Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
I have been looking at this problem too, cause its something that bugs me as well. After looking at the man page for cal, I saw that start on Sunday is the default unless run with a -m option. Madrake seems to run with the -m option. I could however find no alias for cal='cal -m' on my system, or any other way of forcing it start on Sunday. So I decided to 'use the source Luke'. This then launched a whole heap of other problems. I found out that cal is part of the util-linux package, so I downloaded the util-linux src rpm. Only to find out that it only contains *patch* files. So now there is another burning question. All I want is cal.c, but where is it? I hope I am just being dumb cause its so late. Helen > Hi, > > The default condition for the cal program used to > be with Sunday on the left. Now I noticed that with > 8.1, Monday is on the left. Previously, one could get > Monday on the left by using a flag, is there a similar > flag for the new standard? BTW, why did it change? > Please advise; thanks. > > Best Regards, > Chris Haidinyak > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Andreas, Thanks for your suggestion, and yes its something I had tried. It still gives the same result, ie Monday on the left. Thats why I am convinced I want to have a look at the source, which is something I cant find. H > H.McM wrote: > > > I have been looking at this problem too, cause its something that bugs me as well. > > > > After looking at the man page for cal, I saw that start on Sunday is the default >unless run with a -m option. Madrake seems to run with the -m option. I could however >find no alias for cal='cal -m' on my system, or any other way of forcing it start on >Sunday. So I decided to 'use the source Luke'. > > > > This then launched a whole heap of other problems. I found out that cal is part of >the util-linux package, so I downloaded the util-linux src rpm. Only to find out that >it only contains *patch* files. > > > > So now there is another burning question. All I want is cal.c, but where is it? > > > > Did you try to run \cal just in case there is an alias and you just > didn't find it? > > Andreas > > > > -- > Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow > http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Brian, Bingo! Updating to the cooker version fixed it for me. Thanks for the suggestion!!! H > I had util-linux-2.10s-3mdk installed on one system and it does the cal > program correctly (you have a choice of starting day) while on another > system util-linux-2.11h-3mdk did not. I downloaded and installed and > it's working correctly again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Chris, I guess its cause noone knows *why* it was changed, only that you can fix the problem as I did by installed a cooker version of util-linux, or as another poster did by installing a previous version. I did try to have a look at the actual source code, but that didnt work as I could actually find it, as stupid as that might sound. The source rpm only provided a patch. H > Hi again, > >I still haven't heard a response as to why the > program changed? Even so, it would have been nice > to have a flag to put in the Sunday on the left > scenario. Perhaps 8.2 won't be as invasive... > > Best Regards, > Chris Haidinyak > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program
Yeah I did try that :)) But as you suspected it didnt work... H > Just a random thought... > Since someone brought up that you used to be able to make Monday appear by > using... > cal +m > Has anyone thought of trying to run it using... > cal +s > > It probably won't work, but it's worth a try. ;) > > Ivan. > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] strange kernel stuff.. possible bug..
Have you tried running the mkinitrd programme to create the new image? H > only to discover that there was no initrd-2.2.19-6.3mdk.img > > in /boot I have these: > vmlinuz-2.2.19-6.3mdk > vmlinuz-2.2.19-6.3mdksecure > > and > > System.map-2.2.19-6.3mdk > System.map-2.2.19-6.3mdksecure > > but only this: > > initrd-2.2.19-6.3mdksecure.img > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Checking Who's Connected?
Hi! Try "who" at the command line to see who is logged in. To check DHCP leases, look in /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpcd.leases H > Hey all, > > I have access to my remote server via SSH as root, and I'm trying to find out who is >connected to the box. It runs DHCP server, so I just need to see if there is more >than 1 IP address being leased out. If there is a place in the logs to check this as >well, I would appreciate it. > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Multimedia list
Depending on the desktop you use (KDE, gnome) there might be a multimedia list associated with the desktop. I know that there exists a kde-multimedia mailing list, which might be of some help? Apart from that, a google search on "linux multimedia mailing lists" returned a heap of links you could try. H > > Does anyone know of a multimedia based list for Mandrake users? I work in > > commercial radio in the US and am really starting to consider building a > > radio tool box based on Mandrake, but want to run idea's by others taking > > advantage of the possibilities of multimedia on Mandrake. The HUGE > > selling point for me was last night! I hosted an 8 hour countdown show > > and thought I would set up my Mandrake box to record the entire show, on > > Win* I could record about 2 hours straight before the machine gave out, > > but last night I am proud to report that my machine recorded all 8 hours > > with no trouble! > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] htdig in KDE Control Center (8.1)
If I am wrong I am sure someone will correct me, but I believe that feature was left out of the KDE version that shipped with 81. A sneaky way to get it working though, is to install KDevelop, its in there someone. Akar on the kde-linux mailing list wrote a small set of instructions on what to do to get this working. A search of the kde-linux mailing archives will turn up his solution. H > I am not able to see and access the "Help Index" (i.e. ht://dig) in the KDE Control >Center shipped with 8.1 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Noarch.rpm
It means it doesnt matter what processor type you have. Normally a pacakge will be called xxx-mdk-i386 or xx-mdk-i586 and that means that the first one will work on a 386 or better, but to run the second one you need a 586 (pentium) or better. With a noarch, it doesnt matter. > What is packacge -mdk.noarch.rpm? > > Arief > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound...what does it take?
