[expert] Is there a Fasttrack/Promise driver for Linux?

I have 2 mainboards that have an onboard Raid/ATA100 Fasttrack/Promise controller and am wondering if there are drivers yet for it with the 2.4 Kernel? Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consulting Minneapolis, MN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] Apache config fails after using Webmin

Can anyone tell me why after adding a virual host in webmin, apache seems to not work properly. MDK 8.2 Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consulting Minneapolis, MN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Question with postfix

I have several SNF firewalls that I maintain at different locations and would like to process log alerts and have them mailed to me or to my pager. What would be the ramifications if I would install postfix on the firewall as far as weakening the security on the firewalls? Carl Lindgren C. R

Re: [expert] Samba user logging in getting root user rights

tions as the super-user (root). You should use this option very carefully, as any user in this list will be able to do anything they like on the share, irrespective of file permissions. Default: no admin users Example: admin users = jason >>>end snip - smb.conf - man page >>> C

Re: [expert] Problems with SquirrelMail

nuts!!! Thanks for all the help Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consulting Minneapolis, MN - Original Message ----- From: "Carl Lindgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:33 PM Subject: [expert] Problems with SquirrelMail > Can

[expert] Problems with SquirrelMail

l Version is 1.2.4-1 Thanks for any help Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consulting Minneapolis, MN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK 8.2 Install - Internet Servies complaining...

Thank you, that was it. But Proftp still dosn't work, any ideas on that? Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consuting Minneapolis, MN - Original Message - From: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:12 AM Su

[expert] Corporate Server Edition

Does anyone know why the mirror listing for the CSE has been taken off the download page? Is Mandrake not developing the CSE anymore? Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consuting Minneapolis, MN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable

t Windows 2000 has been much more stable than Linux which is known for stability. Thanks for responding Carl -- ___ Download the free Opera browser at http://www.opera.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Questions..maybe for Cooker?

ns either crash immidiately or are very unstable. I did a clean Mandrake 7.2-Install prior to this. Also tried removing all KDE-stuff and reinstalling but to no avail. Sorry for the messy letter..probably a bunch of mistakes on my part. I'll never be a Mandrak

RE: [expert] Network Card Problems

That's true. Ill have to give it a shot this weekend if I can get my wife off of ebay long enough to boot the PC into linux and get connectiong sharing working there so I can use either OS I wanna with no interruption to the boss :) -- "'Tis some script kidd3z," I muttered, "tapping at my serv

RE: [expert] Network Card Problems

> > Maybe if you tell it to use irq 9? > > In my /etc/modules.conf file i have the following entry > alias eth0 3c59x > > if i wanted to tell it to use irq 9 i believe i would modify > it like so: > alias eth0 3c59x irq=9 > I tried that. No go. I have tried turning off PNP in my bios and even us

[expert] Network Card Problems

still has to be able to get out to the net thru internet connection sharing. Any help is appreciated. -- Carl Lafferty System Administrator, Floyd County Public Library Registered Linux User #201131

[expert] Package addition -- Exim ??

Hello, I it a possiblity that Exim will be added into the distro at any time in the near future? How does it compare wiht postfix in terms of futures and performance? -Carl

Re: [expert] wheel mouse

Global startup commands in: /etc/rc.d/rc.local Didn't know you were supposed to use -k. Maybe this is why mine didn't work. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers Mage Grimau wrote: &

Re: [expert] WG: FVWM2

Be advised, FVWM & -2 are rather old and very few people run them, so you will have trouble with support. Recommend KDE. (Gnome still too buggy) -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers

Re: [expert] ftp transfers hanging, tcpdump trace shows packets dropping on floor?? (very long)

> Carl - no, the ftp transfer hangs happens both as a client and a server. > The tcpdump trace in the original post is with the machine as a client. I meant that particular machine, which served as client in some of your latter tests. You indicated it =doesn't= see packets it shou

Re: [expert] solaris disk

Safest is to reformat. man mke2fs -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers Nickos Yoldassis wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a Mandrake7 machine and want to plug a seciond disk, taken from

[expert] Air mdksecure, and VMware Install Problem

a zero-length file, possibly as a result of installing the headers. So I rebooted and kernel.h was rebuilt. Installed VMware and so far it seems to be OK, though haven't installed guestOS yet. This implies I CAN recompile a secure kernel! How do I indicate when compiling that I DO

Re: [expert] List Bitching

p this ladder, we have to > recognize that new people are getting on the lower rungs all > the time. Right.And this is life, as well. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers

Re: [expert] ftp transfers hanging, tcpdump trace shows packets dropping on floor?? (very long)

I had a problem similar to this, and it turned out to be a bad SMC NIC. I say hardware on the client. Does the server machine work OK as client to a public server? -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux

Re: [expert] anonftp non displaying list

commercial product, but free if you set max users to 3. If you want to pursue wu-ftpd, use linuxconf to set it up and refer to /usr/doc/wu-ftpd-???. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers Tim & Val

Re: [expert] 7.0 PowerPack iso downloads?

