Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Mathews
Yes, and so are the Promise controllers; however, the soft RAID is a better setup, and since either way you are using the CPU... Somewhere, I saw a comparison technically speaking between a Promise card and Linux Soft RAID. SoftRaid was far superior in all aspects. :) Finally, from what I unders

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 May 2002 6:18 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the > ones you can buy as add-in PCI cards? Tom's reviews never seem to > give them much attention. How do they perform? Do

Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
slocate (the s is for secure) Terry Tremaine wrote: > 1) Is there a reasonable substitute for "locate" other than "find"? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread James
On Wed, 15 May 2002 09:28:18 +0100 Alastair Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 15 May 2002 6:18 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the > > ones you can buy as add-i

Re: [expert] Zip FS corruption with MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Nicolas ROBAUX
Le Mercredi 15 Mai 2002 03:36, vous avez écrit : > > > Before I started toying with various combinations to try to figure out what > is to blame, I thought I would ask if anyone else has had this same > problem? > (Perhaps you have it and don't know it.) If so, please let me know. Since > I >

[expert] "Commercial Apps CD1" <- is this the correct name?

2002-05-15 Thread J. Grant
Hello, I'm interested to know why "Commerical Apps CD1" is called that? As in actual fact the entire GNU/Linux Madrake distribution is commercial. Well, there is nothing wrong with commercialising high quality Free (open source) software. In fact very glad Madrake is commericialising it. Perhaps

[expert] manual pages duplicate?

2002-05-15 Thread J. Grant
Did anyone else get the power pack with the reference manual? I feel so lucky, the there is a duplication of pages 45-76 right at the begining of it, then it starts straight off at page 13! perhaps someone from mdk might want to sugest that your publisher save their paper instead though.. JG

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-15 Thread Petar V.
Thanks to Steve, Dave and James... Conclusion: Opera staticly cmpiled also didn work, but I went back to Opera 5 and works great. Now, for sure, resolving the conflict with netscape 62 and Opera 6 would probably took too much time, so it'll be allright like this... till next issue of opera or ne

Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Damon Lynch
If you installed KDE or Gnome, look under the menu: Applications / File Tools. Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] setting path in mdk - (Qs. 4 MDK GURUs)

2002-05-15 Thread Gadir --
How to put a group of folders into my PATH environment LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. LD_LIBRARY_PATH TCL_LIBRARY environmental variable. these are needed to run my ns simulator... any idea... regards gadi _ Get your FREE

Re: [expert] IDE-SCSI problem

2002-05-15 Thread Daryl Johnson
I do believe you will find an rpm for mt on your cd. Install it and all will become magically available. regards Daryl n Tuesday 14 May 2002 14:10, you wrote: > Hi All, > > Following on from my problem with a HP Colorado IDE tape drive, I have > found the following message in the 'dmesg' outp

[expert] email virus scanner for Postfix

2002-05-15 Thread Bill
Is there a virus scanner like Mailscanner for postfix? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] manual pages duplicate?

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 18:28 +0900, J. Grant wrote: > Did anyone else get the power pack with the reference manual? > > I feel so lucky, the there is a duplication of pages 45-76 right at the > begining of it, then it starts straight off at page 13! Not in my reference manual (English version)

Re: [expert] Is overwriting /etc/group values expected behaviour in an update?

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Viron
That's expected, and the reason why groups defined by the administrator(s) typically start in the 500 range. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux At 06:29 PM 5/15/2002 +1200, you wrote: >Hi, > >It may have been the "setup" update from Mandrake Update t

Re: [expert] setting path in mdk - (Qs. 4 MDK GURUs)

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Viron
Define these in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux At 06:06 PM 5/15/2002 +0800, you wrote: > >How to put a group of folders into my > >PATH environment >LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. >LD_LIBRARY_PATH >TCL_LIBRARY

Re: [expert] setting path in mdk - (Qs. 4 MDK GURUs)

2002-05-15 Thread J. Grant
Something odd i noticed some PATH dirs are repeated, but i have only ever done commands like PATH=/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH I didnt get around to working out why it was happening JG Michael Viron wrote: > Define these in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Vir

[expert] PNG Icons wasn't displayed in KDE after mdk 8.2 update

2002-05-15 Thread Thierry TERRIER
Hi, I had uptated Mandrake 8.2 with the following files: aspell-da-1.4.21-1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-1.11-0.a20.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-cdda2wav-1.11-0.a20.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-devel-1.11-0.a20.1mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-dvdhack-1.11-0.a20.1mdk.i586.rpm cups-drivers-1.1-48.1mdk.i586.rpm drakxtools-1.1.7

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 10:26 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002 18:02:12 -0500, Tom Brinkman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > And ... I believe it's not quite time to upgrade an AMD > > system till the Thorobreds come out. > Are the Thoroughbreds really that good? From what I have

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > So you've got a mouse that communicates at 150 bytes/sec on a bus that > has been RL evaluated at 5.7 Megabytes/sec; that's 38,000 times more > bandwidth than the mouse requires. This is an invalid evaluation > however, because I still don't know how fast you can type. ;) B

Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Baker
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 02:31 am, you wrote: > slocate (the s is for secure) > > Terry Tremaine wrote: > > 1) Is there a reasonable substitute for "locate" other than "find"? WOW--I was wondering that myself! Thanks for asking (and answering) the question. Nick Want to buy

[expert] Writing DVD-R

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
Can I write DVD-R disks with mdk? does CD-record do this or do I need some other tool? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Writing DVD-R

2002-05-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 15 May 2002 15:21:39 +0100, Nick Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I write DVD-R disks with mdk? does CD-record do this or do I need some > other tool? Cdrecord will do it. Take a look at http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html for

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 15 May 2002 01:07:11 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 23:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > How is the CPU usage of USB compared to the 'legacy' ports (serial, > > parallel, PS/2, etc.)? The legacy ports were designed for older systems, so > > they cannot su

[expert] Adding screen savers in KDE

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
I have installed the xscreensaver and GL savers and would like to add them to my kde configuration. I got them going once before by running kappfinder, but this also changed my K-menu in a way that clashes with the default mdk layout. Can I add the screensavers without messing up the K-menu? T

[expert] suspicious .procmail!??!

2002-05-15 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Suddenly, my ~./procmail.rc became suspicius and and seems not to be working! Any ideias? Ricardo Castanho -- == Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user == Wa

Re: [expert] MDK 82 - localhost:631 not possible to connect

2002-05-15 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 15 May 2002 15:30:12 +0200 Pierfrancesco Tateo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > after installation of MDK 82, and configuration of the printer > > if I try to start the administration tool for printer : > > not possible to connect > > but the printer is installed correctly and do

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 01:18, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the ones you > can buy as add-in PCI cards? Don't know yet, you've got me started on CPU utilization numbers. ;) I'll give you the bean spill when I get thru distilling thi

Re: [expert] "Commercial Apps CD1" <- is this the correct name?

2002-05-15 Thread civileme
J. Grant wrote: > Hello, > I'm interested to know why "Commerical Apps CD1" is called that? As in > actual fact the entire GNU/Linux Madrake distribution is commercial. > Well, there is nothing wrong with commercialising high quality Free > (open source) software. In fact very glad Madrake is com

[expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze

2002-05-15 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
I need some help (again): We have encountered a total freeze while copying files from an SGI/IRIX system (using NFS) onto a local disk on a PC with an Elitegroup K7S6A/SiS745 MoBo, and more than 1Gb RAM, running the LM 8.2 enterprise kernel 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise. This was repeated many times on t

Re: [expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze

2002-05-15 Thread Nicolas ROBAUX
Le Mercredi 15 Mai 2002 19:10, vous avez écrit : > I need some help (again): > > We have encountered a total freeze while > copying files from an SGI/IRIX system > (using NFS) onto a local disk on a PC > with an Elitegroup K7S6A/SiS745 MoBo, > and more than 1Gb RAM, running the LM 8.2 > enterprise

[expert] 8.2 and IBM ThinkPad i1250

2002-05-15 Thread Alfredo Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I have now LM 8.1 PowerPack, and 8.2 DE. Is it now safe to use any of these on an IBM ThinkPad i1250? I still can not understand why I can use SuSE 7.2 and not LM 8.x. Thank you. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems)

[expert] file system on quantum snap servers

2002-05-15 Thread Jonathan I. Nori
Hi! Does anyone here happen to know which file system Quantum Snap servers use? We've got one in-house one of our users managed to delete a *very* important file, and because of a way the Snap server runs we didn't have a good backup on DLT, and so we're trying to run some linux utilities agai

[expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-15 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List, We are testing a parallel file system in our cluster. So I made a full copy of /home directory to this new FS. However I would like to be sure that all files copied are strictly identical, I mean, is there any command to compare all binary/ascii files between the original and i

Re: [expert] test message

2002-05-15 Thread Daryl Johnson
Rats! On Monday 13 May 2002 18:49, you wrote: > please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase > all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill your neigbor's > cat. -- To err is human, to purr feline. To err is human, two curs canine. To err is human, to moo

RE: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-15 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Isnt mirrordir, or copydir what you are after. File for file you can use diff. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Comparing folders/file

Re: [expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze

2002-05-15 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Actually it is on purpose that I did not mention VIA and the PCI latency problem in the subject line. I believe that we have two different problems (unfortunately). The K7S6A was a replacement for an Asus A7V266E with a VIA KT266A chipset. The reson was that we had similar lock-ups, often accompan

Re: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-15 Thread James T. Nelson III
'diff -qr olddir newdir' should do the trick Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: >Hi List, > > We are testing a parallel file system in our cluster. So I made a >full copy of /home directory to this new FS. However I would like to be >sure that all files copied are strictly identical, I me

[expert] gcc-colorgcc broken

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Brown
I am using mandrake 8.2 and have gcc 2.96-0.76mdk installed (the standard distribution version) and installed gcc-colorgcc 2.96-0.76mdk If I try to use gcc I get this error; # gcc Can't exec "/usr/bin/gcc-3.1": No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 230. open3: exe

