Re: [expert] Internet connection broken

2001-05-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake folk: duplicate eth entries... though the core issue appears to be IRQ conflict. The other day I was annoyed to find that ATT @Home cable had changed my IP address without my knowledge. I played around in Linuxconf and DrakProfile to change

[expert] SPARC: reviving an old sun4c...

2001-04-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, Wanting to revive an old SPARCstation2 4/75, I tried RH6 which was a terrible disaster. Then I tried LM7.1 and this was better; but still not usable. The other day, I tried LM Corp. Server 1.0... Installed via NFS; very NICE smooth install!! Though it only installed about 260MB of

[Fwd: Re: [expert] Firewall / Router Advice]

2001-04-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
... :P Pierre Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Firewall / Router Advice Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:58:54 -0400 From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martyn Wendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: A1E0FEB3E411D411AD1F0030050124811844CC@NEO Martyn Wendon wrote: Hello Expert

[expert] TIP: less preprocessing

2001-04-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
Two reasons for this post... 1. Propose the use of "TIP: ..." in Subject when one discovers something new which might be of interest to the general population. 2. Post a tip about "less"... After many years of using "less" (circa '90 IIRC), I still had not discovered this feature... less

[expert] [Fwd: [Announce] Mandrake Donations Page is ready - now it's your turn!]

2001-04-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
Gael Duval wrote: Hello, many people have requested that we open a donation page in order to contribute to the development of Linux-Mandrake. You can do that now! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/ [snip] THANY YOU!! Not only can we now vote with our dollars, you have even

Re: [expert] kernel patches

2001-04-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if someone here knows what patches were applied to the kernel in mandrake 7.0 . rpm -q reports kernel-2.2.14-15mdk I'm owndering b/c I'm in the middle of trying to debug some bad nfs problems with auspex and netapps. You don't say much

YAVIN!! Re: [expert] shell programming question -- solved

2001-04-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
John Wolford wrote: What is wrong with this list...This is my third attempt, in as many days, to post this message. The problem appears to be at yavin.mandrax.org... some messages make it through that box immediately; but way too many are delayed (5.5 and 6.5 hours on a couple of mine), or

Re: [expert] Installation - Linksys Ethercard, round 2

2001-04-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
David Rankin wrote: If someone else can enlighten me on how to have an "auto-sensing" hub handle both 10 and 100 Mips WinXX machines on the same lan segment, I am all ears. The key in this statement is "hub"... Simply put... A hub is a "repeater" which implies all ports must be at the same

Re: [expert] CUPS -- I used and liked it until today's DoS...

2001-04-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
Civileme wrote: On Tuesday 10 April 2001 14:33, you wrote: Hi, [LM7.2] So far, I'd been quite happy with CUPS; but now I'm denied access... [major snip -- I can re-insert if needed...] Any help would be greatly appreciated. Pierre What does rpm -qa |

Re: [expert] CUPS -- I used and liked it until today's DoS...

2001-04-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
I wrote: [LM7.2] So far, I'd been quite happy with CUPS; but now I'm denied access... This is getting more stranger... Still trying to get my printer working again, I tried "chmod -R o+r certs" and got the XPP panel without the password stuff; but nothing prints. Also, something

Re: [expert] CUPS -- I used and liked it until today's DoS...

2001-04-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
[resend -- mailer problems? Sent 6.5 hours earlier, but never appeared on list here.] I wrote: [LM7.2] So far, I'd been quite happy with CUPS; but now I'm denied access... This is getting stranger... Still trying to get my printer working again, I tried "chmod -R o+r certs" and got

[expert] CUPS -- I used and liked it until today's DoS...

2001-04-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, [LM7.2] So far, I'd been quite happy with CUPS; but now I'm denied access... Sorry for the gory details; but I'm trying to get to the bottom of this quickly... Yesterday, I needed to print some financial docs and discovered that my HPLJ5MP decided to quit working. After tearing the

Re: [expert] snag in pine

2001-04-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Robert Boggs wrote: I have muy fetchmail working fine. I have porblems sending mail in pine. It says error 501. It says something about [EMAIL PROTECTED] being wrong. Help! Robert You're running PostFix too... right? Sounds like the problem I had where the system would send mail to

Re: [expert] Notebook install via ftp [2. edition]

2001-04-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 18:30 -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote: Did you make any changes to molch recently? [...] After that I had a close look at my desktop and discovered that the nic was just plugged in but not the screw to hold it. I did that and now the connection

