[expert] ispell installation

2003-04-02 Thread synrat
Why does ispell require that I install some foreign language version in addition to ispell itself ? Really weird. It gives me a choice of these packages when I try to urpmi ispell One of the following packages is needed: 1- ispell-it-0.03-14mdk.noarch 2- ispell-cs-3.1.20-8mdk.noarch 3-

[expert] upgrading

2003-03-25 Thread synrat
Is it possible to upgrade from 9 to 9.1 with urpmi ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] upgrading

2003-03-25 Thread synrat
to reinstall. On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: I can say from my personal experience that it won't work from 8.1 to 9.0 or 9.1. On 25 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:27, synrat wrote: Is it possible to upgrade from 9 to 9.1 with urpmi

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-05 Thread synrat
I'm pretty sure there was a good reason for redhat to make life shorter for their releases. After all it is the only commercially successful distro. They wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot or in the head like that I'm positive they know what they're doing. No serious admin. would install

[expert] kmail with local mboxes.

2003-02-27 Thread synrat
How can I stop kmail from moving the mailbox from /var/spool/mail/user to home directory ? I do have additional folders in /home/mail where procmail delivers a lot of filtered stuff, but my main inbox I want to always remain in /var/spool/mail/ thanx in adance Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread synrat
I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized for sse2 then get pentium4. If not, then get dual athlon mp. Get at least 2gb of ram, the

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread synrat
lol. no you need sun fire 1 for this :) 90 cpus and 10 terabytes of ram On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Jim C wrote: I'm not entirely sure but this might be the sort or thing a MOSIX cluster would be good for. Jim C. et wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: I

[expert] postfix and new rbls

2003-02-19 Thread synrat
Are there any new rbls that one can use with postfix ? I currently use relays.ordb.org, bl.spamcop.net, spamhouse.relays.osirusoft.com is there anything else available ? I do use procmail rules and spamassassin, but I don't want to waste my bandwidth on spammers. thanx Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] postfix and new rbls

2003-02-19 Thread synrat
chunk out of it. On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Luca Olivetti wrote: synrat wrote: Are there any new rbls that one can use with postfix ? I currently use relays.ordb.org, bl.spamcop.net, spamhouse.relays.osirusoft.com is there anything else available ? Take a look at http

Re: [expert] Mandrake Newbie

2003-02-11 Thread synrat
yes the mouse always reappears. you can use apmd suspend feature to hybernate. On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 05:47, Katinka Mills wrote: Hi all, I use FreeBSD for all my server applications, and Mandrake for my desktop. I have two questions.

Re: [expert] fyi, new gnome 2.2 is out, lots of cool updates

2003-02-11 Thread synrat
for a more stable release from Mandrake. On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:02, synrat wrote: I tried insalling it from cooker, but that only killed my existing gnome setup. Didn't you know cooker is only for developers... users should stay out

Re: [expert] fyi, new gnome 2.2 is out, lots of cool updates

2003-02-11 Thread synrat
I tried insalling it from cooker, but that only killed my existing gnome setup. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Robert Wideman wrote: Gnome 2.2 Released GNOMEPosted by timothy on Wednesday February 05, @03:44PM from the dadburn-that-slippery-gnome dept. heydrick writes This message confirms that

Re: [expert] What happened to gftp?

2002-05-21 Thread synrat
i still have it in 8.2. try 'urpmi gftp' as root. I have gftp-2.0.11-3mdk installed. Ashley Reynolds wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2002, Hoyt wrote: Why was gftp dropped from Mandrake 8.2? Hoyt, I was wondering the same thing. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Squid

2002-05-14 Thread synrat
What can I do do disable logging and hard drive caching for Squid? I only want it to use the memory. thanx in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Postfix AUTH

2002-05-03 Thread synrat
I got the stupid thing to work just the way I want it. lalalalala. I gotta say, I like it much more then Sendmail. I don't know about handling millions of e-mails, maybe I'll get there and then share my opinion, but it's definetely much easier and faster to maintain and optimize. For instance,

