Re: [newbie-it] configurazione grub
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:24:40 +0200, Fiscarelli Paolo said: Mi potreste dire dove trovare un howto su come configurare grub...e se esiste un interfaccia grafica al grub del tipo kgrub o ggrub o simili per X11??? Se esistono degli howto non lo so ma se dai il comando "info grub" ti esce un manuale abbastanza corposo che spiega tutto, dall' installazione alla configurazione. Riguardo all' interfaccia per X11 non ne vedo la necessità visto che si configura semplicemente editando il file di testo /boot/grub/menu.lst. Ciao -- __ Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] configurazione grub
[Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:24:40PM +0200] - Fiscarelli scrive: Mi potreste dire dove trovare un howto su come configurare grub...e se esiste un interfaccia grafica al grub del tipo kgrub o ggrub o simili per X11??? C'e' il pacchetto grub-doc, che dovresti avere gia' installato. Altrimenti lo trovi su http://www.it.gnu.org/software/grub dove trovi le FAQ e varia documentazione (e i pacchetti per l'internazionalizzazione). -- Franco aka caparossa [god@heaven src]# tar -xvfz ~/universe-2.2.13.tar.gz [god@heaven src]# make config [god@heaven src]# make dep; make clean; make zlilo; [god@heaven src]# sync; sync; sync; reboot kernel panic
[newbie-it] scanner nuovo
ho comprato uno scanner hp-Scanjet3400C ma non riesco a configurarlo. Ho caricato sane e xsane ma quando digito xsane (da user) mi dice che non riesce a trovare i device. Com'è possibile capire se il mio computer "vede" lo scanner? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie-it] scanner nuovo
Ho comprato uno scanner hp 3400C ma non riesco a configurarlo. Ho caricato sane e xsane ma quando digito xsane ( da user) mi dice che non riesce a trovare i device. Come posso capire se il mio sistema "vede" il mio scanner?? ciao Silvano _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie-it] telnet linux e controlllo remoto....
Il ven, 13 ott 2000, marco signoretto ha scritto: ho letto su una rivista che è possibilie connettersi a linux da remoto utilizzando telnet da una macchina che monta un qualsiasi sistema operativo. provando da win 2000 a eseguire "telnet indirizzoIp" tuttavia, il comp risponde "connessione rifiutata" (invece di richiedermi la passwd come avrebbe dovuto secondo la rivista). è veramente possibile fare una cosa del genere? se si, come? bisogna attivare qualche demone sulla macchina linux? marco ragazzi quali sono i comandi di samba per controllare se ci sono o meno risorse condivise su un'altr McchinA?..
[newbie-it] Gnome
Mi piacerebbe provare ad installare l'interfaccia grafica di Gnome ma ciò si sta rivelando un'impresa (almeno per me). Ho scaricato l'installer dal sito della Helixcode ma, pur seguendo le istruzioni per avviarlo, non riesco a combinare nulla. Il file scaricato è un file compresso (estensione .gz). Le istruzioni dicono di estrarlo con il comando "gunzip installer-latest-intel.gz" , di renderlo eseguibile con il comando "chmod +x installer-latest-intel" e poi di eseguirlo con il comando "./ installer-latest-intel. Risultato ottenuto: con il primo comando assolutamente nulla, mi dice "file inesistente" con il secondo invece riesco a creare un eseguibile che però non è eseguibile per niente... Qualcuno sa dirmi qualcosa in proposito? Grazie infinite. Andrea
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake amp; Sound Card
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:41 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake amp; Sound Card In a message dated 10/14/2000 2:37:14 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One I haven't been able to resolve yet. I have a Gateway permormance 500, with a well in my opinion that is problem number one, i always had problems with gateway computers, i could have windows on a dell and gateway, and the gateway would crash 10 times faster if not 100 times It's not the computer, but the bios. It's almost as if Phoenix was owned by Microsoft. The thing runs like a top, just the peripherials are a bitch to setup in a nonwindows enviroment for some reason. But I'm not giving up. I love a challenge. Emerhawk
Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux
I have a 20Gb drive in a an old P100. I had to do a BIOS upgrade (as the hdd manual suggested) which made it able to understand the huge drive a little better. Then it offered a special program that made Windows able to see the entire drive but Linux could see it all even without that program. I have some 40Gb drives in some newer machines and haven't had any problems with them either. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Larry Marshall wrote: My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a low level format? What does "my system" mean? Windows, Linux? Via what method? I can create an extended file, but cannot load anything into it. How are you trying to do this? What do you mean by "extended file"? I checked the fujitsu web site and nothing there on formating. Have read all the newbie ultimate format etc. and older newbie files, and cannot find solution. Sounds like you need to read something about partitioning. What does fdisk report? Any chance you've got Partition Magic to look at your partitions? Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Cloning Drives?
If all your drives are the same ghost will copy disk to disk no matter what the OS is. Just open the machines and plug the copy drive into the other IDE port. RegardsRod - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cloning Drives? Looks like you have some cd drive moveing to do. Althrough copying disk to disk under linux can be done, its not going to be easy. You would have to do a raw copy of the drive. This assumes the drives are all the same model. First you have the problem of connecting them together by parallel. I tried that, a plip needs you to recompile the kernal. What you could do, if the drives are big enough, is to install from a fat partition. That way you could use trusty interlink to connect them. I have never dont that, but it can be done under some distros. Possibly mandrake. The only catch is you might have to install windows along the way. I dont know. Final option: do they have network cards? ftp install? - Original Message - From: "Kirby J. Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Cloning Drives? Has anyone had success in cloning Linux from one PC to another? I'm fairly new to Linux so I definitely consider myself a "newbie" This is my situation... our private school had 8 identical IBM PC's donated for the students and teachers. Seeing as we had the hardware but no software (and no funds for the software) I decided that I would try to set up Mandrake on the computers and let the teachers use Star Office for their work. The problem is that none of the computers came with CD-ROMs. I went out and purchased an inexpensive internal drive and used it to set up one of the eight machines like I wanted it and now I want to set up the other seven machines. Ideally, I would like to be able to set the other machines up without going through the same process all over again (i.e., open the PC up, temporarily attach the CD-ROM, etc.). I've attempted to use Norton Ghost 6.5 and use the disk-to-disk copy via the parallel ports and the supplied null cable but it doesn't seem to be working as I get an error message when I try to boot up the "slave" PC. Can I clone/copy over the hard drive via the parallel ports from within Linux using "dd" or something? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Kirby
[newbie]
I'm asking for a frend. Is there a dist. for an amega machine. Emerhawk
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
There is still a reason for calling Manndrake when you have a problem and you do have support. Hopefully, the problems that get reported will be fixed in future releases. If no-one reports the problems they will never be fixed. The problem report needs to be well detailed but it should be submitted. Mind you, I agree with looking it up for yourself if you can, I must have 10,000 pages of aftermarket books on various flavours of linux, I can usually find answers to my problems there. Regards,Rod - Original Message - From: "Phil Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 2:21 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake supportI I have to agree with you in the 20+ years I've been in the service industry you find the the tech support guy you get is only as smart as the computer in front of him Then after that 20th phone call to that company going through the same crap the other 19 made you go through again and again you come across the one person in that entire company that has a clue! Go figure Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #189889 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI Support is useless. Learn it for yourself. The ability to look up information, ask for help, and work through problems are things don't don't expire in 6 months. :) *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: [newbie] Opera Beta
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan) Is there anyone who's a Netscape fan (grin)? It still holds the title as being the only application capable of crashing my Linux system and it kills itself on a regular basis. What are the smart people using? While I haven't gotten Opera's rpms to open up, finding out that it's not an open source product has cooled my thoughts of using it. Is there life without Nutscape? Cheers --- Larry -- Just forget about the Opera browser not being Open Source. The fact is that this is one helluva browser. Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Opera Beta
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: Just to add my two-pennies worth to the thread. I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours online connection for free and it worked perfectly thoughout hours of use, it is really weird to here of all the slating. Andrew -- What type of drugs are you on and how did you get them?! :) Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie]
There is, I know its out there, but I dont know where you will be able to get it. - Original Message - From: "emerhawk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:35 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm asking for a frend. Is there a dist. for an amega machine. Emerhawk
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake amp; Sound Card
Gateway has just made my list. Its in the same section as hewlett-packard and microsoft. My notebook as a phonix bios. I cant put linux on it. It wont boot from a cd and its one of those designs where the cd and floppy cant both be inserted at the same time. - Original Message - From: "emerhawk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake amp; Sound Card - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:41 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake amp; Sound Card In a message dated 10/14/2000 2:37:14 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One I haven't been able to resolve yet. I have a Gateway permormance 500, with a well in my opinion that is problem number one, i always had problems with gateway computers, i could have windows on a dell and gateway, and the gateway would crash 10 times faster if not 100 times It's not the computer, but the bios. It's almost as if Phoenix was owned by Microsoft. The thing runs like a top, just the peripherials are a bitch to setup in a nonwindows enviroment for some reason. But I'm not giving up. I love a challenge. Emerhawk
[newbie] Portsentry traps
During the past five days Portsentry has reported several probes on port 1080 along with some DNS information. I understand this is the Socks Proxy port. Without disclosing (at this time) the origin of these probes, could someone advise me on how (or if) I should deal with/to them? Also, out of this, does anyone remember the 'Flint' movies from the 60's - I'm interested in getting hold of the alarm sound which was used. I think it may have been used in other spy spoofs but can't remember which. I'd like to use that as my Portsentry alarm signal. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] boot stops at syslog
I had trouble booting into Linux today. The boot just stopped at the point when the "system logger" was being loaded. This has happened once before but it went away after I rebooted with "Linux" rather than "Linux-up" in LILO. I don't think the other boot option made a difference in that case, they both use the same kernel but Linux-up has an extra option. Today though, the system would just stop booting at the "system logger" point. I tried an interactive boot, disabled system logging, but X-windows wouldn't start. I hit the reset button, Linux did a check of root and home, found some errors, and everything proceeded properly from there on in. But I'd like to know what was going on and how to fix it if it ever happens again. Can I force a disk check during boot? Well, with the reset button I could, but that may not be the best way. I also booted into Windows, but found that internet wasn't responding properly (couldn't load web pages, but telnet and mail worked fine). Was Linux perhaps just encountering network problems at boot time, and should I have just waited? Thanks for any information, John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Mandrake Update
I'm using Mandrake 7.2beta3 and when using the MandrakeUpdate program and pressing "Update List", I get a message saying "Cannot retrieve the list of packages to update. Try with an other mirror." The mirrors I have listed under Preferences, Source are: ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub/linux/mandrake/updates ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/updates/ ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/updates/ None of these seem to work and pressing the "Update list of mirrors" button doesn't add any mirrors. Could someone please give me some mirrors that work, or at least tell me why the ones already there doesn't? -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality...
