[newbie-it] indirizzo ip
come fare per ottenere lindirizzo ip per utilizzarlo in uno script? utlizzando ifconfig direte voi ma come? ciao
[newbie-it] Mandrake 8 e multimedia...
Salve a tutti, è un pò che sono iscritto a questa ML ma ancora non postavo nulla, ho installato la Mdk8, purtroppo non mi funziona quasi nulla fra lettori mp3 e video. Gli mp3 riesco a sentirli con il lettore multimediale, XMMS non funziona, la cosa peggiore e' che non mi funziona nulla che abbia a che fare con i video. Ogni volta che lancio una applicazione tipo aKtion, sembra caricarla ma poi non succede nulla. Cosa posso fare? Considerate che sono un niubbo e non ho molta dimestichezza con compilazione e cose del genere, quindi avrei bisogno, eventualmente, di uno step-by-step. Ringrazio anticipatamente chiunque sia in grado di aiutarmi e ne abbia voglia. Per precisione ecco i componenti hardware del mio PC: AMD Duron 700 Asus A7V 1.004D 256 Mbyte RAM Voodoo3 3500TV SB Live! 5.1 HDD Samsung 20GByte DVD Hitachi 12x-40x Masterizzatore TEACH 4x 32x SCSI CD ROM NEC 40x SCSI Modem TRUST esterno seriale Altra piccola domanda, risolto il problema di cui prima, come posso fare a vedere i DVD su linux? Grazie ancora. Vincenzo TheJack Tiziani IAMM on line: www.iammol.com Webzine metal: www.stargazer.it ICQ UIN: 86312829
[newbie-it] chiave privata in GPA???
Ciao a tutti! Innanzitutto ancora molte grazie a Mr_Brain. Ho fatto come hai detto tu: sono andato sul sito di GPG e mi son scaricato GPA. Sono riuscito ad installarlo ed a importare tutte le mie chiavi pubbliche da PGP 7.0.3 di Windows. Solo che ora ho un altro problema: come faccio ad importare la mia chiave privata? Da PGP 7.0.3 mi sono esportato il file *.asc con la mia chiave pubblica e privata, solo che quando faccio importa in GPA riesce solo ad importarmi la mia chiave pubblica. Per la chiave privata come devo fare? Non vorrei dovermi ricreare da capo le chiavi!!! Se qualcuno mi dicesse come fare gliene sarei molto grato. GRAZIE!!! Sergio
Re: [newbie-it] indirizzo ip
Il 02:36, sabato 04 agosto 2001, hai scritto: come fare per ottenere lindirizzo ip per utilizzarlo in uno script? utlizzando ifconfig direte voi ma come? puoi processare l'output di ifconfig, per esempio con i programmi grep e gawk, che sono molto potenti, ma richiedono una conoscenza delle regular expressions.
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8 e multimedia...
Il 04:15, sabato 04 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Salve a tutti, è un pò che sono iscritto a questa ML ma ancora non postavo nulla, ho installato la Mdk8, purtroppo non mi funziona quasi nulla fra lettori mp3 e Prova a installare, dai cd, tutto ciò che riguarda gli alsa driver (adesso non ricordo esattamente i file ma li troverai facilmente in quanto contengono il nome alsa). video. Gli mp3 riesco a sentirli con il lettore multimediale, XMMS non funziona, Il problema di XMMS dipende dalla lingua impostata (quella italiana), devi togliere la lingua italiana in questo modo: entra come root, quindi vai in una consolle ed entra nella cartella /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES qui digiti il comando rm -f xmms.mo ovvero cancelli il file xmms.mo e xmms parte. E' un bug conosciuto. la cosa peggiore e' che non mi funziona nulla che abbia a che fare con i video. Ogni volta che lancio una applicazione tipo aKtion, sembra caricarla ma poi non succede nulla. Hai provato con Broadcast 2000, è all'interno dei cd della mdk8. Non credo che sia molto pertinente al problema ma cerca di installare, sempre dai cd della mdk8, le GLIDE, inoltre, se possibile, vorrei sapere come ti riconosce la scheda video. Cosa posso fare? Considerate che sono un niubbo e non ho molta dimestichezza con compilazione e cose del genere, quindi avrei bisogno, eventualmente, di uno step-by-step. Ringrazio anticipatamente chiunque sia in grado di aiutarmi e ne abbia voglia. Per precisione ecco i componenti hardware del mio PC: AMD Duron 700 Asus A7V 1.004D 256 Mbyte RAM