Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-25 Thread Paul Cox
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Well, I was reckoning, since RedHat just did a major jump from 8.0 (bypassing 8.1) to RedHat 9, that Mandrake might follow suit and jump from 9.1 straight to 10... They just didn't like Mandrake being ahead of them. :) -- Paul pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail

2003-03-08 Thread Paul Cox
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:36:52AM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? Don't know about sympa commands, but mail servers will usually

Re: [newbie] rar arc

2003-03-05 Thread Paul Cox
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:38:19PM +0200, Kristjan wrote: I just get an error either not supported or rar is not in your PATH Are they supported at all ? or how can i get them opened Rar is not open source, so not in the distrib. Here's a link to an .rpm of it though (v2.8):

Re: [newbie] rar arc

2003-03-05 Thread Paul Cox
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:33:47PM -0500, Miark wrote: Here's the tarball from RAR themselves: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.1.1.tar.gz It's a much newer version. True. I updated the rpmhelp.net rpm (well, once Vincent uploads it). In the meantime you can get it from

Re: [newbie] ProFTPd problem

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Cox
set to? Looks to me like you're never actually getting connected at all. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk - Uptime: 9 days 1 hour 11 minutes. msg95369/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Question about kernel update

2001-10-29 Thread Paul Cox
kernels for 8.1 are in the works, just be patient. There was another problem discovered after the ptrace and symlink problems. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-31.1mdk - Uptime: 1 day 16 hours 24 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Rebuilding a kernel src rpm...

2001-10-29 Thread Paul Cox
through the whole config compiling shebang just to get an i686 or AMD optimised kernel? And I've never tried this, but it may make an i586 .rpm anyway depending on how the .spec file for the rpm is written. Good luck. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-31.1mdk - Uptime: 1 day

Re: [newbie] ssh problem

2001-10-29 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, Oct 29, 2001, Jhun Bacala wrote: After changing the security level of my LM8.1 to high, I can't no longer connect to it through ssh client. What seems to be the problem. Take a look at /etc/hosts.deny -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-31.1mdk - Uptime: 1

Re: [newbie] mount umount cdrom (Audio CD Solution)

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Cox
vmware-config.pl again. This fixed it for me. Also, I'm not real sure how permenent of a solution this is, as I haven't been using devfs since because of the security advisory. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-30.1mdk - Uptime: 20 hours 14 minutes. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] libpng3 incompatibility

2001-10-25 Thread Paul Cox
need to rebuild libnspr4, update to that, rebuild libnss3, update to that, and then you can rebuild mozilla. I'll warn you now though, mozilla takes a LONG time to build. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 17 hours 12 minutes. Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] How do I release my IP number?

2001-10-23 Thread Paul Cox
On Tuesday, Oct 23, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question is directed to Paul Cox, and is completely unrelated to the original topic. I am sending thought the mailing list since someone maybe wondering the same thing. My question is about the kernel and uptime on Paul's signature, I

Re: [newbie] ATA-66 and ATA-100 hard disk

2001-10-20 Thread Paul Cox
(I've done it with Windows 98, and Mdk 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1). Just depends on whether or not the BIOS and motherboard supports it. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 3 days 19 hours 8 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] How do I release my IP number?

2001-10-20 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Oct 19, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I release my IP number, so I can have a new one assigned from my intranet dns? /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart (as root) should do the trick. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-26mdk - Uptime: 3 days 19 hours 49

Re: [newbie] Need to install all the developers packages

2001-09-25 Thread Paul Cox
about those. I know about the libldap one though. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 7 days 11 hours 58 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] PHP and GD library

2001-09-25 Thread Paul Cox
the php.ini file) First, make sure you have it installed... type 'rpm -q php-gd' at a command line and tell us the output... -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 7 days 12 hours 3 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade

2001-08-31 Thread Paul Cox
, but have you tried changing it to 'port dc00' just to see what happens? -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 10 days 12 hours 37 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Console Mail Readers

2001-08-29 Thread Paul Cox
threading much more effective since I'm not deleting messages as I read them. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 8 days 20 hours 41 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: Another Mozilla

2001-08-15 Thread Paul Cox
if that is at all relevant. In that case, you can probably ignore what I said. =) That was if you were using your own mailserver (I mean, the same box you're running Mozilla on). I guess you need to get together with whoever runs the server in Mass. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-8mdk

Re: [newbie] forgot my passphrase?

