Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-10 Thread Woody Green
Homepage: http://www.openssh.com/ In short, ssh works similar to telnet. The difference is that with telnet, you feed the login name at a prompt. With ssh, you give the login name on the command line. (ssh user@host) ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you omit the username (ssh deathstar.empire.com

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread Muzza
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:42, Pierre Fortin wrote: > chronos wrote: > > Hi all, > > Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen > > we see anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? > > Like for instance get the ip address and apply an ipchain rule t

Re: [expert] Making an MP3 box... suggestions needed

2001-01-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Sunday 07 January 2001 12:35, you wrote: > You'll be able to play MP3's on the Pentium CPU since it has a math > co-prossecor, but unless you've got a DMA capable hard drive and lots of > RAM the songs will play back real choppy. You need to first load the Speaking from personal experience, M

[expert] 7.2 update: hang at console login

2001-01-10 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hi everyone. I went through a rough upgrade from 7.1 _> 7.2 recently. The problem that I now have is that when I login from console (level 3), it takes my username and password and then just hangs. I am also unable to login remotely form ssh. When I try to reboot the machine (using ALT+SysR

[expert] New Motherboard

2001-01-10 Thread Joseph Red
I'm getting a new motherboard, and I'm planning to possibly put it in my Linux box tonight. It's an Abit BE-6 2, with onboard udma66. I'm not going to be using those at first, I'm just going to stick w/ standard IDE until I get new drives. A bunch of background for a simple question. Can I swa

Re: [expert] gtk in Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-10 Thread Woody Green
I do not know if it is setup as such, but you can grab from CD or an ftp site the gtk SRPM (src.rpm) abd run: rpm --install gtk*src.rpm And then in /usr/src/RPM/SPECS will be the spec file which has the configure line used to compile the package. If you feel so inclined and a change is needed,

[expert] pop3 session times out with 7.1

2001-01-10 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hello. I am running a 7.1 box and connecting to it from my network over an internal interface (192.168.1.1). I have noticed that many times my pop3 sessions will seem to connect but will not authenticate or download mail. I telnetted into port 110 directly and it seems to hang after sending

Re: [expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-10 Thread Mike MacCana
Openssh.org, as well as linux.com can provide you with some good guides. Mark Weaver wrote: > I've been looking for info on how to get started with ssh, but I can't > seem to find any anywhere. could someone give me a hand and get me > started? > > thanks, > > -- > Mark > > "If you don't share y

Re: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
Yeah, I tried to no avail. Hell, html doesn't work either - at least not if I select an html or htm link in Kmail. If I select a link in mail, it looks like the system tries to download the page instead of loading it. Konqueror never appears with the html rendered. If I open konqueror and t

Re: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-10 Thread Michael O'Henly
Hi... I get this from time to time (with KDE2.1 beta 1). I'm thinking it's due to some condition in the environment (maybe a memory leak) because sometimes it goes away after logging out and and back in. Here's a URL that's doing it right now: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~djf01/body-1.

RE: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
On the konqueror tool bar menu choose Settings/Congigure/browser, click on the Java/Java script tab. Under Global Settings enable both options. The panel should also show Java as auto detected. The above are the settings I use and I am able to access my blind HotMail account using konqueror.

Re: [expert] Stop X11 and KDM from listening

2001-01-10 Thread Amit Bapat
Not really. Start your X server with -nolisten tcp and it won't listen on the tcp port anymore. This you can accomplish by modifying your startx script(bad idea!) or writing a global xserverrc file and putting right commands to start X there. Look man pages for startx and X for more info. I do

Re: [expert] Partition Fix?

2001-01-10 Thread Ron Stodden
mrc wrote: > Is there a way to repair this without reformatting the entire harddrive. (I've >backed up my Linux stuff but would lose some Win95 stuff.) You will have to go out and buy Partition Magic to diagnose and (possibly) fix it. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]

Re: [expert] Warning: /dev/hde is not on the first disk . . . . LILOproblem!

