Re [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-31 Thread Mallard
http://www.httpboards.com/boards/index.cgi?user=brm2&b=2 Interesting link I found for free ISP's. There was one a while back that likes Linux users as long as you brought up their home page when you first signed on everything was OK, don't know if they are around anymore, check that site above.

Re: [expert] The lights are on, but no one's home

2000-08-31 Thread Daniel Baker
Try This: ping -f Whats your lights do now? Dan. - Original Message - From: Bob Puff@NLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:11 PM Subject: [expert] The lights are on, but no one's home > Hello, > > Tonight, I was watching the lights on the

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread LINK WORLD
Internal Modem support in Linux is not presently available. Most of the currrent internal modems are WINDOWS dependant. Support is promised (I am told) in future releases. SUNIL GUPTA Yosuda wrote: > HiI Just Intalling The Linux Mandrake in my friends computer...and she had > an internal Mo

[expert] Cannot Telnet

2000-08-31 Thread LINK WORLD
Dear Support, I cannot telnet to my system. I have a rtl100a Compex card which seems to work fine (because I can telnet to another system on the network). If I try to telnet to this system from anywhere on the lan (including this system itself) I get "CONNECTION CLOSED BY FOREIGN HOST". Please

[expert] The lights are on, but no one's home

2000-08-31 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Tonight, I was watching the lights on the switch I have connecting my DSL line to my servers, and saw a prolonged, intensive activity to one of my machines that is a web server, amongst other things. During this activity, I telnetted in, and took a peek at the logs to see just what was go

RE: [expert] Xfree 4.01 Installation

2000-08-31 Thread Joe Tux
OE5 user, go to "options" under "tools" menu and click on "mail format" tab. on the "message format" section, change to "plain text". click apply and ok. other format will cause your email to appear as garbage on email client programs that do not have the capability to display your message in the

Re: [expert] Xfree 4.01 Installation

2000-08-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
TriOptimum wrote: > > Ok... maybe i made it!!! Am i right?? yup.. thanks! > > - Original Message - > From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:40 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] Xfree 4.01 Installation > > > You: > > > > 1. Don't want

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Terry Tremaine
Hi There are certain modems which are not true modems, the so called winmodems. They require windows software to run. But many internal modems do run on linux. You may find the following link helpful. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-2.html TT Yosuda wrote: > HiI Just Intalling T

[expert] Netscape crashing

2000-08-31 Thread Terry Tremaine
Hello Lately Netscape crashes whenever I try to use the address book. Anyone else having this problem? TT

Re: [expert] Xfree 4.01 Installation

2000-08-31 Thread TriOptimum
Ok... maybe i made it!!! Am i right?? - Original Message - From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Xfree 4.01 Installation > You: > > 1. Don't want to install XFree86-4 when X is running, > 2. Want to use rp

Re: [expert] Xfree 4.01 Installation

2000-08-31 Thread TriOptimum
I'm posting in html.. ??? i really dunno how to disable it in outlook express 5... i didn't change nothing in outlook defaults but maybe the html mode is the default.. so do u know how to remove this? - Original Message - From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Frida

[expert] FreeBSD and lilo

2000-08-31 Thread Terry Tremaine
Hello I've installed FreeBSD in a multiboot config with mandrake 7.0 and dozeNT. I want the mandrake lilo to control the boot but I cannot configure it to find FreeBSD. It finds the other two fine. FreeBSD lives at /dev/hdb3 but when I enter that in lilo.conf and run lilo it gives an error. Do

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-08-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi Stephen, Today, I looked into a similar problem with my brother-in-law's machine... he just moved his office out of the house and into a real office. Looking into the problem (before I saw this thread), it appears the problem is due to a timer popping early. Looking at the log of a successf

[expert] Re: Another IPChains Question

2000-08-31 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, everyone seems to be missing my point. I am familiar with how to do what you are suggesting. Here's the deal: I want to allow 3 different LANs to access the web, but not each other. This part is no big deal. I have a linux box that will be this

