Re: [expert] When will 7.2 get to the stores in the US?

2000-11-06 Thread Ron Heron
Hi, I bought mine Saturday in a WalMart in California. And, kudos to Mandrake - I have loaded Storm, SuSE 6.0,6.2, and 6.5, Redhat 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1 and this is by far the best distribution EVER. Ron PS - I had the system up and running on dual SMP, connected to the internet and sharing the

RE: [expert] When will 7.2 get to the stores in the US?

2000-11-07 Thread Ron Heron
Yup - that's correct. For example, there are two samba rpms, but no samba base! no sendmail, and no ncftp. I am sure there are others. QUESTION - now that I have that loaded, how do I update to what's on the websites? Thanks, Ron --- Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [expert] More smp

2000-11-07 Thread Ron Heron
http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html --- PatMc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very happily running a dual Celeron machine. Were can I get info on smp ( basic and otherwise )- how to get the most out of it ...etc. Not having any problems. Just want a better understanding of what is

Re: [expert] When will 7.2 get to the stores in the US?

2000-11-07 Thread Ron Heron
Use MandrakeUpdate and please learn how to quote Alexander Skwar -- Thanks, but three people before you had said the same. So, unless you just wanted to start another "quote crusade" maybe you should start at the top of your inbox. As for quoting, please read the following:

Re: [expert] VMware

2000-11-07 Thread Ron Heron
--- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is Plex86? Plex86 is formally FreeMWare. It is an open-source attempt at virtualization. I guess it will eventually be as capable as VMWare. I have been following for a year and a half, and not much progress has been made (from a user

Re: [expert] ReiserFS

2000-11-14 Thread Ron Heron
I have installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 (inst and ext disks). Everything is OK, but one thing: how to use ReiserFS? SUSE 7.0 gives, while Once you have installed an ext2 install, you can still have reiser support by doing the following: http://kurt.andover.net/Reiser-filesystem-HOWTO.html

Re: [expert] dup/bad blocks-won't boot

2000-11-14 Thread Ron Heron
Have you tried running "/sbin/e2fsck -c -f /dev/hdb6" at this prompt? Also, and I have had mixed results with several intalls: #e2fsck -f -b 0 /dev/hdb6 or #mount -o remount,rw / #mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdb6 and try and delete your dup block, but that is the last thing I would do.

Re: [expert] partition wizardry

2000-11-15 Thread Ron Heron
accurately fit system usage? eg. it's a 30Gb drive and there's 2Gb left in /var which it doesn't really need, but the /public path I setup could use some extra Either use symbolic links to virtually move parts of file system, or use tools to change partitions' size (partition magic

Re: [expert] Getting two networks cards to work under the same module!

2000-11-15 Thread Ron Heron
alias eth0 ne alias eth1 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=11 options ne io=0x280 irq=10 I can modprobe eth0 and get it working but I cannot get the second NIC (eth1) to be recognized by the kernel. How do you configure these arguments to recognize two NIC under the same module?? Have you

Re: [expert] Doh! HELP! Can't start linux and can't fix it.

2000-11-15 Thread Ron Heron
#mount -o remount,rw / I need / to mount in single mode read-write so I can replace my bad rc.sysinit with the good one. praedor Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. __ Do

Re: [expert] local mail delivery agent problem

2000-11-17 Thread Ron Heron
Can't create transcript file ./xfeAEI8LC01988: Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfeAEI8LC01988, uid=1001: Permission denied After the upgrade, make sure that the owner and the uid are correct. often an upgrade will hose up uid's. for instance, change your user

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-17 Thread Ron Heron
3. Am I right in thinking that once you are running ext2, there is no way to convert those volumes to reiserFS? That's right. Alexander Skwar This is a matter of how you look at it. If you have an ext2 partition, you can make that partition reserfs. The issue is that you copy

[expert] KDE Login Manager Wallpaper

2000-11-21 Thread Ron Heron
Hi, Does anyone know how to fix the KLogin Wallpaper?Regardless of what wallpaper or background color is selected, it always reverts to the pale blue. Thanks, Ron __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-23 Thread Ron Heron
--- Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So sprach Ryan La Mothe am Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 02:30:57PM -0600: problem...EVER. This is a truly awesome FS, although I have been wondering why some of my apps appear to freeze up sometimes for a couple of seconds This is known as "read

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-23 Thread Ron Heron
What exactly are the reasons that you would not trust reiserfs for a production system? It's not a matter of trust on my part - I trust it. It depends on what sort of "production" your are looking at. If I am providing a service for money, and my clients make money with that service, I

Re: [expert] URGENT:X-server produces a system breakdown.

