Re: [expert] sed and special characters
I've used sed -e 's/the\/original\/file\/stirng/the\/new\/file\/string/g' /the/location/to/write/the/file successfully. James On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:38:54 -0500 Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and hopefully I read right: > If the '/' is what is giving you problems then write your sed line with > something else. It is setup to use pretty much any character after the 's' > > > This example uses @ instead, I've also seen % used. but pretty much > anything will work: > > sed -e 's@a_pattern@anotherpattern'$ENV_VAR'@' myfile.txt > > -Kyle > > > Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > > I'm trying to: > > sed -e 's/a_pattern/another_pattern'$A_ENV_VAR'/' myfile.txt > > > > if my $A_ENV_VAR has no special character 'sed' works, however if it has > > special character (like a full path name: A_ENV_VAR=/usr/local/temp) 'sed' > > doesn't work. > > How could I overcome this problem? > > > > Many thanks in advance. > > > > --- > > Alan Wilter S. da Silva > > --- > > Laboratório de Física Biológica > > Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho > >Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ > > Rio de Janeiro, Brasil > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > -- > _ > ---ooO( )Ooo--- > Kyle J. McDonald (o o) Systems Support Engineer > Sun Microsystems Inc.| > Enterprise Server Products [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1 Network Drive BUR03-4630 \\\// voice: (781) 442-2184 > Burlington, MA 01803 (o o)fax: (781) 442-1542 > ---ooO(_)Ooo--- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem
Lyvim, 100% correct on all accounts. One extra point... Some people cant/don't discharge through static band correctly. (about 1 out of a 1000) High natural levels of static. Make sure that the wrist band is on with the metal tab connecting to the bottom of your wrist not the top as hair will form enough of an insulator to make it useless have it about 2 to 3 inches up from the wrist so that when you bend the wrist it doesn't lose contact. James On 30 Mar 2002 13:27:46 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and hopefully I read right: > One other point to make. There are also many wierdisms that are caused > by something professional techs call "static wounding." This occurs > when a sensitive high density IC chip (or a single discrete transistor > for that matter) passes through a static field. It also occurs when a > non static-protected person opens a sealed static bag and touches the > components inside. Static sparks jumping from the person to the > component are also a sure sign that you don't need to waste your time; > go ahead and throw the component/device away. > > What happens is that a moving static field (like the one that's on your > body 90% of the time if you're not grounded) passes through the IC > device, which induces voltage in the microscopic conductive traces. > This can cause the energy thus generated to jump a nonconductor gap > across to the next nearest tracer. This leaves a valley in the > nonconductor "wall" between the tracers, offtimes seeded with vaporized > tracer material. Contgrats; with no prior experience, skill or intel > fab plant, you just created you own tracer. That's right; you're just > that good. > > > The correct procedure to follow when you are working on your computer is > to wear a static wrist band, and to keep your computer components away > from nonconductor surfaces. (read: carpet). Anti static spray is not > reliable. Static wrist bands are available from your local Radio > Shack. To avoid electronic mea culpa and endless firehose quantities of > frustration, I recommend that anyone working on a peripheral or mobo > wear a grounded static wrist band until the box is closed up. Touching > the case is not totally reliable, since you can generate several > thousand invisible static volts just by raising your arm, if you have > any sort of synthetic garment on. In other words your static shadow > just regenerates in short order. > > > I'd venture to say that from what Ive seen, about 80% of all RMA's, > marginal functionality, failures, and most frustrations several months > after installation are due totally to improper handling. Read: > Laziness. The problem is rampant (and I mean RAMPANT) in mom-pop > computer shops. BEWARE of these. Next time you walk into your local > computer store, go straight to the back without warning and surprise the > techs; specifically, see if they have their wristbands on when servicing > customer's equipment. I've got money that says they won't have them on. > > Typically I try to order my mobos from high volume internet shops on the > pacific coast so I can get the mobo right after it comes off the ship. > I never trust one that's been handled by anyone other than me; that > keeps me from having to worry about looking backwards. I always know > that my problem is somewhere ahead of me. If that makes any sense. > This goes for peripherals, too. I've got a few suppliers that I trust. > > > As I said above, the requirement for static wounding only involves a > static field; this implies that you do NOT have to touch a component in > order to damage it. All you have to do is pass your hand near the > component. This is why static bags are there, and this is what they > prevent; they stop not just touch, but static fields as well. > > Synopsis of above soapbox/wooden nickel contribution: Correct procedure > for computer service work is to wear a grounded static wrist band. > > Best Regards, > > LX > > > > -- > °°° > Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 > Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 > Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ > °°° > > > _ > 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] KDE screen Saver Location
[ric@darkstar ric]$ locate xflame /usr/share/control-center/screensavers/xflame.xml /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/xflame /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xflame.1.bz2 Hint: It;s not the .xml, or th e.bz2 file. ;) All of the xscreensaver executables are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver However, it's a full executable. I'm not sure that KDE will run it. I may be wrong, but I believe that the kde screensavers are a specific file format, read by a screensaver program in kde. Not the case with xscreensaver. What I did a while back was to turn off the kde screensaver, and add a section to the "startkde" script to execute xscreensaver when it was started. Thus, I had xscreensaver running inside of kde. That was a couple of years ago though. I'm running gnome these days, so I'd have to research a bit to figure out the specifics again. Hope that helps. Ric On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 17:36, Ken Thompson wrote: > I'd like to use X-Flame screen saver in KDE but for the life of me I can't > find where the files are stored so they can be found in the KDE ControlCenter. > Anybody else put Xscreensaver files in KDE? > Gnome shows all the Xscreensaver files, H.. > -- > Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos > Payette, Idaho > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.nwaa.com > Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. > > Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You > Registered Linux User #183936 > > > > 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: Fwd: Re: [expert] /bin/cat initiated by kwrited in KDE
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 09:23, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: > Paging civileme, Vincent Danen and other > mandrakesoft cool and gorgeous guys ;) > > may i know what is the status of this? dont want to be > so nosey but its really irritating to have a /bin/cat > running on your mandrake+kde system ... and not see > the same process on other distros like rh or > slackware. Diane, I would love to help you, but even though I also have a mandrake+kde system (81), I can't replicate you problem...that's why I haven't responded before now. But I can tell it's irritating you, so I thought I'd at least let you know I've seen you frustration. ;) My wooden nickel: It looks like an anomaly resulting from some kde-related rpm installs, after the initial distro install. I'm making a self-educated guess here. Has there been KDE rpm activity since the initial distro install? Cheers, LX > --- Dianne Marie Montesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi civileme /listers, -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ 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] live_update in 8.2
On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 20:28, Bill Wagner wrote: > > I've got a remote production 8.0 box that I'd like to upgrade to 8.2 but I'm > quite reluctant to touch. To do a test run, I've got an 8.0 vmware install > locally, but when I run live_update, I run into all kinds of errors. Here's > what I get: Bill, you're headed into a rat's nest. I'd recommend doing a fresh install with data migration. I've had to do this in the past. Back in the days when they actually taught you how to think instead of what to think, we were taught to never, ever take a production system offline for replacement. The correct "war games" scenario is to duplicate (parallel) you hardware (or functionality) in another box for the purpose of housing the new distro installation. This is so that you can get your drivers in place correctly and in identical fashion, then do a data/configuration migration across the net to this duplicate box without gaining a bunch of downtime. Hardware is real cheap these days in comparison to the cost of downtime or your job. Anyways, you test the new box to make sure it's duplicating the functionality of the old box perfectly. Then, after a final data update, you switch. With the legwork already done, your downtime could be less than 1 minute. The real beauty part is that you keep the old box around in case something flubs with the new box; at least for a few weeks or so, or however long it takes for you to feel comfortable. The old box is your backup/insurance in case the new install freaks. You mess with a production box and no backup, you asking for trouble. Plus you mess with production box and the "upgrade" approach, and you REALLY asking for it. I recommend the "war games" scenario above, adapted to a plan of your own that will CYA. Good luck, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ 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] KDE screen Saver Location
