Re: [newbie] Partition information?
The problem with df is that it only lists mounted partitions and it omits swap partitions. I believe there is a programme called gpart that can identify partitons, even damaged ones. On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 06:03, Michael O'Henly wrote: > Oh, boy. I don't know if Linux is up for that! :-) > > Try "df" at the command prompt. > > Cheers. > > M. > > On Thursday 08 March 2001 16:09, you wrote: > > I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written down > > what partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux partitions. > > Is there some way to get informaion about this in Linux -- some > > kind of command I can give, or some kind of application I can run? > > > > The best thing would be if I could get that information in a > > form that I can understand, preferably something like this: > > > > > > /dev/hda5 / 1.2 GB > > /dev/hda6 /usr 1.2 GB > > /dev/hda7 /home 650 MB > > /dev/hda8 /swap 500 MB > > > > > > I understand that this is probably asking way too much > > though, so I'll settle for information about how big the > > partitions are, and what they are called (/dev/hda?). I can > > probably figure out what they contain just by getting information > > on how big they are. > > > > DRX -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Mandrake needs a readme file fro KDE2.1 Final Release RPMS install instructions needed
You know, the dependencies are there for a reason.. Only override if you have the stuff needed but it's not recognized by rpm. And now, a little clip from Discworld! :) Dead man: "Am i going to hell ?" Death: "If that's what you want.." (find the hidden meaning and shut up, 8beta-threaders) Gerry [Romanator] > Hi everybody, > > Do to the lack of a readme file, I ran an rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force > *.rpm, as I was getting all sorts of dependency errors while upgrading > from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. Bad idea. I had to reinstall > MDK7.2. > > I'm back to square one KDE2. Which rpms are need to upgrade to the final > release and in which order? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Roman > Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
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Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Here are what the metioned services do; you decide if you need them: IRDA = IR communication. Do you use an IR device? XFS = The Xfont server. Normally required for X windows to run... rawdevice = is used to bind a Linux raw character device to a block device. fetchmail = is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system. Not nessessary (I don't think, not certain) if you use a popclient like Netscape. Paul Rodríguez wrote: Certainly! For starters, I learned xFS is necessary to run X. It's a font server, apparently you can tell xfree86 not to need it somehow by editing some files, but I'm not sure why you would want to. And fetchmail only seems to be necessary if you are running a mail server (or I was told if you want to set up a server so you can have [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address, again not quite sure how to do that either). Not sure about the other ones yet. I'll let you know. I definately shut off all web servers (like apache and zope), and ftp. Also nfs. -Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Hughes Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary? > Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut > a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few > that I'm not sure about. > > Namely: > > xfs > rawdevices > network > irda > fetchmail > Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, > but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this > time)? > > -Paul R i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the same... Jeremy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- North Lilly Lan Administrator School of Library and Information Science Kent State University 330-672-2782 The Goddess is Alive and Magic is Afoot!
RE: [newbie] STOP
I agree. This 'was' one of the better groups that I subscribe to. A true wealth of information by some very knowledgeable people. Now it has proven to be a chore to receive messages only to delete them because about half are crap and have nothing to do with Linux. There are many, many different forums to discuss other topics, I'm not sure why anyone would choose this group to discuss religion etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Arkoulis Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:55 PM To: Linux mandrake Subject: [newbie] STOP This is becoming annoying. STOP THAT THREAD PLEASE
RE: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Certainly! For starters, I learned xFS is necessary to run X. It's a font server, apparently you can tell xfree86 not to need it somehow by editing some files, but I'm not sure why you would want to. And fetchmail only seems to be necessary if you are running a mail server (or I was told if you want to set up a server so you can have [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address, again not quite sure how to do that either). Not sure about the other ones yet. I'll let you know. I definately shut off all web servers (like apache and zope), and ftp. Also nfs. -Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Hughes Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary? > Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut > a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few > that I'm not sure about. > > Namely: > > xfs > rawdevices > network > irda > fetchmail > Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, > but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this > time)? > > -Paul R i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the same... Jeremy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Sorry, I am not trying to answer the question here - I am merely adding to it. There are some other services I have queries about. I have looked at the services section at mandrakeuser.org but it hasn't been updated since Mandrake 7.1, so it is missing a few entries. * drakfont: I do use TrueType fonts, but is it really necessary to have a daemon to check these fonts every time I boot? It adds about 5 seconds to bootup time and probably uses some memory too. * kheader: This looks (from the DrakConf description) like it would be useful, but is it necessary? Thanks for any help. On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:25, Jeremy Hughes wrote: > > Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've > > shut a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there > > are a few that I'm not sure about. > > > > Namely: > > > > xfs > > rawdevices > > network > > irda > > fetchmail > > Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the > > internet, but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that > > at this time)? > > > > -Paul R > > i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I > you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do > the same... Jeremy -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] STOP
This is becoming annoying. STOP THAT THREAD PLEASE
Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
Thanks Greg...but we know satan has them decieved...BIGTIME... all we can do is TRY...(and TRY, we must) Greg wrote: > > better get right with god now before its too late > all he was trying to do help you > --- PcNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree and couldn't have said it better! > > > > At 09:23 AM 3/8/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > > > >Please keep the religious masturbation of the list > > serve. I realize that > > >you feel superior in your religious standing, but > > what you don't realize > > >is that none of us care. If you feel the need to > > preach please join a > > >Christian discussion group. Or better yet why don't > > you go find some > > >16-year-old unwed mother to call a sinner, or wait > > I know why don't go to > > >the terminal ward in your local hospital, and > > inform the patients there > > >that if they had lived a life with out sin they > > would have been much > > >healthier. Bottom line is this Kompukit, your > > statements here are almost > > >more inappropriate than that of Julio. At least in > > his case it was a > > >comment made without thought, but you are using > > this form and members an > > >opportunity to spout your religious propaganda. I > > think that your messages > > >are far more reprehensible than Julio's, so please > > stop. > > >- Original Message - > > >From: KompuKit > > >Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:07 AM > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > > > >I'm with you...Robin !!! > > >this is really ridiculous... > > > > > >as for the rest of you...that (it appears) do NOT > > believe in, nor > > >understand God's word...when you stand in front of > > Jesus...on Judgement > > >day, > > >and have to give an account of the things said and > > done in this body of > > >ours, > > >and have no accuse...at allthen you can look > > back...at this > > >discussion... > > >and say then: GOD HAVE MERCY...on our stupidity and > > injustice > > >done unto others...in the eyes of our > > misunderstanding of YOUR WORD (the > > >Bible). > > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- Registered Linux User: 167369 <= http://www.kompukit.com => [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8
It can be really rough doing distro beta testing. I couldn't even consider doing it if I weren't on a cable modem. When you deal with Cooker/betas, you have to accept the fact that you may download stuff that may not even be an installable OS. So you try again later in the day/week and see if the packagers fixed all the problems you hopefully found and reported from your attempt (assuming an update hasn't already been released). Miark wrote: > > My 30-hour download of Traktopel finished last night :-) > When I tried to install it, I go a million errors related to > problems with packages. I'd get the pic of the bulldozer, > then a window reporting there was a problem loading bzip, > info-install, libgpml, etc. I got this a couple of times, so > I tried to ignore it, but then I got more errors of the same > kind. Eventually I had to give up. > > Miark > > - Original Message - > From: "Neville Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Vic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:39 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta > Mandrake 8 > > > Vic wrote: > > > > > > Hello list. > > > > > > Upon installing the new Beta Mandrake Traktopel 8 > > > release on a system using an AMD K6-400 cpu, > > > 192Mb system ram, S3 Virge video card, 10Gb Quantum > harddrive UDMA 33, > > > with VIA chipset, AWE64 Soundblaster ISA card, a zip250 > > > using the zip zoom card (aic7xxx), an old unix BTC > cdrom, > > > and lastly a Plextor 8/4/32A Cd recorder. > > > > > > I found the installation went ok in expert mode, one > little hang up on > > > setting up networking, it would not let you click on yes > or no, > > > BUT, you could bypass this by going on to the next step, > > > then when it cama back, you could just click on uhh, > skip or > > > something like that, and do it later after installation > finished. > > > > I had the same problem an could not connect to the > internet via a modem > > after the installation. Following your install were you > able to connect > > via ppp? If you could then I must be doing something > wrong. > > > > Nev > > -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: > enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with Linux and I'm sometimes able to help. Pin-headed religious trogs like you are just noise. Have a productive day and a rewarding afterlife. :-) M. > Michael O'Henly wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:47, you wrote: > > > BELIEVE as you will...that is "your" (entitled)...decision... > > > > Gosh, thanks Kit. I feel better already knowing we have your permission > > (if not exactly your...uh..."blessing") to think and believe what we > > want. > > > > > I speak truth...and only truth... > > > it is not my fault...if others can not accept the truth... > > > I only SHARE the truth !! > > > > Well hey, don't let humility, discretion, or common sense stand in your > > way. Tell us what you really think! > > > > After all, your faith (or medication) obviously requires that you "SHARE > > the truth" with everyone everywhere as often as possible -- regardless of > > they may wish to discuss. > > > > You know, this stupid thread has jammed up my Inbox tighter than a > > > > Oh, never mind. > > > > M. > > > > -- > > Michael O'Henly > > TENZO Design -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: > enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with Linux and I'm sometimes able to help. Pin-headed religious trogs like you are just noise. Have a productive day and a rewarding afterlife. :-) M. > Michael O'Henly wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:47, you wrote: > > > BELIEVE as you will...that is "your" (entitled)...decision... > > > > Gosh, thanks Kit. I feel better already knowing we have your permission > > (if not exactly your...uh..."blessing") to think and believe what we > > want. > > > > > I speak truth...and only truth... > > > it is not my fault...if others can not accept the truth... > > > I only SHARE the truth !! > > > > Well hey, don't let humility, discretion, or common sense stand in your > > way. Tell us what you really think! > > > > After all, your faith (or medication) obviously requires that you "SHARE > > the truth" with everyone everywhere as often as possible -- regardless of > > they may wish to discuss. > > > > You know, this stupid thread has jammed up my Inbox tighter than a > > > > Oh, never mind. > > > > M. > > > > -- > > Michael O'Henly > > TENZO Design -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Mandrake needs a readme file fro KDE2.1 Final Release RPMS install instructions needed
On Friday 09 March 2001 20:17, you wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Do to the lack of a readme file, I ran an rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force > *.rpm, as I was getting all sorts of dependency errors while upgrading > from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. Bad idea. I had to reinstall > MDK7.2. > > I'm back to square one KDE2. Which rpms are need to upgrade to the final > release and in which order? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Roman > Registered Linux User #179293 Roman this is exactly the way I did it and I had no problem except with printing, I broke cups somehow. So, the thing is did you really have the install from KDE2.1beta2 or a lower release? My install of 2.1 final was on top of the beta 2 and I had to add two other packages I can't remeber and add "apdm" package. Wait I'll look and see what they were, (into konsole looking at kpackage) ok, I think it was libg++ and a glibc package. Then I went to console mode completely out of KDE and used the rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm and then did the rpm --rebuilddb and then upgrade-menus -v and then rebooted and here I am back with KDE2.1 If this is the same way that you did it I do not understand the problem except.. Civileme indicated that you should be sure and do the hdparm -d1 /dev/hd? with the question mark being your harddrive letter. That optimisation may be the difference? I have just reached the end of my knowledge base, hope something in all that mess helps you. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] don't unintialize XFS!
