Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-11 Thread Jim C
Arr!! I feel your pain.;-) # cat cdrom.img /dev/hda I learned a *lot* about Linux that night... -- Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] My Howto on the community page.

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
All, I've assembled my list of Things I need and can never remember on the Community Twiki... it's at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips Now if ya'll don't mind, and if you have the time. Drop on over to the page and if you see something I typo'd on or otherwise blew please

Re: [expert] mdk 9.1 lilo corrupt mbr with 80 gb hd

2003-06-11 Thread Evaristo Ferrari
Thanks to all of you. I like booting by winxp boot and got bootpart utility to create my own boot image and new loader inside boot.ini. So, for You, no problem way seems to be using grub instad of lilo when hd is over 60gb and mdk root is inside a logical patition and got another mbr

Re: [expert] My Howto on the community page.

2003-06-11 Thread Aaron Matteson
James Sparenberg became daring and sent these 0.7K bytes, All, I've assembled my list of Things I need and can never remember on the Community Twiki... it's at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips Handy Now if ya'll don't mind, and if you have the time. Drop on over to

Re: [expert] My Howto on the community page.

2003-06-11 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2003-06-11 00:10 * Incoming subspace signal from James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] : All, I've assembled my list of Things I need and can never remember on the Community Twiki... it's at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips Now if ya'll don't mind, and if

Re: [expert] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse

2003-06-11 Thread edoardo
Hi and thanks to all, I tried all your suggestions, but even forcing usbmouse to load the mouse is not recognized yet. BTW - I tried to directly connect a USB mouse to a free USB port and X works fine with both mice (the touchpad and the external one), but no luck when the mouse is plugged in

[expert] Evolution 1.4

2003-06-11 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello Everyone Evolution 1.4 is released (by Ximian) Has anyone seen RPMS for it yet (except form Ximian, those often break stuff). Kind regards Guy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: MandrakeCommunityWiki and foreign languages

2003-06-11 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2003 01:34 schrieb Vincent Danen: On Wed Jun 11, 2003 at 01:03:39AM +0200, Steffen Barszus wrote: Is it possible with Twiki to have a second Wiki on the same site ? History: On the german newbie/expert list the idea came up to have a german wiki for/from

Re: [expert] mdk 9.1 lilo corrupt mbr with 80 gb hd

2003-06-11 Thread charlie
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 03:41 pm, eric huff sent this :- I have also run XP in another partition, and crashed it often, then reinstalled it, and it has never reworked the MBR, just put itself back in with out destruction. Is it safe to reinstall 98 and XP? I was always told it would reformat

Re: [expert] third test to list

2003-06-11 Thread charlie
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:03 pm, David Rankin sent this :- It looks like I am only getting about 10 posts per day from the listserve and nothing I send gets through. Any thoughts?? Maybe your firewall is set too high? Most of the posts, go straight through to the expert folder on my machine,

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 Pentium 4

2003-06-11 Thread charlie
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:38 pm, Philip Webb sent this :- so i will look seriously at the AMD processors, but neither of you said what version you use. under 'Athlon XP 333 MHz FSB' (at my favorite local store (no know Linux)) I wasn't going to post because it only reinforces AMD and this stuff

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 Pentium 4

2003-06-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:38 pm, Philip Webb wrote: so i will look seriously at the AMD processors, but neither of you said what version you use. under 'Athlon XP 333 MHz FSB' (at my favorite local store (no know Linux)) i see '2500+ Barton 512K L2 cache' at a good price; under '266 MHZ'

Re: [expert] Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread Mike Rambo
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 03:37, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Folks, this request might be off-topic, but might not be. For years now - I have always used Mandrake for Desktop Usage - always bought the boxes, but RedHat for my home server - download edition. The

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:06 pm, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote: snip Well, all is well with the system now but I will still need a new mobo to take advantage of the CPU. I have finally figured out

[expert] Where's libGL.la?

