Re: [expert] viewcvs

2003-11-12 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James D. Parra wanted us to know: >Can anyone direct me to a 'viewcvs' howto or give me a few pointers on how >to set this up. Mandrake provides a package named cvsweb. I believe it's in contrib. Set up your main and contrib repositories and then yo

[expert] [dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com: hijack cont.]

2003-11-10 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Update of what is happening to David, forwarded to the list as per his request. David, I'd like to see those requests from your logs. Blue skies... Todd - - Forwarded message from "David E. Fox" - Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20

Re: [expert] fetchmail not working on 9.2

2003-11-10 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Noble wanted us to know: >I installed 9.2 all the patches and fetchmail does not work. I >can go back to 9.0 and fetchmail works. >Has anybody gotten fetchmail to work on 9.2, if so what is the trick? Yes, it works just fine. No trick, just

Re: [expert] Bizarre postfix problem cant send mail

2003-11-08 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dfox wanted us to know: >when I began to see a few errors in my /var/log/mail/errors file (unknown >service tcp/smtp). That means that the line from /etc/services got deleted: smtp25/tcp mail smtp25/udp mai

Re: [expert] help - my box might be a relay

2003-11-05 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E. Fox wanted us to know: >"masquerading" as m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com, probably forging headers >somewhere along the line. It further seems that mail is injected here >and then attempts are made to send the sh*t off to other places. >I have not go

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >How many blocks of data are allocated to the mbr ? The very first sector, 512 bytes. >is it the same for all OS's ? It's not a function of the OS, it's a function of the architecture. >what would happen if one OS u

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >> I'd say you have "Virus Protection" set to "Yes" in the BIOS. >No Todd that was one of the first thing s to look for Then I'd boot into rescue mode and run one at a time fdisk, cfdisk, and diskdrake and look at the

Re: [expert] Route statements

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lawson, Jim wanted us to know: >Can I add this to static-routes or should this be some where else. These a >vlans on our network.. # Red Hat network configuration format CONFIG="/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/$1.route" [ -f $CONFIG ] || exit 0 . $

Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wanted us to know: >> No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, >> but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better >> anyway:) When it comes to data recovery, definitely not. >No hardware

Re: [expert] Fetchmail problem

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: Content-Description: clearsigned data >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Thanks. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it any better than running it as a >cron job. My desire is that no matter how man

Re: [expert] GTK (as opposed to gtk) missing?

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: >I get this when I try to run IceWMCP, which I installed with Urpmi. >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./IceWMCP.py", line 21, in ? >import os,GTK,gtk,sys,glob >ImportError: No module named GTK >What

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come >I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine thats happily running >linux and get problems on an install, normally when the partition table

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wanted us to know: > Forgot to say earlier, a big "Welcome Back" We've missed you. I'm here in bits and pieces when I have time. I try to read Expert and Cooker every other day, but it's usually only weekends when I have time to r

Re: [expert] Sound Services Question

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Sawchuck wanted us to know: >The one thing I cannot determine is in MCC Services, is do I need Sound as >well as ALSA? I have ASLA on at boot. I have tried ALSA On, Sound Off, and >ALSA On, Sound On, and can see no difference. This is my home

Re: [expert] Re: Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T. Ribbrock wanted us to know: >> QMail is a great example, Gee lets put all >> of our executables in /var and the forbid the user to change it. >I seem to remember that there is reasoning behind this on part of the >author - it's been a while, though

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: >Thank you. Unfortunately, for some reason it isn't working. These messages >are coming into my inbox from my fetchmail-daemon (From: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]) and for whatever reason it appears >that they are side

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: >Received: from 24.61.30.135 (HELO 67.164.237.213) (24.61.30.135) > by mta154.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:52:58 -0700 > >OK, so how might I setup procmailrc to have any/all messages from thi

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: >1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything >about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but >now it tries to connect to msn on opening, fails, and segfaults. Is >there any

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >After formating my home partition, and a new install of 9.2 all seems to >well, Usually it's just the .gnome or .kde directories that needed to be wiped, or the config dir for a specific application. >I hav'nt found

Re: [expert] No mouse after installing Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Rowe wanted us to know: >Yes, and when that didn't work I created the PS/2 device by hand with mknod. >I don't think mousedrake can help when cat /dev/psaux is failing. That's at Your system is using devfs unless you specifically disabled it.

