[expert-it] Problema con Kernel 2.4.0test6

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum
5)Dopo aver messo il nuovo kernel 2.4.0test6 ho dovuto rinominare manualmente il fileetc/conf.modules perchè altrimenti il kernel nuovo cercava di caricare imoduli che erano stati installati con la prima installazione della mandrake7.1 ma che adesso non sono più necessari avendoli inseriti

[expert] [OT] Textmode Quake (Was: [Expert] rapidly deteriorating into a flame war)

2000-08-17 Thread Tom Massey
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Benjamin Reed wrote: One word: aalib. I tell ya, text-mode DOOM is a very strange thing. :) My word... *this* I'm not familiar with... tell me more! Do you mean 'Textmode Quake' - http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/? Basically uses the aalib library to

Re: [expert] G400 Boot Problems

2000-08-17 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
TriOptimum wrote: 5)During the boot up linux says that my g400 needs to load the agpgart prior to my mga ddr module.. but the problem is that i don't have modules..i compiled everything to the kernel..so how can i say the kernel to load "that" before "those"??? or i have to recompile

[expert] helix gnome and terminal

2000-08-17 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! oh no! i just installed helix gnome to test nautilus - and now my terminal is completely screwed up. in mc, instead of lines i have Ds and 3s and Zs... what can i do to correct this? and what should i do to use the gnome login manager from a remote x-server? PAT --

[expert] Manpath

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I just noticed that /usr/share/man isn't in the manpath (or at least it wasn't after my last install) easily fixed in /etc/man.config but I thought it was worth mentioning AG

Re: [expert] Manpath

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew George
On 17 Aug 2000, Thierry Vignaud wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew George) writes: I just noticed that /usr/share/man isn't in the manpath (or at least it wasn't after my last install) easily fixed in /etc/man.config but I thought it was worth mentioning it is there since release

Re: [expert] Unexplained crashes

2000-08-17 Thread Gavin Clark
how's your fan? the motherboard could be over heating. on 8/16/00 8:49 PM, Ellick Chan wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Stout, Wayne wrote: I have had a couple older machines, 200mhz that I didn't touch in a while, and the Mandrake gui installer would fail at apparently random points, and

Re: [expert] helix gnome and terminal

2000-08-17 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo Patrick! on Thursday, August 17, 2000, 10:30:36 AM, you wrote: PE oh no! PE i just installed helix gnome to test nautilus - and now my terminal is PE completely screwed up. in mc, instead of lines i have Ds and 3s and PE Zs... PE what can i do to correct this? PE and what should i do to

[expert] Printer

2000-08-17 Thread Richard Humphrey
Title: Printer I recently acquired a Raven LP-410 Laser printer. In Windows, this actually uses the Panasonic KXP-4110 printer driver. I was wondering how i can get this printer to work with mandrake 7.1. I read the How-to and it mentions that it is a ghostscript compatible printer (i think)

Re: [expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
Do you want to write the ipchains rules youself? Or would you like to configure them through a script like pmfirewall. I won't sit here and describe pmfirewall installation unless you want me to. :) Of course, if you go the pmfirewall route, I have to give you a link in order to get it...

Re: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: You've gotten Logcheck from Psionic, did you also get (and install) Portsentry? If portsentry was tripped, and added the offending host to the route table and the IP to the /etc/hosts.dent file, no packets will be logged for that host anymore.

Re: Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I setthedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-17 Thread Benjamin Reed
I tell ya, text-mode DOOM is a very strange thing. :) My word... *this* I'm not familiar with... tell me more! AALib is an ASCII-art graphics library. You can get it from http://horac.ta.jcu.cz/aa/aalib/ -- they've got source and binaries for a number of different platforms. The people

Re: [expert] [OT] Textmode Quake (Was: [Expert] rapidly deteriorating into a flame war)

2000-08-17 Thread Benjamin Reed
Do you mean 'Textmode Quake' - http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/? Basically uses the aalib library to render svga Quake. Very disturbing stuff ;-) The web page is funny as hell, go read it. Don't actually try to run this unless you're a 'sick sonofabitch', as the page states. :-)

Re: [expert] strange K mail oddity

2000-08-17 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Vic wrote: Or did I press the wrong button??? I noticed that sometimes when I click reply on K mail (or at least I think I clicked it) it replies directly to the person's e mail instead of the list like if they ask a question and I want to reply to the list so others can benefit.

