Re: [expert] MDK 7.2

2000-08-13 Thread ibi
You might have seen a post about 7.0-2. Pj At 07:54 PM 8/12/00 -0400, you wrote: A while back someone posted a site for MDK 7.2.. Anyone know? I really whacked my system last night, not sure how, but I need to reinstall and wanted to give MDK a try again.. Please lemme know~! Alan --

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-13 Thread Lord Nightwalker
The windows 95 network routines generally suck. On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 03:08:56 Bob Puff@NLE wrote: 10 times faster? Me thinks you are dreaming. Bandwidth is bandwidth, and there's only so much. Whether you set up 10 simultaneous downloads or do only one, you are going to get the file in the

[expert] tracking network users' browsing of the web

2000-08-13 Thread tom strickland
I run a network for a charity (MIND in the UK), Win98 clients served by Linux-Mandrake, with a dialup Internet connection. We are about to open up the access to the internet, but my boss wants to be able to track what people browse. I came up with the plan of publishing a user's browsing logs

Re: [expert] tracking network users' browsing of the web

2000-08-13 Thread Stew Benedict
I use nacctd and a perl tool that comes with it. It gives the date/time, the workstation's name and the site's name. I run a cron job nightly that emails this info to myself and my boss, you could just as easily put it on a web page. Stew Benedict

[expert] Supermount of CDROM under Mandrake7.1

2000-08-13 Thread Xuejun Liu
Hi, all, The CDROM was used to be mounted automatically during the boot. Now, it won't work with the new kernel compiled by myself. I didn't change the configuration of kernel too much but enable the HPT366 supporting. Any idea to make it happen again? thanks a lot Jun

Re: [expert] compile warning texts messed up within xemacs window

2000-08-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 03:06:06AM -0400, Joe Chen wrote: I just installed 7.1 and tried compiling a short C++ code by using xemacs. The warning output texts within xemacs are somehow messed up with encoding characteres: make gcc -c -Wall -g -I/home/jychen/work/numerical invest.c++

[expert] Problems with memory

2000-08-13 Thread Mark Mucha (Linux)
Hi, I am having problems with Mandrake 7.1.. It won't see my 256M, only 64M. I added 'append="mem=256M"' to my lilo.conf and I still have the same problem. Bios correctly reports the 256M.. Any ideas?? Thanks Mark

Re: [expert] Problems with memory

2000-08-13 Thread Xuejun Liu
Try this link, http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/ramdetect.html Good luck! On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Mark Mucha (Linux) wrote: Hi, I am having problems with Mandrake 7.1.. It won't see my 256M, only 64M. I added 'append="mem=256M"' to my lilo.conf and I still have the same

[expert] Re: tracking employees

2000-08-13 Thread tom strickland
snip Since company time is an issue, you might want to consider blocking sports sites, chat rooms, games, and maybe even porn sites. People are human and it wouldn't be the first time an employee had a little fun on company time. Then, if you still want to track them set an invisible cookie that

Re: [expert] Problems with memory

2000-08-13 Thread Ron Stodden
"Mark Mucha (Linux)" wrote: I am having problems with Mandrake 7.1.. It won't see my 256M, only 64M. I added 'append="mem=256M"' to my lilo.conf and I still have the same problem. Adding 'append="mem=256M"' to your /etc/lilo.conf does nothing except change that file. Every time you

Re: [expert] Re: tracking employees

2000-08-13 Thread Bruce E. Harris
I work for the US government (active duty USAF) and all telephone have stickers and every start up computer screen, and paperwork we sign, clear states government/office equipment is for official use only, and any use is consent to monitoring. This policy does cut down non work related surfing

Re: [expert] tracking network users' browsing of the web

2000-08-13 Thread tom strickland
I use nacctd and a perl tool that comes with it. It gives the date/time, the workstation's name and the site's name. I run a cron job nightly that emails this info to myself and my boss, you could just as easily put it on a web page. Stew Benedict Thanks Stew, I'll take a look at it. Tom

[expert] IP masq and dialpad.com / Mirc DCC Sends

2000-08-13 Thread Andy Judge
I just configured my Gateway computer. Everything seems to work well, but I can not use Dialpad.com and DCC send. I would assume that it is because the ports are blocked. I have the same problem at work. Has anyone made this work? I loaded all the modules including irc. Side note - Is

Re: [expert] Supermount of CDROM under Mandrake7.1

2000-08-13 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 13-Aug-00 by Xuejun Liu: Hi, all, The CDROM was used to be mounted automatically during the boot. Now, it won't work with the new kernel compiled by myself. I didn't change the configuration of kernel too much but enable the HPT366 supporting. THe configuration that you initially

Re: [expert] tracking network users' browsing of the web

2000-08-13 Thread Rial Juan
Funny but useless sidenote: have a look at this: http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=17559lastnode_id=1044; On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:24:33 tom strickland wrote: I use nacctd and a perl tool that comes with it. It gives the date/time, the workstation's name and the site's name. I run a

