Re: [expert] kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.

2001-06-28 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, This happened to me when I tried to upgrade from 7.2->8.0. I got no answers that worked here, but a complete reinstall fixed it. I have just upgraded to Freq and its happened again, so I can see another reinstall coming on. Interestingly, if I'm persistant enough, it does finally seem to mou

[expert] missing fonts

2001-06-28 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, I just upgraded to LM8.0+Freq last night and was please to see that AA is now supported by the ATI driver (Rage II 3D) in XFree4.1.0. Strangely the default config mean fonts >8 and <14 are not AAed, but I fixed this in XftConfig and, wow, looks great! Anyway, in the KDE font manager I can't

Re: [expert] kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Kieu
I would suggest you check the /etc/fstab ; may be some *stupid* :-) configuration tool modify it and it is not right. For supermount it should look like this /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/hdb 0 0 /dev/floppy /dev/floppy supermount fs=msdos,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 replace with you

[expert] hostname questions (again)

2001-06-28 Thread Tom Strickland
Our server is about to be connected to the Internet through a dialup modem. Naive question: Is it OK to give our network/server any old domain name? To the outside world we will be the domain set by our ISP, but can I set the domain in our LAN to something like smith.jones? Thanks, Tom

[expert] How do I mount a ext2 floppy?

2001-06-28 Thread Arnab_Ganguly
Hi! Could someone tell me how to mount a floppy that has been formatted with an ext2 file system. I never seem to be able to do that even if I change the /etc/fstab fs= entry. I tried with SuSE also but could never mount an ext2 floppy! Strange isn't it considering that ext2 is the basic filesys

[expert] XFree 4.0.3

2001-06-28 Thread Mickey
I hope that is the right place to find some answers. I need to know why cant't I start X-Windows system with version 4.0.3. I had RH 7.0 dist and XFree 4.0.2 (I think) and that worked well. During recommended installation DrakeX didn't activate XFree 4.0.3. Instead of XFree 4.0

Re: [expert] How do I mount a ext2 floppy?

2001-06-28 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 28 June 2001 09:05 am, you methodically organized electrons to state: > Hi! > > Could someone tell me how to mount a floppy that has been formatted with an > ext2 file system. I never seem to be able to do that even if I change the > /etc/fstab fs= entry. I tried with SuSE also but co

Re: [expert] How do I mount a ext2 floppy?

2001-06-28 Thread civileme
On Thursday 28 June 2001 13:29, Hoyt wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2001 09:05 am, you methodically organized > electrons to > > state: > > Hi! > > > > Could someone tell me how to mount a floppy that has been > > formatted with an ext2 file system. I never seem to be able to do > > that even if I c

[expert] MDK 8: mandrake update fails

2001-06-28 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hello everyone.  We are putting an 8.0 box through its paces and are having a problem getting Mandrake Update to work.  After selecting the packages that I want to update I get an error message telling me that it can't fulfill my wishes, then lists the package names and tells me that they are alre

Re: [expert] How do I mount a ext2 floppy?

2001-06-28 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 28 June 2001 12:21 pm, civileme may or may not have written: > On Thursday 28 June 2001 13:29, Hoyt wrote: > > It also helps if you _first_ run > > supermount -i disable > I use supermount and it's not necessary on my machine to explicitly mount an ext2 floppy on a supermounted /mnt

Re: [expert] hostname questions (again)

2001-06-28 Thread Rusty Carruth
Tom Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our server is about to be connected to the Internet through a dialup > modem. Naive question: > Is it OK to give our network/server any old domain name? To the > outside world we will be the domain set by our ISP, but can I set the > domain in our LAN to

Re: [expert] MDK 8: mandrake update fails

2001-06-28 Thread Ron Stodden
Christopher Kolar wrote: > > Hello everyone. We are putting an 8.0 box through its paces and > are having a problem getting Mandrake Update to work. After > selecting the packages that I want to update I get an error message > telling me that it can't fulfill my wishes, then lists the package >

Re: [expert] MDK 8: mandrake update fails

2001-06-28 Thread Christopher Kolar
At 10:32 AM 6/28/2001, Ron Stodden wrote: >Christopher Kolar wrote: > > Hello everyone. We are putting an 8.0 box through its paces and > > are having a problem getting Mandrake Update to work. After > > selecting the packages that I want to update I get an error message > > telling me that it c

[expert] how to uninstall tinyfirewall?

