Re: [expert] Still telnet server not working

2000-10-26 Thread heikohuth
i would say, look for the rpm package on the CD an try to install is manually. it's on the first cd in the Mandrake/RPMS directory. change to this directory an do an: rpm -ivh telnet-server*.rpm if it says already installed ok otherwise it is installed now. mfg heiko faisal wrote: Yes

[expert] WEB based RPM selection again

2000-10-26 Thread Marco Fioretti
Buchan Milne wrote: [snip] Excellent Ideas. To carry it (run script from floppy) farther... the first part of the install would ensure an internet connection, the second part would call into play someone's (sorry forgot who) idea of a web based script that would allow a user to

Re: [expert] Niiiiice. Kill off kde STABLE 2.0 immediately

2000-10-26 Thread Gerald Williams
On Wednesday 25 October 2000 22:35, you wrote: Gerald Williams wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2000 10:39, you wrote: Gerald Williams wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2000 06:51, you wrote: Thanks. It still also resides in SOME (very few) kde mirrors. Here's the big

[expert] Fully qualified Domain names

2000-10-26 Thread Richard Humphrey
Title: Fully qualified Domain names I am experiencing a problem with my FQDN and my LAN. I use ATT @Home service and run a 2 node LAN sharing a single IP. My server uses the following configuration as it's domain name cxx-a.mckiny1.tx.home.com as the FQDN. I run POstfix from this machine

RE: [expert] How to screw up your KDE 2.0 session

2000-10-26 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Right click on my system is fine. Then again, I installed from tar files to avoid all the Mandrake requirements for package upgrades. -Original Message- From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 1:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] How to

[expert] Telnet server check out

2000-10-26 Thread faisal
hey now i reinstall everything now there is a diffrernt error when i telnet it like telnet 131.107.3.1 It says Trying 1311.07.3.1 connected to 131.107.3.1. Escape character is '^]' _ thats it wont take any command then i have to exit . Am

[expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Jeff Malka
When I first installed linux, for reasons I no longer remember I installed Mandrake 7.1 as follows on my 8 GB second HD: I have a windows extended partition of 5.3 GB. Within and at the end of this extended partition (don't ask why) I have a 5.3 GB linuxExt2 main linux partition (hdb11).

[expert] ksysguard...lots of swapping, slow system

2000-10-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been running KDE 2.0 on my Mandrake 7.1 system since yesterday evening (I run my system 24/7). Last night when I went to bed, all was well. When I woke up this morning to check on the status of a gimp compile I started just before bed, I found that it has finished just fine but that the

Re: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Jeff Malka wrote: When I first installed linux, for reasons I no longer remember I installed Mandrake 7.1 as follows on my 8 GB second HD: I have a windows extended partition of 5.3 GB. Within and at the end of this extended partition (don't ask

Re: [expert] Telnet server check out

2000-10-26 Thread heikohuth
how long you've been waiting before you killed the task? it can happen, that something for the network is misconfigured. than it can take a while before you get an answer (means login prompt). i had this problem with a false gateway-adress. if the telnetserver is'nt running there should be a

[expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread Jose Carlos Gonzalez
Hi folks, Some months ago I got a new computer, and tried Linux Mandrake 7.0 (I had the free installation disk). And I liked it. Now, some days ago I bought the new Linux Mandrake 7.1: I had before me three CDs (Installation, Applications and Sources), and a (surprisingly small) manual. (Not

Re: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Jeff Malka
This may be a silly question, but why do you want to move it? "If it works, don't fix it." As a "learning experience" (this is not yet my main pc) and because I have had a few problems that could be related to it: 1) grub will not work on it. lilo does. 2) every so often, after I logout to

[expert] Repeatable problem with kde-2.0 on Mandrake 7.1

2000-10-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have qt2-2.2.1 mandrake rpms as well as the stable Mandrake KDE 2.0 rpms installed. KDE, for the MOST part, is running OK, though I do get a number of repeatable crashes with certain apps (KGNUPlot, Control Center upon closing it, for instance). On my desktop are icons for my zip drive, hda1,

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread Larry Marshall
My question is: Is this a (stupid/simple) mistake from Mandrake, or it is done in purpose? For whatever reason, v7.1 doesn't come with the ANSI library stuff. You've found the library. Now you need the egsc++ tar that holds the include files. BTW, all that stuff's included in v7.0 and v7.2.

RE: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Rivera, Oscar
you can use the cat command to move the partition. cat /dev/hd? /dev/hd? Oscar -Original Message- From: Jeff Malka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:58 AM To: expert mandrake Cc: Charles Curley Subject: Re: [expert] Moving partitions This may be a silly

[expert] Where's a QT-2.1.1 RPM to support KDE 2.0 ?

2000-10-26 Thread Joe Baker
Forgive me, I might not belong in the expert list, but I'm trying to upgrade my Mandrake 7.1 installation to KDE 2.0. Can anyone point me towards instructions for doing this? Running startx now starts XFree86 and I see it begin to outline the menu bars at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes

Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.

