Re: [expert] Mozilla in Windows and Linux

2002-10-04 Thread Sridhar G
Guys, got that on both windows and Linux, I can now loose outlook express. Thanks Sridhar - Original Message - From: Michael Biddulph [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mozilla in Windows and Linux You will find

Re: [expert] Mozilla in Windows and Linux

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Stodden
Sridhar G wrote: I am planning on using Mozilla mail as my email client. I'd like to know where the emails and the folders are stored, so that I can take a backup when required. In ~/.mozilla (of course). where ~ is the users home directory. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]

[expert] Tape backups in Linux?

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
I have a Seagate Travin TR-4 tapedrive that's currently in my Windows machine. I'm planning on pulling it out and putting it in my ML 9.0 machine before I do the new install of the system. It will be installed in the slave position on the ribbon cable, on the second IDE controller for the

Re: [expert] Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Damian G wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:03:22PM + : [I said...] Needless to say, I end up with an unusable disk 2 as a result of this. Any chance that Mandrake can issue new versions of those ISO files, distributed a bit

Re: [expert] A computer that won't install Windows.

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
That would have done it but instead I scrubbed it back to wood and spent two days figuring out how to stand this box on it's ear so that windows anything would install. Get this go through the win2000 install... no sweat. boot the box nothing is there.. just a blank screen. Take the

Re: [expert] Tape backups in Linux?

2002-10-04 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello David, Friday, October 4, 2002, 6:06:35 PM, you wrote: D DG as /dev/tape? Something else? Also, is there a reasonably good backup DG program (preferably something free, but an inexpensive one would be fine as DG well) that will use the tape drive? The next time I manage to destroy my

[expert] ATTENTION TODD! (was Re: Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file)

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Damian G wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:03:22PM + : well, if you know how to extract files from an ISO image, then maybe you could make one for yourself.. try extracting all content from the

[expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread hans privat
hi, was looking for some docs about my requirement : have 3 workstations : 2 mdk 8.2 and one rh7.1; now - on one of the mdk-boxes I have progs like Lyx, gimp and much more. now - one user is working on mdk nr.1 with lyx on his document on the other box another user is working also with lyx on

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD! (was Re: Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file)

2002-10-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:16 -0700, David Guntner wrote: Using the information I was given for how to mount the .iso file as /mnt/cdrom and then pull the information to a side directory, I removed the OpenOffice .rpm files. Since I haven't got a *clue* how to create an ISO file, I

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread et
On Friday 04 October 2002 04:50 am, you wrote: hi, was looking for some docs about my requirement : have 3 workstations : 2 mdk 8.2 and one rh7.1; now - on one of the mdk-boxes I have progs like Lyx, gimp and much more. now - one user is working on mdk nr.1 with lyx on his document on the

RE: [expert] perl 5.6 on MDK9

2002-10-04 Thread Franki
my personal opinion, but one i have heard alot about recently is that perl5.8 causes too many issues to migrate to easily on a server basis.. (if you use existing software like amavisd, SpamAssasin etc.. if they (mandrake) offer both old and new apache, why didn't they do the same with perl???

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread et
VNC? On Friday 04 October 2002 06:42 am, you wrote: On Friday 04 October 2002 04:50 am, you wrote: hi, was looking for some docs about my requirement : have 3 workstations : 2 mdk 8.2 and one rh7.1; now - on one of the mdk-boxes I have progs like Lyx, gimp and much more. now - one user

[expert] No Problem with CD2 ISO file!!!

