[expert] Internet Sharing -- Can you help?

2001-07-10 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have a most unusual problem having to do with Internet Sharing in LM 8.0. This is the first such problem since I installed and configured Internet Sharing in Lm 8.0. I would very much appreciate your troubleshooting on this issue. Here is what's going on: NORMAL OPERATION: Nor

Re: [expert] comparing ftp with rsync

2001-07-10 Thread ninjaz
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me please - > A number of my downloads gave the wrong md5sum recently. > Is there anything I can do to get better results? I find that using a command-line ftp client and explicitly specifying binary mode works every

Re: [expert] Lack of Standards?

2001-07-10 Thread ninjaz
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, civileme wrote: > > Anyway, we are advocates of standards. There are precisely two distros where > the menus are as identical as possible across window managers, and ours is > one of them. When a friend asked me to help him get WindowMaker set up on Red Hat, I was very gl

[expert] comparing ftp with rsync

2001-07-10 Thread daniel
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me please - A number of my downloads gave the wrong md5sum recently. Is there anything I can do to get better results? Is there a difference between using ftp to download a file and using rsync and with an empty local directory? (eg: rsync -avvP --stats rsync://ft

[expert] Order for building kde?

2001-07-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have the kde beta src rpms from cooker and would like to build them. I first built kdelibs without problem and then tried kdebase but this failed late in the build. Before I fiddle around and try to figure out why, could someone tell me the appropriate order to build these rpms? Under my

RE: [expert] xhost problem

2001-07-10 Thread Aaron deRozario
Going slightly O/T Is there a way of setting up dedicated X-terminals using SSH? I can see security and compression benefits over conventional X-terminals. Has anyone given it a try? Aaron > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July

Re: [expert] additional hardware

2001-07-10 Thread ninjaz
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Lyric wrote: > > Hey all, > > Now I know that Aureal originally only released a set of beta drivers, but > I was wondering if anyone has picked up what they left off... > http://aureal.sourceforge.net/ is the current project to pick up where Aureal left off. Since it's

Re: [expert] xhost problem

2001-07-10 Thread ninjaz
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, DStevenson wrote: > I put the xhost 192.168.0.10 into the file as you suggested, no change in > problem. I put it before the xsession command. > > What files are associated with the xhost system? The program xsane returns > the message 'Gtk cannot open display on xyz'. The

[expert] additional hardware

2001-07-10 Thread Lyric
Hey all, in addition to the video card wuestion I fired off, after browsing through the parts at my disposal I noticed I have an Aureal Vrotex 2 superquad card (au8830) that isn't doing anything... Now I know that Aureal originally only released a set of beta drivers, but I was wondering if any

[expert] App execution bug in LM8.0

2001-07-10 Thread Expert
When attempting to launch realplayer from icon, whether you have typed in the entire path, or have the path in the /etc/profile or bash_profile. When you type in the whole path and then click on the icon, nothing happens. When you have it in your path, it sayus "cannot launch realplay". But whe

Re: [expert] mouse stops responding when switching between KVM switch

2001-07-10 Thread mike
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 15:47, brian wrote: > I have 5 computers on my desk that share 1 KVM Switch (Belkin OmniView Pro > 8-Port). 3 PC's run MDK8.0, 2 are OpenBSD. When I switch between the MDK > boxes, sometimes I lose control of the mouse. I can sometimes fix this by > loging out of KDE, other

RE: [expert] mouse stops responding when switching between KVM switch

2001-07-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I have a similar arrangement with exactly the same problem and worse! Short of control-alt-backspace, the only thing that works for me is having a separate mouse for each Linux machine. What is worst, is that I have a brand new Asus A7A266 Athlon 1.4 gig system w/512 Megs DDRam, GeForce3, SBLive

RE: [expert] xhost problem

2001-07-10 Thread Angus Beath
Hey, From what I have seen, try running InteractiveBastille from the command line. Go through the various questions until you get to this question => "TCP service names or port numbers to allow on public interfaces:". For the answer, you should put any ports down which you want open to the

[expert] 8.0 PowerPack Install

2001-07-10 Thread David M.Kufta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just recieved in the post my 8.0 PowerPack which was so graciously given to me for helping with crash testing for 8.0 When attempting to install from bootable CDROM, which is a creative cdrw6424, the cd is found when system boots but then when yo

