Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-09 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Felix Miata wrote:

Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:

 

Try this.  I don't know if it will work or not.  I don't want to screw
up my configuration by testing it.  I find it is easier to use the
command line to add sources, but you're not me...so...here goes:
   

 

-KDE Menu =Configuration = Packaging = Software Sources Manager
-If there is a sources named updates click on it and click on Remove
to remove it (obvious, I know).
-Click on Add...
-Click on Local files
-Name the source updates
-Browse to the local directory with all of the cooker files.
   

Everything went seemingly swimmingly to this point.

 

-Click OK
   

What about the checkbox for relative path to hdlists? I checked that,
but no matter what I entered in the box, I'd always get an error message
after it rattled the disk a while, either about not finding the hdlist
file it wanted, or trouble parsing it.
 

That should do it.  If it doesn't let me know.
   

For tonight, I'm going to try cli,  if that doesn't work, again via
floppy installation boot update. Maybe tomorrow with more info I can get
it to work.
You need to download the base directory in addition to the RPMS 
directory.  base and RPMS are both in the same cooker directory on 
the server.

Then put ../base/hdlist.cz as the path for the hdlist.

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Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-09 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Felix Miata wrote:

Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:

 

Felix Miata wrote:
   

Surely someone must know. Why does the X tool even exist if it can only
get the job done for the person who wrote it, if even then? I don't mind
using cli at all, but my goal was to figure out the X tool. I've gotten
nowhere with that?
This tool is not meant for cooker use.  It is meant for keeping a
   

So how does it get tested during cooker/beta/rc to ensure that it works
with GA?
I agree with you on this.  I've asked myself the same thing.

released version up-to-date.  It is assumed (possibly incorrectly) that
if you are using a cooker version of Mandrake that you are aware of this
and know how to keep the machine up-to-date.
   

Everyone who does had to get there somehow. Unless I'm missing
something, no one is born knowing how.
My child will. ;-)

Are you new to Linux or Mandrake?  If so, you're diving in pretty deep
   

Define new? My first Linux install was RedHat 5.2. My first Mandrake
install, 7.1. My first Mandrake beta testing, 8.0. My first cooker, last
Friday, after rc1 wouldn't install except as upgrade from 9.1.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, and every version of Linux in the paragraph 
above reads Mandrake Linux 9.1, we both know what new is.

by running a test version of anything Linux.  It may be better to run
something that is ready for those that are experiencing Linux or
Mandrake Linux for the first time.  If not, knock yourself out. :-)
   

I cobbled the box purely for testing Mandrake cooker/beta/rcx. I learned
over the past several Mandrake beta versions that if I want to actually
use Mandrake for normal things, to only use releases, and to experiment
with something else. So, I have this box running OS/2 24/7; a box with
W98, OS/2,  RedHat 9 used mostly for W98; a box with W98, OS/2  RedHat
6.2, used for little more than my EPROM burner; a box with DOS, W2K,
OS/2, Mdk 7.1, Corel 1.1, RedHat 7.3  Mdk 9.1, used mostly for Mdk; and
the new (slow, 200 MHz) box for cooker.
Lots of info, yet no answer.  So are you new or not? ;-)

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Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-09 Thread Felix Miata
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
 
 Felix Miata wrote:
 
 What about the checkbox for relative path to hdlists? I checked that,
 but no matter what I entered in the box, I'd always get an error message
 after it rattled the disk a while, either about not finding the hdlist
 file it wanted, or trouble parsing it.

 That should do it.  If it doesn't let me know.

 For tonight, I'm going to try cli,  if that doesn't work, again via
 floppy installation boot update. Maybe tomorrow with more info I can get
 it to work.

 You need to download the base directory in addition to the RPMS
 directory.  base and RPMS are both in the same cooker directory on
 the server.

I rsync'd
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/
 
 Then put ../base/hdlist.cz as the path for the hdlist.

Did that. Didn't work. Also unsuccessfully tried ../base/hdlists and
../base.
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Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-09 Thread Charlie M.
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September 9, 2003 01:09 am, Felix Miata wrote:
whack

 I rsync'd
 ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586
/

  Then put ../base/hdlist.cz as the path for the hdlist.

 Did that. Didn't work. Also unsuccessfully tried ../base/hdlists and
 ../base.

The command I used to first rsync with the same mirror; lifted from 
/root/.bash_history:

rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude alpha/ --exclude amd64/ 
- --exclude ia64/ --exclude others/ --exclude SRPMS --exclude jpackage 
- --exclude ppc/ --exclude unsupported/ ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/ 
/store/Mandrake-devel/

When I say I mirror I actually mean only the relevant parts and I don't 
need any of the excluded stuff. Yet. 

You can make an exclude list to use, rather than individually typing all 
of the directories you don't want but as I wrote, I used this one for 
the first rsync 'cause I'd never done it before.

HTH

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Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-09 Thread Felix Miata
Charlie M. wrote:
 
 The command I used to first rsync with the same mirror; lifted from
 /root/.bash_history:
 
 rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude alpha/ --exclude amd64/
 - --exclude ia64/ --exclude others/ --exclude SRPMS --exclude jpackage
 - --exclude ppc/ --exclude unsupported/ ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/
 /store/Mandrake-devel/
 
 When I say I mirror I actually mean only the relevant parts and I don't
 need any of the excluded stuff. Yet.
 
 You can make an exclude list to use, rather than individually typing all
 of the directories you don't want but as I wrote, I used this one for
 the first rsync 'cause I'd never done it before.

I use this file:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/rsync-plus/rsync_exclude

and this script:
/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude-from=rsync_exclude
ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/ /mnt/mandrake/cooker | tee -a
cooker.log
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Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-09 Thread Charlie M.
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September 9, 2003 01:28 am, Felix Miata wrote:
 Charlie M. wrote:
  The command I used to first rsync with the same mirror; lifted from
  /root/.bash_history:
 
  rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude alpha/ --exclude amd64/
  - --exclude ia64/ --exclude others/ --exclude SRPMS --exclude
  jpackage - --exclude ppc/ --exclude unsupported/
  ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/ /store/Mandrake-devel/
 
  When I say I mirror I actually mean only the relevant parts and I
  don't need any of the excluded stuff. Yet.
 
  You can make an exclude list to use, rather than individually
  typing all of the directories you don't want but as I wrote, I used
  this one for the first rsync 'cause I'd never done it before.

 I use this file:
 http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/rsync-plus/rsync_exclude

 and this script:
 /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude-from=rsync_exclude
 ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/ /mnt/mandrake/cooker | tee
 -a cooker.log

Hmmm... The rsync exclude looks like what I use now, but I can't tell 
from looking at it whether the script you use pulls the contrib 
directory. Other than the stuff I showed as excluded my 
/store/Mandrake-devel directory locally is identical to what's on 
sunet.se and uninett.no. Cooker and contrib are rsynced in one pass.

The command I used to add the local tree to the software manager 
probably won't help figure this out, but likely won't hurt either. ;)

cooker
urpmi.addmedia localcooker 
file://store/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with 
../base/hdlist.cz

contrib
urpmi.addmedia localcontrib file://store/contrib/i586/ with 
../../cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz

It worked as expected here.

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[expert] Re: Re: Approved

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[expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread Anne Wilson
Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding 
informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat 
/proc/bus/usb/devices.  It seems to me that those of us with aging 
grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of 
these really useful commands.

Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here 
that I could add?  Thanks

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Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?

2003-09-09 Thread KevinO
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Luis Duran wrote:
 Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one
 week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a
 dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take
 my computer to a cyber cafe but that people didn't not like the idea. i
 have this question, Has Mandrake an iso image with all the updates that
 i could download from a cyber cafe without taking my computer there ?

 i will appreciate if you let me know about this.

I use to haul my laptop down to the local, wired, micro-brewery and download
the updates directory from a server to take home, and then run updates on the
laptop. People are always hauling boxes and monitors into this place. The
local Linux Users group meets there once a month.

If you need to do more than just update the box you are dragging up there, set
up a mirror and a small ftp server on your laptop (or box), use rsync to
update the mirror on the laptop each time you hook-in. Then the laptop can be
the updates source for itself and any other boxes at home on your LAN. The
rsync goes pretty fast once you have the files all copied over the first time.

What is the policy of the cyber-cafe? I used one in London that always charged
me a little extra because I used my laptop, instead of using one of their
windows boxes. How would your's react to you taking your machine in?

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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote:
 Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ?

Interesting one, that.  Coming through with the Approved subject line 
I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a 
genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine 
enough, so the only question is why mandrake?  Could it be that one 
of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan?  This is way 
beyond me.

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Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread KevinO
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Anne Wilson wrote:
 Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding
 informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat
 /proc/bus/usb/devices.  It seems to me that those of us with aging
 grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of
 these really useful commands.

 Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here
 that I could add?  Thanks

 Anne

Where would you start? The command line is where it's at. It is where
everything is.

There have been whole books written about the proc filesystem, learning Bash,
books on common filters like sed, grep, awk etc..

There is so much that you can do, where would you start.

I have used single command lines to download and parse an XML file, and
generate a w3c compliant XHTML file and stick it on a webserver. On one line,
without any external temp file storage or data files. (It is a long line,
output is here) http://www.kevino.org/slashdot.html


You find things out by looking at how the system is running, by looking at the
parts of the operating system.

Just listing where things(files) are kept would be daunting.

