Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 hangs up with screen saver program

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi, folks After running smoothly about five days, my linux box finally hangs up with screen saver program. I remember it happens several times before. Software Environment: Mandrake7.1 with Helix GNOME lastest version, Xscreensaver Any ideas to fix

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to direct a question to the Mandrake team. Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of the Mandrake team hang out in this list apparently the ones who hang out either don't

Re: [expert] Vi editor package

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: I have Redhat installed on my box, but there is no vi. What package contains it? From MY RedHat 6.2 box: [john@slave1 /storage]$ rpm -qa | grep vi [snip obviously unrelated packages] vim-X11-5.6-11 vim-common-5.6-11 vim-enhanced-5.6-11 vim-minimal-5.6-11

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote: Yes, /tmp should be for temporary stuff. And this "stuff" is sockets, in this case, in a hidden directory. In 7.1 the use of /tmp for these sockets has been discontinued. Now they use /root/tmp which most people leave alone. Has there ever been a

Re: [expert] Kernel won't recognise burner

2000-07-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: I am trying to install my burner back into my linux box and am using drakconf to do it. I would like to mount it as "burner" in my /mnt directory and have made the appropriate /burner there. When I try to add it under drakconf, I get the message that the

Re: [expert] Kernel won't recognise burner

2000-07-03 Thread John Aldrich
I think one thing we need to know is if it's TRULY a SCSI CDR/RW drive or if it's an ATAPI burnerwon't that make a difference? John

Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1

2000-07-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: I'm not sure about it but could it be that the missing applications are on the 2. CD? Until 7.0 we had only one GPL CD, now the downloadable Software is on 2 CDs. Maybe some of the apps being on the single CD before now are on the second CD which is not

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:20:54AM -0400, Thiessen David G DLVA wrote: Like an idiot, I accidentally deleted my /tmp directory. I recreated the directory, but after rebooting, X fails to start. It seems to be stuck in an infinite loop trying to start

Re: [expert] MaximumLinux Magazine CD version of 7.1

2000-07-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hope I made myself clear, sorry, I'm in a foreign language here. I think your english is fine. :-) John

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: Experts - Like an idiot, I accidentally deleted my /tmp directory. I recreated the directory, but after rebooting, X fails to start. It seems to be stuck in an infinite loop trying to start X or KDM. I can boot into text mode fine. What can I do to

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: I would like to add a question here if I may; I'm used to Windows where the 'temp' directory is for temporary stuff and should be dumped periodically. What is the /tmp directory in *nix used for and why can't I delete it's contents? Generally, it's exactly

Re: [expert] KDE GONE -- as user, NOT as root!

2000-07-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, you wrote: Dear Davidu: Thanks so much for writing. You are right in suggesting deleting .Xauthority and even more right that this won't fix the problem. I tried that in an earlier installation of 7.1 and it failed. Let's hope somebody knows the secret word.

Re: [expert] KDE GONE!

2000-07-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: Dear Civilme and friends: There might well be a permissions problem. .Xauthority has "root" for permissions, while everything else in my /home/sher directory has "sher". (and I have not yet installed anything into it. It is a blank "sher" directory with only

Re: [expert] SO 5.3

2000-07-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: No problem, just run it. It works. Dennis/sg Is this subject a typo or is there REALLY a 5.3 Star Office? I find SO less than useful since the mail client crashes every time I try to use it (RedHat 6.2.) If there really is a 5.3, where can I get a copy???

Re: [expert] Mail Server - Very Interested In Setting Up, But....

2000-07-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: The difference between smtp servers and pop3 servers is that one recieve mail and the other sends your mail to its destination, pop3 or post office protocol sends your mail out whereas smtp is used to recieve mail from various locations. ErrmmI think

Re: [expert] my KVM switch experience

2000-07-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: The alternative is the digital KVMs which maintain power to each connection. As well, you can use hotkeys to switch between each setup. I believe it traps the hotkey in the switch box, makes the change, and then drops the keyboard sequence into neverland.

