[expert] Mounting Zip Drive

2001-02-20 Thread george . jones
Here's the situation. I have a laptop running LM7.2 here at the office. It's one of 3 linux machines here. I have a SCSI Zip drive attached to one of my NT4 boxes. I would like to be able to mount his drive from my laptop but can't figure out how. The drive is shared out, but only my login name ha

Re: [expert] KDE Application Compiliation Problem

2001-02-20 Thread Jaime Perea
Hi, In my case for compiling kde apps I needed to define the environment variables KDEDIR and QTDIR. I'm not sure since in this moment I'm not in a mdk box but I think the first one should be defined as /usr and the second as /usr/lib/qt2 Cheers -- Jaime D. Perea Duarte. ([EMAIL PROTECTED],

RE: [expert] Mounting Zip Drive

2001-02-20 Thread Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE
If you can see it in Gnomba, just right-click on the drive and mount it. First though, you should setup a mount point in /mnt. I.e. /mnt/zip. After you have mounted it you should be able to read the contents. NeoFax -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2001-02-20 Thread xylonite
Hi all.. anyone know what is right permission for default 'user' using sendmail when sending mail? i try to using pine $pine root and send by pressing ctl+x error at bottom line is --- [Mail not sent: .0.0 Can't create transcript file ./xff1KAMc

[expert] modem on boot anyone,,, please??

2001-02-20 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have a little problem I really need help with.. When I was using RH6.2 it was really easy to set up ppp to dial on boot.. now that I have mdk7.2 I am havin no luck at all, I can dial in using kppp and gnoppp and they work fine. but not on boot,, I tried the ppp0 settings in linuxconf

[expert] menudrake

2001-02-20 Thread Jim Francis
Hello Please excuse the following stupid question, but can anyone tell me what Menudrake is really for ? I assumed it was for adding and editing menu items. Try as I may ,I cannot get it to change anything. Installed a program the other day (ripperX), and it would not save any changes

[expert] CUPS: Printing from Xemacs

2001-02-20 Thread Steven Taetzsch
Is there a trick to make printing work from Xemacs/emacs with cups? When I do ps-print-buffer in Xemacs, the postscript commands print out with the staircase effect. HP 932C printer on Mandrake 7.2. The test page is ok and printing a .dvi file with dvips also works properly. Thanks, Steve

Re: [expert] Hard disk busy

2001-02-20 Thread lem
hey, i had the same problem, but it was on my desktop, i solved it when i increased my swap file 2X my existing ram. dunno why??? too many disk swaps perhaps... might work with you too. ---lem

Re: [expert] Securing IMAP or Pop3

2001-02-20 Thread lem
you can install "courier-imap" it has secure counterparts of IMAP and POP SIMAP and SPOP3 ---lem

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

2001-02-20 Thread lem
frankie, On Tuesday 20 February 2001 4:04 am, Franki wrote: > Have you ever used Portsentry? how do you restart that? (does it start > from boot? if not, do I have to add somethign to rc.d to get it up and > running? and also, if I use a port scanner to test it,, it will ban my IP > won't it?

Re: [Re: [expert] bah humbug!]

2001-02-20 Thread donald hinds
Thanks, I'll do that for all 10 of my Mandrake CDs. 7.2(4), 7.2-update(1), 6.5(3?), 6.x Utilities(2). And I'll check that RPM link(s). some things that might help: put in a cd that has rpms. I'm assuming that the RPMS are in a directory named RPMS. substitute the correct directory in the

[expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw

2001-02-20 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
Ok, this is my first time with scsi and linux. I have 7.2 and now 8.0 installed on my machine which dual boots with 98. Mandrake 8.0 beta sets up the cdrw (Sony) after installation. The cdrw is found perfectly. Installation was great for 8.0 (mostly) but cdrecord --scanbus doesn't show it. My driv

Re: [expert] gui login panel

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Micene
On Sunday 18 February 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote: > 1) - In theory, at least, the gui login panel should allow one to choose > the window manager, and it does provide tabs for gnome, > enlightenment,etc., etc. However, when I choose one of these, I always > get KDE, no matter which I have chosen.

[expert] cheap Linux books

2001-02-20 Thread donald hinds
If you are in N.E. and want some cheap Linux books, two places to look. Building 19 (20 stores) has computer books for 50c (yes, the 400+ page Linux ones, some w/CD) Ocean State Job Lot (many stores), $6.99 (sometimes $4.99) and many of them include a CD, like the Wordperfect-8 for Linux boo

[expert] mandrake 8 iso

2001-02-20 Thread Steve Young
does any one know where i could download the isos for mandrake 8 beta?

[expert] kde-i18n

2001-02-20 Thread Pupeno
Do you know where can I find the KDE2.1Beta2 kde-i18n-* rpms for Mandrake 7.2 ? Thank you. -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pupeno.com.ar

Re: [expert] kde-i18n

2001-02-20 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 11:25, you wrote: > Do you know where can I find the KDE2.1Beta2 kde-i18n-* rpms for Mandrake > 7.2 ? > Thank you. Do yourself a major favor and wait 3 or 4 days. Then they will be available for 2.1 through Mandrake Update. KDE 2.1 is in it's final stages of pre-rel

Re: [Re: [expert] bah humbug!]