Open a terminal window, or go to a virtual console, and at the prompt type a
tab key:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:50am-Intel_2011
Display all 3401 possibilities? (y or n)

That's 3400 commands, not combinations of commands, or options, etc..

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Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:53, KevinO wrote:
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 Anne Wilson wrote:
  Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding
  informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat
  /proc/bus/usb/devices.  It seems to me that those of us with aging
  grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of
  these really useful commands.
 it would like this if you want to see all the commands available to a
user login a text console and, hit tab.


 
  Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here
  that I could add?  Thanks
 
  Anne
 
 Where would you start? The command line is where it's at. It is where
 everything is.
 
 There have been whole books written about the proc filesystem, learning Bash,
 books on common filters like sed, grep, awk etc..
 
 There is so much that you can do, where would you start.
 
 I have used single command lines to download and parse an XML file, and
 generate a w3c compliant XHTML file and stick it on a webserver. On one line,
 without any external temp file storage or data files. (It is a long line,
 output is here) http://www.kevino.org/slashdot.html
 
 
 You find things out by looking at how the system is running, by looking at the
 parts of the operating system.
 
 Just listing where things(files) are kept would be daunting.
 
 Open a terminal window, or go to a virtual console, and at the prompt type a
 tab key:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:50am-Intel_2011
 Display all 3401 possibilities? (y or n)
 
 That's 3400 commands, not combinations of commands, or options, etc..
 
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RE: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?

2003-09-09 Thread Tango Echo
I would assume that would include Mozilla - regardless
of theme?  I went to the location you described and
tried to change the Menu Translucency type to
Software Blend.  But it must not be allowed in Mosfets
High Performance Liquid since I received an error when
I tried to apply.  Any idea to get around this?

Also tried a different style, and applied the menu
translucency.  Still, the File, Edit, etc menus of
Mozilla were not translucent.  Any ideas on this one?

Thanks,

Tango


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Subject: RE: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:50, Tango Echo wrote:
 Wow, nice theme.  I'm assuming that they don't have
 translucent menus, though, huh?  I like Mosfet's
 Liquid theme for KDE. Especially those translucent
 menus!  To bad more apps (like mozilla) didn't have
 support for that...

You've got total (as in all app) translucent Menus in
KDE.   In the
Style section of lookNFeel in kcontrol use the effects
Tab.  Most of the
styles support Software tint software blend and/or
Xrender Blend for
this.

James

 
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 Subject: Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
 
 On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:08, Jeremy Gregorio wrote:
  Anyone know if such a thing still exists? I
know
 apple forced a 
  cease and desist before, but there are several KDE
 Aqua theme projects 
  (I'm running one now) that have gone untouched.
 Seems weird.
  
  Jeremy Gregorio
 
 
 AquaMoz is the theme you want but it appears the
 original site is down.
 
 http://www.fiftysecondstreet.net/aquamoz/
 
 and the site that had it deskmod.com is going away
as
 well.. 
 
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[expert] SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Fisher
Hi folks, I hope someone can assist here...

I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8 bit
ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure the
card. It is not detected at all, and attempting to modprobe the module
freezes the computer totally.

I'm running Mandrake 9.1 on a Celeron 366, custom 2.4.21 kernel. RAM is 384
MB, I have a CD burner and a CD reader, both configured as ide-scsi, and
using the sr module. 

I compiled the module as port mapped, the card uses a DIP switch for the
addressing (set to 0x300). SCSI support is entirely modular (originally had
it compiled in, but changed that on Saturday).

If I can get the card working, then I should be able to use the scanner. If
not, well, I can probably return it...

So I'm open to advice and suggestions... (I think I might have to edit
modules.conf, but not too sure of what I need to put in there..).
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Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 12:08 pm, ed tharp wrote:
 On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:53, KevinO wrote:
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  Anne Wilson wrote:
   Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding
   informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was
   cat /proc/bus/usb/devices.  It seems to me that those of us
   with aging grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad
   of a list of these really useful commands.

  it would like this if you want to see all the commands available
 to a user login a text console and, hit tab.

Ed, overkill is as bad as no info at all when you're in a stress 
situation - and troubleshooting soon gets that way g  I wasn't 
meaning *all* commands available, just the ones that are often given 
as help in troubleshooting.

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
 lorne wrote:
  I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I
  can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom
  and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to
  clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?

 I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look
 at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/.  There was some bug in audacity that
 made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it.  Here is
 the qip:

I take it that /contrib is NOT the 3rd disk then? I didn't find it. I'll go 
out and google for it. 

I guess since I'm no longer contributing I do not have acess to it. Thanks 
anyhow. 

 Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

 In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program,
 it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and
 Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy,
 and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any
 part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a
 customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio
 analysis applications.


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[expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-09 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Alex Fisher wrote:
 I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8 bit
 ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure the
 card. It is not detected at all, and attempting to modprobe the module
 freezes the computer totally.

Several things come to mind:
- Have you googled for that card + Linux to see whether this problem
  has been encountered (and maybe solved) by others?
- You could also search the archives of the Sane mailing list, as sane
  is the scanner software used on Linux.
- Do you know whether that card has any possibilities to assign IRQ/IO
  port? If so, have you played with that?
- Have you tried without the CD reader/burner (especially without
  their module)?

That's all I can think of at the moment...

Cheerio,

Thomas
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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:

 Interesting one, that.  Coming through with the Approved subject line 
 I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a 
 genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine 
 enough, so the only question is why mandrake?  Could it be that one 
 of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan?  This is way 
 beyond me.

no, they're infected.

if you see the post down a bit, it has the subject wicked screensaver,
which was one of the subjects I was getting with the .pif attachments
previously. this is getting bad.

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dead.

and I want it *now*.

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
 On Monday 08 September 2003 10:55 pm, lorne wrote:
  I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I
  can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom
  and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to
  clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?

 Rezound is pretty good. You can easily edit MP3 files but you have to have
 Lame installed.

 You can d/l it at:

 http://rezound.sourceforge.net/

Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't 
recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has used 
/dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev/sound/dsp, but still no go.

Was there any tricks you used to get it working?

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
 On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote:
  I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I
  can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom
  and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to
  clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?

 Audacity will work very well for you. Just be ready to provide generous
 temp file space if the files are big, lots of RAM helps too. I use it for
 just the reasons that you mention, and it works great!

 Just urpmi audacity

I guess I need to add more sites or something to my urpmi, I get not found for 
most everything. :(

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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 1:47 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
 On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100

 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
  Interesting one, that.  Coming through with the Approved subject
  line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be
  a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks
  genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake?  Could it
  be that one of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan? 
  This is way beyond me.

 no, they're infected.

 if you see the post down a bit, it has the subject wicked
 screensaver, which was one of the subjects I was getting with the
 .pif attachments previously. this is getting bad.

Hmm - Imissed seeing that on Charlie's.  I have had two, one with 
'Approved' and the other with 'Details' in the subject line, but 
there doesn't appear to be any attachment, or anything else 
suspicious showing up when you open up the full headers, for 
instance, nor when I opened them in POPFile to examine them.  Surely 
they can't be running an executable in the subject line, can they?

Here are the headers from one of mine:

Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from smtp.mandrake.org (212.43.244.24) by 
mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com (6.7.018)
id 3F5876A60065BE71 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 9 Sep 
2003 02:49:39 +0100
Received: from smtp.mandrax.org (smtp.mandrax.org [80.67.180.169])
by smtp.mandrake.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
id 8B5D54A9E82; Tue,  9 Sep 2003 03:56:49 +0200 (CEST)
Received: by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 0)
id CA4B456A2F; Mon,  8 Sep 2003 22:04:03 +0200 (CEST)
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from utilnj01.rightnowtech.com (utilnj01.rightnowtech.com
[63.240.89.31]) by smtp1.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 
3EB3E13664
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon,  8 Sep 2003 21:06:32 +0200 
(CEST)
Received: from rntnj (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by
utilnj01.rightnowtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id 
h890pt821203 for
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 20:51:55 -0400
Mime-Version: 1.0
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:51:55 -0600 (MDT)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative;
  boundary=Boundary-00=_J29XQADPJDU1VA40
X-Loop: expert@
X-Sequence: 379
Precedence: list
X-Validation-BY: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Re: Re: Details
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Text-Classification: spam
Status: R 
X-Status: N
X-KMail-EncryptionState:  
X-KMail-SignatureState:  

And if ancestry.com and rightnowtech.com are genuine, perhaps someone 
should alert them as to what's happening?

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[expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Fisher
T. Ribbrock wrote:

 On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Alex Fisher wrote:
 I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8
 bit ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure
 the card. It is not detected at all, and attempting to modprobe the
 module freezes the computer totally.
 
 Several things come to mind:
 - Have you googled for that card + Linux to see whether this problem
   has been encountered (and maybe solved) by others?

The kernel source has the code for this card, and I have complied it as a
module. Only problem is, it may be compiled for either port mapping or
memory mapping, but not both...

 - You could also search the archives of the Sane mailing list, as sane
   is the scanner software used on Linux.

The Sane backend is installed on the system. It is a supported scanner...

 - Do you know whether that card has any possibilities to assign IRQ/IO
   port? If so, have you played with that?

Not IRQ as far as I can tell, but the I/O port is settable by switches on
board. I've left it at the default (0x300), as that is not currently in use
on my system (it was before I upgraded the network card...).