Re: [expert] Switching to X 4.0

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Spencer
Aha! Thats what it was. Thanks for refreshing my memory. :) -Chris On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote: Chris Spencer a écrit : Hello, I recently reinstalled Mandrake 7.1 and, like a lunkhead, I forgot to set things up to run XFree 4.0. So right now I am running 3.3.6. I know that

Re: [expert] IP masq and dialpad.com / Mirc DCC Sends

2000-08-13 Thread Greg Stewart
You may need to open up ports used by DCC and Dialpad for the service to work. I don't know enough about these two to say which ones are used. Also... I've been sing pmfirewall on my redhat firewall since its previous version, and Ive never had any problems. The new install script covers a much

[expert] xcdroast

2000-08-13 Thread Terry Tremaine
Hello I'm having a problem with xcdroast. When I first launch it I receive a message that I do not have scsi support available and recommends insmod sg. However, when I lsmod I see that sg is running as a kernel module. However, it does say "(unused)". When I insmod sg I get a message that sg is

Re: [expert] IP masq and dialpad.com / Mirc DCC Sends

2000-08-13 Thread Sridhar G
Andy, To use Dialpad u have to use port forwarding. Following the links to the Port Forwarding section. http://members.home.net/ipmasq/ I am currently using Dialpad with no probs. Cheers Sridhar - Original Message - From: "Andy Judge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[expert] mdk71+ut425+banshee problems

2000-08-13 Thread Svante Signell
Unreal Tournamentwith Glide option does not start, complaints of not being able to allocate memory for colors. Other games such as q3, heretic2 works OK. Installed: XFree86-glide-module-4.0-6mdk,XFree86-server-4.0-6mdk, XFree86-server-common-3.3.6-14mdk, XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-14mdk

Re: [expert] xcdroast

2000-08-13 Thread Admiral Michael H. Collins
You didn't say whether the cd is scsi. If it is ide, is the ide-scsi module loaded? fun. Terry Tremaine wrote: Hello I'm having a problem with xcdroast. When I first launch it I receive a message that I do not have scsi support available and recommends insmod sg. However, when

[expert] free internet

2000-08-13 Thread Dr Michael Powell PhD
Does anyone know of a free ISP that is availeable for linux?

[expert] apache postponing log writes?

2000-08-13 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hi all. I have used apache for years and years (compiling my own), but I have recently started running the advanced extranet server that comes with the Mandrake 7.1 distro to see if I can distinguish performance benefits. One thing that seems rather strange is that the log file does not

OT Re: [expert] free internet

2000-08-13 Thread mark
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know of a free ISP that is availeable for linux? Depends where you are, I have just got my linux on NTL. In the UK it is free if you use their Cable service. Connection can take a few attempts but I am sure this will improve, I have no real

Re: [expert] apache postponing log writes?

2000-08-13 Thread Christopher Kolar
At 03:48 PM 8/13/2000, you wrote: Hi all. I have used apache for years and years (compiling my own), but I have recently started running the advanced extranet server that comes with the Mandrake 7.1 distro to see if I can distinguish performance benefits. One thing that seems rather strange

Re: [expert] xcdroast

2000-08-13 Thread Alan N.
Terry Tremaine wrote: Hello I'm having a problem with xcdroast. When I first launch it I receive a message that I do not have scsi support available and recommends insmod sg. However, when I lsmod I see that sg is running as a kernel module. However, it does say "(unused)". When I

[expert] SMB install of 7.0

2000-08-13 Thread Jason Pierce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, I have been playing around with linux for a few months now, and now I am in a bit of a bind. I need to install Mandrake 7.0 on a laptop, from a 98 box using SMB to connect. Is there a custom install disk (unsupported? suchas the paride

Re: [expert] Promise Ultra ATA/100

2000-08-13 Thread Terje Bjerkelia
Patching the 2.2.16 did work. The Ultra100 card is now detected during the boot sequence, but a new problem has occured: After the Promise card is detected the system hangs. It seems like my HD (IBM ATA-100 75GXP 75 Gb) can't be found. Anyone Who know what I can do to make the HD "visible"? At

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] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ken Archer wrote: one of my "have-to-have" programs is Rpmfind. When you have to satisfy a dependency it will find the file for you. Such as # rpmfind libdps.so.1 It will find the file you need and download it for you. You can check it out here:

Re: [expert] MP3 Files

2000-08-13 Thread Sarang Lakare
nice script! I really like it! but hey, how do i add some spacing in between those songs? -sarang

[expert] Stair-stepping in printerdrake

2000-08-13 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello list, I have a problem printing text files. Words are not wrapped correctly and there is stair-stepping. If I check the printer configuration using printtool everything looks good and "fix stair-stepping" is checked. Using printerdrake I check the stair-stepping box but it doesn't

Re: [expert] xcdroast

2000-08-13 Thread Rial Juan
Well, I could give you the whole explanation on how to get a CD-writer happily working under linux, or I could paste you the URL to the HOWTO that explains it all. Since today I've been up all night, coding up some stupid java-stuff for college, and since I'm generally a very lazy person, I guess