Re: [expert] Read/Write permissions on a VFAT partition

2001-01-03 Thread Anton Graham
the umask is a mount option set in /etc/fstab or as part of a -o parameter to mount > Why arn't world read/write permissions command line options for mount?? > (where they belong!) see above -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] CUPS printing...

2001-01-01 Thread Anton Graham
re using "/usr/sbin/printerdrake --lpr". This undocumented option (and I have complained about the lack of documentation before) forces it to configure the old fashioned way :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA ke

Re: [expert] Which file to change between gdm & kdm login?

2000-12-31 Thread Anton Graham
nd xdm respectively. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Do not meddle in the affairs of the undead, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

Re: [expert] 2.4 and ReiserFS

2000-12-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Dec-00 by Reggie Burnett: > How do I install the 2.4 RPM on a Reiser system and have it work? When I > boot, I get a kernel panic trying to mount / You don't... ReiserFS is conflicting with something in current 2.4 kernels. Chmoel is working on it. -- A

Re: [expert] Unmount supermount without reboot

2000-12-22 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 22-Dec-00 by Viktor Lakics: > Does anyone know how to unmount (suspend supermounting) a supermounted > removable disk without editing out the corresponding entry in fstab and > reboot? Eg. to use ext2fsck on a zip disk? umount /mnt/zip -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key av

Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-16 Thread Anton Graham
(a directory full of fonts - PFBs and AFMs that need to be lowercase > names). for i in *[A-Z]*; do mv -v $i $( echo $i | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' ); done Should work for sh, bash, and zsh. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[expert] Chinese fonts in Netscape?

2000-12-16 Thread Anton Graham
inese howto, fiddled with netscape settings, etc; but cannot seem to find the source of the problem. Any insights would be appreciated. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Clothes make the man. N

Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-15 Thread Anton Graham
ng function to accomplish it: function tolower { tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' } and then just echo or cat the text and pipe it through the function (i.e. cat file.txt | tolower > filenew.txt ) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] suddenly problems with the soundcard

2000-12-14 Thread Anton Graham
the information sndconfig writes to /etc/conf.modules into your /etc/modules.conf file then remove the conf.modules. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail,

Re: [expert] Postfix - YIKES!

2000-12-13 Thread Anton Graham
l? Thanks... Redirect all output from the job to /dev/null and cron won't have anything to mail. cron assumes that any output from the job is important and mails it. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon

Re: [expert] 7.2, alsa, and yamaha DS-XG

2000-12-12 Thread Anton Graham
all snd-card-ymfpci modprobe snd-pcm-oss -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. Keep in touch with http:/

Re: [expert] RPM Error: Wrong Architecture in LM 7.1

2000-12-08 Thread Anton Graham
ulette as you will get segfaults caused by illegal instructions whenever an app issues a 586 instruction. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stran

Re: [expert] Supermount

2000-12-06 Thread Anton Graham
beta cycle but it >> wasn't included). > So, how do I re-enable it? First, comment out the portion of /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime that disables it. Then /usr/sbin/supermount --enable. After that, check your fstab to ensure that it is correct. Finally, mount -o remount -a.

Re: [expert] Supermount

2000-12-05 Thread Anton Graham
ssume it will be and disable it at boot time if they can't find the module. (I sent in a patch before the 7.2 beta cycle but it wasn't included). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Kind

Re: [expert] Need rsh capability in Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-05 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 04-Dec-00 by David C. Hoos, Sr.: > Hi, > I looked for rsh, but didn't find it. Is it in some rpm? > Thanks a lot for the quick reply. (%:~)- rpm -qf $(which rsh) rsh-0.17-4mdk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] Who Is List Maintainer?(time for Sympa retirement?)

2000-11-30 Thread Anton Graham
purposes) will use the message ID. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Anton Graham
isting of modes. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request There is nothing wrong with writing ... as long as it is done in private and you wash your hands afterward. Keep in touch with http://ma

Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand

2000-11-23 Thread Anton Graham
hings in the script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 after the modem init string and before dialing. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry

Re: [expert] Glibc_2.2

2000-11-22 Thread Anton Graham
iling, it will also keep your box all RPM as you stated was your desire. glibc 2.2 is available on the Cooker mirrors, but it is in a state of flux atm, and I wouldn't suggest upgrading it for at least a week. I believe there is also a compat RPM that contains the glibc 2.1 libraries

Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand

2000-11-22 Thread Anton Graham
d "/sbin/ifup ppp0 &" to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local > 7. i start my "/etc/ppp/masq start" > 8. i start "pppd :10.0.0.2"(And here it hangs and doesn't gives > me back prompt, is it ok?) More than likely. Try accessing the 'net a

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-21 Thread Anton Graham
e source RPMS and recompile locally as much of contrib and most of cooker have now been built with libraries and a compiler that are not part of your 7.x distribution and any c++ binaries generated by gcc 2.96 are not binary compatible with 2.95. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0

Re: [expert] 3Dfx OpenGL acceleration breaks after changing resolutions, and doesn't come back.