Re: [expert] Xfree 4.01 Installation

2000-08-31 Thread Hoyt
You: 1. Don't want to install XFree86-4 when X is running, 2. Want to use rpm -i from the console, and 3. Don't want to post in html to this list because it annoys many of the people here and they won't respond to your requests for help. Hoyt - Original Message - From: TriOptimum To: [

[expert] MandrakeUpdater

2000-08-31 Thread TriOptimum
I have downloaded the cooker new version of MandrakeUpdate.. the problem with the new version is that when i choose to show the development updates instead of the security updates.. it tells me that an error occured on the ftp site and to try another mirror.. Also if i update the mirror list

[expert] Xfree 4.01 Installation

2000-08-31 Thread TriOptimum
I have downloaded all (i hope) the required packages to install Xfree 4.01 over my linux mandrake 7.1 installation.. I have choosen to get the rmps form... now that i have them all how can i proceed.. can i install them form drakerpm... or can i install them with kpackage??? And i must exit

[expert] Printing thru Win2k Server

2000-08-31 Thread scrapmetaldevil
Someone try this one out: I have a Win2k server with which I connect LM 7.x as a client. I recently re-installed LM, and chose to set up a network printer. Upon completion of fields in the lpd setup util, it asked to print a test page...I set this printer up with a "text-only" filter, as the su

Re: [expert] Network Printing in LM7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Ron Stodden
Dennis Robertson wrote: > > A friend has a network running on LM7.1. He is unable to get network printing to >work. Has anyone done > this and are you able to help troubleshoot? If so I will relay exact symptoms. TIA. Does the box with the local printer have /etc/hosts.lpd set up with a lis

Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Stephen Bosch wrote: > > Ay me! > > > > > Dr. Michael Powell > > > > or > > > > Michael Powell, PhD > > > > but *never* the silly-ly redundant > > > > Dr. Michael Powell PhD > > Aside from the fact that this attack on Michael is extraordinarily juvenile... > > This form

Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Hoyt wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:23 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's > > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > > > Jeff Groves wrote: > > > > > > > > I'll bet your PhD is

[expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Kari Suomela
Friday September 01 2000 07:37, Yosuda wrote to All: Y> cannot detect that modem...so i asked my brother who is more Y> expert in BSD than I...and he said Linux and BSD havent support for Absolutely not true! As long as the modem is configured/attached to a valid COM port, there is nothin

RE: [expert] autofs and direct maps

2000-08-31 Thread Schroeder, Brian
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that autofs under linux doesn't support direct maps. Brian. -Original Message- From: Lou Baccari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:50 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] autofs and direct maps I'm

Re: [expert] /sbin/route: delete problem

2000-08-31 Thread Cecil Watson
In the directory where PortSentry is installed is a file called portsentry.ignore. Add the IPs you wanted ignore to this file, remove or uncomment IP in /etc/hosts.deny and ipchains -D input -s $TARGET$ -j DENY -l Kill and restart PortSentry! - Original Message - From: "Daniel Woods" <[E

Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-31 Thread Stephen Bosch
Ay me! > > > Dr. Michael Powell > > > or > > > Michael Powell, PhD > > > but *never* the silly-ly redundant > > > Dr. Michael Powell PhD Aside from the fact that this attack on Michael is extraordinarily juvenile... This form of signature is used to distinguish been a

Re: [expert] /sbin/route: delete problem

2000-08-31 Thread Greg Stewart
try printing the routing table using: /sbin/route -ee then try deleting the route using the hostname as it is listed in the table. > I use PortSentry which works great, and helps to keep out > the little buggers. Problem is that sometimes that bugger > is me coming in from a new machine to te

Re: [expert] /sbin/route: delete problem

2000-08-31 Thread lselinger
On newer versions of Linux I've noticed I had to actually specify the entire (almost) field of the entry in the routing table I wanted to remove : ie: route del -host netmask .. check the exact syntax for route in the man page. Also ... portsentry allows you to select specific hosts that

[expert] Network Printing in LM7.1 (fwd)

2000-08-31 Thread Dennis Robertson
- Forwarded message from Dennis Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:26:31 +1000 From: Dennis Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Expert List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Network Printing in LM7.1 Reply-To: Dennis Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mail-Followup-To: Expert L

Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-31 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > Jeff Groves wrote: > > > > > > I'll bet your PhD is not in Economics... > > > > [snip]

Re: [expert] HardDrake always locks my machine

2000-08-31 Thread Philomena
There is an update for HardDrake available from the HardDrake site - the link is on the mandrake website. Lots of improvements were made - maybe that may solve your problem - I had all sorts of problems with my SBLive ! card, but the update configures it perfectly now. Cheers, philomena At 10

[expert] Best Data 56K USB Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Mohamed LRHAZI
Hello all, I made a big mistake by buying a USB modem, I searched a little bit before buying, on deja.com and mandrake.com and just thought I read that most external modems are supported, even USB ones! Now I cant figure out how to get it to work! and I am stuck with two perfectly functionning mod

[expert] /sbin/route: delete problem

2000-08-31 Thread Daniel Woods
I use PortSentry which works great, and helps to keep out the little buggers. Problem is that sometimes that bugger is me coming in from a new machine to test with. Once I do, that machine is now banned via /sbin/route add -host 1.2.3.4 reject How do I un-do the route command to allow access

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Jason Smith
Most PCI modems are a pain to get working. You have to use a command such as setserial. You may want to read up on this. If you know that it is a PCI modem try: less /proc/pci to find the port address and irq of the pci modem card to use in set serial. ps you can do a man on setserial for help

Re: [expert] upgrade 7.0 to 7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Eric MC.D
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > Greets All, > > I've got several machines running 7.0 and installed 7.1 on a new machine > to test and the time has come to upgrade the others. The first machine > I tried to upgrade contains 2 HDD's (hda & hdb). During the install the > program ask's if this is

Re: [expert] HardDrake always locks my machine

2000-08-31 Thread Eric MC.D
Keith Kelly wrote: > > I'm having a problem with Mandrake 7.1's HardDrake configurator. > > When I launch the tool, it asks me to either detect or skip ISA device > detection. If I choose "detect", the tool begins the ISA detection and then > locks my machine cold--only way out is a hard reboot

Re: [expert] HardDrake always locks my machine

2000-08-31 Thread Xuejun Liu
Yeah, I met same problem before. :) On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Keith Kelly wrote: > I'm having a problem with Mandrake 7.1's HardDrake configurator. > > When I launch the tool, it asks me to either detect or skip ISA device > detection. If I choose "detect", the tool begins the ISA detection and th

Re: [expert] LM 7.1 and RoadRunner service

2000-08-31 Thread Stephen Bosch
"Stout, Wayne" wrote: > It's not a static ip, so I know I'll need to run either dhcp or pump. I > gather from past messages that Mandrake defaults to pump, is this correct? > Does it really matter? Earlier versions of pump were rather flaky, but I think those problems have been corrected. Just m

RE: [expert] 7.1 and USB optical mouse-fixed

2000-08-31 Thread Abe
That was the bit of information that I was missing. Thank you Charles. My USB mouse is working splendidly now. Took about a minute. Abe >= Original Message From "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >Abe > Try editing /etc/sysconfig/usb to read >MOUSE=yes >That should force

Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-31 Thread Mark Weaver
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > Jeff Groves wrote: > > > > I'll bet your PhD is not in Economics... > > [snip] > > > >Any help or links or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm not > > >trying to be cheap here, I think the internet should be FREE! > > > > > >Dr. Michael Powell PhD > > >[E

[expert] HardDrake always locks my machine

2000-08-31 Thread Keith Kelly
I'm having a problem with Mandrake 7.1's HardDrake configurator. When I launch the tool, it asks me to either detect or skip ISA device detection. If I choose "detect", the tool begins the ISA detection and then locks my machine cold--only way out is a hard reboot. If I choose "skip", the to

[expert] LM 7.1 and RoadRunner service

2000-08-31 Thread Stout, Wayne
Greetings everyone. I'm about to get RoadRunner through my local cable company, and I've done some research, but I'd like someone to double-check me. I've already set up a small metwork with my wife's Win98 machine, and we can share the internet connection through dial-up. I know I have to get o

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 31-Aug-00 by Jesper Holmberg: > Well, what would be the difference between running init 3/5 and a soft > reboot? In my opinion, it's the same thing. Both ways, init is the > first process to start. Not rereading bios settings is the only difference I > can think of. Init is in effect a

[expert] test...this thing on?

