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
> 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')

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 s

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

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 -

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

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: s

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" respons

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 >

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. Whe

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 pin

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 IN

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 hav

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

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

Re: [expert] -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 sayin

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.

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

2001-11-20 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 > i

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,

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 o

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 i

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

2001-05-25 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 P

[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