 - Have you tried without the CD reader/burner (especially without
   their module)?

No, because if I do that, I won't be able to use the burner...
 
 That's all I can think of at the moment...

Thanks for the suggestions... I'll keep plugging away...
 
 Cheerio,
 
 Thomas

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:00 am, lorne wrote:
 On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
  On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote:
   I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if
   I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to
   CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I
   want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a
   brain fart?
 
  Audacity will work very well for you. Just be ready to provide generous
  temp file space if the files are big, lots of RAM helps too. I use it for
  just the reasons that you mention, and it works great!
 
  Just urpmi audacity

 I guess I need to add more sites or something to my urpmi, I get not found
 for most everything. :(

One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank 
spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of 
course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no 
hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my 
thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to 
point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even 
tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the 
past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very 
frustrating. 

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote:
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote:

lorne wrote:

I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I
can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom
and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to
clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?
I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look
at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/.  There was some bug in audacity that
made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it.  Here is
the qip:
I take it that /contrib is NOT the 3rd disk then? I didn't find it. I'll go 
out and google for it. 

I guess since I'm no longer contributing I do not have acess to it. Thanks 
anyhow. 

9.1/contrib/ is on the same mirrors that host the download isos.  I see 
by your other post that you have tried Easy urpmi at PLF and it might be 
the problem with that is the mirror being busy; 9.2 rc2 is starting to 
get downloaded and you might try different mirrors, time of day to get 
through.



Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program,
it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and
Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy,
and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any
part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a
customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio
analysis applications.
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Fernandez
lorne wrote:

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:00 am, lorne wrote:
 

On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
   

On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote:
 

I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if
I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to
CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I
want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a
brain fart?
   

Audacity will work very well for you. Just be ready to provide generous
temp file space if the files are big, lots of RAM helps too. I use it for
just the reasons that you mention, and it works great!
Just urpmi audacity
 

I guess I need to add more sites or something to my urpmi, I get not found
for most everything. :(
   

One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank 
spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of 
course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no 
hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my 
thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to 
point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even 
tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the 
past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very 
frustrating. 

 



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than nanardon)

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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote:
  Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ?
 
 Interesting one, that.  Coming through with the Approved subject line 
 I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a 
 genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine 
 enough, so the only question is why mandrake?  Could it be that one 
 of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan?  This is way 
 beyond me.

It could be that one of the infected members of our list uses
ancestry.com so sobif spoofed ancestry and sent to mandrake.

No payload is strange, but maybe an isp got smart and started blocking
.pif's?

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:59 am, lorne wrote:

 Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't
 recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has used
 /dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev/sound/dsp, but still no go.

 Was there any tricks you used to get it working?

Nope, it worked out of the box here on my onboard sound with a Soyo Dragon 
Plus motherboard.

What kind of sound setup do you have? I thought almost everything defaulted to 
/dev/dsp.

Did you try making a symlink from /dev/sound/dsp to /dev/dsp instead? Just a 
thought.

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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Miark
I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to
the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow
you to receive messages?

And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list,
how is it that any automated message could make it through to us?

Miark


On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:31:39 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It could be that one of the infected members of our list uses
 ancestry.com so sobif spoofed ancestry and sent to mandrake.
 
 No payload is strange, but maybe an isp got smart and started blocking
 .pif's?

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Re[2]: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread rikona
Hello Anne,

Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 6:03:41 AM, you wrote:

  Interesting one, that.  Coming through with the Approved subject
  line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be
  a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks 
 genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake?

The subject lines are from the SoBig virus. Possibly ancestry.com got
them from spoofed [EMAIL PROTECTED], ID'd it as a virus, and
bounced it after removing the virus attachment.? I didn't get the
attachment in the ones I received.

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Followup: [expert] ref to the kickstart file via nfs or tftp

2003-09-09 Thread Kasper Fock
Annybody, I don't believe that Mandrake has narrowed the possibility to make 
an automated install this much.

Any idea of an solution or an suggestion to a .cfg syntax is appreciated.

current cfg
label mdk
KERNEL img/mdk9.1/vmlinuz
append kickstart=../mdk_minimal.cfg 
automatic=met:nfs,ser:172.16.255.4,dir:/inst/dist/mdk9.1,netw:static,ip:172.16.255.45,netm:255.255.255.0,gat:172.16.255.2,dns:172.16.255.2,ramdisk_size=6
 
initrd=img/mdk9.1/network.rdz root=/dev/ram3 vga=788

/Kasper 

On Thursday 04 September 2003 13:16, Kasper Fock wrote:
 I am trying to make an automated install via PXE.
 My problem is that the installation can't load my kickstart file via NFS or
 TFTP. (8.2 could??). I succeeded in the install of Redhat and Suse, using
 this configuration, but I would be very interested in making the same type
 of install for mandrake.
 As I see at the page
 http://members.shaw.ca/mandrake/drakx/9.0/HTML/section6.html#The_auto_instc
fg_File_Location the support for NFS, FTP, TFTP and HTTP has bean removed
 for Mandrake 9.0+ is this right ore is it just not documented here? I know
 the path to ks file can be a relative path from the install dir (ie. via
 NFS) but it can't go up level (../../conf/auto_inst.cfg)
 Can anyone tell me how the obtain the kickstart file via the NFS, TFTP or
 FTP?

 Thanks in advantage
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[expert] Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-09 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi,

 Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the
 KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation,
 Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on
 the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it
 would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service
 Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover
 the settings?

 Norman one question did you restart X ... not just logout log back in
 but restart X? (ctrl-alt-backspace will restart X)

I rebooted my server. But the shortcuts and desktop icons are still missing
8( Is there a directory that keeps these settings.

 Second thing would be to look for files ending in .rpmsave  These are
 new configuration files that rpm sets to the side (so it doesn't
 destroy your old preferences.) you'd then want to manually move the
 ones that don't affect you to the non .rpmsave filename.

Thanks. I will do a slocate for .rpmsave files. And start manually tracking
for changes.

 3rd idea ... change icon set.  Then change back
 to the one you prefer.  It's possible that Linux forgot where to find
 your icons and needs to be reminded.

May I ask how do I change my icon set? Which files do I edit? I have no more
shortcuts in the GUI interface. Would it help if I change to Gnome desktop
then back to KDE?

Regards,
Norman

 I updated the following packages of my LM9.0 box. Now my desktop menu is
 gone (the program shortcuts) and desktop icons are gone. I tried logging
 as a different user, the same thing happens. Has anyone seen this strange
 behavior? How do I revert the changes?

 Package name: gdm
 Date: August 21st, 2003
 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:085
 Affected versions: 9.0, 9.1, Corporate Server 2.1
 Synopsis: Updated gdm packages fix vulnerabilities

 Package name: perl-CGI
 Date: August 20th, 2003
 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:084
 Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2, Corporate
 Server 2.1
 Synopsis: Updated perl-CGI packages fix cross-site scripting
 vulnerabilities

 Package name: unzip
 Date: July 7th, 2003
 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:073
 Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2, Corporate
 Server 2.1
 Synopsis: Updated unzip packages fix vulnerability




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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:00, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
 Hi,

 I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the
 browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The
 download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed
 because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check
 failed!

 Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed
 again with the same behaviour!

 Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with
 just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the
 same as the remote file, no transfer necessary.

 And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer!

 Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh!

 wobo

wobo,
Say aye and give me your adress I'll send you a copy of CD1 and 2 (didn't 
dwl CD3 -sorry). No problem whatsoever.
From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the most.

BTW I dloaded from the dutch surfnet mirror simply using konqueror with double 
pane and dragging  dropping the iso's to my /home/triade directory. Did take 
all Sunday afternoon though.
I even cancelled and resumed a few times:o)

Good luck,
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[expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi,

I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the
browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The
download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed
because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check
failed!

Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed
again with the same behaviour!

Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with
just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the
same as the remote file, no transfer necessary.

And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer!

Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh!

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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner
Hello.

Am Dienstag, 9. September 2003 20:00 schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:

 I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the
 browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The
 download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed
 because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check
 failed!

I took my Mozilla and downloaded from a server in the Netherlands [1], did a 
fine job.

Regards,

Thorsten

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[expert] Re: Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-09 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi,

 Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the
 KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation,
 Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on
 the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it
 would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service
 Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover
 the settings?

 That sounds strange, I have lost the /home icon use in Red Hat in panel,
 menu and on the desktop and could only get it through the run command in
 the menu and type /home  to have it come up. But everything showed that
 it was right in kmenuedit. You could try that.

 You might try Menudrake as well, they might still be there? Strange
 indeed.

I tried kmenuedit and menudrake in the console. kmenuedit does show any
entries. But menudrake has the regular application groups and shortcuts
showing on the left pane. So it is safe to add them to the system menu
again? I'm doing cautiously as this is my working file server 8( Please
advise.

Regards,
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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:48, Miark wrote:
 I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to
 the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow
 you to receive messages?
 
 And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list,
 how is it that any automated message could make it through to us?
 
 Miark
ahhh, I do not have to confirm any messages




 
 On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:31:39 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  It could be that one of the infected members of our list uses
  ancestry.com so sobif spoofed ancestry and sent to mandrake.
  
  No payload is strange, but maybe an isp got smart and started blocking
  .pif's?
 
