hi all,
I'm not sure what to look for next, after my googling session
everything looks fine to me, but still this doesn't want
to update my DNS entries from my DHCP server.
My setup:
Mandrake 9.0
Running DNS and DHCP on the same machine.
I want to allow DHCP to update my DNS entries:
I've
Dear friends;
Under 8.2 I have not problem in my laptop to switch between two net
profiles: one for home and other for the job. I migrated to 9.0 and
everything is runing OK but not drakprofile.
I can create a new profile, but when I try to configurate it, lots of
problems appear and even the
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:47, PlugHead wrote:
You can create a set of boot floppies for the W2K install (It takes four of
them. There's a command makeboot or some such under a top level directory
on the W2K disc. It should run under win98 or better.) Although I must say
that, from my
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 10:07, Todd Lyons wrote:
Vox wrote on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:08:23AM -0500 :
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
doing this (fdisk /mbr ) wipes lilo from the mbr but it still doesn't
This only works for dos (fat) filesystems. If this is NTFS, that's a
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 20:27, Lorne wrote:
What I would do is to remove the HD, or unplug it, then wen the computer
comes up with a floppy boot, do another FDISK /MBR to clean off the mbr on
the drive that is giving you the problem. OR. Make SURE that the cmos is
set to the drive you
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 16:57, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 16:44, J. Craig Woods wrote:
What in the hell is this? This does not appear to be the business of the
expert list.
--
J. Craig Woods
UNIX Network/System Administration
http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html
hi,
i'm not able anymore to add a software update source at MandrakeUpdate.
it says this could be because the version of Mandrake 9.0 is not yet /
not anymore supported by the official updates of Mandrake Linux.
i've tried more update servers, but always the same error. i think it
has to do
I'm in the process of installing 9.0 on my laptop. Unfortunately, the
installation bums out at: Enabling PCMCIA extension cards... and
decides to go no further!
My laptop (Chicony MP995) is:
Celeron 333
64Mb RAM
6Gb HD
For 8.2 I had to download a 'patch.pl' and run the install script with
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Try, as root, on the command line:
# urpmi.addmedia --update mirrors.secsup.org \
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS \
with ../base/hdlist.cz
Andreas Weiss wrote:
hi,
i'm not able anymore to add a software
Hi There,
Not sure if this will help, but I have a 233Mhz P1 notebook, with no
matter what I tried I couldn't get the PCMCIA working with the modules
that were included with mandrake 8.2 and this took me by surprise as I
always had working PCMCIA working with older versions of Linux. What I
Dear all,
I have installed gcc2.96 from the CD, but it still seems to bum out! Is
there any other instructions that I should be passing to the shell with
'./install-unix'? Like 'gcc-$(gcc2-version)' or something...?!?!? I
would presume that 2.96 should be fine, as that was with 8.2 (I think!?)
Hi,
I've moved over to mdk9.0 but am having trouble getting it all working
if i have this file in my home dir as i used to:
$ cat .i18n
LC_TYPE=ja
LANGUAGE=C
LANG=ja_JP
XIM=kinput2
XIM_PROGRAM=kinput2
XMODIFIERS=im=kinput2
/etc/X11/xinit/XIM used to detect from the locale and add the
June-Jerry Kreps wrote:
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 05:51 am, J. Grant wrote:
Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux
then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from them.
JG
I have two WD drives, 30 GB each, and they work great.
JLK
With a script I connect using ppp 2 different computer.
I use modem and telephone line.
After sometimes ( from few seconds to 1 or 2 minutes ) the caller computer
crasch completely.
Some ideas ?
Just to let you know
Thanks
Pierfrancesco Tateo
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
James Sparenberg wrote:
what is the name of
the file that lilo writes to on the first partition if you install lilo
there?
Lilo writes to partition boot sectors, not to files.
--
To fear the Lord is to hate evil. . . . Proverbs 8:13
NIV
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Vox,
You're very welcome.
DGO
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 22:28, Vox Wrote Thusly:
David Oberbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stephano,
Check out:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ColorTheme
There are an awful lot of color customizations that you can do
to
The samples are not large enough to draw a scientific conclusion but in terms
of incidence rates (events per drive per unit time) Maxtor seem to be the
lowest.
