I have received that one as well. Basically, the attached file was a
virus. Though I received it over a month ago.
Pine proved it's worth once again in that the virus did nothing to me.
Good old pine
Cheers
I just got a spam direct:
Received: from localhost
That's the whole reason I was thankful for pine.
Think about it. I use Pine insted of Outlook. Thus I am thankful for
pine. The fact that I use linux for all email is what I am thankful for.
I don't get screwed with all these windows viruses floating around in
email.
I know perfectly well
/etc/motd
anything in that file will be displayed when a connection is made either
through the terminal, ssh, or telnet
This is probably such a basic question I'm almost afraid to ask. :)
Can anyone tell me where Mandrake pulls the information that is shown when
a telnet connection is
If oyu create a /boot partition and tell mandrake to write LILO to the
/boot partition instead of the mbr, then win2k ntldr will show up.
On Friday 19 January 2001 14:26, you wrote:
Is anyone using Win2K's boot loader to boot linux instead of LILO?
I have read Linux+NT-Loader HOWTO and
I do not use a monitor on my Mandrake 7.2 machine. Rather I ssh into that
machine.
Whenever I see new patches I usually have to manually go into an ftp site
to download those RPM files.
While this works, I am the first to aadmit that I am very lazy. I'd love
to be able to run a command line
I am currently using their last set of drivers from tarballs and they work
fine.
I would strongly recommend that you just use the source tarballs, the
RPMs caused all kinds of problems for me.
Cheers
Nvidia's page:
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html
has new
man rpm
that states that -F will freshen or update the package only if it
currently exists on your system in a presvious version.
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
Honestly, the information Chris provided has to be the best and most
thorough answer I've ever seen. He is also right, I kept seeing the same
message and the same replies over and over again.
Look, I don't think you have any right to get angry with him.
And I also think you do need to spend
can't help you with the order thing, but it's -Fvh
What's the ORDER of loading these RPMs and what are the recommended
parameters? -ivh? -Uvh?
Thanks,
Robert
At 07:30 16/01/2001 -0500, you wrote:
I just spoke with the customer service rep at New England Business Services,
LLC.
Adaptec does not make any drives whatsoever. They make adapters only as
far as SCSI devices go.
Thank you
Adaptec ONLY makes SCSI devices, I believe. And their drives are the
industry standard drives.
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I don't seem to be hacing any problems with it either. The reply to
address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am currently using pine for all of my email
This is a *REPLY* to your message. It goes to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think your email client does not
handles that correctly...FYI, I use mutt under
I think what people should be more concerned about in this post is the
fact taht that adapter is a promise IDE 100 controller. Not a SCSI
adapter. Windows just put it into the SCSI adapters because it doesn't
quite understand that it should be listed under Hard Disk Controllers.
Basically,
I have two fully working 4MM DDS2 DAT drives, both SCSI. Both came from
machines that I picked up used. Several companies right now sell used
servers and workstations. One of those tape drives came in a Compaq
Proliant 1500, the other came in a Dell PowerEdge 4100/200.
This seems to me to be
Hi,
For the past year or so, I've been using two separate video cards in my
Windows 2000 machine to obtain multiple monitors. I'm finally downgrading
back to Windows NT4 for a little more stability (and a lot less overhead).
What I would like to do, is make use of this new spare video card
Oh, I forgot on my last tirade - you CAN re-install the diag
partition (which I think destroys everything else, but
maybe not)
The partitions you're talking about exist only on Compaq servers. The
workstations have a softbios which requires a single boot disk to access
it.
Thanks
I
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With my system, I had an IDE hard drive and a CD-R/RW drive in there for a
while while it was running with it's SCSI hard drives and CD-ROM. My
suggestion is that if you put those two drive as the master and slave on
the secondary IDE chain of the Promise card, it should boot from SCSI
instead.
Does anyone know if Mandrake will be releasing a 2.4 kernel update for mdk
7.2?
I had some minor problems installing the source for one of the test
kernels for 2.4. For some reason it wouldn't boot. So I'm just wondering
if there might be a mandrake update for the newest kernel so I can
I must agree with you there. MDK 7.2 comes with openssh-server, or sshd.
