Re: [expert] X font error at startup

1999-06-29 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
Scott Sweeney wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote: Please help!! I've been running Venus just fine..until this morning when I rebooted the system. When it tries to load X (KDM), it doesn't - it flickers between the SVGA server and the text indefinitely. ctrl-alt-del'ing shows

[expert] [Fwd: [OSS] Pine4.x Security Announcement]

1999-06-29 Thread Al Smith
FYI... -Al This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --ms9632F0A8CA3D7F614E2CB867 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original Message Subject: SuSE Security Announcement Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:16:24

[expert] [Fwd: [OSS] 'man' Security Announcement]]

1999-06-29 Thread Al Smith
FYI -Al This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --ms876E9DAF3D88F2059164E519 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original Message Subject: SuSE Security Announcement Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:41:03 +0200

[expert] RE:Security Announcements

1999-06-29 Thread Al Smith
Just a heads up. If you look at the security announcement's that I have sent it describes that the security problems are in ALL releases of the application. It is not OS specific or kernel specific unless noted in the message. In the 2 that I have received SuSE was the first one's that I know

[expert] Linuxconf+Harddrive+Netscape4.61

1999-06-29 Thread Andrew Edwards
I just did an install of Mandrake 6.0 and there are three things I can't resolve: 1. I used linuxconf in Redhat 6.0 to dial out with my external isdn modem (ifup ifdown) but in Mandrake linuxconf seems to connect but doesn't create the new route. I check make "default route" in the ppp

Re: [expert] Upgrading KDE using Mandrake RPMs?

1999-06-29 Thread Al Smith
From what I have seen Mandrake does not out them in any different directory then normal for KDE. And since redhat and mandrake use the same base design. I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I have not tested this as of yet. But I have installed RedHat 6.0 rpm's on my linux system and have not

Re: [expert] Linuxconf+Harddrive+Netscape4.61

1999-06-29 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
There is a lot of issues with Netscape. Get the libc5-based version at http://coruscant.netrevolution.com/pub/netscape Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Andrew Edwards wrote: Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:39:28 -0400 From: Andrew Edwards [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Upgrading KDE using Mandrake RPMs?

1999-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, you wrote: From what I have seen Mandrake does not out them in any different directory then normal for KDE. And since redhat and mandrake use the same base design. I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I have not tested this as of yet. But I have installed RedHat 6.0

Re: [expert] Location of KDE files in Mv6.0

1999-06-29 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Jim Adams wrote: Quick couple of easy ones. I noticed that the mandrake folks (good folks that they are) have changed the default locations for KDE. After loking around for awhile I got frustrated and lazy and gave up , hence the following questions. Where is

Re: [expert] mount does not honor mode= on Joliet CDROM ?

1999-06-29 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: Axalon wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Axalon wrote: mode= is not a valid option on either fat or iso9660 filesystems (check the manpage), however you can use the noexec option to achieve the results your looking for. Woops, my mistake mode is a valid

[expert] (no subject)

1999-06-29 Thread Jim Adams
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: File system standards claim every program installed by a distribution should be neither in /opt nor in /usr/local nor in any other local directory than in the standard directory tree. Following that

[expert] rasterman

1999-06-29 Thread mike montgomery
Heres a blurb I copied off of slashdot. Rasterman Goes to VA Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 29, @04:20PM EDT from the trekking-westward dept. WebMaven writes "Well, acording to his page, Raster will soon join Mandrake as an employee of VA

[expert] ooooops

1999-06-29 Thread mike montgomery
I though the blurb refered to Mandrake linux . Its about some guy with the handle mandrake. Sorry .

Re: [expert] [Fwd: [OSS] 'man' Security Announcement]]

1999-06-29 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s). it's Suse specific, we don't have this

Re: [expert] mount does not honor mode= on Joliet CDROM ?

1999-06-29 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Jean-Louis Debert wrote: Yes it is. Also, I tried "noexec", which by the way is supposed to be included in "user", and no change (mode is still 674 for ALL files on the Joliet cdrom). Have you tried a different mode? i.e. try 555. I have noticed that some