[newbie] Toshiba and video woes
Greetings all I am trying to install 7.1 onto a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 laptop. 6Gb HDD, 64Mb RAM. Everything goes smoothly untill I try to configure the video card. My laptop has a S3 mobilesavage chip which is not listed on the available choices. Using the generic chipset only produces a 640 x 640 display which is far too large for the notebook screen. I rteally need 800 x 600 minimum. Has anyone done a similar installation sucessfully, if so which monitor, chipset and resolution settings were used. Thanks and kind regards Mark Annandale
[newbie] Vacation - offtime
Hi everyone, Just a quick goodbye for a while. Monday I am leaving for a 3 week vacation to the US of A, so I will go nomail for that period. Have fun with the penguin!! (Patti, I'll give you a ring when I am in Ca!) Paul -- HASTE CUISINE Fast French food. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] kde menus
I've been trying to alter the main KDE menu but it seems to be reset when I login again. The KDE entries have been placed in a "default" menu and GNOME programs in my "personal" menu. This is with Linux-Mandrake 7.0, all Window managers installed. I want the GNOME stuff in a separate submenu, and the programs I use and know what they do in my personal menu. I don't want to just delete items in the present personal menu, the gnome menus are useful for trying things out and finding out what they do. I tried putting the files and folders in ~/.kde/share/applnk into a special Gnome subdirectory but KDE didn't let me move certain files. I logged in as root and it worked then, but KDE switched everything back to the old situation when I logged in again as user. The second time I used the KDE menu editor and had the basic setup I wanted, but when I logged in again, everything was reset. There's still a GNOME submenu with everything in the "personal" menu so I'm not doing something silly like modifying things in root and finding no changes in user. Logging in is slow too, it takes a minute or so longer as KDE resets everything to the original installation. KDE is a bit too much like Windows 95, thinks it knows what you want better than you do. Any solutions? An alternative app-launcher might be good, something like on-cue or Apollo for the Macintosh, if anyone is familiar with those. Advance thanks for any help, John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] kde menus
On Sunday 15 October 2000 13:53, you scribled down on a piece of electronic paper: I tried putting the files and folders in ~/.kde/share/applnk into a special Gnome subdirectory but KDE didn't let me move certain files. I logged in as root and it worked then, but KDE switched everything back to the old situation when I logged in again as user. The second time I used the KDE menu editor and had the basic setup I wanted, but when I logged in again, everything was reset. There's still a GNOME submenu with everything in the "personal" menu so I'm not doing something silly like modifying things in root and finding no changes in user. Logging in is slow too, it takes a minute or so longer as KDE resets everything to the original installation. KDE is a bit too much like Windows 95, thinks it knows what you want better than you do. Any solutions? An alternative app-launcher might be good, If I'm not mistaking, this hasn't got anything to do with kde, it's a program in mandrake that screws up your kmenu. ps. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I'm running 7.2beta3 and had problems with my menus myself because of a mandrake program called menu-install or something like that. -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality...
Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps
John; The sound was also used in "Hudson Hawk" with Bruce Willis. I remember the "Our Man Flint" movies as well ! Anyway the sound was used for the electronic handcuffs in the show. Maybe That info will help ? Have U tried " www.freethemes.com " ?? Check out the "Unix Themes" section, dude. L 8 R, - Original Message - From: "John Rye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 6:43 AM Subject: [newbie] Portsentry traps During the past five days Portsentry has reported several probes on port 1080 along with some DNS information. I understand this is the Socks Proxy port. Without disclosing (at this time) the origin of these probes, could someone advise me on how (or if) I should deal with/to them? Also, out of this, does anyone remember the 'Flint' movies from the 60's - I'm interested in getting hold of the alarm sound which was used. I think it may have been used in other spy spoofs but can't remember which. I'd like to use that as my Portsentry alarm signal. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] sb live! sound card
Hi chronos, go to the Mandrake website, click on "Mailing Lists" - its one of the links under "Support" on the left side of the page - then, scroll down to the bottom of the mailing list page and you will find links to the expert and newbie archives. Also on the Mandrake website, in the left-side list of links, under "Developer", you will find a link to the HardDrake site, if you want to try that. On that site, click on Download, and then grab the rpms for HardDrake, detect, and detect-lst. If you use kpackage to install these RPMs it will describe any unresolved dependancies when you open up the RPMs. Anything that is missing you can find in the Mandrake Cooker site, which you can find a link to in that Developer section. Mandrake has its own rpms for alsa there - not sure if those are the same files referenced in that email or the files you get from the site mentioned below. You can find all the the alsa information and downloads at www.alsa-project.org cheers, philomena chronos wrote: At 11:45 PM 10/14/2000 -0400, you wrote: One more thing - if you search the expert mailing list archives using the string "SBLive! sound quality" you'll find very detailed instructions on how to get the card working with the alsa drivers - you may want to try that too. Hi, Philomena- So how do I get to the list archives ? Also where are the alsa drivers ? Thank you, Chronos.
Re: [newbie] kde menus
I've done a lot of menu changes myself. I did it though through kmenuedit. Did you try kmenuedit? Rather than moving any of the default entries, try copying them to where you want them. The changes stick for me in Mandrake 7.1 On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: I've been trying to alter the main KDE menu but it seems to be reset when I login again. The KDE entries have been placed in a "default" menu and GNOME programs in my "personal" menu. This is with Linux-Mandrake 7.0, all Window managers installed. I want the GNOME stuff in a separate submenu, and the programs I use and know what they do in my personal menu. I don't want to just delete items in the present personal menu, the gnome menus are useful for trying things out and finding out what they do. I tried putting the files and folders in ~/.kde/share/applnk into a special Gnome subdirectory but KDE didn't let me move certain files. I logged in as root and it worked then, but KDE switched everything back to the old situation when I logged in again as user. The second time I used the KDE menu editor and had the basic setup I wanted, but when I logged in again, everything was reset. There's still a GNOME submenu with everything in the "personal" menu so I'm not doing something silly like modifying things in root and finding no changes in user. Logging in is slow too, it takes a minute or so longer as KDE resets everything to the original installation. KDE is a bit too much like Windows 95, thinks it knows what you want better than you do. Any solutions? An alternative app-launcher might be good, something like on-cue or Apollo for the Macintosh, if anyone is familiar with those. Advance thanks for any help, John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] kde menus
KDE resets everything to the original installation. KDE is a bit too much like Windows 95, thinks it knows what you want better than you do. Any solutions? An alternative app-launcher might be good, Fortunately, if you're smarter than the interface, you can fix it in the Linux case :-) My guess is that you've got an ownership problem from all the jumping back and forth between root and yourself when you have been changing this stuff. It's pretty likely that the problem is that root owns the .kde directory and .kderc file in your home directory. If I'm right, doing chown -R yourname .kde and chown -R yourname .kderc followed by the changes you want to make will result in those changes taking place and a simple restart of your X will have you happy as a clam. Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] Modem connection question
I have been able to get Linux to recognize my LT Winmodem and dial my ISP. However, as soon as the connection is made it is immediately disconnected with the daemon dying unexpectedly. KPPP then locks up Linux and I have to reboot. Any ideas? Thanks.
