Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot?

2003-06-28 Thread Steven Broos
geddemn forget about my post. Didn't read your mail with my full attention (as most of the time) and again made a stupid post :-) Anyway, you can considder buying a switch or a hub, using one PC as router/firewall between the switch and your cable connection, and connect the other PC's with the sw

Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot?

2003-06-28 Thread Steven Broos
Quick lesson in subnetworking, because I think the problem isn't your IPtables-settings but your network layout. 192.168.0.x is a class C network address. 192.168.0 is the network address, and the last number is the host-portion of the address. If all PCs have an address beginning with 192.168.0 a

Re: [expert] irc client

2003-06-18 Thread Steven Broos
If you are familiar with mIRC, then you'll like xchat. Steven On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 20:25, David Hlacik wrote: > Hi, i am looking for some good irc client with dcc support and /ctcp > support. > > David Hlacik > > > __ > > Wa

Re: [expert] Apache redirects incorrectly

2003-06-16 Thread Steven Broos
> Under XP: > http://localhost/ all the links in the page refer to localhost. > > Under Linux: > http://localhost/ then all the links in the page refer to > http://www.elacuariodeaguadulce.com wich is the Internet URL. Really i don't know > why the Apache server redirects it to the URL instead o

[expert] per-directory umask

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
Resend (june 4th) What I basically need is: - a shared directory for users in a group - Access to own files - No access to other files - Access to all files for user apache I now I can use their homedirs in apache, but I would like to do this in one directory if possible. Anyone who can help me

Re: [expert] regular expressions with quotes

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:24, Adolfo Bello wrote: > Double quoting the regexp will do it: > > expr "dag('hello')goodafternoon" : ".*('\(.*\)').*" > > Adolfo works. Stupid me didn't think of it... Thanks! Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakesto

[expert] regular expressions with quotes

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
Hai I'm trying to do a regular expression, which contains ' As far as I know, I have to backslash the ' but that gives me an error. expr that returns the part of a string between (' '): $ expr "dag('hello')goodafternoon" : '.*(\(.*\)).*' 'hello' $ expr "dag('hello')goodafternoon" : '.*('\(.*\)'

Re: [expert] lilo ??& install 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Steven Broos
I think the MBR can't be of any trouble, because it is completely overwritten by the bootloader (as far as I know) It's only a small space, where a link to the rest of the booting files resides. Is it really possible to manipulate the MBR so that it can cause troubles with other OS' ? I know some

Re: [expert] filesystem for Linux and Windows XP

2003-06-13 Thread Steven Broos
I barely use windows any more, but in some cases it's necessary. I'm thinking about purchasing VMware. It's no freeware, but I know it's worth the money *wink* I can access the files on ext3 through samba file sharing. It looks like you're working on 2 different computers (with the same hardware)

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Broos
Those apps run smoother with crossover than they do in windows :-) For games (forgot to mention that) you're better of using wineX I suppose, but I'm not familiar with it. I'm not much of a gamer. Crossover Office is developed especially for the use of desktop applications, and I don't think it

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Broos
Wine never worked for me, but crossover (a commercial thing based on wine) did. I'm running photoshop, macromedia flash, and several other windows-applications which I need for work on my linux box. Yes, I paid for it, but it was (and is) worth every cent. Since wine is published under GPL, cross

Re: [expert] Evolution Editor (was Evolution Browser)

2003-06-10 Thread Steven Broos
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:43, Mark Belanger wrote: > > > > http-show=galeon "%s" > > > > https-show=galeon "%s" > > > > ftp-show=galeon "%s" > > > > > > On a similar note, do you know of a way to change the Evolution editor > > > to something else (preferably vim)? > > > > This doesn't work(at lea

Re: [expert] Evolution Browser

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 23:12, Alan Carbutt wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has been able to change which browser opens up > on clicking a link in an e-mail. Currently my evolution opens up > mozilla. I was just wondering if it was configurable. > > Thanks, ~/.gnome/Gnome http-show=galeon "%s

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
Maybe: Your kernel is using modules for the 'old' mobo and cpu. While booting, auto-hardware-detect changes the settings for another mobo, but it's not installed so the modules are not found. If that's more or less right, you can try to recompile your kernel ? Steven (just a wild guess... But I

Re: [expert] emergency

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 06:40, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I say watch out for ext3. It may give headaches to some of us. ext3 is the same filesystem as ext2, only with a journaling mode. If ext3 goes mad on you, mount it as ext2 and it will work just fine. There are commands to fix the journaling-fil

Re: [expert] emergency

2003-06-08 Thread Steven Broos
I had a comparable problem a couple days ago. Same errors... Turned out to be my fault (ofcourse): I changed something in /etc/security/console.perms. Because of that reason, my harddrives weren't listed in /dev/, could not be load, etc... It gave a suggestion "maybe your MBR is bad, try this e2

Re: [expert] drakfloppy error: No space left on device

2003-06-07 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 01:01, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: > cp: escribiendo `/tmp/mkbootdisk/initrd.img': No space left on device > Error ! Filesize of your kernel doesn't exceed available space on your floppy ? Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

Re: [expert] chmod question

2003-06-06 Thread Steven Broos
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 02:10, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > YCITMIGA... > > > WTF is YCITMIGA? Yah, what does it mean ? > I'm kind of between a newbie and an expert, so I answer posts on the newbie > list and ask my questions on the expert list. Me too. Good idea, I'll try to help a little on the 'b

Re: [expert] Web site guru needed

2003-06-06 Thread Steven Broos
Is it a java-application from your bank you are using, or is it HTML ? And the missing value, can you see a textbox or so where the value should be in, or is it just a blank space, or is some other part of the webpage in that location ? Steven On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 21:06, Anne Wilson wrote: > H

