Re: [expert] Mandrake + Xfree 4.01 Problem!!!

2000-08-29 Thread Kelley Terry
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote: Ok.. i visited the site.. then i visited the mandrake cooker site.. and they told me to do a wget something command to get the cooker site mirrored.. the wget command only create a symlink in my root dir.. Now what i have to do to get a cooker avaible rpms

Re: [expert] Proxy/router setup How-To

2000-08-29 Thread Daniel Woods
Just want to know of a good resource on setting up a proxy server/router using linux. What I want to do is have 1 machine for my proxy that also provides my internet connection to 3 other boxes. The 3 machines also need to be able to transfer data between themselves. The box I want to use is

[expert] Re: [expert] Filenames with Umlauts (ä,ö,ü)on FAT Partitions

2000-08-29 Thread Stephen Bosch
Gavin Clark wrote: I would also guess that the console doesn't have a font with umlauts anyway. It should -- mine does... -Stephen- Gavin

[expert] Eterm settings

2000-08-29 Thread JP Sartre
Hi folks. I figured most of my other problems out. Now I have an interesting situation. I saved my settings in Eterm thinking it applied to just one window, anb now it affects my global settings. Basically, I can't use my Eterm. I was wondering if anyone knew when Eterm saved these settings so

Re: [expert] 7.0/7.1 and USB support for Linksys ethernet dvice

2000-08-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Hoyt wrote: Is the USB backport included in the Mandrake-patched kernels for these versions? In particular, I'm looking for support for a Linksys USB ethernet device that uses the pegasus driver. I think only 7.1. I'm using a USB100-TX (pegasus) on my I-Opener. I

[expert] Partage de fichiers avec NFS entre linux et solaris

2000-08-29 Thread Pierre Taczynski
Bonjour, j'utilise pour mon i586-pc-linux-gnu Mandrake 7.1 .Dites moi si je me trompe, mais il me semble que la version NFS est la 2. Je veux monter sur cette machine un répertoire qui se trouve sur la machine "persee" qui est sun-sparc-solaris 2.6 (en NFS 3). Ce répertoire est /users_dvp et est

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-29 Thread Tony Smith
Hi David, Resending without the stupid HTML attachments, shame on me! Out of curiosity, what command are you using to restart klogd? I think I have the same problem with one of my boxes. /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart kill -HUP does not do the trick. It has been my experience that

[expert] Sytem -seems- to freeze

2000-08-29 Thread Fabrice Marchal
I run Mandrake 7.1 on a dual PII Intel server with kernel "2.2.15-4mdksecure". The machine is running several daemons (httpd, smb, mysql, ... ) nicely but after a few hours, the consoles hang up: the screen goes blank, the three keyboards led keep flashing but everything else is working: I was

[expert] cpio:Bad Magic

2000-08-29 Thread Jim Adams
When trying to install a new new kernel via rpm I receive the following message. "Unpacking of archive failed:cpio:Bad Magic. Any ideas. Also I have recently added a 10 gigabyte HD to my system (As primary) and have had nothing but trouble during installations. I have kept in mind the 1024

Re: [expert] Xfree 4.01 problem...

2000-08-29 Thread Dennis Robertson
Patrick Mayer wrote: Hi, After fighting a while with Xfree 4.0 that came with Mdk7.1 (I could only get a screen full of garbage), I've managed to install Xfree 4.01 by using the binary tar balls provided by xfree86.org. However, I have a new problem: the graphical login does not

[expert] Problème d'affichage

2000-08-29 Thread POURCELOT Sébastien
Bonjour, J'ai installé linux il ya huit jours pour la premiere fois, quelle galère !! J'ai un problème d'écran :j'ai un écran 14" standard (je pense svga 1024*728max ,non entrelacé je crois, c'est un ecran Casper de TWC) avec une carte video sis 6215 et l'image est trop grande à l'écran ou

RE: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-29 Thread Tony Smith
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:58:11AM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: Hi, I've searched the archives of the mailing lists and seen this question arise several times but it doesn't seem to have ever been answered properly! Either the question has been ignored or the link provided isn't any

[expert] Mandrake Update Cooker

2000-08-29 Thread TriOptimum
Ok.. I succesfully installed the rpmsof the new MandrakeUpdate...But now.. i have a new problem that is: the new mandrake update... when ichoose the mirror site... mandrake update only shows me the security updates..if i switch to development updates i get an error saying to try

[expert] Secure kernel

2000-08-29 Thread Richard Humphrey
Forgive me if this is more of a newbie list question. I was wondering what the differences between the regular kernel, and the secure kernel are. Also how would you go about installing and implementing the secure kernel? Richard Humphrey Bored with MS-windoze.

