Re: [expert] Start X-Server

2000-12-02 Thread Gavin Clark
startx on 12/2/00 2:06 AM, Mike Nguyen wrote: Hi On the command promt, what command would I type in order to start X Window? Thank Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] looking for suggestions on PRO email server

2000-12-01 Thread Gavin Clark
, Gavin Clark wrote: Hi, I am going to need to serve 40 - 50 thousand email accounts. I need the user to be able to change his own password with some sort of web based interface, hotmail-like functionality would be a nice bonus but not crucial. Low maintenance is the key. Money

[expert] looking for suggestions on PRO email server

2000-11-30 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, I am going to need to serve 40 - 50 thousand email accounts. I need the user to be able to change his own password with some sort of web based interface, hotmail-like functionality would be a nice bonus but not crucial. Low maintenance is the key. Money is not really a problem so I'm

Re: [expert] more crashes than the Indy 500.

2000-11-19 Thread Gavin Clark
it could be LOTS of things. it could be some sort of hardware problem like bad ram, a screwy hard drive, CPU overheating, or a bad USB chip. to get useful help you'll want to come up with as much detail as you can: is there any pattern to the crashing? what software are you running? what are

Re: [expert] aic7xxx module problems.. How can I turn it off?

2000-10-20 Thread Gavin Clark
there is a way to drop into the adaptec card's BIOS on startup. poke around and see if any settings look funny (use your best judgement). there is a tool in there which shows you what it can see on the scsi bus. check for termination / device # problems. Sorry I can't be more specific. Gavin

Re: [expert] Help Wanted!: building a Internet-Box

2000-10-18 Thread Gavin Clark
there is a kiosk how-to. I'd start there. Gavin on 10/17/00 1:22 PM, José Antonio Jiménez Berni wrote: Hi!, my exact purpose is to use a computer to access internet in a public place. As you can imagine, security problems arise when planning to do something like this, beside I'm a Linux

Re: [expert] Linux on PPC

2000-10-12 Thread Gavin Clark
on 10/12/00 11:24 AM, Stephen Bosch wrote: Gavin Clark wrote: on 10/11/00 1:56 PM, Stephen Bosch wrote: GrAnT GaLbRaiTh wrote: I'm wondering if its possible to burn a CD from an ISO image using a mac burner (it's all I have at work). Then, when you're done, you can go

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-11 Thread Gavin Clark
I'm running 2 K7 systems, both are great. My new one has an asus A7V motherboard with a duron (the processor slot config allows for upgrading later). I was very impressed by the A7V, it has lots of goodies like 'wake on LAN', lots of hardware feedback, and BIOS settings to control all the fans.

Re: [expert] can I burn an ISO image on a mac

2000-10-11 Thread Gavin Clark
on 10/11/00 1:47 AM, GrAnT GaLbRaiTh wrote: I'm wondering if its possible to burn a CD from an ISO image using a mac burner (it's all I have at work). Which image should I download if this is possible thanks Grant that's how I did mine. Toast is the standard application that comes

Re: [expert] Stupid MySQL question

2000-10-09 Thread Gavin Clark
tables.sql, I'll bet, is a set of SQL instructions that will set up a database and all its tables. You tell the mysql client program to read the file and run everything in it. first, in the MySQL manual read the part about adding users and setting an admin password. set up a user that the web

Re: [expert] Security levels? - aside: quote trouble

2000-10-06 Thread Gavin Clark
A ha, that's a character I've never used! Now when I find a use for ^ I'll be using the whole keyboard. ;^) well there you go! The UNIX equivilant of benching your own weight. (I should get a t-shirt) Gavin on 10/5/00 5:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong quotes - use single backquotes

Re: [expert] Security levels? - aside: quote trouble

2000-10-05 Thread Gavin Clark
cool trick: ls -l `which telnet` but it didn't work for me. I seem to run into this a lot. is there some speacial kind of single quote character I don't know about? Gavin on 10/5/00 4:49 AM, Buchan Milne wrote: Telnet and ftp may be accessible to users in the "ntools" group (check with

