Re: [expert] print to samba server
Anne Wilson said: > On Friday 03 Oct 2003 4:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> James Sparenberg said: >> > Good news may be with samba 3.x it's better aimed at XP >> > (fingers >> > crossed) >> >> You know, I was reading a little bit about that, and I was under >> the impression that most of it's new features were aimed at >> dealing better with NT4. > > Since XP has the same base as NT4, that's reasonable. I'm not a real m$ kernel guru, but I believe that they've made quite a few changes since nt4. Looking back on the win2k mcse classes, there was quite a bit of difference even in those systems. Working experience with xp now seems quite a bit different than 2k (of course that's end user stuff). > >>I thought that was quite odd, but I may >> have just misread; it was really more of a quick glance. >> Similarly with Win4lin; why do they keep putting out new >> versions >> that only work with 9x versions of Windoze? That system is 5 >> years old now. >> > The latest issue is able to support W2K upwards - but it's a first > stage, so I don't know how good it is yet. I'm sure that by the > next > release it will be good. > > And then of course many of us do actually prefer to stay with > win98 - > particularly since it is 100% stable under win4lin. Just browsing their webpage, they don't seem to have support for anything buy 95,98 or ME. Are you talking about one in beta? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com < A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. -- Edgar A. Shoaff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setup email bounce
Ray Warren said: >> What kind of security issues? >> > Sorry that is a little vague,I don't know of any specific exploits > but > Procmail can run any arbitrary shell 0r Perl script which will > default to > the privileges procmail has.So if you are running procmail as > root,by > default you give root privileges to any scripts called by your > recipes. > So the issues are the generic ones you have anytime a text based > configuration can be used to grant root privileges to an arbitrary > script.I do run procmail as root on one box at home to scan & > despam my > wifes mail before it goes to a pop3 server for pickup by her > windows thing. > Ray Warren Ok, I'll need a little time to wrap my head around that, but it does seem to make sense. thanks, mike -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com < A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. -- Edgar A. Shoaff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
On Friday 03 October 2003 07:03 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Friday 03 October 2003 06:41 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) > > > > Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? > > OK, now my distortion is way down from what it was, but I am still > recording too high for the tracks, and my mixer is showing me as all the > way down. All the loud bits are very badly distorted. And yes, I am trying > to convert alternative rock tracks, this one Lou Reed-New York. > > Ok, I just looked into it, and found OGain adjusts the signal to Gramofile. > What is OGain? Not OGain, but I gain. I guess it is "Input Gain", but being new to audio, could someone tell me how this, volume, line work? > And then how much distortion, at the top end of the scale do you allow? Or > should I say time above 50%, 90% and 99% of max volume? > > Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x in asus 9180se
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 08:43 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:05 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: > > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > >I have ASUS 9180SE AGP 8x video card 64MB ram (nVidia Corporation NV18 > > >[GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] rev 162). I have edited /etc/XF86Config-4 for > > > driver as nvidia instead of nv. I get X OK with driver from nvidia > > > site. > > > > > >But I have following lines in dmesg. > > >0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 > > > Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003 > > >Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann > > >agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M > > >agpgart: unsupported bridge > > >agpgart: no supported devices found. > > >0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table > > > > > > > > >I have only following warning lines in /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > >(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device CRT-0 > > > > > >I have problem in playing xine. It shows only some white screen in mdk > > > 9.1. Does the above indicate some where > > >something is wrong? > > > > Yes, when using AGP 8X, there is no support for agpgart in the 2.4.x > > kernel. Look through the list archives, and you will learn more about > > this