2000-11-26 Thread Ron Heron
--- fabian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I rebooted the computer and after fixing the file system Linux started the X manager and the system died again. I wish I could let the system know at booting time not to start the X server in order to delete the added line in the XF86Config

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-26 Thread Ron Heron
Alexander Skwar Grab the Kernel srpm and install it...it should have everythign you need 100% correct! the srpm installs the source just as if you used the tarball. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of

Re: [expert] Login manager

2000-11-26 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I have the same problem, and someone posted a response that informed me that KDE 2.0 is broken on this, and should be fixed in a patch or a new release soon. So, many of us have put this problem on the back burner. I have tried to fix this myself, but only end up having to re-install

Re: [expert] I give up on what?

2000-11-23 Thread Ron Heron
Remember that Linux is a community of people all working to making it a better product. Every mailing list, including this one is helping. There are issues solved by the mass community on lists such as these that end op being part of future distros. In other words, there is no Linux Inc that

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-23 Thread Ron Heron
Now if ReiserFS only supported quotas ... no streams support __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Kernel patches - hedrick's 2.2.17 IDE mingo's 2.2.17 RAID patches: are they in 7.2?

2000-11-06 Thread Ron Heron
Hedricks pathes are in the 2.2.17 kernel --- Dan Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm moving to Mandrake 7.2 because I'm having trouble with my RH7.0 box that is running Promise IDE (Ultra66) cards, and RAID-5 (4 disks). What modifications to the kernel have been performed in Mdk 7.2?

Re: [expert] Multiple attempted unauthorized accesses

2000-12-04 Thread Ron Heron
as trying to access my smtp server (and access was apparently Nov 28 23:59:07 duck kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 63.98.105.3:8 208.xxx.xxx.xx1:0 L=60 S=0x00 I=6793 F=0x T=114 (#1) Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but this isn't a relay attempt. It´s just

Re: [expert] imap on Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-05 Thread Ron Heron
That probably means, xinetd listens and responds to request on imap port but fails to spawn imap program. First, make sure the port is opened in the services file. Then try telnet localhost:143. Then try connecting using pine. Then check your hosts.allow and any other firewall settings

Re: [expert] FTP Server Trouble

2000-12-05 Thread Ron Heron
Look into xinetd.. --- Lee Buller's Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen I am fumbling around with a Mandrake 7.2 install and cannot seem to configure the FTP Server to get it to connect. inetd is running, but I cannot get a connect and cannot seem to undestand

Re: [expert] ANNOUNCE: KDE 2.0.1 released (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Ron Heron
I appologize, but can somebody summarize this thread? I haven't been following. If I understand correctly, 2.01 is out, but not via Mandrake? Ron --- Chris Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 6, 2000 05:30 am, you wrote: Mandrake's Updates are _beyond_ the 2.01 release already

Re: [expert] caching dns server

2000-12-07 Thread Ron Heron
you did try nslookup hostname (nslookup www.linux.org) if you try just nslookup without a host to actually look up, you will get this response. May not be the problem, though --- Steve Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i installed the caching dns server on mandrake 7.2, it works fine one

Re: [expert] telnet and ftp services

2000-12-08 Thread Ron Heron
for me, I actually had to install the telnet server. Also, 7.2 uses xinetd. - Ron --- Bryan Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am an experienced Debian user who is having a little trouble with Mandrake 7.2. My mandrake box doesn't want to start ftp or telnet services. Telnet in particular

Re: [expert] What does it take to speed up LM 7.2?

2000-12-08 Thread Ron Heron
Try checking if all your memory was recognized -#free If that shows 64000 total, then you need to put an append line into lilo (append="mem=256M") . I put this line just after the timeout line, then re-run lilo. Ron --- Chris Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 8, 2000 12:20 pm, you

Re: [expert] Fresh, new install of Mandrake 7.2 - system SLOOOOOW

2000-12-09 Thread Ron Heron
check to see if all your memory was recognized (#free) if it only says 64000 total, then add a line to lilo.conf (append="mem=256M") and run lilo. --- Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 December 2000 11:54 pm, you wrote: I decided to go clean install and get a fully 7.2

