[expert] Calling on Mandrake Apache Expert (Vincent)

2003-11-01 Thread J. C. Woods
What has changed in Mandrake's Apache2 (using current release apache2-2.0.47-1.4.91mdk on 9.1) with reference to running php scripts? I have a php script that run very well on Mandrake's Apache-1.3.26-6.1mdk running on 9.0. But it is kicking out some errors when I run the script on the apache2

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-08 Thread J. C. Woods
Michael Holt wrote: http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm I'm not able to pull the page up at this point - try later? I do have another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size of

Re: [expert] linux on compaq Proliant 2500

2002-01-17 Thread J. C. Woods
William R. Nash wrote: Hello, I just receive a new/used computer a compaq Proliant 2500R. with this computer there was no operating system on it. I need to know if I need the smartstart software so I load Linux mandrake 8.1 pro. if I need this where can I download it or get a iso

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-15 Thread J. C. Woods
kons Richard Bown wrote: So where'e the stupidity in that ? This list is not the place for throwing insults. Richard Bown Ericsson Microwave Systems AB SE-431 84 Mölndal e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +46 31 74 72422 mobile +46 7098 72422 While I understand that the tenor of a

Re: [expert] ide-scsi question

2001-11-15 Thread J. C. Woods
Darren King wrote: I added a cdrw to my system. I added hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf, ran lilo and added the alias scsi_adapter ide-scsi to modules.conf. Now what. cdrecord-scanbus does not see it so I can burn to it yet. Darren Do a cat /proc/devices. Do you have a character device

Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?

2001-11-15 Thread J. C. Woods
Ric wrote: Personally, when I come accross a web site that was so badly written that only IE will work on it, I won't go there. And I'll send a not so kind letter the owner of the site informing them of the fact that they've lost my business, and why. If they want to define IE as the

Re: [expert] ide-scsi question

2001-11-15 Thread J. C. Woods
Darren King wrote: The problem was that I added hdc=ide-scsi to an existing append line in lilo.conf, it already said append=quiet so I just added a comma and then hdc=ide-scsi. Guess it didn't like that. I added hdc=ide-scsi as the only append item and it worked fine. Darren If you

Re: [expert] Arrrgh - Telnet Problems (Authentication?)

2001-11-14 Thread J. C. Woods
kons Richard Bown wrote: But of course I must be stupid like the rest, ! -- Richard Bown Ericsson Microwave Systems AB SE-431 84 Mölndal e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +46 31 74 72422 mobile +46 7098 72422 Well you said it, and, afterall, you do work in Sweden. What do you get home

Re: [expert] libtinfo.so.5 not in ncurses-5.2-16mdk

2001-11-01 Thread J. C. Woods
Michael D. Viron wrote: Try adding ncurses-devel, and see if that fixes the problem or see if there is a libtinfo package. Michael -- Michael Viron At 05:57 AM 11/01/2001 +, you wrote: i need to install the file libtinfo.so.5 - so says lame, so i went to rpmfind.net and found

Re: [expert] SCO UNIX file system!

2001-10-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: Hi! A friend has asked to 'transfer' some files saved on SCO UNIX file system to msdos on Linux! Is this possible? Can mount a SCO unix file system and copy the files? []s Ricardo Castanho --

Re: [expert] SCO UNIX file system!

2001-10-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, J. C. Woods wrote: Why MSDOS? You can setup a NFS mount, and copy directly to Linux. Try a man nfs. It should point you in the right direction. Thanks for helping! But according to the msdos fs well, that's not my

Re: [expert] PATH=$PATH:/foo in .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2001-10-29 Thread J. C. Woods
Pierre Fortin wrote: Which files are used by bash is not straightforward... I'm doing some investigations in this area and have some surprising results... I'm documenting it at http://pfortin.com/Linux/bash/ Any feedback (offline) appreciated. Pierre Interesting site, Pierre, and

