[expert] acepting incoming ppp connections

2000-03-02 Thread Edward Pilipczuk
I've faced with few problems when using drakeconf/linuxconf for configuring ppp for incoming connections. 1. after registering ppp user the incoming session terminated with the message that pppd daemon must be run with setuid to root. Default pppd access rights does not have such mode. Using

[expert] gcc not working properly

2000-03-02 Thread Trevor Farrell
My Mdk 7.0 install (I just hit the recommended button let it do the rest) does not seem to have set up gcc correctly. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this? [root@treble nicq-0.0.5]# ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install.../usr/bin/install

Re: [expert] acepting incoming ppp connections

2000-03-02 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Try to add "noauth" in /etc/ppp/options. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Edward Pilipczuk wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:54:19 +0100 From: Edward Pilipczuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert]

[expert] Netpliance

2000-03-02 Thread Ramon Gandia
Totally off topic. But has anyone played with the Netpliance units yet? http://www.netpliance.com It runs QNX on 32 MB ram, 16 MB flash, V90 modem, keyboard, 10" color 800x600 LCD display and a $99 price tag. I ordered one today to see what makes it tick. QNX is not Unix or Linux, but it

Re: [expert] shutdown -r now not working

2000-03-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 02-Mar-00 Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alexander Volovics wrote: Everything seems to be working OK except `shutdown -r now'. This happens from both runlevel 3 or runlevel 5. The machine seems to do a perfect shutdown but does not startup again: the screen remains

Re: [expert] gcc not working properly

2000-03-02 Thread Yann Forget
Trevor Farrell a écrit : My Mdk 7.0 install (I just hit the recommended button let it do the rest) does not seem to have set up gcc correctly. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this? [root@treble nicq-0.0.5]# ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD

Re: [expert] Need FrontPage Extentions

2000-03-02 Thread Sergio P. Korlowsky
John F. McClinton wrote: Hello Experts: Where can I get Frontpage extentions for Mandrake 7.0? Are they bundled up in my 3 CD-ROM set or is there an URL to download them? Thanks, John try: http://www.advancedextranet.comSergio -- M A N D R A K E

[expert] Mandrake 7.0 update - GNOME Desktop items broken

2000-03-02 Thread Albert E. Whale
I upgraded my Linux-Mandrake 6.0 installation to 7.0 - successfully. However, after completing the update, two things in the GNOME environment are broken, they are: 1. the enlightenment window manager complains that the /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/CleanBig theme does not exist, and the

Re: [expert] Re: Need FrontPage Extentions

2000-03-02 Thread Robert Binkley
Richard Potter wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John F. McClinton wrote: Where can I get Frontpage extentions for Mandrake 7.0? Are they bundled up in my 3 CD-ROM set or is there an URL to download them? They *were* available at advancedextranet.com, but that site appears to have vanished.

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread minnrp01
I have to select linear when installing or I will get LI everytime. Has that been tried yet? If you use initial ramdisks, then you can use SCSI w/o recompiling the kernel. - I don't give a fuck, --My Name Is God sent me to piss

RE: [expert] Apache Problems

2000-03-02 Thread Joe Sheble
Actually I got it resolved by removing the default version that came with the distro, downloading the new source from http://www.apache.org and recompiling and installing it. Now it all works as it should've. (BTW, I had tried removing it and reinstalling it from the distro RPM muiltiple times

Re: [expert] nfs rpc question: Program not registered

2000-03-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:58:00PM -0800, Allan Jarina wrote: - Ive experienced this kind of problem many times and what i normally do is: - - remove my share in /etc/exports - - reboot the system - - add my share in /etc/exports - - restart the daemon -/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart - - run

Re: [expert] Adding ttf fonts

2000-03-02 Thread Istvan B.
Andrea Celli wrote: "Istvan B." wrote: I don't seem to have this. What do you mean by "use the ttf-package" on the CD? You mean the font collection? What does mkttfdir do exactly? Does it only make the fonts.dir? I know only that: - I choose to install ttf during Mandrake-6.1

[expert] Interrupt Lost

2000-03-02 Thread Vinay Gupta
My system running Mandrake 7.0 , init 5, hangs with the following repetitive message : hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost . . . . Any ideas why this might be happening ? Vinay __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to

[expert] Install 2 nic cards

2000-03-02 Thread Robert Binkley
I have a Dell 600, the system came with an on board ethernet card. I would like to install anothe one in my pci slot. And have it as eth1. Our network here is all DHCP, so would I have to give this new card a static ip are can I give it and DHCP address. The reason : I have an Xenvizex

[expert] autostart

2000-03-02 Thread Robert Binkley
HOw do you use the autostart folder ?