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Tony Smith
One cute thing I noticed about logcheck...after I dumped the output of dmesg into logcheck.ignore (with appropriate changes to account for differing PID's) logcheck stopped supplying anything...I checked the output twice for wildcards that went to far and couldn't find any...after I deleted

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons Prob

2000-08-17 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 17-Aug-00 by TriOptimum: Here are the problems: 1)I have recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 and since the first boot The gnome desktop icons are all messed up.. for example i see the drakeconf icon like a piston and the navigator icon like a sheet of paper with the name desktop

Re: [expert] make command

2000-08-17 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find the 'make' command on Mandrake 7.0 Any help appreciated IIRC you need to install the developement packages to get "make". -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said, "Requires

Re: [expert] Kernel FAILURES!!

2000-08-17 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 17-Aug-00 by TriOptimum: 2)I have installed the new kernel 2.4.0test6 with the resierfs patch and after the compiling and reboot i have the following FAILURES in the boot sequence..3 services fails..and they are USb Kheader and Netfs..and i dunno why.. kheader is because your

Re: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Phil Edwards
Why do I keep getting messages from "mandrax.org"? Has the mailing list changed in some way that I'm not aware of On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: You've gotten Logcheck from Psionic, did you also get (and install) Portsentry? If portsentry was tripped, and added the offending host to

Re: [expert] Enlightment+Gnome=Bug???

2000-08-17 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 17-Aug-00 by TriOptimum: 4)If i use the enlightment with the Gnome..i get the following error.. it can't save the desktop icons position and it rearranges the icons every time i log in!!! This is the same bug as the wrong icons. *Should* be fixed at the same time (see solution

[expert] Weird Installation

2000-08-17 Thread Davis, James
Title: Weird Installation Hey everyone Got a problem. After the install Xdrake was setting-up the Xwindows environment and I got this error: Unable to find the default font fixed. Change some parameters!!! So I try changing all the parameter that I know and it still gives me the same

Re: [expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread Mike Rambo
cavall_fort wrote: Hello, forum : I'd like to configure Linux Mand.7.1 to comunicate a win98 with internet. Please, I need the configuration, not links nor references to Howto, nor vague information ... (:-D) I have Samba well configured : I can see Linux from Win98

[expert] kickstart installation

2000-08-17 Thread thierry
Hi everybody, I want to setup a kickstart installation without use a floppy boot disk, I want to boot directly with the cdrom and put the kickstart configuration file on the cdrom. I do that with a floppy, I put the syslinux.cfg and ks.cfg on the floppy and do the installation from de cd and ot

Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set the default editor soI can TRASH IT?

2000-08-17 Thread lselinger
Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/16/2000 05:24:36 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: [expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread cavall_fort
Hello again : Please ... Thank you, Merci ..., but a condition is *don't write link's*. I know this is more difficult, but I wish to do a discussion. And this mailing list "thread" can be used by the maximum people, because, in my opinion, this question is a "hole" in the "free"

Re: [expert] Unexplained crashes

2000-08-17 Thread Doug McGarrett
See if the fan on the micro is running. At 05:49 PM 08/16/2000 -0500, you wrote: Ok, I'm a wee bit confused here. My Linux box has started hanging and rebooting for no apparent reason. ( I know there's a reason, and I'm pretty sure it's my fault. :) ) /snipped off/

Re: [expert] Boot Logger???

