[expert] A mess of questions!

2000-08-10 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have a number of questions in this one message. If you know the answers to any of them, please reply! Also, please CC your reply directly to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! #1. I am running NAMED from BIND on a couple machines, mostly for a caching nameserver. Named is putting a

Re: [expert] Modems For PCI Slots?

2000-08-10 Thread Stew Benedict
U.S. Robotics 5610 claims to be Linux compatible. I haven't found it anywhere for less than $80. I've got the same problem. A pizza box with only PCI slots, and my serial ports are all tied up. Stew Benedict

Re: [expert] Modems For PCI Slots?

2000-08-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Tim Litwiller wrote: and the low end motherboards have no isa and no serial ports, only pci and usb. While it's true that you see more and more MBs without ISA slot, I _never_ ever saw any without a serial port ... Could you please give us examples (to be avoided ...) ??? -- Jean-Louis

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Nt is more stable. And it supports netscape drag'n'drop. Sarang Lakare a écrit : caitoo .. its available as rpm at rpmfind.. adn its a great to manage u're downlaods.. (thought it takes a little time to get started!) -sarang -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Plus

[expert] Configuration réseau

2000-08-10 Thread Pierre Taczynski
Bonjour, n'ayant pas eu de réponses sur la ML [debutant], je me permet de poster ici. j'utilise Mandrake 7.1, l'ordinateur fait parti d'un réseau et je l'ai donc configuré comme suit: host name + domain name: wumpscut2.domainname adaptateur #1: dhcp activé / wumpscut2.domainname / mask :

[expert] Update 7.1

2000-08-10 Thread Pierre Taczynski
Bonjour, la aussi comme je n'ai pas eu de réponse sur la ML [debutant] je me permet de poster ici. Je veux updater MAndrake 7.0-7.1. J'ai 3 partitions: /, /maison et /archive. C'est la troisième fois qu'il me sort une erreur en disant que je n'ai pas assez d'espace disque pour l'update! Pourtant

Re: [expert] Configuration réseau

2000-08-10 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Pierre Taczynski a écrit : Bonjour, n'ayant pas eu de réponses sur la ML [debutant], je me permet de poster ici. j'utilise Mandrake 7.1, l'ordinateur fait parti d'un réseau et je l'ai donc configuré comme suit: host name + domain name: wumpscut2.domainname adaptateur #1: dhcp activé /

Re: [expert] Configuration réseau

2000-08-10 Thread Pierre-Yves Taczynski
Guillaume Rousse a écrit : If IP adress works, but not name, i'd said it is a DNS problem 99 %. That's is the DNS task to associate a name with an adress. Here it seems it isn't the case. Use nslookup [IP to test] to see what's going on. Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion

Re: [expert] Configuration réseau

2000-08-10 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Pierre-Yves Taczynski a écrit : Guillaume Rousse a écrit : If IP adress works, but not name, i'd said it is a DNS problem 99 %. That's is the DNS task to associate a name with an adress. Here it seems it isn't the case. Use nslookup [IP to test] to see what's going on. Guillaume

Re: [expert] Update 7.1

2000-08-10 Thread Eric MC.D
Pierre Taczynski wrote: Bonjour, la aussi comme je n'ai pas eu de réponse sur la ML [debutant] je me permet de poster ici. Je veux updater MAndrake 7.0-7.1. J'ai 3 partitions: /, /maison et /archive. C'est la troisième fois qu'il me sort une erreur en disant que je n'ai pas assez d'espace

Re: [expert] Update 7.1

2000-08-10 Thread Pierre Taczynski
Pierre Taczynski wrote: Je veux updater MAndrake 7.0-7.1. J'ai 3 partitions: /, /maison et /archive. C'est la troisième fois qu'il me sort une erreur en disant que je n'ai pas assez d'espace disque pour l'update! Pourtant au 2e essaie il y avait 400Mo sur / de libre et au 3e essai il y avait

Re: [expert] multiple smbd spawning

2000-08-10 Thread Stew Benedict
It's supposed to do that as far as I know. I've got an old Slackware box at work serving up files for 30 machines, and it always has a lot of smbd and nmbd sessions during work hours. Doesn't phase it in the least (P350, 64MB RAM). Now if none of the clients are active, then it drops back

Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux

2000-08-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:46:54PM -0400, Alan N. wrote: I've been hearing about this helixgnome. What's all the hype about this particular window manager for Linux? -- Mark Basically, it's gnome that works. :) What are you talking about? The gnome

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Mark Weaver
faisal wrote: Do we have any Download managers like gozilla , getright ... on linux to download large files ? No way! that stuff is "spyware" and poison to an operating system. In linux we use gFTP, IglooFTP-PRO, ncFTP, so and so forth. gFTP supports resume and append, and most FTP server do

Re: [expert] Modems For PCI Slots?