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 01:17 am, you wrote: > [ric@darkstar ric]$ locate xflame > /usr/share/control-center/screensavers/xflame.xml > /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/xflame > /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xflame.1.bz2 > > Hint: It;s not the .xml, or th e.bz2 file. ;) > All of the xscreensaver executables are located in > /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver > > However, it's a full executable. I'm not sure that KDE will run it. I > may be wrong, but I believe that the kde screensavers are a specific > file format, read by a screensaver program in kde. > > Not the case with xscreensaver. > What I did a while back was to turn off the kde screensaver, and add > a section to the "startkde" script to execute xscreensaver when it > was started. Thus, I had xscreensaver running inside of kde. > > That was a couple of years ago though. I'm running gnome these days, > so I'd have to research a bit to figure out the specifics again. > > Hope that helps. > > Ric > > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 17:36, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I'd like to use X-Flame screen saver in KDE but for the life of me > > I can't find where the files are stored so they can be found in the > > KDE ControlCenter. Anybody else put Xscreensaver files in KDE? > > Gnome shows all the Xscreensaver files, H.. > > -- > > Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos > > Payette, Idaho > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.nwaa.com > > Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. > > > > Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You > > Registered Linux User #183936 I'm also interested in this. My favorite screensaver, the BSOD, isn't available in the KDE screensaver setup. As mentioned above, the full executable, "bsod" is in the /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/ directory. Is there a way to use these screensavers? Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Tuesday, April 02, 2002 It's as bad as you think and they are out to get you Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for thefilesystem
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 03:03, James wrote: > Lyvim, > 100% correct on all accounts. One extra point... Some people > cant/don't discharge through static band correctly. (about 1 out of > a 1000) High natural levels of static. Make sure that the wrist > band is on with the metal tab connecting to the bottom of your wrist > not the top as hair will form enough of an insulator to make it > useless have it about 2 to 3 inches up from the wrist so that when > you bend the wrist it doesn't lose contact. > > James Thanks James! Sometimes I wonder if anyone reads this stuff. ;) You've made my night. :) And there's something else I like about this list; there's always somebody out there that has a leg up that you don't have; for instance, I've added your knowledge above to my own. The hairy angle was something I hadn't considered! Cheers, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ 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] Mandrake 8.2 problem with gui "over all very nice job done"
Well i must say mandrake 8.2 very nice job done but i have this problem with my display as i am getting this small lines on my screen , lines like when you see when there is a power outage or fluctuation .. what can be wrong ? my pc hardware is ok as i also have win2000 on same pc but no problems there .. apart from this mandrake 8.2 "bluebird" a very very nice job indeed .. take care faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE screen Saver Location
xscreensaver/kde integration 102 Sorry, I left off a piece on that last answer. If you fire up xscreensaver from startkde, it will by default cycle through al of them, at preselected intervals. You can pick a single one by running "xscreensaver-demo", and configuring it from there. Just shut off all the ones you don't want. For more info, try: "man xscreensaver". Chiao! Ric On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 17:36, Ken Thompson wrote: > I'd like to use X-Flame screen saver in KDE but for the life of me I can't > find where the files are stored so they can be found in the KDE ControlCenter. > Anybody else put Xscreensaver files in KDE? > Gnome shows all the Xscreensaver files, H.. > -- > Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos > Payette, Idaho > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.nwaa.com > Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. > > Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You > Registered Linux User #183936 > > > > 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] Mandrake 8.2 problem with gui "over all very nice job done"
I had the same problem... I tried the X-Free 4.2.2 with 3D Hardware support... problem solved. faisal gillani wrote: >Well i must say mandrake 8.2 very nice job done but i >have this problem with my display as i am getting this >small lines on my screen , lines like when you see >when there is a power outage or fluctuation .. what >can be wrong ? my pc hardware is ok as i also have >win2000 on same pc but no problems there .. >apart from this mandrake 8.2 "bluebird" a very very >nice job indeed .. > > >take care >faisal > >__ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax >http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > > > >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] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]
Well it looks like the working stiff of the US has someone in Washington that believes we aren't all theives. Senator Leheay of Vermont THE man such a bill must satisfy to even make it to the floor. Has said point blank... not this season it won't. However remember one thing for the people in CA Feinstien was the co-sponsor!!! Remember come November. James On 30 Mar 2002 08:27:58 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and hopefully I read right: > On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 03:56, James wrote: > > > To give everyone a quicker way of finding your reps go to > > http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html A service provided > > by the US mail. It will find them and give you links out to contact > > them. > > > > James > > Thanks, James! I needed that. I'm working on this stuff today. You > must have esp or something... > > :) > > Regards, > > LX > > > -- > °°° > Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 > Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 > Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ > °°° > > > _ > 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: Fwd: Re: [expert] /bin/cat initiated by kwrited in KDE
heya, --- Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 09:23, Dianne Marie Montesa > wrote: > > Paging civileme, Vincent Danen and other > > mandrakesoft cool and gorgeous guys ;) > > > > > may i know what is the status of this? dont want > to be > > so nosey but its really irritating to have a > /bin/cat > > running on your mandrake+kde system ... and not > see > > the same process on other distros like rh or > > slackware. > > Diane, > > I would love to help you, but even though I also > have a mandrake+kde > system (81), I can't replicate you problem...that's > why I haven't > responded before now. there is really nothing special about my installation. its using the mandrake kernel that came with mandrake 8.1 and its booting on init level 5 (gui login). everything is off the CD ... after my clean install, i have updated only the packages listed on the 8.1 updates (not including the kernel). the updates list doesnt include KDE updates. hmmm, are you saying you dont see /bin/cat on your opened processes? how do you start kde? ... thru startx? > But I can tell it's > irritating you, so I thought > I'd at least let you know I've seen you frustration. > ;) oh its not really irritating me ... :-) its just making me pull 3 strands of my hair everytime i do a 'ps ax' and sees it :-P > My wooden nickel: It looks like an anomaly > resulting from some > kde-related rpm installs, after the initial distro > install. I'm making > a self-educated guess here. Has there been KDE rpm > activity since the > initial distro install? nope, none that i know of ... i will be installing 8.2 on a different machine today. if i dont see it (/bin/cat) on the processes initiated, ill just upgrade and "forever hold my piece" about this issue ;) ciao, dianne (btw 2 Ns) :-P > > > Cheers, > > LX > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] draknet -> isdn
Hello all, I've very serious troubles to connect with isdn. Running mdk 8.1 on a workstation without a local network.I've tryed isdn-light and isdn4, no connection. Draknet give me this troubles I think ! Here are the error messages : Configuring IP device ippp0 --> ippp0 0.0.0.0 pointopoint 0.0.0.0 -arp -broadcast SIOCSIFDSTADDR: Cannot assign requested address Any help would be very appreciated. mess-mate Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Open Office problems
Hi Everyone, Checking out Open Office that is included with the Mandrake Linux.. had major problems getting the Open Office up and running, This was mainly through font issues... The problem was that i has a few extra fonts installed, when trying to execute the command oowrite or ooffice from a Xterm windows would give me a message "Aborted".. I worked out what was going on, the ooffice command is just a wrapper script.. I modified the ooffice script to exclude some of the font paths until the Open Office started.. I am not sure if anyone else has noticed these sort of problems with the Open Office... Does the spell check work for anyone in the OpenOffice? It does not work for me. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Open Office problems
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 06:36, Mark Williamson wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Checking out Open Office that is included with the Mandrake Linux.. had > major problems getting the Open Office up and running, This was mainly > through font issues... The problem was that i has a few extra fonts > installed, when trying to execute the command oowrite or ooffice from a > Xterm windows would give me a message "Aborted".. I worked out what > was going on, the ooffice command is just a wrapper script.. I modified > the ooffice script to exclude some of the font paths until the Open > Office started.. I am not sure if anyone else has noticed these sort > of problems with the Open Office... > > Does the spell check work for anyone in the OpenOffice? It does not work > for me. Never ran into the font problem before, but I only have a few (less than 10) imported TT fonts. The spell checker works fine for me. -- Dave Sherman Beware the wrath of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNAfor you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. "lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg --import" signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
expert@linux-mandrake.com
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > To your /etc/postfix/main.cf file, add: > > header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks > > Then, create a /etc/postfix/header_checks file, and in it, place: > > /powerfulporn.com/ 551 DON'T WANT SPAM Sorry, I think that should have actually been: /powerfulporn/com/ REJECT DON'T WANT SPAM (or whatever text is that you want for the "don't want spam" part is). --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
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 05:05:38 -0800 "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > To your /etc/postfix/main.cf file, add: > > > > header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks > > > > Then, create a /etc/postfix/header_checks file, and in it, place: > > > > /powerfulporn.com/ 551 DON'T WANT SPAM ^ > Sorry, I think that should have actually been: > > /powerfulporn/com/ REJECT DON'T WANT SPAM ^ I think you meant: /powerfulporn\.com/ ^^ > (or whatever text is that you want for the "don't want spam" part is). Actually, it's either: /match/ REJECT text /match/ [45]XX text Note that some UCE controls do not take "text" with REJECT... See http://www.postfix.org/uce.html Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wizard Documentation?