Re: [expert] Notebook install via ftp [2. edition]

2001-04-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:31 -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote: [Going back to your ealier posting, you had a UH entry overlapping the subnet; have you tried deleting it? I'm not sure why a host route would even be there when a net route exists...] Err... How do I

Re: [expert] Notebook install via ftp [2. edition]

2001-04-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
Rusty Carruth wrote: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Looks like lapmolch is probably OK; but molch is confused... Did you make any changes to molch recently? From here on, s/Pierre/Wolfgang/ :^) I'm just trying to help too, Pierre Didn't Pierre say that a recent

Re: [expert] Notebook install via ftp [2. edition]

2001-04-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, After I could not get MDK 7.2 on my notebook via ftp I installed TinyLinux from floppy to get a working system and to find out more about ftp'ing. I cannot connect to the other machine - either direction. [...] I didn't see anything wrong in the details.

[expert] v3ps@mail.ru has been un*sub*scribed.

2001-04-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Not a nice thing to do; but after so many complaints, and seeing the problem for myself, I un*sub*scribed [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH, Pierre

Re: [expert] Notebook install via ftp [2. edition]

2001-04-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 22:36 -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote: Unless the machines are "seeing" each other, the LEDs are only an indication of ARPing (broadcast packets) which must complete before any ping packets are sent. What does "arp -

Re: [expert] v3ps@mail.ru has been un*sub*scribed.

2001-04-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
David Rankin wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: Not a nice thing to do; but after so many complaints, and seeing the problem for myself, I un*sub*scribed [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH, Pierre Many thanks! DAMN!! It didn't work... anyone have any objections to un*sub'ing **[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] tftp server in LM72

2001-03-23 Thread Pierre Fortin
"John J. LeMay Jr." wrote: Can anyone provide some detailed configuration info on getting tftp up and running on LM72? I've enabled it in xinetd and I can connect, but I have no idea where to start putting files, what directory perms should be, etc. Seems like tftp is barely documented

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Xserver unexpected shutdown.]

2001-03-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
Matthew Micene wrote: At 12:06 AM 3/20/2001 -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: FYI... am now running KDE2.1/X4.0.3/LM7.2 on laptop and this problem still exists. Pierre This is a problem with X, nothing Mandrake can really do about it as far as I know. 4.0.2 supposedly fixed this problem

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Xserver unexpected shutdown.]

2001-03-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
Matthew Micene wrote: Actually, only those with CT chips seem to suffer from this problem, as far as we know... the problem does not exist on either of my desktop systems.- Interesting ... I have had the problem on two desktops with Voodoo3 cards, ^^^ Did you

[Fwd: Re: [expert] Xserver unexpected shutdown.]

2001-03-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
FYI... am now running KDE2.1/X4.0.3/LM7.2 on laptop and this problem still exists. Pierre Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Xserver unexpected shutdown. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:10:59 -0500 From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mandrake Expert

Re: [expert] Installing LM 7.2 on Sony Vaio Laptop

2001-03-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
Jason Stegman wrote: I am have problem installing LM 7.2 on my Laptop. System Info: Sony Vaio PCG-F160 300 MHz P2 64 MB Ram 4 GB Fujitsu HD Is this a DVD drive? My bro-in-law could not install LM7.2 on his Vaio either via his DVD; but finally got it installed via NFS using. Pierre

[expert] The BUG (race condition) is in PING -- NOT in your hardware...

2001-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi all, If this looks familiar, read on... PING 64.53.54.1 (64.53.54.1): 56 octets data 64 octets from 64.53.54.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=4452.8 ms wrong data byte #0 should be 0x3b but was 0x3737 da b0 3a 88 9e e 0 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21

Re: [expert] highest inode number

2001-03-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
Dawid Michalczyk wrote: Since I'm going to have many, many *small* files on a 15GB partition, I was wondering if one can actually run out of inode numbers, and thus be left with unused space. So my question is: what is the maximum amount of files one can have under ext2fs? Yes. man mke2fs

[expert] PyQT-2.3 [OT?]