Re: [expert] Mandrake KDE 2.01

2000-12-11 Thread Ron Heron
slew of messages that the packages ( Chris Molnar's ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE ) already installed were newer. BTW, I was hoping for a KLogin Wallpaper fix - but it seems it is still broke. Also, Konquerer Web Browser is still having Java problems :(

Re: [expert] Ethernet lockup problem; possibly Samba and vmware related

2000-12-11 Thread Ron Heron
If it's any consolation, I had the same problem with SuSE, and RedHat. The problem for me was fixed when I upgraded to 2.2.16 with the hendrick IDE patches (I used the SuSE kernel) Mandrake 7.2 has the 2.2.17 with the patches. You don't need to upgrade to 7.2, just download the SRPMS for the

Re: [expert] kernel: init not found - using 7.1 kernel on 7.2 with ReiserFS

2000-12-22 Thread Ron Heron
You mentioned running mkinitrd, and editing lilo.conf, but did you ever run lilo? - Ron --- Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an attempt to get our CD-RW server back up and writing CDs, I have installed the kernel 2.2.16-9mdk from the 7.1 updates. After doing the mkinitrd and editing

[expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager

2001-01-08 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I just installed the mdk kde 2.1 beta. The release notes say that 2.1 now contains a Theme Manager. Does anyone know where this is, or what the command is? Thanks, Ron __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online!

RE: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager

2001-01-11 Thread Ron Heron
--- Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't do themes either. I just give everything a once I think you are ALL closet theme users :) Seriously, It does work on the the latest RPM's, just not alot of themes to pick from. Does anyone have any information on the paths that

[expert] KDM Wallpaper fix

2001-01-13 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I remember seeing alot of posts about not being able to change the background for the KDM login screen. Here is the fix: Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 Add "/usr/bin/kdmdesktop" after the xsetroot lines Here's a cut from my Xsetup_0 . ---snip /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid

Re: [expert] gui interface for ipchains

2001-01-13 Thread Ron Heron
kfirewall --- Steve Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was wondering if anyone knew of a gui interface for ipchains __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 CVS 20010115 RPM's Available

2001-01-16 Thread Ron Heron
--- Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't speak for Mandrake on this one. I spoke with my buddys at NEBS and they thought about charging more, but it may be in violation of the GPL to charge much more. There is a general spirit of things in the open source community and

Re: [expert] probs getting to some sites

2001-01-17 Thread Ron Heron
What is the DNS setting on your client terminals? -Ron Linux Desktop/firewall/router IP 192.168.1.100 the above machine blocks nothing from internal network Laptop running Linux/Win 2k IP 192.168.1.120 Desktop running Win 98/Linux IP 192.168.1.110 http://www.realtor.com is one of the

RE: [expert] probs getting to some sites

2001-01-17 Thread Ron Heron
--- Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops, sorry the DNS is set to my isp's dns settings as is the I have a similar arrangement, but I set the client pc's to point DNS to the linux server (192.1.0.1). It fixed alot of my mysterious problems. The Mandrake "Internet

Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-17 Thread Ron Heron
Try writing the command into a script file, make it executable, and reference the cron to that. --- "Russell \"Elik\" Rademacher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Crontab broken in the Mandrake 7.2? For past few days after I installed the new crontabs for one user and another as other,

RE: [expert] Directory sread - failed ???

2001-01-18 Thread Ron Heron
You probably didn't reboot after creating the partition. This wouldn't be a reiser partition would it? I had this problem after creating a new partition. I fixed it by dumping the partition, rebooting, and recreating, rebooting and formating. Ron --- Ali Alper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Icons

2001-01-18 Thread Ron Heron
Hey all, What is the command to fix the icons in the tray? update-menu works great for the menu items, but all my icons are broken since the upgrade. Thanks, Ron __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 CVS 20010115 RPM's Available

2001-01-18 Thread Ron Heron
Have you fixed the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 file by adding /usr/bin/kdmdesktop at the end? That will enable X to read the kdmrc file. I fixed mine before the upgrade, and all is well with KDM. Also, my appologies to the "quoting monitors" but I thought it necessary to include the entire thread

Re: [expert] RPM Updates

2001-01-18 Thread Ron Heron
I may be doing it wrong, but by golly it has worked everytime! #rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps *rpm Ron --- Tib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after 12 hours of downloading and stuff - the Freshen command I used just spit everything back at me with conflicts and dependencies [grumblegrumble]

Re: [expert] RPM Updates

2001-01-18 Thread Ron Heron
Jan 2001, Ron Heron wrote: I may be doing it wrong, but by golly it has worked everytime! #rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps *rpm Ron --- Tib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after 12 hours of downloading and stuff - the Freshen command I used just spit everything back at me

Re: SV: [expert] RPM Updates

2001-01-19 Thread Ron Heron
reports to developers. -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]På vegne af Ron Heron Sendt: 19. januar 2001 00:19 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: [expert] RPM Updates I may be doing it wrong, but by golly it has worked everytime! #rpm -Uhv --force

RE: [expert] Directory sread - failed ???

