Re: [expert] checking the hardware from the command line

2000-07-29 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/29/00 9:19 PM, Don wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote: >> my motherboard temp is available in the bios config. >> how do I get it via the command line? >> Gavin > > There is a temperature monitoring file called healthwhich I have attached for > you, Read the Readme file after you run

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Webmin seems pretty cool. I hope it's a bit more reliable than linuxconf. >> Original Message << On 7/29/00, 9:04:58 PM, Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: [expert] Need help: > When you're telnet-ed in, type `su', root's password, t

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Pavan K Balellugari
HI all, I understand to get the CD or to burn my own. What next.. do i have overwrite my existing install.. i just wanted to know, what image i should get from the web.. I need the details of all the stuff i need to make my 6.1 to 7.x i need the diff between these two.. can i compil

Re: [expert] checking the hardware from the command line

2000-07-29 Thread Don
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote: > my motherboard temp is available in the bios config. > > how do I get it via the command line? > > Gavin There is a temperature monitoring file called healthwhich I have attached for you, Read the Readme file after you run: tar xzvf health-0.03.tar.gz I

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Greg Stewart
same as you would on console... Porbably should su to root first, type shutdown -r now. Better than telnet, ssh will be secure. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Sevatio Octavio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [expert] N

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Norvell Spearman
When you're telnet-ed in, type `su', root's password, then type `shutdown -r now'. You should also be able to do this via webmin. Go to your box in a browser, but with port 1: http://my-remote-box.com:1 You should get a login dialog, if webmin is already running; enter ``root''

Re: [expert] http set up

2000-07-29 Thread Andrew George
I think thats the way it's supposed to work... All webbrowsers will go to port 80 unless otherwise specified Andrew On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, maxtor wrote: > > I want to have a web server but I don't want to use the default port "80". I > have changed the listen to port to "90" (90 is the port t

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I have a remote box running LM 7.1 without a monitor. How do you instruct it to reboot via Telnet? Seve

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Gilbert Baron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 10:30 PM Subject: RE: [expert] copying whole harddrive ! > How much of an ancient method this is compared to a program like Power Quest > Drive Image. It creates an image

[expert] http set up

2000-07-29 Thread maxtor
I want to have a web server but I don't want to use the default port "80". I have changed the listen to port to "90" (90 is the port that i want to use) and also in my /etc/services.conf on the www settings i changed that from 80 to 90 also. But now I cannot log into my web server unless i put

RE: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Gilbert Baron
How much of an ancient method this is compared to a program like Power Quest Drive Image. It creates an image of a partition on the second drive and the ONLY requirement is that there be enough space fro it to fit on the drive in the target partition. It will even build the correct partition type

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Matt Stegman
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems > > present on that drive. > > On an harddrive that is not as same as this harddrive in capacity. > > is th

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Matt Stegman
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > OK, suppose the old hard drive has 35 sectors per track. If the new hard > drive has fewer, say, 30, then dd will write the 31st sector of a give > track somewhere else, Murphy only knows where, or it will error out and > refuse to write it. So you are

Re: [expert] checking the hardware from the command line

2000-07-29 Thread Greg Stewart
su to root, cd /proc and cat any of the "files" that contain the info you need. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Gavin Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 7:21 PM Subject: [expert] checking the hardware from the command line > > my mothe

[expert] checking the hardware from the command line

2000-07-29 Thread Gavin Clark
my motherboard temp is available in the bios config. how do I get it via the command line? Gavin

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: > > > A simple > > > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc > > > > > > works great, super backup method, all you need to do is swap d

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: > > A simple > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc > > > > works great, super backup method, all you need to do is swap drives > > (plug hdc in where hda was). You want both drives as master, 1

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
> > Any modern drives that do this? E.g.? If this is a real concern > (must be pretty rare as I've never seen it mentioned in dd disk > mirroring discussions) he could still dd the whole drive if he took > the precaution of backing up the first xx bytes off the disk being > copied to. I thought

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pavan K Balellugari wrote: > > Hi all, >Just got subscribed here. >Need to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.x please let me know > where i can get the resources. [snip] Pavanbuy a GPL CD of the release you want to upgrade to from a web vendor located in your area of the world. MandrakeSoft lis

Re: [expert] File Containing Gateway IP

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:00:37AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 08:14:54AM +, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > > > Would any of you happen to know what file contains the Gat

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:47:20PM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > Dave Lers wrote: > > > > = - Original Message - > > > > = From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > = > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operati

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, kf wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > = - Original Message - > > = From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > = > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating syste

Re: [expert] File Containing Gateway IP

2000-07-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:00:37AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 08:14:54AM +, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > > Would any of you happen to know what file contains the Gateway IP > > > setting? > > > /etc/sysconfig/network >