Basically, you can use a program such as teraterm with it's ttssh
extension to ssh into your machine. It's more secure, though nothing is
totally secure.
It's also got a bunch of interesting features that all run on
It will work, whether it's mentioned or not on Mandrake's site.
A friend of mine is currently using it under mdk 7.2
Thanks
I believe the Plextors are listed on the Mandrake web site
www.linux-mandrake.org, but you might be right, this
one may not be listed.
I am ordering the Plextor
Just wanted to note something
Windows NT and Windows 2000 will allow you to create up to 4 primary
partitions on a single drive. This isn't supported by DOS fdisk either,
yet no one claims that it needs work.
Personally, I think thatdiskdrake is functioning properly.
Thanks
If you are
Wow, looks like someone at Mandrakesoft has been watching this list. Last
night I download the list of mirrors for updates for mdk7.2, and there
were about 2 dozen sites listed.
This is much better.
For those who responded to me regarding the problem I was having with
mandrakeupdate and the
Hey everybody,
I have recently come into aquisition of an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter.
I'll most likely be making use of this with my next installation of
Mandrake. Until then, everything works with my old PCI SCSI card in there
now.
My main concern is that I intend to completely remove IDE
I'm currently running a machine which is pure resierfs. I have no /boot
partition. I have had no problems with it whatsoever either. It boots
with no problems, speed has increased.
I have not tried compiling a kernel other then the stock mdk7.2 kernel
yet. But I'm hopeful that if I patch it
Hey guys,
was just wondering about something. I want to turn off the power
management feature which shuts off the screen after a certain amount of
time.
Both in X and in Console.
However, I don't want to remove apmd from the system, because without it,
I can't shutdown my Linux machine from
Maybe I missed a message, but could someone send me a URL where I could
find this xine program. I'm currently looking for DVD playback software
for my mdk7.2 machine as well
Thanks
well - i am not sure i could tell a visual difference between the movie from
xine and from powerdvd 3.0 that i
I'm trying to run xine on my machine but I'm getting an error message when
I try to play a DVD file (I am using the Matrix as the DVD to test with
since you got it to work)
It starts off okay, then I get this;
read: Bad file descriptor
I've tried everything on the xine README and FAQ to no
www.vortexofsound.com
cheers
I am in need of the aureal drivers for my monster MX 300 sound card.
Thanks
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Hi List,
Thank you both for your assistance. I thought the numbers refered to the
order in which the OS's were prioritized for booting, but wanted to make
sure I was going to do it right and still be able to boot one of them.
I
Hi,
I got it to work. During install, the glx drivers reported back an error
about my AGP lost being unsupported, and to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
As a result, I ran modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
Then ran the installation for the driver
The installation ran smoothly, no errors
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 compile and install it without killing my existing
kernel install?
This would
Wow.
Now this is the kind of help we can all use.
Thanks. I'll give that a try as soon as I shovel out my driveway.
Cheers
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 11:57 am, you wrote:
I'm debating on compiling it this evening, just to try out, any
specific tips on how I could compile and install
In the release notes for the most recent 2.4 kernel test version, it
states that PNP OS set to Yes is under development currently.
Generally, I disable that feature regardless of what I install on the
system. Windows tends to get baffled by it, and quitefrankly, I never
even bothered to try
The funny thing is that I've had absolutely no problems with speed, or
MandrakeUpdate with my install. I'm running it on an AMD Duron 600 with
224 MB RAM with no problems. Gnome Sawfish loads incredibly fast,
ReiserFS works great.
The only problem I have is that the nv drivers for my Viper
suspect that
there is a slightly more elegant solution.
tom berkley
Anthony Russello wrote:
I finally got around to installing the nvidia drivers for my Viper V770
card. There is only one problem.
In order to install them, I had to run
modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
Linux in a Nutshell by O'Reilly and associates.
i was recently asked by some one trying to learn linux if there was a list
of all the commands on most mandrake installs, does anyone know of a list of
all the commands and what they do?
