Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread James Sparenberg
Great. after september 30 this year I won't have a single supportable box U Gentlemen. Are you going to give me new laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage to get software that would last as long as my hardware... well... let's see 8 years on Win95

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:25, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 16:15 -0500, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common

[expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread Birkoff
Hello I have a MSI MS-6580 motherboard with 845PE chipset The problem is that when mdk9 boots it gives me PCI device 0:1f:1 was disabled because of resource collision and because of that the computer behaves like a 486 when it comes about reading/writing on the disks. is there any patch for

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 9:15 pm, et wrote: I would not put bets on where to blame in either case,,, my [gag,,cough, cough, choke] intuition makes me think of some weird kinda file corruption in both cases, but SO is the only common thread _that_ _we_ _know_ _of_. FWIW, I abandoned OOo from 8.2

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 3:22 pm, mycal62 wrote: hi , did you try looking in : file:/usr/local/netscape/defaults/profile Only thing I could find. No, I have to admit I didn't. I expected the profiles to be in home directories or root for the installation. You could be right, this may be

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Great. after september 30 this year I won't have a single supportable box U Gentlemen. Are you going to give me new laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage to get software that would last

[expert] OpenOffice Gnome2 problem

2003-02-05 Thread Seppo Järvinen
I am getting these errors with 1.0.2, either RPM or from OOo.org Binary with Gnome2. How can I get rid of them and actually use OOo? Now it just promptly crashes after the gui loads up. (gnome-panel:1856): Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_NAME contained invalid UTF-8 Window manager warning:

[expert] Load Balancing, windows style more or less

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Win2k Load Balancing uses a virtual IP address for all systems that you want to load balance with (multicasting?). Basically i have to 3 systems running win2k server that i want to move to linux/unix. Is there away to do this? All the info i have seen for multicasting is easily 4 years old for

[expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread SainTiss
hi, I've just installed the kernel update, and enabled supermount, but when I insert a cdrom, it still doesn't mount automatically did I miss something here? Thanks Hans -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Hans Schippers 1LIC INF UIA 2002-2003

RE: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Yes. Supermount is evil. This is the first thing i disable after an install. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SainTiss Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:58 AM To: MDKexpert Mailing Subject: [expert] supermount hi, I've

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 13:03, Robert Wideman wrote: Yes. Supermount is evil. This is the first thing i disable after an install. Rob snipped Tofu --- What a usefull post. To the original Poster: Have you the right fstab entries for supermount ? Have you made 'supermount -m

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Jerry A!
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:05:59AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: : On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote: : Great. after september 30 this year I won't have a single : supportable box U Gentlemen. Are you going to give me new : laptops with my 9.1 distro? It

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Great. after september 30 this year I won't have a single supportable box U Gentlemen. Are you going to give me new laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't

RE: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread SainTiss
Well, I reasoned that way too when I first installed 9.0, but the docs of the kernel-updates specifically mention supermount as being rewritten and fixed... Hans On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 13:03, Robert Wideman wrote: Yes. Supermount is evil. This is the first thing i disable after an install.

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread SainTiss
I enabled supermount through the MDK control center, but this is what I got in fstab now: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,users 0 0 I'm not sure what the -- is doing there, so I tried removing it, but to no avail... Hans On Wed,

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:37 pm, SainTiss wrote: Well, I reasoned that way too when I first installed 9.0, but the docs of the kernel-updates specifically mention supermount as being rewritten and fixed... There must be some oddity about supermount, though. It works beautifully on my box,

RE: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Franki
Microsoft have a 5 year time in which they support their product.. after that, all bets are off.. win95 has no new updates available, there are some that were created when it was supported, but there are no new ones.. win98 has just about finished its support cycle, and when they kill it, they

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:41 pm, SainTiss wrote: I enabled supermount through the MDK control center, but this is what I got in fstab now: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,users 0 0 Mine is none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount

RE: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Anne, am in a good mood nowhehe. My problems is that when i want to eject the cdrom i cant do it b/c it auto mounts with supermount when i told it not to. Also certain apps require cdrom NOT mounted...then supermount takes command, AAA. This is just my frustration with it, doesnt really

RE: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Mine with supermount -i disable used after install. /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread SainTiss
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 13:46, Anne Wilson wrote: Mine is none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Maybe that 'user' is significant? It certainly works for me. I tried changing users to user, but that didn't make it work

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:50 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: My problems is that when i want to eject the cdrom i cant do it b/c it auto mounts with supermount when i told it not to. Tell me more - you're umounting from c/l I take it? I have noticed that sometimes it can get picky (I'm

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:58 pm, SainTiss wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 13:46, Anne Wilson wrote: Mine is none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Maybe that 'user' is significant? It certainly works for me. I tried

RE: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
I dont remember, its been awhile since i have used supermount. Once i started having the probs a few months ago i disabled supermount after reading an article somewhere stating that it has been badly written or something to that effect that it is a non-worthy app. Personally i would not like it

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread SainTiss
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:08, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried changing users to user, but that didn't make it work either... Shot in the dark, Hans. I know some parts of this statement are position-sensitive, but I don't know which ones. Try moving the 'user' forward. Didn't help either,

RE: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Didn't help either, but thanks for the tip... this is what I did to get it working: 1) upgrade kernel and reboot 2) enable supermount in MDK CC 3) check that supermount is loaded with lsmod 4) put a cd in the cd-player 5) wait and see nothing happen 6) cd /mnt/cdrom2 and nothing

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:41 am, SainTiss wrote: I enabled supermount through the MDK control center, but this is what I got in fstab now: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread SainTiss
Hmm, wait a minute... I think I figured it out: I seem to be able to mount /mnt/cdrom2 without a cd being in the drive... And from the moment that's done, it all seems to work... if I insert a cd, its contents are correctly displayed, I can eject it without unmounting, and I can replace the cd

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread et
music CDs do not get mounted, just played On Wednesday 05 February 2003 08:09 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I dont remember, its been awhile since i have used supermount. Once i started having the probs a few months ago i disabled supermount after reading an article somewhere stating that it has

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:53 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Mine with supermount -i disable used after install. /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 13:03 +, Anne Wilson wrote: Tell me more - you're umounting from c/l I take it? I have noticed that sometimes it can get picky (I'm normally in gui mode) if anything is reading the directory tree and may be reading the cds directory also. That just means that

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 1:09 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I dont remember, its been awhile since i have used supermount. Once i started having the probs a few months ago i disabled supermount after reading an article somewhere stating that it has been badly written or something to that effect

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 1:42 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 13:03 +, Anne Wilson wrote: Tell me more - you're umounting from c/l I take it? I have noticed that sometimes it can get picky (I'm normally in gui mode) if anything is reading the directory tree and may

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 1:21 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I love supermount. It works for me on 8.2 and 9.0. I have 2 cdroms (1 cdrom, 1 cdburner). My working entry for my cd burner on /mnt/cdrom2 is: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,

Re: [expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread et
in bios, turn plug and play aware OS to off On Wednesday 05 February 2003 04:40 am, Birkoff wrote: Hello I have a MSI MS-6580 motherboard with 845PE chipset The problem is that when mdk9 boots it gives me PCI device 0:1f:1 was disabled because of resource collision and because of that the

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 13:46 +, Anne Wilson wrote: That fits with my experience. Also, if you panic and umount it from c/l you tend to upset it. Closing all, as you say, usually does it. One variatioon on your experience is that it may open and immediately close before you could

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
civileme wrote: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0 DO

Re: [expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 5 2003 03:40 am, Birkoff wrote: Hello I have a MSI MS-6580 motherboard with 845PE chipset The problem is that when mdk9 boots it gives me PCI device 0:1f:1 was disabled because of resource collision and because of that the computer behaves like a 486 when it comes

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread et
I have noticed that Redhat, and M$ has lately published listing reguardiing expected support cycles, and all of them are shorter than what most people expect for manufactured products, but this is the way of things, and even more so with computers, since the hardware is planned to be obsolete

Re: [expert] Load Balancing, windows style more or less

2003-02-05 Thread Tru64 User
You might want to consider OpenMosix ( http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ ) ..Once you have installed openMosix, the nodes in the cluster start talking to one another and the cluster adapts itself to the workload. Processes originating from any one node, if that node is too busy compared to

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:04 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: . One variatioon on your experience is that it may open and immediately close before you could possibly remove the disk. It then automatically mounts the disk again, and you are back at square one until you've found what's bugging

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread et
SCNR??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 09:04 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 13:46 +, Anne Wilson wrote: That fits with my experience. Also, if you panic and umount it from c/l you tend to upset it. Closing all, as you say, usually does it. One variatioon on your

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread SainTiss
I just tried playing an audio-cd, and that works fine as well... Hans On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:28, SainTiss wrote: Hmm, wait a minute... I think I figured it out: I seem to be able to mount /mnt/cdrom2 without a cd being in the drive... And from the moment that's done, it all seems to

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:23 -0500, et wrote: SCNR??? Sorry Could Not Resist (if you were asking for the meaning) A kind of preventive measure when you know you may get spanked for what you did or wrote. Most important lifesaving sentence in marital life. wobo -- If you don't

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 09:32 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:23 -0500, et wrote: SCNR??? Sorry Could Not Resist (if you were asking for the meaning) A kind of preventive measure when you know you may get spanked for what you did or wrote. Most important

Re: [expert] Load Balancing, windows style more or less

2003-02-05 Thread Jack Coates
google, linux virtual server. On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 03:42, Robert Wideman wrote: Win2k Load Balancing uses a virtual IP address for all systems that you want to load balance with (multicasting?). Basically i have to 3 systems running win2k server that i want to move to linux/unix. Is there

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:27 pm, SainTiss wrote: I just tried playing an audio-cd, and that works fine as well... Sounds as though you're sorted, then. But - you told us how, now we need to know why :) Anyone tell us? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Also look at the media the drive supports. I had a SF 8x burner that was VERY specific on which it would burn on...not in the documentation. Though it was the 1st 8x burner out on consumer level in the US. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
The problem is the software manufacturers/programmers TRY to use ALL avail resources the HW can supportincluding what the languages they are writing in. If we could still create programs based on HW that is 5 years old using programming languages (real ones like C/C++/Java, Basic, early

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
Sorry for coming in late. I seem to be able to mount /mnt/cdrom2 without a cd being in the drive... Yes. once you have enabled supermount in the fstab, you have to call mount /mnt/cdrom2 to actually activate it. And from the moment that's done, it all seems to work... if I insert a cd,

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
That fits with my experience. Also, if you panic and umount it from c/l you tend to upset it. Closing all, as you say, usually does it. One variatioon on your experience is that it may open and immediately close before you could possibly remove the disk. It then automatically mounts the

Re: [expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread Birkoff
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:02, et wrote: in bios, turn plug and play aware OS to off I don't have this option. I am now trying to install the newest kernel from the cooker as Tom Brinkman advised -- --- Dragos Birkoff Dionisie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network

Re: [expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:40 am, Birkoff wrote: Hello I have a MSI MS-6580 motherboard with 845PE chipset The problem is that when mdk9 boots it gives me PCI device 0:1f:1 was disabled because of resource collision and because of that the computer behaves like a 486 when it comes

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread SainTiss
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:33, Damian Gatabria wrote: so that would mean I should just remove the noauto from fstab, and I should be fine? noauto is a parameter that means that this drive is NOT included in the list when you tell the fstab to mount everything. for example, when you issue

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 03:03 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Yes. Supermount is evil. This is the first thing i disable after an install. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SainTiss Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:58 AM

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 1:40 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: That fits with my experience. Also, if you panic and umount it from c/l you tend to upset it. Closing all, as you say, usually does it. One variatioon on your experience is that it may open and immediately close before you could

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:11 am, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: civileme wrote: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
SainTiss wrote: hi, I've just installed the kernel update, and enabled supermount, but when I insert a cdrom, it still doesn't mount automatically did I miss something here? Thanks Hans you need to reboot the computer after doing a 'supermount -i enable' to get supermount to read the

Re: [expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 5 2003 10:44 am, Birkoff wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:02, et wrote: in bios, turn plug and play aware OS to off I don't have this option. I am now trying to install the newest kernel from the cooker as Tom Brinkman advised Well, if the latest kernel

[expert] Load balancer

2003-02-05 Thread Belkie, Dan
Hey guys! Is anyone using a Linux box with software as a load balancer between 2 web servers? If so what software? I have been looking and have found: http://www.turbolinux.com/products/tcs/index.html http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ Any comments? Thanks in advance. Dan Want to buy your