2000-11-19 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 19-Nov-00 by Sean, Sharon & Kyle Harbour: > Oh yeah, if I set the resolution to 32bit, 1280x1024, the way I like it, > during the install, OpenGL 3dfx's accelleration only works at 16 bpp under any OS. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 &l

[expert] Accelleration for Voodoo3-2K PCI

2000-11-18 Thread Anton Graham
card with working accelleration? And if so, could you clue me in to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks :) Attachments: xmsgs, XF86Config-4 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "And remember:

Re: [expert] fonts

2000-11-15 Thread Anton Graham
ere, as I put together the RPM's both linked from Skunk's page and on your Mandrake mirror/cd. It's 100% painless. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request A copy of the universe is not

Re: [expert] CP command

2000-11-15 Thread Anton Graham
ptions defaulted to giving you wide open access to the FAT partitions. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.

Re: [expert] CP command

2000-11-14 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 14-Nov-00 by Maximo Monsalvo: > I try to copy a copy of my linux from the disck (ext2) to partition fat16 > mounted in my linux > but i can't copy ( link synbolik no created) This is because the FAT-16 (and -32) file systems have no ability to support symbolic links. --

Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!

2000-11-12 Thread Anton Graham
source window managers and want something more Windows-like such as KDE/GNOME. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!" Keep in touch with h

Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!

2000-11-11 Thread Anton Graham
5mdk.i586.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Now Trying Gnome

2000-11-10 Thread Anton Graham
r magically inclined friends mad? I've heard good things about balsa. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free wit

Re: [expert] Expert

2000-11-10 Thread Anton Graham
e is an update availavle via mandrakeupdate or you can simply remove the = yourself. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. -- Muad'dib [Frank Her

Re: [expert] Has Mandrake removed xfce in ver 7.2?

2000-11-10 Thread Anton Graham
rake/RPMS)- ls xfce* xfce-3.5.2-1mdk.i586.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? Just a hint to the girls as to where they can

Re: [expert] 7.2 update issue: problem with binary names

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Graham
e installed. If you only have the emacs-nox, then that is run instead. gcc ends up linked to colorgcc if installed, otherwise to gcc-2.95.2. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request I always had a

Re: [expert] 7.2 and nfs

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Graham
got a bunch of unresolved symbol errors? try depmod -a and see if it rebuilds its dependancies (and module database) correctly. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man&#

Re: [expert] 7.2 and nfs

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Graham
diculous to build it into the kernel. > On top of that, they do not supply the configuration file > they used to build the pre-built kernel!! And the .config file (for the umpteen-millionth time) *is* provided. Look in the /usr/share/doc/kernel- directory. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Postfix filing up my /VAR!!!

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Graham
tate. The config file as shipped with 7.1 was screwy and confinually rotated the already rotated logs, eventually filling the drive. There is an update available. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon requ

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome doesn't work in 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Anton Graham
e new system for defining sessions. Likely they have placed a GNOME entry in /etc/X11/window-managers which is no longer used in 7.2. Try adding the following file as /etc/X11/wmsession.d/2gnome: NAME=Gnome ICON=gnome-logo-icon-transparent.xpm DESC=Gnome Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/gnome-session SCR

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus: > Reboot? Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount > it again? I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab > is read again and that would be that. Indeed you can :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Anton Graham
gives full read/write privileges to root and members of that group, and nobody else can even cd into the mount point. > What do I have to do AS ROOT to do this? I cannot do "chmod 777" > on it, let alone ANY other variation of chmod on /mnt/DOS_hdb6 > OR any subdirectory on it

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Anton Graham
ed no end of headaches for many users. I was able to easily upgrade a 6.0 box to 6.1, then 7.0 and 7.1 as they came out. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die

Re: [expert] Well, well...building the NEW XFree86-4.0.1-26mdk.src.rpm

2000-10-15 Thread Anton Graham
then skipped over). The module requires XFree86-server = 4.0.1-26mdk, As I suspected, one missing file :(. Now you need to sift through the build output for where that module is supposed to be built to find out why it isn't (headache city). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID

Re: [expert] Some more on inability to build XFree86-4.0.1

2000-10-12 Thread Anton Graham
ubpackage. It processes all of the packages but generates no rpms. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's stari

Re: [expert] /usr/bin unuseable in msec level 4

2000-09-29 Thread Anton Graham
n always add it to the relevent configuration files. Also, try using an explicit path to reach /usr/bin/tcsh (and why is it in /usr/bin? It installs by default as /bin/tcsh) (%:~)- which tcsh /bin/tcsh (%:~)- rpm -qf $(which tcsh) tcsh-6.08.00-9mdk -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-23 Thread Anton Graham
instances in which I spent days going through .rej files (and the corresponding original files) to put together a patch for the patch. That last is certainly time consuming, but it is really the only way to get some patches to apply. For example, the most recent supermount patch fo

Re: [expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-22 Thread Anton Graham
upermount, firewire, and raid patches (170 in all). A list of patches is attached (I include only the obvious ones). This list is taken from rpm -qpl kernel-2.2.17-11mdk.src.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available

Re: [expert] How does LM 7.1 setup my CD-burner?

2000-09-21 Thread Anton Graham
ut you should see the corresponding line in your setup for the original kernel. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- S

Re: [expert] permissions on swap partitions

2000-09-20 Thread Anton Graham
issions 0660, 0600 suggested > Should I change column 4 to "defaults,mode=0600"? No, you need change the permissions on the devices themselves (i.e. in the /dev/ directory). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA

Re: [expert] Public Keys in Signatures (was: Ulysses beta 2)

2000-09-18 Thread Anton Graham
rly: the message is transformed into an attachment to a blank body. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceb

Re: [expert] RPM problem

2000-09-18 Thread Anton Graham
run strictly as a script. It isnt. %make is a new RPM macro that automates division of jobs in the compilation process based on number of CPUs. > Just remove the % from the %make line and everything should be much > better. Don't do this :) Upgrade RPM. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] RPM problem

2000-09-18 Thread Anton Graham
;( Of course you are. See above. > RH is looking better all the time! To each his own :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood b

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate

2000-09-12 Thread Anton Graham
t; rpm -q MandrakeUpdate MandrakeUpdate-7.1-23mdk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -- Somerset Maugh

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate

2000-09-12 Thread Anton Graham
I would recommend upgrading to a newer version. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-09-11 Thread Anton Graham
s alleviated by PCI cards capable of sharing interrupts and some newer drive controllers being able to do the same. Even serial boards have made tremendous advances in this regard, but the architecture is limited by its roots. As the ISA bus get phased out this will become

Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing

2000-09-10 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 09-Sep-00 by Stephen Bosch: > 2.2.17 isn't an official kernel patch (i.e., it's a Mandrake patch I'm afraid you are mistaken. 2.2.17 *is* official. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA ke

Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing

2000-09-09 Thread Anton Graham
kernel available at kernel.org and its mirrors, but a patch. Also, unless you have hacked your initscripts, building supermount into the kernel (as opposed to building as a module) kills supermount at boot time. I run a 2.2.17 pre kernel and haven't seen the config prob

Re: [expert] Maximum file size

2000-09-09 Thread Anton Graham
the mathematical notation 2^31). 2 GB represents a 31 bit number :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one

Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?

2000-09-08 Thread Anton Graham
gure the card to IRQ 9? I've had to do that with an internal modem when 5 wasn't available (jumperless soundcard took it). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request There is nothing wrong with wr

Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?

2000-09-08 Thread Anton Graham
Do you have other serial ports in the machine and might another of them be /dev/ttyS0? What does "dmesg | grep ttyS" show? -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "It is as natural t

Re: [expert] ALSA, SB card and conf.modules

2000-09-08 Thread Anton Graham
h a Sound > Blaster AudioPCI 128 card or an Ensoniq 1371, could they please send me a > copy of their conf.modules file? Actually I don't use either card in any machine, but ALSA configuration is the same for most cards. Similar configs (with only different car

Re: [expert] Maximum file size

2000-09-08 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 07-Sep-00 by Ellick Chan: > 32-bit OS's typically have a 2 gb file size limit(2^31 why is it missing > 1 bit?), ext2 has that as well as Reiserfs currently. Because it's a signed long. Setting the 32nd bit would make it a negative number.