Re: [expert] Bastille Part II

2001-10-28 Thread J. C. Woods
Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Internet Protocols (UDP( connectionless Short for 'User Datagram Protocol', a connectionless protocol that, like TCP, runs on top of IP networks. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP/IP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send and receive

Re: [expert] Sorely vexed

2001-10-25 Thread J. C. Woods
Mark Weaver wrote: Good morning list, I am sorely vexed by something and i am hoping that someone would endulge and engage me in some discussion about the matter. the matter is this; Everytime I've attempted to load Mandrake = 8.0 on my home system i can't make a boot floppy cause it

Re: [expert] Sorely vexed

2001-10-25 Thread J. C. Woods
Mark Weaver wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2001 13:41, you wrote: Are you using any kind of a SCSI card? At the time there was a SCSI card in the machine that was connected to a tape drive. It's no longer connected to that drive, but is still inside the machine. Do you think that is

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread J. C. Woods
Praedor Tempus wrote: Ya, just after sending the message I tried netscape 4.7 and it works there too. It will NOT work from konqueror. On Friday 19 October 2001 01:53 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] What's wrong

Re: [expert] 8.1 Final MDK is a no go...

2001-10-05 Thread J. C. Woods
James W. McComas wrote: I had the same problem on the same MOBO except for ATI Radeon vid.. I disabled the UDMA 5 optionin BIOS and went back to UDMA 3 and it worked perfectly. Then enabled UDMA 5 and it worjed perfectly. That chipset doesn't seem to want o install Mandrake at ATA 100

Re: [expert] Blocking web access by IP

2001-10-05 Thread J. C. Woods
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a number of apparently MS nodes on the internet that were victims of the recent worms that were going around. They keep hitting my web server and are annoyingly filling up my logs. I was wondering if anyone knew of any way to refuse connections from

Re: [expert] LM81 random freeze at package installation

2001-10-05 Thread J. C. Woods
Jeffrey Twu wrote: But once I disabled UDMA support in the BIOS, magically all the problems went away! Jeff, one fast question: did you disable UDMA on the harddrive only or did you disable UDMA for both the harddrive and cdrom? Thanks, -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the

[expert] 8.1 Final MDK is a no go...

2001-10-03 Thread J. C. Woods
Mandrake staff, First off let me congratulate you on a very nice release (8.1). I have loaded it on one of my older boxes, and it works very nicely. My question is about installing it on a newer box. This machine is a Tyan M/B (S2390B) with KT133 (VIA 686B Southbridge), Athlon 1.33GHZ, 768M

Re: [expert] kernel-source rpm problems

2001-10-02 Thread J. C. Woods
Chuck Lalli wrote: I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.8-26 and am trying now to install the kernel-source rpm (2.4.8.26). I got the following message: ncurses-devel is needed by kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk 8.1 rc1 had installed ncurses5.2-16. the only ncurses-devel package I could find was

Re: [expert] Different Multiple NIC's Question...

2001-09-25 Thread J. C. Woods
Yes, I would have to concur with the advise already rendered. If your desire is to make a gateway/router machine configured with a firewall, you need to have each nic on its own subnet with a different mask for both nics. By not knowing your network typology, I can not make specific suggestions.

Re: [expert] devfsd and cdrom

2001-09-25 Thread J. C. Woods
Dave Kufta wrote: I am having difficulty mounting my cdrom, cdrom is creative CDRW-6424, when I attempt to mount the cdrom I get the following argument: Today is Tue Sep 25 at 17:50:21. Computer is serving [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/etc]# mount /dev/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device

Re: [expert] IPtables fails on bootup

2001-09-23 Thread J. C. Woods
Leif Madsen wrote: I just upgraded my iptables today (I should really stop running stuff through the Mandrake Updates program...) and now I'm getting an error on bootup. It's basically telling me that iptables v.1.2.2 is failing and either it or my kernel needs to be upgraded. I'm running

