Re: [expert] Real Player in Mozilla - what about flash?

2001-01-24 Thread duane voth
Praedor Tempus wrote: > What I want to know is how to make the shockwave flash plugin work with > mozilla (or konqueror for that matter). I have the latest shockwave flash > netscape plugin in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins and it is, apparently, invisable > to konqueror. I also copied it to /usr

Re: [expert] Real Player in Mozilla]

2001-01-24 Thread duane voth
Sujeet Bhatt wrote: > If anyone has managed to make Real Player work with Mozilla under > Mandrake 7.2, please let me know how you did it. This is for the Mozilla 0.7 release built from the source tarball, and RealPlayer 7 (RealPlayer-7_0-1_i386_rpm). I had to manually add the mime description

Re: [expert] Please forward to expert list...

2001-01-17 Thread duane voth
Craig Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:43:44 -0600 > > Looking for a bit of feedback on networking with PCMCIA card. I have > LMDK7.2 setup on a laptop. I have the card services running (I believe). > I have done the appropriate edit on "/etc/pcmcia/config" so that the > Link

Re: [expert] Security Lists

2001-01-17 Thread duane voth
My intention is not to critizise but to offer an idea and help balance the sense of urgency. Vincent Danen wrote: > On Tue Jan 16, 2001 at 04:23:15PM -0500, b5dave wrote: >> One expects to be the first notified >> of Mandrake security issues when one is subscribed to >> Mandrake's security-annou

Re: [expert] bash command line editing broken for several releases

2001-01-17 Thread duane voth
Tom Berkley wrote: > No problem here with editing command lines. Sometimes when I have > problems installing new updates I will have an rpm -Fvh ..rpm > line that is 8 or ten lines long in a large display window. Never over a > two year period had one problem with line editing, removi

[expert] bash command line editing broken for several releases

2001-01-14 Thread duane voth
Have others here also had the problem where editing a long command line using bash (in vi mode) within an xterm causes the command line to get all screwed up? This began for me back with 7.0 (I think) and still isn't fixed. The problem might depend on resized xterm windows that were at one time

re: [expert] BIND File Missing

2001-01-14 Thread duane voth
> My dnskeygen file is missing in the following RPM: > >bind-8.2.2P5-1mdk.i586.rpm > > Would someone send me a match? A match? What release are you running? Mandrake 7.2 uses bind-8.2.2P5-12mdk and it's on the main install cd. duane

Re: [expert] No WM with LM 7.2 VNC Package

2001-01-14 Thread duane voth
John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: > I cannot seem to get a window manager to start with the VNC package that > shipped with LM 7.2. I've tried using gnome-session and twm & in > ~/.vnc/xstartup, but neither will start. Ever tried starting gnome-terminal, > that didn't work either. Here's a copy of the log

Re: [expert] mpg123 device still busy

2001-01-14 Thread duane voth
Chris Spackman wrote: > Ok, first, thanks a lot. mpg123 is now working. > > Here is what I did: > downloaded the source rpm > > removed the original (thought maybe that would be 'cleaner') ... > so did: make linux > then: make install > > and bingo, it works. cool. > the question remains,

Re: [expert] bind-8 - How can I reduce query-forwards ?

2001-01-13 Thread duane voth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use bind-8 on a Mandrake 7.2 server as DNS for our local network. Queries for > names (our IPs) outside the local net are forwarded to our providers DNS. > Trouble is, that my DNS seems no to cache addresses. > If do for example nslookup for www.gmx.net and repeat

Re: [expert] mpg123 device still busy

2001-01-13 Thread duane voth
Chris Spackman wrote: > Likewise, lsof /dev/dsp showed nothing - literally, no results at all. So /dev/dsp is not being used at the times when you run lsof manually. > I am beginning to think this must be an mpg123 problem. Is there a way to > tell it to use a different sound device? What it

Re: [expert] mpg123 device still busy

2001-01-11 Thread duane voth
Chris wrote: > Thanks for all the advice. So far no luck. Specifically; > > turning off the sound-at-startup option in DrakConf had no effect after > rebooting. That is, sound was not started, but mpg123 still gave the same > "device busy" error. (which makes me wonder - if sound still works wit

Re: [expert] 7.2 update: hang at console login

2001-01-11 Thread duane voth
Christopher Kolar wrote: > Hi everyone. I went through a rough upgrade from 7.1 _> 7.2 recently. > The problem that I now have is that when I login from console (level 3), > it takes my username and password and then just hangs. I am also unable > to login remotely form ssh. > > When I try

Re: [expert] rpm error msg?

