Re: [expert] ftp automatically sets permissions as 644

2000-11-17 Thread Tom Berkley
Look in your bash documentation for using umask which is set to 022 now. Tom Berkley Scott Kopel wrote: > > when files are uploaded via ftp the permissions are automatically 644...but > I need them to be 664...how can I get the files to have 664 automatically > ... ie I don't want to have to ch

Re: [expert] Default routes to internet

2000-11-17 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 17 November 2000 06:56 pm, you wrote: > > My pppd won't connect properly in non-root mode because it has to > authenticate itself because I have a default route to the internet (eth0) == Look in /etc/ppp/options for a line saying "auth" i

[expert] emacs bug

2000-11-17 Thread gene
Has anyone else seen this bug? When I kill a moderately large region of text in emacs (~ 300k), emacs freezes. After a while the status line says : "Timed out waiting for property-notify event" but control doesn't come back, and I'm forced to kill it. --

Re: [expert] $display not set?

2000-11-17 Thread Darin
Dude, Im sure people would be more willing to respond to your messages if you'd just turn off HTML in Outlook Express.. - Original Message - From: "Brent Timmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 11:36 PM Subject: [expert] $display not set? > all

[expert] $display not set?

2000-11-17 Thread Brent Timmer
Title: alleo Okay, I was playing a simple game of pingus, and tried to exit.  It froze, and I had to force a log out.  Then, my resolution was messed up.  I went into drakconf to fix it, and it said I had to restart kdeinit.  I logged out, and restarted x server, and it seemed to go into an

[expert] Unreal Tourny + nvidia = lag

2000-11-17 Thread Brent Timmer
Title: alleo I have an athlon 800, and nvidia geforce.  I just installed unreal tournament to try it out in linux, and it lags horrendously in 640x480.  Is there something I'm doing wrong, or something I have to set up?  It says it's using sdl open gl in the preferences dialog.   Thanks in

RE: [expert] Automatic installation of MANY machines?

2000-11-17 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:34:14 "Rivera, Oscar" wrote: > you cna use cloneit look for it in freshmeat. > > > > > Is there a howto someplace or something for how to set up Mandrake > to > > do an automatic installation, only prompting say for IP address etc? > > RedHat used to have something calle

[expert] multiple partition boot woes

2000-11-17 Thread Brent Timmer
Title: alleo Ok, here's my problem, and it's not an easy one.  I just recently bought a 40 gig setup, and decided to throw linux on.  I was having a few probelms, so decided to reinstall it.  The problem comes in here.  I also have Win ME and Win2000 on here, and somehow messed up the bootse

Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?

2000-11-17 Thread Ron Heron
> > > 3. Am I right in thinking that once you are > running ext2, there is no way > > to convert those volumes to reiserFS? > > That's right. > > Alexander Skwar This is a matter of how you look at it. If you have an ext2 partition, you can make that partition reserfs. The issue is that y

Re: [expert] Two questions about cups

2000-11-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
Go to http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/#4th Till Nikodemus Karlsson wrote: > > Hi! > I have problems with network printing with cups. First I tried to configure > samba for cups According to the cups manual, all I had to do is to ensure the > print line in smb.conf is printing = cu

Re: [expert] Problem with the print quality in 7.2

2000-11-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
You have to configure the options of your printer: Web interface: http://localhost:631/printers/ Look for your printer, click "Configure printer" and set the options. kups: click with the right button on your printer, choose "Configure printer" in menu, set options. Settings needed for your pri

Re: [expert] Printer setup woes

2000-11-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
Download updated Mandrake RPMs from http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ Read my article http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/#4th Use the web interface or lpadmin for configuration. Have the PPD file which came with your printer handy and configure the printer as described

Re: [expert] Automatic installation of MANY machines?