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread J. C. Woods
Dan Hensley wrote: I wasn't able to use the 8.0 release for a fresh install since it had problems that the beta didn't (I have an nVidia video card). I don't recall all the problems I ran into. You probly didn't have a ram disk for the 2.4.7 kernel. -- Tom

[expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Mandrake, Any reason why the md5sum output numbers do not match the listed numbers, given in the md5sums.raklet for the MandrakeLinux-8.1-Raklet-beta2-CD2.i586.iso? Do you think this iso will work anyway? Thanks, drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 11:59 am, you wrote: Mandrake, Any reason why the md5sum output numbers do not match the listed numbers, given in the md5sums.raklet for the MandrakeLinux-8.1-Raklet-beta2-CD2.i586.iso? Do you think this iso will work anyway?

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Randy Kramer wrote: J. C. Woods wrote: Wow, are you saying that I could download the same iso, and get a different md5sum number from it? I have not worked with rsync. I took a look at the man. Sergio, do you know of some better documentation for rsync? It's not there yet, but I'm

Re: [expert] Zombie in paradise...

2001-08-28 Thread J. C. Woods
Gregor Maier wrote: On 28-Aug-2001 J. Craig Woods wrote: Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:00 am, you wrote: Greetings, Has anyone taken the plunge into 2.4.8-12mdk? I have done so, and I am observing some strange things. For one, top shows one zombie

Re: [expert] Official Kernel update for Mdk8

2001-08-28 Thread J. C. Woods
Digital Wokan wrote: I can't believe my eyes. An actual update to the kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.7 in the officially supported updates. Does this mean there was a security problem with 2.4.3 or was some added functionality from 2.4.7 needed?

Re: [expert] WinModem ?

2001-08-28 Thread J. C. Woods
Seppo Järvinen wrote: You can't, there's no driver for it as it's a WINMODEM that is run by software on a DSP chip (Digital Signal Processor). Seppo Jarvinen , [EMAIL PROTECTED]Never trust an operating system GSM+SMS +358 50 340 7350 you don't have sources for. GSM+SMS

Re: [expert] The UMAX Astra 600s vs the Adaptec 2606

2001-08-28 Thread J. C. Woods
Phlip wrote: Mandrake Experts: Mandrake 7.2, via g_NCR5380, liked the el-cheapo SCSI card that came with my UMAX. Mandrake 8.0 kacked at boot time (before the rc scripts) if the UMAX were turned on. If I turned it off at boot time on later, nothing would ever work. 'modprobe

[expert] Hardware question...

2001-08-23 Thread J. C. Woods
Civileme, Since your seem to be, among your many areas of expertise, the hardware guru, can you say when, and if, we will see a mandrake version that works with the VIA 686B southbridge chip (VIA KT133A)?. Because so many issues are involved, i.e. the kernel, cpu bridge to bus device, and AGP,

Re: [expert] Cable mode problems

2001-08-22 Thread J. C. Woods
steve wrote: No doubt, I'm just saying that Bell Canada developed it orignally for their purposes and made it available to all. =) Two years ago it could only be downloaded from Sympatico [division of Bell Canada] servers. FWIU their code is what's the basis of Roaring Penguin et al.

Re: [expert] Cable mode problems

2001-08-22 Thread J. C. Woods
steve wrote: http://www.craigmarlatt.com/craig/canada/symbols_factslists/inventions.html 'nuff said :) Heh, actually I'd rank the Avro Arrow farther up on the list. That's where the Yanks got most of the technology for the F-1x's. Canada had a twin engine high altitude fighter JET

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-22 Thread J. C. Woods
D. R. Evans wrote: On 22 Aug 01, at 22:04, DStevenson wrote: On the machine with the pinter attached: lpq - to show what jobs are in the queue cancel [job id] - to kill the job Always works for me. Nope. cancel is the same as lprm, and that's the first thing I

[expert] LC_ALL info

2001-08-17 Thread J. C. Woods
Greetings, Can anyone tell me in which file the LC_ALL variable is setup. I have looked in ~/.bashrc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/inputrc, and /etc/profile, and there are no LC type variables set up at all. I can run an env | grep LC, and see that most of my LC variables are setup. But where is the setup

Re: [expert] Problem with CERT Advisory CA-2001-21 update.

