[newbie-it] icewm
Ciao a tutti. Ho provato a caricare MDK8.0 su una fetecchia di pc (p75) e funziona, specialmente in modalità consolle. Come interfaccia grafica ho scelto icewm perchè mi sembrava più leggero di kde e gnome, però a differenza di questi ultimi icewm non ha nessuna icona predefinita. Chiedo a voi come si può fare per creare delle icone collegate alle applicazioni che più interessano. Grazie in anticipo. __ Abbonati a Yahoo! ADSL con Atlanet! Naviga su Internet ad alta velocità, e senza limiti di tempo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina http://adsl.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] icewm
lori cava wrote: Ciao a tutti. Ho provato a caricare MDK8.0 su una fetecchia di pc (p75) e funziona, specialmente in modalità consolle. Come interfaccia grafica ho scelto icewm perchè mi sembrava più leggero di kde e gnome, però a differenza di questi ultimi icewm non ha nessuna icona predefinita. Chiedo a voi come si può fare per creare delle icone collegate alle applicazioni che più interessano. Grazie in anticipo. Intendi le icone sullo sfondo del desktop? non credo si possa. che io sappia icewm e` un window manager e non un desktop integrato. Se vuoi funzionalita` del genere devi passare ad xfce che e` il desktop piu` leggero. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] problema
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 12:28, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Luigi De Pascale, avete dipinto: non risuscendo ad installare gnome nuovo con l'installatore automatico ho scaricato tutti i paccherri rpm in una directory e dato il comando rpm -Uvv *.* L'installazione e' partita ma poi e' successo cio' che segue: Domanda stupida: invece di scaricare i sorgenti (.src.rpm) perche' non scarichi e installi i binari precompilati? I src.rpm non vanno installati (a meno che ti voglia mettere a compilarli a mano). Prendi tutti gli src.rpm e disinstallali (il solito rpm -ev xx). Da quello che dici pare che tu stia scaricando da ximian, non ti converrebbe prendere i file dal ramo mandrake? (se te la senti anche dalla cooker, piu' recente, ma in sviluppo ...): http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ (mi son perso i retroscena, se non hai la 8.1 puoi fare riferimento a questo) http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK mista cooker/8.1 - 2.4.13-ac7
Re: [newbie-it] Peggio che mai
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 12:58, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Luigi De Pascale, avete dipinto: .. facio seguito alla precedente mail. Adesso ho hda5 al 100%. quindi se spengo il computer al prossimo avvio non riuscira' piu ad avviare i varii server. Uhmm, per disinstallare devi usare rpm -ev xxx, dove xxx e' il nome del pacchetto _senza_ numero di versione o suffissi di qualsiasi genere. Il problema grosso e' che devi aver fatto un bel casino, dato che hai mischiato pacchetti di gnome con pacchetti che servono a perl e rpm. Disinstalla tutti i pacchetti che facevano riferimento a gnome, e prova a forzare l'installazione originale di pacchetti che sono fondamentali per altro (tipo popt) ... lo so che e' un rimedio estremo, ma ... Ovviamente consiglio di riavviare con un wm diverso da kde e gnome, finche' non hai risolto il problema (tipo icewm). Prendi nota dei pacchetti che disinstalli, dato che poi seguendo quanto t'ho gia' detto li andrai in buona parte a reinstallare. Saluti, Lk P.S. mi permetto di farti un piccolo appunto (senza pretesa di saccenza), dato che in altra mailing list ho cazziato amaramente uno che ci prendeva gusto a farlo: quando devi illustrare gli sviluppi di un problema iniziale e chiedere chiarimenti conseguenti, segui lo stesso thread di messaggi che hai aperto, altrimenti rischi che nessuno legga il messaggio = probabilita' di risposta tendente allo zero ... -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK mista cooker/8.1 - 2.4.13-ac7
Re: [newbie-it] Peggio che mai +sempre sui sorgenti
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, LukenShiro wrote: Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 12:58, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Luigi De Pascale, avete dipinto: .. facio seguito alla precedente mail. Adesso ho hda5 al 100%. quindi se spengo il computer al prossimo avvio non riuscira' piu ad avviare i varii server. Uhmm, per disinstallare devi usare rpm -ev xxx, dove xxx e' il nome del pacchetto _senza_ numero di versione o suffissi di qualsiasi genere. Il problema grosso e' che devi aver fatto un bel casino, dato che hai mischiato pacchetti di gnome con pacchetti che servono a perl e rpm. Disinstalla tutti i pacchetti che facevano riferimento a gnome, e prova a forzare l'installazione originale di pacchetti che sono fondamentali per altro (tipo popt) ... lo so che e' un rimedio estremo, ma ... P.S. mi permetto di farti un piccolo appunto (senza pretesa di saccenza), dato che in altra mailing list ho cazziato amaramente uno che ci prendeva gusto a farlo: quando devi illustrare gli sviluppi di un problema iniziale e chiedere chiarimenti conseguenti, segui lo stesso thread di messaggi che hai aperto, altrimenti rischi che nessuno legga il messaggio = probabilita' di risposta tendente allo zero ... In realta' non capisco bene se ho fatto un casino grosso. In fine dei conti ho installato dei sorgenti da compilare non degli eseguibili. In teoria rimuoverli non dovrebbe fare danni. IL fatto e' che non so come si fa. Se per esempio do il comando rpm -ev GConf disinstallo la vecchia versione del programma che funziona ma non elimino i sorgenti della nuovaversione che ho installato per errore. Che fare? Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Peggio che mai
Luigi De Pascale wrote: .. facio seguito alla precedente mail. Adesso ho hda5 al 100%. quindi se spengo il computer al prossimo avvio non riuscira' piu ad avviare i varii server. Urge restaurare la precedente situazione. Salvatemiii. Ciao Non riesco a ritrovare il mesaggio precedente. In casi del genere io comincerei con un bel for i in .netscape/cache/*/* ; do rm -f $i; done dato per ogni utente. Ogni cache puo` essere di 3/5MB e contenere centinaia di file per cui un rm .netscape/cache/*/* ti puo` dare argument too long poi farei un giretto in /tmp e /usr/tmp a vedere se ci sono sozzerie (in genere tutto quello che risale a prima dell'ultimo boot o di proprieta` di utenti non attivi) poi un find /home -name core e rimuoverei i core inutili, lo stesso in /root poi un du -ms /* per vedere quali sono le directory piu` ciccione da ripulire attenzione ai file.ps, alle directory con i sorgenti dei pacchetti installati (fanne _almeno_ un majke clean), puoi compattare ricorsivamente una directory non essenziale con gzip -R ... ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Peggio che mai
LukenShiro wrote: Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 12:58, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Luigi De Pascale, avete dipinto: .. facio seguito alla precedente mail. Adesso ho hda5 al 100%. quindi se spengo il computer al prossimo avvio non riuscira' piu ad avviare i varii server. Uhmm, per disinstallare devi usare rpm -ev xxx, dove xxx e' il nome del pacchetto _senza_ numero di versione o suffissi di qualsiasi genere. Il problema grosso e' che devi aver fatto un bel casino, dato che hai mischiato pacchetti di gnome con pacchetti che servono a perl e rpm. Disinstalla tutti i pacchetti che facevano riferimento a gnome, adesso mi sembra di ricordare, era quello che per fare un aggiornamento di qualcosa aveva installato tutta la directory del CD di una rivista con rpm -Uqualcosa *.rpm. ? In questi casi si da` rpm -Fqualcosa l'opzione -F aggiorna solo i pacchetti gia` presenti l'opzione -U aggiorna se c'e` e installa se non c'e`. Se deve ripulire quello che ha fatto quel giorno, l'unica soluzione che mi viene in mente e` qualcosa del tipo for i in `rpm -qa`; do echo $i; rpm -qi $i |grep -s 'Install date: Mon 26 Jun 2000' echo $i ; done cambiando la data. Questo gli da` un elenco di cosa ha installato nel giorno fatidico. Poi gli puo` dare dentro con l'accetta. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Peggio che mai +sempre sui sorgenti
Luigi De Pascale wrote: Se per esempio do il comando rpm -ev GConf disinstallo la vecchia versione del programma che funziona ma non elimino i sorgenti della nuovaversione che ho installato per errore. Che fare? da man rpm: --rmsource Remove the sources and spec file after the build (may also be used standalone, eg. rpm --rmsource foo.spec). Comunque, i sorgenti vanno a finire da qualche parte in /usr/src/... e puoi eliminare direttamente la directory che li contiene Per vedere dove sono esattamente prendi uno degli srpm incriminati e dai rpm -qlp pacchetto.srpm.rpm |less e vedi dove viene messo il tutto. ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] Dove vanno i sorgenti:
Carissimi, infine ho scoperto che i sorgenti non compilati vanno a finire in /src/RPM/SOURCES/ SOno andato nella directoru ed ho rimosso tutto. Adesso ho spazio per lavorare e domani o dopodomani faro' una uova installazione perche' vorrei eliminare windows e mettere MDK 8.1 Pensate che al prossimo reboot avro' dei guai? Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Dove vanno i sorgenti:
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 15:05, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Luigi De Pascale, avete dipinto: Carissimi, infine ho scoperto che i sorgenti non compilati vanno a finire in /src/RPM/SOURCES/ SOno andato nella directoru ed ho rimosso tutto. Se hai rimosso solo il contenuto di quella directory e i programmi precedenti non erano stati toccati, non credo che dovresti avere problemi -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK mista cooker/8.1 - 2.4.13-ac7
Re: [newbie-it] Dove vanno i sorgenti:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, LukenShiro wrote: Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 15:05, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Luigi De Pascale, avete dipinto: Carissimi, infine ho scoperto che i sorgenti non compilati vanno a finire in /src/RPM/SOURCES/ SOno andato nella directoru ed ho rimosso tutto. Se hai rimosso solo il contenuto di quella directory e i programmi precedenti non erano stati toccati, non credo che dovresti avere problemi I programmi precedenti non dovrebbero essere stati toccati perche' ho installato solo files del tipo .src.rpm Comunque ero troppo curioso, ho fatto un reboot e funziona ancora tutto. Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Avvio interattivo
Ciao a tutti, secondo Voi è normale che tutte le volte che faccio partire Linux Mandrake 8.0, durante la fase di boot (in un brevissimo e preciso momento nel quale il sistema mi chiede: Premi i per accedere all'avvio interattivo) io debba inserire inserire la i per poi ritrovarmi di fronte ad un specie di finestra che mi riporta questo: Linuxconf 1.25R3: operation mode Select one of the operation below or configure the default mode. Current system profile version is 'home'. Start Graphic Network Text mode Network Maintenance mode Configure The workstation Select Configuration version View The boot logs Quit Help Selezionando manualmente Start Graphic Network (prima del timeout!) e dando invio, mi posso considerare arrivato in quanto Linux poco dopo mi presenta l'interfaccia grafica con la finestra di login. Diversamente se non presto la massima attenzione in queste fasi, mi ritrovo inesorabilmente a fare login con la console di Linux (e per ora sono quasi fregato!) :-|| Cos'è l'avvio interattivo? E Linuxconf 1.25R3? Configurando manualmente la modalità di default cosa mi andrà a chiedere? Un sincero ringraziamento. Giovanni.
