Re: [expert] error in loading shared libraries ?? WHY???

2001-06-14 Thread John Wolford
Execute strace bin/wdblsnr localhost 8088 and see when it crashes exactly where it's trying to load that file from. Maybe it's not from where you think it is. Let us know what happens when you do this. -john --- istvan bereti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I'm about to install WEBDB on

Re: [expert] afriad to lose LILO

2001-06-09 Thread John Wolford
Make a boot disk (floppy) with mkbootdisk, then boot from floppy. Then, assuming all the info in /etc/lilo.conf still applies to your new 98 system, run lilo and kaboom, all will be (should be) as it was. If you ever lock yourself out of your system, you can boot with the install cd, hit f1 as

Re: [expert] Error running Bastille

2001-06-09 Thread John Wolford
So you'd like to know where it's hanging, right? EIther the pop server is hanging, or your machine is. Here's a few things you can try off the top: 1) Get rid of the firewall briefly with these commands: ipchains -F ipchains -X ipchains -P input ACCEPT ipchains -P output ACCEPT This will flush

[expert] locate: decode_db() aborted. Corrupt database?

2001-06-09 Thread John Wolford
Hi All, I get the following message via email, daily: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@homer run-parts /etc/cron.daily DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified error: syslog:211 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog

Re: [expert] Error running Bastille

2001-06-09 Thread John Wolford
, not the filename of the package. Thus soemthing like rpm -e bastille-linux would probably do the trick. Anyway, glad you got it working, congratulations :-) Always feels good to solve a problem in linux-world, doesn't it? Cheers, j --- Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John == John Wolford [EMAIL

Re: [expert] what am i missing

2001-05-24 Thread John Wolford
Those daemons that are running are services. ntsysv is a configuration utility, and it manipulates files in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (for instance) in order to get various services to start/stop when you enter a certain runlevel (including when you boot up into a certain runlevel). service xfs status

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0 firewall wizard (bastille-firewall) question...

2001-05-15 Thread John Wolford
Well you have some options (did this get solved already?). Obviously you have to find out why it's not getting through. You can check ipchains, inetd/xinetd, httpd service smb service. Also portsentry, if you use it. Hope that helps, j --- MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, the firewall

Re: [expert] LILO no longer works

2001-05-14 Thread John Wolford
This probably won't work. Check what other's say about this (obviously) but i think that / is seperate from the MBR and so formatting / will do nothing for how your machine is(n't) booting. Although when you have exausted the possible, start probing the impossible. What you need is some

Re: [expert] Two issues - inetd and remote X access

2001-05-14 Thread John Wolford
inetd might have disappeared, but did xinetd appear in its place? It's a service just as inetd is, and it's conf file is /etc/xinetd.conf. It is a replacement/enhancement for inetd. j --- Jim Gutterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I use an X-Windows server under MS Windows to access my

Re: [expert] Setting umask on Nautilus, Konqueror

2001-05-14 Thread John Wolford
Let me understand this properly. Are you saying that you change your umaask setting in /etc/profile, and that setting is reflected in your shell, while at the same time Nautilus/Konqueror continue to behave as though the umask was 022? Maybe you could try starting Konqueror from within the shell

Re: [expert] REBUILT RPM Bermuda Triangle Mystery -- Where is it?

2001-05-12 Thread John Wolford
Your rebuild was a success (hence the exit 0 at the end). Try doing something like find /usr/src/ -name bk2site*.rpm If that does work then maybe search your whole system by replacing /usr/src with /. --- Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends: I just rebuild a Red Hat source

Re: [expert] ReiserFS

2001-05-11 Thread John Wolford
Here's a recent post: Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Block Address | Add to Address Book To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] reiserfs 1 more time Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:00:48 +0200 Hi, You should be able to use the reiserfs module even when

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8-0 install problem

2001-05-11 Thread John Wolford
Well i'm guessing that you can't connect to the x server because it's not running? [john@homer music]$ rpm -qf /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs XFree86-xfs-4.0.1-28mdk So there's a package that has to be installed, and then you have to start the server with service: service xfs start (as root). Do you

Re: [expert] Snail's Pace

2001-05-11 Thread John Wolford
I would be very tempted to isolate this problem to fetchmail, or a particular program in the chain of events (man strace). Have you set up a sniffer to watch the network activity while the mail is downloading? That could tell a lot. j --- SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully someone

