[expert] Java?

2003-06-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my machine. Hunting around, I find that I don't even have Java running. I notice that I have Kaffe pretending to be java. I can't find a proper JRE on the cds. Nothing seems

[expert] Getting rid of supermount

2003-06-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
How does one go about getting rid of supermount? I have played with it long enough to decide that I like Mandrake without it, as it seems to act weird, not mounting some jobs, locking some from being a unmounted, and just being a pain. Heck, Icons in KDE can replace it in a snap. I can

Re: [expert] Getting rid of supermount

2003-06-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one go about getting rid of supermount? I have played with it long enough to decide that I like Mandrake without it, as it seems to act weird, not mounting some jobs, locking some from being a unmounted, and just being a pain. Heck, Icons in KDE can replace it in a

Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 21:10, Leonardo Sá wrote: Em Dom 15 Jun 2003 00:52, Greg Meyer escreveu: On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:31 pm, Leonardo Sá wrote: Look at this: inserted the m$office cd into the drive just for test purposes... [EMAIL PROTECTED] leo]# mount /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Java?

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my machine. Hunting around, I find that I don't even have Java running. I notice that I have Kaffe pretending to be

Re: [expert] Getting rid of supermount

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:05, Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one go about getting rid of supermount? I have played with it long enough to decide that I like Mandrake without it, as it seems to act weird, not mounting some jobs, locking some from being a unmounted, and just being a pain.

Re: [expert] Java?

2003-06-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my machine. Hunting around, I find that I don't even have

Re: [expert] Java?

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 00:08, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my

Re: [expert] Coreldraw files to?

2003-06-15 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
James, Also problem to compile; I have the libs that the the programe need (mentioned in the INSTALL file): [EMAIL PROTECTED] gfXcon_0.3]# make g++ -c misc.c misc.c:38:20: Imlib2.h: No such file or directory misc.c: In function `void init(Display**, Visual**, Screen**, Window*)': misc.c:63:

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 7000 DRI

2003-06-15 Thread Joerg Mertin
John Haywood wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2003 08:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: [...] for 3D, you´re going to need the proprietary dri and fglrx drivers from ATI. They were posted on their German support site, and, while I could get them to sort of work under 9.0 (X worked in blissful 3-D, but going back

Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel

2003-06-15 Thread Joerg Mertin
James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:52, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I've had this for a while on all kernels with my hardware. I just vi .config and search for asm or ASM every time I find it I comment the line out with a #. Then

Re: [expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 11:37 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 13:44, Simon Naish wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a boot floppy for my mdk9.1 system. However, it stalls, saying there's not enough space to copy mkinitrd or saying that the floppy is mounted. Pain in the

Re: [expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
** Anne Wilson (Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 11:28) On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 11:37 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Mine does this on occasion... I have to unmount the floppy then mkdosfs /dev/fd0 then use the tool and suddenly the floppy is the right size... I don't understand... it just

[expert] Re: 9.1 kernel 2.4.21 vs cooker 2.4.21

2003-06-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 14 June 2003 06:04 pm, Joan Tur wrote: Es Dissabte 14 Juny 2003 23:52, en Jack Coates va escriure: doesn't matter where it is, urpmi will select the one with the highest version number. This way your

[expert] Urpmi a non-Mandrake RPM package?

2003-06-15 Thread stefmit
Is it possible to #urpmi XYZ.rpm, where XYZ was not packaged for Mandrake, and a previous version of XYZ exists on the systems and is running? I am specifically interested in IceWM, which has a couple of updates beyond what MDK delivered with 9.1, and those are in RPM format, but not for MDK.

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday June 14 2003 10:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 09:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: That means you've got no problems with cpu/cache/ram and that your cooling is adequate under extreme load. I suspect your problem involves some files or such that got

Re: [expert] urpmi -- I'm impressed!

