[expert] RPM looks like it's turned it's toes up

2003-10-14 Thread Andrew George
've tried rpm --rebuilddb and rpm --initdb but get the same message Andrew George --- The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk

2002-11-21 Thread Andrew George
; (needs > > > to be a clean shutdown). > > Format c: ? > > (that'll save you from a lot of future grief as well :) ) -- Andrew George --- Memory fault - where am I? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Has anybody tried to install NVidia Drivers for mandrake 9.0?

2002-10-11 Thread Andrew George
eciate if you can tell > > me how everything went. > > > >THanks a lot, > > Rob. > > > > __ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > > http://fait

[expert] Silly RPMdrake Question

2002-10-09 Thread Andrew George
sort of be handy to see that these days, I was wondering if I'm being thick and missed something or if everyone else notices the same thing? -- Andrew George --- Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of new developments. Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [expert] compile-error please help !!!

2002-10-07 Thread Andrew George
o I'd say theres a script in the gcc packages to setup the symlnks and allow multiple gcc's to be used on the same box (on via $path and the other explicitly) try going into usr bin and running the command ./gcc and see what you get -- Andrew George --- Most people are u

Re: [expert] OT: PDA Question

2002-09-02 Thread Andrew George
bascule > i have a friend who uses a zaurus and a linux desktop, not sure of the > nature of the connection between the two usb/whatever but i know he > connects the two, i believe that the zaurus can become part of his > local network and he can simply ssh into whatever box and 'sync' that >

[expert] What to use to analyse Apache logs?

2002-08-20 Thread Andrew George
Hi guys, the title pretty much says it all. I want to look at total traffic and be able to analyse the logs for intrusion attempts any suggestions? -- Andrew George --- Why are many scientists using lawyers for medical experiments instead of rats? a) There are more

[expert] new kernel update and supermount

2002-07-18 Thread Andrew George
Hey is it me or did the last Kernel update (2.4.18-8.1mdk) break supermount? -- Andrew George --- I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear. -- John Foreman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] LVM or RAID duiring install

2002-07-06 Thread Andrew George
Hi, Anyone know how to configure RAID or LVM during a mandrake install? The options are there during diskdrake setup but I've always wondered about how well it works (and my best chance to try it turned out to be hardware raid so I didn't wind up using it) -- And

[expert] Problem with Graphical Login

2002-05-30 Thread Andrew George
into runlevel 3 and startx so I guess x is working and the system authentication is fine. Any ideas why graphical logins might have gone ga-ga on me? -- Andrew George --- "Maintain an awareness for contribution -- to your schedule, your project, our company." --

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-18 Thread Andrew George
senet...Mailing lists have a habit of going through cycles (or at least some do). Redhats list a few years ago was so full of flames you couldn't actually find anything, Mandrake expert has been consistantly well mannerred though :) -- Andrew George --- Creativity is not a

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-18 Thread Andrew George
ept Debian...the treatment on the mailing list made it never worth the effort -- Andrew George --- Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generatio

[expert] how to make a hdlist

2002-05-02 Thread Andrew George
probably a silly question but I'm braindead. If I coupy a whole bunch of Mandrake RPM's to a directory, how can I make a hdlist file? -- Andrew George --- If you put your supper dish to your ear you can hear the sounds of a restaurant. -- Snoopy W

Re: [expert] How to get dock apps and the like to auto start under blackbox in Mandrake 8.1

2002-04-05 Thread Andrew George
ckbox until gkrellm had exited. Bear in mind all this stuff assumes you boot to runlevel 3...I've never bothered to investigate doing something similar from runlevel 5. -- Andrew George --- ... a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a

[expert] Vodoo3 in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Andrew George
or if XFree4.2 just doesn't like me. I compared the XF86Config-4 file to a known working one under Mdk 8.1 and couldn't see any differences Anyone got any thoughts? -- Andrew George --- Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that jus

Re: [expert] Palp M500

2002-03-13 Thread Andrew George
ntgo working properly) -- Andrew George --- A Smith & Wesson beats four aces. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mirror / backup

2002-02-21 Thread Andrew George
u might have a lot of machines and dont want to install > the same software on each. > > Rob Partimage or systemimager if you really want to go the whole hog (it runs like ghost server) -- Andrew George --- Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts. Want to buy your Pa

