Re: [expert] Explanation = syslogd 1.3-3 memory leak?

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jason Antonacci wrote: We use linux to log several other system's activities. The daily end result is a 23-30MB file. I have noticed that on Mondays the syslogd process is reading a system time of 00:22:25 or around there. It is only today that I have really begun to

Re: [expert] What is causing this?

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Geoff Croxson wrote: At 09:56 29/11/99 EST5EDT, you wrote: I keep seeing these in my messages log, and can't pinpoint what is causing it: === Cut === Nov 29 21:40:01 k4 identd[1876]: Returned: 4599 , 21 : NO-USER Nov 29 21:40:01 k4 identd[1877]: Returned: 4599 ,

Re: [expert] What is causing this?

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: Kari Suomela wrote: I keep seeing these in my messages log, and can't pinpoint what is causing it: === Cut === Nov 29 21:40:01 k4 identd[1876]: Returned: 4599 , 21 : NO-USER Nov 29 21:40:01 k4 identd[1877]: Returned: 4599 , 21 :

Re: [expert] Firewall is stopping my server from sending mail.

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Stephen Carville wrote: On 29 Nov, Eric L. Damron wrote: - For some reason, when I run my firewall, my mail is not being relayed. My - firewall is just a set of ipchain rules. Here is an example of my maillog - file. The first entry is something that I sent - after

[expert] Need a little help with my firewall

1999-11-30 Thread Eric L. Damron
I didn't have time to become an ipchain expert before bringing up a firewall on a home server. (It's like the internet is a parrona filled river and my server is a piece of meat!) so I went out to : http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html There is an automated tool that gave

Re: [expert] Need a little help with my firewall

1999-11-30 Thread Nick Kay
At 04:30 30/11/99 -0800, you wrote: I didn't have time to become an ipchain expert before bringing up a firewall on a home server. (It's like the internet is a parrona filled river and my server is a piece of meat!) so I went out to : http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html

[expert] Rescue.img

1999-11-30 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I know this is not probably meant for this area. My system, for whatever reason has expired ALL my user accounts, including root. I figure the only way into the system now is with a rescue disk. I dont use lilo for normal boot, I use loadlin (the system dual boots with 98). I cant seem to find

[expert] Oracle 8.0.5, Mandrake 6.1: Segmentation fault

1999-11-30 Thread Patrick Van der Veken
Hi, Installed Oracle 8.0.5 on a fresh Mandrake 6.1. Every Oracle binary generates a 'segmentation fault' when started. According to Oracle Support the following has to be done: re-link all binaries with glibc20 instead of the installed glibc21. Following RPMS (Redhat 5.2) are required to install

Re: [expert] Kernel Boot Error

1999-11-30 Thread Goesele
Date sent: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:31:48 -0500 From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[expert] Kernel Boot Error Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well finally rebuild the kernel

[expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Lord And Master;)
Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of samba?

[expert] 2nd request: Vanishing Mouse Pointer in KDE

1999-11-30 Thread Vanco, Donald
I posted last week about my mouse pointer vanishing in KDE when my screen goes into "suspend" mode. Anyone have any clues or experience anything similar? Past installs of 6.1 have not done hits - only this time! (fresh install after nuking RH 6.1) Any help appreciated. Thanx Don

[expert] Stoopid FTP Question

1999-11-30 Thread osostech
Sorry for this boneheaded query, but I can't figure this out and this list should be the quickest answer:: ftp, interactive mode. How the heck can I retrieve a whole directory structure? I've tried many permutations with "get" to no avail, and the man page didn't really help. Thanks! Chad

Re: [expert] Need a little help with my firewall

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
"Eric L. Damron" wrote: 1. The firewall rules assume your SMTP server is external to you on the internet. If you have machines tied to the firewall locally, they will need to relay through your firewall's mail server. This means that there is a local denial possible which has little to do

Re: [expert] Rescue.img

1999-11-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: I know this is not probably meant for this area. My system, for whatever reason has expired ALL my user accounts, including root. I figure the only way into the system now is with a rescue disk. I dont use lilo for normal boot, I use loadlin (the system dual

Re: [expert] Need a little help with my firewall

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
"Eric L. Damron" wrote: I didn't have time to become an ipchain expert before bringing up a firewall on a home server. (It's like the internet is a parrona filled river and my server is a piece of meat!) so I went out to : http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html There is

Re: [expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Lord And Master;) wrote: Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of samba? Yep -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon

[expert] SNMP mapping?