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 installation freezes

2001-05-11 Thread John Wolford
Well this isn't really help, but you *might* consider pulling devices/hardware in different combinations, and see if that makes any difference(s)... Good luck :-) j --- Steven Bradtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem installing either RH 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0. In either

Re: [expert] Mdk8 - install goes ok but X refuses to start

2001-05-10 Thread John Wolford
I had the same thing happen for me w/ a few 7.2 installs. It got to the point that i would install it but not test it, just so the install could finish. Then it (X) would usually start up tho, i think (i can't remember). I invoked it with startx. That was around the time that i was shutting down

Re: [expert] Mystery Mouse / Kudzu Battle

2001-05-10 Thread John Wolford
Haha, that sounds very familiar. I have the same mouse and had the same problem. I think i finally had to tell it i had a MS intellimouse before it would recognize the middle button, and then when it would pop up and ask me if i wanted it to take some action b/c of the changes i just picked the

RE: [expert] Mystery Mouse / Kudzu Battle

2001-05-10 Thread John Wolford
Yeah, that's what i did too, i set mine up with mouseconfig. Great utility, that. I had to lie about what mouse i had though, in order to get at that middle wheel j --- Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ric, I recently had a similar problem with my new IBM PS/2 2 button mouse, and Kudzu

Re: [expert] Screensaver won't work

2001-05-10 Thread John Wolford
I've come to the point where i don't trust the graphical configurators much at alli'm a little biased b/c i always tend to want to do things manually, so that i can learn what's actually happening (that's whey i orginally wanted out of Windows in the first place). MandrakeUpdate didn't work

Re: [expert] MDK8.0 XMMS no mouse??

2001-05-10 Thread John Wolford
Mouse best regards Kang-Ling On Wednesday 09 May 2001 19:50, John Wolford wrote: I have experienced, and continue to experience, similar problems. For full access to all the menus/submenus, right-click almost anywhere on winamp (but not on the playlist) and navigate thru

Re: [expert] error during compile

2001-05-10 Thread John Wolford
I don't know much about this at all, but i can suggest that you read the manpage of ldconfig, and check out the related files etc. j --- Andrew George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, stumped again (seems to be the story of my life recently) I keep getting the following error message when I try

Re: [expert] Screensaver won't work -- Solution

2001-05-10 Thread John Wolford
Yeah, that's intuitive. %-| j --- Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Klar and friends: My thanks to a fellow list member for this. Someone wrote me to tell me how to do it. You have to activate xscreensaver by typing in the console: xscreensaver-demo This activates

Re: [expert] reiserfs 1 more time

2001-05-09 Thread John Wolford
WEll one thing that jumps out at me, and you're probably going to have a million people tell you this, but if you're booting off of a reiserfs then you should *not* have it as a module. I mean, what's the point in having it as a module if you're going to be using it 100% of the time? Just compile

Re: [expert] RTL 8139 Network card

2001-05-09 Thread John Wolford
I tossed out supermount a long time ago. Here's what i have in my /etc/fstab : /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0 Of course, read the man page on mount and fstab before you

Re: [expert] MDK8.0 XMMS no mouse??

2001-05-09 Thread John Wolford
I have experienced, and continue to experience, similar problems. For full access to all the menus/submenus, right-click almost anywhere on winamp (but not on the playlist) and navigate thru the menus that way. j --- Kang-Ling Weng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I expirenced the problem that

Re: [expert] Setting up a net proxy on an NT network

2001-05-08 Thread John Wolford
1. Read the proxy-howto to learn about options there (transparent vs. ...opaque? proxies). Another option is simple MASQ'ing (which would also be transparent even to your internal, trusted, machines). Hmm, i don't know, but it MAY be the case that with MASQ'ing the original ip is contained

Re: [expert] libperl.so error -- urgent... SOLVED

2001-05-08 Thread John Wolford
Great. --- Leonardo T. de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Wolford wrote: Try taking all the rpms that you would upgrade to, put them in the same directory, and then do something like rpm -Fvh --test *.rpm to see if it will work. Read the manpage to learn the difference between

[expert] Sound is only coming out of one speaker

2001-05-07 Thread John Wolford
Ok, ok, i didn't get any response to my last post for help with the various libsafe packages i have installed. I can understand that, it's a tricky problem that most people probably don't encounter. I have another one that must be more common: I have sound coming out of only one speaker. I'm

Re: Re[2]: [expert] problems with libsafe, konsole and KDE: I need help please

2001-05-07 Thread John Wolford
on it. Any more ideas? Thanks :-) j --- Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And still with the libsafe craziness. And, by the way, as i look thru my own message i see that it says libsafe.so[2085]: version 1.2 but it's supposed to be version 1.3

Re: [expert] Sound is only coming out of one speaker

2001-05-07 Thread John Wolford
Hi Ken, I saw your original post but i didn't see any replies. What was the advice you received, and what does installing it the old way mean? Thanks, j --- Ken Arromdee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 May 2001, John Wolford wrote: I have sound coming out of only one speaker. I'm using

Re: [expert] Messed up rpm binary, need advise please

2001-05-07 Thread John Wolford
This might seem extreme, but you could try to boot with a rescue disc (like the install CD), mount your relevant partition, chroot and then try updating/replacing the rpm package. I'd wait to hear what anyone else on this list thinks before trying this. Definately you should run rpm with the

Re: [expert] konquerer no long works...

2001-05-07 Thread John Wolford
. Maybe I need to just switch completely over to Netscape. On Sunday 06 May 2001 01:34, John Wolford wrote: This is just a shot in the dark, but try running it as root. Another shot in the dark: awhile back someone mentioned that Netscape insists on loading its homepage, and if it can't

Re: [expert] libperl.so error -- urgent...

2001-05-07 Thread John Wolford
Try taking all the rpms that you would upgrade to, put them in the same directory, and then do something like rpm -Fvh --test *.rpm to see if it will work. Read the manpage to learn the difference between -Fvh -Uvh. Anyway, the moral of this story is that rpm might complain about apparent

Re: [expert] konquerer no long works...

2001-05-06 Thread John Wolford
This is just a shot in the dark, but try running it as root. Another shot in the dark: awhile back someone mentioned that Netscape insists on loading its homepage, and if it can't load it when it is started then it will die/automatically-exit. I know Konqueror doubles as a web-browser, is it

Re: [expert] problems with libsafe, konsole and KDE: I need help please

2001-05-06 Thread John Wolford
]: version 1.2 but it's supposed to be version 1.3 - that's what the package name is, anyway. Could this be part of it? Im getting sick of this problem. Many thanks, j --- John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, i've got a tough one (for me). Ive had libsafe-1.3 installed on my system

Re: [expert] Internet connection broken

2001-05-06 Thread John Wolford
The other day i was happy to be moved from one @home backbone to another, much faster one. As a result, my ip changed. Happily, none of my scripts (firewall, etc) are statically set up ip-wise, and so everything adjusted perfectly. Of course i'm using dhcp to obtain my ip, and that kept working

Re: [expert] Ownership of devices

2001-05-06 Thread John Wolford
One of the alternatives, and a simple one in a case like this, is to use sudo. j --- David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just been trying to use KFloppy to format a floppy disk from within the K Desktop Environment. As I was logged in as an ordinary user (jmorley) and a member of

Re: [expert] Monitoring UDP

2001-05-05 Thread John Wolford
You want something that sets your NIC in promiscuous mode. Like snort, or etherreal, or even tcpdump. Or you could have ipchains log all packets that come to itlots of options :-) j --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can I use to monitor UDP data? My Internet gateway is capable

[expert] problems with libsafe, konsole and KDE: I need help please

2001-05-05 Thread John Wolford
Ok, i've got a tough one (for me). Ive had libsafe-1.3 installed on my system for a long time. Everything has been working just fine. The other day i tried to install an rpm that wanted libsafe-2.0, and so i pulled it off one of the Mandrake mirrors for 8.0. I went to install it, and it told me

Re: [expert] konqueror doesn't work - f/u

2001-05-05 Thread John Wolford
What thewell then why don't you change the properties of the menu item so that it executes what seems to work for you in the console? j --- Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also note that if I execute konqueror from a console, it works just fine. In the menu

Re: [expert] httpd

2001-05-03 Thread John Wolford
Hi Anthony, It would help if you gave some more details. It could be poorly configured, bad hard drive, broken links, a bug, wrong password, corrupted partition, incomplete installation, improper permissions, flakey hardware 1. Any details on the installation? 2. Did you make any

Re: [expert] PCMCIA nic shutdown troubles

2001-05-03 Thread John Wolford
Read the man page on dhcpcd (man dhcpcd). Maybe you would like to try to run it in the debug mode, to get details of what it is trying to do when it hangs? Does your card work while the machine is running? Does it start up properly, run properly, but not shut down properly? What happens if you

Re: [expert] Problem compling kernel in Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-03 Thread John Wolford
To be precise, the how-to's give the order thusly: make dep clean modules modules_install bzdisk and then later depmod -a and then if you're happy with everything when you boot up with your floppy, back into /usr/src/linux and make install I think you modules_install implies modules, but still

Re: [expert] Replying to the mailing list with kmail

2001-05-02 Thread John Wolford
Since i didn't see Steve's message, i assume he sent it to you personally and it was never addressed to the list. I have, however, and so if you hit the reply-to-all then it should work (not that you have to send it, necessarily). :-) j --- vahlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mercredi 2 Mai

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
This post will totally betray my ignorance, but i'd rather try to help someone :-) I had similar errors with one installation (of Mandrake) and i don't remember how i solved it. Here are a few things that come to mind. Have you: 1) explicitly made sure that the correct modules are configured

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
I gave it some thought and now i remember that sndconfig saved me. If you the kernel is built with support for your soundcard and all the module dependancies are set up correctly, then sndconfig is your next step. (That means we're hoping that your kernel will support it, but try this next step

RE: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
and 2.2.18. -Original Message- From: John Wolford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 May 2001 14:28 To: Tutty, Dan; 'expert' Subject: Re: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly Is that the same error message that it produces if you just unplug the phone line when you're

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Oh Turgut, one more thing. Although i'm sure that running sndconfig will almost certainly solve your problem, another thing you might try doing is going through some of your logfiles to see if you can get any insight there. Maybe start with /var/log/syslog and try any other ones that seem

Re: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Is that the same error message that it produces if you just unplug the phone line when you're online? Could it be that your ISP is dropping you for some reason? dunno, j --- Tutty, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Could anyone let me know what the most common causes for the above

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Laurent, I've never used that tool, but you could get it from doing something like locate nslookup |xargs rpm -qf or the longhanded version: locate nslookup to find the file, then rpm -qf filename to find the owner package. If locate gives you too many files then try find / -name nslookup

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Hi again, Just thought i'd mention that i don't have access to linux from where i am, but i'm sure there are some more efficient ways of doing that. Can you make locate only locate executables, or locate exact-matching filenames? I don't know, but if you can then you don't have to worry about

Re: [expert] Kernel config file

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
Try installing some things as modules. Make careful decisions about what to put in as a module and what not to. One thing is, i think that some of the Mandrake kernels have been made with patches, so just getting the .config file might not be the only thing you need to do. j --- ninetysix

Re: [expert] configuring sb16

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
To configure it? Use sndconfig. Is it an isa card? In that case do something like this: cp /etc/isapnp.conf /etc/isapnp.conf.bak pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf Standard Advice: Read the man pages on those commands i mentioned :-) Good luck j --- Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Game-unfriendly is Mandrake 8.0

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
I almost hate to take the bait like this, but what the hell Praedor: Why'd you switch to 8.0 anyway? To get the latest, the greatest, right? But most any distro that puts out a new major version is going to have the cutting edge stuff - which is likely always going to be fairly buggy. So you

[expert] thanks for the libsafe.so.1.3 file

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
Just to let anyone who cares know, someone emailed me the libsafe.so.1.3 file (THANKS KEN) and i copied it back and my linux box booted up without a hitch. I love that i can claw my way back from a totally broken system without having to reinstall. I have to write a script that will protect me

Re: [expert] Game-unfriendly is Mandrake 8.0

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
I noticed doesnt give me any problems even while I'm playing MP3s in xmms and hearing sounds from other apps while I'm still playing Q3. On Monday 30 April 2001 16:26, John Wolford wrote: I almost hate to take the bait like this, but what the hell Praedor: Why'd you switch

Re: [expert] mandrake 8 rpm

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
Hi Anthony, You could try doing rpm -iv or -ivv, to get some verbose messages. Also you might try firing up another console when it hangs, do a detailed ps listing or run top or something like that, to see if you can find out what exact process is hanging, and if it's gobbling up all the

Re: [expert] rpmdrake configuration

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
I think it might help you to read the man page for rpm: man rpm, and see the related files. If you're looking for things specific to rpmdrake, try locate rpmdrake (assuming your database is up to date - update it with updatedb). Most of those things you will need to run as root. Hope that

Re: [expert] samba RPM

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
Hi Kaab, There must be a million tutorials, howto's and examples out there on exactly that. The first tutorial that i found is http://samba.linuxbe.org/en/index.html and i got that by doing a google search for samba tutorial quick start. I'm sure you can come up with a better search string than

Re: [expert] rpmdrake configuration

2001-04-30 Thread John Wolford
Oh, ok. Maybe you can just uninstall rpmdrake and reinstall it? No package on my system depends on it, so that should be simple enough. Did you try anything that i suggested to debug/troubleshoot it? Taking a look at the files that come in the rpmdrake package i don't see any config files. Maybe

Re: [expert] Installing Netscape 3.04 and libdl.so.1

2001-04-29 Thread John Wolford
Hi Randy, Yes, go to rpmfind.net and look for an older version of libdl. You can also look at tuxfinder.com. Then have fun installing that older version. I DONT KNOW, but i would try something like rpm -ivh --force rpm package filename. Note that you are _installing_ it, not upgrading it, hence

Re: [expert] 8.0: cannot boot into Linux after the install

2001-04-29 Thread John Wolford
Kevin, Awhile back i tried to make 2 installations of Mandrake. One installation was already on one drive, and i tried installing the second onto several combinations of the two drives (several times). Every time, at the part of the installation where it wants to format the partitions, it would

Re: [expert] How do I copy a partition?

2001-04-28 Thread John Wolford
Thanks, Todd :-) j --- Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Wolford wrote: 2. copy: # cp -a /usr /mnt Very good procedure. As an adder, I would like to highlight that the gentleman you were responding to mentioned the need for the -ax option. x keeps it within the same file

[expert] this is one i could really use your help on.......

2001-04-28 Thread John Wolford
Hi guys, I won't bore you with the details, but here's where i wound up: I need to have libsafe-1.3 installed, and i accidentaly uninstalled/upgraded it. I have 2.0 installed, but that doesn't work if 1.3 isn't there too. So right now i can run almost no commands (no ls, etc) - oddly enough,

Re: [expert] Network problem: can't connect via DHCP

2001-04-28 Thread John Wolford
When it rains, it pours. Someone else just asked the exact same question. Ive been through it myself, and so here's what i said: When i experienced that symptom (timeout), it was because my ISP required that i pass a hostname with the request: dhcpcd -h cr843732-a was the thing it needed. To

Re: [expert] weird network problem

2001-04-27 Thread John Wolford
Joe, When you moved the linux server, did you carry the cables with it? Plugged into a hub, you must have used straight-through, but in the new location should it be crossover, perhaps? Or maybe it should be straight-through but for some reason it is crossover? In other words, good cables but

Re: [expert] Is that sshd process really serving ssh?

2001-04-27 Thread John Wolford
Let me try posting this again Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:55:50 -0700 (PDT) From: John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Is that sshd process really serving ssh? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Rusty, Mark Karl

Re: [expert] socket.h file

2001-04-27 Thread John Wolford
It doesn't appear to point to anything: [john@homer Website]$ ls -l /usr/include/sys/socket.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8340 Jan 17 13:54 /usr/include/sys/socket.h [john@homer Website]$ Cheers, j --- Patrick Shirkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what /usr/include/sys/socket.h

Re: [expert] Firewall / Router Advice

2001-04-27 Thread John Wolford
Martyn, Doesn't it strike as a little weird that both interfaces are on the same network? Which interface does it send to when it wants to ping 172.18.9.200? Both? Or one of them, and then which one? You have two topologies going on in the internal network: star topology on the side of the

Re: [expert] 2 installs

2001-04-27 Thread John Wolford
Hi Gary, If you're going to install 8.0 along side 7.2, you should do it on an entirely new partition(s). And back up anything you care about... j --- Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, have a question.. I have Mdk 7.2 and plenty of room on my HD for another. Can I safely install

Re: [expert] how to /not/ installing X in mdk 8.0?

2001-04-27 Thread John Wolford
Patrick, If 8.0 is anything like 7.x, then you must install X but then you can go back and uninstall it once you boot up your new system. Uninstall is done by taking out all the rpm packages that have anything to do with X. Have fun with that. And you can disable apmd when you first boot up

Re: [expert] newbie list not runing for me

2001-04-27 Thread John Wolford
Why don't you try subscribing again? If that doesn't work, try unsubscribing and then subscribing again. There's a page to do that off of the Mandrake site: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Good luck, j --- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question is actually

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 kills dhcp

2001-04-27 Thread John Wolford
When i experienced that symptom (timeout), it was because my ISP required that i pass a hostname with the request: dhcpcd -h cr843732-a was the thing it needed. To make that an automatic phenomenon during bootup, make sure to include the following in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (for

[expert] rpm --rebuilddb

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
I have a small problem: [root@homer RPM]# rpm -Fvh RPMS/i686/nedit-5.1.1-9.1mdk.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies: libsafe.so.1.3 is needed by nedit-5.1.1-9.1mdk [root@homer RPM]# rpm -q libsafe libsafe-1.3-8mdk [root@homer RPM]# locate libsafe.so.1.3 /lib/libsafe.so.1.3 [root@homer

Re: [expert] Kernel building script

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
Greg, 1. What's the difference between copying all those files manually and doing make install? 2. Where's your depmod -a? 3. And on a totally different note, i like usage: $0 new in case someone wants to rename the script. 4. I'm assuming you've tested it out? But then what about things

Re: [expert] Upgrading MDK7.2 to MDK8.0 with qmail installed

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
Paulo, I agree with you on reinstalling rather than upgrading. You might check out the freezerburn link off the homepage of mandrake.com. Someone who works at Mandrake (i forget his name just now) put together an rpm package for qmail and accessories. I found this out by reading the forum on

RE: [expert] xinetd

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
Richard, There's no need to get all grumpy. Maybe you should have said what you had tried, in your original message. That's always helpful to people who want to help you. Which is (_obviously_) what this mailing list is about. Try the Mandrake Forum also. Unfortunately i can't help you with

Re: [expert] Xserver broken -- partition full

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
Oh! Well, good :-) But still you need to delete the locked file that xfs created. Along with df, du is another useful utility. disk usage is what it stands for. Read the manpage, but du -h /var will give you some idea of how much space the things in /var are taking and du -hs /var will

Re: [expert] Needed Libraries

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
I've been in this KIND of a position before, but not exactly the same. In my situation i wanted two different versions of something installed - a legacy program wanted an older version of a certain rpm package and a new program wanted the newer version of the same package. I wound up using

Re: [expert] How do I copy a partition?

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
Here's a old post that i've wound up re-posting a few times, and here i go again. I'm glad i saved it! Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:07:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Summary: How to move /usr to another partition To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings again

Re: [expert] PCMCIA fast ethernet card

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
I can't really help you, but i can give you some advice: buy a new card. I've fiddled with many a network card in the past, and i can frankly say that it's just not worth the hassle. Especially if drivers have not been made for it! Unless of course, you're into that kind of thingmisery and

Re: [expert] Urgent! Xserver broken -- Help!

2001-04-26 Thread John Wolford
Benjamin, Make sure that xfs, your fontserver service, is running. To do this: [root@homer RPM]# service xfs status xfs (pid 710) is running... [root@homer RPM]# And if it's not running, then start it up with service xfs start and then try startx. Then, if that's it, check to make sure that

Re: [expert] mdk8.0 - gcc and kernel problems

2001-04-25 Thread John Wolford
Hi Ken, 1. The list. It's fugged. Do you get a confirmation email asking you to confirm? And does it say to do this by hitting reply? If so, hit instead reply-all and see if you get a different list of recipients. If so, maybe one or two of them include entries like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

Re: [expert] Samba Problems

2001-04-25 Thread John Wolford
Hi there, Sorry i can't help you more than this, but...It seems to me that your internet connection sharing should come up AFTER your eth0 (plugged into the cable modem) has gotten its ip address. Is the connection sharing a service? That is, does it have a pointer in /etc/rc.d/rcX.d where

Re: [expert] 2.2.19 kernel with Mandrake 8.0?

2001-04-24 Thread John Wolford
Aaron, you'll probably have to downgrade manually. You can install kernels through doing some rpm work or by installing it manually from a .tar.gz file or some such thing. There are numerous howtos for this. You shouldn't need to up/downgrade anything else to do it (does anyone else know about

Re: [expert] RE:KERNEL PANIC:8.0

2001-04-24 Thread John Wolford
Yeah, here's my thoughts: Don't think about installing Mandrake over several drives. I was trying that for the longest time, wondering WHAT could be the problem, until a friend informed me that someone he knew went through the same headaches and they all went away when he stopped trying to

Re: [expert] kernel-2.2.19 and no ReiserFS support!

2001-04-23 Thread John Wolford
You have to get the ReiserFS patch for 2.2.x. Check out this link for tips on applying the patch: http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tree/Persons/bauer/new/linux-patches.html and http://lists.omnipotent.net/reiserfs/200101/msg00047.html As for 2.4.x, check out a security advisory here:

Re: [expert] Busted Samba

2001-04-23 Thread John Wolford
If you read it again, you'll see that libc.so.6 is not the thing that isn't being found, glibc_2.2 is. It looks as though libc.so.6 is the thing that's not finding glibc_2.2. You need to install glibc_2.2, or so it would appear. Cheers j --- Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to

Re: [expert] Graphic Login.

2001-04-23 Thread John Wolford
Ok, let's say he logs in as root. Then he wants to do the following: Change the file /etc/inittab so that the line that says id:3:initdefault: (on mine it's 3, but it might be something different on your friend's) says id:5:initdefault: instead. He can do that with a text editor, or if he

[expert] Flashplayer plugin for netscape - Help, please...

2001-04-23 Thread John Wolford
Hello all, I'm trying to get flashplayer to work as a plugin for Netscape. I'v got netscape-communicator-4.76-3.3mdk netscape-common-4.76-3.3mdk on my system. I went to the flash site and downloaded the package for linux, followed the (super easy) directions, and so far flash continues to not

Re: [expert] Is that sshd process really serving ssh?

2001-04-22 Thread John Wolford
, except that it doesn't make that distinction between server and doer. Cheers, j --- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, John Wolford wrote: I have a question that might be off-topic for this list, but then again maybe not. Probably mildly so

Re: [expert] Update Error

2001-04-20 Thread John Wolford
"Permission denied" seems to suggest that maybe you weren't root when you tried to install? Many rpm packages install, by default, into directories which are not writeable by regular users. Could that be it? j --- SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mandrake 7.0, I tried the following and

[expert] Is that sshd process really serving ssh?

2001-04-20 Thread John Wolford
Hi All, I have a question that might be off-topic for this list, but then again maybe not. How can i tell if a given sshd process is serving ssh? Other than trying to connect to it, that is. This situation i'm trying to work with is like this: There is sshd running on a box, and there is a

[expert] flashplayer plugin for netscape

2001-04-20 Thread John Wolford
Hello all, I'm trying to get flashplayer to work as a plugin for Netscape. I'v got netscape-communicator-4.76-3.3mdk netscape-common-4.76-3.3mdk on my system. I went to the flash site and downloaded the package for linux, followed the (super easy) directions, and so far flash continues to not

Re: [expert] Almost home - resolution is too high

2001-04-19 Thread John Wolford
[24.113.229.96] by web12002.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:41:34 PDT Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:41:34 -0700 (PDT) From: John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Almost home - resolution is too high To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME

Re: RE[2]: [expert] How do I copy a partition?

2001-04-19 Thread John Wolford
while ago on this topic, after asking a similar question and getting many responses. Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:07:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Summary: How to move /usr to another partition To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings again, Thanks for all the repli

Re: [expert] How dost one change from rpm-3.x to rpm-4.x?

2001-04-16 Thread John Wolford
I hate to post another non-productive email on this list, but here is an observation of mine: I've been on this list for several months now and i have seen many a person ask this same question (i myself asked it at one point, at least to myself), but i have not seen *ONE* person give

Re: [expert] Upgrading RPM 3 to 4

2001-04-16 Thread John Wolford
Yeah but what database does it use? Did you have to specify *anything* or did it just start working on its own? This is the closest thing to a success story i've heard of on this particular issue. Thanks, j --- "C. CLOSE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SoloCDM wrote: Does anyone have ideas

Re: [expert]OS idenity,Dhcp Eth0 and more!!

2001-04-16 Thread John Wolford
Hmmm, i got a reply to this post before i got the post itself. When you subscribed to your Roadrunner ISP, did they give you a hostname? I'm betting they did. Let's pretend that is something like cr934573-a. Then try this on for size: [root@homer john]# dhcpcd -h cr934573-a [root@homer john]#

Re: [expert] Upgrading RPM 3 to 4

2001-04-16 Thread John Wolford
See my last post. This illustrates my point quite nicely. If you figure it out, please post it. Thanks :-) j --- SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have ideas how to go from RPM version 3.x to 4.x, because RPM version 3.x won't install version 4.x? Also, what files are necessary

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