Re: [expert] Request: Pine 4.20

1999-10-13 Thread Bero
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Henrik Edlund wrote: > Would be nice if MandrakeSoft put out an upgrade rpm for Pine 4.20. Tried > to rebuild the rpm myself but the patches for 4.10 didn't apply well to > 4.20 Stupid question: Where can I download it? ftp.cac.washington.edu seems to be down, ftpsearch.lyco

Re: [expert] Request: Pine 4.20

1999-10-13 Thread Bero
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Henrik Edlund wrote: > Would be nice if MandrakeSoft put out an upgrade rpm for Pine 4.20. Tried > to rebuild the rpm myself but the patches for 4.10 didn't apply well to > 4.20, so I rather leave the RPM-rebuilding to the experienced people at > MandrakeSoft. Consider it do

Re: [expert] what gives with bookmarks?

1999-10-13 Thread Andrew Morton
"S. Newhouse" wrote: > > Hello, > I have netscape-4.61mdk installed (in mandrake-6.1) and I cannot save > bookmarks. I have tried replacing ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html and just > simply adding new bookmarks. When netscape is closed and opened, the > installation default bookmarks get loaded. W

Re: [expert] Changing Netscape Attributes

1999-10-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Felipe Almeida wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I make Netscape print the page name, numbers and location, just > like it does in Windows? You can't. This, and the ability to use an external editor for mailnews are top of my Mozilla wishlist.

Re: [expert] missing pixmaps on KFM buttons

1999-10-13 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Brett Jones wrote: > Anyone have a fix for this? I thought it was just a bad ISO images I had > downloaded, but I'm getting the same thing with the Macmillan version I just > bought. I've tried rebuilding the kdebase package with no luck. > > Thanks. > > -- > Brett Jones > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes

Re: [expert] How to set permission to write to a FAT partition as user?!

1999-10-13 Thread Dovydas Kulvinskas
Viktor Lakics wrote: > > Dear Mandrake users, > > Does anybody know how to set write permission for users to a FAT32 partition > under MDK6.1 linux? > > As root I am able to read and write the mounted Windows partitions. As user, I > can only read from them. I tried chmod o+rw /dev/hda1 as roo

Re: [expert] How to set permission to write to a FAT partition as user?!

1999-10-13 Thread Stephen Carville
Viktor Lakics wrote: > > Dear Mandrake users, > > Does anybody know how to set write permission for users to a FAT32 partition > under MDK6.1 linux? > > As root I am able to read and write the mounted Windows partitions. As user, I > can only read from them. I tried chmod o+rw /dev/hda1 as roo

[expert] Out Out Out, damned spot....

1999-10-13 Thread Civileme
I sent a message to the list when sendmail and pop3d didn't quite work. I was also having authentication problems with Samba and finally partial success with the IP masquerade. OK, I suspected hardware. Caldera 2.3 crashed on install--a total freeze when it tried to detect the mouse. SuSE 6

[expert] How to set permission to write to a FAT partition as user?!

1999-10-13 Thread Viktor Lakics
Dear Mandrake users, Does anybody know how to set write permission for users to a FAT32 partition under MDK6.1 linux? As root I am able to read and write the mounted Windows partitions. As user, I can only read from them. I tried chmod o+rw /dev/hda1 as root succesfully, (I mean after ls -al t

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the REAL WORLD.

1999-10-13 Thread Stephen Carville
> Mark Holloway wrote: > > I'm studying for my Cisco CCIE certification. As a network > administrator I haven't stayed up with the progress of Linux in the > Internet world, but 80% of the routing/switching market for the > Internet is Cisco. Up until the last year or so, Solaris was also > con

Re: [expert] Audio has echo?? (xmms)-

1999-10-13 Thread Paulino Michelazzo
Dear Mr Don Here I have a laptop with Maestro sound card by ESS and I have the same trouble, but here the problem is MP3 files in KDE shell. I'm using OSS in laptop and desktop and tested in desktop (that it a CM8338 on-board card) and I don't have this problem. I believe that the problem is our

Re: [expert] are these supported? (under linux and vmware)

1999-10-13 Thread Paulino Michelazzo
Oh, sorry Mr John My friend in California send me a mail in portuguese but I forget that this list is in english Vicious of portuguese mailists :)) Thanks man > > Opa > > > > Quando vi o nome em portugues fiquei imaginado, mas na duvida :))) > > > Guys...would you mind PLEASE posting in Engl

[expert] what gives with bookmarks?

