Re: [expert] AHA 2904 SCSI kontroller from Adaptec

2000-02-08 Thread Phil Edwards
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Oeystein Hermansen wrote: > Has anybody tried the Adaptec 2904 PCI SCSI adapter ? > > Is it working ok ? > > > > Oystein H Got one installed in a machine running Redhat 6.0, with a Yamaha CD-RW attached to it. Absolutely no problems at all - it was even detected automatic

RE: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread Alan Robertson
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, someone asked: > I like them as well, one question...what does cert mean? > (forgive my ignorance Im new) [C]omputer [E]mergency [R]esponse [T]eam, run out of Carnegie Mellon. I'm curious as to why someone would object to seeing CERT advisories on this list. It is the expe

RE: [expert] ESS SOLO-1 driver

2000-02-08 Thread Stout, Wayne
I'm running 6.1, and there seems to be some kind of problem with the alsa drivers and the kaudioserver. If I use KDE, I get garbled sound that won't stop. I end up having to reboot to get it to quit. But, if I use Gnome, everything is fine. Go fig. Tried the linmodem driver, got a message that th

[expert] netscape mail username

2000-02-08 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, I keep getting the following error message from Netscape 4.7. Netscape is unable to use the mail server because you have not provided a username. Please provide one in the preferences and try again. I keep trying to fill in the forms in the preferences, but to no avail. Anyone

Re: [expert] apache and imap configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 09:51:10AM -0600, Timothy Litwiller wrote: -> How do I change the configuration so that users can post web pages? -> -> for example I would like to put a .www directory in each users directory -> -> /home/user/.www -> -> How do I make apache see these directories, do I h

Re: [expert] Irwin tape backup

2000-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 04:10:37AM +, Ivan Trail wrote: -> Hello, -> -> I have a gift, an Irwin tape backup drive, that I have no idea how -> to use. Of course it came with no directions, or anything like that. -> Does any one have experiance with such a device? Where can I get -> instr

Re: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, ibi wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > This is not a Linux or L-M specific question and is off-topic for which > > I apologize. Ocassionally I post information, such as CERT Alerts, that > > I feel affects the entire computing community including myself. I have > > been taken to

Re: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Hello all, > > This is not a Linux or L-M specific question and is off-topic for which > I apologize. Ocassionally I post information, such as CERT Alerts, that > I feel affects the entire computing community including myself. I have > been taken to task by one

Re: [expert] Hardwiring an interrupt

2000-02-08 Thread R_Yeo
> > Hmm, don't do that ? No seriously now make sure your not useing the hd > optimization and maybe it will go away. Somewhere between, apmd kernel > bios the hd controler and the hd lies the problem but it's not a simple > one to solve :/ Maybe the laptop lists would have better info How do I

Re: [expert] Hardwiring an interrupt

2000-02-08 Thread R_Yeo
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Axalon Bloodstone fingered: > > Hmm, don't do that ? No seriously now make sure your not useing the hd > optimization and maybe it will go away. Somewhere between, apmd kernel > bios the hd controler and the hd lies the problem but it's not a simple > one to solve :/ Maybe the

[expert] StarOffice woes.

2000-02-08 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I'm having a hell of a time with star office51 that I downloaded from sun. Everytime I run it it shows the splash screen and then pops up a dialog box saying that an unrecoverable error occurred. So I deleted the .sversionrc file and my Office51 directory. Initially I had it network insta

Re: [expert] root & other security issues

2000-02-08 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: > A few things have evaded me while grasping the major concepts of Linux > security (must be several years of miseducation under NT :-) > 1) it it possible to change the username of root? Seems to be more safe when > under a dictionary attack yes but

Re: [expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7

2000-02-08 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Oeystein Hermansen wrote: > > It worked. > > Removing supermount made RPM work ok again. And it also made the Citrix > ICA client work ok when I have mapped local drives (eg C:\ on the NT system > was my home directory on the Linux system). So by by supermount. I will >

Re: [expert] Adding Chinese support to Mandrake

2000-02-08 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Ivan J. Wagner wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > Does anybody know how I can setup Mandrake 7.0 (or at least Netscape > Navigator and Mail) so that one of my users can view/input Chinese > characters and still keep english as the default language? > > Thanks, > Ivan Wagner c

Re: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread Guillermo Belli
What is CERT Alert? El lun, 07 feb 2000, escribiste: > Hello all, > > This is not a Linux or L-M specific question and is off-topic for which > I apologize. Ocassionally I post information, such as CERT Alerts, that > I feel affects the entire computing community including myself. I have > been

Re: [expert] apache and imap configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
The Apache is set up to serve personal web pages in: /home/user/public_html I do not suggest a ".www" directory, since many ftp clients do not list directories with a dot before them. Just create the public_html directory in each of your user's file, then chmod it to 0755 so it's world readable

RE: [expert] apache and imap configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Tim Howell
Your system is probably already set up to do this, but with the public_html directory. Look for the UserDir directive in your httpd.conf file, and modify it according to your needs. Don't forget to restart Apache after you've made your changes. # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appe

RE: [expert] ISDN ? !