Re: [newbie-it] Avvio interattivo
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 17:56, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile CyberPenguin, avete dipinto: quale il sistema mi chiede: Premi i per accedere all'avvio interattivo) io debba inserire inserire la i per poi ritrovarmi di fronte ad un specie di finestra che mi riporta Be', non e' che sei obbligato a premere i, l'avvio interattivo e' utile se devi configurare diversamente la modalita' d'avvio e/o devi disabilitare un demone/servizio al momento del boot Diversamente se non presto la massima attenzione in queste fasi, mi ritrovo inesorabilmente a fare login con la console di Linux (e per ora sono quasi fregato!) :-|| Quando hai fatto l'installazione avevi precisato che volevi che si avviasse sempre automaticamente il server X? puoi cmq avviarlo da console, digitando startx Se non ricordo male, per avere il login grafico una volta per tutte, basta che vai nel Mandrake Control center - Avvio - configurazione di avvio, e spunti la casella Launch the X-Window system [o frase equivalente in italiano]], in alternativa, sempre da root, modifichi nel file /etc/sysconfig/autologin la riga che inizia con AUTOLOGIN= da 'no' a 'yes'. Ciauz, Lk -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK mista cooker/8.1 - 2.4.13-ac7
Re: [newbie-it] Avvio interattivo
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 18:59, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile LukenShiro, avete dipinto: in alternativa, sempre da root, modifichi nel file /etc/sysconfig/autologin la riga che inizia con AUTOLOGIN= da 'no' a 'yes'. Azz, no, non tener conto di questa ultima parte che ho citato, ho scritto troppo in fretta (questo dovrebbe invece riferirsi al login automatico con un particolare utente, ma e' mooolto meglio non farlo) -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK mista cooker/8.1 - 2.4.13-ac7
Re: [newbie-it] icewm
Anch'io uso icewm, e le uniche icone che sono riuscito ad aggiungere sono quelle sulla barra delle applicazioni!! Per farlo devi editare a mano un file presente nella tua home alla sottodirectory .icewm. Il file si chiama toolbar e le righe da aggiungere hanno il seguente formato: prog nome_applicazione percorso_icona percorso_file_eseguibile nota lo spazio tra una parte e l'altra.è fondamentale sennò icewm non capisce quello che deve aggiungere!! Ciao ENx lori cava wrote: Ciao a tutti. Ho provato a caricare MDK8.0 su una fetecchia di pc (p75) e funziona, specialmente in modalità consolle. Come interfaccia grafica ho scelto icewm perchè mi sembrava più leggero di kde e gnome, però a differenza di questi ultimi icewm non ha nessuna icona predefinita. Chiedo a voi come si può fare per creare delle icone collegate alle applicazioni che più interessano. Grazie in anticipo. __ Abbonati a Yahoo! ADSL con Atlanet! Naviga su Internet ad alta velocità, e senza limiti di tempo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina http://adsl.yahoo.it
[newbie-it] Mount/Umount e MDK 8.1
Ciao a tutti, oggi ho installato la nuova Mandrake 8.1. Più che altro, per curiosità: avevo letto in rete tanti e tali post di utenti alle prese con i problemi più vari, che mi ero convinto fosse una release piena di bug; quindi l'avevo installata con l'idea di dargli un'occhiata e tornare poi alla 8.0. Invece, con ia grande sorpresa, tutto finora è andato liscio come l'olio. Unico neo, il problema che mi spinge a scrivervi. Dopo aver configurato il firewall col solito comando InteractiveBastille (o, almeno, credo dipenda da questo), non sono più in grado di montare/smontare il CDROM senza essere root. Il che è un po' scomodo. Ho dato un'occhiata al file /etc/fstab, e mi sembra sia tutto a posto. Ho modificato i permessi dei comandi mount e umount, ma riesco solo ad ottenere un messaggio che mi avverte che per montare/smontare una periferica si deve essere root. Qualcuno può aiutarmi a capire cosa sia successo, e come tornare alla situazione di partenza? Un grazie anticipato a chi vorrà rispondermi. Daniele P.S.: qui sotto vi copio il mio file fstab. /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
Re: [newbie-it] Mount/Umount e MDK 8.1
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 22:06, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Daniele Micci, avete dipinto: modificato i permessi dei comandi mount e umount, ma riesco solo ad ottenere un messaggio che mi avverte che per montare/smontare una periferica si deve essere root. Svelato l'arcano, ho controllato le domande che pone Bastille, e tra le altre appare Would you like to disable SUID status for mount/umount?, sembra che tu abbia risposto si' :) Mi pare che quindi basti SUIDarlo, con chmod a+s /bin/mount e lo stesso per umount. Ciauz, Lk -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK mista cooker/8.1 - 2.4.13-ac7
Re: [newbie-it] Mount/Umount e MDK 8.1
Il giorno 22:39, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001 hai scritto: [CUT] Svelato l'arcano, ho controllato le domande che pone Bastille, e tra le altre appare Would you like to disable SUID status for mount/umount?, sembra che tu abbia risposto si' :) Mi pare che quindi basti SUIDarlo, con chmod a+s /bin/mount e lo stesso per umount. Ciauz, Lk Ciao, grazie per la risposta. Immaginavo qualcosa del genere, anche perchè mi ricordavo quella domanda. E qui c'è un mistero. Ero tornato immediatamente a configurare Bastille per cambiare quella risposta. Ma quella domanda non me la fa più. Boh! Comunque, ora provo a modificare a mano... Grazie ancora! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Mount/Umount e MDK 8.1
Il giorno 22:39, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001 hai scritto: Svelato l'arcano, ho controllato le domande che pone Bastille, e tra le altre appare Would you like to disable SUID status for mount/umount?, sembra che tu abbia risposto si' :) Mi pare che quindi basti SUIDarlo, con chmod a+s /bin/mount e lo stesso per umount. Ciauz, Lk Risolto un guaio (ho provato, funziona. GRAZIE ANCORA) ne trovo un altro. Non mi fa scrivere nella partizione di Windows. Ho provato a spostare un file dal desktop al desktop di Windows (FAT32, è Windows ME). Niente da fare, accesso negato. Posso leggere ma non scrivere...
