[expert] 2 nic's in 1 machine

2002-03-12 Thread Darren King
OK...I am trying to get 2 network cards going in my Mandrake machine to share the cable connection. I pop the other NIC in, reboot and eth0 has stopped working! Both cards use the same module (8139too) so nothing new was needed. I can bring up the other card, eth1 no problem but eth0 is dead.

Re: [expert] 2 nic's in 1 machine

2002-03-12 Thread gianpaolo racca
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:45, Darren King wrote: Does anyone else have 2 NIC's working in their machine?  Have I missed a step? yes. I have three of them? can you tell us how did you configured your NIC's? with DrakNet or by hand? Does your logs show some error messages? bye -- Errare

Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux flavours

2002-03-12 Thread gianpaolo racca
On Sunday 10 March 2002 11:33, Hari Yellina wrote: Hi. I am just wondering , why u guys are using mandrake over other linux flavour . Can u guys tell me the advantages, Hardware detection, wich is the best you can find around there. I don't like other things, like some filesystem choices

Re: [expert] 2 nic's in 1 machine

2002-03-12 Thread Brian Parish
Having two working is no problem - it's a standard setup in find for a machine acting as a firewall. Sounds like an issue at the hardware level - interrupts and stuff like that. Have you tried Hardrake? It may shed some light. Brian On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:45, Darren King wrote: OK...I am

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup

2002-03-12 Thread Nick Thompson
That works better, thanks. With the extra output, I see that the third rule only relates to the 'lo' loopback interface, which makes sense. Kind of a flaw that iptables -L did not tell me this crucial bit of info. Thanks, Nick. Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: Nick Thompson wrote: Hello,

[expert] New Mozilla FTP Directory

2002-03-12 Thread Felix Miata
What is this for? ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.9/linux-xpi/ -- And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 KJV Team OS/2 **

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 01:12, James wrote: Mike had the same problem at first. Then about 2 weeks ago I ran /usr/local/HancomOffice2/bin/hcupdater . the updates I got made it a lot less likely to puke on complicated files. Not Perfect yet. But dang close. James

Re: [expert] Netscape Crash

2002-03-12 Thread Felix Miata
Asheesh Laroia wrote: Why on earth are you using *Netscape 4.x*? Can you throw Mozilla in there in its place? Not at bank sites that require IE or Netscape 4. -- And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

Re: [expert] 2 nic's in 1 machine

2002-03-12 Thread Darren King
Turned out to be an easy one! The second NIC card was becoming eth0 instead of eth1 so when the new card tried to dhcp, it failed. I just switched them in the PCI slots and it worked fine. Darren On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:50, gianpaolo racca wrote: On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:45, Darren King

[expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Baines, Dominic
Is there a way to do these with Bastille: 1. Port forward say ssh (22) to more than one host internally ? say something like: port 99922 to host 1:22 port 99822 to host 2:22 port 99722 to host 3:22 I can only seem to enable just single host port forwarding and it is a bit limiting. 2. Connect

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Richard Bown
lookin /sbin/bastille-netfilter there is an example of routing between different subnets on the internal interface. here's an example of mine. sl0 and tunl0 are both listed as internal interfaces in /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg. you can add dest port and source ports if reqiued as well

[expert] mail

2002-03-12 Thread Martin Ignacio Lange
I know that this may sound newbie... but I just give up. I have two machines, one using Mandrake 8.1 and Win Xp and the other is a server with Mandrake 8.1. I always log through win Xp to the linux server with Putty to perform some tasks. The thing is that yesterday I was trying to send an email

[expert] Re: The next step? Re: non-posting problem to Linux-Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Background: Mick cannot post to the linux-mandrake lists, although he can post and send email elsewhere. The last time I forwarded one of his messages to the list, Pierre Fortin noticed that one of the headers made it look like he was sending direcly from a dial up connection (not sure I

[expert] authentication and reverse dns lookups

2002-03-12 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi several daemons (mail, ssh, rsh...) take a very long time to authenticate you if the adreess you're connecting from adesn't have reverse dns. in some cases (ssh) it's a feature in the configuration file, but in other cases (imap, pop) there isn't a configuration file, so I guess I have to

