Re: [Cooker] How can I set my wu-ftp to follow symbolic links?

2001-01-26 Thread Benjamin Reed
You can't do this. You're in chroot environment. More information at the usual faqs. Not sure. You can also mount directly /dev/cdrom under/var/ftp/pub/Mandrake. Oe even re-export it via NFS from its current mouting point, and remount it under /var/ftp/pub/Mandrake. Also note that if

Re: [Cooker] Driver - memory.

2000-10-16 Thread Benjamin Reed
Robin Turner wrote: Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2betarc1 both suffers from hybris, and sets the amount to 4096K instead of 32 MB. Sounds lke excessive modesty rather than hubris! I'll confirm this. I have a Guillemot Cougar TNT2 (PCI) and I get only 4 MB as well instead of 32. On a slightly

Re: [Cooker] Driver - memory.

2000-10-16 Thread Benjamin Reed
Pixel wrote: can you give the output of ddcxinfos? I have the same issue or getting 4MB instead of 32. Attached is the output of ddcxinfos on my box. -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/ Now playing on Defiance Radio:

Re: [Cooker] rebutal

2000-10-15 Thread Benjamin Reed
Tim McKenzie wrote: Not to be rude, but I often find that most of the recent nonsense is coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] My god, is he still posting to the list? He went into my killfile but now I still get to see replies to him. :P Is there any way to vote someone off the list? Or do I

Re: [Cooker] How to see windows media on the net ?

2000-10-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
but since a lot of sites on the net broadcast with windob media format , it's a quite embarasing me. I wanna now if someone have heard about any project on this (dont matter if it's no legal as OMS for playing DVD) ?? Windows Media Player is starting to run quite well under Wine,

[Cooker] building from source RPMs

2000-09-03 Thread Benjamin Reed
I've been trying to build the perl-5.6 RPM from cooker (for my mostly 7.0 box), and I'm getting this: ---(snip!)--- make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/perl-5.6.0/x2p' Now you must run a make. If you compile perl5 on a different machine or from a different object directory, copy the

Re: [Cooker] perl-mysql (was: mod_php-mysql bad)

2000-09-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
Can you make heads or tails out of that? :) Well, it lost the carriage returns in sending, but I didn't see mysql in there at all. Try '/etc/rc.d/init/mysql start' and then try your script again and see if that helps. If it does, you'll need to add the mysql script to your current

Re: [Cooker] perl-mysql (was: mod_php-mysql bad)

2000-09-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
Hi Benjamin, I am really at a loss here, here's the output: [fran@flp fran]$ su Password: [root@flp fran]# /etc/rc.d/init/mysql start bash: /etc/rc.d/init/mysql: No such file or directory [root@flp fran]# But when I boot .. mysql daemon is loaded. Hrm, I don't have a cooker machine

Re: [Cooker] perl-mysql (was: mod_php-mysql bad)

2000-09-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
/etc/logrotate.d/mysql /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql Well, it shows you as having an /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql on install, so if it doesn't actually exist, I would say that's a pretty good sign that your install is fubar'ed. You may want to try re-installing your MySQL

[Cooker] patch to libpcap

2000-09-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
I've made a new version of the libpcap RPM in cooker that adds a patch to allow it to recognize packets from CIPE (a tunnelling program). The SRPM is in ftp://defiance.dyndns.org/pub/pcap/ if you want to use it... -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ /

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : Automated config report to help debugging ?

2000-09-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Since when ? It doesn't work on Linux Mandrake 7.1. Since this is the cooker list, I would assume in cooker. :) -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/ Now playing on Defiance Radio: Remember by BT

Re: [Cooker] rsync'ing cooker

2000-09-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
I was just wondering if the following command is the correct way to use this to the fullest effect. rsync -avr ftp.sunet.se::pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/ /mnt/Cooker/ Do I need the -r flag or -u and -t flags? Will these speed up the rsync transfer? I also notice rmdir

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
Loooks like - yes, Perl is still needed by some packages. At least, I was not able to clean up it from my installation completely, but succeded with some minor perl-related packages. You won't get rid of perl completely, all of the installation scripts and such are written in Perl (stuff such

Re: [Cooker] Minimal installation of Mandrake [Re: 750 meg of cooker: how to divide?]

