Re: [expert] skipping login

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Chavdar Videff wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:10:05AM +0300 : > I need to be able to login directly in an account (not in KDE - I know > there is an option), so that scripts I write in rc get executed without > asking me for UID and password and right after boot a window manager and Modify /

[expert] skipping login

2002-06-23 Thread Chavdar Videff
Dear Sirs, I am testing some functionality and I have got to find out is it possible and if possible how to skip the login: prompt. What do I mean? I need to be able to login directly in an account (not in KDE - I know there is an option), so that scripts I write in rc get executed without ask

[expert] NIS on Linux

2002-06-23 Thread Srinivasa Raghavan
Hello All, I've recently installed Linux on my system and now I want to enable NIS login through this. I went through the linux-nis.org -HOWTO to enable NIS. I am mentioning the steps followed during the process. 1) Created yp.conf file with the DNS server name and ip address 2) checked domain

Re: [expert] Networking resources

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 00:34:17 -0400 tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > Why would anybody use a $40 hub when an $800 switch will do. Actually I've got a 5 port D-Link switched hub model DSS-5+ (yes it is switched I've got 1 10mbps box and 2 100mpbs boxes connected all the t

Re: [expert] Networking resources

2002-06-23 Thread tarvid
Why would anybody use a $40 hub when an $800 switch will do. I use a managed switch, I have 20 devices on the LAN, but I keep a cheap hub handy for times I need to sniff. Jim Tarvid On Monday 24 June 2002 12:06 am, you wrote: > Jason Guidry wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:55:49PM -0500 : > >

Re: [expert] what to do when "Socket in use"?

2002-06-23 Thread Curtis H
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 16:54, Jeremy Mereness wrote: > I'm trying to print to a Windows printer over SAMBA on Mandrake 8.2. > > When I add the device, the first notable error in the CUPS error_log is > > LoadDevices: Added device "smb"... > StartListening: NumListeners=3 > StartListening: a

Re: [expert] Networking resources

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Jason Guidry wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:55:49PM -0500 : > so i need a NON COMMERCIAL site that is non-windowcentric to help decide > on a hub or switch. what type of either, and maybe some other details No need for a site. Get a switch. Don't even give a hub a portion of the thinking proc

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:29:42 -0400 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Todd Lyons wrote: > | James wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:43:38PM -0700 : > | > |> Where I don't dispute the intent I'm having fits with the

[expert] Networking resources

2002-06-23 Thread Jason Guidry
so i need a NON COMMERCIAL site that is non-windowcentric to help decide on a hub or switch. what type of either, and maybe some other details down the road. I'd really rather get a website than handholding, but here's what I had in mind if it helps: OK, i'm inheriting an old pentium system (100

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:38:41 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > James wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:04:16PM -0700 : > > Oh the wording is mine... it goes to runlevel 5 supposedly. But X > > etc cannot start. NO error messages just a hang. Leaving the >

[expert] what to do when "Socket in use"?

2002-06-23 Thread Jeremy Mereness
I'm trying to print to a Windows printer over SAMBA on Mandrake 8.2. When I add the device, the first notable error in the CUPS error_log is LoadDevices: Added device "smb"... StartListening: NumListeners=3 StartListening: address=7f01 port=631 Unable to bind to socket - Address alre

Re: [expert] note to anyone update apache to 1.3.23-4 with updaterobot

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin wrote: | I just updated apache to 1.3.23-4 with update robot. The update went | fine, however, when httpd restarted, apache wasn't accepting any | request. | | If anyone run into the same problem, stop your httpd and run "ps -ax | | grep httpd",

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Lyons wrote: | daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:16:58PM -0400 : | |>It's really quite simple. Open Linuxconf->Networking->Host name and IP | | | I usually recommend not to use linuxconf except as a last resort. It | does some things t

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Badran wrote: | On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:29 am, Damian G wrote: | |>however, i don't find anywhere ( not in the OpenOffice frontend |>nor in Webmin interface to databases ) any info about setting |>foreign keys? i'm beginning to wonder do these e