Re: [expert] What is changing /etc/resolv.conf? (and Why?)

2003-09-23 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wanted us to know: >In runlevel 2, only a valid nameserver entry is present in this file. >However, in runlevel 3 or 5, something inserts ahead of the valid one, >an additional one pointing to loopback. What does this, and why? this is ze

Re: [expert] separate partition for /etc

2003-09-18 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Webb wanted us to know: >my reason is not space, but emergency re-installs (hopefully never needed). >it wb nice not to lose my fine-tuned settings & configur'ns, >but i'm fairly conscientious re back-ups, which always include /etc , >so it's

Re: [expert] Postfix and "lookup failure"

2003-08-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miark wanted us to know: >That did it! Thanks! > >Out of curiosity, why didn't that happen automatically when I installed >Postfix? I thought that it was a part of the post install scripts, but looking at it, it's not. I assume that's because by def

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: >OTOH, looking at this thread, I've learned that I can print pretty >well anything direct to pdf, which is definitely worth knowing. How much does it cost to do a comparable thing in Windows? I'm just curious. - -- B

Re: [expert] Postfix and "lookup failure"

2003-08-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miark wanted us to know: >and in /var/log/mail/warnings it says > warning: cannot access UNIX password database: No such file or directory >which doesn't make sense. The box works like a charm for everything >else. Anybody know what's going on? Pos

Re: [expert] I don't know how to head this

2003-08-23 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: >contain commands. In the bounce message there is an invitation to >reply to sympa-request if you are not satisfied. I did that, but I've >heard nothing and the message was not released to the list. I'm a list admin

Re: [expert] Sound corruption

2003-08-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: >My box runs 24/7, but I have to log out and in again fairly >frequently. The reason for this is that I get a really bad sound >corruption that seems to occur when I have been logged in for more >than 24 hours (but n

Re: [expert] Fwd for Mark Weaver (testing mail list server too)

2003-08-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ed tharp wanted us to know: >I've been trying to send this to the expert list now for a day or so but >can't seem to get any message though to this list. At the moment I'm >running a traceroute to the Mandrake mailserver and coming up empty. It >got

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Phinney wanted us to know: >I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my >/etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name >server. Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass thi

Re: [expert] Cups web interface files missing

2003-08-18 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos A. Siso wanted us to know: >requiered by cups-drivers). The problem still persists, but one thing I noted >is that while "rpm -Uhv cups-1.1.19-1.1mdk" does not install these files, >"rpm -e cups" does not delete them either. I had to delete t

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-18 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald J. Hall wanted us to know: >> k3b is not very good as far as I'm concerned. gcombust does everything >> I want and more. >Yea! Another Gcombust advocate! :-) Gcombust also invokes some kernel PFM. On one older kernel, my 24X burner only burn

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wanted us to know: >meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an >IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason >that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM? In the words of the g

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Sword wanted us to know: >I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. And so I stand corrected - -- Blue skies... ToddPublic key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol overhead. --Mans Nilsson Linux

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wanted us to know: >Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start >the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file >called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When go

Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: >i tried 'urpmi binutils-devel' but it cant find it ans says 'no package named >binutils-devel'... i couldnt get it from the installation CD cause the cdrom >drive does not work on this laptop... Not cool. The

Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbfd It's looking for libbfd.so. >i currently have binutils-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk installed... That provides /usr/lib/libbfd-2.14.90.0.5.so. But you need libbfd.so. How do you find it? [

Re: [expert] creating a dev?

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill wanted us to know: >I am trying to connect my Canon D60 Digital Camera using /dev/sdf1 the only >problem is there is no sdf1 in the dev directory. I use sda through sde for >my scsi drives in my system. Is there a way to create a sdf device in

Re: [expert] EXT3 File Corruption?

