Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Seems to me there is logic in the MandrakeSoft model, but not the logic we (and other users) expect. This is, in fact, a big problem that needs to be considered. Whether M

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 12:53 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Mandrake releases X.0, X.1, X.2. Then it jumps to Y.0, Y.1, Y.2. It has nothing to do with "point" releases or "version" releases. Technically, they are ALL "version" releases. Which was exactly my point. Seems to me th

Re: [expert] Enterprise OS, was "Mandrake Out of Control?"

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:55, Ric Tibbetts wrote: ... Actually, I have XP running at home on a PII-333 My kids use it as their game machine. But my oldest is only 7. Their demands are low. :) Ric yeah, I was kind of annoyed when I had to replace Win98 with Win2K on the kids' ga

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Vahur Lokk wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:39, you wrote: And don't forget the obvious Office is like 95% loaded if you use windows... compare that to loading ALL of OpenOffice. Yes here is the point. Especially when low spec boxes come into play. Old Pentium running Win9x and MSO is

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
flacycads wrote: Yeah- I basically just use kde, and I know it takes a lot of resources. I figure with an Athlon 1700+ XP T-bred B on an Abit KX7-333 DDR mobo, I can afford a little kde eye-candy- and I like all the nice features. Never have been a Gnome fan. It's not that I'm that unhappy wit

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Which goes right back to my original statement (that no one wants to understand): Mandrake needs to control the amount of change in the point releases. I've said it as many ways as I can. Ric flacycads wrote: Miark, According to Distrowatch, 9.0 uses glibc 2.2.5, and 9.1rc1 uses glibc 2.3.1.

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 8:51 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Anne... Club subscriptions are 100% revenue. Boxed sets aren't due to the printing, boxes, media, etc. The subscription, bringing in the higher revenue, is much more helpful. Boxed sets are great for those who

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Anne... Club subscriptions are 100% revenue. Boxed sets aren't due to the printing, boxes, media, etc. The subscription, bringing in the higher revenue, is much more helpful. Boxed sets are great for those who need manuals or don't have the bandwidth to download, but for all others I'd suggest

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: IMHO - Mandrake needs to settle back, and stop letting Redhat drive. They need to get control of their release cycles, and content policies. Then they can concentrate on putting out a quality release, not a fast one. I agree on alot of what you are saying above. There are

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:42, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:27 pm, flacycads wrote: really, how hard can it be to recompile the entire distro for different architectures like

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:27 pm, flacycads wrote: really, how hard can it be to recompile the entire distro for different architectures like Gentoo does, and post the iso's with an "unsupported" disclaimer, if need be? IMO, th

Re: [expert] question about df

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
What type of filesystem are you using. Filesystems like Reiserfs tend to allocate a bunch of inodes when they're first used, and then not release them when the files are deleted. Sometimes, that will cause what you're seeing. When it needs disk space again, it will just use the already allocated

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
less) anymore. After all, fewer and fewer users are even running i586 hardware these days. Mandrake needs to get with the times. Robert Crawford On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:15 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: All; I've been watching all the threads, and excitement over the upcoming 9.1. As

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD >= 8.1?

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Hello all, Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? Get a grip people! This is Linux! If you want the newest software, run the new versions, OR: Go get KDE x.xx and install it yourself! How can you people continue to push Mandrake to release the newest software for old releases,

[expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I've been watching all the threads, and excitement over the upcoming 9.1. As well as the critisizm over the rushed release dates. Just to add my .02 to it: From my point of view (and that of co-workers & frieds), it really lloks like Mandrake has spun out of control. I know, it's easy to t

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I will beat on tape for backup. MY tape drive faithfully backed up once a week and I rotated 6 tapes to stay current. (MAC fileserver 80). Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of it was co

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Brian Schroeder wrote: From: Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You just scared me to death. I had no problem reding the tapes to restore some files from time to time (when a user deleted them by mistake), but I guess murphy's law applies here: in case of disaster the tape won't be readable

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
civileme wrote: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0 DO NO

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-30 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
With all the Anit-American inflamitory comments that have been generated on this thread, I couldn't help but to break down, and add my piece to this. This is an article from London's Daily Mirror Surprise! Surprise! When one of the world's most liberal left wing newspapers writes a great article

