[expert-it] Server Apache e CGI in Perl

2002-02-12 Thread Pino
Ho installato da qualche tempo Mandraake 8.0, ho deciso di usarlo per testare in locale script in perl. Feci la prima prova con uno script simile (vedi sotto)qualche mese fa, senza avere nessun problema, facendo: http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi mi usciva la print nella pagina html.

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Ian Land
I'm using 8.2beta1 at the moment, although I had been using 8.1 and there wasn't any support for usb in that version either. I haven't seen any since 7.2. Rubbish. I have a USB scanner and a Palm m505 working fine under 8.1. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ianland.net/ They said I was

Re: [expert] XFS corruption due to usb mouse/eth0 crash

2002-02-12 Thread nds
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Oh, great subject. I have a Toshiba laptop. First, quite hard to install MDK 8.1. I still have many RPMs that fail to install, maybe a corrupted CD, I'll see later. But I have a Zip USB and I got suprised to see it working pretty well. Well,

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-12 Thread James
All, In the intrest of making wine work a little bit better I offer this config file tweak I did to the font's section. It seems to make it work faster/better ---snip--- [afmdirs] 1 = /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/fonts 2 = /usr/share/a2ps/afm 3 = /usr/share/enscript 4 =

[expert] rpm database missing most of my packages.

2002-02-12 Thread Franki
Hi all, my rpm database is missing most of the packages I have installed.. it says many packages are not installed when they are... I have ran rpm --rebuilddb many times and it still doesn't know whats going on.. I am going through the expert/upgrade now, having removed a great deal of stuff

Re: [expert] test - please ignore

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:58:14 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: I TOLD you to just ignore this message! but no!!! you had to open it, didn' you. Now you're in BIG trouble. this message had a virus attached to it that is not only going to delete the entire contents of

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Pen Gwynne
B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. In the Operating Sysytems 101 course I took back in the dark ages over 20 years ago it was pointed out that having an idle process eased the design of an OS. If you don't have an idle process then the you have to have an OS

Re: [expert] Cryptographic File Systems

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to find a Linux equivalent to the program PGPDisk under windows. I found TCFS (Transparent Cryptographic File System), which looks really good, but the last update to a beta that I see is almost a year old, and it is geared to the

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not a kernel expert, but I would suspect that kapm-idled fulfils the reuirement. Or perhaps there is yet another idle process buried in the kernel and kapm-idled has another purpose. Any kernel experts out there care to comment? It also

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
and also instead of just idles of nop statements, I believe that it uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room heater it means a drop of 2-4 degrees c over a light load. A kernel complile or long mp3 encode

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:31 am, you wrote: and also instead of just idles of nop statements, I believe that it uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Mike Rambo
daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:04:25 -0500 Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Mark Weaver wrote: Is there any? I can't get my visor working cause there doesn't happen to be anything to connect to. :( Mark What version of

Re: [expert] fetchmail / sendmail -- still no love, i got more work to do

2002-02-12 Thread Mike Leone
Mike Leone grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I just recently got my postfix server up and running, and am using ipopd (which is U of W POP3 server, I believe). All seems to work; even set it so my friend can relay throught it (but no one else). I'm going to be playing around with IMAP

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 07:32:37 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: AFAICS devfs seems to be the culprit behind most USB problems. Mandrake had even recommended disabling it when they released the first kernel update after 8.1 was released. devfs is

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Weaver
On 11 Feb 2002 20:24:56 -0700 Robert Goshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: No USB in 8.1? I have my Visor Prism working fine under 8.1, syncing with Evolution 1.0.2. The actual USB device does not appear unless the sync button is pressed. something else I

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:56:33 - Ian Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Sorry Mark, who's the newbie? The person who hasn't got usb working since 7.2 or me, who's had it working without any problems whatsoever since 7.2, and in all subsequent versions...

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Ian Land
I said all that just to make this one point clear. You haven't been here long enough nor gotten to know any of the regulars here well enough to be such a pain that will be tolerated. I've been on this list for about 2 years. I've been a programmer for 15 years and the technical director of

[expert] POP3 Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Bill
Hello All Hope everyones ready for Valentines Day :) Im having a really strange problem with my POP3 server (ipop3d) I have my mail server outside of my dsl router which uses NAT I have teo computers running behind the router ip's 192.168.1.5 and 192.168.1.4 1.4 used to be my workstation

Re: [expert] test - please ignore

2002-02-12 Thread Expert
Shyeah, and monkeys might fly outta my butt :) On Monday 11 February 2002 12:58 pm, so spoke Mark Weaver : I TOLD you to just ignore this message! but no!!! you had to open it, didn' you. Now you're in BIG trouble. this message had a virus attached to it that is not only going to delete the

