Re: [expert] dup emails...(bloody annoying)
use this procmail recipe, and it will remove the duplicates for you # # # # # Prevent Duplicate Messages # # # # # :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 8192 $HOME/Mail/msgid.cache
Re: [expert] Trident Video Cards
Oops, I forgot to mention- I also just used the generic driver supplied by Mandrake. The alpha driver from Trident was worse than useless - couldn't get ANY modes to work. --- Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up Trident video cards in Mandrake? (Currently using 6.1) We've attempted to load the Blade 3D with the alpha driver from Trident and also tried to load the Trident 3dImage985 (using suggested XF86_SVGA driver) and have had no success. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Lane Lester wrote: Civileme said: POST the output of this and, if you show any files besides /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu in the output, please attach them . If kudzu is the only file, then attach it. If you have something in /etc/pcmcia/serial, make sure you send that. You will need to run the command in superuser mode # rgrep -i -l -r telinit /etc [root@localhost /root]# rgrep -i -l -r telinit /etc /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu There is a chance that it is in another directory besides /etc, but # rgrep -i -l -r telinit / [root@localhost /root]# rgrep -i -l -r telinit / /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu /home/llester/.compupic/def.phd /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm /var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db /var/log/netconf.log /var/log/netconf.log.1 /root/.cscmail/7/9/597.msg /root/.cscmail/3/0/603.msg /root/.compupic/def.phd /root/.cscmail-save/.cscmail/7/9/597.msg /proc/kcore We are NOT lookiing for files of the nature /home/username/somekindamail/*, nor /var/lib/*.rpm, nor /var/lib/*.db if you elect to do this more thorough search. That looks like all I got. Also post the output of $ grep "^id:" /etc/inittab [root@localhost /root]# grep "^id:" /etc/inittab id:3:initdefault: -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... Hmmm, Well open /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu with kedit and search for telinit the line should look like grep -q "^id:5:initdefault:" /etc/inittab telinit 5 If it doesn't, our problem may end there Now the ~/.compupic/def.phd shows up in both directories so it is something you are using, but what? I do not recall this one from my experience. Could it be some resource file that runs? Something is calling telinit during the boot or after login? Which is it? And considering how definitely linux frowns on self-modifying code(at the machine level), the text for the telinit call almost has to be set statically into a file or dynamically into an environment variable. See if you can dump your environment with printenv If a variable is set to telinit or "telinit 5", then we need to rgrep for it to find out where the setting is coming from. Civileme Also, look at /etc/fstab and see if there are mounts after /proc in the table order. If so, do the rgrep on each of those mounts (/mnt/* excluded of course). Civileme
Re: [expert] Trident Video Cards
I've got a Blade3D working. It was a pain in the butt. Every time I ran Xconfigurator it would lock up the whole machine when testing video modes. So did every other X tool for setting modes. My final (and successful) trick in Xconfigurator: get the monitor docs, find ONE preset mode that I liked. choose "unlisted" as the monitor type set H to be docspecified H - 5 to docspecified H + 1 set V to be docspecified V - 10 to docspecified V + 10 finish Xconfigurator normally but DON'T test. save changes and exit. restart PC but DON'T go into X manually edit XF86Config to remove modelines the monitor is incapable of (shouldn't be necessary, but it was) save file startx The resulting videomode worked, and then I was able to play around with various tools and the XF86Config file to get support for all the resolutions I wanted. But if I run Xconfigurator, it screws it all up again. Fortunately, I saved the working XF86Config. --- Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up Trident video cards in Mandrake? (Currently using 6.1) We've attempted to load the Blade 3D with the alpha driver from Trident and also tried to load the Trident 3dImage985 (using suggested XF86_SVGA driver) and have had no success. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Sounds pathetic!
OF COURSE! Thanks! I'm not used to having fun on my computer... Glyn M. On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:48:33PM -0700, thus spake Tom Berkley: Yes, you can fire up the mixer K -- Multimedia -- Sound Mixer Panel and then you will have a lot of sliders to diddle with. Have fun, diddling. Tom Glyn Millington wrote: Hi there! Having been unable to get any noise out of my sound card under Mandrake 7,(2.2.14-15mdk) I followed some advice given on this list and upgraded to the new kernel on the Cooker 2.2.15-0.18mdk - and hey the sound card works!! BUT barely - the volume is pathetic, barely audible. The card is a cmi 8738; the cd-software is Kscd. twiddling buttons on speakers and cd-panel does no good at all? Is there anything else I can try - other than buying a new sound card? TIA -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [expert] Trident Video Cards
Ken Wilson wrote: Has anyone had any luck setting up Trident video cards in Mandrake? (Currently using 6.1) We've attempted to load the Blade 3D with the alpha driver from Trident and also tried to load the Trident 3dImage985 (using suggested XF86_SVGA driver) and have had no success. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') Hi, I had a Trident 975 3D Image a little while back. The technique I used was to run Xconfigurator and specify the system components, ram, settings you want etc, but do NOT test. I ran my LG Studioworks 56i at 1024x768 at 76Hz and 16bit colour. At the command line type mc and use midnight commander to edit /etc/XF86Config. Make sure all mode lines at the resolution you want are commented out except for the one at the refresh rate you want. In the section "device configured by Xconfigurator" after Board Name (I think) insert the line: Option "noaccel" just like that. Save, then edit /etc/inittab to read default run level 5. Save and exit mc and type startx. You should get a screen. If not it is probably the resolution and refresh rate that needs editing. You will definitely need the noaccel option. I hope that helps; it's a while since I've done it. Cheers. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone for setup.
Re: [expert] DSL help sought
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote: HMMM! Again! There may be a light at the end of the tunnel! Think any of that hardware/software might be available to a "home" user?? I don't have the $$$ a TV station has but if some of the pieces were available it would make a worthwhile project! So how do you like Red Hat 6.2 ??? Anything earth shattering?? Haven't heard any feedback yet! Vern Direct PC DOES work on Linux. How do I know this?? At work ( TV station ) we have a box made by a company called DG Systems. It's a video file server for commercials that are uplinked to us, rather than someone shipping tape. It's a stand alone box with a 7" BW monitor. It's running Linux. :) As far as the details, I couldn't tell ya. It never crashes and the whole 3 years its been there, I've seen it boot one time. ( no kidding ).. Nice device.. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 === -- * Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * R.R.#3 Box 168[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 "Happiness is a warm Penguin!" * Registered User #165809
[expert] KDE - Strange Problem
I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze, the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would continue that way for over an hour at times and then result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same problem with Mdk6.0 Mdk6.1. What in KDE is causing the harddrive CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace? Seve
Re: [expert] PRINTING
Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francois, below is a copy of my printcap file. Thanks for any info you may be able to provide. It would seem that I can only print from programs that come with their own printer driver (such as wordperfect and staroffice) though a test print works fine. Hello, Your printer seems correctly configured, can you try printing directly from command line with "lpr file.ps" to check it. This is done by test print itself with file.ps is /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/testpage-a4.ps If it does nothing, try "/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart" when root. Try "lpq" to see if daemon is running. If it is runnning correctly, check startup of lpd with "/sbin/chkconfig --list lpd", if you see 3:off and/or 5:off then try the command "/sbin/chkconfig --add lpd" when root. If nothing is running, send me "lpq" output and the output of the command : "rpm -qa | grep ghostscript" Thanks, Wayne François.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Absolutely. With a disk that big, you may want to plan ahead. Assuming your computer isn't all kinds of cool (as in, able to boot past the 8GB limit) you'll want to make all your /boot partitions at the beginning of the disk, then your / (root) partitions, and maybe stick a single /home partition in the middle, to be shared across the multiple installations. It'll work better if you plan all this out beforehand, and make the partitions before you install. That way, you can just specify which partition becomes what when you install. In addition to sharing a /home filesystem, you can also share a swap partition between installs. Then, when you're done, you can setup a single LILO to boot all of them. It'll work if you just have each install LILO over the last one's LILO (on the MBR of the drive), and then boot the last one to be installed and fix LILO. I've not seen an installation program that'll give you that fine-grained control over the LILO setup. You'll have to do it by hand, unless you LIKE going through more than one boot prompt. If you need more help, just ask. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work?
