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

2001-03-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: The JRE and JDK directories are located as follows: 1) Sun's J2RE is at /usr/java/j2re1.3.0 2) Blackdown's J2RE is a tar.gz file that installs into your home directory /home/user/J2RE1.3.0 3) IBM's J2RE is located at /opt/IBMJ2RE1.3-6 4) Sun's jdk-sun1.2.2(a mandrake file) is

Re: [expert] LDAP

2001-03-11 Thread Cecil Watson
I made a few changes to my test.ldif, now I'm getting this error: add o: mydomain.com add objectclass: top organization adding new entry "o=mydomain.com" ldap_add: Unknown error additional info: next_id add failed ldif_record() = 80 Here is what my

[expert] highest inode number

2001-03-11 Thread Dawid Michalczyk
Since I'm going to have many, many *small* files on a 15GB partition, I was wondering if one can actually run out of inode numbers, and thus be left with unused space. So my question is: what is the maximum amount of files one can have under ext2fs? Thanks. -- Dawid Michalczyk

Re: [expert] mounting local filesystems during boot

2001-03-11 Thread Ron Stodden
Dawid Michalczyk wrote: 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. A large partition can take a long time to fschk at mount time if requested to do so in

Re: [expert] highest inode number

2001-03-11 Thread Shawn Stone
The answer to your first question (whether one can run out of inode numbers and left with unused (unusable) space) is yes. Slackware used to (maybe still does) allow you to set the granularity of your filesystem to 4k/2k/1k for this reason. What the "formula" is for determining how many

[expert] telnet ftp fail

2001-03-11 Thread dennis
Hi, I installed mandrake 7.2 server configuration with low security. I have use a swap and only a large / space. FTP and TELNET worked fine for a few hours. I proceed to build my mysql databse and install my php scripts. After a reboot I cannot ftp or telnet. Is there something I must watch

Re: [expert] 8Beta

2001-03-11 Thread Marc
Simple quetion? Where can I download mandrake 8 Beta? And are there different BETA versions? Greetings Palito - Original Message - From: "piritta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:57 PM Subject: [expert] 8Beta Ok i got the beta running for a few

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

2001-03-11 Thread A V Flinsch
On Saturday 10 March 2001 17:10, you wrote: can you tell me, where you got the FINAL kde 2.1... and HOW " EXACTLY " you did it... Download everything from ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/i586 into a single directory (I did not download all of the i18n stuff)

RE: [expert] Switching from CUPS to lpd

2001-03-11 Thread Dave
On Fri 9 Mar 2001, Eric MC D wrote: How can we get out every trace of Cups ?? I just did this. Cups has been a real roller coaster ride for me: I couldn't get it to work at all, then it worked great for a while. Then I had to re-install Mandrake (for other reasons) and lost CUPS completely. I

Re: [expert] telnet ftp fail

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Weaver
Dennis, Check your startup services. You probably need to turn on inet services. Mark dennis wrote: Hi, I installed mandrake 7.2 server configuration with low security. I have use a swap and only a large / space. FTP and TELNET worked fine for a few hours. I proceed to build my

[expert] grub in single user mode

2001-03-11 Thread lorne schachter
Yesterday,, my system crashed and trashed one of my file systems. fsck couldn't clean it automaticly and I couldn't figure out how to tell grub to do an "init s" on the system. I eventually went back to an old boot disk with LILO and everything was fine. How can I do that with grub?

[expert] Moz .8 Preferences broke!

2001-03-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have downloaded every Mozilla .8 file available from www.mozilla.org, including Red Hat 6 rpms (RH 7 won'nt work on LM7.2 because they use rpm v. 4), every tar.gz file, etc. And every attempt to configure Mozilla .8 in Preferences has ended in failure, whether you try to

Re: [expert] Moz .8 Preferences broke!

2001-03-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 11 March 2001 07:49 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I have downloaded every Mozilla .8 file available from www.mozilla.org, including Red Hat 6 rpms (RH 7 won'nt work on LM7.2 because they use rpm v. 4), every tar.gz file, etc. Ben, there's Mdk i686 rpms for .8 on

Re: [expert] highest inode number

2001-03-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
Dawid Michalczyk wrote: Since I'm going to have many, many *small* files on a 15GB partition, I was wondering if one can actually run out of inode numbers, and thus be left with unused space. So my question is: what is the maximum amount of files one can have under ext2fs? Yes. man mke2fs

Re: [expert] Easy fonts question

2001-03-11 Thread Marc Siegel
Drakfont won't run - when I run it from a terminal, I get [msiegel@static-243 msiegel]$ drakfont Gtk-ERROR **: Unable to load default font. aborting... Aborted What the hell? What is wrong with my fonts? -Marc On Saturday 10 March 2001 07:39 pm, you wrote: Marc Siegel wrote: Hi all,

