[expert] changing default editor..
Hi all, vi has been my nemesis for a long time now, I never get the time to learn it, as there are other easier editors and I don't have the time to worry about it.. I need to edit my contab and don't wish to do it with vi.. I'd prefer pico or mcedit (both of which are installed.) I know there is a way to export the default editor but I can't remember what it is... Can anyone enlighten me? I had an email with the details in it, but can't find it when I need it most.. any help,,, much appreciated. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] changing default editor..
Franki grabbed a keyboard and wrote: vi has been my nemesis for a long time now, I never get the time to learn it, as there are other easier editors and I don't have the time to worry about it.. I need to edit my contab and don't wish to do it with vi.. I'd prefer pico or mcedit (both of which are installed.) In your .bash_login or .profile file (which-ever you use): export EDITOR=pico(or mcedit, which-ever you prefer) export VISUAL=$EDITOR Putting both thos lines in will make sure that you get it while in your shell, no matter which variable is looked at by the program that's calling your editor of choice (some look for $EDITOR, some look for $VISUAL). Log out, log back in, and you're set from then on. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot Floppy Created During 8.1 Installation
Andrew George wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:46, Felix Miata wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding it's purpose. When chosing Grub as boot loader during install, the last menu choice is to boot from floppy. I set the BIOS boot order to C,A,SCSI on a SCSI-less system. When the boot floppy is inserted into the drive and boot brings up the Grub menu from HD and I choose to boot from floppy, an error message comes up: Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img. If I change the BIOS to boot order A,C,SCSI, I still get the same error message. Doesn't 8.1 know how to make a usable boot floppy? What am I doing wrong that I can't initiate boot from the floppy? Can you boot at all? Of course, just not from the supposed rescue floppy that I was trying to test before needing it to rescue something messed up by windoze. What filesystem are you using for your /boot or / partitions (some just don't work) /boot /dev/hda1 ext2 / /dev/hda5 ext2 -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0 vs Cups kmail import
I replace lpr with xpp whenever a requester has lpr in it. There's always an extra click after that, but xpp has always worked. On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 11:17, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I would like to move from kmail to evolution but first I would like to be able to print directly from evolution as I can do with kmail. I tried saying 'cupsdoprint -P Epson' as the print command instead of lpr, that works on the command line but not from evolution. For the moment I am forced to print to a PS or PDF file and then send the jobs to CUPs. How can I print directly to a CUPs printer from evolution? How can I set evolution so the DEFAULT printer command is that of the CUPs printer and not 'lpr'? Another question I have is how to automate migration of my kmail folders to evolution. It is just too painful to do it one by one manually. Is there a command line that I can use within a shell script? Thanks very much for your help! Jose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX Key fingerprint = BBDA 3A2A 4483 BD0D 7CED B8A9 D183 C8F6 B0AF 66AE -- Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft®, recently referred to Linux as a cancer. Unsuprisingly, this is incorrect - Linux was released on August 25th, 1991, and is therefore a virgo. msg45894/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] iptables is nutz!
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:24:14 +1100 Tarragon Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:27, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List It was my understanding that with the latest version of Iptables --dport which is an alias for --destination-port is a legal argument. However, when i attempt to add the below into the ruleset of iptables, iptables -A INPUT -s 199.224.86.15 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT ...this is what is returned. iptables v1.2.4: Unknown arg `--dport' Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. Try: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 199.224.86.15 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT or iptables -A INPUT -s 199.224.86.15 -d any --dport 53 -j ACCEPT or iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 199.224.86.15 -d any --dport 53 -j ACCEPT One of those should work. I think the first one will ; you need to specify the protocol (tcp/udp) when defining ports. t -- PGP key : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key t, adding the -p (protocol) was the missing link. why in the world didn't iptables just say that's what it was missing instead of the generic error message it was giving me? thanks so much. firewall happy now. user is too! :) just wish someone would respond to my post about postfix... -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 We love and desire the things most that will kill us! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] broadcast 2000
was broadcast 2000 included in the download version of 8.1 or only the boxed version? Can it be fouind for download anywhere on the web? The home pages is it no longer open source? whats up? rob http://linuxlaunchpad.net msg45896/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [expert] LM 8.1 can not write to othet HD
Have you tried adding umask=0. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: skidley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 10:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM 8.1 can not write to othet HD On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Michael Viron wrote: HI, I use LM 8.1 on my box. I have 2 SCSI HD, 1 IDE HD and 2 removable jaz 1 GB. I install Win XP on sda and LM 8.1 on hda, using LILO to boot the system. the problem is I can read/ mount to other HD using LM 8.1 but I can not write them. anybody can help me? Thanks What command are using to mount XP? mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /mnt/windows as root?(X being the number of the partition) -- .-. .-. oo| Give Microsoft The Bird oo| /`'\ Use Linux!!!/`'\ (\_;/)(\_;/) Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 23:13, NDPTAL85 wrote: And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign it an IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The manual IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other comps on this IP and they can use it just fine. I deleted the previous messages, so forgive me if you already answered this. Can you ping the other PCs on your network? What is the output of 'route -n'? Also, you might want to remove the line 'search earthlink.net'. All this does is slow down domain resolution, unless you actually deal with earthlink network systems on a regular basis. How are you connected to earthlink? Dial-up through a gateway? DSL? Something else? Dave -- There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. -- Stephen Stills Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] remote syslog
Greg Sarsons wrote: Is anyone using or has used mdk 8.1 as remote syslog? I'm trying to figure out why there seems to be gaps in the logs on the 8.1 machine. It logs all the packets I'm seeing which is good but it looks like the router is not logging properly :( The router must have a sequence number on each log entry for you to notice this, or is there some other means...? Ways for a router to fail to log remotely include: - the path over which to send the log data is temporarily down - logging packets may be dropped by intermediate nodes Logging is done blindly AFAIK -- send and hope the logger got it... so if another router is in the path next to the logging host, that local router can time out its ARP cache which will cause an incoming log message to be converted to an ARP request to repopulate the ARP cache... the problem being that the log entry is not retried; hence lost... If logging from a particular router is critical, then the logging host should be local to avoid this situation. HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] changing default editor..
