Re: [expert] offset on system clock

2002-01-07 Thread nds
Mark Chou wrote: >OK, after investigating a bit, I can describe what's going on a bit >better, although I don't think I'm any closer to a solution. > >The machine in question is a desktop, not a laptop, and I don't run >apmd. However, in BIOS I do set monitor suspend/standby. > >Timezone is se

Re: [expert] CD/RW Problem with MDK 8.1~~

2002-01-07 Thread nds
skidley wrote: >On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > >>Ok, now I'm frustrated. >>I have a SCSI CD/RW (Yamaha). that has worked flawlessly for a long >> >I can't believe how many people answered with the usual append lilo.conf >load ide-scsi stuff when you had "SCSI" in very bold capital lett

Re: [expert] CD/RW Problem with MDK 8.1~~

2002-01-07 Thread nds
skidley wrote: >On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > >>Ok, now I'm frustrated. >>I have a SCSI CD/RW (Yamaha). that has worked flawlessly for a long >> >I can't believe how many people answered with the usual append lilo.conf >load ide-scsi stuff when you had "SCSI" in very bold capital lett

Re: [expert] FTP clients

2002-01-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »nds« am 2002-01-06 um 23:36:25 -0600 : > Do you know of any "howto" for text mode ftp clients? I know enought to What do you need to know that "help" doesn't tell you (in ncftp)? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage:

[expert] using initd to reduce cpu load???

2002-01-07 Thread Roberto Armenteros
I know that by using this daemon I will be able to save a lot of resources, but how do I get it set up? Is it true that it introduces serious security vulnerabilities, hence should be avoided if possible? In my LM 8.1 I dont find a initd.conf file, instead I find xinitd.conf. Is there any specific

[expert] mozilla segfaulting

2002-01-07 Thread John Haywood
The window starts to come up, with the default URL (/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html, I think), then crash, boom! I have deleted the .mozilla directory, created a new profile, but no go! It seems to get hung up on this gettimeofday call, but I may be wrong here Any suggestions, or places to st

Re: [expert] using initd to reduce cpu load???

2002-01-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Roberto Armenteros« am 2002-01-07 um 00:40:08 -0800 : > Is it true that it introduces serious security > vulnerabilities, hence should be avoided if possible? No, that's not true. > In my LM 8.1 I dont find a initd.conf file, instead I > find xinitd.conf. Is there any specific reaso f

Re: [expert] FTP clients

2002-01-07 Thread nds
Alexander Skwar wrote: >So sprach »nds« am 2002-01-06 um 23:36:25 -0600 : > >>Do you know of any "howto" for text mode ftp clients? I know enought to >> > >What do you need to know that "help" doesn't tell you (in ncftp)? > >Alexander Skwar > > >--

Re: [expert] using initd to reduce cpu load???

2002-01-07 Thread David Guntner
Roberto Armenteros grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > I know that by using this daemon I will be able to > save a lot of resources, but how do I get it set up? Using an inet type of daemon is usually the best way to set up most (though not all) services that you want to run. > Is it true that it

[expert] Computer stop "Starting X Font Server"

2002-01-07 Thread falcaraz
Dear folks, We have a server that run (we can conect from a remote computer using ssh even in graphical mode) but now the server stop in the start with the next step: "Starting X Font Server" In fact linux is runing (why if not we can made a remote conection), but we can't start a session in the

Re: [expert] using initd to reduce cpu load???

2002-01-07 Thread nds
David Guntner wrote: >Roberto Armenteros grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >>I know that by using this daemon I will be able to >>save a lot of resources, but how do I get it set up? >> > >Using an inet type of daemon is usually the best way to set up most (though >not all) services that you want

Re: [expert] mozilla segfaulting

2002-01-07 Thread Davor Cengija
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, John Haywood wrote: > The window starts to come up, with the default URL > (/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html, I think), then crash, boom! > I have deleted the .mozilla directory, created a new profile, but no go! > It seems to get hung up on this gettimeofday call, but I may be

[expert] Gnokii and Nokia as modem

2002-01-07 Thread Alexander Arzberger
Hi all. Has somebody experience connecting a Nokia cel to use as a modem with the Gnokii software? The connections works only to access the phone's data and also for SMS, but I need to use it as a modem. -- Alexander H.J. Arzberger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake

2002-01-07 Thread Allen May
I am used to using Mandrake 8.x. I just installed FreeBSD on a test machine and find it less intuitive to use. Can someone explain the big difference between Mandrake and FreeBSD?   In Mandrake, the current running DAEMON's are in the init.d directory.. were are they in FreeBSD? I don't have

Re: [expert] I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-07 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi, I'm realy interested too abou AIW. I have a Studio PCTV and it works much better under linux than under Winblows. I'm figuring out if the same happens to AIW... Unfortunately I have just a PII 300 and I wondering how to keep video and sound capture in sync with such a hardw

[expert] Man page for diff

2002-01-07 Thread pesarif
Hi! Does anyone know where the manpage for the "diff" command is? It was there in Mandrake 7.2, but in Mandrake 8.0, it's gone :( All my other manpages seem to work e.g. ls, gcc. I hate info pages so please don't tell me to "info diff" :) [root@tux350 /root]# man diff No manual entry for diff [

Re: [expert] Pc as dumb X-Terminal

2002-01-07 Thread pesarif
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:27, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Piero wrote: > > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > >nds wrote: > > >>pesarif wrote: > > >>>Hello again! > > >>> > > >>>Is it possible to login to a remote system (console login only because > > >>> it doesn't have X), without having to login locally (as with t

Re: [expert] Log in remotely without logging in locally

2002-01-07 Thread pesarif
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 05:04, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Marc wrote: > > maybe it is possible to configure one of your virtual consoles as a login > > screen on the remote machine. This way you can login to the remote > > machine without local login. > > > > I am not sure if it is technically possible. B

Re: [expert] 2 Questions about building RPMs

2002-01-07 Thread pesarif
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 05:06, tester wrote: [snipped] > pesarif wrote: > > Secondly, I noticed in a number of posts that people have mentioned that > > i686 (Pentium II) packages will run on a Pentium (i586). If gcc does > > processor-specific optimisations (e.g. use of new instructions), then how >

Re: [expert] Log in remotely without logging in locally

2002-01-07 Thread pesarif
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:43, Terry Mathews wrote: > I think you could to it in console mode too. If we are dealing with an > ethernet connection, methinks that passing "linux init=telnet x.x.x.x" to > LILO would make the machine come up to the other computer's login prompt. > Although this requires t

Re: [expert] Log in remotely without logging in locally

2002-01-07 Thread pesarif
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 05:01, Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote: > I think that you can't. > > You can do this with X since the local machine is the server, so you do a > login "bacwards". Telnet, rsh, ssh... are clients... and if you are running > a client you already logged somewhere... > > If you creat

Re: [expert] FTP clients

2002-01-07 Thread Randy Kramer
nds wrote: > Do you know of any "howto" for text mode ftp clients? I know enought to > crawl around when I rather race and run circles. tia The following are probably not what you're looking for (based on your response to Alexander Skwar), but, if you get a chance, look them over, and make (or of

[expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Robert
I have a couple of 8.1 Mandrake linux boxes which are currently networked client sever using DHCP and NFS. this topology is OK but what I would prefer is a peer to peer net similar to a Windoze network where each machine can act as server or client. Is this possible ? if so How ? thanks Rob

[expert] Config for ADSL and SNF 7.2

2002-01-07 Thread Jan-Erik Persson (ESE)
Hi ! I'm trying to get my new ADSL connection and SNF 7.2 working together. I have no problems getting the "eth0" (for the internal network..) up and running, but it's impossible to get the connection to my ISP to work. Does anyone have any experience from the config of "eth1" (ext network) a

Re: [expert] Anyway to reject a site in Apache?

