Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-26 Thread Armand Nossaint
Vincent Danen wrote: > [snip] > Somebody *please* correct me if I'm wrong because I'm making an RPM for > qmail now that will allow you to just easily install it in binary form > with all user setups and everything. [snip] According to qmail author D.J. Bernstein at: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-26 Thread Civileme
James wrote: > > Pj wrote: > :If I understood the discussion yesterday qmail can't be ported to Linux > :because of the language. The developer of said app flatly refuses to > :allow qmail to be adapted/adopted/ported or changed inre binary code. > > Ah.. well then, I guess I will be using Postf

Re: [expert] Distro improvments: A solid IDE

2000-05-26 Thread Mage Grimau
Get the latest KDevelop. It's a major improvement over 1.0. --- Payne Stanifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The biggest problem, well not problem, but ease of use issue I have is in > all of the Linuxes I have tried there isn't a solid IDE (integrated > devlopment environment). I haven't used t

[expert] How do I share my printer!

2000-05-26 Thread
I have internet connection sharing and file-sharing enabled, but I can't get the printer to work. When I browse for it in Network Neighborhood it is there, but it is transparent like it is off-line. If you try to print to it you get a message about the printer requiring user intervention. If so

[expert] I need a aic7xxx example for /etc/conf.modules

2000-05-26 Thread Gavin Clark
I can't get the module aic7xxx to mount at startup. could someone who has this working send me an example of thier /etc/conf.modules file I have tried: alias eth0 eepro100 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq pre-install pcmcia_

Re: [expert] Improvement: Install by functions

2000-05-26 Thread Muzza
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Bill Shirley wrote: > Therefore, I propose you change the install categories to "I want to:" > things. Such as: > If this could also be done a later stage (way post-install even), "I forgot that I also wanted to:" or a "I don't really need this after all:" package remover.

RE: [expert] How do I share my printer!

2000-05-26 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: AT&T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 2:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] How do I share my printer! I have internet connection sharing and file-sharing enabled, --- Using what? NFS, SAMBA, MARS? Please specify! --- but I

Re: [expert] "brilliant" idea

2000-05-26 Thread Marco Ciampa
Il ven, 26 mag 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. hai scritto: > John Connell wrote: > [snip] > > This is not a really "brilliant" idea but it is an issue that is of > > importance to me personally. > > I would like to see a Minimal Install" option at setup time! > > I second this. If in mdk7, you did away

RE: [expert] I need a aic7xxx example for /etc/conf.modules

2000-05-26 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Here's my working one... [root@router /home/opjose]# less /etc/conf.modules alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias eth0 3c59x alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start post-install supe

[expert] Palm pilot

2000-05-26 Thread Wayne Petherick
I would appreciate some help from anyone who has managed to get their palm pilot up and running on MDK. I have kpilot running but for some reason, it is not working. Thanks, Wayne

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread Brook humphrey
lorne schachter wrote: > > I like where Mandrake is going with installation, but I think I want a little > more interaction in picking out > the packages to load. There are so many, by default you almost load all of > them to save problems later on, > so: > 1) Provide some more information

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION: hardware support

2000-05-26 Thread Fran Parker
Hi Denis, What I want...gee I don't know...like everyone I guess...the moon! But to get it back to reality (I hope), I think that software is great, and there is plenty of that ...thank goodness in Linux Mandrake, and what it doesn't have you can get from somewhere...as long as it is being writt

RE: [expert] How do I share my printer!

2000-05-26 Thread Bill Shirley
I am assuming that printing works from Linux. The part you are interested in is the global section of smb.conf: printing = lprng print command = /usr/local/bin/lpr -P%p %s -r lpq command = /usr/local/bin/lpq -P%p lprm command = /usr/local/bin/lprm -P%p %j Note I

[expert] Downloadable fonts

2000-05-26 Thread Wayne Petherick
I have a program asking me for the path for downloadable fonts and printer commands. I am desparate to print from this program, but cannot locate the directory. If anyone could tell me where these are usually stored I would appreciate it. Wayne

[expert] Help: Install LM on an raid array ???