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale Starr wanted us to know: >Hi, I was hoping that someone could help me with this question. I have a >redhat box as a fileserver I was just wondering something about the EXT3 >filesystem (or maybe them all in general). After a power outage, the

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 & 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
ic for the ethernet device. Pass noapic and you should see the IRQ drop to 15 or below and then the NIC will probably magically start working. If it's already at 15 or below before you pass noapic, then it will probably not make any difference. - -- Todd Lyons| Al

Re: [expert] Re: Procmail config

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Pogliani wanted us to know: > 1. the way to "move" the /var/spool/mail/stefano mbox file to the > $HOME/Mail directory is by means of using a .procmailrc file whose > default action moves incoming mails to a folder called Inbox ? Rat

Re: [expert] EXT3 File Corruption?

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damon Lynch wanted us to know: >> "I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I >> want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2." >So why does it do this on bootup, on the root filesystem? What is the Mou

[expert] Re: Procmail config

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Pogliani wanted us to know: > 1. what would I have to do to teach my system to place my > /var/spool/mail/stefano mbox file into my $HOME/Mail directory? Basically you put a directive at the end of the procmailrc that will just deliver m

Re: [expert] Procmail configuration sample

2003-08-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Pogliani wanted us to know: >In the examples I saw, the default was always to $HOME/Mail Mail gets delivered to a default (what you might call INBOX) of /var/spool/mail/${USER}. This is also where UW-Imap expects INBOX to be. All other mail

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 & 9.1

2003-08-09 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wanted us to know: >Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? lspcidrake -v If it shows a module name instead of unknown, then it's supported. Honestly when buying new stuff now, I just take a Knoppix CD with m

Re: [expert] where is ssl-error_log ?

2003-08-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Pogliani wanted us to know: >I am struggling in having an Apache virtual host defined to support SSL. FYI, it is not necessary to pay multiple hundreds of dollars to get a cert signed by Thawte or Verisign. (aren't they the same company now a

Re: [expert] OT: Backing up Windows (Fat32 and NTFS) Partitions

2003-08-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Schroeder wanted us to know: >It seems to me that I should be able to get a perfectly valid, complete >and fully restorable backup of my windows environment simply by using >dd or tar from linux. >Is the state of the NTFS driver up to it? >Is th

Re: [expert] Is There IRC Just for Mandrake?

2003-08-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wanted us to know: >Neither http://www.mandrakeuser.org/ nor http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ >indicate existence of any Mandrake discussion channel. Anyone know of >one? irc.freenode.net #Mandrake, #Mdk-cooker, #Mandrake-offtopic irc.oftc

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash & mdkKDM?

2003-08-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wanted us to know: >Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell >mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular user. Back in the day (last year) if you wanted to be able to log in as root, you raised the secu

Re: [expert] strace of smbd 4 samba probs

2003-07-29 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >If its any help to see whats happening here's the strace of smbd on >starting it. >fork() = 5371 >--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- >exit_group(0) = ? Th

Re: [expert] Can't run perl scripts as non-root in 9.1

2003-07-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wanted us to know: >> Or worse: #!/usr.perl\r\n ? >> ^^ >> This is one of the most subtle problems when a script won't start... it's >> not visible in most editors unless in hex mode. This "bug" makes

Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.

2003-07-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: >> Make this line "myorigin = $myhostname". This is where the "gb7tf" is >> getting trimmed off from your mails. >masquerade_domains = $mydomain And this line too. - -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger ham

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E Fox wanted us to know: >installing a new DVD/CDRW combo drive last weekend. I rebooted the >system (which had been rebooted before, successfully) and the system >hung completely at "finding module dependencies" (I think). My cooker box did th

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E Fox wanted us to know: >I think I found a problem in /etc/lilo.conf >Originally I had /dev/ram3 in the 2.4.19-35 image, and that >didn't work. Also I noticed boot= set to /dev/hda, which is It sounds like you installed the kernel rpm in rescu