Hear, hear! -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers Linda Walsh wrote: > Is there any place to download the 7.0 powerpack apps and/or isos? > I haven't found them on any of the downl

Re: [expert] MIME/Base64 cmdline decoding

Why not use KMail, or Messenger if you are running KDE? Vast improvement over the command-line, and easy. Some people don't like html mail, but I think it's an improvement. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bri

[expert] List Bitching

e jerks keep it to themselves. This is supposed to be a labor of love, remember? -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers Alan Shoemaker wrote: > Axalonthere's a significant thread here

Re: [expert] Air mdksecure, and VMware Install Problem

a zero-length file, possibly as a result of installing the headers. So I rebooted and kernel.h was rebuilt. Installed VMware and so far it seems to be OK, though haven't installed guestOS yet. This implies I CAN recompile a secure kernel! How do I indicate when compiling that I DO

[expert] Air mdksecure, and VMware Install Problem

ecure with these modules, of course mismatch between modules & running kernel. So I am faced with a choice: a hardened kernel, or VMware. Will Mandrake release either the patches or headers for mdksecure? Or should I go to something like LIDS? Would I have the same problem with LIDS? -- Carl A.

Re: [expert] adding TTF's doesnt seem to work

Didn't see the original posting for this, but I had trouble adding TTFs to Air as well. (xfs crashed) Pablo recommended changing all *.TTF to *.ttf and it worked. Do this, then run ttmkfdir and chkfontpath --add. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at

[expert] Air mdksecure, and VMware Install Problem

ecure with these modules, of course mismatch between modules & running kernel. So I am faced with a choice: a hardened kernel, or VMware. Will Mandrake release either the patches or headers for mdksecure? Or should I go to something like LIDS? Would I have the same problem with LIDS? -- Carl A.

Re: [expert] No email delivery

a clean M7.0-2 install) -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers Alex V Flinsch wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > I've just installed Mandrake 7.0 and have discovered tha

[Fwd: [expert] RE: boot freeze]

I guess MandrakeSoft isn't willing to help me with my questions. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers "Carl A. Cook" wrote: > I've found putting an exit statement in any bo

Re: [expert] identd --one more thing

oo. Probably leave ssl open & booby-trap the rest. Remember, tcpd was compiled with -DPROCESS_OPTIONS, so you have to use #man hosts_options, not #man hosts.deny -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux D

Re: [expert] RE: boot freeze

keep your Mandrake-Linux distribution up to date by using the 'MandrakeUpdate' program installed on your box." But I find no evidence of such a utility... -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Driv

Re: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work

has run out of assignable interrupts. If you are not out of interrupts, whether the fault is with the MB or with the NIC is a question. Anybody know why you can't add a new fonts path in M7.0-2? Hey MandrakeSoft... what happened to my posting on setting up security additional to M

Re: [expert] mdk.rpm vs .rpm

ge IS actually installed. Comments, MandrakeSoft? -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers Rene Scott wrote: > Hi, > > try rpm --nodeps ..., and check out rpm(8). > > Rene >

Re: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work

worth more than $50/card. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: > I found out why my eepro100 won't work, but I can't seem to fix it. > > Even though my nic

Re: [expert] [Fwd: MSec]

but don't know how to tell the WinNT machine. Believe this would act as a 'switched' connection. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you... If you don't bet you can't win. Axalon Bloodstone wrot

Re: [expert] ipchains problem

Microsoft's site requires cookies for some things too. Solution is simple... allow all cookies. =But=write-protect=your=cookies=file=.. Looks to them like it's getting through. But it's not. (hehehehe) -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Has anyone else noticed how

[expert] installation issue

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I tried to install a fresh Mdk 7 with no luck. During the installation of the packages, the system stop with a message that i can reboot safely??? Any ideas? thanks. Carl St-Jacques

Re: [expert] ipchains problem

Junkbuster through Squid works beautifully, and even comes with a prefab list of known advertisers! Give this guy a pat on the back: http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/ -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you... If you

[expert] [Fwd: Netscape]

"Carl A. Cook" wrote: > Yoann, > Sorry to trouble you with the Netscape question. Not an MSEC problem. > Found indexhtml-7.0-3 was busted in my install so downloaded 7.0-5 and > installed. > > Removed netscape -communicator, -navigator, and -common, deleted all >

[expert] [Fwd: MSec]

Vandoorselaere Yoann wrote: > "Carl A. Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > >> But am having a problem with Squid... it can't get to the access.log, > > > >> and further investigation shows it can't access the c

Re: [expert] "Hard drive optimisation" for only 1 of my 2 HD's?