Re: [expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze(news)

2002-05-15 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Have you seen this! [RHBA-2002:085-11] Kernel panic on SMP systems with ext3 file systems is now fixed. I am not sure if this problem is solved in the Mandrake kernel. -- Bjarne On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 21:58, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > Actually it is on purpose that I did not mention > VIA and the

Re: [expert] Error while compiling MDK8.2 kernel - loop.c

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 14 May 2002, Robert Goshko wrote: > > > I am in the need to recompile the kernel on my new Compaq 725 laptop to > > get the sound card to work (new version of the ac97_codec.c), but I'm > > getting an error when i compile the modules (mak

Re: [expert] suspicious .procmail!??!

2002-05-15 Thread David Guntner
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Suddenly, my ~./procmail.rc became suspicius and and seems not to be > working! > > Any ideias? For starters, the file name needs to be .procmailrc (with no dot between procmail and rc, but *with* the leading dot). For anything

[expert] errors on snf installation

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Kaleve
Hi, just tried to install Mandrake SNF 7.2. Got the following error message during installation: insmod'ing module via-rhine failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 486 what does this mean? Furthermore my NICs aren't recognized. These are two D-LINK DFE-530TX, which are listed in the d

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:23 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > > What's this attachment of your mail? > > > Looks like ist went through a StarOffice or Outlook wringer, look at the > > > '^M' signs at

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:23 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > > What's this attachment of your mail? > > > Looks like ist went through a StarOffice or Outlook wringer, look at the > > > '^M' signs at

Re: [expert] errors on snf installation

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 May 2002 10:40 pm, you wrote: > nsmod'ing module via-rhine failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm > line 486 > what does this mean? The via-rhine module is used for the DFE-530tx (i have the same card in a few machines). For some

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 22:59 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:23 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > > > > What's this attachment of your mail? > > > > Looks like ist went thr

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 10:52, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > I don't have any URLs; I'm just heard/read anecdotes about this. It just may be > that USB devices do more than their PS/2 and serial versions. For instance, I > read a review on the USB optical Intellimouse a few months ago. The reviewer >

Re: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-15 Thread James
You could dodiff -r dirctoryA directoryB > somefile.txt. I use this method to verify that multiple burns of a CD (test models for QA) are identical. It checks all the files on a box and lists either the difference if it's an ascii file or a message if the binaries are different. For a 4

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 15 May 2002 13:02:09 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 01:18, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > With regard to IDE controllers, I can tell you that a HPT37X IDE > controller is better than anything I've seen yet for IDE drives; > including the Promise options. I

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > yup! they shouldn't be "klinging-on" to the messages any more. > > What do you mean? The attachment is still there. > > wobo > I don't see them anywhere. they're gone on this end. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User #186492

Re: [expert]

2002-05-15 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 19:51, James wrote: > All, > >Just found this at > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=1332&PHPSESSID=df764edd16c >338af9b6960937c4bd1a7 > > It starts KDE in under 2 seconds on my box (1gig celeron) it has both > fast starts for kde and kde3 ... basically

Re: [expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-15 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:20, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > yup! they shouldn't be "klinging-on" to the messages any more. > > What do you mean? The attachment is still there. > > wobo What attachment? I haven't see any attachments in those messages Jarmo. Want to buy your Pack or Services fr

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-15 Thread dfox
> now THIS is the kind of info i like from an Open Source based community. ;o) thanks :) > by the way, my old Operating Systems book says something about Unix filesystems and >inodes, An inode contains information about where to find a file, like what blocks on the disk it occupies, and also t

Re: [expert]

2002-05-15 Thread James
Hadn't noticed that, I usually choose shutdown and then turn off the monitor and leave It's the startup that affects me. James On Thu, 16 May 2002 08:01:19 +0300 Jarmo Kettunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 May 2002 19:51, James wrote: > > All, > > > >Just found this at

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-15 Thread Damian G
> our limiter is the size of 'offset', and if the system can't seek > past a certain point because the value can't exceed 4G, then that i've been reading up on some *newer* bookz ;o) looks like you were right. it wasn't a file system limitation but a kernel one, however it was fixed some time a

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread James
On 15 May 2002 13:02:09 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 01:18, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the > > ones you can buy as add-in PCI cards? > > Don't know yet, you've got me started on CPU uti

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread James
The question I'd have on this thread is: For none high end applications is it worth it to be on the edge? 1.0 of anything is usually not good. I also think about things like nics (I've fried a few) etc. Whereas a Linksys or Netgear can be bought for 15 bucks in the US it scares me to think tha

Re: [expert] K7S6A/SiS745+2.4.18+HIGHMEM freeze(news)

2002-05-15 Thread tbsky
hi: i have same problem. 2.4.18 with serverworks and himem, the system hang. i report this several times. but no support or reply yet. > Have you seen this! > [RHBA-2002:085-11] Kernel panic on SMP systems with ext3 file systems > is now fixed. > I am not sure if this problem is solved