Re: [expert] afriad to lose LILO

2001-06-09 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, OOzy Pal wrote: I have dual boot LM8 and Win2000. I want to remove Win2000 and install Win98 but if I do this win98 will not recognize LM* and will overwrite the boot sector. What can I do to avoid this install win98, it will overwrite the MBR. then boot from the linux

Re: [expert] inetd ?

2001-06-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote: Hello, I just installed 8.0 and can't telnet into the host. I am running both the telnet server and client. It gives me a connection refused. I looked for /etc/inetd.conf and there is none. What should I do? not installed by default.

Re: [expert] gcc-2.96 problem...

2001-06-07 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: Hi, I got error when trying to compile the kernel using gcc 2.96; just wonder if I can install gcc-2.95.2-12mdk.i586.rpm and use it instead. 2.91.66 is recommended for kernel building.

Re: [expert] APC UPS shutdown script? How does it work?

2001-06-07 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Walter Luffman wrote: I went to the APC website (www.apcc.com) and searched through the download area. APC offers both a simple shutdown daemon and various versions of its PowerChute software for Linux. -- none specifically for Mandrake, but perhaps one of the Red Hat

Re: [expert] APC UPS shutdown script? How does it work?

2001-06-07 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: damn mail software. didn't mean to send an empty message, sorry. anyway, i've used a smartups with mandrake 7.2 for over a year with no problems.

Re: [expert] APC UPS shutdown script? How does it work?

2001-06-07 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, David Rankin wrote: Sorry if this is a little off topic: I had my LM7.2 server go down for the 4th time due to a power outage. I had to manually fsck /dev/hda7 to bring the system back up. I am convinced that this is not a good way to treat the server and I am going

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Doug Gough wrote: I'm not able to get my LM8.0 box to work as a router between to LANs. When it boots, I get a message saying IP forwarding is on. My routing table is very simple, using static routing as follows 131.103.1.0 131.103.1.10255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Nathan Callahan wrote: You have it set so that 131.103.1.10 and 10.10.90.99 are gateways. This probably isn't what you want, as it means that these hosts are assumed to be responsible for all traffic bound for their respective networks. If you remove the gw x.x.x.x

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
you make some good points. on the other hand, my feeling is that if he is going to configure this linux box as a router, it should participate as a router. e.g. the routers on the respective network segments should treat it as such - either with static routes to the subnets or by running some

Re: [expert] routing problem

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Pierre Fortin wrote: Assuming the routers are there to access Net[AB], you can turn on proxy ARP as Nathan suggested in his reply to simplify other host configuration requirements and reduce unnecessary router hops and resultant ICMP redirects. Proxy ARP -- a short

Re: [expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-06-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Civileme wrote: ... so, how do i get the db recreated? it never seems to want to read the info from the two cds :( Put CD1 in and in a superuser terminal rpm -e --nodeps rpmdrake-1.3-49mdk.rpm cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS rpm -ivh rpmdrake-1.3-49mdk.rpm i did

Re: [expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Civileme wrote: Try this 1. Remove ALL sources from Software manager 2. rpm --rebuilddb 3. Give software manager some sources again. no luck. just to clarify, after step #1, am i supposed to quit the software manager?

Re: [expert] compiling new kernel in lm 8.0

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 03:37 AM 5/31/2001 -0700, Bill Beauchemin wrote: Im running 2.4.3 and need to try an earlier kernel like 2.2.19 because the newer kernel reboots in smp mode. The problem im having is that when I do a make bzImage I get this at the end of compiling and it dumps out. cheecksum.S:231: badly

Re: [expert] URGENT!Memory crashes LM 8.0

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Using LM 8.0 on my AMD k6-2 400 CPU with KDE 2.1.1. Just had my friend Bill, the computer expert, install my new PNY memory modules. The two new modules (128 meg each) together with the 128 module already on my system (there are

Re: [expert] URGENT!Memory crashes LM 8.0

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Ric Tibbetts wrote: When you boot it, from the LILO prompt, try: linux mem=384 Also, try going back to Windows, and check to see if it is recognizing ALL of that memory. none of this explains why he is freezing though.