Re: [expert] gcc compilation executable file won't run

2000-10-03 Thread Gavin Clark
linux looks in pre-specified places for executables to run. these places are listed in the PATH variable. you can run executables that are not listed in PATH by giving the full pathway: # /home/bob/bin/hello or if you are in /home/bob/bin/ then try # ./hello or you can add /home/bob/bin/ to

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-23 Thread Gavin Clark
on 9/22/00 4:34 PM, Sarang Lakare wrote: Say what you want but when it comes to spending 6 to 8 hours in just getting a network card to work, I will always go with the OS that allows me to not only see the dang netword card but to set up TCP/IP, DNS, NetBUI, WINS, and DHCP, and do all of

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Gavin Clark
on 9/21/00 11:06 PM, Michael wrote: I also have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX v4.1 that I'm going to try. Has anyone gotten that one to work? it works fine, BUT... you have to get and compile the latest tulip driver. My earlier posts on this subject may save you some time. Gavin

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Gavin Clark
see my posts in the archive. subject: linksys etherfast 10/100 card - solved see if my solution works for you. Gavin on 9/22/00 12:36 AM, Michael wrote: Well I bought a stack of these cards as we are setting up a lot of new machines and they were $20 each and I've had good luck with

Re: [expert] Remote Administration Confusion

2000-09-16 Thread Gavin Clark
VNC is just fine over a local network but I find to be so slow over the internet as to be unusable, even over DSL. Timbuktu eats its lunch over slow connections but you can't get that for linux. I've had to bite the bullet and learn how to use SSH, vi and FTP. You can control EVERYTHING from a

Re: [expert] Problem compiling 3c90x.o module under Linux Madrake7.0

2000-09-12 Thread Gavin Clark
I think you can force it to load anyway. see the modprobe and insmod man pages. or you can always compile your own kernel. Gavin on 9/12/00 8:10 AM, MAHE Vincent FTRD/DIH/REN wrote: Hello, I've downloaded the source code of drivers for the 3c90x fast ethernet card. I want to install the

Re: [expert] ATX Support

2000-09-04 Thread Gavin Clark
on 9/4/00 6:07 PM, Mark Weaver wrote: Greg Stewart wrote: Now why would you shudtdown in the first place? grin --Greg I have a atx system so i want my linux to shutdows automatically i know my 98 does how to in linux ? yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more

[expert] linksys etherfast 10/100 card - solved

2000-09-03 Thread Gavin Clark
search the archives and find questions but no answers. on 9/1/00 7:40 PM, Gavin Clark wrote: Hi, just got a linksys etherfast 10/100 to be my second ethernet card it says to use the tulip.o module to drive it but it doesn't work. the module won't load. I get 'device or resource busy

Re: [expert] How to see IP address?

2000-09-03 Thread Gavin Clark
just off the top of my head; a user can get his IP by getting the hostname then pinging it. $hostname bob.my-ip.com $ ping bob.my-ip.com PING bob.my-ip.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) = there's your ip it's clunky but, hey G btw, I want to know the IP as a user.. so cant' run ifconfig.. This, I

Re: [expert] linksys etherfast 10/100 card - solved

2000-09-03 Thread Gavin Clark
on 9/3/00 7:33 PM, Sridhar G wrote: Gavin, BTW, are both the cards linksys cards. I am planning to install another linksys card. Cheers Sridhar - Original Message - From: "Gavin Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did manage to get it working. Here's the story: T

[expert] iso burn

2000-09-03 Thread Gavin Clark
Cool. Is there a way to do a test run - do everything but turn the laser on? I have a USB Que drive and it loves to choke on anything above 2X - mac and windows anyway. I'd like to know if it can get through a 4x burn on Linux without making a new coaster (I have a full set) Gavin on 9/3/00

[expert] help with linksys etherfast 10/100 card

2000-09-01 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, just got a linksys etherfast 10/100 to be my second ethernet card it says to use the tulip.o module to drive it but it doesn't work. the module won't load. I get 'device or resource busy': # modprobe -a tulip /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

