Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Nelson Bartley
really easy, Maxtor has a tool on their website. You just have to find it in their mess. I wish I could be of more help, but I haven't had to use the utility in a year or so. NB On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 19:21, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Hi List, I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:21:45 -0500, daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be in need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could suggest that would help me accomplish this and bring the disk back from

Re: Re[4]: [expert] Booting

2002-02-04 Thread no ads
--- Onur Kucuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: na So I start the installation in expert update mode, and na then what? I can create a boot disk, but after that I na still have to correct the problem I have with booting. na Thanks for your help Actually I had suggested upgrade, because it

[expert] shutdowning machines with crossed NFS mounts

2002-02-04 Thread Pierre Astier
Hello, I am running 2 machines with crossed NFS mounts : machine A mounts disks of machine B and vice versa. The mounts use default nfs options. I could never find a clean way to shutdown the machines : the shutdown hangs when trying to umount all disks because some are still busy. The busy

Re: [expert] MySQL _answers_ needed

2002-02-04 Thread SA
On 2/3/02 2:25 PM, Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, after applying every fix for this i can find, i need an answer. i get the following when trying to connect to mysql Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Make sure that this is the correct

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
some time back i came across this utility from seagate called sgatfmt4 it is a dos based program but it could work with any disk, provided you entered some details of the hdd like no of cylinders etc. mario Mark Weaver wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Sesame Galeo wrote: At 19:21 2002-02-03

Re: [expert] SMP not Same

2002-02-04 Thread ed tharp
real short answer... NO.. On Sunday 03 February 2002 21:55, you wrote: I have motherboard Intel C-440GX+ with single Pentium Xeon 550 Mhz cache 512 (Katmai familiy). I want add 2nd processor. Can I mix processor with different type (e.g. Xeon 800 from Coppermine familiy with different cache

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Hi, It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on your disk at the factory when they did the factory low level format. The system board bioses I have seen do not call the proprietary

[expert] Connection to PHP has failed

2002-02-04 Thread Mike Rambo
I just installed the updated apache/perl/php packages on my mandrake 7.1 box. I followed the instructions on the support website including the edits to commonhttp.conf to enable php. The apache server itself works and I get the default index page distributed in the package by mandrake. When I

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Ken Thompson wrote: On Monday 04 February 2002 07:36 am, you wrote: Hi, It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on your disk at the factory when they did the factory

Re: [expert] docs for adding window managers to gdm

2002-02-04 Thread lawrence g
I was wondering where documentation could be found for configuring gdm. Specifically for adding window managers to the list that are available to log onto the system with. Thanks, Lawrence G. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] docs for adding window managers to gdm

2002-02-04 Thread Darren King
Dont know where the docs are but most of the config stuff is under /etc/X11. Darren On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 06:16, lawrence g wrote: I was wondering where documentation could be found for configuring gdm. Specifically for adding window managers to the list that are available to log onto the

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread James
Mark, Sorry to hear about the drive... got a couple of my own... However they can still be useful. I've found that when someone who considers themself knowledgable in computers comes over, I hand them one of the bad hdd's and accidently drop it in the process. The look on their face makes

[expert] Setting $MAIL to $HOME/mbox or $HOME/mail/mbox

2002-02-04 Thread Tim Holmes
After having a server die because of an old HDD, we've lost all the mail in the $MAIL. Which on the server is set to /var/mail/$USER. I was snooping around, and found this, in /etc/postfix/main.cf. # The mail_spool_directory parameter specifies the directory where # UNIX-style mailboxes are

[expert] Galeon upgrade

2002-02-04 Thread richard
Hi all recently upgraded galeon, which was resonably successful except I seem to have a missing file, but nor sure which one.. If I look at the following file with galeon there is a row of flags on the bottom rows, file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html I now have a row of blank icons. any

[expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin Fonner
Has anybody ever got around to writing a gui program to managing floppy images sort of like winimage. Thanks,Kevin Fonner[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread kwan
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote: Has anybody ever got around to writing a gui program to managing floppy images sort of like winimage. What does winimage do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Teng-Fong Seak
well...as it turns out after performing a LL format on this drive, a Maxtor 13.5 Gig, the best I could get out of it was 2GB's. I found the utility on Maxtor's website, which in itself I thought was amazing considering their site is ridiculous to navigate. Maybe try partition magic. It's

Re: [expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin Fonner
win image is a floppy iamge utility. You can read and write floppy images to and from floppys. It also allows you to open a floppy image and work with the files right on the image. dd does a great job of reading and writing however It doesn't loow me to quickly flip through the images to see

Re: [expert] SSH

2002-02-04 Thread Lee Roberts
I'm trying to log in to my linux box FROM the internet. SSH works fine within the LAN. It's looking like a config problem on my laptop because a couple of friends were able to get a login screen. At 10:41 PM 2/3/2002 -0800, James wrote: Just a question so I can understand. Are you trying to

[expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
I downloaded and installed the crossover plugin. The only problem I am having is no sound. The only plugin I installed was the Quicktime plugin. It starts OK but there is no sound whatsoever. Please don't tell me it wont play properly with the retarded arts? Please? praedor Want to buy

Re: [expert] Korn (Mail Monitor) Chime

2002-02-04 Thread Gerard Perreault
I also created a script which I have it run when I get mail. It resets the sound volumes before playing, just in case they were turned off, too low or too high. It also won't play any sounds after 10:00 PM (until 7:00 AM) so if I work at night it won't disturb anyone. Gerard Perreault [EMAIL

[expert] System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I have been having problems recently with kernel compilations and installations. Here are the steps I take: 1. Download the vanilla kernel source from a kernel.org mirror. 2. Extract it and patch it. 3. Run through the configuration process and edit the Makefile. 4. Run 'make dep make clean

[expert] Printer Issues.

