Mailing list Identification (was Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion)

2002-12-13 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:29:02AM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Bornath wrote on Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:37:47PM +0100 : Hmm, my mail proggy acts like he should: In the header of the mailing list I see a From: and a Reply-to: line.

Re: Mailing list Identification (was Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion)

2002-12-13 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:29:41PM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommy Wareing wrote on Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:44:17AM + : Add to your .muttrc: subscribe expert@ I've got :0: * ^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake-expert in my

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:02:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: IMHO it may be a lack of available space in /tmp which makes the tar-process stop at 2G. It's a kernel/file system limit. Move the data in smaller chunks (ie. more than one file). I presume that the other option (using no

Re: [expert] routing/DNS problems - wireless connection sharing

2002-11-28 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:49:05AM -0800, Praedor Tempus wrote: How do I get name resolution to work? I am not running a local DNS (and would prefer not to). I SHOULD be able to use the DNS settings of box 1 to get name resolution on box 2. What settings need to be looked at on which box

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-25 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:48:17PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: Mine (Mandrake 9.0) actually says /usr//etc/man.config. Which by convention tends to me /etc/man.config (stuff// being interpreted as /) Huh? I type ls -lart /usr//etc and I get zero files, because /usr/etc is

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-24 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX system I have used, MANPATH is not additive - it REPLACES all other heuristics for locating manpages. Eh? You get exactly

Re: [expert] automount lmontel

2002-11-19 Thread Tommy Wareing
Given that Laurent Montel is one of the Mandrake development team, and his name is attached to many of the RPMs (particularly kdegraphics), I think it's actually a left-over configuration option. - Original Message - From: Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[expert] Dial-in ppp and Bastille

2002-11-18 Thread Tommy Wareing
I've got a dial-in ppp server running on my home server, which also runs Bastille firewall. Unfortunately, my default dial-out connection (which its unlikely to use, as I've got broadband) is ppp0, and so is the incoming connection. Obviously, with only one modem, only on of these can be active

Re: [expert] Wireless woes: New initscript package seems broken, and high loads kills connection.

2002-11-15 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:07:28PM +0100, Teemu Torma wrote: The grep statement in check_link_down does not work. I just commented it out... - grep -q -E $1: +[09]+ +0. /proc/net/wireless return 0 My /proc/net/wireless contains: Inter-| sta-| Quality| Discarded

Re: [expert] Wireless woes: New initscript package seems broken, and high loads kills connection.

2002-11-15 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:52:37PM +, Tommy Wareing wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:07:28PM +0100, Teemu Torma wrote: The grep statement in check_link_down does not work. I just commented it out... - grep -q -E $1: +[09]+ +0. /proc/net/wireless return 0 My /proc/net

Re: [expert] Irda laptop Palm

2002-11-04 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:13:05PM +0100, Joan Tur wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to sync a Palm m515 through Irda. I don't know if irda is working in my laptop (I haven't used it)... how can I check Irda's support is installed and working ?? Thanks in advance ! ;) - --

Re: [expert] (YA) USB Mass storage question

2002-10-10 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 06:38:54PM +0100, bascule wrote: try looking in /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/ or similar, i'm not sure what other scsi devices you might have you might have to change the host0 to host1 and/or the bus0 to bus1 etc. somehwere under the /dev/scsi/ tree should be the device

Re: [expert] ML 9.0 - postfix calls *all* connections unknown

2002-10-10 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:16:23AM -0500, Ray Warren wrote: On 8 Oct 2002 at 14:00, David Guntner wrote: I found out from someone else that apparently you now need to have a copy of your hosts and resolv.conf files in /var/spool/postfix/etc for some reason. The default installation

Re: [expert] ML 9.0 - postfix calls *all* connections unknown

2002-10-10 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:38:01PM -0700, Todd Lyons wrote: Tommy Wareing wrote on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 11:26:56PM +0100 : everything Postfix needs has to duplicated in /var/spool/postfix/etc. More secure but more setup needed. Anybody know how to make this work with linuxconf profiles

[expert] (YA) USB Mass storage question

2002-10-09 Thread Tommy Wareing
I've got a Sony DCR-TRV25E which I can connect via a usb cable. It's not in the list of working USB devices, but it is a mass storage device. It's detected happily enough: Oct 9 11:54:50 nickel kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 4 Oct 9 11:54:50 nickel

[expert] pcmcia breaks after powering down

2002-10-07 Thread Tommy Wareing
I've been using 8.2 quite happily on my laptop (Acer aspire 1203XC) for a while. I've just upgraded it to 9.0, and started having trouble with the pcmcia service. Specifically, it hangs the machine whilst trying to modprobe yenta_socket. No messages, no diagnostics, absolutely nothing that I can

Re: [expert] NFS write problems - linuxconf sucks?

2002-10-07 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:25:59PM -0700, Todd Lyons wrote: SainTiss wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:19:42AM +0200 : Hi, I'm trying to set up NFS here... I've noticed linuxconf is kind of f*cked up... It tries to execute /etc/init.d/network {status|reload|start|stop} or something,