2002-10-04 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Em Sex 04 Out 2002 06:16, David Guntner escreveu: I've downloaded and recorded all 3 CD's with NO problem! Except that after a warning from a list member I've recorded it using a very low speed! (cdrecord). The second CD I had to record at speed=2! It was long as hell, but it worked out! I've

Re: [expert] Database filsystems

2002-10-04 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
OK, I'll try to use an sql db, even if a real db fs would be much more simple to use (let's imagine a classes field in the file properties windows, either konqueror or nautilus or whatever else file manager...). Olaf At 01.31 04/10/2002, you wrote: Olaf Marzocchi wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at

Re: [expert] Automatic login

2002-10-04 Thread Albert E. Whale
Thanks Tom, I've gone through all of the Menu Options (Left side) and all of the items (Right Side). I do not see an option for OS Start. The KDE Confiuration and Login Manager have been disabled already. Is there a File I can configure manually? TIA! Thomas Satzinger wrote: Am Freitag,

Re: [expert] Automatic login

2002-10-04 Thread Albert E. Whale
Never mind, Thanks Tom, It's under the Boot Config. What Services/Configuration changes does this make? Thomas Satzinger wrote: Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 14:59 schrieb Albert E. Whale: How do you stop the Automatic Login?? I've run the Configuration manager for the User Logins,

Re: [expert] Automatic login

2002-10-04 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
A bit better, use KDE Control (as root) and there disable autologin. MDK Control Center might not change it (a bug? at least at my home box MDK 8.1). On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Thomas Satzinger wrote: Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 14:59 schrieb Albert E. Whale: How do you stop the Automatic Login??

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:10:34 -0400 Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... I have my Mdk8.2 box setup on our corporate network with a static IP. Call it mybox.foo.com. I have a laptop running Win2K that lives on our wireless LAN and

[expert] Automatic login

2002-10-04 Thread Albert E. Whale
How do you stop the Automatic Login?? I've run the Configuration manager for the User Logins, but this does not stop the problem. Suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ABS-CompTech.com

[expert] What is the parameter to control how long a X session stays up?

2002-10-04 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 with a secure kernel. My X session always terminates after some time. Is there a parameter to control how long a X session stays up? I definitely don't be shutdown from time to time as it is hapenning right now. I don't even have the time to save

Re: [expert] Automatic login

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas Satzinger
Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 14:59 schrieb Albert E. Whale: How do you stop the Automatic Login?? I've run the Configuration manager for the User Logins, but this does not stop the problem. Suggestions? Go to Mandrake Control Center OS Start Find the Check-Box, No, I do not want auto-login

Re: [expert] Automatic login

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas Satzinger
cannot tell you the exact nanmes, since i am running german locale. but in mandrake control center, select first entry in the left list. you should see 3icons on the right side. take the middle one - something like start-procedure its the one where you can configure LILO/GRUB Look down and find

Re: [expert] Installing apps using gcc-2.96 with 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Andy Weller
This is driving me crazy - I just can't see what the problem is here. I have set gcc-2.96 as the standard with 'update-alternatives --config gcc', but this application still doesn't want to install correctly. Looking at the shell blurb (below) it looks like there is a problem with tar. It is

Re: [expert] Installation Failure on AMD Athlon

2002-10-04 Thread ravi r
I have tried that. It doesnt work. I think the problem is with the video card i have. if that is the case will it work if i phyisically remove the video card and install linux and then insert the video card again ? Thanks Ravi --- gerCO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Follow these steps: 1. Enter to

[expert] uninstallinlg tarballs

2002-10-04 Thread Hesham Khonji
After installing a tarball, what files do I need to keep to uninstall? Where are these files usually kept?I havebeen told the best way to handle tarballs is just to install the whole program in its own directory (so I justdelete the directory to uninstall the program). HeshamChat with friends

Re: [expert] uninstallinlg tarballs

2002-10-04 Thread Mohammed Sameer
My Inbox Happily Received This From Hesham Khonji Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:51:07 + Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I use make uninstall to handle the installation from tarballs # mku -u and it'll record what files are copied. --

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD! (was Re: Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file)

2002-10-04 Thread Damian
Using the information I was given for how to mount the .iso file as /mnt/cdrom and then pull the information to a side directory, I removed the OpenOffice .rpm files. Since I haven't got a *clue* how to create an ISO file, I transferred the Bood and Mandrake directories (with their files)

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD! (was Re: Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file)

2002-10-04 Thread Damian
That is correct. You did *not* do what you were told. 1. The part about removing stuff is ok. 2. Now, what you did was, you *copied* the remains to the CD. You did not make a new ISO! 3. To make it short: If /foo is the directory where you have the remaining part which has to be

[expert] Remote Cups Printing

2002-10-04 Thread Albert E. Whale
I have a dozen printers defined on a Mandrake Server which is running Samba and Cups. This server is the New FileServer to Replace an Existing Windoze NT FileServer. While I can print to the CUPS Printers locally, I can also print to the printers via the PC Workstations which authenticate to a

Re: [expert] where's libqt.so?