If you are using bash as your default shell, insert the following line into /etc/bashrc export EDITOR=pico Just put it near the bottom of the file, be sure to save as text. You must be root to change this file so type su then enter enter root password and enter. cd /etc pico bashrc Ron Franki wrote: Hi all, vi has been my nemesis for a long time now, I never get the time to learn it, as there are other easier editors and I don't have the time to worry about it.. I need to edit my contab and don't wish to do it with vi.. I'd prefer pico or mcedit (both of which are installed.) I know there is a way to export the default editor but I can't remember what it is... Can anyone enlighten me? I had an email with the details in it, but can't find it when I need it most.. any help,,, much appreciated. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ron Marriage Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User Group http://www.seidata.com/~seilug/ Blind Links http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] remote syslog
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 09:23, Pierre Fortin wrote: Greg Sarsons wrote: Is anyone using or has used mdk 8.1 as remote syslog? I'm trying to figure out why there seems to be gaps in the logs on the 8.1 machine. It logs all the packets I'm seeing which is good but it looks like the router is not logging properly :( The router must have a sequence number on each log entry for you to notice this, or is there some other means...? Ways for a router to fail to log remotely include: - the path over which to send the log data is temporarily down - logging packets may be dropped by intermediate nodes Logging is done blindly AFAIK -- send and hope the logger got it... so if another router is in the path next to the logging host, that local router can time out its ARP cache which will cause an incoming log message to be converted to an ARP request to repopulate the ARP cache... the problem being that the log entry is not retried; hence lost... If logging from a particular router is critical, then the logging host should be local to avoid this situation. HTH, Pierre Well I hope my firewall is not dropping any packets. It is one hop away, 15 feet of twisted pair, through the firewall to the syslog machine. Firewall has no indication that it is dropping packets. Actually, I'm thinking this am that the router depending on the load does not log to syslog right away. Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
On Monday 10 December 2001 09:13 am, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 23:13, NDPTAL85 wrote: And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 snip Excuse me for butting in here, but you may have an error in the Earthlink nameserver numbers. I show 207.217.126.81 (primary) 207.217.77.82 (secondary) 207.217.120.83 (secondary) HTH, -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] login screen color
I'd like to change the background of the login screen. A image would be nice instead of the blue solid. Looking into it I see that, well I think this is what I see, this used to be done via /usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -solid #00777 but this is remmed out and says now handled by gdmgreeter Doing a searh for gdmgreeter didn't produce anything. Can someone enlighten me. Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] reverse lookups with Postfix
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I've been thinking about something for a little while now and I was wondering if anyone here on the list has Postfix installed and doing reverse lookups as a method of controling the amount of SPAM coming into their mailservers. Yes. There are problems though in that I have to allow certain hosts to send me mail regardless because some legit sites either don't have a reverse mapping, or have it wrong... It appears that Mandrake may have fixed their DNS entries so that 216.71.84.35 returns only mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com instead of 3 hostnames of which only one was mapped back. This was causing postfix to reject about 2/3's of the messages sent to me. Even with this feature enabled, I find that some spam is still getting through because the intermediate hosts can be reverse looked up. I have to add these spammers to my header_checks file... I plan to have a look at http://www.spambouncer.org for other options. I have also enabled recipient_delimiter = + and am changing my IDs at the various sites I use to clearly identify which sites are either selling or leaking my address... HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0 and LM 8.1
Use the PackageManger that comes with LM. I did it and all works just fine. And I do believe it does SPA From: Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Evolution 1.0 and LM 8.1 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:35:44 -0600 Hello I would like to install evolution 1.0 on LM 8.1. Redcarpet won't recognize 8.1 as a supported distro. Could you someone tell me which are necessary files and from where I can download them? Does evolution 1.0 allow retrieving emails from POP3 server with SPA (Secure Password Authetication)? Thanks Ed 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: [expert] remote syslog
Greg Sarsons wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 09:23, Pierre Fortin wrote: Greg Sarsons wrote: Is anyone using or has used mdk 8.1 as remote syslog? I'm trying to figure out why there seems to be gaps in the logs on the 8.1 machine. It logs all the packets I'm seeing which is good but it looks like the router is not logging properly :( The router must have a sequence number on each log entry for you to notice this, or is there some other means...? Ways for a router to fail to log remotely include: - the path over which to send the log data is temporarily down - logging packets may be dropped by intermediate nodes Logging is done blindly AFAIK -- send and hope the logger got it... so if another router is in the path next to the logging host, that local router can time out its ARP cache which will cause an incoming log message to be converted to an ARP request to repopulate the ARP cache... the problem being that the log entry is not retried; hence lost... If logging from a particular router is critical, then the logging host should be local to avoid this situation. HTH, Pierre Well I hope my firewall is not dropping any packets. It is one hop away, 15 feet of twisted pair, through the firewall to the syslog machine. Firewall has no indication that it is dropping packets. Actually, I'm thinking this am that the router depending on the load does not log to syslog right away. Greg router---firewallsysloghost log_msg- ARPentry? yes: forward- log_msg_OK no: convert_to_ARP- (log_msg lost) -ARPreply The firewall may be dropping the packets if it expires its ARP cache and converts any new packets (syslog) to an ARP to repopulate the cache. If so, you should see ARP request/reply exchanges with no other traffic immediately following. Unfortunately, this convert packet to an ARP and wait for the sender to retransmit was a [Cisco] implementation detail way back to avoid maintaining any state for any traffic stream, and allowing the end-system to recover; and there is no requirement to indicate the number of such packets lost -- part of networking overhead... Delayed logging by the router is possible; but that usually comes at the cost of losing visibility during problem states... so not sure that would be a wise thing to do. Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] WordPerfect 8 Install on MDK 8.1
This is becomming an age old problem, but a recurring one nonetheless... I'm trying to install WordPefect 8 on Mandrake 8.1. There is a problem in that WordPerfect 8 was compiled using the libc 5 libraries, not glibc6. Consequently, WordPerfect 8 will not install properly. There was, at some time, an rpm that included the libc 5 dynamic libraries so that WordPerfect would be passified. Problem is, I can't find that rpm for Mdk 8.1 Does anyone know where that rpm could be found? Thanks in advance, Ron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
You ought to run a dig command to see if name server info is right. You ought to run netstat -rn to see if your routing table is right. You ought to run a ifconfig -a to see if mask is right. etcetcetc j. c. woods, UNIX SA At 06:09 PM 12/10/2001 +1100, Andrew George wrote: And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign it an IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The manual IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other comps on this IP and they can use it just fine. OK Sounds to me like its picking some info up off dhcp that is wrong in the static set-up try running ifconfig as both static connection and dhcp and see what the differences are Andrew 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
Re: [expert] vh_mp3.sh / create audio CD easier w/ this script
Hey, Nguyen, It looks to be a nice little script but I have one question: why convert the .mp3 to .wav? Why not to format for playing on regular CD stereo? j. c. woods UNIX SA At 02:27 PM 12/10/2001 +0900, you wrote: Hi all, I wrote this script. This will help you create audio Cd from mp3's easier. It is still under development so feedbacks and comments are welcome: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM 8.1/Win2k dual boot clock issue
Hello, I have an HP Omnibook DBoot w/ win2k (for work - we use exchange :( ) and LM 8.1 (for me). I made a mistake when installing LM. When asked by the installer weither my system clock was set to GMT I said yes (it's not). Soo every time I go back and forth between OS's, i chokes my clock and neither one stays correct. I am wondering how to fix this...I went into the clock setting in LM, but did not see a way to change the system clock offset. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, Greg _ 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
Re: [expert] DNS problems
On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 11:08 AM, J. Craig Woods wrote: You ought to run a dig command to see if name server info is right. You ought to run netstat -rn to see if your routing table is right. You ought to run a ifconfig -a to see if mask is right. etcetcetc j. c. woods, UNIX SA At 06:09 PM 12/10/2001 +1100, Andrew George wrote: And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign it an IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The manual IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other comps on this IP and they can use it just fine. OK Sounds to me like its picking some info up off dhcp that is wrong in the static set-up try running ifconfig as both static connection and dhcp and see what the differences are Andrew All of that info is correct. It was working before, and the other machines on my network are still working fine using the same settings. I've had this ISP for years and this info has never changed. -- Computers come in two styles - prototype and obsolete! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tildeless user accounts
I am not an expert on Apache, but I found your question interesting and I poked around. Rather than move files around to accomodate your URL, you might be able to tell Apache to use a desired URL format to point to the user's web directory. See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/urlmapping.html#user http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html (more advanced, I think) A knowledge of regular expressions is desirable. :) - Kathy Expert wrote: Hello list, just wondering if it is possible to set up tildeless user accounts, like for example instead of www.domain.com/~user/index.html it would be www.domain.com/user/index.html Is there a way to configure apache to do this? No rush. Thanks -- For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. - 2 Timothy 1:7
[expert] autoresponder program
Can anyone give tell me what they use with Mandrake to generate Out-of-office messages? Kmail and NS don't seem to have this capability. Thanks, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.1 Boot fails due to mount error (bad partitiontable ?)
