[expert] redirecting to a port.

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
OK,, Been hit with a challenge... I've got to get cat to send a file out of a port... K sounds easy... Mods to /etc/xinetd.d created new file called catnet # default: on service catnet { type= INTERNAL socket_type = stream wait= no

[expert] Kernel oops while running dumper

2003-01-08 Thread Mikko Lipasti
Hi, This morning I didn't get the usual amanda log from my server so I checked what's wrong. It seems the poor thing experienced a kernel oops while doing the dump. Relevat portion of /var/log/messages is attached. A bit about the system.. It's a Celeron 366 box (on Abit BH6, heard rumours about

Re: [expert] Kernel oops while running dumper

2003-01-08 Thread Mikko Lipasti
Hi again, Seems like I forgot to add the attachment. Well whatever,here goes inline: Jan 8 06:46:15 london kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0018 Jan 8 06:46:15 london kernel: printing eip: Jan 8 06:46:15 london kernel: c0138414 Jan 8 06:46:15 l

[expert] eUSB SmartMedia / CompactFlash Adapter

2003-01-08 Thread Azrael
I have a eUSB SmartMedia / CompactFlash Adapter, and I would like to know how I go about using it under mandrake 9. I have plugged it in, and it is visible under the USB viewer, but after that I don't know what to do to get it useable. The info given in USB viewer for it is: eUSB SmartMedia / Comp

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Vox
This time James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > How about webmin... Yes I know the legion of complaints against > "gui" I agree on this...I had to do the same thing when somebody mungled an sshd upgrade and we lost sshd access. Had "dumb remote fingers" start w

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 compatible TV card and chipsets.

2003-01-08 Thread et
I have one of the earliest Happauge winTV cards, it is a BT848 and is autodetected and setup by the install everytime since 7.2, I even get the xawTV icon on the desktop as soon as installed On Tuesday 07 January 2003 09:47 pm, David Savolainen wrote: > I have a BT878 based tv card made by stb t

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port.

2003-01-08 Thread et
is "127.0.0.1 localhost" in you /etc/hosts file? ???does your firewall allow connection to that port on localhost? On Wednesday 08 January 2003 03:13 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > OK,, >Been hit with a challenge... I've got to get cat to send a file out > of a port... K sounds easy... > > Mod

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs. 1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 06:34 am, et wrote: > no warrenty on this, but with everything running so well for so long,,, > consider the posible cables may have gotten bumped or steped on in such a > way it mat have pulled a little loose? have you reseated the cables? > I don't think it would be c

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I got this one resolved "this time". BUT: After this lesson, I'm going to be sure that I have an alternate way into the box. Webmin "is" installed, but for some reason it wouldn't let me in. I'll be fixing that. To all who answered this thread: "Thank You!". sshd is back up & running now. It wa

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs. 1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread et
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 08:49 am, Lorne wrote: > On Wednesday 08 January 2003 06:34 am, et wrote: > > no warrenty on this, but with everything running so well for so long,,, > > consider the posible cables may have gotten bumped or steped on in such a > > way it mat have pulled a little loose?

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread kwan
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > I got this one resolved "this time". BUT: After this lesson, I'm going > to be sure that I have an alternate way into the box. Webmin "is" > installed, but for some reason it wouldn't let me in. I'll be fixing that. Just for curiousity's sake, how did

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Toshiro
> Linux Server sitting in Seattle, I'm in Florida. > The Linux Server crashed due to a power failure (I know, it needs a > UPS). When the server came back up, it came up, sans sshd. So I cannot > get on it to check it out. I also cannot get on to diagnose the problem > with sshd, because ssh is my

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs.1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:33:51 -0600 "David Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been struggling with a weird message lately that hasn't appeared > over the past 2 years until the past few weeks. I don't have any clue as > to what this is actually telling me, but I would suspect that it may

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Toshiro wrote: Linux Server sitting in Seattle, I'm in Florida. The Linux Server crashed due to a power failure (I know, it needs a UPS). When the server came back up, it came up, sans sshd. So I cannot get on it to check it out. I also cannot get on to diagnose the problem with sshd, because

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: I got this one resolved "this time". BUT: After this lesson, I'm going to be sure that I have an alternate way into the box. Webmin "is" installed, but for some reason it wouldn't let me in. I'll be fixing that. Just for c

[expert] Xawtv and UK tv channels

2003-01-08 Thread Roger Munoz
Hi I've have installed a hauppauge wintv card on my mandrake 9.0 system. On install there were no problems encountered, but the problem is, when i a channel scan nothing comes back!. The card works fine in windoze and i can see all the UK channels in the London region. Is there any reason why

