Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-30 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 03:13, Praedor Atrebates wrote: In any case, since I would expect that a lot of users, particularly new users, would start the update process from DrakConf rather than from a CLI, they would not tend to use command line switches, just icons. Autoresume should be

Re: [expert] Jims 9.2 request mantra

2003-06-30 Thread Jim C
Looks like I wont have to worry about it maybe. Found this in bugzilla:: After setting the paths for htdig in the help index control panel in kde, the build index button still doesn't seem to work. /--- Additional Comment #1 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3294#c1 From Mandrake

Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot?

2003-06-30 Thread Mark
Hi SainTiss, I am trying to work out what you are trying to do.. Sounds like your trying to route a live range through a private IP address range. 213.118.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 00 eth0 Do you really have a live Subneted B-class or 8 C-classes, I

[expert] is the list down or me kicked off

2003-06-30 Thread Richard Bown
Hi all , nothing for a day, strange ?? -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] FIXED: No 3D with NVidia's driver

2003-06-30 Thread Miark
For no reason whatsoever, 3D is now working. At one point I installed the RPMs from MandarkeClub. They didn't work, so I uninstalled them and re- installed the drivers from the nVidia site. Still didn't work, of course, but this time my XFree config file had no trace whatsoever of the GLX in the

Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot?

2003-06-30 Thread richard bown
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 23:29, SainTiss wrote: Ok, anyway, I've tried to change the IP addresses now so that they are in different subnets, but that doesn't really seem to help... pinging between the 2 client pc's doesn't even work anymore now... This is the config: gateway (192.168.0.1 and

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-30 Thread Brian Schroeder
Thanks Tom and Olaf for your replies. I will have a play with Sandra and see what I come up with. Brian. At 01.24 27/06/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously, in cases where it isn't actually written on the stick.

[expert] 16 hours?

2003-06-30 Thread KevinO
to get a response from the sympa mail-list server? Ann, did it take you this long to get a response? I sent 'help' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 2:12am and finally got a response at 6:02pm. This IS ridiculous. I am changing which email account I subscribe to the list from. (Dropping my old ISP and

[expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-06-30 Thread Brian Parish
I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back now - in which some people including Civileme talked about

Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Crongeyer wanted us to know: How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24 variable or can I do it with that variable like $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24,

[expert] Again, no messages

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So yet again the list is generating no traffic (for me at least). What's up? - -- The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of

[expert] mount in fstab

2003-06-30 Thread David Hlik
Hi, how can i mount ISO image, from install CD in automatic from fstab i tried /mnt/data2/Instalacie/Programy/Linux/Mandrake-9.1/Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso iso9660 /mnt/inst3 loop=/dev/loop0 0 0 but it does not work. Thanks for help -- David Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Of course I meant it should lie to the server. What else could I possibly have meant that would make any sense? It (MandrakeUpdate) should also be prudish and prurient (try to do both of those at the same time). praedor On Friday 27 June 2003

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-30 Thread kiosk
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:51:35 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about giving MandrakeUpdate an autoresume ability? In the UK, ISPs who provide a fixed fee anytime deal for modem users tend to sever the connection whenever the user has spent two hours online. It's no problem

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-30 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:24 am, Brian Schroeder wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously, in cases where it isn't actually written on the stick. Oh well, Google it is, then http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=179

[expert] Bittorrent

2003-06-30 Thread richard bown
Hi all Ive been using bittorrent on windows for a while, works fine So I thought I'd try the linux version of the client, so downloaded the rpm from cooker built it and installed the files and the gui. Its been written in python, and each of the binaries seems to do something. But what it dos'nt

Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-06-30 Thread John Wilson
On June 27, 2003 09:56 am, Steve Cox - dig wrote: Hi there, This might be a little bit newbie, not sure. I want to keep an eye on my ip address off my adsl line, as it changes I would like a scirpt to run, basically uploading to a hosted out website. Currently I use a cron job every 15 mins

[expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1

2003-06-30 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Folks, I have a slight problem with the Cyrus Server n a box I have (Via EPIA 5000 running Mandrake 9.1). I tried the cyrus-imapd version 2.1.12 from Contrib. Actually - the cyrus-imapd works, and the postfix Server too - if both ae not connected - but I get the followig mssage in the

Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:20, Brian Parish wrote: I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back now -

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-30 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2003 04:36 schrieb kiosk: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:51:35 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about giving MandrakeUpdate an autoresume ability? This one is suggested and worked on. At least with rsync it should work allready in cooker if I'm not false.

