[expert] kdm wont start at bootup

2003-08-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Before rebuilding my last kernel (2.4.21-0.13mdk because all subsequent mdk kernels simply refuse to work on my laptop), I had no problems with kdm. It came up after the initial bootup just fine. Now, it wont come up and I get dumped to the consol

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I've found the problem. diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in fstab. It was trying to mount reiserfs drives as

[expert] Login from Windows and Linux

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Lothian
Hi again I've got a few more questions for you/ I was just wondering if it was possible to set up a server that both windows and linux could log into. I'd like to be able to log in from any of my pc's and be able to access all my files and the same from linux too. Is this possible? Also is i

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Lothian
It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, Is there something I'm unaware of? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 12:32 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Anne, > > If you're using serial cable, better. I wasn't able to setup a apc > ups with usb cable. If you allow me, despite not knowing to > identify your cable type, use apcupsd version 3.8 (not 3.10 that > come with MDK 9.1)

[expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Lothian
Hi I'd like to set up my own Postfix mail server but... I'm not entirely sure how to. I have my own domain name (which is currently hosted) but I'd like it to point to my fixed ip instead. What would be the best way to do this? And how should I set it up etc? I've heard that if it isn't set u

Re: [expert] Assist me educate the UK

2003-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 10:56 am, Patricia Fraser wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 8:34 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > >Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. > > > > > > > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-168 > > > >16.2 9%40foru

[expert] FYI: Streamlined SSH access to different machines behind a singleIP

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
Since I just had to solve this problem with the help of google, I documented it here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/AccessingMultipleMachinesBehindASingleIPAddress Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:14:39 +0100 Michael Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to set up my own Postfix mail server but... I'm not entirely > sure how to. > > I have my own domain name (which is currently hosted) but I'd like it to > > point to my fixed ip instead. > > What w

[expert] urpmi problem

2003-08-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to update/upgrade my KDE to the texstar 3.1.3 rpms. When I run "urpmi kdebase kdelib kdegraphics kdenetwork" it downloads about half of the required rpms (dependencies) but then craps out with: Installation failed, some files are missin

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:44 am, Larry Sword wrote: > Ronald, > > ?? Another thought squashed. > I tried Kwrite, Kedit and Kate and the all have different behaviour. > Kwrite works and has a full Kdeprint panel with all options but NO SPELL > CHECKING. Kedit has spell checking but does not ca

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 03:38, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > > > I've found the problem. > > > > diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or > > thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in

Re: [expert] postfix problems

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:01:31 +0200 "Kim Brandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone > > I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix > 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i > uninstalled qmail. > > I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Sword
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear, even

[expert] Security settings advice/aid?

2003-08-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I currently run my laptop at security level 2 (default). I would like to beef it up but fear wrecking the useability of my system. In the past, if I simply select security level 3, for instance, it changes enough settings that basic things like ru

Re: [expert] XMMS plugins

2003-08-27 Thread diego
Anyway, try EFXmms as it let you use several efect plugins at the same time: it shows the ones available and you select wich ones are to be in use. El mié, 13-08-2003 a las 04:48, Miark escribió: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:21:42 -0500, John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's actuall

[expert] postfix problems

2003-08-27 Thread Kim Brandt
Hi everyone   I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i uninstalled qmail.   I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get some e-mails from the server, but now i don´t. I think q

Re: [expert] Servers...

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:54:46 -0400 Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? > > > > They've recently been using: > > 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org > > 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net > > and now:

Re: [expert] Servers...

2003-08-27 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:23 am, many eyes noted that Pierre Fortin wrote: > I've tried posting recently; to no avail, so I'll be surprised if this msg > hits the list. I received this if it is any help. Charlie -- Of one thing it is said "that is bad" and of another it is said "that is good."

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-08-27 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Anne, If you're using serial cable, better. I wasn't able to setup a apc ups with usb cable. If you allow me, despite not knowing to identify your cable type, use apcupsd version 3.8 (not 3.10 that come with MDK 9.1). The former version is quite less complicate to setup and so you can try by c

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 3:52 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch i

Re: [expert] Servers...