2003-06-11 Thread John Layt
Hi! I'm running a recently installed 9.1 and have installed _all_ the XFree and Mesa -devel RPM's available, and then used the nVidia installer to install the latest drivers. However, when I go to re-compile/link some OpenGL/GLU code I've written through KDevelop I get the error:

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:15 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:06 pm, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote: snip [...] This board wont even handle what the MSI sites say it will.

Re: [expert] Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Anne, On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: So what is different, that's making it work? Most probably the Kernel and linked tools, Libraries will be the tricky parts. I'm pretty sure that backporting lots of stuff from Mdk9.x would work - but if I have to backport - I could also use

Re: [expert] Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Vincent, Thx for your Input. But - before I start doing a request - does the i586 also work on a VIA C3 CPU ? Have to check that exactly ... Well - the kernel wouldn't be important, but the libraries etc. Any clue ? On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: Well, you asked for a

[expert] Suspend to disk

2003-06-11 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I cannot supend my portable to disk, it seems to do it ok, goes down. But when I start it again, it just starts booting again (with filesystem checks). My portable is a Dell CPi A366XT (Bios A15) I created a hibernate partition with Dell's mks2d utility (in FreeDOS) Mandrake 9.1 Any

Re: [expert] Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread David Rankin
Heck, I though I was just being black-balled by the listserve because I'm still running a 7.2 server. James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:31, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 9:56 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 11:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On

[Fwd: Re: [expert] Where's libGL.la?]

2003-06-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
I am forwarding this to the list as I just noticed you have your Reply-To set to yourself and a simple Reply sends the reply only to you. People should not have their Reply-To set as the list will set it to the list, as it should be. This is not a personal help resource; it is a community

Re: [expert] new server, old users

2003-06-11 Thread Mark
Just thought that I would add a couple of extras to Kwan's script.. But I am not sure if the password thingy works correctly yet maybe someone will have something better.. anyway here it is.. #!/bin/bash IFS=$'\n'

Re: [expert] mdk 9.1 lilo corrupt mbr with 80 gb hd

2003-06-11 Thread eric huff
OK. I was under the impression that microsoft had a feautre that no matter what, would clean your entire drive for your convenience. (in other words, it would make sure no linux was left after they were done with it.) Hopefully i'll never have to find out... Is it safe to reinstall 98 and

[expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles.......

2003-06-11 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, I had this working once before but... I am using a laptop and only have the root and myself as a user. I deleted my user account and the /home/username dir and then recreated my account. And now when I setup openoffice I can't seem to get the kprinter command to work by setting the

RE: [expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles...... .

2003-06-11 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
what printing command are you using? It should look something like the following... kprinter --stdin David -Original Message- From: Ralph Crongeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] openoffice and the kprinter

[expert] Re: Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread Björn Lundin
Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: So what is different, that's making it work? Most probably the Kernel and linked tools, Libraries will be the tricky parts. Here, I think, Anne was asking what made my post go through this time. I had a line starting

Re: [expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles...... .

2003-06-11 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 12:53 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: kprinter but I have used kprinter --stdin also with the same results. Ralph what printing command are you using? It should look something like the following... kprinter --stdin David -Original Message-

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 5:52 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Anne, On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: So what is different, that's making it work? Most probably the Kernel and linked tools, Libraries will be the tricky parts. Here, I think, Anne was asking

Re: [expert] My Howto on the community page.

2003-06-11 Thread Philip Webb
030611 James Sparenberg wrote: I've assembled my list of Things I need and can never remember on the Community Twiki... it's at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips yes, quite useful. Now if ya'll don't mind, and if you have the time. Drop on over and if you see something I

Re: [expert] new server, old users

2003-06-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:30, Mark wrote: if [ $USERID -gt 499 ] [ $USERNAME != nobody ] ; then echo groupadd -g ${GROUPID} ${USERNAME} echo useradd -u ${USERID} -g ${GROUPID} -c \${COMMENT}\ \ -d ${USERDIR} -s ${USERSHL} ${USERNAME} PASSWD=`grep ${USERNAME}:

Re: [expert] openoffice and the kprinter command troubles...... .