2003-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:25:52 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because the executable is inside the package and the hdlist keeps that info. urpmi is awesome and IMO, the best thing about Mandrake. To be honest the real reason that it works it that we who build rpms do show

[expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread stefmit
I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with libraries slightly different version than MDK ones fails to install, regardless of what I attempt to do. Last example is qtopia's RPM, which I NEED like

[expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread stefmit
Very weird situation - didn't pay much attention to it, until now, when - due to some immediate needs to resolve some issues via email - it seems to go beyond a simple nuisance level: I can highlight (thus copy) anything from any window, and then paste by mid-click-ing (does this sound

Re: [expert] Getting rid of supermount

2003-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 June 2003 02:05 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one go about getting rid of supermount? I have played with it long enough to decide that I like Mandrake without it, as it seems to act weird, not mounting some jobs, locking some from being a unmounted, and just being a pain.

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 14 June 2003 06:39 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: pulling at straws here. if you do ulimit... what does it say? James James, that was a good thought there, but for root and my normal user it reports unlimited. :-) -- /\

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:35 am, stefmit wrote: Very weird situation - didn't pay much attention to it, until now, when - due to some immediate needs to resolve some issues via email - it seems to go beyond a simple nuisance level: I can highlight (thus copy) anything from any window, and then

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: 'locate -u' == 'updatedb'Sorry I must'a missed the part where you've had this problem even after a fresh install. You could try 'bonnie++' to see if your drive(s) are behaving up to par. Should be on your CD's. No problem - I

Re: [expert] urpmi -- I'm impressed!

2003-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:25:52 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because the executable is inside the package and the hdlist keeps that info. urpmi is awesome and IMO, the best thing about Mandrake. To be honest the real reason that it works it that we who build rpms do show

Re: [expert] Urpmi a non-Mandrake RPM package?

2003-06-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 04:55, stefmit wrote: Is it possible to #urpmi XYZ.rpm, where XYZ was not packaged for Mandrake, and a previous version of XYZ exists on the systems and is running? I am specifically interested in IceWM, which has a couple of updates beyond what MDK delivered with 9.1,

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probablyeverything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:27, stefmit wrote: I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with libraries slightly different version than MDK ones fails to install, regardless of what I attempt to do.

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:35 am, stefmit wrote: Very weird situation - didn't pay much attention to it, until now, when - due to some immediate needs to resolve some issues via email - it seems to go beyond a simple nuisance level: I can

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 June 2003 09:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: So Darklord, there's alot I'm not saying here that could be said offlist. --LX I hear ya -- /\ DarkLord

Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel

2003-06-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've had no problems at all. Are you all sure you are first running make mrproper? praedor On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:16, Greg Meyer wrote: Has anybody else tried to recompile the new

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Stef, you'll find a thread I started on this subject on the newbie list. To cut to the chase - there was no answer. Others users seem to be able to do it just fine, but I can't either. I can use Klipper by highlighting what I need in Eterm,

[expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Brian V Bonini
What's going on here? # updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 15907 Broken pipe /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l$SECURITY Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread stefmit
On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:38 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:27, stefmit wrote: I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with libraries slightly different version than MDK ones

[expert] regular expressions with quotes

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
Hai I'm trying to do a regular expression, which contains ' As far as I know, I have to backslash the ' but that gives me an error. expr that returns the part of a string between (' '): $ expr dag('hello')goodafternoon : '.*(\(.*\)).*' 'hello' $ expr dag('hello')goodafternoon :

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:37, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:22, Jason Guidry wrote: Piero Piutti wrote: Do you know if the cvs works fine as well? I'm working on it, I'll report back on how it goes Just tried Transgaming with a couple of kid games, no success. They

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probablyeverything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
stefmit wrote: I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with libraries slightly different version than MDK ones fails to install, regardless of what I attempt to do. Last example is qtopia's RPM,

Re: [expert] regular expressions with quotes

2003-06-15 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:43, Steven Broos wrote: Hai I'm trying to do a regular expression, which contains ' As far as I know, I have to backslash the ' but that gives me an error. expr that returns the part of a string between (' '): $ expr dag('hello')goodafternoon : '.*(\(.*\)).*'