2000-11-17 Thread Jim Fritz
I saw that too, and made one. But for the life of me, I can't find any instructions anywhere on how to use it? Larry Marshall wrote: > > > > do an automatic installation, only prompting say for IP address etc? > > > RedHat used to have something called a "kickstart" or something as I > > > reca

[expert] Default routes to internet

2000-11-17 Thread Tom Eastman
My pppd won't connect properly in non-root mode because it has to authenticate itself because I have a default route to the internet (eth0) when I type in "route" I get the usual routing information and at the bottom it says: default [blah blah] eth0 My connection dials up and works FINE if I

RE: [expert] NVIDIA question

2000-11-17 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:45:52 RaEl wrote: > NVIDIA has their own driver. Very easy to insstall. Just substitute > XF86Config-4 for XF86Config in the instructions and all should work fine. I'm > playing Quake3 and Unreal Tournament with no problems at all. > As far getting a V5500 I ask why? A

Re: [expert] NVIDIA question

2000-11-17 Thread Scott Patten
> I could give a dead rat's ass about whether a driver (or any softrware) > is GPL/OS or not. Nothing but OS/GPL FUD against NVIDIA or anyone else > who chosses to do a binary distribution. Shit we (the linux community) > scream for better hardware support from the vendors. NVIDIA ponies up >

Re: [expert] io error

2000-11-17 Thread Tib
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Kari Suomela wrote: > Delete the share on the Winx box and run Scandisk /all /autofix. Delete > all temp files, restart the machine. Recreate the share and try again. > :) This would be a plausible thing to do, if the problem was on the windows side. I was able to remount the

Re: [expert] Automatic installation of MANY machines?

2000-11-17 Thread Larry Marshall
> > do an automatic installation, only prompting say for IP address etc? > > RedHat used to have something called a "kickstart" or something as I > > recall, with a script you could use. Does Mandrake have this? > > > > I need to install about 15 machines all identical, but with different > > IP

RE: [expert] Automatic installation of MANY machines?

2000-11-17 Thread Rivera, Oscar
you cna use cloneit look for it in freshmeat. -Original Message- From: Scott Tyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Automatic installation of MANY machines? Why not use Ghost or Drive image and then boot eac

Re: [expert] software RAID - disk mirroring restore

2000-11-17 Thread Cokey de Percin
Andy Judge wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can find an article in RAID 1 restoration when hda > fails? I can't seem to find anything current. Thanks > > Andy > > > Name: message.footer

Re: [expert] NVIDIA question

2000-11-17 Thread Scott Tyson
Rubbish. I could give a dead rat's ass about whether a driver (or any softrware) is GPL/OS or not. Nothing but OS/GPL FUD against NVIDIA or anyone else who chosses to do a binary distribution. Shit we (the linux community) scream for better hardware support from the vendors. NVIDIA ponies

Re: [expert] local mail delivery agent problem

2000-11-17 Thread Ron Heron
> > Can't create transcript file ./xfeAEI8LC01988: > Permission denied queueup: > > cannot create queue temp file ./tfeAEI8LC01988, > uid=1001: Permission denied After the upgrade, make sure that the owner and the uid are correct. often an upgrade will hose up uid's. for instance, change your u

Re: [expert] Getting new motherbaord.. new isntall?

2000-11-17 Thread Scott Tyson
Cool, I won't be using any of the integratged stiff on the i815e chipset, all periferals will remail the same. I am running kudzu (thats the new hardware detection?) since I swapped NICs two weeks ago and Mandrake didn't even blink. It dropped the tulip module and put in the Intel module, all

[expert] PPP connexion

2000-11-17 Thread Dominique-Cousin
bonjour, équipé d'une configuration Linux (Mandrake 7.1), je ne parviens pas à configurer les paramètres adéquats pour la connexion à Wanadoo pourriez-vous m'indiquer les valeurs à fixer dans les fichiers de configuration, notamment en utilisant les outils netconf et linuxconf (en mode commande,

Re: [expert] NVIDIA question

2000-11-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 17 November 2000 11:45 am, RaEl wrote: > NVIDIA has their own driver. Very easy to insstall. Just substitute > XF86Config-4 for XF86Config in the instructions and all should work > fine. I'm playing Quake3 and Unreal Tournament with no problems at > all. As far getting a V5500 I ask w

Re: [expert] Getting new motherbaord.. new isntall?

