Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:16:58 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a fix? If you have a choice (OSS/ALSA), try them. I was feeling the same way (see bug at http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=57 ). Have you tried rmmod sound and modprobe sound...? ll

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
This is maddening. It is enough, literally, to drive me to uninstall MDK 9.2 and go SuSE 9.0. I have no sound in 9.2 on my desktop. Has anyone run into this and found a fix? I tried installing the 9.1 kernel-src-2.4.21-0.13mdk rpm but it will not build on 9.2. Errors all over the

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful, it is really quite broken in 9.2, especially as related to Network stuff. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a

Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 02:00 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: OK, the consesus seems to be buying Mandrake Club membership, and most ppl prefer the download edition. (mandrake, maybe dont spend too much time making all those other editions...) I am just hoping Mandrake wont drop the ball

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Kaplan
Any idea what happened to the GTK GUI? Paul On Monday 17 November 2003 12:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful, it is really quite

Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Joeb
Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: OK, the consesus seems to be buying Mandrake Club membership, and most ppl prefer the download edition. (mandrake, maybe dont spend too much time making all those other editions...) I am just hoping Mandrake wont drop the ball on the downloaded edition, and stop

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 17 November 2003 12:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful, it is really quite broken in 9.2, especially as related to Network

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 10:40 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 12:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful,

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the info but no joy. Sound is broken, plain and simple...so is draksound, apparently. If I fire up draksound and select another driver and go with the oss driver, it doesn't properly update modules.conf. It only partially updates it,

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:56:35 -0500, Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?: Anyone else have suggestions? Oh yes, trying to play with aumix and mute does nothing. I get little faint electronic chirps

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, I did check the wires. Last resort hope for a fix. Everything is fine. It is especially irritating that there isn't an error message anywhere on the system to be found. As far as the system is concerned, sound is OK. I have one more

Re: [expert] Gnome and a dialer app?

2003-11-17 Thread anton
I'm using kppp in Gnome. It takes an age to start, and won't minimise into the bottom panel (or if it can then I'd like to know how...), but can't see anything else even remotely as good. I think my experiment with gnome will probably end quite soon... Anton Praedor Atrebates wrote:

[expert] How do you upgrade?

2003-11-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
OK, my #1 problem with running Linux is dealing with upgrades. With the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, the Mandrake upgrade worked pretty well, seeming to upgrade the stuff that needed, leaving alone the stuff that didn't. Now, 9.1 to 9.2 club, that was a fiasco. I finally moved my /home to a new

Re: [expert] How do you upgrade?

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, my #1 problem with running Linux is dealing with upgrades. With the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, the Mandrake upgrade worked pretty well, seeming to upgrade the stuff that needed, leaving alone the stuff that didn't. Now, 9.1 to 9.2

Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 17 November 2003 9:22 am, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Rob draksound AFAIK is only effective on PCI type cards. Since your is ISA, using the old standby of sndconfig (just urpmi sndconfig) This should bring you online no sweat. One note. You have to run it

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 15 November 2003 4:01 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: As stated before... They are the same as the ISO's on the MandrakeClub and the ones shipped of to paying customers... Ummm. I tried to upgrade my laptop with 9.2 by ftp this evening. I used the pcmcia.img from my club isos, and

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-16 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 15 November 2003 4:01 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: As stated before... They are the same as the ISO's on the MandrakeClub and the ones shipped of to paying customers... Ummm. I tried to upgrade my laptop with 9.2 by ftp this evening. I used

[expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-16 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it. But what in Kde? /Björn err... puncuation would help let me try again. What I see that you use that I don't are, iptables, shorewall, netfs nfs and lisa, linuxconf httpd and atd. I've got

[expert] Sound woes with 9.2

2003-11-16 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I somehow got sound working on my laptop after problems immediately after installation of 9.2 on it. Not sure what I did but it stuck. In any case, I installed 9.2 on my desktop (Athlon XP 2700+, KT333 mobo) which has a VIA 8233A onboard soundsystem. It worked fine in 9.0 and 9.1. It

[expert] test - ignore

2003-11-16 Thread Praedor Atrebates
testing Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update