 
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Charlie M.
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Hash: SHA1

September 9, 2003 12:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
 Hi,

 I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the
 browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The
 download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume
 failed because the browser told me that the files are identical.
 md5sum check failed!

 Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed
 again with the same behaviour!

 Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time
 with just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears
 to be the same as the remote file, no transfer necessary.

 And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer!

 Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh!

 wobo

Howdy;

Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename 
them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least 
some bandwidth.

Greg Meyer did a mini tutorial on doing that. A link can be found on 
the cooker TWiki, or at his page:

http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux

If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like 
molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding 
it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I 
rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads.

The main torrent page for triggering the download from a browser:

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent

or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this:

btdownloadcurses.py --url
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent
- --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2

I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more 
trouble.

If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after 
completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up 
for probably another 12 hours or so.

Regards;
Charlie
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:48, Charlie M. wrote:
 Howdy;

 Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename
 them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least
 some bandwidth.

 Greg Meyer did a mini tutorial on doing that. A link can be found on
 the cooker TWiki, or at his page:

 http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html

 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux

 If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like
 molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding
 it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I
 rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads.

 The main torrent page for triggering the download from a browser:

 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent

 or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this:

 btdownloadcurses.py --url
 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent
 - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2

 I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more
 trouble.

 If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after
 completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up
 for probably another 12 hours or so.

 Regards;
 Charlie
Charlie,

You're lucky Anne is just looking away or she'd be asking you to put this up 
on the wiki:o)

Good luck,
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Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread KevinO
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Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote:

Anne Wilson wrote:
 As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read
 that page, Kevin.  For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue
 text on black is not easy.

Sorry about that. The color has been changed. Thanks for the comment.

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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 9 2003 01:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
 From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the
 most.

 OOps, withdrawing that: I dloaded RC1.
 Sticking head in toilet and flushing..

 Good luck,
 HarM

  There's been a sh!+load of updates since RC2. Just update RC1, 
probly easier than re-getting RC2.

urpmi.update -a -f --wget  urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm 
--auto-select -v,  on the main mirrors. 

  At least they didn't play bittorrent games this time. Best way to 
turn broadband into a 14,4K dialup connection IMO.
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Charlie M.
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Hash: SHA1

September 9, 2003 01:55 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:48, Charlie M. wrote:
  Howdy;
 
  Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can
  rename them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save
  at least some bandwidth.
 
  Greg Meyer did a mini tutorial on doing that. A link can be found
  on the cooker TWiki, or at his page:
 
  http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html
 
  http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux
 
  If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along
  like molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm
  feeding it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second
  from the set I rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked,
  clean downloads.
 
  The main torrent page for triggering the download from a browser:
 
  http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent
 
  or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use
  this:
 
  btdownloadcurses.py --url
  http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent
  - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2
 
  I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more
  trouble.
 
  If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after
  completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine
  up for probably another 12 hours or so.
 
  Regards;
  Charlie

 Charlie,

 You're lucky Anne is just looking away or she'd be asking you to put
 this up on the wiki:o)

 Good luck,
 HarM

Don't give her any ideas HarM!

She'll probably be nice to me 'cause she knows I haven't slept in about 
65 or 66 hours. It's been one of those weeks, and it's only Tuesday. 

I think

'Course if I do it again she'll probably have me flogged around the 
square or something. g

You can copy and paste anything that may be of any use to the Community 
TWiki, can't you Anne? 

Pretty please? With sugar on it? Sprinkles? Chocolate sauce? lol I just 
noticed the fortune on this message. My system is insane; which is OK 
since apparently I am too.

Gotta hurry away again so I can get close enough to started so that I'll 
feel I'm making at least _some_ headway. Some *hobby* I picked.

Peace;
Charlie
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:10, Charlie M. wrote:
 Gotta hurry away again so I can get close enough to started so that I'll
 feel I'm making at least _some_ headway. Some *hobby* I picked.

 Peace;
 Charlie

Heheheh, Charlie buy yourself a boat, get grounded (accidentally) at high tide  
and enjoy the peace and quiet (and if you took some meat along: the 
barbecue).

I can recommend it:o)
Don't do it in the hurricane season though!

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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Charlie M.
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September 9, 2003 03:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
 On Tuesday September 9 2003 01:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
  From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the
  most.
 
  OOps, withdrawing that: I dloaded RC1.
  Sticking head in toilet and flushing..
 
  Good luck,
  HarM

   There's been a sh!+load of updates since RC2. Just update RC1,
 probly easier than re-getting RC2.

 urpmi.update -a -f --wget  urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm
 --auto-select -v,  on the main mirrors.

   At least they didn't play bittorrent games this time. Best way to
 turn broadband into a 14,4K dialup connection IMO.

We did (are doing) the torrent thing Tom, just not limiting the 
downloads to the torrent. I'm still feeding a 60 kilobyte stream back 
up even though I rsynced the RC1 ISOs from sunet rather than waiting 
forever for the torrent to do anything. I tried it (briefly) just for 
grins and giggles and the download speed was actually acceptable this 
time. I set max-upload at 500 and was tripping 40 to 55 KB both ways. 
Not fast but not bad.

Will that command you provided above work against my local (hdb5) 
cooker? It should right?

Thank you.

Charlie
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Re: WARNING(virus check bypassed): Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread David Boles
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 04:54 pm, KevinO wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
 
  As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read
  that page, Kevin.  For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue
  text on black is not easy.

 Sorry about that. The color has been changed. Thanks for the comment.

Is this the latest virus warning for the list?
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RE: [expert] removing boot themes -- lost LILO choices

2003-09-09 Thread James D. Parra
Thank you for the response.

Somehow LILO won't display the boot choices anymore. I have switched from
LILO graphical to LILO text, but neither of them display. The bootstrap
jumps right into loading the default kernel. How can this be resolved?

Thanks again,

James


-Original Message-
From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] removing boot themes


You can eliminate the bootsplash mechanism with

  urpme bootsplash

Miark



On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:42:25 -0700 , James D. Parra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,
 
 Running Mandrake 9.1 and I would like to remove the boot up themes. How
can
 this be done?  From the Mandrake control panel applet, I uncheck the use
 themes check box, but this doesn't work.
 
 Thank you in advance.
 
 James
 
 
 


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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Miark
Surely this is some sick joke. I have to confirm every message I
send to the list. Here, I just did a test message and received this
back:
--
From: SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: confirm 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab
Date: Tue,  9 Sep 2003 17:10:22 +0200 (CEST)
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To distribute the attached message in list expert :
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following subject :
CONFIRM 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab

From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:49:41 -0400
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)

test
---

Are you telling me I'm the only one who has to do this?!

Miark










On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:39:59 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 8:32 pm, ed tharp wrote:
  On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:48, Miark wrote:
   I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber
   to the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only
   allow you to receive messages?
  
   And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list,
   how is it that any automated message could make it through to us?
  
   Miark
 
  ahhh, I do not have to confirm any messages
 
 Surely we only confirm when we sign up?  I seem to recall that someone 
 said earlier that you can send a message to the list without being 
 subscribed. You just won't receive the list messages.  If it was a 
 bounce, perhaps that's what's happening.
 
 Anne
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Re: [expert] removing boot themes -- lost LILO choices

2003-09-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:04:35 -0700 
James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Somehow LILO won't display the boot choices anymore. I have switched
 from LILO graphical to LILO text, but neither of them display. The
 bootstrap jumps right into loading the default kernel. How can this be
 resolved?

Your timeout value has either been changed or removed
Edit your /etc/lilo.conf 

sample
default=2422-7ent
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message

Add or change your timeout entry
10=1sec 100=10sec etc.


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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:28, Miark wrote:
 Surely this is some sick joke. I have to confirm every message I
 send to the list. Here, I just did a test message and received this
 back:
 --
 From: SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: confirm 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab
 Date: Tue,  9 Sep 2003 17:10:22 +0200 (CEST)
 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 To distribute the attached message in list expert :
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following subject :
 CONFIRM 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab
 
 From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: test
 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:49:41 -0400
 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
 
 test
 ---
 
 Are you telling me I'm the only one who has to do this?!
 
 Miark
 
 
 
 
yes, try subscribing from the same address you send from


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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Lee Wiggers
That's an improvement over the last time I changed addresses.  Sympa
wouldn't accept anything I did from anywhere.

Lee

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:28:07 -0400
Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Surely this is some sick joke. I have to confirm every message I
 send to the list. Here, I just did a test message and received
 this back:
 -
 - From: SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: confirm 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab
 Date: Tue,  9 Sep 2003 17:10:22 +0200 (CEST)
 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 To distribute the attached message in list expert :
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 7ca93500929d7a0ab Or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 with the following subject : CONFIRM
 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab
 
 From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: test
 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:49:41 -0400
 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10;
 i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
 
 test
 -
 --
 
 Are you telling me I'm the only one who has to do this?!
 
 Miark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:39:59 +0100, Anne Wilson
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 8:32 pm, ed tharp wrote:
   On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:48, Miark wrote:
I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a
subscriber to the list to send something to it? Or does
subscribing only allow you to receive messages?
   
And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the
list, how is it that any automated message could make it
through to us?
   
