Re: [expert] Is there OpenOffice 1.1 RPM for mandrake 9.0?

2003-11-08 Thread Gary Hodder
> OpenOffice.org1.1.0 installs beautifully like this:- > > Untar it where you like > > then become root cd into /whereyouhaveit/install > > Then as root # ./install -prefix=/usr/lib > > Then go back to being user and $ cd /usr/lib/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 if that is > the directory that OO has cr

Re: [expert] Cooker update with newer packages

2003-11-06 Thread Gary Hodder
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 01:15, Franki wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:54 am, Gary Hodder wrote: > > > >>>No. > >>>It's just that Cooker is now fully open again, and the development for > >>>MDK 10.0 is getting

Re: [expert] Cooker update with newer packages

2003-11-05 Thread Gary Hodder
syncing a 9.2 install with Cooker is no longer > really an option, unless you want to break your system from time to time... > > > regards > > Thomas So does that mean wear about to see the public release of 9.2? Regards Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Sofware for writing signs

2003-10-28 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, does anyone know of any sign writing software that runs under Linux? Maybe even a winblows one that runs under wine. Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux

2003-10-22 Thread Gary Hodder
I know there is cloop kernel module but is there anything else out > there. > > Cheers > Mark Williamson > > yes, its called a bigger hard drive ;) Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NFS install?

2003-10-20 Thread Gary Hodder
ram will work ok but 32 is better. My first was a dx2-66 with 8mb of ram, it worked but was a bit slow. The server will need plenty of ram, I had 512mb in the server and was using it as a client as well and it worked fine. Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-20 Thread Gary Hodder
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 16:56, Brett W Tippet wrote: > Cheers Gary .. > > Tried this ... unfortunatelly ... doesn't seem to alter the issues .. > > Thanks for the idea anyway. > > Brett. > > Have you tried linuxconf, I have used it in the past to setup 9.0 wi

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-19 Thread Gary Hodder
ng or telnet > to either machine .. help please! > > Brett. > Have you checked iptables hasn't been set to a default policy of drop. To flush the rules iptables -F to set all policies to accept iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT This

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Gary Hodder
ant to be 100%. How can I check > if swap is on? How can I check how much of swap linux is using and how much > is left? > > Many thanks > > Ed > > Run top, it will tell you if swap is on and how much is being used. Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NFS Unmounting problem

2003-10-18 Thread Gary Hodder
h. > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Edit /etc/auto.master and comment out the /net and /misc lines. /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs restart The next shutdown I think will hang but after that it should be ok. There was a problem with automount in 9.0. This is by memory but someone else will have a better fix. Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-10-18 Thread Gary Hodder
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 14:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2003 11:21 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Friday 17 October 2003 10:44 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: > > > > What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver > > >

Re: [expert] Upgrade from LAN?

2003-10-17 Thread Gary Hodder
andrake/RPMS3 Add a user ftpdl passwd whatever At the bottom of proftpd.conf add DefaultRoot /files/mandrake91 ftpdl Restart proftpd. Now you can do a ftp install as user ftpdl and not worry about changing cd's. For multiple installs add more users to proftpd. Its a quiet saturday morning down under :) Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Is there OpenOffice 1.1 RPM for mandrake 9.0?

2003-10-16 Thread Gary Hodder
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:44, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On 16 Oct 2003 19:28:42 +1000 > Gary Hodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:03, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:35:52 +0800 (CST) > > > Vincent Chen <[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Is there OpenOffice 1.1 RPM for mandrake 9.0?

2003-10-16 Thread Gary Hodder
on mdk 9.1 at the time. > > Lee I have 1.1rc3 installed on mdk 9.0 and 9.1 with no problems at all using the oo installer. Now off to get rc4... Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread Gary Hodder
ruth. I work in the wireless biz, and I know a call is coming > a few seconds before the phone rings if I keep the phone on the desk > below the monitor shelf! > > Tim You will know more about it if it gets into the hd data cable. I have heard digital mobile phone can and have got into

Re: [expert] XWC - Undelete?

2003-10-13 Thread Gary Hodder
Midnight commander (mc) will undelete but only for ext2 file system. Gary. On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:39, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Anyone know how to undelete in XWC? I accidentally deleted some files > I'd dearly like to have back =( > > Cheer

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-01 Thread Gary Hodder
, very noisy on local network... Gary. > > 2.my printer is an Epson C82, nice on linux :)albeit a little slower. > > the printer on the laptop is set to //firewall/printer and that prints > without problems from both my laptop and from win4lin. > But, on the laptop if you click on

[expert] Partitions

2003-09-14 Thread Gary Montalbine
IIRC Anne did a TWiki on moving her /usr directory. I was unable to find it. Anne if you are reading this where did you put it? Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 /home in 9.2

2003-09-13 Thread Gary Montalbine
newer distribution I back up the complete home-dir. Making backups is a Good Thing(TM)! wobo Thanks wobo. Now I need to learn how to back up to my second HD. When do you sleep. It had to be after midnight in DE when you replied. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] 9.1 /home in 9.2

2003-09-13 Thread Gary Montalbine
from the other? I can access files in windows from 9.1. However they are both on the same HD. I was amazed at how easy 9.2 loaded onto the second HD. Once I got the bootloader figured out with wobo's help. Once I get /home figured out I should be ready to play with 9.2. Thanks, Gary Want to buy

Re: [expert] 9.2 install

2003-09-12 Thread Gary Montalbine
I am using a second HD so I put the bootloader for 9.2 in hdb1 and changed lilo in 9.1 as you suggested and it worked. Thanks wobo. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 install

2003-09-12 Thread Gary Montalbine
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Gary Montalbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:33:59 -0400: Installed 9.2 rc2 today. Everything went fine. It even found my unused second HD and installed the program there. Then a problem occurred. It seems I changed lilo in the MBR so now on

[expert] 9.2 install

2003-09-12 Thread Gary Montalbine
Mandrake said the bootloader should be on the HD instead of the MBR. Unfortunately, without a reinstall I don't know how to change it. I have windows installed and that was picked up by 9.2. Suggestions please. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
Charlie M. wrote I posted a link (yesterday? the day before? last week? too often? ;->) to Greg Meyer's page that will teach you how, plus I and others have posted examples recently. It ain't a hard thing to do Gary. :-) Here's another example, just "fill in the bl

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
Try this Gary; Open a terminal, navigate to the directory where the ISOs and .asc file are. At the command prompt type this: md5sum -c 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc You won't see much until it's done a disk but the processor will "grunt." A LOT. HTH Charlie - -- It worked. E

[expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
k it against. I think my problem is that I do not know what to do with the 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc file. How do you open it or use it? I remember that when I did the 9.1 ISO's a simple md5sum command checked all three CD's at once. What am I missing? I have read the md5sum help and info files.

Re: [expert] dev/sound

2003-08-17 Thread Gary Montalbine
pts/1S14:58 0:00 grep devfs I did the ps and grep commands. I got almost the same thing. Except where "kevin" is listed as the user in the bottom line my user is "root". Would this make a difference? I have devfs directory in /etc. Is this the same? Thanks, Gary Want

Re: [expert] dev/sound

2003-08-17 Thread Gary Montalbine
Thanks for everyones help. Devfsd works and I also have some reading references to increase my knowledge. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] dev/sound

2003-08-17 Thread Gary Montalbine
hen information then sound it does not recognize my sound card. (?) Thanks for your help, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] dev/sound

2003-08-17 Thread Gary Montalbine
ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:46, Gary Montalbine wrote: I am trying to get a program working that wants to access my Soundblaster Live card through /dev/sound. Specifically the audio file in that directory. However all the files in dev/sound are empty. Soundblaster and audio

[expert] dev/sound

2003-08-17 Thread Gary Montalbine
ML9.1. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI

2003-08-15 Thread Gary Montalbine
Well spoken Kevin. I agree. I asked for URPMI information after the 9.0 book was released. I don't see much difference in the two books except for the pages not falling out. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Mdk 9.2 beta1 install

2003-08-03 Thread Gary Hodder
the rest goes later. Regards Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-28 Thread Gary Montalbine
f the proper scripts to bind it to your computer will not get run and the end result will be.. a bit bucket. One set of instructions said to use urpmi kernel. I did and it worked. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ntp error

2003-07-09 Thread Gary Montalbine
stime via windows. Would like to find a Linux counterpart. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] downloader for x

2003-04-06 Thread Gary Hodder
I just updated to 2.03. Under options>general>download>save downloads to this folder. or Under Queue>properties>default folder to save downloads. or Edit config file under username/.ntrc/config savepath /path-to-dir Gary. On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 03:34:03 +0100, you wrote: >i

[expert] Xchat in mdk9.1

2003-04-05 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, anyone know how to make cut and past work in xchat on mdk9.1? It would work in 9.0 but but not 9.1. Any ideas? Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-02 Thread Gary Hodder
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 18:39:44 +1000, you wrote: >On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:03:21 +0100, you wrote: > >>On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: >>> Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. >> >>> Things to change in samba.conf over the

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-02 Thread Gary Hodder
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:03:21 +0100, you wrote: >On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: >> Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. > >> Things to change in samba.conf over the default. >>workgroup = homenet >>hosts allow = 192.168.100. #

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-01 Thread Gary Hodder
ost likely left something out. Gary. On 01 Apr 2003 21:31:05 +0100, you wrote: >Sorry Guys, this is getting a pain !!! >I have at last managed to get the windows machine to see the linux >machine, albeit its still very wrong. >If I use the find computers in the entire section of winb

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread Gary Hodder
blic and restart samba. Gary. > >Cheers > >Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Mozilla not responding to size changes

2003-03-31 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
to un-maximize it but still have to manually resize it because it remains full screen. Any Ideas on how to fix this. Thanks for your time in advance. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] gdm

2003-03-27 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
I changed the desktop manager for the default to gdm. Now when I log out and shut down the system I get a failed concerning the desktop manager. Is this normal for Mandrake or is it something I should be concerned with. Thanks Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Nvidia Kernel Driver

2003-03-27 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
I downloaded the src files form NVIDIA and rebuild them and they work great. Gary On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 01:52, alan wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Birkoff wrote: > > > You have to download the sources for the kernel and glx from nvidia and > > compile yourself. also under some

Re: [expert] upgrading

2003-03-25 Thread Gary Hodder
On 25 Mar 2003 15:34:55 -0800, you wrote: > >Wonder if it would if it were possible to rebuild the 9.1 urpmi >backwards to 8.1... but I don't think you can. However I did do a >sucessful CD based upgrade from 8.0 to 9.1 the other day.. The really >neat one was trying (just for fun) to go from RH

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 rc2 and radeon 7000

2003-03-24 Thread Gary Hodder
the good choices? Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 rc2 and radeon 7000

2003-03-24 Thread Gary Hodder
At the moment I need a warranty replacement card. The card died when I got home and turned the computer on. So could be a while before I get to try those drivers. RC1 is running ok on a old pci card, now to update it. Thanks Gary. On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 22:30, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: > get GA

[expert] Mdk 9.1 rc2 and radeon 7000

2003-03-23 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, has anyone got the radeon 7000 video card to work with rc2 which uses Xfree 4.3? It works fine on mdk 9.0 Xfree 4.2 in single head. I Have got the dri drivers to try out tonight. Any gotcha's that I should know about? Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

Re: [expert] Problems after uipgrading via cooker

2003-03-22 Thread Gary Hodder
are running 9.1... > >James >> Is there a way to auto get the required updated rpm's to save them locally. I want to update other machines and don't want each machine to download from the net. I could then copy those files to the rc2 directory and burn them as 9.1 final.

Re: [expert] Problems after uipgrading via cooker

2003-03-22 Thread Gary Hodder
On 22 Mar 2003 10:56:15 -0800, you wrote: >On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:09, Gary Hodder wrote: >> I am downloading 9.1 from cooker. >> I have about 1/3 the files from the rpms directory and thats 865mb. Why >> so many files in rpms, then theres rpms.cooker and rpms2. How big is

Re: [expert] Problems after uipgrading via cooker

2003-03-21 Thread Gary Hodder
I am downloading 9.1 from cooker. I have about 1/3 the files from the rpms directory and thats 865mb. Why so many files in rpms, then theres rpms.cooker and rpms2. How big is 9.1? Thanks Gary. On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 05:58, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:12, Stephen Kitche

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-14 Thread Gary Hodder
x. Thanks all, Gary. ps disregard any old mail of mine that might come through late as i've just moved my mail lists to my home domain in the last couple of days. There was no reverse lookup on my ip so mail was rejected. My isp has now happily pointed it at my domain, thanks Igreen. On 14 Ma

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-13 Thread Gary Hodder
that blue screen needs is Death written on it and it would remind me of winblows). Gnome dies at a similar stage as well. He's trying different video cards so we'll see how that goes. Looks like i've a lot more downloading to do. Thanks Gary. On 13 Mar 2003 15:07:15 -0800, you wro

[expert] MS crud

2003-03-13 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, any way to stop getting over run with this crud. The start of each line has been removed to protect the guilty. Thanks Gary. xxx.xxx.com [ip-of-host] - - [09/Mar/2003:15:10:58 +1100] "GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 300 1100] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.

Re: [expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives...

2003-03-13 Thread Gary Hodder
Is lilo installed on hdb? Boot from floppy with hdb removed. linux root=/dev/hdc? ? being partition number. run lilo and reboot to see if it boots from hard drive. Gary. On Monday 10 March 2003 09:34 pm, Mark Watts wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >

[expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-13 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, my son's just loaded mdk 9.1 on his machine and finds kde runs very slow, much slower than 9.0. The machine is a celeron 400 with 96mb ram. I wont find out more till I get home. Are there any ideas that he could try in the mean time? Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives...

2003-03-07 Thread Gary Hodder
from kernel on harddrive. Gary. On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 22:19, Mark Watts wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I have a system with 3 harddrives in it (hda = Windows, hdb = spare (part XFS, > part FAT32) and hdc = Linux (resierfs). > I

Re: [expert]STOP the presses!! WAS: And the fun continues (it's d ead again)

2003-01-15 Thread Gary
the isp, some isp's block port 25 incoming to the user on home accounts to stop people running mail servers. Can you borrow a old box from work and load a text only Mdk on it and leave the box wide open, then moved your mail setting to it to see if that works. If that works then move your f

[expert] Radeon 7000 duel head

2002-12-23 Thread Gary
Hi all, anyone got a Radeon 7000 duel head video card to work with Mdk 9? I only get the same display out both monitors. Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] ppp-on script speed in messages

2002-12-12 Thread Gary
Hi all, anyone know what to add to the ppp-on script to show the connection speed of the dialup connection in the messages log? Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Dlink DLW-520+ driver

2002-12-10 Thread Gary
Hi all, anyone know of a Linux driver for the Dlink DLW-520+ 22mbs wireless card? If not is there any other solution apart from winblows? Thanks Gary. Gary Hodder Amateur Radio, VK2KCF A Victorian lost in Griffith NSW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Gary
there a Mdk regex rpm I can try? Thanks Gary. Gary Hodder Amateur Radio, VK2KCF A Victorian lost in Griffith NSW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Modem speeds (slow kbps on dial in server)

2002-11-18 Thread Gary
modem hooked to a anologue (pots) line on you server you cannot get any higher speed than 33.6k. Read up on digital to anologue and analogue to digital conversions to find out why. Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] html front end to pine?

2002-11-17 Thread Gary
ome up with something, >but I was wondering if someone had already designed something similar to >what I'm talking about? > > >Thanks, Mike You could setup webmail on your server, then they can access there mail using Internet Exploder or whatever browser they use. It works very we

Re: [expert] Avifile player

2002-11-13 Thread Gary
d and tvout would be nice if cheep enough. I'm not interested in playing gamed on it. Tanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Avifile player

2002-11-12 Thread Gary
On 12 Nov 2002 09:36:09 +, you wrote: >On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:22, Gary wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I just changed the video card to a nVidia NV11 (gforce 2 mx) 32mb and trying >> to install avifile. >> Could anyone who has installed avifile with this c

Re: [expert] Avifile player

2002-11-12 Thread Gary
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:56:24 -0500, you wrote: >On 12 Nov 2002 09:36:09 + >Alex Bennee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:22, Gary wrote: > >> > >> > [root@sandy avifile-cooker]# rpm -i >> > avifile-pla

[expert] Avifile player

2002-11-11 Thread Gary
586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by fontconfig-2.0-4mdk Now am I or it confused?? Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-10 Thread Gary
.d/init.d/wlan stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start then it would magically start working. Hope that helps Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-27 Thread Gary Hodder
x27;t work either. Gary. On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 13:28, James Sparenberg wrote: > Someone had mentioned once that the highest setting in msec actually has > a login timeout. Backing off the highest level or changeing the setting > in /etc/msec should help. > > James > > (My c

Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-25 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi Dianne, logging out happens for root and other users. Leaving it at a login prompt and not logging in, it recycles the login prompt with another. So if you login and do nothing it logs out after a 15 minutes. This behavior did not happen in 8.2, its only in 9. Gary. On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 00

Re: [expert] autofs not unmounting

2002-10-25 Thread Gary Hodder
iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom > > floppy -fstype=auto,user,rw:/dev/fd0 Started autofs and all the mount points under /mnt had disappeared making it impossible to go to say the cdrom using mc. Also is there a fix for the cdrom and floppy icons on the desktop to work? Currentl

Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-24 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi Dianne, I have checked checked bash --verbose and TMOUT=0 The timeout only happens on the dumb terminal plugged in via a serial port and not on the console. Have tried adding a long timeout on the agetty command line in inattab with no luck. What else can I try? Thanks Gary. On Thu, 2002

[expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-24 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, I use a dumb terminal to login and run a menu script as root. After a short period of no activity the session is automatically logged out. How can I stop this or increase the time before auto logout? Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Probelms on shutting

2002-10-05 Thread Gary Hodder
fsck it to death. Thats as far as I got as I am not at home to look more. Hope that helps. Gary. On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 05:52, Thomas Satzinger wrote: > The following error msg keeps my system from shutting down properly > > Okt 4 11:18:56 localhost umount: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RP

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
etc/alternatives was were I changed the symlinks. That seemed to correct the symlink problem. Everything went fine until I got to the g++ -c error near the end of the build. I can not find a libgcc3.2. I have libgcc3.0.4 installed which matches the g++, gcc and cpp files. HoytDuff wrote: >>

[expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
this problem. Is there a patch or other fix for this problem? I cannot find anything in the archives or elsewhere. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Making the power button a hybernate button

2002-07-14 Thread Gary Dunn
/dev/usbmouse shows data arriving, so fault must be with X. o 802.11B PC-CARD NIC works. I would like a hibernate option, too (write out session to HD and full powerdown) but suspend is more importent for mobil use. --+---+---+-- Gary Dunn Open Slate Project http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/

Re: [expert] galeon problem

2002-07-01 Thread Gary Dunn
sure to use urpmi to install them and you should be ok. > > When it finishes, there will be a shiny brand new rpm in > /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 Is this specific to 8.2 or will it work with 8.1? Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] WACOM USB tablet with 8.1?

2002-06-27 Thread Gary Dunn
add a second PS/2 mouse fed by /dev/usbmouse. My only complaint now is that after unplugging the mouse it does not return when I plug it back in, even tho /var/log/messages shows it was found and recognized. XFree86 doesn't appear to have a way to cope with hot plugging a USB mouse. Gary Dunn

[expert] Name of hard spam blocker

2002-06-26 Thread Gary Dunn
ses. What programs can be used for this? Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wlan HowTo

2002-05-23 Thread Gary Dunn
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 02:01, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 24 May 2002 12:33 am, you wrote: > > No such thing. I've been trying to get a U.S. Robotics wireless card to > > work on a Sony VAIO PCG-SR7. I finally gave up trying LM8.2 and switched > > to Debian; I'm a lot closer, but still unsuccessf

Re: [expert] not a valid block device

2002-05-23 Thread Gary Dunn
brain days. Problem was I had reversed the order of the command line args, like "mount /mnt/floppy /dev/fd0" Calls for another trip to Starbucks. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Honolulu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wlan HowTo

2002-05-23 Thread Gary Dunn
e up, and it took my WEP key. Only, I still could not ping anything except myself. Another good resource is Linux on Laptops, http://www.linux-laptop.net/ More when I know more. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Honolulu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Bash the Path

2002-05-22 Thread Gary Dunn
, is to "source" the file instead of just running it. Do a man bash and / (that's search) source Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] smbfs Permissions Debacle

2002-05-12 Thread Gary Dunn
At 04:08 PM 5/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: >On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 15:16, Gary Dunn wrote: > > > On my LM 8.1 box "man fstab" points me to "man mount" for those options, > > and there, around line 850, I find: > > > > Mount options for ntfs > &

Re: [expert] smbfs Permissions Debacle

2002-05-10 Thread Gary Dunn
ot and not read­ able by somebody else. That last sentence sounds relevant to this situation. I find no mention of fmask or dmask. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Apache "SERVER_NAME" quick Q

2002-05-09 Thread Gary Dunn
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 10:18, David Rankin wrote: > Well, I should have been more clear, and maybe the problem isn't as simple > as I thought. On my 7.2 box, #ServerName your.server.name is still commented > out, but apache is able to use gethostbyname() and correctly fill in the > welcome scre

Re: [expert] Apache "SERVER_NAME" quick Q

2002-05-09 Thread Gary Dunn
ections work in a sensible way. # # 127.0.0.1 is the TCP/IP local loop-back address, often named localhost. Your # machine always knows itself by this address. If you use Apache strictly for # local testing and development, you may use 127.0.0.1 as the server name. # ServerName your.server.name G

Re: [expert] What's wrong with SSH in 8.2?

2002-05-06 Thread Gary Dunn
l 2 (which is more secure), and maybe LM 8.2 uses that newer version. When I ran into this after upgrading ssh on my client my PKI logon failed and I was prompted for my username and password. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to h

Re: [expert] 8.2 and Sony Vaio FX200

2002-05-02 Thread Gary Dunn
laborate on this? I know that acpi is newer and better than apm, and that's about all I know. I am surprised that LM8.2 does not provide acpi support right off the cd. Can you write up exactly what you did? Thanks. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] syslog or syslog-ng

2002-04-27 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
Try man syslog -- Thank you. - Gary A. Garibaldi Linux-Mandrake 8.2; KDE 3.0 Registered Linux User: 188550; Machine 111760 I'd rather just believe that it

Re: [expert] NFS HELP - SECURITY CONFIGURATION

2002-04-24 Thread Gary Dunn
on highest security. There is something blocking my >nfs shares > thru the private network. I configured hosts.allow as follows: > With security=high it is difficult, if not impossible, to run nfsd. Try a lower setting. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services f

Re: [expert] Armagetron crashes SDL. Any suggestion?

2002-04-24 Thread Gary Dunn
for > suggestions on what else might be causing the crash? > > -Leinad I'd start with a different app that relies on SDL, and be sure you have the latest version. Go to http://www.libsdl.org/ Just a wild guess: try fewer colors -- 16 bit instead of 24 or 32. Gary Dunn Open Sla

[expert] Is APM in 8.2's kernel?

2002-04-23 Thread Gary Dunn
Is APM (advanced power management) compiled into the Linux-Mandrake 8.2 kernel? How can I tell if it is? Is there a general form for determining such-and-such is compiled in? Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Installing 8.2 on Sony VAIO SR7K - CD drv not found

2002-04-21 Thread Gary Dunn
for Linux-Mandrake 8.2. Is there a way to install from inside Windows? This CD-ROM plugs into the PC-CARD slot and can be used to boot and install Windows. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Laptop suggestions

2002-04-19 Thread Gary Spiers
I am running Mandrake 8.1 on a couple of notebooks. The older machine is a 3.2 lb HP Omnibook 800 - 166MHz Pentium, 80MB memory (maximum possible) and 4 GB disk space. This machine now does very light duty as a server on my home network but was my main portable until I got the IBM last year. T

Re: [expert] KDE 3 problems

2002-04-14 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
4/6/02. If you can't locate the HowTo just let me know and I'll email you acopy. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] ATI and XF86Config-4

2002-03-26 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
getting a SEG 11, no mater how I modify the settings. Thanks in advance. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] I have no CD mount entry on my desktop

2002-03-12 Thread Gary Bond
Did the trick. Thanks Brian --- Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just right click on the desktop and select "Create > new..." then "CDROM > device". > > Brian > > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 10:19, Gary Bond wrote: > > How can I get t

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