2001-08-14 Thread Paul Cox
esc when at the boot menu. Then it goes back to text mode and you can do that. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-8mdk - Uptime: 9 hours 20 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Another Mozilla

2001-08-14 Thread Paul Cox
and maybe even specific addresses (not sure). Check the documentation for the SMTP server you're using (postfix or sendmail most likely). There may be a better way to resolve this, but that's what I came up with off the top of my head. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-8mdk

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-13 Thread Paul Cox
that play anything other than officially sanctioned streams illegal. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-8mdk - Uptime: 1 day 13 hours 12 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-13 Thread Paul Cox
it), therefore, they do need a license. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-8mdk - Uptime: 1 day 16 hours 39 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SSL and VirtualHosts

2001-08-09 Thread Paul Cox
in the dark as I actually haven't tried it, but it looks like it will work in theory. =) Let us know if it does or not. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 1 hour 8 minutes.

Re: [newbie] win4lin

2001-07-31 Thread Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Jul 25, 2001, John Rigby wrote: This is not hidden somewhere in Powerpak 8 is it?? Nope, sorry... see www.netraverse.com. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 19 days 22 hours 16 minutes.

Re: FW: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Thread Paul Cox
on the idea of the mouse from Xerox)... they just have a much better marketing department. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 1 day 23 hours 24 minutes.

Re: [newbie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible

2001-06-22 Thread Paul Cox
=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 5 days 9 hours 57 minutes.

Re: [newbie] Help, 8.0 install

2001-06-18 Thread Paul Cox
, or is this a bug in the kernel? What kernel version does the install use? -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 1 day 9 hours 33 minutes.

Re: [newbie] Speaking of Dell and Linux.........

2001-06-18 Thread Paul Cox
to buy a system with linux (even if it is RedHat ;) is that you're not paying for a copy of Windows that you will probably never use for anything other than a coaster. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 1 day 9 hours 47 minutes.

Re: [newbie] Speaking of Dell and Linux.........

2001-06-17 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Jun 15, 2001, root wrote: I don't know about getting Linux preinstalled on a dell machine. Dell has a very tight allegiance to both Microsoft and especially Intel. Whenever a new intel chip comes out, dell is always the first to get it. Dell also has a good relationship

Re: [newbie] A Bastille and Xinetd question

2001-06-14 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Jun 14, 2001, Leif Madsen wrote: I just installed Bastille, and everything seems to be good, except for this message: Message from my_log_on_name@local_machine on no tty at 21:03 ... SECURITY ALERT: TMPDIR problem on host 'local_machine': The TMPDIR defense script is no

Re: [newbie] Fw: Anacron job 'cron.daily'

2001-06-14 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Jun 14, 2001, n6tadam wrote: You could of course, comment out the line in your /etc/crontab file, which runs the scripts in cron.daily :-)) That, is probably an easier solution.. Easier but wrong! Doing that would make none of the scripts run in cron.daily, which isn't

Re: [newbie] Mysql! How do I set the root password from a base install?

2001-06-08 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Jun 07, 2001, h3rb wrote: I am gonna reply to you with a Quote from my first message: I can't add any database's or anything cause it tells me that root@localhost is denied access. Emphasize on the anything part! Did you even try what I suggested? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [newbie] Mysql! How do I set the root password from a base install?

