[expert] read-only floppy workaround

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those answering; but the OPs did not believe that since their floppy works under other OSs... I dug some more and found a workaround which

Re: [expert] read-only floppy workaround

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:12:03 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 Nov 2003 7:00 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . is effectively in my path!! I see the same on 9.2rc2 :^P should be bugged as a security flaw IMO Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:16:58 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a fix? If you have a choice (OSS/ALSA), try them. I was feeling the same way (see bug at http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=57 ). Have you tried rmmod sound and modprobe sound...? ll

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:41:55 -0800 Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider coding it simply: myhostname = holt-tech.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] chkrootkit and mailing results to root

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:49:26 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It rejects mine the same as his even though I use a smarthost to relay my messages so that they pass through my ISP mail servers. For some reason, Mandrake mailing list doesn't accept those. My only solution was to

Re: [expert] Enabling a Laptop Touch Pad

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:03:07 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I loaded 9.0 onto my Dell Inspiron 3200, I did not connect the mouse, and the touch pad was working perfectly. Now that I have plugged in a mouse to the system, the mouse works fine, but the touch pad is a crazy

Re: [expert] [dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com: hijack cont.]

2003-11-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:09:44 -0800 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded: reviewing the logs, I have seen a large number of GETs in /var/log/httpd/*.log with very long pathnames and/or requests to xxx.xxx.xxx:25. I think that is how they got in. Not in; but through...

Re: [expert] Is the list down again?

2003-11-03 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:52:23 +1100 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may mean something to someone? Charlie Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day to the following recipients: Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason: unable to deliver this message after

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:28:57 -0500 Phil G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't figure out how to start kweather. I have kdetoys 3.1-5 installed. Does it work with this version? Just did it... right-click on TaskBar, Add-Applet-Kweather Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:50:43 +1000 Brett W Tippet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stopped iptables and also ip6tables .. restarted the network .. same thing going on .. Another thing to note ... a ping from the machine that's failing with result in a reply from it's own NIC IP of destination

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:34:39 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Praedor, Sunday, October 12, 2003, 7:41:58 PM, you wrote: PA It seems patently indefensible and unfair to out-and-out ban PA opera, safari, konqueror, etc, as a matter of policy. It most PA certainly isn't a

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:01:05 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I simply want the option, in the form of a button, to go ahead and try to use their site through a non-mozilla/non-IE browser. I have many complaints with my credit card provider; but at least they do just as you

[expert] grep weirdness -- I MEAN IT!!

2003-10-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
I'm trying to nail down a situation where 9.2rc2 (haven't time to test previous versions) CHANGES my /etc/fstab entry from /mnt/camera to /mnt/hd, DELETES /mnt/camera, and ADDS /mnt/hd if it doesn't exist. Can anyone tell me what they get when, as root, the following command is entered: grep

CROSS-POSTING [Was:Re: [expert] Xpdf - defining colors]

2003-10-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:17:02 +0200 Tomas Rett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a semi-hijacked thread... Please stop cross-posting... on the Mdk lists, cross-posting does NOT work... Cross-posted messages end up on the SAME list; whichever one is listed first... I am not on newbie, yet get

Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings

2003-10-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:46:07 +0100 Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:10:59 + Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I could imagine which I may have seen mentioned on the Sylpheed list is closing Sylpheed with the button in the upper right

Re: [expert] ESC in bash to clear the line

2003-10-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:41:28 +0200 Tomas Rett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi listers ! I need the ESC key in bash session to clear the input line, i.e. the command. Could you tell me, how to set up the ~/.inputrc file ? Why not use built-in C-u and/or C-k depending on where you are on the input

Re: [expert] setup email bounce

2003-10-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:30:50 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I want to be able to setup an email 'bounce' from my server. If you just want to stop spam and other undesirable junk, I find postfix does an admirable job. For those obstinate sites that won't quit, they get blocked

Re: [expert] More list problems?

2003-09-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:10:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days I have suddenly found that I am seeing lots of replies for which the original post never arrived - one of them my own. I had not been having that problem previously - at least not for ages.

