[expert] Problems witth adding user

2001-09-02 Thread Atanas Michev
Hi, after adding the root password and default user during the installation we were unable to add any new users. In "X" trying to open "usermanager" we recive the message that the file "yppasswd" and "ypgrp"(or some thing like that) could not be open. In console mode trying command "useradd" we

Re: [expert] The CodeRed -- BZZZT! it does not work

2001-09-02 Thread Expert
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but this 'script' does not work. I am still being hit by servers by the same ip address, so it did not really shut them down. Oh well, nice to wish. > > 1) Create a file called default.ida, in there add this: > >

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-09-02 Thread J. Craig Woods
Randy Kramer wrote: > > Sergio, > > I don't know if you've had a chance to look at the referenced page. > Since then I have rewritten the page significantly. In fact, you'll > find four pages. > > If you have the time, please take another, and let me know of any > factual errors or any suggest

Re: [expert] Single Network Firewall

2001-09-02 Thread John W
> > >Unless you are connecting a cross-thru cable directly to 1 other >computer, don't you need hubs anyway? > >Also, I've seen 8- and 16-port switches at tigerdirect.com for >US$10/port. VERY reasonable. 5-port switches < US$50. > >-- >Sun Sep 2 16:59:16 2001 >Seq. Timestamp

Re: [expert] Help! Kernel security update broke my mdk8.0 installation!

2001-09-02 Thread Dan Hensley
Ok, I was able to get a bit further but my system is still broken and now I'm getting really upset. I managed to boot onto my system by copying the kernel image on the rescue floppy onto my HD and adding it to lilo. It gave me several warning messages, but managed to boot. I then forced the ori

Re: [expert] apmd causes computer to hang

2001-09-02 Thread Stefan Carstens RHCE
Am Sonntag, 2. September 2001 21:42 schrieben Sie: > On Sunday 02 September 2001 02:16 pm, Stefan Carstens RHCE wrote: > > Yes, that's what happend. > > The error occurs with 8.1 BETA 2 and was reproduceable on a HP > > Vectra (PIII 750E + 512MB PC133 SDRAM,2 IBM DTLA 307030 a NoName > > CD-ROM a

Re: [expert] Help! Kernel security update broke my mdk8.0 installation!

2001-09-02 Thread Dan Hensley
Thanks for the response. I put some comments below. I've been out of town for the past few days so I haven't had a chance to try anything. Vincent Danen wrote: > On Thu Aug 30, 2001 at 12:17:21AM -0600, Dan Hensley wrote: > > > I'm not a newbie to Linux, but I'm stumped. I recently used > > M

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.1 beta1 RPM problem

2001-09-02 Thread Randy Kramer
Lieven, You're welcome, and thank you for your comments. Since the last time we "talked" I did a major rewrite of the page: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/RsyncingALargeFile In fact, it's now 4 pages, but hopefully more correct, more focused, and more concise, especially in the reminder

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-09-02 Thread Randy Kramer
Sergio, I don't know if you've had a chance to look at the referenced page. Since then I have rewritten the page significantly. In fact, you'll find four pages. If you have the time, please take another, and let me know of any factual errors or any suggestions for improvements you may have. T

[expert] burning multi-write CDRW's with ide drive

2001-09-02 Thread Sheldon E. Newhouse
Hello, Anyone able to burn multi-write CDRW's with an ide RW drive in Mandrake 8.0? I can burn CD-R's just fine, but CDRW disks fail each time. cdrecord -scanbus reports the drive at address 0,0,0 and that is what I try to use. TIA, -sen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSof

Re: [expert] cdrom & cdrw linked to one drive help....

2001-09-02 Thread Hoyt
On Sunday 02 September 2001 09:03 pm, ben s methodically organized electrons to state: > i need help.. my cdrom and cdrw both are linked to the same drive. i issued > "ls -al /dev/cdrom" and "ls -al /dev/cdrecorder" to see this. the i issued > "ln -sf /dev/cdrom /dev/sr1" which was wrong.. "ln -s

[expert] cdrom & cdrw linked to one drive help....

2001-09-02 Thread ben s
i need help.. my cdrom and cdrw both are linked to the same drive. i issued "ls -al /dev/cdrom" and "ls -al /dev/cdrecorder" to see this. the i issued "ln -sf /dev/cdrom /dev/sr1" which was wrong.. "ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrom" is the correct one it seems. once i issued the second ln the ls on

[expert] Ximian Gnome unable to resolve dependency MD 8.0

2001-09-02 Thread Jeanette Russo
Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:37 am, Oscar wrote: > > El Dom 02 Sep 2001 10:09, escribiste: > [snip] > > I believe the problem is with font anti-aliasing. > > Deactivate it in Control Panel and restart KDE. I have tried to install on Mandrake 8.0 using the "automated" ins

[expert] PBs with LVM over software RAID ( and XFS ? ext2 reiserfs?) I need a BIG advice

2001-09-02 Thread svetljo
svetljo wrote: > Hi people, could anybody help with advice > > >> >> >> > svetljo wrote: >> > >> >> a little note >> >> i patch the xfs kernel but mkfs.reiserfs segfaults again >> >> >> >> svetljo wrote: >> >> >> >>> it's me again and out there is no one >> >>> so >> >>> well linux-2.4.10-pr

Re: [expert] Single Network Firewall

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:39 pm, John W wrote: > Can the Mandrake Single Network Firewall support more than one NIC > on the internal LAN? I looked through the manual and saw no mention > of this. Trying to avoid buying a hub if I don't really need one. ?? Unless you are connecting a

Re: [expert] OT CD writer question.

