Re: [expert] traffic control

2002-11-26 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Montag, 25. November 2002 14:25 schrieb Martin Fahrendorf: > Hi there, > > I have played a little bit with the traffic control system (tc) and the > hierachicak tocken buckets (htb) to limit the use of some services > (those mules und donkeys). I have mdk9 and all the tools and > kernelmodules a

[expert] Dear friends,

2002-11-26 Thread falcaraz
I have tested a camera with ComplactFlash not supported by gphoto2 (Nikon Coolpix 775 USB) and I have been able to mount the CompacFlash as an scsi driver using the usb-storage module: - modules loaded: usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsis - conection to my laptop via usb-cable - create a di

[expert] CompactFlash vs SmartMedia

2002-11-26 Thread falcaraz
Dear friends, I have tested a camera with ComplactFlash not supported by gphoto2 (Nikon Coolpix 775 USB) and I have been able to mount the CompacFlash as an scsi driver using the usb-storage module: - modules loaded: usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsis - conection to my laptop via usb-cable -

[expert] Does Cooker 9.1 kernel correct supermount problems and wireless problems?

2002-11-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Subject asks it all. Anyone jump on the latest cooker kernel and find any improvement in the situation vs 8.2/9.0? I have 8.2, self-built kernel 2.4.18-8.1mdk. I had hoped that upgrading to this kernel from stock would correct a wireless problem I have been having. On my laptop, stock 8.2 ke

Re: [expert] remote Cups printing via network

2002-11-26 Thread Tom
Now that you mention it, I remember seeing that same situation. You are right; the ps would not work except for root. I well imagine that many packages are broken by that higher security like SAMBA or CUPS. Yes, I had strange permissions problems with SAMBA when I raised the security level to

[expert] Is UTF-8 i18n working in cooker?

2002-11-26 Thread J. Grant
Hi everyone, I have changed all my locale, kde and email settings to UTF-8 as I do some internationalisation work. However there are some things that still do not work quite correctly. man pages and KWrite corrupts sometimes. gcc − GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [�c│�S│�E]

[expert] "su" program not found

2002-11-26 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'm using kde, and I get that error message when trying to open a program available only for root (f.i. drakconf). Here's the output of the console I've run it from: - -- [quini@quinipt cdr]$ drakconf kdesu (kdelibs): ERROR: [process

Re: [expert] Baffled on permissions

2002-11-26 Thread Norman
Franki wrote: cool, I'll give it a shot thanks.. rgds Frank... incidently, has anyone had problems with mandrakeupdate and the update for kdelibs?? my system updated all the others with no probs, but the kdelibs rpm is a dud... guess my update server has a dud rsync on that one huh? rg

[expert] Postfix/kmail problem

2002-11-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have recently setup postfix on my desktop to be my MTA, both sending and receiving (with fetchmail). I get emails in /var/spool/mail/praedor as expected and can see them with pine and if I do "ls /var/spool/mail" I see the praedor mailbox. In

Re: [expert] Postfix/kmail problem

2002-11-26 Thread David Guntner
Praedor Tempus grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > In kmail (KDE 3.0.3) I changed my receiving host to local mail using maildir > format. In the selection window provided it had /var/spool/mail/praedor > exactly as it should. If I select it, however, and check mail I get an > error: Is there a

Re: [expert] Connection sharing

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:00:00PM -0500 : > desktop and laptop. The thing is, my laptop HAS to be the wireless AP even > though it is not the gateway to the internet in this setup because my laptop > has a prism2-based wlan

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donna and Matthew Persico wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:12:49PM -0500 : > > # If APM isn't supported by the kernel, try loading the module... > [ -e /proc/apm ] || /sbin/modprobe apm &>/dev/null > Sigh. Now I have to figure out modprobe. Oh well.