Re: [expert] Re: The next step? Re: non-posting problem to Linux-Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Ian Land
hi Randy Mick needs to make sure he's sending through an SMTP server which has reverse DNS set up correctly (as Pierre pointed out, most well-run mail servers will reject requests that don't reverse properly, as this is very often a pointer to the contents being spam). Looks to me like he's

RE: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Baines, Dominic
Thanks Richard, ...I'd seen the example but that is not applicable for use with the external interface. The 192.168.100. subnet is behaind one firewall connected to the internet... the 192.168.200. subnet is behind another firewall somewhere else on the internet... -Original

Re: [expert] authentication and reverse dns lookups

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Viron
imap and pop are controlled via xinetd, so try looking in the /etc/xinetd.conf file. There is also a site at http://www.xinetd.org, which should provide you information on how to disable reverse lookups. Michael -- Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database Administrator / Web Statistician

Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linuxflavours

2002-03-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 23:28, Ken Thompson wrote: On Sunday 10 March 2002 06:14 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:16:20 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I am not. I am ALSO using Mandrake (8.0). All of my production stuff is there and I

Re: [expert] Updates

2002-03-12 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:22:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded all the updates (security and otherwise) in RPM form and burned them to CDROM. I was wondering if I could use the software updates app to update my installation of Mandrake 8.1 from that

Re: [expert] Updates

2002-03-12 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Hoyt wrote: On Monday 11 March 2002 03:43 pm, you wrote: But you do not need to do it that way. If you are fairly sure that you will have no unsatisfied depends and/or conflicts then: mount /mnt/cdrom and: cd /mnt/cdrom or the directory if you created such on the cdrom. Then do: rpm -Uvh

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:55:13 -0500 Baines, Dominic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Richard, ...I'd seen the example but that is not applicable for use with the external interface. The 192.168.100. subnet is behaind one firewall connected to the internet... the 192.168.200. subnet is

[expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Dave Salovesh
First, my apologies to any here who may have already heard this through other channels, and I also ask your forgiveness if I've missed a thread here where this is being discussed. And lastly, I hope you don't worry that it might not be most inappropriate for a part-time Mandrake nobody and

[expert] 486 parport or SLIP-NFS

2002-03-12 Thread Ashley Moore
hi, i have an old compaq 486DX-50Mhz, 8mb ram, 2 Gb HD that i want to load linux on. i downloaded and burned the iso image for mandrake 7.0 i486 from http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#486 the laptop does'nt have any cdrom drive or ethernet h/w. I have an external cdrom that connects to

Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linuxflavours

2002-03-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 05:33, Hari Yellina wrote: Hi. I am just wondering , why u guys are using mandrake over other linux flavour . Can u guys tell me the advantages, Thank you, Hari Yellina Hari, Back in the old days, there was Slackware. I loved the Slack experience; but

Re: [expert] How and where to get source RPM

2002-03-12 Thread Ashley Moore
you need to enter the path to hdlist file relative to '.../SRPMS' (the current directory) my guess is ../base/hdlist.cz hope this helps -- Ashley Moore. On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 17:43, Brad Felmey wrote: On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 19:42, newbie wrote: Also, I'm trying to setup a source (repository)

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just bought Hancom Office last night. Now I await its arrival in the mail. In the meantime, I downloaded the test drive Hancom Office 6.0 package and installed it. MUCH faster than Staroffice/Openoffice and other than the annoying letters in parentheses with every command/menu title, etc,

[expert] New Entries for MenuDrake?

