Re: [expert] KDE : missing font 'fixed'

2000-10-05 Thread Andrew Post
Are you using XFree 4.0 perchance? You have to go to /usr/lib/X11/fonts. In one of the directories, you'll find an *.rpmnew file. Overwrite the current file with the rpmnew file, and restart xfs and X. Andrew LINK WORLD wrote: > > Dear Expert, > > Although Mandrake (7.0) is remarkable stable d

[expert] KDE : missing font 'fixed'

2000-10-05 Thread LINK WORLD
Dear Expert, Although Mandrake (7.0) is remarkable stable despite several power interuptions, my system sort of crashed the last time. KDE does not come up. I get Gdk-ERROR**: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) and while usind DrakConf I get 'try changing some parame

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 bus errors up the yingyang

2000-10-05 Thread Vic
Uhhh is it somewhere near the armpits? On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Matthew Persico wrote: > > And where exactly is the 'yingyang' on the human body? > > :-\ > > -- > Matthew O. Persico > > "If you were supposed to understand it, > we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx > > NetZero Free

Re: [expert] kcore files

2000-10-05 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
Bill, Thanks, I was wondering why so much space was being wasted, Now I better not worry about it. Cheers Sridhar - Original Message - From: "Bill Piety" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:34 AM Subject: RE: [expert] kcore files > kcore's no

[expert] Can you switch desktop environments without logging out?

2000-10-05 Thread Stefan Srdic
I got this little peice of info from http://www.gnome.org/faqs/users-faq/starting.html the Gnome users FAQ. Red Hat and Mandrake Red Hat Linux and Linux Mandrake both come with an application called switchdesk. This can be started within X or run from outside it and lets you alter

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 bus errors up the yingyang

2000-10-05 Thread Matthew Persico
And where exactly is the 'yingyang' on the human body? :-\ -- Matthew O. Persico "If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_ Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Request a CDR

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 bus errors up the yingyang

2000-10-05 Thread Matthew Persico
Charles Curley wrote: > Seriously, I don't know why anyone other than a recent Windows refugee > uses Netscape's email client. It's buggy and very limited compared to what > the combination of, say, mutt, fetchmail, procmail and sendmail can do. Well, there are we folks who dual boot, dial our

[expert] Installing Sendmail 8.11.1.tar.gz

2000-10-05 Thread mrweb
Hello, I am wanting to replace my Sendmail 8.10.* with the new version of Sendmail 8.11.1.tar.gz, which I have downloaded, from the Sendmail web site. My 8.10.* version (from my 7.1 install) has a peculiar characteristic to it, which is that it has a config file of a version (8) and it tells me

Re: [expert] Security levels? - aside: quote trouble

2000-10-05 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: [expert] Security levels? - aside: quote trouble

2000-10-05 Thread billk
Wrong quotes - use single backquotes (`) which in the webmail client I am using are not obvious (the one on the key next to the "1" key in other words. These tell the shell to execute the string within and replace the string with the output of that command. BillK > > cool trick: > ls -l `which

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 [snip] JosephI run a scsi

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-05 Thread Stefan Srdic
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 > Enter the following bo

Re: [expert] Security levels? - aside: quote trouble

2000-10-05 Thread Gavin Clark
cool trick: ls -l `which telnet` but it didn't work for me. I seem to run into this a lot. is there some speacial kind of single quote character I don't know about? Gavin on 10/5/00 4:49 AM, Buchan Milne wrote: > Telnet and ftp may be accessible to users in the "ntools" group (check > with

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-05 Thread rich Malloy
I've had both working under red hat 6.2, just switch to Mandrake and there not working. But I believe it can be done. :-> What I was thinking of looking at was kernel parameters for the scsi over ide stuff that cdrecord and other software wants. Rich. "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > Is is possibl

[expert] Compile of Gimp

2000-10-05 Thread Mogens Jæger
Hey list I have been trying to compile Gimp to support my dual-Celleron, on a Mandrake 7.2 beta3, with almost everything installed from 2 CD's. I am using the 'new' Gimp-1.1.27 version, which should be corrected for perl-problems, but when I run a "./compile --with-treads --with-mp" I get the foll

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-05 Thread Cecil Watson
You're right it doesn't make sense. I have an IDE CD and IDE CDRW both at home and at work "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > remove the regular CD rom. Thi

[expert] questions...

