[expert] Re: Repost: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again. > > - Original Message - > From: Michael E. Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM > Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk. > > > > I hav

Re: [expert] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points

> My question is this, I have about 6-8GB to give over to Linux, and I would > like to know what the best way to bust it up for partitioning and > mounting; IE I would like a list of partition sizes and mount points that you > fairly efficient for a utilitarian machine. In learning Linux, I

[expert] Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC > TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but > since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments > about S3 cards in gener

Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

Charles Curley wrote: > While Linux and Unix are both case sensitive and case preserving, domain > names are neither, as a simple experiment will show: > > Name:trib.com > Address: 12.10.153.72 > > Name:TRIB.COM > Address: 12.10.153.72 This does not verify your premise, since both fo

[expert] Ethernet and ReiserFS

Hi, I've had a problem with my ethernet card, which I use with an Alcatel ADSL modem. The ethernet card is an Ovislink PCI 10/100 with a Realtek 8139A chip. It is recognized correctly, and even initiated, but no data comes out of it. I found that the development kernel has a new driv

Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

Ent. - Wrong! but thanks for playing. >From RFC822, the internal address headers are defined as not being case sensitive, and from RFC821, of the envelope addresses only the mailbox/'local name' part is considered case sensitive. And last RFC882, denotes that domain names are not case sensi

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] Mirc

oh shit! sorry about that forgot to change the old sig file. On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > Nice spam, oops, I mean signature. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic > Sent: May 3, 2000 5:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

[expert] Re: [newbie] Disk drives

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer? > And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net? Yes: 1 (easiest) just keep it like this, but make a symbolic link to it : ln -s/mnt/DOS_hda1 /win for instance.

[expert] Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???

OliverGold Pack is a product of MandrakeSoft, not MacMillan. Alan Oliver Stieber wrote: > > the power pack has all 6 cd's also i think the difference may be in the > documentation. > there are 2 gold packs the normal one and the not so normal one, the image > of the box on mandrake.com loo

[expert] Re: [newbie] Disk drives

hi john, i recognise DOS_hda1 as being the name of both the kdelnk file on your kde desktop as a shortcut to this drive and also the name of the mount point where this drive is mounted. right click on the desktop icon for DOS_hda1 and choose 'properties', you should get a box with three tabs, th

[expert] BeroFtp Server

Hi, I am using BeroFTP Server. I tried to upload files using CuteFtp a windows client. When I try to resume my broken upload Cute Ftp comes up with a dialog with options Overwrite/Resume. When I choose resume the existing file size is reduced to 0 and the upload resumes from that point effective

[expert] Re: [newbie] Problem installing Star Office and Word Perfect

Joseph, Not a stupid question at all. I used RPMDrake to both install and uninstall SO. Bill "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > Bill Smith wrote: > > > I have a problem. I have installed the 7.0 distro on my machine, and > > absolutely love it! The only thing I haven't been able to do is to

RE: [expert] promiscuous mode revisited

See if your system is logging any cron jobs and the results somewhere. It may have a clue because this sounds like something that is running on a regular schedule. Also, maybe look through the files that cron reads to do it's tasks, i.e. cron.daily or something of that nature and see if a possibl

RE: [expert] compiling qt-2.0.2 : lstdc++ can't be found??

Donno. From mandrake 7.2: [root@bugsbunny /lib]# locate libstdc /usr/doc/libstdc++-devel-2.95.2 /usr/doc/libstdc++-devel-2.95.2/ChangeLog.libio /usr/doc/libstdc++-devel-2.95.2/ChangeLog.libstdc++ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.2/libstdc++.so /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.2/

Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

Ron Stodden wrote: > > Jon, > > Are you not aware that Unix, and so the entire Internet and Linux, > are case sensitive? > > FAKEFOO.COM and fakefoo.com are entirely different domains - and will > be, for ever and ever. > NO..that's NOT entirely correct. Domain names are NOT case sen

Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:29:12AM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote: -> Jon, -> -> Are you not aware that Unix, and so the entire Internet and Linux, -> are case sensitive? -> -> FAKEFOO.COM and fakefoo.com are entirely different domains - and will -> be, for ever and ever. -> -> Jon wrote: -> -> > ..

[expert] ] Can't connect to the internet....

