[expert] apache 8.2 cont

2002-03-25 Thread root
Not sure where Larry was heading but let's head in that direction. Laura, can you get into webmin at https://localhost:1? If you can, you might want to take a look at httpd.conf, and see if you have your directories set up with correct permissions. If you are comfy with vi, just use that on

Re: [expert] unclutter your cursor

2001-11-15 Thread root
mike wrote: I'm not sure this wouldn't drive me crazy, but that's the virtue of Linux, freedom of choice. Hey, it helps have a modicum of lunacy to make it in today's world (and thanks for allowing me this opportunity to check out this mail server I just configured)... JCW ---

Re: [expert] Migrating from 7.1 to 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread root
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hello there. Today we upgraded a customer's PC; it used to run Mandrake 7.1 now it's running 8.1. We did a clean install; in fact, it's a new disk drive :) I basically need answer to two things 1) Is the default Kernel not configured to route traffic ? 2) Is

Re: [expert] cable modem question

2001-11-02 Thread root
Todd Zashin wrote: Greg, Why would you stay away from Linksys? Can you give me an example where the product line failed you? It seems to be a very popular product. Todd Just to chime in with my two cents worth: I have used the Linksys NIC with the old familiar tulip since the days

Re: [expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall

2001-08-20 Thread root
The configuration for it is in: /etc/Bastille There is a utility to set it up. I dont remember the name, look in /sbin I think it is there. There is also a graphic utility. As for turning it on or off, there is a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d just for that. I suggest you try turning it off, try

Re: [expert] digital cmeras and linux

2001-08-14 Thread root
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 00:10, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 20:33 -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I like my HP 215. It was only about $300, has a USB connection, comes with a 4MB CompactFlash, and can accept up to a 32MB CompactFlash. It's supposed to work with GPhoto2,

Re: [expert] * does not select all files

2001-08-13 Thread root
On Monday 13 August 2001 09:42, George Petri wrote: Hi! Does anyone know why * misses hidden files such as .kderc? What is the reasoning for that? I mean to select ALL files, now I have to specify (in bash, of course): * *.[a-zA-Z] to my programs e.g. cp * *.[a-zA-Z] /somefolder. It

Re: [expert] * does not select all files

2001-08-13 Thread root
I take that back, files starting with 2 dots would still be hidded. The only way is to do it is: echo .[^.]* ..[^.]* ...* * Try it. Create these files .bozo ..bozo ...bozo bozo and you will see that displays them all, but does not display . and .. -- Gerard Perreault [EMAIL

Re: [expert] * does not select all files

2001-08-13 Thread root
On Monday 13 August 2001 18:45, civileme wrote: On Monday 13 August 2001 12:26, root wrote: On Monday 13 August 2001 09:42, George Petri wrote: Hi! Does anyone know why * misses hidden files such as .kderc? What is the reasoning for that? I mean to select ALL files, now I

Re: [expert] * does not select all files

2001-08-13 Thread root
On Monday 13 August 2001 13:52, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Or, try: cp -a .??* destination Ric *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 8/13/2001 at 12:39 PM root wrote: I take that back, files starting with 2 dots would still be hidded. The only way is to do it is: echo

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

2001-07-24 Thread root
.rpm* libcups1-devel-1_1_9-4mdk_i586.rpm* cups-common-1_1_9-4mdk_i586.rpm* libcups1-1_1_9-4mdk_i586.rpm* and tried to upgrade cups, but; [root@Skyline cups]# rpm -Uvh cups* error: failed dependencies: libcups1 = 1.1.9-4mdk is needed by cups-1.1.9-4mdk libcups.so.2 is needed

[expert] Installing 2.2.1a over LM 2.2.19 and Samba 2.09

2001-07-19 Thread root
. Is this a LM8 vs LM7.2 problem? Anyway, here is the problem: [root@Skyline i586]# ls alsaplayer-0.99.32-13mdk.i586.rpm* kernel-doc-2_2_19-4_1mdk_i586.rpm* samba-client-2.2.1a-4mdk.i586.rpm apcupsd-3_8_0-1_1mdk_i586.rpm* kernel-headers-2_2_19-4_1mdk_i586.rpm* samba-common-2.2.1a-4mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] USB Mouse and Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-20 Thread root
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jeff wrote: I am new to the list. I have a logitech Optical USB mouse. 1. Is it possible to get it to work during the install? I can use text install and get by without, but would like to get it to work in XWindows. 2. If it is possible to get it to work in