Re: [newbie-it] Mount/Umount e MDK 8.1
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 23:07, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile Daniele Micci, avete dipinto: Non mi fa scrivere nella partizione di Windows. Ho provato a spostare un file dal desktop al desktop di Windows (FAT32, è Windows ME). Niente da fare, accesso negato. Posso leggere ma non scrivere... Uhmmm, se e' montata come rw (e dalla riga che avevi scritto in fstab parrebbe di si'), magari controlla che il device corrispondente alla partizione il punto di mount della stessa abbiano i permessi di scrittura. Cmq la mia riga di fstab ha un umask=0 dopo iocharset e prima di codepage: non saprei dire se incide o meno, pero' ... -- L.U. #210970 - L.M. #98222 * MDK mista cooker/8.1 - 2.4.13-ac7
R: [newbie-it] problemi con mdk 8.1
- non funziona nemmeno l'esecuzione di CD musicali. Con cdplay ad esempio mi da questo messaggio: /dev/cdrom: no such file o directory. E questo anche da root. cosa risponde ls -l /dev/cdrom? dovrebbe mostrarti un link simbolico con /dev/hdX (con X opportuno) se manca, costruisci il link con ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/cdrom Ho guardato e mi sembra assurdo! esiste il link cdrom ma punta a cdroms/cdrom0 che non esiste. Ho cercato di cancellare il link per farne uno che punta a hdc ma il sistema ricrea quello vecchio e mi impedisce il link. Ho anche provato a fare un link ponte tra cdrom e hdc e nominandolo cdrom0 ma anche linkare hdc non mi è permesso. E' possibile che root non possa fare quello che vuole? Tutto questo mi ricorda un po' troppo winzozz! Poi non riesco a fare in modo che anche gli utenti montino floppy e cdrom. Ho aggiunto in fstab, come diceva il man di mount, la riga user,noexec,nosuid,nodev ma comunque mi dice che devo essere root. grazie per l'aiuto Biss
Re: [newbie-it] Avvio interattivo
LukenShiro wrote: Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 18:59, mercoledì 14 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile LukenShiro, avete dipinto: in alternativa, sempre da root, modifichi nel file /etc/sysconfig/autologin la riga che inizia con AUTOLOGIN= da 'no' a 'yes'. Azz, no, non tener conto di questa ultima parte che ho citato, ho scritto troppo in fretta (questo dovrebbe invece riferirsi al login automatico con un particolare utente, ma e' mooolto meglio non farlo) In effetti, per gestitire l'avvio di X, bisogna andare nel file /etc/inittab. La prima riga non commentata deve essere del tipo: id:3:initdefault: per avviare in modalita` console e id:5:initdefault: per avviare in modalita` grafica (X). ciao, andrea
RE: [newbie] Tripwire-1.3.1-1.tar.gz
Hi, Have you managed to get tripwire to install? the last time I tried, I had to modify the install script just to get it to pass the checks and installed.. I got it installed and then got sidetracked, so I haven't tried using it since then.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anke Max Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2001 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Tripwire-1.3.1-1.tar.gz Gidday G So what would one use in addition to (instead of) tripwire and how can things trick tripwire? Thanks Max g answered Anuerin G. Diaz on Monday, November 12, 2001 6:32 PM Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: and what does tripwire do anyway? basically, it is a file security monitor data base for files to monitor changes. it is ok, but there are better ways, as files can be tricked to not show changes that tripwire checks. it is useful, but not to be used alone for security. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bastille and dhcp
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone can 'walk' me though seting up Bastille in lm8.0. My problem is, that if I run InteractiveBastille, my windows boxes no longer get an ip address. I played with the bastille config file, but then internet sharing stopped. It seems I can have either a firewall or dhcp and internet sharing, but not both. I noticed after running bastille and reebooting, I got an error like Ip virtual server could not open /proc/net/ip_masq/vs file. I have iptables installed but Mandrake Control center says ipchains and iptables are stopped. is that normal? Colin Jenkins ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 Politics. From the greek poly, meaning many, and ticks, a small, annoying bloodsucker. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] error emails to root (cron jobs i think)
I keep getting the following mails in my linux box's root account. I believe they are from cron jobs and that it is something concerning usenet servers. but exactly what does it mean and how do i stop them, (remove the cron job) every hour: touch: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied chmod: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied /usr/bin/nntpsend: /var/log/news/nntpsend.log: Permission denied daily: /usr/bin/news.daily: /var/lib/news/.news.daily: Permission denied cheers Jamie _ 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
Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email
Hi Derek, Thanks for your response. At 11:34 PM 11/13/2001 +, you wrote: I would not worry about that too much. Evolution is still not final code. It does crash sometimes. I would be more interested in what the output of the fetchmailconf test showed you. Derek At time performing fetchmailconf test it was discovered that fetchmailconf has not been installed. I RPM it and performed following test: Configuration - Use NOVICE configuration - Poll interval 0 (also tried 3) - Protocol POP3 (also tried auto) - Password and Login :- same as used in Win ME PC which runs fine - Use SSL (not selected) - Check server SSL certificate (not selected) - Server pop.xxx.net - Processing options Suppress deletion of message after reading (selected) Fetch old messages as well as new (selected) Fetchmail Test Result fetchmail: POP3 +OK 11346 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 CAPA\r fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization first fetchmail: authorization first fetchmail: POP3 USER satimis \ r fetchmail: POP3 +OK fetchmail: POP3 PASS * \ r fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization failed fetchmail: authorization failed fetchmail: authorization failed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 Quit \ r fetchmail: Query status = 3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: Normal termination. Status 0 Done I still can't discover the failure cause. Netscape browser works properly. B.R. Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Need help installing DVD
Miark, I did the ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd and now show /dev/dvd. I can read cdroms with the drive but with vlc It doesn't display any dvd play lists or seem to access the drive. If I use a file manager to look at the dvd disk then it shows audio.ts and video.ts Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email
sure looks to me like a miss-spelled password... maybe caps? On Wednesday 14 November 2001 05:55, you wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for your response. At 11:34 PM 11/13/2001 +, you wrote: I would not worry about that too much. Evolution is still not final code. It does crash sometimes. I would be more interested in what the output of the fetchmailconf test showed you. Derek At time performing fetchmailconf test it was discovered that fetchmailconf has not been installed. I RPM it and performed following test: Configuration - Use NOVICE configuration - Poll interval 0 (also tried 3) - Protocol POP3 (also tried auto) - Password and Login :- same as used in Win ME PC which runs fine - Use SSL (not selected) - Check server SSL certificate (not selected) - Server pop.xxx.net - Processing options Suppress deletion of message after reading (selected) Fetch old messages as well as new (selected) Fetchmail Test Result fetchmail: POP3 +OK 11346 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 CAPA\r fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization first fetchmail: authorization first fetchmail: POP3 USER satimis \ r fetchmail: POP3 +OK fetchmail: POP3 PASS * \ r fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization failed fetchmail: authorization failed fetchmail: authorization failed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 Quit \ r fetchmail: Query status = 3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: Normal termination. Status 0 Done I still can't discover the failure cause. Netscape browser works properly. B.R. Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 02:07, Tim Holmes wrote: From what I've read, and what I've played with, you don't need to make the Outlook Express mail file anything. You should be able to use it as is, and then port it to something you can use in *nix. http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbx2mbox/ I was looking for something to port Eudora Pro mail files to Linux, and had a bit of frustration and problems and then it didn't really do that well of a job. But check out that app above. Maybe it will work. tdh According to chapter 7 of the Kmail manual Euroda Pro files are already in the same format as Kmail. All you have to do is copy them over in the right place. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web page woe's
Hmm certainly looks as if a firewall could be running. To make sure type in a root terminal /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall stop If one was running it will stop immediately Naturally you should enable a firewall if you intend to leave this computer exposed to the net. Interactive-Bastille would allow you to open up just for http. On Wednesday 14 November 2001 02:09, you wrote: I have a little problem. I set up a web page on my linux mandrake 8.0 server and am unable to get to it remotely. I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as soon as I try to connect from out side ie work there is no trace. no ping no telnet no ssh no nothing. I am not running a firewall (to my knowledge). Any help would be great. Lost in Linux Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] konqueror settings
-- Hi all. Im using KDE and I like Konqueror. But I dont like the fact that whenever I save over a file it makes a back up. (silly I know but im dealing with small text files and its a pain deleting them all) Is there anyway to turn this feature off? Thanks Chris Swain Registered linux user 226399 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cat5 cable again
Hi everybody At home i have a little lan (2 pc ;-) ) and i use a crossed cable to connect them, the cable is a cat5 12m long but im able to run the cards only at 10baseT cause they see a disconnected cable if i run'em at 100BaseT Any Idea? Andrea Fabris -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f La tua bolletta scotta??? Tele2: il modo più sicuro per risparmiare fino al 50% su urbane e interurbane. Diventa cliente subito e telefoni per 3ore GRATIS. Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=118d=14-11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with netscape6.2 bookmarks on mandrake/linux
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:02, tek1 wrote: is there an alternative to nutscrape that u use? Well I use Galeon for most web surfing but if a particular website doesn't work properly I use Mozilla or Konqueror. I can even use Konqueror for my internet banking. And just for the hell of it, sometimes I use links (in Konsole) or lynx (gui version of links). I don't really like Nutscrape, it feels a bit spy-warish with all the links directing to www.netscape.whatever but thats JMO. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email
Well I do not know what to suggest. I fail to see how it could be the operating system. If you make the right responses to the mail server, then the mail server will send the mails. fetchmail: POP3 +OK 11346 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK the server responded to the original query from fetchmail. I guess you missed off the first line of the dialogue when fetchmail introduced itself to the server. I notice the server name is smtp01.xxx.net This is surprising since it is conventional for the 'sending server' to be called 'smtp.domainname', and for 'receiving servers' to be called 'pop.domainname'. In the rare cases where the same server is used for send and receive they are often called 'mail.domainname' Make absolutely sure this is the correct server. fetchmail: POP3 CAPA\r When I tried on my system fetchmail did not make this dialogue. I do not know what CAPA means, nor do I understand why fetchmail did it. fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization first The server replies that it is expecting a login sequence fetchmail: authorization first fetchmail: POP3 USER satimis \ r This is a normal fetchmail user log on. The user name is 'satimis' fetchmail: POP3 +OK Now the server asks for password fetchmail: POP3 PASS * \ r The password is given. I assume you entered it correctly with the correct case. Hmmm I wonder if character set could have something to do with it Might be worth trying with US-ASCII. You don't have any 'exotic' characters in here do you? fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization failed Well it certainly looks as of your mail server does not like the username/password combination fetchmail: authorization failed fetchmail: authorization failed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 Quit \ r fetchmail: Query status = 3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: Normal termination. Status 0 Done I still can't discover the failure cause. Netscape browser works properly. B.R. Stephen How about opening a new mail account and forwarding all your old mails there :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cat5 cable again