Re: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-30 Thread Andrew George
ch is life... I bought a 4 port for $400 bucks...the internal chipset on the switch was set to two-button ps/2, there was a config option to change it to ps/2 wheelmouse and after I did...I've never had a problem -- Andrew George --- Let us endeavor so to live that wh

Re: [expert] "No such file or directory" message from bash

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew George
isk is on anyway so I'm just gonna reformat the partition...if I wasn't, I'd be thinking seriously about a fsck right now. -- Andrew George --- Are you a turtle? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1

2002-01-21 Thread Andrew George
open (most of the UDP ports are closed - not blocked). The > TCP port blocks are set up, though, except for TCP port 53 which I have > manually blocked. I guess it's a good thing I don't have anything important > on the Linux box yet. Odd...I've got Bastille running and the UD

Re: [expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew George
and/sysinstall and select post-install, that should get you to the menu to install additional packages (I think locates one of those) OH..that reminds me...the software installation design philosophy is VERY Different -- Andrew George --- The sun was shining on the sea, Shining

Re: [expert] X Login Manager

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew George
efines which graphical login manager the system starts in runlevel 5. If neither exist (or the file dosn't) then the defaults kick in (KDE in both cases) -- Andrew George --- The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason that He makes so many of them.

[expert] Whats up with Mandrake-Update?

2001-12-21 Thread Andrew George
days? -- Andrew George --- `O' LEVEL COUNTER CULTURE Timewarp allowed: 3 hours. Do not scrawl situationalist graffiti in the margins or stub your rollups in the inkwells. Orange may be worn. Credit will be given to candidates who self-actualise.

Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!

2001-12-12 Thread Andrew George
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:21, you wrote: > Could it be possible that I have something set up wrong in windows. Or > maybe I need to name all my users on @BOGGS in some place. The HOMES > section seems to give permission to get in. All my Hard drives are > identified. It seems the windows machines jus

Re: [expert] Boot Floppy Created During 8.1 Installation

2001-12-09 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:46, Felix Miata wrote: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding it's purpose. When chosing Grub as boot > loader during install, the last menu choice is to boot from floppy. I > set the BIOS boot order to C,A,SCSI on a SCSI-less system. When the boot > floppy is inserted into the drive

Re: [expert] DNS problems

2001-12-09 Thread Andrew George
> And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: > > search earthlink.net > nameserver 207.217.126.82 > nameserver 207.217.77.81 > nameserver 207.217.120.83 > > The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can > resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign i

Re: [expert] trick with /etc/issue

2001-12-09 Thread Andrew George
> > #btw, can anyone explain the different between /etc/issue and > /etc/issue.net? > > Thanks in advance /etc/issue happens to local terminals /etc/issue.net happens to remote terminals Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] "No space left on device" when device is not full?

2001-12-08 Thread Andrew George
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 04:27, David Guntner wrote: > This is a weird one. My logs started showing messages saying "No space > left on device" for things like postfix and fetchnews, although a "df -k" > shows plenty of space on all filesystems. A reboot of the system seems to > have taken care of it,

Re: [expert] Dumb Question

2001-11-28 Thread Andrew George
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:49, jtannenba wrote: > Ok- Mandrake 8.1- changed the mouse, now what util > do I run to tell X it's been changed. I don't have > a cursor in X right now. > > Thanks, > Joe mousedrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Can't login?

2001-11-28 Thread Andrew George
> > I am not running Bastille firewall, so I didn't lock myself out of > > the computer with that. Only thing I have implemented is IPChains on > > the computer, but nothing major. Only thing I can think of is that I > > maybe am denying packets from 127.0.0.1, although I'm not sure if > > this

Re: [expert] SB Live! - no midi devices in kde

2001-11-22 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:39, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > The loaded module list you have is way too small. > > Check out mine... > > Module Size Used by > nfs75072 0 (autoclean) > nls_cp437 4400 0 (autoclean) > smbfs 34624 0

Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?