[expert] KDE 3 problems

2002-04-14 Thread synrat
boy do I regret installing the stupid thing. I fixed 2 things so far. The menues ( update-menus) and arts server ( using the latest rpms for arts ). Now Konqueror is completely out of whack. It won't even start ( not in any mode ) and Kshell locks everything up when I try to use it. Anyone

[expert] KDE3 problems

2002-04-06 Thread synrat
I installed KDE3 rpms from kde website and now all or most of my kde apps don't work. The only thing that works is Konqueror. No kword, kspread or anything else ( yes I did install koffice3 ). Moreover, the entire menu is gone completely. I run kappfinder, but it only foudn a few

[expert] openssl certificates

2002-04-02 Thread synrat
I'm using a certificate generated by openssl for secure e-mail ( pops/imaps). Mozilla and evolution both are fine with accepting the certificate forever, but kmail and all outlooks keep prompting users to hit yes to use that certificate. What can I do to stop that from happening ?? Do I

Re: [expert] Satisfaction - AcerScan 620U

2002-03-26 Thread synrat
thanx for the info, got my acerscan to work too now. i still have creative webcam go left that doesn't work in linux :), but I'm sure it'll be supported soon. Oscar wrote: I have a AcerScan 620U, When I had to scan, I had to reboot, enter windows, scan image, reboot, and so on... Now,

[expert] system monitoring reports

2002-02-20 Thread synrat
Is there a way to create reports of the system performance over a long period of time ?? I need something, open source of third party, or maybe some scripts exist that take snapshots of top, proc, vmstat and whatever else is outthere. Any suggestions ? It would be nice it also worked on

[expert] Sybase question

2002-02-20 Thread synrat
I noticed a lot of Database discussions going on, maybe someone can help me out. I installed Sybase SQL Anywhere studio for Linux and the installation seemed pretty smooth. However, I can't get the database to start. When I type ./dbeng7 /var/db/asademo.db /var/db being a writtable

Re: [expert] Mozilla from RedHat RPM

2002-02-15 Thread synrat
go to rpmfind.net and do a search for mozilla, mozilla-mail and whatever else mozilla components you have installed. they're all version 0.98 now. when you try to rpm -iUvh those files it will tell you that it needs some libnss and some other libraries proly. you can find all of those on

[expert] freeswan

2002-02-15 Thread synrat
what module do I need to load to be able to use freeswan?? any tips on freeswan configuration and usage are also appreciated. thanx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] linux as switch or bridge

2002-02-15 Thread synrat
Does anyone have experience configuring Linux to be a bridge or switch ?? any VLAN implementaions ?? please share the knowledge and experience. thanx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Sendmail

2002-02-13 Thread synrat
I want to enable ssl authentication for Sendmail 8.12 so far I have this in the config file, which is supposed to give plain text authentication, but I'm not sure that even this works, because I'm still able to send e-mail without enabling smtp authentication. How do I go about the ssl part and

Re: [expert] tape backup

2000-02-20 Thread synrat
I'm new to tape drives in linux and actually have no clue on how to install them. I got myself sony superstation ide drive and mdk 7 detected it as disk drive? mind telling me abouth the how tos you've read? thanx - Original Message - From: "alann" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[expert] FTP and FAT Bread Failure

2000-02-17 Thread synrat
I always get a message FAT Bread Failure when trying to FTP to this station. The message always comes up on root console (if logged on) and doesn't seem to impact anything else. I tried reinstalling wu ftp deamon rpm, but that didn't solve the problem. Any ideas? p.s. where's the direcotory

Re: [expert] OT: CVS over SSH

2000-02-13 Thread synrat
w to setup CVS to use SSH. On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, synrat wrote: I don't what ta heck is cvs ( but would like to find out) but here's a link for ssh rpms ftp://thermo.stat.ncsu.edu/pub/openssh/files/ get all 3 rpms and you'll also need ssl files look under support directory then you manuall

Re: [expert] OT: CVS over SSH

2000-02-12 Thread synrat
I don't what ta heck is cvs ( but would like to find out) but here's a link for ssh rpms ftp://thermo.stat.ncsu.edu/pub/openssh/files/ get all 3 rpms and you'll also need ssl files look under support directory then you manually edit ssh config files, all you need to enter is the ip address and