Re: [newbie] Sendmail Setup?

2004-11-16 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] Ping gamers

2004-11-09 Thread David Johnson
://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- David Johnson http

Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-01 Thread David Johnson
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:40:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users To: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether

[newbie] Uptime question

2004-10-22 Thread David Johnson
times that are different from reality (usually shorter than actual uptime) when I know that they have not rebooted (a check of the logs will verify). Certainly not a major problem, but I'm curious... Thanks -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org

Re: [newbie] Uptime question

2004-10-22 Thread David Johnson
that ALL the Linux boxes out there are suffering from not being able to update their clocks...? On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:26:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Today at 08:39, David Johnson wrote: For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
. I seem to recall others mentioned the same thing when 10 came out. Are you sure that it isn't just slow to initialize? ED BTW: your reply:to address is set and so any answers you get don't post to the news list David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
the reply:to address bl;ank. By default it will reply to your email address except for when you send to mailing lists, then it will reply to the list ED David Johnson wrote: Maybe I should qualify my previous statements. After boot, ifconfig indeed, shows that ETH0 is UP, however it does

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
(EDT), Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Björn Lundin wrote: David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 where eth0 shows as having [Failed] the initialization at boot time, but if I su to root after

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 October 2004 03:08 am, David Johnson wrote: Ok, so I added the line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 And eth0 comes up properly at boot time. Thanks for the help everyone

[newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-20 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-20 Thread David Johnson
initialize? On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:57:11 +0700, Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:46 am, David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 where eth0 shows as having [Failed

Re: [newbie] Best mail Server for Mandrake

2004-10-18 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] smp kernel

2004-10-16 Thread David Johnson
machine ? -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] What version of ML am I using?

2004-09-17 Thread David Johnson
what version of the OS I'm running...:( Is there a way (preferably via the console) to tell which OS version I'm running? Thanks -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Organizing the information got from mailing lists

2004-09-12 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] Access secondary partition?

2004-09-12 Thread David Johnson
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Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase

2004-09-12 Thread David Johnson
-- Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-10mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - -- David Johnson http://www.edave.org

[newbie] File System Problem

2004-08-31 Thread David Johnson
Hi all, We had a power failure the other day and now my ML10.0 system barfs out messages every so often to the main screen (presumably when it does an FS check) that look like the following: INFO : [2004-08-31T06:33:15-0700] msg=,Check failed., path=/etc/ioctl.save I presume that this

[newbie] FS Problem?

2004-08-29 Thread David Johnson
I had a power problem at the house the other day and now, at boot up my ML10.0 machine comes up with tons of errors and every so often while the machine is running I see messages such as MARK : [2004-08-29T10:54:12-0700] msg=-- TIMESTAMP -- I have a feeling this is an indication of a

Re: [newbie] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?

2002-10-29 Thread David Johnson
sndconfig worked for me. On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:49 pm, joe wrote: I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help. -- 8:55pm up 2 days,

[newbie] SoundBlaster Live! support in LM9.0?

2002-10-27 Thread David Johnson
in 9.0, but no idea how they make it so. Am I SOL here? Should I go back to the on-board sound card and try to tweak the gain settings? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- David Johnson -- RLU# 236992 10:57am up 16:07, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Adding SCSI Hot-Swap drive

2002-10-27 Thread David Johnson
Hello all, I just added a second HDD to one of my servers (It's an HP LPr, BTW, using Hot-swap SCSI drives). My guess is that it should show up as SDB, but diskdrake doesn't show a second drive at all. I tried rebooting, but the new drive is still not recognized. Does anyone have any idea

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster Live! support in LM9.0?

2002-10-27 Thread David Johnson
Charles, It is a PCI card. A standard SBLive card. lspcidrake -v reports the following with regard to the card: snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8022). That being said, I'm unsure how to change the drivers that are

Re: [newbie] configuration of Snort IDS

2002-10-03 Thread David Johnson
Get a copy of NMAP and start scanning devices on your network to see if the Snort box catches it. If not, you'll need to go over your config settings with a fine-tooth comb. You'll usually find that a type in the network address or something is easy to do. The DNS variable is for you to put

Re: [newbie] configuration of Snort IDS

2002-09-20 Thread David Johnson
Chris, Your advice is largely accurate, but an easier way to set the $EXTERNAL_NET variable would be to set it equal to !$MY_NET. Keeps the code a little neater. You definately want to set $EXTERNAL_Net to be equal to !$MY_NET to resuce false positives internally. On Friday 20 September

Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband

2002-09-11 Thread David Johnson
You don't need the MSN exporer garbage. You should configure your gateway router to supply the username/password to the DSL service, then all machines behind (in your private network) can use the DSL service as normal. I have accomplished this feat on a friends network without problem. If

Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband

2002-09-11 Thread David Johnson
am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would I need a router? The modem itself won't work? Quoting David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You don't need the MSN exporer garbage. You should configure your gateway router to supply the username/password to the DSL service, then all machines behind

Re: [newbie] MSN Broadband

2002-09-11 Thread David Johnson
If you don't understand basic networking, then there's a lot of ground to cover. A search on google using how to set up a home network reveals lots of beginner how-to's You'll want to get a good grasp for the bsaics of networking before you get into the specifics of what OS changes to make.