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: 3)Someone knows how to create a log file to look at the messages created during the boot sequence? or if it is just being created by default where it resides??? Tnks! Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed"

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Tony Smith
I don't know, but I'm getting them too??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Phil Edwards Sent: 17 August 2000 14:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ipchains logging Why do I keep getting messages from "mandrax.org"? Has

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Cecil Watson
Are you trying to install or upgrade? Sounds like an earlier version of modutils maybe installed already, do a rpm -Uvh modutils-VER.rpm. - Original Message - From: "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Expert Linux List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August

RE: [expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread Tony McGee
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, cavall_fort pushed some tiny letters in this order: Hello again : Please ... Thank you, Merci ..., but a condition is *don't write link's*. I know this is more difficult, but I wish to do a discussion. And this mailing list "thread" can be used by the

[expert] Fstab problem

2000-08-17 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I did something stupid to both fstab and mtab files. I rebooted and now my / partition (/dev/hdc8 won't mount, due to fstab says it is ext2, when it is actually reiserfs. The partition is mounted as read-only when I do a linux single boot from floppy. I know this is a dumb question for this

Re: [expert] make command

2000-08-17 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 17-Aug-00 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't find the 'make' command on Mandrake 7.0 Did you install make? Some automatic installs do not include *any* development stuff. Do rpm -q make If you don't get a package name, put your cd in the drive and do rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/make-*

[expert] parallel port tape backup for linux

2000-08-17 Thread Joanne Treurniet
Hi all, I am in desparate need of a tape backup device that uses the parallel port, so that it's portable and I don't have to put a SCSI adapter card into every machine I want to back up. I've read the HOWTO and I've been to www.lhd.com and www.linuxtapecert.com. They mention the HP Colorado

Re: [expert] [OT] Textmode Quake

2000-08-17 Thread Stephen Bosch
Do you mean 'Textmode Quake' - http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/? Basically uses the aalib library to render svga Quake. Very disturbing stuff ;-) The web page is funny as hell, go read it. Don't actually try to run this unless you're a 'sick sonofabitch', as the page states. :-)

Re: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Bob
I've noticed the same thing. I checked out www.mandrax.org and it says Welcome to Linux-Mandrake Website but goes into a refresh loop At 02:43 PM 8/17/2000 +0100, you wrote: Why do I keep getting messages from "mandrax.org"? Has the mailing list changed in some way that I'm not aware of

Re: [expert] Help!!! Gnome KERNEL 2.4 Problem!!!

2000-08-17 Thread Sarang Lakare
TriOptimum wrote: In two languages Italian and English (poor) Here are the problems: 1)The gnome desktop icons are all messed up.. for esample i see the drakeconf icon like a piston and the navigator icon like a sheet of paper with the name desktop on it. I think that maybe this is

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Tony McGee
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Austin L. Denyer pushed some tiny letters in this order: Re-set due to bounce... Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk

Re:[expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread Mike Rambo
cavall_fort wrote: Hello, forum : I'd like to configure Linux Mand.7.1 to comunicate a win98 with internet. Please, I need the configuration, not links nor references to Howto, nor vague information ... (:-D) I have Samba well configured : I can see Linux from Win98

Re: [expert] Weird Installation

2000-08-17 Thread Philomena
Hi, I encountered that very aggravating problem twice during various installs - the way I fixed this was to make sure and format the partitions I was setting up. This was when doing a clean install and I didn't need to save any data that was already there. Don't know why the formatting would

[expert] [COT] UnrealTournament.ini

2000-08-17 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! sorry for the completely OT subject: could someone send me a working linux - UT 4.25 UnrealTornament.ini (maybe one for a dedicated server even)? thanks in advance and apologies again, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint:

[expert] [COT] UnrealTournament.ini

2000-08-17 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! sorry for the completely OT subject: could someone send me a working linux - UT 4.25 UnrealTornament.ini (maybe one for a dedicated server even)? thanks in advance and apologies again, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint:

Re: Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I setthedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-17 Thread Mark Weaver
You know what? That argument is akin to say that since there is crap on the TV when you turn it on that you're being forced by the television programmers to watch the crap. There IS a menu under the 'linux' button that will let you choose 'any' editor you wish to use. And if you don't like any of

[expert] X drake tools...