How can I find out what the various "wizards" in Mandrake 8.2 do? I can't find any documentation on 8.2 at Mandrake's web site. I'd like to know what files are modified by any given wizard. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] bootable CD
Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a bootable CD these days. I'm need to make a bootable restore CD for our public safety department. I want to put their computer hard drive image on it and have it boot from the CD and start imaging automatically. I have the hard drive image file. I have the boot floppy image. I can't get it all onto a CD successfully. I now have two coasters which have a perfect copy of the hard drive image file but the stinking CD's won't boot. The computer boots from other CD's just fine. I'm using a 8.1 system now and have tried xcdroast, eroaster, gcombust, and mkisofs from the CLI to no avail. All of them complain that they can't find either the boot image or the boot.catalog file. I have tried placing the floppy image everywhere I can think of and it has permissions that would allow everyone from Charles Manson to the Pope to read it. This is frustrating because my old system (7.1) with kisocd just worked by giving it a file name and location. Unfortunately kisocd is no longer supported it would appear. README.eltorito says that the boot.catalog file will be automatically created but doesn't say where. It also speaks of the boot image but doesn't say where it needs to be. Absolute paths don't find it which is totally confusing. The CD-writing howto on LDP just points to the README.eltorito file included with mkisofs. What is the magic step here to make this work? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [expert] /bin/cat initiated by kwrited in KDE
Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: > > > nope, none that i know of ... i will be installing 8.2 > on a different machine today. if i dont see it > (/bin/cat) on the processes initiated, ill just > upgrade and "forever hold my piece" about this issue > ;) > > ciao, > dianne (btw 2 Ns) :-P > Do not hold your breath, Countess, because you will find the "cat" skulking about in 8.2 also. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Annoying Problem while X running (mdk 8.2)
Hi all! Yesterday night I installed Linux Mandrake 8.2 from the scratch. Until that point I was using 8.1 painlessly. I have a SiS 620 onboard video card and since mdk 7.1 I didn't experienced problems before (except for some small troubles while configuring, but due to my own ) Well, this time I installed XFree 4.2.2 but below the mouse pointer (lets say 50 pixels below it) almost all the time I see two lines (about 30 or 40 pixels long) sometimes white, sometimes of other colors. In the login screen I discovered that when I write, there appears black point on the mouse-following-lines. Sometimes, when I move the mouse pointer yo the bottom of the screen, and then move it to the center of the screen, the lines dissapear. But after a while, Uou they are there again! I'm clueless. I've tried reconfiguring the card with all possible combinations (using XFDrake), but I didn't try to edit by hand the configuration files, yet. What may be happening??? -- + Claudio J. Tessone E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instituto de Fisica de La Plata - UNLP CC 63 - 1900 La Plata - Bs. As. Argentina + Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Annoying Problem while X running (mdk 8.2)
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Tessone, Claudio Juan wrote: > Hi all! > > Yesterday night I installed Linux Mandrake 8.2 from the scratch. > Until that point I was using 8.1 painlessly. > > I have a SiS 620 onboard video card and since mdk 7.1 I didn't > experienced problems before (except for some small troubles while > configuring, but due to my own ) > > Well, this time I installed XFree 4.2.2 but below the mouse pointer > (lets say 50 pixels below it) almost all the time I see two lines (about > 30 or 40 pixels long) sometimes white, sometimes of other colors. In the > login screen I discovered that when I write, there appears black point > on the mouse-following-lines. > Do you have the memory explicitly specified in the XF86Config-4 file? Look for a "VideoRam" line and see what it says. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 Mike Rambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a > bootable CD these days. I'm need to make a bootable restore > CD for our public safety department. I want to put their > computer hard drive image on it and have it boot from the CD > and start imaging automatically. I have the hard drive > image file. I have the boot floppy image. I can't get it all > onto a CD successfully. I now have two coasters which have a > perfect copy of the hard drive image file but the stinking > CD's won't boot. The computer boots from other CD's just > fine. > > I'm using a 8.1 system now and have tried xcdroast, > eroaster, gcombust, and mkisofs from the CLI to no avail. > All of them complain that they can't find either the boot > image or the boot.catalog file. I have tried placing the > floppy image everywhere I can think of and it has > permissions that would allow everyone from Charles Manson to > the Pope to read it. This is frustrating because my old > system (7.1) with kisocd just worked by giving it a file > name and location. Unfortunately kisocd is no longer > supported it would appear. > > README.eltorito says that the boot.catalog file will be > automatically created but doesn't say where. It also speaks > of the boot image but doesn't say where it needs to be. > Absolute paths don't find it which is totally confusing. The > CD-writing howto on LDP just points to the README.eltorito > file included with mkisofs. > > What is the magic step here to make this work? > > Thanks. > > > -- > Mike Rambo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn first: create iso image like this cd to_be_burnt mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . then cd ~/burn cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso replace ? with appropriate values boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give the path from where you're creating iso. bye jipe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
jipe wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 > Mike Rambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a > > bootable CD these days. > > i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a >directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn > > first: > create iso image like this > cd to_be_burnt > mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . > > then > cd ~/burn > cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso > > replace ? with appropriate values > boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give >the path from where you're creating iso. > > bye > jipe > Yep. I had just figured this out when your email came through. I had tried to set it aside for awhile until someone told me what I was doing wrong but it drove me crazy with it sitting on the floor so I had to pull it back up and figure it out. Basically the key was that the boot image has to be in the same directory as the rest of the stuff that was recorded on the CD. I don't believe I had to do this on my old 7.1 box with kisocd - that package must have handled all that stuff in the background. In any case, it's all working now. Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
David Relson writes: > Greetings, > > I've looked at linuxconf and webmin and they both seem to be graphical > system administration tools. It seems that either one could be used for > the job and having both installed seems like a duplication of tools and a > waste of disk space. Do people of the list agree with these thoughts? > Have y'all a preference for one tool or the other? Why? > > Thank you. > > David > > Isn't the better question "which tool meets your needs?" I personally have stopped worrying about 10MB disk space here and there. The last time I went to buy a disk the economical price range was the 40GB size so really, who cares about a few MB here and there. btw I use linuxconf Joe Sotham - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 problem with gui "over all very nice job done"
can you give me a little guidness on how to do it ? thanks Faisal --- Wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem... > I tried the X-Free 4.2.2 with 3D Hardware support... > problem solved. > > faisal gillani wrote: > > >Well i must say mandrake 8.2 very nice job done but > i > >have this problem with my display as i am getting > this > >small lines on my screen , lines like when you see > >when there is a power outage or fluctuation .. what > >can be wrong ? my pc hardware is ok as i also have > >win2000 on same pc but no problems there .. > >apart from this mandrake 8.2 "bluebird" a very very > >nice job indeed .. > > > > > >take care > >faisal > > > >__ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > >http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > >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 > = One day of lion's life is better then 100 day life of the jackel's *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
Joe Sotham wrote: > > David Relson writes: > > > Greetings, > > > > I've looked at linuxconf and webmin and they both seem to be graphical > > system administration tools. It seems that either one could be used for > > the job and having both installed seems like a duplication of tools and a > > waste of disk space. Do people of the list agree with these thoughts? > > Have y'all a preference for one tool or the other? Why? > > > > Thank you. > > > > David > > > > > > Isn't the better question "which tool meets your needs?" I personally have > stopped worrying about 10MB disk space here and there. The last time I went > to buy a disk the economical price range was the 40GB size so really, > who cares about a few MB here and there. > > btw I use linuxconf > > Joe Sotham > - Joe is right. Disk space is very cheap, and if you worry about 10MB, maybe your focus should be on a new employment situation. BTW, I wouldn't use either one of them. They both have a history of screwing up config files. As long as you have CLI, and editors, such as vi or pico, learn to do do admin the way it is meant to be done. One very late night, when the server is remotely located miles away, and you just want to finish your work, you will appreciate what I am saying. (Hey, you asked for opinions, and you get opinions) -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] wheel mouse with 5 buttons - how to program extra buttons?
I have a Microsoft optical wheel mouse with 5 buttons. How can I change what the buttons do? currently the left thumb button loads the home page, instead of going Back a page. I'm sure someone knows, but I'm not subscribed currently to the newbie list. -Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] draknet -> isdn
Hello all, I've very serious troubles to connect with isdn. Running mdk 8.1 on a workstation without a local network.I've tryed isdn-light and isdn4, no connection. Draknet give me this troubles I think ! Here are the error messages : Configuring IP device ippp0 --> ippp0 0.0.0.0 pointopoint 0.0.0.0 -arp -broadcast SIOCSIFDSTADDR: Cannot assign requested address Any help would be very appreciated. mess-mate Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
expert@linux-mandrake.com
Pierre Fortin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 05:05:38 -0800 "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > > > To your /etc/postfix/main.cf file, add: > > > > > > /powerfulporn.com/ 551 DON'T WANT SPAM > ^ > > Sorry, I think that should have actually been: > > > > /powerfulporn/com/ REJECT DON'T WANT SPAM >^ > I think you meant: > /powerfulporn\.com/ >^^ > > > (or whatever text is that you want for the "don't want spam" part is). > > Actually, it's either: > /match/ REJECT text > /match/ [45]XX text Right. In my example, "DON'T WANT SPAM" was the text as an example. I just goofed on what the action should be and was trying to correct that. > Note that some UCE controls do not take "text" with REJECT... See > http://www.postfix.org/uce.html According to the docs at the site, this one does. I just botched the action field in my first example to him. --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] wheel mouse with 5 buttons - how to program extra buttons?
I've been wondering how to do this myself. As well as trying to configure the buttons for my "Internet ready" keyboard, but I've not had much luck! But somebody once gave me some information that "MAY" work. I tried them in a round'bout way, but didn't get anything to work. Maybe I'll give it another whirl. But here's what I was using as a format/example. Maybe it'll help you. http://www.linux.com/enhance/newsitem.phtml?sid=1&aid=11801 http://www.linux.com/enhance/newsitem.phtml?sid=1&aid=12340 Let me konw if you have an success. I have a Kensington Expert Pro mouse. 4 buttons, scroll wheel/button, track ball, and 5 "Quick Start Buttons." It would be sweet to have *terms open up when I hit thos buttons! :') tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | I have a Microsoft optical wheel mouse with 5 buttons. How can I change what | the buttons do? currently the left thumb button loads the home page, instead | of going Back a page. | | I'm sure someone knows, but I'm not subscribed currently to the newbie list. | | -Brian | | 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: Fwd: Re: [expert] /bin/cat initiated by kwrited in KDE
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 07:21, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: > heya, > > there is really nothing special about my installation. > its using the mandrake kernel that came with mandrake > 8.1 and its booting on init level 5 (gui login). > everything is off the CD ... after my clean install, i > have updated only the packages listed on the 8.1 > updates (not including the kernel). the updates list > doesnt include KDE updates. > > hmmm, are you saying you dont see /bin/cat on your > opened processes? how do you start kde? ... thru > startx? I've got the K display manager running, so I login thru it. Enlightenment is running with KDE support right now, and the cat is not there. But earlier after I got your email I went completely into KDE and did a process tree: root@tamriel elx]# pstree -lp init(1)-+-alarmd(2742) |-artsd(2609) |-chronyd(1309) |-crond(1624) |-cupsd(1353) |-devfsd(120) |-dhcpd(1377) |-esd(1841) |-gconfd-1(2189) |-gpm(1567) |-imwheel(2551) |-kapm-idled(4) |-kdeinit(2590) |-kdeinit(2593) |-kdeinit(2596) |-kdeinit(2658) |-kdeinit(2678)-+-kdeinit(2719) | |-kdeinit(2726) | `-kdeinit(2728) |-kdeinit(2724) |-kdeinit(2731) |-kdeinit(2736)---cat(2740) |-kdm(1745)-+-X(1757) | `-kdm(2447)---startkde(2503)-+-ksmserver(2679) |`-xscreensaver(2525) So it looks like when KDE is fully up, I've got a cat on the loose too. The interesting thing is that under pure Enlightenment, kdeinit runs instances of itself whenever I've got a qt app running, but kdeinit---cat never appears. At least not in the snapshots that I've seen. > oh its not really irritating me ... :-) its just > making me pull 3 strands of my hair everytime i do a > 'ps ax' and sees it :-P Here's something you might find useful. Under pure E with KDE support, I start kwrite, and there's no cat. Then I start kwrited manually, and cat shows as a subprocess under kwrited, not kdeinit. (as your subject line originally intimated) Kwrited survives as long as kwrite is up and dies whenever kwrite dies; but so does cat. It isn't passed to kdeinit, at least not from what I see from the pstree snapshots. So the process tree under pure E with kde support remains clear of cat under normal circumstances. > nope, none that i know of ... i will be installing 8.2 > on a different machine today. if i dont see it > (/bin/cat) on the processes initiated, ill just > upgrade and "forever hold my piece" about this issue > ;) FWIW, it's been interesting to examine this; it's been informative, and now I'm curious myself as to why kdeinit babysits cat continually under pure KDE. I would say it's a handoff, except that it's there before any apps are run. > ciao, > dianne (btw 2 Ns) :-P lol! :) Cheers, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ 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] X 4.2.0 and font rendering problems
I am having some strange font rendering problems that I can't figure out. There are actually three problems which I'm not even sure are related. Also I'm not sure if it's the driver, X, KDE, or Mandrake's configuration. I hope someone can point me North. I'll be as brief as possible but I'm including -- /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- /etc/X11/fs/config -- /var/log/XFree86.0.log at the end so you can (maybe) diagnose my problem. When responding, _please_ be kind to others and edit all extraneous stuff out. Thanks. My system: MoBo: Tyan Tiger S2466N w/ dual Athlon MP 1500+ (1.33GHz)CPUs Video Board:GeForce4 Ti4600 Monitor: -- Panasync S21 (CRT) -- operating resolution (1600x1200) Stock Mandrake: Stock 8.2 -- XFree 4.2.0 -- stock nv driver -- stock KDE -- font antialiasing is OFF by default in stock installation Problems: 1) missing pixels w/in font strokes. If I do a "refresh" of the desktop _some_ but not all of the missing pixels appear. The "shape" of fonts look fine, i.e. they actually look antialiased. 2) If I open a KDE Konsole window (black background, white font-face) and cat a bunch of stuff to the screen, or scroll the text there will be a lot of white isolated pixels remaining on w/in the black background. It is as though a font was written at a particular location, then when some other letter is written at same location (or a space is written) some of the pixels don't get turned off. A desktop refresh completely clears this up as well. I don't see this effect w/in an xterm (black background, white font) but the "missing pixels" problem of 1) is especially bad. 3) When I enable "antialiased fonts" w/in KDE (and restart KDE) all my fonts now look awful. I don't think it's the classic "abiword" font problem. How do I describe "awful"? The fonts all look "square" both w/in KDE and w/in Konqueror. However the fonts look noral w/in, say Mandrake control center (and emacs). Most importantly, turning on antialiasing did _not_ fix 1 and 2 above. Mandrake Specific problem: 4) Hardrake is not identifiying my GeForce4 at all. It says "NONE Generic VGA". When installing Mandrake 8.2, the installer identified the board as a GeForce3. I plan to switch to the nVidia binary drivers as soon as I learn how to install them. But I'm not sure they will solve these problems. Ok, that's enough for now. Following is the above mentioned system info. Search on , , to get to the head of the appropriate stuff. Thanks, Dean S. Messing Information Systems Technologies Dept. Sharp Laboratories of America E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /***/ /* */ /***/ # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section "ServerFlags" # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the / mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom # This allows the server to start up even if the # mouse device can't be opened/initialised. AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection # ** # Input devices # ** # ** # Keyboard section # ** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection # **
Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:44, J. Craig Woods wrote: > BTW, I wouldn't use either one of them. They both have a history of > screwing up config files. As long as you have CLI, and editors, such as > vi or pico, learn to do do admin the way it is meant to be done. One > very late night, when the server is remotely located miles away, and you > just want to finish your work, you will appreciate what I am saying. > > (Hey, you asked for opinions, and you get opinions) > > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration I have to agree with Craig regarding the CLI. The command line is the lowest common denominator when it comes to administration; that implies that the greatest power and leverage lies at that level. GUI based interfaces are good for a quick solution sometimes, IF their history is one of reliability. My experiences regarding linuxconf have mirrored Craig's in that my config files have been foobarred. That admittedly was a year ago; but the bottom line is still and always will be the least common denominator. Which is the CLI. There are always exceptions to the rule. Mandrake Control Center has been singulary impressive. Kudos Mandrakebut the GUI incurs an additional penalty that no one seems to realize except the ignorant-user-savvy MicroSoft Corporation. And that is, simply, it divides the user from the CLI and weakens them in that regard. How? By just giving you an avenue that you don't have to create new neural pathways for in order to handle. So the learning curve gets shorter and more shallow, but the user's power is greatly curtailed. M$ wants this because their interface is more akin to heroin for ignorant users than it is a teaching tool. And addiction is exactly what they are after. IF you have the willpower to force yourself onto the command line continually in order to fully grok all the commands and config file syntaxes that you need to have in order to be a true CLI administrator, then the GUI is for you also. However, if you find yourself leaning towards the GUI because you gravitate away from onerous long and steep mental learning curves, then you need to do away with the GUI functionality until your CLI habits and mentalities are established. One more opinion thrown out there... ;P Cheers, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ 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] Diary of a Hardware problems
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:24:21 -0500 (EST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > As these list often have questions dealing with system/hardware > > problems causing system crashes and/or the like I thought that > > I would relate a recent experience that I had. > > > > I have built several systems and consider myself to be quite > > knowledgeable in both system arch and components. > > Something of a related question: > > I've built all my current machines but always had questions about the > orientation of the chassis fans. I usually put two extras in, one at the > front of the case and one at the back under the power supply. Normally I > have the front fan blowing the same direction as the PS. I.e., the front > blows in, the PS fan blows out. What do you do for the second chassis > fan at the rear? I usually have it blow in the same direction as the PS > fan, but I've since heard that this is a bad thing. > I have always held the view that all front mounted fans and all side mounted fans, if used as drive bay coolers, should blow into the case. Rear mounted fans and side mounted fans, if used for aux CPU cooling, should be used as exhaust and blow out. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Should vfat systematically be checked with dosfsck?
