Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:27:16PM +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:50, David Reynolds wrote: I'm pretty sure I'm buggered this time around, but maybe someone here can help me spot my error for next time: Situation: Needed Windows on my computer to run some commercial games with my family Generous Whack Ok. Here's how I would plot/plan this out. whack Sympa burping today? This is about the 50th copy of this message I've received today. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] webdav
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:03:25PM +, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have been asked by my family to set up a website. The domain is all set and a webdav account has been set up for me to upload files. This is new to me. I have gone into MCC and there is a webdav entry under the mount points tab. It says that davfs must be installed but when I click o.k. to install an error message comes back saying 'mandatory package davfs is missing'. Where can I find the package? Is there a basic tutorial anywhere with information on webdav? Bill, I tried webdav on 9.1 and had problems with Apache2 and webdav; I had better luck with Apache1.3. Google a bit and you'll see that Windows XP has a broken webdav implementation in its Explorer such that it can't authenticate. I found a few hacks on the web but none of them worked for me. If your users are Windows users, you might have problems. Anyway, getting davfs is as easy as urpmi davfs. You also have to set up permissions and turn on webdav in Apache for the directory in question. It can be as simple as Location /calendars DAV On AuthType Basic AuthName WebDAV Calendars AuthUserFile /var/www/calusers LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS Require valid-user /LimitExcept /Location The best tutorials I found for setting up webdav were these: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_2176771_2 http://questier.com/howto.html#CAL Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] imap setup
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:27:18PM -0600, Chris wrote: I'm trying to re-setup my imap folders. I've got courier-imap installed and running. Everytime I get as far as entering my mail host in the imap setup in kmail, (earthlink.net) a few seconds later a window pops up (could not connect to host earthlink.net). Never had this problem in 9.0. This is the last hurdle I've got to overcome to get the system back to where it was w/9.0. Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. I can't find any entries in the logs pertaining to this. Are you trying to run a mail server, or do you just want to set up Kmail to connect to earthlink's imap server? If the latter, you don't need courier-imap, you just need to work with Kmail and assuming you're connecting to an imap server, your folders should be set up automatically. After all, that is the beauty of imap. If it's the former we'll need more info on exactly what you're trying to achieve. Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xfce4 settings question
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:14:51AM +, Graham Watkins wrote: This ought to be easy but I can't figure it out. How do I get the iconbox to launch with xfce4 instead of having to start it from the command line? Is there anywhere I should put a script for this and any other program I want launched on startup? You have a couple of options. 1. Put a script in $HOME/Desktop/Autostart to start iconbox. It would be as simple as #!/bin/bash /path/to/iconbox The issue with this is that if you decide to switch to another desktop environment, iconbox will start. 2. Add a line to /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4 (in mine, your location might be different like /etc/xdg/xfce4). Just take a peek inside that file and you'll see where different things are started. Just add a line with iconbox and you should be good to go. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:39:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've noticed that, strangely, the effect of the command 'chgrp' is not permanent: I did # chgrp rodolfo /* and then # ls -l / and got the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]# ls -l / total 52 drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:05 bin/ drwxr-x--x 3 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 17 root rodolfo 3800 Dec 19 15:19 dev/ drwxr-x--x 71 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 etc/ drwxr-x--x 4 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 18:53 home/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:31 initrd/ drwxr-x--x 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:13 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 11:48 mnt/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ dr-xr-xr-x 78 root rodolfo0 Dec 19 15:19 proc/ drwx-- 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:08 root/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root rodolfo0 Dec 19 15:19 sys/ drwxrwx-wt 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:20 tmp/ drwxr-x--x 12 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:07 usr/ drwxr-x--x 17 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 var/ ; then I rebooted the system, did '# ls -l /' again and this time the output was changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]# ls -l / total 52 drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:05 bin/ drwxr-x--x 3 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root3800 Dec 19 15:19 dev/ drwxr-x--x 71 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:19 etc/ drwxr-x--x 4 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 18:53 home/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:31 initrd/ drwxr-x--x 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:13 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 18 11:48 mnt/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/ dr-xr-xr-x 79 root root 0 Dec 19 15:19 proc/ drwx-- 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:08 root/ drwxr-x--x 2 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 19 15:19 sys/ drwxrwx-wt 11 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 19 15:20 tmp/ drwxr-x--x 12 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 16:07 usr/ drwxr-x--x 17 root rodolfo 4096 Dec 17 15:59 var/ , and even other changes occured later. How come? And how to make chgrp's effect not change until I want to? My guess is msec is changing the permissions back for you. I don't know if /dev, /proc, and /sys need to be group owned by root, but I really question the need to have your entire system group owned by a simple user. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Better to su when you need to, or learn how to set up sudo. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tying down to one only email client
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:11:49PM +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi The following appears to be off topic a little, but with no response from the mozilla forum and it being mandrake I'm trying to get my company to run with, I'm hoping some kind soul here might take some time out to assist. The following is a direct copy of my posting on the other site: I am at present trying to get Mozilla tied down in WinXP to such a state that regardless of which user opens Mozilla1.7.3 - all email is downloaded to one only folder on the computer. At present a user needs to login into their account with a password and has installed into their settings the ability to run Mozilla. This part is OK by me. To access the companies email they need to further enter another password to access the online account and this applies to sending email also. Again this is OK by me as it requires passwords to get there. However, this now means that email being downloaded and sent is stored within the different user's accounts and this is not OK by company policy. The ideal is to have all the email remain together. As this old salt doesn't play with WinXP usually, I have no idea how to achieve the above ideal situation. Anyone care to take me through the mechanics of getting this to work? Further, I would like to know , for future reference, how to do this within a Linux environment also as the staff here is being kind to my suggestions of at least looking at Linux. Any helpful suggestions will be greatly appreciated. First off, are you using IMAP? I second Stephen's recommendation to use it as your users can use any old IMAP-capable reader. Now as to not having to have a user profile on each machine, you can set it up by specifying a network location for your profile, but you have to set it up the first time you start Thunderbird on a new computer on the network. I believe roaming profiles is in the works for Mozilla, so maybe shortly you'll be able to do it conveniently. You might find some help in the mozillazine forums... (don't know if the mozilla forum you refer to is Usenet or online) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to compare two files?