2000-08-17 Thread Julia A . Case
These tools worked GREAT during setup. But when I wanted to run them from the command line none of them work, I get pages of error output. If any one wants to see the output I'll send it to the list. Thanks, Julie -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ]

[expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Tony Smith
Hi, There was a thread on this a while back, but after a while ipchains stops logging denied packet messages to /var/log/messages and it all goes suspiciously quiet. I know it's not logrotate that's causing the problem because I'm using Psionic logcheck to scan my logs every 15 minutes and it's

Re: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
You've gotten Logcheck from Psionic, did you also get (and install) Portsentry? If portsentry was tripped, and added the offending host to the route table and the IP to the /etc/hosts.dent file, no packets will be logged for that host anymore. Or, is it that DENY pakect logging stops altogether

Re: [expert] RPM database won't rebuild!

2000-08-17 Thread Gavin Clark
I've seen weird stuff like that when the .rpm file I downloaded is corrupt. Gavin on 8/16/00 5:40 PM, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends I would appreciate your help with my rpm database problem: I was been unable to get my RealPlayer to play Radio Free Europe from its usual URL

[expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread cavall_fort
Hello, forum : I'd like to configure Linux Mand.7.1 to comunicate a win98 with internet. Please, I need the configuration, not links nor references to Howto, nor vague information ... (:-D) I have Samba well configured : I can see Linux from Win98 and Win98 from Linux. On the

Re: [expert] Fstab problem

2000-08-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:54:54AM -0400, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: I did something stupid to both fstab and mtab files. I rebooted and now my / partition (/dev/hdc8 won't mount, due to fstab says it is ext2, when it is actually reiserfs. The partition is mounted as read-only when I

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 17-Aug-00 by Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root: I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Interesting. Seems that RedHat (or whoever built that

Re: [expert] Help!!! Gnome KERNEL 2.4 Problem!!!

2000-08-17 Thread David Talbot
The problem is the User account you're logged in as was done prior to running go-gnome, and Mandrake had a copy of gnome (modified from the helix version) preinstalled on 7.1. go-gnome and helix updates are of course better (and fresher) than the copy of helixgnome that came with MDK7.1. When

Re: [expert] server question

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Thus spake Tony McGee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Firewalling works by selectively blocking off access to certain Internet Protocol ports. It's recommended to have a single dedicated machine as a firewall and a second one as an internal mail/web server but

Re: [expert] Help!!! Gnome KERNEL 2.4 Problem!!!

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
Try deleting .gnome* (there's a 'dot' in front of that) in your ~/home directory, then restart X. those directories and files should be re-written, and defaulted to the way helix-gnome or go-gnome wanted it. I'm not at all used to, not terribly happy with the way Mandrake configures the menus

RE: [expert] Weird Installation

2000-08-17 Thread Davis, James
the only problem is that I have an existing win98 (for the wife) that I need to keep... -Original Message-From: Philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 2:02 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [expert] Weird InstallationHi,I encountered that

Re: [expert] parallel port tape backup for linux

2000-08-17 Thread Stew Benedict
Ouch!, 20GB through the parallel port? That sounds painful. I've done a Win95 install from a parallel Zip drive, and that was only 35MB, and that was the pits. (I know, I know - consorting with the devil) Unfortunatey, backups are the dirty little secret no-one talks about with these new huge

Re: [expert] Stupid server question #3

2000-08-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Aug 16, 2000 at 11:22:14AM -0400, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: SOHO server setup scenerio "Firewall from hell" The object being to keep it simple but keep it secure Assuming five computers comp A = firewall w/ X NIC's comp B = mail server comp C = web server comp D =

Re: [expert] Fstab problem

2000-08-17 Thread Tony McGee
Oops! I still have painful memories of when my silly tinkering achieved a similar effect. :-) You could use a rescue floppy disk to use as a root filesystem until you can mount the offending partition and edit /etc/fstab. Maybe the rescue image in the images directory on the Mandrake cdrom may

Re: [expert] Help!!! Gnome KERNEL 2.4 Problem!!!

