Re: [expert] IDEcdrw - SCSI emulation
Yes, /etc/lilo.conf has identical append=hdc=ide-scsi settings for both kernels. Ross On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:16:36 -400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /etc/lilo.conf does the section for your newer kernel have a line like this? append=hd?=ide-scsi I'm sure the stock kernel section does because the cdrw is working. James This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1023749673-1840-1211 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:15:21 -0500 nDiScReEt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it could mean that or that you don't have permission for your regular users. I can't see it being a permission problem as cdrecord -scanbus has to be run as root and it still came up blank. My kernel upgrade was with the kernel-2.4.18-18mdk-1.1mdk.i586.rpm, should I not have expected this to be configured for SCSI emulation needed for cdrws? btw, when I reboot back to the stock 8.2 kernel (2.4.18-6mdk) the cdrw works fine. thanks for your ideas Ross =_1023749673-1840-1211 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1023749673-1840-1211-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde3 - no icons or images
I tried that.. but am now getting the following types of error when I run kde programs: kuser: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti7QPixmap kwrite: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: newItem__14QPtrCollectionPv ktux: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: event__7QObjectP6QEvent Anyone have any suggestions? James wrote: ummm on mine I had to go into /usr/share and do ln -s /opt/kde3/share/icons icons. To get them back. KDE has had this on again off again love affair with opt no wait usr no opt... and it's really mucking things up. James PS did the same for wallpapers but still can't get one to show up on the login screen. On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:35:40 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completly uninstalled kde .. then installed kde 3. All seems to work - but without any icons whatsoever. No images, icons.. at all. Anyone able to advise? Should I list all the kde rpm's I have installed? -- Azrael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IDEcdrw - SCSI emulation
I've checked out some other stuff and it seems the ide-scsi module is loading at boot (insmod ide-scsi reports that the module already exists). the problem is that when I try to mount the drive I get: [ross@localhost dev]$ mount /mnt/cdrom mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist and this is because the /dev/scd0 link is broken ie: /dev/scd0 - /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd when it should point to: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd As this is all automatically configured at boot can anyone help with suggestions of what could be going on. thanks Ross Yes, /etc/lilo.conf has identical append=hdc=ide-scsi settings for both kernels. Ross On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:16:36 -400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /etc/lilo.conf does the section for your newer kernel have a line like this? append=hd?=ide-scsi I'm sure the stock kernel section does because the cdrw is working. James This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1023749673-1840-1211 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:15:21 -0500 nDiScReEt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it could mean that or that you don't have permission for your regular users. I can't see it being a permission problem as cdrecord -scanbus has to be run as root and it still came up blank. My kernel upgrade was with the kernel-2.4.18-18mdk-1.1mdk.i586.rpm, should I not have expected this to be configured for SCSI emulation needed for cdrws? btw, when I reboot back to the stock 8.2 kernel (2.4.18-6mdk) the cdrw works fine. thanks for your ideas Ross =_1023749673-1840-1211 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1023749673-1840-1211-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!
J. Craig Woods wrote: Well my last post was a most intriguing explication of the quantum theory as it correlates with spectroscopy and singularity. Even when the renown physicist, Stephen Hawking, read it, he commented on its value as a break-through treatise. But, alas, it did not make it to the list. drjung, I would be most interested in reading your scholarly treatise! ;) daRcmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!