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 10:30, D. R. Evans wrote: Did you try the program that Asheesh suggested and, if so, was it any help. Yes, but I had no luck with gpart. I tried to use it to repair the partition table, but the changes did not seem to be applied. Probably still worth a try though. I ended up using a program called Partition Manager, which runs under DOS. This brought my partition table to a stable/usable state, and I then re-installed LM8.1 with no problems. I was unable to recover my existing partitions, but that seems not to be a concern in your case. I came across some other partition table programs which you might try, if Partition Manager is not suitable. I think these run under linux: rescuept, fixdisktable. Good luck. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
I've deleted the email, but I think I remember there was no 'default' entry in the output of 'route'. Sorry if I remember wrong. Thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
NDPTAL85 wrote: Here is the results of route -n [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo I dialup to Earthlink thru a Netgear 4 port 56k router (model RM356). It has 4 machines connected to it of which one is the Mandrake box. The others are Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Windows XP. They are working fine. When using a static address on the Linux machine it Sounds like you need to add a gateway address to your /etc/sysconfig/nerwork file: GATEWAY=the address of your router gateway Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tetex update RPMs GPG signatures
On Sat Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:15PM -0600, David Wollmann wrote: tetex-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 GPG NOT OK tetex-doc-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 GPG NOT OK I haven't checked these files on other servers. Any chance we can get someone to check this out and see what the problem is? I assume you have the security team gpg keys installed? (Of course you do, otherwise they would all fail). I know the files are fine because: (vdanen@logan: /mnt/updates/BIG/updates/7.1/RPMS)$ rpm --checksig tetex* tetex-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: md5 gpg OK tetex-afm-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: md5 gpg OK tetex-doc-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: md5 gpg OK tetex-dvilj-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: md5 gpg OK tetex-dvips-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: md5 gpg OK tetex-latex-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: md5 gpg OK tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: md5 gpg OK (vdanen@logan: /mnt/updates/BIG/updates/7.1/RPMS)$ Can you do a rpm --checksig -v on the two packages and see exactly what fails? You may have had a bad download. I ran rpm with the verbose switch and the MD5 chksums are bad, _not_ the signatures. Try re-downloading the two files then. I'll have a go with a couple other download methods and see if I can get better results. Yup.. likely a bad download (off by one byte or something maybe which would still make the gpg sig valid). -- OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 20 days 20 hours 50 minutes. msg45920/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] login screen color
On 10 Dec 2001 09:49:39 -0500 Greg Sarsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to change the background of the login screen. A image would be nice instead of the blue solid. Looking into it I see that, well I think this is what I see, this used to be done via /usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -solid #00777 but this is remmed out and says now handled by gdmgreeter Doing a searh for gdmgreeter didn't produce anything. Can someone enlighten me. Greg Sorry, I didn't look close enough. Since you're using gnome: middle click on screenprogramssystemGDM configuratorLogin appearance -- It said use windows 95 or better so I loaded linux! In a world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates? Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] reverse lookups with Postfix
On Mon Dec 10, 2001 at 09:57:24AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: I've been thinking about something for a little while now and I was wondering if anyone here on the list has Postfix installed and doing reverse lookups as a method of controling the amount of SPAM coming into their mailservers. Yes. There are problems though in that I have to allow certain hosts to send me mail regardless because some legit sites either don't have a reverse mapping, or have it wrong... It appears that Mandrake may have fixed their DNS entries so that 216.71.84.35 returns only mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com instead of 3 hostnames of which only one was mapped back. This was causing postfix to reject about 2/3's of the messages sent to me. Even with this feature enabled, I find that some spam is still getting through because the intermediate hosts can be reverse looked up. I have to add these spammers to my header_checks file... I plan to have a look at http://www.spambouncer.org for other options. I have also enabled recipient_delimiter = + and am changing my IDs at the various sites I use to clearly identify which sites are either selling or leaking my address... Funny that this is mentioned... there is an article about SPAM on MandrakeSecure that discusses exactly what you're saying, Pierre... =) http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/spam.php -- OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 20 days 21 hours 0 minutes. msg45922/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] login screen color
On 10 Dec 2001 09:49:39 -0500 Greg Sarsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to change the background of the login screen. A image would be nice instead of the blue solid. Looking into it I see that, well I think this is what I see, this used to be done via /usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -solid #00777 but this is remmed out and says now handled by gdmgreeter Doing a searh for gdmgreeter didn't produce anything. Can someone enlighten me. Greg In mandrake 8.0 or 8.1 use kde: control centersystemlogin managerbackground -- It said use windows 95 or better so I loaded linux! In a world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates? Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables is nutz!