2000-05-26 Thread Ulf Kohlmorgen
Hi ! I tried to install Mandrak 7.01 and the new Beta 3 of cooker on an Promise Ultra66 Raid Controller with two MAxtor 15 GB drives attached to channel 1+2 but the install process stops (freezes) when it sasy: Please wait, installing. Can anybody help me to get it installed ? The Raid arry is 30

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-26 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
>If I understood the discussion yesterday qmail can't be ported to Linux >because of the language. The developer of said app flatly refuses to >allow qmail to be adapted/adopted/ported or changed inre binary code. No, qmail runs fine on Linux. That's what we use on all of our servers, mostly Man

[expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Andrew Vogel
Hey everyone. I've got a small network set up at home... Mandrake Linux 7.02 networked to my Windows 2000 machine via a hub. I've got a printer (Panasonic KX-P1124) attached to the back of the Windows machine. I'm looking for step-by-step process to get the printer to work with Linux, but I'm com

Re: [expert] Distro improvments: A solid IDE

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:26:38PM -0400, Payne Stanifer wrote: -> The biggest problem, well not problem, but ease of use issue I have is in -> all of the Linuxes I have tried there isn't a solid IDE (integrated -> devlopment environment). I haven't used the latest Kdevelop, but the one I Hmmm

Re: [expert] Fujitsu MO640 SCSI drive troubles

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:05:28AM +, Thomas Lockhart wrote: -> I've finally upgraded my home machine to Mdk-7.0-2 from RH-5.2 (I've -> been running my laptop and a couple of other machines on it for a few -> months). -> -> I am having trouble accessing my Fujitsu MO640 disk drive. My old ->

Re: [expert] Improvement: Install by functions

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:08:23PM -0400, Bill Shirley wrote: -> Let me start off by saying I have been running Linux for over 5 years. Over -> the years I have learned a lot about Linux. However, there is still a lot I -> do not know. There are many packages out there that I know nothing about

Re: [expert] Re: Digest of list expert

2000-05-26 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~>Sorry about this... but how to I cancel this mailing list??? --g. unsubscribe expert sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] does wonders. -- - Dr. Denis Havlik Mandrakesoft|||

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~>> I'd love to try out beta releases, but there's no way I'll be able to :~>> download 600M of data reliably, so maybe :~>> you want to have some sort of biweekly/monthly CD distribution for people to :~>> try out. :~> :~> :~>I currently offer this service already. Fine with us .-) And you are

Re: [expert] Group Owner Of Dos Partitions

2000-05-26 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Wed, 24 May 2000 - Adam Talbot, you wrote: | Hi. I've just setup Linux and I've got a user (me) that I want to | give access to the dos partitions (/mnt/DOS_hda1...) but I can't seem to | do that. I've tried changing the owner of these partitions (chgrp and | chown) but it says I

[expert] A better kpanel applet

2000-05-26 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
I like the KDE desktop environment a lot. It is relatively configurable, and easy to master. The only thing about it that I miss from my Win9x environment is the enhanced task bar. I am able to creat tool bars or pop-up menus in the task bar at the bottom of the screen at will. I could point a "to

Re: [expert] dependency problems with rpms

2000-05-26 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Thu, 25 May 2000 - Wade, you wrote: | Hi List, | | I just successfully installed my first several security rpms for | SSH/SSL/PGP etc. I think I downloaded seventeen security rpms and had | dependency problems with four of them. The first two were with 'sftp' | and 'slynx'

Re: [expert] Improvement: Install by functions

2000-05-26 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Thu, 25 May 2000 - Bill Shirley, you wrote: | Let me start off by saying I have been running Linux for over 5 years. Over | the years I have learned a lot about Linux. However, there is still a lot I | do not know. There are many packages out there that I know nothing about. | Wh

[expert] [discuss] config progs should work both in X and console mode

2000-05-26 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~>Is it possible to think about an install program that works just the same (not :~>two different versions!) in text AND graphic mode (with fb for example)? :~>This could be an aswer to which do not do the same work twice, one for text :~>mode and one for graphic mode. :~>Isn'it a "brilliant" (c)