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Keep in
You guys aren't alone, I'm using XFree86 4.0.1 on mdk 7.2 with a Diamond
Vipr 770 TNT2 card.
The only times Linux has ever failed on me are when I accidentally leave X
running.
I would like to get this fixed as I often que up XMMS and listen to my
mp3s while I work away repairing all the
Alright, someone on here suggested using mpg123 to me instead of XMMS in
X, unfortunately, I can't seem to determine the proper syntax for the
command to play multiple mp3 files stored in /home/data/mp3
There are also directories within that directory, but I couldn't find a
switch for
Okay, what version of glibc is included in Mandrake 7.2 and installed by
default?
I just downloaded the latest sdk for java since apparently i need it in
order to install Star Office (keep hearing you guys talking abut it, so I
figured I'd give it a go) but I don't know how to tell what version
I wouldn't mind seeing that if you have the chance. To keep for
prosperity :)
Just in case I wantto play around with something on my old P233.
Getting Nt and Linux to work in a dual boot system is easy.I will post the
procedure to use the NT loader if any would need to know how to do it
I always keep all the boxes and manuals for everything.
Always good to lok back on if something goes wrong.
who keeps the box and manuals ?
:-)
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:29:33PM -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
Here are the details of the 4-CD Macmillain version that
I'm not getting attacked from this alter.net IP, but I am being
constantly scanned on consecutive ports usually ranging in the 21xx or
24xx range. My firewall (a windows based firewall/proxy ap on an
NT4 server) blocks both of these ranges, so all I see are requests on port
21xx and each is
I'm using a Duron, and though CPU detection is incorrect in that it
detects the CPU as an AMD Athlon, it still works fine
I have no idea why it's detecting a P3 for you though, that's bizarre.
Just thought i would confirm that it does work with Duron chips.
Wow, that's one heck of a system
the box as a
Cisco.
Will definitely remember that. That'll definitely come in handy.
I am still trying, merely as a learning exercise at this point, to get
ANY useful
information from 63.98.105.
Cool cool. I should post the IPs of the three guys that keep scanning me
as soon as I get home.
Anthony Rus
I have a VIA chipset, and though it only detects 64 MB when installing, I
can easily specify that it has the 224 that is in it. After specifying,
it works without a hitch. Please note that I've only ever specified it
during install time.
I'm a newbie just getting started with Linux, but if
Try initio SCSI cards. They have Linux drivers, their cards are bootable,
and their prices are reasonable.
I'm using one such card at work, and it's great. I only bought this
piece of garbage adaptec non bootable 78xx series card because it was so
dirt cheap I couldn't resist.
Someone bythe name of PJ just sent me a private email indicating that
unmatched RAM may be incorrectly detected. Mine is unmatched.
I have a Via chip too.. and every version of mandrake found all 1.5 GB of RAM
on it!.. Maybe u guys have one chipset thats broken.. write to the kernel
mailing
You can create a script to create sequential passwords in hexadecimal
numbers for each person.
If the spread sheet is an excel spreadsheet, then just export the column
to a text file.
Then an easy to write script, or simple copy/pasting would be usable to
create the user accounts
I used the mandrake XFree86 4.0.1
Are you using the 3dfx.o kernel module with XFree 4.0.1? or with the custom
X server on the website?
Anthony Russello wrote:
I just recently swapped a Voodoo3 3500TV AGP into my Linux machine (quite
a waste seeing as how there don't seem to be any TV
If the spread sheet is an excel spreadsheet, then just export the column
to a text file.
Then an easy to write script, or simple copy/pasting would be usable to
create the user accounts
Hello,
Does anyone knows an utility that could parse a text file to create users and
passwords
I am also getting repeat messages.
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Yes, I'm getting multiple messages, also.
Take care,
- Mika
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, at 06:47, William Bouterse wrote:
Apologies for the multiple messages sent by mistake
However I am receiving many
www.reiserfs.org will do the trick...
-Chris
Thanks
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Question, are you editing this in the XF86Config file, or the XF86Config-4
file?