2002-03-12 Thread Hoyt
Can MenuDrake accept new menu entries from the command line, as in fed from a script? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-12 Thread James
On 12 Mar 2002 04:51:30 -0500 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 01:12, James wrote: Mike had the same problem at first. Then about 2 weeks ago I ran /usr/local/HancomOffice2/bin/hcupdater . the updates I got made it a lot less likely to puke on

RE: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Baines, Dominic
Thanks Pierre... I'd originally had this working between two NAT'd networks with a firewall that basically sent all 'other network' traffic over to the other firewall, basically the routing tables on the subnet boxes used the local firewall as the default route and the other network subnet was

[expert] command for making a rpm

2002-03-12 Thread Harold Hartley
I can't quite remember the command, but I would like to take the source of a file and make it to a rpm.. Does anyone know what command I'm looking for.. I run Mandrake 8.1 Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 2 nic's in 1 machine

2002-03-12 Thread Brad Felmey
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 05:32, Darren King wrote: Turned out to be an easy one! The second NIC card was becoming eth0 instead of eth1 so when the new card tried to dhcp, it failed. I just switched them in the PCI slots and it worked fine. LOL I would have just switched the cables, but

[expert] no icons after upgrade to kde 2.2.2 - Urgent

2002-03-12 Thread Ashley Moore
hi, i just installed KDE 2.2.2 thru rpmdrake. it did complain about libpng3 conflicts. I clicked 'force'. i installed all in the root login from GNOME. now when i logged in normally with kde i cant see any icons on the task bar or menus. any idea where i should start looking for the problem?

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:53:41 -0500 Baines, Dominic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Pierre... I'd originally had this working between two NAT'd networks with a firewall that basically sent all 'other network' traffic over to the other firewall, basically the routing tables on the subnet

Re: [expert] 2 nic's in 1 machine

2002-03-12 Thread Alfredo C. Lopez
I remember that a long time ago I have the same problem. If I unplugged anyone they work. Both at the same time didn't. My trick was to copy the module of the card to a new file. You will have for example rtl1389 and rtl1389x in the /lib/modules/kernel dir. Make depmod -a . Now configure eth0

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-12 Thread J. Craig Woods
James wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 20:26, Pierre Fortin wrote: Ooops... forgot to add that I needed to hit Return after sending the GET; so the full instructions are: telnet server 80 GET http://some_other_server HTTP/1.0 Return Without the extra return, the

Re: [expert] 2 nic's in 1 machine

2002-03-12 Thread Darren King
I didn't know whether dhcp was looking for that particular card (mac address) or not so I switched the cards! Darren On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 03:59, Brad Felmey wrote: On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 05:32, Darren King wrote: Turned out to be an easy one! The second NIC card was becoming eth0

RE: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Richard Bown
Ok Dominic misunderstood tunnel it, insmod ipip, ifconfig tunl0 up, declare tunl0 to be a internal interface. put a host route in to the other fiewall, and viceversa route the subnet you want to the other host, and viceversa dont forget to DELETE the host route,, after all this time that

[expert] Mandrake 8.3 Beta3 and NFS

2002-03-12 Thread rodrigo
Dear Experts: I have installed 8.2 Beta3 (Pentium IV, 1.7GHz ...), but I have some problems when I try to reboot my computer... .. The only message that appear is unmounting NFS volumes [FAILED] or something like this, and then the computer freezes I don't have any clue about this,

Re: [expert] authentication and reverse dns lookups

2002-03-12 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:59:33AM -0600, Michael Viron wrote: imap and pop are controlled via xinetd, so try looking in the /etc/xinetd.conf file. There is also a site at http://www.xinetd.org, which should provide you information on how to disable reverse lookups. thanx, xinetd was a

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 08, 2002 at 12:52:19PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Now, why you don't want to use pam. The pam authentication method should be used if you *don't* use passwd/shadow authentication. For instance, you would use pam if you used LDAP to authenticate logins (may even work with

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Mar 10, 2002 at 11:14:36AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Now, for your case, you want to use pwcheck method. /usr/sbin/pwcheck is a daemon, run as root, that acts as a go-between between postfix Hm, isn't pwcheck the pre-1.5.27 daemon? I think I've read that now saslauthd should

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Mar 10, 2002 at 10:36:09AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Another thing that I find strange, was his /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf file. It contained lines which should be in /etc/pam.d/smtpd. When I had postfix+SMTP AUTH somewhat working, I had nothing but pwcheck_method in there - and

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Mar 10, 2002 at 10:02:35AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Another thing that I find strange, was his /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf file. It contained lines which should be in /etc/pam.d/smtpd. When I had postfix+SMTP AUTH somewhat working, I had nothing but pwcheck_method in there - and