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
spin up in the adapter config? where is this config? the conf.moduels? the actual C code for the driver??? Ron Landis wrote: There are no 1024 issues with SCSI. In your SCSI adaptor configuration you should make sure you have "spin up" and bootable enabled. Meanwhile I'll look at one of my

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Alan, thats a no go as well I tried it lastnight and it gives the same problem. "LI" I took out all my IDE drives and only have SCSI drives, went to my mb bios and told it to boot scsi and also went into the aha152x bios and made sure it was bootable. Ron Alan Shoemaker wrote: Roncan

Re: [expert] Re: Need FrontPage Extentions

2000-03-02 Thread Robert Binkley
Robert Binkley wrote: Richard Potter wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John F. McClinton wrote: Where can I get Frontpage extentions for Mandrake 7.0? Are they bundled up in my 3 CD-ROM set or is there an URL to download them? They *were* available at advancedextranet.com, but that

[expert] Apache Question

2000-03-02 Thread Robert Binkley
This is a stupid question to you, but how do you use Apache.

[expert] Mandrake on a PPC?

2000-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
Hey, guys...just wondering, since you're porting Mandrake to a bunch of other hardware configs, are you planning on making a port of Mandrake for the Power PC? John

Re: [expert] Apache Question

2000-03-02 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Simply put your files in /home/httpd/html Create an index.html, and launch your Netscape to http://your.ip.address Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robert Binkley wrote: Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:14:02 -0600 From: Robert Binkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Apache Question

2000-03-02 Thread Bug Hunter
lynx 127.0.0.1 On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robert Binkley wrote: This is a stupid question to you, but how do you use Apache.

Re: [expert] Heads Up on MVP4 and Air

2000-03-02 Thread Trevor Farrell
Andrew Vick wrote: Sort of related... I've got Mandrake 7.0 running on a Gateway with a Phillips 2/2/4 CD-RW, and for me it's not detecting the CD drive. At all. When I try to mount it, it gives me an error, "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" and that the driver is not

RE: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
Another thought on this... In response to an earlier, valid comment that the SCSI adapter may not be bootable: The failure mode doesn't match. His BIOS would have kicked up a fuss that no SCSI boot device found and then proceeded to try booting an IDE device. Also, your drive is bigger than

Re: [expert] Single user mode?

2000-03-02 Thread Sang Y. Yum
--- "Ronald J. Yacketta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds like a typo (possibly) I use "linux S" when I need to get into single user mode Regards Ron "linux S" is the only variation I didn't try. I will give that a try next time I have to boot my machine. Hopefully, it won't be too soon.

[expert] netscape problems

2000-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Hello all (againl ;) ) I have haveing some problems with netscape. When I initialy logged in to KDE I ran the gamof setting up apps etc.. to my likeing. I modifed netscape (preferences) to poll my ISP for mail and to send mail via localhost etc.. when I logout and back in my configuration is

Re: [expert] Apoache error

2000-03-02 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Simple, you didn't setup a hostname in your networking settings. You can either use your favorite editor and add your hostname on line 573 of /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, or use Linuxconf, in Network, and configure your hostname. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robert

Re: [expert] Need FrontPage Extentions

2000-03-02 Thread Civileme
"John F. McClinton" wrote: Hello Experts: Where can I get Frontpage extentions for Mandrake 7.0? Are they bundled up in my 3 CD-ROM set or is there an URL to download them? Thanks, John There are a number of URLs where you can download frontpage extensions for

[expert] RPM dependencies

2000-03-02 Thread AceMaN
I've found that rpm depends on a floppy station is available on the machine. I find this very annoying since I use a laptop and I don't always have the floppy attached. There's only one paralel port and I use it for my floppy and my printer... I also have problems booting when the

Re: [expert] Interrupt Lost

2000-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote: My system running Mandrake 7.0 , init 5, hangs with the following repetitive message : hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost Have you enabled hdparm stuff for your IDE chain? If so, try turning it off. John

Re: [expert] Interrupt Lost

2000-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
BTW, this is almost getting to be a FAQ you might check the archives for a better answer than what I just posted... John

Re: [expert] Apache Question

2000-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
appache is a httpd (http daemon) just fire it up, should be /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start then do something like this lynx httpd://localhost Robert Binkley wrote: This is a stupid question to you, but how do you use Apache.

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Server Synchronisation

2000-03-02 Thread wazulu
Yann Forget wrote: James Lewis a écrit : We're thinking of moving the majority of our customers' mail to linux, and a few issues have come up: 1) How secure is sendmail 8.6.9 ? What are the main things we need to do to secure our public facing linux mail server? Secure ?

