Re: [expert] Help! Need Best web page uploading technique!

2000-05-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 May 2000, you wrote: I'm new to this webmastering thing. I can put webpages in my /home/httpd/html directory by going super user. But it's really a drag... upload to an uploads dir or user dir, then telnet, then manually copy to /home/httpd/html/newdir. Man, this sucks.

Re: [expert] OT: test

2000-05-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: This is a test as I am having local mail problems. Thanks for your patience, Received here. John

Re: [expert] IE for Linux(Unix)?

2000-05-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: If you go to Microsoft's download page you'll find a download for Internet Explorer 4.0 written for HP-UX and Solaris. Is it possible that one of these would run on Mandrake? I just don't want to spend an hour downloading for nothing. Probably not.

Re: [expert] How do I install QuakeIII on a Linux box

2000-05-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: How do I install Quake on a Linux box. I have the CD, but when I click the Setup.exe nothing happens. Help!!! Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Re: [expert] Support large HD ( larger 45GB ) in Mandrake

2000-05-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: I bought a IBM 46GB IDE HD for my linux file server. But I use fdisk to partition this drive. It only report a 11GB space!!! My kernel is 2.2.15-6mdk which is the latest version in rpmfind.net... When I want to use hackkernel-2.3.99pre6-1.2mdk for my server, it

Re: [expert] How do I install QuakeIII on a Linux box

2000-05-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: I figured I had to have a Linux version, but I am not sure where to get a copy. I went to the below site and didn't see anything about buying a copy. Do you have a link directly to the section where I could buy a copy??? www.lokigames.com for the Linux

Re: [expert] the czech republic has mail problems

2000-05-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2000, Gavin Clark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host service.sh.cvut.cz[147.32.127.214] said: 550 ... Sending mail from local domain with non local adress is not allowed. You must use official e-mail address. I see it too, but I

Re: [expert] OT: Linux Newbie

2000-05-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 May 2000, you wrote: Only those that want answers to their questions. grin It's just too much effort to dig out the message scrambled in all that HTML, that I don't bother. Hitting the delete key is so much easier. :-) Good come back! :-) John

Re: [expert] reboot after power failure

2000-05-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 May 2000, you wrote: but a small ups might be a better way to go then allow the filesystems to get killed like that. got one. Yeah. My UPS saved the bacon for me this morning -- I woke up to hear my UPS beeping at me. The power was off, so I quickly came and shut down the

Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles

2000-05-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 May 2000, you wrote: Oh, yes, I have to use cdrecord as root - is there any way to run it as an ordinary user? as root, "chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord" (or wherever cdrecord is on your machine.) I had no problems with my SCSI cd recorder being used as a CDROM *and* CDR/W in Mandrake

Re: [expert] CD burner puzzles

2000-05-20 Thread John Aldrich
I seem to recall reading that the CDRECORD/XCDROAST package that comes with Mandrake 7 is broken, that you need to upgrade to the latest, preferably the tarball from the author. John

Re: [expert] reboot after power failure

2000-05-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 20 May 2000, John Aldrich wrote: Yeah. My UPS saved the bacon for me this morning -- I woke up to hear my UPS beeping at me. The power was off, so I quickly came and shut down the linux box. Is there Linux support available for serial port auto

Re: [expert] URGENT! StartX hangs forever

2000-05-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 May 2000, you wrote: Dear friends: For some unknown reason, the StartX in the Console keeps hanging forever instead of taking me directly to KDE, as it usually does. I have tried for the past hour doing a soft reboot, then a cold reboot (disconnecting the system), Cnt + C, then

RE: [expert] question about LILO

2000-05-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 May 2000, you wrote: But wouldn't this have the same effect as putting the decimal number in? I tried this, and LILO reported I had used an unavailable option, thus requiring I go through the ask portion and type in 'scan' again... The original modes are 0-6 and after scan there

RE: [expert] question about LILO

2000-05-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 May 2000, you wrote: I had done that as well, and it comes up 80x50 Ok. I came in on this thread late. What resolution do you WANT it to come up as? John

Re: SV: [expert] OT: Linux Newbie

2000-05-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 May 2000, you wrote: I guess what I'm saying is it all boils down to politeness -- be polite when asking for help, not only in your tone, but also in your MANNER of posting. My $0.02. John Who cares! Hmm...perhaps people who'd like to see this list return to some

