[expert-it] programma mcopidl

2001-02-19 Thread Carlo
Quando faccio l'installazione di qualche programma per kde (Io ho la 2.0.1) alcuni programmi rispondono che mi mancha questo importante programma. Sapete in quale pacchetto si trova? Grazie Carlo! -- Questa E-MAIL stata spedita da una Macchina su cui installato un vero sistema operativo :

Re: [expert-it] programma mcopidl

2001-02-19 Thread freefred
On Monday 19 February 2001 12:33, Carlo wrote: Quando faccio l'installazione di qualche programma per kde (Io ho la 2.0.1) alcuni programmi rispondono che mi mancha questo importante programma. Sapete in quale pacchetto si trova? Grazie Carlo! se faccio un rpm -qf /usr/bin/mcopidl la

Re: [expert] 7.2 Updated and StarOffice 5.2 trouble

2001-02-19 Thread Stig-Ørjan Smelror
Altoine B. wrote: Post to us the specifics on your error messages. I am "thirsty" for the information. Thank you for the glass but where is the drink? ;] OK, here is the last few lines of a "strace" on "soffice".

Re: [expert] KOffice very buggy - anyone else having problems?

2001-02-19 Thread Romuald Texier
On Sunday 18 February 2001 17:44, you wrote: I gave up on the kword part of koffice a while ago and went to lyx (klyx is REALLY broken). In any case, if you need to do a lot of citing of sources in your documents, lyx is better anyway since it is the ONLY "wordprocessor" for linux that

[expert] Xemacs

2001-02-19 Thread Ira M. Bargon III
How do i get Xemacs to show the line number and also color the text for the proramming mode. For example: int foo; "int" would be colored. I saw this one some one elsese machine this summer, dont know how to contact that person. Thanks. Ira

Re: [expert] xv

2001-02-19 Thread Tommi
Thomas Sourmail wrote: Hi, I just had a funny thing with xv.. it simply disappeared (even rpm --query --all | grep xv does not show any sign of its existence). Does anyone know of other occurences of this program self-destroying or shall I worry more ? Thanks, Thomas.

Re: [expert] xv

2001-02-19 Thread Thomas Sourmail
I couldn't find xv on LM 7.2 and had to look at back issues of LM. I found xv-3.10a-6mdk but I'm not sure of which distro. Try 7.0 or 7.1. HTH. That's not exactly the problem. I know that for whatever reason, xv is absent from RedHat 6.1 and Mandrake idem. The thing is that I got the

Re: [expert] Xemacs

2001-02-19 Thread Mark Belanger
"Ira M. Bargon III" wrote: How do i get Xemacs to show the line number and also color the text for the proramming mode. For example: int foo; For linenumbers add the following line to your ~/.emacs file: (setq line-number-mode t) "int" would be colored. I saw this one some

Re: [expert] Xemacs

2001-02-19 Thread Biagio LUCINI
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Mark Belanger wrote: "Ira M. Bargon III" wrote: How do i get Xemacs to show the line number and also color the text for the proramming mode. For example: int foo; For linenumbers add the following line to your ~/.emacs file: (setq

[expert] cups is a real pain

2001-02-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, cups is giving grief again (and again and again ...) I am unable to print to the server from a Mandrake 7.1 box and windows printers (though that may be samba) Its getting urgent so I tried opening up with no auth settings but that doesnt work. I also cannot connect to localhost/631/admin

[expert] cups is a real pain - more

2001-02-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Further to may last message re cups, the .etc/printcap has just "lp:" in it, does a queue for lpd-cups need to be defined in it? BillK

Re: [expert] cups is a real pain

2001-02-19 Thread Thomas Sourmail
cups is giving grief again (and again and again ...) I am unable to In fact it is ! I am not sure why the change from a system which was working fine.. the fact is that I don't have the time to get CUPS working so all the machines in our lab are now back to RedHat.. If someone knows what CUPS

Re: [expert] Moved Display in Linux and in Windows

2001-02-19 Thread ai4a
"Altoine B." wrote: Joseph Red wrote: Kuldeep Shah wrote: I am having dual operating system on my computer. I am having Windows Me and Linux Mandrake 7.2. On my linux i have installed X server 3.3.6. In both the operating system i am using the same display resolution (1024

Re: [expert] cups is a real pain

2001-02-19 Thread Steven Taetzsch
I'm thinking the same thing. I may go back to RedHat myself. How can they ship a product for home use with something as basic as printing so badly broken? Here's my CUPS problems: Printer: HP 932C Test page prints fine. dvips prints out correctly # lpr .bashrc prints but the margins both

[expert] 7.1 - 7.2 upgrade roadmap?

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Kolar
I have recently been happily installing CS all over the place, but I have an old 7.1 machine that I want to bring current with 7.2. I was wondering if there is anything out there that would help me get ready for possible glitches. In particular I am things of problems with: The use of xinetd and

[expert] Apache and other Problems,,,

2001-02-19 Thread Franki
Hi all, I just setup my new server, replacing RH6.2 with Mdk7.2 and a faster machine.. I noticed a few things,, the pppd on boot doesn't work now,, I can use Gnome PPP and Kppp just fine,, But goign into LinuxConf and setting up ppp there to start on boot just doesn't seem to work.

