Rif: [newbie-it] Problemino con DNS (MDK 8.0)
Senza named.conf non fai una mazza ... se vuoi la riga di debug leggi #man ndc e troverai l'opzione di debug (mi sembra ndc -d restart) Leggi l'output e vedi cosa non va esattamente ... se ti passa ndc il tuo bind va bene (occhio che in rete ci sono le spiegazioni di setup della versione 4 e MDK usa la 8) Flavio Bosio [EMAIL PROTECTED]@tin.it Inviato da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00.19 AST Oggi Per favore, rispondere a bosiof Per: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Oggetto: [newbie-it] Problemino con DNS (MDK 8.0) Sarò un p'ò tonto... Sto cercando di inserire un VirtualHost in Apache, prova e riprova, alla fine mi accorgo che Bind non funzia ...mmm... Ok, mi dico, lo attivo al boot ed ecco fatto, ma non funzia, al ché vado a cercare named.conf e mi accorgo che non esiste:-( Sorge il dubbio che l'abbiano rinominato... ma come? Qualcuno è pratico di VirtualHost? Saluti
Re: [newbie-it] bastaaaaaaaa !
massimo t wrote: ADESSO BASTA ! NON VOGLIO PIU' RICEVERE MESSAGGI DA QUESTA CAZZO DI LIST provare a metere in automatico sul tuo client di posta la non accettazione da questo indirizzo? HO DATO GIA' UNA MAREA DI DISDETTE E NON SONO STATE ASCOLTATE !! contattare il sysadmin della lista no? QUESTO CAZZO DI MANDRAKE OLTRE A NON FUNZIONARE COME SO NON FUNZIONA NEMMENO COME MAILING LIST ! strano, io ci faccio girare su due firewall di cui uno aziendale e girano molto bene sarai un po' sfigato? VERGOGNATEVI !!! e di cosa dovremmo vergognarci? dello scambiarci informazioni e dell'imparare l'uno dall'altro e tutti da chi ne sa' di piu'? mi risulta che questa sia la via che usano i tecnici di tutto il mondo. complimenti per il fair play -- Mario Vittorio Guenzi E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Si vis pacem, para bellum
[newbie-it] Mi sono spostato
sono su #oltrelinux Salute a tutti
[newbie-it] Mandrake 8.1... non va l'installazione :( forse checksum errato??
Ciao gente! Va beh, iniziamo bene con la 8.1, anche se a dire la verità è la prima volta che mi succede (dai tempi della 7.0): durante l'installazione quando arrivo a configurare il filesystem cancello le vecchie partizioni sul mio hdc (cioè un secondary master da 9Gb con secondary slave un HD 6Gb, tra l'altro il primary slave è un HD da 20Gb con in slave un CDROM da cui sto installando la mandrake) e tento di crearne delle nuove... 1) Se tento di creare la partizione di root mi si impalla tutto... 2) Se tento di allocare automaticamente, lo fa ma appena vado al passo successivo, formattazione partizioni, si impalla anche qui... 3) Se tento di tenere tutto così com'è senza fare modifiche si impalla come al punto 2... ora, ho tentato di guardare un po' di risposte del kernel (CTRL+ALT+F4) ma tutto ciò che ho capito è che chiamando umount non riesce a completare l'unmounting delle partizioni già esistenti (non di quelle che sto tentando di creare)... A sto punto mi chiedo se è un problema di checksum, ma come faccio a capirlo ora che ho i CD già masterizzati e senza immagini ISO?? (Ricordo che un tempo ci fu una domanda simile su questa ML ma non mi ricordo quando e se foste così gentili da rispondermi lo stesso vi sarei davvero riconoscente :)) Grazie dell'attenzione, Ciao! Matteo
Re: [newbie-it] ancora sulla mia 8.0
Massimiliano Scandurra wrote: . Io comunque avevo una macronix mx 86251 wodoo rush (3dfx) da 4 mega ma purtoppo non essendo supportata ho preferito sostituirla con una Matrox mystique a 2 mega recuperata da un'amico. Io ho un Pentium 233 con una Mystique e va discretamente. Dai un'occhiata ai servizi lanciati al boot e taglia brutalmente quello che non ti serve: controllo batterie su un desktop, server NTFS e yellowpages se non hai una rete unix, Come desktop manager, se kde e gnome risultano pesanti, ti consiglio xfce. Altrimenti devi limitarti ad un windows manager. ciao, andrea
[newbie] JavaScript in Konqueror
http://www.co.alameda.ca.us/download.htm popped up when i attempted to access the main page with Konqueror. Has anyone found the best java and javascript pkgs for Konqueror? What does everyone else use? -- ^-m-^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] quanta...won't save
I can't save files i attempt to create as user with Quanta. IIRC root can't run it. How can i change it so i can save my work? -- ^-m-^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] my site with hints on linux use
There are some useful tips there. Worth newbies and not so newbies taking a look. The only problem I had was I could not find the O'Reilly books on that Russian site. Has the link moved? Derek On Tuesday 02 October 2001 00:27, you wrote: I have recently updated my site http://lvgandhi.tripod.com with a quite a few hints on day to day usage of Linux aimed at newbies and normal users as I consider myself only as a normal user. I hope it will be useful to those audience. However I will request even experts to have a look at it and suggest me improvements and errors if any. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] making bootable cd to install 8.1
just dloaded the iso's to install 8.1 but where do i get an image from to put into gcombust to make a bootable cd? i've burnt cd 2 3 but i really cant do much with those without this one being bootable. alternatively can i boot from my 8.0 rescue disk and if so how do i start the install script for cd1 if i do that? hopefully TIA mikecola ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] happy binary day
--- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as today is one of the few true days every century that are truly binary I jest thought I would offer a happy binary day to every one and every 0. 10-01-01 (see you again in 9 days) GRIN Of course, in 10 days, you have ANOTHER binary day AND a palindrome. Gosh, slump back in utter astonishment!!! ;-) (Of course, that's in North America. In the REAL world, your binary day was 01-10-01 and the palindrome occurs in November! Been a lot of palindromes this year) Ron. __ 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] Kerblammm!!!!
Nothing. I finished reading my email and then went to shut it down. This happened about two out of eight times I have reinstalled Linux-Mandrake 7.2 when changing harddrives. This last three times is when I built a box just of Linux. Right now as I type this on a Windows box Linux is behaving fine. There was a partial explanation when Prodigy contacted me about a server problem where I was primarily login on to. I picked this number because I would rarely have cut offs and connection speeds were great. The suggested I update the list of numbers for my area and haven't gotten particular problems with connection and downloads, except KMail locking up. As for the bug report I am not in the clear on how or why I should. Until, I can get back to my Linux box I have to put things on hold for a week or so. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kerblammm!!!!