2001-01-10 Thread Ron Stodden
Robert Fox wrote: > LM 7.2 installed flawlessly on the /dev/hde device (same one) but when I do > lilo -v , I get a Warning: /dev/hde is not on the first disk. This is an old message still there from a very old version of lilo. Just ignore it. lilo can now be on any drive. -- Regards, Ro

Re: [expert] Adding TrueType fonts to LM 7.2

2001-01-10 Thread b5dave
Hate to be a party pooper here, but adding fonts to LM 7.2 and adding fonts to Wordperfect (7-8) for Linux are two entirely different things. In Wordperfect, font rasterization (both display and printing) is handled by Wordperfect exclusively, and it does not support True Type. But you can find Ty

Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread Bill Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've d/l'ed and decompressed the 2.4 Kernal to /root/linux. When I try to > make config, it tells me "No such file or directory". What gives? I'm > running LM7.2. I use the 'howto' at http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jandr/Mandrake.htm to compile and install a 2.4 ker

Re: [expert] Stop X11 and KDM from listening

2001-01-10 Thread Luis Chardon
I think kdm is listening for a request for a remote XDMCP connection for a remote login session. Luis On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, duane voth wrote: > Bryan Brown wrote: > > > I did a nmap scan and noticed that X11 is listening on > > port 6000 and kdm is listening on port 1024. Are these > > daemons

[expert] TTF's crash my xfs

2001-01-10 Thread Jason Straight
Every time I try to select a TTF from within drakfont or gimp xfs dies and has to be restarted so I delete all my ttf fonts till I find out what's causing this. Any ideas? Thanks -- Jason Straight NMO.net Chief Network Engineer/Programmer

Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 8000 1400x1050 LCD Modelines?

2001-01-10 Thread Jason Straight
Actually I got it to work - 1400x1050 is nice ;) email me off list when you get ready if ya need help I'll send ya my XF86Config. I found most all I needed searching deja.com Robin Dunn wrote: >> I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook with a 1400x1050 display, and an >> ATI Rage 128 32MB gfx ca

RE: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread ageorge
Hassle is as follows cd test (a blank directory) mv /download/linux-2.4.0.tgz ./ (can't remember if it was a tgz or tar.gz) tar xvzf linux-2.4.0.tgz then look at the structure it unloads to...you find test-| |-linux-| |-kernel-2.4.0-| |-usual Kernel

Re: [expert] Fwd: Installation classes and security levels

2001-01-10 Thread Charles Baker
Well, I had installed from ftp not a CD. Plus, I didn't even know the name of the security package until I got the msec.ps. Oh well, I know where to look now. --- Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Micene wrote: > > > On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:56 am, you wrote: > > > Thanks,

[expert] ssh instead of telnet

2001-01-10 Thread Mark Weaver
I've been looking for info on how to get started with ssh, but I can't seem to find any anywhere. could someone give me a hand and get me started? thanks, -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

[expert] I can't get users to have cgi access on their web pages

2001-01-10 Thread Vic
I did the linuxconf thing, checked suexec and cgi access and even made a path for one of the users on my web server, root can have it on /home/httpd/cgi-bin but none of my users can, why is it too hard? Need help

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
chronos wrote: > > Hi all, > Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see >anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get >the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block that specific ip address ? Would >that work or

[expert] build auto-install floppies

2001-01-10 Thread David Perry
I have done an expert install to generate an "auto install" floppy. I can edit the config file on the floppy to tweak it. Is there a reference for the guidelines of this setup? Specifically I would like to add an additional nfs mount directive. One is setup because I am doing the install from nf

Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread Kelley Terry
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 11:40 am, you wrote: > That's the problem. the readme's installation has this line in it "Do NOT > use the usr/src/linux area!..." No problem at all. I followed the readme instructions to and only added a make clean to the instructions. Read the instructions again

[expert] non-glibc2.2 cups-1.1.5-5.mdk

2001-01-10 Thread William Bouterse
>Mogens Jæger spake; > I have tried to upgrade to the CUPS-1.1.5, but then I have to upgrade the > glibc to 2.2 first, Greetings! I am not using glibc 2.2 ! I am using cups-1.1.5-3mdk et. al. from the "unsupported list" which is supported very well by Till, Chris and others. Try an ftp at a

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Look up "squirm" at freshmeat. Its a redirector you use with the squid proxy (a simple perl script is also included in the squid docs which worked on 7.1, failed on 7.2, dont know why!). Basicly replaces a web page/graphic/whatever coming in with a replacement of your choice based on a regex. P

RE: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-10 Thread Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA
I also have this problem. It appears that something is being done that Konqueror does not support. Jon H. -Original Message- From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: KDE general mailing list Subject: [expert] Wha

Re: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-10 Thread Charles Baker
I don't use KDE and Konqueror, but this sounds like a mime-type/file association problem. Can you configure such in Konqueror like you can in Netscape? --- Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.2.17, KDE 2.1 on > both a laptop and a > desktop machine. T

[expert] Warning: /dev/hde is not on the first disk . . . . LILO problem!

