Re: [newbie] INSTALL STAR OFFICE
after you downloaded the .bin files, you have to run them. watch for the file's access permissions. usually you won't be able to run them right away. in KDE, right click on the file and in properties turn "execute" permission on. >From: Ivor Westwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [newbie] INSTALL STAR OFFICE >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:52:04 +1300 > >HI ALL > >I have downloaded Star Office 5 into a folder named Download in Home. I >have >search through the manuals but don't seem to able to proceed from there. > >I am using Mandrake 8.1, 500k memory, 256 CPU /dev/hda7 7.4Gbt 84% free > >Any help would be very much appreciated. > >Ivor > >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] taking screenshots
thank you all for your replies!!! :) At 23:44 01/12/01 +1100, you wrote: > > wow! that is a great program! thanks! it would be neat to also be able > > to save as .jpg, but i guess that many of the graphic converters out there > > could easily do it. can you recommend any? thanks again! :) > > > >Just try typing the file name you want to save with .jpg on the end. KDE is >smart enough to know what format to save based on the suffix. PNG is just >the default. > >John. > >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] can't eject cdrom
On Saturday 01 December 2001 07:50 am, you wrote: > i recently bought a pre-built pc that has generic parts. i was able to > install mandrake on it using the cd-r/w drive, and have been using mandrake > with no problem. when i want to install new software (using the mandrake > software manager), i insert the requested cd. mandrake then asks for > another cd. when i push the eject button on the cd-r/w drive, the cd won't > eject. You need to unmount the cd before you can eject it. If you are using KDE there's an easy way to do this (I discuss it below). But the surefire way of working no matter what your configuration is to type "umount /mnt/cdrom" as root in a terminal. If it is your second cd drive then type "umount /mnt/cdrom2". > there's no icon on the mandrake desktop for these devices either... > Which window manager are you using? If it's KDE, right click on the desktop. Then select "create new" then "CDROM device" In the window that pops up, give the cdrom a name (say "DVD drive"). Then go to the device tab and from the drop down menu select which cd drive you want (for your first cd drive, it should say "/dev/hdx (/mnt/cdrom)" where hdx could be hda, hdb, hdc, etc... Now right click on the cd icon and select "eject" as needed. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom
thank you very much!!! :) At 20:31 01/12/01 -0900, you wrote: >All right, right-click on any vacant area of the screen if you are using KDE >and select "Create New" and then CDROM Device and then look at the Device tab >and select the item that says (/mnt/cdrom) as part of its name. Do it a >second time and look for (/mnt/cdrom2). You will now have your devices on >your desktop, and if you left click them it opens them and mounts them same >time. > >If you right-click those Icons once you have mounted something (and provided >you are done with it and have closed any directories or terminals logged to >it) you will see Unmount and Eject as choices. You can Unmount and then push >the button on the CD Drive or you can Eject and the drive will eject >automatically. > >Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
On Saturday 01 December 2001 19:04, you wrote: > > > to have filled up your root partition. All the better to have /var off by > > itself on another partitiion somewhere. Normally, of course, that > > shouldn't happen; something must have caused a runaway log. For 'regular' > > workstations those logs should be only a few megs apiece. > Ummm, actually, if you don't have a lot of space on your hd, the log files can use up a considerable amount of the free percentage if you don't edit your /etc/logrotate.conf so that it doesn't keep a whole month's worth of logs. Logs can become massive affairs if you are doing a lot of configuration (and misconfiguration) of your system. I recommend limiting the logs by changing all references in /etc/logrotate.conf that say "monthly" to "weekly" and all "weekly" references to "daily". Also, "rotate 4" should be changed to "rotate 1". Otherwise, one of these days you may lock up because the partiton that /var is on is out of space--I speak from experience. This isn't the end of the world, you can reboot to level 3 and then use a text editor to delete the log files, but it is annoying. eryl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom
On Saturday 01 December 2001 04:50 am, tek1 wrote: > i recently bought a pre-built pc that has generic parts. i was able to > install mandrake on it using the cd-r/w drive, and have been using mandrake > with no problem. when i want to install new software (using the mandrake > software manager), i insert the requested cd. mandrake then asks for > another cd. when i push the eject button on the cd-r/w drive, the cd won't > eject. when i restart the machine and push the eject button, it works. > just not once inside of mandrake/linux. i also have a dvd-rom drive that i > can't seem to access. > > here's the info from harddrake: > > CD-ROMs: > DVDROM 12X > Vendor: Unknown > Model: DVDROM 12X > Device: /dev/hdd > Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE > > CD-ROM BC1610IM > Vendor: Unknown > Model: CD-RW BC1610IM > Device: /dev/hdc > Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE > > > there's no icon on the mandrake desktop for these devices either... > > please help... > > thanks. All right, right-click on any vacant area of the screen if you are using KDE and select "Create New" and then CDROM Device and then look at the Device tab and select the item that says (/mnt/cdrom) as part of its name. Do it a second time and look for (/mnt/cdrom2). You will now have your devices on your desktop, and if you left click them it opens them and mounts them same time. If you right-click those Icons once you have mounted something (and provided you are done with it and have closed any directories or terminals logged to it) you will see Unmount and Eject as choices. You can Unmount and then push the button on the CD Drive or you can Eject and the drive will eject automatically. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] security: tcpd daemon with /etc/xinetd.d/
in my "linux: the complete reference" book on p.559, it explain that to use tcp wrappers (for monitoring connections and controlling access), we need to put tcpd in front of the service name in the inetd.conf file. however, mandrake uses the xinetd.conf file, which doesn't list the services. instead, it "includes" the dir /etc/xinetd.d/, which are the equivalent of listing the services in xinetd.conf. but how do we wrap the services in /etc/xinetd.d/ in a tcpd wrapper? thanks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom
Hi, You might try kwikdisk. It's in 'start', 'configuration', 'hardware'. This should show both of your drives and you should be able to umount them from there. Remember, they have to be unmounted before the tray will open. At least that's the way I do it till the automount is fixed. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 01 December 2001 05:50, you wrote: > i recently bought a pre-built pc that has generic parts. i was able to > install mandrake on it using the cd-r/w drive, and have been using mandrake > with no problem. when i want to install new software (using the mandrake > software manager), i insert the requested cd. mandrake then asks for > another cd. when i push the eject button on the cd-r/w drive, the cd won't > eject. when i restart the machine and push the eject button, it works. > just not once inside of mandrake/linux. i also have a dvd-rom drive that i > can't seem to access. > > here's the info from harddrake: > > CD-ROMs: > DVDROM 12X > Vendor: Unknown > Model: DVDROM 12X > Device: /dev/hdd > Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE > > CD-ROM BC1610IM > Vendor: Unknown > Model: CD-RW BC1610IM > Device: /dev/hdc > Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE > > > there's no icon on the mandrake desktop for these devices either... > > please help... > > thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
>But you took this further yet? So how many partitions would be >reasonably possible? The last system I installed on was a server, 3 sep. IDE hard drives, which had a combined total of 46.4 GB worth of space. I partitioned the 6.4 GB as a system drive (/, /var, /tmp, /usr, and swap) The two 20 GB drives are partitioned as large 20 GB reiserfs partitions mounted at /home and /backup. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] can't eject cdrom
i recently bought a pre-built pc that has generic parts. i was able to install mandrake on it using the cd-r/w drive, and have been using mandrake with no problem. when i want to install new software (using the mandrake software manager), i insert the requested cd. mandrake then asks for another cd. when i push the eject button on the cd-r/w drive, the cd won't eject. when i restart the machine and push the eject button, it works. just not once inside of mandrake/linux. i also have a dvd-rom drive that i can't seem to access. here's the info from harddrake: CD-ROMs: DVDROM 12X Vendor: Unknown Model: DVDROM 12X Device: /dev/hdd Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM BC1610IM Vendor: Unknown Model: CD-RW BC1610IM Device: /dev/hdc Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE there's no icon on the mandrake desktop for these devices either... please help... thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
> to have filled up your root partition. All the better to have /var off by > itself on another partitiion somewhere. Normally, of course, that shouldn't > happen; something must have caused a runaway log. For 'regular' workstations > those logs should be only a few megs apiece. They were except for those few files I mentioned. > About failsafe in particular: I don't pretty much like Mandrake's idea of > graphical login, which even goes as far to elide the need for passwords at > times. To each their own, but I prefer actually having to login at a login: > prompt. And, I've always booted up in console mode, using startx to get > to X. Is there an advantage to booting to console rather than to the graphical login? I've only used console mode in 'emergencies'. I have an 11 yr old who will only use Linux so the graphical login is easier for her to use. > I had just gotten DSL... Only in my dreams. > And for what it's worth - I don't know if you're running with ext2 or > reiserfs, but another way to add a lot of extra space is to switch to > reiserfs. I didn't expect it at all, but