Here are what the metioned services do; you decide if you need them: 1)IRDA = IR communication. Do you use an IR device? 2)XFS = The Xfont server. Normally required for X windows to run... 3)rawdevice = is used to bind a Linux raw character device to a block device. 4)fetchmail = is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system. Not nessessary (I don't think, not certain) if you use a popclient like Netscape. Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > Hey, thanks for the info. But if you see my post "I seem to have made a > mistaek myself", it's not a good idea to uninitialize xFS, it's needed by X. > You can tell xfree86 not to use it by editting some files, but there's no > need to do this. > > -Paul R > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Meyer > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary? > > Jeremy Hughes wrote: > > > > > Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > > > > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > > > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > > > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > > > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut > > > a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few > > > that I'm not sure about. > > > > > > Namely: > > > > > > xfs > > > rawdevices > > > network > > > irda > > > fetchmail > > > Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, > > > but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this > > > time)? > > > > > > -Paul R > > > > i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you > > get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the > > same... Jeremy > > I just installed PMFirewall, and found a good Mandrake online tutorial > at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/IPmasq/pages/ that > led me through the setup. So I got it up and running successfully. I > port scanned myself using http://crypto.yashy.com and had no holes. The > startup services on your list that I had enabled and running during the > port scan were xfs and network. So I guess you can leave those two > running safely if you need them. I'm not sure if they are really needed > though in a desktop situation. I will remove them if I find out they are > not needed. rawdevices I have set in startup services but it was not > running. irda and fetchmail i do not have in my list of startup > services. If you use the self port scan at the forementioned URL, su in > a terminal first and run "tail -f /var/log/messages". Then you will see > all the attempts at getting in, and if they all have a DENY in them, > your door is locked. > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- North Lilly Lan Administrator School of Library and Information Science Kent State University 330-672-2782 The Goddess is Alive and Magic is Afoot!
Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
better get right with god now before its too late all he was trying to do help you --- PcNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree and couldn't have said it better! > > At 09:23 AM 3/8/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > >Please keep the religious masturbation of the list > serve. I realize that > >you feel superior in your religious standing, but > what you don't realize > >is that none of us care. If you feel the need to > preach please join a > >Christian discussion group. Or better yet why don't > you go find some > >16-year-old unwed mother to call a sinner, or wait > I know why don't go to > >the terminal ward in your local hospital, and > inform the patients there > >that if they had lived a life with out sin they > would have been much > >healthier. Bottom line is this Kompukit, your > statements here are almost > >more inappropriate than that of Julio. At least in > his case it was a > >comment made without thought, but you are using > this form and members an > >opportunity to spout your religious propaganda. I > think that your messages > >are far more reprehensible than Julio's, so please > stop. > >- Original Message - > >From: KompuKit > >Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:07 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > >I'm with you...Robin !!! > >this is really ridiculous... > > > >as for the rest of you...that (it appears) do NOT > believe in, nor > >understand God's word...when you stand in front of > Jesus...on Judgement > >day, > >and have to give an account of the things said and > done in this body of > >ours, > >and have no accuse...at allthen you can look > back...at this > >discussion... > >and say then: GOD HAVE MERCY...on our stupidity and > injustice > >done unto others...in the eyes of our > misunderstanding of YOUR WORD (the > >Bible). > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Unable to upgrade Mandrake rpms for KDE2.1 Final Release
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:09, you wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just downloaded all of the Mandrake rpms. However, I cannot get the > upgrade to work from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. I copied all > of the rpms to the same folder, and typed in: rpm -Uvh *.rpm > > The following is breakdown of the error messages: > > error: kdebase-2.1-2mdk.i586 rpm cannot be installed > error: kdegame-2.1-2mdk.i586 rpm cannot be installed > > error:failed dependencies > kdebase= 2.1-2mdk is need by kdebase-devel-2.1-2mdk > kdebase= 2.1-2mdk is need by kdebase-nsplugins-2.1-2mdk > kdegames=2.1-2mdk is need by kdegame-devel-2.1-2mdk > > PPP is needed by kdenetwork-2.1-2mdk > apmd is need by kdeutils-2.1-1mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdebase-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdegames-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by koffice-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by quanta-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk > > What did I do wrong? I must be missing some extra files, and is there a > particular order to download the files? Your help would be very much > appreciated. Looks like you missed "kdebase , kdegames, apmd, and you don't have PPP. Do you use a cable modem or dsl, and thus have uninstalled PPP? Anyway, the libkdefakes.so.0 is indeed a fake. ignore it. Get the other packages you are missing and put them with the others in the folder and then do " rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm " and every thing should install. It did for me anyway. Let us know about PPP cause that is a puzzler. You may have to look for it in rpmfind.net and add it. Oh, and when you do it with the command like above the packages don't have to be any any order. Civileme has taught me much, and yet so much more to learn. Good luck, -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
[newbie] cdr file formats
Are there any cd recording programs for linux that will let you record a .bin image (like cdrwin for windows) or .cdi image (like diskjuggler for windows) ? Thanks,
Re: [newbie] change animated .gif to open source format?
PNG format does not allow for animation. The best format to use would be MNG, the multiple-image version of PNG. It does not contain any proprietry compression techniques (like GIF does). You probably could convert the image using something like The GIMP. On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:15, Franki wrote: > try png you should be able to find loads of graphics programs that > can change it for you. > > Frank Hauptle > / / _ > ---/ / (_)__ __ __ > --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ > Gshop & Network Payment Solutions. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Doe > Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2001 10:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] change animated .gif to open source format? > > > Is there any way to change an animated .gif to an open source format > picture? > > I won't send it to the list but I have an anti-MS "Final Solution > 2000" picture that is pretty funny. Anyone who wants it should email > me OFFLIST and > I will send it to ya. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta
[What, you mean GOD reads this list? Well, Leapin' Jeeezzz, if I'd only known...!] Yo, Big Guy! (GOD)! Can you _pulllze_ make KDE 2.1 Final save the default to US=Letter when I'm printing? Please. I'll be good, l promise! M. On Friday 09 March 2001 19:19, KompuKit wrote: > FORGIVE them, Father...for they know not what they do or say... -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] don't unintialize XFS!
Hey, thanks for the info. But if you see my post "I seem to have made a mistaek myself", it's not a good idea to uninitialize xFS, it's needed by X. You can tell xfree86 not to use it by editting some files, but there's no need to do this. -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Meyer Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary? Jeremy Hughes wrote: > > > Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut > > a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few > > that I'm not sure about. > > > > Namely: > > > > xfs > > rawdevices > > network > > irda > > fetchmail > > Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, > > but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this > > time)? > > > > -Paul R > > i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you > get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the > same... Jeremy I just installed PMFirewall, and found a good Mandrake online tutorial at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/IPmasq/pages/ that led me through the setup. So I got it up and running successfully. I port scanned myself using http://crypto.yashy.com and had no holes. The startup services on your list that I had enabled and running during the port scan were xfs and network. So I guess you can leave those two running safely if you need them. I'm not sure if they are really needed though in a desktop situation. I will remove them if I find out they are not needed. rawdevices I have set in startup services but it was not running. irda and fetchmail i do not have in my list of startup services. If you use the self port scan at the forementioned URL, su in a terminal first and run "tail -f /var/log/messages". Then you will see all the attempts at getting in, and if they all have a DENY in them, your door is locked. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall (Dave!)
I have looked into Freesco and actually had it running at one point. I am wondering if you just used NAT or if you added any goodies yourself? I am on a cable connection and currently use the NetBSD from www.dubbele.com. The NEtBSD solution works...I guess as I don't know much of navigating thru the filesystem. More comfortable with Linux I guess. John On Friday 09 March 2001 14:53, you wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2001 08:36, Quaylar wrote: > > At 18:24 08.03.2001 -0600, you wrote: > > >On Thursday 08 March 2001 12:23, you wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >First I want to thanks Mark Johnson and Glen > > > > Leinweber for help about C functions. > > > > > > > >I have a question about firewalls. I have read the > > > > Firewall-HOWTO but I didn't quite understand can I > > > > make my computer at home to be a firewall and to work > > > > on it at the same time? Do I have to have two > > > > computers, one to be a firewall and the other to work > > > > on it? > > > > > > > >Is there any program like ZoneAlarm for Windows? > > > > > > > >Branislav > > > > u would have to read the ipchains howto, this is the linux firewall. > > > > --quay > > You can try pmfirewall. It will run as a service on your workstation. > However, for best results and greater security I highly recommend a > dedicated firewall with no other services running on it, and no users > logged into it. > > A simple firewall can be made out of an old 486 or low-end Pentium with > 8 or 16 MB RAM, floppy drive, and no hard drive. Try www.freesco.org, > it's a floppy-based router and firewall. I have been using it for a > year with no problems whatsoever. > > Dave
Re: Even further off. Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)
I'm sorry for that last one. I'm going to attach a cord to my computer that gives electrical shocks when I click "reply". At least then I'll really want to respond to something.
