[newbie-it] Problemi proxy e modem
Ciao a tutti! Ho problemi per collegarmi ad Internet, o piu' precisamente per navigare usando un proxy e chiedo a voi un suggerimento di cosa devo controllare e mettere a posto. Problema nr. 1 Riesco navigare come root, ma non come utente. Io uso un proxy (esterno, locazione sconosciuta, ecc.), diciamo proxy.it.xxx.com Come utente Netscape non mi lascia impostare il proxy (proxy sconosciuto), Konqueror mi lascia ma non lo trova quando mi collego. Il collegamento (tramite kppp) funziona. Cosa posso fare? Problema nr. 2 Se faccio boot con il modem spento, il device /dev/modem non e' attivo e il collegamento e' impossibile. Cosa si puo' fare per non dover fare reboot? Grazie, Miky
[newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel
Salve a tutti, il kernel fornito dalla Mandrake 8.0 mi da una serie di problemi perchè non gestisce bene l'interfaccia SCSI Adaptec 2904CD e l'hardware USB. Ho provato a guardare i vari changelog delle nuove versioni del kernel, ma non sono riuscito a capire se questi problemi sono stati risolti. Le informazioni erano infatti molto generiche. Comunque credo che sia arrivato il momento di compilarmi per la prima volta il kernel. Qualcuno che ha più esperienza può darmi qualche consiglio. Sinceramente non so da dove partire. grazie a tutti, Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel
Il 17:01, martedì 31 luglio 2001, scrivesti: Salve a tutti, il kernel fornito dalla Mandrake 8.0 mi da una serie di problemi perchè non gestisce bene l'interfaccia SCSI Adaptec 2904CD e l'hardware USB. Ho provato a guardare i vari changelog delle nuove versioni del kernel, ma non sono riuscito a capire se questi problemi sono stati risolti. Le informazioni erano infatti molto generiche. Comunque credo che sia arrivato il momento di compilarmi per la prima volta il kernel. Qualcuno che ha più esperienza può darmi qualche consiglio. Sinceramente non so da dove partire. Posso confermare che nei kernel successivi il 2904 funziona bene (l'ho provato su due macchine diverse...). Le istruzioni su come compilare il kernel sono un po' lunghe da scrivere; nel frattempo puoi guardare qui: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html E' la versione più aggiornata su come si compila il kernel... -- 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] Mandrake sopra a Red-Hat
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 06:35, you wrote: Ciao a tutti. Io ho installato la mandrake 8 SOPRA a red-Hat 5 (grave sbaglio?) probabilmente:-) se l'unico problema che hai e' il kudzu all'avvio puoi disabilitarlo tramite il mandrake control center alla voce system/services spunta la checkbox boot al kudzu. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Variabili d'ambiente
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 08:01, Eugenio Odorifero wrote: Salve a tutti, cerco un indicazione su come inserire una variabile d'ambiente su Mandrake 8.0 (o anche un How-To dove spiega queste cose...) Dipende in realta' da che shell stai usando. Se non hai cambiato nulla, e quindi usi la bash ti basta direi export VARIABILE=VALORE (tipo export QTDIR=/usr/ecc.) se la vuoi come immagino definitiva puoi metterla nel .bash_profile puoi guardare il man della bash (ma e' piuttosto lungo) o guardare un po' in appunti linux (cerca per ambiente, bashrc, bash_profile) bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] PowerPack
Il 04:30, lunedì 30 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Qualcuno mi sà dire come posso acquistare Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack senza ricorrere alla carta di credito? Grazie a tutti.. www.aroundstore.com contrassegno, bonifico bancario, vaglia postale C.C. Saluti
R: [newbie-it] non riesco a leggere i cd
Se hai palle rigirati i flat così ti ritrovi meno problemi in mastering Ho impostato su secondary master il cdrom e su secondary slave il masterizzatore (come indica peraltro lo schemino del mast.) ed ora funziona tutto a meraviglia. per il tuo problema audio confido nella volontà del pubblico della ML che solitamente si spacca la testa piuttosto di lasciare un neofita senza cdrom. Effettivamente se inserisco un cd audio, e clicco sull'icona, non riesco ad accedere al cd (come invece capita in windows), ma ho scoperto il programmino lettore cd che mi permette di ascoltare i cd audio. ciao a tutti e grazie :-)
[newbie-it] masterizzare
Che programma mi consigliate per masterizzare? Ciao.
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi proxy e modem
per il problema n.2 ti consiglio di riconfigurare Kppp indicando la porta seriale che usa il modem , ma il tuo modem è esterno? Il 03:41, martedì 31 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti! Ho problemi per collegarmi ad Internet, o piu' precisamente per navigare usando un proxy e chiedo a voi un suggerimento di cosa devo controllare e mettere a posto. Problema nr. 1 Riesco navigare come root, ma non come utente. Io uso un proxy (esterno, locazione sconosciuta, ecc.), diciamo proxy.it.xxx.com Come utente Netscape non mi lascia impostare il proxy (proxy sconosciuto), Konqueror mi lascia ma non lo trova quando mi collego. Il collegamento (tramite kppp) funziona. Cosa posso fare? Problema nr. 2 Se faccio boot con il modem spento, il device /dev/modem non e' attivo e il collegamento e' impossibile. Cosa si puo' fare per non dover fare reboot? Grazie, Miky
Re: [newbie-it] X Font Server guasto
Il 12:48, sabato 28 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Quindi, sto da capo a dodici di nuovo. Come faccio a vedere perché non riesce ad inizializzare sto cavolo de path element unix/:-1? Non chiedermi perche`... ma avevo lo stesso problema, ho risolto ripulendo la /tmp (anche le cartelle nascoste) e avviando Xconfigurator.. -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?
Il 19:52, giovedì 26 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Scusami per non averti ringraziato subito per l'informazione. Ero troppo preso... ;-))) Grazie di nuovo Via, di nulla :)) Siamo qui per questo ;-) -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con LiViD(playerDVD).
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:19:15 -0400 Renato Bucclli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho quattro file compressi x installare livid ma dopo vari tentativi ho rinunciato in quanto riesco scompattarne solo 2 e di questi a cofigurarne nessuno. Qual'è la procedura esatta.(Ho molti DVD e sotto Win$$ ???!!?!??) Ho Mandr.8-duron800-128MbRam133-S.M.Via T. U.ATA100-HD 10GbATA100-Dr.DVD Acer1640-Sheda v.TNT2M64. Lascia perdere Livid e prova Xine: funziona benissimo e devi installare un solo pacchetto, o al massimo due. Il sito ufficiale e' xine.sourceforge.net dove puoi trovare il programma col quale pero' potrai fare ben poco senza una patch (a meno che i tuoi dvd siano tutti in chiaro:-). Qui http://members.nbci.com/captain_css/ puoi trovare questa patch per il Decss, prendi la piu' recente (dovrebbe essere xine_dvd_static-0.1.1.tar.gz) e scarica anche la relativa versione di Xine dal sito ufficiale, installali entrambi (PRIMA il prog POI la patch) e goditi i tuoi dvd :-)) Tip: nella pagina della patch c' e' un link ad un sito portoghese seguendo il quale (ammesso che funzioni, ogni tanto non va) troverai un unico rpm che contiene sia il prog che la patch, cosa si puo' chiedere di piu'? Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
[newbie-it] variabili di ambiente ed ip
il problema è questo come faccio a passare il mio indirizzo ip come parametro per uno script? mi spiego dopo che sono mi collego al mio isp ho bisogno di conoscere il mio indirizzo ip e di passarlo ad uno script chiamato da ip-up come fare? grazie
Re: [newbie-it] Segnalazione EPSON Stylus Scan 2500
Il 16:36, lunedì 30 luglio 2001, hai scritto: (Se qualcuno è interessato o conosce qualcun altro che lo possa essere...) Non possiedo una Stylus Scan, ma ti chiederei un grosso favore, a nome di tutti quelli che la possiedono [8-?]: che ne dici di scrivere un Epson-Stylus-Scan-2500-HOWTO, ovvero la sequenza di configurazioni che hai effettuato per farla funzionare? Non ti preoccupare se non sai molto e sei agli inizi: negli howto si pensa soprattutto alla pratica e a come far funzionare le cose =)) -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni? - Atto finale
Il 19:49, lunedì 30 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. Bene finalmente ho ripristinato tutto. Rimarrebbe il floppy... riporta il solito errore di impossibilita' di accesso alla directory /mnt/floppy, ma non lo uso praticamente mai. Ehm.. te l'avranno detto in tanti, ma non ho letto *tutto* il thread... hai controllato i permessi?? 8-) Ho, per l'ennesima volta, reinstallato partendo da una diversa coppia di CD (?!?!) e mi sono anche ricordato del consiglio di partizionare in ReiserFs. Perfetto :)) L'unico inconveniente e' che per poter utilizzare il lettore CD con XCDroast ho dovuto farlo credere come uno Scsi e cosi' non lo posso utilizzare per la lettura di CD musicali, almeno presumo sia questo l'inghippo. Succede anche a me con il masterizzatore, purtroppo non so come risolverlo... sembra che un dispositivo ide con emulazione scsi non riesca a riprodurre i cd audio :(( Si, direi proprio che tutto e' a posto. Beh, complimenti e.. buon Linux! :-D -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi proxy e modem
Ciao a tutti! Ho problemi per collegarmi ad Internet, o piu' precisamente per navigare usando un proxy e chiedo a voi un suggerimento di cosa devo controllare e mettere a posto. prova a mettere l'indirizzo ip del proxy invece del nome nella configurazione di netscape Problema nr. 1 Riesco navigare come root, ma non come utente. Io uso un proxy (esterno, locazione sconosciuta, ecc.), diciamo proxy.it.xxx.com Come utente Netscape non mi lascia impostare il proxy (proxy sconosciuto), Konqueror mi lascia ma non lo trova quando mi collego. Il collegamento (tramite kppp) funziona. Cosa posso fare? Problema nr. 2 Se faccio boot con il modem spento, il device /dev/modem non e' attivo e il collegamento e' impossibile. Cosa si puo' fare per non dover fare reboot? Grazie, Miky
[newbie-it] PGP???