Re: [expert] multiple logons

2000-09-07 Thread Anton Graham
etect Eterm, gnome-terminal, and rxvt as discrete users (the terminal is opened as /dev/pts/?). xterm and konsole apparently do not handle things in a sufficiently similar manner for this to catch them (no pty). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

2000-09-06 Thread Anton Graham
the device (for that boot only) without having to boot linux, edit a config file, reinstall the loader, then reboot again just so I could play a game of Tomb Raider :) (OT: If dosemu were 32-bit clean, I might even be able to try playing my old games in Linux :) -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

2000-09-05 Thread Anton Graham
esting that NVidia is in danger of bankrupcy. I am suggesting that you're going to be screwed if they decide to stop updating the drivers. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "First things

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-09-05 Thread Anton Graham
). A change to Earthlink (on an old Mindspring POP) sent her troubles away. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they we

Re: [expert] Auto-menu editor

2000-09-04 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Leopold Palomo: > someone knows some graphical app to edit the menu? MenuDrake (from cooker) > or > how to do it? Umm.. It's fairly well documented in /usr/doc/menu-{version}, or even just look at some of the entries in /usr/lib/menu to see how it work

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-09-04 Thread Anton Graham
ogin. You never saw this under Windows because the DUN client automagically detects the authentication protocol in use. But at least you now know why they were hanging up on you :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key ava

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-09-01 Thread Anton Graham
s a valid device when kudzu does it's little detection thing when levels 2-5 start. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message.

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-09-01 Thread Anton Graham
*BSD. As far as detection goes, most internal modems that are supported do not use the irq's that linux automatically assigns to them (3 and 4). As a result, you need to determine this information, and put it into your configuration file. -- Anton GrahamGPG I

Re: [expert] How to see IP address?

2000-09-01 Thread Anton Graham
ork connection, i.e. a dialup without a lan, you can do: /sbin/ifconfig | grep addr | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{print $2'}' | awk -F: '{print $2}' (That should be all one line.) HTH -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Anton Graham
initiating devfs, isapnp detection, loading of modules from /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, starting RAID devices, and execution of the mandrake_everytime script. So yes, there is quite a lot of difference between the two ideas. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541

Re: [expert] Converting Partition Types

2000-08-30 Thread Anton Graham
artition. As a result, people who chose to abandon linux ran into difficulty removing the linux partitions from Windows (fdisk knew the extended wasn't empty and wouldn't allow removal, but couldn't see the partition in it to remove them). -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Mounting cdroms and floppies in LM7.1

2000-08-30 Thread Anton Graham
supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? Just a hint to the girls as to w

Re: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-30 Thread Anton Graham
builds all of the alsa RPMS as well as all of the kernel RPMS and the reiserfs-utils and MandrakeUpdate also builds urpmi and grpmi. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Authors are easy to get o

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-08-28 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 28-Aug-00 by Stephen Bosch: > And again -- that SIGHUP is damn peculiar -- who is sending it? I suspect that that is modem generated. Every modem i have ever owned generates a SIGHUP when the other end hangs up on it. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78

Re: [expert] Copying data to another HD

2000-08-28 Thread Anton Graham
est way to copy the data from a linux hd to another hd, > when the destination is a different size than the original? It has been my experience that cpio works wonderfully: find / -print | cpio -p --preserve-modification-time --make-directories --dot \ /mnt/newdisk -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Supermount_Put_Write_Access --- Problem!!!

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
ly? Post a copy of /etc/fstab. There may be a partition being supermounted or something equally silly. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is

Re: [expert] Can Not connect DHCPCD failed Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
t I still have to download them.) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!"

Re: [expert] Mandrake + Xfree 4.01 Problem!!!

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
ancies for installing RPMS are satisfied only by checking the RPM database. If you have XF 4.01 and RPM thinks you have XF 4, then you won't be able to install packages that specifically require XF 4.01. Yes, I have tried it, I have been running XF 4.01 practically since it beca

Re: [expert] Auto-Menu's in Mandrake

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
es, as long as you have the thing hooked to a PC. But, Linux has grown beyond its original x86 roots, and we have to code for portability. Writing portable code for low-level device access is a virtual impossibility. It is the reason why it takes so long to port the kernel to a new platform. > yo

Re: [expert] ESS 1868 sound card

2000-08-26 Thread Anton Graham
d-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias sound snd-card-0 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request

Re: [expert] ESS 1868 sound card

2000-08-25 Thread Anton Graham
on an 1868 with a very simple config. In addition to the generic ALSA options for OSS compatibility and such: alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es18xx options snd-card-es18xx snd_index=0 snd_id="ES18XX" This allows for a consistent config across several machines which have the card cof