2000-02-08 Thread Klaus Peter Elsner
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 09:31:53 -0500, james.fogg wrote: ->I am not familiar with many of the software packages you are using, but I ->have set well over 200 Internet connections on ISDN. When using both bearer ->channels for connection to an ISP (for 128K) the ISP expects you to run ->MLPPP (multi

Re: [expert] Compiling Vim-GTK

2000-02-08 Thread minnrp01
Have you tried explicitly telling it to use (and check for) GTK when running the configure script? On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, glyn wrote: > Hello! I'm not really an expert or why would I ask these > questions.. however > > I like to compile my own version of Vim - I need odd features like > right

[expert] Adding Chinese support to Mandrake

2000-02-08 Thread Ivan J. Wagner
Hello everybody, Does anybody know how I can setup Mandrake 7.0 (or at least Netscape Navigator and Mail) so that one of my users can view/input Chinese characters and still keep english as the default language? Thanks, Ivan Wagner

[expert] root & other security issues

2000-02-08 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
A few things have evaded me while grasping the major concepts of Linux security (must be several years of miseducation under NT :-) 1) it it possible to change the username of root? Seems to be more safe when under a dictionary attack 2) I've implemented NIS for "domain-authentication". Would it b

[expert] Anybody had trouble with KISDN on Mandrake 7.0

2000-02-08 Thread Oeystein Hermansen
Just installed KISDN (ISDN package for KDE which work just like Dial-up on Win98). Strange thing: I had used it on Mandrake v6.0 and 6.1 without any problems. Installled 7.0 and it still worked. But after upgrading fraom 7.0 to 7.0-2 (second ISO image), it won't work. The error m

Re: [expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7

2000-02-08 Thread Oeystein Hermansen
It worked. Removing supermount made RPM work ok again. And it also made the Citrix ICA client work ok when I have mapped local drives (eg C:\ on the NT system was my home directory on the Linux system). So by by supermount. I will start using you when you do not mess up my system Regards

Re: [expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7

2000-02-08 Thread Allan Jarina
Try erase... then install it. Oeystein Hermansen wrote: > I have just upgraded to Mandrake v7 (second ISO image) > > And now I am having trouble running RPM install. > > When I do a "rpm --install xxx.rpm" nothing happens. The sessions hang. I > have tried lots of options like --test, --force

[expert] apache and imap configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Timothy Litwiller
How do I change the configuration so that users can post web pages? for example I would like to put a .www directory in each users directory /home/user/.www How do I make apache see these directories, do I have to add each one to the httpd.conf files or is there some way that it will work autom

Re: [expert] AHA 2904 SCSI kontroller from Adaptec

2000-02-08 Thread William Ahern
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Has anybody tried the Adaptec 2904 PCI SCSI adapter ? > > Is it working ok ? I've got a 2906... according to /proc/pci the controller is AIC-7850, so I believe I used the AIC7xxx driver. Our server has been up for about 4 months now, so no problems there I

[expert] missing module in 7.0-2

2000-02-08 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
Someone knows what is "char-major-108" module that seems missing on my LM7.0-2 ? This name is spontaneously indicated by modprobe as something needed to fully activate pppd. Thank you.

Re: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
ibi wrote: > Hello all, > > This is not a Linux or L-M specific question and is off-topic for which > I apologize. Ocassionally I post information, such as CERT Alerts, that > I feel affects the entire computing community including myself. I have > been taken to task by one individual. If the maj

[expert] screen blanking in X?

2000-02-08 Thread David Mihm
I'm not really sure what happened to make it stop screen blanking in X. It just stopped doing it after I upgraded to 3.3.6 of XFree. If someone could be so kind as to point out the method to get X screen blanking automagically again, I'd appreciate it. TIA +-

[expert] samba printing?

2000-02-08 Thread webmedic
After a few hours I was able to get a windows 2000 box to print to my samba server on my mandrake 7.0 box but it won't print multiple copies of the same document only one at a time. Does anybody know how to get it to print the multiple copies of a document.

Re: [expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7

2000-02-08 Thread timothylewis
Have you tried 'rpm --rebuilddb'? Are you running rpm as root or superuser? You won't be able to install much as a normal user. Tim Oeystein Hermansen wrote: > I have just upgraded to Mandrake v7 (second ISO image) > > And now I am having trouble running RPM install. > > When I do a "rpm --i

[expert] Anybody have tried install Oracle 8.1.5 Linux with sga > 500 mb?

2000-02-08 Thread istiqfar
I've installed Oracle 8.1.5 (8i) on Mdk 6.1. But when I increased sga to 140 mb, it just said, 'Could attach shared memory segment'. I have changed shmmax, and also change max_memory on kernel parameter, and recompile kernel with no success. Could anybody help me? thanks. isa

[expert] AHA 2904 SCSI kontroller from Adaptec

2000-02-08 Thread Oeystein Hermansen
Has anybody tried the Adaptec 2904 PCI SCSI adapter ? Is it working ok ? Oystein H

RE: [expert] TurtleBeach Montego Driver?

