Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel
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; Certo. Dimmi una cosa sola. Per chi ha la MAndrake 8.0 si tratta di trovare tra i CD i sorgenti del vecchio kernel, e poi bisogna scaricare da internet la patch della nuova versione? Ti chiedo questo perchè ho visto dei files da scaricare da 21M, cosa abbastanza laboriosa da fare col mio vecchio modem 336. Esistono versioni RPM? ciao e grazie, Tommaso
[newbie-it] Impostare le dimensioni della banda passante
Salve a tutta la lista, vorrei chiedere come fare per impostare le dimensioni della banda passante ai vari utenti di una LAN sulla connessione Internet. Ho una connessione ADSL a 640K e vorrei dividerla in base all'effettivo utilizzo di ogni utente. Grazie 1000 -- Luca Minari [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (no attachments)
[newbie-it] Postfix e messaggio di ritorno
Ciao a tutti, Ho installato postfix su un mail server ma ogni giorno mi arriva questa mail: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.hourly touch: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permesso negato chmod: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permesso negato /usr/bin/nntpsend: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permesso negato Ora mi chiedo: 1) devo dare i diritti di scrittura/lettura a queste directory? Se si come faccio? 2) Se gli do i permessi posso compromettere qualcosa in merito a sicurezza del sistema? 3) Lascio stare cosi e me ne frego del messaggio. Grazie anticipatamente,
Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel
Dimmi una cosa sola. Per chi ha la MAndrake 8.0 si tratta di trovare tra i CD i sorgenti del vecchio kernel, e poi bisogna scaricare da internet la patch della nuova versione? Ti chiedo questo perchè ho visto dei files da scaricare da 21M, cosa abbastanza laboriosa da fare col mio vecchio modem 336. Esistono versioni RPM? Ciao, Il kernel non e' disponibile (per quanto ne so io) in formato rpm, ma va compilato dai sorgenti, cosa che ti conviene fare mer modellarlo sulla tua macchina. Sul sito del kernel Linux (www.kernel.org) puoi trovare sia i sorgenti completi del kernel (i bidoncini che dici tu da 20 e piu' mega), oppure le patch, vale a dire solo le parti che sono state modificate dall'ultima versione, che sono decisamente piu' ridotte e veloci da scaricare!! Per farti un esempio, se io ho i sorgenti del kernel 2.4.3 e voglio passare al 2.4.4, posso scaricarmi soltanto la patch 2.4.4 e sovrapporla ai sorgenti completi con il comando patch. C'e' un fatto pero': la mandrake non utilizza un kernel standard, ma comprensivo di una serie di utility e upgrade che vengono integrate assieme ai sorgenti. Sinceramente non so se il kernel Mandrake si possa patchare tranquillamente o se dia problemi, e' una cosa che non ho mai provato a fare. Se ti puo' interessare, ho visto che su Linux magazine di questo mese ci sono i sorgenti del kernel 2.4.5 (standard). Puoi anche pensare di comprare la rivista ed eventualmente di patcharlo fino alla versione 2.4.7 che e' l'ultima uscita. Ciao. Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con LiViD(playerDVD).
Ciao, Anch'io avevo avuto dei problemi con l'installazione di LiVid ma non mi sono scervellato per risolverli :P rimandando a quando avrei avuto piu' tempo... Ho risolto installando Xine (un altro DVD player, per X), che funziona molto bene! Se ti interessa lo trovi su http://xine.sourceforge.net Purtroppo su Livid non ti so aiutare. Ciao. Steo. --- Renato Bucclli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: 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$$ ???!!?!??) Ho Mandr.8-duron800-128MbRam133-S.M.Via T. U.ATA100-HD 10GbATA100-Dr.DVD Acer1640-Sheda v.TNT2M64. Dimenticavo Mandr.8 è grande mi ha riconosciuto il modem esterno, configurato la scheda TV Hupp.ge, mentre con Win$$ il modem funziona male per non parlare della schedaTV. Grazie a presto. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] EPSON Stylus Scan 2500 II
Salve, come mi è stato richiesto, aggiungo volentieri due parole in più su come far funzionare la suddetta stampante, premesso che non mi intendo di questioni tecniche. Rapidamente: - servono alcuni programmi (driver, script, chiamateli come volete): in particolare vedere il sito di Jean-Jacques Sarton (ci si va dal sito della EPSON alla voce driver per Linux, oppure facendo una ricerca: al momento non l'ho sottomano). La mia situazione è la seguente: 1) epsC740.ppd: metterlo in/usr/share/cups/model/Epson e usare kups per configurare una (nuova) stampante scegliendo questo driver. 2) enterD4, da mettere dove meglio si crede 3) scanPrint, da mettere in /usr/local/bin 4) xw_print, ibidem Ad inizio sessione lanciare enterD4 (oppure metterlo tra le applicazioni che partono automaticamente). Stiamo ancora cercando di togliere l'uso di enterD4. Se servissero maggiori informazioni, basta chiedere. Ciao, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 07:44, Stefano Salari wrote: Il kernel non e' disponibile (per quanto ne so io) in formato rpm, ma va compilato dai sorgenti, no esiste anche in rpm. potresti volendo (anche se fino a poco tempo fa lo sconsigliava pure la mandrake) fare addirittura l'aggiornamento col mandrakeupdate. ti consiglio anch'io comunque i sorgenti. impari di piu', lo fai come vuoi e leggero quanto vuoi. 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] Problemi con LiViD(playerDVD).
Caro Stefano grazie lo stesso, in quanto mi hai confermato la qualità di Xine. Ciao e a presto. l 04:02, mercoledì 01 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Ciao, Anch'io avevo avuto dei problemi con l'installazione di LiVid ma non mi sono scervellato per risolverli :P rimandando a quando avrei avuto piu' tempo... Ho risolto installando Xine (un altro DVD player, per X), che funziona molto bene! Se ti interessa lo trovi su http://xine.sourceforge.net Purtroppo su Livid non ti so aiutare. Ciao. Steo. --- Renato Bucclli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: 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$$ ???!!?!??) Ho Mandr.8-duron800-128MbRam133-S.M.Via T. U.ATA100-HD 10GbATA100-Dr.DVD Acer1640-Sheda v.TNT2M64. Dimenticavo Mandr.8 è grande mi ha riconosciuto il modem esterno, configurato la scheda TV Hupp.ge, mentre con Win$$ il modem funziona male per non parlare della schedaTV. Grazie a presto. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] PGP???
Ci sarebbe qualche anima pia che potrebbe darmi una mano, per favore? Ho già fatto numerose prove, ma non sono riuscito a cavare un ragno dal buco! Grazie 100 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-it] Masterizzazione non visualizzata
max wrote: Secondo le istruzioni dell'articolo di Linux Pratico, ho masterizzato alcune cartelle di file del disco rigido su cd, con gcomust e mkisofs. Il programma ha eseguito la masterizzazione ed infine espluso il cd, ma, sia in ambiente linux, sia in ambiente windows, non riesco a visualizzare il risultato. Il cd masterizzato non viene letto, forse neppure caricato. Da cosa può dipendere? max __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it Scusa forse lo hai fatto, ma hai tolto l'opzione test di prova nella sessione masterizza. Sicuramente lo hai fatto però a volte . Ciao Lele _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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Salve, gradirei essere tolto da questa ML, o perlomeno sapere come fare. Grazie.
[newbie-it] 8.0 Certificati... un aiutino non guasterebbe...