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
James wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:04:16PM -0700 : > Oh the wording is mine... it goes to runlevel 5 supposedly. But X etc > cannot start. NO error messages just a hang. Leaving the box alone > for an hour results in a box that cannot be ssh'd into and is totally > frozen. No error mes

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Lyons wrote: | James wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:43:38PM -0700 : | |> Where I don't dispute the intent I'm having fits with the results. |>Oh and for my camera and my usb printer. They haven't changed |>functionality since I got rid of de

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:16:58PM -0400 : > > It's really quite simple. Open Linuxconf->Networking->Host name and IP I usually recommend not to use linuxconf except as a last resort. It does some things to the system in a not friendly way and has left a bad taste in my mouth.

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread James
Oh the wording is mine... it goes to runlevel 5 supposedly. But X etc cannot start. NO error messages just a hang. Leaving the box alone for an hour results in a box that cannot be ssh'd into and is totally frozen. No error messages. No log records it seems that X and Linux think they are

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Praedor Tempus wrote: > OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default > localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the manpage for > hostname, it mentions: /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/hostname, and > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as where/how hostname is set. Uh-uh! Does not doe

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread civileme
James wrote: >On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:40:34 -0800 >civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > >>James wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:19:23 -0400 >>>Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority >>> It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks.

Re: [expert] kernel compile-errors last one .

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Jerry wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:24:58AM + : > Below are the error's I got when doing "make bzImage" I had no support for i2c >enabled durring make xconfig... is it telling me it's required for this driver? >also.. got an error1 on kallsyms (i'm guessing because it couldn't compile t

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
James wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:32:14PM -0700 : > > Yep first thing I did.. telinit 3 . cannot return to runlevel 5 > telinit 1 cannot return to run level 5 .. reboot. What do you mean "cannot return to runlevel 5"? That's an error message I've never seen before. Same thing hap

Re: [expert] question recompiling kernel

2002-06-23 Thread ai4a
jerry wrote: > > OK, using dist Mandrake 8.2 kernel-source-2.4.18-6mdk.i586 (from the rpm on dist cd) > AND Athlon thunderbird cpu, ASUS VIA/PROMISE motherboard (2 built-in usb, serial, >agp, pci cards, p/s2 mouse, no ISA slots) agp voodoo3 videocard, dlink usb card >(bought seperate.. going t

[expert] kernel compile-errors last one .

2002-06-23 Thread Jerry
Below are the error's I got when doing "make bzImage" I had no support for i2c enabled durring make xconfig... is it telling me it's required for this driver? also.. got an error1 on kallsyms (i'm guessing because it couldn't compile this module?) and error 2 on vmlinuz (couldnt write?/notcom

Re: [expert] Ethernet binding?

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Bill wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:53:42PM -0700 : > That makes sense. Thanks for the education. Now I know somethin new. > > One question though. If you have a 100mb nic and run it in full duplex mode > isnt that like running at 200mb? Yes. But that's combining both directions. If we thin

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:40:34 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > James wrote: > > >On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:19:23 -0400 > >Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > > >>It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. > >>"De-Fragment"

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:22:50 -0400 Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > On Sunday 23 June 2002 15:52, James wrote: > > > Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the > > > BIOS and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe > > > I'll remove mem=

Re: [expert] Ethernet binding?

2002-06-23 Thread Bill
That makes sense. Thanks for the education. Now I know somethin new. One question though. If you have a 100mb nic and run it in full duplex mode isnt that like running at 200mb? On Star Date Sunday 23 June 2002 04:30 pm, Todd Lyons sent this sub-space message. > Bill wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread James
sinip___ > EASY way is > > (gad, looks like that manpage wasn't written for SysVInit) > > Civileme sanap_ Civilme I checked it's identical to a FreeBSD2.2.8 box I have access to.. and that's definitely not SysVinit. James

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:36:00 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > Praedor Tempus wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:18:14PM -0500 : > > OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default > > localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the > >

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?