Ciao a tutti! Nei giorni scorsi si è parlato molto di MailReader e di PGP. Io avrei una domanda in merito da super-newbie di Linux: come faccio ad installarmi PGP? Mi spiego meglio: ho una Mandrake 8.0 e mi sono scaricato dal sito www.pgpi.org PGP 6.5.8 in due versioni, ossia il file con l'RPM per la Red Hat ed un altro file generico per Linux. Mi potreste per favore spiegare come devo fare passo-passo? Vorrei poter usare le mie chiavi pubbliche e private che già uso con la versione 7.0.3 per Winzoz. Vi sono molto grato e vi prego di scusarmi per la mia ignoranza, infatti non è da molto che mi sono installato Linux! Sergio
RE: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite?
Kwrite fonts are changed by going into the KDE control panel and modifying the defaults and/or the kongueror settings... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dr. Evil Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite? Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way to do web development. I read the Kwrite instructions, and it talks about a menu to change font and size, but that menu does not exist. Any sugestions? Is this a compiled-in thing? If so, I will definitely need to recompile it because it's basically not usable right now. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Fonts for Linux
Adventure is in the fonts-ttf-west_european pacakge. On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:39, Terry wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where I can download some fonts to add to Linux? I'm particularly looking for a font called Adventure. For some reason it is on my computer at home, but not here on my work computer. Thanks! -- 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] RPM, Debian packages
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a few things straight. RPM and Debian packages...how do they differ from .tar.gz files? Obviously, they are easier to install and update. Are they more highly compressed also? One of the big benefits of these also, is that the programmers decide for you where the program is to reside. How's that sound? Tarball (.tar.gz) files usually contain source code which you can then extract and compile. Packages, like RPMs and DEBs, come in two flavours. The first contains source code, and are basically tarballs with an added file saying _how_ the code should be compiled. The second contains binary (pre-compiled) code, with an added file saying where the files go. The added file also adds its data to the package manager database, so that the package may be able to be removed cleanly later. The file also lists package dependencies, and tries to check that the dependencies have been met before installing the pacakge. And about the Debian thing- I'm looking for a program called Alien that's supposed to convert Debian packages to RPMs. I only ran across one site for it, and the link to the Alien program was gone. Any of you have it, available to send to me? Look for it at http://rpmfind.net. Thanks, Dan -- 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] microsoft gone
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am happy to say that win95 is gone. Now My wife used the computer last night. She complained about the fonts in netscape so I will have to fix Netscape can look great if you use your TrueType fonts from Windows. They can be imported via DrakFont, in the Mandrake Control Centre. Alternatively, you can always use another browser. this. I will also have to find out howto ajust the time as my clock says 8:22 am and it is 8:22 pm right now. I am useing gnome. This can be done in the Mandrake Control Centre. Is there educational software out there for children? Sorry, can't help you there. Were can I find a good flight sim that will work on mandrake 7.2. http://flightgear.sourceforge.net/ -- 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] Printscreen -- How, please?
Dear friends: I can't figure out how to create a printscreen. I've been asked by Mozilla to send a printscreen of a certain page. I click on the printscreen /SysRq button above the Insert button on the keyboard. But nothing seems to happen. I don't see a printscreen file in my home directory. Just how do you do this and what kind of file are you supposed to see? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite?
At 08.35 31/07/01, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:02, Dr. Evil wrote: Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way to do web development. I read the Kwrite instructions, and it talks about a menu to change font and size, but that menu does not exist. Any sugestions? Is this a compiled-in thing? If so, I will definitely need to recompile it because it's basically not usable right now. Thanks In Kwrite, click on Settings - Configure Editor... - Fonts. OK, but will it influence the konqueror behavior too? Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas
Re: [newbie] RPM, Debian packages
At 08.57 31/07/01, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a few things straight. RPM and Debian packages...how do they differ from .tar.gz files? Obviously, they are easier to install and update. Are they more highly compressed also? One of the big benefits of these also, is that the programmers decide for you where the program is to reside. How's that sound? Tarball (.tar.gz) files usually contain source code which you can then extract and compile. Packages, like RPMs and DEBs, come in two flavours. The first contains source code, and are basically tarballs with an added file saying _how_ the code should be compiled. The second contains binary (pre-compiled) code, with an added file saying where the files go. The added file also adds its data to the package manager database, so that the package may be able to be removed cleanly later. The file also lists package dependencies, and tries to check that the dependencies have been met before installing the pacakge. Could you explain hot to use RPMs with source? I mean, simply tell me the steps to have it installed. Please also correct me if necessary: when I have to install a tarball file I have to 1) decompress it 2) make configure (if necessary) 3) make 4) make install. Right? Once installed a tarball app following these steps, how to uninstall it? (I installed cdda2wav and I want to remove it - I already had it). Thank you Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas
[newbie] wallpaper?!?! READ PLZ!
i saw a wallpaper in a screenshot on the mandrake page it is http://www.linux-mandrake.com/screenshots/traktopel12.jpg and i was wondering whoever has that backround could you send it to me? i would really appreciate it thanx in advance TazgodX ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Samba Error
The USERNAME and LOGIN that you use when you log in to windows, are passed as credentials to Samba when you attach. You are getting the error because Samba does not have that particular pair in it's password database... Did you smbadduser and/or smbpasswd? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:40 PM To: Newbie Linux-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] Samba Error I can now see all of my smb shares, but when I try to access them, I get SMB connection failed tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw. This looks like a password error but I can not see what I might be doing wrong. Could it be that the user password is the same on both machines? This is getting good, like a who done it?. TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
[newbie] How to restore LM7.2 desktop?
