Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread 5tucatz elPunishar
ext3 and that is not the problem, i switched it with the slave on primary ide and it worked. id obviously has something to do with the fact that mandrake thinks there will be only cdroms forever on secondary ide ... but i have no clue what to change besides the hdc=ide-scsi. On Monday 02 June

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread 5tucatz elPunishar
okay, will do that in the evening (when i'm at home) On Monday 02 June 2003 11:39, g wrote: elPunishar wrote: i wrote to this mailing list some time ago. i had this problem that i could not add a new harddisk to my system. how about posting your 'lilo.conf' and 'fstab'. peace out.

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread 5tucatz elPunishar
yes, i was root. On Monday 02 June 2003 11:05, ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 07:40, 5tucatz elPunishar wrote: no offense, but for some reason i had the whole history of the discussion in the mail. my problem is very detailed in this history. i installed mandrake 9.1 with 2 hds on

Re: [expert] spamassassin assassinated

2003-06-03 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 June 2003 10:42 am, Todd Lyons wrote: Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: I upgraded once again to 2.54 and poof, it quit working again. I deleted my spamassassin filter and reentered it identical to before and now it seems to be

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 4:28 pm, 5tucatz elPunishar wrote: ext3 and that is not the problem, i switched it with the slave on primary ide and it worked. id obviously has something to do with the fact that mandrake thinks there will be only cdroms forever on secondary ide ... but i have no clue

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread 5tucatz elPunishar
you're right! lets kick it! i can't give you the listing before the evening, since i am in the office now. but i have ontly the two standard ide channels on the motherboard. and i can tell you that in the hardware overview in mandrake control center hdc (the new harddisk) gets recognised and

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 4:48 pm, 5tucatz elPunishar wrote: you're right! lets kick it! i can't give you the listing before the evening, since i am in the office now. but i have ontly the two standard ide channels on the motherboard. and i can tell you that in the hardware overview in mandrake

Re: [expert] sasl

2003-06-03 Thread Jack Coates
Thanks Luca and Martin, There's a few things to answer so I went up the thread a bit and will try to do both. On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 22:31, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 19:48, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 10:17, Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Jack Coates ha escrit:

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, 5tucatz elPunishar wrote: yes, i was root. Right, but that wasn't the question ... the question was, did you run /sbin/lilo after making the changes to /etc/lilo.conf? You need to do that, and then to reboot afterward, for the changes made in the conf file to take.

RE: [expert] Wine access to printers

2003-06-03 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Previous to Crossover 2.0 (which seems to be able to auto-detect my printers) I hard coded my wine to use kprinter as my printing application. In your wine config file, find where it's specifying LPT1 and have your print command look something like the following: |kprinter --stdin This of

Re: [expert] sasl

2003-06-03 Thread Luca Olivetti
Jack Coates wrote: Luca noted, But it won't do you any good if all your secrets are in sasldb. What happens if you remove completely /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf? (sasldb should be the default then). When I remove it, SASLDB keeps working. So, does this mean that the PAM setting never worked at

[expert] 9.1 KDE problems

2003-06-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I decided to post this here because it looks way beyond newbie stuff. I'm running 9.1 (download edition) on an AMD XP2100, Soyo Dragon Plus MB, 512 megs of Corsair DDR ram. Installation went smooth with no errors that I know of. As root, I can open 2 windows, try to copy something (anything)

[expert] Re: aic79xx

2003-06-03 Thread Thomas Backlund
Thomas Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 01 June 2003 04:01 am, R N dev wrote: I have adaptec ava 2904, and it works well the driver used is for aic7xxx. hope it helps This is an ultra 320 adapter, more akin to a 39320-R dual channel. It

Re: [expert] opening links

2003-06-03 Thread eric huff
Anybody have any idea why this would not be sticky? Every few days i have to go in there and tell it to open with dillo eric On Mon June 2 2003 04:55 am, charlie wrote: On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 03:23 am, Michael Noble sent this :- I would like to change this to use Mozilla. Go into the big

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread elPunishar
the question was whether i was root when running lilo after making the changes. i said yes i was root On Monday 02 Jun 2003 16:08, Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, 5tucatz elPunishar wrote: yes, i was root. Right, but that wasn't the question ... the question was, did you run

[expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Brian V Bonini
About to attempt an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 Any issues I should be aware of, any suggestions, experiences (good or bad) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
Are the jumper settings of your HD remaining CDdrive correct ? I suppose they are, if your Bios detects the HD... Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 19:31, elPunishar wrote: the question was whether i was root when running lilo after making the changes. i said yes i was root On Monday 02 Jun

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread elPunishar
here they are: ** fstab /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /data ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /data2 ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Adam Kisiel
Hi, My advice is as follows: Get rid of the scsi emulation altogether. Contrary to popular belief it is not needed anymore for CD writing - xcdroast in MDK 9.1 works quite happily with IDE. In order to do that - remove any ide-scsi options from the lilo config file, and rerun lilo (or even

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:39, Brian V Bonini wrote: About to attempt an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 Any issues I should be aware of, any suggestions, experiences (good or bad) One problem you need to avoid is, eh, upgrading. You should do a clean install of 9.1. Upgrading is a process

[expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
I still have a 40gig HD formatted with NTFS (mounted ro) Is there any way to convert it (safely!!) to ext2/ext3 without temporary moving the data ? I'm aware of the existence of partition magic, but I don't have it. And frankly, I'm not going to pay for an apllication I will use once... (no,

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:52, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Also, before you move to 9.1, I suggest you review your reasons for doing so. Are you looking for a more stable production environment or are you curious and just have alot of time to analyze 9.1. Are you saying 9.0 is more stable? I'm

Re: [expert] Re: aic79xx

2003-06-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 08:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: Thomas Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 01 June 2003 04:01 am, R N dev wrote: I have adaptec ava 2904, and it works well the driver used is for aic7xxx. hope it helps This is an ultra

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread stanly klyuhin
02 2003 17:34 Anne Wilson : but then, its nowhere in diskdrake and its nowhere for fdisk and if i do an ls in /dev there is no /dev/hdc Right - when you get home, go through the mcc and explain exactly where and how you can see hdc. Then do the same for where it failed, being very

Re: [expert] apcupsd not starting at boot up

2003-06-03 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian V Bonini wrote: Very similar to the mysql incident http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2002-12/msg00986.php The apcupsd daemon will not start up at boot time. # chkconfig --list apcupsd apcupsd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian V Bonini wrote: I'm perfectly content with 9.0 but I'm just trying to stay-up-to-date, it's my desktop env, it it were a server I would really not care as much. Just don't want to fall to far behind and don't want to slick my current config

Re: [expert] 9.1 KDE problems

2003-06-03 Thread Robert Crawford
On Monday 02 June 2003 11:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I decided to post this here because it looks way beyond newbie stuff. I'm running 9.1 (download edition) on an AMD XP2100, Soyo Dragon Plus MB, 512 megs of Corsair DDR ram. Installation went smooth with no errors that I know of. As root,

[expert] ram audio and kde 3.1

2003-06-03 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have Realplayer G2 but it doesn't work worth a damn. I start it up and it locks up or doesn't make a peep. Originally, I clicked on a link to listen to music at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhiley/live_lounge/radiohead_may03.shtml But

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 6:45 pm, stanly klyuhin wrote: 02 2003 17:34 Anne Wilson : but then, its nowhere in diskdrake and its nowhere for fdisk and if i do an ls in /dev there is no /dev/hdc Right - when you get home, go through the mcc and explain exactly where and how you can

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 6:32 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:52, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Also, before you move to 9.1, I suggest you review your reasons for doing so. Are you looking for a more stable production environment or are you curious and just have alot of time to

Re: [expert] ram audio and kde 3.1

2003-06-03 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 June 2003 01:15 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have Realplayer G2 but it doesn't work worth a damn. I start it up and it locks up or doesn't make a peep. Originally, I clicked on a link to listen to music at:

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 6:42 pm, elPunishar wrote: here they are: ** fstab /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /data ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /data2 ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Sherman
Steven Broos wrote: I still have a 40gig HD formatted with NTFS (mounted ro) Is there any way to convert it (safely!!) to ext2/ext3 without temporary moving the data ? I'm aware of the existence of partition magic, but I don't have it. And frankly, I'm not going to pay for an apllication I