2001-11-13 Thread Andrew George
> > I don't know if what you say is true, and if it is, there's really > > a regression in Linux performance. Before, it was possible to run Linux > > in a 16MB machine. Kernel using less than 4MB and X less than 4MB too. > > I can't imagine that kernel and X alone could use up to 64MB. >

Re: [expert] Fwd: Port Denial noted esound-localhost

2001-11-08 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:06, you wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:22:08PM +1100, Andrew George wrote: > > Anyone ever seen this before? > > Andrew > > > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > > > Subject: Port Denial noted esound-localhost > &g

Re: [expert] Partition "imaging"...

2001-11-04 Thread Andrew George
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:49, you wrote: > > You don,t have to look that far. > > It is included in 8.1. > > Just not installed by default. > > dd is just fine for that and it's in there too :). > > >Charles > Hey that reminds. me.I was trying to image a fat32 partition a few weeks back and w

[expert] Remote Login and VNC

2001-10-28 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I was trying to set up some remote access to a Mandrake box and had a couple of questions that I can't seem to find in the VNC docs. 1) Is anyone using the VNC service in the initscripts to start VNC-Server for two or more people. The initscript looks fairly straightforward for one user, b

Re: [expert] SU & File size limit exceeded

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew George
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:15, Eric Ekong wrote: > Why is this, what does Bastille do that causes this error? > > Eric One of the questions in Bastille asks if you want to set limits (can't remember the exact one). it then writes a few parameters in /etc/security/limits.conf to set limits for file

Re: [expert] How can change the from part

2001-08-30 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:20, you wrote: > But I need use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this specific applicatin only. > can modify only this to work with the logcheck only ? > - Original Message - > From: "Dianne Marie Montesa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 3

[expert] script to execute at user logon/logoff

2001-08-17 Thread Andrew George
Hi, Trying to set up a script to execute at user logon or logoff...(basically mirroring home/user to another disk) but I'm having trouble finding the directory or file that executes when a user logs on or logs off graphically. any ideas? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-16 Thread Andrew George
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:32, you wrote: > A word of caution with the rtl8139. They work well with Mandrake 7.2, but > the drivers that are available at this time for the rtl8139 cards do not > work with Mandrake 8.0, and i have been unable to locate any drivers for > the rtl8139 cards that will wor

Re: [expert] Where does it find what modules to load?

2001-07-25 Thread Andrew George
> > This is one of my personal pet peeves with Mandrake/Redhat, as much as I > > do like it. > > > > I was getting quite used to all of the idiosyncrasies of Linuxconf, to > > the point that it became my preferred way of managing & setting up > > systems. This after Mandrake seemed to be incorpor

Re: [expert] eth0 hangs on bootup

2001-07-04 Thread Andrew George
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:33, Michael W. Hall wrote: > I downloaded and installed the MandrakeFreq 8.0 version of LM8.0. However, > when the system boots it hangs on the bring up eth0. Is there a way to > start the system without it trying to bring up eth0? > > I have a Linksys network adapter. My

Re: [expert] kernel

2001-07-03 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 23:58, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:43 -0600, Praedor S. Tempus wrote: > > On Monday 02 July 2001 09:33 pm, you wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > I have a working kernel. It's the plain kernel after the installation > > > > process is done. > > > > Now I'll ha

Re: [expert] Recommended Reading?

2001-07-03 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 23:17, George Abdo wrote: > Hello all, > > I am thinking of going into Linux/Unix in a more serious manner (leading to > certification). > > Can you recommend reference books that are handy as a system admin > reference. Also, for those who have done certification, would you rec

Re: [expert] Tape Backup

2001-07-02 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 08:36, DStevenson wrote: > On Sunday 01 July 2001 15:16, David E. Fox wrote: > > > backup in order to re-instate my old system from tape. I would always > > > backup the directories /root and /home, but if I restored say /usr, > > > would I have all my old programs again...this

Re: [expert] Supermount not supermounting?

2001-07-01 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:39, Oscar wrote: > I had the same problem. Here is my fix: > > My original fstab (CDROM and FLOPPY lines only) after upgrading: > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 > /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 > /mnt/floppy

[expert] Supermount not supermounting?

