Re: [expert] Freeze of kwm

1999-09-29 Thread Johan Segernäs
At 19:25 1999-09-28 , you wrote: When i'm switching between X and an other console a few times and done so for a while my machine hangs. I have no net on that machine so I can't telnet/ssh to it, it's just to press the reset.. no fun. Did you try to ping the box ? If it don't answer,

Re: [expert] Freeze of kwm

1999-09-29 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:20:24PM +0200, Tom Berger wrote: Well, if the kernel's down, 'watchdog' wouldn't run either or would it? No it would not, there was 2 possibilities in my message : - kernel is down (i don't think it' the case) - watchdog can't write in /dev/watchdog so it do a

[expert] rpm installations

1999-09-29 Thread Toby Boreham
I was wondering - is there a way of inserting a RPM CD (Like the install CD) and loading up a RPM installer and when you select install new RPM's only have it display what's not on the system already? Caldera OpenLinux did that but I seem to get a listing of everything on the CD's witn Mandrake

Re: [expert] Sendmail .mc files...

1999-09-29 Thread Nick Kay
At 19:54 28/09/99 -0700, you wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Andrew Morton wrote: Keith Woodworth wrote: I want to build a custom .cf file for sendmail but was wondering does the rpm file for sendmail have the mc files to customize the config file? You need the sendmail-cf RPM. Under

Re: [expert] Freeze of kwm

1999-09-29 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:01:12AM +0200, Johan Segernäs wrote: As i wrote; i don't have a network at home so I can't ping the machine.. but it happened on my machine at work yesterday too and then i could kill X thru ssh... Oh, sorry, i did not read correctly :) What about using watchdog

[expert] RPM Packs

1999-09-29 Thread Felipe Almeida
Hi there!! Is there a way to extract just a set of files that I need from a RPM pack? For example, I need a module file like scsi.o but I don't want to install the RPM pack. How do I extract just that file without installing all the pack? Thank you! Felipe Almeida - Juiz de Fora, MG - Brazil

Re: [expert] RPM Packs

1999-09-29 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Felipe Almeida wrote: Hi there!! Is there a way to extract just a set of files that I need from a RPM pack? For example, I need a module file like scsi.o but I don't want to install the RPM pack. How do I extract just that file without installing all the pack?

Re: [expert] Frontpage 4.0 Extensions.

1999-09-29 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Sorry.. make that: http://coruscant.netrevolution.com/pub/ Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Lindsay Steele wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:03:27 +1000 From: Lindsay Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert]

Re: [expert] Freeze of kwm

1999-09-29 Thread jorge_carminati
I apreciate all answers, I tryied with other account to run kde and didn%t had any trouble, so just I deleted the /root/.kde directory and restarted to configure the root kde. I%m not having any more trouble. Thanks for all your help. Jorge Carminati. MIME:[EMAIL PROTECTED] con fecha

AW: [expert] RPM Packs

1999-09-29 Thread Joachim Staeck
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Felipe Almeida Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. September 1999 11:21 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [expert] RPM Packs Hi there!! Is there a way to extract just a set of files that I need from a RPM

RE: [expert] dhcpcd weirdness

1999-09-29 Thread Fred Frigerio
I think lo is the loopback interface (a virtual interface for the machine to talk to itself) and not a physical device eth0 is the first ethernet device. ppp0 the first ppp device and so on. -Original Message- From: Corbett J. Klempay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

[expert] Fwd: Xtab

1999-09-29 Thread Gordon von Miller
FYI Xtab xtab File for NFS Purpose Contains entries for currently exported NFS directories. Description The /etc/xtab file contains entries for directories that are currently exported. This file should only be accessed by programs using the getexportent subroutine. To remove entries from

Re: [expert] KDE event sounds not playing

1999-09-29 Thread Mohammad R. Salehpour, Ph.D.
Thank you Steve for the suggestion. I checked only kwmsound is running. How do I enable kaudioserver and maudio? Thank you. M.S. ms wrote: Hello all; After trying unsuccessfully to configure the sound on my IBM ThinkPad 380ED under Mandrake 6.1, I decided to byte the bullet and

Re: [expert] dhcpcd weirdness

1999-09-29 Thread Timothy Litwiller
lo is a loopback device which is not an actual device but allows your machine to see your machine, you should have an eth* if you want to see more than just your computer. "Corbett J. Klempay" wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Steve Philp wrote: "Corbett J. Klempay" wrote: I don't know if

[expert] weird lilo problem

1999-09-29 Thread Stefan Voelker
Hi all, I have a weird problem with lilo. I just recently installed Mandrake 6.1. The install went smooth. No problems. After finishing the installation, I decided to build a custom kernel, since the one that comes with Mandrake supports a lot of things I don't need and consequently is fairly

[expert] System Loggers and Samba will not start.

