[newbie-it] c++
ciao...rieccomi, sto cercando di capire come si installa e si compila un software...ho seguito alla lettera quello che dice il manuale di mandr7.1: ho copiato nella directory /usr/local/src il file che mi interessava *.tar.gz, ho lanciato il comando tar...mi si è liberata una manciata di files...fino a questo punto tutto ok...poi ho iniziato la configurazione, ho lanciato il comando ./configure e che mi esce fuori? checking for c++...no checking for g++...no checking for gcc...no checking for CC...no checking for cxx...no checking for cc++...no checking whether the c++ compiler (gcc) works...no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: c++ compiler cannot create executables come mi devo comportare? grazie per l'attenzione ciao, osva
[newbie-it] permessi...
salve! il manuale mandrake 7.1 (compilazione e installazione di software libero) mi consiglia, per sicurezza, di creare un utente dedicato a compiti amministrativi (ad es. admin) che si occupi dell'installazione del software...e che abbia permesso di scrittura in /usr/local/src /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib /usr/man ho creato admin, ma non riesco a scrivere nelle directory appena elencate (a meno che non lo faccia da root)...il problema è semplice: come faccio a dare questi permessi all'user "admin"? grazie mille per la pazienza, osva
[newbie] There's no sound in 7.2
Hi everybody. I just installed the latest greatist Mandrake of them all--- 7.2.However, there's one problem I am having is that there is no sounds and the aumix is inoperable. Harddrake has detected the soundcard but is unable to produce a midi sound. Did a sndconfig, it says that it's unsupported at this time. I have had sounds in 7.1 but not in this one. Probably a bug that never got paid attention. I have a Cirrus Logic CrystalClear SoundFusion CS4614/22/24. Anyone have any suggestion on where to go to get it up and running like it did in 7.1? Rob
Re: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?
Michael, I was working with another list member for about a week trying everything possible, short of reinstallation, and nothing worked...ulimately this person decided to format the damned hard drive and start over--and, wadda' know? I worked! I haven't a clue what the error was on his machine, but for the life of me I simply couldn't come up with any more tricks. If you don't have anything more than a little installation time invested in your current setup, you might want to give that format reinstall a try. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Michael J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a DSL line at home. Tried setting up a new machine (ASUS P5A w/ onboard audio, AMD K6-2/400, 32MB, 8G disk, S3 video, 3Com 3C905B ethernet adapter, Cisco 675 DSL box) with the "development" option on Mandrake 7.1 (the main "installation" CD only, downloaded from the Old Dominion University mirror in Virginia late last week). The distribution determined the correct ethernet card type, asked for an IP, the gateway IP, primary DNS, and the netmask. I gave it correct values (verified by a coworker whose home machine setup is similar). Nothing happens when I try to get outside the box. I have tried pinging the gateway IP, as well as telnetting out to known addresses for my ISP. The little yellow lights on the DSL doohickey don't flash under any circumstance, although the green lights all do. I have tried swapping the card with one in my Win95 machine, and both cards work under Win95, but neither works under 7.1 Any ideas? At this point I am assuming it is a driver problem. Is the 3C905 driver known to work under 7.1? I remember that Caldera didn't support this card in one of their releases about six months ago. Thanks, Michael __ 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
[newbie] Security Question and SCSI Tape Utilities
Hi All, As I'm sure you all know I'm fairly new to Linux and I have a couple of simple questions. First - I've installed Mandrake 7.1 on a compaq ML370 using the high security option. The only thing I cannot do is telnet to the server from a different machine and log in as root, it establishes connection, but I cannot log in as root. I've checked /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny and they allow everything in (otherwise I could not connect...), and I've looked at the files in /etc/security and they seem to be fine. All of the lines in /etc/security/access.conf are commented out, so I assume that root should be allowed to telnet in. I must be missing something very basic! Second - the above server is used as a device server for a tape drive for our backup system, but when I installed Mandrake 7.1 the SCSI tape utilities (mt, stinint...) were not installed and nor were the man pages. Does anybody know what rpm they're in? Thanks in advance! Alan
[newbie] 7.2 Network Install Problem
I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 from a network install. I installed 7.1 before with no problem through my cable modem. I get to the installing packages and it goes on to install, but sometime later I get a error window popup saying "An error occurred. Died". What can I do? I tried several times and I get the same thing. Please help. Thanks _ 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] Quantum hard drives
By "failed" I mean it physically broke. After 2 years of use, the drive failed for the first time. My distributor sent me a new one (after about 4 months waiting!), and this one failed after only a few months. In the lead-up to the failure I had many bad blocks cropping up. It made clunky and high-pitched scratchy noises. It sounded as if the drive arm could not keep itself up and it kept falling down, scraping something in the process. My third drive appears to be working fine after a few months of use, but I'm being cautious... On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:35, Jeff wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, you wrote: That's funny... My 12GB Bigfoot TX drive has failed on me *twice* this year, taking a lot of data with it (although I was more prepared the second time round). Fortunately, I am under warranty until June 2001. On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:18, Jeff wrote: On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote: Hello list Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb) Quantum ide drives with Mandrake 7.1 and above? Iv'e been using a Quantum bigfoot 12.7 gig hd since Slackware 3.5 till Mandrake 7.2 (now). Never had any problems. At one point it booted Win98, BeOS, Slack 7, and Mandrake 7.0. Besides being a tight fit it all worked well for me. Now it's just running 7.2 beta (a few package revisions short of official) and all is well. Hope this helps you. When you say failed do you mean the drive just quit working? I havent had anything like that happen to me (same drive) and my drive is around 2 years old. I dont think it would make a difference but this drive came factory with an hp pc. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
Re: [newbie] L-M 7.2 availible for purchase on CD?