RE: [expert] question about LILO

2000-05-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 May 2000, you wrote: 100x30 My LILO has vga=ask in it and lists 6 options. Or I can type 'scan' to get additional resolutions. the 100x30 comes up after that. I want to avoid having to always go through the ask and scan processes... If I vga=9 (the option available after the

Re: [expert] Ethernet problem

2000-05-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 17 May 2000, you wrote: I have been using Suse (5.1, 6.1 and 6.3) and decided to see what all the hype about Mandrake was. I like what I see with one exception. With Suse my ethernet card was always auto-configured and just was there. Mandrake refuses to mount the card. When I run

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 17 May 2000, you wrote: Hmm. didn't find it.. Did a search for "gotcha" and got a bunch of mailing list things.. Never did see anything that detailed kPPP.. ( I'm a little tired so maybe I missed it.. ??? ) Edit /etc/pam.d/kppp and change the permissions. I've just upgraded my

Re: [expert] Mandrake ISO Image

2000-05-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 18 May 2000, you wrote: I've downloaded the mandrake 7.0-2 iso Image. How do I check the integrity of the image before burning on a CD. there's an MD5SUMS file in the directory where you d/l'ed the ISO. Grab that and run "md5sum -c md5sums" and it'll come back and either tell you

Re: [expert] Multiple entries in inetd.conf

2000-05-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote: Hi, I have just been looking at my inetd.conf and found the following on the end. Can anyone suggest what process may have put them there as I didn't consciously do it! # # End of inetd.conf linuxconf stream tcp wait root /bin/linuxconf linuxconf --http

Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...

2000-05-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote: I'm not sure what you mean. I'm using the gnome ppp dialer, it works just fine. However, kppp which I used to use, I cannot dial unless root.. Since the gnome dialer worked fine, I never put much thought into fixing it. Known bug with RedHat. Go read the

RE: [expert] OT: /root

2000-05-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 May 2000, you wrote: Doesn't this still require the user to open an attachment? Meaning that most linux/unix root users would know better to not just run any file that was sent to them. AFAIK, there is no application in Linux/Unix/etc that runs VB Scripts. I could be wrong, but

Re: [expert] XMMS

2000-05-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: Actually, for audio thats true. But if its like the Ozzy Osbourne CD I have with .qwk movies, you need to mount it like a regular iso9660 CD. ( You probably know this.. :) ) Just pointing it out for any newbies that may be lurking.. Of course. :-) If

Re: [expert] xcdroast

2000-05-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: I have a TEAC CDRW. I tried burning an audioi CD with xcdroast on a CDRW disk. The copy works fine on my computer cdrom drive, but when I try to play it thro' an audi system the CD is not recognized. Is there any parametrs to set while recording. Or should I

Re: [expert] XMMS

2000-05-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 08 May 2000, you wrote: I have my cdrom mounted, supermount, and can use xmms to play the .mp3 songs. Don't know about other formats or music because I don't have such a cd. That's a DATA CD, though, effectively. I'm talking about these hybrid CDs that have data AND music. I know

Re: [expert] xcdroast

2000-05-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 08 May 2000, you wrote: Well, after burning the CD the CD was ejected, by this I assume the full process was completed. I'll try it on a CDR and see what happens. Actually, what I *meant* to write was this: 1) did you "close" the CD? (My understanding is that XCDRoast does "close" the

Re: [expert] Mandrake (smp) on a dual celeron ABIT BP6 motherboard

2000-05-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 08 May 2000, you wrote: Hi I got the same problem. If you know how to solve that problem please let me know. The only issue I know of is a tendancy to under report the RAM. The solution is to get the latest BIOS upgrade and flash it. John

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Help!

2000-05-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: Okay I finally got things functional, I got the latest sndconfig from Mandrake and it recognized the PCI512 card as a SB Live! card and had a bunch of errors. I didn't think it worked but all the little click pops and bangs are now working. It will play MP3's

Re: [expert] Audio CD's

2000-05-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: No, you don't. You onlu need a sound card to play audio CD's via your computer - and that, only if you don't have a headphones jack on the drive. Matt: The question that Sridhar had was not about PLAYING CDs, rather about BURNING audio cds. :-) John

Re: [expert] [newbie] multiple X sessions

2000-05-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: i have read that it is possible to have more than one X session open (on different consoles) but when i switch to ctrl-alt-2 for example, and login and then run startx i get an error message FAQ. Please go read the archives. Thanks...