Re: [expert] URGENT!Memory crashes LM 8.0

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote: Dan Swartzendruber wrote: none of this explains why he is freezing though. Yup, when the memory is not properly recognized , the system hangs at random times... I've seen this, mainly on SiS mboards.. hmmm, news to me

Re: [expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Civileme wrote: no luck. just to clarify, after step #1, am i supposed to quit the software manager? Yes Ok try this rm -r /var/lib/list.CD* -f rm -r /var/lib/depslist.ordered urpmi.update -a rpm --rebuilddb If that fixes the problem, it relates to a

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: David, Thanks for the heads up, but can you be a little more specific? I've got an archive here on my system that goes back to February and I'm not finding anything about it. there is an incompatibility between the reiserfs in 2.2 and 2.4, IIRC.

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Thanks Dan...that would explain a great many things that have been giving me trouble with getting this kernel to work on my system. Is there a fix for this? i think you can convert the old style to new style, but it's a one way trip. this (among other

Re: [expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-05-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 06:15 PM 5/30/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2001 08:00, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: I have noticed that my rpmdrake tends to lose CDROM 2 from the list. Dan Swartzendruber wrote: this is really odd. rpmdrake has suddenly developed amnesia about my install cdroms

[expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-05-29 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
this is really odd. rpmdrake has suddenly developed amnesia about my install cdroms. i look at the list of packages available, and select one. i click on 'install/remove'. it tells me to insert the first cdrom (or the second, depending on the package). i do. i clock the ok bar. it ejects

Re: [expert] SYS MAIL

2001-05-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Andrew George wrote: can also put in in /etc/postfix/aliases. Or /etc/aliases (they are symlinked) for postfix don't forget to run postailias /etc/postfix/aliases to that the changes make it into the hash tables postfix uses or, for the sendmail expatriates:

[expert] software manager upgrading?

2001-05-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I finally gave up on cooker (for now). Did a clean install of 8.0 and it seems to work pretty well. I was going through uninstalling packages I don't use (using Software Manager), and I noticed something kind of odd. I had done an upgrade of a dozen or so packages that were newer than what

[expert] update on fullscreen problems

2001-05-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
here's what i've tried so far (unsuccessfully): 1. cooker/xfs/4.0.3 blank screen with some garbage at top. 2. cooker/xfs/3.3.6 same. 3. red hat 7.1/xfs (i know) Server freezes or crashes. 4. mandrake 8.0/4.0.3 Server freezes or crashes. I'm downloading the

[expert] full-screen problems with vmware - followup

2001-05-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
well, i'm stumped. tried a non-kde WM (icewm). no difference (e.g. the same blank console window with colored crap along the top). i'd love to know why this worked in 7.2 - if it's just an older (but more stable?) X server, i'd cheerfully downgrade :(

Re: [expert] Where is : wish ?

2001-05-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Sun, 27 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed the kernel Mandrake 8.0 cd /usr/src/linux make xconfig give me this error : make : wish: Command not found I did not find where is thi package get tcl and tk packages.

Re: [expert] SYS MAIL

2001-05-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Chris Spackman wrote: On my machine, it is postfix. Make sure it is running. The only change i had to make was to get roots mail delivered to my normal account. That was an option in one of the postfix config file (in /etc/postfix/ iirc). It says something like: # who

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Civileme wrote: /root/dedebug.log Civileme And here I go replying to my own post... We have used the install CD you did and then run an update-type install of 8.0 which would not of course affect any of the cooker packages on that first install but would flesh

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 03:41 PM 5/22/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote: Well either grab rpmdrake/software manager from cooker (we know this works) or try (strictly experimental) ldconfig -v | less to locate which library lincurl is in then cd (library path for libcurl) ln -s libcurl.so.2 libcurl.so.1 turns out

[expert] rpmdrake update

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Okay, so I went and downloaded libcurl2-7.7.3-1mdk and installed it. rpmdrake came up fine. I told it to update the list and it started printing out messages in my terminal window (since i launched it manually). Next thing I know, rpmdrake is gone, and i see this: * Connected to

Re: [expert] rpmdrake update

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
hmmm, rpmdrake wanted libcurl.so.2, which i installed, but it seems grpmi wanted libcurl.so.1. a quick 'ln -s' and rpmdrake is chugging along...

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives?

