Re: [expert] ifup in LM 8.0

2001-05-29 Thread Paul Cox
On Sunday, May 27, 2001, Luis Chardon wrote: I recently installed mandrake 8.0 on my box. After I configured the ppp dialup connection using linuxconf, I do an ifup ppp0 and it does not connect. After I do the command, it hangs up for some 15 seconds and then returns an error code 6, which

[expert] viewperf problem

2001-05-29 Thread Bill Thompson
Hi, I downloaded and installed viewperf from a Mandrake ftp site of unsupported files. Can any one tell me where to install the AWadvs, DRV, DX, Light, ProCDRS and MedMCAO data files? Thank, Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...

[expert] basic firewall setup-please help

2001-05-29 Thread mp
hy! i installed mandrake 8.0 without servers. i configured tiny firewall (everything no) with the mandrake control tool. i set security high in this tool, but he doesnt remember that. when logged in as a root this is set to high. logged in as a user i type netstat -l in a xterm: result: tcp

Re: [expert] basic firewall setup-please help

2001-05-29 Thread rui . lapa
Hello First of all... 1. Checking which programs use which port use lsof like so: lsof -iTCP -iUDP | grep port_number 2. Closing ports you can use ipchains: ipchains -A input -d my_ip my_port -j REJECT Carreful with this... you can close yourself from the world ;) 3. Bastille - Linux

[expert] Intel Anypoint Wireless USB

2001-05-29 Thread Michael Seymour
Hi All, I will be installing LM 8.0 on to my 2nd PC to run as a File, Mail, FTP, Web server. I will also use it for a normal desktop from time to time. My question is that I currently have an Intel Anypoint USB wireless access point attached to this machine via Windows Me for my wife's

[expert] Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly'

2001-05-29 Thread Tom Lawton
Hi, Using an 8.0 system with upgraded kernel to 2.4.4-1mdk in an attempt to make reiser a little more stable (but that's another post). Whenever I try to access a secure site using konqueror the process for the https protocol 'dies unexpectedly' according to the little dialog box. Running

Re: [expert] 2.2.19 kernel with Mandrake 8.0?

2001-05-29 Thread Al Baker
Goto the flat package list during install, I believe kernel2.2 is one of the options. --- Aaron J. Ginn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not really trying to back out of the 2.4 kernel. If I have to, I will simply reinstall Mandrake 8.0. If nothing else, I'll go back to 7.2. What I want to

Re: [expert] Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly'

2001-05-29 Thread Darrell Scott
Could this (http://bugs.kde.org/db/24/24259.html) be similar to your bug? It appears there are a number of outstanding bugs with Konqueror's https support. Netscape 4.x works perfectly on https (in so much as Netscape can run perfectly :)), and Mozilla/Galeon has fairly good support too.

Re: [expert] Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly'

2001-05-29 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 04:42, Tom Lawton wrote: Hi, Using an 8.0 system with upgraded kernel to 2.4.4-1mdk in an attempt to make reiser a little more stable (but that's another post). Whenever I try to access a secure site using konqueror the process for the https protocol 'dies

[expert] mod_frontpage + apache + LM 8.0 BROKEN!?

2001-05-29 Thread doug
Hello, The advanced extranet server included in LM 8.0 proudly declares right on its homepage that it supports the frontpage server extensions. Yet, using a fresh LM8.0 install and the latest mod_frontpage (located in cooker, not included, as they claim) I cannot get a working fp server!

