Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto per condivisione internet
Il 13:36, venerdì 25 Maggio 2001, scrivesti: La mia configurazione è questa: Ho una connessione internet adsl che entra in una macchina linux con mandrake 7.1. Mandrake la condivide con una rete di macchine windows. Nessun problema, ma quando utilizzo netmeeting o altri programmi (tipo c6) ho problemi: neetmeting non sente le chiamate in entrata. La stessa cosa si verifica con C6 che mi permette di mandare files, ma non mi permette di riceverli. Credo sia un problema di ip masquerading. Come faccio a risolverlo? Domanda: come hai configurato il tutto? è la macchina linux che effettua il masquerading oppure è qualche dispositivo (router, ecc...) situato tra la connessione ADSL e la tua rete locale? Il problema è che se la macchina linux è dietro il firewall, per definizione non è visibile dall'esterno, a meno di non configurare le regole in modo che i pacchetti destinati alla porta X del firewall vengano da quest'ultimo girati sulla porta X della macchina Linux. Se invece la macchina linux è visibile da fuori, devi semplicemente configurare il firwall in modo che non blocchi i pacchetti, ad esempio di netmeeting, destinati alla macchina stessa. Saluti. Alberto -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
Re: [newbie-it] Fine iscrizione
On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:09 +0200 Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Altrimenti, il primo giorno di iscrizione hai ricevuto un messaggio da sympa (il robot che gestisce la lista) con le istruzioni per gestire la propria partecipazione alla ML via e-mail (compresa la rimozione). Sapete dirmi perche' da un po' di tempo (da meta' aprile mi pare) questo sympa non mette piu' l' indirizzo della lista nel campo Reply-to ma lascia quello del mittente? Almeno da me e' cosi' ed e' mooolto scomodo.. -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie] X and FontPaths
Hi, I am very new to Linux. I changed my default font setting in one of the properties, and now X will not start. I can login through a non-graphical interface, but when I run 'startx', I get the following error messages: Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list. Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' here it says some things about reporting bugs XIO: fatal IO error 104(connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I was poking around for a fix and found this page (http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xtroub.html) that described what seemed to be my problem. (Under Common Errors and Fixes) Given my extremely limited background in linux, I tried to follow the instructions as best as I could. I found my FontPath setting looked nothing like what they described, and when it asked if i had "all the font directories that are listed therein?" I first checked to make sure I had the directories listed in the file (/etc/X11/fs/config), then proceeded to cross reference them with the FontPaths on XF86Config. I edited the XF86Config file to add all the directories and the line (FontPath "unix/:-1") and saved it and rebooted, with no luck. I saw a file named XF86Config.old, and wondered if I reinstated that, would it reset my fonts and make X work? Basically, I'm looking for a fix to what I've described above. I have not added or removed any fonts, simply changed the default. I've tried implementing the steps taking to add fonts as well, to no avail. If anyone could help me out in any form, I would be greatly appreciative of you. Sincerly, Johnny S PS: If anyone knows how to get a Logitech iFeel optical USB mouse to work in LM 8.0, I'd appreciate that too... but thats a whole other novel.
[newbie] Bootup Problems
Hello, Having just installed Linux Mandrake 8 on my laptop I'm faced with a problem. It installed fine and autodetected the hardware, - impressive! However, on rebooting, the laptop completely freezes after INIT 2.78. Nothing responds, even ctrl-alt-del. My specs: Pentium III 600 ATI Rage LT Pro Graphics Crystal Soundfusion sound 128Mb RAM 12Gb IDE disk Any ideas? A google search indicates many others have had this problem but no solutions are apparent. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Adam
Re: [newbie] Getting the network to work
How do I remove myself from this list? - Original Message - From: Damien GIRIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Getting the network to work I have put a line in /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 8139too, and that doesn't seem to do the trick. hello Ed, i think your are wrong with the name of the file (conf.modules instead of modules.conf) but i am not sure. I also have problems to share files betwen windows and linux. If anyone can help me : with ping i get answer from the other computer but I still cant have a look in the network (with konqueror) it says to me that i havent configured it yet properly in drakeconf but i did (maybe badly) i want to share /home, what do i need ? do i have to use samba ? what is the program given in the configuration (which says only samba users will see it or about) what is the way to share files once the network looks like working (hosts and hardware well configured) any help is welcome a very linux newbie used to (and by) windows PS : excuse my english
[newbie] sound problems
Dont know if you got this message (mail probs at the moment) BUT if you like heres some more info... If you have an app running artsd that gets killed with xtreme prejudice it leaves a bunch of lock files in /tmp/YOURUSERNAME/ with the prefix art. these files stop a fresh artsd running, check by opening a console and invoking artsd, (just type artsd) it will give you an informative error message. If these files do exist, rm them and try running artsd again then xmms or kde media centre. If they work shut them down and reboot. Voila instant sound. Otherwise... Check that you've got an artsd sound server running on your system - use gtop if you've installed it, its much friendlier than top. If you havent got it set to run on start up then you wont get any sound. 7.2 had problems with this that 8.0 has sorted. I'd advize a total reinstall if upgrading to 8.0, I tried an upgrade from 7.2 and had LOADS of trouble, just bakup yoour data and go for the clean instal, then go and get the security patches esp the bash patch if you do any C, and hopefully it'll all work. -- ___ Get your free email from http://www.mail.com
[newbie] XFRee86 3.3.6 + Laptop
