Re: [expert] samba and SWAT and webmin and MCC

2002-01-02 Thread kwan
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Ken Nowack wrote: Check this link: http://fi.samba.org/samba/docs/swat_ssl.html Well, thats somewhat informative, but. Apparently doesn't apply to mandrake, either that or mandrake has it's packages in all different locations, or (most likely explanation) my

Re: [expert] C++ Beginner

2002-01-03 Thread kwan
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ken Thompson wrote: Any C++ people willing to help a VERY green beginner off list? I am struggling my way through SAMS Teach yourself C++ in 24hrs and it's raising more questions than it answers. I tried a web class from the local college and couldn't get any sensible

Re: [expert] Log in remotely without logging in locally

2002-01-04 Thread kwan
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote: Hello again! Is it possible to login to a remote system (console login only because it doesn't have X), without having to login locally (as with telnet and ssh)? Because with X terminals, you are actually logging in to the remote system; While with

Re: [expert] fatal sig 11

2002-01-05 Thread kwan
On 5 Jan 2002, richard wrote: Hi all, in th eprocess of building an old machine using all the junk, lying around. Its only an old K5 100 , 64 M ram, at the moment running mdk7.2, I did get 8.1 loaded and running but the resourses required are making this machine very slow, so its back to

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread kwan
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor Cengija wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been solid. Thanks for your reply (and thanks to Richard,

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-08 Thread kwan
On 7 Jan 2002, Michael Leone wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 15:30, J. Craig Woods wrote: Randy, and et al, the owner of this tread is asking about a peer to peer network, and makes no mention of having a Windoze box on that network. Therefore, Samba is not an option. Samba is only for

Re: [expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake

2002-01-10 Thread kwan
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Tim Holmes wrote: There are quite a number of differences between BSD and Mandrake. For one, BSD isn't Linux. It's more UNIX if you have to classify it, but BSD is, well, BSD. Yeah, they all move along the same lines with the kernel, but it's closer to UNIX then it is

Re: [expert] SRC.RPM rebuild error

2002-01-12 Thread kwan
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 02:21, Michael Leone wrote: Originally to: All I'm trying to rebuild abiword-0.9.5 from Cooker, on 8.1. I have satisfied all dependencies, and start the rebuild. It however, errors with this message: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26340: fg: no job control error: Bad exit

Re: [expert] oooops

2002-01-14 Thread kwan
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Mark D'voo wrote: I just deleted my /usr/local/share directory, how do I recover with reiserfs Got a good backup? That's your only hope. One other possible option is to use RPM to replace the files that were lost. On my system there are only a

Re: [expert] enhanced nfs?

2002-01-15 Thread kwan
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi, Is anyone aware of any patches to specifically enhance nfs performance in linux? I'm interested in building a server which will be dedicated to serving NFS, but have heard that the stock knfsd in linux isn't really very good. There's an NFS

Re: [expert] enhanced nfs?

2002-01-15 Thread kwan
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Thanks. There's an NFS Howto that has a section on tuning parameters. I've had some improvements by tuning wsize and rsize parameters. Occasionally I've noticed problems with Solaris clients and I'm currently having a problem with an NFS

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 is eating memory

2002-01-16 Thread kwan
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Marc wrote: Chaps, Is Mandrake 8.1 eating memory? First I only had 128MB of ram in my AMD K6-500 Mhz system. When I booted linux and Xhad started all of the 128 Ram was used. So It had to swap a lot when I worked on Linux. Today I upgraded my ram to a total of

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 is eating memory

2002-01-16 Thread kwan
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Mike Leone wrote: Using swap is not a bad thing. It means that the system is intelligent enough to move to disk any processes that don't need to be in memory. Thrashing is of course another thing entirely. Using swap means you don't have enough real physical memory

Re: [expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste

2002-01-16 Thread kwan
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, mike wrote: Of course, with Opera you can just open a new page. It is funny that Konqueror seems to be the only borowser with a button that allows you to clear the address box. I wonder why Netscape and Opera don't have it? You can clear the URL field with CTRL-U on