Re: [expert] grub

2000-08-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:19:35AM +0800, BillK wrote: Hi, when I installed the latest kernel rpm's, I ran lilo which works fine but overwrote the grub bootloader - how do I get back to using grub to boot? as root: sh /boot/grub/install.sh Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

[expert] Weird blinking problem in X

2000-08-29 Thread Sarang Lakare
Hi guys, I have 7.1 with 3.3.6 on an Nvidia card.. here's the problem which occured just now: I move the mouse and X goes black.. comes up again immediately.. again I move my mouse it goes black for a second.. and so on.. I managed to logout, restart X but dosn't help.. so then i just rebooted

[expert] Free ISP's

2000-08-29 Thread Dr Michael Powell PhD
A week ago I ask if anyone knew of a free internet ISP, and got a responce back about "1nol" 1 nation online. well it worked for about a week and now can't log in. any info or a different free ISP would greatly be appreciated Dr. Michael Powell Ph.D [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY

[expert] RE: Another IPChains Question

2000-08-29 Thread Chris Loper
Hello Regarding the issue of keeping your network stations isolated from each other, while that defeats the objective of a LAN. You might start by taking down your network neighborhood That would include file and printer sharing. I know very little of Windoze so I'd take the former with a LARGE

[expert] Actual free memory

2000-08-29 Thread Sarang Lakare
Hi guys, In Xosview, I see 140Mb memory usage.. which is around 80Mb user+shared and remaining buff+cache.. this matches with the output of free but, gtop shows radically high memory usage!!.. it shows 250 Mb total for resident sizes.. 164Mb for total of shared sizes, 560MB as sum of virtual

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-29 Thread Svante Signell
How many SRPMS for MDK-7.1 do you find at: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/SRPMS/ You are referring to the mandrake-devel directory not 7.1. Alexander Skwar writes: On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:58:11AM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: Hi, I've searched the archives of the

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:22:54PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: You are referring to the mandrake-devel directory not 7.1. Oh, you're right. I assumed that Fergal also spoke about Cooker as he didn't mention otherwise and because this is the expert mailing list. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

Re: [expert] RE: Another IPChains Question

2000-08-29 Thread Jason Smith
- Original Message - From: Chris Loper To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:22 PM Subject: [expert] RE: Another IPChains Question Hello Regarding the issue of keeping your network stations isolated from each

Re: [expert] Mandrake + Xfree 4.01 Problem!!!

2000-08-29 Thread TriOptimum
I have tryed it.. but the browser say me that it dosen't exists :- - Original Message - From: "Kelley Terry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake + Xfree 4.01 Problem!!! On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote:

[expert] Can't install secure rpms

2000-08-29 Thread James Sparenberg
All, Need help for sure on this one. I've got a series of mandrake servers I'm building at the office. Since the t-1 is yet to be installed I have no net connectivity just a lan. I've gone through the mandrake install and when it came to the files for encryption (openssh openssl) I can't get

Re: [expert] ata100 drives

2000-08-29 Thread Doug McGarrett
I had __already__ gone thru a large batch of Google output based exactly on the criteria suggested. I found some reference to a patch, which is not the question I need answered. (How the heck can I install a patch if I can't install Linux on the drive in the first place?) I'm not really an

Re: [expert] Sytem -seems- to freeze

2000-08-29 Thread Fabrice Marchal
Joseph Kolin wrote: hello, I do not know what a problem with a keyboard but my dual PIII Intel Server with kernel 2.2.15 some times falled with kernel panic the solution was upgrade to kernel 2.2.16 Ok thanks, the curious thing is that I dont "even" get a kernel message. I still wonder if its

RE: [expert] Another IPCHAINS question

2000-08-29 Thread Eric Peters
I forgot to ask you. I need to also know what interface is to your internal network and what interface is to the internet. For example: eth0=Internal net eth1=Internet or link to the outside world. Cheers, --- Eric Peters Mail:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Copying data to another HD

2000-08-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next question: I have a Linux system I want to replicate a couple of times. There is about 350 megs worth of data on a 1 gig HD, and I want to copy the data to some 500 meg hard drives. man dd

[expert] Weird LPR problem.

2000-08-29 Thread Ramon Gandia
Installed Mandrake 7.1 a few days ago, and when I went to print out a business letter, printing failed, but in the oddest manner. The file in question is in my /home/rfg/text directory. It is called (example), testfile1.txt. I do the following: prompt $ cat testfile1.txt | lpr It prints

Re: [expert] Can I tell the kernel to always fsck the root?

2000-08-29 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:38:15PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Is there a lilo boot option to the 2.2 kernel that makes it always fsck the root partition? I'm kinda paranoid, and I like my root partition to be known clean. tune2fs -c max-mount-counts adjust the maximal

[expert] IPCHAINS help

2000-08-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm really wondering if there is a IPFWADM that I can still use with my 2.2.15-4mdk kernel. I have one on my Mandrake 6.1 box, which I believe is using 2.2.14. I believe you use 'ipmasqadm' instead, which (I thought) was the 2.2.x version of ipfwadm. Or, at least, It Works For Me

[expert] Re: Another IPCHAINS question

2000-08-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's a lot of reading material on his site. I was looking at the Trinity OS firewall script, and he is still using ipfwadm for port forwarding. He's using ipmasqadm portfw (all the docs I've found recommend this method) in