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

2003-06-05 Thread Steven Broos
I always use fdisk CLI to create the partitions needed, and mount them in the GUI-app from the installation-process. I never experienced any problems with this. In expert-mode there should be an option to use fdisk, isn't it ? Steven > Sorry that I can't be more specific, but I always use parti

Re: [expert] Upgrading 9.0 to 9.1 with urpmi

2003-06-05 Thread Steven Broos
MDK9.1 indeed uses Apache2, in /etc/http/2.0 I needed apache_1.3.22, so I installed it to /opt/apache and disabled the auto-startup for Apache2 Maybe you can copy your apache to a safer location, and change the ServerRoot ? As far as I've noticed, apache2 worked very well, but I didn't test it

[expert] per-directory umask

2003-06-05 Thread Steven Broos
Is it possible to set a umask for a specific directory ? I want to give some users personal access to the www-directory. They should have the right to manage their own files, but not the files of others. Apache has to have (full?) access on the files. I've set the sticky and SGID bits for the ww

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
the > system files and program files. You couldn't restore your system > that way, so how much is actual data? That might be a more > manageable amount. > > Anne > > On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 4:39 am, Steven Broos wrote: > > Yes it can, but burning 40gig on CDs will be a

Re: [expert] pam problem

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
is subject :-) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 01:36, Steven Broos wrote: > Since I've tried to run harddrake, I have something strange with PAM. > In my notification panel is now a blank space (size of an icon) and my > process-list looks a little overcrowded by pam. > I can kill them, b

RE: [expert] mod_perl scripts.

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
A quick look into my system: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2-perl.conf And a lot of occurences of 'perl' in /etc/init.d/httpd Are the paths and prefixes in the config-files correct ? Do you get any error-messages in /var/log/httpd (or /etc/httpd/logs) when you restart apache ?

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
Yes it can, but burning 40gig on CDs will be a very time-consuming thing to do. I think I go for the external USB-harddisk. (A friend of mine had a lot of negative experience with filesystem-editing-tools) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 23:36, Anne Wilson wrote: > Could the data be split into cd-

Re: [expert] mod_perl scripts.

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
You have to enable perl in the Apache config file I suppose (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or something similar) If you search the config-file for 'perl', you should find some more information and example-config that is commented. Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:31, Frankie wrote: > Hi guys > > I

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
e 2HDs and 2CDs, so no IDE-slots left, and I don't want to have the same problems as elPunishar :-) Any ideas are welcome ! Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 15:34, Dave Sherman wrote: Steven Broos wrote: > I still have a 40gig HD formatted with NTFS (mounted ro) > Is there any way to con

[expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
I still have a 40gig HD formatted with NTFS (mounted ro) Is there any way to convert it (safely!!) to ext2/ext3 without temporary moving the data ? I'm aware of the existence of partition magic, but I don't have it.  And frankly, I'm not going to pay for an apllication I will use once... (no,

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Steven Broos
Are the jumper settings of your HD & remaining CDdrive correct ? I suppose they are, if your Bios detects the HD... Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 19:31, elPunishar wrote: the question was whether i was root when running lilo after making the changes. i said yes i was root On Monday 02 Jun

Re: [expert] Drakconnect, weird behavior

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Broos
Try to clean the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, /etc/sysconfig/networking and the subdirectories ? Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:20, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I tried to configure mynetwork settings on a portable with Manrake 9.1. First off, everything went fine, my Xircom PCMCIA ca

[expert] pam problem

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Broos
Since I've tried to run harddrake, I have something strange with PAM. In my notification panel is now a blank space (size of an icon) and my process-list looks a little overcrowded by pam. I can kill them, but it comes back every time.  If I do "killall pam-panel-icon pam_timestamp_c" 10 or 20

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Broos
I'm not familiar with USB-harddisks, but I just managed to connect my digital camera as a USB-storage device. I think they are considdered SCSI-devices, so try to mount /dev/sda1  (or something similar) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 00:36, elPunishar wrote: RESEND: somebody please help, i c

Re: [expert] Evolution - Default browser

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Broos
tp-show=galeon "%s" After: [URL Handlers] default-show=gnome-moz-remote --newwin "%s" info-show=nautilus --no-desktop "%s" man-show=nautilus --no-desktop "%s" ghelp-show=mozilla "%s" http-show=mozilla "%s" https-show=mozilla "%s" ftp-

[expert] Evolution - Default browser

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Broos
I made Gnome use galeon as standard browser, but Evolution still opens Mozilla... Does anyone knows how I can Evolution make using Galeon too ?  I tried different ways I found in google, but it still doesn't work. Steven

Re: [expert] Script help needed

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Broos
So if I completely understand it, there is no .bak file in the beginning ? mv and cp don't see this file, so they assume the sourcefile is newer than the not-existing destination file. Steven On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 21:56, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 01 Jun 2003 8:44 pm, you wrote: > (I'm ma

Re: [expert] dependency problem...

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Broos
w, so I still have a lot to learn. Anyway, thx for your help! Steven On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 18:01, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Broos wanted us to know: > When I try to install gaim (or some other programs) I get an error > that my glib-

[expert] dependency problem...

2003-05-31 Thread Steven Broos
Hi there, I'm running Mandrake 9.1, with (I think) Gnome-2.2 As far as I know, Gnome-2.2 needs glib-2.2, or at least a very new version.  So I suppose a fairly recent version of glib is installed on my computer. When I try to install gaim (or some other programs) I get an error that my glib-ve