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
I was looking for a way to convert the data. I don't have enough disk-space to resizecopy. I thought it was possible, but I can't find anything useful on the web. 40gig is too much to copy on CD, so I'll have to buy me a new harddrive. Or are there other alternatives ? I have 2HDs and 2CDs,

Re: [expert] 9.1 KDE problems

2003-06-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 02 June 2003 02:16 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: There are various weird problems with the stock kde 3.1 with 9.1. A lot of users have problems such as yours, and others too. Thanks Robert, I'll look into this. Nice to know I'm not the only one! -- /\

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread stanly klyuhin
02 2003 21:23 Anne Wilson : Right - when you get home, go through the mcc and explain exactly where and how you can see hdc. Then do the same for where it failed, being very specific about how you tried to use diskdrake and fdisk. I'm hunting for clues, but I'm sure we'll get

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:32, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:52, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Also, before you move to 9.1, I suggest you review your reasons for doing so. Are you looking for a more stable production environment or are you curious and just have alot of time to

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Sherman
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:32, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:52, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Also, before you move to 9.1, I suggest you review your reasons for doing so. Are you looking for a more stable production environment or are you curious and just have alot

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread bascule
elpunishar, if this is from dmesg on startup then the line: hdc: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive is a problem, it clearly states the finding of a cd/dvd reader, looking at your fstab from another post i suggest making it: ** fstab

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 June 2003 02:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:32, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:52, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Also, before you move to 9.1, I suggest you review your reasons for doing so. Are you

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread elPunishar
okay, i removed scsi_hostadapter and ide-scsi from the probeall line in modules.conf the outputs of dmesg, lsmod and /proc/cmdline are attached to this mail. i see the first entry for hdc but not the second. and i can see that even though i removed ide-scsi hdc and ide-scsi hdd from

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread elPunishar
hi bascule, you mistook one of the example dmesg from other people for mine. see my latest mail (before this) for my dmesg and lsmod outputs, please :) On Monday 02 Jun 2003 20:54, bascule wrote: elpunishar, if this is from dmesg on startup then the line: hdc: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW, ATAPI

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread bascule
elPunishar, this shows that ide-scsi is being fed to the kernel at boot, from your lilo.conf that you posted previously it appears that the only boot option that doesn't have this is 'linux', therefore you must be booting one of the others perhaps 'linux-nonfb'? or you haven't run /sbin/lilo

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 15:56, Praedor Atrebates wrote: smaller apps with it to their doom. That's just today. I won't say that LM82 never failed me at all, but I will say that I have a very strong memory of LM82 being about as stable as the crust of the planet Mars. Plus, it was faster.

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:29, Anne Wilson wrote: If you have room, do a dual-boot install. If everything's hunky-dory you can get rid of 9.0. If there are big problems you still have your old setup. Anne Very good advice, Anne. --LX --

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 02 June 2003 21:56, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 June 2003 02:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:32, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:52, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Also, before you move to 9.1, I

[expert] mod_perl scripts.

2003-06-03 Thread Frankie
Hi guys I have been trying to get mod_perl working on a default 9.0 box.. with the standard config.. this doesn't work: http://localhost/perl/mod_perl-testscript.pl but this does: http://localhost:8200/perl/mod_perl-testscript.pl From what I can gather, normal apache is supposed to detect

Re: [expert] mod_perl scripts.

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
You have to enable perl in the Apache config file I suppose (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or something similar) If you search the config-file for 'perl', you should find some more information and example-config that is commented. Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:31, Frankie wrote: Hi guys I

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread stanly klyuhin
Pass the pipe, bascule! that was my example dmesg output. i have no lost drives ;) btw, there is no way how changing /etc/fstab may alter dmesg output. elpunishar, if this is from dmesg on startup then the line: hdc: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive is a problem, it clearly states

RE: [expert] mod_perl scripts.

