Re: [expert] KDE taskbar & menubar vanish after screensaver kicks in?

[Joe Heafner]

"Alan N." wrote:
> 
> Joe Heafner wrote:
> >
> > Jay Summet wrote:
> > >
> > > Yep, too simple ;>  The previous suggestion of re-starting "kpanel" via alt-f2
> > > is what I was looking for.  I'd especially be interested if anybody knows WHY
> > > kpanel dies off, and how to keep it from doing it in the first place.
> > >
> > I wish I knew, but it just now happened to me again upon conncecing to
> > my ISP with kppp. I've no idea what the relationship is.
> >
> 
> Do you have Kppp "docking" into the panel??  This is an option. If so,
> try unchecking this and see if the panel dies upon connection to your
> ISP.
> 
Okay. I'll try that next time.

Thanks,

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Re: [expert] Group Owner Of Dos Partitions

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Adam Talbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Hi.  I've just setup Linux and I've got a user (me) that I want to
> give access to the dos partitions (/mnt/DOS_hda1...) but I can't seem to
> do that.  I've tried changing the owner of these partitions (chgrp and
> chown) but it says I can't do that.  I've also tried changing the access
> rights (chmod) but that doesn't work either.
> I was wondering how I can give a user write access to these
> partitions?

You need to do it as part of the mount options, which are configured
in /etc/fstab

The easiest way is probably to use linuxconf, go to File systems, then
Access local drive, click on the device in the list and the opup
tabbed window contains a tab Dos options, in which you can specify a
default user id and a default group id to be used when the partition
is mounted.

Think that covers it.

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Re: [expert] Group Owner Of Dos Partitions

[Alan Shoemaker]

Adamto allow users to have write access the options column
in the /etc/fstab entry for /mnt/DOS_hda1 should look like
this:

user,exec,umask=0

Alan


Adam Talbot wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I've just setup Linux and I've got a user (me) that I want to
> give access to the dos partitions (/mnt/DOS_hda1...) but I can't seem to
> do that.  I've tried changing the owner of these partitions (chgrp and
> chown) but it says I can't do that.  I've also tried changing the access
> rights (chmod) but that doesn't work either.
> I was wondering how I can give a user write access to these
> partitions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adam.

[expert] Group Owner Of Dos Partitions

[Adam Talbot]

Hi.  I've just setup Linux and I've got a user (me) that I want to
give access to the dos partitions (/mnt/DOS_hda1...) but I can't seem to
do that.  I've tried changing the owner of these partitions (chgrp and
chown) but it says I can't do that.  I've also tried changing the access
rights (chmod) but that doesn't work either.
I was wondering how I can give a user write access to these
partitions?


Thanks,

Adam.

Re: [expert] New system setup

[Patrick O'Hara]

Date sent:  Wed, 24 May 2000 15:13:23 -0400
From:   "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Send reply to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[expert] New system setup

> Greet's,
> 
> Finally got all the parts for my new Athlon system in and was wondering
> how best to do this next part.
> 
> What are the benefits of a "server" install .vs. "developement" and
> "recommended"?
> 
Sounds to me like you should do a server install.  I use the expert 
mode and pick and choose.  The development install will give you 
more development tools, like python and php.

Hope that helps.

Pat O'Hara
Techneex
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Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

I've installed both Redhat 6.1 and Mandrake 7.0 and as far as I could
tell, the maximum-customizability options ("expert" in Mandrake) both
gave about as much control as one could ask for, except for the stupid
Mandrake feature to limit you to 50% of your partition size.

Has that restriction been lifted in 7.1 (in expert mode)?


John Aldrich wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 May 2000, you wrote:
> > This is constructive criticism for MDK7.0
> > I absolutely adore MDK6.1 (the best!)
> >
> > #1 Install TAKES TOO LONG!
> > #2 Install is TOO BIG!
> > #3 Install lost the customizability of old redhat.
> Did you try "text" install and select "custom"? If not,
> then you have nothing to bitch about. Yes, it would be NICE
> to have a GUI custom install, but even RedHat's GUI won't
> let you do a truly custom install. I know. I just installed
> RedHat 6.2 here at work and to get a custom install I had
> to select "text expert." Not only that, but it so darned
> sluggish on the GUI install.
> John

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Re: [expert] KDE taskbar & menubar vanish after screensaver kicks in?

[Alan N.]

