Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread mandrake
Another option: Do we want to call it Index, or Table Of Contents ? If it was also bold, it would stand out from being bigger, too.. I think Index is OK there, but Table of Contents is probably better in the right-hand column. I'd leave that just as you have it. I was just thinking that

Re: [expert] Communigate Pro

2002-11-22 Thread expert-mandrake
Yes, I am using communigate pro. On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:53:11 -0500 Brian York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone setup communigate pro server for linux? Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Why no amanda packages?

2002-08-16 Thread mandrake
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why Mandrake does not ship the amanda backup software ( amanda.org )? The license is BSD and not GPL, but surely, there's got to be other BSD licensed software bundled in the recent releases. Just wondering... -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F

Re: [expert] OT: Billing System?

2002-07-24 Thread Mandrake Expert Mailinglist
NOLA might be worth of try (http://nola.noguska.com/main.html) On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:25:10 -0500 Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Does anyone know of a good balance tracking/invoicing software program (preferably

Re: [expert] Linux on a Sun Sparc Machine

2002-07-12 Thread Mandrake Expert Mailinglist
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:55:31 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (c)?(c)? wrote: I just want to know if I can run Linux Mandrake or RedHat on a Sun Sparc Machine? I don't think you will find current systems from either vendor for the Sparc. Mandrake made a version of 7.1 (never

[expert] Using urpmi on RH 7.2? Is it possible?

2002-06-09 Thread mandrake
Mandrake is the distro of choice for my personal machines, but at work, we use RH 7.2 (yeah, I know 7.3's out). But I just can't stand not having urpmi so I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any success stories (or issues) in using urpmi on a RH 7.2 install. I'd appreciate any info

Re: [expert] popup killer for linux?

2002-06-01 Thread mandrake
On Sat, 01 Jun, at 23:14:32 +0200, Udo Rader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why not simply disallow popups in your browser? mozilla supports that and I think galeon konqueror can be told the same. Really? Where in mozilla can you set this? I'd really like to know but haven't been able to spot it.

Re: [expert] popup killer for linux?

2002-06-01 Thread mandrake
On Sat, 01 Jun, at 17:56:22 -0400, Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's in preferences - advanced - scripts windows. Uncheck the option that says 'open unrequested windows'. Ah, Bill, you're the man! Many thanks. -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5

Re: [expert] popup killer for linux?

2002-06-01 Thread mandrake
On Sat, 01 Jun, at 20:47:28 -0600, engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too bad that isn't included in Netscape 7. You know, I've never figured out why people use Netscape 7. It's just a mozilla release just two or three back, isn't it? Are there things in Netscape 7 that aren't in mozilla? --

Re: [expert] Security Tools - Portsentry

2002-05-31 Thread mandrake
Has anyone tried out PureSecure from Demarc (demarc.com)? I've got that running on my machine (free for individual users) and man, it's just amazing. It uses Snort to monitor your network, MySQL to log everything, and ties it all together in a sweet web front end. It also does MD5 checksums on

Re: [expert] Security Tools - Portsentry

2002-05-31 Thread mandrake
On Fri, 31 May, at 15:40:59 -0400, Albert E. Whale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the plug, perhaps I should give it a try. i'll let you know what I think. Word. I'd heard that the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake used their stuff on all of their nodes during the games, so I know it's

[expert] How to increase the sensitivity of your mouse?

2002-04-15 Thread mandrake
I've got a touchpad on my laptop running 8.2 and the mouse movement is rather sluggish. I'd like to increase the distance traveled by the mouse, but how would one go about doing this? Is there an option one can set in /etc/sysconfig/mouse or would it be in the XF86Config? Thanks in advance,

Re: [expert] How to increase the sensitivity of your mouse?

2002-04-15 Thread mandrake
On Mon, 15 Apr, at 15:47:27 -0700, Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. man xset m The m option controls the mouse parameters. The parameters for the mouse are `acceleration' and `threshold'. The acceleration can be specified as an integer, or as a simple fraction. The

[expert] How do you add new fonts to use with gimp?

