Re: [expert] Enabling remote XDMCP logins with GDM or KDM

2001-06-05 Thread Nico Krzebek
Have a look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess It very well documented, so modify that, restart your xdm/kdm/gdm off you go. The only problem i had were users that accidentally requested the login screen of my linux box without having an account. While the CDE screen offers to return to the

[expert] 3c509-b M8

2001-06-05 Thread GROUWELS, Daniel
How can I tell linux which port to use on my old cards?? Standard ois the ethernet port. It works perfectly. The problem is that I created 3 subnets. And the third one connected via the BNC. But I cant get it work. Daniel

[expert] sendmail and smarthost problems

2001-06-05 Thread Andreas Müller
Hallo, I have a dialup account and I'm using sendmail for delivery and header rewriting. My host just has the name localhost and sendmail rewrites the local emailadresses to the correct ones for the internet. Unfortunatly when using procmail for filtering purposes it does not work anymore. I

[expert] More printing blues..

2001-06-05 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
I use LPD on an OS/2 machine to print. that OS/2 machne, in turn, prints it via netBEUI to an NT machine. (This was the only way, without spending months on it, to get printouts). The thing is, when I print from applications, like Netscrape (!) or Kmail; I get the background printed; and the

Re: [expert] samba/cups

2001-06-05 Thread Nathan Callahan
This is an interesting little problem, one that I have come across here at home. Firstly, if there are cups drivers for the printer model, it really shouldn't be a problem, just share the printer, find out its name, and point cups at it. This assumes that samba is set up alright, which it

Re: [expert] Oracle...

2001-06-05 Thread Vincent A.Primavera
Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera On Monday 04 June 2001 21:07, A V Flinsch wrote: On Monday 04 June 2001 06:41, you wrote: Hello, Is anyone out there using Oracle 8i with Mandrake? I am currently running Oracle 8iR3 (8.1.7) on a Mandrake 8.0 machine. Installation on 8.0 is

[expert] CDROM and Floppy Access Help Needed.

2001-06-05 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Hi All: I recently did a clean install of Mandrake 8. After the install I attempted to run Harddrake to check hardware settings. I went to a black screen and I had to reset the system. Now my cdrom's and floppy are locked in root and the cdrom's in user are locked. I have a DVD/CDROM and a

[expert] dual proccesor problems in LM8.0

2001-06-05 Thread Bill Beauchemin
When I try to boot in smp mode my system starts loading the kernel but then immediatly reboots itself. Im using 2.4.5 as 2.4.3 does the same thing. I get these errors in my /var/log/kernel/errors file Jun 5 07:08:56 firebird kernel: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:0e.0

Re: [expert] sendmail and smarthost problems

2001-06-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Andreas Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I have a dialup account and I'm using sendmail for delivery and header rewriting. ... BUT when procmail forwards a message the From: header isn't processed by sendmail anymore. ... Why won't sendmail masquarade the headers as it should,

Re: [expert] 3c509-b M8

2001-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
GROUWELS, Daniel wrote: How can I tell linux which port to use on my old cards?? Standard ois the ethernet port. It works perfectly. The problem is that I created 3 subnets. And the third one connected via the BNC. But I cant get it work. Daniel If you are trying to use 2 or 3

Re: [expert] c-media sound card

2001-06-05 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Pupeno wrote: I have a c-media sound card. I configured it by running sndconfig, but then when I'm playing an mp3 iwht xmms, it stops sudenly. I cannot run artsd because it dies... So, how should I configure it, should I use alsa ? thank you Some time ago I learned that CMEDIA

Re: [expert] 3c509-b M8

2001-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Rusty Carruth wrote: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GROUWELS, Daniel wrote: How can I tell linux which port to use on my old cards?? Standard ois the ethernet port. It works perfectly. The problem is that I created 3 subnets. And the third one connected via

Re[2]: [expert] 3c509-b M8

2001-06-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rusty Carruth wrote: ... Well... I read created 3 subnets, Standard...works perfectly, third one connected via the BNC...cant get it work and there are 3 connectors... : Me too, but *just in case* (besides, once he/she gets 3 ethernet cards the

[expert] redhat not detecting orinoco PCI adpater

2001-06-05 Thread Amaresh Bikki
hai all, i am running redhat 7.1 on Intel pentium. redhat is not detecting the newly added orinoco pci adapter card. please help. -Amaresh.

[expert] Mark bad blocks on HD?