I now appear to have a functional X windows running on my laptop, with one small problem: I appear to have acquired a virtual rather than actual desktop. By this I mean I can see approximately one quarter of the desktop, and can navigate to the remaining three quarters using the mouse to move the aperture with which I view the desktop. I can see no virtual desktop specified in the XF86Config file, and was wondering if anyone can suggest how I can get back to a 1024x768 desktop that is viewable all over? Cheers, Sean
Re: [newbie] Block Samba Telnet
SK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Linux Friends I am setting my SAMBA server . How to deny samba user to access the telnet session. Or how to block user IP address from accessing telnet into my Linux Server. Best Regards, SKLIM using ipchains in LM 7.1 i used this rule to block all ip trafic to port 23 on eth0. i hope this will help you. ipchains -A input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 23 -i eth0 -j DENY -l ipchains -A input -p udp -s 0/0 -d 0/0 23 -i eth0 -j DENY -l goodluck __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] KVM switches
I use a Belkin Omni View SE 4-port with my PCs and Mac (with Mac adapter). Should be transparent to all OSs - LL Randy Kramer wrote: Have you (or anybody else) used the KVM with adapters to drive AT style computers (computers with serial mouse and AT keyboard inputs)? I (not the original questioner) need that capability, plus PS/2 for future upgrade capability. Thanks, Randy Kramer Tim Holmes wrote: I CAN! I have a BELKIN OmniCube 4-Port KVM, and I love it! I've been telling friends to get them, who don't even have multiple machines! That's how much I swear by it. I bought mine through www.pcconnection.com/. At the time I believe this model was $120, and then it was $12 for KVM cables. (One 6' video cable, one 6' PS/2 keyboard cable, and one 6' PS/2 mouse cable.) I've seen that same package at CompUSA for $19.99. I also believe the KVM was a good $160 at CompUSA as well. It comes with a version of TurboLinux, I personally don't like TurboLinux, but hey... it was Linux! It has Hot Keys. Hit Scroll Lock twice then the number for that machine. 1 through 4 in my case. The box also has a button on it to go from machine to machine. I have 3 machines on mine right now, and if a friend comes over, I can just plug them into the back of the box and go from there. So I highly recommend it! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010523 18:12]: | Could anyone recommend a good 2/4 port KVM switch?
Re: [newbie] DRAM -- but which one?
That's easy cause sdram only comes in 66, 100, or 133 mhz bus speeds. Think of bus as the roadway (speed=the speed limit) on which your data/info travels. And all are backward (downward?) capable. You could get 133 and it would function at the mainboard's/cpu's bus speed. Used to there was a price difference that would help make your decision, but now all sdram is relatively inexpensive. Go to http://www.crucial.com and they have most systems or motherboards crossreferenced where you can easily find the kind that would work best and theirs is one of the more respected products. But basically, it's almost interchangeable. -s On Friday 25 May 2001 04:12 am, you wrote: Dear friends: I would like to add extra memory to my system, and I have one last slot left. My SY-5EMA motherboard manual makes reference to 66MHz host bus CPU's and to 83MHz host bus CPU's. What are they talking about and how can I tell in Linux which ones my system uses and needs. I couldn't find any info in KDE's System info on this. How do I find out, please, if my CPU uses a 66Mhz or 83 Mhz host bus? Thank you. Benjamin
RE: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8
The Simple answer is this,, There is a problem with the config or something on the computers that are having slowness probs with KDE2,, I have it running an a 200mmx with 64 mb of ram, it takes about 25 to 30 seconds to load, and is as fast as my PII450, it is also faster then win98 was on the same box... first thing I'd do if I ran into this problem, is download the src rpm's and rebuild them on the system that you plan on using them on... That will make some difference. (it probably runs well on my 200mmx because mandrake compiled it to me its all i586 (unless of course you only have an i586 in which case you will probably get no improvment at all) From this point on, I have decided as a general rule to rebuild all updates and downloads I do to any of my machines... It doesn't take much extra effort, and I think when I have my entire distro running on optimised code for my systems, it will make a substantial difference overall. give it a shot,, it certainly can't help regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of poogle Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2001 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 On Monday 21 May 2001 14:11, you wrote: Irv wrote: From: Pelle Poluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but at the same time I want speed and a practical UI (read GUI). I need a smooth file manager, easy access to OS, an editor, browser, email client (the usual I guess) and a C++ Java IDE. That you'll have - but not with KDE 2, I'm afraid. Even people with 1ghz / 256 mb machines have reported slowness. My 300mhz / 128 meg pc is too slow to be usable, but not quite as slow as you report - usually KDE takes 30-40 seconds, and new apps or windows 10 - 20 seconds. The good news is that KDE 1.x works just fine. Try an older version of Mandrake or SuSE or RedHat. They're all plenty fast. I feel compelled to add to this. I'm running LM 8.0 w/KDE2 on a 400 PII, with great success! I've experienced NONE of the slowness reported. While I admit that some of the lean mean windows managers come up a lot faster, they're also doing a lot less for you. KDE is more than just a window manager, it's a desktop environment. Big difference. Anyway. Just wanted to throw that in. My KDE 2. runs great on a 400 PII. It has a modest 256MB ram, and about 30GB of disk to roam on. I'd suggest anyone getting performance as slow as is being reported, needs to do some serious digging into their configurations. Something is wrong. Ric I opted for Mandrake because I've heard a lot of good things about it. So I downloaded 8.0 last week and eagerly installed it on my AMD K333 machine (96 mb, Riva TNT) on a 2 gig partition. As I've followed the development of KDE with great