Miark
  
   ahhh, I do not have to confirm any messages
  
  Surely we only confirm when we sign up?  I seem to recall that
  someone said earlier that you can send a message to the list
  without being subscribed. You just won't receive the list
  messages.  If it was a bounce, perhaps that's what's happening.
  
  Anne
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
 I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the
 browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The
 download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed
 because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check
 failed!
 
 Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed
 again with the same behaviour!

Out of disk space?
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Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 16:41:25 -0400 (EDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:

 I've not used root-tail so this may not work:
 
 I'd create a named pipe and send the output of top to the pipe. You
 can then use root-tail on the named pipe. E.g.:
 
 mkfifo top-output
 
 nohup -b  top-output 
 
 root-tail  +whatever parameters you need to pass

Getting back to this, top-output is the name of the file created by the
top -b command? 

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Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:

 Duh!  I meant, of course, to type top -b... Not enough caffeine yet.
 Gotta brew another carafe or two.

oh, that's where I'm getting confused, I missed this reply. LOL!
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Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:24:32 -0700 (PDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:

 Awesome!  That did it - instead of 'nohup -b' I did 'top -b' and it
 does exactly what I was hoping for.

Does it show you all running processes?? No matter which way I try it,
it just shows me a few of my users processes and *postfix* (?!).

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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1

 September 9, 2003 03:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
  On Tuesday September 9 2003 01:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
   From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at
   the most.
  
   OOps, withdrawing that: I dloaded RC1.
   Sticking head in toilet and flushing..
  
   Good luck,
   HarM
 
There's been a sh!+load of updates since RC2. Just update
  RC1, probly easier than re-getting RC2.
 
  urpmi.update -a -f --wget  urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm
  --auto-select -v,  on the main mirrors.
 
At least they didn't play bittorrent games this time. Best
  way to turn broadband into a 14,4K dialup connection IMO.

 We did (are doing) the torrent thing Tom,

   I know. Some people like abuse ; 

 just not limiting the 
 downloads to the torrent.

   When I got up this mornin to find the RC2 iso's were on the 
mirrors, I was readin the cooker list. Sure enough a plea to run 
bittorrent.  So what'a hey, I tried it for a while. Started with 
30KB/s incoming, 0 to 3K upload. After ten minutes it was 0 to 3 
incoming and 10 KB upload. I reckon in ten minutes I'd already 
d/l'd the sum of the pool that was available, an everybody else was 
suckin on me for all I'm worth. So I quit that worthless BS, and 
d/l'd the iso's from sunsite.

   I'd like to believe that the iso's were available from ftp at the 
same time as bittorcrap, after the rants me an a few others voiced 
the last time (see above) about the iso's not being on the mirrors, 
and only at first by bitchtorrent.

 I'm still feeding a 60 kilobyte stream 
 back up even though I rsynced the RC1 ISOs from sunet rather than
 waiting forever for the torrent to do anything. I tried it
 (briefly) just for grins and giggles and the download speed was
 actually acceptable this time. I set max-upload at 500 and was
 tripping 40 to 55 KB both ways. Not fast but not bad.

  I've never had any luck with rsync. Screwed up mirrors, package 
version naming convention changes, can really fsck'ya. Plus I don't 
wanna maintain a local mirror. Like most all cookers, I stay 
current with urpmi --auto-select on cooker Net mirrors.  As to 
upstream, most broadband connections here in the States like mine 
are very skewed. I get at 1.5Mbit, but only give at 128Kbit. 
(actually more like 145KBytes down, 10KBytes up).

  Like I say, bittorrent is a good way to turn a 145KB connection 
into a 10KB one (at best). P2P sucks in the first place. It's good 
for [EMAIL PROTECTED], if ya believe in that stuff.

 Will that command you provided above work against my local (hdb5)
 cooker? It should right?

 Thank you.

 Charlie

 urpmi.update -a -f --wget  urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm
 --auto-select -v,  on the main mirrors

   I add sources by hand, manage them with 'edit-TabsTab' 
which runs Software Sources Manager, where just a click will 
enable/disable mirrors. Most of the time (musical cooker mirrors, 
which one is worth a fsck today??), I only enable one mirror. 
Lately I enable 2 or 3 simultaneously that I have some previous 
confidence in an know that mirror different primary mirrors (sunet, 
sunsite).

  'Course you know the -a means all sources, the -f forces a hdlist 
(I just get synthesis) download. I've found --wget more reliable 
than curl. --no-verify-rpm just saves headaches over the fsck'd up 
signed/unsigned/wrongly signed cooker packages lately. No, it's not 
for updating from your local mirror.

   Actually all I do is type 'cook' to stay current,
alias cook='urpmi.update -a -f --wget  urpmi --wget 
--no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v'An update from a fresh RC1 
install lately (yeah I got really screwed by the bad initscripts 
update last week), took little more than an hour. I reckon about 
the same to get past RC2, with a RC1 to current update now.
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:54 pm, Charlie M. wrote:
 Never mind. I seem to have fallen into a loop of dependency hell
 here. kdnetwork blahbla.32 needs kdenetworkblahblah.32
 Installation failed.

Try a differnet mirror. I often update successfully from 
club-internet.fr when sunet is fsck'd up. An club mirrors from 
sunet!  Go figure.  Also, wait a while, try again. None of the 
mirrors are updating as frequently as they did in past times. An 
never had so many with 'missing files' as they are currently. Maybe 
the nephew got promoted ?

 According to urpmi I only need a grand total of 57 MB to be
 current. The rpms are on the hard drive, but it just keeps
 displaying the same errors and won't install the blasted
 packages.

More like 1/3 to 1/4 of 57mb. urpmi reports the needed install 
space, not the d/l amount compressed in rpms. Sort'a useless for 
updating, since your only fixin to replace already installed 
packages for the most part anyhow.

 Screw it, I'll just boot to the hdinstall.img and upgrade install
 them. 18 hours of feeding bit torrent is enough for now.

   I should just quit bitchin about bittorcrap, but after ten 
minutes it tol' me I only had 246+ hours to go ;) The RC2 iso's 
were already burned 7 hours ago from an ftp d/l.  Suppose I could 
start bittsh!+ before goin to bed, but that'd only be contributing 
to the mistaken delinquency and delusion of others ;)
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:38 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
 Heheheh, Charlie buy yourself a boat, get grounded (accidentally)
 at high tide   and enjoy the peace and quiet (and if you took
 some meat along: the barbecue).

 I can recommend it:o)
 Don't do it in the hurricane season though!

 Good luck (and night),
 HarM

   HarM, post the link you posted to the 'other' list ;)

   No damn boat, pretty good size ship! Maybe you could contract 
some dredging as an affiliate venture?
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Rob Blomquist

 One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only
 blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist:
 ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails.
 With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this
 idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you
 want it to point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong.
 I've even tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for
 me in the past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting
 I use. Very frustrating.

The urpmi GUI is called rpmdrake. You can enter the info there, but I find it 
easier to let urpmi handle the set up for me, or for looking for one little 
program.

Rob
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Re: [expert] Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 09:42, Norman Zhang wrote:
 Hi,
 
  Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the
  KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation,
  Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on
  the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it
  would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service
  Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover
  the settings?
 
  Norman one question did you restart X ... not just logout log back in
  but restart X? (ctrl-alt-backspace will restart X)
 
 I rebooted my server. But the shortcuts and desktop icons are still missing
 8( Is there a directory that keeps these settings.

They are in a file in the Desktops Directory in your home directory.  
One question here.  In KDE Control Center (kcontrol) LookNFeel-Behavior 
did perhaps the Enable icons on desktop box get unchecked on you when
you upgraded?  
 
  Second thing would be to look for files ending in .rpmsave  These are
  new configuration files that rpm sets to the side (so it doesn't
  destroy your old preferences.) you'd then want to manually move the
  ones that don't affect you to the non .rpmsave filename.
 
 Thanks. I will do a slocate for .rpmsave files. And start manually tracking
 for changes.
 
  3rd idea ... change icon set.  Then change back
  to the one you prefer.  It's possible that Linux forgot where to find
  your icons and needs to be reminded.
 
 May I ask how do I change my icon set? Which files do I edit? I have no more
 shortcuts in the GUI interface. Would it help if I change to Gnome desktop
 then back to KDE?

Kcontrol again.  LookNFeel-Icons.  Choose any set which has little
images show up (there are parts of some sets in mdk that do nothing for
you the working ones will give you a sample when you chose them.)


 
 Regards,
 Norman
 
  I updated the following packages of my LM9.0 box. Now my desktop menu is
  gone (the program shortcuts) and desktop icons are gone. I tried logging
  as a different user, the same thing happens. Has anyone seen this strange
  behavior? How do I revert the changes?
 
  Package name: gdm
  Date: August 21st, 2003
  Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:085
  Affected versions: 9.0, 9.1, Corporate Server 2.1
  Synopsis: Updated gdm packages fix vulnerabilities
 
  Package name: perl-CGI
  Date: August 20th, 2003
  Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:084
  Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2, Corporate
  Server 2.1
  Synopsis: Updated perl-CGI packages fix cross-site scripting
  vulnerabilities
 
  Package name: unzip
  Date: July 7th, 2003
  Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:073
  Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2, Corporate
  Server 2.1
  Synopsis: Updated unzip packages fix vulnerability
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 05:42, lorne wrote:
 On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
  lorne wrote:
   I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I
   can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom
   and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to
   clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?
 