On Monday 10 December 2001 03:06 am, Mark Weaver wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:24:14 +1100 Tarragon Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:27, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List It was my understanding that with the latest version of Iptables --dport which is an alias for --destination-port is a legal argument. However, when i attempt to add the below into the ruleset of iptables, iptables -A INPUT -s 199.224.86.15 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT ...this is what is returned. iptables v1.2.4: Unknown arg `--dport' Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. adding the -p (protocol) was the missing link. why in the world didn't iptables just say that's what it was missing instead of the generic error message it was giving me? thanks so much. firewall happy now. user is too! :) just wish someone would respond to my post about postfix... As a side note, the man page for iptables is pretty clear that --dport is only effective when -p tcp,udp is given. Try a look at the man page next time you get stuck. :) Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 02:09 AM, Andrew George wrote: And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign it an IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The manual IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other comps on this IP and they can use it just fine. OK Sounds to me like its picking some info up off dhcp that is wrong in the static set-up try running ifconfig as both static connection and dhcp and see what the differences are Here is ifconfig on the manual IP: [root@Dreadnaught root]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:A8:F2:40:B1 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:8568 (8.3 Kb) TX bytes:12311 (12.0 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xbc00 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:9660 (9.4 Kb) TX bytes:9660 (9.4 Kb) The only difference between that and when its on DHCP is the IP itself, on DHCP it chooses 192.168.0.6 - Yoda's answering machine, this is. Leave a message, you might and call you back, he will. - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
Hi, I suspect that you may be suffering from dynamic modification of your resolv.conf file. Try the following: Start your internet connection: Start a terminal session and su. Then less /etc/resolv.conf. I wouldn't mind betting you find something there that wasn't there when you were diconnected. I've had this problem with my dial-up connection. Anyway try it; it won't do any harm. Regards, Colin Close NDPTAL85 wrote: After about a week of taking my Mandrake 8.1 box off of DHCP and giving it its own permanent IP it can no longer resolve domain names when using that IP. When I switch it back to DHCP it starts working fine again. I am using kernel 2.4.13-12mdk. Has anyone else come across this problem? -- God created a universal solvent, but could not find anything to put it in. -- 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
Re: [expert] login screen color
tks ... didn't know that was there. Greg On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 14:25, Kelley Terry wrote: On 10 Dec 2001 09:49:39 -0500 Greg Sarsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to change the background of the login screen. A image would be nice instead of the blue solid. Looking into it I see that, well I think this is what I see, this used to be done via /usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -solid #00777 but this is remmed out and says now handled by gdmgreeter Doing a searh for gdmgreeter didn't produce anything. Can someone enlighten me. Greg Sorry, I didn't look close enough. Since you're using gnome: middle click on screenprogramssystemGDM configuratorLogin appearance -- It said use windows 95 or better so I loaded linux! In a world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates? Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [expert] DNS problems
On Monday 10 December 2001 09:13 am, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 23:13, NDPTAL85 wrote: And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 snip Excuse me for butting in here, but you may have an error in the Earthlink nameserver numbers. I show 207.217.126.81 (primary) 207.217.77.82 (secondary) 207.217.120.83 (secondary) HTH, -- cmg Good catch. My first and second entries were incorrect but the third was still correct so it should have been working. Anyway I corrected them and its still not working. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] LM 8.1/Win2k dual boot clock issue
If your system has timeconfig, try man timeconfig. Otherwise look at man hwclock Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: avalancheresearch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] LM 8.1/Win2k dual boot clock issue Hello, I have an HP Omnibook DBoot w/ win2k (for work - we use exchange :( ) and LM 8.1 (for me). I made a mistake when installing LM. When asked by the installer weither my system clock was set to GMT I said yes (it's not). Soo every time I go back and forth between OS's, i chokes my clock and neither one stays correct. I am wondering how to fix this...I went into the clock setting in LM, but did not see a way to change the system clock offset. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, Greg _ 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
[expert] Updating kernel 2.4.3-20
Howdy, How can I update , or install a later Kernel, when doing a new install of LM 8.0 from the 3cd box set? The default kernel is 2.4.3-20mdk. I wish to update it enough to use a ext3fs if possible, without updating to 8.1. ( sorry but it won't run on my setup , though I wish it did! ) anyway , do I have to update in stages to gain ext3 support? and can I use ext3 on all partitions including / ? If not someone please tell me if I have to stay with a Reiserfs instead? If I need to compile a special kernel to do this , please direct me to a tutorial on how to do it that is written in average user-speak. Not a novice but somethings I haven't tried to do yet. Like compiling a kernel from scratch. any and all help is very much appreciated! Thanks in advance Mike McNeese Springdale, AR. USA Linux user 248955 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 09:13 AM, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 23:13, NDPTAL85 wrote: And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign it an IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The manual IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other comps on this IP and they can use it just fine. I deleted the previous messages, so forgive me if you already answered this. Can you ping the other PCs on your network? What is the output of 'route -n'? Also, you might want to remove the line 'search earthlink.net'. All this does is slow down domain resolution, unless you actually deal with earthlink network systems on a regular basis. How are you connected to earthlink? Dial-up through a gateway? DSL? Something else? Here is my ping from 192.168.0.2 (Mandrake) to 192.168.0.5 (Mac OS X) [root@Dreadnaught root]# ping 192.168.0.5 PING 192.168.0.5 (192.168.0.5) from 192.168.0.2 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=508 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=572 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=522 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=426 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=448 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=525 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=534 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=536 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=539 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=477 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=469 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=534 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=542 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=541 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=14 ttl=255 time=471 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=537 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=16 ttl=255 time=540 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=17 ttl=255 time=537 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=18 ttl=255 time=529 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=19 ttl=255 time=543 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=20 ttl=255 time=454 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=21 ttl=255 time=535 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=22 ttl=255 time=530 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=23 ttl=255 time=522 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=24 ttl=255 time=461 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=25 ttl=255 time=536 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=26 ttl=255 time=538 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=27 ttl=255 time=536 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=28 ttl=255 time=469 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=29 ttl=255 time=550 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=30 ttl=255 time=540 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=31 ttl=255 time=528 usec 64 bytes from 192.168.0.5: icmp_seq=32 ttl=255 time=525 usec --- 192.168.0.5 ping statistics --- 33 packets transmitted, 33 packets received, 0% packet loss Here is the results of route -n [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo I dialup to Earthlink thru a Netgear 4 port 56k router (model RM356). It has 4 machines connected to it of which one is the Mandrake box. The others are Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Windows XP. They are working fine. -- If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] g++ docs