Voodoo3 3500TV SB Live! 5.1 HDD Samsung 20GByte DVD Hitachi 12x-40x Masterizzatore TEACH 4x 32x SCSI CD ROM NEC 40x SCSI Modem TRUST esterno seriale Altra piccola domanda, risolto il problema di cui prima, come posso fare a vedere i DVD su linux? Grazie ancora. Hai bisogno del programma xine con il plug-in css. Vai sul sito www.rpmfind.net e cerca xine, ti presenterà una lista di rpm, cerca quello adatto per la mdk e cliccaci sopra. Ti verrà scaricato nella tua home. Attenzione! all'interno del nome dell'rpm deve essere contenuta la parola DVD, quello è quello adatto. Per il css non ricordo il sito ma puoi fare una ricerca su sourceforge. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
Re: [newbie-it] Modalità testo in SVGA
Mr_Brain wrote: Il 11:58, venerdì 03 agosto 2001, hai scritto: oops. forse mi sono spiegato male. Sto parlando della modalità console di Linux. per cui le X non c'entrano nulla. Uhm, forse il parametro vga del kernel e` quello che cerchi: se aggiungi il parametro vga=788 in /etc/lilo.conf (se usi lilo) o /boot/grub/menu.lst (se usi grub) dovresti ottenere una risoluzione di 800x600... Per la 1024x768 non ho idea :(( -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dovrebbe essere vga=792 ma non cambia nulla...
Re: [newbie-it] indirizzo ip
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, claudio duchi wrote: come fare per ottenere lindirizzo ip per utilizzarlo in uno script? utlizzando ifconfig direte voi ma come? Esiste un metodo migliore (quello che uso io) Quando la connessione va up, viene eseguito /etc/ppp/ip-up (che puo richiamare altri script), a questo script vengono passati alcuni parametri (identificabili con $1, $2, $3 etc), i parametri contengono pure: IP Locale, IP Remoto, Gateway, Interfaccia. Smanettando con questi parametri puoi fare quello che vuoi. See Ya
Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8 e multimedia...
Il 05:56, sabato 04 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Ti ringrazio moltissimo, vedo di mettere in atto i tuoi consigli. ^__- Dunque, ho spulciato nelle informazioni e ti posso dire che l'rpm si chiama xine-0.3.5-1mdk.i586.rpm Un indirizzo dove cercare il plug-in css è: http://members.nbci.com/captain_css/ ed il file si chiama: xine_dvd_static-0.1.2.tar.gz e va quindi estratto e compilato con i soliti configure, ecc. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
Re: [newbie-it] kdm e WindowMaker
On Friday 03 August 2001 19:46, you wrote: Il 12:30, venerdì 03 agosto 2001, hai scritto: in anglish please Jaroslaw from POLADN Ehm.. scusate, ma l' IT dopo newbie che ci sta a fare? ;-) Significa In Topic :-))
Re: [newbie-it] Ancora Audiogalaxy, abbiate pazienza ;-)
Il 20:10, giovedì 02 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Quindi cosa posso fare? cd cartella ./AGSatellite (attento alle maiuscole/minuscole) -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Hoe to change resolution?
El Sáb 04 Ago 2001 00:02, escribiste: I installed Mandrake 8.0 Linux successfully. I had to select my Video Card (SiS620), and used 800x600 resolution, when installing it. Now, I'd like to change to 1024 x 768 resolution, but haven't found how to? Thanks. OK; go to Mandrake Control Center-Hardware... and choose your new resolution. Please, take care. Good luck Carlos
[newbie] sound
Hi! I'm haveing trouble with sound. I am useing mandrake 7.2 and have an sb16 sound card. I have configured my card so that I can play music cd but I have no sound when it comes to games or window startup and shutdown. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
[newbie] cups
Help, I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont print the postcripts. The dj610C only prints the first page and the df843C prints evrything on a single page. Philippe
[newbie] hp
Wel, it helped a little, the HP dj610C did it good one time. But, the second time it al was printed on one page and the second time, and that's really strang, evrything was printed in mirror image??
