RE: [expert] Reboot Remote LinBox - How To?

2000-08-02 Thread Ran Hooper
I use init 6, or shutdown -r. Not sure what the difference is. Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Reboot Remote LinBox - How To? I hav

RE: [expert] Linux Serverbox Setup

2000-08-02 Thread Ran Hooper
It has nothing to do with Linux. If your card supports it - fine. My server box doesn't so I have to flip the switchbox over to it when I turn it on, then flip it back has soon as I have video on the screen. Most video cards should work ok without a monitor. Most Trident Chipset cards that I have

Re: [expert] cron for users

2000-08-02 Thread Gavin Clark
test it with something simple. I should have though of that. ;-) I 'm in to much of a hurry. do you know if I can do something every 30 seconds or am I limited to 1 min. intervals thanks, Gavin on 8/2/00 7:53 PM, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > FWIW, here was my test: > > Edit .crontab;

Re: [expert] matlab 5.3, Xfree86 4.0x, and Mandrake 7.x

2000-08-02 Thread maiplace
- Original Message - From: "Bobby Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:51 PM Subject: [expert] matlab 5.3, Xfree86 4.0x, and Mandrake 7.x > Has anyone been able to get matlab to work using Xfree86 4.0? I know that > matlab was compiled a

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:14:54PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > sorry about that. I assumed that it was understood that I had Linux > running and was attempting to get vmware installed and running. I was > trying to get it running on my home machine, but today at work I did get > it running only t

[expert] XFree86 4.01 vs MetroX

2000-08-02 Thread Yuri
Hello All, anybody had experience with both? how do they compare? -- Best regards, Yuri

Re: [expert] Netscape RPM Problems?

2000-08-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:32:06PM -0400, Astrum Support wrote: > Is anyone else having problems upgrading with the Netscape-4.74 rpms? > > I downloaded the netscape-common, netscape-communicator, and > netscape-navigator 4.74-3mdk rpms... Verified them with md5sum, and went to > install them

Re: [expert] cron for users

2000-08-02 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
crontab myfile.txt loads myfile.txt into the cron table; this is the classic way to load it. And if crontab -l shows it, it's there. crontab -e won't help him. Alas, though, I don't know the answer. It works fine for me. FWIW, here was my test: Edit .crontab; insert the following (substi

Re: [expert] 128 bit netscape 4.74 on crypto mirrors soon?

2000-08-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:24:37PM -0700, Jay Summet wrote: > Well, I'm still waiting for the 128 bit netscape RPM to hit the crypto > mirrors 4.74 is only available in 128 bit version, so the version in updates/cooker is the version you're waiting for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key av

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Jay Summet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- You can get a "test" registration number (good for a month) at their website. I've gotten several months worth of these until I finally decided I didn't need to run windows anymore. They also offer an "unsupported" license for 99$, I'm not sure if you can use t

[expert] 128 bit netscape 4.74 on crypto mirrors soon?

2000-08-02 Thread Jay Summet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, I'm still waiting for the 128 bit netscape RPM to hit the crypto mirrors Jay -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1i iQCVAwUBOYj0LbWkkhmZq4xxAQHHYQP/faro3OabJ7KSoY91hX89RhalC1gdweu0 WTGKZWbO2wyGooIzg5pK2u9bIRWqRjXyIwnT0d70MfHwLW2FtkP4YJR4Ctb

Re: [expert] symbolic link for http directory

2000-08-02 Thread Greg Stewart
Don't know if it really going to solve your problem, but ln -s /home/http /home/rharvey/http ftp all your docs to /home/rharvey/http. --Greg > I am trying to ftp into my web server dir. permission is denied. > I was told by an expert to do a symolic link with my user dir and the http > dir. I

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Gary
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:38:47PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mark Weaver wrote: > Well...I got it working, only to find out that I needed a lisence to use > it and the lisence costs a wopping $330 US dollars! I just about > choked! IT's really cool too. I was right there ready to start everything > u

Re: [expert] Netscape RPM Problems?