2001-02-20 Thread donald hinds
" Naah! Just pulling your leg:o) Horrible things can happen during an install, just try again -I found out that the quality of bootable installation cd"s and their content tend to differ too. Actually if you want to complain do so! and if you've questions be more specific. I've posted each pro

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw

2001-02-20 Thread Jason Straight
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 10:02, you wrote: > Ok, this is my first time with scsi and linux. I have 7.2 and now 8.0 > installed on my > machine which dual boots with 98. Mandrake 8.0 beta sets up the cdrw (Sony) > after installation. The cdrw is found perfectly. Installation was great for > 8.0

RE: [expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw

2001-02-20 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I missed that in my posting. I do have append="hdd=ide-scsi" This is what makes it odd for me to understand why it doesn't show up! Brian -Original Message- From: Jason Straight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [exper

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw

2001-02-20 Thread Jason Straight
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 12:25, you wrote: > I missed that in my posting. I do have append="hdd=ide-scsi" > This is what makes it odd for me to understand why it doesn't show up! > > Brian How about in /etc/modules ide-scsi -- Jason Straight

[expert] changing mount point

2001-02-20 Thread Bruce Endries
To those who replied to my question about changing the mount point of CD-ROMs, thank you very much for taking the time. I hadn't thought of creating a softlink. It worked like a charm. Now I am sharing all 3 CD-ROM drives as one drive letter for the Windows machines on the network. Bruce End

RE: [expert] mandrake 8 iso

2001-02-20 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
There is a link in this lists archives, but here it is: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/ -Original Message- From: Steve Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] mandrake 8 iso does any one

Re: [expert] kde-i18n

2001-02-20 Thread Larry Marshall
> Do yourself a major favor and wait 3 or 4 days. Then they will be available > for 2.1 through Mandrake Update. KDE 2.1 is in it's final stages of > pre-release work. This is sure good news Chris. Thanks for this announcement. Cheers --- Larry

RE: [expert] mandrake 8 iso

2001-02-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Young > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] mandrake 8 iso > > > does any one know where i could download the isos for mandrake 8 beta? >

Re: [expert] mandrake 8 iso

2001-02-20 Thread Alfredo Cole
It says: No such file or directory. Maybe it has been moved? El Martes 20 Febrero 2001 11:16, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN escribió: > There is a link in this lists archives, but here it is: > ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/ > > -Original Message- > From: Steve You

Re: [expert] modem on boot anyone,,, please??

2001-02-20 Thread William Bouterse
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:46:41 +0800 "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:p to dial on boot.. > > now that I have mdk7.2 I am havin no luck at all, I can dial in using kppp > and gnoppp and they work fine. but not on boot, Try editing /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-ppp0 Excerpts from mine: Not all of it but

Re: [expert] KDE Application Compiliation Problem

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Fishwick
> In my case for compiling kde apps I needed to define the environment > variables KDEDIR and QTDIR. I'm not sure since in this moment I'm > not in a mdk box but I think the first one should be defined as /usr > and the second as /usr/lib/qt2 These are both set... I was having exactly the same pr

RE: [expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw

2001-02-20 Thread Mike MacCana
You need a space between the double quote and the hdd append=" hdd=ide-scsi" Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Tue, 20

[expert] Reprocessing Netscape mail messages.

2001-02-20 Thread C. CLOSE
I'm not sure whether this a is a dumb question but is it possible to reprocess mail maessages by procmail after they have been received by Netscape. I have a huge amount of duplication in my Mandrake expert and newbie lists and I'd like to get rid of it. I know that procmail can do this before t

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update

2001-02-20 Thread Bill Piety
On 20 Feb 2001 15:17:32 -0300, Pupeno wrote: > I'm trying to update Mandrake with the Mandrake update utility and I have the > following problem. > A lot of my installed rpms depends on installed libstdc++ (exactly that > version) and a lot of the new packages depends on the new libstdc++. > So,

Re: [expert] mandrake 8 iso

2001-02-20 Thread Ben Keed
i have mdk 8.0 and as expected its still very buggy, does anyone know about the refresh problem? i am having it Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: > There is a link in this lists archives, but here it is: > ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/ > > -Original Message- >

[expert] Javascript in Konqueror

2001-02-20 Thread Stephen Carville
I would like to be able to use Webcal from within Konqueror but so far getting javascript to work has eluded me. I have enabled java and javascript in Settings -> Configure -> Browser -> Java/Javascript but it does not work. What else do I need to do to get Javascript working? -- --Stephen Car

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw

2001-02-20 Thread Ron Stodden
Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: > > I missed that in my posting. I do have append="hdd=ide-scsi" > This is what makes it odd for me to understand why it doesn't show up! You must load the necessary kernel modules: /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi /sbin/modprobe sg # also reports on ATA

[expert] ipop3d hanging on 7.2

2001-02-20 Thread Joe Burks
Has anybody else had issues with ipop3d? Sending the command "LIST 1" to ipop3d on my installation is causing it to hang. Here's a sample session: [root@server /]# ipop3d +OK POP3 server.wavicle.org v7.64 server ready user joe +OK User name accepted, password please pass +OK Mailbox open, 1 m

