Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
On Thursday 03 Mar 2005 21:16, Dennis wrote: Thanks Kasper --- Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #382526 - Original Message - From: Kasper Thunoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1 snip How necessary is virus protection in linux - keep getting conflicting info about this? Thanks Rosemary /snip Depends on how much you interact with windows :) There are viruses for linux which mostly come in the form of rootkits. This is more a backdoor than it is a virus, and the attacker would need to have access on a superuser level. Some claim to have made linux worms which is more virus-like, but the chance of running on to one of those is slim to none. The best one can do is to keep ones system up to date, especially if you allow external access (ssh, ftp, www etc.), and delete mail from people you dont know. For my part I dualboot and have other windows machines in my home network so I use antivirus (clamav) on linux as a precaution, and to check mails. Hope that gives you an idea. /Kasper Now that I have internet access within Mandrake, not using windows for that at all, so guess that reduces the risk considerably! Seems as though I don't need to worry too much at present. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
On Thursday 03 Mar 2005 23:02, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: How necessary is virus protection in linux _ Ones purpose may be prophylactic [ greek word for 'preventive' ]~ to prevent accidental transmission of virus, perhaps, by inadvertently 'forwarding' an infected message. For this purpose one may edit 'crontab' and add a tiny script, to run a scan on ones Mail directories. crontab -e [ will open crontab, in vim, so one can add/delete at will ] For this purpose, my CRON Daemon runs F-PROT each hour, to scan my Mail directories. best rgds Is that a kind of script a simple newbie like me can use? :-) Rosemary 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 Forum - OT
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: nice not to have to re-install and loose all the data. _ ~ guess it is un-neccessary to lose any Data . . . ever :-O . . . have CRON Daemon do frequent backups of /home directory, using RSYNC script . . . like :- ___ #!/bin/sh # # use rsync to backup /home to /dev/hda6 # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda6 /mnt # df cd rsync -avr --delete --delete-after /home /mnt df umount /mnt cd best rgds Just copy and paste that into shell using an editor? Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 17:54, SigmaX wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: How necessary is virus protection in linux Not very. There are very few viruses or worms that are out there (That work) for UNIX-based systems. It's reported that there has never been a successful virus written for Mac OS X. Not to say they don't exist (Spyware/Addware is even less of a worry, as almost all OSS is devoid of it). Your greatest worry is recieving a virus for Windows that you accidentally forward on to Windows-users in emails. SigmaX That problem minimised to almost non-existant I hope, as now using Mandrake for all internet access. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:57:13 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:40 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Sinux? Hmmm. porno on linuxall the filth you want for your eyes, but none for your hard drive (virus's, ad/spy/malware). I hope Micro$oft doesn't hear about this, they might spread rumours that because linux doesn't support adware it therefore encourages browsing for porn. M$ has referred to Linux as a cancer before, might it now be 'the cancer that causes the moral decline of society'? ;) What ever you call it...it's gotta have joystick support That would be Handrakelinux -- Chuck MATTSEN / mattsen at arvig dot net / Mahnomen, MN, USA RLU #346519 / Mandrakelinux 10.2-Cooker / 2.6.10-1.mm.18mdk MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange error when booting
Hi. I have a laptop running Mandrake 10.1. When I boot the computer I get the following error message: Mounting loopback filesystems: mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# [FAILED] and then it starts KDE and lives happily ever after. Any suggestions to how I remove the error? -Henriette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues - apology
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 20:54, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:36 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: you all do know that as root urpmi rute will install rute,, adn just typing 'rute' in a cli will start rute --- Actually typing rute in cli didn't start rute for me. Though I haven't urpmi'ed it yet. Wl that *could* be the reason ;-) Didn't actually say that though - did he/she? As a newbie how would one know? Some things are installed by default. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
Mr. Geek wrote: Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:20:28 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Hmmm - That could work! We could even add videos of Pamela Anderson, and, Ah, No, everyone's seen those. Sinux? This one wouldn't work well. Some Microsoft geek would turn it into S-UX or something. Either that or they'd confuse it with a cold remedy. I like your first one better. A linux distro that is also a cold remedy? I'd actually be prepared to *pay* for one of those! (Now, where did I put that box of tissues? Sneeze) -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ The truth about a woman often lasts longer than the woman is true. ~~~ 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 Forum - OT
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: nice not to have to re-install and loose all the data. _ ~ guess it is un-neccessary to lose any Data . . . ever :-O . . . have CRON Daemon do frequent backups of /home directory, using RSYNC script . . . like :- ___ #!/bin/sh # # use rsync to backup /home to /dev/hda6 # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda6 /mnt # df cd rsync -avr --delete --delete-after /home /mnt df umount /mnt cd best rgds Just copy and paste that into shell using an editor? Thanks Rosemary Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line eg /etc/cron.daily then insert the script? I know this sounds basic to experienced users, but it is like speaking a foreign language to me. Thanks Rosemary 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 Forum - OT - backups
