RE: [expert] disk activity renders machine unusable, forces manual reboot

2001-07-05 Thread ext-Dmitri . Barski
Hello, AFAICR, LM 7.2 comes with a 2.2 kernel, which CAN be rendered unusable by a user program unless you set some proper ulimits: if a user process just grabs memory ( and works on it ), the machine begins to swap - and when it runs out of a swap space, you in fact can do nothing but power

[expert] script help ...

2001-07-05 Thread faisal gillani
hello there can any one help me in making a small script all i want is that my system runs itself in single user mode , then run fsck on / , then return to normal mode... i know the commands 1, init 1 2, fsck / 3, init 6 i am stuck in how can i give the answers to the command

Re: [expert] Rescue flop for Reiserfs ?

2001-07-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Maxim Heijndijk wrote: Does anyone know if there is a rescue flop with wich you can check your reiserfs partitions. Reiserfs is not without flaws. I have lost libraries at several occasions. http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ :) -- Alan

[expert] sockets refusing to die

2001-07-05 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
One of our Mandrake 7.2 servers has a very bewildering habit. A particular application, an Ultima Online game actually, if it's crashed or killed, the sockets that it had connected stay open, sometimes for 20 minutes or more. Doing a socklist | grep 2593 shows it like: tcp 2593 0

Re: [expert] live_update problem

2001-07-05 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 19:41, Expert User wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.2, with custom kernel 2.2.17. I am trying to upgrade to Mandrake 8.0. I have downloaded all the 8.0 directory(I have DSL!) in /usr/tmp/mdk8 directory. As root I cd to /usr/tmp/mdk8 directory and run ./live_update. it

Re: [expert] script help ...

2001-07-05 Thread Randy Kramer
faisal gillani wrote: can any one help me in making a small script all i want is that my system runs itself in single user mode , then run fsck on / , then return to normal mode... i know the commands 1, init 1 2, fsck / 3, init 6 i am stuck in how can i give the answers to

Re: [expert] Quotas and Reiserfs

2001-07-05 Thread Albert E. Whale
Thank you George. From the mounting of the filesystem, I can only concur. If this is not the case, then I appreciate any other information that is available. Have a Great Day! George Abdo wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 01:25, Albert E. Whale wrote: I have been using Quotas for a Very Long

Re: [expert] script help ...

2001-07-05 Thread Craig Sprout
At 12:35 AM 7/5/2001 -0700, faisal gillani wrote: i am stuck in how can i give the answers to the command automatically ... is it possible ? As long as the answer is 'y', there is a command called 'yes' that will output nothing put y's. You can pipe that output to fsck (which, I assume is the

[expert] Where is xv ?

2001-07-05 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I bought Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Power Pack. Does anyone know where xv program/package is? I can't find it on any of the 7 CD's. xv has been included in every flavor of Linux that I have tried. I can't believe that Mandrake does not include it. -- -=[cwa]=- Linux-Mandrake 8.0

RE: [expert] sockets refusing to die

2001-07-05 Thread Thierry De Corte
It's a normal behavior when a listening server spawn a child task to handle a client and then the listening server terminate with the child task still serving the client... When you restart, the new listening server try to rebind the same port and you get the error Cannot bind. This problem

Re: [expert] Where is xv ?

2001-07-05 Thread Thomas Sourmail
I bought Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Power Pack. Does anyone know where xv program/package is? I can't find it on any of the 7 CD's. xv has been included in every It doesn't seem to be any more.. I wonder whether they didn't try to go commercial. Strange thing is it used to be installed on our

RE: [expert] Where is xv ?

2001-07-05 Thread Thierry De Corte
I think It's getting replaced by electronic eyes ( /usr/bin/ee ) but you can still get the latest version 3.10a from many mirror sites (try http://darwin.anu.edu.au/download/graphics/xv/ ). -Original Message- From: Christopher W. Aiken [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July

Re: [expert] Running two monitors

2001-07-05 Thread Hoyt
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 09:53 am, you methodically organized electrons to state: Is there a way to run two monitors that act independently of each other? Like having two workstations but only one computer. I've seen this on Solaris but can it be done on Linux? Easily done with

Re: [expert] script help ...

2001-07-05 Thread Nathan Callahan
HI, If you want the same answer to all questions for a particular command, there is an amazing little utility by the name of yes By default it echos an endless stream of y characters. If you pass it anything as an argument, then that is what is echoed endlessly instead. You can almost

Re: [expert] Koffice dependency -- libkdeprint.so.0?

2001-07-05 Thread Larry Sword
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: [root@localhost sher]# rpm -Uvh koffice-1.1-0.beta3.3mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libkdeprint.so.0 is needed by koffice-1.1-0.beta3.3mdk [root@localhost sher]# Please, what's this all about? How do I satisfy this dependency,

Re: [expert] Boot hangs with Super-IO Detection

2001-07-05 Thread Kenneth Lierman Jr.
I think i posted this right after 8.0 came out, but i was having the same problem and i recompiled the kernel with the windbond stuff turned off, and my computer is now fine. I'm not at my computer to look exactly where the setting is, but i don't remember having any trouble finding it Ken

Re: [expert] script help ...