2000-08-02 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone else having problems upgrading with the Netscape-4.74 rpms? > > I downloaded the netscape-common, netscape-communicator, and > netscape-navigator 4.74-3mdk rpms... Verified them with md5sum, and went to > install them (rpm -Fvh netscape*).

[expert] Setup info for SSL + Apache?

2000-08-02 Thread Peter Loron
I've got Mandrake 6.1 and have Apache + PHP working fine. I'd like to get SSL workking. Can anybody point me to the docs and/or offer some tips? Thanks. Peter Loron [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Moving Users

2000-08-02 Thread Joseph Lee Pereira
I want to move all the users from one box (Caldera) to another box running Mandrake 7.1. I have moved /etc/passwd, /home, /var/spool/mail; but I still can't administer the users via DrakConf - System Configuration - User Accounts - User Accounts Thank You, Joseph

RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
sorry about that. I assumed that it was understood that I had Linux running and was attempting to get vmware installed and running. I was trying to get it running on my home machine, but today at work I did get it running only to find out that the stinkin software costs a wopping $330 dollars to r

[expert] netscape >= 4.73 pukes w/o connection. . .

2000-08-02 Thread Norvell Spearman
With netscape 4.72 I could disconnect my ppp connection and then simply get ``network not available'' error messages from netscape if I forgot to reconnect before checking e-mail or visiting a non-local site. However, with netscape 4.73 and 4.74 I have to use xkill and start netscape over. I kno

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
yes...I did all that today and it runs fine. Well as fine as it can run till I get the stinkin lisence for it. I don't see that happening any time soon though because at $330 a number I don't think the boss is going to go for that. Even though Linux has next to 99.99% uptime. I was sick when I fou

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
yup! I got it working on my workstation at work, but when I did I was crushed to find out that I needed a lisence to run it. the friggin lisence costs $330 dollars! I thought I would going to throw up! that's a bit much don't ya think? -- Mark

[expert] Moving all users

2000-08-02 Thread Joseph Lee Pereira
I have Mandrake 7.1 and I would like to move all the users from another box (Caldera) to Mandrake. I have moved /home, /var/spool/mail, /etc/passwd. I still can't see the users via, DrakConf - System Configuration - User Accounts - User Accounts Please help!!

Re: [expert] Netscape RPM Problems?

2000-08-02 Thread Klaus Deissner
Hi, > I get: > > error: failed dependencies > netscape-navigator = 4.74-3mdk conflicts with netscape-communicator-4.74-3mdk > netscape-communicator = 4.74-3mdk conflicts with netscape-navigator-4.74-3mdk > > Thinking that maybe I should only be installing one or the other, I checked > the curre

Re: [expert] manipulating tgz's on windows

2000-08-02 Thread Steve Cooper
Try http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/. They have pretty much the entire gnu shell tools packaged for Win32 (free). Enjoy! Steve Cooper "Harondel J. Sibble" wrote: > Anyone know of any reasonably priced software (say us$40 and under) that will > allow one to manipulate tgz files, including crea

Re: [expert] I have sent 3 messages has any one gotten them????

2000-08-02 Thread ibi
I've seen the posts to harvey and tried to respond. His mail bounced. At 09:24 AM 8/2/00 -0600, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, rharvey wrote: > >> I have not seen any of my post in the messages. >> >> please let me know if you have seen this or any of my other post. > >I did not see this

[expert] dyndns update script

2000-08-02 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I put together a quick script that will use the dyndns ddns client to update a dyndns dynamic hostname (although you could modify it to use something else and update a static one too.) It does two things. 1st it checks to see if the ip dns has matches the ip your service provider gave you

Re: [expert] kppp

2000-08-02 Thread ibi
another way to get an Internet connection /root ifup ppp0= to make Internet connection /user = command line to call up Lynx, Netscape or PINE, etc. /root ifdown ppp0= to close Internet connection Pj At 01:04 AM 8/3/00 +1000, you wrote: >On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, the little plas

Re: [expert] I made a mistake

2000-08-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:22:46PM -0400, Liangyu Wang wrote: > I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub > provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked > well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in > DrakeConf->DrakeBoot,