Re: [expert] mouse stops responding when switching between KVM switch

2001-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 14:47, brian wrote: > I have 5 computers on my desk that share 1 KVM Switch (Belkin > OmniView Pro 8-Port). 3 PC's run MDK8.0, 2 are OpenBSD. When I switch > between the MDK boxes, sometimes I lose control of the mouse. I can > sometimes fix this by loging out of KDE, other

Re: [expert] xhost problem

2001-07-10 Thread Oscar
Today I have activated tiny-firewall. Here is the problem If tiny-firewall (bastille-firewall) is off, I can run x programs on my server, but if it's on, I can't. Then, the solution is: Configure correctly tiny-firewall to allow x conections (I still don't know how, help, experts!) or stop i

Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-10 Thread Jay DeKing
LM8.0 has no trouble with my two 30gig and one 40 gig drives, but (based on personal experience) I wouldn't take a Seagate drive for free. Jay On Monday 09 July 2001 h:47, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM > 8.0. I wou

Re: [expert] ppp on demand fails in 8.0 ?

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
I am guessing that you edited the /etc/ppp/options file. Correct? I did not know that demand=yes was the correct way, I only use "demand" but I also use idle 300 to time out after 300 seconds of ino activity. I used ifdown ppp0 to hangup and close PPP On Tuesday 10 July 2001 10:51, Bruno Damour

Re: [expert] Lack of Standards?

2001-07-10 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 02:32 am, civileme wrote: > KIndly look at > > http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ > > We will be testing against this for next release. > > 8.0 made many problems. First, during its development, we had to backport > updates to 7.2, because Cooker was not available to 7.2 users

Re: [expert] Urgent! Cannot reinstall LM 8.0

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
hey, and NEXT time, try to start at run level 3 and rebuild your xf config files XFreeconfig (or something like that) On Monday 09 July 2001 15:03, grassi, adriano wrote: > Hello, 2 things to do or try; > > 1. If you don't need the serial ports disable them in the bios, that may > get you thru

[expert] maximal mount count - more info (url)

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
Concering the 'Maximal Mount count' question earlier today, I suggest this url: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue48/tag/53.html There's some REALLY good comments in there about why you really want that fsck, how to avoid it when you really want to, and so forth rc Rusty E. Carr

Re: [expert] installing lm_sensors

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
Hmmm. did you try to use the menu ("K">Applications>Monitoring>Gkrellm )? On Monday 09 July 2001 14:14, Jim Dewar wrote: > X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > hi all, > no one on the newbie list was able

[expert] Riva TNT 3D Accel

2001-07-10 Thread chadley
Hello I would like to know if anyone could explain why in mdk 7.1 and 7.2 my 3d accel worked fine. Games include quake 3 arena & Unreal. but in 8.0 there is zero response from the dam thing. Now yes I have updated from the nvidia site run the new drivers and done all the manual stuff that i was t

[expert] mouse stops responding when switching between KVM switch

2001-07-10 Thread brian
I have 5 computers on my desk that share 1 KVM Switch (Belkin OmniView Pro 8-Port). 3 PC's run MDK8.0, 2 are OpenBSD. When I switch between the MDK boxes, sometimes I lose control of the mouse. I can sometimes fix this by loging out of KDE, other times I have to reboot. I use a PS/2 Wheel mouse

[expert] XFdrake freezes -- help!

2001-07-10 Thread Tom Strickland
I recently transferred my hard drives to a friend's machine to help him sort a problem out. I had to reconfigure X to get things moving. When I came home and tried to reconfigure X, I found that XFdrake completely freezes. What gives? I've done it enough times before. This is a total freeze - I ca

Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-10 Thread Eric L. McClure
Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM > 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering > buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of > 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of

Re: [expert] xhost problem

2001-07-10 Thread DStevenson
On Friday 06 July 2001 09:32, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "tech" == tech writes: > > tech> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what would stop xhost > tech> allowing incoming connections for other xserver on the same > tech> network. > > I don't know what happened, but I started h

Re: [expert] Disable ext2 fsfilesystem check on startup

2001-07-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach George Petri am Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:07:06PM +: > And, how do I *prevent* the forced checks, before they drive me crazy? Modify your /etc/fstab and set the last number to 0 Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage:

Re: [expert] cleaning up my mails

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello friends > > Well time after time i get mails from the system... > all mail are stored in my mbox i want to know how to > clean it up ? There are a few different things you could do. First, you could change the forwarding to go to a different user (possibly on

Re[3]: [expert] Disable ext2 fsfilesystem check on startup

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
Rusty Carruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (that's me) wrote: ...blah...blah...blah... Oh - I forgot - another thing you can do, if you have more than one filesystem, is to make the maximum mount count DIFFERENT for each one, so that your chances of running all the fsck's at the same time is reduced. Th

[expert] ppp on demand fails in 8.0 ?