[expert] ICP RAID Controller Detection

2001-06-15 Thread root
I'm attempting to install LM8.0 (just brought off the shelf) on a new server. The server is configed as follows: Dual 1Ghz Coppermine CPU's 9 180Gb Seagate Baracuda SCSI drives 1 internal IBM 9Gb SCSI drive 1 Onboard Adaptec aic7899 SCSI controller 1

[expert] Can't get nut to compile the CGI support; was [Can't make nut-0.44.3 into RPM]

2001-06-12 Thread root
to make sure all my dependencies are met -- they appear to be, see below: [root@Skyline /root]# rpm -qa | grep zlib zlib-1.1.3-11mdk [root@Skyline /root]# rpm -qa | grep libpng libpng-1.0.8-2mdk [root@Skyline /root]# rpm -qa | grep gd gdbm-1.8.0-8mdk gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.9.0-2mdk

[expert] Can't make nut-0.44.3 into RPM

2001-06-08 Thread root
RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE RPM_BUILD_ROOT=/var/tmp/nut-0.44.3-root export RPM_BUILD_ROOT set -x umask 022 cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD rm -rf nut-0.44.3 /bin/gzip -dc /home/RPM/SOURCES/nut-0.44.3.tar.gz | tar -xf - STATUS=$? if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then exit $STATUS fi cd nut-0.44.3 [ `/usr/bin/id -u` = '0

[expert] Name Mangling with Samba?

2001-06-08 Thread root
Weird backup problem -- Thank god I've been buring CD's occasionally (much more often now). Setup: Server LM 7.2, 2.2.19 kernel Samba 2.09 Computer used for backup WIN95 (I know, I know, that's the problem, but it has a tape drive) Tape backup Conner Travan

Re: [expert] Problems adding a second harddriver ATA 100

2001-01-28 Thread root
Thanks again Civileme, I'll try and inform you of the results. Francisco Alcaraz

[expert] Cups not working

2001-01-28 Thread root
alias eth0 tulip options tulip io=0x300 irq=5 alias sound-slot-0 es1371 LSMOD RESULTS: [root@localdomain /root]# lsmod Module Size Used by tdfx 47312 2 parport_probe 3536 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 7568 1 (autoclean) lp 5552 0 (autoclean) parport 7744 1 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp

[expert] netscape problem

2001-01-19 Thread root
I don't see why I need it if communicator is installed) I find I can only run it from in a terminal as root. I get a 'Bus Error' message when I try to run it as a normal user. Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Problem with Motorola Modem(External)

2001-01-09 Thread root
ation, log on as root (use root as the user name when you log on), or, after you have logged on as a user, run su and enter your root password at the prompt.) ModemMake sure that you know which port your modem is on. The two programs at modem-chk.html can help you to determine which port your modem i

Re: [expert] X Font server or Sockets are not working properly

2000-12-22 Thread root
"E. Kuch" wrote: Howha, Using Mandrake 7.1 Standard-Installation with updates. Problem: After a little crash while compiling a new kernel I restarted my box. When I type "startx" at the prompt it says: ---snipp--- ... _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

Re:[expert]fstab for 3 OS's

2000-12-13 Thread root
Hi List, Thank you both for your assistance. I thought the numbers refered to the order in which the OS's were prioritized for booting, but wanted to make sure I was going to do it right and still be able to boot one of them. I had this; /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 2 2 Alexander showed me this

[expert] fstab for 3 OS's

2000-12-11 Thread root
Hi List, Here is my fstab; /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda1

Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone

2000-12-06 Thread root
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 00:48, you wrote: I'm trying out Linuxes (Linuxi?) I've fooled with Mandrake and now I'm going to try Redhat (don't hurt me), BUT when I installed Redhat, it seems that half of grub was still there. I was thinking that I could just leave grub in there and use