2001-01-10 Thread Robert Fox
Ok, here goes: Asus A7V MB, IBM 30 Gig on Promise ATA controller, IBM 20 Gig on onboard controller. Everything boots from the Promise controller (ATA/100) including BootMagic. LM 7.2 installed flawlessly on the /dev/hde device (same one) but when I do lilo -v , I get a Warning: /dev/hde is n

[expert] evil spawn of httpd and ssl

2001-01-10 Thread William Bouterse
I have had no luck restoring my secure web-server. If I have to reinstall I will. However since first rpm -Uvh the openssl-0.9.6-4mdk I have had problems. I removed that one and reinstalled the openssl-0.9.5a-8mdk Still no luck and now on reboot I am getting multiple httpd starts /var/log/messag

Re: [expert] SSH port forwarding

2001-01-10 Thread Tom Schutter
I would highly recommend NOT doing it in the config file. If you do, you will only be about to run one instance of ssh at a time. When you try to run the second instance while the first is running, it will fail trying to redirect the port again. It gives some obtuse error message (that I don't

Re: [expert] rpm error msg?

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
Ron Stodden wrote: > I download the RPMs with rsync and then manually separate them out to > another place and into subdirectories by product (cups, kde2.1, alsa, > XFree86, etc), in the process removing older duplicates. The first thing I want to do with any compressed archive is list its conte

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 10 Jan, chronos . wrote: > Hi all, > Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see >anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get >the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block that specific ip address ? Would >th

Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

2001-01-10 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
Tom, I ruled out RAM 'casue I swapped RAM from another computer and still the same. I installed AMD boxed CPU which comes with a fan from AMD. It was working fine for 2 months. My CPU is fully utilized 'cause I run setiathome. I am now hoping it's the Motherboard. I can run down to Phoenix and ge

Re: [expert] Stop X11 and KDM from listening

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
Bryan Brown wrote: > I did a nmap scan and noticed that X11 is listening on > port 6000 and kdm is listening on port 1024. Are these > daemons required to listen on tcp ports and if not how > do I stop these services from listening. Any help > would be appreciated. Thanks, Bryan If you want to r

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread John Rye
On 10 Jan 2001 18:13:22 -, chronos . said: > Hi all, >Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see >anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get >the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block that specif

Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread Andrew George
Don't think so...the tarball I installed created a linux directory and then looks like it linked everything under it correctly. Mine compiled OK without an error (havn't installed it yet...got sidetracked) Actually theres also a huge warning in the readme about the gcc version which makes me wo

Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
Laurent Duperval wrote: > Use lsof. You mean: # lsof /dev/dsp pretty cool, much easier. Shades of AIX? duane

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread Dan Jones
Junkbuster might help. Try www.junkbuster.com "chronos ." wrote: > > Hi all, > Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see >anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get >the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to b

RE: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread D. Stark - eSN
They probably mean for you to make a /usr/src/linux-2.4.0 directory and symlink it to /usr/src/linux. Really. Its What You Do(tm). ie: cd /usr/src mkdir linux-2.4.0 ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.0 /usr/src/linux tar xvIf linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 -Orig

Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread Dave Sherman
I can confirm that Linus himself has said people should not be compiling their kernel from /usr/src/linux, but rather they/we should do the compile in our own home directory. However, I myself have only done my recompiles in /usr/src (I read about the Linus statement after my last kernel recom

Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
Chris wrote: > How do I check if a program is hogging /dev/dsp? Aside from just checking > if xmms plays or not. Humm, good question. I just tried this: ls -l /proc/*/fd | egrep 'dsp|fd:' It lists all running processes but also lists the ones that have /dev/dsp open: ... /proc/26014/fd

[expert] kde 2 panel

2001-01-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, on my Mandrake 7.2 the panel rearranges itself at random everytime I logout/login. Has anyone else had this and come up with a fix? BillK

Re: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-10 Thread Dave Sherman
It looks like konqueror does not understand either the MIME type or simply the extension of the file. Have you tried changing the file associations so that *.asp is treated the same as *.html? Just a thought. Dave On Wednesday 10 January 2001 12:39, you wrote: > I am running Mandrake 7.2, ker

Re: [expert] nVidia question

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Spencer
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Darin wrote: > Chris, >Thanks for the pointer.. That got it working for me.. I can now play UT... > > Thanks again Good stuff. Glad I could help. Getting UT working nicely under Linux was the last nail in the coffin for my Windows partition. A great feeling. :) -Chris

Re: [expert] No logs since 24 Dec

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: > Now if I could figure out why /var/log/mail and /var/log/news end up with > hundreds of thousands of entries in them. Took me about 3 hours to delete here > on a SCSI-160 system with a P-III 700. Yeah! I've seen this too. It *might* have to do with the fact that I de

[expert] Partition Fix?

2001-01-10 Thread mrc
Since reinstalling Mandrake 7.1 I cannot access Win95 (hda1) although Grub has it listed. Fdisk tells me that hda1 has some numbers that should be other numbers. Something "does not end on cylinder boundary". Is there a way to repair this without reformatting the entire harddrive. (I've backed

RE: [expert] apcupsd - losing the serial connection

2001-01-10 Thread Andrew Judge
Thanks - that was the problem. With the new rpm, it works. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Berkley Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] apcupsd - losing the serial connection ther

[expert] duplicate ethernet

2001-01-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
This issue probably belongs here as a heads up for kernel 2.4.0... Running LM7.2 with kernel 2.4.0 gives the problem outlined below. Rebooting with a stock LM7.2 gives the proper setup for my 2 ethernets... Usually I post my bug reports to bugzilla; but this is not yet a Mandrake bug unless som

Re: [expert] duplicate ethernet

2001-01-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
Update... This problem appears to be specific to 2.4.0... I just rebooted with my stock LM7.2 and the ethernet adapters are handled properly. Pierre

Re: [expert] duplicate ethernet

2001-01-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
[Creating this response; then will reboot because networking is now quite confused.] Tom Berkley wrote: > > Look in /etc/modules.conf and see what aliases were created for your > nic's. You may have a legacy alias that you need to edit. None were "created"... the last 3 lines were: options

RE: [expert] Fwd: Installation classes and security levels

2001-01-10 Thread SIR admin
actually put it on an ftp server! i'd love to see that! matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Micene Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Fwd: Installation classes and security leve

Re: [expert] Problem with Motorola Modem

2001-01-10 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 9 Jan, Jack Malone wrote: > I had a problem like this back when i tried to use a motorola modem, it > would connect but ppp never seemed to get going. It turned out that it was > a winmodem, i replaced it with an extranal supra an it started working, not > sure if you have an internal modem

Re: [expert] nVidia question

2001-01-10 Thread Darin
On Tuesday 09 January 2001 17:33, you wrote: > > Secondly, if the above situation does not apply to you, try disabling AGP > by doing the following. In the "Screen" section of your XF86Config-4 file > add the line: > > Option "NvAgp" "0" > > This info is in the Nvidia FAQ and with my AMD-751 mobo

Re: [expert] Adding TrueType fonts to LM 7.2

2001-01-10 Thread Marsden MacRae
"D. Stark - eSN" wrote: > > http://linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/X11/002036.html > > Derek Stark > IT / Linux Admin > eSupportNow > xt 8952 Thanks! that was very helpful. We use Linux WordPerfect here, and the lawyers want to add fonts. Marsden

Re: [expert] Fwd: Installation classes and security levels

2001-01-10 Thread Larry Sword
Matthew Micene wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:56 am, you wrote: > Thanks, someone else sent me a postscript document > with a very detailed description of the differing > security levels. That postscript doc sounds interesting, would you or the author be willing to pass a copy on to me as

Re: [expert] How to switch between lilo and grub?