Re: Unresolved symbols (was: RE: [expert] Mylex DAC960 rootdevice)

2000-08-31 Thread Gavin Clark
I just gave 3c59x as an example, I get the same unresolved symbols on all my modules. OK. I'd try man depmod man modprobe and see if that gives you any ideas. on 8/30/00 6:50 AM, John-Paul Smith wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gavin Clark Sent: 30

Re: Unresolved symbols (was: RE: [expert] Mylex DAC960 rootdevice)

2000-08-30 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/30/00 5:57 AM, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: John-Paul Smith wrote: Now here's a problem which I've always wanted to know the answer to. Whenever I try to compile a kernel with modules, it never works properly. Basically, none of the modules will load due to unresolved symbols, e.g.: #

Re: [expert] Filenames with Umlauts (ä,ö,ü)on FAT Partitions

2000-08-27 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/27/00 3:21 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello, World! I've got some files on my FAT partitions which I created with Windows 98 containing Umlauts (ä,ö,ü,ß) in their filenames. For example, I've got a file called "Test für mich.txt". When I list that dir in Windows, the filename is

Re: [expert] fustrated!!! permissions in httpd

2000-08-25 Thread Gavin Clark
OK, I get it. Your problem is with user permissions. I'll bet the web server is set up just fine. What you need is a user who is privileged to access the web documents folder. something like this: create a new user joe create a new group webusers add user joe to group webusers set user joe's

Re: [expert] apache problems.................

2000-08-20 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/19/00 10:23 AM, faisal wrote: my apache server is taking to long to start i mean really all my computer gets ups withing 30 sec but i takes about 3 minute to stratup apache...what can be wrong ? it could be a DNS thing. Gavin

Re: [expert] Unexplained crashes

2000-08-17 Thread Gavin Clark
how's your fan? the motherboard could be over heating. on 8/16/00 8:49 PM, Ellick Chan wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Stout, Wayne wrote: I have had a couple older machines, 200mhz that I didn't touch in a while, and the Mandrake gui installer would fail at apparently random points, and

Re: [expert] RPM database won't rebuild!

2000-08-17 Thread Gavin Clark
I've seen weird stuff like that when the .rpm file I downloaded is corrupt. Gavin on 8/16/00 5:40 PM, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends I would appreciate your help with my rpm database problem: I was been unable to get my RealPlayer to play Radio Free Europe from its usual URL

Re: [expert] server question

2000-08-17 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/17/00 7:33 AM, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Thus spake Tony McGee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Firewalling works by selectively blocking off access to certain Internet Protocol ports. It's recommended to have a single dedicated machine as a firewall and a second

[expert] mandrax.org - list troubles

2000-08-17 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/17/00 6:43 AM, Phil Edwards wrote: Why do I keep getting messages from "mandrax.org"? Has the mailing list changed in some way that I'm not aware of I get them too as well as bounce messages for everything I send to the list, though they are posted. and now I seem to be getting 2

Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! a little morecoddling?

2000-08-16 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/15/00 8:50 PM, Tony McGee wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Gavin Clark pushed some tiny letters in this order: I'm not saying get rid of it at all, just make something else the default. it would be an easy thing to have vi come up as a choice for experts during the install

Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I setthedefault editor soI can TRASH IT?

2000-08-15 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/14/00 7:43 PM, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Gavin Clark wrote: If it bugs you, don't use it - there are plenty of other character-driven text editors available. this is backwards, if you know how to use vi or are willing to learn then it will be a simple task for you to use

Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor soI can TRASH IT?

2000-08-14 Thread Gavin Clark
Bill Hudspeth wrote: I agree with you 200%! I have wasted all kinds of time trying to work with "UNIX" tools that are outdated and clumsy, except for the geeks who thought they were cute. They aren't. Vi will always be around, and Linux/Unix admins will always have to know how to use it.