2001-01-19 Thread Ron Heron
Does this happen while running VMWare? Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jan 17 04:03:34 mdw1982 kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x13) failed Jan 17 04:03:34 mdw1982 kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x13) failed Jan 17 04:03:34 mdw1982 kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x13)

RE: SV: [expert] RPM Updates

2001-01-19 Thread Ron Heron
Actually, this whole thread is a joke. But, no, I am entirely too lazy to put all the rpms on one command line :) Also, for those so concerned that I won't know what the dependancies are, (I thought for sure that the "by golly" would have shown I was kidding) try this on any installed package:

Re: [expert] Firewall and NIC cards

2001-01-22 Thread Ron Heron
1) the only problem with multiple cards, is that you will have two modules, and if you are using the LRP floppy, it may just take up room. Still shouldn't be a problem, though. 2) the video is a bios setting, where you simply allow the computer to boot without keyboard or video. 3) Check the

Re: [expert] samba

2001-01-22 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I use both W2k and W98 on my Samba box. I use encrypted passwords, though. What have you set up? AFAIK Windows 2000 will only work with samba using encrypted, or at least that's the only way I could get both flavors working on the same lan. Ron --- Andri Genio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Internet Phone

2001-01-23 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I have been searching and searching, and cannot find anything that will work with Linux for PC-Local PSTN Phone Calls. What I was trying to find, is something that will work like the Yahoo! Phone Calls that is currently only available for Windows and MAC. Any ideas? Ron

Re: [expert] Wine (Was windows media player)

2001-01-26 Thread Ron Heron
How is your wine set up? Do you just run apps, or do you use wine to access an installed win95? Also, which version are you using? I love wine, and use it for running WinVN. How did you install the media player. I can't get it to run. Windows Media Player works fine here. I use Codeweavers

Re: [expert] Changing dir permissions.

2001-01-26 Thread Ron Heron
Looking at it, *all* the dirs on /mymusic have those rights. My Music is at /mymusic/My Music/ . I've tried "chmod 666 ./My\ Music/" and "chmod a+rw ./My\ Music/" as root, get no error messages, but the perms don't change. I feel like I'm missing something simple, but even searching the

Re: [expert] An observation on this Mandrake list

2001-01-31 Thread Ron Heron
--- Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes... a zillion thanks to all the developers out there for lifting us out of that costly hell-hole known as Microsoft. Now we can spend more time with our work rather than screw with that piece of junk Windows. Well, I too thank the

Re: [expert] There is no net phone for linux, period

2001-02-06 Thread Ron Heron
Just to resound, the message below is perfectly accurate. So, to provide this type of service, like a linux version of dialpad, one would have to hack the client software, and provide routing to the PSTN Gateway on the server end. There are several of these gateways that one would have to

Re: [expert] Desktop over telnet

2001-02-06 Thread Ron Heron
Read this: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/index.html It isn't telnet. You have to have an X server running on your client machine (the remote) and tell the server to get it's input from a specified location, using the command (#X -query 192.168.0.1 ) substitute IP for the IP of the host.

[expert] Request for test - Cable Modem Users

2001-02-06 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I would like to ask for some assistance from those using Cable Modems (@home, RoadRunner, etc). The test scenario is as follows: 1) Open an ncftp to, say the MUO site or other (your choice) 2) Download several 1 to 2 Meg. files, one at a time. 3) Note the throughput (24.2kpbs, for

[expert] Request for test - Cable Modem Users

2001-02-06 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I would like to ask for some assistance from those using Cable Modems (@home, RoadRunner, etc). The test scenario is as follows: 1) Open an ncftp to, say the MUO site or other (your choice) 2) Download several 1 to 2 Meg. files, one at a time. 3) Note the throughput (24.2kpbs, for

