one NIC > on the internal LAN? I looked through the manual and saw no mention > of this. Trying to avoid buying a hub if I don't really need one. ?? Unless you are connecting a

Fwd: Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
Yup, it the AA fonts. So even with X 4.1.0 it's a hassle. Big bummer... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:32:27 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if

Re: [expert] apmd causes computer to hang

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sunday 02 September 2001 02:16 pm, Stefan Carstens RHCE wrote: > Yes, that's what happend. > The error occurs with 8.1 BETA 2 and was reproduceable on a HP > Vectra (PIII 750E + 512MB PC133 SDRAM,2 IBM DTLA 307030 a NoName > CD-ROM a 3Com networkcard, all on a ASUS MB, Nvidia Riva TNT2 16MB )

Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
I wonder if this is the problem still with X 4.1.0, which is what I have? I'll have to look at the "me" and "root" configurations. On Sunday 02 September 2001 02:20 pm, Oscar wrote: > El Dom 02 Sep 2001 20:44, escribiste: > > On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:37 am, Oscar wrote: > > > El Dom 02 Se

Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:37 am, Oscar wrote: > El Dom 02 Sep 2001 10:09, escribiste: [snip] > I believe the problem is with font anti-aliasing. > Deactivate it in Control Panel and restart KDE. > Try it and tell us ;-) But AA was in KDE 2.1.1 and things worked fine. Why should it cause mas

[expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, all. It's weird. When I'm logged in as root, my newly installed KDE 2.2 performs as expected. However, when I'm logged in as "me", it takes dozens of seconds and lots of CPU to open a program. When starting up, it takes 2+ minutes from when the KDE splash screen disappears, to when kicker

[expert] Signing email in KDE 2.2 / KMail 1.3

2001-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Since I pulled the precompiled binaries from Cooker, I thought I'd ask here first: in the composer window, the "Sign Email" icon is shaded out. This is even though Configure|Composer|"Automatically sign messages using PGP" and Configure|Security|"Encryption Tool"| PGP|GPG have been select

Re: [expert] How to upgrade to Xfree 4.1?

2001-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 September 2001 08:46, emammendes wrote: [snip] > How can I do the upgrade and not lose the possibility of coming to > 4.03 if something goes wrong? Which files do I need to save in order > to saefly return to the previous setup? Can't

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If gooey config still doesn't work, look in /etc/sysconfig/network. It should have the line "GATEWAYDEV=eth0". /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 will also be useful. And "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start" is vital!!! I'm sure I'm forgetting a fi

Re: [expert] ext3 support in 8.1?

2001-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 August 2001 16:19, Oscar wrote: > Is the ext3 journaling the data or the archive names only? > thanks, > Metadata (names, i-nodes...) only. - -- Wed Aug 29 18:28:36 2001 Seq. TimestampUptime -

Re: [expert] kernel 2.4.9

2001-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 August 2001 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Ron, > > You might just want to download the source and compile your own. > > -Charlie As you can see from my .sig, I did that last night. However, for consistency, I'd prefer to stay wi

[expert] kernel 2.4.9

2001-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Is 2.4.9 coming to Cooker any time soon? Since it came out so soon after 2.4.8, I'm concerned about 2.4.8. Thanks, Ron - -- Tue Aug 28 10:27:40 2001 Seq. TimestampUptime - 1:

Re: [expert] For those out there waiting for 8.1

2001-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 14:46, civileme wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2001 21:10, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: > > On Monday 27 August 2001 08:06 am, you wrote: [snip] > > When will be the day we have another button to press and be able to > > install ever

Re: [expert] Dual CPU's

2001-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 11:56, Scott Parks wrote: > At 11:41 AM 8/27/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >Nope. Just Big Ole' Disks... I now see the word "array" in > >your original post. Are you using SCSI or IDE RAID? I presume > >that Linux supports your