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > No matter what I try, I am still getting this error message: > > May 3 14:22:52 localhost pppd[917]: The remote system is required to > authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would > let it use an IP address. > > Can someone explain

Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

I'm afraid you are wrong here. Am I aware that *nix is case sensitive? Absolutely! Are domain names case sensitive? I don't think so. If they are, you might want to tell that to Network Solutions... if I do a "whois linux-mandrake.com" or a "whois LINUX-MANDRAKE.COM" I will get the same answer

Re: [expert] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > I have a 20gb drive, and am already running Micro$oft Windows 98. > > > Although a newbie to Linux, I know PCs very well, and have worked in the > industry for several years. > > > My question is this, I have about 6-8GB to give over to Linux, and I would

[expert] promiscuous mode revisited

Ok heres one for the gurus.. Here's what happens... My server is on a 100MB switched auto sensing port. It has been going into promiscuous mode for no reason.. I'm using ifconfig and yes it does list it as promiscuous at times.. . Normal bandwidth utilization is around 800KB/s. Randomly it just

[expert] Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind

"man find" giveves you the answer... > Mogens Jæger wrote: > > > > Hello > > Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all > > partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to > > have your musik cut-off, just because you have to find a > > file > > > > Regards > > > > Mogens

Re: [expert] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points

Steve, We will assume you have one physical hard drive, "/dev/hda", and that windoze is on mounted on "/dev/hda1" (your first partition). Using the install program, disk druid, create mount points, "/boot" for the boot records (keep this below cylinder 1024 to play it safe, and it needs no mor

[expert] Pro-FTPD Vs. Wu-FTPD

I would like some feedback from those experienced with both Pro-FTPd and Wu-FTP.d I'll have several IP addresses to one box and would also like to setup multiple ports for the FTP server. Is one better than the other for being able to handle of serving multiple virtual FTPDs? And, which one i

Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

Jon, Are you not aware that Unix, and so the entire Internet and Linux, are case sensitive? FAKEFOO.COM and fakefoo.com are entirely different domains - and will be, for ever and ever. Jon wrote: > ... As long as mail is sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > the system will happily accept and deliver

Re: [expert] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points

Steve, Alas, we need to know whether the drive is set up LBA, and what boot manager and partitioning software you propose to use. (Hopefully, yes, Boot Magic, Partition Manager 5, respectively (g)) Steve Olson wrote: > > I know this will probably spark a huge debate, BUT: > > I have a 20gb

Re: [expert] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points

Easy one /boot needs 10-15 Meg depending on how many times or how much you are going to play with the kernel. never bigger than 20 / or known as root I usually use 1-2 gig depending on what I want to do - this is most of the OS I usually also use a /usr most programs install to subdirectory

[expert] compiling qt-2.0.2 : lstdc++ can't be found??

when using the rpm --rebuild, I received the message ld: cannont open -lstdc++ : no such file or directory and I check my libraries and I have libstdc++.so.X.Y.Z, so I then ran ld -p to print the libraries configured and they appeared, so what am I doing wrong??? Note: I also did this by extract

[expert] Re(2): [newbie] pppd dies

On 3/05/00, at 8:14, Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> localhost pppd[]: The remote system is required to authenticate >> itself but I >> localhost pppd[]: couldn't find any secret (password) which would >> let it use an IP address. >> >> What am I doing wrong? Could you please

[expert] Re: [newbie] Problem installing Star Office and Word Perfect

Bill Smith wrote: > I have a problem. I have installed the 7.0 distro on my machine, and > absolutely love it! The only thing I haven't been able to do is to get > either Star Office or Word Perfect to install on the machine correctly. > Star Office did install, but even after making sure I sel

[expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

I and at least one other person are having this same problem: Let's say I have a virtual domain, called "fakefoo.com". To host this virtually using the Postfix RPM included with Mandrake 7.0: Name: postfix Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 19991231

[expert] Proper Partitioning and Mount Points

I know this will probably spark a huge debate, BUT: I have a 20gb drive, and am already running Micro$oft Windows 98. Although a newbie to Linux, I know PCs very well, and have worked in the industry for several years. My question is this, I have about 6-8GB to give over to Linux, and I would

RE: [expert] Re(2): [newbie] Can't connect to the internet....

adding noauth in kppp arguments area worked for me, as long as I am logged in as root. If I log in as user, I get an error from kppp stating that the noauth command has to have root priviledges. Putting noauth in /etc/ppp/options worked for me without the above user error, however pppd just di

Re: [expert] Re(2): [newbie] Can't connect to the internet....

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: > No matter what I try, I am still getting this error message: > > May 3 14:22:52 localhost pppd[917]: The remote system is required to > authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would > let it use an IP address. > > Can someone explain

RE: [expert] iproute2 and CBQ

I had a similar problem here last week ... You have to recompile a new kernel with QoS (quality of service) & CBQ enabled. p.f. - RNDr. Peter FREIMANN, ICQ# 1181033 tel: 0602-464-800, 0331-362375 ESNET s.r.o.(Internet provider) http://www.esnet.cz nam. Mir

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] Mirc

Nice spam, oops, I mean signature. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: May 3, 2000 5:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Re: [newbie] Mirc Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer whi

[expert] Re(2): [newbie] Can't connect to the internet....