I converted some of my filesystems > over to reiserfs earlier today, and /home, which was a 5gig filesystem and > was almost full, now has >900 megs free. The same is true for /usr/local, > another 5 gig partition. It wasn't as full as /home, but there's a lot more > room there now. I figure that's due to not needing inodes and such. Probably > though there's got to be some reserved room for the journal - what happens > when that gets full? ext2 So how many partitions do you actually have then? I thought this was a good idea: Lanman wrote: > I'd like to suggest that you break your "/home" partition into 2 partitions. > Typically, DiskDrake will setup 3 partitions (ie; / , swap, and /home), but I > suggest a fourth partition which can be used as an archive (read as storage) > partition. But you took this further yet? So how many partitions would be reasonably possible? your other email: > it makes good sense to have multiple partitions. A drawback of course to that > approach is that the new person doesn't really have a good idea of the space > requirements for the various partitions. Makes sense to me but additionally, the new person doesn't really have an idea as to what can be partitioned alone and what can't. Lori Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO Boot Disk
I hope this my help you a little of my knowledge if u occur problems try reading other answers by othere linux users. insert the disk and issue this command #mkbootdisk #mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 #fdformat /dev/fd0 #cp /boot/vmlinuz #dev -R #cp /etc/lilo.conf /dev/fd0 #cp /etc/fstab /dev/fd0 cp /etc/sysconfig/network Thanks and mor power! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com "The Technology Specialist" www.aolsystems.com/autonotix "Race to the Limits" make ur free e-mail now www.aolsystems.com and chat with us at IRC channel #aolsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey group, > > How do you make a Lilo Boot disk from command line? or using a Drake > utility? > > Andrew > > -- > "It's a beautiful day...don't let it get away..." ~U2~ > > > 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] PCMCIA modem
Does anybody on the list use a laptop with a PCMCIA modem? Which one do you have? How much did it cost? Have you had any problems with it? I have a Dell laptop with an unsupported software modem, and I'm gonna ask for a PCMCIA modem for the holidays. TIA, Drive safely, Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] INSTALL STAR OFFICE
HI ALL I have downloaded Star Office 5 into a folder named Download in Home. I have search through the manuals but don't seem to able to proceed from there. I am using Mandrake 8.1, 500k memory, 256 CPU /dev/hda7 7.4Gbt 84% free Any help would be very much appreciated. Ivor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LILO Boot Disk
Hey group, How do you make a Lilo Boot disk from command line? or using a Drake utility? Andrew -- "It's a beautiful day...don't let it get away..." ~U2~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Double-sided printing
> What I am looking for is a way to automate this. I use a program called Fin= > ePrint in Windows that acts as a 'virtual' printer driver and handles the p= I wonder if there's something in CUPS that'll do that. I haven't looked at this issue for sometime. Sure, using the staroffice or whatever other software, there's ways to print even and odd pages separately. A while back there was (and it should still be available) a set of tools called PSTricks or pstools. These were little, but useful utilities for PostScript that would do things like rearrange pages, separate the even pages from the odd ones, allow to separate page ranges into individual files, stuff like that. > Lance Dow > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
> it was at 100%. The only way I could get anywhere was to go thru > failsafe and login as root in text mode. And yes, I was in a panic. What > I found was 8 files in /var/log, which when deleted, took me from 100% Well, like I said, there could be really big logfiles. Your partition is big enough that those files must have been several hundred megs in order to have filled up your root partition. All the better to have /var off by itself on another partitiion somewhere. Normally, of course, that shouldn't happen; something must have caused a runaway log. For 'regular' workstations those logs should be only a few megs apiece. About failsafe in particular: I don't pretty much like Mandrake's idea of graphical login, which even goes as far to elide the need for passwords at times. To each their own, but I prefer actually having to login at a login: prompt. And, I've always booted up in console mode, using startx to get to X. > StarOffice may be what created this problem. Those 8 log files were > listed as one of the users. He only uses LM when he needs to write a > report or something, and that's pretty limited. That's strange - logs should be written by the logging softare - those are owned by root - at least mine are. But that corrupt Staroffice 6 bin turned out to be the culprit. I figured something was wrong when the system was just churning the disk for twenty minutes - and I had a log file that was several hundred megabytes long. > Why did you switch from redhat? Just curious. Well, after using 6.0 something for a while, things became a bit on the unruly side - my system had grown to