[expert] Accidentally removed CD1 from urpmi list

2002-12-26 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Hi, I accidentally removed the "Installation CD1" from the urpmi list :-[ . Does anybody know how to RECREATE a working environment for urpmi? Thanks in advance. Best regards /stefano smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 22:42, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at 10:57 PM, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > >> Some short comings in this statement > >> > >> First it ensures that the only people who can find out how to > >> purchase > >> a boxes set are people who have in the

[expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Stefano Pogliani
I am experimenting a strange issue. No problem in inserting a CD into its bay for reading it. When I need to remove it (to insert another one) and I press the HW eject button, the CD tray gets out and IMMEDIATELY gets in again, making it a real adventure to extract the CD itself (fighting with t

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Jure Repinc
Stefano Pogliani wrote: I am experimenting a strange issue. No problem in inserting a CD into its bay for reading it. When I need to remove it (to insert another one) and I press the HW eject button, the CD tray gets out and IMMEDIATELY gets in again, making it a real adventure to extract the C

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Jure,     could you pls list the steps: for disabling in MCC for manually control mounting (do you mean that each time I insert a CD, I should issue [from root :-[ ] a "mount /dev/cdrom" ?) Thanks a lot. Best regards /stefano Jure Repinc wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: I am experimen

[expert] cron & smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all , I have asked this question on the newbie list, but have had no luck so far The script below works ok from the command line but when I run it as a cron job, it starts ok, but stops after backing up a few directories. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? is it a bug with cron? btw, I'm using

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Mark Williamson
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:15, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > I am experimenting a strange issue. No problem in inserting a CD into > its bay for reading it. > When I need to remove it (to insert another one) and I press the HW > eject button, the CD tray gets out and IMMEDIATELY gets in again, making

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Mark,     "eject" works. But, I was wondering why the HW button behaves differently in Linux and NT4 (dual boot machine). /stefano Mark Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:15, Stefano Pogliani wrote: I am experimenting a strange issue. No problem in inserting a CD into i

Re: [expert] Accidentally removed CD1 from urpmi list

2002-12-26 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:12, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > Hi, > > I accidentally removed the "Installation CD1" from the urpmi list :-[ . > Does anybody know how to RECREATE a working environment for urpmi? > > Thanks in advance. Best regards > /stefano Sure. You can do this with urpmi add-me

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Jason
I have had the same problem in the past myself. I too believe it is a problem with SM. I disable it and then start Kwikdisk. I make sure and save my sessions upon shutting down my system so Kwikdisk starts every time I Login. The mounting CD's (or whatever is as easy as clicking on it in Kwikdi

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Jason,     kwikdisk only shows Harddrives, no CDrom ! All my harddrive partitions, though Another question. How do I disable SuperMount ? TIA /stefano Jason wrote: I have had the same problem in the past myself. I too believe it is a problem with SM. I disable it and then start Kwikdis

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Jason
AFAIK, Kwikdisk only shows non-SM controlled devices. Go to MCC>Mount Points>CD Burner/CD Rom>Options (click ok)> Then uncheck the box that says "supermount" and check the boxes that say "no auto" and "user". After saving the changes, reboot the system and supermount will be off. Then Kwikdisk

[expert] postfix 2.0.0.1

2002-12-26 Thread tarvid
Mulling upgrading to the new postfix release. Happiest case is a new Mandrkae RPM. Simon Mudd has RedHat and SRPMS at http://www.WL0.org/~sjmudd/postfix/en/available-packages/ The Mandrake postfix.spec is ancient. The RedHat8 RPM from Simon may work and rebuilding the SRPM is even more likely

Re: [expert] Accidentally removed CD1 from urpmi list

2002-12-26 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Thanks !!! /stefano Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:12, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Hi, I accidentally removed the "Installation CD1" from the urpmi list :-[ . Does anybody know how to RECREATE a working environment for urpmi? Thanks in advance. Best regards /stefano Sure

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
Hi Stefano, I've discover that if you have a open window that calls indirectly to the cdrom, like if you are seeying (sorry if it's mispelled) the /mnt dir with konqueror, it will close. You just have to close the windows open that calls for the cdrom(or be fast enough to get the CD out :) ). I

Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0

2002-12-26 Thread Jason
I see the device in usbview but I cannot figure out how to mount/use it. It is not autodetected on plugin and I don't know where the hotplug error logs are located. What other logs would show usb activities?? /dev/sd does not exist and I was under the impression that it would be generated autma

