Re: [expert] aic7xxx module problems.. How can I turn it off?

2000-10-22 Thread eastie
I've played with a bunch of the settings in the SCSI card bios to no avail.. Nothing seems out of place or to be configured incorrectly.. And it's weird because, again, it always works fine in windows but only works intermittently in Mandrake. Could someone out there help me work around this

Re: [expert] aic7xxx module problems.. How can I turn it off?

2000-10-22 Thread BillK
Have you checked lilo.conf or grubs menu.lst (whichever yu are using) - sounds like the install program detected it and set it up to init the card before booting. BillK Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Sorting order...1 10 2 20 3 30

2000-10-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach scrapmetaldevil am Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:50:01AM -0400: Is it just me, or is this persistent via UNIX/Linux type systems? When listing or sorting items by the command ls. kmail, or just about anything, numbers are sorted by the first digit. That's nothing UNIX-special. What you

Re: [expert] Troubles with ISDN and CD-Writing (fwd)

2000-10-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Charles A Edwards am Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 08:22:50AM -0400: Even though cdrecord is showing only 10% cpu usage it will still hijack all the cpus it can and hold them in reserve moreover it will take up most of your System Resourses which is a combination of cpu, memory, cashe, etc.

[expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Hi, After I formay it with "fdformat /dev/fd0H1440", how do I create a filesystem on it? Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some other mk* command that I haven't found? Thanks, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:39:26AM -0500: Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some other mk* command that I haven't found? For FAT/VFAT it would be mkdosfs, but besides this, you're correct Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

[expert] Limit telnet access

2000-10-22 Thread José Antonio Jiménez Berni
Is is possible to disable the telnet remote access to certain users in a Linux system? I mean, to say what users can remotely access to the computer and who cannot. Thanks! -- La frase célebre para hoy es 2+1=3. 3+1=4. 4+1=4. Well! let's name it Pentium!! Keep in touch with

[expert] Fw: mail server problem

2000-10-22 Thread rharvey
- Original Message - From: "rharvey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 11:16 PM Subject: mail server problem I have a linuxmandrake box. newest version... Linux uses postfix for a mail server. I think I have set it up to handle mail. I believe my current problem is

Re: [expert] Limit telnet access

2000-10-22 Thread Stew Benedict
"man login" will give you the scoop. The file /etc/usertty allows you to setup quite elaborate definitions of host, groups, and users that are able to login to the system. HTH Stew Benedict The power in technology lies in getting it to work the way you do, we can help. Stew

RE: [expert] Limit telnet access

2000-10-22 Thread Makis Marmaridis
Try reading through the /etc/security/access.conf file for examples of syntax on how to disallow logins (console and remote). Cheers, Makis. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of José Antonio Jiménez Berni Sent: Sunday, 22 October 2000

Re: [expert] Troubles with ISDN and CD-Writing (fwd)

2000-10-22 Thread Chang F.K.K.
Alexander Skwar wrote: Well, but that's very hardly noticeable. Sure, every program grabs as much of the CPU, memory, cache etc.pp. as it can get, but cdrecord definitely isn't the worst example. No I agree... I don't think it's CPU related: I am looking in the direction of interrupts

[expert] Memory Size

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Mings
A lot of earlier linux books indicate that the kernel does not properly understand memory greater than 64 megs unless you add a memory size statement to lilo or at a boot prompt. I am running Mandrake 7 on one machine with 320 megs of memory. Using the kde system info (memory) panel it gives

Re: [expert] Troubles with ISDN and CD-Writing (fwd)

2000-10-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Chang F.K.K. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 02:36:59PM +0200: I narrowed down the problem to the following situation: it only happens when I do *data* burning *on the fly*, i.e. directly from cd-rom to cd-rw (audio on-the-fly would probably cause the same but I don't do that). Hmm, are