2001-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
as root: # sh /boot/grub/install.sh Buchan Svante Signell wrote: > > The last months or so DrakConf has been updating the grub > /boot/grub/menu.lst and syncing with /etc/lilo.conf. Suddenly today I > got the lilo boot menu instead the grub boot menu. How to change from > lilo to grub and vice

RE: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread D. Stark - eSN
I'm fairly certain the source has to be placed in /usr/src/linux for the symlinks within to work. Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:11

[expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.2.17, KDE 2.1 on both a laptop and a desktop machine. This problem occurs on both. I have an email account that I must access via an Outlook web interface, which uses javascript. I can access it and work with it fine with mozilla or netscape but konqueror

Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread george . jones
That's the problem. the readme's installation has this line in it "Do NOT use the usr/src/linux area!..." Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@cae.co.za on 01/10/2001 10:58:20 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [expert]

Re: [expert] How to switch between lilo and grub?

2001-01-10 Thread pgeorges
Svante Signell a écrit : > > The last months or so DrakConf has been updating the grub > /boot/grub/menu.lst and syncing with /etc/lilo.conf. Suddenly today I > got the lilo boot menu instead the grub boot menu. How to change from > lilo to grub and vice versa? Settings in DrakConf? either type

[expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread chronos .
Hi all, Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block that specific ip address ? Would that work or is this just pissing int

Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 8000 1400x1050 LCD Modelines?

2001-01-10 Thread Robin Dunn
> I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook with a 1400x1050 display, and an > ATI Rage 128 32MB gfx card. I've updated to X4.0.2 which I am able to > get to 1280x1024 24bit with adjusted HorizSync and VerticalRefresh > rates, frame buffer doesn't seem to want to work for this card/monitor > so I'm

Re: [expert] Adding TrueType fonts to LM 7.2

2001-01-10 Thread Michael O'Henly
I believe you would do something like this: 1. Copy the fonts somewhere under /usr/share/fonts/. 2. Run "ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale". 3. Run "mkfontdir". 4. If you created a new directory of fonts, add it the catalogue in /etc/X11/fs/config. 5. Run "chkconfig --add xfs" to make sure xfs runs at

Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
Before going any further, I would _STRONGLY_ suggest that you read some kernel guide, maybe the kernel howto. The linux source NEEDS to be found in /usr/src/linux (usually you have /usr/src/linux- with a symlink /usr/src/linux pointing to your current kernel version). If it's not here, your modul

Re[2]: [expert] apcupsd - losing the serial connection

2001-01-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there is an update apcupsd-3.8.0-1.1mdk.i586.rpm. you may want to get it > before you spend a lot more time messing with it. Civileme (I think) said something a while back about 586 rpms may or may not work with 486 hardware. Will apcupsd*.i586.rpm work

Re: [expert] ram issue (continued)

2001-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
The first letter of the extension of the file is the letter "l", not the number one. You might want to try # pico /boot/grub/menu.[TAB] then you will see what files there are, and you are sure to get one that exists. Buchan "chronos ." wrote: > > Hi all, > I`m using mandrake 7.1 and it only se

Re: [expert] CDROM audio in 7.2

2001-01-10 Thread Joel West
Okay that is understood but why did 7.0 and 7.1 not have that problem for the exact same hardware??? As well patching a kernel is beyond me at this point. I would need step by step help. On 9 Jan 2001, BellSouth wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:11:08 -0500 (EST), Joel West said: > > > I can't g

Re: [expert] SSH port forwarding

2001-01-10 Thread Joel West
Actually it is pretty simple to do from the command line: ssh -R (port on remote host):(hostname):(port on localhost) e.g. ssh -R 9:localhost:23 will create a tunnel from port 9 on the remote machine to port 23(telnet) on my machine. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: > Ash

Re: [expert] Disk partitioning

2001-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
Rusty Carruth wrote: > > You may want to add another partition for a test '/', for upgrading or > trying things that you have an idea may break you badly... > > lets see. > > /boot - 20 M (way more than you'll ever need, but hey, its a tiny percentage! ;-) > /home - 5Gig (you DON'T want to see

RE: Re[3]: [expert] 7.2 - Two little annoyances . . . on A7V w/ATA100

2001-01-10 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Hey, yeah! That makes good sense. Robert Fox: Is your motherboard IDE controller set to "LBA?" And likewise, what kind of drive is it? IBM drives have jumper settings for either 15 or 16 cylinder operation on the back. I had a similar problem. When I set it to 15 cylinders, it worked then. And yo

OffTopic! hard drive life (was Re[2]: [expert] What is this)