interest, I chose KDE as default windows manager (and it has KDevelop). But it's really slow. Just loading Mandrake takes like 3-4 minutes. Some of it, I can understand. In the installation process, I included lots of apps and some of them gets loaded when Mandrake starts (like MySql and postgres, probably some more servers). But that surely doesn't account for the immensly slow loading of the OS. And then I start KDE... It takes another 2-3 minutes. And using it is awful. Loading a simple app might take 10-20 secs and everything just crawls. I just can't use it. I tried Window Maker instead and it worked better . But I don't want to drop KDE just yet. There must be something wrong with the configuration. I also tried Gnome but it started to look for a trash folder which it didn't find. Although I canceled that search, it seemed like it continued to search for the folder because the hd were working really hard all the time and everything worked even slower than in KDE. There are also some more strange things happening: - when I leave the windows manager and come to the 'console', I get a line typed on the screen all the time: Sending ICMP signal...failed (or something like that). It effectively stops me from working in console mode. - it seems like I've lost my internet connection. During installation, I selected 'DHCP-server' when asked for IP address. And I managed to do some surfing using Konqueror. But after installing Gnome and Window Maker, something must have happened to the configuration. - shutting down or restaring the OS always hangs the machine. - when I start Windows instead, using the boot manager, the initial loading process seems to be slower now than before. It's not a big deal because it
Re: [newbie] ipchains/iptables in 8.0
Ok I have a bit of an answer to my question :) http://antarctica.penguincomputing.com/~netfilter/unreliable-guides/NAT-HOWTO/index.html Well I found a really super small thing in this how to that got the connection sharing up but I just wonder if everything will work. I still dont see the modules for things like quake, ftp, irc, etc. Ok now same boat basically. I still can't access some things. For example like when trying to get an ftp site I get an error (many different ftp sites not just one, I can't get to even one from the windows box). Here's the script from the NAT how-to: # Load the NAT module (this pulls in all the others). modprobe iptable_nat # In the NAT table (-t nat), Append a rule (-A) after routing # (POSTROUTING) for all packets going out ppp0 (-o ppp0) which says to # MASQUERADE the connection (-j MASQUERADE). iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE # Turn on IP forwarding echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward All I did was copy it though so I'm not familiar with iptables yet. I'll keep reading and hopefully some one can tell me where the modules are (or even one hackish one that 'does it all'). __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] rpm 4 macros
Greetings! I'm trying to rebuild postgresql-7.1.1-3mdk.src.rpm in LM72. Suddenly, It just stop. I looked at the spec file and found out that it was written in rpm 4 (using new macros). Too bad because I only have rpm-3.0.5-27mdk. Macros like %serverbuild. Can somebody tell me where to find the definition of rpm 4 macros? If I can just get my hands on LM80, I would execute rpm --eval %name_of_macro. Thanks for the time. Sherwin
RE: [newbie] OT: Intel Performance
My Experiance with Laptops is that they are always slower then comparable desktops, generally the hard disks are slower, the ram runs slower, the PIII notebooks may even be having some weird issue with linux and speedstep, anything that can be done to make it use less power or generate less heat is generally done in notebook manufacture. particularly hard disks, only the new generation of disks are catching up most still run 4300 rpm drives... and as stated many times in this thread, the hard disks are the bootle neck of a system... guess we wait until the powers that be make some suggestions... regards .. Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David E. Fox Sent: Friday, 25 May 2001 12:38 PM To: Ric Tibbetts Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Intel Performance Wow, some great comments! Thanks to everyone who has replied to this. Ric - I've cc'ed your message to my brother, who runs Win 98 on a PIII/600. Maybe it'll be a good comparison point, but his system is a desktop, not a laptop (and I'm not clear why laptops should run it slower ... but it's a lower power CPU, isn't it? All other things aside, should there be any reason why a laptop PIII isn't the same thing as a desktop PIII? My gut feeling would be of course not, but that doesn't explain your (relatively) poor performance. runing on an SMP system is faster only because you run more than one instance...). I'd not seen a large difference, until I fired it up on this PIII (and a few others around here). So, having said that. A brief comparison: The SMP PII 266. Running Linux (Redhat 6.2). Disks: integrated SCSI Fast Wide/Ultra. (adaptec). Memory 128 MB Average Processing speed: 8 hours per cpu (2 instances running) PII 400 UP Disks IDE, whatever I had handy to throw in it. Memory 256 MB Operating systems: Win2k, Win98, Linux (Mandrake 8.0), and Solaris 8.0 (busy box...) Average processing speed: 8 hours (regardless of OS. I only see minor variations is processing speed between the different OSs. The fastest being Linux Solaris). The PIII 650 Laptop UP Disks: Whatever Dell threw in it at the factory (IDE) Memory: 128 MB Operating System: Win98 Average processing speed (I checked this): 72-80 hours. I only have it ruinning as the screen saver on the laptop, but it's in that mode 16 hours a day, and all week-end. That's not a reason for the slow performance. It's doing NOTHING else at that point. I've also Yeah, and based on my brother's timings on setiathome, it's getting enough CPU while just in screensaver mode, I would think. Incidentally,] his average times are about 19 hrs per work unit, and mine are close to 10 hrs per work unit (but normally two other cpu-intensive things run as well -- dnetc genomeathome. My load average hovers around 3.0.) I reflected on this, only because I was seeing people reporting slow performance with KDE (among other things) with PIII systems, and it sparked a note with me. Could be a problem with the PIII's, or there is code in the newer Linux that some PIII's just don't process well. The only thing I can think of (and which I partially addressed in another message to the list) is that there's a possibility that the extra memory usage incurred with KDE is impairing setiathome's ability to stay 100% in the RAM and/or cache memory. Remember, setiathome is a 'niced' process, so it runs at lower CPU than other tasks by default. Of course, if some other task starts paging in RAM there rests the possibility that part of setiathome might get swapped out. Ordinarily, of course, only systems with *really* limited memory would be adversely affected, because the memory footprint that setiathome needs is only about 15 megs. KDE of course uses a large amount of RAM, much of it shared between a literal 'forest' of separately running processes (do a 'ps alx' on your system and you'll see what I mean) :). And with the recent reports of X hogging up vast amounts of RAM, hell, anything can be happening :(. But on a system with ca. 128 megs of RAM this shouldn't make that big of a difference. I have 256 megs of RAM now, and my previous P-100 system had 96 megs. There's another possibility, and that depends on whether you are using setiathome's server stats page to tell you what your average is, and whether that laptop is 100% connected to the internet. If setiathome is done with a work unit and the internet link is not up, it'll just sit there and wait until the connection becomes available. On a dialup or other connection, you could be doing nothing for a long time :(. Both my brother and I have DSL so the system can put up and grab work units without having to wait hours for a link to come up. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL
[newbie] apache php
Sorry, this is probably a really newbie question. It doesn't appear that I have PHP enabled for apache. Is there a way that I can check to see if Apache is compiled with PHP support or is there a flag that I can pass it to enable php? I'd like to avoid recompiling this kind of stuff because it really frustrates me because it hardly ever works for me, however, if that's what I have to do let me know...
Re: Re: [newbie] KVM switches
The Serial mouse versions work fine. The PS/2 mouse versions, on the other hand, might work in a all-Windows environment (I haven't tried it) but do not work in a Linux environment. BTW: I am talking about the mechanical KVM switches. Electronic switch KVMs (e.g. Cybex, etc.) work fine. Also with mechanical keyboard switches you may want to set your BIOS not to stop on keyboard failure, otherwise your computer will hang on 'Press F1 to continue' on reboot unless the keyboard switch is set to that computer. Have you (or anybody else) used the KVM with adapters to drive AT style computers (computers with serial mouse and AT keyboard inputs)? I (not the original questioner) need that capability, plus PS/2 for future upgrade capability. Thanks, Randy Kramer Tim Holmes wrote: I CAN! I have a BELKIN OmniCube 4-Port KVM, and I love it! I've been telling friends to get them, who don't even have multiple machines! That's how much I swear by it. I bought mine through www.pcconnection.com/. At the time I believe this model was $120, and then it was $12 for KVM cables. (One 6' video cable, one 6' PS/2 keyboard cable, and one 6' PS/2 mouse cable.) I've seen that same package at CompUSA for $19.99. I also believe the KVM was a good $160 at CompUSA as well. It comes with a version of TurboLinux, I personally don't like TurboLinux, but hey... it was Linux! It has Hot Keys. Hit Scroll Lock twice then the number for that machine. 1 through 4 in my case. The box also has a button on it to go from machine to machine. I have 3 machines on mine right now, and if a friend comes over, I can just plug them into the back of the box and go from there. So I highly recommend it! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010523 18:12]: | Could anyone recommend a good 2/4 port KVM switch?
RE: [newbie] OT: Intel Performance
franki My Experiance with Laptops is that they are always slower then franki comparable desktops, generally the hard disks are slower, the franki ram runs slower, ... Cache memory takes up a lot of space on the CPU die and consumes a lot of power. When you compare cache sizes between comparable laptop and non-laptop systems (comparable == same model and same clock speed), you will generally see significantly smaller caches on the laptops and correspondingly lower performance on real tasks. Smaller caches mean smaller dies, which means lower power consumption. Modern CPUs are heavily pipelined and generally run at much higher clock rates than main memory. Along with all the other stuff that affects pipeline performance, to keep the pipes moving you have to have the data you want in the cache. Even on a system that is not paging, you will see substantial performance degradation if it's not getting almost all its data from cache. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)
On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. Sincerely, Marcia I thought I resolved my printer problem last night except for the quality. When I went to the web cups admin and changed the resolution, the problems only became worse. When I tried a test page it just would pour out paper after paper with some print gibberish occasionally. I tried to cancel the jobs from both the command line and from the web and neither have worked. The jobs will not cancel. I have deleted all of my printers from the web and it still does this kind of eternal printing. How do I cancel the jobs now? Also, I want to get my printer working correctly. I have tried everything that I can think of so far including all of your suggestions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia -- Marcia Waller
[newbie] Compressing files with zip
Dear All, I would like to compress a directory with the zip format so that I may send it to my Win98 laptop through email. How may I do this by hand? I need to print out some info and I still cannot get my Epson Stylus Color to work with LM8 so I am forced to send the files to my laptop. My laptop only has Win98 which is why I want to use the zip format.Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake
-Original Message- Perhaps you can correct things by rebuilding the RPM database: rpm --rebuilddb I have had these strange things happen too, and this seems to help. Unfortunately, this did not help much. Marc -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze
[newbie] necesito saber.....
