Re: [Cooker] FYI: Secure kernel install

2000-03-31 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
CPT KIDD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Installed the "secure kernel" to a single pentium, and it installed it as a > SMP. secure kernel is smp, but it not a big problem. > 3) Also, is there a webpage or doc listing differences between the normal > kernel an secure kernel? (chmou@mururoa)[~

[Cooker] FYI: Secure kernel install

2000-03-31 Thread CPT KIDD
1) Installed the "secure kernel" to a single pentium, and it installed it as a SMP. 2) Also, cenral time (US) is set when not logging into the X desktop. But once in X desktop, the time is set correctly. 3) Also, is there a webpage or doc listing differences between the normal kernel an sec

Re: [Cooker] hd.img dies right in "Select Partition"

2000-03-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
Dieing via sig11 and not being able to select the source isn't the same problem.. On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, CPT KIDD wrote: > yea... me with ultra dma 66, 27 gb Western Digital hdd. > > works on older hdd's tho' on my other box. > > haven't test the hd.img in the past month, 2 mos. > > On Thu, 30

Re: [Cooker] hd.img dies right in "Select Partition"

2000-03-31 Thread CPT KIDD
yea... me with ultra dma 66, 27 gb Western Digital hdd. works on older hdd's tho' on my other box. haven't test the hd.img in the past month, 2 mos. On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Jürgen Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > I tried to give "cooker/image/hd.img" a chance, but

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mswordview-0.5.14bw6-2mdk

2000-03-31 Thread Sebastian Dransfeld
Why not update to wv? Sebastian On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, François Pons wrote: > --=-=-= > Name: mswordview Distribution: Linux-Mandrake > Version : 0.5.14bw6 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 2mdk Build Date: Fri Mar 3

Re: [Cooker] New RPM SPEC format

2000-03-31 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let's keep loosing bandwith... someone for cooker-spam@ ? ;) > You're in Pasadena?! Spending holidays in LA?-) humm no, i'm working here. The sun shine, here :). -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Pasadena, CA USA

Re: [Cooker] New RPM SPEC format

2000-03-31 Thread Quel Qun
>-- >MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com >Pasadena, CA USA --Chmouel > Chmouel, Let's keep loosing bandwith... You're in Pasadena?! Spending holidays in LA?-) =-= kk1 (Following lines are not from me). -- Do you do Li

Re: [Cooker] root passwd denied

2000-03-31 Thread Michal Rokos
Hi, after I installed kernel-2.3.99 (from contrib) I had the same problem. But I easily edited /etc/securetty file and root on VirtConsole works again. My /etc/securetty has: # tty1 #for old kernels (without devfs support) 1 #for ones with devfs tty2 2 ... #

[Cooker] xscreensaver

2000-03-31 Thread Andreas Simon
Hello, I just saw new packages of xscreensaver (3.18-4mdk). Wonderful! But hey, why not updating to the newest and greatest xscreensaver. I think this will be version 3.23. 3.18 is ancient! With kind regards ~Andreas

Re: [Cooker] New RPM SPEC format

2000-03-31 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > default is -m755, and -s is no more needed :pp it's an example, i can say cp -a if you want :pp ps: waste of bandwitch -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Pasadena, CA USA --Chmouel

Re: [Cooker] The definitive proof of, and test for, the Mandrake 7.0mkisofs bug

2000-03-31 Thread Ron Stodden
Brian, Your nifty little suite should document: 1. You must run as (su) root, and that the testit ... invocation should be ./testit ... from a terminal window. 2. A good mkisofs tgz is downloadable from author Schily's site: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/mkisofs/ 3. Uninstall you

Re: [Cooker] New RPM SPEC format

2000-03-31 Thread Pixel
Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > install -m755 -s foo.bar $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin/ default is -m755, and -s is no more needed :pp

Re: [Cooker] New RPM SPEC format

2000-03-31 Thread Daouda LO
David Walluck a écrit : > Hi. Where can I find the latest requirements for Mandrake RPM spec files, > or are these internal documents only? For example, how do I add a menu > entry, is %{_prefix} and %{_tmppath} now required? this are internal documents ! i attach some files which can help you

Re: [Cooker] New RPM SPEC format

2000-03-31 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. Where can I find the latest requirements for Mandrake RPM spec files, > or are these internal documents only? For example, how do I add a menu > entry, see doc in the menu package all is clearly explained. > is %{_prefix} and %{_tmppath} now requ

[Cooker] New RPM SPEC format

2000-03-31 Thread David Walluck
Hi. Where can I find the latest requirements for Mandrake RPM spec files, or are these internal documents only? For example, how do I add a menu entry, is %{_prefix} and %{_tmppath} now required? Also, I think I saw Network/IRC as a new group? irssi isn't in this group, and the version is quite o

Re: [Cooker] Re: new stuff

2000-03-31 Thread David Walluck
On 31 Mar 2000, Pixel wrote: > David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Pixel wrote: > > > > > > - XFdrake (and DrakX) handles XF4 (which is now in the distrib for > > testing) > > > > Not there yet? Is in contribs though. > > tis XFree86-server Ah, I am using 4.0 from contribs. Any ch