Re: [expert] Installing Driver Fro Adaptec AHA-1542CP

2000-11-30 Thread root
"J.A. Magallon" wrote: root said at Ò[expert] Installing Driver Fro Adaptec AHA-1542CPÓ. [2000-11-28 11:57] Hi, Can anyone advise how I might install the driver for my ancient Adaptec AHA-1542CP (ISA). The card does not seem to be detected at boot during th

[expert] Installing Driver Fro Adaptec AHA-1542CP

2000-11-28 Thread root
Hi, Can anyone advise how I might install the driver for my ancient Adaptec AHA-1542CP (ISA). The card does not seem to be detected at boot during the hardware detection phase, I have tried scanning for it using HardDrake but HardDrake locks up (hard reboot required) when set to detect

[expert] final straw with pppd

2000-11-21 Thread root
at these and tell me what you think. Scenario 1: I connect with kppp - there is no /etc/options file. Here are the contents of /var/log/messages. (This shows two connections) Nov 21 13:08:30 localhost pppd[1312]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 Nov 21 13:08:30 localhost pppd[1312]: Using

Re: [expert] Install problem

2000-11-05 Thread root
button, the same thing for the 3rd and 4th disk, so I do the install with just the 1st disk. I discovered afterwards I'm unable to access my cdrom, I get an error saying it's locked and I don't have access to it. This occurs as a user or as root. Cdrom2 works fine. What I'm thinking

[expert] Is This a Bug??

2000-11-03 Thread root
Yo All, I am experiencing strange happenings with gcc on Mandrake-7.1 (Mag Cover Version UK) I beleive there is a fault in the pre-processor. I have been trying to build and test gcc-2.95.2 since there was no c++-devel stuff included on the dist disk (I know, I know! this has been

[expert] Is This a Bug??

2000-11-02 Thread root
Yo All, I am experiencing strange happenings with gcc on Mandrake-7.1 (Mag Cover Version UK) I beleive there is a fault in the pre-processor. I have been trying to build and test gcc-2.95.2 since there was no c++-devel stuff included on the dist disk (I know, I know! this has been

[expert] Advice on Library Versioning in Linux

2000-10-29 Thread root
Hi, I'm new to Linux but I cut my teeth on SVR4 so I'm pretty familiar with Unix like systems; but I'm stumped on this one. I'm trying to build a program that uses the mesa3d libs the package (freedraft-0.38) uses the standard GNU configuration tools which are normally very effective. In

[expert] Re: 7.2 -rc

2000-10-21 Thread root
I downloaded the 2 iso's for LM7.2-rc and the install went well, until I got to the setting of the time zome. Everyttime I click to window, I get hd access and a errror finding zone info. and I can't get past this point HELP!expert Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe

Re: [expert] Apache mdk install

2000-10-11 Thread root
The libmm you need is in mm1.1.3-4mdk.i586.rpm and the developement package as well Michael Powell PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] reg user #83815 Buchan Milne wrote: The mm package (on the cd) will install this library. I had to do this myself today, when installing the mandrake one on a

Re: [expert] burning an ISO cd

2000-10-11 Thread root
Dear Sir, All you have to do from your terminal is type cdrecord -eject -v speed=2 dev=1,0 filename.iso. do a cdrecord --scanbus to verify the dev= part good luck! Michael Powell PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] reg user #83815 "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Greets, I've finally got my

Re: [expert] Well, damnit, XFree86-4.0.1 and rpm

2000-10-08 Thread root
How do you expect them to fix that problem when they can't even make kpackage work mikey [EMAIL PROTECTED] user #83815 Praedor Tempus wrote: I really don't get this. It happens on SOME src rpms but most are fine. What is the deal here? I do an "rpm --rebuild" on XFree86-4.0.1

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread root
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. I'm running Mandrake 7.1 Thanks, -- Joseph S Gardner

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread root
rich Malloy wrote: I've had both working under red hat 6.2, just switch to Mandrake and there not working. But I believe it can be done. :- What I was thinking of looking at was kernel parameters for the scsi over ide stuff that cdrecord and other software wants. Rich. "Joseph S.

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread root
root wrote: "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. I'm running Mandrake 7.1

Re: [expert] installing special files?

