Re: [expert] Shadowing / intercepting X-sessions?

2000-02-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: In a Citrix environment (Winframe or Metaframe) it is possible for an administrator to "shadow" a user-session. That is: to monitor the screen of a user and to take it over. Arguably a rather drastic tool (with regard to privacy-matters) but quite convenient when

[expert] Problem w/ 6.1 kernel crashes

2000-01-07 Thread Andrew Morton
We have several Mandrake 6.1 boxes here. They are vanilla out-of-the-box uniprocessor installations. They are NFS clients against HPUX 10.20 servers. We're seeing regular kernel freezes which occur during NFS activity. The Mandrake box will still respond to pings, but everything else (telnet,

Re: [expert] rexe?

1999-11-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Nikodemus Karlsson wrote: Hi! I'm trying to get remote execution (rexe) to work, but I have run in troubles. rexec is broken bigtime on all Linux systems. try 'rexec -a' to avoid one bug and '-p password' to avoid the other. For gory details see

Re: [expert] C++ Cross Compiler

1999-10-25 Thread Andrew Morton
John Connell wrote: Anyone know where I can get a C++ cross-compiler? TIA! GCC! http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/

Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2

1999-10-20 Thread Andrew Morton
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Hi, I noticed after a while of my box being up that ld-linux.so.2 seems to increase largely in memory and cpu usage. It keeps creeping up in size. Is this a memory leak? Is there a fix? huh? ld-linux is the 'interpreter' which ELF executables ask the kernel

Re: [expert] Changing Netscape Attributes

1999-10-14 Thread Andrew Morton
Felipe Almeida wrote: Hi, How can I make Netscape print the page name, numbers and location, just like it does in Windows? You can't. This, and the ability to use an external editor for mailnews are top of my Mozilla wishlist.

Re: [expert] what gives with bookmarks?

1999-10-14 Thread Andrew Morton
"S. Newhouse" wrote: Hello, I have netscape-4.61mdk installed (in mandrake-6.1) and I cannot save bookmarks. I have tried replacing ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html and just simply adding new bookmarks. When netscape is closed and opened, the installation default bookmarks get loaded. Where

Re: [expert] Sendmail .mc files...

1999-09-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Keith Woodworth wrote: I want to build a custom .cf file for sendmail but was wondering does the rpm file for sendmail have the mc files to customize the config file? You need the sendmail-cf RPM. Under Mandrake 6.0 the default /etc/sendmail.cf can be recreated with cd

Re: [expert] Sendmail .mc files...

1999-09-27 Thread Andrew Morton
mv redhat.mc /etc/sendmail.cf s/mv/m4/

Re: [expert] xscreensaver warning

1999-09-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Steve Philp wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Just a word of warning: I have twice had the 'penetrate' xscreensaver module wedge my display totally. This has happened with a Matrox Millennium and a G200. XFree 3.3.3.1. Restarting the X server via telnet didn't recover it. I ended

[expert] xscreensaver warning

1999-09-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Just a word of warning: I have twice had the 'penetrate' xscreensaver module wedge my display totally. This has happened with a Matrox Millennium and a G200. XFree 3.3.3.1. Restarting the X server via telnet didn't recover it. I ended up losing 30 days uptime :-( So, if you use xcsreensaver

Re: [expert] Few questions

1999-09-19 Thread Andrew Morton
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Hi, Actually look for the "XFree86 Font Deuglification How-To" That'll fix the problem. http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html

Re: [expert] Fetchmail

1999-09-18 Thread Andrew Morton
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Felipe Almeida wrote: I have a doubt here! I used fetchmail do grab my mail from my ISP POP3 mail server and it did grab them. But when I opened Pine to read the messages it didn't show them. I looked at the /var/spool/mail/myusername

Re: [expert] What's wrong with this???

1999-08-31 Thread Andrew Morton
John Aldrich wrote: ... /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file /etc/cron.daily/wakeup.cron: 0: command not found /etc/cron.daily/wakeup.cron~: 0: command not found Below is the cron job itself: # Cron script to (hopefully) play an MP3 file to wake me

Re: [expert] Sendmail problems

1999-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
"Morton, Andrew (A.) [EXCHANGE:WOLL:4009-M:BNR]" wrote: Hi, folks. Short form question: === Could some kind soul please tell me how to DISABLE all the new anti-spam stuff in sendmail 8.9.3? Just to answer my own question... 1: /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/README is very

Re: [expert] The final word on VMware?

1999-08-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Sim wrote: VMWare is working for me with a 2.2.10 kernel here, except that I can't work out how the get the network connection working and since Iw ant it for AOL 4.0 only then I'm a bit frustrated OK, thanks, guys. When I tried it on 2.2.9-27 the kernel module was oopsing. I guess I

Re: [expert] Netscape Files

1999-08-25 Thread Andrew Morton
John Connell wrote: Reza Samadi wrote: John Connell wrote: Can anyone tell me which files in Netscape contain the "Personal Bookmarks" and the "Address Book?" I found "bookmark.html" it had everything except the "personal" ones. I just want to back them up so as not to have

[expert] The final word on VMware?

1999-08-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Hi, folks. I know this has been done to death, but could someone please summarise for me? - vmware works with kernel-2.2.9-19mdk - vmware doesn't work with kernel-2.2.9-27mdk Is there a fix or workaround to make it run under -27? Thanks.

Re: [expert] IP Masquerading

1999-08-15 Thread Andrew Morton
kNIGits wrote: G'day from Australia! Me too. Can someone tell me if the stock standard Mandrake 6.0 kernel can do IP masquerading? Yup. Here's the script I use: #!/bin/sh echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j MASQ This sets

Re: [expert] Switch default Windows Manager

1999-08-05 Thread Andrew Morton
"Steven W. Laird" wrote: If you are using Linux-Madrake 6.0 do either of the following: 1. Go to "K" , System, Desktop Switching Tool or 2. From a term window type "switchdesk" There's a buglet in Mandrake concerning this. The 'kdmconfig' application may be used to edit the

Re: [expert] /etc/sysconfig

1999-08-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Lang Zhi wrote: Hi, i'm looking at /etc/sysconfig/clock, the file contains : UTC="yes" ARC=false What does the UTC and ARC mean ? UTC = Universal coordinated time. aka Greenwich mean time. Set this to true if your hardware clock is set to GMT rather than localtime. ARC