[expert] Re: Standard Configurations

2000-09-21 Thread SoloCDM
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[expert] Re: Standard Configurations

2000-09-21 Thread SoloCDM
SoloCDM wrote: I want the development team to know that I'm very pleased with the additions in security. It doesn't compromise my present security and allows me to analyses the outcome from the implementations in my email. 1) Nevertheless, security has compromised my standard

Re: [expert] Automatisation d'installation / Automatic installation

2000-09-21 Thread Taczynski Pierre-Yves
It's possible with 7.1 near the end of the installation, but I have some problem with (concerning the configuration of my printer). Pierre-Yves http://electroindus.free0fr Jonathan Prigot a écrit : You mean a "kickstart" floppy. It used to be magic to get and configure the necessary info.

Re: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable?

2000-09-21 Thread J.A. Magallon
Viktor Lakics said at Ò[expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable?Ó. [2000-09-20 20:55] Hi all, I have an interesting problem, I could not find the answer for this in the last three years ( since I first installed Linux). When I copy a file from a Windoze

RE: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable?

2000-09-21 Thread Jeroen Verhoeven
Hi all, I have an interesting problem, I could not find the answer for this in the last three years ( since I first installed Linux). When I copy a file from a Windoze partition (or I have a CD with linux rpms, which was created under windoze) to a Linux partition, the file has

Re: [expert] Does Mandrake install on Nec laptop?

2000-09-21 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
First of all, thank you the both of you for the answers. I eventually managed to find a more detailed datasheet for this laptop, and it turned out that it includes an ati rage-class graphic card and a "compatible sound blaster pro" sound card (though the chipset is not listed). That given, I'm

[expert] LM 7.0 and glibc upgrade

2000-09-21 Thread Xavier Bertou
With the correction of MandrakeUpdate, I could retreive the upgrade of glibc from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3. Everything seemed fine, but wasn't :( zsh dies with segmentation fault, it is probably not the only one as the rotation of log files gave a lot of errors. I downgraded to original 2.1.2 and

Re: [expert] -- MARK -- in /var/log/messages

2000-09-21 Thread Stew Benedict
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Re: [expert] HP C200 and gPhoto

2000-09-21 Thread Stew Benedict
I use gphoto all the time, got hundreds of pics out of my camera (a Sanyo - serial interface). Maybe you've got an IRQ conflict? Stew Benedict Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable?

2000-09-21 Thread Buchan Milne
Don't backup your data by straight copying to FAT. Rather tar-zip which will preserve your file permissions/attributes and also compress the stuff. Stephen Bosch wrote: Viktor Lakics wrote: This could be very annoying sometimes eg. when you backup your linux stuff on FAT32 partition

[expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-21 Thread Bruce LaZerte
Have Linux Mandrake V7.1 (Helium) with kernel 2.2.15-4mdk. Was having a problem with accessing all the files on a remote smbfs directory, and the folks at www.samba.org told me to patch and recompile the kernel up to 2.2.18-pre8 to fix it. So I downloaded the necessary patches from

[expert] kde gnome vs java

2000-09-21 Thread Bruce LaZerte
Fresh Linux Mandrake 7.1 install, and the latest IBM Java V1.1.8 (July 2000) Under Gnome, a java app I use a lot (PolarBar eMailer) works fine (except for a problem with smbfs). But under KDE the mouse left click does not properly select list items. Menu items are selected OK though. It may

[expert] Dial on Demand

2000-09-21 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
Greetings. I am trying to configure a server for Dial On Demand.. I looked around, and DIALD Seems to be just for that... Unfortunately, make fails to build it, complaining of a missing semicolumn in a net*.h file that DIALD includes (sorry; I did not write the name of the include file that was

[expert] Rexx suggestions

2000-09-21 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
Being VERY used to using Rexx for CGI's and general text processing hacks, I'd like to find a decent rexx interpreter/compiler for Linux. Any ideas what I should check out? Thanks, -turgut EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Find all of Turkey online:

Re: [expert] Automatisation d'installation / Automatic installation

2000-09-21 Thread Jonathan Prigot
Oh, okay. Well the generated kickstart file is a Perl (or Perl-like) script with sections for each stage. If none of the existing sections work for you, then I seem to remember that there is a "post-install" section. When I tried it (in 7.0) it did not allow interaction (if there was a missing

Re: [expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-21 Thread Sarang Lakare
Mandrake has on its CDs the plain vanilla kernel.. its named kernel-linus i think.. check it out on u're CD. -sarang Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] HP C200 and gPhoto

2000-09-21 Thread Sarang Lakare
my /root dir...it gives me a "need to reconfig" dialog on the next run why are you using the machine as root? you should be doing everything as a user.. can't locate my imlib...tells me it needs to be in my PREFIX/bin path...can't locate that in the config file? Does this program actually

Re: [expert] Rexx suggestions

2000-09-21 Thread Bruce LaZerte
** Reply to message from "turgut kalfaoglu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:00:49 +0300 Being VERY used to using Rexx for CGI's and general text processing hacks, I'd like to find a decent rexx interpreter/compiler for Linux. Any ideas what I should check out? If you have a working

Re: [expert] lpr: cannot create problem

2000-09-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:34:14PM +, Timothy Hare wrote: Hello, The problem I'm having is: I just installed the LM 7.1 Deluxe system and I can print fine from root but not from users. The command line and Netscape give the following error: Lpr: cannot create

Re: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Beta 2: I'm amased!

2000-09-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:54:56PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun Sep 17, 2000 at 07:40:37PM -0500, Ron Marriage wrote: Maybe I need to go back to Pine. grin I used it for all my mail for a long time, but like the ability in kmsil to build filters that would put the lists in

Re: [expert] Automatisation d'installation / Automatic installation

2000-09-21 Thread Charles Hixson
Jonathan Prigot wrote: You mean a "kickstart" floppy. It used to be magic to get and configure the necessary info. I noticed during the latest install that toward the end of the install there is a question about generating the floppy. I forget whether that was in the 7.1 or "Ulysses"

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting my HD

2000-09-21 Thread Charles Hixson
I'm no expert, but here is where I would start: 1) have you run fsck ? (File Systems ChecK) If not, then do so, but besure that you read and understand the man first. 2) after passing the fsck, try writing LILO again. Check the options. Make a change, save, change it back, save again. N.B.:

Re: [expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-21 Thread Buchan Milne
You will want to ensure that you patch this vanilla kernel with all the extras Mandrake puts on that aren't in the official kernel if you use them: -udma66 (available in poeple/hedrick in on kernel.org) -reiserfs others? plus, you might want to add other security patches, like the openwall

Re: [expert] Any kernel hackers out there?

2000-09-21 Thread Jeff Groves
At 11:20 PM 9/20/00 -0600, you wrote: Jeff Groves wrote: At 04:22 PM 9/20/00 -0600, you wrote: I don't mean to avoid answering the question (I don't have the answer to the question of why you can't build your RPM from your SRPM) but I'm hard-pressed to understand why someone would want

Re: [expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-21 Thread mail
** Reply to message from Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:59:29 -0400 Mandrake has on its CDs the plain vanilla kernel.. its named kernel-linus i think.. Thanks Sarang. But all I could find was the compiled version: "kernel-linus-2.2.15-1mdk.i586.rpm" on the second CD. I

Re: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable?

2000-09-21 Thread Stephen Bosch
- Original Message - From: Jeroen Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 1:58 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable? Hi all, I have an interesting problem, I could not find the answer

Re: [expert] Is Athlon OK for Mandarake 7.2

2000-09-21 Thread JASON SNYDER
I don't know if this relates to your problems, but I did see a couple of corky things when I installed mdk 7.1 on my Athlon 800 (older Slot-A with K7V m/b). What I saw was that my /root/.vimrc file and my /etc/rc.d/rc.local files got corrupted. I don't know why this happened, but I was able to

Re: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable?