Re: [expert] Shutdown/reboot for users

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: >initial bootup and login to KDE, when I was finished and clicked the logout >button, I got the nice dragon combo box with 3 options in it: logout, >reboot, shutdown. After this one time, this box no longer com

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pierre Fortin wanted us to know: >Used Mozilla to download 9.2beta1 to *MY* choice of target disk (yup, I >If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm >too pissed to find it... rsync -avp --progress mirrors.usc.edu::mandr

Re: [expert] orinoco gold pcmcia card and mandrake 9.1

2003-07-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brent Bailey wanted us to know: >Ive recently installed mandrake 9.1 on my laptop .. i also have a Orinoco >gold wireless pcmcia card that id like to use . Does 9.1 support this >card ?? if so ..how do i configure it ?? do i have to recompile anyth

Re: [expert] TMOUT + PATH

2003-07-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Björn Lundin wanted us to know: >starting a shell, I get >bash: TMOUT: readonly variable >Does anybody know who is trying to change TMOUT. >I can't find it :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/profile.d]$ grep TMOUT * msec.csh:if ( ${?TMOUT} ) then msec.csh:

Re: [expert] split, afio, or gpg broken for pipe use?

2003-07-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 drake wanted us to know: >echo "splitting /tmp/filelist$$"; >(cat /tmp/filelist$$ \ >| afio -o -E /nsync/kecmods/nocompress -z -Z -G 9 -M 200m -T 3k -v -b >64 - )\ >| gpg -e -r user1id | split -b$4m - "$2.$datestamp-bz2" ; >

Re: [expert] Avoiding NFS clients Hang when NFS server dies

2003-07-23 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tru64 User wanted us to know: >Problem is that if any one host goes down, all other >hosts hang with a df. Additionally, other programs >2.Using the "soft" option for mounting (default=hard). >None of these are a cure. Any additional suggestions >out

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

2003-07-23 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephane Junique wanted us to know: >I tried to pass noapic and acpi=off to the kernel, but it didn't >help. But I believe you are in the right direction, something has >to be switched off in the kernel, probably something that was not >in the 2.2 ke

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

2003-07-22 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephane Junique wanted us to know: >My system consists of the MSI motherboard, one Athlon 2400MP, >I can't seem to install Linux on this system. I tried >Mandrake 9.1, 8.2, as well as several RedHat distributions. >Most of the time, the installation

Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9

2003-07-22 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wanted us to know: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ urpmf libaudio.so >> libnas2:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so.2 >> libnas2:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so.2.3 >> libnas2-devel:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so >locate libaudio.so >/usr/X11R6/lib/li

Re: [expert] Testing Kernel 2.6

2003-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wanted us to know: >I have been playing around and I cannot get the modules to compile. The >kernel image goes fine, but the modules keep crapping out at some point. >Each time I go back into the config and fix, get past that spot and s

Re: [expert] DVD stuff

2003-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E Fox wanted us to know: >Diego - I had install problems with urpmi so I tried to feed this list to >urpmi via 'urpmi --media plf `cat file` " It says no such package. I think >I have the wrong plf source defined. When i urpmi there is a confli

Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9

2003-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Blomquist wanted us to know: >I am having a problem with the source code for K3B under Mandrake 9.1: during >make, I am getting: "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -laudio". >Has anyone attemped to compile this, and found a solution? Tutorial time. How

Re: [expert] urpmi error

2003-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tru64 User wanted us to know: >How can I correct this problem, and be able to add new >media? >@/home#urpmi.update > >unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 >(ftp1u)" into account as no list file >[/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandra

Re: [expert] Load Balancing & Round Robin

2003-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sevatio wanted us to know: >What would I need to setup two Apache servers to serve the same domain >name using load balancing & round robin? Each user session must be >limited to one server. And it must be able to sense when one of the >servers a

Re: [expert] Testing Kernel 2.6

2003-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wanted us to know: >If I am running Mandrake 9.1 with the latest Club kernel, is there anything in >particular I need to know to compile and tet the beta 2.6 kernel? Has >anything changed with respect to the compilation process? Yes, a

Re: [expert] ls

2003-07-20 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie wanted us to know: >> > ls: .: stale NFS file handle >> > Can someone tell me what this means? >> AFAIK it's actually saying that an NFS mount is trying to find a file >> that has been moved or removed on the distant end and no longer viable.