daRcmaTTeR wrote: J. Craig Woods wrote: Well my last post was a most intriguing explication of the quantum theory as it correlates with spectroscopy and singularity. Even when the renown physicist, Stephen Hawking, read it, he commented on its value as a break-through treatise. But, alas, it did not make it to the list. drjung, I would be most interested in reading your scholarly treatise! ;) daRcmaTTeR I wrote a discourse on porous circuits that was just too radical.. too forward thinking for the examiners to accept.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)
On Saturday 01 June 2002 19:58, J. Craig Woods wrote: WRONG AGAIN! The mail server, smtp.mandrax.org is not, repeat *NOT*, doing a reverse dns lookup on ip addresses (please see my *many* posts on this issue). I investigated a little bit more on this subject, and I found a post of Wietse Venema (Postfix's author) that says: == CLIP HERE == said: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [195.xxx.xxx.xxx]) The SMTP server is unable to find the hostname that belongs to the IP address 195.xxx.yyy.zzz. The error is temporary (450 means try again later). This probably means that the address-hostname lookup timed out. In order to fid out what DNS server is responsible for your address-hostname information, query for: dig mx yyy.xxx.195.in-addr.arpa. or host -t ns yyy.xxx.195.in-addr.arpa. So, as I noticed before, It's not only up to you to have your DNS properly configured, but is your ISP that has to set up a reverse zone for you. Or am I wrong again? bye -- Errare e' umano. Vagabondare e' reato gianpaolo racca [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.preciso.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 06:50 am, you wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: J. Craig Woods wrote: Well my last post was a most intriguing explication of the quantum theory as it correlates with spectroscopy and singularity. Even when the renown physicist, Stephen Hawking, read it, he commented on its value as a break-through treatise. But, alas, it did not make it to the list. drjung, I would be most interested in reading your scholarly treatise! ;) daRcmaTTeR damn shame it got lost in the EtHeR (MandrakeSympa) servers with the other mystery post not showing up. That is why they call it ethernet ain't it? I wrote a discourse on porous circuits that was just too radical.. too forward thinking for the examiners to accept.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde3 - no icons or images
Azrael wrote: I tried that.. but am now getting the following types of error when I run kde programs: kuser: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti7QPixmap kwrite: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: newItem__14QPtrCollectionPv ktux: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: event__7QObjectP6QEvent Anyone have any suggestions? Hi guys, my latest install experience with KDE301 was with the texstar packages and once I was finished jumping through all the hoops kde was putting me through and the packages were installed they've been working flawlessly. now, I feel compelled to mention that kde 2.x did not exist on this machine before hand so I have a feeling that made a great deal of difference since when it was here and I was upgrading from it to kde 3.x it would kill the X-server each and every time leaving me with only console mode. So, my two cents would be if you've got kde 2.x on your system already and you want to upgrade then uninstall 2.x first and make sure you get it all cause if you don't it will make you very sorry. If you don't then your work is already half done. you can get the packages from texstar here: http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/RPMS/ Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde3 - no icons or images
daRcmaTTeR wrote: Azrael wrote: I tried that.. but am now getting the following types of error when I run kde programs: kuser: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti7QPixmap kwrite: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: newItem__14QPtrCollectionPv ktux: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: event__7QObjectP6QEvent Anyone have any suggestions? Hi guys, my latest install experience with KDE301 was with the texstar packages and once I was finished jumping through all the hoops kde was putting me through and the packages were installed they've been working flawlessly. now, I feel compelled to mention that kde 2.x did not exist on this machine before hand so I have a feeling that made a great deal of difference since when it was here and I was upgrading from it to kde 3.x it would kill the X-server each and every time leaving me with only console mode. So, my two cents would be if you've got kde 2.x on your system already and you want to upgrade then uninstall 2.x first and make sure you get it all cause if you don't it will make you very sorry. If you don't then your work is already half done. you can get the packages from texstar here: http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/RPMS/ Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Just a quick note.. I went to download these.. and didn't want to click on them all.. so a quick way to get them all would be: wget http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/RPMS/ possibly other fast ways.. but this is the one that came to mind Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde3.01 won't start