2001-01-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Experience is that a cooling fan extends the life of IDE HDDs by quite a lot. > Where I used to replace one a year, I have been running one for 2 years with > a fan and it is still working. wow, one per year? How many hard drives are active? (in other

RE: [expert] Adding TrueType fonts to LM 7.2

2001-01-10 Thread D. Stark - eSN
http://linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/X11/002036.html Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Spencer Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:09 AM To: Marsden MacRae Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

RE: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

2001-01-10 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Try setting the mobo temp alarm (all of the ABITs I've used since the BH6 have had it) to something in the 55C range mentioned below. If the alarm starts screaming at you, well, you've got a good idea of how hot things are getting. That alarm will not stop or hang the system in any way, so it only

[expert] Dell Inspiron 8000 1400x1050 LCD Modelines?

2001-01-10 Thread Jason Straight
I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook with a 1400x1050 display, and an ATI Rage 128 32MB gfx card. I've updated to X4.0.2 which I am able to get to 1280x1024 24bit with adjusted HorizSync and VerticalRefresh rates, frame buffer doesn't seem to want to work for this card/monitor so I'm stuck wit

Re[3]: [expert] 7.2 - Two little annoyances . . . on A7V w/ATA100

2001-01-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) wrote: > BootMagic finds the /dev/hde6 partition (logical) fine - but I only get LI > during lilo bootup and I have to use a boot floppy instead. well, lets see. http://www.google.com, search for 'linux lilo howto error' There I click on http://www.aimnet.com/~h

Re: [expert] Fwd: Installation classes and security levels

2001-01-10 Thread Matthew Micene
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:56 am, you wrote: > Thanks, someone else sent me a postscript document > with a very detailed description of the differing > security levels. That postscript doc sounds interesting, would you or the author be willing to pass a copy on to me as well? -- Matthew M

[expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread george . jones
I've d/l'ed and decompressed the 2.4 Kernal to /root/linux. When I try to make config, it tells me "No such file or directory". What gives? I'm running LM7.2.

Re: [expert] SSH port forwarding

2001-01-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to setup an SSH tunnel that listens on a port, that redirects all > data to 192.168.0.2:5901 (decrypted at this point). > > localhost is a Linux-Mandrake server with SSH installed. > > 192.168.0.2 is a Win98 machine. > > I have tried to configu

Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

2001-01-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 09 January 2001 10:48 pm, Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: > I build a AMD 850mhz system. ABit RAID Motherboard IBM 30 GB deskstar > HD and 256 Mb memory. It's been working for the past 2 months > flawlessly. Since yesterday the system reboots or hangs. > I rebooted the system and had a lo

Re: [expert] Adding TrueType fonts to LM 7.2

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Spencer
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Marsden MacRae wrote: > Chris Spencer wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Michael O'Henly wrote: > > > > > What is the proper method for adding TrueType fonts to Linux-Mandrake? > > > > Any time I have added a Windows font to Mandrake I have just used > > fontdrake, which can b

Re[2]: [expert] 7.2 - Two little annoyances . . . on A7V w/ATA100

2001-01-10 Thread Robert Fox
BootMagic finds the /dev/hde6 partition (logical) fine - but I only get LI during lilo bootup and I have to use a boot floppy instead. I've tried to re-partition using a /boot partition and guarantee it is below the 1024 limit with no success. Bummer. Robert Fox At 18:13 09/01/2001 -0700,

RE: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers

2001-01-10 Thread D. Stark - eSN
I'd say "Don't use CUPS" but since I'm new to using Mandrake and all of its intricacies, I could be in left field. Does Mandrake still ship with RedHat's printtool? Or can it be rpm'd in without too many dependacy nightmares? Otherwise, there's always the LDP: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printi

Re: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers

2001-01-10 Thread Mogens Jæger
Till Kamppeter wrote: > The Epsons are better supported by GIMP-Print, so you can expect better > quality with them. The advantage of the HPs is that the print heads get > changed with cartridge, so less problems with clogged nozzles. See also > >http://linuxprinting.org/ >http://linuxpri

[expert] gtk in Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-10 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Greets all: Does anyone know if the gtk 1.2 library in Mandrake 7.2 has XInput compiled in. I was pretty let down to find out that RedHat 7.0 did not, and I want to get my Wacom working with it. I've gotten the wacom working with X, no big deal, but the gimp won't accept the pressure sensitivity