Hola lista Soy nuevo en la lista y necesito saber si por aca hay alguien de habla hispana, ya que no soy muy bueno escribiendo en ingles... De antemano Gracias -=PePE=-
RE: [newbie] Compressing files with zip
Winzip can open tar files, so tar it first Here is the syntax to copy a directory to a tar file.. tar -cvvf somedir.tar somedir/ where somedir.tar is the name of the file it will create and somedir/ is the name of the directory... doing it to a file is pretty much the same thing,, try: man tar to see more details... winzip will open the tar file,, I do it all the time.. regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marcia Waller Sent: Saturday, 26 May 2001 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Compressing files with zip Dear All, I would like to compress a directory with the zip format so that I may send it to my Win98 laptop through email. How may I do this by hand? I need to print out some info and I still cannot get my Epson Stylus Color to work with LM8 so I am forced to send the files to my laptop. My laptop only has Win98 which is why I want to use the zip format.Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)
On Friday 25 May 2001 11:45 am, you wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. Sincerely, Marcia I thought I resolved my printer problem last night except for the quality. When I went to the web cups admin and changed the resolution, the problems only became worse. When I tried a test page it just would pour out paper after paper with some print gibberish occasionally. I tried to cancel the jobs from both the command line and from the web and neither have worked. The jobs will not cancel. I have deleted all of my printers from the web and it still does this kind of eternal printing. How do I cancel the jobs now? Also, I want to get my printer working correctly. I have tried everything that I can think of so far including all of your suggestions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia This ain't the correct way, I have done a turn off printer, locate spool, then rm /var/spool/cups/* and rm /var/spool/cups/tmp/* and rebooted. That sucks, but I was starting to get low on the $100/ounce ink! :-) Sorry you're having so much trouble, you been working on this for quite some time and I wish I could help. I wish Civilme could jump in here with some epson printer advise. Mine ain't doing much better. If you can find one of the drivers that will print anything near correctly and then up the dpi maybe that'll work. That's what I did. I have a 777 and found the 680 almost works. -s
Re: [newbie] necesito saber.....
Hola Gracias, mira tengo un problema cuando trabajo con linux, en realidad esto me aparecio hace poco Cuando Instalo o ejecuto linux en la maquina si no presiono ninguna tecla el sistema se pausa Suena dos veces el speakers del pc y se detiene, eso me ocurrio hace poco pero no se que pueda ser, cuando estoy en modo X windows no me arroja ningun problema pero cuando trabajo en modo texto si no escribo nada dentro de 1 minuto se detiene... pense que era problema de linux pero al intentar tratar FreeBSD ocurre lo mismo Espero me puedas ayudar, Gracias...
[newbie] Running two DNS on network
Is it possible to run a local DNS on my linux machine at work in addition to the corporate DNS? What I think I want to do is setup my own DNS so that I can resolve names without having to bother the IT group. For example, what I would like to do is on my windows machine setup the secondary DNS to be my linux machine so when I try to do something like: http://voodoo , or http://foobar, etc... it'll hit my linux machine. I realize that I could easily edit my /etc/hosts file on windows, but I'd like to have everyone in my little cube pod be able to do the same thing. Do I understand this stuff right?
Re: [newbie] List Removal, was: getting network to work
Go back to mandrake's site where you signed up. -s On Thursday 24 May 2001 09:03 pm, you wrote: How do I remove myself from this list?
Re: [newbie] Compressing files with zip
Marcia, If you have win 98, you can install a program called winzip (www.winzip.com), which will handle .tar.gz files, or you can try zip on linux--not sure if it'll deal with a directory though. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:24 PM 05/25/2001 -0400, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I would like to compress a directory with the zip format so that I may send it to my Win98 laptop through email. How may I do this by hand? I need to print out some info and I still cannot get my Epson Stylus Color to work with LM8 so I am forced to send the files to my laptop. My laptop only has Win98 which is why I want to use the zip format.Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie] Trash Bin in KDE will not empty in MDK 8.0
Roman, ;) this isn't a bug...it's a feature. Mark On Thu, 24 May 2001, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, I am using Lunux Mandrake 8. For some reason my /home/roman/desktop/Trash Bin will NOT empty. Any idea what is causing this? Which file should I edit? Is this a bug? Cheers! -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Freedom Fighter for Penguins Everywhere
Re: [newbie] Looking for C++ type programming tool for LM8
Roman, Are you talking about a developement environment or the compilers that you would use to compile the programs you code. There are already both included on the install CD's. On Thu, 24 May 2001, Romanator wrote: Hi all, Is there a C++ program that will run on LM 8.0? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Freedom Fighter for Penguins Everywhere
Re: [newbie] necesito saber.....
No sabia que habian tantos, asi que para todos suerte y animo... Nuevamente Thanx.. for all... begin:vcard n:; x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:-=PePE=- end:vcard
Re: [newbie] necesito saber.....