Re: [expert] More list problems?

2003-09-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:46:52 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:10:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days I have suddenly found that I am seeing lots of replies for which the original post never arrived - one of them my

Re: [expert] More list problems?

2003-09-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:47:45 -0400 Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: I'm in direct contact with Charles Duval @ Mdk... from a trace this s/Duval/Davant/ # early morning brain fart... morning, I'm suspecting another site in Paris may be corrupting DNS for one

Re: [expert] By the way ( was: More list problems?)

2003-09-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:54:34 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why they don't switch from Sympa to mailman. Mark, If the problem is indeed DNS related as I indicated in other posts, switching would likely not solve much... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] pcmcia nic weirdness - more ;(

2003-09-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:00:02 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: different cards - so far: a Netgear FA511 and a Xircom XE2000. Both are detected correctly, but none would work with DHCP anymore (the original one did). And even under the scenario of having to manually change

Re: [expert] pcmcia nic weirdness - more ;(

2003-09-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
Sorry guys... I know the attribution is wrong... reporting as a bug to sylpheed-claws now... On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:20:23 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:00:02 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: different cards - so far: a Netgear FA511

Re: [expert] TightVNC ?

2003-09-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:13:46 -0500 H. Carter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that. Apparently I am not receiving everything from the list... probably my fault. I went back and looked at the archive and bingo. or maybe messages are rejected from one of Mdk's servers

Re: [expert] how to modify the way msec behave?

2003-09-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:29:22 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My clam antivirus has been experiencing problems because of the way msec behave. It turns out that msec change the ownership of clamav's log in /var/log/ into root:adm. How do I prevent this? {msec,Verisign,foo}

Re: [expert] testing

2003-09-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:32:27 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. The are just getting the kinks worked out of the new servers. If only they'd fix rDNS for the one at 80.67.180.176, I'd be happier and they would stop getting bounce messages from my server. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Sound dissapeared!

2003-09-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:38:12 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yes, both the computer and the speakers are plugged in to the power. Hopefully not with the microphone in the speaker jack like I did the other day... :^) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] eth0 doesn't get IP through dhcp - Problem vanished

2003-09-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:53:35 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Mullen schrieb am Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:40:20 -0400 (EDT): On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Robert Thyberg wrote: Have had exactly the same problem, which is why this is being sent by Eudora!! Have 4-port router

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:42:07 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the md5sums don't check, or you suspect your CD drive Actually, the CDs may still be fine... see Twiki for how to determine if the CD is really OK (md5sum may be wrong due to padding). Want to buy your Pack or

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 10 Sep 2003 13:18:30 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner

Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var

2003-09-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:32:02 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** Pierre Fortin Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:23:16 -0400 : On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:56:53 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Due to some problems during download of RC2 I ran into space

[expert] Cooker bug server is broken?

2003-09-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
I barely have time to post this; gotta hit the road... please forward to cooker if necessary. The cooker bug site has an expired certificate (localhost yet). When I try to post a 9.2rc1 bug, I get: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was

[expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...

2003-09-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
My observations on 9.2rc1 are a tad disappointing... 1a. USB mouse and IBM trackpoint worked simultaneously in 9.1 -- after installing 9.2, even after I told it where to find 9.1 for lilo, the USB mouse no longer works in my 9.1... Mouse on existing install related to newly installed lilo..??

Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?

2003-09-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:04:20 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 11:24 pm, Jack Coates wrote: Mine doesn't work with either of these, but saslpasswd works. Only problem is that every few months I add a user and spend a few hours trying to remember

Re: [expert] More on threading

2003-09-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:30:28 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For christmas. Does the latest KMail, Sylpheed, or claws support deletion of a entire collapsed thread in one step. This is what i'd love to see. I'd happily leave threads in my folders longer until they had well

Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...