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2->9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pierre Fortin wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:42:29PM -0500 : > > > > Configuration is in /etc/urpmi. Data is in /var/lib/urpmi. > The file that seems to be interfering is > hdlist.Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u).cz If there's no definition

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2->9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:37:53PM -0800 : > > > > Configuration is in /etc/urpmi. Data is in /var/lib/urpmi. > I agree in principle, but I also feel that if this were truly the case, > backing up and restoring /etc/urpmi/ or mailin

Re: [expert] Postfix/kmail problem

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:29:36AM -0500 : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have recently setup postfix on my desktop to be my MTA, both sending and > receiving (with fetchmail). I get emails in /var/spool

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2->9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:23:52 -0800 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that users' > interpretation of errors is usually different from developers' > interpretation. It's not an error if the program keeps running and > works properly, it's only a warning. It's an error if the program >

Re: [expert] Does Cooker 9.1 kernel correct supermount problemsand wireless problems?

2002-11-26 Thread James Sparenberg
Praedor, Don't know dink about wireless yet. But a change to 9.0's init scripts related to wireless came out yesterday... This might help... It might not don't know.. James On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:16, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Subject asks it all. Anyone jump on the latest cooker

[expert] 9.0: /mnt/cdrom loses directory information

2002-11-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
After a CD (CD2 in this case) has been sitting in the drive a while, some of the directory info disappears... # ll /mnt/cdrom/* ls: /mnt/cdrom/Boot: No such file or directory /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake: total 82 dr-xr-xr-x1 root root83968 Sep 23 09:13 RPMS2/ The cdrom did not spinup to

Re: [expert] 9.0: /mnt/cdrom loses directory information

2002-11-26 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
is a known bug of supermount; I had to disable it (supermount -i disable; mount -a) El Mar 26 Nov 2002 22:05, Pierre Fortin escribió: > After a CD (CD2 in this case) has been sitting in the drive a while, some > of the directory info disappears... > > # ll /mnt/cdrom/* > ls: /mnt/cdrom/Boot: N

[expert] AvermediaTv and lirc

2002-11-26 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Has anyone be capable of have lirc runing for the AvermediaTv or similar? Is there a good howto anywhere?; I have tried to follow the lirc instructions, but until now I haven't been able to activate it :-( Thanks so much in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Univ

Re: [expert] remote Cups printing via network

2002-11-26 Thread Jack Coates
To be fair, the changes made at level 4 and 5 are pretty reasonable for a machine with untrusted local users, which is why the text in the installer is the problem. The installer text makes it look like untrusted users coming from the network are the main issue, which is BS. Level 3, shorewall, and

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2->9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:31, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:37:53PM -0800 : > > > > > > Configuration is in /etc/urpmi. Data is in /var/lib/urpmi. > > I agree in principle, but I also feel that if this were tru

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2->9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pierre Fortin wrote on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:20:45PM -0500 : > > > Note that users' > > interpretation of errors is usually different from developers' > > interpretation. It's not an error if the program keeps running and > > works properly, it's

[expert] ARCServe Backup

2002-11-26 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I've done some googling, some sites claims that LM works with ARCServe. I can backup Samba share on LM 9.0 with ARCServe, but cannot backup the file permissions. When I tried the Linux Agent came with ARCServe, it keeps on prompting me for password. Though I type in the right password, I stil

Re: [expert] 9.0: /mnt/cdrom loses directory information

2002-11-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 04:41 pm, you wrote: > is a known bug of supermount; I had to disable it (supermount -i disable; > mount -a) So...is the Konqueror drag 'n drop bug still there as well? Or did they fix it under 9.0? Thanks! :-) --

[expert] Fwd: Libpcap and software based on it

2002-11-26 Thread stefmit
Sorry if this gets reposted ... I have been having problems with my email systems lately :( -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Libpcap and software based on it Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:19:42 -0600 From: stefmit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ExpertMandrake-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sh

Re: [expert] 9.0: /mnt/cdrom loses directory information

2002-11-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:41:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is a known bug of supermount; I had to disable it (supermount -i > disable; mount -a) Thanks. I knew there were supermount problems; but I guess I missed any comments about disappearing directories... thoug

Re: [expert] Fwd: Libpcap and software based on it

2002-11-26 Thread stefmit
I did not even realize how senseless my email was :( ... I am sorry. What I was asking was about two separate issues: 1. None of the source code packages depending on libpcap, can find it (e.g. arpwatch, ethereal, etc.), when trying to "./configure" them (my actual question) AND 2. The totally