2000-10-05 Thread Ken Arromdee
I don't have Mandrake right now. I do, however, have Red Hat 6.0 and am intending to upgrade in the near future. Does anyone know: -- If Mandrake is compatible enough with Red Hat that I can do the kind of upgrade that keeps some configuration files. -- If there is an upgrade option which lets m

Re: [expert] usb video camera

2000-10-05 Thread Buchan Milne
Check your model and look at http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html If your camera is the one supported, you should be able to get it detected by the stock mandrake kernel by: "modprobe ov511" I have a creative webcam 3 running motion (http://motion.technolust.cx/) and mpeg_encode on a P60 w

[expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-05 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. I'm running Mandrake 7.1 Thanks, -- Joseph S Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby

[expert] Panel menu editor

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Malka
In Mandrake distribution 7.1, the KDE panel menu seems to have a problem. The regular "menu editor" (Kmenu>Configuration>Other>Menu editor) is present and works fine. But, the menu editor to edit the Panel menus (Kmenu>PanelConfiguration>Other>Menu editor. It is, I believe, for editing the bott

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Re: [expert] shell programing & linux system adminitration book

2000-10-05 Thread Leopold Palomo
Hi, I recomend you two books: paper, Carling, M.; Degler, Stephen; Dennis, James: "Linux System Administration". Ed New Riders. 2000 A very good book. electronical, Wirzenius, Lars: "Linux System Administrators' Guide". LDP. 1997 You can find it in more or less all distributions or http://www

[expert] Re:How do I get system to beep?

2000-10-05 Thread paddock
Hi -- The command 'echo -e "\a"' makes a "beep" on the speaker. HTH. -- --Paddock --- Registered Linux user 190974 ( 2000-Oct-05 ). Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 on Mandrake 7.1 with RPM

2000-10-05 Thread Alex Willmer
I have downloaded the latest version of initscript - in for a penny in for pound. However the rpmlib problem remains mandrake 7.1 comes with rpm-3.0.4-0.12mdk this is newer than rpm 3.0.3-1 looking closer at the console output below it actually says less than. Is this a mistake or do these package

RE: [expert] kcore files

2000-10-05 Thread Bill Piety
kcore's not a physical file - don't look to /proc to clean up your disk. It's going to be roughly the size of your physical RAM. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Govindarajulu Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:09 PM To: Mandrake

HTML Mail (was: [expert] Sendmail setup)

2000-10-05 Thread Charles Curley
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[expert] Hughes DirectDuo Service

2000-10-05 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: [expert] KDE header files ??

2000-10-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, you wrote: What ver. QT do you have? Have any output from the log? I'm > > only familiar with kdirstat as a KDE 1.x app. > Bill Piety qt2-2.2-2mdk qt-1.44-28mdk qtcups-1.0-8mdk qt-qimgio-1.44-28mdk qt-qgl-1.44-28mdk qt-devel-1.44-28mdk qt2-devel-2.2-2mdk Yes, 'kdirstat'

Re: [expert] Sendmail setup

2000-10-05 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Alexander Skwar wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:12:30PM -0400, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > Well, quite informative. > > PS: Not everyone can or wants to read HTML junk in mails. I don't wa

Re: [expert] Sendmail setup

2000-10-05 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Alexander Skwar wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:12:30PM -0400, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > Well, quite informative. > > PS: Not everyone can or wants to read HTML junk in mails. I don't wa

Re: [expert] Security levels?

2000-10-05 Thread Buchan Milne
Telnet and ftp may be accessible to users in the "ntools" group (check with "ls -l `which telnet`" to see what the permissions are). I know gcc etc are only available to members of the "ctools" group. I am not sure about printing, but you might want to check the permissions on the /var/spool/lpd d

[expert] How can I get my Merlin card working under LM7.1?

2000-10-05 Thread Deno
How can I get my Merlin card working under LM7.1? (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001004114122) timothy writes "Greetings, and thanks again for this cool forum! Here's a question: I have a Merlin Type II wireless internet access card, with service from Verizon (formerly known