[expert] POSIX Capabilities in out-of-the-box distributions

2003-08-30 Thread Richard Urwin
prevents it from working? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Richard Urwin
PC Hardware Book: Your Hardware Questions Answered by Hans-Peter Messmer. Addison Wesley. ISBN: 0201876973 Very low level. Very complete. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread Richard Urwin
as the urpmi sources or under /var. Then delete it. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-03 Thread Richard Urwin
pages together you get: HTML blah blah /HTML HTML blah blah /HTML and that is not valid HTML. It's possible to build a browser that can read it, but a browser would not be expected to. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Richard Urwin
the same. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Richard Urwin
instead in an effort to block spammers. Blocking port 25 only affects incoming mail. If you use POP3 to receive then it wont affect you. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 08 Sep 2003 1:10 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 07 September 2003 07:26 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: Postfix will make a direct smtp connection with the recipient's mail server and you can use it to send without using it to receive, in fact that is what I am doing right now

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
, or indeed about credit cards etc. MDK say they will decide on a FCFS basis, I hope it'll be better selected than that. Otherwise MS will definately buy a slot, for laughs if for no other reason, these prices are petty cash for them. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Is this a postfix packaging bug (9.1 RC2)?

2003-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
and was simply lucky to get away with it? Thanks! Damon -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Is this a postfix packaging bug (9.1 RC2)?

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Urwin
the fewer machines you have the higher the /number can be. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Urwin
option has been removed, and the pricing is now hidden. I don't think I have a single reservation about the plan in this new form. Go for it, Mandrake. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Urwin
*could* hack this program to do what I want, or just use cut and paste, but I can't believe there is nothing else out there. Does anyone know of anything that will suit? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 6:45 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: I need a serial terminal program to talk to a microcontroller programmer I have just acquired. After googling for half an hour or so there seemed to be only one: Minicom. It's a console-based beastie and it doesn't

Re: [expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly

2003-09-15 Thread Richard Urwin
is corrupt, and I need to update urpmi for the CDs. I tryed running urpmi.update, but I don't see how to update the distrib CDs. Any ideas? 9.0 to 9.1 update doesn't update the urpmi sources. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-16 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 1:58 am, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 08:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: The programmer has a human readable interface, and dumps and receives intel hex format. All I need to do is the equivilent to cat file.hex /dev/Stty0 after issueing

Re: [expert] smbd utilizing 99% of the CPU

2003-09-17 Thread Richard Urwin
going. It doesn't seem to stop smb connections from windows machines, so my guess is bad samba configuration. I might fix it one day, or just get rid of samba. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-19 Thread Richard Urwin
between them and the big chains if they have failed to produce the goods once before, which auditors would view as risk. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] remote access to text only screens

2003-09-19 Thread Richard Urwin
. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Give it today to get some opinions, then I'll go with the majority. A link to the RFC is good. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] have I been hacked??

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 am, mike wrote: so what causes the constant traffic when I am not running a browser, etc? What the others said and email, usenet news, DNS -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] remote access to text only screens

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Urwin
, and at the level your app uses the interfaces might not be the same. Have you talked to whoever wrote the app? I hope they have a really good excuse for not just making it a text app that you can run anywhere. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Rebooting 9.1 causes propagation dealy?

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Urwin
to it from the internet by doing nothing to the server. I know nothing about apache, but this sounds like a permissions issue. msec runs at 4am each day and corrects permissions that seem to be wrong. Check the file permissions on the files for the server you can't access. -- Richard Urwin Want

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Urwin
for CLI or telinit 5 for GUI to get back.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Urwin
. ;-( -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 3:19 am, John Wilson wrote: On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote: Thanks people. I've just done a complete reinstall and moved over to 99% reiserFS. ;-( I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem except with Mozilla. Mozilla has

Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-05 Thread Richard Urwin
for anything local. HTH (I never had any problem with ME, when it was on my laptop, but the people on the tech-support forum I frequent hate it with a passion.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Backups: not only for HW failures or viruses

2003-10-10 Thread Richard Urwin
with it. ... From now on, backups! I know how you feel. I just had a catastrophic disk failure that wiped / and /home. Now I'm running backups every night to CD-RW. (It's not all bad. Now I have 160GB to play with :-)) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Richard Urwin
get the concept... ;-) No, it executes on the client side, but it is supported by just about every browser. Check out www.soronlin.org.uk/geekquiz.html for an example. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Getting a 100% linux compatible scanner

2003-10-11 Thread Richard Urwin
. The 1670 is not Linux compatible. I swapped my 1670 for a 2400 and I'm well pleased with it, but it's a bit above your price threshold. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Urwin
research it? At least three people have asked recently, and its dead easy with Windows, so its a big lossage for Linux. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Getting a 100% linux compatible scanner

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Urwin
, superior products are driven from the market. ... -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread Richard Urwin
is useful for debugging this sort of thing, -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Urwin
term she could probably handle Linux, but the lack of an MS Publisher clone is holding her back. Any answers for that? Thanks for any advice, -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Urwin
for a blanking. I get that here, on 9.1 -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] corrupted xmms in 9.0 -- 9.2???

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Urwin
the users in a different order than you did originally, then they end up with different user IDs. So your old files are owned by a different user. # chown -R username.username directory (That is your username twice; once as the username and once as the group that only you belong to.) -- Richard

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Urwin
and On for Windows. I may be wrong here. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] kppp

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Urwin
, and it may not work on modern exchanges. modem strings: ATDT - tone ATDP - pulse ATD - use default configuration -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NTFS file copy permissions

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Urwin
. To change permissions on Linux you need write access to the directory, not the file. But root should be able to set everything. Check the permissions of each directory above the files. They must have read and execute permission for the user that is trying to read the file. HTH, -- Richard Urwin

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
to use tar (with the correct magic flags) to copy drives. (Ghost does handle different size disks, but does it handle your filesystem? And it does cost money, or did the last I heard.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
if (/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 192.168.7/dev/null) then cat /etc/hosts.extra /etc/hosts fi (test it first, of course) HTH -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 9:24 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: The big problem with dd is that when it's finished the destination drive will be identical to the source drive. No it won't. Everything from the first sector through the last sector # on the old disk will be identical

Re: [expert] Sarg

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Urwin
, alternatively the MDK packagers failed to specify it correctly. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Urwin
... sendmail? Doesn't that stuff give ya cavities? Try doing it back in the early ninties, without the m4 macros, on a UUCP feed. Sort of like the difference between a modern air powered drill and the old belt driven things. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Urwin
user and timestamps. use: # cp -a /mnt/usr / -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Urwin
... Doesn't this mean that windows users will get LF/CR fixups when they try to download it? If so only Linux users will be able to view it. I haven't tried it, so I might be talking rubbish. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
only 49.7 days. The result was a little worse too: the machine crashed. Strangely enough this bug was not discovered until the year 2000. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
, except for the missing . which could be a hack that Mandrake got right. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com