Re: [newbie] sound
Try running sndconfig (as root). On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm haveing trouble with sound. I am useing mandrake 7.2 and have an sb16 sound card. I have configured my card so that I can play music cd but I have no sound when it comes to games or window startup and shutdown. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] cups
Have you tried looking for your printer at http://www.linuxprinting.org/? On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:39, Philippe Schottey wrote: Help, I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont print the postcripts. The dj610C only prints the first page and the df843C prints evrything on a single page. Philippe -- 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] hp
could it be my problem is related to the fact that when i do gs -h my printers are not in the device list?
[newbie] Spam mail
I read that the list administrators send the junk mail to different organizations. Could someone indicate one of them? I have some spam I want to send to them in order to stop the spammers. Thank you. Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas
[newbie] 6 button joystick won't work :(
I am using a SB live! soundcard with a 6 button gamepad attached to the gamepad port. Harddrake will not detect it. I looked at the kernel howto and hardware compatibility howto. The hardware compatibility howto said the gamepad should be compatible. Please help. THANK YOU
Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0
On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:52 am, Michael D. Viron wrote: Actually, the correct (and somewhat safer) procedure is: 1. Boot into linux (toms rootboot, or other single floppy distro) 2. Login as root, if required 3. Run linux fdisk, delete all ext2 partitions (windows fdisk usually does not correctly recognize ext2 partitions, and hence doesn't delete the partitions) 4. Reboot to a windows boot disk. 5. Run fdisk /mbr. 6. Reboot to a windows boot disk, run fdisk, create fat32 partition(s) as you want. 7. Reboot to windows, format the partition(s) you just created. or, just boot your Mandrake install cd, skip ahead to the partitioning section, delete the Linux partitions and create one(s) for Windows. Done. I just did this a few days ago to rearrange my Windoze drive, hda. 'Cept I was deleting Windoze partitions, making less for Windows, and adding a 7 gig partition for Linux. I booted my W98 CD and re-installed on it's new smaller fat32 space that DiskDrake made for it. Didn't even need to fdisk/ mbr, Winblows install did it. So I did need to boot my Mandrake floppy to re-install lilo to use my real OS on hdb ;) 'Course I never did believe the myth that you havt'a install Windoze first, then Linux either ; -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] StarOffice5.2 Install attempt
On Friday 03 August 2001 04:09 pm, Marcia Waller wrote: Some things have worked well but others have not. I reinstalled StarOffice5.2 which I had installed and used successfully in both LM7.2 8. This time when I installed it everything went fine and then at the end of setup it said to shut down my computer restart and it will be in the menu. Well, it was not there and I cannot find it anywhere. It just seems to have disappeared. The install scheme SO52 uses to install a menu item no longer works with KDE2 and the menu system Mandrakes uses. You'll have to edit the menu manually and add an entry for SO52. Point the new entry to execute /home/user_name/office52/soffice or you can just use Konqueror (file manager), go to the /office52 dir, and click on the 'soffice' executable to run SO52. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Re: newbie help2. please reply.]
On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:29 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Having one partition is like putting all your eggs in one basket. If / fails, then you lose all your user /home data as well. Also, a multiple partition setup can speed up disc accesses, particularly on larger drives such as yours. I believe this is the key. On 8gig and smaller drives I've always installed Linux in one big / partition. Now that I've got 37 gigs for Linux, I use / and /home plus another 2 storage partitions. The advantage to using one big / on smaller drives is that you only havt'a worry about total space remaining, rather than not having enough in /, /home, and others. Specially if you have room (eg, on a Windoze drive) to bakup /home to. On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:46, Randy Kramer wrote: Why would you put the /usr and /home each on a different partition and not = with the same /(root) partition? And by the way, I am getting a 20GD HD...=20 -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] home directory limits
Well... back to the issue at hand. :0) What do you get from this command? [timh@r2d2 timh]$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde5 13G 1.8G 10G 15% / /dev/hdf6 9.8G 794M 8.6G 8% /backup /dev/hdf5 9.8G 438M 8.9G 5% /home /dev/hde7 4.9G 34M 4.7G 1% /root /dev/hdf7 7.8G 213M 7.2G 3% /software It will tell you how big your partitions are, as well as how much space is left. Is your /home actually 15GB or something else? Using that command will tell you that. Another thing I would suggest would be tar the files up, then copy the tar to the machine, and then untar it. You could run the command yourself, or write a simple script to create the tar of the /home, copy it to another machine using something like scp, then untaring it. That would be your choice. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 9:25am up 2 days, 20:19, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | I was coping files from the network to my home directory when I got a | disk is full message. According to disk drake I have 15gigs for my home | partition but I am only using 2gigs so far on my home partition. Are | their any permissions anywhere to limit the home directory? | | Thanks, | Kevin --
Re: [newbie] One last Apache question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Assuming you are using ftp, the real danger is in the fact that ftp sends login and password in plain text over the Internet. Use ssh if you want encrypted authentication -- actually, ssh encrypts the entire session, from login to disconnect. If you can't do this, then it would be wise to set up a public directory just for ftp, and configure the ftp server so that that no-one will be able to cd to another directory outside of the public dir and perhaps its subdirs. If /var/www/html/media is already set up this way, good. Otherwise, do it. Dave On Saturday 04 August 2001 00:56, thus spake Jon Doe: It has been bugging me since I set it up. Is it safe to have the files in /var/www/html/ ?? I am using this to let people I know upload files and download files, its in a seperate directory /var/www/html/media With all I have read and heard about the root partion, is this safe? Or am I just too worried? - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7a/rGA68l26XsZUYRApj3AJkBq0MtzXhd/0IwIvfXwc9rL7Rk0ACaAqp4 mceFC2C0fjv/SgehLt4aXUA= =pone -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] X windows crash at startup - I'm stuck!