Re: [expert] Metro-X

2000-06-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi Jon I have a problem can you help. I have set up my internet. Modem is set up but netscape refuses to connect to the internet. It is not seeing the modem, also i can connect to the internet but cannot browse the net. I am usin Linux mandrake 7.0

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: sorry I didn't completely think out my answerhow do you run md5sum on the copy? this particular copy is about a week old. md5sum md5sums (D/L the md5sums file from the FTP site that you D/L the ISO from) I am running a cable modem so it is only about an

Re: [expert] install to scsi drive problems (7.0)

2000-06-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: I just built a new system, which happens to be 100% SCSI (something I have never attempted before, apparently with good reason!). The bios recognizes both 18GB drives as well as the scsi cdrom. It boots the install cd, starts the installation, recognizes the

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: Is anybody getting substantially better than 142 mb/sec and 22 mb/sec from 'hdparm -tT' ?? ATA/33 is capable of that 'cause those are my numbers, and one (slave) HHD's a WD Caviar 8.4. ... and is it worth all that hoops y'all seem to be jumpin thru to

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: I saved and printed your message and the next time I decide to abuse myself with 7.1 I'll give that a try. I have reinstalled 7.0 because I got tired of not having a working cd... Well, the IDE CDRW setup should be the same in 7.0. If it's not working then

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: Those things are done automagically in 7.1 But with some drives supermount can interfere with burning. Basically, your drive MUST be unmounted to burn. Most drives unmount with a complaint when supermount is active and complain again when the burner

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Hmm...Ok. My bad. I didn't see that bit about it working in 7.0 but not in 7.1. There have been reports (on this list and others) about some brands of hard drives NOT being up to the UDMA 66 spec, and causing problems, especially

Re: [expert] FW: X works but kdm not, why?

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: Diamond gets awards for uncoopertiveness second only to Adaptec. Almost all their X drivers are done without ANY help from Diamond. But it sounds llike you almost have it. Hmm... I *know* that Advansys supported linux, almost from the start. But, I'd heard

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, I've got a WD136BA hard disk on my hpt366 controller. If I try to use DMA for disk access, my system freezes. This problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0, but it appeared when I installed 7.1. I tried to upgrade my bios. Nothing changed. After that, I

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: In what way could the hard drive not be up to spec? The original post said the problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0. Not trying to butt in, but I also have an IDE device which did work with 7.0 but does not with 7.1. Hmm...Ok. My bad. I didn't see that

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: IDE devices seem to be a major problem with 7.1 I have been seeking help with a cdrom/burner for over a month...and it still doesn't workmandrake support has been 0 help as wellI keep saying it's a bug...but seems that word is only associated with

[expert] Fwd: Can't Install 7.1

2000-06-26 Thread John Aldrich
Forwarded as requested below. :-) John -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Can't Install 7.1 Date: 26 Jun 2000 06:47:24 EDT From: Lane Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, would you please forward this to the Mandrake Expert list? Since registering my own domain, I seem unable

Re: [expert] kde2 requirements

2000-06-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, On the Mandrake Air machine I`ve got no kde stuff installed and I wonder what would be needed if I would like to run some kde apps (Klyx!) but not necesserirly kde itself. I`ve got no kde 2 experience and I am not really sure what those kde 1/2

Re: [expert] DV Editor

2000-06-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi Does anyone know of a program which will allow me to edit video tapes from Digital Video Camcorder or even store pictures from a DV camcorder on disk? Check into VideoForLinux. Or, just do a search on FreshMeat for "video" and "edit". There'll likely be

Re: [expert] Real PLayer

2000-06-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: Traci, I tried playing with settings after your suggestion ... no dice..ugggh how frustrating... obviously this is not critical to my system running but would like to know what is causing it... Has anyone else been eable to run real player with

Re: [expert] 7.0-2 Hardware conflict

2000-06-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, you wrote: I seem to have a conflict that causes Mdk to perform poorly. No version I've tried to date runs well. This includes 6.0, boxed 6.1 PowerPack-which wouldn't install the first disk, and 7.0-2. Needless to say I am as frustrated as the kind folks who are privately

Re: [expert] 7.0-2 Hardware conflict

2000-06-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, you wrote: I am not completely familiar with the boot process. I see a comment that X number of blocks were cleaned..followed by a statement that /dev/hdb1 reached maximal mount count, check forced..I watch the percent process. It finishes with the statement that .01% is

Re: [expert] Kernel Upgrades on SCSI system

2000-06-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, you wrote: If I use MandrakeUpdate to download the new kernel and headers (2.2.16), what do I need to do to install the new kernel prior to rebooting? ie, rerun lilo, anything special since my box is all SCSI (hd's, cdrom)? You *definitely* need to make sure you have the

Re: [expert] Burning CD-ROMS??