2001-03-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
Sorry if this is off-topic... Anyone had success compiling PyQT-2.3...? I'm not c++ literate; but a quick scan of the sources shows that QString::setUnicodeCodes is defined in XML style, and there appears to be two sipConvertTo_QString functions (L2562 L3993) in sipqtQString.cpp... Anyone

Re: [expert] Problem with Mandrake server

2001-03-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
Yes, sending to two lists will result in all copies going to the first list. This is an OLD problem which seems to defy corrective measures... It's also one of the reasons for the multiple message complaints. Pierre Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I have sent several messages in the

Re: [expert] duplicate bootup floppy

2001-03-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Daniel Woods wrote: Someone asked me a question I was not able to answer properly. They have a server with disk problems, and could only boot up again by using the bootup floppy. They wanted to know how to make a duplicate of that floppy, as a backup. I could not think of an easy way,

Reloading browsers [Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final]

2001-02-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mark, [At the risk of starting a thread that won't die...] With all due respect, your comments really puzzle me... especially in a Linux forum... Extending your argument, why was it ever necessary to make Linux so reliable? Users could just "dump and restart" it too... Just as I hate

Re: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

2001-02-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
"Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA" wrote: When the dual boot machine is up under Linux Mandrake I still do not have these two even pinging each other. The ping of each other IP addresses simply hangs with out even timing out. Surely, you're not saying that the W98only box is also hanging?

Re: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

2001-02-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
By any chance, did you turn off some services...? I ask because my nephew turned off loads of stuff on his system "to make it boot faster"... I don't recall exactly what was the main culprit; but even the loopback interface was disabled. Try "strace ping ..." and see if that gives any clues.

Re: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

2001-02-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
"Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA" wrote: 1. Both WIN98 and Linux Mandrake computers hang when trying to command line ping the other. Nit: The computers, or just the commands (like when you disconnect the net)? Pierre

Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake without a boot floppy or bootable CD

2001-02-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
*** Idea for installing/upgrading below... "Carson, David" wrote: I have an elderly laptop upon which I have installed Red Hat 6.0. This was an interesting procedure because (a) the laptop has no floppy drive, and (b) it can't boot from a CD-ROM. Which is tricky, given that just about

Re: [expert] timezone

2001-02-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
Lou Baccari wrote: Sorry Pedro I should have mention that the hwclock has always held the correct EST time. Doesn't this mean that Linux is assuming your hw clock is GST...? Hence, the double timezone shift...? If nothing else works, why not set the hw clock to GST? I changed the time

Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake without a boot floppy or bootable CD

2001-02-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
Pedro Del Medico wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to do something which seems simple, but is perhaps deceptively difficult. Let me explain: Did You try FTP install ? I use this way on mine and worked perfectly. But... did you boot without a floppy on a system that won't boot from

Re: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

2001-02-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
An absolute minimum of "ifconfig" output would help. While you're at it, from "route" too... and a clue as to the IP address used in the other OS... Of course, if ifconfig gives no eth0 output, try "ifconfig eth0" to be sure. Pierre "Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA" wrote: Recently I

Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake without a boot floppy or bootable CD

2001-02-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
Pedro Del Medico wrote: On Mon Feb 26 2001 15:40, You wrote: But... did you boot without a floppy on a system that won't boot from CD...? This is the dilema of older Toshiba laptops... Pierre Ok, older Toshiba are like other laptops, and as I said in an earlier message, I

Re: [expert] cron problem

2001-02-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
Steve Elliott wrote: Hey there - thanx for your reply. you're welcome! steve (02/21-20:48:00-818) CMD (/usr/local/bin/TaRT) sigh I think I missed the real problem which is in a previous post: And it works ok if you run /usr/local/bin/TaRT as yourself? yes thats right - i havesent

Re: [expert] CUPS problem

2001-02-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Feb 12, 2001 at 11:07:37AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: I get the same: cups-common =S 1.1.6-3.1mdk is needed by cups-1.1.6-3.1mdk libcupsimage.so.2 is needed by cups-1.1.6-3.1mdk libcups.so.2 is needed by cups-1.1.6-3.1mdk libcupsimage.so.2 is needed

Re: [expert] Where is Netscape 6.01 executable?

2001-02-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Pierre: Thank you so kindly for your detailed instructions. I'll try them, but they do sound awfully complicated for an ordinary user. Why should it be so difficult in the first place? My instruction assumed you you might want flexibility. The really simple

Re: [expert] CUPS problem

2001-02-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Feb 12, 2001 at 01:22:43AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: OK. I've seen the 2 security announcements about CUPS, and also saw the posts where it said the first version was incorrectly linked against a library. But today (Feb 12), it still won't install via

Re: [expert] Where is Netscape 6.01 executable?