Re: [expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-15 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I thought it was related to supermount but I can't remember: was supermount in 8.2 already? Yes. A related question: Is there a doc somewhere on putting a boot-floppy on CD or IOW: making a special bootable rescue/install CD? These may help:

Re: [expert] regular expressions with quotes

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:24, Adolfo Bello wrote: Double quoting the regexp will do it: expr dag('hello')goodafternoon : .*('\(.*\)').* Adolfo works. Stupid me didn't think of it... Thanks! Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:51, James Sparenberg wrote: 3 Upgrade to 2.4.19-32mdk (the latest kernel for 9.0) it works much nicer. James Where do you find kernel updates for 9.0? When I run Mandrake Update I never see any Kernel updates... -- If it's not on fire, it's a software problem.

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 07:52 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: 'locate -u' == 'updatedb'Sorry I must'a missed the part where you've had this problem even after a fresh install. You could try 'bonnie++' to see if your drive(s) are

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probablyeverything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 07:40, stefmit wrote: ... no different than what is done with Apache... the compile-from-source package puts everything related to foobar in /usr/local/foobar because that's where it is expected. The came-with-the-OS package (or contrib in this case) puts all

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:01, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:37, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:22, Jason Guidry wrote: Piero Piutti wrote: Do you know if the cvs works fine as well? I'm working on it, I'll report back on how it goes Just tried

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread stefmit
On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:14 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: stefmit wrote: I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with libraries slightly different version than MDK ones fails to install,

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:47, Brian V Bonini wrote: What's going on here? # updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 15907 Broken pipe /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l$SECURITY Not running as root? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:09 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I've had no problems at all. Are you all sure you are first running make mrproper? Yes, I ran mrproper. I'm going to try and reinstall it again tonight and see if it was something that got borked in the patching process (I applied the

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread stefmit
On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:28 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 07:40, stefmit wrote: ... no different than what is done with Apache... the compile-from-source package puts everything related to foobar in /usr/local/foobar because that's where it is expected. The

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probablyeverything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
stefmit wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:14 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: stefmit wrote: I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with libraries slightly different version than MDK ones fails to install,

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 1:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:35 am, stefmit wrote: Stef, you'll find a thread I started on this subject on the newbie list. To cut to the chase - there was no answer. Others users seem to be able to do it just fine, but I can't either. I can

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Actually I think he has got a point and everybody misunderstood him. IMHO he wasn't bashing Mandrake, but merely stating a Linux general problem. The libraries and dependencies thing is linux is really a big PITA. Each time I want to install something which is not in my standard distro I have to

[expert] laptop install XF86 prob

2003-06-15 Thread richard bown
Hi getting a problem on a install to my laptop,Toshiba 4000CDS, its an old clunker but still useful. XFdrake sets up for flat panel 800x600 and res of 800x600, but on test always reverts to 600x400. On install of MDK9.1 the screen res is OK so it looks like the default svga driver is OK. can

[expert] Batch bookmarks conversion Konqueror - Mozilla

2003-06-15 Thread BOURDEU d'AGUERRE Philippe
Keditbookmarks can convert konqueror bookmarks from and to Mozilla. Is there a way to access these fonctions from a shell script ? With DCOP ? -- Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-15 Thread Philip Webb
030615 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ** Anne Wilson (Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 11:28) I don't know what causes it, but it's not new. I had the same problem in 8.2. I thought it was related to supermount but I can't remember: was supermount in 8.2 already? i just made a 9.1 boot diskette using a blank

Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:17, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:51, James Sparenberg wrote: 3 Upgrade to 2.4.19-32mdk (the latest kernel for 9.0) it works much nicer. James Where do you find kernel updates for 9.0? When I run Mandrake Update I never see any Kernel

Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:44, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:09 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I've had no problems at all. Are you all sure you are first running make mrproper? Yes, I ran mrproper. I'm going to try and reinstall it again tonight and see if it was something

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probablyeverything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:13, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: ... 1. Linux exists in a huge load of distro's and no real standard here. LSB or not, you will have real pains in trying to install even between 2 distro's which should represent same branch of development on the major packages/apps. 2.

Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 02:27, Joerg Mertin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:52, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I've had this for a while on all kernels with my hardware. I just vi .config and search for asm or ASM

Re: [expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 03:15, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ** Anne Wilson (Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 11:28) On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 11:37 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Mine does this on occasion... I have to unmount the floppy then mkdosfs /dev/fd0 then use the tool and suddenly the

[expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
Hi Folks, Is there any way to set the default linux alphanumeric order? I can't remember from my unix days anymore, but the last several years i have happily placed _ at the beginning of filenames and directories i wanted to show up first. But that doesn't work. I have noticed it even ignores

Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:41, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:17, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:51, James Sparenberg wrote: 3 Upgrade to 2.4.19-32mdk (the latest kernel for 9.0) it works much nicer. James Where do you find kernel updates

Re: [expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 03:15, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: ** Anne Wilson (Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 11:28) On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 11:37 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Mine does this on occasion... I have to unmount the floppy then mkdosfs /dev/fd0 then use the tool and suddenly the

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 12:37, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:47, Brian V Bonini wrote: What's going on here? # updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 15907 Broken pipe /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l$SECURITY Not running as root? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su Password:

Re: [expert] Coreldraw files to?

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 01:53, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: James, Also problem to compile; I have the libs that the the programe need (mentioned in the INSTALL file): [EMAIL PROTECTED] gfXcon_0.3]# make g++ -c misc.c misc.c:38:20: Imlib2.h: No such file or directory misc.c: In function

Re: [expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:44, eric huff wrote: Hi Folks, Is there any way to set the default linux alphanumeric order? I can't remember from my unix days anymore, but the last several years i have happily placed _ at the beginning of filenames and directories i wanted to show up first.

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:09, Brian V Bonini wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]# updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 16857 Broken pipe /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l$SECURITY A thread a while back mentioned that some functions are disabled because

Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 04:47 pm, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: Does urpmi --update kernel do anything different? Look in /etc/urpmi/inst.list ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Batch bookmarks conversion Konqueror - Mozilla

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:35, BOURDEU d'AGUERRE Philippe wrote: Keditbookmarks can convert konqueror bookmarks from and to Mozilla. Is there a way to access these fonctions from a shell script ? With DCOP ? Don't know the answer but I know a path to find it. Run kdcop from the command line

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:09, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 12:37, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:47, Brian V Bonini wrote: What's going on here? # updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 15907 Broken pipe /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l$SECURITY

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 06:48, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:35 am, stefmit wrote: Very weird situation - didn't pay much attention to it, until now, when - due to some immediate needs to resolve some issues via email - it

Re: [expert] updatedb prob

2003-06-15 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:15, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:09, Brian V Bonini wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]# updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: line 13: 16857 Broken pipe /usr/bin/slocate -c -u -l$SECURITY A thread a while

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probablyeverything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:27, stefmit wrote: I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with libraries slightly different version than MDK ones fails to install, regardless of what I attempt to do.

Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 14:47, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:41, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:17, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:51, James Sparenberg wrote: 3 Upgrade to 2.4.19-32mdk (the latest kernel for 9.0) it works much

Re: [expert] Coreldraw files to?