[newbie] icon choices in kmenuedit
In kmenuedit, one can change the default icon for various items on the menu, but the choices have to be made (on my system at least) only from 2 directories: /usr/share/icons OR ~/.kde/usr/share/icons There does not seem to be any way that I can find to add another directoriy to chose from. Is there a way? Thanks. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [Re: [[newbie] wp8]]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have this problem? The buttons for word perfect, the linux version, will not show up. They are there, you can click on them, but the all look like a garbled mess. Any help would be appriciated. ~Lance == Just a guess here, Lance, but I'll bet you're running at 24bpp color depth. Try 16 or 32 and I bet that problem corrects itself. Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] Printing in KDE
With the default install of LM71, I had problems printing from any application. That is could not at all. Running printtool was not problem and could even run the print tests and that confused me. If I could run those tests, why could I not print from Netscape, Abiword or drop a file on the desktop printer icon? Well in my case here is what I found wrong. 1. The printer icon default under the execute tab was; lpr %f. I changed it to lpr -P laserjet %f. Bingo. 2. In Netscape the print command defaults to; lpr. Changed it to lpr -P laserjet. Bingo 3. Abiword follows the same situation as Netscape. As far as I can tell at this time when I have a printing problem it has been with the defaults that application has for printing AND nothing to do with printcap, lpd, lpr, lpc, etc, etc, etc. To say the least I am not particularly impressed with this bit of KDE/Linux/Mandrake or where ever it may fall. I do not consider it to be a high expectation for an application to figure out what printers a system has available. If it can figure out it needs lpr, then somewhere along the line it should present me with a choice of printers listed in printcap. There was one app that did present me with a choice, though I do not remember which one it was.
Re: [newbie] Modem connection question
You probably do not want to hear this but get a real modem, it will make your life simpler. "Kirby J. Davis" wrote: I have been able to get Linux to recognize my LT Winmodem and dial my ISP. However, as soon as the connection is made it is immediately disconnected with the daemon dying unexpectedly. KPPP then locks up Linux and I have to reboot.Any ideas?Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps
Portsentry usually adds the offending host IP to the route tables, but this isn't always the best option anymore. you can change the KILL_ROUTE command in /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry.conf to the following and it will add the host IP to your ipchains rules (if you're using ipchains--which, really, you should be): KILL_ROUTE="/sbin/ipchains -I input -s $TARGET$ -j DENY" If you still want these probes logged, add "-l" (lower-case "L") to the line before the last quotation mark.With this rule added to your ipchains, all hits from that host will be dropped regardless of type. Hopefully portsentry is not the only protection you have against intruders. It's a great utility, but not complete enough on it's own to rely on. --Greg - Original Message - From: "John Rye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] During the past five days Portsentry has reported several probes on port 1080 along with some DNS information. I understand this is the Socks Proxy port. Without disclosing (at this time) the origin of these probes, could someone advise me on how (or if) I should deal with/to them? Also, out of this, does anyone remember the 'Flint' movies from the 60's - I'm interested in getting hold of the alarm sound which was used. I think it may have been used in other spy spoofs but can't remember which. I'd like to use that as my Portsentry alarm signal. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] kde menus
--- Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fortunately, if you're smarter than the interface, you can fix it in the Linux case :-) My guess is that you've got an ownership problem from all the jumping back and forth between root and yourself when you have been changing this stuff. It's pretty likely that the problem is that root owns the .kde directory and .kderc file in your home directory. If I'm right, doing No, I'm the owner of .kderc, .kde/ and its files and subdirectories. On the other hand, there isn't a straightforward relationship between the .kde/share/applnk and the menus. There's a .kde/share/applnk/John subdirectory which is named Gnome in the menus (there's no "John" submenu in any case) so some configuration information is being kept "somewhere" else. Maybe it's not wise to move the applnk files around, perhaps kmenus can't handle that properly (although the help-file indicates otherwise). I could try pruning the kde menu again, see if it works this time. Just hope this doesn't make the mess even worse. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] boot stops at syslog
This has happened to me a few times on a couple o machines, I fixed it by reinstalling sysklogd. Unfortunately, I haven't found the service which is causing the conflict. Re-boot the machine, and enter interactive mode during service start-up (press "I") Select "NO" for syslog this time. Login as root. Check you sysklogd version (rpm -q sysklogd) and make sure it's the latest version: sysklogd-1.3.31-17 If you don't have the latest verion, log out, log in as user, get on the web and download it. Then log back in as root remove the old sysklogd: rpm -e sysklogd and install the new one: rpm -ivh sysklogd-1.3.31-17mdk.rpm (or watever the rpm is called) Reboot at this point as see if the problem is fixed. Note: This was happening to me every time i used syslog in debug mode. I think MDK installs with syslog in debug mode by default, but I don't have an MDK machine in front of me at the moment to check. You may want to stop debugging if it's on. --Greg - Original Message - From: "John Hendrickx" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had trouble booting into Linux today. The boot just stopped at the point when the "system logger" was being loaded. This has happened once before but it went away after I rebooted with "Linux" rather than "Linux-up" in LILO. I don't think the other boot option made a difference in that case, they both use the same kernel but Linux-up has an extra option. Today though, the system would just stop booting at the "system logger" point. I tried an interactive boot, disabled system logging, but X-windows wouldn't start. I hit the reset button, Linux did a check of root and home, found some errors, and everything proceeded properly from there on in. But I'd like to know what was going on and how to fix it if it ever happens again. Can I force a disk check during boot? Well, with the reset button I could, but that may not be the best way. I also booted into Windows, but found that internet wasn't responding properly (couldn't load web pages, but telnet and mail worked fine). Was Linux perhaps just encountering network problems at boot time, and should I have just waited? Thanks for any information, John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Vacation - offtime
Why come here? Aren't there better places to visit? :-) --Greg - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, Just a quick goodbye for a while. Monday I am leaving for a 3 week vacation to the US of A, so I will go nomail for that period. Have fun with the penguin!! (Patti, I'll give you a ring when I am in Ca!) Paul -- HASTE CUISINE Fast French food. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] 2 network cards
hi im currently using linux-mandrake 6.1 i installed it no worries what so ever i set it up to be a network net connection well it found one of the network cards as a nec2000 thats ok i continue to install linux i restart go back into linux fire up netscape nothing! but when i swap the cable modem on to the other network card it works so i was wondering is there a way to set it up so i don't have to swap over between windows and linux? the two cards are smc EZ card 10/100 and the other a d-link 528
Re: [newbie] Opera Beta
Jay wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: Just to add my two-pennies worth to the thread. I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours online connection for free and it worked perfectly thoughout hours of use, it is really weird to here of all the slating. Andrew -- What type of drugs are you on and how did you get them?! :) Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com This is odd. I don't run my machine 24/7, and I do use Netscape to check my mail with...but...I have had an odd/occasional "crash". The crashes are usually when I first start it up, I get a partial screen, and have to use Xkill on it. I've also been online, and had it quit/exit spontaneously back to my KDE desktop, but again...just rarely. I've *never* had it crash, and take down my whole system. Strange how mileage varies from user to user, eh? ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie]
Goldenpi wrote: There is, I know its out there, but I dont know where you will be able to get it. - Original Message - From: "emerhawk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:35 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm asking for a frend. Is there a dist. for an amega machine. Emerhawk Right. When I used to "run" with the Atari/Amiga crowd, there were 'Nix setups for both machines. Do a search using keywords like "unix amiga" or "linux amiga" and you should find sites dedicated to it... PS Thought the next gen. Amiga machines were going to be using a Unix core anyways, right? -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] 2 network cards