2002-10-04 Thread Alfredo C. López
Hi! Since KDE3 appear with the new qt3, Mandrake don't store libqt.so in the package libqt3 (in mandrake 8.2 it has problems with the presence of libqt.so for libqt2). So.. if you need the libqt.so from libqt3 you need first uninstall all the libraries from libqt2 and then recompile from

RE: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread Chad
Check out VNC at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ I use the SSH and sometimes VNC for remote administration, but it can do what you want. What you could also do is give the server, the workstations RSA fingerprint for each user. Then on the workstation desktop, have the icons that go: ssh

Re: [expert] where's libqt.so?

2002-10-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Dom 29 Sep 2002 10:29, SainTiss escribió: Hi, it seems like libqt.so isn't included in MDK9... I can only find libqt-mt.so, which is the threaded version... [...] Does making a symlink from libqt-mt.so to libqt.so work? Does using a

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-04 Thread Philip Webb
021003 Todd Lyons wrote: PlugHead wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:33:20PM -0400 : Why must /root be on the same file system as / ? The installer complains. the answer is more along the lines of to protect you from yourself. A new user won't know any better than to run as root all the time

[expert] rpmdrake MDK 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! I was pretty satisfied with rpmdrake till MDK 8.1. Unless I'm loosing something rpmdrake in MDK 9.0 seems to be slower than older ones and has not anymore the option of uninstalling packages, is that right? Many thanks in advance for any help. --- Alan

Re: [expert] Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file

2002-10-04 Thread Philip Webb
021003 David Guntner wrote: Philip Webb grabbed a keyboard and wrote: mount the ISO -- 'mount -t iso9660 -o loop name.iso /mnt/cdrom' -- , copy the whole thing to some empty space on your disk, remove some stuff you don't need -- i removed some i18n RPMs -- , then remake the now-smaller ISO

Re: [expert] Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file

2002-10-04 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 03 October 2002 01:19 pm, David Guntner wrote: I've got a good .iso download of all three disk (md5sum says that they're all fine, according to the md5sums.90 file that is provided). However, disk 2 appears to have a bit too much information on it. My CD burner is an older one

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread hans privat
hi, what I thought about, was : if I do a login on host jack as user little_jack, then a user little_jack is their - okay; if I do a login on host ernest as user little_ernest their is also a user existant called liitle_ernest but if I do a login as user little_charly on host ernest, but the

[expert] New error message appearing

2002-10-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been running into this message lately. It appears when I start certain KDE apps (or try to) from a console and it appears repeatedly in my .xsession-errors file: fcntl: Bad file descriptor I would say that fully 70% of my .xsession-errors file is made up of this statement. What is

Re: [expert] Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
Charlie grabbed a keyboard and wrote: How old is that burner? Mine is a circa 1998 Mitsumi CR-4804 TE; and it not only will burn 700 MB disks, but the download edition of 9.0 I'm using now was burned on 90 minute disks. cdrecord sees it as apparently a Phillips... Installed easily with only

Re: [expert] Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
Charlie grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Please have a look at the relevant manufacturer's site for revisions before you have any more trouble. The updated firmware for my burner was specifically for newer media. As in larger. Under Windows of course. Just to follow up: I did some Google

Re: [expert] Quick guide for supporting multiple Virtual hosts withApache

2002-10-04 Thread Stefano Pogliani
I tried the suggestion and actually I was able to do something but something still does not work. What I wish to do is: * to have a virtual host for Localhost, pointing to my root directory /var/www/html * to have a virtual jost for www.mydomain.com, pointing to

Re: [expert] Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file

2002-10-04 Thread Anthony Moulen
On Friday 04 October 2002 02:28 pm, David Guntner wrote: It's over a year old, though I can't say exactly *how* old - a HP CD-Witer Plus 8100i. The thing burns CD-RWs at 2X speed and CD-Rs at 4X. This is a rather old burner. I think I may have had this same model several years ago.