Re: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')

2001-05-29 Thread Tom Lawton
Hi, Want to make Reiser more stable? Use only notail mounts. Of course that's a LOT more stable. Is this a suitable option for use on a bog standard workstation Manrdake system? I know it's more space hungry (anyone know how much?) - is it also slower? I'm imagining/hoping Reiser will

Re[2]: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')

2001-05-29 Thread Rusty Carruth
Tom Lawton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Want to make Reiser more stable? Use only notail mounts. Of course that's a LOT more stable. Is this a suitable option for use on a bog standard workstation Manrdake system? I know it's more space hungry (anyone know how much?) - is it also

Re: [expert] Re: In But Not Out Of Loop

2001-05-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
SoloCDM wrote: Did you pick up the script ideas from experience or a tutorial book? yes. sorta... If from a book, would you send the author and title? man bash -- seriously. I hadn't yet encountered the pipeline problem when I looked at your script; just lucky I suppose... yet, the

[expert] /var/run permission problems

2001-05-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
On my LM7.2 systems, I'm running X4.0.3 compiled from source. When I first installed this X, xfs would not start because it was now owned by xfs.xfs (4.0.2 was root.root)... I quickly worked around this issue by changing the perms on /var/run and forgot about it. Likewise, I installed X4.0.3

Re: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')

2001-05-29 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:19, Tom Lawton wrote: Hi, Want to make Reiser more stable? Use only notail mounts. Of course that's a LOT more stable. Is this a suitable option for use on a bog standard workstation Manrdake system? I know it's more space hungry (anyone know how much?) - is

Re: [expert] mod_frontpage + apache + LM 8.0 BROKEN!?

2001-05-29 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 07:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, The advanced extranet server included in LM 8.0 proudly declares right on its homepage that it supports the frontpage server extensions. Yet, using a fresh LM8.0 install and the latest mod_frontpage (located in cooker, not

Re: [expert] Mouse problems on Thinkpad w/MDK8

2001-05-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... Been using Mandrake for quite a while now (6.x-7.2) and just upgraded to 8. I have it on a Thinkpad 760XD. When I boot, the mouse/pointer simply will not work. If I boot and wiggle the mouse around while waiting for X to come

Re: [expert] Stability Concerns

2001-05-29 Thread Rohan Talip
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am getting the similar problems with Linux Mandrake 8.0 in KDE and Gnome. No lockups/freezes occur when using the console, i.e. when not using X-Windows, in runlevel 3. I have been running Linux Mandrake 7.0 without lockups/freezes. In LM

Re: [expert] Fonts in LM8.0 (a quick lesson)

2001-05-29 Thread Woody Green
I'll make this potentially simpler: edit /etc/X11/fs/config scroll down to this section : catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,

[expert] changing the KDE-fixed font - how?

2001-05-29 Thread mp
hy! i wonder how i can change the fixed font in the kde control center and keep X starting on bootup (cant find fixed font..) thank you! regards

[expert] LM 8.0 CUPS Server

2001-05-29 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi I have installed LM 8.0 and configured my printer Epson Stylus Photo 870 (USB). It worked fine and I could print the test page. I then decided to update all the packages to get the latest security fixes and so on. I did that through the Software Manager using ftp and again it worked fine.

Re: [expert] changing the KDE-fixed font - how?

2001-05-29 Thread Craig Sprout
At 11:50 PM 5/29/2001 -0400, mp wrote: hy! i wonder how i can change the fixed font in the kde control center and keep X starting on bootup (cant find fixed font..) It's possible that the problem lies with xfs, not necessarily with X. Can you verify that xfs is running? `service xfs status'

[expert] logrotate still stuck

2001-05-29 Thread Scott Taylor
Hello, I have been going through the archives regarding the broken logrotate script and see a few that have this same problem, but still can't find the fix. Maybe I missed it. So far, I have cleaned out the bad /var/log/mail and news directories. Updated logrotate and slocate and all the

Re: [expert] logrotate still stuck

2001-05-29 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
Hmm, the only problem I had on 7.1 servers was in the logrotate.d/syslog configuration. It was set like this: /var/log/mail/* { ... } which is wrong. The correct entrie would be: /var/log/mail/errors { ... } /var/log/mail/info { ... } etc.etc.etc. The '/var/log/mail/*' was causing the