2000-09-17 Thread root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 15-Sep-00 21:50:35 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hope this helps: become root Do the following, character for character: assume pr0g.tar.gz is the file you downloaded cd /root cd tmp mkdir downloads cd

[expert] Ulysses beta 2

2000-09-17 Thread root
To the developement team and all Contributors; The lastest 7.2 beta 2 installed perfectly, and runs quite well, but you guys have still gotta work on the kpackage thing, otherwise thumbs up, job well done mikey [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version:

[expert] pcmcaia-10/100 ethernet card

2000-09-10 Thread root
Hi, I bought a Kingmax ken0100-a-1.41 10/100 ethernet PCMCIA card. It had Linux compatible on the back of the box. To my surprise only been tested on RedHat 5.2 6.0 and SuSe and so after following all instructions the 'make' file has not worked once. I have recompiled the kernel to PCMCIA

[expert] Ultra 66 support

2000-09-06 Thread root
Just a quick question about Ultra 66 support with the new version.I have 7.0 what exacly do I need to download to get the Ultra 66 support. Is it just header files or do I need to download the new kernel?

Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.

2000-08-22 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Paul Weber wrote: I will be out of the office from August 22 through August. 27. I will have limited opportunity to respond to email until then. Thank you. AAARRR!

Re: [expert] CL = Command Line (TM) (NT)

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Greg Stewart wrote: For the uninitiated, NT means No TeXT. I thought it meant "Nice Try" :-) Sorry guys, you're both wrong. NT stands for Not Tested ;-D Or was it Never Trusted? Regards, Ozz.

Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Paul Weber wrote: I will be out of the office from August 22 through August. 27. I will have limited opportunity to respond to email until then. Thank you. If I see ONE MORE of these I'm gonna rip my shirt off*, loop my tie around my head, grab my Uzi and do a John Rambo on Allied

Re: [expert]

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Don wrote: Not able to post to the Expert list anymore Well, your post made it to me via the list... Regards, Ozz.

Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Paul Weber wrote: I will be out of the office from August 22 through August. 27. I will have limited opportunity to respond to email until then. OK, a 'clue' to the bright sparks that set up Out-of-Office autoresponders: DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO JOIN THIS GUY IN MY (AND NO DOUBT

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Tony McGee wrote: # rpm -qf /sbin/is_depmod_necessary gives: initscripts-4.97-35mdk Since /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is part of the initscripts package itself. I'm not exactly sure why it would be complaining about one of it's own files unless it went missing or something *shrug*.

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Tony McGee wrote: File mappings to rpms would only be valid for each distribution because it's up to the distribution to package things in such a way that everything works. In this case mixing what seem to be redhat rpms (.i386.rpm) with mandrake rpms, esp. for system files, would confuse

Re: [expert] Some Tulip help, please

2000-08-18 Thread root
Peter , Matt and Bob, Thanks for the help. I am using 7.1 Mandrake, and I have tried both the tulip.o that comes as part of the Mandrake install, and it did not work. So I thought I better try newer versions by getting new tulip and compiling. This new tulip will not compile, complains about not

[expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Re-set due to bounce... Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Does anyone know where I can get this file? Regards, Ozz.

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
of modutils maybe installed already, do a rpm -Uvh modutils-VER.rpm. - Original Message - From: "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Expert Linux List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:19 PM Subject: [expert] Dependency Problem

[expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-16 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Does anyone know where I can get this file? Regards, Ozzz.

Re: [expert] Sendmail relay confusion

2000-08-15 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: One other thing, is it worth using FEATURE(rbl)?? IIRC, the "FEATURE(rbl)" means that you will be refusing email from "known" spam sources and known "open relays." This is a question only you can answer. Do you want to accept email

Re: [expert] Re: tracking employees

2000-08-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi. Maybe I could help to clarify this a little. Although I now live in the USA, I was born and raised in the UK, and lived there until I emigrated six months ago. While I was in the UK I worked as a Network Administrator, and had to consider a similar situation - many bosses forget that

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-11 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: I feel sure the original questioner was referring to the ability of the Windows GetRight downloader to divide the file to be downloaded into up to 10 (number is user-specified) contiguous equal chunks and download them all in parallel,