2000-11-17 Thread Wayne Stout
Scott Tyson wrote: > > I'm going to be getting a new MB soon. Most likely an ASUS CUSL2. My > question is how will Mandrake respond to me swapping out my ASUS P2B > for the new MB? I know Windows wont have any issues since I've done it > before but I've never done it with Linux. Will I have t

[expert] ftp automatically sets permissions as 644

2000-11-17 Thread Scott Kopel
when files are uploaded via ftp the permissions are automatically 644...but I need them to be 664...how can I get the files to have 664 automatically ... ie I don't want to have to chmod them all the time.. thanks Scott Kopel English Department-FSU Phone 850 644 6177 Keep in touch with http

[expert] Getting new motherbaord.. new isntall?

2000-11-17 Thread Scott Tyson
I'm going to be getting a new MB soon. Most likely an ASUS CUSL2. My question is how will Mandrake respond to me swapping out my ASUS P2B for the new MB? I know Windows wont have any issues since I've done it before but I've never done it with Linux. Will I have to do a new install? Keep

[expert] software RAID - disk mirroring restore

2000-11-17 Thread Andy Judge
Does anyone know where I can find an article in RAID 1 restoration when hda fails? I can't seem to find anything current. Thanks Andy Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Xfree864 Voodoo3 and 3Dfx.o

2000-11-17 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I have a clean, normal installation. I just "upgraded" from mdk7.0 and I want to play myth2. So I downloaded the kernel module driver from linux.3dfx.com, compiled, replaced glide with the glide from the website and installed myth2. Myth2 runs great. However, the problem is (this may

RE: [expert] NVIDIA question

2000-11-17 Thread RaEl
NVIDIA has their own driver. Very easy to insstall. Just substitute XF86Config-4 for XF86Config in the instructions and all should work fine. I'm playing Quake3 and Unreal Tournament with no problems at all. As far getting a V5500 I ask why? A Geforce2 MX costs about a 100-120 bucks for a 32

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2000-11-17 Thread Tom Berkley
3C905 NIC's work with Mandrake and Redhat and Debian just fine. 3C905B also works just fine and you are receiving this through one of each of these. The 3C905C however has problems, don't know what the specific problem is, but for now it is better to avoid the C edition. Tom Berkley Jeff Hoffman

[expert] io error

2000-11-17 Thread Kari Suomela
Wednesday November 15 2000 19:54, Tib wrote to All: T> I recently used mount to mount a shared windows folder on my linux T> box T> using the command 'mount -t smbfs -o username=*,password=* T> //tib/c /xchnge/'. everything worked fine until I powercycled the T> windows box without

Re: [expert] Unable to mount root filesystem?!?!

2000-11-17 Thread jiva
Okay, but how can I do this easily for 20 other identical machines. Isn't there some way I can specify some specific kernel in the install or something? On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:39:40AM +0100, civileme wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Greetings! I have been trying to install LM 7.2

[expert] Desktop assignments

2000-11-17 Thread Charles Curley
A question for you Xperts: I have eight desktops on my display, using KDE, and I use all eight. Is there any way to specify which desktop a program should display on? For example, I may want emacs on desktop one, applix on desktop 2, etc, and I'd like to launch them all using a script at log-in t

[expert] Xhost Configuration

2000-11-17 Thread SoloCDM
I read the documentation for xhost and executed different types of its command, I'm able to get INET working, but LOCAL won't work. I'm using the following syntax in a user's account for the local FQDN: xhost $(hostname -f):[user]@ The following results are produced: xhost: unknown address fa

[expert] kpackage start error?