Re: [expert] logrotate still stuck

2001-05-29 Thread Scott Taylor
At 03:57 PM 05/29/01, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: Hmm, the only problem I had on 7.1 servers was in the logrotate.d/syslog configuration. It was set like this: /var/log/mail/* { ... } which is wrong. The correct entrie would be: /var/log/mail/errors { ... } /var/log/mail/info { ... }

Re: [expert] Anyone with M8.0 playing heretic2

2001-05-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I cannot play the games unless I am running KDE (and by extension, artsd). If I either kill artsd in KDE and then try to start the game or if I try to start it from another window manager or environment (Gnome), it crashes on startup. It will ONLY start up and play if artsd is running - and

[expert] rpm troubles in LM 8.0

2001-05-29 Thread Bobby Welch
Hello, When I install an rpm (rpm -Uvh filename.rpm) everything goes ok. But, when I go to unistall the rpm it says that the rpm does not exist? But, if I try to install it again it says that it has already been installed? I even try to update the rpm data base (rpm -i --rebuilddb) but

Re: [expert] rpm troubles in LM 8.0

2001-05-29 Thread Brian Hartman
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 07:15 pm, Bobby Welch wrote: Bobby, It sounds like your problem is how you're calling the comands. The install command works different from the uninstall command. To install: rpm -Uvh filename.rpm To *un*install: rpm -e filename The best way to see what you have

Re: [expert] Anyone with M8.0 playing heretic2

2001-05-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue May 29, 2001 at 05:08:58PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote: I cannot play the games unless I am running KDE (and by extension, artsd). If I either kill artsd in KDE and then try to start the game or if I try to start it from another window manager or environment (Gnome), it crashes on

[expert] shutils: env broken?

2001-05-29 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Instead of burying #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w at the top of my scripts, I usually use #!/usr/bin/env perl -w so that no matter what I've done with Perl in my path, it can still be found. Under mandrake 8.0, I get the error perl -w not found. If I try just

[expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-05-29 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
this is really odd. rpmdrake has suddenly developed amnesia about my install cdroms. i look at the list of packages available, and select one. i click on 'install/remove'. it tells me to insert the first cdrom (or the second, depending on the package). i do. i clock the ok bar. it ejects

[expert] Re: making nautilus less obnoxious or removing ? [solved]

2001-05-29 Thread ninjaz
Regarding nautilus elbowing out access to the desktop in Window Maker upon accessing GNOME Help, I was able to resolve the situation by doing this: Run this gnome configuration tool (you can do this from Window Maker): gnome-panel-properties-capplet In Document Handlers - URL Handlers, modify

[expert] LM 9.0 and dual cpu's

2001-05-29 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Im having a strang problem. After installing LM 8.0 it will not boot to smp. It sets up a linus-smp boot for lilo but when booting it starts to go through the boot sequence but just reboots the computer. it works fine in uniproccesor mode. Slakware 7.1 worked fine in smp mode. I cant see where

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-29 Thread David Rankin
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I've got a strange thing happening that I don't seem to have a clue about. I've compiled kernel 2.4.4 for my mandrake 7.2 machine. Everything about the compile went off without a hitch. When I boot the kernel, (and I'm booting from a floppy cause I won't commit

[expert] Bastille-netfilter issues

2001-05-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
A few problems with Bastille-netfilter: a) it is not started a boot up, even though it is selected under bastille-firewall in the services subsection of the system section of the Mandrake Control Center. b) trying to start it in the control center by pressing the start button gives the

Re: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')

2001-05-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:44 pm, Civileme wrote: To make it happen you install a / only system with lotsa unused space. The / can be reiser--that's automatically a notail mount. But, if I understand it correctly, you can have a root reiser partition mounted without the notail option if you

[expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list, I've got a strange thing happening that I don't seem to have a clue about. I've compiled kernel 2.4.4 for my mandrake 7.2 machine. Everything about the compile went off without a hitch. When I boot the kernel, (and I'm booting from a floppy cause I won't commit the image until I'm