Re: [expert] Automatic login

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
In the KDE control center go to System -- Login Manager and click on the convienience tab. Then under Automatic Login uncheck the box. (Note: You'll need to go into Administrative Mode in the lower right corner to do this.) Click apply and auto login should stop the next time around. If you

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Or you can chose my method KDE Control center -- Desktop --- uncheck enable desktop icons. Gets rid of all of them. *grin* James On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 22:55, Frederic Soulier wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 00:02, Todd Lyons wrote: Frederic Soulier wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at

Re: [expert] rpmdrake MDK 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:58:41PM -0300 : Hi List! I was pretty satisfied with rpmdrake till MDK 8.1. Unless I'm loosing something rpmdrake in MDK 9.0 seems to be slower than older ones and has not anymore the option of uninstalling packages, is

[expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
You know, I was thinking: I've got enough free space on one of my partitions on the Linux Machine to hold all the RPMs from all three CDs. Is there any way that I can do a Install/Update/Whatever from one of those local drive/filesystems? I.E., I can install a bare-bones system using just

Re: [expert] Database filsystems

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Olaf Marzocchi wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:01:54PM +0200 : OK, I'll try to use an sql db, even if a real db fs would be much more simple to use (let's imagine a classes field in the file properties windows, either konqueror or nautilus or whatever else file manager...). I can

Re: [expert] Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file

2002-10-04 Thread Charlie
On Friday 04 October 2002 12:28 pm, David Guntner wrote: surgical snips It's over a year old, though I can't say exactly *how* old - a HP CD-Witer Plus 8100i. The thing burns CD-RWs at 2X speed and CD-Rs at 4X. That's a good suggestion and I'm glad you made it. It never occurred to me

Re: [expert] Installing apps using gcc-2.96 with 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Andy Weller wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:29:54PM +0100 : This is driving me crazy - I just can't see what the problem is here. I have set gcc-2.96 as the standard with 'update-alternatives --config gcc', but this application still doesn't want to install correctly. Looking at the shell

[expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-04 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I am having a problem with 9.0: Mandrkae terminates with my logon session without any warning or messages. It does that automatically. How can I get rid of this annoying behaviour? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Lotus Notes on Linux

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Hate this... I keep losing threads... my bad. Anyway someone was asking about Lotus Notes on Linux. Here is the IBM site dedicated to just that. Should answer any and all questions you have. If the url line wraps it's all one url man what a monster. James

[expert] burning a data disc

2002-10-04 Thread Michael Holt
Hey all, I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I go to burn the disc, all the top level directories give this message; using 000 for folder1/(.) Then a folder named '000' is created under the real folder. Any

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread hans privat
hi chad, it seems, that your idea is usefully. but have a question : how can I make a fingerprint with ssh ? am sorry about this question, but had never used it. for my job it was always enough to do a ssh user@remotehost and then giving the password. was now looking for ssh-docs, but the

Re: [expert] perl 5.6 on MDK9

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Franki wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:34:03PM +0800 : if they (mandrake) offer both old and new apache, why didn't they do the same with perl??? You know, that's a good question. I do not know the answer to it. I think the biggest motivating factor was getting the expanded threading

[expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
David Guntner wrote: I wish I know who the rocket scientist at Mandrake was that decided ISOs that create CDs larger than 650M was a good idea, so that I could thank him with a large brick. :-( NFS and HD installs proved to be so easy I don't burn CD's any more. If I ever keep a distro

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD! (was Re: Attention Mandrake: Problem with CD2 ISO file)