2003-06-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 16:37, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 15:07:02 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming you tried the gimp... h Doesn't support Corel's proprietary format. How about

Re: [expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-15 Thread Brian Schroeder
Hi Per-Olof, I'm a bit late on this thread, and was expecting someone else to suggest this, but not seeing it: Have you tried installing the ed package? I ran into the same problem, and, after installing ed, it worked perfectly. My system shows that ed-0.2-29mdk is now installed. Brian. From:

[expert] per-directory umask

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
Resend (june 4th) What I basically need is: - a shared directory for users in a group - Access to own files - No access to other files - Access to all files for user apache I now I can use their homedirs in apache, but I would like to do this in one directory if possible. Anyone who can help me

Re: [expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:13 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:44, eric huff wrote: Hi Folks, Is there any way to set the default linux alphanumeric order? I can't remember from my unix days anymore, but the last several years i have happily placed _ at the beginning of

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This also illustrates a problem with depending on urpmi for anything from outside the Mandrake distro. If you use urpmi it will crap out and not be able to handle it if you try to install a non-native rpm. In such a case, you may have to rely on

Re: [expert] per-directory umask

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:48 pm, Steven Broos wrote: Resend (june 4th) What I basically need is: - a shared directory for users in a group - Access to own files - No access to other files - Access to all files for user apache I now I can use their homedirs in apache, but I would like to do

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:31, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 06:48, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: just fine, but I can't either. I can use Klipper by highlighting what I need in Eterm, then go to Klipper, click on that entry, go

Re: [expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
Woohoo! export LC_COLLATE=POSIX does the trick. I googled before on sorting, alphabetizing, etc, and every thing i could pf, but there's just too many hits. Thanks for the lead Kwan! I put export LC_COLLATE=POSIX in .bash_profile so filemanagers (like rox) would get it and also in .bashrc

Re: [expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
** James Sparenberg (Sonntag, 15. Juni 2003 23:56) Ok,,, now that I've sent a totally blank reply how about one that has some content. I read that with growing interest. :) [Good micro-howto saved] As for the second. I've two preferences for rescue disks. I already have a Knoppix CD but

TWiki [Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel]

2003-06-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 15 Jun 2003 14:12:07 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since valuable info like this needs to be captured I started a new section in the HowTo's on the Twiki... called Tips and Tricks. It's at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TipsAndTricks With the object of

Re: [expert] Urpmi a non-Mandrake RPM package?

2003-06-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 15 June 2003 04:55 am, stefmit wrote: Is it possible to #urpmi XYZ.rpm, where XYZ was not packaged for Mandrake, and a previous version of XYZ exists on the systems and is running? I am specifically interested in IceWM, which has a couple of updates beyond what MDK delivered with

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread stefmit
On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:13 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Actually I think he has got a point and everybody misunderstood him. IMHO he wasn't bashing Mandrake, but merely stating a Linux general problem. The libraries and dependencies thing is linux is really a big PITA. Each time I want to

[expert] application/buffered/cache

2003-06-15 Thread kiosk
Hi all, I'm a recent convert to default MDK 9.1 [+ relevant security updates] after using slackware for a couple of years [and RedHat, Suse, before that]. I'm really very impressed by MDK but there's one thing which is bugging me. I realize that unused memory is wasted memory [in the words of

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probablyeverything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rolf Pedersen wrote: stefmit wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:14 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: stefmit wrote: I am making one last attempt with the great hope that someone, somewhere has figured this libraries issue out. Almost any program coming with libraries slightly different version than MDK

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread stefmit
On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:14 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: snip The only other issue you cited, AFAICT, is that Mandrake's package of nagios puts files in more than one directory: # rpm -qpl /backup/contrib/nagios-1.0b6-1mdk.i586.rpm /etc/nagios /etc/nagios/cgi.cfg /etc/nagios/checkcommands.cfg

Re: [expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:00 pm, eric huff wrote: Woohoo! export LC_COLLATE=POSIX does the trick. I googled before on sorting, alphabetizing, etc, and every thing i could pf, but there's just too many hits. Thanks for the lead Kwan! I put export LC_COLLATE=POSIX in .bash_profile so

Re: [expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-15 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I already have a Knoppix CD but what I want to do is: A CD that can work as a rescue media for my installation and also can do as an installation CD containing only the apps and tools I have installed now. Kind of a individual installation CD.