Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
This will not only remove the offending ::, it will remove any duplicate entries it finds (a couple of which you also have in yours), as well as any entries pointing to dirs which do not exist. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Bill Mullen wrote: This will not only remove the offending ::, it will remove any duplicate entries it finds (a couple of which you also have in yours), as well as any entries pointing to dirs which do not exist. If you find seeing the output of the script

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
intended, if that file has the same name and the :.: appears earlier in the PATH than the directory in which the intended file resides. Obviously, it is *far* more important that such an entry not be part of root's PATH than a user's, but it's a risk in the latter case as well. -- Bill Mullen

Re: [expert] spamassassin?

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
suppose that the SOB actually did me a favor, in a way ... ;) Just my $0.02USD ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
partition. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Top posting because that's where the cursor happens to be is like shitting your pants because that's where your ass hole is. - Blinky the Shark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

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

Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

2003-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
, and try again. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Mullen
the same value for the $myhostname, $mydomain and $myorigin variables, in case you're wondering. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

Re: [expert] Ethernet Problem

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Mullen
is unplugged, which should keep ifplugd from reacting. Hopefully. :) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your

Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)

2003-11-14 Thread Bill
Jack, Bill and Pierre! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Setting sb.o to use IRQ 5

2003-11-14 Thread Bill Mullen
/kernel-doc-version/sound/Soundblaster Also, see the modules.conf man page. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want

Re: [expert] Trying to fix a few things after installing 9.2

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
: mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN This may be commented out in the default main.cf file, IIRC. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
that pertain to your sending system(s). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Just trying this out-Testing

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
? If so, it has a valid rDNS entry as well, which is nice to know. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:26, Bill Mullen wrote: Including the output of postconf -n, run on the Postfix box, might be helpful also, as would the re-inclusion of the two sets of headers; all that matters is the last couple of Received: headers from

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:06, Bill Mullen wrote: Okay, I think you should at least change the myhostname = line, found in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. Having the short hostname of your Postfix box here does you no good, as it is of utterly no use

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:49, Bill Mullen wrote: ... Quite true, and one's best recourse in that situation is using the ISP's server as a relay, at least for the problem domains (I have to do that with a few). OTOH, that isn't what's happening

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
*does* (forward, at least). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
to installed packages only, I just use rpm. For more on the urpm* family of apps, see: http://www.urpmi.org -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
to wait to make any more changes to see if this has any effect. You did either restart or reload Postfix after making the changes, right? If not, the main.cf change won't take effect until you do. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Bill
Yeah it looks like they have some issues with mail. There MX record shows qualxserv.com Server: 66.47.48.51 Address:66.47.48.51#53 Non-authoritative answer: qualxserv.com mail exchanger = 5 qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. Authoritative answers can be found from: qualxserv.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Bill
I dont believe it is a router issue. They could have a acl in place but then you wouldnt see the answer from the server it would just block it alltogther. I dont remember ever seing a Cisco router checking the header files in emails to block a person. I think they may have a timeout issue like

Re: [expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
comments within that file for more on this. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] chkrootkit and mailing results to root

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
. If you're interested in setting up a config like mine, I'd be happy to help out in any way I can. And just about anything beats using a spam magnet like Yahoo for any real purpose, other than perhaps as a throwaway address ... ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
is equivalent to vi -R (and quite a bit easier to remember) ... gview is the same as gvim -R, also ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

Re: [expert] Need some docs on administering Mandrake systems

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
/bin/view/Main/MandrakeSpecific Some other links: Urpmi http://www.urpmi.org Msec http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry

[expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
, and I was unable to find any way to convince it otherwise ... what am I missing here? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

Re: [expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 8:44 am, Bill Mullen wrote: Anne, I was interested in updating the link on this page to point to the current version of popfile, and I noticed that there appears to be no way to log myself in; it insists that I am TwikiGuest

Re: [expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 10:28 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 8:44 am, Bill Mullen wrote: Anne, I was interested in updating the link on this page to point to the current version of popfile

Re: [expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
any specific experience as regards the upgrade, as I had never tried the app until today, and opted for the current version. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been

Re: [expert] xtart and a new session

2003-11-09 Thread Bill Mullen
the next available display automatically, and launch your session on that. Hans is a regular contributor to the alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people

Re: [expert] urpmi vs rpm

2003-11-07 Thread Bill Mullen
and that the rpm matches your distro. You end up in the same place. I'll only add that using urpmi is more like rpm -Uvh than rpm -ivh. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body

Re: [expert] ls all dir and subdir?