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:33:18PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Suppose that a large text file has been slightly modified by another person, and I want to find out 'a posteriori' what changes were done. Is there a linux command (or set of commands) that can compare the two files and tell what lines are different from one another? Rodolfo, That would be the diff command. man diff for more info. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mplayer streaming ASF
Mdk 9.1 MPlayer-1.0pre5try2 (from source) all win32 codecs I'm trying to play a stream from KGSR radio with mplayer. I can play it at work on a Windows box with WiMP. When I try here it just hangs. If I wait long enough I get a burst of noise every now and then. I'm on cable so conncection speed isn't an issue. Does anything below stand out? Would somebody be willing to test the stream to see if it's playable? Gracias, Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ mplayer http://stream1.emmisaustin.com/kgsr-fm MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices K6-2 501.7 MHz (Family: 5, Stepping: 12) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory Reading config file /home/todd/.mplayer/config Reading /home/todd/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio 180 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/todd/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.) Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/todd/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config Playing http://stream1.emmisaustin.com/kgsr-fm. Resolving stream1.emmisaustin.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server stream1.emmisaustin.com[206.127.9.83]:80 ... Resolving stream1.emmisaustin.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server stream1.emmisaustin.com[206.127.9.83]:80 ... Stream bitrate properties object Max bandwidth set to 0 Resolving stream1.emmisaustin.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server stream1.emmisaustin.com[206.127.9.83]:80 ... Cache size set to 64 KBytes Connected to server: stream1.emmisaustin.com Cache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes)ASF file format detected. Clip info: name: 107.1 KGSR, Radio Austin == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 4000-128000 (32.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg)) == Checking audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/16bit - 32000Hz/2ch/16bit... AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 32000 hz, little endian signed int AF_pre: 32000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) AO: [oss] 32000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/16bit - 32000Hz/2ch/16bit... Video: no video Starting playback... A: 0.3 0.0% 0% MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: decode_audio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SOLVED mplayer streaming ASF
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:38:49PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: Mdk 9.1 MPlayer-1.0pre5try2 (from source) all win32 codecs I'm trying to play a stream from KGSR radio with mplayer. I can play it at work on a Windows box with WiMP. When I try here it just hangs. If I wait long enough I get a burst of noise every now and then. I'm on cable so conncection speed isn't an issue. Does anything below stand out? Would somebody be willing to test the stream to see if it's playable? I poked around the codecs stuff some more and thought I might have to specify which codec to use. It turns out mplayer -ac wmadmo http://stream1.emmisaustin.com/kgsr-fm works! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer streaming ASF
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:38:49 -0500 Todd Slater wrote: I'm trying to play a stream from KGSR radio with mplayer. I can play it at work on a Windows box with WiMP. When I try here it just hangs. I can play it here using totem, using play location. Other apps I have tried all failed. The problem if trying to play from within a browser is that it uses a non-supported protocol mms://. I have not googled it but it defines to me as Microsoft media stream. Thanks for checking it out for me Charles. I suspect Totem has better automagic codec detection/selection than mplayer. Specifying wmadmo as the codec seems to be working atm. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:32:54PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the Mandrake lists, so I am thinking it may be one of our newbie windows users. If you use windows and are in Australia, please check your box for viruses. Prolly that Kuhn guy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:30:19AM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to install a program using the following command inside a the script installMapleLinuxSU: sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin but I get the error: bash: ./installMapleLinuxSU: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied. Any ideas? Paul, You don't need both sh and ./ so try either sh LinuxInstaller.bin or ./LinuxInstaller.bin or even /full/path/to/LinuxInstaller.bin Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE CD
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:21AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I have downloaded all iso imaged of Mandrake Linux Official 10.1. During installation, it needs KDE CD. I searched on available FTP sites, but there was not any KDE iso image. Can anybody help ? Regards, Danesh Daroui That's the disc 4 that Mandrake won't give away; you'll have to join the club or buy a box set to get it if I understand correctly. But if you're going to be running a server you don't want KDE anyway, right? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gnome-games?
After futzing around with gnome in Slackware and Ubuntu I've come to enjoy a few of the gnome games. I can't find them in 10.1 Official DE and the machine is not on a network so I can't set up urpmi--can somebody verify whether tetravex etc. are available in contrib or some place? Thanks! Todd -- Name that tune #21: I live in the ghetto, you just come to visit me around election time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Thanks, Danesh Daroui Go back to FC3, then. Cheers, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:05:08PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Thanks, Danesh Daroui Go back to FC3, then. Cheers, Todd What a nice tip ;-) Thanks it helped so much... Oh, you wanted a *tip*. Sorry, my bad. Here ya go: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html And one more, no charge: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Cheers, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:12:39AM -0800, Tango Echo wrote: Anyone?? Or is this rocket science? I've never used Spamassassin but I've heard that it can be a resource hog. How much do you need it to do--virus filtering etc.? If you just need a bayesian-type filter bogofilter is a good alternative. I'm pretty sure SA requires you to have procmail set up and working; bogofilter can work when called directly from an MUA but I prefer to use procmail with it as well. In any event, I don't think it's hard to set up SA. Have you read the README and INSTALL files? Todd -Original Message- From: Tango Echo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:37 PM To: newb-mdk Subject: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird How easy is to setup Spam assassin for Thunderbird? I'm runnning 10.0 and have found that the spam abilities in thunderbird are far from sufficient... Is it easy enough for someone to supply the steps or can you point me to a good doc for (a quick) setup? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware compatibility on the Mandrake site. BTW, when will 10.1 official be available for us cheap bastards? I thought it was going to be made available at the end of November ... Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:40:11PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: BTW, when will 10.1 official be available for us cheap bastards? I thought it was going to be made available at the end of November ... OK, talking to myself, I just hit aolm and see that the iso's are starting to be made available on the ftp mirrors. t Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat - Mozilla ?
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:14:09PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, I have a dual-boot system (Mdk 9.1 and W2k - both having their own partitions). I also have a spare FAT partition for downloading etc. At the moment my email client in Mdk is Mozilla suite 1.6 and for W2k is TheBat! Well, I think of migrating from The Bat! to Mozilla for Win in order to use it in the same manner as I use Mozilla under Linux. Besides that, I would like to share the same FAT partition between both OS's - so to being capable to read/send the same mail from either environment. The problem is that now I have lots of email and addresses in address book within The Bat! and I need a way to transfer them from TheBat to Mozilla. Does anybody know how to migrate from The Bat to Mozilla (what should I export or backup, restore and how)? I have lots of mail and would like to have them all when start with Mozilla (at the moment, under Linux I run Mozilla 1.6 combo and suppose the same version to use in Windows when I begin with it). Any suggestion? Misko, Check out the forums at Mozillazine.org, you'll probably have some luck there. It looks like the main thing is to export mail from The Bat to Unix format. I was looking at Thunderbird but I imagine Mozilla Mail is similar. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=146553highlight=bat http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=121163highlight=bat http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=110472highlight=import+mail+bat HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:42:35PM +0100, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not. Try mpg123. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] /home/user permissions
I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /home/user permissions
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:51:43PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:06:00 -0500 Todd Slater disseminated the following: I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Ya, I was surprised by that too when I first noticed. What is your security level set to? I'm not sure, it's not paranoid, probably standard or high. It looks like Fedora Core has the same thing too. And Debian from what I gather after a bit more googling. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Help requested getting Apache virtual servers going
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:17:32PM -0500, Bill Mudry wrote: Could someone help me find out why I cannot get some virtual hosts going on Apache. Bill, How about letting us know what happens when you try to access a virtual host (in the browser)? Any errors in /var/log/httpd/access_log or error_log? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache or Mandrake permissions problems?
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:39:19PM -0500, Jaime Magiera wrote: Not if it's related to permission conflicts on the server, such as those imposed by msec. Hence, in the subject Apache or Mandrake. I think permissions on /home/user/public_html should be 711. I wouldn't change permissions on /home/user (unless you're tightening it up). You might try turning on the /home/*/public_html option in httpd.conf and just testing a user. If you can do that ok, then your problem might not be permissions but your VirtualHost entry. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Configure Kmail for Hotmail without 3rd party software!
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:26:23PM -0800, Hemal Detroja wrote:
Posted by Raj on Wednesday 17/Nov/2004, @03:57
Folks,
I am newbie. I am able to use Kmail to access HOTMAIL directly
without any other software!
For Incoming emails:
Select : POP3
Host : pop2hot.com
{ Feed your username and password }
Extra Check What the sever supports
For Outgoing emails:
Select : SMTP
Host : hotmail.com
Security Check what the server Supports
I didn't use Hotway, or other tools!
All the best!
Interesting, according to Network Solutions pop2hot.com is available. I
thought it a good idea to check who owns that domain before feeding it a
username and password.
hot2pop.com is also available if you're interested.