2000-06-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, you wrote: Ok, I just got a new Yamaha CD-ROM RW today. I do recall seeing Linux software on my system for burning CDs but today I cant find it. I find often the names of apps have nothing to do with what they are. I am running Makdrake 7.0 with KDE and Helix Gnome.

Re: [expert] 7.0-2 Hardware conflict

2000-06-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, you wrote: Anton, First, many thanks. The auto configure host name box was checked! I unchecked it. Well, that oughta take care of the problem of not being able to open programs. :-) Good luck with the rest! John

Re: [expert] 7.0-2 Hardware conflict

2000-06-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, you wrote: Generally I am in Linux a couple of times a day. One of the things I was taught in Winblows is... if I have lockups and errors to reboot because in theory it resets the registry. Yes, I know Linux doesn't have a registry, but what I don't know is.. if Linux

Re: [expert] help!

2000-06-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: I did something really dumb and did a CP /lib /home/lib and RM -R /lib in order to move the /lib to another disk.. Now I am in BASH, and no command works! I get: mail:/bin# sh bash: /bin/sh: No such file or directory mail:/bin# ls bash: /bin/ls: No such

Re: [expert] Connecting two monitors

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: 4.0 supports multiple video cards. Thank you. I sit corrected. :-) John

Re: [expert] Network Questions to Ask?

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Lane Lester wrote: ... The mask is set correctly, as is the default gateway. However, there was a question for which I don't have the answer: Gateway device? So, during the install I left it blank. Is that my problem? You'll only

Re: [expert] Network Questions to Ask?

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Ah, yes, uh, my mistake. Thanks for pointing that out :) No sweat. :-) I work for an ISP, so I guess I have a bit of an advantage in that. :-) John

Re: [expert] Elsa Erazor III

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: BS''D ... did anybody manage to get an "Elsa Erazor III" graphic card wworking under Xfree 4.0 properly (it works but if I install with Mandrake 7.1 I have black shadows begind all icons) Try adding "noaccel" to the xf86config file. That worked in

Re: [expert] Elsa Erazor III

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Try adding "noaccel" to the xf86config file. That worked in previous versions of X for cards that did stuff like that. John where exactly do you have an example? nope. But it's there in the archives. I've seen this question come up several times

RE: [expert] Connecting two monitors

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Being my ever forgetful self i left out a major point. XFree has been able to drive multiple cards on the same machine for quite awhile now (no i don't know exactly a version #), but it drives them indapendantly. Hmm...interesting. I wasn't aware of that.

Re: [expert] Probably a simple one for y'all

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hey, I'm a radio engineer by trade, I only do computers out of self preservation so don't be TOO rough on me ok? I've tried all the conventional methods I can think of. I MUST be missing something really stupid. I have 2 home PC's connected via a

Re: Sort By Thread (WAS: [expert] missing SSH ?)

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: Just a quick comment, and I'll probably get blasted for it, but I haven't found a mail client for Linux that does "View by Thread" as well as MS Outlook. Netscape is horrible, I don't think Polarbar does it, and I haven't been happy with other clients I've

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: But not just that. It seems that messages show up later and I don't believe it to me different timezones. Some on this list also respond to me by cc'ing a copy, which arrives quickly and the expert list copy can show up hours later. Yep. I found that out

Re: [expert] Mail Server - Very Interested In Setting Up, But....

2000-06-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, John Aldrich wrote: Umm...POP3 is for DOWNLOADING/receiving your mail and SMTP is for SENDING your mail. Two toally different things. You *must* have both. Now, one machine can do both jobs. John Actually, the pop3 server

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: It's great when everyone takes the time to respond, however getting 4 responses saying the same thing is definitely a mailing list problem. People don't get to see rsponses that have already been sent by someone but not yet sent out to everyone on the list.

Re: [expert] Mail Server - Very Interested In Setting Up, But....

2000-06-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm looking at setting up a mail server but I'm a bit confused about a few things (regarding this subject). What's the difference between SMTP and POP3 servers? Is one dependent on the other? Can they both send and receive? Are some of the POP3 servers

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: Didn't the rules on exporting crypto change recently? Enough that now, unless you're one of the so-called "Terrorist countries" you're allowed to d/l crypto software from US sites. Yep. But, I'm not sure it's been made "official" yet, or maybe the change

Re: [expert] Connecting two monitors

2000-06-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: The other day I read a mail about some people that had a G400 dual head and how to configuring it. I have read an article that explain how to install two graphic card (and the monitor) with win98 with a few steps and very easy and the only thing that I can

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: In LM7.1, I can't seem to find SSH installed or as an RPM. I checked "rpm -qa | grep -i ssh" to see i it was installed but none found. In the RPMS directory of the CD, I tried "ls -al *ssh* *SSH*" but nothing. I am very surprised that SSH is not standard in

Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?