1999-11-30 Thread Vanco, Donald
Hello - Slightly off topic but: Anyone seen a tool for mapping SNMP devices? I've done a quick search for SNMP @ FreshMeat.net and found a few possible tools, but none really have that great of a description - do any of you have any experience with such a tool? I'm looking

Re: [expert] SO51a - saving backup -- No go!

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: Dear John: Very reassuring to know that SO will save across all drives and partitions. By the way, I have the same problem even when I use the default Office51 Work folder and backup directories. By the way, what is NFS, please,

[expert] System Temporarily Freezing

1999-11-30 Thread William Ahern
We have a box serving as a router/ipmasq, smb/cifs server, webserver, sql server, and email and dns host. this box has two nic's, one w/ a private address, the other with a public. every once in awhile nothing can be accessed via the private address and/or the public address. when this happens,

Re: [expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
"Lord And Master;)" wrote: Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of samba? Short Answer: NO Longer Answer :NO! Reasoned Answer: Samba was created mostly by Andrew Tridgell from some work he did to make DOS use some unix files, sometime in ancient history. Of

Re: [expert] 2nd request: Vanishing Mouse Pointer in KDE

1999-11-30 Thread Larry Sword
David van Balen wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Vanco, Donald wrote: I posted last week about my mouse pointer vanishing in KDE when my screen goes into "suspend" mode. Anyone have any clues or experience anything similar? Past installs of 6.1 have not done hits - only this time! (fresh

Re: [expert] 2nd request: Vanishing Mouse Pointer in KDE

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
Just a note to let you know I saw your post. I am still trying to duplicate the behavior. Anything else I should know about your install? Did you format all partitions or just some? What sort of mouse? What does the Pointer Device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config say? Civileme "Vanco,

Re: [expert] Need a little help with my firewall

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Civileme wrote: "Eric L. Damron" wrote: I didn't have time to become an ipchain expert before bringing up a firewall on a home server. (It's like the internet is a parrona filled river and my server is a piece of meat!) so I went out to :

Re: [expert] Stoopid FTP Question

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for this boneheaded query, but I can't figure this out and this list should be the quickest answer:: ftp, interactive mode. How the heck can I retrieve a whole directory structure? mget file1 file2 file3 get foo.tar # where foo/ is

Re: [expert] Rescue.img

1999-11-30 Thread Roberto A. F.
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: I know this is not probably meant for this area. My system, for whatever reason has expired ALL my user accounts, including root. I figure the only way into the system now is with a rescue disk. I dont use lilo for normal boot, I use

Re: [expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
"Lord And Master;)" wrote: Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of samba? Yes at work we use reflection X and its nfs server utils to share drives to unix and to mount drives from unix

[expert] Pumping Up PPP

1999-11-30 Thread Hoyt
A while back, MaximumPC magazine featured an article on tweaking the Windows dial up connection. They worked great for me on my Windows box and, after doing some research, were implemented successfully on my Linux boxes. Essentially, they are: 0. A long description in the article on how to

RE: [expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Fred Frigerio
Not right. Before samba was samba, I was using an NFS client for Win3.1 There is no free nfs client as far as I know but there are NFS clients for WinNT and 95. Even more I was sharing a Novell volume through NFS and if you can do that To mind comes Chameleon NFS and a solution from SUN that

Re: [expert] System Temporarily Freezing

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
William Ahern wrote: We have a box serving as a router/ipmasq, smb/cifs server, webserver, sql server, and email and dns host. this box has two nic's, one w/ a private address, the other with a public. every once in awhile nothing can be accessed via the private address and/or the public

Re: [expert] Stoopid FTP Question

1999-11-30 Thread Geoff Croxson
At 02:47 30/11/99 -0500, you wrote: Sorry for this boneheaded query, but I can't figure this out and this list should be the quickest answer:: ftp, interactive mode. How the heck can I retrieve a whole directory structure? if you are using ncftp, which mandrake install by default, then I

Re: [expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: "Lord And Master;)" wrote: Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of samba? Yes at work we use reflection X and its nfs server utils to share drives to unix and to mount drives from unix Adds that to his knowledgebase I like that

[expert] Cohabitation: RH 5.2 M 6.1

1999-11-30 Thread Charles Curley
I have been running Red Hat 5.2 for over a year now. I have just put Mandrake 6.1 on the same system. However, RH 6.0 was a disaster, so this time I took things carefully: I installed M 6.1 in its own boot and root partions. BUT I have them both sharing the same swap space. That may have been an

[expert] Web site (doubleblink)

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
I just visited the web site for linux-mandrake http://www.limux-mandrake.com The poll was "Is Mandrake just RedHat plus some stuff?" The answers were 8% "No", 25% "I do not know" and the rest... well, the responders must not be on the mailing lists. Civileme

Re: [expert] Stoopid FTP Question

1999-11-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:47:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Sorry for this boneheaded query, but I can't figure this out and this list should be the quickest answer:: - - ftp, interactive mode. How the heck can I retrieve a whole directory structure? - - I've tried many permutations

Re: [expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Derek Simkowiak
Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of samba? Short Answer: NO Longer Answer :NO! [Note: below, Win32 = Windows 32-bit architecture, i.e., Win95, Win98, WinNT, etc.] Other Answer: Check www.tucows.com for Win32 NFS servers. I seem to remember some

Re: [expert] SNMP mapping?

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Philp
"Vanco, Donald" wrote: Hello - Slightly off topic but: Anyone seen a tool for mapping SNMP devices? I've done a quick search for SNMP @ FreshMeat.net and found a few possible tools, but none really have that great of a description - do any of you have any experience

[expert] Gnumeric not working

1999-11-30 Thread Derek Simkowiak
When I try to run Gnumeric on Mandrake 6.1, I get: [dereks@localhost 0409]$ gnumeric Cannot read file /home/dereks/.gnome/fonts/fontmap : gzopen failed: No such file or directory Cannot read file

Re: [expert] Pumping Up PPP

1999-11-30 Thread Derek Simkowiak
The serial ports are character devices (unbuffered) under Linux. I don't know if there is any equivalent to the Windows setting or not. I couldn't find anything about it in the setserial or pppd man pages, so I'm guessing it does not apply. --Derek On Tue, 30 Nov 1999,

Re: [expert] SO51a Save/backup -- Solved! (mostly)

1999-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: This time I first chown -R sher: sher * in my entire /home/sher directory, which includes SO and its 70 meg installation binary: Good news! I'll try the same. Still, the installation _should_ have reported a problem. Sun must learn. --

Re: [expert] S051A -- Can you backup files?

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Civilme: Thanks so very much for sharing your experiences with StarOffice, especially the part about backup. Maybe that's what they mean by backup -- sort of like Sentry in Dos/Windows3.1, where the backup is hidden until and unless you delete it. Then you go to

[expert] SO51a Backup -- update

1999-11-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I tried to save a backup as root. In fact, I logged out of KDE and logged back in as root, then launched SO51a from /bin/./soffice, then typed a few lines and saved the file. No problem saving the file. Made sure "Always create a backup" under Options, General, Save. But I could

Re: [expert] Stoopid FTP Question

1999-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, Chad wrote: Sorry for this boneheaded query, but I can't figure this out and this list should be the quickest answer:: ftp, interactive mode. How the heck can I retrieve a whole directory structure? Simple ! Use wget. If you are retrieving a web site or a multi-file

Re: [expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, Axalon wrote: Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of samba? Yep Interesting! Do tell us more, please! -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.

Re: [expert] Pumping Up PPP

1999-11-30 Thread Civileme
Derek Simkowiak wrote: The serial ports are character devices (unbuffered) under Linux. I don't know if there is any equivalent to the Windows setting or not. I couldn't find anything about it in the setserial or pppd man pages, so I'm guessing it does not apply. --Derek

Re: [expert] SO51a - saving backup -- No go!

1999-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, Civileme wrote: save to nfs mounts works (and I am using knfsd) I think you will find that it only works if the remote mount point itself is exported and connected to. If the remote machine exports /, you connect to it, and then try and navigate past /mnt/anything,

Re: [expert] 2nd request: Vanishing Mouse Pointer in KDE

1999-11-30 Thread David van Balen
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Civileme wrote: I'm running LM6.1 on a PII 233 with 96Meg RAM along with WinNT4.0 under vmware. I have 2 HDDs (4.3 and 22 gig) with the 4.3 as hda and the 22 as hdb. They have the following partitions taken from /proc/partitions, all formatted by Linux during install (hdc

Re: [expert] Rescue.img

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote: On the Mandrake 6.x CD there is a little distribuition that can stay on a single floppy. Usually I use that little floppy. What are you referring to here? I do not see any such distribution (with the exception of boot.img, bootnet.img,

Re: [expert] Stoopid FTP Question

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Philp
Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:47:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Sorry for this boneheaded query, but I can't figure this out and this list should be the quickest answer:: - - ftp, interactive mode. How the heck can I retrieve a whole directory structure? - -

Re: [expert] Cohabitation: RH 5.2 M 6.1

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Charles Curley wrote: I have been running Red Hat 5.2 for over a year now. I have just put Mandrake 6.1 on the same system. However, RH 6.0 was a disaster, so this time I took things carefully: I installed M 6.1 in its own boot and root partions. BUT I have them both

Re: [expert] SO51a - saving backup -- No go!