Problema.. Siccome nel tempo libero mi diletto a smanettare.. l'ultima fatica è un sitarello di e-commerce (quasi finito) avrei bisogno di un certificato per https (non speditemi da VeriSign please..) il problema è che riesco a generarlo alla perfezione partendo dall' openssl.cnf ma a quanto pare dovrei partire da ssleay.cnf o sbaglio? morale, se sostituisco il file miniserv.pem (utilizzato da Webmin per intenderci) con il mio, non funzia.. per la cronaca, io faccio così; cd /usr/lib/ssl/mod_ssl/ lancio un bel ./gentestcrt.sh compilo il tutto.. lancio ./sign.sh che crea la dir /ca.db.cert al cui interno c'è un file 01.pem sposto e rinomino ma nada.. Qualcuno può aiutarmi?
Re: [newbie-it] masterizzare
Il 15:23, martedì 31 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Che programma mi consigliate per masterizzare? cdrecord man cdrecord per maggiori informazioni. -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Konqueror e plugin flash
Ho installato Mandrake 8.0 e, al primo accesso ad internet, ho constatato che non vengono installati i plugin flash per nessun browser. Per Netscape e Mozilla ho risolto scaricando il plugin e copiandolo nelle directory /lib/netscape/plugins e /lib/mozilla/plugins ... per konqueror come posso fare (ho abilitato i plugins in configurazione ma ... niente da fare!) Qualche idea?? Grazie Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- La mente è una cosa meravigliosa, tutti dovrebbero averne una !!! --- KMail powered by Linux Mandrake 8.0 -
Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel
trova i sorgenti di un kernel recente sul di una rivista qualsiasi ritrova il bootdisk (non si sa mai se le cose vanno storte) copialo in /usr/src/ da il comando tar xvfz nome_kernel compilalo make menuconfig make dep make bzImage (non usare make install le prime volta che fai esperimenti) make modules make modules_install le istruzioni le trovi nei doc allegati per aggiornarlo vai su www.kernel.org e scarica tutte le patch che ti servono per arrivare alla 2.4.7 che al momento è la più recente copiale in /usr/src/linux/scripts li vi è uno script fatto per gestire le patch del kernel kernel-patch mi pare buon divertimento On 1 Aug 2001, at 9:12, Tommaso Leddi wrote: 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; Certo. Dimmi una cosa sola. Per chi ha la MAndrake 8.0 si tratta di trovare tra i CD i sorgenti del vecchio kernel, e poi bisogna scaricare da internet la patch della nuova versione? Ti chiedo questo perchè ho visto dei files da scaricare da 21M, cosa abbastanza laboriosa da fare col mio vecchio modem 336. Esistono versioni RPM? ciao e grazie, Tommaso
[newbie] Dailer for isdn
Does anyone know about dailer for isdn ? -- - 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] -
Re: [newbie] Dailer for isdn
Does anyone know about dailer for isdn ? KIsdn is a good one, it seems. At home I use a dial-up script which I can send you if you want. You can also look that up at www.wurtel.demon.nl, which has a lot of info on ISDN. Paul
Re: [newbie] Mkisofs
I suspect that this bad superblock error is a deliberate attempt at copy protection by manufacturers. I doubt that mkisofs would be able to circumvent this. After all, it was not designed to infringe copyright. There _are_ methods to circumvent this copyright, but I don't know them. I'm sure there is a solution out there for you on the web, but please note that this may be illegal (even if the copy is for yourself). On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 00:28, h3rb wrote: How do I make an iso image of a windows based cd through using mkisofs? I run gaming servers...and the only way I can install Unreal Tournament is if I am infront of the machine with the CD. Or If i make an iso image of the cd and mount it..then do the install. I tried making an iso on a windows machine with EZcd but when I mount it..it says it's got a bad superblock. Any information would be nice. Thanks, h3rb -- 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] httpd-perl and httpd
Hiya, this also happened to me.. thanks for the info :) -- Jamie -- From: Jon Doe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 July 2001 20:49 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
[newbie] Port forwarding
Can anyone shed a little light on how to configure port-forwarding or port redirection from a Mandrake 7.2 SNF firewall to a mandrake 8.0 web-server? I realize that SNF has it's own web-server built-in, but this is for a special configuration. Examples would be very helpful. Mostly, I can't figure out which package/utility to use. TIA
Re: [newbie] Port forwarding
Can anyone shed a little light on how to configure port-forwarding or port redirection from a Mandrake 7.2 SNF firewall to a mandrake 8.0 web-server? I realize that SNF has it's own web-server built-in, but this is for a special configuration. Examples would be very helpful. Mostly, I can't figure out which package/utility to use. You have to use ipchains for that, afaik. You can find more on www.mandrakeuser.org Paul
[newbie] wierd login prob
Hello I have my machine startup to Xwindows, and I get that login screen. I have user setup and there is also the root user. I can log in fine with both of them in XWindows. If I log in as the user and in the console type su, and the root password it logins in fine. The problem is when i shutdown xwindows to console, I get the console login. I can log in fine with my username and password, by the root username and password won't let me login. Security is set to medium. This is on LM8. Thank you. Robert MacLean
Re: [newbie] Port forwarding
At 09:39 01.08.2001 +, you wrote: Can anyone shed a little light on how to configure port-forwarding or port redirection from a Mandrake 7.2 SNF firewall to a mandrake 8.0 web-server? I realize that SNF has it's own web-server built-in, but this is for a special configuration. Examples would be very helpful. Mostly, I can't figure out which package/utility to use. You have to use ipchains for that, afaik. You can find more on www.mandrakeuser.org Paul ipportfwd is the magic word. there is a single section in the ip-masq howto that explains portforwarding. it also specifies a source where to download the portfwd utility. check this out...: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.8 hth --quay
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS
Have you tried booting with the default 2.4.3 Mandrake kernel? I was using the Freq kernel for a while, but I found it too buggy and went back to the default one. On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:02, Terry Smith wrote: 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 -- 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] Problems typing special characters
In the Mandrake Control Centre (assuming you have LM 8.0), set your keyboard to US International. On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:37, Steven Watt wrote: 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 -- 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] Re: UTC Time Standards
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:34, SoloCDM wrote: 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. THANK YOU!!! That fixed everything! I'm just wondering why we had the problem in the first place. Could it be a bug in the Mandrake install? Where did you find the NTP servers? I personally use my university's (The University of Sydney) NTP servers. There's a whole list of other servers available at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/. 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! -- 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] Where is the proper place the edit the path?
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 08:15, Kevin Fonner wrote: 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? For your user, the settings are in /home/username/.bashrc For everyone, the settings are in /etc/bashrc This, of course, is for BASH. Other shells have their own files. -- 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]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:47, Judith Miner wrote: 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 The answer is simple: if you don't use Outlook/Outlook Express (in Windows, of course), you are 100% safe from these. So in other words, you are safe in GNU/Linux. I got three SirCam messages from the same person (I have no idea who it was) just yesterday. I was laughing my head off :-) -- 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] WAP browser for Linux?
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 11:52, 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 I know that there _is_ a WAP browser for GNU/Linux (I've been to its web site), but its name escapes my mind. Perhaps a search of Freshmeat and SourceForge may help. Sorry I couldn't help more :-( -- 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] Recognizing SCSI?
Are you sure those are not IDE connectors for a CD-ROM. Most of the old 16's had this Jeanette - Original Message - From: JongAm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:41 PM Subject: [newbie] Recognizing SCSI? Hello. I installed the Mandrake 8.0. I have a SoundBlaster 16 SCSI. It is a SB card with SCSI card on it. My problem is that the Mandrake 8.0 can't recognize the SCSI interface and the SB card. Until now ( from 1991 to 2 years ago. ) I configured it when I compile the kernel. But doing so with the easy-to-setup Mandrake is somewhat meaningless. So.. is there any easier way to make my SB/SCSI card work with the Mandrake 8.0? Thanks in advance.
RE: [newbie] Recognizing SCSI?
