Re: [expert] Dead Mouse Wheel.

2002-01-02 Thread Tarragon Allen
Further to that, if this solves the problem (it did for me ages back) then become root and either : # chkconfig imwheel off or # rpm -e imwheel ... depending on whether you think you'll need imwheel again in the future or not. t On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 07:10, Steven Spears wrote: Hello:

Re: [expert] unmounting /home

2001-12-26 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:07, J. Grant wrote: you could try staring in single user mode, there are several ways to do that type linux single at lilo, or linux init=/bin/bash or maybe init s at a command prompt, all f these as root. then umount /home and see if that works... JG He should

Re: [expert] unmounting /home

2001-12-26 Thread Tarragon Allen
Tarragon Allen wrote He should simply try logging in as root from the console, and then umount /home. Root's home directory defaults to /root, thus allowing you to unmount /home if you're logged in as root (as opposed to using 'su'). On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:21, J. Grant wrote: Edting

Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-21 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 00:11, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello No, it didn't. There is /dev/sda and nothing else. How can I create /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 ... /dev/sda4? And then mount the zip drive? Thanks Ed You might like to try adding devfs=nomount to your append line in

Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-20 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:32, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello My parallel zip worked just fine with LM 8.0. Unfortunatley I had to upgrade my system to LM 8.1 (I want o to run multiple Xs). I said unfortunately because LM 8.1 has lots of funny stuff (for instance, ps2 mouse -gpm - is a

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-19 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:17, Jesus Arocho wrote: This is most confusing. While reading about devsf on a website I found that the terms /dev/sda1...4 are legacy designations and that they would be links to the actual devfs node. Since I had created the node with mknod I went back to try to

Re: [expert] USB ZIP250

2001-12-18 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 20:42, A V Flinsch wrote: Do you have all of the correct file modules loaded? modprobe vfat then try mounting the disk. On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:11, Jesus Arocho wrote: Modprobe vfat, then mount; gives: mount you must specify the filesystem type Did you try

Re: [expert] header filtering with Postfix

2001-12-13 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 05:34, Mark Weaver wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:43:59 -0500 I'm currently experiementing with header filtering with postfix and I was wondering about something. the regex for doing this goes roughly something like this: /^HEADER_NAME: stuff you don't

Re: [expert] DNS problems

2001-12-10 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 04:59, NDPTAL85 wrote: Here is the results of route -n [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0

Re: [expert] iptables is nutz!

2001-12-10 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:06, Mark Weaver wrote: t, adding the -p (protocol) was the missing link. why in the world didn't iptables just say that's what it was missing instead of the generic error message it was giving me? I think the technical reason it gave the option unknown response is

Re: [expert] DNS problems

2001-12-09 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:16, NDPTAL85 wrote: Yes I have already added the DNS servers into resolve.conf (you can actually do that via NetConf as well) and it still isn't working. It was working before on its own IP and it just decided to stop working for some reason. I haven't changed

Re: [expert] iptables is nutz!

2001-12-09 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:27, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List It was my understanding that with the latest version of Iptables --dport which is an alias for --destination-port is a legal argument. However, when i attempt to add the below into the ruleset of iptables, iptables -A INPUT -s

Re: [expert] DNS problems

2001-12-09 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:28, NDPTAL85 wrote: Ok, basic tests: Can you ping your gateway IP? Does nslookup work? Can you ping your DNS server(s) as it's set in resolv.conf? What address are you trying to connect to; can you resolve it with nslookup? Can you ping that IP address

Re: [expert] DNS problems

2001-12-09 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:01, NDPTAL85 wrote: What is the contents of your resolv.conf? What happens when you run nslookup (by itself) from the command line on this machine? Are there any firewall rules on the Mandrake box? There is no firewall on the Mandrake box. When I run

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-03 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 03:20, Mark D'voo wrote: I understand that many people still need many of the programs of windows. But harddrives are big enough that there is no reason to dual boot. Companies should see computers pre-dual-booted. Hell, it doesn't cost them anything to put linux on it,

Re: [expert] Myserious kernel panic

2001-11-27 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:58, Deryk Barker wrote: I'm running Mdk 7.2 (I'm waiting for a quiet few days to upgrade) on a dual Celeron 400 w 256MB RAM. Until recently it has been very stable, but in the last week or so it keeps freezing up (or so I initially thought) every night. I'd come in in

Re: [expert] kernel-mdk virtual console small font -- how?

2001-11-26 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:10, Charlie Bebber wrote: I know this has got to be one of the lamest questions that's been asked in a while, and for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get the small font on the virtual consoles that are default with the mandrake kernel RPMS (or perhaps saying I

Re: [expert] Firewall Log Question

2001-11-21 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:08, Leif Madsen wrote: I have to agree with Tarragon here. It doesn't look to me like any sort of hacking attempt as it looks like their firewall is just recieving packets to ports which they are blocking and it is dropping them. It very well could be a machine on

Re: [expert] Firewall Log Question

2001-11-21 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:41, eduardo wrote: Thanks for your help. With this I sent a small description about how network has bean setting up and the hardware that the we are using. Network 1 : 10.10.X.X / 255.255.0.0 (The Other Company/Firewall) Network 2 : 192.168.5.X.X / 255.255.0.0 (My

Re: [expert] Firewall Log Question

2001-11-20 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:09, Eduardo Bencomo wrote: We are in a mixed network, which includes a router Cisco, a 3COM swich common to the two networks and a hub where gateway/fire wall linux computer is connected. One of the network is my company network (192.168.X.X / 255.255.0.0. I am in

Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating

2001-11-12 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:33, John Haywood wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:40, you wrote: Check the personalisation settings in kcontrol centre, and make sure kmail is the preffered client. Tom, bin there, tryed that! It is set, and still no go. The funny thing is, it switches to kmail, but

Re: [expert] Out of inodes

2001-10-03 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:21, Dave Salovesh wrote: My /var partiton is out of inodes on my DNS server. I know why, more or less - I didn't configure it to have any mail abilities, but I forgot to tell something somewhere about that and now /var/log/mail has ~260,000 files telling me it can't

Re: [expert] Sticky bit on /tmp

2001-09-26 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:23, Tom Walsh wrote: Tarragon Allen wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 06:18, Tom Walsh wrote: How can I set the sticky on that volume? chmod +t /tmp Thank you, I got the same answer from the linux-fsdevel list on vger.rutgers.org, except a bit more detailed

Re: [expert] arts constantly dies now after I updated

2001-05-31 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Friday 01 June 2001 11:40, Gary A. Garibaldi wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2001 17:40, Jason Straight wrote: The subject says it all- it doesn't last long and no more arts arts-2.1.2-2mdk xmms-arts-0.4-3mdk libarts2-2.1.2-2mdk xmms arts is installed but I'm not using it. I don't

Fwd: Re: [expert] Mandrake SRPM's?

2001-05-26 Thread Tarragon Allen
Apologies to Civilme, this reply got sent to him directly where I meant it to go to the list. t -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake SRPM's? Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:42:15 +1000 From: Tarragon Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] Mandrake SRPM's?

2001-05-24 Thread Tarragon Allen
I would like access to the SRPM's for Mandrake. There are references to them being available on your ftp site, however I am unable to find them, and the only one's I can find on the mirror sites are for the updates. Must I buy the Powerpack? t