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Jun 07, 2001, h3rb wrote: How do I set the root password for mysql? I can't add any database's or anything cause it tells me that root@localhost is denied access. I switch to the user mysql and try to change the password that way. And mysql tell's me that the user mysql

Re: [newbie] Printing from Star Office

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Jun 06, 2001, Richard Davies wrote: I have Star Office 5.2 runing under Mandrake 7.2 with the printer HP Deskjet 52 set up under CUPS. It all works fine except that everytime I start Star Office it sets the printer resolution to 600 DPI and everything prints twice size so I

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-06 Thread Paul Cox
On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Romanator wrote: Where can I find OpenOffice? Is this from Sun? To answer your Sun question, when they released the StarOffice source code, it was 'renamed' to OpenOffice. www.openoffice.org will tell you more than you ever wanted to know. ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [newbie] Slow PPP connection after DNS change at ISP

2001-06-05 Thread Paul Cox
On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Jim MacDonald wrote: I am running a dual boot W98 LM7.2 and KDE 2.0.1. with a Supra Express 56K v90 external modem on a PII-233 with 128 megs RAM. The system also has an internal Lucent Winmodem. All was well with the system. My ISP changed their server on May

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-05 Thread Paul Cox
On Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001, Ric Tibbetts wrote: A cursory guess: KDE 2.x underwent some massive changes. Obviously, the methods for adding icons to the panel changed. I'd say this needs to be taken back to the StarOffice folks as a bug report. (I had the same problem with a Redhat install,

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-03 Thread Paul Cox
On Saturday, Jun 02, 2001, Barry Premeaux wrote: I installed it from my Powerpack and it added the icon just fine. It's in the Office group. I used the CD I got awhile ago from www.lsl.com. I runs a 'setup' utility for the Linux version. Under 7.2, it updated the KDE menus just

Re: [newbie] Why doesn't StarOffice 5.2 appear on KPanel?

2001-06-02 Thread Paul Cox
On Saturday, Jun 02, 2001, Romanator wrote: The weird thing is that StarOffice 5.x used to install really well with LM7.2. Argh... I installed it from my Powerpack and it added the icon just fine. It's in the Office group. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at

Re: [newbie] rpm 4 macros

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, May 25, 2001, newbie-mandrake wrote: Macros like %serverbuild. Can somebody tell me where to find the definition of rpm 4 macros? If I can just get my hands on LM80, I would execute rpm --eval %name_of_macro. On my system it's: [paul@anne paul]$ rpm --eval %serverbuild export

Re: [newbie] apache php

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, May 25, 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Sorry, this is probably a really newbie question. It doesn't appear that I have PHP enabled for apache. Is there a way that I can check to see if Apache is compiled with PHP support or is there a flag that I can pass it to enable php? Create a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Firewall killed samba access!

2001-05-24 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, May 24, 2001, Sam wrote: I've been sharing files using samba on my Mandrake 8 machine with other Windows PCs in my home network for a while now, and all computers can see one another in the network neighborhood. A few moments ago though, I ran the Firewall wizard in the

Re: [newbie] FAQ's

2001-05-24 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, May 24, 2001, A. Rick Anderson wrote: Since this isn't a newsgroup, every time a new user downloads or buys LM 8.0, we get the same batch of questions. For example, issues related to LM and a PS/2 mouse or the IBM trackpoint. Any chance on someone from Mandrake archiving

Re: [newbie] Waiting for Mozilla 0.9

2001-05-14 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, May 14, 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Any news as yet of when Mandrake will release their version of the latest Mozilla 0.9? It's now in the cooker... -- --=-=-= Name: mozilla Relocations: (not relocateable) Version :

Re: [newbie] kernel-headers

2001-05-14 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, May 14, 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: I'm using Mandrake 8.0 and reinstalled last night for a stupid reason (BIG MISTAKE) anyway where is kernel-headers-2.4.3-20mdk located? It should be in /usr/src but the only thing there is the RPM folder. I tried to install the kernel-header rpm

Re: [newbie] ipchains

2001-05-14 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, May 14, 2001, Clarence Donath wrote: Another problem I have is ipchains. It doesn't install by default even though I installed every package? I don't know about the other problems, but if you're using the 2.4.3 kernel with Mandrake 8.0, it uses iptables instead of ipchains. --

Re: [newbie] Apache stops responding?

2001-05-14 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, May 14, 2001, Darin Lang wrote: About the Set up below, you have 3 different domain names pointing to the same IP. Apache chokes because it can't decide which page to deliver /gsp, /tcoclan, or /shs Not true... NameVirtualHost 24.9.19.5 As long as he has this, it should work