Re: [expert] Red Hat Security advisories

1999-11-15 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Arandir wrote: Since Mandrake is no longer based on Redhat, it does not follow that all Redhat bugs are also Mandrake bugs. I don't know about these two advisories, but there were some previous ones that applied to Redhat, but not to Mandrake. -- Arandir...

Re: [expert] lp0 - no such device

1999-11-15 Thread Denis Havlik
:~Hi guys, :~ :~As suggested I included modprobe to my rc.local and it worked. I am now :~wondering how it worked without these lines, before. It should work withouth those lines. It just doesn't in M6.1. D.

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Denis Havlik
:~For business use, you bet I'd do it. In a heartbeat. The only thing :~holding me back right now is the non-availability of industry-specific :~applications. I have been doing it in our institute for the last two years. Last month I have also installed two Mandrake boxes for our

[expert] Mandrake defaults for Kernel?

1999-11-15 Thread Arturo Morales
Hey All, I was trying to recompile the stock kernel in 6.1 and trying to get rid of unnecessary drivers (non modules) and I thought I did a pretty good job (taking out support for ISDN, PPP etc...) Nonetheless, the resulting kernel was bigger than the live one shipped with Mandrake. I assume

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Denis Havlik
:~We don't want to restrict everybody's Email, just a certain group. :~ :~But how will setting up disk quota alert someone sending a huge Email to :~bounce back saying their mailbox is full, stop sending messages? How about reading some documentation? Sugested reading: - Linux introductery

Re: [expert] PCMCIA install broken...?

1999-11-15 Thread Phil Edwards
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Chris Herrnberger wrote: Derek: Using the instructions on the site for P3015ct I was able to get SuSe 6.0/6.1/6.2/ installed via FTP/PCMCIA. Neither version of Mandrake 6.0/6.1 have been successful to date. Contacted the Mandrake developers at 6.0 and was told it would

Re: [expert] Oh, Bugger...

1999-11-15 Thread Phil Edwards
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote: I'm now all sorted out again, with the 2.2.13-22mdk kernel installed and booting properly, all network interfaces up and all filesystems mounted where they should be. What was the problem with the network interfaces? --Derek It was

Re: [expert] lp0 - no such device

1999-11-15 Thread Derek Simkowiak
:~Hi guys, :~ :~As suggested I included modprobe to my rc.local and it worked. I am now :~wondering how it worked without these lines, before. It should work withouth those lines. It just doesn't in M6.1. Is that a known bug? Did you check to see that lpd was running at

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Pastor Torrente, Guillermo
What does exactly mean full duplex and half duplex? TIA

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread James Moody
Voiceband modems may operate in a variety of transmission modes, including simplex, half-duplex, and full-duplex. Simplex transmission is one-way transmission between a transmitter and a corresponding receiver. In half-duplex transmission, two-way transmission is possible, but it cannot take

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Marco Ciampa
On lun, 15 nov 1999, Pastor Torrente, Guillermo wrote: What does exactly mean full duplex and half duplex? TIA When you talk at the phone it is full-duplex When you talk by radio it is half duplex -- Marco Ciampa c:\winnt secure_nt.exe Securing NT. Insert Linux boot disk to continue..

[expert] Netscape freezing continously

1999-11-15 Thread Brad Peters
Now this is really beginning to bug mehas anyone found a method to make Netscape 4.61/4.7 stable under Mandrake/Redhat when Java is enabled? It appears that I can make it fallover almost within 30sec of starting 2 sessions of netscape if I switch between each started session using my home

RE: [expert] PCMCIA install broken...?

1999-11-15 Thread Vanco, Donald
Here's what I did: (which, sadly, will not help you with an install) 1) Install Mandrake 6.1 - being sure to turn PCMCIA off at boot time as part of the set up 2) Download an install the latest PCMCIA source 3) Compile new kernel (or at least PCMCIA portion) from updated source tree FWIW - no

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:03 PM 11/14/99 -0500, Ian Douglas wrote: maybe i'm missing something. there is no reason you can't have a filesystem called, say, /var/mail for the POP mailboxes. that filesystem has the quota applied to it. this should work (i've done it). We don't want to restrict everybody's

Re: [expert] Red Hat Security advisories

1999-11-15 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: So what happended to the 99.9% Red Hat compatibility? are you saying that Mandrake is breaking apart from red hat... ? h I am testing cooker, and there are lots of red hat's files in it... extrange! But still says Welcome to Red Hat's...