2003-11-06 Thread Bill Mullen
: tree -d [dir] To include hidden files, as well as regular files: tree -A [dir] HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying

Re: [expert] POP filters in KMail don't work

2003-11-02 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Artemio wrote: The other day I would telnet my mail server and talk to him via POP3 to delete unwanted mail, and then I almost started writing my own application to do this job! :-) There already is an app to do that job - kshowmail, in contribs. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL

Re: [expert] autoconf and automake

2003-11-01 Thread Bill Mullen
]:~$ urpmq --fuzzy autoconf The following packages contain autoconf: autoconf2.5 mozilla autoconf HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me

Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?

2003-11-01 Thread Bill Mullen
, and a separate /boot is not the default arrangement on Mandrake distros, as most users have no particular need of one. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Bill
If you want to erase the mbr try using an old DOS 6.2 install disk. Boot it and use the command fdisk /mbr that should do the trick. On Star Date Saturday 01 November 2003 11:11 am, James Sparenberg sent this sub-space message. On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all

Re: [expert] Fetchmail problem

2003-10-30 Thread Bill Mullen
into the /etc/fetchmailrc file being used by the daemon (as the daemon can tell when that file has changed since the last poll, and will auto-reload it). As always, TIMTOWTDI; there's no need to build it into the app itself. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0

Re: [expert] insmod help needed

2003-10-29 Thread Bill Mullen
0666 v4l 0666 root.sys That *might* do what you want (you'll need to reboot afterwards, for it to take effect, AFAICT). HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most

[expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, In the earlier versions of Konqueror I could place a series of .jpg's in a directory, open Konqueror, open the directory and choose [tools] from the menu and there was an option to make a webpage full of thumbnail photos automatically. That is not the case with Mandrake-9.1, is it

Re: [expert] msec level 4

2003-10-26 Thread Bill Mullen
Or, alternatively, to limit access to only coming from the LAN: sshd : 192.168.0. Note the trailing dot. That syntax translates to 192.168.0.*. Be sure to urpme telnet-server sometime soon, though! ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-24 Thread Bill Mullen
for that library installed as well. As far as gcc is concerned, it doesn't think that the library is installed, because it cannot locate the -devel files for it. :( HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
/lilo.conf, had not been modified). So, your step 1 changes a valid fstab entry into an incorrect one, and your step 2 is wholly superfluous. Back to the drawing board, I'd say. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP

Re: [expert] NIC not starting with Mandrake 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
to bring up the network before the pcmcia devices have been initialized. If this is what's going on, rename one of the links so that YY is a higher number than XX. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which

Re: [expert] strange sound system problem?

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Mullen
that the local users have. This does not bring the sound to the client system in any fashion, of course - options for doing that were mentioned by someone else - but just gives remote users access to the server's sound hardware. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Bill
On Star Date Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:17 pm, HaywireMac sent this sub-space message. Motion carried! We nuke Redmond! er, that *was* the motion, right? where's the minutes... Wasnt there a second motion? Something about getting a rope and finding Bill Gates :) Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Dearing
saddened. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Mullen
of the appropriate line in /etc/fstab (i.e. the portion of the line that is just before the 0 0, and already contains some comma-separated options). HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body

Re: [expert] NIC not starting with Mandrake 9.2

2003-10-21 Thread Bill
I had this happen with a Winbook Laptop. Does the NIC come after a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start command is issued? If it does try adding it to the end of the rc.local file and it will start up everytime. Worked for me. On Star Date Wednesday 21 October 2015 08:21 pm, Robert Fisher sent this

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-20 Thread Bill
... but the dropped went up to 300. Still got me confused, because I've tried 3 cards that r doing the same thing. Brett. - Original Message - From: Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan Notice the TX

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-20 Thread Bill
Dont know why its doing this. Maybe someone with more knowledge than I can finger it out. On Star Date Monday 20 October 2003 02:50 pm, Brett W Tippet sent this sub-space message. Hi bill .. I got this .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]# chkconfig --list alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-20 Thread Bill
I also thought the same thing but I assumed he may have tried a reboot. Give her the ol 3 finger salute and see if that helps. Gee im sounding like a windows tech :) On Star Date Monday 20 October 2003 07:03 pm, Pierre Fortin sent this sub-space message. On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:50:43

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-20 Thread Bill Mullen
://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#virus -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' -- Dave

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread Bill Mullen
(one hopes g) or in the flow of the code itself. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-19 Thread Bill
:28032 (27.3 Kb) TX bytes:28032 (27.3 Kb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]# - Original Message - From: KevinO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread Bill
You may also have a net mask wrong on one of the units. A little more info would be helpful. From a term screen type the command ifconfig and paste the info you get as well as thje results from the route -n command to the email. Make sure your link lights are on for both the gateway, pc, and