2003-06-03 Thread Frankie
You have to enable perl in the Apache config file I suppose (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or something similar) If you search the config-file for 'perl', you should find some more information and example-config that is commented. Steven yeah, I

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 09:39, Brian V Bonini wrote: About to attempt an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 Any issues I should be aware of, any suggestions, experiences (good or bad) Here's how I do Mandrake upgrades these days: mount -t iso9660 -o loop Mandrake-9.1-cd1-inst.iso /mnt/91-1 mount

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 8:01 pm, Steven Broos wrote: I was looking for a way to convert the data. I don't have enough disk-space to resizecopy. I thought it was possible, but I can't find anything useful on the web. 40gig is too much to copy on CD, so I'll have to buy me a new harddrive. Or

Re: [expert] mplayer and *.mov

2003-06-03 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] mplayer and *.mov For me at least in the course of installing mplayer from plf I now have QT working in Mozilla. Verified here by using it at Matrix.com I'll have to give it a try. Is it just a matter of putting in the correct mime type

Re: [expert] mplayer wierdness

2003-06-03 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about [expert] mplayer wierdness Hello Recently my mplayer installation began acting strangely. It starts in fullscreen mode no matter what settings I give it and the control I'm noticing the same thing. Before, I could go to fullscreen mode and then switch back, or

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:36, Anne Wilson wrote: ... If the latter (which makes more sense, in light of your comment about Partition Magic), then google for it. I managed to find a demo version of software that ran from a DOS boot diskette, to resize the NTFS-5 (WinXP) partition on my

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 8:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:32, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:52, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Also, before you move to 9.1, I suggest you review your reasons for doing so. Are you looking for a more stable production environment

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
** Lyvim Xaphir (Montag, 2. Juni 2003 21:30) Look, I'm in a real tough position here. First, I am and always have been a supporter of Mandrake. I think they (as an entity) have more potential than any other distro company I've seen; in general, history has shown that the features of the

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
** Anne Wilson (Montag, 2. Juni 2003 23:48) Not on my machine. 9.1 is the fastest by quite a bit. Same here. I did not address the eye candy issue in my other mail but it is an issue for may users who use it as a desktop system. And on this 9.1 is a success, no doubt. If you like command

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 17:48, Anne Wilson wrote: Which just goes to show how systems vary. On mine 9.0 was immaculate in install and extremely stable. Perhaps so...but I think the discussion here is concerning 9.1 more than anything else, and I seem to remember you posting some problems

Re: [expert] Re: aic79xx

2003-06-03 Thread Thomas Gamble
On Monday 02 June 2003 09:35 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: Thomas Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 01 June 2003 04:01 am, R N dev wrote: I have adaptec ava 2904, and it works well the driver used is for aic7xxx. hope it helps This is an

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Colin Close
elPunishar wrote: here they are: ** fstab /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /data ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /data2 ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount

Re: [expert] Freeswan install

2003-06-03 Thread Graeme J Hosking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul, When trying to start ipsec i get the complaint that ' The module you are trying to load (/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdksecure/kernel/net/ipsec/ipsec.o.gz) is compiled with a gcc version 2 compiler, while the kernel you are running is

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 12:14:13AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: [...] 2) There should be a formal production bug report system (utilizing Anthill preferably) that takes care of problems with supposedly stable production release bugs. In addition this should be priority over cooker,

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Colin Close
elPunishar Hmmm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Differences between Samba 3.0 and 2.X

2003-06-03 Thread Jim C
Where can I find out about the differences between Samba 2.X and 3.0? -- Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread PlugHead
There's also a product called partition commander (goto v-com.com.) I got it for 29 bucks (supposedly an upgrade, but I don't recall them asking for proof...) It's $49 without the upgrade. I had no problem converting NTFS - FAT32, which linux handles just fine (don't know about ext2/3, but

Re: [expert] 9.1 KDE problems

2003-06-03 Thread Joeb
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:16:13 -0400 Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 11:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I decided to post this here because it looks way beyond newbie stuff. I'm running 9.1 (download edition) on an AMD XP2100, Soyo Dragon Plus MB, 512 megs of

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 12:24 pm, stanly klyuhin wrote: 02 2003 21:23 Anne Wilson : Right - when you get home, go through the mcc and explain exactly where and how you can see hdc. Then do the same for where it failed, being very specific about how you tried to use diskdrake

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 09:39 am, Brian V Bonini wrote: About to attempt an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 Any issues I should be aware of, any suggestions, experiences (good or bad) I'm sure you will get a lot of folks saying, NO!... DON'T! I did it and suffered no problems at all. ?? I thought

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
Yes it can, but burning 40gig on CDs will be a very time-consuming thing to do. I think I go for the external USB-harddisk. (A friend of mine had a lot of negative experience with filesystem-editing-tools) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 23:36, Anne Wilson wrote: Could the data be split into

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 12:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip I don't want to say this, but I have to say it because it is the truth. For users of 8.2 or maybe even 9.0 there is no cogent reason to upgrade to 9.1, if you are seeking a stable production system. The reasons I say this are myriad,

RE: [expert] mod_perl scripts.

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
A quick look into my system: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2-perl.conf And a lot of occurences of 'perl' in /etc/init.d/httpd Are the paths and prefixes in the config-files correct ? Do you get any error-messages in /var/log/httpd (or /etc/httpd/logs) when you restart apache ?

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 02:48 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Third, (mostly) because of the rpmdrake user interface (NOT the urpmi improvements at the CLI level, which *are* good), I consider LM82 to be better than either 9.0 or 9.1. It is most unfair to keep harping on this one. You were told

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lorne wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:48 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Third, (mostly) because of the rpmdrake user interface (NOT the urpmi improvements at the CLI level, which *are* good), I consider LM82 to be better than either 9.0 or 9.1. It is most unfair to keep harping on this one. You were

Re: [expert] pam problem

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
Found the solution, yeeha :-) I found entries to pam in ~/.gnome2/session I edited the file, but the entries came back immediately so i opened a tty, and did init 3 vi ~/.gnome2/session Deleted all entries refering to pam completely (indicated by the numbers at the beginning of the line)

Re: [expert] pam problem

2003-06-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 21:22, Steven Broos wrote: Found the solution, yeeha :-) I found entries to pam in ~/.gnome2/session I edited the file, but the entries came back immediately so i opened a tty, and did init 3 vi ~/.gnome2/session Deleted all entries refering to pam completely

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 09:21 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Lorne wrote: Lorne, I don't think that opening Mandrake Control Center Software Management and navigating between the management components varies by more than a click or two from the functionality of the former rpmdrake, does it? I saw

Re: [expert] sasl

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Montag, 2. Juni 2003 17:08 schrieb Jack Coates: Thanks Luca and Martin, There's a few things to answer so I went up the thread a bit and will try to do both. Luca noted, But it won't do you any good if all your secrets are in sasldb. What happens if you remove completely

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is where it is real nice to have more than one box on your LAN. If you have, or can get setup, another Linux box with enough drive space you can rsync or scp -r all of the data across your LAN to the other box, then back again after the

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 20:36, Lorne wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 09:39 am, Brian V Bonini wrote: About to attempt an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 Any issues I should be aware of, any suggestions, experiences (good or bad) I'm sure you will get a lot of folks saying, NO!... DON'T! I did

[expert] spamassassin- using spamd/spamc

2003-06-03 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Im sorry for bringing this topic up again, but after hunting through the readme files, etc. for a faster way to run spamassassin it looked like using spamc and spamd instead might work. Can anyone figure out how to use these in conjunction with kmail, for example? Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 18:14, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ** Lyvim Xaphir (Montag, 2. Juni 2003 21:30) I don't want to say this, but I have to say it because it is the truth. For users of 8.2 or maybe even 9.0 there is no cogent reason to upgrade to 9.1, if you are seeking a stable production

[expert] Reinstall missing files from RPM package

2003-06-03 Thread Guy Van Sanden
In my quest to get networking running on my portable, I got some files from the initscripts package to go missing. Can I reinstall them without having to 'rpm -e' the package first? (Some scripts/settings have been modified by drakconf) I tried 'rpm -F', no success... Thanks Guy Want to

Re: [expert] Drakconnect, weird behavior

2003-06-03 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hi Steven Thanks, but no success. Some incorrect settings are gone, some remained But it also breaks the initscripts package (I'm attempting to reinstall it) Guy Try to clean the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, /etc/sysconfig/networking and the subdirectories ? Steven Want to buy