I don't know the wiring schematics or what might be wrong, but I know a mildly cheap way to fix it and give you expandibility in the future. 5 port 10/100 hubs are pretty cheap and two normal store bought cables would fix it. If it doesn't, then there is probably something wrong with the nic or the drivers. I've never made a 100BaseT crossover cable but I have made 10BaseT Crossover and they never failed me. when I make regular patch cables, 100BaseT works fine, but the hub/Switch does the corssover for me automatically. Hope this helps and gives you some more Ideas. Its also handy if you get a hub with an uplink port so if you ever get DSL/Cable modem going, both computers can access the modem if it only has 1 port. From: Andrea Fabris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cat5 cable again Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:34:50 +0100 Hi everybody At home i have a little lan (2 pc ;-) ) and i use a crossed cable to connect them, the cable is a cat5 12m long but im able to run the cards only at 10baseT cause they see a disconnected cable if i run'em at 100BaseT Any Idea? Andrea Fabris -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f La tua bolletta scotta??? Tele2: il modo più sicuro per risparmiare fino al 50% su urbane e interurbane. Diventa cliente subito e telefoni per 3ore GRATIS. Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=118d=14-11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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
Re: [newbie] xawtv recording
Streamer gave me a segmentation fault. (1/10 programs I run gives me segmentation fault.) L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:53, Valerie Cheng wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried recording with xawtv? I tried recording to avi file... But it's always sound-less. I'm playing w/ xine and I thought it might be a xine problem... but I tried playing in windoz and it still didn't have sound. So I think it's the xawtv that is having trouble encoding the sound... Does anyone know what's going on? Thank you. -Valerie I also had the same problem. Use streamer that comes with xawtv in console. to use read man streamer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv recording
It still doesn't work.. I raised IGain and no help... And I raised everything in the mixer setting.. Nothing seemed to help. Frans Ketelaars wrote: This might just be a mixer settings problem. When recording make sure the correct audio recording source is selected and the 'input gain level' (or whatever it is called) is raised enough. -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] error emails to root (cron jobs i think)
I keep getting the following mails in my linux box's root account. I believe they are from cron jobs and that it is something concerning usenet servers. It looks like you have inn started for some reason. That's the usenet news server. Try issuing 'service inn stop' as root. Jamie David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] linux on a Dell I 4100
hiho ppl ! i am thinking of buying a new Dell Inspiron 4100 notebook and was wondering whether anybody could give hints/advice regarding its compatibility with linux. i already searched the linux-notebook.com website - but unfortunately its rather outdated (at least regarding the Dell notebooks) this NB has a built in 3com 56k modem and 10/100 LAN chip. According to some deja.com posts this is a hardware modem and should therefore work under linux. but i am simply not sure and would be glad if anybody could post his experience. additionally all recommendations for linux-compatible notebooks are welcome ;) regards and TIA, --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Nicolas gomez wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what else do Thanks Bytes -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi. If you are running a networked setup, you may have to (as some of have had to do) a: ifconfig eth0 down (as root/su) If I don't do this first, I have the same symptoms you do. Afterwards, I can restart my network with: ifconfig eth0 up Hope this helps! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] postgres - can't load pgacess
thx andre! :) At 19:36 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: Without the export DISPLAY statement, I couldn't load the GUI Postgresql Access, but I could access it on the commandline. I kept getting the following error messages (since the postmaster wasn't running): Connection to database 'postgres' failed. connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'? or Connection to database 'postgres' failed. connectDB() failed: Isthe postmaster running and accepting connections TCP/IP (wit -i) connections at 'localhost' on port '5432'? Wish I had su-ed then typed the command. It would have saved me lots of grief; but then again, I wouldn't have learned much. Regards, Andre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux on a Dell I 4100
Linux runs fine on the Dell 4000 Notebook that I have. I bought it to run WinXP but it shipped with WinME on it and I couldn't stand that so I installed Mandrake and RH on there in the meantime just to see if they would work. This was Mandrake 8.1 and RH 7.2. Everything ran fine. Also check Slashdot.com, a recent story asked the same question about Linux compatible laptops yesterday or two days ago. On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 10:07 AM, quaylar wrote: hiho ppl ! i am thinking of buying a new Dell Inspiron 4100 notebook and was wondering whether anybody could give hints/advice regarding its compatibility with linux. i already searched the linux-notebook.com website - but unfortunately its rather outdated (at least regarding the Dell notebooks) this NB has a built in 3com 56k modem and 10/100 LAN chip. According to some deja.com posts this is a hardware modem and should therefore work under linux. but i am simply not sure and would be glad if anybody could post his experience. additionally all recommendations for linux-compatible notebooks are welcome ;) regards and TIA, --quay 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] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Hello: Not sure this will answer your question, but I used to have the same problem, where I would have to type ifconfig eth0 down before being able to access the internet. A friend of mine asked me to type the command route and it turned out both my modem connection and eth0 were set up as default. Once I reconfigured my system to use the modem only as default, I did not have to go through the ifconfig eth0 down/ifconfig eth0 up process again. Hope it helps. Dexter On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Nicolas gomez wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what else do Thanks Bytes -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi. If you are running a networked setup, you may have to (as some of have had to do) a: ifconfig eth0 down (as root/su) If I don't do this first, I have the same symptoms you do. Afterwards, I can restart my network with: ifconfig eth0 up Hope this helps! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nec870 network printer
Hi all, Found it myself on a google search.the printer must be set up as a HPIII Works like a charm. Thanks. Regards, Bill W. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 20:43, you wrote: Hi everyone, Now I'm just getting greedy. I already have a funtioning network printer, but I have moved to a different location and the closest printer is the NEC870. The first printer, I set up using CupsIPP protocol as a socket printer. It is a HP2200dnworks beautifully. I tried the same basic configuration for this one, but there is no driver specified for an NECtherefore I just set it up as a raw printer. When I print a test page, I get about 2 or 3 lines of data then nothing. Is there a driver for this guy? Or am I on the right track at all? Has anyone been successful setting this one up on a network? TIA, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Hi. If you are running a networked setup, you may have to (as some of have had to do) a: ifconfig eth0 down (as root/su) If I don't do this first, I have the same symptoms you do. Afterwards, I can restart my network with: ifconfig eth0 up Ron, I have no idea why your network is like this. mine worked fine when I was the server AND when I am a slave on our ICS setup at home. Switched wife to be ICS machine so that I could tinker with mine and not mess her up too bad when I do it tho :) I suppose the system reflects the personality tho Mr. Hall :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disabling lilo
Where do I go to temporarily disable lilo? I think that it's interfering with my attempt to reinstall WinNT. The install hangs up on the blue install screen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] konqueror settings
Well you could use cron to sweep all '~' files into the Trash can periodically Cron is easy to set up with webmin On Wednesday 14 November 2001 21:31, chris swain wrote: -- Hi all. Im using KDE and I like Konqueror. But I dont like the fact that whenever I save over a file it makes a back up. (silly I know but im dealing with small text files and its a pain deleting them all) Is there anyway to turn this feature off? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] password samba
When accessing the linuxcomputer from the windows computer, he says you must supply a password to make this connection Whatever password I try, he refuses. Is there somewhere a password I don know? I created the shares with swat, localizing them where the user I created is (/home/user). I use the same name for the share as the user. Somewhere I added linuxuser = sambauser How do I crack thsi password? Geert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Carl Lafferty wrote: I suppose the system reflects the personality tho Mr. Hall :) Hardee-har-har... ;-) Seriously though, I've got it fixed! I followed the tip on the list from one of the other users and changed my /etc/resolv.conf file and bingo! It was: - # search setel.com search setel.com # nameserver 192.168.0.2 nameserver 192.168.0.1 # ppp temp entry -- and I changed it to: # search setel.com search setel.com # nameserver 192.168.0.2 nameserver 63.70.180.2 nameserver 63.70.180.3 # ppp temp entry So hurrah! ;-) PS --- WHICH --- personality do you think is being reflected in my setup? snicker -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disabling lilo
In reply to Rich's words, written Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:49:38 -0500 Where do I go to temporarily disable lilo? I think that it's interfering with my attempt to reinstall WinNT. The install hangs up on the blue install screen. Make sure you have a working linux boot diskette. Boot MessyDOS. Run fdisk /mbr Install NT (won't ask why) Boot from the Linux bootdisk. Find out how to add the boot of NT to Lilo Edit /etc/lilo.conf run lilo -v Ready. Paul -- Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything. -Scott Reed http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome
Xwpick is a command line utillity. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 16:15, Mark Johnson wrote: is it possible to take a screen shot using a command line utility? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome In reply to Søren Neigaard's words, written 13 Nov 2001 21:53:04 +0100 How do I take a screenshot of my desktop in Gnome? Run Gimp, there's an option for it in there somewhere. Paul -- What we think, we become. -Buddha http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. =_1005686177-1851-2178 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] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
Seriously though, I've got it fixed! I followed the tip on the list from one of the other users and changed my /etc/resolv.conf file and bingo! It was: Why didn't I have to do that??? Cause I was running the firewall/ICS server? So hurrah! ;-) PS --- WHICH --- personality do you think is being reflected in my setup? Hard to tell. Your middle name is cybil after all :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Manager problems