[expert] qmail smtp-auth bug allows open relay

2003-07-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just wanted to comment that I had what appears to be a place scanning me for this exploit yesterday. I use Postfix though, so no issues. You should look very carefully at your configuration if you use qmail and the smtp-auth patches. BTW, some wil

Re: [expert] booting a kernel compiled with "athlon" results inkernel panick :/

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Golumbovici wanted us to know: >Oh well... I did "make clean". I didn't think that I need to do "make >mrproper" or distclean just to compile for other target. is this really >required?!? If you did anything that _changes_ the .config file, ye

Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Crongeyer wanted us to know: >How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the "$mynetworks = >111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24" variable or can I do it with that >variable like >"$mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24, 333.

Re: [expert] drakfloppy error: No space left on device

2003-06-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Broos wanted us to know: >On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 01:01, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: >> cp: escribiendo `/tmp/mkbootdisk/initrd.img': No space left on device >> Error ! >Filesize of your kernel doesn't exceed available space on your floppy ? Also,

Re: [expert] Can't Get 9.0 to Use 1280x1024

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wanted us to know: >HorizSync 31.5-64.3 >VertRefresh 50-70 These are the two lines. Try adjusting one or both of them up. Be ready to turn the thing off really quick if it doesn't have oversync protection (remember by trying to

Re: [expert] File system Quota's

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wanted us to know: >Can someone point me at a place with a good HOWTO on file system quota's? >I've got a problem with logon time on my Samba-LDAP PDC and he seems to be >of the opinion that turning them on is a good idea. >Is there support for

expert@linux-mandrake.com

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wanted us to know: >> No clue about that at all...haven't touched KDE in many years. >KDE + SuperKaramba finally got me away from ICEwm. (say goodby to >kicker.) Interesting. I'd never heard of that. Before I ask any stupid ques

Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Williamson wanted us to know: >To Fix the "depmod -a" stuff comment out lines 491 to 508 in the >/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (Umm that could be a little differnet in yours) >That will speed up your bootup.. Considerably -- At least if your still >locki

Re: [expert] dependency problem...

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Broos wanted us to know: > When I try to install gaim (or some other programs) I get an error > that my glib-version has to be >=1.3. The issue is not that 2.x is being detected incorrectly. The error message should be a little more c

Re: [expert] spamassassin assassinated

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: >Come to think of it, forwarding it would not put its headers to the >test, I think. Can't see how to make it useful to you. Bounce it to him. If you need to, setup a temporary copy of mutt so that you can do so. - -

Re: [expert] spamassassin assassinated

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vox wanted us to know: > sa-learn is pretty simple to use. You copy/move the spam that > doesn't get caught to a folder in your kmail...let's say it's named > spam-saved...then go to the console (some people cron this...I don't Make an email alias

Re: [expert] spamassassin assassinated

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: >I upgraded once again to 2.54 and poof, it quit working again. I deleted my >spamassassin filter and reentered it identical to before and now it seems to >be working again. What the fuh? Can anyone else dupli

Re: [expert] Can't Get 9.0 to Use 1280x1024

2003-06-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wanted us to know: >> Post a copy of your XF86Config file. >Which? The current one configured for 1024x768 for my 17" monitor that >Linux won't do 1280x1024 with? The one that works both at 1600x1200 and >1280x1024 on my 19" monitor but do

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-04-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +0100 : > installed the docs, then the kernel. It ended with the message: > look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same > of the initrd > which mean you have a mdk ke

Re: [expert] fast mirror

2003-04-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Walker wrote on Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:33:14AM -0500 : >> ns.sslug.dk/pub/mirror/mandrake/mandrake-9.1 > ftp.unspeakable.org/pub/Mandrake-iso http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html Blue skies... Todd - -- | Mand