It sounds like only the one network card is configured. I'm to assume you want to access the internet with your linux box, and have the linux box share the internet connection with your windows box? The cable modem should be connected to the interface that is designated eth0--this is probably the interface that is currently working. You need to enter linuxconf (su to root, type linuxconf in terminal), enter Networking, client tasks, Basic Host Configuration and select the interface eth1. You want to putt your interface information here. Use a dummy IP address (192.168.x.x, or 10.x.x.x), make the gateway the same IP address.and the subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Select the appropriate driver for your network card., click activate at boot. click accept, quit, and activate changes. in the terminal type/sbin/ifup eth1 and let me know what happens. Also, please give a little information about your setup--and maybe try to squeeze a period or a comma in your paragraphs :-). --Greg - Original Message - From: "Michael Dolan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi im currently using linux-mandrake 6.1 i installed it no worries what so ever i set it up to be a network net connection well it found one of the network cards as a nec2000 thats ok i continue to install linux i restart go back into linux fire up netscape nothing! but when i swap the cable modem on to the other network card it works so i was wondering is there a way to set it up so i don't have to swap over between windows and linux? the two cards are smc EZ card 10/100 and the other a d-link 528 __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
As far as I can tell at this time when I have a printing problem it has been with the defaults that application has for printing AND nothing to do with printcap, lpd, lpr, lpc, etc, etc, etc. To say the I think, as I interpret your msg, that the problem is that you don't have the filter for lpr setup proper. lpr is going to look for the definition in printcap (lp) and that label should point to a filter for your particular printer. Did you select such a filter when you did the installation? You're asked whether you want to set up a printer and from what I can see what the install program does is put a proper filter into /var/spool/lpd/lp and they name it filter. All I did was select the type of inkjet I had (it actually auto-detected it so I just pressed CR) and it not only dumped the proper filter in place, it stuck a comment in printcap saying what lp was set for. least I am not particularly impressed with this bit of KDE/Linux/Mandrake or where ever it may fall. I do not consider it to You're probably smarter than I am but when things like this don't work it generally turns out that it's been my understanding that's the limiting factor. be a high expectation for an application to figure out what printers a system has available. If it can figure out it needs lpr, then lpr is simply a way to give any application a known hook to the printer. That's what printcap is for. You can add multiple filters (with separate definitions) and you can add multiple names for the same definition. This includes setting up multiple definitions/filters for the same print device (eg - forced BW, forced COLOR, economy mode, etc). somewhere along the line it should present me with a choice of printers listed in printcap. There was one app that did present me with a choice, though I do not remember which one it was. Choices are presented during installation and test prints are permitted. It's possible that you simply don't have any of this set up. My printcap shouts loud and clear the type of printer I'm printing to and you can read it with any editor. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] kde menus
No, I'm the owner of .kderc, .kde/ and its files and subdirectories. On the other hand, there isn't a straightforward relationship between the .kde/share/applnk and the menus. There's a .kde/share/applnk/John subdirectory which is named Gnome in the menus (there's no "John" It's unclear why you should have a "John" directory in the mix. Since .kde/share/applnk is derived from your home directory, there is no need to make user distinctions in the directory chain. Maybe it's not wise to move the applnk files around, perhaps kmenus can't handle that properly (although the help-file indicates otherwise). I could try pruning the kde menu again, see if it works this time. Just hope this doesn't make the mess even worse. It sounds like the directory structure has somehow gotten muddied. I don't use the KDE menus enough to modify them. I've got a few icons on the kpanel (also controlled in that same directory tree) but that's about it. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux
Larry Marshall wrote: My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a low level format? What does "my system" mean? Windows, Linux? Via what method? I can create an extended file, but cannot load anything into it. How are you trying to do this? What do you mean by "extended file"? I checked the fujitsu web site and nothing there on formating. Have read all the newbie ultimate format etc. and older newbie files, and cannot find solution. Sounds like you need to read something about partitioning. What does fdisk report? Any chance you've got Partition Magic to look at your partitions? Cheers --- Larry I recently purchased a fujitsu drive. Navigate to the fujitsu web site, and download DiskGo. I used it to run low level formatting, partitioning etc. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
[newbie] help with booting
Hi, I have had a lot of trouble installing linux and booting it. I tried red hat 6.2 and mandrake 7.0 to nbo avail. Mandrake 7.1 works though - maybe something to do with grub? I have two linux partitions on my hd (both logical not primary) the first is mounted as / and is under the 1024 cylinder limit the other is /usr and is past the 1024th cylinder. After installing a new dvd drive (samsung 608) and soundcard (live 1024) Linux refused to boot. Now when I select linux from grub I get a couple of lines of text and nothing happens. I made a few changes to the bios settings at the same time - could these have any affect? Or are my partitions wrong because at the same time I created another linux partion (the second one) and tried to mount it. I have reinstalled mandrake 7.1 about 10 times now but always the same problems. Any suggestions would be really useful. Thanks Alex Hopson
Re: [newbie] Toshiba and video woes
In a message dated 10/15/2000 6:18:18 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone done a similar installation sucessfully, if so which monitor, chipset and resolution settings were used. well i dont have an s3 but i have a toshiba satellite 1675 and i found the only way i could configure the xf86 file was to manually write to it with a text editor here is what it looks like you can use this as a base to configure your file # File generated by XFdrake.# **# Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of# this file.# **Section "Files"RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of# the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1"EndSection# **# Server flags section.# **Section "ServerFlags"# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is# received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging#NoTrapSignals# Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence# This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap# Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching# sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom# This allows the server to start up even if the# mouse device can't be opened/initialised.AllowMouseOpenFailEndSection# **# Input devices# **# **# Keyboard section# **Section "Keyboard"Protocol"Standard"# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the# following line#Protocol "Xqueue" AutoRepeat 250 30# Let the server do the NumLock processing. This should only be# required when using pre-R6 clients#ServerNumLock# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) #Xleds "1 2 3"#To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift,#RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock: LeftAltMetaRightAlt MetaScrollLock Compose RightCtl Control# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.#XkbDisable# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.# keyboard, you will probably want to use:#XkbModel"pc102"# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:#XkbModel "microsoft"## Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:#XkbLayout "de"# or:# XkbLayout "de"#XkbVariant "nodeadkeys"## If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and# control keys, use:#XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"# These are the default XKB settings for XFree86#XkbRules "xfree86"#XkbModel"pc101"#XkbLayout "us"#XkbVariant ""# XkbOptions ""XkbKeycodes "xfree86"XkbTypes"default" XkbCompat "default"XkbSymbols "us(pc105)"XkbGeometry "pc"XkbRules"xfree86"XkbModel"pc105"XkbLayout "us"EndSection# **# Pointer section# **Section "Pointer"Protocol"PS/2"Device "/dev/psaux" Emulate3ButtonsEmulate3Timeout50# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice#ChordMiddleEndSection# **# Monitor section# **# Any number of monitor sections may be presentSection "Monitor"Identifier "Generic|LCD Panel 800x600"VendorName "Generic"ModelName "Unknown"# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a# comma separated list of ranges of values.# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.HorizSync 31.5-57.0# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a# comma separated list of ranges of values.# NOTE: THE
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
Thanks for sharing Dennis. I'd try two things. First, just put "lp:" in
front of the label "laserjet". I haven't done this with Linux but other
versions of UNIX I've used allow this syntax (multiple labels). If that
doesn't work, just replicate the laserjet definition and call it
"lp" instead of "laserjet". This should cause lpr to send output just as
lpr -P laserjet does. Hope this helps.