Re: [expert] rpm refuses to upgrade - solved

2000-08-10 Thread Gavin Clark
I rebuilt the database and still got the same error message. I did find the same rpm on the 7.1 CD and it installed fine. Could I be getting corrupt downloads from cooker? on 8/8/00 4:03 PM, Greg Stewart wrote: do you have an existing version of the rpm installed already? try: rpm

Re: [expert] OT: Does any one speak German?

2000-08-08 Thread Gavin Clark
go to http://babel.altavista.com/translate.dyn they have a translator that works well enough type in some text or give it a url its cool Gavin on 8/7/00 2:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to help a friend in Switzerland construct a web page. He desperately needs help with his

Re: [expert] backup over ftp

2000-08-08 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/7/00 2:50 AM, Allen Bolderoff wrote: rsync over ssh allows just this. don't you have to have rsynch on the server? that's not an option for me. hi, I need to backup over ftp. Basically I need something that is the opposite of mirroring software. It has to be client driven.

Re: [expert] Fwd: Not Registerd

2000-08-08 Thread Gavin Clark
is NFS running on the remote box? have you run exportfs? see what's available with : #showmount --exports rge on 8/7/00 4:59 PM, Don wrote: I am trying to mount the /home directory an other computer on the in house network. 192.168.1.201 Don On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote:

[expert] rpm refuses to upgrade

2000-08-08 Thread Gavin Clark
rpm won't let me install an rpm I got from cooker: # rpm -ivh mirrordir-0.10.44-3mdk.i586.rpm only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM error: mirrordir-0.10.44-3mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed I then downloaded a newer version of rpm but I got the same error

Re: [expert] No authorized users logged in

2000-08-08 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/7/00 10:10 PM, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Does the lack of response mean that I won at "stump the band" here? hi, try adding a user (shutdownguy) to /etc/shutdown.allow and always have that user logged in. Gavin here's what man shutdown says: ACCESS CONTROL shutdown can

Re: [expert] No authorized users logged in

2000-08-08 Thread Gavin Clark
OK, I'm just winging this here. Shutdown says it looks in /var/run/utmp to see if the 'authorized user' listed in /etc/shutdown.allow is logged in. Now /var/run/utmp sounds suspiciously like something that disappears every time you restart. So... Maybe you could just have the start up script

Re: [expert] Fwd: Not Registerd NFS

2000-08-08 Thread Gavin Clark
there is probably an NFS mailing list. I would go through the archives. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux on 8/8/00 4:46 PM, Don wrote: Yes NFS is running on the remote box, and exportfs shows the directories that I want to mount. I think the problem in on the box I am trying to

[expert] backup over ftp

2000-08-07 Thread Gavin Clark
hi, I need to backup over ftp. Basically I need something that is the opposite of mirroring software. It has to be client driven. What's out there? Thanks, Gavin

Re: [expert] backup over ftp

2000-08-07 Thread Gavin Clark
-3mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed how do I get around this BS? Thanks Gavin on 8/7/00 12:35 AM, Gavin Clark wrote: hi, I need to backup over ftp. Basically I need something that is the opposite of mirroring software. It has to be client driven. What's out there? Thanks, Gavin

Re: [expert] Ooooops! I think I killed it!

2000-08-06 Thread Gavin Clark
hi, I dont' know if it's in the how to's but I have a program for the mac called macEXT2 (or somethig like that) that lets me mount linux partitions from linuxPPC (also on the mac) I'm assuming there must be something like that for windows. OK I looked up 'ext2 windows mount' and found this:

Re: [expert] Ooooops! I think I killed it!

2000-08-06 Thread Gavin Clark
dir. That is one HUGELY nice utility. You saved my butt...thanks! :) -Original Message- From: Gavin Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 7:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Ops! I think I killed it! hi, I dont

[expert] comand line ftp client - what RPM?

2000-08-05 Thread Gavin Clark
hi, I could use a command line FTP client but I don't have one installed, can't find one anyway. what package is it in? Thanks Gavin

Re: [expert] comand line ftp client - what RPM?