Hi all, I share a disk with a M$ OS I seldom use. This disk holds a vfat32 partition. Since I nearly allways use my md8.1 and this partition is mounted automatically it should be checked. I don't think the rc.sysinit file takes this into account, it's to say that this calls fsck via Fsck and fsck is a front end to a fs specific checker, e.g. when dealing with an ext32 it will call fsck.ext2. So in the case of our vfat fs it will search for fsck.vfat which doesn't exist. Now I looked around on my system and there is dosfsck which is what we need. I could make a symlink 'ln -s /sbin/dosfsck /sbin/fsck.vfat' or edit rc.sysinit to call dosfsck to make it work. Is using dosfsck a good idea or is there a better (safer) alternative? I we rely on M$'s OS to do the repairing we oblige ourselves to boot into Windows after a lock-up. It's maybe safer but if it can be avoided ... I'd like to hear from one of Mandrake's technicians what they think. Civileme ... Thanks, Guy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > There are always exceptions to the rule. Mandrake Control Center has > been singulary impressive. Kudos Mandrakebut the GUI incurs an > additional penalty that no one seems to realize except the > ignorant-user-savvy MicroSoft Corporation. And that is, simply, it > divides the user from the CLI and weakens them in that regard. How? By > just giving you an avenue that you don't have to create new neural > pathways for in order to handle. So the learning curve gets shorter and > more shallow, but the user's power is greatly curtailed. M$ wants this > because their interface is more akin to heroin for ignorant users than > it is a teaching tool. And addiction is exactly what they are after. I like using the Mandrake Control Center because it's convenient. But yea, this results in my sometimes scratching my head when I'm trying to figure out how to do it from the shell. And when I'm remote and using a ssh session to access my machine, this can be really annoying. :-) What I'd like to see is that when you try to apply your change from the MCC, that it pop up a window showing you what shell commands it's going to execute in order to meet your change request. *That* would be helpful (at least, to me :), since at the very least, it shows me what command needs to be run, and then when I'm running from a remote ssh login, something in the back of my brain will be likely to say, "hey, isn't command the one that does this?" and then I can start attacking the man page. Just a thought --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] Module Compile Errors in 2.4.18-6mdk
Am Tuesday 26 March 2002 16:16 schrieb Andrew Carlson: > Is anyone else having problems with this? Here is the output of my > module compile: > > P.S. It happens on more than one module, from more than one subsystem. did you made a `make mrproper` before??? Ciao, Jürgen -- fenderberg, n.: The large glacial deposits that form on the insides of car fenders during snowstorms. -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends system: 10:19pm up 1 day, 22 min, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 1.03, 1.11 -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] address: J. Hammelmann, Brühlstr. 6 phone: +49-7034-61578, +49-179-2178869 D-71157 Hildrizhausen, Germany fax: +49-7034-652189 www: http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/~hammelje Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM8.2: Wine vs Codeweavers Wine vs Transgaming WineX
Hi Is it better to use LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers Wine? Can Transgaming WineX be installed alongside LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers Wine? Or can it replace both altogether? Any good souls to enlighten me on this one ;) Thanks -- \|||/ ( / \ ) ( O O ) __oOOo-( )-oOOo__ Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED LM 8.2 / Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp __Oooo___ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM8.2: gFtp + SSH2
Hi I am trying to use gFtp over SSH2 but it fails with the following error: (taken from gFtp log file) gFTP 2.0.11, Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Brian Masney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about this program, please feel free to email them to me. You can always find out the latest news about gFTP from my website at http://gftp.seul.org/ gFTP comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, see the COPYING file. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details, see the COPYING file Opening SSH connection to 192.168.0.1 Running program ssh -e none -l frederic 192.168.0.1 -s sftp 3: Protocol Initialization Error: Message size 1936943199 too big from server Disconnecting from site 192.168.0.1 Received wrong response from server, disconnecting Waiting 30 seconds until trying to connect again I can SSH the machine from the console without problem... The error just puzzles me: Error: Message size 1936943199 too big from server Any idea? Thanks in advance. -- \|||/ ( / \ ) ( O O ) __oOOo-( )-oOOo__ Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED LM 8.2 / Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp __Oooo___ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
That sounds great, but I don't have 500 hours a day to learn this stuff in. I guess I've been holding out until someone publishes a book something like "How to do every single thing possible that you will ever need to know from the Linux command linefor dummies" That being said, I have learned alot about the config files from the Osbourne Red Hat Linux book, and from manually repairing damage done by GUI tools. Doug Gough -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:13 PM To: ExpertMandrake-List Subject: Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin? On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:44, J. Craig Woods wrote: > BTW, I wouldn't use either one of them. They both have a history of > screwing up config files. As long as you have CLI, and editors, such as > vi or pico, learn to do do admin the way it is meant to be done. One > very late night, when the server is remotely located miles away, and you > just want to finish your work, you will appreciate what I am saying. > > (Hey, you asked for opinions, and you get opinions) > > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration I have to agree with Craig regarding the CLI. The command line is the lowest common denominator when it comes to administration; that implies that the greatest power and leverage lies at that level. GUI based interfaces are good for a quick solution sometimes, IF their history is one of reliability. My experiences regarding linuxconf have mirrored Craig's in that my config files have been foobarred. That admittedly was a year ago; but the bottom line is still and always will be the least common denominator. Which is the CLI. There are always exceptions to the rule. Mandrake Control Center has been singulary impressive. Kudos Mandrakebut the GUI incurs an additional penalty that no one seems to realize except the ignorant-user-savvy MicroSoft Corporation. And that is, simply, it divides the user from the CLI and weakens them in that regard. How? By just giving you an avenue that you don't have to create new neural pathways for in order to handle. So the learning curve gets shorter and more shallow, but the user's power is greatly curtailed. M$ wants this because their interface is more akin to heroin for ignorant users than it is a teaching tool. And addiction is exactly what they are after. IF you have the willpower to force yourself onto the command line continually in order to fully grok all the commands and config file syntaxes that you need to have in order to be a true CLI administrator, then the GUI is for you also. However, if you find yourself leaning towards the GUI because you gravitate away from onerous long and steep mental learning curves, then you need to do away with the GUI functionality until your CLI habits and mentalities are established. One more opinion thrown out there... ;P Cheers, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ 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] vmware on 8.2
I was trying to install vmware with mandrake 8.2 and I am having a problem with running out of virtual memory on the /root/vmware directory. This did not happen with redhad 7.2 I was able to have a virtual file size of at least 2 gig. My hard drive is 20 gig, anyone else have this problem yet or am I doing something wrong. thanks dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.2: Wine vs Codeweavers Wine vs Transgaming WineX
El mar, 02-04-2002 a las 18:47, Frederic Soulier escribió: > Hi > > Is it better to use LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers Wine? > Can Transgaming WineX be installed alongside LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers > Wine? Or can it replace both altogether? > > Any good souls to enlighten me on this one ;) > Thanks hi. wassup. i don't know if it's "better" than normal wine, but i've got codeweavers' running here, and it's working really good. i can even open the big apps with it. see ya. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Should vfat systematically be checked with dosfsck?