Re: [expert] XMMS

2000-05-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: Sorry to ask such a silly question, but how can I get XMMS to play CDs? In Windows, you drag-n-drop E:\Track05.cda to the window, and it starts playing, but there's no Linux/UNIX equivalent. I right-clicked everwhere, but I must have something wrong.

Re: [expert] Changing bootable partition

2000-05-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: I don't know how to fix your problem, but I do know that it ISN'T the bootable flag. My bootable partition is hda3, which is Win98 (was, actually - Win98 corrupted itself and I haven't bothered to fix it). My /boot is hda5, which is NOT flagged bootable. The

Re: [expert] Changing bootable partition

2000-05-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.0 installed and have to use a boot disk. Lilo stops with "LI". I ran fdisk and it shows /dev/hda3 to be the bootable partition, but /boot is on /dev/hda1. Can someone tell me how to flag hda1 as bootable without messing up my installation?

Re: [expert] XMMS

2000-05-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:20:45PM -0700, AG wrote: - Just select +DIR from the playlist buttons and select the mount point of your - CD as the directory. That didn't work for me. I tried mounting the CD, but it didn't like the default file system. How do I

Re: [expert] /opt

2000-05-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: Hi... I see quite a lot of mail about kde files being in /opt...On all three distros I am using /opt is emptyWondered why ?? Because Mandrake RedHat don't consider KDE to be "add-on" software, since they are including it with their distributions.

Re: [expert] Lexmark 1100 printer and Mandrake 7.02

2000-05-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: Hi there all Linux people :) I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and everything works fine, but printer. I have Lexmark 1100 printer. I cant get test pages out. What printer should i choose from printer install menu?? I used Slackware Linux between

Re: [expert] ] Can't connect to the internet....

2000-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote: On 3/05/00, at 16:02, Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Open your /etc/ppp/options file and add the line "noauth" without the quotes. OK, this works, but only under root. I can't do it as another user. If you are unable to surf after connecting, open

Re: [expert] Re(2): [newbie] Can't connect to the internet....

2000-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: No matter what I try, I am still getting this error message: May 3 14:22:52 localhost pppd[917]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address. Can someone explain what

Re: [expert] promiscuous mode

2000-05-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote: I've been getting this security warning for the past few weeks. May 2 11:03:01 charm : Security warning : eth0 is in promiscuous mode. May 2 11:03:01 charm : A sniffer is probably running on your system. 1 How can I tell if eth0 is currently in

Re: [expert] What's this process?

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Monte, it manages RAID configurations. Hmm...I wondered about that after seeing it in the shutdown screen is there any way to turn that OFF if you're not using RAID? John

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Of course the client and server are separate packages. However, telnetd is the telnet Daemon, and is therefore part of the SERVER. You don't need a daemon for a client. Ok. But if the guy doesn't have telnet-server installed, how the heck did he get the

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: WHY you aren't reading closely is beyond me: I'm using Mdk6.0. You are looking at *stable/current*, which is 7.0-2. This may be one of the changes Mdk made when they moved from being a RH clone. This is from my Mdk6.0 CD-ROM: $ ls

Re: [expert] Installing SMP Kernel

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Thanks for your advice, Bill. I have followed what you wrote, but still it doesn't work. I included the SCSI optinos in the kernel (not as modules), but I am getting "unresolved symbol" errors in "/lib/aic7xxx.o", after I am told that linux is Loading the

Re: [expert] Mult-Boot Bootloader Problems

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Steve Olson wrote: All: I'm admittedly a Linux Newbie, but nowhere near a newbie when it comes to machines and software OS'es... I date back to MS-DOS 3.3 Days. I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or Powerquest's Bootmagic

Re: [expert] Mult-Boot Bootloader Problems

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Also: Are there any good Mandrake Specific web sites besides Mandrakesoft? www.mandrakeuser.org. Also www.linuxnewbie.org is a good site, albeit a more "generic site." John

Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 May 2000, you wrote: kmail *is* a nice mail program, but he address book is *so* lame that I've finally switched back to Netscape. Is there any address book that lets one construct lists such for kmail? Not at present, but the KMail developers are hard at work on

Re: [expert] FTP Login Problem

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 May 2000, you wrote: I am trying to get FTP working between a WIN98 PC and a Linux server. I had it working before on an older red hat distribution. I remember that i had to make some changes to a configuration file. Currently when i try to FTP to the server it says

Re: [expert] What's this process?