2002-03-10 Thread mandrake
I've been playing with the gimp more and more lately and I've gotten to the point where I'd like to add more fonts. I really don't know how to do it, but ones that I've used previously have been tracked down to /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives I've acquired some new .ttf files and stuck them in

[expert] fdisk help

2002-02-19 Thread mandrake
I've got a laptop with a 40Gb drive on which a Windows and Mandrake 8.1 install reside. The Windows FS's got 6.8Gb, linux's got more than 12Gb allocated. Here's my partition table: --- # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512

[expert] How to create ext3 filesystem?

2002-02-15 Thread mandrake
I've got an 8.2beta2 install with ext3 filesystems, but now I've got another fs that I'd like to format with ext3. How does one do this? I've got mke2fs and mkfs.reiserfs and that for minix, but nothing for ext3. Any tips? Thanks, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690

Re: [expert] How to create ext3 filesystem?

2002-02-15 Thread mandrake
Nevermind -- found it: mke2fs -j -c /dev/foo On Fri, 15 Feb, at 16:13:10 -0800, To [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: I've got an 8.2beta2 install with ext3 filesystems, but now I've got another fs that I'd like to format with ext3. How does one do this? I've got mke2fs and

[expert] Where in 8.2 is the encrypted FS?

2002-02-14 Thread mandrake
I'm going through a test install of the 8.2 beta2 and it's gone pretty well, but I thought one of the new options in this new release is the possibility to have an encrypted filesystem. Where in the install process is this option, or is it part of the Choose security level levels? Cheers,

[expert] Multiple mice (touchpad + USB mouse)

2002-02-13 Thread mandrake
I can't seem to get it working as well as I once did, but I've got a laptop with a touchpad and I'd like to get my USB wheel mouse working at the same time. Here's what I've already got in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: --- Section InputDevice Identifier Touchpad Driver

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-08 Thread Mandrake Expert Mailinglist
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 05:40:37 +0200 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can tell me a better way to make the module permanent please tell me. There is the Mandrake way to do this... As stated before add to /etc/modules.conf: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx and then add to /etc/modules

Re: [expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh

2002-02-07 Thread mandrake
Hi Udo and thanks for the reply, Yeah, I've done that (forgot to put that in the email) and for the life of me, can't figure out from where this is coming: --- # ssh -X oscar cb@oscar's password: Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding. --- And X11Forwarding is set to yes on each of the

Re: [expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh

2002-02-07 Thread mandrake
On Thu, 07 Feb, at 14:58:23 -0500, Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: Maybe... /etc/hosts.allow: sshdfwd-X11: whatever Pierre I don't think that's it either. Even when I'm ssh'ing from an internal box with 'ALL: ALL' in its /etc/hosts.allow. I think I might be onto

Re: [expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh (SOLVED!)

2002-02-07 Thread mandrake
Ok, well, it makes sense, but because the machine with which I was having trouble were gateway boxes, I didn't have X installed on them. XFree86 actually provides /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth and that's what writes your .Xauthority and sets your $DISPLAY. Anyway, that's what it was and thanks to

[expert] Any Apache gurus in the house?

2002-02-07 Thread mandrake
I've got apache 1.3.22 running with mod_ssl and a few different virtual hosts seperated as /www/htdocs/domains/{foo,bar}.org et al. I have an application that I'd like to run over SSL and make available to only one of the domains (foo.org), but not the others (bar.org et al), but I'd like the

Re: [expert] Any Apache gurus in the house?