a hodgepodge of clutter, stuff from other places installed in there. Besides, I was running out of room on my old 1.6 gig drive, so after getting a new 30gig one I figured it was again the time to reinstall. (I faced a similar situation several years ago using a similarly hodgepodged system that was running Slackware.) I figured Mandrake was worth a try, so I grabbed it off an ftp mirror - and at that time, I had just gotten DSL, which was another reason to try and get something really really big from the .net :). And for what it's worth - I don't know if you're running with ext2 or reiserfs, but another way to add a lot of extra space is to switch to reiserfs. I didn't expect it at all, but I converted some of my filesystems over to reiserfs earlier today, and /home, which was a 5gig filesystem and was almost full, now has >900 megs free. The same is true for /usr/local, another 5 gig partition. It wasn't as full as /home, but there's a lot more room there now. I figure that's due to not needing inodes and such. Probably though there's got to be some reserved room for the journal - what happens when that gets full? > Thanks you're welcome :) > Lori Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde 2.2.2 slooooow
Did you upgrade qt too ? I heard there is a bug with it If you kill klipper it will not slow down the konqueror anymore (worked with me) press ctrl and esc and choose klipper and kill it . Cheers Florian On Saturday 01 Dec 2001 10:39 pm, you wrote: > I just upgraded from kde 2.2.1 to 2.2.2. The install went very smoothly. I > downloaded the mandrake i586 rpms from kde's ftp site. I only had two > failed dependencies which I fixed, and then did "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" from the > directory they were in (kde was not running at the time) and away it went. > > When I returned to kde I found it to be really slow. Kmail isn't so bad, > and non webbrowsing konqueror is ok, but kdevelop and web browsing > konqueror are incredibly slow. Kdevelop takes a good 5 minutes to shut > down, and about a minute to do anything (say switch to a different > document). Generally speaking any k apps are slower than they used to be. > > I'll be reinstalling Mandrake 8.1 tonight, as that's the only way I know of > to go back to 2.2.1 and be sure of no problems. But if anyone has any > ideas, I'm all ears. > > Fortunately I backed up everything before attempting 2.2.2. > > Matt > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- - POWERED BY LINUX - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection and LAN don't get along
That fixed it. Thanks! Warren -- http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Erylon Hines wrote in part: > ...I manually edit the .conf > files, including /etc/sysconfig/network, which usually contains at least one > error, even doing the configuration my way (generally the GATEWAYDEV=eth0 > needs to be commented out, thus): /etc/sysconfig/network > > NETWORKING=yes > FORWARD_IPV4=false > HOSTNAME=mycomputername.mydomain > DOMAINNAME=mydomain > #GATEWAYDEV=eth0 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konqueror can't browse the LAN
My LAN is operating (two machines, both with LM) with NFS. Samba is not configured, as I plan to remove Windows and have a Linux only LAN. The machines can ping one another, and Internet connection sharing is working. (In fact, my cybercafé is now using Linux -- hurray! -- and customers are happy... but that's another story.) If I try to browse the LAN in Konqueror, however, I get an error message. Specifically, If I select Network | Local Network on the Konqueror sidebar (which shows a URL of "lan://localhost/") in the location field) I receive the error message "Could not connect to host localhost". Presumably I have something misconfigured, but what? At first I thought this might be a Konqueror issue and checked the kde.org site, but couldn't find anything relevant. Thanks in advance, Warren -- http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem & LAN connections in the same box
I have the same problem. Several useful comments are poping up in the thread "Internet connection and LAN don't get along". Take a look and see if you can't find a solution there. Warren -- http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ lee wrote: > hi folks, > > I've got a box here with a modem connecting kppp(which works fine) and an nic > card(2 actually..1 is mb integrated). I can surf fine via kppp. I can ping > the proxy(and vice versa) but no other requests go thru..using squid as the > software. I can post whaever files that might help the wise ones on here help > me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