On Tuesday 11 Jun 2002 01:32, ajax wrote: I've installed the kde3.01 rpms and I can't get kde3 to start. I get these errors when I try: dcopserver: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: newItem__14QPtrCollectionPv kwin: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti7QPixmap kpersonalizer: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: newItem__14QPtrCollectionPv ksplash: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti7QPixmap kdeinit: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti12QApplication /opt/kde3/bin/startkde: xmessage: command not found Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory ksmserver: relocation error: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdefx.so.4: undefined symbol: __ti7QPixmap /opt/kde3/bin/startkde: xmessage: command not found Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! waiting for X server to shut down Any ideas? Thanks Looks like you haven't got qt3 installed. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 13 hours 5 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix aliases.db
Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:11:54 -0400 Jim Tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 08:55 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I'm new to Mandrake, having just installed 8.2 from the 3 CD download set. I'm trying to get Postfix to send my mail from Kmail. Having edited /etc/postfix/aliases I tried to run postaliases, but got a message saying that command not found. I ran whereis postaliases and sure enough it is not installed. Which package do I have to install to get postaliases? jerry try postalias Thanks! Of course, that worked. [root@corinna root]# urpmf postalias postfix:/usr/lib/postfix/postalias postfix:/usr/sbin/postalias postfix:/usr/share/doc/postfix-20010228/html/postalias.1.html postfix:/usr/share/man/man1/postalias.1.bz2 Jim Tarvid Ok...but why did it work cause I've never seen that before and I can't help but be very interested it what it did and why it did it. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix aliases.db
I suspect it is a small utility roughly equivalent to postmap hash:/etc/postfix/aliases put there to ease converting humans from sendmail Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 11 June 2002 07:27 am, you wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:11:54 -0400 Jim Tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 08:55 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I'm new to Mandrake, having just installed 8.2 from the 3 CD download set. I'm trying to get Postfix to send my mail from Kmail. Having edited /etc/postfix/aliases I tried to run postaliases, but got a message saying that command not found. I ran whereis postaliases and sure enough it is not installed. Which package do I have to install to get postaliases? jerry try postalias Thanks! Of course, that worked. [root@corinna root]# urpmf postalias postfix:/usr/lib/postfix/postalias postfix:/usr/sbin/postalias postfix:/usr/share/doc/postfix-20010228/html/postalias.1.html postfix:/usr/share/man/man1/postalias.1.bz2 Jim Tarvid Ok...but why did it work cause I've never seen that before and I can't help but be very interested it what it did and why it did it. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] again realtec 8139
hi, have detected a weird problem on my box with realtec 8139. let me start : have tried the follwing situations : first at all I made an install like absolutly new PC. had installed a 3Com3c905x as a eth0 and a realtec 8139too as a eth1 eth0 first got the ipadress 10.0.0.10 for a connection to my adsl-modem from alcatel, realtec as a eth1 got the ipadress 192.168.10.15 for hosting as an internal network-host. every 20 to 30 hours my machine stucks again and again. got a lot of this message here : probable hardwarebug: clock timer configutation lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard.d:0 probably hardware bug: restoring chip configuration now I've tried the other situation : installed again on the same new PC, but made a change of eth0 eth1 so now eth0 was 10.0.0.10 and eth1 was now 192.168.10.15 now I had a connection to internet, but NOT to the slave-host with 192.168.10.5 but a ping to 192.168.10.15 was okay. the hardwareclock-bug-messages disappears, mdk was running WITHOUT stucks after 20 oder more hours. tried a new one situation - installing again from scratch - without 3Com-card the internetconnecton was okay - the machine had ip 10.0.0.10 the machine was running fine without stucks, changing again - now with 3Com and NO realtec - was also fine tried again both - the realtec and 3Com - the weirdness starts again. Now I have 2 3Coms - and NO problems - seems to me, that realtec is not a good choice in combination with 3Com - ON MY HARDWARE. I don't know, which behavior I would have with another PC-Hardware. and am sorry about, that I cannot made a test with 2 realtecs, I don't have 2 realtecs. Is anyone there, which have detected such problems like this one ? On the motherboard I couldn't change the IRQ's because have only the possibility to change from PCI to ISA - not more. tried also to change the Slotplaces, so I had onetime IRQ 5 to realtec and 9 to 3Com the 2nd time I had 5 to 3Com and 9 to realtec. IRQ 9 to realtec produces the weird hardwareproblems. during this testphase I was missing a tool in mdk 8.0 that I can change the configuration of eth0 and eth1 from ip-1 to ip-2 a littlebit easier. think that some routingerrors was also a result of these missing tools, but am not sure about. all this test takes me a long time now for about 2 or 3 days. and the onlyone result for me is, with realtec I have a lot of problems. would be very interested of about your experiences about such problems - are there some experiences in this list ? bye hans schneidhofer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde3.01 won't start
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 1:10 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: Looks like you haven't got qt3 installed. This is a bit of a blunder by Mandrakesoft; most mirrors don't have it (they only have kde*.rpm and libarts*.rpm). As this question keeps coming up I've put my copies in: http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-devel-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9BfJkCv59vFiSU4YRAo6rAJ9UQ+PPRjafQyWUv2Bt8OqyBsaOggCgrjFj KhgNgVttJSq8c8J7FinCbiE= =To2s -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] again realtec 8139
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 08:55 am, you wrote: hi, have detected a weird problem on my box with realtec 8139. let me start : have tried the follwing situations : first at all I made an install like absolutly new PC. had installed a 3Com3c905x as a eth0 and a realtec 8139too as a eth1 eth0 first got the ipadress 10.0.0.10 for a connection to my adsl-modem from alcatel, realtec as a eth1 got the ipadress 192.168.10.15 for hosting as an internal network-host. I have a box full of old 3Com cards that I have replaced with either cheap Realteks or Netgears. Why not treat yourself to a pair of matching cheap nics? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] again realtec 8139
seems to be a good idea. hasn't any ideas of problems, I would get, as I bought this cards. normaly with 3Com 3c905 (1ooMB) I didn't have any problems but with mixed picles like 3Com and realtec this is my first experience. will try it - which cheaps do you have ? thanks hans schneidhofer I have a box full of old 3Com cards that I have replaced with either cheap Realteks or Netgears. Why not treat yourself to a pair of matching cheap nics? Jim Tarvid Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, et wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 06:50 am, you wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: J. Craig Woods wrote: Well my last post was a most intriguing explication of the quantum theory as it correlates with spectroscopy and singularity. Even when the renown physicist, Stephen Hawking, read it, he commented on its value as a break-through treatise. But, alas, it did not make it to the list. drjung, I would be most interested in reading your scholarly treatise! ;) daRcmaTTeR damn shame it got lost in the EtHeR (MandrakeSympa) servers with the other mystery post not showing up. That is why they call it ethernet ain't it? I always thought they called it the ether cause they couldn't think of anything better to call it. ;) -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)
gianpaolo racca wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 19:58, J. Craig Woods wrote: WRONG AGAIN! The mail server, smtp.mandrax.org is not, repeat *NOT*, doing a reverse dns lookup on ip addresses (please see my *many* posts on this issue). So what's the meaning of this message? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host smtp.mandrax.org[63.209.80.243] said: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [111.222.333.444] my public IP has obviously been hidden Good thing you hid that ip address. I had to move my eyeballs all the way up to the headers to see it :-) What smtp.mandrax.org is doing is a *FORWARD* lookup. In essence, it ran a nslookup your-hostname.domain, and this is what it got: [drjung@sherman drjung]$ nslookup simpson.preciso.net Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. Server: 192.168.0.6 Address:192.168.0.6#53 ** server can't find simpson.preciso.net: NXDOMAIN You see, you do not exist, so mandrax, rightly so, is not allowing mail from you. You do not exist when I look you up on a dns server that is out on the internet too: [drjung@sherman drjung]$ nslookup -sil simpson.preciso.net 4.2.2.1 Server: 4.2.2.1 Address:4.2.2.1#53 ** server can't find simpson.preciso.net: NXDOMAIN If you want to send mail to smtp.mandrax.org, you must first make sure you register your domain name, and you must then have that name in the address space of a dns server running on the internet (just ask Pierre about this...grin). Some public dns server needs to point to your hostname. I might be best to read up on domains, hostnames, and dns records. Good luck, drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Some interesting M$ news from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2032000/2032156.stm (In a funny kind of way, I hope they have problems...) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2031000/2031026.stm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IDEcdrw - SCSI emulation
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 4:23 am, Ross Pearson wrote: I've checked out some other stuff and it seems the ide-scsi module is loading at boot (insmod ide-scsi reports that the module already exists). the problem is that when I try to mount the drive I get: [ross@localhost dev]$ mount /mnt/cdrom mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist and this is because the /dev/scd0 link is broken ie: /dev/scd0 - /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd when it should point to: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd As this is all automatically configured at boot can anyone help with suggestions of what could be going on. thanks Ross At any worse case, recompile your kernel. -- Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some. -- Dwight MacDonald --- 2.4.18-16mdk Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) for i586 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] again realtec 8139
Realtek 8139s from a variety of sources but they all seem to work. Lately I've been buying Netgear FA310/311 in OEM quantities at ~$8.50 but they run closer $20 at retail. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
