Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves 1.3

2004-12-20 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:54:47 + Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Editing default applications

2004-12-20 Thread SnapafunFrank
Anne Wilson wrote: -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

Re: [newbie] Editing default applications

2004-12-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 Dec 2004 09:02, SnapafunFrank wrote: Sorry to jump aboard but I'm having issues with bittorrent running mandrake10 myself. What command is needed to associate bittorrent with application/x-bittorrent because right now if I click on

[newbie] Mdk 10.1 CD4 iso download.

2004-12-20 Thread Simon
I have found a site where I can download Mandrake 10.1 Official CD4 iso. This cd appears not to be available from the main Mandrake iso mirrors. Is it legal for me to download? What does it contain? Regards, Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key:

Re: [newbie] Editing default applications

2004-12-20 Thread SnapafunFrank
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 Dec 2004 09:02, SnapafunFrank wrote: Sorry to jump aboard but I'm having issues with bittorrent running mandrake10 myself. What command is needed to associate bittorrent with application/x-bittorrent because right now

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

2004-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to all who replied. I'm resuming what I wanted to achieve: 'rodolfo' is a normal user, but Rodolfo (me) is also the superuser, whereas say, 'alberto' is only a normal user. Then I wish to adopt for alberto a security level 4, i.e. alberto should not be able to see the '/' directory nor

Re: [newbie] help on port forwarding

2004-12-20 Thread amalasingh
Hello, Problem sorted. thanks. So far I was trying to access the WAN Ip from my local machine. I didnt know that if I do that it will loop back to the router admin page. Now I asked my friend to do that. it works fine. simple thing. But it was a head ache for a long time. Any way thanks for

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

2004-12-20 Thread jdow
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The /dev, /proc and /sys dirs have turned back to be readable by other users, what I don't want. Any other hints will be appreciated. The system will not work with those set unreadable to other than root. {^_^} Want

[newbie] Can't run MySql

2004-12-20 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] Can't run MySql

2004-12-20 Thread linuxgirlie
You need to have mysql running in the first place. You can either: Go to Mandrake Control Centre, --- Services --- and turn Mysql on or you can type: /etc/init.d/mysql start in the console. HTH Jo On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:26:58 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, I can't run MySql

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. The /dev, /proc and /sys dirs have turned back to be readable by other users, what I don't want. Any other hints will be appreciated. The system will not work with those set unreadable to other than root. {^_^} I just checked and indeed, even with a sec level=4 and even 5, some subdirs of

Re: [newbie] Burning problem

2004-12-20 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 20 Dec 2004 06:36, Eric Huff wrote: 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

[newbie] DNS Changes

2004-12-20 Thread Alan
I am trying to update my dns settings. I change the server ip through webmin but they don´t ¨stick¨ When i go back into the dns client screen again it did not save the settings. What files do i need to edit to do this manually? Thanks -- -- Linux user 321006

Re: [newbie] DNS Changes

2004-12-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 20 December 2004 17:37, Alan wrote: I am trying to update my dns settings. I change the server ip through webmin but they don´t ¨stick¨ When i go back into the dns client screen again it did not save the settings. What files do i need to edit to do this manually? Thanks Edit

Re: [newbie] Can't run MySql

2004-12-20 Thread EE
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:26:58 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 17:33, linuxgirlie wrote: You need to have mysql

Re: [newbie] Can't run MySql

2004-12-20 Thread linuxgirlie
ok, try this: /etc/init.d/mysql stop /etc/init.d/mysql start and then type mysql in the console Jo On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:29:19 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:26:58 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, I can't run MySql it says ERROR 2002: Can't

Re: [newbie] DNS Changes

2004-12-20 Thread mikkel
On Monday 20 December 2004 17:37, Alan wrote: I am trying to update my dns settings. I change the server ip through webmin but they don´t ¨stick¨ When i go back into the dns client screen again it did not save the settings. What files do i need to edit to do this manually? Thanks Edit

Re: [newbie] DNS Changes

2004-12-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 20 December 2004 18:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 December 2004 17:37, Alan wrote: I am trying to update my dns settings. I change the server ip through webmin but they don´t ¨stick¨ When i go back into the dns client screen again it did not save the settings.

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of

2004-12-20 Thread jdow
/initrd doesn't matter at all. /opt and /sys by definition must be readable my normal users. /var is a general variable data storage area for all users. As such at least portions of it must remain read write. So by definition it, too, must remain read/write. {^_^}Joanne - Original Message

Re: [newbie] Charlers edwards

2004-12-20 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:48, Aron Smith wrote: anybody got charles's site for rpms? yep. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is

Re: [newbie] Mail server setup 9.2?

2004-12-20 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Monday 20 December 2004 01:34 am, Eric Scott wrote: 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

[newbie] winsite torrent

2004-12-20 Thread jallan6977
I have tried several times over three days time to dld the following torent from winsite but can not connect to peers. Means 0 download. mandrakemove-1586.iso iso image 0kb Anybody got any ideas? Perhaps another site/mirror to dld from.

Re: [newbie] Charlers edwards

2004-12-20 Thread Dennis Duffner
At 04:30 PM 12/20/2004, you wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:48, Aron Smith wrote: anybody got charles's site for rpms? yep. Oh now Stephen www.eslrahc.com/10.1/ -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales ---

Re: [newbie] Charlers edwards

2004-12-20 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 20 December 2004 06:46 pm, Dennis Duffner wrote: At 04:30 PM 12/20/2004, you wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:48, Aron Smith wrote: anybody got charles's site for rpms? yep. Oh now Stephen www.eslrahc.com/10.1/ I got it now ,but there are a lot of unsigned packages there

Re: [newbie] Charlers edwards

2004-12-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:58:04 -0800 Aron Smith wrote: I got it now ,but there are a lot of unsigned packages there They are not unsigned. The problem is in genhdlist/pubkey/urpmi, urpmi is not importing pubkey when it is present in 10.1. Manually dl CAE.asc and use # rpm --import /location of

[newbie] FYI - ssh security

2004-12-20 Thread RickSisler
Hi all, Thought you might want to know about this post I saw on usenet comp.os.linux.security with the subject hacked? posted Sun Dec 19 Caspar Wrede wrote: Then I notice that there is a user logged on who usually is NEVER logged on. The user is daniel and his password, stupidly, is daniel.