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Ron Stodden
Stefano Pogliani wrote: Jure, could you pls list the steps: 1. for disabling in MCC 2. for manually control mounting (do you mean that each time I insert a CD, I should issue [from root :-[ ] a "mount /dev/cdrom" ?) Nah! Just use kdf (Applications - Monitoring - KDiskFree)

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Jason
I find Kwikdisk better (it sits in the systray) and you can activate KDF from it as well. Cheers Jason Ron Stodden wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: Jure, could you pls list the steps: 1. for disabling in MCC 2. for manually control mounting (do you mean that each time I insert

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Thanks a lot indeed. Best regards /stefano Ron Stodden wrote: Stefano Pogliani wrote: Jure, could you pls list the steps: 1. for disabling in MCC 2. for manually control mounting (do you mean that each time I insert a CD, I should issue [from root :-[ ] a "mount /dev/cdrom"

Re: [expert] Small speed increase

2002-12-26 Thread milosh
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:29:03PM +0100, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > I need to improve my box speed a bit because I can't watch divx well (the > skip only a bit). > Will I obtain a 5-8% speed improvement if I recompile kernel 2.4.20 (from > kernel.org plus http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/ker

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread James Sparenberg
Stefano, I've got one of these on a box we use for test installs. It's done it on everything from MDK to RH through SuSe. Any time I use the eject command I have to have one hand immediately there to grab the tray. I'm convinced the only cure is dropping this dang thing out a window. James

Re: [expert] Why my CD does not want to get out ?

2002-12-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 05:05, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > Jason, > > kwikdisk only shows Harddrives, no CDrom ! All my harddrive > partitions, though > Another question. How do I disable SuperMount ? supermount disable. will disable all of it's mount points... supermount /mnt/cdrom disable

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 01:15 AM, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] So while James made some very good points, they're pretty much irrelevant to the topic at hand which is, looking at the subject line, Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft, which is happening *now*... not next year. Hope

[expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-26 Thread David Rankin
Guy & Gals, I need help. Something went whacko with eth0 and with my system just before my nightly cron job ran and I got a lot of weird messages in my log files. I don't know if this was a successful hack or if it was just a noral response from the system after eth0 went bonkers. The log entr

Re: [expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-26 Thread mike
On Thursday 26 December 2002 02:20 pm, you wrote: > Guy & Gals, > > I need help. Something went whacko with eth0 and with my system just > before my nightly cron job ran and I got a lot of weird messages in my > log files. I don't know if this was a successful hack or if it was just > a noral r

RE: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Franki
Well, even though I can't really afford it right now,, you have convinced me to join the club for a year (well see after that.) I've bought powerpacks from mandrakestore before, and I will purchase 9.1 the same way.. Thats as much as I can do right now... $120 AUD a year is quiet alot of money to

[expert] anyone have Hp 820cse working in MDK9?

2002-12-26 Thread mycal62
Hi all , quick question, does anyone have a hp 820cse working in mandrake 9.0 ? I had my working when I first installed MDK 9 but it won't work now . I know it still works as i moved it to another box ( 98lite ) and it works fine. I did the usual updates ( no cooker ) , maybe this broke it ? sin

Re: [expert] cron & smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know it's RFC-compliant to do this... it's also RFC-compliant to have a non-contiguous IPv4 subnet mask and you don't see people doing _that_ little bit of insanity do you?) On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 01:55, Colin Jenkins wrote: > Hi all , > I have asked this qu

Re: [expert] Small speed increase

2002-12-26 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Ok, I'll lower the res (I already have dma on). What about an xfree recompile for i686? Thanks Olaf At 18.24 26/12/2002, you wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:29:03PM +0100, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > I need to improve my box speed a bit because I can't watch divx well (the > skip only a bit). > W

Re: [expert] Stable video card

2002-12-26 Thread Brian Schroeder
Does anyone have any experience with the Voodoo 2? I am trying to get one working with mdk9. Brian From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Stable video card Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:38:38 +1100 Jack Coates wrote: Voodoos

Re: [expert] Stable video card

2002-12-26 Thread Jason
I haven't but when I had trouble with my SIS card (in a laptop), I ran Knoppix (which configured it correctly) and then copied the XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files over to Mandrake and it worked perfect. Knoppix works great as a diagnostic tool I find. If it doesn't find and configure your har

[expert] perl 5.8.0 is broke on mdk 9 ?