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone got the fonts that are stored in /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/ (flubber, for instance) to work in the Gimp, using Mandrake 9.1. I have three boxes with 9.1 now. All are broken. Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 12:14:13AM

Re: [expert] Reinstall missing files from RPM package

2003-06-03 Thread Eric Fernandez
Guy Van Sanden wrote: In my quest to get networking running on my portable, I got some files from the initscripts package to go missing. Can I reinstall them without having to 'rpm -e' the package first? (Some scripts/settings have been modified by drakconf) I tried 'rpm -F', no success... Thanks

[expert] Mdk 9.1 + Thinkpad : IrDA don't work

2003-06-03 Thread F.Soyer
Hi all, I've just installed a Mdk 9.1 on an IBM Thinkpad A22m laptop. All is fine except IrDA that I can't use. I've modified the /etc/sysconfig/irda, because the DEVICE was on /dev/ttyS2, and the Ir port was on ttyS1 (see findchip), but it don't work, irdadump say nothing. findchip -v : Found NSC

[expert] Encrypted partition

2003-06-03 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I was wondering if anyone has been using Encrypted partitions in Mandrake yet, and if their experience has been good. Do they come up right after a crash? What filesystem works best on them? ... I just bought a laptop, and I'm seriously considering to make the home-directory encrypted...

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread charlie
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:20 pm, Wolfgang Bornath sent this :- Also supermount is still an issue - I disabled it and do much better than with it. Supermount is the first thing to go, always. -- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. Aldous Huxley

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread charlie
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:01 pm, Steven Broos sent this :- 40gig is too much to copy on CD, so I'll have to buy me a new harddrive. Tar the 40 gig onto the other hard drive. Format the NTFS drive and them untar the data back onto it. Charlie -- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread charlie
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 04:39 pm, Brian V Bonini sent this :- About to attempt an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 Any issues I should be aware of, any suggestions, experiences (good or bad) Clean install, don't upgrade. If your home is on another partition it will all just come together like a dream,

Re: [expert] opening links

2003-06-03 Thread charlie
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 03:20 pm, eric huff sent this :- Anybody have any idea why this would not be sticky? Every few days i have to go in there and tell it to open with dillo eric Try removing everything else and leave only Mozilla in there, and see if that sticks. You can always add the

Re: [expert] very strange filenames in 'ftp'

2003-06-03 Thread charlie
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 03:53 am, dfox sent this :- I actually got hit with the UTF-8 stuff as well.. I am not even sure how it is really meant to work.. How the UTF-8 stuff managed get set, Me neither. Any aussies want to comment? I am unaware of a y (i..e, one with two dots, high-ascii, not

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread charlie
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir sent this :- Look, I'm in a real tough position here. First, I am and always have been a supporter of Mandrake. For what it's worth, I am not, I have moved from Red Hat 7.3 with some modification, which I thought was the best of that distro to

Re: [expert] spamassassin- using spamd/spamc

2003-06-03 Thread Salane King
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 June 2003 23:41, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Im sorry for bringing this topic up again, but after hunting through the readme files, etc. for a faster way to run spamassassin it looked like using spamc and spamd instead might work. Can

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
Do you really have 40GB of data? There's little point in burning the system files and program files. You couldn't restore your system that way, so how much is actual data? That might be a more manageable amount. Anne On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 4:39 am, Steven Broos wrote: Yes it can, but

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 11:20 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ** Anne Wilson (Montag, 2. Juni 2003 23:48) Not on my machine. 9.1 is the fastest by quite a bit. Same here. I did not address the eye candy issue in my other mail but it is an issue for may users who use it as a desktop system. And

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 02 Jun 2003 11:31 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 17:48, Anne Wilson wrote: Perhaps so...but I think the discussion here is concerning 9.1 more than anything else, and I seem to remember you posting some problems concerning that release. Plus, it was faster.

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 5:56 am, Lorne wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 09:21 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Lorne wrote: Lorne, I don't think that opening Mandrake Control Center Software Management and navigating between the management components varies by more than a click or two from the

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
Most of the data is my music-collection, that's what makes it that big... But I've found an USB harddrive I can use, so I'll do it that way. Steven On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 12:53, Anne Wilson wrote: Do you really have 40GB of data? There's little point in burning the system files and program

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