Re: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Ken Thompson
BIG snip AFAICS devfs seems to be the culprit behind most USB problems. Mandrake had even recommended disabling it when they released the first kernel update after 8.1 was released. devfs is also why you don't see all the /dev links as you used to. The concept behind devfs says that those

RE: [expert] test - please ignore

2002-02-12 Thread Martin Ignacio Lange
NNN!! Ahh!! Shyeah, and monkeys might fly outta my butt :) On Monday 11 February 2002 12:58 pm, so spoke Mark Weaver : I TOLD you to just ignore this message! but no!!! you had to open it, didn' you. Now you're in

Re: [expert] POP3 Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Expert
I'm ready for anti-valentine's day or as I like to call it, Valenbane's day. http://www.kittypuss.org/anti-valentine.html Your welcome to opost on my message board as wel. On Tuesday 12 February 2002 10:39 am, Bill wrote: Hello All Hope everyones ready for Valentines Day :) Im having a

Re: [expert] test - please ignore

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:12:07 -0600 Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shyeah, and monkeys might fly outta my butt :) That's gotta hurt |8-) Mike -- The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, `What does woman want?' -- Sigmund Freud

Re: [expert] rtl8139 based network card

2002-02-12 Thread Norman
Larry Sword wrote: Lee Roberts wrote: start alias eth0 rtl8139 As I recall, the driver is 8139too.o, NOT rtl8139.o or rtl8139too.o You are correct. Should be: alias eth0 8139too Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587

Re: [expert] POP3 Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 18:39, Bill wrote: Hello All Hope everyones ready for Valentines Day :) Oh yes, I downloaded the latest stable version of the gimp tonight and there are all sorts of new goodies in the cooker for me and 'puter to try out on Thursday night. I might even surprise

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: No, as a matter of fact I was curious enough to track down some other threads of yours, and I saw that you were talking about being on a small net with your kids. That's kind of where I'm at now; except I've still got another windoze machine and haven't yet loaded LM81

Re: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:06:17 -0700 Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Lots of things are broken with devfs disabled, seems there are few if any links completed in /dev and I for one don't want to take time to restore them all. CD/RW works OK with

Re: [expert] test - please ignore

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:12:07 -0600 Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Shyeah, and monkeys might fly outta my butt :) O gawd! did you see that? did it hurt much!?! -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1

[expert] extenstion RENDER

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All X apps give me an extention RENDER missing on 0:0 error when started at the console. Im using xfree86 3.3.6 (4.1/2 gives me mouse problems) with a trident cyberblade. Is there a file missing/config option to fix this? Thanks - -- Tom Badran

[expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
What does it take to make this work? I have the latest plugin installed, it is properly associated with the proper suffixes, the netscrape plugin finder properly found it, it resides exactly where it is supposed to, yet most of the time that I open up a page that has shockwave garbage

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 06:52, Mark Weaver wrote: On 11 Feb 2002 20:24:56 -0700 Robert Goshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: No USB in 8.1? I have my Visor Prism working fine under 8.1, syncing with Evolution 1.0.2. The actual USB device does not appear

[expert] Mouse flicky wacky :-)

2002-02-12 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I dont know if some one has ; in one of my box, amd athlon Duron 900Mn, S3 savagepro video card (I have to use the latest savage_drv.o to work,not working by default in Mandrake 8.1) . The problem is with the mouse movement, If the setting by KDE default, (accel 2 threadshold 2) it is too

RE: [expert] extension RENDER

2002-02-12 Thread David Joham
render is the XFree 4.x extension for doing anti-aliased text, among other things. Support for this is built into the QT toolkit, and it gives you an error if it is not there. There's not harm in the error message and as a result of the extension not being there, QT just reverts back to the

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:38:19 - Ian Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: I said all that just to make this one point clear. You haven't been here long enough nor gotten to know any of the regulars here well enough to be such a pain that will be tolerated.

Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 11 Feb 2002 20:24:56 -0700 Robert Goshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 19:58, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:04:25 -0500 Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Mark Weaver wrote: Is

RE: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread David Joham
Does it work in Netscape? Does realplayer work in Konqueror? Do you have Lesstif installed? David -Original Message- From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:30 PM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance What does it

[expert] Installing LM8.0 over FAT32+NTFS drive

2002-02-12 Thread Jorge Giménez Mayorgas
Hi everyone. My problem is that I have an AMD 1800+ XP over a Asus A7V266-E with Promise ATA 100. WellI have installed w98 , w2k and after that want to install LM 8.0 on a 60 gbhdd. I know I should have installed w98, linux, make a linux boot disk and then install w2k but I don't have to

Re: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
The problem appears, for some reason, to be intermittent. I don't know if it works in netscape because I don't use/have it, just the directories so the plugins have a home. I do have lesstif installed. This is KDE 2.2.2 on Mandrake 8.1. praedor On Tuesday 12 February 2002 02:49 pm, David

Re: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread D. R. Evans
On 12 Feb 02, at 15:50, Praedor Tempus wrote: The problem appears, for some reason, to be intermittent. I don't know if it works in netscape because I don't use/have it, just the directories so the plugins have a home. I do have lesstif installed. This is KDE 2.2.2 on Mandrake 8.1.