If the problem is that you are unable to add new sites to the list of RPM sources, then you may need to upgrade rpmdrake to a newer version. rpmdrake is the graphical frontend to urpmi, and it's the program that is opened up when you click on Software Manager. I'm assuming that you are running Mandrake 8.1 because this was a common problem. Installing rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk.i586.rpm from http://www.rpmfind.net should fix this. I haven't been able to upgrade to any higher version of rpmdrake on my system, however, because of all of the high level dependencies. But 1.3-106 works great. -Paul Rodríguez On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:02, David .. wrote: I'm having a heck of atime getting the Software Manager to work correctly and update and applications I have on my system. When selecting eith Cooker or Security Mirror sites and it tries to connect and get what I assume is a updated list of versions, it just gives me an error(I'm at work right now and don't have the error handy) that says something to the effect of unable to connect to site. I think I've tried most of the mirror sites and all of them report the same error. Is there some funky port number this application is using? I'm running on cable modem and I have a firewall up running e-smith (www.e-smith.org) and the desktop system is running mandrake 8.1 Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp =_1005599010-1851-1848 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] cat5 cable again
Andrea, I'd try to substitute something to see if it changes the results. I'd try to beg or borrow another crossover cable, or as Great Dragon, suggests, borrow a hub and two regular cables. You might learn something by changing out the cards, but that seems more difficult to do with the need to open the case and so forth. The first substitution I'd make is of the cable. Have you inspected the cable? Severe kinks, breaks in the insulation, routed near a source of interference (florescent ballast (traditional or solid state), dimmer, electric motor with brushes, ...)? hope this helps, Randy Kramer Great Dragon wrote: I don't know the wiring schematics or what might be wrong, but I know a mildly cheap way to fix it and give you expandibility in the future. 5 port 10/100 hubs are pretty cheap and two normal store bought cables would fix it. If it doesn't, then there is probably something wrong with the nic or the drivers. I've never made a 100BaseT crossover cable but I have made 10BaseT Crossover and they never failed me. when I make regular patch cables, 100BaseT works fine, but the hub/Switch does the corssover for me automatically. Hope this helps and gives you some more Ideas. Its also handy if you get a hub with an uplink port so if you ever get DSL/Cable modem going, both computers can access the modem if it only has 1 port. From: Andrea Fabris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everybody At home i have a little lan (2 pc ;-) ) and i use a crossed cable to connect them, the cable is a cat5 12m long but im able to run the cards only at 10baseT cause they see a disconnected cable if i run'em at 100BaseT Any Idea? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] burning ISO CDs
If you have Gnome installed, gtoaster is a great program for burning cds, including iso's. Instructions are here: http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/documentation/gnometoaster_users_guide.html#SECTION00032000 -Paul Rodríguez On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:51, Gronbach, Paul wrote: Hi all, I have an HP CD-Writer+ 9500. I am trying to create an install CD from the downloaded ISO file. All I get is one file, the ISO file, on the CD. I am sure this is not what is supposed to be there :-) Either the software I have is not capable of this or I am doing something wrong in my attempt to create this CD. I would appreciate any help. TIA! Paul W Gronbach Jr / IS Supervisor Light travels faster than sound, Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc.that is why some people appear bright 500 Hwy 18 W ... Garner, Iowa 50438 until you hear them speak. anon =_1005601433-1851-1858 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] Software Manager problems
Thanks Paul I'll try that. The problem is that the mirros site list does loadup, the problem is that all of the sites I've tried keep reporting a error. I'll try and write down the error when I get home. On an other note. When I do a custom install(where I select only the packages I want) I can't get tuxRacer to work. BUT if I install EVERYTHING minus the server stuff tuxracer works. Now that I installed EVERYTHING and tuxracer is working, it's SLOW as heck. Un-playable. I have a Riva TNT2 videocard. I'll try and upgrade the drivers tonight. From: Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Software Manager problems Date: 14 Nov 2001 11:38:50 -0500 If the problem is that you are unable to add new sites to the list of RPM sources, then you may need to upgrade rpmdrake to a newer version. rpmdrake is the graphical frontend to urpmi, and it's the program that is opened up when you click on Software Manager. I'm assuming that you are running Mandrake 8.1 because this was a common problem. Installing rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk.i586.rpm from http://www.rpmfind.net should fix this. I haven't been able to upgrade to any higher version of rpmdrake on my system, however, because of all of the high level dependencies. But 1.3-106 works great. -Paul Rodríguez On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:02, David .. wrote: I'm having a heck of atime getting the Software Manager to work correctly and update and applications I have on my system. When selecting eith Cooker or Security Mirror sites and it tries to connect and get what I assume is a updated list of versions, it just gives me an error(I'm at work right now and don't have the error handy) that says something to the effect of unable to connect to site. I think I've tried most of the mirror sites and all of them report the same error. Is there some funky port number this application is using? I'm running on cable modem and I have a firewall up running e-smith (www.e-smith.org) and the desktop system is running mandrake 8.1 Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp =_1005599010-1851-1848 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 _ 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
Re: [newbie] password samba
At 11:35 AM 11/14/2001 -0700, you wrote: Hello: Not sure I understand completely, but let me give it a shot. As I understand it, you created an account in your linbox named user and you want the two pc's networked for printer and file sharing. If so, you have two alternatives. One, is to name your winbox user and provide a password for it, which needs to be the same as the password you are using in your user account in your linbox. Second alternative, if your winbox has a different name, you can still get it to work by associating the name of the winbox with the account in linux. You can accomplish this correlation by adding the following line to your smb.conf file under global settings: Nope--the network name of the windows box has absolutely nothing to do with accessing samba network shares. If you have a different username on your windows box than on the linux box, you must indicate the 'mapping' in /etc/smbusers, by adding: linux_username = windows_username You must then, using your text editor, add a line to your /etc/smbusers file consisting of the following information: your linbox account name = name of your winbox Again, the name of the winbox has absolutely nothing to do with samba, unless you are trying to mount a windows network share on the linux box. Again, the password for your winbox must be the same as the password for your user account. It does not need to be, but it simplifies getting access to network shares. That should read 'the password for your windows username should be the same as the password for your linux username'. I am not sure why you added or had to add the line linux user = samba user but I would at least comment the line out. Nope--you need the line, if you are using a different username on the windows machine from the one on the linux box. Otherwise, you will get an 'invalid username' type error, and will have no access to the linux box. This of course, is all explained in the samba docs available from samba.org or from your local hard drive. 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
Re: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server
I appriciate your trouble ,Thank You ,but I've got no idea of where even to start setting up my e-mail server, where would I be able te get detailed help on setting up my e-mail server. I've been trying to set up this mail server on my own for weeks now and I cant get it right. - Original Message - From: Vincent A.Primavera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gerbrandt Bouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server Hello, Postfix, highly recommended... Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. On Wednesday 31 October 2001 06:17 pm, Gerbrandt Bouwer wrote: I would like to use linux mandrake as a mail server for my company, I want my server to dial out 3 times a day and download my new messages and send out my unsend messages. The new messages that are downloaded should be displayed in my Outlook Express program running on my Windows 2000 Professional system. Is this possiable? and if it is HOW?. 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] Source vs. RPMs
The main problems with usin vanilla source are you need to be savvy enough to read the Makefile, figure out ahead of time where the software will be installed and what it's fixin to do. Then either edit/patch that file/source to fix it to be 'your distro' specific, or use the appropriate switches. Well now, what exactly are you speaking about in terms of fixing it to be 'your distro' specific? I'm not entirely sure that this necessarily applies to the particular fight that I'm having now--since neither everybuddy nor GnomeICU has worked very well on here, I resolved (stumbled upon) to try kxicq... I originally intended to install it from source, but it turned out that I didn't have the C++ compiler installed and my installation disks are on loan, so I turned around and tried to do it from RPM... and that's where the real fun started. :P But I imagine that I'm going to be wanting to do things like update the c libraries and so forth here, and I fear that such things may not be easy w/ rpms; for all I know I may've already -broken- those very libraries by trying to 'update' (rpms are weird to me; I'm not sure if that's what I was doing or not :P) them because of an unsatisfied dependency from kxicq. :P So what I'm really wondering is if I can use the old-fashioned methods of rebuilding the kernel, updating the c libraries, and installing some programs, while still using rpms from time to time as well. N. BTW--I'm not a complete newbie; I attempted linux once in the past but never quite got it (well, x, really, and I'm a sucker for GUI) working properly, so I know (and have forgotten) just enough to be dangerous, probably ;)--on that older attempt, I did upgrade the c libraries and recompile the kernel the old way a few times. :P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server
Is it just for you? install postfix, read the comments and edit /etc/postfix/main.cf to setup your mail server.. pay particular attention to the defer_smtp as you want to turn that on. setup your dialup account. in the ip-up.local file in /etc/ppp (if its not there, create it and make it executable..) then add the command:sendmail -q That will send all queued mail when the box is connected. then, to retrieve mail from your ISP,, configure fetchmail (install fetchmail and run fetchmailconf) to connect to your ISP and login and retrieve mail (its easy from the fetchmailconf GUI),, fetchmail will by default I believe hands retrieved mail to postfix. Then all you have to do is make sure that postfix delivers that mail locally to your account, which you can setup (via pop3, (install the imap rpm and enable pop3 in /etc/xinitd.d by removing disable=yes) then configure your outlook client to use your linux box as pop and smtp server, with your local account on the linux box as username. you can also configure fetchmail to just dump your retrieved mail into a local user box and bypass postfix entirely for retrieval, (though its needed for sending mail, so you might as well leave it as is.) hope that helps, I wrote that all off the top of my head, but I think thats how I set it up. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerbrandt Bouwer Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2001 1:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server I appriciate your trouble ,Thank You ,but I've got no idea of where even to start setting up my e-mail server, where would I be able te get detailed help on setting up my e-mail server. I've been trying to set up this mail server on my own for weeks now and I cant get it right. - Original Message - From: Vincent A.Primavera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gerbrandt Bouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server Hello, Postfix, highly recommended... Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. On Wednesday 31 October 2001 06:17 pm, Gerbrandt Bouwer wrote: I would like to use linux mandrake as a mail server for my company, I want my server to dial out 3 times a day and download my new messages and send out my unsend messages. The new messages that are downloaded should be displayed in my Outlook Express program running on my Windows 2000 Professional system. Is this possiable? and if it is HOW?. 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] CDRW problem