Title: Message For the sound card, make sure that ALL kernel sound modules have been removed from memory then try running sndconfig from the console (make sure X-windows or a display manager is not running!!) If it configures proceed... I believe the SB16 used the Adaptec chipset. You could try "modprobe " using the Adaptec entries in /lib/modules/2.x.x-xmdk/kernel/drivers/scsi I.E. "modprobe aic7xxx" Once you get a "hit"... I.E. the modprobe does not return an error... Type "lsdev" and make sure the module you loaded has BOTH an IRQ and I/O Port range associated with it.. Then modify your /etc/modules.conf file alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter Finally you should "mkinitrd" for the kernel you have to preload the driver... BTW: Your sound card might not be working because 8.0 now deals with PNP PCI in a very different manner... Try disabling/enabling PNP/OS in the BIOS and RESETTING the BIOS's PNP/PCI configuration... -JMS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of JongAmSent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:10 AMTo: Jeanette Russo; Newbie MandrakeSubject: Re: [newbie] Recognizing SCSI? Hello. Well, thank you for your reply. But I've used that one for aoubt 10 years. (Canyou believe it? ) Its connector is one for "internal SCSI". - Original Message - From: Jeanette Russo To: JongAm ; Newbie Mandrake Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Recognizing SCSI? Are you sure those are not IDE connectors for a CD-ROM. Most of the old16's had thisJeanette- Original Message -From: "JongAm" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "Newbie Mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:41 PMSubject: [newbie] Recognizing SCSI? Hello. I installed the Mandrake 8.0. I have a SoundBlaster 16 SCSI. It is a SB card with SCSI card on it. My problem is that the Mandrake 8.0 can't recognize the SCSI interface and the SB card. Until now ( from 1991 to 2 years ago. ) I configured it when I compile the kernel. But doing so with the easy-to-setup Mandrake is somewhat meaningless. So.. is there any easier way to make my SB/SCSI card work with the Mandrake 8.0? Thanks in advance.
Re: [newbie] Konqueror Problem
Hi there, On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:29, you manipulated electrons to produce: Konqueror as of time being is not a full fledged browser. It doesn't support XML and other thingies. Probably the offending sites use these thingies. I think Nautilus has the same problems. You should use Netscape/Mozilla as your primary browser. --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux registered user #221896 - I have tried both on my system and cannot access any of my bank details via the net including the Netscape default. Switch to Doze and I.E. 5 and no problems. I am trying out Gnome but think this may be part of the problem as it is very slow in Net responses compared to KDE 5 minutes later. Cheers, John
Re: [newbie] Apache Question
Ha folks, Yahoo! The expression not bizness. Something on MY setup is working!! :-) I can see it! I can see it! On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:31, Jan manipulated electrons to produce: If you installed Apache when you installed Mandrake 8 (you didn't mention OS distros or versions) it should have created the file index.html in the document root /var/www/html/ You should be able to view this by typing: http://localhost/ -- 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]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
Maybe I am under-paranoid or under-informed or something, but all this talk of viruses is getting to me as well. I see the time spent worrying about viruses as being better spent backing up data or playing with kids or something. People spend more time and money (not as accurate in the linux world) on viruses than they would ever spend fixing a virus problem. I've been doing this computer stuff for about 5 years now and have never had an anti-virus program or a virus. Just a thought jim Quoting alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All All this talk of viruses is getting to me. Which virus programme do I need, if any at all. Here is my system: My machine - stand alone mdk8.0, at home, dialup isp. Using kmail with direct pop connection to isp to retreive mail and direct smtp connection, in this case to mail.metroweb.co.za to send mail. The same system is used if I use Netscape. No virus programme is used. M$Win98 on hda, mdk8.0 on hdb. # The anti virus programmes, it seems to me, are used in conjuction with fetchmail/postfix/sendmail/qmail/procmail/etc where the mail is intercepted before being received or sent. Am I right in this assumption? # If I am wrong then what is the most efficient way to set up kmail or netscape direct dial system to incorporate virus protection for my linux sys and as a secondary consideration, my M$Win98 sys I do have Win98 on my first hd that I occasionally access via linux to retrieve files or archive mdk files. Sometimes I use Win98 directly. I do not access the internet form my M$Win98 drive (at the present). # Is it possible for a Win virus to migrate to the win98 hda when accessing it using a file manager assuming that I do not directly copy an email or attachment to the Win98 hd? # If I did want to copy the contents of an email to the M$win hd would it be okay if the contents where copied to a text file and the text file copied across for use in say Corel WP8, I do not use M$ Office at all, at all! # Recently however I archived my kmail and netscape 'mail box' on the win98 hda whilst I changed the file sys over to reisersFS - could a problem arise in a case like this? Sorry for the verbosity but I sometimes think that I have all straightened up in my mind when one of the mails on the list says, /var/spool/mail/ . . . , then I know that the list is talking about something else and not a direct connection to the Internet from the mail programme. Thanks and regards Alan Smith PS just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly? Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] win95 gone
If you've already got linux installed, and windows is in the mnt directory, right-click on it and say 'delete'(you might have to click it, too). If linux isn't installed, I'd do a low-level format and get everything off and then install linux. If linux is installed and windows isn't in the mnt directory, use linuxconf to access a local drive and find it--and delete it. If windows is a boot option, you can go into Mandrake Control Center(if it's mandrake) and then pick boot--once you are in your boot options, click advanced. Here, you will see windows. click it, modify it, and remove it. That's how I'd do it, but I'm pretty new at this. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I re-installed my computer and decided that I didn't want win95 any more. I was wondering how can I make sure windows is totally gone? Any idea's would be helpful. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] microsoft gone
Children's software is a good reason to leave w95 on your box. jim Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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. 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. Is there educational software out there for children? Were can I find a good flight sim that will work on mandrake 7.2. My computer is a 6x86 cyrix p200 harddrive 1 gig harddrive 6 gig 40 megs ram 4mb video 32X cd supra express 33.6k modem Any idea's on software for children espcially would be helpful. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Apache help
Quoting Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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? Isn't your index.html filein /var/www/html/? If so, your file should be in /var/www/html/file.zip Then, it should work just like your index file. jim Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie]
My logitech optical wheel mice work fine. I had them on on install, but I think using harddrake they are easily configurable. Quoting Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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] Linux Virus
You have just received a virus which only runs under linux. You are honour bound to delete twenty or thirty files at random from your hard drive and then pass this e-mail along to everyone on your e-mail list.. regards Daryl -- Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards. - H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.
Re: [newbie] httpd-perl and httpd
Date: 08/01/2001 08:19 am (Wednesday) From: Leonard Miller To: Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET.UD-CCGate.DM-YK-01; [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET.UD-CCGate.DM-YK-01 Subject: Re: [newbie] httpd-perl and httpd Thanks. That didn't work at first. So I changed it to the FQDN and it worked fine. Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET 07/31/01 03:49PM 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.
Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? jim Quoting Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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 Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] wierd login prob
Are you saying that you can't log in as root from a console (i.e. not just a X terminal window)? This is a setting that is designed to enhance security. A cracker can do the most damage to a system if they gain root access. This setup forces the cracker to first gain access to a user account and then try to su to root. In other words, the cracker has to break through two login/password combinations before they have root access. The Medium security setting in Mandrake does not have this feature, however. Have you run any kind of distro hardening routine on your system, like InteractiveBastille? I know that InteractiveBastille does this by default. On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:47, Robert MacLean wrote: Hello I have my machine startup to Xwindows, and I get that login screen. I have user setup and there is also the root user. I can log in fine with both of them in XWindows. If I log in as the user and in the console type su, and the root password it logins in fine. The problem is when i shutdown xwindows to console, I get the console login. I can log in fine with my username and password, by the root username and password won't let me login. Security is set to medium. This is on LM8. Thank you. Robert MacLean -- 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] win95 gone
Sorry to butt in here... are we all sure about this low-level format thing? im sure i heard civileme say that it can do more damage than good in certain circumstances. If you are going to stick with Linux and get rid of Windows im sure that the standard format in the Mandrake install process will do the job just fine. Just a thought, correct me if im wrong.. -- Jamie -- From: James S Bear[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 August 2001 02:46 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] win95 gone If you've already got linux installed, and windows is in the mnt directory, right-click on it and say 'delete'(you might have to click it, too). If linux isn't installed, I'd do a low-level format and get everything off and then install linux. If linux is installed and windows isn't in the mnt directory, use linuxconf to access a local drive and find it--and delete it. If windows is a boot option, you can go into Mandrake Control Center(if it's mandrake) and then pick boot--once you are in your boot options, click advanced. Here, you will see windows. click it, modify it, and remove it. That's how I'd do it, but I'm pretty new at this. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I re-installed my computer and decided that I didn't want win95 any more. I was wondering how can I make sure windows is totally gone? Any idea's would be helpful. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Ignorance is underrated _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? jim That;s the one. You recognise it because it has 2 extensions. Like book1.xls.pif, or resume.doc.pif. (Got these several times last week). Pif is Program Information File in windows. Many new win-users don't even know about these, but that is an executable extension in winders. So you got your first virus in! Congratulations! hahaha!! The virus seems to destroy harddisk information. Not sure how and what, but it is a nasty. Paul
RE: [newbie] Apache help
And i think you link should be: http://ipnumber/media/file.zip; as when you type in your ip number it starts in the document root (/var/www) and not standard root, if you get what i mean.. -- Jamie -- From: James S Bear[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 August 2001 03:10 To:Jon Doe Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache help Quoting Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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? Isn't your index.html filein /var/www/html/? If so, your file should be in /var/www/html/file.zip Then, it should work just like your index file. jim Ignorance is underrated _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
[newbie] InteractiveBastille
I would like to run Bastille to help keep outsiders out of my computer here at work, but every time I try to run InteractiveBastille to set up the firewall, I get this: Using Tk user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. This distribution version is not yet supported! Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille line 250. If I open up InteractiveBastille in Midnight Commander, I see that line 250 says: require Bastille::API; I'm not a programmer, and have no idea what the problem could be? Can anyone help? Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User # 218330
Re: [newbie] drive thrashing
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:44, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi, two main problems I'm having with LM8 at the moment. 1. when I search for a file in Konqueror the drive thrashes away constantly, and eventually,( after at least 10 min)I have to press reset. (ctrl/alt/bs does not work) this problem has only started this week. The 'find' command (as used in Konqueror) is a very disc-intensive and lengthy process, particularly on large drives. I suggest that you go to a console and use the 'locate' command instead. For more information, type 'man locate'. 2. I'm using ez-ipupdate which works ok except it posts my remote address instead of the local address. the lines below are the conf file for ez-ipupdate service-type=hn user=*:*** interface=ppp0 host=*.hn.org any ideas or alternative programes ? Sorry, I'm not familiar with this app. Can anyone out there help out? Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 Voice: +61 97351410 Mob: 0409196144 There's nothing wrong with growing older, but where does it lead? A word of caution: I would advise against posting your phone numbers so openly over the Internet. You'll never know what kind of sick weirdos there are out there. Besides, your voice number doesn't have an area code (only a country code) :-) -- 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] Time (fwd)
Can you please post to the list and not to me directly? I don't know everything, and when you post to the list you have a much greater chance of having your question answered, since there are so many others to read your message. Also, there may be others who may benefit from the discussion. For example, I do not know anything about using timed, since I use ntpdate (via cron jobs) to synchronise my computer with a NTP server. I'm posting this message to the list so that others may be able to help you. Is there anything out there who may know the answer? On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:59, Hitesh Gulati wrote: Hi Sridhar How can I use NTP[Network time Protocol] server and clients for my following problem. Rightnow I am using timed for time synchronization. I have installed timed daemon on my all linux machine for time synchronization. On one server machine timed daemon is running in master mode with following command. /usr/sbin/timed -M -F client1 client2 On all client machines the timed is running as slave mode with following command. /usr/sbin/timed Everything works smoothly if the server is up and then clients get booted. After power failure or some other problem if server is down or in case all clients get booted and server is not up then as server starts booting, the clocks of all clients goes reset upto a random value it may be 30-40 years past or in future. How can I come up with this strange behaviour of timed. -- 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] win95 gone
Re Low Level Formatting Maybe somebody can clarify my recollection. Once upon a time, low level formatting was a well known and recommended procedure. (I'm bad with time -- maybe in the time period 10 to 15 years ago.) Then there came a time when the wisdom was that you should not low level format a disk, that the drive did not have the necessary hardware to allow a real low level format, and the low level format would destroy the disk (by doing something like erasing or messing up the timing marks on the disk. (Maybe this refers to a certain type of disk -- maybe this was early IDE drives??) Now, it appears that low level formatting is again allowed / recommended. Is this because: 1. There never was a real problem with low level formatting any disk? 2. Disks have changed again, and low level formatting is now supported? 3. Low level formatting has changed -- the procedure / software to do low level formatting is not the same as the low level formatting that was described as capable of destroying a disk several years ago. If there truly is a type of disk that should not be low level formatted, even if an older type, maybe we need to be careful about stating that. Randy Kramer James S Bear wrote: Civileme said a low-level format might do more harm than good if it was a potentially bad drive. However, this is the best way to return the drive to factory status. If it's a good drive, it does much good and is quite often the only way to restore a drive. If a person formats using fat or ntfs or ext2 over and over again, eventually your drive will come up as being non-existent. I've done this several times and the only way to restore it is doing a low-level format. Sometimes, as well, a Linux distro will not recognize a FAT partition if it is slightly corrupt or vice versa and the only way I have found to do get rid of it is to do a low-level format. I have found that doing a low-level format always ensures that the operating system will operate smoothly. I have never had it damage anything. I am only talking from experience, but I am quite certain that's the best education. It's a public list, there's no butting in involved. jim Quoting Adams, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry to butt in here... are we all sure about this low-level format thing? im sure i heard civileme say that it can do more damage than good in certain circumstances. If you are going to stick with Linux and get rid of Windows im sure that the standard format in the Mandrake install process will do the job just fine. Just a thought, correct me if im wrong.. -- Jamie -- From:James S Bear[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:01 August 2001 02:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] win95 gone If you've already got linux installed, and windows is in the mnt directory, right-click on it and say 'delete'(you might have to click it, too). If linux isn't installed, I'd do a low-level format and get everything off and then install linux. If linux is installed and windows isn't in the mnt directory, use linuxconf to access a local drive and find it--and delete it. If windows is a boot option, you can go into Mandrake Control Center(if it's mandrake) and then pick boot--once you are in your boot options, click advanced. Here, you will see windows. click it, modify it, and remove it. That's how I'd do it, but I'm pretty new at this. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I re-installed my computer and decided that I didn't want win95 any more. I was wondering how can I make sure windows is totally gone? Any idea's would be helpful. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Ignorance is underrated _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 8
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:19, John Rigby wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 04:51, you manipulated electrons to produce: On Monday 30 July 2001 19:59, Caruso Aldo wrote: 1. Boot from windows boot floppy (make one at a friend's PC if you don't have one) 2. at DOS prompt, type FDISK /mbr Really folks , this one comes up so often we should put it in the URL or something :-) *** DONE! It's in the Escape Book :-) This doesn't uninstall Mandrake at all. All it does is cut off access to the GNU/Linux partition. To properly uninstall GNU/Linux (any flavour), you should delete the GNU/Linux partitions (including swap partitions) and create new ones using Windos filesystems. Otherwise, GNU/Linux will still be there, and you won't be able to access those partitions from Windows. That's just space wasted. -- 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] Non gui isdn dailing script for isdn
does someone have somthing to help ? -- - 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] -
Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:49, Paul wrote: Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? jim That;s the one. You recognise it because it has 2 extensions. Like book1.xls.pif, or resume.doc.pif. (Got these several times last week). Pif is Program Information File in windows. Many new win-users don't even know about these, but that is an executable extension in winders. So you got your first virus in! Congratulations! hahaha!! The virus seems to destroy harddisk information. Not sure how and what, but it is a nasty. Paul The SirCam virus/worm selects a file at random from the victim's hard drive to send. This file can be of any format or type. Of course, if you use GNU/Linux you have nothing to be afraid of. You can just laugh as I did :-) -- 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] missing smbadduser
Hi all, What is the name of the file that you use to add samba users?? I thought it was smbadduser but a seach doesn't turn it up (I do have smbpasswd in /usr/bin) Also, my linux server reports this info to a windows 98 client when it asks for info . (ie right clicking on it in network neighbourhood and selecting properties..) The server //Zues does not accept remote requests. anyone know what that means and how do I add users if I don't have smbadduser??? many thanks and kindest regards Frank Samba newbie 101.
