RE: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-08 Thread Charles Darcy
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 06:30, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: Running defrag, or scandisk destroyed my linux partitions with '98. I disabled it and now just dont go to windows unless I need to scan something. In the panic it may have slipped my mind, but I believe defrag may have

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-08 Thread Charles Darcy
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 07:36, Felix Miata wrote: Foe those who don't know, the windoze driver that handles the HD filesystems was kludged shortly before FAT32 was foisted upon the public. For post-FAT32 windoze 9x/ME to work right on any HD larger than 8 Gb that has on it any file system it is

Re: [expert] kill a zombie process

2001-12-08 Thread Oscar
I believe that you will have the kapm-idled process running unless you recompile your kernel w/o the option Make CPU idle calls when idle under General Setup. From the kernel documentation: This option enables calls to APM CPU Idle/CPU Busy inside the kernel's idle loop. On some machines,

Re: [expert] Need MAJOR HELP with ADSL MODEM CONFIGURATION

2001-12-08 Thread James W. McComas
Charter cable modems (3COM) work quite well with both Linux and Winblows. RH and 8.1 configure them automagically as DHCP protocol. Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Just completed a fresh install of Mandrake 8.1. I installed all security fixes, and updated the four draktools for networking. I then

[expert] software manager

2001-12-08 Thread Marek
Hi Guys When i run software manager or mandrake update it gets to analysing the 3rd disk part and then hangs at 97%. I had to kill it the other day as it was taking too long to get to the ftp site and maybe i messed things up with kill -9. any ideas pse ? Cheers Marek Want to buy your

Re: [expert] DNS settings

2001-12-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
J.P. Pasnak wrote: 3 DNS servers are going to give you good failover, and having two on an internal network with only 4 computers is a bit of overkill, as is having 5 total DNS servers. Once finished the setup, fire up draknet and click Next... nothing else... then have a look at your

Re: [expert] kill a zombie process

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Sherman
No, it's an old X process. I think it dates back a few weeks, when X unexpectedly hung, and I was forced to hard-reboot (this is a laptop, so it was not a big deal). Someone suggested I try a sighup, but no such command exists on my system. Maybe I misunderstood? I did try kill -9, which I

Re: [expert] ot Re: Where do you come by this knowledge?

2001-12-08 Thread Ed Tharp
the Original post here had a question about removing linux from the drive, some one else said format /mbr, some one else corrected it to fdisk /mbr but stated it would fix anything I stated that anything was a big order and suggested that it seemed to me to replace the MBR to the state of last

[expert] yamaha sound card problem 'isa-pnp' module missing

2001-12-08 Thread Roy Barton
could anyone tell me where i can get the module isa-pnp so my sound card will work.. Thanks roy

Re: [expert] ot Re: Where do you come by this knowledge?

2001-12-08 Thread Felix Miata
Ed Tharp wrote: the Original post here had a question about removing linux from the drive, some one else said format /mbr, some one else corrected it to fdisk /mbr but stated it would fix anything I stated that anything was a big order and suggested that it seemed to me to replace the MBR

Re: [expert] kill a zombie process

2001-12-08 Thread Oscar
El sáb, 08-12-2001 a las 16:14, Dave Sherman escribió: No, it's an old X process. I think it dates back a few weeks, when X unexpectedly hung, and I was forced to hard-reboot (this is a laptop, so it was not a big deal). Someone suggested I try a sighup, but no such command exists on my

Re: [expert] change hostname

2001-12-08 Thread Oscar
El sáb, 08-12-2001 a las 15:23, Randy escribió: How do you change your hostname using GUI? TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com try with netconf Go to Host name and IP network devices Salu2 óscar -- .

[expert] No space left on device when device is not full?

2001-12-08 Thread David Guntner
This is a weird one. My logs started showing messages saying No space left on device for things like postfix and fetchnews, although a df -k shows plenty of space on all filesystems. A reboot of the system seems to have taken care of it, but I'm still wondering what would cause processes to

Re: [expert] kill a zombie process

2001-12-08 Thread J. Craig Woods
DAVE, It is a bit difficult to help you without the info we need. In my earlier post to your problem, I asked you for some info about this zombie process. You now say it is an old X process. What the hell is that? The X Server runs with more that one process. A kill -9 process number will not

Re: [expert] tetex update RPMs GPG signatures

2001-12-08 Thread David Wollmann
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:13:31PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: On Thu Dec 06, 2001 at 02:46:14PM -0600, David Wollmann wrote: I just downloaded several mdk 7.1 update RPMs from: ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/updates/7.1 I ran `rpm --checksig ...' against the

Re: [expert] ot Re: Where do you come by this knowledge?