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.3 Beta3 and NFS

2002-03-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:27:32 -0400 rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Experts: I have installed 8.2 Beta3 (Pentium IV, 1.7GHz ...), but I have some problems when I try to reboot my computer... .. The only message that appear is unmounting NFS volumes [FAILED] or something like this,

Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux flavours

2002-03-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Ashley Reynolds wrote: I couldn't agree more. Mandrake just feels good, after using it and then trying to use another distribution, for instance, Red Hat or Debian, I just don't feel as comfortable. Whilst Debian is what I run on most of my servers, it still takes far longer to configure

[expert] Point Boot from Floppy bootloader to my moded kernel

2002-03-12 Thread Heywood Jablowme
Hi, I installed Mandrake on my machine to boot from floppy. I can't figure out which bootloader it is - I thought it might be grub. Anyway, I'd like to boot to a different kernel I've been working on - but no info on how to do that. Any ideas for me? Thanks in advance. --

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:33:00 -0600 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 20:26, Pierre Fortin wrote: Ooops... forgot to add that I needed to hit Return after sending the GET; so the full instructions are: telnet server 80 GET

[expert] Wine still broken

2002-03-12 Thread Lorne Shantz
Okay, I REALLY REALLY want to get WINE working. Perhaps a wine guru can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what is wrong with the distro. First, it is complaining about the filesystem type. It doesn't matter that it is actually ext2, or reisser (which it is), so why is it complaining? Second,

[expert] Would you pay $5 to rescue Mandrake?

2002-03-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
If any of you guys like the Mandrake distro, you ought to check out this story on The Register: See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24395.html I've decided to subscribe. Text from article pasted here: Would you pay $5 to

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Holt
1:24am... Sridhar Dhanapalan ran for the door shrieking: Yeah, I've been playing with the different filters, and the gimp does a lot, I was just looking for something a little bit more automated - does that make sense? No not really, best thing is learn how to use the application.

Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux flavours

2002-03-12 Thread Gadir --
Hi, you mentioned something about hardware detection could you tell more about this. Actually, I can not use my sound card , and my vga is not functioning properly since I installed MDK ... I am a new bie and i guess it might be due to my lack of experience... do you have any tips

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup

2002-03-12 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:55:10 + Nick Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: That works better, thanks. With the extra output, I see that the third rule only relates to the 'lo' loopback interface, which makes sense. Kind of a flaw that iptables -L did not

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 10:55, Dave Salovesh wrote: First, my apologies to any here who may have already heard this through other channels, and I also ask your forgiveness if I've missed a thread here where this is being discussed. And lastly, I hope you don't worry that it might not be most

[expert] connection share MDK 8.1 PROSUITE EDITION - MDK8.2

2002-03-12 Thread Pierfrancesco Tateo
Hi, everyone I'm testing MDK8.1 PROSUITE EDITION and MDK8.2 beta3 with to different computer : athlon 1 GHz, Pentium 233 but same results. 3Com Ethernet card, ISDN, 1) I install Mandrake and configure ethernet and ISDN selecting package : internet, configuration,

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Lorne Shantz
Well said. I have made my contribution to help. I figure I've gotten lots of fun from this version. Now what really makes me crazy is after helping them out I would at least like to be able to leave Mandrake a test report. The web site says I need to give them more money to do that!?!?!? Am I

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Osten
Some where in the universe on Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:26:54 -0700 Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well said. I have made my contribution to help. I figure I've gotten lots of fun from this version. Now what really makes me crazy is after helping them out I would at least like to be able to

Re: [expert] Wine still broken

2002-03-12 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:59, Lorne Shantz wrote: Okay, I REALLY REALLY want to get WINE working. Perhaps a wine guru can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what is wrong with the distro. If it is the wine that came with 8.1, I had some problems with that package, solved most of them with a

Re: [expert] I have no CD mount entry on my desktop

2002-03-12 Thread Gary Bond
Did the trick. Thanks Brian --- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just right click on the desktop and select Create new... then CDROM device. Brian On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 10:19, Gary Bond wrote: How can I get the CD mounting icon/utility on to my desktop? I had reformat the