2002-01-07 Thread Muzza
http://apantihak.sourceforge.net/ Yes, there is a way to stop all nimda related scans / probes. This is a module for apache that in it's current form uses ipchains. It works by checking the requested URL for several strings and writting an ipchains rule that stops any further connections. To g

Re: [expert] CD/RW Problem with MDK 8.1~~

2002-01-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
nds wrote: > his cdrw uses an Adaptec 2930U and so you will need an aic7xxx driver > to use this writer. Here are the links; Okay, thats the same exact SCSI adaptor I have. It works fine with Mandrake 8.1 out of the box. I use a Plextor CDRW, however. --

[expert] Prueba

2002-01-07 Thread ( MTI) Raúl Brikman.
Sres [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Desde que poseo la cuenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] recibo en mi casilla de correo e-mails dirigidos a linux-mandrake. Les re-envio uno de los tantos e-mails que he recibido. Cordialmente Sandra Prieto Arena

RE: [expert] Samba and WinXP

2002-01-07 Thread Franki
dunno if this has been answered yet (500 mandrake mails in my "linux" directory.. but go to cooker and get the latest samba rpms, then all will work. (or should.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Zashin Sent: Saturday, 5

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 14:47, Robert wrote: > I have a couple of 8.1 Mandrake linux boxes which are currently networked > client sever using DHCP and NFS. this topology is OK but what I would prefer > is a peer to peer net similar to a Windoze network where each machine can act > as server or cl

Re: [expert] Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

2002-01-07 Thread Rusty Carruth
> Hi Rusty, > > Thanks for your advice. > No problem. Glad I happened to notice your reply, as I'm swamped with email ;-) > > At 09:55 AM 1/6/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >a switch as through a direct cable. The difference is in the short delay > >while the switch looks at the mac (and possibly)

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Randy Kramer
Robert wrote: > I have a couple of 8.1 Mandrake linux boxes which are currently networked > client sever using DHCP and NFS. this topology is OK but what I would prefer > is a peer to peer net similar to a Windoze network where each machine can act > as server or client. Is this possible ? Rober

Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

2002-01-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > James may be on his way to becoming a hero for this one! > Great job!! > > Ric > Man! now i can't wait to get home and try it out on my copy of Mozilla! daRcmaTTeR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake

2002-01-07 Thread Ashley Reynolds
Well, for starters FreeBSD uses the BSD kernel, and Mandrake uses the Linux kernel. :) I haven't had much experience with FreeBSD, or any of the BSD's for that matter, and even so it was only ever very minor remote tasks. Thus, I can't tell you anything about running daemons nor the locate comma

Re: [expert] 2 Questions about building RPMs

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Viron
>So do i686 packages ("optimised to the max") work on i586? > >Thanks again, >pesarif No, they will not, as they are compiled for i686. It's the same as trying to use an i586 (Pentium) package on a 486 -- they will not work. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems

[expert] htdig in KDE Control Center (8.1)

2002-01-07 Thread Stefano POGLIANI
I am not able to see and access the "Help Index" (i.e. ht://dig) in the KDE Control Center shipped with 8.1   Any suggestion?   Thanks a lot indeed. Best regards   /stefano

RE: [expert] iptables and ipip tunnels

2002-01-07 Thread Franki
I would never give any real details of a system (when relating to a potential security hole)to anyone on any list. don't you think hackers don't start somewhere? this list is just as good a place as any. If you have been hacked, I hope you had a good recent pre-hacked backup.. your best bet in

RE: [expert] Re: [Bastille-linux-discuss] iptables and ipip tunnels

2002-01-07 Thread Franki
If I were you, I'd get rid of bastille altogether and install something like gShield, its faster to setup, can do more interesting and useful stuff, and does it in an orderly and logical manner. Bastille was great a while back, but I think its crossing the line into bloatware now, and who really

Re: [expert] htdig in KDE Control Center (8.1)

2002-01-07 Thread H.McM
If I am wrong I am sure someone will correct me, but I believe that feature was left out of the KDE version that shipped with 81. A sneaky way to get it working though, is to install KDevelop, its in there someone. Akar on the kde-linux mailing list wrote a small set of instructions on what to

Re: [expert] Man page for diff

2002-01-07 Thread Davor Cengija
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anyone know where the manpage for the "diff" command is? > It was there in Mandrake 7.2, but in Mandrake 8.0, it's gone :( > All my other manpages seem to work e.g. ls, gcc. > I hate info pages so please don't tell me to "info diff" :) > > [root

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread kwan
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor Cengija wrote: > I'm having a really hard time with this new 8.1 > distribution. It is very unstable and unpredictable (something > I wouldn't expect from Mandrake Linux). Anyone experienced > similar problems, say: > > - kicker dies without obvio

RE: [expert] SFTP GUI clients ??????????????

