Re: kernel recommendations

2002-02-08 Thread kurt . wall
Typing furiously on February 07, Collins managed to emit: I've been off the linux lists for a couple of weeks. Is 2.4.17 a safe kernel for upgrading? I've used it without incident. Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Sendemi...???

2002-02-08 Thread Ezgi Bilir
Title: Yalnýz Kalma... Yalnýzlýktan sýkýldýnýz mý? Hepimiz zaman zaman bir dosta, bir sevgiliye ya da bir dert ortaðýna ihtiyaç duymuþuzdur deðil mi ? Peki ya o dostun sizlere bir click ötede olduðunu söylersem ne dersiniz? Þimdi

procmail just stopped

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
For reasons that escape me (thus this email), last evening procmail just stopped working. Nothing happened as far as I know. sendmail and all works but I am getting all mail in my default mailbox. proclog shows no activity since last night. Here is my .forward file: |exec /usr/bin/procmail

Re: procmail just stopped

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
OK. I just remembered. I was fooling around with permissions on my home directory last night. Although it is not blazened everywhere, the permissions of the directory where .forward resides have to be restrictive. I had made my home directory world writeable (not smart) while trying to fix a

Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Hipp
Something is continually strobing my hard disk about 1/second all the time I'm logged into KDE. Seems excessive. Is this normal? How could I track down which process is doing it? Thanks. -- Michael R. Hipp The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. -Roman historian Cornelius

Re: Anyone played with socks servers?

2002-02-08 Thread David Aikema
On February 7, 2002 10:27 pm, Federico Voges wrote: Hi, I've been using NEC's reference implementation of socks5 for over a year without problems. Easy to install, easy to configure, it works, I'm happy with it :) You can download from http://www.socks.nec.com/reference/socks5.html The

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread dep
begin Michael Hipp's quote: | Something is continually strobing my hard disk about 1/second all | the time I'm logged into KDE. Seems excessive. | | Is this normal? How could I track down which process is doing it? first, what hardware are you running? how do you have swap configured? what

an unintentional hoot

2002-02-08 Thread dep
looks as if internet tourist guy is now in salt lake city -- and the connection is not being made. or else one hell of a coincidence: http://www.drudgereport.com/ -- dep There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand; Beware the

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Hipp
New mobo (P4 1.7 GHz, 256M, 845 Intel chipset w/DDR memory, 2 IDE hds on chan #0). Ext2 filesystem, tho I have an Elx partition mounted that is ReiserFS and also a vfat Win partition. Not sure what you're asking specifically about swap but 'free' says: total used free

Re: Hidden directory contents in fstab-mounted Windows partition

2002-02-08 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 07 Feb 2002 18:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Monday 28 Jan 2002 23:46, Peter Ruskin wrote: I multiboot: Win98, Mandrake 8.1, Mandrake Cooker, Redmond and sometimes ELX. [...] But as a boot manager it's obviously flawed. As soon as I disabled it and put back PowerQuest's Boot

Re: Anyone played with socks servers?

2002-02-08 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, All I can tell you is that ICQ (Windoze MacOS) works. I'm using it in my router/firewall and I can send and receive files behind the firewall. BTW, if you need info seting ICQ, I can help you with that (there are a few tricky settings for the

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread dep
begin Michael Hipp's quote: | New mobo (P4 1.7 GHz, 256M, 845 Intel chipset w/DDR memory, 2 IDE | hds on chan #0). Ext2 filesystem, tho I have an Elx partition | mounted that is ReiserFS and also a vfat Win partition. Not sure | what you're asking specifically about swap but 'free' says: |

Re: Anyone played with socks servers?

2002-02-08 Thread David Aikema
On February 8, 2002 05:52 pm, Federico Voges wrote: All I can tell you is that ICQ (Windoze MacOS) works. I'm using it in my router/firewall and I can send and receive files behind the firewall. BTW, if you need info seting ICQ, I can help you with that (there are a few tricky settings

USB Printers and COL 3.1.1 (Workstation)

2002-02-08 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Just one bit of advice for those trying to use an USB printer with COL 3.1.1 add printer to /etc/modules/default or modprobe printer Otherwise, it won't be recognized. At least, that happened to me setting up an Epson SC 777. Federico Voges

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Hipp
I unmounted the ReiserFS and vfat partitions. Disk activity continues. Setting 'top' to 0.1 second updates seems to show kdeinit, X, init, keventd, and maybe hotpluguid as the most active. But it's really hard to tell. Interesting that hotpluguid seems to jump from way down on list to very

Re: USB Printers and COL 3.1.1 (Workstation)

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Hipp
This might be a good addition to the SxS. Federico Voges pontificated eloquently: Hi, Just one bit of advice for those trying to use an USB printer with COL 3.1.1 add printer to /etc/modules/default or modprobe printer Otherwise, it won't be recognized. At least, that happened to me

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Rick Sivernell
Look at th3e Caldera help info, they have one that talks about some kde utility on their system tray always checking, polling, cd roms or something along those lines. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1 Registered

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread dep
begin Michael Hipp's quote: | Unplugging the 2nd hard drive would take some work as that's where | swap and /home are. um, yeah. have you had both drives in the machine in the same configuration -- both on the same cable -- when this disk activity *didn't* take place? reason i ask is that

Re: USB Printers and COL 3.1.1 (Workstation)