  I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look
  at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/.  There was some bug in audacity that
  made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it.  Here is
  the qip:
 
 I take it that /contrib is NOT the 3rd disk then? I didn't find it. I'll go 
 out and google for it. 

Easiest way..  go here.  http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php  It
even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward.  

Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the
needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity.  

James

 I guess since I'm no longer contributing I do not have acess to it. Thanks 
 anyhow. 
 
  Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.
 
  In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program,
  it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and
  Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy,
  and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any
  part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a
  customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio
  analysis applications.
 
 
  Rolf
 
 
 
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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:24, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote:
  Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ?
 
 Interesting one, that.  Coming through with the Approved subject line 
 I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a 
 genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine 
 enough, so the only question is why mandrake?  Could it be that one 
 of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan?  This is way 
 beyond me.
 
 Anne

They both run winIIS server... AKA virus magnate. Need I say more.  (btw
to find out what a site uses www.netcraft.com and use the what's this
site running box.) 

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Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 08:48, Miark wrote:
 I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to
 the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow
 you to receive messages?
 
 And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list,
 how is it that any automated message could make it through to us?

Miark,

   Being a member should allow you to send IF you send from the same
e-mail return address you receive on.  For me if I send from my
opencountry.org site.  No problem. If I send from my work server
(Nisvara.com) I have to confirm.  So if you want to be able to do both
without constant confirm make sure your sending and receiving server are
the same.  (btw reply to doesn't work)

James

 
 Miark
 
 
 On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:31:39 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  It could be that one of the infected members of our list uses
  ancestry.com so sobif spoofed ancestry and sent to mandrake.
  
  No payload is strange, but maybe an isp got smart and started blocking
  .pif's?
 
 
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Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:06, Anne Wilson wrote:
 Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding 
 informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat 
 /proc/bus/usb/devices.  It seems to me that those of us with aging 
 grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of 
 these really useful commands.
 
 Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here 
 that I could add?  Thanks
 
 Anne

Anne it's been there for a while!... See my page

http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips

or the Tips and Tricks from the experts group page.

http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TipsAndTricks

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RE: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 04:33, Tango Echo wrote:
 I would assume that would include Mozilla - regardless
 of theme?  I went to the location you described and
 tried to change the Menu Translucency type to
 Software Blend.  But it must not be allowed in Mosfets
 High Performance Liquid since I received an error when
 I tried to apply.  Any idea to get around this?

Mosfet does his own transparency... and I just discovered it doesn't
always work on GTK apps (like evolution.)  Sorry.
 
 Also tried a different style, and applied the menu
 translucency.  Still, the File, Edit, etc menus of
 Mozilla were not translucent.  Any ideas on this one?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Tango
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:24 PM
 To: Expert List
 Subject: RE: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
 
 On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:50, Tango Echo wrote:
  Wow, nice theme.  I'm assuming that they don't have
  translucent menus, though, huh?  I like Mosfet's
  Liquid theme for KDE. Especially those translucent
  menus!  To bad more apps (like mozilla) didn't have
  support for that...
 
 You've got total (as in all app) translucent Menus in
 KDE.   In the
 Style section of lookNFeel in kcontrol use the effects
 Tab.  Most of the
 styles support Software tint software blend and/or
 Xrender Blend for
 this.
 
 James
 
  
  -Original Message-
  From: James Sparenberg
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:58 AM
  To: Expert List
  Subject: Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
  
  On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:08, Jeremy Gregorio wrote:
   Anyone know if such a thing still exists? I
 know
  apple forced a 
   cease and desist before, but there are several KDE
  Aqua theme projects 
   (I'm running one now) that have gone untouched.
  Seems weird.
   
   Jeremy Gregorio
  
  
  AquaMoz is the theme you want but it appears the
  original site is down.
  
  http://www.fiftysecondstreet.net/aquamoz/
  
  and the site that had it deskmod.com is going away
 as
  well.. 
  
  James
  
  
  
  
  
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:00, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the
 browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The
 download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed
 because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check
 failed!
 
 Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed
 again with the same behaviour!
 
 Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with
 just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the
 same as the remote file, no transfer necessary.
 
 And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer!
 
 Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh!
 
 wobo

wobo,

   sounds like the iso is 50mb short on the mirrors.  You might need to
ask Warley or one of the others at cooker what's the buzz.

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
 9.1/contrib/ is on the same mirrors that host the download isos.  I see
 by your other post that you have tried Easy urpmi at PLF and it might be
 the problem with that is the mirror being busy; 9.2 rc2 is starting to
 get downloaded and you might try different mirrors, time of day to get
 through.

What is interesting is that when you use the gui to add a site... it 
apparently does 3 connect attempts. If the ftp server doesn't respond. Poof. 
It is done. ?? What is up with that? Why wouldn't it continue for say a 
period of time? The packet trace showed 3 syn packets with no answer. That 
was it! ???

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
 Easiest way..  go here.  http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php  It
 even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward.  

 Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the
 needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity.  

See my previous post. All it get is no reply. I'm not even getting a response. 
It seems that I should have gotten a server busy packet or something. ?? It 
must be just buried right now. 

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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:55, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:48, Charlie M. wrote:
  Howdy;
 
  Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename
  them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least
  some bandwidth.
 
  Greg Meyer did a mini tutorial on doing that. A link can be found on
  the cooker TWiki, or at his page:
 
  http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html
 
  http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux
 
  If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like
  molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding
  it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I
  rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads.
 
  The main torrent page for triggering the download from a browser:
 
  http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent
 
  or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this:
 
  btdownloadcurses.py --url
  http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent
  - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2
 
  I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more
  trouble.
 
  If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after
  completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up
  for probably another 12 hours or so.
 
  Regards;
  Charlie
 Charlie,
 
 You're lucky Anne is just looking away or she'd be asking you to put this up 
 on the wiki:o)


He's lucky  since it's on the main MDK twiki he's cleared *grin*

James

 
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[expert] Login problem

2003-09-09 Thread Glenn Johnson
Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, 
with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 
nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable 
problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights 
are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor 
is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. Now, since I'm 
the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to 
another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 
seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window 
because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. I wonder what 
I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. 
Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is 
well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the 
same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. 
Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. 
Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. 

Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, 
not mine. :)

TIA
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:59 am, lorne wrote:
  Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't
  recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has
  used /dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev/sound/dsp, but still no go.
 
  Was there any tricks you used to get it working?

 Nope, it worked out of the box here on my onboard sound with a Soyo Dragon
 Plus motherboard.

 What kind of sound setup do you have? I thought almost everything defaulted
 to /dev/dsp.

?? My system . oops. Well yes and no. I have a lnk /dev/dsp that points to 
/dev/sound/dsp. Inside of /dev/sound is dsp and mixer. 

 Did you try making a symlink from /dev/sound/dsp to /dev/dsp instead? Just
 a thought.

So in reality it seems that the tool you suggested should work pointing to 
/dev/dsp! It should also work as /dev/sound/dsp, so dunno... maybe it is 
looking for something else. Or maybe I have something else already installed 
that is conflicting? Nah... that doesn't seem right. 

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Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?

2003-09-09 Thread Luis Duran
Hi Kevin, 

Thanks for answer. When i went to faster cybers here in my town
(Acarigua, Venezuela) with my computer tenders get crazy and said that
they can not receive customers property inside their local, i void to
argue for hours with 'em. But i am interesting in know: How can i
download all updates packages for Linux Mandrake 9 version, i never have
updated my system and i would like it. What URL (ftp or http) can i go ?

Thanks in advance and Best regards

Luis Duran


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  Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one
  week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a
  dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take
  my computer to a cyber cafe but that people didn't not like the idea. i
  have this question, Has Mandrake an iso image with all the updates that
  i could download from a cyber cafe without taking my computer there ?
 
  i will appreciate if you let me know about this.
 
 I use to haul my laptop down to the local, wired, micro-brewery and download
 the updates directory from a server to take home, and then run updates on the
 laptop. People are always hauling boxes and monitors into this place. The
 local Linux Users group meets there once a month.
 
 If you need to do more than just update the box you are dragging up there, set
 up a mirror and a small ftp server on your laptop (or box), use rsync to
 update the mirror on the laptop each time you hook-in. Then the laptop can be
 the updates source for itself and any other boxes at home on your LAN. The
 rsync goes pretty fast once you have the files all copied over the first time.
 
 What is the policy of the cyber-cafe? I used one in London that always charged
 me a little extra because I used my laptop, instead of using one of their
 windows boxes. How would your's react to you taking your machine in?
 
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:19 am, Eric Fernandez wrote:
 Actually you have urpmi.setup as a GUI for adding sources (same team
 than nanardon)

The gui is what I'm referring to. I'd do screen shots to demonstrate, but I 
don't think those pass through. 

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:00 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
  One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only
  blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to
  synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly
  correct, it fails. With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some
  polishing of this idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site
  and select where you want it to point to, or at least an error code
  telling you what is wrong. I've even tried the
  http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the past.
  My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very
  frustrating.

 The urpmi GUI is called rpmdrake. You can enter the info there, but I find
 it easier to let urpmi handle the set up for me, or for looking for one
 little program.

I guess I wasn't clear. It IS the GUI I'm complaining about. I expect the 
command line to be just what it is. I guess that is why I like it better. 
Although right this minute I'm having zero sucess with either. I understand 
that the sites are getting hammered with RC2?

