Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-17 Thread Jim Tarvid
haven't bought WD drives for over a year but I do have a few still spinning. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 17 December 2002 06:32 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:39:07 -0800 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm have problems finding this anywhere on the IBM web site or by search. Can you

Re: [expert] apache under Mandrake

2002-12-17 Thread Jim Tarvid
didn't work either. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:07 pm, you wrote: I installed apache as part of an 8.2 Mandrake install. Everything about the install went great and when I configured my router and a DNS server (on another box), I was able to see the default web page on the server

Re: [expert] Postfix does not work after migrating to 9.0

2002-12-16 Thread Jim Tarvid
postfix runs chroot in default mandrake installs. check /var/spool/postfix/etc to make sure it is identical to the same files in /etc. Jim Tarvid On Monday 16 December 2002 03:58 am, you wrote: I migrated yesterday to 9.0. I saved my account and the etc structure so that (I thought) I

Re: [expert] Geheimnis

2002-12-06 Thread Jim Tarvid
On Friday 06 December 2002 04:13 am, you wrote: Hello Does anyone know where to get RPM's for geheimnis? IMO, it's the best graphical tool for GnuPG. Alternative suggestions are also welcome (I've tried gnomepgp, tkpgp, gpa). Thanks Guy Have you tried seahorse? Jim Want to buy your

[expert] disabling APIC in BIOS enables nic on Sis 7xx motherboards - repository for recommended settings

2002-12-01 Thread Jim Tarvid
Thanks to someone one this list and I apologize for losing the name, I set APIC to disable on a SiS745 motherboard and the nic now works. It seems to me a lot of grief would be avoided by collecting a database of non-default BIOS settings. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Jim Tarvid
It's not although AMDs groveling before MS and the world makes me wonder. Try $ startx $HOME/startx.log 21 [RET] and see what's in the log file Jim Tarvid On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:14 pm, you wrote: I've just installed Mdk 9.0 on an Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4 ghz machine. When I fired up X

Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Tarvid
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 10:55 am, you wrote: I thought I had my system set up to not expire passwords, but apparently, I got it wrong. :-) When logging in today, I got a popup window warning me that my password would expire in 6 days. I suspect it's something under /etc/security

[expert] linux demo for windows xp and 9x users

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Tarvid
) from CD or a small hard disk installation on a windows file system is preferable. Any suggestions? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club

2002-11-18 Thread Jim Tarvid
not look at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club for all information? wobo Credit card charges are made in Euros even though the price quoted is in US $. That means the cost varies a bit with the exchange rate. My experience is that the difference is small (~1%). Jim Tarvid Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club

2002-11-18 Thread Jim Tarvid
and put the approximate US price in parentheses. Jim Tarvid On Monday 18 November 2002 08:33 am, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:23 -0500, Jim Tarvid wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 08:09 am, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:35 +0200, Marek wrote: Hi Does anyone know

Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)

2002-11-11 Thread Jim Tarvid
On Monday 11 November 2002 06:53 pm, you wrote: Jim Tarvid wrote on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 06:27:01PM -0500 : I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage. In two of the three cases, named loaded zones (180) slowly and httpd had trouble with name resoltion (130 virtuals

Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)

2002-11-11 Thread Jim Tarvid
On Monday 11 November 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote: On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Jim Tarvid wrote: I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage. In two of the three cases, named loaded zones (180) slowly and httpd had trouble with name resoltion (130 virtuals

[expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)

2002-11-10 Thread Jim Tarvid
sure the zones load properly before starting httpd 4) abandon mandrake as a server OS Any thoughts? Jim Tarvid 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 Jim Tarvid
as a list of questionable installations and configurations. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)

2002-11-10 Thread Jim Tarvid
charge the batteries. But in any case, reboots should bring up healthy systems. On two different machines, this does not always happen with Mandrake 9.0. Jim Tarvid On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:26 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 06:27 pm, Jim Tarvid wrote: I had three reboots last

Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)

2002-11-10 Thread Jim Tarvid
First this system does have a UPS. But there are other reasons to reboot. And DNS and HPPTD should work on a reboot. Sometimes with Mandrake 9.0 they don't. Named is buggy and I need an alternative. or a fix. Jim Tarvid On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:58 pm, you wrote: Carroll Grigsby said

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810lmr motherboard

2002-11-08 Thread Jim Tarvid
and are tempted because it is cheap don't do it. If you have, Linux will work as well as the other OS but save your pennies, odds are you'll need a replacement. Jim Tarvid PS. I've seen a couple of these work and the equally damned ECS boards are sometimes simply amazing. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-06 Thread Jim Tarvid
Working is clear, defective is elusive. Have you tried making a boot floppy diskette? If the contents will copy to your hard disk, you could try a hard disk install. This is also a time to find Linux friends in your area, It is likely at least one could help you set up a network install. Jim

[expert] mandrake 9.0 - squirrelmail - default.pref

2002-11-05 Thread Jim Tarvid
new user logins failed with the message can find ../data/default_pref the file exists but is at /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs i copied it to /var/www/squirrelmail/data and the problem went away is this something wrong in the Mandrake package? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] performance issues - named and apache