I believe your solution will also remove a valid lockfile, ain't it? daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.2 as a server. I have postfix doing the mail and have gnu_pop3d running as the pop3 server. If a user drops connection for some reason while he is getting his mail, it will leave the lock file in place. The lock file will never be removed. Is there a place to configure this to be removed in say 10 or 15 minutes or is there a way to run some other software to check for loss of connection and then clear the lock file. I am new to Linux so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Richard D. Bonebrake Asquith Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard, probably the easiest thing you could do for this would be to use a small shell script to check for the existence of the lockfile, and if it does exist to simply remove it. == #!/bin/sh filename=/var/path/to/filename.lock # test for lockfile if [ -e $filename ] rm -f $filename fi == now, just chmod this little guy 755 and set a cron job to run twice an hour and that should take care of the problem of the lingering lockfile. wooky -- -- shinjiteiru shinjirareru, korekara aruku kono michi wo! kimi ga iru yo, boku ga iru yo sore ijou nani mo iranai. umareta imi ,sagasu yori mo ima ikiteru koto kanjite, kotae yori mo, daiji na mono hitotsu hitotsu mitsuketeiku... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Registrars [was: Re: [expert] can no longer post (without unduepain)]
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:40:48 -0500 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to send mail to smtp.mandrax.org, you must first make sure you register your domain name, and you must then have that name in the address space of a dns server running on the internet (just ask Pierre about this...grin). LOL!! What doc is alluding to: if anyone thinks all registrars are the same, have a look at: http://pfortin.com/Domains In case you miss the support horror story link... http://pfortin.com/Domains/IARegistry If anyone has a registrar story (good or bad) they'd like to see added to my page, let me know... Of course, if there's another registrar rating page somewhere, let me know and I'll contribute my stuff... So far, register.com made a couple of initial setup errors; but fixed them immediately. They rate a 9, and being able to use their DNS directly to point to your own server(s) is what a registrar should be about... well worth the extra $$. Ciao, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Gandi.net does DNS pointing for only 12 Euros/year including the domain name. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] dosfstools 2.8-2mdk and USB flash card
Hi to the list, I use this package because to get pictures on flash card on USB ( FAT12 format.is used) when I check partition by #fsck /dev/sda1 I get fsck.vfat not found so dosfsck inclued do that correctly (fat/vfat) A LINK IS MISSED in package to do a symbolic link from fsck.vfat - dosfsck After a #modprobe fat #mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk I can take my pictures on USB. cool ;o} Best regards Thierry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde3.01 won't start
Thanks, I had qt3 installed but I guess there was something wrong with the rpm. Your link didn't work but I found a texstar rpm. I had to force it to install but kde3 works now. I think that the rpms I installed before were from cooker. On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:51:40 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 1:10 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: Looks like you haven't got qt3 installed. This is a bit of a blunder by Mandrakesoft; most mirrors don't have it (they only have kde*.rpm and libarts*.rpm). As this question keeps coming up I've put my copies in: http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-devel-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9BfJkCv59vFiSU4YRAo6rAJ9UQ+PPRjafQyWUv2Bt8OqyBsaOggCgrjFj KhgNgVttJSq8c8J7FinCbiE= =To2s -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] xdmcp problem
i have a mandrake 8.2 box which i wish to use to login remotely onto a prosuite8.2(download edition), the prosuite box is running kdm and has security level 'higher' i have edited /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc so that at th ened it reads [xdmcp[ Enable=true .. i have edited /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess so that there is a line: * #allow any host to login i have edited /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config so that there is a line: ! DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 i have run #telinit 3 and then telinit 5 on the prosuite box and then from my mandrake 8.2 workstation i have run $ Xnest -query prosuiteboxip :1 however i cannot get any repsone form the prosuite box, #ps on that box gives the following: root 30052 0.0 0.8 2408 704 ?S18:55 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon root 26865 0.0 0.4 1392 376 ?S18:55 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm_config -nodaemon root 5527 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z 18:55 0:00 [X defunct] can someone suggest what i am missing here? bascule -- `Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar. - Ford in a spot of bother. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 09:40 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: damn shame it got lost in the EtHeR (MandrakeSympa) servers with the other mystery post not showing up. That is why they call it ethernet ain't it? I always thought they called it the ether cause they couldn't think of anything better to call it. ;) From the old days when radio was new, they believed that the RF waves propigated through ether, the word probably being drived from ethereal. Anyway, they saw it as magic, much the same way ethernet works. 8) -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com It's not paranoia if they're really after you. -- H. Ross The Boss Perot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] postfix and /or xcdroast killed my fonts?
i have lost all the fonts i like to use, all the 'helvetica' fonts don't show up in the kde config dialogues, the above packags are the only things i recall changing in the last few days on this box, i had a crash and upon reboot everything is foobarred font wise - is there someway to 'reset' or reinstall something to get back to how it should be, i have kde2.2.2 on a mandrake 8.2 box bascule -- There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. - This line perhaps best sums up the whole book. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....