Now that I have LM 8.1 installed, trying to build one of my programs, I see a zillion copies of the following form of warning: Warning: pasting x and y does not give a valid preprocessing token. gcc -v returns 2.96 as the version number, but I can find no documentation for 2.96 on the GNU site. This warning did not appear with the compiler in 7.2; in fact, it seems a rather bizarre warning, since it seems to be telling me that after I have concatenated two strings I don't have a preprocessing token; which is fine, because I expect the concatentation to produce compilable code. Does anyone know where can I find out how to turn this warning off? There are so many that they look likely to bury any real warnings. Doc PS Example: #define test(x) int x##; test(burble) produces: warning pasting burble and ; does not give valid preprocessing token in LM 8.1; gives no warning in LM 7.2. -- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax:+1 781 240 0527 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0 vs Cups kmail import
Hi, I'm running evolution 1.0 under KDE, using CUPS, and in the print dialog I just leave it lpr or maybe in your case try lpr -PEpson. I just set up the CUPS printer as the default printer in the KDE control center (System - Printing Manager) and now it just works ... no problems (at least not with printing!) ... it prints quite nicely, in fact. cups installs an lpr command in /usr/bin which is a link to a link that points to lpr-cups (/usr/bin/lpr - /etc/alternatives/lpr - /usr/bin/lpr-cups) ... which is compatible with the old-school lpr but is actually cups nonetheless. hope that works for you, too! --i On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 11:51, Mitch Thompson wrote: I replace lpr with xpp whenever a requester has lpr in it. There's always an extra click after that, but xpp has always worked. On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 11:17, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I would like to move from kmail to evolution but first I would like to be able to print directly from evolution as I can do with kmail. I tried saying 'cupsdoprint -P Epson' as the print command instead of lpr, that works on the command line but not from evolution. For the moment I am forced to print to a PS or PDF file and then send the jobs to CUPs. How can I print directly to a CUPs printer from evolution? How can I set evolution so the DEFAULT printer command is that of the CUPs printer and not 'lpr'? Another question I have is how to automate migration of my kmail folders to evolution. It is just too painful to do it one by one manually. Is there a command line that I can use within a shell script? Thanks very much for your help! Jose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mitch Thompson, San Antonio TX Key fingerprint = BBDA 3A2A 4483 BD0D 7CED B8A9 D183 C8F6 B0AF 66AE -- Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft®, recently referred to Linux as a cancer. Unsuprisingly, this is incorrect - Linux was released on August 25th, 1991, and is therefore a virgo. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing DVD's
There is also the VideoLan Client (and servers). rpms and debs are available. http://www.videolan.org/ Tobias Marx writes: Larry Sword wrote: Ken Thompson wrote: What is the group opinion of the best program to play DVD's?? I just got an older 5spd DVD to fool around with and now the Number 1 son wants to watch movies G. Any tips to make it work would also help a bunch -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com ICQ 988809 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. xine-0.4.3.d4d-1 i've got better experiences with ogle (more stable). speed is about 95% of windvd on (you guess it) windows. just install the rpms from here (those for rh7.x work just fine on my mdk8.1 box): http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ you'll need: libdvdcss libdvdread liba52 Ogle Ogle_gui have fun! -- Free Dmitry Sklyarov, NOW! Fuck the DMCA! 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
Re: [expert] LM 8.1/Win2k dual boot clock issue
On Monday 10 December 2001 10:12, you wrote: Hello, I have an HP Omnibook DBoot w/ win2k (for work - we use exchange :( ) and LM 8.1 (for me). I made a mistake when installing LM. When asked by the installer weither my system clock was set to GMT I said yes (it's not). Soo every time I go back and forth between OS's, i chokes my clock and neither one stays correct. I am wondering how to fix this...I went into the clock setting in LM, but did not see a way to change the system clock offset. Mandrake Control Center in Mandrake. Go to date/time settings. Change time to correct time, make sure your time zone is correct. When your done and click ok, it will again ask you about gmt. Select no at that point and you will be relying on the timezone (bios) rather than gmt or utc. Cheers Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, Greg _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Strange problem with the POP server
Hi folks, I've got a head scratcher here and I'd really like your help, please. The problem arose when we replaced a RedHat 6.2 server with a Mandrake 8.1 server. On the new Mandrake server, a few clients (out of about 400 or so) are now having difficultly POP'ing their mail where they didn't have before. What happens is that they are experiencing an extended connection time, up to 60 seconds before the mail transfer starts after starting a mail run via pop. In some cases, this is causing the client to time-out and report the server is unreachable. If I monitor /var/log/secure and /var/log/syslog while one of these users does a mail run, I see the POP3 connection made almost instantly in /var/log/secure (so it's not a net latency). However, the pop service init login doesn't show up (in /var/log/syslog) until quite a while later; when it does, the user gets his mail. Thus the delay is occurring between the pop connection and the pop login. I was at one client's machine this weekend, trying to figure out what is going on. He has one of those 4 port Linksys home router/NAT firewall units. If I bypass the Linksys router and connect the cable modem directly to his machine, the POP latency disappears and mail transfers are fast. Put the Linksys router in the path and the long latency re-appears; the log entries in /var/log/secure and /var/log/syslog are almost simultaneous. (I do not know whether all the clients having problems have such a router/NAT firewall or not). So far, I've not found out what happens on a POP connection after the initial connection via xinetd and I have no idea what can be causing this delay. Does anyone have anything to suggest? Thanks! -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
NDPTAL85 wrote: [summarized] After about a week of taking my Mandrake 8.1 box off of DHCP and giving it its own permanent IP it can no longer resolve domain names when using that IP. When I switch it back to DHCP it starts working fine again. I am using kernel 2.4.13-12mdk. Has anyone else come across this problem? eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:A8:F2:40:B1 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:8568 (8.3 Kb) TX bytes:12311 (12.0 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xbc00 [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo Missing default route. search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 Someone pointed out dyslexia; but you have no route to 207... I have 3 other comps behind this router. I can still ssh into the Mandrake box when its on its permanent IP (192.168.0.2) but it cannot resolve anything from that IP. The router isn't set to block anything unusual. All other comps can connect to the next just fine. Its just the Mandrake box. I am going to switch one of my other comps to 192.168.0.2 to rule out that specific IP as being a problem. Which only means that the other comps have default routes and this one does not as evidenced above. Alright I just put a WinXP box on 192.168.0.2 and it was able to resolve domains just fine. So its not the router thats blocking anything. I'm at a loss here to what just broke. I still don't know why it can resovle when its on DHCP but can't when I put it on 192.168.0.2 manually. Unless you have a default route, the ONLY networks you can reach with the above route table are: 192.168.0.* 127.*.*.* Nothing else... nada... zip! Not even the DNS hosts cuz they are all in network 207.* which is NOT in your route table. Without a default route, all the other destinations won't even make it onto the wire to the router. Regardless of the destination: no route == no traffic. See man route. Troubleshooting tip: when something works one way but not another, put all the collected data side-by-side and compare... betcha you have a default route in the DHCP setup... while we can see from above that there's none in the static config. Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange problem with the POP server
Robert Fargher wrote: I was at one client's machine this weekend, trying to figure out what is going on. He has one of those 4 port Linksys home router/NAT firewall units. If I bypass the Linksys router and connect the cable modem directly to his machine, the POP latency disappears and mail transfers are fast. Put the Linksys router in the path and the long latency re-appears; the log entries in /var/log/secure and /var/log/syslog are almost simultaneous. (I do not know whether all the clients having problems have such a router/NAT firewall or not). I have a LinkSys and it works fine with LM8.1... to get more info as to what might be happening with the router, upgrade its software to one that has logging capabilities (I'm running 1.40.1) and set it up to log the connection attempts; you don't actually need a logging server to see what the router might be rejecting (see my web page at http://pfortin.com/Linux/LinkSys/), just watch what the router is sending... these logging packets are send and pray in that they are sent only once each and do not expect a response. Take a trace of the working traffic with ethereal and tcpdump; then again with the router inline and watch for unexpected log entries. HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems (Its FIXED! W00 H00!)