2000-08-31 Thread Mark Weaver
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Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Kelley Terry
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote: > HiI Just Intalling The Linux Mandrake in my friends computer...and she had > an internal Modem and the chipset is Motorolla.And Linux cannot detect that > modem...so i asked my brother who is more expert in BSD than I...and he > said Linux and BSD have

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
> HiI Just Intalling The Linux Mandrake in my friends computer...and she had > an internal Modem and the chipset is Motorolla.And Linux cannot detect that > modem...so i asked my brother who is more expert in BSD than I...and he > said Linux and BSD havent support for internal Modem

[expert] crontab strangeness

2000-08-31 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! since a day or so crontab doesn't transfer changes from /ect/crontab to /var/spool/cron/root anymore... can someone imagine why? (crond is running: [root@orbit /var/spool/cron]# ps -x |grep cron 25529 ?S 0:00 crond 31161 pts/9S 0:00 grep cron here the t

[expert] X taking 65% CPU

2000-08-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
Hi, I have KDE 2 running and suddenly out of nowhere the follownig command takes up LOTS of CPU.. /etc/X11/X -auth /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/A:0-1miNrz I dont' know what this means.. I think i tried killing it and it was a disaster.. I don't have any K applications running right now.. what could be

Re: [expert] High latency in wu-ftp connection

2000-08-31 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Pratul Kumar Agarwal wrote: > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:07:45 -0700 (PDT) > From: Pratul Kumar Agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] High latency in wu-ftp connection > > Problem: > > High latency whi

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Yosuda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > HiI Just Intalling The Linux Mandrake in my friends computer...and she had > an internal Modem and the chipset is Motorolla.And Linux cannot detect that > modem...so i asked my brother who is more expert in BSD than I...and he > said Linux and

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
those are soft-modems.. they need software code to work.. and mostly this code is written for windows.. only recently companies have started writing code for linux.. crib to your company to get s/w for linux for that modem. else, check out what open-source guys are up to at http://www.windmodems.

[expert] Internal Modem

2000-08-31 Thread Yosuda
HiI Just Intalling The Linux Mandrake in my friends computer...and she had an internal Modem and the chipset is Motorolla.And Linux cannot detect that modem...so i asked my brother who is more expert in BSD than I...and he said Linux and BSD havent support for internal Modem...is that

Re: [expert] High latency in wu-ftp connection

2000-08-31 Thread Jason Smith
It is doing revers look up on the IP that is connecting. Double check that you have at least 2 DNS servers and that they are there. If the first one is invalid then it will pause 15-30 sec time it times out and tries the secound one. It is located in linuxconf under network and then dns. Jason -

RE: [expert] High latency in wu-ftp connection

2000-08-31 Thread Eric Peters
Wu-Ftp is not that secure in the first place you might want to think about changing to a different ftp server. Try OpenBSD's port of their ftpd and also try NcFTPd. Personally I recommend NcFTPd. Cheers, -Original Message- From: Pratul Kumar Agarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: T

[expert] High latency in wu-ftp connection

2000-08-31 Thread Pratul Kumar Agarwal
Problem: High latency while connecting into Mandrake box with FTP. Similar latency also seen with telnet at few times. Symptops: - While connecting into the box by FTP, there is output to screen "Connected to " and then there is a long pause about 1-2 minutes and then normal con

[expert] Time at startup

2000-08-31 Thread Stephen Bosch
Okay, gentlepersons... I selected "Hardware clock set to UTC" when I installed Mandrake 6.1 recently. Upon reboot the system behaves somewhat strangely -- that is, it assumes the hardware clock is local time and completely buggers up the time setting and all applications that are dependent on it