Re: [expert] Weird automount message

2003-11-16 Thread Kaveh Gh
open the /etc/auto.master with kedit andput the # sign at the fisrt of linescorresponding to /misc and /net . then restart the autofs by using the following command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs restart . that's ok. David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mates,Has anyone else seen strange automount

Re: [expert] Ethernet Problem

2003-11-16 Thread Sven L.
Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Sven L. wrote: I am using MD 9.1 on my laptop with an static ip adress on eth0. Ifplugd deletes the ip adress of eth0 if the cable is unplugged and this is the reason for an jboss error. I need a real static ip adress on eth0. All ideas are apreciated.

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-16 Thread Eric Huff
I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. Is there any problem with setting the fs to noatime? It keeps the file access time from being updated. Do

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU

2003-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 1:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, For posterity's sake here is what I have done. Greg, I would say that should *definitely* be on the TWiki - would you oblige? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread R N dev
yeah it would be, but unfortunately I am not a student any more :-) I me neither! try to do bug reports when I get a chance, but I frequently don't get a chance. If you ask sometimes you get an answer! regards __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with

[expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-16 Thread elPunishar
high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. this means, Xine doesn't play sound because of that. mplayer brings a error at the start of a movie,

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-16 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. this means, Xine doesn't play sound because

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-16 Thread J.P. Pasnak
elPunishar said: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. this means, Xine doesn't play sound because of that. mplayer brings a error

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:19 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has

[expert] Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
OK, I now have 9.2 installed on my laptop via FTP. It was about a 4 hour experience for me. Draksound is not able to detect the ISA card, and is not useful for this card. Everything is working pretty well, except for the sound, it has a Crystal 4237B, which is found on the ISA bus, and I am

Re: [expert] Clean up old logs (more specific)

2003-11-16 Thread Michael Holt
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 08:34, David E. Fox wrote: My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying = to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stu= Please don't post HTML. Adrian, isn't logrotate working? Or do you want to clean the

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:06 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Glenn Could I be so bold as to trouble you to do a cut and past of the above e-mail into a bug report? I'm quite sure you aren't alone with your problem. Thanks. James http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com I'm ahead of you.

Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Looks to me like dummy mode is turned on, so no actual write should occur. Turn off dummy mode, and try again. But the operation should work in dummy mode, shouldn't it? Anyway, I tried it in real mode, and the same thing happens. The Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request occurs at the very

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:39, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it. But what in Kde? /Björn err... puncuation would help let me try again. What I see that you use that I don't are, iptables, shorewall,

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:18, Eric Huff wrote: I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. Is there any problem with setting the fs to noatime? It

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 17:30, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:06 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Glenn Could I be so bold as to trouble you to do a cut and past of the above e-mail into a bug report? I'm quite sure you aren't alone with your problem. Thanks.

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:20, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 1:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, For posterity's sake here is what I have done. Greg, I would say that should *definitely* be on the TWiki - would you oblige? Anne

Re: [expert] Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 15:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I now have 9.2 installed on my laptop via FTP. It was about a 4 hour experience for me. Draksound is not able to detect the ISA card, and is not useful for this card. Everything is working pretty well, except for the sound, it has a

Re: [expert] Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3727 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:15 am, many eyes noted that Kwan Lowe wrote: What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there.

Re: [expert] menu in bash script

2003-11-15 Thread Artemio
Thanks all for the help and direction. You are all very kind. Always glad to help! :-) The case why I asked for this help is that we have a project to install Linux servers on several locations with the same/very similar settings. Unfortunately, the hardware is varied between locations so

RE: [expert] shorewall

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Bown
I can confirm that. I would really help if the drak config of shorewall was as the person who wrote shorewall intended. the only thing that the drak config is useful for is keeping out unwanted visitors while you manually the sholewall files to do what you wnt, and after that it works like a

Re: [expert] shorewall

2003-11-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas I will Monday. I installed iptables and it works. 9.2 shore wall is broken. I did the same think I did at home for 9.0 in control center and it works. Just on 9.2 it's broken. What do you mean you installed iptables ??? Shorewall is an iptables based

[expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Hi all, Have another prob and couldn't find any answer yet. On my firewall I have a 3 hdds and /usr is on hdc1. Now hdc1 is a 3.2 GB hdd and started to fill up. Since I have lots of space on the main drive where / is, I wanted to move /usr to be one of the "normal" directories on the /

Re: [expert] spamassassin?