2000-08-05 Thread Gavin Clark
what does it have that makes it beter then plain old ftp? thanks Gavin on 8/5/00 5:14 AM, Klaus Deissner wrote: Hi, I prefer ncftp which is also the name of the rpm. Klaus Gavin Clark wrote: hi, I could use a command line FTP client but I don't have one installed, can't find one

Re: [expert] crash! help with post-mortum - update

2000-08-05 Thread Gavin Clark
to normal now. I was running the version of MySQL that shipped with mandrake 7.0. I have upgrade to the newest version so hopefully it wont happen again. anybody else seen something like this? thanks Gavin on 8/3/00 9:46 PM, Gavin Clark wrote: hi, I had a server crash today. it's back up now

Re: [expert] comand line ftp client - what RPM?

2000-08-05 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/5/00 7:13 AM, Ken Thompson wrote: On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote: hi, I could use a command line FTP client but I don't have one installed, can't find one anyway. what package is it in? Thanks Gavin Open a terminal shell and type ftp, it should start the ftp client. no good. I

Re: [expert] Ooooops! I think I killed it!

2000-08-05 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/6/00 12:34 AM, Mark Weaver wrote: I'm afraid I've got something extremely stupid to confess. I was monkeying around this evening resizing some partitions. I made the Windows partition smaller, which freed up about 3.5GB, which I turned around and turned into a part of Linux's file

Re: [expert] cron for users

2000-08-03 Thread Gavin Clark
Aug 2000, Gavin Clark wrote: hi, I can't get cron to work for users. what's the trick? thanks, Gavin

[expert] crash! help with post-mortum

2000-08-03 Thread Gavin Clark
hi, I had a server crash today. it's back up now but I was wonddering if someone could shed some light on what happened. I'm not sure what cause the crash. You could ping it but none of the network services were responding: http, ftp , ssh (this was the killer for me because I control it

Re: [expert] Uppercase to lowercase

2000-08-03 Thread Gavin Clark
on 8/2/00 1:31 PM, Dave A. Peat II wrote: Hello, I am moving a website from NT/IIS to UNIX. NT is not case sensative, UNIX is. Can someone tell me of an easy way, possibly a script or utility of some kind, to do two things: 1. Change all file names (some are uppercase and some are

Re: [expert] CDDB servers?

2000-08-02 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/28/00 8:10 AM, Charles Curley wrote: Has anyone got a list of CDDB servers? The ones I have in my CD player set up appear to be defunct. Thanks try cddb.org

[expert] cron for users

2000-08-02 Thread Gavin Clark
hi, I can't get cron to work for users. I added /etc/cron.d/cron.deny with no entries I ran #crontab myfile.txt as the user #crontab -l shows it worked 15 * * * */usr/bin/lynx -dump http://server.com/myscript.php /dev/null but when the time comes nothing happens. I just want lynx to

[expert] checking the hardware from the command line

2000-07-29 Thread Gavin Clark
my motherboard temp is available in the bios config. how do I get it via the command line? Gavin

Re: [expert] network administrator

2000-07-27 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/26/00 5:52 PM, Don wrote: Well I suggest that you get a copy of Linux with some documentation and try it out. It also helps to know a good deal about the hardware you plan to run Linux on. Good Luck, Don On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hello there I am a Windows NT

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-25 Thread Gavin Clark
I remember my first internet experience was playing Star Trek on a DEC terminal through a telephone coupler as a modem link. ha, the first thing I did on a computer was play wumpus on the PDP 10 at colgate when I was seven. startrek was a little too ceribral for me at the time. I remember

Re: [expert] Ctrl+Alt-F3

2000-07-25 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/25/00 3:55 AM, Mark Weaver wrote: What does CTL+ALT+F3 do? Don't hit that, it randomly gets linux gurus fired. ;-0 Gavin

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/23/00 10:56 PM, Sarang Lakare wrote: Hi guys, I installed LM7.1 on a laptop and it was ran fine for a day.. when i was shutting down today, it gave KERNEL PANIC on supermount.. and then did fsck on the next boot (the laptop has a DVD player and had a data CD inside when this

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/23/00 11:00 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:43:26PM -0500, Vic wrote: Just wondering, how does everyone who is trying out the reiser fs like it? Any pros cons? does anyone see it replacing EXT2 as the default anytime soon?