2000-02-08 Thread Fred Frigerio
YEah I have a regular Turtle Beach and it works just fine. > -Original Message- > From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 8:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] TurtleBeach Montego Driver? > > > OK > > Someone posted that the drivers wou

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-08 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, S. Newhouse wrote: > Maybe this is the same as Scenario 4, but at times netscape produces a > zombie process. I can't kill it unless I reboot. > > -sen > > Could be either one of the four, you would have tobe more specific about how and when

Re: [expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7

2000-02-08 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 12:30:11PM +0100, Oeystein Hermansen wrote: > When I do a "rpm --install xxx.rpm" nothing happens. The sessions hang. I > have tried lots of options like --test, --force --upgrade, --replacefiles, > etc. But nothing happens. I think this problem is relative to the super

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-08 Thread S. Newhouse
Maybe this is the same as Scenario 4, but at times netscape produces a zombie process. I can't kill it unless I reboot. -sen Axalon Bloodstone writes: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Rich Clark wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > > > > Does it happen with a particular

Re: [expert] INVALID GEOMETRY/dead-drive

2000-02-08 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
Looks like time to dust and check the ceiling for drips, the drive maybe recuable but it does appear to be failing (if not dead already) pull it and see what happens, hopefully the masq wierdness will stop, if it doesn't, something else is likely the cause for both the drive death and nic :/ bas

Re: [expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7

2000-02-08 Thread Jean-Jacques Mallet
Hello You are not alone with this problem. I think that the best solution is to compile your rpm . However, you will probably loose your rpm database. That's why when then you will install a package you will need to use the --nodeps options all the time. jean-jacques Oeystein Hermansen wrote:

[expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7

2000-02-08 Thread Oeystein Hermansen
I have just upgraded to Mandrake v7 (second ISO image) And now I am having trouble running RPM install. When I do a "rpm --install xxx.rpm" nothing happens. The sessions hang. I have tried lots of options like --test, --force --upgrade, --replacefiles, etc. But nothing happens. I have even

Re[2]: [expert] Port Ident

2000-02-08 Thread pipit
Hello Lyle, Try this : _http://www.psionic.com/abacus/portsentry/ Pipit @ http://pipit.dhs.org Tuesday, February 08, 2000, 8:58:11 AM, you wrote: L> Where can I find out more about PortSentry???

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-08 Thread marler
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > Ok lets clairify a bit and quit just generalizing the netscape problems. > > Senerio 1, > ppp line drops, and it never returns from the dns attempt > > Senerio 2, > Java > > Senerio 3, > Close one window they all close > > Sener

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-08 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Rich Clark wrote: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > > Does it happen with a particular windowmanager or close method? Something > > like that we _may_ be able todo something about, for java well we all know > > the problem there. :/ [..] > > I've noticed t

Re: [expert] errors rotating logs

2000-02-08 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
Oops, sorry i forgot to put info about logrotate itself in there too. You can remove the /etc/logrotate.d/samaba file, but then if you do start actualy useing samaba the logs will not get rotated (reinstall the rpm, or copy it out of the rpm to get it back). Note it also should be a one time me

Re: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread Brett Jones
Mandrake seems to have a large number of newbie users. I think some exposure to things like CERT would be a good thing. If your post has a subject along the lines of "[OT]CERT Alert " I can't see what the trouble would be. Security should be of concern to all of us. Hell I was cracked once on

[expert] Irwin tape backup

2000-02-08 Thread Ivan Trail
Hello, I have a gift, an Irwin tape backup drive, that I have no idea how to use. Of course it came with no directions, or anything like that. Does any one have experiance with such a device? Where can I get instructions? Where would I find out if linux can even use this drive? Here are th

Re: [expert] Hardwiring an interrupt

2000-02-08 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, R_Yeo wrote: > Hi, > I have a notebook that cannot resume from an "apm -s". After > resuming, I get a message about every 2 seconds like : > hda: lost interrupt > When I get back into X, I can still see the clock ticking, but > mouse cursor and keyboard are frozen

Re: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread John Connell
Am glad to see them, thanks! JC >Ocassionally I post information, such as CERT Alerts, that >I feel affects the entire computing community including myself. I have >been taken to task by one individual. If the majority of this list does >not want to see such postings I will cease. > >Thank you

[expert] Compiling Vim-GTK

2000-02-08 Thread glyn
Hello! I'm not really an expert or why would I ask these questions.. however I like to compile my own version of Vim - I need odd features like right-to-left which aren't included in standard distributions. With Mandrake 6.1 it went like a breeze. Having just installed Mandrake 7.0 I find

RE: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread erskine, michael
Your postings are fine with me - quite useful in fact. |>-Original Message- |>From: ibi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |>Sent: 07 February 2000 22:41 |>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>Subject: [expert] Opinion, please |> |> |>Hello all, |> |>This is not a Linux or L-M specific question and is off-to

RE: [expert] Opinion, please

2000-02-08 Thread Mike
I like them as well, one question...what does cert mean? (forgive my ignorance Im new) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren Doney > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 12:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Opinion,