2001-07-01 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I've got a problem after Freqing my 8.0 install If I've got a CDROM in the drive at boot, it mounts OK, But if I try to change the CD I get the following shoing in my logs Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00

Re: [expert] Using GDM

2001-06-24 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 03:31, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: > That dosent do the trick on my LM 8.0freq > > > So sprach Lars Roland Kristiansen am Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:57:00PM +0200: > > > where can i change the loginmanager from KDM to GDM > > > > T

Re: [expert] Help please: file size limit exceeded

2001-06-20 Thread Andrew George
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:15, s wrote: > Hi all, I sure could use some help. As the subject states this is my > problem on my gateway machine. I have used reiserfs and interactive > bastille. I tried to reconfigure bastille and told it not limit number of > process and I put 'ulimit -f unlimited'

Re: [expert] GNU-Cash nightmare..... Pls Help me out .

2001-06-19 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:17, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > It is really a nightmare. I downloaded > gnugnucash-1.6.0-1.i586.rpm > from gnucash site and happy to see that it is packaged > for LM 8.0; Install it using rpm, after satisfying all > dependancies ; But when I start gnucash it says: > about n

Re: [expert] / gets smaller and smaller !

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew George
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:01, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > I just rebootd out server, and noticed something really odd. the root > partition was full before the reboot, showing 100% in use, and no > free sectors in "df" . After reboot, it says its only 20% full (!) > but I noticed that its creeping ba

Re: [expert] duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog

2001-06-14 Thread Andrew George
oops, forgot to cc the list -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:13:43 +1000 From: Andrew George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jesus Roncero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:50, you wr

Re: [expert] File Size Limit exceeded

2001-06-12 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:49, Andrew George wrote: > Hi, > Anyone seen this happen before? > > [andrew@darkwing andrew]$ su > Password: > File size limit exceeded > [andrew@darkwing andrew]$ > > df shows plenty of free space and it only seem to be affecting this us

[expert] File Size Limit exceeded

2001-06-11 Thread Andrew George
Hi, Anyone seen this happen before? [andrew@darkwing andrew]$ su Password: File size limit exceeded [andrew@darkwing andrew]$ df shows plenty of free space and it only seem to be affecting this user in a graphical console? any ideas? Andrew

Re: [expert] cute RPM output..

2001-06-08 Thread Andrew George
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:47, you wrote: > [root@tk-laptop RPMS2]# rpm -e kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm > error: package kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm is not installed > [root@tk-laptop RPMS2]# rpm -i kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm > package kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk is already installe

Re: [expert] compile errors for plex86 on Mabdrake 8.0

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 23:52, you wrote: > I am far from being any kind of compiling guru. > > In attempting to compile plex86 on my Mandrake 8.0 machine, I get the > following errors: > > x.cc:21:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory > x.cc:22:23: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory > x.cc:23

Re: [expert] SYS MAIL

2001-05-28 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 28 May 2001 09:43, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2001, Chris Spackman wrote: > > On my machine, it is postfix. Make sure it is running. The only change i > > had to make was to get roots mail delivered to my normal account. That > > was an option in one of the postfix config f

Re: [expert] vmnet1 ?

2001-05-16 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 17 May 2001 12:09, Joan Tur wrote: > Hallo! > > If i do a "ifconfig" i get i'm running eth0, lo and... vmnet1 ?! > > Samba doesn't start because of vmnet1 is working... and i don't know how > to stop it (nor what it is for). > > Note: I'm configuring everything manually, because DrakConf

[expert] Re: error during compile

2001-05-10 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 10 May 2001 22:46, you wrote: > Hi, > stumped again (seems to be the story of my life recently) > I keep getting the following error message when I try to build a source > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > I tried to look up libldb1 at rpmfind...but

[expert] error during compile

2001-05-10 Thread Andrew George
Hi, stumped again (seems to be the story of my life recently) I keep getting the following error message when I try to build a source /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I tried to look up libldb1 at rpmfind...but didn't have much luckanyone know what I've mis

Re: [expert] reiserfs

2001-05-06 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 7 May 2001 06:28, you wrote: > Hi > > I use reiserfs, but when i compiled the kernel > i couldent bot Mandrake any more... > It was something about couldent mount root fs.. > Hmm what did i wrong..i dident find anything about > reiserfs when i compiled > > Tommi After you compile the Ker

[expert] Jpilot in MDK8

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew George
Heres a cute one I just figured out Jpilot version .99 shipped with MDK8 jpilot-syncmal plugin 0.52 shipped with mdk8.0 However on the syncmal site...you can find the ever popular line of synchmal version 0.60 or greater is required for Jpilot .99 D'Oh Andrew

[expert] Registering Plugins in Konquerer

2001-04-29 Thread Andrew George
Dumb question.. I recently put the shockwave application into Netscape, then looked at the KDE manual to find out how to get Konquerer to use it. The kde manual suggests go into Preferences/web-browsing from the K menu, then select plugins and push the button marked scan. Thats a cool idea.