On Monday 30 October 2000 04:34 pm, you wrote: Anyone know when Linux-Mandrake 7.2 will be availible for purchase online on CD? I only have a 28.8 connection and I did download both 7.1 ISO's...took 6 days and I'm not really in the mood for that again. I would just as soon buy it on CD online. http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart is the only place i've seen it so far. FWIW, I'd spend the extra $3 to get the cd-r's. I've had trouble before with their production CD's, and I suspect you'll get the cd-r's quicker. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?
Michael, You should first make sure that your card is logically up. You can do this by sending it the ifup eth0 command. Then make sure you can ping you own ip address. If you can ping your own ip address then try your dns server. Also you have not mentioned setting up your default route so make sure you set it up also. Thomas Stewart -Original Message- From: Greg Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1? Michael, I was working with another list member for about a week trying everything possible, short of reinstallation, and nothing worked...ulimately this person decided to format the damned hard drive and start over--and, wadda' know? I worked! I haven't a clue what the error was on his machine, but for the life of me I simply couldn't come up with any more tricks. If you don't have anything more than a little installation time invested in your current setup, you might want to give that format reinstall a try. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Michael J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a DSL line at home. Tried setting up a new machine (ASUS P5A w/ onboard audio, AMD K6-2/400, 32MB, 8G disk, S3 video, 3Com 3C905B ethernet adapter, Cisco 675 DSL box) with the "development" option on Mandrake 7.1 (the main "installation" CD only, downloaded from the Old Dominion University mirror in Virginia late last week). The distribution determined the correct ethernet card type, asked for an IP, the gateway IP, primary DNS, and the netmask. I gave it correct values (verified by a coworker whose home machine setup is similar). Nothing happens when I try to get outside the box. I have tried pinging the gateway IP, as well as telnetting out to known addresses for my ISP. The little yellow lights on the DSL doohickey don't flash under any circumstance, although the green lights all do. I have tried swapping the card with one in my Win95 machine, and both cards work under Win95, but neither works under 7.1 Any ideas? At this point I am assuming it is a driver problem. Is the 3C905 driver known to work under 7.1? I remember that Caldera didn't support this card in one of their releases about six months ago. Thanks, Michael __ 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
[newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] StarCraft: slow under Wine but...
Joan Tur wrote: It doesn't work fine; i've got a 640x480 desktop, game plays quicker than before but... i cannot see the whole screen (a part is not being displayed at the bottom side) 8-? Hmm. Maybe adjust your monitor settings? (I know that seems pretty obvious but its all I can think of right now). ;-( Once I set up a seperate XF86Config file with *nothing* but 640x480 and 8-bit color, it worked fine here... Wish I could help more! -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie]
How can I get removed from this posting. You guys are great and so helpful, but my mailbox gets lockedup because I can't get to the emails quickly enough. Thanx Tim From: "Jason Jesso" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] test Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:26:26 EST test _ 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. _ 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] Thanks!
