[expert] One-time passwd -- how?

I can't seem to find it in the passwd man page and I know this is possible (at least in HP-UX), but I've previously been able to set a one-time password for new users (or if they'd forgotten their passwd) where upon logging in, they'd be prompted to create a new password. That's kind of a thick s

Re: [expert] One-time passwd -- how?

When I set the '-W' flag to zero, it logs me in simply with no warning (as if nothing was ever done). BTW, this is with shadow-utils-2826-5mdk Thanks for the reply, -Charlie - Original Message - From: "Pierre Fortin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "x" <[

Re: [expert] Any mutt users?

I also use mutt (not right now obviously) in concert with fetchmail and procmail. Works beautifully. -Charlie - Original Message - From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wolfgang Bornath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Experts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:3

Re: [expert] Konqueror 2.2 crashes at slashdot?

On Saturday 18 August 2001 05:44, Gary A. Garibaldi wrote: > I'm on Slashdot right not and not having any problems. I was having > problems with crashes yesterday at most web sites. I removed KDE and > reinstalled it. Seems to be working great right now. Been up 5 hours and > counting. Same ex

[expert] Hard disk repartitioning

Dear all, I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want to

[expert] DVD sharing using samba

Hi I’m using a MDK 8.2 updated with cookers an I try to share my DVD via samba to look movies with PowerDVD on my PC. My Pc can acces file on the DVD with explorer but when I ask PowerDVD to lauch DVD from Harddisk pointing the the share, the kernel general errors like this :   Nov 25

RE : [expert] DVD sharing using samba

I tried to mount DVD in iso9660 and udf, same error each time.   The error for ide disk is the following regardless if dma is activated or not:   Nov 26 00:46:47 xoServBox kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 26 00:46:47 xoServBox kernel: hdc: c

[expert] Bootup Failure in init scripts

Hi all, 6 Feb 2001 I have a habit of making things hard for myself:-( Yesterday, I was playing with hdparm to put my 2 drives to sleep as I was just doing lengthly reading on the net. My current info is: hda1 is a fujitsu 2GB with Win95 hdc6 is a Maxtor 10GB with Mandrake7.

Re: [expert] Bootup Failure in init scripts

configtest it says that sanity check is [OK], then I can init 5 and it goes back and boots into X with no problem. It happily goes passed the httpd [OK], drakfont [OK] etc. However, I tried for completness, going to maintainence mode and then init 5 _without_ typing the 'apachectl conf

Re: [expert] mandrake installation problem

Hi, I think you have the same problem I had before. Did you enable hard drive optimizations in the install? If so try again without that setting. Doug. -Original Message- From:Maarten Van Horenbeeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:33:03 +0100 To: [EMAIL PRO

Fwd: [expert] Bootup Failure in init scripts

hard reset? Thanks Doug -Original Message- From:Doug X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wed, 07 Feb 2001 00:10:41 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Bootup Failure in init scripts Hi Cecil and list, Thanks for the tip, however it doesn't qui

Re: [expert] How to change IRQ number????

> check if your bios can control the assigning of the > IRQ ... some bioses can do that. > > --- X - A - W - K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have LM 8.0 on my laptop and I have problems with > > PCMCIA card. It looks > > like sound

[expert] How to change IRQ number????

like that So I would like to change it, I want to make work my PCMCIA. Does anybody know how to change IRQ numbres? I was trying command cardctl and it doesn't work, just because ther is no eth0 device... What shall I do??? Thanks for help. X - A - W - K -- Jest niezly ... i

[expert] PCMCIA configuration.

Hi, I am newbie to Linux Mandrake... but I have a small problem which nobody till now could solve. I have installed LM8.0 on my laptop. The very first instalation was great. Every pice of hardware was recognized by Mandrake... but 3 weeks later I lost my PCMCIA card which I use to connect to int

[expert] Mailing list in Spanish

Hola,   Se nota que hay bastante gente que habla español en la lista.   A lo mejor se podría hacer nuestra propia lista como la tienen los italianos   Qué piensan?   X - A - W - K Jest niezly ... i liscik napisze OnetKomunikator [ http://ok.onet.pl/instaluj.html ]

[expert] Multisession cd writing.

Hello, I use Linux Mandrake version 7.2 in a computer which has the i810 chipset and a HP CD writer 9150 (9100 series). The cd writer was already installed by the time I installed Linux. The problem is that I have't been able to write more than two sessions in a disc. I

[expert] Printing from X Windows disables CUPS printing. Partial solution.(fwd)

Hi, I sent this message to the newbie list but didn't get any answer. Hopefully I will in this list for experts. Thanks to all. Fabian. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:33:12 -0600 (CST) From: "[X-UNKNOWN] Peña Arellano Fab

Re: [expert] Problems with Mandrake 7.2 and vmWare

0 Jan 2001, Michael Svensson wrote: > I have installed Mandrake 7.2 and use vmWare to perform various laboration, this has always worked great before but when i installed 7.2 it dosent. > > When i turn off vmWare after a session it will reboot X after that and this is not so great, ar

[expert] I cannot print in a remote samba server with cups.