Re: [expert] cron stuff

2000-08-02 Thread Charles Hixson
Seems to me that cron wasn't enabled by default. You had to ask for it to be set up either at install time or in LinuxConf. If at is a part of the same package, then probably all you need to do is tell cron (crond?) to start at startup. Tony McGee wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, the little plast

Re: [expert] Scripting- Uppercase to lowercase

2000-08-02 Thread joakim viktorsson
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Dave A. Peat II wrote: > 1. Change all file names (some are uppercase and some are lowercase) to ALL lowercase. find www_root/ -type f -name \*.html | perl -ne 'chomp;$f=$_;tr/A-Z/a-z/;print "mv $f $_\n"' | /bin/sh this commandline was all i could come up with quick

Re: [expert] Dial-up woes

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Good heavens! you turn yours off? -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ** <_||_> in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496

[expert] XFree86 4.01 and Mandrake 7.1 Solutions

2000-08-02 Thread Jason Munson
All, Yeah, I tried the Xfree86 4.01 from the "cooker" FTP site and it's working now. I guess what happened was I downloaded the entire package from Xfree86.org and it didn't jive with the way Mandrake has their font server set up. Naturally the RPM version fixed that. Now, if we could only

Re: [expert] Grub disappeared !

2000-08-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Hello, > > I just changed my main HD drive and had to play a bit with drakboot to get it to > work again after copying everything on the new disk. > Now everything is fine but grub disappeared and I'm back with lilo ? > Is there any way to use grub again (withou

Re: [expert] cron for users

2000-08-02 Thread Andrew George
run crontab -e then you get a VI style screen to put in your cron entries I'm not even sure what crontab myfile.txt would do the entry should go into /var/cron/username On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gavin Clark wrote: > > hi, > > I can't get cron to work for users. > > I added /etc/cron.d/cron.deny w

Re: [expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive

2000-08-02 Thread Sevatio Octavio
That's a good idea. Thanks, Seve >> Original Message << On 8/1/00, 4:12:14 PM, Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: [expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > I would like to be able to 'tr

[expert] Artist Graphics 3GA vid card

2000-08-02 Thread George Jones
I just inherited a couple of Artist Graphics Artist200i-2mb cards from my job (we were throwig 'em out, brand new) and was wondering if anyone has ever used one successfully with Linux? If not, I'll try to write an XF4 driver for it, but it'll take a while. Dug up some info on this thing BTW,

Re: [expert] copy /

2000-08-02 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
faisal wrote: > > If i copy my whole root partition on another harddrive i have everything > under root partition > then if i boot from that other harddrive will it work > ofcourse i will point my lilo towards that partition ! Sure, no problem. I have a single partition, with /, /boot, /usr, an

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Well...I got it working, only to find out that I needed a lisence to use it and the lisence costs a wopping $330 US dollars! I just about choked! IT's really cool too. I was right there ready to start everything up...the boss was looking on and I could tell he was impressed with me, when much to o

[expert] Uppercase to lowercase

2000-08-02 Thread Dave A. Peat II
Hello, I am moving a website from NT/IIS to UNIX. NT is not case sensative, UNIX is. Can someone tell me of an easy way, possibly a script or utility of some kind, to do two things: 1. Change all file names (some are uppercase and some are lowercase) to ALL lowercase. 2. Change all tags with

Re: [expert]

2000-08-02 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Of the machines I've tried to install Windows 98 on, three have failed to install. Of the machines I've tried to install Linux, zero have failed to install. Just becasue your hardware runs on Windows doesn't mean it works properly, and just because it fails on Linux doesn't mean Linux is broken.

Re: [expert] manipulating tgz's on windows

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:26:09PM -0700, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > > Anyone know of any reasonably priced software (say us$40 and under) that will > > allow one to manipulate tgz files, including creating tgz's on an ms windows > > box? There is one packag

[expert] Re: squid help sites

2000-08-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
Okay, the responses I've gotten back on this topic suggest that squid is probably not the right tool for the job, can anybody suggest something else? The other program I've been pointed to is WWWOFFLE http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/ Are there others that allow offline browsing?

RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
Go to www.vmware.com There is plenty of doco up there. Forgive me but your question sounds like "I got a computer with no operating system, what do I do with it." VMWare is simply a tool to get another operating system running under Linux or NT (This message is being composed in W98 under VMWar

RE: [expert] Adding Boot Services

2000-08-02 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
Add them to /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local > -Original Message- > From: Ivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Adding Boot Services > > > Hello, > > I would like to execute two commands during boot and I need > t

Re: [expert] Mail server names & MX settings

2000-08-02 Thread burk
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: > Can someone tell me how to edit my MX settings for my domain registrar? > Say my firewall/web server/mail server box is named "homer", and my domain is > thesimpsons.net. > > I have entries for "Host Name" and "Mail Server" that I need to fill out with

[expert] squid help sites

2000-08-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
I've been tasked with getting a squid setup working and I don't (yet) know anything about squid. I have the manual at hand and some other bits and pieces. What sites have folks found to be helpful in learning/configuring squid. I know there are quite a few out there, I just don't have the time

[expert] Uppercase to lowercase

2000-08-02 Thread Dave A. Peat II
Hello, I am moving a website from NT/IIS to UNIX. NT is not case sensative, UNIX is. Can someone tell me of an easy way, possibly a script or utility of some kind, to do two things: 1. Change all file names (some are uppercase and some are lowercase) to ALL lowercase. 2. Change all tags with

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Jim Ockers
I use VMWare at work to run WinNT under Mandrake 7.0 (solely to access my e-mail on Outlook). Have you tried to create a new configuration using the configuration wizard? It will setup a "virtual machine" file, then once that is setup, you can select which machine you wish to run in the lower hal

[expert] Uppercase to lowercase

2000-08-02 Thread Dave A. Peat II
Hello, I am moving a website from NT/IIS to UNIX. NT is not case sensative, UNIX is. Can someone tell me of an easy way, possibly a script or utility of some kind, to do two things: 1. Change all file names (some are uppercase and some are lowercase) to ALL lowercase. 2. Change all tags with

Re: [expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive

2000-08-02 Thread M Thompson
Seve, I agree with Henrik about the root and home partitions. I also have a small /boot partition for each distro. The older version of LILO couldn't boot above the 1024th cylinder, so it was necessary for me to install LILO into a small (<20Mb) /boot partition that resided below the 1024th

[expert] symbolic link for http directory

2000-08-02 Thread rharvey
I am trying to ftp into my web server dir. permission is denied. I was told by an expert to do a symolic link with my user dir and the http dir. I thought I understood how to do this. But I am at a loss can some one please tell me how to set up a link so that I can ftp in and upload web pages to t

Re: [expert] Setting up a Voodoo3 under Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-02 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 01-Aug-00 by Timothy James Friesen: > Hello! > > I recently purchased a Voodoo 3. The Mandrake 7.1 install warns me that this > card is not supported under XFree4.0, and then fails the graphical test. I set > the default resolution I would like, choose the Monitor that can do 1280x102

[expert] Netscape RPM Problems?

2000-08-02 Thread Astrum Support
Hello, Is anyone else having problems upgrading with the Netscape-4.74 rpms? I downloaded the netscape-common, netscape-communicator, and netscape-navigator 4.74-3mdk rpms... Verified them with md5sum, and went to install them (rpm -Fvh netscape*). I get: error: failed dependencies netscape-

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: > It was sort of a long link to cut and paste, so just go to www.ask.com > and type 'bill 602p' in the box and one of the returns it will give you > is an internet rumours site. Check it out. > http://ciac.llnl.gov gives you some VERY good info on hoaxes and urban

[expert] oops forgot a file for dyndns

2000-08-02 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Here is the conf file.. pretty simple. -- === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... " - Buddha For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/L

[expert] dyndns update script

2000-08-02 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I put together a quick script that will use the dyndns ddns client to update a dyndns dynamic hostname (although you could modify it to use something else and update a static one too.) It does two things. 1st it checks to see if the ip dns has matches the ip your service provider gave you

