Re: [expert] CD databases

2002-05-28 Thread Simon Naish
- Original Message - From: Richie de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 19:57:04 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] CD databases On May 27, 2002 09:19 am, Raider wrote: Hello! I have quite a large collection of CDs. And I really need a database

Re: [expert] dial-up err...dial-in server

2002-05-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Never mind found all I needed with 'mgetty' and the 'Callback mini howto' Sorry to waste bandwidth :op Harm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Can't locate module

2002-05-28 Thread nDiScReEt
On Monday 27 May 2002 12:12 am, Jason Guidry wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 23:01, nDiScReEt wrote: You have to run depmod before trying to load the module. /sbin/depmod -a That should be all that you need. Then you will be able to modprobe your special package. hehepackage...

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-28 Thread nDiScReEt
On Saturday 25 May 2002 11:25 pm, Femme wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 20:50:16 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your commonhttpd.conf file, (/etc/httpd/conf/ ) but usually the default allows you to follow symlinks (in the past) if not look for # Each directory to which Apache

Re: [expert] OT Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

2002-05-28 Thread J. Grant
Mandrake is a european distribution! Am I the only one who does not follow US political jokes? Perhaps you can change the names to Jacques Chiraque and Francoise Meteron next time? :) JG J. Craig Woods wrote: A little early morning humor (hey, the list had no traffic). A little old

Re: [expert] Something weird with RPM

2002-05-28 Thread Mark D. Weaver
James wrote: The last IT shop I was in had a sledge hammer on the wall (where it came from who knows.) The sign under it said. A Systems Administrators Last Resort. As a hardware tech my greatest fear was that someone would use it. James Ha!... James! that could

Re: [expert] Getting Nautilus out of my system

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
I love Mozilla but I hate Nautilus. I love Gnome but I hate Nautilus. So during MDK installation I simply did not select Galeon/Nautilus but select Mozilla and Gnome Midnight Commander, a efficient file manager. Moreover, I also use KDE. No problems at all. I couldn't agree with you more

Re: [expert] Getting Nautilus out of my system

2002-05-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 28 May 2002 09:12:19 -0300 (BRT) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love Mozilla but I hate Nautilus. I love Gnome but I hate Nautilus. So during MDK installation I simply did not select Galeon/Nautilus but select Mozilla and Gnome Midnight Commander, a

[expert] new user added to NIS/Yellow Page

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List, I am a really bad manager, I set a NIS server some time ago and now I had to add some new users but I completely forgot what I have to do to make them able to use the NIS terminals (run 'make' at /var/yp is not being enough :). Please can someone remind me this? And

Re: [expert] Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

2002-05-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 01:52, J. Craig Woods wrote: A little early morning humor (hey, the list had no traffic). A little old lady called 911. When the operator answered she yelled, Help! Send the police to my house right away! There's a damned republican on my front porch and he's

Re: [expert] OT Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

2002-05-28 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
This is getting more and more OT, bt since no one is seeming to complain... just tell me, which one is Bush and which one is Clinton? Wooky J. Grant wrote: Mandrake is a european distribution! Am I the only one who does not follow US political jokes? Perhaps you can change the names to

[expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Dodd, David J
I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux on the command line. thanks dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Getting Nautilus out of my system

2002-05-28 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
FemmeFatale wrote: ya I was looking for a WM. Enlightenment Some KDE ... unfortunately I found some Gnome-ish apps I enjoy, like Galeon. Wish I could find better alternatives but most of the other ones I am ignorant of or don't like. :) Still, its all reasonably fast, a few

Re: [expert] Getting Nautilus out of my system

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
:-) So God bless Gnome 2.0 On Tue, 28 May 2002, Charles A Edwards wrote: You will not like Gnome2 when it comes out. GMC will no longer exist and only nautilus will be available to draw the gnome desktop. Charles --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva

RE: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
I use the mv command: mv original file name new file name HTH David -Original Message- From: Dodd, David J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line? I was wondering the

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
You can use mv (move) or rename. eg: $ mv file1 file2 (change the file file1 to file2) $rename 1 2 file1 (Changes the 1 in file1 to 2, i.e, rename it ) See the manpages of both commands for more info. Wooky Dodd, David J wrote: I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Brian
On Tue, 28 May 2002 07:40:36 -0700 Dodd, David J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux on the command line. thanks dave If you're wanting to rename a file it's: mv oldfilename newfilename -- Brian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Home Page:

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Nicolas ROBAUX
Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 16:45, vous avez écrit : I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux on the command line. Hell... Even on a newbie mailing-list, there aren't such questions... Have you ever read a introduction to Linux doc ? N. Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] Icecast, Shoutcast

2002-05-28 Thread Marek
Hello, has anyone experience with setting up an Icecast server, as source for it I'm using Shoutcast, the problem is that I cannot make it streaming song titles, and another problem I have with it is setting up multiple mount points. If You can help, pls do so... Marc Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread mike
Amen, I couldn't agree more!!! Mike McNeese ( former complete newbie ) daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Nicolas ROBAUX wrote: Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 16:45, vous avez écrit : I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux on the command line. Hell...