2002-11-05 Thread Jim Tarvid
is to put DNS on a separate server. Currently I have the server is doing DNS for its own domains. It shouldn't take too much of a machine to do my DNS. Another would be to get DNS to finish its load before starting other servers dependent on DNS. Is there a fix? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack

[expert] Printer margins in KDE/Konqueror

2002-08-01 Thread Jim Tarvid
and part of the intended text. It doesn't solve the problem in any case. Since almost acceptable output can be obtained from other programs, and other machines running other operating systems, I am loath to screw up settings in the printer nor the workstation. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Printer margins in KDE/Konqueror

2002-08-01 Thread Jim Tarvid
kdeprintrc So where is the change recorded? Jim Tarvid On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:35 am, you wrote: Jim Tarvid wrote: A long standing irritation. I get chided everytime I go to a windows machine to print out a web page. Under the best of circumstances, 2 or three lines form the bottom

[expert] kdeinit nspluginviewer task saps machine

2002-07-31 Thread Jim Tarvid
-dcopid nspluginviewer-24232 killall nspluginviewer cleans up Konqueror/KDE 2.2.2 Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget

2002-07-25 Thread Jim Tarvid
Rod was right. I use rsync over ssh and it works great. /usr/bin/rsync -avrpogtl --delete -e ssh samnite:/home/ftp/pub/mandrake-devel/ /var/ftp/pub/mandrake-devel/ In scripts I use expect. For a single file I use scp. Jim Tarvid Seriously, you should use rsync. One user states

[expert] Assertion failure in journal_unmap_buffer

2002-07-11 Thread Jim Tarvid
-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk.i586.rpm Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Travan Tape drives

2002-07-11 Thread Jim Tarvid
. The carts are another matter, some work - some don't. Jim Tarvid On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:54 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 21:46, Jim Tarvid wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote: Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base tape drive

Re: [expert] Compaq Evo D310

2002-07-11 Thread Jim Tarvid
but they are unfortunately customer machines with Windows. I know the video and nic on the 815EEA worked. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Travan Tape drives

2002-07-09 Thread Jim Tarvid
a CDRW so I can archive things in pieces. It has saved my ass many times. Not once in 30 some years of computing has a tape been so kind. One of these days DVD-R media will be cheap. In the meantime, I keep carving the world into 650MB pieces. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread Jim Tarvid
used it in an heavy production environment. I scanned www.mandrakebizcases.com and did not see any ISP's. Thanks, -Scott We use Mandrake as an ISP and in production servers as well. Naive use is not recommended. You will have to do some tuning. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Internet Server-Satellite

2002-06-28 Thread Jim Tarvid
There are one-way solutions for Linux. http://telemann.com Jim Tarvid On Thursday 27 June 2002 10:55 pm, you wrote: snip June 27, 2002 07:31 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: hmph! sounds like it isn't good for much of anything that means anything, huh

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-20 Thread Jim Tarvid
the environment but I am not sure. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] make a perfect mail server in a non perfect network

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Tarvid
are not available through webmin such as header and body checks. Wietse Venema has released a MIME aware version. He is a careful coder and I think the snapshot should be ready for the next Mandrake release. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Tarvid
minimum cash, I would try coax. I had one thinnet run of about 200 meters which worked (the published limit is 185 meters. Repeaters are available. Jim Tarvid On Wednesday 12 June 2002 03:54 pm, you wrote: Brian wrote: faisal gillani said: well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place

Re: [expert] Postfix aliases.db

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Tarvid
I suspect it is a small utility roughly equivalent to postmap hash:/etc/postfix/aliases put there to ease converting humans from sendmail Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 11 June 2002 07:27 am, you wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:11:54 -0400 Jim Tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] again realtec 8139

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Tarvid
to a pair of matching cheap nics? Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] again realtec 8139

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Tarvid
Realtek 8139s from a variety of sources but they all seem to work. Lately I've been buying Netgear FA310/311 in OEM quantities at ~$8.50 but they run closer $20 at retail. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] kde3 - no icons or images

2002-06-10 Thread Jim Tarvid
but with some problems with the 3.0.1 Mandrake RPMs from the kde.org site. I think we are still at least one more version from a good easy KDE 3. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-06-10 Thread Jim Tarvid
with whitespace. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE 3 mdk rpms - problem with konsole

2002-06-07 Thread Jim Tarvid
I had the same results from the Mandrake RPMs downloaded from kde.org. Jim Tarvid On Friday 07 June 2002 04:43 pm, you wrote: Hi Praedor, The answer your looking for may be outlined on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdk-kde3.0.php34 Something about conflicting menu entries for konsole

Re: [expert] Postfix aliases.db

2002-06-07 Thread Jim Tarvid
.html postfix:/usr/share/man/man1/postalias.1.bz2 Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] SNF 7.2

2002-06-06 Thread Jim Tarvid
crossed. Sounds like eth1 is waiting for a DHCP assignment. Try swapping the cables. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-05 Thread Jim Tarvid
My guess is that the partition table got sprayed with bad data on power down. if one had a listing of partitions such as that provided by fdisk /dev/hda -l you should be able to rebuild the partition table. Of course having a copy of the MBR would make life easier dd if=/dev/hda