2002-06-23 Thread Jerry Kreps
On Sunday 23 June 2002 05:22 pm, Hoyt wrote: > On Sunday 23 June 2002 15:52, James wrote: > > > Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the BIOS > > > and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe I'll > > > remove mem=nopentium. > > > > Maybe it will solve my trou

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:19:33 -0400 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > James wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:23:15 -0500 > > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary > > authority > > > > > >>daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >> > >>>J. Craig Woods wrote: > >>> >

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:59:46 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > James wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:43:38PM -0700 : > >Where I don't dispute the intent I'm having fits with the > >results. Oh and for my camera and my usb printer. They haven't > >c

Re: [expert] question recompiling kernel

2002-06-23 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:22:04 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone is sure to point out that > > make mrproper > > is advisable before any version of make config. > > To get that ALS4000 to work with the current ALSA drivers, you are going > to need some > > options > > lines

Re: [expert] Ethernet binding?

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Bill wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:56:48PM -0700 : > I was under the impression that running two nic's with the same ip addresses > and differant mac addresses was a no no and would screw your network. Normally you are correct, however there are two modes that you can utilize to gain addition

Re: [expert] Ethernet binding?

2002-06-23 Thread Bill
I was under the impression that running two nic's with the same ip addresses and differant mac addresses was a no no and would screw your network. On Star Date Sunday 23 June 2002 07:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this sub-space message. > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Mark Lucas wrote: > > Is it poss

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread civileme
Praedor Tempus wrote: >OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default >localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the manpage for >hostname, it mentions: /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/hostname, and >/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as where/how hostname is set. Uh-uh! Does not does n

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:56:39 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: > > > fragmentation in memory pages.. the same little sketches i made > > would apply, but change the "file 1" and "file 2" with "process 1" > > and process 2" ) > > I doubt that's a serious issue. It's kind of silly, re

Re: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER

2002-06-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Check your dns ... BillK On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 23:46, David Rankin wrote: > Listmates: > > Over the past year, FTP and SSH logins are taking much longer. In the > past FTP logins would take 2-3 seconds and SSH logins were almost > instantaneous. Now both FTP and SSH logins take approximat

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:40:20 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 02:32:04PM -0400 : > > > > It's been my personal experience in the past 6 months that devfs is > > totally and completely the spawn of satan. I don't forsee

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread civileme
James wrote: >On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:19:23 -0400 >Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > >>It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. >>"De-Fragment". >> >>When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the >>"allocation bitmap" for the disk

Re: [expert] PCMCIA Headaches

2002-06-23 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Ashley Reynolds wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get my Xircom CardBus RealPort 10/100 Ethernet Adapter working > with Mandrake 8.2 on my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS notebook computer. I am > trying to use pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-5mdk.i586.rpm, the default package for Mandrake > 8.

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?

2002-06-23 Thread Hoyt
On Sunday 23 June 2002 15:52, James wrote: > > Now I need to crank up my AGP settings (currently AGP2x in the BIOS > > and AGP 1x in XF86Config-4) to see how it works. Then maybe I'll > > remove mem=nopentium. > > Maybe it will solve my troubles too h yep time to fix it till it > breaks *g

Re: [expert] question recompiling kernel

2002-06-23 Thread civileme
jerry wrote: >OK, using dist Mandrake 8.2 kernel-source-2.4.18-6mdk.i586 (from the rpm on dist cd) >AND Athlon thunderbird cpu, ASUS VIA/PROMISE motherboard (2 built-in usb, serial, >agp, pci cards, p/s2 mouse, no ISA slots) agp voodoo3 videocard, dlink usb card >(bought seperate.. going to r

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Praedor Tempus wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:33:49PM -0500 : > Since installing 8.2, however, I have to manually remove the system's > insistent retardation of setting /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0 ->/dev/tts/0. This > does not exist on my system yet devfs does it every time. rm -f /lib/dev-s