Thanks everyone who's tried to help me find an ISP provider. I tried to respond to the 2 people who suggested Mindspring. Unfortunately for some bizarre reason, both of my responses were kicked back to me saying I had used a "no no" phrase and therefore the posts would not appear. Have no idea what that means and I'm not aware of having written any atrocities. Running a non-profit organization I don't have time to try to worry about every single word I write. I would appreciate more info on using Mindspring from you guys who know about it. If you'd be willing to offer further help, please contact me directly. Thanks again. Debby Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Thanks!
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 10:25 am, you wrote: Thanks everyone who's tried to help me find an ISP provider. I tried to respond to the 2 people who suggested Mindspring. Unfortunately for some bizarre reason, both of my responses were kicked back to me saying I had used a "no no" phrase and therefore the posts would not appear. I suspect the list maintainer has set it up to kick out certain words like sub$cribe (with an s for the $) to spare us from all the clueless 'how do I un sub$cribe' messages. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] 7.2 Network Install
Hi: I am having a problem installing 7.2 from the network. It starts to install packages but I get an error after some time saying: "An error occurred. Died." I installed 7.1 this way with no problem. I tried this several times and I get the same thing error. Can anybody help? _ 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] test
well, Test right at back you buddy. Sorry, I know you don't know me but I just had to say that. Hope you understand From: "Jason Jesso" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] test Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:26:26 EST test _ 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. _ 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] Changing colors.
Hello all, I feel a bit embarassed asking this question but here goes... I am using MDK 7.0 and I was able to install and log in using both the root account and my user account. I use KDE as my environment. How do I change the screen colors for my user account? I am able to change the colors for the root account so I assume this is a security problem (do I need to change rights to a setup file to allow writing? which file?). I chose to use mid-level security during the install. I also discovered that I was able to change the wallpaper. Any ideas? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] test
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[newbie] Internet in the UK
Has anyone managed to setup a connection to freeserve in the UK? I have managed to setup the PPP correctly-ish. It connects to the server however, i get no server found when trying to goto sites. I think that the problem is that i have no DNS listed in the PPP properties, the problem is that i don't know the IP address of the DNS which freeserve uses. Can anyone tell me, or give me the IP address of a different DNS which i could use, (i am under the impression that any valid DNS will do, is this so?) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jamie _ 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] sendmail
I have enabled pop3 in my inetd.conf as well as have enabled fetchmail on boot up to no avail. the error I get when trying to pick up my mail on outlook express is Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'cr705621-a', Server: 'cr705621-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F No the email is not set to ssl and either is the sendmail I'm really lost any help would be great!!! Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] CD-RW Drive Question
--- James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:59 PM 10/30/00 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone know of a CD-RW Drive that works well with Linux? If so, please make some recommendation's. Thank you, Thomas E. Fink As someone who has sold the stuff for many years. I think Plexwriter is the best name in BURNERS.. if your wanting to get something for the long haul with the least amount of conflicts and hassles I would go Plexwriter. James Schofield I would've recommended Plextor too up until a couple of months ago, but I keep seeing comments on comp.publish.cdrom.hardware and on an ISP-local newsgroup about problems with them now. And to top it off, my Plex 32xCSI CD-ROM drive just shredded its mechanism, which also seems to have fried its electronics, after about five months of VERY light usage. I think their quality control slipped in the last six months to a year or so. My older PlexWriter has been working fine, it's the stuff they were making more recently that seems to be croaking. Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Registering as a Linux User?
How or Where do you register as a Linux user? James Boeck _ 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] Anybody know if a driver for the HP Deskjet 722C is in the works, or exists under another version of Linux besides Mandrake?
Would it work if you just set it up as a postscript printer. At 04:57 PM 10/30/2000 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I e-mailed to ask how to set up my HP DeskJet 722C under Mandrake 7.1 because I couldn't get it to work under any other drivers. I got a response (thank you!) saying that a driver doesn't exist because it uses a different communication protocol than other printers. Does anyone know if there is a driver in the works or existent in any other version of Linux? I switched to Linux because I was tired of losing time due to crashes when I was doing homework, but Linux is then no good to me if I can't print anything up! Thank you again! -Dan Squashman dit, embrasse mon fesse.
