On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, rharvey wrote:
My boss wants to be able to ssh into the linux box (newest version of
linuxmandrake.)(we have ssh running)
When you connect he does not want a prompt he wants the company's ordering
program to run. ( the user will get a login and access to the menu driven
I would like to install the xfree 4.01 i download
on my Linux Mandrake 7.1.. my question is.. is it easy to install it over the
xfree4.0??? And what i have to backup to be sure that if something goes wrong i
can replace the old xfree without problems? And last question because Linux
I'm trying to upgrade to 7.1 and I have 3 partitions from a previous install.
/, /usr and /home. When I choose upgrade it asks where my / partition is but
does not allow me to add any other partitions, like /usr.
Is there something I'm doing wrong here?
i have compiled my kernel-2.4test7 in what was originally a suse 6.4
environment. when compiled, it sets the device as (3,65), but when the
system boots, it looks for (3,41) as the root device. this may resulted
due to the fact that i have installed several linux-mandrake components
into my
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, you wrote:
it's me again. you didn't tell me about this nasty little bug when we
discussed global menus lastnight.
It's not a bug, it's designed to work that way. And I did tell you that
trying to use the Mandrake menu system would only give you menu entries for
Submitted 27-Aug-00 by TriOptimum:
I would like to install the xfree 4.01 i download on my Linux Mandrake 7.1.
. my question is.. is it easy to install it over the xfree4.0???
Yes. It's is pretty straightforward _if_ you are using Mandrake RPMS.
And what i have to backup to be sure that if
Hello Ellick,
Also, you can try download open motif from
http://www.openmotif.org/
Motif has been open source software for a while :-)
Friday, August 25, 2000, 10:26:19 PM, you wrote:
EC uOn Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
I was wondering if anyone on this list had a license for
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 11:01:10AM -0700, xavian anderson macpherson wrote:
hey anton,
it's me again. you didn't tell me about this nasty little bug when we
discussed global menus lastnight. simply eliminating the menus is not a
true solution. is there instead a way to create a personal
I have 2 questions about DOSemu under Mandrake 7.1
1. When I start dosemu in a console I find myself in a purely virtual DOS
directory
with nothing else. How do I change directories to access one of my real DOS
directories where the DOS apps are. The old DOS partition letters do not
work
and
TriOptimum wrote:
I would like to install the xfree 4.01 i download on my Linux Mandrake
7.1.. my question is.. is it easy to install it over the xfree4.0???
And what i have to backup to be sure that if something goes wrong i
can replace the old xfree without problems? And last question
Anton Graham wrote:
Upgrading anything in an RPM based distribution from a tarball is a Bad Idea
(tm), because dependancies for installing RPMS are satisfied only by
checking the RPM database. If you have XF 4.01 and RPM thinks you have XF 4,
then you won't be able to install packages that
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:06:40AM -0400, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
On a somewhat related topic, consider this scenerio:
I want a linux box to function sort of like a switch, passing through internet
traffic, but isolating each network device from another.
Example:
eth0 = connection to a
First, I don't believe ipmasqadm is installed by default. There should be an
rpm for it onthe CD or you san ftp from the mirrors or rpmfind.com
Second, which security level did you select on install... I mad et eh
mistake of choosing somehting like high, and couldn't get a damned thing to
work
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Greg Stewart wrote:
Second, which security level did you select on install... I mad et eh
mistake of choosing somehting like high, and couldn't get a damned thing to
work from outside the box. I even tried someones suggestions of using msec
to set security to zero, and
David,
Thanks for the response... One step closer two steps bacl..
Linux Mandrake has not identified the cards correctly they really are
3C905B-TX.
So now what?
David Mihm wrote:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Jeff Hoffman wrote:
I am having trouble connecting with DHCPCD with Mandrake 7.1.
Ron has a good point-- a "switch" works on MAC addresses, not IP addresses,
therefore a Linux box couldn't be a switch unless you teid arp into
ipchains, and I donn't know how one would go about that.
The best, and easiest way to go about this is to follow Ron's suggestion of
using a segmented
Where can i find the rpm version of xfree 4.01??? From Xfree.org i was able
to find only the tar files.. :-(
- Original Message -
From: "Anton Graham" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake + Xfree 4.01 Problem!!!
Dave Cowp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade to 7.1 and I have 3 partitions from a previous
install.
/, /usr and /home. When I choose upgrade it asks where my / partition is
but
does not allow me to add any other partitions, like /usr.
Someone tells me that it read the fstab
check to make sure there is nothing bogus in your /etc/hosts file... you may
wich to remove everything except: 127.0.0.1 localhost
localhost.localdomain.
Other than that, I'm not familiar with proftpd, and don't know what it
requires at startup. It may be possible that you are starting the
You can probably add a line to execute the program to the user's .bashrc
found in their ~/home directory.
--Greg
My boss wants to be able to ssh into the linux box (newest version of
linuxmandrake.)(we have ssh running)
When you connect he does not want a prompt he wants the company's
My system starts up and runs great but will not unmount cleanly. Each
time I shutdown, the shutdown gets stuck at the message "Supermount_Put
Write_Access: file system not write accessed" I have to power-off and
then power-on which results in the "dev/hda1" and "dev/hda6" not cleanly
unmounted
How do I get ssh on the linux box to open this program on the
unix box like the telnet on the unix box?
'ssh hostname command' will run a specific command, or you can set the
UseLogin option in the sshd_config to yes so it will use the unix login
mechanism, if the command is automatically
TriOptimum wrote:
Where can i find the rpm version of xfree 4.01??? From Xfree.org i was able
to find only the tar files.. :-(
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/
--
Steve - Cheltenham, UK
-
In love and light we are
In darkness we are no less
Good point, Asheesh!