Tried Mozilla and like it. Netscape I don't so I don't use it anymore. My problem with that is now solved. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making bootable cd to install 8.1
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 04:20 am, mike cola wrote: just dloaded the iso's to install 8.1 but where do i get an image from to put into gcombust to make a bootable cd? i've burnt cd 2 3 but i really cant do much with those without this one being bootable. alternatively can i boot from my 8.0 rescue disk and if so how do i start the install script for cd1 if i do that? hopefully TIA mikecola Mike, You burn it the same way you did the others. Just put the path and filename in the blank beside ISO 9660 Image and click Combust. That's how I do it. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd writing howto
On 01 Oct 2001 16:59:49 -0400, Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wasn't there a Mandrake specific cd-writing howto somewhere? -Paul Rodríguez Try http://www.mandrakeuser.org. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Also we should remember that unfortunately free software is not widely used because people prefers to have something to plug'n'play and not something to configure'n'work. -- Pier Luca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: RE: [newbie] Aurora
mayBE you could deduct that; since the only pourpose anyone can come up with is eyecandy, the porpuse is eyecandy and any other help is not likely to be forthcomming. you or I could guess that by purpose you mean added functionality. and no would be my guess. On Tuesday 02 October 2001 00:49, you had thoughts to the concept of: No that I can tell either what it's purpose is, but I just turn it off. I'ts maybe nicer looking but doesn't tell me much. On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, etharp wrote: is pretty... (and while not to bash m$ [no really]) it is much neater to watch than a blue to white stripe on the bottom of the screen. - Does Aurora serve any useful purpose at all? Cheers --- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-} *Tom Brinkman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command not found
I'm not sure about the first one, but for the admin privilages You can assign root privaliges to any user by using the users option linuxconf I warn against this. rather have root and a seperate user to work with. linux generally protects users from destroying important things (eg: kernel, File system etc...) but will let the root do anything. it's a bit annoying sometimes having to type in passwords every now and again, but atleast it's some sot of warning that you could be doing something dangerous ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Loke Kit Kai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake List (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:02 PM Subject: [newbie] Command not found Hi, I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, then delete and reallocate it during the install. However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under root, i can use those command, Please assist. I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? Thanks, Regards, Loke Kit Kai -- -- 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] compiling kernels
i am very down right now i just realised i have to compile a kernel to integrate video4 linux into it so i can run bttv or xawtv and use my tv tuner card. so before i even start thinking about that, i have one last hope; does video4 linux come precompiled in lm8.1?? hmm dint think so; ok .. where do i find menuconfig or xconfig? and is there a newbie /quick/easy/painless/idiot-proof method of compiling? and do i have to reboot? cant i flush the kernel out of memory like a service and restart it? thanks shudder _ 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
RE: [newbie] Command not found
Log in as your normal user and type 'set' at the command prompt. What do you have for $PATH? You don't want your ordinary user to have administrator rights. It's a bad move. However, if you REALLY want to expose your self to disaster, you can either simply log in as root, or use root to make your ordinary user-id have ID 0 and Group ID 0. You can probably use UserDrake or edit the /etc/passwd file directly. -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:02 PM To: Mandrake List (E-mail) Subject:[newbie] Command not found Hi, I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, then delete and reallocate it during the install. However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under root, i can use those command, Please assist. I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? Thanks, Regards, Loke Kit Kai File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installed 8.1... no USB
since u did key combos i assume u plugged in a different keyboard. if so u can type linuxconf and exit it. in 8.0 everytime i exit linuxconf it keeps telling me that it wants to change some file permissions and start some drivers/services etc. and one of them is usb. i dont want usb but u do so i hope this helps - Original Message - From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:09 PM Subject: [newbie] installed 8.1... no USB I installed 8.1 last night. When I rebooted I found I had no USB support at all. Both my keyboard and mouse are USB, so I was pretty SOL. I never had any serious problems with 8.0, and no problems at all with USB. I did a clean install which went very smoothly. The only thing I did differently from my 8.0 install was choose reiserFS and select my partition sizes manually. There may have been some packages that got installed that weren't installed with 8.0, but for the most part I went with the same set up. Upon boot aurora claims the USB services start up fine. The first time I rebooted it hung for about 5 minutes on Initializing X Windowing System (or something like that). After a while I started hitting key combos trying to see if I could get to a console, and probably coincidentally, the boot continued on and got to the login screen. No mouse or keyboard :( Each reboot was the same, except there was no hang, they booted up normally. Booting from the boot disk is the same thing. The messages indicate USB starts up fine, but I end up with no mouse or keyboard. I did make sure both are plugged in, and I unplugged and plugged them back in as well. I have a Compaq 5004us, with an Athlon 1.1ghz. The USB controller (?) is made by Via, but I don't know what model. If I reboot into the 8.1 installation, the mouse and keyboard work fine again. I hope someone can help me, otherwise I'm back to 8.0. Thanks, Matt _ 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 _ 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
Re: [newbie] Command not found
Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the user, and let us know what you get. /bin/echo $PATH As the user, you should get something like this in return: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/timh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games The fact that you actually can log in and get a prompt, that means that user does have a shell, but since it can't find where the commands are, that's what makes me think that the PATH is not defined. To define the $PATH, add this line to your $HOME/.bash_profile. PATH=$PATH And then add the word PATH to the end of the line that reads export. So it will then look like this most likely: export BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc PATH If you have more things there, that's fine, but make sure you add the PATH there, and the PATH line in your ~/.bash_profile. That should then fix that command not found problem. As far as the admin rights... There are things that will allow you to do that, but personally, as a Systems Admin, I would say stay away from them. It's much better and much more secure to just use the already existing super-user account. If you need to do something, login as root, then logout when you're done. I would really like it if Mandrake would actually do what FreeBSD does. Where only users in the wheel group can su - root and then gain root access. But I'm not sure if that's every been considered or even suggested. But that's just me. Hope that helps you, if not, let us know. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 10:22AM up 7 days, 21:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 | Hi, | I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, | then delete and reallocate it during the install. | However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but | when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under | root, i can use those command, Please assist. | I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator | rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? | | Thanks, | Regards, | Loke Kit Kai | | 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] Command not found
Thanks for prompt reply This is wat i have for path /usr/local/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin I can't edit the file because I don't have access to vi either... I can't even ls... but can cd... Thanks again -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the user, and let us know what you get. /bin/echo $PATH As the user, you should get something like this in return: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/ timh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games The fact that you actually can log in and get a prompt, that means that user does have a shell, but since it can't find where the commands are, that's what makes me think that the PATH is not defined. To define the $PATH, add this line to your $HOME/.bash_profile. PATH=$PATH And then add the word PATH to the end of the line that reads export. So it will then look like this most likely: export BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc PATH If you have more things there, that's fine, but make sure you add the PATH there, and the PATH line in your ~/.bash_profile. That should then fix that command not found problem. As far as the admin rights... There are things that will allow you to do that, but personally, as a Systems Admin, I would say stay away from them. It's much better and much more secure to just use the already existing super-user account. If you need to do something, login as root, then logout when you're done. I would really like it if Mandrake would actually do what FreeBSD does. Where only users in the wheel group can su - root and then gain root access. But I'm not sure if that's every been considered or even suggested. But that's just me. Hope that helps you, if not, let us know. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 10:22AM up 7 days, 21:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 | Hi, | I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, | then delete and reallocate it during the install. | However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but | when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under | root, i can use those command, Please assist. | I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator | rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? | | Thanks, | Regards, | Loke Kit Kai | | 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] Command not found