1999-10-13 Thread S. Newhouse
OK, fixed it! Had an old .netscape directory from Solaris 2.7. After this was removed thinks work fine. -sen > Hello, > I have netscape-4.61mdk installed (in mandrake-6.1) and I cannot save > bookmarks. I have tried replacing ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html and just > simply adding new book

[expert] dsl modem setup

1999-10-13 Thread SKINNER MATTHEW MOORE
hey i am trying to set up a cisco 605 internal pci dsl modem in mandrake, and am having a lot of trouble. Anyone who could help me out with this stuff, or could recommend a good resource for information, it would be much appreciated. thanks matt skinner

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the REAL WORLD.

1999-10-13 Thread Steve Philp
> Mark Holloway wrote: > > I'm studying for my Cisco CCIE certification. As a network > administrator I haven't stayed up with the progress of Linux in the > Internet world, but 80% of the routing/switching market for the > Internet is Cisco. Up until the last year or so, Solaris was also > con

Re: [expert] BogoMips

1999-10-13 Thread Brett Jones
I've got a K6-266 that is in the 380ish range, and a couple of 400 celerons at 399. On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Hey all. > > The server I'm sending this from is a 200MHz Pentium MMX system with 80MB > of RAM. On bootup, the penguin screen says it's crunching out 398.95 > BoboMips. > > Th

[expert] Many 6.1 mandrakes?

1999-10-13 Thread Brett Jones
I downloaded the 6.1 iso during the first week it was available and installed it on a few machines. I've been having trouble installing it on one box (kfm button pixmaps won't show up), so I thought I would try a retail version of 6.1 (MacMillans version) thinking I may have a flaky disk. I'm stil

[expert] missing pixmaps on KFM buttons

1999-10-13 Thread Brett Jones
Anyone have a fix for this? I thought it was just a bad ISO images I had downloaded, but I'm getting the same thing with the Macmillan version I just bought. I've tried rebuilding the kdebase package with no luck. Thanks. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] BogoMips

1999-10-13 Thread Andy
Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 03:24:26PM -0400, si Ian Douglas bilang: > The server I'm sending this from is a 200MHz Pentium MMX system with 80MB > of RAM. On bootup, the penguin screen says it's crunching out 398.95 > BoboMips. > > The reason I'm writing, is because my Pentium II 350 with 128MB of

[expert] The rest of the story

1999-10-13 Thread Civileme
I installed 6.1 on this server. 6.0 broke things every time I tried to install the kernel 2.2.9-27mdk upgrade. Now I cannot get sendmail/pop to authenticate users. Samba won't let users get their shares, and and web access goes to DNS lookup and stops after contacting a site successfully. I

[expert] Request: Pine 4.20

1999-10-13 Thread Henrik Edlund
Would be nice if MandrakeSoft put out an upgrade rpm for Pine 4.20. Tried to rebuild the rpm myself but the patches for 4.10 didn't apply well to 4.20, so I rather leave the RPM-rebuilding to the experienced people at MandrakeSoft. -- Henrik Edlund http://www.edlund.org/ "They were in the wro

Re: [expert] licq-0.70-1mdk.i586.rpm

1999-10-13 Thread Fabien Deschodt
> > I'm trying to install this also.. but I don't get the --replace-files.. > If you just do : rpm -i libstdc++ You will have some conflicts with the old package. Some files in the old package are needed for some other apps, so I didn't want to remove this old package. with --replace-files flag,

Re: [expert] BogoMips

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > The bogomips rating is virtually meaningless. Some old AMD 486 class chips had > rating well above most Pentiums, and many P-II's rate higher than some very > expensive Alphas. It's basically a measure of how fast the processor in > question does a particular

Re: [expert] KMail.

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Is kmail available separately? > Not AFAIK. I wish it were. :-) John

Re: [expert] BogoMips

1999-10-13 Thread Lee Burnside
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, your Nibs wrote: >The server I'm sending this from is a 200MHz Pentium MMX system with 80MB >of RAM. On bootup, the penguin screen says it's crunching out 398.95 >BoboMips. BoboMips? Actually, I kinda like that. The implication being that one MegaBoboMips = one million Bobo

Re: [expert] KMail.