2000-08-17 Thread Steve Howes
Greg Stewart wrote: Try deleting .gnome* (there's a 'dot' in front of that) in your ~/home directory, then restart X. those directories and files should be re-written, and defaulted to the way helix-gnome or go-gnome wanted it. I'm not at all used to, not terribly happy with the way

Re: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Ken Thompson
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: I've noticed the same thing. I checked out www.mandrax.org and it says Welcome to Linux-Mandrake Website but goes into a refresh loop Here's the offending line causing the loop: meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://www.mandrax.org/en/" It should

Re: [expert] Weird Installation

2000-08-17 Thread lselinger
Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/17/2000 12:01:30 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [expert] Fstab problem

2000-08-17 Thread Dan Jones
You could probably manually unmount and then remount as read-write by doing something like: umount /dev/hdc8 mount -t vfstype -o rw /dev/hdc8 /mnt I don't know offhand how ReiserFS is designated in the -t parameter - you'll have to make the appropriate substitution for

RE: [expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread Dave Lers
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, cavall_fort wrote: Hello again : Please ... Thank you, Merci ..., but a condition is *don't write link's*. I know this is more difficult, but I wish to do a discussion. And this mailing list "thread" can be used by the maximum people, because, in my

[expert] Stress test for Apache server

2000-08-17 Thread Benoit Caron
Hello. I'm looking for a tool to measure the performance of an Apache Server running mod_perl. I found the ab (Apache Benchmark) tool that come with Apache to be a bit to simple : I particularly see no way to make sure that the data received are ok... I also know Microsoft Web Application Stress

Re: [expert] where is printtool update for 7.1? - 'direct' printer not works

2000-08-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Aug 16, 2000 at 01:56:50PM +, Emily wrote: On the Mandrake Website, under Updates 7.1, I see there is a mention of a problem with printtool, and an admonition to upgrade. None of the mirrored sites (including the primary mirror) are carying this update, that I can find. Check

Re: [expert] Re : From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
Cavall, An *important* *question* : May I to put these three lines in a "standard" file ? (like /etc/ppp/options) No, I believe those lines need to go in /etc/ppp/ipup-local as Mike Rambo said. They'll do you no good in the options file. Yeah !!! So, My Window$'98 machine is

Re: [expert] Stupid server question #3

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
Why not plug B and C into the hub also? I don't see the advantage to plugging them directly to the firewall... Consider this: internet - dsl modem - comp a - hub - all other computers You still have comp a (your firewall) between the internet and all of your machines... hooking up b and

Re: [expert] server question

2000-08-17 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/17/00 7:33 AM, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Thus spake Tony McGee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Firewalling works by selectively blocking off access to certain Internet Protocol ports. It's recommended to have a single dedicated machine as a firewall and a second

[expert] mandrax.org - list troubles

2000-08-17 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/17/00 6:43 AM, Phil Edwards wrote: Why do I keep getting messages from "mandrax.org"? Has the mailing list changed in some way that I'm not aware of I get them too as well as bounce messages for everything I send to the list, though they are posted. and now I seem to be getting 2

Re: [expert] Weird Installation

2000-08-17 Thread Sarang Lakare
check your disk space.. maybe its 100% full (run "df -h") -sarang

Re: [expert] Weird Installation

2000-08-17 Thread Sarang Lakare
Philomena wrote: Hi, I encountered that very aggravating problem twice during various installs - the way I "fixed" this was to make sure and format the partitions I was setting up. This was when doing a clean install and I didn't need to save any data that was already there. Don't know

Re: [expert] X drake tools...

2000-08-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
"Julia A . Case" wrote: These tools worked GREAT during setup. But when I wanted to run them from the command line none of them work, I get pages of error output. If any one wants to see the output I'll send it to the list. Thanks, Julie -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are

[expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Re-set due to bounce... Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Does anyone know where I can get this file? Regards, Ozz.