2003-06-11 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 12:53 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Ok, I reinstalled openoffice and that fixed it! Thanks for the help. Ralph what printing command are you using? It should look something like the following... kprinter --stdin David -Original Message-

[expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-11 Thread Tango Echo
Guys, Please don't flame me for cross-posting. I'm only doing so becuase I did not receive a solution from the Newbie List (maybe got overlooked). Below is my problem... Thanks in advance... Hi all, I have recently decided to install the package chkrootkit

[expert] Konqueror quicklaunch tabs or whatever

2003-06-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know what you call the bar in konqueror, by default below the location bar...the one that, by default has all the MandrakeSoft shortcuts in it. What I want is to change those to a few of my other more often used bookmarks. How do I do

Re: [expert] Konqueror quicklaunch tabs or whatever

2003-06-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
Those are bookmarks, go into the Bookmarks menu and select the option Edit Bookmarks... Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know what you call the bar in konqueror, by default below the location bar...the one that, by default has all the

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 00:15, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:06 pm, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote: snip Well, all is well with the system now but I will still need a new

Re: [expert] Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 05:47, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Vincent, Thx for your Input. But - before I start doing a request - does the i586 also work on a VIA C3 CPU ? Have to check that exactly ... Well - the kernel wouldn't be important, but the libraries etc. Any clue ? Yes it does.. I've a

Re: [expert] Re: MandrakeCommunityWiki and foreign languages

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:03, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2003 01:34 schrieb Vincent Danen: On Wed Jun 11, 2003 at 01:03:39AM +0200, Steffen Barszus wrote: Is it possible with Twiki to have a second Wiki on the same site ? History: On the german newbie/expert list the idea

Re: [expert] MandrakeCommunityWiki and foreign languages

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:09, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Jun 10, 2003 at 04:45:46PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Is it possible with Twiki to have a second Wiki on the same site ? History: On the german newbie/expert list the idea came up to have a german wiki for/from

Re: [expert] Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi James, James Sparenberg wrote: Hi Vincent, Thx for your Input. But - before I start doing a request - does the i586 also work on a VIA C3 CPU ? Have to check that exactly ... Well - the kernel wouldn't be important, but the libraries etc. Any clue ? Yes it does.. I've a VIA C3 running MDK

Re: [expert] Xvidtune

2003-06-11 Thread Seth Zirin
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:58, Robert Storey wrote: Xvidtune with the -show option produces these settings: 800x600 49.50800 816 896 1056600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync I tried editing file /etc/X11/XF86Config to make these settings permanent, but that doesn't seem to

Re: [expert] My Howto on the community page.

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 01:43, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: * Stardate: 2003-06-11 00:10 * Incoming subspace signal from James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] : All, I've assembled my list of Things I need and can never remember on the Community Twiki... it's at

Re: [expert] My Howto on the community page.

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:40, Philip Webb wrote: 030611 James Sparenberg wrote: I've assembled my list of Things I need and can never remember on the Community Twiki... it's at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips yes, quite useful. Now if ya'll don't mind, and if you

Re: [expert] Evolution 1.4

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 02:32, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello Everyone Evolution 1.4 is released (by Ximian) Has anyone seen RPMS for it yet (except form Ximian, those often break stuff). Kind regards Guy Not that I know of ... but if anyone will be the first I'm betting it will be

Re: [expert] Evolution 1.4

2003-06-11 Thread alan
On 11 Jun 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 02:32, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello Everyone Evolution 1.4 is released (by Ximian) Has anyone seen RPMS for it yet (except form Ximian, those often break stuff). Kind regards Guy Not that I know of ... but if

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 05:52, Tango Echo wrote: Guys, Please don't flame me for cross-posting. I'm only doing so becuase I did not receive a solution from the Newbie List (maybe got overlooked). Below is my problem... Thanks in advance... Hi all, I