1999-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
Civileme, On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, I wrote: " save to nfs mounts works (and I am using knfsd) I think you will find that it only works if the remote mount point itself is exported and connected to. If the remote machine exports /, you connect to it, and then try and navigate past

Re: [expert] SO51a Save/backup -- Solved! (mostly)

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ron Stodden wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: This time I first chown -R sher: sher * in my entire /home/sher directory, which includes SO and its 70 meg installation binary: Good news! I'll try the same. Still, the installation _should_ have

Re: [expert] question

1999-11-30 Thread Geoff Croxson
At 02:07 30/11/99 -0800, you wrote: "Lord And Master;)" wrote: Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of samba? It is if you want to buy NFS for windows. From memory, Sun sell a product called PC-NFS last version of PC-NFS that I knew of was for Win3.11.. I don't

Re: [expert] SO51a Save/backup -- Solved! (mostly)

1999-11-30 Thread Bug Hunter
Hmm. On a philosophical front, I disagree that is not sun's problem. I think it is. If Linux is to achieve "world domination," then it and its applications must take care of the blind, ignorant, (and sometimes idiot) user. DOS and Wind*ws and Mac applications and OS tends to hold

Re: [expert] SO51a - saving backup -- No go!

1999-11-30 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ron Stodden wrote: Civileme, On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, I wrote: " save to nfs mounts works (and I am using knfsd) I think you will find that it only works if the remote mount point itself is exported and connected to. If the remote machine exports /, you connect

[expert] S051A -- Can you backup files?

1999-11-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Civilme and friends: I am so happy to hear that you can successfully backup files in SO51a. I just tried it again, making sure that the "Always create backup" is checked in Options, General, Save" and then trying both the default paths for work folder and backup and my own. Both options

Re: [expert] Rescue.img

1999-11-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Derekit's on the 6.0 disc but is not on the 6.1 disc. It's called 'tomsrtbt' (Toms root boot) and is in /images/rescue. There are two versions, one for creating the floppy under dos and one for creating it under linux as well as a FAQ file. If you don't have the 6.0 disc then here's the

Re: [expert] Rescue.img

1999-11-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Axhold it! I don't think so! You mean to tell me that both of my 6.1 CD's are 'faulty'! Two different CD's from two different sources!? One is an official MandrakeSoft CD and the other is a LinuxMall CD and neither one has an /images/rescue sub on it. :-) Alan Axalon Bloodstone wrote:

Re: [expert] SO51a Save/backup -- Solved! (mostly)

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Philp
Bug Hunter wrote: Hmm. On a philosophical front, I disagree that is not sun's problem. I think it is. Bullshit. Sun has included pretty specific instructions for installation of the software. You want to install it? ./setup. Want to install it for a network? ./setup /net. Want to

Re: [expert] Web site (doubleblink)

1999-11-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
CivilemeI don't think it's too suprising that the poll came out like that, after all, there have been two MacMillan distributions of Linux-Mandrake that both say "RedHat with enhancements" right on the box. These boxed distributions can be found in many of the major discount stores in the

[expert] SO51a new install -- backup still fails!

1999-11-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Realizing, after what Axalon said, that perhaps I had messed up my permissions in StarOffice for good, I decided to download a completely new copy of SO51a from Sun. Before doing anything, I first deinstalled SO through SOSetup, then deleted every trace of my old SO, including

Re: [expert] SO51a new install -- backup still fails!

1999-11-30 Thread Larry Sword
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Realizing, after what Axalon said, that perhaps I had messed up my permissions in StarOffice for good, I decided to download a completely new copy of SO51a from Sun. Before doing anything, I first deinstalled SO through SOSetup, then deleted every trace

[expert] so51a new install -- backup still fails

1999-11-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Larry and friends: Yes, I can't create a backup either with a new document or by opening an old one and editing it. I can save perfectly well, and when I go back I can see the changes have been made. But, for the life of me, I can't create an automatic backup, which I should be able to, as

Re: [expert] Rescue.img

1999-11-30 Thread Ramon Gandia
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: if you don't have a images/rescue/, you have a faulty disk. Well, I don't have it on mine either. Its the Mandrake PowerPack. My guess is, you intended for it to be on 6.1 but it didn't make it to the CD pressing. -- Ramon Gandia