Re: [expert] Help!!! Gnome KERNEL 2.4 Problem!!!

2000-08-17 Thread Steve Howes
Greg Stewart wrote: Try deleting .gnome* (there's a 'dot' in front of that) in your ~/home directory, then restart X. those directories and files should be re-written, and defaulted to the way helix-gnome or go-gnome wanted it. I'm not at all used to, not terribly happy with the way

Re: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
I can't remember where, but I know that I *did* hear/read sometime in the very near past about something being buggy about syslogd--don't know if it was a version problem or an install problem (or whatever else...) Have you tried stopping syslog and doing anrpm -Uvh or maybe an rpm -i

[expert] printing problems

2000-08-17 Thread Tino Dai
Hi Everybody! Hope you people can help. I've been pulling my hair out trying to get one of my users to print. I used the printtool from the Mandrake 7.1 distribution to setup a printer on an users box. The /etc/printcap looks exactly like the one on my redhat 6.2 box. The printing here

Re: [expert] helix gnome and terminal

2000-08-17 Thread Ellick Chan
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Patrick Erler wrote: hallo MANDRAKE! Not to mean any offense, but is 'hello' spelled differently for a good reason? oh no! i just installed helix gnome to test nautilus - and now my terminal is completely screwed up. in mc, instead of lines i have Ds and 3s and

Re: [expert] Weird Installation

2000-08-17 Thread philomena
Same here - well - not the wife part :-) , just the part about keeping win98 - I meant that I had to make sure to format my linux partitions. I was installing (not upgrading) over an existing 7.02 Mandrake install when this error occurred. I ws keeping the partition configuration, so just made

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
I'm upgrading from 2.1.121-16mdk to 2.3.14-1. The 2.1.121 version came with Mandrake 7.0, and I need to upgrade in order to run an updated kernel (2.4.test6) for USB support of my zip drive. The output of rpm -Uvh modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm is error: failed dependencies:

[expert] Strange X problems on logout; unable to use wall or write

2000-08-17 Thread Stephen Bosch
My turn for a few problems =) First: I recently put together an Oracle server running Mandrake 6.1. I have moved to a Cooker kernel (2.2.17-0.16mdk) to close some security holes caused by 2.2.13 and because Oracle requires that some of the kernel parameters be tweaked before compiling. Nearly

Re: [expert] Re : From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread Sarang Lakare
Yeah !!! So, My Window$'98 machine is well done !! LIKE TO WORK IN SAMBA ... Hurry !! Um... I'm not too sure anyone is *really* going to list the individual settings you need to make to the 5.25-page samba.conf file. You might be MUCH better off get the O'Reilly book on Samba

Re: [expert] X drake tools...

2000-08-17 Thread Julia A . Case
Quoting Alan Shoemaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Juliatry in Konsole as root 'drakxconf' for a menu of setup tools. Alan I tried that and got this output. Can't load '/usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so' for module c::stuff: /usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so: undefined symbol:

Re: [expert] Re : From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stewart
OK, I was going to make a sarcastic comment, but now I'm winded... Somewhere between "Romeo Must Die," a crazed iguana, and this wonderful message board, the last thing I seem to remember was that you mentioned something about a HOW-TO. Oh, that's right, my point was... sorry --Greg

[expert] popper hung

2000-08-17 Thread Joseph Lee Pereira
Hello, I have found that by repeatedly hitting the Get Mail you basically lock up sendmail. It does not matter what mail client you use, Netscape, Pegasus, etc. One user knowing this trick can lock up mail retrieval for the entire network. Anyone have a solution? Using: Sendmail 8.10.1 Kernel

[expert] Some Tulip help, please

2000-08-17 Thread Craig Woods
I can not get the tulip driver for an eth0 to compile. I am using the argument: gcc -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c '[ -f /usr/include/linux//modversions.h ] echo -DMODVERSIONS' This statement is entered on one line, and the output should

[expert] info request dialpad OT sorry

2000-08-17 Thread Vic
Hi all you Linux users out there. I was wondering if any of you wish you could use dialpad.com, well if you have tried to setup an account there, I take it you noticed that they don't support linux, I wonder if someone can point me in the direction of a message board for this purpose. Maybe

Re: [expert] Boot Logger???

