Re: [expert] Audio problem with xmms and kde. . .

2001-01-24 Thread Norvell Spearman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After consulting to kde.org they give my the way to solve that; just run > xmms using "artsdsp xmms". It seems that xmms is not full compatible > with arts, using this command in my case it runs fine, and also the kde > sounds > With other applications I have to

Re: [expert] samba

2001-01-24 Thread Buchan Milne
It is not necessary to use security=share. Can your win9x box access shares on the win2k box ? Have you got Netbeui installed on win9x (a VERY BAD idea, it messes with smb over tcp/ip, since samba does not support netbeui). I suspect that your problems are mostly win9x setup problems. On a defau

Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!

2001-01-24 Thread Ron Stodden
Mark Weaver wrote: > > On the other hand...diskdrake doesn't complain, nor crash, nor bail with > an init error that is so non descript that it's error means next to > nothing usable at all to the user. Bah...hum bug! I don't often spend this > much time bashing and bitching about Windows stuff c

Re: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?

2001-01-24 Thread Ron Stodden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's possible you had a fluke situation. I've done the > procedure myself many times. Add a new drive, cp -a some > of the old tree to it, update fstab and run with it. I've > moved entire systems to new drives that way with no > problems. > > I usually take a runnin

Re: [expert] kmail bug

2001-01-24 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 14:13, you wrote: > I've only been using kmail for a few days now, and at least once/night it > crashes. Is that typical behavoir? If so, any pointers on what is going on? > I've actually installed the complete system 3 times as I play wiht install > parameters before

Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Weaver
Well...maybe I am being a bit Mule-ish about all this, but here's another reason why I "need" to know what happening and how to fix it manually. "If" I can get PM to read the disks from Windows, OR from DOS there is the risk that once the partitions problem is fixed things will have changed "insid

Re: [expert] HELP - eth0 fails on boot, works on restart?

2001-01-24 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 21:49, you wrote: > Greetings all -- I need help!! > > I can't figure out why my networking won't start on boot, but works just > fine if i use Drakeconf to restart networking. I have Mandrake 7.2 set > up on a system with an ABIT KT7 motherboard, AMD 800 Mhz T-Bird, 256

Re: [expert] cert#37843 Just Hacked - Hidden Directory!

2001-01-24 Thread Stefaans Mostert
"Albert E. Whale" wrote: > > I'm not real proud of this information, but I am passing it along > because of what I found and how the hackers have disguised their > malicious use of Linux. I have Linux-Mandrake 7.1 with some > enhancements towards 7.2. > > Today I found that several unwanted gue

[expert] Kppp conexcion ,error

2001-01-24 Thread Maximo Monsalvo
Hi , y have MDK7.2 an when connect whit my ISP the conection of it make ok But i can't to leave to internet . I make a ping to my ip PPP conection and it response but any other no Wath happens ? Thanks

RE: Re: [expert] Audio problem with xmms and kde. . .

2001-01-24 Thread falcaraz
Sorry I have not idea for KDe 1!!! Francisco Alcaraz - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Miércoles, Enero 24, 2001 9:23 am Asunto: Re: [expert] Audio problem with xmms and kde. . . > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > After consulting to kde.org th

RE: [expert] RAID

2001-01-24 Thread D. Stark - eSN
First off, any SCSI card will do, though some won't do well with hot swap. Look into each one seprately and make your decision. Second, under linux, Mylex cards are the BOMB. They've had some availability issues lately though. We use DPT cards, but since Adaptec has bought DPT, we aren't expectin

RE: Re: [expert] Audio problem with xmms and kde. . .

2001-01-24 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
Have you tried the xmms-arts prog from the xmms site. That took care of all my issues of having to select either system sounds, or xmms operating correctly. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:36 AM To: [EMAIL PR

RE: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!

2001-01-24 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Here's my two bits: I'd check your BIOS, and maybe your hard drive jumpers to see if LBA is turned on (probably is), and if you have some alternate disk layout. What brand is the drive? Model and size, too, if you could. Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 -Original Message

RE: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!

2001-01-24 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Gar. I should have asked for motherboard model as well. Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Stark - eSN Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert]

[expert] fa 510 netgear pcmcia network adapter fails.