Gracias de todas formas. Gracias. begin:vcard n:; x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:-=PePE=- end:vcard
[newbie] Problemas con KDE
Hola Tengo un problema con KDE y LM 7.1, cuando lo cargo me arroja un error con una imagen que aparece una bomba, a que se debe este error Al cargar Gnome me funciona perfectamente... Me podrian ayudar... Grax. begin:vcard n:; x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:-=PePE=- end:vcard
Re: [newbie] XFRee86 3.3.6 + Laptop
sean gibbins wrote: I now appear to have a functional X windows running on my laptop, with one small problem: I appear to have acquired a virtual rather than actual desktop. By this I mean I can see approximately one quarter of the desktop, and can navigate to the remaining three quarters using the mouse to move the aperture with which I view the desktop. I can see no virtual desktop specified in the XF86Config file, and was wondering if anyone can suggest how I can get back to a 1024x768 desktop that is viewable all over? Cheers, Sean SeanIn your /etc/X11/XF86Config file in the Screen sections part each of the different color depths has a list of resolutions (the below example is from my computer). Mine (below) are listed largest to smallest. Yours are probably listed smallest to largest. Edit the file and change the order to largest to smallest and your problem should go away. -- Alan # ** # Screen sections # ** # The Colour SVGA server Section Screen Driver svga Device Voodoo3 (generic) Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 32 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection
Re: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively
where did you download that from? it sounds like that might be driveimage image or a norton ghost image. you might want to download the .iso image b/c you can burn it directly to a cd and you then have an exact copy of the distro cd. thats what i did. only bad thing is you have to download a 650mb file. hope this helps. if you have any other questions just ask james massardo - Original Message - From: Michael Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: james massardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:30 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively It's the image downloaded for 8.0 -- hd.img A single file, *.img Thanks for any help! -mike -Original Message- From: james massardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively what kind of image do you have?? is it a *.iso or is a bunch of folders james massardo From: Michael Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively How do I get my hard drive image to actually work? Got a current windoze install (win98se). Downloaded the hdd image file for 8.0. However don't know how to get it to be there. How is it extracted or executed? Thanks much for any help! Michael Mitchell __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] rpm 4 macros
On Friday, May 25, 2001, newbie-mandrake wrote: Macros like %serverbuild. Can somebody tell me where to find the definition of rpm 4 macros? If I can just get my hands on LM80, I would execute rpm --eval %name_of_macro. On my system it's: [paul@anne paul]$ rpm --eval %serverbuild export CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fno-omit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fno-omit-frame-pointer RPM_OPT_FLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 2 days 1 hour 8 minutes.
Re: [newbie] apache php
On Friday, May 25, 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Sorry, this is probably a really newbie question. It doesn't appear that I have PHP enabled for apache. Is there a way that I can check to see if Apache is compiled with PHP support or is there a flag that I can pass it to enable php? Create a file called phpinfo.php in your web directory containing: ?php phpinfo(); ? When you load that page in your browser, it should tell you all about your PHP configuration if it works. It it doesn't work, you'll know. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 2 days 1 hour 9 minutes.
[newbie] case change?
Is there a standard Linux command to change all files in a directory and in all its subdirectories to lower case? TIA -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC
Re: [newbie] Compressing files with zip
Use tar. tar -czvf /destination/archive name.tar.gz /directory to tar.zip So if you wanted to zip up /home into /tmp: tar -czvf /tmp/home.tar.gz /home Will create a compressed tar file named home.tar.gz (or alternately home.tgz) in /tmp containing all of /home You can open these on Win98 with WinZip. Ric Michael D. Viron wrote: Marcia, If you have win 98, you can install a program called winzip (www.winzip.com), which will handle .tar.gz files, or you can try zip on linux--not sure if it'll deal with a directory though. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:24 PM 05/25/2001 -0400, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I would like to compress a directory with the zip format so that I may send it to my Win98 laptop through email. How may I do this by hand? I need to print out some info and I still cannot get my Epson Stylus Color to work with LM8 so I am forced to send the files to my laptop. My laptop only has Win98 which is why I want to use the zip format.Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie] necesito saber.....
