Re: [expert] Updating SNF

2002-12-04 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Weaver wrote: > > You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use them during > that time using SNF? > It was a learning experience. I stand corrected... - -- KevinO Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got tired

Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 11:28 PM, James Sparenberg wrote: It's a little new eventually (meaning sometime probably in the next few days) it will show up in the cooker for test purposes and then once it's solid expect it to appear in updates. Depending on the box of the person do

Re: [expert] cdrecord CDRW session blank

2002-12-04 Thread Larry Sword
Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi experts, mi questuin is simple, i've been trying to blank a seesion on a CDRW but i've been receiving this error message(see attach) in all my atempts. I've sent it on a attach. because i thougth it was easier, if not please let me know for future questions. so anyone

Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 22:28, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:06, Vincent Danen wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 06:10 PM, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > > It's a little new eventually (meaning sometime probably in the next > > > few days) it will show up i

[expert] setup of serial ports

2002-12-04 Thread Lorne
Okay, I'm feeling really stupid. I want to set up a box via serial cable. It is an openbsd configuration that needs a serial connect. Problem is it just now occurs to me that my mandrake 9.0 box doesn't recognize I have any serial ports. ??? What is up with that? XP sees them fine. Hard drake se

Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:06, Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 06:10 PM, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > It's a little new eventually (meaning sometime probably in the next > > few days) it will show up in the cooker for test purposes and then once > > it's solid expec

Re: [expert] New LM 9.0 Install - another SCSI System

2002-12-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert E. Whale wrote on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:47:05PM -0500 : > > > > alt2 is the 2.2.19 kernel which does not support ext3 (or xfs or reiser > > or jfs), so your only option is ext2. > My situation IMPROVES with alt2. Alt 2 is the solution, which

[expert] cdrecord CDRW session blank

2002-12-04 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
Hi experts, mi questuin is simple, i've been trying to blank a seesion on a CDRW but i've been receiving this error message(see attach) in all my atempts. I've sent it on a attach. because i thougth it was easier, if not please let me know for future questions. so anyone has an idea??? saludos

Re: [expert] New LM 9.0 Install - another SCSI System

2002-12-04 Thread Albert E. Whale
Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Albert E. Whale wrote on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0500 : > > > > Now, after selecting the alt2 method of booting, the filesystem reformats > > without issue. Now after package selection, I am installing rpms once ag

[expert] Xinerama and rage mobility m3

2002-12-04 Thread ajax
Does anyone know if it is possible to get the rage mobility m3 working with Xinerama? I have just inherited a new monitor at work. I tried adding a new monitor and screen section to XF86Config-4 as well as adding Option "Xinerama" "on" Screen "Screen2" Screen "Screen1" RightOf "Sc

[expert] LinCVS for mandrake9

2002-12-04 Thread Azrael
Does anyone happen to know if there are any LinCVS rpm's available for mandrake9? many thanks -- Azrael ("\''/").___..--'''"-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .'

Re: [expert] Updating SNF

2002-12-04 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 06:04 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 15:41, Mark Weaver wrote: > > KevinO wrote: > > > > > > I ran (fought with, suffered with) SNF for several months. Now we use > > > Smoothwall. (IPCop should be similar) > > > Well I must say I did the same abo

RE: [expert] NFS permissions

2002-12-04 Thread Bill Shirley
Look at the files in /var/lib/nfs and edit the one that has the incorrect entry (rmtab, I think). Bill Shirley > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject

Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 06:10 PM, James Sparenberg wrote: It's a little new eventually (meaning sometime probably in the next few days) it will show up in the cooker for test purposes and then once it's solid expect it to appear in updates. Depending on the box of the person doing

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

2002-12-04 Thread kwan
On 4 Dec 2002, ddc_prueba wrote: > Thank you very much, Mr. Kwan. > > I was trying the 2nd option (get the macros from a mdk90 box) but as it > was getting too long and I was too busy I ended doing the other option. > > Now wu-ftpd is installed, but still I can not log in!!! > > Thanx once more

Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
It's a little new eventually (meaning sometime probably in the next few days) it will show up in the cooker for test purposes and then once it's solid expect it to appear in updates. Depending on the box of the person doing the build it's a slow build for sure. James On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 1