2002-01-07 Thread Franki
Hi all, I was wondering if any of the GUI ftp programs for mandrake (or linux in General) can do scp or sftp like iXplorer can for windows? its annoying that there seems to be a better gui tool thats open source for windows to connect to a linux box then there is a tool in linux for connection t

[expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Davor Cengija
I'm having a really hard time with this new 8.1 distribution. It is very unstable and unpredictable (something I wouldn't expect from Mandrake Linux). Anyone experienced similar problems, say: - kicker dies without obvious reason - konqueror segfaults with libstdc+

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread richard
Hi , yes I've had similar experiences with mdk 8.1, I now have two motherboards which have one or two very subtle faults. On the other two machines absolutely no problem with stability. I found 8.1 more demanding on resources than 7.2, so if there's a hardware problem its going to show up very qui

[expert] pflogsumm.pl

2002-01-07 Thread Franki
Hi all, Have any of you seen an rpm for pflogsumm.pl that is setup to work with mandrakes postfix? That would be really handy, I have been fiddling with it, and I can't get it to work in time with mandrakes logrotate, (In other words, I get reports daily that are mostly the same as the ones fro

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Hawkins
I posted a rant on this very subject about 1 month ago. My laptop continues to run just fine on 7.2, after a looonng day of attempting to install 8.1 I KNOW its not hardware because I haven't had a hiccup at all, and 7.2 autodetected all components, which 8.1 failed to accomplish. Ken [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Netscape Speedup

2002-01-07 Thread James Sparenberg
*blush* Proof you don't have to be a Knuth to stumble across something that works. In Mozilla's defence however I can understand leaving the debugger on in beta code. Netscape no excuse *grin* James On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 00:30:24 -0600 nds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ric Tibbetts wro

Re: [expert] Anyway to reject a site in Apache?

2002-01-07 Thread James Sparenberg
I'm using this guys script (modified slightly) It uses IPchains to block sites infected with the nimda virus. You can find out info at. http://screaming-penguin.com/main.php?storyid=1922 If you can't get the site and others want my scripts ( I've modified it for iptables as well) let me know an

RE: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Franki
that must be a hardware issue of some sort.. I have 8.1 systems now that have uptimes of months.. not a problem.. then again, I only use server services really, so maybe thats why I haven't had the problems. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-07 Thread Ron Heron
Also, take a look at the Matrox site. They actually provide software! The Matrox PowerDesk is an excellent utility for setting up displays and muli-displays in linux, plus they have their own, easy to install XFree86 server. I only use ATI and Matrox in my PC's for these reasons. Hero --- Matt

[expert] re;iptables and iptunnels

2002-01-07 Thread richard
Thanks to everyone who helped with this, Peter, Stil & co. a mixture of 3 problems all interacting 1. the issue of bastille-netfilter that supplied with the mandrake 8.1 distro is very long in the tooth 0.99-beta7, upgrading to 1.26 allowed the following additions to work. 2 needed to add to the

Re: [expert] Man page for diff

2002-01-07 Thread Tim Holmes
Wow... you're right. I never noticed that. Never use diff that much. Check out the --help info. That's all I can think of. diff --help It's quite lengthy, that should come in pretty useful. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTE

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread richard
Ken , the one thing that laptops do and furtively is to drop the clock speed to reduce power, I've a Toshiba sat 4000cds, and it lies about its clock speed. To increase battery life its very common to power down parts of the motherboard when the're not in use. my 2 penneth BG richard On Mon, 20

[expert] phpNuke

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Thompson
Is there an interface for phpNuke and is so how in the world do ya get to it? Using MDK 8.1 out of the box. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Ne

RE: [expert] more information was needed Samba and WinXP woes

2002-01-07 Thread Todd Zashin
Larry, Thanks again for your reply. I have seen that article and it is helpful except for one caveat. We dont run a domain here and do not need Samba to be a domain controller. I want the XP machine to join the workgroup. Will that registry change make the difference for the XP machine to joi

[expert] Licq icons

2002-01-07 Thread Tom Badran
Im using the licq-gtk (gnome version) plugin for licq. However i cant change the icons, ive copied the icon files i want into /usr/share/licq/gtk/icons/ and in ~/.licq/icons which is in the options as the icon directory. Ive closed and restarted licq, making sure that there were no stray licq