2001-07-10 Thread Bruno Damour
Hi Has anyone succeedeed to have ppp on demand on a dial up connection with Mdk 8 ? ppp-watch hangs as soon as i set demand="yes" so that ifup ppp0 never exits... It worked perfectly in 7.2. Any one knowing what happened ? This is EXTREMELY annoying for me because it keeps me from connecting to

[expert] Riva TNT 128 problems

2001-07-10 Thread grassi, adriano
Hi all, I've followed the instructions on how to configure the Nvidia drivers, and I can't get it to work with GLX so tuxracer and other gl apps don't work, I edit the XF86Config-4 file and still nothing, my fonts looks ugly tho even with anti-aliasing. Can any help me get this working? I've chang

Re: [expert] syslogd not writing logs...

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > something strange has happened on my system. however, since then > syslogd has '0' (zeroed) out the current log files and has not written > anything to the logs at all. this is not only strange, but also disturbing > since I like to know

RE[2]: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
> But I am concerned about reliability and performance. well, I've no real comments there - I've used Maxtor, Seagate, WD (gasp! :-), IBM, ... I had one WD fail at the end of warranty, and they replaced it even though I did not contact them until after the warranty had expired. However, t

Re: [expert] Multiple network cards in a Mandrake firewall/switch combination

2001-07-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
Nathan Callahan wrote: Nathan, excuse me for nit-picking; but... I just can't help myself... :^) > There is another option. You could set the machine up as an ethernet > bridge as I am doing here so that I can use my powerbook on our local ^^ What you describe below is a router... > c

Re: [expert] Any mutt users?

2001-07-10 Thread wobo
> So sprach Wolfgang Bornath am Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:13:02PM +0200: > > The point was to poll *without* having to do something (automagically). > > Setup a cron job I did, said so in one of the first mails. -- wobo http://www.wolf-b.de ISDN4LI

Re: [expert] Is PHP compiled with MySQL support?

2001-07-10 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I will check that out. Thanks. Dave On Tuesday 10 July 2001 06:45, thus spake Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro: > Do an update using your 7.2 CDs... choose "select packages"... you'll > find the modules for PHP with SQL. > > orlando > > Dave Sherman wrote: >

[expert] mandrake kernel-2.4.6-1mdk lacks supermount?

2001-07-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just built a 2.4.6 kernel from cooker. It appears to lack any support for supermount. Doing "make xconfig" I find no entry anywhere for enabling support for supermount. Building and installing it anyway proves this lack to be true. I setup 3 drives to be supermount drives. None work and

Re: [expert] re: multiple problems with kde 2.2 beta 1

2001-07-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hello, How did you install? Did you upgrade via RPM or did you download the kde source tarball and build the whole thing OR did you download source rpms and build them? Did you upgrade from KDE 2.2 alpha? If you installed it, as I did, on Mandrake 8.0 systems, and you did not build from sou

[expert] Help...kernel build problems

2001-07-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have never had problems before now. I simply cannot build kernel-2.4.6. Actually, it builds fine, I get a bzImage out of it, but it will not install and I cannot get a modules directory for it. I get: sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.6-1mdk bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.6/System.map "" + '[' -x /root/b

Re: [expert] Hoto close some ports...

2001-07-10 Thread Arman Khalatyan
Ok.. Thak you! I will try to use your recomendations. Bests ArMan. - Original Message - From: "Gregor Maier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Hoto close some ports... > > On 10-Jul-2001 civileme wrote: > > On Tuesday

[expert] booting 7.0 and 8.0 on same machine

2001-07-10 Thread Tom Stockton
Hi I have installed 8.0 additionally to the 7.0 I already have installed, very nice. However the installation of 8.0 rewrote my MBR automatically. No problem, I edited lilo.conf to boot the 2.2 kernel from my 7.0 distribution. However when choosing the 7.0 option, it boots but gets lots of err

RE: [expert] How to install EVERYTHING on LM 8.0?