Cheers --- Larry
Here is my printcap:
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE ljet4 600x600 letter {} LaserJet4 Default 1
laserjet:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=laserjet:\
:rp=raw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet/filter:
Re: [newbie] help with booting
well normally you mount the partitions as primary, or at least that is what the auto install feature does to my hard drive
[newbie] Problem with WINE
Sending again, first try seems to have fallen down a hole ;-( - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I have installed wine under Mandrake 7.1 when I run "wine sol" in Konsole, I get to play the Win95 solitaire game But when I come out of the game, I get in Konsole 30-odd screens of error messages:. "err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c005 flags 0 addr 0x408e371f " followed by "Segmentation fault [root@CerroCora /root]# err:win32:EnterCriticalSection Critical section 0x40600e2c wait timed" and another 40-screen s worth of error lines as above. Should I worry ? BTW, can anyone let me know if there is a specialized list for wine ? TIA, Ron the Frog, soaked under a storm on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] help with booting
I have win 98 partition as primary. well normally you mount the partitions as primary, or at least that is what the auto install feature does to my hard drive
Re: [newbie] help with booting
I thiink you've managed to confuse your partition scheme. Typically, the best way to prepare a linux drive, especially for the distros you mention, is to have the following partitions: /boot 16MB+ swap(twice your RAM size) / 500MB+ /home 500MB+ The / and /home directories need to be adjusted depending on what it is you are installing. The OS and all necessary apps go into / and anything you install afterward should be installed to ~/home (your user directory). The /boot partition can be a little larger depending on how many different kernels you wih to store there, but I would not exceed 100MB--there's just no reason to. You may have confused lilo/grub during one of your installs, and accidentally removed it from the MBR, placing onto the / partition. In this case, it may not know where to look for itself, or your BIOS doesn't see a boot utility. If you don't have much invested in these installs, you may wish to consider formatting the drive, and starting over with a careful plan. otherwise, you may want to try doing an upgrade of one of the distros, and selecting to put lilo or grub in the MBR during the upgrade. Afterward you can fuss with tell the boot utility where the other distro(s) exists. --Greg - Original Message - From: "A.J.O.HOPSON" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have had a lot of trouble installing linux and booting it. I tried red hat 6.2 and mandrake 7.0 to nbo avail. Mandrake 7.1 works though - maybe something to do with grub? I have two linux partitions on my hd (both logical not primary) the first is mounted as / and is under the 1024 cylinder limit the other is /usr and is past the 1024th cylinder. After installing a new dvd drive (samsung 608) and soundcard (live 1024) Linux refused to boot. Now when I select linux from grub I get a couple of lines of text and nothing happens. I made a few changes to the bios settings at the same time - could these have any affect? Or are my partitions wrong because at the same time I created another linux partion (the second one) and tried to mount it. I have reinstalled mandrake 7.1 about 10 times now but always the same problems. Any suggestions would be really useful. Thanks Alex Hopson __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] daemontools, qmail-utils and mesa
In trying to install the rpm of qmail I get an error message that says the install needs "daemontools" and "qmail-utils". Similarly in installing ssystem I ghet an error message saying that it needs "mesa". What are these? -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
Re: [newbie] help with booting
I'm afraid I'm new to the whole thing and don't understand the use of the /home partition. I'm not using any networked stuff, I just want to allow myself to run linux there will only be 1/2 users at most. So what should I store in /home rather than /? I'm afraid I wasn't to clear about grub. Grub runs ok, if I select windows it boots windows fine but selecting linux or failsafe just bring up a couple of lines of text. Thx Alex I thiink you've managed to confuse your partition scheme. Typically, the best way to prepare a linux drive, especially for the distros you mention, is to have the following partitions: /boot 16MB+ swap(twice your RAM size) / 500MB+ /home 500MB+ The / and /home directories need to be adjusted depending on what it is you are installing. The OS and all necessary apps go into / and anything you install afterward should be installed to ~/home (your user directory). The /boot partition can be a little larger depending on how many different kernels you wih to store there, but I would not exceed 100MB--there's just no reason to. You may have confused lilo/grub during one of your installs, and accidentally removed it from the MBR, placing onto the / partition. In this case, it may not know where to look for itself, or your BIOS doesn't see a boot utility. If you don't have much invested in these installs, you may wish to consider formatting the drive, and starting over with a careful plan. otherwise, you may want to try doing an upgrade of one of the distros, and selecting to put lilo or grub in the MBR during the upgrade. Afterward you can fuss with tell the boot utility where the other distro(s) exists. --Greg - Original Message - From: "A.J.O.HOPSON" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have had a lot of trouble installing linux and booting it. I tried red hat 6.2 and mandrake 7.0 to nbo avail. Mandrake 7.1 works though - maybe something to do with grub? I have two linux partitions on my hd (both logical not primary) the first is mounted as / and is under the 1024 cylinder limit the other is /usr and is past the 1024th cylinder. After installing a new dvd drive (samsung 608) and soundcard (live 1024) Linux refused to boot. Now when I select linux from grub I get a couple of lines of text and nothing happens. I made a few changes to the bios settings at the same time - could these have any affect? Or are my partitions wrong because at the same time I created another linux partion (the second one) and tried to mount it. I have reinstalled mandrake 7.1 about 10 times now but always the same problems. Any suggestions would be really useful. Thanks Alex Hopson __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
Larry Marshall wrote:
Thanks for sharing Dennis. I'd try two things. First, just put "lp:" in
front of the label "laserjet". I haven't done this with Linux but other
versions of UNIX I've used allow this syntax (multiple labels). If that
doesn't work, just replicate the laserjet definition and call it
"lp" instead of "laserjet". This should cause lpr to send output just as
lpr -P laserjet does. Hope this helps.
Cheers --- Larry
Here is my printcap:
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE ljet4 600x600 letter {} LaserJet4 Default 1
laserjet:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=laserjet:\
:rp=raw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet/filter:
Larry, I keep getting double messages from you.
Re: [newbie] Modem connection question
Before running out and buying a non-winmodem, you might try extending the timeout in kppp: In Kppp setup and under PPP, set the pppd timeout to 120 or more seconds. See if this helps. if not, consider a better modem. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Kirby J. Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been able to get Linux to recognize my LT Winmodem and dial my ISP. However, as soon as the connection is made it is immediately disconnected with the daemon dying unexpectedly. KPPP then locks up Linux and I have to reboot. Any ideas? Thanks. __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] Modem
Everytime I try o connect to the net, it says 'modem is busy'. What can I do to resolve this? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps
Dan LaBine wrote: John; The sound was also used in "Hudson Hawk" with Bruce Willis. I remember the "Our Man Flint" movies as well ! Anyway the sound was used for the electronic handcuffs in the show. Maybe That info will help ? Have U tried " www.freethemes.com " ?? Check out the "Unix Themes" section, dude. L 8 R, Thanks Dan - I'll start another hunt. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
Larry, I keep getting double messages from you. I keep getting double msgs of everything :-) I was beginning to think, however, that this had to do with local filtering of inbound msgs but maybe not. Are you not getting dupes from anyone else? Lots of people have complained about that here. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps
Greg Stewart wrote: Portsentry usually adds the offending host IP to the route tables, but this isn't always the best option anymore. you can change the KILL_ROUTE command in /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry.conf to the following and it will add the host IP to your ipchains rules (if you're using ipchains--which, really, you should be): KILL_ROUTE="/sbin/ipchains -I input -s $TARGET$ -j DENY" If you still want these probes logged, add "-l" (lower-case "L") to the line before the last quotation mark.With this rule added to your ipchains, all hits from that host will be dropped regardless of type. Hopefully portsentry is not the only protection you have against intruders. It's a great utility, but not complete enough on it's own to rely on. I'm well protected.. using ipchains, I already have your suggestion setup. It was more a question of whether one should attempt to 'deal to' the offender. I used to be continually probed when I used ICQ and Jammer on that other opsys, and had some good results by attacking the source-site owner, but those were not of this type. ?? What/why would a socks proxy port port be probed ?? Suggestions and further discussion might be useful to other list members. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] help with booting
as for the /home stuff as I am the sole user of this system what do I stand to gain from installing stuff to /home rather than /usr? For personal configuration files, and depending on the application, if you have a separate /home partition, you can remove a linux / partition, reinstall another version, sometimes another distro, and retain the previous installations. It also instills a bit more organisation to your installation--remember: in Windows, not everything pertaining to an application is in C:\Program Files...much of it is scattered amongst two or three other directories. Of course, if you're the only user, you can certainly get away with creating only the /boot and / partitions in addition to your swap. --Greg - Original Message - From: "A.J.O.HOPSON" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thx, I'll try reinstalling using the suggested partitions. I have been using diskdrake - as supplied withmandrake 7.1 most of the time, although I have tried partition magic (windows) a couple of times. as for the /home stuff as I am the sole user of this system what do I stand to gain from installing stuff to /home rather than /usr? Alex OK, I'm not familiar with grub--I'm a lilo devotee... but it sounds to me like grub needs to be told where to look for each of the linux kernels, kernel module info files, and system maps. These are usually stored in the linux /boot or / partitions. Older versions of lilo, I cannot attest to grub, could not deal with these files when located beyond the 1028 cylinder mark. This is usually approximately 7.9GB into the hard drive. That's why it is a good practice to create that /boot partition as close to the beginning of the drive as possible. Lilo would simply need to look into that 16MB or so space to find everything, and the problem is taken care ofIt's also just a good idea to protect the kernel files in a small space that's easily backed up, and wuickly replaced it needed. The /home partition, or directory, is where all user files go. It contains your users' "home" directories where downloaded files, personal desktop config files, browser/mail databases, and other user-installed programs are located. This can become quite large if users download/install a lot of programs files. the /usr directory can also grow if the admin of the machine has the tendency to install everything to /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/sbin--sometimes unavoidable or necessary, but not always good practice. I don't have any documentation on Grub, so I haven't the ability to instruct you on its configuration files, or repair. but, again, if you haven't begun anything important and irreplaceable onyour linux partitions, you may simply wish to start them over. What partitioning tool are you using? This might be a key in getting a reinstall going smoothly. --Greg - Original Message - From: "A.J.O.HOPSON" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid I'm new to the whole thing and don't understand the use of the /home partition. I'm not using any networked stuff, I just want to allow myself to run linux there will only be 1/2 users at most. So what should I store in /home rather than /? I'm afraid I wasn't to clear about grub. Grub runs ok, if I select windows it boots windows fine but selecting linux or failsafe just bring up a couple of lines of text. Thx Alex I thiink you've managed to confuse your partition scheme. Typically, the best way to prepare a linux drive, especially for the distros you mention, is to have the following partitions: /boot 16MB+ swap(twice your RAM size) / 500MB+ /home 500MB+ The / and /home directories need to be adjusted depending on what it is you are installing. The OS and all necessary apps go into / and anything you install afterward should be installed to ~/home (your user directory). The /boot partition can be a little larger depending on how many different kernels you wih to store there, but I would not exceed 100MB--there's just no reason to. You may have confused lilo/grub during one of your installs, and accidentally removed it from the MBR, placing onto the / partition. In this case, it may not know where to look for itself, or your BIOS doesn't see a boot utility. If you don't have much invested in these installs, you may wish to consider formatting the drive, and starting over with a careful plan. otherwise, you may want to try doing an upgrade of one of the distros, and selecting to put lilo or grub in the MBR during the upgrade. Afterward you can fuss with tell the boot utility where the other distro(s) exists. --Greg - Original Message - From: "A.J.O.HOPSON" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have had a lot of trouble installing linux and booting it. I tried
Re: [newbie] Modem
Peter Rodrigues wrote: Everytime I try o connect to the net, it says 'modem is busy'. What can I do to resolve this? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Sounds like an IRQ conflict.