Re: [expert] offset on system clock

2002-01-07 Thread Mark Chou
That thought had occurred to me earlier, so I check my BIOS time on every reboot, which is every ~10min. when tracking down this time issue. BIOS clock is correct local time evey reboot, but this timeshift still occurs. In addition, perhaps I didn't make my self clear, the time zone is off in th

Re: [expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:34, Allen May wrote: > I am used to using Mandrake 8.x. I just installed FreeBSD on a test machine > and find it less intuitive to use. Can someone explain the big difference > between Mandrake and FreeBSD? > > In Mandrake, the current running DAEMON's are in the init.d direc

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 09:46 AM 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Robert wrote: > > I have a couple of 8.1 Mandrake linux boxes which are currently networked > > client sever using DHCP and NFS. this topology is OK but what I would > prefer > > is a peer to peer net similar to a Windoze network where each machine > can a

Re: [expert] offset on system clock

2002-01-07 Thread Marc
Well although you don want to. NTP is the answer to all problems regarding time. It works perfect. On Saturday 05 January 2002 08:48 pm, you wrote: > I must be missing something obvious, but I'm at my wits end. > > My hardware clock (in BIOS) is set to local time. When system boots up, it >

Re: [expert] Config for ADSL and SNF 7.2

2002-01-07 Thread Marc
I use ADSL in Holland. I have only 1 ethernet card but I used the folowing configuration: eth0 ip adress=10.0.0.150, netmask=255.255.255.0 That is all I fille din, no gateways or DNS etc. Then I choose a (A)DSL modem setup during installation. Most important is that you fill in your DNS serve

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Marc
Unstable?? Are you kidding? My windows installation had all kinds of problem not recoqnicing hardware, conflicting irq etc etc. MDK 8.1 runs very smooth without any prblem at all. So MDK 8.1 is very stable. marc On Monday 07 January 2002 06:59 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor

Re: [expert] I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-07 Thread Marc
Yeah, I bought Matrox. Also was impressed by their website and thought that they had support for Linux. In practice it is only half as good as it seems to be. i.e. My G450 does not have tvout support in Linux. You only can find that out after surfing for hours on the internet, because they

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Davor Cengija
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case > fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been > solid. > Thanks for your reply (and thanks to Richard, as well). At first I thought it w

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Steven Spears
Currently running 8.1 on three desktops and one laptop. I've yet to have a problem with stability. One machine is a generic (everything built on board) pc that I use everday to work on Window machines (HEHE Using Linux to work on Windows), and it has never failed me. This machines runs for nine

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Hawkins
Maybe I missed the response, but is this a downloaded ISO image? If so, did you perform a checksum test? All it takes is one bad source file to ruin a good ISO. Ken Davor Cengija wrote: >On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a faili

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Thompson
> Randy, and et al, the owner of this tread is asking about a "peer to peer" > network, and makes no mention of having a Windoze box on that network. > Therefore, Samba is not an option. Samba is only for connectivity between > UNIX (Linux) and a machine running some version of a Windows' OS. NFS

Re: [expert] CD/RW Problem with MDK 8.1~~

2002-01-07 Thread Ric Tibbetts
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: > > nds wrote: > > > his cdrw uses an Adaptec 2930U and so you will need an aic7xxx driver > > to use this writer. Here are the links; > > Okay, thats the same exact SCSI adaptor I have. It works fine with Mandrake > 8.1 out of the box. I use a Plextor CDRW, however. I

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Davor Cengija
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Marc wrote: > Unstable?? Are you kidding? Why would I? Have other problems on my mind... > > My windows installation had all kinds of problem not recoqnicing hardware, > conflicting irq etc etc. MDK 8.1 runs very smooth without any prblem at all. > So MDK 8.1 is ve

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Tom Badran
> Uh, Craig, SAMBA will also work Linux to Linux the same as NFS will. > I discovered this while trying CorelLinux and now have it set up in > MDK 81 > I don't know what if any advantage there would be in using SAMBA but I like > to tinker .. True, and you can use it on reiserfs witho

Re: [expert] FTP clients

2002-01-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »nds« am 2002-01-07 um 03:06:17 -0600 : > I would like to know "expert" information like can you do a single line > command to execute more than one task at once like you can regularly in > linux? Example: Ah. Okay, ncftp isn't the way to go in this case, but you might want to give lf

Re: [expert] SFTP GUI clients ??????????????

