[expert] lost medusa-init script

2002-02-25 Thread Fridhar
I accidentally deleted medusa-init script in /etc/init.d/. Where can I find the script to load it again from my LM 8.1 CD's Sridhar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Xterm replacements with arbitrary keybinding configuration

2002-02-25 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
Which of the xterm replacements allow one to configure the keybindings arbitrarily, e.g., binding Ctrl+space to insert selection? Thanks Peter -- http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html ``When you have had all the experiences, met all the famous people, made some money, toured the world

Re: [expert]Connection Sharing

2002-02-25 Thread Francisco Suárez
First of all, thanks for your help But I have another question. Does it works using static IP's in the LAN (without dhcp)? From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Date: 23 Feb 2002 21:05:12 +1100 Jump into Control

Re: [expert] Boot Loader Solved but more problems, now kernel panic

2002-02-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:23:25 -0800 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Giménez Mayorgas wrote: Hi again. This is my lilo.conf I really don't see anything wrong with your lilo file, except the exceptional long timeout=5000 setting. Suggest you change to a more reasonable

Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?

2002-02-25 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Randall Jonasz wrote: Hi Ashley, Cool! Thanks for the info. Cheers, Randy Randy, You're most welcome! Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] No rpm database

2002-02-25 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 21:40, you wrote: Heres a FAQ for rebuilding an RPM database. http://hermes.afaa.asso.fr/users/pascal/linux/rpm-rebuilddb James On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:52:08 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Seems like I

Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, After adding the alias to modules.conf and running modprobe, I get the error ,can't locate module aha152x.The module does exist,so I guess the card is not being seen.You mentioned using a different card,is there a better one that will work with this scanner,same connectors and

[expert] Mandrake SNF

2002-02-25 Thread Belkie, Dan
Hey Guys! I loaded SNF on a new box this weekend. (very cool little util from what I can tell) On the SNF: I can ping www.yahoo.com, and it replies. (so I assume all is good with the internet connection on that box. On a client machine behind the firewall I set: IP: 192.168.1.9 NetMast:

Re: [expert] devfs, hdc=ide-scsi (Mdk 8.1) and the symbolic link /dev/cdrom

2002-02-25 Thread Larry Sword
Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: I have recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1 (better later than never). This has caused me problem with the handling of my CDROM drive and CD-writer on my computer; I have both, the CDROM is /dev/hdc and the CD-writer /dev/hdd. I prefer to have both drives being

Re: [expert] devfs, hdc=ide-scsi (Mdk 8.1) and the symbolic link /dev/cdrom

2002-02-25 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
On February 25, 2002, you wrote: LS Delete the links in /etc/dev and redo the links pointing to the LS correct /dev/cdroms/ I don't have a directory or a file named /etc/dev. Did you /dev? Anyways, it is impossible for me to delete the link: peter:/dev ls -la cdrom ; sudo rm cdrom ; ls

Re: [expert] Grammar checker

2002-02-25 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:57:37 +1000 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Does anyone know of a grammar checker for Linux? My boss. *grin* *sorry* I have never yet come across a grammar checker worth its salt. non-N American speakers of

Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Fargher
On Monday 25 February 2002 06:06, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, After adding the alias to modules.conf and running modprobe, I get the error ,can't locate module aha152x.The module does exist,so I guess the card is not being seen.You mentioned using a different card,is there a better one that

Re: [expert] devfs, hdc=ide-scsi (Mdk 8.1) and the symbolic link /dev/cdrom

2002-02-25 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
On February 25, 2002, Larry Sword wrote: LS Delete the links in /etc/dev and redo the links pointing to the LS correct /dev/cdroms/ PMN I don't have a directory or a file named /etc/dev. Did you /dev? LS No!, I don't, I did have a brain fart. OK. From what package should I get the

[expert] Mandrake 8.2 BETA3

2002-02-25 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hase anyone else had problems with disk 2 of 8.2 BETA3? I downloaded both images and the md5sum file and both images checked out against the file, so I burned them. But The second disk (with 30 seconds left and only 7 packages left to install) hangs. Just wanted to know If anyone else is

Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Pierre, Thanks for this (I'm going to put some of it on a WikiLearn page as a reminder to me), but there were some things I didn't understand in reading your pages. Questions embedded below and afterwards. http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/FightingSpam Pierre Fortin wrote: If you have

RE: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 BETA3

2002-02-25 Thread Aron Pilhofer
nope, worked for me just fine. BTW, Beta 3 picked up my Radeon 8500 right away, and set the right settings... first time that's happened yet since the release of the new XFree, so, this is very good news for Radeon owners who aren't wanting to farble around with Xfree to get 'drake working

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
I burnt the iso using the options stated in another e-mail but have blank discs! Hmm... I think I'll just boot into windows to burn them, because soon im sure beta 4 will come out, i would like to have tried beta 3 before then. Will work on this later. -Brandon On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 22:33,

[expert] Anyone know about SMTP after POP?

