Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.

2004-08-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 06:56, Glenn wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2004 00:17, Frank wrote: Thank you right now my printer has fired up and is printing. Any idea how that 'filter' got set in the first place? Not necessary, be great to pass on the next time someone asks is

[newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread German Guillot
Hello All, I'm on mdk 10 OE. I've put a little bash script in /home/ger/bin/, added that directory to my path, created a crontab for myself with crontab (it's now /var/spool/cron/ger), added my whole $PATH to it, created /etc/cron.allow and even /var/spool/cron/cron.allow with my user name in it,

Re: [newbie] PHP and Mysql Question

2004-08-04 Thread Clint Harshaw
Tony S. Sykes wrote: Not so much a Mandrake question, but I collect data off of a server and I want to show the data in a graph on the web. I assume the best way is import the data into mysql and present it using PHP. Does anybody do this at the moment? How easy difficult is it to show the data

RE: [newbie] PHP and Mysql Question

2004-08-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Thanks Clint, it looks like I could be learning Perl now. Thanks, Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Clint Harshaw Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PHP and Mysql Question

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
German Guillot wrote: Hello All, I'm on mdk 10 OE. I've put a little bash script in /home/ger/bin/, added that directory to my path, created a crontab for myself with crontab (it's now /var/spool/cron/ger), added my whole $PATH to it, created /etc/cron.allow and even /var/spool/cron/cron.allow

RE: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Have you got your scripts path explicit in the crontab? Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of German Guillot Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user On Wed, 4

Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake-Linux?

2004-08-04 Thread Lanman
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 11:43 pm, Lanman wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:22 pm, Lanman wrote: Has anyone heard of a Mandrake install causing a black-screen right at the beginning of the install? I've been trying to install Mandrake 10.0 and 9.2 on an ECS

[newbie] Thight VNC server

2004-08-04 Thread Gregory Croes
Hallo guys, I want install thight vnc server but I dont know how to setup thight vnc with an dynamic IP. Neither I do know if linux has an special program for these kind of services(if you know please tell me). I do have an NO-IP subscription (my dynamic ip services provider). Do someone know

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread German Guillot
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:34:36 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to try adding a PATH=whatever your path is before the first command in the script. Yep, I did that. I tried PATH=/home/ger/bin and when that didn't work PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11: etc, the

Re: [newbie] Thight VNC server

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 12:41 pm, Gregory Croes wrote: Hallo guys, I want install thight vnc server but I dont know how to setup thight vnc with an dynamic IP. Neither I do know if linux has an special program for these kind of services(if you know please tell me). I do have an NO-IP

[newbie] Cleaning after urpmi

2004-08-04 Thread rbsteffes
Is there a way to tell if you have packages that are unused on your system? I, like many, prefer to use urpmi to install software where possible, the problem I'm concerned about is uninstalling packages that got installed as dependencies when I remove the package. In other words: I may

Re: [newbie] Thight VNC server

2004-08-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 12:41 pm, Gregory Croes wrote: Hallo guys, I want install thight vnc server but I dont know how to setup thight vnc with an dynamic IP. Neither I do know if linux has an special program for these kind of services(if you know please tell me). I do have an NO-IP

Re: [newbie] Visor suddenly not syncing

2004-08-04 Thread flesh.99
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:06:57 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up until 5 days ago, my Visor was syncing no problem with J-Pilot, now it just gives me the error: Syncing on device /dev/pilot Press the HotSync button now

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-04 Thread Eric Huff
Eric Huff disseminated the following: That should be added to the list etiquette thingie :-D http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette ROFL! Thanks Eric, but 10 *per list member*??!! I figured 10 *total* was plenty. I should have made that more clear. :) But

Re: [newbie] slow network transfer

2004-08-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:22, JASON JESSO wrote: I am at work where I use a PC with Mandrake Linux 10 on it. I am connected to a switch which is set to auto negotiate and my network card seems to be at 10 half duplex. My sysadmin does not know linux, but says that I should be at 100 full

[newbie] Venom V2MDMP mobo...compatible?

2004-08-04 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
Venom V2MDMP mobo...compatible? Hello, Can anyone tell me if this motherboard (Venom 2MDMP)has any compatibility issues with Linux specifically with Mandrake 10 Powerpack. I recently built a computer with this board and have had many problems (see threads). Just wondering if this may be

Re: [newbie] Visor suddenly not syncing

2004-08-04 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:46:19 -0500 flesh.99 disseminated the following: When you press the sync button on your visor (button for lack of a better word) have a terminal window open and running (as root) tail -f /var/log/messages this will show you what it is doing. It could be just not creating

Re: [newbie] Re: Bad signatures

2004-08-04 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Eric Huff disseminated the following: But it is the TWiki, so it can be changed, even by the zingee... Oh, you don't want me messing with that ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:03:01 up 15:44, 6 users, load average: 1.15, 1.69,

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
German Guillot wrote: On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:34:36 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to try adding a PATH=whatever your path is before the first command in the script. Yep, I did that. I tried PATH=/home/ger/bin and when that didn't work

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread German Guillot
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:07:43 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I did that. I tried PATH=/home/ger/bin and when that didn't work PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11: etc, the whole bash environment variable. Did you add the full path in the script, or in the crontab

Re: [newbie] Visor suddenly not syncing

2004-08-04 Thread flesh.99
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:02:23 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:46:19 -0500 flesh.99 disseminated the following: When you press the sync button on your visor (button for lack of a better word) have a terminal window open and running (as root) tail -f

[newbie] Program to convert wma files into mp3 ones

2004-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some program to convert wma files into mp3 ones? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

RE: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread Bill Shirley
Try putting in the script: DISPLAY=:0.0 at the top after #!/bin/sh HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of German Guillot Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for

[newbie] Mail Server/Virus Protection

2004-08-04 Thread b311b-mandrake
Sort of off topic, but no more so than zings and seasons so I'm going for it. My whole reason for installing Drake 10 was because my current virus protection vendor did another price hike and I decided to bail... I've pretty much decided to do clam (my mail server is qmail), but I thought the

[newbie] PRBOOM -- Now Descent clone won't compile!! hoorah! no Blaaa :(

2004-08-04 Thread Terence Golightly
List, First Thanks to: Ronald Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] for their interest and assistance with respect to my PRBOOM thread. Stephen, I found a (decent?) Descent clone d2x. I downloaded the source and attempted a compile. I have attached the results in a file

Re: [newbie] Mail Server/Virus Protection

2004-08-04 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 08:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sort of off topic, but no more so than zings and seasons so I'm going for it. My whole reason for installing Drake 10 was because my current virus protection vendor did another price hike and I decided to bail... I've pretty much decided

[newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-04 Thread Len Lawrence
This simpleton needs help again! desktop: Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack - stock kernel 2.4.22-10 laptop: Mandrake 9.2 download edition - empkernel 2.4.22 I have a desktop system connected via a D-Link cable modem to BlueYonder and an EmperorLinux laptop with an Orinoco wireless network card. In nine

[newbie] Sound is missing from MDK 9.0

2004-08-04 Thread Chris
I guess my I borked my system subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll try with this one. The other night the system went to hell in a handbasket for some reason. Couldn't get anything to work right. I did an 'upgrade' from the MDK 9.0 cds and then reloaded my backed up KDE setup. However, now I

Re: [newbie] Mail Server/Virus Protection

2004-08-04 Thread frankieh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sort of off topic, but no more so than zings and seasons so I'm going for it. My whole reason for installing Drake 10 was because my current virus protection vendor did another price hike and I decided to bail... I've pretty much decided to do clam (my mail server is

Re: [newbie] Mail Server/Virus Protection

2004-08-04 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:20:20 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: Sort of off topic, but no more so than zings and seasons so I'm going for it. Not offtopic at all AFAIC, but, you know... My whole reason for installing Drake 10 was because my current virus protection vendor

Re: [newbie] Mail Server/Virus Protection

2004-08-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 17:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sort of off topic, but no more so than zings and seasons so I'm going for it. My whole reason for installing Drake 10 was because my current virus protection vendor did another price hike and I decided to bail... I've pretty much

Re: [newbie] Sound is missing from MDK 9.0

2004-08-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:08, Chris wrote: I guess my I borked my system subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll try with this one. The other night the system went to hell in a handbasket for some reason. Couldn't get anything to work right. I did an 'upgrade' from the MDK 9.0 cds and then

[newbie] No sound MDK 9.0

2004-08-04 Thread Chris
Well, I yelled too damm soon I guess. I should have RTFArchives first then I would have gotten a clue. As it was when I did the 'update' it didn't put the right entry in my /etc/modules.conf. As it was luckily I back up /home and /etc and I just copied the working modules.conf file back to

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
German Guillot wrote: I find specifing the path the script expects in the script itself cuts way down on problems, especialy if you later change your path from what it was when you wrote the script. You can usualy depend on /bin;/usr/sbin, but anything else depends on how the script is being

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bill Shirley wrote: Try putting in the script: DISPLAY=:0.0 at the top after #!/bin/sh HTH, Bill This only works if you are running the X server. If another user is running X, you will not be able to connect to the X server, unless you turn off security. It also fails if you are not

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Len Lawrence wrote: This simpleton needs help again! desktop: Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack - stock kernel 2.4.22-10 laptop: Mandrake 9.2 download edition - empkernel 2.4.22 I have a desktop system connected via a D-Link cable modem to BlueYonder and an EmperorLinux laptop with an Orinoco wireless

RE: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-04 Thread linuxstuff
Hi Mate I'm with blueyonder, register your wireless router on blueyonder, before you use it. I guess you have Modem --- router lan setup or something like that. Me Cable Modem -- router -- lan | | wireless

Re: [newbie] PHP and Mysql Question

2004-08-04 Thread yankl
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 06:42 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Not so much a Mandrake question, but I collect data off of a server and I want to show the data in a graph on the web. I assume the best way is import the data into mysql and present it using PHP. Does anybody do this at the moment?

[newbie] Upgrading 10 CE to 10 Official ?

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Gordon
I want to upgrade one of my computers from 10 CE to 10 Official. Should I just change the sources at easy urpmi to do this or is there somthing else i should do ? TIA Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Aug 4 22:38:42 EDT 2004 22:38:42 up 1 day, 2:14, 0 users, load average: 0.01, 0.29, 0.20 I

Re: [newbie] Sound is missing from MDK 9.0

2004-08-04 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 08:04 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:08, Chris wrote: I guess my I borked my system subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll try with this one. The other night the system went to hell in a handbasket for some reason. Couldn't get anything to

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:42 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:52 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: You could check with one of the many online security scanners like www.grc.com I run firestarter here and it only shows itself when you call up the graphical interface. But it does run

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-04 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 09:54 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Dan, I too run FS, no problems with it except that after a boot I have to goto MCC System Services and start it for some reason. When you goto GRC, what does your port scan show? Mine shows all ports closed except for 21, 23 and

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 11:06 pm, Chris wrote: I've done that many a time in the couple of years I've been running FS and the result is always the same, closed but not stealthed. Now correct me if I'm wrong but FS writes its own rules files in the /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh script,

[newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive

2004-08-04 Thread Todd Slater
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;

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive

2004-08-04 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:11 pm, Todd Slater wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive

2004-08-04 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 4, 2004 21:11:09, Todd Slater wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Thight VNC server

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 02:24 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: You should consider tunneling TightVNC through SSH for improved security. http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/VNC/vnc-over-ssh.html Using a dynamic IP service like NO-IP is very easy, you simply connect to your NO-IP name rather than

Re: [newbie] Program to convert wma files into mp3 ones

2004-08-04 Thread obu
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some program to convert wma files into mp3 ones? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to