Re: [expert] manipulating tgz's on windows

2000-08-02 Thread Matt Stegman
CygWin utlities. They have a load of GNU utilities compiled against a DLL that translates UNIX calls to Win32 calls, and they include things like tar, gzip, bash, less, and many many more. http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ Opensource, and free to use. -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon,

Re: [expert] X not starting for non-root user

2000-08-02 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, A V Flinsch wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > Re-posting after waiting a week... > > > > I am still getting an authentication failed trying to 'startx' > > as a regular user. I forget the proper way to fix this. I > > tried to remove .Xauthority and .Xdefaults b

Re: [expert] Shutting down httpd FAILED ... can't reboot !!

2000-08-02 Thread Stephen Bosch
Have you tried to boot to single-user mode? What happens when you type "linux 2" at the LILO prompt? -Stephen- On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Hadrian Oliver wrote: > I sent this out last night, but got no reply. Can anyone help? Is > anyone there? Hello? > > Shutting down httpd:FAILED > > > For

[expert] ati video card

2000-08-02 Thread Steve Young
i have a ati all in wonder pro 128 video card. it works fine in xwindows untill you switch consoles and then go back to the one you were in. the colors get all messed up. anyone else have this problem or know of a fix for it?

RE: [expert]

2000-08-02 Thread ibi
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which one can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." - Herbert Spencer Tom you are absolutely correct. Every problem I have had thus

Re: [expert] I have sent 3 messages has any one gotten them????

2000-08-02 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, rharvey wrote: > I have not seen any of my post in the messages. > > please let me know if you have seen this or any of my other post. I did not see this post. -Stephen-

Re: [expert] Where's the mail???

2000-08-02 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Ok...all of a sudden as though the heavens have closed and the clouds have > all blown away there isn't any more messages coming from the list. What's > up with that. I'm not getting anything from the Expert, or Newbie lists. Denis is reconfiguring

Re: [expert] Sevatio Octavio's posts

2000-08-02 Thread Muzza
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: > John, > > Thanks for letting me know. However, I'm still a bit puzzled as to the > causes. It could be a combination of : 1-I recently switched to > StarOffice5.2. 2-The List keeps putting me on the junk-mail list. > Perhaps you can assist me in pinpointin

[expert] Scripting- Uppercase to lowercase

2000-08-02 Thread Dave A. Peat II
Hello, I am moving a website from NT/IIS to UNIX. Can someone tell me of an easy way, possibly a script of some kind, to do two things: 1. Change all file names (some are uppercase and some are lowercase) to ALL lowercase. 2. Change all tags within htm files () that is, the path and file name

Re: [expert] access

2000-08-02 Thread Dave Lers
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, rharvey wrote: > > I am trying to ftp into my linux box to place a web page into > > /home/httpd/html directory no matter what I try access is denied (to copy a > > file I can read all I want . > > I tried chomod I changed user access user groups > > what to I need to d

Re: [expert] kppp

2000-08-02 Thread Tony McGee
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order: > Guten Tag zusammen! > Ich habe folgendes Problem: > Mandrake 7.1 auf dem Notebook installiert, kppp funktioniert > einwandfrei. > 7.1 uebrigens auf der Messe in Stuttgart geschenkt bekommen. > Das gleiche System auf mein

Re: [expert] mounting windows drives

2000-08-02 Thread Tony McGee
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order: > > How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when > I'm a regular user? > I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user. > > Thanks, > > Lorne > To do that you need a lin

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread Darryl Gibson
Daniel Anderson wrote: > > Hi, > > I received the same email and went to www.house.gov and www.senate.gov > and couldn't find any reference to it. Could be that I didn't have > enough information to do a proper search or it could just be a rumor. > Lots of rumors flying around during an electi

Re: [expert] cron stuff

2000-08-02 Thread Tony McGee
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order: > > As I was saying before I got sidetracked, I'd use `at` for one-time > appointments, but unfortunately, my Linux-Mandrake 7.0 doesn't seem to > have it. Did I just overlook it, or it not available? > > > -Matt Steg