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:04, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: SNIP Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line eg /etc/cron.daily then insert the script? I know this sounds basic to experienced users, but it is like speaking a foreign language to me. Thanks Rosemary As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups for you. Make sure drakxtools is installed then, Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, webdav or ssh automatically at regular intervals. You can configure drakbackup to do a full backup, or an incremental backup from the previous one. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices
I have a laptop that is normally connected throught a dock to an external monitor and keyboard. I can suspend it, disconnect from the dock, awaken, work, resuspend, return to my desk, re-connect to the dock and re-awaken. After re-awakening at the dock, none of my USB devices are reactivated and I am forced to work on the internal laptop keyboard or reboot. Any ideas on how to get USB devices working without having to reboot. TIA 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] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 22:29, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 09:04, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: SNIP Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line eg /etc/cron.daily then insert the script? I know this sounds basic to experienced users, but it is like speaking a foreign language to me. Thanks Rosemary As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups for you. Make sure drakxtools is installed then, Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, webdav or ssh automatically at regular intervals. You can configure drakbackup to do a full backup, or an incremental backup from the previous one. derek Thanks derek - suppose I ought to have thought Mandrake would do something like this. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
SnapafunFrank wrote: Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable I have read the threads at k3b on this matter but am still unable to use k3b with confidence. Have 4 dvd-r coasters already. So hopefully someone here can assist in getting me to burn dvd's ? I'm running Mandrake 10 official at present. So far I have: k3b-0.11.1-15mdk libk3b1-0.11.1-15mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.13-0.1mdk dvd+rw-tools-5.20.4.10.8-0.1mdk cdrdao-1.1.8-2mdk cdrecord-2.01-0.a36.0.1mdk cdrecord-devel-2.01-0.a27.2mdk cdrecord-cdda2wav-2.01-0.a28.1mdk plus these also in case I've missed something: gstreamer-cdparanoia-0.6.4-4mdk xpcd-2.08-20mdk kdemultimedia-kscd-3.2-14mdk vcdimager-0.7.20-2mdk libcdio0-0.65-3mdk libvcd0-0.7.20-2mdk magicdev-1.1.5-6mdk libcddb-slave2_0-2.4.1.1-1mdk libkdemultimedia1-kscd-3.2-14mdk cdp-0.33-16mdk xcdroast-0.98-32.alpha15.1mdk.cae libcdda0-IIIa9.8-8mdk cdparanoia-IIIa9.8-8mdk gstreamer-cdplayer-0.6.4-4mdk cdialog-0.9b-4mdk nautilus-cd-burner-0.6.1-2mdk xpcd-gimp-2.08-20.1.100mdk I have also checked to be sure that the read only option is unchecked. So I still get the dreaded Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable even though I have done permissions as per the forum on k3b and changed them back again. I have also attempted to direct things with k3b-setup by trying to include the path /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format but it doesn't appear to stick. I have also uninstalled versions that appeared not to match and installed packages specifically for Mandrake10 only. k3b appears to start up more friendly as user [ using the CLI ] than it does as root, so I'm not sure what to make of that at present. ( Two logged strings as opposed to dozens as root. More GUI problems as root I think.) So how do I get to burn data dvd's to dvd-r discs? - Er... hopefully using k3b? What was happening to start me on the upgrade path was that k3b was writing nothing to the dvd-r disc but somehow cooking it anyway whilst xcdroast would get 3-4% along with the burning then simply stop and after a while eject the dvd suggesting it was done. As said above, hopefully someone here knows where I'm messing up. ### Just a possibility I've found while vivisimo~ing ( another other than google ), Apparently, I need to turn off all the goodies I got running on my system - that is, supermount, hotplug and the like. So I have a thought, ( ouch! ), is it possible to insert a blank dvd disc, allow k3b to open ( as it dose automatically at present ), close k3b and then umount the /mnt/cdrom to achieve the desired effect of other services leaving this disc alone for the time being ? The idea here, I think, is to give growisofs, from the dvd+rw-tools package, exclusive access to the dvd writer. That way I can learn to use growisofs to burn data to the disc and if'n that works then go back to getting a GUI like k3b fired up and working. While all this is going on, I have, of course, to stop anything else on my system from trying to lend a helping hand . If the above thought is not the way, how about looking at making a group such as 'burndvd' ? Would I be able to exclude which ever group/s supermount, hotplug and the like belong to from accessing that and thence give only growisofs permission for access ? I'm getting in a little deep here and would appreciate any suggestions at all. Have enough dvd coasters already. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer - yext not printing as preview shows
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Printing out the Rute tutorial is about 1000 pages idf you must have a dead tree copy it would be cheaper to buy it http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-2635319-6707917 I am in NZ so postage costs negate that option. Also I only need a couple of chapters for now. Printed a couple a year or two ago. Going to a larger town/city next week to see what's available. Er I live in Whangarei, you anywhere this way? Cause I have already killed some trees and made a full copy of rute about a six months ago. You're welcome to borrow it. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 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 Forum - OT
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:23, riccardo wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: nice not to have to re-install and loose all the data. _ ~ guess it is un-neccessary to lose any Data . . . ever :-O . . . have CRON Daemon do frequent backups of /home directory, using RSYNC script . . . like :- ___ #!/bin/sh # # use rsync to backup /home to /dev/hda6 # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda6 /mnt # df cd rsync -avr --delete --delete-after /home /mnt df umount /mnt cd best rgds Just copy and paste that into shell using an editor? Thanks Rosemary Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line eg /etc/cron.daily then insert the script? I know this sounds basic to experienced users, but it is like speaking a foreign language to me. Thanks Rosemary I missed this one Rosemary... Did you get it sorted or would you care for an instructing for vim ? -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] any question