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, dfox wrote: This used to work but I think partially due to my recent problem, spam assassin won't start up anymore. I get execvp: no such file or directory when doing 'service spamassassin start. I think it's time to start the thing again from telinit 1 to be sure. No

[expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-15 Thread Stefan Rijnhart
Hi, Mandrake has now released the public isos of 9.2 on their ftp sites. Does anybody know if this release is based on the LG-friendly, updated kernel? In the root of the download location, there is a README.LG file, that tells the user to update their CD ROM firmware before installing 9.2

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Stefan Rijnhart
Hi Adrian, This is actually straightforward on Linux, which is why we like it :). Just boot into a different system, like with a boot disk or live image (e.g. Knoppix), and copy the contents of your /mount/point/of/dev/hdc1 to /mount/point/of/rootdir/usr with the rsync command: rsync -av

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Artemio
To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P In your fstab you will see something like this (I use reiserfs everywhere): #for your / /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 #hda1 is my root - see what's yours #for your /usr /dev/hdc1 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 So what you have to do is: 1. become root

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-15 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I'm getting close to the cause of the problem - I started doing a survey of several different machines, all running MDK 9.1. Some had all the fonts, some didn't. The ones that didn't had missing entries from the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1. Specifically, the entries for 75dpi

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Stefan Rijnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Mandrake has now released the public isos of 9.2 on their ftp sites. Does anybody know if this release is based on the LG-friendly, updated kernel? In the root of the download location, there is a README.LG file, that tells the user to update

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Stefan Rijnhart wrote: This is actually straightforward on Linux, which is why we like it :). Just boot into a different system, like with a boot disk or live image (e.g. Knoppix), and copy the contents of your /mount/point/of/dev/hdc1 to /mount/point/of/rootdir/usr with

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Stefan Rijnhart
Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 13:16, schreef Bill Mullen: It should be mentioned that there is one more step in the process - fixing the /etc/fstab file to reflect the new configuration. If this bit is left out, his previous /usr partition will be mounted again just as it has been in the past

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 11:34 am, Artemio wrote: To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P 5. now your /usr directory points to / partition instead of /dev/hdc1 - so copy (recursively) all data from /mnt/tmp to /usr directory: # cp -R /mnt/usr / NO. That will lose symbolic links and reset

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Thanks guys. It worked like a charm. Used cp -Ra :) Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Artemio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Moving a partition To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P In your

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-15 Thread Stefan Rijnhart
Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 13:01, schreef Thomas Backlund: It's better that people actually fix their broken h/w ASAP... as this is a vulnerability that could be exploited by maliciuos programs... Good point. Btw, LG does not seem to think so, tagging their firmware updates as 'For Mandrake

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-15 Thread Stefan Rijnhart
Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 12:56, schreef Glenn Burkhardt: I'm getting close to the cause of the problem - I started doing a survey of several different machines, all running MDK 9.1. Some had all the fonts, some didn't. The ones that didn't had missing entries from the file

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Artemio
Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Thanks guys. It worked like a charm. Used cp -Ra :) LOL!!! Always glad to help. Good luck! Artemio. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 1:11 pm, Stefan Rijnhart wrote: Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 13:01, schreef Thomas Backlund: It's better that people actually fix their broken h/w ASAP... as this is a vulnerability that could be exploited by maliciuos programs... Good point. Btw, LG does not seem

Re: [expert] Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there. I turn every app I see off, but still no result. I'm dumb. Your information about it stopping in init 3 just didn't take the

Re: [expert] menu in bash script

2003-11-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
The case why I asked for this help is that we have a project to install Linux servers on several locations with the same/very similar settings. Unfortunately, the hardware is varied between locations so 'ghosting hdd is not the solutions. I wrote the following script to do something similar.