Re: [newbie] win95 gone
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:50, Adams, Jamie wrote: Sorry to butt in here... are we all sure about this low-level format thing? im sure i heard civileme say that it can do more damage than good in certain circumstances. If you are going to stick with Linux and get rid of Windows im sure that the standard format in the Mandrake install process will do the job just fine. Just a thought, correct me if im wrong.. -- Jamie You are absolutely correct. The basic rule of thumb is to NEVER do a low-level format. The factory default low-level format is often optimised for that particular kind of drive. If you do a low-level format from your BIOS (as they usually are done) you can destroy this optimisation. There is also a chance of damaging your drive with a low-level format. A low-level format should only be done in extreme circumstances, like if your HDD is on its deathbed and you are willing to take a risk to place it on life-support for a little while. The best way to remove Windos 100% is to use a tool like diskdrake to delete the Windos partition. You can then make a new partition in that space and format it with a GNU/Linux filesystem, like Ext2 or ReiserFS. -- From: James S Bear[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:01 August 2001 02:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] win95 gone If you've already got linux installed, and windows is in the mnt directory, right-click on it and say 'delete'(you might have to click it, too). If linux isn't installed, I'd do a low-level format and get everything off and then install linux. If linux is installed and windows isn't in the mnt directory, use linuxconf to access a local drive and find it--and delete it. If windows is a boot option, you can go into Mandrake Control Center(if it's mandrake) and then pick boot--once you are in your boot options, click advanced. Here, you will see windows. click it, modify it, and remove it. That's how I'd do it, but I'm pretty new at this. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I re-installed my computer and decided that I didn't want win95 any more. I was wondering how can I make sure windows is totally gone? Any idea's would be helpful. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Ignorance is underrated _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. -- 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] Find out what sound card/chip was detected?
I've run 'sndconfig' on a Compaq Deskpro (no other model info was found) and the default choice offered was Soundblaster Pro. I chose it, now the sound works. Where else besides the 'dmesg' report could I look to see exactly how the system (Mandrake 8.0) detected and configured the sound hardware? For Video information, the SuperProbe command is available which tells quite a bit about the video hardware detected, I'm wondering about an equivalent program or method for sound hardware. =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Screenshot of Desktop.
How do I take a screen shot of my desktop? Is there a certain application that is needed? Or is it something built into X? Any info would be nice. Thanks, h3rb
[newbie] Iomega ZIPCD 650 USB CDRW
Has anyone gotten this CD burner to work with Mandrake 8.0? If so, how did you do it? I am running the 8.0 version downloaded from the web, not the store-bought version. I have not tried to configure this CDRW drive yet on Mandrake, and want to know what to check or do before I try, or if it even works. Thanks! ==Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
James S Bear wrote: Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? See http://www.f-secure.fi/v-descs/sircam.shtml. Basically, it: -is called SirCam. -works only on Windows, and only if you use Outlook or Outlook express as your email client. -infects your computer only if you open the attachment (and you use Windows, Outlook, etc.). -installs itself on your computer, then sends copies of itself to other computers via email messages or over a LAN by looking for Windows shares. -when it sends copies of itself, it picks random files from your disk to send to others, so, it may be distributing your confidential information. -on a random basis, it may either erase the hard drive (partition) containing Windows, or fill it up with garbage. Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] 2 questions about web server
At 10:45 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Jon Doe wrote: 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? You need three files... These are .htaccess (in the directory you wish to protect, which also protects all subdirectories off of that directory), htpasswd and htgroup (which should be in /var/www). They should look like: .htaccess deny from all AuthName WhateverYouWant AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /var/www/htpasswd AuthGroupFile /var/www/htgroup require group groupname require user username1, username2, etc satisfy any htgroup groupname: username1, username2, etc The htpasswd file is generated by /usr/bin/htpasswd. To create it, do 'htpasswd -c htpasswd username1' (from /var/www, and without the quotes). This will create the file, and add username1 to it. 2. I would like people to be able to upload files to my computer. How do I go about that? This depends on whether you want an ftp upload, or a web upload. If you want an ftp upload, you can setup an anonymous ftp server with an incoming directory. For a web upload, you'll have to do a search somewhere like freshmeat.net to see if any web upload software is available (either perl or php). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
Re: [newbie] Screenshot of Desktop.
Thanks. That worked, helps if I browse around a bit huh. =) h3rb On Wednesday 01 August 2001 09:09, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2001 09:58, h3rb wrote: How do I take a screen shot of my desktop? Is there a certain application that is needed? Or is it something built into X? Any info would be nice. Thanks, h3rb Which desktop? I know that in KDE the popup panel has screen capture in the multimediagraphicsscreen capture selection. Hope this helps
RE: [newbie] Port forwarding
I don't know about SNF,, but I use IPMASQADM, on my 7.2 box's and it works just fine... I got the latest src rpm that I could find on rpmfind.net and rebuilt it for our boxes (it wasn't a mandrake rpm) it has been working flawlessly ever since... give it a shot.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2001 5:40 PM To: Lanman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Port forwarding Can anyone shed a little light on how to configure port-forwarding or port redirection from a Mandrake 7.2 SNF firewall to a mandrake 8.0 web-server? I realize that SNF has it's own web-server built-in, but this is for a special configuration. Examples would be very helpful. Mostly, I can't figure out which package/utility to use. You have to use ipchains for that, afaik. You can find more on www.mandrakeuser.org Paul
[newbie] still having PGP / KMAIL problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I now have message signing working with PGP and KMAIL. When I had 'auto detect' selected kmail wasn't finding my 6.5.8 pgp (is gnuGP installed as a default in 8.0?), but when I told it specifically to look for a 6.x version, signing works. However, encryption of messages still fails. The error box says that a pgp error has occured, and to check my pgp setup and key rings. My test was to send a message to myself, since I have my public and private keys in my key rings. I am able to encrypt and decrypt successfully in console mode using the appropriate line commands. I downloaded and am using pgp 6.5.8 from the MIT server and installed via rpm. I imported my keyrings from pgp 6.5.1 on the M$ 98 side of my box. - -- 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO2gafuh9GnqxDknIEQLSfwCgqv5QA6BznFXnt0TJGk/OyCmXdIgAn2Ar VEkHN3wPgv3BWXhQFqWBY9zI =etm7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] UnrealTournament
No, nothing special. Just ran the installer and used a windows cd. Maybe delete the folder and try again. You might try downloading the installer/binaries from another source. Maybe your copy is corrupted. -s On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:16 am, you wrote: Hello Ive tried to install UT on my LM8 box and it appears if the BotPack.U file gets corrupted. If anyone has installed it off the original CD, using the 436 installer can you tell me if you did anything special? Robert MacLean
Re: [newbie] win95 gone
It was Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:56:53 -0400 when Randy Kramer wrote: Thanks for the response! Ahh, yes, IIRC, MFM was the second type of hard disk available for the PC / hobbiest. (MFM had something to do with Manchester encoding, IIRC.) IIRC, RLL was another type of early hard disk (or was it just an encoding type). In fact it was RLE. Runtime Length Encoding. These disks would use tracks less than the usual width to get more on them and somewhat faster access. Paul -- Sharing what you have is more important than what you have. -Albert M. Wells, Jr. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:00 pm, Terry Smith wrote: By way of a post-mortem, the failure may have been from the Reiser filesystem or perhaps the kernel. Has anyone had difficulties like fs crashes with Reiser or 2.4.5, or both in combination? No problems here. Half of 13.6g hda is formatted with ReiserFS, and all of 30g hdb is ReiserFS. Freq is on hdb. I've only been using Freq and 2.4.5 for a week tho. ...and on a VIA motherboard too ; FWIW, the only problem I've had at all with Freq is that the iptables version it shipped with wasn't matched to the 2.4.5 kernel. Installing the latest cooker src.rpm fixed that, iptables-1.2.2-3mdk -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
[newbie] PMFirewall?