Re: [newbie] 8.0 beta
On Friday 09 March 2001 18:26, KompuKit wrote: > enjoy ...while you still can... Or what? Please. I've tried to ignore this thread for several days. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I've really had enough. I take part in this mailing list because I often need help with Linux and I'm sometimes able to help. Pin-headed religious trogs like you are just noise. Have a productive day and a rewarding afterlife. :-) M. > Michael O'Henly wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:47, you wrote: > > > BELIEVE as you will...that is "your" (entitled)...decision... > > > > Gosh, thanks Kit. I feel better already knowing we have your permission > > (if not exactly your...uh..."blessing") to think and believe what we > > want. > > > > > I speak truth...and only truth... > > > it is not my fault...if others can not accept the truth... > > > I only SHARE the truth !! > > > > Well hey, don't let humility, discretion, or common sense stand in your > > way. Tell us what you really think! > > > > After all, your faith (or medication) obviously requires that you "SHARE > > the truth" with everyone everywhere as often as possible -- regardless of > > they may wish to discuss. > > > > You know, this stupid thread has jammed up my Inbox tighter than a > > > > Oh, never mind. > > > > M. > > > > -- > > Michael O'Henly > > TENZO Design -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
[newbie] Mandrake needs a readme file fro KDE2.1 Final Release RPMS install instructions needed
Hi everybody, Do to the lack of a readme file, I ran an rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm, as I was getting all sorts of dependency errors while upgrading from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. Bad idea. I had to reinstall MDK7.2. I'm back to square one KDE2. Which rpms are need to upgrade to the final release and in which order? Any help would be appreciated. Roman Registered Linux User #179293
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Re: [newbie] New 8.0 thread
I'm running the beta on a dual-boot system. Overall, I think it's pretty good for the first go-round but there are several pieces still missing. Many people have reported problems with sound, you can't yet burn CDs, there are some packages still to be added, etc. I'm booting into 8.0 using GRUB. (I don't know about LILO, but I had no trouble installing GRUB.) I certainly didn't have to use a boot diskette. M. On Friday 09 March 2001 17:24, you wrote: > So, Im planning on installing 8.0b tomorrow, but I hear LILO wont work > with it yet, and that Ill have to use a boot disk with it. But I also > heard the feature to make a boot disk doesnt work yet either...what should > I do to be able to boot into the system once installed? Or do I have it > all wrong? > > > > peace, > > Rog > Registered Linux user #19071 -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1
On Friday 09 March 2001 09:46, you wrote: > Has anyone managed to upgrade to KDE 2.1 from Mandrake 7.2? Is there a > comprehensive explanation of how to upgrade? Thanks for any advice, Oder. These are NOT official instructions, but they were written for people testing the Mandrake 2.1-for-7.2 RPMs and they worked for me: -[ snip ]- Install instructions: Download into a Directory like /home/username/tmp/KDE (you do not need static libs and such nor the devel packages unless you want kdevelop 1.4) get into root and cd to that directory urpme qt2 urpme kde urpme arts urpme koffice rpm -ivh *rpm rpm --rebuilddb update-menus -v#hit a return after it appears to hang exit logout login under kde Voila! Cautions and bugs: 1. it makes the appearance of emacs unbelievably ugly 2. KDevelop will keep asking for a library path even after you give it te correct one Just hit cancel and it will complete installation (Kde bug of some sort). -[ snip ]- A couple of additional caveats (again, these applied to me and may not to you): 1. Install the apmd package before the install. You can find it in the 7.2 distribution. 2. When you install the RPMs, you may get conflicts with existing installs of kdoc, imap, imap-devel, and qt-devel. Remove these packages using the command, "rpm -e [packagename]" before doing the "rpm -ivh *rpm" step above. 3. This upgrade procedure should work to update any configuration including and later than KDE 1.99. Cheers. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Partition information?
DRX wrote: > I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written > down what partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux > partitions. Is there some way to get informaion about this > in Linux -- some kind of command I can give, or some kind > of application I can run? > > The best thing would be if I could get that > information in a form that I can understand, preferably > something like this: > > > /dev/hda5 / 1.2 GB > /dev/hda6 /usr 1.2 GB > /dev/hda7 /home 650 MB > /dev/hda8 /swap 500 MB > > > I understand that this is probably asking way too much > though, so I'll settle for information about how big the > partitions are, and what they are called (/dev/hda?). I > can probably figure out what they contain just by getting > information on how big they are. > > DRX DRXif you press the control key and while holding it down press the f2 key (ctl-f2) the minicli (mini command line interface) will launch. In the minicli window type: kdf then either press enter or click the run button. This program (kdiskfree) is also in the K-menu under applications->monitoring and is listed as diskfree. -- Alan
Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)
To this stupid thread! I invited a friend over to experience the wonders of Linux Mandrake and to learn just what it could do for him. I thought, "I will show him the message list so he can observer, in action, the support he can expect." Low and behold all this garbage was floating around and he made the comment, "Wow, can I expect this crap all the time?" I quickly pointed out that this was not the norm, but I'm pissed that what was a great support list has become filled with crap that has nothing to do with Linux. I feel embarrased that new people will sign up and see this kind of behavior on a list that is for Mandrake support only, not this other crap. Riker "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: > > The Bible actually does say that the earth is a sphere/circle. I believe > that it is in Job. > > Moose > > -Original Message- > From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta) > > Oh Lord...forgive those...who have EYES,but can NOT see... > and ears, but can not hear > > Dave Sherman wrote: > > > > 1. Actually, humans were the LAST species to be created, on the sixth > > day. > > > > 2. Nowhere does it say the earth is flat. It also doesn't say the earth > > is round. The Bible is not a science textbook. > > > > 3. I wouldn't know about your "lots of other nonsense", since I have > > not really noticed it. > > > > 4. Yes, pedophilia is sick, regardless of your religion (or lack > > thereof). > > > > Apologies to all for continuing this OT thread... > > > > Dave > > > > P.S.: I'll bet Hitler was a pedophiliac. And I sincerely hope we all > > know what happens when Hitler is brought into a thread... > > > > On Tuesday 06 March 2001 21:36, Gerry wrote: > > > Well, that holy book of yours also say that humans were the first > > > species that were created, that earth is flat, and lots of other > > > nonsense. In any event, if those things even happened, it was > > > thousands of years ago. I mean, they punished people by hanging them > > > at crosses back then.. > > > > > > Anyway, saying things like that have nothing to do with religion. > > > It's just sick. > > > > > > > Registered Linux User #197840 > > > > "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." > > -- > Registered Linux User: 167369 > <= http://www.kompukit.com => > [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 > Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org > WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns > (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) > (US EST)
Re: [newbie] So very off topic....
On Friday 09 March 2001 17:12, you wrote: > Agreed, this is the wrong place to talk about it. But I didn't bring it > up. As far as those on the list that are most upset about those of us who > may try to share our Christianity, they never seem to understand that we > are trying to help them. Speaking for no one but myself... I do realize that many Christians have a sincere desire to help others. What is intolerable, however, is the arrogant and patronizing assumption that, simply because one doesn't get all weepy and pious about The Man on the Stick, one is somehow deficient and incomplete. > But for the sanity of all those offended souls out there, let's just let > this thread die. No chance, as long as you keep posting this stuff. You can't have it both ways. M. > On Fri, 09 Mar 2001, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2001 22:05, mark wrote: > > > The fact that you would rather talk about sex and pedophilia than > > > religion shows how far this generation has fallen > > > > Here, on the Linux list, I'd rather hear about neither of them. > > > > The fact you want to force-feed us your views show how far you have > > fallen. > > > > To paraphrase Voltaire: I'll fight to the death for your right to express > > your opinions, but I never said I want to listen to them" > > > > Even though I share them. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. > > -- > >Procrastinate now > > --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati --- -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] KFM problem
jhun bacala wrote: > Greetings, > > My LM 7.0 hangs up when trying to browse the folder /mnt > with a win98 directory on it. What seems to be the problem? > > jhun jhunif I remember correctly, there is a need for there not to be any uppercase characters in the names of the mountpoint directories in mdk 7.0, and the install program made mountpoint characters with uppercase by default. -- Alan
[newbie] New 8.0 thread
So, Im planning on installing 8.0b tomorrow, but I hear LILO wont work with it yet, and that Ill have to use a boot disk with it. But I also heard the feature to make a boot disk doesnt work yet either...what should I do to be able to boot into the system once installed? Or do I have it all wrong? peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071
[newbie] Cable modem: solved
Well, It was easy than I expected. The cable modem configuration from Drake wasn't successfull because the location of dhcs was impossible. I runned windows and then winipcfg to know if the IP, DNS and Gateway where fixed (the advertisment said "automatic") and there where!!. The next thing to do was in Netconf put the appropriate DNS, Gateway and IP number, like in a lan, for the correspondent ethernet card (in my case the eth1 because the eth0 is for connection with my laptop). Accept everything and click on Do it (changes). I saw the Activity led running and, great! now my cable modem conexion is running. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Martes, Marzo 6, 2001 10:20 pm Asunto: [newbie] Cable modem > Hello folks > > This morning I have started my cable modem conexion"under > windows98". > It runs fine, but I would like to have it also under linux. > Unfortunately until now I have instaled internet conexion using > external modem and also a lan, but the last one with IP not > assignated > by the server. > > In this case the net-card is well recognized:module 3c59. (NIC > 3Com > EtherLink XL TPO 10 Mb Ethernet C3C900-TPO) and harddrake detects > it > without problems, but I have not Idea about how to run internet; > the IP > is asignated by the server and primary and secondary DNS is > automatic, > so I don't know what to do!! > > Thanks a lot > > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) > Note: unfortunately connected using windows > Could anyone help me > > > > > >
Re: [newbie] So very off topic....