Re: [expert] reiserfs

2001-02-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 19 February 2001 19:15, you wrote: Goto http://www.namesys.com/ From there you should find what you need, or subscribe to the That's exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot.:) -- Semper avanti,sailing on Linux, Harm Bathoorn Free

RE: [expert] sendmail chowned ?????

2001-02-19 Thread Franki
Dunno, if its normal, but I just checked mine (standard install,) and it says its owned by bin.bin I didn't know that was even a default user,, but there you go... and it is working fine... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent:

[expert] Connection Lost

2001-02-19 Thread Ira M. Bargon III
When I try to telnet,ftp or ssh into my linux box which is inside my lan i get a connection lost message from a windows client or a connection closed by foriegn host from a linux client. Do i need to edit my host.allow file. I have had linux installed before on this server and never needed it

Re: [expert] RE: PMfirewall...

2001-02-19 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 06:06, Franki wrote: Hi all, I installed PMfirewall yesterday and it went flawlessly, just answered the questions and off it went,, they have done great in that respect... however, upon setting up the server, I noticed a heap of ipchains errors, like this: Feb 19

Re: [expert] new 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-19 Thread Bug Hunter
OK an update. I mucked around and if I put manual entries in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and force usb using modprobe usb-interface modprobe usbmouse modprobe usb-storage I can actually talk to my orb drive. (Note: if I eject the orb disk, I have to reboot Linux to get back to a reasonable

[expert] RE: PMfirewall...

2001-02-19 Thread Franki
Hi all, I installed PMfirewall yesterday and it went flawlessly, just answered the questions and off it went,, they have done great in that respect... however, upon setting up the server, I noticed a heap of ipchains errors, like this: Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h'

Re: [expert] cups is a real pain

2001-02-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 19 February 2001 13:51, you wrote: cups is giving grief again (and again and again ...) I am unable to In fact it is ! I am not sure why the change from a system which was working fine.. the fact is that I don't have the time to get CUPS working so all the machines in our lab

[expert] Good simple writeup on xinetd

2001-02-19 Thread Larry Blodgett
Does Mandrake have a good writeup on xinetd? Is there one out there that a newbie can understand? I would like to refer people to something that will get them off my back. When will a HowTO be written? -- Larry Blodgett Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux, WinNT, MS-DOS

[expert] cups/kups will not print postscript

2001-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have found that I cannot print postscript pages with cups. I can print the basic testpage but if I try to print ANY *.ps file, it appears in the jobs window of kups, sits there for a few seconds, then goes away with nothing happening. If I start kups from a CLI, what I get corresponding

Re: [expert] cups is a real pain

2001-02-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
After a restore from a backup made when 7.2 was installed of the cups directory, the cupsd.conf file is drasticly different. I have samba printing back but still no lpd client access to the server. I redirected the debug log to syslog and it shows authorisation errors. I think that kups is

Re: [expert] Good simple writeup on xinetd

2001-02-19 Thread Ron Heron
http://www.macsecurity.org/resources/xinetd/tutorial.shtml Also, xinetd can be found at http://www.xinetd.org Ron or enter "xinetd" in a search engine. --- Larry Blodgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Mandrake have a good writeup on xinetd? Is there one out there that a newbie can

Re: [expert] changing mount point

2001-02-19 Thread Ron Heron
Actually, you don't even have to go through all that. What you can do is the following: #ln -s /mnt/cdrom /desiredmountpointname/cda #ln -s /mnt/cdrom2 /desiredmountpointname/cdb #ln -s /mnt/cdrom3 /desiredmountpointname/cdc Then, in your smb.conf, just add /desiredmountpointname as a

Re: [expert] cups/kups will not print postscript

2001-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Replying to myself, about 5 minutes after posting this, I fixed the problem. I deleted my printer and then reinstalled it using printerdrake. I then selected the Foomatic+Gimp-print driver for my Epson Color Stylus 600. Now all is well and everything prints as it should. On Monday 19

Re: [expert] cups/kups will not print postscript

2001-02-19 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Monday 19 February 2001 15:59, Praedor Tempus wrote: Replying to myself, about 5 minutes after posting this, I fixed the problem. There's gotta be a name for this, right? I've decided that the best way to solve any problem is to post a query on a mailing list, then wait 3-5 minutes for

[expert] Kdesktop no longer starts

2001-02-19 Thread Stephen Carville
When I logged in this afternoon I was faced with a desktop with no icons, menus, and several settings -- most notably sound and and mouse -- set back to their defaults. I can start kdesktop from a terminal but that does not restore settings from the last session. Anyone know how I can fix this

[expert] Eth) - What Do I Do Now?

2001-02-19 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
I'm changing a Linux partition from SuSE6.4 to Mandrake7.2 and am having trouble getting the Mandrake to realize that there is an ethernet card. I ran pmpdump and got the following: # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.19 1999/10/16 15:17:17 fox Exp $ # Release isapnptools1.19 # This is free software, see

Re: [expert] 7.1 - 7.2 upgrade roadmap?