2002-02-08 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, That's what I thought :) On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 20:19:06 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: This might be a good addition to the SxS. Federico Voges pontificated eloquently: Hi, Just one bit of advice for those trying to use an USB printer with COL

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Hipp
The drives have been in this config since I built the machine ( 1 month ago). The activity stops if I log out to the KDE login panel. Or if I get out of X altogether. dep pontificated eloquently: begin Michael Hipp's quote: | Unplugging the 2nd hard drive would take some work as that's

Re: an unintentional hoot

2002-02-08 Thread Tom Wilson
On Friday 08 February 2002 8 20:19 pm, dep's voice rose above the ones in my head and declared: looks as if internet tourist guy is now in salt lake city -- and the connection is not being made. or else one hell of a coincidence: http://www.drudgereport.com/ LMAOI wonder if that is the

Re: an unintentional hoot

2002-02-08 Thread dep
begin Tom Wilson's quote: | LMAOI wonder if that is the work of him again or if someone | just donwloaded one of the photos and cut him out. That poor | fella, little did he know he would be elevated to Internet | celebrity status. interestingly, it's actually not him -- the picture on

Re: an unintentional hoot

2002-02-08 Thread Tom Wilson
On Friday 08 February 2002 10 22:08 pm, dep's voice rose above the ones in my head and declared: begin Tom Wilson's quote: | LMAOI wonder if that is the work of him again or if someone | just donwloaded one of the photos and cut him out. That poor | fella, little did he know he would

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
I would look in /var/log/messages. Maybe you are getting numerous error messages logged there, causing the disk activity. Joel On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:46:28PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: Something is continually strobing my hard disk about 1/second all the time I'm logged into KDE. Seems

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Hipp
Good thought. Looks like I'm getting these at 5 min intervals, but nothing approaching every sec. Feb 8 21:20:01 linux crond[1846]: (root) CMD (/sbin/rmmod -a) Feb 8 21:25:01 linux crond[1848]: (root) CMD (/sbin/rmmod -a) Feb 8 21:30:01 linux crond[1863]: (root) CMD (/sbin/rmmod -a) Feb 8

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
Hmm... Is this the despised rmmod command? I would remove this from the root crontab or system crontab. I think a number of distros use it, to get rid of unused modules, but, it causes more pain than it is worth in some situations. Are there any other logs you could peek into? httpd, secure,

Configuring KDE Redhat 7.1 without reinstalling

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
I mucked up my xf86config file when I changed monitors and mice on my RedHat 7.1 box. This is XFree 4.0 something. Is there a way to run the redhat cdrom to just get it to configure my hardware again? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: Configuring KDE Redhat 7.1 without reinstalling

2002-02-08 Thread Tom Wilson
On Friday 08 February 2002 10 22:54 pm, Joel Hammer's voice rose above the ones in my head and declared: I mucked up my xf86config file when I changed monitors and mice on my RedHat 7.1 box. This is XFree 4.0 something. Is there a way to run the redhat cdrom to just get it to configure my

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Hipp
Checked cron, it's definitely set to run every 5 minutes forever. Seems at least backing it down to 1/hour would be sufficient. Anyone know? Thanks, Michael Joel Hammer pontificated eloquently: Hmm... Is this the despised rmmod command? I would remove this from the root crontab or system

Re: Configuring KDE Redhat 7.1 without reinstalling

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Hipp
At risk of stating the obvious, this is why I always keep several copies of working XF86Config files stored in all kinds of places. Being able to get X up in even a limited fashion can make any day brighter. Michael Hipp, CGW (Certified GUI Weenie - kinda like an MSCE only with fewer

Re: Configuring KDE Redhat 7.1 without reinstalling

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. That is a REAL fine untility. Joel As root type setup. Last option in the list is X configuration. Should get you back to a basic config file. Tom Wilson ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: MySQL front ends, was: Re: no printing from kmail

2002-02-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:31, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Monday 04 Feb 2002 21:08, David A. Bandel wrote: xmysql, webmin mysql module, phpmysqladmin, and there are others (tk module, ...) afaik, none of these are user front ends. Again, afaik, none of them allow you to design a dbase, then enter

Re: OT Fwd: SuSE noshow at LWCE NY 2002

2002-02-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 05:21, Bill Campbell wrote: I learned a long time ago (1) to always ``cd'' to a directory before doing an ``rm *'' in that directory instead of ``rm dir/*'' since a space after the slash does nasty things, and (2) to think really hard before using the ``*'' to make sure

Re: OT Fwd: SuSE noshow at LWCE NY 2002

2002-02-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:43, Joshua Lee wrote: The S-100 bus existed as a standard bus on many CP/M boxes long before the Apple II, though Apple is to be commended for it's open specs for The reference was in context to the Apple, and the demise of Mrola, which is directly related. The S100 (or

I wanna know

2002-02-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:31, Peter Ruskin wrote: I have to say I haven't studied any manuals about this (because it works for me®) - it came from a tip by a guru on kde-linux list. Okay okay, how'd you get the ® symbol. Don't tell me to use fourteen keystrokes please. I'm ready with the

Re: Header include question

2002-02-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:04, Kurt Wall wrote: On, Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:34:03 -0600, Rick Sivernell typed: [mondo snippage] Kurt I understand, I have a handle on it now. I just knew you were the one to ask. I really appreciate your help Thank you. Or, you could try the Kurtwerks(tm) all