> > I did it this time. I couldn't log in this morning at all. Rec. the msg: > > exited with non-zero status > > Please contact your system administrator. > > Yeah, did you ring yourself up? :) > Yea. And therein lies the problem. The sys admin, aka I, didn't know what I was doing. It was when I found reference to the 'df' in the archives that I knew to look. At the time I was getting the error msg, it was at 100%. The only way I could get anywhere was to go thru failsafe and login as root in text mode. And yes, I was in a panic. What I found was 8 files in /var/log, which when deleted, took me from 100% to 84%. I have no idea what they were or why they were there. > Looking briefly at your 'df' report, there *should* be enough space so > that the message should not appear - I don't think that the message in > itself is space related. Your / is at 84% which is all right; if it was > at 100% I'd panic. Were you able to login as root and not as a user? The > system does leave some space reserved as root just for cases like this. > > > file and not being able to access DrakConf and I can email again so they > > were all related afterall. > > If you have a rather large inbox you need space in order to store a > backup copy of it, depending on what mail reader you use. That may not > be of issue here but it's something I run up against from time to time when > I use 'elm'. > A general tip - you can use 'du' on parts of your / filesystem to find out > where the space is being used, and then attempt to figure out what to get > rid of. > > And what else is safe to delete to free up space? > > the system usually takes care of that for you - although in one recent > instance, when I was installing a corrupt copy of StarOffice 6, my > /var partition filled all the way up because of a runaway logging process :(. StarOffice may be what created this problem. Those 8 log files were listed as one of the users. He only uses LM when he needs to write a report or something, and that's pretty limited. > How did yuo install Mandrake? Did you select everything, or did you use a > smaller subset of 'everything'? If you did 'everything' there are a few > things you can remove safely, such as documentation, since you can > read the docs on the CDs. Back when I was running redhat, I found loads > of different Howto's and other documents in different languages, and in > different formats (dvi, ps, html, etc.) and that was a waste of disk > resources. I managed to free up over 60 megs of stuff by getting rid of > that stuff. Why did you switch from redhat? Just curious. Everything is installed but I didn't install it. When I bought this puter, I asked them to install Linux and he recommended LM. Maybe if I would have done it myself, I'd know more but my line of thinking was if I got frustrated with the installation process, I'd scrap the whole thing but if I had a working system to cut my teeth on. It takes longer to learn but I can learn a little at a time and not be so overwhelmed. And you wouldn't believe the number of people who tried to talk me out of trying linux. It's not without headaches and scary moments but at least it can be fixed. I didn't know just how much I hated windoze. The rebooting and rebooting and rebooting. And when something messed up you hoped a reboot would fix it. It's funny tho, I didn't know I could get so excited about a computer. It's great having somewhere to get info and tap all these brains. Maybe one of these days someone can tap my brain. Thanks Lori Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:09 pm, dfox wrote: > > Your best bet is to reinstall. Next time giving / a lot more > > space, and /home a lot less. OR, just avoid the issue altogether > > and > > I'd have to disagree. Look at the df report - she only has 3% used > in /home. Sure, home could be lessened but I don't think that's the > issue here. 525megs (what is left on /) should be enough space and In my experience any OS starts havin problems when partitions become 80+% full. YMMV > > install everything in one big / . You could do this on hda7 and > > Not a very good idea. That could lead to lots of problems. One > should at least segregate /home onto another partition, and it You might remember I suggested this only for a single user desktop, and keeping a seperate bakup of /home. The idea of installing Linux on multiple partitions, or all in one big / is an endless, often politically religious debate. Been going on forever I've never understood the desire to maintain a /home dir, specially thru future installs and upgrades. Using a stale old /home WILL 'lead to lots of problems' by introducing extraneous, deprecated, often maliciously conflicting (specially config) files into newer upgrades and/or versions. Keep a backup of /home, introduce personal files or customizations back in slowly, one at a time, watching for problems. It's the same basis as the reasons that fresh installs are always a safer bet than upgrades, any OS. Multiple partitions does make sense on a multi user or server system. Mostly for security concerns which aren't valid on a single user system. Again, YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question
I have installed the packages below and restarted x. When I use mandrake control to change the display configuration it only lets me choose between trying xfree86 3.3.6 and xfree86 4.0.3 What happened to the xfree86 4.1.0 choice? Now that I have the files, how do I actually use them? > > > > I normally update 8 pkgs: > > > > > > > > XFree 86 > > > > XFree 86-libs > > > > XFree 86-server > > > > XFree 86-devel > > > > XFree 86-Xnest > > > > XFree 86-xfs > > > > XFree 86-100dpi fonts > > > > XFree 86-75dpi fonts > > > > > > > > I also normally use rpmdrake to download and install, you simply need > > > > add a Cooker source. > > > > > > > > You do not need all the pkgs I have. > > > > If you use rpmdrake just select the XFree 86 rpm and it will auto add > > > > the others that you Must have. > > > > > > > > Once they are installed, log-out and restart X ( you do not need to > > > > reboot.) > > > > > > > > > > > >Charles > > > > > > LOL, that almost worked. It took trying