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

2003-11-15 Thread Michael Holt
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 22:17, Bill wrote: hmmm kinda weird. Here is the results of some nslookup stuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ nslookup qualxserv.net Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with

[expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 06:57, Michael Holt wrote: ... if we do a mx record lookup for .com we get qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. that server is not answering for port 25 stuff. Interestingly enough they have the same number assigned to there email servers which is 10 I thought that was a no

Re: [expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
It's fixed now. I updated all the KDE stuff, ran updatemenus -v as root, and ran menudrake as the affected user, then chose save. It took a few minutes to take, and it may not have been until the next time I installed an RPM. On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:58, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu,

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 14 November 2003 03:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Tips for using kmail - Set up two profiles - it doesn't matter that they are using the same mailbox and smtp - one with reply-to set if you need it for other purposes, and one without for the list (together with suitable sig if you

[expert] Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
Kwan Lowe wrote: What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there. I turn every app I see off, but still no result. I'm dumb. Your information about it stopping in init 3

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-15 Thread Stefan Rijnhart
Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 15:21, schreef Richard Urwin: I may be wrong, but the GIF image appears to be marked on the site as HTML/Text. It took a couple of tries to read it because it needs to be saved to local storage, just clicking on it doesn't work... Doesn't this mean that windows

[expert] Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Hi all, My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stuff. On the other hand I am not sure which are from what... :/ I was wondering if there is something like a script or such to clean up

Re: [expert] Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Huff
What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there. I turn every app I see off, but still no result. Thanks all for suggetions. I see in fstab that my floppy and cd:s are

[expert] hard drive activiy: how to tell from top lie utility

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Huff
I quickly looked thru the top man page, but didn't find anything. Is there a program like top that will show hardrive activity base on process? Ideally it would just be a column in the top readout. This would be useful in Björn's hard drive noise thread, too. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's

[expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi all, My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stuff. On the other hand I am not sure which are from what... :/ I was wondering if there is something like a

Re: [expert] Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread David E. Fox
My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying = to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stu= Please don't post HTML. Adrian, isn't logrotate working? Or do you want to clean the stuff up now? At any rate, find would do the job: #

Re: [expert] spamassassin?

2003-11-15 Thread David E. Fox
Is /usr/bin/spamd even still there? And /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf? Yes to both. My thoughts on this are that it's high time that you copied off all of your tweaked config files (after going over each one with a fine-toothed You're right -- I'm procrastinating on this one. I'm just

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

2003-11-15 Thread Michael Holt
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:22, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 06:57, Michael Holt wrote: ... if we do a mx record lookup for .com we get qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. that server is not answering for port 25 stuff. Interestingly enough they have the same number assigned to there

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

2003-11-15 Thread Bill
That is what my understanding was. you wouyld asign like 5 to your primary email server and 10 to the backup. Assigning the same number would just make things a little screwy. On Star Date Saturday 15 November 2003 08:51 am, Michael Holt sent this sub-space message. MX records have a

[expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread R N dev
hi, i've just upgraded my mdk 9.1. At the end of installation i had this error during lilo installation: lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO (dev 0x1600): invalid argument and i didn't find any way to install lilo so I decided to use grub and started without any problem any idea?

Re: [expert] Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Sorry about the html. I turned it off. :) Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running? ps aux | grep logrotate didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it work)? I see some logs archived (with .gz ending) in /var/log but don't really need them (they just

[expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running? look in the crontab or int /etc/cron.daily ps aux | grep logrotate didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it work)? It's not a deamon, its started by cron, run and then

[expert] Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
I have had the same thing at times. There was a thread on newbie awhile back. There was talk of it being fam related, and also just reiser doing it's job. See if you can find it in the archives: i posted the ?, stephen kuhn and others had some thoughts. I found the thread, and it states

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO (dev 0x1600): invalid argument and i didn't find any way to install lilo so I decided to use grub and started without any problem any idea? What size hard drive do you have? -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions

Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 5:32 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running? look in the crontab or int /etc/cron.daily ps aux | grep logrotate didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it work)?