2001-02-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
Benjamin Sher wrote: Just installed the new Netscape 6.01 into the default directory /usr/local/netscape. How do I launch Netscape 6. When I type "netscape" in xterm, it launches Netscape 4.76, which I also have on my system. This is what I do: 0. set some aliases (done long ago): alias

Re: [expert] CUPS problem

2001-02-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
. --- Hope this helps. Dany Allard Pierre Fortin wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Feb 12, 2001 at 01:22:43AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: OK. I've seen the 2 security announcements about CUPS, and also saw the posts where it said the first version was incorrectly linked against

Re: [expert] Xserver unexpected shutdown.

2001-02-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
AHA!!! So I'm *not* the only one to see this... only on laptop, not on desktops. Tom Cada wrote: I have installed MDK 7.2 from downloaded CD images. Everything installed correctly and runs well. I have done the normal software updates with no problems. The X system is the one that comes

Re: [expert] DENY 127.0.0.1 in logs??

2001-02-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
Chris Spackman wrote: Ok, this one is interesting, I think. I have a cable modem, which is connected to a local (172.x.x.x) net and masqueraded on the internet. (I think that is how it works). Anyhow, some idiots on this internal net have services broadcasting to everyone and so are

Re: [expert] Internet connection Sharing under linux.

2001-02-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Do you even have basic connectivity...? Can you ping 192.168.0.1? I know nothing of ICS; but does it really support forwarding of DNS (docs could be wrong, or you may need another option)? Or, should you tell your Linux box the ISP DNS addresses? If the ping works, try setting the ISP DNS

Re: [expert] Network address request

2001-02-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Ken Thompson wrote: Is there a way to ask ping (or whatever) to return a list of addresses on your network? Example: M$ "find computer" in Network Neighborhood returns a list of systems on the network. I'd like to do the same from either a GUI or command line interface from my linux

Re: [expert] IBM MWave

2001-02-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an IBM Thinkpad 760XD and I'm trying to get audio running on it. From what I know about it, it's supplied from the MWave DSP processor. Anyone ever have success getting one of these to work? You'd think with all the effort/$$$ IBM is putting towards Linux

Re: [expert] Internet connection Sharing under linux.

2001-02-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Yann Ouellet wrote: Your quoting is broken... fixed. Pierre Fortin wrote: Do you even have basic connectivity...? Can you ping 192.168.0.1? I know nothing of ICS; but does it really support forwarding of DNS (docs could be wrong, or you may need another option)? Or, should you tell

Re: [expert] tftp server

2001-02-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
Martin Debi REO wrote: Hi, I need to run a tftp server from a Mandrake 7.2 box so that some cisco routers can use it to load IOS files and config files. What do I need to do to achieve this ? Replace the broken tftpd... see

[expert] Reading M$ registry during first time Linux installs...

2001-02-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
was: Re: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] A possible replacement for Linux-Mandraketools It would be quite impressive to read pertinent data from a M$W user's registry when installing Linux for the first time... Did a bit of digging and have the following suggestion: check out Python's winreg.py,

Re: [expert] addition to hosts.deny?

2001-02-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi LIst, I was wondering if anyone has either done this or knows if it's legal to be done. I want to list an entire net block in the hosts.deny file on my machine. EX: ALL:224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255 Would the above be a valid entry in the hosts.deny

Re: [expert] Setting Max Thruput

2001-01-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
Bob PuffNLE wrote: How can I impose a limit? Like 256k up and downstreams? You might want to check out http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/ It's a tool for simulating slow (and flaky :) networks. HTH, Pierre

Re: [expert] pop3 session times out with 7.1

2001-01-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Can't offer any help other than to note that this sounds like the really old problem where you had to login to the server and kill any "popper" process that was hanging around. Say it ain't so... :) Pierre Christopher Kolar wrote: Hello. I am running a 7.1 box and connecting to it from my

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Vincent, Vincent Danen wrote: ago. If this has been going on for a month, then someone should have said something. However, on the same token, two individuals now have indicated that they did in fact recieve messages, so it makes it even more unclear. Unfortunately, the timing is very bad

Re: [expert] Crontab Broken in 7.2?