2002-12-26 Thread jerry
perl runs ok, but I have been unsuccessful in installing ANY CPAN module. i know how to, it is just that for one reason or another the modules never compile, and stuff it ought to be able to find it doesn't. Should I just uninstall the perl rpm and then install perl from perl.org? -- --

Re: [expert] Accidentally removed CD1 from urpmi list

2002-12-26 Thread David Robertson
> On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:12, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I accidentally removed the "Installation CD1" from the urpmi list :-[ . > > Does anybody know how to RECREATE a working environment for urpmi? > > > > Thanks in advance. Best regards > > /stefano You might also want to t

Re: [expert] perl 5.8.0 is broke on mdk 9 ?

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 14:42, jerry wrote: > perl runs ok, but I have been unsuccessful in installing ANY CPAN module. > i know how to, it is just that for one reason or another the modules never > compile, and stuff it ought to be able to find it doesn't. > Haven't had any problems... are you us

[expert] MDK 7.2 cds?

2002-12-26 Thread Ruben Olague
Anyone there with MDK 7.2 cds available? A client machine was hacked and I need to restore the packages again. Unfortunately net-tools, procps, etc. aren't available as updates. I didn't find any useful link googling. Anyone there with the packages online that could let me download the necessary o

Re: [expert] MDK 7.2 cds?

2002-12-26 Thread Ruben Olague
found it! thnx anyway. -- Ruben Olague msg63318/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Jason Pearce
hi all, christmas has maxed out my cc but as soon as i make a payment i'll take out a silver membership long live mandrake!!! 9.0 has blown me away I used 8 for a long time up untill about a month ago and thought that was good but w 9.0 ROCKS can't wait for 10.0 jason Want to buy yo

Re: [expert] MDK 7.2 cds?

2002-12-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:16:58 -0600 Ruben Olague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > found it! > thnx anyway. For others who may need rpms from/for older versions of Mandrake or even the ISOs you can use this link to select a mirror. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftptmp/1040946720.c10673d77d85f324f2c

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
No one has mentioned the share option yet, I'm taking this up, its less than market value and you might even get your money back. JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Mcleod, Ian
What are the Mandrake shares looking like right now? And why is Mandrake so disinterested in raising revenue out of Europe and North America. I swear I have emailed Mandrake 15 times asking how I can pay for a club membership - not ONE reply!! I am beginning to suspect that Mandrake is not too f

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
Hi Vincent, And I thank you for that, James. The issue at this instant in time, if we could freeze on today, is not new users; it's existing users that aren't doing their part (freeloaders if you will). Mandrake Linux is perhaps one of the most popular Linux distributions out there, but you'

RE: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Mcleod, Ian
too right - I just gave up waiting around for Mandrake to make it easy for them to receive $$$ and just stuck with the download version - because by the time it finally arrives in Australia it's probably out of date anyway. And I never received a reply to my 15 or so emails regarding Mandrake Club

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 17:39, J. Grant wrote: > > I don't know. Maybe we need to go with SuSE's model and allow a one ISO > > demo a few months after release to prevent people from doing this. > > Then again, who wants to see Mandrake become another SuSE? I think the > > fact that Mandrake d

Re: [expert] cron & smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
is it really broken? The reply-to should not be changed/added by the list. It is the mdk config problem I believe. JG Jack Coates wrote: Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know it's RFC-compliant to do this... it's also RFC-compliant to have a non-contiguous IPv4 subnet mask and you don't

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
2.27 €, but they are selling for 2.2 to us :) anyway i emailed them, they replied asking for my name, that was the last I have heard. perhaps the amount I wanted was not enough, but then asking users for support is never going to generate 300K €. JG Mcleod, Ian wrote: What are the Mandrake sha

RE: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Mcleod, Ian
What's the share price history like? -Original Message- From: J. Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft 2.27 €, but they are selling for 2.2 to us :) anyway i emailed them

[expert] two sound cards

2002-12-26 Thread Tom
I had to do much research on the matter. But, Now I play music in one sound card while doing SSTV in the second sound card simultaneously. SSTV, or Slow Scan TV, is an Amateur Radio thing which requires a decent sound card. How about that for a cool hack on Mandrake 9.0? Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] cron & smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
This is a religion issue, really. I usually try to avoid those and live quietly with my choices, but this one bugs me because it causes either needlessly duplicated mail or replies to questions to be unpublished/unarchived. The RFCs for mailing lists and many MUA authors/contributors feel that ma

RE: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
STFW. http://fr.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MAKE.PA&d=c On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 19:08, Mcleod, Ian wrote: > What's the share price history like? > > -Original Message- > From: J. Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 12:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [e