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 11:15, Brian Hartman wrote: Hi, all. I'm considering upgrading my Mandrake, but I heard of the 8.0 beta that they were having trouble with Western Digital drives. I assume that they fixed the problem, but I just wanted to

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for 8.0 So how do I run rpmdrake? I tried and got this: [root@sphinx dswartz]# rpmdrake rpmdrake: error while loading shared

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: so i try running MandrakeUpdate? on the theory that there might be updates since the ISO was burned. and? [root@sphinx dswartz]# MandrakeUpdate MandrakeUpdate: error while loading shared

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 08:37 AM 5/21/2001 -0700, Larry Sword wrote: Civileme wrote: Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for 8.0 I have no idea how you tried to use mandrakeUpdate with 8.0--it isn't there. Civileme Yes, very interesting. :-) I have a fresh install on L-M 8.0 and find

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 05:34 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 06:01, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for 8.0 So how do I

Re: [expert] RE: Word97 in Linux using Wine -- official word fromCodeweavers

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Ric Tibbetts wrote: The few instances where I've seen Office run at all on Linux under wine were: Dual boot machine (Win98/Linux). Office was installed on Win98. Machine was booted in Linux, with the Win98 partition mounted. Wine was running Office from the Win98

[expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 - some impressions

2001-05-20 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I've been running 7.2 for quite awhile (2.2.17 kernel). I've been wanting to try 8.0 for awhile and although I had been using reiserfs, I decided to give xfs a try (the folks at SGI having ported it to the 2.4 kernel). I still don't have everything working right, but here are some issues that

[expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-20 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
so i try running MandrakeUpdate? on the theory that there might be updates since the ISO was burned. and? [root@sphinx dswartz]# MandrakeUpdate MandrakeUpdate: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.1: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory really, folks? does

Re: [expert] SWAT on LM8.0

2001-05-18 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Dave Peat wrote: Hello, I have SAMBA running (I ran smbclient aginst my machine) but I can't seem to get SWAT to run. I can't connect from the browser on that machine or any other. The services file looks correct. I think the problem is in xinetd. Can someone tell

Re: [expert] Stability Concerns

2001-05-17 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 02:08 PM 5/17/2001 -0400, J. Solomon Kostelnik wrote: Eric, I thought your message was a duplicate of mine (I just sent a couple days ago)! That's how similar my problem is. I'm also getting the freeze during bootup, in INIT, so I don't think it's solely KDE. Likewise, I have used RedHat in

Re: [expert] 2 different reiserfs ?

2001-05-12 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2001, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: Civileme: The reason you have difficulty now is that the version of reiserfs supplied with 8.0 does NOT work with 2.2 kernel, only the older version does. This is not the sort of thing

Re: [expert] Does any backup software work with Mandrake?

2001-05-10 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Steve Bareman wrote: I have been trying various backup software for the last 6 weeks and haven't found anything the works on my servers yet. My servers are P4-1.3Ghz Linux Mandrake 8.0 Ultrium LTO tape P4-1.3Ghz Linux Mandrake 8.0 We've tried: Novanet

Re: [expert] Does any backup software work with Mandrake?

2001-05-10 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Steve Bareman wrote: I have been trying various backup software for the last 6 weeks and haven't found anything the works on my servers yet. My servers are P4-1.3Ghz Linux Mandrake 8.0 Ultrium LTO tape P4-1.3Ghz Linux Mandrake 8.0 We've tried: Novanet

Re: [expert] reiserfs 1 more time

2001-05-08 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 05:28 PM 5/8/2001 +0200, Sirkka wrote: Hi I send this q again... I use Mdk 8.0 and use reiserfs on all my partisions (not swap) When i compile the kernel i cant get it to boot, it says something like cant mount root fs Ok...i know that i do something wrong but i dont know what. I compile

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.2.19 fails to compile

2001-05-05 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:19 PM 5/5/2001 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi I upgarded my Mandrake 7.2 system to the 2.2.19 kernel but had to return to 2.2.17 as some modules needed by my system were not present. I have just tried to compile a custom kernel and xconfig, menuconfig etc all die with two missing parts.

Re: [expert] OT: Web based BIND Manager

2001-04-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Devin Rader wrote: Can anyone recommend a web based BIND manager? webmin has a nice bind8 module.

Re: [expert] Firewall / Router Advice

2001-04-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Martyn Wendon wrote: So far I've fitted 2 network cards in the Linux box, eth0 is 172.18.9.100 and is connected to the router and eth1 is 172.18.9.101 and is connected to the hub of the internal network. I've enabled routing in linuxconf, and the default gateway is set

Re: [expert] Swap root on same partition

2001-04-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, faisal gillani wrote: Can we mount both swap partition / partition on the same HDD partition ? I mean to say like i do this on FreeBSD that only specify 1 partition it automatically create swap partition in it ? no. bsd has another layer conceptually. they have

Re: [expert] Upgrading MDK7.2 to MDK8.0 with qmail installed

2001-04-26 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 05:38 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, Todd Lyons wrote: Dan Swartzendruber wrote: At 04:37 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, John Wolford wrote: As I find qmail more secure and faster (and other things...) then sendmail or postfix, wouldn't Mandrakesoft include it in their distributions? for my

Re: [expert] Upgrading MDK7.2 to MDK8.0 with qmail installed

2001-04-26 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 04:37 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, John Wolford wrote: As I find qmail more secure and faster (and other things...) then sendmail or postfix, wouldn't Mandrakesoft include it in their distributions? for my edification: why is qmail more secure than postfix?

Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list)

2001-04-25 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Vincent, any update on the kernel source build issue I raised over the weekend?

Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list)

2001-04-25 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 11:49 AM 4/25/2001 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Apr 25, 2001 at 01:21:52PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Vincent, any update on the kernel source build issue I raised over the weekend? Not yet. I'm waiting for someone to get back to me on this issue, but I have a few other

Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list)

2001-04-24 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Todd... What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats what I'm running now. in fact, that's all I've ever run with Linux. I've got two of them in my Mandrake 7.2 box here at home. 13GB and 3.5GB. this things runs for months at a time without any hiccups. I've got

Re: [expert] problem upgrading to 2.2.19?

2001-04-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 11:17 PM 4/21/2001 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sat Apr 21, 2001 at 09:14:04PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I've been running 7.2 for a couple of months now (2.2.17). Yesterday, while doing the MandrakeUpdate, it told me 2.2.19 was available and recommended, due to a number

[expert] problem upgrading to 2.2.19?

2001-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I've been running 7.2 for a couple of months now (2.2.17). Yesterday, while doing the MandrakeUpdate, it told me 2.2.19 was available and recommended, due to a number of security issues. I did the update of the kernel, sources, etc. Now, several hours later, I've finally managed to restore my

Re: [expert] /proc/kcore - getting big

2001-04-15 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Andrew Judge wrote: I was looking at my file system and noticed that the /proc/kcore file was getting pretty big and taking up alot of space. What can I do to get the size down and won't blowup my machine? Can I delete it then touch the file? I was also a little

Re: [expert] /proc/kcore - getting big

2001-04-15 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Eric Krout wrote: It should be removeable, considering it's just a core dump of sorts. This is incorrect.

Re: [expert] help: ext2 superblock disk problems

2001-04-09 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Daniel Woods wrote: Your partitions may have changed. Try mounting different partitions, looking for boot. # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt EXT2-fs: 03:0a: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad

Re[2]: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 08:42 AM 4/4/2001 -0700, you wrote: Dan Swartzendruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, David E.Fox wrote: On Monday 02 April 2001 17:06, you wrote: You could circumvent the issue and just chmod 666 your audio device files (/dev/audio, /dev/sequencer, /dev/dsp etc

Re: [expert] weirdness with linuxconf

2001-04-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, John Wolford wrote: Hi Dan, Are you comfortable doing a little work from the command line interface? Fire up a konsole, switch user to root (if you're not root already), and then you can configure it a few different ways. So go like this: well, i've been using unix

[expert] weirdness with linuxconf

2001-04-03 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
For some reason, samba wasn't starting at bootload, so I check in the linuxconf services. It's listed as "manual" and not running. So I click on the Automatic button for it, do Accept and leave. Later, for some reason, I went back and was looking at some services, and happened to see the

RE: [expert] weirdness with linuxconf

2001-04-03 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:46 AM 4/3/2001 -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Linuxconf handles this differently than ntsysv. If you use Linuxconf you must ENABLE Linuxconf itself running at boot. Linuxconf reads from the /etc/conf.linuxconf file to then determine what it's supposed to do, which includes turning on those

Re: [expert] weirdness with linuxconf

2001-04-03 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:25 AM 4/3/2001 -0400, you wrote: Have you tried setting this to start at boot using Start Services in Drakeconf yet? no, i hadn't. i was trying to use the existing (at 6.1) mechanism - linuxconf. is there some reason to prefer one over the other?

Re: [expert] ping, ping, doesn't ping

2001-04-03 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:24 AM 4/3/2001 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am tryint o reconnect my home LAN but I can't getmy machines to ping each other. Everything is fine. IP configuration is right, HUB is working, cables are new and connected. Don;t know what the problem may be? what does 'route -n' show?

Re: [expert] ping, ping, doesn't ping

2001-04-03 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 11:57 AM 4/3/2001 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that and each machine can ping itseld and gets responses, but can't ping the other machine. In other words, win95 can ping itself but not linux and linux can ping itself but not win95. and the routing tables?