well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this question i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardware .. i am here in pakistan where no such high bandwith devices or support exisit .. i was thinking about that thicknet cable but dont know what hardware to get for this .. also are there any wireless hardwares for this senario ? thanks you very much for reading = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kde3.01 won't start
ajax wrote: Thanks, I had qt3 installed but I guess there was something wrong with the rpm. Your link didn't work but I found a texstar rpm. I had to force it to install but kde3 works now. I think that the rpms I installed before were from cooker. On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:51:40 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 1:10 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: Looks like you haven't got qt3 installed. This is a bit of a blunder by Mandrakesoft; most mirrors don't have it (they only have kde*.rpm and libarts*.rpm). As this question keeps coming up I've put my copies in: http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-devel-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9BfJkCv59vFiSU4YRAo6rAJ9UQ+PPRjafQyWUv2Bt8OqyBsaOggCgrjFj KhgNgVttJSq8c8J7FinCbiE= =To2s -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com something mysterious and strange just happened. I got KDE 3.0.1 to work. going away for a lie down with a damp cloth on my head Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 10:23, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, civileme wrote: [small snip] And the old adage is still true: Data not backed up is data lost Civileme Civileme, I wish I would have heeded your warning some time back when you warned against using ext3. while it was just a workstation and all the data files are on the server and backed up constantly, ext3 puked the other night and forced a reload. not hard, but still work to bring back the complete configuration. Reiser is back now. lesson learned the hard way. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If I remember correctly, Civ's point of view was regarding issues of speed, and was not in reference to stability or data integrity. As for Reiser, there have been users on the list here that have had Reiser puke on their systems as well. As for ext3 stability, I have had several power outages and have not experienced data loss yet (knock on wood). That doesn't stop me from doing backups, tho. At the same time, I would'nt want ext3 maligned because of misperception or small statistical samples. With regard to filesystems, there's no need to look for a universal panacea, cause there isn't one. Yet... Best Regards, LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....
Although I can't answer with specifics I can point you to a starting point on the wireless stuff. A real good site for starting is here. http://www.netscum.com/~clapp/wireless.html It goes into the theory needed. If you are looking to do this on the cheap (and I do mean cheap) check out this site for homemade antenna. http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html For a 400 meter run if you have clear line of site, (No trees buildings etc.) Low power Microwave (0.5 watt or less) should do the trick. This is were I'd start to look. It will require a clear path and should be encrypted but it will be the easiest way to setup and maintain a link. 802.11b with one of the antenna's mentioned on the first link will actually work over that distance but is much more subject to weather etc. If you want a bunch of sites put pringles and antenna into google and have fun surfing. James On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:14:55 -0700 (PDT) faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this question i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardware .. i am here in pakistan where no such high bandwith devices or support exisit .. i was thinking about that thicknet cable but dont know what hardware to get for this .. also are there any wireless hardwares for this senario ? thanks you very much for reading = *__., __,.__*___*_ Allah-hu-Akber*__., __,.__*__*_ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] again realtec 8139
Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2002 16:31 schrieben Sie: Realtek 8139s from a variety of sources but they all seem to work. perhaps I got the problem depending on my hardware ? maybe, I should take two cards of the same type from realteks ? anyway, thanks a lot for helping hints bye hans schneidhofer Lately I've been buying Netgear FA310/311 in OEM quantities at ~$8.50 but they run closer $20 at retail. Jim Tarvid Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix aliases.db
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 04:27, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:11:54 -0400 Jim Tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 08:55 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I'm new to Mandrake, having just installed 8.2 from the 3 CD download set. I'm trying to get Postfix to send my mail from Kmail. Having edited /etc/postfix/aliases I tried to run postaliases, but got a message saying that command not found. I ran whereis postaliases and sure enough it is not installed. Which package do I have to install to get postaliases? jerry try postalias Thanks! Of course, that worked. [root@corinna root]# urpmf postalias postfix:/usr/lib/postfix/postalias postfix:/usr/sbin/postalias postfix:/usr/share/doc/postfix-20010228/html/postalias.1.html postfix:/usr/share/man/man1/postalias.1.bz2 Jim Tarvid Ok...but why did it work cause I've never seen that before and I can't help but be very interested it what it did and why it did it. Mark Well, when you edit the file /etc/postfix/aliases you need to rebuild the file /etc/postfix/aliases.db the database file. Running postalias /etc/postfix/alias.db rebuilds that file. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....
faisal gillani said: well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this question i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardware .. i am here in pakistan where no such high bandwith devices or support exisit .. i was thinking about that thicknet cable but dont know what hardware to get for this .. also are there any wireless hardwares for this senario ? thanks you very much for reading Many switches (not hubs) can be used to extend the distance of CAT5 cable. You'll have to locate them alongthe wire so no segment exceeds the max length. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE commandline parameters?