It would be neat to gather enough samples to make a good scientific judgement.
Jim Tarvid
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:43 am, J.
Hi,
For what it's worth, originally I 'special-ordered' a WD 20Gig HD for my new
Linux system a few years ago. (i had been dual-booting for a while.) With LM
8.0 and 8.2, I experienced intermittent segmentation faults, which sent me
searching lists for possible cures.
As soon as I was able,
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 01:08 am, you wrote:
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 20:27, Lorne wrote:
What I would do is to remove the HD, or unplug it, then wen the computer
comes up with a floppy boot, do another FDISK /MBR to clean off the mbr
on the drive that is giving you the problem. OR.
J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(10/02/2002 13:43)
Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux
then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from them.
To be more accurate ... you're stuffed, statistically speaking ;)
HDs will 'just work' with
hmmm, why not just consider that crc checking is needed, and any drive that
does not is cutting corners that the rest do not, then ask the manufacturer
which drives support the error checking protocol. (hint WD does not consider
it worth doing, I think everyone else does.
On Wednesday 02
Alistair,
I read said /. article.
I get this from a brand new drive, i wonder what it will be like in a
few months.
Seems to just be during boot, so could just be that. I've seen this on
lots of drives in linux though.
fsck.ext3 -c /dev/hde found no badblocks on the drive
JG
$ dmesg|grep
Have you all optimised your new drives so they dont run in 16bit mode?
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/272
hdparm -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hdg works a treat on my drive.
I found that if i messed with -X it made it go slower, the bios sets the
disk up as UDMA 2 already. and that -c3 is the
Take a look through the archives of the Newbie and Expert lists. There are
plenty of messages detailing how bad WD drives are. In short: they don't follow
the ATA spec properly, they are missing some vital CRC circuitry and they don't
officially support GNU/Linux (only Windows and Solaris).
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Is there any way to get gtk-based apps to use nice antialiased font rendering
in Mandrake 8.2? Is this an available option in Mandrake 9.0?
It would be real nice if I could get fonts in mozilla and gtk/gnome apps to
render fonts as nicely as
In Mandrake 9 whenever I click on the home icon on the desk top I get a
message stating: Could not enter directory /mnt/floppy. Also after mounting
a cd rom using the removable devices folder on the desktop it is difficult to
get it back out of the drive even after the window is closed. Is
From previous messages I would gather that the latter problem with accessing
your cdroms is a supermount issue - broken (yet again) in the 9.0 release of
Mandrake. Supermount breaks with distressing regularity, it seems with new
distro releases. You are stuck with the manual mount/unmount
hi,
is there a problem in the internet just now ? because have an average of a
download-speed of about 1 to 1.3 KB per sec and am having a DSL-line.
was trying to download from mysql, from troll, from rpmfind.net , from
mandrakesoft and in every case I have these results.
thanks and bye hans
Dear all
I have installed gcc2.96-2.96-0.80mdk.i586.rpm (along with 3.2) under
9.0 as some 3rd party application requires it. To run the install script
I:
# su
# cd /mnt/cdrom
# ./install-unix
At present it still bums out as I think it is still recognising 3.2. Is
there a command I pass with
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, hans privat wrote:
hi,
is there a problem in the internet just now ? because have an average of a
download-speed of about 1 to 1.3 KB per sec and am having a DSL-line.
was trying to download from mysql, from troll, from rpmfind.net , from
mandrakesoft and in every case
On Wednesday October 2 2002 10:06 am, J. Grant wrote:
Have you all optimised your new drives so they dont run in 16bit
mode?
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/272
hdparm -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hdg works a treat on my drive.
I found that if i messed with -X it made it go slower, the bios
I just got an email from my wholesalers, that all IBM and Seagate drives are
now one year warranty...
So I will buy which ever drive sticks with the 3 year.. if its samsung,
fujitsu or maxtor, I am happy to lose alittle performance in exchange for a
3 year warranty.
rgds
Frank
-Original
hi list, am looking for a ftp-client based on 8.2 with a usefull gui
thanks for hints
bye hans
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
021001 David Guntner wrote:
Thanks to all for the helpful feedback regarding upgrade vs. clean install.
I'll check out the forum entries at mandrakeforum
and (probably :) give upgrade a try first.