2001-07-05 Thread Woody Green
From the fsck man page: Currently, standardized file system-specific options are somewhat in flux. Although not guaranteed, the following options are supported by most file system checkers: -a Automatically repair the file system without any questions (use this option with

Re: [expert] Another MD 8.0 issue

2001-07-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hello, Unfortunately, this ghost menu item doesn't appear in the menu editor. All that I see in the menu editor are the proper, official items. Yet, in my kmenu is a nameless/icon-less subfolder and within this is kcontrol, in duplicate with the correct kcontrol which is in the main kmenu.

Re: [expert] Where is xv ?

2001-07-05 Thread ninjaz
I've got a copy from Debian's non-free. The about box says: XV IS SHAREWARE FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY, i.e., not free software. I think once ee got decent, it pretty much became a replacement. -pete On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Thomas Sourmail wrote: I bought Linux-Mandrake 8.0

Re: [expert] Boot hangs with Super-IO Detection

2001-07-05 Thread Kenneth Lierman Jr.
Well, for me it was hung i couldn't do anything, including logging in. K

Re: [expert] Koffice dependency -- libkdeprint.so.0?

2001-07-05 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Larry and friends: If libkdeprint.so.0 is part of kdelibs-2.2-0.beta1.1mdk.i586.rpm, then wouldn't installing kdelibs 2.2 beta1 conflict with KDE 2.1.1? Would you advise installing this kdelibs 2.2 beta by itself or should it not be installed as part of a total install of kde 2.2? If

Re: [expert] How to reset root password

2001-07-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Kursad Kayaturk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I have lost root password of one of the machines. And the machine is complicated a dual cpu compaq because of that I do not want remove the hard idsk to crack the root password. Is there a way to crack the root password from the local

Re: [expert] How to reset root password

2001-07-05 Thread Craig Sprout
At 11:42 PM 7/5/2001 +0300, Kursad Kayaturk wrote: Hi guys, I have lost root password of one of the machines. And the machine is complicated a dual cpu compaq because of that I do not want remove the hard idsk to crack the root password. Is there a way to crack the root password from the

Re: [expert] How to reset root password

2001-07-05 Thread Oscar
Try starting in runlevel 1 by giving this option to LILO: LILO: linux 1 (If you don't have protected your lilo with the restricted option...) Salu2, Oscar. El Jue 05 Jul 2001 22:42, escribiste: Hi guys, I have lost root password of one of the machines. And the machine is

Re: [expert] Koffice dependency -- libkdeprint.so.0?

2001-07-05 Thread Larry Sword
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Larry and friends: If libkdeprint.so.0 is part of kdelibs-2.2-0.beta1.1mdk.i586.rpm, then wouldn't installing kdelibs 2.2 beta1 conflict with KDE 2.1.1? Would you advise installing this kdelibs 2.2 beta by itself or should it not be installed as part of a

[expert] How to make Single Network Firewall 7.2 to support the 486 cpu?

2001-07-05 Thread Alex Yung
Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can make the Single Network Firewall 7.2 to support the 486 cpu? Currently, I am using a 486 with Mandrake 7.0 as my gateway/firewall for my home network. I am thinking. It would be a good idea to make the Single Network Firewall 7.2 to support the 486

[expert] kmod

2001-07-05 Thread Neal Lippman
Does anyone know how to set things up so that modules are automatically loaded when needed? My understanding was that kmod was supposed to do this, but I don't see it running on ps even though I did request it when configuring my kernel compilation. I have just wasted many hours trying to

[expert] xhost problem

2001-07-05 Thread DStevenson
Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions as to what would stop xhost allowing incoming connections for other xserver on the same network. I do a xhost + 192.168.0.10 on the machine I am sitting at. (192.168.0.1) I then telnet to the 192.168.0.10 and in the csh, run setenv DISPLAY

RE: [expert] dual Athlon CPU not recognised under Mandrake 7.2?

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron deRozario
Otherwise www,amndrakeforum.com has an article (somewhere) that Mandrake 8.0 works flawlessly with the Tyan board on dual-Athlons. Maybe give 8 a go. -Original Message- From: Brandon Caudle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:28 AM To: Nathan Callahan Cc:

Re: [expert] script help ...

2001-07-05 Thread Laura Conrad
Craig == Craig Sprout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig At 12:35 AM 7/5/2001 -0700, faisal gillani wrote: i am stuck in how can i give the answers to the command automatically ... is it possible ? Craig As long as the answer is 'y', there is a command called Craig

Re: [expert] Grip encoder

2001-07-05 Thread Larry Sword
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It seems to me that with LM8.0, there are no encoders on the CD that will work with grip. Am I wrong? Is there something out of the box that I'm not seeing? L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] D'obscures manoeuvres ont eu lieu dans l'ombre

Re: [expert] Rescue flop for Reiserfs ?

2001-07-05 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-04 14:45 * Incoming subspace signal from civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Tuesday 03 July 2001 20:57, you wrote: Does anyone know if there is a rescue flop with wich you can check your reiserfs partitions. Reiserfs is not without flaws. I have lost libraries at several