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 11:35 PM 11/12/2001 -0400, skidley wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus and gcombust can't find it. The ide-scsi driver does get loaded and the drive gets mounted at boot time as read-only. Try it like this (note the space right after the first ) append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet If it's still no go, try changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount There's also a nobiospnp option you can try adding, and make sure your bios is set to 'pnp OS = no (or disabled)' Don't forget you need to run 'lilo' as root to make any edits to lilo.conf take affect, ie, before you reboot. I've tried everyone's suggestions plus copied and pasted some info from the CD-Writing HOW-TO. Maybe I should try recompiling the kernel or do a fresh install? You must have SCSI emulation support, SCSI generic support, SCSI CD-ROM support compiled in your kernel or even as modules you can load. -- I added insmod ide-scsi.o to rc.local and that did load according to lsmod. The SCSI support is compiled into the kernel, apparently, since my SCSI CD-ROM works OK. For some reason, I can't get the CDRW to work and Gcombust can't find it and cdrecord -scanbus can't find it. The CDRW worked in 7.2 but I had sent the CDRW in for repair prior to installing 8.1. I suppose that the simpler solution is to do a fresh install of 8.1 with the CDRW installed this time. If that doesn't get it going then I'm going to reinstall 7.2. I might reinstall 7.2 anyway since I can't get my internet connection sharing working in 8.1 (worked great in 7.2). I'm beginning to believe that there are still some major bugs that need to be worked out of 8.1. It may not help but i suggest using modprobe ide-scsi and you can add it to /etc/modules instead of rc.local as /etc/modules is for any modules you may want loaded at boot that kerenl doesn't already load. Otherwise I really don't know what else to tell you. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] password samba
On your Linux box use SMBCLIENT to check that the passwords are correct... I.E. smbclient -L linuxbox -U username It should respond with a password prompt. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of belcoop |Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:00 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] password samba | | |When accessing the linuxcomputer from the windows computer, he |says you must |supply a password to make this connection | |Whatever password I try, he refuses. Is there somewhere a |password I don |know? | |I created the shares with swat, localizing them where the user |I created is |(/home/user). I use the same name for the share as the user. | |Somewhere I added linuxuser = sambauser | |How do I crack thsi password? | |Geert | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download
Yes, the same holds true for the AWE64. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie |Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:02 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download | | |Even if I have an old AWE64? | |Ok, I will look anyway. | | | |On Tuesday 13 November 2001 11:51 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | You might want to look at the SBLive instructions I posted earlier... | | -JMS | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Urpmi help
Can anyone point me to a site showing me how to fully use urpmi? If not can anyone tell me how to get it to download stuff from the web instead of from the CD's? Also does anyone know of any http sites I can enter as sources? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Randy Kramer
I just wanted to let you know about the CD-RW question. I tried writing at 24x with a regular CD-R and got garbage. I have to slow down the speed to 8x so that it will work. By comparison the old HP external would still take an hour to write to a full CD-R. I still can't get Linux to burn a CD with either eRoaster or gToaster. I wrote once and it seemed alright but then nothing but coasters and wind chimes. I am going to try another program I believe it is called Xroaster. Both programs seem to crash just before I click burn. No error message just everything closes. I uninstalled and reinstalled. I went and picked up the latest version but still get them to crash. Just to keep in the know. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM 8.0 on my HP laptop N3215
Well, I kicked out WindowsME from my little laptop and tried installing LM 8.0. Shockingly, the install worked the first time with proper display. I created my two accounts (root and user) I set up my audio properly and got the introduction music play smoothly. This is the first Linux distro that actually got pass the login window and properly displayed my desktop. The cons...well I forgot from reading early post in regards to laptop installation. The touchpad didn't work even in installation mode which doesn't or didn't surprise me. I had a Logictech Tracker Ball which I tried using through the PS2 but crashed. Eventually, with trying to install a mouse Linux locked up. I had no keyboard control and had to do a hard reboot. After three hours I gave up pretty much and tried using Linux through keyboard controls only. I don't quite know or remember all the keystroke commands, but I did my best. It lacks without the touch pad or mouse. My question, yes I actually have a question, how difficult is it to get the touchpad to work? Last post I read in regards to that was with LM 7.2 when it was brand new. Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPM Trouble, pt. 2
So while trying to install some libraries (zlib-devel) so I could compile me somethin', I come upon this: These additional packages need to be installed... And a lengthy list, including but not limited to: GConf ORBit aspell aspell-br bonobo bonobo-conf bug-buddy eel evolution fam gabber gaim A bunch of gnome and kde stuff, including gnome-core and kde-core various libs mozilla rpmdrake and so on. Now, aside from the fact that it's a bit hard to swallow that -all of that- is needed for this one library to work right, a bunch of that stuff (I can spot gabber, gaim, mozilla, and rpmdrake to start with) is -already installed!- What's the deal here...? It looks like to me that zlib1 and/or zlib-devel would be required for those proggies to work right, but that doesn't make it the case that those proggies are needed for zlib1/zlib-devel. This isn't the first time I've encountered a situation like this, though it's the only one I can document (I either gave up or ignored the problem before :P). N. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Source vs. RPMs
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 02:55 pm, Epicurus wrote: The main problems with usin vanilla source are you need to be savvy enough to read the Makefile, figure out ahead of time where the software will be installed and what it's fixin to do. Then either edit/patch that file/source to fix it to be 'your distro' specific, or use the appropriate switches. Well now, what exactly are you speaking about in terms of fixing it to be 'your distro' specific? exactly would take a book I probly couldn't begin to write. Would you be content with 'where the libs, and binaries are installed to' ? Didn't think so ;) To elaborate just a little more, there's compiler issues, the LSB (to which Mandrake is very compliant), dependencies, libraries, devices, ad infinitum other issues. So what I'm really wondering is if I can use the old-fashioned methods of rebuilding the kernel, updating the c libraries, and installing some programs, while still using rpms from time to time as well. No, not really. There's issues of leaving your rpm database (which others in this thread brought up, I neglected) totally confused. AND kernels bring up another issue, which I sort'a kind'a alluded to before. Many, specially those recent to Linux, seem to get the idea that vanilla source from kernel.org is pristine latest and greatest kernel source. Many oldtimers still cling to this notion. Vanilla kernel source from kernel.org should be considered beta, if not alpha quality. Even after the next -pre, -ac or -linus is released, the last one isn't 'fixed'. It's a continual state of development. Mandrake (or other distro) kernel rpms OTOH, at least have had the attention of many Mandrake ((or other distro) developers and testers. They include Mandrake specific patches, and exclude some that might cause conflicts. YMMV, but I'd never use anything but a Mandrake kernel rpm to install a kernel on a Mandrake system. It only stands to reason that Mandrake tested and patched kernel source stand's a better, much better chance of working without problems on a Mandrake system. For example, the 2.4.8 kernel ML 8.1 shipped with had some 2.4.9 'fixes' back ported to it by the Mandrake developers (lurk on cooker ML ;) BUT, to get back to rpms vs. source. There's been some definitely good and necessary reasons most major distros moved to packages long ago, rather than willy-nilly upgrading from vanilla source. Many reasons have already been brought up in this thread by myself and others. Plus from the distro developers's POV, how could they possibly begin to try'n support their distro with the endless permutations of thousands of users grabbin all kinds of vanilla source, plus tarballs with closed source included ? It's already bad enough that their users are tryin to run on endless permutations of hardware (and install'n some third party closed source drivers to do it ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x --with -daisy_cutters /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server
Read http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/index.html#mtuw For reference http://www.linuxdoc.org/ On Wednesday 14 November 2001 17:11, Gerbrandt Bouwer wrote: I appriciate your trouble ,Thank You ,but I've got no idea of where even to start setting up my e-mail server, where would I be able te get detailed help on setting up my e-mail server. I've been trying to set up this mail server on my own for weeks now and I cant get it right. - Original Message - From: Vincent A.Primavera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gerbrandt Bouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server Hello, Postfix, highly recommended... Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. On Wednesday 31 October 2001 06:17 pm, Gerbrandt Bouwer wrote: I would like to use linux mandrake as a mail server for my company, I want my server to dial out 3 times a day and download my new messages and send out my unsend messages. The new messages that are downloaded should be displayed in my Outlook Express program running on my Windows 2000 Professional system. Is this possiable? and if it is HOW?. --- - 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] Randy Kramer
Robert, Thanks for the update! Sorry you're continuing to have trouble. Wish I could help but I currently do all my burning in Windows. regards, Randy Kramer PS: Just today I saw a post on either the newbie or expert list (actually two). One recommended: Also check here for CDRW mini-how-to... http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/stepbystep.html; The other recommended: If you have Gnome installed, gtoaster is a great program for burning cds, including iso's. Instructions are here: http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/documentation/gnometoaster_users_guide.html#SECTION00032000; Oops, just noticed, you're already trying gtoaster. Robert wrote: I just wanted to let you know about the CD-RW question. I tried writing at 24x with a regular CD-R and got garbage. I have to slow down the speed to 8x so that it will work. By comparison the old HP external would still take an hour to write to a full CD-R. I still can't get Linux to burn a CD with either eRoaster or gToaster. I wrote once and it seemed alright but then nothing but coasters and wind chimes. I am going to try another program I believe it is called Xroaster. Both programs seem to crash just before I click burn. No error message just everything closes. I uninstalled and reinstalled. I went and picked up the latest version but still get them to crash. Just to keep in the know. --- 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] RPM Trouble, pt. 2