Re: [expert] There is no net phone for linux, period

2001-02-06 Thread Ron Heron
Al, I would love to help. Please add me to the list. I am a switching guy (the tandem/voip part) Ron -- Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. Altoine Barker |=.| |.-.| Maximum Time, Inc |--| ||$SEND|| Chicago Based Enterprise | | |'-'|

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function

2001-02-06 Thread Ron Heron
no-way man! My install works great (so far). I did have one problem, but I was installing on top of the old. I deleted the .kde directories, and all the kde-related directories in /usr/share, and all the /tmp files related to kde, then followed the instructions "DO_NOT_READ_THIS" and it worked

Re: Re[2]: [expert] My last word on Linux Telephony

2001-02-06 Thread Ron Heron
Wow, this is crazy. Maybe the following will explain client - software app - ISP - Internet - Service Provider - VOIP Gateway - PSTN client = You, the linux user software app = doesn't exist properly yet (JAVA crap) ISP = well, you know Internet = duh, Service Provider = Provides billing,

Re: [expert] Off Topic - email etiquette

2001-02-07 Thread Ron Heron
If the person sending that mail, or someone that knows of such a page, reads I know a page :) goto http://www.yahoo.com , and type "email etiquette" in the little box, and press enter. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 new install and network probs

2001-02-08 Thread Ron Heron
I cannot telnet/ftp into my own box. Cannot connect to port 80 and 119. I just get errors that network is not available. Something is There needs to be a 7.2 FAQ! This question comes up often... here are some things to check: ifconfig -a - look for your network address and UP ping network

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 new install and network probs

2001-02-08 Thread Ron Heron
#ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up ya have to tell it the ip? --- Andreas Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Don, 08 Feb 2001 schrieben Sie: type ifconfig at the # and see what that says - it sounds like your network card has not been activated or not found. Hallo Mike, well first I do not

Re: [expert] Samba and two-class_network...

2001-02-09 Thread Ron Heron
Hi, assuming the routing is all correct, it looks like you just need to add the following line to your /etc/smb.conf hosts allow = 141.108.21. 141.108.16. 127. The line should follow the following text block from the config file # This option is important for security. It allows you to

RE: [expert] apache 1.3.17

2001-02-09 Thread Ron Heron
Does anyone know where to download mandrake rpm of apache 1.3.17 (the newest one) ? Near as I can tell, the most recent Mandrake is the 1.3.14-2. If you still want 1.3.17, you'll have to use a standard RH version. When Mandrake puts out the .17, you'll still be able to upgrade to it, though.

Re: [expert] Damnit...font problem from hell

2001-02-09 Thread Ron Heron
Hi Praedor, Wine should only build fonts upon running the first aplication, after initially installing or configuring Wine for the first time, or in the first new directory. It is actually building the registry based on your system fonts. In other words, if you just installed wine, and you

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Xserver unexpected shutdown.

2001-02-14 Thread Ron Heron
The issue is that when running an X session, and I attempt to start a second session using CTRL-ALT-F2 (or any function key up to 6), the X server shuts down. HUH?!?! C-A-F2 will give you a terminal session, X-A-F7 (depending on where the session was initiated, F7 by default)

Re: [expert] applinks in panel

2001-02-14 Thread Ron Heron
right click in the panel area, select "buttons", and find your application (teminals, xterm - for example). --- s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I put a shortcut in the kpanel/taskbar? I no longer have the terminal shortcut that I used to use so much. TIA, -s = ^C quit :q exit

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Xserver unexpected shutdown.

2001-02-14 Thread Ron Heron
Never Mind my response. I finally read the original post, and realized what was happening. I HATE QUOTING!!! --- Ron Heron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue is that when running an X session, and I attempt to start a second session using CTRL-ALT-F2 (or any function key up

Re: [expert] /usr wont unmount during shutdown

2001-02-14 Thread Ron Heron
Praedor, You probably have a daemon that just doesn't want to quit. Try doing a #ps aux just before shutdown, to see what's running. Then, try going down each init level, one at a time (init 4, 3, 2, 1). Ron --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, whenever I shutdown my laptop

Re: [expert] applinks in panel

2001-02-14 Thread Ron Heron
It gets even better! Once you have xmms working, you can right-click in the panel, select "applets", and add "xmms applet" and then you can start your playlist from the panel, also add stock tickers, news tickers, whatever! Most of KDE is pretty user-friendly, and it's potential blows other

Re: [expert] Setting up DCHP

2001-02-14 Thread Ron Heron
client or server? You should be able to do whatever you want with drakconf. Ron --- Devin Rader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me what I need to do in order to set up DHCP on my box after I have installed the DHCP package? Thanks! Devin = ^C quit :q exit ? help

Re: [expert] Dumb question...