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 15:20, Guy Zelck wrote: > Hi all, > > I share a disk with a M$ OS I seldom use. This disk holds a vfat32 > partition. > Since I nearly allways use my md8.1 and this partition is mounted > automatically it should be checked. > I don't think the rc.sysinit file takes this into account, it's to say > that this calls fsck via Fsck and fsck is a front end to a fs specific > checker, e.g. when dealing with an ext32 it will call fsck.ext2. > So in the case of our vfat fs it will search for fsck.vfat which doesn't > exist. > Now I looked around on my system and there is dosfsck which is what we need. > I could make a symlink 'ln -s /sbin/dosfsck /sbin/fsck.vfat' or edit > rc.sysinit to call dosfsck to make it work. > Is using dosfsck a good idea or is there a better (safer) alternative? > I we rely on M$'s OS to do the repairing we oblige ourselves to boot > into Windows after a lock-up. It's maybe safer but if it can be avoided ... > I'd like to hear from one of Mandrake's technicians what they think. > Civileme ... > > Thanks, > Guy. While we are waiting for Civ to get here, I can put in that I've fixed problems with vfats with linux utils. Bad ones. I've done everything from the partitioning right up to the point where 98 gets installed with the linux utils. In fact, if you have XP and you put it on an NTFS partition, it's best (from what I understand) to do the NTFS creation with Linux, and then install XP afterwards. Otherwise, if the XP disks do the NTFS conversion, I've been given to understand that Linux can't properly access the partition. Not so if Linux creates it. As to fixing problems with vfats using Linux, I've done that, and it's saved my butt a few times, because offtimes the vfat filesystem can get so crapped that fixing it from scandisk(dos) is not a possibility. Unless you happen to have a dos bootdisk prepared. But even then, I've been surprised with the effectiveness and dependability of the Linux utils as compared to the native dos stuff. Fixing a vfat drive from inside linux (a truly unbiased/independent/seperate standpoint) has definite advantages. The only reason I stop short of using the adjective "superior" is because I haven't conducted rigorous tests to back that view up. YAWN (Yet Another Wooden Nickel), LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ 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] [Fwd: socket error on remote dial up]
Original Message Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by itc4u.Workgroup (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E69B23AC6for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:50:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from pop.nmia.com [64.42.128.53]by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.7)for fgleich@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:50:04 -0700 (MST) Received: by mail.nmia.com (mbox fgleich)(with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Mon Apr 1 12:48:35 2002) X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 01 19:38:55 2002 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 53222 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2002 19:38:54 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 53184 invoked by uid 104); 1 Apr 2002 19:38:53 - Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by mail.nmia.comby uid 101 with qmail-scanner-1.10 (uvscan: v4.0.70/v4194. . Clear:0. Processed in 0.798103 secs); 01 Apr 2002 19:38:53 - X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via mail.nmia.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.10 (Clear:0. Processed in 0.798103 secs) Received: from qwest-153.dsl.nmia.com (HELO itc4u.Workgroup) (64.42.146.153)by mail.nmia.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2002 19:38:52 - Received: from itc4u.com (itc4u.Workgroup [192.168.1.1])by itc4u.Workgroup (Postfix) with ESMTPid CFDD823AC6; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:40:20 -0700 (MST) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:40:20 -0700 From: Frederick Gleicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-6mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: socket error on remote dial up Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: X-UIDL: 3ca8bb820001 I have been having this problem since replacing redhat 7.0 with mandrake 8.0. The company server has dsl internet thru eth0, with a LAN on eth1 ( thru a hub/switch ). It also has a dialup modem, ppp0 in the server for remote administration, etc. On remote dialup, ppp0, it worked great under redhat 7.0, but with mandrake 8.0, after a period of time, the surfing gets slower and slower, until it finally can't find anything. Then, disconnecting and redialing, the modem doesn't answer. At the machine, the error message "socket error: too many open files " appears, and the server locks up. You have to push the reset button and crash it to get it to reboot. It does this only on remote dial up. I installed 8.2, same problem. I've run memtest, but memory seems to be ok. It's gotta be either a memory leak or physically bad hardware. Whats causing this ? Any help I can get with this would be appreciated, thanks. Frederick Gleicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
Mike Rambo wrote: > jipe wrote: > >>On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 >>Mike Rambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a >>>bootable CD these days. >> >>i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a >directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn >> >>first: >>create iso image like this >>cd to_be_burnt >>mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . >> >>then >>cd ~/burn >>cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso >> >>replace ? with appropriate values >>boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give >the path from where you're creating iso. >> >>bye >>jipe >> > Hey, Before this thread goes away...where does the image come from. I tried asking a similar question a while back...I wanted to boot several mini-distros off the same disk. any insight on that? -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.2: gFtp + SSH2
I think this is probably due to the problem of sftp-server not being in the search path since it is installed in /usr/lib/ssh (at least for MDK 8.1). If in gftp you go into ftp>options ssh tab, you can set the ssh2 sftp-server path to be /usr/lib/ssh and things will work (don't check any of the check boxes). You can also ste this path for each bookmark I think. I also believe that you can create an slink to sftp-server from someplace in the normal search path. This problem is mentioned on the gftp web site. On Tuesday 02 April 2002 03:54 pm, you wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use gFtp over SSH2 but it fails with the following error: > (taken from gFtp log file) > > gFTP 2.0.11, Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Brian Masney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If > you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about this program, > please feel free to email them to me. You can always find out the latest > news about gFTP from my website at http://gftp.seul.org/ > gFTP comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, see the COPYING > file. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it > under certain conditions; for details, see the COPYING file > Opening SSH connection to 192.168.0.1 > Running program ssh -e none -l frederic 192.168.0.1 -s sftp > 3: Protocol Initialization > Error: Message size 1936943199 too big from server > Disconnecting from site 192.168.0.1 > Received wrong response from server, disconnecting > Waiting 30 seconds until trying to connect again > > I can SSH the machine from the console without problem... > > The error just puzzles me: >Error: Message size 1936943199 too big from server > > Any idea? > Thanks in advance. -- --- Norman Carver Associate Professor Phone: (618) 453-6048 Computer Science Department Fax: (618) 453-6044 Southern Illinois UniversityEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carbondale, IL 62901WWW: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~carver/ --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Diary of a Hardware problems
Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:24:21 -0500 (EST) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Charles A Edwards wrote: >> >> >>>As these list often have questions dealing with system/hardware >>>problems causing system crashes and/or the like I thought that >>>I would relate a recent experience that I had. >>> >>>I have built several systems and consider myself to be quite >>>knowledgeable in both system arch and components. >> >>Something of a related question: >> >>I've built all my current machines but always had questions about the >>orientation of the chassis fans. I usually put two extras in, one at the >>front of the case and one at the back under the power supply. Normally I >>have the front fan blowing the same direction as the PS. I.e., the front >>blows in, the PS fan blows out. What do you do for the second chassis >>fan at the rear? I usually have it blow in the same direction as the PS >>fan, but I've since heard that this is a bad thing. >> Check the overclockerz sites, but the key is circulation. just make sure you can visualize the direction of airflow, and that it does not defy physics. for my money, if you're worried about cooling, two fans in front, 2 in back and one on each heatsink. i'm not convinces that fans on the side don't cause resistance. if you're really paranoid... http://pcpowerandcooling.com/products/cooling/system/index_tc_2x.htm -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vmware on 8.2
El mar, 02-04-2002 a las 18:42, Dodd, David J escribió: > I was trying to install vmware with mandrake 8.2 and I am having a > problem with running out of virtual memory on the /root/vmware > directory. This did not happen with redhad 7.2 I was able to have a > virtual file size of at least 2 gig. My hard drive is 20 gig, anyone > else have this problem yet or am I doing something wrong. > > thanks > > dave > did you give the guest OS enough RAM first? check the configuration editor. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Diary of a Hardware problems
Charles A Edwards wrote: > > Something of a related question: > > > > I've built all my current machines but always had questions about the > > orientation of the chassis fans. I usually put two extras in, one at the > > front of the case and one at the back under the power supply. Normally I > > have the front fan blowing the same direction as the PS. I.e., the front > > blows in, the PS fan blows out. What do you do for the second chassis > > fan at the rear? I usually have it blow in the same direction as the PS > > fan, but I've since heard that this is a bad thing. > > > > I have always held the view that all front mounted fans and all side mounted fans, >if used as drive bay coolers, should blow into the case. > Rear mounted fans and side mounted fans, if used for aux CPU cooling, should be >used as exhaust and blow out. > >Charles The idea of fans is to take heat out of the case. the more air flow ,both in and out of the case will improve cooling. these are self-evident. as long as you don't create more heat in the process ( like by having a fan that generates more heat than it can take away ) the greater the amount of air that equally goes in and out will increase the cooling inside the case. as an example I have a central heat and air blower mounted in an outside building, which blows into the case from the bottom and exits through the side. depending on the air temp the cpu stays anywhere from 30 to 70 degrees F. It blows at an est. 650 cfm. ( YMMV ) a big fan (80-120 mm) on the side blowing in on the cpu and a bigger fan blowing out the top or back should do very well. a couple of extra 60mm fans blowing on other key parts wouldn't hurt either. just make sure thay remove alot more heat than they make. Just my thoughts on it . Mike McNeese Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
David Guntner wrote: > I like using the Mandrake Control Center because it's convenient. But yea, > this results in my sometimes scratching my head when I'm trying to figure > out how to do it from the shell. And when I'm remote and using a ssh > session to access my machine, this can be really annoying. :-) What I'd > like to see is that when you try to apply your change from the MCC, that it > pop up a window showing you what shell commands it's going to execute in > order to meet your change request. *That* would be helpful (at least, to > me :), since at the very least, it shows me what command needs to be run, > and then when I'm running from a remote ssh login, something in the back of > my brain will be likely to say, "hey, isn't command the one that does > this?" and then I can start attacking the man page. > > Just a thought > >--Dave And a very good thought it is. Would be nice to see such a utility made for Linux (maybe there already is). Sun does this somewhat for Solaris but IBM takes the prize with a very useful utility called "SMIT" for AIX. With "SMIT" or its CLI alternative called "smitty" you can choose your operation, and it will generate the command with all of the appropriate switches and args. Very cool concept indeed. Hey, David, why don't you write such a program. I think perl would be the language of choice. Let me know when you are finish, and I will give it a go... -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Diary of a Hardware problems
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, mike wrote: > The idea of fans is to take heat out of the case. the more air flow > ,both in and out of the case will improve cooling. these are > self-evident. as long as you don't create more heat in the process ( > like by having a fan that generates more heat than it can take away ) > the greater the amount of air that equally goes in and out will increase > the cooling inside the case. My thoughts too. The reason I'm unsure is that after looking at several pre-built machines, half of the rear fans are blowing inward. I have an old Prosignia with the rear fan blowing inward, and there are a series of clear plastic baffles directing the airflow over the CPU card. I've also noticed that dust bunnies breed in the rarely-used CDROM drive of one of my servers. It has the rear fans blowing out and the front fan blowing in. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Diary of a Hardware problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My thoughts too. The reason I'm unsure is that after looking at several > pre-built machines, half of the rear fans are blowing inward. I have an Don't get me started on prebuilt systems. my sister's computer is a 1.3 Athlon from HP. It leaks *hot* air out the floppy drive. when I open the case, the *chassis* is hot to the touch. and it's not like it's too crowded in there to cool. just lazy, i guess. -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Diary of a Hardware problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, mike wrote: > > The idea of fans is to take heat out of the case. the more air flow > > ,both in and out of the case will improve cooling. these are > > self-evident. as long as you don't create more heat in the process ( > > like by having a fan that generates more heat than it can take away ) > > the greater the amount of air that equally goes in and out will increase > > the cooling inside the case. > My thoughts too. The reason I'm unsure is that after looking at several > pre-built machines, half of the rear fans are blowing inward. I have an > old Prosignia with the rear fan blowing inward, and there are a series > of clear plastic baffles directing the airflow over the CPU card. Something that is not self evident is that heat rejection from sinks and components is reduced when air pressure is low, which is what happens if you try to suck more heat from the case than can get in as easily. -- "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all knowledge . . . ." Proverbs 1:7 NIV 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] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: > That sounds great, but I don't have 500 hours a day to learn this stuff in. > I guess I've been holding out until someone publishes a book something like > "How to do every single thing possible that you will ever need to know from > the Linux command linefor dummies" That being said, I have learned alot > about the config files from the Osbourne Red Hat Linux book, and from > manually repairing damage done by GUI tools. > > Doug Gough > I'm learning to use both teh CLI & GUI. It makes little difference to me which I use but like you Doug, have either no time or patience to learn everything on a CLI. This site doesn't always seem to be up for me but it has so far proven extremely helpful for learning: http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wheel mouse with 5 buttons - how to program extra buttons?