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 04:07 pm, Epicurus wrote: So while trying to install some libraries (zlib-devel) so I could compile me somethin', I come upon this: These additional packages need to be installed... GConf ORBit aspell aspell-br bonobo bonobo-conf bug-buddy eel evolution fam gabber gaim A bunch of gnome and kde stuff, including gnome-core and kde-core various libs mozilla rpmdrake Now, aside from the fact that it's a bit hard to swallow that -all of that- is needed for this one library to work right Maybe not, depending on what you're tryin to install. Sayin some libraries (zlib-devel) is not real helpful. Somethin like 'zlib1-devel-1.1.3-16mdk.i586.rpm' is more helpful (it's on the 8.1 CD's, doesn't require any depencies that aren't on the CD's) /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS $ rpm -Uvh --test zlib1* Preparing... ### [100%] package zlib1-1.1.3-16mdk is already installed package zlib1-devel-1.1.3-16mdk is already installed If you don't wanna bother with all this on the CL, you can use Software Manager and just type in 'zlib1' on the search line. It'll figure out what needs to be installed and even prompt you for CD1, CD2 if needed. That is if you haven't corrupted your rpm DB. If you suspect you might've, running (root) 'rpm --rebuilddb' might be able to get it back. those proggies are needed for zlib1/zlib-devel. This isn't the first time I've encountered a situation like this, though it's the only one I can document (I either gave up or ignored the problem before Maybe you could document it, but you haven't. Often just a minor patch level upgrade can cause a dependency, either in the rpm you're tryin to install, or in the dependencies it needs. Example might be the rpm you're tryin to install needs foobar-3.1mdk.i586, but you only have foobar-3mdk.i586 installed. In this example, just a minor .1mdk patch level increase would indicate a security bug fix and rpm will rightly notify you that as a dependency, it needs to be upgraded. Another thing that is helpful when asking about dependencies, is to paste in the exact error mesgs you get when you do a test install EG, $ rpm -Uvh --test kdenetwork-2.2.1-3mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libpng.so.3 is needed by kdenetwork-2.2.1-3mdk kdenetwork = 2.2.1-1tex is needed by kdenetwork-devel-2.2.1-1tex -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x --with -daisy_cutters /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Solid black page for printout... ;-(
Title: RE: [newbie] Solid black page for printout... ;-( Prints fine for me...are you sure your printer's photosensor isn't being exposed to sunlight. What about other printouts. -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:59 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Solid black page for printout... ;-( I know that attachments are taboo but I'm puzzled by this. I selected this text from a web page (highlighted with my mouse, opened kedit, 3rd button clicked and pasted it into kedit, saved it as plain ASCI text). Dragged it to my printer, and it printed out a solid black page. Done it twice more, still does same thing. I even opened it in kedit again, saved it again, opened it in Konqueror, and it shows up as a plain ASCI text page. Print it out, solid black page. Never had this happen before. Anyone know why, or better yet - try to print it out and see if it does the same thing. Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/
[newbie] unclutter your cursor
Back with Red Hat, and then beginning with Mandrake 6.0, I used this little (14k) utility to make the cursor disappear after about 5 seconds of no mouse movement. IOW's, get it to heck out'a the way ;) The cursor will re-appear where it was as soon as you move the mouse again. It's been a Un*x feature forever. Well, 'bout Mandrake 7.2 I could never get it to work any more ... gave up on it. Just recently I came across this Mandrake rpm made by one of the cooker folks (Hans, Thanks!). http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/unclutter-0.8-1mdk.src.rpm I did a rpm --rebuild on it and installed the rpm it wrote. Then I used a text editor (your choice ;) to create a file I named 'unclutter-start' (again, name is your choice) : #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/kstart /usr/X11R6/bin/unclutter I 'chmod +x'd it to make it executable, and put it in my user ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory. You can then either run (click on it) 'unclutter-start', or the next (or any)time you start KDE, the cursor will disappear after about 5 secs. of no mouse movement. IMO, this should've been a KDE feature (option to enable) all along. I bet ya other WM fans could find a similar way to start it. Try it, just bet you'll like it :) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x --with -daisy_cutters /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot floppy: no initrd.img
Gidday Hugo I've been using part.exe which is a powerful partitioning tool and has a boot manager that is capable of running up to 31 OSs from 31 different partitions http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Could be worth a try? HTH Max - Original Message - From: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Boot floppy: no initrd.img Hi, First and foremost, I would like to apologise for the lengthy mail, but I am sure those that are willing to help me will find the info. important. Please note that there may be some incorrections because I am on another location/machine at the moment and am writing this from some notes I took at the time. I am newbie at Linux/Unix and attempted to install Mandrake Liniux 8.1 on a AMD 200+ with 64 Mbytes of RAM and two volumes (4 and 1.5 Giba respectivelly). On volume 1 I hada (have?): a) Dos partition of 100 MBytes (for booting) b) FAT 32 w/ Win95 (+/- 2G) c) NTFS (a little less than 2G) On volume 2 was: a) Free for Linux (/dev/hdb) I proceeded with the install and made a boot floppy as per indications and placed the LILO on a dev/hdba1 (dos). Please note that I had attempted installing RedHat Linux on volume 2 and got it working using the loadlin boot (from Win95). I gave up though, because I could not install my devices (hence the install w/ Mandrake 8-}). The Linux volume is partitioned as follows: a) 1.3 Giga for / b) 78 Mega for /swap c) 131 Mega for /home The boot from dev/hdb1 worked fine. The only problem is I lost my NT boot. Lilo indicated 2 OSs: dos and NT. When I select dos, the NT's booting application runs. I then select windows 95 and this executes and boots w/ no problem. When I select NT from either Lilo's on boot.ini's menus, NT fails to boot because NTDETEC fails. Before proceeding with a replacement of the MBR or a reinstalation of NT I tried booting with the floppy. I wanted to do this not to waste another 2 days installing Linux (2 attempts on a very slow machine). This failed! The Lilo session error message is as follows: SysLinux 1.48 MandrakeLinux Copyright 1994-1999... ...boot your LinuxMandrake system from /dev/hdb1... Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img I atempted to use Mandrake's control center and I also executed the command manually. Any of these attempts produced the same result: the file initrd.img was in the floppy but with size 0. (After some searching) I then proceeded with: mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --omit-raid-modules -v 2.4.8-26mdk This generated a initrd.img file which I then copied to the floppy. This worked fine. I can actually boot. When I execute. mkbootdisk --verbose --mkinitrarga --omit-scsi-modules --mkinitrarga --omit- raid-modules --mkinitrarga -v -- device /dev/fd0 --compact 2.4.8-26mdk I get the following result: formatting /dev/fd0... done copy /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8-26mdk... done Creating initrd image... Rootfs is not ext3, there is no rootfs special options, and no modules are needed-- not building initrd image. done. setting up syslinux... done. Question(s): what am I doing wrong? Is this an indication of more problems? BTW, the machine using KDE seems very sluggish, especially on application booting and I have not been able to isntall all devices (more on that in another e-mail). TIA. Hugo 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] Urpmi help
you need to add a source to the list of sources that urpmi uses, have you read the man pages for urpmi, urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.update? use the list of download sites from www.linux-mandrake.com to find a source that is convenient for you and do similar to the following (do this as root, you can add yourself to the urpmi group to avoid this-i think, though that may just be necessary to actually install using urpmi) #urpmi.addmedia somename for your source ftp://host/path/to/../Mandrake/ with ./base/hdlist.cz this should work, the argument after 'with' is the relative path of the file 'hdlist.cz from the ftp path specified earlier, you can also use an http url and you can also add user:password@ options as necessary as you would in a url window in a browser i.e. ftp://me:mypass@host/path/to/ etc. you can use either current 8.1 mirrors or cooker mirrors to download from, you could set up a source for each but then when you run urpmi you will always install the latest version of any package which may not be what you want, the mandrake software manager front end promises to let you choose what sourcess to look in but i've never tried that, this help? bascule On Wednesday 14 Nov 2001 8:48 pm, you wrote: Can anyone point me to a site showing me how to fully use urpmi? If not can anyone tell me how to get it to download stuff from the web instead of from the CD's? Also does anyone know of any http sites I can enter as sources? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi help
whoops. small mistake, the directory you specify is the ../RPMS directory, and the relative path to hdlist.cz would usually be ../base/hdlist.cz sorry! bascule #urpmi.addmedia somename for your source ftp://host/path/to/../Mandrake/ with ./base/hdlist.cz this should work, the argument after 'with' is the relative path of the file 'hdlist.cz from the ftp path specified earlier, you can also use an http url and you can also add user:password@ options as necessary as you would in a url window in a browser i.e. ftp://me:mypass@host/path/to/ etc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdrom and floppies! Again.. or yet?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I've seen on the list that mdk8.1 has some 'problems' with floppies and cdrom. Ok, I can understand that! But I can't understand why I can not mount any one MANUALLY! Can anyone help me out? hardware: 1 cdrom creative and 1 cd-rw creative! cdrom: it was originally set to /dev/hdb and /mnt/cdrom I tried to emulate scsi, just as cd-rw! Both are detected by 'cdrecord -scanbus' cd-rw: I cannot mount it! Although I can 'burn' cd's!! The error is always the same: you have to specify the file system... But, if I do that, such as, mount -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom2 nothing happens but a help page for 'mount' any idea, direction? []s Ricardo Castanho - -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iEYEARECAAYFAjvzBU4ACgkQ9I0k95pf9XtfqQCfWLe+9/oeJWroJ0ulP4mzouhW 9pgAn1TEApgAIndbp6pIfBFW4TGWMTeh =vb1n -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cat5 cable again
What kind of cards are you using? Both cards have to be able to do 100 Mb/s. At 02:34 PM 11/14/2001 +0100, Andrea Fabris wrote: Hi everybody At home i have a little lan (2 pc ;-) ) and i use a crossed cable to connect them, the cable is a cat5 12m long but im able to run the cards only at 10baseT cause they see a disconnected cable if i run'em at 100BaseT Any Idea? Andrea Fabris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Abiword won't load this document
If you created the file in Word when you save it choose (or export to, not sure which) an older Word format. BTW 'Office 2000 Word' won't load either. Paul Rodríguez wrote: Abi can only officially open Microsoft Word Docs up to 98, for Me and XP Word Docs you may need to try OpenOffice.org. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:24, Richard Wenninger wrote: Anyone else get this? It happens when opening a .doc file. I'm assuming it's a microsoft office document. Doesn't seem to be document specific. Diagnostic: (escher.c:223) Eating type 0xf004 AbiWord_d: manager_impl.cc:30: void free_lt_handle (void *): Assertion `s == 0' failed. /usr/bin/abiword: line 68: 3890 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d $@ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 10:32, you wrote: OK, I'll bite...so what did you do that reconfigured my system to use the modem only as default,? Hello: Not sure this will answer your question, but I used to have the same problem, where I would have to type ifconfig eth0 down before being able to access the internet. A friend of mine asked me to type the command route and it turned out both my modem connection and eth0 were set up as default. Once I reconfigured my system to use the modem only as default, I did not have to go through the ifconfig eth0 down/ifconfig eth0 up process again. Hope it helps. Dexter On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Nicolas gomez wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what else do Thanks Bytes --- --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi. If you are running a networked setup, you may have to (as some of have had to do) a: ifconfig eth0 down (as root/su) If I don't do this first, I have the same symptoms you do. Afterwards, I can restart my network with: ifconfig eth0 up Hope this helps! ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cat5 cable again