Re: [expert] 9.1b2 observation/opinioin

2003-01-28 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: Ric Tibbetts wrote: | | | Oh come on! If we can't argue about it, what's the point? | *pokes* Come on! | *sticks his tongue out* Weirdo! | *throws a squeezy stress relieving computer shaped foam thing at you* | Let's argue? Plase? ;) | | I think 9.1b2 is loo

Re: [expert] Houston Stands up to M$

2003-01-23 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; The article was forwarded to me by a co-worker. I merely thought it interesting that Houston had made the stand to go against M$, and their abusive licensing. I was not endorsing Houstons choice of sotware, nor did I have anthing to do it. Ric Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Check out this link

[expert] Houston Stands up to M$

2003-01-22 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Check out this link, detailing why Houston, TX sh*tcanned Microsoft. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-21-simdesk-cover_x.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.1b2 observation/opinioin

2003-01-22 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I took the opportunity to install 9.1b2 on a PC at home. Just to have a look around. My first impression when it came up was: eeYuck! Sorry guys, I disliked the look so much, I took it off. IMHO... It's over the top on eye-candy, and severly lacking in content. Ok, it's a beta.. I understan

Re: [expert] IMAP clients very slow

2003-01-22 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Chuck Burns wrote: On Wed, January 22 2003 2:15 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Why IMAP clients on Linux (Mozilla, Evolution especially !!!) are much slower than using IMAP clients on Windows (on the same Linux IMAP folders) ? It seems strange, but it is much quicker to work from a remote Windows

Re: hardware requirements for mail server, was: Re: [expert] imapser ver and kmail features

2003-01-21 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Bascule; Hardware requirements for a mail server: Minimal, minimal, minimal... Got an old Pentium 75 (90, 100...)? Stuff some disk space in it, and feed it some ram, and you're on your way. You'll need postfix, to send/receive mail, and imap. Both of which almost install out of the box & work. V

Re: [expert] imap server and kmail features

2003-01-21 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Forget K-Mail. It won't filter into imap folders. Go with either Mozilla Mail, or Evolution. Either one does an excelent job of filtering into imapp folders. I use this set up myself, so that I can always get to my mail, from any client, anywhere, and ALL my mail is there. I got tired of

Re: [expert] Fwd: Re: [OT] Stupid question about Galeon and bookmarks

2003-01-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
rob wrote: I believe the drop-down window is to what he is referring. I get the same thing. It will not scroll beyond the bottom of the page. The only way I can see my bookmarks beyond the bottom of the screen is to open up "edit bookmarks". Ditto. I get the same thing. I've just adopted the

Re: [expert] CD Burners

2003-01-18 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
You can never have too much memory, or too much dasd. Ric et wrote: Suggestion... OK... find a burner with as much cache ram as possible (where have we heard that advice before,,, and not about CDburners only) On Saturday 18 January 2003 11:05 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; Thanks for all the

Re: [expert] O Yyyyyyyyyyummy!!

2003-01-18 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Ric Tibbetts wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:42:37AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:40:48 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday January 18 2003 05:16 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Mandrake 9.1beta2 is out...Just in case no one else knew. Just found it

Re: [expert] rpmdrake: cannot open archive file /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.main.cz

2003-01-18 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Ric Tibbetts wrote: Subject says it. I cannot update an 8.1 box. When I try, it just comes back with no list, and I get the (subject) error on the command line. MandrakeUpdate "used" to work on this box. But something has happened to it. Any suggestions on how to repair the damage would be appr

Re: [expert] O Yyyyyyyyyyummy!!

2003-01-18 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 18 January 2003 12:38, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Mandrake 9.1beta2 is out...Just in case no one else knew. Just found it on one of the french servers. Ooo! I feel like a little kid at Christmas. :) This'll help me feel better

Re: [expert] O Yyyyyyyyyyummy!!

2003-01-18 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: Mandrake 9.1beta2 is out...Just in case no one else knew. Just found it on one of the french servers. Ooo! I feel like a little kid at Christmas. :) This'll help me feel better after taking that beating yesterday. Hmmm Might be a good excuse to rebuild the beater

Re: [expert] OT network backup solutions

2003-01-16 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:28, Mark Belanger wrote: Can anyone recommend a backup solution for a fairly large(300 node) heterogeneous network. We currently have Solaris, Windows, Linux, SunOS, and DomainOS machines. Arkeia (commercial) and Amanda come to mind. For non-

Re: [expert]STOP the presses!! WAS: And the fun continues (it's d ead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Chuck Burns wrote: On Wed, January 15 2003 1:53 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: *snip* I agree that port 25 is dead. The question is: Why & How? The line in /etc/services is fine. It's uncommented. smtp IS included in bastille-firewall.cfg po

Re: [expert]STOP the presses!! WAS: And the fun continues (it's d ead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: Chuck Burns wrote: On Wed, January 15 2003 1:53 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: *snip* I agree that port 25 is dead. The question is: Why & How? The line in /etc/services is fine. It's uncommented. smtp IS included in bastille-firewall.cfg postfix "is" runni

Re: [expert]STOP the presses!! WAS: And the fun continues (it 'sd ead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Chuck Burns wrote: On Wed, January 15 2003 1:53 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: *snip* I agree that port 25 is dead. The question is: Why & How? The line in /etc/services is fine. It's uncommented. smtp IS included in bastille-firewall.cfg postfix "is" running. I have no clue as

Re: [expert] And the fun continues (it's dead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
refuse a connection. the only other cause for the connection being refused is if the service itself isn't running. Ok, really dumb question, but I'm not leaving any stone unturned at this point "What service"? Which one? if you're refering to which service it would be in the /etc/

Re: [expert]STOP the presses!! WAS: And the fun continues (it's dead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: Ric Um...a quick, sweet scan of your system proved to be very revealing. I know exactly why your messages and in fact all messages are being refuse...port 25 and your other ports you're using for email in and out are all closed. that would tend to explain a lot as to why

Re: [expert] And the fun continues (it's dead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > Mark Weaver wrote: > >> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 11:30 am, Tibbetts, Ric scribbled >> nervously: >> >>> Mark Weaver wrote: >>> >>>> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:57 am, Tibbetts, Ric scr

Re: [expert] And the fun continues (it's dead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > Mark Weaver wrote: > >> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 11:30 am, Tibbetts, Ric scribbled >> nervously: >> >>> Mark Weaver wrote: >>> >>>> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:57 am, Tibbetts, Ric scr

Re: [expert] And the fun continues

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:57 am, Tibbetts, Ric scribbled nervously: Sheesh! NOW, the server (firewall side) is just bulk rejecting ALL connections (again!). It considers any incoming mail as a SYN attack, and rejects

[expert] Rejected Connections

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; Let me try this from a different angle. I have a server with problems. Right now, it's rejecting all connections to port 25 (mail). I can do everything else, but that. The server is running postfix for sending mail, and smtp is open in the firewall. It was accepting connections this morni

Re: [expert] And the fun continues (it's dead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 11:30 am, Tibbetts, Ric scribbled nervously: Mark Weaver wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:57 am, Tibbetts, Ric scribbled nervously: Sheesh! NOW, the server (firewall side) is just bulk rejecting ALL connections (again!). It

Re: [expert] And the fun continues

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:57 am, Tibbetts, Ric scribbled nervously: Sheesh! NOW, the server (firewall side) is just bulk rejecting ALL connections (again!). It considers any incoming mail as a SYN attack, and rejects it! (egads! I'm getting tired of this chase

Re: [expert] And the fun continues (it's dead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:57 am, Tibbetts, Ric scribbled nervously: Sheesh! NOW, the server (firewall side) is just bulk rejecting ALL connections (again!). It considers any incoming mail as a SYN attack, and rejects it! (egads! I'm getting tired of this chase

Re: [expert] Spam Filtering with postfix

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 January 2003 08:55 am, Tibbetts, Ric scribbled nervously: Mark Weaver wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 12:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled incoherently: Interesting... I seem to have stopped receiving mail

[expert] And the fun continues

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Sheesh! NOW, the server (firewall side) is just bulk rejecting ALL connections (again!). It considers any incoming mail as a SYN attack, and rejects it! (egads! I'm getting tired of this chase!). I thought I had this sorted out... /var/log/messages is bing filled with messages like: Jan 15 07:

Re: [expert] Spam Filtering with postfix

2003-01-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 12:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled incoherently: Interesting... I seem to have stopped receiving mail that I've sent. For example: I have not received the last reply I sent to this list, from this address. Maybe a little tight on the filtering...

Re: [expert] Spam Filtering with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 09:59 am, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: All; Ok, I've had enough spam for one lifetime.. ;) I'm trying to get postfix to start filtering spam. It "will". What I've added so far is: (from the re

[expert] Test - Disregard

2003-01-14 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Kindly Ignore this e-Mail. Thank you! Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Spam Filtering with postfix

2003-01-14 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; Ok, I've had enough spam for one lifetime.. ;) I'm trying to get postfix to start filtering spam. It "will". What I've added so far is: (from the relevant section of main.cf) # # SPAM FILTER SECTION STARTS # # Look more in

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 January 2003 02:54 pm, Charles A Edwards scribbled incoherently: On 11 Jan 2003 14:03:20 -0500 Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not meaning to sound like a smart a** here. But the best, most reliable"unerase

Re: [expert] OT: Apache Question [never mind]

2003-01-09 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I found it. It was just an odd group setting. A remnant from the recent sshd problem. Ric Tibbetts, Ric wrote: All; This "should" be an easy one. I have a server running Mandrake 8.1, with Apache. Up until yesterday, It was running personal web sites under $HOME/public_html No

[expert] OT: Apache Question

2003-01-09 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; This "should" be an easy one. I have a server running Mandrake 8.1, with Apache. Up until yesterday, It was running personal web sites under $HOME/public_html Now suddenly, I've lost access to those. When I try to get into them, I get the error: Forbidden I've checked the permissions on t

Re: [expert] Followup on VERY slow 2D performance with gf2 and nvidia drivers

2003-01-09 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Chuck Burns wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:32, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Chuck; When you first log in, pop open a terminal window, and type "glxinfo". It seems to improve performance on my box (and several others). Just a test... Ric Well.. I'll be damn.. That DOES work.

Re: [expert] clear mandrake-update list

2003-01-09 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, LM 8.2 seems to get the security update list wrong. How do I reset it or rebuild the database list? I'll second that. Mine comes up empty now. It worked for a while, and then stopped about a month ago. I'd like to know how to fix it also! Ric Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Followup on VERY slow 2D performance with gf2 and nvidia drivers

2003-01-09 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Chuck; When you first log in, pop open a terminal window, and type "glxinfo". It seems to improve performance on my box (and several others). Just a test... Ric Chuck Burns wrote: I kind of discovered this by accident. I noticed that whenever ANY application is fullscreen, and I move a window

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
since ssh had been upgraded.) End result the ssh user was gone. Don't know if this helps in any way but... it's a thought. James On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 07:53, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Toshiro wrote: Linux Server sitting in Seattle, I'm in Florida. The Linux Server crashed due to a

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: I got this one resolved "this time". BUT: After this lesson, I'm going to be sure that I have an alternate way into the box. Webmin "is" installed, but for some reason it wouldn't let me in. I

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Toshiro wrote: Linux Server sitting in Seattle, I'm in Florida. The Linux Server crashed due to a power failure (I know, it needs a UPS). When the server came back up, it came up, sans sshd. So I cannot get on it to check it out. I also cannot get on to diagnose the problem with sshd, because

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I got this one resolved "this time". BUT: After this lesson, I'm going to be sure that I have an alternate way into the box. Webmin "is" installed, but for some reason it wouldn't let me in. I'll be fixing that. To all who answered this thread: "Thank You!". sshd is back up & running now. It wa

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
ve my user ID root access. Then I could grab a copy of /var/log/messages, and see what the heck happened. It seems to be my only option. Ric Jim C wrote: Is FTP installed? You could upoad an rpm and a script and then just have someone log in, execute the script and log out. Alternatively you

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Brian wrote: On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:09:59 -0500 "Tibbetts, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All; I have an interesting challenge. Some speculation will be required to solve this one! The situation: Linux Server sitting in Seattle, I'm in Florida. The Linux Server c

[expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I have an interesting challenge. Some speculation will be required to solve this one! The situation: Linux Server sitting in Seattle, I'm in Florida. The Linux Server crashed due to a power failure (I know, it needs a UPS). When the server came back up, it came up, sans sshd. So I cannot