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 10:57 am, you wrote: > I have a Microsoft optical wheel mouse with 5 buttons. How can I change > what the buttons do? currently the left thumb button loads the home page, > instead of going Back a page. > > I'm sure someone knows, but I'm not subscribed currently to the newbie > list. > > -Brian Not quite what you're after but if you also have an Internet keyboard: http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca/article.php?sid=475&mode=&order=0 For mouse things, I did find this but haven't tried it too much yet. http://www.xfree86.org/current/mouse7.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.2: Wine vs Codeweavers Wine vs Transgaming WineX
I can wholeheartedly recommend CodeWeavers. The Gui interface makes it MUCH easier to deal with. I will also put in a plug for their Cross over office! Wanna see office 97 or 2000 work in Linux like a dream? How bout IE4.0? It all works great and is childs play. Frederic Soulier wrote: > Hi > > Is it better to use LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers Wine? > Can Transgaming WineX be installed alongside LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers > Wine? Or can it replace both altogether? > > Any good souls to enlighten me on this one ;) > Thanks > > -- > \|||/ > ( / \ ) > ( O O ) > __oOOo-( )-oOOo__ > Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net > 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED > LM 8.2 / Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp > __Oooo___ > oooO ( ) >( ) ) / > \ ( (_/ > \_) > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Lorne Shantz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Diary of a Hardware problems
As these list often have questions dealing with system/hardware problems causing system crashes and/or the like I thought that I would relate a recent experience that I had. I have built several systems and consider myself to be quite knowledgeable in both system arch and components. My latest system I put together in late Dec, my Xmas present to myself. The specs of said system are not relevant to my tale so I shall omit those. Recently this system began to suffer from random and total lockups. Because these lockups would occured in both linux and windows it was apparent that I was afflicted with a hardware problem. When booting cold into linux the system would run for roughly 5hrs without problem but then the lockups would begin occurring, had it even happen at the GUI login screen. Once the point was reached that the lockups began the system was useless unless I shutdown and left it idle for several hours. Even worse than the lockups was that data corruption was occurring. MY first thought of a cause was either bad memory or hd. I checked all the drive cables and plugs. Ensured that components were securely seated. I ran memtest86 and an IBM drive fitness test with both showing no errors. I changed memory modules and slots, changed hd and cables, even ide controllers; and after each change keep the system up and after each change after about 5hrs the lockups would still start. Having eliminated memory and hds from the list of possible causes the only ones I saw remaining were either a faulty MOBO or CPU or possible graphics card. Switching from a GeForce3 to a Radeon produced no better results. Well I did not have another MOBO that I could use in this system but I did have a CPU that I could take from a working system that could be used in this MOBO. I removed the current CPU and heatsink and installed those from the other system. Because on this MOBO the CPU fits just below the power supply connector my hand rested against the connector while affixing the heatsink. It was then that I noted the the cable did not feel secure in the socket. Has anyone guessed the punchline yet? That's right, but you don't get a prize, after ensuring that the power cable was seated as securely as possible and restarting the system I have not suffered a lockup. Added together, between changing out components, reinstalling a half dozen time and then waiting for the system to either pass or fail the lockup tests I probably spent 50+ hrs over the course of a week fixing a system to which I had access, which is 49hrs longer than it would have required to completely dismantle the system and rebuild it, and then stumbled upon the solution when I did only by chance. I suppose that the morale to this tale is to not forget to check the innocuous little details. As I have shown it is not alway hardware failures that cause system failure and in many instances finding and eliminating the cause of the problem is often trial and error and yes, even Luck. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Diary of a Hardware problems
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Charles A Edwards wrote: > As these list often have questions dealing with system/hardware > problems causing system crashes and/or the like I thought that > I would relate a recent experience that I had. > > I have built several systems and consider myself to be quite > knowledgeable in both system arch and components. Something of a related question: I've built all my current machines but always had questions about the orientation of the chassis fans. I usually put two extras in, one at the front of the case and one at the back under the power supply. Normally I have the front fan blowing the same direction as the PS. I.e., the front blows in, the PS fan blows out. What do you do for the second chassis fan at the rear? I usually have it blow in the same direction as the PS fan, but I've since heard that this is a bad thing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Diary of a Hardware problems
Charles A Edwards wrote: >As these list often have questions dealing with system/hardware problems causing >system crashes and/or the like I thought that I would relate a recent experience that >I had. > >I have built several systems and consider myself to be quite knowledgeable in both >system arch and components. >My latest system I put together in late Dec, my Xmas present to myself. >The specs of said system are not relevant to my tale so I shall omit those. >Recently this system began to suffer from random and total lockups. >Because these lockups would occured in both linux and windows it was apparent that I >was afflicted with a hardware problem. > >When booting cold into linux the system would run for roughly 5hrs without problem >but then the lockups would begin occurring, had it even happen at the GUI login >screen. >Once the point was reached that the lockups began the system was useless unless I >shutdown and left it idle for several hours. >Even worse than the lockups was that data corruption was occurring. > >MY first thought of a cause was either bad memory or hd. >I checked all the drive cables and plugs. >Ensured that components were securely seated. >I ran memtest86 and an IBM drive fitness test with both showing no errors. >I changed memory modules and slots, changed hd and cables, even ide controllers; and >after each change keep the system up and after each change after about 5hrs the >lockups would still start. > >Having eliminated memory and hds from the list of possible causes the only ones I saw >remaining were either a faulty MOBO or CPU or possible graphics card. >Switching from a GeForce3 to a Radeon produced no better results. > >Well I did not have another MOBO that I could use in this system but I >did have a CPU that I could take from a working system that could be used in this >MOBO. >I removed the current CPU and heatsink and installed those from the other system. >Because on this MOBO the CPU fits just below the power supply connector my hand >rested against the connector while affixing the heatsink. >It was then that I noted the the cable did not feel secure in the socket. > >Has anyone guessed the punchline yet? > >That's right, but you don't get a prize, after ensuring that the power cable was >seated as securely as possible and restarting the system I have not suffered a lockup. > >Added together, between changing out components, reinstalling a half dozen time and >then waiting for the system to either pass or fail the lockup tests I probably spent >50+ hrs over the course of a week fixing a >system to which I had access, which is 49hrs longer than it would have required to >completely dismantle the system and rebuild it, and then stumbled upon the solution >when I did only by chance. > >I suppose that the morale to this tale is to not forget to check the innocuous little >details. >As I have shown it is not alway hardware failures that cause system failure and in >many instances finding and eliminating the cause of the problem is often trial and >error and yes, even Luck. > > >Charles > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Yeppers That's why I always check cabling first, then capslock then And I learned through similar experiences. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] caching nameserver trouble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've having trouble getting and keeping my caching nameserver running. On my first attempt to install & configure the caching nameserver, I couldn't get named to start. I kept getting "connection refused". So, I uninstalled and reinstalled bind and caching-nameserver rpm's and that got named to start. Everything was working just fine until I had to shut off everything at my house for pest control. When I booted back up, I could not get named to start - -- same error message and same solution to fix it. Can anyone point me into the right direction in order to solve this problem? P.S. does anyone know why the GPG keys are missing from every rpm package that I d/l from rpmfind? (MD5 sums are OK). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption isn't just for secrets.. iD8DBQE8qle+UdYCmRtxtWQRAn+jAKDNm5pxdlKZxcX5zbR/godWFO7apwCfUJLi WnXEADJJZc2yaxaPTdNCvYA= =KhgE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] system upgrade -- moving users
I'm setting up a new server for my mail-web-file server setup. While I'm not worried about recreating configuration files for most servers, I don't know what to do with the users home directories and password files. Will it work if I simply add the contents of the old password file to password file on the new machine ?? ( only user names of course ). Do I need to worry about shadow passwords in this case ?? any advice will be appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] openssl certificates
I'm using a certificate generated by openssl for secure e-mail ( pops/imaps). Mozilla and evolution both are fine with accepting the certificate forever, but kmail and all outlooks keep prompting users to hit yes to use that certificate. What can I do to stop that from happening ?? Do I really have to have some CA like Verisign sign my certificate, or is there a way around that ?? thanx a lot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 April 2002 01:30 pm, David Guntner wrote: > > I like using the Mandrake Control Center because it's convenient. But yea, > this results in my sometimes scratching my head when I'm trying to figure > out how to do it from the shell. And when I'm remote and using a ssh > session to access my machine, this can be really annoying. :-) Try tunneling VNC. Works for me. As for webmin, I think it is seriously deficient. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption isn't just for secrets.. iD8DBQE8qm6MUdYCmRtxtWQRAmGDAKDPpRW9QKPMhKHCALRC3IrIn4pyzACfdB11 6nqpsRC8VD8sGPcADHI0sOc= =mvGZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]
Remember before November. That only Dems are supporting this is conservative revisionism. Fire em all I say. Vote out the ones you can and recall the rest. On Tuesday 02 April 2002 02:31, James wrote: > Well it looks like the working stiff of the US has someone in > Washington that believes we aren't all theives. Senator Leheay of > Vermont THE man such a bill must satisfy to even make it to the > floor. Has said point blank... not this season it won't. However > remember one thing for the people in CA Feinstien was the > co-sponsor!!! Remember come November. > > James > > > On 30 Mar 2002 08:27:58 -0500 > > Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote and hopefully I read right: > > On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 03:56, James wrote: > > > To give everyone a quicker way of finding your reps go to > > > http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html A service > > provided > > > > by the US mail. It will find them and give you links out to > > contact > > > > them. > > > > > > James > > > > Thanks, James! I needed that. I'm working on this stuff today. > > You > > > must have esp or something... > > > > :) > > > > Regards, > > > > LX > > > > > > -- > > °°° > > Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 > > Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 > > Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ > > °°° > > > > > > _ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com 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
[expert] ghostscript broken in MDK 82?