All thanks for you JoeHILL. But I'm not lookig for porn solutions. I'm looking for answer to my question. You're alone, who didn't write answer about GPRS modem. Do yuo know what is it. Where are you from? Are you from cave??? -Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:19 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] any question On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:17:24 up 10 days, 21:20, 10 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.02 +++ Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Quotas :o(
So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, so why are there two different groups. Why not just have one called mandrake-users Isn't it better to ask all groups relative to the same subject the same question, just in case one of those members, who might not be in the other groups, knows the answer. Or is it like going into the paper shop to find out they don't have your paper, and not going into the paper shop opposite because it would be the logical thing to do. But frowned upon because you've already asked elsewhere. Even though there is a very high chance they will have your paper. ? Well it seems that nobody in either group knows anything about or uses quotas. :o( -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2005 11:00pm To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Quotas :o( On Thursday 03 March 2005 08:22 am, Ken Walker wrote: I'm trying to set up quotas on a LM8.1 server Ken hey Ken, if you want an answer around here, then don't mass mail the same question to both newbie and expert -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer - yext not printing as preview shows
On Friday 04 Mar 2005 23:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Printing out the Rute tutorial is about 1000 pages idf you must have a dead tree copy it would be cheaper to buy it http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-2635319-6707917 I am in NZ so postage costs negate that option. Also I only need a couple of chapters for now. Printed a couple a year or two ago. Going to a larger town/city next week to see what's available. Er I live in Whangarei, you anywhere this way? Cause I have already killed some trees and made a full copy of rute about a six months ago. You're welcome to borrow it. My goodness! No - I'm way down in Greytown. I think I have almost all the hard copy I need for now. The only thing lacking is the understanding. This is so hard to learn in ones middle years!Thanks for the offer though ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange error when booting
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:32:21 +0100, Henriette Holm wrote about [newbie] Strange error when booting: I have a laptop running Mandrake 10.1. When I boot the computer I get the following error message: Mounting loopback filesystems: mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# [FAILED] and then it starts KDE and lives happily ever after. Any suggestions to how I remove the error? That would at least require some more info.. Can you post a copy of /etc/fstab; and the output of: chkconfig --list |grep dev and of: cat /etc/mtab |grep loop and of: cat /proc/cmdline ? pgpvWYpWiVMGr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] any question
On Friday 04 March 2005 03:30 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:57:13 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:40 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Sinux? Hmmm. porno on linuxall the filth you want for your eyes, but none for your hard drive (virus's, ad/spy/malware). I hope Micro$oft doesn't hear about this, they might spread rumours that because linux doesn't support adware it therefore encourages browsing for porn. M$ has referred to Linux as a cancer before, might it now be 'the cancer that causes the moral decline of society'? ;) What ever you call it...it's gotta have joystick support That would be Handrakelinux sorry but the name 'dirty ole man-drake linux' has been in use since 7.2 mandrake... we even have a special 'les' version, but it requires _proof_ of orientation before downloads are allowed. information available on the OT list,,, as this is not a mandrakesoft inc. product, only using mandrake linux as a base... -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quotas :o(
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:20 am, Ken Walker wrote: So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, I am saying that the folks around both lists with the correct opinions are usaually on both lists. I am also saying that a search of the archives of the list you think is close to the type of question your question belongs to will be even quicker than waiting for an answer after you ask the same question to 5 lists. so why are there two different groups. Why not just have one called mandrake-users because the list are to helpfolks that don't have an answer, not to answer your and only your questions when you want to not research an answer. Isn't it better to ask all groups relative to the same subject the same question, just in case one of those members, who might not be in the other groups, knows the answer. maybe, but it seem to me even better to have a group of past problems and answers to search thru... Or is it like going into the paper shop to find out they don't have your paper, and not going into the paper shop opposite because it would be the logical thing to do. But frowned upon because you've already asked elsewhere. Even though there is a very high chance they will have your paper. using your analogy... if you ask one place and they don't have _then_ ask the next, thats one thing, if you go to 5 places at once, and ask for the paper for free, then you can't complain if each place thinks the other place will give it to you for free, and we will keep that paper for someone that won't get it any where else... Well it seems that nobody in either group knows anything about or uses quotas. not olny doesn't know, but (obviously to you) doesn't even know how or wheree to look for information about quotas. did _you_ get any answers from any of the other addresses you 'spamed'* of course, since quatas is not something someone not sure how to install linux would be asking aboput, if I go to either the twiki or http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ scrolled down to the mandrake expert list area, clicked on mandrake expert and it brought me to a page where I could type in 'quota' and get as much information conerning other folks adventures in quotas, I might not only find my answer, but learn a bunch about other pitfalls I might avoid. not to metion find out thet some of the folks right on this list realy do have a clue.. damn, go figure http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertw=2r=1s=quotasq=bv http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=108574881502759w=2 * i used 'spamed' because that is the kind of filter you hit in lists like this, when you send the same mail to many addresses (more than 3) and that was my point, not that you are a wise mouth, but that a lot of folks spam filters (mine too) catch any letter not from a 'white list address' that is sent to more than 4 addresses. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quotas :o(
Ken Walker wrote: So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, so why are there two different groups. Why not just have one called mandrake-users Isn't it better to ask all groups relative to the same subject the same question, just in case one of those members, who might not be in the other groups, knows the answer. I'm afraid I know nothing of quotas, so I can't answer your original question, but there is a *very* good reason for not cross-posting the same message to both the newbie and expert lists...Sympa (the mandrake mailing list handler) cannot cope with cross-posting so, instead of one copy of your message going to the newbie list and one to the expert list, BOTH copies reached the newbie list! I suggest you try a new message to the expert list, where someone may be able to help you. -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ Every silver lining has a cloud around it. ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 02:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. must be 10.1 interactive p0rn edition ;-) __ How long ago was it they took the pr0n off cd4? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:18, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. Very funny comment indeed, Joe :-( I Know it may come as an incomprehensible shock to most Americans here, but not everyone living on this tiny planet received the divine blessing of being brought up in the English/US/Redneck tongue. Of course that's a big mistake by the Lord. I'll admit that for sure. And I can't for the sake of me understand why he didn't let Mr. Gutenberg print the Bible in English rather than in Latin/Greek/Hebrew/Whatever ??? Well look at the fix Luther got himself into with 'The Church' when he tried to get the Bible printed in German. That aside, I feel ashamed when a non-rap-redneck-speaking newcomer (NRRSN for the Americans) to this list formulates his joy of becoming a member of the free community, and he is received by ridiculing comments about misspelling and mis-syntaxing. A few years ago this list was friendlier. Sorry for my bad English.. Kaj Haulrich. Well said Kaj. Just what I was also thinking, an I also believe Stefan is owed an apology. BTW, your English is more better than most of us English/US/Redneck's ;) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] URPMI help
Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Thanks. PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On March 4, 2005 09:48 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Sounds like the servers are no longer holding 9.2 PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( I don't think plf is kept on the same servers. I could be wrong Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Mar 4 09:55:05 EST 2005 09:55:05 up 20:56, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.08, 0.01 If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? -- Marvin Kitman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Thanks. PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? I just tried it and it works. BTW: The page is quite pretty now isn't it? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Thanks. PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( Go to the sites mentioned in easyurpmi in any browser and go up a directory. Choose 9.2 and use edit the command you get in easyurpmi accordingly. e.g. easy urpmi gives urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://mandrake.lcpe.uni-sofia.bg/plf/free/10.1 with synthesis.hdlist.cz a visit to this site gives the 9.2 command as: urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://mandrake.lcpe.uni-sofia.bg/plf/free/9.2/i586/ with ../synthesis.hdlist.cz (the synthesis hdlists are in the 9.2 directory, not the i586 directory) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Matrox Mystique on 10.0
I've been running a second monitor off a Matrox Mystique card for the last few weeks. I've been running M10.0/Official. After installing M10.1/Official, I'm getting some funky behavior on the screen the Matrox is driving. When I scroll in Konqueror, lines get doubled, images get corrupted, and I get a string of cursor images. The driver is mga, same as showed up in 10.0. Is anyone else running a Mystique with 10.1? Any troubles? -- == Dave Williams == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == then we race together / we can ride forever = '97 Bandit 1200 == wrapped in horsepower / driving into fury == DoD #978 = http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/index.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] vim error
Aron Smith wrote: Where should I look for a problem? try a reinstall of vim # That's such a... windowy solution. True but it do work and is easy to do Hmm... I just found out something interesting. Vi works fine in single monitor mode, but it gives me that odd message when I'm running both monitors... -- == Dave Williams == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == then we race together / we can ride forever = '97 Bandit 1200 == wrapped in horsepower / driving into fury == DoD #978 = http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/index.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
et wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 03:30 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:57:13 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:40 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Sinux? Hmmm. porno on linuxall the filth you want for your eyes, but none for your hard drive (virus's, ad/spy/malware). I hope Micro$oft doesn't hear about this, they might spread rumours that because linux doesn't support adware it therefore encourages browsing for porn. M$ has referred to Linux as a cancer before, might it now be 'the cancer that causes the moral decline of society'? ;) What ever you call it...it's gotta have joystick support That would be Handrakelinux Bl. If you get my point. SigmaX -- Registered Linux Freak #: 366,862 If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass Boost and all the music is free. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? Hmm, I thought that I did - maybe I got in a hurry and missed it (multiple times - shaking head at self). I'll go try it again. I just tried it and it works. BTW: The page is quite pretty now isn't it? derek Yes, it is! Big improvement, definitely easier on the old orbs. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices
Paul Kaplan wrote: I have a laptop that is normally connected throught a dock to an external monitor and keyboard. I can suspend it, disconnect from the dock, awaken, work, resuspend, return to my desk, re-connect to the dock and re-awaken. After re-awakening at the dock, none of my USB devices are reactivated and I am forced to work on the internal laptop keyboard or reboot. Any ideas on how to get USB devices working without having to reboot. TIA Paul Take a look at the /etc/sysconfig/suspend file. There is an option in there to restart the USB subsystem when coming back from suspend. That may fix your problem. There are a lot of options in there, so that you can fine-tune suspend for your hardware, along with short explanations of how they work. Mikkel PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set to your address. -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange error when booting
Hi. I've attached two fstab files. The following commands executed as root gives: # chkconfig --list | grep dev rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off udev 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off # cat /etc/mtab | grep loop /mnt/win_d/Mandrake10/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso /mnt/Mandrake10_cd1 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0 /mnt/win_d/Mandrake10/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD2.i586.iso /mnt/Mandrake10_cd2 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop1 0 0 /mnt/win_d/Mandrake10/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD3.i586.iso /mnt/Mandrake10_cd3 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop2 0 0 /mnt/win_d/Mandrake10/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD4.i586.iso /mnt/Mandrake10_cd4 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop3 0 0 (all of the above written in 4 lines) # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 acpi=on resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:37:50 +, Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:32:21 +0100, Henriette Holm wrote about [newbie] Strange error when booting: I have a laptop running Mandrake 10.1. When I boot the computer I get the following error message: Mounting loopback filesystems: mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# [FAILED] and then it starts KDE and lives happily ever after. Any suggestions to how I remove the error? That would at least require some more info.. Can you post a copy of /etc/fstab; and the output of: chkconfig --list |grep dev and of: cat /etc/mtab |grep loop and of: cat /proc/cmdline ? fstab Description: Binary data fstab.old Description: Binary data 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 Forum - OT
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 04 Mar 2005 21:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line eg /etc/cron.daily then insert the script? I know this sounds basic to experienced users, but it is like speaking a foreign language to me. Thanks Rosemary A quick guide to the cron directories. If you put a script in the cron.frequency directory, and it is executable, then it will be run every frequency. So, if you put a script called backup in cron.daily, cron run chmod +x backup, then it will be run every night with the rest of the executable files in that directory. If you want to disable a script, you can run chmod -x script and it will not be run, until you enable it again. This is handy because you don't have to hunt for the script when you want to enable it again. This is handy for system scripts. It is not for user scripts. Users normally can not install scripts in the cron directories. If user cron job are enabled, a user can run crontab -e to add their own jobs. You will want to read up on this if you are going to use it, because you are entering the script here. Instead, you are setting up when the script will be run, and what script to run. The format is a bit cryptic at first. But it will allow fins control of when a job will be run. Do you want it to run on Thursday mornings at 8:27? It can be set here. You could also set a job to run every 5 minutes on Monday night from 6 to 9 pm. Or you can set a job to only run on the 11 day of the month. One thing you have to be careful of when writing scripts to be run as cron jobs - the envirment is not the same one as you get when you log in as a user. So a script that will run just fine from the command line may not run as a cron job. It helps to specify the path to programs, or to set PATH at the start of the script, so that you can be sure any programs you call in the script are found... (Well, enough rambling for one day!) Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange error when booting
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:47:46 +0100, Henriette Holm wrote about Re: [newbie] Strange error when booting: /mnt/win_d/Mandrake10/Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso /mnt/Mandrake10_cd1 iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0 Comment the 4 lines containing loop (by preceding them with a # ) and the problem is gone. If you ever want to do a reinstall from the CD's on your former D:\ drive you can uncomment them (even with mc in runlevel 1; or vi if you master it). If you remove the isos, delete the guilty lines from your fstab. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] No sound suddenly
On Friday 04 March 2005 08:46, Alejandro R. Estrada wrote: I have MDK 10.1 Community and I love it. Just recently, actually today I tried to play my reggae streams from http://www.bigupradio.com as usual with amarok, and it played fine, but with no sound. I tried opening Kmix to checked if something was accidentally muted, and it crashed while opening. I opened the terminal and typed kmix to see if there was any errors and It gave me and error saying something like this: No ALSA drivers or modules found. I guess that for some mysterious reason the ALSA sound driver or module got lost. I actually recall unpluging my PC by accident. Would that have something to do with the sound being gone? I would really appreciate some help from you great MKD newbie forum guys. Thanks, A. Estrada Columbus, Ohio, USA Does alsamixer work? -Frans 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 get from dos mode into KDE mode?
... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make ... ... back in 1999 I bought Mandrake 6.0 ($35), tried putting it on the same machine with my Win2000, WinNT, etc, failed, gave up, put it on the shelf, forgot about it ...then, what with my wonderful experience with Firefox vs IE, etc etc, saw open sourcing in a whole new light, decided to try again, found your newbie list, and, trying harder this time, got it running in the command mode, and you all tought me a whole lot about moving around in that environment, really valuable stuff ... ... but I was flying under false colors ... you are all 10.1 folks, with 10.1 problems and 10.1 solutions ... so I shut up, quit wasting your time, got on Ebay, bought 10.1 for $6.00 (thought, this is a dumb move) ... 3-4 days later a small envelop arrived with 4 disks, nothing else ... enlarged my Ext2, Swap partitions,etc ... total disaster, on two different machines bombed out immediately on install (thought you got what you paid for) ... ... had been hearing alot about VMware, how you don't need to partition, etc, lo and behold, VMware has a 5.0 in Beta testing until Apr 29 !!! ... (I'm really really cheap) ... ... to make a 4 day story short, I have 10.1 running with a genaric VM video driver (nVidia card in my machine) at 1024x768, KDE up and running, have installed my beloved Firefox, things are fantastic !!! ... so now maybe I can legitimately ask you guys some questions: (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) ... ??? (2) ... operations and webpage downloads are vey slw with one exception, downloaded Firefox (8.2 meg) in 30 seconds (DSL) ... I suspect its the VMware's fault, but any tricks to speed things up ??? ... again, I'm very appreciative and humbled ... HK -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:02 AM To: h k ball Cc: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:29, you wrote: Kaj ... ... based on today's wanderings, have concluded (1) ... need to connect to the net in CLI mod (how???) (2) ... download the Nvidia Vanta video card (how ? ... put in what directory so Xconfigurator can find it ) (3) ... rerun Xconfigurator (4) ... maybe then stuff will work, although ... (5) ... XFdrake doesn't exist (6) ... nothing containing auth exists HK ... looked at your web page, photos ... lovely daughter ... article on healthcare, suits, accountants, etc made me laugh, we're not far behind you in our deterioration ... Thanks, h k Where do you live ? I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do... (1) Why connect from the CLI ? - If you absolutely must then (as root) : ifconfig eth0. That is if you use ethernet as your interface ? - Otherwise I'd recommend the GUI way for newbies, just : mcc, then give root password. Go to Network Internet and make your choices. (2) I don't have Nvidia, but I think you can use it in fb mode (frame buffer) without the Nvidia drivers until you get things sorted out. (3) I don't thing you need to run xconfigurator, only XFdrake. (4,5,6) You'll need to run XFdrake as root. Lastly, a dumb question : Do you have a x server running ? Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* File: message.txt 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 get from dos mode into KDE mode?
h k ball wrote: ... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make ... ... back in 1999 I bought Mandrake 6.0 ($35), tried putting it on the same machine with my Win2000, WinNT, etc, failed, gave up, put it on the shelf, forgot about it ...then, what with my wonderful experience with Firefox vs IE, etc etc, saw open sourcing in a whole new light, decided to try again, found your newbie list, and, trying harder this time, got it running in the command mode, and you all tought me a whole lot about moving around in that environment, really valuable stuff ... ... but I was flying under false colors ... you are all 10.1 folks, with 10.1 problems and 10.1 solutions ... so I shut up, quit wasting your time, got on Ebay, bought 10.1 for $6.00 (thought, this is a dumb move) ... 3-4 days later a small envelop arrived with 4 disks, nothing else ... enlarged my Ext2, Swap partitions,etc ... total disaster, on two different machines bombed out immediately on install (thought you got what you paid for) ... ... had been hearing alot about VMware, how you don't need to partition, etc, lo and behold, VMware has a 5.0 in Beta testing until Apr 29 !!! ... (I'm really really cheap) ... ... to make a 4 day story short, I have 10.1 running with a genaric VM video driver (nVidia card in my machine) at 1024x768, KDE up and running, have installed my beloved Firefox, things are fantastic !!! ... so now maybe I can legitimately ask you guys some questions: (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) ... ??? (2) ... operations and webpage downloads are vey slw with one exception, downloaded Firefox (8.2 meg) in 30 seconds (DSL) ... I suspect its the VMware's fault, but any tricks to speed things up ??? ... again, I'm very appreciative and humbled ... HK I wish you would have told us you were running 6.0 - we could have pointed you to where you could download the CD images for 10.1 for free, or purchesed them fairly cheap. (You can download the first 3 CD's from the Internet.) Now, as far as transfering files between Windows and Linux, it depends on how you are running Linux. If you are running it in a VMware window, then you may want to create a share on the windows machine, and use smb4k to map the share on Linux. You can alsu use the mount command from the command line interface, but smb4k is probably going to work better for you at this point. If you are dual booting Windows and Linux on a machine, you can mount the windows partition directly in Linux. In fact, the installer usualy will set this up for you. Diskdrake will also do it for you. If you are using the NT file system, then it will be mounted read only - you can transfere files to Linux, but there are some problems writing to NT file systems. (Has this changed?) There are no problems reading/writing FAT file systems. Depending on the nVidia card you have, 10.1 may work with it out of the box, or you may have to install extra drivers. There have been a lot of messages about this. I don't have personal experence with the cards that require this. As far as your install problems directly to the hardware, instead of installing in VMware, we should be able to work around them. The bit thing is to describe the hardware, and be willing to try a couple of options during install. Most people don't need to do this, but some hardware requires more effort then others... I usualy have less trouble installing Linux then I do Windows, unless I have one of the restore CDs for the machine that basicly restores a working image to the hard drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
Il ven, 2005-03-04 alle 00:42, frengoGorgia ha scritto: Il gio, 2005-03-03 alle 15:34, Stefan Tulak ha scritto: Ive installed mandrakelinux for one month and Im very pleasured. Ive got mobilphone with GPRS and I dont know how to join it with PC, because software for my phone is made for windows. Can you help me and tell me, how to do it? Or can you tell me what program can run windows applications? Linux(and windows) side programs : Gnokii http://www.gnokii.org/ http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/~pkot/gnokii/gnokii.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnokii-users/2005-02/threads.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1694378/com/gnokii-0.6.4-4mdk.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1694379/com/gnokii-xgnokii-0.6.4-4mdk.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1665963/com/multisync-gnokii-0.82.20041130-4mdk.i586.rpm.html Wammu-Gammu http://www.mwiacek.com/gsm/soft/gammu.html http://www.cihar.com/gammu/wammu/ http://mobile.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/18/2052226from=rss http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1499941/com/gammu-0.99.0-1mdk.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1570750/com/wammu-0.8-3mdk.noarch.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1492535/com/python-gammu-0.6-1mdk.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1692182/com/wxPythonGTK-2.5.3.1-2mdk.i586.rpm.html kmobiletools http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1657604/com/kmobiletools-0.4.2-alt1.i586.rpm.html gnome-phone-manager : http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1522097/com/gnome-phone-manager-0.4-3mdk.i586.rpm.html add too GPRS EASY_CONNECT http://www.easyconnect.linuxuser.hu/modules.php?name=index Linux With Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs and Mobile Cell Phones http://www.tuxmobile.com/ Getting On-line Anywhere with Bluetooth and GPRS http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7525 Linux + GPRS http://kotinetti.suomi.net/mcfrisk/linux_gprs.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VMware on a old computer
Dear All A computer with 512MB of RAM, 80GB of free space in the hard disk, and a CPU Pentium III at the frequency of 600 MHz, can reasonably run VMware? If so, is VMware easy of installing? 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] VMware on a old computer
Op Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:47:20 + schreef Paul Smith: A computer with 512MB of RAM, 80GB of free space in the hard disk, and a CPU Pentium III at the frequency of 600 MHz, can reasonably run VMware? If so, is VMware easy of installing? I ran it on a P-II 450Mhz with 10Gb, several years ago. So your old machine should be up to the task. Installing is rather straightforward, if I remember correctly. Install the package, install the kernel-headers for your kernel, run some script to build the proper video-support and that should be it. When you fire it up, you see an actual pc booting in a window. So make sure you have a bootfloppy or boot-cd handy. Good luck, Paul -- When I use a word it means exactly what I want it to mean. - Lewis Carroll http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? 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 Forum - OT - backups
Hello Derek, Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:29:09 AM, Derek wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, DJ webdav or ssh automatically at regular intervals. You can DJ configure drakbackup to do a full backup, or an incremental backup DJ from the previous one. Does this backup include a verify step, especially if to CD/DVD, for us paranoid types? :-)) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware on a old computer
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:59:27 +0100, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A computer with 512MB of RAM, 80GB of free space in the hard disk, and a CPU Pentium III at the frequency of 600 MHz, can reasonably run VMware? If so, is VMware easy of installing? I ran it on a P-II 450Mhz with 10Gb, several years ago. So your old machine should be up to the task. Installing is rather straightforward, if I remember correctly. Install the package, install the kernel-headers for your kernel, run some script to build the proper video-support and that should be it. When you fire it up, you see an actual pc booting in a window. So make sure you have a bootfloppy or boot-cd handy. Thanks, Paul. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files
Dear All I am trying to install VMware 4.5.2, but I am getting this problem: «What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory.» Any ideas? 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] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups
On Friday 04 March 2005 20:30, rikona wrote: Hello Derek, Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:29:09 AM, Derek wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, DJ webdav or ssh automatically at regular intervals. You can DJ configure drakbackup to do a full backup, or an incremental backup DJ from the previous one. Does this backup include a verify step, especially if to CD/DVD, for us paranoid types? :-)) I have never tried it to CD, but I can confirm when you do an ssh backup you will be sent an email with a positive acknowledgement that the files were received intact on the server. I took a look at the code, and it does not seem to do a verify after write on CD. If you need that feature then raise a feature request on Bugzilla. Drakbackup is maintained by Stew Benedict. He often can be found on the expert list. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] No sound suddenly
I almost was the the same situation as yours. You can reconfigure ALSA by alsactrl as a root. HTH. Q.H.Wang Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files
Op Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:25:08 + schreef Paul Smith: Dear All I am trying to install VMware 4.5.2, but I am getting this problem: «What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory.» That is where usually your kernel-headers should be located. Did you install those? Paul -- When I use a word it means exactly what I want it to mean. - Lewis Carroll http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] No sound suddenly
I almost was the the same situation as yours. You can reconfigure ALSA by alsaconf as a root. HTH. Q.H.Wang Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ADSL Dynamode USB Modem, HOW ???
Hello there. How do I make my Dynamode M-ADSL-USB-C50 modem work on mandrake 10.1 ? Thanks very much Yoav. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:37:45 +0100, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install VMware 4.5.2, but I am getting this problem: «What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory.» That is where usually your kernel-headers should be located. Did you install those? Thanks, Paul. Got it: # urpmi kernel-headers Everything already installed # 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] VMware: location of the directory of C header files
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:25 pm, Paul Smith wrote: The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory _ ~ maybe, you need to install the kernel source + headers? best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices
Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set to your address. 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 get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Friday 04 March 2005 19:47, h k ball wrote: snip (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) /snip Welcome back, h k... I didn't realize you were running 6.0, but it induces that nostalgic feeling in me. If, by any chance, you are dual-booting Linux and another OS, an easy way to transfer files is to create an extra FAT32 partition in the middle to share files. Most OS's can read and write to FAT32. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:50:28 +, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory _ ~ maybe, you need to install the kernel source + headers? Thanks, Riccardo. VMware is now installed on my computer. 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] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices
On Friday 04 March 2005 23:07, Paul Kaplan wrote: Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set to your address. You do not need a Reply To set for *any* emails unless you are sending from one address and want the replies to go to another. If there is no Reply To then replies will go to whoever sent the mail. In the case of your personal mails that will be you, in the case of list mails that will be the list. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices
Paul Kaplan wrote: Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set to your address. It would depend on your email client. But you really don't need it set on personal messages. If there isn't a Reply-To address set, then the return address is used. If you were having the reply sent to a different email address, then setting the Reply-To address would make sense. For example, if I were sending a message from this account, but I wanted the reply to go to my mail.com account, then I would set the Reply-To address to the mail.com account. Some mail servers will not let you send messages through them unless the return address is a valid address on that server. The other use I make of Reply-To is a cron job that sends out a HTML calendar at the start of each month with all the events for the month filled in. The return address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], so it can be sorted by the mail filters, but the Reply-To is for my account so I get any feedback right away. (Things like You are missing Uncle Joe's birthday - it is on the 22.) That way, I can fix things, and if necessary, get a replacement calendar out. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quotas :o(
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:20, Ken Walker wrote: So your saying that everybody in newbie is also in expert and everybody in expert is also in newbie, so why are there two different groups. Why not just have one called mandrake-users It how you try to answer in newbie one probably try to give more info about subject be as guiish as possible. In expert one probably will assume that simple things was done. One would assume you know vi and cli. It not about even answerer but about one who asked a question. You better RTFM and google before you ask your question in expert. Other wise question will not be answered or you will be insulted with RTFM. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi query
Hi Y'all, Recently, while attempting to 'urpmi' a new program, I got the following message at the command line: unable to access hdlist file of eslrahc, medium ignored I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? cheers, -- Graham Watkins It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
