Re: [newbie] More about file permissions

2004-12-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By clicking onto a file's icon with the mouse's right button and entering 'Properties', it is possible to change at pleasure and in detail all the possible options about permissions: wether

Re: [newbie] attachments

2004-12-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 00:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it every post I get, from this list only, is a multipart mime mess. Including my own when they bounce back. All My options are set against the fancy stuff because it so easily can

Re: [newbie] Tying down to one only email client

2004-12-19 Thread SnapafunFrank
Todd Slater wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Output of 'ls -l ...'

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 9:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I do ,e.g., $ ls -l / , I get: total 52 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 18 13:44 bin/ what about the numbers that appears in the second and in the fifth column? What's their meaning? As care free said, the second is the

[newbie] How to make changes to the current security level?

2004-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I set a security level 4, with # msec 4 . After that, a normal user can't reboot the system any more with '$ reboot', and I wanted to restore this possibility. In 'man msec' it is said: If you want to make changes to the current level, use [...]

[newbie] Editing default applications

2004-12-19 Thread Kenneth
I downloaded BitTornado which required me to delete BitTorrent. After not being able to get BitTornado going I unistalled it and reinstalled the official BitTorrent client. But now, when I click on the *.torrent seed to download, I am still presented with BitTornado as my default application. Even

Re: [newbie] XFCE, mdk10.0, www.eslrahc.com

2004-12-19 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
For as much as I love Charles Edwards RPM archive, I still have preferred to use the graphical installers for XFCE that are available here: http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=42 I always found compiling against GTK on Mandrake is a pain in the ass, it feels like I have always

[newbie] MySQL WOn't Start

2004-12-19 Thread EE
Dears, I can't run MySql it says ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Can you help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] attachments

2004-12-19 Thread jallan6977
If that's the case I won't worry about it. It sounds logical. I was deleting all the messes for safety. On 19 Dec 2004 at 10:05, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 00:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it every post I get, from

Re: [newbie] MySQL WOn't Start

2004-12-19 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:30:21 +0300 schreef EE: Dears, I can't run MySql it says ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Does the file /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock exist? If not, then probably the MySQL daemon is not running. Paul -- The one

Re: [newbie] Editing default applications

2004-12-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 12:51, Kenneth wrote: I downloaded BitTornado which required me to delete BitTorrent. After not being able to get BitTornado going I unistalled it and reinstalled the official BitTorrent client. But now, when I click on the

[newbie] Where to find alternatives *Boot Themes* for Mdk10.1?

2004-12-19 Thread Edward Wijaya
And not *splash themes* (I have plenty) ;-) Please kindly advice. Thanks so much for your time. -- Regards, Edward WIJAYA Singapore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] CPAN and Webmin

2004-12-19 Thread Chris
On Saturday 18 December 2004 10:31 pm, Chris wrote: Has anyone experienced any problems with CPAN via Webmin. I can install modules just fine, if I know the module name, however trying to update my module list nets nothing. In reply to my own message, I found the problem. I had forgot I'd

Re: [newbie] Where to find alternatives *Boot Themes* for Mdk10.1?

2004-12-19 Thread RickSisler
Edward Wijaya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: And not *splash themes* (I have plenty) ;-) Please kindly advice. Thanks so much for your time. -- Regards, Edward WIJAYA Singapore Edward, please don't hijack threads, this one alone has been hijacked 3 times and twice by you. Please take a

[newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?

2004-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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

Re: [newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Todd Slater
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

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again! :-) I'm not sure if you want to do that. If it's anything like

[newbie] dvd problems

2004-12-19 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I seem to be having difficulty in getting my dvdrom to work. I can't get mplayer, kaffeine, or kdenlive to show me any video. Mplayer locks up and has to be killed, kaffeine doesn't have the required plugin. Could someone help me? I can't get tuxracer to work either, so there may be

Re: [newbie] upgrade 9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I guess I'd better ask for help here too. On Thursday 16 December 2004 09:12 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 08:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, Can I upgrade my mdk9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi? The reason is because I haven't got the time to

Re: [newbie] Where to find alternatives *Boot Themes* for Mdk10.1?

2004-12-19 Thread Edward Wijaya
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:37:30 -0500, RickSisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward, please don't hijack threads, this one alone has been hijacked 3 times and twice by you. Truly apologize, Rick. It was careless of me. However, I didn't mean it. Thanks for reminding me. Please take a look at the wiki:

Re: [newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 2:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've noticed that, strangely, the effect of the command 'chgrp' is not permanent: I did # chgrp rodolfo /* Since this is the newbie list, Do not do this. If it was the expert list I'd say Are you sure you know what you're

Re: [newbie] Where to find alternatives *Boot Themes* for Mdk10.1?

2004-12-19 Thread RickSisler
Edward Wijaya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:37:30 -0500, RickSisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward, please don't hijack threads, this one alone has been hijacked 3 times and twice by you. Truly apologize, Rick. It was careless of me. However, I didn't mean it.

[newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Todd, thanks Richard: Todd wrote: 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. Richard wrote: Are you sure you know what you're doing? To me this

[newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...Maybe a simple solution would be to add rodolfo to group 'root' in addition to group 'rodolfo'? I'm looking for the proper linux command to do so. Rodolfo Regala e regalati Libero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis, navighi veloce e scarichi

Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3

2004-12-19 Thread Bill Winegarden
On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 07:11, Len Lawrence wrote: libxfree86-devel Hi Len, Thanks for the suggestion. I d/l'd the libxfree86-devel from rpmfind.net and tried to install it with rpm -Uvh ... the following dependencies arose. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bill]# rpm -Uvh

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent two hours looking thru umpteen pages to find a torent site to dld the live cd for knoppix so I might see a demo or something to try learning about linux. I live in NY state so a site nearby would be nice if anyone knows of one. On 16 Dec 2004 at 18:43,

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
amalasingh wrote: Folks, I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by typing my WAN IP address. But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all set correctly. Also confirmed with the router vendor. The vendor

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 4:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Maybe a simple solution would be to add rodolfo to group 'root' in addition to group 'rodolfo'? I'm looking for the proper linux command to do so. Not root. Group wheel is a close match, but not quite what you're looking for. Not

Re: [newbie] Change Pass in PostGreSQL

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 01:12 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Heya; Webmin isn't changing my password on PostGreSQL accounts when I tell it to... hit the save button... the works. It's just not being chipper. Any help? I don't necessarily need Webmin how would I change a

[newbie] Mail server setup 9.2?

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Okay, I tried this a while back with no success. Basically, I need a basic, step-by-step explanation of how to set up a sendmail server and courier-pop server on Mandrake 9.2, and how to add oodles of pop3 clients. I'm setting this up for a medium-large buisness, as they've had no success

Re: [newbie] Editing default applications

2004-12-19 Thread Kenneth
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 12:51, Kenneth wrote: snip How do I dump BitTornado as the default application and get BitTorrent back as my default application to download *.torrent files? Thanks in Advance, Check kcontrol Components File Associations. Make sure that BitTorrent is

Re: [newbie] Editing default applications

2004-12-19 Thread Kenneth
Kenneth wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 12:51, Kenneth wrote: snip How do I dump BitTornado as the default application and get BitTorrent back as my default application to download *.torrent files? Thanks in Advance, Check kcontrol Components File Associations. Make sure

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 19 December 2004 16:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : if I only allow the group 'rodolfo' to read those directories and not to modify them in any way, then I don't see the danger. Anyhow, if the system tries so hard to oppose to what I'm doing it's quite clear that I'm trying to

Re: [newbie] MySQL WOn't Start

2004-12-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 18 December 2004 20:30, EE wrote: Dears, I can't run MySql it says ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Can you help What do you see in the syslog when you restart the mysql service? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net

Re: [newbie] dvd problems

2004-12-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 15:01, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I seem to be having difficulty in getting my dvdrom to work. I can't get mplayer, kaffeine, or kdenlive to show me any video. Mplayer locks up and has to be killed, kaffeine doesn't have the

[newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, Derek. You say: [...] you are completely ruining security by trying to give a user access to root files. [...] So you mean that security level 2, which gives a user access to *read* all the files of the '/' dir and its subdirs except for the /root dir, completely ruins security? Why

[newbie] Burning problem

2004-12-19 Thread Aron Smith
when trying to burn ISOs to disk using K3b the disk always fails the md5 sum I have set the burning speed as low as it will go 8x but I still get the problem. I need a good copy of Mdk 10.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 19 December 2004 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Derek. You say: [...] you are completely ruining security by trying to give a user access to root files. [...] So you mean that security level 2, which gives a user access to *read* all the files of the '/' dir and its

[newbie] Checking /usr/lib/rpm/macros

2004-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Could someone here running 10.1 Offical please send me a copy of the file /usr/lib/rpm/macros just to confirm that I did not change mine? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Removing read permission from directories would indeed limit user rodolfo as well as user alberto, but that is where sudoers can help you. sudoers would give rodolfo permission to perform certain commands as if he were root user. Yes, the problem with sudoers is that (as far as I know) one

[newbie] Re: Checking /usr/lib/rpm/macros

2004-12-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:08:06 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone here running 10.1 Offical please send me a copy of the file /usr/lib/rpm/macros just to confirm that I did not change mine? Got it. Thanks a lot! Paul

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 19 December 2004 23:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Removing read permission from directories would indeed limit user rodolfo as well as user alberto, but that is where sudoers can help you. sudoers would give rodolfo permission to perform certain commands as if he were root user.

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread jdow
Basically, Rodolfo, you cannot do what you want. In reality Linux has exactly one root account with multiple doors into the account, each with slightly different characteristics and names for login. But they are all the same account, account 0. So you can create all the root accounts you want with

Re: [newbie] dvd problems

2004-12-19 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd problems Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:43:22 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 15:01, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I seem to be having

Re: [newbie] dvd problems

2004-12-19 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 23:50 -0300, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd problems Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:43:22 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec

Re: [newbie] Hardware Questions

2004-12-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:30:15 -0800 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: specific information about if I might encounter any trouble trying to use any of the following with Mandrake? Asus p4s533 motherboard p4 1.6 GHz processor geforce ti4200 agp video card Doubtful you would have problems.

[newbie] Charlers edwards

2004-12-19 Thread Aron Smith
anybody got charles's site for rpms? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Charlers edwards

2004-12-19 Thread Martin
On Monday 20 December 2004 06:48, Aron Smith wrote: anybody got charles's site for rpms? it is on the twiki under using non mdrake rpms: http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ -- the riddle

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 19 December 2004 03:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Removing read permission from directories would indeed limit user rodolfo | as well as user alberto, but that is where sudoers can help you. sudoers | would give rodolfo permission to perform certain commands as if he were | root

RE: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-19 Thread Hugh Dixon
Another option is to run midnight commander (mc) from the terminal, after su ing. Not as pretty as Konqueror though Hth hugh -Original Message- From: Erylon Hines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 4:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: The

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 19 December 2004 09:40 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: | Another option is to run midnight commander (mc) from the terminal, | after su ing. | Not as pretty as Konqueror though | | Hth | | hugh | | That will work--and mc looks like the old Norton Commander from DOS days. It will require you

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-19 Thread Martin
and using mc is a milestone on the way to geekdom :-) On Monday 20 December 2004 06:49, Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 19 December 2004 09:40 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: | Another option is to run midnight commander (mc) from the terminal, | after su ing. | Not as pretty as Konqueror though |

RE: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-19 Thread Hugh Dixon
I doubt I elected to install it - but maybe. To me it is two steps back from geekdom than using the CLI !! hugh -Original Message- From: Erylon Hines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of On

[newbie] looking for LPI (and Linux+) cert's. need asssistance finding right books.

2004-12-19 Thread Arthur Rosene III
I'm primarily focused on getting my LPI certification then my Linux+ cert. I would like to hear people who actually have these certifications about recent books that would ensure i have the proper training material along with hard study to pass the exams. There was a one e-learning site i

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 19 December 2004 09:58 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: | I doubt I elected to install it - but maybe. To me it is two steps back | from geekdom than using the CLI !! | hugh | | You obviously type better than mi e Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Charlers edwards

2004-12-19 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 19 December 2004 09:31 pm, Martin wrote: On Monday 20 December 2004 06:48, Aron Smith wrote: anybody got charles's site for rpms? it is on the twiki under using non mdrake rpms: http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ thanks Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Burning problem

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Huff
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:52:17 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when trying to burn ISOs to disk using K3b the disk always fails the md5 sum I have set the burning speed as low as it will go 8x but I still get the problem. I need a good copy of Mdk 10.1 Check here to see if you did