Re: [expert] Dual CPU's

2001-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 11:12, M. Osten wrote: > > > Thank you. A quick question, we seem to be able to install using > > > ext2 file system, > > > but when we switch to Reiser that is what hangs the install. We > > > have a 80gig array and this wi

Re: [expert] Dual CPU's

2001-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 09:39, Scott Parks wrote: > Thank you. A quick question, we seem to be able to install using > ext2 file system, > but when we switch to Reiser that is what hangs the install. We have > a 80gig array and this will be a web s

Re: [expert] VPN based on Linux

2001-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 August 2001 10:27, Oren Gozlan wrote: > Hi i'm using ipchains based firewall ans want to add Vpn to allow > remote access to my lan, > DOes anyone have any recomandation about somthing in this topic ??? > > THNX There are 2 LDP HOWTOs on

Re: [expert] backspace in vi

2001-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 August 2001 11:57, Abraham Mandac wrote: > Hi. How do I make the backspace key work in vi? > > Is this the correct command to issue: > :set backspace= > > If so, what are the legal arguments? Do you mean that you want Backspace to dele

Re: [expert] Hardware question...

2001-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 23 August 2001 14:04, J. C. Woods wrote: > Civileme, > > Since your seem to be, among your many areas of expertise, the > hardware guru, can you say when, and if, we will see a mandrake > version that works with the VIA 686B southbridge c

Re: [expert] openafs on LM 8.0

2001-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 August 2001 21:47, Kouros Owzar wrote: > Hi. > > Has anyone been able to install openafs on boxes running LM 8.0? > > I cannot even install the rpms without forcing them. For example, > when I install the openafs RPM, it complain about

Re: [expert] file block size

2001-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 August 2001 12:57, Scott St. John wrote: > Hi everyone- > > We are considering finally putting Mandrake in production to replace > some outdated > FreeBSD servers. We have 70gig raid controlled servers, but seem to > have some trouble

Re: [expert] Fwd: question about reiserfs-ext3

2001-08-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 August 2001 16:32, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 21 August 2001 12:19 pm, Oscar escribió: > > I have read that Mandrake 8.1 kernel will have support for ext3, > > reiserfs and IBM JFS. > > What do you thing about these file systems? W

Re: [expert] Ssh Problem

2001-08-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 August 2001 07:08, Gunta A. Zawawi wrote: > Please guys. Silly question: what is the value of your TERM variable? Are you doing this from the console or an xterm? (Your quotes are "attached". Not a good plan. It doesn't show u

Re: [expert] Cable mode problems

2001-08-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 August 2001 21:49, Bill Thompson wrote: > Hi, [snip] > Two questions - how can I setup switching between my dial-up modem > and the cable modem. In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, the scripts ifup-ppp, ifdown-ppp, "ifup eth0" & "ifdown

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 August 2001 07:19, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > At 17.04 19/08/01, you wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:23, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: [snip] > >Mailboxen with 8000+ messages Delete

Re: [expert] /var/lock files empty.

2001-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 August 2001 16:15, Tom Walsh wrote: > Never mind. :-/ Adding more code to the routines: > > if (write(lockfd, pid_str, 11) == -1) { > fprintf (stderr, "Cannot create lock: %s\n", strerror(errno)); > } > > show

Re: [expert] digital cmeras and linux

2001-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:25, Pierre Fortin wrote: > ben s wrote: > > i was considering buying a digital camera, and was wondering which > > one has the leaset problems working with linux? is usb or serial > > the way to go for linux usage??? And l

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs

2001-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:23, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > I'm going to change mail program (I am currently using Eudora) in > order to switch to Linux completely. > Now I need to know which one is faster because I have mailboxes with > more than 8K mess

[expert] kernel 2.4.8 vs. 2.4.9

2001-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. Since .9 came out hot on the heels of .8, is there some fatal flaw with .8? Thanks, Ron - -- Sat Aug 18 13:14:14 2001 Seq. TimestampUptime - 1: Thu May 17 01:44:04 2001