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Friesen
I decided to try the tinyfirewall from the mandrake control center, but it locked my machine down way too tight. I want to disable tinyfirewall and make my own rules for iptables from scratch, but I can't figure out how to do it. There doesn't seem to be any way to actually turn it off from the

Re: [expert] hostname questions (again)

2001-06-28 Thread Tom Strickland
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote: > Tom Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our server is about to be connected to the Internet through a dialup > > modem. Naive question: > > Is it OK to give our network/server any old domain name? To the > > outside world we wi

RE: [expert] ATI Radeon

2001-06-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Oscar > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] ATI Radeon > > > Maybe 3D acceleration (which is used by tuxtracer) is not > supported by > Xfree86-4

[expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Ron" == Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ron> MandrakeUpdate is part of Mandrake 7.2 and not part of Mandrake 8.0, Ron> where it has been replaced by the more functional Software Manager Ron> which has been given a desktop icon. 7.2 and 8.0 are NOT compatible. Is there

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread Julia A. Case
I run the standard KDE desktop as a normal user and when I run the software manager it prompts me for the root password... Also there is available from the menus a root terminal... Julia Quoting Laura Conrad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "Ron" == Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Julia" == Julia A Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julia> I run the standard KDE desktop as a normal user and when I Julia> run the software manager it prompts me for the root Julia> password... Also there is available from the menus a root Julia> terminal... But my point

[expert]

2001-06-28 Thread Hal Wigoda
If I've used mandrake as a firewall how can I use ftp through the firewall??

[expert] Snort and portsentry...

2001-06-28 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have a server with a very customised version of pmfirewall and portsentry... now I have just downloaded snort.. built and installed it.. now I am wondering if it will conflict with portsentry... or will portsentry block it?? anyone know about this?? any suggestions would be much ap

Fwd: [Fwd: [expert] Snort and portsentry...]

2001-06-28 Thread Craig Woods
Well... That will depend on the kind of rules your are running, i.e. "pass", "log" , and "alert" rules, and how you start the snort daemon. I am running snort with pmfirewall but do not want or feel the need for portsentry. In "theory", once portsentry makes an entry to '/etc/hosts.deny" you s

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread Expert
Yes, the govt sucks. On Thursday 28 June 2001 02:32 pm, so spoke Francisco Alcaraz Ariza: > Is there any relation? > > A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush electoral > campaign > > B) American court revoke the previous sentence, Microsoft mustn't to be > divided > > Hear

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > > Is there any relation? > > A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush electoral > campaign Some Indutrials too... See Kyoto? > > B) American court revoke the previous sentence, Microsoft mustn't to be > divided >

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Kyle, perhaps you are right about the process, but I think you are too optimistic about the end of the story. The fact is that after two or more years Microsoft continue selling their products without problems. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread Felix Miata
civileme wrote: > I think you will find Microsoft contributed just as heavily to the > losing campaign. They bought both ends of the bet, and they'll be > around as long as they have no ethics and lots of money to throw at > problems, but if ever their revenue goes down (they have never >

RE: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread Franki
Lets all be honest here shall we?? has anyone heard of a government that didn't suck in some way or another.?? I'm in australia, and our politicians are to busy attacking each others policies to actually have some new ideas of their own,, its not about promoting yourself, its now all about putti

RE: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread David Joham
In KDE (and I think GNOME) your desktop "directory" is directly under your home directory. My username is davidj, so in Mandrake 8, I have a directory /home/davidj/Desktop In there are a whole bunch of shortcut files. Open the one you want and the binary file you want to run is in the "Exec" line

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (M DK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread Laura Conrad
> "David" == David Joham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> In KDE (and I think GNOME) your desktop "directory" is David> directly under your home directory. My username is davidj, David> so in Mandrake 8, I have a directory /home/davidj/Desktop David> In there are a whole bu

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread cb
On Thu 28 Jun at 16:48:54 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > > > > Is there any relation? > > > > A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush electoral > > campaign > > Some Indutrials too... > See Kyoto? This is really off topic

[expert] issues installing Linux on HP Lh Pro...

2001-06-28 Thread Keller, Tim
Probably a quick one, but neither google or I have sorted it out yet... I have a HP LH PRO with a AMI Megaraid controller in it. Connected to the controller are 2 4gig disks I've got configured to be mirrored using the hardware raid. (when doing the install you only see 1 4 gig disk) Now Mandra

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Perhaps, as one of the Republicans said, Bush is too much of the right wing. the Kyoto accords in fact would be insufficient to stop the global climate change, they just could make it go a little be slow. And what about the galaxy war, just the very right Spanish Prime Minister (Aznar) has sup

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread Joe Pyrczak
Ok, I am off topic too. Big surprise with all the Microsoft stuff going on, here's my two cents: The Appeal Court said the Judge was biased. Where are they going to find a Judge that hasn't used or had his life affected by Windows?? :) Joe Pyrczak

Fwd: Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:27:33 +0200 From: H.J.Bathoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thursday 28 June 2001 23:09, you wrote: > But we have linux in our compu

Re: [expert] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?