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
Ron Stodden wrote: > I download the RPMs with rsync and then manually separate them out to > another place and into subdirectories by product (cups, kde2.1, alsa, > XFree86, etc), in the process removing older duplicates. The first thing I want to do with any compressed archive is list its conte

Re: [expert] Stop X11 and KDM from listening

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
Bryan Brown wrote: > I did a nmap scan and noticed that X11 is listening on > port 6000 and kdm is listening on port 1024. Are these > daemons required to listen on tcp ports and if not how > do I stop these services from listening. Any help > would be appreciated. Thanks, Bryan If you want to r

Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
Laurent Duperval wrote: > Use lsof. You mean: # lsof /dev/dsp pretty cool, much easier. Shades of AIX? duane

Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
Chris wrote: > How do I check if a program is hogging /dev/dsp? Aside from just checking > if xmms plays or not. Humm, good question. I just tried this: ls -l /proc/*/fd | egrep 'dsp|fd:' It lists all running processes but also lists the ones that have /dev/dsp open: ... /proc/26014/fd

Re: [expert] No logs since 24 Dec

2001-01-10 Thread duane voth
John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: > Now if I could figure out why /var/log/mail and /var/log/news end up with > hundreds of thousands of entries in them. Took me about 3 hours to delete here > on a SCSI-160 system with a P-III 700. Yeah! I've seen this too. It *might* have to do with the fact that I de

Re: [expert] CUPS and KMail from KDE2.1

2001-01-08 Thread duane voth
civileme wrote: > Oh My It happened right here in the main office. > > I have been printing copies of responses to my recruitmet notices using KMail > and CUPS > > First of all, KMail starts off with a bad attitude. It comes up pointing at > a printer from a list of available printers an

Re: [expert] mpg123 - device busy

2001-01-08 Thread duane voth
Chris wrote: > I have a cron wake up call set for each morning, monday to friday, using > mpg123. Friday it worked just fine. Then this morning (monday), there was > no wake up call. Log shows an error from mpg123 - audio: device or > resource busy. I have no idea what could be the source of this

Re: [expert] Memory problems

2001-01-08 Thread duane voth
Luis Chardon wrote: > Oh, I was just concerned since I upgraded from 160M to 672M and at the > time, I wasn't using up the whole 160, but now, I'm not using the whole > 672, but using most of it and I was wandering where the memory was going > to. >>> Luis Chardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [expert] Pain in the Arse - Linux Stability

2001-01-08 Thread duane voth
Al Baker wrote: > I have always found 7.1 to be completely stable. Well a comment like that begs a reply. I found 7.1 to be stable from a kernel perspective but most of my usual "addons" would not compile at all. All kinds of package conflicts and bad versions... I never did find the magic se

Re: [expert] error compiling the kernel

2001-01-03 Thread duane voth
Irwan Hadi wrote: > make[1]: as86: Command not found as86 is in the dev86-0.15.1-1mdk package on 7.2, is it installed on your system? To check run: rpm -qa | grep dev86 duane

Re: [expert] Read/Write permissions on a VFAT partition

2001-01-03 Thread duane voth
duane voth wrote: > Why arn't world read/write permissions command line options for mount?? > (where they belong!) ok, I'm sufficiently embarrassed, there is a mount umask=0 in addition to the usual per-user umask. 8} duane

Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?

2001-01-03 Thread duane voth
Alexander Skwar wrote: > So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100: > >> I've just installed Mdk 7.2 and the telnet doesn't work. A friend explained >> me to check that the telnet service is enable in /etc/xinetd/telnet but >> this file doesn't exist. > > > telnet-se

Re: [expert] Read/Write permissions on a VFAT partition

2001-01-03 Thread duane voth
>> "Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA" wrote: >>> I have a vfat partition (win98) mounted but cannot seem to get permissions >>> to write to it. Would someone please give me a hint how to do this? > From: Ron Stodden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> The user that did the mount is the only one w

Re: [expert] Read/Write permissions on a VFAT partition

2001-01-02 Thread duane voth
Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: > umask=0 No umask is for setting the default permissions for files you *create*, it doesn't change the access you have to existing files. More then likely Jon, you will need to be root to write to the filesystem, or if there is a way to mount the vfat from a

Re: [expert] Start X with no login

2001-01-02 Thread duane voth
Barry Winch wrote: > Hi, I have an application that runs under X, that I would like to start > automagically on boot-up. Unfortunately X always wants we to log in. > > Is there a way to start x in an rc.xxx file, which in turn will start the > application, prior to any login taking place? Maybe

Re: [expert] Boot CD (was Bit-for-bit CD's)

2001-01-02 Thread duane voth
Ronald L. Chichester wrote: > "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: > > Okay folks, I figured out how to make a regular cd using mkisofs and > cdrecord (still couldn't get any of the GUI routines to work correctly, > but the command line routines are still available and still work). > > In any case, th

Re: [expert] Q. Media Performance Sound Server Tuning

2001-01-02 Thread duane voth
Tony K.Olsen wrote: > Q. I have been trying to get Mandrake 7.2 to play mp3 files (with either > xmms or kaiman) without suffering noticeable hiccups as I open other windows > or even delete an email from KMail but I have yet been unable to do so. I got sound hiccups by simply moving the mous