Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-09-12 Thread Toshiro
t; ONLY when i tell it i want `linux single`. > The best way to do it is adding this line to /etc/inittab: ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin (this way you'll be asked for a password even if you type 'telinit S' --that doesn't happen if you only rely in 'password'

Re: [expert] keybaord layout

2003-08-01 Thread Toshiro
El Vie 01 Ago 2003 21:11, Alberto Castillo Pompeyo escribió: > Hi, I just installed ML 9.1, I have a laptop with US keyboard, but > sometimes I need to use a Spanish keyboard layout, with ML 9.0 I had > configured KDE with both layouts by selecting them from the > Configuration->KDE->peripherals->k

[expert] Packet writing (or writing cdrw a la directcd)

2003-07-20 Thread Toshiro
Finally! After years of seeking, I am now able to write cdrw like a do with DirectCD. Go to http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt to learn how to do it (Thank you Richard for such a fine document). Toshiro. - @internet URUGUAY

Re: [expert] other OS booting real slow after install of Mandrake (lilo used as multiboot)

2003-07-03 Thread Toshiro
ng. Does > anyone know how to remove lilo and let the previous OS boot normally? > man lilo Toshiro. PS: (hint: try ´lilo -u´ :) INTERNET URUGUAY: http://www.internet.com.uy Acceso ilimitado a INTERNET por un 30% menos Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Security and permissions problems

2003-07-03 Thread Toshiro
ecurity levels, I don´t like side effects :) I usually set home dirs like this: chmod 751 /home chown root.root /home Then I set every user´s home directory: chmod 700 /home/user chown user.user /home/user Try this, it works. -- Toshiro. INTER

[expert] font problems in MDK 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Toshiro
use any gnome app) but mozilla´s menu fonts are distorted as well :( anyone know how can I fix this? BTW, if I log on in gnome, the font size is OK, the problem only happens when I launch a gnome app from within KDE. -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Ethernet MTU limit

2003-02-04 Thread Toshiro
the Ethernet-II frame specification: [ Preamble ][Dest-addr][Src-addr][ Type ][ Data][ CRC ] <-64bits-> <48bits> <48bits><16bits><32bits> The Maximum Transfer Unit is the largest amount of data that can be transferred across a physical network;

Re: [expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9

2003-02-02 Thread Toshiro
Hola Francisco! I did what you suggested but it didn't work. When I press the button in the camera dock, it appears in the desktop GTKam icon, but I don't see any device in /dev/sd*. Saludos, Toshiro. El Sáb 25 Ene 2003 12:14, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza escribió: > >It uses Comp

Re: [expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9

2003-01-26 Thread Toshiro
> > I have a Kodak DX3900 digital camera but it seems it doesn't work with > > Mandrake. > > > > Any idea? > > Yep, install GTKam (GPhoto 2). The DX3900 is included in it's list. Yes, I did that, but it doesn't work. What am I supposed to do in gtkam

Re: [expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9

2003-01-24 Thread Toshiro
It uses CompactFlash. El Jue 23 Ene 2003 21:54, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza escribió: > Does it use Smartmedia or CompactFlash cards? > > El Jue 23 Ene 2003 02:02, Toshiro escribió: > > I have a Kodak DX3900 digital camera but it seems it doesn't work with > > Mandrake. >

[expert] Kodak Digital Camera and MDK9

2003-01-23 Thread Toshiro
I have a Kodak DX3900 digital camera but it seems it doesn't work with Mandrake. Any idea? -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Printing Banner page

2003-01-23 Thread Toshiro
t; get rid of the banner? > > - Theo > > Toshiro wrote: > >>I've got a working printer configuration using CUPS and Mandrake 8.2. > >> It prints wonderfully, but it spits out a banner page at the end of > >>each print job. I've checked the WWW

Re: [expert] Printing Banner page

2003-01-18 Thread Toshiro
get it to stop printing the banner? I'm willing to edit files > by hand if necessary, I just don't know where to look. Look into /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. How do you have defined 'ClassifyOverride' and 'Classification' ? -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] bash scripting question - simple regular expression?

2003-01-12 Thread Toshiro
integer? > > Blank spaces are between the numbers. > In awk is pretty simple, just do: awk '{ print $1 }' filename (where filename is the name of the file with the numbers) I'm assuming you have only one line in that file, if you have more than one line and you

[expert] dosemu?