Agreed, this is the wrong place to talk about it. But I didn't bring it up. As far as those on the list that are most upset about those of us who may try to share our Christianity, they never seem to understand that we are trying to help them. Most seem to think we're trying to get you into it so we can get money. Why would I care if you send money or anything else for that matter, since you're obviously not going to be sending us the money. There's a reason it's called the GOOD NEWS. (Gospel) But for the sanity of all those offended souls out there, let's just let this thread die. On Fri, 09 Mar 2001, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2001 22:05, mark wrote: > > The fact that you would rather talk about sex and pedophilia than religion > > shows how far this generation has fallen > > Here, on the Linux list, I'd rather hear about neither of them. > > The fact you want to force-feed us your views show how far you have fallen. > > To paraphrase Voltaire: I'll fight to the death for your right to express > your opinions, but I never said I want to listen to them" > > Even though I share them. > > Cheers, > > Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. > -- >Procrastinate now > --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati --- -- *** fairlane at voyager dot net www.geocities.com/dieseltempo ***
Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
Why don't we stopped responding to this and the thread will die out. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Original Tux Email Thread Creator Rob Regennitter wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2001 07:23 am, you wrote: > > (PERFORMING THE EXORCISM) DIE THREAD DIE! (SPLASHING THE HOLY WATER) > > > Please keep the religious masturbation of the list serve. I realize that > > you feel superior in your religious standing, but what you don't realize is > > that none of us care. If you feel the need to preach please join a > > Christian discussion group. Or better yet why don't you go find some > > 16-year-old unwed mother to call a sinner, or wait I know why don't go to > > the terminal ward in your local hospital, and inform the patients there > > that if they had lived a life with out sin they would have been much > > healthier. Bottom line is this Kompukit, your statements here are almost > > more inappropriate than that of Julio. At least in his case it was a > > comment made without thought, but you are using this form and members an > > opportunity to spout your religious propaganda. I think that your messages > > are far more reprehensible than Julio's, so please stop. > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: KompuKit > > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:07 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > > > > I'm with you...Robin !!! > > this is really ridiculous... > > > > as for the rest of you...that (it appears) do NOT believe in, nor > > understand God's word...when you stand in front of Jesus...on Judgement > > day, > > and have to give an account of the things said and done in this body of > > ours, > > and have no accuse...at allthen you can look back...at this > > discussion... > > and say then: GOD HAVE MERCY...on our stupidity and injustice > > done unto others...in the eyes of our misunderstanding of YOUR WORD (the > > Bible). > > > > Robin Regennitter wrote: > > > I cant believe that some people make the big deal out this. I think it's > > > rather absurd. > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Daryl Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:42 AM > > > Subject: RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > > > > > Heyy cool! :o) > > > > > > > > regards > > > > > > > > Daryl > > > > > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julio Gutierrez > > > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok my apologies to all the girls age of 16 subscribed to this > > > > > list, also to > > > > > all females subscribed to it, and to all the parents of 16 yr old > > > > > girls who > > > > > > > > > > SORRY again!!! > > > > > > > > > > Laters > > > > > > > > > > Julio > > > > -- > > Registered Linux User: 167369 > > <= http://www.kompukit.com => > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 > > Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org > > WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns > > (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) > > (US EST)Get Your Private, Free > > E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > href="http://www.hotmail.com">http://www.hotmail.com. > > > Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Description: >
Re: [newbie] Made LILO mistake -- Please Help
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 01:27:38 -0800, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Yes! and thank you very much. >Jackedit (as root) the first line of /etc/lilo.conf to >read: > >boot=/dev/hda7 > >and save it. Then in console mode as root, execute lilo, >like this: > >/sbin/lilo -v
[newbie] Unable to upgrade Mandrake rpms for KDE2.1 Final Release
Hi everybody, I just downloaded all of the Mandrake rpms. However, I cannot get the upgrade to work from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. I copied all of the rpms to the same folder, and typed in: rpm -Uvh *.rpm The following is breakdown of the error messages: error: kdebase-2.1-2mdk.i586 rpm cannot be installed error: kdegame-2.1-2mdk.i586 rpm cannot be installed error: failed dependencies kdebase= 2.1-2mdk is need by kdebase-devel-2.1-2mdk kdebase= 2.1-2mdk is need by kdebase-nsplugins-2.1-2mdk kdegames=2.1-2mdk is need by kdegame-devel-2.1-2mdk PPP is needed by kdenetwork-2.1-2mdk apmd is need by kdeutils-2.1-1mdk libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdebase-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdegames-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk libkdefakes.so.0 is need by koffice-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk libkdefakes.so.0 is need by quanta-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk What did I do wrong? I must be missing some extra files, and is there a particular order to download the files? Your help would be very much appreciated. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Original Tux Email Thread Creator
Re: [newbie] Firewall
On Friday 09 March 2001 08:36, Quaylar wrote: > At 18:24 08.03.2001 -0600, you wrote: > >On Thursday 08 March 2001 12:23, you wrote: > > > Hi, > > >First I want to thanks Mark Johnson and Glen > > > Leinweber for help about C functions. > > > > > >I have a question about firewalls. I have read the > > > Firewall-HOWTO but I didn't quite understand can I > > > make my computer at home to be a firewall and to work > > > on it at the same time? Do I have to have two > > > computers, one to be a firewall and the other to work > > > on it? > > > > > >Is there any program like ZoneAlarm for Windows? > > > > > >Branislav > > u would have to read the ipchains howto, this is the linux firewall. > > --quay You can try pmfirewall. It will run as a service on your workstation. However, for best results and greater security I highly recommend a dedicated firewall with no other services running on it, and no users logged into it. A simple firewall can be made out of an old 486 or low-end Pentium with 8 or 16 MB RAM, floppy drive, and no hard drive. Try www.freesco.org, it's a floppy-based router and firewall. I have been using it for a year with no problems whatsoever. Dave -- Registered Linux User #197840 "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
[newbie] automatic login?
Hello to all! We are trying to do a machine for connect to Internet, but we need that this thing perform an automatic login, that is to say, the machine has to perform a login automatically after has been powered on. Somebody know how to do it? Thank, and sorry for my english
Re: [newbie] Partition information?
"df" maybe?
Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
The fact that you would rather talk about sex and pedophilia than religion shows how far this generation has fallen On Thu, 08 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > Please keep the religious masturbation of the list serve. I realize that you feel >superior in your religious standing, but what you don't realize is that none of us >care. If you feel the need to preach please join a Christian discussion group. Or >better yet why don't you go find some 16-year-old unwed mother to call a sinner, or >wait I know why don't go to the terminal ward in your local hospital, and inform the >patients there that if they had lived a life with out sin they would have been much >healthier. Bottom line is this Kompukit, your statements here are almost more >inappropriate than that of Julio. At least in his case it was a comment made without >thought, but you are using this form and members an opportunity to spout your >religious propaganda. I think that your messages are far more reprehensible than >Julio's, so please stop. > > > - Original Message - > From: KompuKit > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > I'm with you...Robin !!! > this is really ridiculous... > > as for the rest of you...that (it appears) do NOT believe in, nor > understand God's word...when you stand in front of Jesus...on Judgement > day, > and have to give an account of the things said and done in this body of > ours, > and have no accuse...at allthen you can look back...at this > discussion... > and say then: GOD HAVE MERCY...on our stupidity and injustice > done unto others...in the eyes of our misunderstanding of YOUR WORD (the > Bible). > > Robin Regennitter wrote: > > > > I cant believe that some people make the big deal out this. I think it's > > rather absurd. > > - Original Message - > > From: "Daryl Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:42 AM > > Subject: RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > > > Heyy cool! :o) > > > > > > regards > > > > > > Daryl > > > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julio Gutierrez > > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok my apologies to all the girls age of 16 subscribed to this > > > > list, also to > > > > all females subscribed to it, and to all the parents of 16 yr old > > > > girls who > > > > > > > SORRY again!!! > > > > > > > > Laters > > > > > > > > Julio > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Registered Linux User: 167369 > <= http://www.kompukit.com => > [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 > Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org > WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns > (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) > (US EST)Get Your Private, Free E-mail from >MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com">http://www.hotmail.com. > Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- *** fairlane at voyager dot net www.geocities.com/dieseltempo ***
Re: [newbie] How to find help about C functions
> Hi, > I would like to learn more about some C/C++ functions, > for example: strrchr(). How can I find descriptions of > functions? There's man pages for all c/c++ functions.. Type.. man funtionname ..in the shell to access them. You can access them in konqueror as well. Just open konqueror and type.. #funtionname ..in the address-field. Gerry
Re: [newbie] GRUB Question
How does this relate to the subject, 'GRUB'? Apparently, you have Mandrake 7.2 running so the subject isn't 'GRUB'; it's "drive access from a working LM7.2". That aside, ---Most likely, with two hard drives, if you have Windows, it's on hda1 and LM7.2 is on a second HD alhough it could just as well be on the same HD as Windows but on a separate partition. Regardless, you have to know the partition. You did make a note of it during installaltion, didn't you? We'll test to see if you can access the Windows HD from LM7.2 . We'll do all the work in terminal mode, not by clicking on icons. Run LM7.2 as root, then do these commands cd mkdir winx mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/winx cd /mnt/winx ls -aF --color=auto You should see the contents of your Windows partition. After perusing Windows, execute these commands cd umount /mnt/winx rmdir /mnt/winx If you like the way these worked, you can create aliases that use these commands so you could look at Windows with just a simple command such as 'win+' and restore back to linux with 'win-' Now to look at any Linux partition, we'll use hdb3 as an example cd mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /mnt/hdb3 cd /mnt/hdb3 ls -aF --color=auto You should now be able to navigate through hdb3. get back with these commands cd umount /mnt/hdb3 CDROMs? mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom cd /mnt/cdrom ls -aF --color=auto to dismount cd umount /mnt/cdrom You have a 2nd CDROM? call it cdrom2 in the above example Oh yes, click icons? try clicking /dev/xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, I have to repost my problem again. I cannot access my 2 > cdroms or 2 > harddrives,using LM7.2. > > I properly did an "ATAPI" setup and it configured well for the cdroms > and > harddrives,but now I get the message "11(sigsegv)" when I click on > anyone of > the cdom or harddrive icons. Can anyone one help me. I really want to > get up > and running.I am new to Linux and I really need your help. > > Thanks./
RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1
Title: RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1 I do not know the root of your problem, but I am running 7.2 with KDE 2.1 and it is lightning fast. I can open 5 or 6 different functions like Konqueror on line with Kppp in a 56k modem, have rpmdrake going, open a console and run kedit or kpackage and be downloading a file off the net, while at the same time installing another file previously d/l'd. Why you might ask? Just to see if I could. Anyway, I saw no difference in the speed of the various actions as opposed to if they were working by themselves, except of course for the downloads, which individually slow down due to the bandwidth available. Something else is eating your lunch, it is not LM 7.2 or linux. I have seen it suggested that you may not have the monitor optimized, or you might need to tune your harddrive. Keep looking for the culprit cause the Mandrake is well worth the effort. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1 You know, I understand all this but you'd think that you could run all typical daemons without adversely effecting the performance of your machine. At home I run both 7.2 and W2k, I counted 40 services running on W2K and the machine works fine. However, my 7.2 is a bit sluggish. I tried to disable as many daemons as I could but it had little effect. My impression is its the window manager/environment. It's kind of like you can't have your cake and eat it too type of thing - you can't have a wm/env that is both full featured and spunky. I'm sure they are working on it though... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1 take a very close look at the programs that are running automatically at boot time. That could be the source of your problems. Abe > Original Message --- > From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:29:08 -0700 > > I ran " $ free" and saw that I was heavily into my swap, to the tune of > around 227 M. I switched to Gnome and everything is running much > faster. I've been monitoring my memory / swap usage, and the most swap > I've used in Gnome is about 40M running Moz 0.8. That program eats up > buffer / cache too. > > The thing that's really weird, is a buddy of mine is using 7.2 and KDE > on a 200 PI with 64M and his system runs fine. I think somehow I must > have sprung a memory leak or something. Oh well, I'm actually starting > to like Gnome a lot. It's much more stable than it was a couple of > years ago. > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > Glen Leinweber wrote: > > > Michael, > > This is a guess... I wonder if 64MEG is close to the > > limit for 7.2? Perhaps 7.1 fits KDE and one or two apps > > fits into 64M without going to swap. Once you get into swap, > > things really slow down. > > I've often heard that more RAM often solves speed > > problems. > > > > > >
RE: [newbie] HP CD Writer 9500
Thanks . thought I would not be able to use the new cd burner for a while ... I take it there are "generic" drivers in the 7.2 distribution for HP cd writers .. -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HP CD Writer 9500 I have the HP 9150i cd-writer... had the same problem til I re-installed again, mandrake 7.2. now it works fine...but there's a bug fix once you re-install that needs fixingit's located here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ just re-install linux...but do NOT format your /home partition and upon reboot,after reinstall...the drive will be emulated...and seen. "Wehling, Rich" wrote: > > I have a 9500 cd writer and would like to try burning cd's with Linux but > haven't a clue how to get started . > > I have installed the cd rom burner into the system that is running Linux > Mandrake 7.2 and have plenty of blank cd's . I tried the CDROAST > program but it looks at the folder I have selected and scans the files then > gives an error "broken pipe" I don't rmr the exact error but I was dinking > around with the settings of the program and came across a section that looks > like it needs a lund number and address for the cdrom burner I am > guessing that the burner is too new to be seen by the software as a burner > but it reads cd's fine .. in the app hard drake it sees the burner as > well as its information ... is there a place that might have a driver > file (not sure what its called in Linux) or do I just need to find the > id/lund/??? information ( of witch I do not know how to do ) . I > tried the cdrecord command with the -scanbus delimiter from the terminal but > it did not find a drive . do I have the cd installed correctly? I > removed the old cd that was in the system so as to just have the cd rom > burner any help in this would be greatly appreciated .. -- Registered Linux User: 167369 <= http://www.kompukit.com => [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
Re: [newbie] X windows crashed
Kyle Baker wrote: > > Did you just install KDE 2.1? Because when I installed its RPMs > I encountered the exact same problem. Instead of going into X > it would just kick me into a non-GUI login screen. Couldn't > ever get around it so I just re-installed (I was needing to do a > clean install of everything anyway). After re-installing and > then slapping KDE 2.1 back in again, everything worked fine. My > only guess is that it has something to do with the order I > installed the various KDE RPMS?... > > I don't really have any solutions to your problem. Just thought > I might shed a little more light on the situation... > > Kyle Baker > > --- Paul Pavlicko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. As of this morning my Xwindows > > fails to > > start with the following error. > > > > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > > any clues to what might be causing this and how to fix it?? > > > > Paul > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ My KDE 2.1 install failed also, breaking X with a "cat: broken pipe" error. I re-installed, (getting good at that), but haven't tried 2.1 install again. I guess I'll wait for it to appear on MandrakeUpdate and if it's an rpm packaging problem, it may be fixed by that time.
Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8
I was using the ADSL connection thingy. I could config it later with linuxconf tho. Setup was for static ip. On Friday 09 March 2001 04:39 am, so spoke Neville Cobb: > I had the same problem an could not connect to the internet via a modem > after the installation. Following your install were you able to connect > via ppp? If you could then I must be doing something wrong. > > Nev
Re: [newbie] automatic login?
Sure, it's an option right in the install of Mandrake 7.2 When it asks if you want to automatically start X answer yes. Then when it asks you if you want it to automatically log in a user say yes and enter the user and password. Good luck! - Original Message - From: "Jose Ramon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:16 AM Subject: [newbie] automatic login? > Hello to all! > We are trying to do a machine for connect to Internet, but we > need that this thing perform an automatic login, that is to say, > the machine has to perform a login automatically after has been > powered on. > Somebody know how to do it? > Thank, and sorry for my english > > >
Re: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > take a very close look at the programs that are running automatically at boot time. >That could be the source of your problems. > > Abe > Is there anything in particular I should be looking for? Michael
Re: [newbie] 24 hrs -- not just for the military
* Shane Roppel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07 Mar 01 18:23]: > I'm not big on the whole military time thing here... could someone tell me > how to change the time format kde2 to 12 rather than 24? FWIW, the 24hr clock is used by many who work shifts, such as medical staff (like my mother) and railwaymen. I guess growing up with it, I never figured counting to 24 caused such discomfort. For reasons unknown to me, French Canadians also seem to prefer the 24hr clock. -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] change animated .gif to open source format?
I'd like to see it! -e-
[newbie] Question about zope default username and password
I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and want to use Zope. However, you need the username and password to log into the admin screen. I found the file, access, that contains the username, but the password is encrypted. The username for the root user is superuser. But nowhere can I find the password. Can anyone tell me since it must be a default for the new system that I will need to change after gaining access?
[newbie] ftp server Broken
Hi Does anyone know how to fix the ftp server software in Traktopel version? Mine is broken
[newbie] Grub startup delay is not working !
Hallo! I'm using mdk72 & grub. The problem is that i've got an startup delay of 5 seconds in /etc/lilo.conf, but on startup the default OS won't start until i press Enter. My lilo.conf has the following line: "timeout=50" Also when i type #lilo it works but "Warning! BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible" appears 8 times 8-? Lilo stays in MBR of hda and Linux uses sda and sdb... THANKS! 8-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
RE: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)
The Bible actually does say that the earth is a sphere/circle. I believe that it is in Job. Moose -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta) Oh Lord...forgive those...who have EYES,but can NOT see... and ears, but can not hear Dave Sherman wrote: > > 1. Actually, humans were the LAST species to be created, on the sixth > day. > > 2. Nowhere does it say the earth is flat. It also doesn't say the earth > is round. The Bible is not a science textbook. > > 3. I wouldn't know about your "lots of other nonsense", since I have > not really noticed it. > > 4. Yes, pedophilia is sick, regardless of your religion (or lack > thereof). > > Apologies to all for continuing this OT thread... > > Dave > > P.S.: I'll bet Hitler was a pedophiliac. And I sincerely hope we all > know what happens when Hitler is brought into a thread... > > On Tuesday 06 March 2001 21:36, Gerry wrote: > > Well, that holy book of yours also say that humans were the first > > species that were created, that earth is flat, and lots of other > > nonsense. In any event, if those things even happened, it was > > thousands of years ago. I mean, they punished people by hanging them > > at crosses back then.. > > > > Anyway, saying things like that have nothing to do with religion. > > It's just sick. > > > > Registered Linux User #197840 > > "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." -- Registered Linux User: 167369 <= http://www.kompukit.com => [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
[newbie] startx monitor problem
Hello, i have configured my monitor with drakxconf as a custom. When I test this configuration it looks ok but starting startx go's very slow (upto 4 minutes) and my desktop looks realy strange. I have installed lnx4win on C:. Starting with startx - -8bpp or startx - -32bpp doesn't help. Please help what can I do
Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC - about the ridiculous 8.0 betaresponse
no kidding. get a life people. or get a web site and post you venting there. all the whining is far more offensive than the original comment. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Jay needs a Guinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12:10:43 PM 3/7/01 >>> In this day of political correctness we always have to be wary of what and how we say it. I, for one, am NOT politically correct. I refuse to be offended by what anybody says on a mailing list and my suggestion is, if you are offended by a comment (or my signature line...remember that one) just ignore the comment or delete the offending message. Stop flooding the inbox with ridiculous replies about how you feel about it, for it is redundant and uncalled for. -- Jay ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ http://www.mrsnooky.com http://celtic.free
Re: [newbie] I seem to have made a big mistake myself.
Paul Rodríguez wrote: > I'm not sure what I did, my system was running SO nicely! > > But I think it is because I turned off the XFS (X Font > Server) from the startup services. All of a sudden, my > system crashed (or rather swicthed to run level 3 and froze > at sending processes the term signal). Is the XFS that > important? And if so, how do I turn it back on, when I try > to startup, I get sent right back to runlevel 3 and get > stuck at sending the term signal. > > I'm going to try the boot disk now, if I get to a command > line, what do I write to edit the startup services? And if > I cannot get to a command line, how should I go about > finding one? > > -Paul R > [please help] Paulas root, in runlevel 3, execute: drakxconf The from the ensuing menu choose drakservices and tag xfs to start at system startup. XF86 and KDE (or Gnome) will not run without xfs, it's the X font server. -- Alan
RE: [newbie] Cable modem
ITs NOT the irq.. U have to call your cable modem connection company and talk to them. They can give u the settings you need. If this is @home, you have to convice them to send you to senior tech support. Also you dont need dns stuff for setting up your cable modem. All you need is hostname.. (ur computer name) an ip, and subnet mask.. talk to the cable company to get this. --- "Owens, Blaine C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem was the IRQ. On Windows98 go to Control > Panel -> System -> > Hardware and note the IRQ for your NIC. Then use > Linuxconf to set the same > IRQ in Linux. You might also have a problem if the > 3c59 is PnP, there are > ways to overcome this as well. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Cable modem > > > Hello folks > > This morning I have started my cable modem > conexion"under windows98". > It runs fine, but I would like to have it also under > linux. > Unfortunately until now I have instaled internet > conexion using > external modem and also a lan, but the last one with > IP not assignated > by the server. > > In this case the net-card is well recognized:module > 3c59. (NIC 3Com > EtherLink XL TPO 10 Mb Ethernet C3C900-TPO) and > harddrake detects it > without problems, but I have not Idea about how to > run internet; the IP > is asignated by the server and primary and secondary > DNS is automatic, > so I don't know what to do!! > > Thanks a lot > > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) > Note: unfortunately connected using > windows > Could anyone help me > > > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] can´t listen audio on xawTV or KwinTV
Hi, I wanna know why I couldn't listen TV audio when I am watching TV (by anntena) with kwinTV or xawTV. I have LM7.2 and WinFastTV 2000. The audio outlet of the sound card is connected to the audio inlet of the WinFastTV 2000. Despite this, I can listen a normal Music CD!! Thanks - Ing. Qco. Emilio Correa Invap S.E. 02944 422121 int. 2473 fax: 02944 423489 (8400) San Carlos de Bariloche
RE: [newbie] Grub timeout!!!
Tom, use your windows bootdisk and do a fdisk -mbr. Then reinstall Grub. It sounds like something got hosed. Moose -Original Message- From: Thomas Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Grub timeout!!! I run a dual boot win98 Mandrake 7.2 system. I used to run a Randish Boot manager on my MBR to boot between different OS's. I installed Mandrake 7.2 putting GRUB on my root partition. However once I realised that now my root mandrake partition was now /hda6 and hence not bootable by Randish boot manager so I decided to install GRUB onto my MBR. Which I did succesfully but now it just spits me straight into windoze (the default) without any delay so I can't select a difference choice. I have changed /boot/grub/menu.lst and added 'timeout 10' to it (it wasn't there originally)first below 'default 0' and then moved it to the top to no avail. I have also tried to install LILO but it comes up with the error partition not found and dies.. so I had to reinstall GRUB again. Regards -Tom Webster
Re: [newbie] Partition information?