On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 02:01 PM, Larry Sword wrote: NDPTAL85 wrote: Here is the results of route -n [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo I dialup to Earthlink thru a Netgear 4 port 56k router (model RM356). It has 4 machines connected to it of which one is the Mandrake box. The others are Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Windows XP. They are working fine. When using a static address on the Linux machine it Sounds like you need to add a gateway address to your /etc/sysconfig/nerwork file: GATEWAY=the address of your router gateway Larry Larry, thanks! I added what you said to add and its working now. I still don't know what caused it to stop working before but at least I know its working now and I don't have to re-install. And thanks to everyone else who helped too. (I'm cross-posting so everyone can see the solution) - Yoda's answering machine, this is. Leave a message, you might and call you back, he will. - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vh_mp3.sh / create audio CD easier w/ this script
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, J. Craig Woods wrote: Hey, Nguyen, It looks to be a nice little script but I have one question: why convert the .mp3 to .wav? Why not to format for playing on regular CD stereo? j. c. woods UNIX SA When .wav is burned to a CD in audio cd fomat it becomes a regular audio CD. -- .-. .-. oo| Give Microsoft The Bird oo| /`'\ Use Linux!!!/`'\ (\_;/)(\_;/) - Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. --- Linus Torvalds Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange problem with the POP server
On the filter page in the Linksys DSL router UNCHECK Block Wan Request. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 10 December 2001 10:31 am, you wrote: Hi folks, I've got a head scratcher here and I'd really like your help, please. The problem arose when we replaced a RedHat 6.2 server with a Mandrake 8.1 server. On the new Mandrake server, a few clients (out of about 400 or so) are now having difficultly POP'ing their mail where they didn't have before. What happens is that they are experiencing an extended connection time, up to 60 seconds before the mail transfer starts after starting a mail run via pop. In some cases, this is causing the client to time-out and report the server is unreachable. If I monitor /var/log/secure and /var/log/syslog while one of these users does a mail run, I see the POP3 connection made almost instantly in /var/log/secure (so it's not a net latency). However, the pop service init login doesn't show up (in /var/log/syslog) until quite a while later; when it does, the user gets his mail. Thus the delay is occurring between the pop connection and the pop login. I was at one client's machine this weekend, trying to figure out what is going on. He has one of those 4 port Linksys home router/NAT firewall units. If I bypass the Linksys router and connect the cable modem directly to his machine, the POP latency disappears and mail transfers are fast. Put the Linksys router in the path and the long latency re-appears; the log entries in /var/log/secure and /var/log/syslog are almost simultaneous. (I do not know whether all the clients having problems have such a router/NAT firewall or not). So far, I've not found out what happens on a POP connection after the initial connection via xinetd and I have no idea what can be causing this delay. Does anyone have anything to suggest? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WordPerfect 8 Install on MDK 8.1
I'd suggest that you do a search on RPMfind and get the following 2 Mandrake RPMs: libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk.i586.rpm Good luck! George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 04:59, NDPTAL85 wrote: Here is the results of route -n [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo I dialup to Earthlink thru a Netgear 4 port 56k router (model RM356). It has 4 machines connected to it of which one is the Mandrake box. The others are Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Windows XP. They are working fine. You have no default route, meaning your Mandrake box doesn't know how to get to any IP address outside of your local networks, including your DNS servers. You could try something like : # route add -net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.1 (assuming that your gateway is 192.168.0.1). This will only fix it for this session, so if the machine reboots you'll need to set this line again. To fix it permanently you'll need to add a GATEWAY line in /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-eth0. t -- PGP key : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables is nutz!
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:06, Mark Weaver wrote: t, adding the -p (protocol) was the missing link. why in the world didn't iptables just say that's what it was missing instead of the generic error message it was giving me? I think the technical reason it gave the option unknown response is because those options (--dport, --sport) only become available to iptables when the specific protocol module (tcp, udp) gets loaded. If you don't specify the protocol, the protocol module doesn't get loaded, and iptables doesn't even know the --dport option exists, thus the error. thanks so much. firewall happy now. user is too! :) Good stuff. just wish someone would respond to my post about postfix... I think I missed that one .. t -- PGP key : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] reverse lookups with Postfix
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:57:24 -0500 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I've been thinking about something for a little while now and I was wondering if anyone here on the list has Postfix installed and doing reverse lookups as a method of controling the amount of SPAM coming into their mailservers. Yes. There are problems though in that I have to allow certain hosts to send me mail regardless because some legit sites either don't have a reverse mapping, or have it wrong... It appears that Mandrake may have fixed their DNS entries so that 216.71.84.35 returns only mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com instead of 3 hostnames of which only one was mapped back. This was causing postfix to reject about 2/3's of the messages sent to me. Hi Pierre, I've been doing the head_check thing now for about a week and while it's making a difference it's not doing the whole job. How does one start doing reverse lookups with Postfix? and thanks for the link. I'm going there now to check things out. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 We love and desire the things most that will kill us! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] reverse lookups with Postfix
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:30:29 -0700 Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny that this is mentioned... there is an article about SPAM on MandrakeSecure that discusses exactly what you're saying, Pierre... =) http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/spam.php that article appears to be pointed mostly at qmail. how does this apply to postfix? it left me scratching my head, and postfix is a fairly straightforward concept. Heck, iptables is easier then what i read in that article. maybe i just hadn't had enough coffee yet...i don't know. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 We love and desire the things most that will kill us! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] changing default editor..