[expert] Duping HDs in Linux

2000-08-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Next question: I have a Linux system I want to replicate a couple of times. There is about 350 megs worth of data on a 1 gig HD, and I want to copy the data to some 500 meg hard drives. man dd Ok, did that, clueless. Says it converts and copies files. Example? I want to

[expert] PAM

2000-08-29 Thread Cecil Watson
Anyone know what's up with this? Aug 29 11:19:36 3dollarbill su: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_rootok.so.debug) Aug 29 11:19:36 3dollarbill su: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_rootok.so.debug: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] Aug 29 11:19:36 3dollarbill su: PAM

Re: [expert] Weird blinking problem in X

2000-08-29 Thread Stew Benedict
Hey, I had this not too long ago too. In my case it's a Voodoo card, and I had recently run Quake3 and had vmware running. I just thought it was some weird interaction with the various card drivers. I had to reboot too to recover. Stew Benedict On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote: Hi

[expert] FTP Questions

2000-08-29 Thread maxtor
To all: I have an ftp which allows anonymous logins (downloads/uploads). I can also log in as a real user on my system which puts me in the user's home directory. My problem: How do I add a password protected user to login to my ftp. Not a real user but just someone that can access a

[expert] slow list?

2000-08-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list, Is it me or are the lists running slow this evening? The volume of mail all day long has been much less than normal. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-29 Thread Fergal Daly
At 22:22 29/08/00, Svante Signell wrote: How many SRPMS for MDK-7.1 do you find at: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/SRPMS/ About 150, whereas there should be more like 1000, eg there are no XFree86 packages there and also the wine rpm is missing. You are referring to the

Re: [expert] ata100 drives

2000-08-29 Thread Steve Browne
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:51:40 -0400, you wrote: I had __already__ gone thru a large batch of Google output based exactly on the criteria suggested. I found some reference to a patch, which is not the question I need answered. (How the heck can I install a patch if I can't install Linux on the

Re: [expert] Xfree 4.01 problem...

2000-08-29 Thread Kelley Terry
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote: Patrick Mayer wrote: Hi, After fighting a while with Xfree 4.0 that came with Mdk7.1 (I could only get a screen full of garbage), I've managed to install Xfree 4.01 by using the binary tar balls provided by xfree86.org. However, I have a new problem:

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-08-29 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do this make you want to laugh or to cry? I am now fairly sure that the fault is indeed with USWest/Qwest/whatever-the-dolts- want-to-call-themselves-today. I found another entity that runs PPP (a bunsiness, not an ISP) and I have no trouble

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-08-29 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I suppose before I give up entirely on the bozos at USWest, I should ask if anyone else in the Denver area is reading this and uses USWest as their ISP. If so, please e-mail me privately if you're interested in sharing your ppp configuration.

Re: [expert] ata100 drives

2000-08-29 Thread Jeff Nguyen
The ATA/100 support has not been integrated into the stable 2.2.XX kernel. It requires a patch from www.us.kernel.org/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/. However, you can download a prepatched kernel at ftp.aslab.com/pub/linux/kernel. Jeff ASL Inc. At 11:51 AM 8/29/00 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: I

Re: [expert] Duping HDs in Linux

2000-08-29 Thread Benjamin Reed
I want to basically take hda and copy it to hdc. I found out the hard way that copying /* also takes /proc, which isn't very fun... If the drives are exactly the same size, you would use 'dd' to read the raw hda filesystem and copy it to hdc. If not, you can use copy -ax to copy the path.

Re: [expert] Secure kernel

2000-08-29 Thread Norvell Spearman
Richard: A couple of things about secure kernel I do know (well, I'm pretty sure). . . 1) `ps -ax' will only show the current user's processes (as opposed to other users'), and I think some things in /proc are off limits to lowly regular users. 2) Programs with gid set won't work right. That

[expert] Windows 2000 and Partitioning for Linux

2000-08-29 Thread Payne Stanifer
To all: I tried to partition my windows 2000 box (the drive is FAT 32) with partition magic 5.0. When I tried to partition 5gbs it gave me an error. It somehting along the lines of file size to big. Any suggestion or help is welcome. Payne

Re: [expert] Copying data to another HD

2000-08-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Dave Lers wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next question: I have a Linux system I want to replicate a couple of times. There is about 350 megs worth of data on a 1 gig HD, and I want to copy the data to some 500 meg hard drives. man dd Ok,

Re: [expert] Can I tell the kernel to always fsck the root?

2000-08-29 Thread Jay Summet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I will assume that you are using ext2fs. man "tune2fs" OPTIONS -c max-mount-counts adjust the maximal mounts count between two filesystem checks. I would assume that if your root partition was /dev/hda2, and (as root) you issued a

Re: [expert] Sytem -seems- to freeze

2000-08-29 Thread Joseph Kolin
hello, I do not know what a problem with a keyboard but my dual PIII Intel Server with kernel 2.2.15 some times falled with kernel panic the solution was upgrade to kernel 2.2.16 Fabrice Marchal wrote: I run Mandrake 7.1 on a dual PII Intel server with kernel "2.2.15-4mdksecure". The machine