[expert] KDE - Icons Gone From Desktop - Please Help.
I just logged on to KDE and all of the desktop icons have disappeared and the taskbar icons don't work. This problem only affects one user. How would I restore these settings? Seve
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Kirk, Matt gives you good advice. I strongly recommend using Partition Magic exclusively for all your disk partitioning. Set up the new disk as LBA in your BIOS, and make sure that your choice of boot manager lets you boot over 8Gb (Boot Magic is OK and comes with Partition Magic). By using Boot Magic you won't need to bother with /boot partitions. Make your Linux partitions hdb5, 6, 8, 9, with hdb7 your swap partition. Depending upon your purpose, a common home partition is often a good idea, but only for Linux partitions sharing the same Linux distribution, and not for the first time user. Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
[expert] Kickstart install
(OK, I haven't seen my message floating by on the -digest list, so I don't know if the problem is that the -digest list is filtered in some way or whether my message is not getting there. I am now subscribed to the full "expert" list, so this will be my last try on this list.) We are trying to configure 7 identical machines using a kickstart installation. We followed the directions listed on the L-M website, (install 1 machine, copy auto_inst.cfg.pl to boot disk, edit syslinux.cfg,) but on the next machine, it stops at the graphical install screen instead of using the canned answers. Has anyone on this list been able to do a kickstart install? -- Jonathan M. Prigot (617-278-0794) Brigham and Women's Hospital 900 Commonwealth Avenue, East Boston, MA 02215
Re: [expert] Sounds pathetic!
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi there! Having been unable to get any noise out of my sound card under Mandrake 7,(2.2.14-15mdk) I followed some advice given on this list and upgraded to the new kernel on the Cooker 2.2.15-0.18mdk - and hey the sound card works!! BUT barely - the volume is pathetic, barely audible. The card is a cmi 8738; the cd-software is Kscd. twiddling buttons on speakers and cd-panel does no good at all? Is there anything else I can try - other than buying a new sound card? TIA Have you tried kmixer? That should allow you to adjust the output volume of the sound card. John
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? yes, it's possible. indeed, I have several linuxes in my home computer. suse, caldera, corel, and mdk. furthermore, they share the same swap partition. the only thig you should have in mind after instalation is that you can't use lilo for this, because lilo is very acoplated with the kernel. so, you'll have several kernels (one from each distro) but just one lilo... this will cause problems. so, either you use anoter thing to boot each linux (i'm using ntloader, from windows nt) and you put each lilo in the boot sector of each linux / or /boot partition (now that I think about, I have only one part for each linux, so I don't have to mind about this), either you use the same kernel in all the linux you have... and maybe, you can share /root, /home and maybe /var/spool from linux to lunix, just taking care of each one having the exactly same /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow... good luck -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Hmm...based on everything you've shown so far, it appears that SOMEWHERE in one of your startup scripts, you're calling "startx" or something Dunno how do you feel about a reinstall? John
Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: I like to custom build my own systems when it comes to non-mac or non-mainframe systems, ie, any intel or amd based home/office systems. That way of course as was mentioned I can select the best variety of supported and/or preferred hardware brands, and its a fun project for me to fire up a newly assembled system and see Linux/Unix come up on it. Just my 2 cents. Vic yes, that's the best way, and I always advise this when someone asks me... but in major companies and goverment they always like to have a "we're the better" company (IBM, HP, Compaq) to blame when things doesn't work... of course one can solve the problem, but as the machines have warrantiy seals and one can open them... yes, they like to wait a couple of weeks till service comes. don't let it happen in your work! -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Yes. However, I would recommend only using 4 linux installations of less than 5 gb each. By the time you get done partitioning and formatting, you will not have 20gb, more like 19gb. To take care of the lilo limitation of having all the boot files in the first 1000 cylinders of the disk, make your swap partition first, then one large extended partition with the rest of the disk. Inside the extended partition you can create 4 16mb partitions for /boot which will keep all your boot files at the front of the disk. Then you can divide up whats left into four partitions for the rest of your system (/ files which is everything but /boot) You could do a lot of other variations with partitions, one of which is to create one partition for /home but that means that your login config files will always be the same for each flavor of linux. This is good for some, but if you want to play with different window managers and other stuff like different X servers (accelerated X), then do not try to keep a common /home partition. Also what are the models of each of the disks that you have. Both ide? Tom Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem
Look at /var/log/messages and see what the system was doing when it exhibited the symptoms that you described. Tom Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze, the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would continue that way for over an hour at times and then result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same problem with Mdk6.0 Mdk6.1. What in KDE is causing the harddrive CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace? Seve
Re: [expert] time/date (OT)
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Seems pretty close to me. Why is it so funny?
And is a nanosecond a millionth or a billionth ("thousand millionth"
for our British friends, and perhaps for our European friends as
well, I can't remember right now) of a second? I never can remember.
Well, according to their stats, it should be a LOT
closer, no?
John
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Well, it MAY be possible. But keep in mind that you'll need to have the kernel FOR EACH DISTRO within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard drive. John
Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze, the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would continue that way for over an hour at times and then result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same problem with Mdk6.0 Mdk6.1. What in KDE is causing the harddrive CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace? How much RAM do you have, and how much SWAP space? What it SOUNDS like is that you're running out of RAM *and* running out of Swap space. If you've got less than 32 megs of RAM and don't have a TON of swap, I'd *STRONGLY* suggest that you need to upgrade your RAM. John
Re: [expert] KDE - Icons Gone From Desktop - Please Help.