2002-01-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Franki« am 2002-01-08 um 01:47:33 +0800 : > anyone know a sftp client for linux thats gui and supports drag and drop? I I *think* I heard gftp can do this. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-to

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 07 January 2002 16:52, you wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Marc wrote: > > Unstable?? Are you kidding? > > Why would I? Have other problems on my mind... > > > My windows installation had all kinds of problem not recoqnicing > > hardware, conflicting irq etc etc. MDK 8.1 runs very

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread kwan
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor Cengija wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case > > fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been > > solid. > > > > Thanks for your reply (and thanks

Re: [expert] more information was needed Samba and WinXP woes

2002-01-07 Thread Larry Sword
Todd Zashin wrote: > > Larry, > > Thanks again for your reply. I have seen that article and it is helpful > except for one caveat. We dont run a domain here and do not need Samba to > be a domain controller. I want the XP machine to join the workgroup. Will > that registry change make the di

[expert] Re: [Bastille-linux-discuss] re;iptables and iptunnels

2002-01-07 Thread Stilgherrian
Richard, On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:20:38PM +, richard wrote: > Thanks to everyone who helped with this, Peter, Stil & co. No probs. > a mixture of 3 problems all interacting > 1. the issue of bastille-netfilter that supplied with the mandrake 8.1 > distro is very long in the tooth 0.99-be

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 07 January 2002 04:52 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Marc wrote: > > Unstable?? Are you kidding? > > Why would I? Have other problems on my mind... > > > My windows installation had all kinds of problem not recoqnicing > > hardware, conflicting irq etc etc. MDK 8.1 runs ve

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 02:47 PM 1/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Uh, Craig, SAMBA will also work Linux to Linux the same as NFS will. >I discovered this while trying CorelLinux and now have it set up in >MDK 81 >I don't know what if any advantage there would be in using SAMBA but I like >to tinker .. >-- The que

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Felix Miata
J. Craig Woods wrote: > . . . . I would never recommend running > Samba unless you need to interface with a win32 system. This may sound a > bit fastidious to you but this is, after all, an "expert" list. Never is a pretty seriously limiting word. How do you interface Linux with an OS/2 system?

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Larry Sword
Felix Miata wrote: > > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > . . . . I would never recommend running > > Samba unless you need to interface with a win32 system. This may sound a > > bit fastidious to you but this is, after all, an "expert" list. > > Never is a pretty seriously limiting word. How do you i

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread tester
Marc wrote: > Unstable?? Are you kidding? > > My windows installation had all kinds of problem not recoqnicing hardware, > conflicting irq etc etc. MDK 8.1 runs very smooth without any prblem at all. > So MDK 8.1 is very stable. > > > marc > > > On Monday 07 January 2002 06:59 pm, you

Re: [expert] phpNuke

2002-01-07 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Monday 07 January 2002 13:29, you wrote: > Is there an interface for phpNuke and is so how in the world do ya get to > it? Using MDK 8.1 out of the box. Before you do anything, read /usr/share/doc/PHP-nuke-5.1/README.first Should be at http://localhost/nuke/ , and the admin page at http

[expert] nVidia nForce 420D chipset

2002-01-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Has anyone tried the nVidia nForce 420D chipset with GNU/Linux, and with Mandrake in particular? I am thinking of purchasing a new computer [before RAM prices rise too high :-) ], and the integrated solution offered by the nForce is tempting. Nvidia have GNU/Linux drivers on their web site, but it

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
I installed Mandrake 8.1 in about 45 minutes since it became available and if I wouldn't have moved this pass week it would have been up for over 3 months with out a hitch. I can't say the same about WinME. I spent 12 hours yesterday with my son-inlaw getting his system reinstalled because of

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Thompson
On Monday 07 January 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote: > At 02:47 PM 1/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >Uh, Craig, SAMBA will also work Linux to Linux the same as NFS will. > >I discovered this while trying CorelLinux and now have it set up > > in MDK 81 > >I don't know what if any advantage there would b

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Ashley Reynolds
Windows ME was truly Microsoft's *worst* operating system. Kindest Regards, Ashley (aka ze0). |--| | Ashley Reynolds (aka ze0)[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.botepidemic.com Ph: +61 404 140 163 | |