Re: [newbie] sendmail
use your ip address for the server in your outlook not your domain it works on mine - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 9:56 AM Subject: [newbie] sendmail I have enabled pop3 in my inetd.conf as well as have enabled fetchmail on boot up to no avail. the error I get when trying to pick up my mail on outlook express is Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'cr705621-a', Server: 'cr705621-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F No the email is not set to ssl and either is the sendmail I'm really lost any help would be great!!! Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] Internet in the UK
Do you have windows? For some weird reason windows can auto-detect the DNS while linux cannot. Can anyone explain this? Connect under windows. Now you must run c:\windows\winipcfg.exe. Click More Info and there will be a field containing the ips for the DNS servers. - Original Message - From: "Jamie Kerwick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Internet in the UK Has anyone managed to setup a connection to freeserve in the UK? I have managed to setup the PPP correctly-ish. It connects to the server however, i get no server found when trying to goto sites. I think that the problem is that i have no DNS listed in the PPP properties, the problem is that i don't know the IP address of the DNS which freeserve uses. Can anyone tell me, or give me the IP address of a different DNS which i could use, (i am under the impression that any valid DNS will do, is this so?) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jamie _ 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] Internet in the UK
Hello Jamie, Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 5:38:37 PM, you wrote: JK Has anyone managed to setup a connection to freeserve in the UK? I have JK managed to setup the PPP correctly-ish. It connects to the server however, i JK get no server found when trying to goto sites. I think that the problem is JK that i have no DNS listed in the PPP properties, the problem is that i don't JK know the IP address of the DNS which freeserve uses. Can anyone tell me, or JK give me the IP address of a different DNS which i could use, (i am under JK the impression that any valid DNS will do, is this so?) JK Any help would be greatly appreciated. JK Jamie JK _ From the Freeserve website help: 195.92.195.94 195.92.195.95 HTH -- Best regards, Nickmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 04:22, you wrote: I just use Adaptec Easy CD Creator. Just make sure the filesystem under File is ISO9660. then go to your iso image file and just double click on it and it will automatically detect it as an ISO image, it will then ask you a couple of question, and finally, burn the image on the CD for you. Very simple and straightforward if you have the Adaptec Easy CD Creator. What program will you be using to burn the cd. Charles - Original Message - From: Julio C. Gutierrez To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:32 AM Subject: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows Does anyone of you know how I can burn an ISO image in windows and make the cd bootable? Yuor help will be really appreciated Thank you!! Julio Gutierrez Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] KDE2 and sound
Hey all, I installed 7.2 on Sunday night and so far I am very impressed. I am having a few problems though that hopefully someone can help me with. 1. When I try to configure my soundcard I get the following error: Error in modprobe call! /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cmpci.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cmpci.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cmpci.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cmpci.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed I was getting the same error with 7.1 but I was able to configure Windows Sound System then. But this is not an option (at least one that I can find) in 7.2. My soundcard is CMD8338 C3D Audio. 2. How can I move my taskbar (under KDE2) from the panel to the top of the screen. I can't seem to find anywhere to change this option. Is there someway to do this by editing some config files? Thanks in advance SC
Re: [newbie] Internet in the UK
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, you wrote: I think that the problem is that i have no DNS listed in the PPP properties, the problem is that i don't know the IP address of the DNS which freeserve uses. Can anyone tell me, or give me the IP address of a different DNS which i could use, (i am under the impression that any valid DNS will do, is this so?) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jamie Hi Jamie, I've pinged www.freeserve.co.uk and received the IP address: 195.92.249.48 Try it out and see. Anyother Ip addresses for sites that you may wish to know can be found using the ping command in a terminal. ie: ping www.freeserve.co.uk Andrew
RE: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
Has someone ported the VB stuff to linux yet? -Original Message-From: Javier Marcon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:15 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes Could somebody tell me where can I get Visual Basic and Clipper compilers (for Linux),to make programs in these languajes.
Re: [newbie] VMWare: Is 96 M memory really sufficient ?
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, duncan wrote: Have been assured that it will run slw if win 98 Can be speeded up if you run win 98 lite and is quicker if you run NT or 2000. What aboput Windows 3.1 ? What I need to run are some old legacy apps ;-( TIA, Ron the Frog, sweltering on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Password
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a little bug in lillo and grub you have to add the line in lillo mem: 128mb i think thats how it goes im sure someone will correct me, for some reason lillo and grub will not detect over 64mb so this line was added to help correct the reporting feature to the linux kernel on bootup, when i get my new laptop i will also have to implement this because of the added ram. once you implement this into your config things should run alot smoother for you Could not find anything on the syntax to use in the grub man page. Do you know where I could find more specific on the syntax to use for Grub ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Registering as a Linux User?
http://counter.li.org/ How or Where do you register as a Linux user? James Boeck -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] question about mandrake probs..