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:53, lorne wrote:
 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
  Easiest way..  go here.  http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php  It
  even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward.  
 
  Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the
  needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity.  
 
 See my previous post. All it get is no reply. I'm not even getting a response. 
 It seems that I should have gotten a server busy packet or something. ?? It 
 must be just buried right now. 

Doh!... if you are running 9.1 try urpmi.setup available from texstar
 here.  

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/

Does the same thing as the easy-setup page but it also configures things
for you  nice program works really well.

James

 
 
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:00 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
 Hi,

 I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the
 browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The
 download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed
 because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check
 failed!

 Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed
 again with the same behaviour!

 Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with
 just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the
 same as the remote file, no transfer necessary.

 And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer!

 Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh!

My experience over the last 2 years has been almost identical. It appears 
there is some sort of bug in the way the file is transferred to the mirrors 
or something. Do NOT try to download again from the one that gave you a bad 
one. That is my advice. Go to another until you find a good site. I honestly 
believe it is the mirror, NOT the download itself. IT IS identical from the 
one you downloaded. Too bad there wasn't a way to do a crc check BEFORE you 
downloaded eh? Or is there?

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[expert] I need advice: migrating Win98 users to Mandrake9.1(server is already linux)

2003-09-09 Thread Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
OK, so I have my web/mail/webmail server running RedHat9.0 (will be switching to
mandrake in two weeks), fileserv/database is sitting on RedHat7.1 (haven't
touched the system for a year).
All clients are Win98 with MSOffice/MSAccess.
My plan is to move all workstation to Mandrake9.1 with OpenOffice and MSAccess
running via CrossoverOffice(Wine). All workstations will be identical in setup,
so I can just do one image and copy it on all the drives.

Here is what I want to achieve:
1. When wokrstations power up, they get an IP address from DHCP. DHCP only gives
you and IP if your MAC address matches the mac assigned to you together with IP
on the DHCP (already have this working). I would like the users to see Initlevel
5, so they have graphic log-on
2. I want the inside server (fileserv/database server) to hold all
authentication (the simpler process, the better),common folders (and serve them
via something native, would NFS do?, where can I get a HOW-TO?). All employees
use same folders. Can this all be done from the moment user logs in?
3. Key is, as much automation and as little time as possible for administration

I have been working on the mixed environment and I think it is time to put in
some more authentication and also stop using Windows, so we are all more
motivated to adapt Linux software in the office.


Thanks in advance for all of your advice!
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Re: [expert] Login problem

2003-09-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote:
 Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, 
 with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 
 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable 
 problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights 
 are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor 
 is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. 

that's a kernel panic. If you had access to a console, it would be
saying AIIEE!!! killed interrupt handler at  and a whole bunch of
illegible stuff.

 Now, since I'm 
 the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to 
 another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 
 seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window 
 because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. 

if you have ext3 or one of the other journalling filesystems, you do not
need to say Y here.

 I wonder what 
 I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. 
 Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is 
 well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the 
 same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. 
 Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. 
 Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. 
 
 Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, 
 not mine. :)

well, something is causing the kernel to panic, and that's usually a
sign of flaky hardware. The first time you boot, are you a) rebooting
from Windows or b) cold-booting from power-off? If so, flaky hardware
goes way high on the list of possibilities.

less /var/log/messages and look for the stuff that you see when it
reboots, then scroll up from there and you'll see if there was anything
troublesome logged. Usually bad hardware just pulls the rug out before
Linux can write anything to the log, but sometimes you get lucky and
there'll be warning messages there.

 
 TIA
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[expert] USB key drives and linux

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
From the Why I like Mandrake column

Saw this over on extreme tech

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1256768,00.asp

a 3 page convolution aka tutorial on how to setup usb mass storage
devices on Red Hat 9 wow.  am I ever glad I use MDK ... boss handed
me the first one I'd ever used the other day.  Plugged it in.  Typed in
mount /mnt/scd0 /mnt/disk... and poof I was off and running.  Wow and to
think that I actually should have done so much more *grin*

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:05 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
 On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:53, lorne wrote:
  On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
   Easiest way..  go here.  http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php  It
   even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward.
  
   Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the
   needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity.
 
  See my previous post. All it get is no reply. I'm not even getting a
  response. It seems that I should have gotten a server busy packet or
  something. ?? It must be just buried right now.

 Doh!... if you are running 9.1 try urpmi.setup available from texstar
  here.

 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1
/rpms/

 Does the same thing as the easy-setup page but it also configures things
 for you  nice program works really well.

I see urpmi-4.2-34.1mdk.no, urpmi-parallel-ka-ru, urpmi-parallel-ssh-4. What 
is the name of what I'm looking for? If you already said, I apologize up 
front. Sometimes I'm thick.

I just did an ftp to ftp.stealth.net and nothing. It is like it is either off 
the air or so overwhelmed it can't even answer to a ping or an ftp attempt.

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Re: [expert] Re: Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-09 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:31 am, Norman Zhang wrote:
 Hi,

  Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the
  KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation,
  Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on
  the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it
  would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service
  Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover
  the settings?
 
  That sounds strange, I have lost the /home icon use in Red Hat in panel,
  menu and on the desktop and could only get it through the run command in
  the menu and type /home  to have it come up. But everything showed that
  it was right in kmenuedit. You could try that.
 
  You might try Menudrake as well, they might still be there? Strange
  indeed.

 I tried kmenuedit and menudrake in the console. kmenuedit does show any
 entries. But menudrake has the regular application groups and shortcuts
 showing on the left pane. So it is safe to add them to the system menu
 again? I'm doing cautiously as this is my working file server 8( Please
 advise.

 Regards,
 Norman

.Nothing strange to me !!!

I went through 3 months of constantly losing the Apps menu, and fixing it, 
until I found the culprit - or at least enough of the culprits to fix the 
issue.

Quick fix:

log out of Xwindows
cd ~ 
mv .kde kdestuffed (or whatever epiphet feels good!)
startx


You will then have a generic, first time log in again

Now log out of Xwindows and start copying stuff selectively from the old 
kdestuffed to the newly created .kde. 

Stuff you most probably want lives in the share folder, and its subfolders 
including the kmail resources ad configs, knode, etc etc.

Remember to copy the resources and configs, so that if the thing goes belly up 
again, you can just erase the whole .kde folder and start again.

In my case, I was using xscreensaver as my screensaver (duh!) by disabling the 
inbuilt kde saver, (cause the random module never worked for me) by making a 
link in the .kde/Autostart directory. Once I had recreated all my kde 
settings and left this out, all is well with the menus again!!

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Re: [expert] Login problem

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote:
 Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, 
 with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 
 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable 
 problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights 
 are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor 
 is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. Now, since I'm 
 the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to 
 another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 
 seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window 
 because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. I wonder what 
 I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. 
 Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is 
 well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the 
 same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. 
 Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. 
 Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. 
 
 Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, 
 not mine. :)
 
 TIA


I can think of a number of things not least of which is heat. (bad
fan) or bad memory.  is there anything in /var/log/messages to indicate
a problem.  Have you opened up the box and Gently (as in no harder than
your lungs can blow) blown the dust out.  (Dustpuppy LIVES!)  If fans
and dust are all good to go.. try putting a desktop style fan blowing on
the open side. If this seems to make things happy then it's definitely
the fans  Replace they CPU fan with a better quality one (They do
wear out.)  Also be sure to use some really high quality heat grease
(Artic Silver comes to mind... but get the best you can find.)  between
the fan and CPU.  If it doesn't improve things move to testing memory. 
Run something like memtest86 (freely available) overnight.  In the
morning you'll know if you've a bad stick. (it's a long and very
complete test.)  This really sounds like a hardware problem.  Not
software.  

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 20:29, lorne wrote:
 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:05 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
  On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:53, lorne wrote:
   On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
Easiest way..  go here.  http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php  It
even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward.
   
Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the
needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity.
  
   See my previous post. All it get is no reply. I'm not even getting a
   response. It seems that I should have gotten a server busy packet or
   something. ?? It must be just buried right now.
 
  Doh!... if you are running 9.1 try urpmi.setup available from texstar
   here.
 
  http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1
 /rpms/
 
  Does the same thing as the easy-setup page but it also configures things
  for you  nice program works really well.
 
 I see urpmi-4.2-34.1mdk.no, urpmi-parallel-ka-ru, urpmi-parallel-ssh-4. What 
 is the name of what I'm looking for? If you already said, I apologize up 
 front. Sometimes I'm thick.
 
 I just did an ftp to ftp.stealth.net and nothing. It is like it is either off 
 the air or so overwhelmed it can't even answer to a ping or an ftp attempt.
 
  James

Man I'm having a lousy day helping you out... texstar changed things on
me... but I found it again.

http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/urpmi.setup-0.4.4-4mdk.noarch.rpm

That's a direct link to the rpm.

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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
 lorne wrote:
  I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I
  can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom
  and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to
  clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?

 I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look
 at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/.  There was some bug in audacity that
 made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it.  Here is
 the qip:

 Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

 In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program,
 it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and
 Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy,
 and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any
 part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a
 customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio
 analysis applications.