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs.1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread David Rankin
Pierre Fortin wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:33:51 -0600 "David Rankin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have been struggling with a weird message lately that hasn't appeared > > over the past 2 years until the past few weeks. I don't have any clue as > > to what this is actually telling

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs.1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:21:25 -0600 David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:33:51 -0600 "David Rankin" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I have been struggling with a weird message lately that hasn't > > > appeared over the past

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs.1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread et
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 01:03 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:21:25 -0600 David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:33:51 -0600 "David Rankin" > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have been struggling with a w

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-08 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kiran wrote on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:55:04PM -0600 : > IIRC Mandrake 9.0 uses the ALSA drivers by default. It depends on the sound hardware. Most of the time it's ALSA. In cases where OSS is known to work better, it will use OSS instead. less /us

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port.

2003-01-08 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800 : > OK,, >Been hit with a challenge... I've got to get cat to send a file out > of a port... K sounds easy... It is, but you're killing yourself with your own logic. Two correctio

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port.

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 03:16, J. Grant wrote: > Hi James, > > Just out of interest, when you do this > cat /home/james/testthis.html &>/dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/8181 > I got this from a how to on the net Don't know if it's needed And I've tried it without. But still get the connection error. > is i

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port.

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 05:44, et wrote: > is "127.0.0.1 localhost" in you /etc/hosts file? > ???does your firewall allow connection to that port on localhost? Right now all testing is 100% behind the firewall so it's not in the loop. And 127. localhost is in /etc/hosts. > On Wednesday 08 Jan

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port. Minor Modification.

2003-01-08 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Lyons wrote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:38:57AM -0800 : > > then /usr/bin/catnet is > > > > #!/bin/sh > > cat /home/james/testthis.html &>/dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/8181 > cat /home/james/testthis.html I was a little off. It works like this if you ju

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port. Minor Modification.

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 10:56, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Todd Lyons wrote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:38:57AM -0800 : > > > > then /usr/bin/catnet is > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > cat /home/james/testthis.html &>/dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/8181 > > cat /home/jam

[expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Axtell
I'm planning to upgrade my motherboard/CPU combo to an Athlon XP system. I'm not looking for overclocking or onboard sound & video (all the networking, sound and graphics will be using existing boards), just a solid, reliable motherboard that works well with Mandrake 9.0 Any recommendations?

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port. Minor Modification.

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd, Others too. Yep got it working now I just need to get the page set up with the correct headers (testthis.html) etc, and I'll have a micro 1 page web server... James On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:01, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 10:56, Todd Lyons wrote: > > -BEGIN P

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread Antoine
Le mer 08/01/2003 à 19:56, Dan Axtell a écrit : > I'm planning to upgrade my motherboard/CPU combo to an Athlon XP system. > I'm not looking for overclocking or onboard sound & video (all the > networking, sound and graphics will be using existing boards), just a > solid, reliable motherboard t

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
Had this happen once on my home box. The only thing I could conclude was that it had something to do with the journal or some other redundant protection... Same situation a box that went down suddenly do to power failure. (the lightning strike popped the UPS but didn't get to the server.) When it

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I have a ECS K7S5A based on the Sis 735 chipset, very good stuff. It's by far the cheapest board arround here in Belgium (costs about half of the second-cheapest). Performance is very good, and stability is excellent. Apart from me, I know 3 other people that own one and they're all happy with it

Re: [expert] sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Actually, that does make some sense. I had recently upgraded ssh, and this was it's first crash since. So that's at least a plausable explanation. Thanks! I've been digging around on the box, and don't see any signs of intrusion. So I don't believe it was hacked (unless someone just has a real

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread kwan
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I have a ECS K7S5A based on the Sis 735 chipset, very good stuff. > It's by far the cheapest board arround here in Belgium (costs about half > of the second-cheapest). I have four of these. The rev 3.1 boards have been great except for one losing the se

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > I have a ECS K7S5A based on the Sis 735 chipset, very good stuff. > > It's by far the cheapest board arround here in Belgium (costs about half > > of the second-cheapest). > > I have four of

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread kwan
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: > I know 3 people who run instantly into problems with these board I would never > ever advice an ECS k7s5a. MSI kosts a buck more, but I think it is worth the > money. And the k7s5a is not the cheapest board, I know of one board for 67 > EUR => KT266A

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port.