Oh, boy. I don't know if Linux is up for that! :-) Try "df" at the command prompt. Cheers. M. On Thursday 08 March 2001 16:09, you wrote: > I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written down what > partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux partitions. Is there some > way to get informaion about this in Linux -- some kind of command I can > give, or some kind of application I can run? > > The best thing would be if I could get that information in a form that > I can understand, preferably something like this: > > > /dev/hda5 / 1.2 GB > /dev/hda6 /usr 1.2 GB > /dev/hda7 /home 650 MB > /dev/hda8 /swap 500 MB > > > I understand that this is probably asking way too much though, so I'll > settle for information about how big the partitions are, and what they are > called (/dev/hda?). I can probably figure out what they contain just by > getting information on how big they are. > > DRX -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] SB32 is not working
At 19:17 09/03/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hallo!! I'm using mdk72. I use harddrake to set up SB32 -sndconfig is not installed by default (i'm using su)-. It plays 8 and 16 bit samples with no problem but when i reboot it no longer works. And i cannot use harddrake again: i cannot choose the IRQ and DMAs i choosed before (they aren't available)... so i have to edit /etc/modules.conf to remove any line referring to sb... then i restart the system and i can start again. Any idea?? 8-? In command Line # su Pass: your pass type sndconfig Lucio Costa
RE: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1
You know, I understand all this but you'd think that you could run all typical daemons without adversely effecting the performance of your machine. At home I run both 7.2 and W2k, I counted 40 services running on W2K and the machine works fine. However, my 7.2 is a bit sluggish. I tried to disable as many daemons as I could but it had little effect. My impression is its the window manager/environment. It's kind of like you can't have your cake and eat it too type of thing - you can't have a wm/env that is both full featured and spunky. I'm sure they are working on it though... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Why is 7.2 so much slower than 7.1 take a very close look at the programs that are running automatically at boot time. That could be the source of your problems. Abe > Original Message --- > From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:29:08 -0700 > > I ran " $ free" and saw that I was heavily into my swap, to the tune of > around 227 M. I switched to Gnome and everything is running much > faster. I've been monitoring my memory / swap usage, and the most swap > I've used in Gnome is about 40M running Moz 0.8. That program eats up > buffer / cache too. > > The thing that's really weird, is a buddy of mine is using 7.2 and KDE > on a 200 PI with 64M and his system runs fine. I think somehow I must > have sprung a memory leak or something. Oh well, I'm actually starting > to like Gnome a lot. It's much more stable than it was a couple of > years ago. > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > Glen Leinweber wrote: > > > Michael, > > This is a guess... I wonder if 64MEG is close to the > > limit for 7.2? Perhaps 7.1 fits KDE and one or two apps > > fits into 64M without going to swap. Once you get into swap, > > things really slow down. > > I've often heard that more RAM often solves speed > > problems. > > > > > >
[newbie] Partition information?
I have gone and lost the paper on which I had written down what partitions on the hard disk contain which Linux partitions. Is there some way to get informaion about this in Linux -- some kind of command I can give, or some kind of application I can run? The best thing would be if I could get that information in a form that I can understand, preferably something like this: /dev/hda5 / 1.2 GB /dev/hda6 /usr 1.2 GB /dev/hda7 /home 650 MB /dev/hda8 /swap 500 MB I understand that this is probably asking way too much though, so I'll settle for information about how big the partitions are, and what they are called (/dev/hda?). I can probably figure out what they contain just by getting information on how big they are. DRX
RE: [newbie] How to find help about C functions
If you have all the development man pages installed correctly, you should be able to do: man strrchr -Original Message- From: Branislav Karic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to find help about C functions Hi, I would like to learn more about some C/C++ functions, for example: strrchr(). How can I find descriptions of functions? Branislav ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
Re: [newbie] xmess
> Has anybody had any luck using (non-windows) emulators > such as xmess (included on LM 7.2) to work? I was > excited to play some of my old Commador64 and atari > games, but don't really know how to get started. For Commodore 64 you should use The VICE, which gives 99,99% accurate emulation.. The VICE is a system-independent emulator system that also emulates Vic20, C128, PET and CBM-II :) You can get it at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dsladic/vice/vice.html After installing it, the c64-part is called "x64". Just run that one, and you're off :) .. btw, you need to have some disk images as well if you want to play anything.. www.c64.com has thousands of c64-games just waiting to be downloaded! (i really love that old machine :) Gerry > > -Paul R > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Grub startup delay is not working !
Hi, GRUB doesn't use lilo.conf, it uses a file called menu.lst in the /boot/grub directory. You just need to edit that file, set your timeout . You may need to run install.sh to install grub onto your MBR, if it isn't there now. cheers, philomena At 06:17 PM 3/9/2001 +0100, you wrote: >Hallo! > >I'm using mdk72 & grub. The problem is that i've got an startup delay >of 5 seconds in /etc/lilo.conf, but on startup the default OS won't >start until i press Enter. > >My lilo.conf has the following line: "timeout=50" > >Also when i type #lilo it works but "Warning! BIOS drive 0x82 may not >be accessible" appears 8 times 8-? > >Lilo stays in MBR of hda and Linux uses sda and sdb... > >THANKS! 8-) > >-- > Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain >[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 > Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org > Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 > > >
Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8
My 30-hour download of Traktopel finished last night :-) When I tried to install it, I go a million errors related to problems with packages. I'd get the pic of the bulldozer, then a window reporting there was a problem loading bzip, info-install, libgpml, etc. I got this a couple of times, so I tried to ignore it, but then I got more errors of the same kind. Eventually I had to give up. Miark - Original Message - From: "Neville Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Vic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8 > Vic wrote: > > > > Hello list. > > > > Upon installing the new Beta Mandrake Traktopel 8 > > release on a system using an AMD K6-400 cpu, > > 192Mb system ram, S3 Virge video card, 10Gb Quantum harddrive UDMA 33, > > with VIA chipset, AWE64 Soundblaster ISA card, a zip250 > > using the zip zoom card (aic7xxx), an old unix BTC cdrom, > > and lastly a Plextor 8/4/32A Cd recorder. > > > > I found the installation went ok in expert mode, one little hang up on > > setting up networking, it would not let you click on yes or no, > > BUT, you could bypass this by going on to the next step, > > then when it cama back, you could just click on uhh, skip or > > something like that, and do it later after installation finished. > > I had the same problem an could not connect to the internet via a modem > after the installation. Following your install were you able to connect > via ppp? If you could then I must be doing something wrong. > > Nev >
Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
> Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut > a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few > that I'm not sure about. > > Namely: > > xfs > rawdevices > network > irda > fetchmail > Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, > but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this > time)? > > -Paul R i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the same... Jeremy begin:vcard n:Hughes;Jeremy x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Be sure to visit funknpunk.com for=0D=0Aupdates on spiritual teachings and =0D=0Afor the latest mixes by Jeremy. x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jeremy Hughes end:vcard
Re: [newbie] Newest Gnapster has BIG BUG in it
Uh oh, I bet that could be, as the Sprint router that my backbone provider goes through has been having serious speed problems lately. Dang, its gotta be corrupt download then. I'm running the new Traktopel 8 version, I hope that one';s compilers are not buggy. On Friday 09 March 2001 03:37 am, so spoke Michael Scottaline: > > Hmmm, not sure what I did differently, but I've been running > 1.4.2 for a couple of weeks now w/no problems. Just downloaded > the tar.gz file, untarred and unzipped, read the docs, followed > the straight forward directions and that's all.Perhaps > you got a bum tar.gz file?? Wny not download again and try again? > 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://webmail.netscape.com/
[newbie] system sounds
I can't get any system sounds... I hear Licq sounds, MP3s, midi's, wavs...if clicked on separately... but not any systems sounds...why? do i need to install ALSA -- Registered Linux User: 167369 <= http://www.kompukit.com => [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am)
[newbie] Hi-res bit depth on Nvidia cards
I have been playing around with the 7.X and 8.0 Mandrake distros on two machines. One has a Riva TNT card, the other has a GeForce 2 MX. Under Mandrake, I can't get either to run in true color at higher than 1024 x 768. I thought this was a problem with X but the current Red Hat beta will allow both of them to run at 24bit at 1600 x 1200. Both betas are using XFree 4.0.2. I haven't tried to use Nvidia's binary drivers because I am not really concerned about 3d acceleration. Anyone know how I can fix this?
[newbie] Gnu-pop3d problems...
Hi All, I've got a problem with gnu-pop3d in combination with Linux Mandrake 7.2 (I don't know if it also happens with other Linux distributions). Gnu- pop3d is installed from gnu-pop3d-0.9.8-3mdk.i586.rpm. What happens is the following: gnu-pop3d is started with 'service gnu-pop3d start', this starts 11 processes of gnu-pop3d. In time the number of processes of gnu-pop3d decrease. It may happen that in one day there are only 6 processes of gnu-pop3d left, while there were 11 processes the day before. It seems that processes are killed when users try to get mail with wrong passwords entered in their e-mail programs. When the user is away for some time the mailer may be trying to get mail over and over again, which may kill gnu-pop3d processes, although I'm not sure. I am also using stunnel (installed from stunnel-3.13-1mdk.i586.rpm) to provide secure pop3 connections to my users, which are outside the local LAN. What stunnel does is that it tunnels port 995 to port 110 and all connections are encrypted. Port 110 is not available outside the local LAN. I don't know if stunnel has anything to to with this problem. Does anyone know if there is a fix for this problem? PS. I have also send an e-mail to the gnu-pop3d mailinglist, but it seems to be down because I receive no messages from it (I'm subscribed with two e-mail addresses and none of them receive any mail from it). With Kind Regards, -- Arlé Mooldijk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] kde2.1 help
On Thursday 08 March 2001 05:41 am, Dale Kosan wrote: > Sorry if this has been answered before, I am trying to install the new > kde2.1 final on my Mandrake 7.2 box.I downloaded all the rpms and did a > rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test, this is the result: You might want to see if you get any reponses from those who've upgraded from 2.0 to 2.1 final. I upgraded from 2.1b2 to 2.1f. 'Course somewhere along the line I did go 2.0 to pre2.1, but it was long ago, and did require a fresh 7.2 install to accomplish successfully :) Generally, if the conflicts you get are only with existing files that you're fixin to upgrade anyway, this is a situation that warrants the use of --force. Many are reporting that 'rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *' is required to get the 2.1 rpms to install. I did, after fulfilling the few dep fails I got, and I also had the conflicts with existing pkgs much the same as yours. I've had no problems since upgrading last Sat morning. Be cautioned tho that YMMV. I'm not advocating the use of either --nodeps or --force unless you understand what's involved and are willing to accept the consequences if it goes wrong. Actually that applies to any operation that requires root privilege to run. You could also uninstall the existing pkgs that are reported as conflicts till you get no 'conflicts' mesgs, but that's basically what --force does. 'Course if you uninstall some kde pkgs, you then must install the upgrades, or re-install the old ones during that KDE/X session. If you're unsure about all this, I'd suggest that 8.0 will be out soon enough, and it includes kde2.1, 2.4.x kernel, a new gcc, etc. -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [[newbie] Linux PDA: would you use one?] Not based on . . .