issue. I, for one, have posted several times about it. There are > > some kernel patches out there but most of these seem to be for radeon > > cards. If you can switch to AGP 4X by way of the bios, I would strongly > > suggest doing so, or you can wait for the support to be in the newer > > kernels yet to be released. > > but the same setup works ok and xine plays normal in knoppix 3.2, of > course, with fbdev video driver. I changed to 4x also. then also mdk > doesn't allow me to play xine. That puzzles me. My card is about the same exact card as L.V.Gandhi has, mine is a Chaintech GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x, and mine works fine out of the box with a ASUS A7N8X board. And I am pretty sure that it is running with AGP set to 8x in the BIOS, but I am not interested in rebooting to check it out. My XF86Config-4 file contains this info on the card: Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)" Driver "nv" Option "DPMS" EndSection Now I had a problem with Xine running initially too. What I did was get rid of all the DVD drivers that I had installed, and then carefully load them until it now works like a charm. I would say that instead of messing around with video, unless that is not default, and more or less like my XF86 configuration. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? About 100 to 1. Mic in gets that much more amplification. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix and sasl2
Em Sex, 2003-10-03 às 23:58, Luca Olivetti escreveu: > Leonardo Sá wrote: > > i've upgraded my server box from 9.0 to 9.1 and then i lost sasl > > authentication. I was using sasldb with postfix in 9.0 and everything > > was working fine. Now I can only get a "535 Error: authentication > > failed" on my postfix server. > > > > I've read somewhere that the postfix rpm that comes with mandrake is > > compiled to use sasl instead of sasl2. Is it true? > > Yes, but that's not your problem. Your problem is that in 9.0 the sasl > library was linked with sleepycat db, while in 9.1 is using gdbm, so > your sasl database is unusable. > My (untested) suggestion is to grab the source rpm, in the spec file > change the "Buildrequires: libdb4.0-devel" to "Buildrequires: > libdb3.3-devel", remove the "--with-dblib=gdbm" line after configure and > try to rebuild the rpm. > > Bye I think it will be easier to downgrade back to 1.5 but thanks for the suggestion :) So, is sasl2 useless in 9.1? It will be fixed in 9.2? Leonardo Sá Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
On Friday 03 October 2003 06:41 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) > > Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? OK, now my distortion is way down from what it was, but I am still recording too high for the tracks, and my mixer is showing me as all the way down. All the loud bits are very badly distorted. And yes, I am trying to convert alternative rock tracks, this one Lou Reed-New York. Ok, I just looked into it, and found OGain adjusts the signal to Gramofile. What is OGain? And then how much distortion, at the top end of the scale do you allow? Or should I say time above 50%, 90% and 99% of max volume? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
On Friday 03 October 2003 01:56 am, KevinO wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:29 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > >>Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's > >>record characteristics. > >> > >>I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying > >>around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting better > >>recording levels will help. > > Are these cassette tapes? Yes. > Are you making a line level connection between the tape-deck and the sound > card? > > Can you play the tape on the deck and make the audio play through your > mixer and come out your speakers? Yes. > Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) Oops Now what's the difference between the two jacks? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix and sasl2
Leonardo Sá wrote: i've upgraded my server box from 9.0 to 9.1 and then i lost sasl authentication. I was using sasldb with postfix in 9.0 and everything was working fine. Now I can only get a "535 Error: authentication failed" on my postfix server. I've read somewhere that the postfix rpm that comes with mandrake is compiled to use sasl instead of sasl2. Is it true? Yes, but that's not your problem. Your problem is that in 9.0 the sasl library was linked with sleepycat db, while in 9.1 is using gdbm, so your sasl database is unusable. My (untested) suggestion is to grab the source rpm, in the spec file change the "Buildrequires: libdb4.0-devel" to "Buildrequires: libdb3.3-devel", remove the "--with-dblib=gdbm" line after configure and try to rebuild the rpm. Bye -- Que les importa a las viudas, a los huérfanos, a los desvalidos si las masacres se hacen en nombre del totalitarismo o en el sagrado nombre de la libertad y la democracia. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] postfix and sasl2