Re: [Cooker] Linux distros rating

2000-03-31 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
Ownership-cost is also misleading: Is a high score a higher cost or a lower cost ... that sort of paradigm shift in a poll makes the whole thing highly suspect. It is just a graph of random numbers. Curious, isn't it, the "CLI-devotee" distros of Debian and Slackware should rate the highest whe

Re: [Cooker] new goodies

2000-03-31 Thread Andreas Simon
> Brook humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > one problem is that the web server is broken though. > do you see any reason why? The new Perl 5.6 breaks some Perl stuff within apache. With kind regards ~Andreas Simon

Re: [Cooker] new goodies

2000-03-31 Thread Brook humphrey
can't remember right now this box does all my server chores so i had to install 7.0 back on it to send email. The apache problem said something about mod_ something not sure it might have been mod_php. As for the dhcp this isn't something that i'm good at if you tell me what to look for i'll check

Re: [Cooker] Linux distros rating

2000-03-31 Thread Emmanuel Paré
Why not #!/usr/bin/perl #--- --- # Increase Mandrake Rating #--- for ($i=1, $i<200, $i++){ Check_Server(); } ###

Re: [Cooker] Linux distros rating

2000-03-31 Thread geoffrey lee
Hello! Gael Duval wrote: > > Pablo Saratxaga a écrit : > > > > Kaixo! > > > > Linuxcare has a page when peopel can rate the various Linuxdistributions: > > > > http://www.linuxcare.com/products/prodmore.epl?PRODUCT_GROUP=Linux+Distributions > > This is rather a meanless (is this word correct? :

Re: [Cooker] new goodies

2000-03-31 Thread Pixel
Brook humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried quite a few times in the last couple of days and the > installer is much faster with the process of installing the packages. > Nice pixel to do it 8 at a time it even starts faster. one problem is > that the web server is broken though. all

Re: [Cooker] Linux distros rating

2000-03-31 Thread Gael Duval
Pablo Saratxaga a écrit : > > Kaixo! > > Linuxcare has a page when peopel can rate the various Linuxdistributions: > > http://www.linuxcare.com/products/prodmore.epl?PRODUCT_GROUP=Linux+Distributions This is rather a meanless (is this word correct? :) ) poll because it allows things such as:

[Cooker] Re: Mandrake for Alpha Timetable?

2000-03-31 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
> Ughh..MILOthe easyist way around this is usually to make /boot a > seperate partition, or say that you don't support machines booting from > MILO (SRM only, unfortunatly that does leave out a few machines, UX, XL). and my machine... for some reason SRM doesn't like my Matrox MII. > > So...

Re: [Cooker] new goodies

2000-03-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On 31 Mar 2000, Pixel wrote: > - multi cd is there. Cooker's RPMS should be split in 2 soon (warly is suffering > to achieve this) Just curious, but is Mandrake going to look into releasing on DVD soon, kinda like SuSE? Then you could stick everything onto one DVD disc (which would be ultra coo

Re: [Cooker] new goodies

2000-03-31 Thread Brook humphrey
I've tried quite a few times in the last couple of days and the installer is much faster with the process of installing the packages. Nice pixel to do it 8 at a time it even starts faster. one problem is that the web server is broken though. all else seems to work mostly. dhcp is also having some

[Cooker] Linux distros rating

2000-03-31 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! Linuxcare has a page when peopel can rate the various Linuxdistributions: http://www.linuxcare.com/products/prodmore.epl?PRODUCT_GROUP=Linux+Distributions Linux-Mandrake is quite low; it seems that not much Mandrake users are aware of that page I guess. -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Sar

Re: [Cooker] root passwd denied

2000-03-31 Thread Emmanuel Paré
Got the same problem.. I need to "su" before login as root! Is it a new feature security feature disabling root passwd on console? - Original Message - From: "WH Bouterse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:29 PM Subject: [Cooker] root passwd den

[Cooker] No space left on kenobi/home

2000-03-31 Thread David Odin (aka DindinX)
Hi all, The home directory of kenobi is full (or nearly). I cannot work anymore!!! Could you please remove unnecessary stuff? Thx DindinX -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] HF Team

Re: [Cooker] kdebase

2000-03-31 Thread Francis GALIEGUE
Udo Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > > Maybe I have overlooked something in the changelog, so please > correct me. > > My biggest prob is during update of cooker packages the KDE-menu > changed more and more. Most of the apps are gone away from the menu > . In the past I only had t

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] telnet-0.16-1mdk

2000-03-31 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
John Buswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --=-=-= > Name: telnet Distribution: Mandrake > Version : 0.16 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 1mdk Build Date: Thu Mar 30 20:05:39 2000 > Install date: (not inst

Re: [Cooker] Re: new stuff

2000-03-31 Thread Pixel
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pixel wrote: > > > > - XFdrake (and DrakX) handles XF4 (which is now in the distrib for > testing) > > Not there yet? Is in contribs though. tis XFree86-server > > > - nicer (?) grub, i18n'ed > > grub-install is broken i'll have a look (thanks fo

Re: [Cooker] kdebase

2000-03-31 Thread Udo Weber
Hi, since some patchlevels I missing the kappfinder which was included in kdebase previously (kdebase2 still have it). Maybe I have overlooked something in the changelog, so please correct me. My biggest prob is during update of cooker packages the KDE-menu changed more and more. Most of the a