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote: Alan, thats a no go as well I tried it lastnight and it gives the same problem. "LI" I took out all my IDE drives and only have SCSI drives, went to my mb bios and told it to boot scsi and also went into the aha152x bios and made sure it was bootable.

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote: spin up in the adapter config? where is this config? the conf.moduels? the actual C code for the driver??? In the on-board BIOS for the Adaptec card itself. Assuming you HAVE a SCSI bios. I think someone said your card doesn't have BIOS. John

Re: [expert] RPM dependencies

2000-03-02 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Remove the "supermount" option for your floppy in /etc/fstab, that should solve the problem. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, AceMaN wrote: Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:57:02 +0100 From: AceMaN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] RPM dependencies

2000-03-02 Thread AceMaN
AceMaN wrote: I've found that rpm depends on a floppy station is available on the machine. I find this very annoying since I use a laptop and I don't always have the floppy attached. There's only one paralel port and I use it for my floppy and my printer... I also have problems booting

Re: [expert] Interrupt Lost

2000-03-02 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 05:43:20PM +0530, Vinay Gupta wrote: My system running Mandrake 7.0 , init 5, hangs with the following repetitive message : hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost . Any ideas why this might be happening ? Vinay You

Re: [expert] RPM dependencies

2000-03-02 Thread AceMaN
Jean-Michel Dault wrote: Remove the "supermount" option for your floppy in /etc/fstab, that should solve the problem. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. I just read a little about supermount and started to suspect it was something there... Stig

RE [expert] Front Page Extensions

2000-03-02 Thread Civileme
http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/download.htm is the correct site for the instructions I gave for FrontPage 2000 extensions. It is not a Microsoft product. Sorry about the mixup. It is not a familiar product to me since I won't use it until I have better security fixes. Civileme

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
clearly it seems that my problem must be the free old as sin adaptec I have. any recomendations out there for a solid scsi UW card? rather cheap? not likeing the 250$ tag on the 2490UW Ron "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: Another thought on this... In response to an earlier, valid comment

Re: [expert] Apache Question

2000-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
His problem is more of a configuration problem unable to start httpd Jean-Michel Dault wrote: Simply put your files in /home/httpd/html Create an index.html, and launch your Netscape to http://your.ip.address Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robert Binkley

Re: [expert] gcc not working properly

2000-03-02 Thread Civileme
Trevor Farrell wrote: My Mdk 7.0 install (I just hit the recommended button let it do the rest) does not seem to have set up gcc correctly. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this? [root@treble nicq-0.0.5]# ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible

Re: [expert] Heads Up on MVP4 and Air

2000-03-02 Thread Civileme
Andrew Vick wrote: Sort of related... I've got Mandrake 7.0 running on a Gateway with a Phillips 2/2/4 CD-RW, and for me it's not detecting the CD drive. At all. When I try to mount it, it gives me an error, "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" and that the driver is not

Re: RE [expert] Front Page Extensions

2000-03-02 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
It *is* a M$ product, just look at the license and copyright =) Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Civileme wrote: Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:28:48 -0900 From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE [expert] Front

[expert] cdrecord woes

2000-03-02 Thread S. Newhouse
Well, after following this thread for awhile, I decided to test certain things on my ide CD-RW cdrom. 1. I have not had much luck with xcdroast, so I have only been using cdrecord. 2. I have no trouble burning CD-R cdroms. 3. With CD-RW, cdrecord bombs out on attempts to write a brand new

Re: [expert] RPM dependencies

2000-03-02 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
The problem is also in RPM. It does a statfs(), I just don't know why. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, AceMaN wrote: Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 20:05:47 +0100 From: AceMaN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] RPM

Re: [expert] acepting incoming ppp connections

2000-03-02 Thread Civileme
Edward Pilipczuk wrote: I've faced with few problems when using drakeconf/linuxconf for configuring ppp for incoming connections. 1. after registering ppp user the incoming session terminated with the message that pppd daemon must be run with setuid to root. Default pppd access rights does

Re: [expert] Apoache error

2000-03-02 Thread Bug Hunter
edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and look for ServerName. Set it to something. I ususally set it to the same name I put in /etc/hosts so the name will resolve to an ip and back. On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robert Binkley wrote: Failed to start apache : Starting httpd: httpd: cannot determine

RE: [expert] Re: Need FrontPage Extensions

2000-03-02 Thread Ted Johnston
The are also available on Microsoft's web site of all places. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q202/1/98.ASP?LNG=ENGSA=AL LKB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Binkley Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 10:12 AM To:

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread minnrp01
Spin up might be a drive jumper and (IIRC) an option in the adapter setup. Bootable is an adapter BIOS setup (like spin up). - I don't give a fuck, --My Name Is God sent me to piss the world off. --Eminem On Thu, 2 Mar 2000,

RE: [expert] Interrupt Lost

2000-03-02 Thread Steven Smith
Try turning off DMA access for that drive... -Original Message- From: Richard Kilgore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Interrupt Lost On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 05:43:20PM +0530, Vinay Gupta wrote: My system

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 02:10 PM 03/02/2000 -0500, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: clearly it seems that my problem must be the free old as sin adaptec I have. any recomendations out there for a solid scsi UW card? rather cheap? not likeing the 250$ tag on the 2490UW i'm using the tekram UW (don't remember the model.

