Re: [expert] Defragging

2003-02-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:25:12 -0800, Dave Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, James... On Tuesday 25 February 2003 10:15 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:41, civileme wrote: there is a utility for defragging

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 release date?

2003-02-26 Thread Eric Fernandez
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:05 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:45:14AM -0800 : I was just wondering if someone knows the expected release date of the actual 9.1 version?

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 10:50 pm, civileme wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:43 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The bottom line is that if you use the LM distros and you have the extra jack, which amounts to the cost of a magazine

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 12:53 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Mandrake releases X.0, X.1, X.2. Then it jumps to Y.0, Y.1, Y.2. It has nothing to do with point releases or version releases. Technically, they are ALL version releases. Which was exactly my point. Seems to me there is logic in

Re: [expert] userdrake problem

2003-02-26 Thread SainTiss
Hi, I'm not getting any error msgs at all... it just quits silently.. But I've tried xhost +localhost and that doesn't help, so I guess it's not an X authorization problem... Hans On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 01:01, Jayce D. Dowell wrote: Hans, Are you getting any other error messages? I had a

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread Vahur Lokk
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:39, you wrote: And don't forget the obvious Office is like 95% loaded if you use windows... compare that to loading ALL of OpenOffice. Yes here is the point. Especially when low spec boxes come into play. Old Pentium running Win9x and MSO is absolutely

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 01:36, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 10:50 pm, civileme wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:43 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The bottom line is that if you use the LM distros and you have the extra jack,

Re: [expert] kernel panic after defrag in WinjMe

2003-02-26 Thread antonio rodriguez
Dear Ted, Yes it gives more information than gpart, and most of all, it recognizes my linux partitions, with all my dear data within. Now the problem is how to resize the partitions and how to boot again the system. Lilo works OK, the problem is that linux size partitions are all wrong and

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 10:34 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 01:36, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 10:50 pm, civileme wrote: If you buy a club membership, they see more than half of the proceeds after covering costs. Civileme - interested from a business

Re: [expert] 9.1 party

2003-02-26 Thread David Whiting
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:39:59PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:17, J. Grant wrote: I'm in UK. As for a UK distro... I once heard of something called Eridani Starsystems .. I think. Was more of a redistribution of Red Hat with some of the latest software.

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Seems to me there is logic in the MandrakeSoft model, but not the logic we (and other users) expect. This is, in fact, a big problem that needs to be considered. Whether Mdksft like it

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 12:27 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Seems to me there is logic in the MandrakeSoft model, but not the logic we (and other users) expect. This is, in fact, a big

[expert] western digital 400jd, alternate jumpersettings and mandrake

2003-02-26 Thread Arie de Waart
Hello, I have a i586(p166mmx,192 mb ram),mandrake 9.0 and a 40 GB harddisk. My motherboard regnizes harddisk up to 8,4 GB. So i have to use the alternate jumpersettings. Does Mandrake 9.0 recognize this or have i buy a new ide-controller?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! I looking for a very cheap mother-board and faced PC Chips 810 with SIS 730S chipset and ASRock K7VM2 withe VIA KM266 chipset. Are there any serious issues about these mbs with MDK 9.0? I'm concerned about if my Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 2x is compatible with them.

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:43 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I looking for a very cheap mother-board and faced PC Chips 810 with SIS 730S chipset and ASRock K7VM2 withe VIA KM266 chipset. I personally stay away from PC

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread tarvid
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:43 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I looking for a very cheap mother-board and faced PC Chips 810 with SIS 730S chipset and ASRock K7VM2 withe VIA KM266 chipset. cheap is elusive i was impressed with SiS 7xx chipsets but i have replaced

[expert] kernel message: _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message

2003-02-26 Thread Lars Nordin
I suspect that this message comes from my NIC but I'm not sure. So far everything on my Mandrake v9.0 system works fine - I just see a lot of these messages when I run dmesg. I can't tell you the exact kernel version I'm running, but I could post it on the list tonight. The NIC is built into

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 14:43, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I looking for a very cheap mother-board and faced PC Chips 810 with SIS 730S chipset and ASRock K7VM2 withe VIA KM266 chipset. Are there any serious issues about these mbs with MDK 9.0? I'm

[expert] usbstorage

2003-02-26 Thread t_gecks
Hello, I tried to plug a Archos Jukebox to my MDK 8.2 box today. everything worked fine, the usb-storage module was automagically loaded, but no device appeared in /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0 this is what appeared in /var/log/messages: Feb 26 11:45:02 resy54 kernel: hub.c: USB new

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 25 2003 05:10 pm, flacycads wrote: Given that, it's going to be hard to convince me that trying to optimize Linux and gcc for newer cpus is not worth the trouble. However, I'll keep an open mind on the subject, and I'm certainly not an expert. Robert Crawford OK,

Re: [expert] usbstorage

2003-02-26 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I tried to plug a Archos Jukebox to my MDK 8.2 box today. everything worked fine, the usb-storage module was automagically loaded, but no device appeared in /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0 this is what appeared in /var/log/messages:

Re: [expert] western digital 400jd, alternate jumpersettings andmandrake

2003-02-26 Thread Aaron Matteson
Linux pays little attention to the BIOS and its limitations, Linux with a 2.4.x kernel should have little problem recognising the full 40GB Disc. Just don't count on Windows cooperating if you still use it. On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 04:37, Arie de Waart wrote: Hello, I have a i586(p166mmx,192 mb

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Thank you all Steffen, Greg and Tarvid, that's helping me a lot! On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: Asrock K7VM2: S3 is not functional Onboard video with Xfree 4.2 only in vesa modus, some problems with tested memory (optosys). UDMA only with kernel = 2.4.20 I intend to use my

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Aaron Matteson
I would have to recommend using a mainboard with an Intel chipset and at the very least an SiS chipset. Via, is largly problematic and prone to bus problems. Working for a PC repair shop i can personally attest to seeing many many more Via based mainboards going bad then either SiS or Intel, true

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:14 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: But the issues with Via are more pronounced. What sort of problems are you seeing, Aaron? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Aaron Matteson
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:14, Aaron Matteson wrote: I would have to recommend using a mainboard with an Intel chipset and at Sorry, no intel for you ...Duron the very least an SiS chipset. Via, is largly problematic and prone to bus problems. Working for a PC repair shop i can personally attest

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Which goes right back to my original statement (that no one wants to understand): Mandrake needs to control the amount of change in the point releases. I've said it as many ways as I can. Ric flacycads wrote: Miark, According to Distrowatch, 9.0 uses glibc 2.2.5, and 9.1rc1 uses glibc 2.3.1.

Re: [expert] Konqueror broke in 9.1

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 19:33, David McGlone wrote: I recently updated my website and I have noticed that Konqueror is broken when it comes to frames. is it me or is konq broken? my domains, transfer domains, namespin, and account login pages are all messed up in Konqueror, but they

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Aaron Matteson
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:14 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: But the issues with Via are more pronounced. What sort of problems are you seeing, Aaron? Mainly stability issues, ranging from the IDE controller to the actual chipset. The most

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
flacycads wrote: Yeah- I basically just use kde, and I know it takes a lot of resources. I figure with an Athlon 1700+ XP T-bred B on an Abit KX7-333 DDR mobo, I can afford a little kde eye-candy- and I like all the nice features. Never have been a Gnome fan. It's not that I'm that unhappy

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:35 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:14 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: But the issues with Via are more pronounced. What sort of problems are you seeing, Aaron? Mainly stability issues,

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Vahur Lokk wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:39, you wrote: And don't forget the obvious Office is like 95% loaded if you use windows... compare that to loading ALL of OpenOffice. Yes here is the point. Especially when low spec boxes come into play. Old Pentium running Win9x and MSO

Re: [expert] Enterprise OS, was Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:55, Ric Tibbetts wrote: ... Actually, I have XP running at home on a PII-333 My kids use it as their game machine. But my oldest is only 7. Their demands are low. :) Ric yeah, I was kind of annoyed when I had to replace Win98 with Win2K on the kids'

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 12:53 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Mandrake releases X.0, X.1, X.2. Then it jumps to Y.0, Y.1, Y.2. It has nothing to do with point releases or version releases. Technically, they are ALL version releases. Which was exactly my point. Seems to me there

[expert] Shorewall+Samba

2003-02-26 Thread Richard Humphrey
I have seen in the archives where it talks about Samba and Shorewall having problems. I have followed the instructions from Shorewall bout how to set the firewall. Still does not work. Has anyone gotten this to work and if so, can you explain what you did to fix it? Thanks. I am unable to access

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Seems to me there is logic in the MandrakeSoft model, but not the logic we (and other users) expect. This is, in fact, a big problem that needs to be considered. Whether

Re: [expert] Shorewall+Samba

2003-02-26 Thread Jim C
How about a reference to those instructions? Richard Humphrey wrote: I have seen in the archives where it talks about Samba and Shorewall having problems. I have followed the instructions from Shorewall bout how to set the firewall. Still does not work. Has anyone gotten this to work and if so,

[expert] Need help manually editing postscript file

2003-02-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have created graphics in Staroffice 6.0 that I need to use in a dissertation. The problem with Staroffice/openoffice is that it always produces postscript files (when printing to file) that are needlessly too big - - that is, the postscript

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:36 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 10:50 pm, civileme wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:43 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The bottom line is that if you use the LM distros and you have the

RE: [expert] Shorewall+Samba

2003-02-26 Thread Richard Humphrey
These are the instructions I followed: http://www.shorewall.net/samba.htm I added these rules to my firewall and still no dice. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim C Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 12:53 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Mandrake releases X.0, X.1, X.2. Then it jumps to Y.0, Y.1, Y.2. It has nothing to do with point releases or version releases. Technically, they are ALL version releases.

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 16:35, Aaron Matteson wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:14 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: But the issues with Via are more pronounced. What sort of problems are you seeing, Aaron? Mainly stability

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:02 am, Vahur Lokk wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:39, you wrote: And don't forget the obvious Office is like 95% loaded if you use windows... compare that to loading ALL of OpenOffice. Yes here is the point. Especially when low spec boxes come

Re: [expert] western digital 400jd, alternate jumpersettings and mandrake

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:37 am, Arie de Waart wrote: Hello, I have a i586(p166mmx,192 mb ram),mandrake 9.0 and a 40 GB harddisk. My motherboard regnizes harddisk up to 8,4 GB. So i have to use the alternate jumpersettings. Does Mandrake 9.0 recognize this or have i buy a new

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:43 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I looking for a very cheap mother-board and faced PC Chips 810 with SIS 730S chipset and ASRock K7VM2 withe VIA KM266 chipset. Are there any serious issues about these mbs with MDK 9.0? I'm

Re: [expert] western digital 400jd, alternate jumpersettings andmandrake

2003-02-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:05:23 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But actually Dual-booting on this machine is a VERY bad idea. You use some sort of BIOS extension software(loaded from the disk before regular boot) for windows, and you don't for linux. I have seen this cause problems

[expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Jack Coates
This would be a sweet addition to Mandrake's base install: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/ to compile on Mandrake, download the src.rpm and rpm -ivh it. Then edit the /usr/src/RPM/SPEC/smartsuite-2.1.spec file, go to the bottom and replace: /usr/man/man8/smartctl.8.gz

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: If I would have a wish I would wish me a intel bx 440 mainboard for duron ;) Bingo! I'm looking for a replacement for my old PII since now my motherboard 440lx was damaged. Cheers, --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Civileme! On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, civileme wrote: The 810 I have seen has no AGP slot at all. The KM266 is also a problem cause it has the WRONG AGP slot. Neither board has accelerated 3d viable in linux at this time. I could check that ASRock supports AGP 1x,2x and 4x. Please, since I

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 4:40 pm, civileme wrote: If you want stable as in server use there is Corporate Server, and MNF. Fair comment. In the meantime, there is the problem of getting the exposure in the press that others get. Over and over I see in Linux Format that Mandrake is

[expert] ssh problems on mandrake 9.0

2003-02-26 Thread Gustavo Alberto Homem
Hello, Does someone know of a working scp/sftp frontend on mandrake 9.0 ? I found the konqueror support is working for get but broken for put (that is reported under kde.bugs.org). Also, gftp wich supports ssh2 does not work, since it relies on the sftp-server binary on the remote machine which

[expert] High System Load on disk activity

2003-02-26 Thread thorsten Sideb0ard
Hi there, i recently subscribed to the list, and have been enjoying browsing the threads, however i didn't think i would be posting as soon... I wonder if anyone can offer any advice... I have two two machines, built from scratch comprising of Asus P4S8X motherboard, P4 2.4GHz, with two IBM

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 09:37, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 4:40 pm, civileme wrote: If you want stable as in server use there is Corporate Server, and MNF. Fair comment. In the meantime, there is the problem of getting the exposure in the press that others get. Over

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:38 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi Civileme! On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, civileme wrote: The 810 I have seen has no AGP slot at all. The KM266 is also a problem cause it has the WRONG AGP slot. Neither board has accelerated 3d viable in linux at this

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This would be a sweet addition to Mandrake's base install: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/ to compile on Mandrake, download the src.rpm and rpm -ivh it. Then edit the /usr/src/RPM/SPEC/smartsuite-2.1.spec file, go to the bottom and

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:15:10 + Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Reser maintains a related rpm called 'hddtemp' which pulls harddrive temps out of the smart data. Also there is already an ide-smart rpm in Contribs Charles -- What will you do if all your problems aren't

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:06 am, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Perhaps, like so many others you missed the intent of the statements to start with. The problem is, Mandrake is losing out on the desktop, and server wars for a reason. The problem of

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Thank you Civileme. On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, civileme wrote: If it is within your price range (and I see similar prices here in the US), may I suggest the ASUS A7N266-VM? It requires DDR memory, is micro-ATX in form factor, and its on-board video and audio and LAN all work under 8.2 and 9.0.

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Tibor Pittich
On 26. feb 2003 09:23, Jack Coates wrote: This would be a sweet addition to Mandrake's base install: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/ hey, wake up! are you check date of latest version? this is unmaintained project, and there is another s.m.a.r.t. capable package into mandrake,

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread et
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 02:39 am, civileme wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:17 pm, Jack Coates wrote: Not to turn it into a WM flamewar, but are you using KDE or GNOME? Either fullblown environment can make the experience a lot slower in my experience. It's also possible and

[expert] Samba LDAP PDC an answer, not a question

2003-02-26 Thread Jim C
So I've been racking my brains over why my Samba-LDAP PDC wont add a machine account automatically like it is supposed to. If I add the machine by hand there is no problem with joining the domain. So what's up? I try to log on and I don't get any error codes that pertain to adding a user

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Joe Braddock
I am using a PC Chips 810L and have no problems running it with Mandrake 9.0 or any of the 9.1 betas or RC1. I should say, that I don't use the modem riser and I am using the on-board video (mine does have an AGP slot - but I don't have an AGP video card) . I purchased mine last Fall from

Re: [expert] Konqueror broke in 9.1

2003-02-26 Thread David McGlone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:30 am, Robert Goshko wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 19:33, David McGlone wrote: I recently updated my website and I have noticed that Konqueror is broken when it comes to frames. is it me or is konq broken?

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Miark
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:57:09 -0500 flacycads [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark, According to Distrowatch, 9.0 uses glibc 2.2.5, and 9.1rc1 uses glibc 2.3.1. Is that incorrect? They also report gcc is upgraded to 3.2.2. I dunno. This is what Civileme told me. Civileme?! Miark Robert C.

Re: [expert] Shorewall+Samba

2003-02-26 Thread Jim C
I'm using these. Seems to work but I am not sure that this is optimal. ACCEPT fw masqtcp 631,137,139,445 - ACCEPT fw masqudp 631,137,138,139 - ACCEPT masqfw tcp 631,137,139,445 - ACCEPT masqfw udp 631,137,138,139 - ACCEPT loc masq

[expert] Contribs

2003-02-26 Thread Ron Stodden
Mandrake-Authoritative answers requested: Question One. My local mirror here shows that there has been no update to 9.0-contribs since October last year. Is this correct? What has gone wrong? Question Two. When 9.1 is released, will the present Cooker-contrib become 9.1-contrib and a new

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:06:14 +1100 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My local mirror here shows that there has been no update to 9.0-contribs since October last year. That's correct Ron. Neither the 9.0 main or the Contrib tree will have changed since 9.0 went final which was in Oct. Once

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread et
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:34 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: snip Yes, in the US, RedHat is the brand that's known and that's what we're trying to address. Blue skies... Todd Ok, let us know what we can do to help. ET Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] High System Load on disk activity

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:49 am, thorsten Sideb0ard wrote: Hi there, i recently subscribed to the list, and have been enjoying browsing the threads, however i didn't think i would be posting as soon... I wonder if anyone can offer any advice... I have two two machines, built from

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread flacycads
If you are referring to me, my /etc/hosts file is correct (not empty), and my hard drives are tweaked with hdparm, and have been since I started Linux about 9 months ago. I also only run the services I actually need, and compile lean as possible kernels. However, I know I could use more ram on

Re: [expert] High System Load on disk activity

2003-02-26 Thread thorsten Sideb0ard
Offhand I would expect you have hit a condition in a filesystem. You say move does that mean delete as well? If so and if you are using XFS, that is normal. XFS seems to do something really interesting with deletion, perhaps some form of defragging of open space. if you are

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-26 Thread Guy Zelck
Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Hello all, Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? Get a grip people! Cool it Ric, slow down. Caught in the race are you? ;-) This is Linux! It's not, it's just one of the many distributions. Linus has nothing to do with Mandrake releases. If you want

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread et
I was not speaking about anyone in particular On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:13 pm, flacycads wrote: If you are referring to me, my /etc/hosts file is correct (not empty), and my hard drives are tweaked with hdparm, and have been since I started Linux about 9 months ago. I also only run the

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:06 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: Question One. My local mirror here shows that there has been no update to 9.0-contribs since October last year. Is this correct? Yes What has gone wrong? Nothing Question Two.

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:10 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: If you want the newest software, run the new versions, And change every 6 months, no thanks! Now that we finally got all our 3rd party s.w. working like vpn clients

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-26 Thread Ron Stodden
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:06:14 +1100 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My local mirror here shows that there has been no update to 9.0-contribs since October last year. That's correct Ron. Neither the 9.0 main or the Contrib tree will have

[expert] postgreSQL / PGaccess

2003-02-26 Thread Daryl Johnson
Is anyone using this combination successfully? regards Daryl -- Help! I'm trapped in a PDP 11/70! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:13 pm, flacycads wrote: If you are referring to me, my /etc/hosts file is correct (not empty), and my hard drives are tweaked with hdparm, and have been since I started Linux about 9 months ago. I also only run the services I actually need, and compile lean as

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
E, pardon my intrusion but I think you might want to check your mailer settings. I am sure you didn't want to send html to the list On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:16 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head Want to buy your

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:56, Tibor Pittich wrote: On 26. feb 2003 09:23, Jack Coates wrote: This would be a sweet addition to Mandrake's base install: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/ hey, wake up! are you check date of latest version? this is unmaintained project, and

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:37, Greg Meyer wrote: ... I agree with you wholeheartedly, however the point I was trying to make was that as we all sit around here and discuss these things, very often we have that discussion based on what we think a particular term, like beta, rc or stability

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-26 Thread Luca Olivetti
Greg Meyer wrote: Sounds to me like you are a candidate for Debian stable, slow and steady, no real upgrades for years. Of course they are on KDE 2.2.2 still, so that won't do. Actually on http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.php there are kde3.1 packages for debian stable (note that I'm not

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Tibor Pittich
On 26. feb 2003 15:23, Jack Coates wrote: project, and there is another s.m.a.r.t. capable package into mandrake, which called smartmontools (which is my favorite), or ide-smart .. urpmi smartmontools gets nothing. smartmontools is in contrib. have you defined contrib in urpmi sources? if

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 16:31, Tibor Pittich wrote: On 26. feb 2003 15:23, Jack Coates wrote: project, and there is another s.m.a.r.t. capable package into mandrake, which called smartmontools (which is my favorite), or ide-smart .. urpmi smartmontools gets nothing. smartmontools is

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:39 pm, Jack Coates wrote: I had, but I recently undefined it because everything from contrib fails due to glibc incompatibilities. :-P Were you trying to use Cooker contrib instead of 9.0 contrib? - -- Greg

Re: [expert] www.TrueMajority.com

2003-02-26 Thread Seth Zirin
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 06:08, et wrote: Very bad form to send this type (of SPAM) to a tech mail list, From: Adolfo ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] has just made it to my spam filters If you still have the message in your trash, you might consider forwarding a complaint to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include

Re: [expert] a question about pdf attachments

2003-02-26 Thread engage
After further investigation, I found that the problem was with people using Outlook. On Friday 21 February 2003 05:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 07:18 pm, engage wrote: Everytime I receive a message with a PDF file attachment, it shows up as in-line text. Any other

Re: [expert] www.TrueMajority.com

2003-02-26 Thread mike
Adolpho should not have done this, but there is right winged shit on this list all the time. Don't get me started! On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:02 pm, Seth Zirin wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 06:08, et wrote: Very bad form to send this type (of SPAM) to a tech mail list, From: Adolfo

Re: OT Re: [expert] 9.1 party

2003-02-26 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:04 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:21, J. Grant wrote: hi Jack Coates wrote: A UK-specific distro is kinda scary, I'm imagining all this Austin Powers theming going on :-) And of course it would have to use the Slackware

[expert] change hostname

2003-02-26 Thread David McGlone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I change my hostname from localhost.localdomain to Buddy? I changed /etc/hosts, and hostmdkgiorig, and it was still localhost.localdomain Thanks - -- David M. Edification Web Solutions http://www.edificationweb.com -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-26 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- David McGlone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I change my hostname from localhost.localdomain to Buddy? I changed /etc/hosts, and hostmdkgiorig, and it was still localhost.localdomain Thanks - -- David M. Do a vi on /etc/sysconfig/network. LX

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-26 Thread Michael Noble
run linuxconf Mike On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 20:42, David McGlone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I change my hostname from localhost.localdomain to Buddy? I changed /etc/hosts, and hostmdkgiorig, and it was still localhost.localdomain Thanks - -- David M.

[expert] Argh! fsck failed on boot!

2003-02-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
Booting my system tonight, I got the following ominous message: fsck.ext3/dev/hda1: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-26 Thread J. Craig Woods
You might think you want to make this change but you really do not: localhost.localdomain is the name that your loop back device (127.0.0.1) needs in order to maintain stability within the OS. Without this name being in the hosts file, you will have some problems. You could consider naming the

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread Damian Gatabria
ehhh, no mater what, or so I have heard, win 9x to win me will NOT boot with more than 512 megs ram. I can say that for sure with winME. it is really the way the ram is used, as far as I know, that makes the differences, that and the way it is tested by the kernal developers to decide what

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread Damian Gatabria
As I said, if you want to compare apples to apples, load OO ONCE on desktop 2 and switch to it--that is what Windows is doing with MSO, or the nearest achievable equivalent. Civileme, there are few to none occasions in which i can disagree with you or even judge your knowledge... you are

Re: [expert] kernel panic after defrag in WinjMe

2003-02-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 02:43, antonio rodriguez wrote: Dear Ted, Yes it gives more information than gpart, and most of all, it recognizes my linux partitions, with all my dear data within. Now the problem is how to resize the partitions and how to boot again the system. Lilo works OK, the

Re: OT Re: [expert] 9.1 party

2003-02-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 18:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:04 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:21, J. Grant wrote: hi Jack Coates wrote: A UK-specific distro is kinda scary, I'm imagining all this Austin Powers theming

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:22, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:36 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 10:50 pm, civileme wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:43 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The bottom line is

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:52, et wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:34 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: snip Yes, in the US, RedHat is the brand that's known and that's what we're trying to address. Blue skies... Todd Ok, let us know what we can do to help. ET ET

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