Todd
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Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:46:29PM +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - y'all heard me rave on and on about XFce4 time and time again, but now, well, I'm blown. It's gotten to 4.2 release candidate 1 - and of course, I had to download it and install it up over the top of what I already had (er, well, the previous version) - and I can only say: I'M BLOODY IMPRESSED. (again) Stephen, Do you remember what version of XFce4 you were on before? I think I'm on a 4.1 beta, but I haven't been keeping up with it as religiously as before. Courier IMAP, bogofilter, and SquirrelMail have been occupying my time lately. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT ssl certs
I recently bought an ssl certificate for a domain and everything is cool with browsing the site with https://. Now I'm reading up on Courier IMAP and using SSL with it--can I use the same certificate for web and IMAP, or do I have to buy another one? Todd -- Name that tune #14: There's a room in back with a view of the sea, where she sits and dreams, does she dream of me? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:12:35AM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Best of luck in your future efforts with Mandrake, remember we're always here to help (though, running 9.2 still, I've been about as useful as tits on a bull around here of late...). I know what you mean, I'm still on 9.1 cause I don't want to mess with upgrading on account of server stuff. Who on the list would win the prize for running the oldest version of MDK? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MSN Gaming Zone with Linux?
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0800, Sevatio wrote: Is it possible to play games at MSN Gaming Zone with Linux? I'm tired of a friend of mine's W2k pc that keeps getting infected despite Norton Antivirus. So I'm going to try and switch him over to Linux but he likes playing in MSN's Gaming Zone. Sevatio My sister-in-law had a similar problem. The whole family swore they'd never use IE again, but my sis-in-law apparently likes to play cards on MSN. It wouldn't work with Mozilla. She switched to Yahoo games, which did work with Mozilla. Still virus-free. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:40:00AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:16:40PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Todd Slater wrote: I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on cgi by adding the ExecCGI in Directory /home/*/public_html which if I understand is not secure? What's the standard practice for doing this with users and virtual hosts? Todd Create a cgi-bin directory in parallel to your docs direcory and make that the directory that is able to exec cgi scripts. Directory /home/*/cgi-bin and then use ScriptAlias to make it available: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/*/cgi-bin That should get you on the right track. Thanks, Franki. I ended up having to add another line to httpd.conf to get it to work: ScriptAliasMatch ^/~([^/]*)/cgi-bin/(.*) /home/$1/cgi-bin/$2 Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no protein, no booze or nicotine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi
I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on cgi by adding the ExecCGI in Directory /home/*/public_html which if I understand is not secure? What's the standard practice for doing this with users and virtual hosts? Todd -- Name that tune #4: I said, There is no justice! as they led me out the door; and the judge said, This isn't a court of justice, son, this is a court of law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:29:45PM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any suggestion? This is one area that I prefer Windows (RSSBandit--still open source but based on .NET). As far as I'm concerned there's nothing in Linux that approaches the Windows alternatives, I used to use Liferea but find it painful to use now. Straw is even worse. The Syndigator based on GTK1.x was not bad--nice and fast used in conjunction with Dillo. There's also Firefox's Live Bookmarks and/or Sage (for regular reading Sage is better), and Opera's recent efforts include RSS capability, though I'm not crazy about the interface. Good luck, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ProFTPD?
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:41:20AM -0500, Eric Scott wrote: Heya. I have a server at work running Mandrake 9.2. I'm administering it remotely through webmin/vnc/ssh and all that fun stuff. Here's the problem: I want to set up my /var/www/html directory with limited FTP access. I can't figure out or find howtos on the webmin module for proftpd, and apparently I don't know how to work the /etc/proftp.conf file because the changes I make seem to make no difference. Can anybodye give me a basic howto to set this up? I'm not a very experienced linux user or server admin, so don't get to techy on me. :-) Thanx, ES You might consider not even running FTP, since you're running ssh you might as well use secure copy (scp). You can add your user to the apache group and assuming the group has write access to /var/www/html you can do: scp filetobecopied [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/html There's probably a gui out there for this (try freshmeat). I say to use scp just because if you can use it there's no need to run another service. But if you must run ftp, check out the sample configs on the proftpd site http://www.proftpd.org/docs/example-conf.html. I believe what you're looking for is the DefaultRoot directive. You may need to set up a group that has write access to /var/www/html and set default root to ~ (chroot/jail) for all users *except* members of your new group. Don't hold me to it cause it's been awhile since I messed with proftp. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache and blocking Referrer spam
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:19:23PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: Don't know if anyone else here is running Apache with web logs, or 'blogs' and has had trouble with referrer spam but I thought I would mention my latest experience. snip If anyone else is having this problem and runs Apache to host their own site, I can quickly show you how to do this (add a few lines to httpd2.conf) and you can block these out yourself. Yup, please do.. I have had about 200 comment spams added to my site in the last couple of months.. so I setup my router withi a blacklist and I've just been adding the nasty IP to that blacklist. I also changed the blog over to comment moderation.. I'd prefer a better answer though, so I'd love to read about yours. In fact if you like I can even turn it into something of a tute and put it on the site for others to find. I have issues with comment spam but not referrer spam, but if I understand Bryan's strategy it will not block comment spammers, right? WordPress has some nice comment spam-fighting features built in, but I have yet to find the perfect blogging software. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache and blocking Referrer spam
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:36:26AM -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 08:36, Todd Slater wrote: I have issues with comment spam but not referrer spam, but if I understand Bryan's strategy it will not block comment spammers, right? WordPress has some nice comment spam-fighting features built in, but I have yet to find the perfect blogging software. I am currently using B2Evolution and it does have the ability to block domains from both referrers and comments within the blog. Of course, they can create another domain but it is obviously trivial to add additional domains to the block list which will get expensive for them eventually. B2evolution also has a built-in spam block feature that downloads shared lists of other B2evolution users so that you can update your list and proactively block referrer and comment spam. You might give it a look. Cool, I used to use b2evolution (after b2/cafelog) but was under the impression development had stopped and everybody was jumping to WordPress, which I currently use. WP has comment moderation--comments can be held based on number of links, occurrence of words, and ip addys. The idea of d/l'ing a shared list sounds like a good idea. I'm trying out pLog at work, which has regex and bayesian capability, but unfortunately no forced moderation. Thanks for the info, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 08:30:24PM -0400, g2 wrote: Hi folks, I am in a situation where I would like to move all the saved messages I have in KDE mail into a program under windows. I think I might be using the mozilla thunderbird. I do have a fat32 partition that I can see from both the linux and windows environments. Can anyone explain how I might go about importing the mail from KDE under linux into thunderbird in windows xp? Thanks a bunch! Gideon If you've got the bandwidth and time, you could just tag all the mails you want transferred to your Winders setup and use the bounce feature available in most MUA's. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing address-books
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:05:49PM +0800, Julius Suarez wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:51:01 +0800, Julius Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thinking out loud here - how abount linking the bookmarks.html in Linux partition file to the bookmarks.html in Windows partition. Tested sharing mozilla and firefox bookmarks.html file via link on my Linux box - it didn't work. :) Because I think mozilla will update its bookmark.html, thereby removing the link. What you'll have to do is share a profile. I do this at work by specifying a network location for my profile. If you want to share this on both Windows and Linux, I assume you'll have to create a FAT partition; then, run profile manager in both OS's and specify the location on your FAT partition. I learned about setting this up on one of the Mozillazine forums, you might try there. I believe the newer Firefox (possibly the nightlies) have a roaming profile that can be updated via FTP or WebDAV, but that leaves you SOL for mail. HTH, Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:48:26PM -0500, Chris wrote: I installed Afterstep 2.0 yesterday, I like the looks, but it will take some figuring out after all these years of using KDE. Question I have is adding AS to my login manager. I've added 08AfterStep to my /etc/X11/wmsession.d file as such: NAME=AFTERSTEP DESC=Afterstep EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep SCRIPT: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep I also modified /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and added AS after IceWM: SessionTypes=KDE,GNOME,WindowMaker,Enlightenment,BlackBox,XFce,IceWM,AfterStep,failsafe,default Afterstep shows up on the login manager, however selecting it opens IceWM instead. From looking at the /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM script I have everything in the right place but it won't load. I have an $HOME/.xinitrc file which contains the following: #!/bin/sh exec afterstep So, can someone lead me down the correct path? I'm sure its easy but I just can't seem to locate the problem. I believe the NAME you gave in wmsession.d is case-sensitive, so in kdmrc you have AfterStep where is should be AFTERSTEP. At least I think. Todd -- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. -Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:41:06PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 05:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: So, can someone lead me down the correct path? I'm sure its easy but I just can't seem to locate the problem. I believe the NAME you gave in wmsession.d is case-sensitive, so in kdmrc you have AfterStep where is should be AFTERSTEP. At least I think. Todd Thanks Todd, I've got both the same but chksession -l still shows this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# chksession -l KDE GNOME WindowMaker Enlightenment BlackBox XFce IceWM AfterStep default failsafeAfterStep default failsafe Think I'll just wait on AfterStep until I'm totally familiar with the docs, then I'll give it a try. Oh one more thing I just remembered, 01-18 is reserved my MDK, so if you're adding a new wm you need to start at 19. DK if that'll make any difference or not. Todd -- Name that tune #21: I live in the ghetto, you just come to visit me around election time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:31:20AM -0400, Lanman wrote: LX, whack Lyvim is one of the few who maintains a relatively even composure compared to some of us and constantly offers help, suggestions and tactful nudges as to list etiquette instead of attacking newbies or welcoming them with criticism. I'd like to think that guys like LX will make this list a favourite spot for newbies for a long time to come and will ultimately lead to a better experience for most of us. snip Are you insane? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gDesklets
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:39:52PM +1000, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 20:27, Thereidos wrote: W li?cie z ?ro, 29-09-2004, godz. 09:07, Stephen Kühn pisze: ... gDesklets stuff ... Don't bother. Why? Because it's CRAP software and doesn't work easily out of the box (as is most Gnome based software) and newbies shouldn't have to be forced to LEARN to do something they shouldn't be doing - and the documentation sucks and the support for GDesklets sucks and try to get a straight answer from ANYONE in a Gnome IRC channel let alone a mailing list...hence the reason I gave up on playing with GDesklets in the first place...if GKrellm doesn't do it, then frag it. I don't want it - and I don't want to hog precious system resources on something that doesn't do what I want in the first five minutes that I've installed it. Hence, CRAP and don't bother. YOU might have more patience, but I have come to rely on software that does what it is supposed to do without requiring a rocket science certificate in order to either run it or configure it. THAT is one of the major stumbling blocks in the Gnome project (for the past three years, mind you) Off my soapbox now...handing it over to Lyv or Joe.. I come from a long tradition of hating popular things (and low and behold, XFce4 might be a victim of its own success), but I just d/l'd and burned gnoppix 0.8, which runs gnome 2.8, and it is sweet. The UI is really polished and it's super intuitive. Now I've never tried to update all of gnome myself, and I can say I'm always terrified of installing or updating any package that has a g in it (for gnome) because I know one package can utterly muck up an entire system. Which is why I'm considering a switch to Slack or some other distro that is a little more up-to-date with Gnome. After all, MDK 10.1 will come with gnome 2.6, right? I'm pretty sure I'll always hate KDE, but gnome's like that girl you dated in high school and you wonder what could have been ... I wish MDK took a little more interest in Gnome--not a complaint, mind you, cause I'm not willing or able to do it, and most distros tend to emphasize one or the other. But note on the lists how many posts there are about upgrading to KDE 3.whogivesashit compared to gnome. Stephen, I trust your past experience with gnome, but I'm betting on not even needing to get on IRC or join a list for gnome support. If I'm wrong, I'll be sure to post another rant. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:38:41PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:31:48 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: I second that. Mileage varies on other players, mplayer always just works on all sorts of distro's and plays almost anything you throw at it. I'd be way pleased if you or anyone could tell me why this isn't working: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/ ...and yet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$rpm -qa | grep codecs win32-codecs-1.4-2plf real-codecs-1.2-1plf xanim-codecs-1.0-3plf and: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$rpm -qa | grep mplayer mplayer-1.0-0.pre3.14plf mplayer-gui-1.0-0.pre3.15plf mplayerplugin-0.80-1mdk mplayer-skins-1.3-8mdk When I try to view a clip, I get 'loading movie...', but that turns out to be a damned lie! ;-) It's a conspiracy perpetrated by the U.S. and Canadian governments and a handful of these two nations' most powerful telecommunications companies. After all, what is said on one end is never exactly the same as what comes out on the other. Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no protein, no booze or nicotine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT - Mac OSX anyone?
Anyone on the list use a Mac with OSX? I'm about to get one at work and was wondering how easy it is to use the FreeBSD under the hood--such as for installing apps I'm accustomed to like vcdimager, instiki, and others. Todd -- Name that tune #7: A lot of people don't have much food on their table, but they got a lot of forks and knives; well they gotta cut something. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] normalizing mp3 files across directories
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:16:51 +, PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 12:27 -0400, Todd Slater wrote: You should just be able to point to all of your directories from the command line, such as normalize -m /path/to/dir1/*.wav /path/to/dir2/*.wav snip many thanks for the tips No prob, I thought about it some more and it should be as simple as normalize -m `find /top/directory/to/recurse -type f -iname '*.wav'` Note that those are backticks and not quotes. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] normalizing mp3 files across directories
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:44:01PM +, PM wrote: I generally use normalize to standardise the volumes of mp3 files, but this will only work with one directory at a time. I want to transfer a collection of mp3 files in many directories to a DVD to play via DVD player. Has anybody any pointers as to how I might achieve this? pm You should just be able to point to all of your directories from the command line, such as normalize -m /path/to/dir1/*.wav /path/to/dir2/*.wav You might even be able to put all of the directories in a text file and do something like normalize -m `cat directorylist` You might even be able to automatically generate the directory list with something like find /path/to/start/looking -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 2 directorylist (then you'd have to add /*.wav to the end) Or, just recurse a top level directory to find all the wav's with something like find /top/level -type f -iname '*.wav' and use those results as input to normalize. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:34:45PM -0500, Eric Scott wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. From a fellow anit-MS folk, ES Speak for yourself, I think you're the only anit-MS folk here. Hell, I don't even know what that means. t Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players
My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! I thought I'd best back it up so I tried ripping it with cdparanoia to encode to flac, but it just hangs with all sorts of problems. So, why the diff? Any way to rip it from my stereo's cd? (Technics SL-PG480A) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Organizing the information got from mailing lists
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:22:38PM +0200, Thereidos wrote: W li?cie z nie, 12-09-2004, godz. 20:16, Todd Slater pisze: How about your own personal learning wiki? Instiki is really good for this, I've set one up here: http://wiki.webonaire.com/cheatsheetki/ http://www.instiki.org Todd I've got the problem trying to run instiki. All there's said about it on it's web page is download and run with ruby. Doing so I get: [2004-09-12 23:12:32] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2004-09-12 23:12:32] INFO ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i586-linux-gnu] [2004-09-12 23:12:32] WARN TCPServer Error: Address already in use - bind(2) [2004-09-12 23:12:32] INFO Your WEBrick server is now running on http://localhost:2500 And when trying to connect : Internal Server Error No such file or directory - /home/therek/downloads/instiki-0.9.1/storage/2500 Am I supposed to make all the files myself? Yes, it's a bug in the installer that the storage/2500 directory doesn't get created. You'll connect using by appending the port number on the end of your address, i.e. http://localhost:2500 unless you use the mod_rewrite trick. Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Organizing the information got from mailing lists
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 04:39:33PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to collect and organize some useful tips that I can get from mailing lists. I am thinking about a word processor or a database. Which one is more appropriate? Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul How about your own personal learning wiki? Instiki is really good for this, I've set one up here: http://wiki.webonaire.com/cheatsheetki/ http://www.instiki.org Todd -- Name that tune #12: Let's stop off at the Metroplex, that little dancer's got some style; she's the one I'll be waiting for at the stage door. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] fuji finepix in LM10
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:47:21AM -0400, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup my Fuji Finepix 2400 in LM10. I did not have any problem doing this in earlier versions and in 9.1 there was an automatic setup. However in 10 it seems that I have to set it up manually again. I have made a /mnt/camera directory and put a line in fstab to use it /dev/sda0 /mnt/camera vfat ro,noauto,user 0 0 However when I try to mount /mnt/camera it gives me this mount: special device /dev/sda0 does not exist I seem to remember that someone on this list uses a Fuji. Can anyone help me out with this? I have included the results of more /proc/scsi/scsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] bill]# more /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Fujifilm Model: FinePix 1400Zoom Rev: 1000 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 I know that it is improperly recognized but this has always been so, even in all earlier Mandrake versions. It still usually works great as a simple usb mass storage device. TIA, Bill W. I've never understood completely the order of devices; I usually just play with them until I hit one that works. This is because with the Fuji camera and a 2-in-1 card reader, depending on rebooting and other cosmic factors the numbers get borked. Anyway, you might try /dev/sda1 which is what I use for mine--never seen /dev/sd0 that I'm aware of, but then I'm on 9.1 here. Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nvu rpms
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:47:17AM -0700, julie wrote: Has anyone tried using the WYSIWYG html editor Nvu? There is now an rpm for Mandrake 10 available and, before installing the program I was wondering if anyone had experienced any glitches. Julie I've use it on Windows; it's basically Netscape/Mozilla composer, so if you're familiar with either of those, you'll know how to use it. I believe it has some cool stuff for publishing and css that composer didn't have, though. Also, please send a new mail to the list if you want to start a new topic; replying to a mail and erasing the topic and putting in your own is called hijacking. It messes up threads for those of us who sort by threads, and your message is often unlikely to be read by those that can help because if it's part of an irrelevant thread, I typically delete the entire thread with a keystroke. Thanks! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:31:39PM -0400, Terence Golightly wrote: List, Below is a cmdln run of gmplayer. Please note the four or five last lines and well a few in between: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ gmplayer snip VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300-0 for writing, trying /dev/em8300 instead.VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300 for writing as well! Bailing. Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. snip I always specify -vo x11 when running mplayer. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open office or Mozilla firefox - and no way of installing rpms or removing the lastest rpm i installed before the reboot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:19:30AM -0500, flesh.99 wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:13:27 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open office or Mozilla firefox - and no way of installing rpms or removing the lastest rpm i installed before the reboot. Wow list Nazi'ing with RE and replying above the previous text. You oughta read the link you posted! Yeah, I top-posted because the content of the original message was irrelevant. I actually should have snipped the entire message. You may want a refresher on the section on pruning yourself: 4. Pruning Responses and Long Threads * When responding to a previous post, please prune (snip) text from the post that is not needed to understand your contribution to the thread. * Don't be afraid to trim excess verbiage from the thread when it starts to become too long. Quoting only those parts of the e-mail you are replying to is acceptable. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mail command in shell script: how to attach a file?
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: Manually it's possible to copy the text from the file via ~r /name/of/the/file.txt But: How do I force 'mail' in a shell script to send a file as attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at the end of the week I would like to know quotas on a remote server) (resending because I didn't see it come through--apologies for dupes) Have it read the file using I/O redirect ( and ) mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /name/of/file.txt Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:21:11PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 3:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! One of the things about ogg players is that there aren't any car players that will play them. Sort of hacks me off, but I reripped my 20Gb to mp3s to satisfy my need last fall. I have tried my brothers ipod FM sending unit, and it stunk in my car. Sliding all over the place and reception was lousy. Mp3s in my car are my #1 need, so ogg support, while I would prefer to use oggs, is not that important. Rob I use the iMP-350 in the car. It's cd-based, which kind of sucks, and oggs have to be of a certain bitrate, but for somebody who refuses to play mp3's it's about the cheapest option. (got mine for $50) Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no protein, no booze or nicotine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:24:34PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:32:26 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: No not specifically, if you don't have any money to spend on software, you use free software. In a way smarter:it's smarter than downloading illegal versions of Microsoft ware. But Asians and Africans still have some good pot of politeness in comparance to the average western arrogant PC user. So let me see if I got this straight. You are saying that entire majority of PC users in the western world are arrogant? Terrible, just terrible, to generalize like that, yes. He should have specified *Americans* ;-) My wife is quick to point out that she is American, even though she is not a US citizen ;) Todd -- Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. -Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Archives
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:14:13PM +0200, Alan wrote: Good day all I asked a while ago about setting up a squid proxy server to do authentication and somebody gave me a couple of URL's to look at and being an idiot I did not save them. I tried looking in the archives but the dates only go to 2003-11.. Is this list still archived and if so where. Alternatively you could just point me to the proxy authentication how to guide again. Many Thanks I promise I will save the URL this time. For your archive needs note that the weekly Welcome to Newbie mail contains links to the archives. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd autoplay non totem
Is there a way to have dvd's autoplay without using totem? I tried to get mplayer to be the default by going to config kde somethingorother file associations, mp* and moved mplayer up above totem. When I insert a dvd now it doesn't autoplay. Yes, this is kde on mdk10.0, for a friend. Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:50:24AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to resize a batch of icons all at once? I've been looking at Imagemagick, but can't get the command-line to work properly. There seems to be some options or info missing from the Man-Page for it, and I can't find any other info on the correct procedure. I have several folders of images which need to be resized into several different sizes, so being able to resize recursively through several folders and sub-folders would be handy as well. Imagemagick is made up of a bunch of commands like mogrify and convert (there are more, I think). A lot of times I just use mogrify to resize, but convert will do resizing too. The basic command for resizing is: mogrify -geometry WxH image.png where W is width and H is height (in pixels). Note that this will overwrite the image, so if you want to keep the originals, be sure to copy them. If the aspect ratio doesn't allow you to resize in the dimensions you want, use ! to force the size (distortion will occur), i.e. -geometry 40x35! . Doing this in batch depends on the picture names and whether you've got spaces in the names (or the folders). With no spaces in names or folders, something like for image in `find /path/to/search -type f -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*.png'` # (whatever extension(s) you need) do mogrify -geometry 16x16 $image done should do the trick. Find will recurse directories for you; the only issue is if filenames/folders have spaces in them. Todd -- Anybody but a Republican or Democrat 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:37:43AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:38, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:50, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to resize a batch of icons all at once? I've been looking at Imagemagick, but can't get the command-line to work properly. There seems to be some options or info missing from the Man-Page for it, and I can't find any other info on the correct procedure. I have several folders of images which need to be resized into several different sizes, so being able to resize recursively through several folders and sub-folders would be handy as well. TIA, Lanman If there is some way you can simply identify the size 'sed' probably could do it. Hoyt, I know the exact sizes and there are 4 of them. All these images each need to be resized to the four fixed sizes. Can you give me some info re - sed? I need to be able to input a command for multiple images at one time, and hopefully so have sed send the output to 4 different folders - 1 for each of the sizes. TIA Lanman I'm not sure how icons are sized. If there is a 'size:40' then you can convert that to any size you want by finding /size: 40/ and replacing that with /size: 50/ any time it occurs in as many files as exist say you have Chapter01 thru Chapter50, then every regexp can be changed to newregexp by 'sed'. Its been a number of years since I have used sed and I dont remember the syntax but it goes something like this: cat /dirpath/* | sed /size: 40/r/size: 50/ tee /newdirpath sed is a stream editor and cat is necessary to stream the data. Do not use the syntax I have shown more may be required or different may be required I just dont remember. See man sed or info sed. Thanks Hoyt. Will give it a shot and send you any info I find or the command that works for your information. sed is a stream editor and will not work with images. Todd -- Name that tune #21: I live in the ghetto, you just come to visit me around election time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Another question about scripts at start-up
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:04:49PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have placed a script in /.kde/Autostart to be run at start-up for a specific user. Is there some way of having the same script to be run at the start-up for that specific user, independently of the chosen desktop environment? Thanks in advance, XFce4 and others I think look in ~/Desktop/Autostart. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:13:05PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... ... Suddenly, when she tries to send an e-mail (from within Mozilla, of course, I'm not THAT stupid), up pops a message from our ISP saying that the box is compromized, accordingly the smtp-server won't accept the mail. In fact, her IP was blacklisted. Spybot search and destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html Does a pretty good job. (and its free open source) Just to clarify, it's free as in beer but not as in speech--binary only download, no access to source. Some of the other apps you mention might be in the same category but I don't know--just wanted to point out that there are 2 kinds of free. In Windows it's much harder to find free (both kinds) of software. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning files to a cd from the console
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:39:59PM -0400, SiNiStEr Nation wrote: I've installed Mandrake about week to two weeks ago and slowly learning the system. My question is I have several files that I have downloaded, and was wondering what's the process of burning these file to a cd? I know I could use K3b, but I would like to learn on how to do things using the console or the command line(interested learning some old school stuff before the desktop enviroments came into linux). I had already learn how to compile programs that isn't in a RPM. Google is your friend. http://www.sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/cdcommands/ I'm also making a site of command line stuff that I'm always forgetting on a wiki; you're welcome to contribute as you learn: http://wiki.webonaire.com/cheatsheetki Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:58:07AM -0500, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:38:24 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png Todd, I get the message clevername.homeip.net could not be found Working on the server or??? FYI Hmm, may have been something temporary, everything seems OK here now? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Boot from UsB or Firewire.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:05:09PM -0700, Ayoub890 wrote: Hi, Can LM10 be booted from a USB or Firewire HD? Thanx, Ayoub As long as your BIOS supports it. Todd -- rm -rf Whitehouse/Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screenshots
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:13:51PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Gettin' bored with my current selection of Pekwm themes, wondering if some people can post some screens of their WM for me to get some ideas, or otherwise steal/hack at. Cheers! (Please no candy-assed KDE or Aqua-been-done-to-death stuff) :-D http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png Look out, it's over 300K. And no windows for you to see :) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:29:22AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Does somebody know about a program for giving us the number of occurrences of each word in a text file? Thanks in advance, Paul I don't know of a program that does it--perhaps it's built in to a word processor? You can use a few commands to accomplish the same thing. 1. Get words on a line of their own, and get rid of punctuation, and get everything the same case. tr ' \011' '\012\012' originalfile |tr -d [:punct:]|tr [A-Z] [a-z]|sort masterwordlist (that should all be one line) 2. Get unique words to count from masterwordlist. uniq masterwordlist uniqwords 3. Count the number of times a word in uniqwords appears in masterwordlist. for line in `cat uniqwords` ; do echo $line : `grep -c $line masterwordlist` countedwords ; done (that should all be one line) There's probably more n better ways to do it, but that should work. Modify to suit your needs, like if you want to distinguish between A and a. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:37:25AM -0600, Russ Kepler wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:45 am, Todd Slater wrote: 2. Get unique words to count from masterwordlist. uniq masterwordlist uniqwords 3. Count the number of times a word in uniqwords appears in masterwordlist. for line in `cat uniqwords` ; do echo $line : `grep -c $line masterwordlist` countedwords ; done (that should all be one line) You might consider combining these steps with uniq -c Ah, yes! Much easier, thank you! There's probably more n better ways to do it, but that should work. Modify to suit your needs, like if you want to distinguish between A and a. Toss a 'tr [A-Z] [a-z]' into the mix for that. You end up with something like this: tr ' \011' '\012\012' text.txt | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | sort | uniq -c I did that in step 1. I suppose you could also just use the -i switch to uniq to ignore case, so we might end up with tr ' \011' '\012\012' text.txt | tr -d [:punct:] | sort | uniq -ic Now, how to sort the results of that so it's as we would expect, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. instead of the computer way? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:30:25AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Does somebody know about a program for giving us the number of occurrences of each word in a text file? Thanks in advance, Paul I am not at my Linux box at the moment, but if I remember right, the command you want it wc. Close, but wc only returns the number of bytes, words, or lines in a file, not the number of occurrences of individual words. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] newbie archive
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:57:51PM -0400, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie mailing list. TIA Paul I have the best luck with http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2 Thanks for asking. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] w, who, users -- where are they?
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:19:09AM -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote: Hi all. I don't seem to have the commands w, who, and users available on my system. Or at least, they don't seem to be giving the anticipated output. Did I misconfigure something during installation? [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ w 11:18:53 up 11:06, 0 users, load average: 0.13, 0.33, 0.30 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ who [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ users [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ Thanks, Clint What security level are you running? Todd -- Name that tune #19: On the counter by your keys was a book of numbers and your remedies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Auto-completion for the command line
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:47:26PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Is there some program to provide auto-completion for the command line (bash)? What exactly are you looking for? Thanks, Mikkel. I looking for a way of getting auto-completion according to history. For instance, one types ftp ftp.in.nowhere.com and when, afterwards, one types ftp ftp.i the mechanism of auto-completion should write ftp ftp.in.nowhere.com for you. Is it clear now? Paul Google is your friend. The up arrow key will cycle through bash commands in history. Contol+r start typing command will search bash history and autocomplete for you. See http://tinyurl.com/7xaxn which was found from http://tinyurl.com/3sbp5. -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:02:19PM -0700, Jason Riker wrote: Todd, I've had success installing Mandrake on both the Presario 710 and 2110. The only problem I had was ACPI and MDK10 has corrected that nicely, although Fedora has slightly better ACPI support (fans respond more to system) for my 2110 laptop. I think you'll be very happy with your Mandrake install. Especially if you participate on the mailing list as well as in #mandrake on IRC. Thanks Jason, I was hoping some issues may have been addressed in more recent releases. If I have any problems I'll be sure to post them. Todd On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 07:11, Todd Slater wrote: My compadre has a Compaq Presario 900 with DVD and WinDVD is all mucked up--it keeps giving a create overlay failed error. I googled and tried a bunch of things to fix it, to no avail. I could get DVD's to play using PowerDVD, but it's just a trial and costs $50. I suggested installing Mandrake for playing DVD's, but I'm having second thoughts because my experience with Compaq several years ago was a nightmare of non-standard, Compaq only crap. After googling some more on the Presario 900 and linux, I see that it is possible but might require some work. Most of those docs were for older releases--RH8, MDK 8.2-9.0. I'm just wondering if it might be easier now with a newer release, and if anybody here has gotten MDK running on one of these machines. -- Name that tune #8: I walked down there and ended up in one of them coffee houses on the block, I'd get on the stage and sing and play, the man there said come back some other day--you sound like a hillbilly, we want folksingers here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop
My compadre has a Compaq Presario 900 with DVD and WinDVD is all mucked up--it keeps giving a create overlay failed error. I googled and tried a bunch of things to fix it, to no avail. I could get DVD's to play using PowerDVD, but it's just a trial and costs $50. I suggested installing Mandrake for playing DVD's, but I'm having second thoughts because my experience with Compaq several years ago was a nightmare of non-standard, Compaq only crap. After googling some more on the Presario 900 and linux, I see that it is possible but might require some work. Most of those docs were for older releases--RH8, MDK 8.2-9.0. I'm just wondering if it might be easier now with a newer release, and if anybody here has gotten MDK running on one of these machines. Todd -- If those in charge of our society--politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television--can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Switch to text mode
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:58:15AM -0400, Ankit Malik wrote: How to switch to text mode /sbin/init 3 isnt working for me You change the default init level in /etc/inittab. Todd -- Name that tune #1: Is there gas in the car? Yes there's gas in the car! I think the people down the hall know who you are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:58:40AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:42:32 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:01AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? I have two gb that I just noticed a sn in the tag. No particular care about it, but it seems intrusive or prohibitive, or something. Use something to edit the tags, like vorbiscomment (cli) or easytag(gui). Todd -- Name that tune #16: I've got plenty of java and Chesterfield Kings, but I feel like crying. Serial number doesn't show in easytag unless I'm missing something. You say the sn is in the id3 tag? Does vorbiscomment show it? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image viewers that display GIMP .xcf format files?
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 07:27:59PM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, all. Can anyone recommend an image viewer in the same vein as gThumb or gqview that displays GIMP .xcf files without hassle? If the GIMP 2 includes a thumbnail browser like Photoshop's, that doesn't necessarily solve my problem-- since I have yet to successfully compile anything from source under Mandrake 9.2, I'm still waiting for a GIMP 2 RPM that will work with 9.2 (if anyone knows where I can find one, though, that would be great-- with or without an integrated file browser. ;) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're after, but here are a few thoughts. GIMP generates thumbnail previews of files you've edited in GIMP in a subfolder the image lives in, .xvpics. You can enter that directory and view the thumbnails with display, for example. Display will show .xcf files, though of course it can't handle layers and complicated stuff. File Open in GIMP will show a preview when you click a picture if you've edited in GIMP beore. If not, click the picture name and click Generate Preview and it'll create a thumbnail for you. If you're in a directory of images, you can do: display 'vid:*' to display a thumbnail sheet of all files. Middle-clicking displays the image full-size. If you want to just show jpg's, the command would be display 'vid:*.jpg' You get the idea. HTH, Todd -- Anybody but a Republican or Democrat 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:01AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? I have two gb that I just noticed a sn in the tag. No particular care about it, but it seems intrusive or prohibitive, or something. Use something to edit the tags, like vorbiscomment (cli) or easytag (gui). Todd -- Name that tune #16: I've got plenty of java and Chesterfield Kings, but I feel like crying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive
I'm auctioning some hard drives and I want to wipe them and format them. I had all kinds of trouble creating boot floppies for some reason--even though no errors were reported I couldn't boot them. I ended up having success with making a bootable cd. So I'm using autoclave to wipe the hard drive; is there a linux-based tool (bootable floppy or cd) I can use to format the hd? What flavor should I format it as? Do I need anything other than fdisk? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] a program to email upon website changes?
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:47:00PM -0400, g2 wrote: Clint, Todd, Thanks for the suggestions. I will check out the scripting tools you mentioned, however they will probably be beyond my skill level. Regarding Mozilla's ability to watch a website, yes I have explored that feature. BTW, my interest in this has to do with a passion for windsurfing and a related interest in information about weather conditions. While there are many weather related services available on the internet, I have the best forcast for me is my local NOAA forcast, which you can see here: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/BTV/RECBTV It is a text only page, as I said the web based services I have seen so far don't seem to be able to deal with anything except html pages. NOAA updates this forcast once or twice a day, as conditions change. I check it at home, but wanted to see if I could get it emailed to me when it changes. That way I could recieve the email as a text message on my cell phone. Thanks again for your help. Your first email got me curious so I tried it out as a sort of proof of concept. Here's the really rough script, modified to take into account the URL of the page you're looking at. Copy and paste into your editor, make it executable (chmod +x filename) and run it with filename url Just modify the second line--you should point to a non-existing directory or an empty one. The idea is to later be able to add more than one site, but I haven't thought that far ahead yet :) The email part is left to you for homework. You could add it to cron and have it run every x minutes. (I wrote a similar script awhile back to monitor our Blackboard server when we had issues with it; I just grepped for a phrase that signified the server needed restarting and ran it every 15 minutes and got emails if there was a problem and nothing if it was OK.) Todd #!/bin/bash myRoot=/home/todd/.changefiles # --change this!! myDist=original myUrl=$1 # make sure this directory is empty (or non-existent) mkdir -p $myRoot #get page wget -P $myRoot -U Mozilla $myUrl cd $myRoot # ignore next line; but needed for files like index.html #rootFile=`ls *.*` rootFile=RECBTV echo rootFile is $rootFile rootName=`echo $rootFile|cut -d . -f 1` echo rootName is $rootName myOrigName=$rootName-$myDist if [ ! -f $myOrigName ] ; then mv $rootFile $myOrigName else # compare files, use exit status from cmp cmp -s $rootFile $myOrigName if [ $? == 0 ] ; then echo files are identical elif [$? == 1 ] ; then echo files are different else echo there was an error fi rm $myOrigName mv $rootFile $myOrigName fi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bad signatures
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:19:28AM +1000, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 08:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a lot of bad signature messages when I try to install packages from the CD's. Should I be worried? Or is this simply a matter of bad packaging? Brenda Bell Henniker (the only one on earth) New Hampshire (the state with 5 seasons: black fly, tourist, foliage, ski and mud) ... but we're not allowed to shoot the tourists :) The issue is that in New HampSHER, ya ain't allowed to run linux. Hell if ya ain't, ain't the state motto Live free or die? Sounds like a good match to me :) Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] who and users
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:12:03AM -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote: Hi all: I'm new to Mandrake 10 Official, and have config'd my urpmi sources using those at the easyurpmi site. I've run urpmi --auto-select and updated my system. When I run who or users at the terminal, however, I don't get any response. Both of those commands do seem to be on my system, however: [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ which who /usr/bin/who [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ which users /usr/bin/users Why am I not getting any output from those commands? [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ who [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ users [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ w 10:11:16 up 11:26, 0 users, load average: 0.41, 0.29, 0.28 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT It seems um ... unusual to not see any users there! Just a stab in the dark, but are you running a high or paranoid security level? Seems like those are things programs that might be disabled with high security. Maybe it would work as root? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] a program to email upon website changes?
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:52PM -0400, g2 wrote: folks, does anyone know of a program, hopefully, appropriate for a linux/mandrake newbie, that will send an email with the text content of a website I specify. I know there are various web based services that do this, however none that I have found meet my needs. Specifically, the site that i need to track is a simple text page, which some of the web services can't seem to deal with, and I want to check it for changes often, like every 15 minutes, many only offer hourly or even daily checking. Any thoughts? I can't help with an program that will email you, but did you know that Mozilla/Firefox has a feature that will notify you if a bookmarked site you specify is updated? Go to Manage Bookmarks, click the bookmark you're interested in, click Properties, and check out Schedule and Nofify. Also, it should be easy to write a bash script to do what you want--retrieve the page with wget, compare it to the last version by running diff or something, if there's no change do nothing, if there is email yourself an alert. Todd -- Name that tune #13: When they said come down I threw up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 07:26:06AM -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: No you didn't you just don't read things like I do. PCI = Politically Incorrect. Maybe it should be /PC or PC/Not or maybe PIC. Whatever! How about: ! PC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:55:32AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Joe; Not to worry! Your new domain is working, and so is your philosophy! Grin! But you need to update your contacts page,... http://www.freeyourmachine.org/contact.php Just thought I'd let you know. And while I'm on the subject, how's about some dancing girls and more images of Tux? Or maybe that cute little Linspire ditty AND some dancing girls, or some Linux links and some dancing gir,..You get the idea! Grin! Naked dancing girls? Tux is naked, is he not? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Firefox TinyURL extension, was Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:36:56AM +0100, Graham Watkins wrote: http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 If y'all use Firefox and aren't using the TinyURL extension, get it now! This great extension uses the tinyurl site to generate shortened url's that are great for forwarding to friends and lists, something like http://tinyurl.com/22hlv. The extension also saves the sites you've tinyurl-ed. Not to criticize Graham, just a tip! Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:58:39PM -0400, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will not be a LiveCD. Also, it has to be for an RPM-based distro. I think mklivecd, based on MDK, lets you install, i.e. you don't have to run it as a livecd. That's a pretty big think there, meaning I'm not 100% sure, but I built my own livecd with it and joined the list and development is pretty active. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote: /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/ ! If you use the Mandrake packaging system then the root is in fact /var/www/html. I would assume a user compiling Apache from source would have enough sense to know how to configure it! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors
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 getting the same errors when I attempt each, so I assume I have something amiss. The error for one is as follows: *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7]$ checkinstall checkinstall 1.6.0beta2, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. Installing with make install... = Installation results === Copying documentation directory... cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./NEWS': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./TODO': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./README': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./AUTHORS': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./INSTALL': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./ChangeLog': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/./COPYING': No such file or directory cp: preserving times for `/usr/share/doc/giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7/.': No such file or directory Installation failed. Aborting package creation. Cleaning up...OK Bye. [EMAIL PROTECTED] giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7]$ ** Can anyone help me understand what I am missing or doing incorrectly? I think I am using the same method as I used under Mdk9.2 which yielded good results. ./configure and make go smoothly w/o errors. TIA for any feedback on this folks. If your building from source (as using a .tar.gz would suggest), you need to configure and make first. So, ./configure ./make su checkinstall HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:08:47PM +0100, Margot wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:50, Margot wrote: Errr...I'm afraid I have no idea where to find the startup script! And what is chbg? Thanks for your help so far. Margot /etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc Thanks Stephen! Well, here's the file - does it look normal? No mention of chbg, or of nautilus... Since you didn't know where it was we can assume you didn't change anything in it :) Check your ~/Desktop/Autostart and see if you have anything in there that might be starting Nautilus. Also, IIRC XFce4 would launch Nautilus to display its documentation. So, if you ever looked at the help for anything in XFce4, that may have been what launched Nautilus. I may be wrong on that, though. I think now it just uses the browser environment variable for displaying help, which is what has me confused, but I haven't set it up from scratch for so long that I just don't know. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a .jar file
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On their website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: Execute Opcion Font Viewer ... For Linux users use the command java -jar Opcion_v1.1.1.jar in console/terminal/shortcut. When I fire that command in the command line, I get: bash: java: command not found I have Java installed and tested. It's there. Does anybody know how to install/use these kind of applications? Java is probably not in your path so you'll have to give the full path to its location; on my machine it's /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/bin/java. You could probably set up a link in ~/bin or /usr/bin if you wanted. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:14:58AM +0700, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: You should buy mobo with NForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset. If You sound maniac, choose that come with MCP-T Southbridge, the price is little higher. If You have more money, buy two identicel memory that can run dual channel, or Dual Channel Kit. Maybe 256 MB x 2 is very good. But, you should not overclock your new machine. Because I had trouble when FSb is higher than 210 MHz (420 DDR). *I used Abit NF7-s mobo with AXP Tbred-B 1800+.* Thanks for the info, I found several boards with that chipset and SATA capable, not nearly as expensive as I expected. Now off to learn about the different AMD cores and see which one gives the most bang for the buck. Todd | I'm thinking about building a new computer. My needs are | pretty typical home user stuff. I want to network it (haven't | decided on wired or wireless yet), be able to watch TV on it, | and possibly make dvd's from recorded TV. | Basically I've decided I want an AMD processor and to use a | SATA hard drive. | But when I go to look at mobos I'm amazed at the difference | in price from one to another. I'm really clueless about the | different chipsets and which one I'd want. Googling for a | comparison doesn't help too much; do you have to read the | reports on every mobo out there? | For my last builds I used Asus and it has been rock solid; I | think it was a little pricier than other comparable boards at | the time. | So, any suggestions on a mobo/chipset? What's the absolute | lowest cpu you'd go for, considering I'm a cheap bastard? | (I'm fairly happy with my 500MHz amd now, I just need a project.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:10:20PM +0100, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others wont work :( Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc For mp3encode for example I've got the following settings Encoder Command Line: -p 2 -l 3 -b %b %w %m Encoder File Format: ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.ogg If it's encoding to MP3 surely the extention of the file format should be mp3 not ogg? The error message I get is Invalid Encoder Executable Check your encoder config Which is where I am stuck. Help! Elwyn MandrakeSoft can't package mp3 encoders due to licensing restrictions, so you'll have to download and install an mp3 encoder like lame. If you add plf to your urpmi sources I think you can get lame and other mp3 encoders. If you don't need the tunes for a portable player, I'd recommend sticking with ogg anyway; it's better and free. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets
Seems like I only post ot questions lately :( I'm thinking about building a new computer. My needs are pretty typical home user stuff. I want to network it (haven't decided on wired or wireless yet), be able to watch TV on it, and possibly make dvd's from recorded TV. Basically I've decided I want an AMD processor and to use a SATA hard drive. But when I go to look at mobos I'm amazed at the difference in price from one to another. I'm really clueless about the different chipsets and which one I'd want. Googling for a comparison doesn't help too much; do you have to read the reports on every mobo out there? For my last builds I used Asus and it has been rock solid; I think it was a little pricier than other comparable boards at the time. So, any suggestions on a mobo/chipset? What's the absolute lowest cpu you'd go for, considering I'm a cheap bastard? (I'm fairly happy with my 500MHz amd now, I just need a project.) TIA, Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring Klipper to launch Firefox?
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:49:35PM -0500, hackhound wrote: I have configured Klipper with the following line to launch Firefox when a link in a text file is highlighted, and it works if Firefox is not open. The problem is when I try it while Firefox is already open. It's supposed to open in a new window, but instead It opens the profile manager asking me to choose one. I currently am using the default profile, and if I choose that one, it says that it cannot open with that profile because it is currently in use. ps x |grep -q '[f]irefox' firefox -remote openURL(`echo %s`, new-window) || firefox %s Thanks, Hackhound Here's a script I use for such annoyances. #!/bin/bash browserPath=/usr/local/firefox/firefox url=$@ $browserPath -a firefox -remote ping() # $? = false if running, true if not if [ $? = 0 ] ; then exec $browserPath -a firefox -remote openURL($url,new-tab) else $browserPath $url fi exit If you have a pre-0.9 version of firefox, you should drop the -a. Todd -- Name that tune #20: Do you take me for a fool do you think that I don't see that ditch out in the valley that they're digging just for me? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [OT] Keyboard support
Well, sorta OT--I'm looking to get a keyboard and mouse for my kids that are better (ergonomically) than adult-sized keyboards and mice. The manufacturer lists Windows or Mac as requirements, but I'm assuming that means to run the typing software that comes with it, and perhaps to program the programmable mouse buttons. A keyboard and mouse shouldn't require drivers, should they? Todd -- Name that tune #4: I said, There is no justice! as they led me out the door; and the judge said, This isn't a court of justice, son, this is a court of law. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Keyboard support
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:58:51PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Well, sorta OT--I'm looking to get a keyboard and mouse for my kids that are better (ergonomically) than adult-sized keyboards and mice. The manufacturer lists Windows or Mac as requirements, but I'm assuming that means to run the typing software that comes with it, and perhaps to program the programmable mouse buttons. A keyboard and mouse shouldn't require drivers, should they? Todd They normaly don't for the basic functions. It is usualy the special keys that require a driver. Things like volumn control on the keyboard, or one button open a specific web site. From what I understand, you can usualy capture the code these buttons send, and have them do things in Linux as well. When it comes to mice, defining the extra buttons when you have 5 buttons and a scroll wheel can be a chalange, but basic mouse functions usualy isn't. Mikkel Thanks Mikkel, that's what I was hoping to hear. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