[expert] I like cups

2001-03-11 Thread William Bouterse
There has been another round of "cups bashing" lately; I for one wanted to go on record as being impressed with all the work Till has put into cups and getting the drivers for so many different printers updated. Sure there are glitches now and then, though generally for me it is due to the fact

Re: [expert] I like cups

2001-03-11 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
** Reply to message from William Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:17:45 -0900 I for one wanted to go on record as being impressed with all the work Till has put into cups and getting the drivers for so many different printers updated. I'll second this. Printing here was

[expert]

2001-03-11 Thread Collins Richey
Some questions 1) Is there any documentation anywhere about the processes that Mandrake chooses to start via the init scripts - reason for being, sequencing, etc.? 2) What is the recommended procedure for shutting down the starting of some of the processes without permanently removing them in

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

2001-03-11 Thread Jonathan Oppenheim
No, the -v in update-menus just tells it to be verbose, it doesn't change what it does. i am not sure what is going on here -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzc5/rwAAAEEALGi/cKupURWMeRs3xKx7+3PHi1hqfswOuM5suJhTEJZiR+p

RE: [expert]

2001-03-11 Thread Daryl Johnson
2) If you fire up DrakConf you will see an icon Called Startup Services. Click on it and I think you will find it's use pretty self-explanatory. ;o) regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Collins

Re: [expert]

2001-03-11 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Sunday 11 March 2001 10:59, Collins Richey wrote: Some questions 1) Is there any documentation anywhere about the processes that Mandrake chooses to start via the init scripts - reason for being, sequencing, etc.? Yes, I'm pretty sure I remember the startup process covered in the

Re: [expert] 8Beta

2001-03-11 Thread piritta
This is the first beta you can get it from all mandrake ftp mirrors i think but check www.mandrake.com/en where they anounce it they give you links where you can get it. Have fun On Sunday 11 March 2001 14:18, you wrote: Simple quetion? Where can I download mandrake 8 Beta? And are there

Re: [expert] I like cups

2001-03-11 Thread Jack Gillis
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:17:45 -0900, William Bouterse wrote: Try mandrakeuser.org before giving up. I've looked there but have not found an answer to this problem. It may not be a cups problem. Can you help? I have my HP IIP set using the WWW Cups Configuration Too. It is lp and the only

[newbie] cd music can not play in lm8, need help

2001-03-11 Thread eric
Dear lm8 user or expert: I put in a muxic cd, then choosing multimudia and sound and cdplayer , hit play but it is not play at all ( as root) Need your help Sincere eric

Re: [expert] I like cups

2001-03-11 Thread Larry Sword
Jack Gillis wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:17:45 -0900, William Bouterse wrote: Try mandrakeuser.org before giving up. I've looked there but have not found an answer to this problem. It may not be a cups problem. Can you help? I have my HP IIP set using the WWW Cups Configuration Too.

Re: [expert] grub in single user mode

2001-03-11 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi Lorne, on the grub menu, the install puts a "maintenance mode". Select that and enter your root password. Comes up to a commandline prompt. BillK lorne schachter wrote: Yesterday,, my system crashed and trashed one of my file systems. fsck couldn't clean it automaticly and I

Re: [expert] 8Beta

2001-03-11 Thread Marc
Found the correct link. It should be: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/80beta.php3 Marcus - Original Message - From: "piritta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [expert] 8Beta This is the first beta you can get it from all

Re: [expert] highest inode number

2001-03-11 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:00, Pierre Fortin wrote: Dawid Michalczyk wrote: Since I'm going to have many, many *small* files on a 15GB partition, I was wondering if one can actually run out of inode numbers, and thus be left with unused space. So my question is: what is the maximum amount of

[expert] cups-for hp 648c

2001-03-11 Thread KompuKit
Have a HP 648c printer...can't seem to find the right cups driver for it... can someone that has this printer..or someone that knows which one to choose...tell me which one? -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] 8Beta

2001-03-11 Thread Digital Wokan
There's a long list of mirrors up at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ if you head for the Cooker section. While there, sign up for the Cooker discussion list. It's a more sensible place for beta questions than Expert is. This place is needed for concentrating on the released versions IMHO. Marc

Re: [expert]

2001-03-11 Thread Neal Lippman
There have been a number of articles over the past year or two on the boot-up sequence used by redhat-like systems, which includes Mandrake. Look in online sites like www.linuxjournal.com, www.linuxgazette.com, etc. Also see Linux Journal and Linux Magazine back issues. There are also some