Hi all =) Is there a way to use PMFirewall on an LM8 server? If not, is there something similar that I should be using for firewall software? Thanx a bunch, E
Re: [newbie] drive thrashing
I would think, though, that * If your computer isn't on all the time, or * Not running Linux all the time, or * If you're looking for a new file then the locate database may not contain what you're looking for. And updating the locate database is certainly as intensive as find. And find allows you to limit your search to specific directories. I'm not saying that using locate won't make Colin's drive happier--only that locate is a convenience that can come at the expense of accuracy sometimes. Miark - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Colin Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]; newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 6:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] drive thrashing On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:44, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi, two main problems I'm having with LM8 at the moment. 1. when I search for a file in Konqueror the drive thrashes away constantly, and eventually,( after at least 10 min)I have to press reset. (ctrl/alt/bs does not work) this problem has only started this week. The 'find' command (as used in Konqueror) is a very disc-intensive and lengthy process, particularly on large drives. I suggest that you go to a console and use the 'locate' command instead. For more information, type 'man locate'. 2. I'm using ez-ipupdate which works ok except it posts my remote address instead of the local address. the lines below are the conf file for ez-ipupdate service-type=hn user=*:*** interface=ppp0 host=*.hn.org any ideas or alternative programes ? Sorry, I'm not familiar with this app. Can anyone out there help out? Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 Voice: +61 97351410 Mob: 0409196144 There's nothing wrong with growing older, but where does it lead? A word of caution: I would advise against posting your phone numbers so openly over the Internet. You'll never know what kind of sick weirdos there are out there. Besides, your voice number doesn't have an area code (only a country code) :-) -- 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] opengl
Hi Robert, The nVidia drivers that come with Mandrake are not 3D capable. You'll need to go to nVidia's web site to download the two RPMs and the Installation Guide. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux Miark - Original Message - From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:14 AM Subject: [newbie] opengl Hello I can't get OpenGL to run on my machine. I have a Geforce2MX, the latest driver installed and working. Is there anything I need to do for OpenGL to work? Robert MacLean
[newbie] Resolver problem.
Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system do permanent changes to DNS configuration? Thanx, Seedkum
RE: [newbie] PMFirewall?
PMfirewall is being reworked to use iptables,, it is in alpha state I believe, shouldn't be too much longer... I use pmfirewall and ipchains as the basis for all my rules, although my rules files is about 8 times longer then that which pmfirewall install script creates, I have found it to me a very good platform from which to impliment rules on.. If I swapped to iptables tomorrow, I'd probably trick pmfirewall into installing and rewrite all its rules to suit iptables... the rest of it is fine, so it shouldn't be long until it is converted to iptables.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Errant Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 2:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] PMFirewall? Hi all =) Is there a way to use PMFirewall on an LM8 server? If not, is there something similar that I should be using for firewall software? Thanx a bunch, E
Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.
Hi, I tried editing the file /etc/resolv.conf manually but the result was exactly the same as when Linuxconf did it. What could be the problem? Michael D. Viron wrote: Try editing /etc/resolv.conf directly. Michael At 08:16 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system do permanent changes to DNS configuration? Thanx, Seedkum
Re: [newbie] PMFirewall?
You might have to redo the kernel and compile in support for ipchains to use pmfirewall. There are similar things out for iptables, but there is an easily configurable firewall/ipforwarding in 8.0 that uses iptables. In the Mandrake control center, there is internet connnections sharing and firewall configurations. -s On Wednesday 01 August 2001 01:14 pm, you wrote: Hi all =) Is there a way to use PMFirewall on an LM8 server? If not, is there something similar that I should be using for firewall software? Thanx a bunch, E
RE: [newbie] Resolver problem.
look in resolve.conf that is in /etc/ppp that one is what ppp will insert when you start it,, so go with that... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seedkum Aladeem Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 3:56 AM To: Michael D. Viron Cc: Newbie at MDK Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolver problem. Hi, I tried editing the file /etc/resolv.conf manually but the result was exactly the same as when Linuxconf did it. What could be the problem? Michael D. Viron wrote: Try editing /etc/resolv.conf directly. Michael At 08:16 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system do permanent changes to DNS configuration? Thanx, Seedkum
Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.
I did find / -name resolv.conf -print and only /etc/resolv.conf got printed out! I have an internet connection through a Linksys switch/router and a cable modem. During install, Linux detected eth0 automatically and I selected LAN connection. Later on in the install I gave it incorect DNS IP. Regards, Ayoub Franki wrote: look in resolve.conf that is in /etc/ppp that one is what ppp will insert when you start it,, so go with that... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seedkum Aladeem Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 3:56 AM To: Michael D. Viron Cc: Newbie at MDK Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolver problem. Hi, I tried editing the file /etc/resolv.conf manually but the result was exactly the same as when Linuxconf did it. What could be the problem? Michael D. Viron wrote: Try editing /etc/resolv.conf directly. Michael At 08:16 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system do permanent changes to DNS configuration? Thanx, Seedkum
Re: [newbie] missing smbadduser
What is the name of the file that you use to add samba users?? I thought it was smbadduser but a seach doesn't turn it up (I do have smbpasswd in /usr/bin) [...] try smbpasswd -a yourusername regards Daryl -- You will hear good news from one you thought unfriendly to you.
[newbie] Supportable by Mandrake?
http://www.entrepcs.com/st1200i.htm shows the specs on the Stylistic 1200® from Fujitsu Personal Systems, Inc. (FPSI. Can Mandrake handle this item? Supports TFT, DSTN color; Transmissive and transflective monochrome -- along with external monitors upto 1024 x 768 (XVGA). Thanks for any feedback, need a quick answer if at all possible. mike _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Configuration of Realtec rtl8139.