2002-02-25 Thread David Guntner
Hi, I'd like to be able to allow a friend of mine who has an account on my ML 8.1 machine to use my SMTP server for sending mail. I'm running Postfix and the POP3/IMAP4 server package that Mandrake supplies in an rpm. Obviously, I don't want to open my mail server up to wide-open relay. Has

[expert] Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa on FreeBSD?

2002-02-25 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Tristan Lanfrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is it possible to use Alsa drivers on FreeBSD ? If it's possible please could you tell me how to do that. Given that ALSA is the Advanced LINUX Sound Architecture I think you're on your own. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does

Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
The jumpers are set for io=0x340 irq=9. I dual boot win98se on this machine and it sets up ok, so the card works. I tried modprobe with the correct paramaters and it still won't load. I disabled devfs in case that was the problem but still no go. Does anyone know of a different card that

Re: [expert] Mandrake SNF

2002-02-25 Thread Bill Witherspoon
I tried SNF a couple of months ago as well. Had the exact same problem. Sorry to say that I (after 2 days) gave up. I managed to resolve the ping issue, and get client machines on the internet, but I couldn't get FTP, SMTP, or POP to go thru the firewall. If you're looking for a dead dog simple

[expert] Where is HDPARM??

2002-02-25 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Messing around with Mandrake 8.2 beta 2.. I still can't find hdparm. What package contains this program? Also, is this the appropriate place to submit bug reports? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:51:28 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre, Thanks for this (I'm going to put some of it on a WikiLearn page as a reminder to me), but there were some things I didn't understand in reading your pages. Questions embedded below and afterwards.

[expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Belkie, Dan
Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing through a Nic card within a 24 hr period? Thanks -- = Dan Belkie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-25 Thread Brian Schroeder
I was able to get an old Adaptec 1522 card and 2G SCSI disk a few years back, which I put into a pentium machine. I had all sorts of problems getting it to work properly. There seemed to be conflicts with the sound card and with the network card. None of the problems jumped out at me and said

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
Don't know but have you checked out ethereal? It looks like some sort of logging program. http://www.ethereal.com/ -Brandon On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 13:47, Belkie, Dan wrote: Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing through a Nic card within a 24 hr period?

Re: [expert] Anyone know about SMTP after POP?

2002-02-25 Thread Terry Mathews
My advice: Don't bother. If you must create an open authentication SMTP relay, the more modern way is SMTP auth.. But you have to compile your own version of Postfix or Sendmail. Terry Hi, I'd like to be able to allow a friend of mine who has an account on my ML 8.1 machine to use my SMTP

Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-25 Thread civileme
Brian Schroeder wrote: I was able to get an old Adaptec 1522 card and 2G SCSI disk a few years back, which I put into a pentium machine. I had all sorts of problems getting it to work properly. There seemed to be conflicts with the sound card and with the network card. None of the problems

Re: [expert] Anyone know about SMTP after POP?

2002-02-25 Thread David Guntner
Terry Mathews grabbed a keyboard and wrote: My advice: Don't bother. If you must create an open authentication SMTP relay, the more modern way is SMTP auth.. But you have to compile your own version of Postfix or Sendmail. Which I looked into, briefly, before deciding that it was way more

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Monday 25 February 2002 16:47, Belkie, Dan wrote: Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing through a Nic card within a 24 hr period? Thanks if you don't need to know until tomorrow, you could try: echo `grep eth0 /proc/net/dev | cut -c8-18`-`sleep 86400 ;

[expert] Test...

2002-02-25 Thread Craig Woods
just checking out a new mail server.. Thanks for your indulgence, patience, and fortitude. Dr John, The Night Tripper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Monday 25 February 2002 15:47, you wrote: Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing through a Nic card within a 24 hr period? Thanks Try MRTG (web), or iptraf (console). Both are in contribs. http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:47:06 -0700 Belkie, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing through a Nic card within a 24 hr period? Simple: ifconfig -- subtract count from 24 hours ago; repeat in 24 hours Complex: SNMP Pierre Want

[expert] printer setting ????