2001-12-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:52 am, you wrote: DOS FDISK /MBR writes a brand new boot sector, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't know anything about anything other than writing a new boot sector. The new boot sector on subsequent boots will shift control to the active partition by

Re: [expert] No space left on device when device is not full?

2001-12-08 Thread dfox
On Saturday 08 December 2001 09:27, you wrote: This is a weird one. My logs started showing messages saying No space left on device for things like postfix and fetchnews, although a df -k One item deserving mention - if a process owns a particular set of disk blocks and those are deleted,

Re: [expert] .diff.zip

2001-12-08 Thread dfox
On Friday 07 December 2001 12:40, you wrote: Ok, unzipping no problem but what to do for the .diff part. A diff is a difference file written by editors to show the differences between two or more source documents. One could feed the differences back to recreate the original or generate the

Re: [expert] yamaha sound card problem 'isa-pnp' module missing

2001-12-08 Thread Larry Sword
Roy Barton wrote: could anyone tell me where i can get the module isa-pnp so my sound card will work.. Thanks roy 1. isapnptools-1.26-4mdk for 8.1, yours may differ depending version running. 2. /sbin/isapnp 3. man isapnp Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 Want

Re: [expert] ot Re: Where do you come by this knowledge?

2001-12-08 Thread g
felix miata and hoyt duff, i am curious as to which versions of fdisk you refer when you say that fdisk will not remove non msdos partitions. on w98se system i use, fdisk versions for both w95b and w98se have in section 'delete dos partition or logical dos drive' selection ' 4. delete

Re: [expert] ot Re: Where do you come by this knowledge?

2001-12-08 Thread g
Ed Tharp wrote: the Original post here had a question about removing linux from the drive, et, my apoligies for confusion. i was aware of of your comments and having reread my reply and yours to it, i can see that you may well have thought my comments were to you. they were not. i lurk most

Re: [expert] ot Re: Where do you come by this knowledge?

2001-12-08 Thread Felix Miata
g wrote: felix miata and hoyt duff, i am curious as to which versions of fdisk you refer when you say that fdisk will not remove non msdos partitions. on w98se system i use, fdisk versions for both w95b and w98se have in section 'delete dos partition or logical dos drive'

Re: [expert] ot Re: Where do you come by this knowledge?

2001-12-08 Thread Felix Miata
Hoyt Duff wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:52 am, you wrote: DOS FDISK /MBR writes a brand new boot sector, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't know anything about anything other than writing a new boot sector. The new boot sector on subsequent boots will shift control to

[expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing ownership but it still says it can't find sofficerc when a user tries to execute it. Anyone have a solution?

Re: [expert] proftpd configuration troubles

2001-12-08 Thread Mark Weaver
On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:54:01 -0500 Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure proftpd to allow a user to login to the web server and update files in the web site, but no matter what I try, when I run 'service proftpd start', I get the following error message:

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Thomas Sourmail
I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing ownership but it still says it can't find sofficerc when a user tries to execute it. Anyone have a solution? Did you install with the /net option ? As

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:00 pm, Thomas Sourmail wrote: I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing ownership but it still says it can't find sofficerc when a user tries to execute it. Anyone

Re: [expert] No space left on device when device is not full?

2001-12-08 Thread Andrew George
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 04:27, David Guntner wrote: This is a weird one. My logs started showing messages saying No space left on device for things like postfix and fetchnews, although a df -k shows plenty of space on all filesystems. A reboot of the system seems to have taken care of it, but

Re: [expert] kill a zombie process

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 11:13, Oscar wrote: try killall -KILL procesname And, btw, what windows manager are you using? If you are using gnome, maybe you must do it: - Go to gnome control center - Go to Session Properties Startup - Uncheck the Save changes on exit control. - Delete the

Re: [expert] kill a zombie process

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Sherman
Craig, Sorry I missed your post earlier, I must have breezed bright by it. Here's the answer to your question (I hope). The output of ps -ax|grep Z is: [root@dedannshae root]# ps -ax|grep Z 8246 ?Z 0:00 [Xsession defunct] I'm not a newbie, but I'm not an expert either. Just

Re: [expert] kill a zombie process

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Sherman
Unfortunately, this did not help... Dave On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 17:13, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 11:13, Oscar wrote: try killall -KILL procesname And, btw, what windows manager are you using? If you are using gnome, maybe you must do it: - Go to gnome control center -