2001-01-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Is the Crontab broken in the Mandrake 7.2? For past few days after I installed the new crontabs for one user and another as other, it simply do not run at all. Did you just edit the files, or did you use "crontab -e userid"...?? The latter works for me. Pierre

[expert] EtherExpressPro (eepro) users...

2001-01-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, Are you using the eepro.o ethernet driver? If so, do you see many errors in /sbin/ifconfig output...? I'm especially interested in seeing your /sbin/ifconfig output if you are seeing significant or high proportion (errors:packets) numbers in the "errors", "carrier" and "collisions"

Re: [expert] copy - duplicate ethernet

2001-01-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
guran wrote: Hi I have had that duplicate problem since Mdk7.2 was issued, and have changed to Debian on the Internet. In my case, LM7.2(2.2.17) is fine; this only happens with 2.4.0. I've backed out 2.4.0 because the system is quite unstable with it. Pierre

Re: [expert] Where is path?

2001-01-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
Praedor Tempus wrote: OK, I once thought I understood this but now I guess I do not. If I run "env", my path appears thus: If you re-arrange the paths one per line, and look for groupings, you see this: PATH= /bin: /usr/bin: /usr/X11R6/bin: /usr/local/bin: /usr/X11R6/bin:

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
Muzza wrote: adzap http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/adzap/index.html also works with squid and comes with an 'update-zapper' script that can be run via cron however often you like, ergo once it's set-up (very quick and easy) maintaince no longer is an issue. Thanks for the info... I haven't

Re: [expert] duplicate ethernet

2001-01-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
ce to figure out why draknet would think there were THREE and now FOUR adapters... Thanks, Pierre Tom Berkley Pierre Fortin wrote: Hi, Anyone know why I would have 3 ethernets defined when I only have 2..? I had an Intel EtherExpressPro/10+ (eepro) which is a tad flaky (tx errors

Re: [expert] duplicate ethernet

2001-01-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
Update... This problem appears to be specific to 2.4.0... I just rebooted with my stock LM7.2 and the ethernet adapters are handled properly. Pierre

[expert] duplicate ethernet

2001-01-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
aknet configured eth[0123] once again and now I can't start the 3com card which puts me worse off than before... Looks like I'll have to delve into the source to figure out why draknet would think there were THREE and now FOUR adapters... Thanks, Pierre Tom Berkley Pierre Fortin wrote:

Re: [expert] pop-up adds

2001-01-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
chronos wrote: Hi all, Had a question,you know all these little adds at the bottom of the screen we see anywhere we go on the internet ? Is there a way to block them ? Like for instance get the ip address and apply an ipchain rule to block that specific ip address ? Would that work or is

Re: [expert] ssh update probs

2001-01-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
You might also want to check for network errors... I have problems with ssh dropping with corrupted checkbytes; but I've narrowed that down to errors on my ethernet. Pierre Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: Thanks for the info Tom. I will check with ssh.org for more info. Brian

[expert] duplicate ethernet

2001-01-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, Anyone know why I would have 3 ethernets defined when I only have 2..? I had an Intel EtherExpressPro/10+ (eepro) which is a tad flaky (tx errors), and today added a 3Com 3c905B-TX... When I used DrakConf to configure it, I thought it was weird that I was asked for eth[012] parms...

Re: [expert] No logs since 24 Dec

2001-01-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
John J LeMay Jr wrote: Anyone have any idea what would have killed my logging? /var/log/messages, /var/log/kern.log, and a few others are 0 bytes since 24 December. I know something was hosed around that time, but I've rebooted and been running fine since (or so it seems). However, I don't

[expert] X:sig11 when trying to access virtual consoles... ideas?

2000-12-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, I just did a fresh re-install of LM7.2 on my laptop and chose X4.0.1 instead of 3.3.6 this time. Now, when I try to access a virtual console, X crashes and restarts into kdm. The actual sequence is: - press C+A+F1 or C+A+F[2-6] - if f[2-6]: vc[2-6] appears momentarily - switches to vc1 -

Re: [expert] Laptop recommendations

2000-12-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mark Belanger wrote: Can anyone recommend a laptop that will work well with Linux/Mandrake? I'd prefer a modem that works, http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html About 1/2 way down this page, follow the link "View entire table" which will give you a headstart on eliminating models

Re: [expert] Desktop device icons, folders, etc, don't work

2000-12-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
b5dave wrote: Wow! Is that the result of installing every language available? No; that seems to be what I got doing a English only install... I'll stay off the "install" soapbox since it's Christmas... Pierre On 24-Dec-2000 Pierre Fortin wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Cou

Re: [expert] Desktop device icons, folders, etc, don't work

2000-12-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
Praedor Tempus wrote: Could someone please use an editor and view the device kdelnk in their Desktop directory (preferably from KDE 2.0, 2.0.1 or 2.1) and post the contents? Without a CD in the drive, I get the non-intuitive: Error -KDesktop Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom.

