Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function - DONE/FIXED

2001-02-03 Thread Kelley Terry
On Friday 02 February 2001 01:59 pm, you wrote: Thank you. BUT saying it 100 times wouldn't fix this. Someone wrote me to suggest running kbuildsycoca...as root and as user. I did. The result was that root AND user no longer had a functioning kcontrol. Neither had kcontrol so I cannot

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 install problem

2001-02-03 Thread Gary Bond
--- "Altoine B." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to manually start and stop xfs. But if you want a quick hack. Open up XF86Config-4 with your favorite editor and go to the line pointing to your font path. unmark by putting # in front of the FontPath unix/:-1 like this #

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function - DONE/FIXED

2001-02-03 Thread Zeljko Vukman
Maybe I had to explain to you in details what is going on when you change your Mandrake menus with menudrake (read: application links). X-KDE-BaseGroup is nothing but a KDE directory in your application links. In Mandrake menu this directory is subdirectory of Configuration directory. That's

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 install problem

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine B.
To manually start and stop your service use these two commands: Thanks Al I tried the xfs stop but it is an invalid switch, however your little trick worked just great. My kde 2.1 is running fine now and it sure is nice. How do I continue to upgrade kde, can I use mandrake update

[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] A possible replacement for Linux-Mandrake tools

2001-02-03 Thread Mark
Sounds cool. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A possible replacement for Linux-Mandrake tools (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20010203022113) Chris Drake writes "I had a stunning idea that could possibly destroy Microsoft's attude towards linux. Why not simply write a program that

Re: [expert] addition to hosts.deny?

2001-02-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Cool...thank you. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Pierre Fortin wrote: Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 20:04:57 -0500 From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

RE: [expert] Problem starting Apache

2001-02-03 Thread Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE
Thanks for all the help. I just needed to get a more recent Apache RPM. The one I had was on the CD but it never got copied over. I had the infamous MVP3 chipset problem and fixed it by installing Mandrake 7.1 and doing a live update from within it. -Original Message- From: Stephen

RE: [expert] Problem starting Apache

2001-02-03 Thread Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE
I would like to run SSL from within Apache. As for the auth through squid, I heard there is an rpm that allows SAMBA to run as a PDC and squid will pass the encrypted password through. Do you know how to achieve this? I am currently running squid as a transparent proxy and ipchains catches all

[expert] Virus scanning via postfix

2001-02-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, has anyone been able to get the Mandrake configured postix in 7.2 to virus scan. In particular I am looking at using anomy, then eventally using that to call AVP. I had go at this some months ago and failed, so now I am looking for some hints as to the best way to go about this.

Re: [expert] Possible bug report for php-4.0.4pl1-1.2mdk

2001-02-03 Thread Mike MacCana
Problem solved. It turns out my `development' install installed this package, but forgot to install the seperate mod_php package. Would there be a reason for this? Anyway, thanks for your patience. Mike On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Mike MacCana wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to get Apache +PHP

Re: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] A possible replacement for Linux-Mandrake tools

2001-02-03 Thread Tom
On Saturday 03 February 2001 05:43 am, Mark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A possible replacement for Linux-Mandrake tools (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20010203022113) Chris Drake writes "I had a stunning idea that could possibly destroy Microsoft's attude towards

[expert] [newbie] TFTP and MDK 7.2

2001-02-03 Thread Eunice Thompson
I`m trying to backup the running configuration of a Cisco router to my Linux box using TFTP. I`ve edited the inetd.conf files, created the appropriate directory (tftpboot, according to all literature that I've read) and file, touched the file, edited the hosts.allow and .deny files, changed

[expert] TFTP and MDK 7.2

2001-02-03 Thread Eunice Thompson
I`m trying to backup the running configuration of a Cisco router to my Linux box using TFTP. I`ve edited the inetd.conf files, created the appropriate directory (tftpboot, according to all literature that I've read) and file, touched the file, edited the hosts.allow and .deny files, changed

Re: [expert] lm sensors and i2c

2001-02-03 Thread Don
I use this program to do that on the Abit BP6 system (health) and when you untar the program you will find instructions on how to set it up Don On Friday 02 February 2001 17:41, you wrote: "J . A . Magallon" wrote: On 02.02 PBone wrote: I am trying to get temperature monitoring for

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function - DONE/FIXED

2001-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thank you. The thing is, however, that I did do anything with menudrake. Kcontrol was working with (I can't recall precisely) kde 2.1-20010115 but upon upgrading to kde 2.1-20010118 and then again to 2.1-20010122, kcontrol didn't work. The only thing changing was the version of kde 2.1.