Re: [expert] sound in KDE 2

2000-08-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
I tried running artsd and it say -> v2k > artsd Can't open sound device -> exit v2k > can't run kmp3.. its still 1.1.2 version.. tried kaiman but it says failed to connect to sound server.. make sure artsd is running -sarang

Re: [expert] SAMBA AND NT DOMAIN

2000-08-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
did u configure yellow pages? thare are two rpms that u need to install. -sarang

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
> I think it has to do with the output of the uptime command and bragging rights > regarding the stability of the operating system. :) correct! and the fact that init 3 and init 5 take less than a minute compared to a hard reboot! -sarang > > Tony

Re: [expert] Specific setup for Mandarke 7.1 and cablemodem to mediaone.net

2000-08-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Jeff Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 7:57 AM Subject: [expert] Specific setup for Mandarke 7.1 and cablemodem to mediaone.net > Looking for the specific set up for connecting Mandrake 7.1 to a cable > mode

[expert] upgrade 7.0 to 7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Greets All, I've got several machines running 7.0 and installed 7.1 on a new machine to test and the time has come to upgrade the others. The first machine I tried to upgrade contains 2 HDD's (hda & hdb). During the install the program ask's if this is a install or an upgrade. When I select up

[expert] SAMBA AND NT DOMAIN

2000-08-31 Thread Eduardo Arauz
Hi,can anybody help me with this issue: i have to configure my linux samba server so it authenticates with the NT domain server.. i have tried thousands of configurations and nothing works well... all i can achieve is that i can log on the linux samba server but only if i have an account on it.

Re: [expert] Network

2000-08-31 Thread Dave Lers
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Anthony F. Littrel Sr. wrote: > stage.Does linux docs have info on setting up firewall/NAT gateway?New to > networking. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/ is an excelent place to start

RE: [expert] SRPMs for Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Tony Smith
> After re-reading the GPL it does state that there is no absolute > requirement to > have the source code available for download on a public ftp site, > there only > needs to be a written offer of a source code distribution made > available on > request (ie. a cdrom sent out by snail mail). This

Re: [expert] Network

2000-08-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Anthony F. Littrel Sr. wrote: > regarding the netscape issue "it won't let me" Using mandrake update the > packages download fine,then when preparing to install comes up it just sets > there. Try downloading the RPM files to a temp directory, and then run rpm --upgrade nets

[expert] Chinese & LM (2) (fwd)

2000-08-31 Thread Denis Havlik
I guess not so many of you are subscribed to "forum" mailing list yet, so here is a little nuget for anyone who has a free time and wants to help us make a better distro. cheers Denis PS Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list to get all the "mandrakeforum.com" headlines delivered to

Re: [expert] SRPMs for Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Tony McGee
After re-reading the GPL it does state that there is no absolute requirement to have the source code available for download on a public ftp site, there only needs to be a written offer of a source code distribution made available on request (ie. a cdrom sent out by snail mail). This source code d

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-08-31 Thread Stephen Bosch
So, Doc... have you confirmed that it is the ISP that is causing the problem? I hope I don't have to switch ISPs... there has to be a way of figuring out what they may have changed... And again -- *why* does it work when you dial with kppp? I think the answer resides elsewhere... -Stephen- --

Re: [expert] re-install, saving passwd/shadow files

2000-08-31 Thread Stephen Bosch
- Original Message - From: Kari Suomela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 11:16 AM Subject: [expert] re-install, saving passwd/shadow files Tuesday August 22 2000 11:32, Daniel Woods wrote to Expert Linux list: DW> /etc/group files. Can I c

Re: [expert] HD performance and Athlon 800 w/ 256 MB RAM

2000-08-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I have no idea what's wrong, but ... > (It takes too long to fill up 256 MB of RAM under Linux at the moment > for me). Try opening a few X sessions (startx :1 ; startx :2 ; etc) and then starting netscape in each one! Good luck finding your problem, though. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Say "twenty

Re: [expert] Network

2000-08-31 Thread Anthony F. Littrel Sr.
Benjamin Reed wrote: > > Is there a way to get 2 Linux boxes on the net at the same time?I have 2 > > boxes and 1 hub.When I tried it on my own it kept telling me that there > > was 2 machines with the same hostname and ip address.Is there a way > > around it?By the way I access the net via a cab