[expert] NFS bug... bug#1806

2000-12-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
I just discovered a fully reproducible NFS problem... Decided to install StarOffice on my PII-200MMX system; the main install worked fine over NFS. Then, when I went to copy over the SO5.2 patch files, I noticed that 4 of the 18 files *always* ended the copy with: [pfortin@pfortin program]$ cp

Re: [expert] Replicated messages have multiple causes... PLEASE READ.

2000-12-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
Rusty, Since you have the most complete set of questions... :^) Rusty Carruth wrote: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have analyzed just over 250 messages from Cooker and Expert lists. Of those, there were 20 duplicated and 3 triplicated messages. I'm impressed! I quit

[expert] Replicated messages have multiple causes... PLEASE READ.

2000-12-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
I have analyzed just over 250 messages from Cooker and Expert lists. Of those, there were 20 duplicated and 3 triplicated messages. NOTE: If you are receiving this message from both the list and DIRECTLY, you should investigate your mailer, settings and/or habits for one or more of causes #2

[expert] MSG DUPS: user 500, PLEASE FIX yavin.mandrax.org...

2000-12-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
IMO, the duplicate posts are coming from userid=500 @ yavin.mandrax.org... Could "user 500" please fix this...? Thanks, Pierre My logic follows... Looking at the headers from a duplicate post, this is what we see: Sender (Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED]) posts message "Re: [expert] PCMCIA

[expert] [y]talk...?

2000-12-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, I had talk working under LM7.1; but now I'm trying to support my sister nephew who are so far very impressed with LM7.2... I am not sure what the proper way is to get a talk daemon running under this newer release... xinetd does not seem to be the place and inetd is not running at all of

Re: [expert] Security levels? - aside: quote trouble

2000-10-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Gavin Clark wrote: A ha, that's a character I've never used! Now when I find a use for ^ I'll be using the whole keyboard. ;^) Here ya go... ^ is used to replace character(s) in previous command and re-run. In this example, I need to specify "nj" to "nk" because "^j^k" would result in

Re: [expert] Cannot Telnet - Message 2

2000-10-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
LINK WORLD wrote: Dear Support, I cannot telnet to my system. I have a rtl100a Compex card which seems to work fine (because I can telnet to another system on the network). If I try to telnet to this system from anywhere on the lan (including this system itself) I get: Trying

LM7 vs ... [was: Re: [expert] Automatisation d'installation /Automatic installation]

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Stephen F Bosch wrote: Hallo: Pierre Fortin wrote: Stephen Bosch wrote: Lyle wrote: Ghost from Symantec and Disk Copy from Power Quest is the fastest way, I know to restore a system. There has GOT to be a better way to do this than to use those bloated

LM7 vs ... [was: Re: [expert] Automatisation d'installation /Automatic installation]

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Stephen F Bosch wrote: Hallo: Pierre Fortin wrote: Stephen Bosch wrote: Lyle wrote: Ghost from Symantec and Disk Copy from Power Quest is the fastest way, I know to restore a system. There has GOT to be a better way to do this than to use those bloated

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Stephen F Bosch wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: Stephen Bosch wrote: Better yet, use ssh to make your console connections to the remote machine. ssh will do two nice things: 1) ssh will by default set your DISPLAY variable when you connect 2) ssh does display forwarding so

Re: [expert] Redesigning the web-site

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently got a new guy on board: Kadjo N'DOUA is Welcome! Your first task is to add "webmaster" links in all the footers instead of having it burried in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/email.php3 Be visible and we'll help. What kind of content should be put

Re: [expert] Invalid Partition Table - How To Fix?

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Brent Hawkins wrote: How do you repair an Invalid Partition Table? This is on a dual-boot system; W98 LM7.1. With _specifics_ on what was there, what happened, what it says now, etc. I've fixed a few here. Not sure I can help in this case; but it's guaranteed I can't with this info.