Joe Heafner wrote:
> 
> Jay Summet wrote:
> >
> > Yep, too simple ;>  The previous suggestion of re-starting "kpanel" via alt-f2
> > is what I was looking for.  I'd especially be interested if anybody knows WHY
> > kpanel dies off, and how to keep it from doing it in the first place.
> >
> I wish I knew, but it just now happened to me again upon conncecing to
> my ISP with kppp. I've no idea what the relationship is.
> 

Do you have Kppp "docking" into the panel??  This is an option. If so,
try unchecking this and see if the panel dies upon connection to your
ISP.

Alan

Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[Fran Parker]

I think Denis strongly recommended NOT using Beta2 and to use Beta3 instead.

I may be wrong.

Bambi



Frederik Dannemare wrote:

> [cut]
> > Well, in "recomended" (now called Authomated) mode installer just tries to
> > make you happy by putting as much as your HD can take to HD.
>
> so does this mean I get to have EVERYTHING installed, if I have, say, 20 GB
> of free diskspace? I just tried mandrake 7 beta 2 yesterday, but I really,
> really missed some kind of 'install EVERYTHING' feature. Well, maybe I just
> overlooked it?
>
> btw, I also got the following error (during beta 2 install) when I was just
> about to set the time zone:
>
> "An error has occurred
> cannot list the available zoneinfos."
>
> It happens no matter what install procedure I choose (recommended, cust.,
> expert, - normail, devel., server)
>
> I have an Asus P2B mobo running an Intel Pentium II 450 mhz cpu.
>
> If anybody cant help me out on this me, please let me know
>
> Regards
> Frederik from Denmark

[expert] Dennis Havlik, here is the info you requested about my wine troubbles.

[Ivan Trail]

attachment.txt is ls -l of / directory and file .txt is /etc/fstab

total 218
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 May 24 18:46 attachment.txt
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 Mar 12 14:11 bin/
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 May 17 09:30 boot/
-rw---1 root root   147456 Feb 23 18:36 core
drwxr-xr-x6 root root36864 May 24 18:29 dev/
drwxr-xr-x   36 root root 3072 May 24 18:29 etc/
drwxr-xr-x4 root root 1024 Feb  6  1996 home/
drwxr-xr-x4 root root 4096 Mar 12 13:43 lib/
drwxr-xr-x2 root root12288 Jan 31 17:22 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 Oct  9  1998 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Aug 23  1999 opt/
drwxrwxr-x2 root root 1024 Mar 11 03:34 output.logs/
dr-xr-xr-x   59 root root0 May 24 13:29 proc/
drwx--   15 root root 1024 May 19 21:09 root/
drwxr-xr-x3 root root 3072 Apr  2 10:52 sbin/
drwxrwxrwt   21 root root 5120 May 24 18:35 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x   20 root root 1024 Mar 12 13:49 usr/
drwxr-xr-x   18 root root 1024 Mar 12 11:34 var/


/dev/hda1 / ext2 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda5 swap_upgrade swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide   0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro   0 0

Re: [expert] How to read a 8mm tape with xerox docutech files

[Leopold Palomo]

Thank's a lot to Charles and Lars.

Well, finally I could read from the tape. Charles, it was the rewind question.
I can access file by file doing a simple cat /dev/nst0 > file.tar and after work
with it. The problem is that the information is stored in a lot of files with index
etc and  well it's my problem and thank's a lot for all.

Leo




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Re: [expert] Other MTA choices

[Irwan Hadi]

At 02:33 AM 5/24/00 -0700, James wrote:
>How come Mandrake favors sendmail over better mail programs like qmail?
>I'd love to see Mandrake use qmail instead of sendmail for the Mail
>Transfer Agent of choice.  Or maybe even *more* choices than sendmail and
>postfix.

The policy of the "Creator" of qmail is to not distribute qmail in binary 
mode, although at least the policy has changed, BUT, some of addons qmail 
like Ucspi-tcp, daemontools, is still in policy to NOT distribute in binary 
mode.
And qmail without that addons will be useless.
For example, you run qmail under inetd and not from tcpserver (from 
ucspi-tcp), then you can't send email using that mailserver.

Re: [expert] X over SSH - How???

[Cecil Watson]

Edit your configuration file(sshd_config)

X11Forwarding yes

Note is from OpenSSH.  The file is in /etc/ssh/.  
- Original Message - 
From: Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 8:44 PM
Subject: [expert] X over SSH - How???


> 
> Please help me to find out how to be able to run X
> over a SSH connection through a firewall  by
> pointing to an appropriate resource, or by giving
> an advice from your own experience as I've run
> out of ideas. I'm running Mandrake 7.0 on a
> firewall/ftp server and  on a desktop behind that
> firewall at home. I am able to ssh into the
> firewall and from it into the main machine. My
> understanding is that I can't ssh directly into
> the main PC as it's hidden behind the firewall and
> has a bogus IP (192.168.2.2), can I?
> Anyway, I really need to be able to start another
> session of X through the ssh connection or if it's
> not possible I'd like to be able to run vnc
> through the same ssh connection. I've tried both
> to no avail as I always get an error that system
> can't connect to X server. Is it because I ssh to
> it from a firewall which doesn't run x or what?
> I'm sorry if it sounds completely confusing, but
> this is the last source of help I can turn to and
> I can provide more information on the setup if
> necessary.
>  
>   Thank you.
>  
>  Alex. Moskalenko
> 

[expert] X over SSH - How???

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

Please help me to find out how to be able to run X
over a SSH connection through a firewall  by
pointing to an appropriate resource, or by giving
an advice from your own experience as I've run
out of ideas. I'm running Mandrake 7.0 on a
firewall/ftp server and  on a desktop behind that
firewall at home. I am able to ssh into the
firewall and from it into the main machine. My
understanding is that I can't ssh directly into
the main PC as it's hidden behind the firewall and
has a bogus IP (192.168.2.2), can I?
Anyway, I really need to be able to start another
session of X through the ssh connection or if it's
not possible I'd like to be able to run vnc
through the same ssh connection. I've tried both
to no avail as I always get an error that system
can't connect to X server. Is it because I ssh to
it from a firewall which doesn't run x or what?
I'm sorry if it sounds completely confusing, but
this is the last source of help I can turn to and
I can provide more information on the setup if
necessary.
 
  Thank you.
 
 Alex. Moskalenko

[expert] New system setup

[Joseph S. Gardner]

Greet's,

Finally got all the parts for my new Athlon system in and was wondering
how best to do this next part.

What are the benefits of a "server" install .vs. "developement" and
"recommended"?

I'd like to use my new machine for a server and enable NIS/NFS to
centralize my home network so that all users get their prefered settings
etc.  I also plan to configure all users to have access through my DSL
modem via a separate firewall/gateway machine and was wondering if it is
necessary to set the security levels to something stronger than "low" -
figured that the firewall should be able to keep out prying eyes.

All suggestions welcome.

TIA
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Re: [expert] mrtg and Mandrake's apache (fwd)

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:56 -0800, Civileme wrote:
 
> Hey there ...  Been a while...

Hey,
 
> That message reads as if he's really running RH and thinking it is
> Mandrake, but if he is running Mandrake...

I suggested to run the apache version from his original
distribution (RedHat 6.2) and then mrtg might run with it.

He told me that the combo of RH 6.2 and Mandrake's apache run in
a production environment so he cannot make major changes.
 
> ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/
> 
> has
> 
> mrtg-2.8.9-3mdk.i586.rpm
> 
> as a ready-to-go binary.  I do not know if it is staticly linked or
> not.  If it is, then it should run regardless of library.

I'll forward this and we'll see what happens.

Thanks.

wobo
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Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote:
> Which features did you miss in graphical "expert" install? Especially in
> 7.1?
> 
Well, after reading all the problems everyone was having
with 7.02, I decided to use RedHat 6.2, and was basing my
comments on THEIR GUI installer. However, I've seen your
GUI installer and it's a pretty nice one! :-)
I fully intend to come back to Mandrake after it's a bit
more "mature." :-)

My main complaint with Mandrake is that you don't support
"old" versions with your updatesyou only provide
updates for the current version, which sucks! Please ask
the rest of the crew to provide updates for at least the
last couple versions when they update stuff
Thanks...

Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[Denis HAVLIK]

Which features did you miss in graphical "expert" install? Especially in
7.1?

:~>> #1 Install TAKES TOO LONG!
:~>> #2 Install is TOO BIG!
:~>> #3 Install lost the customizability of old redhat.
:~>Did you try "text" install and select "custom"? If not,
:~>then you have nothing to bitch about. Yes, it would be NICE
:~>to have a GUI custom install, but even RedHat's GUI won't
:~>let you do a truly custom install. I know. I just installed
:~>RedHat 6.2 here at work and to get a custom install I had
:~>to select "text expert." Not only that, but it so darned
:~>sluggish on the GUI install.
:~> John
:~>

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Re: [expert] My tape drive died!

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote:
> I don't want to shell out for a new one right now.  I don't back up the
> whole hard drive, just the important stuff about once a month.  Would it be
> possible to dump to a CD-RW or even a CD-R?  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  I'm not great on scripts, so if you know please be specific.
>
Sure is. I even recall on this list awhile back that
someone posted a link to a util that'll do exactly that. If
you can't find it here, go to FreshMeat.Net or to
linuxberg.com and search for backup & cdrom.
John

Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, you wrote:
> This is constructive criticism for MDK7.0
> I absolutely adore MDK6.1 (the best!)
> 
> #1 Install TAKES TOO LONG!
> #2 Install is TOO BIG!
> #3 Install lost the customizability of old redhat.
Did you try "text" install and select "custom"? If not,
then you have nothing to bitch about. Yes, it would be NICE
to have a GUI custom install, but even RedHat's GUI won't
let you do a truly custom install. I know. I just installed
RedHat 6.2 here at work and to get a custom install I had
to select "text expert." Not only that, but it so darned
sluggish on the GUI install.
John

Re: Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>Don't get me wrong,
:~>I LOVE Mandrake!

This is exactly how I understood your message. The point is - 7.0 is too
old to discuss its features anymore. 

cu
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Re: [expert] looking for a usable isdn-interface

[Burkhard Zombronner]

Am Mit, 24 Mai 2000 schrieben Sie:
> hi,
> 
> am looking for a reasonable and useable ISDN-Interface, running on
> mandrake 7.0.
> Have tried out the isdn-utils, but that is anything for hacking, not fur
> using.
> 
> In older days I saw "kisdn", but it doesn't run with 7.0. Display-errors
> and much more problems appears with it. Think, was on mandrake 5.3 That
> was a really useable program with a very userfriendly userinterface.
> 
> I need it for my 11-years old daughter.
> 
> Anyone knows such a program or tool ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Hans Schneidhofer

Sorry, but on my mandrake 7.0 it works excellent, but it does not work on 7.1
beta. There is now www.kisn.de a rpm for mandrake 7.0 Give it a try!!!

Regards

Burkhard Zombronner

P:S: ISDN Support on mandrake could be better.

Re: [expert] My tape drive died!

[Civileme]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, you wrote:
> I don't want to shell out for a new one right now.  I don't back up the
> whole hard drive, just the important stuff about once a month.  Would it be
> possible to dump to a CD-RW or even a CD-R?  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  I'm not great on scripts, so if you know please be specific.
> Thanx.

YEs, and there is a program to do it, too.


   http://scdbackup.linuxave.net/

And it will back up to multiple CDs

Civileme

Re: [expert] looking for a usable isdn-interface

[Andreas Bergstrøm]

hans wrote:
> am looking for a reasonable and useable ISDN-Interface, running on
> mandrake 7.0.
> Have tried out the isdn-utils, but that is anything for hacking, not fur
> using.
[...]
> I need it for my 11-years old daughter.
> 
> Anyone knows such a program or tool ?

It depends on your ISDN card. If you have a terminal adapter card you can
set it up with isdn-utils, and then use it as a regular modem at /dev/ttyI0
works like a dream.

May you live long and spamless,

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Re: [expert] Installing OpenSSH, Zlib, and OpenSSL

[Wade]

Hi List,

Wow, Denis that sounds incredible! I will be very interested in that
new and exciting feature soon. First I want to accomplish a good, basic
configuration of my system, every day I am a little closer. I haven't
yet began to configure any of my daemons which I am naturally the most
excited about and looking forward to. 

Thanks for your help and by the way the link was good! :)

b/web
Wade



Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> 
> Since you mentioned it: in 7.1, we have a little goody for ssh users (me
> for instance). In case "ssh" is found, and ~/.ssh/identity file exists,
> your X-session is started as doughter of ssh-agent.
> 
> cheers
> Denis
> 
> :~>Mandrake does have ready-made RPMS for OpenSSH, Zlib, and OpenSSL.
> :~>
> :~>I think that you're best bet for isntalling all of those and making them
> :~>easy to maintain would be to use the RPMS (unless you want to compile
> :~>so you always have thee latest and greatest).
> :~>
> :~>There is a crypto link off of http://www.linux-mandrake.com -- check it
> :~>out!
> 
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Re: [expert] Printing et al

[Edwin Linux Fan]

>I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some
reason cannot
>print from anywhere else.. I suspect that I may have some
kind of
>lock in the spooler but haven't been able to locate it... 

It's not a lock.  You just forgot to turn on lpd.
Use your setup tool and turn it on by default.
Manually as root type lpd in the prompt.