2000-09-21 Thread Stephen Bosch
Buchan Milne wrote: Wherever possible I avoid Microsoft filesystems. NTFS is not that bad. It supports ACLs which linux does not yet. The biggest problem is that very few Windows (NT) users know/care about file permissions. NT's file access control is, if you ask me, a complete disaster

Re: [expert] Any kernel hackers out there?

2000-09-21 Thread Stephen Bosch
Okay, but you don't need to build an RPM to do that -- just take a standard kernel source RPM or a kernel tarball and build a custom kernel from that. What you are trying to do is a first step into rocket science -- not for the meek. As I said, if you have a large organization, and you

[expert] vim noai not working

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Being used to vi but not vim, I am surprised that I can't get vim to accept ':set noai'. Whenever I am trying to do a paste from the copy buffer (Ctrl-Insert from another application) and I don't want auto-indent, I try to set noai. For whatever reason, it still indents, which makes the pasted

Re: [expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-21 Thread Bruce LaZerte
** Reply to message from Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:35:10 +0200 You will want to ensure that you patch this vanilla kernel with all the extras Mandrake puts on that aren't in the official kernel if you use them: -udma66 (available in poeple/hedrick in on kernel.org)

Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

2000-09-21 Thread Haim
Hi try su - username. it loads all the defaults for the new user. Haim Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/19/00 08:22 PM Please respond to expert To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without

Re: [expert] listing all ip addys in a domain?

2000-09-21 Thread Haim
try nmap or nmapfe. you'll need at least the domain ip (the first three number-groups in a C class) and then you'll get all the ip's in this domain and all their open ports. Haim Bill Beauchemin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/19/00 07:27 PM Please respond to expert

[expert] Athlons?

2000-09-21 Thread Michael
Since there is some talk of Athlons going on.. I'm thinking of buying a new server w/ an Athlon. Anybody had really good luck w/ a computer based on the Athlon running Mandrake? Where'd ya get it if so? Any things to be careful of? *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort

Re: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looksexecutable?

2000-09-21 Thread Michael
I'm waiting for the day I can share my ReiserFS partitons between Linux and Windows. It'd be a smart move for Microsoft to take but they are probably to egotistical to use someone elses FS. Either that or they'd do some lame embrace and extend shit so it still wouldn't work right. *^*^*^* Was it

Re: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable?

2000-09-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:58:28AM -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: Buchan Milne wrote: Wherever possible I avoid Microsoft filesystems. NTFS is not that bad. It supports ACLs which linux does not yet. The biggest problem is that very few Windows (NT) users know/care about file

Re: [expert] Athlons?

2000-09-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have an Athlon 700 (running at 750) without hitch with my Mandrake 7.1/7.2 system. Setiathome runs a good deal faster (versus my previous Celeron 450), everything I compile does so nice and fast. No hiccups, no crashes. I was worried about heat initially. The pathetic heatsink/fan combo

[expert] can't locate binfmt error

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Sep 21 16:11:51 24 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- Sep 21 16:13:45 24 last message repeated 102 times Help please ! Thanks... Dan. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] kernel error: I/O error on floppy

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
running /boot/System.map-2.2.16-9mdksecure I get these in the error logs a few times a day... Sep 21 14:32:27 24 kernel: 7VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Sep 21 14:32:27 24 kernel: 6end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 There is no floppy in the drive. Is is

[expert] Searchable mandrake Expert and Newbie list archive

2000-09-21 Thread Eric Peters
Just testing it out so that I might improve it and use it for each mandrake list. You can find the archive here http://linuxsystems.net/mandrake And to search the archive http://linuxsystems.net/cgi-bin/search Cheers, Eric Peters ---

Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

2000-09-21 Thread Michael
I like to ssh between users. I usually only use su to get root (since you can't ssh into my box as root). *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Thu,

[expert] less gives color ESC codes for ls -l

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
# ls -al | less ESC[00mtotal 500 drwx--7 root root 4096 Sep 4 17:30 ESC[01;34m.ESC[00m/ drwx-- 10 root root 4096 Sep 9 12:15 ESC[01;34m..ESC[00m/ -rwx--1 root root 6577 Jun 7 10:35 ESC[01;32mBackEnd.plESC[00m* -rwx--1 root

[expert] how to disable promisc mode on eth0

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
I just realized that eth0 (internet) was in promisc mode (after using an nmap option to test my work server) /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh calls /usr/bin/promisc_check There is no man page for this and no command line options to tell me what it can/can't do. I only found these

Re: [expert] Athlons?