Re: [expert] installing Wordperfect

2000-05-26 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Thu, 25 May 2000 - lorne schachter, you wrote: | | I'm running Mandrake 7.0 and I'm trying to reinstall WordPerfect from | the tar files downloaded from Corel. | The first problem is that the uname values, especially version, aren't | recognized by the script, so I had to go |

RE: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread Wizaerd
Being new to Linux, I can say that the installation was fairly painless and easy to follow along, EXCEPT for the fact that it installs so much... There are programs installed on my machine that I have no idea what they are, what they do, whether or not I actually need them, or even where they ar

RE: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Stout, Wayne
As long as you have Samba configured correctly, there's really nothing to it. All I've ever had to do to reach the printer hanging off of my wife's Win98 pc is run printtool after making sure Samba is configured correctly. Same thing with my office pc. Configure Samba, run printtool. You might wa

[expert] Problems with Digest

2000-05-26 Thread frensw
On the Expert-Digest mode I'm only receiving the 1st entry of the digest. It does list all the messages but only the detail of the first one. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Re: [expert] mrtg and Mandrake's apache (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:56 -0800, Civileme wrote: > Hey there ... Been a while... Mind you, I've been lurking all the time! ;-) > That message reads as if he's really running RH and thinking it is > Mandrake, but if he is running Mandrake... > > ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributio

Re: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Andrew Vogel
On Fri, 26 May 2000 10:20:22 -0500, you wrote: >As long as you have Samba configured correctly, there's really nothing to >it. All I've ever had to do to reach the printer hanging off of my wife's >Win98 pc is run printtool after making sure Samba is configured correctly. > >Same thing with my of

Re: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:03:49AM -0400, Andrew Vogel wrote: -> Hey everyone. I've got a small network set up at home... Mandrake Linux -> 7.02 networked to my Windows 2000 machine via a hub. I've got a printer -> (Panasonic KX-P1124) attached to the back of the Windows machine. -> -> I'm lookin

[expert] DISCUSSION--Desktop Icons

2000-05-26 Thread Civileme
Right now I do this by an ugly kludge. I set up the floppy disk for supermount for my users. I then go to their desktops and rename Dos_hda1 to Windows_C. I DELETE the floppy supermount icon and ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/windows_brainwashed_user/Desktop/Floppy ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/wi

[expert] DISCUSSION--"Brain-Dead SEND"

2000-05-26 Thread Civileme
I have noticed a number of office-style aplications are offering the SEND instruction from desktop icons, jpg files and such. This is not, unfortunately a practice limited to windows though there one can SEND a Microsoft Word file to a floppy as well as email out. The usual effect of this send i

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Armand Nossaint wrote: > [snip] > > Somebody *please* correct me if I'm wrong because I'm making an RPM for > > qmail now that will allow you to just easily install it in binary form > > with all user setups and everything. > [snip] > > According to qmail author D.J. Bernste

Re: [expert] what I want

2000-05-26 Thread Denis HAVLIK
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: I'd like to see some of the linux4kids stuff. If any of you knows some good progs for kids, I definitively want to know this - I have a kid myself, and so do some of the other developers, but noone here really has time to search for these progs and te

Re: [expert] [discussion] (disabled)

2000-05-26 Thread Denis HAVLIK
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Ron Marriage wrote: :~>I'm blind and find Mandrake a great distribution for me. :~>It has nice console tools and utilities for me, and KDE :~>makes a nice environment for wife and son. Until now we have payed absolutely no special attention to handicaped people, and I am rea

Re: [expert] Help: Install LM on an raid array ???

2000-05-26 Thread Dave Lers
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Ulf Kohlmorgen wrote: > Hi ! > > I tried to install Mandrak 7.01 and the new Beta 3 of cooker on an Promise > Ultra66 Raid Controller I've been looking into RAID controllers and my understanding is that the Promise is not Linux friendly, have you used it successfully on oth

[expert] cooker question

2000-05-26 Thread J D
is anyone here part of the cooker? sure, someone is. if you are, would ya mind telling me what you normally to for it?? thanks. later jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [expert] A better kpanel applet

2000-05-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote: >> > To put this in a nut shell, I would like a panel applet which can have one or > more rows of tool bars or pop-up menus. I want to define the size of the icons > displayed in the tool bars and pop-up menus in terms of pixels, not small, > medium or large. I als

Re: [expert] Improvement: Install by functions

2000-05-26 Thread Dave Lers
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:08:23PM -0400, Bill Shirley wrote: > -> Therefor, I propose you change the install categories to "I want to:" > -> things. Such as: > -> > -> Run a mail server > -> Run a Domian Name Server > -> Issue IP addresses to comput

[expert] My suggestion for the install process on the New Distro....

2000-05-26 Thread Ivan Trail
Hello, I think the best place to help with the Mandrake distro would be these two points which would be considered part of the install process. 1) When the Install is formating the partitions, and check for badblocks is enabled, It would be nice to have the machine search for the badblocks and

Re: [expert] Help: Install LM on an raid array ???

2000-05-26 Thread Kit Ngan
Ulf Kohlmorgen wrote: > Hi ! > > I tried to install Mandrak 7.01 and the new Beta 3 of cooker on an Promise > Ultra66 Raid Controller with two MAxtor 15 GB drives attached to channel > 1+2 but the install process stops (freezes) when it sasy: Please wait, > installing. Can anybody help me to get

Re: [expert] A better kpanel applet

2000-05-26 Thread Barry Marler
Althought this topic is more appropriate to a KDE forum, it brings up a subject about which I have thought often. I've been a Linux user for three years (Mandrake for the last two), and have never used KDE for more than a few minutes. Window Maker was my wm of choice until recently; I was u

Re: [expert] could not open default font 'fixed' --help

2000-05-26 Thread Shelby Brumelle
giancarlo wrote: > > Hi > > Suddently my XWindowns stopped to work. When I do startx I recive the > follow message: > > -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed

Re: [expert] [discuss] config progs should work both in X and consolemode

2000-05-26 Thread lorne schachter
Denis, There is a company in New York City, used to be called JYACC, now it's something like Prolifics, that has a GUI builder that builds either a text GUI for dumb terminals, an X GUI for X Windows and maybe even a windows GUI, so you could take their tool or something like it and just buil

Re: [expert] [discuss] config progs should work both in X and console mode

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:01:53PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> :~>Is it possible to think about an install program that works just the same (not -> :~>two different versions!) in text AND graphic mode (with fb for example)? -> :~>This could be an aswer to which do not do the same work twice, one

RE: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
What you want is SAMBA. This lets Linux participate in an MS Winblows network... and gives it the ability to share or use printers on the same network. Note: You might actually want to connect the printer to the Linux box and let the Winblows machines spool to Linux. This is far more efficient! L

RE: [expert] How do I share my printer!

2000-05-26 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Actually it would be far simpler for a newbie to set up BSD printing, since this is a one line change in smb.conf if he already has his queues working. In all likelihood however, he hasn't scratched the surface yet, hence the nature or tone of his request. The request itself was quite "sparse" ;-

Re: [expert] Palm pilot

2000-05-26 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Wayne Petherick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 26 May 2000 21:09:40 +1000 (EST) Wayne, you can e-mail me directly & I'll try to help (but for the fact that I just realized I left the Palm at the office). I've got my Palm V running with both kpilot and jpilot. I like jpilot

RE: [expert] Printer on network... Mandrake suggestion

2000-05-26 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Yeap. It's actually quite easy. Too often people coming at Mandrake from other distributions suggest solutions applicable to their old distros missing the ease already present in the Mandrake Distro... I.E. "You need to compile the kernel first... " or "edit the /etc/rc.local file to enable rout

[expert] Trouble with receiving mail

2000-05-26 Thread Thomas Lockhart
I'm almost up and running on Mandrake 7.0 at home. This was a clean install, rather than the upgrade from 6.1 which I did on my laptop and on other machines at work. For 7.0, the default mail handler is "postfix" rather than sendmail. Supposed to be a nice program, and easier to configure, but th

RE: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
1) Follow the docs. 2) Use Testparms... A good tool to test /etc/smb.conf's consistency. 3) Access samba locally after restarting it with the changes... I.E. [root@router ~]# smbclient -L router -U opjose added interface ip=10.0.0.1 bcast=10.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 added interface ip=127.

