Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-01 Thread James
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:10:46 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority daRcmaTTeR wrote: Giant snip And I love the fact that it chroot, (jails) things by default, so there isn't any hair-pulling to get that taken care of. sounds like a cool ftp file program.

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

2002-07-01 Thread James
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:43:00 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority 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

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-01 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:10:46 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority sounds like a cool ftp file program. stupid question: why is chroot a good thing? Jail? Scuse me i'm slow today :) Femme, saves some bandwith for the metred These are but a few

Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-01 Thread Kayne McGladrey
Thanks for responding. Here's the command output - I hope that it helps to make sense of this: $su jennifer (password) $cd images $ls 2000/ 2001/ 2002/ lost+found/ photosite/ win98/ $vdir home total 12 drwxr-xr-x3 iusr iusr 4096 Jun 29 07:36 iusr drwxr-xr-x3

Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-01 Thread bascule
well that has certainly helped charles, my system hangs about every 16 hrs now instead of within minutes! however this length of time between hangs means i'm having great difficulty working out what the problem is, oh well.. cheers bascule On Wednesday 26 June 2002 6:50 pm, you wrote: On Wed,

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

2002-07-01 Thread Randy Kramer
James wrote: Sorry it took so long to get back. I'm approaching stable.. I removed devfsd. However all it's really done is lengthen the time between reboots. The box can sit on but unused for about 10 hours or so before it starts loosing stability. Lose of stability comes in the form

Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-01 Thread kwan
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, bascule wrote: well that has certainly helped charles, my system hangs about every 16 hrs now instead of within minutes! however this length of time between hangs means i'm having great difficulty working out what the problem is, oh well.. On a couple of my systems,

[expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2

2002-07-01 Thread kwan
Hello All: I've been running my new ECS K7S5A for a couple weeks now with great results, except for a couple little details: 1) Framebuffer console does not work. I've tried using the VESA fb and the Rive/GeForce fb from the stock Mandrake kernel but it still gives only 640x480

Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?

2002-07-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:32 pm, you wrote: I had trouble getting xine to work, well, it showed the movie but no sound. I use Gnome and all other sound apps work ok. I installed ogle now using your mail as advice and everything works! It took less than 10 minutes to download and install.

[expert] troels.rsync2.pl - New Versions!

2002-07-01 Thread Ron Stodden
There is a new version of the troels.rsync2.pl components on my web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ troels.rsync2.pl is a free automated downloader for all of mandrake's output and builds into the following directory structure which you must supply to it. |-- 8.0 | |-- 8.0-iso | |--

Re: [expert] can someone tell me?

2002-07-01 Thread J. Craig Woods
Todd Lyons wrote: Addendum: The dns resolver on the client end will randomly pick one of the AUTHORITY servers. The end result is that your server will still get on average 1/3 of the requests, so no, it's no ok. You need to remove that dns server from being listed as authoritative.

[expert] What kind of PC is recomended to use as firewall?

2002-07-01 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Hello, I am about to get the optimum online service and I am setting up a bastion firewall. In this respect I would need some advice from those of you who already have this kind of setup. First, what kind of PC do I need, should it be a supper fast computer or would my pentium ii 360 MHz laptop

Re: [expert] What kind of PC is recomended to use as firewall?

2002-07-01 Thread jason
Primero, tu escribe ingles un poco comico, pero yo uso espanol mas comico porque mi espanol es muy mal. =] Second, any machine made after 1990 (386 or better) with 2 network cards will make a fine firewall. that laptop is a great choise because of the built in battery, convenient for power

RE: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?

2002-07-01 Thread Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA
I installed ogle and tried to get it to work. It plays the first 10-30 seconds of a DVD and then stops. I tried running it as both root as well as a regular user. Any sugggestions? Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:09:18 +0100 bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well that has certainly helped charles, my system hangs about every 16 hrs now instead of within minutes! however this length of time between hangs means i'm having great difficulty working out what the problem is, oh well..

Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?

2002-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 11:58 -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:32 pm, you wrote: I had trouble getting xine to work, well, it showed the movie but no sound. I use Gnome and all other sound apps work ok. I installed ogle now using your mail as advice and everything

Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?

2002-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 13:18 -0500, Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA wrote: I installed ogle and tried to get it to work. It plays the first 10-30 seconds of a DVD and then stops. I tried running it as both root as well as a regular user. Any sugggestions? Start it in an xterm as a cli

[expert] compiling Licq CVS

2002-07-01 Thread Damian G
after some trouble getting to compile licq's CVS with it's qt-plugin without getting any errors, i find i cannot launch it, and i'm clueless as to the error i'm getting. does anybody know what this means? 16:19:10: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 9465) 16:19:10: [ERR] Unable to load

Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?

2002-07-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 01 July 2002 02:18 pm, you wrote: I installed ogle and tried to get it to work. It plays the first 10-30 seconds of a DVD and then stops. I tried running it as both root as well as a regular user. Any sugggestions? Randy I just had this happen as well, with one DVD - Starcraft.

Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-01 Thread tom brinkman
On Monday 01 July 2002 05:40 pm, bascule wrote: if it hangs again i will put the swap on a different disk, do you or anyone else know of a way to stress this part of an installation, the physical memory appears to be ok, i ran all memtest tests for over 24 hours with no probs, in fact if

Re: [expert] galeon problem

2002-07-01 Thread Gary Dunn
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:30, Todd Lyons wrote: Get the mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm from the Cooker SRPMS directory and recompile it on your machine with: rpm --rebuild mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm It will tell you if you need to install additional development packages. Make sure to use urpmi to

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

2002-07-01 Thread Todd Lyons
James wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:55:34PM + : before it starts loosing stability. Lose of stability comes in the form of programs won't start or die suddenly etc. Then when this starts to happen I know to reboot the box and I'm back to normal. Top shows no runaway programs CPU

Re: [expert] galeon problem

2002-07-01 Thread Todd Lyons
Gary Dunn wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:40:54PM -1000 : On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:30, Todd Lyons wrote: Get the mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm from the Cooker SRPMS directory and recompile it on your machine with: rpm --rebuild mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm Is this specific to 8.2 or will it work

Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-01 Thread Todd Lyons
Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:47:15AM -0700 : Thanks for responding. Here's the command output - I hope that it helps to make sense of this: $su jennifer (password) Try 'su - jennifer' $vdir home $vdir /home/kmcgladr $vdir /home/kmcgladr/images vdir -d /home

Re: [expert] rc.local question

2002-07-01 Thread Todd Lyons
David Relson wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 10:59:03PM -0400 : Greetings, /usr/local/bin/check /dev/null 21 Prior to 8.2, the program would start and run detached, just like I wanted. Now, in 8.2, the program isn't running. Any ideas why this isn't working any longer? You're

linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-01 Thread bascule
reading the home page it seems that it is primarily a cpu loader, while i will try this the cpu/mobo combo in my box are a known entity as they were the basis of my main box before i upgraded just recently, i used extraneous hardware to make up a new box and i'm wondering if there isn't

Re: [expert] MDK 8.2 reiserfs quota support

2002-07-01 Thread Todd Lyons
Jan Lentfer wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:14:57PM +0200 : does the Mandrake 8.2 Standard-Kernel habe build in quota support for ReiserFS or do I need to patch the kernel? You'll need to patch the kernel. Reiser doesn't support quota out of the box. Blue skies... Todd --

Re: [expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2

2002-07-01 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All: I've been running my new ECS K7S5A for a couple weeks now with great results, except for a couple little details: 1) Framebuffer console does not work. I've tried using the VESA fb and the Rive/GeForce fb from the stock Mandrake kernel but it still

Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-01 Thread Kayne McGladrey
Hello, Here's more command output - thanks for the help thus far. This is output from the server. $ su - jennifer (password) $ vdir -d /home drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Jun 30 11:48 /home $ vdir -d /home/kmcgladr drwxr-xr-x 48 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jul 1 19:28

Re: [expert] rc.local question

2002-07-01 Thread Todd Lyons
Poor form to respond to one's own posts, I know... Todd Lyons wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:00:23PM -0700 : /usr/local/bin/check /dev/null 21 You're piping all of those ideas to /dev/null :) Get rid of that and see what it is complaining about when it dumps those messages to

Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-01 Thread Todd Lyons
Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:34:53PM -0700 : Hello, Here's more command output - thanks for the help thus far. This is output from the server. $ su - jennifer (password) Run 'id jennifer'. I want to see what groups are there. And your /home being 755 nullifies

Re: [expert] rc.local question

2002-07-01 Thread David Relson
At 10:00 PM 7/1/02, you wrote: David Relson wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 10:59:03PM -0400 : Greetings, /usr/local/bin/check /dev/null 21 Prior to 8.2, the program would start and run detached, just like I wanted. Now, in 8.2, the program isn't running. Any ideas why this

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

2002-07-01 Thread James
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:50:43 -0700 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority James wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:55:34PM + : before it starts loosing stability. Lose of stability comes in the form of programs won't start or die suddenly etc. Then when this

Re: [expert] rc.local question

2002-07-01 Thread James
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:41:56 -0700 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Poor form to respond to one's own posts, I know... Todd Lyons wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:00:23PM -0700 : /usr/local/bin/check /dev/null 21 You're piping all of those ideas to

Re: [expert] galeon problem

2002-07-01 Thread David Relson
At 09:53 PM 7/1/02, you wrote: Gary Dunn wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:40:54PM -1000 : On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:30, Todd Lyons wrote: Get the mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm from the Cooker SRPMS directory and recompile it on your machine with: rpm --rebuild mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm Is

Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-01 Thread tom brinkman
On Monday 01 July 2002 09:04 pm, bascule wrote: reading the home page it seems that it is primarily a cpu loader, while i will try this the cpu/mobo combo in my box are a known entity as they were the basis of my main box before i upgraded just recently, i used extraneous hardware to make up

Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-01 Thread Kayne McGladrey
Hi, Here's that output. I appreciate the continuing help. $ id jennifer uid=502(jennifer) gid=502(jennifer) groups=502(jennifer),100(users),501(kmcgladr) On Monday 01 July 2002 07:47 pm, you wrote: Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:34:53PM -0700 : Hello, Here's more

[expert] VMware fullscreen problem

2002-07-01 Thread Niall Dalton
Hi, I'm trying to run VMware workstation 3.1 on Mandrake 8.2 with XFree86 4.2.0. I cannot get it to switch into fullscreen mode. Running xdpyinfo shows me that XFree86-DGA is enabled, which is one common problem. Any other suggestions? TIA niall Want to buy your Pack or Services from