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 May 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Monte, it manages RAID configurations. Hmm...I wondered about that after seeing it in the shutdown screen is there any way to turn that OFF if you're not using RAID? Recompile the kernel

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 May 2000, you wrote: I already asked. He won't answer that... He's using Mandrake 6.0. Apparently Mandrake didn't split server client until AFTER 6.0. I guess. And, since I"m no longer running Mandrake 6.0 (not even running Mandrake right now) I can't tell for sure. *shrug*

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello, grepping /etc/inetd.conf for telnet says this: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd and doing "rpm -qa |grep tcp" produces tcp_wrappers-7.6-8mdk tcpdump-3.4-1mdk Where do I look, since I want to make sure that telnetd is

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Dave Lers wrote: telnet-server this maybe an obvious answer, but where can I find mandrake rpms that were not included in my 7.0 distriubtion? updates or new programs and such. I checked the main ftp server under 7.0 and it was all the stuff I already

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: That was the 1st thing I tried. Those results were in my original post. Only the client rpms showed up... Then you don't have the telnet-server RPM installed. Go to your CD and install the server rpm. Or, even better install SSH instead. SSH isn't as

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: THANK YOU! Apparently, Mdk6.0 integrated the telnet server and client... $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/in.telnetd telnet-0.10-8mdk I don't think so. Try again: Current remote directory is /linux/mandrake/stable/current/Mandrake/RPMS. ncftp

Re: [expert] FTP privileges

2000-04-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am impressed by the security settings for Mandrake which seem to hide and disallow certain read functions.. but I wish to make backups of my server and I am not allowed direct copy of certain directories to my remote computer. How do I give myself rights

[expert] BAR archives

2000-04-28 Thread John Aldrich
I realize this isn't a Mandrake-specific question, but I'm asking here anyway. :-) I've got some floppies that were created with a Solaris backup program called "bar." Anyone know of a LINUX program (sparc or intel) which will allow you to read those disks? Thanks... John

Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: Even if you can't telnet in, you ought to be able to enter runlevel one from the LILO prompt: if you use image 'linux', type 'linux 1' at the LILO prompt. Then, look at rc.local. Should also be able to type "linux 3" at the LILO prompt to boot (one time) to

Re: [expert] modemaudio

2000-04-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: I have also an internal modem, i don't know if it is a winmodem but i think... It's a Conexant SoftK56 Data,Fax,Speaker PCI modem. How can i use it? Fugedaboudit! It's a WinModem. OR, more properly, a "SoftModem." You don't want to even TRY to use that modem

Re: [expert] Backing up more than 650MB to a set of CDRW disks?

2000-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, you wrote: Will existing cd writers do what I ask in the "Subject:"? In theory. It's just a matter of having multiple ISO images. At least, that's MY take on it. On the "front side", how do you split gigabytes of files into multiple CDRW disks or .iso files? The

Re: [expert] Howto integrate new settings in homebrew ISO?

2000-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, you wrote: You are right, of course. My post was just about how to put replacement files on the CD, not how to integrate them into the normal install process. But maybe some files needed for installation, are not in RPM's at all ... How about just having a separate CD

Re: [expert] remote xwindow : help needed

2000-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, you wrote: if i su to root, and then start kfm as root, then i get the root's kde desktop on top of my desktop. If you mean you get root's "~/Desktop/" directory, it's not a bug. KFM is just doing what it's told to do. Since you're starting it as root, it just opens root's

Re: [expert] video card help

2000-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, you wrote: The company I bought the Diamond S3 Trio card from is willing to help. I think it will be best if I stick to a PCI card. I found two 16mb that might work. No box version. Voodoo3/3000. It works out of the box (with the correct X server.) If you want 3d

Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer

2000-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Simple: When you MOUNT the CDRW drive, you're treating it as a standard CDROM. You don't mount a CDRW drive when burning a CD. :-) John oh, ok... Next question: why *don't* you mount a CDRW when burning a disk? Is it because it is not yet

Re: [expert] DIsk Caching

2000-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: John, Thats kind of what I thought. I wasn't even sure if my question was even intelligent in Linux. I know that in the old school days of OS/2 and even Windows 95 it was a good idea to hack away at a config file or two to control how much physical RAM was