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION--"Brain-Dead SEND"

2000-05-26 Thread Pj
Civeleme, AMEN!!! Are you listening Mandrake?? Some of our guru's have played in Linux for an eternity; they know of what they speak. .. Pj Civileme wrote: > > I have noticed a number of office-style aplications are offering the > SEND instruction from desktop icons, jpg files and such.

Re: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Civileme
"Stout, Wayne" wrote: > As long as you have Samba configured correctly, there's really nothing to > it. All I've ever had to do to reach the printer hanging off of my wife's > Win98 pc is run printtool after making sure Samba is configured correctly. > > Same thing with my office pc. Configure Sa

Re: [expert] cooker question

2000-05-26 Thread Pj
Hey JD, Would you resubmit your question and be a little more specific? Pj J D wrote: > > is anyone here part of the cooker? sure, someone is. if you are, would ya > mind >telling me what you normally to for it?? thanks. > later > jd

[expert] Giant Screen Text

2000-05-26 Thread Lane Lester
I've got installations of M 7.0.2 at both home and office. Somehow I've gotten the office installation set so that the menu text in Netscape is too large. I'm in a bind in that the Preferences window, which is not sizeable, extends off the bottom of the screen so that I cannot get to the OK button

Re: [expert] cooker question

2000-05-26 Thread Civileme
J D wrote: > is anyone here part of the cooker? sure, someone is. if you are, would ya > mind telling me what you normally to for it?? thanks. > later > jd Cooker is for building the next distro--sort-of a place to exchange packages and techniques and discuss merits of packages. Frequently

[expert] Re: Trouble with receiving mail

2000-05-26 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> At the moment, I can bring messages in with APOP via fetchmail, which > apparently delivers them correctly to postfix. But they stall in > /var/spool/postfix/deferred/, which indicates that postfix can't figure > out how to deliver the message. I've had it try to deliver to > lockhart@localhost

Re: [expert] cooker question

2000-05-26 Thread Brook humphrey
It involves testing the current shall I say bleeding edge stuff. That includes everything. sometimes it doesn't install sometimes it works great . In any case you submit back what doesn't work and steps you take to fix it or if you don't know who to fix it you ask for some advice on what to look f

Re: [expert] A better kpanel applet

2000-05-26 Thread Alan N.
Barry Marler wrote: > > Althought this topic is more appropriate to a KDE forum, it brings up a > subject about which I have thought often. I've been a Linux user for three > years (Mandrake for the last two), and have never used KDE for more than a > few minutes. Window Maker was my wm of choi

[expert] DISCUSSION: defaults, please

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:26:51PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> (I hope you do not get this twice on expert list) -> - -> Hi, folks! -> -> What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on -> these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully! Anything you ca

[expert] DISCUSSION: installation info gathering

2000-05-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:26:51PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote: -> (I hope you do not get this twice on expert list) -> - -> Hi, folks! -> -> What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on -> these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully! -> -> [ANNOUNCEM

Re: [expert] Palm pilot

2000-05-26 Thread tessonec
> I would appreciate some help from anyone who has managed to get their palm > pilot up and running on MDK. I have kpilot running but for some reason, > it is not working. > > Thanks, > > Wayne > Hi! First of all, make a link from your serial port (where is connected the palm) to /dev/

[expert] nfs install

2000-05-26 Thread Mary Eriksen
I am trying to do a 7.0 network install and am stuck at the point where it asks for: "Linux Mandrake install tree" I've tried nfs exporting the disc1/Mandrake directory and it fails with the above message. What tree is it looking for? Thanks, -- Mary Eriksen

Re: [expert] A better kpanel applet

2000-05-26 Thread marler
On 26 May, Bruce E. Harris wrote: > Is Helix Gnome included with Mandrake 7.0? If not, where can I find it, and is > it hard to setup? > Try http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/download.php3. Setup and updating are automated. -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology Uni

Re: [expert] How do I share my printer!

2000-05-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
AT&There's the pertinent lines from my /etc/smb.conf [global] # if you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes # It should not be necessary to spell out the print sy

Re: [expert] Help: Install LM on an raid array ???