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:15:02 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Franki grabbed a keyboard and wrote: vi has been my nemesis for a long time now, I never get the time to learn it, as there are other easier editors and I don't have the time to worry about it.. I need to edit my contab and don't wish to do it with vi.. I'd prefer pico or mcedit (both of which are installed.) In your .bash_login or .profile file (which-ever you use): export EDITOR=pico(or mcedit, which-ever you prefer) export VISUAL=$EDITOR Putting both thos lines in will make sure that you get it while in your shell, no matter which variable is looked at by the program that's calling your editor of choice (some look for $EDITOR, some look for $VISUAL). Log out, log back in, and you're set from then on. ok, but out of curiosity how does this default editor get called while you're in the shell? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 We love and desire the things most that will kill us! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables is nutz!
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:12:13 +1100 Tarragon Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the technical reason it gave the option unknown response is because those options (--dport, --sport) only become available to iptables when the specific protocol module (tcp, udp) gets loaded. If you don't specify the protocol, the protocol module doesn't get loaded, and iptables doesn't even know the --dport option exists, thus the error. well...that certainly makes more sense. the more i get to know iptables the more i like it. LOTs O brain candy. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 We love and desire the things most that will kill us! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] fun with vi. search command
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:24:16 +0900 Nguyen H.Vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nguyen, thanks for the quickie lesson on pattern search with VI. I hadn't known how to do that before, but I completely missed the point. what was it? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 We love and desire the things most that will kill us! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
Title: RE: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations Hi There, I've got a Dynalink TView TV capture card with FM. It uses the BT878 Brooktree chipset. It works under Linux but hasn't got cartified hardware status yet. But it's still good :-). Good Luck. Craig -Original Message- From: Tom Badran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Im looking for a good quality pci TV card. The prime purpose for it will be to use to plug in my amiga system, and consoles so that i dont need a seperate TV. Could someone reccomend a good one (and i dont have windows so it must work under linux) that gives full frame rates, and preferably does everything in hardware. Ive seen one of those USB WinTV setups and it was pretty damn crap (~6 frames a second or so). Ive never had a TV card before so i have no idea what im looking for, and anything that is fairly cheap right now would be great. Thanks Guys, im sure one of you can tell me what im after. Tom - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8FW6MXCpWOla2mCcRAm9WAJ9cckrU5GgZpldMzkFKJkLpScFd/wCfWXDK rPSSTcw0ywna6V6zZsCPNDM= =uYFZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [expert] StarOffice
At 07:34 PM 12/9/2001 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2001 05:20 pm, you wrote: El dom, 09-12-2001 a las 20:22, Lee Roberts escribió: The /net option just made me more frustrated. Screw it! I don't have the time to spend trying to make this stuff work. Why can't it a straightforward install??? Thanks for everyone's help anyway. Then, just install it without the /net option, selecting your home directory for install (a.e. /home/lee/office52). It can't do a straightforward install because Linux is a multi-user, networked OS. Star Office is appropriately designed for installation in such an environment. As a result, properly designed programs seem a little strange in a home desktop environment. However, many apps are not designed to live in a multi-user networked environment (like Netscape which needs to be heavily customized to behave well on a network) and present problems to the sysadmin like inappropriate permissions, wasted disk space for redundant files, unnecessary use of bandwidth for eye-candy, and so on. According to what you guys told me, the sequence for installing StarOffice for multiple users is as follows: 1. Install SO with the /net option 2. Change directory to where soffice is located 3. Execute soffice and follow the instructions 4. Done That seems straightforward to me. But, when I executed soffice, I got an error message that SO was already installed. Anyway, I installed it in my home directory. Maybe I'll try the /net option at some later date if someone knows what happened. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: g++ docs
Hmmm... this seems to be a widely reported problem with the gcc 3.x pre- processor. They are only warnings so it shouldn't really matter, except that, as I mentioned, they might obscure some more important and unexpected warning. There doesn't seem to be any way to turn off this warning :-( Doc PS I did see a couple of references that suggest that as of 1999, this is in fact correct behaviour from the pre-processor. I find that difficult to believe, but I suppose that it's possible. Some way to turn off the warning would be nice, though. On 10 Dec 01, at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have LM 8.1 installed, trying to build one of my programs, I see a zillion copies of the following form of warning: Warning: pasting x and y does not give a valid preprocessing token. gcc -v returns 2.96 as the version number, but I can find no documentation for 2.96 on the GNU site. This warning did not appear with the compiler in 7.2; in fact, it seems a rather bizarre warning, since it seems to be telling me that after I have concatenated two strings I don't have a preprocessing token; which is fine, because I expect the concatentation to produce compilable code. Does anyone know where can I find out how to turn this warning off? There are so many that they look likely to bury any real warnings. Doc PS Example: #define test(x) int x##; test(burble) produces: warning pasting burble and ; does not give valid preprocessing token in LM 8.1; gives no warning in LM 7.2. -- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax:+1 781 240 0527 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
Almoxt any brooktree848 based card should work good, my cheap winTV card works great for mem and does good video capture to. I believe the difference would be to have the PCI based card (as opposed to the USB). On Monday 10 December 2001 21:25, you wrote: Im looking for a good quality pci TV card. The prime purpose for it will be to use to plug in my amiga system, and consoles so that i dont need a seperate TV. Could someone reccomend a good one (and i dont have windows so it must work under linux) that gives full frame rates, and preferably does everything in hardware. Ive seen one of those USB WinTV setups and it was pretty damn crap (~6 frames a second or so). Ive never had a TV card before so i have no idea what im looking for, and anything that is fairly cheap right now would be great. Thanks Guys, im sure one of you can tell me what im after. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] autoresponder program
If your running your own email server there should be a config for vacation autoresponders. I know Postfix has that. If your not running your own server your isp or network admin can do this for you. On Monday 10 December 2001 18:10, you wrote: Can anyone give tell me what they use with Mandrake to generate Out-of-office messages? Kmail and NS don't seem to have this capability. Thanks, Brian Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] StarOffice
Greetings: 1. Install has to be done as root. You can also use -net instead of /net 2. Log out as root and login as _normal_ user and cd to /opt/staroffice/program ( or wherever soffice is). 3. run it According to what you guys told me, the sequence for installing StarOffice for multiple users is as follows: 1. Install SO with the /net option 2. Change directory to where soffice is located 3. Execute soffice and follow the instructions 4. Done That seems straightforward to me. But, when I executed soffice, I got an error message that SO was already installed. Anyway, I installed it in my home directory. Maybe I'll try the /net option at some later date if someone knows what happened. -- Salvatore Enrico Indiogine 505-627-0759 Registered Linux User #217339 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Xserver question