Re: [expert] SSH message not to panic

2002-01-16 Thread kwan
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Charlie Bebber wrote: This isn't the first time I've seen this message in my log and I was just wondering if anyone on the list might know what the hell it is (if it's anything other than them looking to see what version of SSH I'm running): --- Jan 16 10:53:17 oscar

Re: [expert] Kernel Compilation Error

2002-01-16 Thread kwan
On 15 Jan 2002, Noah Swint wrote: I made the mistake of attempting to install some ipsec client that was in my webmin networking section. It modified my kernel files somehow. Now I'm trying to recombile the kernel and this is the error that I get #make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd

Re: [expert] SSH message not to panic

2002-01-17 Thread kwan
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Steve wrote: I have a Solaris server at work running SSH-2.0-2.0.13 and lately I've noticed weird addresses in the logs attempting to connect to the sshd server. It seems that we have similar problems. Here are a few examples of the log entries: Dec 27 18:55:10

Re: [expert] where's the kernel source

2002-01-17 Thread kwan
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, DelaCruz, Carlo wrote: hello -- i'd like to rebuild my kernel but was surprised to find that the kernel source is not in /usr/src/linux. i have Mandrake 8.1; i tried looking for it in the 3 cd's using the software manager but couldn't find it. does anybody know for

Re: [expert] will questions on 8.0 not be answered?

2002-01-22 Thread kwan
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, mike wrote: Hi, I recently posted a question on how to update to a newer kernel in 8.0 but got no answer. :-( Is 8.0 too old to reply on now? For the kernel update procedure: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-079-2.php3?dis=8.0 If you need

Re: [expert] No such file or directory message from bash

2002-01-23 Thread kwan
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Aleksey wrote: Neither one helps :-( Tried running as root as well as adding exec permissions for all: [aleksey@botik aleksey]$ su Password: [root@botik aleksey]# ./swatgrs_set bash: ./swatgrs_set: No such file or directory [root@botik aleksey]# chmod a+x swatgrs_set

Re: [expert] No such file or directory message from bash

2002-01-24 Thread kwan
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Thomas Sourmail wrote: run, this is for security purposes because you should not put . in your path or else someone could bust into your unix system. How ? If the current directory is in the PATH variable before the standard paths, someone could place a trojaned

Re: [expert] No such file or directory message from bash

2002-01-25 Thread kwan
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Travis Olds wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How ? If the current directory is in the PATH variable before the standard paths, someone could place a trojaned version of a program into a world writable directory. Whenever someone ran (or think

Re: [expert] No such file or directory message from bash

2002-01-25 Thread kwan
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Thomas Sourmail wrote: If the current directory is in the PATH variable before the standard paths, someone could place a trojaned version of a program into a world writable directory. Whenever someone ran (or think they ran) a system utility from that directory,

RE: [expert] floppy access in 8.1

2002-01-25 Thread kwan
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Doug Gough wrote: Is it just me, or is floppy disk usage under Linux an unadulterated pain in the ass? I'm really not a newbie, but I can't get it done. I've formatted it with Gnome Floppy, with a Linux Native (ext2) file system. It formats successfully, and then I try

Re: [expert] Single floppy with frame buffer, nano-X, and rwin RDPclient to boot diskless computer

2002-01-28 Thread kwan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Joe L. Casale wrote: Has anyone ever made one of these, or know how to: 1) pass vga=791 to kernel without using lilo? I don't think I will be able to fit a slim kernel, and the binaries along with a root fs one floppy if I have to add lilo! I am very new to Linux, and

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread kwan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi Mike, KDE 3.0 is in RC1, and I can't imagine rushing a distro to market not waiting for it. That's what I was thinking. I remember when KDE 2.0 came out it was so much nicer once I got a version of my then current distro (SuSE) that came

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread kwan
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, NDPTAL85 wrote: There's no reason to get all bent out of shape because Microsoft software is being used in schools. There's a good argument for it to be used, its what the children will also see in the workplace. I don't see how using Linux will benefit anyone if they