2001-07-10 Thread Kevin Krieser
There are other dangers with installing everything. I've attempted to install more than the default number of applications before. Including VNC Server, which I use to access my Linux box from my Windows computer in another room, and seamingly had a computer that wouldn't bootup. It wasn't unti

RE: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-10 Thread Kevin Krieser
I think this may be marginal in price. I've seen 15 gig Maxtor drives for $50 after rebate. And I bought 40 gig 7200rpm IBM drives for $130 last month. Which LM 8 supported ONCE I flashed my BIOS to allow the computer to boot past the IDE detection phase. What didn't work successfully, in my

[expert] syslogd not writing logs...

2001-07-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list, something strange has happened on my system. on, or about July 6th I finished configuring and compiling the 2.4.5 kernel and booted it. apart from a few things that "failed" on boot due to small configuration issues with that kernel and the system everything went fine. however, since the

Re: [expert] Is PHP compiled with MySQL support?

2001-07-10 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
Do an update using your 7.2 CDs... choose "select packages"... you'll find the modules for PHP with SQL. orlando Dave Sherman wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greetings all, > > I have been playing with php and apache, got them up and running on my > test box at

Re: [expert] Hoto close some ports...

2001-07-10 Thread Gregor Maier
On 10-Jul-2001 civileme wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2001 09:25, Arman Khalatyan wrote: >> Hallo! >> Hoto close some ports... >> I have Mandrake 7.2 with 2.4.1 kernel. >> # >> [arm2arm@icas> arm2arm]$ nmap localhost >> Starting nmap V. 2

Re: [expert] Multiple network cards in a Mandrake firewall/switch combination

2001-07-10 Thread Nathan Callahan
There is another option. You could set the machine up as an ethernet bridge as I am doing here so that I can use my powerbook on our local coax network, and get to the masquerading host easily and so that the other people on the network don't need to change their settings to see my machine.

Re: [expert] cleaning up my mails

2001-07-10 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-10 13:10 * Incoming subspace signal from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" : > Hello friends > Well time after time i get mails from the system... > all mail are stored in my mbox i want to know how to > clean it up ? > thanks > = > *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah Hafiz*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ >

Re: [expert] Hoto close some ports...

2001-07-10 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-10 13:25 * Incoming subspace signal from "Arman Khalatyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" : > Hallo! > Hoto close some ports... > I have Mandrake 7.2 with 2.4.1 kernel. > # > [arm2arm@icas> arm2arm]$ nmap localhost > Starting n

[expert] Disable ext2 fsfilesystem check on startup

2001-07-10 Thread George Petri
Hi! Sometimes when I boot up my computer, Linux forces a check of my ext2 filesystems either because: 1. maximal mount count reached or 2. I didn't unmount properly (due to power switch, occassionally!) I know that I *should* check my ext2 partitions but I really can't be bothered waiting...

RE: [expert] Hoto close some ports...

2001-07-10 Thread Gregor Maier
On 10-Jul-2001 Arman Khalatyan wrote: > Hallo! > Hoto close some ports... > I have Mandrake 7.2 with 2.4.1 kernel. ># > [arm2arm@icas> arm2arm]$ nmap localhost > Starting nmap V. 2.53 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) > Int

Re: [expert] Show status of adsl connect

2001-07-10 Thread Gregor Maier
On 10-Jul-2001 Darcy Brodie wrote: > Gregor Maier wrote: > > >> > >> in addition to this job you could also run this script as cronjob which will >> check if the connection (ppp0 interface) is still up. if not it will >> reconnect >> and it will also write to a logfile that the connection was dow

[expert] Hoto close some ports...

2001-07-10 Thread Arman Khalatyan
Hallo! Hoto close some ports... I have Mandrake  7.2 with 2.4.1 kernel. # [arm2arm@icas> arm2arm]$ nmap localhost Starting nmap V. 2.53 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0

[expert] cleaning up my mails

2001-07-10 Thread fasi_74
Hello friends Well time after time i get mails from the system... all mail are stored in my mbox i want to know how to clean it up ? thanks = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah Hafiz*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*Faisal Gillani *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤

[expert] More about Lack of standards

2001-07-10 Thread Andre LABBE
Hi Just to add to the debat. What I read in Expert Mail, see or hear in my line of work is: If someone post a new version of something every body wants it. If is it worth having it is secondary, and it is not just Linux, windoze too. Where I work, we have a firewall/gateway/proxy running 7.2 wi