[newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning

2004-07-25 Thread Asa Rossoff
I have a situation where (1) my partition table is screwed up, and (2) I have been wanting to resize my partitions anyway... file access seems to be working, but all the partition tools complain about errors, and cfdisk gives a fatal error and won't even run. I'm pretty sure that diskdrake

Re: [newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning

2004-07-25 Thread Frank
Though the CD part may not apply to you, you may wish to start with what is offered here to make a tar ball of your full system which ought to fit within the space you have left on your windows system:

[newbie] Modem, PPP, ISPs, and Wvdial

2004-07-25 Thread The Other
Hello John, Maybe your problem is with the ISP and the login prompts. I haven't had time yet to work out my problem using Linux From Scratch 5.1, Wvdial, and my ISP; but here's what the ISP did for me to assist: - Instead of trying to login at the prompt, try just starting up ppp.

[newbie] Sound Blaster MP3+

2004-07-25 Thread Eric Jackson
Hi, I have a Sound Blaster MP3+ USB soundcard installed on my Windows laptop. It runs fine. I tried to unstall it on my linux box running 10.0 Official. Mandrake recognized it as an unknown audio device. Has any one gotten this soundcard to work under Mandrake? If so could you please tell

[newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Aron Smith
Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my

[newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors

2004-07-25 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings all, I am trying to build a rpm package from tar using checkinstall, and not succeeding. The packages I want to build are giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7.tar.gz, gift-openft-0.2.1.3.tar.gz, and gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2.tar.gz. I am getting the same errors when I attempt each, so I assume I have

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Chris
On Sunday 25 July 2004 08:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it;

Re: [newbie] ALSA driver not running

2004-07-25 Thread donmeliton
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:09, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Try this (as root): Edit the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf (back them up first) and remove all sound-related stuff (lines containing 'sound', 'sb', 'synth', 'opl3'). Also remove all sound-related modules from the kernel

[newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Thread Keith Powell
What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the information on Google, and can't download it just to

Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved)

2004-07-25 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:50:50 -0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors Greetings all, I am trying to build a rpm package from tar using checkinstall, and not succeeding. The packages I want

[newbie] MAC Address

2004-07-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
I have a new ECS N2U400-A which will not load either 9.2 or 10.0. I spent 18 hrs trying different combinations and gave up. So I installed win2k on that box, just to prove to myself that the board sucked more than I originally thought. Okay, the question. It has an onboard nvidia 10/100 NIC.

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard

2004-07-25 Thread John Wilson
On July 21, 2004 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my right alt key no longer works, and if I choose US

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Thread PM
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Thread Keith Powell
On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 11:04:11, Keith Powell wrote: What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about

Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors

2004-07-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:50:50AM -0300, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I am trying to build a rpm package from tar using checkinstall, and not succeeding. The packages I want to build are giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7.tar.gz, gift-openft-0.2.1.3.tar.gz, and gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2.tar.gz. I am

Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved)

2004-07-25 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 11:10:11, Angus Auld wrote: whack It appears that there is a problem with the checkinstall package I was using. I installed the latest beta version, checkinstall-1.6.0-0.beta3.2mdk.i586, and then the rebuilding went fine. :-)

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-25 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 24 July 2004 04:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | | I need to install filters but have forgotten how they should be set up | and at the moment I cant find my notes. I have trained spamassassin | with enough email (spam ham) so they should be useful but cant get it | to function. Are you

Re: [newbie] ALSA driver not running

2004-07-25 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sunday 25 July 2004 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:09, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Try this (as root): Edit the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf (back them up first) and remove all sound-related stuff (lines containing 'sound', 'sb', 'synth', 'opl3').

Re: [newbie] FIXED - ALSA driver not running

2004-07-25 Thread donmeliton
My heartfelt thanks to Frans and Raffaele. The problem is fixed, kinda. XMMS still refuses to play mp3s or oggs properly, even those ripped by myself with Grip. Totem plays both, though, so XMMS is going to be uninstalled pronto. Shame, really, I like it better than Totem, but there you are.