1999-09-29 Thread Stephen Carville
I just built a new box to house an existing installation of Mandrake 6.0. I used a Tyan S1590S socket 7 motherboard with an AMD K6-2 450 processor. The memory is 2X128 Meg 10 ns DIMMs. Video is a Matrox G200 with 8 Meg or RAM and I have a Soundblaster 16 sound card. Ethernet is a generic

[expert] 6.1 packaging error

1999-09-29 Thread Ron Stodden
I did an 'everything' install of Mandrake 6.1 and was surprised to discover that an /opt/kde directory was created. The sole offending rpm is xsoldier-0.96-5mdk (packager Chmouel Boudjnah) - the file list shows xsoldier.kdelink to be placed in /opt/kde/share/applink/Games. Nothing else in

Re: [expert] RPM Packs

1999-09-29 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:30:33AM -0600, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: rpm2cpio and cpio. look at the mc scripts for examples /usr/lib/mc/extfs/rpm (or just use mc..) Wow ! Great feature, i did not know that :) Just like an hurd translator will do :-) -- Sylvain GIL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

[expert] New Kernel

1999-09-29 Thread Felipe Almeida
Hi! I updated my old kernel (2.2.5) to a new kernel (2.2.12). But I lost my sound modules. As a matter of fact, in the make xconfig oe make menuconfig it didn´t has the option to my soundcard. Just a few were available. Then I copied the modules I needed from the old kernel and ran insmod. It

[expert] KDE 1.1.2 buttons are odd-looking

1999-09-29 Thread Hoyt
They work correctly, but the buttons in kfm and other apps appear to be random images rather than the arrows, etc. they are supposed to be. Fix? Hoyt

Re: [expert] weird lilo problem

1999-09-29 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:24:32AM -0500, Stefan Voelker wrote: I have a weird problem with lilo. I just recently installed Mandrake 6.1. The install went smooth. No problems. After finishing the installation, I decided to build a custom kernel, since the one that comes with Mandrake

Re: [expert] weird lilo problem

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi all, I have a weird problem with lilo. I just recently installed Mandrake 6.1. The install went smooth. No problems. After finishing the installation, I decided to build a custom kernel, since the one that comes with Mandrake supports a lot of things I

RE: [expert] weird lilo problem

1999-09-29 Thread Vanco, Donald
"make bzImage" resolved this for me. Don -Original Message- From: Stefan Voelker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] weird lilo problem Hi all, I have a weird problem with lilo. I just recently

Re: [expert] rpm installations

1999-09-29 Thread Tima Vaisburd
Hi! I was wondering - is there a way of inserting a RPM CD (Like the install CD) and loading up a RPM installer and when you select install new RPM's only have it display what's not on the system already? I think there is a RPM installer that does exactly that, it's called 'glint'

[expert] DSL and netconfig.

1999-09-29 Thread jerrud
Ok here goes. When I set up my ethernet card everything goes great, but when I use netconfig to plug in the hosts IP, DNS, gateway mask ect. it doesnt seem to work. When i get on netscape, pages just doont load because there is no internet conection... Any help would be greatly appreciated,

[expert] Wine and Connection Refused by Xserver

1999-09-29 Thread Eric Peters
Hello All, I'm new when it comes to X and wine but everythime i try to run wine and any dos program i get a connection refused by X server any ideas? Eric Peters -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 http://www.geekcode.com/ GCS d s: a- C+++ U P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o+ K w+++ O- M--

Re: [expert] usage on ports 980-989 and 1000-1024 and syslog --MARK

1999-09-29 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Lee Wilson wrote: I've noticed a few odd things in my logs and in my port usage, and I'm curious if these are normal and if so, what causes them. I am using Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (with updates) 1) In /var/log/messages I am getting at seemingly random intervals a message

Re: [expert] weird lilo problem

1999-09-29 Thread Stefan Voelker
Thanks to all who suggested using bzImage. Lilo now installs the new kernel. Although, somehow the whole thing doesn't make sense to me. Why does lilo have no problem with the out-of-the-box kernel (570kB), but does complain that my custom kernel (425kB) compiled using zImage is too big? And

[expert] RealPlay G2

1999-09-29 Thread John Connell
My RealPlayer G2 has been working just fine for quite awhile. Today when trying to use it I get this message everytime I try to use it. Got any Ideas as to what the heck is going on here? When I go to Real all I can find is the 5.0 Player. I've got G2 rpm on a zip disk, if I un/reinstall...same

Re: [expert] RealPlay G2

1999-09-29 Thread Patrick Putteman
it means what it says: the beta version has expired and can't be used anymore. It was announced that way on the web site when it was released: a time limited beta. Real will probably have a new version ready Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net 7 (Member of the Advalvas Group)

[expert] Distribution kernel .config

1999-09-29 Thread Eric Solberg
I didn't find any info on the newbie list, so pardon the posting here: Are the config files available for the kernels installed with Mandrake 6.1? I've been customizing a kernel and it is crashing, so I'd like to start from a known working config. Is it documented somewhere what features are

Re: [expert] usage on ports 980-989 and 1000-1024 and syslog --MARK

1999-09-29 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Lee Wilson wrote: Sep 26 07:39:03 ad1440 -- MARK -- Check those times it's not random.. then man syslogd /marker thanks. that solves that problem. 2) I am noticing random ports between 980-989 and 1000-1024 being used as LISTENer ports. I cannot find any

Re: [expert] KDE event sounds not playing

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
"Mohammad R. Salehpour, Ph.D." wrote: Thank you Steve for the suggestion. I checked only kwmsound is running. How do I enable kaudioserver and maudio? It _should_ only be a matter of restarting KDE. Have you tried out GNOME at some point? Check to see if esd is running -- it will tie up

Re: [expert] DSL and netconfig.

