RE: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Williamson
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:19, Franki wrote: That is an awesom application... I just checed it out... Only two things I can think of that it needs for use over here.. 1. MySQL support.. It's just so easy to add postgres to your system.. that it should not be a problem that it does not

Re: [expert] X experts please help! - in need of proper numpad handling

2003-02-10 Thread Will Styles
hmm didn't get through last time, retrying... On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 05:15 am, civileme wrote: On Saturday 08 February 2003 01:54 am, Will Styles wrote: hello. i like selecting text in kde apps using the keyboard(shift+arrow key) but i cannot use the numpad arrow keys because in Xfree86,

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 5:10 am, Mark Weaver wrote: If I wouldn'tn have to interact with the accounting system I wouldn't have to boot back into windows at all. Have you considered win4lin for that need? Not everything works under it, but if your does the feeling of release is great. You

[expert] [Fwd: [newbie] Creating a GDM greeter theme]

2003-02-10 Thread Terry Sheltra
Hello all, I sent this to the newbie list a few days ago, and got no response from anyone. So I thought I'd try here on the expert list. If anyone out there has any suggestion for this, please respond to me off-list, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks! Original Message

[expert] kernel 2.4.19-24 and removable media bug?

2003-02-10 Thread falcaraz
I have upgraded the kernel of my laptop (not my main computer because the problems with nvidia modules). Supermount is now fine, but the removable media icon crashes everytime I try to open a cdrom or a floppy. I must say that I am using Mandrake 9 with the new kernel and kde 3.1 from club. Is

[expert] nagios-plugins-1.3.0-0.beta2.4mdk.i586.rpm

2003-02-10 Thread maxxik
hi ppl ! there is my trouble : i cant install nagios-1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm because it require nagios-plugins-1.3.0-0.beta2.4mdk.i586.rpm which require libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) %) i cant rebuild nagios-plugins-1.3.0-0.beta2.4mdk.i586.rpm because i haven't openssl-devel for

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-10 Thread J. Grant
Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Weird NFS/Memory Issue-System Locking up

2003-02-10 Thread Tru64 User
When I issue a showmount -e nodename from a client, the server (nodename) locks up completely, and top shows high memory usage (893k out og 900k). Suprisingly enough, ps -aux does not show any single process utilizing much memory... ps -aux|wc -l ==80processes, all either 0.0 or 0.1% utilization,

RE: [expert] Java problems

2003-02-10 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
If you are still having problems, can you enable the java console and post what it says here? David -Original Message- From: Ken Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 7:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Java problems I have java installed and

Re: [expert] Java problems

2003-02-10 Thread Ken Thompson
On Sunday 09 February 2003 07:30 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: What happens if you type java -version from the command line? Or from a KDE run dialogue? Damon On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:16, Ken Thompson wrote: I have java installed and it was working to let me administer my firewall in KDE 3.0.5

Re: [expert] Java problems

2003-02-10 Thread Ken Thompson
On Monday 10 February 2003 09:42 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: If you are still having problems, can you enable the java console and post what it says here? David -Original Message- From: Ken Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 7:17 PM To:

Re: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.

2003-02-10 Thread David Rankin
Yep, it was enterprise. Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:07:40 -0600, David Rankin wrote: Trivia: OV-98 (Drop test vehicle - never flown aside from glide tests pre STS-1) Wasn't this named Enterprise? I remember a big deal about Trekkers trying to get a shuttle named after

Re: [expert] Java problems

2003-02-10 Thread Jack Coates
edit ~/.bash_profile find the line beginning PATH = put this under it: JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0 export JAVA_HOME PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin source .bash_profile in the shell you will run java from. these instructions may sound familiar from the README that came with the Sun RPM Jack On

Re: [expert] nagios-plugins-1.3.0-0.beta2.4mdk.i586.rpm

2003-02-10 Thread Jack Coates
this is getting to be very common with testing and contrib channel stuff... Your best bet is to: urpmi libgd-devel and a handful of other devel rpms that I can't remember right now but will become clear as the next step fails... download the src.rpm for the nagios, nagios-www, and nagios-plugins

Re: [expert] Weird NFS/Memory Issue-System Locking up

2003-02-10 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 08:04, Tru64 User wrote: When I issue a showmount -e nodename from a client, the server (nodename) locks up completely, and top shows high memory usage (893k out og 900k). Suprisingly enough, ps -aux does not show any single process utilizing much memory... ps -aux|wc

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Robert Goshko
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 10:18, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 06:36, Luca Olivetti wrote: Luca Olivetti wrote: I can lock my 9.0 box at will, just capturing video or trying to use full duplex audio (when the load is high). BTW, minutes after writing this, my 3

RE: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.

2003-02-10 Thread Franki
good thing it never made it into space... If it followed the trekkie version, it'd end up being destroyed, partially or fully at each outting (movie). So what happened to the Enterprise?? is it at the NASA museum?? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] kernel 2.4.19-24 and removable media bug?

2003-02-10 Thread Robert Goshko
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 09:02, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 10:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded the kernel of my laptop (not my main computer because the problems with nvidia modules). Supermount is now fine,

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:52 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I

RE: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-10 Thread Robert Wideman
Go here. Its #5. http://www.faqchest.com/linux/samba-l/smb-00/smb-0011/smb00110910_17247.html This was the 2nd to last link on a search on google for samba hide hidden...FYI from an email Searching 101. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

RE: [expert] File Permissions

2003-02-10 Thread H. Carter Harris
Please excuse me ... I was looking at some old emails and realized that Todd Lyons had give me an answer to this question. I was not in my normal work environment when I got the email so I misplaced it. His answer worked ... Thanks Todd!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] kernel 2.4.19-24 and removable media bug?

2003-02-10 Thread flacycads
H.. I too get kfmclient errors with kde 3.1 (Texstar's rpms) and the stock 2.4.19 Mandrake kernel. I just installed the 2.4.21-pre4 cooker kernel on a fresh 9.0 install, and it seems fine so far with kde 3.0.3. I also ran a standard kernel.org 2.4.20 kernel with the ck preemptive patch,

[expert] Directory Structure question

2003-02-10 Thread Jim C
I am adding some touches to Mandrake's samba-2.2.7a rpm (specificly the samba-ldap version) and I have a question about the directory structure that Mandrake uses. Basically what we have are som Perl scripts that were developed for Redhat and consequently are located in /usr/local/sbin which

Re: [expert] Directory Structure question

2003-02-10 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 04:38 pm, Jim C wrote: I am adding some touches to Mandrake's samba-2.2.7a rpm (specificly the samba-ldap version) and I have a question about the directory structure that Mandrake uses. Basically what we have are som

[expert] PHP 4.3.0 and Horde 2.2 - Problems with GETTEXT

2003-02-10 Thread Seppo Järvinen
Horde requires gettext support and as it seems that gettext is in libphp_common430 on the php version available from COOKER, Horde doesn't find it -- From Horde/test.php -- $gettext = load_extension('gettext'); - How can I get Horde to use the libphp_common gettext? I'm

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 Feb 2003 9:08 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 5:10 am, Mark Weaver wrote: If I wouldn'tn have to interact with the accounting system I wouldn't have to boot back into windows at all. Have you considered win4lin for that need? Not everything

[expert] Radeon 8500LE PBA in MDK9

2003-02-10 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Hi all.. I can't get any driver (thanks god for the vesa driver!) to work. I've got a Sapphire 8500LE, and the drivers that come with MDK9 fail with an error that the Rage Theather chip isn't initialized, nad that the module radeon_drv is unresolved... I tried the ATI binary drivers , the

Re: [expert] kernel 2.4.19-24 and removable media bug?

2003-02-10 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Maybe the Texstar rpms are causing it in my case, and I should try the Mandrake version. Robert Crawford No, I have the mandrake rpms for kde 3.1 and with the 2.4.19-24 kernel I have the same kfmclients error problems (not with the original 9.0 kernel). Also I can't open any cdrom nor floppy

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-10 Thread Brian Schroeder
This is probably a difficult ask. But what I would like to see is a longer time between versions (eg. 12+ months) for the regular desktop edition, and a simple, reliable method for updating packages in the meantime for those who want to (for all those things that don't qualify for Mandrake's

[expert] adding scsi tape drive

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Noble
I have just added a scsi card (adaptec) and a DDS4 4mm dat drive. How do I get Linux to know the tape drive is installed and talking to it? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Noble mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Java problems

2003-02-10 Thread J. Craig Woods
You might want to check out the sun java page. There is some documentation about java that is compiled with the newer gcc, at least newer than 2.96. Seems that it is broke, and until sun releases a newer java version, we are stuck with java that does not totally work when compiled with the

Re: [expert] more msec woes

2003-02-10 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 . wrote on Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:53:46AM -0600 : I have to say msec is the single most frustrating piece of mandrake. I have severla mandrake machines, and on all but one the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file will successfully

[expert] Syncing Handspring Visor Deluxe?!

2003-02-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am not new to linux, but new to Mandrake and USB stuff. I am having a problem consistantly syncing my visor using KPilot/JPilot and anything else. Basically, I have attempted to follow every step to perfection, and I will sync 1 out of 20 times attempting, but I keep failing. I can't

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Lorne
On Monday 10 February 2003 03:19 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Feb 2003 9:08 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 5:10 am, Mark Weaver wrote: If I wouldn'tn have to interact with the accounting system I wouldn't have to boot back into

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:41, Lorne wrote: On Monday 10 February 2003 03:19 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Feb 2003 9:08 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 5:10 am, Mark Weaver wrote: If I wouldn'tn have to interact with the

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Feb 2003 9:08 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 5:10 am, Mark Weaver wrote: If I wouldn'tn have to interact with the accounting system I wouldn't have to boot back into windows at all. Have you considered win4lin for that

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Luca Olivetti wrote: Jack Coates wrote: BTW, minutes after writing this, my 3 years old son managed to freeze X (no, not the whole system, I was running mozilla remotely with no problem), but that's bound to happen with nvidia drivers :-\ Bye my four year old is the number one source of

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 5:10 am, Mark Weaver wrote: If I wouldn'tn have to interact with the accounting system I wouldn't have to boot back into windows at all. Have you considered win4lin for that need? Not everything works under it, but if your does the feeling of