[expert] Make certificates

2000-06-18 Thread Necrotica
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 Apache that you should run "make cerificates" to

[expert] KDM Problems

2000-06-18 Thread Necrotica
A weird thing happened tonight... As I was logging out of X, when X tried to restart itself in an infinite loop. I was finally able to kill it, but when I rebooted it would just hang when it tried to start the X server. I booted into runlevel 3, ran X, and X loaded fine. I exitted out, went

[expert] Gnome Slow After Kernel Upgrade

2000-06-17 Thread Necrotica
Weird... I just upgraded my kernel from the stock 2.2.15 that comes with Mandrake 7.1 to 2.2.16-4mdk on Cooker. Since the upgrade, Gnome has slowed down dramatically. For instance, it takes 11 seconds to open Gnome Terminal. It took 35 seconds to get to my Gnome desktop when logging in. Anyone

Re: [expert] fetchmail/cron

2000-06-15 Thread Necrotica
I dunno if this will help, but... I thought this out. I have two email accounts on an external POP3 server. I createrd a .fetchmailrc and placed in my /home/necrotica directory. I then set up the following cron command to be run as user necrotica "fetchmail -f "/home/necrotica&quo

Re: [expert] vmware problems

2000-06-15 Thread Necrotica
OK,then try changing the IP address of your virtual machine. For example, the default subnet that Vmware uses is 172.16.16.0. It is common for people to assign their virtual machine 172.16.16.1. This doesn't work. Change the IP address to 172.16.16.2. Also do you have IP Masq installed and

Re: [expert] vmware problems

2000-06-15 Thread Necrotica
Ick...this could be more complicated since the IP address of your Linux machine will always be changing. Try what I suggested in my last email and read some docs at www.vmware.com and see what you can find. If you still can't get it to work point your news reader to news.vmware.com and read some

Re: [expert] vmware problems

2000-06-14 Thread Necrotica
Are you using host based networking? If not, and you only have one NIC card, you should be. Then, within the TCP/IP properties in Vmware, make sure the default gateway is set to the IP address of your Linux machine... -Chris On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, LinuxMan :-) wrote: hi all ! :-) well ,

[expert] XFree 4.0-3.3.6

2000-06-12 Thread Necrotica
I can't take it anymore!! I have been trying to troubleshoot an extremely frustrating problem. For no apparent reason at all, Linux has just been hanging solid on me every now and then. I'm thinking that PERHAPS its not the machine thats hanging (there aren't any mesages in /var/log messages or

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-12 Thread Necrotica
There isn't one - at least that I know of. Although the ext2 filesystem is not totally completely immune from fragmentation it does much better than any FAT* system. -Chris On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Dear all: Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0-3.3.6

2000-06-12 Thread Necrotica
. In fact, I'd never go back to 3.3.6 because my 3d performance with the new tnt driver rocks! John Kim Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us as www.aslab.com On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Necrotica wrote: I can't take it anymore!! I have been trying to troubleshoot an extremely frustrating

[expert] Unable To Handle Kernel Paging Request

2000-06-11 Thread Necrotica
Lately my computer has been hanging solid every few hours. Not only is this annoying but it has resulted in lost data and file corruption. A couple of days ago I started fresh. I formatted everything ReiserFS and installed Mandrake 7.1 (with XFree 4.0). Its still doing it. Checking the syslong

Re: [expert] Unable To Handle Kernel Paging Request

2000-06-11 Thread Necrotica
blem 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: Lately my computer has been hanging solid every few hours. Not only is this annoying but it ha

[expert] Bash Scripting

2000-06-10 Thread Necrotica
I'm interested in learning a little about bash scripting. In particular, I'd like to learn how to tell if the user logging on is logging in under X or from a command prompt. Can anyone point me in the direction of where I can find this information? Thanks... -Chris

Re: [expert] Bash Scripting

2000-06-10 Thread Necrotica
Thanks for the help, guys. That was exactly what I was looking for! -Chris On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Civileme wrote: Civileme wrote: Necrotica wrote: I'm interested in learning a little about bash scripting. In particular, I'd like to learn how to tell if the user logging

Re: [expert] GNU/Linux -- Follower or Leader?

2000-06-08 Thread Necrotica
Before I start, let me apologize if this email doesn't look right.but my Linux installation is currently out of service as I am upgrading to Mandrake 7.1. Anyways, while installing the new Mandrake release I have been thinking about the original "Follower or Leader" email that was posted

[expert] No Init Found

2000-05-20 Thread Necrotica
Hello, After running some benchmarks I decided to move my Linux partitons around. Since I knew the new lilo can boot from partitons over the 1024 cylinder barrier I was happy to know that I could do this exactly the way I wanted. Previously my setup was simple. The layout was like this: HDA1 =

Re: [expert] What's this process?

2000-04-30 Thread Necrotica
Monte, it manages RAID configurations. -Chris On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: When I go to kpm, I see a process running that I am not familiar w/, i.e. what does it belong to. I have tried looking it up in man, and tried hunting it down w/ locate, all to no avail. I don't recall seeing

Re: [expert] DIsk Caching

2000-04-25 Thread Necrotica
John, Thats kind of what I thought. I wasn't even sure if my question was even intelligent in Linux. I know that in the old school days of OS/2 and even Windows 95 it was a good idea to hack away at a config file or two to control how much physical RAM was being used as a disk cache. Perhaps

[expert] DIsk Caching

2000-04-24 Thread Necrotica
Hello, In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something intensive such as compiling an application. Unfortunately it

Re: [expert] Kernel Parameter vga=0x0301

2000-04-23 Thread Necrotica
and what effect it could have on mounting your root filesystem. Alan Necrotica wrote: Hello, I have recently installed Mandrake 7.02 on both of my home machines. Oddly enough, on both of them I had the exact same problem. The installation would go fine, but when the machine reboo

[expert] Kernel Parameter vga=0x0301

2000-04-22 Thread Necrotica
Hello, I have recently installed Mandrake 7.02 on both of my home machines. Oddly enough, on both of them I had the exact same problem. The installation would go fine, but when the machine rebooted I would get a kernel panic because it was not able to mount the root filesystem. On both machines