2001-02-15 Thread Ron Heron
The LM login box is really KDM, the window manager from KDE. To change the goofy penguins, you access the "login Manager" configuration utility. I think it is under Configuration - KDE - System - Login Manager You can select the pixmaps from there. If all you have are goofy penguins, you may

[expert] KDE 2.1-0.20010210

2001-02-15 Thread Ron Heron
Hi everyone, I just noticed that there is another beta kde2 on cookerwith the following packages (not all are as new as the last Chris's packages): ncftp ...l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS ls kde* kde1-compat-1.1.2-8mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] Good simple writeup on xinetd

2001-02-19 Thread Ron Heron
http://www.macsecurity.org/resources/xinetd/tutorial.shtml Also, xinetd can be found at http://www.xinetd.org Ron or enter "xinetd" in a search engine. --- Larry Blodgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Mandrake have a good writeup on xinetd? Is there one out there that a newbie can

Re: [expert] changing mount point

2001-02-19 Thread Ron Heron
Actually, you don't even have to go through all that. What you can do is the following: #ln -s /mnt/cdrom /desiredmountpointname/cda #ln -s /mnt/cdrom2 /desiredmountpointname/cdb #ln -s /mnt/cdrom3 /desiredmountpointname/cdc Then, in your smb.conf, just add /desiredmountpointname as a

RE: [expert] Logging into NT domain.

2001-02-22 Thread Ron Heron
#mkdir /sambamount (or whatever, just a directory to mount to) #mount -rw -t smbfs -o username=joe,password=blow //clienthostname /sambamount Ron --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I've got Samba up and running. I'll probably grab that book. I had thought about it before. I've tried using

Re: [expert] Logging into NT domain.

2001-02-22 Thread Ron Heron
Sorry, I should have been more clear. The creating of a directory is just so you will have a directory to mount to. This is no different than any other form of mounting. Call it what you want, it's just that when you mount, and cd to the directory, you will be able to list the contents of the

Re: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Ron Heron
First, ensure that smb and nmb are running (most likeley, they are): [root@heronet kernel]# ps aux|grep smb root 1122 0.0 0.4 2580 1188 ?S05:28 0:00 smbd -D root 2563 0.0 0.2 1312 524 pts/0S13:00 0:00 grep smb [root@heronet kernel]# ps aux|grep nmb root

Re: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Ron Heron
I forgot, make sure that the shared directory has the right permisions. To test, just make the permissions 0750. Ron Heron --- Ron Heron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, ensure that smb and nmb are running (most likeley, they are): [root@heronet kernel]# ps aux|grep smb root 1122 0.0

Re: [expert] Two LINUX OS on same computer

2001-02-26 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I have done it, and it is quite neat, but can be a little tricky. Basically, you have /boot partitions for each install (among others). In your case, Mandrake Install should do this for you, but if it does not, just follow the following steps: 1) Once the install on hdb (7.2) is

Re: Reloading browsers [Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final]

2001-03-01 Thread Ron Heron
No kidding, reminds me of the NT "user adjustment" that required a reboot every 45 days. Sheeez, the only adjustment a user should have to make, is to upgrade periodically as the developers squish bugs (ie this one). --- Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, [At the risk of starting

Re: [expert] dhcp config help needed

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Heron
hi, It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying to assign dynamic IP's to your lan, you just set it up to listen on the eth of the lan network. Couldn't you just use Drakconf to help you? Also, check the docs (how-to's) and it should give you a 1-2-3 on how to do it. Ron ---

Re: [expert] OT:Cookfire

2001-03-05 Thread Ron Heron
Hi Cecil, I have downloaded and installed Cookfire. You are right, not too many docs or descriptions on it. I will try to describe. 1) The install It is a basic system installation, with a graphical install. You will need between 300 and 1200 MB available, and around 32M RAM. It will install

RE: [expert] OT:Cookfire

2001-03-05 Thread Ron Heron
find it. I would like to download and try it. Can someone point me in the right direction? -Original Message----- From: Ron Heron [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] OT:Cookfire Hi Cecil, I have