2001-01-24 Thread Dale Kosan
I posted this question on the newbie list and no one seems to have an answer, maybe one of you kind people can help.This was installed on a Toshiba Sattellite 1715 While installing Mandrake 7.2 my pcmcia card came back with this error: "* warning: insmod'ing module imm failed at /usr/bin/perl

Re: [expert] updating modules, initrd.img, module-info

2001-01-24 Thread David Dennis
Well yes and no. Pardon my cluelessness. rpm -Uvvh kernel-2.2.17mdk-21.i586.rpm the rpm fails in post-install with some failed attempt at /sbin/installkernel -- the values for $MAPFILE and $BOOTIMAGE were wrong. the script failed and my install was left with /boot/vmlinuz--c which were resu

RE: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?

2001-01-24 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John J. LeMay Jr. Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition? > I tried 'cp -a' and um...tarballing with permissions > etc, a

[expert] gnorpm

2001-01-24 Thread King, Darren
I tried to use gnorpm to remove a package and it left many traces if it laying around including it's menu item. Is command line rpm any better or will this happen with that as well. Darren

Re: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?

2001-01-24 Thread David Dennis
Hope this helps-- if policy on list is mandrake employees only then kindly ignore :) For example - Your existing /usr is on /dev/hda5 and your new disk is /dev/hdd5 . Here is how to do it failsafe. (move /usr to new partition) assume you'd fdisk and mke2fs on /dev/hdd5. many howtos on that. #

Re: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?

2001-01-24 Thread Pop Qvarnström
even cooler..? :) cd to /mnt, then do tar cf - -C / usr | tar xvpf - :o) On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:47:21 -0800 (PST) David Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cool: > > # tar cf - /usr | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfp - ) > > [note - only one 'verbose v' cause you don't need it > scrolling > at you twice

RE: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?

2001-01-24 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Did you mean to put the space bewteen / and usr? ie: tar cf - -C / usr | tar xvpf - ^ right there? Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pop Qvarnström Sent: Wednesday, Januar

Re: [expert] How to move /usr to another partition?

2001-01-24 Thread Pop Qvarnström
Ooops, getting tired. tar cf - -C /usr . | tar xvpf - should do better (or we'll get the /usr/usr when mounting...). Still cool though :o) On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:49:35 -0500 "D. Stark - eSN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you mean to put the space bewteen / and usr? > > ie: > > tar cf - -C /

Re: [expert] Kppp conexcion ,error

2001-01-24 Thread csena
good morning, you need to configure your ISP dns ip: edit /etc/resolv.conf and add to it. good luck! Clovis Sena On 24 Jan 2001, at 9:23, Maximo Monsalvo wrote: > Hi , y have MDK7.2 an when connect whit my ISP the conection of it > make ok But i can't to leave to internet . I make a ping to

RE: [expert] Kppp conexcion ,error

2001-01-24 Thread Maximo Monsalvo
that is configured -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: miércoles 24 de enero de 2001 11:10 Para: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [expert] Kppp conexcion ,error good morning, you need to configure your ISP dns ip: edit /et

Re: [expert] gnorpm

2001-01-24 Thread Buchan Milne
You should not really use gnorpm, you should use rpmdrake ... rpm should work though. You should be able to fix the menus by running #update-menus Buchan "King, Darren" wrote: > > I tried to use gnorpm to remove a package and it left many traces if it > laying around including it's menu item.

[expert] cdrecord - more problems - cups memory hogging

2001-01-24 Thread Buchan Milne
I had problems with cdrecord previously after reinstalling our printserver/cdwserver. Having compiled a new kernel, everything seemed ok until recently, when we've been losing CDs again due to "loss of streaming". Attaching a monitor to this machine, I see the following erorrs on the machine VM:

RE: [expert] RAID IDE OK?

2001-01-24 Thread Homer Shimpsian
Can anyone relate their experiences with IDE RAID in Linux? I'm thinking of getting a Promise IDE RAID card.. The NT people seem to abhor the idea of software RAID or IDE RAID. If SCSI software RAID is so good, maybe it's not worth the $350 SCSI RAID card. On the other hand, if IDE RAID works

[expert] For those with Menu troubles

2001-01-24 Thread civileme
Menudrake keeps files in each user directory under ~/.menu/ One of those files is named 'adding_by_menudrake'. This is where your edits go unless they are deletions in which case they go under their own name and show as "available applications" the next time you run menudrake. Your menu is bu

[expert] Stop Auto_login

2001-01-24 Thread dany allard
Please help. I can't figure out how to stop mandrake 7.2 from automatically logging me in? Even if my account is disabled, it still logs me into it! Security hole? bug? or was it meant to be like that? It is a horrible feature to have on a server!!! Can someone please help me. thanks Dan

Re: [expert] Stop Auto_login

2001-01-24 Thread william bouterse
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, dany allard wrote: > > > I can't figure out how to stop mandrake 7.2 from automatically logging > me in? > Dany Allard /etc/sysconfig/autologin AUTOLOGIN=yes EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/startx USER=whomever Change the yes to a no That should do it! Otherwise ; rpm -e autolo

Re: [expert] Audio problem with xmms and kde. . .

2001-01-24 Thread RedRat
Hi ! > I'm having similar difficulties under Mandrake 7.2, when running the > arts sound server. If I don't enable arts, KDE 2.1 (0115) doesn't play > sounds, and if I do, XMMS can't play at all. try using the aRts Output Plugin for xmms. Works fine here since a few weeks. You can grap is som

RE: [expert] RAID IDE OK?

2001-01-24 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I've used IDE Raid without problems. The key to performance is the amount of buffer RAM on the controller. The more the better. SCSI Raid is indeed better, since each device is intelligent and can handle i/o requests independently. However SCSI raid is indeed very expensive. IDE hardware raid

[expert] More on Menus

2001-01-24 Thread civileme
For those of you who don't have extensve edits to try to merge, I omitted the following lines from my earlier post inadvertantly. In a terminal # menudrake --ecit-system-menu should do what you want, but it does it for all users. Civileme

Re: [expert] su in X gives xalf library error

2001-01-24 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jan 23, 2001 at 11:23:43PM -0600, ken lierman wrote: > Actually, mine started working after i upgrade xalf (0.4-4.1) AND i > loged out and logged back in. Maybe that version fixes the problem. I > think that was the only other thing that changed > > ?? got me Glad you got it

Re: [expert] su Problems in GNOME

2001-01-24 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jan 22, 2001 at 06:48:39PM -0800, Baker Phil wrote: > Just noticed a problem on two PCs, both running LM > 7.2. One PC is at work, one at home. The two boxes > are do not share a LAN connection. > > In the GNOME Terminal, typing "su" at a non > privaledged prompt, I get the following er

Re: [expert] Real Player in Mozilla]

2001-01-24 Thread duane voth
Sujeet Bhatt wrote: > If anyone has managed to make Real Player work with Mozilla under > Mandrake 7.2, please let me know how you did it. This is for the Mozilla 0.7 release built from the source tarball, and RealPlayer 7 (RealPlayer-7_0-1_i386_rpm). I had to manually add the mime description

[expert] Security Policies

2001-01-24 Thread Mads Rasmussen
Hello there, Anyone knows of a good starting point to define security policies for a company?. I am thinking of security in the network, backup, passwords, maintence etc. I wood be glad for some pointers to the work of others, could be examples from other companies. Anyone have experience with

Re: [expert] Real Player in Mozilla - what about flash?

2001-01-24 Thread duane voth
Praedor Tempus wrote: > What I want to know is how to make the shockwave flash plugin work with > mozilla (or konqueror for that matter). I have the latest shockwave flash > netscape plugin in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins and it is, apparently, invisable > to konqueror. I also copied it to /usr

Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!

2001-01-24 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 04:48, you wrote: > Ok... > > First of all, in order for me to use Partition Magic, which I have on my > windows side and hardly ever use. I'd rather use Linux...anyway, PM won't > do anything with ReiserFS. Thus, in order to use PM I would have to wipe > the drive, st

Re: [expert] Real Player in Mozilla]

2001-01-24 Thread Sujeet Bhatt
duane voth wrote: > This is for the Mozilla 0.7 release built from the source tarball, > and RealPlayer 7 (RealPlayer-7_0-1_i386_rpm). > > I had to manually add the mime description to the Helper Applications > dialog under Edit->Preferences. Mozilla seems to be pretty picky about > filling in