No matter what I try, I am still getting this error message: May 3 14:22:52 localhost pppd[917]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address. Can someone explain what this means? Kirk

Re: [expert] makemap recompile?

On Tue, 2 May 2000, James wrote: > makemap dbm /etc/virtusertable < virtualhosts: > > makemap need to recompile with -DNDBM for dbm support You can try: makemap hash /etc/virtusertable < virtualhosts -- Andrew Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] XLinux Inc. R.O.C. Taipei. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chinese GNU

[expert] Re: [newbie] Mirc

I'm afraid not, but if you are looking for an irc client that will, test out http://www.kvirc.org (I think thats the correct URL) On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote: > Evening will mIRC run on linux. -- Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? h

[expert] [newbie] Problem installing Star Office and Word Perfect

I have a problem. I have installed the 7.0 distro on my machine, and absolutely love it! The only thing I haven't been able to do is to get either Star Office or Word Perfect to install on the machine correctly. Star Office did install, but even after making sure I selected the English (US) vers

[expert] iproute2 and CBQ

Alexey, Hi, I am having a problem with iproute2 commands. They seem to produce the following errors: tc qdisc add dev eth1 root handle 1: cbq bandwidth 10Mbit allot 1514 cell 8 \ > avpkt 1000 mpu 64 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument What exactly is the RTNETLINK error and how do I correct th

[expert] Re: [newbie] Mirc

Bob wrote: > Evening will mIRC run on linux. Bob, Under the K list, find Gnome and X apps, then Internet, then X-Chat. X-Chat is a graphical IRC program that comes with the Mandrake 7.0 distro. I was a mIRC user for years, and LOVE X-Chat for it's power, ease of use, and looks. Good

Re: [expert] Re(2): [newbie] Can't connect to the internet....

kay, open up /etc/ppp/options in your least favorite text editor and add a line that says "noauth" without the quotes. The authentication failure is because pppd now defaults to requiring PAP authentication from the other end. If you're dialing your ISP, it's not going to authenticate itself and

[expert] Re: [newbie] pppd dies

MC_Vai wrote: > I hope you don't mind to answer this question. I know it has been > answered a billion times but It's just I used to have a Cable-Modem > connection, but now I have to configure my internet con. with kppp. > > The whole thing goes just find (the modem answers to a query) until I >

[expert] Re: [newbie] GCC is missing....grrrr

James McLaughlin wrote: > Hmmm..another question about this whole fiasco. I dled the rpm ...transfered it > to teh server, and from a ssh sesion I was not able to install the rpm. > Is this because of security and installs like that can not be made remotly? > (and is this somethign I would be re

[expert] Sendmail oddness

I've noticed an odd message in my /var/log/maillog file recently, that I don't recall seeing last week or so. I've changed nothing in my mail setup since then, and the IP it is showing if for the VMWare internal network, so I don't understand why it's in there. Any ideas? Here's the line that p

[expert] Re(2): [newbie] Can't connect to the internet....

On 2/05/00, at 18:52, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Did you write a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file? >The format is: > > * > >The * designates the server you are logging into, if you only have 1 ISP, >the * will do. Nope, this doesn't work either Why should this be a problem? The doc clearly sh

[expert] dosmod on wine

I am trying to run a pure DOS program under wine. I get the following message: err:module:MZ_InitTask Failed to spawn dosmod, error=No such file or directory When I run a locate on dosmod, it appears to not be there. I don't see a dosmod package, either. This is on Mandrake 6.1. Brilliant idea

[expert] Re: [newbie] CD's

Sure, cdrecord and mkisofs are the 2 main programs you'll need. They're both console apps though, but there are many nice frontends for X that burn CD's using both of these programs. xcdroast is one of them, and a pretty nice one too. search on http://freshmeat.net and judge for yourself. On May

[expert] Re: [newbie] When will Mandrake 7.1 be out? Any clues?

Oh, so they got iD software working on it now ;) On May 2 Christopher wrote: > when its finished! -- Rial Juan e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system

[expert] Re: [newbie] Mirc

Since mIRC is a wnidows program: nope, it won't work. However, it runs pretty well in "wine", which is a program for running windows apps under linux. go to http://www.winehq.com for more info on that program. On May 2 Bob wrote: > > > > Evening will mIRC run on linux. > -- Rial