After all the hunting I've done to locate the lock downs, and with the
suggestion to use msec having come only recently, my brain is so fried that
I didn't even think of that!
--Greg
Quick tip: I haven't had problems with Mandrake security levels, but you
**can** always
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0. Running Mandrake 7.0, with no substantive changes (no kernel builds,
etc.)
1. For months, I have had no kppp/ppp/pppd have seemed to work perfectly.
2. Several days passed when I didn't use them. (They worked fine last
Tuesday; but on
Submitted 27-Aug-00 by Steve Howes:
This IS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe the point was that the original message was sent to BOTH addresses
for the list, and posting to both doubles the bandwidth cost and annoys list
participants. (I may have a filter to destroy duplicate messages, but I
still
Submitted 27-Aug-00 by Admin:
My system starts up and runs great but will not unmount cleanly. Each
time I shutdown, the shutdown gets stuck at the message "Supermount_Put
Write_Access: file system not write accessed"
This particular supermount caused kernel panic is usually caused by
trying
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Further to the pppd problem (I swore I'd had enough for today, but of
course, I kept wanting to try One More Thing).
a. I have now installed the very lastest ppp from rpmfind; the same still
happens.
b. The failure occurs regardless of whether I
I have an IDE CD-RW drive (a Creative Labs drive capable of 4X write, 2X
rewrite, 24X read) installed, and I was wondering if it was possible to
use it as a true rewriter, like I would a Zip drive. That is, can I mount
it and dynamically modify its filesystem? I have heard reports of "No",
but
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, you wrote:
I have also heard that UDF is the more commonly used filesystem for such
tasks, and that the CD-RW drive must be in "Packet Writing" mode.
Anyone know more?
UDF is still somewhat of experimental in the Linux world, take a look at
Hello, World!
I've got some files on my FAT partitions which I created with Windows 98
containing Umlauts (ä,ö,ü,ß) in their filenames.
For example, I've got a file called "Test für mich.txt". When I list that
dir in Windows, the filename is displayed correctly. But when I display the
I had a problem like that when I first tried running Linux on my LapTop. It
turned out to be a conflict of IRQ's and memory addresses. Especially with my
sound card. run "cat /proc/interrupts" to see what IRQ's you are using and also
try "cat /proc/ioports" to see if you have conflicts with
Here's the output of 'cat /proc/interrupts':
CPU0
0: 292030 XT-PIC timer
1: 17307 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 140718 XT-PIC 3c589_cs, serial
5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
8: 1
on 8/27/00 3:21 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hello, World!
I've got some files on my FAT partitions which I created with Windows 98
containing Umlauts (ä,ö,ü,ß) in their filenames.
For example, I've got a file called "Test für mich.txt". When I list that
dir in Windows, the filename is
I would like to burn an iso on one linux computer with a burner on another.
There's not enough space for the iso on the box with the burner.
How can this be done?
-- Stephen
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote:
I would like to burn an iso on one linux computer with a burner on another.
There's not enough space for the iso on the box with the burner.
How can this be done?
NFS:
(or Samba):
Export (as read-only) the directory with the ISO in it to
Hi all,
I suddenly lost the ability to mount my nfs shares on my workstation.
Everything has been working fine for about a month then boom, I start
getting errors after my most recent reboot.
The following is the error
I get: mount: RPC: program not registered
I'm absolutely stumped on what
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Scott Rainaldo wrote:
CPU0
0: 292030 XT-PIC timer
1: 17307 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 140718 XT-PIC 3c589_cs, serial
5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
8:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart
Did that help?
- Asheesh Laroia.
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Monty Malik wrote:
Hi all,
I suddenly lost the ability to mount my nfs shares on my workstation.
Everything has been working fine for about a month then boom, I start
getting errors after my most recent
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Monty Malik wrote:
Hi all,
I suddenly lost the ability to mount my nfs shares on my workstation.
Everything has been working fine for about a month then boom, I start
getting errors after my most recent reboot.
The following is the error
I get: mount: RPC:
Mark Weaver wrote:
Hi list,
I was wondering...I've got an IBM thinkpad here at the house that my
Daugher would like me to load Mandrake on for her. I've tried the usual
way of doing this but it's a no go. The CDROM is connected by a removable
PCMCIA card that the Madnrake setup is unable
Seems I'm on a role today.. I'm trying to remember how to change my
hostname and I'm also having problems with my current hostname. Upon
running proftpd, I get the following error...
Starting proftpd: Allowing sessions again
h24-xx-xxx-xx.ed.wave.shaw.ca - Fatal: unable to determine IP
Submitted 26-Aug-00 by Jim Hodgers:
Can you send me all the related configuration files for setting this up
please? That is, /etc/isapnp.conf (if anything is in it) and
/etc/conf.modules; maybe other necessary config files. I'd like to give
ALSA a whirl, but since it's not my machine, I'd like
Atleast 3 ways to do this:
1a. export the director which has iso image from that machine as NFS.. (add
the other hosts IP/name in /etc/export.. or use linuxconf) and mount it on
the other machine.. (add fstab entry and mount or use the mount command..
or i guess u can do it thorough linuxconf)
At 11:25 PM 8/26/00 -0700, Anton Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Submitted 26-Aug-00 by Jim Hodgers:
Put it somewhere were I can find it too, I have the same card and problem
This is my modules.conf (conf.modules for most of you) that sets it all up,
I have no /etc/isapnp.conf, the isapnp.o
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