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I am just now getting over having to live with a 26.4Kbps dialup connection for the last few years... Smoothwall took 2 hours or so

[expert] test

2003-06-30 Thread KevinO
This is only a test... -- KevinO Hickory Dickory Dock, The mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The others escaped with minor injuries. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't have much hope that this message will actually make it to the list but what the hell (I haven't seen a single message all weekend...AGAIN...I think I will drop off the list, it is too broken to be of any more use). For the first time I

Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot?

2003-06-30 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2003, SainTiss wrote: Ok, anyway, I've tried to change the IP addresses now so that they are in different subnets, but that doesn't really seem to help... pinging between the 2 client pc's doesn't even work anymore now... This is the config: gateway (192.168.0.1 and

Re: [expert] Bittorrent

2003-06-30 Thread Torstein Dybdahl
Hi. To use bittorrent with mozilla you have to add the mime-type x-bittorrent so that it launches the btdownloadgui. like in opera it is application/x-bittorrent filetype .torrent and laynces btdownloadgui.py I have not realy succedded with making it work well inside a browser. so i used to

Re: [expert] booting a kernel compiled with athlon results inkernel panick :/

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Golumbovici wanted us to know: Oh well... I did make clean. I didn't think that I need to do make mrproper or distclean just to compile for other target. is this really required?!? If you did anything that _changes_ the .config file, yes. If

Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE

2003-06-30 Thread Azrael
In my /etc/fstab (due to k3bsetup) I have: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder1auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 I have downloaded cdrecord-prodvd and set k3b to use that as

Re: [expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1

2003-06-30 Thread Joerg Mertin
Ok - answering to my own question. Due to the fact that the Mandrake-Maillist server did crash - I couldn't get Help from all of you :) Actually - it seemed to be a problem with the Version. after having upgraded the cyrus-imapd Server to 2.1.13 - it worked without a hintch. Also - I have to

Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...

2003-06-30 Thread Björn Rhoads
On Friday 27 June 2003 00.12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of a way to limit it to a single host rather than a network. Why would you want to? Miark Cuz I use e-mail from home. And at home I'm using a cable connection and don't want to open up the server to everyone on my

[expert] Parent vs Child

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent process spawn the new

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-06-30 Thread David Guntner
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend but it completely borked my ability to connect to the

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-06-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 28 June 2003 07:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it I use nohup

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-06-30 Thread Jack Coates
as David suggested, nohup is good for this -- but the daemon function in /etc/init.d/functions might also fit the bill. On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 16:17, James Sparenberg wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes

Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE

2003-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 29 Jun 2003 23:36:40 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my /etc/fstab (due to k3bsetup) I have: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder1auto ro,noauto,user,exec

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Jack Coates
Yes, Sympa sucks... but... I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about on the other thing. These two are both upgrades from 9.0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ grep home /usr/share/msec/perm.3 /home/ root.root 755 /home/*

Re: [expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1

2003-06-30 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2003 02:14 schrieb Joerg Mertin: Hi Folks, I have a slight problem with the Cyrus Server n a box I have (Via EPIA 5000 running Mandrake 9.1). I tried the cyrus-imapd version 2.1.12 from Contrib. Actually - the cyrus-imapd works, and the postfix Server too - if both ae

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 29 2003 07:16 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: Thanks Tom and Olaf for your replies. I will have a play with Sandra and see what I come up with. Brian. At 01.24 27/06/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously,

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Robert W.
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security (not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home directories. No limits!

Got it! Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:01, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 07:01 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and

Re: [expert] rpm db problems

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. Thanks in advance, cd /var/lib/rpm and remove files like __db.001 etc (note it's two

Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 04:37 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:20, Brian Parish wrote: I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We have a single phoneline, my wife's a vet and is often on call so I cannot (very often) let my puter stay connected unattended for real long periods. Plus...my ISP (my job/university) loosely limits each connection to 90 minutes (primarily

Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...

2003-06-30 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all thanks for the responses. Yea /32 should work I'll give it a try later today. I don't know why I diden't think of that myself?? Anyway thanks for all your help. Ralph On Thursday 26 June 2003 08:39 pm, Björn Rhoads wrote: On Friday 27 June 2003 00.12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 30 2003 04:37 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:20, Brian Parish wrote: I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:59:51 -0600 Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found something else that worked pretty good... I documented it on the wiki. Went from 320FPS to about 2200FPS... much nicer. EQ runs pretty good in winex now, and NWN looked pretty good for the 10s before it

Re: [expert] HELP - ext3 filesystem data loss?!