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
David Guntner wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:16:45AM -0700 : I cannot *begin* to express how unhappy I am with whichever rocket scientist decided that it would be a good idea to package up a .iso file that produces a CD larger than 650 Meg. I cannot *begin* to tell you how many people

Re: [expert] Quick guide for supporting multiple Virtual hosts with Apache

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Stefano Pogliani wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:48:06PM +0200 : What I saw in an experiment was that each *.mydomain.com was redirected to test.mydomain.com. Post your /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf. If you must sanitize it to hide customer names or anything like that, make sure you

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
James Sparenberg wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:57:46AM -0700 : Or you can chose my method KDE Control center -- Desktop --- uncheck enable desktop icons. Gets rid of all of them. *grin* LOL, I didn't even know that option existed. I like it. Makes it a little more like my fave,

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
VNC would definitly be one choice... You could then have an ICON that lauches it and gives them a new window with a remoted destop from the other computer. 2nd choice would be something like AFS. Too much to tell to explain it in one e-mail (I'm only just learning it myself) But with it what

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Well I'm not Todd. But I might have an answer. In the first CD there are several images... copy the hd.img from that cd to a floppy. (in linux the cammand I believe is dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 ) Make sure the floppy is unmounted when you do this. From Windows use rawrite. (under dosutils)

Re: [expert] Automatic login

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:41:16AM -0300 : On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Thomas Satzinger wrote: Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 14:59 schrieb Albert E. Whale: How do you stop the Automatic Login?? I've run the Configuration manager for the User Logins, but this

Re: [expert] burning a data disc

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Michael Holt wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:13:53PM -0700 : I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I go to burn the disc, all the top level directories give this message; using 000 for folder1/(.) Then a

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-04 Thread Charlie
On Friday 04 October 2002 12:57 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Or you can chose my method KDE Control center -- Desktop --- uncheck enable desktop icons. Gets rid of all of them. *grin* James Hmmm. Everyone's complaining about the Removable Media icon (I saw it on the last or second

RE: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-04 Thread Darin
David Guntner wrote: I wish I know who the rocket scientist at Mandrake was that decided ISOs that create CDs larger than 650M was a good idea, so that I could thank him with a large brick. :-( Just curious.. Have you been out to buy blank CDs lately? Not meaning any offense here, but I

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread Vox
et [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 04 October 2002 04:50 am, you wrote: hi, was looking for some docs about my requirement : have 3 workstations : 2 mdk 8.2 and one rh7.1; now - on one of the mdk-boxes I have progs like Lyx, gimp and much more. now - one user is working on mdk nr.1

[expert] Probelms on shutting

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas Satzinger
The following error msg keeps my system from shutting down properly Okt 4 11:18:56 localhost umount: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered Okt 4 11:18:56 localhost umount: umount2: Device or resource busy Okt 4 11:18:56 localhost umount: umount: /net: Das Gerät wird momentan noch

Re: [expert] What is the parameter to control how long a X sessionstays up?

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Ed, This doesn't sound normal at all... can you post the info from /var/log/XFree86.0.log or any other log that may contain info on this. Sounds more like a crash than an actual logout. Also can you give us a hardware rundown. ie Motherboard - VGA card - CPU etc etc. Something to me and

Re: [expert] Broken screensavers in MD9.0

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Charlie, I've seen some threads on this on the cooker list (if memory is right that list is a bear to follow it's so busy.) If I remember right a bug has been found and a fix is in the works once cooker unfreezes and the guys have caught their breath from the release marathon. You might want

Re: [expert] rpmdrake MDK 9.0

2002-10-04 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Great Todd! I'm getting old and not paying attention to the news. Thanks, On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:58:41PM -0300 : Hi List! I was pretty satisfied with rpmdrake till MDK 8.1. Unless I'm loosing

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread Andreas Weiss
hans privat wrote: hi, what I thought about, was : if I do a login on host jack as user little_jack, then a user little_jack is their - okay; if I do a login on host ernest as user little_ernest their is also a user existant called liitle_ernest but if I do a login as user

RE: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Stewart
Hi Pierre, Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... I have my Mdk8.2 box setup on our corporate network with a static IP. Call it mybox.foo.com. I have a laptop running Win2K that lives on our wireless LAN and uses a DHCP-allocated IP and lives in a subnet. Call it

Re: [expert] What is the parameter to control how long a X sessionstays up?