Re: [expert] two sound cards

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 20:05, Tom wrote: > I had to do much research on the matter. But, Now I play music in one sound > card while doing SSTV in the second sound card simultaneously. SSTV, or Slow > Scan TV, is an Amateur Radio thing which requires a decent sound card. How > about that for a co

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mcleod, Ian wrote: too right - I just gave up waiting around for Mandrake to make it easy for them to receive $$$ and just stuck with the download version - because by the time it finally arrives in Australia it's probably out of date anyway. And I never received a reply to my 15 or so emails reg

RE: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Mcleod, Ian
I have looked at the sites, etc - they don't accept American Express (not that I blame them - I can't wait to get rid of Amex - they are such greedy bastards and no vendor will touch them anymore - anywhere - people scoff at me when I pull out the Amex). I never received a reply to that. Internat

[expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-26 Thread rob
What does this mean and why do I keep seeing it in connection with any discussion of Linux?."free (as in beer)"? Thanks, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-26 Thread mike
On Thursday 26 December 2002 11:41 pm, you wrote: > What does this mean and why do I keep seeing it in connection with any > discussion of Linux?."free (as in beer)"? > > Thanks, > Rob With free beer comes irresponsibility, with free software comes responsibility. Mike ~~~

Re: [expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 20:41, rob wrote: > What does this mean and why do I keep seeing it in connection with any > discussion of Linux?."free (as in beer)"? > > Thanks, > Rob > I'm not an expert on licensing, but since the experts are still recovering from all that spiked eggnog... Free as

Re: [expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-26 Thread John McQuillen
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 15:41, rob wrote: > What does this mean and why do I keep seeing it in connection with any > discussion of Linux?."free (as in beer)"? > When discussing Free Software, you will often hear free used in two ways. Free (as in beer) and Free (as in speech). Free (as in beer)

Re: [expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 20:41, rob wrote: > What does this mean and why do I keep seeing it in connection with any > discussion of Linux?."free (as in beer)"? > > Thanks, > Rob A phrase wich is probably showing off the American influance in Free Software. How many times have you been to a part

Re: [expert] two sound cards

2002-12-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 20:14, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 20:05, Tom wrote: > > I had to do much research on the matter. But, Now I play music in one sound > > card while doing SSTV in the second sound card simultaneously. SSTV, or Slow > > Scan TV, is an Amateur Radio thing which r

RE: [expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-26 Thread Mcleod, Ian
I think you have had too much egg nog!! Can I have some too??? --- Imagine a Venn diagram of these two circles, with freely downloaded distributions of open source operating systems in the overlap area, and you've got a pret

Re: [expert] MDK 7.2 cds?

2002-12-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 16:09, Ruben Olague wrote: > Anyone there with MDK 7.2 cds available? > > A client machine was hacked and I need to restore the packages again. > Unfortunately net-tools, procps, etc. aren't available as updates. I > didn't find any useful link googling. Anyone there with the

RE: [expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-26 Thread Mcleod, Ian
Simple response. Free = Free from cost or required payment. Free = Freedom and liberty and all that American propaganda we all hear daily around the world - that kind of heart thumping tear welling freedom. One would suspect in this context that many Americans have interpreted their constitutiona

RE: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Franki
I was just about to try signing up and then got this email... don't they accept credit cards from Australia I bought my 8.1 powerpack about a year or so ago that way, I just assumed the club would work the same way... it doesn't??? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: [expert] perl 5.8.0 is broke on mdk 9 ?

2002-12-26 Thread Franki
I have a nine machine.. and just as a test.. I installed CGI::Session and HTML::Template on it.. They both went just fine.. (I have a script that uses both running on it now.) The modules sometimes have to be modified for 5.8, it ususally states if its 5.8 ready in the docs somewhere.. (or the se

RE: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Franki
maybe they had to lay off the guys that answered the phones and emails :) seriously though, thats the difference between a small efficient business, and one that wants to be but isn't.. If people write in asking questions that will lead to mandrake making money.. you'd think it should be a

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 10:55, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 01:15 AM, James Sparenberg wrote: > > [...] > >> So while James made some very good points, they're pretty much > >> irrelevant to the topic at hand which is, looking at the subject line, > >> Increase of Capita

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 14:13 +0800, Franki wrote: > > If people write in asking questions that will lead to mandrake > making money.. you'd think it should be a priority for them to > answer wouldn't you??? anything with queries about shareprices or > problems with mandrakestore etc should have p