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-12 Thread James
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:42:22 -0500 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:33:00 -0600 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 20:26, Pierre Fortin wrote: Ooops... forgot to add that I needed to hit Return after sending

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 21:26, Lorne Shantz wrote: Well said. I have made my contribution to help. I figure I've gotten lots of fun from this version. Now what really makes me crazy is after helping them out I would at least like to be able to leave Mandrake a test report. The web site says I

Re: [expert] command for making a rpm

2002-03-12 Thread J. Grant
I don't know if there is a better way to do this? i got this from the dante readme rpm files can be generated directly from the tar.gz files. Use the command 'rpm -ta dante-version.tar.gz' to build all rpm files. Harold Hartley wrote: I can't quite remember the command, but I would like to

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:07:54 -0500, Michael Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some where in the universe on Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:26:54 -0700 Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well said. I have made my contribution to help. I figure I've gotten lots of fun from this version. Now what

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread J. Grant
Maybe I missed this one, what did CEO Henri Poole do that was bad for MandrakeSoft? JG I don't know one pure GNU/Linux company that can truthfully claim to be operating within their means. Even Red Hat, which is probably the most viable company right now, is still indebted to venture

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread James
On this note a comment if I may... I've seen a lot of talk about free as in beer. Well don't know where you come from but in my neck of the woods beer that is free today requires that I buy a round later. In my business I'm trying to Sell software management. To many of the VAR's (Value

Re: [expert] no icons after upgrade to kde 2.2.2 - Urgent

2002-03-12 Thread James
On 12 Mar 2002 10:31:23 -0800 Ashley Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i just installed KDE 2.2.2 thru rpmdrake. it did complain about libpng3 conflicts. I clicked 'force'. i installed all in the root login from GNOME. now when i logged in normally with kde i cant see any icons on

[expert] Curious Dmesg line.

2002-03-12 Thread James
All, I'm getting the following line in dmesg EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Now the reason I'm curious is because all of my partitions (except swap) are reiserfs. Any thoughts? No sweat the box works... just curious. James Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Would you pay $5 to rescue Mandrake?

2002-03-12 Thread Larry Blodgett
I have already subscribed and I am waiting for all the benefit they have described. I sure hope they actually accomplish some of the things they promise. If any of you guys like the Mandrake distro, you ought to check out this story on The Register: See:

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:21:46 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre, I never doubted you. Just wondering how it was supposed to work when it's bad that is. To clear up turning off proxy, are you refering to removing the following line from httpd.conf? [snip] Yes; turned

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
IIRC, he tried to expand Mandrakesoft into areas like e-learning and support, and this came at the expense of their core GNU/Linux distribution business. Since Mandrakesoft was (and still is) still a small, heavily indebted and unprofitable company, its first objective should have been to reach

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Darren King
Well maybe, just maybe for once a company can put it's employees before it's shareholders. One of the big reasons I use linux is that it's free. Darren I don't know one pure GNU/Linux company that can truthfully claim to be operating within their means. Even Red Hat, which is probably

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-12 Thread Darren King
There seems to be a movement to guilt linux users into paying for linux these days since it's so good but we didn't buy it. If I wanted to pay for an OS, I would. I don't so I use linux. Linux vendors like Mandrake should not have tried to become profitable corporations by selling a product

Re: [expert] Would you pay $5 to rescue Mandrake?

2002-03-12 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 01:04 am, you wrote: I have already subscribed and I am waiting for all the benefit they have described. I sure hope they actually accomplish some of the things they promise. If any of you guys like the Mandrake distro, you ought to check out this story on The

[expert] Palp M500

2002-03-12 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Has anyone had any luck getting a Palm Pilot to work? I have a M500 with a USB cradle. Ther USB is recognized on my machine because I have a printer working on one of the two ports. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Jonathan Dlouhy Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-12 Thread David Guntner
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sun Mar 10, 2002 at 10:02:35AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: I don't know why the login failed (feel free to give me pointers as to what I'm doing wrong...), but at least the thing is giving me the opportunity to try, which is better than