Leonardo Sá wrote: i've upgraded my server box from 9.0 to 9.1 and then i lost sasl authentication. I was using sasldb with postfix in 9.0 and everything was working fine. Now I can only get a "535 Error: authentication failed" on my postfix server. I've read somewhere that the postfix rpm that comes with mandrake is compiled to use sasl instead of sasl2. Is it true? Yes, you must use sasl-1.5xxx or compile your own postfix ;-) I've tried everything i know. I also tried using pwcheck_method: auxprop but postfix does not recognize this method (i got this in my logs: "postfix/smtpd[16528]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unrecognized plaintext verifier auxprop"). I need to downgrade my rpms to get things working again? If not, what do I do now? Cheers, Leonardo Sá Greetings Thomas -- Thomas Deutsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 83960670 - http://www.tdeutsch.ch Registred Linuxuser Nr. 302903 (http://counter.li.org/) Written with Mandrake Linux 9.2 COOKER and Thunderbird 0.2 Linux is like a Wigwam - no Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to install 9.1 ppc on an Ibook
Hello I am trying to install 9.1 ppc on my ibook but I'm surely missing something. I don't have Mac 9.1 cds with me so I am not sure what to do. the Ibook doesn't seem to boot directly from the Mandrake CD, does it? Can I wipe out Mac for good? Any help will be most appreciated. Many thanks Eduardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] gst-lame settings
Hi all... Anybody knows how to set up parameters for gstreamer-lame ? IE, mode (cbr, vbr, abr), quality (Kbps), etc... Any pointer ? I would like to get info both about setting things in the gstreamer registry and from C when building a pipe... Thanks in advance for any answer. -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.23-pre6-jam1 (gcc 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)
Hello Many thanks. I will give a go on hfsplus. Eduardo On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:27 am, John Haywood wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:02 pm, John Haywood wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:41 pm, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs > > > volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at > > > 9.2rc1. Does someone out there has a solution on how to mount hfs > > > volumes remotely? > > > > > > Many thanks > > > > > > Eduardo > > > > Eduardo, if you search in the ´Mandrake 9.x´ and ´Mandrake other´ areas > > on pbone: > > > > http://rpm.pbone.net/ > > > > there will be a couple of 2.4.22 kernels in contrib and cooker which have > > the hfsplus module built in. Thereafter, you should be able to specify a > > filesystem type in a regular mount command. > > > > Alternately, there are packages/source at ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi, > > called hfsplusutils, which support read-only access, and looks pretty > > promising (that said, I´d be reading the doco to check before entrusting > > critical data ) > > (replying to own post here -- first signs of geek-senility...) > > OK, I´ve installed hfsplusutils-1.0.4-4.i386.rpm (src.rpm wouldn´t rebuild > on my system, didn´t want to muck around), and > > ...it works!! > > took a Mac OSX-partitioned firewire drive, plugged it in to Linux i386 box, > checked dmesg to find device (/dev/sda), and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpmount -r -p3 /dev/sda (read-only, partition 3) > > then > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpls > > Apps > ATOG Macintosh HD_asr.dmg > Backup_bootie.sparseimage > BBEdit User Manual (HTML) > BBEditUserManual_HTML.sit.bin > Build additions > Carbon Copy Cloner > Citrix ICA Client > client_50540.sit > > etc... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpcopy -r Picture\ 1.pdf /home/john/ (raw data copy) > > gives a readable pdf > > Finally [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpumount > > Now, I guess I´d like it to mount somewhere tangible, rather than virtual, > but all in all, I´m impressed. It mounted the first partition (which is > MacOSX Server), the second (MacOSX Client), and the third (MacOSX data > drive) flawlessly. Even if the documentation is a bit nonexistent, it´s > certainly quicker than ftp... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)