Hi, I use KDE 3.0.1 (the newest version by Texstar). I start it from the cli with kde3. When I log off from KDE I get back to the cli and see a lot of warnings and error messages from KDE. At LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany I asked the KDE guys about it and one of them stated that most of it are debugging messages which I can turn off by using a start parameter. I did not jot that parameter down, so I forgot it the minute I returned home. Anybody knows this? wobo -- Registered Linux User 228909 Powered By Mandrake Linux sum(8.1+0.1) - Microsoft, Windows, Bugs, Lacking Features, IRQ Conflicts, System Crashes, Non-Functional Multitasking and The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington, USA. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 06:50, Azrael wrote: Well, where are these exemplary documents? I would also like to read them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB problem
On Saturday 08 June 2002 09:23 am, Jerry wrote: Is the USB port mounted as a filesystem/storage device on automount? I have the same kind of problem with my ATAPI IDE cdrw drive... it's automounted at startup and does not respond (device is busy) but if i su and umount it then insert media and remount it works fine. (still haven't quite figured out how to allow regular users to mount/umount grrr. oh well low priority) I know it's a I-tried-this-and-it-worked answer but it's something to try. best of luck with it, i cant get my fugi camera to work under linux at all, so you're doin' better than I HTH :-) Jerry -- I have a Fuji Finepix 2600z which is working fine under LM8.0. I can tell you how I set it up if it will be of any use to you. I have no experience with 8.1 or 8.2 -- Regards Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland 11:11pm up 3:09, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.11, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions
On 11 Jun 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Civileme, I wish I would have heeded your warning some time back when you warned against using ext3. while it was just a workstation and all the data files are on the server and backed up constantly, ext3 puked the other night and forced a reload. not hard, but still work to bring back the complete configuration. Reiser is back now. lesson learned the hard way. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If I remember correctly, Civ's point of view was regarding issues of speed, and was not in reference to stability or data integrity. As for Reiser, there have been users on the list here that have had Reiser puke on their systems as well. As for ext3 stability, I have had several power outages and have not experienced data loss yet (knock on wood). That doesn't stop me from doing backups, tho. At the same time, I would'nt want ext3 maligned because of misperception or small statistical samples. With regard to filesystems, there's no need to look for a universal panacea, cause there isn't one. Yet... Best Regards, LX all very true LX. all things being equal though I've had far less trouble with Reiser then I've had with any other type of file system. to date reiser hasn't given me any reason to doubt it's ability. you know? now that i think about it I can't remember a good reason as to why I even stopped using Reiser and tried the other. O well...live and learn. and ALWAYS backup yer data. ;) -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR -- If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason! - REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE commandline parameters?
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 15:21 -0700, Larry Sword wrote: I beleive it's kdebugdialog. Larry Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, I use KDE 3.0.1 (the newest version by Texstar). I start it from the cli with kde3. When I log off from KDE I get back to the cli and see a lot of warnings and error messages from KDE. At LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany I asked the KDE guys about it and one of them stated that most of it are debugging messages which I can turn off by using a start parameter. I did not jot that parameter down, so I forgot it the minute I returned home. Anybody knows this? wobo That seems to handle some of the messages. Other messages are stating that this or that file was not found in /usr/share/mdk/kde/ while KDE is installed in /opt/ and I don't have an older version of KDE in /usr/. OK, thanks for this and I'll go on learning. wobo -- Registered Linux User 228909 Powered By Mandrake Linux sum(8.1+0.1) - Microsoft, Windows, Bugs, Lacking Features, IRQ Conflicts, System Crashes, Non-Functional Multitasking and The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington, USA. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sound in Xine
Hi, I run xine to view a dvd. Xine shows the pictures fine without any problems but I don't have any sound. Otherwise sound works (CD, signal-wavs in KDE, etc). The audio tab in the config screen of xine shows audio driver to use: 'null'. I use xine 0.9.8 wobo -- Registered Linux User 228909 Powered By Mandrake Linux sum(8.1+0.1) - Microsoft, Windows, Bugs, Lacking Features, IRQ Conflicts, System Crashes, Non-Functional Multitasking and The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington, USA. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 test - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Bn4Wq1Ef6ZbWHeERAr0MAJ9/OSdSF4Dp49i+Q2def5NPNN9qugCgjll9 2qIC4qoRDQGVKxasjdATSgw= =HMZf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test
test message -- //GO.SYSIN DD *, DOODAH, DOODAH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 04:14, faisal gillani wrote: well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this question i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardware .. i am here in pakistan where no such high bandwith devices or support exisit .. i was thinking about that thicknet cable but dont know what hardware to get for this .. also are there any wireless hardwares for this senario ? thanks you very much for reading = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ Optical fibre would probably be the easiest if running a cable is no problem. This would also have the advantage of providing electrical isolation between the segments and of course deliver full bandwidth. All you would need is a fibre transceiver at each end and a cable in between. I think it would be tough to do it any cheaper than that - at least without compromising the bandwidth enormously. HTH brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Pinging Secure Mandrake
The table on http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php shows that Security Level 4 and higher causes ICMP Echo (ping) packets to get dropped. How is this accomplished? Is it in the kernel itself? I thought it might have been a pre-defined IPtables rule executed by an msec script, but my IPtables are empty. Yet pings still get dropped. Thanks! -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] again realtec 8139
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:15:51 +0200 hans schneidhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2002 16:31 schrieben Sie: Realtek 8139s from a variety of sources but they all seem to work. perhaps I got the problem depending on my hardware ? maybe, I should take two cards of the same type from realteks ? anyway, thanks a lot for helping hints bye hans schneidhofer Hans ... If you have the two 3coms working I'd stick with them. Some benchmarks we ran at my old job had the 3c905 and the Pro100's as the two Nics with the greatest through put. realtek and linksys were nice but only about 80% of the through put of the 3coms. Davicomwell. it worked. sorta. James Lately I've been buying Netgear FA310/311 in OEM quantities at ~$8.50 but they run closer $20 at retail. Jim Tarvid Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] RPM - Rebuild question.