Help all, My fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 won't let me start up the X windowing system. I've tried Xconfigurator and XFdrake and changed the card to generic VGA and nothing seems to work. I've tried Mandrake 7.2 and no go there too! I've dinked withe the BIOS setting the AGP setting to 1x but no difference there either. My XFree86.0.log is attached below and my system specs are: MSI K7T266Pro mobo (MS-6380) (VIA VT8366 chipset (northbridge), VIA VT8233 chipset (southbridge), has onboard audio, but no onboard video. 384 megs DDR ram ATI Xpert 2000 AGP 4x video card with 32 megs Mandrake 8.0 1.33 Athlon CPU I'm a newbie but my trusty K62/400 system with an ATI Xpert98 took off fine with no trouble. Could it be the new-ness of this mobo/system? I really want off of the Windoze OS and answers for a newbie please! TIA, Dave -- XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 16 March 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.4.1-20mdksmp i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Fri Aug 3 11:28:43 2001 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout layout1 (**) |--Screen screen1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor monitor1 (**) | |--Device ATI Rage 128 (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 250 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) XKB: model: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (**) FontPath set to unix/:-1 (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (**) Option AllowMouseOpenFail (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Open APM failed (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.3 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x803c, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,3099 card , rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,b099 card , rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:06:0: chip 12b9,1008 card 12b9,00d7 rev 01 class 07,00,02 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 1106,3074 card 1106,3074 rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:11:1: chip 1106,0571 card 1106,0571 rev 06 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:2: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 18 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:3: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 18 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:4: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 18 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:5: chip 1106,3059 card 1462,3800 rev 10 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1002,534d card 1002,0008 rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: scanpci (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 (II) UnloadModule: scanpci (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x00 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0c (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 I/O range: [0] -1 0x9000 - 0x90ff (0x100) IX[B] [1] -1 0x9400 - 0x94ff (0x100) IX[B] [2] -1 0x9800 - 0x98ff (0x100) IX[B] [3] -1 0x9c00 - 0x9cff (0x100) IX[B] [4] -1 0xa000 - 0xa0ff (0x100) IX[B] [5] -1
Re: [newbie] 6 button joystick won't work :(
On Saturday 04 August 2001 14:07, ptz wrote: I am using a SB live! soundcard with a 6 button gamepad attached to the gamepad port. Harddrake will not detect it. I looked at the kernel howto and hardware compatibility howto. The hardware compatibility howto said the gamepad should be compatible. Please help. THANK YOU Add something like this to /etc/modules.conf and reboot: # Joystick alias char-major-13 joydev ns558 analog Replace analog with the module for your gameport joystick. Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/joystick for more information. The line above is only appropriate for 2.4.x kernels. Earlier kernels use char-major-15. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, XFree86 4.0.3, patch level 11mdk, KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1. Uptime 1 day 22 hours 36 minutes
Re: [newbie] cups
Open kups or qtcups as root and try configuring your printer. Then try printing a test page. Also, try using xpp to print a postscript page. On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 03:58, Philippe Schottey wrote: Yes, i did but nothing is said about problems with postcripts... i think. On Saturday 04 August 2001 07:29, you wrote: Have you tried looking for your printer at http://www.linuxprinting.org/? On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:39, Philippe Schottey wrote: Help, I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont print the postcripts. The dj610C only prints the first page and the df843C prints evrything on a single page. Philippe -- 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] [Fwd: Re: newbie help2. please reply.]