2000-08-17 Thread jarmo
Look /var/log/messages Jarmo

Re: [expert] RPM database won't rebuild!

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Dear friends I would appreciate your help with my rpm database problem: I was been unable to get my RealPlayer to play Radio Free Europe from its usual URL using Netscape. There is nothing wrong with RealPlayer itself. It plays other stations and even

[expert] Re : From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.

2000-08-17 Thread cavall_fort
[[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hello, Tony : Thank you very much for your detailed explanations. I don't understand, we can either repeat the documentation or provide a link to it. What's easiest for you isn't always what's easier for those who are trying to help.

Re: [expert] did the list die?

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
I hate to tell you both this, but I've been getting a TON of mail. John On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, ron peake wrote: Hi Bill Not only does the email often NOT get through it also appears to be censured. For example Macmillan monopoly is a definite non-topic. Regard, Ron On Wed, 16 Aug

Re: [expert] make command

2000-08-17 Thread Ellick Chan
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find the 'make' command on Mandrake 7.0 Any help appreciated Make sure you have make installed in the first place by typing 'rpm -q make' Otherwise, get your cd, and install it. -- Regards, Ellick Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 17

Re: [expert] Kernel FAILURES!!

2000-08-17 Thread Ellick Chan
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, TriOptimum wrote: 2)I have installed the new kernel 2.4.0test6 with the resierfs patch and after the compiling and reboot i have the following FAILURES in the boot sequence..3 services fails..and they are USb USB looks for modules.conf instead of conf.modules now, I

Re: [expert] Boot Logger???

2000-08-17 Thread Ellick Chan
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, TriOptimum wrote: 3)Someone knows how to create a log file to look at the messages created during the boot sequence? or if it is just being created by default where it resides??? Tnks! Look at /var/log/messages, or type in dmesg to get an incomplete log. --

[expert] Kernel FAILURES!!

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum
2)I have installed the new kernel 2.4.0test6 with the resierfs patch andafter the compiling and reboot i have the following FAILURES in the bootsequence..3 services fails..and they are USb Kheader and Netfs..and i dunnowhy.. and the big problem is i get another error that is exactly

[expert] Enlightment+Gnome=Bug???

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum
4)If i use the enlightment with the Gnome..i get the following error.. itcan't save the desktop icons position and it rearranges the icons every time i log in!!! is there a solution to this problem or is a bug in the enlightment+Gnome combination? thnks!

[expert] G400 Boot Problems

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum
5)During the boot up linux says that my g400 needs to load the agpgart priorto my mga ddr module.. but the problem is that i don't have modules..i compiledeverything to the kernel..so how can i say the kernel to load "that" before"those"??? or i have to recompile the kernel and put that

[expert] make command

2000-08-17 Thread nel
I can't find the 'make' command on Mandrake 7.0 Any help appreciated

[expert] Boot Logger???

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum
3)Someone knows how to create a log file to look at the messages createdduring the boot sequence? or if it is just being created by default where it resides??? Tnks!

[expert] Gnome Desktop Icons Prob

2000-08-17 Thread TriOptimum
Here are the problems:1)I have recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 and since the first boot The gnome desktop icons are all messed up.. for example i see thedrakeconf icon like a piston and the navigator icon like a sheet of paperwith the name desktop on it. I think that maybe this is

[expert] 7.1 Xircom PCMCIA NIC FTP install halt

2000-08-17 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
System: IBM ThinkPad 760ED PCMCIA: Xircom ethernet/modem Boot Image: Mandrake 7.1 pcmcia.img In attempting to perform an install using remote FTP: I experience following send stage error, which occurs consistently: in second stage install install exited abnormally