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
"Carver, Paul, NLSOP" wrote: What is a Download manager? I wasn't aware that downloading files was complex. FTP is pretty much a universal standard and there are plenty of Linux/Unix clients. Can you be more specific about what special features a Download manager provides? A download

Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux

2000-08-09 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
0.70.1 steve young wrote: what version of licq are you running, i had trouble with the older versions giving me alot of garbage in the messages and crashing. i got the newest version and it works great "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" wrote: Hi. Does anyone know

Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux

2000-08-09 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Alexander Skwar wrote: It's a KDE program and I can't stand KDE. Should this mean anything to you? Don't think so *g* I gotta ask - what is it about KDE that you don't like? I'm kinda torn between KDE and Gnome at the moment - both have features that I like... Regards, Ozz.

Re: [expert] Compiling kernels.

2000-08-08 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 07-Aug-00 by Scott Kindley: Is there a way of 'dumping' my current kernel's existing menuconfig/xconfig setup to a file that can be read into the menuconfig/xconfig for the new kernel? In other words, can I make my current kernel setup the default?

Re: [expert] KDE menu edit

2000-08-08 Thread root
You are the man, thanks John Craig John Rundgren wrote: You're thinking of "kmenuedit" and it's part of the kdebase rpm, so if you have KDE installed, it's installed. If you're trying to get to it by choosing "Edit Menus" from the "Panel" submenu of the KDE menu, it won't work. It just

Re: [expert] lpd stops running

2000-08-07 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
I don't know it it's related, but I used to have problems with printers connected to JetDirect when I was using them with NetWare servers. The JetDirects seemed to crash every few days - the only way around it was to reboot the JetDirect cards (unplug, wait a few secs, then plug back in). Once

Re: [expert]

2000-08-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi. The hard drive is a Maxtor 92048D8 20 gig hard drive that runs at 7200 RPM and is a plain old IDE, No ATA66. I am sure that you mean out of spec. I doubt it is out of spec, this drive is pretty new. It performs flawlessly in other systems. I they accepted before they should not

Re: [expert] IDE cylenders !

2000-08-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Create a small (~10mb) partition for /boot (thereby keeping the boot/lilo below the infamous 1024 limit), then create the other partitions above this. Regards, Ozz. faisal wrote: i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation which is your cylender are set to 1048

Re: [expert]

2000-08-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
You could try www.linhardware.com. This lists all devices known to work with Linux. Regards, Ozz. Gilbert Baron wrote: The install code worked with version 7.0, it fails with 7.1. That is simple. Thai is not acceptable. I don't understand exactly what is happening and it seems that

Re: [expert]

2000-08-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi. Gilbert Baron wrote: Is there any answer to this yet/ If not, what does one do with LINUX, just say to oneself ahh well, we don't support you modern and common hardware but that is ok, just use an older version. Boy that makes for confidence in this toy. I have a great deal of

Re: [expert] Installing rpm binaries of kde2?

2000-07-06 Thread root
Civileme wrote: Simon Robertson wrote: SNIP previous messages I am trying to install kde2, but with kdevelop it keeps asking for a dependency libg++.so.2.7.2, would you have any idea where I could get this. I think I definatly need this library as I am at the stage where I

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme A SUCCESS STORY TO BEHOLD!

2000-07-01 Thread root
SEE BOTTOM! :) Well, I hope I can beg your indulgence--is it possible to test with Maxtor alone--as drive /dev/hda ? If you have room for a minimal install, this should point something. Someone with a similar lspcidrake output is running OK with a CDRW and 7.1 If this doesn't

[expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread root
: 441.579 MB/sec using fastest function: pII_mmx (953.643 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda7 hdb: hdb1 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly

[expert] RPMDrake and remote packages

2000-06-09 Thread root
I'm having the same problem with both KPackage and RPMDrake. When I try to configure each to look for RPMs from a remote location (ftp or http), neither program will do so. KPackage simply stops cold, and RPMDrake says it's updating, but nothing happens. I have a good connection to my ISP, and I

[expert] cron question

2000-06-04 Thread root
n:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly */1 * * * * root /usr/bin/netscapetab # Man