Hmm that is a problem. I always keep copies of the kernels released for this very reason. I was hoping there would be a .9 there this morning, but no such luck. > Got the same problem with 17.8 > > Interested to hear that 17.6 worked, but where can you get it now that > 17.8 is on the cooker mirrors? > > Brian > > On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 09:27, H. McM wrote: > > Praedor > > > > I am curious to see if the 2.4.17.8 one works for you - I tried it earlier today >and I get an error "undefined symbol" when it does a modprobe on boot. I forget the >module now, but it was sound related. I've gone back to 17.6 (which so far hasnt >given me any problems) until 17.9 comes out! > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound...what does it take?
The only other suggestion I have is to try the 2.4.8-34 kernel from the Mandrake 81 update directory. That fixed a parallel port issue with me, but not much else besides. Or is that the one you are running? Out of the box MDK comes with... ummm 2.4.8-something-less-than-34. If all else fails, try inserting a toasted cheese sandwich into drive A. Helen > I'm still in kernel hell. The stock 2.4.8 (8.1) > kernel doesn't work for me. The pcmcia is screwed (It > doesn't properly deal with my old, reliable 3Com 589 > pcmcia card) and sound is dead...hence trying to build > a functional kernel. I HAD a perfectly fine 2.4.13 > kernel for a while but then accidently trashed my > system and had to reinstall. Since then, I'm in hell. > > To answer your question, the 2.4.17.8 kernel didn't > work any better than 17.7 did for me. I have NEVER > had this kind of trouble with building kernels before. > I've built dozens before this. > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] missing package
cant tell you, but if you just enter the file name into rpmfind, it will return the package name (thats rpmfind.net) > Can someone tell me what package contains "sys/asoundlib.h". It was on > my old 7.2 system, but not on 8.1. Need it for an rpm rebuild. > > BillK > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] missing package
ok, its part of alsa, and being a .h I guess it might be in an alsa devel package. > Nope, not for me in this case! > > BillK > > On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 07:08, H.McM wrote: > > cant tell you, but if you just enter the file name into rpmfind, it will return >the package name > > > > (thats rpmfind.net) > > > > > Can someone tell me what package contains "sys/asoundlib.h". It was on > > > my old 7.2 system, but not on 8.1. Need it for an rpm rebuild. > > > > > > BillK > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] artwiz fonts for fluxbox
in the firectory containing the fonts, there needs to be two extra files - fonts.dir and fonts.scale. The dir file is created by using mkfontdir THe scale is created using ttmkfdir and is needed by mkfontdir, so ttmkfdir needs to be run first. This is all assuming they are true type. Whats the extension on the font?? The other thing to check is the permissions on the fonts themselves. SHould be 644. > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, H. McM wrote: > > > you need to remove the font line from the line that starts "unix/:" and put it in >another file, /etc/X11/fs/config > > running chkfontpath --add will do this too. > > > > what sort of font is it? is it a true type? if so there is something else to be >done. > > > > > > > I have been trying to get the flxubox artwiz fonts to work in mdk 8.1 > > > and have taken the steps i could find about how to do it and asked > > > questions on the fluxbox-users list w/o any success. This is what I have > > > done: > > > -put the fonts in /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts/ > > > -ran mkfontdir in that dir > > > -added this to XF86Config-4: > > > FontPath "unix/:-1, /usr/local/fonts/artwiz-fonts" > > > > > > -set LC_ALL="C" > > > -ran xset fp rehash > > > > > > I was told to only have the artwiz font path in XF86Config-4 w/o the unix/:-1 >but X doesn't start when i do that. How can I add the artwiz-fonts to all the rest >which are loaded by unix/:-1? > > > > > > > I had already added the font dir to /etc/X11/fs/config after doing a > little searching on where the font config file was. They are > recognized as I have gotten a message that at least it is trying to load > some of the fonts as follows: > > BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font >'-artwiz-mintsmild-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-90-iso646.1991-irv' > BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font >'-artwiz-snap-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-90-iso646.1991-irv' > BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font >'-artwiz-snap-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-90-iso646.1991-irv' > BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font >'-artwiz-snap-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-90-iso646.1991-irv' > > This is the output of chkfontpath --list: > # chkfontpath --list > Current directories in font path: > 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled > 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled > 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled > 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled > 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 > 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo > 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled > 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts:unscaled > 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-fonts:unscaled /* <--new fonts */ > 10: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 > 11: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives > 12: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western > > I'v tried them as just normal and :unscaled. I'm not sure if they are > truetype. For some reason they can't be loaded meaning there is > something further I must do. They are fonts for the fluxbox and blackbox > window managers. > -- > "Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most." -- Ozzy Osbourne > > Chad Young > Registered Linux User #195191 > @ http://counter.li.org > --- > Linux localhost 2.4.18-pre9 #2 Thu Feb 7 21:14:23 AST 2002 i686 unknown > 7:20pm up 7:24, 2 users, load average: 0.83, 0.57, 0.28 > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cups setup problems.