2001-02-19 Thread A V Flinsch
On Monday 19 February 2001 11:55, you wrote: I have recently been happily installing CS all over the place, but I have an old 7.1 machine that I want to bring current with 7.2. I was wondering if there is anything out there that would help me get ready for possible glitches. In particular

Re: [expert] Eth) - What Do I Do Now?

2001-02-19 Thread Craig Sprout
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: I'm changing a Linux partition from SuSE6.4 to Mandrake7.2 and am having trouble getting the Mandrake to realize that there is an ethernet card. I ran pmpdump and got the following: It's been a while since I've messed with PNP, but, I

RE: [expert] RE: PMfirewall... portsentry

2001-02-19 Thread Franki
bummer, I just restarted pmfirewall, and my ssh connection dropped out, as did every service on the system,, and I can't ping it anymore,, so I am guessing it has crashed the system, guess its time to uninstall and reinstall it... I might keep a copy of all my rules so I can put them back and

[expert] KDE Application Compiliation Problem

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Fishwick
Hi All, I have recently changed from RedHat to Mandrake, and have a fresh install of Mandrake 7.2, with all available updates installed. My problem is that I am trying to compile a KDE application, and it keeps erroring on me, I have checked that QTDIR is set, and that all headers have been

Re: [expert] Kdesktop no longer starts

2001-02-19 Thread John Wolford
Is it possible it was already running? When you're not running it, try `ps -ef |grep kdeinit` and see if it's already running. If so, maybe it would help if you killed it (and any other errant processes). I'm referring of course to kdeinit: Already running. QSocketNotifier: Multiple socket

[expert] Bugger..

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Fishwick
Sorry all, forgot to attach files to my previous message, here they are.. Regards Chris This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:558: checking for gcc configure:671: checking whether the C

Re: [expert] 7.1 - 7.2 upgrade roadmap?

2001-02-19 Thread John Wolford
There is a utility for xinetd that "does its best" to convert your inetd.conf into a xinetd.conf file. It's called xconv.pl (a perl script, yes). Supposedly it ships with xinetd but it wasn't installed, by Mandrake, with xinetd - not on my box anyway (7.2). So maybe if you download and install

Re: [expert] KDE Application Compiliation Problem

2001-02-19 Thread Stephen Carville
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Chris Fishwick wrote: - Hi All, - - I have recently changed from RedHat to Mandrake, and have a fresh install - of Mandrake 7.2, with all available updates installed. My problem is that - I am trying to compile a KDE application, and it keeps erroring on me, I - have

Re: [expert] changing mount point

2001-02-19 Thread bascule
if the problem is changing the mount points then edit /etc/fstab and alter the references to /mnt/cdrom etc. accordingly; or else run linuxconf and choose (from memory-in win at mo.) filesystemaccess local files or similar and make alterations to mount points there, make sure the drives aren't

Re: [expert] KDE Application Compiliation Problem

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Fishwick
Did you intall the devel packages for kde? # rpm -qa | grep devel | grep kde Yes, everything is there... From what I can gather, this is a fairly common problem, I have found it mentioned on this and other list previously, however, all the threads seem to end before the fix is explained..

[expert] system issues

2001-02-19 Thread chronos
Hi all, Having some issues with my mandrake os and would like some advice. 1.kde and gnome take a long time to log into 2.the mouse and keyboard freeze up so bad that I have to drop the system and reboot to unfreeze them. keyboard-microsoft natural mouse-microsoft itellipoint(the laser eye) 3.the

Re: [expert] Tx Ring full?

2001-02-19 Thread John Oliver
Morteargenta Giovanni wrote: Seems a congestion problem , maybe the output of ifconfig can help in diagnostics. If you see a great quantity of collisions , maybe raising the TXqueue helps Here it is while everything's working. All I see right now is the 5 overruns. I'll check when it

[expert] Modprobe cannot find eth0

2001-02-19 Thread Kent Williams
I installed 7.2 last week but it will not modprobe the PCI NIC card(Intel PRO100B). Going into harddrake i find that it is there but no configuration tool comes up to fix this problem. I have had an earlier version 7.0 on this same machine and it worked fine. I have turned of PnP OS and made

Re: [expert] Tx Ring full?

2001-02-19 Thread John Oliver
John Oliver wrote: Here it is while everything's working. All I see right now is the 5 overruns. I'll check when it breaks again... And this isn't an hard-and-fast problem, either... I got a couple a few minutes ago, but am still on line. And there's nothing in ifconfig... -- John

[expert] CD-RW deal

2001-02-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
If anyone is in the market for a good CD-RW at a great price Staples is running the Creative Blaster8432 for $109 and a $30 rebate for a final cost of $79. The offer is only good this week in the retail stores not through the catalog. I have the same drive that I got a year ago but for which I

[expert] sendmail chowned ?????

2001-02-19 Thread KompuKit
I have sendmail 8.9.3 installed on 7.2 mandrake (couldn't figure out the latest sendmail that comes with 7.2) for some reason... /usr/sbin/sendmail is chowned: root.root with 755 permits...set UID/GID why is this? and shouldn't it be: root.daemon orroot.mail and what are the correct