Hola PP Yo apenas me apunte en la lista. Tambien soy nuevo usando Linux pero ya se un buen de cosas porque he estado leyendo libros. Bueno si necesitas un amigo ya sabes, aqui tienes a tu compa. :-) TezcatlipocA On Friday 25 May 2001 10:21, you wrote: Hola lista Soy nuevo en la lista y necesito saber si por aca hay alguien de habla hispana, ya que no soy muy bueno escribiendo en ingles... De antemano Gracias -=PePE=-
Re: [newbie] KVM switches
On Friday 25 May 2001 16:52, Lou Lipnickey wrote about Re: [newbie] KVM switches that ... I use a Belkin Omni View SE 4-port with my PCs and Mac (with Mac adapter). Should be transparent to all OSs - LL I use a 2-port from the same company. It requires ps/2 mouses and keyboards, but serial or DIN --- ps2 adapters can be found if you look around. Totally OS-transparent - I've run the thing with dos, dos + win, linux and beos computers connected to it. Recommended. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC
[newbie] Sound Card Problems in mandrake 8.0
I finally got a good install of mandrake (yay!!!). However, my problems have only begun. Aside from a bunch of small things I'll hopefully figure out later, my biggest current problem is the lack of sound. I have installed Linux on a Thinkpad i1400 with an ESS Solo-1 Audiodrive card. If I go to the mandrake control center and click on hardware then soundcards, I see that Mandrake identifies my soundcard as a ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive. This is correct. Then, when I go to the kde control center, I see under Informationsound, that that the sound driver being used is 3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.10b emulation code). Further down, it says Installed drivers: type 10: ALSA emulation. Then, it says Card config: ---no soundcards--- followed by this stuff Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG If I run sndconfig, It detecs my sound card correctly as a ES1969, but then informs me that there is no support for it. What can I do? Any help is very much appreciated. Note: I tried downloaded the latest alsa drivers (0.5.11 and followed the directions, but I got compile errors when I typed in make) _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Compressing files with zip
Dear All, Thank you for your answers about zip. It seems quite easy. I will try this. Thanks again. Sincerely, Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively
That file hd.img is a 1.4 meg file one puts on a floppy to boot and begin the install from a harddrive after they have downloaded all those 8.0 files in all those directories. You transfere it to a floppy by typing into a terminal: dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 (or /mnt/floppy). others: cdrom.img and network.img On Friday 25 May 2001 03:58 pm, you wrote: where did you download that from? it sounds like that might be driveimage image or a norton ghost image. you might want to download the .iso image b/c you can burn it directly to a cd and you then have an exact copy of the distro cd. thats what i did. only bad thing is you have to download a 650mb file. hope this helps. if you have any other questions just ask james massardo - Original Message - From: Michael Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: james massardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:30 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively It's the image downloaded for 8.0 -- hd.img A single file, *.img Thanks for any help! -mike -Original Message- From: james massardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively what kind of image do you have?? is it a *.iso or is a bunch of folders james massardo From: Michael Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Putting the hdd image file on effectively How do I get my hard drive image to actually work? Got a current windoze install (win98se). Downloaded the hdd image file for 8.0. However don't know how to get it to be there. How is it extracted or executed? Thanks much for any help! Michael Mitchell __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)again
On Friday 25 May 2001 12:45, Marcia Waller wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print from an app. I just get tons of papers going through with sometimes some gibberish color and BW print. When it does this, I then go to the terminal to cancel the jobs, but lpstat shows that there are no jobs and I cannot cancel them that way. I can from the website for cups but that is the only place. Are there some files that I can check on to find out what is going on or to get this to work? Again my printing worked fine in 7, 7.2, and works fine with my WIn98 on my laptop. I know that it is not the printer itself. When I first installed 8 the printer worked but the printing quality was terrible and even with changing resolution, etc, nothing improved. After trying many suggestions here plus reading on solutions, I just ended up messing it all up more. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much. Sincerely, Marcia I thought I resolved my printer problem last night except for the quality. When I went to the web cups admin and changed the resolution, the problems only became worse. When I tried a test page it just would pour out paper after paper with some print gibberish occasionally. I tried to cancel the jobs from both the command line and from the web and neither have worked. The jobs will not cancel. I have deleted all of my printers from the web and it still does this kind of eternal printing. How do I cancel the jobs now? Also, I want to get my printer working correctly. I have tried everything that I can think of so far including all of your suggestions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia Dear All, I just found out there is a new version of cups. It is cups 1.1.8. I downloaded the rpm and tried to install. It was conflicting with the 1.1.7 cups so I went about uninstalling that version with all of its dependancies. The problem is it seems there are a never ending amount of dependancies in order for me to delete the old and install the new. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller
[newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems
For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if it did it didn't find it it's a Sound Blaster Pro. And for some reason i can't find a place in linux to setup my soundcard. Were is the conf for sound ~ GiZiM ~"Angelis Errare" - "Where Angels Lose Their Way""Due to rising energy costs, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off untill futher notice."
Re: [newbie] Running two DNS on network
On Friday 25 May 2001 14:22, Mark Johnson wrote: Is it possible to run a local DNS on my linux machine at work in addition to the corporate DNS? What I think I want to do is setup my own DNS so that I can resolve names without having to bother the IT group. For example, what I would like to do is on my windows machine setup the secondary DNS to be my linux machine so when I try to do something like: http://voodoo , or http://foobar, etc... it'll hit my linux machine. I realize that I could easily edit my /etc/hosts file on windows, but I'd like to have everyone in my little cube pod be able to do the same thing. Do I understand this stuff right? Yeah you can do it but the IT people are going to be real pissed when they find out So don't Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems
Best thing to do is to go to run level 3 and type: sndconfig -s On Friday 25 May 2001 07:12 pm, you wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if it did it didn't find it it's a Sound Blaster Pro. And for some reason i can't find a place in linux to setup my sound card. Were is the conf for sound ~ GiZiM ~ Angelis Errare - Where Angels Lose Their Way Due to rising energy costs, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off untill futher notice. Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] case change?