Re: [expert] mandrake 7 probs revisited

2000-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7 yesterday. I cant get pppd to work. It states something like "The remote computer is requested to authenicate itself I however am unable to supply [secret] password to get an IP address" something like this. This does not change

Re: [expert] Setup of Network Card

2000-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi there. Anybody out there knows how to setup a DLink DE-200 CE network card? There's only two dlink in the list and both failed during the setup. I also used NE2000 and compatible but to no avial. You need to look at the physical card and see what chipset

Re: [expert] mandrake 7 probs revisited

2000-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: use netconfig to setup your gateway information (should be nothing there), unless you are masquerading from another machine and if that is the case supply that IP address. Don't think that's the problem. I *think* that there's a bug whereby PPPD is

Re: [expert] lost bootup disk, recover ?

2000-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: It does not. I tried this on a working system. After booting up with tomsrtbt, I did... mount /dev/hda5 /newboot (/boot directory) mount /dev/hda8 /mnt (/ directory) Hmm...strange. Oh, well... MOST commands should work. I'm not sure why

Re: [expert] mandrake 7 probs revisited

2000-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: yeah you are right, there is a bug in pppd, but if your using kppp to connect, what I discribed above will work.. Or, just put "noauth" in the KPPP "Arguments" (I think that's where it goes. G) John

RE: [expert] mandrake 7 probs revisited

2000-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi, I had this problem too. You must use "netcfg" the first time, make pppd work well, and then, you will be able to use kppp. So, as root, start the application "netcfg", and add an interface ppp. Then, get pppd work : ifup ppp0 Surf on the internet.

Re: [expert] How to find the locking process?

2000-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: From time to time when I go to umount somthing it will tell me that it's busy and I can't. Now sometimes it's clear to me why, and it's easily corrected, but other times it is not. Is there any way to: - Find what process has it locked, or - Force it to

Re: [expert] txt_boot.img, txt_bootnet.img

2000-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: I needed to do a text network install of Mandrake 7 on a system without a mouse, but after downloading and RAWRITEing it to a floppy, it just told me to insert the Mandrake CDROM. The same happened with txt_boot.img. Is this supposed to happen? I did enjoy

Re: [expert] DIsk Caching

2000-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello, In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something intensive such as compiling

Re: [expert] Diamond Stealth ll S220

2000-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: John, I was doing a "recommended" install from a 7.0-2 disk so I assume it was the default Xserver. I replaced the card with a Voodoo3 2000 and all is well although I would like to figure out what happened. Someone suggested that they had problems with a

Re: [expert] lost bootup disk, recover ?

2000-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Since I could not get 'chroot' working, 'mkbootdisk' was not possible. Sure it is...it's just a bit more difficult. :-) You just have to recall when doing it to preface all paths with "/mnt/hdb1" as in "mkbootdisk /mnt/hdb1/boot/vmlinux-some-version" *should*

Re: [expert] Is sendmail able to do source adress routing?

2000-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hmm. Wouldn't it just be easier to use that very sendmail daemon to send directly to people? For example, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I love using sendmail (nt) would just be sent by sendmail itself to server.com directly,

Re: [expert] Fwd: [UKLUG] Wow, an actual constructive use for IRC!

2000-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: I don't have the bandwidth currently to make an 'apt get dist upgrade' a feasible option (something like a 25 hour download at 1.6-2.2K/s). But I really wish someone would invent some way to get the features of the *.deb packages and apt package manager using

Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer

2000-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Additions to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1 (former entries for zip and cdrom removed) Question, though: why is /dev/sr0 mounted ro, even though it is a

Re: [expert] video card

2000-04-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: I installed "Air" Power Pack tonight with the help of a L-M guru. We ran into some weird things while trying to install the video card. This guru is a sys adm with several years of *NIX and programming experience and runs the same version on his machines as

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

2000-04-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote: [CHOMP] I mean that when using defrag, the program continued defragmenting the next partition without realize that. That's why he recommended me that the first partition after a win partition should be the swap one, that doesn't matter if it is

Re: [expert] REMOVE ME Please!

2000-04-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote: Howard, If you find out can you tell me as well? I amtrying for 2 weeks now! Adrian Howard Lee wrote: Hi, How do I stop receiving e-mails from the list? Thank you very much. Go to www.linux-mandrake.com and follow the link to the mailing lists.