1999-10-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Thanks for the reply. Is kmail available separately? At 05:22 PM 10/12/99 -0700, you wrote: >"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: > > > Where can I find the latest and greatest KMail, the one that that has > > nested mail folders? > > > > Thanks in advance > >It's in there ;-). Version 1.0.28 part

RE: [expert] Mandrake in the REAL WORLD.

1999-10-13 Thread Vanco, Donald
> I'm studying for my Cisco CCIE certification. As a network administrator > I haven't stayed up with the progress of Linux in the Internet world, but 80% > of the routing/switching market for the Internet is Cisco. You may also want to look at the backbone technologies - Cisco is but

[expert] BogoMips

1999-10-13 Thread Ian Douglas
Hey all. The server I'm sending this from is a 200MHz Pentium MMX system with 80MB of RAM. On bootup, the penguin screen says it's crunching out 398.95 BoboMips. The reason I'm writing, is because my Pentium II 350 with 128MB of RAM at home is only clocking out 349.80 Bogomips. Tell me this isn

[expert] Out with the old...Revisited

1999-10-13 Thread Civileme
OK I was using the infomagic workgroup server for quite a while. I had two servers fried by the electrical setup in this building. (separate circuits with a common neutral was triggering my UPS every time someone used the copier. Then with depleted battery I got a series of rapid power cycl

[expert] sendmail question

1999-10-13 Thread Ian Douglas
How, under Mandrake 6.0, do I set up a catch-all email address for a domain? ie: if someone types in [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the account 'junkmail' does not exist, how can i redirect that incoming message to a catch-all account instead of bouncing back with a "user unknown" error? Thanks, --- Ian

[expert] what gives with bookmarks?

1999-10-13 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I have netscape-4.61mdk installed (in mandrake-6.1) and I cannot save bookmarks. I have tried replacing ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html and just simply adding new bookmarks. When netscape is closed and opened, the installation default bookmarks get loaded. Where is this file, and what can

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the REAL WORLD.

1999-10-13 Thread Robert Wiebe
IBM may be a lot of things to a lot of people, but a poor man's choice is never to be found. See Robert LeBlanc on IBM's secret Linux summit http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-09/lw-09-ibm_2.html?10-13 for some ideas. I think I got the job I have now as a result of having a Linux farm at

[expert] Atlanta Linux Showcase

1999-10-13 Thread Payne Stanifer
Hey everyone, who all is going to the ALS? Bythe way, I am building a web page and I have a section on Linux, and I was wondering what you all thought would be good to put on the page. Here is a link: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hardware/9568/ Email me any ideas. payne AIM=ironpayn

Re: [expert] Mandrake in the REAL WORLD.

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 2027, you wrote: > I'm studying for my Cisco CCIE certification. As a network administrator I haven't >stayed up with the progress of Linux in the Internet world, but 80% of the >routing/switching market for the Internet is Cisco. Up until the last year or so, >Solaris was also

Re: [expert] TOTALLY STUMPED!!! I can't make my 9.1 GB IBM IDE work with LILO on Helios

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: > This is overcomplicated, isn't it? Why can't he create a small (say 500MB) > '/' partition at the beginning of the HD? He can put /var and /usr to take > up the rest of the space... > Well, if anything, I'd create two partitions... /boot and /. :-) However, it s

Re: [expert]hp 612c printer

1999-10-13 Thread Eric Rahmig
On 13 Oct 99, at 10:31, jack malone wrote: > I have a HP 612c color bubble jet an am trying to get it to work under > linux. Has anyone had any luck getting this printer to work with linux or > is it just one of them durn windows printers? Hi, Check out http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/. It

[expert] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

1999-10-13 Thread Mike Fieschko
>>> "Herman" == softouch writes: [snip] Herman> - Message - Xlib: Herman> connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid Herman> MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 KEY Application initialization failed: [snip] Add to your $HOME/.xinitrc file this line, befor

Re: [expert]hp 612c printer

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: > I have a HP 612c color bubble jet an am trying to get it to work under > linux. Has anyone had any luck getting this printer to work with linux or > is it just one of them durn windows printers. I have tried several of he hp > printers in the list an nothing works

Re: [expert] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

1999-10-13 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
"Herman Van Keer (softouch)" wrote: > Hi, > > Before anything else: I upgraded from RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 > > My problem: > I start a terminal session from a non-root account in my KDE. > I want to verify my backup and start a root session by 'su' > If I start xbru: I get the following messa

[expert] Mandrake in the REAL WORLD.