2002-02-07 Thread mandrake
On Thu, 07 Feb, at 18:18:07 -0600, J.P. Pasnak [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: You might try putting the app in it's own directory '/www/htdocs/app' and create an 'Alias /app/ /www/htdocs/app/' in the 'foo.org' VirtualHost directive, that way, it should only be accessible via

[expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh

2002-02-06 Thread mandrake
on my FreeBSD system, but never on any of my Mandrake boxes. I think the part that's getting me is the $DISPLAY environment setting. For example, here's what I get when I ssh into my FreeBSD box: --- # echo $DISPLAY pepe.home.gory.org:10.0 --- And here's what I get when I ssh into any of my Mandrake

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-31 Thread mandrake
On Thu, 31 Jan, at 07:19:59 -0700, Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: run exists in the /service but not in root and not in env. The install script doesn't create them and as far as I can determine, it shouldn't. Well, your install script is not creating all the files it should as

Re: [expert] Rsync over ssh..

2002-01-31 Thread mandrake
Hi Frank, You might try 'rsync -vve ssh file file' and see if that works for you. Or you can add -r for recursive functionality. HTH, -Charlie On Fri, 01 Feb, at 01:42:48 +0800, Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: I recently saw a message about rsync over ssh.. anyone doing that? I

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-30 Thread mandrake
Hi Praedor, On Wed, 30 Jan, at 16:36:14 -0700, Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: supervise: fatal: unable to start env/run: file does not exist supervise: fatal: unable to start env/run: file does not exist supervise: fatal: unable to start env/run: file does not exist supervise:

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.17-10mdk problems

2002-01-27 Thread mandrake
. Know what I'm sayin? -c Praedor Tempus said: Uh, I guess I'm now confused...if the mandrake kernel has the patch and the kernel.org kernel doesn't...and the Mandrake kernel refuses to boot (panics) but the kernel.org kernel boots up fine, then it would seem that this patch cannot do

[expert] Problems with gkrellm plugin, GKrellWeather and Message.pm -- fix before 8.2?

2002-01-27 Thread mandrake
This has been going on for quite some time, and we've finally tracked it down. When running gkrellm and the GKrellWeather plugin, it fails on the following: 400 FTP return code 500 at /usr/X11R6/bin/GrabWeather line 49. which eventually tracks the troublemaker down to

Re: [expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-26 Thread mandrake
Praedor Tempus said: My next move will be to try to get the current kernel config I successfully used with the basic 2.4.17 kernel with the mandrake 2.4.17.8 kernel. I still want the security updates that it has but which isn't part of the kernel.org kernel. What security patches have

Re: [expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-26 Thread mandrake
Praedor Tempus said: I can now turn it off on my laptop but what about desktop systems? Does 2.4.17 have a general issue with kudzu? Not that I know of, but I usually turn kudzu off after first boot (I don't change hardware in any of my machines too much anymore). I'd reckon that

Re: [expert] Sound working - and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-25 Thread mandrake
socket: protocol not available make sure CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are enabled in your kernel. I'm pretty sure they are but I am rebuilding it now. Another caveat involves a host of non-fatal errors upon boot, which I also noticed on the mandrake 2.4.17 kernels when I tried

Re: [expert] Confirmed dead 2.4.27.8

2002-01-24 Thread mandrake
repeatedly with attempts to use or build ANY form of 2.4.17 kernel) when I had a nice, self-built 2.4.13 kernel. I WANT IT BACK!! Know where I can find the kernel-source for the Mandrake 2.4.13 kernel? It worked beautifully...I had simply hoped (wrongly it turns out) that 2.4.17 would be improved

[expert] LM 8.1 Creative PCI 128 Card

2001-11-15 Thread Mandrake Expert
Has anyone had problems getting this card to work with LM8.1(Ensoniq 1370) I am sure it used to work earlier with OSS drivers. I have checked the mixer settings. The volume was very low by default but even after setting right volume I don't hear anything! If I use the HardDrake under X, it

[expert] Mylex Raid Controller unstable?