2003-01-10 Thread Toshiro
Anybody knows why dosemu is not included with Mandrake? -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Toshiro
ned. What I always do in your situation (remote box) is to configure a serial console so I can see what's going on when problems arise -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Difference between distros

2003-01-02 Thread Toshiro
ago :) Slackware has a somewhat different directory layout (especially below the /etc directory). Anyone with recent experience with Slackware can confirm this? (I haven't used Slackware since 1995) -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-20 Thread Toshiro
ositioning in the next unread mail). The very bad handling of threads is the reason I quit using Evolution. -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread Toshiro
El Lun 16 Dic 2002 23:04, PlugHead escribió: > On Monday 16 December 2002 08:32 pm, Toshiro wrote: > > El Dom 15 Dic 2002 23:55, PlugHead escribió: > > > Have you installed the kernel-source rpm appropriate to your kernel? > > > > > > -Jason > > > &g

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-16 Thread Toshiro
El Dom 15 Dic 2002 23:55, PlugHead escribió: > Have you installed the kernel-source rpm appropriate to your kernel? > > -Jason Yes, I installed the RPM that comes with MDK9 -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-16 Thread Toshiro
El Lun 16 Dic 2002 00:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Toshiro wrote: > > I've downloaded the latest NVIDIA source rpms, I successfully built the > > GLX rpm, but when I try to build the NVIDIA kernel rpm, I get an error > > (see the full messag

[expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-15 Thread Toshiro
rupt.h:128: requested alignment is not a constant make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] clonning HD

2002-12-13 Thread Toshiro
nsfer it. The use of dump/restore is heavily deprecated by Linus himself; have a look at the mail below. Toshiro. From: Linus Torvalds To: Neil Conway Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Kernel Mailing List linux-

[expert] mail client

2002-12-07 Thread Toshiro
I'm tired of Evolution's silly behaviour of mail when they're grouped by mail; do you know of any good mail client besides kmail? -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Firewalled packets are being filtered out

2002-11-18 Thread Toshiro
with a connection already established; for example, if your firewall were a Linux box with iptables you should have something like that: iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Regards, Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Firewalled packets are being filtered out

2002-11-18 Thread Toshiro
El lun, 18-11-2002 a las 07:40, Christian Jul Jensen escribió: > Hi List > > I've configured a webserver, which runs perfectly on it's own net. The > problem is that it's behind a firewall and everything that comes through > that firewall are being ignored by the server. > > Must be some kind of

Re: [expert] Setting Static Routes.

2002-11-16 Thread Toshiro
on come from? It comes from /etc/sysconfig/network Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Blanker

2002-11-16 Thread Toshiro
ndrake Version 9. > I have also tried disabling power management again without success. > > Thanks in advance > Greg > Are you running X? If so, try 'xset s off' Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Setting Static Routes.

2002-11-15 Thread Toshiro
are very similar to the ones you use with the "route" command) You can put "any" instead of the device name if you want the correct device determined at run time. Regards, Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to recover RPM database?

2002-11-15 Thread Toshiro
> >> > >>I've seen others say this: > >> > >>rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* > > > > ^^ > >\_ Did you really mean that (the underscores) or > > was it a typo? > > > > Toshiro >

Re: [expert] How to recover RPM database?

2002-11-14 Thread Toshiro
t; > that same error message. Anyone know what needs to be done to repair the RPM > > database? > > I've seen others say this: > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* ^^ \_ Did you really mean that (the underscores) or was it a typo? To

Re: [expert] which port is a process listening at?

2002-11-08 Thread Toshiro
El vie, 08-11-2002 a las 20:46, SainTiss escribió: > Hi, > > is there a way to see at which port a certain process is listening? > > Thanks > Try 'netstat -a' Regards, Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK 9 & Sony Clié

2002-11-06 Thread Toshiro
Your procedure worked! Thank you. Toshiro. El mié, 06-11-2002 a las 13:09, Simon Ree escribió: > I have found that binding to ttyUSB1 will not work until the > port is created and destroyed once prior to hotsync and not > before pilot-link has had an initial connection. > >

Re: [expert] MDK 9 & Sony Clié

2002-11-05 Thread Toshiro
umber of ports, please use a lower one. visor.c: Device lied about number of ports, please use a lower one. The versions are: j-pilot 0.99.2 pilot-xfer 0.11.3 Regards, Toshiro. > > What model? My clie T415 works fine with the USB cradle. > What does dmesg say when you

[expert] MDK 9 & Sony Clié

2002-11-02 Thread Toshiro
Anybody know how to synchronize a Sony Clié PDA (it's Palm compatible, running Palm OS 4.1) in Mandrake? The cradle is USB, and the device is not recognized (no /dev/ttyUSBx). Do I have to recompile the kernel? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] clock help

2002-10-31 Thread Toshiro
> then of course it makes the time incorrect in LM82. > > Is this what is happening in your case? > It must me a misconfigured timezone in either linux or windog. Regards, Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] where's pine?

