[expert] e2fsck -b 8193 won't help!

2003-10-18 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I was silly enough to use Partition Magic 8.0 to resize my entire linux hard disk (windows is in another hard disk). The resizing-moving went fine as far as Partition Magic 8.0 is concerned. On Xp I can see the contents of all linux partitions using explore2fs. However when I try to boot

[expert] KDE is taking forever to load - add client, destroying client????

2003-04-01 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I had 8.2 running on my Sony laptop but I decided to upgrade to 9.1 (what a hell, 8.2 works fine and why not 9.1? So I thought). X server is taking forever to load. After 10 minutes I gave in and used shutdown the x server. Lots of adding clients and destroying clients showed up

[expert] Some weird problem with pppoe

2003-02-28 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I am having some weird problem with pppoe. Everytime I call adsl-start, the connections starts but the file /etc/ppp/resolv.conf gets weird nameservers. I am pretty I enter the right dns servers on /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf (In fact I check the numbers and they are correct). Does someone

[expert] How to create a guest accoung with some restrictions

2003-02-17 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I wonder how I can create a guest account on my computer with a password (guest, hmmm:-) in which the guest user can only see and copy (with scp) the files under the home directory (and nothing else). Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] How start sshd at boot time?

2003-01-15 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I am really confused with the new xinetd standards. I just want to add sshd at boot time but I have no idea on how to do it. Any help? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How start sshd at boot time?

2003-01-15 Thread Eduardo Mendes
SSH is not usually started by xinetd. Try: chkconfig --list |grep sshd It doesn't show anything Look at which runlevels sshd is turn on. If they are all off, try: chkconfig --level 2345 sshd on error reading information on service sshd: No such file or directory I am using

Re: [expert] How start sshd at boot time?

2003-01-15 Thread Eduardo Mendes
I am using ssh-3.2.0. What am I doing wrong? Ummm, using a non-Mandrake package. We use openssh, not RSA's ssh. Does it mean that I am in trouible for not using Mandrake package? Is there a workaround (not that one of removing ssh and installing openssh)? Many thanks Ed Want to

[expert] pdfnup (as in psnup) - can i find one?

2002-12-16 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello Although I have written a pdfnup (pdf2ps, ps2pdf and psnup) script for my own use, I am not happy with the results. The original file has 7 MB and two-page-per-sheet outcome 30 MB. (These are pdf files - when they are converted to PS, things go worse). My HP 4100 chokes with the latter.

[expert] Some pointers to a secure postfix installation

2002-12-05 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I am planning to install postifx in a way that I can create some email accounts for me and my group. As a big newbie, I have no idea on how to do that without leaving a huge security problem for all members of my network! Ok, let me fire the questions: a) Can I set up postfix so that

[expert] Libs on home dirs - how to use them?

2002-11-27 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I don' t have access to root and therefore no rights to write anything on libs, include etc. In order to run a program I had to compile a specific lib on my home dir ($HOME/lib and $/HOME/include). Is there a way to set a variable (or change path etc) so as to make the program see

Re: [expert] Libs on home dirs - how to use them?

2002-11-27 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello Many thanks. It worked just fine. regards Ed On Wednesday 27 November 2002 03:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Eduardo Mendes wrote: Hello I don' t have access to root and therefore no rights to write anything on libs, include etc. In order to run

[expert] Suggestion for a very light browser

2002-11-22 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I just wonder someone on the list could suggest a very light browser (that could work via ssh in a snail connection) that could be installed in my home directory and work on both linux and solaris. I am running lynx right now but some of options on the web pages don't work. Many

[expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I am trying to scp some files from one host to another but no success. shh deamon is running as can be seen below: ps -ef | grep sshd root 10890 1 0 09:13 ?00:00:00 sshd root 14620 14542 0 15:35 pts/400:00:00 grep sshd However when I try scp 9611947.PDF

Re: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Eduardo Mendes
. Or better yet, run strace -o output.file ssh rest_of_command That should trace the whole call, and u will be able to see where the problem occurs. Can u ping this machine? telnet to it? Other basic network stuff/firewall? _Thanks Richard Mollel --- Eduardo Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Help with ssh (not openssh) - connection closed

2002-11-20 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Your trying to use a ssh version that is too old. ssh v 1.2.33 (commercial) only supports protocol version 1.x, not 2.0 that is used with 3.2.0 ssh. upgrade your ssh client on the client side. if regular ssh works, then your remote machine has fallback turned on (it will fire up sshd v1.x

[expert] What is the parameter to control how long a X session stays up?

2002-10-04 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 with a secure kernel. My X session always terminates after some time. Is there a parameter to control how long a X session stays up? I definitely don't be shutdown from time to time as it is hapenning right now. I don't even have the time to save

[expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-04 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I am having a problem with 9.0: Mandrkae terminates with my logon session without any warning or messages. It does that automatically. How can I get rid of this annoying behaviour? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Winmodem problem with Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-12 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I checked winmodem site for linux and it seems that my modem, a HSP 56, can work under linux. I have donwloaded the files and compiled but a lot of errors come out and the module is not loaded. I think that this is because the modules is for the 2.2.X series and not for 2.4.X per chance,

[expert] packet writing and Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-11 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello Have anyone manged to get Axboe's packet writing working with Mandrake 8.0? Many thanks Eduardo Don't E-Mail, ZipMail! http://www.zipmail.com/

[expert] HSP 56 micromodem and Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-11 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I checked winmodem for linux and it seems that my modem, a HSP 56, can work under linux. I have donwloaded the files and compiled but a lot of errors come out and the module is not loaded. I think that this is because the modules is for the 2.2.X series and not for 2.4.X per chance, have