Re: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 02:30 pm, you wrote: What does it take to make this work? I have the latest plugin installed, it is properly associated with the proper suffixes, the netscrape plugin finder properly found it, it resides exactly where it is supposed to, yet most of the time that I

[expert] harddrake doesn't start

2002-02-12 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan
I am using Mandrake 8.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100 (laptop) computer. From a terminal window, when I attempt to start harddrake I get the following error messages: can't open file '/dev/fd1 for reading' Generic VGA (or unknown SVGA) Can't open file '/proc/paraport/0/autoprobe' for

Re: [expert] Mouse flicky wacky :-)

2002-02-12 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 02:36 pm, you wrote: Hi, I dont know if some one has ; in one of my box, amd athlon Duron 900Mn, S3 savagepro video card (I have to use the latest savage_drv.o to work,not working by default in Mandrake 8.1) . The problem is with the mouse movement, If the

[expert] Mandrake User Club.

2002-02-12 Thread Dwaine Felch
I currently support Mandrake by purchasing their products I have the Power Packs 8.0 and 8.1. Some of you have joined the Mandrake club and I commend you for the donation made; as for benefits of the club what have you received? Any downloads that I don't have or books, etc. available? I've been

[expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Omnus Necromancy
Mandrake boasts an installation for powerpc but not only is it difficult to use it isn't even nearly as easy as its x86 counterpart! I have been trying over the last several days to get linux working on my new powerbook titanium g4 computer and have eventually concluded defeat. There is

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 05:56 pm, Omnus Necromancy wrote: Mandrake boasts an installation for powerpc but not only is it difficult to use it isn't even nearly as easy as its x86 counterpart! I have been trying over the last several days to get linux working on my new powerbook titanium

[expert] Internal Server and Firewall Conf

2002-02-12 Thread nds
I am trying to setup a network with the following configurations: pentium mmx 32mb floppy no harddrive linux router using coyotelinux3.1 (modified lrp (linux router project)) -Router/Server | w-(12.10.34.68) l-(192.168.1.1) |

Re: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:08 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: On 12 Feb 02, at 15:50, Praedor Tempus wrote: The problem appears, for some reason, to be intermittent. I don't know if it works in netscape because I don't use/have it, just the directories so the plugins have a home. I do have

[expert] Cut and Paste into AbiWord

2002-02-12 Thread Hoyt Duff
How do I get cut and paste from other desktop apps to work with AbiWord? In other words, If I want to cut a url from Konqueror or the text in an xterm and paste it an AbiWord document, how do I do it? Highlighted text will not paste into the document. I didn't see anything in the AbiWord docs

Re: [expert] extenstion RENDER

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:21:37 +, Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All X apps give me an extention RENDER missing on 0:0 error when started at the console. Im using xfree86 3.3.6 (4.1/2 gives me mouse problems) with a trident cyberblade. Is there a file missing/config option to fix

Re: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-12 Thread Adrien Guichard
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:08 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: Hmmm, while I'm here, can anyone explain why www.saltlake2002.com gives a blank screen in konqueror? I've run into that a couple of times -- looking in the page source code, I've found a trap that checks for a

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Terry Mathews
I much prefer LinuxPPC, as it's based more or less on RedHat. I think that MandrakePPC is designed more for us gearheads that was a heterogenous software environment, running Mandrake 8.0 on x86 and PPC... Although I much prefer Mac OS X with Xdarwin to any of the current LinuxPPC distros...

Re: [expert] Cryptographic File Systems

2002-02-12 Thread Mitch Thompson
Hi, Tom. Thanks for this info, however, the version of diskdrake that I have doesn't seem to show the encryption selection in options. I am running 8.2beta1, and the diskdrake tool is from drakxtools-newt-1.1.7-69mdk RPM. Which version are you using to get the encryption option? Would

Re: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-12 Thread jarmo kettunen
It turns out that even if I could figure out just how to disable devfs I'm not sure it would matter now at this point. The only thing keeping me from torching this system right now is the fact that it's beta software and beta by definition means it has bugs. I would like to be able to have