I wouldn't based on my experience with LM-7.2. I can only boot in graphical mode, even FAILSAFE crashes with a Kernel Panic. I can't install a USB (model supported by Linux-USB.org) modem, can't install Wordperfect 8 (2 CDs & download tried), I can install Corel Photopaint 9 (1 CD and one download tried), but it won't run (fonttastic is missing). And no one knows any answers as to why any or all of these things fail. One might presume a Linux PDA has a good Linux installed, but what of 3rd party applications? Who is going to get those working when they fail? Don Just curious, if it was affordable would y'all go for a linux PDA over a palm or ce PDA? I wonder if running linux on PDA would make it a lot more customizable and more extensible than the other PDA OSs on the market? I've been looking for a PDA that was more than just a glorified organizer. I don't care about storing 5 years worth of appointments or 100,000 email addresses. I want a PDA to be general purpose computing device. I want my PDA to be a thin client to my linux server so I can turn the coffee maker on and pull up my MP3 playlist from my couch. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5023907.html Don Hinds - photo, motorcycle, misc. http://www.wyzards.com Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
[newbie] SB32 is not working
Hallo!! I'm using mdk72. I use harddrake to set up SB32 -sndconfig is not installed by default (i'm using su)-. It plays 8 and 16 bit samples with no problem but when i reboot it no longer works. And i cannot use harddrake again: i cannot choose the IRQ and DMAs i choosed before (they aren't available)... so i have to edit /etc/modules.conf to remove any line referring to sb... then i restart the system and i can start again. Any idea?? 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] 8.0 beta
BELIEVE as you will...that is "your" (entitled)...decision... I speak truth...and only truth... it is not my fault...if others can not accept the truth... I only SHARE the truth !! I forgive you for your "misunderstanding"...of the truth... I will never water down ANY truth,,,to do so, would be deception... and deception in any form...is lying... So, I assume you would rather me lie to you and others, then... I'm sorry...this I can NOT do. and yes, some, if not all of you care...or you wouldn't be replying to this thread... Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:23:05 -0600 From: "Shane Roppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ". ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please keep the religious masturbation of the list serve. I realize that you feel superior in your religious standing, but what you don't realize is that none of us care. If you feel the need to preach please join a Christian discussion group. Or better yet why don't you go find some 16-year-old unwed mother to call a sinner, or wait I know why don't go to the terminal ward in your local hospital, and inform the patients there that if they had lived a life with out sin they would have been much healthier. Bottom line is this Kompukit, your statements here are almost more inappropriate than that of Julio. At least in his case it was a comment made without thought, but you are using this form and members an opportunity to spout your religious propaganda. I think that your messages are far more reprehensible than Julio's, so please stop. -- Registered Linux User: 167369 <= http://www.kompukit.com => [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
Re: [newbie] adsl and connection loss
On Thursday 08 March 2001 10:15 am, Quaylar wrote: > i know for sure that its not the isp, because they say they dont have an > idle timeout.. > > --quay and you've never caught 'em in one of their lies ? yet ;) -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] RPM Updating
Sometime ago there was a series of posting regarding upgradeing/updating RPM to current versioning (4.???). I haven't been able to locate those posting. Could someone point me in the right direction, I remember there was a progression involved. I'm currently running L-M7.1 and rpm-3.0.4 and keep running into versioning problems as I attempt to upgrade some of the packages I use. Cheers John --- 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] 8.0 and just!burn
Thanks, Jim, FireBurner did the job! BTW, www.fireburner.com, in case anyone was wondering... On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jim Lyons wrote: > At 12:44 PM 05/03/01 -0500, you wrote: > >I downloaded the 8.0 isos last night, and want to burn them to disc, but > >I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I have to do it from the Windont > >side of my PC, as my CD-RW won't work under 7.2. The CD burning software I > >have in Windows is a bundle called just!burn, in which I'd use just!data > >to burn them. Now, I mentioned to a friend that I understood I couldn't > >just burn it straight to disc; that there was some settings that had to > >be taken care of, but having never done this before, I didn't know what > >they were. He told me just to make sure I set it so the CD would be > >bootable. Well, I looked all about in just!data, and couldn't find any > >setting to make it bootable. I'm assuming, BTW, that he didn't mean to set > >my BIOS so that I could boot from my CDR (I already can do that). So is > >anyone familiar with this software, and if so, what do I have to do? My > >coaster count is at one so far... > > > > > >peace, > > > >Rog > >Registered Linux user #19071 > > > > > > > > Rog, > > I've just been through all this with .ISO files and it's a minefield. > First, ther'e the catch 22 that much of the info I found was for Linux but > I needed to burn the images in Windows (obviously, if I'm to get Linux > going in the first place). Eventually after several days on the web I > found FireBurner (just do a search) which is a very compact, stand alone, > time limited program which took an .ISO file and turned it into a bootable CD. > > Have a look at it and get back to me if you have any questions. > > Now if I could only get Mandrake 7.2 to recognize my network card (any of > them !!) ... > > Jim Lyons > > > peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071
RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta
This is not a forum for religion. Keep in mind that the entire world is not Christian...It is highly offensive to push your religious beliefs upon someone who comes here for advice on a computer operating system. If I, and the many other users who clearly come from areas that are traditionally NON-Christian, wanted a preacher and to hear a sermon on Christianity, we would contact a local church of our denomination of choice. Thank you for your time. Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S.- Kill this thread, please -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta I'm with you...Robin !!! this is really ridiculous... as for the rest of you...that (it appears) do NOT believe in, nor understand God's word...when you stand in front of Jesus...on Judgement day, and have to give an account of the things said and done in this body of ours, and have no accuse...at allthen you can look back...at this discussion... and say then: GOD HAVE MERCY...on our stupidity and injustice done unto others...in the eyes of our misunderstanding of YOUR WORD (the Bible). Robin Regennitter wrote: > > I cant believe that some people make the big deal out this. I think it's > rather absurd. > - Original Message - > From: "Daryl Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:42 AM > Subject: RE: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > Heyy cool! :o) > > > > regards > > > > Daryl > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julio Gutierrez > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok my apologies to all the girls age of 16 subscribed to this > > > list, also to > > > all females subscribed to it, and to all the parents of 16 yr old > > > girls who > > > > > SORRY again!!! > > > > > > Laters > > > > > > Julio > > > > > > > > > > -- Registered Linux User: 167369 <= http://www.kompukit.com => [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
[newbie] KDE 2.1
Has anyone managed to upgrade to KDE 2.1 from Mandrake 7.2? Is there a comprehensive explanation of how to upgrade? Thanks for any advice, Oder.
Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC 8.0 beta response
just to keep this up... (with tongue firmly implanted in right cheek) and when did the almighty leave you in charge to decide what is or is NOT "political correctness" (ands heck ain't you from an island name Ireland, if-n you-n a Celt? and by the way do you all know what the phrase (excuse please my "phonic" spelling in Gaelic, since I no speaky Gaelic) "Pugg ma whin" means? I have this "Irish" neighbor who hollers it to me every morning as he leaves for work and has to squeeze his car past my penguin-mobile. I think it must mean "what a cool car" ... or something like that... and also... the almighty left a message that NO human today has ANY right to decide who and what will be judged. let him who is, do his work, and the rest of us will do what we can let he how has ears hear. for there is no one so deaf as he who will not hear. - Original Message - From: "Jay needs a Guinness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:10 PM Subject: [newbie] OFF TOPIC - about the ridiculous 8.0 beta response > In this day of political correctness we always have to be wary of what and > how we say it. I, for one, am NOT politically correct. I refuse to be > offended by what anybody says on a mailing list and my suggestion is, if you > are offended by a comment (or my signature line...remember that one) just > ignore the comment or delete the offending message. Stop flooding the inbox > with ridiculous replies about how you feel about it, for it is redundant and > uncalled for. > -- > Jay > ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ > http://www.mrsnooky.com > http://celtic.free > > > > >
[newbie] I seem to have made a big mistake myself. [resolved]
Phew!
Ok, folks.
I've learned the XFS is very essential to running X.
I've also learned
how to start the XFS from the command line. I turns out I was able to just
"ctrl"+"c" the "sending all processes the TERM signal", bringing me to a login
prompt at runlevel 3. I logged in as root and typed:
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start"
I saw that the X
Font Server was started, and I typed "init 5", bring me to the graphical
login.
From there I went to
Startup Services in DrakConf and ethusiastically renabled
XFS.
Have I learned my
lesson!
(Namely, that Linux
is a great platform to learn the intricacies of your
computer.)
And, to never touch
a live wire, toast always falls heavy side down, XFS is important to X, and the
basics of run-level scripts!
-Paul
R
{one releaved
man}
[newbie] Can ADOM run on Linux-Mandrake?
Hi there!
The short question is in the subject, here is some detail:
Compiling adom from source seems to go fine, but then when I run it,
it dumps core (which I do not yet know how to analyze) Is this
easy to do?
Installing adom from the rpm (adom-099g15-3.i586.rpm) seems simple
enough, requires libc.so.5 (libc-5.3.12-34mdk.i586.rpm) but then
when I run it, I see "Error opening terminal: xterm-color." strace
reveals that adom is looking for ~/.terminfo/x/xterm-color and
/usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-color. I did an rpm -ql of xterm* and
found that I have an /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color
which I then copied to the obove locations (changing XTerm to
xterm:-) but that gives the same error message from adom, and strace
says:
open("/root/.terminfo/x/xterm-color", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-color", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "! $XFree86: ", 12) = 12
close(3)= 0
write(2, "Error opening terminal: xterm-co"..., 37Error opening
terminal: xterm-color.
) = 37
_exit(1)
Is that enough information to identify the problem?
