[expert] Compiling under NFS filesystem

1999-10-18 Thread gpt Guillermo Pastor Torrente
I've been having some problems compiling at a NFS filesystem. The fact is that I get different behaviour if compilation is performed locally or at a NFS (SUN workstation served) volume. At the NFS volume: For some objects compilation is successful. For others, the file is truncated (is what 'nm

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE -- Last step

1999-10-18 Thread R_Yeo
total 440 drwxrwxr-x2 root mail 1024 Oct 18 00:01 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Oct 15 17:07 .. -rw---1 root root 444947 Oct 18 00:01 root [sher@adsl-77-232-172 mail]$ Hi, I may have missed the plot somewhere along the line; if so,

Re: [expert] 6.1: Enlightenment crash

1999-10-18 Thread Andrew M George
Hi, I don't use Gnome (apart from a look-see...I'm feel more comfortable with the KDE interface at this point). With all the comments about Enlightenment, I thought I'd mention an article I ran across a couple of days ago. It was basically how to configure Gnome to run with IceWM instead of E

Re: [expert] Can't access RealPlayer URL

1999-10-18 Thread John Connell
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I am a Russian translator and I listen to RFE (Radio Free Europe) Russian Service all the time. For some reason, I have been having a problem accessing it, as user and root, the past two days. No problem, basically, with other sites and I had no problem

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE -- Last step

1999-10-18 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear R_Yeo: Thank you so much for writing. Appreciate your taking the time. No, I configured Fetchmailconf as user, not as root. Thanks again. I may need to call on you again if I haven't solved the problem yet. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE -- Last step

1999-10-18 Thread Jeanette Russo
R_Yeo wrote: total 440 drwxrwxr-x2 root mail 1024 Oct 18 00:01 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Oct 15 17:07 .. -rw---1 root root 444947 Oct 18 00:01 root [sher@adsl-77-232-172 mail]$ Hi, I may have missed the plot somewhere

Re: [expert] 6.1: Enlightenment crash

1999-10-18 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 06:40:14PM +1000, Andrew M George wrote: Hi, I don't use Gnome (apart from a look-see...I'm feel more comfortable with the KDE interface at this point). With all the comments about Enlightenment, I thought I'd mention an article I ran across a couple of days ago. It

Re: [expert] UPDATE: 6.1: Enlightenment

1999-10-18 Thread Andy
Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 12:22:05AM -0400, si Steve Philp bilang: Just a bit more information about the Enlightenment crash in 6.1 I've gone back, deleted the test user and recreated them to ensure a clean start. Using the Enlightenment configuration tool, choose Themes then

[expert] XFree86-xfs problem

1999-10-18 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have a strange problem that apparently was caused by my foolish tampering with the ttfonts directory. For whatever reason it broke the X Font Server. I have corrected it since, but I get the following strange result. I wanted to uninstall XFree86-xfs and then reinstall it. This

Re: [expert] Can't access RealPlayer URL

1999-10-18 Thread Kirk Whiting
The URL you sent for RFE works good here from California USA. Kirk Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I am a Russian translator and I listen to RFE (Radio Free Europe) Russian Service all the time. For some reason, I have been having a problem accessing it, as user and root, the past

Re: [expert] XFree86-xfs problem

1999-10-18 Thread Nick Kay
At 13:01 18/10/99 +, you wrote: Dear friends: I have a strange problem that apparently was caused by my foolish tampering with the ttfonts directory. For whatever reason it broke the X Font Server. I have corrected it since, but I get the following strange result. I wanted to uninstall

[expert] Real Producer

1999-10-18 Thread Kirk Whiting
I got a Happauge WinTV card working in my system with the bttv drivers. My question is has anybody got the Real Producer G2 (free version) to work? I currently get the error, $ /usr/local/bin/xrealproducer /usr/local/rprod/bin/RealProducer: error in loading shared libraries:

[expert] Ignore, just a test

1999-10-18 Thread Marco Fioretti
my test Marco

[expert] aic7xxx module

1999-10-18 Thread mark
Hi We are running 6.0 on a DELL dimension XPS D266 (128 Megs) and sometimes LILO hangs during the following event: Loading aic7xxx module I can boot from the floppy to get around this, it is just annoying. Can anyone tell me what the aic7xxx module is and how I can fix the flakey boot process

Re: [expert] aic7xxx module

1999-10-18 Thread Nick Kay
At 14:10 18/10/99 +, you wrote: Hi We are running 6.0 on a DELL dimension XPS D266 (128 Megs) and sometimes LILO hangs during the following event: Loading aic7xxx module I can boot from the floppy to get around this, it is just annoying. Can anyone tell me what the aic7xxx module is and

[expert] Laptop install via LILO?

1999-10-18 Thread Marco Fioretti
Hello, I have a NEC laptop with NT 4.0 and Red Hat 4.0 installed. I want to substitute RH 4 with (obviously) Mandrake 6.1, but I have the following problems: 1) I cannot use floppy and CDROM at the same time 2) Cannot make a network install 3) Cannot boot from CDROM 4) FTP install with 28.8

Re: [expert] XFree86-xfs problem

1999-10-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: I have a strange problem that apparently was caused by my foolish tampering with the ttfonts directory. For whatever reason it broke the X Font Server. I have corrected it since, but I get the following strange result. I wanted to uninstall

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-18 Thread Ramon Gandia
I was out of town for two days, so I finally gathered your phone messages and your email. Did you get PINE to work? If you are using it with a POP server you need to manually tweak the .pinerc file. It is easy, but no directions are provided. Let me know if you still need help on this, and I

Re: [expert] Laptop install via LILO?