[expert] Acrobat segmentation faults

2000-06-03 Thread root
I bought Mandrake 7.0 instead of downloading so I could read the linux EBooks that came with the distribution. I can read the EBooks fine when I boot to Windows 98 but I can get Acrobat to work in Linux. I have tried acroread 4 which comes on the CD and 4.05 from Adobe's web site. Both times I

Re: [expert] Acrobat segmentation faults

2000-06-03 Thread root
Sebastian Dransfeld wrote: On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, root wrote: I bought Mandrake 7.0 instead of downloading so I could read the linux EBooks that came with the distribution. I can read the EBooks fine when I boot to Windows 98 but I can get Acrobat to work in Linux. I have tried acroread 4

Re: [expert] Acrobat segmentation faults

2000-06-03 Thread root
Tom Berger wrote: On Sat, 03 (06/00) at 10:59 +, root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought Mandrake 7.0 instead of downloading so I could read the linux EBooks that came with the distribution. I can read the EBooks fine when I boot to Windows 98 but I can get Acrobat to work in Linux. I

[expert] Howto integrate new settings in homebrew ISO?

2000-04-24 Thread root
Dear Mail list! After a lot of download and adjusting work I finished a homebrew Mandrake-iso, which I burned on CD. But it only contains the default configuration files... Is there a possibility to include my adjusted configuration files (i.e. isdn-files, crontab...) in the installation files

[expert] Howto integrate new settings in homebrew ISO?

2000-04-24 Thread root
Dear Mail list! After a lot of download and adjusting work I finished a homebrew Mandrake-iso, which I burned on CD. But it only contains the default configuration files... Is there a possibility to include my adjusted configuration files (i.e. isdn-files, crontab...) in the installation files

Re: [expert] Linux frustration

2000-04-14 Thread root
Andrew Vogel wrote: snipped This is tremendously frustrating. IMHO, this is why Quake is so popular with Linux users - there is nothing like a fragging session for getting rid of those pent up frustrations It really does take time to learn the ins outs of Linux, sometimes you just have

Re: [expert] A rescue CD

2000-04-14 Thread root
Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Marcos Dione [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [expert] A rescue CD On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Tom's works just fine. It's

Re: [expert] Kernel Panic FYI

2000-03-23 Thread root
Vic wrote: If you are installing a cpu into a motherboard, and you don't know the voltage, is it safe to start at the lowest voltage and then go up from there until it works? Well, tis safer to read the info printed on the processor and search the web site of the company making it for the

[expert] dual boot

2000-03-16 Thread root
I had Win NT on my primary hard drive and Mandrake 7.0 on my secondary hard drive. My machine crashed while using Win NT, something happened to my IDE cable. I was using Lilo to boot up and now I cannot boot into Win NT. All I get is an LI and the system doesn't do anything. I hae reinstalled

[expert] netscape 128 bit encryption

2000-01-24 Thread root
Hi, Can anyone tell me again where I can get that program that automatically updated netscape to 128 bit encryption? Someone posted about it a while ago and I need it now but can't remember where to find it. Also I'll try get it into the netscape FAQ soon so we can always find it :)

Re: [expert] bug in KDE ( 7.0 Air )

2000-01-23 Thread root
yes, i used this way my last install yesturday, and it works much nicer... whats funny about the install yesturday is, when i created the account after the install, i could log into the new user account, but nothing but dark blue desktop. ie: no icons, task bar , nothing.used Cajus

[expert] Kde.links

1999-12-26 Thread root
Good Morn to All! Hope you all had an awesome Christmas. I have a problem with my LM6.1. I'd say about 75% of the time when I try to open a program with the links on the panel, they do nothing. If I restart X then they will work. I also am having a problem with my arrow cursor turning into the

[expert] ls120 Current status of mkbootdisk

1999-12-05 Thread root
relatively recent installs from the CDs with NO updates applied Civileme [root@localhost /root]# mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc -v 2.2.13-7mdk Insert a disk in /dev/hdc. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press Enter to continue or ^C to abort: Formatting /dev/hdc... done. Copying /boot