Re: [expert] Updating SNF

2002-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 15:41, Mark Weaver wrote: > KevinO wrote: > > > > I ran (fought with, suffered with) SNF for several months. Now we use > > Smoothwall. (IPCop should be similar) > > > > My suggestion: Use smoothwall or something similar. Don't bother with SNF. > > > > Sorry Mandrake. I lik

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

2002-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:35, ddc_prueba wrote: > Thank you very much, Mr. Kwan. > > I was trying the 2nd option (get the macros from a mdk90 box) but as it > was getting too long and I was too busy I ended doing the other option. > > Now wu-ftpd is installed, but still I can not log in!!! > > Th

Re: [expert] Missing PINE

2002-12-04 Thread Mohammed Sameer
My Inbox Happily Received This From Mark Weaver @ Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:38:46 -0500 > SoloCDM wrote: > > Why isn't PINE in the Mandrake distribution? I realize mutt is, > > but what takes the place of PINE? > > There are licensing issues which prevent MandrakeSoft from including it > as part of t

Re: [expert] kernel 2.5.50 on Mandrake

2002-12-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Crawford wrote on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:02:37PM -0500 : > Todd, > Do you mean: > > make oldconfig > make bzImage Just 'make' by itself does the same thing as make bzImage. > make modules > make modules_install > make install > > leaving ou

[expert] Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-04 Thread Brian Schroeder
Does anyone know where I can find Mozilla 1.2.1 for mdk 9.0? Based on previous threads on this list, I believe it has to be compiled with gcc 2.9.6 for the java plugin to work with it. Brian. _ Add photos to your messages with MS

Re: [expert] DNS queries every 20 seconds...

2002-12-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:47:38 -0600 "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pierre, Very interresting, can you tell us more, i.e. are these conventional dns_gueries? Are these being sent and received on port 53 (or some other port)? What is the proto, tcp or udp? Wha

Re: [expert] Updating SNF

2002-12-04 Thread Mark Weaver
KevinO wrote: I ran (fought with, suffered with) SNF for several months. Now we use Smoothwall. (IPCop should be similar) My suggestion: Use smoothwall or something similar. Don't bother with SNF. Sorry Mandrake. I like your distributions and I support you financially. But, SNF was a terrible

Re: [expert] Missing PINE

2002-12-04 Thread Mark Weaver
SoloCDM wrote: Why isn't PINE in the Mandrake distribution? I realize mutt is, but what takes the place of PINE? There are licensing issues which prevent MandrakeSoft from including it as part of the distro, however you can easily pick up the tarball from the University of Washington's websit

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

2002-12-04 Thread ddc_prueba
Thank you very much, Mr. Kwan. I was trying the 2nd option (get the macros from a mdk90 box) but as it was getting too long and I was too busy I ended doing the other option. Now wu-ftpd is installed, but still I can not log in!!! Thanx once more. I'll see if I can step over this error up to the

Re: [expert] kernel 2.5.50 on Mandrake

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
Todd, Do you mean: make oldconfig make bzImage make modules make modules_install make install leaving out the make dep and make clean steps, and use the default Mandrake .config file from /boot as the basis for the configure? Thanks, Robert C. On Wednesday 04 December 2002 04:07 pm, Todd Lyon

Re: [expert] kernel 2.5.50 on Mandrake

2002-12-04 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Crawford wrote on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:08:21AM -0500 : Is anyone using kernel 2.5.50 with Mandrake 9.0? I've tried to compile, both using the stock 9.0 .config file from /boot, and doing my own menuconfig and xconfig, b

Re: [expert] RPM trouble

2002-12-04 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 03:30 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Praedor Atrebates wrote: [...] > > I have lost my rpm db a few times but always got it back with the > > rebuilddb command but I can say I would HATE to have to go through all > > the steps you mentioned to get the db back if the normal

Re: [expert] New LM 9.0 Install - another SCSI System

2002-12-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert E. Whale wrote on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0500 : > > Now, after selecting the alt2 method of booting, the filesystem reformats > without issue. Now after package selection, I am installing rpms once again. alt2 is the 2.2.19 kernel w

Re: [expert] RPM trouble

2002-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Last ditch effort for me is defined on this page. Saved my bacon a time or two. http://hermes.afaa.asso.fr/users/pascal/linux/rpm-rebuilddb James On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:30, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > Good Shiva! What a massive pain. Might you consider producing a per