Be careful about this option. I enabled it, and after an ungraceful shutdown my disk was hashed. I think this is actually setting up a cache buffer for the disk, and if not purged correctly before shutdown, leaves the disk flibberdegibbed. -- Carl A. Cook quantumATaugustmailDOTcom Certainly

Re: [expert] Serious problems w/ ipmasq

Dump Outlook. 8) -- Carl A. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is well known that M$ products don't call free() after a malloc(). The Unix community wishes them good luck for their future developments. James Lewis wrote: > I'm using ipmasq on 2.2.13 to sit between the Interne

[expert] [Fwd: MSec]

elude.sourceforge.net. > > This is a project i'm working on personnaly from 2 years now, > and which is now sponsored by Mandrakesoft. > > When it is ready, it should beat all actually existing IDS :-) > > > -- > > Carl A. Cook > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

[expert] Updates

, etc) In Gnome you put this in ~/.gtkrc: style "icon" { font="blahblahblah font here" } widget "*DesktopIcon*" style "icon" -- Carl A. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you... If you don't bet you can't win. S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [expert] ipchains problem

ns works. Suggest a tool at http://www.openpro.org/fwconfig.shtml which will make a script for you. I was so burnedout from ipchains I didn't bother to learn fwconfig, but adapted one of their sample scripts, and it works great. I run it as S09firewalling. -- Carl A. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] installing in /usr/local

this. If you use tarballs, you can change paths in Makefile (sometimes Makefile.config) after doing 'make' and before 'make install'. If the subject package is real primitive, check paths in .h file. Probably best to stick with generally-accepted standard locations though. --

[expert] Squid Permissions and MSEC

MSEC level 3, or 4. To the guy with the outragious 4-way SMP machine, it sounds like a caching- or operations-file limit is set in the SMP or disk quota areas. Try turning off quotas. Also suspect MSEC. Black & Blue is much more beautiful (and usable) than any Gnome themes. Nice work KDE!

[expert] Seagate tape backup

Hi, I'm wondering if somebody tried a seagate stt2n with mdk6.0. Can someone help me to use this device with mdk. Thanks. Carl St-Jacques

[expert] memory problem

Hi, I installed Mdk 6.0 on a Compaq Consignia 300 with 82mo ram and Linux see only 16mo should i pass the mem parameter with lilo( LILO: linux mem=82M). Thanks Carl St-Jacques

[expert] adaptec 1520b

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if somebody had problems with the adaptec 1520b pnp card with Mandrake 5.3. Thanks Carl St-Jacques

[expert] Apache + cgi

Hi, I need some help, i want to use the cgi scripts with apache but i always get a message that my server had a internal error. I'm running apache 1.3.3. Thanks. Carl St-Jacques

[expert] dial-in

Hi, Can someone help me to configure my linux box to accept incoming call with an external modem. I think i need to use mgetty. Can i have a telnet access with dial-in? Thanks Carl St-Jacques

[expert] scsi card

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I need some information with an adaptec scsi card. I'm not sure that this model is supported by Linux. The model is a AHA-2930CU. Can someone help me! Thanks. Carl St-Jacques

[expert] Backpack cdrom

hanks Carl St-Jacques

[expert] Setting in KDE

I installed an X-server with Mdk 5.3 and KDE 1.1 and i want to create a "profile", with the same desktop icons, same apps, same settings (keyb, color). Can i create my own config instead of the one that come with KDE. Which files a need modify to do this. Thanks Carl St-Jacques

Re: [expert] Netscape Short Cut keys

Actually, that also fixed alt left and right for me when I did it a few weeks ago... Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > alt-o is fixable by "rm /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape" > as for alt left and right, someone somewhere in that closed source > environment broke them, sorry not much we can do ab

[expert] bash script

the folders using a pattern matching /[a-zA-Z0-9].macnt/. thanks Carl St-Jacques

Re: [expert] /dev/md0 autodetect fail!

Are you sure that the raid is running before mounting the device... like raidadd -a? and raidrun -a? Hope this help. Carl St-Jacques - Original Message - From: Kit Ngan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 5:40 PM Subject: [expert] /dev/md0 autodetect fail! Hi, I

RE: [expert] software raid level 1

dx -mke2fs /dev/mdx If you need more details just ask! Hope this help. Carl St-Jacques > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of drew Roberts > Sent: 29 juillet, 1999 06:34 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] soft

Re: [expert] software raid level 1

What is not working? I can help if you give me more information with your exact problem! Carl - Original Message - From: drew Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:40 PM Subject: [expert] software raid level 1 > Has anyo

RE: [expert] Serial link

take a lot of cpu during the file transfert under a plip link so i will now try with rsync with an ethernet link. Carl St-Jacques > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axalon > Sent: 22 juillet, 1999 10:12 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Serial link

ests with a parallel link and i use nfs to do the replication of the most important directores and files. I'm open on better ideas or suggestions... Thanks Carl St-Jacques - Original Message - From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: We

[expert] Serial link

I'm looking for some documentation on how to setup a serial link between two linux box and doing some files replication between them. Thanks. Carl St-Jacques

[expert] Another problem!

Hi! Under M5.3 i create a file /etc/shutdown.allow to allow only some users to shutdown my server. But M6 don't use this file... so everyone can ctrl+alt+del? I can use inittab to trap the ctrl+alt+del..but! Carl St-Jacques

[expert] NIC problem

I! I tried to install a NIC d-link dfe-530TX and it didn't work. So can someone tell me how to setup this card under Mandrake 5.3. Carl