2000-05-26 Thread Ulf Kohlmorgen
I've tried it witch Mandrake 7.01, Cooker Beta 3, Suse 6.4, Gentus 2.0 and Redhat 6.2 but none of these worked. With beta 3 during installation startup I can see that it recognizes the raid controller (it's a bit too fast so I can't actually say what information is displayed) but that's all. U.K.

Re: [expert] Re: Trouble with receiving mail

2000-05-26 Thread Jon
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 10:01:49PM +, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > At the moment, I can bring messages in with APOP via fetchmail, which > > apparently delivers them correctly to postfix. But they stall in > > /var/spool/postfix/deferred/, which indicates that postfix can't figure > > out how t

RE: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
And now, Microsoft seems in a mood to attempt to use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to prevent reverse engineering of their strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish -- Embrace the standard, extend it to proprietary, and extinguish the competition. So the wait for Samba to catch up may be a

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Thu, 25 May 2000, ibi wrote: > If I understood the discussion yesterday qmail can't be ported to Linux > because of the language. The developer of said app flatly refuses to > allow qmail to be adapted/adopted/ported or changed inre binary code. No, Bernstein flatly refuses to GPL his cod

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Thu, 25 May 2000, James wrote: > Pj wrote: > :If I understood the discussion yesterday qmail can't be ported to Linux > :because of the language. The developer of said app flatly refuses to > :allow qmail to be adapted/adopted/ported or changed inre binary code. > > Ah.. well then, I guess

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Thu, 25 May 2000, ibi wrote: > James wrote: > > > > To add to the list of packages.. I think it would be really nice if > > Mandrake offered more MTA solutions, namely qmail, which can be chosen > > (with a brief definition of each) at install time. > > > > James Franssen > > If I underst

Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-26 Thread Pj
I am delighted to learn I am wrong. Thank you. Pj Stephen Bosch wrote: > > On Thu, 25 May 2000, ibi wrote: > > > If I understood the discussion yesterday qmail can't be ported to Linux > > because of the language. The developer of said app flatly refuses to > > allow qmail to be adapted/adopt

Re: [expert] Best way to install Postfix?

2000-05-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Thu, 25 May 2000, James wrote: > Since I will now be using Postfix with Mandrake 7.0, I am wondering if the > best way to install Postfix is with the RPM from the Mandrake RPM's, or > download the source from the Postfix page. *sigh* Where did people get the idea qmail doesn't run in Linux

Re: [expert] Palm pilot

2000-05-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: > I would appreciate some help from anyone who has managed to get their palm > pilot up and running on MDK. I have kpilot running but for some reason, > it is not working. I can help you, but I'm not in front of my machine right now. Do you have kp

[expert] Tekram DC395 warning: outdated driver implying data loss!

2000-05-26 Thread Yann-Erick Proy
Dear sirs, I recently had to install Mandrake 7.0R2 on a file server including a Tekram 395UW SCSI host adapter. I first thought I was lucky since 7.0 included a driver (dc395x_trm) for the board. Unfortunately, the server quickly displayed numerous warning messages ("arbitration lost but resele

Fwd: Re: [expert] Printer on network...

2000-05-26 Thread Jim Ockers
Don't forget to change owner on the .config file in the spool directory: cd /var/spool/lpd/lp0 chown root.lp .config -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] Printer on network... Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:27:57 -0400 From: Andrew Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 26 Ma

Re: [expert] Palm pilot

2000-05-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Fri, 26 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First of all, make a link from your serial port (where is connected > the palm) to /dev/pilot. (if i can remember well, cua0 is COM1 in dos, > cua1 is COM2, etc) > > I had troubles using kpilot too. (I'm running mdk6.1) It didn't > rec

Re: [expert] Re: Trouble with receiving mail

2000-05-26 Thread Michael Doyle
G'day Tom, Thanks for this great fix, I had posted in newbie on the same problem, moving aliases.db to /etc/postfix did the trick thanks again. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Lockhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 07:31 Su

[expert] OT: CERT NN

2000-05-26 Thread Pj
There appears to be a problem with how Netscape (thur version 4.73) verifies site certificates if the Personal Security Manager is not installed. I do not know if this issue affects Linux-Mandrake users. The CERT URL: > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-08.html Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] >