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread J. Craig Woods
Todd Lyons wrote: > > Praedor Tempus wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:18:14PM -0500 : > > OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default > > localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the manpage for > > hostname, it mentions: /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/hostname, and > >

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
James wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:43:38PM -0700 : >Where I don't dispute the intent I'm having fits with the results. > Oh and for my camera and my usb printer. They haven't changed > functionality since I got rid of devfs. Maybe because devfs set them up > at first. I'm just getting

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Sunday 23 June 2002 04:26 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > jerry wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:32:04 -0400 > > > > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>"IT" should be forever scuttled and banned from the landscape of so > >>wonderful an OS never to be seen or heard from againEVER! > > > > (

Re: [expert] question recompiling kernel

2002-06-23 Thread jerry
OK, using dist Mandrake 8.2 kernel-source-2.4.18-6mdk.i586 (from the rpm on dist cd) AND Athlon thunderbird cpu, ASUS VIA/PROMISE motherboard (2 built-in usb, serial, agp, pci cards, p/s2 mouse, no ISA slots) agp voodoo3 videocard, dlink usb card (bought seperate.. going to remove since it's w

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Praedor Tempus wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:18:14PM -0500 : > OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default > localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the manpage for > hostname, it mentions: /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/hostname, and > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as where/

Re: [expert] question recompiling kernel

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
jerry wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 07:58:10AM -0600 : > Also, when recompiling with ALSA (sound) durring which part of kernel compilation do >you configure alsa? (ie... between make config and make dep? between make dep and >make clean? before any of it... after kernel's done... etc..) I get

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
jerry wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:32:04 -0400 > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>"IT" should be forever scuttled and banned from the landscape of so >>wonderful an OS never to be seen or heard from againEVER! > > > (as a result: there's no way they're taking it out now, es

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the manpage for hostname, it mentions: /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/hostname, and /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as where/how hostname is set. Uh-uh! Does not does not! There exists no /etc/

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
James wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:23:15 -0500 > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > >>daRcmaTTeR wrote: >> >>>J. Craig Woods wrote: >>> Praedor, you need to help us understand why you can not complete the simple task of naming a machine. Maybe you c

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Damian G wrote: >>O! do tell!! >> >>Mark > > > uhm.. > > > [Foo_] < let's say this is a harddrive, where: > > _ : blank space. > F, oo : files 1 and 2. > > > that drive would be in perfect state, right? all files stored neatly one > after the other a

Re: [expert] question recompiling kernel

2002-06-23 Thread ai4a
jerry wrote: > > for compatibility issues / changing hardware / removable usb devices etc... when >recompiling the kernel, is it better to have the versions on modules symbols set or >not? I've yet to successfully recompile one Jerry; What release of Mandrake are you running? Also, please li

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:23:15 -0500 "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > > > > Praedor, you need to help us understand why you can not complete > > > the simple task of naming a machine. Maybe you can send us so

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread J. Craig Woods
daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > > > Praedor, you need to help us understand why you can not complete the > > simple task of naming a machine. Maybe you can send us some log file > > entries that give us specific errors messages... > > > > drjung > > > > drjung, > > may he hasn't

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread dfox
> fragmentation in memory pages.. the same little sketches i made > would apply, but change the "file 1" and "file 2" with "process 1" > and process 2" ) I doubt that's a serious issue. It's kind of silly, really, since any portion of RAM is just as quickly issued as any other. But this is vir

Re: [expert] Qmail auto-forward?

