Re: [expert] Fonts issues for OO and Mozilla

2003-01-01 Thread Stefano Pogliani
John WORKS THANKS A LOT INDEED And Happy New Year | /stefano P.S. Did you experiment also the issue zith the Mozilla fonts I listed below ? John Haywood wrote: On Monday 30 December 2002 09:22 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: After having installed some packages from

[expert] Open Office installs in German

2003-01-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Has anybody had a problem with Open Office not installing in English? Other than me? I completed my first LM90 install over the weekend; everything went well except for that. Will probably post the dirty details later. But for now I'm wondering how to get Open Office out of German. Any

Re: [expert] cdrom fstab entry

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Adams
Also as root # cdrecord --scanbus will show you where it is. The three numbers tell you the X X X of /busX/targetX/lunX/cd On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: On my CD-Burner scd0 is a link # ls -l /dev/scd0 # lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Dec 16 22:21 scd0 -

Re: [expert] Open Office installs in German

2003-01-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Has anybody had a problem with Open Office not installing in English? Other than me? I completed my first LM90 install over the weekend; everything went well except for that. Will probably post the dirty details later. But for now I'm wondering how to get Open Office out

Re: [expert] A bit OT: Help needed - reaching the edge...

2003-01-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 01:25:12 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Thank you g! this looks like fun. I'm going to try this and see what happens. I've been doing all the backup to scsi tape using tar before this. you are most welcome. i hope you

Re: [expert] cdrom fstab entry

2003-01-01 Thread Tom
My Final Solution for everyone's edification: /etc/modules.conf added 3 lines at the beginning of the file: alias scd0 sr_mod pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi /etc/modules added 2 lines to the end: sr_mod sg

Re: [expert] Undeletable file found in mailbox file need help.

2003-01-01 Thread Salane
ok yes cur/ is a dir rf should work and I was root. but it seems that rm -rfd worked. or the dir was released on reboot. On Tuesday 31 December 2002 06:55 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Dec 31, 2002 at 05:41:33PM -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:31:42 -0500 Salane

Re: [expert] A bit OT: Help needed - reaching the edge...

2003-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 01:25:12 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Thank you g! this looks like fun. I'm going to try this and see what happens. I've been doing all the backup to scsi tape using tar before this. you are most

Re: [expert] A bit OT: Help needed - reaching the edge...

2003-01-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 11:12:06 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 01:25:12 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Thank you g! this looks like fun. I'm going to try this and see what happens.

Re: [expert] mandrake update failure , some assistance required

2003-01-01 Thread ET
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 04:48 pm, richard bown wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:09, Vincent Danen wrote: mdkonline package has nothing to do with rpmdrake (aka Mandrake Update). mdkonline also has nothing to do with Club. urpmi has nothing to do with Club. To insinuate that we have

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 11:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Ken, Seen you around here long enough to know you know what you are doing But I must admit.. You've come up with one I didn't even know was possible Not this will help but I've definitely been stumped before ... and

Re: [expert] clonning HD

2003-01-01 Thread ddc_prueba
Maybe it's now solved, but just in case... I got my backup/recovery solved by: * Making the backup file: find /directory_to_start_backup_from -xdev | grep -v /path_not_to_backup/ | cpio -o -H crc | bzip2 -9 -k compressed_backup_file.cpio.bz2 * Restoring backup (to current directory): bunzip2

Re: [expert] set brightness

2003-01-01 Thread s
On Saturday 28 December 2002 8:20 am, francesco.melo wrote: there is a way to set global brightness with my grafich card i have a geforce and with the Nvidia driver i have less brightness i need more light my monitor is on 95 % brightness so it is a video setting problem .. thanks

Re: [expert] Open Office installs in German

2003-01-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 09:29, Rolf Pedersen wrote: # rpm -qa | grep -i office OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk koffice-i18n-en_GB-1.2-1mdk OpenOffice.org-libs-1.0.1-9mdk OpenOffice.org-l10n-en-1.0.1-9mdk OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk koffice-1.2-3mdk # rpm -qa | grep -i spell

Re: [expert] Open Office installs in German

2003-01-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Thank you, Rolf. And thanks for all the other help you've supplied to You're welcome. Why do you like grub over lilo? It was default when I installed 7.1 and I've stuck with it. There was a time when grub overcame the 1024 cylinder limit for placement of the boot

Re: [expert] mandrake update failure , some assistance required

2003-01-01 Thread richard bown
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:06, ET wrote: There also something else that needs clarifying. I speak and write English, Both Vincent and ET write and speak a derivative of the English language call American English. They may sound the same at times, but are now different languages, the same as

[expert] mdk 9.0 installation impossible

2003-01-01 Thread Jason Snyder
Hi, Between me, my brother, and one of my friends who have tried to install mdk 9.0, we have all failed to get mdk 9.0 to install and function properly on at least one of our computers. One computer that I tried to install mdk 9.0 on is a Mini-ITX system using a 800 MHz VIA C3 processor. The

Re: [expert] A bit OT: Help needed - reaching the edge...

2003-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 11:12:06 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 01:25:12 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Thank you g! this looks like fun. I'm going to try this and see

[expert] dhcp incomplete on mandrake??