2001-06-28 Thread Robert
IMHO, different distributions offer freedom of choice, a big plus for the Linux crowd when compared to M$. We sometimes caught up by the greed fo the closed source world and forget that different means choices. This is what promotes true competition. Only those companies who fear true competit

[expert] w oddness...

2001-06-28 Thread Julia A. Case
I've always got one more thing to report... on my one box when I do a w comman I see a root login on pts/0 and it says that person is running /bin/cat... a ps xa | grep cat shows no such process and pts/0 would be a remote login which shouldn't happen as root (unless I enabled root logins with

Re: [expert] w oddness...

2001-06-28 Thread Craig Sprout
(I replied to Julia instead of the list...sorry...) At 03:20 PM 6/28/2001 -0700, you wrote: >I've always got one more thing to report... > >on my one box when I do a w comman I see a root login on pts/0 and it says >that person is running /bin/cat... > >a ps xa | grep cat shows no such process an

Re: [expert] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?

2001-06-28 Thread mike
Robert, All of that is well and good, and I agree with what you have said. But I do not think it addresses the author's point. Different distros doing things their way, the way that their users have become accustomed is freedom. Distros changing the way they do things from release to releas

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread mike
Laura, What are you using? In enlightenment, you could open up a window and type "rpmdrake" BTW, I started using X before there were big books ;-) and I can run K well enough to get information like this from it (well, and run KMail). mg On Thursday 28 June 2001 13:56, Laura Conrad wrote: >

RE: [expert] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?

2001-06-28 Thread Brian Henerey
perhaps mdk should start a philosophical musings mailing list. not that it hasn't been interesting. -brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mike Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:01 PM To: Robert; 'Expert' Subject: Re: [expert] Linux Fragmen

RE: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided [OT]

2001-06-28 Thread JoeLX
Hi Joe and all, Well, i've just read the CNN news on it. It seems that the main decision still stand, that is microsoft is a monopoly and uses it power to deal with pressure. The decision that is still being uphold by the Appeal Court is significant, allowing the Justice Department to further pu

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread mike
On Thursday 28 June 2001 16:05, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "civileme" == civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > civileme> Look in Contribs and seek MandrakeUpdateRobot. If you have > civileme> PowerPack, it is on supplementary software CD. > > Thanks, that answers the specific questio

[expert] Problem after Update

2001-06-28 Thread Al Baker
Hi all, I used the software manager to update XFree86 to 4.1 (Everything went smoothly for X), except I'm having some command line/compiler related problems (it insisted on upgrading glibc, perl, and gcc as well). Everything seems to work on, I even tested a quick compile of apache. The one pro

RE: [expert] GCC 3.0 - Question on GPL

2001-06-28 Thread JoeLX
Pete and all, Hi! I've read the FAQ and several other articles to the extend that I come to an understanding that the result of using a GPL'ed software does not make it another GPL'ed software, rather it is up to you to give it the type of license that you wish. For example, say that STAROFFICE

[expert] konqueror and asp/style sheets

2001-06-28 Thread Glenn Johnson
I have observed that there are some Web sites that use asp pages and style sheets that konqueror in Mandrake 8 does not handle. The objects of the page are just left out, no errors or anything. The really strange thing is that I have the exact same version of konqueror on a FreeBSD system and it

Re: [expert] how to burn an ISO

2001-06-28 Thread M. Osten
One of the best applications I have ever seen for burning cd's is here: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~jhaeger/webCDwriter/ It allows you to burn cd's from any network attached computer, and gives you a very nice java gui in a browser to do it with. . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Micha

[expert] Getting Postfix to Accept Mail?

2001-06-28 Thread David Rankin
Guys, Guys, Guys & Girls.. I need help again :-( I have set up my mail server and I have registered my domain and I want to be able to send mail directly to my domain at my Linux box. My setup: LM 7.2 Kernel 2.2.19 (server install of 7.2, kernel upgrade to 2.2.19) Linksys Cable

Re: [expert] Getting Postfix to Accept Mail?

2001-06-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
David Rankin wrote: > Linksys Cable/DSL Router Forwarding ports 110 (POP3) and 143(IMAP) > to internal server. What about port 25 (SMTP)...? Pierre

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon

2001-06-28 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Andreas: I had to go to the 3.x Xfree86 to get decent performance out of ATI Mobility of my laptop. Perhaps you need to too. It was not easy, but it works well now. Full-screen 3d apps still crash the machine, but windowed apps work much faster now.. -t - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfao

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread Ron Stodden
Laura Conrad wrote: > > > "Ron" == Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ron> MandrakeUpdate is part of Mandrake 7.2 and not part of Mandrake 8.0, > Ron> where it has been replaced by the more functional Software Manager > Ron> which has been given a desktop icon. 7.2 and

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread Ron Stodden
Laura Conrad wrote: > The general question still stands: if someone says there's a program > on the desktop called "Useful Program", how do I find the name of the > executable and/or RPM that corresponds to that program? Icon, properties, Execute tab. -- Ron. [au]

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon

2001-06-28 Thread Andreas Grytz
OK. Many thanks to all, who are thinking about my (their) Problem. I hoped to solve problem in upgrading XFree86, but it seems that I have to go the other direction ;-) I think, we all will work still on the problem, so we will hear later from each other. Bye, Andreas On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07

Re: [expert] hostname questions (again)

2001-06-28 Thread Andreas Grytz
Hi Tom, Postfix con rewrite the sender field of all outgoing mail, but it's much work, if you have many users to administrate. add sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical to your postfix main.cf touch /etc/postfix/sender_canonical (vi|emacs) $_ The format is like this [EMAI

[expert] java, konqueror, yahoo and the world

2001-06-28 Thread Robert
Give it a shot. Below is the error messages when attempting to load yahoos chat using java, (blackdown1.3) with konqueror. java.lang.ClassFormatError: netscape/javascript/JSObject (Bad magic number) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.de

[expert] mdk 8: php config file, APC?

2001-06-28 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hello everyone. I want to build the APC cache program on a MDK 8 server, but the ./configure command for APC wants me to point to the configure file in in the PHP build directory. Since I installed from RPM I don't have have the ./configure output from PHP figure that I have to come up with

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread David E. Fox
> Exactly what I do. But then how do I access these programs that are > documented as running from the desktop? Like this software manager > people are talking about. Well, I don't run 8.0 here, and having checked my 8.0 repository of RPMs (I downloaded 8.0 but so far haven't gotten around to d

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread Laura Conrad
> "civileme" == civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: civileme> Look in Contribs and seek MandrakeUpdateRobot. If you have civileme> PowerPack, it is on supplementary software CD. Thanks, that answers the specific question. The general question still stands: if someone says there'

Re: [expert] How to get desktop apps without using the desktop (MDK 8: mandrake update fails)

2001-06-28 Thread civileme
On Thursday 28 June 2001 17:34, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "Ron" == Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ron> MandrakeUpdate is part of Mandrake 7.2 and not part of > Mandrake 8.0, Ron> where it has been replaced by the more > functional Software Manager Ron> which has been given a des

Re: [expert]

2001-06-28 Thread civileme
On Thursday 28 June 2001 18:07, Hal Wigoda wrote: > If I've used mandrake as a firewall > how can I use ftp through the firewall?? Use passive ftp or a good proxy server or VNC. Civileme

[expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Is there any relation? A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush electoral campaign B) American court revoke the previous sentence, Microsoft mustn't to be divided Hear in Spain it seems that if you live in USA and you have lot of money, you can do anything, even illegal

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread civileme
On Thursday 28 June 2001 19:32, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > Is there any relation? > > A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush > electoral campaign > > B) American court revoke the previous sentence, Microsoft mustn't > to be divided > > Hear in Spain it seems that if yo

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-28 Thread mike
On Thursday 28 June 2001 15:32, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > Is there any relation? > > A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush electoral > campaign > > B) American court revoke the previous sentence, Microsoft mustn't to be > divided > > Hear in Spain it seems that if yo

[expert] Alan Cox Patches

2001-06-28 Thread Ric Tibbetts
All; A quick question on the Alan Cox patches. If one were working from the kernel tar file, and wanting to bring it up the latest & greates patchlevel from Alan cox, would you only need the last one (for your kernel), or do you need the whole string of them? I think I know the answer to this, bu

RE: [expert] how to uninstall tinyfirewall?

2001-06-28 Thread Jarmo
>Can anyone out there help me? I'm not subscribed to the list so if you >could cc >your replies directly to me that would be great. > Hi You go to controlcenter --->system>services and uncomment firewall. Then if you don't want to rebootjust give firewall stop... Was it /etc/rc.d/init.d

RE: [expert] how to uninstall tinyfirewall?

2001-06-28 Thread grassi, adriano
I believe if you click on firewall once it will turn on then again to turn it off. I am not 100% sure tho, but try it. Regards, Adriano -Original Message- From: Chris Friesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] how to

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon

2001-06-28 Thread Oscar
Maybe 3D acceleration (which is used by tuxtracer) is not supported by Xfree86-4 for this ATI chipset. But I suppose it's supported by Xfree86-3-3-6. On the other hand, Xfree86-4 seems to have better 2D acceleration (good for your desktop). Salu2, Oscar. El Jue 28 Jun 2001 08:58, escribiste: >