2002-02-25 Thread richard
Hi , after the old hp720c died, purchased a lexmark z53 as it has linux drivers..Apart from being a bit noisy works well on the winblows machine. on this machine runnning 8.1 with the drivers loaded, its not printing, even though its says it is. syslog is showing each time I attempt to print lp0:

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 25 Feb 2002 14:52:19 -0800 Brandon Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know but have you checked out ethereal? It looks like some sort of logging program. http://www.ethereal.com/ Nope! This is for packet sniffing. A very poor way to count bytes/packets... Pierre -Brandon On

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Terry Mathews
Run ifdown eth0 and iup eth0 at midnight one night, then run ifconfig the next and write down the transmitted and recieved numbers...? Terry Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing through a Nic card within a 24 hr period? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread Gary Bond
I had that problem as well. If you do a full install a special program is installed, I can't remember the name of it but it will burn iso's for you. I'm on my win98 side right now so I can't look it up but I'll try to get for you later tonite and post it for you. --- Brandon Dorman [EMAIL

Re: [expert]Connection Sharing

2002-02-25 Thread ken
On Monday 25 February 2002 03:10 am, you wrote: First of all, thanks for your help But I have another question. Does it works using static IP's in the LAN (without dhcp)? I'd like to know too. I set it up and promptly had my network (NFS Static IP's) ruined. Worse yet, the durn Inet sharing

[expert] [OT] Monitor tests

2002-02-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I just managed to acquire a second-hand Sun 21 monitor (which are rebadged Sony Trinitrons). I have a six-month warranty on the device, and I wanted to use that period to try to make sure that the monitor is is in good and working order and won't fall apart after the warranty has expired. Are

Re: [expert] Anyone know about SMTP after POP?

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Osten
Some where in the universe on Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:20:06 -0800 (PST) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which I looked into, briefly, before deciding that it was way more hassle to me than it's worth. Maybe they'll compile it into Postfix in the next release :-)

Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal

2002-02-25 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:12:41 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:16:46 -0500 gnerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with you, Hoyt, re: the 486 version of Mandrake. There's still a lot of legacy hardware out there that could use the

Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal

2002-02-25 Thread Hoyt
On Monday 25 February 2002 10:01 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:12:41 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:16:46 -0500 gnerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with you, Hoyt, re: the 486 version of Mandrake. There's still a

Re: [expert] Where is HDPARM??

2002-02-25 Thread Joseph Braddock
Should install automatically. You need to do an su before you can run it. On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:32:37 -0500 Bob Puff@NLE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Messing around with Mandrake 8.2 beta 2.. I still can't find hdparm. What package contains this program? Also, is this the

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Klaus Peter Elsner
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:47:06 -0700, Belkie, Dan wrote: -Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing -through a Nic card within a 24 hr period? - try ifconfig and grep out the RX and TX bytes in bracket are the amount in Mb so you mustn't calc it yourself. put it in

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
That'd be great. Well, I copied the mandrake cd1 file to windows to do it that way and the file is apparently corrupted. :-( But my experiences with people on this list have become enough to me deciding to buy 8.2 when it comes out. Or at least get a cd version off of cheapbytes or whatever.

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
Don't know but have you checked out ethereal? It looks like some sort of logging program. http://www.ethereal.com/ Nope! This is for packet sniffing. A very poor way to count bytes/packets... Yeah, I went into it after i made the post and discovered that. Thanks for the

Re: [expert] Where is HDPARM??

2002-02-25 Thread civileme
Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Hello, Messing around with Mandrake 8.2 beta 2.. I still can't find hdparm. What package contains this program? Also, is this the appropriate place to submit bug reports? Bob Want to buy your

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread salane
cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a14 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4804TE ' '2.6C' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2)

[expert] xmatrix

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Holt
Hello all, I've been trying to figure out how to change the color of the xscreensaver hack xmatrix. By defualt, it's green, but I want to be able to change the color to blue for example. Any ideas? thanks! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
[root@localhost Brandon]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-ROM SR-8584A' 'n13F' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'PHILIPS

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread Ron Stodden
Brandon Dorman wrote: That'd be great. Well, I copied the mandrake cd1 file to windows to do it that way and the file is apparently corrupted. Apparently? Do the md5 sumchecks match or not? see man md5sum If corrupted, the fix is easy and quick. Just download again on top of the

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread J. Craig Woods
Brandon Dorman wrote: [root@localhost Brandon]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-ROM SR-8584A' 'n13F' Removable CD-ROM

Re: [expert]Connection Sharing

2002-02-25 Thread Pierfrancesco Tateo
I'm working with Mandrake 8.1 and doing the setup from the desktop apparently works. After on the client I give the command : route add default gw my_ip_connected_pc netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 1 but I cannot surf the web on the client Thanks in advance Pierfrancesco Tateo Want to buy