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I just logged on to KDE and all of the desktop icons have disappeared and the taskbar icons don't work. This problem only affects one user. How would I restore these settings? try deleting your .kde directory and resetting the computer. John
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Kirkyes. Alan Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
You could do that, but it's easier to just use lilo for all of them. Lilo can boot any number of Linux partitions for you, so there's really no need to use the boot floppies. It's easy to do that; you can even have a single swap partition that they all share and just use different / partitions for each of them if you want. There really aren't any special considerations in doing this, except that it's probably easiest to just install LILO with the primary distribution and then have the others use that same lilo.conf. You can do this by having each other distribution mount that parition to "/maindist" or something and then ln -s /etc/lilo.conf to /maindist/etc/lilo.conf for the others. On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: | I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would | like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux | distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can | I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each | one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I | would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each | different distribution. Will this work? | | Thanks, | | Kirk | | | |vice versa | Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing | Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com | Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Kirk, I have my PC setup according to Tom's recommendations and it works great. I created around six of these 16Mb partitions at the beginning of the disk...this way I can always add more Linux distros in the future. Matt From: Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk? Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:17:38 -0700 Yes. However, I would recommend only using 4 linux installations of less than 5 gb each. By the time you get done partitioning and formatting, you will not have 20gb, more like 19gb. To take care of the lilo limitation of having all the boot files in the first 1000 cylinders of the disk, make your swap partition first, then one large extended partition with the rest of the disk. Inside the extended partition you can create 4 16mb partitions for /boot which will keep all your boot files at the front of the disk. Then you can divide up whats left into four partitions for the rest of your system (/ files which is everything but /boot) You could do a lot of other variations with partitions, one of which is to create one partition for /home but that means that your login config files will always be the same for each flavor of linux. This is good for some, but if you want to play with different window managers and other stuff like different X servers (accelerated X), then do not try to keep a common /home partition. Also what are the models of each of the disks that you have. Both ide? Tom Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
I am using an Intel Netport Express PRO/100 printserver. With a printer connected directly to the samba box I am able to print just fine from a ms windows connected box either using the stuff below or via a raw printer. However once I bring the printserver into the picture, I can print fine from the linux box, however I can't print from the windows boxes anymore. Anyone have any suggestions? My /etc/printcap is as follows lp|HPDJ540|DESKJET:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: lp0|BROTHER_HL-10V|LASER:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT2_PASSTHRU:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter: This works fine from linux. OTOH, smb printing via samba doesn't work at all. NO data gets to the printserver and from looking around as I am printing, nothing gets into the spooler queue either. (not 100% sure of this though) I pulled down my various samba books and started going through what I've done for previous clients and remembered it was usually easiest to just use a raw printer queue and allow the clients printer drivers to format the document and have lpd just pass it directly to the printer without modification, thusly: raw|raw printer for MS Windows Clients :rw :sh :lp=/dev/lp0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw :fx=flp The problem is modifying this for use with the printserver, this is my most recent try, that failed, can anyone see anything obviously wrong with the setup below? ##RAW PRINTER FOR SENDING VIA SMB FROM WINDOWS BOXEN## raw|raw_deskjet1 :rw:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw:\ :fx=flp:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU: TIA Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze, the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would continue that way for over an hour at times and then result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same problem with Mdk6.0 Mdk6.1. What in KDE is causing the harddrive CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace? Seve Either Netscape or StarOffice or both. I was able to exit to a console witrh ctrl-alt-f2 and after 42 tries, to login (it was timing out on password because the disk hits wouldn't let me type it, then I ran top which came up slowly, and ld-linux.so was taking 99.4% CPU time. This occurred very infrequently unless we started, in order, KLyx, SO51, then netscape. Also SO51 set in full-screen mode seemed to increase the frequency. I suggest you become a tester for Netscape 6 PRE 1 and see if that helps. Another trick, if you have another machine, is to use Webmin (Telnet will fail on login because you will time out on the password, many times) A final trick is to do ctrl-alt-f2 as soon as you start your session and do a root login on that console, then try to get back there when the mouse freezes. On one machine, avoiding heavy use of the swap buffer worked--along with my wild netscape hunter-killer version 2. On a second which exhibited similar behavior, getting rid of the motherboard cured the problem. It was a flaky VX-Pro+ chipset on a Houston tech mobo that was bought 3 years ago (not by me, though at the time I knew no better, either). Civileme
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Lane Lester wrote: Stephen F. Bosch said: OK, I tried "mx init 3" with the same result. At one point in the boot it says: INIT: Switching to runlevel 5 in 2 seconds sbin/telinit 5 I swear... it looks like you have weird stuff in your inittab. Why don't you post it? Can you show me rc.local and rc.sysinit? "This is DAMN peculiar." -Captain Kirk, Star Trek II -Stephen-
Re: [expert] time/date (OT)
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 16:05 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote: Actually official US Time is provided by both in coordination: [clip] According to the most recent posted measurements, the two clocks differ by 24 ns. ROFL!!! That's the Guv'ment for you! :-) And now I bet this Guv'ment will pay some millions to a bunch of scientists to analyze why there is a "measurable differance". We do need such kind of problems. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze, the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would continue that way for over an hour at times and then result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same problem with Mdk6.0 Mdk6.1. What in KDE is causing the harddrive CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace? yesterday I had the same problem. I found that there were a lot of kioslaves doing nothing special (there was, or there should not have been, no requests fro my part and I was the only user). I guess was that... but I hadn't so much patience: I tried to kill'em all, but couldn't. 5 minutes later I was hard-rebooting my machine. Luckly there were no errors in the fs... -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
John Aldrich wrote: Hmm...based on everything you've shown so far, it appears that SOMEWHERE in one of your startup scripts, you're calling "startx" or something Dunno how do you feel about a reinstall? John Whoa -- that's a Micro$oft solution. Nope -- we need to find out what the problem is, or he'll go and reinstall and then something ELSE won't work (and his original problem may still exist). -Stephen-
Re: [expert] Install on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
On your Mandrake cdrom you have the file pcmcia.img in the images directory. Copy it to a floppy from using win98 or msdos with the rawrite program which is in the dosutils directory. You can do the same thing with the dd command in linux but since you do not have linux running yet, better to look into how to use dd later. Tom "Bois, Mathieu" wrote: Hi, We have bought a Toshiba laptop, with integrated modem, but with external PCMCIA Toshiba CDROM... When I try to install Mandrake 7.0R2 or RedHat 6.2, it says it needs a floppy disk with PCMCIA drivers... Do you know how to go on from there, where I can find these drivers... ? I'm thinking at a solution that would be creating a 650Mo partition, copy all the CD there, boot from CD and install from local hard drive, but it is not a very nice solution to me... Thanks Mathieu
[expert] StarOffice and Java
Hi, Following up with your answer to my question regarding configuring JRE for Netscape browser, how did exactly configure the 1.2.2 JRE for Netscape? Did you mean adding it as a plugin? I checked with my collegue here at Netscape and was told that the Netscape browser uses it's own built-in JVM which is still 1.15 for 4.72 browser. The only way to view the Java 2 features (such as swing) is to have java plugins (like those from blackdown). I would be pleased to know another way to replace Netscape's default JVM. Thanks, Chunnuan Netscape comes with an older, less stable JVM. The Java 1.2.2 JRE claims to be an implementation of Java version 2, although the versioning system is more obtuse than any I've seen before. :-) The configuration was just running a self-extracting archive. It did the whole configure/install setup all by itself. Check out Sun's java page for the full info. On 15 Mar, chunnuan chen wrote: How did you configure JRE 1.2.2 for Netscape? I thought Nescape came with its own JVM. Chunnuan Gary Bunker wrote: I've downloaded and installed the JRE 1.2.2 setup from Sun, and it works great in Netscape. When I tried to set up StarOffice to use Java, it recognized that the environment existed, even pulled up the class library titles, but when I load a webpage that actually contains Java, the program says there is no Java Environment available. --- Nil Carborundum Illegitimi http://andysocial.com
Re: [expert] KDE - Icons Gone From Desktop - Please Help.