Re: [expert] Mandrake 6.1 .config files

2000-07-29 Thread Bill Bentley
> I just checked my 6.1 box and I don't have a .config in /usr/src/linux. > I'd be happy to send it if I could find it. Any ideas? Do I need to make > menu_config first? Nope. I found the answer in Deja's archive. Apparently, the older Mandrake distributions (including 6.1) included the .confi

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Pavan K Balellugari wrote: >Need to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.x please let me know > where i can get the resources. If you have a cd burner the iso images are available at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 otherwise I would suggest getting a cd from someplace like ch

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > Dave Lers wrote: > > > = - Original Message - > > > = From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > = > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems > > > = > present on that drive. > > > = > On an harddrive t

Re: [expert] netscape messenger or aol messenger ?

2000-07-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, you wrote: > I want to installe & use aol or netscape instant messenger on my drake box > does anyone have a clue where to find them ? > Do you mean AIM? If so, you have several choices. I recommend "everybuddy" as it works with AIM, Yahoo, ICQ and MSN. HTTP://www.everybuddy.c

Re: [expert] How do you start qmail admin?

2000-07-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks. I was able to get the logon screen, but which password should I set to let me get past the logon screen? -- Stephen On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote: > At 01:27 PM 7/29/00 -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: > >Can anyone who uses qmailadmin tell me how to start it once it's installed? > > > just

[expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Pavan K Balellugari
Hi all, Just got subscribed here. Need to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.x please let me know where i can get the resources. I tried to find info from linux-mandrake website & mandrakeusers.org. But could find the help i needed. I can't access the net from my linux box. so i need yo download t

Re: [expert] Getting off this list

2000-07-29 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 01:33 AM 7/29/00 -0400, you wrote: >Easiest is to go to the web page . . . or send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe expert on the body

Re: [expert] How do you start qmail admin?

2000-07-29 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 01:27 PM 7/29/00 -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: >Can anyone who uses qmailadmin tell me how to start it once it's installed? > just access it at http://your.domain/cgi-bin/qmailadmin >-- Stephen

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Dave Lers wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, kf wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > = - Original Message - > > = From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > = > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems > > = > present on that drive. > > =

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, kf wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: > = - Original Message - > = From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > = > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems > = > present on that drive. > = > On an harddrive that is not as sa

Re: [expert] File Containing Gateway IP

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 08:14:54AM +, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > Would any of you happen to know what file contains the Gateway IP > > setting? > /etc/sysconfig/network > > You can also set it in Red Hat's netcfg program. hmm, I don't have th

[expert] How do you start qmail admin?

2000-07-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
Can anyone who uses qmailadmin tell me how to start it once it's installed? -- Stephen

Re: [expert] Mandrake 6.1 .config files

2000-07-29 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 28-Jul-00 by Bill Bentley: > Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of the > /usr/src/linux/.config file that was used to build the 2.2.13-7mdk > and 2.2.13-22mdk kernel builds applicable to the 6.1 distribution? > They are not included in any of the kernel-source RPMs... They ar

[expert] kernel-secure and NetHack. . .

2000-07-29 Thread Norvell Spearman
If this ends up showing twice, it's 'cause I posted to `expert' instead of `Expert' last night. . . The binary for NetHack is setup to run setgid games (-rwxrwsr-x games games). When using kernel-secure-2.2.16-9mdk, a normal user can execute nethack yet isn't allowed to lock the perm file. The

Fwd: [expert] Fwd: cdrom not working: SW or HW fault?

2000-07-29 Thread Don
Usually this happens when a cable goes bad. Don't know why cables can go bad like that, but that is the first place to try. 73 de KK6WJ -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [expert] Fwd: cdrom not working: SW or HW fault? Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:31:53 -0100 From: Marco Fioret

Re: [expert] File Containing Gateway IP

2000-07-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 08:14:54AM +, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > Would any of you happen to know what file contains the Gateway IP > setting? > > Seve Yes. Oh, you wanted to know what the file is, as well. Oh, well, why didn't you say so. /etc/sysconfig/network You can also set it in Red

Re: [expert] netscape messenger or aol messenger ?