2001-09-02 Thread civileme
On Sunday 02 September 2001 16:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > sample outputs follow: > --- > this is one where it doesn't write anything, which happens now & then: Well, can you play a CD from that unit or read a data CD from it? If not, wuor read circuit is gone, itherwise it is

[expert] Single Network Firewall

2001-09-02 Thread John W
Can the Mandrake Single Network Firewall support more than one NIC on the internal LAN? I looked through the manual and saw no mention of this. Trying to avoid buying a hub if I don't really need one. TIA, John W Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.man

[expert] OT CD writer question.

2001-09-02 Thread Skippipix
howdy, need some help if anyone has an idea on this one. my CD writer is not working. it will burn the files, but when it comes time to fixate it goes into a fit and finally dies on me. any leads on this, is it hardware or software would be appreciated. thanks for any & all assistance thank

Fwd: Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
Yup, it the AA fonts. So even with X 4.1.0 it's a hassle. Big bummer... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:32:27 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if this is the pr

Re: [expert] apmd causes computer to hang

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sunday 02 September 2001 02:16 pm, Stefan Carstens RHCE wrote: > Yes, that's what happend. > The error occurs with 8.1 BETA 2 and was reproduceable on a HP > Vectra (PIII 750E + 512MB PC133 SDRAM,2 IBM DTLA 307030 a NoName > CD-ROM a 3Com networkcard, all on a ASUS MB, Nvidia Riva TNT2 16MB )

Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
I wonder if this is the problem still with X 4.1.0, which is what I have? I'll have to look at the "me" and "root" configurations. On Sunday 02 September 2001 02:20 pm, Oscar wrote: > El Dom 02 Sep 2001 20:44, escribiste: > > On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:37 am, Oscar wrote: > > > El Dom 02 Se

Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Oscar
El Dom 02 Sep 2001 20:44, escribiste: > On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:37 am, Oscar wrote: > > El Dom 02 Sep 2001 10:09, escribiste: > > [snip] > > > I believe the problem is with font anti-aliasing. > > Deactivate it in Control Panel and restart KDE. > > Try it and tell us ;-) > > But AA was in K

[expert] apmd causes computer to hang

2001-09-02 Thread Stefan Carstens RHCE
Yes, that's what happend. The error occurs with 8.1 BETA 2 and was reproduceable on a HP Vectra (PIII 750E + 512MB PC133 SDRAM,2 IBM DTLA 307030 a NoName CD-ROM a 3Com networkcard, all on a ASUS MB, Nvidia Riva TNT2 16MB ) and on my computer , A Athlon TB 1,2 GHz with 256 MB PC 2100 DDR RAM, the

Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:37 am, Oscar wrote: > El Dom 02 Sep 2001 10:09, escribiste: [snip] > I believe the problem is with font anti-aliasing. > Deactivate it in Control Panel and restart KDE. > Try it and tell us ;-) But AA was in KDE 2.1.1 and things worked fine. Why should it cause mas

Re: [expert] jpg/gif screen capture?

2001-09-02 Thread Larry Sword
Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > Can anyone suggest a screen capture program that uses the jpg or gif image > format? KDE's screen capture utility uses the .png format. > > Could be a KDE or Gnome or X11 application. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks so much. > Benjamin, If you ha

[expert] test, don't open

2001-09-02 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
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Re: [expert] CUPS in MDK8.1b2

2001-09-02 Thread Chuck Lalli
On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:16 am, civileme wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2001 20:28, Mitch Thompson wrote: > > Ok, just installed Mandrake 8.1b2. Looks good so far, let's see if CUPS > > works for a change...Hey, where'd all the printer drivers go? There USED > > to be a printer driver f

Re: [expert] CUPS in MDK8.1b2

2001-09-02 Thread Mitch Thompson
On Sunday 02 September 2001 03:27 am, civileme wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2001 20:28, Mitch Thompson wrote: > > Ok, just installed Mandrake 8.1b2. Looks good so far, let's see if CUPS > > works for a change...Hey, where'd all the printer drivers go? There USED > > to be a printer driver f

Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Oscar
El Dom 02 Sep 2001 10:09, escribiste: > Hi, all. > > It's weird. When I'm logged in as root, my newly installed > KDE 2.2 performs as expected. > > However, when I'm logged in as "me", it takes dozens of seconds > and lots of CPU to open a program. When starting up, it takes > 2+ minutes from wh

RE: [expert] Clock timer configuration lost.

2001-09-02 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
" Small number of VIA 686 boxes randomly jump from 100Hz back to the DOS 18Hz > timeout. We dont know if its hardware or maybe APM bios bugs. The kernel puts > the timer back and life appears happy again " And "TO ALL KA7 OWNERS: There is probably some sort of bug in the via vt82c686a, or in

Re: [expert] Clock timer configuration lost.

2001-09-02 Thread Bill Thompson
DataChannel wrote: > > What does it mean when "probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration > lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard." scrolls up in my logs at random > intervals between once every 10 seconds to once every 45 minutes on a > > motherboard (GA-5AX) that doesn't have a VIA chips

[expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load

2001-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, all. It's weird. When I'm logged in as root, my newly installed KDE 2.2 performs as expected. However, when I'm logged in as "me", it takes dozens of seconds and lots of CPU to open a program. When starting up, it takes 2+ minutes from when the KDE splash screen disappears, to when kicker