Help!!! Okay, I just downloaded and installed Mandrake 7.2, but a problem quickly arose. I have no access to any of my drives except my zip (/dev/hdb4). My floppy drive, my DVD, and my CD-Writer don't work. When I go to open them I get a message telling me something about not having read/write priveleges for the device. This does it in root as well. How do I overcome this? Help me!!! Thanks in advance, Joe.
[newbie] 2nd question - file permissions
okie this file permissions thing is starting to bug me. first - am i correct that a directory must be executable for it to be opened? i have linux/windows duel boot. i am a writer photographer right now i have a whole bunch of word processor files image files on a fat32 drive called "data" as in /mnt/data. so, i copyed from data to my home. i believe i used the command cp -R /mnt/data /home/skippi or something like that. result was, i ended up with /home/skippi/data and in that directory was everything on the fat32 drive "data" problem. i couldn't rename or delete anything. i noticed that all these files were owned by root. why so i did chown skippi -R data ok, now they all say skippi owns them. i did then chmod 666 -R data now a file shows something like this when doing ls -l -rw-rw-rw- 10 skippi skippi 71034 Oct 24 19:222 file_name first question, what does the "10" mean? now at this point, as skippi, i could not enter any of these directories, but as root i could. why then i did chmod 766 -R data now, as skippi i can enter the directories, but now all the files are marked as executables, which they are not. arrggh help explinations please my linux book explains chmod chown pretty well as far as switches go, but assumes that one knows everything else. =) evidently i am missing some important information. oh, and how 'bout this. when i am skippi and i save a file to a fat32 drive, it becomes owned by root. why??? thanks much all next question coming soon Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] 3rd question - reading an audio CD
when i put an audio CD into my drive i can not access it, as in: cd /mnt/cdrom when i try to mount cdrom i get: already mounted acording to mtab. is this normal? can one not access an audio CD? if i fire up gtoaster and go to cdrom as if i were going to burn files, i can see all the tracks on the audio CD just fine there, so i know the hardware is working and such. thanks... standby for next question (i've been saving these up) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] question about mandrake probs..
I'm a very-newbie, but the command is kill and the Process IDentification argument is the number listed to the left of the offending process when you type "top". So, if the CPU hog was listed as process 17, you would type: kill 17 Someone correct me if I am leading this poor soul astray... -Carlton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] question about mandrake probs.. In a message dated 30-Oct-00 16:30:14 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kill the_PID_of_the_program i think you should find a better way of quoting commands because that just confuses me should i based on this type kill the_pid? or could it be kill pid believe it or not some people get lost if you post extra comments into the command string, and spend more time on trial and error
[newbie] 5th question - error on shutdown
at first i thought i caused this as at one point i wrecked havock on my 7.1 system, but when i did a clean install of 7.1 this shutdown error reappeared from the very start. starting killall /etc/rcid/rc6.d/s00 killall: /etc/rcid/init.d/fontfs: no such file or dirctory so evidently it is looking for a file /etc/rcid/init.d/fontfs which does not exist. is this a bad thing? should i have this file? what must i do about this one. thanks again. yes, one more qustion coming but an OT one =) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] 4th question - HP 500C printer
there has recently been some talk about printers on the list which actually told me some things i need to know (now to empty that bloody print que which has become my enemy). but does anyone have a HP 500C printer working with 7.1? my printer worked just fine with 7.0. but once i went to 7.1 -- nothing but garbage will come out of it. i'm going to try some of the things that came up here recently if printer still no work i'll be back to you. maybe it will fix under 7.2=) thanks 2 more on the way Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] question about mandrake probs..
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 05:10 pm, you wrote: I'm a very-newbie, but the command is kill and the Process IDentification argument is the number listed to the left of the offending process when you type "top". So, if the CPU hog was listed as process 17, you would type: kill 17 Someone correct me if I am leading this poor soul astray... -Carlton That's correct, but sometimes you need a bigger gun ; in that case use the 9 switch, type 'kill -9 pid' or in your ex. 'kill -9 17' from 'man kill', DESCRIPTION kill sends the specified signal to the specified process. If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is sent. The TERM signal will kill processes which do not catch this signal. For other processes, if may be necessary to use the KILL (9) signal, since this signal cannot be caught. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT
this came up the other day. someone told me that a SCSI hard drive is faster than an IDE hard drive. i have never used a SCSI drive in my life, so i don't know from experience. is this true?? thanks much no more questions for now Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
Consider: 1. Visual Basic is a Microsoft product. 2. VB has been developed for the express purpose of writing programs to run under Windows. 3. Microsoft is not a proponent of open source software (in spite of what that Russian guy thinks). 4. Linux has strong roots in the C language. 5. C (and its descendants) and Basic are totally different worlds (think cats and dogs). My guess would be that Visual Basic for Linux will occur on the day that hell freezes over and the sun rises in the west -- provided that they both happen on the same day. On the other hand, strange things do happen -- remember President Dewey. -- Carroll - Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:44 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes Has someone ported the VB stuff to linux yet? -Original Message- From: Javier Marcon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes Could somebody tell me where can I get Visual Basic and Clipper compilers (for Linux), to make programs in these languajes.