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Douglas
How about reading some documentation? Tried that on the server ... came up kinda short. Trust me, I've worked in Tech Support and know all about "RTFM". - Linux introductery stuff on "users", "groups" and "quotas" Did that. But if you read my last post, you'll find I'm a little confused

[expert] KDE with 8 bits display

1999-11-15 Thread Pastor Torrente, Guillermo
How can I use less colors (8 bit display) still using KDE? I need to use 8 bit display because some software I use requires so. KDE leaves few available colors!. Same question about Gnome (that lets no available colors!). TIA!

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 (128 bit) URL display works on windows not on Linux

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I am running Mandrake Linux 6.1 and Netscape Communicator 4.7 w/128 bit encryption. When I log onto a certain secure site I do not see pages that have a graphics figures on them. When the screen is through xferring data I can view page source which shows

[expert] Printting in Helios 6.1

1999-11-15 Thread Al Smith
Greetings folks, I have noticed a printting problem with helios. For some reason once the print job has completed the spool file is not removed from: /var/spool/lpd/lp I have updated to printtool 3.40-8mdk Any suggesstions?

[expert] KDE Konsole Configuration

1999-11-15 Thread Phil Edwards
I have a requirement to be able to emulate a 7-bit VT220 terminal over a telnet connection to an AIX machine. I'm having a problem with the escape sequences that the KDE Konsole app sends for the various function and cursor keys. Is there a configuration file somewhere that I can hack to make

[expert] Agfa 1236S scanners

1999-11-15 Thread Pearce Smithwick
I have checked SANE and cannot find a reference for this scanner. Do they work under Linux?

Re: [expert] Netscape freezing continously

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Now this is really beginning to bug mehas anyone found a method to make Netscape 4.61/4.7 stable under Mandrake/Redhat when Java is enabled? It appears that I can make it fallover almost within 30sec of starting 2 sessions of netscape if I switch between

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Christopher Cox
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] funny Date: Sunday, November 14, 1999 11:10 PM RIGHT ON! Fortunately for me, I report to a CEO who is at the same time computer-challenged and industry-wise. I have begun moving Linux, NT out. He is

[expert] cron weekly message

1999-11-15 Thread WH Bouterse
Can anyone shed some light on this? It has recently started showing up in my weekly cron logs. bzcat: Can't open input file ./fetchmailconf.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: ./ksh.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. bzcat: Can't open input file ./pdksh.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat:

Re: [expert] Agfa 1236S scanners

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have checked SANE and cannot find a reference for this scanner. Do they work under Linux? Paralell or SCSI? If the latter, it *should* work under Linux. AFAIK, paralell scanners aren't yet supported. John

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: He obviously does not use, or do business with anyone who uses, Quicken, TurboTax, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, need a powerfull graphics editor, do any VB programming.. I think you understand. There is a good "Excel-compatible" spreadsheet in

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Civileme
Christopher Cox wrote: -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] funny Date: Sunday, November 14, 1999 11:10 PM RIGHT ON! Fortunately for me, I report to a CEO who is at the same time computer-challenged and industry-wise. I have begun

Re: [expert] Netscape freezing continously

1999-11-15 Thread Larry Sword
Brad Peters wrote: Now this is really beginning to bug mehas anyone found a method to make Netscape 4.61/4.7 stable under Mandrake/Redhat when Java is enabled? It appears that I can make it fallover almost within 30sec of starting 2 sessions of netscape if I switch between each started

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Civileme
Denis Havlik wrote: Another problem is apparent lack of interest in security-related issues here... If i start putting RedHat-s security updates on Mandrake machines, sooner or later I will switch bach to RedHat. "Bind" beeing the latest, and I do hope the LAST of those issues. cu

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Derek Simkowiak
Quicken, TurboTax, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, need a powerfull graphics editor, do any VB programming.. I think you understand. There is a good "Excel-compatible" spreadsheet in Star [...] compatible with Powerpoint. That only leaves Quicken, Turbotax and VB. No,

[expert] NIC speed configuration

1999-11-15 Thread GaryLeoSantiago . Nool
Hi, I'm Gary. I was wondering if you can answer the following question for me: Is there a way in Linux to force a capable network interface card (NIC) to run at a certain speed? For example, if I have a NIC that can run at either 10 or 100Mbps, can I configure it so that it runs at the

[expert] FTPd configuration

1999-11-15 Thread Derek Simkowiak
All, Can somebody give me the quick-and-dirty answer to configuring the FTP server to allow per-user logins? So I can log in as my normal user account and access my home directory...? I'm used to Redhat where it comes pre-configured that way. Thanks, Derek

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread John LeMay
This is an extremely poor and technically incorrect explanation, however I understand what the writer was attempting. Full duplex is defined as the ability to transmit and receive data simultaneously. Half duplex is defined as the ability to transmit or to receive data at any moment at time.

Re: [expert] Red Hat Security advisories

1999-11-15 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: So what happended to the 99.9% Red Hat compatibility? are you saying that Mandrake is breaking apart from red hat... ? h I am testing cooker, and there are lots of red hat's files in it... extrange! But

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Christopher Cox
There is a good "Excel-compatible" spreadsheet in Star Office. Also SO is backwards-compatible with Office-97's word DOC files. It is my understanding that GIMP is quite a powerful graphics editor. Also, Star Office has a presentatino program which I think is supposed to be compatible with

[expert] real player g2

1999-11-15 Thread webmedic
I know there is one available where do i find it

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Denis Havlik
: - Linux introductery stuff on "users", "groups" and "quotas" : :Did that. But if you read my last post, you'll find I'm a little confused :about whether disk quota is really what I want to use -- it doesn't seem to :alert anyone to anything unless I run quotacheck once in a while. I want

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Duncan Hall
Lets not forget access, visio and project!!! Any suggestions? Dunc Christopher Cox wrote: > There is a good "Excel-compatible" spreadsheet in Star > Office. Also SO is backwards-compatible with Office-97's > word DOC files. It is my understanding that GIMP is quite a > powerful graphics editor.

Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length

1999-11-15 Thread Eric Peters
Er my bad I think I might have said Feet.. I meant thousands of yards...See kids do not try to respond to mail lists while at work! Cheers, Eric Peters Admin http://www.linuxsystems.net -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 http://www.geekcode.com/ GCS d s: a- C+++ U P+ L+++ E---

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Singer XJ Wang
I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: I see Switched HUBS and SWITCHES what's the diff between those or are they teh same but some wierd marketing scheme?

Re: [expert] Red Hat Security advisories

1999-11-15 Thread Alexander Kirillov
IMHO, mandrake is not even close to 99.9% compatibility. With VERY many packages you have dependence problems. E.g: I tried installing October release of GNOME from RH rpms, and had a number of unsatisfied dependencies, ranging from stupid (it needed redhat-logos for splash screen) to possibly

Re: [expert] real player g2

1999-11-15 Thread David van Balen
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, webmedic wrote: I know there is one available where do i find it search the archives for this list (http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/) a search for "real player g2" is guaranteed to come up with the URL several times. DvB

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread David van Balen
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote: No, there's also Visio, PVCS, Visual Studio, Schedule+, Macromedia Director, Adobe Premiere/AfterEffects, TruSpace, AutoCAD, etc., etc., etc. Besides that, Star Office does not interoperate with my other desktop applications. I'm pretty

[expert] POSTFIX+My Brain=Mush

1999-11-15 Thread WH Bouterse
POSTFIX in L_M 6.1 looks fairly simple to tweak especially when compared to Sendmail Several unsuccessful attempts however, to merely set up parameters in the 'main.cfg' file so users can check mail on my home machine have proved futile for my easily confused and distracted thought processes.

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread David van Balen
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Christopher Cox wrote: I have yet to load Star Office, but have it sitting next to me. Gimp does net even come close to a Image Composer of sorts. I will play with Star Office to see what that plugs up. The off the shelf stuff like Quiken, TurboTax and the lack of a VB

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Bug Hunter
A hub is like a wire splitter that connects all the wires together. a switch has a computer that only connects the wires together for the data packets that matter. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: I see Switched HUBS and

Re: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Philp
Chris Roupp wrote: Humm... i wonder what that bogus address does to web bots. Might be a fun way to make some bot traps. -chris If you don't run an HTTP server on the webbot machine, it will do nothing. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] (OT) funny

1999-11-15 Thread Civileme
Christopher Cox wrote: There is a good "Excel-compatible" spreadsheet in Star Office. Also SO is backwards-compatible with Office-97's word DOC files. It is my understanding that GIMP is quite a powerful graphics editor. Also, Star Office has a presentatino program which I think is

RE: [expert] disk quotas to limit mailboxes?

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Douglas
: Or just pay for a professional support. : :Kinda defeats the purpose of this mailing list then, don'tcha think? No. Purpose of this mailing list is certainly not giving free support to commercial ISP-s. We're not a commercial ISP. We're a church who is hosting a distance education center

[expert] KMail and PGP

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
I've got KMail 1.0.21 with PGP 6.5.1. KMail recognizes PGP, and I've generated a keypair for PGP and I just tried to sign my first message and it asked for the passcode but it never sent the message... It just sat there and wouldn't send until I UNCHECKED the "sign" option. Any ideas? Is that

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Bug Hunter wrote: A hub is like a wire splitter that connects all the wires together. a switch has a computer that only connects the wires together for the data packets that matter. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: I

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: No, there's also Visio, PVCS, Visual Studio, Schedule+, Macromedia Director, Adobe Premiere/AfterEffects, TruSpace, AutoCAD, etc., etc., etc. Besides that, Star Office does not interoperate with my other desktop applications. Agreed. However, I was

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread John LeMay
If you had been keeping up with earlier posts to this thread you should have realized that switches and hubs are two different things. A "switched hub" is an oxymoron, IMHO. Singer XJ Wang wrote: I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: I see Switched HUBS and SWITCHES what's

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have yet to load Star Office, but have it sitting next to me. Gimp does net even come close to a Image Composer of sorts. I will play with Star Office to see what that plugs up. The off the shelf stuff like Quiken, TurboTax and the lack of a VB is really

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote: No, there's also Visio, PVCS, Visual Studio, Schedule+, Macromedia Director, Adobe Premiere/AfterEffects, TruSpace, AutoCAD, etc., etc., etc. Besides that, Star Office does not interoperate with my other

Re: [expert] Agfa 1236S scanners

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: It is SCSI It's my UNDERSTANDING that "Sane" =="Twain" under Linux (at least that's the gist I got.) I've never tried setting up a scanner, mainly because I haven't got one. ;-) John

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Singer XJ Wang
I know what the different between a HUB and a SWITCH is, but Acer offers something called a SWITCHED HUB, not a HUB, not a SWITCH, any idea what that does? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bug Hunter Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999

Re: [expert] KDE with 8 bits display

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Philp
Denis Havlik wrote: No idea if KDE or gnome can/will do rendering. I do know that WindowMaker can do it - therefore, I would sugest using the WM, withouth gnome/KDE. The window manager has nothing to do with color depth. Color depth is a decision of the X server. To start X in 8 bit pixel

Re: [expert] NIC speed configuration

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm Gary. I was wondering if you can answer the following question for me: Is there a way in Linux to force a capable network interface card (NIC) to run at a certain speed? For example, if I have a NIC that can run at either 10 or 100Mbps, can I configure

Re: [expert] NIC speed configuration

1999-11-15 Thread Sridhar G
Have a look at this site: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/ Cheers Sridhar - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 2:30 PM Subject: [expert] NIC speed configuration Hi, I'm Gary. I was wondering if you can answer the

Re: [expert] Red Hat Security advisories

1999-11-15 Thread Arandir
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: So what happended to the 99.9% Red Hat compatibility? are you saying that Mandrake is breaking apart from red hat... ? h I am testing cooker, and there are lots of red hat's files in it... extrange! But still says Welcome to Red Hat's...

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Singer XJ Wang
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John LeMay Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Switch Hub If you had been keeping up with earlier posts to this thread you should have realized

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Stephen Carville
A switched hub is a multiport bridge. IOW the same thing as a switch. Why it is called a 'switched hub' instead of a 'switch?' Dunno. Someone in marketing probably thought it would sell better. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: -I know what the different between a HUB and a SWITCH is, but

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Derek Simkowiak
I'm pretty sure there's an Xwindows version of PVCS. Hmm. Didn't know that. :) I like CVS. Anyway, I think it's about time we end this thread. It started on a loopback DNS entry, and (so far) is somewhere near a long discussion of LinuxBerg vs. Freshmeat vs.

Re: [expert] (OT) funny

1999-11-15 Thread David Hart
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: One barrier which will be an INCREASING problem among the distributions is the lack of an analog of the "InstallShield Wizard". I think one could be written. Check out the Zenguin Installer, www.zenguin.org. It's an effort to do exactly what you've

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread David van Balen
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote: No, there's also Visio, PVCS, Visual Studio, Schedule+, Macromedia Director, Adobe Premiere/AfterEffects, TruSpace, AutoCAD, etc., etc., etc. Besides that,

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-15 Thread Denis Havlik
: No, there's also Visio, PVCS, Visual Studio, Schedule+, Macromedia :Director, Adobe Premiere/AfterEffects, TruSpace, AutoCAD, etc., etc., etc. :Besides that, Star Office does not interoperate with my other desktop :applications. If you really have to use all of them, better stay with

[expert] Corel LINUX Out - Off Topic

1999-11-15 Thread Singer XJ Wang
Kinda of Off Topic Here - but Corel LINUX is out today. The Corel FM extension on KDE looks nice. Anyway, Just an Observation