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi List, > > Yesterday I saw something in one of the posts about Vmware and decided to > go and get it. It's installed and working, but I have No idea how to use > it, nor where the documentation is for it. The `man' page is really no > help at all. Anyone have any suggest

[expert] return receipt is now turned off ...thanks

2000-08-02 Thread rharvey
the return receipt is now turned off ...thanks - Original Message - From: "rharvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 8:56 PM Subject: [expert] access > > I am trying to ftp into my linux box to place a web page into > /home/htt

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, I received the same email and went to www.house.gov and www.senate.gov and couldn't find any reference to it. Could be that I didn't have enough information to do a proper search or it could just be a rumor. Lots of rumors flying around during an election campaign. Dan > Bill Shirle

Re: [expert] Mail server names & MX settings

2000-08-02 Thread Dave Lers
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: > Can someone tell me how to edit my MX settings for my domain registrar? > Say my firewall/web server/mail server box is named "homer", and my domain is > thesimpsons.net. > > I have entries for "Host Name" and "Mail Server" that I need to fill out with

Re: [expert] RE: CAD

2000-08-02 Thread Dave Lers
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Stew Benedict wrote: > Bentley released a student version of Microstation for Linux - awesome > package - puts AutoCAD to shame. I think I paid like $169 for a student > version. Dang, I have URL's somewhere but cannot find. I've hardly used it but qcad looks promising, its

Re: [expert] mounting windows drives

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when > I'm a regular user? > I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user. > It's a "Bad Idea (tm)" to let "joe user" have write access to non-linux partitions. Why? Becaus

Re: [expert] access

2000-08-02 Thread Matt Stegman
When you FTP in, you take on your userid, so your userid will need access to the directory. If you're going as anonymous, then you'll need to grant access for either the user "ftp" or "nobody" - I can't remember which. -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, rharvey wrote: > >

RE: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread Debie Scholz
Title: go to urban legends at mindco. -Original Message-From: Bill Shirley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:55 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge I received this e-mail and want to know if anyone knows if this i

[expert] Scripting- Uppercase to lowercase

2000-08-02 Thread Dave A. Peat II
Hello, I am moving a website from NT/IIS to UNIX. Can someone tell me of an easy way, possibly a script of some kind, to do two things: 1. Change all file names (some are uppercase and some are lowercase) to ALL lowercase. 2. Change all tags within htm files () that is, the path and file name

Re: [expert] Shutting down httpd FAILED ... can't reboot !!

2000-08-02 Thread David Talbot
Take a look in /var/log/httpd/error_log There will probably be something enlightening in that file. -- -David Talbot * So long as the government has the power to invade our lives, rummage through our records, and take

Re: [expert] XFree86 4.01 and Mandrake 7.1 fontserver

2000-08-02 Thread kf
If you go with the Custom install, it'll give the choice of installing v.4 (but it doesn't recommend it). It ran okay for me. hth, kf On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Jason Munson wrote: = Hi folks, = = I just finished a stock install of 7.1, and taking the option of X = version 4.0. I've noticed that t

Re: [expert] mounting windows drives

2000-08-02 Thread David Talbot
Have you checked the permissions on the device? -- -David Talbot * So long as the government has the power to invade our lives, rummage through our records, and take what it wants from our income, we will have only as

[expert] Tr: Grub disappeared !

2000-08-02 Thread linux . damour
- Message retransmis par [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:57:19 +0200 (MEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Grub disappeared ! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I just changed my main HD drive and had to play a bit with drakboot to get it to work ag

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Kenneth G. Kay
See http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/ On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi List, > > Yesterday I saw something in one of the posts about Vmware and decided to > go and get it. It's installed and working, but I have No idea how to use > it, nor where the documentation is for it.

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
Please check out an "urban legends" page near you or go to http://ciac.llnl.gov for their "urban legends" page. John

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
Can you say 'HOAX!!!" I knew you could! John

Re: [expert] I made a mistake

2000-08-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
Liangyu Wang wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub > provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked > well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in > DrakeConf->DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda

Re: [expert] BellSouth's FastAccess DSL Internet connectivity.