2002-06-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jun 18, 2002 at 12:34:52PM -0400, Barry Michels wrote: > Is there a way to get qmail to automatically forward everything it receives? > I would like qmail to get the incoming mail and pass it on, unaltered to our > Exchange Server. Hopefully without adding all the user accounts to our > L

Re: [expert] Error from apache update on 8.1

2002-06-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Jun 22, 2002 at 02:05:17PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: This is because it tries to restart apache (via AESctl) with the old mod_perl still installed... you'll notice that after mod_perl gets installed, the error goes away. In short, this is nothing to worry about. I assume that your web

Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman
Yes, I had already made that change in order to be able to use gdm in the first place. I should also point out that kdm works perfectly, remembering my last session, even though the default is still kde. As long as I log into Gnome, then I will get Gnome the next time -- even after a reboot. Al

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread Damian G
> Um...yeah. we knew "what" it was. guess I should have prefaced that last > remark with a special comment that let anyone else know that it was a > sarcastic tongue-in-cheek question. > > Mark too late! i already posted another one of my explainations! hehehe ;o) ...damn i can be irritating

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread Damian G
> O! do tell!! > > Mark uhm.. [Foo_] < let's say this is a harddrive, where: _ : blank space. F, oo : files 1 and 2. that drive would be in perfect state, right? all files stored neatly one after the other and the free space is all together at the e

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread jerry
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:32:04 -0400 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "IT" should be forever scuttled and banned from the landscape of so > wonderful an OS never to be seen or heard from againEVER! (as a result: there's no way they're taking it out now, especially if they read messag

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 02:32:04PM -0400 : > > It's been my personal experience in the past 6 months that devfs is > totally and completely the spawn of satan. I don't forsee any true Satan might like you, but I'm his favorite. -- a coworker > usefullness coming from this pa

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
J. Craig Woods wrote: > civileme wrote: > >>OK, first of all you did not need to touch a wizard. Those are designed >>for one-time setup which is why we call them wizards. They are not >>tools to be used for maintenance, and they make a lot of assumptions, as >>is appropriate for their target a

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
James wrote: > All, > >Got an interesting problem here. It concerns everyones favorite > subject devfs ... I've done 12 installs so far with 8.2, on 10 of the > boxes /dev/video1-4 where created without a problem on two of the > boxes not there at all. So just for fun on one I rein

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread James
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:19:23 -0400 Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. > "De-Fragment". > > When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the > "allocation bitmap" for the disk gets to look like

Re: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER

2002-06-23 Thread Todd Lyons
David Rankin wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:46:43AM -0500 : > > Over the past year, FTP and SSH logins are taking much longer. In the > past FTP logins would take 2-3 seconds and SSH logins were almost > instantaneous. Now both FTP and SSH logins take approximately 20 - 30 > seconds. Upti

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Damian G wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:19:23 -0400 > Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. "De-Fragment". >> >>When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the >>"allocation bitmap" for the disk gets to look like

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Rick Thomas wrote: > It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. "De-Fragment". > > When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the > "allocation bitmap" for the disk gets to look like a swiss cheese -- lots of > little holes. The little holes get used for the nex

Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-06-23 Thread James
Don't know it this will help but in /etc/syconconfig there is a file called desktop. Make sure that is set to GNOME not KDE. James On 22 Jun 2002 22:45:45 -0500 Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > Here's the situation: > I am running Mandrake 8.1, mostly kept up

Re: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER

2002-06-23 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am Son, 2002-06-23 um 17.46 schrieb David Rankin: > Listmates: > > Over the past year, FTP and SSH logins are taking much longer. In the > past FTP logins would take 2-3 seconds and SSH logins were almost > instantaneous. Now both FTP and SSH logins take approximately 20 - 30 > seconds. Upt

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3 - Solved ?

2002-06-23 Thread Hoyt
On Friday 21 June 2002 13:30, Tom Badran wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 6:23 am, Hoyt wrote: > > Will a newer version of XFree86 help? Is the version in cooker > > (4.2.0-20-mdk) useable in 8.2? > > Dont know if it would help, but cooker packag

[expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER

2002-06-23 Thread David Rankin
Listmates: Over the past year, FTP and SSH logins are taking much longer. In the past FTP logins would take 2-3 seconds and SSH logins were almost instantaneous. Now both FTP and SSH logins take approximately 20 - 30 seconds. Uptime is 363 days and I haven't restarted either xinetd, FTP o

RE : [expert] PCMCIA Headaches

2002-06-23 Thread lemi
I got a Xircom on a MDK 8.0, it freezes sometimes. The best solution for me is to plug the card, but after the boot. During the boot it freezes. Francois > -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : dimanche 23 juin 2002 16:20 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [expert] Ethernet binding?