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why,

Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files

2004-07-25 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 10:57, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, If you check the size and they are around 20 to 75 kB, they are probably Windows viruses. I learned that the hard way. Ignoring them is the best option. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:47 pm, Brian Parish wrote: I

Re: [newbie] MAC Address

2004-07-25 Thread John Wilson
On July 25, 2004 06:26 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a new ECS N2U400-A which will not load either 9.2 or 10.0. I spent 18 hrs trying different combinations and gave up. So I installed win2k on that box, just to prove to myself that the board sucked more than I originally thought. Okay,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Thread John Wilson
On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: snip Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise that it had

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 15:19:03, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 23:39, Aron Smith wrote: It depends on how many rules you have and if they contradict each other Standard set of rules that comes with SA, and the rulesets from www.rulesemporium.com; are you suggesting I do away with some of the rulesets? stephen kuhn - proprietor

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 00:18, Chris wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 08:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard

2004-07-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 03:32, John Wilson wrote: On July 21, 2004 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hey y'all. I'm getting dead tired of relearning how to type here; MDK 10.0 surely isn't treating my keyboard nicely; I can either choose UK, US or US International - if I choose US, then my

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread frankieh
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard

2004-07-25 Thread András Keszei
Hey Stephen, There will be two more shocks for you on the keyboard, as long as you stick to the US international version: ^ and ` will only come up with the spacebar as well. This is all to help people with non-english alphabets and US keyboards to write things like Gänseblümchen and diótörõ.

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 08:31, frankieh wrote: Have you considered using amavis-new? My mailserver is an old 233mmx with 192MB ram and its handling about 1500 mails a day. as well as performing other tasks. (some days it handles well over 2500 emails, and at least 200 of those are spam

Re: [newbie] ltmodem

2004-07-25 Thread Marc Lijour
Le July 24, 2004 06:15 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: Le July 24, 2004 11:31 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: Hi I have a Lucent Tech winmodem. I used ltmodem rpm in the past, and it has to be combined with a kernel rpm. I have not

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:36 pm, John Wilson wrote: On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: snip Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were

[newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-25 Thread Marc
At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and have been unable to find it again. Can anyone here point me to it?

Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files

2004-07-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:30 pm, Brian Parish wrote: snip They vary in size up to about 1.4MB. The thing that has me interested is that there are heaps of them and they are an EXACT match for the keywords used for the search. i.e. Search for never take stephen kuhn seriously and you'll

[newbie] hd.img

2004-07-25 Thread Tomas Tudja
Hello, Can somebody help me to find hd.img image for Mandrake 10.1? I need to install 10.1 from iso file on my disk and i can't do this with hd_grub.img. On ftp archives i can find ONLY hd_grub.img. Thank You Catcher Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] FIXED - ALSA driver not running

2004-07-25 Thread Dave Ashmore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My heartfelt thanks to Frans and Raffaele. The problem is fixed, kinda. XMMS still refuses to play mp3s or oggs properly, even those ripped by myself with Grip. Totem plays both, though, so XMMS is going to be uninstalled pronto. Shame, really, I like it better than

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-25 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote: At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and have been unable to find it

Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved)

2004-07-25 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:43:57 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 11:10:11, Angus Auld wrote: whack It

Re: [newbie] FIXED - ALSA driver not running

2004-07-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:08 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head meta content=text/html;charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type title/title /head body bgcolor=#ff text=#00 a class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-25 Thread John Wilson
On July 25, 2004 06:24 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote: At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-25 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:26 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Well. I've installed Spam Assassin via the instructions, however since setting it up my inbound spam has dropped considerably :( Drat. No, really, I wanted to sort out the rules... Anyway, it's monday tomorrow and everything is busy in

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-25 Thread Chris
On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:54 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Now, I have a little script that runs spam-learn on my inbox, SpamPile and a few others daily. Mine runs from KAlarm. Now, get and setup my_rules_du_Jour and rules_du_jour. You can get it from the Exit0 SA Wiki Page at

Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors (solved)

2004-07-25 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 20:24:08, Angus Auld wrote: whack Thanks for the feedback Charlie. I have managed to get apollon working on my system. I told you could do it! Good on ya Angus. The sticker for me was the Gnutella plugin. I compiled it w/o

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-25 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 25 July 2004 8:05 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:54 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Now, I have a little script that runs spam-learn on my inbox, SpamPile and a few others daily. Mine runs from KAlarm. Now, get and setup my_rules_du_Jour and rules_du_jour. You can get it

[newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-25 Thread Sujit Apte
Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not see this htdocs folder nor Apache2 installation folder. I tried searching every

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:28:12 -0400 Sujit Apte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:28:12 -0400 Sujit Apte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not

[newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!

2004-07-25 Thread Angus Auld
I seem to be getting a very annoying, and scary, high pitched whining sound occasionally from my 3 week old Maxtor 40 GB 7200rpm drive. Should I back everything up now?! :-/ My drive mounts in a vertical position. Could that cause a problem? I could find no warnings against vertical mounting

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-25 Thread Marc Hultquist
/var/www/html In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as follows ./configure --prefix=/apache/ your apache will be installed in obviously /apache/ and your htdocs will be in /apache/htdocs/ !