2002-10-04 Thread Andreas Weiss
Eduardo Mendes wrote: Hello I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 with a secure kernel. My X session always terminates after some time. Is there a parameter to control how long a X session stays up? I definitely don't be shutdown from time to time as it is hapenning right now. I don't

Re: [expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-04 Thread Vox
Eduardo Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello I am having a problem with 9.0: Mandrkae terminates with my logon session without any warning or messages. It does that automatically. How can I get rid of this annoying behaviour? That's part of msec's stuff...you set a high security

Re: [expert] burning a data disc

2002-10-04 Thread Michael Holt
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:13:53PM -0700 : I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I go to burn the disc, all the top level

Re: [expert] Keyboard repeats characters

2002-10-04 Thread Pieter Laroy
Hi James, Could you please give me an indication how I would do that. There's no option available (as far as I can see) to turn off 'typematic setting'. Regards, Pieter On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 10:12, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 11:13, Pieter Laroy wrote: Hi to everyone,

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Well I'm not Todd. But I might have an answer. In the first CD there are several images... copy the hd.img from that cd to a floppy. (in linux the cammand I believe is dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 ) Make sure the floppy is unmounted when you do

RE: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-04 Thread William Kenworthy
sounds like the dns is not being setup correctly when running as a dialup. BillK On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 04:15, Mark Stewart wrote: Hi Pierre, Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... ssh: I've been having problems for quite some time where ssh just hangs for

[expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits the street...

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
It seems every time a new distro hits the street, one or more of my systems decides it wants attention... yup... I get weird problems, usually right after the latest distro has been downloaded -- this is not the first time... 9.0 not yet installed anywhere when LM8.2 decides to act up --

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 05 Oct 2002 04:31:18 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds like the dns is not being setup correctly when running as a dialup. Bill, If you're referring to my ssh problems, it's not a DNS problem... while one or more sessions are temporarily hung, other ssh sessions

Re: [expert] Quick guide for supporting multiple Virtual hosts withApache

2002-10-04 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Todd, please see my answes/comments embedded. Thanx in advance for the help /stefanp Todd Lyons wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:48:06PM +0200 : What I saw in an experiment was that each *.mydomain.com was redirected to test.mydomain.com. Post your

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:15:19 -0400 Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ping first generates an ARP (broadcast) packet... long story short, sounds like the VLAN is expiring the this MAC address is on that port entry in its table, then failing to flood packets for which there is no such

Re: [expert] burning a data disc

2002-10-04 Thread Michael Holt
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:13:53PM -0700 : I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when I go to burn the disc, all the top level

Re: [expert] Quick guide for supporting multiple Virtual hosts with Apache

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Stefano Pogliani wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:20:35PM +0200 : # Named VirtualHosts NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.33 VirtualHost 192.168.1.33 ServerName test.usdivonne.name DocumentRoot /var/www/test_system/ /VirtualHost VirtualHost 192.168.1.33 ServerName

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
David Guntner wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:50:09PM -0700 : install as normal. You have to copy the Mandrake trees as they are (rpms rpms2 rpms3 for example.) A brief tutorial is at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/ihdinst.html just in case. That seems to be oriented towards

Re: [expert] Quick guide for supporting multiple Virtual hosts withApache

2002-10-04 Thread Stefano Pogliani
You are right, in my httpd.conf the ServerName directive is commented. Should I set it to scarlet.poglianis.net? I tried, before the previous mail, to set it to www.usdivonne.org, in order to force it to consider www.usdivonne.org as the default name I was unlucky. Still, when I accessed

[expert] Woo Hoo! 9.0 installation woes - Thanks to all for the help!