Re: [expert] Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Rusty, Thanks for your detail advice and time spent. At 07:56 AM 1/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: >None of these can be told by inspection of the box, eh? Maybe >the documentation will tell, maybe not. > >And, admittedly, its somewhat esoteric and not REALLY important >to most network setups that

Fwd: Re: [expert] phpNuke

2002-01-07 Thread Jason Pearce
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] phpNuke Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:09:00 +1100 From: Jason Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:29, you wrote: > Is there an interface for phpNuke and is so how in the world do ya get to > it? Usin

[expert] DHCP, AT&T and some strange access problems

2002-01-07 Thread Nathan A. Smith
Hi, I to am one of the suffers of the @home mess. It is causing me lots of undue stress. My specific problem is this: Anything that requires a persistant connection is being disconnected after a period of time (around 5 - 10 minutes). This includes ftp, chat sessions (instant messenger), and

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Leone
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 15:30, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > Randy, and et al, the owner of this tread is asking about a "peer to peer" > network, and makes no mention of having a Windoze box on that network. > Therefore, Samba is not an option. Samba is only for connectivity between > UNIX (Linux)

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Leone
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 16:52, Davor Cengija wrote: > > So, concensus would be that I have some hardware related > problems, which is quite unusual since Mdk 7.2 worked just > fine without any problem. Not necessarily PROBLEMS; just that Mdk 8.1 is more STRICT, and won't tolerat

[expert] xinetd

2002-01-07 Thread Lee Roberts
If I understand correctly, if you want services listed in xinetd.d to run under xinetd then you don't want services started at boot time? If so, then I need to go into MCC->System->Services and uncheck the boxes "On boot"? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread mike
One of the virtues of Linux over Windblows was that the hardware requiremtns were less stringent, no? mg On Monday 07 January 2002 22:37, Michael Leone wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 16:52, Davor Cengija wrote: > > So, concensus would be that I have some hardware related > > problems,

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Michael Leone
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:03, mike wrote: > One of the virtues of Linux over Windblows was that the hardware requiremtns > were less stringent, no? There's a difference between "less stringent" and "marginal". > > mg > > > On Monday 07 January 2002 22:37, Michael Leone wrote: > > On Mon, 200

Re: [expert] samba and SWAT and webmin and MCC [SOLVED]

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Nowack
After all that hoopla I went through trying to get samba set up via webmin or swat. [sigh] It turns out it was a freaking hardware failure. See, here's how it went. I had a video card that was failing in the server. I didn't know it was failing until it actually died and I couldn't load x anymore

[expert] What book would you recommend?

2002-01-07 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Whats a good book available for linux that will help me start writing programs "in c++" in the Linux API. I am a junior in college and I am focusing my studies into network security programming. I am having a hard time finding the the right book. This is what i am looking for in this book - I am

Re: [expert] What book would you recommend?

2002-01-07 Thread mike
Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours. Surprisingly concise. On Monday 07 January 2002 23:14, Roberto Armenteros wrote: > Whats a good book available for linux that will help > me start writing programs "in c++" in the Linux API. I > am a junior in college and I am focusing my studies > i

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread James Sparenberg
I can report two conditions I've seen 8.1 do these kinds of things. One like is said by Richard. The changing clock speeds which really isn't handled well by the linux kernel. According to an article I remember but can't find I disabled this feature in Bios on the laptop I was on and pf the

[expert] Boot hangs when trying to fee up memory

2002-01-07 Thread James Sparenberg
All, I've been handed a bit of a challenge. To get an old 486DX2 notebook with dual pcmcia cards to boot linux and serve as a gateway/router. I'm using a 2.2..19 kernel supposedly created for i386. However when booting it gets to the point Clearing unused kernel memory 72k and then hangs

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Robert
Thanks for the replies guys. Good to see such diverse solutions and comment. I will try setting the current client box up as another sever and exporting to the original server. I tried Samba back when I still used windoze but with little luck - I could see the shares but could not manipulate th

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread tester
James Sparenberg wrote: > I can report two conditions I've seen 8.1 do these kinds of things. > One like is said by Richard. The changing clock speeds which really > isn't handled well by the linux kernel. According to an article I > remember but can't find I disabled this feature in Bios on t

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