[newbie] 1st question -- CD burner crash burn
greetings all. first off, thanks to those of you who recomended CD burning programs for me. i'm playing around with those. i got two things regarding CD burning. i have been reading attempted to understand the man page for cdrecord. i have a CD drive build in (cdrom) and a SCSI burner (cdrom2). i was hoping there would be an easy way to copy a CD from the command line, such as cdrecord -duplicate cdrom cdrom2**i'm making up that switch you know** but as i look thru the pages it isn't that easy is it?? or is it?? am i missing anything here? next, i have burned a few CDs using gtoaster. i was burning one this weekend and went to fire up GIMP while doing that. short of the long, Linux did a windoze imitation. crashed burned big time. first gtoaster froze, then KFM, then eterm. ended up shutting down to reboot. do you think this was because i was trying to do too much at once? i burned CDs after this crash it was all good. my system is pretty low end. p2 - 250MHz - 60M ram (gotta upgrade ram next) also, had to turn off the power as i could not shut down normally. i kept getting the same error message over and over: unmounting file systems unmount2: device or resource busy unmount: /usr: device is busy SCSI host 0 abort (pid 5540) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is busy rest for host 0 channel 0 system appears to be just fine now - so this was just things freaking out because gtoaster crashed while using my CD burner yes? oh, i have no other SCSI devices. thanks for advice and tips. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] sendmail
Because this is your internal network. Goto your windows'95 /98 MsDos Prompt. Edit the hosts files at C:\windows Example : Edit hosts.sam Your Linux IP Address Your Linux Server Domain Name 192.168.0.1mail.linuxserver Make sure that you can Ping your linux server name. Best Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 11:56 PM Subject: [newbie] sendmail I have enabled pop3 in my inetd.conf as well as have enabled fetchmail on boot up to no avail. the error I get when trying to pick up my mail on outlook express is Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'cr705621-a', Server: 'cr705621-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F No the email is not set to ssl and either is the sendmail I'm really lost any help would be great!!! Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] 1st question -- CD burner crash burn
greetings all. first off, thanks to those of you who recomended CD burning programs for me. i'm playing around with those. i got two things regarding CD burning. i have been reading attempted to understand the man page for cdrecord. i have a CD drive build in (cdrom) and a SCSI burner (cdrom2). i was hoping there would be an easy way to copy a CD from the command line, such as cdrecord -duplicate cdrom cdrom2**i'm making up that switch you know** but as i look thru the pages it isn't that easy is it?? or is it?? am i missing anything here? next, i have burned a few CDs using gtoaster. i was burning one this weekend and went to fire up GIMP while doing that. short of the long, Linux did a windoze imitation. crashed burned big time. first gtoaster froze, then KFM, then eterm. ended up shutting down to reboot. do you think this was because i was trying to do too much at once? i burned CDs after this crash it was all good. my system is pretty low end. p2 - 250MHz - 60M ram (gotta upgrade ram next) also, had to turn off the power as i could not shut down normally. i kept getting the same error message over and over: unmounting file systems unmount2: device or resource busy unmount: /usr: device is busy SCSI host 0 abort (pid 5540) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is busy rest for host 0 channel 0 system appears to be just fine now - so this was just things freaking out because gtoaster crashed while using my CD burner yes? oh, i have no other SCSI devices. thanks for advice and tips. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] 7th question - word processing - you only thought i wasfinished
yea, another question. as mentioned before i am a writer - so duh guess what i use my computer for the most. my goal is to convert over to Linux as close to full time as possible on the 1st of the year. can anyone recomend any good word processors? StarOffice is wy too much for me. AbiWord (is that the right name.) seems rather nice could work fine for me. what i would really adore is something that spell checks with oxford english. maybe some of you folks across the pond could help me with that one? thanks very much Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
2. VB has been developed for the express purpose of writing programs to run under Windows. 3. Microsoft is not a proponent of open source software (in spite of what that Russian guy thinks). 4. Linux has strong roots in the C language. 5. C (and its descendants) and Basic are totally different worlds (think cats and dogs). My guess would be that Visual Basic for Linux will occur on the day that hell freezes over and the sun rises in the west -- provided that they both happen on the same day. On the other hand, strange things do happen -- remember President Dewey. Carrol, while there's some debate over whether it's a good idea, I believe there is an active project to develop a VB-compatible interpreter for Linux. I don't know any of the details of that project however. As for MS and Linux, you might find them involved a bit sooner than that :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] 1st question -- CD burner crash burn