Hi, I have LM80 on my laptop, I would like to install a PCMCIA Realtec RTL8139. By now Linux recognize card bus as realtec rtl8139 but when I try to connect to internet (I use LAN connection) pops out a window saying: modules'ing error in usr/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 510 I'd like to ask somebody with rtl8139 working to send me line 510 of modules.pm and I would apreciate any idea to install and make working this card bus. Thank you very much for help. Tomek -- Jest niezly ... i liscik napisze OnetKomunikator [ http://ok.onet.pl/instaluj.html ]
[newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop
Third try -- maybe *that* subject line will get someone to answer. :) On Sunday I had a system-lockup event followed by a hard-reset (didn't know what else to do). Now my default LM7.2 login screen and desktop is gone, replaced by KDE IceWM. IceWM is fine, but I'd like the old stuff with the cartoon penguins and the rest of it back. How do I go about doing this? Do I have to reinstall the OS? Thanks! Mark Shaw
RE: [newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop
try putting a file called: .xinitrc in your user directory in that file put one word and save it... that word should be: startkde then try it again... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Shaw Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 5:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HELP! HELP! Restoring LM7.2 desktop Third try -- maybe *that* subject line will get someone to answer. :) On Sunday I had a system-lockup event followed by a hard-reset (didn't know what else to do). Now my default LM7.2 login screen and desktop is gone, replaced by KDE IceWM. IceWM is fine, but I'd like the old stuff with the cartoon penguins and the rest of it back. How do I go about doing this? Do I have to reinstall the OS? Thanks! Mark Shaw
Re: [newbie] a big duh
Hi all I had the same problem. I was also using Gnome apps in KDE and vice versa, but after a few days Gnome did the big crash thing which completely locked up my system (had to use the dreaded reset button). Because I'm a sucker for punishment, I went back into Gnome a few more times with the same result each time. I'm not sure what caused it because I had also tried out Enlightenment and a few others. So I've just uninstalled and reintalled LM8 and haven't been brave enough to try Gnome again or run the Gnome apps in KDE. Can someone please advise whether or not its OK to use Gnome apps in KDE. Cheers skinky PS. Sorry if the font is italicised - having just got my new external serial modem (YAY!! No more booting back into Windows every 10 mins :-)) I'm trying out KMail and can't seem to get the font thing sorted for replying/composing. On Wednesday 01 August 2001 22:05, you wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:19, Charles A. Punch wrote: 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. That's really odd. I've been using GNOME as my primary desktop for almost two years, and I've never had any problems like these. For your desktop icon problems, what apps cause this? I know that if you run Nautilus without the --no-desktop tag, or GMC without the --nodesktop tag, they will try to manage your desktop.
[newbie] Microsoft Latin America and Linux.
Hi, I just wanted to send this link to all of you who speak or understand Spanish. http://www.microsoft.com/mexico/ebusiness/contenido/2001/windows-linux.asp In this page you will find a comparation of Linux vs Windows made by people form Microsoft... just one thing more I would suggest to send comments about this page directly to the mail you can find on the page... Se van a reir un montón, en mi vida había visto tanta tontería en un sitio. El tipo que lo escribió debe ser más que bruto (con todo el respeto para su persona). Y por fin, ¿piensan que se puede hacer algo al respeto? Si alguien tiene conocidos en periodicos o revistas a lo mejor podría convencer a alguien a escribir una nota sobre esto. De verdad, es escandalozo!!! Tomek -- Jest niezly ... i liscik napisze OnetKomunikator [ http://ok.onet.pl/instaluj.html ]
Re: [newbie] a big duh
Hi all I had the same problem. I was also using Gnome apps in KDE and vice versa, but after a few days Gnome did the big crash thing which completely locked up my system (had to use the dreaded reset button). Because I'm a sucker for punishment, I went back into Gnome a few more times with the same result each time. I'm not sure what caused it because I had also tried out Enlightenment and a few others. So I've just uninstalled and reintalled LM8 and haven't been brave enough to try Gnome again or run the Gnome apps in KDE. Can someone please advise whether or not its OK to use Gnome apps in KDE. Cheers skinky PS. Sorry if the font is italicised - having just got my new external serial modem (YAY!! No more booting back into Windows every 10 mins :-)) I'm trying out KMail and can't seem to get the font thing sorted for replying/composing. On Wednesday 01 August 2001 22:05, you wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:19, Charles A. Punch wrote: 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. That's really odd. I've been using GNOME as my primary desktop for almost two years, and I've never had any problems like these. For your desktop icon problems, what apps cause this? I know that if you run Nautilus without the --no-desktop tag, or GMC without the --nodesktop tag, they will try to manage your desktop.
RE: [newbie] Cups problem with FS800
Hi peoples...
In another first for me, (this is my firt week in experiments with smb and
windows networking in linux) I decided to setup smb file and printer sharing
with linux to the windows clients.
First step being to get the printer setup locally, ,its a Kyocera FS800
(which has a cups driver..)
I used Kups to set it up, it said everything was just fine, so I tried a
test page,...
here is the result...
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
[{
%%BeginFeature: PageSize Letter
/PageSize[612
792]/ImagingBBo
Thats all there was, nothing else... that looks like it printed a config
file...
anyone know why I didn't get a test page?
[newbie] sorry for the multiple posts
I apologise for posting my last message three times. skinky
Re: [newbie] ppp panic
When I say it hangs I mean it hangs. :-( No mouse, keyboard, CRTL-ALT-DEL, CRTL-ALT-BKSP, nothing. Sometimes it won't hang long enough to type ifconfig. -Mensagem Original- De: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Jeferson Lopes Zacco [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: terça-feira, 31 de julho de 2001 20:27 Assunto: 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] a big duh
I think it is Nautilus that causes the problem, not GNOME, or at least not running GNOME progs in KDE. I have been using gnome cal and gnumeric with no problems (from KDE). I still haven't resolved the problems in GNOME itself, but I don't think it is running GNOME progs in KDE that causes the problems. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 skinky wrote: Hi all I had the same problem. I was also using Gnome apps in KDE and vice versa, but after a few days Gnome did the big crash thing which completely locked up my system (had to use the dreaded reset button). Because I'm a sucker for punishment, I went back into Gnome a few more times with the same result each time. I'm not sure what caused it because I had also tried out Enlightenment and a few others. So I've just uninstalled and reintalled LM8 and haven't been brave enough to try Gnome again or run the Gnome apps in KDE. Can someone please advise whether or not its OK to use Gnome apps in KDE. Cheers skinky PS. Sorry if the font is italicised - having just got my new external serial modem (YAY!! No more booting back into Windows every 10 mins :-)) I'm trying out KMail and can't seem to get the font thing sorted for replying/composing. On Wednesday 01 August 2001 22:05, you wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:19, Charles A. Punch wrote: 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. That's really odd. I've been using GNOME as my primary desktop for almost two years, and I've never had any problems like these. For your desktop icon problems, what apps cause this? I know that if you run Nautilus without the --no-desktop tag, or GMC without the --nodesktop tag, they will try to manage your desktop.
Re: [newbie] Quake 2
In a message dated 07/31/2001 6:57:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: start q2 with command line # ./quake2 +set s_initsound 0 When I did this, the game launched. So I can play, just without sound. What can I do about that. You said something about ALSA. How would I go about adding that to my system? Thanks a lot ~Lance
[newbie] ICQ in a Shell Environment?