[expert] LS120 Boot disk

1999-12-04 Thread root
Sorry I didn't get back sooner. Mandrake is one of the few distros that supports the LS120 in floppy mode (for example Caldera and Peanut don't. I tested their latest versions) The difficulty lies in the routine /sbin/lilo I will look at the source for it and see what I can do. I don't

Re: [expert] Memory and Netscape

1999-12-04 Thread root
, 3132K free, 70400K shrd, 23020K buff Swap: 128484K av, 4684K used, 123800K free 39072K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 400 wobo0 0 29364 26M 7504 S 0 0.0 21.0 2:14 ld-linux.so. 333 root5 0 25480 24M 2104 S 0 0.0

Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length

1999-11-10 Thread root
Ian Douglas wrote: Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have attenuation errors or lost data, etc? Depends on the quality of the cable. I believe the maximum theoretical length is like 1200 feet or something. Well, the official spec in the RFC is 105

Re: [expert] Please help with gAIM or AIM

1999-10-10 Thread root
Get the rpm from www.linuxberg.com. Go to http://nitco.linuxberg.com/x11html/com_messengers.html get gaim in rpm and install it. Tik can be installed by tar zxvf tik-0.70.tar.gz This will create a directory called tik. change to that directory. type ./tik.tcl there you have it. Matthew A.

[expert] Compiler cannot create executables

1999-10-09 Thread root
I'm trying to compile KMySQL and I get the following error: checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. I've gotten that error before and am not quite sure why it would say that...any

Re: [expert] Compiler cannot create executables

1999-10-09 Thread root
You need to install the C++ development libraries. They're probably called libstdc++ and libstdc++-devel. Aha! I've got [root@drfickle /download]# rpm -q libstdc++ libstdc++-2.9.0-3mdk libstdc++-2.95.1-3mdk and [root@drfickle /download]# rpm -q libstdc++-devel libstdc++-devel-2.95.1-3mdk

[expert] squid setup?

1999-09-28 Thread root
How do I setup squid so that all internet traffics (ftp/http)will be forwarded to my company's proxy-server: proxy-support.mycompany.com:31028 Thanks for the help in advance.

[expert] compiling Lothar hassles

1999-07-18 Thread root
direction... = [root@localhost detect]# gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pgcc-2.91.66/specs gcc version pgcc-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) [root@localhost detect]# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD

Re: [expert] cooker

1999-07-02 Thread root
a faq whould be a good idea i'm not sure how many people out there have quetions like mine but i've been looking through all the info i can find and i havn't found quite what i'm looking for yet. I mean little bits and piaces here and there but nothing complete. On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, you wrote:

[expert] cooker

1999-07-01 Thread root
i decided to download cooker and i must say i like it. i have kind of an hybrid system running with some of the cooker rpm's added to the mandrake 6.0 distro. i'm not brave enough to do a complete install of cooker yet. just a couple of questions. 1. I just got an account to set up an isp with

[expert] cooker apache

1999-07-01 Thread root
In the apache in the new cooker distro a thawte package is mentioned were can this be found?

Re: [expert] cooker

1999-07-01 Thread root
Finally, as for dial-up, I don't recommend using Linux as a dial-up server. It can be done, but once you have worked with a Lucent PortMaster 3, you don't want to go back to anything else. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is that the person doing this

Re: [expert] cooker

1999-07-01 Thread root
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, you wrote: Well, Apache is really easy to setup. You install Mandrake with the "Server" option and it installs Apache. You put your html files in /home/httpd/html and your cgis in /home/httpd/cgi-bin. What if I wan't to set it up so that user a can ftp into the server

Re: [expert] Star Office

1999-05-17 Thread root
Nope, Star Office is not available as a RPM file, just an installer. Star Division has a rather unique signup to be a user, so the only known way is to go through the signup procedure, get your key and then download the app (about 70 megs, all told). I just got through installing it 2 days ago

[expert] Fwd: [linux] Automatic Gnome windowmanager installer.... pre-Alpha

1999-04-25 Thread root
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [linux] Automatic Gnome windowmanager installer pre-Alpha Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 12:28:02 -0500 From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] --NOTE!! if you have Mandrake 5.3 (Festen) it will work on your system, it works

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