2001-06-05 Thread Tobias Marx
Hi, I'm getting these error messages in my log everytime slocate runs. Jun 5 16:55:57 kreml kernel: vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [118500 118514 0x0 SD] Jun 5 16:55:57 kreml kernel: vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (118500

Re: [expert] DB2 problem

2001-06-05 Thread Paul Cox
On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Scott Taylor wrote: I'm running LM7.2 and every morning I get this annoying message from cron.daily about DB2 problem: From: Cron Daemon root To: root Subject: Cron root run-parts /etc/cron.daily DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified Has

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

2001-06-05 Thread jlemay
So far I have had no luck with Mandrake 8.0 - in fact, I can't even get a good install. My machine is configured with a couple of Seagate U2W disks and an Adaptec 2940U2W controller. I've been reading everything I can find on the problems with 2.4.3 and aic7xxx the past few days, unfortunately I

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far I have had no luck with Mandrake 8.0 - in fact, I can't even get a good install. My machine is configured with a couple of Seagate U2W disks and an Adaptec 2940U2W controller. I've been reading everything I can find on the problems with 2.4.3 and aic7xxx the

Re: [expert] redhat not detecting orinoco PCI adpater

2001-06-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Er, um. I hate to be critical. But which part of mandrake.com made you think to send a RedHat question here? I think this question is better suited to the Redhat lists? Ric Amaresh Bikki wrote: hai all, i am running redhat 7.1 on Intel pentium. redhat is not detecting the newly added

[expert] Netscape troubles

2001-06-05 Thread Marsden MacRae
Dear Experts I understand that what follows is an old problem, and I have searched the archives for solutions, but I could use a bit more help if you don't mind. Briefly, Netscape crashes when the address book is accessed. If I don't get this fixed, The Big Boss is gonna go back to Winblows

RE: [expert] redhat not detecting orinoco PCI adpater

2001-06-05 Thread Peter FREIMANN
i am running redhat 7.1 on Intel pentium. redhat is not detecting the newly added orinoco pci adapter card. please help. Most orinoco adapters are actually PCMCIA adapters inserted into a PCI expansion card. So first of all you have to enable PCMCIA support and that usually means you have to

Re: [expert] redhat not detecting orinoco PCI adpater

2001-06-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Civileme wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2001 21:32, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Er, um. I hate to be critical. But which part of mandrake.com made you think to send a RedHat question here? I think this question is better suited to the Redhat lists? Ric Amaresh Bikki wrote: hai all, i am running redhat

[expert] no keyboard as user just as root

2001-06-05 Thread Juergen Helmers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey! I have my new Nvidia Card installed and its running fine using the nv (2D) or nvidia Driver (3D) under Mandrake 8.0. Everything is fine when logged in as root. But as a user I don't have any keyboard. Xfree logs for user (no keyboard) and

[expert] rpm --excludepath ?

2001-06-05 Thread Ben Pearre
So I'm trying to update to the new samba (2.0.9-1.3mdk). (0)diverge@/var/cache/grpmi# rpm -U samba-2.0.9-1.3mdk.i586.rpm warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb created as /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.rpmnew unpacking of archive failed on file /home/netlogon: cpio: chown failed - Operation not permitted This

Re: Re[2]: [expert] sendmail and smarthost problems

2001-06-05 Thread Andreas Müller
Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2001 16:44 schrieben Sie: Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... My guess is that procmail is not using sendmail to send the mail, but rather going direct. Um, I meant going direct to your ISP... Hallo Rusty, I suppose that procmail IS using sendmail. In the

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

2001-06-05 Thread John LeMay Jr
If I run the install with an IDE CDROM, I would like to switch back to my SCSI cdrom at some point. Has a later version of the kernel been Drake-packaged with a good fix yet? Thanks for the input so far folks! Original Message On 6/5/2001, 2:55:06 PM, Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[expert] Problems shutting down X

2001-06-05 Thread M L Cates
I am using LM8.0 along with XFree3.3.6 and am having trouble after shutting down X. After X shuts down and returns to my terminal screen it is no longer readable. It is like the monitor is way off its scan frequency. I have kind of a stair step effect where it appears I have about 8 - 10

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John LeMay Jr wrote: If I run the install with an IDE CDROM, I would like to switch back to my SCSI cdrom at some point. Has a later version of the kernel been Drake-packaged with a good fix yet? Thanks for the input so far folks! Original Message On 6/5/2001, 2:55:06 PM, Civileme

[expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Doug Gough
I'm not able to get my LM8.0 box to work as a router between to LANs. When it boots, I get a message saying IP forwarding is on. My routing table is very simple, using static routing as follows 131.103.1.0 131.103.1.10255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 10.10.0.0 10.10.90.99

[expert] routing problems cont.

2001-06-05 Thread Doug Gough
Sorry, I forgot to say that I can ping the 10.10.0.0 network from the router. Thank You Doug Gough Computer Services Pacific Academy

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Doug Gough wrote: I'm not able to get my LM8.0 box to work as a router between to LANs. When it boots, I get a message saying IP forwarding is on. My routing table is very simple, using static routing as follows 131.103.1.0 131.103.1.10255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0

Re: [expert] 3c509-b M8

2001-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Rusty Carruth wrote: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have more than 32 hosts on a 10b2 segment, you are violating the specs... Well, see what I mean? ;-) (I probably knew that number once, but it had long since disappeared from my parity-prone memory ;-) this is a

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Nathan Callahan wrote: You have it set so that 131.103.1.10 and 10.10.90.99 are gateways. This probably isn't what you want, as it means that these hosts are assumed to be responsible for all traffic bound for their respective networks. If you remove the gw x.x.x.x

Re: [expert] Netscape troubles

2001-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Marsden MacRae wrote: Dear Experts I understand that what follows is an old problem, and I have searched the archives for solutions, but I could use a bit more help if you don't mind. Briefly, Netscape crashes when the address book is accessed. If I don't get this fixed, The Big Boss

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Doug Gough wrote: I'm not able to get my LM8.0 box to work as a router between to LANs. When it boots, I get a message saying IP forwarding is on. My routing table is very simple, using static routing as follows 131.103.1.0 131.103.1.10255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

Re[2]: [expert] 3c509-b M8

2001-06-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GROUWELS, Daniel wrote: How can I tell linux which port to use on my old cards?? Standard ois the ethernet port. It works perfectly. The problem is that I created 3 subnets. And the third one connected via the BNC. But I cant get

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Ian Cottrell
Doug How about posting your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files? As someone else pointed out, you are trying to use your 2 machines as gateways, which will not work. You need only one gateway defined, that being the default route or 'gateway of last

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Pierre Fortin wrote: Assuming the routers are there to access Net[AB], you can turn on proxy ARP as Nathan suggested in his reply to simplify other host configuration requirements and reduce unnecessary router hops and resultant ICMP

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Ian Cottrell
Technically, true, but for all intents and purposes, on networks such as we commonly discuss here, default route=gateway of last restort. Easily justified oversimplification! (=: However, you are right and I will stop equating them in future messagesIan Ian Cottrell

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Ian Cottrell wrote: Technically, true, but for all intents and purposes, on networks such as we commonly discuss here, default route=gateway of last restort. Easily justified oversimplification! (=: However, you are right and I will stop equating them in future

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
you make some good points. on the other hand, my feeling is that if he is going to configure this linux box as a router, it should participate as a router. e.g. the routers on the respective network segments should treat it as such - either with static routes to the subnets or by running some

Re: [expert] Enabling remote XDMCP logins with GDM or KDM

2001-06-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
To kick out of the login banner, you should be able to hit the Restart X Session button on KDM. That will usually toss you out from a remote X session. If you're coming in from a VC on another Linux box, or from the console of another *nix box, it may be a little different. I usually tell

[expert] DB2 problem

2001-06-05 Thread Scott Taylor
Hello, I'm running LM7.2 and every morning I get this annoying message from cron.daily about DB2 problem: From: Cron Daemon root To: root Subject: Cron root run-parts /etc/cron.daily DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified Has anyone seen this, know how to get rid of it? I know

[expert] FYI: If kmp3 cores and neither kscd or kmix work

2001-06-05 Thread Lars Nordin
I just went through this the other day and someone else may be wondering why - and some of the programs won't let you know that they can't open certain device files (but running strace program will). If you are running Mandrake v7.2 and kmp3 dies with a segmentation fault or kscd won't work

[expert] Oracle 8.1.7 on LM7.2 PMON didn't start

2001-06-05 Thread Istvan Bereti
Hi, I'm about to install Oracle 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on LM7.2. I'm desperately looking for some help. The installation goes ok without problem but I can't create or start the instance. What I got is PMON not started. I can't get over this problem. I red all what I found on the web but that was not a

[expert] Maintaining multiple kernel trees?

2001-06-05 Thread doug
Hello, I like to keep several different kernel trees around to test out various patches, etc. I have generally done this by downloading tars from kernel.org and keeping several trees under /usr/src. However, it would be nice to play with some of the pre-patched Mandrake kernel trees too.

Re: [expert] redhat not detecting orinoco PCI adpater

2001-06-05 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 21:32, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Er, um. I hate to be critical. But which part of mandrake.com made you think to send a RedHat question here? I think this question is better suited to the Redhat lists? Ric Amaresh Bikki wrote: hai all, i am running redhat 7.1 on Intel

Re: [expert] redhat not detecting orinoco PCI adpater

2001-06-05 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 21:32, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Er, um. I hate to be critical. But which part of mandrake.com made you think to send a RedHat question here? I think this question is better suited to the Redhat lists? Ric Amaresh Bikki wrote: hai all, i am running redhat 7.1 on Intel

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Nathan Callahan
You have it set so that 131.103.1.10 and 10.10.90.99 are gateways. This probably isn't what you want, as it means that these hosts are assumed to be responsible for all traffic bound for their respective networks. If you remove the gw x.x.x.x parts from the respective routing tables, it will

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Pierre Fortin wrote: Assuming the routers are there to access Net[AB], you can turn on proxy ARP as Nathan suggested in his reply to simplify other host configuration requirements and reduce unnecessary router hops and resultant ICMP redirects. Proxy ARP -- a short

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Ian Cottrell wrote: Doug How about posting your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files? As someone else pointed out, you are trying to use your 2 machines as gateways, which will not work. You need only one gateway defined, that being the default route or 'gateway of last

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Ian Cottrell
Yes, I agree. Discussion here of late have been interesting and informative. And without rancour! Let's try to keep it that way...Ian Ian Cottrell wrote: Technically, true, but for all intents and purposes, on networks such as we commonly discuss here, default route=gateway

[newbie] LaCie USB Hard Disk

2001-06-05 Thread serafim
Did someone make a LaCie USB Hard Drive (20GB) run on any machine with Mandrake 8.0 on it? If so .. HOW? /Serafim