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 flacycads wrote on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:27:56PM -0500 : > I've never used urpmi- heard that it doesn't work good for kernels. This was a problem way back with 8.0. Since then there have been two important things added to urpmi: skip.list and ins

Re: [expert] 9.1 SMP and apic

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:33:32PM -0500 : > I did just that the last 9.0 kernel and you can see from the output that > apic is operating properly with the 2.4.19-16mdksmp kernel. > 0: 11000 9597IO-APIC-edge timer I don'

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Lyons
ncy. Plus, I have not run one since 2.5.48 or so. Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ Favourite shell: bash, though I also like 'init=/usr/bin/emacs' --Andrew Tridgell

Re: [expert] 9.0-->9.1 - successful experience ... and also a minor question

2003-03-28 Thread Todd Lyons
ibs source and that takes care of asking for the older disks. Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever t

Re: [expert] Product Question

2003-03-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kwan Lowe wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:39:21PM -0500 : > > 1) Does 9.1 have an easy DVD playback solution? I.e., do either the > installation CDs come with all appropriate RPMS (including libdvdcss, > dvdread, etc) or are Mandrake specific package

Re: [expert] 9.1 SMP and apic

2003-03-27 Thread Todd Lyons
all of my interrupts are > processed on only one cpu, whereas in 9.0 it was devided among the CPU's > equally. Could you try the 9.0 kernel or the 9.0 update kernel again to verify that it's still doing it? Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons --

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 flacycads wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:51:19PM -0500 : > Are we going to be able to get a 2.5.xx kernel compiled with Mandrake > 9.1? I gave up trying to compile a 2.5 kernel on 9.0, as apparently too many > needed items were missing and/or unavai

Re: [expert] 9.0-->9.1 - successful experience ... and also a minor question

2003-03-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stefmit wrote on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:53:45PM -0600 : > > packages I choose to download, whether downloadable from an "unsupported" > (plf or cooker) site, or installable from the new 9.1 CDs, I am being asked > for the CDs of 9.1 (understandably

Re: [expert] how to tell lilo at boot that the root partitionshould be read only

2003-03-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Golumbovici wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:49:14AM +0100 : > Normally when booting "single" the root partition should be readonly... No, whatever the default is in /etc/fstab is what it will be mounted as. > After I booted in single mode wit

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Kramer wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:47:33PM -0500 : > > Whether I have DESKTOP=KDE, DESKMANAGER=KDM, or both in the > /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, the system goes directly into KDE. urpme autologin Blue skies... Todd - -

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-27 Thread Todd Lyons
and it does virtually the same thing but instead of DDOS'ing themselves, they DDOS Microsoft (the purveyors of said bull$#!% in the first place). Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ Favouri

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate-Signature not correct

2003-03-26 Thread Todd Lyons
Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ Favourite shell: bash, though I also like 'init=/usr/bin/emacs' --Andrew Tridgell Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: [expert] cups web interface not working (mandrake 9.0)

2003-03-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wrote on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:59:12PM -0500 : > > I have been trying to get a bunch of remote lpd printers working with my MDK > 9.0 system. Initially, using printerdrake it set them all up as remote cups > printers which flato

Re: [expert] RH is jumping numbers hard.

2003-03-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:10:27PM -0800 : > > Two interesting things here. One. RH is jumping from 8.0 to 9.0 Breaking binary compatibility from the previous release is considered a major release and not a point release. >

Re: [expert] Port not open MDK 9.1 RC2

2003-03-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill wrote on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:43:17AM -0800 : > The only line I have ion Hosts.deny is > ALL:ALL EXCEPT 66.47.48.52:DENY So you need a line in /etc/hosts.allow that specifically opens up that service to be connected to by outside sources. Su

Re: [expert] Problems with OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk installed from the Mandrake RPM

2003-03-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Platts wrote on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:18:55AM -0600 : > I installed OpenOffice.org 1.0.1-9mdk from the Mandrake RPM's and I have > been able to start the application. The user interface text does not show > up, but the application starts? How

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