all the mirrors twice before I > > > finally didn't get the "an error occured when adding this source" then > > > I figured kewl, I'm finally gonna get it, and now 6 tries later I'm > > > getting "error fetching package" on all of the packages. > > > > If you are still using the stock rpmdrake you need to manually download > > and install the lastest release from cooker: rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk.i586.rpm > > I usually have good results from this site: > > ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS > > > > Once you have it installed you should not have any problem adding a > > Cooker source. > > > > Or if you prefer you can manually also dl the XFree rpms into a special > > directory such as /home/jon/xfree. > > Once you have dled all the rpms you need, cd to /home/jon/xfree, su to > > root and rpm -Uvh *rpm and this will install all the rpms residing in > > that directory. > > > > > >Charles > > Well that just blew things up...lol Broke the netowrk connection. Ended up > having to reinstall 8.1. I did notice that Auruor or whatever it is called > is installed by default. I choise not to install it and I guess we will see > what happens now. Thanks for your help though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde 2.2.2 slooooow
I just upgraded from kde 2.2.1 to 2.2.2. The install went very smoothly. I downloaded the mandrake i586 rpms from kde's ftp site. I only had two failed dependencies which I fixed, and then did "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" from the directory they were in (kde was not running at the time) and away it went. When I returned to kde I found it to be really slow. Kmail isn't so bad, and non webbrowsing konqueror is ok, but kdevelop and web browsing konqueror are incredibly slow. Kdevelop takes a good 5 minutes to shut down, and about a minute to do anything (say switch to a different document). Generally speaking any k apps are slower than they used to be. I'll be reinstalling Mandrake 8.1 tonight, as that's the only way I know of to go back to 2.2.1 and be sure of no problems. But if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. Fortunately I backed up everything before attempting 2.2.2. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
"Mr. Eds Brittanys" wrote: > Is it safe to delete most everything in the /tmp directorys? > And what else is safe to delete to free up space? You can set things so that /tmp is cleaned out everytime you boot up. Thats what I do... -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Root exploit in SSH
> I have stopped putting my digital signature on all emails to the list. > For whatever reason, Evolution insists on signing emails as an Dave, I wasn't directing this message at you personally, but your message was just a catalyst for me to vent :) Sorry. I didn't see your messages in particular - it's just that the message.footer is making my screen jump and stuff with this new elm. > Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] taking screenshots / what programs using how muchmemory
tek1 wrote: > wow! that is a great program! thanks! it would be neat to also be able > to save as .jpg, but i guess that many of the graphic converters out there > could easily do it. can you recommend any? thanks again! :) Same program. Does JPG just fine...where it defaults to ".png" put your cursor there and back over it, rewrite it as .jpg, and it will save it to .jpg! ;-) -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] .directory question...
For what it's worth this problem is addressed in KDE 2.2.2. It's part of the bug fixes listed at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_2_1to2_2_2.html Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
> Your best bet is to reinstall. Next time giving / a lot more > space, and /home a lot less. OR, just avoid the issue altogether and I'd have to disagree. Look at the df report - she only has 3% used in /home. Sure, home could be lessened but I don't think that's the issue here. 525megs (what is left on /) should be enough space and I doubt the login problem is an issue. What could be at issue is not enough inodes if a particular file can't be created during a login process, or maybe per- missions (one reason to wonder if she could log in as root but not as a regular user). > install everything in one big / . You could do this on hda7 and Not a very good idea. That could lead to lots of problems. One should at least segregate /home onto another partition, and it makes good sense to have multiple partitions. A drawback of course to that approach is that the new person doesn't really have a good idea of the space requirements for the various partitions. Having separate partitions facilitates upgrading too - I can keep my local stuff out of the way of Mandrake for instance. > keep hda5 for storing backups of /home and other stuff. Good setup > for a single user desktop. I went for a rather large / for that reason, and it's a good one. Saves wear and tear on the tape drive :). In converting over to reiserfs there's enough room to tar up a 5gig /home among other things :). > Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Root exploit in SSH
