Re: [expert-it] Livello di sicurezza e Pass di root!

2001-03-02 Thread Silvio Bacchetta
Il Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:21:24PM +0100, nathanvi ha scritto: Si e' corretto. Ho provato a dare una occhiata a quel file; cosa sono il "META CLASS=PowerPack" il "TYPE=Normal" ed il "CLASS=expert" che compaiono sulla mai amcchina? Sono il tipo di distribuzione e le opzioni che scegli

[expert] How should I disable the login massage?

2001-03-02 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hi, Every time I log into my computer via ssh I receive the following message: Last login: Thu Mar 1 16:13:09 2001 from host.domain.th How should I disable it? I know that for security reasons that message should appear, but since I am running a message

[expert] Mozilla 0.8 - Java anyone?

2001-03-02 Thread Ian McLeod
Has anyone managed to get Java working in Mozilla 0.8 yet? What is general consensus on a solution? _ Want a new web-based email account ? --- http://www.firstlinux.net

[expert] New Postfix version

2001-03-02 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I was having a problem with emails having uppercase letters being rejected by Postfix on my Mandrake 7.1 machine. After checking with the Postfix folk, I found that this was a bug fixed over a year ago. I searched, and found that ALL mandrake Postfix RPMs are from the 1999 version,

[expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-02 Thread Karl Cunningham
Hi -- Does anyone have a procedure for removing the entire Xwindows system and everything under it? I have LM7.2, which installed X by default, but I don't expect to use it on this box and I'd like to remove the extra clutter. I can just remove the appropriate subdirectories, but I imagine

[expert] Enabling DMA on IDE Disk drives.

2001-03-02 Thread Arnold Troeger
I have a problem in Mandrake 7.2. Whenever I enable DMA access to my to my harddisk my computer hangs and I see the following messages in the message log: kernel: hda: timout waiting for DMA kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 kernel: hda: irq timeout:

Re: [expert] test

2001-03-02 Thread vmalep
I hope so! Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 01/03/2001 19:23:06 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [expert] test is this list still live? __

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-02 Thread Larry Marshall
I completely understand what you're saying, but unless the creators of Netscape and those responsible for maintaining and changing it decide to write it to do the things being suggested in this thread it's not going Oh...you're just saying "That's the way it is, deal with it." Well, you're

Re: [expert] Problem with kde 2.1 final...menudrake doesn't work

2001-03-02 Thread C. CLOSE
Hi Preador, I have had the same trouble. Have you tried running Menudrake from the Kde control panel, it's under "system" Menu Editor. For some unexplained reaon Menudrake doe not work if you start it by right clicking on the panel. Starting from the the "Control Centre" has

[expert] Mandrake 8 boot disk not working

2001-03-02 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I have been running Mandrake 8 pre beta for a couple of weeks with only a few problems. I decided to install v8 b1 last night. The install went fine (my boy loved the pics) but I like to boot from floppy for now with b1. After Installation though, the system looked at the floppy and continued to

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-02 Thread Shawn Stone
Karl: This may or may not do the trick... Try removing with rpm -e. Something like this usually works for me whenever I'm removing something like X that has tons of dependencies: for rpm in $(rpm -qa | grep "^XFree86") do rpm -e $rpm done Of course, with X, there will

[expert] ssh prob

2001-03-02 Thread Brent
I was wondering if mandrake comes with ssh package ?...i wasnt able to install ver ssh-1.2.27.tar.gz on mandrake ...should i try the rpm ?? or a newer version of ssh?? thanx in advance B

Re: [expert] ssh prob

2001-03-02 Thread Thomas Sourmail
I was wondering if mandrake comes with ssh package ?...i wasnt able to install ver ssh-1.2.27.tar.gz on mandrake ...should i try the rpm ?? or a newer version of ssh?? thanx in advance open-ssh I think ? Otherwise you can get ssh2 (which include graphical sftp clients for windows etc..) at

[expert] Updates (Descent Config utils in Mandrake 8.0 PLEASE!)

2001-03-02 Thread Alen Salamun
I have just read some stuff about MandrakeSoft making new ISO's with all the security fixes etc.. I don't think this is what we need. Ok, it is good if you release some "Updates" CD's for the people that don't have fast connections, but many of us just stick to updates. What we need is (like

[expert] KDE and fatal error on X-server -- couldn't open font path

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Spotts
Folks, Three or four times now, KDE has refused to let me log out, even when I use the control-alt-del key sequence. I've brought up a terminal screen to reboot or shut down, and when I've tried to log back on, I get switched from run level 5 to run level 3 and must log on manually. When I

Re: [expert] ssh prob

2001-03-02 Thread Woody Green
Brent wrote: I was wondering if mandrake comes with ssh package ?...i wasnt able to install ver ssh-1.2.27.tar.gz on mandrake ...should i try the rpm ?? or a newer version of ssh?? thanx in advance B MDK 7.2 has openssh on the CDs. Look for the openssh-* rpms and the required openssl-*

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-02 Thread Woody Green
Ron Stodden wrote: KDE 2.1 final in binary form for the various distributions was promised on the KDE site by Monday February 26. It is now 3.5 hours into Tuesday GMT and there is no sign of the KDE 2.1 final update to Mandrake 7.2. Where is it? What is happening? When and where

Re: [expert] dhcp config help needed

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Heron
hi, It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying to assign dynamic IP's to your lan, you just set it up to listen on the eth of the lan network. Couldn't you just use Drakconf to help you? Also, check the docs (how-to's) and it should give you a 1-2-3 on how to do it. Ron ---

RE: [expert] dhcp config help needed

2001-03-02 Thread goldengull.net administrator
when you run dhcpd type: dhcpd eth0 that will run it on your first ethernet device. any other device: dhcpd if-name see ya. mg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Gough Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 8:10 PM To: '[EMAIL

[expert] cron jobs question

2001-03-02 Thread goldengull.net administrator
how do i get my hourly cron jobs to not mail me. this is killing my email! i don't mind daily or weekly, but hourly is a little to expensive. mg

[expert] Help with escape codes (Kinda OT)

2001-03-02 Thread Wayne Stout
Greetings, everyone. While replacing an old NCR Unix box with Linux, I've run into a slight snag. It seems that bash doesn't interpret the generated rsh commands quite like Unix did (csh, I think). Basically, users on our production machine (another NCR Unix box) run a program that generates a

[expert] kde 2.1

2001-03-02 Thread Tom Badran
Anyone got RPMS of kde 2.1 for mandrake 7.2. I have the beta 2 installed (from muo) but really need some of the fixes for 2.1 final. Also, does anyone have any experience with upgrading glibc to 2.2, like pitfalls / best way of doing it, or does it just break everything. -- Microsoft is not

Re: [expert] cron jobs question

2001-03-02 Thread Thomas Sourmail
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, goldengull.net administrator wrote: how do i get my hourly cron jobs to not mail me. this is killing my email! i don't mind daily or weekly, but hourly is a little to expensive. man 5 crontab You can define, in your crontab, MAILTO="" to prevent cron from mailing you,

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-02 Thread John Wolford
Sadly, reinstalling won't work. Mandrake just refuses to install without X. But never fear, it's POSSIBLE to remove all offending packages (rpm packages). # rpm -qa |grep [xX] will give you a bunch of packages, probably not all of which are X-related, but many of which are. Here's what *I*

RE: [expert] cron jobs question

2001-03-02 Thread goldengull.net administrator
that is what i was afraid of. thanks! mg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Sourmail Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:26 PM To: mandrake user Subject: Re: [expert] cron jobs question On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, goldengull.net

Re: [expert] dhcp config help needed

2001-03-02 Thread John Wolford
I'm very close to setting up my own dhcp server but i haven't done it yet, so i don't really know. But shouldn't it depend on which server you're using? What server are you using? j --- Doug Gough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up the dhcp server, but I don't know how to

RE: [expert] dhcp config help needed

2001-03-02 Thread Doug Gough
The only instructions I can find are the man pages. There is no DHCP howto, although there might be after I figure all of this out :-) The server is straight forward to set up, except for this one detail. I want it to function as a normal DHCP, giving IPs to all the computers on the LAN side

[expert] cannot execute file.

2001-03-02 Thread george . jones
Ok... I just installed a set of drivers for my MWave modem. I'm supposed to type "mwaved start" and it should work, right??? Wrong. I get back "bash: mwaved: command not found". If I fire up MC, I can see the script, and fire it off (of course without the start argument). What am I not doing

Re: [expert] cron jobs question

2001-03-02 Thread Bug Hunter
You can also do this * * * * * /path/to/program /dev/null that typically prevents an email for that particular program. You also don't know if it cratered or had problems. :( bug On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Thomas Sourmail wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, goldengull.net administrator wrote: how

Re: [expert] cannot execute file.

2001-03-02 Thread Craig Sprout
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... I just installed a set of drivers for my MWave modem. I'm supposed to type "mwaved start" and it should work, right??? Wrong. I get back "bash: mwaved: command not found". If I fire up MC, I can see the script, and fire it off (of course without the start

RE: [expert] dhcp config help needed

2001-03-02 Thread goldengull.net administrator
then type dhcpd eth1 to have it run on the eth1 card. or see the bottom of http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ for faq/mailing archives. mg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Gough Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 1:36 PM To: '[EMAIL

Re: [expert] cron jobs question

2001-03-02 Thread Michael Jarvis
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:47:08AM -0500, goldengull.net administrator wrote: how do i get my hourly cron jobs to not mail me. this is killing my email! i don't mind daily or weekly, but hourly is a little to expensive. You can redirect standard out to /dev/null, and leave standard error

Re: [expert] cannot execute file.

2001-03-02 Thread george . jones
Thanks, figured it out almost as soon as I hit "Send" on the email. Craig Sprout [EMAIL PROTECTED]@crownpartsandmachine.com on 03/02/2001 02:12:33 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [expert] cannot execute file.

RE: [expert] Enabling DMA on IDE Disk drives.

2001-03-02 Thread Franki
If you are still having problems with this, I sugest you try the webmin interface, it has a great section on the hard disk parameters... and you can choose all the options and then test the result.. I used this to see how far I could push the drive (a 7200rpm 2mb cache UDMA 100 Western Digital)

RE: [expert] cannot execute file.

2001-03-02 Thread Walter Pea
Plese i have an mwave and i waas resignet to not have drivers to ml, can send me where i can down this driver or send me to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Friday, March 02, 2001 03:17 PM Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Harddrive performance problems

2001-03-02 Thread falcaraz
Hello folks; Every time I start linux I need for each of my hd type: hdparm -c1 -d1 -u1 -X66 /dev/hdx to have a good performance (28-30 Mb/s); if I don't do that the rate fall down until 4 Mb/s. Is there any way to do that automatically? Thanks a lot for you help Francisco Alcaraz Murcia

[expert] Re: How do I add net card WITHOUT probing

2001-03-02 Thread Eric
Well, I eventually got this going. I believe I could do it easier, but what I did was: 1) text based EXPERT install, allow autoprobe to fail, then add in my card manually (no extra options) 2) text based install blows up flipping CDs on a Virtual Machine, leaving mostly working text only Linux

RE: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-03-02 Thread Rick Commo
No release date but all the other info is available on the Mandrake home page! -rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thibaut Colar Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-02 Thread Karl Cunningham
Thanks Shawn and John. Sounds like something for a rainy day. Shawn, I chose "server" during install. I'll let you know how it went after I do it. Thanks again, Karl At 09:33 3/2/2001 -0800, you wrote: Sadly, reinstalling won't work. Mandrake just refuses to install without X. But never

Re: [expert] VPN software

2001-03-02 Thread Scott Patten
Is there an RPM for freeS/WAN or poptop available or do we need to install from source? I've never seen one. I have looked. This makes sense though. Both require patching the kernel. I know there are various capabilities added to the Mandrake kernels (reiserfs, security patches, etc.)

[expert] Dell Inspiron 8000 and MDK 7.2?

2001-03-02 Thread Norman Carver
Wondered whether anyone has installed MDK 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8000. A friend just got one and the install didn't "just work." So before we spend lots of time fussing around, I thought I would ask here whether anyone already knows the "secrets!" Machine has ATI Mobility graphics card and

Re: [expert] Harddrive performance problems

2001-03-02 Thread s
Put at the end of a start up script like the rc.local or mandrake_everytime. -s On Friday 02 March 2001 02:55 pm, you wrote: Hello folks; Every time I start linux I need for each of my hd type: hdparm -c1 -d1 -u1 -X66 /dev/hdx to have a good performance (28-30 Mb/s); if I don't do that the

Re: [expert] Dell Inspiron 8000 and MDK 7.2?

2001-03-02 Thread Robin Dunn
Wondered whether anyone has installed MDK 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8000. A friend just got one and the install didn't "just work." So before we spend lots of time fussing around, I thought I would ask here whether anyone already knows the "secrets!" Machine has ATI Mobility graphics card

[expert] postfix updates for mandrake

2001-03-02 Thread goldengull.net administrator
this from the postfix-users list: snip I am producing RPMS for postfix for RedHat Linux. These packages I believe also work on Mandrake linux. URL: http://www.pobox.com/~sjmudd/postfix Latest package postfix-20010225-1.i386.rpm Note: I'm currently not announcing to this list the updates I

[expert] How do I add net card WITHOUT probing

2001-03-02 Thread Eric
I'm trying to install Mdk 7.2 on a Virtual Machine. No matter how I try, I keep getting: Error at Lance.c , line 479, module autoprobing not allowed HOWEVER, when I try a network install, I'm allowed to pick my card, manually pick the options, then say "OK". This WORKS. So, on or after an

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-02 Thread Praedor Tempus
It is not a good idea to just delete directories. Your RPM database will still think all of that stuff is installed. Startup and login to the command line (Runlevel 4? Or is it 3? You could also do a Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login there and do the the rest of this from there. Not sure what happens

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-02 Thread Praedor Tempus
It is not a good idea to just delete directories. Your RPM database will still think all of that stuff is installed. Startup and login to the command line (Runlevel 4? Or is it 3? You could also do a Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login there and do the the rest of this from there. Not sure what happens

[expert] OT:Cookfire

2001-03-02 Thread Cecil Watson
Has anyone taken a look at Cookfire? What all does it include? The ISO looks VERY big to be just a router/firewall... Thanks in advance, Cecil

[expert] Mandrake, qt-2.2.4, and xft antialiasing of fonts

2001-03-02 Thread Praedor Tempus
So, qt 2.2.4 supports certain fonttype antialiasing. Does anyone know if the Mandrake Cooker qt-2.2.4 has xft enabled by default if one compiles the src? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

Re: [expert] Changing HD

2001-03-02 Thread Clayton Nielsen
Well I tried to do the chage of HDs following the HOW-TO and it kind of craped out so I went and backed up my important things and the reinstalled on the new disk, problem solved. Thanks for all the help. On Wednesday 28 February 2001 P:14:55:i, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Norton Ghost, or any of

[expert] cd-rw install help

2001-03-02 Thread KompuKit
someone PLEASE help me..get my HP 9150i cd-rw to function correctly...I have scsi emulation I can access , mount , and use it regularly... but...when I bringup x-cd-roast it can't find it...or set it up...it says something about permissions not being set properly...and/or scsi emulation not

Re: [expert] cd-rw install help

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:50:20AM +, KompuKit wrote: someone PLEASE help me..get my HP 9150i cd-rw to function correctly...I have scsi emulation I can access , mount , and use it regularly... but...when I bringup x-cd-roast it can't find it...or set it up...it says something about