2003-06-30 Thread Larry Sword
Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, My computer gave me a message during boot up saying that there were problems in my root filesystem. He proceeded to check them and then suggested that he could fix them but that some data might get lost. I pressed yes and let him proceed. During the recovery process

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 10:31 am, Robert W. wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default

RE: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-06-30 Thread Albert Charron
I have 3 computers running Linux on WD HardDrives: 2 comps on 40gigs (1 UDMA3 because the MB doesn't support above this and the other at UDMA5) and 1 comp on 80gigs (UDMA5)without a problem. For now, they are the only drives that I didn't go through problems... Got a lot of problems with Maxtor

Re: [expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1

2003-06-30 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Martin Fahrendorf ha escrit: I think the new cyrus package solved this by adding the link or moving the socket into the postfix chroot jail. Nope, I didn't change that (and it shouldn't touch the configuration while upgrading anyway). But I don't know what got in cvs, since it's still

[expert] rpm db problems

2003-06-30 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. Thanks in advance, Cheers, -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de

Re: [expert] Bittorrent

2003-06-30 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Torstein maybe I'll wait a bit,as I can use bittorrent running windows in win4lin OK.. mvh Richard On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:47, Torstein Dybdahl wrote: Hi. To use bittorrent with mozilla you have to add the mime-type x-bittorrent so that it launches the btdownloadgui. like in

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:46:00PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security (not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no call for that unless some idiot user decides to give other people access to his/her home dir. This accessibility should be a no-no by default regardless of distro. This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:10:00PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: [...] I also believe that a user can enter another user's home dir but will get a permission denied if they do an ls. Other permissions protect the files in the homedir. The homedir should have execute-only perms. But, taking a

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread David James
I also believe that a user can enter another user's home dir but will get a permission denied if they do an ls. Other permissions protect the files in the homedir. The homedir should have execute-only perms. But, taking a quick look, it seems that is not the case. H. That does

[expert] 9.1 / XFree86 4.3: choosing compose map

2003-06-30 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I am having a US keyboard but would like my Multi_Key to choose ligatures from the Latin 1 Compose map. How do I accomplish this? I have tried including the following in /etc/sysconfig/i18n SYSFONTACM=iso15 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 at all. I went into DrakConf and set the security level to high and this fixed the horrific insecurity of the default setup, but it also unfortunately fired up shorewall with settings that prevented me from being able to access the system

Re: [expert] rpm db problems

2003-06-30 Thread Björn Olsson
On 30 Jun 2003 James Sparenberg wrote:: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. Thanks in advance, cd /var/lib/rpm

Re: [expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1

2003-06-30 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Martin, I had actually checked the chroot-stuff with Postfix and the cyrus-imapd/unixlmtp - but that wasn't the problem. I think it had rather something to do with the CPU I have in that system. The VIA C3 Ezra 533MHz CPU is actually not a fully compatible pentium class CPU - so there are

[expert] what now?

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just tried using urpmi as some suggested here when I made feature request wrt mandrakeupdate. I know I am not 100% updated so I should get something to update. Instead I get: ]#urpmi --noclean --auto --auto-select medium Installation CD 1 (x86)

Re: [expert] rpm db problems

2003-06-30 Thread Torstein Hernes Dybdahl
Hi- These files comes from when rpm is killed without killing its child processes. Then the rpm database is open and locked for other rpm processes. There is more info on this on an errata at rpm.org. Regards Torstein On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Björn Olsson wrote: On 30 Jun 2003 James Sparenberg

Re: [expert] what now?

2003-06-30 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Montag, 30. Juni 2003 22:56 schrieb Praedor Atrebates: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just tried using urpmi as some suggested here when I made feature request wrt mandrakeupdate. I know I am not 100% updated so I should get something to update. Instead I get: ]#urpmi

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was read/execute perms. Changing to level 3 gives back the appropriate homedir perms. This

Why is KDE better? (Re: [expert] 9.1 / XFree86 4.3: choosing compose map)

2003-06-30 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
Playing around a little more, I realized that it works under KDE, but not under WindowMaker and IceWM. That leaves me more puzzled---I thought that this configuration worked at the level of the X server and thus should be independent of the window manager. What is it that KDE does that other

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-06-30 Thread Dave Sherman
Robert Crawford wrote: Waiting sounds wise- no use in messing up your current setup. However, if you really wanted to see if it will apply, what you could try is copying your stock MDK kernel sources directory from /usr/src to it's own directory in /home. (Compiling there is much safer than

[expert] Serial ATA harddisk !!