>The second is only cosmetic but one I find quite annoying.
>
>When the system boots there are scads of confirmation
messages.
>The first bunch up to the point where the Penguin is
displayed don't
>cause me any distress. But immediately X starts up there
are what
>appear to be several screenfulls of messages to do with the
video
>card - Is there any way that this material can be
supressed??

That's normal.
To see what it said.
Press ctrl-alt-F1.
To go back to X press alt-F7.

Re: [expert] Installing OpenSSH, Zlib, and OpenSSL

[Wade]

Hi List,

What an very good idea, I sure am glad you thought of it! :) More
importantly
shared it with me and the list. The link was very good too.

Thanks, 

b/web
Wade


Jon wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 07:56:52AM -0700, Wade wrote:
> 
> >   I hope I am on the appropriate list for my questions, since they are
> > regarding things other than installing Mandrake and configuring the
> > desktop. I am very much wanting to utilize SSH, and have downloaded
> > OpenSSH and the required Zlib, and OpenSSL.
> >
> >   Before my embarking on this installation journey, I was wondering if
> > anyone has OpenSSH running or knows if it will run under Mandrake Linux?
> > What is the best location for
> > installing all three of these programs? Is it best to have ones OpenSSH
> > use PAM? Is the passphrase requester only required by GNOME? Also if you
> > are as curious about your system as I am, don't bother trying to read
> > /dev/urandom, it works GREAT though. :)
> >
> > Much thanks in advance,
> 
> Mandrake does have ready-made RPMS for OpenSSH, Zlib, and OpenSSL.
> 
> I think that you're best bet for isntalling all of those and making them
> easy to maintain would be to use the RPMS (unless you want to compile
> so you always have thee latest and greatest).
> 
> There is a crypto link off of http://www.linux-mandrake.com -- check it
> out!
> 
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Re: [expert] Printing et al

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:52:28AM +1200, John Rye wrote:
-> Hi all
-> 
-> After several weeks  of reinstalling the reinstall from the
-> previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think)
-> running..Well sort of...
-> 
-> I have have a couple of problems which have stumped me.
-> 
-> I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some reason cannot
-> print from anywhere else.. I suspect that I may have some kind of
-> lock in the spooler but haven't been able to locate it... 

Did you asign your printer a name other than lp? If so you have to tell
lpr to send to that printer's queue instead of to the default queue,
lp. If you named your printer fred, print to it with:

lpr -Pfred file.txt



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[expert] Printing et al

[John Rye]

Hi all

After several weeks  of reinstalling the reinstall from the
previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think)
running..Well sort of...

I have have a couple of problems which have stumped me.

I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some reason cannot
print from anywhere else.. I suspect that I may have some kind of
lock in the spooler but haven't been able to locate it... 

The second is only cosmetic but one I find quite annoying.

When the system boots there are scads of confirmation messages.
The first bunch up to the point where the Penguin is displayed don't
cause me any distress. But immediately X starts up there are what
appear to be several screenfulls of messages to do with the video
card - Is there any way that this material can be supressed??

Can someone point me in the right direction???

Cheers

Re: [expert] KDE taskbar & menubar vanish after screensaver kicks in?

[Joe Heafner]

Jay Summet wrote:
> 
> Yep, too simple ;>  The previous suggestion of re-starting "kpanel" via alt-f2
> is what I was looking for.  I'd especially be interested if anybody knows WHY
> kpanel dies off, and how to keep it from doing it in the first place.
> 
I wish I knew, but it just now happened to me again upon conncecing to
my ISP with kppp. I've no idea what the relationship is.


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Re: [expert] could not open default font 'fixed' --help

[Lane Lester]

giancarlo wrote:
>  > 
>  > Hi
>  > 
>  >  Suddently my XWindowns stopped to work. When I do startx I
>  recive the
>  > follow message:
>  > 
>  > -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

I'll bet I know what happened: you filled your root partition! That's what
has caused me to get that message. Check its space with df, and if I'm
right, it's time to start deleting some stuff. The easiest tool I've found
for that purpose is mc.
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Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[Frederik Dannemare]

[cut]
> Well, in "recomended" (now called Authomated) mode installer just tries to
> make you happy by putting as much as your HD can take to HD.

so does this mean I get to have EVERYTHING installed, if I have, say, 20 GB
of free diskspace? I just tried mandrake 7 beta 2 yesterday, but I really,
really missed some kind of 'install EVERYTHING' feature. Well, maybe I just
overlooked it?

btw, I also got the following error (during beta 2 install) when I was just
about to set the time zone:

"An error has occurred
cannot list the available zoneinfos."

It happens no matter what install procedure I choose (recommended, cust.,
expert, - normail, devel., server)

I have an Asus P2B mobo running an Intel Pentium II 450 mhz cpu.

If anybody cant help me out on this me, please let me know

Regards
Frederik from Denmark

RE: [expert] Help! Apache Virtual Hosts & DNS updates

[Bill Shirley]

> #1 I cannot even PING anything.domain.com

Who is running the DNS for DOMAIN.COM?  You need a entries for
ANYTHING.DOMAIN.COM.
Does "nslookup anything.domain.com" work?

Bill


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Subject: [expert] Help! Apache Virtual Hosts & DNS updates


I'm working on a project.
I've got a DOMAIN.COM
Now I want 3rd level domains,
using Apache Name-Based Virtual Hosts:
I made: ANYTHING.DOMAIN.COM

I do not operate my own DNS.
My provider says it should work.

I want the same effect as bigstep.com...
... you know: yourcompany.bigstep.com

Questions:

#1 I cannot even PING anything.domain.com

#2 I tried putting anything.domain.com
   in the /etc/hosts file, it works, but
   that's cheating.

#3 What should I do?

Re: Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[Edwin Linux Fan]

Don't get me wrong,
I LOVE Mandrake!

In fact, 
I'm running MDK 7.0 at home, (w/ scanner!)
MDK 7.0 in one office desktop 
MDK 6.1 in 4 server / desktops
RH 6.0 in 1 server
RH 6.2 in 1 desktop

Re: [expert] mrtg and Mandrake's apache (fwd)

[Jan Dittberner]

Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

> mrtg needs gd-library 1.3-6, it doesn't run with Mandrake's
> version 1.8. But with version 1.3 Mandrake's apache won't run.

I had the same problem. I linked gd-1.3 statical to mrtg and
it works very well.

I think I'll switch to rrdtool soon which works with recent
gd-libs so there's no need for gd-1.3 anymore.

Jan Dittberner

Re: [expert] Other MTA choices

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 24-May-00 by James:
| How come Mandrake favors sendmail over better mail programs like qmail?
| I'd love to see Mandrake use qmail instead of sendmail for the Mail
| Transfer Agent of choice.  Or maybe even *more* choices than sendmail and
| postfix.

Actually, the preference is for postfix.   Some Mandrake staffers
actually think of sendmail as a security hole at best :)

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[expert] Other MTA choices

[James]

How come Mandrake favors sendmail over better mail programs like qmail?
I'd love to see Mandrake use qmail instead of sendmail for the Mail
Transfer Agent of choice.  Or maybe even *more* choices than sendmail and
postfix.

james

Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>This is constructive criticism for MDK7.0

Too late, sorry. Shop is closed, we only accept cryticizm on 7.1 now .-)

:~>I absolutely adore MDK6.1 (the best!)

:~>#1 Install TAKES TOO LONG!
:~>#2 Install is TOO BIG!

Well, in "recomended" (now called Authomated) mode installer just tries to
make you happy by putting as much as your HD can take to HD. If there is
no place on HD, packages are dropped from install based on how
good|important we think them to be.

For more controle over install, use "customized".  

:~>#3 Install lost the customizability of old redhat.

Absolutely not.

:~>#4 cacheing DNS files not created by install: /var/named
:~>missing.

hm. Caching DNS config is in caching-nameserver-6.0-3mdk.noarch.rpm 

:~>#5 No text install?

Yes text install ;->>

:~>#6 Should Let user choose between Postfix and Sendmail.

should:

rpm -e postfix; urpmi sendmail

It is not fancy, graphical, or "during install", but it looks simple
enough to me. And I am not a friend of postfix either.

cu
Denis
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Re: [expert] Installing OpenSSH, Zlib, and OpenSSL

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>nifty,
:~>does this has any implications for VNC?

AFAIK, Every program you start from your X-session will still be a
doughter process of ssh-agent. terminals, additional X-sessions...

However, AFAIK ssh|scp|slogin are the only programs which make use of the 
RSA private/public key authentication found in  ~/.ssh dir. 

If you want a secure conection with VCN, you will have to tunnel it trough
a secure channel as described here:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshwin.html

By the way, ssh-tunneling is a great tool: basically it can crypt ANY kind
of communication bgetween two machines, withouth changing a thing in a
program used to comunicate!

cu
Denis 
 
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