2000-08-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
For sure, JavaScript is good for text processing. JavaScript was created as answer to Microsoft's VBScript, derivative of Visual Basic. And Basic is very strong in strings manipulations. Unless it has changed, VB and JScript both are weak in string manipulation compared to Perl (at least,

Re: [Cooker] bug in the current installer

2000-08-28 Thread Benjamin Reed
Francois any idea why he found an usb-storage device ? I think GG should be right. Huh? Who/what is GG? :) -- Ben Reed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ Fight the InterNIC! http://www.opennic.unrated.net/

Re: [Cooker] using rsync for cooker packages

2000-08-27 Thread Benjamin Reed
Does anyone have any advice on how to use rsync to efficiently keep up-to-date a subset of cooker packages? I just have a little script that does 'rsync --progress --delete --partial -Sav ftp.sunet.se::pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/ /opt/share/cooker/' and that keeps me

[Cooker] bug in the current installer

2000-08-25 Thread Benjamin Reed
I ran into a bug in the current install disks (rsync'd to ftp.sunet.se as of about 10 minutes ago). It gets through the initial detect, and gives me: Found usb-storage scsi|disk interfaces Do you have another one? When I say yes (I have an initio SCSI adaptor), it gives me: An error

Re: [Cooker] bug in the current installer

2000-08-25 Thread Benjamin Reed
do you have USB storage(aka: USB-floppy/hard_drive/zip/backup) devices ? Nope, but I do have USB ports. But nothing's hooked to them at the moment. -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/ Now playing on Defiance Radio:

Re: [Cooker] bug in the current installer

2000-08-25 Thread Benjamin Reed
Nope, but I do have USB ports. But nothing's hooked to them at the moment. Francois any idea why he found an usb-storage device ? AFAIK, Pixel tried to modprobe stuff when he detected a /proc/bus/usb but now I asked him to remove this is the directory owns no file ;-). Ahh, that

Re: [Cooker] bug in the current installer

2000-08-25 Thread Benjamin Reed
Doh, it did not do the array reference error for me -- maybe this is not the same prob? Not sure, but having a USB bus with no devices would at least (on the surface) make some kind of sense as to why it bugged out. Perhapse I should plug something in and see if it does the same thing...

Re: [Cooker] bug in the current installer

2000-08-25 Thread Benjamin Reed
Just tried an rsync to ftp.sunet.se and the images haven't been updated since I tried earlier. I'll try rebooting with something live on the USB and see if the same thing happens, and let you know. Nope, same thing happens, although I don't have any USB storage devices, just my iPAQ, so I

Re: [Cooker] Questions and comments about Mandrake RPM-building practices

2000-06-16 Thread Benjamin Reed
I guess what I don't like about these things is that they're deviations from standard package building practices and the standard version of RPM. Mandrake and Red Hat can compete in areas like installation and the user interface, but I think cooperation is important in the area of software

Re: [Cooker] 7.1 install of XFree86 4.0 fails

2000-06-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
Got the same problem, with a voodoo3 card. Launching startx resulted in : This should not happen! An unresolved function was called! Hmmm... I have a Voodoo3-2000 PCI and a Mystique PCI as the second head. It didn't seem to detect it automagically. I had some issues with XFree86 4.0 and

Re: [Cooker] 7.1 Final ISOs

2000-06-06 Thread Benjamin Reed
GuillaumeWhat 'recent release announce?' I've neither received nor seen any release announcement. I subscribe to the announce list and the only recent announcement in there was about bundling the Linux Mandrake w/some brand of asian motherboard. Someone said that slashdot printed that

Re: [Cooker] 7.1 Final ISOs

2000-06-06 Thread Benjamin Reed
Benjaminhow come you snipped off my P.S.? Because I had a brain fart and didn't notice it I guess. My bad. :) -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org / http://radio.scenespot.org/ Now playing on Defiance Radio: Silent Warrior by Enigma