Re: [expert] Linux uptime question

2001-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 August 2001 18:30, Alan N. wrote: > I'm running a Linux machine at work ( very sucessfully I might add! ) > that basically is an automated FTP server to get weather maps from > the TV weatherman's SGI network and FTP 'em to the tv station

Re: [expert] Codered worm hits

2001-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 August 2001 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How many have you had? According to my logs, as of right now, I've > > got 897. (This would be a fun competition! > > I've got 10700 so far! 9,256 since 19-July, and still getting hit. 20

Re: [expert] Scanner

2001-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 August 2001 10:45, Guy Gauthier wrote: > Hi, > > My scanner, a Hewlett Packard Scanjet 4P is not > recognized by Mandrake. It's connected to an Adaptec > AVA 1550A SCSI card that Mandrake seems to see but it > doesn't recognize the scanne

Re: [expert] HIGH end linux server

2001-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
k specifically at the "RAID Array 8000 Ultra SCSI". and the "HSZ80 Ultra SCSI Controller". btw, any SCSI RAID controller will support levels 0, 1, 0+1, 4 & 5. My databases use these controllers and they are VERY fast, but something tells me they are pretty expensive. (I do

Re: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-05 Thread Ron Johnson
" and "/default.ida?" entries in my access_log are... - -- +----+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | |

Re: [expert] Logging uptime

2001-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
tate, then I would be safe. > > It wouldn't be enough to insert a logrotating script in rc.local > would it? > > Any other approaches? > > Regards, > > Mads - -- ++ | R

[expert] CD Writing and the Via 686b southbridge

2001-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
have the 686b? Sincerely, Ron - -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | || | "Our comp

Re: [expert] rootkit???

2001-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
elp you better. - -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | || | "Experience hath shewn, that even under

Re: [expert] Control key doesn't work properly

2001-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
x3e) > lockCaps_Lock (0x42) > control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) > mod1Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) > mod2Num_Lock (0x4d) > mod3 > mod4Meta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74) > mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e) > > I'm not sure what else cou

Re: [expert] Ramdisk

2001-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
n a cache or RAM in a RAM disk is still RAM, so no need for RAM disk. - -- +------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | |

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You want the flexibility that RPM doesn't allow? 2 words: Rock Linux On Thursday 19 July 2001 19:14, Brandon Caudle wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
over the world -- again. > > > > > > I always prefer a Mandrake rpm over a Redhat rpm any day. Takes > > > some of the guess work out of where the pieces will end up after > > > install. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > >

Re: [expert] URGENT! Win2000/Linux -- NTFS or VFAT?]

2001-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
he same partition? If so, choose VFAT. Linux can only safely read NTFS partitions. And, of course, M$ wouldn't deign to even think about ext2 or reiserfs. - -- +------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeffer

[expert] Will this hose X?

2001-07-14 Thread Ron Johnson
subtle incompatabilities? Thanks, Ron - -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | || | YODA

[expert] am I the only person this is happening to?

2001-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Approximately 1/5th of the time, I get duplicate messages from the list. - -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http

Re: [expert] GnuPG - pass phrase

2001-07-12 Thread Ron Johnson
ce to a predefined key or pass phrase. Reading file:/usr/share/doc/gnupg-1.0.6/README, I simply typed gpg --gen-key followed the prompts, and, as you can see, am now able to sign emails with kmail. Of course, I did all this not as root, but as my regular linux userid. Ron - -- +------

[expert] querying list of files in uninstalled package

2001-07-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, all. I'd like to list all of the files in the uninstalled package foo-1.0.0.rpm. "rpm -ql" & "rpm -q --dump" look promising, but the package must be installed first. What option will do this? Sincerely, Ron -- +----------

Re: [expert] mouse stops responding when switching between KVM switch

2001-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
g. My Mdk box is kernel 2.4.3 & X 4.0.3. Ron -- +------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | || | YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's st

[expert] problem with mozilla-0.9.2 ??