Pierre, Thanks for that - thats the proper way to fix it ;-) I read the actual cups startup script and there is a conditional statement that says "if file /usr/sbin/setcupsconfig is executable, then create a default cups file". SO what I ended up doing was a chmod a-x on that file, and it fixed the problem, but your solution is much tidier. Hamster > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:29:03 +0100 "H.McM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to setup printing on my MDK8.1 machine using cups, and am having a >disastrous time. > > > > The first problem is the cupsd.conf file. > > 1. I do a "service cups stop" to stop the deamon. > > 2. I edit cupsd.conf (to turn browsing off amongst other things). > > 3. I restart the daemon "service cups restart" > > > > Once the daemon is restarted, all my changes are lost, and the cupsd.conf file >reverts to the default one you get on installation! > > > > What is causing this, and how do I stop it short of doing a chattr +i?? > > Been there... sigh! Here's my /etc/sysconfig/printing: > # DON'T CHANGE MY /etc/cups/cupsd.conf FILE! > CUPS_CONFIG=manual > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cups setup problems.
William, Thanks for responding. The printer is a Canon BJC4300. I tried using printerdrake, but couldnt get it to run. As root, I started printerdrake, but it wanted to install packages and kept asking for the first Mankdrake setup disk. I put the disk in the drive, and it just kept ejecting it and asking for the disk (and I was using the right disk!). The bizarre thing was that it appeared to want to install kdebase, which is very much already installed! That bit I dont understand at all. So thats why I tried editing the cups.conf file manually. But I traced the problem of the overwritten config file to a line in the cups daemon script that looks for the executable bit set on a perl script /usr/sbin/setcupsconfig. You can unset that bit manually as I ended up doing, or through printerdrake, but seeing how I cant get printerdrake working, the second option is no option. I have read that link on the mandrake user site, and while full of usefull info, it was little help re things not working. Hamster > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:29:03 +0100 > "H.McM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote these words: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to setup printing on my MDK8.1 machine using cups, and am having a >disastrous time. > > > > The first problem is the cupsd.conf file. > > 1. I do a "service cups stop" to stop the deamon. > > 2. I edit cupsd.conf (to turn browsing off amongst other things). > > 3. I restart the daemon "service cups restart" > > > > Once the daemon is restarted, all my changes are lost, and the cupsd.conf file >reverts to the default one you get on installation! > > > > What is causing this, and how do I stop it short of doing a chattr +i?? > > > > I get the same problem if I use any of the gui setup tools. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Hamster > > What kind of printer? > > Have you tried setting up with > printerdrake ? > > Good info if you have not read it already at; > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups0.html > > William Bouterse > Talkeetna, Ak > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] anacron and cron
Hi! If I am using anacron as my job sheduler, is there any reason to also have the cron daemon installed and initialising on startup? To word it another way - will stopping the cron daemon in any way effect anacron? I dont think so, but its always safer to ask :) Thanks! Hamster Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange network problems
Are you by any chance running cups? > Hi All, > Got a gremlin in my box, I can't make the network configuration stay. > Using Mandrake Control Center to set up a static IP on my machine seems to > work fine, set's it up and I can use the network. > Ahh, now comes the fun, when I reboot, it looses the host name and IP address. > So, I set it all up using linux conf, let it make changes and opened it again > to look. hostname set back to localhost.localdomain on first page, NO > hostname, alias or IP address on second page. tried ifconfig, no device for > eth0 error message. > Getting frustrated at this point, went back into Mandrake control Center and > AGAIN set it all up, let it make changes, network is OK, reboot, pffft, no > Ipaddress or hostname... > Wotinell's going on? > I've 4 Mandrake 8.1 boxes and the one in question is the only one doing > this > FWIW, I have the network set up as smbfs all the way, using static IP's, no > nfs. > Hosts on the network are: xxx.xxx.0.1 -> .0.5, the one having the problem is > xxx.xxx.0.2 OH, the box worked flawlessly on 8.1 until I re-installed > with a different HDD. > Gremlins??? Or does someone have an idea?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's
Me neither... > David Oberbeck wrote: > >Burning a 650 iso onto a 700 MB disk makes it unbootable... > > Hmm, not for me! > > Randy Kramer > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lsmod
I think that would be easier to find out by looking at your modules.conf. In that there should be a line alias eth0 The xxx should be your lan card. H > Here is output of my #lsmod. > One of them is my LAN Card module. But which one? How can I guess it? > > Vu Hung > > -- > Takeshi's small space http://donganh16.tk/ > Join KDE-i18n-Vi? http://vi.i18n.kde.org > VYSA: http://vysasports.vngate.net/ > Vietlug: http://vietlug.sourceforge.net > --- >6:20pm up 1 day, 3:35, 5 users, load average: 2.20, 1.67, 1.49 > May all your PUSHes be POPped. > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
