Re: [expert] Gnome background not accepting changes

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Hammer
BS""D Hi Andrew, Anyone else had trouble with changes to the background in Gnome resetting to the default every time the user logs on? I thought it might be a permissions thing, but I cant find anything with odd permissions in either .gnome or .sawmill dir's ... just a simple question:

Re: [expert] Gnome background not accepting changes

2000-06-21 Thread Andrew George
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: BS""D Hi Andrew, Anyone else had trouble with changes to the background in Gnome resetting to the default every time the user logs on? I thought it might be a permissions thing, but I cant find anything with odd permissions in either .gnome or

Re: [expert] getting the Mandrake 7.1 source CD

2000-06-21 Thread Parwinder Sandhu
This is even better...thanks. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 At 08:45 AM 6/21/2000 +0300, you wrote: hi ! go to ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/distributions/Mandrake-devel/SRPMS/ it's not iso but it's all there... :-) Jeff Lee wrote: Are there any ftp sites with ISO of

[expert] Automatng mail delivery with sendmail

2000-06-21 Thread Glyn Millington
Hi - I've given up the unequal struggle with post fix and gone back to sendmail. But I have a problem. Fetchmail downloads the post, but unless I specify procmail in my .fetchmailrc file as the MDA, the mail is dumped in /var/spool/mqueue. I then have to run /usr/sbin/sendmail -q for the

Re: [expert] Automatng mail delivery with sendmail

2000-06-21 Thread Monte Milanuk
Look on the page for fetchmail on Mandrakeuser.org. I do this with a line at the end of my .fetchmailrc : postconnect "/usr/sbin/sendmail -q" I set up sendmail using the install-sendmail script... works like a charm. Monte --- Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - I've given up the

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2000-06-21 Thread Tony Blackmon
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[expert] Auto Install of 7.1 Skips Network

2000-06-21 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
Is it normal for the auto-install of 7.1 to skip the installation of my network adapter and the configuration of TCP/IP? This seems a bit odd. The nic is a 3c59x compatible 3c905B-TX. A quick reconfig with DrakConf had everything up and running in no time. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise

[expert] Missing Themes/Styles in 7.1 install of Window Maker

2000-06-21 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
It seems that the extra tarball containing the default themes and styles was not used when setting up the Window Maker RPMs for 'Drake 7.1. Am I correct or are these just in a different spot than where the menu seems to think they are? John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.

RE: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?

2000-06-21 Thread Tony Smith
Or a missing CGI script line... print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; This must be *the* first line printed out, and note the 2 "\n\n". This is only true for those not using the CGI.pm module. But even those using CGI.pm must include something like: print CGI::header(); Cheers, Tony

RE: [expert] fonts in 7.0

2000-06-21 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Thanks all, got the file now... -Original Message- From: Norvell Spearman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] fonts in 7.0 Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: Is there an easy way to add windows fonts for usage

[expert] Time settings

2000-06-21 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
Greetings. I noticed that when my Linux comes up, the time is set for about 3 hours ahead of the regular time.. Is it safe to assume that Mandrake wants to see the BIOS time set to GMT? (I checked and the BIOS time is set correctly..) Thanks, -turgut -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Put "Send PGP"

Re: [expert] Lilo questions????

2000-06-21 Thread Ted Wager
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: Steve Litt's article (Litt's Lilo Lessons) is without doubt the best Hi... If the Lilo Lessons was a mail I missed it...Anyone tell me where I can obtain the article ?? -- Regards Ted Ted Wager..Mandrake linux

[expert] Yahoo! Auto Response

2000-06-21 Thread mantrius
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[expert] mc listing and rpm problem

2000-06-21 Thread victor gvirtsman
I installed Mandrake 7.1 and now i have problem with midnight commander- When listing it is not case sensitive even when marked case sensitive in sort options when looking at rpm file it does not show full content instead you see file CONTENTS.cpio does not sort properly files starting with dot

[expert] Yahoo! Auto Response

2000-06-21 Thread mantrius
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Re: [expert] mc listing and rpm problem

2000-06-21 Thread Norvell Spearman
victor gvirtsman wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.1 and now i have problem with midnight commander- When listing it is not case sensitive even when marked case sensitive in sort options when looking at rpm file it does not show full content instead you see file CONTENTS.cpio does not sort

RE: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?

2000-06-21 Thread Eric Peters
Asheesh, It looks like mod_perl is ok. This information can be gathered here http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mathjmendl.orgExamine= Wait www.mathjmendl.org is running Apache/1.3.9 (NetRevolution Advanced Extranet Server/Linux-Mandrake) PHP/3.0.13 mod_perl/1.21

Re: [expert] mc listing and rpm problem

2000-06-21 Thread Michael H. Collins
I was just discussing this and decided it must be mc. I will be interested to find out the outcome. Both of my machines here are old style. one is 7 and one is 7.1. I put 7.1 on a guys box last night and it was broken. Go figure. victor gvirtsman wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.1

Re: [expert] Auto Install of 7.1 Skips Network

2000-06-21 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Just a silly question about this card (i got the same) : why is the 3c59x module used, where the kernel has also a 3c90x module, that seems to be most adpated ? Also sprach mer, 21 jun 2000 : Is it normal for the auto-install of 7.1 to skip the installation of my network adapter and the

[expert] framebuffer

2000-06-21 Thread Rogelio E. Martinez Ramirez
how i do to initialize the support to framebuffer, i already install the kernel but it doesn´t initialize framebuffer, any idea? begin:vcard n:Martinez Ramirez;Rogelio Enrique tel;home:(01)(7)382-10-43 tel;work:(01)(7)318-38-11 Ext 7707 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Instituto de Investigaciones

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Danielyou should probably not stick a metal screwdriver (the metal changes the adjustment, so when you remove the metal screwdriver, the setting you just carefully arrived at changes) in those holes. There are special plastic ones for that purpose. Radio Shack sells a pack of five

[expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
In LM7.1, I can't seem to find SSH installed or as an RPM. I checked "rpm -qa | grep -i ssh" to see i it was installed but none found. In the RPMS directory of the CD, I tried "ls -al *ssh* *SSH*" but nothing. I am very surprised that SSH is not standard in the distribution, or did I miss

[expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Since I had to change the memory setting from 126 to 124 (more for onboard video), I changed lilo.conf to set mem=126M, ran /sbin/lilo and now lilo shows up on bootup. So how do I reset things to use Grub instead ? (and with my senith monitor problems, please give me a command line answer, not

OT: Cisco (was Re:[expert] Apache + CGI = Error?)

2000-06-21 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~ I know I can't imagine Microsoft saying, "Oh, ASP isn't working on your :~ IIS? Well, I wrote IIS, so send me your error log and we'll see what we :~ can do." :~Maybe not Microsoft, but last year a guy at Cisco issued a new IOS just :~for my

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Sebastian Dransfeld
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: In LM7.1, I can't seem to find SSH installed or as an RPM. I checked "rpm -qa | grep -i ssh" to see i it was installed but none found. In the RPMS directory of the CD, I tried "ls -al *ssh* *SSH*" but nothing. I am very surprised that SSH is not

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: I am very surprised that SSH is not standard in the distribution, or did I miss something ? I guess it does not really matter since I will install openSSH anyways. Due to export restrictions on cryptography, we had to separate openssh from the main

[expert] FTP firewall problems

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
(I need to ftp 300MB from work to home, and no cd-burner, or VPN access) I've recently installed and configured a new linux machine as a web server and firewall (connected to cable modem). Using ftp and telnet from my NT used to work but now FTP can't seem to accept commands. Telnet and

[expert] TERM tty color setting

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Nothing more annoying than telnetting into linux from another non-linux machine as vt100, and run 'll' (alias 'ls -alF --color'), only to get colors that don't jive with the telnet client. Remembering to 'export TERM=linux' is a pain but does not really work anyways. I have had to change my

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and BP6 hard drive optimizations

2000-06-21 Thread Paul Gratz
[snip] recompile for 386 code, kernel and driver. The Seagate IDE drive is marginal at the timing and signal gating requirements of 586 code and often locks up. So do MOST WDs, though some of them will work without the Xxx parm and often run close to the UDMA66 speed required. Read

Re: [expert] Auto Install of 7.1 Skips Network

2000-06-21 Thread Steve Browne
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 06:39:07 -0400, you wrote: Is it normal for the auto-install of 7.1 to skip the installation of my network adapter and the configuration of TCP/IP? This seems a bit odd. The nic is a 3c59x compatible 3c905B-TX. A quick reconfig with DrakConf had everything up and running in

[expert] X remote $DISPLAY explanation

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
With many years of Unix experience, I've usually just used windows and telnet in to my unix boxes for support or programming. So my X-windows is limited (2 yrs on HP). I've never used remote $DISPLAY settings. With my monitor problems, if I could just use my NT machine to connect to my linux

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: In LM7.1, I can't seem to find SSH installed or as an RPM. I checked "rpm -qa | grep -i ssh" to see i it was installed but none found. In the RPMS directory of the CD, I tried "ls -al *ssh* *SSH*" but nothing. I am very surprised that SSH is not standard in

Re: [expert] Auto Install of 7.1 Skips Network

2000-06-21 Thread David Talbot
I did an automated install recently that skiped over the NIC install portion. I think it's the nature of the beast. I installed 2 others on identical hardware using Expert and Custom respectively and each autoinstalled the NIC. Automated must be designed to skip over this fairly important step:

Re: [expert] Auto Install of 7.1 Skips Network

2000-06-21 Thread jlemay
You'd have to run this by Don Becker and/or Alan Cox (via linux- [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are interested), but I *BELIEVE* that 3c90x module is the 3Com written code. My understanding is that this code was developed by 3Com specifically for the later chipsets used on the 3C905x- TX adapters

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
I am very surprised that SSH is not standard in the distribution, or did I miss something ? I guess it does not really matter since I will install openSSH anyways. Due to export restrictions on cryptography, we had to separate openssh from the main distribution. Crypto packages,

3c509 conflict, Was: [expert] 7.1 install Caveats

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
I did all that but then gave up and put the 3c509 card in the win98 (kids) box. It installs on win98, I set IP to local 192.168.1.2 but winipcfg/ipconfig show 0.0.0.0 instead. I don't get it !!! Of all the nonsense, the 3c509 TP ISA card caused the floppy drive to stop working (I took it

Re: [expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-21 Thread Daryl Pawluk
Daniel Woods wrote: Since I had to change the memory setting from 126 to 124 (more for onboard video), I changed lilo.conf to set mem=126M, ran /sbin/lilo and now lilo shows up on bootup. So how do I reset things to use Grub instead ? (and with my senith monitor problems, please give me a

Re: [expert] X remote $DISPLAY explanation

2000-06-21 Thread Matt Stegman
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: With many years of Unix experience, I've usually just used windows and telnet in to my unix boxes for support or programming. So my X-windows is limited (2 yrs on HP). I've never used remote $DISPLAY settings. With my monitor problems, if I could

Re: [expert] FTP firewall problems

2000-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:49:09PM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: - - (I need to ftp 300MB from work to home, and no cd-burner, or VPN access) - - I've recently installed and configured a new linux machine as - a web server and firewall (connected to cable modem). - - Using ftp and telnet from my

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
they are not part of the install. they are downloaded during the install from outside the US. if you use expert install you will get to choose the site. i didn't keep a list of sites. but i found the rpms in a directory called: .../Linux/Mandrake-crypto/7.1 the problem is that Mandrake

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: Due to export restrictions on cryptography, we had to separate openssh from the main distribution. Damn, I forgot that ! Being in Canada, we don't worry about such nonsense. Right Jean-Michel :) ? Yup, as long as it's open-source, we can