2000-08-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm finding out that some of the higher-end motherboards are doing away with ISA slots. Thus this question: Are there any Linux-compatible modems that run in PCI slots? Seve Below is a listing of several PCI modems which will work in Linux. US

Re: [expert] CDDB servers?

2000-08-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Here's an odd thing . . . if I add freedb.freedb.org to my server list, then kscd segv's whenever it tries to access the data base, from QString::find(). Since it's compiled without debug info the details of the bug are elusive. I could, if I were more enthusiastic, build a debug version and

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Michael H. Collins
ftp seems to work for me. faisal wrote: Do we have any Download managers like gozilla , getright ... on linux to download large files ? -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French..

RE: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Carver, Paul, NLSOP
What is a Download manager? I wasn't aware that downloading files was complex. FTP is pretty much a universal standard and there are plenty of Linux/Unix clients. Can you be more specific about what special features a Download manager provides? -Original Message- From: Michael H.

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Lord Nightwalker
Downloader for X. It isn't integrated in the browser, like GetRight for example, but it works nice enough... If you play a bit with the settings, you'll see there's an option called "monitor clipboard". Activate that option, start your DfX and minimize it, and when there's a file you wich to

RE: [expert] starting XWINDOWS???

2000-08-10 Thread Eric Peters
I have see X die suddenly due to your resolution set to high, try dropping the color and resolution down. Also if you look in /var/log/XFree86.log. Xfree is pretty good at reporting errors. Also which version of X are you trying to run that would help as well.

Re: [expert] CDDB servers?

2000-08-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:57:15AM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Here's an odd thing . . . if I add freedb.freedb.org to my server list, then kscd segv's whenever it tries to access the data base, from QString::find(). Odd. After I added several of the servers folks on the list

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
"Carver, Paul, NLSOP" wrote: What is a Download manager? I wasn't aware that downloading files was complex. FTP is pretty much a universal standard and there are plenty of Linux/Unix clients. Can you be more specific about what special features a Download manager provides? A download

Re: [expert] A mess of questions!

2000-08-10 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
#2. Since I am using NAMED from BIND, is there any need of having the YPBIND package installed? No ypbind is for NIS. #3. I posted this one last week and got 0 replies. Probably b/c you are asking too many things at once. You may have better success if you post each seperate problem

Re: [expert] Auto Install

2000-08-10 Thread Jeff Groves
Is it possible to configure the auto-install script to replace the standard packages with ones of your own choosing? If possible, I would like to make it install the latest kernel updates (and a few other customizations), instead of having to install them afterwards. I checked out the

RE: [expert] Zope and Mandrake 7.1 default install.

2000-08-10 Thread Bradshaw Andrew
Hi Rob I had a similar prob. The documented id passwd of superuser/123 didn't work. I did the following cd /var/zope zpasswd -u superuser -p test access to reset the passwd. Killed and restart Zope. I could then authenticate onto http://localhost:8080/manage and was fine from there. I

[expert] Sugestion for Mandrake

2000-08-10 Thread Eric Peters
Amongst the default types of installs that you given during installation. One type of installation would be very welcome is a Trustix type of install for servers. Were all the popular secure tools are used i.e. Ncftd, ssh, ect... and no XFree86 stuff. just a suggestion :)

[expert] Harddisk speed with UDMA66

2000-08-10 Thread Xuejun Liu
Hi, How is the ultimate harddisk performance with UDMA66? Although it works fine with UDMA66,but the harddisk performance is just like UDMA33 as below. The question is how to improve the speed up to 20M/sec or so. My mainboard is Abit BP6 with HPT366, harddisk is IBM-DJNA-351520. Any

[expert] startx errno 111 and 3

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
I am still getting errors while trying to run X-windows as any user other than root. I am sure it's a permission problem somewhere but don't know where. Re-installing X-rpms has not worked. Authentication failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console

Re: [expert] Harddisk speed with UDMA66

2000-08-10 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Xuejun Liu a écrit : Hi, How is the ultimate harddisk performance with UDMA66? Although it works fine with UDMA66,but the harddisk performance is just like UDMA33 as below. The question is how to improve the speed up to 20M/sec or so. My mainboard is Abit BP6 with HPT366, harddisk is

[expert] install X *after* Linux

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
On a test server here, X was not installed to begin with because of disk space. Now I wanted to install X-windows and installed all the X and Gnome rpms (after many other dependencies). When I use startx, X-windows starts up but only gives me a terminal window. What else do I need to do, or add