Re: [expert] kernel 2.5.50 on Mandrake

2002-12-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Crawford wrote on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:08:21AM -0500 : > Is anyone using kernel 2.5.50 with Mandrake 9.0? I've tried to compile, both > using the stock 9.0 .config file from /boot, and doing my own menuconfig and > xconfig, but can never ge

[expert] Terminal Settings not saved

2002-12-04 Thread Albert E. Whale
Has anyone else used the Terminal Shell and changed the configuration settings only to have the old ones brought back up again? -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Compute

Re: [expert] RPM trouble

2002-12-04 Thread Luca Olivetti
Praedor Atrebates wrote: Good Shiva! What a massive pain. Might you consider producing a perl script that would handle all the steps you mentioned as a last-ditch rpm db recovery tool? No, first because I don't know perl and second because, though some steps can be automated, the procedure h

Re: [expert] New LM 9.0 Install - another SCSI System

2002-12-04 Thread Albert E. Whale
I REALLY Don't understand this. The First installation on this machine (yesterday afternoon), went flawlessly, using the traditional installation method. Today I noticed that there were some issues with the machine not running well, so I decided to perform another Installation. That's when the p

[expert] New LM 9.0 Install - another SCSI System

2002-12-04 Thread Albert E. Whale
Here's a SCSI of a Different Flavor. While trying to reformat the / filesystem, (type ext3), I get the following error: Ext2 formatting of sda1 failed. Did I mention that this is set up as a ext3 type filesystem? So why does the error message say there is a problem with the ext2 formatting? Bt

Re: [expert] RPM trouble

2002-12-04 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Good Shiva! What a massive pain. Might you consider producing a perl script that would handle all the steps you mentioned as a last-ditch rpm db recovery tool? I have lost my rpm db a few times but always got it back with the rebuilddb command but I can say I would HATE to have to go through a

Re: [expert] RPM trouble

2002-12-04 Thread Luca Olivetti
Alan Carbutt wrote: I was updating the latest errata for LM 9.0 and I got the following output: [root@x errata]# rpm -Fvh * rpmdb: Unreferenced page 3479 rpmdb: Unreferenced page 3480 rpmdb: Unreferenced page 3481 rpmdb: Unreferenced page 3482 error: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_B

Re: [expert] Colortail. A wonderful tool for adding color to your syslog or any other text file!

2002-12-04 Thread Jordan Elver
Great, I recently tried to compile this on 9. How do I apply the patch though? TIA, Jord On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 4:02 am, Lorne wrote: > Good news guys. A simple new little tool was brought to my attention. > > It is a simple little tool for graphically coloring information. It > doesn't compi

Re: [expert] kernel 2.5.50 on Mandrake

2002-12-04 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 December 2002 6:08 am, Robert Crawford wrote: > Is anyone using kernel 2.5.50 with Mandrake 9.0? I've tried to compile, > both using the stock 9.0 .config file from /boot, and doing my own > menuconfig and xconfig, but can never get pas

Re: [expert] RPM troubles

2002-12-04 Thread kwan
On 4 Dec 2002, Alan Carbutt wrote: > error: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database > verification failed > > I'm not too familiar with RPM, so I was wondering if anyone has run > across this and if I should be worried about this. It sounds like a corrupt database, but I've ne

Re: [expert] Re: xine dvd playing

2002-12-04 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 16:02, stefmit wrote: > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 08:13 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > > Yes you don't have a contrib-source defined. > > What I would do on every mandrake-box (for desktop-use) is: > > > > adding an update-mirror for security updates. > > adding

[expert] RPM troubles

2002-12-04 Thread Alan Carbutt
I was updating the latest errata for LM 9.0 and I got the following output: [root@x errata]# rpm -Fvh * rpmdb: Unreferenced page 3479 rpmdb: Unreferenced page 3480 rpmdb: Unreferenced page 3481 rpmdb: Unreferenced page 3482 error: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verifica

[expert] Re: xine dvd playing

2002-12-04 Thread stefmit
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 08:13 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Yes you don't have a contrib-source defined. > What I would do on every mandrake-box (for desktop-use) is: > > adding an update-mirror for security updates. > adding contrib-mirror to my sources > adding a plf-mirror to my sources >

