Thanks for the response.
It appears that rm-rf doesn't follow links after all.
pesarif
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:21, ltiu wrote:
> Test it on a temporary directory with temporary links to useless files
> located somewhere else. See if the useless files are still there after the
> test.
>
> On Saturd
It doesn't seem to...
I tested it in Mandrake 8.
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:33, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format...
>
> =_1004845157-1734-5208
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> No more than "rm -f " will; b
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:09, Michael D. Viron wrote:
> The only problem with this, is that the users with '700' on their home
> directory will not be able to have websites (since apache needs a minimum
> of 755).
>
> Michael
I had precisely the same problem with apache.
But doesn't 755 destroy the
Hi!
I use 56K dialup. And in kppp/Details, I have a "Local" and "Remote" IP.
By telneting into both IPs, it seems that the "Local" IP is actually my
computer...
So why do I have 2 IPs? What does it achieve?
Windows doesn't do this, I think.
Thanks,
pesarif
Want to buy your Pack or Servi
I should of mentioned that I run mandrake 8.0 ...
Harold
On Monday 12 November 2001 04:11 pm, you wrote:
> HH> I was wondering what radio program to listen to music is available for
> linux.. HH> Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
>
> HH> Harold
>
> Many come with MDK 8.1 , radiof
Hi People,
How can I rig up Mandrake so that I can dial in with one account on my
box and another person can shut it down?
/sbin/ifup ppp0 does not seem to work - it just stalls.
I had this problem with Mandrake 8.0 also.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://w
Hi,
The following may be of interest to Mandake experts:
Sun's StartOffice (SO) can be installed in a 'network' mode by root,
followed by 'workstation' installs by users. This saves mucho disk space.
Trouble was, on Mandrake 8.1, only 'root' could run SO after a workstation
install. Mortals got
Hi,
When I try to use my SCSI cd writer without root access - Gcombust
complains it can not write to the drive or reset it.
It is fine with root privelages.
I have tried adding my account to the group 'cdwriter' and ensuring that
the device has the write flag enabled.
Any ideas?
Thanks!!
Pesarif:
The IP which seems to be the local machine is called the loopback address.
It is necessary. Why this is, I cannot say, other than that was the way
things were set up with IP when it was developed. The remote IP address
should be that of the device your machine uses to connect to the ne
Hey,
The first ip-address is 127.0.0.1 This is your loopback address, the
loopback address is used to make connections to your own linux box
without sending the IP-packet to your ethernet or dialup connection. The
loopback address is also present in the /etc/hosts -file the hosts-file
gives t
Actually, Windows does do this, it just isn't as evident like Linux. If
you are running IIS you can actually type in http://localhost. And from
any command prompt you can ping 127.0.0.1 and localhost.
Paul Devisser
At 01:53 PM 11/13/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Hey,
>
>The first ip-address is 127
Haved you tried the radio prog that comes with
xawtv's tar package, there are a ton more on
freshmeat too.
Brian D. Klar - CVE
WPAFB
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From: Harold Hartley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Re: r
I need to set the user shell in ~/.profile how is that done (it should
be a special version of the bash shell locatet in /usr/local/bin/)
___
Mvh./Yours sincerely
Lars
Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:
Hi,
Do you mean that you want to change your login shell?
If so, 'chsh' is the command you need.
>From the man page:
NAME
chsh - change your login shell
SYNOPSIS
chsh [ -s shell ] [ -l ] [ -u ] [ -v ] [ username ]
DESCRIPTION
chsh is used to change your login shell.
You actually do not set that in ~/.profile. It has to be set in /etc/passwd.
Michael
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Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 03:07 PM 11/13/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>I need to set the user shell in ~/.pr
For me, it's not that groups don't get sorted correctly, but knode
stalls on sorting downloaded headers and cpu use goes balistic
(100%). Nothing to do but quit the program. IOW's knode's been
unusable since 9/9. Has anybody found a fix? I checked cooker rpms,
but current kdenetwork isn't
HH> I should of mentioned that I run mandrake 8.0 ...
HH> Harold
HH> On Monday 12 November 2001 04:11 pm, you wrote:
>> HH> I was wondering what radio program to listen to music is available for
>> linux.. HH> Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
>>
>> HH> Harold
>>
>> Many come wit
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your advice.