2001-08-16 Thread J. C. Woods
Andrew McCall wrote: Hi, I have tried to do the update as detailed here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-068.php3?dis=7.2 The MandrakeSoft Security Advisory says to fix the problem manually, download the updated package(s) from mirros and upgrade with rpm

Re: [expert] MDK7.2 glibc-2.2 rpm4

2001-08-16 Thread J. C. Woods
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! Is there an easy way to update a MDK7.2 computer to glibc-2.2 in order to be able to use the newest versions of the rpms, etc ?? I satisfy dependencies to upgrade rpm to v.4 and then it doesn't work 8-/ -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Cups / Kups Remote Printing Problem

2001-08-14 Thread J. C. Woods
Sevatio wrote: LM8.0 Cups 1.1.7-1.1 Hello, I'm trying desperately to print onto a remote cups server but I'm having no luck. Using Kups and Kupsdconf, I can get the cups servers to see each other. I can even setup the remote printer using Kups. But when I print, it does not show up

Re: [expert] /bin/cat initiated by kwrited in KDE

2001-08-14 Thread J. C. Woods
DM wrote: following up on this ... can anybody from MandrakeSoft answer what this /bin/cat is for? why is it initiated by kwrited ? is this a bug? --- DM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here! Here! Good question. Any thoughts, Mandrake? drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX SA -Art is the illusion

Re: [expert] digital cmeras and linux

2001-08-14 Thread J. C. Woods
Bob Young wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:04:59 -0500 J. C. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, what do you mean by made a node at the mount point? Mount point is specified in fstab. I used mnt/camera - so 'mkdir /mnt/camera' If the node does not exist there is no place to mount

Re: [expert] Cups Remote Printing - Does It Even Work?

2001-08-14 Thread J. C. Woods
civileme wrote: On Tuesday 14 August 2001 19:35, Sevatio wrote: Okay, I'm willing to put more time into this seemingly hopeless cause of getting Cups to work for remote printing. This involves four machines running LM8.0. So far, I've tried Cups versions 1.1.6, 1.1.7-1.1, 1.1.9-5.

Re: [expert] digital cmeras and linux

2001-08-13 Thread J. C. Woods
Bob Young wrote: I added the following line to /etc/fstab (I have no SCSI drives) - /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat ro,noauto,user 0 0 and made a node at the mount point /mnt/camera. Bob, what do you mean by made a node at the mount point? drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX SA -Art is the

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-08 Thread J. C. Woods
Robin Ballantine wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 1:47 pm, you wrote: Argh! I am running LM 7.2 with CUPS enabled. My printer somehow got confused and I powered it down and back on. But the Linux box is sending it garbage (presumably because it is in the middle of sending a

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-08 Thread J. C. Woods
etharp wrote: Ok, just so I am not out -a$$holed here... (I _do_ intend to be the big hole here)grin what does _LUCK_ have to do with it, and why should I have to see see the other post, heck what other post, I see a BUNCH of other posts. My Wife wants (demands) for me to put in here that

Re: [expert] directory navigations

2001-08-08 Thread J. C. Woods
Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Hello All, I am new to the list but have been using Mandrake for some time now and think that it is great!!! I would like to know if there is a way, or even some kind of kernel patch, to prevent a user from navigating out of their home direcotry? I know that

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-07 Thread J. C. Woods
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 03.13 07/08/01, J. C. Woods wrote: The chmod command is used to change file permissions or make a file executeable, or !executeable. Which is the difference? Olaf Olaf, Do you mean what is the difference? executeable= a file that is executeable, i.e. you