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Tony McGee
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Jesper Holmberg pushed some tiny letters in this order: > * On Thursday, August 31, Sarang Lakare wrote: > > No you don't have to [reboot].. as I had mentioned in a previous emial.. a simple > > "init 3" followed by "init 5" would have helped :).. I like the challange > > o

[expert] error storing record LC_MESSAGES into fileindex.rpm

2000-08-31 Thread Xuejun Liu
Hi, all, I don't know if anyone else met this problem before. When I try to upgradehelix-gnome, everything goes smoothly. But finally it says 'error storingrecord LC_MESSAGES into //var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm', and then jumpsout. The updated packages are still on the list when I run helix-upda

RE: [expert] autofs and direct maps

2000-08-31 Thread Lou Baccari
I'm trying to get autofs to map to the name of a direct map '/var/spool/mail', can the following files, auto.master and autro.direct work? These files are used successfully with Compaq's Tru64 Unix. Thanks, Lou. /etc/auto.master: - # mount-point mapname

Re: [expert] Network

2000-08-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
> Is there a way to get 2 Linux boxes on the net at the same time?I have 2 > boxes and 1 hub.When I tried it on my own it kept telling me that there > was 2 machines with the same hostname and ip address.Is there a way > around it?By the way I access the net via a cable modem.Another qurstion > I

[expert] SRPMs for Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Tony Smith
Gael, I don't know if you've been watching the expert list recently, but there has been some discussion on the whereabouts of the SRPMs for Mandrake 7.1. None of the mirror sites appear to have the full set of 7.1 SRPMs and many of us users would like them made available. The cooker mirrors appea

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Thursday, August 31, Sarang Lakare wrote: > No you don't have to [reboot].. as I had mentioned in a previous emial.. a simple > "init 3" followed by "init 5" would have helped :).. I like the challange > of doing everything (but kernel upgrade) w/o rebooting :)) > Well, what would be the d

[expert] Network Printing in LM7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, A friend has a network running on LM7.1. He is unable to get network printing to work. Has anyone done this and are you able to help troubleshoot? If so I will relay exact symptoms. TIA. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mob: 0419 5

[expert] Network

2000-08-31 Thread Anthony F. Littrel Sr.
Is there a way to get 2 Linux boxes on the net at the same time?I have 2 boxes and 1 hub.When I tried it on my own it kept telling me that there was 2 machines with the same hostname and ip address.Is there a way around it?By the way I access the net via a cable modem.Another qurstion I have is th

[expert] faking DNS entries

2000-08-31 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! for testing my website before i put them onto webservers at the internet i would like to put them to virtual Apache domains at a local linux box .. ok, i set up virtual IPs (thanks Jean-Michel), put the domains into /etc/hosts, put up the virtual domains in apache and apache show

[expert] Specific setup for Mandarke 7.1 and cablemodem to mediaone.net

2000-08-31 Thread Jeff Hoffman
Looking for the specific set up for connecting Mandrake 7.1 to a cable mode via dhcpcd to medaione.net. I believe I have the cards recognized but the settings under network set up are not designed to be understood from the Windows world winipcfg... Anyone have a working config they could send? B

RE: [expert] sound in KDE 2

2000-08-31 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
The only sound prob I have is Xmms wont play anything. I am thinking it is in KDE's sound server and xmms. Wav's play fine, as do mp3's with KDE's player. I think I had to reboot for sound to work. And it seemed as though, if I first logged in as a user using kde, then sound would not work in kd

Re: Re[2]: [expert] ip_alias

2000-08-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
> BR> I found that you can actually create 'ifcfg-eth0:' files in > BR> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and Mandrake actually does the right thing > BR> setting them up for you. > > you mean taking ifcfg-eth0 as a template for ifcfg-eth0: and > changing only the IP? Yup, at least It Worked For Me

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-31 Thread Fergal Daly
At 06:42 31/08/00, you wrote: >On Wed Aug 30, 2000 at 11:42:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Try the mirror here. It's usually fast and upto date: > > http://n3meq.dynip.com .. Pj > >Looks like it's just a mirror for cooker and contribs... the SRPMS in >question are for the 7.1 release.

