Re: [expert] Re: Human centric computers (was: I like cups)

2001-03-12 Thread David Rankin
"tony K." wrote: > At 07:21 12-03-01 -0500 some list member(s) wrote: > >> 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. > > > >Ah, there is the problem. Anything is great when it works. Proble

Re: [expert] Apache error in 2.4 kernel

2001-03-12 Thread David G.Powers
If 2.2 was working, why did Linus work on 2.4? What is 2.5 for? My infant son is content suckling his mother, why should he be weaned? Seriously mattg, Although Linux is not as vlunerable to lifecycle issues as commercial operating systems, there are limits. As hardware advances, it just isn'

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

2001-03-12 Thread eric
M J wrote: > > >M J wrote: > > > > > > Hi Eric, > > > > > > I have noticed that in mandrake 8 some dev are differend than in 7.2 > > > > > > I am not near my linux so this is what I remember > > > > > > open cd-player and find preferences or someting like that > > > > > > > >I did not see any ico

Re: [expert] Apache error in 2.4 kernel

2001-03-12 Thread mdk
I need better support for hpt controller and trying to figure out iptables to replace my ipchains firewall. anyway... do you have any idea why is it giving that error? - Original Message - From: "goldengull.net administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, Mar

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
Fixed. I followed the instructions in the cooker mailing list and I can now properly use KDE with antialiasing. The fix is unfortunate in that it requires the downloading and installing of M$ fonts - not a free license but free to use (so far at least). They (Cooker developers) are attempt

Re: [expert] Re: Menuconfig don't work

2001-03-12 Thread Gerry
Sorry about all this.. When my language (norwegian) disappeared and was replaced by english, i got a feeling something was very, very wrong. So, i did a forced scan on my root partition (mounted read-only for the event), and up popped hundreds of little errors. Somehow the boot-checking-stuff m

Re: [expert] CUPS and printservers

2001-03-12 Thread David Rankin
Use the cups web interface through your browser http://localhost:631 (check to confirm 631, this is from memory) You can specify the printer location and it is fairly self explainatory. Leif Lundskov wrote: > Having a HP Jetdirect EX Plus3 printserver, setup with ip# 192.168.0.96 > > How do I a

[expert] cups trouble

2001-03-12 Thread Jeff Malka
Running Mandrake 7.1 and cups. I cannot print. When I start printtool (as su) to see what is happening, I get the following message lines on the terminal: >> # printtool everything already installed Starting CUPS printing system: [PASSED] unable to connect to cups server at /usr/lib

Re: [expert] I like CUPS

2001-03-12 Thread Bob Parker
I've checked out the docs and it looks really impressive, unifying printing as it does. I'll like it even more when I can actually print something with it. I've configured my printer - a Lexmark 1020 on /dev/lp0 using DrakConf. When it comes to printing the test page it just reports that the dev

[expert] Framebuffer device

2001-03-12 Thread Wayne Alexander
Can anyone tell me how I can set up the framebuffer device as a video device to use under linux?  I have a laptop with an S3Savage/MX video card and none of the traditional drivers work (unless someone knows anything different?)  I have used the framebuffer successfully before, but cannot remember

Re: [expert] Menuconfig don't work

2001-03-12 Thread A V Flinsch
On Monday 12 March 2001 17:37, you wrote: > After installing some new versions of some programs, their entry > disappeared from the menu in kde. That wouldn't be a big problem if i That's because the rpm/tarball did not include a entry in the menu system > could add them again, but the problem i

Re: [expert] Apache error in 2.4 kernel

2001-03-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:30:05 -0500 "goldengull.net administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if it was working without a problem...then why switch? > > mattg > > > I've been using Apache on 2.2.x kernels for over a year and never had a > problem with, now I built 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 kernels and

Re: [expert] is there a way to bypass a proxy?

2001-03-12 Thread Dave
It depends on the hardware setup of your proxy. Some proxy servers act like a firewall, passing all traffic between two separate NICs (external/Internet, and internal/LAN). If your proxy is like this, then all you can do is try to crack the proxy and give yourself permission to do/view anythin

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

2001-03-12 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
What about NIS+? "David G.Powers" wrote: > 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

Re: [expert] Time & Space

2001-03-12 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Monday 12 March 2001 14:32, Gerry wrote: > My point is, could you please try to just include the > part of the message you're actually replying to ? I agree with you in principle (and usually in practice) but, human nature being what it is, I doubt you'd get much cooperation. This is a bit

[expert] telnet misconfig

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Coryell
Okay, I give up. I can ftp/telnet out, and I can ftp in but I can't telnet in. /etc/hosts.allow is all:all, and inetd is running. The outside machine tells me it's connecting, and the escape character (stupid info), and then tells me that it's "Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"

[expert] poor graphical display

2001-03-12 Thread Richard Konrad
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.2 (downloaded version) - all went very well, including detection of an ethernet card other distributions couldn't. Display is quite poor. I have entered all the correct monitor settings. Other distributions work well with my monitor and these settings. I ha