2003-09-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
the same MBR. Rreread what you snipped and try to understand what happened -- then you should see what Mdk's installer did wrong... On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:26:31 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Loading USB printer modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.22

Re: [expert] scanner

2003-08-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 30 Aug 2003 11:30:18 -0400 Daniel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a Microtek Scanmaker E3 working with Mdk 9.1. The scsi modules are loading ok, but neither scannerdrake or xsane will detect the scanner. I had this working with Suse 8.2, same hardware.

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:06:03 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a new mailhost and plan to chroot it; but my current postfix is very anti-spam and documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix Pierre - is there a link to this on the HOW-TO

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:18:34 -0500 J.C. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So are we all happy now? Nope... not until Mdk fixes rDNS for one (more?) of the new servers... : Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Servers...

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bouncing to

Re: [expert] Servers...

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:54:46 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now

Re: [expert] postfix problems

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:01:31 +0200 Kim Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didnĀ“t work, so i uninstalled qmail. I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine,

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:14:39 +0100 Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'd like to set up my own Postfix mail server but... I'm not entirely sure how to. I have my own domain name (which is currently hosted) but I'd like it to point to my fixed ip instead. What would be the

[expert] FYI: Streamlined SSH access to different machines behind a singleIP

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
Since I just had to solve this problem with the help of google, I documented it here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/AccessingMultipleMachinesBehindASingleIPAddress Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-23 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:32:35 +0200 Udo Rader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I have a directory that contains several hundred files and I want to copy them all except _one_ file. This sounds so easy yet still I am stuck or blind or stupid. Is there no not operator in bash? If it were,

Re: [expert] Python Question

2003-08-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:15:22 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it would be best offline dunno. But would anyone know the python equivalent to grep Number $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals | awk -F= '{print $2;}' For the life of me I'm stumped... but that's no

Re: [expert] Making / Verifying 9.2beta ISOs

2003-08-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:38:15 -0700 Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always dd the CD back to a /tmp file before running md5sum against it. Not necessary: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BadISOMd5sumNotAlways Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Making / Verifying 9.2beta ISOs

2003-08-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:15:05 +0200 Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 2. August 2003 13:50 schrieb Pierre Fortin: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:38:15 -0700 Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always dd the CD back to a /tmp file before running md5sum against

Re: [expert] Comcast Routing

2003-08-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:13:11 -0500 stefmit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running different IP networks, even though on the same infrastructure. So one could end up with two PCs, apparently on the same second layer connection, which could not talk to each other except for routing through the

Re: [expert] time drift

2003-08-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 10:37:53 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E Fox) wrote: Hi On a previous message I noted my issue with kde's clock having the wrong timezone. Still haven't sorted that out. But I noticed today that the system's time was wrong - still the right timezone but about 20

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:34:56 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds exactly as you describe... collisions! They are due to a number of reasons; but some things to check: 1. Bypass the hub with a direct (rolled) cable. If this works (check collisions in ifconfig),

Re: [expert] Can't run perl scripts as non-root in 9.1

2003-07-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 28 Jul 2003 18:26:34 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... I'm a dummy here but one question. Does the first line in the perl script the one that should be something like #!/usr/bin/perl Actually say that or does it say #!/usr/local/bin/perl Or worse:

Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.

2003-07-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 27 Jul 2003 09:17:40 +0100 Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I need to get postfix to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,which at the moment its rejecting. Won't help for dyndns; but my postfix handles multiple domains -- documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix I'm still

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:28:53 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Well, I

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:17:16 +1000 charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:01 am, Pierre Fortin wholly or partly mentioned :- If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm too pissed to find it... I am uncertain if I understand your problem

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:17:17 -0600 Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been playing with opera; but I still haven't decided which browser sucks the least -- none are good. Pierre, Have you tried Kget integrated into Konqueror??? Pretty durn nice.. I'm thinking of going back to basics...

[expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
Gotta vent... SIGH WHY do browser writers insist they know more about the operating environment than the user...? Used Mozilla to download 9.2beta1 to *MY* choice of target disk (yup, I finally have partitions available to test...); yet after over 300MB EACH downloaded, cd1 bombed out for lack

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 23 Jul 2003 23:08:07 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you could do.. it could be deadly if you get a lot of e-mail via Outhook excess. Filter for and drop all html e-mail. God knows it can be an extreme action, but in my case the amount of p0rn spam and the

Re: [expert] Internal mail

2003-07-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:39:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Root is sending me messages that end up in /var/spool/mail/anne. I Due to entries in /etc/aliases -- adjust and run newaliases if you want to keep root stuff separate. would like to set up KMail to bring these messages

Re: [expert] ethernet -cable modem

2003-07-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 09 Jul 2003 19:37:05 +0100 Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jack, but where do I find it, its not on my system at the moment, or on the club/ distro servers mii-tool ^ Thanks Richard On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:32, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:02,

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:57:46 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work

Re: [expert] Using Postfix with no network.

2003-07-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:00:03 -0500 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use Postfix to deliver my mail from mutt on my laptop running Mandrake 9.1. Sometimes I would like to compose mail while offline and have postfix queue it and deliver it when I'm back online. When I try to

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 07 Jul 2003 12:49:05 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc

[expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work if connected to the laptop's builtin USB1.1 port. CUPS

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 30 Jun 2003 09:32:01 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:01, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 01 Jul 2003 14:45:24 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:37, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child continues it's run

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 01 Jul 2003 15:51:18 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On your point.. yes ... I agree that rpm could more affectively handle the database. There is no reason why it should lock the db after it figures out if all dependencies are met unless it's actively writing to the db.

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child continues it's run... Problem is when I put a similar case into an RPM and it runs it. It hangs. RPM will not continue until child runs it's course.

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend but it completely borked my ability to connect to the

Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE

2003-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 29 Jun 2003 23:36:40 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my /etc/fstab (due to k3bsetup) I have: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder1auto ro,noauto,user,exec

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:27:33 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 07:01 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have

Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...

2003-06-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:10:04 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, thanks to everyone's help it looks like I got my MTA configured right now. How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24 variable or can I do it with

Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

2003-06-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:49:52 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have been using postfix for about a year or so and I needed to change my configuration and now I can't seem to get it working the same way I had it. At the end of my /etc/postfix/main.cf file I have:

Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

2003-06-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:40:35 +0200 Martin Fahrendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2003 16:49 schrieb Ralph Crongeyer: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_client_access, hash:/etc/postfix/access, check_relay_domains Btw: does your

Re: [expert] Mail address masquerading

2003-06-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 24 Jun 2003 11:55:10 +0200 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Does anyone know how I can rewrite addresses to the outside? http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#masquerade Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] crashing term windows.

2003-06-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 22 Jun 2003 15:51:55 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed this... In 9.1 no matter what wm you use if you do xterm -e pwd (or any other command) the term window opens and crashes immediately. With no error in messages or anywhere else. This is

Re: [expert] crashing term windows.

2003-06-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
Doh!xterm -e pwd; sleep 5 From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22 Jun 2003 15:51:55 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed this... In 9.1 no matter what wm you use if you do xterm -e pwd (or any other command) the term window

Re: [expert] I Found my Martians

2003-06-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:55:41 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - another example of seeing the reply to a message that never came through - I never got Sridhar's. Are we all having this problem? Anne Hmmm... too bad we don't have access to the list servers... missing

Re: [expert] Mailing List mis-management?

2003-06-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 16 Jun 2003 20:18:23 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:45, Pierre Fortin wrote: Anne, This is an *ancient* problem... I pointed it out about 2 years ago IIRC-- when there were all sorts of other mail issues... it wasn't fixed

Re: [expert] Mailing List mis-management?

2003-06-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
Anne, This is an *ancient* problem... I pointed it out about 2 years ago IIRC -- when there were all sorts of other mail issues... it wasn't fixed then and probably won't be fixed now... the solution is simple -- don't cross post... send 2 messages... On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:14:54 +0100

TWiki [Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel]

2003-06-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 15 Jun 2003 14:12:07 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since valuable info like this needs to be captured I started a new section in the HowTo's on the Twiki... called Tips and Tricks. It's at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TipsAndTricks With the object of

Re: [expert] Coreldraw files to?