oh ya... about the admin thing... I was just thinking, since I am using the user account, might as well give that account admin rights... is it still a bad way of doing things? wat do you think? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the user, and let us know what you get. /bin/echo $PATH As the user, you should get something like this in return: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/ timh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games The fact that you actually can log in and get a prompt, that means that user does have a shell, but since it can't find where the commands are, that's what makes me think that the PATH is not defined. To define the $PATH, add this line to your $HOME/.bash_profile. PATH=$PATH And then add the word PATH to the end of the line that reads export. So it will then look like this most likely: export BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc PATH If you have more things there, that's fine, but make sure you add the PATH there, and the PATH line in your ~/.bash_profile. That should then fix that command not found problem. As far as the admin rights... There are things that will allow you to do that, but personally, as a Systems Admin, I would say stay away from them. It's much better and much more secure to just use the already existing super-user account. If you need to do something, login as root, then logout when you're done. I would really like it if Mandrake would actually do what FreeBSD does. Where only users in the wheel group can su - root and then gain root access. But I'm not sure if that's every been considered or even suggested. But that's just me. Hope that helps you, if not, let us know. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 10:22AM up 7 days, 21:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 | Hi, | I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, | then delete and reallocate it during the install. | However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but | when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under | root, i can use those command, Please assist. | I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator | rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? | | Thanks, | Regards, | Loke Kit Kai | | 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] Creative soundblaster live
sorry, but i couldn't execute any program using commandline... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 02 October 2001 23:20 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Creative soundblaster live Have you tried sndconfig? Works for me in 8.0. You may also want to change the volume levels with aumix or KMix. -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:04 PM To: Mandrake List (E-mail) Subject:[newbie] Creative soundblaster live Hi, Sorry to bother you, but I need help in activating the sound card... I haven't heard any sound since I installed mandrake 8.1... Please assist... Thanks... File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Command not found
fully qualify the command name. For example, /bin/ls /bin/cd /bin/vi However, if your path is as you show below, it should work. Maybe your login script isn't exporting the path to subshells... Can see why not though. -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:22 PM To: 'Tim Holmes'; Mandrake List (E-mail) Subject:RE: [newbie] Command not found Thanks for prompt reply This is wat i have for path /usr/local/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin I can't edit the file because I don't have access to vi either... I can't even ls... but can cd... Thanks again -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the user, and let us know what you get. /bin/echo $PATH As the user, you should get something like this in return: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/ timh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games The fact that you actually can log in and get a prompt, that means that user does have a shell, but since it can't find where the commands are, that's what makes me think that the PATH is not defined. To define the $PATH, add this line to your $HOME/.bash_profile. PATH=$PATH And then add the word PATH to the end of the line that reads export. So it will then look like this most likely: export BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc PATH If you have more things there, that's fine, but make sure you add the PATH there, and the PATH line in your ~/.bash_profile. That should then fix that command not found problem. As far as the admin rights... There are things that will allow you to do that, but personally, as a Systems Admin, I would say stay away from them. It's much better and much more secure to just use the already existing super-user account. If you need to do something, login as root, then logout when you're done. I would really like it if Mandrake would actually do what FreeBSD does. Where only users in the wheel group can su - root and then gain root access. But I'm not sure if that's every been considered or even suggested. But that's just me. Hope that helps you, if not, let us know. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 10:22AM up 7 days, 21:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 | Hi, | I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, | then delete and reallocate it during the install. | However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but | when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under | root, i can use those command, Please assist. | I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator | rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? | | Thanks, | Regards, | Loke Kit Kai | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Command not found
i default my shell to csh... how do I make the login script export the path to subshells? or how do I change to other shell since my root account have no problem? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 03 October 2001 00:53 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Command not found fully qualify the command name. For example, /bin/ls /bin/cd /bin/vi However, if your path is as you show below, it should work. Maybe your login script isn't exporting the path to subshells... Can see why not though. -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:22 PM To: 'Tim Holmes'; Mandrake List (E-mail) Subject:RE: [newbie] Command not found Thanks for prompt reply This is wat i have for path /usr/local/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin I can't edit the file because I don't have access to vi either... I can't even ls... but can cd... Thanks again -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the user, and let us know what you get. /bin/echo $PATH As the user, you should get something like this in return: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/ timh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games The fact that you actually can log in and get a prompt, that means that user does have a shell, but since it can't find where the commands are, that's what makes me think that the PATH is not defined. To define the $PATH, add this line to your $HOME/.bash_profile. PATH=$PATH And then add the word PATH to the end of the line that reads export. So it will then look like this most likely: export BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc PATH If you have more things there, that's fine, but make sure you add the PATH there, and the PATH line in your ~/.bash_profile. That should then fix that command not found problem. As far as the admin rights... There are things that will allow you to do that, but personally, as a Systems Admin, I would say stay away from them. It's much better and much more secure to just use the already existing super-user account. If you need to do something, login as root, then logout when you're done. I would really like it if Mandrake would actually do what FreeBSD does. Where only users in the wheel group can su - root and then gain root access. But I'm not sure if that's every been considered or even suggested. But that's just me. Hope that helps you, if not, let us know. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 10:22AM up 7 days, 21:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 | Hi, | I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, | then delete and reallocate it during the install. | However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but | when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under | root, i can use those command, Please assist. | I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator | rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? | | Thanks, | Regards, | Loke Kit Kai | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of
RE: [newbie] Command not found
roger... thanks for the advice... i'll follow it... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 03 October 2001 00:57 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Command not found It's still a bad way of doing things - if your userid has root power, then a simple typing mistake can make a complete mess of your system. If you need to do anything which requires any special privs, then it's a good Do you really want to do this check to force you to su to root first. It's your choice, but I'd strongly recommend you use your ordinary userid to perform everyday tasks and only swap to root when you REALLY need to. -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:24 PM To: 'Tim Holmes'; Mandrake List (E-mail) Subject:RE: [newbie] Command not found oh ya... about the admin thing... I was just thinking, since I am using the user account, might as well give that account admin rights... is it still a bad way of doing things? wat do you think? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the user, and let us know what you get. /bin/echo $PATH As the user, you should get something like this in return: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/ timh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games The fact that you actually can log in and get a prompt, that means that user does have a shell, but since it can't find where the commands are, that's what makes me think that the PATH is not defined. To define the $PATH, add this line to your $HOME/.bash_profile. PATH=$PATH And then add the word PATH to the end of the line that reads export. So it will then look like this most likely: export BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc PATH If you have more things there, that's fine, but make sure you add the PATH there, and the PATH line in your ~/.bash_profile. That should then fix that command not found problem. As far as the admin rights... There are things that will allow you to do that, but personally, as a Systems Admin, I would say stay away from them. It's much better and much more secure to just use the already existing super-user account. If you need to do something, login as root, then logout when you're done. I would really like it if Mandrake would actually do what FreeBSD does. Where only users in the wheel group can su - root and then gain root access. But I'm not sure if that's every been considered or even suggested. But that's just me. Hope that helps you, if not, let us know. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 10:22AM up 7 days, 21:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 | Hi, | I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, | then delete and reallocate it during the install. | However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but | when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under | root, i can use those command, Please assist. | I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator | rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? | | Thanks, | Regards, | Loke Kit Kai | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group
RE: [newbie] Creative soundblaster live
Ahh - log in as root. /usr/sbin/sndconfig (I think!) We really need to get your userid sorted out with a decent path - it'll make troubleshooting the rest of the system much easier! -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] Creative soundblaster live sorry, but i couldn't execute any program using commandline... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve Sent: 02 October 2001 23:20 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Creative soundblaster live Have you tried sndconfig? Works for me in 8.0. You may also want to change the volume levels with aumix or KMix. -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:04 PM To: Mandrake List (E-mail) Subject:[newbie] Creative soundblaster live Hi, Sorry to bother you, but I need help in activating the sound card... I haven't heard any sound since I installed mandrake 8.1... Please assist... Thanks... File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command not found
Bad idea with a capital 'B'. Giving a user root privileges makes the user the same as root, hence totally defeating the purpose of having a separate user account. The point of doing things as a user and not as root brings several advantages, including security (over networks, including the Internet) and safety (from both user and appication errors). Running as root, or with root priviliges (which is really the same thing), would give you a level of security and safety only marginally higher than that of Windos (i.e. not much at all). On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:23:38 +0800, Loke Kit Kai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh ya... about the admin thing... I was just thinking, since I am using the user account, might as well give that account admin rights... is it still a bad way of doing things? wat do you think? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the user, and let us know what you get. /bin/echo $PATH As the user, you should get something like this in return: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/ timh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games The fact that you actually can log in and get a prompt, that means that user does have a shell, but since it can't find where the commands are, that's what makes me think that the PATH is not defined. To define the $PATH, add this line to your $HOME/.bash_profile. PATH=$PATH And then add the word PATH to the end of the line that reads export. So it will then look like this most likely: export BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc PATH If you have more things there, that's fine, but make sure you add the PATH there, and the PATH line in your ~/.bash_profile. That should then fix that command not found problem. As far as the admin rights... There are things that will allow you to do that, but personally, as a Systems Admin, I would say stay away from them. It's much better and much more secure to just use the already existing super-user account. If you need to do something, login as root, then logout when you're done. I would really like it if Mandrake would actually do what FreeBSD does. Where only users in the wheel group can su - root and then gain root access. But I'm not sure if that's every been considered or even suggested. But that's just me. Hope that helps you, if not, let us know. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 10:22AM up 7 days, 21:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 | Hi, | I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition first, | then delete and reallocate it during the install. | However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1, login, but | when i type any command, even ls, they say command not found, but under | root, i can use those command, Please assist. | I also help in this... Windows 2k allows user to be assigned administrator | rights, does linux allows that? How do I go about doing it? | | Thanks, | Regards, | Loke Kit Kai -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I keep trying to tell my boss that no, Satan is a tool of Linux, not the other way around. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compiling kernels
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:22:34 +0200, Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am very down right now i just realised i have to compile a kernel to integrate video4 linux into it so i can run bttv or xawtv and use my tv tuner card. so before i even start thinking about that, i have one last hope; does video4 linux come precompiled in lm8.1?? hmm dint think so; ok .. where do i find menuconfig or xconfig? and is there a newbie /quick/easy/painless/idiot-proof method of compiling? and do i have to reboot? cant i flush the kernel out of memory like a service and restart it? thanks shudder Hot-swappable kernels? I wish! There is a group working on that right now, but don't expect anything from them anytime soon, for it is a _very_ difficult thing to do. I can't think of _any_ OSs that have this feature. You may be able to get away with compiling a kernel module. In that case, you can insert it into a running kernel via an insmod or modprobe command. There's a good tutorial on kernel compiling at http://www.mandrakeuser.org. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Microsoft? Is that a kind of a toilet paper? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creative soundblaster live
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 10:09 am, you wrote: Ahh - log in as root. /usr/sbin/sndconfig (I think!) We really need to get your userid sorted out with a decent path - it'll make troubleshooting the rest of the system much easier! could he copy ~/.bashrc to ~/.cshrc ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] quanta...won't save (solved)
i like ur three Rs!!! hee hee... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: 03 October 2001 00:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; michael Subject: Re: [newbie] quanta...won't save (solved) On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 07:05:11 -0700, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2001 12:46 am, you wrote: I can't save files i attempt to create as user with Quanta. IIRC root can't run it. How can i change it so i can save my work? It works as root...didn't used to... Try going through your ~/.kde directory in search of Quanta+-specific files and directories. Delete them and then load Quanta+. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command not found
I would suggest running through these steps. = 1) Login as root a) As root, edit the /etc/passwd. To do that type the command vipw. This will give you a vi editor that will edit the passwd file. b) Find your user, and change the shell, which is at the end of the line to /bin/bash. c) Copy the default envirnment files to the home directory. cd /etc/skel cp .bashrc .bash_profile /home/USERID cd /home/USERID chown USERID:USERID * 2) Logout as root. 3) Login as your user USERID. a) Run these commands. which ls which vi which echo b) If those commands give you: /bin/ls /bin/vi /bin/echo c) Then your shell is working properly, and your path is set up. You should be able to now use ls, vi, and others with out getting the command not found error. = As others have mentioned, the root account is not to be taken lightly. You could remove every file on your machine with the root user. All you need to do is type the command in the right place, or have a typo in one command and do the same. Some people are so paranoid about the root user, they disconnect their machine from the Internet to do work as root! That's how sacred the root user is! So if you need admin work done, use the command, su -, to become the root user, do your work, and then logout as root. Never login to Xwindows as root, and never leave yourself logged in as root. There are ways to your user up to perform root functions, but I HIGHLY advise AGAINST it! It's a very bad idea. Just like Sridhar mentioned, bad with a capital B! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 12:21PM up 7 days, 23:23, 5 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.02, 0.01 | Thanks for prompt reply | This is wat i have for path | /usr/local/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin | | I can't edit the file because I don't have access to vi either... I can't | even ls... but can cd... | | Thanks again | | 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] Aztech MR2800 modem (Was no subject)
Marc Ellerby wrote: I need Help, can somebody tell me where i can find an Driver for my Modem Aztech MR2800 and how it should be installed. thanks ___ 1.000.000 DM gewinnen - kostenlos tippen - http://millionenklick.web.de [EMAIL PROTECTED], 8MB Speicher, Verschluesselung - http://freemail.web.de Marc: You have what is called a linmodem -- that's a modem that is intended to run only under Windows, but someone has created a driver for it that will allow it to run under Linux. Here's the deal: Go to www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. About 3/4 of the way down the page is a table of various linmodems. There are several listings for linux drivers for your modem depending on the kernal version that you are using. Good luck. Regards, Carroll Grigsby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cannot get into Linux again!
Dear All, I went through this last week because of Netscape. I have LM8 just reinstalled got everything tweaked and last I decided to add the VNC rpms, because after reading about how you can share internet connections cross-platform with it I thought that it sounded great. Today when I booted up and it got to the VNC server on the boot text screen it would just hang. I have to reboot every time now and cannot get past that. How may I get into Linux and undo the VNC rpms so that I do not have to reinstall? I really do not wish to reinstall since I have to find new printer drivers each time and tweak for days. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux again!
I agree with Charles. Boot into failsafe, and disable VMC at boot, and disable Aurora. In my cases, I've had it where with Aurora, it freezes at VNC, but if I disable Aurora, it will run the VNC server with no problem. But you don't need that started at boot. Run the command ntsysv. Find the VNC stuff in there, and un-select it. It can take up some of your computing power, and it's easily started via a command. From there you can use it and learn to play with it. It's not a bad app though. http://www.tridiavnc.com/ Check there for more information. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 2:19PM up 8 days, 1:21, 4 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 | Dear All, I went through this last week because of Netscape. I have LM8 just |reinstalled got everything tweaked and last I decided to add the VNC rpms, because |after reading about how you can share internet connections cross-platform with it I |thought that it sounded great. Today when I booted up and it got to the VNC server on |the boot text screen it would just hang. I have to reboot every time now and cannot |get past that. How may I get into Linux and undo the VNC rpms so that I do not have |to reinstall? I really do not wish to reinstall since I have to find new printer |drivers each time and tweak for days. | | Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. | | Sincerely, | | Marcia -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting my laptop offline takes forever.
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:37:11 -0500 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] cleverly noted: Hi, I have Mandrake 8 on my laptop. When I am connected to the LAN the machine boots okay, but when I'm not the booting process takes forever. It hangs on the network card configuration which of course fails since I am not connected. Is it a way to bypass this during boot so that I do not have to wait for this every time I need to use the laptop offline? == If your network card is pcmcia, just pop it out before booting. Mike -- Whatever the dangers of the actions we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. --Tony Blair, Prime Minister _ 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] Shutting down LM8.0 on Laptop slow when Floppy not present
Can anyone offer some advice... I have installed LM8.0 on my Sony Vaio laptop. It is one of those where the parallel port may be used either for a printer, or for an external floppy drive. The install went perfectly, and it all works including the floppy drive. Only problem is that if I do not have the floppy drive plugged into the parallel port, then shutting down takes an age. Is there a way to easily let Linux know whether or not the floppy is fitted? I guess I could do it in the bios, but I would rather not have to fiddle with Bios every time I want to use a floppy. TIA Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] StarOffice Base
Hi, I usually use Star Office and have version 5.2 on my Linux-Mandrake 8 PC I recently read that StarOffice BAse is available and that it can handle MSAccess database files. I have downloaded a .bin file, changed the permissions and then run it as root. I cannot figure out what I am supposed to do next. It seemed to be installing and yet I cannot see what I can launch so I can proceed to use it. Can anyone help please? Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File size limit exceeded
I've seen this a few times, and I can't remember what caused it. I'll check through my notes when I get home. Do you get the same information if you type: su - You really should use that instead of just su. With the - in there, it loads that users environment. If you just do a su, it still uses your environment. (i.e. ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.aliases, etc;) Try that, and I'll get back with you when I find out what causes it. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 3:46PM up 8 days, 2:48, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 | Hello: | | Yesterday, I installed Bastille and as far as I could tell everything was | configured properly. I installed the program while in a user's directory | (not root) but as root in a terminal (hope it makes sense). Well, in any | case, I typed exit at the terminal to get back into user, but when I tried to | regain roots I got this error message: File Size Limit Exceeded. Any ideas | what the problem might be and/or possibly the fix? I checked the partitions | by typing df and as far as I can tell, I have plenty of room left (I have | pasted a copy of the output below): | | FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on | /dev/hda5 2.3G 1.2G 938M 58% / | /dev/hda7 1.5G 31M 1.4G 2% /home | /dev/hda1 33G 3.4G 29G 10% /mnt/windows | | I can still log out and log in as root, but I rather not have to do it. I | normally will type su at the terminal when I need to perform root | functions. Thanks | | Regards, | | 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
Re: [newbie] installed 8.1... no USB
On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:09:23 -0500 Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 8.1 last night. When I rebooted I found I had no USB support at all. Both my keyboard and mouse are USB, so I was pretty SOL. I never had any serious problems with 8.0, and no problems at all with USB. I did a clean install which went very smoothly. The only thing I did differently from my 8.0 install was choose reiserFS and select my partition sizes manually. There may have been some packages that got installed that weren't installed with 8.0, but for the most part I went with the same set up. Upon boot aurora claims the USB services start up fine. The first time I rebooted it hung for about 5 minutes on Initializing X Windowing System (or something like that). After a while I started hitting key combos trying to see if I could get to a console, and probably coincidentally, the boot continued on and got to the login screen. No mouse or keyboard :( Each reboot was the same, except there was no hang, they booted up normally. Booting from the boot disk is the same thing. The messages indicate USB starts up fine, but I end up with no mouse or keyboard. I did make sure both are plugged in, and I unplugged and plugged them back in as well. I have a Compaq 5004us, with an Athlon 1.1ghz. The USB controller (?) is made by Via, but I don't know what model. If I reboot into the 8.1 installation, the mouse and keyboard work fine again. I hope someone can help me, otherwise I'm back to 8.0. Matt If you boot to the GUI login press Alt(+)F2. This will open a console window. Login as root and enter the command: mousedrake. Select the proper mouse and use Tab key and click OK. This will restart usb services including your mouse and keyboard. Enter: exit to logout root and then press Alt(+)F7 to return to the GUI login and your mouse should work. After you are in check the file /etc/sysconfig/usb. If it shows: mouse=no keyboard=no You need to edit both entries to read =yes Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] serious problems with 8.1
i just did the install, new format of all partitions except home, added the user and ran it. and i have serious problems i have only been playing a few hours so this could change, but: for one thing my usb mouse works just fine and for the first time with any of 7 different distros i have tried i didn't have to tweak x in any way at all. no additional resolutions, no font deuglification, nothing. right outta the box (so to speak) no troubles. for another it was the fastest install yet, even though it is bigger and i installed more of it! please stop this, it should install for litterally days like win 2000 did. i have also had no trouble at all configuring any of my software over and above what came with 8.1 and the new kde is wonderful. so far even the custom stuff i used to cause all sorts of trouble with runs fine. this is very upsetting. the good news is the size. by the time i install everything i want to play with i will need a new hardrive. also the supermount thing is good since it never gave me any trouble and now i will have to figure out how to run it. i would prefer it if we could make the install more like win 2000 so half my stuff won't work till i argue with it. thank you. -- ... and if you drown, die knowing you were headed for the shore. -from farenheight 451 shane mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html -- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! shane mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto mounting cdrom
I created new desktop icons on the KDE desktop and they work fine, and then it is a simple matter of right clicking on the icon to unmount or eject. Nev Joe Simon wrote: Hi: How do you auto mount the cdrom in Mandrake Linux? When I put a cd in the cdrom drive I don't want to have to do mount /mnt/cdrom or mount /mnt/cdrom2 etc ... Thanks Joe _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp 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] serious problems with 8.1
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 03:44 pm, shane wrote: i just did the install, new format of all partitions except home, added the user and ran it. and i have serious problems i have only been playing a few hours so this could change, but: I know what you mean. Them d*mn coders! I really miss having to stick in all those driver disks and rebooting dozens of times too. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub problems
unless you want to seriously f-up your file system don't use exit to dos, rather use reboot to dos. exit to dos has been done to curropt file systems so bad as to require fdisk and reinstall. just a thought. On Monday 01 October 2001 10:18, you spoke unto me thusly: I'm not sure this is true, I have ME (God bless my soul) and I can, I think, exit to DOS. Or am I thinking of something else? -- you can have peace or freedom, but never count on both at once -heinlein shane mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] auto mounting cdrom
you might try kwickdisk if you are running the new 8.1 On Tuesday 02 October 2001 08:53, you spoke unto me thusly: When I put a cd in the cdrom drive I don't want to have to do mount /mnt/cdrom or mount /mnt/cdrom2 etc ... -- The universe is a figment of its own imagination. shane mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kerblammm!!!!
Thanks Mark, but as much as I'm always interested in trying new (?) things, I'm also a power freak! Running Mozilla and/or Opera, or many browsers at once is not a problem. Thanks for the info though. Take care. Gotta go. L8R Dude! Lanman On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:47 pm, you wrote: Lanman wrote: Mark; Netscape 6.1 ?? Why not Mozilla .94 ? IMHO, it's a lot better than Netscape. No problem setting up Java and Flash, if that's the problem. Sorry, Love to stay and chat, but I gotta go take over the world! Busy! Busy! Lanman Lanman, You are of course very correct in your assesment of Netscape 6.1 and Mozilla, but I was refering to Netscape Messenger 4.7x. At the moment i'm using 4.78. Most of the time i use Pine, but every now and then i'll use Messenger for a little while. Just to let it know that I don't think it's useless. However, there are some things about 6.1 that i liked, but no where near enough to make me want to use it full time. Besides, my old K6 just isn't fast enough even with 160MB of RAM to run that so's it would be useable. Course it wouldn't run Mozilla all that well either. Which is pretty much why i'm still using Netscape 4.78 and/or Pine. Gotta love that console. Some time back i got wind of a flavor of Mozille, rather Netscape 5.x that had been un-AOL-afied. It was named Beonex. It's really quite interesting actually. I put a copy of one of the earlier version on my FTP server if you want to take a look at it. If you do connect though be patient cause I'm still connecting via a dial up modem connection albeit a 56K modem it's still a bit slow at times. ftp://mdw1982.dyndns.org/pub/linux/online/beonex-0.6-pre-linux.tar Not sure though if their site is still up or anything. it's been a while since i was there last. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Speed up bandwidth for Apache?
Is there a way I can speed up downloads for people on my apache webserver? Or is this controlled by my ISP? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Command not found
Need to ask you, is the below steps to change my default shell or to enable the rest of the shells to run the commands? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: 03 October 2001 00:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found I would suggest running through these steps. = 1) Login as root a) As root, edit the /etc/passwd. To do that type the command vipw. This will give you a vi editor that will edit the passwd file. b) Find your user, and change the shell, which is at the end of the line to /bin/bash. c) Copy the default envirnment files to the home directory. cd /etc/skel cp .bashrc .bash_profile /home/USERID cd /home/USERID chown USERID:USERID * 2) Logout as root. 3) Login as your user USERID. a) Run these commands. which ls which vi which echo b) If those commands give you: /bin/ls /bin/vi /bin/echo c) Then your shell is working properly, and your path is set up. You should be able to now use ls, vi, and others with out getting the command not found error. = As others have mentioned, the root account is not to be taken lightly. You could remove every file on your machine with the root user. All you need to do is type the command in the right place, or have a typo in one command and do the same. Some people are so paranoid about the root user, they disconnect their machine from the Internet to do work as root! That's how sacred the root user is! So if you need admin work done, use the command, su -, to become the root user, do your work, and then logout as root. Never login to Xwindows as root, and never leave yourself logged in as root. There are ways to your user up to perform root functions, but I HIGHLY advise AGAINST it! It's a very bad idea. Just like Sridhar mentioned, bad with a capital B! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 12:21PM up 7 days, 23:23, 5 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.02, 0.01 | Thanks for prompt reply | This is wat i have for path | /usr/local/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin | | I can't edit the file because I don't have access to vi either... I can't | even ls... but can cd... | | Thanks again | | 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] Command not found
% setenv NAME value C shell $ NAME=value; export NAME Bourne or Korn shell As a rule, Csh doesn't need to export it's variables - it does it automatically. Post the contents of your ~/.cshrc... Maybe this will help: Bourne Shell The original Bourne shell has one file that it reads when you log in: it's called .profile and is in your home directory. Put all your setup commands there. The Bourne shell doesn't read .profile when you start a subshell , though. Subshell setup information has to come from environment variables that were set in .profile when you first logged in or from commands you typed since. C Shell C shell users have three shell setup files available: * The .cshrc file is read any time a C shell starts - that includes shell escapes and shell scripts. [1] This is the place to put commands that should run every time you start a shell. For instance, shell variables like cdpath and prompt should be set here. Aliases should, too. Those things aren't passed to subshells through the environment, so they belong in .cshrc. [1] If you write a csh script, you should probably use the -f option to keep C shell scripts from reading .cshrc. Of course, even better, you probably shouldn't use csh for scripts. * The .login file is read when you start a login shell. Here's where you should set: * Environment variables (which UNIX will pass to subshells automatically) * Commands like tset and stty * Commands you want to run every time you log in - checking for mail and news, running fortune, checking your calendar for the day, etc. Note that .cshrc is read before .login. * The shell reads .logout when you end a login shell. Korn Shell The Korn shell is a lot like the Bourne shell. A login Korn shell will read the .profile first. The .profile can set the ENV environment variable to the pathname of a file (typically $HOME/.kshrc). Then any Korn shell during that login session (including a subshell) will read the file named by $ENV as it starts up, before it runs other commands. bash bash is something of a cross between the Bourne and C shells. A login bash will read .bash_profile, .bash_login, or .profile. A bash subshell - but not a login shell - will read a file named .bashrc in your home directory. The shell reads .bash_logout when you end a login shell; you can set a trap to handle non-login shells. tcsh tcsh is like the C shell, with one exception: if you put a file named .tcshrc in your home directory, tcsh will read it instead of .cshrc. -Original Message- From: Loke Kit Kai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Command not found i default my shell to csh... how do I make the login script export the path to subshells? or how do I change to other shell since my root account have no problem? ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fetchmail in Schedule
Hi! Did anyone know how to configure a fetchmail running as schedule. I like to run my fetchmail only in office hour . Saturday and Sunday only run at mid-night in every 1 hour Best Regards, SKLIM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Swap
why the swap partition before was less tan 128 Mb thnks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDevlop questions
Hello! I am starting using kdevelop right out of the box. I didn't change anything to its configuration. The documentation looks great, but there are points everywhere. Ex: QCanvasText . ( . QCanvas . * . canvas . ) . It impedes the readability. Apparently every blank (tab or space) is replaced with a point. I thought it might be a font problem but changing fonts in Options-Documentation browser didn't solve the problem. Any hint? Another thing I would like to change is the editor behaviour. It is currently possible to go beyond the end of a line with the arrow cursors, and I am not used to that. In the other editors I am used to (Mac Metrowerks editor or BeOS), right arrow at the end of the line means next line which sounds logical for the file contents point of view (at least to me). Is there a way to change that behaviour? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail in Schedule
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 08:32 pm, sklim wrote: Hi! Did anyone know how to configure a fetchmail running as schedule. I like to run my fetchmail only in office hour . Saturday and Sunday only run at mid-night in every 1 hour Best Regards, SKLIM Well, back when I ran leafnode, I used crontab for it. Maybe it might serve your purposes for this as well. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail in Schedule
For something like that, you'd have to set up a custom cron job to do that. Just the basic configs for fetchmail won't let you do something like that. So you'd have to set up a cron, saying, on certain days, between the hours of __ and __ run fetchmail, then run it at __ on the weekends. It's been a while since I've set up a cron, so I'm not sure how to go about it. Check the docs, and I'm sure there are people on the list that are proficient with setting up a cron job. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 10:04PM up 8 days, 9:06, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | Hi! | | Did anyone know how to configure a fetchmail running as schedule. I like to | run my fetchmail only in office hour . Saturday and Sunday only run at | mid-night in every 1 hour | | Best Regards, | SKLIM | | | | 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] Swap
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 08:48 pm, Unixpad Y Asociados wrote: why the swap partition before was less tan 128 Mb thnks Could you rephrase and give a little more detail? It might just be me, but I'm not quite sure what you're asking. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDevlop questions
Hello again! Sorry, I found the solution for my 2nd question: the behavior of the editor is configured... by option-editor. My first question is still not solved. I am starting using kdevelop right out of the box. I didn't change anything to its configuration. The documentation looks great, but there are points everywhere. Ex: QCanvasText . ( . QCanvas . * . canvas . ) . It impedes the readability. Apparently every blank (tab or space) is replaced with a point. I thought it might be a font problem but changing fonts in Options-Documentation browser didn't solve the problem. Any hint? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mdk 8.1 intstall and F13 key
Hello I installed mdk 8.1 on my PC at office and had almost no problems but when I installed it on my laptop my first problem is that the F13 key (windows start key) doesn't seem to work. I tried setting it with modmap but have forgotten how to set it up. Is this a known problem? Can somebody please tell me how to enable this key again. I can reassign it to something else but it would be nice to get that key working :-) Thanks a lot navin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] found in apache logs
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 10:46 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Jon Doe wrote: Is this some kind of worm? I found this in httpd access logs: It's more of the microsoft webserver junk. No need to worry. Thats a relief, thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MODEMS vs Winmodems