Re: [expert] IRC Chat server software

2002-12-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 05:16, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: All; I need to set up a small (private) IRC Chat server. Can anyone recommend any good software? Thanks! I've always just used ircd -- easy like pie. The challenge is in choosing and configuring a bot :-) One

Re: [expert] IRC Chat server software

2002-12-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 05:16, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: All; I need to set up a small (private) IRC Chat server. Can anyone recommend any good software? Thanks! I've always just used ircd -- easy like pie. The challenge is in choosing and configuring a bot :-) T

[expert] IRC Chat server software

2002-12-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I need to set up a small (private) IRC Chat server. Can anyone recommend any good software? Thanks! Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-17 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
>>On Monday December 16 2002 07:02 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: >> Actually, there is no acceleration for an nVidia card under the >> default "nv" driver. Check the documentation. You need to install >> the "nvidia" drivers to get that. >> >> R

RE: [expert] LDAP -Got it -

2002-12-17 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Tibbetts, Ric wrote on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:57:59AM -0800 : >> All; >> Thank you for the assist. Vincent: An excellent write up on LDAP! >> With that write up in hand, I got my client to connect to the company LDAP >> server. >> Now if I can just solve that pesk

RE: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-16 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Actually, there is no acceleration for an nVidia card under the default "nv" driver. Check the documentation. You need to install the "nvidia" drivers to get that. Ric -Original Message- From: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002

RE: [expert] LDAP -Got it -

2002-12-16 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; Thank you for the assist. Vincent: An excellent write up on LDAP! With that write up in hand, I got my client to connect to the company LDAP server. Ric Now if I can just solve that pesky lock up problem.. -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

RE: [expert] LDAP

2002-12-16 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Thank you! I'll be looking at that today. At first glance, my configuration looks good.. it just doesn't work.. ;) (obviously, I'm missing something somewhere, and I need to look deeper). Ric -Original Message- From: Todd Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002

RE: [expert] Java

2002-12-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
#> rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep kaffe` To remove it. Then go get java and install it. Ric -Original Message- From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Java Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > Just a hunch..

RE: [expert] Java

2002-12-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:00, Felix Miata wrote: > > # rpm -qa | grep ava > > # > > OK, what's the secret code to find out what java version is installed? > How about: > java -v

RE: [expert] Java

2002-12-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
How about: java -version Ric -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Java On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:00, Felix Miata wrote: > # rpm -qa | grep ava > # > > OK, what's the

[expert] LDAP

2002-12-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I need to connect my Mdk 9.0 box to an LDAP server. NIS is a piece of cake, but I've never messed with LDAP. I configured the DN, and the LDAP server in ldap.conf. ldapsearch -x produces a page full of info. But.. I can't get any user ID's off the server, for login authentication. I've found

[expert] Hard Lockup on Netvista

2002-12-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I was "given" an IBM Netvista (1.6 P4) (ok... they plopped it on my desk at work...). I loaded a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 on it. It loaded & booted normally. But... If I do anything with the network, it locks up solid. The only hope is to hit the power button. Occationally, I get the fo

RE: [expert] OT: PDA Question

2002-09-03 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Lots of good stuff. Just what I expected from this list. The Zaurus seems to have my attention, if for no other reason than "it runs on Linux", and it's not a Compaq product (long story, but I'm not a Compaq fan). Right now, I really just need a portable address book. BUT, I also know myself well

RE: Re[2]: [expert] Passwd file conversion?

2002-08-19 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
> > > Are you sure?? I have a Linux box getting users and passwords via NIS > off a Solaris server and have no problems using the same > password on the > Linux box and the Sun's as well. > Serving passwords via NIS is not the same thing as copying the password file. The hash in the second f

RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
> -Original Message- > From: daRcmaTTeR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-( > > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote:

RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
> > On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: > > > An old saying: > > Computing experience is measured in the amount of data lost. > > Thats a great example. I'm not a sysadmin or anything > remotely approaching > that (or does "home" sysadmin count? ) but its > interesting for me to

RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
> -Original Message- > From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-( > > > On Wednesday 14 August 2002 10:25 am, you wrote: > > LOL > > > > Sorry.. Been there, done th

RE: [expert] Hey Civileme

2002-08-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
> Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > > > Christ, JC!! You too? > > > > Depressed, > > > > LX > > > > Ya, me too! I have been doing some 1099 work around the > country but here > in the last few months, things are really drying up in the IT > sector. It > is really tough out there. I don't think

RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-14 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
LOL Sorry.. Been there, done that. I cut a server off at the knees doing things like that. The toughest lesson I had to learn when I first got into Unix many years ago: "Screw the GUI", do it by hand. Then when something breaks, you know what it was, and how to fix it. vi/iptables is your friend

RE: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)

2002-08-14 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > > But one does have to wonder how much Civileme's attitude will change. ;) > > In the past, we could always count on his level-headedness in defending some > > of Mandrakesofts decisions, and to point out the "go

RE: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
But one does have to wonder how much Civileme's attitude will change. ;) In the past, we could always count on his level-headedness in defending some of Mandrakesofts decisions, and to point out the "good business sense" behind them. It has been a calming influence in many discussions on this list

RE: [expert] Pauses with FTP and POP3

2002-07-24 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Short answer: Sounds like a DNS (Name Server) problem. Check your DNS setup. Ric -Original Message- From: Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Pauses with FTP and POP3 I have a new Mdk 8.2 server that is handli

RE: [expert] LDAP Documentation

2002-07-18 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
LDAP Documentation Tibbetts, Ric wrote on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:42:14AM -0700 : > All; > Can anyone recommend a good text on LDAP? > I need to start from scratch with it, and I'm hoping to save some time > digging through a ton of useless text. Have a look at http://www.cer

RE: [expert] want no KDE on start up

2002-07-18 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Sounds like you have "auto login" turned on. Go to the Mandrake Control Center. Under Boot, turn off the Auto Login option. Then reboot the box. It should now come up to a login screen. From that, you can select the different window managers from the pull down menu. Ric -Original Message---

[expert] LDAP Documentation

2002-07-18 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; Can anyone recommend a good text on LDAP? I need to start from scratch with it, and I'm hoping to save some time digging through a ton of useless text. Thank you! Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Travan Tape drives

2002-07-11 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
> Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base tape drive and use it for Mandrake? I always found them to be a pain to use. Getting them to work right is the first hurdle. Seemed like I was constantly messing with it. Even once it was running, it was slow. Real slow, a

RE: [expert] file size limit exceeded error part 2

2002-07-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
The file you're looking for is: /etc/security/limits.conf There is a line in there that limits file size. Just increase it as needed. I do not recommend commenting it out, doing so could jepordize your system. Ric > >Well> > >I checked the temp directory for this app and the files are being

RE: [expert] Triple boot system mounting problems

2002-06-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
The Linux 2.2.x series kernel does not support Reiserfs. You would have to either patch the kernel, or more simply, update it with a more current version. Ric -Original Message- From: Mohammed Dakna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 5:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: [expert] unsubsribe expert

2002-06-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
> James did utter into the folds of space: > >> Ric, >> Personally having been moved from the land of sunshine and warm >> beaches to the land of Cold-Sunshine and wetsuit beaches (Silly-con >> Valley Silly-cone Valley being Hollywood) I would appreciate any >> information you can give us on

RE: [expert] X Freezes

2002-06-12 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 19:56, Andrew Berry wrote: > I am running: > > Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. > > Hardware: > P166 MMX > 64 Mb Ram > 120 Mb Swap > S3 Virge 2D card > Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card > Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. > > My computer seems to

RE: [expert] X Access Problem

2002-06-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
or a change, it wasn't msec. ;) Thanks for all the pointers! Ric -Original Message----- From: Tibbetts, Ric Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 12:47 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] X Access Problem Ok, this one is probably really obvious. But I'm in a really stupi

RE: [expert] X Access Problem

2002-06-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
-- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:37 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [expert] X Access Problem > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > Ok, this one is probably really obvious. But I&

RE: [expert] X Access Problem

2002-06-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
t allowing remote hosts to use the display. I just can't find it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:37 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] X Access Problem On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Tibbetts,

[expert] Testing - Can't get messages on the list.

2002-06-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Testing. I've not had much luck getting messages to post for some reason. Just testing to see if this one makes it. Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Testing - Can't get messages on the list.

2002-06-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Looks like this one made it. Now I'll try the one that counts (the one with the question in it). Ric -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 12:43 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] Testing - Can't get messages on the list.

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