[expert] X Startup from Console

2001-06-30 Thread George Abdo
Hello All, In old version of Mandrake, there used to be a .xinitrc in the home directory where I can specify the WM I want to use. In version 8, where would that be? I want to start twm (yes the bare minimum) without having to start kdm/gdm and all that goes with them. Is there an

[expert] How do change the default WM in MDK8?

2001-06-30 Thread George Abdo
Hello all, In Mandrake 7, I edited my own .xinitrc to start twm (yes, the bare minimum). However, in MDK 8, I don't know where to do it. Does anyone know where I can find the config file? I want to start X usig startx not using kdm/gdm. Thanks George

Re: [expert] Getting Postfix to Accept Mail?

2001-06-30 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-06-28 23:15 * Incoming subspace signal from David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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

Re: [expert] X Startup from Console

2001-06-30 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-06-29 18:33 * Incoming subspace signal from George Abdo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hello All, In old version of Mandrake, there used to be a .xinitrc in the home directory where I can specify the WM I want to use. In version 8, where would that be? I want to start twm (yes the

Re: [expert] Precompiled kernel in 8.0 has AGP enabled?

2001-06-30 Thread Steve Kieu
I say yes you can check in /boot/config-2.4.3-20mdk mine, i810 use AGP and DRI, it is fine --- Steve Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just switched from an ATI Xpert 98 (8Mb. PCI) to an Xpert 2000 (32Mb. AGP) video card. Now Xwindows won't start, although I've run Xconfigurator and

Re: [expert] Which file controls antialiasing fonts?

2001-06-30 Thread Oscar
I think it's /etc/X11/XftConfig Look for something like edit antialias Salu2, Oscar. El Sáb 30 Jun 2001 05:55, escribiste: I cannot recall which file it is that controls which fonts will be antialiased. There is a file that limits which fonts, by size, are the cutoff for antialiasing. I

RE: [expert] Moving linux to a different, larger drive

2001-06-30 Thread Andrew Judge
You can use the howto Hard-Disk-Upgrade for this. It works well and I have done it a few times. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Paik Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Moving linux to a

Re: [expert] X Startup from Console

2001-06-30 Thread Barry Marler
Just create the file. --On Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:27 PM +1000 George Abdo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:18, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: * Stardate: 2001-06-29 18:33 * Incoming subspace signal from George Abdo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hello All, In old version of Mandrake,

[expert] Re: [newbie] WordPerfect Install in LM8

2001-06-30 Thread George Czerw
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:51:46 -0700 , Marcia Walker wrote: Marcia, The libc5-1.0-2.i386 src.rpm will have to be compiled first, before you can install it. Instead, I'd suggest that you get the following 2 Mandrake RPMs from any Mandrake Cooker site: libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm

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

2001-06-30 Thread Laura Conrad
pete == ninjaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pete Here are my versions of packages I gather would be related: pete drakxtools-newt-1.1.5-100mdk pete perl-base-5.600-30mdk pete perl-libwww-perl-5.50-1mdk pete rpmdrake-1.3-52.1mdk pete perl-5.600-30mdk pete

Re: [expert] X Startup from Console

2001-06-30 Thread polaris9
Hello All, In old version of Mandrake, there used to be a .xinitrc in the home directory where I can specify the WM I want to use. In version 8, where would that be? I want to start twm (yes the bare minimum) without having to start kdm/gdm and all that goes with them. Is there an

Re: [expert] bizarre remote access/network problem -Solved

2001-06-30 Thread Karl Cunningham
I'm pretty sure it was one computer that was causing the problem. One of the symptoms was slow network traffic between other machines -- down to 50kbps sometimes on 100Mbps segments. Just powering up the offending computer and letting it sit at a bios screen would cause the problem. Power

[expert] kernel

2001-06-30 Thread Steve Ackerman
I have installed Mandrake on numerous machines without a hitch. Each install found the hardware right away, even on my laptops, with the exception of the Kernel compilation. I am trying to set up a few servers for a proof of concept project and I need to compile some features into these kernels

[expert] iptables support

2001-06-30 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
Hi, I am using LM 8, trying to configure firewall thro Linuxconf. I get an error kernel doses not support firewallling, something to that effect. Does the stock kernel with LM 8 come with firewall support. I think linuconf is using iptables. Also it cannot find ip_masq, ip_ftp modules.

[expert] Mounting partitions in more than one place

2001-06-30 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Let's imagine this situation: 2 HD, 3 partitions on the first one (FAT32, ReiserFS and swap) and one on the second one (FAT32). I decide to use the 2nd HD for Linux, so I format it as ReiserFS, but that HD is too big to use it only for /home so I decide to mount it in two (or three) points:

RE: [expert] Mounting partitions in more than one place

2001-06-30 Thread Kevin Krieser
Some directories may need to be in the root directory to boot your system, but one way around your problem is symbolic links. Look at how /usr/tmp actually points to /var/tmp. (Which caused me grief once when I filled up my / partition by creating a large file in /usr/tmp. My /usr partition

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-30 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Jun 29, 2001, mike wrote: A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush electoral campaign Here's a small hole in your theory: If I'm not mistaken Scott McNeiley(sp) (CEO Sun Microsystems and all-around M$ hater) was also a big Bush contributor.

Re: [expert] Microsoft will not be divided

2001-06-30 Thread mike
On Saturday 30 June 2001 17:05, Paul Cox wrote: On Friday, Jun 29, 2001, mike wrote: A) Bill Gates ( Microsoft) spended lot of money for the Bush electoral campaign Here's a small hole in your theory: If I'm not mistaken Scott McNeiley(sp) (CEO Sun Microsystems and

Re: [expert] kernel

2001-06-30 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-06-30 11:49 * Incoming subspace signal from Steve Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I have installed Mandrake on numerous machines without a hitch. Each install found the hardware right away, even on my laptops, with the exception of the Kernel compilation. I am trying to set up

Re: [expert] kernel

2001-06-30 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:55 +0200, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: The source for LM-8.0 is not clean. Do a make mrproper before doing anything else. This is just one step further on my way, thank you! Kernel-compiling-related: I have a working kernel. It's the plain kernel after the installation

[expert] VMWare configuration

2001-06-30 Thread plsusa
I have my machine set up to dual boot NT and Linux Mandrake 8.0 (2 seperate hard drives). While trying to configure my eval version of VMWare, I saw you could access your NT drive (hda) for the guest OS. What configuration choices do I want to use? My choices listed are below, with the

Re: [expert] Mounting partitions in more than one place

2001-06-30 Thread Ed Tharp
I have always (well since MANDK 7.0) set up my two hard drives as the first hard drive with a windows fat32 4 gig and the rest of an 8 gig for linux (as /home (currently using rieserFS), /swap, and my second hard drive (10 gigs) as a fat32 d drive (5 gigs)and the rest as / (everything else) the

Re: [expert] procmail question

2001-06-30 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Laurent CREPET wrote: :)On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:11:36PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: :) :) I have used fetchmail/procmail on Debian, SuSE, FreeBSD w/o :) any problems. But I cant' seem to get procmail filtering :) to work with Mandrake. :) :) My .forward file looks

Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???

2001-06-30 Thread George Abdo
I'm getting the same mail delivery error, but not the out of office reply. George On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:00, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: Every time I post a message I get the following Out of Office Replies and Mail Delivery Failure. What Gives? Is anyone else getting this stuff? Same

Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???

2001-06-30 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
What gives is that someone on the list (Wehling, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is out of office and let an automatic answer in his mailbox... George Abdo wrote: I'm getting the same mail delivery error, but not the out of office reply. George On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:00, Christopher W. Aiken

[expert] chattr: Inappropriate ioctl -- ??

2001-06-30 Thread cb
I've experienced this in 7.2 as well as 8.0, but it's worked fine in every RH distro I've tried. When I try to run chattr on a particular file, it always returns the following error: chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /etc/lilo.conf (This time the file being

[expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???

2001-06-30 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Every time I post a message I get the following Out of Office Replies and Mail Delivery Failure. What Gives? Is anyone else getting this stuff? Same three guys all the time. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jun 30 23:50:56 2001 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:32:17 -0500 From: Bravard, Paul [EMAIL

[expert] Tape Backup

2001-06-30 Thread DStevenson
Hi All, I am using a HP Colorado 14Gig tape drive unit for backup. I do not want bells or whistles on backup progs, so I am writing a simple perl script to run backup for me. However, if I have a system crash, hard drive or similar, and are prepared to reinstall the OS (Mandrake 8), what OS

Re: [expert] procmail question

2001-06-30 Thread Laurent CREPET
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 06:05:23PM +0200, Laurent CREPET wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:11:36PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: I have used fetchmail/procmail on Debian, SuSE, FreeBSD w/o any problems. But I cant' seem to get procmail filtering to work with Mandrake. My

Re: [expert] Config file provided with Mandrake 8.0?

2001-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
Steve Browne wants to find the kernel config file: It's in /boot... # ll /boot/config-`uname -r` -rw-r--r--1 root root33572 Apr 15 17:14 /boot/config-2.4.3-20mdk Pierre

Re: [expert] X Startup from Console

2001-06-30 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:15:32 -0400 Hello All, In old version of Mandrake, there used to be a .xinitrc in the home directory where I can specify the WM I want to use. In version 8, where would that be? I want to start twm (yes the bare

Re: [expert] X Startup from Console

2001-06-30 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-06-30 07:28 * Incoming subspace signal from Barry Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Just create the file. --On Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:27 PM +1000 George Abdo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:18, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: * Stardate: 2001-06-29 18:33 *