Hi ya I am running netatalk but I haven't seen anything that allows to mount hfs volumes on a linux box. However I had no problem to mount the linux volume on the ibook. Many thanks Ed On Friday 03 October 2003 12:49 am, Alexandre Jacarandá wrote: > Hi Eduardo!!! > Do you try to see on netatalk project ? > I used to mount hfs volumes from iMacs with thats programs on netatalk. > > - Original Message - > From: "Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:41:32 -0300 > To: Mandrake Expert list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile) > > > Hello > > > > On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs > > volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at 9.2rc1. > > Does someone out there has a solution on how to mount hfs volumes > > remotely? > > > > Many thanks > > > > Eduardo > > --- > Alexandre Gonçalves Jacarandá > Consultor de Tecnologia de Informação > Tel.: 0 ** 21 8131-2313 > > Alguns caminham pelo arco, > eu caminho pela reta. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, vatbier wrote: > Sometimes I log in into KDE as root. When I, being logged in as root, > use Konqueror to surf on the internet Like HaywireMac, I just don't know where to begin to explain how unwise this practice is ... especially the surfing part; you are giving an app that may or may not be entirely bug-free (and which uses plugins, which also may or may not be entirely bug-free) unlimited power to make *any* change it attempts, to any part of your system, and you then connect that app directly to foreign and untrusted systems which you *know* full well contain code to which that app will respond automatically. Incredible! Makes running with scissors look pretty safe, by comparison ... :) > And to refresh my memory, why is it a bad idea to login as root in KDE? > These days I do a lot of root changes,it's easier for me to stay for a > while in KDE as root than to type my root password everytime I want to > do some root job as a regular user. This has to be the weakest (and, coincidentally, the most common) excuse given for running in the GUI as root, and it's just plain wrong. If you are logged in as root, you are incapable of testing whether or not the change you made will work as you expect it to when running as a user; all you can be certain of at that point is that it works when running as root. You still need to logout, and login as a user, to complete your testing. OTOH, if you are logged in as you should be (as a user), and you open a terminal, "su" to root, and do your configuration from there (or use MCC), the only thing on the desktop that is running as root is that terminal and any apps that are spawned from it; everything else is running as the user, and effective testing of your configuration changes can be immediate. And as for repeatedly typing the root password, the "sudo" app can help there. So, don't even *try* to sell us on the notion that this is somehow easier for you ... the only way that it *is* easier is that it's easier to retain your old Windoze way of thinking, rather than adjust to a different OS and the time-tested *nix sysadmin practices which have worked for decades. Just my $0.02USD ... -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, "The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT theme question
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:45, Jack Coates wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:05, Jack Coates wrote: > > anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? > > > > thanks, > > replying to myself again... never underestimate the rest of the world's > desire to look like MacOSX :-) I just set both machines up to look like > Aqua. I like to talk to myself :-) http://www.monkeynoodle.org/Photos/comp/work-screenshot.png/view go on, abuse the DSL line, it won't fight back. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:46:47 -0700 (PDT) vatbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > And to refresh my memory, why is it a bad idea to login as root in > KDE? These days I do a lot of root changes,it's easier for me to > stay for a while in KDE as root than to type my root password > everytime I want to do some root job as a regular user. I don't even know where to begin. Let's put it this way, you could seriously hose your system, and most likely will at some point, running KDE as root. The trouble with root is that it *will do anything you say, without question, warning or complaint*, including delete, overwrite or otherwise mangle important system files. Further, browsing the web as root is akin to (using my favourite sick analogy) bending over to pick up the soap in the prison shower. You are asking for trouble. You should never be root unless you need to be, and if it is too much of an inconvenience to type your root password, with all due respect, you are using the wrong OS. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin. -- Alexandre Arnoux, "Etudes et caprices" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] postfix and sasl2