[newbie] ATAPI Illegal request errors

2002-09-09 Thread David Johnson
Every so often (at regular intervals), my LM8.2 server spits out the following error message on the console: ATAPI device hda: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00) The failed Start/Stop Unit packet command

[newbie] Changing syslogd to accept remote connections

2002-08-26 Thread David Johnson
I know fro the man page that I have to run syslogd with the '-r' option to allow it to accept remote connections, but I'm trying to figure out how to omdify the daemon so that it always runs that way (where is the service started from?). I'd also like to stop and re-start the service without

[newbie] Video capture with ATI All-in-wonder Pro

2002-08-26 Thread David Johnson
Hello, I just installed an old ATI video card in my linux box as it is not posssible to make it run as a second card in Windows XP. I successfully got the TV portion to work using XAWTV, but would now like to do some video capture via the inputs on the card. Does anyone have a

[newbie] URPMI database locked

2002-08-25 Thread David Johnson
I was forced to kill MandrakeUpdate because nothing happened after a long time of it scanning for updates. Now when I try to run it, I get URPMI database locked and can do nothing else with the program. a scan of man urpmi gave no clues. Does anyone have any idea how to remove the lock from

Re: [newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-21 Thread David Johnson
As an update. Here is the valid portion of auth.log. Looks like it may be an SSH config problem? Aug 20 23:21:32 pengo sshd[5534]: error: Bind to port 22 on 10.0.0.10 failed: Address already in use. Aug 20 23:21:32 pengo sshd[5534]: fatal: Cannot bind any address. Aug 20 23:21:37 pengo

Re: [newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-21 Thread David Johnson
something along the lines of sshd sshd1 sshd2 : ALL : ALLOW Miark David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I've got a server set up runnin lm8.2 and I configured it to use medium security (if I remember correctly) because it's serving the Internet. Now I'd like to allow remote SSH

[newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-20 Thread David Johnson
I've got a server set up runnin lm8.2 and I configured it to use medium security (if I remember correctly) because it's serving the Internet. Now I'd like to allow remote SSH connections so that I can administer remotely. I know that SSH is running as I can connect from localhost, but using

[newbie] Test (ignore)

2002-08-19 Thread David Johnson
Sorry folks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Postfix for dummies?

2002-08-15 Thread David Johnson
:05 am, David Johnson wrote: Hello everyone, I'm sure this subject has been covered a thousand times (maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places), but I can't find an answer anywhere. I'm looking for postfix configuration for dummies. I'm currently setting up an LM8.2 machine to rnu

Re: [newbie] full duplex / half duplex

2002-08-15 Thread David Johnson
I can't tell you how to force LM to set the card into full-duplex, but I can tell you that normally, a NIC's autodetect works pretty well. The card should try to negotiate the best signalling speed and duplex level that it can. If it did not autodetect full duplex, then it is highly likely

[newbie] How to configure KMail to get mail from local mail file

2002-08-15 Thread David Johnson
I've just configured fetchmail and gotten it working with postfix and messages are being delivered to my local mail file (/var/spool/mail/djohnson). I have configured KMail to get the mail from this same local file, but the messages do not show up in KMail. I think I am missing something

Re: [newbie] CheckInstall 1.5.1 on ML8.2

2002-05-22 Thread David Johnson
2002 12:28 am, David Johnson wrote: Hello all, I've been out of Linux for a while, but just got an extra machine to play with again. I've installed CheckInstall 1.5.1 from source per instructions. When I run checkinstall, I get the following: [root@timmy checkinstall-1.5.1]# /usr

[newbie] CheckInstall 1.5.1 on ML8.2

2002-05-20 Thread David Johnson
Hello all, I've been out of Linux for a while, but just got an extra machine to play with again. I've installed CheckInstall 1.5.1 from source per instructions. When I run checkinstall, I get the following: [root@timmy checkinstall-1.5.1]# /usr/bin/checkinstall -R checkinstall 1.5.1,

[newbie] Circular dependancies?

2001-10-23 Thread David Johnson
: [root@pengo packages]# rpm -i libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: GConf = 1.0.4 is needed by libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk Is this my fault for trying to install from the 8.1 RPM's or should I be able to do this? -- David Johnson RLU#236992 Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem

2001-01-24 Thread David Johnson
and used a floppy with the harddrive install image to install Mandrake. I am now happily configuring my system... Thanks for your help. David Johnson - Original Message - From: "civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:22 AM Subject: R

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem

2001-01-22 Thread David Johnson
I have a 1 Ghz Athlon, Asus A7v motherboard, Plexwriter 8/4/32A CD-RW, 128 MB ram. I downloaded the two Mandrake 7.2 iso files and validated the md5 sums. I burned my own CD-RWs with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. I created the CD-RWs from the iso images. Selecting Create CD Disc-at-once

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem

2001-01-22 Thread David Johnson
I did 'create cd from CD image'. Explorer shows lists of directories/files. The CD-RW does boot. I assume Mandrake can read the CD-RW or I would get a different error. I don't know what test is failing I downloaded an iso file from a different site and the same thing happened. How can I