1999-10-13 Thread Mark Holloway
I'm studying for my Cisco CCIE certification.  As a network administrator I haven't stayed up with the progress of Linux in the Internet world, but 80% of the routing/switching market for the Internet is Cisco.  Up until the last year or so, Solaris was also considered to have about 70-80% o

Re: [expert] LILO hangs at 'LI' on 9GB IDE drive on Mandrake 6.1, but works fine on 6.0

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Gentlemen: > Thanks for the responses. I will try to comment/respond to your questions > together here. > > Bug Hunter: I have not tried this, but would there be a difference between > a fresh install of Mandrake 6.0 and Mandrake 6.1? 6.0 is fine; 6.2 hangs on

Re: [expert] intel video chipsets

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: > someone willed me a motherboard with onboard video an intel 810 chipset . > does anyone know of an xserver that will support the chip > Go to www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html to see for yourself, but I believe that the latest version of X wil suport the 810 chip

RE: [expert] maximal mount count?

1999-10-13 Thread Bois, Mathieu
Nahh... He's been wanting to boot under Win to check if the 58 days bug was reachable, but it scratched after 2 minutes and, bored, he decided to go back to Linux. (He couldn't use Wine because - nobody knows - maybe wine does correct the bugs that Win* has :-) Mathieu > -Original Message---

Re: [expert] TOTALLY STUMPED!!! I can't make my 9.1 GB IBM IDE work with LILO on Helios

1999-10-13 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 08:57 AM 10/13/99 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: >On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: >> Very bizarre. I install 6.1 to my new 9.1 GB IBM DeskStar just fine. >> On re-boot, LILO hangs at LI. I have tried the 'linear' mode setting, >> hda=1108,255,63 kernel option, and it just won't work. However, if

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7

1999-10-13 Thread Timothy Litwiller
the mandrake page is in the script file that mandrake uses to call the netscape binary file. it is simple to remove from there. do a search for netscape and then look inside the file, it check to see if you have the navigator or communicator versions installed and then starts it with that file a

[expert] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

1999-10-13 Thread Herman Van Keer (softouch)
Hi, Before anything else: I upgraded from RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 My problem: I start a terminal session from a non-root account in my KDE. I want to verify my backup and start a root session by 'su' If I start xbru: I get the following message: - Message - Xl

Re: [expert]hp 612c printer

1999-10-13 Thread jack malone
I have a HP 612c color bubble jet an am trying to get it to work under linux. Has anyone had any luck getting this printer to work with linux or is it just one of them durn windows printers. I have tried several of he hp printers in the list an nothing works so far. Thanks in advance for the help.

Re: [expert] Out with the old..... Yipes!!!

1999-10-13 Thread Herman Van Keer (softouch)
Ramon Gandia wrote: > You can do it two ways. Sendmail will usually put the > mail in /var/spool/username Each user will have one file, > and messages just get concatenated to the end of it as they > arrive. I hope I can rely on you for some questions on mail-files. I know about the /var/spoo

Re: [expert] LILO hangs at 'LI' on 9GB IDE drive on Mandrake 6.1, but works fine on 6.0

1999-10-13 Thread timothylewis
Hoyt wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Tim @ Home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 6:28 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] LILO hangs at 'LI' on 9GB IDE drive on Mandrake 6.1, > but works fine on 6.0 > > > Hoyt, > > --SNIP__ > > Life is too sho

Re: [expert] Out with the old..... Yipes!!!

1999-10-13 Thread David Rodgers
you need to go into you /etc/inetd.conf and take the # out from the front of pop3 and imap On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: > OK, I once configured sendmail (by editing the sendmail.cf file) > > I had another piece, a beta of an IMAP/POP server whose rpm began with > sendmail. > > Linuxconf se

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7

1999-10-13 Thread Herman Van Keer (softouch)
> If these functions don't work, I'd say something is seriously > wrong. Perhaps you should scrap the rpm and get the tarfile from > netscape itself - that works like a charm as far as I can tell > (besides it being the usual bloatware). Well I can confirm you, that I installed a few times throug

Re: [expert] wvdial

1999-10-13 Thread Gordon von Miller
In my stress trying connect with Mandeake.6.1, I forgot how to make wvdial hangup. (Well, I'm old :-) Thanks. Gordon Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Test Drive

[expert] Re: [expert linux.conf

1999-10-13 Thread Gordon von Miller
And thanks for telling how to diable linuxconf. I can ping now. Gordon Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Test Drive

RE: [expert] maximal mount count?