2001-07-03 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, all. Just upgraded from mozilla-0.9-3mdk to mozilla-0.9.2-3mdk, and suddenly the fonts were tiny and jaggedy. Is this a Mandrake or a Mozilla problem? Ron -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] Mdk8.0: Installing cooker PostgreSQL and dependency problems

2001-07-03 Thread Ron Johnson
y don't want to do? Where are the Cooker src.rpm's? Sincerely, Ron -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA

Re: [expert] DNS server

2000-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Vu said he wanted to use FTP. FTP is *not* an SMB protocol and has nothing to do with Samba nor Lan Manager. Therefore, he needs hosts, not lmhosts. Ron Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:02:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: > > We use the "hosts"

Re: [expert] DNS server

2000-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
achine (both of them in one local network, I can ping from one to > the other by the IP address because it does not understand by the name) . I > think that I have to config the DNS server in order to use the FTP software. >

Re: [expert] How to config network printer?

2000-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
I try to do so In Linux > Mandrake 7.1. Does anyone know how to do? If one already did, Please so me > the step. Does mdk71 still use printtool? Once you have created a queue in printtool, you can define a remote host and remote queue. Ron -- +-----

[expert] upgrading v7.2 from v6.0

2000-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Since my /dev/hda is 1 big linux-only partition, would it be simplest to just install it on a new disk, then mount the v6.0 disk to copy back all config and personal data files? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^

2000-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
1992, but what happens if you remove the 64MB SDRAM and put the 128MB SDRAM in socket 0? Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] Upgrading CPU...

2000-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
if u are downgrading in archetecture.) Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http

Re: [expert] pgcc ok to compile kde2 ?

2000-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Pardon me for being dense, but what do you mean by "How about both?"? Are you saying that both of what I have are equivalent to the requirements? Ron Buchan Milne wrote: > > Hopw about both ? > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > Hi, all. > >

Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.

2000-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Stephen Bosch wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > > I've got Mandrake 7.02 on my laptop and have NT4 on another partition. How > > > do I go about mounting this partition so that I can write to it? > > > > Samba. RTFM, try t

Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.

2000-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
uestions. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://man

[expert] pgcc ok to compile kde2 ?

2000-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
compilers, or must I rip them out and install egcs-1.1.2? (Since this has to do with both kde & mdk, I thought that a cross-post would be justified.) Sincerely, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeffe

Re: [expert] Niiiiice. Kill off kde STABLE 2.0 immediately

2000-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Praedor Tempus wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > What if we trailing-edge types totally deinstall our 1.1.x > > systems, then try to install kde2 from source? > > > > You could try. When I did the attempt, the indications were

Re: [expert] Niiiiice. Kill off kde STABLE 2.0 immediately

2000-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > > > Real nice. Yesterday, kde releases, finally, the stable, > > > final kde-2.0. Yesterday you could download it from > > > mandrake cooker, from rpmfind, from every mirror > > > known to man. > [...] -- +---

Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Alexander Skwar wrote: > > So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:52:00PM -0500: > > I didn't think of kde. For some silly reason, I was thinking > > it was a kernel tool! > > Uh? But it's a KDE tool, is it not? :] That's a

Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Alexander Skwar wrote: > > So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:03:24PM -0500: > > What's the difference between mkdosfs (which I don't have) & > > This is a console tool... > > > kmkdosfs (which I *do* have)? I have no man page f

Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Alexander Skwar wrote: > > So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:39:26AM -0500: > > Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some > > other mk* command that I haven't found? > > For FAT/VFAT it would be mkdosfs, but besi

[expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Hi, After I formay it with "fdformat /dev/fd0H1440", how do I create a filesystem on it? Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some other mk* command that I haven't found? Thanks, Ron -- +--------

Re: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Divide and conquer: rm [Aa]* rm [Bb]* rm [Cc]* etc., etc. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--

Re: [expert] VPN access through firewall

2000-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
help. > Thanx > Clayton > > PMfirewall (look in freshmeat) or http://www.freesco.org Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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