[expert] Mdk 8.0 xmms-avi and avi-file

2001-03-15 Thread Ron Heron
I am had problems with installing avifile on the 8.0 distro. Avifile is needed to play avi's with the xmms-avi plugin. Here are the details of my fun-filled adventure: 1) avifile-0.6.0-0.beta4.2 gave me the following dep errors: avi-codecs is needed by avifile-0.6.0-0.beta3.1

Re: [expert] Startup Services-doesn't

2001-03-16 Thread Ron Heron
Hi, Until this is fixed, you can use #chkconfig to do what you need. Just run #chkconfig --help for info. With this, you can list and define all services. Ron --- "Albert E. Whale" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed another LM 7.2 server and I am attempting to resolve the problem where

[expert] libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 Mdk 8.0

2001-03-17 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, This is probably my biggest problem with Mdk 8.0. I don't know much about libraries, but almost EVERY package that I like to use seems to need the libstdc++-lib6.1-2.so.3. But, this has been replaced with a newer package. Here is the output from trying to meet the dependencies.

[expert] XF86 Mdk 8.0 - OOOPS!

2001-03-18 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I did a dev update via MandrakeUpdate, and hosed my XF86. I tried configuring via xf86config, but no worky, keep getting a "unable to load default font "fixed". What's the best way to get X up and running again, and does anyone know how this could have happened? Thanks, Ron = ^C

[expert] Multimedia Mdk 8.0

2001-03-18 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, First - the 8.0 XMMS-Mpg is OUTSTANDING! Until now, I had used MpegTV (and paid for it) for Mpeg viewing. Now, what about AVI? I had used avifile, but am having dependancy/library problems. On 7.2, avifile worked great, and supported most of the codecs. So, what's everybody using for

Re: [expert] XF86 Mdk 8.0 - OOOPS!

2001-03-20 Thread Ron Heron
Hi, Yes, the xfont server crashed. But my problem as it turns out was my cookerupdate on the KDE. After I fixed the font server, I was only unable to start kdm. I had to back out of the 2.1-5 kde stuff. Here is the error: kdm[2043]: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3: undefined symbol:

Re: [expert] bad partition:fsck, e2fsck, dumpe2fs helpless?

2001-03-25 Thread Ron Heron
#e2fsck -f -b 0 /dev/hdc3 if that doesn't work, try #e2fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/hdc3 ron --- vick Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a corrupted partition on a 2nd Hard disk (/dev/hdc3) and i tried fsck and e2fsck with no success I tried also the following commands: 1)#sfdisk -l

Re: [expert] RE: Run Level Question

2001-04-03 Thread Ron Heron
Check your font server: #service xfs status if it is stopped, #service xfs start Ron --- Sir Lox Elroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am trying to edit some things out of my Run Levels to secure a box. I installed Mandrake 8.0 Beta and for some reason something freezes up on

[expert] ipop3 pam.d authentication

2001-04-05 Thread Ron Heron
Hello, I have been getting authintication failures for ipop connections on Mdk80beta1. Is there an issue with pamd? It says something like "couldn't get tty name". Ron = ^C quit :q exit ? help shit __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Heron
I know it's not a fix, but instead of kill -9 from a cli, try ctrl-alt-esc, and left mouse click on the dead netscape. This works for me. Sad when we can only compare the best ways to kill netscape. I am disappointed. I just wish konquerer were faster. ron --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Heron
I guess I just need to work with it more. Maybe its the "blank" while loading images, where netscape always gave the image as it loaded. Then again, I haven't looked deep into the configuration, just enough to enable java. --- s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what's up with yours, but

Re: [expert] Mem thief

2001-04-10 Thread Ron Heron
Here's a me-too, What i noticed is the available (free) memory is nill, and I am actually using swap, were I never was before. Is it pre-allocating for streams or buffers, or do you think there is a leak? (8.0 - Beta1 - stock SMP) --- Gabriel Fortuna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yea, on

Re: [expert] help: ext2 superblock disk problems

2001-04-09 Thread Ron Heron
Your partitions may have changed. Try mounting different partitions, looking for boot. # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt EXT2-fs: 03:0a: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted

Re: [expert] avi - what is the player called?

2001-08-06 Thread Ron Heron
OOOps, I meant aktion for the kde part. And it is not included in 8.0. As for the netscape, it worked via plugger and avifile. --- Ron Heron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7.2, you probably used avifile, but a front end to xmms. Also, kde integrated xanim into the mix. However, on 8.0, I

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