[expert] installing ssh

2000-10-22 Thread mrweb
Hi, I downloaded new openssl and openssh for my 7.1 os. I installed openssl etc, and when I went to install openssh I got the following unsatisfied dependency error. `rpmlib versioned unsatisfied dependencies =3.0.3_1' When I downloaded the rpm's for openssh, it listed the required

Re: [expert] Memory Size

2000-10-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Eric Mings am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:39:36AM -0400: Mandrake 7 on one machine with 320 megs of memory. Using the kde system info (memory) panel it gives what appears to be inconsistent Don't know about this KDE memory thingy, but type in "free" at a prompt. The very first

Re: [expert] installing ssh

2000-10-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach mrweb am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 01:42:09AM -0700: Where can I find `rpmlib 3.03_1? FAQ: In rpm = 3.0.4 Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191 Keep in

[expert] drakboot - making boot floppy

2000-10-22 Thread Roland Hightower
Has anyone had any problems making a boot floopy or formatting a floppy with ext2 file system with drakboot? After trying, when I go to mount the floppy I get an error saying 'wrong fs type, bad super block, or too many mounted file systems'. If I format the floppy with a dos fs, the floppy is

Re: [expert] Memory Size

2000-10-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 05:46:44PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Eric Mings am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:39:36AM -0400: Mandrake 7 on one machine with 320 megs of memory. Using the kde system info (memory) panel it gives what appears to be inconsistent Don't know about this KDE

[expert] X configuration still a pain in the ....

2000-10-22 Thread Eric Mings
I recently made the mistake of trying to change monitors on a linux box I have. Since then I have had nothing but grief. The original install process of Mandrake does a fairly good job of setting up X, but trying to upgrade something later still seems a lot of voodoo. I tried using XF86Setup

Re: [expert] drakboot - making boot floppy

2000-10-22 Thread Ted Wager
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Roland Hightower wrote: Has anyone had any problems making a boot floopy or formatting a floppy with ext2 file system with drakboot? After trying, when I go to mount the floppy I get an error saying 'wrong fs type, bad super block, or too many mounted file systems'.

[expert] Problem with tcsh init files

2000-10-22 Thread gene
I'm having trouble using the tcsh shell. Specifically, the shell init files have been giving me errors. I tried playing around with them, but haven't had much luck. I'm used to these files being in csh syntax, but the ones in the Mandrake installation seem to be in bash format, and that seems

Re: [expert] Gnu Privacy Guard 1.0.3

2000-10-22 Thread Stephen Carville
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: - PGP sure is free. I'm running right now on my machine. Both PGPcmndln and - PGP4Pine. Both operate quite well on this Mandrake machine. PGP works fine on Linux and there are Freeware versions. It is a good program. However, now that the RSA patent has

Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the ....

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Stewart
I try to avoid booting into a graphical login...I have seen it cause too many problems, one of which is what you're describing. When you change monitors, it is easiest to log into a terminal (init 3) and vi the /etc/X11/XF86Config (or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) file(s) to reflect the new monitor's

Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:39:26AM -0500: Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some other mk* command that I haven't found? For FAT/VFAT it would be mkdosfs, but besides this, you're correct What's the difference

Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the ....

2000-10-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the I try to avoid booting into a graphical login...I have seen it cause too many problems, one of which

Re: [expert] installing ssh

2000-10-22 Thread mrweb
Ahh thanks, :) I have searched for that one, but not located it. thanks anyway, mrweb Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach mrweb am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 01:42:09AM -0700: Where can I find `rpmlib 3.03_1? FAQ: In rpm = 3.0.4 Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

Re: [expert] 7.1 on 486

2000-10-22 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 1:10 AM Subject: RE: [expert] 7.1 on 486 mandrake 7.1 will install and run on a 486. I've got an IBM sitting in my dinning room with Mandrake 7.1 on

Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the ....