FWIW i upgraded 8.2 - 9.0rc1 had to add some libraries from the cooker,
but since then
hi,
I only was interested, as anyone there has also downloadspeeds of about 0.2 to
0.7 KB/sec wand that with a DSL-line - where is the speed of 512 KB/sec ? is
this on a another star or another sphere ?
have downloaded a file of about a size of 2320952 and needed a time of 1 hour
and 46
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Mark Weaver wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, hans privat wrote:
hi,
is there a problem in the internet just now ? because have an average of a
download-speed of about 1 to 1.3 KB per sec and am having a DSL-line.
was trying to download from
Hi to everyone,
I recently received a Toshiba Tecra at the office, and of course I need
Linux to be up and running on it. However, there is one very annoying
problem:
The keyboard appears to repeat characters when typing too fast. As you
can imagine, this makes working with it almost
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced an annoying feature in kde
running LM 8.2.
Whenever I type anything in an address/url/ location bar I get something
looking like:
ht|tp://|ww|w|.lin|ux|-ma|ndr|ake|.co|m
Thos additional bar | | | really obstruct what you're typing, and
Hi hans,
I just discovered lftp. It is an amazing ftp client with many features
including reconnect, bash cli, and supports http(s) and ftp over ssl.
It's not a gui app, but is extremely easy to use.
Check it out: http://lftp.yar.ru/
Cheers,
Randy
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 13:48, hans privat
On 02 Oct 2002 17:16:41 +0100
Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all
I have installed gcc2.96-2.96-0.80mdk.i586.rpm (along with 3.2) under
9.0 as some 3rd party application requires it. To run the install script
I:
# su
# cd /mnt/cdrom
# ./install-unix
At present it still
I am working with a Customer which is getting their first Exposure to
Linux in the Office. He was interested in Suse and RedHat. I have
installed Mandrake 8.2 on a Samba Server and integrated it successfully
into the PDC for the Windoze 2000 environment.
The customer is interested in the Lotus
I also think ncftp is a good command line based ftp client. If you are
looking for a decent basic gui ftp you could always use your web browser.
For anonymous ftp just enter:
ftp://www.system.com/
in the url bar. If a username/password is required, use:
ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
and a
Tom,
Thanks for the infomation.
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Wednesday October 2 2002 10:06 am, J. Grant wrote:
Have you all optimised your new drives so they dont run in 16bit
mode?
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/272
hdparm -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hdg works a treat on my drive.
I found that
hans privat wrote:
hi list, am looking for a ftp-client based on 8.2 with a usefull gui
thanks for hints
bye hans
hi hans,
i always use gFTP which is on the distro 8.2
and
NT (it can resume a broken download) which you can download at:
Hello,
I am trying to change the bass and treble level on my SB Live without much
success... I've tried using kmix and aumix: both show the appropriate sliders
but moving them does not change anything: I still get the same thin
sound... Does anybody know if there's is a workaround for this
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:06 pm, you wrote:
I also think ncftp is a good command line based ftp client. If you are
looking for a decent basic gui ftp you could always use your web browser.
For anonymous ftp just enter:
ftp://www.system.com/
in the url bar. If a username/password
the question is how
checked evolution, no option to reclaim url-types
adjusted gnome preferred application to galeon
looked in gconf-editor under url-handers but it isn't obvious what
handles http
So where is the configuration file? And what is the change I am looking
for.
Gabriel
for us dummies what dont have time/inclination to become gurus, is there
a remove worms for dummies page? My system got bent over buggered by
slapper, and I'd like to clean it, and prevent further problems.
The comp in question doesn't YET contain much vital data, so would wipe
re be better?
gFTP it's on your 8.2 CD's just do urpmi gftp looks and acts like
WsFTP from the windwos world.
James
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:48, hans privat wrote:
hi list, am looking for a ftp-client based on 8.2 with a usefull gui
thanks for hints
bye hans
Want to buy your Pack or
James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:03:58AM -0700 :
The original problem is and I'm still wondering When you install
lilo to hda1 (the first partition) instead of the MBR what is the
filename that contains lilo?
There is no file. It is outside of the file system. You
Ken Hawkins wrote on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:26:15PM -0400 :
The comp in question doesn't YET contain much vital data, so would wipe
re be better?