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:29 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Having one partition is like putting all your eggs in one basket. If / fails, then you lose all your user /home data as well. Also, a multiple partition setup can speed up disc accesses, particularly on larger drives such as yours. I believe this is the key. On 8gig and smaller drives I've always installed Linux in one big / partition. Now that I've got 37 gigs for Linux, I use / and /home plus another 2 storage partitions. The advantage to using one big / on smaller drives is that you only havt'a worry about total space remaining, rather than not having enough in /, /home, and others. Specially if you have room (eg, on a Windoze drive) to bakup /home to. Very true. My total GNU/Linux space is just under 10GB, so I would be really pressed for space if I had more than one partition. If I had more space, I would've made two or three partitions. I'm curious: might LVM be an option for a multiple partition setup? That way, you can have multiple partitions instead of one overly large partition (filesystems tend to become slower as they get larger). That could give you a combination of both speed (multiple smaller partitions) and extra space (space is not reserved for certain directories). One problem I could anticipate would be that there is no clear partitional division between directories like /, /usr, /tmp, /var and /home, which wouldn't be much better than one single partition. For a system with few users (e.g. a home system), however, this setup could be great. Filesystem speed and space could be optimised. With only few users, the drive wouldn't be under enough stress to make failure very likely (it isn't a server), so directories wouldn't really need to be on different partitions. Note that I am not proposing a RAID here -- just something simple and effective for a desktop system (not a server) with one or two IDE hard drives. On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:46, Randy Kramer wrote: Why would you put the /usr and /home each on a different partition and not = with the same /(root) partition? And by the way, I am getting a 20GD HD...=20 -- 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] Increasing Print Darkness
How do I change the darkness of printed documents? Papers come out about half as dark as they should be. (It works fine in Windows, so it's not my printer). I've played around with CUPS and not seen anything worthwhile in there. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 600, if that makes any difference... TIA Dan
[newbie] HP scanner software
New to Linux and Mandrake. I have a USB HP scanner that I want to hook up and use on my Linux box. Can anyone on the list recommend some good software to use Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
Re: [newbie] Spam mail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 August 2001 07:03, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I read that the list administrators send the junk mail to different organizations. Could someone indicate one of them? I have some spam I want to send to them in order to stop the spammers. You don't send the spam to the anti-spam organizations. They get enough of their own. :-) You complain to the ISPs providing connectivity for the spammer. You need to know how to expand and read headers to determine where the spam really came from and what the appropriate targets of your wrath might be. Don't overlook drop boxes and web pages listed in the spam. You can get preferred abuse addresses for ISPs at http://abuse.net. abuse.net also runs a forwarding service for spam complaints. For instance, if you get a spam from an aol user, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will auto forward to whatever address aol is using this week to handle spam complaints. Include the entire spam with expanded headers in your complaint. Best place for a newbie getting started on spam fighting to get help is the usenet news group news.admin.net-abuse.email. They'll help you with confusing or forged spam headers. I also have some links to tutorials on my spam fighting page at http://oriez.org Once you're comfortable, good tools to use include http://combat.uxn.com. Sam Spade was my favorite tool in my M$ days, but it hasn't been ported to linux yet and it blows up under wine. I have a query in to the author about his plans for a linux port. I'm using procmail now with good success, except my ISP's security setting blocks me from invoking sendmail from the script for bounces. - -- - --- Oh come now. At least pretend to be scared. The media spent millions trying to psyche you up for this - User Friendly, 08/01/01 on the Code Red virus scare -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO2wUEH+bkeP849+WEQJL4gCgmMT19w/ywzKdpN4Laqlyvq8KGDsAoMvp vITVrvivx7j1R5isviBmioXQ =6Npn -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] flash in opera
Opera in GNU/Linux currently does not support Netscape plug-ins. This means there is no method of viewing Flash in Opera 5 for GNU/Linux. Of course, you can always use Netscape, Mozilla or Konqueror. hem... thats too bad. that means some of the webpages I cant load it properly, coz I only use opera as my browser. ok then, thanks... willy
[newbie] pppd problem
hi.after a couple of months of well-work of my ISA modem, I cannot connect to the internet. Both the gnomedialer in gnome and the kppp in kde says the say message the gnome dialer says the pppd daemon has died unexpectly and kppp stays in Expecting: CONNECT after that, the modem hangs on and then, redial in an infinite cicle.. any idea of what problem could happen?? thanks Nicolás Gómez ICQ#: 45144976
[newbie] 6 button gamepad won't work
My 6 button gamepad won't work. I am using kernel 2.4.x. I put alias char-major-13 joydev ns558 gamepad int modules.conf. Please help. THANK YOU.