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
Thanks to Todd and everyone else who offered helpful suggestions for the problems I've been having as a result of the CD 2 ISO being too large. I might actually be able to install a working system tonight when I get home from work. :-) I've created a /var/mandrake partition on my system.

Re: [expert] burning a data disc

2002-10-04 Thread newslett
Use K3B, it's much better... ;) Michael Holt wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:13:53PM -0700 : I'm having a strange problem with gcombust. I'm trying to put some files on a disc (cdr) for a friend but when

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread et
On Friday 04 October 2002 02:51 pm, you wrote: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 04 October 2002 04:50 am, you wrote: hi, was looking for some docs about my requirement : have 3 workstations : 2 mdk 8.2 and one rh7.1; now - on one of the mdk-boxes I have progs like Lyx, gimp and

Re: [expert] burning a data disc

2002-10-04 Thread Sridhar G
Michael, I had this problem with 8.2 too. This started happenning after I did a update to mkisofs through the SOftwrae Manager. I solved it by going back to mkisofs from my original 8.2 disk. Not sure what to do when ur on 9.0. Sridhar Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, I'm having a

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday October 4 2002 02:19 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: James Sparenberg wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:57:46AM -0700 : Or you can chose my method KDE Control center -- Desktop --- uncheck enable desktop icons. Gets rid of all of them. *grin* LOL, I didn't even know that option

Re: Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-04 Thread falcaraz
But one of the great thinks in kde is have icons on the desktop!! If you need remove the Removable media icons just need go tu /usr/bin and as root edit the file kdesktp-links and erase the lines about Removable media. You can conserv all the others icon you like. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia

Re: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday October 4 2002 02:53 pm, Darin wrote: David Guntner wrote: I wish I know who the rocket scientist at Mandrake was that decided ISOs that create CDs larger than 650M was a good idea, so that I could thank him with a large brick. :-( Just curious.. Have you been out to buy blank

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-04 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 13:48, Charlie wrote: [] I installed Dolphin my desktop came with _no_ icons at all at first boot. The enable desktop icons button is checked. I've had this happen, where there aren't any desktop icons 3 times out of 11 install tests. I wasn't paying attention at

Re: [expert] Quick guide for supporting multiple Virtual hosts with Apache

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Stefano Pogliani wrote on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:19:09AM +0200 : So, your last suggestion is to create an EXPLICIT www.usdivonne.org a a virtual server? If I am going to do it, should I still keep commented the ServerName directive ? Yes. I really don't think it matters either way.

[expert] mandrake firewall question

2002-10-04 Thread faisal gillani
i dont know where to ask this question but can you tell me that if we can install mandrake snf firewall on linux 8.2 ? = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
et wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:12:41PM -0400 : If everything is configured correctly, the clients will connect to the server without asking for a password, run the requested command/application and disconnect when the command/application is done. ahh soo... very good. But

Re: [expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits the street...

2002-10-04 Thread et
On Friday 04 October 2002 05:37 pm, you wrote: It seems every time a new distro hits the street, one or more of my systems decides it wants attention... yup... I get weird problems, usually right after the latest distro has been downloaded -- this is not the first time... 9.0 not yet

Re: [expert] remote workstation as a client ...

2002-10-04 Thread Vox
Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: et wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:12:41PM -0400 : If everything is configured correctly, the clients will connect to the server without asking for a password, run the requested command/application and disconnect when the command/application is

[expert] NTFS read-write enabled by default...safe?

2002-10-04 Thread John Quigley
Hello, I recently helped a friend install mandrake. I believe he was installing mandrake 8.2, but anyway the kernel version installed was 2.4.18-6mdk. When he mounted his windows partition using the command: mount -t ntfs /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows It was mounted read-write. Is this a safe

Re: [expert] mandrake firewall question

2002-10-04 Thread Jason Guidry
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 19:55, faisal gillani wrote: i dont know where to ask this question but can you tell me that if we can install mandrake snf firewall on linux 8.2 ? yes we can. look for a package named *snf*.mdk.whatever. satisfy the deps, read the relevant posts on the mdk secure

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