After a system lockup-and-reset over the weekend, I no longer get the default LM7.2 login screen and desktop. I'm talking about the login screen with the cartoon penguins representing users, and the ability for an ordinary user to shut the machine down from that screen. What I *do* get is a KDE login screen, which works, but I'd like to get the other one back. How can I go about this? Thanks! Mark Shaw (I asked this question already the other day, and didn't get any responses. Maybe rewording the subject line and condensing the text will help. :)
Re: [newbie] microsoft gone
Quite true. You can copy the fonts from a Windows computer using floppy discs, and import them using DrakFont (in the Mandrake Control Centre). This is perfectly legal, since you already own a copy of Windows (assuming your copy is legitimate). On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:11, etharp wrote: this guy just got rid of winder completely so no import the fonts . On Tuesday 31 July 2001 02:48, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am happy to say that win95 is gone. Now My wife used the computer last night. She complained about the fonts in netscape so I will have to fix Netscape can look great if you use your TrueType fonts from Windows. They can be imported via DrakFont, in the Mandrake Control Centre. Alternatively, you can always use another browser. this. I will also have to find out howto ajust the time as my clock says 8:22 am and it is 8:22 pm right now. I am useing gnome. This can be done in the Mandrake Control Centre. Is there educational software out there for children? Sorry, can't help you there. Were can I find a good flight sim that will work on mandrake 7.2. http://flightgear.sourceforge.net/ -- 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] software for cd-writer
gcombust and xcdroast are probably your best bets. The best place to look for them would be http://www.rpmfind.net. On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:57, etharp wrote: GOD AM I TEMPTED.. ok I give in.. here goes. the MANDRAKE disks have the software for a cd writer (yuk yuk yuk SLAP) I am not all that fimialar with red hat as I use linux, but you might try to see if mkisofs is installed on your system (it is a command line to make an ISO file system). then you might try Gcombust, or xcdroast. (search Google.com) On Monday 30 July 2001 23:47, Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Does anyone know where do I can get software for my cd-writer working on Linux RedHat 7.1 (server version)/br Thank you/br Tuan -- 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]
I have got LM8.0 and Logitech Mouse Wheel Optical. Everything is working great but the wheel isn't working. How do I get it to work? Browsing without the wheel is really troublesome. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Aussie charity still doesn't get it
Charlie, Just a couple of simple requests to preserve sanity on the list: 1. Don't post e-mail attachments. They can bog-down the mail server and make mail downloads unnecessarily lengthy for users. 2. The last time I checked, Microsoft had not released a version of MS Word for GNU/Linux. Can you please post in plain text, or link to a site? With that said and done, here's my commentary. These charity people are just plain imbeciles. Though I greatly respect their work, I can't figure out why they still bitch and moan even after things like this (http://www.linuxworld.com.au/news.php3?nid=861tid=4) occur. Thanks for the info, but please try in the future to be a bit more careful with your choice of distribution media :-) On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:19, Charlie Oriez wrote: yet another press release from the Aussie charity moaning about the evil Microsoft putting them out of business because they can't use M$ on their machines. No mention in the press release that he can but won't use linux. A radio interviewer asked, and he dodged. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: query about Microsoft Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:00:09 +1000 From: Pc's for Kids Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charlie Oriez [EMAIL PROTECTED] press attached -- Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming. -- Simon Slavin in asr -- 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] microsoft gone
Is there educational software out there for children? Sorry, can't help you there. Try looking at http://www.seul.org/edu, the Education subgroup of Simple End User Linux (http://www.seul.org). They list quite a few pieces of software. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Sr Systems Administration Consultant, Web Spinners, University of West Florida Sr Member, Simple End User Linux
Re: [newbie] Aussie charity still doesn't get it
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 07:56, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Charlie, Just a couple of simple requests to preserve sanity on the list: 1. Don't post e-mail attachments. They can bog-down the mail server and make mail downloads unnecessarily lengthy for users. My bad. I apologize for that. it was early in the morning here and I wasn't thinking yet. I should have known better, since that's a standard rule. 2. The last time I checked, Microsoft had not released a version of MS Word for GNU/Linux. Can you please post in plain text, or link to a site? I read it with Star Office which came with 8.0. Checking their home page, they don't have it posted. I put a text copy inline at the bottom of this with the fancy letterhead stripped. With that said and done, here's my commentary. These charity people are just plain imbeciles. Though I greatly respect their work, I can't figure out why they still bitch and moan even after things like this (http://www.linuxworld.com.au/news.php3?nid=861tid=4) occur. I read it. Perhaps I should send a note to them with the link expressing happiness that the problem has been resolved. :-) I don't think they are imbeciles. I suspect something else that I run across every now and then. I'm starting to sense that this guy is a professional victim. That is, being a victim is more important than solving the problem, and he will avoid easy solutions because then the problems, and the attention that comes with being a victim, will go away. In the US at least, directors of charitable organizations are required to act in the best interests of the organization and their intended beneficiaries. If he shuts down to preserve his victim status rather than switch to linux, I have to wonder if he might be running afoul of similar australian requirements. begin press release Tuesday, 31 July 2001 MICROSOFT BACKSTABS CHARITY PC's FOR KIDS The Pc's for Kids project of assisting less fortunate children with donated computers is facing their toughest battle to date and the outlook looks bleak following a decision by Microsoft Australia today. The US software giant will not grant any copyright exemptions that would allow Pc's for Kids to continue providing refurbished computers to needy kids. We simply do not have the funds to purchase the old software needed for the refurbished machines, Pc's for Kids President and founder Mr. Colin Bayes said. In a letter sent to Mr. Bayes today, Microsoft has said it will provide assistance to the Geelong YMCA and will provide 150 packs of Windows-95 to be sent to East Timor via the Rotary International scheme (DIK) If Pc's for kid's folds, who are going to build these systems, I am sure no Rotarian will accommodate Microsoft. The other issue is more like, Microsoft Snubs Aussie Kids Bayes states. However, this kind offer does not address the copyright issue which leaves us with countless of children on our waiting list and the many who will need systems in the future. Our project is a grass roots community driven project. We have achieved miracles with little support. We at Pc's for Kids have one question for the well-known philanthropist Mr. William Gates. Why should less fortunate kids be made to pay again for software already donated by our community? As the founder of Pc's for Kids I am deeply ashamed at this halfhearted offer by Microsoft and urge all our supporters to call Microsoft and voice your concern at their lack of compassion. Press Release Issued By: Tuesday, 31 July 2001 Colin Bayes President / Founder (0402) 149719 24 Hours Contact Pc's for Kids Inc Ph: (03) 52444146 Fax: (03) 52436026 [EMAIL PROTECTED] end -- Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming. -- Simon Slavin in asr
Re: [newbie]
I have the genius 3 button optical and a genius 5 button optical. to get the wheels to work i had to set them to use the std ps/2 wheel mouse to get the wheels to work, the genius driver didn't work well. but on the 5 button, the side btns still don't work :( Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Seeun William Umboh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:56 PM Subject: [newbie] I have got LM8.0 and Logitech Mouse Wheel Optical. Everything is working great but the wheel isn't working. How do I get it to work? Browsing without the wheel is really troublesome. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
[newbie] dependencies locator?
I am getting this when I try to install a small rpm package: error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/frm is needed by bsd-games-2.12-2 libtinfo.so.5 is needed by bsd-games-2.12-2 could anyone help me locate these dependencies or, better, give me the basic principles in locating (more or less exotic) missing dependencies? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
[newbie] DHCP Server
Hi all =) Can anyone help me to learn how to setup a DHCP server under Mandrake 8? Thanx a bunch, Errant
[newbie] portmap services \Kmail
Hi: I am frequently reinstalling Lm8 for various reasons, but I have noticed that on 2 occasions my system hangs while halting the portmap services on every shutdown. On both of these occasions I chose to use Kmail as opposed to Netscape mail. In short, my question is this...could someone give me a base understanding of portmap services and whether it is reasonable for me to blame kmail for these portmap shutdown errors? Is there a portmap or shutdown log somewhere that might also assit me in fixing/avoiding this problem? Thanks in advance. = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 10:17, Marchetti, Peter wrote: I know I sound like a moron...but I'm having trouble finding the info I need. If anyone knows a doc or a website that will help me, let me know. I'm setting up a server to be a web/e-commerce server. Right now I just want it to work on the local network. All the other machines are W2K or WinNT4. I need to be able to talk to them and transfer files. Is the simplest way to transfer the files just to FTP them over? (Note: I can ping everybody from both sides.) The info I have read on sharing drives and such in Linux have confused me. (I think it's just a vocabulary issue.) I don't want to flaunt my ignorance here...but I need some help. ANyone no a really good source for Sys Admins from the M$ world moving to *nix? Thanks in advance... Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Apache-Overview-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Windows-LAN-Server-HOWTO.html http://web.oreilly.com/ p.s. your only a moron if you don't do some research. good luck! -- //- Jeff Reed //- One of those Linux People //- Metro West Boston Linux User Group //- [EMAIL PROTECTED] //- (508)792-6070 //- http://www.linuxbusca.com //- http://www.blu.org //- http://www.wlug.org
[newbie] isdn auto dailer
does anyone know about dailer that can detect disconection and then dail again ??? with isdn THNX -- - Oren Gozlan Mobixell Networks Inc. p: +972 9 776 0121 f: + 972 9 740 7373 c: +972 54 536 047 www.mobixell.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
[newbie] Problems typing special characters
Since I installed new versions of three font RPMs (don?t ask why...), I?ve been having problems getting accents and special charaters. For example, when I try and type èêöç I get the following: -in most applications (including gedit and galeon): eeoc (no accents at all) -in Star Office: ?e^e¨o¸c (accents preceed letter) -in Abiword: èêöç (no problems, seems to be the only application working ok) When I noticed the problem, I uninstalled the RPMs and reinstalled the earlier versions (assuming that?s what was causing the problem). But the problem is still there. The RPMs I installed (and then later removed) were fonts-ttf-big5-1.0-12mdk (replaced 1.0-9_ , fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-9mdk (replaced 1.3-8), and fonts-ttf-decorative-1.3-9mdk (1.3-8). Steve Watt
[newbie] httpd-perl and httpd
These fail at startup with no error messages. When I type httpd start at the prompt, I get a core dump. Any ideas? Thanks -- Leonard W. Miller, CCNA United Defense, L.P. This message and any attachments to it is intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or prohibited from disclosure or unauthorized use. If the recipient of this transmission is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering such materials to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message or its attachments other than by its intended recipient is strictly prohibited . If you have received it in error, please return it to the sender and destroy the message and/or copies in your possession. BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER FN:Miller, Leonard TEL;WORK:717.225.8000 x2110 ORG:;I.S. Tech Support TEL;PREF;FAX:717.225.8209 EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:[EMAIL PROTECTED] N:Miller;Leonard TITLE:Network Support Specialist X-GWUSERID:MillerLW END:VCARD
Re: [newbie] portmap services \Kmail
Jennifer, I would have to say that Kmail has nothing to do with it, since portmap is not needed for pop3 / imap / sendmail / postfix. In fact, you do not need to run portmap if you are not running nfs / nis AFAIK (nfs is roughly the unix equivalent to samba, nis is the equivalent to a primary domain controller for NT--central server for managing user accounts across multiple machines). You should be able to turn off portmap entirely without any ill effects. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:51 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, jennifer wrote: Hi: I am frequently reinstalling Lm8 for various reasons, but I have noticed that on 2 occasions my system hangs while halting the portmap services on every shutdown. On both of these occasions I chose to use Kmail as opposed to Netscape mail. In short, my question is this...could someone give me a base understanding of portmap services and whether it is reasonable for me to blame kmail for these portmap shutdown errors? Is there a portmap or shutdown log somewhere that might also assit me in fixing/avoiding this problem? Thanks in advance. = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] cups.h and language.h missing?
I downloaded Samba, got it to make, and it reported not being able to find the last 2 files...cups.h and language.h. I checked, and sure enough, they aren't there. Where can I find just these two files? Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Printscreen -- How, please?
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:23, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I can't figure out how to create a printscreen. I've been asked by Mozilla to send a printscreen of a certain page. I click on the printscreen /SysRq button above the Insert button on the keyboard. But nothing seems to happen. I don't see a printscreen file in my home directory. Just how do you do this and what kind of file are you supposed to see? Thank you so much. Benjamin You will need a screen capture app. I'm not sure about KDE, but I know that there is a very good GNOME panel applet that can make screenshots. The GIMP can do this as well. KDE 2.2 (due August 6) will make the PrintScreen key work the way that you tried to use it (i.e. pressing it will copy the screen to the clipboard). You can also use import from the ImageMagick suite - if you want JPEG format remember to save the screen or window to a file with the .jpeg extension. -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
Re: [newbie] SmartMedia adapters
It was Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:03:21 + (GMT) when Len Lawrence wrote: FlashPath devices can handle SmartMedia cards up to 128 Mb. Extensive tests conducted by Linuxcare show that the device operates very effectively on /dev/fd0 although the transfer rates are very low, apparently. Will report back if I can get one, and get it working. Very interesting! I am about to buy a digital camera (Olympus) from a friend, which has a floppy adapter thing also. Perhaps that would work too then :) Paul -- Cats could have ruled the universe, but they couldn't be bothered. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] software for cd-writer
It was Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:47:53 -0700 when Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Does anyone know where do I can get software for my cd-writer working on Linux RedHat 7.1 (server version)/br Thank you/br Tuan Redhat?? This is a mandrake list. But okay, it's linux. xcdroast gcombust etoaster Find them through www.google.com/linux Paul -- Cats could have ruled the universe, but they couldn't be bothered. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] cups.h and language.h missing?
Peter, Verify that you have cups-devel, which is what provides cups.h -- not sure what provides language.h . Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida cups.h comes from cups-devel At 02:02 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Marchetti, Peter wrote: I downloaded Samba, got it to make, and it reported not being able to find the last 2 files...cups.h and language.h. I checked, and sure enough, they aren't there. Where can I find just these two files? Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] X server troubles
Hi all ! I have posted some problems here without answer. I know this is a volonteer work, and may be my questions were too stupids, but I will appreciate some attention because I'm on stall for many weeks. I have LM 7.2 on a Pentium II. I've had many problems. Right now is the X server. As my monitor didn't work with XFree, some guru told me to install the FBDev server. I succeded once, but after some manipulations with DrakConf on KDE I had a mess. So I reinstalled. Then I can't make X work, even with the installation of FBDev. I'll appreciate any ideas G le D ---
Re: [newbie] X server troubles
The bright people on this list who may be able to help you will need some more information about your system, such as: Video card Motherboard Monitor RAM A brief description of the problem. Regards, Carroll Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Hi all ! I have posted some problems here without answer. I know this is a volonteer work, and may be my questions were too stupids, but I will appreciate some attention because I'm on stall for many weeks. I have LM 7.2 on a Pentium II. I've had many problems. Right now is the X server. As my monitor didn't work with XFree, some guru told me to install the FBDev server. I succeded once, but after some manipulations with DrakConf on KDE I had a mess. So I reinstalled. Then I can't make X work, even with the installation of FBDev. I'll appreciate any ideas G le D ---
Re: [newbie] httpd-perl and httpd
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 01:58 pm, you wrote: These fail at startup with no error messages. When I type httpd start at the prompt, I get a core dump. Any ideas? Thanks -- Leonard W. Miller, CCNA United Defense, L.P. Yes I do, had the same problem. First find out what your computer name is(host Name). You can find it on the login screen or you can find it on the Control Center. Then open /etc/hosts in your favorit editor. It will look something like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Just add your hostname/computer name after localhost, like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost linuxgeek That worked for me! Hope it works for you! Make sure your firewall allows connections to port 80, not sure if this will cause and error mesage if its not, but it will make it hard for people to connect to you.
[newbie] voice modem
Hi, I'm considering bying an external 'E-TECH Bullet' voice modem with a Rockwell chipset. The problem is: for legal reasons I want to record a telephone conversation from my phone rather urgently, without buying extra hardware (except the modem) :( I'm sure it's possible, my question is, since I know zilch about voice modems, is there a 'quick and easy' solution? I have a working soundcard, but an analog phone pickup gave much static. TIA, -Frans
[newbie] Apache help
Ok, I have got apache running, put in my own index.html and it works! But how do I link to files I want to make availible? I made a directory /var/www/media but if I link a file that is there, I just get an error message when i click on the link, my link is: http://ip number/var/www/media/file.zip is this because of directory permissions?
[newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS
Hi gang, I've got a fairly serious problem with my linux box (dual boot with Win98). I left my machine at work running overnight. When I came in this morning it had died and when I attempted to reboot I've got a 'kernel panic' message driven by an inability to mount the root fs (reiser). This means I can't use 'failsafe' or anything else in lilo. Here's the particulars: LM 8.0 June Freq Update: includes kernel 2.4.5, gnome 1.4, kde 2.2alpha, etc. Been working fine (for a week or so). Machine: Micron w/PII @ 480 mhz, 64 mg RAM, 10 gig drive, etc. Filesystem: Reiser FS on all partitions except Swap. I've been using Reiser on everything but swap for the last 6 months. No problems. I don't have a boot floppy (coulnd't make one on this installation. do have a boot floppy at home but my drives at home are partitioned slightly differently [windoze has drives c and d so linux starts at hda3; here they start with hda2]). My 'official' LM CDs with the update are at home as well. I can drag these things in tomorrow. In checking the Reiser website I see that there is a Reiser analog to fsck - reiserfsck - I'm assuming it's installed but how do I use it if I can't access the drive??? Clearly I can reinstall and reformat the partitions but I'll lose everything. I could reformat only / and hopefully recover /home (which is Reiser) where all the 'good stuff' is. But is there some way to run 'reiserfsck' if I can boot from a floppy? Anybody have some clever idea(s)? TIA. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA
RE: [newbie] cups.h and language.h missing?
installing the cup-devel rpm fixed the problem. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Michael D. Viron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:55 AM To: Marchetti, Peter; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] cups.h and language.h missing? Peter, Verify that you have cups-devel, which is what provides cups.h -- not sure what provides language.h . Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida cups.h comes from cups-devel At 02:02 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Marchetti, Peter wrote: I downloaded Samba, got it to make, and it reported not being able to find the last 2 files...cups.h and language.h. I checked, and sure enough, they aren't there. Where can I find just these two files? Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Apache help
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:05 pm, you wrote: what is the exact error message? Not Found The requested URL /var/www/media/sbutton.zip was not found on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at localhost.localdomain Port 80
[newbie] make
Hello, I am a new user of linux mandrake. Installed Linux Mandrake on my pc only hours ago. Doesn't Linux-mandrake have make utility. I need this to make some files. like make config. If no how can i get. Thank You Eshwar _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
RE: [newbie] make
It doesn't have it till you install it,, use package manager in drakconf and enter make without the then click search and it will find and load the package for you. piece of cake.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of kiran yedavalli Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2001 5:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] make Hello, I am a new user of linux mandrake. Installed Linux Mandrake on my pc only hours ago. Doesn't Linux-mandrake have make utility. I need this to make some files. like make config. If no how can i get. Thank You Eshwar _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
[newbie] X server and specs. Help please!
Thank you, Carrroll. Voilà: Trident 975 4Mb Video Card, Soyo SY-6BB Motherboard, Monitor ViewSonic E40, 64 Mb RAM, CPU Pentium II MMX at 350 Mhz. The problem: since the beginning, X didn't work even all my specs are actually on the install list. So, I made a few installations believing I was doing something wrong. Right now, I have an installation recommended type. I was told by a local guru that I needed to change the X server for FBDev server. I did, and it worked. It recognizad my monitor as 1072 x 728 at 72 Mhz. After that I made some attempts to make the printer and the mouse works on KDE as root with DrakConf. Then it was the mess. The system stalled. Short story: I had to install again, but this time X doesn't works. There are more things, but I'll wait for the good questions. G le D ---
[newbie] Where is the proper place the edit the path?