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-06 Thread J. C. Woods
David Koenig wrote: I'd have to agree there. Reiser works great. After a hard lockup or power failure you get a reading journal entries message for about two seconds then up the system comes. It's good stuff. I would highly recommend it over ext2 for sure. -dave OK, a fast question for

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-06 Thread J. C. Woods
- From: J. C. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ? OK, a fast question for all you ReiserFS enthusiast: does it yet support file attributes? I need em, and I use

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-06 Thread J. C. Woods
, I did lsattr on my ReiserFS and got the following msg: lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on fw4_01.pdf So I would gather, ReiserFS does not do what you want. Best Regards, Bruce On Monday 06 August 2001 09:13 pm, J. C. Woods wrote: Dave, Just so

Re: [expert] Problem compiling module...

2001-08-04 Thread J. C. Woods
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'm compiling a module for my pcmcia network card (Conceptronic CON100TC); i follow the instructions on the readme and get the following error: --- [root@quinipc proves]# cc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-31 Thread J. C. Woods
for anyone as a desktop machines, its the server side that many of us are cautions about using 8 for... ) rgds Frank. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Danen Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2001 2:14 PM To: J. C. Woods Cc: Linux Mandrake

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Franki wrote: This is the URL I got them from... Its a member of this list very kind he is too, saved me alot of dicking around.. http://webspinners.uwf.org/~mviron/mdk72/SRPMS/ rgds Frank Yes, Michael has been a tremendous help to us. His new samba-2.2.1a src rpm worked

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-30 Thread J. C. Woods
site, and test the hell out of them. I, for one, would surely help out in this endeavor. Good work, and many thanks! drjung Michael D. Viron wrote: J. C. Woods, I would have to say that the people working on this are serious about building srpms / rpms that are up-to-date, and will work

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-30 Thread J. C. Woods
Vincent Danen wrote: I have plenty of room for these rpms and this is exactly the purpose of www.rpmhelp.net. Please visit the site for instructions on how to go about contributing packages... I have over 20GB of available room (but if we get that many files in there, we might want

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-29 Thread J. C. Woods
Gentlemen, One note of caution, I rebuilt, from the src rpm, bind-9.1.1-1mdk for my LMDK7.2 - glibc-2.1 system, and the rebuild went fine. I had my three needed binary rpms for bind-9.1.1-1mdk (devel utils included) all neatly copied to /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686, as they should be after the rpm

Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2

2001-07-29 Thread J. C. Woods
(and / or by rebuilding and testing). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:53 PM 07/29/2001 -0500, J. C. Woods wrote: Gentlemen, One note of caution, I rebuilt, from the src rpm, bind-9.1.1-1mdk

Re: [expert] Upgrading LM 7.2 Samba 2.09 to Samba 2.2.1a Impossible?

2001-07-25 Thread J. C. Woods
Root, I am not sure of where you heard about samba-2.2.1 binary rpm being installed on LMDK7.2 but I must add a few words of caution. Have you upgraded your glibc? I ask this because samba-2.2.1 has the requirement of an installed glibc-2.2 and, unless you did the upgrade, LMDK7.2 comes with

Re: [expert] kisocd - cdrecord doesn't work

2001-07-24 Thread J. C. Woods
DStevenson wrote: On Monday 23 July 2001 18:25, gustavo wrote: I have Mandrake 7.1 . cdrom like master and cd-reWriter like slave. I use kisocd (from root user) for write in cd but doesn't work when I try burn a CD I receive the next error from kisocd 2:

Re: [expert] Getting Mandrake and Redhat to talk....How?

2001-07-22 Thread J. C. Woods
Gavin wrote: I could use a little assistance please. I have a soho setup and I just built another system, the OS on this one is RH. the others consists of MANDRAKE 8.0, M$ 98 and M$ ME Japanese version for my wife and kids.) sofar I have the Mandrake,98 and ME online via my Mandrake