Re: [expert] ping, ping, doesn't ping

2001-04-03 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 12:15 PM 4/3/2001 -0700, you wrote: how do I get those? is the route command? route -n

RE: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 08:50 AM 4/2/01 -0400, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: For my SB Live, and Mdk 8.0b2 I had to change the perms on mpg123, and for kde sounds enter play in the use external player field in kde's control center. Xmms is using OSS driver entry. change the perms to what?

RE: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
supposed to be SUID or something. Brian -Original Message- From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user? At 08:50 AM 4/2/01 -0400, Klar

Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:41 AM 4/2/2001 -0700, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: The proper solution to this problem is to add your USERNAME to the AUDIO group. Don't change perms. ah, i'll give it a try, thanks. dunno why it doesn't work some installs and not others. oh well...

Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:41 AM 4/2/01 -0700, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: The proper solution to this problem is to add your USERNAME to the AUDIO group. Don't change perms. didn't help :(

Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, David E.Fox wrote: On Monday 02 April 2001 17:06, you wrote: At 09:41 AM 4/2/01 -0700, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: The proper solution to this problem is to add your USERNAME to the AUDIO group. Don't change perms. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the permissions

[expert] daylight savings time?

2001-04-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Maybe I'm missing something? I've done a couple of installs of 7.2 and it doesn't seem to automatically handle daylight savings time. I don't recall seeing anything (even in expert mode install) pertaining to this. It was really annoying, since everytime I rebooted, any initial file

RE: [expert] daylight savings time?

2001-04-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: You need to 1) Make sure your CMOS clock is set to GMT 2) Make sure you have set up your time zone correctly... 7.2 updated it's clock just fine this morning... it had no problems with daylight savings... You also might want to sync it

Re: [expert] daylight savings time?

2001-04-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: ** Reply to message from Dan Swartzendruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:23:42 -0400 Maybe I'm missing something? I've done a couple of installs of 7.2 and it doesn't seem to automatically handle daylight savings time. I don't

Re: [expert] daylight savings time?

2001-04-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: ** Reply to message from Dan Swartzendruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:23:42 -0400 Maybe I'm missing something? I've done a couple of installs of 7.2 and it doesn't seem to automatically handle daylight savings time. I don't

[expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
this is driving me nuts. for reasons not relevant here, i have done a reinstall of 7.2 4 times in the last 24 hours. some of the time, as a non-root user, i can play mp3's. the rest of the time (using the mpg123 program), i get a "permission denied" error. not aware of having done anything

Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Chris Spackman wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:56:54PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: this is driving me nuts. for reasons not relevant here, i have done a reinstall of 7.2 4 times in the last 24 hours. some of the time, as a non-root user, i can play mp3's

Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 08:22 AM 4/2/01 +0900, Chris Spackman wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:56:54PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: this is driving me nuts. for reasons not relevant here, i have done a reinstall of 7.2 4 times in the last 24 hours. some of the time, as a non-root user, i can play mp3's

Re: [expert] DSL -- internetconnect

2000-03-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 12:43 PM 3/31/00 +1000, duncan wrote: Hi all, I have just finished a 7.0 server install in San Francisco via phone from Sydney (not a fun experience). The server is used as a fileserver, firewall and internet connection via normal phone line for a small 10 person office. The good news is I

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:11 AM 03/27/2000 -0800, Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

2000-03-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I just want to reemphasize that I wasn't intending to flame anyone. But my point remains. When linux was a totally ad-hoc thing, there was an excuse for this kind of thing. Now, with companies like mandrake building and shipping distros, I sometimes wonder if there is even a pretense at

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

2000-03-22 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:35 AM 3/22/00 +, ron peake wrote: Dan In my opinion you have made your arguments well and almost everyone can agree with you on at least some, if not all, of your points. Having worked in RD for almost 30 years I can understand the technician's quest for perfection. But the sad truth

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

2000-03-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I have to say I see Sean's POV (although he may have stated the case a little strongly). I do Sw maintenance for a living, and in my business, if something worked in Rev X, and doesn't work in Rev X+1, that is a bug. Specifically, a regression, since someone broke code/functionality that

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

2000-03-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:12 AM 03/21/2000 -0800, Tom Berkley wrote: Sean I cannot relate at all to what you are talking about. After 1 year playing with linux and using five different distros, I use Mandrake 7.0 (GL edition) on both my laptop and my dual celeron smp box with only one problem that I had to work

Re: [expert] duplicate cron jobs?

2000-03-20 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:07 AM 03/20/2000 -0600, Bug Hunter wrote: send an exact copy of your cron job. I once had an extra * in the cron job time list, and it tried to run every script in my home directory. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.17278 installed on Sun Mar

[expert] duplicate cron jobs?

2000-03-19 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Has anyone noticed duplicate cron jobs being run? It doesn't happen all the time, so it may not have been noticed by me until I installed mrtg (which runs a root cron job every 5 minutes). At first, I thought it was a bug with mrtg, since the error email complained that the mrtg lockfile

Re: [expert] VMware for Linux -- sound device path?

2000-03-19 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 05:20 PM 3/19/00 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: Dear friends: A simple question, please: What is the path for the sound device in VMware for Linux. I found out from a kind list member that the path for the modem is: /dev/ttyS1 and he was absolutely

Re: [expert] Still got my CD burner woes, help please

2000-03-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 12:50 PM 03/14/2000 -0600, Bug Hunter wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Hehe, I got me a ton of them coasters, usually from someone called Aol something or another (must be foreign). Gonna start making wind chimes out of them. Try this. Take one Aol

Re: [expert] Need help Closing Open Ports

2000-03-12 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 01:06 PM 3/12/00 -0800, Richard Yevchak wrote: On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote: I have a similar problem. Have you found a solution? Also how hard is it to set up Port Sentry on Mandrake? Do you incure any problems or was it pretty straight forward? set up ipchains. look at

Re: [expert] Blocking Banner ads

2000-03-04 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I couldn't get squid_redirect to work for me. Half the pages I went to, nothing displayed. After a bit, nothing at all would work, and I saw messages in the logfile about "too many queued redirector processes". Did I miss something that needed changing?

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 02:10 PM 03/02/2000 -0500, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: clearly it seems that my problem must be the free old as sin adaptec I have. any recomendations out there for a solid scsi UW card? rather cheap? not likeing the 250$ tag on the 2490UW i'm using the tekram UW (don't remember the model.

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 01:32 PM 03/01/2000 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: Ron, Just install as follows. (you can vary it after the swap and / partitions.) sda1 - swap, 110M. sda2 - / (root) 400M sda3 - /usr 3000M sda4 - extended partion for remainder of hd sda5 - /home

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 01:31 PM 03/01/2000 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hello All!! I have don tons and tons and tons of linux installs (from Slackware to RH and now LM) on local IDE drives (hda/hdb etc..) I am currently seeking info on how to get LM installed on a 9gb SCSI

Re: [expert] problems with masquerading and NT services

2000-02-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 03:23 PM 02/28/2000 +, James Lewis wrote: The Outlook clients, and the Interdev Clients work for a few minutes, then report constant time outs, or 'Network Unavailable' type errors - (however other utils such as Internet explorer carry on working fine). Outlook starts working again

Re: [expert] ftp

2000-02-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 04:41 PM 01/28/2000 -0600, lee binkley wrote: Dan Swartzendruber wrote: At 07:24 PM 01/28/2000 +, lee binkley wrote: I am having problems uploading a file to my ftp site. And we should do what? How do you know if your ftp is setup are not. ? I can log in , The system tell me

Re: [expert] Apartment network wishlist

2000-02-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 06:38 PM 2/27/00 +0100, Adam Skogman wrote: I WANT: 1) The linux server to be the gate to the external net, posing as web/ftp/file/ssh-server. 2) The windows machine to be able to use ICQ etc. with it's own IP. How do I do this? I probably need another NIC, but that's ok. But

Re: [expert] problems with masquerading and NT services

2000-02-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:43 PM 2/27/00 +, James Lewis wrote: I have 3 NT workstations on an internal LAN, going through ipmasq (on 2.2.13) which is providing NAT. General services such as web browsing, FTP etc, are working fine but we are experiencing very annoying problems with Microsoft Outlook 2000

Re: [expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-24 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 11:03 PM 2/24/00 -0500, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: At 07:07 PM 2/24/00 , you wrote: Hi gang, Am finally in the position to upgrade my system. I am going to buy an AMD K-7 550 Athlon, two 64MB DIMMS, and I also want to buy a new motherboard. That is what I am unsure of. Do any of you good people

Re: [expert] smb.conf

2000-02-18 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:28 AM 02/18/2000 -0600, Audrey Beck wrote: duncan wrote: I want the windows boxes to automatically map their home directory H: and group driectory G: when they log in each morning. I would like to do this on a user basis rather than per machine . I have written a basic %U.bat

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