Re: [expert] Navigating info pages

2002-01-14 Thread Kenneth G. Kay
After typing "info", type "ctrl-h" or "?" and a scrollable list of commands will appear in the bottom window. The most important ones for your purposes are n (next node) p (previous node) and u (move up from this node). Ken On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone

[expert] Printer question.

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, The printer I got is Epson Stylus C60, and it is supported with CUPS+gimp-print-4.2.0 . If I run Printer from Control Center it doesn't list this printer. So I pull a gimp-print source code, compile it with cups ; but after that I can not see the entry in Printerdrake as well as access the

Re: [expert] oooops -OT-

2002-01-14 Thread Mark D'voo
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 07:48 am, you wrote: > not sure how about just getting back /usr/local/share dir > but the links below can help undeleting, not sure if its part of the > file system or the full file system, some of them are free to use, as > files are actually not delted, just that the

Re: [expert] Audacity

2002-01-14 Thread bascule
i use audacity - cooker rpm in a minor way, i like to rip favourite bits of dialogue from my videos and make mp3s from them, as in: "i am arthur, king of the britons - pull the other one!", you get the picture :-) audacity is nice for recording and editing the resultant wav files before convert

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Lee Roberts
At 04:55 PM 1/14/2002 -0800, Charlie Bebber wrote: > >Lee Roberts said: > >> There seems to be a lot of concern over security on wireless networks. >> WEP was suppose to encrypt wireless transmissions but it was quickly >> compromised. I don't know if a suitable, and secure, replacement for it >>

Re: [expert] [Postfix] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (help)

2002-01-14 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Arief Rakhmatsyah wrote: Well, I use Pine, Procmail, fetchmail and Postfix! On Pine, it's configured to use Postfix (which is configured to localhost)! I'll have it changed on this msg, just to try it out! (On Pine, I mean. When

Re: [expert] oooops

2002-01-14 Thread D. R. Evans
On 14 Jan 02, at 18:50, Randy Kramer wrote: > D. R. Evans wrote: > > I know that Civileme disagrees with me (he says to use frequently- > > backed-up CVS), but this is the One Good Thing about Windoze. It's > > called GoBack. > > And, it's built into Windows (since either Win2000 or the ME). Wo

Re: [expert] Audacity

2002-01-14 Thread Expert
I cannot for some reason, use it on Mandrake, it will not compile with any of its compilers. I use it on the RedHat side, I dual boot for this purpose, it is worth it to me, so I can use this great software, I use it to cut and edit my voice impressions, my latest being an imitation of Beavis and

Re: [expert] oooops -OT-

2002-01-14 Thread Syed Irfan
not sure how about just getting back /usr/local/share dir but the links below can help undeleting, not sure if its part of the file system or the full file system, some of them are free to use, as files are actually not delted, just that the inodes are marked for reuse by the file system check the

Re: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question SOLVED

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Kieu
> Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> grumbled this: > > Anyhow here is the link to the site I forgot to add > to the last email: > > http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/mandrake8/ Yeas I checked that site read info there, but no file to download ; When reading I found that may be the

[expert] Audacity

2002-01-14 Thread Jason Guidry
Sorry, I try to keep OT posts to under one per day... Would those of you you use audacity under linux (not necessarily mandrake) please send me your thoughts, concerns, etc? what do you use it for? Since my last article just surfaced on the linux.com main page, I thought it was time to do ano

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Charlie Bebber
Lee Roberts said: > There seems to be a lot of concern over security on wireless networks. > WEP was suppose to encrypt wireless transmissions but it was quickly > compromised. I don't know if a suitable, and secure, replacement for it > has been implemented yet. I've read about airsnort and it

Re: [expert] Seg. fault when mounting /mnt/cdrom

2002-01-14 Thread nds
Michael Leone wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 18:41, Noah Swint wrote: > >>I ran across the same problem. My audio CD's no longer mount nor are >>they automatically detected. Anything but audio cd's will mount. I >>guess audio cds aren't really iso9660's >> > > Exactly. You can't mount audi