Just got thinking about this the other day. Is there an ICQ client which will run in the background of bash? I am in the process of trying to do everything I need in bash and not using Xwindows (mmm.. good ol' days of DOS almost! :)), but I do a fair amount of communicating through ICQ. A cool little program that basically just allows me to keep a list of names, and send messages back and forth would be great! A cool feature would be to have a little flag pop up on your bash prompt to let you know you have a message.. such as this maybe? leif@walio leif §$ or something like that (with § being the new message flag) Ideas? Would be cool none the less I think.. :) Leif Madsen Registered Linux User #219104 There are two possibilities, either we are alone, or we are not. Both are equally frightening
Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
Randy Kramer wrote: James S Bear wrote: Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? See http://www.f-secure.fi/v-descs/sircam.shtml. Basically, it: -is called SirCam. -works only on Windows, and only if you use Outlook or Outlook express as your email client. -infects your computer only if you open the attachment (and you use Windows, Outlook, etc.). -installs itself on your computer, then sends copies of itself to other computers via email messages or over a LAN by looking for Windows shares. -when it sends copies of itself, it picks random files from your disk to send to others, so, it may be distributing your confidential information. -on a random basis, it may either erase the hard drive (partition) containing Windows, or fill it up with garbage. Randy Kramer Isn't it redundant to fill a Windows partition with garbage? Regards, Carroll
Re: [newbie] Iomega ZIPCD 650 USB CDRW
Keith, I have a USB cdrw(hp 8210e) that was installed when I installed MDK8.0 and was setup and recognized by the system right out of the box, as far as Gcombust was concerned. have you tried to burn using gcombust? On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:05, Keith Christian wrote: Has anyone gotten this CD burner to work with Mandrake 8.0? If so, how did you do it? I am running the 8.0 version downloaded from the web, not the store-bought version. I have not tried to configure this CDRW drive yet on Mandrake, and want to know what to check or do before I try, or if it even works. Thanks! ==Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] ATI Rage Fury Pro
How can I get my ATI Rage Fury Pro to use 3d acceleration. With Mandrakes install it works, but locks up a whole lot, so much that any game using it is impossible. I tried nvidia, but I couldnt get it to install right. Maybe someone else had this problem? Im so confused, can someone help me? Thanks! ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Linux Virus
may I also insist that this file be copied to your sig.txt file, so that others may enjoy it via e-mail also? On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:05, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2001 19:16, Daryl Johnson wrote: You have just received a virus which only runs under linux. You are honour bound to delete twenty or thirty files at random from your hard drive and then pass this e-mail along to everyone on your e-mail list.. Please rewrite your virus to include a random number generator program, otherwise I cannot be sure that the files I delete are truly random. This program should of course be available in rpm, deb and tgz format and be checked against an atomic-decay random number generator. Oh yes, a statically-compiled version for those with oddball C libraries would be nice ...
[newbie] Test
I can't seem to send to this list. Bu I sure can receive. Mark
[newbie] Re: newbie (a big duh)
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:10:38 +1200 skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Hi all I had the same problem. I was also using Gnome apps in KDE and vice versa, but after a few days Gnome did the big crash thing which completely locked up my system (had to use the dreaded reset button). Because I'm a sucker for punishment, I went back into Gnome a few more times with the same result each time. I'm not sure what caused it because I had also tried out Enlightenment and a few others. So I've just uninstalled and reintalled LM8 and haven't been brave enough to try Gnome again or run the Gnome apps in KDE. Can someone please advise whether or not its OK to use Gnome apps in KDE. = I run both KDE and Gnome apps in Blackbox (home) and Windowmaker (at work). I've never had a problem. while there may be some exceptions (I'm sure there must be ;-) )I am not familiar with, you shouldn't have a problem running most Gnome apps in KDE. Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. - Frank Zappa _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:55:03 -0400 markrussell [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: I can't seem to send to this list. Bu I sure can receive. Mark This one got through!! Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. - Frank Zappa _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Dynamic IP?
If it wasn't for bad luck, well you know the rest. For 4 months now (the entire time I have had roadrunner) I have had the exact same IP number. Now RoadRunner decided they wanted to change it I guess. So now my .html files all have the wrong links on them. Am I gonna have to edit my html files (for apache) everytime they change my IP or is there a way around this?
Re: [newbie] drive thrashing
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 04:53, Miark wrote: I would think, though, that * If your computer isn't on all the time, or * Not running Linux all the time, or If you have anacron running (I think it is enabled by default), your system should run cron jobs that could not be called before for some reason or other (e.g. your system was off). * If you're looking for a new file then the locate database may not contain what you're looking for. And updating the locate database is certainly as intensive as find. Yes, but you only need to update (updatedb) it once. Then you can do as many locates as you want. And find allows you to limit your search to specific directories. This can be done in combination with tools like grep. I'm not saying that using locate won't make Colin's drive happier--only that locate is a convenience that can come at the expense of accuracy sometimes. Miark - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Colin Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]; newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 6:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] drive thrashing On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:44, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi, two main problems I'm having with LM8 at the moment. 1. when I search for a file in Konqueror the drive thrashes away constantly, and eventually,( after at least 10 min)I have to press reset. (ctrl/alt/bs does not work) this problem has only started this week. The 'find' command (as used in Konqueror) is a very disc-intensive and lengthy process, particularly on large drives. I suggest that you go to a console and use the 'locate' command instead. For more information, type 'man locate'. 2. I'm using ez-ipupdate which works ok except it posts my remote address instead of the local address. the lines below are the conf file for ez-ipupdate service-type=hn user=*:*** interface=ppp0 host=*.hn.org any ideas or alternative programes ? Sorry, I'm not familiar with this app. Can anyone out there help out? Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 Voice: +61 97351410 Mob: 0409196144 There's nothing wrong with growing older, but where does it lead? A word of caution: I would advise against posting your phone numbers so openly over the Internet. You'll never know what kind of sick weirdos there are out there. Besides, your voice number doesn't have an area code (only a country code) :-) -- 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 -- 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] Kernel panic: Reiser FS
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:00, Terry Smith wrote: Thanks Allen, worked like a charm! In my panic I had forgotten the 'rescue' option on the CD. BTW, after using reiserfsck to rebuild my superblocks and to clean up the reiser partitions the system seems much snappier. Thanks. Those of us using Resierfs need to remember to run reiserfsck occasionally, I guess. Sridhar, in responding to my note, indicated that he had been having some difficulty with a buggy 2.4.5 kernel from the June Freq update. My problems were a little different. One involved the kernel using swap even when there was plenty of free RAM available. This bug has apparently been fixed in subsequent kernel releases. Another was a poor supermount implementation. For the moment, at least, I will be sticking with 2.4.3 (if it ain't broke don't fix it). By way of a post-mortem, the failure may have been from the Reiser filesystem or perhaps the kernel. Has anyone had difficulties like fs crashes with Reiser or 2.4.5, or both in combination? Thanks. Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA A V Flinsch wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2001 17:02, you wrote: But is there some way to run 'reiserfsck' if I can boot from a floppy? Anybody have some clever idea(s)? boot from the install cd (hint there is a rescue mode) modprobe reiserfs, then run reiserfsck -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command -- 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] activate wheel mouse in XF86Config
Run mousedrake from a root terminal. Afterwards, you should uninstall imwheel, because it messes up the native mouse support in toolkits like GTK+ and QT. On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 02:04, Seeun William Umboh wrote: I heard that there is a way to get the wheel working by adding ZAxisMapping 4 5 to XF86Config. However, I am still without success. I have also tried imwheel to no avail. An observation I made is that without extra configuration, Red Hat 7.1 was able to detect my mouse and the wheel works in Mozilla and Terminal. -- 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] Iomega ZIPCD 650 USB CDRW
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:35, etharp wrote: Keith, I have a USB cdrw(hp 8210e) that was installed when I installed MDK8.0 and was setup and recognized by the system right out of the box, as far as Gcombust was concerned. have you tried to burn using gcombust? On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:05, Keith Christian wrote: Has anyone gotten this CD burner to work with Mandrake 8.0? If so, how did you do it? I am running the 8.0 version downloaded from the web, not the store-bought version. I have not tried to configure this CDRW drive yet on Mandrake, and want to know what to check or do before I try, or if it even works. Thanks! ==Keith I also have a ZipCD 650. It has been working beautifully since I bought it (almost a year ago). I also have the download version of Mandrake 8.0. It detected and set the burner up during the install with no trouble at all. I was using this burner with Mandrake 7.2 before 8.0 ws released, and I had no problems there, either. -- 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