cdrecord -duplicate cdrom cdrom2**i'm making up that switch you know** but as i look thru the pages it isn't that easy is it?? or is it?? am i missing anything here? I haven't done this but I don't think it should be a big problem. You may need some other command line switches depending on your setup and desires but it should work something like cdrecord -dummy dev=0,0,0 /mnt/cdrom Thought I'd stick in the -dummy to both test it and announce the source of this information :-) next, i have burned a few CDs using gtoaster. i was burning one this weekend and went to fire up GIMP while doing that. short of the long, Linux did a windoze imitation. crashed burned big time. first gtoaster froze, then KFM, then eterm. ended up shutting down to reboot. Burning CDs, in any OS is very much sensitive to the ability of the machine to keep the buffer full. If there's a fetch with nothing there you lose and the disk is trash. You can solve this problem by running at a slower speed using the -speed= option. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] 4th question - HP 500C printer
I've got 1 that works fine with 7.1,no problems so far! I have not tried it with a color cartridge yet though. Jeff
[newbie] partitioning lockup
Sorry if this is a re-post. I never saw the original one show up... I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine until I hit the confirming screen which requires an OK to go ahead with the partitioning process. But as soon as this dialog box pops up, everything freezes up. I can't even scroll down, cancel, or go back to a previous install step. My only recourse is to reboot. Nothing seems to be harmed, as I can reboot to the CD to try again or reboot to the HD and get W98 back just fine. Why can't I partition? (I did scandisk and defrag as recommended.) Thanks for the help, Michael
Re: [newbie] StarCraft: slow under Wine but...
"Ronald J. Hall" escribió: Joan Tur wrote: It doesn't work fine; i've got a 640x480 desktop, game plays quicker than before but... i cannot see the whole screen (a part is not being displayed at the bottom side) 8-? Hmm. Maybe adjust your monitor settings? (I know that seems pretty obvious but its all I can think of right now). ;-( It isn't the problem 8-( Once I set up a seperate XF86Config file with *nothing* but 640x480 and 8-bit color, it worked fine here... Thanks anyway... i'll try to guess what's happening ;-) -- 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] Registering as a Linux User?
James Boeck wrote: How or Where do you register as a Linux user? James Boeck _ 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. Tryhtt://counter.li.org/ That's the place anywhere near that place that looks like that place, so it must be the place.:) -- Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Password
In a message dated 10/29/2000 6:10:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 29-Oct-00 16:44:16 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uhm...there's a failsafe (simple) mode set up with LILO as well. I guess I'm confused as you guys talk as though you don't understand the idea of passwords. If you can get into your Linux box by simply booting and selecting failsafe without a password, what's the point of passwords at all? have no clue but it works on my system, if no one else can reproduce it so be it, however unless you have mistrusting roomates, or a micheivious child there is no real point in it when you access from failsafe, however the passwords are in place to prevent a network login, that is where security needs to be greatest. all of my roomates are windows dweebs or completely computer illiterate so i never have to worry about linux being hacked and i use a cmos password anyways no one on this base knows how to get passed that, sure there is a way but you have to tear this laptop completely apart to get at the jumpers! To clear a CMOS password you don't need to alter jumpers. With the computer unplugged, all you have to do is remove all batteries and wait. The button battery that powers the COMS memory often tips and slides sideways out of its holder. Sometimes sufficient power bleeds from another source to keep the CMOS intact, thats why I say to disconnect everything. 15 seconds usually works, though I've had to wait as much as 30 min. The CMOS information will clear, including the CMOS password. Reinsert the batteries, repower and change things as you will. In rare instances where there is a physical jumper for password use, the password may change to something generic which varies according to BIOS brand. So don't feel over confident about your security. It depends upon what the other person is willing to do (the trouble they are willing to go to). -Gary-
RE: [newbie] Registering as a Linux User?