i've upgraded my server box from 9.0 to 9.1 and then i lost sasl authentication. I was using sasldb with postfix in 9.0 and everything was working fine. Now I can only get a "535 Error: authentication failed" on my postfix server. I've read somewhere that the postfix rpm that comes with mandrake is compiled to use sasl instead of sasl2. Is it true? I've tried everything i know. I also tried using pwcheck_method: auxprop but postfix does not recognize this method (i got this in my logs: "postfix/smtpd[16528]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unrecognized plaintext verifier auxprop"). I need to downgrade my rpms to get things working again? If not, what do I do now? Cheers, Leonardo Sá Some info: the /var/spool/postfix directory has the same contents as the following directories (on other words: postfix is running chrooted) [EMAIL PROTECTED] lib]# cd /usr/lib/sasl2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sasl2]# ls libcrammd5.la* libcrammd5.so.2@ libdigestmd5.la* libdigestmd5.so.2@ libsasldb.la*libsasldb.so.2.0.12* libcrammd5.so@ libcrammd5.so.2.0.12* libdigestmd5.so@ libdigestmd5.so.2.0.12* libsasldb.so.2@ smtpd.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] sasl2]# cd /var/lib/sasl2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sasl2]# ls mux= mux.accept mux.pid sasl.db [EMAIL PROTECTED] sasl2]# cd /usr/lib/sasl [EMAIL PROTECTED] sasl]# ls libcrammd5.la*libcrammd5.so.1.0.19* libdigestmd5.so.0@ liblogin.so@libplain.la*libplain.so.1.0.16* libcrammd5.so@libdigestmd5.la* libdigestmd5.so.0.0.20* liblogin.so.0@ libplain.so@smtpd.conf libcrammd5.so.1@ libdigestmd5.so@ liblogin.la* liblogin.so.0.0.7* libplain.so.1@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] sasl]# cd /var/lib/sasl [EMAIL PROTECTED] sasl]# ls mux= mux.pid sasl.db sasl.db.rpmnew sasl.db.rpmsave [EMAIL PROTECTED] sasl]# rpm -qa | grep sasl libsasl7-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-crammd5-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-plug-sasldb-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-plain-1.5.28-5mdk cyrus-sasl-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-login-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-plug-crammd5-2.1.12-1mdk libsasl7-plug-digestmd5-1.5.28-5mdk libsasl2-plug-digestmd5-2.1.12-1mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)
Sometimes I log in into KDE as root. When I, being logged in as root, use Konqueror to surf on the internet, I notice a lot of timeout errors (trying do to a query search in Mandrakesoft Bugzilla always timed out). In KCC:Network:Preferences I saw that timeout settings of 2 seconds (instead of the default 15,10,20,600 seconds) were saved into /root/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc That kioslaverc file for root came out of directory /usr/share/mdk/kde/root-interface/ . I guess that root-interface directory is full of KDE settings specifically for root. Why are those timeout settings set to 2 seconds for root in KDE, for security reasons or to hinder people at staying too long logged in as root in KDE? Are there any other of those annoying settings that prevent easy use of logging in as root into KDE? And to refresh my memory, why is it a bad idea to login as root in KDE? These days I do a lot of root changes,it's easier for me to stay for a while in KDE as root than to type my root password everytime I want to do some root job as a regular user. vatbier __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT theme question
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:05, Jack Coates wrote: > anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? > > thanks, replying to myself again... never underestimate the rest of the world's desire to look like MacOSX :-) I just set both machines up to look like Aqua. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT theme question
anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2 things: List Problems and Supermount
> > > > > > > the cdrom drive and hangs for a long time. If I put a cd in > > > > the drive the update goes without problems. > > > > Does anybody know why this is happening and other than leaving > > > > a cd in the drive, is there a solution? > > > > > >You could disable supermount. "supermount -i disable". > > > > > >I believe it's because urpmi is trying to read the cdrom because > > > you have sources defined (your install CDs) that use it. If you > > > disable supermount, you shouldn't have this problem (I > > > religiously disable supermount). > > There is no right answer. If you use it and it works for you, you > are right to be using it. On all but one of my boxes I do use it. > The one I don't use it on doesn't have a cd or floppy. For me it > works, has been since 7.2. If however it doesn't work for you, or > gets in your way. remove it. I personally remove msec. Why, some of > the things I need to do for testing get hosed by msec. Does this > make your wrong for using it no. In general if you can't find a > problem it just might be because for you. there isn't one. > > James Thanks for the tip on disable supermount. I have a Dell Latitude CPi D300XT that refuses to play well with supermount: It's one of those either or situations --either a floppy or a printer or a zip drive. Since 8.2 I've disabled Supermount by the following lines in fstab: replacing supermount with auto, and umask=0 with noauto; however, I always had to mount/umount manually. The "supermount -i disable" command modifies fstab: replacing supermount with auto, and umask=0 with nodev; which now works great and automounts with Krusader as it used to in 8.1. No more mount/umount via a console. Most desktop machines work fine with supermount I'm told. Thanks, Richard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setup email bounce