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW, get the SO 6 beta -- much nicer! Unless you need the drawing package, as it is buggy as hell. The word processor and spreadsheet are very nice however (and i havent tried the presentation software). - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of

[expert] upgrading libdb to 3.3-3.3.11

2001-12-08 Thread Franki
Hi all, I am just creating a mdk8.1 install that I was planning on using on all our servers.. Its easier for me to make a perfect install, on one drive and then use dd or cp -a to move it onto all the server HDD's rather then start from scratch,, to much non rpm software installed.. anyway, I

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is the purpose of the /net option? I remember reading something about it in the docs but it said that it might cause a conflict with something. Also, I had to change the permissions of the bin file in order to run it. I did have the foresight

[expert] converting ext2 to ext3

2001-12-08 Thread mycal62
Hi, How do I convert my existing ext2 partitions to ext3 in LM 8.0 ? Partitions / ; /swap ; /home Mike McNeese Springdale Ar. USA Linux user # 248955 -- If obstacles are all you see in your path then you have lost sight of your goal. -- Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] networking question

2001-12-08 Thread ajax
I was wondering what is the best way to set up a network. I currently have two computers both dual booting between win98 and linux although I am using win98 less and less. mostly for games and quicken. I have cable internet access and two ip addresses. My windows is set up so netbeui is the

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:28 PM 12/8/2001 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:00 pm, Thomas Sourmail wrote: I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried changing

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Ken Thompson
On Saturday 08 December 2001 06:28 pm, you wrote: At 05:28 PM 12/8/2001 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:00 pm, Thomas Sourmail wrote: I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Lee Roberts
At 07:57 PM 12/8/2001 -0700, Ken Thompson wrote: Use SUN's jre 1.3 and it will work with both SO 52 and SO 6b1. If you download the 6.0b1 from SUN the jre is included and there is an option to install it during the SO install. I have 1.3.1_01 installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] Two Network Cards on the Same Network (Basic networking question??)

2001-12-08 Thread Chris Spencer
Hello, I hope someone can shed some light on to this because I'm at a loss. I have a small LAN going on at home: a Debian box acting as a firewall (external interface gets its IP address from DHCP and the internal address is 192.168.0.1); a Linux/Windows box that has no problems (only has one

Re: [expert] networking question

2001-12-08 Thread J. Craig Woods
Wow, this expert list never ceases to amaze me. Ajax, find some documentation on how to install a Linux server that will be a gateway/router for your own private LAN. This server will be your access to the Internet, mail pop pickup, etc. for any of the machines you have behind this server

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Ken Thompson
On Saturday 08 December 2001 08:48 pm, you wrote: At 07:57 PM 12/8/2001 -0700, Ken Thompson wrote: Use SUN's jre 1.3 and it will work with both SO 52 and SO 6b1. If you download the 6.0b1 from SUN the jre is included and there is an option to install it during the SO install. I have

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Saturday 08 December 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: What is the purpose of the /net option? I remember reading something about it in the docs but it said that it might cause a conflict with something. Also, I had to change the permissions of the bin file in order to run it. That installs the

[expert] Playing DVD's

2001-12-08 Thread Ken Thompson
What is the group opinion of the best program to play DVD's?? I just got an older 5spd DVD to fool around with and now the Number 1 son wants to watch movies G. Any tips to make it work would also help a bunch -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:00 pm, you wrote: BTW, get the SO 6 beta -- much nicer! Unless you need the drawing package, as it is buggy as hell. The word processor and spreadsheet are very nice however (and i havent tried the presentation software). All I use is the word processor and

Re: [expert] Two Network Cards on the Same Network (Basic networking question??)

2001-12-08 Thread J. Craig Woods
Chris, Why two NIC's in your LMDK workstation, I mean, what is the purpose for this setup? If you really need two network interfaces in one workstation, which I assume is only connected to the LAN and using NAT (or some other means of IP masq) to get out on the Internet through your

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Ken Thompson
On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:48 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: What is the purpose of the /net option? I remember reading something about it in the docs but it said that it might cause a conflict with something. Also, I had to change the permissions of

Re: [expert] Playing DVD's

2001-12-08 Thread Larry Sword
Ken Thompson wrote: What is the group opinion of the best program to play DVD's?? I just got an older 5spd DVD to fool around with and now the Number 1 son wants to watch movies G. Any tips to make it work would also help a bunch -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette,

[expert] change hostname

2001-12-08 Thread Randy
How do you change your hostname using GUI? TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] change hostname

2001-12-08 Thread Randy
How do you change your hostname using GUI? TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com