I think that most likely the problem came from my OS - Mandrake 8.1
When I tried Evolution, on retrieving email from ISP it prompted :
evolution - mail
(Process. 2623)
has crashed due to fatal error
(Segmentation fault)
I could not connect to the email server
> I 'll try erasing the file altogether and rewriting it, it would'nt be
> the first time a non displayed control character had got in..
Try using 'cat -v file' to view control characters.
Thanks... Dan.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.co
Hello
First of all I must say I am not an nvidia fanatic or
so, I dont like the drivers be closed-source either.
But I believe that nvidia cards are the best opengl
cards around,and despite the source is closed, nvidia
is doing a great job for linux. For the following,
there are things to be co
Title: Internet Connection Sharing
I'm trying to set up my 8.1 box to share out my net connection to the rest of my pc's.
eth0 - cable connection comes in here, get's it's ip addy via dhcp.
eth1 - connects to the hub.
I walked through the "wizard" to get this setup. After completing it, e
Ken Thompson wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 13 November 2001 03:32 am, you wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I use 56K dialup. And in kppp/Details, I have a "Local" and "Remote" IP.
> > By telneting into both IPs, it seems that the "Local" IP is actually my
> > computer...
> >
> > So why do I have 2 IPs? What does
Laurent,
> Got some problems at work with an NFS server running on Linux (was kernel
> 2.2.18), and AIX NFS clients (4.2, 4.3.1 and 4.3.3).
>
> On AIX clients, we run as root:
>
> nfso -o nfs_use_reserved_ports=1
>
> Then, we were able to mount the filesystems from our Linux box...
> I r
Hi Tom
>Are you absoloutely sure your email is not supposed to be retrieved
>encrypted? i.e through ssl? Also, have you tried setting up fetchmail to do
>it (install fetchmailconf to make your life much easier there) as this has
>support for various pop protocols, and not just pop3. If you cant m
What don't work? The sharing or your connection to the Internet?
I've read a message sometime ago about DHCP...
I don't know what kind of connection do you have, but I remember that if you use
a connection from At Home, you receive, besides the dinamic ip address, a host
name, and without tha
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 03:32 am, you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I use 56K dialup. And in kppp/Details, I have a "Local" and "Remote" IP.
> By telneting into both IPs, it seems that the "Local" IP is actually my
> computer...
>
> So why do I have 2 IPs? What does it achieve?
>
> Windows doesn't do thi
I have 8.1 running dual-boot on a generic laptop with opl3sax sound - or
at least that is how win98se identifies it. The laptop manufacturer is
Twinhead according to the AMI bios id string. I've tried to set up the
sound with sndconfig using the values windows reports but can't get it
to work. I'v
Title: RE: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing
I have Comcast Road Runner cable. I get my ip address via dhcp. That part had been set up already. Sharing the connection didn't work. I would like to set up the pc to share the connection to 5 other pc's in the house. I'm guessing that I need to
That worked!
Thanks,
nak
John Haywood wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 07:57, you wrote:
>
>>I am having trouble using a printer connected to my w2k machine from my
>>lm 8.1 machine. I used the printerdrake and selected SAMBA printer and
>>all the other screens. It says it has configured the printer r
pesarif wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 04:09, Michael D. Viron wrote:
> > The only problem with this, is that the users with '700' on their home
> > directory will not be able to have websites (since apache needs a minimum
> > of 755).
> I had precisely the same problem with apache.
> But doesn't 75
look at /etc/sysconfig/network and make sure "FORWARD_IPV4" is set to
"true".
let me know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leif Madsen
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Setting Up Gateway
It´s easier than that... in one network interface do you have the DHCP address
that you've got from Road Runner, the other network interface you should have a
private address (something like 192.168.0.1) and the other computers you should
config 192.168.0.1 as the gateway and the network address
Hi George,
Check the configuration from a root command prompt,
#ifconfig
You should see your eth0 with an internet IP, and eth1 with an address
of 192.168.0.1. Now, just set up your client computers to use that
gateway, and you should be up and running. If the addresses are wrong,
you need
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I am now having trouble getting this to install. If i run as any user
(including root) the install says:
glibc version: 2.2.4
And then stops dead, this is on two machines running mandrake 8.1, a laptop
with xfree 3.3.6 and a desktop with xfree 4.1,
Hi Mike,
On my Compaq, I had an ESS that wasn't supported either. I used OSS, and
paid the lowsey 10 bucks to get it working, and it is very stable,
reliable, and sounds great. Sucks to pay, but you may have to wait until
Alsa puts out some more drivers. Incidently, the Alsa, near as I can
tel
>expecting an instant barrage of responses from a group of other users is
likewise over the top, that's
I have an idea that most who send messages like that DON'T realize this is a
volunteer mail list; they expect it to be a method that the company uses to
provide support. An official channel, if
Sounds odd.
You might want to peruse the Sun StarOffice support newsgroup:
news://starnews.sun.com/staroffice.com.betatest.installation.linux
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:56 PM
To: [EMAIL P
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 13:55, Tom Badran wrote:
> I am now having trouble getting this to install. If i run as any user
> (including root) the install says:
> glibc version: 2.2.4
>
> And then stops dead
How long did you wait? I thought mine hung, too, but it was just taking
horrendously long to
In order to set up dhcp server, you need to download the dhcp package.
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/updates/7.2/RPMS/dhcp-3.0b2pl9-3mdk.i586.rpm
That one should work.
Then, edit dhcpd.conf, here is mine
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.0.1;
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On Tuesday 13 Nov 2001 8:17 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 13:55, Tom Badran wrote:
> > I am now having trouble getting this to install. If i run as any user
> > (including root) the install says:
> > glibc version: 2.2.4
> >
> > And then stop
I cannot remember exactly but when I set up my on a dial up machine, all I
ran on the machine connected to the web was:
iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -s 192.168.0.2 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j
MASQUERADE
The command 'route' will display your router info. Any packets not found to
be destined for
Title: RE: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing
Funny thing - when I went to setup the connection sharing, it asked for both cd 1 and 2, and installed bind, dhcp server, and a couple of other things. One would figure that these things would have been installed by default... (I'll save that for
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 21:17, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 13:55, Tom Badran wrote:
> > I am now having trouble getting this to install. If i run as any user
> > (including root) the install says:
> > glibc version: 2.2.4
> >
> > And then stops dead
>
> How long did you wait? I thought
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> I installed real pronto on a P2 35Hz 383MB so the problem's seems be your
> glibc or a faulty download. I'm having a real hard time getting clean
> downloads from sun. An average of getting it right the third time round
> which gets to be drag:(
T
Greetings,
You might want to try the StarOffice 6 support newsgroups at
starnews.sun.com
Point your favorite news reader at that server address and see what they
have to say about this.
HTH & Regards,
David
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:55, you wrote:
> I am now having
you have tried mandrake control center, (in Gnome, foot, > configuration, >
other mandrake control center, network + Internet, > connection sharing?
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 14:04, you wrote:
> I have Comcast Road Runner cable. I get my ip address via dhcp. That part
> had been set up alrea
my guess is that most folks are already frustrated with life in general, and
by the time they reach for help, they are more frustrated than usual.
hopefully this list can make life better for a few folks (myself
included...thanks all)
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 15:22, you wrote:
> >expecting
Title: RE: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing
Yep, that's exactly what I've been using
-Original Message-
From: Ed Tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing
you have tried man
i did try exec, as far as i can tell from 'man bash' i just stick it at the
beginning of the line right? not that i really understand the difference with
using it, anyway there was still no sign of urpmi updating my local cooker
source, it's not a huge deal since i can do it manually but a bit
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:29, chuck wrote:
> I did the 'upgrade' from 8.0 to 8.1. Now, any RPM command causes a
> segmentation fault, usually after it says 'D: getting list of mounted
> filesystems'. Wine also used to work, but it also gives me the
> segmentation fault error.
>
I have found that upg
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:56, you wrote:
> First of all I must say I am not an nvidia fanatic or
> so, I dont like the drivers be closed-source either.
> But I believe that nvidia cards are the best opengl
> cards around,and despite the source is closed, nvidia
> is doing a great job for linux. For t
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:02, you wrote:
> What I am thinking is that somehow Mozilla/Galeon are loading the wrong
> version of libpng, and thus are not able to properly render .png images.
> Is there any way I can confirm if this is the case, or is there
> something I am missing?
Although I haven't
It happened to me as well,
I guess it's just a bug they have, as someone told me.
Use kups instead, that was the advice given to me and it worked great.
Jose
El Domingo 11 Noviembre 2001 21:57, Amit Bapat escribió:
> I am having trouble using a printer connected to my w2k machine from my
> lm
What about the mnt dir itself?
I had that problem when it changed to 700 or similar when I upgraded to M8.1,
probably cause I changed security level.
Where can we check what actions are taken for each security level at mandrake?
[Some of them are annoying or make the system secure by shutting of
Are you using supermount on a 2.4.8 kernel (MDK8.1)?
It happend to me, try to switch off supermount and maybe change to 2.4.13 if
supermount proves to be the 'bad guy'.
I have no problems in 2.4.13 with it, only a bit slow to open /mnt on the
GUIs but no crash at all.
Jose
El Lunes 12 Novi
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 16:35, John Haywood wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:02, you wrote:
> > What I am thinking is that somehow Mozilla/Galeon are loading the wrong
> > version of libpng, and thus are not able to properly render .png images.
> > Is there any way I can confirm if this is the case,
I guess he was playing 'psicologial war' on the list, trying to challenge it
in a way, in a rude way, anyway
Jose
El Lunes 12 Noviembre 2001 20:27, Patricia Ballad escribió:
> Wow - I'm impressed. You flamed an entire list (in duplicate, might I
> add!) because you didn't get the answer you wa
In some cases, you may actually have 3 or 4 IPs.
You'll always have the loopback address, which is labeled as lo. If
you do a ifconfig lo as root, you should see something like this.
[root@r2d2 /root]# ifconfig lo
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.
Daniel Woods wrote:
>
> I just checked, and this was done by the tech guys for the AIX client.
>
> >> I added the nfs_use_reserved_ports=1 to /etc/rc.uc.posttcpip
> >> so that he's be able to do his mounting...
>
> With this I was able to mount, however the problem is still that I can't
Hi Eduardo,
Something similar happened to me as well with a ps2 mouse, but in my case I
always had mouse again at X if I was going to a text terminal and then back
to X. gpm didn't work as a rc script, but it worked afterwards by doing
/etc/rc.d/gpm start from a tty command line. I didn't get
I forgot!
Kernel 2.4.8 from www.kernel.org didn't behave like that with my ps2 mouse I
thought it was due to devfs support but switching it off on th mandrake
provided kernel sources.
I hope this brings some more light on this topic!
I would try with that kernel from kernel.org but I wouldn'
Not to mention that ~/.profile is not guaranteed to run... see my web page
(http://pfortin.com/Linux/bash) for more info...
Pierre
"Michael D. Viron" wrote:
>
> You actually do not set that in ~/.profile. It has to be set in /etc/passwd.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Viron
> Registered Linux
Have you checked with your ISP to see if there is a "popper" process still
running for your userid..? There was once a bug where certain ungraceful
disconnects would leave a popper process hanging around, and until it was
killed, no more mail could be picked up.
HTH,
Pierre
Stephen Liu wrote:
>
then, WHY even offer a "upgrade" feature...if it causes problems...all
the time?
I've noticed this with all versions...except 6.1.
Phil wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:29, chuck wrote:
> > I did the 'upgrade' from 8.0 to 8.1. Now, any RPM command causes a
> > segmentation fault, usually afte
I wouldn't go so far as to say "all the time". I have upgraded before
without problem. The only issue with upgrading vs clean install I have come
across is it is logrithmically slower to upgrade than to simply do a
reinstall. It takes frickin' forever to upgrade.
There is less pain involved
From: Timothy R. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Jose,
> It works great.
>
> Follow my enclosed directions...
>Thanks, Jose, I'm now at the point where KControl lists MIDI
sequencers.
Oddly enough, I see no MIDI devices with my SB Live using ALSA. I have
sound; I set KDE to use ALSA; I change
Dear friends:
[Using LM 8.0, KDE 2.1.1]
I have had all sorts of problems with Mozilla 0.9.5. I had no problem earlier
with Mozilla 0.9.3 but I did have problems with Mozilla 0.9.4. Mozilla 0.9.5
seemed to working fine until today when it froze constantly. I also installed
libpng3 to make 0.9
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 05:56 pm, you wrote:
> Have you checked with your ISP to see if there is a "popper" process still
> running for your userid..? There was once a bug where certain ungraceful
> disconnects would leave a popper process hanging around, and until it was
> killed, no more ma
Hi Pierre,
Thanks for your response.
I have other PCs running Win ME, Win2K, Win98, etc. With the same settings
I configure Eudora and I can receive and send emails without problem.
Right from the beginning when I install Mandrake 8.1 I encountered numerous
problems. PS/2 mouse still could
You need to set the shell using the "chsh" command when logged in as that
user, not in the .profile.
-- Asheesh.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote:
> I need to set the user shell in ~/.profile how is that done (it should
> be a special version of the bash shell locatet in /usr/
Dear Jose and friends:
Decided to log out of KDE and log back in. Amazingly enough, the problem
disappeared and Mozilla launched properly and asked me to create a profile,
etc.
My thanks to everyone. Looks like my Mozilla is now back in operation.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.we
Greetings all,
I'm having problems with telnet-client-krb5 (version 1.2.2-11mdk).
The new telnet fails when attempting to connect to Solaris 7
servers. The version of telnet supplied with 7.2 works as expected,
the one with 8.1 does not.
It appears that this telnet is annoying the Sola
>Mandrake 7.2 installs the apache executables somewhere and defaults to
>storing web pages and so forth in /home/httpd IIRC.
(7.2 and later actually defaults to /var/www/, 7.1 and earlier use
/home/httpd).
>
>If a user want to store web pages to be served in his own home
>directory, he has to do a
Experts,
A colleague of mine in Japan is thinking of purchasing the following
laptop and loading Mandrake 8.1 on it. I can't see any problem with
it (other than the Windows software :-) but I'd like your esteemed
opinions before he commits the money, especially since I have never
worked with nV
Greetings,
Well, I'm answering my own question...
The solution is to upgrade to version 1.2.2-15 mkd, available
from rpmfind; 1.2.2-13 seems to be honked.
Hope this helps someone else as well.
AFN,
DGO
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 19:33, David Oberbeck wrote:
> Greetings all,
On Monday 12 November 2001 03:45, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
> ltiu wrote:
> >My experience:
> >
> >64 MB is minimum for Linux running X (with nothing else). Meaning, it will
> >use up 64MB with kernel and X(KDE or GNOME) alone. If you use a lighter
> >window manager, maybe your 64MB will go further.
Sergio,
I missed most of the other posts, and offered a suggestion... Now, can you
please enlighten me as to WTF you were responding to...? I fail to see how your
diatribe relates to my comments.
Pierre
Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 13 November 2001 05:56 pm, you wrote:
> > Have yo
Does anybody know of some good documentation on shared libraries in
Linux? This libpng issue I have with Mozilla and Galeon is driving me
crazy, and I just want to resolve it. It seems like I should be able to
rename the old (libpng2) library, then symlink the new (libpng3) library
to the old name
yeah, for some reason, it didn't install by default for me. dunno why
--- "George Jones (IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Funny thing - when I went to setup the connection sharing, it asked for
> both
> cd 1 and 2, and installed bind, dhcp server, and a couple of other
> things.
> One would figu
Hi everyone,
I was just wondering if someone could point me to where I might be able to
find a newer kernel (e.g. 2.4.11 or 13) for Mandrake 8.1?
Thanks,
Tim
--
--
Timothy R. Butler | Universal Networks | htt
As I mentioned to Tim, you have to follow the directions or else it will
not appear.
-JMS
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|Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:59 PM
|To: Expert Mailing List
|Subject: Re: [expert] SB Liv
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I was just wondering if someone could point me to where I might be able to
> find a newer kernel (e.g. 2.4.11 or 13) for Mandrake 8.1?
The Linux kernel archives site is:
http://www.kernel.org/
This is where the sources of "all"
> > I don't know if what you say is true, and if it is, there's really
> > a regression in Linux performance. Before, it was possible to run Linux
> > in a 16MB machine. Kernel using less than 4MB and X less than 4MB too.
> > I can't imagine that kernel and X alone could use up to 64MB.
>
Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote:
>
> What about the mnt dir itself?
> I had that problem when it changed to 700 or similar when I upgraded to M8.1,
> probably cause I changed security level.
>
> Where can we check what actions are taken for each security level at mandrake?
> [Some of them are a
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 11:44 pm, you wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I was just wondering if someone could point me to where I might be able
> to find a newer kernel (e.g. 2.4.11 or 13) for Mandrake 8.1?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
Try cooker, which has 2.4.13 (although the current -6mdk seems to
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