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
Larry Marshall wrote: Larry, I keep getting double messages from you. I keep getting double msgs of everything :-) I was beginning to think, however, that this had to do with local filtering of inbound msgs but maybe not. Are you not getting dupes from anyone else? Lots of people have complained about that here. Cheers --- Larry No, so far just you.
[newbie] Ktail gives me wrong character set in MDK7.1b
Hi everybody, I have been trying to use ktail when logged in as root but I keep getting an error message indicating wrong charset. Any ideas? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps
?? What/why would a socks proxy port port be probed ?? Socks is a network proxy protocol used to provide NAT access for one section of a network to another. It is possible that the machine from which the packets came is hitting you or everyone (I haven't seen your packet log entry, so I can't decipher it) in an attempt to detect its proxy. This probably indicates a mis-configured machine on your segment of your ISP's network, or that is less than a certain number of hops distance from your machine so that the packets do not time out before getting to you. Socks and DNS, even DHCP hits on your machine usually don't pose a threat at all. It's just that someone seems not to know what they're doing--most often on Windows machines. Check to see (or include the packet log entry) that the destination is 255.255.255.255, or "broadcast". If this is so, then it's definitely not an attack. If otherwise, I would guess it's a mis-configuration. --Greg - Original Message - From: "John Rye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm well protected.. using ipchains, I already have your suggestion setup. It was more a question of whether one should attempt to 'deal to' the offender. I used to be continually probed when I used ICQ and Jammer on that other opsys, and had some good results by attacking the source-site owner, but those were not of this type. ?? What/why would a socks proxy port port be probed ?? Suggestions and further discussion might be useful to other list members. Cheers -- __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] kde menus
--- A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It all has to do with the switch to the Debian menuing system in 7.1 take a peek at the entries in /etc/menu and /usr/lib/menu along with whatever is in /usr/doc/menu-2.1.5/menu.txt No, I'm using version 7.0. I did a deja-news search and someone reported that the menus would revert if you installed a new RPM file. That makes sense, kmenus doubles as an index of programs installed through rpm. You can add stuff, but if you delete anything it gets restored when you log in again. So much for your "personal" menu. I guess the best course is to put personal items on the panel. There will be a new version of KDE in 7.2 apparently, I'm looking forward to that. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] modem configuration
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I have a Modem Blaster Flash 56 II ISA. (DI5601-1). I finally finished getting my sb-sound card working and now I would like to tackle this modem. It is not recognized by hardrake. Does anyone know how to set this up from a command line. Mine isn't recognized either... but it works perfectly. I use kppp to connect and i suppose that setting the right com port and initialization strings it will work fine... -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Opera web browser
Dennis Myers escribió: Well, I don't understand the problem, cause everything mentioned on the list here I have checked or tried and I still get the different architecture message with the rpm Since you've got an executable in the tarball in my opinion it's not very important... i just hate to compile a package because if i later don't want it in my system it's harder to remove ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Opera web browser
"D.M. Mattix (Mike)" escribió: use the uname command 'uname -m' . This will give you the machine hardware type. I got the same message also and also had the tarball install with no problem. I do not know the details of rpm building but I wonder if you can build one that checks the machine hardware type and not install if it is not what is is looking for (Mine BTW is i686 and the package would not install with rpm v3.0.4) #uname -m Linux QuiniPC.Quini 2.2.16-9mdk #1 sáb oct 7 18:44:46 CEST 2000 i586 unknown It's a K6-III-400... and it detects it fine when booting 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Licq 1.0, Pan0.9?
Jon Doe escribió: Licq 1.0 no clue whats going on there, installed fine but won't start can't start plugin qt gui. Any ideas? Licq 0.85 is working fine -some bugs-... where have you found licq 1.0 ?? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
No, so far just you. Well, thanks for letting me know. I've recently switched to Pine and it sounds like I've got something set up incorrectly. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Problem with WINE
Greg Stewart wrote: Um... aren't there better versions of solitaire and other card games out for linux? A search on http://freshmeat.net returns tons of them. Maybe it would pay to improve the quality of the game, and at the same time you can just avoid the problems of a windows app? Greg/Ronin the Amusments-Cards menu in mdk 7.1 there ar 4 solitaire programs, FreeCell, Patience, PySOL, and xpat2.
Re: [newbie] Opera web browser
Since you've got an executable in the tarball in my opinion it's not very important... i just hate to compile a package because if i later don't want it in my system it's harder to remove ;-) This is exactly why I prefer tarballs. I open and compile them in a directory in my local user space. I can generally execute it from there as well. This approach serves two purposes for me. First, I can quickly look at something and then just delete the directory. Also, for small utility programs I just move them to "mybin" which is on my path and when I upgrade the OS they're not eliminated even if I do a clean install. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] hola
Mira en esta pagina veras la solucion que ahora no recuerdo http://nlpagan.net/linux.htm mamaya escribió: tengo un problema original mente tenia 64MB de RAM cuando agregue otro dimm de 64MB linux solo me reconoce 64MB que hago procesador k6-2 500 mhz 128 RAM linux mandrake 7.1 thanx
[newbie] netscape6 wont search
i downloaded netscape6 prev3 and everything worked ok. something happened to it and now it wont let anything put into a search egine send back to search, both the return and search buttons on the shearch site do nothing.. if i go online as root and run netscape it works fine.. i then remamed the netscape stuff in home/user to -old and copied the root version over and changed permissions to the user...but it still wont work.. can anyone help plz
Re: [newbie] Licq 1.0, Pan0.9?
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: Jon Doe escribió: Licq 1.0 no clue whats going on there, installed fine but won't start can't start plugin qt gui. Any ideas? Licq 0.85 is working fine -some bugs-... where have you found licq 1.0 ?? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 I found it at RPMfind.net and it is also on cooker.