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Weaver
Pierre Fortin wrote: Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bounc

Re: [expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client

2003-08-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 06:11 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: > Byan, Thanks for your answer despite my bad english! Trust me, your english is s much better than my spanish! -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mand

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-27 Thread Udo Rader
Am Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:10:59 + schrieb Matthew O. Persico: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:29:33 +0200, jipe wrote: >>> >>> >>one easy way ... >> >>GLOBIGNORE="no_not_this_one" >> >>then any glob like * will ignore this file >> >>bye >>jipe >> >> >> > YIKES! Why use estoeric, shell specific stuff whe

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > I've found the problem. > > diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or > thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in > fstab. It was trying to mount reiserfs drives as xfs. When

Re: [expert] Bootspash with linus kernel

2003-08-27 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: "Olaf Marzocchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Which patch should I add to the linus kernel to have a bootsplash? > > Thanks > Olaf > http://www.bootsplash.org/ Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Assist me educate the UK

2003-08-27 Thread Patricia Fraser
> On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 8:34 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. > > > > > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-16816.2 > > >9%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid > > > > > >Anne > > > > I'll be there when it

[expert] Bootspash with linus kernel

2003-08-27 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Which patch should I add to the linus kernel to have a bootsplash? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Assist me educate the UK

2003-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 8:34 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. > > > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-16816.2 > >9%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid > > > >Anne > > I'll be there when it is open. What's up

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 3:52 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > > It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages > > this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to > > autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch it. Up t

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 7:19 am, Eric Huff wrote: > > >OTOH, looking at this thread, I've learned that I can print > > > pretty well anything direct to pdf, which is definitely worth > > > knowing. > > > > How much does it cost to do a comparable thing in Windows? I'm > > just curious. > > I have

Re: [expert] Assist me educate the UK

2003-08-27 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Anne Wilson wrote: Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-16816.29%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid Anne I'll be there when it is open. What's up with that? What is their reasoning behind that? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PRO

[expert] Assist me educate the UK

2003-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
Put your 02p/02c worth on the bbc site, please. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?find=%3C1061841126-16816.29%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E#mid Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Huff
> >OTOH, looking at this thread, I've learned that I can print pretty > >well anything direct to pdf, which is definitely worth knowing. > > How much does it cost to do a comparable thing in Windows? I'm just > curious. I have been told that with pdf955 http://www.pdf995.com/ you can do it fo

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Huff
> > I sure would like to get away from kprinter. Hasn't been much of a > > priority, but i'll add this to my "B" list of things to try... > > > Hmm - I don't know how much you can achieve from kmail - I haven't had > > time to play around - but in Mozilla, if you hit Print then > Properties from

[expert] Fast Mandrake Downloder - New Release!

2003-08-27 Thread Ron Stodden
The troels team is very pleased indeed to announce the availability of a new fast Mandrake downloader (English only) - see sig below for the URL. You may now: Specify different exclude files for each download tree, Specify additional options to rsync. --delete is suggested for all tree downlo

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:49, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Rolf Pedersen wrote: More than once, when changing the filesystem type in diskdrake, I have had the experience of the format not being recognized after a reboot. For instance, the filesystem might come up looking like Linux Native in diskdrake or fdisk and doing mkreiserfs manually (and another

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-08-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:52, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > > It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this > > winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, > > in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to n

Re: [expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client

2003-08-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:13, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: > Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for the > students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the school > seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to make use of > Inter

Re: [expert] Postfix and "lookup failure"

2003-08-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miark wanted us to know: >That did it! Thanks! > >Out of curiosity, why didn't that happen automatically when I installed >Postfix? I thought that it was a part of the post install scripts, but looking at it, it's not. I assume that's because by def

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: >OTOH, looking at this thread, I've learned that I can print pretty >well anything direct to pdf, which is definitely worth knowing. How much does it cost to do a comparable thing in Windows? I'm just curious. - -- B

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. I

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:49, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > >On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now > >>formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount?

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:30, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: > > > Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as > > example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. > > Well, I just tried this with kedit

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed i

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Hello all, > > Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now > formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? > > I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I > allowed it, to writ

[expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it correctly, bu

Re: [expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client

2003-08-27 Thread Sergio Javier Belkin
Byan, Thanks for your answer despite my bad english! El Miércoles 27 Agosto 2003 02:32, Bryan Phinney escribió: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 03:13 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: > > Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for > > the students. Incredibly the servant p

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-08-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this > winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, > in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the > system going long enough for me to

[expert] Servers...

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bouncing to postmaster@...

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: > Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as > example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear, even though they do not appea

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:29:33 +0200, jipe wrote: >one easy way ... > >GLOBIGNORE="no_not_this_one" > >then any glob like * will ignore this file Ok, lets see if I can type a coherent sentence WITHOUT hitting the send key stroke (apparently CTRL-E, which is end-of-line in xemacs..) cd TheDir cp `

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:29:33 +0200, jipe wrote: >> > >one easy way ... > >GLOBIGNORE="no_not_this_one" > >then any glob like * will ignore this file > >bye >jipe > > YIKES! Why use estoeric, shell specific stuff when the proper application of STANDARD (cross-shell) command will do: cd TheDirecto

Re: [expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client

2003-08-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 03:13 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: > Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for > the students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the > school seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to make > use of I

[expert] [OT]: windows as proxy and linux as client

2003-08-27 Thread Sergio Javier Belkin
Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for the students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the school seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to make use of Internet I put the machine Windows like gateway. Then I go to the con