RE: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Dodd, David J
yo sorry im at work right now and all we have are windoz boxes and this happened last night on a box at home. Next time I will use the man page, sorry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Simon Naish
- Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 22:43:26 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line? Amen, I couldn't agree more!!! Mike McNeese ( former complete newbie ) daRcmaTTeR wrote:

Re: [expert] OT Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

2002-05-28 Thread David Relson
At 10:42 AM 5/28/02, you wrote: This is getting more and more OT, bt since no one is seeming to complain... just tell me, which one is Bush and which one is Clinton? Wooky Bush is on the porch and Clinton has his pants around his knees. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-05-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
Until about a week-and-a-half ago, I had no problems receiving or posting messages to the list. Since then, I find I am no longer able to post, only receive. I cannot post to the group through the yahoo smtp server - it ONLY supports Netscape mail, eudora, and so forth, with authentication on

RE: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Hi David, Sometimes it's hard to use the man pages if you don't know what you don't know. $man fix my problem has never worked for me :) I would start with Google before anything else. As an example, typing in renaming files Linux command line brings you to a nice page that lists a ton of

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread jipe
On Tue, 28 May 2002 17:10:18 +0200 Nicolas ROBAUX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 16:45, vous avez écrit : I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux on the command line. Hell... Even on a newbie mailing-list, there aren't such questions... Have you

RE: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-05-28 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Praedor, Did Yahoo recently change something on their side? I was thinking about buying their POP/SMTP access but I won't if it doesn't support KMail anymore. I know they used to support KMail as a few months ago I set up Kmail to use their servers and it worked just fine. Then they started

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 4:10 pm, Nicolas ROBAUX wrote: Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 16:45, vous avez écrit : I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux on the command line. Hell... Even on a newbie mailing-list, there aren't such

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread kwan
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: As for the second, you have to know it exists: it's remarkable _how different_ the approach to learning how to use Linux is to someone who has come from a Windows variant. With Windows, for home use, the command line is deemphasised (almost to

[expert] mdk 8.0 crashes

2002-05-28 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi, have discovered a problem : have connected a DSL-Modem from Alcatel and have a running connection with pptp (pppoe is not possible, my provider have only this protocol) - but after about 24 hours the system is running slower and slower. and about 48 hours (a few hours less or more) I

Re: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-05-28 Thread Brian
Praedor Tempus said: Until about a week-and-a-half ago, I had no problems receiving or posting messages to the list. Since then, I find I am no longer able to post, only receive. I cannot post to the group through the yahoo smtp server - it ONLY supports Netscape mail, eudora, and so

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Randy Kramer
Alastair Scott wrote: Perhaps there should be an 'Conceptual Differences between Windows and Linux HOWTO' ... ? (If anyone else thinks it should exist I might have a shot at writing it; there's nothing like a difficult challenge ... !) Of course it should exist! I've made a few feeble

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 8:38 pm, kwan wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: As for the second, you have to know it exists: it's remarkable _how different_ the approach to learning how to use Linux is to someone who has come from a

[expert] rpcinfo - problems

2002-05-28 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi list, first at all - is the the right place for such problems like rpcinfo ? I have 2 mandrake - linuxboxes and 1 RH 7.1 Linuxbox. and one more winbox 98, between the the 2 mdk 8.0 and 8.1 I don`t have problems with nfs, but the RH-box as an NFS-Server answer the rpcinfo with this message :

Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1SNIPPED

2002-05-28 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
et wrote: as easy as it is to run memtest (it is on the cds, you need to make a bootable floppy, but this program will test your memory better than any other I know of,,, or search for memtestx86. at least you will be sure just let it run all the sests (takes a while) Can you

[expert] GTK Themes

2002-05-28 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can i manually set which gtk theme to use. I have gtk-engines and some themes installed, and i want to change the default, preferably for all users, to one of my themes. I dont however have gnome or sawfish installed, so there is no simple

Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1SNIPPED

2002-05-28 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Can you give me some hints about memtest? I still haven't checked my machine, but I ran memtest in another one and it was *really* slow. It took about twenty minutes to test 64 *kbytes*, if I am interpreting the results correctly; if that is the normal

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-28 Thread FemmeFatale
nDiScReEt wrote: Thx for all you guys' help! I hope to get this working soon...lord knows I've learned alot since I asked what I thought was a simple question. Heh, never underestimate the power of linux to make it complex fast :) Femme As far as the apache maintenance, that would

RE: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-05-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 13:02, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Praedor, Did Yahoo recently change something on their side? I was thinking about buying their POP/SMTP access but I won't if it doesn't support KMail anymore. Actually that's backwards. KMail no longer supports yahoo. What

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
If anything, this question has raised a nice discussion about newbies qustions. And that's a Good Thing (TM). My two cents: never be unpolite, answer it if you have the time to, if possible direct the newbie to the adequate place, and if it feels disgusting just ignore the question, someone

Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1

2002-05-28 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Stardate dff3c4b, Captain's Log. Update: memory sticks passed memtestx86 gladly. Still checking mem=nopentium option. Wooky -- -- shinjiteiru shinjirareru, korekara aruku kono michi wo! kimi ga iru yo, boku ga iru yo sore ijou nani mo iranai. umareta imi ,sagasu yori mo ima ikiteru koto

Re: [expert] rpcinfo - problems

2002-05-28 Thread J. Craig Woods
hans schneidhofer wrote: hi list, first at all - is the the right place for such problems like rpcinfo ? I have 2 mandrake - linuxboxes and 1 RH 7.1 Linuxbox. and one more winbox 98, between the the 2 mdk 8.0 and 8.1 I don`t have problems with nfs, but the RH-box as an NFS-Server

Re: [expert] 8.2 install fails on Shuttle FV25

2002-05-28 Thread Robert Barry
I found the solution on deja. To install 8.2 on the Shuttle FV25 you need to first disable IDE Prefech in the BIOS setup. After I did that 8.2 installed without any problems. I don't know why the IDE prefech setting was causing the install to lockup. Robert --- Robert Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Dodd, David J wrote: yo sorry im at work right now and all we have are windoz boxes and this happened last night on a box at home. Next time I will use the man page, sorry David, don't sweat it. from experience I can tell you that the man pages are and can be

Re: [expert] rpcinfo - problems

2002-05-28 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
J. Craig Woods wrote: Hell, are you joking? This is the place for ANY question. I am still waiting for the answer to why the system time is always wrong when I run uname -a. Might be your lucky day... the output of uname -a is not your system time, it's the time your current kernel was

Re: [expert] rpcinfo - problems

2002-05-28 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 11:17, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: J. Craig Woods wrote: Hell, are you joking? This is the place for ANY question. I am still waiting for the answer to why the system time is always wrong when I run uname -a. Might be your lucky day... the output of uname

Re: [expert] Getting Nautilus out of my system

2002-05-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 28 May 2002 08:16:04 -0400, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002 09:12:19 -0300 (BRT) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love Mozilla but I hate Nautilus. I love Gnome but I hate Nautilus. So during MDK installation I simply did not

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Simon Naish wrote: OK fair enough, but this is covered in the Mandrake Reference Manual, under the chapter heading:- Using The Command Line Section:- File Handling Utilities Command:- mv: Moving or Renaming Files. Maybe this information would have been

Re: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-05-28 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: Until about a week-and-a-half ago, I had no problems receiving or posting messages to the list. Since then, I find I am no longer able to post, only receive. I cannot post to the group through the yahoo smtp server - it ONLY supports Netscape

Re: [expert] rpcinfo - problems

2002-05-28 Thread J. Craig Woods
Brian Parish wrote: C'mon Craig, stop taunting the natives. Are you running a tally on how many bites you've had so far on this one? Brian Yep, and the number is growing. Even got a bite from civ. Now where did that guy with the rpcinfo results in german go? drjung -- J. Craig Woods

RE: [expert] Getting Nautilus out of my system

2002-05-28 Thread logic7
It's funny that this thread pops up. I just installed mdk 8.1 on a PPro180 machine and have been cursing the guys at Eazel for creating Nautilus. I refuse to run Gnome because of it's bloat. I've been running Enlightenment with XWC as my file manager (it's all I really need) all day on it and it

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Nicolas ROBAUX wrote: Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 16:45, vous avez écrit : I was wondering the proper way to change a file name in linux on the command line. Hell... Even on a newbie mailing-list, there aren't such questions... Have you ever read a introduction to

Re: [expert] Icecast, Shoutcast

2002-05-28 Thread dfox
I'm using Shoutcast, the problem is that I cannot make it streaming song titles, and another problem I have with it is setting up multiple mount points. I can't help with the first part as I haven't yet tried shoutcasting but you might find symlinks to be a possible solution to your multiple

Re: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-05-28 Thread James
On Tue, 28 May 2002 12:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus said: Until about a week-and-a-half ago, I had no problems receiving or posting messages to the list. Since then, I find I am no longer able to post, only receive. I cannot post to the group

Re: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-05-28 Thread James
On Tue, 28 May 2002 10:02:18 -0700 JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor, Did Yahoo recently change something on their side? I was thinking about buying their POP/SMTP access but I won't if it doesn't support KMail anymore. I know they used to support KMail as a few

Re: [expert] Icecast, Shoutcast

2002-05-28 Thread James
On Tue, 28 May 2002 20:43:45 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: I'm using Shoutcast, the problem is that I cannot make it streaming song titles, and another problem I have with it is setting up multiple mount points. I can't help with the first part as I haven't yet tried

Re: [expert] OT Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

2002-05-28 Thread James
On Tue, 28 May 2002 20:11:01 +0900 J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake is a european distribution! Am I the only one who does not follow US political jokes? Perhaps you can change the names to Jacques Chiraque and Francoise Meteron next time? :) JG J. Craig Woods wrote: A

Re: [expert] OT Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

2002-05-28 Thread Hoyt
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:43 am, James wrote:  Mandrake is a european distribution! That's a little narrow-minded. It's parent company is French, but it's distribution is world-wide. As a major Linux distro, I would not characterize it as European. Wasn't there a poll some time in the