Re: [expert] 8.0: cannot boot into Linux after the install

2001-04-29 Thread Andrew George
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:06, Kevin Tambascio wrote: > I have tried three times to install 8.0 on a box that previously ran > 7.2. The only difference is that I am installing to the second IDE > harddrive instead of the first, nothing else has changed. Here is what > my system looks like: > > Dell

Re: [expert] Install Works, kernel panic on boot

2001-04-28 Thread Andrew George
I think (suspect) the problem is with the Promise controller I've got an A7V that is running MDK8.0 with reiser and isn't having much troubleMy drives are connected through the ata66 controller onboard instead of the onboard ATA100 controller Andrew On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:34, Charles A E

Re: [expert] MDK 8 and kernel useage

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew George
u > with the idle cpu (on the third row in 'top'). > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:18:08AM +1000, Andrew George wrote: > > HI, > > Just wondering, I installed MDK 8 on a spare partition and took it for a > > test drive. > > Overall it didn't look to bad,

[expert] MDK 8 and kernel useage

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew George
HI, Just wondering, I installed MDK 8 on a spare partition and took it for a test drive. Overall it didn't look to bad, but I noticed that cpu usage seemed pretty high Anyone know if thats from the 2.4.3 Kernel or something gaga with the various monitoring tools? (K system monitor acted really b

Re: [expert] Samba Gotcha

2001-04-09 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:11, Chris Slater-Walker wrote: > The last time I looked (Samba 2.07) it was _not_ capable of functioning as > a PDC or BDC for NT/Win2000 clients - only Win9x. I think you will find > that this functionality is due for release with Samba 2.1 > > Chris Slater-Walker > Err...2

Re: [expert] Samba Gotcha

2001-04-09 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:05, Daryl Johnson wrote: > I've run into one of the Samba gotchas which is to say I am using samba as > the pdc on my linux box. The Win 95 client is perfectly happy with this. > I have a win NT4 client though that refuses to log on to the domain on > account of the net lo

Re: [expert] Building an install floppy

2001-03-27 Thread Andrew George
Ok, If I understand it you want to build your own installer and install your own set of packages. You can do this with debian (Maybe), Mandrake and Redhat...Bad news is you cant do it the same way with any of them. Mandrake has a fairly good howto on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/drakx/auto_in

Re: [expert] ppp0 script

2001-03-20 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:39, Steve Young wrote: > ifup ppp0 > Failed to activate ppp0 with error 32 > it's broke thats whats wrong with it, and i haven't been able to figure out > what is wrong with it Hmm...you might want to look at the parameters in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Re: [expert] ppp0 script

2001-03-20 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:57, Steve Young wrote: > can anyone recommend a good script for bring ppp0 up? > > -- > registered linux user #190334 How about using the sample scripts included with ppp look in /usr/share/doc/ppp-xx/scripts (x is the version number of course) Andrew

Re: [expert]

2001-03-11 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 05:59, Collins Richey wrote: > Some questions > > 1) Is there any documentation anywhere about the processes that Mandrake > chooses to start via the init scripts - reason for being, sequencing, > etc.? > The scripts are the standard sysV scripts, I havn't actually run across a

Re: [expert] highest inode number

2001-03-11 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:00, Pierre Fortin wrote: > Dawid Michalczyk wrote: > > Since I'm going to have many, many *small* files on a 15GB partition, I > > was wondering if one can actually run out of inode numbers, and thus be > > left with unused space. So my question is: what is the maximum amoun

Re: [expert] RE: PMfirewall...