Re: [expert] Playing audio cds on cdrw

2001-03-12 Thread Gerry
[Rial Juan] > This might be trivial, but have you considered this yet? > > Most CD player apps default to /dev/cdrom. Try finding the settings for the > CD device, and change it to /dev/cdrom2 if you want to play CD's from the > CDRW. I tried this with the command-line cdp utility, and then every

Re: [expert] Good word for Mozilla .8

2001-03-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
It should be pointed out that asp is often generated by tools such as frontpage or visual interdev and the actual html produced by the server using these scripts often uses microsoft specific extensions to html which render ok in IE (of course) but other browsers are often unable to handle it. Th

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thanks for the pointer. I will be attempting the suggested fix (from the cooker list) and see how that goes. Then I'll let ya'll know what comes of it. I am hoping to be able to stick with qt-2.3.0 because the fonts really do look damn nice. On Monday 12 March 2001 12:35, Tobias Marx wrote:

[expert] Re: Menuconfig don't work

2001-03-12 Thread Gerry
I just found out that DrakConf doesn't work either! Help! What is happening ? Gerry

[expert] Menuconfig don't work

2001-03-12 Thread Gerry
After installing some new versions of some programs, their entry disappeared from the menu in kde. That wouldn't be a big problem if i could add them again, but the problem is that i can't. The menu config doesn't work. When i try to start it, it doesn't even load. Nothing happens. Please help!

[expert] Danger Will Robinson! Do NOT switch to qt2-2.3.0

2001-03-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
Mandrakites, Do NOT switch to qt2-2.3.0 in hopes of having antialiased fonts. It will completely dick up your kde usability. The fonts DO look nice but there are side-affects that render kde 2.1 unusable. All my window menus are compressed or distorted to the point that no menu is usable. D

[expert] Time & Space

2001-03-12 Thread Gerry
When most of you ppl reply to something, you include all of the message you replied to, which in its turn may include messages it's replied to, etc. Sometimes the interesting part in the original message are just one line, while the whole msg might be 100 lines.. So, this means that of the 500k i

Re: [expert] Re: Human centric computers (was: I like cups)

2001-03-12 Thread tony K.
At 07:21 12-03-01 -0500 some list member(s) wrote: >> 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. > >Ah, there is the problem. Anything is great when it works. Problem is when >it does not work an

Re: [expert] Linux Distribution Security Report

2001-03-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Mar 12, 2001 at 03:38:48PM -0300, Mads Rasmussen wrote: > Have a look at > > http://www.securityportal.com/cover/coverstory2724.html > > There is a small notice regarding Mandrake but most is related to Redhat, > Suse and TurboLinux It's also eight months old... -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [expert] telnet & ftp fail

2001-03-12 Thread John Wolford
Hi Dennis, 1. Check to see that your network is up. # ifconfig # which interfaces are activated right now? 2. Check to see if the services are set up to run upon request: # service inetd status # is the tcp wrapper running? # less /etc/inetd.conf #

[expert] Where's rtime

2001-03-12 Thread Eric
I somehow lost rtime, can't find the file anywhere. Also can't find the RPM on my 7.2 install CD's either. What RPM contains this? Also, how could one use RPM to query un-installed packages by giving a filename, ie: instead of: rpm -q -l installed-pkg-mdrk Could I rpm -q --?? -l on-cd-rpm-mdrk.i

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-12 Thread Tobias Marx
Praedor Tempus schrieb: > > > > no, it should work right out of the box. > > I must say that my system has been totally dicked up by the switch to > qt2-2.3.0. This only affects kde apps. Most of my kde app menus are messed > up, with the menu widgets being totally screwed vs the text in them.

[expert] Linux Distribution Security Report

2001-03-12 Thread Mads Rasmussen
Have a look at http://www.securityportal.com/cover/coverstory2724.html There is a small notice regarding Mandrake but most is related to Redhat, Suse and TurboLinux Regards, Mads

RE: [expert] Apache error in 2.4 kernel

2001-03-12 Thread goldengull.net administrator
if it was working without a problem...then why switch? mattg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Apache error in 2.4 kernel I've been using Apa

Re: [expert] CUPS and printservers

2001-03-12 Thread Lieven Van Acker
See /usr/share/doc/cips/sam.html: /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p Laserjet -E -v socket://192.168.0.96 -m laserjet.ppd assuming it's a laserprinter... Lieven Leif Lundskov wrote: > Having a HP Jetdirect EX Plus3 printserver, setup with ip# 192.168.0.96 > > How do I access that using Cups? > - > Leif L

Re: [expert] Good word for Mozilla .8

2001-03-12 Thread Rial Juan
hmm... Haven't really been following this thread, so I don't know it someone answered this one yet... ASP stands for Advanced Server Pages, and is a scripting language similar to PHP. It's the format Microsoft uses on their servers; it uses basic-like syntax for the programming part of the page.