Is thewre an easy way like an RPM to upgrade the xserver from 4.01 to 4.10 or even 4.03? Im using a Mtrox G400 and to use the mga desk to configure the two heads you must be running 4.03 or newer. Im currently runing 4.01. I tried following the directions at xfree86.org and downloaded all the files to install but it trashed the xserver. Any help? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] autoresponder program
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:10:39 -0600 Brian Henerey [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: Can anyone give tell me what they use with Mandrake to generate Out-of-office messages? Kmail and NS don't seem to have this capability. Brian, they're not coming from Mandrake, but rather someone subscribed to the list that is currently not at home right now to get their mail and thinking it's cool to send out-of-office messages to the list everytime a message goes to them from the list. it's nice to let clients know that you're not there, but come on! for a mailing to have to put up with that it's just plain inconsiderate. sorry...didn't mean to rant. just one of my pet peeves. -- Mark Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 10:39pm up 1 day, 35 min, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 0.90, 0.76 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] reverse lookups with Postfix
On Mon Dec 10, 2001 at 09:25:49PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: Funny that this is mentioned... there is an article about SPAM on MandrakeSecure that discusses exactly what you're saying, Pierre... =) http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/spam.php that article appears to be pointed mostly at qmail. how does this apply to postfix? it left me scratching my head, and postfix is a fairly straightforward concept. Heck, iptables is easier then what i read in that article. Not at all. It's shared weight between postfix and qmail... The first part is about adding RBL support to both postfix and qmail. What was confusing about it? The second part deals with TMDA, an anti-spam client program (not the RBL stuff, two very different things)... that was the more complex of the two but, again, it was described for both qmail and postfix. I would have (and may yet) add sendmail to the RBL stuff once I play around with it, but TMDA doesn't support sendmail so I can't add it to part two. maybe i just hadn't had enough coffee yet...i don't know. Would you mind taking another look at it? It makes sense to me, but then I wrote it. It's not geared towards absolute newbies, but I don't think you need a physics degree to read it. Another look and some idea as to what doesn't make sense would be appreciated so I can maybe clarify some issues that require it (to avoid said physics degree for readers). Thanks, Mark. -- OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 21 days 5 hours 26 minutes. msg45960/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] reverse lookups with Postfix
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:58:17 -0700 Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] frantically pecked out this message: Not at all. It's shared weight between postfix and qmail... The first part is about adding RBL support to both postfix and qmail. What was confusing about it? The second part deals with TMDA, an anti-spam client program (not the RBL stuff, two very different things)... that was the more complex of the two but, again, it was described for both qmail and postfix. I would have (and may yet) add sendmail to the RBL stuff once I play around with it, but TMDA doesn't support sendmail so I can't add it to part two. maybe i just hadn't had enough coffee yet...i don't know. Would you mind taking another look at it? It makes sense to me, but then I wrote it. It's not geared towards absolute newbies, but I don't think you need a physics degree to read it. Another look and some idea as to what doesn't make sense would be appreciated so I can maybe clarify some issues that require it (to avoid said physics degree for readers). Thanks, Mark. Vincent, Acuatlly I think I will have another look at it, however this time I think I'll take that look first thing in the morning when i'm fresh and before I get fried feeding on Iptables. I was fairly toasted till I got to read your article. :) -- Mark Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 11:05pm up 1 day, 1:00, 2 users, load average: 0.71, 0.74, 0.78 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] StarOffice
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: Just one more word. I have installed SO on many systems since v.5.0 I've always installed it into /opt as root! As user I just start the binary (.../soffice)and SO asks me what kind of installation I want giving me 3 options. I've always chosen the minimalist installation as user. It has *always* worked. Never used the /net option or the /usr path installation. Everything I install *out* of my distribution I install on /opt. It's better for 'management'. Ricardo Castanho 1. Install SO with the /net option 2. Change directory to where soffice is located 3. Execute soffice and follow the instructions 4. Done That seems straightforward to me. But, when I executed soffice, I got an error message that SO was already installed. Anyway, I installed it in my home directory. Maybe I'll try the /net option at some later date if someone knows what happened. - -- Whenever possible mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iEUEARECAAYFAjwVhdoACgkQ9I0k95pf9XuGFACfQhTI9uJhQcTljRyxnkblbh1B LzUAmKMpDXaHYCOdcXmnic2XYQ5eSbA= =PXki -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ftpmount - include?
Hi any chance of getting ftpmount included in the next mdk? http://ftpfs.sourceforge.net/ JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] changing default editor..
obviously you chose a console editor,, like vim, pico, mcedit,, would be strange to only be able to edit crontab in the gui... (not even sure that would work.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] changing default editor.. On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:15:02 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Franki grabbed a keyboard and wrote: vi has been my nemesis for a long time now, I never get the time to learn it, as there are other easier editors and I don't have the time to worry about it.. I need to edit my contab and don't wish to do it with vi.. I'd prefer pico or mcedit (both of which are installed.) In your .bash_login or .profile file (which-ever you use): export EDITOR=pico(or mcedit, which-ever you prefer) export VISUAL=$EDITOR Putting both thos lines in will make sure that you get it while in your shell, no matter which variable is looked at by the program that's calling your editor of choice (some look for $EDITOR, some look for $VISUAL). Log out, log back in, and you're set from then on. ok, but out of curiosity how does this default editor get called while you're in the shell? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Registered Linux User # 186492 We love and desire the things most that will kill us! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK on Dell CPxJ
I have been working now for about 3 days trying to get MDK 8.1 installed on a Dell Latitude CPxJ Bios rev. A13 (current). It started as a boot hang at starting console mouse service so I reinstalled and disabled 'gpm'. Now it hangs at 'Setting Backspace to send ?^'. I really want to get this working to show my boss that Linux works on Laptops and I know that Dell is a supporter of Linux. Help! Hardware is PIII-650 256 RAM 1240x780 24 bit display Alps touchpad ATI Rage 8MB vidcard 3Com combo PCIMCA NIC / Modem Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TV Card Reccomendations
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:58, Ed Tharp wrote: Almoxt any brooktree848 based card should work good, my cheap winTV card works great for mem and does good video capture to. I believe the difference would be to have the PCI based card (as opposed to the USB). Does anyone who has a WinTV card have any secrets to share about how they cleaned up the picture? My card was recognized, and i am able to display video through it, but, the picture is distorted with line noise. The display is crawling with video worms. I can drive a TV set directly off the same coax and get a perfectly beautiful picture but when i display the signal through my WinTV card it looks really sloppy. I have tried iron torroids on the coax as well as replacing my standard coax with shielded, low noise coax, nothing seems to help. I am guessing that the WinTV card is picking up RF from inside my box but I would have thought that Hauppauge would have planned on that. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Traci Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