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: In LM7.1, I can't seem to find SSH installed or as an RPM. I checked "rpm -qa | grep -i ssh" to see i it was installed but none found. In the RPMS directory of the CD, I tried "ls -al *ssh* *SSH*" but nothing. I am very surprised that SSH is not

Re: [expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: Since I had to change the memory setting from 126 to 124 (more for onboard video), I changed lilo.conf to set mem=126M, ran /sbin/lilo and now lilo shows up on bootup. So how do I reset things to use Grub instead ? (and with my senith monitor problems, please

Re: [expert] FTP firewall problems

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Charles, (I need to ftp 300MB from work to home, and no cd-burner, or VPN access) I've recently installed and configured a new linux machine as a web server and firewall (connected to cable modem). Using ftp and telnet from my NT used to work but now FTP can't seem to accept

Re: [expert] Auto Install of 7.1 Skips Network

2000-06-21 Thread James Sparenberg
John, When 3Com added the TX to this card and made the NT net boot option, it started doing funny things. So much so that it has trouble under Windows/Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD and probably others that I haven't tried. I've loaded and reloaded a variety of distro's on my test box and I'd say

Re: [expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-21 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: use DrakBoot in DrakConf. I knew that, but my message did ask for non-X method. (ie: command line command, or vi a file) In console, type "drakboot", it works, try it! Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread James Sparenberg
Apparently you only get the option to install "crypto" software on the Expert mode track. This seems to be done because of concerns about export laws etc. So they are not part of the distro. (netscape 128 , ssl , ssh, etc.) You can find a link to the mirrors here.

Re: [expert] FTP firewall problems

2000-06-21 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: Using ftp and telnet from my NT used to work but now FTP can't seem to accept commands. Telnet and browser work with my Is this what is meant by passive mode ? There was no such setting in WS-FTP, and I don't know where to look in LM.

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread James Sparenberg
But please don't tell Bill Joliets that (the father of BSD the original) At 02:40 PM 6/21/00, you wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: Due to export restrictions on cryptography, we had to separate openssh from the main distribution. Damn, I forgot that ! Being in

Re: [expert] X remote $DISPLAY explanation

2000-06-21 Thread Stephen Carville
Matt Stegman wrote: It's quite simple, really. The environment variable DISPLAY is checked by all X clients, and they send output to the host/display indicated by that variable. If you use SSH (from UNIX to UNIX) then most SSH servers will set that variable automatically and forward X

[expert] apache: mod-rewrite kills my cgi-bin in virtual host

2000-06-21 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, I'm having a problem with my cgi-bin. I have ht/dig installed and I can't get one of my virtual hosts to find the cgi-bin. the host has some mod_rewrite rulles, when I comment out the rules /cgi-bin/htsearch gets redirected into the cgi-bin at /home/httpd/cgi-bin and it finds the cgi like

Re: [expert] KDE2

2000-06-21 Thread Thomas M. Beaudry`
According to rpmfind.net, it's supposed to be included in kdebase. On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi! I've tried to install KDE2Beta2 on Mandrake 7.0. The only dependency problem I got is this: libkonsole.so.1 is needed by kdebase-1.91-1 But I was not man enough to find out what

Re: [expert] USB eth problems

2000-06-21 Thread Wang Jian
I think it is a script order problem. That is, for bootup script, "usb" is run after "network". You can edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/usb and change the order number to less than network. Monday, June 19, 2000, 1:30:58 AM, you wrote: DL I can get my Lynksys USB100TX to work on my Iopener w/ Mandrake

Re: [expert] framebuffer

2000-06-21 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 18-Jun-00 by Rogelio E. Martinez Ramirez: how i do to initialize the support to framebuffer, i already install the kernel but it doesn´t initialize framebuffer, Framebuffer must be initialized at boot time by selecting a VESA framebuffer video mode. In the kernel docs you will find

[expert] make initrd

2000-06-21 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Hello, I was wondering if someone wouldn't mind giving me the details on how to use make initrd? I remember having to do this a month or so ago upgrading the mandrake kernel from rpms but I've forgotten the syntax and now I'm having trouble upgrading to 2.2.16-7mdk. Thanks, Mike --