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:24:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ray Warren said: > > > If you want to use procmail globally you need to put procmailrc > in > > /etc.It will run as root so there are security issues.You can > > still use > > a .procmail in each users home directory for personal > > customization. > > What kind of security issues? > Sorry that is a little vague,I don't know of any specific exploits but Procmail can run any arbitrary shell 0r Perl script which will default to the privileges procmail has.So if you are running procmail as root,by default you give root privileges to any scripts called by your recipes. So the issues are the generic ones you have anytime a text based configuration can be used to grant root privileges to an arbitrary script.I do run procmail as root on one box at home to scan & despam my wifes mail before it goes to a pop3 server for pickup by her windows thing. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java/Mozilla problems SOLVED (explanation)
Hi everyone The problem was the following: I downloaded the file jre131_02.xpi from the nestcape FTP and installed using "mozilla ~/jre131_02.xpi". It gave me errors like this LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID] made a symlink ln -s /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins and get an error like this: INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory? System error?:: Success So went to the MUO for installing java ( http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/utils/ujava.html ) and followed the instructions given there. I installed java J2RE_1.4.2 from java website. Removed the symlink and made it again, but from the directory of the new java installation. I used the files of directory ns610, but kept receiving the "INTERNAL ERROR". Then I followed the steps given at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/08/3/82831. The INTERNAL ERROR was generated because of the use of the ns610 folder, on a mozilla 1.4 installation, from moz1.4 and up you have to use the ns610-gcc32 folder to make the symlink. ln -s $JAVA_HOME/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ln -s $JAVA_HOME/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/.mozilla/plugins So that´s all, with those directions I hope that can help other with java in mozilla. Best regards -- Gonzalo Avaria S. Linux User from the end of the World CHILE Registered User #329224 (counter.li.org) Box #213779 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] print to samba server
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 4:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James Sparenberg said: > > Good news may be with samba 3.x it's better aimed at XP > > (fingers > > crossed) > > You know, I was reading a little bit about that, and I was under > the impression that most of it's new features were aimed at > dealing better with NT4. Since XP has the same base as NT4, that's reasonable. >I thought that was quite odd, but I may > have just misread; it was really more of a quick glance. > Similarly with Win4lin; why do they keep putting out new versions > that only work with 9x versions of Windoze? That system is 5 > years old now. > The latest issue is able to support W2K upwards - but it's a first stage, so I don't know how good it is yet. I'm sure that by the next release it will be good. And then of course many of us do actually prefer to stay with win98 - particularly since it is 100% stable under win4lin. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java/Mozilla problems SOLVED
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 2:06 am, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: > It is solved... i followed the directions given at: > > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/08/3/82831 > > That´s all, thanks for the time. > Gonzalo Gonzalo - others will have the same problems at some time or other. Would you write a few lines explaining what the problem was and adding the link you mention, to put it on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BrowSers ? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: setup email bounce