2000-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: In the mean time, while waiting for manufacturers to come to their senses, I will not install binary-only drivers or buy products which require them. Civileme Well put, my friend! I have the same sentiment! At least Creative Labs supplies source code for

Re: [expert] ipmasq question (dont you get sick of these?)

2000-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: ok...i am running ipmasq, and i have it set up and working like i want it. tonight i had a special situation arise that was out of my control, and i need to know how to resolve it ASAP. i need to connect to an ftp site that is running on a nonstandard port,

Re: [expert] disc full

2000-06-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote: SNIP the blasted HTML Check /home/(yourusername)/.netscape/cache for subdirectories it is safe to rm -R -f ~/.netscape/cache from a commandline when logged in as any user. I have occasionally recovered as much as 95 MB this way. You can also check

Re: [expert] Help me: I am Locked OUT!

2000-06-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: Something really weird is going on. This is sort of a continuing message from my last post about JBuilder. So I installed JBuilder last night, then turn my computer off. This morning I turned it on and somehow my run level was set to 3. Weird, I

Re: [expert] Old Netscape and Java

2000-06-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.51. Whenever I go to a site that uses Java Netscape kills itself. Any idea on how to fix this or do I need to install a newer version of Netscape? Thanks. Turn off Java. Trust me on this! :-) John

Re: [expert] Post-upgrade blues

2000-06-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: BTW, why does IMWheel leave its root-only PID file in the /tmp directory after Root logs out? Real bitch to SU in a terminal just to let imwheel run normally as a user. chmod a+x imwheel will fix that. Then, ANYONE will be able to use imwheel. John

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote: As to the zie of file, I heard about this formula: 2**n, n is the bits of your OS. SO in our case (32 bits), it's about 2.1GB. I used IRIX 64 bits system, I could creat 15GB single file. IRIX is a 64-bit operating system, though, correct? Linux is still a

Re: [expert] parallel Port CD Burner

2000-06-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm sure this has been beaten to dealt but is it possible to run a Parallel Port CD Burner ( HP ) from within LM 7.1 ?? Hmm.I would *guess* that you could, but I've never heard of anyone using a parallel-port CDR/RW under Linux. :-) John

Re: [expert] linuxpole

2000-06-14 Thread John Aldrich
By the way, Denis...is it NORMAL to not be able to edit your COMPLETE comments before submitting them? I had to re-do my comments three or four times the other day before I got what I *wanted* because every time I previewed the comment and then wanted to make changes, my comment was either

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, you wrote: What does "(ext2) is designed properly, so there's no need" mean? No filesystem can be designed to eliminate fragmentation. If you are constantly "churning" on your disk, especially if your disk is 80% full, it *will* become fragged. Of course, high

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Dear all: Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for optimization of Hard disk in Mandrake 6.0 or RPM in higher version? IIRC, it's built into linux, so it "defrags" automatically, but you shouldn't need it. *nix is *much*

Re: [expert] files larger than 2 GB

2000-06-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: I would appreciate information about the possibility of creating files larger than 2 GB. With the defoult installation of mandrake 7.0 there is this limit. Is it possible to overcome it? AFAIK, this is a *linux kernel* limitation, not a Mandrake limitation.

Re: [expert] helium - deeper inhalation

2000-06-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hello experts My initial impression of the installation of Mandrake 7.1 was very positive. I was eagerly interested in testing XFREE86 4.0, Netscape 4.73 and some new additions of KDE. [clip] I choose to exclude GNOME, other window-makers, all web

Re: [expert] Logging into NT network with Linux client

2000-06-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Ok, here's the scenario. I'm trying to setup a Linux box here at work. What I'm trying to figure out is what I need to do to log into our network (WinNT Enterprise). Any thoughts? SMBCLIENT/SAMBA. John

Re: [expert] Forwarding mail to /dev/null?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, John Aldrich wrote: IS there a way to get Sendmail to forward mail for certain email addresses to /dev/null? I believe procmail would fit the bill perfectly. Thanks. We finally figured it out -- you can't pipe it to dev null but you