RE: [expert] Load balancer

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
If you would have read the archives i just asked this question 3 times this week and got the LVS suggestion. Have fun Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Belkie, Dan Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:35 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: [expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread Birkoff
I've tried everything. but the board comes with sound and lan on board. i've disabled everything from the BIOS. it had nothing activated/instalated but the video card. but it didn't work. I solved the problem with the latest kernel from the cooker. now it seems to work just fine (21-28 Mb/sec

Re: [expert] new 9.0 install dropping ssh/dns traffic

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Kolar
That did the trick, thanks to Jack and the other people who responded. --chris At 01:18 PM 2/4/2003, Jack wrote: /etc/hosts.allow On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 11:00, Christopher Kolar wrote: Hi. I recently had an 8.x box go up in flames, so I rebuilt it with a clean install of 9.0. I configured the

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Feb 05, 2003 at 01:03:42AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: Great. after september 30 this year I won't have a single supportable box U Gentlemen. Are you going to give me new laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage to get software that

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:32 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: you need to reboot the computer after doing a 'supermount -i enable' to get supermount to read the fstab file. grin I think you can do a mount -a and get away with the same thing without rebooting... --

Re: [expert] Load balancer

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:35 pm, Belkie, Dan wrote: Hey guys! Is anyone using a Linux box with software as a load balancer between 2 web servers? If so what software? I have been looking and have found: http://www.turbolinux.com/products/tcs/index.html

Re: [expert] Load balancer

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:35 pm, Belkie, Dan wrote: Hey guys! Is anyone using a Linux box with software as a load balancer between 2 web servers? If so what software? I have been looking and have found: http://www.turbolinux.com/products/tcs/index.html

Re: RE: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Joe Braddock
I haven't installed the kernel-updates, but I'm assuming that you turned supermount off with the original kernel. If that's correct, have you turned it back on (supermount enable or whatever the actual command is). Just updating the kernel won't automatically turn it back on for you. Joeb

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 5:17 pm, civileme wrote: I will beat on tape for backup. MY tape drive faithfully backed up once a week and I rotated 6 tapes to stay current. (MAC fileserver 80). Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I eventually powered down and

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:39 am, Anne Wilson wrote: There must be some oddity about supermount, though. It works beautifully on my box, yet others have endless problems. Of course, it may be that other customisation/choices are affecting it - don't know about that. Anne Ditto here,

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 6:24 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Feb 05, 2003 at 01:03:42AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: Great. after september 30 this year I won't have a single supportable box U Gentlemen. Are you going to give me new laptops with my 9.1 distro? It

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Feb 05, 2003 at 06:44:05PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Great. after september 30 this year I won't have a single supportable box U Gentlemen. Are you going to give me new laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage to get software that

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 19:08 +, Anne Wilson wrote: Talking of which - do you know any site with information on the different grades of media, with regard to lifespan. I'm careful with storage, but I'm aware that the media I'm using are not really suitable for longer storage. I just

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 8:12 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: That's what MandrakeSecure, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, updates for newer distribs, are all for. Put it this way: Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you should already be subscribed if you care about security anyways)... you will

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:32 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: you need to reboot the computer after doing a 'supermount -i enable' to get supermount to read the fstab file. grin I think you can do a mount -a and get away with the same thing without rebooting...

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
civileme wrote: Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of it was corrupted to make the rest inaccessible. OK no problem, data is on tapes, let's reload OS--- done reach for tape Oops--tape

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:48 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: civileme wrote: Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of it was corrupted to make the rest inaccessible. OK no problem, data is on

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
Anne Wilson wrote: That's what the verify feature of your backup program is there for. It take twice the time and it'll probably cause more wear and tear on the tape but at least you'll know the tape is readable. 'Fraid not. I was running backup with full verify, but it still didn't stop

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:00, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:48 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: civileme wrote: Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of it was corrupted to make

Re: [expert] Problem with .rpmmacros / rpm build setup

2003-02-05 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:11:23PM -0800 : I am stuck at the rpm install. I think I probably have a macro wrong somewhere. Note that jim is a local user with home directory named /lclusr/jim. [jim@enigma jim]$ rpm -ivh

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Todd Lyons
SainTiss wrote on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:58:18PM +0100 : hi, I've just installed the kernel update, and enabled supermount, but when I insert a cdrom, it still doesn't mount automatically did I miss something here? Paste your /etc/fstab. Paste the results of 'mount'. Paste the results of

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:46:54PM + : I'm not sure what the -- is doing there, so I tried removing it, but to no avail... I couldn't figure that one out either. The options that come before the -- are for supermount

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:39:49PM + : Well, I reasoned that way too when I first installed 9.0, but the docs of the kernel-updates specifically mention supermount as being rewritten and fixed... There must be some oddity

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Brian Schroeder
From: Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] You just scared me to death. I had no problem reding the tapes to restore some files from time to time (when a user deleted them by mistake), but I guess murphy's law applies here: in case of disaster the tape won't be readable :-( Absolutely! That's the

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 10:31 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:46:54PM + : I'm not sure what the -- is doing there, so I tried removing it, but to no avail... I couldn't figure that one out either.

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 10:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote: After using and selling Enterprise IT products and services for nearly ten years, I do not trust any backup solution as far as I can throw the media. They all more or less suck, and exist purely to give a false sense of security and we did

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 10:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Yet in spite of all that, I still could not bring myself to trust a system that rejected its own tapes with such regularity. I would just add that no-one laughed or complained again at my paranoid backup strategy. Anne -- Registered Linux

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-05 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Feb 05, 2003 at 08:23:57PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: That's what MandrakeSecure, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, updates for newer distribs, are all for. Put it this way: Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you should already be subscribed if you care about security anyways)...

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Bryan Whitehead
[cnip] I will beat on tape for backup. MY tape drive faithfully backed up once a week and I rotated 6 tapes to stay current. (MAC fileserver 80). This is how all tape backup sucks stories start. Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I eventually powered down

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-05 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 daRcmaTTeR wrote on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:08:29PM -0500 : I'm not mad. I'm just trying to increase the SNR of this mailing list. Ok...but whats SNR? Maybe I should have written S/N Ratio instead. It's an acronym for Signal to Noise Ratio.

Re: [expert] Problem with .rpmmacros / rpm build setup

2003-02-05 Thread Jim C
Thanks but I got this one already. Now I am trying to fight my way through the spec file. Know of any place where there are docs on these? Jim C. Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:11:23PM -0800 : I am stuck at the rpm

[expert] ksensors dependaces

2003-02-05 Thread Evaristo Ferrari
Hi,I'm tring to install ksensors but got dependance error on libGLcore.so.1. I've looked around the MDK9 cds but didn't found anything. Can someone tell me what's wrong? TIA Evaristo -- Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Barry
I'm a CPA in my real life and I decided to go with removable hard drives for our office network. I just setup a mandrake server and use samba to backup up the NT fileserver right on to the removable hard drive. I have a set of shell scripts that mount the NT fileserver directories and cron

Re: [expert] ip rules help

2003-02-05 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, drake wrote: [root]# ip rule list RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Dump terminated [root]# ip rule ls RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Dump terminated Now what do I do? Drake, what the heck it is? I've never heard of it, but i only get three lines returned

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 06:17 am, SainTiss wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:08, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried changing users to user, but that didn't make it work either... Shot in the dark, Hans. I know some parts of this statement are position-sensitive, but I don't know which ones.

Re: [expert] Problem with .rpmmacros / rpm build setup

2003-02-05 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 03:40 pm, Jim C wrote: Thanks but I got this one already. Now I am trying to fight my way through the spec file. Know of any place where there are docs on these? Jim C. Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wrote on Tue,

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:50, Lorne wrote: 5) wait and see nothing happen 6) cd /mnt/cdrom2 and nothing happens... Ummm I know this is a terribly stupid question but did you do an ls /mnt/cdrom2? The supermount stuff is black magic and I don't think I like it at all, but for me I have

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-05 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Seth Zirin wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 09:59, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-05 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, et wrote: I take responsibility for posting OT on the list. I would do it again but perhaps in doing so I should have specified an off-list, direct reply to me rather than in the list. Newsgroups are sometimes too slow and I needed info ASAP (like within an hour or

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