Re: OT Fwd: SuSE noshow at LWCE NY 2002

2002-02-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
begin Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:51:39 -0800) On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:16:29AM -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote: unless of course you meant to type rm -rf *.bak and accidently typed rm -rf * (and hit return prematurely) DOH! slaps himself in the face for

Re: OT Fwd: SuSE noshow at LWCE NY 2002

2002-02-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Yeah, sure. So I can have users losing entire directories. I will never forget the time I was called frantically to restore accounting information to someone's server because it was missing. It being on NetWare I attempted a Salvage, but couldn't find anything to salvage. Well Chief, to

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

2002-02-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
By Front End do you mean something like Access has for it's own databases? With most SQL RDBMS's you will find that the best front end for them is a GUI tool which allows you to send SQL commands in a simple way. For this, I like KMySQL. Other than that, you aren't going to find any

More Steps: Feb 9

2002-02-09 Thread Mike Andrew
KDE -KDE3 (On SuSE 7.3) (Iraj) Mail-Fortune Sig files (Andrew Mathews / Myles Green) Mail-Kmail Mail-Kmail Signature script (Johannes Findeisen) Printers-USB-Quick Tip for Col3 (Federico Voges) Lilo- Dual Boot Win2k example(Nate Cole) -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-02-09 Thread Mike Andrew
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 21:16, Matthew Carpenter wrote: By Front End do you mean something like Access has for it's own databases? I'm floundering with databases, so 'yes', that type of thing would be what I'm looking for. (but I don't know too much about Access either) Although I think I

Re: OT Fwd: SuSE noshow at LWCE NY 2002

2002-02-09 Thread Collins
[ snips ] On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 14:00:20 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2002-02-09 Thread Collins
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 04:46:09 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By Front End do you mean something like Access has for it's own databases? With most SQL RDBMS's you will find that the best front end for them is a GUI tool which allows you to send SQL commands in a simple way. For

Re: I wanna know

2002-02-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 09 Feb 2002 03:56, Mike Andrew wrote: 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

Re: Header include question

2002-02-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
Mike The problem was not the library, I have LD_LIB set., it is the older stl headers being called before the STLport header with the sane name ie. vector list on. I have been using kdevelop 2, a real pig, I do not consider very good at all. Their build files have everything in them

elx news

2002-02-09 Thread Collins
elx now has a user group, but it's pretty well hidden on the home page. You need to follow the purchase link, then you will see mailing lists. Not a lot of traffic, yet -- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - ELX rc1 with xfce and sylpheed ___

Re: Printing question

2002-02-09 Thread Collins
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:41:44 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sort of sounds like a memory problem. Knowing nothing, I would venture that there may be a misunderstanding between your printer and your server over how much memory is available on the printer (making most of this up.)

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

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 05:54:55 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 04:46:09 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For this, I like KMySQL. Is there a good equivalent for the PostgreSQL environment? Found this is a google search for kmysql. KSql,

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

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 05:54:55 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good equivalent for the PostgreSQL environment? Sorry, forgot the url: http://ksql.sourceforge.net/ -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list -

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

2002-02-09 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Saturday 09 February 2002 03:41 am, Mike Andrew wrote: Although I think I understood your explanation, I don't follow why it would be so difficult to have a front end (so to speak) for a mysql dbase server. What's so difficult about creating (say) a simple name and address book dbase

Map

2002-02-09 Thread Thomas A. Condon
What ever happened to the map of where we are located? Did I miss the announcement? In Harmony's Way and In A Chord, Tom ;-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Left Handed and In My Right Mind Registered Linux User #154358 ___ Linux-users

Another upgrade path from ws31 to ws311...

2002-02-09 Thread Jerry McBride
I have had no luck in getting the workstation 3.1.1 ISO's that so many have been getting. I keep getting turned away because the iso server is full up with users logged on... However, on one of the mirrors I found the WS311 rpms and srpms and grabbed those. The ones I actually used to upgrade my

HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread daddy
I'm running eD2.4 with kernel 2.2.14. KDE2.2.1 on an AMD k2-300. When I try to log on as any user I get the password incorrect - login failed message. Even as root. I am currently logged onto another distrib (OL2.3) ona different partition. How can I reset the passwords? Any help would be

XMMS for AVIS

2002-02-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have XMMS setup to show AVIs if I select them but I can't make it use XMMS if I left click on an avi file. I've added XMMS to the file associtions/general tab as the preferred app. On the embedding app tab I try to add XMMS but it doesn't show up in the list when I click ADD. I also

Re: Printing question

2002-02-09 Thread Joel Hammer
Does the print file generation take a long time on the linux server or is the slowness in the transfer to the printer? You could just change lp=/tmp/outfile and time the output. You would first have to touch /tmp/outfile and run checkpc -f. Joel After observing the behavior with top, it appears

Kernel sources question (Mandrake 8.1)

2002-02-09 Thread Jean Sagi
Does anyone know where to get the kernel sources on the Mandrake 8.1 cd's? I used the software manager to find and install them but i cannot find them. I don´t know if it's some package i have to install, or they just dont come in any of the three cd's. I read the kernel-howto, but I just says

Re: Kernel sources question (Mandrake 8.1)

2002-02-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 10 Feb 2002 01:36, Jean Sagi wrote: Does anyone know where to get the kernel sources on the Mandrake 8.1 cd's? I used the software manager to find and install them but i cannot find them. I don´t know if it's some package i have to install, or they just dont come in any of the

Re: Kernel sources question (Mandrake 8.1)

2002-02-09 Thread Jean Sagi
Tnx! a lot, I'll try it inmediatly. Chucho! Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 10 Feb 2002 01:36, Jean Sagi wrote: Does anyone know where to get the kernel sources on the Mandrake 8.1 cd's? I used the software manager to find and install them but i cannot find them. I don´t know if it's some