2003-01-08 Thread Jim C
Why not create another service to recieve it? James Sparenberg wrote: OK,, Been hit with a challenge... I've got to get cat to send a file out of a port... K sounds easy... Mods to /etc/xinetd.d created new file called catnet # default: on service catnet { type=

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs. 1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread Jim C
Don't forget about the possibility of inductance. There might be a power source nearby that is getting onto your wires. Many years ago in the days of Dialup BBSs I used to get bumped of the internet by truckers on the freeway who were illegally boosting their signals. et wrote: On Wednesday 08 J

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs. 1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wrote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:32:00PM -0800 : > Don't forget about the possibility of inductance. > There might be a power source nearby that is getting onto your wires. > Many years ago in the days of Dialup BBSs I used to get bumped of the

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread Jim C
eBay! ;-) Dan Axtell wrote: I'm planning to upgrade my motherboard/CPU combo to an Athlon XP system. I'm not looking for overclocking or onboard sound & video (all the networking, sound and graphics will be using existing boards), just a solid, reliable motherboard that works well with Mandrak

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > I know 3 people who run instantly into problems with these board I would > > never ever advice an ECS k7s5a. MSI kosts a buck more, but I think it is > > worth the money. And the k7s5a is n

Re: [expert] Abi Word Help

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Greenwood
Thanks for the advice! Does anyone besides me think it should be easier to change than this?? ;) Cheers Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: In AbiWord how to I change the default font?? You need to edit the normal.awt file. From

Re: [expert] Abi Word Help

2003-01-08 Thread kwan
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Thanks for the advice! Does anyone besides me think it should be easier > to change than this?? ;) > :D To be fair, that's from the generic AbiWord help guide. Mandrake does put everything in the right place so changing the default is just a matter

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread francesco.melo
Guy Van Sanden wrote: I have a ECS K7S5A based on the Sis 735 chipset, very good stuff. It's by far the cheapest board arround here in Belgium (costs about half of the second-cheapest). Performance is very good, and stability is excellent. Apart from me, I know 3 other people that own one and t

[expert] What happened with Mandrake eXPerience?

2003-01-08 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
The pages of Mandrake eXPerience seems to be not longer accesible :-( Does anyone know if they have a new URL??? Thanks so much in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread Chuck Burns
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 15:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > I know 3 people who run instantly into problems with these board I would never > ever advice an ECS k7s5a. MSI kosts a buck more, but I think it is worth the > money. And the k7s5a is not the cheapest board, I know of one board for 67 > EU

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs.1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:21 am, David Rankin wrote: > Pierre Fortin wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:33:51 -0600 "David Rankin" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been struggling with a weird message lately that hasn't appeared > > > over the past 2 years until the past few week

Re: [expert] Xawtv and UK tv channels

2003-01-08 Thread Lorne
Make sure you have the right frequency table set. I think it may default to us-cable. There are like 11 different choices. Long shot here. :) On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:11 am, Roger Munoz wrote: > Hi > > I've have installed a hauppauge wintv card on my mandrake 9.0 system. > > On install the

[expert] clear mandrake-update list

2003-01-08 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, LM 8.2 seems to get the security update list wrong. How do I reset it or rebuild the database list? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Followup on VERY slow 2D performance with gf2 and nvidia drivers

2003-01-08 Thread Chuck Burns
I kind of discovered this by accident. I noticed that whenever ANY application is fullscreen, and I move a window over the top of it, it's nice and snappy, but when I move a window around over the root window, metacity's (the gnome WM) CPU usage skyrockets, and I believe this could be my problem.

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs.1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
Had a sit where a guy did a 10kw lin-year base station 30 feet from my parents house... when the stereo was OFF you could still here him when he keyed up. (then again so did the FCC *grin*) Talk about a ghost in the machine. James On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:39, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port.

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
Got it working pretty much.. still some minor errors in the header files... but... a 1 line web server serving a single page is feasible. *grin* this is getting fun... how small can I go !!! James On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:26, Jim C wrote: > Why not create another service to recieve it?

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-08 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello Steffen On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 22:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Wednesday 08 January 2003 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > > I have a ECS K7S5A based on the Sis 735 chipset, very good stuff. > > > It's by far the cheapest board arround here

Re: [expert] What happened with Mandrake eXPerience?

2003-01-08 Thread James Sparenberg
it seems that his computer 216.86.64.33 is up but his webserver is down James On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 16:03, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > The pages of Mandrake eXPerience seems to be not longer accesible :-( > > Does anyone know if they have a new URL??? > > Thanks so much in advance

[expert] Mozilla Language packs??

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Greenwood
How do you install/download language packs for Mozilla?? I mean to DISPLAY pages created with different languages, not locals. If know there are language packs for Mozilla but these seem to change the language for all of Mozilla. I just want to be able to display text in other languages. For ex

Re: [expert] Mozilla Language packs??

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Greenwood
As a followup to my question, I have a question about translation done in MS word. We have a local translator who does website translation for us and they use MS Word with language support packs. The problem is, AFAIK this translation (once output to HTML by Word) is only viewable in IE with la