Re: [expert] Invalid Partition Table - How To Fix?

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Brent Hawkins wrote: How do you repair an Invalid Partition Table? This is on a dual-boot system; W98 LM7.1. With _specifics_ on what was there, what happened, what it says now, etc. I've fixed a few here. Not sure I can help in this case; but it's guaranteed I can't with this info.

Other OS boot blocks [was: Re: [Re: [expert] Invalid Partition Table -How To Fix?]]

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
crucial. Thanks though, Brent Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED](by way of Cosmio - Internet Gateway [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Brent Hawkins wrote: How do you repair an Invalid Partition Table? This is on a dual-boot system; W98 LM7.1. With _specifics_ on what was there, what

Re: [expert] Redesigning the web-site

2000-09-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently got a new guy on board: Kadjo N'DOUA is Welcome! Your first task is to add "webmaster" links in all the footers instead of having it burried in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/email.php3 Be visible and we'll help. What kind of content should be

Re: [expert] Automatisation d'installation / Automatic installation

2000-09-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
Stephen Bosch wrote: Lyle wrote: May I suggest a tool like Ghost or Disk copy to copy the install? Then just adjust the name IP address... Ghost from Symantec and Disk Copy from Power Quest is the fastest way, I know to restore a system. There has GOT to be a better way to do

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
Stephen Bosch wrote: "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: XWindows was designed around Unix. Just set the DISPLAY environment variable at the command (telnet) prompt before starting the program that uses X. The format is host:session where session is usually 0. e.g.

Re: [expert] Welcome home, support!

2000-09-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome home, support! (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2912082836) This is surely goodness... Before all the support requests start rolling in, I'd recommend that the support group get a flavor of what visitors to the LM website see... Everytime

Re: [expert] Getting to like linux

2000-09-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
faisal wrote: Hello everybody Yesterday i mailed you about how to boot from a floppy changed my password in linux thanks to you guys i was able to do that . I was gettig a bit bored with this NT gui user manager so now i am really getting to like linux. It only a matter of time before

Re: [expert] ide-scsi and real scsi

2000-09-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mage Grimau wrote: I was using ide-scsi to use my cd burner under 7.1 just fine. I added a real scsi (adaptec) card and HD. Now cdrecord -scanbus just sees the real scsi and not my cd burner. Can they work together, or do I have to remove the real scsi to use my cd burner? -- Mage

[expert] Webmin:cron

2000-09-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
Sorry if this has been discussed/resolved before... LM7.1: Webmin groups cron tasks, and it appears I can only enable/disable a group rather than just a single task. Is this an oversight...? I can't think of any valid reason not to have the tasks individually controllable. Regards, Pierre

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-09-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
I wrote: Hi Stephen, Today, I looked into a similar problem with my brother-in-law's machine... he just moved his office out of the house and into a real office. Looking into the problem (before I saw this thread), it appears the problem is due to a timer popping early. Looking at

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-08-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi Stephen, Today, I looked into a similar problem with my brother-in-law's machine... he just moved his office out of the house and into a real office. Looking into the problem (before I saw this thread), it appears the problem is due to a timer popping early. Looking at the log of a

Re: [expert] IBM thinkpad and PCI Card CDROM...

2000-08-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I was wondering...I've got an IBM thinkpad here at the house that my Daugher would like me to load Mandrake on for her. I've tried the usual way of doing this but it's a no go. The CDROM is connected by a removable PCMCIA card that the Madnrake setup is unable

Re: [expert] Netscape Corrupting the mailrules file?

2000-08-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: [snip] Might someone on here have any idea what could be causing Netscape to corrupt its mailrule file? [snip] MarkI'm using 4.74 and have not had any such problems with it. But I did have problems with the message filters (I guess this

Re: [expert] hangs on mounts

2000-08-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
lorne schachter wrote: When I try to mount or unmount my windows partitions, the mount operations hang. System keeps running except for the mount or unmount processes. Needs a reboot to clear. Any ideas? I forget the cause of this hang; but no need to reboot... just kill the mount

Re: [expert] scripts

2000-08-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
Daniel Woods wrote: This will work... cd {directory} ls -t | head -1 or ls -t $HOME | head -1 Using ksh (on Unix), this next line works to only accept files x=`ls -t | head -1`; if [[ -f $x ]]; then echo $x ;fi except that I could not get this to work

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