Re: Kernel sources question (Mandrake 8.1)

2002-02-09 Thread Net Llama
I'd strongly recommend downloading the latest stable kernel source (2.4.17) from kernel.org and building that. --- Jean Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where to get the kernel sources on the Mandrake 8.1 cd's? I used the software manager to find and install them but i cannot

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread Joel Hammer
You could try editing your password files. Look at /etc/shadow. For example: andrew:s52TAIl4IT.:11314:0:-1:7:-1:-1:134535852 aph5::11476:0:-1:7:-1:-1:134535844 user aph5 has no password and you can log on with just the user name. Joel On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 12:32:44PM -0600, daddy

building Mozilla from source

2002-02-09 Thread Net Llama
Greetings, I've seen a few random comments here there (off this list) about people getting very significant performance improvements when they rebuilt Mozilla from source (even compared to the i686 binary tarball). Truth be told, i attempted to rebuild a Mozilla-0.9.8 SRPM earlier this week, and

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread Net Llama
I think a key piece of info that is missing here is whether he has simply forgetten the password(s), or if something occured to render authentication broken. Tinkering with /etc/shadow may not be the best idea, especially if this is simply a matter of a forgetten password, where booting into

Re: OT Another Microsoft marketing success

2002-02-09 Thread Joel Hammer
Trying to think beyond linux, this will also kill any chance Apple might have in Africa. After all, Apple would have to give away hardward as well as software. You just gotta love those guys! Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list -

More SxS Steps for Feb 9

2002-02-09 Thread Net Llama
BIND - Running Bind 9 in a chroot jail (Douglas Hunley) BIND - Installing and Configuring BIND 9 (and rndc) (Douglas Hunley) = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help:

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread daddy
On Sat, 09 Feb 2002, Net Llama wrote: I think a key piece of info that is missing here is whether he has simply forgetten the password(s), or if something occured to render authentication broken. Tinkering with /etc/shadow may not be the best idea, especially if this is simply a matter of

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 09 February 2002 22:59 pm, daddy wrote: I haven't forgotten my password.  No member of my family can access their account.   How can I alter my boot up squence so that I boot up into single user mode. Once I do, I would then use the COAS tools to re-enter the passwords? I would

Re: XFree86

2002-02-09 Thread Net Llama
--- Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lonnie Were you the one putting Xfree86 4.2 on a system. If so are there any gotchas? I am running a ew 3.1 * 3.1.1 beta, thinking of updating something to the latest safe level. Already have the latest samba 2.2.x. Will later add the

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread daddy
On Sat, 09 Feb 2002, you wrote: I think a key piece of info that is missing here is whether he has simply forgetten the password(s), or if something occured to render authentication broken. Tinkering with /etc/shadow may not be the best idea, especially if this is simply a matter of a

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread Net Llama
--- daddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2002, Net Llama wrote: I think a key piece of info that is missing here is whether he has simply forgetten the password(s), or if something occured to render authentication broken. Tinkering with /etc/shadow may not be the best idea,

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread Net Llama
--- daddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2002, you wrote: I think a key piece of info that is missing here is whether he has simply forgetten the password(s), or if something occured to render authentication broken. Tinkering with /etc/shadow may not be the best idea,

Re: Kernel sources question (Mandrake 8.1) [SOLVED]

2002-02-09 Thread Jean Sagi
El Sáb 09 Feb 2002 21:44, escribió: Funny... kernel-headers was installed, but kernel source was not... and urpmi didn't noticed. Trying to find with keyword kernel doesn`t show anything... rpm -i kernel-source installed ok! ./configure make make install modprobe ... insmod ... and

Re: XFree86

2002-02-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
Lonnie Been running xfce for a couple of weeks now, kde2 what is that M$ stuff g. Tjhere is one thing I would like in xfce and that is the panel would hide till you needed it. May wait a while on x 4.2 then not a whole lot of upgrading really on the beta box except the kernel. cheers Rick

RE: HELP!! (fixed - not solved)

2002-02-09 Thread daddy
OK this is what I did. Booted up into single user mode Reset the passwords for the users Rebooted in the previously broken system Logged in as if nothing had happened. So I have cured the symptom but still don't have any clue as to what the cause was. I'll check my /var/log for any hints that

Re: Kernel sources question (Mandrake 8.1)

2002-02-09 Thread Jean Sagi
El Sáb 09 Feb 2002 21:56, escribió: Good idea... but for today is enough... 22:59 local time... And getting 2.4.17 by a 56k modem... ... others days need work too... ;) I'd strongly recommend downloading the latest stable kernel source (2.4.17) from kernel.org and building that. ---

Re: Kernel sources question (Mandrake 8.1)

2002-02-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Saturday 09 February 2002 08:36 pm, Jean Sagi warbled: Does anyone know where to get the kernel sources on the Mandrake 8.1 cd's? I would be a matter of looking at each cd under kernel. However at this site http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.1/kernel/ You can download the latest

xfce panel [ WAS Re: XFree86]

2002-02-09 Thread Net Llama
I don't know that its possible to natively hide the xfce panel. You can minimize it though, but i'm not sure that's what you had in mind. --- Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lonnie Been running xfce for a couple of weeks now, kde2 what is that M$ stuff g. Tjhere is one thing I

RE: Disk Activity

2002-02-09 Thread zohar
Dep, Please try not to answer by .dat files as it is not opening, may be opening in linux but I do not have external modem so for internet and applications I have to maintain W2K I had also experienced the same problem of elongated disk activity in the past but at that time I was not on this