2001-08-07 Thread mandrake
Hello, We have a Athlon 1Gig with 1 Gig of Ram. We were running kernel 2.4.3 from Mandrake 8.0 but were having pretty consistent crashes. The crashes would occur when large I/O bound processes would start up. After some research I found that there was a sync() bug that causes the I/O bus

Re: [expert] kernel compiling

2001-08-01 Thread mandrake
bzImage is what you are looking for. The older format will no longer work do to size. It operates the same other than the compression used. J On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, pablito wrote: is there some program that compiles the kernel source and produces the vmlinuz and initrd files that the regular

[expert] [Urgent] New kernel problems

2001-07-31 Thread mandrake
Hello, We are trying to install kernel 2.4.7 on Mandrake and keep running into problems. This is what we have done. Configured the kernel with make menuconfig. Configured ReiserFS, RamDisk and Dac960 support as modules. Compiled, installed kernel. Compiled, installed modules. ran: mkinitrd

[expert] mdk 8, libsafe, rebuilding srpms

2001-06-19 Thread expert-mandrake
the problem. $ cat /etc/mandrake-release Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586 $ rpm -ivh gftp-2.0.8-1.1mdk.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies: libsafe.so.2.0 is needed by gftp-2.0.8-1.1mdk $ rpm -ivh libsafe-2.0-3mdk.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies

Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

2001-01-10 Thread mandrake-expert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Sridhar, Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 04:48:49, you wrote: SG I rebooted the system and had a look at the bios system monitor to monitor SG the temp and fan speed. I noticed when the CPU temp goes beyond 109 F the SG system reboots. I am not

Re: [expert] Mandrake in production

2000-12-19 Thread mandrake
Interesting conversation, so here's my $.02. I work for a small ISP. We're migrating from Windows to Linux (don't blame me for the NT, I'm moving us to Linux as fast as I can...) and I've played with RedHat and Mandrake. (I very breifly played with OpenBSD, but the install was over my head

[expert] weird DPMS prob. w/ Hitachi SuperScan 751U

2000-11-19 Thread Mandrake Mania
I'm using XFree4/KDE2 under Mandrake 7.2 with an ATI Mach64 video card and a Hitachi CM751 monitor. When I enable DPMS, the monitor blanks for a few seconds after the timeout period set with xset, but then an "INVALID SCAN FREQ." message appears from the monitor and the screen show

Re: [expert] ifup on 7.2

2000-11-06 Thread Mandrake
Actually I did fix it. The thing was that one of the scripts was trying to use wvdial to connect, and it is not installed. I found out when I saw the ifcfg-ppp0 file that had an WV=something entry and after I removed it, the ifup ppp0 command worked. I also had problems with the lan and I

Re: [expert] could not open default font fixed

2000-11-05 Thread Mandrake
I've seen this problem when xfs is not running. Make sure it is up before running X. Also check for this line FontPath "unix/:-1" in the /etc/X11/XF86Config that tells X to look for fonts using xfs. If you don't have xfs installed, install it and run /etc/init.d/xfs start

[expert] StarOffice 5.2 won't print under Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-05 Thread Mandrake-Expert_www
Hi, Has anyone noticed that StarOffice no longer prints after upgrading to Mandrake 7.2? All my other apps can print, but StarOffice only acts like it - nothing comes out. How can this be fixed? Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[

[expert] NCR 53C*xx raid controller

2000-06-08 Thread mandrake
I have a compaq proliant mk530 with the NCR 53C8XX pci raid controller and mandrake 7.1 will not recognize the disk attached to it. When trying to install I get the following error: no valid devices were found on which to create new file system. The system has redhat 6.2 installed so I know

[expert] GIMP and sane

2000-04-09 Thread Mandrake
support missing. wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) Any ideas and suggestions? Thank you -- Best regards, Mandrake mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Resize lnx4win partition, how??

2000-03-05 Thread Mandrake Magthree
How do I resize the lnx4win partition (dos image file) non-destructively after i've installed it? Need more space for more packages... Thanks! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

[expert] apache perl quest with mandrake5.3

1999-03-12 Thread mandrake
Hi, I am trying to get some things to work with the apache that came with mandrake5.3 I have installed the DBI I needed and other programes but here is my problem. This is what I am putting in my html page at the top my $r = #!/usr/bin/perl Apache-request; print "HTTP/1.1 200 OK