2003-01-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
I am using DHCP on my home network. The DHCP server is my Linksys wireless router. I have XPPro (ethernet), XPHome (wireless ethernet) and Mandrake 9.0 (ethernet) on the boxes. DHCP assigns addresses to all boxes. I can ping all boxes by ip addresses from all boxes. I can ping all boxes by name

[expert] Nautilus symbol stripped binaries

2003-01-01 Thread Simon A Watts
Nautilus is regularly producing core dumps in my (non-root) user account. This occurs most often when logging in, though has happened at other times (when Nautilus was not being used directly, other than for the desktop). I have tried to analyse these files, and report using BugBuddy, but the

Re: [expert] Nautilus symbol stripped binaries

2003-01-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Simon A Watts wrote: Nautilus is regularly producing core dumps in my (non-root) user account. This occurs most often when logging in, though has happened at other times (when Nautilus was not being used directly, other than for the desktop). I have tried to analyse these files, and report

[expert] Where is perldoc?

2003-01-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Ok, I understand the confusion over ExtUtils::MakeMaker and the PREFIX macro being deprecated or not. But can someone please explain to me how Perl got installed in Mandrake 9.0 without perldoc? Or did I miss and RPM in the installation somehow? -- Matthew Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] Re: Where is perldoc?

2003-01-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:08:03PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: But can someone please explain to me how Perl got installed in Mandrake 9.0 without perldoc? Or did I miss and RPM in the installation somehow? I'm not a Mandrake user, but if its anything like Debian they've likely moved

[expert] Re: Where is perldoc?

2003-01-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:22:34 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:08:03PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: But can someone please explain to me how Perl got installed in Mandrake 9.0 without perldoc? Or did I miss and RPM in the installation somehow? I'm not a Mandrake user,

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread Tom
Is the partition being mounted as read-only? On Wednesday 01 January 2003 12:45 am, Ken Thompson wrote: I booted into rescue mode and every file I looked at was either read or read execute, none have write.. WTF?? Installed twice thinking I'd borked it the first time.. Ken Thompson. Want

Re: [expert] Undeletable file found in mailbox file need help.

2003-01-01 Thread Tom
There are non-printed characters in the file name. The only way to clear up something like this is with: rm -ir cur (as root) and answer each file with yes. On Wednesday 01 January 2003 10:23 am, Salane wrote: ok yes cur/ is a dir rf should work and I was root. but it seems that rm -rfd

[expert] xchat and sound file in 'edit event'

2003-01-01 Thread bascule
i can't get a sound file to play on an event in xchat, i've entered the path to the sounds dir in ctcp setup and specified 'play' as the player, how exactly do i specify a sound to play, whenever i add a sound file in the 'edit event' dialogue it isn't saved, bascule -- 'Begone From This

Re: [expert] xchat and sound file in 'edit event' - solved?

2003-01-01 Thread bascule
after more playing around i discovered that although i couldn't get xchat to save the sound file info if i copied the ~/.xchat/pevents.conf file and edited it by hand to have lines such as: event_name=Join event_text=-%C10-%C11%O$t%B$1%B %C14(%C10$3%C14)%C has joined $2 event_sound=roadrun.wav

[expert] reversed man?

2003-01-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Given this man path setting: [root@moplx bin]# export MANPATH=/opt/perl/share/man:/usr/share/man: it would seem to me that if a man page was present in both places, I would see the one in /opt/perl... first. But lo, and behold: [root@moplx bin]# man -aw version

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread James Sparenberg
You might want to try tomsRTBT to boot into a linux that will allow you to mount partitions and see what the original /etc/fstab said. somehow, someway it's 100% sure that you want a read only file system... (better than write only ... but not by much.) James On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 09:53,

Re: [expert] Nautilus symbol stripped binaries

2003-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
030101 Simon A Watts wrote: Nautilus is regularly producing core dumps in my (non-root) user account. This occurs most often when logging in, though has happened at other times (when Nautilus was not being used directly, other than for the desktop). System: MDK 9.0 (u/g from 8.2), dual-athlon,

Re: [expert] mdk 9.0 installation impossible

2003-01-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 13:35, Jason Snyder wrote: Hi, Between me, my brother, and one of my friends who have tried to install mdk 9.0, we have all failed to get mdk 9.0 to install and function properly on at least one of our computers. One computer that I tried to install mdk 9.0 on is a

Re: [expert] Undeletable file found in mailbox file need help.

2003-01-01 Thread Jack Coates
Another quick-n-dirty workaround is to use a file manager to delete it - e.g. mc. On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 16:58, Tom wrote: There are non-printed characters in the file name. The only way to clear up something like this is with: rm -ir cur (as root) and answer each file with yes. On

[expert] docbook SGML

2003-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
i recently wanted to use a program whose dox were all in Docbook SGML. can anyone tell me how to read such documentation? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 05:55 pm, Tom wrote: Is the partition being mounted as read-only? I'll have to re-install and look. I gave up kinda after 2 flops.. I did get in far enough with a rescue CD to see that every file I looked at was read only.. I don't recall seeing the mounting fs in