[newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites
Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off list please.) 1st come 1st served. Ta, Jamie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] re: Apache
The default document root for apache is /var/www/html. The config files are in /etc/httpd/conf. Ta, Jamie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mrexecutive Sent: 03 December 2004 16:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] re: Apache Hello Guys I installed Mandrake 10 and i noticed it came with apache installed. I have never used apache before but does anyone know where the main directory of all the http files are located. For example the welcome page for the Mandrake/Apache installation? Thanks! ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee, please reply to the sender and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. You should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted my this e-mail or its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is an incorporated friendly society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992, registered number 480F. The Societys contractual business (the provision of tuberculosis benefit) is authorised by the FSA. The remainder of The Societys business is undertaken on a discretionary basis. The Society is subject to FSA requirement for prudential management. Registered Office Address: The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Holgate Park Drive, York. YO26 4GG. Tel: 0870 7545 700 Fax: 0870 7545 822 www.benenden.org.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Club iso vs. Download iso
Hi there, I would hazard a guess that the mandrake club CDs have slightly different splash screens during the installer (ie the static images that are displayed while installation is being done.) and also I would guess that there are hdlists for CDs 4-5 aswell. Perhaps these small differences may account for the different md5sums? Jamie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Kaplan Sent: 28 September 2004 08:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Club iso vs. Download iso I noticed that the 10.1CE club isos (CDs 1-3)have different md5sums than the public download isos. Does anyone know what the differences are? Do the club isos contain different packages or have the public download isos been updated from the club isos? TIA Paul ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee, please reply to the sender and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. You should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted my this e-mail or its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is an incorporated friendly society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992, registered number 480F. The Societys contractual business (the provision of tuberculosis benefit) is authorised by the FSA. The remainder of The Societys business is undertaken on a discretionary basis. The Society is subject to FSA requirement for prudential management. Registered Office Address: The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Holgate Park Drive, York. YO26 4GG. Tel: 0870 7545 700 Fax: 0870 7545 822 www.benenden.org.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] RE: Re: Sending AT commands programmatically
Thanks for this, it now works perfectly !!! Cheers, Jamie -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Björn Lundin Sent: 09 September 2004 18:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RE: Re: Sending AT commands programmatically Jamie Kerwick wrote: Thanks this works a treat !! Much appreciated. Now if only I could get a regular user to be able to access the com port ;) chmod the tty or, preferably, make that user a member of the tty group /Björn ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee, please reply to the sender and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. You should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted my this e-mail or its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is an incorporated friendly society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992, registered number 480F. The Societys contractual business (the provision of tuberculosis benefit) is authorised by the FSA. The remainder of The Societys business is undertaken on a discretionary basis. The Society is subject to FSA requirement for prudential management. Registered Office Address: The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Holgate Park Drive, York. YO26 4GG. Tel: 0870 7545 700 Fax: 0870 7545 822 www.benenden.org.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Apache
I suspect that the reason these images aren't appearing on http://www.mysite.org/mypage/ is because they are linked to images/... if you changed this to /images/... then they would work. The reason they work for http://www.mysite.org/mypage is because images/ is actually the same as /images/ as you are in the document root directory. Where as /mypage/ you are in the /mypage directory under the document root. The same goes for the stylesheet you are linking to (and why the manual link isn't red) Hope this helps Jamie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Jeppesen Sent: 10 September 2004 11:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:57:48 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is an file index.html at http://www.mysite.org/mypage and it loads fine without the trailing / There is also an index.php file under /mypage. When I type in http://www.mysite.org, the browser appends a / in the address bar when the page loads. On another server, I have Squirrelmail running and can access that by typing http://www.mysite.org/squirrelmail. Same story, the browser appends a / in the address bar when the page loads But when I try type in http://www.mysite.org/mypage I get the error message. Obviously, something is happening on the other server if I can type the directory name without the trailing / and apache knows to look for the index.php file in that directory. sorry no fix, just saying what happens on my end; http://www.mysite.org/mypage shows what appears to be your complete web page (rm-rf) - with all the images and one link. The Unix Manual link is red. If I hold my cursor over it, it disappears (the words Unix Manual disappears, but the link still works) and; http://www.mysite.org/mypage/ shows the same web page at first glance, except it is missing the Apache, PHP and mod_ssl images. Sun's is still working though. And the Unix Manual link is blue, underlined and does not disappear when hovering over it. Not sure if any of this is caused by my browsers settings though. which is Epiphany 1.0.7. -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee, please reply to the sender and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. You should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted my this e-mail or its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is an incorporated friendly society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992, registered number 480F. The Societys contractual business (the provision of tuberculosis benefit) is authorised by the FSA. The remainder of The Societys business is undertaken on a discretionary basis. The Society is subject to FSA requirement for prudential management. Registered Office Address: The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Holgate Park Drive, York. YO26 4GG. Tel: 0870 7545 700 Fax: 0870 7545 822 www.benenden.org.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Re: Sending AT commands programmatically
Thanks this works a treat !! Much appreciated. Now if only I could get a regular user to be able to access the com port ;) Ta, Jamie -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Björn Lundin Sent: 08 September 2004 18:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: Sending AT commands programmatically Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have been tasked with figuring out how to send a series of AT commands using a script to a modem plugged into our Linux server. Can someone give me some clues on how I might go about this ?? The background to this is that we have a premicell (nokia gsm modem type thing) that we want to use to send emails, sent to a specific address, as text messages. We've figured out how to send the sms using AT commands. Getting the email redirected to a script I can do fine, its simply sending the AT commands to the modem that's the problem The easiest way is using gsmlib, and the applications bundled with it http://www.pxh.de/fs/gsmlib/ /Björn ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee, please reply to the sender and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. You should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted my this e-mail or its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is an incorporated friendly society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992, registered number 480F. The Societys contractual business (the provision of tuberculosis benefit) is authorised by the FSA. The remainder of The Societys business is undertaken on a discretionary basis. The Society is subject to FSA requirement for prudential management. Registered Office Address: The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Holgate Park Drive, York. YO26 4GG. Tel: 0870 7545 700 Fax: 0870 7545 822 www.benenden.org.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sending AT commands programmatically
Hi there, I have been tasked with figuring out how to send a series of AT commands using a script to a modem plugged into our Linux server. Can someone give me some clues on how I might go about this ?? The background to this is that we have a premicell (nokia gsm modem type thing) that we want to use to send emails, sent to a specific address, as text messages. We've figured out how to send the sms using AT commands. Getting the email redirected to a script I can do fine, its simply sending the AT commands to the modem that's the problem. Ta, Jamie ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee, please reply to the sender and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. You should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted my this e-mail or its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is an incorporated friendly society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992, registered number 480F. The Societys contractual business (the provision of tuberculosis benefit) is authorised by the FSA. The remainder of The Societys business is undertaken on a discretionary basis. The Society is subject to FSA requirement for prudential management. Registered Office Address: The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Holgate Park Drive, York. YO26 4GG. Tel: 0870 7545 700 Fax: 0870 7545 822 www.benenden.org.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Sending AT commands programmatically
Thanks for the reply (and sorry for the disclaimer -- nothing I can do about that I'm afraid) Chat looks like the way to go, however, I can't seem to get it to work OK. A completed conversation using minicom goes like this: At+cmgs=phoneNumberhere, 145 Test Message Control+z cr +CMGS:1 The '' at the beginning of the 2 lines are outputted by the system, as is the +CMGS:1. Can any one point me in the right direction ??? Ta, Jamie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: 08 September 2004 14:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sending AT commands programmatically On Wednesday 08 September 2004 13:52, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have been tasked with figuring out how to send a series of AT commands using a script to a modem plugged into our Linux server. Can someone give me some clues on how I might go about this ?? The background to this is that we have a premicell (nokia gsm modem type thing) that we want to use to send emails, sent to a specific address, as text messages. We've figured out how to send the sms using AT commands. Getting the email redirected to a script I can do fine, its simply sending the AT commands to the modem that's the problem. Ta, Jamie SNIP - Enormous mail disclaimer echo text message /dev/modem or echo text message /dev/ttyS0 should do the trick. You might also like to read up on 'chat' It will allow you to automate a 'conversation' with your modem. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee, please reply to the sender and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. You should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted my this e-mail or its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is an incorporated friendly society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992, registered number 480F. The Societys contractual business (the provision of tuberculosis benefit) is authorised by the FSA. The remainder of The Societys business is undertaken on a discretionary basis. The Society is subject to FSA requirement for prudential management. Registered Office Address: The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Holgate Park Drive, York. YO26 4GG. Tel: 0870 7545 700 Fax: 0870 7545 822 www.benenden.org.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ??
Hi Bryan, Thanks for this, I now have a fully working local mirror of main, contrib, jpackage and updates! (weighing it at just over 7GB, as its RPMS only, (no source RPMS). Next thing is to get my PLF mirror up and running. I noticed that they have a link on their site for if you would like to mirror their repository. However, it reads to me as though its for public mirroring. My site is meant for internal use only (the server isn't accessible to the outside world), would I still be permitted to use their rsync ?? Ta, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Phinney Sent: 15 June 2004 14:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ?? On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:08 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Has anyone managed to get a local mirror working ?? If so, can you let me know how you achieved this?? (oh and how much disk-space is used) Yes. Using Rsync, there are instructions for doing so on the Mandrakelinux download site. The mirror size totally depends on what you mirror. You can mirror the Official files, Community files, Cooker files, ISO Files, and Updates separately. There is also the optional Contrib section, PLF repository, and a few others. If you want pretty much everything, plan on about 16GB. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] HOW TO: Create Local mirror of main, contrib updates ??
Hi there, I am attempting to create a local mirror of the main, contrib updates files (RPMS only, no SRPMS) using 'mirror'. I have so far been unable to get it to download files recursively. I only get the contents of the i586 directory. Here is my config: package=PackageName comment=MyComments go here site=ftp.proxad.net remote_dir=/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/ local_dir=/path/to/local/mirror/ Recursive=true I suspect it may be a problem with flags_recursive as this is unset so defaults to -lRat. If I ftp manually an do ls -lRat I do just get a list of files in the i586 directory and no-recursion. Has anyone managed to get a local mirror working ?? If so, can you let me know how you achieved this?? (oh and how much disk-space is used) Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 10 + Diva Server card problems
Thanks for this reply. My collegue has filled in the requisition form so maybe we'll hear back from them. This is indeed for my work place. Its meant for use as a central fax-server type of thing. Are there any other alternative software packages that can deal with this type of thing?? Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars Sent: 04 June 2004 23:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 + Diva Server card problems On Friday 04 June 2004 13:38, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, A collegue of mine is attempting to install use a Diva server (ISDN) card using Mandrake 10 official. The devices (3 of them) are found by Mandrake Device Manager, but we are so far unable to load the Diva server drivers from their website (www.eicon.com). As they didn't have any mandrake drivers available we chose the latest Redhat ones. However, they don't seem to work as the config script blurts out errors about invalid module format when it tries to insmod them. What script? Oh, I see, you are asked to run a script after installing the rpm. http://www.eicon.com/worldwide/products/MediaGateways/DivaServerforLinux .htm?dl=1regID=11401 mentions drivers for specific kernels from some distro's. Those drivers are compiled for those kernels and will not work for other kernels. You could try this: - If you require another distribution or kernel version, please fill in the Requisition form. Your information will be submitted to a pre-sales consultant who will be pleased to contact you to discuss your commercial and technical requirements. - When you click the Diva Server for Linux - Version 7.0 download link it says: Diva Server for Linux allows Eicon Diva Server adapters to be used with the Linux operating system for SuSE, Red Hat or generic Linux distribution and Source level RPM: Build Diva drivers or binary RPM package for custom kernel from source code Kernel 2.6.X Support so they suggest it is possible to compile the drivers for the Mandrake kernel you are using. I haven't found any source code but I probably didn't look good enough. If you can't find it either then maybe you should contact their technical support. They offer Linux drivers and some of their software is licenced under the GPL so they seem a Linux and FOSS software friendly company :) Another idea is to post to the Mandrake expert list. http://www.eicon.com/worldwide/products/MediaGateways/DivaServerforLinux .htm also metions isdn4linux ( http://www.isdn4linux.de/ ). I have no idea if that would give you fax functonality. Has anyone succeeded in installing a diva server (ISND) card software on Mandrake 10 ?? Any suggestions for alternative software to use ?? (the idea is to use the card to send outgoing faxes) http://www.eicon.com/worldwide/products/MediaGateways/DivaServerforLinux .htm mentions isdn4linux ( http://www.isdn4linux.de/ ). I have no idea if that would give you fax functionality. An external (not USB) modem for a normal telephone line is the easiest way to get sending faxes working. Just curious, is this for your workplace? Thanks, Jamie HTH, -Frans ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10 + Diva Server card problems
Hi there, A collegue of mine is attempting to install use a Diva server (ISDN) card using Mandrake 10 official. The devices (3 of them) are found by Mandrake Device Manager, but we are so far unable to load the Diva server drivers from their website (www.eicon.com). As they didn't have any mandrake drivers available we chose the latest Redhat ones. However, they don't seem to work as the config script blurts out errors about invalid module format when it tries to insmod them. Has anyone succeeded in installing a diva server (ISND) card software on Mandrake 10 ?? Any suggestions for alternative software to use ?? (the idea is to use the card to send outgoing faxes) Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem mounting an iso image
I have downloaded and installed Mdk10 onto my PC. The downloaded isos are stored on a server on our Network. Now to stop me having to dig out my discs everytime my PC needs files of the original discs I am trying to mount the iso images onto my PC. I have added the following entry into my /etc/fstab file: /mnt/shared_info/Disc_Images/Linux/Mandrake_10_0/Disc1_Install.iso /mnt/install_discs/cd_1 iso9660 ro,loop,noauto,user 0 0 (without the quotes obviously) Then tried mount /mnt/install_discs/cd_1. Nothing happens, the cmd line just stops responding. This used to work with 9.2 with the same fstab line (except obviously different files -- though I have tried testing the 9.2 isos with no success). Any suggestions ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] AVI - MPG (VCDs)
Hi guys, I have some video files in AVI format that I would like to convert to VCDs -- what *free* software is available for Mandrake to do this ?? Ta, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!
HELP!!! I have our Intranet server hosted on Mandrake 9.0. Until yesterday it had been working flawlessly for nearly 200 days. Yesterday afternoon after lots of 'Disk Thrashing' the problems began. Web page requests (via apache) were served very slowly, (I'm talking 5 minutes to serve a page that would typically take less than a second. Telnet ftp connections took similarly extended times to be made, even the X-Windows system doesn't respond. Curiously though pings are answered immediately! I rebooted the machine (in the end I had to just switch off at the mains!) and on reboot it began working fine again. 10 minutes ago the same thing has happened again. What I would like to know is where to start to try and find what the problem is and how to rectify it. I did notice earlier that there was a httpd process using 253MB of memory which seems rather excessive - is there any way to trace what this process is doing ? Thanks for any advice. Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!
Thanks for the suggestions: The puzzling thing is this server HAD been running flawlessly! and I haven't installed any new software to it since the day it was installed. It serves solely as an Intranet server! I couldn't understand apache using 253mb either, but that's what the gnome system monitor said! The only thing new about the server yesterday was a few PHP web-pages I am working on that talk to Active Directory via LDAP. Could one of these pages cause a runaway httpd process ?? (it shouldn't do as PHP has a 30 second maximum processing time limit, but perhaps the way PHP uses LDAP to connect to AD?) After looking through virtually every log file in the system, it seems as though the lack of responsiveness was because all of the memory was used up. (there are a few errors relating to failure to create tempory files, and failure to create process forks etc..) Under normal usage none of the SWAP is ever used and rarely does the RAM get used close to full capacity. But I did notice yesterday that at one point the RAM was fully used and the SWAP was at 90% usage. (this was shortly before the system totally refused to lock up) I have TOP running now I'll keep monitoring the memory usage and get back to the list if anything crops up.(BTW can I get TOP to display the amount of memory used rather than %?) Thanks for your help. Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2004 13:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!! On 1/13/2004 at 12:17 PM Jamie Kerwick wrote: HELP!!! I have our Intranet server hosted on Mandrake 9.0. Until yesterday it had been working flawlessly for nearly 200 days. Yesterday afternoon after lots of 'Disk Thrashing' the problems began. Web page requests (via apache) were served very slowly, (I'm talking 5 minutes to serve a page that would typically take less than a second. Telnet ftp connections took similarly extended times to be made, even the X-Windows system doesn't respond. Curiously though pings are answered immediately! I rebooted the machine (in the end I had to just switch off at the mains!) and on reboot it began working fine again. 10 minutes ago the same thing has happened again. What I would like to know is where to start to try and find what the problem is and how to rectify it. I did notice earlier that there was a httpd process using 253MB of memory which seems rather excessive - is there any way to trace what this process is doing ? Thanks for any advice. Jamie *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** Jamie; Try running top in a console on the server. I can't see apache using 253Mb's of ram for an Intranet site. There may be something else going on. If everything slows down again, top can show you what's chewing up the resources, and then we can go looking for the actual problem. I've had 9.0 running on a server here almost since 9.0 came out, and it's been flawless. Unless you've done a lot of kernel patching, or the server's been hacked, I would think that the problem would either be a runaway process from something new you recently installed , or from bad hardware. If you see the slow-down happening again, check top ( which should be running already ) to find the process ID. Lanman ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!
Thanks for this. However, when the server locked up today, I couldn't even connect to webmin, (in fact I couldn't connect in any way!) Is there any way to get this sort of information through the CLI?? Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Bryan Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2004 13:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!! On Tuesday 13 January 2004 07:17 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: I did notice earlier that there was a httpd process using 253MB of memory which seems rather excessive - is there any way to trace what this process is doing ? One step you might take is to connect to the web server using Webmin, https://web.server:1 Go to System panel, click on Process Icon and select Memory link. That will show you the processing using the largest amounts of memory. The one using 256M should be at the top of the list. Click on the process id, then click on the Files and Connections button and you should see a list of files in use. This might give you some indication of what that process is doing. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise
With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, My boss recently expressed an interest in moving our entire company's IT from Windows servers desktops to either: A) a Totally linux based solution. B) windows servers with Linux Clients C) Linux servers with windows desktops. My question, well request really, is for any information, or suggestions of web-sites that may be of use when doing a business proposal for this. Plus any recommended software replacements plus recommendations of with linux distros to use would be very much appreciated (obviously I would like to use Mandrake as I have used this in the past.) The systems we currently use are: Win2k Servers using Active Directory (for authentication and also user information directory) DNS (Bind?) DHCP, Oracle 8i server (hosted on a cluster server) Cognos(reports from our oracle database) Exchange (email, calendar, meeting room booking, tasks etc..) MS Office 2k (obvious replacement being Open Office) Terminal Server, Remote Dial-in Users, Scan-file (scanned document management) Additionally we want to use: Electronic faxing, Web Proxying, (squid?) Thanks in advance. Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
The windows software you have been given registers the modem on their network and allows the modem to download the correct software into it to set the download upload speeds etc.. Howeveer, you should be able to install the modem manually, it takes a little effort. If you go to http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/broadjump.html follow the instructions under 'Doing without the Broadband Installer you *should* be able to install it OK. Hope this helps. Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Len Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 October 2003 10:50 To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP. Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. -- Len Lawrence -- Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. -- ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Remotely running a windows program from linux
Hi, Here's the scenario: I have an Intranet server which is Mandrake 9.0, we have a reports server running windows 2000 server. When someone visits a page on the Intranet server I want a batch file to be run on the windows 2000 server. I know I could use telnet, or install iis on the w2k server and reference a page on that to call the batch file, but I'd rather not do either of these if I can help it. Is there a command line utility that I could use to send this command to the w2k server (something like psexec for windows)? Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] enemy territory
According to the official web-site (http://games.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/index.asp?section=et) The game is 'A Free, stand-alone, downloadable, multiplayer game..' There are links to a Linux version on the official web-site. Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Xuer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 September 2003 13:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] enemy territory Enemy Territory is about 270M and totally free. It doesn't need original 'return to castel wolfenstein'. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Björn Olsson wrote: I have spent *far* too much time on Enemy Territory myself. It's based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein so in a way it is a comercial game, though it is given away for free. You can find more information at http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/ http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewdownloadcid=7 http://www.enemy-territory.com/ I can't figure out this game though ... is it comercial, is it free? .. seems at one point there is only windows version ... and the general impression that it's maybe an addon for something like 'return to castel wolfenstein' and you can't play it unless you've got the game. Please clarify ... promissingly enough I see a big download ... is this really somethign that you can download, install play and don't need anything else? Or is it just a demo? --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA
I have managed to get it working now. At first I tried 'depmod -a' -- no joy Then I checked the aliases that someone else had suggested -- no joy. I finally editted the /etc/modules file, adding the line 'nvidia' rebooted, and IT WORKED !!! I now have it booting straight to X prompting me with a logon screen. Thanks for your help, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2003 11:35 To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 20:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the Geforce drivers from the Nvidia website, installed them as per instructions, including the modification of the XFreeConfig-4 file, changing nv to nvidia etc Now the problem I have is that I have my PC set to automatically boot to X, only it fails and drops me to a command line. The error in the Xfree log, is something along the lines of 'cannot find display' module not loaded. I can however issue a 'insmod nvidia' then 'startx' and X will open up fine (the nvidia splash screen loads fine, and open GL games (tux etc..) work OK) Any suggestions on what might be causing the failure ? Or how to I automatically do a 'insmod nvidia' on boot up so that X loads as it should ??? Thanks for any suggestions, Jamie Try running (in a console/terminal) depmod -a ...then reboot and try it again. Something is definitely wrong if the nvidia driver isn't loading in your /etc/modules.conf - so this should, SHOULD help...give it a go and tell us what happens... -- Fri May 30 20:30:00 EST 2003 20:30:00 up 5:39, 4 users, load average: 1.40, 1.29, 1.63 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * But I always fired into the nearest hill or, failing that, into blackness. I meant no harm; I just liked the explosions. And I was careful never to kill more than I could eat. -- Raoul Duke ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA
I have installed the Geforce drivers from the Nvidia website, installed them as per instructions, including the modification of the XFreeConfig-4 file, changing nv to nvidia etc Now the problem I have is that I have my PC set to automatically boot to X, only it fails and drops me to a command line. The error in the Xfree log, is something along the lines of 'cannot find display' module not loaded. I can however issue a 'insmod nvidia' then 'startx' and X will open up fine (the nvidia splash screen loads fine, and open GL games (tux etc..) work OK) Any suggestions on what might be causing the failure ? Or how to I automatically do a 'insmod nvidia' on boot up so that X loads as it should ??? Thanks for any suggestions, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA
Thanks for this, I'll give this a go tonight. BTW What does depmod -a actually do ?? Thanks Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2003 11:35 To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 20:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the Geforce drivers from the Nvidia website, installed them as per instructions, including the modification of the XFreeConfig-4 file, changing nv to nvidia etc Now the problem I have is that I have my PC set to automatically boot to X, only it fails and drops me to a command line. The error in the Xfree log, is something along the lines of 'cannot find display' module not loaded. I can however issue a 'insmod nvidia' then 'startx' and X will open up fine (the nvidia splash screen loads fine, and open GL games (tux etc..) work OK) Any suggestions on what might be causing the failure ? Or how to I automatically do a 'insmod nvidia' on boot up so that X loads as it should ??? Thanks for any suggestions, Jamie Try running (in a console/terminal) depmod -a ...then reboot and try it again. Something is definitely wrong if the nvidia driver isn't loading in your /etc/modules.conf - so this should, SHOULD help...give it a go and tell us what happens... -- Fri May 30 20:30:00 EST 2003 20:30:00 up 5:39, 4 users, load average: 1.40, 1.29, 1.63 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * But I always fired into the nearest hill or, failing that, into blackness. I meant no harm; I just liked the explosions. And I was careful never to kill more than I could eat. -- Raoul Duke ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA
Thanks, I'll check this out when I get home tonight, though I *think* that this is already set. Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: serge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2003 11:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA On Friday 30 May 2003 13:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the Geforce drivers from the Nvidia website, installed them as per instructions, including the modification of the XFreeConfig-4 file, changing nv to nvidia etc Now the problem I have is that I have my PC set to automatically boot to X, only it fails and drops me to a command line. The error in the Xfree log, is something along the lines of 'cannot find display' module not loaded. I can however issue a 'insmod nvidia' then 'startx' and X will open up fine (the nvidia splash screen loads fine, and open GL games (tux etc..) work OK) Any suggestions on what might be causing the failure ? Or how to I automatically do a 'insmod nvidia' on boot up so that X loads as it should ??? Thanks for any suggestions, Jamie Hi Jamie you have to change the aliases in your /etc/modules.d/aliases file # Nvidia drivers support alias char-major-195 nvidia alias /dev/nvidia0 char-major-195 alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195. it means that i will load the module when X starts. Hope it helps Serge ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] File encryption software
Thanks for all of the replies on this topic.. Still not too sure what is the best way of going really. The reason for encryption is that the files contain personal data which we don't want to pass clear text. In an ideal world the files will unencrypt themselves as the people we are sending the files are idiots ;) so we have to make it as simple as possible for them! The caveat for this is that they us windows so it would need to be an m$ executable file that is created. We already have a tool that can do what I want, but it needs M$ to do the encryption as well, I guess I could experiment using this under dosemu / wine. As the enryption process is done via a script can dosemu be run scripted rather than interactively (ie the program I have prompts for a password, can I feen the password in via the (dosemu) calling script instead?) Thanks for ALL of your help, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2003 18:27 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] File encryption software On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 13:41, David E. Fox wrote: Well, pkzip can create self-extracting executables, of course. But we've had them too for as long as I can remember -- they're callsed shell archives. Still you need some way to encrypt the file. On the other hand, if the OP wants to be able to extract (cleartext) files, why should the archive be encrypted in the first place? In case people aren't familiar with them, shell archives are really kind of neat in that they contain a shell script that extracts the files inside the shell script,via what's called 'here' documents (in shell, this is a 'file' that's embedded in a script.) #! /bin/sh # sample here document extractor cat extracted-file !EOF * this is a test of the emergency broadcast system this is only a test !EOF More recently, we see self-extracting archives where all the (binary) data is embedded in the script -- for example, open office's installer. Good one. Using uuencode/uudecode the problem is solved even for binaries. The only part missing is the encryption. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] File encryption software
I have been lumbered with the task of finding some software which will 'encrypt' a file / selection of files into a single file which will self-decrypt when supplied with the correct key/key file. Preferably the self-decrypting will work on M$ platforms, the encrypting OS is MDK 9.0. Any suggestions ?? (preferable open source) TIA, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Intel cs330 webcam
I have just found a cs330 webcam which we would like to use to take photos of our department to go on our intranet, can anyone point me in the direction of instructions on how I might do this?? If it matters, the webcam will go on the same PC as our intranet is hosted. Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA
It has almost got me going. Windows now reports the printer as 'ready' however whenever I try and print 'explorer.exe has encountered a problem', or I get 'unable to create print job' any suggestions ?? (The printer is a HP LaserJet 4 using the driver that comes with windows. The printer is also shared on an MS server, and I can print fine from that share) Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 January 2003 18:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 6:51 pm, et wrote: After hijacking this (i think) thread the other day with my own print from windows problems I guess I might pipe in and offer some of what i have discovered in the last day seems (in my case anyway) the problem has to do with the fact that the drivers from the windows side are not Postscript. and the cups are expecting Postscript. I found after chasing some of the links Anne posted that the problem for me was cured by use client driver = yes the Global section and also added guest ok =yes to the printers section, and finally changed the print command to: print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r this allows the windows drivers to be used and does not expect postscript if it is not a postscript kinda printer Glad you got yours going, et. Hope it does the same for Jamie. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA
I've had a look in the log file, it appears to be a permissions problem. The log entry is: [2003/01/30 09:50:23, 0] printing/printing.c:print_job_start(951) print_job_start: insufficient permissions to open spool file /var/spool/cups/tmp/smbprn.27.SRAafA. What do I need to change in smb.conf? (the /var/spool/cup/tmp dir is owned by lp:sys with drwx-T ) Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 January 2003 10:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:03 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has almost got me going. Windows now reports the printer as 'ready' however whenever I try and print 'explorer.exe has encountered a problem', or I get 'unable to create print job' any suggestions ?? (The printer is a HP LaserJet 4 using the driver that comes with windows. The printer is also shared on an MS server, and I can print fine from that share) I'm at the limit of my knowledge. Question to gurus - is this a permission problem, a master-browser type problem, or something else? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA + pdf writing printer
Excellent, I've change the path to /var/spool/samba. It now works fine !! I even managed to get my pseudo pdf printer to work properly ! Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 January 2003 11:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a look in the log file, it appears to be a permissions problem. The log entry is: [2003/01/30 09:50:23, 0] printing/printing.c:print_job_start(951) print_job_start: insufficient permissions to open spool file /var/spool/cups/tmp/smbprn.27.SRAafA. What do I need to change in smb.conf? (the /var/spool/cup/tmp dir is owned by lp:sys with drwx-T ) Mine is lp:sys with drwx--, but my smb.conf defines the samba printing to go to /var/spoo/samba. Rightly or wrongly, that has root:root with drwxrwxrwt - I don't know what that final 't' signifies? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA
I have a problem accessing my SAMBA shared printers on a Windows machine. I get 'Access Denied - Unable to connect'. The weird thing is I have a couple of public shares, which to me seem to have the same access settings as the 3 printers, and they work fine. The printers print OK on the Linux Box I have atteched my smb.conf file, it's a pretty hacked together job, that I did months ago and don't remember what most of the settings do :( Can anyone point me in the right direction, Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 smb.conf Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Xine - update (S)VCD
I would like a copy of the vcdx rpm if that's OK I would like to be able to use my 'real fancy' menus I've done for my vcds ;) Ta Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 January 2003 10:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xine - update (S)VCD On Friday 24 Jan 2003 1:11 am, Pilagá wrote: El Jue 23 Ene 2003 18:23, Anne Wilson escribió: installs. I got the vcdx tarball, but I'm wrestling with that. It says it can't find xine-lib or the config file that xine-lib installs. Anne Anne, I just have build vcdx_rpm (mdk 9.0). If you want, I can send it to you (100K). I can't test it, because I don't have (s)vcd files here.) Thanks, Pilaga, but I don't think I need it. By now you should have read my message that all is working. It turned out that I needed to add subdirectories of .../plugins/1.0.0, and that resolved everything. My thanks again to you, Jamie and Stephen for helping me to track down the problem. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Xine - update
You should find a large file called something like mpegav.dat I *think* in the mpegav directory , just add this to your playlist (its just an mpeg movie file) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 January 2003 14:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xine - update On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 11:16 pm, Pilagá wrote: So, don't bother with c/l. My sugestion to play unencrypted dvds is: Open xineClick on Playlist editor (the uper left icon)AddSearch your dvd playerChoose the files (vobs) that you want to playHilight playerthemClick SelectThen Save your selectionThen hit play, et voilá...! Hi, Pilaga. I tried this, without success. Browing the disk seems to suggest that it is vcd format. There are directories for /cdi, /ext, /mpegav, /segment and /vcd. The /vcd directory contains entries.vcd, info.vcd, lot.vcd and psd.vcd (the first is a text file that just contains ENTRYVCD. Does this ring any bells? It's not essential that I crack this - I can watch them elsewhere, but I hate to be beatedn g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Xine - update
That sounds a little screwy to me, a VCD is simply an mpeg file, are you able to play any other mpeg files you have ?? I've just had a quick look thru the xine user-mailing-list on sourceforge, one thing that was suggested was: I have a a problem with (s)vcds on my PowerBook, too. Removing the xineplug_dmx_ogg.so and xineplug_dmx_ogg.la solved the problem here. (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1552297forum_id=343 8) Have you got the 'xine-vcdx'navigation-capable (S)VCD input plugin installed ? Maybe this will help, download from http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 January 2003 16:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xine - update On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 4:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xine vcd://1 There is no demuxer to handle vcd:/1 Courld there really be one plugin that I haven't got? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Xine - update
I think that's just the version of the VCD specifications. FYI: *ver 1.0: Karaoke CD specification, MPEG-1 data in tracks *ver 1.1: Video CD: as 1.0 but chapter marks and multi-volume album facilities added *ver 2.0: Video CD: addition of stills, generic menus, playlists, closed caption text. Xine should have no problems viewing it. I've recently burnt my own VCDs using Nero on Windows, it does them as VCD2.0, both a DVD player and Windows media player played it so Xine shouldn't have any problems at all! Tho I haven't tested it using Xine, I'll give it a go when I get home tonight. Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 January 2003 16:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xine - update On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 4:10 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 4:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xine vcd://1 There is no demuxer to handle vcd:/1 Courld there really be one plugin that I haven't got? Anne I never noticed before, but on the box it says VCD2.0. Does that mean anything to you? Amme -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: POP3 mail filtering [was: Re: [newbie] OT's on this list]
I have a windows based mail client The Bat! Which can do selective downloading of mail. You just create filters for selective download, as well as a selective download based on file sizes. If The Bat! Can do it I'm sure other email software should be able to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 January 2003 13:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: POP3 mail filtering [was: Re: [newbie] OT's on this list] Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 8:58 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Wouldn't that be nice if the POP mail system could do that! In my experience, using Netscape and Mozilla mail, I either download all the messages from the ISP or none. Are you sure it doesn't? I'm sure I used just that to get rid of spam from a certain address, and mine is a pop account. I'm using KMail, and I'm sure it was simple to activate there. AFAIK, Mozilla does not allow server-side mail filtering - the only options are to download everything, or only messages under a certain size (not very useful for spam filtering, since the problem is lot's of little messages, not one or two big ones). On the positive side, Mozilla/Netscape allows you the option of leaving messages on the server but having them deleted there when they are deleted locally - very useful when you're logging on from different computers. The radical solution is to install filtering software on your server account, but most ISPs won't allow that, I suppose. Some webmail providers allow you to set filters from the webmail client. Another possibility is if your server allows telnet access, telnet in, look at your mail with something like pine, delete everything that looks uninteresting, then open the rest with your favourite mail client (I do this a lot to clean up my less used accounts - e.g. a cgi-bin account). Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] apache configure for local use
If you use webmin (https://localhost:1) under the servers - apache section, select the virtual server, then under 'Document Options', there is a generate directory listings option, just enable this. Save changes and restart apache. You can alter how the directory listings are generated by going into 'Directory Indexing' from the same place you selected 'Document Options'. Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Jerry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 11:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] apache configure for local use On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:25:26 +0100 Milos Prudek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7 Renaming the index.shtml in de default folder als does not result in presenting the content of the default folder, it does result in a 403 page. That is correct behaviour of any web server. If that is normal, how DO you get it to display the contents of a folder as in, for example, the following page... http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ ? Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server
Thanks for this, looks like that might be the way to go. I'll have to give it a go tonight. My final email related problem is how to control access to my smtp server, using either username password, or IP restrictions. (up would be preferable, but IP is good enough). I believe I have postfix installed as the mail server. Thanks Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 13:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a POP / IMAP email server on my Home Network. The idea being it grabs email from our ISP mail accounts, into our respective linux system accounts' mail (using fetchmail ?? ). The email accounts will then be accessed from windows based email clients using either POP or preferably IMAP. Is there any software which comes with mdk 9.0 that does this ?? If so, are there any help guides available for this. If not, can anyone recommend any FREE software which will do this ? I have found Qpopper in a quick google search, is this any good / easy to install configure ?? Thanks for your time, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 There are a gazillion ways of doing it in Linux. You will find a guide if you follow the link in my signature. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server
Thanks for this, yet more ways to while away a good few hours ;) Ta, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 14:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this, looks like that might be the way to go. I'll have to give it a go tonight. My final email related problem is how to control access to my smtp server, using either username password, or IP restrictions. (up would be preferable, but IP is good enough). I believe I have postfix installed as the mail server. Thanks Jamie By default, Postfix relays mail: from trusted clients whose IP address matches $mynetworks, from trusted clients matching $relay_domains or subdomains thereof, from untrusted clients to destinations that match $relay_domains or subdomains thereof, except addresses with sender-specified routing. If you configure your Postfix with Webmin (Install the webmin RPM then type https://localhost:1 in a browser (NOTE https NOT http)) then you will see it is trivial to configure Postfix to restrict smtp access to named IPs Just select PostfixConfigurationSMTP Server and put list of allowed IPs in Restrict mail relaying. You can also run SMTP over SASL which is described in detail here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php It is worth taking a read of the default Postfix configuration files /etc/postfix/main.cf They are full of examples and advice. derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 13:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] POP / IMAP e-Mail server On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a POP / IMAP email server on my Home Network. The idea being it grabs email from our ISP mail accounts, into our respective linux system accounts' mail (using fetchmail ?? ). The email accounts will then be accessed from windows based email clients using either POP or preferably IMAP. Is there any software which comes with mdk 9.0 that does this ?? If so, are there any help guides available for this. If not, can anyone recommend any FREE software which will do this ? I have found Qpopper in a quick google search, is this any good / easy to install configure ?? Thanks for your time, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 There are a gazillion ways of doing it in Linux. You will find a guide if you follow the link in my signature. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Apache, PHP and SSI
You don't need to use !--#include file=file-- to do include cgi or
shtml, according to the PHP manual, you can use, virtual('filename'); (see
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.virtual.php for details).
To include php files you would use, include('filename'); (see
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php for details).
Hope this helps,
Jamie
BTW http://www.phpbuilder.com is a great forum for php.
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-Original Message-
From: - netmaniac - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 December 2002 15:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Apache, PHP and SSI
I have a mdk8.2 box with apache wich runs very well. Everything is working
fine but I can't get the !--#include file=file-- to work in the .PHP
files. The .shtml obviously works with these server side includes but I want
to mix php coding with ssi in my pages. I've already tried the XBitHack but
it haven't worked.
Any Suggestion?
netmaniac
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[newbie] Bounced mail -- where do I find it??
I have just examined the mail logs on my intranet server to find that over a weeks worth of email has been bounced, (not actually that many, the server only sends mail from the web-server) because of one of our network guys adding new servers that took over the mail domain. The exact error is: Dec 18 04:12:31 trek postfix/local[25424]: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=benenden.org.uk[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], delay=1, status=bounced (host benenden.org.uk[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED]) What I would like to know is, will POSTFIX automatically retry the sending of these ?? If not is there any way I can retrieve these emails manually and resend them ?? Thanks, Jamie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Windowmanager
It would seem that it was updated in March of this year, go here for info, http://udeproject.sourceforge.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:stephen.kuhn;gmx.net] Sent: 06 November 2002 10:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Windowmanager I think the UDE project rather died...I was trying to follow it...that was back in '98 or '97 I think... November 3rd 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! Mashed potatoes can be your friend. ! !! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Anders Lind Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 9:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windowmanager IceWM is also a nice WM that is for sure...FWWM2 is not too bad either for that matter. Speaking of WM's, does anybody know if there is still any development on UDE (Unix Desktop Enviroment), I saw it like three years ago and then it was pretty nice /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
How would I go about making the drivers from source ??
-- is there an on-line guide anywhere, or are there any instructions that
come with the source which actually work (I've found in the past nvidia
instructions to not be 100% accurate)??
Thanks
Jamie
-Original Message-
From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 14 October 2002 01:12
To: newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 08:55, Robin Turner wrote:
Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through
the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything.
The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives
only
refer to drivers in the Mandrake Club site.
\begin{irrelevance} And no, I am not going to join the Mandrake Club -
I
feel I put enough back into the OS movement by answering questions,
writing documentation etc., and if I ever become financially solvent,
I'd rather give my support by a straight donation or buying shares,
rather than paying for closed-source stuff which I either don't need or
should be freely available. \end{irrelevance}
So, does anyone know where I can get 9.0 drivers, or whether 8.2
drivers
can be made to work with the 2419-16 kernel?
Thanks,
Sir Robin
Sir Robin,
Making them from the source seems to work more reliably than rpms, even
though I understand that the source is really just a packaged binary.
I am using the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960.tar.gz very happily with 9.0 having
tried NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz and found it not to work.
If you have the same experience and have trouble finding the 2960 version,
e-mail me off-list and I'll send it on over.
HTH
Brian
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RE: [newbie] compile rdesktop on PPC?
I can't help you with compiling .c sources, however, using http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=rdesktop I have found some rpms you could download and install instead. The latest version here is 1.1.0-5 (there's even mandrake specific rpms!). Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Gabe Knuth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 21:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] compile rdesktop on PPC? Hello, I've downloaded this application called rdesktop for connecting to Microsoft Terminal Services sessions. My issue is that it came down as a .c file and I need to compile it - something I've never done before. Can anyone point me in a direction? Thanks, Gabe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] how to get write permission to a mounted folder?
From memory, I think that the permissions have to be set on the mount point in /etc/fstab or in the mount command, see 'man mount' quote far down, I think it's the switch -w [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: fifner the dragon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 12:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to get write permission to a mounted folder? I got write permission for all now. But then it is not mounted anymore. When I mount it again I can no longer write to it. Any suggestions? Thanks, Fifner - Original Message - From: fifner the dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:34:42 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to get write permission to a mounted folder? I tried the chmod 777 J command and I guess it was accepted, because there was no error message. but when i run the ls -l I still get drwxr-xr-x just like before. - Original Message - From: Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 00:10:09 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to get write permission to a mounted folder? fifner the dragon wrote: Hi, I made a shared folder (called J) on my other box(windoze). I can access it from /mnt/J using Samba. To read and copy from it is no problem. If I log in as root I can write to it. How can I write to it without logging in as root? Cheers, Fifner --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com try the following: cd /mnt ls -l J as this is a Windows PC you should see something like drwxrwxrwx 18 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 J/ If you get the line starting drwxr-xr-x then only the user who created the directory has write access ( in this case root ) So then ( logged in as the user root ) do chmod 777 J and the problem should be solved. best wishes, norm -- http://www.nelliott.co.uk registered Linux user 277766 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Free price comparison tool gives you the best prices and cash back! http://www.bestbuyfinder.com/download.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Free price comparison tool gives you the best prices and cash back! http://www.bestbuyfinder.com/download.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing VNC Server
I have a MDK 8.2 box onto which i would like to install VNC Server. What VNC variant is the best / easiest to install? Ta Jamie _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] htdig
I've got mdk 8.2 installed on our Intranet server. Which works fine, except that the htsearch doesn't work thru http. It does work ok if i run from a command line. On my old box it ran from http://hostname/cgi-bin/htsearch, this appears not to work now. I believe that i need to make some changes in the apache conf, but as to which i don't know. Any suggestions / ideas ?? Failing that does anyone know of good alternative site search engines?? Thanks Jamie _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re-compiling PHP
I have apache PHP installed from mdk8.2. PHP is installed with safe-mode enabled, how do i re-compile PHP with safe-mode disabled ?? Thanks Jamie _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FTP server problems
I'm running mdk8.2. I HAD my ftp server running OK last night. I came to ftp
into the linux box this morning, no joy. I get a 421 Service not available
error when trying to connect. I get the same result trying to ftp into the
linux box, from the linux box.
The server type is set to inetd in proftpd.conf,
This is my proftpd-xinet file from xinetd.d folder
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice= 10
}
Any suggestions ??
TIA
Jamie
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Re: [newbie] FTP server problems
Don't worry about this i fixed it!.
I had a bad line in my hosts file!. (/var/log/messages is very useful!!)
Jamie
From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] FTP server problems
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:06:31 +0100
I'm running mdk8.2. I HAD my ftp server running OK last night. I came to
ftp into the linux box this morning, no joy. I get a 421 Service not
available error when trying to connect. I get the same result trying to
ftp into the linux box, from the linux box.
The server type is set to inetd in proftpd.conf,
This is my proftpd-xinet file from xinetd.d folder
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice= 10
}
Any suggestions ??
TIA
Jamie
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[newbie] massive memory usage / php server problems
I have a linux box on which i run our Intranet. it had been running for 100+ days absolutely fine, until i installed phpnuke 5.5. Now it runs extremely slowly. I have noticed that there is a lot of memory used for caching. if i do a free -t i get these numbers, total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 62480 61476 1004 0 2544 19560 -/+ buffers/cache: 39372 23108 Swap: 306392 18972 287420 Total: 368872 80448 288424 This is after i have attempted to run php nuke. beforehand the cached figure was something like 2000 instead of 19560. Before i had rebooted the cache figure was 97 % of mem, 85% of swap!!!. I am now having great difficulty in actually viewing pages properly now on phpnuke, I keep getting HTML code outputted as, input type=\text\ name=\query\ size=\14\/font/form/center/td td bgcolor=\#cfcfbb\ align=\center\ centerform action=\modules.php?name=Newsnew_topic\ method=\post\font class=\content\bTopics /b My own code works fine, but isn't anywhere near as complicated as phpnukes. Any suggestions ?? Thanks Jamie _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why wont me gateway change ??
thanks mate. i'll give that a try next time From: Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why wont me gateway change ?? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:13:44 -0500 On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Jamie Kerwick wrote: %_I think i've got it sorted now, i just stopped restarted the network service using mandrake control centre. Whats the command(s) to do this from a prompt (i using admin from a telnet window) cheers /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart -- Gerald Waugh Registered Linux User 255245 get registered at http://counter.lt.org/enter-person.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] identd obtaining connection username
OK, here's the story, I'm doing the companys' intranet server, based on mdk8.0 running apache. I want to be able to authenticate users based on their NT usernames (nt4.0) so instead of the user's logging into the intranet i want to get their NT username automatically. (I don't want to get NT to authenticate, i will do authentication). The main use is for doing questionnaires, surveys. basically anything that requires them filling in a form. we want to stop them from filling out a form more than once. We can't do it based on IP as people use each other's PCs, (and also DHCP is being introduced so IP addresses themselves might change. Now i'd seen identd as doing this, what i want to know is how to install/use identd to pass the username to a php script. OR any other ideas that people have to do this. thanks for any comments, suggestions etc. cheers Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error emails to root (cron jobs i think)
I have tried issuing a 'service inn stop' i just got unrecognised service. there are 2 hourly and 1 daily cron jobs setup referring to inn, how do i get rid of them ?? cheers Jamie From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] error emails to root (cron jobs i think) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:56:27 -0800 (PST) I keep getting the following mails in my linux box's root account. I believe they are from cron jobs and that it is something concerning usenet servers. It looks like you have inn started for some reason. That's the usenet news server. Try issuing 'service inn stop' as root. Jamie David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] error emails to root (cron jobs i think)
I keep getting the following mails in my linux box's root account. I believe they are from cron jobs and that it is something concerning usenet servers. but exactly what does it mean and how do i stop them, (remove the cron job) every hour: touch: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied chmod: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied /usr/bin/nntpsend: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied daily: /usr/bin/news.daily: /var/lib/news/.news.daily: Permission denied cheers Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
cheers i'll give it a go later tonight. Jamie From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:56:59 +0200 jamie, install them as you would the offical nvidia ones. they will work fine on X4.0 hth ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing
Just noticed that you said that these files are patched, what are they patches for ? BTW do you know if these drivers work for GeForce 3 cards, i heard that some of the earlier drivers had problems ?? cheers Jamie From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:40:06 + On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:00, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Yes Just follow the instructions in the Nvidia text (you can find it at the bottom of the Nvidia linux download page) Yes it works with XFree4.x BTW: if your kernel is non standard you should use the .src.rpm files and intall them with 'rpm --rebuild' I do that anyway. Also I have checked the mandrakeuser rpms. They contain two patches. One called mandrakeconf, and the other one is a patch for devfs. Derek Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver did you use? The ones at mandrakeuser contain a patch that is not present on the one from Nvidia (I don't remember what it does, but its useful) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php There is also a version there for use with the 'Enterprise' kernel which may be useful for you. HTH Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Software Manager remotely
sorry i'm afraid i can't help you with your problem, but i would like to know how you got exceed to work. I've tried a number of times, but the best i got was an x teminal window, no full desktop, what settings in exceed did you use, any changes to Xfree86 config files ? Actually, just had a thought, have you tried using the software manager in webmin ?? or how about running the software manager from a command line which you are su'ed in ?? cheers Jamie From: Andrew M. Henshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Using Software Manager remotely Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:06:28 -0500 I have a system set up that I'm trying to use headless (without a local keyboard, monitor, mouse). Most things work fine, except, it seems, for the X-window applications that require root authorization. The application that I'm particularly interested in is Software Manager. When I run it remotely, it asks for the root password and then seems to die a silent death. When I run it locally, everything is fine. I'm using eXceed as my X-window server. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Promise UDMA 100 book problems
I have just recently added a promise ultra 100 controller card to my PC and obviously now it doesn't boot into linux, what do I need to do to get it working ? Thanks Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron
thanks, how would i now go about setting these as cron jobs, i need to stop at 3 am and start at 5am. cheers Jamie From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:26:52 -0700 On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:10:29 +0100 Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] cleverly noted: because of a network problem that i keep having with my linux box i need to de-activate the network card for a the period between 3-5 am, what command(s) would i use to do this?? su root password ifdown eth0 should do it Later: su root password ifup eth0 HTH, Mike _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] de-activating network card in cron
because of a network problem that i keep having with my linux box i need to de-activate the network card for a the period between 3-5 am, what command(s) would i use to do this?? cheers Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] postfix mail relay options
What i would like to do is to set postfix to send non-local emails through an email gateway unless the message is sent from a particular IP address. I've basically setup a linux box as our intranet server. If it needs to send an email to any of our exchange email users it uses the exchange smtp host to send it, if its a local user postfix sends it itself. Now this works fine, except if i send an email to an address external to our network, for example to a hotmail account, it gets bounced from the exchange server as recipient unknown (it gets there if i try to use outlook). I only need to use it to send external address for my own use (;)) cos i don't like using exchange server for my personal emails (do that is actually a sackable offence!) Any suggestions / help / websites will be great TIA Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix relayhost problems
Right i have on my linux box postfix setup to send mail, which worked fine but with one snap, i'll explain, If i used linux to send all mail, the email would go in and out of our internet gateway gathering our internet providers banners on the way out and then back in again. i changed it to use a relay host of our Exchange server to send non-linux username mail, because the linux box will be used for our intranet. This works fine, linux users get their email correctly, exchange users get their email properly, the only problem now is external (ie non-linuxnon-exchange) emails don't work, they are being bounced from the exchange server as receipient unknown. I suspect this may be solved by changing the exchange server config. However, i don't have access to it so what i wanted to do was to set the linux box the relay non-linux user's email except when sent from certain ip address's. Is this possible to do? If so how do i go about doing it? any other suggestions on how i might do this?? cheers Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem
Up until thursday night my linux box had been working perfectly now it keeps freezing up when i leave it on overnight. Now initially i thought it my be a cron job that was crashing it as it seemed to happen at similar times. From the cron logs the last entry was 3am everynight. So i tried manually running each of the daily cron jobs seperately and they all seemed to work fine (this was yesterday) now when i came to my desk this morning the box had frozen at 5.09 pm (the clock was visible). Basically what i would like to know is how to go about finding out what the problem is, ie what logs should i be looking at etc. (its a long shot but if anyone has any ideas please share, i don't expect any to though from such a vague, general description) cheers jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem
thanks for the tips, i've checked all of the filesystems but the come up clean, (when i reboot after the hang it does give some errors and cleans them ). would you say it was more than likely a hardware problem though rather than software ? (i.e. i want to get my boss to buy me a better PC ) thanks Jamie From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:40:41 -0400 On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:15, Jamie Kerwick wrote: how do i go about using fsck. I've tried fsck -A -C and it gave me a warning about mounted filesystems. Can i just unmount all of my partitions, fsck and then remount , or do i have to do it partition at a time? Jamie partition at a time... and of course you have to boot the rescue CD to check /. From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:57:00 -0400 On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:28, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Up until thursday night my linux box had been working perfectly now it keeps freezing up when i leave it on overnight. Now initially i thought it my be a cron job that was crashing it as it seemed to happen at similar times. From the cron logs the last entry was 3am everynight. So i tried manually running each of the daily cron jobs seperately and they all seemed to work fine (this was yesterday) now when i came to my desk this morning the box had frozen at 5.09 pm (the clock was visible). Basically what i would like to know is how to go about finding out what the problem is, ie what logs should i be looking at etc. (its a long shot but if anyone has any ideas please share, i don't expect any to though from such a vague, general description) cheers jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp updatedb or makewhatis My guess would be ide-hdd try to use an fsck check for your filesystem(s) and see what happens. The other obvious one would be memory, but usually that will show ALL the time. Civileme _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem
how do i go about using fsck. I've tried fsck -A -C and it gave me a warning about mounted filesystems. Can i just unmount all of my partitions, fsck and then remount , or do i have to do it partition at a time? Jamie From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:57:00 -0400 On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:28, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Up until thursday night my linux box had been working perfectly now it keeps freezing up when i leave it on overnight. Now initially i thought it my be a cron job that was crashing it as it seemed to happen at similar times. From the cron logs the last entry was 3am everynight. So i tried manually running each of the daily cron jobs seperately and they all seemed to work fine (this was yesterday) now when i came to my desk this morning the box had frozen at 5.09 pm (the clock was visible). Basically what i would like to know is how to go about finding out what the problem is, ie what logs should i be looking at etc. (its a long shot but if anyone has any ideas please share, i don't expect any to though from such a vague, general description) cheers jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp updatedb or makewhatis My guess would be ide-hdd try to use an fsck check for your filesystem(s) and see what happens. The other obvious one would be memory, but usually that will show ALL the time. Civileme _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Accessing NT networked printer from Linux
How do i access a networked printer via Linux. The printer is on an NT print server. Its a HP Deskjet 850C, under NT its name is \\scotty\itcolour. I have tried adding the printer through the cups webmin as both an SMB printer using, smb://scotty/itcolour as the URI, and also as an AppSocket/HPJetDirect devive at socket://SCOTTY:9100/ITColour, with no success. I have sent test pages, with no out put, and also cups keep stopping the printers. Any ideas? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing NT networked printer from Linux
Thanks for the tips. I do indeed have samba installed and running. So i should be using smb://scotty/itcolour as the address to access the printer, is that right? (does it matter that the printer is connected via a JetDirect card?) I'll check the firewall issue out on monday when i'm back at work. thanks Jamie From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing NT networked printer from Linux Date: 07 Sep 2001 11:20:39 -0500 On 07 Sep 2001 16:34:08 +0100, Jamie Kerwick wrote: I am running Mandrake 8.0, i've tried using both the webmin and the Kups tool. My printers are running on jet direct'd i've tried using the socket method with no success. If it helps in NT the port that it uses is ITColour. The problem with the socket based thing is that i don't really understand the instructions give in the help files. Can someone point me in the right direction. I am going to assume that you have the Samba client installed, and that you can access network file shares using it. If not, then you will need to get Samba installed and configured before you can do any SMB printing. Once you can access network file shares, then move on to printing. If your network printer is actually shared via the print server, then you will need to use SMB printing -- sorry if I was unclear on that point. Your SMB printer address would then be something like you previously mentioned: \\printer_server_netbios_name\printer_share_name. You may need to know the IP address of the print server, because your Samba client may not otherwise be able to resolve the server netbios name to its IP address (this is not a consistent issue, but I have seen it happen). The netbios name is whatever name shows up for that print server in Network Neighborhood -- not the printer itself, but the computer name (I assume your are correct when using SCOTTY for the name). The share name for the printer is, again, whatever name appears in Network Neighorhood (ITColour?). Make sure you are not running a firewall: '/sbin/ipchains -L' will list any firewall rules that may be in effect, if you are using ipchains. With Mandrake 8, you may very well be on a 2.4 kernel with iptables. In that case, I am not sure of the syntax to list iptables firewall rules -- maybe '/sbin/iptables -L'? If you get a list of rules other than a bunch of ACCEPT policies, then you may need to temporarily shut off your firewall just for testing/debugging. With ipchains, this is '/sbin/ipchains -F' (must be done as root). With iptables, I don't know -- maybe '/sbin/iptables -F'? Whenever I have run into the issue where my printer appears to be defined correctly, but CUPS continually shuts it down or lists it as 'unreachable (or something to that effect), it has been because I forgot to disable my personal firewall. Dave attach3 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SMTP Server advice / help
I have heard these dynamic dns services, but cannot remember any, could someone give me some good ones, please. Jamie From: Kevin Fonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SMTP Server advice / help Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:06:25 -0400 I am planning on setting up my own mail server for my home as well. I did use mail deamon when I was in the windows world to grab all my mail out of a single pop mailbox for the domain. I would imagine some linux mail servers would have this feature as well. I have been so busy I haven't had the chance to look yet. Let me know if you find anything. You can then access the mail server via imap anywhere in the house. To access it from the internet use a dynamic dns service. This service allows your computer to update a dns server on the internet with it's current static ip address. Kevin Jamie Kerwick wrote: Basically i want to use my home PC as a mail server. Now there are 2 problems i have, my PC is only on a dial-up connection and as such doesn't have a stable IP or a proper domain name registered for it. now the main thing is that i want to be able to use it no matter what internet connection i am using. I don't plan on having an open relay i want to make it neccessary to log into the smtp server, how would i go about doing that?? any adivce would be great thanks Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Joing a domain
How do i get my linux box at work to join a domain. The box will be our intranet server, and i want it to join our NT domain. any help, sites etc. welcome thanks Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X Font server problems after install
I have just install LM8.0 on an office machine, everything in the install seemed to go OK. The Xfree86 test worked fine. Now when i come to boot up i cannot get an X Windows session, it just stalls at `Current state: X Windowing System, Starting X Font Server:' its been like this for the duration of my lunch break. The harddisk starts really thrashing when this message first comes up, then slows down to the point where now it might `turn over' once every 60 seconds or so. I have tried using Xfree86 v 4 3.3.6 neither working, they freeze at exactly the same point. The graphics chip is an Ati mach64 built into the mobo. any ideas? TIA Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Joing a domain
OK, thanks a lot. Jamie From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Joing a domain Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:22:17 -0500 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 August 2001 05:23, thus spake Jamie Kerwick: How do i get my linux box at work to join a domain. The box will be our intranet server, and i want it to join our NT domain. any help, sites etc. welcome You will need Samba set up on your PC. Make sure that it's workgroup matches the NT domain you are using, etc. Check the Samba howto (it will be on your system, in the Documentation Howtos section) for info on setting it up -- it's pretty easy. Dave - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7e8kKA68l26XsZUYRAv9WAKDlOwSSuZtjL4eOqfEMHzD/jkU/nQCcCma5 FGkysdu3q5+6Tz8hKIySYXM= =JtgN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SMTP Server advice / help
Basically i want to use my home PC as a mail server. Now there are 2 problems i have, my PC is only on a dial-up connection and as such doesn't have a stable IP or a proper domain name registered for it. now the main thing is that i want to be able to use it no matter what internet connection i am using. I don't plan on having an open relay i want to make it neccessary to log into the smtp server, how would i go about doing that?? any adivce would be great thanks Jamie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NT4 linux
Thanks, i thought i was correct but wanted to be absolutely sure. Does mandrake come with the ability to mount ntfs as standard or do i need to install extras ?? (my w2k is on fat32!) Jamie From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NT4 linux Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:20:50 +1000 Things should work exactly the same. Just remember not to try to mount your NTFS partitions until after Mandrake is installed. If you try to do so during the install, you will only get errors. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:22, Jamie Kerwick wrote: I just want to confirm before i go ahead. My work PC has NT4 on it with spare unpartioned disk space for linux. Now i know with w2k i can install w2k then linux and have a nice lovely LILO boot menu that i can select what i want to boot. Does this work exactly the same way with NT4? I would have thought it would, but having only just started at my new job i don't wanna screw up my PC. (my boss wants me to test linux for use for our intranet). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
[newbie] LISa configuration
I think I'm doing well, i've got my w98se box speaking to mandrake 8 accessing my samba shares (encrypt password = yes helps!!). The problem i have now is that i'm struggling to get Linux box to access w98 shares. I have tried 'browsing network' using LISa and reLISa in KDE. However, no joy. Basically the problem is that i don't really know what information to give it. I am attempting to configure in KDE Control centre, - Look n Feel - Lan Browsing. Is there a way i can mount the w98 shares on the linux box? how would i go about doing this. Or betting yet does anyone know of any good websites which give help. (i like to learn rather than follow blindly) Cheers Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] GeForce TV OUT
I have managed to successfully install the drivers (the latest ones from nvidia) for my GeForce 256 card. But would like to know how to enable to TV-Out facility. On the nvidia website it said to refer to a TVOUT readme file. I haven't been able to find this though! Cheers. Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] OT: Sun hardware question
I just got sent the email below from our SUN team at work, me not knowing anything about sun hardware, was just wondering if anyone knew if any of this kit could be of some use? It would be used basically for playing around with. cheers Jamie -- The ISS has a number of obsolete SUN workstations and servers to dispose of over the next few weeks. The items are: 8 Sparcstation IPC workstations 7 Sparcstation LX workstations 4 SparcClassic workstations The above have 17 SUN-type monitors(13W3 not VGA), mostly 200M or 400M SCSI disk, and 24M of RAM. They should be able to run a small installation of Solaris or SparcLinux (slowly!) 2 SparcServer670MP Servers Unknown spec, about 1.5' wide, 2.5' deep and 2.5' high. Quite heavy. 3 Mass Storage disk units. Unknown disk sizes. Same dimensions as above. Very heavy. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
RE: [newbie] OT: Network Hub Question
Can i start by saying thanks everyone that replied to this post, your replies have been very helpful. I didn't realise that an unmanaged hub can be used to connect a server to the workstations. Can i just recap then, I can use an-managed hub to join a server to 2 workstations without any problems. I will stick with the hub as the major criteria is price. the server isn't actually going to do anything, its basically for a few of us at work to play with while doing (whisper) windows 2000 MCSE course (/whisper), so really performance doesn't really matter. Thanks again to everyone who replied, much appreciated. Jamie From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jamie Kerwick' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] OT: Network Hub Question Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 05:48:06 -0400 Managed versus unmanaged has little to do with being connected to a server. A managed hub provides an admin with fairly advanced reporting, diagnostic and chatter correction capabilities (among a few other things). This in turn differs from a switch (which may also come, managed or unmanaged). A small switch when combined with Fast Ethernet cards will give you optimal performance. It need not be managed. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jamie Kerwick Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT: Network Hub Question We are looking at setting up a test small network at work , and are wanting a cheapish hub. I was looking at getting a Netgear DS108. Which i also have at home (its work great peer-to-peer). The real question i want to know is will this hub work when connected to a server (ie managed as apposed to the unmanaged setup i have at home). The idea is the small network will have a test win2000 server on it, then adding Linux boxes to it _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] OT: Network Hub Question
We are looking at setting up a test small network at work , and are wanting a cheapish hub. I was looking at getting a Netgear DS108. Which i also have at home (its work great peer-to-peer). The real question i want to know is will this hub work when connected to a server (ie managed as apposed to the unmanaged setup i have at home). The idea is the small network will have a test win2000 server on it, then adding Linux boxes to it _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Virus infection
Almost, I had been sent an email which had a virus file attached to my hotmail account. I didn't open the attachment, for many reasons including the fact that the message had no headers what so ever, i suspect because hotmails virus scanner detected the virus (reason number 2). So i haven;t been infected, i was just wondering if anyone here had been infected and was the person who had (inadvertantly) sent me the message Jamie From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus infection Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:00:50 -0400 (EDT) UmDan? there wasn't any attachment to that message. at least none that I received. fortunately windows does not live at this address either, but I think you grossly misunderstood this poor soul. I think all he wanted to do was warn everyone that he'd been infected in case anyone received something they didn't want. -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) On Mon, 21 May 2001, Lanman wrote: Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus infection Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:36:24 -0400 From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 21 May 2001 7:53, you wrote: Sorry for the mass email, i received an email today with the file NNKGBENN.EXE attached. This contains the virus W32/Hybris.gen@MM however. I am unable to tell who propagated the virus as there is no sender information for the email. because of this i am sending this email out to anyone i think may have this email address just incase _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Perhaps I've misunderstood, but you're attempting to send a virus back from whence it came, by sending it to everyone that you think may have sent it?? If that's the case, you've just managed to send it to thousands of people on the Mandrake list you idiot ! Many of these people still use some version of Windows, and may inadvertantly infect their computers ! What will you be doing tomorrow? Taking a loaded gun to school ? Of course, if I'm wrong about this, I apologise, but I received the virus file my self. Fortunately, Windows doesn't live here. Perhaps a conventional email WARNING everyone would have sufficed ?? -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User # 190712 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] Home networking
I have just got my home network working fine in windows (98se to 98se to win2000) now i want to get my linux partition networking with one of the 98se machines. However, being fairly new to both linux and networks to be honest i don't really know where to start. My network is a very small one, consisting of 2 (soon to be 3 machines) no server, connected thru a auto detecting hub. At the moment all I am having them do is sharing drives and printers. For starters this is all i want to do. Maybe adding internet connection sharing (only thru a dial-up at the mo, want adsl at a later date though). Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] Virus infection
Sorry for the mass email, i received an email today with the file NNKGBENN.EXE attached. This contains the virus W32/Hybris.gen@MM however. I am unable to tell who propagated the virus as there is no sender information for the email. because of this i am sending this email out to anyone i think may have this email address just incase _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] Geforce in Mandrake 8
Has anyone managed to install Geforce Xfree4 drivers on Mandrake 8 yet? I've not tried yet but didn't want to screw up my, currently, working, installation just in case the drivers on the Geforce site don't work. Cheers Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] restoring lilio from floppy
great thanks. Jamie From: Joel West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] restoring lilio from floppy Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:30:25 -0400 (EDT) Hi Jamie, 1st boot into Linux and log on as root. 2nd type 'lilo'. Thats all! Regards Joel West On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jamie Kerwick wrote: I don't actually need to do this, but was wondering for reference. If my lilo config is screwed or removed via fdisk /mbr, how do i go about restoring it. I made by boot disk during installation which allows me to boot into Linux fine. What do i do from this stage? Cheers for the info. Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] restoring lilio from floppy
I don't actually need to do this, but was wondering for reference. If my lilo config is screwed or removed via fdisk /mbr, how do i go about restoring it. I made by boot disk during installation which allows me to boot into Linux fine. What do i do from this stage? Cheers for the info. Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] browser based system config
Thats the fella, cheers Jamie From: Joan Tur Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] browser based system config Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:40:21 -0500 https://127.0.0.1:1 Jamie Kerwick escribió: I'm back to using Mandrake after a good few months after experimenting, and can't for the life of me remember how to access the browser based admin tools, all i can remember is that it started https:// -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] browser based system config
I'm back to using Mandrake after a good few months after experimenting, and can't for the life of me remember how to access the browser based admin tools, all i can remember is that it started https:// Sorry for being stupid, i just couldn't find it, may be i just overlooked something. Cheers Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x
Thanks for the info. i'll try that tommorrow, along with setting up my new sb live platinum card. (out celebrating xmas tonite!!) Jamie From: John Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:52:55 -0800 (PST) I'll try to tell you what i did, but unfortunatly I am away from my computer (and install notes) till Jan3! And yes, I have 3d accell working- man quake 3 is cool! I had to mix and match instructions from s many sources. I have the Viper V770 using the TNT2 -so I presume the install will be the same for the other drivers. You need the nvidia kernel 0.9-5 and glx tarballs - dont get the rpms. gunzip and untar them in a temp directory. go to the Nvidia kernel directory and run: make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux/include Now you have to remove all of the traces of libGL: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions mv libGLcore.a libGLcore.a.mesa mv libglx.a libglx.a.mesa cd /usr/X11R6/lib mv libGL.so libGL.so.mesa mv libGL.so.1 libGL.so.1.mesa mv libGL.so.1.0 libGL.so.1.0.mesa mv libGL.so.1.2.0 libGL.so.1.2.0.mesa I can't remember nor find the help files I used, but search your computer for other libGL files. next go to the Nvidia glx directory and run: make Then goto /etc/X11/ and edit the XF86Config-4 file (not the XF86Config file) and change the entry Driver "nv" to Driver "nvidia", I think it is in the screen section. Also add the line Load "glx" to the Module section. This last part seems to be a problem with M7.2 - you have to cd /etc/X11 rm X ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X so that you are now using the right server. Finally, if X locks up when you load it you need to add the line that removes AGP support in you config file - I forgot what it is, but it should be listed on the Nvidia help file. After that, quake should run! check out http://members.home.net/linuxfrog/nvidia.html Later! --- Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did you do to get the nvidia drivers working, I haven't for the life of me been able to get them to work. (i assume here you have 3d acceleration working) Jamie From: "John and Marcie Alexander" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:53:47 -0500 I installed lm7.2 and finally got my nvidia drivers working. When I ran X -version, I got 3.something as my current version, even though I checked the rpms installed and it seems x version 4.0 is installed. When I redirected X to the 4.0 server, all works fine now. Does this mean I have both versions installed? If so, how can I remove the one I am not using? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x
What did you do to get the nvidia drivers working, I haven't for the life of me been able to get them to work. (i assume here you have 3d acceleration working) Jamie From: "John and Marcie Alexander" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:53:47 -0500 I installed lm7.2 and finally got my nvidia drivers working. When I ran X -version, I got 3.something as my current version, even though I checked the rpms installed and it seems x version 4.0 is installed. When I redirected X to the 4.0 server, all works fine now. Does this mean I have both versions installed? If so, how can I remove the one I am not using? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] About GeForce 2 MX
I would like these instructions, I have been having a nightmare getting my GeForce 1 card working properly. i.e no 3D accelleration. Cheers Jamie From: Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] About GeForce 2 MX Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:52:03 -0800 (PST) It will not be a problem. nVidia's driver works for their entire range of graphics processors. I also have an GeForce2 MX card (terrific video card) and it also is using the XServer for the GeForce 2 DDR. No problems. If you want to do accelerated 3D in Linux, such as for games, you will need to get the latest Linux drivers from nVidia. Someone has also written a How-to to install these drivers in Mandrake 7.2, the instructions from nVidia, and the instructions on linuxnewbie don't work for 7.2. If you look back through the archives of this list you can probably find the URL for it. If you can't find it let me know and I'll try to get the instructions for you. Terry --- KWOK HO YU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I just installed Mandrake 7.2. After the installation, I can successfully start Xwin. However, it find my display card as a GeForce 2 DDR. Actually, it's a GeForce 2 MX (Hercules 3D Prophet II MX). Will this damage my display card and monitor? Thank you for your help ^__^ _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
[newbie] ADSL in the UK
Has anyone had any luck setting up a UK ADSL connection in Linux using the USB boxes (ie the domestic services not the business one which use ethernet cards) If so what provider were you using? I'm looking at getting ADSL in the new year, I'm not overly bothered about using it in linux, because i triple boot with win98 2000 so i'll be able to use them, it would just be nice. Jamie _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
[newbie] shell scripting / aliasing
I'm trying to use the following script, #!/bin/sh !!:s/lpadm/give/ $1 The problem i'm having is accessing the history, i know that this script opens its own shell and references that history, which is why i get a 0:event not found error. What I want to do is reference the history of the current shell, i.e the one in which i run the script. Basically it is setup so, you look at a printing account, ie lpadm issjlk, then you type the script name followed by the number of credits, ie, gi 30. this then gives username issjlk (from the previous command (!!) 30 credits. Any suggestions ?? I am going to do a script that does both lpadm and then the give commands so need for a history command, but it would be useful to know if i can do it the way i wanted to above. Jamie _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Geoforce 256 + mandrake 7.2
I tried following these steps, however, the GLX file doesn't make properly because on my system the .../modules/extensions dir doesn't exist, there is a file called extensions but no dir, also some of the settings, in XF86Config file, that i need to change aren't there in the 1st place. when running the nv_check it falls over looking for nv_module.o (something like that) which is in the ../modules/extensions dir. This is driving me mad, because i have tried a couple of things each time i have re-install. Thanks for your time Jamie On Friday 10 November 2000 14:45, Jamie Kerwick wrote: I can't seem to configure my geoforce card correctly. The x windows works fine, i just can't get the 3d to work. I have an athlon 800 + 128mb ram, so should get more than 1 fps on GLTron! Other games seem to run really slow too, like tuxkart. I have the mesa drivers installed. I did a customised developer install with almost everything there OK. Mesa doesn't work properly with nVidia chipset's, use nVidia's own GL. Check out www.realityx.net/nvidia.html for a howto on setting up your system :) -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality... _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)?
To quote mandrakeuser.org, "In LM 7, run XFdrake as 'root'. For enhanced options, try XFdrake --expert If these don't work for you, try XFree's own setup utility xf86config" Jamie From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:25:14 + some clever grepping for regexps recommended [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13/11/2000 14:08:06 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? I dont think so... I tried: xconfigurator XConfigurator Xconfigurator xConfigurator xconfig Xconfig XConfig xconf Xconf XConf nothing works... anyone got any idead?? - Original Message - From: "Lewis Bishop" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)? -Original Message- From: Krulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 November 2000 12:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] (...) X is getting hard to get!! (setuptool???) well here is my situation: I'm under a PI 120, 81Mb RAM, Mandrake 7.1 I already made it to setup sound card and ethernet but now the only thing that I could do before (configuring X) is making me MAD! this is what I get from some commands in the console: XConfigurator bash: XConfigurator : command not found startx Fatal Server error: No valid modes found. xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : modeline : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : mode : command not found /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : endmode : command not found setuptool bash: setuptool : command not found but my XF86Setup works! but when I try any of the combinations for the modes I always get a "no valid mode found" running "startx". isn't there any autoprobe or something like that to detect my card and valid modes 4 it? tx -- Disclaimer notice: This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore the Powergen Group does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Powergen Group. Powergen plc. 53 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1SL Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] Geoforce 256 + mandrake 7.2
I can't seem to configure my geoforce card correctly. The x windows works fine, i just can't get the 3d to work. I have an athlon 800 + 128mb ram, so should get more than 1 fps on GLTron! Other games seem to run really slow too, like tuxkart. I have the mesa drivers installed. I did a customised developer install with almost everything there OK. The other thing is that although xfree86 4 is installed the xr116 is 3.3.6 version I haven't yet tried doing the XFree86 -version, but in on e of the config utils i have seen it reported as xfree86 4. Can anyone help.. please. BTW has anyone tried using the mdk7.1 rpm from the nvidia website? Does it work OK? Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] turning off nfs in boot
I have just gone from 7.1 to 7.2, and i am having problems. During the boot sequence it stops with a message about nfs , something like searching for nfs service ? (i can't remember exactly it was late last night) how would i remove this from the boot sequent so it doesn't try to init this device. cheers. Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] re:freeserve connection in the UK
thanks everyone for your suggestions, i will try out some of the ip addresses when i get home. Jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2
Is it possible/easy to update from mandrake version 7.1 to 7.2 because i already have 7.1 installed and working OK, and should have received 7.2 this morning in the post. I just wondered if i can easily upgrade or if a re-install is better. jamie _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