Where is the proper place the edit the path? I notice .bashrc referred to /etc/bashrc and then that reffered to the profile file. Is this file I am supposed to edit or is their a better way to do this?
Re: [newbie] HTML differences in Konqueror, Mozilla, Nautilus, Netscape, etc
thanks for the links Sridhar. I have developed an strategy: I look for a page that has a design similar to mine and looks well in all browsers. If you have a spare time, take a look at www.imaclinux.net it has a design similar to mine. It looks the same in all Linux browsers except Mozilla- this leaves the right-most link at the title bar out of the page. :-( -Mensagem Original- De: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Jeferson Lopes Zacco [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: segunda-feira, 30 de julho de 2001 00:49 Assunto: Re: [newbie] HTML differences in Konqueror, Mozilla, Nautilus, Netscape, etc On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:21, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Hi all, I was making a webpage to tell all rea newwwbies (TM) like me how to get sound going on with Quake3 ( should someone be interested- I doubt it- mail me) when I went to check how did the page looked when viewed from Linux browsers (I'll explain: even though I managed to configure my winmodem under LM8 it looks like my ISP won't support Linux boxes connecting to it. Sad. So I'm stuck with window$ and exploder for internet.). I usually write HTML with a text-editor, so I'm sure there's no fancy Exploder only code in my pages. Oddly enough, all browsers managed to make my page look somewhat different. Even Mozilla and Netscape, which I though were close relatives, behave totally different about tables, width and bgcolor (in a table/tr/td tag.). Konqueror was the most annoying, it made two of my tables overlap. Is there a way to make sure my page looks good across all browsers? other than making it a PDF file? As I said I don't use any particular code /tag, all I use is pretty standart ( or so I hope), but if a browser cannot handle things such a s a bgcolor for a table then it might rend my page unreadable. TIA --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky Try these: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html The best way to ensure compatibility, IMHO, is to make your page 100% standards-compliant. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) offer a HTML Validation Service (http://validator.w3.org/) and a CSS Validation Service (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/). I often make pages using an editor like Quanta+ (or even StarOffice). I then open the page in Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/) and make sure that it is standards-compliant before saving it. Amaya, being a W3C project, is designed to output 100% standards-compliant code. If the page looks fine in Amaya, then it should pass the W3C Validation Service tests. -- 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] Apache help
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:36 pm, you wrote: Jon, There's a few things wrong here: #1. In order to give access to /var/www/media (which isn't under the default document root of /var/www/html), you need to either alias it in the httpd.conf Alias /media /var/www/media/ (without the quotes), or move it under /var/www/html. #2. The link that you are using is incorrect. Since apache is using /var/www/html as the document root, all documents (excluding aliased directories) are fetched relative to /var/www/html. This means the link http://ip_number/var/www/media/file.zip, is in fact attempting to find the file /var/www/html/var/www/media/file.zip (which isn't there). The correct link (once you've either aliased or moved the directory as in #1), would be http://ip_number/media/file.zip The answer to the question Is this because of directory permissions? would be no, at this point. Michael Thanks for your help! Got it working! Apache is up and running and serving webpages...lol Isn't linux great? Thanks to all who have helped me get Apache up and running.
RE: [newbie] X server troubles
You might want to get yourself a new video card. FB support is -SLOW-, and your video adaptor does not have enough RAM for most video modes... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gonzalix le Druide Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] X server troubles Hi all ! I have posted some problems here without answer. I know this is a volonteer work, and may be my questions were too stupids, but I will appreciate some attention because I'm on stall for many weeks. I have LM 7.2 on a Pentium II. I've had many problems. Right now is the X server. As my monitor didn't work with XFree, some guru told me to install the FBDev server. I succeded once, but after some manipulations with DrakConf on KDE I had a mess. So I reinstalled. Then I can't make X work, even with the installation of FBDev. I'll appreciate any ideas G le D ---
RE: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network
You probably want to set up and install Samba on your Linux box. Samba permits Linux to participate in MS Winblows networking. The NT/Win2k boxes will be able to interact with Linux like another Winblows machine. Setting up Samba is far less complicated than it looks. Often merely editing the included sample configuration file is enough to get it running properly... Then making/adding user accounts (smbadduser smbpasswd). -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marchetti, Peter Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:18 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network I know I sound like a moron...but I'm having trouble finding the info I need. If anyone knows a doc or a website that will help me, let me know. I'm setting up a server to be a web/e-commerce server. Right now I just want it to work on the local network. All the other machines are W2K or WinNT4. I need to be able to talk to them and transfer files. Is the simplest way to transfer the files just to FTP them over? (Note: I can ping everybody from both sides.) The info I have read on sharing drives and such in Linux have confused me. (I think it's just a vocabulary issue.) I don't want to flaunt my ignorance here...but I need some help. ANyone no a really good source for Sys Admins from the M$ world moving to *nix? Thanks in advance... Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Quake 2
Castle, start q2 with command line # ./quake2 +set s_initsound 0 this will bypass sound initialization and so you can see if all the other million things are configured right. It depends mainly on your video card- see the quake howto, included in LM8. As for the sound problem, I suggest you try to install ALSA drivers for your soundcard. --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux registered user #221896 - Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers weren't invented in the first place. From: CastleKidd Subject: [newbie] Quake 2 Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:25:56 -0700 OK, I installed Quake 2 on my new system and I can not get it to work. This is what it does, I run ./quake2 and I get this: -sound init- sound sampleing rate: 11025 Segmentation fault (core dumped) the sound card makes a quick little blurp of a noise. What can I do? Thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] ppp panic
when your system hangs do you have no mouse and keyboard? can you start netscape, type ifconfig and see a ppp entry? or ping something? you may have PPP up and running as a forground job. just leave it and open a different term to type ifconfig On Tuesday 31 July 2001 18:35, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Hi all, In my endless quest to have Internet supporrt under LM, I've been trying to configure pppd and my (win)modem to acesss my ISP and I ran into some trouble. When I tried kppp the program would just hang -sometimes it informed me that ppp was run without the debug option and that I should turn that on. I couldn't hung up the modem afterwards- perhaps because I don''t know how. Then , following the ppp-HOWTO, I tried to connect with minicom. Everything goes fine till I try to start ppp from a shell prompt- then the system freezes completely. While I figure that even a Linux sys can be frozen by a non-working modem, since it handles IRQs and such, I was not really expecting it. For info, I'm starting minicom, dialing into my ISP with ATDT, and then, after the connect statement, I press ENTER and when the garbage (that accordingly to ppp HOWTO means the remote sys is starting a PAP ppp) comes I quit minicom without reseting the modem and start ppd with # pppd -d -detach /dev/modem 38400 The system always hangs afterwards. I have two main doubts: can these freezes be caused by a misconfiguration, i.e, the modem init string, some option in ppp or minicom, etc, or is it a telltale sign that my winmodem module is not working as expected? And second, the ppp-HOWTO tells me that I MUST obtain the adress of 2 DNS from my ISP. But in ppp manpage I found reference to an option -usepeersdns that seems to allow obtaining these on the run, as window$ do. Is that so? As always, any help will be appreciated. :^) --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux registered user #221896 - Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers weren't invented in the first place.
Re: [newbie] Apache help
did I tell you it would be easy and t cl On Tuesday 31 July 2001 18:48, Jon Doe wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:36 pm, you wrote: Jon, There's a few things wrong here: #1. In order to give access to /var/www/media (which isn't under the default document root of /var/www/html), you need to either alias it in the httpd.conf Alias /media /var/www/media/ (without the quotes), or move it under /var/www/html. #2. The link that you are using is incorrect. Since apache is using /var/www/html as the document root, all documents (excluding aliased directories) are fetched relative to /var/www/html. This means the link http://ip_number/var/www/media/file.zip, is in fact attempting to find the file /var/www/html/var/www/media/file.zip (which isn't there). The correct link (once you've either aliased or moved the directory as in #1), would be http://ip_number/media/file.zip The answer to the question Is this because of directory permissions? would be no, at this point. Michael Thanks for your help! Got it working! Apache is up and running and serving webpages...lol Isn't linux great? Thanks to all who have helped me get Apache up and running.
RE: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network
Maybe for some people, but don't be lulled into a false sense of security, I'm about to tear out all my hair trying to get samba to work. --- Ok I'll bite. Samba is simplicity itself to set up. What problem are you having that makes it seem difficult? I find that the documentation goes into way too much detail for Newbies who simply want to get it running, especially since they often have little understanding of MS Networking... -JMS
Re: [newbie] Creative SB PCI128 installation problems
I have the same card but it is recognized and uses the es1371 driver. I am running mdk 8.0. Geof * On Monday 30 July 2001 12:59 am, Denis wrote: Hello Newbies, I can't install my Creative SoundBlaster PCI128 based on CT5880 chip. I can't find this chip in the list of Mandrake supported hardware. Any SB drivers that seem suitable don't suit. My system is: Linux Mandrake 7.0, kernel 2.2.14 Even new kernel does't have this chip in the list of supported hardware. Can anyone help? Denis
Re: [newbie] LILO and 1024 sector. Is it possible?