Stock install of 8.2
That's the problem. You **MUST** install the updates before you put it
on the internet serving services. The stock
Duh-oh!
OK, so I'll assume an install-from-scratch is best, and get on those
updates, thanks.
TTYL
Ken
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:58, Todd Lyons wrote:
Ken Hawkins wrote on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:26:15PM -0400 :
The comp in question doesn't YET contain much vital data, so would wipe
re
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 00:45, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On 01 Oct 2002 22:33:09 -0500, Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 03:54, Alastair Scott wrote:
On 29 Sep 2002 17:57:02 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Okay, I give up...
Hi,
I'm trying to set up NFS here... I've noticed linuxconf is kind of
f*cked up... It tries to execute /etc/init.d/network
{status|reload|start|stop} or something, which is of course a syntax
error...
Anyway, so I tried it manually.. This is my /etc/exports:
/home/misc 192.168.0.2(rw)
now I
SainTiss wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:19:42AM +0200 :
Hi,
I'm trying to set up NFS here... I've noticed linuxconf is kind of
f*cked up... It tries to execute /etc/init.d/network
{status|reload|start|stop} or something, which is of course a syntax
error...
The
I've just started doing my package upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 (I read in the
Mandrake forum where someone had done a package update first, then started
it over again and did the just plain update, and got really good results,
so I'm trying that).
In the list of packages, I couldn't help but
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 00:25, Todd Lyons wrote:
SainTiss wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:19:42AM +0200 :
Hi,
I'm trying to set up NFS here... I've noticed linuxconf is kind of
f*cked up... It tries to execute /etc/init.d/network
{status|reload|start|stop} or something, which is of
For what it's worth -
We just bought a bunch of 1TB raids w/180G Maxtor drives.
The drives are dropping out like flies.
-Mark
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 09:25, tarvid wrote:
The samples are not large enough to draw a scientific conclusion but in terms
of incidence rates (events per drive per
David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the list of packages, I couldn't help but notice that wuftpd is not
being made available. Does anyone know any particular reasons that that
package has been omitted? It's what I'm currently using, but I'd sure hate
to miss a security update
Ken Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Duh-oh!
OK, so I'll assume an install-from-scratch is best, and get on those
updates, thanks.
You assume correctly. There's no way in hell to know what the
kiddiez did to your box, so you can assume that it's been fully and
unfixably (if such word
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:09:23 -0500, Vox wrote
wu-ftpd has a looong history of bad security, so the mdk people has
(wisely, IMNSHO) chosen to use proftpd. But wu-ftpd does seem to be
in cooker, so...they may just have gotten rid of it on the release
ISOs.
I am glad they left it out,
Title: OpenOffice.org vs StarOffice
Hi All,
This question isn't about StarOffice versus OpenOffice.org features. This question is about the interoperability of the two. I've heard that OpenOffice.org has a high level of interaction with Mandrake9.0. The reason why I'm asking this, is that
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:14 pm, you wrote:
Hi All,
This question isn't about StarOffice versus OpenOffice.org features.
This question is about the interoperability of the two. I've heard that
OpenOffice.org has a high level of interaction with Mandrake9.0. The
reason why I'm
If you type in the individual commands, the console output is:
# kbdrate -r 20 -d 250
Typematic Rate set to 33.3 cps (delay = 250 ms)
# kbdrate -r 20 -d 500
Typematic Rate set to 33.3 cps (delay = 250 ms)
# kbdrate -r 20 -d 250
Typematic Rate set to
jipe wrote:
On 02 Oct 2002 17:16:41 +0100
Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all
I have installed gcc2.96-2.96-0.80mdk.i586.rpm (along with 3.2) under
9.0 as some 3rd party application requires it. To run the install script
I:
# su
# cd /mnt/cdrom
# ./install-unix
At present it
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:14 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote:
Hi All,
This question isn't about StarOffice versus OpenOffice.org features.
This question is about the interoperability of the two. I've heard that
OpenOffice.org has a high level of interaction with Mandrake9.0.
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 01:12 pm, Franki wrote:
I just got an email from my wholesalers, that all IBM and Seagate drives
are now one year warranty...