2000-07-29 Thread Mark Weaver
As a matter of fact it's easier than looking on the cooker list. You use a very friendly and familiar version of IM that is contained in Netscape 6. Download and install it on your Mandrake box. It's one of the sidebars. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Fri

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread kf
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: = = - Original Message - = From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:46 PM = Subject: [expert] copying whole harddrive ! = = = > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operat

Re: [expert] 4.01 Upgrade Works, But No Win Manager

2000-07-29 Thread Harry Flaxman
I finally got this going. Found an rpm file that was corrupt, and downloaded it again from the cooker site. All is well now except one thing. I can't open xterm in kde at all. Any terminal based applications don't seem to work. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this when upgrading to

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: [expert] copying whole harddrive ! > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems > present on that drive. > On an harddrive that is no

Re: [expert] Oracle Installation

2000-07-29 Thread A V Flinsch
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, you wrote: > I am using glibc 2.1.3-4mdk and I have also tried to start the installation > from various different windows managers... > I even tried to uninstall Enlightment because I have heard that it may > cause problems with Oracle. The problem with Enlightenment was with

Re: [expert] cron stuff

2000-07-29 Thread Stew Benedict
Sure you can. Have a look at "man 5 crontab", then run "crontab -e" Stew Benedict On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Vic wrote: > I wonder how you make your cron daemon do things > in less increments than just on the hour? > > I can make my system play a sound (a bong) to strike > the hour by putting play

Re: [expert] MenuEditor NOT Installed???

2000-07-29 Thread Jeff Malka
> > I am talking about clickin on K, Panel, Edit Menus: "MenuEditor Not > > Installed!" I have the identical situation. The menu editor is installed and it can be accessed from K elsewhere. I have used it. But I get the same response when I click on K,panel, Edit Menu. I think this is a diffe

Re: [expert] netscape messenger or aol messenger ?

2000-07-29 Thread Harry Flaxman
> fasi74 wrote: > > > > I want to installe & use aol or netscape instant messenger on my drake box > > does anyone have a clue where to find them ? > > Try the IM program everybuddy..at www.everybuddy.com. It encompasses AOL, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo in one IM program Really kinda nice. Harry --

Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
If memory serves, 4.1 was just released. I downloaded my copy of 4.0 in iso format from tucows a couple of weeks ago and burned the install disk. Mike Simon Robertson wrote: > > Brian, > > I am using 4.0. Sorry I did compile my kernel first, I wanted my printer > more than mandrake. > > Thou

Re: [expert] netscape messenger or aol messenger ?

2000-07-29 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Ted Behling wrote: > > At 05:10 PM 07/28/2000 +0100, fasi74 wrote: > >I want to installe & use aol or netscape instant messenger on my drake box > >does anyone have a clue where to find them ? > > To my knowledge, AOL hasn't ported their AIM software to Linux yet. There > are about two dozen IM

Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get the list OT, this does help however - I'm seeing some of the similarities here. Thanks everyone for your answers, I'm going to sit back and do some reading before I go any farther. I've done several installs so far (it's pretty quick on 700MHz / 512MB RAM) to see

Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Simon Robertson wrote: > > Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > > Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I've recently decided to start playing with FreeBSD and in preparation, > > > I recompiled my kernel so I would have support for ufs so I could read > > > my BSD partitions. When

Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Simon Robertson wrote: > > Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > > Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I've recently decided to start playing with FreeBSD and in preparation, > > > I recompiled my kernel so I would have support for ufs so I could read > > > my BSD partitions. When

Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Simon Robertson wrote: > > Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I've recently decided to start playing with FreeBSD and in preparation, > > I recompiled my kernel so I would have support for ufs so I could read > > my BSD partitions. When I add the partition under linuxconf, wheth

Re: [expert] netscape messenger or aol messenger ?

2000-07-29 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
fasi74 wrote: > > I want to installe & use aol or netscape instant messenger on my drake box > does anyone have a clue where to find them ? gaim... look under k -> networking -> chat or go to a terminal in x and type gaim. Mike

[expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread fasi74
I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems present on that drive. On an harddrive that is not as same as this harddrive in capacity. is there some software like this ?

Re: [expert] File Containing Gateway IP

2000-07-29 Thread Ted Behling
At 08:14 AM 07/29/2000 GMT, Sevatio Octavio wrote: >Would any of you happen to know what file contains the Gateway IP >setting? It could be in any one of the network-related startup scripts, depending on how you configured your network interface. Generally, it's specified via the 'route add def

[expert] File Containing Gateway IP

2000-07-29 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Would any of you happen to know what file contains the Gateway IP setting? Seve

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-29 Thread Nightwriter
Yep Sorry, I missed seeing the I Nightwriter At 07:52 PM 7/28/00, you wrote: >Thus spake Nightwriter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Mike, > > Challenge met NRZI Non Return to Zero.. Here are some links hehe > >Isn't it Non Return to Zero *Inverted*? >-- >|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept.

Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2000-07-29 Thread Simon Robertson
Brian, I am using 4.0. Sorry I did compile my kernel first, I wanted my printer more than mandrake. Though I have never looked at it, but what is in the linux support, can he access mandrake through that? I mean there is basically a heap of directories that of linux format just with nothing in t