I can't get anything to render thru the ghostscript engine. So, nothing of the sort works, even Print Previews in KDE. I can't even render the examples in /usr/share/ghostscript/6.53/examples. The error I always get is Error: /invalid fileaccess in --.outputpage-- Operand stack: ... etc. Anyone else seen this? I'm running under secure level 4, Mandrake 8.2. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM8.2: Wine vs Codeweavers Wine vs Transgaming WineX
- Original Message - From: Frederic Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:47 PM Subject: [expert] LM8.2: Wine vs Codeweavers Wine vs Transgaming WineX > Hi > > Is it better to use LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers Wine? > Can Transgaming WineX be installed alongside LM8.2 Wine or Codeweavers > Wine? Or can it replace both altogether? > > Any good souls to enlighten me on this one ;) > Thanks > The CVS version of Transgaming's WineX will load and run many DirectX games -- other versions of WINE won't do that. Codeweaver's WINE has a cool GUI config tool, but it's a verson or two old. They all like to install in different places (or can be made to) and can be run simultaneously AFAIK. Just try them all and pick which one will run the app you want. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] equivalents to Adobe Illustrator, Pagemaker, etc.
To the guy looking for equivalents to Adobe Illustrator, Pagemaker, etc. to be able to send to the printing company: Sorry, I lost your thread. That's why the new subject. Here are two page layout programs for linux that you might be happy with. I'm not sure how they export, but I would put money on it's a standard file format that the printing company you are sending it to will be able to read it. Try Scribus at: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html Or try ImPress at: http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/index.html Good luck, Chad Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, softwaredevelopment]
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 22:34, mike wrote: > Remember before November. That only Dems are supporting this is conservative > revisionism. Fire em all I say. Vote out the ones you can and recall the > rest. Conservative revisionism? WTF? By who's reckoning? I've been watching the democratic and republican parties with interest for the last three years, and I can assure you that the democrats-liberals have ALWAYS been behind both the constitutional rights erosion AND are the primary dildos of entertainment industry's attack on open source. The only "revisionism" around here is LIBERAL revisionism; HELLO THEY CONTROL THE MEDIA!! Yeah, there are some liberals and turncoats in republican clothing out there, but it is almost exclusively the democrats-liberals that have control of the media; what any liberal reports to the media is accepted without question, no matter what credentials (wether they exist or no), while anything contributed by a "conservative" is not even given the time of day. "Politically Incorrect" was a prime example of liberal media in action. They control the pathetic quotient of the public educational system(which is liberal as a result); they push taxes, gun control, and anything else that might help to weaken and further enslave the middle class. They are the true cancer of this nation and should be eliminated totally from power. It's time that the people fighting the good fight rise up against these corrupt lying hypocrites and get them purged from our national structure. Now they percieve open source as a threat to their gravy train and they know they cannot beat it on technical ground; therefore they are going to legislate it out of existence. Well, they can kiss my a$$; it aint going to happen if myself and others of like mind short circuit their elitist anti competitive chess game. > > On Tuesday 02 April 2002 02:31, James wrote: > > Well it looks like the working stiff of the US has someone in > > Washington that believes we aren't all theives. Senator Leheay of > > Vermont THE man such a bill must satisfy to even make it to the > > floor. Has said point blank... not this season it won't. However > > remember one thing for the people in CA Feinstien was the > > co-sponsor!!! Remember come November. > > > > James LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ 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] equivalents to Adobe Illustrator, Pagemaker, etc.
Has anyone got Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker, etc running under wine sucessfully? JG Chad wrote: > To the guy looking for equivalents to Adobe Illustrator, Pagemaker, etc. to > be able to send to the printing company: > > Sorry, I lost your thread. That's why the new subject. > > Here are two page layout programs for linux that you might be happy with. > I'm not sure how they export, but I would put money on it's a standard file > format that the printing company you are sending it to will be able to read > it. > > > Try Scribus at: > http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/about.html > > > Or try ImPress at: > http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/index.html > > > Good luck, > > Chad > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, softwaredevelopment]
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Conservative revisionism? WTF? By who's reckoning? I've been watching > the democratic and republican parties with interest for the last three > years, and I can assure you that the democrats-liberals have ALWAYS been > behind both the constitutional rights erosion AND are the primary dildos > of entertainment industry's attack on open source. The only > "revisionism" around here is LIBERAL revisionism; HELLO THEY > CONTROL THE MEDIA!! Hot damn, LX! The more I see you post, the more I can see just how intelligent you are. I couldn't have said this better. As a great French leader once said (OK Mandrake folks, you should know who he is, and, no, it is not the "Big Asparagus"), "If you are twenty and you are not a socialist, you do not have a heart but if you are forty and you are a socialist, you do not have a brain". > > Yeah, there are some liberals and turncoats in republican clothing out > there, but it is almost exclusively the democrats-liberals that have > control of the media; what any liberal reports to the media is accepted > without question, no matter what credentials (wether they exist or no), > while anything contributed by a "conservative" is not even given the > time of day. "Politically Incorrect" was a prime example of liberal > media in action. They control the pathetic quotient of the public > educational system(which is liberal as a result); they push taxes, gun > control, and anything else that might help to weaken and further enslave > the middle class. They are the true cancer of this nation and should be > eliminated totally from power. It's time that the people fighting the > good fight rise up against these corrupt lying hypocrites and get them > purged from our national structure. As one poster pointed out, it is not an accident that California's Finestein is a big proponent of this kind of elitism. Tell the liberals and the Hollywood elitist to leave our money, guns, and computers alone. > > Now they percieve open source as a threat to their gravy train and they > know they cannot beat it on technical ground; therefore they are going > to legislate it out of existence. Well, they can kiss my a$$; it aint > going to happen if myself and others of like mind short circuit their > elitist anti competitive chess game. Wake up call! -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to set path in mdk
How to put a group of folders into my - PATH environment - LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. - LD_LIBRARY_PATH - TCL_LIBRARY environmental variable. _ 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
Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?
J. Craig Woods grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > And a very good thought it is. Would be nice to see such a utility made > for Linux (maybe there already is). Sun does this somewhat for Solaris > but IBM takes the prize with a very useful utility called "SMIT" for > AIX. With "SMIT" or its CLI alternative called "smitty" you can choose > your operation, and it will generate the command with all of the > appropriate switches and args. Very cool concept indeed. Yea, it was. I've admin'd AIX systems, and I remember SMIT now that you mention it. Very cool utility. > > Hey, David, why don't you write such a program. I think perl would be > the language of choice. Let me know when you are finish, and I will give > it a go... > Uh, yea :-) It'll be ready Real Soon Now --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