You will want to use grub. I am sure there must be an rpm for it. It comes with mdk 8.0 and maybe previous versions. You might find it at rpmfind.net or see this link. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html Geof. 8 On Monday 30 July 2001 06:59 pm, Denis wrote: Hello newbies, I have a problem of a big hard drive :) O.K. Seriously I have a 20Gb hard drive. I have 2 systems installed: Windows98 on first partition and Linux Mandrake 7.0 on second. Linux partition is too far from the begining of the disk, so lilo can't be installed. I want to use some boot manager in mbr (lilo is not the one of them). Is it possible? Or is there any other comfortable way to boot Linux? (Currently I use floppy) Thank you Denis
Re: [newbie] Quake 2
Nvidia On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, s wrote: I tried to play quake2, and it wouldn't use my video card. The howto spoke only of voodoos. It looked like really bad software rendering. What kind of video card are you guys using? And if other than voodoo, how did you get it to use it? -s On Tuesday 31 July 2001 06:01 pm, you wrote: Castle, start q2 with command line # ./quake2 +set s_initsound 0 this will bypass sound initialization and so you can see if all the other million things are configured right. It depends mainly on your video card- see the quake howto, included in LM8. As for the sound problem, I suggest you try to install ALSA drivers for your soundcard. --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux registered user #221896 - Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers weren't invented in the first place. From: CastleKidd Subject: [newbie] Quake 2 Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:25:56 -0700 --- - OK, I installed Quake 2 on my new system and I can not get it to work. This is what it does, I run ./quake2 and I get this: -sound init- sound sampleing rate: 11025 Segmentation fault (core dumped) the sound card makes a quick little blurp of a noise. What can I do? Thanks in advance
[newbie] WAP browser for Linux?
Does anyone know if there is a WAP browser for Linux? I'm trying to develop a WAP site, and instead of running up huge charges on my mobile phone, I would like to be able to view the site directly from Linux. Also, I guess I need to figure out how to get Apache to serve WAP. I assume I do this with XML. And then I need to get PHP to work with all of this... Thanks
Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
Alan wrote: just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly? You don't panic at all. In order to get infected, you have to open the attachment that contains the virus. I assume you don't open attachments you weren't expecting to get and that you check ALL attachments, regardless of file type or who sent them, with at least one up-to-date antivirus program before you open them. SirCam comes with an odd e-mail message--something like hi I'd like your advice about this (I don't remember the exact wording). I've gotten messages with SirCam attachments, AnnaK, ILoveYou, and everything else that's made the news, but have never opened a single one and have never had a virus in 14 years of using computers. --Judy Miner
Re: [newbie] WAP browser for Linux?
I don't have much exerence with wap, but in webmin there is (under servers) a wap gateway config On Tuesday 31 July 2001 21:52, Dr. Evil wrote: Does anyone know if there is a WAP browser for Linux? I'm trying to develop a WAP site, and instead of running up huge charges on my mobile phone, I would like to be able to view the site directly from Linux. Also, I guess I need to figure out how to get Apache to serve WAP. I assume I do this with XML. And then I need to get PHP to work with all of this... Thanks
[newbie] Monitor LG Studiworks 441
Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 8 and I've a monitor LG Studioworks 441. Mandrake correctly detects the card (Intel 810), but when it attemps to enter X Windows the screen gets black. If I set, using, XConfigurator in console mode, 640 x 480 video mode, then I can enter XWindows mode with no problem. I think something is wrong with the frequency of the monitor. Is there a way of setting it ? Does somebody know which are the correct horizontal and vertical frequency for this kind of monitor in order to put it in 800 x 600 or 1024 x 720 mode ? Thanks in advance, Aldo
[newbie] Re: UTC Time Standards
Sridhar Dhanapalan stated the following: I've noticed this as well. I have configured cron to periodically use ntpdate to update my system time from an NTP server. This sets my clock to UTC, which is supposed to be translated by the time zone settings so that the display is correct. However, I have found that this is not the case. I have managed to get the time translated correctly in BASH and in X (using environment variables), but cron is still on UTC. I have tried placing my time zone environment variable in /etc/profile, but this does nothing. Then you'll find the following very useful! I later discovered that some program didn't create /etc/localtime; instead, it copied the entire /usr/share/zoneinfo directory and sub-directories to /etc and renamed zoneinfo to localtime. After removing /etc/localtime (zoneinfo) and copying (not linking) the correct zone to /etc/localtime -- everything worked correctly. Where did you find the NTP servers? On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:10, SoloCDM wrote: I don't know why my system continues to display UTC time standards. My /etc/sysconfig/clock has the following settings: ARC=false UTC=false ZONE=US/Mountain What am I missing? It's as if /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is not making the right conversions! -- Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM
[newbie] Mixed Marriage - Making it work, together: CL vs GUI To Help A Newby
Hi Judith, On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:48, you manipulated electrons to produce: Sridhar wrote: You mean it isn't intuitive for a Windos user? Then you are correct. For people who have been using *nix for a while this can be very intuitive. Whoa! Intuitive has nothing to do with what OS someone knows how to use. Intuitive means known or perceived through intuition. *** Aha! A born debater! :-) Most of my working life was spent trying to introduce Western Technology in Asia - at the USER level. The greatest problem in presenting alternative - not even better - solutions to tasks is the cultural problem. *My* way has to be better, or this means I am wrong. To readily understand this point is simple: consider Religion! :-) However, INDUCEMENT to change is the highest requirement for rapidly overcoming the inbuilt habit/prejudice/bias of the student. In the case of Windows vs Linux, to really appreciate the differences requires comparing apples with apples (not Apples) and here we need to separate the application intention of the user: 1. Geek. 2. Tool user. In (1) there is utterly no question. Linux wins. The Internet runs on the stuff - despite Big Bill's massive efforts to sell the MS Server solutions. It is simply so superior that any true geek would become aware of it in a week or less - as happens. In (2) Mandrake is almost there! It is a problem of residual intention confusion that is the main outstanding difficulty. Pavarotti in an interview once said that he admired the dedication of all those other Opera Singers who can practise so hard, hour after hour, day after day. When reminded of how much time he spent working on his music he said, but I just sing! We are getting there very quickly. It is astounding that it *IS* happening so quickly and efficiently. People tend to forget that the vast bulk of great work done on this System is done by individuals and small groups who somehow find the time and energy to get it all together and create a cohesion that we still have yet to see come out of Redmond. ( Mind you, there is a different intention inside Redmond.) Even more amazing is the fact that the people being called on to make the System User Friendly, are not by instinct of the same mind/culture/Religion! As I keep saying - this exercise is massively cross-cultural. At one extreme are the Civilemes and Sridhars who actually LIKE the complexity and challenges, but they were born to it. At the other extreme is YHC, your humble correspondent, who an hundred years ago thought automatic gearboxes on autos was a blasphemy, but who sure learned to appreciate them in stop-start traffic jams, which were invented at the time, to sell automatic gearboxes Now that I have a complex life out in the Cyberbog, the last thing I need to do is go catch a goose, yank out a tail feather and sharpen it and make some ink to create my daily bread. That ain't fun to me. Only the writing -as some of you have noticed - is, I looove the Biro. HOWEVER, to make this thing work is not that difficult if approached a little differently. It is only in the separation of the cultures and understanding of the requirements - or goals of the other, that it does simplify. Natural Mechanics. Drivers. The money is with the Drivers. We outnumber the mechanics by the same ratio of auto mechanics to drivers. The whole computer system is just a tool, nothing more. It is useful only to contact Grandma cheaply, SPAM each other and write the great novel of the century. We just want to use it to go from A to B. The requirement is simple: AUTOMATE IT. Give us this day our daily GUI and deliver us from the Command Line. Four-wheel Drive and double-reduction 6-speed gearboxes are great - on an Army vehicle, they are useless to a normal user as the Urban equivalent. Dangerous in an accident, extremely expensive to maintain, uncomfortable and no longer impress anyone - they all have one too. We only need a system that works as far as possible on MINIMUM CHOICES. 3 Automatic gears are fine! We only need to do repetitive and simple things. Mandrake only has to focus on on one simple zone to really fill a giant vacuum: K.I.S. EVERYTHING on the Desktop. No Server option on install. No Multi-desktops - Gnome *or* KDE whichever is windowiest. An Email program - as close to O.E as possible. A REALLY good Wordprocessor - Doze-like interface (Star Office seems pretty close to workable now - except for font problems) THEN for later on, the AUTOMATIC updater/installer option - ON the Desktop! For MIGRANTS - ESCAPEES, REFUGEES : A DEFAULT install Trial Win4Lin. Mandrake is still a long way from an easy transition - transitions are NEVER easy, as whole habit patterns have to be burned out and replaced. Then there is the problem of expectation! Remember, that's how Bill became a Billionaire! Mandrake is about the level of W95 in
Re: [newbie] The differences in people and systems