[expert] Internet connection sharing...

2001-02-03 Thread Yann Ouellet
Hi, I'm wondering if i could do the following. I have 2 computer in a lan. 1 is in windows98 and has Sygate home network 4.0 installed. I use it to share my internet connection between the 2 computer. Would it be possible, in linux, to share the same connection with or

[expert] rpm-3.0 to rpm-4.0 catch 22

2001-02-03 Thread Richard -Gilligan- Uschold
I've been having problems installing rpm packages for several months, finally, someone recognized the symptoms and told me the problem. Now I need to know how to fix it. The original symptoms: rpm gives this error message with some packages "only packages with major numbers =3 are supported by

Re: [expert] Internet connection sharing...

2001-02-03 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
Yann Ouellet wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if i could do the following. I have 2 computer in a lan. 1 is in windows98 and has Sygate home network 4.0 installed. I use it to share my internet connection between the 2 computer. Would it be possible, in linux, to share the

RE: [expert] rpm-3.0 to rpm-4.0 catch 22

2001-02-03 Thread cfreeze
On 03-Feb-2001 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: Questions: 1. Is there a rpm package distributor that identifies which version of rpm was used to build the packages? Who? Doesn't matter, the rpm package itself is binary compatible between version 3 and 4. (See the list archieves on

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function - DONE/FIXED

2001-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus
You have reinstalled kde2.1 on a clean install of 7.2? OK, try this: Delete your .kderc, do an rm -rf on your $HOME/.kde directory, and then delete everything in your $HOME/tmp AND as root delete everything in the system /tmp directory. Reboot (actually rebooting may be overkill but be

Re: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] A possible replacement for Linux-Mandrake tools

2001-02-03 Thread Dave Sherman
This sounds like an outstanding idea! Maybe you should also make sure that it reads win.ini, system.ini, config.sys, autoexec.bat, etc. There are still lots of machines out there that use these files for some of their setup, devices, drivers and even apps. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A

Re: [expert] kde 2.01 upgrade problem

2001-02-03 Thread Glencannon
On Friday 02 February 2001 03:31, you wrote: Hi, Yesterday I upgraded from KDE 2.0 to 2.01 via the mandrake update facility (not from the KDE FTP site). At first all seemed well but then I found I no longer had sound. Then I noticed that I couldn't access ny floppy or cdrom drives from

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function - DONE/FIXED

2001-02-03 Thread Kelley Terry
On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:11 am, you wrote: Maybe I had to explain to you in details what is going on when you change your Mandrake menus with menudrake (read: application links). X-KDE-BaseGroup is nothing but a KDE directory in your application links. In Mandrake menu this directory

Re: [expert] rpm-3.0 to rpm-4.0 catch 22

2001-02-03 Thread Richard -Gilligan- Uschold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03-Feb-2001 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: > Questions: > > 1. Is there a rpm package distributor that identifies which version of > rpm was used to build the packages? Who? Doesn't matter, the rpm package itself is binary compatible between version 3 and 4. (See

[expert] On-Board ata100 (promise technology)

2001-02-03 Thread Eunice Thompson
Hi, I experienced the same problem. Fortunately (for us) there's a workaround on Mandrake's forum site: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001201075945 if you follow the directions you'll be able to get everything working on that ATA-100 controller good luck Eunice -- Nothing is

Re: [expert] rpm-3.0 to rpm-4.0 catch 22

2001-02-03 Thread Bill Piety
On 03 Feb 2001 19:30:26 +, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03-Feb-2001 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: Questions: 1. Is there a rpm package distributor that identifies which version of rpm was used to build the packages? Who? Doesn't

[expert] rpm/deb files

2001-02-03 Thread Ted Wager
Hi.. Can anyone tell me If I convert a .rpm to a .deb file will the .deb file find it's dependencies as a normal .deb file will.. Is there a way to view the contents of a .rpm and a .deb file as you can with a .tar file or a way to strip the .deb or rpm file down so as to see the contents

Re: [expert] rpm/deb files

2001-02-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.03 Ted Wager wrote: Is there a way to view the contents of a .rpm and a .deb file as you can with a .tar file or a way to strip the .deb or rpm file down so as to see the contents without installing it ?? rpm -ql *.rpm, for an rpm. for a deb, i dunno... -- J.A. Magallon

Re: [expert] Internet connection sharing...

2001-02-03 Thread Wood Brent
Hi, I'm wondering if i could do the following. I have 2 computer in a lan. 1 is in windows98 and has Sygate home network 4.0 installed. I use it to share my internet connection between the 2 computer. Would it be possible, in linux, to share the same connection with or without using

[expert] install cryptlib?

2001-02-03 Thread 914
hello everyone, i'll try to keep this short, and the good info up front. i need to install cryptlib ( http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/ ) on a linux machine it's RedHat 6.2, but i'm hoping that won't matter too much to you guys :) i've done makemake shared and

[expert] Quoting in response to posts

2001-02-03 Thread Collins Richey
All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather that the innocuous "on ... you wrote". This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings -

Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts

2001-02-03 Thread Kelley Terry
On Saturday 03 February 2001 02:01 pm, Collins Richey wrote: All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather that the innocuous "on ... you wrote".

[expert] Cooker HOWTO?

2001-02-03 Thread Collins Richey
Is there a HOWTO on setting up a Cooker system? I've looked at the Cooker FAQ, but this doesnt' seem to be covered. I've got a couple of spare linux partitions on my hard drive, and I would love to experiment. -- Thanks, Collins Richey Denver area

Re: [expert] rpm-3.0 to rpm-4.0 catch 22

2001-02-03 Thread cfreeze
On 03-Feb-2001 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: If that is the case, please explain the following error message to me, and how I correct it. Several other people have said I need to upgrade to rpm-4.0, or perhaps only 3.0.5 or 3.0.6. I get this error with both 3.0.3 and 3.0.5. The

Re: [expert] Internet connection sharing...

2001-02-03 Thread Mario Lamontagne
- Original Message - From: "Wood Brent" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Internet connection sharing... Hi, I'm wondering if i could do the following. I have 2 computer in a lan. 1 is in windows98 and has

Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts

2001-02-03 Thread Vic
I like to use the below response, I really like Kmails feature here. On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:01 pm, so spoke Collins Richey: All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the list would setup their mailer to

RE: [expert] Internet connection sharing...

2001-02-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
I have no idea about sygate but you can using DHCP, with your Win box as the host machine. That is how I have to use my DSL connection. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mario

Re: [expert] Internet connection sharing...

2001-02-03 Thread Collins Richey
On Saturday 03 February 2001 14:54, Mario Lamontagne wrote: - Original Message - From: "Wood Brent" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Internet connection sharing... Hi, I'm wondering if i could do the

[expert] MDK 7.2 Sound problems

2001-02-03 Thread BillVirginia Hodges
On earlier versions I specified sound as modules on kernel compilation. (for my Sound Blaster 16) Upon installing MDK 7.2 with modules selected Iam not able to use any sound devices /proc/modules says that sound is unused I do find find the command "sndconfig" in the 7.2 distribution. What

[expert] Linux Equivalent To WinMX? - (file sharing via Napster servers)

2001-02-03 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Is there a Linux Equivalent to WinMX? WinMX allows sharing of any file formats via napster servers. You might have noticed some non-mp3 files while searching with Gnapster or Knapster. Unfortunately, WinMX is only for Windows. Http://www.winmx.com Seve

[expert] Problem compiling kde2 programs

2001-02-03 Thread David Comeau
I originally sent this twice to the kde-devel mailing list and got nowhere with them, so I'm trying my luck here instead. Since installing fresh, linux-mandrake 7.2, which of course uses kde2, I haven't been able to compile any kde program. When doing ./configure, regardless of the kde2

Re: [expert] addition to hosts.deny?

2001-02-03 Thread Luis Chardon
I think you would have to write it as NET/MASK. Luis On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi LIst, I was wondering if anyone has either done this or knows if it's legal to be done. I want to list an entire net block in the hosts.deny file on my machine. EX: ALL:224.0.0.0 -

[expert] UDMA 100 Reccomendations

2001-02-03 Thread Cecil Watson
Hello Everybody, Hi Dr. Nick! I think of getting a Promise UDNA 100 controller (time to return my 66 to my BeDVBox). I few weeks ago there was a discussion about 66/100 drives not living up to specs. So I'm looking for reccomendation on a drive. Brand and model if you please. Thanks in

RE: [expert] Internet connection sharing...

2001-02-03 Thread Neal Lippman
Assuming you are trying to get rid of Sygate, what you would do is to use the Linux system as the gateway computer - the Linux system would, ideally, have two nics, one connected to your internal LAN and the other to your outside connection, whether cable modem, DSL, dial-up, etc. On the Linux

[expert] Questions about Mandrake Update

2001-02-03 Thread Collins Richey
Some questions about Mandrake Update 1. Has anyone every actually tested the "Normal Updates"? The reason I ask is that I have a 7.2 system with no maintenance other than "Normal Updates" up to a few days ago, and I get dependancy errors trying to install some of the latest updates.

Re: [expert] Questions about Mandrake Update

2001-02-03 Thread Larry Sword
Collins Richey wrote: Some questions about Mandrake Update 1. Has anyone every actually tested the "Normal Updates"? The reason I ask is that I have a 7.2 system with no maintenance other than "Normal Updates" up to a few days ago, and I get dependancy errors trying to install some of

Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts

2001-02-03 Thread Mark Weaver
to tell you the truth I don't know that this is possible with Netscape or others. the only apps I know of that can do this are Pine, Kmail, Knode, and probably a few other Linux apps. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what

RE: [expert] Questions about Mandrake Update

2001-02-03 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Updates work fine, but you might have to "force" a few of them. As a result earlier ones might fail giving you dependancy errors... Have you looked in /var/cache/grpmi ? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Collins Richey Sent:

Re: [expert] rpm-3.0 to rpm-4.0 catch 22

2001-02-03 Thread Richard -Gilligan- Uschold
Bill Piety wrote: On 03 Feb 2001 19:30:26 +, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 03-Feb-2001 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: > > > Questions: > > > > > > 1. Is there a rpm package distributor that identifies which version of > > > rpm was used to build the

Re: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] A possible replacement for Linux-Mandrake tools

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine B.
Dave Sherman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A possible replacement for Linux-Mandrake tools (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20010203022113) Chris Drake writes "I had a stunning idea that could possibly destroy Microsoft's attude towards linux. Why not simply

Re: [expert] rpm-3.0 to rpm-4.0 catch 22

2001-02-03 Thread Bill Piety
On 04 Feb 2001 01:18:55 +, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: Bill Piety wrote: On 03 Feb 2001 19:30:26 +, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03-Feb-2001 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: Questions: 1. Is there a rpm package

Re: [expert] Cooker HOWTO?

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine B.
Collins Richey wrote: Is there a HOWTO on setting up a Cooker system? I've looked at the Cooker FAQ, but this doesnt' seem to be covered. I've got a couple of spare linux partitions on my hard drive, and I would love to experiment. -- Thanks, Collins Richey Denver area Yes, try

[expert] 2.4.1 compile with CD-RW - quick question (I hope)

2001-02-03 Thread Neal Lippman
I have just been doing a "make xconfig" for the 2.4.1 kernel (I have MDK 7.2 installed with the default 2.2.18-mdk kernel running). I have to cd devices: at /dev/hdc is a Pioneer DVD-105S DVD drive, and at /dev/hdd is an HP CDRW drive. When I installed MDK, it was smart enough to automatically

RE: [expert] 2.4.1 compile with CD-RW - quick question (I hope)

2001-02-03 Thread lqlee
1) change lilo.conf image=/dev/hda? label=2.4.1 *** append="hdd=ide-scsi" *** should be added 2) make xconfig 1. "Block Devices" menu "SCSI emulation support" Y 2."SCSI Support" menu "SCSI support"Y "include SCSI CD-ROM drivers" Y "SCSI generic support" Y 3) cdrecord

Re: [expert] rpm-3.0 to rpm-4.0 catch 22

2001-02-03 Thread Richard -Gilligan- Uschold
Bill Piety wrote: On 04 Feb 2001 01:18:55 +, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: > Bill Piety wrote: > > > On 03 Feb 2001 19:30:26 +, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > On 03-Feb-2001 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: > > > > > Questions: > > > >

Re: [expert] 7.1 - 7.2 upgrade hangs SOLVED sort of

2001-02-03 Thread Big G
Reinstalls and upgrades didn't result in anything different, but I did end up with a boot disk which works fine and should allow me to fix the boot loader. Thanks to all -G --- "Altoine B." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the bug. Just do an install and quit after partitioning your drives.

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Friday 02 February 2001 14:59, you wrote: Maybe you don't need to do a clean install. Maybe only KDE, CUPS, xinitrc, egcs, ghostscript, arts, jkd, etc. need to be updated. If you know what you're doing, then go for it. But to blame Mandrake because your patchwork upgrade breaks a beta

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function - DONE/FIXED

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
Please post the output of the following commands - do not send to me direct as others can probably help as well: rpm -qa|grep kde rpm -qa|grep koffice rpm -qa|grep xinitrc rpm -qa|grep qt Also an ls -l of all the rpm's you downloaded to isntall. Read on On Friday 02 February 2001 15:59,

Re: [expert] CUPS prinsts a banner page I don't want

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Friday 02 February 2001 21:57, you wrote: When I print from any application, a banner page prints with the following information: @PJL EOJ @PJL JOB NAME="CUPSOMATIC". After that the page I wanted to print does so with no problem, then a third page prints with this information: Operand

Re: [expert] kickstart || auto_install_cfg

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
David, You may not like my answer the autoisntall got to big for a floppy unless you are doing a minimal isntall on 7.2. Do you still have a 7.1 printed or electronic manual around? If so, it is in that. Dropped from 7.2. Hopefully back in 8.0. Drop me an email if you need more

Re: [expert] Konqueror printing - another try

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
Can you do a: rpm -qa|grep kde rpm -qa|grep qt and send the results? Thanks, -Chris On Friday 02 February 2001 21:16, you wrote: I am not able to print documents from Konqueror on MDK7.2 system. My initial post elicited responses that implied that my printers were not working. Let me be

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 install problem

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
Better or another answer: Check your /etc/hosts file and make sure that your machine can talk to itself. On Friday 02 February 2001 15:47, you wrote: Gary Bond wrote: --- "Altoine B." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either you go to a mandrake mirror and download and install the package

Re: [expert] kickstart || auto_install_cfg

2001-02-03 Thread Altoine B.
Christopher Molnar wrote: David, You may not like my answer the autoisntall got to big for a floppy unless you are doing a minimal isntall on 7.2. Do you still have a 7.1 printed or electronic manual around? If so, it is in that. Dropped from 7.2. Hopefully back in 8.0. Drop me an

Re: [expert] Problem compiling kde2 programs

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Molnar
Can you post the results of rpm -qa|grep kde here please? That will give me a better idea of the problem. On Saturday 03 February 2001 18:04, David Comeau wrote: I originally sent this twice to the kde-devel mailing list and got nowhere with them, so I'm trying my luck here instead. Since