How or Where do you register as a Linux user? James Boeck http://counter.li.org/ Phil Connor Emory Booty Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 189889
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Re: Re: [newbie] choice of computer (solved)
My thanks to all who helped, Frankenstein has woken up again and is working; Took the MB that supported 4 banks of memory, put on it the fastest CPU, and apart from a flaky cache RAM-stick and having to juggle PCI boards around to get them to work, no problem. I can now wade through 1200 emails that have accumulated in between time ;-( Thanks again to all for the kind advice. Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes
I heard that Kbasic is in the work for KDE2. Right now it's in early development and supposely it's suppose to work very similar like Visual Basic. The site is http://www.kbasic.de - Original Message - From: Ben Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Larry Marshall wrote: Carrol, while there's some debate over whether it's a good idea, I believe there is an active project to develop a VB-compatible interpreter for Linux. I don't know any of the details of that project however. As for MS and Linux, you might find them involved a bit sooner than that :-) As it happens, there is a scintillating discussion on just this topic at http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/10/28/972791999.html. B.
[newbie] Networking linux boxes
Just when I have finally mastered Samba to network my Linux box with the family's Windoze machines, my son has decided to migrate to Linux. How do I remain networked with him ? NFS ? Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River -- The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [[newbie] 7th question - word processing - you only thought i was finished]
There's Kword is an excellent alternative to MS Word in Mandrake 7.2. Havent tried it yet. But I checked it out as Koffice is integrated together like Office 2000. Lookin' like a window killer. hehe - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] 7th question - word processing - you only thought i was finished] "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea, another question. as mentioned before i am a writer - so duh guess what i use my computer for the most. my goal is to convert over to Linux as close to full time as possible on the 1st of the year. can anyone recomend any good word processors? StarOffice is wy too much for me. AbiWord (is that the right name.) seems rather nice could work fine for me. what i would really adore is something that spell checks with oxford english. maybe some of you folks across the pond could help me with that one? thanks very much = If StarOffice is way to much for you because of its size, and afterall, all you really want is a word processor that handles .doc files easily, you can try abiword, but I've found it to be a bit unreliable with formatting properly (although it will bring up the words ;o) ) SO is much better at handling M$Office documents. You might want to try Applixwords. It's usually part of a suite, but the word processor can be purchased (yeah, not freeware) separately for about US$40, I believe. It also handles .doc files very well and does a good job of maintaing formatting. HTH, Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] partitioning lockup
"Michael H. Bracey" wrote: Sorry if this is a re-post. I never saw the original one show up... I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine until I hit the confirming screen which requires an OK to go ahead with the partitioning process. But as soon as this dialog box pops up, everything freezes up. I can't even scroll down, cancel, or go back to a previous install step. My only recourse is to reboot. Nothing seems to be harmed, as I can reboot to the CD to try again or reboot to the HD and get W98 back just fine. Why can't I partition? (I did scandisk and defrag as recommended.) Thanks for the help, Michael Are you using a BIOS feature to prevent writing the MBR? Some stop it with LMK, others don't. -Cmo
Re: [newbie] There's no sound in 7.2
[...] I have a Cirrus Logic CrystalClear SoundFusion CS4614/22/24. Anyone have any suggestion on where to go to get it up and running like it did in 7.1? just to make sure it really did not install : try alsamixer and unmute the channels (press M) if it still doesn't work you may want to do it by hand : install all alsa rpms if they are not already installed rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/alsa-0.5.7-4mdk.i586.rpm rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/alsa-lib-0.5.7-4mdk.i586.rpm rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/alsa-utils-0.5.7-3mdk.i586.rpm rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/alsaplayer-0.99.31-1mdk.i586.rpm # make the end of /etc/conf.modules looks like : alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs461x alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # then update your dependencies : depmod -a # and finally, unmute and set your sound levels to something sensible amixer set Master 750nmute amixer set PCM750nmute HA Quoc Viet Services MandrakeSoft
[newbie] partitioning lockup
I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine until I hit the confirming screen which requires an OK to go ahead with the partitioning process. But as soon as this dialog box pops up, everything freezes up. I can't even scroll down, cancel, or go back to a previous install step. My only recourse is to reboot. Nothing seems to be harmed, as I can reboot to the CD to try again or reboot to the HD and get W98 back just fine. Why can't I partition? (I did scandisk and defrag as recommended.) Thanks for the help, Michael
