Re: [expert] SO 5.3

2000-06-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
when I downloaded I got the chance to download either a rpm or binary Wayne Petherick wrote: > I have gone to Suns web site and tried to download Staroffice 5.2. I > click all of the right buttons, and select English Linux (x86) but when I > get to the end and the software can be dl'd the only

Re: [expert] I need to rename a bunch of files

2000-05-17 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
Thank you very much. That did the trick. Anton Graham wrote: > Submitted 16-May-00 by Timothy Litwiller: > | I found mmv but can't seem to get the proper command line > | > | the files that I have are like this > | picture-thumb.jpg and the new album software requires them to be > | picture.thu

Re: [expert] HP DeskJet 972Cse

2000-05-10 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
I am using the 970cxi with mandrake 7.1b2. I am in windows right now because drakefont broke my x and I can't get back in. I believe that the models that I chose was the 870 and then it said something about 970 not being tested. Armisis Aieoln wrote: > I have the 970cxi and it works ok with t

Re: [expert] Linux frustration

2000-04-16 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
button so that adding a linux users adds a samba user etc. "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: > > Tim & Val Litwiller wrote: > > > > For your samba configuration you will want to download webmin. It puts > > most of the setting in an easy to understand web app. It is t

Re: [expert] Linux frustration

2000-04-15 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
For your samba configuration you will want to download webmin. It puts most of the setting in an easy to understand web app. It is the first thing I add to a mandrake box, It is much easier to use than all the tools that ship with it. Andrew Vogel wrote: > > I started with a plan. A simple pla

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux -??wine??

2000-04-09 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
It is really more of an engine than either an adapter or an emulator, it it what the programs use to call for the hardware to do something, I think of it as kind of the same thing as X. If a windows programs needs a windows opened it calls the api -{ either ms or wine }- and the the api engine do

[expert] /boot/System.map question

2000-03-28 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
This should probably be in the newbie list, but since I don't have time for both I'll ask it here? What is the System.map file for? and does it matter if it is not the same as the kernel that i am running? I went back to a 2.2.13 kernel so I could apply the hpt366 kernel patch to support my Abi

Re: [expert] multi-processor system support in Linux

2000-03-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
do you have a bp6 motherboard? I also am only running on one processor because of APIC problem when I run dual, Even with the NOAPIC in the append line in lilo I still can not seem to get the machine to run reliably with a smp kernel. I have tried making my own (mandrake sources) and mandrakes

Re: [expert] ftp server setup in lm7.00

2000-03-12 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
rpm -Vvvv anonftp D: opening database mode 0x0 in //var/lib/rpm/ D: record number 5711448 D: requires: ftpserver satisfied by db provides. D: requires: /bin/sh satisfied by db file lists. Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Tim & Val Litwiller wrote: > > >

Re: [expert] ftp server setup in lm7.00

2000-03-12 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
I have anonftp installed and I have a test file in /home/ftp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Mar 8 21:30 test.txt and I still can not see this file I have changed the file to be user and group ftp but with the same results. Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Tim &a

[expert] ftp server setup in lm7.00

2000-03-11 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
is there a know problem with the ftp server in mandrake 7.0? I can not seem to get the anonymous ftp to work, users can not see files or directories. I have set the permissions to user and group ftp and chmod 0755 and still can not see a list. If I know a directory name I can change to that dire

[expert] anonftp non displaying list

2000-03-08 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
I know this is probably a faq, but after searching thru my folder for this list I didn't find a solution. I can get to user directories if I log on as a user, but I can not get a file list if log on as anonymous. I have checked file permissions, I can change directories, but still do not get a fi

Re: [expert] Blocking Banner ads

2000-03-04 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
up the number of redirectors that squid is allowed to run, If a page has lots of images more redirectors lets them be processed in parallel. I use 4 when connecting to it thru a phone line - but if I use it thru the network at work I sometimes need to up it to more than 8 to get full speed. Als

Re: [expert] Blocking Banner ads

2000-03-03 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
Assuming this is on topic since squid is shipped with mandrake :) How about blocking most banner ads from most web sites. Here is how to do it. setup squid with the access controls that you are comfortable with. Then look on freshmeat for squidredirect it is a simple little script. download it a

Re: [expert] Apartment network wishlist

2000-02-27 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
what all do you use the linux server box for? If it is mainly for file storage and now for a gateway. You will want to look at www.e-smith.org it sets up in 10 minutes make a quite secure firewall, mail server, directory server, file and print server. We use on of these at work an a pentium 120

Re: [expert] Dialing router (diald?)

2000-02-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
well if you are mainly using this for a dialing router. Get e-smith www.e-smith.net it's interface is a web page. You can only get to the management from the inside network. It has samba up and running already. it has diald configured. We are using this at work for our internet gateway-firewall

Re: [expert] Merging Partitions from Seperate Harddrives - Possible?

2000-02-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
So this will let you merge existing partitions? I use this when setting up a computer - but did not know you could merge existing partitions. I guess I will have to do some reasearch. but on the other hand why do we need something like this in linux - just mount the second partition to the app

Re: [expert] fdisk error, interesting.

2000-02-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
I build quite a few computers a work for our clients. I refuse to use wd drives in Linux computers anymore. I get errors like that on about 30% of the drives. And like Civileme wrote I got a 3 gig drive that thought it was an 8 gig drive. I put that one in a windows machine and actually got about

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
you need to do an expert install if you wish to select packages individually Rachelle DuBey wrote: > My complaint is that you can't choose individual products . They all seem > to come as units - even using custom. I have no problems with xfs using > 7.0. But I miss being able to add other pro

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0 network problem

2000-01-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
well I will try again tomorrow, but this afternoon I put in a pci 3c905 instead of the intel or the isa 3c509 and it work right off the bat, but since this card is borrowed from a friend and I can't keep it I will attempt to reconfigure without doing a reinstall. currently I have [tim@bcc53 tim]#

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0 network problem

2000-01-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
on bootup it printed ok when bringing up eth0 Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Timothy Litwiller wrote: > > > mine does have a line > > alias eth0 eepro100 > > > > should it have a .o on the end of the module name? > > > > > > istiqfar wrote: > > > > No it shouldn't. does it pri

[expert] Mandrake 7.0 network problem

2000-01-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
Ok. I have tried sending this to cooker list several times and it never shows up over there. Here is my computer Dual Celeron 466, 256 meg ram. BP6 motherboard, I am not using the HPT66 connectors on the motherboard, ( waiting till drivers are stable.) This machine was running Mandrake 6.1 till

Re: [expert] Duplicate posts

1999-12-14 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
is the list email the only email you are getting dupes from? I am subscribed to all the mandrake lists and have netscape setup to put each init's own folder when it retrieves then and I haven't been getting any duplicate messages. Are you possible subscribed more than once to the same lists? Do

Re: [expert] SAMBA Client

1999-12-13 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
4.00.05a would be win 95 osr2.1 Sridhar G wrote: > I have set encryption to -no and I have Win 95 ver 4.00.950a. Is this > OSR2.5? > > Sridhar > > - Original Message - > From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 6:23 PM > Subject:

Re: [expert] A new problem with linux (all of 'em)

1999-11-27 Thread Tim &amp; Val Litwiller
> It was AMI and the routine to turn it off had been skipped with a JMP. I replaced >the > JMP with the appropriate number of NOPs and flashed the dumb thing and I am OK. Of > course I should not have had to undo their rather lame attempt at foolproofing. > AFAIK, there are two engineering so

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-13 Thread Tim &amp; Val Litwiller
it's not just in Linux that it resolves to 127.0.0.1, I tried it in MSIE5. Christopher Cox wrote: > Ah. > > Do I feel foolish. How did they do that!

[expert] Mandrake as a beowulf cluster

1999-10-29 Thread Tim &amp; Val Litwiller
I am toying with this idea, I understand that I will need to find cluster enabled apps to run on this if I want to make use of the additional machines, but - will I be able to use standard apps also. In single machine mode?Where do I look for cluster versions of software that is already out

Re: [expert] ide CDRW without SCSI adapter ?

1999-10-28 Thread Tim &amp; Val Litwiller
no you don't have to have a hardware scsi adapter. look back thru this list and you will find several threads on setting up an atapi cd-rw. "S. Newhouse" wrote: > Anyone know if one needs to have a scsi adapter installed in one's > system in order to run cdrecord and/or xcdroast with an ATAPI

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7

1999-10-12 Thread Tim &amp; Val Litwiller
the mandrake page is in the script file that mandrake uses to call the netscape binary file. it is simple to remove from there. do a search for netscape and then look inside the file, it check to see if you have the navigator or communicator versions installed and then starts it with that file a

[expert] [Fwd: Cron run-parts /etc/cron.daily (fwd)]

1999-09-22 Thread Tim &amp; Val Litwiller
so how do I relink these? /usr/sbin/htdig: Symbol `__vt_3ios' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking /usr/sbin/htdig: Symbol `__vt_7istream.3ios' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking /usr/sbin/htdig: Symbol `__vt_8ifstream.3ios' has different size in shared