[expert] Unattended installs

2001-01-10 Thread Andrew George
Ages ago...(I think it was 7.0 days) I came across some mandrake documentation on how to create an unattended install disk for mandrake. Since then I've lost the link (of course). Can anyone point me to any information about doing unattended installs...from memory is was run the installer and

Re: [expert] Fwd: Installation classes and security levels

2001-01-10 Thread Charles Baker
Thanks, someone else sent me a postscript document with a very detailed description of the differing security levels. --- civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 January 2001 02:51, you wrote: > > No answers? I sure was hoping for more than the > brief > > description of Mandrake's

Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

2001-01-10 Thread mandrake-expert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Sridhar, Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 04:48:49, you wrote: SG> I rebooted the system and had a look at the bios system monitor to monitor SG> the temp and fan speed. I noticed when the CPU temp goes beyond 109 F the SG> system reboots. I am n

Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

2001-01-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
AMD chips run hot and dont like overheating - check in between the chip heatsink cooling fins and fan for embedded dirt/lint etc. They are often blocked nearly solid. Same goes for powersuppy fan and case vent holes - is the hot air inside the case is getting out? - box not in a corner with no/l

Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

2001-01-10 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:48, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I build a AMD 850mhz system. ABit RAID Motherboard IBM 30 GB deskstar HD > and 256 Mb memory. It's been working for the past 2 months flawlessly. > Since yesterday the system reboots or hangs. > > I rebooted the system and had a look at

Re: [expert] Fwd: Installation classes and security levels

2001-01-10 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 02:51, you wrote: > No answers? I sure was hoping for more than the brief > description of Mandrake's Server vs. Workstation vs. > Developer class installation. And what exactly is > paranoid security, or high, or welcome crackers for > that matter? Oh well, just guess

[expert] Stop X11 and KDM from listening

2001-01-10 Thread Bryan Brown
I did a nmap scan and noticed that X11 is listening on port 6000 and kdm is listening on port 1024. Are these daemons required to listen on tcp ports and if not how do I stop these services from listening. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bryan

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2001-01-10 Thread Ilan Bar-On
I am trying to install MDK 7.2 by FTP on a local internal net. It starts o.k. until Step 3: Hard drive detection, where I get the message An error occured insmod'ing module ide-cd failed on ctrl-Alt-F3 terminal I get a similar message warning: insmod'ing module ide-cd failed at /usr

Re: [expert] hdd errors with kernel 2.4.0(att:: Svante Signell)(solved)

2001-01-10 Thread Svante Signell
civileme, Thank you for your help. Trying with the noautotune option made the 2.4-kernel successfully boot without errors and hdparm -t /dev/hda gave 12.50 MB/sec. After that timing of hdb resulted in the 'hdb: dma_intr: ...' errors and gave 4.3 MB/sec. The log file showed: ... hdb: dma_intr: st

Re: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers

2001-01-10 Thread Till Kamppeter
The Epsons are better supported by GIMP-Print, so you can expect better quality with them. The advantage of the HPs is that the print heads get changed with cartridge, so less problems with clogged nozzles. See also http://linuxprinting.org/ http://linuxprinting.org/suggested.html Till

Re: [expert] a.d. mono font and new problems

2001-01-10 Thread Kelley Terry
The upgrade solved the konqueror browser font problem - - However, now I have a much larger problem - - kde 2.1. None of my desktop icons for directories, cdrom device, or hard drive devices work. When I click on them instead of a konqueror window opening them up I get the "open with menu dia

Re: [expert] ram issue

2001-01-10 Thread vmalep
I've had the same problem with Mdk7.1. I tried to resolve modifying etc/lilo.conf, but it didn't work. Eventually, the problem was resolved uptading to Mdk7.2... Pierre "chronos ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@linux-mandrake.com on 07/05/97 01:56:27 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [E

Re: [expert] Mail Bouncing Wantonly

2001-01-10 Thread Ted Wager
Brian Hartman wrote: > > Hi, all. > > I've got e-mail I'm trying to send, but it keeps getting bounced back from a > specific address. The error message I'm getting is: > > nvalid final delivery userid: xxx@localhost > > Has anyone heard of this error? I'm assuming the problem's on my end, s

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