 Rolf

hey Rolf,

The ONLY place I'm seeing that file is in mandrakes contrib? Is that true, or 
is there another site you know where it is? My guess is that I'm going to 
have the same problem with any. Audacity and another one (I forget the name 
right now) are having trouble with sound. The preferences pull down shows no 
devices at all and no way to add one that I can see. Since I run sound 
constantly I know I'm having now problems with it. I'm a little perplexed. 
about what could be wrong. 

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Re: [expert] Login problem

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
 On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote:
  Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came
  out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the
  last 2 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no
  noticeable problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and
  scroll lock lights are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock
  light is not flashing nor is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard
  doesn't work either. Now, since I'm the consumate Linux genius I hit the
  reset button to reboot (can't get to another terminal). System wants to
  run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 seconds. So I press Y and after a few
  minutes I'm left at a term window because system says can't fix file
  system. No graphics or X. I wonder what I should have done. I ran
  drakxconf and checked the display config. Everything seems ok, so get out
  of there and reboot again. This time all is well and I make it to KDE. No
  prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the same thing, i.e., mouse
  frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. Computer reboots, sez to
  hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. Again all is well and
  here I am in KDE land.
 
  Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's
  behavior, not mine. :)
 
  TIA

 I can think of a number of things not least of which is heat. (bad
 fan) or bad memory.  is there anything in /var/log/messages to indicate
 a problem.  Have you opened up the box and Gently (as in no harder than
 your lungs can blow) blown the dust out.  (Dustpuppy LIVES!)  If fans
 and dust are all good to go.. try putting a desktop style fan blowing on
 the open side. If this seems to make things happy then it's definitely
 the fans  Replace they CPU fan with a better quality one (They do
 wear out.)  Also be sure to use some really high quality heat grease
 (Artic Silver comes to mind... but get the best you can find.)  between
 the fan and CPU.  If it doesn't improve things move to testing memory.
 Run something like memtest86 (freely available) overnight.  In the
 morning you'll know if you've a bad stick. (it's a long and very
 complete test.)  This really sounds like a hardware problem.  Not
 software.

I agree with James. Flashing like that could be OS related, but... based on 
the way you explained it, I'm thinking hardware. What happens if you boot to 
floppy or if you throw another HD in it and run winbloze? 
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
Okay, I admit it. I'm sometimes a thick headed stubborn old cute. I finally 
decided to give up on my once favorite rpm site and tried another that I'd 
never tried before. It actually responded and now I can join the elightened 
masses and install again via urpmi. It IS a hell of an idea and if they 
polish it a little more, it could be king of the hill with a little 
marketing. I mean I know it is basically a script file but pure simple 
genius. Thanks for the suggestions, now that I'm back out of dependency hell 
and able to install a few things, I'm off. Just installed audacity and it is 
all kind of pissed off. 

(audacity:23601): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1745 
(g_signal_connect_closure_by_id): assertion `signal_id  0' failed

(audacity:23601): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1745 
(g_signal_connect_closure_by_id): assertion `signal_id  0' failed

** (audacity:23601): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 266 
(pango_layout_new): assertion `context != NULL' failed

** (audacity:23601): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 543 
(pango_layout_set_font_description): assertion `layout != NULL' failed

** (audacity:23601): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 727 
(pango_layout_set_text): assertion `layout != NULL' failed

I'll go ahead try another, but if anyone knows in advance with out doing 
research what is wrong with the above I'll attempt fix. Don't research it 
though, unless you really want to. :)

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 05:56 am, Charlie M. wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1

 September 9, 2003 06:42 am, lorne wrote:
  On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
   lorne wrote:
I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor.
Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I
want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying
screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this
easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?
  
   I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a
   look at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/.  There was some bug in
   audacity that made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I
   looked at it.  Here is the qip:
 
  I take it that /contrib is NOT the 3rd disk then? I didn't find it.
  I'll go out and google for it.
 
  I guess since I'm no longer contributing I do not have acess to it.
  Thanks anyhow.
 
   Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio
   waveforms.
  
   In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the
   program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF,
   MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such
   as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply
   plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in
   amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a
   frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications.
  
  
   Rolf

 Look on any of the mirrors for the contrib directory Lorne, or go to the

 http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/

 page and use the Easy Urpmi set-up to add contribs to your software
 manager. Or install urpmi.setup same thing but you don't have to type
 in a terminal. g

 Contrib isn't the third disk but some of the stuff is on the disks.
 Space limitations and all that ya know.

 Regards;
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
 *** Greg Meyer Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:07:43 -0400 :

 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
  I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the
  browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The
  download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume
  failed because the browser told me that the files are identical.
  md5sum check failed!
  
  Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and
  failed again with the same behaviour!
 
 Out of disk space?

Nope, 27GB left on the partition! It's my d'l repository.
And, yes, /tmp has more than 6GB left, too.

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Re: [expert] I need advice: migrating Win98 users to Mandrake9.1(server is already linux)

2003-09-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 20:15, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote:
 OK, so I have my web/mail/webmail server running RedHat9.0 (will be switching to
 mandrake in two weeks), fileserv/database is sitting on RedHat7.1 (haven't
 touched the system for a year).
 All clients are Win98 with MSOffice/MSAccess.
 My plan is to move all workstation to Mandrake9.1 with OpenOffice and MSAccess
 running via CrossoverOffice(Wine). All workstations will be identical in setup,
 so I can just do one image and copy it on all the drives.
 
 Here is what I want to achieve:
 1. When wokrstations power up, they get an IP address from DHCP. DHCP only gives
 you and IP if your MAC address matches the mac assigned to you together with IP
 on the DHCP (already have this working). I would like the users to see Initlevel
 5, so they have graphic log-on
 2. I want the inside server (fileserv/database server) to hold all
 authentication (the simpler process, the better),common folders (and serve them
 via something native, would NFS do?, where can I get a HOW-TO?).

NFS or SMB, whatever is easier for you to work with. See
http://www.tldp.org

  All employees
 use same folders. Can this all be done from the moment user logs in?

Cake, just set up groups and make the shared directories group-writable
as necessary. Make sure you edit msec's policy so it doesn't undo your
work :-)

 3. Key is, as much automation and as little time as possible for administration

LDAP is a good thing for central authentication, but it's also a lot of
work to set up. You might be better off with synchronized passwords to
start with.

Automation is best set up by running the system for a while -- if you
find yourself doing things over and over again, find a tool or write a
script to do it for you.

 
 I have been working on the mixed environment and I think it is time to put in
 some more authentication and also stop using Windows, so we are all more
 motivated to adapt Linux software in the office.
 
 
 Thanks in advance for all of your advice!
 Apollo
 
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Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote:
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote:

lorne wrote:

I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I
can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom
and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to
clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?
I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look
at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/.  There was some bug in audacity that
made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it.  Here is
the qip:
Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program,
it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and
Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy,
and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any
part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a
customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio
analysis applications.
Rolf


hey Rolf,

The ONLY place I'm seeing that file is in mandrakes contrib? Is that true, or 
is there another site you know where it is? My guess is that I'm going to 
have the same problem with any. Audacity and another one (I forget the name 
right now) are having trouble with sound. The preferences pull down shows no 
devices at all and no way to add one that I can see. Since I run sound 
constantly I know I'm having now problems with it. I'm a little perplexed. 
about what could be wrong. 

I am not sure if you installed audacity or hackaudacity.  They are both 
in contrib/:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2]$ urpmq --sources audacity
file://back/contrib/audacity-1.0.0-3mdk.i586.rpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2]$ urpmq --sources hackaudacity
file://back/contrib/hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm
If you are having trouble with audacity, you might urpme that and urpmi 
hackaudacity, or vice versa.  I think I tried audacity first, which 
didn't work for me, then, since, like I said, I had read about a bug in 
audacity, I tried hackaudacity, which got rolling and let me play with 
some editing.  I didn't use it extensively, however, and don't remember 
what version I was using.  Try hackaudacity.  The two packages have 
conflicting files, so uninstall audacity first.  Sorry I don't know more 
than that about it.

Rolf


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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
 *** H.J.Bathoorn H.J.Bathoorn Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:28:01 +0200 :

 Say aye and give me your adress I'll send you a copy of CD1 and 2
 (didn't dwl CD3 -sorry). No problem whatsoever.
 From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the most.
 
 BTW I dloaded from the dutch surfnet mirror simply using konqueror
 with double pane and dragging  dropping the iso's to my /home/triade
 directory. Did take all Sunday afternoon though.
 I even cancelled and resumed a few times:o)

I'm just d'ling CD1+2 from the NL mirror which Thorsten reported to be
ok (nluug). Both downloads are running at 90.1kB/s right now and I'm
going to have a big breakfast in my favourite café, read the morning
paper and say Hallo to a new day!

Funny thing is: I'm using one machine with ncftp and the other (this one
here) with Mozilla. ncftp shows a speed of 91.56 and Mozilla shows 90.2
at the moment. This is ok for my connection. But gkrellm only shows
2.2kB/s instead of 90!

Thanks for the offer, HarM. If this one also fails, I
might get back to you or ask Thorsten to send 3 CDs over as he's in
Germany, too.

wobo
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Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:56, Tom Brinkman wrote:
HarM, post the link you posted to the 'other' list ;)

Here it is:

http://people.zeelandnet.nl/triade/grounding.html

have fun:o)

No damn boat, pretty good size ship! Maybe you could contract
 some dredging as an affiliate venture?

How about a nice old fashioned tug with a big chimney?

 --
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Good luck,
HarM



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