Re: [expert] question on VPN's

2003-10-17 Thread Bill
Linksys has a very nice VPN box supporting a bunch of vpn connections at the same time. Your winblows users can use there vpn client software that comes with the OS. For Linux there are several client side apps like poptop pptp. As far as encryption winblows by default logs in using encryption

Re: [expert] symlinks to vfat partition

2003-10-16 Thread Bill Mullen
can be handy when linking to files or dirs on removable media. :) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-09 Thread Bill Mullen
. ;) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Re: All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-09 Thread Bill Mullen
. ISTR that he alluded to having a dodgy disc #2, from which he could not read properly. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread Bill Mullen
? I am assuming that I should not have to do what I did above and copy my personal .fetchmailrc to /etc/fetchmailrc. That's exactly how I did it the first few times, until I got comfortable enough with the fetchmailrc syntax to just write them from scratch. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-06 Thread Bill Mullen
. As this isn't a problem on 9.0 and earlier releases, something is borked in this regard on 9.1, I strongly suspect ... but what? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-04 Thread Bill Mullen
consider that answer a definitive one, please. I'd suggest trying to find someone who's actually done that at least once, and ask them about it. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half

Re: [expert] web mail server

2003-10-04 Thread Bill Mullen
is another option, but I've never wrestled with that. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be. Want

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-03 Thread Bill Mullen
and the time-tested *nix sysadmin practices which have worked for decades. Just my $0.02USD ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Norman Zhang wrote: I'm going to increase the RAM to 1GB today. Be sure to install the enterprise version of the kernel (from the CDs or from the update mirrors), as you need to use that to access =1GB of RAM. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Mullen
on a separate partition for exactly that reason. I also back up /etc and certain subdirs of /var before the install, to be able to quickly get the new system's settings and data as I want them. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD]

2003-10-01 Thread Bill Mullen
optimal results on his setup, FWIW, but what mattered was that *that* was the only control that had record set to on; a few other combinations would lead to the clicking that Anne described. YMMV, HTH. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Computers make it easier

Re: [expert] Morphix changed my Login?!

2003-10-01 Thread Bill Mullen
can assure you I will *not* be recommending this to *anyone* to try out Linux... Why not? :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it. -- Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] TightVNC ?

2003-09-26 Thread Bill Mullen
get the wallpaper and the clipboard and calendar icons and nothing else. It appears hung at that point. Update libqt3 to the version out on the updates mirrrors, it fixes a bug that affects KDE 3.1 running over VNC. Use this page to set up sources: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon -- Bill

Re: [expert] Machine Name resolution

2003-09-24 Thread Bill
Add it to your /etc/hosts file. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mach1.domainname.com Mach1 On Star Date Wednesday 24 September 2003 09:07 am, James D. Parra sent this sub-space message. Hello, We're having trouble getting machine name resolution from an DNS server. If we try to ping, for example, a

Re: [expert] have I been hacked??

2003-09-21 Thread Bill
Most of it is ARP traffic. Some machine asking for who has ip whatever. You will see this using Etherape. On Star Date Saturday 20 September 2003 07:50 pm, James Sparenberg sent this sub-space message. On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:22, mike wrote: Bill Mullen wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003

Re: [expert] What a bunch of baloney

2003-09-21 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Oh, and Vincent, I'd vote for a ban if this guy continues his bad language. Seconded. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Bill Mullen
topics. This is especially true in computer-related areas, when the talk turns to software code and the legions of coders that produce it. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour

Re[2]: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, rikona wrote: They looked OK, so I sent it. It was done with a quick and dirty script I wrote. Apparently the script was a bit too dirty. :-) This email implements the same result with a different script. Is this better? (They again look OK here.) -- Bill Mullen

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Mullen
the address is the same as appears in the Reply-To: - so it looks as if I'm replying to myself), but it could be argued that I'm just a curmudgeon as regards this sort of thing. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot

Re: [expert] have I been hacked??

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Mullen
box. I run firestarter as the firewall. Besides watching the traffic, installing and running chkrootkit is a good way to test for whether or not your system has been compromised. There is an MDK RPM for it for the recent (9.x) releases; it's in contribs, IIRC. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-19 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, rikona wrote: Hello Bill, Thursday, September 18, 2003, 10:49:06 PM, you wrote: BM rantmode=list-Nazi BM BTW, please unset your Reply-To: header Thanks for the reminder. I forgot to set it when I recently subscribed. I can't turn it off, but can set

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-19 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 07:57, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, rikona wrote: Hello Bill, Thursday, September 18, 2003, 10:49:06 PM, you wrote: BM rantmode=list-Nazi BM BTW, please unset your Reply-To: header

Re: [expert] How do I get ext3 journal available on initial mount of /?