Re: [newbie] Licq 1.0, Pan0.9?
www.licq.org - Original Message - From: "Joan Tur" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Licq 1.0, Pan0.9? Jon Doe escribió: Licq 1.0 no clue whats going on there, installed fine but won't start can't start plugin qt gui. Any ideas? Licq 0.85 is working fine -some bugs-... where have you found licq 1.0 ?? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] netscape6 wont search
Try deleting the given users settings. If it is like the main Mozilla tree then they are under the users .mozilla dir. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, David wrote: i downloaded netscape6 prev3 and everything worked ok. something happened to it and now it wont let anything put into a search egine send back to search, both the return and search buttons on the shearch site do nothing.. if i go online as root and run netscape it works fine.. i then remamed the netscape stuff in home/user to -old and copied the root version over and changed permissions to the user...but it still wont work.. can anyone help plz
Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps
John Rye wrote: Greg Stewart wrote: Portsentry usually adds the offending host IP to the route tables, but this isn't always the best option anymore. you can change the KILL_ROUTE command in /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry.conf to the following and it will add the host IP to your ipchains rules (if you're using ipchains--which, really, you should be): KILL_ROUTE="/sbin/ipchains -I input -s $TARGET$ -j DENY" If you still want these probes logged, add "-l" (lower-case "L") to the line before the last quotation mark.With this rule added to your ipchains, all hits from that host will be dropped regardless of type. Hopefully portsentry is not the only protection you have against intruders. It's a great utility, but not complete enough on it's own to rely on. I'm well protected.. using ipchains, I already have your suggestion setup. It was more a question of whether one should attempt to 'deal to' the offender. I used to be continually probed when I used ICQ and Jammer on that other opsys, and had some good results by attacking the source-site owner, but those were not of this type. ?? What/why would a socks proxy port port be probed ?? Suggestions and further discussion might be useful to other list members. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Some IRCd's check for open socks servers
Re: [newbie] Modem
Peter Rodrigues wrote: Everytime I try o connect to the net, it says 'modem is busy'. What can I do to resolve this? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Your modem is conflicting with some other device. How is it set up - what address and irq are you using? You really need to supply this information so's we can help you solve it. Are you dual boot? Does it operate correctly with the other opsys? What type (make and model) of modem is it? Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps
Greg Stewart wrote: ?? What/why would a socks proxy port port be probed ?? Socks is a network proxy protocol used to provide NAT access for one section of a network to another. It is possible that the machine from which the packets came is hitting you or everyone (I haven't seen your packet log entry, so I can't decipher it) in an attempt to detect its proxy. This probably indicates a mis-configured machine on your segment of your ISP's network, or that is less than a certain number of hops distance from your machine so that the packets do not time out before getting to you. Socks and DNS, even DHCP hits on your machine usually don't pose a threat at all. It's just that someone seems not to know what they're doing--most often on Windows machines. Check to see (or include the packet log entry) that the destination is 255.255.255.255, or "broadcast". If this is so, then it's definitely not an attack. If otherwise, I would guess it's a mis-configuration. Thanks Greg. Yes it does seem to be mis-config. There is no consistancy in the source IPs and the entry does show up as 'broadcast' as well. My curiousity was in that all the other probes have been pretty obvious as to what they were - these just seemed a bit different. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] MS optical mouse works better in Linux than in NT!
My MS Intellimouse gave up on me. Despite a lot cleaning, etc, the buttons were getting stuck and causing me to either have to click more than once to get a click or one click would act as a double click. So with trepidation I bought a MS optical Intellimouse, worried as to whether it would work in Linux. The 2 buttons and the scroll button worked perfectly in Linux with no changes in my configuration, BUT the scroll button did not work in NT untill I installed the "special software". I thought that was really funny. :-)) Does anyone know if the additional side buttons (forward and back on the web) also work in linux? I have not yet tried them as I hurried to share this with the group. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps
If you do a whois on the network IP's and can actually resolve some owner of the network to which these IP's belong, you might drop them a note about their clients' broadcasting...if they belong to your ISP's subscribers, contact your technical support. You won't necessarily get anything done, but at least they will be aware of the issue. --Greg - Original Message - From: "John Rye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Greg. Yes it does seem to be mis-config. There is no consistancy in the source IPs and the entry does show up as 'broadcast' as well. My curiousity was in that all the other probes have been pretty obvious as to what they were - these just seemed a bit different. Cheers __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [[newbie] wp8]
Lance: I was able to clear up the problem by changing the video color depth from 24 bit to 32 bit. The tip came from a WordPerfect 8 user group which I found through: http://linux.corel.com/support/wp8_linux.htm HTH Regards - - Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have this problem? The buttons for word perfect, the linux version, will not show up. They are there, you can click on them, but the all look like a garbled mess. Any help would be appriciated. ~Lance
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[newbie] Email server suggestions
Hello, I am currently running hawkeye to do my web page server and email server stuff. I would like to switch to Apache for the web stuff but an unable to find any info for programs to do pop mail for me. Do any of you have suggestions? Thanks Eric
Re: [newbie] ChangingAlias in Webmin creates Error 13
Hi Roman, I believe this is a small bug in Webmin. If you're able to see the alias in the list after the operation it's appears that everything is working ok. I've gotten the same error on my system already and the alias that I created is working just fine. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 7:53pm ,Romanator spake passionately in a message: Hi everybody, Every time I try to change an alias, the following message appears: Failed to save alias : Failed to regenerate table /etc/postfix/aliases: 13 But, when I log back in to Webmin, I can see the new entry. Is this is a bug? Has any one else been experienced this?
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA's drivers gone?
Your brother hased missed something, they are where NVidia has always had them. www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html -- Original Message -- From: "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:05:00 -0400 My younger brother just told me that the Linux driver section from their official web site is *gone*. Is this right? Has something happened, or did my brother just miss something somewhere? I've not seen any announcements along those lines... -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Linux version of Arachnophilia?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is a real nice program that reminds me a great deal of Allaire's Homesite and that is a program called Quanta. I can't remember where I found the program but it does everything you're talking about and it's light and fast. And fairly configurable as Linux HTML apps go. Also free! If you can't find it email me and I'll upload it to my server and you can download it from there. - -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:57am ,Larry Marshall spake passionately in a message: Actually both Bluefish and glimmer seem fine for my purposes. What I miss from Arachnophilia is the ability it had of instantly seeing on its "built in browser" the effect of the code I write. That is an immediate update by This seems to exist in Coffee Cup for Windows but the Linux version still loads the stuff into Netscape. Like you, being able to quickly flip back and forth betwee code and display is worth its weight in gold...or at least silver. Cheers --- Larry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.2 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75 iQA/AwUBOeo+z3ul8fsyuUZCEQJTgwCfZGnTCUPJVCtkUiOYI3oNIOJnfEAAnicW eOiTgaCBHhU0HzPqOvRdiAgG =VkkM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] netscape6 wont search
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: Try deleting the given users settings. If it is like the main Mozilla tree then they are under the users .mozilla dir. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, David wrote: i downloaded netscape6 prev3 and everything worked ok. something happened to it and now it wont let anything put into a search egine send back to search, both the return and search buttons on the shearch site do nothing.. if i go online as root and run netscape it works fine.. i then remamed the netscape stuff in home/user to -old and copied the root version over and changed permissions to the user...but it still wont work.. can anyone help plz thanks it worked infact after trying many variations in the .mozilla directory, copying from root and renaming etc. I found deleting the whole .mozilla directory was the answer (first rename as -old) as it is generated when netscape is booted up with all the files inside.. :-)
Re: [newbie] Opera Beta
Original Message On 10/14/00, 6:02:27 AM, Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Opera Beta: Is there anyone who's a Netscape fan (grin)? It still holds the title as being the only application capable of crashing my Linux system and it kills itself on a regular basis. What are the smart people using? While I haven't gotten Opera's rpms to open up, finding out that it's not an open source product has cooled my thoughts of using it. Is there life without Nutscape? Cheers --- Larry Just back from a mini-vacation and muddling through tons of email giggle and felt the need to answer this. I guess you could say that I am a Netscape fan -- I use Netscape 4.75 with Mandrake 7.1 on a DSL (yes I have an excellent firewall ;-) ) and only when I am doing about 10,000 things at once does it freeze up on me and not nearly as often as when I used it on Windoze. I work from home for a dot com company and having a good browser is essential -- unfortunately I can only use Netscape or IE when accessing them to enter my info so I am kind of stuck -- Mozilla didn't work with them and I haven't tried Opera yet but am certainly willing to give it a try. I also use the Star Office browser which is pretty good too -- not for work sigh but for my browsing needs. Have a wonderful day :-) Patti -- Registered Linux user #186411
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
Larry: It's my feeling that there is some kind of randomizer running within the list server is responsible for the famous duplicate messages. If it makes you feel any better, I don't recall getting any of your messages more than once, but tonight I've gotten several of them from Dennis Veatch (among others). Therefore, it would seem that the randomizer selects some messages from some posters and sends them to some list members. When I first joined, the duplicate messages really annoyed me, and I thought about posting a suggestion that some of these folks should give serious thought to cutting down on the coffee. Later, however, I learned to accept it as part of the charm of Mandrake Linux. Persons unlike me; i.e. those who either have a life, or pay by the byte, may not feel as charitable. Regards, -- Carroll Larry Marshall wrote: No, so far just you. Well, thanks for letting me know. I've recently switched to Pine and it sounds like I've got something set up incorrectly. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Vacation - offtime
Original Message On 10/15/00, 10:18:39 AM, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Vacation - offtime: It was Oct 15, 2000, 09:54, when Greg Stewart keyboarded: Why come here? Aren't there better places to visit? :-) --Greg I'm invited for a wedding :) Paul -- HASTE CUISINE Fast French food. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- AND IT IS NOT MY WEDDING -- ROFLMAO -- PAUL I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WILL GET THIS BEFORE YOU LEAVE, due to the time difference, BUT IF YOU DO WE CAN'T WAIT FOR THE CALL AND GETTING TOGETHER WITH YOU. ALAN, I STILL HAVE YOUR NUMBER SO WHEN I HEAR FROM PAUL I'LL GIVE YOU A CALL OKAY??? Patti
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
Knock on wood but I am not getting double messages from anyone!! Sure hope this doesn't change now that I've said this giggle Patti -- Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 10/15/00, 10:59:59 AM, Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE: Larry, I keep getting double messages from you. I keep getting double msgs of everything :-) I was beginning to think, however, that this had to do with local filtering of inbound msgs but maybe not. Are you not getting dupes from anyone else? Lots of people have complained about that here. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] ChangingAlias in Webmin creates Error 13
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Roman, I believe this is a small bug in Webmin. If you're able to see the alias in the list after the operation it's appears that everything is working ok. I've gotten the same error on my system already and the alias that I created is working just fine. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 7:53pm ,Romanator spake passionately in a message: Hi everybody, Every time I try to change an alias, the following message appears: Failed to save alias : Failed to regenerate table /etc/postfix/aliases: 13 But, when I log back in to Webmin, I can see the new entry. Is this is a bug? Has any one else been experienced this? Hey Mark, I thought it was me and my Linux box. Thanks for pointing this out. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Linux version of Arachnophilia?