1999-10-18 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Marco Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; io [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 11:44 AM Subject: [expert] Laptop install via LILO? ?) Since LILO is already in the laptop, I wanted to ask if I could put the Mandrake CD inside,

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-18 Thread Ramon Gandia
Oops... sorry folks, I meant this to be a private reply to my friend Benjamin. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin Nook Net http://www.nook.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box

[expert] A realy puzzling problem.

1999-10-18 Thread Lord And Master;)
I recently switched isp's and got a static ip now a very strange problem has surfaced on my box. I am running pretty much stock 6.1. now all of a sudden when I try to download a file from an ftp site , it will die at 144k every time no mater what ftp program I use or what user (including root)

[expert] Mandrake SMP

1999-10-18 Thread ebambock
Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing? Thanks in advance, Ethan Bambock

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP

1999-10-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing? Should. John

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP

1999-10-18 Thread Mark Berry
Mandrake = Linux Linux =~ SMP Yes, Mandrake.. as well as most other Distributions.. have a kernel pre-setup for SMP support. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing? Thanks in advance, Ethan Bambock

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP

1999-10-18 Thread Rickard Åberg
Sure it does... runs like a dream... :) / Rickard - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 9:06 PM Subject: [expert] Mandrake SMP Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing? Thanks in advance,

[expert] Disallowing ping requests to a specific machine

1999-10-18 Thread Lee Wilson
I have a machine that is getting flooded with ping requests to the point where it's saturating our T1 line. I don't want to turn off pings to the entire class C IP block with our firewall, but I'm not sure 1) how to turn off pings to a single IP address 2) if turning off pings at a single

RE: [expert] Mandrake SMP

1999-10-18 Thread Ted Helton
Title: RE: [expert] Mandrake SMP Yep I'm running it on an ABit BP6 w 2 Celeron 433's Also installs a uni processor kernel so you can boot either SMP or UP. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP

1999-10-18 Thread Timothy Litwiller
if you loaded the smp kernel when you installed it works out of the box, if not it is easy to recompile the kernel to turn it on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing? Thanks in advance, Ethan Bambock

[expert] TCP/IP or HTTP in Real-G2

1999-10-18 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: A Russian television station broadcasting a great daily 40 minute evening news program on demand asks that the listener select in RealPlayer (Options, Preferences, Transport) "Specific Transport", namely HTTP only and for port (at the bottom of the same screen, delete the default

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP

1999-10-18 Thread Duncan Hall
I am running it on a dual PIII 500 and it works like a treat!!. Dunc John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing? Should. John -- \\-- Duncan Hall - SysAdmin Viator Systems - Sydney Australia +61 2

Re: [expert] Disallowing ping requests to a specific machine

1999-10-18 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 02:29 PM 10/18/99 -0700, Lee Wilson wrote: I have a machine that is getting flooded with ping requests to the point where it's saturating our T1 line. I don't want to turn off pings to the entire class C IP block with our firewall, but I'm not sure 1) how to turn off pings to a single IP

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP

1999-10-18 Thread Rickard Åberg
But Mandrake is the only way to go, right? Yeah, that's what i thought.. ;) / Rickard - Original Message - From: Mark Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP Mandrake = Linux Linux =~ SMP Yes,

Re: [expert] Disallowing ping requests to a specific machine

1999-10-18 Thread Bug Hunter
are you sure it isn't a ping to the broadcast address of your network? this can cause 10 megabytes of ping from .1544 megabytes of T1, ringing your net like a bell. It is called a smurf attack. What is your main router to the internet? if it is a cisco, then set no ip-directed broadcast

[expert] Kernel 2.2.13-4mdk compile

1999-10-18 Thread Steve Thornhill
my attempts to compile the with ' make bzImage' result in the following error: cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2'! Has anyone successfully compiled this kernel ? If so, how? I'm trying to configure a firewall and I need to change some kernel defaults. I never

Re: [expert] 6.1: Enlightenment crash

1999-10-18 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Sylvain" == Sylvain GIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Sylvain E is running for 7 days, i have 2 virtual deskops which Sylvain contain 6 multiple desktops. 2 pagers, 1 dragbar, 2 Sylvain different backgrounds and 2 epplets. [snip] What are the "epplets"? -- Mike Fieschko,

[expert] Module problem

1999-10-18 Thread Charles Sellers
I recently installed Mandrake 6.1 from scratch. I then recompiled the kernel, but the system hangs on boot when it tries to find the module dependencies. I can recompile without modules and the system boots fine. However, my sound card is pnp, and I've never been able to get it to work without

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-18 Thread sphilp
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Ramon Gandia wrote: E-mail it is touch to find good email programs out there, and most of what I have seen misses the mark. The absolute best has been Netscape 3.04. Alas, the browser part of Netscape is not very good. I am still working on

Re: [expert] A realy puzzling problem.

1999-10-18 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
"Lord And Master;)" wrote: I recently switched isp's and got a static ip now a very strange problem has surfaced on my box. I am running pretty much stock 6.1. now all of a sudden when I try to download a file from an ftp site , it will die at 144k every time no mater what ftp program I use

Re: [expert] XFree86-xfs problem

1999-10-18 Thread Ramon Gandia
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I have a strange problem that apparently was caused by my foolish tampering with the ttfonts directory. For whatever reason it broke the X Font Server. I have corrected it since, but I get the following strange result. I wanted to uninstall

Re: [expert] aic7xxx module

1999-10-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi We are running 6.0 on a DELL dimension XPS D266 (128 Megs) and sometimes LILO hangs during the following event: Loading aic7xxx module I can boot from the floppy to get around this, it is just annoying. Can anyone tell me what the aic7xxx module is