2003-06-30 Thread Rodrigo
Dear All I have been trying to install mandrake 9.1 on my new computer, ... .. it comes with a SerialATA Harddisk (Silicon Image 3112 controller) I did a clean mdk 9.1 installation, but when I reboot, the computer died ... ...I was reading about this particular issue, and It seems that

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:27:33 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 07:01 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I see...but is it really a good idea to permit execute perms to any and sundry? I used to think that if there were a linux virus/worm to be concerned about that the worst that could happen under normal circumstances is that a user who received

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 02:12:35PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: at all. I went into DrakConf and set the security level to high and this fixed the horrific insecurity of the default setup, but it also unfortunately fired up shorewall with settings that prevented me from being able

[expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
Got the parts in to repair my laptop So the first thing I did was reload the OS as the / partition got mighty hosed by the IDE controller going south. After doing that I did the normal upgrades etc. Along the way I decided to try out the 2.4.18mdk kernel. This is where the sound fun began.

Re: [expert] rpm db problems

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 13:19, Björn Olsson wrote: On 30 Jun 2003 James Sparenberg wrote:: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 01:11:34PM -0700, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was read/execute perms. Changing to level 3 gives back the appropriate

Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE

2003-06-30 Thread Azrael
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:33, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 29 Jun 2003 23:36:40 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my /etc/fstab (due to k3bsetup) I have: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd

Re: [expert] script help

2003-06-30 Thread michael
Yeah, that might be a good idea :-) Well, I'm doing great; I answer my email about once a week! Well, I've thought about that occasionally - restoring that is. I guess I'd have to just reload the system and then copy the target files back to their original places. I'll have to play with that on

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-06-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 10:27:23AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Got the parts in to repair my laptop So the first thing I did was reload the OS as the / partition got mighty hosed by the IDE controller going south. After doing that I did the normal upgrades etc. Along the way I decided

[expert] Changes to the ps command

2003-06-30 Thread Albert E. Whale, CISSP
I have been running Mandrake since version 6. My recent install for 9.1 has developed a compatibility issue with PSAD (Port Scan Attack Detector). What is the reason (or Login) behind the deprecation of the dash on the ps -ax command? -- Albert E. Whale, CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com

Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working

2003-06-30 Thread Albert E. Whale, CISSP
Rick Salsa wrote: Hi, I've come across something that I haven't seen before, but my RPM binary doesn't seem to work. If I try to install or upgrade any RPMs, it just sits and doesn't do anything. rpm -qa, rpm --help, and rpm --version work, but that's it. I tried rpm --list to see if the last

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-06-30 Thread Robert Crawford
Dave, Sounds like you had great success! So, we now know at least that Hz patch can be added to the already heavily patched Mandrake kernels. Could you please post some info on the two minor patch failures, and how you fixed them? The only benchmarking tools I know of for Linux are one called

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:38, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 01:11:34PM -0700, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was read/execute

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:47, Jack Coates wrote: ... Betcha you'd upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1, because I just found out from today's festivities that both of the machine's I've done it on are now at msec 2. oops, spoke too soon -- only one of those actually changed its level. -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:47, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 10:27:23AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Got the parts in to repair my laptop So the first thing I did was reload the OS as the / partition got mighty hosed by the IDE controller going south. After doing that I

RE: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-06-30 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 00:51, Albert Charron wrote: I have 3 computers running Linux on WD HardDrives: 2 comps on 40gigs (1 UDMA3 because the MB doesn't support above this and the other at UDMA5) and 1 comp on 80gigs (UDMA5)without a problem. For now, they are the only drives that I didn't go

Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:31, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: Rick Salsa wrote: Hi, I've come across something that I haven't seen before, but my RPM binary doesn't seem to work. If I try to install or upgrade any RPMs, it just sits and doesn't do anything. rpm -qa, rpm --help, and rpm

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:43, Robert Crawford wrote: Dave, Sounds like you had great success! So, we now know at least that Hz patch can be added to the already heavily patched Mandrake kernels. Could you please post some info on the two minor patch failures, and how you fixed them? Yes

Re: [expert] Changes to the ps command

2003-06-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:11, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: I have been running Mandrake since version 6. My recent install for 9.1 has developed a compatibility issue with PSAD (Port Scan Attack Detector). What is the reason (or Login) behind the deprecation of the dash on the ps -ax

Re: [expert] Again, no messages

2003-06-30 Thread charlie
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:48 am, Praedor Atrebates had this to contribute :- So yet again the list is generating no traffic (for me at least). What's up? same here for a day 30 June in Oz Charlie -- A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful dark treacle melted under the

Re: [expert] HELP - ext3 filesystem data loss?!

2003-06-30 Thread charlie
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:31 am, Andrei Raevsky had this to contribute :- My computer gave me a message during boot up saying that there were problems in my root filesystem. He proceeded to check them and then suggested that he could fix them but that some data might get lost. I pressed yes and

Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE

2003-06-30 Thread charlie
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:36 am, Azrael had this to contribute :- I still can't burn onto a dvdrw. Maybe change your driver? -- A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful dark treacle melted under the gate. Elizabeth Lemarchand This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux