Re: [expert] Running telnet server

2001-09-14 Thread M. Osten
After making the changes you must restart xinetd with /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart Or better yet, use OpenSSH http://www.openssh.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] wuftp server is unresponsive

2001-09-05 Thread M. Osten
Do you have reverse DNS set up for that host? I actually finally managed to fix this problem by removing the GATEWAY= line in my /etc/sysconfig/network file. But just for interest, what is a reverse DNS? forward foo.foo.org=192.168.1.1 reverse 192.168.1.1=foo.foo.org man nslookup man

Re: [expert] Novel Support

2001-09-04 Thread M. Osten
Does anyone know how to connect to a printer on a Novel 3.12 Server? Does anyone know of a good 'HOW-TO' for setting up a Linux box so that it looks and acts like a novel server ? Do a google search for mars nwe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] wuftp server is unresponsive

2001-09-03 Thread M. Osten
Has anyone experienced this before?: [root@tux350 /root]# ftp localhost Connected to localhost.localdomain. Then, 1 and a half minutes later (this delay is consistent): 220 tux350.reisersun FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Tue Oct 3 14:29:19 CEST 2000) ready. Name (localhost:root):

Re: [expert] Quotas

2001-09-03 Thread M. Osten
Hi Guys, I'm currently running Suse 7.2 and Mandrake 8 on two different machines, and I want to set up quotas on both machines, both are running on RiserFS, How do I even begin this process? Google is your friend...use it. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html Want to buy

Re: [expert] ipchains problem on 2.4.9

2001-08-30 Thread M. Osten
ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel ipchains has been replaced by iptables http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/iptables_basics.html Yes, but ipchains compatablity is still a kernel option. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Where's Plex86?

2001-08-27 Thread M. Osten
I really want to be able to run Win98 (hmm...Age of Empires) in Linux but I have a bad feeling that something has happened to the project. Does someone know where I can get a Redhat or Mandrake RPM? Sorry to state the obvious, but there's always vmware. Last time I looked, Plex86 was no

Re: [expert] Dual CPU's

2001-08-27 Thread M. Osten
Thank you. A quick question, we seem to be able to install using ext2 file system, but when we switch to Reiser that is what hangs the install. We have a 80gig array and this will be a web server, so we want to avoid little files taking 4k blocks, hence the Reiser decision. Could

RE: [expert] FYI: ximian has installer for 8.0....

2001-08-27 Thread M. Osten
The release is still not official. You can use the script lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ |sh to access the installation but you still need to download the actual pkgs from the Ximian site because they are not yet posted to any of the mirrors. Charles (-: Seems to be working here.

[expert] gdm chooser

2001-08-26 Thread M. Osten
I'm trying to get the gdmchooser to work when i do a '/usr/bin/X11/X -indirect hostname' but i always get the standard gdm login. It works if I connect to an older version of gnome (works, as in shows me the chooser, selecting a host does not work). Anyone know what is going on with this?

Re: [expert] GCC 2.96

2001-08-23 Thread M. Osten
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... On Thursday 23 August 2001 19:01, Tom Badran wrote: Im sure many of you share my hatred for this version of gcc. I always found it bizare that mandrake went down this road. At least in 8.1b they have both gcc 3 and 2.96. However, 3 has

Re: [expert] runnig Mandrake 8.0 with 2 cpu

2001-08-22 Thread M. Osten
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... hi, after adding another cpu to my box, in installed the kernel smp rpm , in RED HAT the only thing left to do is reboot, is there ant thing else i need to do ? - simply rebbot the machine is not helping ... Is it loading the SMP

Re: [expert] Support for Wireless PCMCIA NIC's in 8.1?

2001-08-22 Thread M. Osten
Is there any support for wirless lan cards - specifically pcmcia ones - built into 8.1? I'm really waiting on this feature alone so that I can get my Thinkpad up and running with Mandrake. There has been support for wireless (802.11) PCMCIA cards for years. Its not a mandrake thing.

Re: [expert] nslookup is where?

2001-08-20 Thread M. Osten
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Stephen Boulet wrote: Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen nslookup has been depreciated. use the dig command now. if you *really* want nslookup, you can find it on http://www.rpmfind.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] linux/unix administrator

2001-07-19 Thread M. Osten
On Friday 20 July 2001 04:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Although i am a Windows NT/2000 Administrator but i have learn quiet a few skill of Unix/linux administration .. And learning day by day ... now all i want to know that as a unix admin is it my respinsibility to know all the

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread M. Osten
Until these inconsistencies are resolved, Linux will remain for hackers who have the time and knowledge to fix things so that they will run, and the common user will never get to reap the benefits os this otherwise wonderful operating system. Two cases in point: More fuel for the fire

Re: [expert] DvD and DivX players recomended in LM8?

2001-07-09 Thread M. Osten
Hi all I have a LM8 Freq (26June) in my laptop and I want to install something that reproduces DVD and DivX. I tried xine and XMPS but the first I have a problems with imlib and the second with gcc (version 3.0 required) and the question is: There is an player for reproduces DIvX and

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread M. Osten
I want everybody running Linux, because it is better. I don't. I like the fact that it takes skills to run a successful linux box. I like the fact that I can talk to other linux users and not get blank drooling faces. I guess this is exactly what I want to avoid, Linux becoming an

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Moving linux to a different, larger drive

2001-07-06 Thread M. Osten
Whether or not that is true I don't know, but I *do* know that cp has a tendency to FOLLOW softlinks (and COPY, not reproduce, hard links), whereas tar does not, so tar (and cpio, if you prefer it to tar) is better there. cp -a . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Michael Osten

Re: [expert] tar question

2001-07-01 Thread M. Osten
Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor,

Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv

2001-07-01 Thread M. Osten
I have the same card, and here is my entries in /etc/modules.conf btw, I dont use xawtv, but I looked at it. seems to me it needed an extra module loaded. Reread the INSTALL doc that came with the source. Or use zapping, http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ # i2c alias char-major-89 i2c-dev

Re: [expert] how to burn an ISO

2001-06-28 Thread M. Osten
One of the best applications I have ever seen for burning cd's is here: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~jhaeger/webCDwriter/ It allows you to burn cd's from any network attached computer, and gives you a very nice java gui in a browser to do it with. . --- |o_o | |:_/ |