--
Thanks (in advance)
Kipling+
(Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] KFM problem
Hello, I have had the same problem as you... here are a few things that you could try: 1. Make sure that your Win98 partition is mounted before you browse the directory. I know that LM mounts these folders automatically but that sometimes can cause it to hang 2. Failing that, make sure that in "/etc/fstab" and "/etc/mtab" that the path to mount your win98 folder is after the mount point for /dev/hda3 HTH, Thomas Adam re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- jhun bacala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > My LM 7.0 hangs up when trying to browse the folder > /mnt with a win98 directory on it. What seems to be > the problem? > > jhun > - > Click here for Free Video!! > http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ > > = Thomas Adam Linux Co-ordinator for The Purbeck School e-mail (school): [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail (yahoo) : [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] UNREGISTAR??
go here and follow the instructions: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 At 05:59 PM 3/7/2001 -0800, you wrote: >how can i unsubscibe from this mailing list? > > >__ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Example using tee command
Would anyone happen to know how to use the tee command? I have written a shell script call mailfile and I was trying to do something like this: tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep "foobar" > foobar.txt | mailfile foobar.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] however that doesn't work like I thought it would. I looked up tee and it says that it redirects STDIN to STDOUT so I was thinking that maybe I could use tee in this command, but possible what I'm trying to do isn't quite possible.
[newbie] Fwd: KDE2.1 and sound
I have recently upgraded to KDE 2.1 following civileme's instructions and noting other information on the list. I have a problem with sound: Previously it worked fine with KDE 2.0, I have a Soundblaster live player 5.1, I get no sound on start up, System sounds do not work, however directly playing the wave files works, Real Player plays real audio files, The microphone works. The mixer shows 'Creative SB live, the volumes are turned up, Trying to configure in Hardrake, the wizard opens showing the correct card but when trying to play the sound file, no sound is heard, I've tried sndconfig, but that gives a message which I can't remember, but says something including modprobe and resources being used, System sounds work in Gnome. Help!!! Regards Mick Featherstone ---
Re: [newbie] My gimp is stuck on print to file
Jeff, If you installed and setup Cups then you could check for your printer in the Cups admin tools that are under the configuration menu and printers. But that might have little or nothing to do with Gimp acting strangely. Besides..uninstalling and reinstalling Gimp isn't going to have any effect on your printer. Mark Jeff Malka wrote: > > How do I find out if my printer is installed? I would like to try that > first > > (scared) > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Registered Linux user 183185 > > - Original Message - > From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 6:59 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] My gimp is stuck on print to file > > > It sounds like to me that this would be a good time to reinstall Gimp. > > > > 1) uninstall the GIMP packages from your system > > rpm -qa|grep gimp > > > > # this will tell you exactly what packages are present > > # on your system. use this to remove exactly the packages > > # that are returned to the screen. > > > > 2) now you have a list of the GIMP packages that are on your system and > >you can remove them. > > > > rpm -e > > > > 3) find all the GIMP packages on the install CD's that you have and > >reinstall them. > > > > That should take care of that problem for you. > > > > -- > > Mark > > > > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being > worthless," > > "Sharing is what makes them powerful." > > > > > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Jeff Malka wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:24:54 -0500 > > > From: Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [newbie] My gimp is stuck on print to file > > > > > > I am using Mandrake 7.1 > > > > > > I cannot print to my printer from within gimp. When I try to print, the > > > "Print setup" screen that opens shows Postscript 2 as being selected and > the > > > window below it is for a file designation (with browse) enabled. The > next > > > line for "command" has no window (field) in which to type anything. > > > > > > Before the setup screen, there is a toggle for print to file, but no > matter > > > which way I click on it, the "print setup" screen does not change. > > > > > > Could it be that in the setup gimp does not know I have a printer > installed? > > > or KDE does not know I have a real printer installed? > > > > > > How do I check these out. > > > > > > I also do not seem to have a printer icon on my KDE desktop. > > > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Registered Linux user 183185 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
Re: [newbie] How to find dependencies?
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 09:58:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: >Now if locate or whatprovides turn up nothin, then go to, >http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/and search libXaw.so.7 > which returns XFree86-libs-4.0.1-28mdk-i586.rpm (among many others >and other distros) > When I clicked on the link to download libXaw.so.7 the download manager showed that I was about to download the XFree86-libs-4.0.1-28mdk-i586.rpm package again. This seemed unnecessary, since I had already downloaded it once. Are you saying that it is possible to download _only_ libXaw.so.7, _separately_? I was unable to find any way to do that, but I'll check again. >So XFree86-libs-4.0.1-28mdk needs to be installed before >XFree86-4.0.1-28mdk. BUT, not neccesarily, when upgrading multiple >packages for something like XFree86 it's a good idea to d/l them all into a >directory all by themselves and then run 'rpm -Uvh *' This helps to >avoid circular dependency failures. rpm will cross check all the rpms in >the dir, and still may return some failed deps. So then it's back to >rpmfind.net to get those. Repeat til successful ;> > I'm not sure that I am "upgrading multiple packages." All I am trying to do is to install XFree86-libs-4.0.1-28mdk-i586.rpm. That is only one package. Granted, it can't be installed unless it has first been installed, but the libraries needed to install it are not available except as part of this package. I'm afraid that I don't understand what you mean by "BUT, not neccesarily, when upgrading multiple packages for something like XFree86 it's a good idea to..." If there were several packages and several libraries to download and install, I could place them all in the same directory, but as it is I have only one package. I can place this in a directory by itself, but will it help to do the 'rpm -Uvh *' thing when you have only one package? >There's other ways to find/satisfy deps, urpmf and rpm2html come to >mind, I've never heard of those. Are they alternative methods to install an rpm package? >but the above is how I do it. Also, when upgrading to packages newer >than your distro version (eg, LM7.2), you'll prob'ly get into situations >sooner or later when you might be a little leary of the provider (eg, >cooker, contribs, etc.). Then it's a good idea to get the src rpm version >and rebuild it on your system to better insure compatibility. Perhaps that would be better. Where do I get that? DRX >-- >Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, > he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Startup services, which are necessary?
Jeremy Hughes wrote: > > > Paul Rodríguez wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm in the process of trying to secure my system. I have > > pmfirewall set up and working well, but there are a lot of holes > > still. One of the things that I am trying to do is minimize > > unnecessary startup services, both for speed and security. I've shut > > a bunch down, mostly servers that I'm not running, but there are a few > > that I'm not sure about. > > > > Namely: > > > > xfs > > rawdevices > > network > > irda > > fetchmail > > Do I need these to run a home workstation, (connected to the internet, > > but not wanting to run any servers or anything like that at this > > time)? > > > > -Paul R > > i am also trying to figure out which i need for a workstation. I you > get an answer please forward to my also. Thanks.. I will do the > same... Jeremy I just installed PMFirewall, and found a good Mandrake online tutorial at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/IPmasq/pages/ that led me through the setup. So I got it up and running successfully. I port scanned myself using http://crypto.yashy.com and had no holes. The startup services on your list that I had enabled and running during the port scan were xfs and network. So I guess you can leave those two running safely if you need them. I'm not sure if they are really needed though in a desktop situation. I will remove them if I find out they are not needed. rawdevices I have set in startup services but it was not running. irda and fetchmail i do not have in my list of startup services. If you use the self port scan at the forementioned URL, su in a terminal first and run "tail -f /var/log/messages". Then you will see all the attempts at getting in, and if they all have a DENY in them, your door is locked.
Re: [newbie] foolish question
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 17:17, Emilio Correa wrote: > Hi, I lost the task bar in KDE, How can I restore it? It should come back when you run "kpanel"; right-click on the desktop, go to the menu-item "run command" and put kpanel in the space provided. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Procrastinate now --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8
Vic wrote: > > Hello list. > > Upon installing the new Beta Mandrake Traktopel 8 > release on a system using an AMD K6-400 cpu, > 192Mb system ram, S3 Virge video card, 10Gb Quantum harddrive UDMA 33, > with VIA chipset, AWE64 Soundblaster ISA card, a zip250 > using the zip zoom card (aic7xxx), an old unix BTC cdrom, > and lastly a Plextor 8/4/32A Cd recorder. > > I found the installation went ok in expert mode, one little hang up on > setting up networking, it would not let you click on yes or no, > BUT, you could bypass this by going on to the next step, > then when it cama back, you could just click on uhh, skip or > something like that, and do it later after installation finished. I had the same problem an could not connect to the internet via a modem after the installation. Following your install were you able to connect via ppp? If you could then I must be doing something wrong. Nev
Re: [newbie] Newest Gnapster has BIG BUG in it
mandrake wrote: > > Hello sorry about OT, > but there is no gnapster lsit, > but i know some of you do gnapster. > > The latest release has a bug, it wont even compile. > > I would do the rpm instead, or wait for the stable > release. > > > [root@kittypuss gnapster-1.4.2]# make Hmmm, not sure what I did differently, but I've been running 1.4.2 for a couple of weeks now w/no problems. Just downloaded the tar.gz file, untarred and unzipped, read the docs, followed the straight forward directions and that's all.Perhaps you got a bum tar.gz file?? Wny not download again and try again? 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://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Made LILO mistake -- Please Help
Jack Gillis wrote: > I just made a mistake in installing. I forgot to tell the > installer to put LILO in hda7, my boot, partition. It went > into the MBR and that messed up my IBM Boot Manager. I got > that straightened out with fdisk /newmbr but now I need to > get LILO onto hda7 so Linux will boot. > > I've seen the answer to this several times but, I am > ashamed to say that I never paid any attention to it > because of confidence I would never make that mistake. > Well here I am looking for the answer. > > Will some kind person please tell me how to do this? > (Chatisements humbly accepted.) > > Thank you. Jackedit (as root) the first line of /etc/lilo.conf to read: boot=/dev/hda7 and save it. Then in console mode as root, execute lilo, like this: /sbin/lilo -v TIA -- Alan
[newbie] no postscript printers in linuxconf
Hello, I try to print with lpr under mandrake 7.2. I installed the rhs-filters, printtool, control-panel and of course the lpr rpm. When I add a printer with linuxconf I can't choose a postscript printer. Has anyone a solution ? PS: I have installed once again the ghostscript package. Frédéric Rooms
[newbie] KFM problem
Greetings, My LM 7.0 hangs up when trying to browse the folder /mnt with a win98 directory on it. What seems to be the problem? jhun -Click here for Free Video!!http://www.gohip.com/free_video/
[newbie] Where are the KDE Header files?
Hi all.. When trying to compile knapster (among others) I often get the message below. I have check my CD distro (7.2) and the KDE 2.0 upgrade cd to no avail. I seem to have all the other development stuff okay and can usually compile and install without problems. What RPM do I need?? I checked the Mandrake page for requirements but no joy. Thanks... checking for KDE... libraries /usr/lib, headers /usr/include checking for extra includes... no checking for extra libs... no checking for kde headers installed... configure: error: your system is not able to compile a small KDE application! Check, if you installed the KDE header files correctly. -- Cheers! -Ron