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Malka
When from a su konsole under kde 2 (Mandrake 7.2) i start kpackage, it starts correctly, but only after the konsole window writes the following error message: _IceTransOpen: Unable to Parse address none Session management error: Could not open network socket Unknown child process 1080 died Wh

Re: [expert] Bloody 'ls'

2000-11-17 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 17 Nov, Jasenko Blazevic wrote: > What's wrong with 'ls'? I'm not sure is this normal behaviour in Mandrake > beacuse 7.2 is my first distribution. When I was using RH 'ls' worked > correctly. I tried everything and still can't figure out how to sort files > the way RH does. What I used to s

Re: [expert] Configuring ATI 128 on thinkpad

2000-11-17 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 16 Nov, Leopold Palomo wrote: > Hi, I have updated my hardware with a ATI 128, and the mdk 7.2 recognizes it > without problem. I think that the server is the XSVGA and the driver is the > r128. If you want, I can send you my Xconfig to compare. > > Best regards, Yes, please. Does this do ac

Re: [expert] Has anyone ever clustered Mandrake servers?

2000-11-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach J . A . Magallon am Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:53:04AM +0100: > In rpmfind.net you have the kernel-mosix and mosix-utils packages, ready for > building a mosix-type cluster. In cooker (or contrib) you can also find a mosix kernel. Don't know about mosix-utils, but I would suppose that the

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Hoffman
Pj, As I said it works with Turbo Linux just not Mandrake. Turbo Linux just does not have a clean interface for IP masqurading. So the card works in the hardware I have Mandrake does not! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I just kinda got into the tail end of this conversation. I'm just

[expert] ISDN works with ISP, but cannot connect to external networks

2000-11-17 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Hi there, I've used Mandrake 7.2 to get my ISDN-card working (a Dynalink PHP64), but it couldn't do the job. So I've manually edited the ISDN4Linux config files and now my ISDN connection with my ISP works. Sort off. The card is recongized (Winbond chipset). I can get an connection with my ISP

[expert] Problem with the print quality in 7.2

2000-11-17 Thread traun
I recently changed to mandrake 7.2 and everything's works fine except the printer. The problem is that the quality of the print is pore very pore, and I don't know how to change it. I am using a Desk Jet HP 850c attached over the network, and it worked fine in mandrake 7.1 so if anyone knows how t

Re: [expert] Problem with wu-ftp

2000-11-17 Thread Dave Waggle
ahh...that mystical /etc/ftponly 'shell'...let me know if you find it! I had 2.6.0 installed...could never get the guest user to work right under mandrake...'can't set guest privileges' was always returned and I got logged out, locally and remotely. Then I learned of the buffer overflow exploit i

Re: [expert] Has anyone ever clustered Mandrake servers?

2000-11-17 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:11:47 James Little wrote: > We have 4 identical poweredge Xeon 550 machines. They each have two network > cards, and are on their own 10 port switch. The database we had them > running has now moved to a single quad processor 733 machine. They're > sitting there now with

Re: [expert] Unable to mount root filesystem?!?!

2000-11-17 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Greetings! I have been trying to install LM 7.2 on some SGI 1200 > servers. These are 2U rack mount boxes. The machines vary between > having either an Adaptec SCSI controller or a MYLEX RAID controller. > They are DUAL CPU boxes, and are identical to the VA Linux

Re: [expert] lpr doesn't work anymore, error: no default destination available

2000-11-17 Thread Trevor Farrell
I'm no expert on this, but I'll have a guess that you named your printer something other than "lp". lpr uses "lp" as its default printer, and gets upset if it can't find one! I know that at install time it tells you to use a pipe "|" to asign more than one name if you want something more descript

Re: [expert] mdk 7.1 install

2000-11-17 Thread Trevor Farrell
Maximo, That happened to me also - I solved it by editing the lilo.conf file to remove any reference to "ide0=autotune" and "ide1=autotune". Dont forget to run lilo after the edit like I did :( These to appends caused this problem on my desktop machine, and my laptop was not able to reliably a

RE: [expert] NVIDIA question

2000-11-17 Thread Rial Juan
Check the nvidia website; they have their own drivers for 4.0. On Nov 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Instead of using nvidia's card, try 3dfx voodoo 5500 card, it works great on > my linux box running mandrake 7.1. > > -bunty > > > -Original Message- > From: Francois Pons [mailto:[EMAI