[newbie] Going nomail
Hi all, I am almost off for a vacation, so I will go nomail now. See you in 10 days! Paul -- "Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved." Considering the stupidity of Darwin winners, this might be considered an insult to monkeys. (http://www.darwinawards.com) http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.2 Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cups
U. I am starting to think that cups is pretty crummy. I changed the printer driver to see if this would affect the page margins (since I had no problems with the postscript driver before) The printer is now simply spilling out blank pages, even though the job has since been deleted and the printer has been stopped. Everything on my pc says the printer is inactive, if it weren't for the printer spitting out paper I would believe them. What is the point of having a print manager that does not manage the printer?? Any help appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] printing
Hi all. Im having trouble with my printer. (again) Its now working but the left margin is too small, cutting of the first letter of every line. CUPS has no way to change this and the printer icon on the desktop (I am using lm 7.2) has a margin that appears to make no difference to the actual printed page. thx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Disconnect every 24 hours
Normally logrotate drops all the services temporarily to archive and recreate the log files. This issues an IF-DOWN and IF-UP command to your network devices, disconnecting you from your ISP. Check to see what time it happens. I'll bet it occurs between 4:00am and 4:30am every day. You could prevent logrotate from running, but you'll then need to manage your logs manually. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Admin |Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 9:28 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Disconnect every 24 hours | | |Hello: | |I have a peculiar problem. I leave my pc pretty much connected to the |internet 24/7. Since installing LM8.0, it will disconnect |every 24 hours, |almost to the second. To get around it, I have configured my |dial-up to |re-dial when disconnected. At first I suspect there is |something in the cron |files, which is causing this event. There is one directory called |cron.daily. I have looked into the different files in this "daily" |directory, but I don't recognize anything, which would make me |think cron is |forcing a disconnect every 24 hours. Any ideas as to what |might be causing |this event? Thanks... | |Regards, | |Dexter | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 8.1
On Saturday 29 September 2001 12:45, you wrote: > Dear All, > > For those of you who are using 8.1 is it really an improvement over 8? > The printing for Epson did not work in 8. Is that working with 8.1? > > I see that their is a nice offer from Linux Mandrake website for a 8.1 > 3CD set. The powerpack will have 7 CD's. It is expensive, I think, but > if it is truly worth it I would probably wait and get it since I have > not ever bought a powerpack before. Are the powerpack's truly better > than just getting the 3CD set for example? > > I will appreciate any feedback. Thank you. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Hi, 8.1 looks like it is well worth the change over to me. Also I have bought the 3cd sets and the last two times the Powerpack and I will take the power pack any day. Last go around the 5th CD had hundreds of extra rpms that you would have to search all over rpmfind.net to get. I use the ksetiwatch from that cd rather than doing a download of a tar. This is my very humble opinion. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resetting mbr to turn lilo off.
go to the dos prompt and type fdisk /mbr --- "D. Lee Wiggers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got a brand new mb, case, etc for ml box and have to > move hdb > from windows box. > > Ordered power pack today and downloaded 8.1 too. > Ready to roll, but. > > I have no idea how to reset mbr to go right into > windows on > the old box. > > Help! > > tia > > Lee Wiggers > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LimeWare Install issue
On Saturday 29 September 2001 10:58 pm, you wrote: > I finally got it installed and working, but a tip to everybody real quick. > > Make sure, if you're running the script as a user, that you have the > correct permissions on the directory that you chose to house the downloads. > > Running it as root, I had no problem, I downloaded two songs I was looking > for, then I quit out of it. I then tried to see if I could run it as a > user, since it didn't really install the app at all, and it would just say, > can't download. It then hit me, the folder that it was putting the files, > was NOT accessable by the user. So I could run it, but I couldn't actually > download anything. > > So keep that in mind! Make sure, if you're not running it at as root, and > you never should run that as root, that you have the correct permissions on > the download folders. > tdh Good Tip. I just figured that to be obvious. I tend to overlook things like that when explaining. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fetchmail
At 07:35 PM 09/29/2001 -0600, Admin wrote: >Hello: > >I understand fetchmail is an email retrieval system, which will obtain emails >from a remote email server and distribute them to the local network. >Currently, I have a two pc lan, where my second pc is a win98 box. Does >anybody know if fetchmail will work with outlook express? Meaning, is it >possible to configure fetchmail so it will go to the proper email server, d/l >the emails and if necessary send the appropriate emails to my outlook express >client in my win98 box? Thanks... Fetchmail by itself will not, fetchmail + pop3 or imap will. Fetchmail is a client that connects to an e-mail server -- to the best of my knowledge, it will not forward such messages to your outlook express client. The basic setup would be to create a user for e-mail. In that users crontab, you'd add a line to call fetchmail to check for new e-mail every x minutes (where x is how often you want it to check for e-mail on the remote e-mail system). The next step would be to enable the pop3 or imap server for your linux server, such that outlook express can connect, and download new messages on a regular basis. Make sure that you turn off HTML e-mail in Outlook Express (I seem to remember that it is enabled by default) and that it is not set to delete e-mail from the server. Depending on how much security you want in place for this, you can also enable ipchains (or iptables depending on kernel / distribution versions), adding a rule to only allow pop3 (or imap, depending on which one you choose) access from the IP of the Win98 box. This will prevent anyone outside your LAN from connecting (or attempting to connect) to the pop3 / imap server on your linux box. I'm sorry that I'm being so general on this post, but without knowing the specifics (ie, kernel version, distribution version, and so forth), I can't give you much detail. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mouse stops pointing correctly
Hi all, I recently built a computer with a K6-2 500 Mhz processor, MVP4 chipset, shared memory graphics, chipset-integrated AGP, LM 8.0, and a weird persistant but infrequent mouse problem. Basically, the mouse stops pointing to the correct spot on the screen. What I mean is, when moved to a button, the mouse pointer hovers over the button, you click the mouse button, but the effect of the click is about an inch to the left in the x-axis. y-axis is ok. OK, the integrated AGP is one possible culprit. How do I determine what level of support Mandrake has for these integrated AGP graphics? What parameters might I try to change to eliminate the mouse problem? Is driving voltage tunable somewhere? I think power supply might be another possible culprit. Installing the K6 eliminated weird x-windows behaviour during boot-up, where the pixels appeared to scatter a bit, and fonts were fuzzy. I think the 145 W power supply may have been marginal for the P200 installed then, operating at 3.3 V. The K6 works at 2.2 V, and the problem is gone. The infrequent mouse-drunkeness persists though. Suggestions? TIA, Ben Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] giFT and Xnap
Xnap is working now.. but... Xnap says that it can't find server file .xnap/host. Where can I get the file? Thanx. Valerie Cheng wrote: > Hi, I installed giFT and Xnap. I started xnap and then ran gift. It just > keeps printing out things like: > > Connection 76 changed from ClOSED to NULL > Connection 99 changed from NODE_CONNECTED to SUPERNODE_CONNECTED > > How do I actually search for files? Can anyone please give me a "quick > start" on giFT and Xnap. > > Thanx. > > Valerie > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > message.footer > > Content-Type: > > text/plain > Content-Encoding: > > 8bit > > -- Luv ya, Valerie .*(o_o)*. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * valerie * "Miracles, in the sense of * ~ * phenomena we cannot explain, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * surround us on every hand: * ICQ: 6224687 *life itself is the * AIM: lovedestiny129 *miracle of miracles." * Reg. Linux User: #225031 * * * - George Bernard Shaw * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LimeWare Install issue
I finally got it installed and working, but a tip to everybody real quick. Make sure, if you're running the script as a user, that you have the correct permissions on the directory that you chose to house the downloads. Running it as root, I had no problem, I downloaded two songs I was looking for, then I quit out of it. I then tried to see if I could run it as a user, since it didn't really install the app at all, and it would just say, can't download. It then hit me, the folder that it was putting the files, was NOT accessable by the user. So I could run it, but I couldn't actually download anything. So keep that in mind! Make sure, if you're not running it at as root, and you never should run that as root, that you have the correct permissions on the download folders. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: 10:55PM up 5 days, 9:57, 3 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00 | | If you are interested in sharing files it's worth while checking out two | other packages. giFT and Xnap | | giFT is a reverse engineering of the FastTrack file sharing network used by | kazaa and Morpheus It allows you to share files with kazaa and morpheus users. | | giFT is only a back end. You need a front end to go with it. I have tried | two. giFT-Zombie (formerly known as Halo-Kazaa) and Xnap. My favourite is | Xnap It is more mature and is real easy to use. Xnap is a Java application. | The only thing to look out for is you should uninstall Kaffe and use the Sun | Java VM. | | Using giFT there is loads of content available, without having to go anywhere | near Windoze. | | | | | Derek | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fetchmail
Fetchmail does exactly what it the name implies. Nothing more. It fetches mail, from a remote server, and puts it on the local machine. From there you can do anything you want with it. What you can do is, set up the Linux box to download mail vial fetchmail, and put the mail in $MAIL for each user. From there, you can set up Outlook Express to download mail from your Linux box. I did this for a while, before I got my cable connection. I had one Windows machine, that was not on the Internet, and one Mandrake 7.2 machine that was on a DialUp connection. I'd download mail to the Linux box over the modem, and via the network, I'd send mail out from my Linux box, and get the email my Linux box would download. But fetchmail on a Linux box, will just put the mail in Outlook Express' mail folders, you'll still have to download the mail, even if it just from a server on your local network. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: 10:50PM up 5 days, 9:52, 3 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00 | Hello: | | I understand fetchmail is an email retrieval system, which will obtain emails | from a remote email server and distribute them to the local network. | Currently, I have a two pc lan, where my second pc is a win98 box. Does | anybody know if fetchmail will work with outlook express? Meaning, is it | possible to configure fetchmail so it will go to the proper email server, d/l | the emails and if necessary send the appropriate emails to my outlook express | client in my win98 box? Thanks... | | Dexter | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] giFT and Xnap
Hi, I installed giFT and Xnap. I started xnap and then ran gift. It just keeps printing out things like: Connection 76 changed from ClOSED to NULL Connection 99 changed from NODE_CONNECTED to SUPERNODE_CONNECTED How do I actually search for files? Can anyone please give me a "quick start" on giFT and Xnap. Thanx. Valerie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disconnect every 24 hours
On Saturday 29 September 2001 09:27 pm, Admin wrote: > Hello: > > I have a peculiar problem. I leave my pc pretty much connected to the > internet 24/7. Since installing LM8.0, it will disconnect every 24 > hours, almost to the second. To get around it, I have configured my Could be your isp disconnecting you, or even your lec. The fact that it happened when you installed 8.0, might just be coincidental. FWIW, my lec disconnects me after 8 hours. -- Alex If you purchased $1000 of Nortel stock a year ago, it would be worth $49 today. If you purchased $1000 of Budweiser (the beer, not stock), and cashed in the cans for the nickle deposit, you would have $79 today... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuring Internet Sharing
Hello: When I attempt to set up interconnect sharing while using the Mandrake control Center, I get the following error message: config file content could not be interpreted. The error message seems to be self -explanatory, but does anybody know of a fix to get over this obstacle? Thanks... Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] fetchmail
Hello: I understand fetchmail is an email retrieval system, which will obtain emails from a remote email server and distribute them to the local network. Currently, I have a two pc lan, where my second pc is a win98 box. Does anybody know if fetchmail will work with outlook express? Meaning, is it possible to configure fetchmail so it will go to the proper email server, d/l the emails and if necessary send the appropriate emails to my outlook express client in my win98 box? Thanks... Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] HP CD-Writer 9100i - can't smthing :((;
On Sunday 30 September 2001 02:57, user wrote: > thank, you skinky. > 1. i post u my fstab file. > == > /dev/hdc1 /mnt/DOS_hdc1 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 > /dev/hdc5 /mnt/DOS_hdc5 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 > /dev/hdc6 /mnt/DOS_hdc6 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 > /dev/hdd1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdd5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hdd6 noneswap exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0 > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount > exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=501,gid=22,fs=iso9660 0 0 > === > 2. How to add myself to the "cdrom", "cdwriter" groups in fstab file? > On Sunday 23 September 2001 16:55, user wrote: > > Question: about cd-writer > > supermount is ON > > Mandrake say me "Can't get content of CD -rom", > > when i click on cd-rom icon. And when loading Linux it say > > "Bad ...block, or too many file system mounted on hda" > > How get access to see, read© content from > > installation & other(iso, jouliet, udf) cdrom ? > > May be u may recommend model(s) cd-rom(device), that > > will work on 100%. Help me please. > > > > hp 9100i used standart ide drivers from windws under windows > > > > P.S. Configuration of my PC > > > > HP CD-Writer 9100i as hda1 - cd-writer > > p3-500 - cpu > > P3c-2000 INTEL820 chipset - motherboard > > Vortex!! 2500 au8830 - soundcard > > Asus V3800 v 2.26 - videocard > > ammount of RAM - 256mb > > OS - Linux Mandrake Russian Edition v 7.0 Full > > based on: gcc 2.95.2, glibc 2.1.2, > > XFREE86 3.3.6, kernell 2.2.14 > > X session KDE > > security level - middle On Tuesday 25 September 2001 08:12, skinky wrote: > > > Your cdwr drive is supported in linux, so it will work. You could > > > try posting the contents of your /etc/fstab file - there may be an > > > incorrect entry in there for your drive. Also, you should add > > > yourself (as user) the the "cdrom", "floppy" and "cdwriter" groups > > > in UserDrake so that you have permission to access the drive. You > > > can find UserDrake in KMenu > Configuration > Other > Userdrake. > > > skinky 1. The line in my fstab file for my cdrwriter is: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 2. You add yourself to the "cdrom" and "cdwriter" groups in UserDrake (not in the fstab file). To find Userdrake click on the KMenu button, then Configuration, then Other, then Userdrake. If you still cannot access the drive perhaps someone else may know the solution. Good luck. skinky -- "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Frank Sinatra _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disconnect every 24 hours
Hello: I have a peculiar problem. I leave my pc pretty much connected to the internet 24/7. Since installing LM8.0, it will disconnect every 24 hours, almost to the second. To get around it, I have configured my dial-up to re-dial when disconnected. At first I suspect there is something in the cron files, which is causing this event. There is one directory called cron.daily. I have looked into the different files in this "daily" directory, but I don't recognize anything, which would make me think cron is forcing a disconnect every 24 hours. Any ideas as to what might be causing this event? Thanks... Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpmdrake not working (8.1)
Hallo! I've made a fresh install of 8.1 on my laptop; everything went fine but rpmdrake, that isn't working. The following is what i get trying to install galeon (and all the packages it needs): - [root@quinipt quini]# rpmdrake release found: 8.1 256 installed packages found! extracting galeon-0.12.1-2mdk.i586 extracting libnspr4-4.1-6mdk.i586 extracting liboaf0-0.6.6-3mdk.i586 extracting ORBit-0.5.8-2mdk.i586 extracting libglade-gnome0-0.16-8mdk.i586 extracting GConf-1.0.4-2mdk.i586 extracting gdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas-0.11.0-5mdk.i586 extracting libgnome-vfs0-1.0.2-2mdk.i586 extracting esound-0.2.23-1mdk.i586 extracting mozilla-0.9.4-3mdk.i586 extracting libnss3-3.2.1-6mdk.i586 extracting libesound0-0.2.23-1mdk.i586 extracting indexhtml-8.1-8mdk.noarch extracting libGConf1-1.0.4-2mdk.i586 extracting gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-6mdk.i586 extracting galeon-0.12.1-2mdk.i586 sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `(x' sh: -c: line 1: `gmessage -default D'acord -buttons "D'acord:0,Cancel·la:2" "Si us plau, inseriu el suport anomenat \"disc 2 Download Edition - Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)\" al dispositiu [/dev/cdrom]"' el soporte "disc 2 Download Edition - Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)" no está seleccionado [root@quinipt quini]# - The language i'm using is catalan so i'm translating them now: sh: -c: line 1: `gmessage -default D'acord -buttons "D'acord:0,Cancel·la:2" (D'acord= I agree) (Cancel.la= cancel) "Si us plau, inseriu el suport anomenat \"disc 2 Download Edition - Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)\" al dispositiu [/dev/cdrom]"' (Please insert Disk 2 at /dev/cdrom) el soporte "disc 2 Download Edition - Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)" no está seleccionado (Disk 2 is not selected) Thanks in advance. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