Re: [expert] oooops -OT-

2002-01-14 Thread Jason Guidry
ok, all in good fun, but to the guy who nuked his /ect/whatever... d00d, U R so 31337 second: On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 17:50, Randy Kramer wrote: > D. R. Evans wrote: > > I know that Civileme disagrees with me (he says to use frequently- > > backed-up CVS), but this is the One Good Thing abou

Re: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Doe
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:26:11 -0200 "jose orlando t. ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> grumbled this: > And the line about "load GLX"??? I added this line and X wouldn't start. Its due to some links being wrong in the GLX package. I had to edit the GLX makefile and then it worked just fine. Want

Re: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Doe
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:14:31 +1100 (EST) Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> grumbled this: > --- "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > > > Just a little question. Did you modify the XFree86 > > config file. If > > Yes of course as I said, I did everything :-)

Re: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
And the line about "load GLX"??? Steve Kieu wrote: > --- "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > >> Just a little question. Did you modify the XFree86 >>config file. If >> > > Yes of course as I said, I did everything :-) in the > README file in this site. >

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Lee Roberts
At 12:07 PM 1/14/2002 -0800, Charlie Bebber wrote: > >I've been thinking about it for a while now but never had the desire (or >money) to delve too deeply into it. > >I was at Fry's the other day and almost bought one of the wireless access >points, however I thought I'd do some more research and

RE: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Kieu
--- "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > Just a little question. Did you modify the XFree86 > config file. If Yes of course as I said, I did everything :-) in the README file in this site. I changed nv to nvidia in config file (when start X I got a NVIDIA

[expert] Navigating info pages

2002-01-14 Thread pesarif
Hello, Does anyone know how to move back and foward in the "info" program for browsing info pages? Please do not suggest that I use pinfo or KDE to achieve the same thing - I want to know the "proper" and traditional way :) Thanks, pesarif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeS

[expert] Mandrake 8.1 experience

2002-01-14 Thread pesarif
Hello, I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on one of my test systems. It's almost as if the install program was written in perl because it exited (twice) abruptly with something like "Global destruction to unreferenced scalar" (or something like that). It happens if you try cancelling the printer

Re: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Doe
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:13:56 +1100 (EST) Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> grumbled this: Anyhow here is the link to the site I forgot to add to the last email: http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/mandrake8/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.man

Re: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Doe
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:13:56 +1100 (EST) Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> grumbled this: > At the moment 2D is good, using nvidia driver just all > other program using OpenGL even the screen saver > doesn;t work > > Thanks in advance I got my nvidia tnt2 card working with this site, I did not how

Re: [expert] oooops

2002-01-14 Thread Randy Kramer
D. R. Evans wrote: > I know that Civileme disagrees with me (he says to use frequently- > backed-up CVS), but this is the One Good Thing about Windoze. It's > called GoBack. And, it's built into Windows (since either Win2000 or the ME). Wonder how the inventors of GoBack are doing? (I suspect O

RE: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question Hi There,     Just a little question.  Did you modify the XFree86 config file.  If you haven't done that you are still using the original Linux drivers.  Check out www.mandrakeforum.org site or www.nvidia.com and look for documentation for the d

[expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi all, When installing mdk8.1 it suggests that I should use XFree 3.3.6 if I want 3 D accelation with this cards Riva TNT2, I did and some program (game) using OpenGL doesn't work, (some work!) Then I read from the web that nvidia has its own driver and works with 4.1.0 ; admit that XFree 4.1.x

Re: [expert] oooops

2002-01-14 Thread D. R. Evans
On 14 Jan 02, at 15:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > Mark D'voo wrote: > > > > > > I just deleted my /usr/local/share directory, how do I recover with > > > reiserfs > > > > Got a good backup? > > That's your only hope. > > I know that Civileme disag

Re: [expert] oooops

2002-01-14 Thread Mark D'voo
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 02:23 am, you wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > Mark D'voo wrote: > > > I just deleted my /usr/local/share directory, how do I recover with > > > reiserfs > > > > Got a good backup? > > That's your only hope. > > One other possible option is to use RP

Re: [expert] oooops

2002-01-14 Thread kwan
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Mark D'voo wrote: > > > > I just deleted my /usr/local/share directory, how do I recover with reiserfs > > Got a good backup? > That's your only hope. > One other possible option is to use RPM to replace the files that were lost. On my system there are o

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Dunno about the products; but I can say that so far, LinkSys has been totally non-responsive to my problems -- just a heads up on the vendor(s). FYI: My problems are outlined at http://pfortin.com/Linux/LinkSys Good luck, Pierre On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:07:00 -0800 (PST) "Charlie Bebber" <[EMAIL

Re: [expert] oooops

2002-01-14 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Mark D'voo wrote: > > I just deleted my /usr/local/share directory, how do I recover with reiserfs Got a good backup? That's your only hope. -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your

Re: [expert] iptables : SMTP reject relay

2002-01-14 Thread Ron Heron
Not sure I understand. He can send mail out, but he's getting a "rejected -relay not allowed" or something back from the destination? If so, check the postfix configuration. --- FL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > A friend of mine is trying to setup a MDK 8.0 as a ADSL gateway for his

[expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Charlie Bebber
I've been thinking about it for a while now but never had the desire (or money) to delve too deeply into it. I was at Fry's the other day and almost bought one of the wireless access points, however I thought I'd do some more research and see what people's opinions were about the whole wireless

[expert] Steps in system time at boot

2002-01-14 Thread Zsigmond, Attila
Hi! I use a mandrake 8.1 system with dial-up connection. I'm trying to synchronize my system time with chrony but it can't work correctly. It can't estimate the time well after booting. I realised that there is two step in the system time at boot and I think that affects to its accuracy. Here is a

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-14 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
Am Montag, 14. Januar 2002 20:07 schrieben Sie: Hi Alan, > What is to "make a mrproper". Some gcc-2.96 compiled kernels that > I made was totally unstable. after installing kernel sources go to /usr/src/linux, type in once make mrproper this removes some more files, which prevents you f

[expert] oooops

2002-01-14 Thread Mark D'voo
I just deleted my /usr/local/share directory, how do I recover with reiserfs ?? mark -- 1:38pm up 5:39, 3 users, load average: 2.41, 1.32, 1.11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RPM or source install

2002-01-14 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Pierre Fortin wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:11:55 -0800 > Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Do not update your kernel with the Update Utility! It will not work!!! > > > > I see this so often on this list. > > Me too... BUT (no, I don't do it)... B..U..T... WHY doesn't this g

Re: [expert] RPM or source install

2002-01-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:11:55 -0800 Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Do not update your kernel with the Update Utility! It will not work!!! > > I see this so often on this list. Me too... BUT (no, I don't do it)... B..U..T... WHY doesn't this get "fixed" in the right place..? Remo

Re: [expert] RPM or source install

2002-01-14 Thread Ric Tibbetts
"J. Craig Woods" wrote: > > At 10:16 AM 1/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >I would stick with the RPM's for enterprise class servers needing anything > >near 24/7. While I am not overly confident in Mandrake's update RPM's > >(almost toasted my machine when they forgetting to link stuff in the /b

Re: [expert] RPM or source install

2002-01-14 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 10:16 AM 1/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I would stick with the RPM's for enterprise class servers needing anything >near 24/7. While I am not overly confident in Mandrake's update RPM's >(almost toasted my machine when they forgetting to link stuff in the /boot >dir on a kernel update), this st

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-14 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Jürgen, Thank you for your information. Such bugs and my inexperience put me apart of these compilers. What is to "make a mrproper". Some gcc-2.96 compiled kernels that I made was totally unstable. On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Juergen Hammelmann wrote: > Am Montag, 14. Januar 2002