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

2001-03-12 Thread eric
M J wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > I have noticed that in mandrake 8 some dev are differend than in 7.2 > > I am not near my linux so this is what I remember > > open cd-player and find preferences or someting like that I did not see any icon or drop-down list cd cd-player(from kde, multimedia, so

[expert] CUPS and printservers

2001-03-12 Thread Leif Lundskov
Having a HP Jetdirect EX Plus3 printserver, setup with ip# 192.168.0.96 How do I access that using Cups? - Leif Lundskov Valmuevej 12 DK-8382 Hinnerup Tel: +45 8698 5518 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: www.lundskov.net

[expert] SolidWorks

2001-03-12 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
I know a person running SolidWorks 2001 on an NT workstation, but he isn't satisfied because of the relative instability of the operating system (sometimes there are unexpected crashes and the only way to manage them is an hard reset of the computer). He have told me that there is also the Unix v

RE: [expert] Java path in KDE 2.01 -- Please help

2001-03-12 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I installed IBM's 1.3 and all is fine Brian -Original Message- From: Benjamin Sher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 12:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aries Subject: Re: [expert] Java path in KDE 2.01 -- Please help Dear Aries and friends: Thanks so very much for

[expert] Most bizzare problem ever

2001-03-12 Thread Tom Badran
I am behind a gatewateway in my university halls. Im using mdk 7.2 with all the updates (andkde 2.1). Anyway, the problem i have is that rtp doesnt work, so things like icq, realplayer etc are screwed. On everyone elses winddows boxes it all works fine, but noone who runs mandrake linux can get

Re: [expert] KT133B ATA100 problems

2001-03-12 Thread Don
Also if you are overclocking, return the CPU's to their original speed during install, and after everything is working then go back to overclocking. Good Luck, Don On Monday 12 March 2001 04:08, you wrote: > When ever I had problems like this in the past, I usually go into the mb > bios

Re: [expert] Problem tracing kernel panics on MDK7.2

2001-03-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, you say the problem is very large files - how large? Reiser along with most filesystems on 32 bit machines is limited to approximately 2gbytes per file. If they are trying to drop file files larger than 2gbytes onto the disk, you may need to take other measures ranging from user education, q

[expert] problems mounting my compactflash cards... HELP!

2001-03-12 Thread William Gacquer
Hello My linuxbox is a i686 running linux 2.2.17 ( Mandrake 7.2 ). I have a Datafab compactflash usb reader that is recognized according to the usbview program and the linux-aware device list. I have the following modules running : usb-storage, usb-uhci, usbcore u

Re: [expert] Problem tracing kernel panics on MDK7.2

2001-03-12 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Allright, I traced the problem down - rather a lucky coincidence - to the fact that listing a certain directory's content causes the crash! Subdirectories of this certain directory are accessible. So the problem lies in the Reiserfs filesystem modules. I consulted the users and it seems they we

RE: [expert] KT133B ATA100 problems

2001-03-12 Thread Franki
When ever I had problems like this in the past, I usually go into the mb bios and set to pio mode 4, install and then change back,, it has always worked for me... worth a try. Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Gshop & Networ

[expert] Re: Human centric computers (was: I like cups)

2001-03-12 Thread Jeff Malka
> 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. Ah, there is the problem. Anything is great when it works. Problem is when it does not work and figuring out "what" you have to do to get it to work an

RE: [expert] is there a way to bypass a proxy?

2001-03-12 Thread Steve Young
if there is another way to get to the internet then yes u can get around it, if all internet traffic goes through the proxy then no theres no way around it. -- registered linux user #190334 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of vick Julius Sent

[expert] KT133B ATA100 problems

2001-03-12 Thread Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE
I am having problems installing Mandrake 7.2 or 8.0 beta 1 on my Elitegroup K7VZA PC. It has a VIA 82C686B Southbridge chipset that has one ATA100 connector and one ATA66/33 connector. The PC starts the installation fine and I can select the partitions on which to install. However, after the rpms

Re: [expert] Problem tracing kernel panics on MDK7.2

2001-03-12 Thread A V Flinsch
On Monday 12 March 2001 04:21, you wrote: > > The station was set-up about 3 weeks ago and proved until last week to > be stable. Since last week the station has begun to ran into several > kernel panics a day, first with a lower frequency (say twice a day), > now after a few minutes of uptime. >

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

2001-03-12 Thread eric
Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of eric > > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 7:26 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [newbie] cd music can not play in lm8, need help > > > > > > Dea

[expert] Problem tracing kernel panics on MDK7.2

2001-03-12 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Hi, I am faced with a serious problem on a Mandrake 7.2 server application. This server is used as a file- and printserver for a medium sized user community (10-20 simultaneous users) The station was set-up about 3 weeks ago and proved until last week to be stable. Since last week the station h