Re: [expert] Where is J2RE directory, please?

2001-03-10 Thread John Wolford
A few ways that i can think of: 1. If your locate database is all up to date (updatedb is the command to do this) then you can try # locate j2re 2. Read the man page on "find", and i'm not writing from my box so i can't check for sure that this will work, but try something like: # find /usr -

[expert] mounting local filesystems during boot

2001-03-10 Thread Dawid Michalczyk
Is there a way to speed this process up? On my system, Mdk7.2(ext2fs), 800Mhz Duron with 128Mb of RAM and two HDs(one 20 and the other 30Gb) the mounting takes about 45 seconds. Thanks. -- Dawid Michalczyk

Re: [expert] How do I set up Kmail to follow links?

2001-03-10 Thread Gary Bond
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[expert] SGMLTools "No entity maps found"

2001-03-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi folks, This is quite urgent for me, so I ask this list. I spent my night searching for a clue but to no avail... I used to do some work with the sgml-tools in Mandrake 7.0 and everything worked. After Installation of 7.2 I edited the same sgml file and when ordering the transformation to t

Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail!

2001-03-10 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
** Reply to message from Lars Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:12:44 -0500 > Linux server as the SMTP and POP servers. (Both server programs should be > installed and enabled by default - I think) True in a "Server" install. imap is also there and may be of more use in an offic

Re: [expert] Sendmail vs Postfix!!

2001-03-10 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 09, 2001 at 01:42:43PM -0600, Larry Blodgett wrote: > Dan is right about the question. Is it Qmail or Postfix? > > Qmail is just as secure (if not more) as Postfix and much easier to > configure and manage. Mandrake now comes with sendmail and Postfix > but I wish they would have

Re: [expert] mandrake-devel/unsupported

2001-03-10 Thread Ron Stodden
Michael O'Henly wrote: > > Come on! We're talking about the "UNSUPPORTED" directory, right? What part of > "unsupported" do you not understand"? I would speculate that you do not fully understand how rpm works, hence your inability to see the problems. RPMs are not individual entities; most bel

Re: [expert] Upgrading to KDE 2.1 -- Full Installation Instructions

2001-03-10 Thread Neal Lippman
Thank you for posting these excellent instructions. I have had the 2.1 rpms's sitting in a directory for a week now, waiting for me to get up the nerve to risk the install. Your instructions are most welcome! One question, though. What is "apmd"? I don't find it installed on my system despite

[expert] Autoloading modules

2001-03-10 Thread Joseph Red
I'm trying to find the proper way to autoload modules for my usbcam. Normally I boot, bring up a term, su, modprobe videodev & modprobe ov511. Exit su & start my webcam. I tried putting the modules in /etc/modules, but when I do that it doesn't work. As far as I can tell (I really don't know h

Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail!

2001-03-10 Thread Lars Nordin
- Original Message - From: "Ritesh Ahya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail! > Lars thanks for your information, actually i was trying to answer someone, > but the information

Re: [expert] cd-rw in 2.2.17 error

2001-03-10 Thread Ron Stodden
eric wrote: > > so if I have a iso in /home/1-8.0-Traktopel-beta1-i586.iso want to > copy to cdrw disk(blank) > what should I do? I triedmkisofs 1-8* /mnt/cdrom/. > > it just unvelievable chaos mkisofs makes an iso image file from directory trees. That has been already done for you.

Re: [expert] Switched to ATA66

2001-03-10 Thread Joseph Red
Joseph Red wrote: > > I switched to ATA66 using the "boot install cd, choose update, let it > write boot record, exit" method, and everything seems to work correctly > except for my USB webcam. I get an "open /dev/video0: no such device" > error. When I do a modprobe for videodev & ov511, which

Re: [expert] mandrake-devel/unsupported

2001-03-10 Thread Michael O'Henly
Come on! We're talking about the "UNSUPPORTED" directory, right? What part of "unsupported" do you not understand"? One of the big benefits of the Linux Mandrake distribution is that we _get_ updates like these! If things are a bit messy, then it's probably because the folks who normally tend

[expert] Upgrading from KDE2.0 to 2.1

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear KompuKit: Here is a copy of my instructions: Dear Oder and friends: The instructions for upgrading from KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.1 in Lm7.2 are as simple as can be because Mandrake went out of their way to make it so: 1) Go to any Mandrake ftp site using your ftp application (gftp, Igloo or whate

Re: [expert] Say NO to upgrading from KDE2.01 to 2.1

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Alex: Agreed. It was a false alarm on my part. I have already apologized for this in an earlier post. I upgraded my KDE 2.01 to 2.1 earlier in the week and all because of a misunderstanding I reinstalled LM 7.2 from scratch. Then I found out that you can always open as many instances of Nets

Re: [expert] not enough arguments for update-menus

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Jonathan: You need to type as root: update-menus -v This will do it. You forgot the -v Then log out of KDE 2.1 and log back in. Before you do this, you should first update your rpm database: #rpm -- rebuilddb then #update-menus -v That should do it. It did it for me. Benjamin --

[expert] mandrake-devel/unsupported

2001-03-10 Thread Ron Stodden
Keeper of the unsupported tree, Dear Sir, 1. Please identify yourself. Things appear to be in an almighty mess, and have been for many, many days. Here's what's wrong: 2. Duplicate products, with the following earlier versions not deleted: unsupported/i586/SDL-1.1.6-1.i586.rpm unsupported/

Re: [expert] cd-rw in 2.2.17 error

2001-03-10 Thread Expert User
If you have an iso file then you just need to use cdrecord. BTW, do you have cdrecord installed? If you have then: 1. first find where is your CD-RW drive: cdrecord -scanbus This will produce some output like this: scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) *

Re: [expert] cd-rw in 2.2.17 error

2001-03-10 Thread eric
so if I have a iso in /home/1-8.0-Traktopel-beta1-i586.iso want to copy to cdrw disk(blank) what should I do? I triedmkisofs 1-8* /mnt/cdrom/. it just unvelievable chaos need help again sincere eric Expert User wrote: > > You can not mount them as a file system. You have to use

Re: [expert] cd-rw in 2.2.17 error

2001-03-10 Thread Expert User
You can not mount them as a file system. You have to use some program like cdrecord to burn an image on the CD-R(W) first and then you can mount it. You create an image using mkisofs. eric wrote: > I already change /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf > /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0 appendhd

[expert] cd-rw in 2.2.17 error

2001-03-10 Thread eric
I already change /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0 appendhda=scsi-ide /* my Toshiba DVD-cd-r-cdrw combo located */ if I put in a blank cdrw disk, how should I do, ls /mnt/cdrom ? or fdisk /mnt/cdrom? get error on both case need help and thanks in adva

Re: [expert] Easy fonts question

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marc Siegel wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using Mandrake 7.2, with KDE 2.1. > I wanted anti-aliased fonts, so I upgraded to XFree 4.02 > from unsupported (yes I have a Matrox G400), and to Qt 2.3. > I also installed freetype2. > > Now my fonts are nicely antialiased, but I only have like 6 > fonts. An

Re: [expert] Say NO to upgrading from KDE2.01 to 2.1

2001-03-10 Thread KompuKit
can you tell me, where you got the FINAL kde 2.1... and HOW " EXACTLY " you did it... A V Flinsch wrote: > > On Saturday 10 March 2001 00:26, you wrote: > > Dear friends: > > > > A warning from someone who did not listen: > > > > If you are planning to upgrade from KDE 2.0 or 2.01 to KDE 2.1, d

[newbie] sound help

2001-03-10 Thread KompuKit
Below, is a partial listing within webmin...of my /var/log/messages for todays boot. Sound works ok, IF I click on a wav, or mp3 etc...to hear it. but, as for system sounds inside control center...I can't hear them either on startup...or shutdown...or if just testing them, with its test button.

[expert] Switched to ATA66

2001-03-10 Thread Joseph Red
I switched to ATA66 using the "boot install cd, choose update, let it write boot record, exit" method, and everything seems to work correctly except for my USB webcam. I get an "open /dev/video0: no such device" error. When I do a modprobe for videodev & ov511, which is all I used to need to do,

Re: [expert] Say NO to upgrading from KDE2.01 to 2.1

2001-03-10 Thread A V Flinsch
On Saturday 10 March 2001 00:26, you wrote: > Dear friends: > > A warning from someone who did not listen: > > If you are planning to upgrade from KDE 2.0 or 2.01 to KDE 2.1, do NOT > do so at this time. WAIT till March 26, when the final official KDE > 2.1.1 with all the bug fixes is released. >

[expert] Easy fonts question

2001-03-10 Thread Marc Siegel
Hi all, I am using Mandrake 7.2, with KDE 2.1. I wanted anti-aliased fonts, so I upgraded to XFree 4.02 from unsupported (yes I have a Matrox G400), and to Qt 2.3. I also installed freetype2. Now my fonts are nicely antialiased, but I only have like 6 fonts. And, being an 'expert', I've alread

RE: [expert] Java in KDE 2.1 -- SOLVED!

2001-03-10 Thread David Boles
If you don't mind giving out a little information, which can all be false , download this Java Money Manger. The version 3.0 has IBM Java 1.3 included. Pay attention to where it installs the Java directory in it a little unusual. http://www.moneydance.com - -Original Message - From: To

RE: [expert] Java in KDE 2.1 -- SOLVED!

2001-03-10 Thread Tony K. Olsen
Thanks for the info. Much appreciated. Is there anyplace to get this file without having to sign up. This giving out company and personal information just ensures I won't use the products. Anyone... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Be

[expert] not enough arguments for update-menus

2001-03-10 Thread Jonathan Oppenheim
hi, i tried to run update-menus, after installing kde2.1 but i get the following error message Not enough arguments for mkdir at /usr/bin/removekdesysmenu.pl line 42, near ""${kdehome}/share/applnk/$file")" Execution of /usr/bin/removekdesysmenu.pl aborted due to compilation errors. the line i

[expert] Mandrake After Major Hardware Upgrade

2001-03-10 Thread Chris Spencer
In the next few days I'm going to be doing a major hardware upgrade of new motherboard, CPU, video card, and primary disk controller. I'm thinking that what I would do is do a backup of my entire system with tar, go through a Mandrake upgrade (to deal with the new hardware) and then do a resto

Re: [expert] Disk image

2001-03-10 Thread David Boles
TO John Rye. A very good guess about the Linux-Newbie lady being Marcia. I had sent the files off an old win '98 disk that my son had laying around, had her make a bootable DOS floppy, and had her put them on the floppy. Something got trashed in the process and she still did not have CD-Rom sup

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Final : Still 2 apps that won't run fromdesktop applink

2001-03-10 Thread Kelley Terry
I'm using kde 2.1 beta 2. The way I get mine is to create an application by running kmenuedit from a command line. In that application I have run from a terminal. Then I associate word perfect files with by right clicking on a word perfect file and editing file type - again making sure the run

Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail!

2001-03-10 Thread Ritesh Ahya
Lars thanks for your information, actually i was trying to answer someone, but the information you gave me was good. and it's a bit new for me. o.k. let me ask you something ? 1) Agreed, K mail works fine with stand alone, applications. is that true ? Do you agree, i think yes ? 2) Second, I want

[newbie] Hi everybody, need you people to say something.

2001-03-10 Thread Ritesh Ahya
Hi everybody, newbies as well experts. I am getting everybody about 100 messages, i dont' mind with it. i love to read all of them, try to understand the problems that our linux-brothers are facing, like to ask sometimes, like to reply sometimes. but it's a good feeling. All i have to say it, can

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Final : Still 2 apps that won't run from desktop applink

2001-03-10 Thread David Boles
To get WordPerfect 8 to load I had to write a bash script that contains the line that you type at the command prompt. I had the KDE.link call the script. I have NO idea why this works here but it is an old DOS type of thing to do. -Original Message - From: Sujeet Bhatt To: Mandrake Expert

Re: [expert] Problem with Mandrake server

2001-03-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
Yes, sending to two lists will result in all copies going to the first list. This is an OLD problem which seems to defy corrective measures... It's also one of the reasons for the multiple message complaints. Pierre Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I have sent several messages in t

Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail!

2001-03-10 Thread Lars Nordin
What are you trying to do? If you are trying to just send and receive mail then KDE Kmail or Netscape Messenger are sufficient and they can talk directly to your ISP/company's mail server. If you want to send mail internally on your Linux box - not between systems - then there is no configuratio

[expert] Where to find IBM's Java -- Instructions

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I had forgotten how difficult it was for me to find the IBM JRE. I knew it existed because KDE lists it on their www.konqueror.org page (even though they claim it doesn't work) and because of the note by Zeljko Vukman, who said that he had replaced Sun's Java with IBM's and that IBM

[expert] PyQT-2.3 [OT?]

2001-03-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
Sorry if this is off-topic... Anyone had success compiling PyQT-2.3...? I'm not c++ literate; but a quick scan of the sources shows that QString::setUnicodeCodes is defined in XML style, and there appears to be two sipConvertTo_QString functions (L2562 & L3993) in sipqtQString.cpp... Anyone kno

[expert] Upgrading to KDE 2.1 -- Full Installation Instructions

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Oder and friends: The instructions for upgrading from KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.1 in Lm7.2 are as simple as can be because Mandrake went out of their way to make it so: 1) Go to any Mandrake ftp site using your ftp application (gftp, Igloo or whatever) and type in the exact name of the ftp host site

[expert] Problem with Mandrake server

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have sent several messages in the past two hours, and each message was sent to the Expert and Newbie list, respectively, that is, one address was typed in the "To" field and the other in the "To" (CC) field. Unfortunately, I've noticed that both copies went to the same mailing lis

[newbie] Upgrading to KDE 2.1 -- Full Installation Instructions

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Oder: The instructions for upgrading from KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.1 in Lm7.2 are as simple as can be because Mandrake went out of their way to make it so: 1) Go to any Mandrake ftp site using your ftp application (gftp, Igloo or whatever) and type in the exact name of the ftp host site, e.g. ftp.w

Re: [expert] Java in KDE 2.1 -- SOLVED!

2001-03-10 Thread Michael O'Henly
Cool! I haven't installed Java yet in 2.1 and this'll save me reinventing the wheel. Thanks, Ben. M. On Saturday 10 March 2001 04:37, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > Well, the Java madness in Konqueror is finally over! > > I never could get KDE 2.0.1 to work with any of the Java Virtua

[expert] KDE 2.1 Java: JSSE -- critical footnote

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: The JSSE message that comes up in the Virtual console in NO way retards or obstructs or affects in any way the performance of the java applet. Thank God! If you UNCHECK the box for "Virtual console" under Settings, Konqueror, Browser, Java, you will be blissfully unaware of this iss

Re: [expert] Say NO to upgrading from KDE2.01 to 2.1

2001-03-10 Thread Gérald Verdon
Le Samedi 10 Mars 2001 05:26, vous avez écrit : > I had the misfortune to find out that one bug alone ruined my entire > Internet experience, namely, KDE 2.1 does NOT allow more than ONE > instance of Netscape at a time. If you change URL's or open any other > instance of Netscape (or Mozilla, I

[expert] KDE 2.1 Java: JESSE -- What's that, please?

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friens: The IBM Java Virtual Machine is working flawlessly, so far, in KDE 2.1's Konqueror. As good and as fast as in Netscape 4.76. I have one question, for which I believe there is an answer. But, being a newbie, I think I bet let an expert comment on this and on whether any of us users r

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-10 Thread Mike MacCana
All your antiased font are belong to Tobias! mm On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Tobias Marx wrote: > I've compiled rpms of qt2.3 for Mandrake 7.2 from the cooker srpms. > You can download them here: http://rpm.digitalprojects.com. > They install fine, but the unsupported xfree4.02 rpms seem not to > suppo

[expert] 8Beta

2001-03-10 Thread piritta
Ok i got the beta running for a few days now. AMD ATHLON 700 GeForce2 gts Asus 192 MB RAM Herkules firewirecard (not working) creative sondblaster pci 128 HP cdrw (working only as reader) It is surprisingly stable the only instabillitys that i have seen are the usual =) 1. Konqueror crashes aft

[expert] Java in KDE 2.1 -- SOLVED!

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Well, the Java madness in Konqueror is finally over! I never could get KDE 2.0.1 to work with any of the Java Virtual Machines that I installed. This doesn't mean that it won't on other people's systems. It's just that they failed on mine. So... I upgraded to KDE 2.1 and tried out

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-10 Thread Tobias Marx
Praedor Tempus schrieb: > > Nice! I was going to build it myself but yours do fine. It looks REAL nice > to have antialiased fonts (finally). Fortunately, I already had > XFree86-4.0.2 built and installed...and it works just fine with qt-2.3.0 > antialiasing. could you please post your XF86co

[expert] Found the QT3 rpms

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Tobias: Found the URL for the QT3 rpms on the Expert archives. Looking forward to the xfree86 4.01 rpms. Great job! Thank you. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-10 Thread Tobias Marx
Expert User schrieb: > > can you post instructions/pointers about how to compile XF86 4.0.2 > with AA support for mandrake? that would be great! > > Do I have to compile WHOLE KDE again to get AA enabled?? no, it should work right out of the box.

Re: [expert] Say NO to upgrading from KDE2.01 to 2.1

2001-03-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Bill: Oh, how I wish I knew this before reinstalling Linux 7.2 two days ago! Thanks so much for reassuring me about this. Will upgrade to KDE 2.1 again. My apology to the list for "panicking," as you say. And I agree. It's much better to open another window than another instance of Netscap

Re: [expert] RAID installation

2001-03-10 Thread sekko
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:41, you wrote: > What are the commands for software raid? like status, array rebuilt etc. > thank you cat /proc/mdstat to check the raid-stus raid0run raidhotadd raidhotremove raidsetfaulty raidstart raidstop You can find an excellent man pag for them. Notice: ther

RE: [expert] kernel panic, can not mount root fs

2001-03-10 Thread Daryl Johnson
One bizarre option you might try - if you just want to recover data and it is vital - try finding an Amiga, plug your hd in to it and run... oh drat my mind is a blank, there is a file system on aminet that allows you to mount unix/linux partitions and read from them. Last time I used this 8 mont

Re: [expert] Say NO to upgrading from KDE2.01 to 2.1

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Ben, go to "file", "New", "Navigator Window" and start as many copies as you need. Yes the other is a bug, but I (and I suspect most others) rarely open extra copies of navigator instead of just a new intsance of the existing one, so I think most people would view it as a small problem as you get

Re: [expert] Web Mail System

2001-03-10 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Stephen, Try Squirrelmail. Just started using it and it works fine and the configuration is easy too. It is coded in PHP and does not require database support. More info at http://www.squirrelmail.org/ Hope this helps Venkatesh --- Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any recomm