Are you telling me that by hooking up an external modem through a serial port, it's not taking any CPU cycles? Somehow, something in my computer has to read that port and process the data to get it to my browser, email, or hard drive. It might not use as much CPU cycles, but it uses some. Most people using winmodems are coming from windows. To tell a prospective new linux user to shell out $70 for an external (or internal) modem to run their free software won't win many converts. It's kind of like Microsoft offering free beta versions of software if you pay $19.95 for shipping and handling. I don't see how a design choice to minimize cost by utilizing excess CPU cycles is somehow parasitic or evil. For the record, I did some tests of using my winmodem and an external modem. For all practical purposes, the throughput was identical (neither reached 53K due to phone line quality). Neither seemed to slow down my system 450mhz AMD K62 196MB RAM. If someone is running Mandrake, then they are running a minimum of a pentium processor. Every adapter/peripheral in the computer uses CPU cycles to work. For the average newbie, using a winmodem to surf the web and check email is not going to be a resource hog for the CPU. If the CPU is so slow that a winmodem is a burden for it, then the $70 for a new modem would be better spent on a new motherboard/cpu. I sometimes wonder if the Linux community came up with linmodems instead of Windows, if there would be such an uproar over them. Yes, some of them can be a pain to get them working, but there are many, many winmodems that function quite well under Linux. Joe On Monday 01 October 2001 11:58 pm, you wrote: You've actually missed the point about winmodems. It's not that they need a driver to work (If they'll work at all). The problem with them is that they shift the work that normally done by the modem, over to the main system processor, thus sucking valuable CPU cycles. They're parasitic by design, trash the blood suckers, and buy a real modem that does it's own work. Ric Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Here here! Good post! I have a Lucent and it works Awesome on my Duron 800 at home. It even worked decently find with 166 and 200 Pentiums. Some of us have lives and need to pinch pennies. On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Joseph Braddock wrote: There sure is a lot of talk about modems and winmodems on this list. At times it sounds like a religious argument! But, I think we do a diservice to people by telling them to run out and buy a true modem whenever they pose a question about a winmodem. While it is true that a real modem (external or internal) is usually easier to setup/install. The fact is that many of these people already have the winmodem in their formerly Windows machines. Winmodems can be a good choice, particularly for the cost concious. I know that not all winmodems work with Linux, but many based on Lucent or PCTel chipsets do. The only problem is that you have to install a driver (usually open-source) for them. If having to install the driver is what causes a problem in recommending them, well, then, we better quit using NVida and most other graphic cards, numerous other IO adapters and the like. Ironically, for people coming from Windows, having to install a driver for a winmodem isn't a show stopper, since most winmodems need drivers installed under windows. (Now compiling the driver, etc. might be intimidating). I guess, what I'm trying to say is that if someone request help in choosing what kind of modem to purchase, buy all means, recommend a hardware modem. But if someone states they have such and such a modem and need help installing it, telling them to go out an buy another modem doesn't answer their question and really isn't of much help. Joe -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu 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] Re: 8.1 installation
I have been using Mandrake 8.0, and I tried to install version 8.1. I boot from the CD, and the installation proceeded almost to the end. With 4 minutes left, and while installing CDROAST, the program hung. I had to do a hard reset and start over. It hung at exactly the same point. I reinstalled 8.0 in the meantime, but would like a suggestion as to how to get past this block in 8.1 I have a Tyan Trinity 1590S MB with AMD K6-2 CPU; 128 meg ram, dedicated 4 Gig hard drive for Linux, HP CD-Writer (ATAPI), 3com NIC and Matrox video card. Thanks, Sandy Shapiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML: Links Anchors
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 23:41, you wrote: Gidday Andre It's not really an Html help site so I'll send the details direct This is the main page !doctype HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN html head title(Type a title for your page here)/title meta name=Generator content=Program You used to write the page meta name=Keywords content=List keywords that search engines may look for meta name=Description content=Give a description of your page meta name=Last-Modified content=Insert the date /head body background= bgcolor=#ffedce link=#ff vlink=#800080 alink=#ff0080 a href=DocToLinkTo.html#linkOpen the new Html Document at a specific place/abr !-- If you want a thumbnail to click on and link to an image use this line -- a href=DocToLinkTo.html#link2img src=DocToLinkTo.jpg alt=Open the new Html Document at an image/abr a href=#linkplace to link to on this page/abr brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr a name=linklinked place on this page/a brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr /body /html This is the page you are linking to html head /head body background= bgcolor=#ffedce link=#ff vlink=#800080 alink=#ff0080 brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr a name=link2img src=An Image.jpg alt=An Image/a brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr a name=linklinked place/a brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr brbr brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr /body /html WebTutor by Joe Barta was very helpful for me when I was learning. The URL may have changed http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/ If it has just search for it on the net. If you have trouble finding it I'll see if I've still got it. Regards Max Thanks Max! Now that's what I call service!: I just toured www.htmlhelp.com, and then Google for info on registering my site. I was about to logoff but decided to check my mail again (I'm an e-mail addict!). The info on list keywords that search engines may look for and giving a description of your page was what I was looking for. Thanks! I'm having another annoying problem: seems like the first half of my web-page has normal text (i.e., Lucidatypewriter 12 pt), then it changes into bold even though I have not specified any fonts in Bluefish. (I didn't know how!) So, some further questions: is this font OK for the web, and secondly, isn't the size a touch BIG? Oh, the questions I have -- where would I look for details like this? My webpage is simple - I've used ps2pdf for conversion of my PS files, and to be honest, I'm not too impressed with the quality of the output. (It almost makes me long for . . . ) It's sort of fuzzy and washed-out. Unfortunately, I can get my printer (HP 4000) even to print a draft using PS and PDF Viewer. Loads but doesn't print . . .sigh! Anyway, thanks again, and gidday to you too! (Sounds like Ottawa Valley to me?) Regard, Andre -- The windows of opportunity have performed an illegal operation . . . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] found in apache logs
Hi Jon, That's NIMDA worm probing your system. At 10:39 AM 10/3/01, you wrote: Is this some kind of worm? I found this in httpd access logs: 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:01 -0400] GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 299 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:01 -0400] GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 297 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:01 -0400] GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 307 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:01 -0400] GET /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 307 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:01 -0400] GET /scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 321 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:02 -0400] GET /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 338 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:02 -0400] GET /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 338 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:02 -0400] GET /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 354 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:02 -0400] GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 320 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:02 -0400] GET /scripts/..%c0%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 320 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:03 -0400] GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 320 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:03 -0400] GET /scripts/..%c1%9c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 320 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:03 -0400] GET /scripts/..%%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 400 304 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:03 -0400] GET /scripts/..%%35c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 400 304 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:03 -0400] GET /scripts/..%25%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 321 - - 65.28.52.43 - - [02/Oct/2001:21:24:03 -0400] GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0 404 321 - - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Jhun Bacala New City Commercial Corporation MIS-Dept. Davao Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Swap Mempry
I have 256 Mb phisical memory, what size of Swap I must create? Thank, Yuriy = E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FIDO: 2:4642/7.11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dust Clean
Dear Mr. Mandrake, My hard drive was new when I installed Mandrake 8.0. I want to loan my computer to a friend. I want to clear my hard drive of all the data I installed on it so it is like new again. This will give me the option of installing Mandrake again or some other OS. What command do I type into the terminal window to clear all the data? Do you have a DC program to down load that will clear everything out? The manual said this was a secret. My Linux-Mandrake 8.0 works fine. Thank-you. Sincerely, JR Clark __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