I spent about 3 days trying to get my scroll button on my mouse to work,
editing the XF86Config file, only to discover, in a frenzy of anguish,
that it actually uses the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11
Others might
Hey all,
I've just recently had the pleasure to read over the testimonials of
ReiserFS users. Good to see that it works, now I'd like to try it.
But first, I do want to read up more about it. What is the homepage for
ReiserFS if anyone happens to know. I'd rather red up on all the
A definate probably. Do a hdparm -i /dev/hdxx to get information about your
drive so that you know what it supports. Also make sure what kind of DMA your
hdd controller handles. But in all likelyhood you shouldn't have a problem.
Just out of curiousity, and my apologies for eaves dropping
I know what you mean. :) Keep it up - its a great way to learn. Good luck!
-Chris
You're telling me. I need to buy a new notepad :)
Thanks for the answers, now all I need is to find this fabelled ReiserFS
homepage which everyone seems to be talking about, but no one knows the
URL for
Take this as you will, but can't you just include a redirection to a file
instead, possibly in a directory only root has access to?
Every day at 4am, the cron.daily job runs. No big deal, except that it spits
it's output to every console and terminal screen attached to the box :P This
isn't
Actually, I'm running an SiS6326 8 meg video card under mdk 7.1 on a P233
and I have no problems switching between X and console. I do it quite
often actually.
Though this same card under mdk 7.2 caused problems where in X my mouse
was represented by a large white block, regardless of what I
Select Expert Install and put the XFree86-3.3.6 server on. The
XFree86-4.01 has some problems with SiS 6326 (and some 530s and 620s but
not 540s and 630s) yet.
Ah, I see. So there is a bug with the SiS 6326 series. Here I was
thinking it was osmehting I did wrong. Thanks for clearing
I've had problems trying to get my Logitech mouseman+ scroll wheel mouse
to work properly under mdk7.2. I've followed the tutorials, enabling
chordmiddle didn't work, setting ZAxis to 4 5 didn't work. Any ideas from
you guys?
Other then that one tiny little problem, I am thoroughly enjoying
Mouseman+ though
In 7.2 you do not need to do any of that.
Run MouseDake and select Logitech WheelMouse.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Anthony Russello" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 3:15 AM
Subject: [expert]
Reboot using a win98 bootdisk. Flash the drive, done
You usually have to use a sysed win98 boot disk to flash NT4 and win2k
still as well
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Joan Tur wrote:
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:15:39 +0100
From: Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL
No, PS/2
is this a USB mouse?
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This may sound stupid, but how do I turn off the power saver mode for
Console. When not in use the screen goes black, but since I'm using a new
KVM, whenever I flip to it, the screen is black, and I would like to
change that so that I can flip over to the login prompt without having to
press a
Try using kisocd. I haven't written a single coasterwith it since I
started. It'sjust a front end for cdrecord, but it's a decent one.
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Tom Berkley wrote:
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:53:14 -0800
From: Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL
? and if so then did you set the bios so that
the drive was recognized - auto would work just fine.
if scsi, send some more info.
Tom Berkley
Anthony Russello wrote:
Well, I'm got a bizarre little problem that kind of bugs me, Currently
my system is configured as follows;
hda
Tried that. All in the nature of troubleshooting... :(
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:23:45 +
From: Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Strange problem
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000,
Yes you can, I am doing that now. I use the onboard IDE, and a PCI SCSI
adapter.
2 x SCSI hard drives, 2 x IDE hard drives, 1 x IDE CD-ROM
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:57:21 -0500
From: Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Well, I'm got a bizarre little problem that kind of bugs me, Currently
my system is configured as follows;
hda - 5.1GB - / and swap
hdb - 2.1GB - /home
sda - 4.3GB - /home/data
sdb - 4.3GB - /backup
hdc - Memorex CRW-1622 2x2x6 CD-R/RW
The weird thing is that in 7.1 I used to have a second
No, the problem is that Linux no longer sees it at all, not even during
the bootup.
The BIOS listed both CD-ROM drives when booting during POST, but Linux
just doesn't see the second.
Other then that one problem, I have never been happier with a Linux
distribution then I am with mdk 7.2.
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