[expert] AGP vs PCI video cards

2000-08-10 Thread ibi
I currently have a Diamond Speedstar A-55 AGP video card that does NOT perform under Linux. I can trade it for a Jaton/Trident Blaze chip. I've seen Jaton supported on earlier distro's so I think it will work--especially if I choose the PCI model. I have a choice between a PCI or the AGP Jaton

[expert] port listening security warnings

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
I have these services opened in my inetd.conf file. Does the following output from the nightly security warnings seem reasonable/correct (port 32668 and 448) ? BTW, telnet and ftp are IP restricted (for backup access) and I do use ssh. Security Warning: There is modifications for port

Re: [expert] Auto Install

2000-08-10 Thread Pixel
Jeff Groves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to configure the auto-install script to replace the standard packages with ones of your own choosing? well, put it in default_packages in auto_inst.cfg.pl!

Re: [expert] Harddisk speed with UDMA66

2000-08-10 Thread Chris Slater-Walker
As Inderstand it, there is very little difference between UDMA33 and UDMA66 when there is a single disk on the IDE channel. Chris Slater-Walker - Original Message - From: "Xuejun Liu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:10 PM Subject: [expert]

[expert] samba problem with new disk

2000-08-10 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! recently i added a new disk to my system (hdb). i would like to share directories on that disk with samba like i do on disk hda. but here comes the problem. it just don't work. i can see the disk from the w2k-box but can't change into it. al i get is [2000/08/10 21:14:42, 0]

Re: [expert] Zope and Mandrake 7.1 default install.

2000-08-10 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Bradshaw Andrew" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 11:55 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Zope and Mandrake 7.1 default install. Hi Rob I had a similar prob. The documented id passwd of superuser/123 didn't work. I did

Re: [expert] install X *after* Linux

2000-08-10 Thread Eric MC.D
If you installed everything needed: type in console: cd /root mv .xinitrc .xinitrc.old (don't worry if on error message occurs) cp /usr/bin/gnome-session .xinitrc chmod a+x .xinitrc startx Eric MC Daniel Woods wrote: On a test server here, X was not installed to begin with because of disk

Re: [expert] Modems For PCI Slots?

2000-08-10 Thread Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
What about USB modems? Are any of them compatible with Linux. Stew Benedict wrote: U.S. Robotics 5610 claims to be Linux compatible. I haven't found it anywhere for less than $80. I've got the same problem. A pizza box with only PCI slots, and my serial ports are all tied up. Stew

[expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
When using .tar.gz or .tgz files, it is easy to see what the list of files are. As well, you can easily untar it wherever you want. I want to know how to do this with RPMs. I can't seem to find a way to check the contents of an RPM or SRPM to determine *where* it will try to install them. I

Re: [expert] port listening security warnings

2000-08-10 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 10-Aug-00 by Daniel Woods: I have these services opened in my inetd.conf file. Does the following output from the nightly security warnings seem reasonable/correct (port 32668 and 448) ? Those aren't ports, they're pid's. You have restarted inetd between security checks, closing

Re: [expert] A mess of questions!

2000-08-10 Thread Suppiluliuma
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Hello, I have a number of questions in this one message. If you know the answers to any of them, please reply! Also, please CC your reply directly to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! #1. I am running NAMED from BIND on a couple machines, mostly for

Re: [expert] Harddisk speed with UDMA66

2000-08-10 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Chris Slater-Walker a écrit : As Inderstand it, there is very little difference between UDMA33 and UDMA66 when there is a single disk on the IDE channel. Yes, because maximum speed reached by actual disks is just sufficient to fill UDMA33 spec :-) -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de

RE: [expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-10 Thread Carver, Paul, NLSOP
You can definitely do it. Check the man page. I think you have to add "-p filename" in addition to the "-ql". I'm not sure that "p" is the right option though. -Original Message- From: Daniel Woods [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 03:54 PM To: Expert Linux

Re: [expert] install X *after* Linux

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
Eric, If you installed everything needed: type in console: cd /root mv .xinitrc .xinitrc.old (don't worry if on error message occurs) cp /usr/bin/gnome-session .xinitrc chmod a+x .xinitrc startx Eric MC THANKS... this worked for root and regular users. Daniel Woods wrote: On a

RE: [expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Carver, Paul, NLSOP wrote: You can definitely do it. Check the man page. I think you have to add "-p filename" in addition to the "-ql". I'm not sure that "p" is the right option though. Ok, I missed that one. Using 'rpm -qp package-mdk.i586.rpm' works. And using 'rpm

RE: [expert] A mess of questions!

2000-08-10 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
-Original Message- From: Bob Puff@NLE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] First, please keep your messages separated by topic (and make sure the subject line is appropriate). #3. I posted this one last week and got 0 replies. How do Well, this is a VOLUNTEER list. Generally, if someone

RE: [expert] Modems For PCI Slots?