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Any idea why is so slow ?, I have a 2Gb partition and it takes 2-3 minutes > every time it checks the fs. > What times are employed under a 15 or 30 Gb ext2 partition ?. Is there another > tool to speed up thist check ?. > Don't power down the computer so ofte

Re: [expert] TOTALLY STUMPED!!! I can't make my 9.1 GB IBM IDE work with LILO on Helios

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Very bizarre. I install 6.1 to my new 9.1 GB IBM DeskStar just fine. > On re-boot, LILO hangs at LI. I have tried the 'linear' mode setting, > hda=1108,255,63 kernel option, and it just won't work. However, if I > install Mandrake Venus 6.0, it works fine. Ple

Re: [expert] maximal mount count?

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: > It sounds like you may have too many mount points... I haven't really heard of > this specific error before, but the Mandrake online user manual suggests that > you only make three partitions: /, /home, and a swap space not bigger than 128 > megs. Do you have a hu

Re: [expert] Why is Mandrake/Redhat listening on tcp port 98?

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Interesting, I printed out /etc/services (on my RH 5.2 box) and there is > no listing for linuxconf or port 98! (And yes my RH 5.2 box listens on > port 98.) /etc/services is the first thing I checked. > > BTW: I HATE linuxconf! I still use Control-panel as muc

[expert] a little trouble with ppp

1999-10-13 Thread Cecilio CANO CALONGE
Hi, all. I am a Mandrake new user, and I can't do any ppp conexion. When I try connect with kppp, the log file has this lines: Oct 13 11:46:03 cecilio modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 Oct 13 11:46:03 cecilio pppd[1206]: pppd 2.3.9 started by root, uid 0 Oct 13 11:46:03 cecilio

Re: [expert] intel video chipsets

1999-10-13 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
"Vanco, Donald" wrote: > > It sounds like you've no idea who made the board - if you can locate an FCC > ID you _may_ be able to trace it to the manufacturer at: >From the original post it looks like there is no board at all !!! The chipset referenced (Intel I810) is a *motherboard* chipset, and

Re: [expert] Where is the C++ compiler in Mandrake?

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Every time I try to compile KDA programs in Mandrake (Helios 6.1), the > configure script stops with the following error message: > > configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH > > Where is the c++ compiler in MAndrake, and what i

Re: [expert] maximal mount count?

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: > I just booted my machine and got the message: "/dev/hdb1 has reached > maximal mount count, check forced" after which linux proceeded to run a > check that lasted several minutes. > Does this indicate a problem? Or is it just a routine check? If so, what's > it ch

RE: [expert] LILO hangs at 'LI' on 9GB IDE drive on Mandrake 6.1, but works fine on 6.0

1999-10-13 Thread Vanco, Donald
> -Original Message- > From: Tim @ Home [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Mike: The drive is clean; just Linux is on it. The drive is > an IDE IBM > DeskStar 9.1GB, configured as follows: > > BIOS reports 1027, 255, 63 (LBA). Curiously, fdisk says > 1108, even if you > force it to 1024. >

RE: [expert] intel video chipsets

1999-10-13 Thread Vanco, Donald
It sounds like you've no idea who made the board - if you can locate an FCC ID you _may_ be able to trace it to the manufacturer at: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ I have had varying success using this site to trace $10 sound cards and $20 video boards... you may find that the chipset is an equi

[expert] 6.1 TeX

1999-10-13 Thread Laura Conrad
I understand from the comp.text.tex newsgroup that there was a bug in the hyphenation algorithm in RedHat 6.0, which I am hitting on my Mandrake 6.0 installation. I have a 6.1 CD which I haven't gotten around to doing anything with. Does anyone know for sure if this is fixed on 6.1? Or on a sub

Re: [expert] HTTPD problem

1999-10-13 Thread Mark Polsen
Check the permissions on the files inside your document root. Mark