Re: [expert] Konqueror quicklaunch tabs or whatever

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:41, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know what you call the bar in konqueror, by default below the location bar...the one that, by default has all the MandrakeSoft shortcuts in it. What I want is to change those to a

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread Robert Crawford
Praedor, You might try taking out the sound card, and seeing if you can resolve the problems. I'm still thinking the power supply is a possible culprit. Which bios have you flashed to? Robert On Wednesday 11 June 2003 17:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 00:15, Praedor

Re: [expert] new server, old users

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Williamson
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 04:42, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:30, Mark wrote: if [ $USERID -gt 499 ] [ $USERNAME != nobody ] ; then echo groupadd -g ${GROUPID} ${USERNAME} echo useradd -u ${USERID} -g ${GROUPID} -c \${COMMENT}\ \ -d ${USERDIR} -s ${USERSHL}

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 June 2003 05:45 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: Praedor, You might try taking out the sound card, and seeing if you can resolve the problems. I'm still thinking the power supply is a possible culprit. Which bios have you flashed to? I

[expert] Vmware kai IPAQ

2003-06-11 Thread manolis
I installed vmware for linux in my mandrake 9.1. I want to use it for eVC for pocketpc programming with my ipaq. I have a problem: sometimes the vmware machine when I plug in my ipaq doesn't respond quickly and the device mounts itshelf in the hardware list of mandrake as scanner (lol). After

Re: [expert] MandrakeCommunityWiki and foreign languages

2003-06-11 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jun 11, 2003 at 02:47:00PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: A little help here would be great. I've taken a quick look at the twiki site but it's awfully slow and I couldnt find anything in there that directly pertains to a multi-lingual setup. I also would prefer that it be a

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread Robert Crawford
If you only had a generic 250w PS, I'll bet that's it. I've had post problems on two boxes, on several boards, and that was the problem. It's preety common when you try to upgrade a board AND cpu with an older box. But if you are still having problems with a 350w, you should check the actual

[expert] maybe OT re:popups

2003-06-11 Thread bascule
a friend invited me into a room on ukchat.com and i noticed that in both konqueror and mozilla popups got past my settings, can anyone explain this? is this a browser limitation thing, i ask becasue i had java problems on that site until i stopped closing the popups and just minimised them,

Re: [expert] Vmware kai IPAQ

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:48, manolis wrote: I installed vmware for linux in my mandrake 9.1. I want to use it for eVC for pocketpc programming with my ipaq. I have a problem: sometimes the vmware machine when I plug in my ipaq doesn't respond quickly and the device mounts itshelf in the

[expert] Block MSN Messenger with Squid

2003-06-11 Thread Ryan L. Hackl
Good day, all... Has anyone been able to find a decent way to block msn messenger with Squid? - Ryan

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:18, Robert Crawford wrote: If you only had a generic 250w PS, I'll bet that's it. I've had post problems on two boxes, on several boards, and that was the problem. It's preety common when you try to upgrade a board AND cpu with an older box. But if you are still

Re: [expert] third test to list

2003-06-11 Thread David E Fox
Are my messages getting through to the list?? Anne, I sent this one directly to you as well to see if you get it. If you do, check the Got it ... :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MandrakeCommunityWiki and foreign languages

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:55, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Jun 11, 2003 at 02:47:00PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: A little help here would be great. I've taken a quick look at the twiki site but it's awfully slow and I couldnt find anything in there that directly pertains to a

Re: [expert] maybe OT re:popups

2003-06-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:29, bascule wrote: a friend invited me into a room on ukchat.com and i noticed that in both konqueror and mozilla popups got past my settings, can anyone explain this? is this a browser limitation thing, i ask becasue i had java problems on that site until i stopped

Re: [expert] new server, old users

2003-06-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:19, Mark Williamson wrote: Using the usermod -p passwd it will pass the already hashed or md5 encrypted straight to the new /etc/shadow file, that's not the problem with the script.. it's the accuracy of the line PASSWD=`grep ${USERNAME}: /etc/shadow | cut -d: -f2`