Re: [expert] supermount not working for floppy

2000-08-25 Thread Anton Graham
,1840}. If you try to access them using /dev/fd0, you will generate several warning/error messages because the device is incompatible with the disk format. And, if you're using supermount on that device, those errors will be followed by a kernel panic. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Auto-Menu's in Mandrake

2000-08-24 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 24-Aug-00 by Henry Stanaland: > Does someone know how to turn off those #$@* auto-menu's in Mandrake? > I am surprised nobody else ever mentions this. But whenever I install an RPM > it returns my system KDE menu to some default. rpm -e menu --

Re: [expert] Desktop Icons In Gnome

2000-08-24 Thread Anton Graham
to have this change to multi-color icons? Known (and frequent) problem. delete the file ~/.gnome/metadata.db and restart gnome. It will regenerate a useable version. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon req

Re: [expert] Fw: Startx - (was Configuring X in LM 7.1)

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
et run when you boot the machine and it is one of those that is broken is some way. You aren't getting far enough for it to be an X problem :p -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Authors are eas

Re: [expert] g++ can't find !

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
ders. Assuming that they are there, adding -I/usr/include/g++-3 to the g++ command line should work. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Flaubert

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Chmouel Boudjnah: > and i'm sure Chris would never want to violate the FHS (and if he > don't care i'm sure some others mdksoft developers care about this > ;). Well I wasn't going to mention that part :p -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Alan N: > Upon install ( in proper order ) I get upon installing kde-base I > believe, the rpm requires kde-qt addon. > But this is SUPPOSED to be supplied by kde-support ( which rpm uvh'ed OK > ).. Know problem. Chris has said to use --force on it.

Re: [expert] kde2 rpm's

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
oint to /usr/bin instead of /opt/kde2/bin, so it would require some tweaking and perseverance on your part. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get st

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
t's the most important package in the > KDE2 distribution!! lol. He probably had problems building the latest kdetoys. It's better to not release it than release it in an unusable state. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-1.93-2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-devel-1.93-2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-1.92-15mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm -

Re: [expert] wishing for a second machine

2000-08-21 Thread Anton Graham
net|naughty@spammer\\.com" :0 ^From:.*($PITAs) /dev/null -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Re: [expert] modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-00

2000-08-21 Thread Anton Graham
gically launch dosemu to run dos programs, WINE to run Windows binaries, or a Java VM to run java applications. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request Death comes on every passing breeze, He lurks in

Re: [expert] Memory above 1GB

2000-08-21 Thread Anton Graham
ify this problem.. the initial screen dosn't show the right amount > detected! That number comes from the linux_logo program. Please contact the author of said program ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to see about a fix. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PR

Re: [expert] Memory above 1GB

2000-08-21 Thread Anton Graham
to toggle 1 or 2 GB max physical memory. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls out a sword I'd like to see you get up there with your Bic.

Re: [expert] telnet/ssh problems

2000-08-20 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 20-Aug-00 by Peter M Aarestad: > Any other config files I should check? Okay, this is probably "too obvious", but what does /etc/hosts.deny say? It sounds like you have the machine locked down to refuse all connections. -- Anton GrahamGPG I

Re: [expert] wishing for a second machine

2000-08-20 Thread Anton Graham
tribs may have seen some of this as the docs and info/man pages have moved. It will be important to upgrade your man and info packages (they may also make them available in the updates directory after 7.2 final) in order to have compatibility between your 7.0x system and new packages. -- Ant

Re: [expert] 32MB Mdk 7.1 systems?

2000-08-20 Thread Anton Graham
t's semi-windows-ish in a default configuration and much lighter than any GNOME/KDE stuff. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin." -- Michael O'Donohugh

Re: [expert] Unable to mount root filesystem - No boot possible

2000-08-20 Thread Anton Graham
you identified as the failure should be a bit prior to the swapon call. That being the case, possibly the mount program looked at fstab saw two entries for hdc7 and didn't know what to do. Perhaps it was trying to mount the swap as /, which would obviously produce a system freeze when the moun

Re: [expert] Unable to mount root filesystem - No boot possible

2000-08-19 Thread Anton Graham
should do next, what have I forgotten? Hmm... LILO is booting the correct partition as root, or you would get no init found. So, fstab must not be correct. Double check that it's mount point for / matches what lilo thinks the root is. -- Anton GrahamGPG

Re: [expert] Painless disaster recovery. . .

2000-08-18 Thread Anton Graham
grub: If I want to use lilo, all I have to do next is run > `lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf' right? If I'm using grub, though, how do I > update the mbr? Actually, it would be lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf. But, after you have done the restore, you can chroot /mnt /mnt/bin/bash and t

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