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread R N dev
80 Gb. fstab: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 55668348 19565436 33275072 38% / none192772 0192772 0% /dev/shm /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 11906740 9620424 2286316 81% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 10999056 3102756

Re: [expert] Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Clean up old logs didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it work)? It's not probably going to be running. Do you have a /etc/logrotate.d or an /etc/logrotate.conf file? It's not a boot time service but it gets run out of

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:38, Björn Lundin wrote: I have had the same thing at times. There was a thread on newbie awhile back. There was talk of it being fam related, and also just reiser doing it's job. See if you can find it in the archives: i posted the ?, stephen kuhn and others

[expert] problems accessing sendmail from other host on lan

2003-11-15 Thread faisal gillani
Well i have a PC running sendmail pop3 deamon . when i try to access sendmail pop3 services from locally on the same pci am sucessful . but when i try to access smtp services of sendmail from over lan i can find it .. i mean the PC dont have any firewall installed .. when i port scan it from

Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 7:30 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Oh shucks. Then maybe that was it. Since last electricity invoice almost let me broke I started to shut it down at night (that is for the last 6 months). :) Just install it. It will start as a service automatically. No config is

Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Huff
Thx. Do I have tp set anything special for anacron? Do I need to run it also as a demon? If you like the gui: run the mandsrake control center (mcc at the cli) system drakxservices in upper right then select anacron for boot, and might as well hit start too (to run it now). Want to buy

Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Huff
RE anacron Just install it. It will start as a service automatically. No config is necessary derek Whoops. I guess it's not installed and shut off, my last email doesn't make much sense... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Mobo advice

2003-11-15 Thread Terry Smith
Today's local Fry's sale flier features an Abit KD7A mobo (ATX form factor, socket A) using the VIA KT400A chipset with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU/fan included. Price $129.99. Anybody have anything to report..good/bad...on this mobo and its ability to run under Mandrake? It has onboard LAN and

Re: [expert] Color with echo in shell script (was: [expert] menuin bash script)

2003-11-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Denis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Adolfo Bello wrote: jipe wrote: snip menuA[1]=$(echo -e \e[1;34;46m-1-\e[0m\tCopy /etc/dhcpd.conf) I would like to get more details on how to display color in shell script and on terminal. Can anybody point me the a good

[expert] Re: Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :) Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread, it would be nice to have a utility like that. /Björn The questions I would have (Yeah I know more questions no answers *grin* ) are 1.

[expert] question for 9.2 users re:htdig and kde help centre

2003-11-15 Thread bascule
does this feature work now? i really liked it when it used to, indexing all the documentation on my box was really useful bascule -- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Mobo advice

2003-11-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:18 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Today's local Fry's sale flier features an Abit KD7A mobo (ATX form factor, socket A) using the VIA KT400A chipset with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU/fan included. Price $129.99. Anybody have anything to report..good/bad...on this mobo

Re: [expert] Mobo advice

2003-11-15 Thread Terry Smith
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:56, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:18 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Today's local Fry's sale flier features an Abit KD7A mobo (ATX form factor, socket A) using the VIA KT400A chipset with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU/fan included. Price $129.99.

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 10:01, Bill wrote: That is what my understanding was. you wouyld asign like 5 to your primary email server and 10 to the backup. Assigning the same number would just make things a little screwy. yeah, it'll basically just round robin. An additional wrinkle is that

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:13, R N dev wrote: hi, i've just upgraded my mdk 9.1. At the end of installation i had this error during lilo installation: lilo failed: Fatal: geo_query_dev HDIO_GETGEO (dev 0x1600): invalid argument and i didn't find any way to install lilo so I decided to

Re: [expert] Mobo advice

2003-11-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:12 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Thanks Greg. Newegg has the CPU w/heat sink and fan for $72. So the total, from them, would be $147. (I'm sorry, I didn't catch that the deal at Fry's included the CPU and heatsink. That's definitely a better deal (depending on the cpu

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread R N dev
Same thing happened here with two systems... dunno why, but grub isn't bad so I'm not complaining too loudly. Ok, but it could be a bug and perhaps it would be nice to give feedbacks __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard

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