Re: [expert] double list mails

2002-01-30 Thread kwan
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2002 10:06 pm, you wrote: I'm getting duplicate emails from this list but not from other lists I'm on. Anyone else see this? Know what I should do? Mike: It happens from time to time around here. The strange thing is that

Re: [expert] umask man page

2002-01-31 Thread kwan
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, H. McM wrote: Hi, I just tried to do a man umask, and received the following error (below). In my /usr/share/man/man1 directory, I have bash.1.bz2 and umask.1.bz2. Can someone enlighten me as to whats going wrong??? Helen The message means that umask is part of

Re: [expert] Linux Domain Evangelism

2002-02-01 Thread kwan
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Daryl Johnson wrote: OK, I have several networks at my college using a mix of 98 and NT into NT servers and frankly they are not well administered at all. (Not by me I might add.) There is no overall diagram, or idea of how they are linked together and when an uplink or

Re: [expert] question on dual linux install

2002-02-02 Thread kwan
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, mike wrote: Hi , I have been looking for info on how to run two or more versions of mandrake I read a post on partition layout and such, and other things on doing this , though It's confusing the different ways to do this I've found. What i would like to ask now is

Re: [expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread kwan
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote: Has anybody ever got around to writing a gui program to managing floppy images sort of like winimage. What does winimage do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Shell scripting question

2002-02-05 Thread kwan
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Steve Kieu wrote: Hi, How can I tell ls to display the \ in a file name or directory name ls -b1 How can I tell ls to make its output as a continuous string like Test\ This Well the real problem is ; I want to convert every mp3 file in a directory

Re: [expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-06 Thread kwan
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote: win image is a floppy iamge utility. You can read and write floppy images to and from floppys. It also allows you to open a floppy image and work with the files right on the image. dd does a great job of reading and writing however It doesn't loow

Re: [expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh

2002-02-07 Thread kwan
On 7 Feb 2002, udo rader wrote: % xhost $remote_host to grant the remote host display permissions on your machine and that You shouldn't need to do the xhost command if ssh is set up properly. In fact, I think that doing the xhost is potentially more dangerous than not using ssh. Want

Re: [expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh

2002-02-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Udo and thanks for the reply, Yeah, I've done that (forgot to put that in the email) and for the life of me, can't figure out from where this is coming: --- # ssh -X oscar cb@oscar's password: Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding.

Re: [expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh

2002-02-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Alexander Arzberger wrote: El Jue 07 Feb 2002 16:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Udo and thanks for the reply, Yeah, I've done that (forgot to put that in the email) and for the life of me, can't figure out from

Re: [expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh

2002-02-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 07 Feb, at 14:10:58 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: The one thing that I can think of is that you're editing the wrong config file. There are two, one for the client (ssh_config) and one for the server

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Roberto Armenteros wrote: I wonder what the process kapm-idled, which shows up when I run the top command as the process using the most cpu resources. Is this a necessary process or can I be removed. I also run freeBSD and the CPU in this last one looks a lot less loaded

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, mike wrote: Bill Witherspoon wrote: You should be able to add this to one of the rc files in /etc/rc.d/ Usually rc.local Add what To the file exactly? how do I do this ( I mean what line do I add the the rc.local , what do I type? ) Don't add it to rc.local. The

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2002 06:06 pm, mike wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Go ahead and put it in your /etc/rc.local file (if it wont take)...why NOT add it to rc.local? It will remain with every reboot. I used to have to do that several

Re: [expert] Intel Compiler

2002-02-13 Thread kwan
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Sven Heinicke wrote: Has anybody gotten the Intel C++ compiler to work? http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c50/linux/index.htm the free trial works on a IA64 Red Hat system I have but I can't get it to work on my IA32 Mandrake 8.0 system. My first

Re: [expert] Roadrunner and Mandrake 8.1? Some problems!

2002-02-14 Thread kwan
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello Although I have no problem to use netscape, kmail, ftp and other network programmes with roadruuner, there is a couple of things that don't work: a) ping - it doesn't work. Why? What doesn't work? What are the errors? The solution

Re: [expert] pre-emptible kernel patch

2002-02-15 Thread kwan
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 01:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here installed the Pre-emptible kernel patch? I've been testing it with a Mandrake 8.0 machine with kernel 2.4.17. It seems to improve sound and video playback and

Re: [expert] A Modern, Low Resources Linux Distribution and All theReal Reasons Why We Need It

2002-02-15 Thread kwan
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Hoyt wrote: http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=5818 A good reason to look at a lightweight Mandrake? Interesting article, but I'm not sure I agree with everything in it. Some of the points that I thought interesting were: minimized kernel -- Some facility

Re: [expert] weird error message

2002-02-15 Thread kwan
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Michel Clasquin wrote: Hi all The last few days, whenever I start a new terminal or CTL-ALT-Fn to a terminal, the first thing to print is this spectacularly unhelpful error message: [: : integer expression expected This happens in both root and normal user mode, so

Re: [expert] weird error message

2002-02-15 Thread kwan
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Friday 15 February 2002 23:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [: : integer expression expected This happens in both root and normal user mode, so I imagine the problem is somewhere in /etc. I've looked through /etc/bashrc and

Re: [expert] Deleting Logs

2002-02-16 Thread kwan
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Nguyen Hung.Takeshi wrote: pesarif wrote: Hello, My /var/log folder is getting fairly big (10 MB) and its growing quickly (this computer has only 660MB for Linux :( ). My question is: is it safe to regularly delete logs (using just the rm command) or is there

Re: [expert] Package List/Description for Mandrake =8.1= (DAMNEDTYPO CORRECTED)

2002-02-16 Thread kwan
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Oliver Thieke wrote: Hi out there at the screens ! After struggling one week getting a dual-boot PC installed with NT 4.0 and man8.1 (and finally succeeding ;-) ) I'm starting to exploring the mandrake-system. I did the install in expert mode and chose the packages

Re: [expert] Deleting Logs

2002-02-17 Thread kwan
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, pesarif wrote: My /var/log folder is getting fairly big (10 MB) and its growing quickly (this computer has only 660MB for Linux :( ). [snip] That said, logrotate is the best way to do this, since it archives a copy of your logs if needed. Which logs are you

Re: [expert] Bttv Tv driver detection

2002-02-18 Thread kwan
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, lornes wrote: I noticed that when I set up the TV card that Mandrake was apparently detecting the address incorrectly. I was getting an error message of overlay mode is not working because BTTV initialized with the wrong base address. To load BTTV use the following

Re: [expert] File server

2002-02-19 Thread kwan
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kathy Montgomery wrote: I have a Windows 98/Mandrake regular computer and a Win 98/Mandrake laptop. That's 4 separate filesystems on which to be confused about where I have left my files. For that reason, I was thinking about creating a little LAN (that would not need

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Rob wrote: Postgres (in my experience) has always been very stable and easy to learn and use. Probably the most so of all RDBMs I have used. I dont know what experience (or closed minded ?? viewpoint) Harold has to justify masocism in regard to postgres (maybee he used a

RE: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Aron Pilhofer wrote: Just FYI, (almost) any script written in PHP for mysql can be adapted quite easily for any RDBM, including Postgres. That's one of the really nice things about PHP, IMHO. At the time I was writing the library scripts I didn't know much about PHP.

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Wednesday 20 February 2002 16:35, you wrote: I'm using Postgres now as the backend to my library (about 2,000 books, 300 CDs). Wow, that's like swatting a mosquito with a cruise missile. If anyone needs only a simple flat-file database for

Re: [expert] No rpm database

2002-02-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Seems like I remember some kind of command that would bring up the entire database from nothing, instead of just reindexing...but I'll have to dredge back into the annals of my memory to get that stuff. There's an initdb option, but this won't

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Wednesday 20 February 2002 19:51, you wrote: If anyone needs only a simple flat-file database for personal use, try xmbase-grok: Interesting program. How is its performance with large data files? Haven't tried it with anything major,

Re: [expert] Sybase question

2002-02-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, synrat wrote: I noticed a lot of Database discussions going on, maybe someone can help me out. I installed Sybase SQL Anywhere studio for Linux and the installation seemed pretty smooth. However, I can't get the database to start. When I type ./dbeng7

RE: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-20 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Aron Pilhofer wrote: The developer offered some help and suggested a possible entry in my .Xdefaults. This didn't fix the error though. He believes it to be a config error on my part. Ah yes, the old when in doubt, blame the user gambit. ;) Works for me :) But

Re: [expert] How to include a new script (daemon) to the boot process?

2002-02-21 Thread kwan
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I have a script that needs to be started everytime I boot my linux boot. I normally start the daemon but issuing the command /usr/local/sharity/sbin/sharity.init start. How can I include this command (script) together with the

Re: [expert] reinstall nightmare

2002-02-21 Thread kwan
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Ken Nowack wrote: Hi all, I'm having to reinstall my system due to operator error. oops. Anyway, I have an intact /home directory that has important files on it I would like to leave intact during the install. So I simply chose to not format that partition and went

Re: [expert] How to include a new script (daemon) to the boot process?

2002-02-21 Thread kwan
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello Many thanks. I did chkconfig --level 3 sharity.init but nothing happens. What kind of output should I expect? . Depends on what your script is doing. Your commands should be something like: chkconfig --level 3 sharity.init on

Re: [expert] need help connection refused ftp server

2002-02-21 Thread kwan
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Expert wrote: Running Pro ftpd connection refused edit /etc/xinetd.d/proftpd.inetd, s/yes/no/ edit /etc/proftpd.conf, s/standalone/inetd/ service proftpd start Unacceptable Please advise how to fix. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Using a Laptop in Different Environments

2002-02-22 Thread kwan
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, J. Grant wrote: Hello, Perhaps some of you have the same problem I do. I take my laptop at work and change IP proxy/firewall etc. Then I return home and have to set it all up again. atm i use differnet logins, but idealy i would have some sort of Enviroment varaible

Re: [expert] HELP HELP HELP REPOSTED AGAIN

2002-02-23 Thread kwan
On 23 Feb 2002, richard wrote: Hi All I can see why people get so p*** off with lists, especially cooker which your mail gets blocked if the word help is used. I'm stuck with having to use a patched kernel 2.4.17-20mdk, but unlike previous kernels this wont even get past make dep It bad

Re: [expert] [OT] Monitor tests

2002-02-26 Thread kwan
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I have noticed two fine lines going across the screen which I can't seem to get rid of. I have heard that these are normal for Trinitron (aperture grille) monitors. Is this true? The lines are barely noticable, so I can live with them if they

Re: [expert] user db issues

2002-02-26 Thread kwan
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ken Nowack wrote: However, if I su to root and type 'groups ken' it reads correctly like so: What are the permissions on your /etc/group and /etc/passwd files? This is a Mandrake 8.1 system. I'm completely baffled as to why this would be happening. Perhaps the system

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-27 Thread kwan
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Rob wrote: Dont know of a cookbook but think about what you need machine to do. Like if its going to have lots of users you need more /home if it a DB server then where to the DB files go ? /var ? Then need lots of /var, etc If its just your home PC then it dont hurt

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread kwan
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Tom Badran wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can i use an if in a bash script so that it will only run commands if the specified file is empty? Basically, ive set up a cache system by which the output of ifconfig is stored in /var/cache/IP/1

Re[2]: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread kwan
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Rusty Carruth wrote: There's probably much better ways to do this, but I got it working this way and have no plan to fix it ;-) Hey now, the very fabric of the Internet is stitched together with assorted hacks, workarounds, ugly scripts, we'll fix it later code, and

Re: [expert] Choosing the right filesystem

2002-02-28 Thread kwan
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Oliver Thieke wrote: Just a short statement in LSAG: There is usually little point in using many different filesystems Currently, ext2 is the most popular one, and it is probably the wisest choice () This needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis Looks a little bit

Re: [expert] Help - Stuck at '...kernel params..' - Urgent

2002-02-28 Thread kwan
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Ashley Moore wrote: when I started up my linux box this morning, its started booting normally till it got to 'Configuring kernel parametersOk' after that its a no-go pressing ctrl-c makes the boot process continue but with lots of errors about the FS being

Re: [expert] Kernel compilation.

2002-02-28 Thread kwan
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tomek Nowinski wrote: Could you suggest me the best place to find who-to or docs for compliation of MDK 81 kernel I am looking especially for APMD (power off and battery) for compaq laptop I am looking for some kind of manual or explication of all the steps I need to

Re: [expert] Help - Stuck at '...kernel params..' - SOLVED ???

2002-02-28 Thread kwan
On 28 Feb 2002, Ashley Moore wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 15:04, Ashley Moore wrote: thanks for the suggestion just to verify, i tried once again to boot normally but the boot process kept getting stuck after 'Ckeck kernel params' i start in single user could'nt see anything unusual

Re: [expert] Privileges troubles

2002-03-02 Thread kwan
On 2 Mar 2002, Molotov wrote: Hello I think my question is some kind of basic, anyway I'm needing some help I use a little script which inits my dxr3 card (NB: Hollywood+) and make it available for MPlayer Two things: 1/ the script calls insmod, so it has to be executed by root 2/ in

Re: [expert] How long should nfs take to load the server?

2002-03-04 Thread kwan
On 12 Jan 2002, Nelson Bartley wrote: I'm currently finding that my nfs server is taking upwards of 4 minutes to load the nfs server, and then the server is not allowing more then 1 connection through So my question here is, what are your load times for your nfs server? do you have any idea

Re: [expert] Why does winamp appears and disappears right away whenI run it?

2002-03-06 Thread kwan
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Why does winamp appears and disappears right away when I run it? The installation went well, but I cant figure this out. Try running it from an xterm so that you can see if there are any errors. If none, try running it with strace. I think

Re: [expert] boot process - question

2002-03-06 Thread kwan
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Ashley Moore wrote: hi, during the boot process, just after the option to press 'I' to enter interactive mode (rc.sysinit - ?, correct me if i'm wrong), a message says 'Configuring Kernel Parameters' can someone tell me what is happening in the background, during

Re: [expert] high perf partitionning question again....

2002-03-08 Thread kwan
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, gikoreno wrote: DISK 2: SWAP 128MB /usr 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd /usr/local 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd SWAP 128MB /var 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd SWAP 128MB /tmp 5GB XFS SWAP 128MB /opt 5GB RAID0 XFS 2st /home 11GB RAID0 XFS 2st Summary: /boot - 36MB / - 5GB /usr - 10GB RAID0

Re: [expert] high perf partitionning question again....

2002-03-08 Thread kwan
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, gikoreno wrote: /boot - 36MB / - 5GB /usr - 10GB RAID0 /usr/local -10GB RAID0 swap - 2GB /var - 10GB RAID0 /tmp - 5GB /opt - 10GB RAID0 /home - 22GB RAID0 X - 16GB Is there a reason for breaking up swap like this? I.e., are you interleaving

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-09 Thread kwan
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Michael Holt wrote: Hello experts! I've got a graphics question, though not really specific to any OS. A couple years ago, my wife and I went to the local mall, sat in a booth and paid $5 to have a machine take our picture and then sketch it in what looks like the

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-10 Thread kwan
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Michael Holt wrote: It doesn't sound like you've tried the different filters in GIMP. Check them out - specifically the Artist one which has various subsets. Have fun experimenting. Yeah, I've been playing with the different filters, and the gimp does a lot, I was

Re: [expert] Check for zlib via rpm

2002-03-13 Thread kwan
On 13 Mar 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, is it possible to use rpm to get a list of files/packages from the rpm database that were built using zlib? I have a lot built from src.rpm and would like to check ... It could be a start to help find packages. However, many packages may link

Re: [expert] Check for zlib via rpm

2002-03-13 Thread kwan
On 13 Mar 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote: My question exactly - how can one tell which apps in a src rpm are staticly linked against zlib once installed. Ones such as zebedee (not a Mandrake rpm) I know about as I set it up before install, but I think someone mentioned mozilla (which I have not

Re: [expert] How about a security fix?

2002-03-14 Thread kwan
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: So...when is Mandrake going to release a security fix for zlib? All it needs to be is a mandrake zlib-1.1.4 rpm. When is one forthcoming? I do NOT want to install a tarball of the lib, this dicks up dependencies (using tarballs instead of rpms)

Re: [expert] Vi

2002-03-15 Thread kwan
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: Hi i just made a major bummer i was editing httpd.conf - when saving i used :X insted of :x and i was asked for an encryption key - i then pressed enter (with an emty encryption key) and now the file is pure garbage - how do i unenrypt that

Re: [expert] Reposting: KDE Konsole PS1 problem

2002-03-16 Thread kwan
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, newbie wrote: I have an off-the-shelf installation of Mandrake8.1. But no matter what value i set PS1 to in /etc/profile, after I enters Konsole, it's always '[\u@\h \W]\$' . This problem doesn't happen to other environment variables in Konsole. Anyone has any idea? Try

Re: [expert] Gphoto 2 on 8.1

2002-03-17 Thread kwan
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello Could someone tell me the steps for using gphoto 2 on 8.1? It needs the lastest usb lib but I am not sure what to do. You'll need to grab the latest libusb from CVS then compile and install it. To do this: Browse to

Re: [expert] Vi, emacs, and editors

2002-03-18 Thread kwan
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Tim Holmes wrote: [...] Why people get into heated debates about what editor to use, I don't know! I used to have a line saying Real Admins use ViM in my signature. I was almost kicked off a mailing list because of the ensuing riot that seemed to form once somebody

Re: [expert] Vi, emacs, and editors

2002-03-19 Thread kwan
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Ok...I'll add my 2.572 cents in here. I would have to say that while I like commandline vi and I can also appreciate and use emacs, over all my favorite is XVim. that way I get my cake and eat it too. Speaking of Emacs/VI, I'm looking for TeX helpers

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread kwan
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David wrote: I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an argument to the ./configure cmd that I needed to. I tried to just re-do the install, but the argument didn't take. My question How do I uninstall an app that was installed from a

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread kwan
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Terry Tremaine wrote: If that doesn't work you could try 'make clean'. make clean will only zap object files and binaries from the build directory. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Gphoto 2 on 8.1

2002-03-22 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Phil wrote: Hello All, I posted a similar question to this some time ago and didn't get a response. With the current interest in this thread I thought I'd try again. I have a Kodak DC3400 camera that works correctly under Linux if I use a serial port but not with the

Re: Fwd: Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-23 Thread kwan
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: [...] i still dont see how a fresh install could bring a whole network down. i dont really see any logical explanation for this. im a network engineer. not so good but i know the basics. are you saying your whole network freezed ? meaning, all

Re: Fwd: Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-23 Thread kwan
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: it could be that it just so happen that the network went down after his install(coincidence?). maybe he can try expert mode install again using the same card and see if he can replicate such occurence. or try installing 8.2 again using a

[expert] Beowulf presentation

2002-03-23 Thread kwan
I thought some Mandrake users might be interested in this: Last Thursday (3/15/02) our local Linux user group (http://www.flux.org) had a speaker demonstrating how to setup a Beowulf. It was a small cluster consisting of only three machines, but apparently could scale without modification to 10

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread kwan
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Omnus Necromancy wrote: If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux specifically, why are you using it? The penguin logo is pretty nifty. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Beowulf presentation

2002-03-24 Thread kwan
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought some Mandrake users might be interested in this: Last Thursday (3/15/02) our local Linux user group (http://www.flux.org) had a speaker demonstrating how to setup a Beowulf. It was a small cluster

Re: [expert] Beowulf presentation

2002-03-25 Thread kwan
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, msh wrote: Thanks, I have to configure a cluster in a few weeks and develop image processing software to run on it for near real-time medical image reconstruction. Cool. I have example code that may be useful. It helps to know someone else has already done it and

Re: [expert] command 'sed'

2002-03-26 Thread kwan
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List, I swear I tried, but how can I make a whole line substitution using 'sed'? I mean I have a 'word', then I want to find the 'line' where 'word' is and so change this whole 'line' by a 'phrase'. All that I got with 'sed' by now

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