2002-06-23 Thread kwan
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Mark Lucas wrote: > Is it possible to install two or more ethernet cards in my server and get > Mandrake to use them both on a single IP address in order to improve network > throughput? There's a method called "channel bonding" that allows you to setup two nics to almost do

Re: [expert] Ethernet binding?

2002-06-23 Thread Ron Stodden
Bill wrote: > You cant do that it would be like having two nics on a network with the same > ip's but you can use two nic's and assign seperate ip's to each one. eth0 and > eth0:0 Two NICs would give you eth0 and eth1. In Mandrake you can assign two or more data streams (IPs) to the one NIC

Re: [expert] PCMCIA Headaches

2002-06-23 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am Son, 2002-06-23 um 16.10 schrieb Ashley Reynolds: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get my Xircom CardBus RealPort 10/100 Ethernet Adapter working > with Mandrake 8.2 on my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS notebook computer. I am > trying to use pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-5mdk.i586.rpm, the default package for Mand

[expert] PCMCIA Headaches

2002-06-23 Thread Ashley Reynolds
Hi All, I'm trying to get my Xircom CardBus RealPort 10/100 Ethernet Adapter working with Mandrake 8.2 on my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS notebook computer. I am trying to use pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-5mdk.i586.rpm, the default package for Mandrake 8.2. However, after poking around in the BUGS file for th

Re: [expert] Ethernet binding?

2002-06-23 Thread Bill
You cant do that it would be like having two nics on a network with the same ip's but you can use two nic's and assign seperate ip's to each one. eth0 and eth0:0 If its mor throughput you want try checking to see if your runing full duplex. You can allways upgrade to fiber or gig ethernet On

[expert] Ethernet binding?

2002-06-23 Thread Mark Lucas
Is it possible to install two or more ethernet cards in my server and get Mandrake to use them both on a single IP address in order to improve network throughput? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Shell script not performing an export

2002-06-23 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 22:48, Jesus Arocho wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Although I did not understand your last > paragraph, I did learn a few things from your example. I did get all > of the values and the variables were gone when the script ended. Maybe > I have been confused all along. H

Re: [expert] Graphical login after kde3 upg

2002-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 05:25, Joan Tur wrote: > Here's my /etc/sysconfig/desktop file: > DESKTOP="Gnome" This particular file/setting determines which display manager to use, either kdm or gdm. You are obviously set to use the Gnome display manager, gdm. Change it to say "KDE" and it will use kdm

Re: [expert] Shell script not performing an export

2002-06-23 Thread Jesus Arocho
Thanks for the reply. Although I did not understand your last paragraph, I did learn a few things from your example. I did get all of the values and the variables were gone when the script ended. Maybe I have been confused all along. Here is my file: #!/bin/sh PALMTOPCENTERDIR=/opt/Qtopia/

[expert] Graphical login after kde3 upg

2002-06-23 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've removed Kde 2.2.2 and installed Mandrake's Kde 3.01 (/usr), but I can no longer get to the graphical login. It's trying to get to it continuosly (screen blinks), and I cannot get to a console using ctrl+alt+f1 (or 2, 3, 4). The only thing I can do is to press ctrl+alt+supr and to

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:19:23 -0400 Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. "De-Fragment". > > When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the > "allocation bitmap" for the disk gets to look like a swiss cheese -- lots o

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. "De-Fragment". When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the "allocation bitmap" for the disk gets to look like a swiss cheese -- lots of little holes. The little holes get used for the next file(s) you write, and thos

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-23 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Yes, Ashley, that kind of solitude would be nice but you must ask > yourself one very important question: can this person run a "uname -a" > on his machine, and get the current system time to be in the output? *grin* You'll never let that go, will yo