Re: [newbie] Increasing Print Darkness
QT-cups. Increase the dpi. -s On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:14 am, you wrote: How do I change the darkness of printed documents? TIA Dan
[newbie] sound no sndconfig
I can't find sndconfig on my system. Can I add it?(mandrake 7.2) Also I'm wondering how is it that people get spammed? The only time I have been spammed is when I went to a chat room. Going to chat rooms seems to be a way of saying come on everybody spam me. Is there other ways someone can leave themselves open to spam? Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
Re: [newbie] sound no sndconfig
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:18:37 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: I can't find sndconfig on my system. Can I add it?(mandrake 7.2) Also I'm wondering how is it that people get spammed? The only time I have been spammed is when I went to a chat room. Going to chat rooms seems to be a way of saying come on everybody spam me. Is there other ways someone can leave themselves open to spam? Are your trying to run sndconfig as a user?? You must be root to run sndconfig. Mike -- Always remember, I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. --Winston Churchill _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] system clock
On Friday 03 August 2001 09:30 pm, Scott wrote: I keep resetting my system clock to the correct time and date and it will be ok for a few days and then it messes up again. Like now it reads 22:28 Fri 3 August 2001. ( It's Sat Aug 4). Why is that? First you've got 2 clocks, system and hardware. If it's losing time at random like that, it's probly a hardware problem. How old is the motherboard? It's often as simple as needing a new battery for your mobo (looks like a big 'watch type' battery), but even new batteries are sometimes weak, or might just need re-seating (ie, poor contact). Try updating your software and hardware clock at the same time while connected with (as root) rdate -sp time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc and keep an eye on it for a while to see if the problem persists. It's fairly normal to lose a few minutes every once an'while, so the above command (I use it as an alias I named 'tdate' **), is a good idea for any connected system. You can use other time servers depending on your location. ** in bashrc: alias tdate=rdate -sp time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc You might havt'a install 'rdate', it's on your CD's or you can get it from any Mandrake mirror. Keep in mind that this may be only one possible cause for your time losses. Overclocking can also produce a similar symptom. If you dual boot, the 'other' OS can also cause the same situation. There's more, but these are the most common (after user errors anyhow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: Re: newbie help2. please reply.]
On Saturday 04 August 2001 09:15 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:29 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Having one partition is like putting all your eggs in one basket. If / fails, then you lose all your user /home data as well. Also, a multiple partition setup can speed up disc accesses, particularly on larger drives such as yours. I believe this is the key. On 8gig and smaller drives I've always installed Linux in one big / partition. Now that I've got 37 gigs for Linux, I use / and /home plus another 2 storage partitions. The advantage to using one big / on smaller drives is that you only havt'a worry about total space remaining, rather than not having enough in /, /home, and others. Specially if you have room (eg, on a Windoze drive) to bakup /home to. Very true. My total GNU/Linux space is just under 10GB, so I would be really pressed for space if I had more than one partition. If I had more space, I would've made two or three partitions. I'm curious: might LVM be an option for a multiple partition setup? Geez, I hope you're askin the group, 'cause I'm clueless about LVM ;) For those interested, Google 'lvm' (large volume manager). one link http://www.sistina.com/lvm/ There's also been discussion about it recently on the cooker mailing list (see the archive). Note that I am not proposing a RAID here -- just something simple and effective for a desktop system (not a server) with one or two IDE hard drives. Good ;) I'm a firm believer that RAID, an such is best left to hardware SCSI on real server hardware. Maybe I'm out'a date, but for micro computers (desktops), even used as servers, good ol' tried an' true ata/33 IDE, no fancy controllers is still the best. All the other kludges draw my biased skepticism, specially the latest win-RAID fad many desktop motherboards now sport, but offer no real world performance enhancement ... just more problems often fatal. On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:46, Randy Kramer wrote: Why would you put the /usr and /home each on a different partition and not = with the same /(root) partition? And by the way, I am getting a 20GD HD...=20 All that said, I've got a brand new / and /home, each at 4.8 gigs. My / partition is filling alarmingly fast, but has managed to steady at 75%. I use to like an app named 'kdf', 'Kdiskfree', and also known as 'KwikDisk', but I can't get it to compile (tar.gz) or --rebuild (src.rpm) on LM 8 Freq :( Made discovering large disk space offenders graphically easy. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