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Hi All. > > Does anyone have any experience with BellSouth's FastAccess DSL Internet > connectivity and Linux? Specifically, I am looking for the following > information: > Not personally, but a friend of mine has BellSouth DSL and is running a linux box as a f

Re: [expert] JDK and JRE

2000-08-02 Thread David Talbot
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Over the past few weeks I've noticed some folks were looking for JDK and > JRE for their machines. I've got them both on my server and if you would > like I can send you a link by which you can freely download them. JDK is > version 1.1.8 as is JRE. They're compre

Re: [expert] manipulating tgz's on windows

2000-08-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:26:09PM -0700, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > Anyone know of any reasonably priced software (say us$40 and under) that will > allow one to manipulate tgz files, including creating tgz's on an ms windows > box? There is one package out there that I know of, but it is somet

Re: [expert] I have sent 3 messages has any one gotten them????

2000-08-02 Thread Vic
I got this one On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, you wrote: > I have not seen any of my post in the messages. > > please let me know if you have seen this or any of my other post. > > thanks

Re: [expert] Setting up a Voodoo3 under Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Timothy James Friesen wrote: > > Hello! > > I recently purchased a Voodoo 3. The Mandrake 7.1 install warns me that this > card is not supported under XFree4.0, and then fails the graphical test. I set > the default resolution I would like, choose the Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ > 60 Hz en

RE: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread Jason Bachman
Title: It is totally false.  See http://www.usps.com/ for details. -Original Message-From: Bill Shirley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 11:55 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge I received this e-mail and want to know

Re: [expert] MDK 7.1 and the backspace key

2000-08-02 Thread kf
Go to (something like) /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and comment out the appropriate line. kf On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: = = I've installed MDK 7.1 (from scratch--new hard disk). I was previously = using 7.0. = = The backspace is doing that incredibly annoying Linux thin

[expert] Grub disappeared !

2000-08-02 Thread linux . damour
Hello, I just changed my main HD drive and had to play a bit with drakboot to get it to work again after copying everything on the new disk. Now everything is fine but grub disappeared and I'm back with lilo ? Is there any way to use grub again (without reinstalling everything of course ?) This

Re: [expert] XFree86 4.01 and Mandrake 7.1 fontserver

2000-08-02 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Jason Munson wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I just finished a stock install of 7.1, and taking the option of X > version 4.0. I've noticed that the X setup program included in DrakConf > always reverts back to 3.3.6. Any way to prevent this? Next, I installed > Xfree86 4.01 and now the font server won

Re: [expert] SIS6326 Chipset & LM 7.1 - Compatible?

2000-08-02 Thread Dave Waggle
I have a PCChips L741mrt motherboard with an integrated AGP SiS 6326 chipset...didn't have to do a thing to bring it up...however it does run quite slow on 24-32bpp large screen (1024X768 +) modes. It sucks 8mb of memory from my total RAM. If you mean that you didn't find it in the cardlist, look

Re: [expert] XFree86 4.01 and Mandrake 7.1 fontserver

2000-08-02 Thread fpons
Jason Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > I just finished a stock install of 7.1, and taking the option of X > version 4.0. I've noticed that the X setup program included in DrakConf > always reverts back to 3.3.6. Any way to prevent this? Next, I installed > Xfree86 4.01 and n

Re: [expert] XFree86 4.01 and Mandrake 7.1 fontserver

2000-08-02 Thread Harry Flaxman
Jason Munson wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I just finished a stock install of 7.1, and taking the option of X > version 4.0. I've noticed that the X setup program included in DrakConf > always reverts back to 3.3.6. Any way to prevent this? Next, I installed > Xfree86 4.01 and now the font server won

[expert] Saving ifconfig settings

2000-08-02 Thread Rob Fleetwood
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to make changes permanent in ifconfig? Example: my default ifconfig reports the MTU setting at 1500. Using DSL, this setting will not let me transmit e-mail. A setting of 1452 for MTU will. However, I have to change to 1452 manually. Whe

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
This is a HOAX. Check out the urban legends pages and it's probably still posted there. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ** <_||_> in the making of this | ** =\/= message...|

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