Is there a standard Linux command to change all files in a directory and in all its subdirectories to lower case? No, not a single command, but this is the type of thing that can be relatively easily done with a shell script. First, as you probably know, 'mv' renames as well as moves (there is no separate rename command in Unix, since a 'mv' suffices to move the file to a new name.) Second, if you take a string and/or file and use the 'tr' command on it, you can (among other things) change the case from upper to lower case, or vice versa. You can also use 'sed' for this purpose. In order to do what you suggest, you will need to feed the file names one at a time through 'tr' or 'sed' and them use 'mv' to rename the upper case filename to the equivalent lower cased filename. And, you'll need to automate this through a whole directory and any other directories under- neath it. Seems like a tall order, but it's only three or so separate steps. (Incidentally, when tackling something like this for the first time, it's best to try the commands individually -- for instance, use 'echo' and other methods to simulate the task, just to see what will happen, and try the innermost command first rather than trying to do the whole directory at once.) So, let's try an example: # i=FIRST # echo $i | tr [A-Z] [a-z] What does that print? It should print 'first'. This is the crux of the whole operation. What did we do here? Well, we assigned a variable the contents FIRST and then we echoed the contents of that variable, piping it to a 'tr' process that handles the lowercasing. Now, to make it a bit more complicated, we can take that previous expression and substitute it for a second filename in a 'mv' command. To pull off this trick, we need to put the command in backquotes ` ` (the character above the tab key on most US keyboards). What the shell does is literally takes the output of the command and *substitutes* the output right in place on the command line. Try this: # touch FIRST # i=FIRST # mv $i | `echo $i | tr [A-Z] [a-z]` Try that in a directory. Do an 'ls'. What do you see? You should see a filename named 'first'. Line #3 is the workhorse of the whole thing; it takes a filename, sends it to a tr process, then renames the uppercase with the output of the command in backquotes -- the result the shell sees is 'mv FIRST first'. Now, all we need to do is to automate this through a script that finds all files under a given subdirectory. 'find' is the command we can use for this, and a 'for' loop suffices, since it will visit each filename in turn: # for i in `find -type -f` (we don't want to lowercase directories) # do # mv $i | `echo $i | tr [A-Z] [a-z]` # done Pretty simple, once you understand the background. And you can do quite a bit of powerful stuff with little constructs like this, called shell scripts. Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[newbie] Star Office Can't Save
After Install of 8.0 I could not save a document to a vfat partition, neither could root. However I can write to it using the file manager. Any clues? Nev
[newbie] X shutdown
Hello people I have finally managed to install LM8.0 on my laptop and use it with Framebuffer mode. But there is one more problem with X. When I exit X I get a total blank screen on my laptop. I can see that it does reach the bash prompt bec' I can type in shell commands like restarting X or rebooting etc. But I do not know how to bring the text console back when I end the X session. I have tried all the shortcuts like Ctrl+F1 etc... Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace (incase X is still running), and some more combinations) but nothing works. Thanks for your help Regards Navin
RE: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems
On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if it did it didn't find it it's a Sound Blaster Pro. And for some reason i can't find a place in linux to setup my sound card. Were is the conf for sound Try typing 'sndconfig' in a console. It is a Red Hat program (that should come with your system) but it works for me in Mandrake 7.2. Avoid running it in an X Session. Hope it helps, George
[newbie] connection sharing (iptables) in 8.0
Ok my setup is Linux Mandrake 8 with a modem connection to the net. I'm using samba to share files through eth0 with a windows 98se box. All is working well and I even have the net connection shared with iptables but... Ok after modprobing ip_conntrack, ip_conntrack_ftp, ip_conntrack_irc, ip_nat_ftp, ip_nat_irc, and ipt_unclean (unclean one being optimistic) I found that I still can't do file trnsfers in AIM or use NetMeeting or play Quake (online). Well these things I really need to do with the windows box so I was thinking of trying a proxy server (squid?) but would that solve my problem? I'm really not familiar with iptables and the man page doesn't seem to say anything about how to get these different protocols going. I even installed the kernel source and looked through the Documentation directy and in the net directory (and read the source files for all the ipv4 modules) but can't find anything... Help would be greatly appreciated. Even ideas? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] My favorite feature in 8.0
I know most will think this is stupid but it was one thing that bugged me alot with 7.2. I don't know if its a mandrake thing or a KDE thing, but I can now have the menu open when a program comes up and the menu stays up! In 7.2 anything that came up when the K menu was open it would shut down the K menu. Stupid little thing but its a great advance. -- ICQ# 27396393 Registered Linux User #181996
Re: [newbie] Star Office Can't Save
Hi there, Neville Cobb wrote: After Install of 8.0 I could not save a document to a vfat partition, neither could root. However I can write to it using the file manager. I have the same problem and unfortunately have not found a solution yet. The permissions seem fine and all other programs can write to my vfat partitions. The problem also occours in OpenOffice. Aloha, Daniel
[newbie]cups printing Mess
Dear All, I have not been able to install the new cups 1.1.8. Has anyone successfully installed this in LM8? I am the one who has been asking for cups printing help for my Epson Stylus Color printer on LM8 for days now. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I got everything configured and whenever I try to print it just pours out an endless stream of paper with gibberish. When I go to the terminal and do cancel or lprm it says that I cannot cancel lp. When I check into lpstat it shows nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? How can I cancel these jobs once this gets started? May I use a whole different printing system other than cups and how would I do that? How do I install the lpr system so that I that I do not need cups. I would appreciate any help. As of now I cannot print anything from Linux. My printing worked well in Lm 7 and Lm7.2.Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)again
Dear All, I just found out there is a new version of cups. It is cups 1.1.8. I downloaded the rpm and tried to install. It was conflicting with the 1.1.7 cups so I went about uninstalling that version with all of its dependancies. The problem is it seems there are a never ending amount of dependancies in order for me to delete the old and install the new. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller Marcia, For upgrades of software packages, do an rpm -Uvh whatever.i586.rpm, which will upgrade the cups install instead of trying to replace it. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