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote: clearly it seems that my problem must be the free old as sin adaptec I have. any recomendations out there for a solid scsi UW card? rather cheap? not likeing the 250$ tag on the 2490UW Take a look at the Advansys 3940UW. It appears (from Pricewatch) to be

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote: the 1520B card does have a bios. I press ctr-a and enter scsiselect which has an option ot enable/disable host adapter bios Ahh...well, I guess whoever it was that said yesterday that you don't have a BIOS on that was wrong, then. :-) John

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread Dana J. Laude
Try eBay, and do a search for "adaptec 2940". Thats were I got mine from, and it only set me back $100.00. Dana "Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: clearly it seems that my problem must be the free old as sin adaptec I have. any recomendations out there for a solid scsi UW card? rather cheap? not

Re: [expert] Auto Log On ... is it possible?

2000-03-02 Thread Linda Walsh
So in answer to the original question, would something like a "[exec?] /bin/su - username -c startx" do what they want? Just put that in "rc.local"? It would sorta mean S99local wouldn't exit on startup, but is that a problem? They could add a "" to background

Re: [expert] gcc not working properly

2000-03-02 Thread Ron Stodden
Civileme wrote: Put your 7.0 install CD back in, boot from it, choose Custom, Development, Upgrade It will leave your settings alone and give you all the packages you need (and more besides, against future development needs) Are you sure? It has been my (sad) experience that you CANNOT

[expert] install freeze problem

2000-03-02 Thread Scott Bessler
ok i have a problem, i have the following hd's and controllers a promise fasttrak66 w/ 2 seagate barracuda ata66 drives on it. (and win2k) an adaptec 2940 with a seagate barracuda 50 (scsi) that i want to put linux on. however, when i boot from the mandrake iso cd (7.0-2) it freezes at the very

RE: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows

2000-03-02 Thread Pira, Joel
try running kfm from your xterm *-Original Message- *From: Matt Fuerst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 9:28 AM *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows * * *Hi all, * *I am trying to connect to my Linux box from my Win98

[expert] VIA Technologies VT82C686_5 Sound Card Problems

2000-03-02 Thread Hoyt
Has anyone gotten the VIA Technologies VT82C686_5 sound card working in Linux (mine works fine in MS Windows)? Sndconfig detects it as a VIA but tries to load sb.o and I get a "device or resource busy" even after I unloaded all the modlues with rmmod and have evn tried to compile support in

Re[2]: [expert] #Linux-Mandrake IRC Channel

2000-03-02 Thread pipit
Dear Mr. Yann Nitin Raja Bhatia, NRB Yann Forget wrote: Why does it run Debian ??? cf. http://irc.openprojects.net/ The people which start openproject is a grup called linpeople. And perhaps many of them (specially people which connect to that irc-network) use debian. But it open to all

Re: [expert] VIA Technologies VT82C686_5 Sound Card Problems

2000-03-02 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Have you tried the Soundblaster *pro* driver? Yes, it's 8-bit, but for some cards, it's the only way to get sound... Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Hoyt wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:48:36 -0500 From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Re[2]: [expert] #Linux-Mandrake IRC Channel

2000-03-02 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NRB If I had the bandwidth, we could start another NRB openprojects server that runs on Mandrake. It's very hard to find official mandrake channel in irc :-( Nice idea ... :-) Also put the mandrake *official* support and developer there too

Re: [expert] Alternate window manager

2000-03-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, James Barley wrote: I would like to use xfce as my full time window manager. Can someone please tell me exactly what has to be changed in mandrake7 to make this manager my default. BTW I don't want KDE or Gnome at all. If you use KDM (ie. boot into GUI mode) just pick

RE: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows

2000-03-02 Thread RNDr. Peter FREIMANN
i have the same configuration here - on the linux side you need to have "xdm" running - that means start at runlevel 5 (in /etc/inittab or "telinit 5") - on the windows (X-win32) side you simply start an XDMCP session and X-win32 should find your linux server - after you confirm the selection of