Re: [expert] Baffled on permissions

2002-11-26 Thread Norman
Norman wrote: Franki wrote: cool, I'll give it a shot thanks.. rgds Frank... incidently, has anyone had problems with mandrakeupdate and the update for kdelibs?? my system updated all the others with no probs, but the kdelibs rpm is a dud... guess my update server has a dud rsync on t

[expert] rpm failure in wu-ftpd installation

2002-11-26 Thread ddc_prueba
I'm having troubles in installing wu-ftpd. I tried to update some packages from 8.2 to 9.0 manually as upgrading was giving me problems. It all resulted in a complete dissaster and went back to reinstall original 8.2 packages. As I was not able (still haven't) to make wu-ftpd go ok I tried a "help

Re: [expert] rpm failure in wu-ftpd installation

2002-11-26 Thread kwan
On 27 Nov 2002, ddc_prueba wrote: > I'm having troubles in installing wu-ftpd. I tried to update some > packages from 8.2 to 9.0 manually as upgrading was giving me problems. > It all resulted in a complete dissaster and went back to reinstall > original 8.2 packages. As I was not able (still have

[expert] ideal web cam supported by mdk9.0

2002-11-26 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I'm looking for the ideal web cam supported by mdk9.0. I checked the mdk hardware db http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 but it does not seem to have a section for web cams. (would not let me search the whole catagory too for some reason) Could anyone recommend a good one, I a

[expert] Trendware Gigabit NIC

2002-11-26 Thread Barry Michels
Anyone have experience with these? They claim Linux compatability. At $50/card, it would make for some speedy file transfers... Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Prolink PixelView linux compatibility

2002-11-26 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
HI! I've found this tv board: Prolink PixelView (PV-BT878+w/fm) a real bargain! THE question is is it supported on MDK9 ? I was just browsing on google and so far nothing was said about being compatible or not! Does anyone know about this? TIA, Ricardo -- =

[expert] Just checking to see if I'm still subscribed

2002-11-26 Thread engage
My mail server has been down for 2 days. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Radeon 7200

2002-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Does anyone here have any experience to relate on this card and Mandrake 9.0? Does it get detected during the install? I'm not worried about 3D or anything fancy. TIA, Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Shipping update

2002-11-26 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Seeing as I have bed and moaned in a few posts about Mandrake charging me in Sept and not shipping the disks yet, I thought it fair to tell their side. The reply I got from them basically said: Yep, we screwed up. We blew it when we sent it to the shipper. That's why you were charged. We've

[expert] Just checking to see if I'm still subscribed (second try)

2002-11-26 Thread engage
It seems that my hosts.deny file keeps getting modified with ALL:ALL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Radeon 7200

2002-11-26 Thread Nelson Bartley
There should be no issues with it and LM9.0 Xfree has basic support for all radeons up to the 9700 pro On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 21:17, Bill Witherspoon wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience to > relate on this card and Mandrake 9.0? > > Does it get detected during the install? > I'm not wor

Re: [expert] Just checking to see if I'm still subscribed (second try)

2002-11-26 Thread J. Craig Woods
engage wrote: It seems that my hosts.deny file keeps getting modified with ALL:ALL Take a look at your msec program, and/or any kind of firewall application you are running, such as Bastille. Look at your crontab for any programs that are running, such as msec. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX

Re: [expert] ideal web cam supported by mdk9.0

2002-11-26 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are you looking to use USB1.1 or USB2.0? If the first, I recommend Logitech Pro 4000. Supposedly it is really a USB2.0 device but it is compatible with USB1.1 On Tuesday 26 November 2002 6:18 pm, J. Grant wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for the ideal w

Re: [expert] Radeon 7200

2002-11-26 Thread Benjamin Michotte
I have a radeon 7000 so I guess it's really similar. First, take a look at http://gatos.sf.net and install ati.2 xfree modules and at http://dri.sf.net for the kernel modules then try with the attached XF86Config (but don't forget to change your keyboard map and mouse device). With this config