Re: [expert] FTP firewall problems

2000-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 04:48:25PM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: - - Charles, - - (I need to ftp 300MB from work to home, and no cd-burner, or VPN access) - - I've recently installed and configured a new linux machine as - a web server and firewall (connected to cable modem). - -

Re: [expert] make initrd

2000-06-21 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 21-Jun-00 by Mike Tracy Holt: Hello, I was wondering if someone wouldn't mind giving me the details on how to use make initrd? I remember having to do this a month or so ago upgrading the mandrake kernel from rpms but I've forgotten the syntax and now I'm having trouble

Re: [expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: Daniel Woods wrote: Since I had to change the memory setting from 126 to 124 (more for onboard video), I changed lilo.conf to set mem=126M, ran /sbin/lilo and now lilo shows up on bootup. So how do I reset things to use Grub instead ?

Re: [expert] broken VPN, set 'skip' protocol 57

2000-06-21 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: I've recently installed and configured a new linux machine as a web server and firewall (connected to cable modem). My VPN access to work (from NT) used to work but now it can't seem to connect. My IP Masq is basically DENY everything and ALLOW

Re: [expert] make initrd

2000-06-21 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Thank you!! Mike Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 21-Jun-00 by Mike Tracy Holt: Hello, I was wondering if someone wouldn't mind giving me the details on how to use make initrd? I remember having to do this a month or so ago upgrading the mandrake kernel from rpms but I've

Re: [expert] IP MAsq / IP Chains problems on mandrake 7

2000-06-21 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Perhaps your firewall is working as expected but your hosts.allow and hosts.deny rules are denying any access? Mine look like (pretty much) like this: # cat /etc/hosts.deny # # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. ALL:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL:DENY # cat

Re: [expert] HP drivers/Outlook

2000-06-21 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Kikta LCpl Jason M wrote: We do have the web access. However, Netscape isn't always stable with it and I lose some functionality. Thanks. Seems rock-solid to me. You will be missing some functionality; eg, - font control - pop-up alarms But for mail, including scheduling programs on the

Re: [expert] Can't print from Drake 7.0 to Windows (or in the other direction)

2000-06-21 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Ok, I've been having a similar problem, and thanks to this advice (well, actually I had to do chmod -R a+rw /var/spool/lp before I could really get it to work, but close enough), I'm now able to get my file over into the queue on the Windows box (yay!). But I can't get the file to

Re: [expert] text:disk full

2000-06-21 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Use "du" to see who is chewing up the space. (If you can get xdu on, it's even easier, but probably not after you've already run out of space.) Still, putting all those applications when only 1gig was left, and allowing for space for /var, /tmp, etc, I'm not surprised you'd be running into

Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?

2000-06-21 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Sevatio-- Most likely [EMAIL PROTECTED], since that seems to your ISP's domain, right? Jomar Villafane wrote: Why don't you ping it and get the IP address? J - Original Message - From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:20 AM

Re: [expert] mc listing and rpm problem

2000-06-21 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
victor gvirtsman wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.1 and now i have problem with midnight commander- When listing it is not case sensitive even when marked case sensitive in sort options I confirm, and also it does not put directories on top as it did in previous versions ... Maybe that's a

Re: [expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-21 Thread Joerg Mertin
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 03:12:36PM -0600, Daryl Pawluk wrote: Daniel Woods wrote: Since I had to change the memory setting from 126 to 124 (more for onboard video), I changed lilo.conf to set mem=126M, ran /sbin/lilo and now lilo shows up on bootup. So how do I reset things to use

[expert] Problems with dual head in Xfree86 4.0

2000-06-21 Thread Kenneth Kline
Has anybody gotten an Nvidia and an ati rage II to work together, Here's what I have: Nvidia GForce 2 GTS ATI RAGE II + dvd Here what I have found, 1. Tested both Nvidia and Ati individual they both started X in 24 bit true-color 2. default AGP Nvidia loads ATI