Re: [expert] 7.1 and USB optical mouse

2000-08-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Jason Smith" Subject: Re: [expert] 7.1 and USB optical mouse > I had a lot of trouble with mine as well. This is a known problem with > Mandrake 7.1. I do not think the older versions support USB at all. Search > on Mandrakes web site for USB or mouse and yo

Re[2]: [expert] ip_alias

2000-08-31 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo Benjamin! on Thursday, August 31, 2000, 1:29:34 PM, you wrote: >> hallo MANDRAKE! >> >> does someone know a good ip_alias-HOWTO for 2.2.x kernels? (the one i >> found are for 2.0.x kernels)... maybe even one for mandrake... BR> IP Aliasing (if compiled in) is supported directly by the 2.

Re: [expert] Linux as an AppleShare Server. Need Assistance and information please..

2000-08-31 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Yo-all, > > > I am working in a prepress company that utilizes Mac's as their primary > client/server solution. I have been setting up a Linux Box on a Pc in my > office and have plans on slowly integratng this "New G4" into the Server > pool, then revealing it'

Re: [expert] ip_alias

2000-08-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
> hallo MANDRAKE! > > does someone know a good ip_alias-HOWTO for 2.2.x kernels? (the one i > found are for 2.0.x kernels)... maybe even one for mandrake... IP Aliasing (if compiled in) is supported directly by the 2.2.x kernels, you don't need a separate program for handling it, just put a colo

Re: [expert] ip_alias

2000-08-31 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Patrick Erler wrote: > hallo MANDRAKE! > > does someone know a good ip_alias-HOWTO for 2.2.x kernels? (the one i > found are for 2.0.x kernels)... maybe even one for mandrake... Hmm... I believe IP aliasing did not change since 2.0. If they did, then I must have changed my

[expert] ip_alias

2000-08-31 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! does someone know a good ip_alias-HOWTO for 2.2.x kernels? (the one i found are for 2.0.x kernels)... maybe even one for mandrake... PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP: http://dresden-online.com/~perler/identity.html PGP fingerprint: DAC6 2FDA 1ED7 AD55 BD1F 5142 3D5F 72BF

Re: [expert] SCSI LVD card and Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-31 Thread adam narel
on 30/8/2000 9:44 AM, adam narel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a question regarding Mandrake 7.1 and a Adaptec AHA2940u2w SCSI card. > There are two LVD drives connected to the LVD SCSI Wide connector and three > Ultra SCSI Narrow drives connected to the Narrow connector on the card. > Du

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

2000-08-31 Thread Taczynski Pierre-Yves
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" a écrit : > > Is it my imagination or are there plenty of French-speaking messages lately? > I thought there was a separate Mandrake mail list just for our friend in > France. > > Matt Ok are you ready for the translation (I won't use babelfish)? I've got a sparc-sun-

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

2000-08-31 Thread Taczynski Pierre-Yves
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" a écrit : > > Is it my imagination or are there plenty of French-speaking messages lately? > I thought there was a separate Mandrake mail list just for our friend in > France. > > Matt Hi Matt, do you want me to translate my post? Regards. Pierre-Yves

Re: Unresolved symbols (was: RE: [expert] Mylex DAC960 rootdevice)

2000-08-31 Thread Gavin Clark
> I just gave 3c59x as an example, I get the same unresolved symbols on all my > modules. OK. I'd try man depmod man modprobe and see if that gives you any ideas. on 8/30/00 6:50 AM, John-Paul Smith wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gavin Clark > Sent

Re: [expert] Converting Partition Types

2000-08-31 Thread Chris Spencer
I thought that fdisk would be the way to do it, but none of the menu items stuck out when I took a look. At any rate, I used fdisk to make the conversion and it works great. Thanks for the help, Asheesh... -Chris On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Use fdisk. > > # fdisk > > Then type "p" to