2002-02-04 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've just upgraded to 8.1, and I'm having printing issues again. The only driver I could get to work for my setup (HP DeskJet 855c slung off the print server of my SMC Barricade 7004ABR) was the HP 600 driver labled as being from HP. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which package that came from,

Re: [expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:55:27 -0700, Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded and installed the crossover plugin. The only problem I am having is no sound. The only plugin I installed was the Quicktime plugin. It starts OK but there is no sound whatsoever. Please don't tell

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:07:02 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Mark, Sorry to hear about the drive... got a couple of my own... However they can still be useful. I've found that when someone who considers themself knowledgable in computers comes over,

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:21:21 -0800 (PST) Teng-Fong Seak [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: well...as it turns out after performing a LL format on this drive, a Maxtor 13.5 Gig, the best I could get out of it was 2GB's. I found the utility on Maxtor's website,

Re: [expert] gui floppy image program

2002-02-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:36:32 -0500 Kevin Fonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: win image is a floppy iamge utility. You can read and write floppy images to and from floppys. It also allows you to open a floppy image and work with the files right on the image. dd does a great job of reading and

Re: [expert] Codeweavers crossover plugin...how to get it working?

2002-02-04 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Monday 04 February 2002 18:55, you wrote: I downloaded and installed the crossover plugin. The only problem I am having is no sound. The only plugin I installed was the Quicktime plugin. It starts OK but there is no sound whatsoever. Please don't tell me it wont play properly with the

Re: [expert] System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Steve Kieu
5. Run 'make modules_install make install'. I nerver did that, I just 'make modules_install' and manually copy the bzImage file from arch/i386/boot to /boot and manually modify lilo.conf. always work :-) This process used to work perfectly, but now the process freezes my whole computer

[expert] VPN

2002-02-04 Thread Sesame Galeo
Hi All, For those who are setting up VPN, which software would you recommend to link travellers to an application running on MDK 8.1 and a samba server ? I already evaluated PPTPD. Thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Hello Skippi, looks like you have a sendmail problem. what happens is fetchmail after downloading the mail passes it on to an mda like sendmail. to check whether this is infact your problem try the using the --mda /bin/cat, --keep and the --fetchlimit 1 options. if you can then read your first

[expert] Re: System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I should add that I tried to run mkinitrd manually (after power-cycling from the system freeze) on the new kernel to get an initrd image. Needless to say, my system froze hard again. I then tried replacing some packages (like mkinitrd, initscripts and setup) from Cooker, but the problem persists.

Re: Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Skippi
Thanks Mario -- what you told me to do does in fact work. I can read the email in my terminal. Looks like the problem is my mda settings -- whatever the heck those are. Ok, next dumb question. Can you tell me how to use this sendmail thingy? Is this a deamon which is suppose to be running

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Hello Ken, ditto, Low level formats are not performed on modern IDE drives. Only the manafacturer can do this using specilized eqipment. What is now known as a low level format is simply over writing the data on the disk that to if you use destructive testing. i normally keep low level formats

[expert] Re: System freeze on kernel compilation -- Mozilla display problem

2002-02-04 Thread J. Grant
Hello, The clear line after X-UIDL seems to mean Mozilla can not identify the To: eg it thinks after X-UIDL is the Body of the email! has anyone else noticed this problem? I have recieved several like this lately. I have 0.97 installed JG - Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:58:20

[expert] spam email server when i post: putterman.com

2002-02-04 Thread J. Grant
Hello, on sending email to this list I get an automated email from this person below telling me not to send them spam. Does anyone else get this message? If so I would like to sugest that they are removed from this list and if anyone can send them a mail without it getting sent back let them

Re: [expert] System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Nguyen Hung Vu
Have you checked MUO site? We have to reconfigure system: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html#conf as well as lilo or grub http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html#lilo good luck Hung vu This process used to work perfectly, but now the process freezes

[expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Skippi
Howdy all. Here is the deal. I am currently doing email in Linux using Spruce that is working just fine. I want to migrate to Pygmy. Here is the rub. Pygmy needs an external program to fetch mail. So I have been trying to set up fetchmail, but it's not syncronizeing with the servers where

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
On February 4, 2002, skippi wrote: S Is this a deamon which is suppose to be running in the S background? Sendmail is not a daemon, but a program that can be invoked everytime you send the mail. It will take care of queueing and relaying the mail appropriately. What is appropriate depends

Re: [expert] Re: System freeze on kernel compilation -- Mozilla display problem

2002-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Hmmm... That's strange... I think the problem is on my end. I received a few automated This server does not accept mail from spammers! message bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (they actually went to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I own the domain) because of my recent posts to this

[expert] apm-scripts and X locking, bug in etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/suspend.d/5Xfree86?

2002-02-04 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I have worked on getting the X display to lock automatically when I use APM on my laptop. I used the standard scripts provided by the package apm-scripts. I run KDE and the locking is thus governed by the following part of the shell-script: w |tail +3 |awk '{print $1, $3}'|grep -v

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Skippi
Ok -- making progress I think. In the fetchmail configuration editor I found where it ask you to tell it the local delivery agent. So I put sendmail in there. Then when I test fetchmail it can not find sendmail. Turns out that I don't have access to sendmail as user, but it is in my path

Re: [expert] VPN

2002-02-04 Thread jarmo kettunen
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 06:22, you wrote: Hi All, For those who are setting up VPN, which software would you recommend to link travellers to an application running on MDK 8.1 and a samba server ? I already evaluated PPTPD. Thanks Richard Hi Richard There's not much to