2002-10-31 Thread Toshiro
Anybody knows why Mandrake is no longer providing this package? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] user sshd does not exist

2002-10-28 Thread Toshiro
sshd user (that also applies to Linux). Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails

2002-10-28 Thread Toshiro
> El lun, 28-10-2002 a las 04:59, hans privat escribió: > > hi Toshiro, > > are you shure, which services hosts.allow and hosts.deny are providing ? > > the "only" thing you can do with that entries are : > > allow or deny internetservices like ftp or analogica

Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails

2002-10-28 Thread Toshiro
El lun, 28-10-2002 a las 04:59, hans privat escribió: > hi Toshiro, > are you shure, which services hosts.allow and hosts.deny are providing ? > the "only" thing you can do with that entries are : > allow or deny internetservices like ftp or analogical services ! > Try

Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails

2002-10-27 Thread Toshiro
e on the remote host I get an errormessage like : > /mnt/cdrom failed reason given by server : no right > Are your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny in the nfs server configured properly? Are you sure that your server can resolve mozart and jojo to an IP address? Toshiro Want to buy

Re: [expert] libsasl7

2002-10-26 Thread Toshiro
e package. Regards, Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] fdisk limited to 16 partitions

2002-10-21 Thread Toshiro
have a limit of 16 partition in a SCSI disk (and this limit is not a decision of Mandrake, I had the same problem with Redhat). BTW, in IDE disks you can have as many as 64 partitions. Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Handy text change case utility?

2002-10-14 Thread Toshiro
> Mixed Case That Can Save a Lot of Time Because it Knows > About Exceptions and ACRONYMS > To uppercase: sed 'y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/' To lowercase: sed 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/' Toshiro. W

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-13 Thread Toshiro
ist of the uninstalled packages. If you never come across a situation like that, I guess you're just using the basic functionality of rpmdrake; I try to use it for complex operations, when I need to install a simple rpm I just type "rpm -ivh " from the command line. Toshiro.

Re: [expert] A question for real experts :)

2002-10-10 Thread Toshiro
works. > > James > > http://web.cnam.fr/reseau/bing.html Cool! Thank you very much James :) Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Broken screensavers in MD9.0

2002-10-09 Thread Toshiro
> -Jason > > On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:25 pm, Toshiro wrote: > > > > Or do better and disable the KDE screensavers altogether and use the > > xscreensaver and xscreensaver-gl packages instead, they are awesome :) > > > > Toshiro. > Using xscreensaver

Re: [expert] CD-ROM read error - LM 9.0

2002-10-09 Thread Toshiro
e always starts reading OK, but after a while somehow the drive doesn't read the disk anymore, I have to eject the CD and insert it again. I think something is wrong with supermount. Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] A question for real experts :)

2002-10-08 Thread Toshiro
ou name it), answers like "look at the link light of your network card/switch/etc" are not valid :) BTW, in Solaris is pretty simple to know that, just bring the interface up with 'ifconf' and you get the answer. Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Broken screensavers in MD9.0

2002-10-08 Thread Toshiro
l of the screensaver items are gone except 4 > > > > > items. > > > > > > > > > > I have no cue to fix it. Any suggestion? > > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > charlie > ---

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-07 Thread Toshiro
llation with the new version. Anyway, I'm wondering why they made the decision of changing something that was OK with another version that has (to say the best) the same features. > > BTW, you're always able to grab the 8.2 srpm of rpmdrake and install it, > but no tellin

[expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-06 Thread Toshiro
What do you think about the new rpmdrake? In my opinion, the new version is much worse than the previous one (8.2). I don't like to have 2 different programs for installing and removing packages; also, I can't see the contents of the packages as I could in version 8.2. Do you know if it's possibl

[expert] KDE applets

2002-10-06 Thread Toshiro
I'm looking for a xmms dock applet for KDE; anybody know about any? Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-05 Thread Toshiro
> > > > I agree. However I Dont run EVERYTHING as root nor am I a new user. Also > > being an IT Manager I DO occasionally su to root and ssh into my > > company's machines as root to do admin stuff so I really would not want > > to blast away my ssh keys nor my root env. > hmmm is it possible to

Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-03 Thread Toshiro
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:09:23 -0500, Vox wrote > > wu-ftpd has a looong history of bad security, so the mdk people has > > (wisely, IMNSHO) chosen to use proftpd. But wu-ftpd does seem to be > > in cooker, so...they may just have gotten rid of it on the release > > ISOs. > But they hav

[expert] Spanish question mark

2002-09-30 Thread Toshiro
Hi! I've Mandrake 9.0 with USA international (with accents) keyboard layout. I can type all the spanish specific symbols, except the opening question mark (this one: '¿'). Anybody know the key combination to generate this symbol? Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services fr