Hello to all, I am writing since I have a problem trying to print into a samba server from any X Windows application using cups. The computer I am trying to print from uses Linux Mandrake version 7.2 and the cups related program versions, according to the "rpm -qa |grep

[expert] lpr: : temp file write error lpr: stdin: empty input file.

Hello, I'm having problems printing from a machine using Linux Mandrake 7.0. The error messages are the following: lpr: : temp file write error lpr: stdin: empty input file and were generated while trying to print from kghostview. I cannot even print from root

Re: [expert] lpr: : temp file write error lpr: stdin: empty inputfile.

. From other applications I can do it as expected normally. Probably the file I am trying to print is too large to fit into other temporary directories I have to clean up. The content of the /var/spool/lpd directory is as follows: drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1.0k Feb 6 10:57 lp

Re: Re[2]: [expert] lpr: : temp file write error lpr: stdin: emptyinputfile.

gt; The content of the /var/spool/lpd/lp is > > > > total 60M > > ... > > -rw-rw 1 fabian lp56M Feb 5 19:23 dfA943abaco.uam.mx > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10k Jan 14 15:45 filter* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190 Jan 14

Re: [expert] Kickstart disks based on kernel 2.4.1 or

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anybody built a boot/kickstart disk based on the 2.4.1 kernel or > higher? So far I have been able to achieve a simple kickstart disk > based on 2.4.1 w/o LILO, but I haven't been successful with LILO. I am > using http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWT

[expert] Adding other RPM's to the CDROM installation.

Hello experts, I have some questions on adding RPM's to the standar installation procedure. I got a README file from http://www.linux-mandrake.com/drakx/README I suppose some that some of you experts have automated the installation procedure for a large number o

Re: [expert] Use of "make oldconfig" while compiling a new kernel.

Hello, I asked this several months ago. And since now I am putting hands to work on changing the kernel to run MOSIX in a couple of computers, I would like to make sure I understood. I run Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with kernel 2.2.17 and would like to upgrade it to 2.2.18. I have

[expert] From pdf to ps and viceversa.

Hello, It seems that the pdf2ps (and viceversa) program comming with Linux-Mandrake 7.2 doesn't work well. What program should I download in rpm format to replace the existing one? I cannot find anything named like pdf2ps.rmp. Thanks in advance. Fabian.

[expert] NIS problems.

n) gid=504(fabian) grupos=504(fabian) [fabian@ahuizotl fabian]$ ls -l total 700 drwxr-xr-x3 fabian fabian 4096 feb 22 13:28 Desktop/ -rw-r--r--1 fabian fabian 685420 feb 9 11:36 giroide.ps drwx--2 fabian fabian 4096 feb 22 19:42 mail/ drwx--2 fabian fa

[expert] Two problems with ssh.

64 != open X connection to ahuizotl.uam.mx:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). channel 2: istate 4 != open channel 2: ostate 64 != open X connection to ahuizotl.uam.mx:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). channel 3: istate 4 != open channel 3: ostate 64 != open X connection to

Re: [expert] Isntall Mdk 7.2 on Vmware V-machine

Hi, Try the newsgroups at news://news.vmware.com/ Fabian. On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Eric wrote: > Well, I got it to install OK, got everything up but THE NETWORK > > It recognizes the virtual card as an AMD PC-NET ... card, but during the > install, and

Re: [expert] Two problems with ssh.

ome graphical programs from the > > >ssh server on the client, I get the following message: > > > > > > channel 0: istate 4 != open > > > channel 0: ostate 64 != open > > > channel 1: istate 4 != open > > > channel 1: ostate 64 != op

[expert] How should I disable the login massage?

Hi, Every time I log into my computer via ssh I receive the following message: Last login: Thu Mar 1 16:13:09 2001 from host.domain.th How should I disable it? I know that for security reasons that message should appear, but since I am running a message

Re: [expert] NIS Help

Hi Theo, You can look for the NIS tutorials at http://www.mandrakecampus.org and http://www.mandrakeuser.org I followed those tutorials tu set up NIS on my local area network and it is working fine. I hope this helps. Greetings from Mexico.

[expert] Real player: Cannot open audio device. Another application may beusing it.

Hello, I have just installed Real Player version 8.0.3.412 under Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I f I use it as root everything works fine, but if I try to use it as a regular user, I get the following message: Cannot open audio device. Another application may be using it.

Re: [expert] Real player: Cannot open audio device. Another application may beusing it.

Hello again, I have added the interested user to the "audio" group and works fine. Thanks a lot Stephen. Fabian. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: > I think it is a permissions issue. Check to make sure that your USER is set > up in the AUDIO group. > >