2001-02-19 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 06:06, Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed PMfirewall yesterday and it went flawlessly, just answered the > questions and off it went,, they have done great in that respect... > > however, upon setting up the server, I noticed a heap of ipchains errors, > like this: > Feb 1

Re: [expert] recommendations for LM

2001-02-08 Thread Andrew George
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:16, goldengull.net administrator wrote: > i'm not sure where do post this, or email it to. > > i have some comments about postfix, which ships with LM7.2 > it should contain a series of sample files that ship with the source, but > not with postfix for mandrake. one file is

[expert] Grub'ing to init 1

2001-02-01 Thread Andrew George
Hi, Was helping a friend install Mdk today on an old laptop and had a slight problemhe didn't know his root password (long story involving an arcserve license, another guy, and trying to log a call to IBM technical support). No problem thought (when we got back to the laptop) I, just do a

Re: [expert] Lovely...no sound with the latest kde2.1- and kcontrol is STILL dicked up

2001-01-29 Thread Andrew George
KDE 2.1 had a bit of a change in the sound system...it's now a seperate package (arts-2.1-0.20010118.1mdk) as well as a library package. The fun thing is that this package is new, so if you upgraded by doing an rpm -F *.rpm than it won't be installed. Likewise, if you only downloaded packages

Re: [expert] More on Menus

2001-01-27 Thread Andrew George
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:44, you wrote: > On Saturday 27 January 2001 02:02, you wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 January 2001 10:31 am, you wrote: > > > For those of you who don't have extensve edits to try to merge, I > > > omitted the following lines from my earlier post inadvertantly. > > > > > > In a

Re: [expert] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix

2001-01-27 Thread Andrew George
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:35, you wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: > > - I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems > downloading - mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: > - > - [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail

Re: [expert] Palm IIIxe

2001-01-27 Thread Andrew George
Make sure you've got the pilot-link package installed :) On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:56, you wrote: > Yes, I have no problem syncing my IIIc at 115,200 bps in Linux Mandrake 7.2 > -- provided I use the pilot-xfer program at the command line. I've had no > luck with either jpilot or kpilot, and I have

Re: [expert] sharing swap

2001-01-26 Thread Andrew George
Slackware yes Solaris probably (havn't used it so I'm not sure) FreeBSD I don't think so, The impression I get is BSD slices aren't exactly partitions (could be wrong)...I never saw any definitive doco either way (and never got around to looking at the Partition table of an installed BSD system)

Re: [expert] linux and ghost 2001

2001-01-23 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:34, you wrote: > sorry for sending this again, but it seems i lost my subscribtion from the > list , could be been when our domain at work was being switched from one > service to another an waiting on info to update in the net routers. > > if anyone responded could you send

Re: [expert] yet another /usr/sbin/update-alternatives problem

2001-01-20 Thread Andrew George
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:15, you wrote: > Grrr... in order for this to work, I have to find a menu of 2.1.29 first > because apparently rpm is IGNORING my --force command so I can install one > and then the other (menu and rpm, co dependant and a pain in the ass), > suggestions? am I using --force w

Re: [expert] 256K ADSL line user capacity

2001-01-19 Thread Andrew George
Well what I usually do in this case is:- Line speed = 256 Kbit/sec Page size = 150 kbytes = 1200 Kbit so max number of hits per sec = 256/1200 = 0.21 = 12 hits per minute (MAXIMUM) It depends on the pages from there...and how often each user will hit the site by requesting a page.. This is

Re: [expert] Linux worm...?

2001-01-18 Thread Andrew George
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:23, you wrote: > that's good to know. I too hope that Mandrake has something to say about > this. Theres a fairly good analysis of the worm at http://members.home.net/dtmartin24/ramen_worm.txt Note a few key points. -It's targeted for RH 6.2 and 7.0 -It's using exploi

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 20010115 - observed problem & solution

2001-01-18 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:17, you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 1. As root, open /usr/lib/menu/ksysctrl > 2. Change 'needs="x11"' to '"needs="kde"' > 3. save > 4. run update-menus, or use the graphical interface menudrake > 5. enjoy! > > Regards, > > Michel Salim Hmm,

Re: [expert] RPM updates

2001-01-18 Thread Andrew George
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:04, you wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2001 10:06 pm, you wrote: > > On Mandrake's website, for each rpm update, it states to use rpm -Fvh > > *.rpm > > > > If you use that for a large quantity of rpm files, as I just tested, it > > works just fine. > > > > rpm -Fvh *.rpm