2000-10-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got Mandrake 7.02 on my laptop and have NT4 on another partition. How do I go about mounting this partition so that I can write to it? Use mount. Then destroy the data on your NTFS partition when you try to write to it. NTFS write support is still

Re: [expert] How to screw up your KDE 2.0 session

2000-10-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
Praedor Tempus wrote: I would appreciate it if someone who has KDE 2.0 installed and running trying something for me. Running in a user session, right- click on a mount point/harddrive icon and select "properties". I have found that if I do this on my system, Mandrake did it crash

Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.

2000-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got Mandrake 7.02 on my laptop and have NT4 on another partition. How do I go about mounting this partition so that I can write to it? Samba. RTFM, try to set it up, then come back with more questions. Ron --

Re: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:57:40AM -0400, Jeff Malka wrote: This may be a silly question, but why do you want to move it? "If it works, don't fix it." As a "learning experience" (this is not yet my main pc) Ah, ok. Good reason. and because I have had a few problems that could be related

Re: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:10:28PM -0400, Jeff Malka wrote: Not sure I understand. I can move the partition effortlessly using Partition Magic. I just needed to know if this would mess up the path structure or something else that linux uses. Is that what cat is about? No. Cat will move

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread Larry Marshall
For whatever reason, v7.1 doesn't come with the ANSI library stuff. You've found the library. Now you need the egsc++ tar that holds the include files. I found somewhere (I think it was in a previous post) that one can get either the libstdc++-devel or the egsc++. We've had extensive

Re: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Nikolay V. Kursov
When I first installed linux, for reasons I no longer remember I installed Mandrake 7.1 as follows on my 8 GB second HD: I have a windows extended partition of 5.3 GB. Within and at the end of this extended partition (don't ask why) I have a 5.3 GB linuxExt2 main linux partition (hdb11).

Re: [expert] kde2 on Mandrake 7.1

2000-10-26 Thread Leopold Palomo
Buchan Milne wrote: Why don't you just wait another 5 days for mdk7.2 to come out, and use the new rpm and menu from there (which won't be compiled with glibc2.96). Also, have you tried using another version of rpm and compiling menu from source ? Buchan Are you saying that mdk 7.2 will

Re: [expert] Where's a QT-2.1.1 RPM to support KDE 2.0 ?

2000-10-26 Thread Leopold Palomo
Isn' there supposed to be a dependancy on QT-2.1.1? When I searched rpmfind I didn't find any mandrake versions of QT-2.1.1 only the old 1.4ish versions. Is work being done on putting out a Mandrake package of the new QT? Do I need the new QT for KDE 2.0? Here's the RPM's I've

Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.

2000-10-26 Thread Greg Stewart
You don't want to mount an NTFS partition so that you can write to it. It is dangerous. The Linux kernel can be re-compiled to enable read on NTFS, but even the kernel config warns that you can destroy your NTFS partition with write enabled. In other words... Don't do it. --Greg -

Re: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Ron Stodden
Larry Marshall wrote: Partition Magic will move the data as the partition is moved. If I understood what he was asking, there'd be no change in fstab. Most likely /boot would still be /dev/hda5. Maybe I didn't understand what he was asking. If a Linux partition is copied, the copy will

Re: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Jeff Malka
Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Moving partitions Larry Marshall wrote: Partition Magic will move the

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:20:49 Larry Marshall wrote: My question is: Is this a (stupid/simple) mistake from Mandrake, or it is done in purpose? For whatever reason, v7.1 doesn't come with the ANSI library stuff. You've found the library. Now you need the egsc++ tar that holds the

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread Larry Marshall
My two-cd set of 7.1, downloaded and home-burned, contains: CD1 (MDK 7.1 Install): libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm binarys to be capable of execute things compiled with C++. The only thing you need if you're not a developer. CD2 (MDK 7.1 Extensions):

[expert] foward or specify the trouble shooting email that is sent to the root account to my user account.

2000-10-26 Thread rharvey
How do I foward or specify the trouble shooting email that is sent to the root account, to my user account so I don't have to log in as root every time there is an error message in the system. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] foward or specify the trouble shooting email that is sent to the root account to my user account.

2000-10-26 Thread Muzza
Last line in /etc/aliases Change default name to your user name and remove the leading "#" On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, rharvey wrote: How do I foward or specify the trouble shooting email that is sent to the root account, to my user account so I don't have to log in as root every time there is

Re: [expert] How to screw up your KDE 2.0 session

2000-10-26 Thread praedor
Hmpf. I don't understand what the problem is. I am running Mandrake 7.1 (kindof a 7.2 hybrid). Here are the kde rpms installed: kdesupport-2.0-1mdk kdenetwork-devel-2.0-1mdk kdesupport-devel-2.0-1mdk switchdesk-kde-1.7.1-13mdk kde-themes-0.3-4mdk kde1-compat-1.1.2-7mdk

Re: [expert] foward or specify the trouble shooting email that issent to the root account to my user account.

2000-10-26 Thread Larry Marshall
How do I foward or specify the trouble shooting email that is sent to the root account, to my user account so I don't have to log in as root every time there is an error message in the system. Load up /etc/postfix/aliases and, near the bottom of the file, put your user account name as an

Re: [expert] foward or specify the trouble shooting email that is sent to the root account to my user account.

2000-10-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 08:04:38AM +0800, Muzza wrote: Last line in /etc/aliases Change default name to your user name and remove the leading "#" Right. Then run "aliases" to make it effective. On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, rharvey wrote: How do I foward or specify the trouble shooting

[expert] heartbeat

2000-10-26 Thread rharvey
what is heartbeat what would cause it to fail? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-26 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 18 Oct 2000, at 21:50, Arcana wrote: Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache (64K as opposed to Athlon's 256K) won't be a PIII replacement. However, the cost of the Duron is

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Larry Marshall wrote: My two-cd set of 7.1, downloaded and home-burned, contains: CD1 (MDK 7.1 Install): libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm binarys to be capable of execute things compiled with C++. The only thing you need if you're not a developer. CD2 (MDK 7.1 Extensions):

[expert] tty record when logged in init 5

2000-10-26 Thread J. Pedro Sousa do Amaral
Hi, I have a question regarding the log status of users logged in in :0.0 in machines that boot to init 5. I have a dual Celeron machine with Mandrake 7.1 set to boot directly to init 5 and the graphical log in in managed by kdm and it works fine. However, when I issue a w command after logging

[expert] Fw: cgi - file not found but it is there!!!!

2000-10-26 Thread rharvey
- Original Message - From: "rharvey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:34 PM Subject: cgi - file not found but it is there I have several cgi files but a new one we just put into the directory wont run. when you try to run it, the system

[expert] KDE 2.0 kfm/wm problems persist

2000-10-26 Thread praedor
I am running a Mandrake 7.1-ish system (with a number of 7.2 rpms installed). I installed the first set of rpms for kde2.0 (and qt2-2.2.1) and gave it a shot. It MOSTLY works ok, but there are a few problems that are driving me nuts. First off, I have seen conflicting messages about the

[expert] Serial Port Woes... no where else to turn! :(

2000-10-26 Thread Ken Tarwood
Hello everyone, Before I get to the problem let me say that I have exhausted EVERY other source of information on this topic. I've read all the how-tos and asked numerous self-proclaimed Linux gurus to no avail. My problem is thus: I'm having a bit of a problem attempting to get an old 286

Re: [expert] Fw: cgi - file not found but it is there!!!!

2000-10-26 Thread Michael Proto
My guess is that the execute bit on the script is not set. In the your cgi directory, run: chmod +x filename M. rharvey wrote: - Original Message - From: "rharvey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:34 PM Subject: cgi - file not found but

Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.

2000-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Stephen Bosch wrote: "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: I've got Mandrake 7.02 on my laptop and have NT4 on another partition. How do I go about mounting this partition so that I can write to it? Samba. RTFM, try to set it up, then come back with more questions. You can't mount an NTFS

Re: [expert] Fw: cgi - file not found but it is there!!!!

2000-10-26 Thread rharvey
that was not it they all have the same settings... i can run all the old ones but the new one gives the error - Original Message - From: "Michael Proto" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Fw: cgi - file not found but

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread Larry Marshall
Larrythere is absolutely no difference between the two 7.1 iso's on the various mirrors, the two 7.1 GPL CD's you can buy from various vendors and the 7.1 Installation and Extension CD's you get in the Macmillan Deluxe boxed set. Well Alain...then I must be lying. I do this just to

[expert] No mouse scroll after KDE2

2000-10-26 Thread TK Kim
After installing KDE2, mouse scroll stopped working in Nescape, but works fine in any KDE apps such as Konquerer, KEdit, and so on. Anybody has the same happened? And, how do I fix this? THanks _ Get Your Private, Free

[expert] what is Can't open /var/run/news/shlock1525, Permission denied

2000-10-26 Thread rharvey
I don't know of a good free news server to get news from do I need this job to run? If I dont how do I turn it off? Thanks Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Moving partitions

2000-10-26 Thread Jeff Malka
Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Nikolay V. Kursov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Moving partitions When I first installed linux, for reasons I no

Re: [expert] Kernel Panic

2000-10-26 Thread Cecil Watson
Sorry I have not played with qmial much. Check the qmail website, it provides a vast list of information. Does you ISP news server have a qmail group? Good luck, Cecil Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Kernel Panic

2000-10-26 Thread Andy Abshagen
OK. So everything has been going along fine until this morning. All of a sudden I noticed that our new qmail server stopped responding. I went to the qmail server and noticed that there was a kernel panic message on the screen and then something about tcpserver. Since the first time it seems