Re: [expert] Diamond Stealth ll S220

2000-04-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote: Has anyone else had any trouble setting up X with a Stealth ll ? every time X tries to start itself it locks the system up tigher than a drum. Anyone got any ideas?? Which X server did you install? John

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: Xdm (generic), kdm (KDE) and gdm (gnome) all provide another level of security, but my original question was about doing away with any of the login managers. Once you have setup Mandrake to launch X and go directly to a gui, the default is to bring up Kdm.

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: However, if there's an enhanced security advantage using kdm or gdm or xdm boot mode, then I would definitely switch. Otherwise, am in no hurry to do so. Is there such an advantage booting with these as the boot mode? AFAIK, there is no security

Re: [expert] telnet and X

2000-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm having a similar problem. I can connect to the box but then the error "connection closed by foreign host" . ftp conections work fine and Apache is fine. Pat: Did you manually install the telnet-server package? If not, do so now. Then, make sure telnetd

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

2000-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi, My WIndows98 has done it again! Yesterday I booted into Windows to look at my bankaccount. Being there I thought it a good idea to defrag "C:" (/dev/hda1) as I was told to do so every now and then. Checked the options of defrag, told the program to

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

2000-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm). This makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let Linux do the partitioning.

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

2000-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: Good advice, John, but I knew that one before. I always do only the "C:" partition with M$-fdisk. Every other partition is created by Linux. Next point: As you may see it was not the extended partition which got "mugged", it was the second primary partition.

Re: [expert] Advice on a cheap serial card

2000-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi all, I have a Dell that I really like -- only has just one serial port. I found a nice 2 serial port PCI card from Boca for $35 retail - but it only works with 95/98/NT. Boca said Linix [sic] is not supported. It *should* work with Linux. A serial card

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

2000-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: I have linux installed on the primary partition of my HD, with windows installed on the second. The disk was originally split using dos fdisk, though the first partition was formatted using diskdrake. I want to run a Nortons utils speed disk on my C drive,

Re: [expert] apache help needed!!!

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, you wrote: I haven't received a message from the group for 24-hours, is the mail server down? Not that I can tell. John

Re: [expert] apache help needed!!!

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Pj wrote: I haven't received a message from the group for 24-hours, is the mail server down? I don't know. I'm really stuck here and was hoping the list could help me out... what an inopportune time to have these problems! =(

Re: [expert] 'wrong charset' message.

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi all: How do I get rid of the "wrong charset" KDE message? It's a little annoying. Go into KDE Control Center and set ALL your languages to one language instead of "default." John

Re: [expert] high CPU load under MDK7

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: I just installed MDK7-2, and I've noticed that after a period of time, there's a lot of HD activity and a high CPU load. I took a look at top, and it shows that the CPU hungry process is called 'slocate'. What is it? I did not notice this in previous versions

Re: [expert] Stop using kdm

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
KDM/GDM/XDM only work when you're booting into GUI mode. They do NOT work when you boot to console mode. John

RE: [expert] Intel Chip Types (was) Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: BTW.. I have two machines that identify as -S model CPU-s (P133-S and P166-S). I think they are pre-MMX. Is there any significance to the S designation? Sorry, can't help you here. I have no idea what the S means. Go to the following web site for more

Re: [expert] sendmail upgrade to 8.10 ?

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi all, I am using mdk6.1 for my site. Currently it runs Sendmail 8.9 version. I have my mobile users (MS OutlookExpress) connecting to my mdk server from different IP addreses, and I'd like to implement relaying of their messages.(with relaying for

Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: - What is the recommended minimum speed/memory for Comp A ? - Is a P75/90 with 64 MB enough ? Will this affect the speed noticed - by Comp B and C when using the internet ? Does any of this not matter - as long as Comp A's network card is at least 10

Re: [expert] Intel Chip Types (was) Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, james.fogg wrote: BTW.. I have two machines that identify as -S model CPU-s (P133-S and P166-S). I think they are pre-MMX. Is there any significance to the S designation? The S is not an actual model designation. It's an

Re: [expert] 'wrong charset' message.

2000-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: Go into KDE Control Center and set ALL your languages to one language instead of "default." John This may work or it may not (depending on I-don't-know-what). On my box it doesn't work, but you may be more fortunate. The advice on the KDE site is to

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