Hi Judith folks, On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 03:58, you manipulated electrons to produce: I don't want to protract what is essentially an off-topic discussion for this list, so this will be it from me. Actually, this is right on topic for this list. It in fact, is allowing for some bridges to be built :-) I don't know what would give someone the impression that I was saying Windows is intuitive and Linux is not. I explicitly stated to the contrary. Also, it is ridiculous to dump on everything Windows does just because someone likes or prefers Linux. The Mac and Windows got some things right. No sense reinventing the wheel. Some years ago, in a consulting capacity to a strange Govenment Dept., I had a chance to test the Mac 4 people idea in the real world over several months. The Mac lost completely on three points: 1. It is not Sysadmin friendly. VERY difficult to do anything to make things easier for basic users. Hopeless at W.A.N. 2. Horrifically expensive comparatively. 3. Much longer learning curve than a Doze system properly setup! MOST fascinating of all was that those who knew about the friendly Mac had far less trouble learning to use it than those who were the true control group - knew nothing about computers at all. Thus proving dear old Dr Max Maltz's hypothesis that the expectation is the critical thing. AND the power of Advertising. After seeing an Apple Ad - I often want to rush out and buy one.. and I KNOW the things. :-) - I've been an activist in various causes for well over 40 years, and I can tell you that they've been bought off is the stock answer when mainstream media do not adopt the same line as the members of the cause. I think it's quite insulting to assume everyone who doesn't agree with you has been bought off somehow or just doesn't know any better. --Judy Miner ** Ahhh, the only problem here, Judy, is that *most* of the time it is true. :-) The way the System works is simple: 1. Our Owners are on top and intend to stay there. Less change is therefore better. 2. Money is the grease of all commerce. Not innovation, not style, just money. 3. It is entirely illogical to expect the Tobacco Companies to give up their income. It is only logical to offer them a better deal. Even licensing say, Marijuana/Heroin to them and giving them a partial monopoly on its distribution would be one way except then you upset the current drug cartels. It is a bit complicated. 4. Try writing an article that could even be conceived to possibly upset the main advertisers.. 5. Bought off? Sugar industry. Vaccinations. Fluoridation. Alternative fuels. Various War-things. Politics. M--osoft? (The reason a lot of people use code descriptions is because THAT company uses extensive datamining technology to keep the peasants in line. They are often just cautious people - or have a sense of humour. :-) -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)
Re: [newbie]
Seeun William Umboh wrote: I have got LM8.0 and Logitech Mouse Wheel Optical. Everything is working great but the wheel isn't working. How do I get it to work? Browsing without the wheel is really troublesome. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp There is an 'imwheel' rpm on your install CD's for the MS Intelli Mouse. It may also work for the Logitech. I haven't tried it myself because I have a 3 button mouse. Can someone correct me if I'm wrong? Barry
[newbie] Bastille-firewall hangs on startup
I installed Mandrake 8.0 about a week ago and a couple of days ago after a system crash it started showing problems when the system starts up. I get all the way through the boot and the initial startup to the point where the default console mode login displays; then the system tries to start Bastille-firewall and hangs at that point. Any ideas? Thanks Steve Lewis
Re: [newbie] X server and specs. Help please!
I believe the solution may be to install the Xfree 3.x server instead of 4.0. I ran into a similar problem with Mach64 2meg cards--they work fine at 1024x768 and 16 bit color with 3.x, but I can't get more than 256 color (8 bit) with 4.x. The default install puts in the 4.x Xserver. good luck eryl On Tuesday 31 July 2001 15:15, Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Thank you, Carrroll. Voilà: Trident 975 4Mb Video Card, Soyo SY-6BB Motherboard, Monitor ViewSonic E40, 64 Mb RAM, CPU Pentium II MMX at 350 Mhz.
Re: [newbie] Monitor LG Studiworks 441
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:22:17 -0400 Aldo Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.monitorworld.com/ There you'll find specs for most monitors Cheers Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 8 and I've a monitor LG Studioworks 441. Mandrake correctly detects the card (Intel 810), but when it attemps to enter X Windows the screen gets black. If I set, using, XConfigurator in console mode, 640 x 480 video mode, then I can enter XWindows mode with no problem. I think something is wrong with the frequency of the monitor. Is there a way of setting it ? Does somebody know which are the correct horizontal and vertical frequency for this kind of monitor in order to put it in 800 x 600 or 1024 x 720 mode ? Thanks in advance, Aldo -- The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) Registered Linux User: 102826
RE: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network
LinNeighborhood problems are not what we were discussing as this is really a completely separate issue and program. LinNeighborhood and KDE (Lisa/ReLisa) support are completely different beasts. One requires the other, but the latter two have their own quirks. --- BTW: The SMBMNT message is correct, as a USER you don't have rights to mount volumes explicitly unless you SU before running LinNeighborhood... You should edit the entry for LinNeighborhood so it SU's for you... Or better yet, see the closing below... --- First you have to start by getting Samba up and running correctly. As I've mentioned this is relatively easy to do. And extensively covered in many detailed FAQ's DOCS... Here is a quick Howto... As root do the following... 1) Make sure that your Winblows machines can ping the Linux host computer. 2) Make sure that your Winblows machines can ping the Linux host computer by FQN... I.E. ping linuxbox.mydomain.com Should work. If not you'll need to deal with DNS which is a different kettle of fish and entirely up to you. You could set up your Linux box to resolve DNS queries for your Winboxes. You could edit c:\windows\hosts to include the name of your Linux box and shortname... Etc... It's up to you. But the Windows boxes need to know what the HOSTNAME DOMAIN NAME your Linux box is or you'll get nowhere. 3) Decide on a workgroup name for ALL machines on your private network. You must use the same workgroup name for both Linux and Winblows. 4) Make sure that your Windows boxes have their networking settings set up properly 5) Make up your mind as to if you want Server/user style Networking or Domain Networking which NT prefers. Again your choice. 6) If the latter, do you have a PDC on your network? Don't know what that is? Then you probably don't. Decide if you want Linux to act as a PDC. The choice is yours. PDC's simplify logins and NT services, but take a little more effort on your part. Notice that thus far this is all Winblows stuff, not Linux! 7) Make sure that Linux can ping your Winboxes by short and long names... I.E. ping mybox1.mydomain.com ping mybox1 ping localhost Should all work. Again if this fails fix your networking and DNS... If you feel lazy... Just use /etc/hosts entries... 8) Locate your SMB.CONF file... It will either be in /etc or /etc/samba NOT BOTH! 9) Edit your SMB.CONF file Here we go: Make sure these entries exist ONCE in your configuration file... Change as needed.. [global] # # The following is the name of the Winblows Workgroup/domain # workgroup = MYWORKGROUP # # How Netbios knows it's name as, this should be the SAME as your SHORTNAME # for your Linux box, and known by your Windows boxes for ease, as I've mentioned # before... # I.E. ping mybox from Winblows should work... # netbios name = MYBOX # # The next line is not needed, but can be used to resolve problems with naming... # netbios aliases = LinuxBox # # The following line controls what shows up in the Windows details when you browse # the network in explorer... I.E. the comment field. # server string = Samba Server on Linux Bluebox # # While you don't have to set the following it's a great idea to do so. # # The line below says that this machine will participate on the Windows Network # via the local (ethernet) interface with an IP of 10.0.0.16. The /8 tells Samba # only to respond to hosts with 8 significant lower bits... Or 255 hosts... # This in spite of the fact that a 10.0.0.0 LAN is a CLASS A protected network. # (Usually you use 10.0.0.16/24 when talking about this lan...) # # The 127.0.0.1/24 permits Samba to talk to itself so you can test things locally... # interfaces = 10.0.0.16/8 127.0.0.1/24 # # The next line determines the type of security you are going to use... # If you want Samba to act as a PDC/Login server or participate in a network # with an existing PDC... The next line would need to read domain instead. # security = USER # # Should be set to YES for later versions of Samba # encrypt passwords = Yes # # I've commented out these two to prohibit ANYONE from getting access to # some samba resources without first logging in. # Don't expect that by merely uncommenting them, that you'll get samba up. # as more is required... # # map to guest = Bad Password # null passwords = Yes # # Leave the following uncommented in the smb.conf file # passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n * passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* password level = 8 username level = 8 unix password sync = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -s /bin/fals delete user script = /usr/sbin/deluser %u logon script = netlogon.bat # # Since
Re: [newbie] RPM, Debian packages
It was Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:07:50 EDT when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a few things straight. RPM and Debian packages...how do they differ from .tar.gz files? Obviously, they are easier to install and update. Are they more highly compressed also? One of the big benefits of these also, is that the programmers decide for you where the program is to reside. How's that sound? RPM and DEB are the same as tar.gz files, not more compressed. They have a few extra files, pointing out to the installer what to look for and how to set things up. That's all. But it is very convenient indeed. Paul -- Cats could have ruled the universe, but they couldn't be bothered. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] 2 questions about web server
1. How do I get password protected site going? I know I need htaccess and htpasswd files? How do I make them and where do I put them? 2. I would like people to be able to upload files to my computer. How do I go about that?