So I will buy which ever drive sticks with the 3 year.. if its samsung,
fujitsu or maxtor, I am happy to lose alittle performance in
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 16:31, Gabriel Phoenix wrote:
the question is how
checked evolution, no option to reclaim url-types
adjusted gnome preferred application to galeon
looked in gconf-editor under url-handers but it isn't obvious what
handles http
So where is the configuration file?
Much obliged, Mr. Watson.
It is quite annoying.
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 20:48, Peter Watson wrote:
- Original Message -
From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:38 AM
Subject: [expert] 4HASSAN.COM
tell me I am the only one
that
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 22:24, Vincent Danen wrote:
--snip--
Personally, I would like to know how to setup an address book in LDAP
that multiple people can access (one person in write mode, everyone
else in read mode); something compatible with Outlook,
Netscape/Mozilla, and other email
The real key it to get the .src.rpms or the tar.gz files and compile
them. make sure you haven't changed the kernel src/headers from the
actual kernel you are running and you should be fine. One downer is that
if you do change/upgrade kernels you will have to re-compile the drivers
(personal
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:01:21 +0200
hans privat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
I only was interested, as anyone there has also downloadspeeds of about 0.2 to
0.7 KB/sec wand that with a DSL-line - where is the speed of 512 KB/sec ? is
this on a another star or another sphere ?
have
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:15 pm, you wrote:
Sure.
I was reading a review about Mandrake 9.0
(http://www.ratedpc.com/review.asp?id=63) and they were talking about
OpenOffice interaction:
I really like the intergration of OpenOffice.org in Mandrake 9.0. Unlike
previous versions
hi kiran
this is my fstab line:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera vfat user,rw,umask=0
replacing vfat with supermount gives:
[bascule@mycroft mnt]$ mount /dev/sdb1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
or too many mounted file systems
i've never understood the fromat of fstab
Scott St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:09:23 -0500, Vox wrote
wu-ftpd has a looong history of bad security, so the mdk people has
(wisely, IMNSHO) chosen to use proftpd. But wu-ftpd does seem to be
in cooker, so...they may just have gotten rid of it on the
I think if you just add it to /etc/fstab and use supermount as the
fstype you should be in good shape.
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 19:42, bascule wrote:
i've just got my casio exilim camera to be visible using the usb-storage
driver, i have to mount and umount manually though, is there a way to
Scott St. John grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:09:23 -0500, Vox wrote
wu-ftpd has a looong history of bad security, so the mdk people has
(wisely, IMNSHO) chosen to use proftpd. But wu-ftpd does seem to be
in cooker, so...they may just have gotten rid of it on
Thank god I got in when the final was still called RC3.. (3 days before the
announcement of final 9.)
I downloaded the lot a 40k
yummy...
Still want that T1 though :-)
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Damian G
Sent:
Hi guys...
Have any of you rolled out a web server using mdk9 and apache 2 (which is
apparently an optional rpm from mdk)
Redhat 8 mention that apache2 is their default web server.. is there a
reason that MDK didn't choose it???
As long as static HTML, and mod_perl as well as php work as
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:15, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
Frank:
Maxtor has also cut the warranty on some of their drives to one year
effective October 1. I believe that this only applies to their basic consumer
level drives (AKA cheapies) -- the kind that most of us buy. IIRC, some other
From what I've heard, a lot (most) of the 3rd party modules for Apache
haven't been ported to 2.0 yet. That means it's probably not a good
idea to make it the default just yet.
- Theo
Franki wrote:
Hi guys...
Have any of you rolled out a web server using mdk9 and apache 2 (which is
That brings me to another question
Are there perl 5.6.1 rpms for mdk9???
5.8 has some issues, particularly in the fact that it breaks some apps like
SpamAssasin...
I setup amavis-new and SpamAssasin on my mail servers, and they have issues
if perl is 5.8.
I know I could install from
Hi List,
I was wondering about something. I've seen both good and bad responses
to 9.0 here on the lists, and I was wondering what others' feelings and
experiences were in general with the way they found the Networking with
9.0?
Specifically I mean protocols such as NFS and Samba. For my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, hans privat wrote:
hi,
is there a problem in the internet just now ? because have an average of a
download-speed of about 1 to 1.3 KB per sec and am having a DSL-line.
was trying to download from mysql, from troll, from rpmfind.net , from
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