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 7:52 am, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:27:48PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > [...] > > > innocents. One of the things I hate about spam assassin, and > > other anti viral software is that they send me an e-mail every > > time some idget with my e-mail address in outlook starts spawning > > the latest virus. > > I've never seen SpamAssassin sending any mail - definitely not with > the default settings. > But then SA isn't antivirus. Some confusion here, I think Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java/Mozilla problems SOLVED
Gonzalo Avaria wrote: It is solved... i followed the directions given at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/08/3/82831 That´s all, thanks for the time. Gonzalo On Thursday 02 October 2003 20:30, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi everyone. i need some help here please...(I know that this isn´t a MDK specific question, but maybe you can help me) i downloaded the file jre131_02.xpi from the nestcape FTP. I run it as root by "mozilla /home/gonzalo/jre131_02.xpi" where it installed with a successful status. The problem is that if i run mozilla 1.4 i get the following error LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID] i tried the symlink ln -s /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins but recieved the following: ln: `/usr/local/mozilla/plugins//libjavaplugin_oji.so': File exists I tried with the install of the mozilla 1.3, on the directory /usr/lib/mozilla-1.3/plugins and it worked. any ideas?? Good information...thanks for the link. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:29 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > >>Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's >>record characteristics. >> >>I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying >>around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting better >>recording levels will help. >> Are these cassette tapes? Are you making a line level connection between the tape-deck and the sound card? Can you play the tape on the deck and make the audio play through your mixer and come out your speakers? Make sure you are using line-in jacks and not a mic jack. ;-) - -- KevinO If Microsoft built cars, If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/fTnHWOfRC7Rnmv8RAgpBAKCDxPe2PHlInRheySEGCG9GgfOqYQCggBU+ lYuR906kYRRZeNqMRXYNqOI= =thRE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD
Andre Labbe wrote: > the problem. in 8.2 and before I add an AWE32 and if I recall it was ok. The AWE32/AWE64's are still great cards, if you don't need 48KHz sampling rate. You can find used AWE64s for $10 or so at the swap meets here in Arizona. They used to spend more money on the parts that went into a sound card then they do now. They charge a little less money for them now also. (I am making generalizations here. There are more expensive, better sounding cards made today if you look for them.) I remember buying my first SB AWE64, new, in '97. It was around $130. As far as I'm concerned, Grip is the application for ripping and encoding. It can be configured to pretty much do anything that you want to. It automates the process very nicely, including downloading cddb info to be include in filenames and/or id3 tags etc.. I have over 1700 tracks in my personal collection so I don't have to go and grab for the CD to play something, or to find it quick. (edna rocks as a local music server, BTW) I did it in a few evenings using grip (w/ gogo and cdparanoia). Using a decent, HiFi preamp between your turntable's cartridge and the 'line-in' jacks on your computer will make things sound a lot better. (As will using a good turntable, arm, cart. etc.) There is nothing in the sound card itself to perform the inverse-RIAA equalization needed to properly play an LP. Trying to do it with software will rob you of 38dB of the dynamic range and S/N potential of your soundcard.(This sucks) Use a good old-fashioned preamp, receiver, control-amp, or whatever, that has actual phono inputs and line outs. Especially one with valves glowing... ;-) Hard drive space is cheap... Use High BitRates ! -- KevinO If Microsoft built cars, If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setup email bounce
On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:16 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello lorne, > > Thursday, October 2, 2003, 7:50:00 PM, you wrote: > > l> A friend of mine has set up a tar pit type system. When he gets a > l> message identified as spam, he holds them open and responds one > l> character at a time telling them to do things to themselves and > l> after 15 minutes it finally lets them go. So he is > l> stopping/slowing the turd from sending out probably a thousand > l> messages each time he attaches. I thought this was very cool. > > How, exactly, does he do this? If this really works, and we all do it, > it might help a bit. If nothing else, I'd feel better causing THEM > some trouble for a change. :-) Well for starters he used BSD, but I've sent him a message asking for a resend of the message on how he did it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