Re: [newbie] make
kiran yedavalli wrote: Hello, I am a new user of linux mandrake. Installed Linux Mandrake on my pc only hours ago. Doesn't Linux-mandrake have make utility. I need this to make some files. like make config. If no how can i get. Thank You Eshwar _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp I don't know which version you have, but I found that, in 8.0, it wasn't loaded during the initial installation. I had to go back with Software Manager and install it from CD1. Barry
Re: [newbie] a big duh
nkey wrote: im just now beginning to run GNOME (was using KDE) and id like to change the color of my fonts on my desktop but cannot find an option anywhere to let me change this! GACK! is it possible to do so? thanks! im using Sawfish and also letting Nautilus draw my desktop. so im not sure whats up. if i turn off that nautilus feature, my text goes from white ot black, but i cant seem to get any other text colors on my desktop. luke I have been using mainly KDE, but every once in a while I try GNOME. It seems that I always get a kind of bleed through effect. Sometimes when I am in KDE the desktop icons from GNOME will bleed through and vice versa. I do use GNOME programs in KDE and vice versa. I am wondering if this has anything to do with it. It doesn't seem to crash anything but is mostly annoying. The really strange thing is that I don't use any desktop icons except Trash. The first thing I do after an install is get rid of them. I have had these kind of problems in several versions of Mandrake and I always wind up going back to KDE, because the problems seem to go away after awhile,. if I just use KDE. If I continue to use GNOME, it seems that it gets worse . I can't seem to get the settings in GNOME to stay where I set them. They keep changing back to the defaults. Last week I ran Netscape in GNOME and it changed (spell checked perhaps?) my address in my mail settings and changed the number (0) to the letter (o). as a result anyone who replied to my mail would get a return. It also sent some of my mail with blank body text. (the subject line was all that was readable). I think GNOME has possibilities and it seems to be less and less buggy with each new release, but I have to go with KDE for now. Sorry I don't have any answers, but sometimes listing the problems helps in running down the solution. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118
Re: [newbie] microsoft gone
It was Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:25:48 -0700 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am happy to say that win95 is gone. Now My wife used the computer last night. She complained about the fonts in netscape so I will have to fix this. At www.rpmfind.net look for mozil*, download and install the mozilla fonts, and select these. Then you're fine. I will also have to find out howto ajust the time as my clock says 8:22 am and it is 8:22 pm right now. I am useing gnome. From an xterm you can use timetool for that. Is there educational software out there for children? Were can I find a good flight sim that will work on mandrake 7.2. Take a look at www.linuxapps.com, there should be something good for you there :) Btw, I'd add a bit of memory to the system... OS's love memory. Paul -- Cats could have ruled the universe, but they couldn't be bothered. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Apache help
Jon, There's a few things wrong here: #1. In order to give access to /var/www/media (which isn't under the default document root of /var/www/html), you need to either alias it in the httpd.conf Alias /media /var/www/media/ (without the quotes), or move it under /var/www/html. #2. The link that you are using is incorrect. Since apache is using /var/www/html as the document root, all documents (excluding aliased directories) are fetched relative to /var/www/html. This means the link http://ip_number/var/www/media/file.zip, is in fact attempting to find the file /var/www/html/var/www/media/file.zip (which isn't there). The correct link (once you've either aliased or moved the directory as in #1), would be http://ip_number/media/file.zip The answer to the question Is this because of directory permissions? would be no, at this point. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:34 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Jon Doe wrote: Ok, I have got apache running, put in my own index.html and it works! But how do I link to files I want to make availible? I made a directory /var/www/media but if I link a file that is there, I just get an error message when i click on the link, my link is: http://ip number/var/www/media/file.zip is this because of directory permissions?
Re: [newbie] win4lin
On Wednesday, Jul 25, 2001, John Rigby wrote: This is not hidden somewhere in Powerpak 8 is it?? Nope, sorry... see www.netraverse.com. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 19 days 22 hours 16 minutes.
Re: [newbie] Services installed by LM8
Hi Frans, I think you did not understand my problem. LM installed a sound driver that seemed to work fine with my onboard audio -via82cxxx. I don't know if this driver is an OSS driver. But some apps -er games, namely quake2 and 3- wouldn't work with it. I installed ALSA drivers following the ALSA HOWTO-basically editing modules.conf since LM seems to provide all drivers already compiled- and I had to install OSS compatibility drivers also for the games to work. Apparently quake wants to write to /dev/dsp and it seems that only OSS drivers habilitate that. Even though now sound is running well in my box, the ALSA utils can't detect the ALSA drivers, and it seems that is why the LM script can't load it at boot time. I'm loading the drivers presently with a modprobe in rc.local. --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux registered user #221896 - Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers weren't invented in the first place. -Mensagem Original- De: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] What applications do you think will work with ALSA and not OSS/free? ALSA provides OSS/free emulation, but at this moment only has advantages, AFAIK, when you: - have a soundcard only supported by ALSA - have a 'advanced' soundcard only fully supported with the ALSA API - have an application that _only_ works with ALSA (not many _now_, but ALSA is moving from the 0.5 series to 0.9 and as the API stabilizes, more applications will natively (only) support ALSA. - for some reason, in your situation, ALSA sounds better, or has more functionality - are looking to the future :) Btw: I'm using ALSA 0.5.10b with Mandrake 8.0 ;-) -Frans
[newbie] ppp panic
Hi all, In my endless quest to have Internet supporrt under LM, I've been trying to configure pppd and my (win)modem to acesss my ISP and I ran into some trouble. When I tried kppp the program would just hang -sometimes it informed me that ppp was run without the debug option and that I should turn that on. I couldn't hung up the modem afterwards- perhaps because I don''t know how. Then , following the ppp-HOWTO, I tried to connect with minicom. Everything goes fine till I try to start ppp from a shell prompt- then the system freezes completely. While I figure that even a Linux sys can be frozen by a non-working modem, since it handles IRQs and such, I was not really expecting it. For info, I'm starting minicom, dialing into my ISP with ATDT, and then, after the connect statement, I press ENTER and when the garbage (that accordingly to ppp HOWTO means the remote sys is starting a PAP ppp) comes I quit minicom without reseting the modem and start ppd with # pppd -d -detach /dev/modem 38400 The system always hangs afterwards. I have two main doubts: can these freezes be caused by a misconfiguration, i.e, the modem init string, some option in ppp or minicom, etc, or is it a telltale sign that my winmodem module is not working as expected? And second, the ppp-HOWTO tells me that I MUST obtain the adress of 2 DNS from my ISP. But in ppp manpage I found reference to an option -usepeersdns that seems to allow obtaining these on the run, as window$ do. Is that so? As always, any help will be appreciated. :^) --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux registered user #221896 - Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers weren't invented in the first place.
Re: [newbie] Quake 2
I tried to play quake2, and it wouldn't use my video card. The howto spoke only of voodoos. It looked like really bad software rendering. What kind of video card are you guys using? And if other than voodoo, how did you get it to use it? -s On Tuesday 31 July 2001 06:01 pm, you wrote: Castle, start q2 with command line # ./quake2 +set s_initsound 0 this will bypass sound initialization and so you can see if all the other million things are configured right. It depends mainly on your video card- see the quake howto, included in LM8. As for the sound problem, I suggest you try to install ALSA drivers for your soundcard. --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux registered user #221896 - Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers weren't invented in the first place. From: CastleKidd Subject: [newbie] Quake 2 Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:25:56 -0700 --- - OK, I installed Quake 2 on my new system and I can not get it to work. This is what it does, I run ./quake2 and I get this: -sound init- sound sampleing rate: 11025 Segmentation fault (core dumped) the sound card makes a quick little blurp of a noise. What can I do? Thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] LILO and 1024 sector. Is it possible?
Hello, Yes it is. All new versions (I don't remember as of which) support greater than 1024. J On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Geof Steichen wrote: You will want to use grub. I am sure there must be an rpm for it. It comes with mdk 8.0 and maybe previous versions. You might find it at rpmfind.net or see this link. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html Geof. 8 On Monday 30 July 2001 06:59 pm, Denis wrote: Hello newbies, I have a problem of a big hard drive :) O.K. Seriously I have a 20Gb hard drive. I have 2 systems installed: Windows98 on first partition and Linux Mandrake 7.0 on second. Linux partition is too far from the begining of the disk, so lilo can't be installed. I want to use some boot manager in mbr (lilo is not the one of them). Is it possible? Or is there any other comfortable way to boot Linux? (Currently I use floppy) Thank you Denis