Re: [expert] More on the Gnapster thing

2001-01-16 Thread Andrew George
Downloaded lopster from freshmeat and compiled it last night...works a treat (actually seemed to work better than gnapster) Andrew On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:47, you wrote: > On Monday 15 January 2001 04:04 pm, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: > > ** Reply to message from Laurent Duperval > > > > > Just no

Re: [expert] (Dumb question time) to improve the yield from my sendmail

2001-01-15 Thread Andrew George
Hi I think you did something gaga when you used it last time, Postfix delivers to /var/spool/mail/ and I've never had a hassle with using pine with it. Tom's got a very good article on setting it up at Mandrake-User.org, theres also a very nice howto on the Redhat site (which put me on to send

Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

2001-01-15 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 04:58, you wrote: > On Mon Jan 15, 2001 at 08:40:23AM -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote: > > >> I was on with Gnapster last night myself, so it seems to be working > > >> here. You could try logging in a few times - Napster uses dns round > > >> robin for loab balancing, so if one

Re: [expert] /usr/sbin/update-alternatives

2001-01-13 Thread Andrew George
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:06, Tib wrote: > [sigh] hate to be a pain on this, but even for THAT it wants more and I'm > not exactly with rpm yet. Help again? <:] > > [root@unica seq]# rpm -ivh rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libbz2.so.1 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-27mdk >

Re: [expert] /usr/sbin/update-alternatives

2001-01-13 Thread Andrew George
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:56, Tib wrote: > I'm trying to compile a program and it's complaining that my standard gcc > can't compile executables. I installed ecgs c++ and running ./configure > ends up still giving the same error. So I try installing the gcc update, > but it says it requires /usr/sbin

Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal

2001-01-10 Thread Andrew George
Don't think so...the tarball I installed created a linux directory and then looks like it linked everything under it correctly. Mine compiled OK without an error (havn't installed it yet...got sidetracked) Actually theres also a huge warning in the readme about the gcc version which makes me wo

[expert] Unattended installs

2001-01-10 Thread Andrew George
Ages ago...(I think it was 7.0 days) I came across some mandrake documentation on how to create an unattended install disk for mandrake. Since then I've lost the link (of course). Can anyone point me to any information about doing unattended installs...from memory is was run the installer and

Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1

2001-01-06 Thread Andrew George
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 16:46, you wrote: > It's taken a little while, but I finally managed to get all the packages > for KDE2.0.1 to install and it's running. However, there seems to be > something missing. A program that I really came to know and love is gone. > Kpm! > > It doesn't seem to be among

Re: [expert] CHMOD Question

2001-01-04 Thread Andrew George
Call me twisted... but whats wrong with using the -R switch? I thought thats what it was there for Andrew On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:27, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > Yes, "chmod 0750 /directory/*" would work but... > > What if there were many directories in "/directory" and you wanted to > chmod all th

Re: [expert] 2.4 and ReiserFS

2000-12-23 Thread Andrew George
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 09:57, Tom Massey wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Vidyut Luther wrote: > > you can't have / as a reiserfs filesystem. everything else can be. If you > > go to the resierfs website, the install docs say so explicitly. > > You can have / as reiser, and you can do it with kernel 2.4

Re: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?

2000-12-21 Thread Andrew George
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:57, A V Flinsch wrote: > On Thursday 21 December 2000 21:17, you wrote: > > So the burning question is: Does anybody have the hdparm command in > > their rc scripts or elsewhere??? > > I have the following at the end of rc.local > > # hdparm stuff > echo -n "Harddrive optimi

Re: [expert]

2000-12-12 Thread Andrew George
> > On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:57, you wrote: > > > I see that kernel 2.2.18 has been released in final version. Has > > > anyone > > > > tested an install of this kernel on mdk 7.2 yet? > > > > I'm debating on compiling it this evening, just to try out, any specific > > tips on how I could

Re: [expert] Kernel-linux won't mount reiser volumes

2000-12-10 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:58, Stephen Boulet wrote: > > I installed the kernel-linus, only to have it panic on boot up since it > couldn't mount the root partition, which is reiserfs. > > Anyone know how to solve this? > > Thanks! > > -- Stephen Don't know if Kernel-linus supports reiser (I always

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