[expert] HP 7200 CDRW

2001-02-20 Thread Scott Faulkner
I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and have an HP 7200 cdrw everything works perfectly and I understand that in order for the cdrw to work correctly linux has to emulate the cdrw as a scsi device, but the problem is when ever I use an app like package managment I see dual entrys same applies for readi

[expert] printer que problems

2001-02-20 Thread Gary Bond
I was doing a print job the other day and when the files were finished printing they were not deleted from the que. Where is this directory I need to delete these files? Thanks Gary __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at gr

Re: [expert] menudrake

2001-02-20 Thread Neal Lippman
There have been previous postings to this list regarding menudrake problems. Menudrake IS to make changes to your menu. I can only speak for KDE, which is what I run, but I have found that after making changes with MenuDrake, I need to log out and log back in again for the changes to take plac

Re: [expert] HP 7200 CDRW

2001-02-20 Thread Gabriel Sandor
Hello Scott, Monday, February 19, 2001, 5:31:46 PM, you wrote: SF> I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and have an HP 7200 cdrw everything works SF> perfectly and I understand that in order for the cdrw to work correctly linux SF> has to emulate the cdrw as a scsi device, but the problem is when ever

[expert] error messages

2001-02-20 Thread chronos
Hi all, I`ve been getting these messages and wanted to know what they mean and what I can do to fix them. The ppp0 I`d just like to suppress because I use a dialup modem. The error messages appear when I open up the programs from the bash shell. Kedit- Assert: "chttp://www.gnupg.org owGbwMvMwCR4q

Re: [expert] modem on boot anyone,,, please??

2001-02-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a little problem I really need help with.. > > When I was using RH6.2 it was really easy to set up ppp to > dial on boot.. > > now that I have mdk7.2 I am havin no luck at all, I can > dial in using kppp and gnoppp and they work fine. but not > on boot,, > > I tr

[expert] localhost name question

2001-02-20 Thread chronos
Hi all, In the bash shell it says [you@localhost you]$ how do you change it to something else ? Like just your login or [you@yourisp you] ? I know this can be done, if you goto ethemes or windowmaker themes people have this customised. So there must be a way. thank you, chronos -BEGIN PGP SI

[expert] MandrakeUpdates - command line version?

2001-02-20 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan
Is there some command line equivalent for MandrakeUpdate? It would be very useful for a remote system I take care of, particularly for security updates. - Jerry

[expert] NVidea drivers and 7.2

2001-02-20 Thread Ian McLeod
Has anyone successfully installed the NVidea drivers for Mandrake 7.2? For some reason it will only run on kernel 2.2.15 and the X server has crashed once. It works beautifully though - when there are not library location or naming problems.

Re: [expert] mandrake 8 iso

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel B. Haun
Yeah it is... I can't get my Video card...a cheapo 6326 with no DVD support to run decentlky, it won't find the full 8 meg... only finds 4... etc etc, and my Realtek 8139 NIC won't load either... Hard Drake finds it... but the OS doesn't seem to see it... sigh... I pulled the files off the a site

[expert] when is the next version of Linux Mandrake coming out?

2001-02-20 Thread Ian McLeod
Hi people, Does anyone know when the 2.4 kernel based Linux Mandrake distribution will be coming out? I have heard through the grapevine that it should be March is all goes well - any further ideas anyone? _ Want a new web-based emai

[expert] Linux IMAP & PGP capable clients that interoperate with Courier-IMAP

2001-02-20 Thread Sam Stern
All, I recently install Mandrake 7.2 and am running into the most vexing of problems: To Date, I cannot locate a single GRAPHICAL MUA that inter operates with an OpenBSD install of Courier-IMAP. Here's the run down of issues: Netscape 4 and 6: full inter operation for a few minutes(or two refr

RE: [expert]

2001-02-20 Thread Franki
I have this same problem,, UI have a perl cart that links to sendmail for mailing purposes,, and it gives the same error message as above, except that the perl script prints the message to the page,, which doesnt' look good, for that matter the email isn't working for the script either... which lo

[expert] xinetd and proftpd

2001-02-20 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
Hi, Has anyone configured the xinetd service to run proftpd. The documentation states the use of inetd but no xinetd. If anyone has configured it please let me know how. Cheers Sridhar

Re: [expert] printer que problems

2001-02-20 Thread Altoine B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was doing a print job the other day and when the > files were finished printing they were not deleted > from the que. Where is this directory I need to delete > these files? > > Thanks > Gary If you are using Cups, the que is in /var/spool/Cups. -- .--.

Re: [expert] Linux IMAP & PGP capable clients that interoperatewith Courier-IMAP

2001-02-20 Thread Sam Stern
All, As an update to this, there is an option to enable bug workarounds (thanks to an offline message) for courier IMAP that seems to have solved my problems except WRT xfmail. Does anyone know of a PGP aware MUA that handles IMAP as well? Thanks, in advance, for your help!!! P.S. At least I ca