Re: [expert] RAM detection problem

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and there seems to be a problem. When I used Mandrake 7.0 with kernel 2.2.14, the system was reported to have 128MB RAM and 598.06 Bogomips Total (which is correct). Now, with 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15, I get 64MB RAM and 1196.03

Re: [expert] Forwarding mail to /dev/null?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote: in sendmail 8.0.3 or above, set /etc/mail/access to discard for that user: username DISCARD then restart sendmail. the access.db should be automatically rebuilt for you. Thanks dude! I'll look into that! John

Re: [expert] Cannot allocate colormap

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Bonjour! Netscape is giving me this error, Mandrake 7.0: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Now when I click on the title of an email to read it, the title is completely blacked out and covering up the print of the email title.

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm using Mdk7.0-2. I can't get my StartUp Services to work from DrakConf. Can I run this from console or is there another program that I can from console? You can open a console window, type "su -" and then the root password. Then, type "setup" and

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Seve Johnunless Seve has upgraded (vs. a clean install) it's likely he doesn't have the setup program on his 7.0 system. So, Seve, if setup doesn't work, then type drakxconf instead, which will start the updated version of setup. AhOk. I haven't run

Re: [expert] XFree 4 vs 3.3.6 in 7.1

2000-06-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote: On 9 Jun, Brash, Matthew wrote: Now, where are the XF3 and XF4 binaries located? Furthermore, what's the EASIEST way to search for a file (recursively)? find / -name \*filename\* -print Or, "locate filename" if it's been at least overnight since you

[expert] Forwarding mail to /dev/null?

2000-06-09 Thread John Aldrich
IS there a way to get Sendmail to forward mail for certain email addresses to /dev/null? I tried telling Sendmail to pipe mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null in both virtual user table and in /etc/aliases, but when I tried to send myself a test message, Sendmail refused. I'd *like* to have

Re: [expert] helium

2000-06-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote: One question. I have a Creative Riva TNT2 which was detected. I wonder if I have to install the proprietary drivers, to get all of this card? I, too, have a 3-d card here and at home. Here, I've got a TNT(1) but I don't get any "acceleration" from the card.

Re: [expert] GNU/Linux -- leader or follower?

2000-06-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote: Good example, I dual boot (spending 90% of my time in Linux) my primary home machine. Sometimes (I do web apps/database integration ect) I need to work with a client who uses some ActiveX control like Crystal reports... damn no compatibility. Maybe Mozilla

Re: [expert] [Expert] How can I?

2000-06-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote: 1) Netscape to use my windows directory so I can read mail from either OS (when I contract in some Access Work, I can't pick my OS, and there's no good FTP client for Linux, like Cute-FTP, not to mention the win-modem thing) This would be next to impossible

Re: [expert] Gaim 0.9.18 RPM troubles.

2000-06-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm in the EXACT SAME SITUATION you are. Identical. I too would like the solution. Try switching to EveryBuddy. It works here ('course so does GAIM 0.9.18, if I wanted it.. G) John

Re: [expert] [Expert] How can I?

2000-06-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, you wrote: Doesn't gmc do FTP? Well, what I really look for is something with Tree-based file-system view (long filanes get to be a pain on text-based FTP), and a QUE functionality, wherby I can add a ton of files from anywhere to a QUE, then transfer them. For small

Re: [expert] saving real audio ....

2000-06-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote: I hope someone can help me with the following problem ... I am running LM 7.0 and I need to process a few minutes of daily broadcasting from Real Audio source - I know I could run realplayer for linux and capture the audio signal using my sound card but I

RE: [expert] saving real audio ....

2000-06-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote: well - i have tried it but all that is saved is a small text file with an URL to a real *.rm file ("pnm://.rm") and because its a realtime radio broadcast i doubt the actual file exists at all ... Ahhgood point. Sorry. John

Re: [expert] Help!

2000-06-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: Thanks for the input everyone, much appreciated. I found the problem due to a misconfiguration in my bru script. BRU created a file called -B in /root. I tried to delete, but it won't since it see -B as an option(DOH!). I tried to use the file manager under

Re: [expert] DISCUSION Upgrade (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, you wrote: I am a user who found upgrades from Win95 to Win98 worked out about 1 situation in 7, so I would not fault anyone who found upgrading something that was 6 to 10 times as sophisticated and complicated to be an enormous task. Getting from RH6.0 to L-M7.1 is an

Re: [expert] Root Raid with 7.x series???

2000-06-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install 7.0 to a root partition that's a raid0 device (/dev/md0). DrakeX seems to handle this but when I reboot, the kernel can't detect md0. It appears as if the raid is created but it's just not started automatically. Has anyone

Re: [expert] Getting telnet access working on Mdk 7

2000-06-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: So, I set up a web server Linux Mdrk 7 machine last week. It is fully there and working, but one problem: I can't get telnet or ftp to work, even from the konsole (telnet localhost). It keeps on with "connection refused by host". My inetd.conf file

Re: [expert] cgi-bin problem

2000-06-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hello all!! I am trying to get a .pl cgi script to run I can run it manualy from the command line and get the desired output when I try to access the cgi from the web I get the following in error_log No such file or directory: exec of

Re: [expert] public_html doesn't work

2000-06-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hello all. I've got the Apache set up (default from install). So I've also set up a public_html directory under a couple of users and have set a chmod 755 on the public_html directories. Unfortunatly when I try to http to the files it tells me that I don't

Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

2000-06-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: Dunno, I am running 0.9.17 gaim and get no config still... Upgrade to 0.9.18 or better. John

Re: [expert] Help!

2000-06-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: Thanks for the response Everyone. I'm investigating it right now. Civilme thanks for the du command, it lists the files, only one problem: du: cannot change to directory /proc/6/fd: Permission denied du: cannot change to directory /proc/71/fd: Permission

Re: [expert] irc

2000-06-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote: hi all ! anyone knows an irc client compatible for mandrake and red hat (rpm installation) that has a gui similar to windowz ? Hmm...have you tried KSIRC? It comes default on my RedHat 6.2 system. :-) John

Re: [expert] what to include in your next distirbution- bootable rescue CD

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, you wrote: Hi, if you are still interested in what to include in your next distirbution. I would like a bootable rescue CD. something that would boot up a system that auto detects all my hardware and loads drivers. I know it won't do EVERYTHING you asked here, but you

Re: [expert] Where to get Helix Gnome

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, you wrote: Hi! Where can I get the latest version of Gnome, Helix I think it's called? I want it as a RPM package. I don't want to use the go-gnome script because I use a modem at home. Better to download the RPM file from my school... What are the exactly names of

Re: [expert] ld.so problems

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 31 May, Charles Curley wrote: -Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System - /dev/hda1 1 277 2094088+ 6 FAT16 - /dev/hda2 278 556 21092405 Extended - /dev/hda3

Re: [expert] kmail-1.0.29.1 configure can not find pgcc-c++

2000-05-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 31 May 2000, you wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: The original messages suggest that it is looking for g++. Maybe you should make a link to *that*. pgcc-c++ is now installed and it does find g++ but the new error I get from configure is: checking for

Re: [expert] Out of room on / filesystem

2000-05-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote: My partitions are hdb1 as /boot hdb5 as / hdb6 as swap hdb7 as /home when I try to install RPM's now it says they need nnn KB on / filesystem. I have tried uninstalling some of the RPM's (about 10-20 MB of them) and still have 0.0KB left on hdb5. I

Re: [expert] A better kpanel applet

2000-05-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote: To put this in a nut shell, I would like a panel applet which can have one or more rows of tool bars or pop-up menus. I want to define the size of the icons displayed in the tool bars and pop-up menus in terms of pixels, not small, medium or large. I also

Re: [expert] My complaints about MDK 7.0

2000-05-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 23 May 2000, you wrote: This is constructive criticism for MDK7.0 I absolutely adore MDK6.1 (the best!) #1 Install TAKES TOO LONG! #2 Install is TOO BIG! #3 Install lost the customizability of old redhat. Did you try "text" install and select "custom"? If not, then you have nothing

Re: [expert] My tape drive died!

2000-05-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote: I don't want to shell out for a new one right now. I don't back up the whole hard drive, just the important stuff about once a month. Would it be possible to dump to a CD-RW or even a CD-R? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not great on scripts, so

Re: [expert] Re: Welcome to new expert list : 7.1

2000-05-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 May 2000, you wrote: :~Can you let us in on what's new with 7.1? Sure: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hydrobeta.php3 Interesting. I'm wondering if this new version of Mandrake will AUTOMATICALLY include all the listed languages, or only include them if you select them.

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