2000-08-10 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
-Original Message- From: Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering What about USB modems? Are any of them compatible with Linux. I was told that USB modems are winmodems in sheep's clothing. Good luck getting on of them to work in Linux. Matthew

RE: [expert] Harddisk speed with UDMA66

2000-08-10 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
I know I read a MS document comparing RAID performance on UDMA66, among other things. I believe it said that UDMA66 bandwidth is maxxed out between 2 and 3 IDE drives (assuming some RAID hardware in there). The secondary issue is PCI bus speed at 33MHx/32bit is getting very weak for today's

RE: [expert] Auto Install

2000-08-10 Thread John Rundgren
Hey...Thanks a lot...That at least got the install running But, after the disk partitioning, when it attempts to locate installable packages, it just errors out with the following: "Warning: Nothing found while parsing /tmp/test-perl-install/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.cdrom1.cz2 at pkgs.pm line

RE: [expert] Auto Install

2000-08-10 Thread John Rundgren
I get the list of the files that should be available for the install. Output to a log file and viewing it shows "929 files in archive, uncompression method is "bzip2 -d" list of RPMs..." And there is indeed 929 listings. Thanks again... -Original Message- From: Pixel To: John Rundgren

RE: [expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-10 Thread Ken Archer
one of my "have-to-have" programs is Rpmfind. When you have to satisfy a dependency it will find the file for you. Such as # rpmfind libdps.so.1 It will find the file you need and download it for you. You can check it out here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html On Thu, 10

Re: [expert] Auto Install

2000-08-10 Thread Pixel
John Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey...Thanks a lot...That at least got the install running But, after the disk partitioning, when it attempts to locate installable packages, it just errors out with the following: "Warning: Nothing found while parsing

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Ellick Chan
faisal wrote: Do we have any Download managers like gozilla , getright ... on linux to download large files ? No way! that stuff is "spyware" and poison to an operating system. In linux we use gFTP, IglooFTP-PRO, ncFTP, so and so forth. gFTP supports resume and append, and most FTP

RE: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Ellick Chan
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Carver, Paul, NLSOP wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:32:01 -0400 From: "Carver, Paul, NLSOP" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Download managers ! What is a Download manager? I wasn't aware that downloading

Re: [expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-10 Thread Don
If you open KDE using startx and then in X-Windows, you can select the RPM file, and a box will open allowing you to view the contents before you install the RPM file. This also allows you to browse the already installed RPM's and uninstall those that you don't want. Only problem is one can

RE: [expert] starting XWINDOWS???

2000-08-10 Thread Joseph Jenkins
I have looked in the XFree68.0.log and I don't see any errors. I see a few warnings on: Option "power_saver" is not used A whole bunch of modes that it didn't like and Cannot Shadow and accelerated frame buffer Would any of these cause Xwindows not start? I didn't anything that could be

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Craig Woods
Good info, Ellick, and quite timely as well. Maybe others on the list have seen today's news. Netscape (AOL) has been sued for the very acitivity you enunciate in your msg. The court rulled in _our_ direction. They found Net_shit to be in violation of the law by engaging in the practice of

Re: [expert] rpm refuses to upgrade - solved

2000-08-10 Thread Gavin Clark
I rebuilt the database and still got the same error message. I did find the same rpm on the 7.1 CD and it installed fine. Could I be getting corrupt downloads from cooker? on 8/8/00 4:03 PM, Greg Stewart wrote: do you have an existing version of the rpm installed already? try: rpm

Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux

2000-08-10 Thread Ellick Chan
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Jens Benecke wrote: KFM is not half as unstable as you make it seem. At least, here. And why does KDE "suck up" more resources than fvwm? Because it DOES hell of a lot more, doesn't it? I want you to try out CDE, the commercial desktop. You'll come whining back to me

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Ellick Chan
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Craig Woods wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:52:55 -0500 From: Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Download managers ! Good info, Ellick, and quite timely as well. Maybe others on the list have seen

[expert] THANKS

2000-08-10 Thread ibi
I want to thank all of the list members that responded to my plea for someone who could translate German. There is a reason Mandrake rocks! This list just proves it. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nowonder.com

Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux

2000-08-10 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:43:33AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: MandrakeUpdate will provide the same functionality in the future (I believe). Quite honestly, I've used helixgnome before and yes, it was nice when it was ahead of mandrake, but now if you use the stuff in cooker, I find

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Ron Stodden
"Carver, Paul, NLSOP" wrote: What is a Download manager? I wasn't aware that downloading files was complex. FTP is pretty much a universal standard and there are plenty of Linux/Unix clients. Can you be more specific about what special features a Download manager provides? I feel sure the