2003-09-19 Thread Bill Mullen
, but the behavior you describe is hardly the sort of thing that I would describe as booting fine ... :-/ -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker

Re: [expert] Re: Memory Leak in XFree updates

2003-09-19 Thread Bill
it must have something to do with the card your using. I have a G400 running two screens at 1280x1040 running MDK 8.2 Im using a heck of allot more memory. here is my Xmemory usage. 9:07pm up 36 days, 3:16, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.01 76 processes: 75 sleeping, 1 running, 0

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker. - Mike McDermott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] separate partition for /etc

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
within /etc that takes up a lot of space, then you *may* be able to place it elsewhere and symlink to it; whether that will work will depend on which file/dir it is. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot

Re: [expert] dial-up modems

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
, if you can come up with a few more loonies, consider an inexpensive external *serial* modem, such as a Zoom (a brand I've had particularly good luck with) - you'll be glad that you did, IMHO. It's hard to go wrong with a hardware serial modem. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075

Re: [expert] eth0 doesn't get IP through dhcp - Problem vanished

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
is to not use DHCP at all, and configure yourself a static address. Doesn't answer the why, but fixes the what once and for all ... :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-18 Thread Bill Mullen
reason it won't override an explicit setting, if one already exists in a message. Thanks. :) /rantmode -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker

Re: [expert] Very sorry for the hijacked threads

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Mullen
on it and resolving to mend his ways. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. - Andy Rooney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Mullen
/urpmi.update --wget -a' alias ua='/usr/sbin/urpmi --wget --auto-select' Typing uuua gets all my sources synced, and picks out the updates. I purposely do not use the --auto switch with the latter, as I prefer to see exactly which packages are selected before I allow it to proceed. ;) -- Bill Mullen

Re: [expert] Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread Bill
I know that this has been brought up before and I never saw a answer as to why MDK is so hard to find on the shelf. MDK's marketing dept needs to do a much better job. If there is a shelf with the current RH distro on it there better damn well be a MDK box right next to it. I cant beleive I can

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-16 Thread Bill Mullen
or such nonsense to view the site, I just fire up Opera and copy the link over ... or skip it entirely. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need

Re: [expert] Re: (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-15 Thread Bill
Why is it when I go to my local Fry's I see rows of Red Hat boxes some BSD boxes and Slackware CD's but never see Mandrake boxes. I would gladly purchase Mandrake instead of downloading it if it was in the stores. Seems to me that Mandrake needs to get there product out on the shelves. I can

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:39:22 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Edit the three variables to suit. The DN variable should be a hostname that has an 'A' record in ZoneEdit's DNS. You'll need lynx installed too, of course. That should

Re: [expert] hdlist7cz

2003-09-13 Thread Bill Mullen
synthesis.hdlist7.cz hdlist7.czpubkey7 synthesis.hdlist8.cz Hmm, I did not know this, they seem to have sent me a different build. Looks to me like what I'd expect from CD#1 of the PowerPack version. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Mullen
ZoneEdit's DNS for the specified hostname to point to that IP address. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Thanks - Delete default gateway permanently using CLI, how?

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Mullen
... gShield probably uses the latter, or turns it on directly by writing to /proc. You can set yes here if you like. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Bill Mullen wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Erik Evjenth wrote: This all works fine, but I have not found a Linux replacement for Dynamic DNS Client 5.0 Piece o' cake. :) Run this script periodically (say, as a cron job): = #!/bin/sh # # Script to update

[expert] I see...

2003-09-11 Thread Bill
I see Microsnot screwed the pooch again and hasnt fixed there friggin os! I just got a notice from f-prot that Three new vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows were identified by Microsoft on 10 September 2003. I dont think we need to worry about getting people to change over to Linux if

[expert] Postfix help

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Witherspoon
my ISP, but they use SASL for authentication. I have the relayhost variable set in my main.cf, but I get immediately rejected because I'm not authenticating (I assume). Can anyone point me in the right direction? TIA, Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 4:07 am, Bill Mullen wrote: The format of the file is explained in the comments at the top of the file itself, and further info is in the console.perms man page. I would think that to prevent the switch of the v4l device's

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Mullen
the filesystem type in there. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

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