All, Now that I have a boxen that is kde3 only (as apposed to kde2) I've been trying to re-build some apps that are kde3 compatible but not yet built into rpms. My Q is How do you pass a prefix using rpm --rebuild? Check of the man pages etc. Make it seem that this can be passed only for a relocatable rpm. Really just want to check and see if I'm off base or not. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Connection to ODBC database
Hello, I have a client that is using a Windows program to access a database file on a Samba share. The program is using Windows built-in ODBC drivers. Question: how can I make database queries to this file? The only info I've got so far is that it is a Fox pro database. It's not being served from a database server; each windows client uses its odbc to serve it to the client. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Printing to Win2K fails
I'm having a terrible time printing from my Mandrake 8.2 system to an OfficeJet K60 spooled on Win2K. I use SMB to print. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't; the pattern has been completely random. When it doesn't work, the document will appear briefly in my Win2K queue but disappears with no printer activity before any page or size data comes in. As best I can tell from my packet sniffer, the connection is established but no actual data passes through. I expect Win2K to give me little or no diagnostics, and it doesn't. But neither does the Samba system on Linux. All I (sometimes) get is the Cupsomatic filter stopping with status 32 just after the samba backend starts up. When printing DOES work, however, it performs brilliantly, and I do everything reasonable to maintain whatever settings and configurations I made to accomplish it. But a week and a restart later, nothing. SMB works fine for file sharing, however. Absolutely no problems reading-writing a shared directory on the Win2K pc. And I tried going the other direction: setting up Win2K to accept LPD connections from Unix. That didn't work either;. Win2K complains Linux sends it illegal instructions over the port and rejects the job. Any ideas? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection to ODBC database
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a client that is using a Windows program to access a database file on a Samba share. The program is using Windows built-in ODBC drivers. Question: how can I make database queries to this file? The only info I've got so far is that it is a Fox pro database. It's not being served from a database server; each windows client uses its odbc to serve it to the client. Bob, Is it an actual Foxpro Database, which is a container for Foxpro tables, views, triggers and stored proceedures, or is it just a DBF table? If it is just a table how many records are in it? Believe it or not, OpenOffice has a nice built in odbc DBF connection. All you have to do is create folder to contain dbf tables or point to a directory which contains them. You can use Access-like query makers to generate queries that can select records, and you can create forms with data-aware controls on them to display, edit, add and delete records! -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 21:12, J. Craig Woods wrote: Jesus Arocho wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 06:50, Azrael wrote: Well, where are these exemplary documents? I would also like to read them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Unfortunately, posting to the list is giving me fits. I think my messages are actually being posted because I saw a response from Pierre to one on my postings. Yet, I never saw my own post. This leads me to think that maybe it is my pop3 server that is screwing up. I don't think it's your server that's in question, Dr J...cause I have been noticing the exact same thing. Sometimes I see replies to what I have posted before I see my own message hit the list; and this has been happening ever since I joined. I am still receiving mail at a ISP pop3 server because when I joined the list some three years ago, I did not have my own mail server running. Looks like I will have to rejoin again but everyone will have to promise to never, ever send html postings :-) drjung Do you think it's possible that rejoining would solve the problem? I'm not so sure of that But I do promise to keep on boycotting the html email. ;) LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kde 3.0.1; kmail gpg not available
I recently updated my kde to the 3.0.1 rpms. Since then, I can no longer encrypt emails using kmail and gpg. Before, I could at least select the encryption button even though it returned a malformed header error. Now, the encrypt options are totally greyed out. Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