2003-06-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:05:09 +0200 Francisco Alcaraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know any tool to translate coreldraw files to other more general format (jpg, ps, pnm)? Closest thing I found was XnView-static.i386.rpm -- http://www.xnview.com though it just gave what looked like a

Re: [expert] Coreldraw files to?

2003-06-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 14 Jun 2003 15:35:19 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 14:47, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Francisco, What is the extension? I don't have Corel Draw in front of me right now... But there should be something. james The extension

Re: [expert] Change default editor.

2003-06-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:59:52 -0500 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to globally change the default editor in Mandrake 9.1 Here's an example which fires up an emacs window if local, or runs emacs in the xterm if the session appears to be remote (I don't like running an X

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:32:01 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what's the dumbest thing you have done? Wanting to remove all files in a dir, including dot (.foo) files: rm -rf .* ., .. (oops! -- recursed all the way back to /) Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Certainly too late to report...

2003-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:45:18 + charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:28 pm, Pierre Fortin sent this :- Here's an interesting install bug on 9.1... for which there is no place to report, even back on day 1 of 9.1final's release... I don't know what partitioning tool

[expert] Certainly too late to report...

2003-06-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Here's an interesting install bug on 9.1... for which there is no place to report, even back on day 1 of 9.1final's release... I orginally installed 8.2 on my IBM Thinkpad A20m, then upgraded to 9.0, then to 9.1 Lots of folk have stated that I should have *installed* instead... well...

Re: [expert] Stateful inspection firewall.

2003-05-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 29 May 2003 00:02:10 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to deal with a Linksys today that gave us similar fits. It couldn't port forward say port 2200 to port 22 on an internal IP number ... so I had to make the internal Linux box listen to 2200 and 22 then forward

Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91

2003-05-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 28 May 2003 16:07:02 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peeps, There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 users that have been experiencing similar things. There have been other

Re: [expert] Stateful inspection firewall.

2003-05-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 30 May 2003 09:29:15 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 06:31, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 29 May 2003 00:02:10 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tip: when on the road, over a dialup, remote access to your LinkSys can be had by ssh'ing

Re: [expert] OT: Spam puzzler

2003-05-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 26 May 2003 09:22:28 -0300 (BRT) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I verify if I have a misconfigured DNS? I mean, how can I know that I won't have e-mail reject for a such mechanism suggest by Pierre? Looking at your post's headers... Received: from

Re: [expert] failure message

2003-03-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:53:32 -0800 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skippi wrote on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:57:40PM -0700 : Greetings all. I am running a MDK 7.2 box and get the following message every so often at tty1 - 6: failure for servers telnet 1046406154 localhost Can anyone

Re: [expert] Named startup Failed - but is running!

2003-03-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:11:56 -0500 Albert E. Whale, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Bind-9.2.1-2.2mdk on a Linux Mandrake 8.2 server. The startup script (service named start) indicates a Failure, as does the logfiles: Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named: named shutdown succeeded

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:42:57 -0800 Dave Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, Pierre... On Friday 14 March 2003 06:04 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Got a pointer to the strings' stuff...? I'm running 8.2 on my main server (9.0 issues

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:43:12 +0100 Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri 2003-03-14 at 21:48:20 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 08:35 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Does Mdk even try just *starting* the applications included in a release? I am

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 01:29:01 +0100 Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [lots snipped] On Sunday 16 March 2003 00:28, Pierre Fortin wrote: That's plain wrong thinking... if Mdk wants to limit their sales to just those who test/run Cooker, I might agree... BUT... they want to sell

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
: feel free to terminate this thread anytime :] On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: Does Mdk even try just *starting* the applications included in a release? This you'll have to ask the developers. I'm sure most use the applications they're in charge of. Some

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:05:22 -0600 mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So young So angry! Damn that rap music! Suffice it to say: I've been retired since 1999 and don't have the same amount of lifetime left to waste as younger folk do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

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