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
jerrud wrote: Ok here goes. When I set up my ethernet card everything goes great, but when I use netconfig to plug in the hosts IP, DNS, gateway mask ect. it doesnt seem to work. When i get on netscape, pages just doont load because there is no internet conection... Any help would be

Re: [expert] dhcp acquisition order

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
"Corbett J. Klempay" wrote: How do I get my machine to try to acquire an IP via DHCP *after* it's loaded the pcmcia stuff? The way it is now, it will fail to get an IP every time on boot, as it's trying to get the IP before it's brought up the pcmcia stuff (and my nic is a pcmcia one; the

Re: [expert] Distribution kernel .config

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
Eric Solberg wrote: I didn't find any info on the newbie list, so pardon the posting here: Are the config files available for the kernels installed with Mandrake 6.1? I've been customizing a kernel and it is crashing, so I'd like to start from a known working config. Is it documented

Re: [expert] Sendmail .mc files...

1999-09-29 Thread Keith Woodworth
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Nick Kay wrote: You could build your own config files at a pinch. The basics on how do to that can be found at "http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html" There are no linux-centric things as such (that I'm aware of anyway) Yes, that is pretty much what I'll

Re: [expert] RealPlay G2

1999-09-29 Thread jerrud
there is a patch that you can get on the real site. if you go to linuxtoday.com, they have the exact site you can go to, to get the fix. Jerrud

[expert] deathly slow loading times....

1999-09-29 Thread jerrud
To all, When i booted my computer from a fresh Mandrake 6.0 install, it took me about 19 minutes to boot all the way into KDE. These are real times! (11min to get past "loading loggers", 4 min to wait for "startx" to take effect, and another 4 minutes for KDE to load the GUI in full. What gives!!

Re: [expert] RealPlay G2

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
William Ahern wrote: only tip i've found so far is just to set the date back. date --set='-n seconds/minutes/hours/days/months/years' ex: date --set='-1 days' On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: My RealPlayer G2 has been working just fine for quite awhile. Today when trying to use it I

Re: [expert] RealPlay G2

1999-09-29 Thread alann
Steve Philp wrote: William Ahern wrote: only tip i've found so far is just to set the date back. date --set='-n seconds/minutes/hours/days/months/years' ex: date --set='-1 days' On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: My RealPlayer G2 has been working just fine for quite awhile. Today

Re: [expert] RealPlay G2

1999-09-29 Thread John Connell
jerrud wrote: there is a patch that you can get on the real site. if you go to linuxtoday.com, they have the exact site you can go to, to get the fix. Jerrud Check out this URL' John Connell http://linuxtoday.com/stories/10586.html

Re: [expert] dhcp acquisition order

1999-09-29 Thread Robert Kulagowski
How do I get my machine to try to acquire an IP via DHCP *after* it's loaded the pcmcia stuff? The way it is now, it will fail to get an IP every time on boot, as it's trying to get the IP before it's brought up the pcmcia stuff (and my nic is a pcmcia one; the 574). If you've used

Re: [expert] deathly slow loading times....

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Philp
jerrud wrote: To all, When i booted my computer from a fresh Mandrake 6.0 install, it took me about 19 minutes to boot all the way into KDE. These are real times! (11min to get past "loading loggers", 4 min to wait for "startx" to take effect, and another 4 minutes for KDE to load the GUI

Re: [expert] deathly slow loading times....

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: To all, When i booted my computer from a fresh Mandrake 6.0 install, it took me about 19 minutes to boot all the way into KDE. These are real times! (11min to get past "loading loggers", 4 min to wait for "startx" to take effect, and another 4 minutes for KDE

Re: [expert] New Kernel

1999-09-29 Thread Hidong Kim
Felipe Almeida wrote: Hi! I updated my old kernel (2.2.5) to a new kernel (2.2.12). But I lost my sound modules. As a matter of fact, in the make xconfig oe make menuconfig it didn´t has the option to my soundcard. Just a few were available. Then I copied the modules I needed from the

[expert] Bind 2 IP addresses

1999-09-29 Thread spiderken
Hi, Does anyone know how to bind 2 IP addresses to the same network adapter? Thanks in advance Ken ___ Get your hongkong.com freemail at http://www.hongkong.com Free newsletters center at http://post4u.hongkong.com