[expert] Mailq

2002-01-14 Thread Julio Rodriguez
How do I change the mailq directory??? iam using sendmail and I want that the mailq command list the queued mail on other directory... I guess that I could use 'sendmail -bp ' with another line where I can specify where to look for my queue, no?? txs Julio Rodríguez Administrador de Sistemas [

Re: [expert] RPM or source install

2002-01-14 Thread H. McM
I would definately concur with the following, however with our severs, we add one more step. We *always* download the rpms locally, and do rpm -U to apply any errata or security patches from the Mandrake website. H > > I would stick with the RPM's for enterprise class servers needing anythin

Re: [expert] RPM or source install

2002-01-14 Thread Scott
Matt: Thanks for the advice and I consider it good advice:) It does make more sense to do this as we will be building many servers. One of my con's on the source install row is no consistency if we compile the source on each machine. -Scott On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I

Re: [expert] RPM or source install

2002-01-14 Thread Matt . Carpenter
I would stick with the RPM's for enterprise class servers needing anything near 24/7. While I am not overly confident in Mandrake's update RPM's (almost toasted my machine when they forgetting to link stuff in the /boot dir on a kernel update), this still is the best way to go. The main reasons

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-14 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
Am Montag, 14. Januar 2002 17:40 schrieben Sie: > Use kgcc or kg++ to compile anything under MDK. > > gcc 2.96 is not ok and gcc 3.0 is still a mystery (at least to me) > Hi, whats your problem? for kernel/ kernel modules compiling I use gcc-2.96 from mdk distro with no problems, but first after

[expert] RPM or source install

2002-01-14 Thread Scott
Good news last week as our CEO has given the approval to Linux deployment! We are going to start replacing several NT servers in the next serveral months. I have a question concerning source or rpm install. I am making a migration plan now and one of the options is to install Apache from sou

[expert] Quota problems

2002-01-14 Thread Oliver Egginger
Hello, I'am using Mandrake 8.0 with a 2.4.8 linux kernel (no Mandrake kernel) and I have serval problems with quotas. At first I had to notice that the tools package for Mandrake 8.0 didn't created the needed files (quota.user or aquota.user). After installing another source version (3.03) the

[expert] iptables : SMTP reject relay

2002-01-14 Thread FL
Hi! A friend of mine is trying to setup a MDK 8.0 as a ADSL gateway for his local network. Everything is working well with the internet sharing connection wizard but his SMTP doesn't accept his connection. I have read in IPCHAINS How-To that I must use REJECT and not DENY in the rules. I have l

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-14 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Use kgcc or kg++ to compile anything under MDK. gcc 2.96 is not ok and gcc 3.0 is still a mystery (at least to me) On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Expert wrote: > I have a dualboot system, Mandrake on the first partition > because the e mail, web and ftp server both work > out of the box, RedHat does not

Re: [expert] Setting up a home network

2002-01-14 Thread Joseph Gardner
Ken Hawkins wrote: > > I know I'll take some flack over this onesince it doesn't use MDK > > The best luck I have had was to dig up a 486 (or if you like, early > pentium), get two older network cards (ones that have DOS software to > configure I/O and IRQ's), and go get Eigerstein > > htt

Re: [expert] Jetway 866AS Ultra mobo

2002-01-14 Thread Nick Thompson
Hmm, reply to self :-( I brought the bits below and it works a treat, LM8.1 detected and configured everything on it, though I'm not sure the on-board sound is too good (AC97). I'll play with that later. Otherwise it seems to be a good value (from £71 inc vat in UK) high performance board (Vi

Re: [expert] audacity

2002-01-14 Thread bascule
not being much of a compiliing man i 'cheated' and installled wxGTK6-2.2.7-13mdk from the same cooker distribution as was current at the time, at least i know i had to install one other package as well as audacity and a quick rpm -qa|grep wx gave me that answer! (it was a while ago) bascule O