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Gavin Clark
check out BRU on 7/23/00 11:55 PM, Leopold Palomo wrote: Hi list, I have a trouble in the job, and I need to design a way to restore a complete system. I want to say that I have a computer working, and I would like to make complete backup and a way to restore it by a person without any

Re: [expert] Pentium 200Mhz/MMX and Mandrake - Resource Efficient?

2000-07-23 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/23/00 12:47 PM, Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ralph Day: Why do you say the i810 video support is shaky at this point? It works great and is packaged with LM 7.1. I'll admit you do have to do a little hand configuration. That's why :/ The i810's are marketted to

[expert] OT whoops - ignore last message - and this one

2000-07-23 Thread Gavin Clark
damn, well it turns out that send and delete have different buttons. Gavin

Re: [expert] apache startup

2000-07-16 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/15/00 7:47 PM, faisal wrote: I want my apache server to start during startup i have to start it up manaully what to do ? it is in standalone mode I am also getting this message unable to determine local host name .\ have you set your machine's hostname parameter? things

Re: [expert] Netscape locks Linux

2000-07-16 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/15/00 11:41 PM, Civileme wrote: A site which will cause this crash reliably every few minutes, and thus a good test bed, is www.wolfhome.com In fact it often kills the children and leaves just the library process running That's horible! Someone should tell them that thier website

Re: [expert] php

2000-07-15 Thread Gavin Clark
Beware, as .phtml is for PHP/FI (php2), and is not supported anymore. All new scripts should have ".php" as their extension. You can set the suffix to be anything you like: .phtml, .php, .cfm, .frog, .bigmama or all five. Gavin

Re: [expert] MySql, webmin and learning

2000-07-15 Thread Gavin Clark
hi, don't know anything about webmin but here's a thing or two about mysql. on 7/12/00 2:27 PM, Leopold Palomo wrote: Hi all, I have installed Mysql, and more or less, I think that it's working. you can test to see if it's running like this: #mysqladmin version I pass all test, and

Re: [expert] The List is not Accepting My Emails - Why?

2000-07-15 Thread Gavin Clark
on 7/12/00 8:32 PM, Sevatio Octavio wrote: HI, Eversince I switched over to StarOffice5.2 for my emails, I am no longer able to send mail to the list. Although, I can receive mail from the list and I know that my outbound mail works with other addresses. So, why would the list reject my

Re: [expert] Mailing List

2000-07-01 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/28/00 4:46 AM, Dan Westlake wrote: Has something happened to the list? I haven't seen 1 message in a couple of days. no problem on my end. I get about 30-60 messages a day However, I do notice that my posts take several hours or even a full day to show up on the list. Gavin

Re: [expert] Quick how do I mirror a drive?

2000-06-25 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/24/00 10:17 PM, James wrote: We've got a Poweredge 2400 and the RAID was setup with 4GB boot and the other 104GB were divided in half and mirrored. We've outgrown the 50 user NT license, so we put mandrake on it. The only problem is that linux is just treating it as two large

[expert] apache user list?

2000-06-24 Thread Gavin Clark
Anyone know of an apache user mailing list? I can't seem to find one. Gavin

[expert] apache: mod-rewrite kills my cgi-bin in virtual host

2000-06-21 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, I'm having a problem with my cgi-bin. I have ht/dig installed and I can't get one of my virtual hosts to find the cgi-bin. the host has some mod_rewrite rulles, when I comment out the rules /cgi-bin/htsearch gets redirected into the cgi-bin at /home/httpd/cgi-bin and it finds the cgi like

Re: [expert] Compiling kernel-2.2.16-4mdk

2000-06-19 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/18/00 11:14 PM, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello, With help from the list I have installed the new kernel. Now I would like to recompile it. ... Can anyone tell me how to recompile the kernel, please? the user guide will walk you through it step by step. G

Re: [expert] Make certificates

2000-06-19 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/18/00 8:26 PM, Necrotica wrote: I've been going through a demonstration on how to set up an ecommerce web site with Apache, PHP4, MySQL, and OpenSSL. The documenation assumes that you are compiling all of the above from source. The instructions advise that when you are compiling

Re: [expert] SCSI Errors with 2940U2W gone with Mandrake 7.1

2000-06-19 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/18/00 7:43 PM, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: For weeks I have been plagued with errors when trying to install Linux on my new machine with it's Adaptec 2940U2W and Seagate LVD drives. Previously I would receive errors such as: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 and SCSI

Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve

2000-06-19 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/19/00 1:27 AM, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm using VNC for Linbox to Linbox. I'm able to log in and get vncviewer to see the remote mouse cursor move but all I get is a gray background with no other functions. I've looked at "xstart" and it's set to run "twm". Is there something I'm

Re: [expert] One NIC or two?

2000-06-18 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/17/00 11:26 PM, Civileme wrote: I've got a question here. What if any are the advantages of using two NIC's On the firewall we run here (FreeBSD) we are only using a single NIC for both directions. To the network and to the Net. (and we run video conferencing video so traffic is

Re: [expert] One NIC or two?

2000-06-18 Thread Gavin Clark
So let's see if I've got this straight? I can do IP masq with one ethernet card in the linux box (as router/firewall)? cables: DSL modem into Hub A Linux Box into Hub A Mac Workstations into Hub A ip addresses: macs are set to 192.168.1.X DSL IP comes in as y.y.y.y linux box

Re: [expert] Can't telnet localhost

2000-06-17 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, I'd check /var/log/messages for clues. Are you trying to log in as root by any chance? It won't let you do that. Gavin on 6/17/00 3:36 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote: Hi, I'm running Mdk 6.0 at home and 7.0 at work. I can telnet into the 7.0. But I can't telnet into the 6.0.

Re: [expert] Can't telnet localhost -- found the problem!

2000-06-17 Thread Gavin Clark
hey, glad to help. Gavin on 6/17/00 10:13 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote: Gavin, your suggestion pointed me in the right direction. I did a find /var/log -mmin -2 and that turned up /var/log/secure, which was trying to tell me that the file /usr/sbin/in.telnetd simply doesn't exist! I must

Re: [expert] Unable To Handle Kernel Paging Request

2000-06-11 Thread Gavin Clark
somebody tell me if I'm wrong but I think paging has to do with virtual memory. As such your problem could be hardware related, bad ram or bad blocks on the drive. there are probly utilities to test these but I don't konw what they are. good luck, G on 6/11/00 10:46 AM, Necrotica wrote:

Re: [expert] simple recursive delete from the command line?

2000-06-10 Thread Gavin Clark
thanks these man pages are just too damn cryptic and have no examples. Gavin on 6/9/00 7:36 PM, Tim Kubista wrote: on 7/29/39 10:22 PM, Norman Carver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I quickly delete a whole directory and everything it contains from the command line. #rm -r puts me in

Re: [expert] ftp

2000-06-09 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/10/00 9:44 AM, ryan geer wrote: i would like to set my machine up as an ftp server. any suggestions on which package to use or where to find guidance? get PROftpd http://www.proftpd.net/ it sports a config file that's similar to apache's and it can authenticate users from a MySQL

[expert] simple recursive delete from the command line?

2000-06-09 Thread Gavin Clark
how do I quickly delete a whole directory and everything it contains from the command line. I can do it easily from kfm and other GUI file browsers. but #rmdir won't work because the dir isn't empty and #rm -r puts me in "do you really want to do this?" hell. thanks Gavin

Re: [expert] Adaptec 2940U2W and 'Drake 7.1

2000-06-08 Thread Gavin Clark
are the jumpers set right? maybe both drives are on the same scsi id. Gavin on 6/7/00 7:02 PM, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: Does anyone know if 7.1 has addressed the problem with the 2940U2W not being able to properly detect my Seagate LVD drives connected to my 2940U2W? This problem has kept

Re: [expert] SCSI Bus Resets on Install of 7.0/6.1 with 2940U2W

2000-06-06 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/5/00 4:44 PM, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: Upon installing 'Drake 7.0, I wind up stuck prior to "second stage" with SCSI resets. Tried to install 6.1, same problem. The messages indicate timouts on SCSI ID 0, and "trying harder" is the next indicator. This appears to be an endless loop.

Re: [expert] Getting telnet access working on Mdk 7

2000-06-06 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/5/00 8:39 PM, Eric Aksomitis wrote: I can't get telnet or ftp to work, even from the konsole (telnet localhost). It keeps on with "connection refused by host". My inetd.conf file points to telnet being serviced through tcpd to in.telnetd as you would expect. There is no hosts.allow

Re: [expert] Root Raid with 7.x series???

2000-06-05 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/5/00 1:55 PM, Scott Patten wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install 7.0 to a root partition that's a raid0 device (/dev/md0). DrakeX seems to handle this but when I reboot, the kernel can't detect md0. It appears as if the raid is created but it's just not started automatically. Has

Re: [expert] Help! - (disk filling up)

2000-06-03 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/3/00 4:37 PM, Cecil Watson wrote: Help! Some how something seems to be eating up space on my hard drive! I won't be able to get to the system till Monday. I have OpenSSH access, but cannot find anything out of place? Anyone got any ideas? I know I had plenty of room available on

[expert] module vfat wished into the cornfield

2000-06-03 Thread Gavin Clark
module vfat is for windows filesystems, right? I don't have any windows partitions and this box will never see a windows formatted floppy. Can I zap the part which loads it from the mandrake-everytime init script or will that cause problems somewhere? thanks, Gavin Clark

Re: [expert] AppleTalk on Linux - (add this to the 7.1 installer)

2000-06-02 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/1/00 9:03 PM, Larry Blodgett wrote: Is Mandrake 7 compatible with netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3.tar.gz ? This is suppose to be RedHat ready, but is it Mandrake ready? yes, I'm running it. I had a little trouble getting it running when I compiled my own but I found an RPM that set it all up

Re: [expert] PHP help

2000-06-02 Thread Gavin Clark
on 5/31/00 11:24 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: Sorry, probably wrong list but... I need a little help with PHP. I'm trying to make a PHP-based counter for my web page but want it based on unique visits (not refreshes, etc.) I'm storing the IP address in the MySQL table and want to compare the

Re: [expert] MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL

2000-06-02 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/2/00 12:02 PM, Stephen Atkins wrote: Not sure if this belongs here but does any one know of a db convert from MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL? Stephen Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql has a way to export the whole database as a SQL file with all the data and instructions for building the whole

[expert] what to include in your next distirbution- bootable rescue CD

2000-05-31 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, if you are still interested in what to include in your next distirbution. I would like a bootable rescue CD. something that would boot up a system that auto detects all my hardware and loads drivers. It should ask which filesystems to try to load and have support for raid. It should have

Re: [expert] Small Apache Question?

2000-05-30 Thread Gavin Clark
I think it has to do with the way it's handling the relative links. you might want to try it as cgi="../calendar/homepage.cgi" or cgi="/~clienttest1/calendar/homepage.cgi" from apache docs for Module mod_include http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_include.html exec The exec command executes

Re: [expert] Small Apache Question?]

2000-05-30 Thread Gavin Clark
on 5/30/00 8:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it has to do with the way it's handling the relative links. you might want to try it as cgi="../calendar/homepage.cgi" This is the problem, but the root of it is it's a test site to mirror prod sites which ARE there own virtual host.

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