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I just logged on to KDE and all of the desktop icons have disappeared and the taskbar icons don't work. This problem only affects one user. How would I restore these settings? Seve Well, login as user in runlevel 3 rm -R ~/.kde startx You lose your personalized settings, but kde works again The other method is to create a directory and move the /.kde and its subdirectories there then try startx... Possibly you can move some of the settings from the old ~/.kde back to the new one (like sounds). Some people do this; others feel figuring out what to move back is too troublesome and just redo their settings. Civileme
Re: [expert] KDE - Icons Gone From Desktop - Please Help.
Hmm. Perhaps this is not the best solution. You'll loose your settings for all of your kde apps this way. There's a lot more stored in the .kde dir than just your desktop icons. Besides, the desktop is stored in ~/Desktop. Try restoring this dir by copying everything from /etc/skel/Desktop to ~/Desktop, and see if it works. On Apr 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I just logged on to KDE and all of the desktop icons have disappeared and the taskbar icons don't work. This problem only affects one user. How would I restore these settings? try deleting your .kde directory and resetting the computer. John -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem
I have 64Megs of RAM and 128Megs of swap. Seve -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze, the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would continue that way for over an hour at times and then result in jumping back to the Mandrake login menu. I'm using Mdk7 and I had the same problem with Mdk6.0 Mdk6.1. What in KDE is causing the harddrive CPU to work so hard that I'm no longer able to use the mouse or do a ctrl-alt-bkspace? How much RAM do you have, and how much SWAP space? What it SOUNDS like is that you're running out of RAM *and* running out of Swap space. If you've got less than 32 megs of RAM and don't have a TON of swap, I'd *STRONGLY* suggest that you need to upgrade your RAM. John
Re: [expert] Odd printer problems
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Monte Milanuk wrote: No, this printer isn't _that_ old. I think it was purchased about a year and a half ago. It is an inkjet printer, but it does seem like the wheels or rolls or whatever feeds the paper thru aren't quite running the same speed. But again, how would that be linux specific? dunno. I have a 640 working well. Try other circumstances: other OSes (a dos boot floppy), other cables, as a "text only" printer, things like that. If it continues, call service to pick your printer... :) -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] KDE - Icons Gone From Desktop - Please Help.
Thanks John! Deleting the ~/.kde/share folder did the trick. I'll go and turn off the panic-button now. Seve -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [expert] KDE - Icons Gone From Desktop - Please Help. On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I just logged on to KDE and all of the desktop icons have disappeared and the taskbar icons don't work. This problem only affects one user. How would I restore these settings? try deleting your .kde directory and resetting the computer. John
[expert] Refuses to install... :-(
Hello, Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting from a CD-ROM). I tried several times (including the "most default" installation), but it keeps crashing in the middle of installing the packages. Here's the post-mortem: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0105 current-tss.cr3 = 07f11000, %cr3 = 07f11000 *pde = Oops : 0002 CPU : 0 EIP : 0010 : [c011b0a4] EFLAGS : 00010217 ... snip ... Process runinstall2 (pid:9, process nr: 9, stackpage = c7f15000) My PC is nothing special: Athlon 650 MHz on Biostar M7MKA motherboard 128MB PC100 SDRAM 1 IDE harddrive (20Gb with the first 2Gb left for Windoze) By the way, in the background, perl keeps complaining about the locale, and X cannot find SecurityPolicy... What could this possibly be??? Please help! --ET. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [expert] comps, compss, compssList, compssUsers
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Mustafa BASER wrote: Hello, I am new to this list. I searched mandrake site but couldn't find any information about making comps, compss, compssList, compssUsers files. I modified hdlist and deplists to remove some packages from the original mdk 7.0 distribution. I made comps, compss, compssList, compssUsers files by hand. Is tehre a program which generates this files from hdlist Thanks. hi you! I succesfully modified those files, but only by hand. no utils. anyway, I have some perl scripts that may help you, but not at all. One changes the package's prority, but puts the same priority to the three "aspects" (can't find the righ word): server, normal and development. if you want them or need more help, well, here I am. furthermore, you can e-mail Pixel directly. he can answer questions I don't. and you can download the very source code from sunsite.uio.no somewhere... er... contrib and unstable. can't remember exactly where... ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/Linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/others/src/gi.tar.gz there. download it. weight 14 Mg, but it's worth it. -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Source RPMs available somewhere?
Dan Jones wrote: Are Mandrake *source* RPMs available for download somewhere? I am especially interested in seeing the compiler settings for some of the RPMs included with Mandrake. TIA Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Name: djones.vcf djones.vcf Type: VCard (text/x-vcard) Encoding: 7bit Description: Card for Dan Jones http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/SRPMS/index.html I took a look around here and the search links you suggested, but where can we find the ISO image for the SRPMs ? I easily found an ISO SRPM and docs for the newest RedHat 6.2 There are many great search engines out there--www.google.com www.linuxstart.com www.dogpile.com to name a few. Also, http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 has a listing of Mandrake mirrors. It is understandable for someone looking at Mandrake the first time to marvel a bit about a business model built on open source practices virtually 100%, but there it is. I know that, coming from RH usage, I was stunned and amazed. To work in this environment as an administrator or developer, or even an advanced user, it is advisable to cultivate some search skills and add them to one's programming repertoire. Civileme Thanks... Dan.
Re: [expert] Install on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: When I try to install Mandrake 7.0R2 or RedHat 6.2, it says it needs a floppy disk with PCMCIA drivers... Do you know how to go on from there, where I can find these drivers... ? pcmcia.img on the RedHat cdrom, under the /images directory. I'm thinking at a solution that would be creating a 650Mo partition, copy all the CD there, boot from CD and install from local hard drive, but it is not a very nice solution to me... Just make a boot floppy from the boot.img and a pcmcia floppy from the pcmcia.img. John
[expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
Since PlugPray allows for multiple PCI VGA boards Is there a way to start multiple X servers against multiple PCI VGA boards? Any direction would be appreciated. Christopher Cox
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On 5/04/00 17:17, Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: Also what are the models of each of the disks that you have. Both ide? Yes, they are both IDE. Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Hmm...based on everything you've shown so far, it appears that SOMEWHERE in one of your startup scripts, you're calling "startx" or something Dunno how do you feel about a reinstall? John Whoa -- that's a Micro$oft solution. Nope -- we need to find out what the problem is, or he'll go and reinstall and then something ELSE won't work (and his original problem may still exist). Well...maybe just reinstall initscripts??? IIRC, that WAS something that needed doing in Mandrake 6.1 Haven't upgraded to 6.1 yet myself (mostly happy with 6.0 G) but I have been reading this list for some time now... So...to the original querant: Go download the initscripts update from the Mandrake 6.1 updates and do an "rpm -Uvh" on it and see if that helps! John
Re: [expert] KDE - Icons Gone From Desktop - Please Help.