[expert] Beta 8.0 experiences

2001-03-11 Thread Collins Richey
Well, as I'm sure others may know by now, Beta 8.0 is not quite ready for prime time. I've gotten it up and running, but there are a number of flaws. Here are the major problems I encountered (recommended approach, all packages except mathematics stuff): 0) Don't try this at home without a

[expert] common password database for multiple LM72 machines

2001-03-11 Thread Darcy Brodie
I am in the process of settting up a site with about 6 - LM72 computers. I would like to set up a password database to reduce the adminstration of maintaining individual password files on each machine. Is this posssible, and where can I find more information on this? Darcy

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Saturday 10 March 2001 03:23, you wrote: 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. I

Re: [expert] common password database for multiple LM72 machines

2001-03-11 Thread David G . Powers
On Sunday 11 March 2001 18:14, Darcy Brodie wrote: I would like to set up a password database to reduce the adminstration of maintaining individual password files on each machine. Is this posssible, and where can I find more information on this? http://www.openldap.org RFC2829:

Re: [expert] Sendmail vs Postfix!!

2001-03-11 Thread Dave Brown
Nopostfix is over an order of magnitude faster than sendmail NoPostfix is far more secure and a hell of a lot easier to configure than sendmail As an anecdotal note, at the ISP I used to work for we replaced 5 Sparc Ultra 2 mail servers running sendmail with one very lightly configed

RE: [expert] Backspace problems in Konsole

2001-03-11 Thread learning user
I did that first thing, and it fixed all of my problems - IN CONSOLE MODE (it has nothing to do with X, though). You can try /etc/sysconfig/keyboard Define BACKSPACE=Delete or BackSpace, depending on your needs. Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2001 07:57 To:

[expert] Good word for Mozilla .8

2001-03-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: For the record, the mozilla .8 rpms in Mandrake Cooker/unsupported are for i686. They will not install in LM7.2. When I tried to install them in LM7.2 I got the error message: "for a different architecture." That was that. I finally found a version of Mozilla .8 with a Preferences

[expert] how to crack root password if use grub ?

2001-03-11 Thread Pipit
All, A friend of me forgot the password of his root :-( He never use the box since 2 month ago. If use lilo, he can put linux single at lilo prompt. But, after use grub, any idea how to get password back ? -- Best regards, Pipit

Re: [expert]

2001-03-11 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 05:59, Collins Richey wrote: Some questions 1) Is there any documentation anywhere about the processes that Mandrake chooses to start via the init scripts - reason for being, sequencing, etc.? The scripts are the standard sysV scripts, I havn't actually run across a

Re: [expert] Switching from CUPS to lpd

2001-03-11 Thread Eric MC D
Thanks dsl, did it but also lpr didn't work, no print anymore. Serached 2 day's to found out the pb : a simply right on /var/spool/lpd/lp !! There was indeed only access to this dir for root. So, no printool nor printerdrake solved the pb. All prints well now with lpr. Eric MC On Sunday 11

Re: [expert] I like cups

2001-03-11 Thread Ken Thompson
On Sunday 11 March 2001 10:17 am, you wrote: There has been another round of "cups bashing" lately; I for one wanted to go on record as being impressed with all the work Till has put into cups and getting the drivers for so many different printers updated. Sure there are glitches now and

Re: [expert] I like cups

2001-03-11 Thread William Bouterse
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:45:23 -0800 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Gillis wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:17:45 -0900, William Bouterse wrote: Try mandrakeuser.org before giving up. I've looked there but have not found an answer to this problem. It may not be a cups

Re: [expert] Good word for Mozilla .8

2001-03-11 Thread Ken Thompson
I tried a page that was mentioned earlier by someone else. The URL is: http://www.pcquest.com/june00/linux_spam.asp Netscape 4.76, the latest Konqueror (in KDE 2.1) and Opera all rendered it wrongly or as a real mess. But Mozilla .8 renders this .asp format SUPERBLY, at least on this

Re: [expert] I like cups

2001-03-11 Thread David Rankin
My 2 cents worth as well. I am using cups with Mandrake 7.2/Samba 2.07. It works great. I have no idea how I got it to work, it just works. I did have to mess with the print drivers to get it to print correctly to the HP Laserjet 4 on my secretary's WinME machine, but once I got the right driver

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

2001-03-11 Thread stephen
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Benjamin Sher you wrote: Dear friends: bunzip j2re-1.3.0-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2 The file uncompressed successfully. to = j2re-1.3.0-FCS-linux-i386.tar now in somedir of ample size do tar xpvf j2re-1.3.0-FCS-linux-i386.tar do a ls and see what you have istr