Re: [expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-04 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 14:08, stefmit wrote: > On Tuesday 03 December 2002 04:41 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > > # urpmi xine-dvdnav > > Um die Abhängigkeiten zu erfüllen, werden die folgenden Pakete > > installiert (0 MB): > > libdvdnav1-0.1.3-1mdk.i586 > > xine-dvdnav-0.9.13-1mdk.i586

RE: [expert] Can't smbumount - permission denied

2002-12-04 Thread Ken Walker
That was my first attempt. But it seems NFS isn't fully compiled into the LM8.1 kernel. There is a module missing, i think its called nfsso.oxc something. In services it says NFS running, but, on going through all the help people gave me earlier, it wouldn't run fully, just kept telling me a module

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:45, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 03:33, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > > Can't get the memtest tools to compile under Mandrake, failing to link > > to the maths library for some reason (and the make needs to be run as > > root which is bad). > > Can't remembe

Re: [expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-04 Thread stefmit
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 04:41 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > # urpmi xine-dvdnav > Um die Abhängigkeiten zu erfüllen, werden die folgenden Pakete installiert > (0 MB): > libdvdnav1-0.1.3-1mdk.i586 > xine-dvdnav-0.9.13-1mdk.i586 Hmmm ... tried the same thing, and got a "no package named xine-dvd

Re: [expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-04 Thread Thomas K. Gamble
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 03:16 pm, J. Grant wrote: > Hi, > Although mdk9 includes xine, I still have to install the encrypted > dvd decoder. I had this working in 8.1 but it is not going well atm. > > As xine is installed already I added the following: > > libdvdread2-devel-0.9.3-2mdk > libdvdcs

Re: [expert] USB CF CardFlash reader?

2002-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
I've got another version but I used this page and a bit of luck. http://www.scm-pc-card.de/service/linux/zio-cf.html There is a link at the bottom to the original version... more complete. James On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 03:52, Robert Crawford wrote: > Can anyone give me a step-by-step on ho

Re: [expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ?

2002-12-04 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:32:26PM -0800, Munagala Ramanath wrote: > --- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have conected a Nikon 755 under 9.0 and has work like a charm. > > > > After be sure usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsi modules are > > loaded I > > created a dir

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 03:33, Alex Bennee wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:27, James Sparenberg wrote: > > This is one point I do have to give to M$ they do seem to be able to > > dynamically map around bad blocks on HDD's and ram a lot better than > > Linux or FreeBSD. > > I don't know if Windows

[expert] kernel 2.5.50 on Mandrake

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
Is anyone using kernel 2.5.50 with Mandrake 9.0? I've tried to compile, both using the stock 9.0 .config file from /boot, and doing my own menuconfig and xconfig, but can never get past make dep without multiple errors. I've updated the required stuff in the 2.5.50 Documentation/changes file, bu

[expert] USB CF CardFlash reader?

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
Can anyone give me a step-by-step on how to get a usb Zio CF card reader to work on a generic Mandrake 9.0 install? I looked in the Mandrake .config file in/ boot, and believe the necessary stuff is already compiled in the kernel, but am not sure. When I plug in the usb cable, it sends power to

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:27, James Sparenberg wrote: > This is one point I do have to give to M$ they do seem to be able to > dynamically map around bad blocks on HDD's and ram a lot better than > Linux or FreeBSD. I don't know if Windows actively maps round bad memory (and in my case its only a s

Re: [expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ?

2002-12-04 Thread Victor
Hello, I'm having a similar problem with my generic USB Card Reader. I tried making some devices using MAKEDEV but that did not seem to work. The messages file shows that the kernel realizes the reader is there but not device was created to mount. I'm not sure if this affects anything but I am

Re: [expert] Opps (Cron nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily)

2002-12-04 Thread Luca Olivetti
Franki wrote: bzcat: ./cancel.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. bzcat: ./newaliases.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. bzcat: ./mailq.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. bzcat: ./lpr.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. bzcat: ./lpq.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. bzcat: ./lprm.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. bzcat: ./lp.1.bz2 is not a bzip

Re: [expert] Temporary Path creation

2002-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Thanks, Nice to know I'm not too far off. Thanks for the info. James On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 23:25, Sridhar wrote: > > > James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 23:03, Sridhar wrote: > > > >>You can create a wrapper script for each application and including the > >>correct path f