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 18:41, you wrote: and if I recall corrrectly, they sould both be set to either full duplex or not (both cards same seting ,,, more important w/100... (just working from memory, what is left of my right brain) What kind of cards are you using? Both cards have to be able to do 100 Mb/s. At 02:34 PM 11/14/2001 +0100, Andrea Fabris wrote: Hi everybody At home i have a little lan (2 pc ;-) ) and i use a crossed cable to connect them, the cable is a cat5 12m long but im able to run the cards only at 10baseT cause they see a disconnected cable if i run'em at 100BaseT Any Idea? Andrea Fabris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] error when using netconf to setup ppp
Greetings, I opened an xTerm and su'd to root then ran netconf. It opened fine. I then clicked on PPP/SLIP/PLIP and in the xTerm I saw: Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin :** WARNING **: Curfield: object main-1-3.panel.R0 not found. Error message from remadmin : Any ideas what this error is and how to correct it? BTW, I have never been able to setup a PPP script with netconf and have it work. They always exit with one error or another and if i try to modify the ppp script i setup during installation with netconf it starts exiting with a variety of errors. The only way to correct this is to copy a backup of my /etc directory. Specifically my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory. Could this error, which i had never noticed until tonight, be the cause of this? Thanks in advance, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gerome Help
Hi I use gerome with mdk 8.1 and after a while my mouse pointer turns into a watch how do i get rid it ? Very distracting Thanks Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi help
Alright I know how to add media to it but how do I tell it where to get the stuff from? It always goes for the CD and never the net. Do I have to remove the CD sources for it to go to the net? On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 06:52 PM, bascule wrote: you need to add a source to the list of sources that urpmi uses, have you read the man pages for urpmi, urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.update? use the list of download sites from www.linux-mandrake.com to find a source that is convenient for you and do similar to the following (do this as root, you can add yourself to the urpmi group to avoid this-i think, though that may just be necessary to actually install using urpmi) #urpmi.addmedia somename for your source ftp://host/path/to/../Mandrake/ with ./base/hdlist.cz this should work, the argument after 'with' is the relative path of the file 'hdlist.cz from the ftp path specified earlier, you can also use an http url and you can also add user:password@ options as necessary as you would in a url window in a browser i.e. ftp://me:mypass@host/path/to/ etc. you can use either current 8.1 mirrors or cooker mirrors to download from, you could set up a source for each but then when you run urpmi you will always install the latest version of any package which may not be what you want, the mandrake software manager front end promises to let you choose what sourcess to look in but i've never tried that, this help? bascule On Wednesday 14 Nov 2001 8:48 pm, you wrote: Can anyone point me to a site showing me how to fully use urpmi? If not can anyone tell me how to get it to download stuff from the web instead of from the CD's? Also does anyone know of any http sites I can enter as sources? Thanks. 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] Make Modules error(s) in 8.1
I just finished an installation on a computer which has a Tyan S1834D Tiger 133 dual slot1 Pentium III motherboard. I changed the cpu configuration (in make xconfig) to Pentium III and SMP support. The make dep; make bzImage went well. But, I almost immediately got errors when I did a make modules. Below is a snippet of the log file from the make modules run: -- make -C atm modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/drivers/atm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -fno-merge-constants -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/modversions.h -g -c -o eni.o eni.c In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/spinlock.h:6, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/spinlock.h:35, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/module.h:11, from eni.c:6: /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/page.h:91: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/page.h:91: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/page.h:91: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/page.h:91: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/page.h:91: parse error before `577f4bff' /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/page.h:91: `do_BUG_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/page.h:91: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/spinlock.h:35, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/linux/module.h:11, from eni.c:6: /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/spinlock.h:9: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/spinlock.h:9: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/spinlock.h:9: parse error before `1b7d4074' /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/spinlock.h:10: `printk_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include/asm/spinlock.h:10: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype --- I can attach the complete log file, if someone wants to see it. It's not that big. if there is additional information that I can supply, I'll be glad to provide what I can. Does this problem ring a bell for anyone? Did I get a bad load from CD? Or, am I doing something wrong? Thanks for your help. Regards, Dale Seaburg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi help
i'm assuming that you have set up a source for the same version as is on the cd i.e. the original distro 8.1. in that case i think that urpmi must be going for hte 'easiest' route to files, i don't recall this being explicitly mentioned but it makes sense, assuming that you have correctly set up your other source then you can remove the cd sources and urpmi should use the net, is it that you don't trust the files on the cds? bascule On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 3:43 am, you wrote: Alright I know how to add media to it but how do I tell it where to get the stuff from? It always goes for the CD and never the net. Do I have to remove the CD sources for it to go to the net? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] uninstalling compiled porgrams
Thanks, guys! This is a great little app! Wow, it simplifies things so much. BTW, David, the latest version of checkinstall (1.5 b2-1) doesn't have the problem you listed below. -Paul Rodríguez On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 13:12, Johnson, David wrote: There is a change that needs to be made to the script once you install the checkinstall program before it can be run: Edit /usr/local/sbin/checkinstall and change the line: rpm -bb --target=$ARCHITECTURE ... to: rpm -bb --target $ARCHITECTURE ... i.e. just remove the = sign there. _ 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] Administrador de Sofware
Tengo un pc con un Pentium 200mmx 48mb en ram la partición de linux es de 1.2gb y la swap 200mb corriendo Mandrake 8.1, el administrador de software en la pestaña instalable y vista de árbol solo me muestra el contenido del 1 cd a pesar de que en las fuentes figuran los 3, y cuando en las fuentes selecciono otro (solo ese) me muestra el directorio vacío, agradecería a cualquiera que me pudiera explicar el porque de esto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 y Grass 5.0
Tengo un Pc Pentium 200mmx, con 48 mb en ram y Mandrake 8,1 instalado, al echar a correr el programa de instalación del Grass me dice que los binarios del Grass deben estar en tar.gz lo raro es que lo están y aun así genera el error, en el Mandrake 8.0 me pasaba lo mismo pero en ninguna de las versiones anteriores que he tenido (7.2 y 7.1) me paso. Agradezco a cualquiera que pueda echar una mano Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have Mandrake done to cdrom/floppy devices?
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want it that much there is a kernel on Mandrake Cooker version 2.4.13-2mdk in which supermount works. However I do not recommend it since when I tried it my computer would hang on unloading usb drivers. Compile USB core support directly into the kernel; do not load it as a module. Then it will work. You can have all other USB options as modules; it's just the core support (the usb-uhci, etc) modules that hang when unloading. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. msg81621/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Administrador de Sofware
hola. el arbol fuente te muestra las cosas que podés instalar, pero no necesariamente tenés instaladas. esto quiere decir, si tenes la version download de Mandrake, entonces lo que tenes disponible son esos 3 CD's. ahora bien, si sólo instalaste, de todos esos paquetes, una porción determinada, entonces en la vista de arbol solo vas a ver los que hayas elegido durante el proceso de instalacion. ( y tambien los que hayas instalado posteriormente. ) ese es el significado de los arboles. From: Eduardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Administrador de Sofware Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 02:01:05 -0400 Tengo un pc con un Pentium 200mmx 48mb en ram la partición de linux es de 1.2gb y la swap 200mb corriendo Mandrake 8.1, el administrador de software en la pestaña instalable y vista de árbol solo me muestra el contenido del 1 cd a pesar de que en las fuentes figuran los 3, y cuando en las fuentes selecciono otro (solo ese) me muestra el directorio vacío, agradecería a cualquiera que me pudiera explicar el porque de esto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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
[newbie] change X monitor type from console (M8.1, X4)
Hi does anyone know how to change the monitor type from the console? i know you can change it from in x, but that doesn't help if x hasn't got the right monitor to begin with. ___ Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Source vs. RPMs
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:25:07 -0500 Epicurus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some... uh, danger to using both of these methods? I typically like to just go with source when I want a program--it's usually what a program's website has available, so it spares me the trouble of hunting around to find an .rpm for it--but from time to time, particularly when I realize that there's something on my installation CDs that I'd like to put on here (or need to put on so that I can install something from source :P), it serves my purposes to use an .rpm. Just the other night, though, someone basically told me that if I did a fair amount of installing from source that it might eventually become impossible to install from .rpms. That's a fairly noxious possibility for me, since .rpms can be convenient sometimes--they're sorta like the fast food of software. Any ideas on this? When you compile, you can use the --prefix variable to change the base of the install path. That way, you can install to a place where it won't harm your other software. Removal is a simple case of deleting the directory where you placed the programme (assuming you gave it its own dir). The best (and easiest) way is to use CheckInstall (http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-en.html). It can will install a tarball as an RPM, and then give you a binary RPM to keep after the install. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Ok, the guy who made the netfilter Makefile was probably on some really interesting and probably highly illegal drugs when he wrote it. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] change X monitor type from console (M8.1, X4)
if it's configuring X you're after then have you tried 'xconfigurator' from the cl? (or is that Xconfigurator - i never remember) bascule On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 6:14 am, you wrote: Hi does anyone know how to change the monitor type from the console? i know you can change it from in x, but that doesn't help if x hasn't got the right monitor to begin with. ___ Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