[newbie] Re: (newbie) sound no sndconfig
When running as root , i have opened a terminal and used the command:- /usr/sbin/sndconfig (without quotation marks). You will probably get a warning not to do this as root. However i suffered no ill effects as a newbie when this was applied. Check with others if you wish for the disadvantages , but feel free to try this if it can help. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] weird apache log
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not 100% certain, but I think it may be a request generated by the Code Red worm, trying to find an NT IIS web-server to infect. I've seen similar requests coming in on my DSL router. Dave On Saturday 04 August 2001 13:57, thus spake Jon Doe: I have this in my access log for apache, is this normal? 65.84.202.130 - - [04/Aug/2001:14:41:51 -0400] GET /default.ida?XXX X X XXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090 %u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078% u%u00=a HTTP/1.0 404 306 - - - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7bEiRA68l26XsZUYRAoLIAKDe76Z4FSUw/3rWp9FRlLEIhjG/pwCfdGbG 8iOQQZX4nIpUbHvM9ShhaAo= =mlmW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] Kernel compilation
I have successfully installed 7.1 in my computer, but since I have a Motorola SM56 software modem I need the drivers for it. This drive exist but it only works with kernel 2.4.x. I have never tried to compile a kernel and I am a real newbie to Linux, thus the kernel how-to is a little criptic to me :-) Could anybody give me some advice? Thanks, Rafael Lepra
Re: [newbie] sound
Check in kde control center (if you're using kde) to see if the option for arts server is checked to start at boot. -s On Saturday 04 August 2001 04:04 am, you wrote: Hi! I'm haveing trouble with sound. I am useing mandrake 7.2 and have an sb16 sound card. I have configured my card so that I can play music cd but I have no sound when it comes to games or window startup and shutdown. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks
[newbie] USB Printing with EPSON 777 - ?
Have any of you the experience of getting the Epson 777 to print via USB interface? (OS: LM-8.0) Thanks, Sevatio
Re: [newbie] weird apache log
It's CodeRed trying to infect you. Don't worry, yo'ure good to go. There are three other worms floating around. If you look through the log and see the same info except with in there, that's the first strand of the worm. There are also two worms going around that try and run a cmd.exe on the machine, and of course we don't have that on our machines do we? 203.164.3.164 - - [09/Jun/2001:11:51:25 -0400] GET /scripts/..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%af/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c%20dir HTTP/1.0 404 332 - - That's one of them. We are safe until they decide to try and exploit a hole in Apache, of which the last hole Apache had they released an update. I believe that was about 2 or 3 months ago. It's not 'normal' but you're going to get those for a while now, until all the world patchs their IIS servers or they all switch to Apache! Or of somebody creates a worm to fix the worm. Which I know a few people have rumored to try! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 3:59pm up 3 days, 2:54, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | I have this in my access log for apache, is this normal? | | 65.84.202.130 - - [04/Aug/2001:14:41:51 -0400] GET | |/default.ida?%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u%u00=a | | HTTP/1.0 404 306 - - | --
[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 and vmware 2.0.4
Hello Perhaps someone on the list can help me with some vmware questions. I don't know what I am doing wrong but every time I run vmware vmnet0 is disconnected and parport0 is used by another device. What am I doing wrong? Mandrake 8.0 (host) and Windows NT 4.0 -pack 6 (guest). BTW, I installed a new virtual disk but NT won't see it. Do I have to do something else? Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97
[newbie] how I add other hard disk to LM8
Hi every one! I have hard disk 3.2 GB with linux M8 hda and I want add other hard disk hdd My hdd has two partitions of FAT32 I need let linux M8 to work with this hard Disk to save data but I can' t do this I need help with breve step . -- Thank you. Ebrahim Elmahdy mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Scanjet HP3200C
Whether anybody is working with this scanner in Linux. I need help to make it work in linux. Sane doesn't list this scanner. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042