2000-09-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Praedor Tempus wrote: I have an Athlon 700 (running at 750) without hitch with my Mandrake 7.1/7.2 system. Setiathome runs a good deal faster (versus my previous Celeron 450), everything I compile does so nice and fast. No hiccups, no crashes. I was worried about heat initially. The

[expert] How to use a Wyse dumb terminal

2000-09-21 Thread Jeff Malka
I am still learning my way around Linux with no prior background in UNIX. That is a true novice. I know that under unix, one can attach dumb terminals (such as the Wyse 160) to a serial port and then be able to use the dumb terminal as an additional "workstation". Can that be done under Linux?

Re: [expert] how to disable promisc mode on eth0

2000-09-21 Thread Klaus Deissner
Hi, try "/sbin/ifconfig eth0 -promisc". Hope that helps, Klaus Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] less gives color ESC codes for ls -l

2000-09-21 Thread Craig Van Degrift
Dan, Try ls -al --color=always | less --raw Craig Van Degrift On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote: # ls -al | less ESC[00mtotal 500 drwx--7 root root 4096 Sep 4 17:30 ESC[01;34m.ESC[00m/ drwx-- 10 root root 4096 Sep 9 12:15 ESC[01;34m..ESC[00m/

Re: [expert] Athlons?

2000-09-21 Thread AOLShopGAM
Michael, I recently got a great deal on a Compaq 7994, it is an Athlon 900 MHz, 40 Gig HD, CD-ROM and a CD-Burner. I added another 128 Meg of RAM for a Total of 256. Runs Mandrake 7.1 (developer install) with VMWare 2.0.2 (win98 Virtual machine) like a champ. I have to get a "real" modem

Re: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Beta 2: I'm amased!

2000-09-21 Thread Michael
Mozilla's mail client is getting rather nice. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Sep 20, 2000 at

Re: [expert] Athlons?

2000-09-21 Thread Doug McGarrett
I just bought an Athlon MB, but I think the K7's are going away. Now everything is going in the Thunderbird direction, which is a totally difernt configuration. (Like the old 486's, I think.) Also, found that Intel III chips are now competitive pricewise, and if I were to do it over, that's the

Re: [expert] Athlons?

2000-09-21 Thread abe
Athlons are going socket rather then slot. Do not buy a slotted athlon. I'd wait a few months and get a DDR Ram motherboard. If you can't wait, I am very happy with my Asus A7V mobo and Duron 600. Thunderbird athlons use the same mobo. Also, SMP mobo's are supposed to be coming soon for

Re: [expert] Why do all Linux files from FAT32 partition looks executable?

2000-09-21 Thread Ron Stodden
Alexander Skwar wrote: Well, I actually disagree. In the Unix world you can only be in one group at a time. This can be a real obstacle. Let's say you want to write a file that you read a file from /dev/ttyS0, with the standard (?) ownership of root.tty and 660 and you want to write it

Re: [expert] How to use a Wyse dumb terminal

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Massey
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: I know that under unix, one can attach dumb terminals (such as the Wyse 160) to a serial port and then be able to use the dumb terminal as an additional "workstation". Can that be done under Linux? How does one do that under Mandrake 7.1? How do

Re: [expert] Athlons?

2000-09-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
Mark Weaver wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I have an Athlon 700 (running at 750) without hitch with my Mandrake 7.1/7.2 system. Setiathome runs a good deal faster (versus my previous Celeron 450), [...] Man! I wish I could turn up my AMD K6-233. Everytime I attempt to do that it