2000-10-22 Thread Doug McGarrett
I'm not sure whether it's "Charles" or Greg Stewart I'm addressing this to, but how does one do an interactive startup? Thanx. --doug, wa2say At 16:15 10/22/2000 -0400, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October

Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the ....

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Stewart
When the services start booting (you'll start seeing the list of things with [ OK ] next to them, hit the 'I' key (caps doesn't matter) and you be prompted to start of stop each service as it is encountered in the init scripts. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Doug McGarrett" [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Wordperfect Office 2000 on 7.2beta3?

2000-10-22 Thread Joachim von Jena
Larry Marshall wrote: xfstt is afaik the 1st or one of the 1st free true type rasterisers available, GPL. What is it that makes you think WPO is looking for this on your system? Sorry, this was an error I made (not Bill Piety's [EMAIL PROTECTED]) when analysing my SuSE 6.4 installation

[expert] WPO 2000/PhotoPaint on LM 7.1?

2000-10-22 Thread Joachim von Jena
Larry Marshall wrote: There is a notorious problem with the installation of the FontTastic Font Server on non-Debian-based distros. I have no problem with this under LM7.1. I have no problems anymore under SuSE 6.4 (SMP kernels: 2.2.14 or 2.2.17) with WPO 2000 (german) or PhotoPaint

Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the ....

2000-10-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
It was me Charles During boot just after the kernel is uncompressed and the system checks your drives you will see the Line "Welcome to Linux-Mandrake. Enter [I] for Interactive Startup" You will then see a listings of processes as they are being started with the notation of either OK or

Re: [expert] X configuration still a pain in the ....

2000-10-22 Thread Ron Marriage
I've changed monitors several times due to demoing linux in different places. I use linuxconf to set the boot mode to 3 then when I start linux with the new monitor, I run xf86config from the console. When I have X running with startx they way I want, I use linuxconf to reset the boot mode back

Re: [expert] WPO 2000/PhotoPaint on LM 7.1?

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
I have no problems anymore under SuSE 6.4 (SMP kernels: 2.2.14 or 2.2.17) with WPO 2000 (german) or PhotoPaint (english) after finding Corel's install script for non-Debian distros. This is interesting. I just got a CD with SuSE7.0 from the latest Linux Format but I haven't done anything

[expert] Linuxconf Problem

2000-10-22 Thread Charles Curley
This is a problem with Linuxconf on Mandrake 6.1, so with any luck it has already been repaired. I installed the dhcp server on my system, and everything appeard to run fine. Then I found myself rebooting from time to time, and noticed that, while the Sys V startup sequence said dhcpd started

RE: [expert] rtl8139

2000-10-22 Thread Phil Connor
Have you tried editing the file and removing one? guran remberg wrote: Or thought about the fact the NIC might be bad Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #189889 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] WPO 2000/PhotoPaint on LM 7.1?

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
I have no problems anymore under SuSE 6.4 (SMP kernels: 2.2.14 or 2.2.17) with WPO 2000 (german) or PhotoPaint (english) after finding Corel's install script for non-Debian distros. My brain just integrated this. I've got a "Red Hat" distribution with my WPO CD. Are you talking about the

[expert] docs on linux file account permission

2000-10-22 Thread faisal
can anyone tell me the exact link on docs on linux file account permission ? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] 7.2 RC1 Problems

2000-10-22 Thread Cecil Watson
RC1 is great! But for reasons unknown after rebooting this afternoon it is stuck after bringing up mouse services. Anyone else run across this problem? Going to try to disable gpm on boot... Cecil Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 Problems

2000-10-22 Thread Cecil Watson
Moving on...now the problem is with proftpd. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] 3com NIC doesn't work in Mandrake7.1

2000-10-22 Thread Tyler Longren
Hi everybody, I've got a 3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI TX Nic (3C905B-TX). This card works fine in WinME. The kernel module I'm using is 3c59x. I used Webmin for my first time, and it said that the nic wasn't even started. When I enable it, I get the following error: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource