Re: [expert-it] KPPP accounting

2000-06-13 Thread Roberto A. F.
Sebastiano Cordiano wrote: Ok, quello che hai detto non fa una piega, però ci sono un paio di cose che non combinano: 1) le impostazioni di default sono diverse da quelle in TelecomUrbanaSecondi (non potevi postare l'intero file??) Te lo posto in mlist... in fondo e` corto. Cosi` puoi

Re: [expert-it] KPPP accounting Ultimo Atto !

2000-06-13 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Roberto A. F. wrote: Te lo posto in mlist... in fondo e` corto. Cosi` puoi provare anche questo. 2) hai fatto la prova su RH invece che in MDK D'accordo che la base è sempre la stessa ma, per tagliare la testa al toro, potresti fare la prova su MDK 7.0 e con il

Re: [expert] How to install firewall?

2000-06-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
Yeah, be sure to read _carefully_ the license. What a rip! Try something that is actually free, like Freesco (www.freesco.org). Runs on a floppy, or from the hard drive. Basic floppy install takes less than 10 minutes if you have all the information you need, and no oddball hardware.

[expert] Firewire for Linux?

2000-06-13 Thread James
I have 2 computers. A PC that is my main box and, a shiny new G4 mac that dual boots OS 9 and and Yellow Dog Linux. I am at the point of trashing OS 9 and going completely Linux on it. Here's my question. I have a 10 GB external firewire Hard Drive that I'd like to hang off my PC(I know I

Re: [expert] Can't mount CDrom and Floppy

2000-06-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
I presume you mean you recently compiled your kernel for smp. Double check your config file. Did you make _sure_ that you enable the options for the floppy and cdrom devices? Monte Vu Nguyen wrote: Hi everyone Before I configured the multi processor, I could mount the CDrom and Floppy

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
there is a program called 'defrag' which does what you want. There are a couple of caveats, though. A) Pretty much un-necesary w/ a decent filesystem like ext2 (what about ReiserFS?) B) You have to unmount the filesystem you want to defrag before

Re: [expert] Logging into NT network with Linux client

2000-06-13 Thread Cecil Watson
George Jones wrote: Ok, here's the scenario. I'm trying to setup a Linux box here at work. What I'm trying to figure out is what I need to do to log into our network (WinNT Enterprise). Any thoughts? You cannot "login" like the WinX machines do. To add the Linux computer to the domain,

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread Harondel J. SIbble
Not quite,what you are talking about is fsck - file system check, this is analagous to scandisk on the windows platform, it has abolutely nothing to do with fragmentation. It is run if the system has crashed or is shut down incorrectly and is also run as preventative measure every X number of

[expert] Suggestion

2000-06-13 Thread Irwan Hadi
My friend wants to make a linux server with Oracle 8i, which can be accessed for students with windows client, for an Oracle Class. The hardware is a dual P III 800 Mhz, with 1 giga RAM , and RAID 5 controller, with 5 X 8 giga = 40 giga total. Is there any idea what to install on the server,

Re: [expert] 7.1 -- bug: floppy boot image FTP downloading

2000-06-13 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~I thought I installed 7.1 on my laptop fine...but the bootup hangs at :~pcmcia module. I don't know if it is related. I installed once over :~http, and once over ftp. :~ :~-davidu Which pcmcia controler? (and which laptop, pcmcia cards) --

[expert] Floppy disk mounting problems

2000-06-13 Thread laurent . duperval
Hi, I'm using Mandrake 7.0 on a laptop. My laptop has a removable CD and a removable floppy. THe CD is in there most of the time but if I do a df, the command hangs for a long time because it's trying to stat /mnt/floppy, even though the drive isn't there. This also causes problems with gtop.

[expert] Ducking the DUL

2000-06-13 Thread Glyn Millington
Hi! I'm on a dial-up connection with Mandrake 7. Following Civilme's inspirational email which came through on the digest yesterday, I decided to bypass my ISP's smtp set-up and send mail out there myself. The ISP's outward post system is erratic to say the least, and if it goes wrong this way

Re: [expert] Ducking the DUL

2000-06-13 Thread Glyn Millington
Sorry - not the most helpful appeal for help My situation is as described below. When sending to Freeserve and one or two others I get a message that refers me to mail-abuse.org and specifically to the DUL list. Either my IP address is being used by someone evil or Freeserve just will not

Re: [expert] Ducking the DUL

2000-06-13 Thread Lee Willis
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My situation is as described below. When sending to Freeserve and one or two others I get a message that refers me to mail-abuse.org and specifically to the DUL list. Either my IP address is being used by someone evil or Freeserve just will not

[expert] ANNOUNCE: new topics @ http://linuxpole.com/

2000-06-13 Thread Denis HAVLIK
Below are new topics on "linuxpole.com" (our experimental public forum): - easy upgrade from cooker - How to install all the packages? - Tutorials I have also added a "Poll" on GUI - i kind of like these useless peskies .-) cu Denis --

[expert] Configuring sendmail

2000-06-13 Thread laurent . duperval
Hi, Where can I configure sendmail so that it delivers all my mail to our MX server? I don't want it to deliver anything except to root. Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here

Re: [expert] routed hangs on startup

2000-06-13 Thread Jack Malone
I just installed 7.1 an when it boots it hangs when it tries to start routed services. how can i boot an get to where i can turn that off or is there a fix on the mandrake update site for routed. thanks jack Jack Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone Luke 4:18-19

Re: [expert] Ducking the DUL

2000-06-13 Thread Pj
I wonder if it has to do more with mail routing than dial-up? I may not be using the right terminology, but I'll use my own accounts as an example. M-F, I connect locally to IPA to collect/send mail from GCINET. On weekends I dial into GCINET to accesss my account. Apparently the act of using

Re: [expert] routed hangs on startup

2000-06-13 Thread Jack Malone
At 02:26 PM 6/13/2000 -0500, Jack Malone wrote: I just installed 7.1 an when it boots it hangs when it tries to start routed services. how can i boot an get to where i can turn that off or is there a fix on the mandrake update site for routed. Never mind i have that solved now. went in to xwin

Re: [expert] Configuring sendmail

2000-06-13 Thread Cecil Watson
linuxconf - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 8:00 PM Subject: [expert] Configuring sendmail Hi, Where can I configure sendmail so that it delivers all my mail to our MX server? I don't want it to

[expert] Problems with Rage Pro 128 w/7.1

2000-06-13 Thread Norman Carver
We have two brand new Dell machines here that are identical except for mouses and monitors. I installed 7.1 and chose to try XFree 4 and everything worked fine. The other machine we have had nothing but problems with trying to install Linux (neither the COL2.4 nor RH6.2 graphical installs

Re: [expert] Touchscreen drivers for mandrake.

2000-06-13 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Does anyone have a touchscreen driver for mandrake linux or know where i :~could find one? it would really be appreciated. thank you. It comes with your system... man XF86Config: Elographics (Elographics touchscreen) MicrotouchFinger (Microtouch touchscreen operated with

Re: [expert] 7.1 zip supermount problems

2000-06-13 Thread Denis HAVLIK
This is definitively a bug. Chmouel is building a new kernel (security update), try it when it gets out - i hope he got supermount with atapi ZIP-s right in that one. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlik

Re: [expert] linuxpole

2000-06-13 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~I went there for the first time since announce where I had :~submitted (I thought) a comment. It doesn't seem to be in the :~list. Was there a length limit or do I say "my bad"? If you are refering to this: http://linuxpole.com/article.php3?sid=2611103219 you did not submit it as a

RE: [expert] Upgrade to 7.1 breaks my PCI modem.

2000-06-13 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Ok, but should Mandrake be able to autodetect a PCI :~modem? As I said, I have never encountered a linux :~distribution that was able to autodetect it. It shows :~up fine if I do an 'lspci'. send the output of "lspcidrake" cu Denis --

Re: [expert] where is the Mandrake 7.0 kernel update?!?!?!

2000-06-13 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~After a rather large list of alarming security flaws discovered in 2.2.15 :~(and are apparently in older kernels like 2.2.14) I think a security :~update for Mandrake 7.0 is very important. Chmouel had a lot of troubles with patching the 2.2.16 kernel, that is why it is so much delayed. --

[expert] Hardware Help Request

2000-06-13 Thread Kerry Waldrip
I have to upgrade! I'm running MD 7.0 on a Cyrix 166 chip and an antiquated video card. I'm going to purchase an Athlon processor, but have no idea for a good motherboard. I'd really appreciate some good suggestions. Not a techie just yet. TIA!

[expert] idebus

2000-06-13 Thread David M. Kufta
Good morning, On a clients workstation at boot I see this message displayed, which I have never noticed before, that refers to idebus speed. This machine has a 100Mhz bus and 128meg pc100 ram. Linux version 2.2.16-2mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Fri Jun 9

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread Piero
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Dear all: Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for optimization of Hard disk in Mandrake 6.0 or RPM in higher version? Thanks in advance, Wei Quan Tian Idoes not exist. You just don't need it. Under Unix, file

[expert] helium - my fault!

2000-06-13 Thread guran remberg
Hello experts I beg you to forgive me for my outbirst in "helium - deeper inhalation". In a moment of insight I thought that my harddrive might be faulty. I lifted everything over to a new drive and checked the originals with gftp. Some of my files were corrupted and a format with check showed

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks, Harondel Of course, you are correct. I realized my mistake after I sent the post. Bambi "Harondel J. SIbble" wrote: Not quite,what you are talking about is fsck - file system check, this is analagous to scandisk on the windows platform, it has abolutely nothing to do with

[expert] Invisible mouse pointer with XFree 4.0

2000-06-13 Thread Olivier Dugeon
Hi, I just install Mdk7.1 with an G400 double head video card. Under XFree 3.3.6 all work fine. But under XFree4.0, the mouse pointer are invisible. xsetroot -cursor (font or bitmap) give no error but no amelioration. What's wrong? My mouse is an MouseManPlus from Logictech (well found by

Re: [expert] [Expert] How can I?

2000-06-13 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
John Aldrich wrote: 3) A semi-Gui or full-Gui kernel re-compile script / program. Make X-config (or is it Xconfig, or xconfig) anyway, it's already there! Hmm . . . well, selecting the options is there, but here's what I have to do to build a kernel: make xconfig make dep make make

[expert] Charset is unavailable to KDE

2000-06-13 Thread Gregor Pirnaver
I can set "iso-8859-2" fonts in other X programs (gedit, nedit, netscape, lyx...). But "iso-8859-2" fonts are unavailable to KDE programs. How can I force KDE to see "iso-8859-2" fonts? -- Gregor

Re: [expert] Auto install boot disk

2000-06-13 Thread Andrew Vogel
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 03:24:20 +0300, you wrote: I just did a test install of Mandraka 7.1 on a Acer laptop and created the auto install boot disk during that. In which option set is the "make auto install disk" feature available? I did a normal SERVER install and there was no such option. 1) Is

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1

2000-06-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:57:28PM -0800, Civileme wrote: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - - On 12 Jun, TK Kim wrote: - Neither. - I am kinda sick of Netscape, too. I am probably gonna have to pay for - saying this, but IE5 is a wholelot better browser. - - - Well I have seen people with

RE: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread Eric Peters
Or NTFS for that matter :) Cheers, Eric Peters Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] System Admin Network Operations Inherent Technologies Inc. office (503)224-6751 ext 224 -Original Message- From:

Re: [expert] Firewire for Linux?

2000-06-13 Thread Michael H. Collins
Firewire is in the 2.4 kernel. get it and try.. You can become one of the developers.. Have fun. James wrote: I have 2 computers. A PC that is my main box and, a shiny new G4 mac that dual boots OS 9 and and Yellow Dog Linux. I am at the point of trashing OS 9 and going

Re: [expert] files larger than 2 GB

2000-06-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:08:55PM -0400, Lars Nordin wrote: - I thought it was a kernel/glib/filesystem issue that really didn't have much - to do with the word size of the hardware. - You would figure that you could have the kernel compensate by doing the - pointer/offset math 32-bits at a

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Dear all: Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for optimization of Hard disk in Mandrake 6.0 or RPM in higher version? IIRC, it's built into linux, so it "defrags" automatically, but you shouldn't need it. *nix is *much*

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 on Toshiba Portege Laptop - PCMCIA issues

2000-06-13 Thread Wang Jian
It is an old problem. You should set BIOS setting of PCMCIA to "cardbus" or "PCMCIA", but not "auto". Sunday, June 11, 2000, 1:26:18 AM, you wrote: d Hi, d I have installed Mandrake 7.1 (via FTP) to my laptop, however, bootup d hangs when it reaches the Loading PCMCIA Modules part. If I

[expert] Backing everything up

2000-06-13 Thread James
I'm trying to find the best method for backing up my vital files from my server to a writable CD. I am using Mandrake 7.02 and I am wondering if there is a common procedure for backing up things like pop3 mail users, settings, linux configuration, or any other thing I can't think of right now.

RE: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread McDonald, John GSM1 (SIMASD)
-Original Message- From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK WeiQuan Tian wrote: Dear all: Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under

[expert] apache suexec

2000-06-13 Thread Jason Straight
What does it take to use the suexec wrapper with mandrake 7.1? simply putting in apache's config the userid I want to run my cgi's doesn't seem to work. It seems to be installs as /usr/sbin/suexec exists, but upon startup of apache I don't get the message in the error log that suexec docs says

[expert] Zope superuser password

2000-06-13 Thread lnx4fun
I have installed the Zope package along with Mandrake 7.1. What is the default superuser password? I was able to use the root password to access webmin, but no success with this for Zope. The file in /var (IIRC?) that shows the password has a long encrypted string - is that it? Yecch. Hoyt