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Thanks John! Deleting the ~/.kde/share folder did the trick. I'll go and turn off the panic-button now. Kewl. Hopefully you didn't have your desktop TOO personalized. :-) John
Re: [expert] Install on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
Bois, Mathieu wrote: Hi, We have bought a Toshiba laptop, with integrated modem, but with external PCMCIA Toshiba CDROM... When I try to install Mandrake 7.0R2 or RedHat 6.2, it says it needs a floppy disk with PCMCIA drivers... Do you know how to go on from there, where I can find these drivers... ? I'm thinking at a solution that would be creating a 650Mo partition, copy all the CD there, boot from CD and install from local hard drive, but it is not a very nice solution to me... Thanks Mathieu On the CD there is a folder called /images Within that is pcmcia.img, and also cdrom.img And there is a folder called /dosutils And on that is a program called rawrite Use rawrite to put the pcmcia image or the cdrom.img on a floppy and boot from the floppy. Civileme
Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I have 64Megs of RAM and 128Megs of swap. Ok. As long as you've got at least a PII that should be sufficient... John
Re: [expert] Refuses to install... :-(
On Sun, 11 May 2036, you wrote: Hello, Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting from a CD-ROM). I tried several times (including the "most default" installation), but it keeps crashing in the middle of installing the packages. What speed CDROM drive? John
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Civileme said: Well open /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu with kedit and search for telinit the line should look like grep -q "^id:5:initdefault:" /etc/inittab telinit 5 If it doesn't, our problem may end there Yep, that's what it says. Now the ~/.compupic/def.phd shows up in both directories so it is something you are using, but what? I do not recall this one from my experience. Could it be some resource file that runs? It's a graphics viewer that I use infrequently. It looks like a binary file that starts with "Photodex File Mirror 1.00_" dynamically into an environment variable. See if you can dump your environment with printenv If a variable is set to telinit or "telinit 5", then we need to rgrep for it to find out where the setting is coming from. It's posted below my sig and looks innocent. Also, look at /etc/fstab and see if there are mounts after /proc in the table order. If so, do the rgrep on each of those mounts (/mnt/* excluded of course). There is only: none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 and rgrep -i -l -r telinit /dev/pts didn't turn up anything. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... PWD=/root COLORFGBG=15;default;0 WINDOWID=41943042 HOSTNAME=localhost HISTFILESIZE=1000 LESSKEY=/etc/.less LANGUAGE=en PS1=[\u@\h \W]\$ ENV=/root/.bashrc KDEDIR=/usr LESS=-MM USER=root MACHTYPE=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu LC_ALL=en MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc LINGUAS=en_US:en LANG=en COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm DISPLAY=unix:0.0 LOGNAME=root SHLVL=1 SHELL=/bin/bash USERNAME=root HOSTTYPE=i586 OSTYPE=linux-gnu HISTSIZE=1000 HOME=/root TERM=rxvt SECURE_LEVEL=3 _=/usr/bin/printenv LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33; 01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:* .btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=0 1;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=0 1;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.g if=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01; 35: PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/myscript s
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Brian T. Schellenberger said: Crashes or locks up? the gray screen goes away? Yes, X exits completely back to the console screen, which then works fine. I can startx again with the same effect: go to the gray and then exit. Do you have a .xinitrc? What does it contain, if so? Well, I have one, but it seems to be "empty." #!/bin/sh #xscreensaver #exec icewm The above was part of an earlier experiment with something else. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
you might try changing rp: to 'lpd1' I had to do this today on some pro 100's to get them to work. - Original Message - From: "Harondel J. Sibble" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 12:05 PM Subject: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba I am using an Intel Netport Express PRO/100 printserver. With a printer connected directly to the samba box I am able to print just fine from a ms windows connected box either using the stuff below or via a raw printer. However once I bring the printserver into the picture, I can print fine from the linux box, however I can't print from the windows boxes anymore. Anyone have any suggestions? My /etc/printcap is as follows lp|HPDJ540|DESKJET:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: lp0|BROTHER_HL-10V|LASER:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT2_PASSTHRU:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter: This works fine from linux. OTOH, smb printing via samba doesn't work at all. NO data gets to the printserver and from looking around as I am printing, nothing gets into the spooler queue either. (not 100% sure of this though) I pulled down my various samba books and started going through what I've done for previous clients and remembered it was usually easiest to just use a raw printer queue and allow the clients printer drivers to format the document and have lpd just pass it directly to the printer without modification, thusly: raw|raw printer for MS Windows Clients :rw :sh :lp=/dev/lp0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw :fx=flp The problem is modifying this for use with the printserver, this is my most recent try, that failed, can anyone see anything obviously wrong with the setup below? ##RAW PRINTER FOR SENDING VIA SMB FROM WINDOWS BOXEN## raw|raw_deskjet1 :rw:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw:\ :fx=flp:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU: TIA Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: snip For management and beancounters the priority no.1 question is: Is the contractor (or manufacturer or store) large enough to pay if we have to sue him in case of malperformance? So the fact whether the product is superiour or not counts only as priority no.2. That's why they tend to buy from large companies rather than to give a chance to an upstart. BTW, that's been a big barrier for Linux to get into large corporations. My boss kept saying "who do we sue if Linux crashes our databases? Linus T.?" and so he ordered WinNT. wobo Has he ever tried to sue Microsoft? I would be willing to bet that he would not be able to get out of court with his shirt, and that only if he is right. Try getting support from Microsoft after such a lawsuit. Microsoft isn't even afraid of the Government. They are patiently waiting until a friendlier administration gets into power. Look how long they have been able to delay this one before the decision comes down. IBM was able to keep things going in court for 10 years during their anti-trust law suits. What do you bet that M$ can do the same? They only have to delay about 1 to 2 years to get a friendlier climate inside washington d.c., anyway. I realize that bean counters can't think beyone 1+1. (and all generalities are wrong.) Today, only tomorrow's stock price and today's bottom line count in a corporation. That is going to be our downfall. I think it has already happened. Didn't a large corporation make profits off of dealing with the Chinese, and, oh by the way, somehow they got their hands on top secret technology. Just where did those new long range nuclear missiles they are threatening us with come from? Couldn't have come from aborted satellite launches where they recovered everything except the guidance systems and military crypto modules? Nah! bug
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
Hi: Tell me - has the print server itself been configured properly? Print servers usually have eeproms which need to be configured, and usually this can only be done through a Windows or DOS app that is provided with the server. The print server has to have an SMB name to be visible, for example. -Stephen-
Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
Not sure, but "multihead support" in XFree 4.0 perhaps? Or is it for dual-head matrox cards only? On Apr 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since PlugPray allows for multiple PCI VGA boards Is there a way to start multiple X servers against multiple PCI VGA boards? Any direction would be appreciated. Christopher Cox -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
John Aldrich said: So...to the original querant: Go download the initscripts update from the Mandrake 6.1 updates and do an "rpm -Uvh" on it and see if that helps! John Well, I'm running 7.0.2, so I don't know if there are any updates. I guess I could install the initscripts and wipe out any customizing I've done, if you think it's a good idea. Unless the name of the file is initscripts.rpm, I might need some help identifying it. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Stephen F. Bosch said: John Aldrich wrote: Hmm...based on everything you've shown so far, it appears that SOMEWHERE in one of your startup scripts, you're calling "startx" or something Dunno how do you feel about a reinstall? John Whoa -- that's a Micro$oft solution. Nope -- we need to find out what the problem is, or he'll go and reinstall and then something ELSE won't work (and his original problem may still exist). Whew! g -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R
Oooh! It worked! Thanks heaps and heaps, Matt. Now I can just pipe a playlist to the cdrecorder. I knew Linux could do something this complex without too much heartache. Thanks for figuring it out for me, since I'm such a numbskull. :-) On 4 Apr, Matt Stegman wrote: OK, this works for me. The problem is that, apparently, bash uses only the _first_ character of IFS as a separator. So, I used IFS=$(echo -en \\n\\t) before the for loop. I got each filename as a single distinct item, even the ones with spaces. Let me know if this works for you. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- Nil Carborundum Illegitimi http://andysocial.com
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Stephen F. Bosch said:
Can you show me rc.local and rc.sysinit?
OK, here's rc.local:
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
if [ -f /etc/mandrake-release ]; then
R=$(cat /etc/mandrake-release)
arch=$(uname -m)
a="a"
case "_$arch" in
_a*) a="an";;
_i*) a="an";;
esac
NUMPROC=`egrep -c "^cpu[0-9]+" /proc/stat`
if [ "$NUMPROC" -gt "1" ]; then
SMP="$NUMPROC-processor "
[ "$NUMPROC" = "2" ] \
SMP="Bi-processor "
if [ "$NUMPROC" = "8" -o "$NUMPROC" = "11" ]; then
a="an"
else
a="a"
fi
fi
# This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any changes you
# want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.
if [ -x /usr/bin/linux_logo ];then
/usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f /etc/issue
echo "" /etc/issue
else
/etc/issue
fi
echo "$R" /etc/issue
echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m) / \l" /etc/issue
echo "Welcome to %h" /etc/issue.net
echo "$R" /etc/issue.net
echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m)" /etc/issue.net
fi
modprobe ide-scsi
/usr/local/sbin/ledd 1/dev/null 21
(the last line is for the "ledcontrol" daemon that lets me use the Scroll Lock
LED as an incoming fax notifier)
Since rc.sysinit is so large, I've pasted it below my sig. The only line that
looked interesting to my uninformed gaze was the last one:
/sbin/askrunlevel
--
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - run once at boot time
#
# Taken in part from Miquel van Smoorenburg's bcheckrc.
#
# Rerun ourselves through initlog
if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then
[ -f /sbin/initlog ] exec /sbin/initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -r
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
fi
# Set the path
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
# Read in config data.
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/network
else
NETWORKING=no
HOSTNAME=localhost
fi
# Source functions
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Print a banner. ;)
echo -en "\t\t\tWelcome to Linux "
[ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ] echo -en "\\033[1;36m"
echo -e "Mandrake"
[ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ] echo -en "\\033[0;39m"
if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then
echo -en "\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup."
echo
sleep 3
fi
# Fix console loglevel
/bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL
# Mount /proc (done here so volume labels can work with fsck)
action "Mounting proc filesystem" mount -n -t proc /proc /proc
# Turn off sysrq
if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq -a "$MAGIC_SYSRQ" = "no" ]; then
echo "0" /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
action "Turning off Magic SysRq key" /bin/true
fi
# Turn off Stop-A
if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/stop-a -a "$STOP_A" = "no" ]; then
echo "0" /proc/sys/kernel/stop-a
action "Turning off Stop-A/Break-A" /bin/true
fi
# Set the system clock.
ARC=0
SRM=0
UTC=0
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/clock ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/clock
# convert old style clock config to new values
if [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "GMT" ]; then
UTC=true
elif [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "ARC" ]; then
ARC=true
fi
fi
if grep "system serial" /proc/cpuinfo | grep -q MILO ; then
ARC=true
fi
CLOCKDEF=""
CLOCKFLAGS="--hctosys"
case "$UTC" in
yes|true)
CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -u";
CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (utc)";
;;
esac
case "$ARC" in
yes|true)
CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -A";
CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (arc)";
;;
esac
case "$SRM" in
yes|true)
CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -S";
CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (srm)";
;;
esac
/sbin/hwclock $CLOCKFLAGS
action "Setting clock $CLOCKDEF: `date`" date
# Load keymap
KEYMAP=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap ]; then
KEYMAP=/etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap
# Since this takes in/output from stdin/out, we can't use initlog
loadkeys $KEYMAP /dev/tty0 /dev/tty0 2/dev/null \
success "Loading default keymap" || failure "Loading default keymap"
echo
else
if [ -x etc/rc.d/init.d/keytable -a -d /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps ]; then
/etc/rc.d/init.d/keytable start
else
DELAYED_KEYMAP=y
fi
fi
# Load system font
if [ -x /sbin/setsysfont ]; then
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ] . /etc/sysconfig/i18n
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/console/$SYSFONT.psf.gz -o -f
/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/$SYSFONT.psf.gz ]; then
action "Setting default font" /sbin/setsysfont
fi
fi
# Start up swapping.
action "Activating swap partitions" swapon -a
# Set the hostname.
action "Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}" hostname ${HOSTNAME}
# Set the NIS domain name
if [ -n "$NISDOMAIN" ]; then
action "Setting NIS domain name $NISDOMAIN" domainname $NISDOMAIN
else
domainname ""
fi
if [ -f /fsckoptions ]; then
fsckoptions=`cat
Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Christopher Cox wrote: Since PlugPray allows for multiple PCI VGA boards Is there a way to start multiple X servers against multiple PCI VGA boards? er... nop and yes... er.. only with xfree4 and having TOO much luck! see www.xfree.org for more info. No, I hadn't set up such thing... yet. -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Refuses to install... :-(
E T wrote: Hello, Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting from a CD-ROM). I tried several times (including the "most default" installation), but it keeps crashing in the middle of installing the packages. Here's the post-mortem: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0105 current-tss.cr3 = 07f11000, %cr3 = 07f11000 *pde = Oops : 0002 CPU : 0 EIP : 0010 : [c011b0a4] EFLAGS : 00010217 snip ... Process runinstall2 (pid:9, process nr: 9, stackpage = c7f15000) My PC is nothing special: Athlon 650 MHz on Biostar M7MKA motherboard 128MB PC100 SDRAM 1 IDE harddrive (20Gb with the first 2Gb left for Windoze) By the way, in the background, perl keeps complaining about the locale, and X cannot find SecurityPolicy... What could this possibly be??? Please help! --ET. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 Well, Media CD Drive BIOS (some early ones wrapped around themselves doing MTRRs for the Athlon) Media (but not poorly made--too much ink on one side of the label introducing dynamic imbalance and eccentricity so that tracks cannot be properly read--a new bugaboo of high-speed drives) This makes sense if the inner tracks are reasonably readable and the outers are not. It appears it did accept your HDD which is another hurdle. Civileme
[expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Seve
[expert] gnucash
I am attempting to switch totally from OS/2-Windows to Linux. I am almost there. I have ported my applications that I use consistently. The only application I have yet to obtain for Linux is a replacement for my checkbook, financial application. I have decided to try gnucash and donwloaded the latest version 1.3.4 and the support package guile, 1.3.4. My problem - when I attempt to install gnucash with kpackage, it will not install due to a failed dependency: libguile.so.4 I have examined the guile packages included with the mandrake version I have (7.0-2 (Air)), no libguile.so.4. There are other libs, but not '.4'. The guile package I downloaded from the gnucash site also did not contain the '.4' lib. Does anyone know where I can obtain this lib?? Or maybe this is a false error message from kpackage. Has anyone else installed gnucash under Mandrake Linux??? if so, how???
Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets
For some of us it is too late. Our office in San Francisco asked me to install a linux server for them via phone from Sydney. They would do the typing and I would direct them through it until it was installed and connected to the net where I could take over. Of course they ignored my suggestions of a standard cheap machine and instead purchased a compaq 7599 (pIII 700). It comes with an 810 motherboard. We wasted heaps of time but they were happy because it had a usb quickcam, DVD, CD rewriter and looks cool. An old pentium 100 would have done for what they needed. Ihad to talk them through removing the winmodem and installing a new cheap video card. All is ok now with the exception of the on-board sound card. sndconfig finds: A PCI sound card was found in your system. The details are: Model: ESS Technology|unknown device 125d:1988 But that is as far as it gets. If anyone knows how to configure this card manually please let me know. All of this could have been averted if only they had listened. Dunc Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:11 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote: > yes, that's the best way, and I always advise this when someone > asks me... but in major companies and goverment they always like to have a > "we're the better" company (IBM, HP, Compaq) to blame when things doesn't > work... of course one can solve the problem, but as the machines have > warrantiy seals and one can open them... yes, they like to wait a couple > of weeks till service comes. That's because management and beancounters think in other ways than people who just want to get the work done. For management and beancounters the priority no.1 question is: Is the contractor (or manufacturer or store) large enough to pay if we have to sue him in case of malperformance? So the fact whether the product is superiour or not counts only as priority no.2. That's why they tend to buy from large companies rather than to give a chance to an upstart. BTW, that's been a big barrier for Linux to get into large corporations. My boss kept saying "who do we sue if Linux crashes our databases? Linus T.?" and so he ordered WinNT. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html -- //- Duncan Hall - SysAdmin Viator Systems +61 2 9211 2336 -//--
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
M Thompson wrote: I have my PC setup according to Tom's recommendations and it works great. I created around six of these 16Mb partitions at the beginning of the disk...this way I can always add more Linux distros in the future. This mess is NOT necessary NOR what I advised you to do. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
Slow, slow, slow, slow, and slow. On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Seve -- Henrik Edlund http://www.edlund.org/ "One is truly wise who has travelled far and knows the ways of the world."
Re: [expert] gnucash
tboldt said: I am attempting to switch totally from OS/2-Windows to Linux. I am almost there. I have ported my applications that I use consistently. The only application I have yet to obtain for Linux is a replacement for my checkbook, financial application. I've not used gnucash, because it wasn't ready for prime time months ago when I was ready to switch from Windows Quicken. I started using Moneydance, and it has been improving every since. It's a Java app, and I regularly run it in both Linux and Windows. It has good support from the author and from an email list. http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/ -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] DSL help sought
vern wrote: On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote: HMMM! Again! There may be a light at the end of the tunnel! Think any of that hardware/software might be available to a "home" user?? I don't have the $$$ a TV station has but if some of the pieces were available it would make a worthwhile project! So how do you like Red Hat 6.2 ??? Anything earth shattering?? Haven't heard any feedback yet! Vern The cool thing about the DG systems box is we didn't pay anything for it.. :) This company gets its revenues from advertizers. It's cheaper for them to ship DG one tape, then they in turn distribute it via the linux box and direct pc for pennies .vs UPS/Fed Ex cost. Works well.. Like I said, the box is pretty much a box with a screen and 5 buttons on it that the operators use. I have no technical manuals on the thing at all, but know its running Linux ( can't recall which one, but It might have been slackware..) and a Direct PC card, and dish.. RH 6.2?? Awsome. No problems what so ever. Installed right, set up right, nice. THe only thing I added was HelixCode's stuff for Gnome. Getting ready to install Netscape 6 right now.. Just dloaded it today at work. ( Yes, it's out. ) Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 ===
Re: [expert] Sounds pathetic!
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi there! Having been unable to get any noise out of my sound card under Mandrake 7,(2.2.14-15mdk) I followed some advice given on this list and upgraded to the new kernel on the Cooker 2.2.15-0.18mdk - and hey the sound card works!! BUT barely - the volume is pathetic, barely audible. The card is a cmi 8738; the cd-software is Kscd. twiddling buttons on speakers and cd-panel does no good at all? Is there anything else I can try - other than buying a new sound card? TIA Have you tried kmixer? That should allow you to adjust the output volume of the sound card. John If you have Gnome installed also, go into gnome multimedia, mixer, and make sure REC is checked on the CD volume pot. Alan This plauged my systems until recently. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 ===
Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
Henrik Edlund wrote: Slow, slow, slow, slow, and slow. On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Seve -- Henrik Edlund http://www.edlund.org/ "One is truly wise who has travelled far and knows the ways of the world." Yea, its sort of slow, but I can't seem to configure it?? I can't find any doc's in the package.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 ===
Re: [expert] gnucash
tboldt wrote: libguile.so.4 Just create a symlink 'ln -s /usr/lib/libguile.so.5 /usr/lib/libguile.so.4' and then 'rpm --nodeps gnucash*rpm' It worked fine for me. -- Steve Fox http://k-lug.com
Re: [expert] Business accounting
Not for business but for personal either Gnucash or the Java Moneydance are good. Ralph On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Greetings All, Ok, I'm getting desparate here. I've managed to find a linux sustitute for just about everything I need for my business but I am STILL looking for an accounting package. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks, -- Joe Gardner Handi Krafts www.handi-krafts.com Linux is like a wigwam, No windows, no gates, and Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ # 68118000
Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested
Are you using a Linux version of this browser, and if so, where did you find that little hummer? Thanks, Craig "Alan N." wrote: Henrik Edlund wrote: Slow, slow, slow, slow, and slow. On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Seve -- Henrik Edlund http://www.edlund.org/ "One is truly wise who has travelled far and knows the ways of the world." Yea, its sort of slow, but I can't seem to configure it?? I can't find any doc's in the package.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from RedHat 6.2 and/or BeOS 5 === begin:vcard n:Woods;J. Craig x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Celtic Pride, Inc. adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:IT Networking Admin x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:J. Craig Woods end:vcard
[expert] More fonts
In my quest to improve my system and Netscape fonts I found something interesting. The 100dpi and 75dpi fonts were installed in a zip format. Looking in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi and /75dpi all files end in .gz. I thought this to be strange so I experimented. Backed up the entire font dir and the expanded all the compressed files. This made Netscape look 100% better and improved some system fonts but made others worse. So what gives. Should the font files be ziped ? BTW this is Mandake 6.1 w/KDE Pat
Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets
No one in Australia can install Linux? Jeanette - Original Message - From: duncan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets For some of us it is too late. Our office in San Francisco asked me to install a linux server for them via phone from Sydney. They would do the typing and I would direct them through it until it was installed and connected to the net where I could take over. Of course they ignored my suggestions of a standard cheap machine and instead purchased a compaq 7599 (pIII 700). It comes with an 810 motherboard. We wasted heaps of time but they were happy because it had a usb quickcam, DVD, CD rewriter and looks cool. An old pentium 100 would have done for what they needed. Ihad to talk them through removing the winmodem and installing a new cheap video card. All is ok now with the exception of the on-board sound card. sndconfig finds: A PCI sound card was found in your system. The details are: Model: ESS Technology|unknown device 125d:1988 But that is as far as it gets. If anyone knows how to configure this card manually please let me know. All of this could have been averted if only they had listened. Dunc Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:11 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote: yes, that's the best way, and I always advise this when someone asks me... but in major companies and goverment they always like to have a "we're the better" company (IBM, HP, Compaq) to blame when things doesn't work... of course one can solve the problem, but as the machines have warrantiy seals and one can open them... yes, they like to wait a couple of weeks till service comes. That's because management and beancounters think in other ways than people who just want to get the work done. For management and beancounters the priority no.1 question is: Is the contractor (or manufacturer or store) large enough to pay if we have to sue him in case of malperformance? So the fact whether the product is superiour or not counts only as priority no.2. That's why they tend to buy from large companies rather than to give a chance to an upstart. BTW, that's been a big barrier for Linux to get into large corporations. My boss kept saying "who do we sue if Linux crashes our databases? Linus T.?" and so he ordered WinNT. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html -- //- Duncan Hall - SysAdmin Viator Systems +61 2 9211 2336 -//--
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Let's not do that yet! I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything. Thus a plain gray screen. Try deleting it and then do a startx. On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: | John Aldrich said: | So...to the original querant: Go download the initscripts | update from the Mandrake 6.1 updates and do an "rpm -Uvh" | on it and see if that helps! | John | | Well, I'm running 7.0.2, so I don't know if there are any updates. I guess I | could install the initscripts and wipe out any customizing I've done, if you | think it's a good idea. Unless the name of the file is initscripts.rpm, I might | need some help identifying it. | | -- | Lane | | Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA | Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] gnucash
.. . . this trick almost always works fine when going in this direction. (ln -s lib.so.new lib.so.old) I don't know why packages check for particular numbers rather than checking for "at least" this number, which would make a lot more sense. It's rather annoying. (And one thing that Windows apps usually don't suffer from!) On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: | tboldt wrote: | libguile.so.4 | | Just create a symlink 'ln -s /usr/lib/libguile.so.5 | /usr/lib/libguile.so.4' and then 'rpm --nodeps gnucash*rpm' | | It worked fine for me. | | -- | | Steve Fox | http://k-lug.com -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
boot1 boot2 boot3 boot4 data1 data2 data3 data4 Well, that was my idea. With maybe a swap partition in the middle, or better yet, on the other drive (for better performance). As for knowing whether or not your computer can boot past 1024 cylinders, I know of no better way than trial and error. Ron made a good point: program versions may vary wildly between distributions, so separate home directories may be better. I'd do it, just so that it's easier to work on a particular document without rebooting, or remembering mount points. Also, if you're not really doing much with Linux other than making a preference, it's probably a good idea to not share any directories between distributions. Like I said earlier, you can use one LILO prompt to boot all 4. It takes a little extra work; you basically have to copy the "image=" sections from the other three lilo.confs to one (we'll say the first installation). You'd also have to mount those /boot filesystems, so that LILO can find the kernels when it installs itself. Then, adjust the "root=" and image name, and you're done. Envision a lilo.conf like so: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map prompt timeout=100 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=mdk root=/dev/hdb9 read-only image=/mnt/deb-boot/vmlinuz label=deb root=/dev/hdb10 read-only image=/mnt/suse-boot/vmlinuz label=suse root=/dev/hdb11 read-only image=/mnt/caldera-boot/vmlinuz label=cal root=/dev/hdb12 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda See what I mean? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?
Christopher Cox wrote: Since PlugPray allows for multiple PCI VGA boards Is there a way to start multiple X servers against multiple PCI VGA boards? Well, so the hardware allows you to have several _screens_. Now, what about input ? Several mouses are supported too, but AFAIK you can't have several keyboards in a PC, and each X server probably needs one ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
On 5 Apr 00, at 15:10, Stephen Bosch wrote: Tell me - has the print server itself been configured properly? Print servers usually have eeproms which need to be configured, and usually this can only be done through a Windows or DOS app that is provided with the server. no its not that kind of print server, it has a built in webserver and telnet access, it can also be configured via supplied software that either runs on windows and interacts via tcp/ip, netbios or java. It can also be configured from *nix using some native nix software. It works fine printing from linux, the problem is that printing via samba no longer works since I moved the printers off the local server onto the intel printserver. Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] Business accounting
Sure, a few are as follows, I got this from a similar discussion on the Caldera Var list ACCPAC - pretty well known in the accounting world http://www.accpac.com These folks http://www.swinfo.com/ Also If you have access to Linux Journal, there's a company out of New York that makes multiplatform accounting software but its not cheap and is really for a small business that has like 5+ users IIRC. I had a chat with the rep when they came through Vancouver on the Caldera/IBM Var tour mid last year. The name appgen comes to mind but not sure, they are in every issue of LJ I've ever seen. There are a couple of others I've seen, but don't happen to have links for them. On 5 Apr 00, at 22:17, Joseph S Gardner wrote: Greetings All, Ok, I'm getting desparate here. I've managed to find a linux sustitute for just about everything I need for my business but I am STILL looking for an accounting package. Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
Lane Lester wrote: Civileme said: Well open /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu with kedit and search for telinit the line should look like grep -q "^id:5:initdefault:" /etc/inittab telinit 5 If it doesn't, our problem may end there Yep, that's what it says. Now the ~/.compupic/def.phd shows up in both directories so it is something you are using, but what? I do not recall this one from my experience. Could it be some resource file that runs? It's a graphics viewer that I use infrequently. It looks like a binary file that starts with "Photodex File Mirror 1.00_" dynamically into an environment variable. See if you can dump your environment with printenv If a variable is set to telinit or "telinit 5", then we need to rgrep for it to find out where the setting is coming from. It's posted below my sig and looks innocent. Also, look at /etc/fstab and see if there are mounts after /proc in the table order. If so, do the rgrep on each of those mounts (/mnt/* excluded of course). There is only: none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 and rgrep -i -l -r telinit /dev/pts didn't turn up anything. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... PWD=/root COLORFGBG=15;default;0 WINDOWID=41943042 HOSTNAME=localhost HISTFILESIZE=1000 LESSKEY=/etc/.less LANGUAGE=en PS1=[\u@\h \W]\$ ENV=/root/.bashrc KDEDIR=/usr LESS=-MM USER=root MACHTYPE=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu LC_ALL=en MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc LINGUAS=en_US:en LANG=en COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm DISPLAY=unix:0.0 LOGNAME=root SHLVL=1 SHELL=/bin/bash USERNAME=root HOSTTYPE=i586 OSTYPE=linux-gnu HISTSIZE=1000 HOME=/root TERM=rxvt SECURE_LEVEL=3 _=/usr/bin/printenv LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33; 01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:* .btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=0 1;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=0 1;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.g if=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01; 35: PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/myscript s NOTHING there Let's take a wild stab do you have a file called /etc/inittab~? If so, move or delete it. Then restore that line at the bottom of inittab. There is just a slight possibility that the backup inittab is being read; I observed another changed initscript /etc/rc.d/init.d/S00halt was also not taking the right effect because the backup was being used by the system. SO try that. There is little else left to try--your telinit has to be coming from kudzu or from one of the directories that might not have been checked rgrep -i -l -r telinit /tmp rgrep -i -l -r telinit /usr rgrep -i -l -r telinit /var IF nothing else comes up, then this is not possible. Computers behave in predictable programmable fashion. We just need to know enough of the system to bring the apparent magic into reality Civileme -- Anyone remember TurboDOS? How about Formula/Formula II or Final Word?