There is a real nice program that reminds me a great deal of Allaire's Homesite and that is a program called Quanta. I can't remember where I Since I'm a registered, card-carrying fan of Homesite, you've answered the call Mark. Thanks a bunch. For others who are interested, I just did a search and came up with http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ I can't say anything about the program beyond what Mark has said as the download is happening as I write this :-) Thanks again Mark. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] modem configuration
In a message dated Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:16:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Modem Blaster Flash 56 II ISA. (DI5601-1). I finally finished getting my sb-sound card working and now I would like to tackle this modem. It is not recognized by hardrake. Does anyone know how to set this up from a command line. Also how do get to the command line without the terminal window? Does it make a difference -- like DOS thru windows and real DOS? First Question - What kind of modem? Does it operate via windows? More detail... Second part - 'Linux 3' given at the lilo command prompt at startup or 'telenit 3' as su from a console window (without the quotes) -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) ADDITIONAL MODEM INFO: COM 3 IRQ 9 I/O: 03E8H-03EFH
[newbie] Installation and use with two hard drives
I've had some troubleusing Mandrake 7.0 Complete on my 166Mhz Pentium PC clone that is strictly a home use computer. I have successfully installed linux, but have been unable to get the use of all my hard drive space because I don't understand how to access the other hard drive, nor do I understand file structures very well. I have a 1.5G hard drive that is the master, and to accomodate Linux and further windows expansion, I purchased and installed a 15G hard drive as the slave. I currently have about 900M of windows programs on the master, and less than 100M of windows programs on the slave. I originally installed Linux after first partitioning both drives so that each had about 50% of its capacity devoted to linux, and 50% to windows. I installed linux and specified the mount point for hda3 as "/" and the mount point for hdb3 as "/usr". I chose "/usr" because the documentation stated, "this was the big one." Now I'm thinking that might be "the big one" in an office or workplace environment, but not for my case because I'm the only user on my computer. Anyway, things were going along smoothly until I tried to install StarOffice. I ran out of space. I didn't know how to specify that StarOffice should be installed on hdb, and I wasn't sure with my chosen mount point for hdb, "/usr", how this would affect the installation of StarOffice on that drive. Following this, I removed Linux and repartitioned the hard drives, putting one big Linux partition on hdb. During the installation process I got a message that the partition was beyond sector 1064 and therefore /boot was going to be in the wrong place, and therefore I needed to specify a boot sector so that /boot could reside in some sector below 1064 where it apparently belongs. So, how can I add linux to my system and have plenty of drive space for additional linux and windows applications? Thanks, and keep it simple for me please. I'm easily overwhelmed with this stuff... Jon
Re: [newbie] modem configuration
I will give it a shot; any suggestions on ISP's friendly to linux. Thank you. In a message dated Sun, 15 Oct 2000 3:00:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I have a Modem Blaster Flash 56 II ISA. (DI5601-1). I finally finished getting my sb-sound card working and now I would like to tackle this modem. It is not recognized by hardrake. Does anyone know how to set this up from a command line. Mine isn't recognized either... but it works perfectly. I use kppp to connect and i suppose that setting the right com port and initialization strings it will work fine... -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Opera web browser
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Joan Tur wrote: Dennis Myers escribió: Well, I don't understand the problem, cause everything mentioned on the list here I have checked or tried and I still get the different architecture message with the rpm Since you've got an executable in the tarball in my opinion it's not very important... i just hate to compile a package because if i later don't want it in my system it's harder to remove ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Luckily from what I could see it just sets up an application. The litter seems to be limited to the README, LICENSE, install.sh, and the application. -- D.M.(Mike) Mattix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Opera Beta
and felt the need to answer this. I guess you could say that I am a Netscape fan -- I use Netscape 4.75 with Mandrake 7.1 on a DSL (yes I have an Did you find the 4.73 -4.75 upgrade to be worth the effort? excellent firewall ;-) ) and only when I am doing about 10,000 things at once does it freeze up on me and not nearly as often as when I used it on Windoze. Well...when the operating system helps :-) my info so I am kind of stuck -- Mozilla didn't work with them and I haven't I've been using Mozilla M18 tonight and while it hasn't crashed, it's a bit sluggish at times. Haven't played with it enough to evaluate yet. It certainly looks like it's got potential but it also shows its Netscape roots. Whether that's good or bad is a personal thing I suppose. tried Opera yet but am certainly willing to give it a try. Well...I'm in love with the way Opera lets me manage/access bookmarks. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to wait until it gets a bit farther into the beta stream as it dies (gracefully) WAY too often and some things just don't seem to work as they obviously should. Lots of potential here though. I also use the Star Office browser which is pretty good too -- not for work sigh but for my browsing needs. that I never did. I was so discouraged by the _do it all in one place_ "feature" of Star Office that I've dumped it. Have a wonderful day :-) You too Patti...welcome back. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
It's my feeling that there is some kind of randomizer running within the list server is responsible for the famous duplicate messages. If it I haven't heard of such things. Is this done for "fun?" makes you feel any better, I don't recall getting any of your messages more than once, but tonight I've gotten several of them from Dennis I do think that I've sent some dups that would show up for the person I was responding to as my transition to Pine has had me saying yes to "reply to all" which is sending a copy to the person as well to the list. Anyone who filters this list using the [newbie] in the subject would see two copies in their newbie folder. When I first joined, the duplicate messages really annoyed me, and I thought about posting a suggestion that some of these folks should give serious thought to cutting down on the coffee. Later, however, I learned Lately it's been a real problem for me as I've been seeing (and I may be generating them) dups on everything. Strangely, it all stopped this afternoon for some reason. to accept it as part of the charm of Mandrake Linux. Persons unlike me; This may be the way the list is setup up or the way mailers are set up, but that we can blame Linux for this one. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Opera Beta
Gecko engine. Personlly I'm going to by-pass Netscape 6 all togther and when MoZilla is ready I'm going to use it. It's much nicer than Netscape 4.7x and superior to Netscape 6. They're using the same base code but the Mark...maybe I've got blinders on but what is "much nicer than Netscape 4.7x"? To me it seems JUST like Netscape in function. Speaking of which, is it just my lack of imagination or has Mozilla gone backwards in how it lets you handle getting a new URL into your bookmarks? Like Nutscape you can't change the name of it but unlike Nutscape it doesn't seem to even let you target a folder to hold it. Am I missing something? I have to agree with you about Opera though. It's clear that it's an early beta and not a tool to depend on yet. Cheers --- Larry