On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 13:34, dfox wrote: > > >Attachment converted: Big Foot:Untitled 9 (/) (0003801F) > > Can you shut off the attachments that go out with your posts to the > > Mandrake Newbie list? My drive is getting littered with these files I have stopped putting my digital signature on all emails to the list. For whatever reason, Evolution insists on signing emails as an attachment, rather than just including the appropriate text within the message like kmail does. > A big ditto as far as message.footer is concerned. PLEASE PLEASE rethink > this as a .signature rather than an attachment. It's not all that big > of a deal -- at least it didn't use to be - but in 8.1 with its new > elm - it interferes a lot, unless elm can be reconfigured not to see every > message from that list as having an attachment. That message.footer is from the list server, not me. Dave -- Earth -- mother of the most beautiful women in the universe. -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Root exploit in SSH
> >Attachment converted: Big Foot:Untitled 9 (/) (0003801F) > Can you shut off the attachments that go out with your posts to the > Mandrake Newbie list? My drive is getting littered with these files A big ditto as far as message.footer is concerned. PLEASE PLEASE rethink this as a .signature rather than an attachment. It's not all that big of a deal -- at least it didn't use to be - but in 8.1 with its new elm - it interferes a lot, unless elm can be reconfigured not to see every message from that list as having an attachment. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
> I did it this time. I couldn't log in this morning at all. Rec. the msg: > exited with non-zero status > Please contact your system administrator. Yeah, did you ring yourself up? :) Looking briefly at your 'df' report, there *should* be enough space so that the message should not appear - I don't think that the message in itself is space related. Your / is at 84% which is all right; if it was at 100% I'd panic. Were you able to login as root and not as a user? The system does leave some space reserved as root just for cases like this. > file and not being able to access DrakConf and I can email again so they > were all related afterall. If you have a rather large inbox you need space in order to store a backup copy of it, depending on what mail reader you use. That may not be of issue here but it's something I run up against from time to time when I use 'elm'. A general tip - you can use 'du' on parts of your / filesystem to find out where the space is being used, and then attempt to figure out what to get rid of. > And what else is safe to delete to free up space? Well, /tmp is all right - some stuff in there are sockets for X and other things (orbit-root etc) and those don't take up any space. You shouldn't have a whole lot of stuff in /tmp (again use 'du /tmp' to see where the usage is). /var is also a good choice for pruning logs, but the system usually takes care of that for you - although in one recent instance, when I was installing a corrupt copy of StarOffice 6, my /var partition filled all the way up because of a runaway logging process :(. How did yuo install Mandrake? Did you select everything, or did you use a smaller subset of 'everything'? If you did 'everything' there are a few things you can remove safely, such as documentation, since you can read the docs on the CDs. Back when I was running redhat, I found loads of different Howto's and other documents in different languages, and in different formats (dvi, ps, html, etc.) and that was a waste of disk resources. I managed to free up over 60 megs of stuff by getting rid of that stuff. > This is what I have: > /dev/hda5 3.4G 2.7G 525M 84% / 525megs should be enough room left over and that doesn't count the reserved space. (If you are using ext2 it reserves 5% of space for the root user. If you are using reiserfs, I don't know what its defaults are, if any. But on such a large volume, 5% may be excessive, and you can lower that percentage with 'tunefs'.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix
Can anyone tell me how I can get Postfix to send my mail properly. I have added the name of my ISP SMTP server. My internet connection is via an ISDN router on my network. What I would like to do is get Postfix to send mail (assuming it has some queued) every hour or so. Also it would be good if I could configure it to send mail immediately if a high priority email is to be sent. I am using Outlook Express on a W2K machine as my email client. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1
> I got KDE2.2.2 installed! > I used linuxconf to do the install. You can specify to install all of the > rpms in a given directory. After downloading all of the files and I had no real problems upgrading to kde2.2.2 after I found that going to the KDE ftp site and getting the 2.2.2 rpms was a better idea than getting the 2.2.2 rpms off of a cooker mirror as I had originally tried. I just recently did a new hd install of 8.1, after having 7.2 in place for nearly a year :). The download did take a while, even though I have DSL. But I had already installed KDE from 8.1, so the upgrade wasn't all that hard -- doing it manually though. One just has to install or upgrade the components in the proper order, and it helps to install or upgrade the dependents (such as libraries) first before upgrading the other components, and to install the base and devel packages together (or you get mutual dependency problems). I even did some upgrading via the package manager (uprmi or whatever it's called.) It's n ok tool but I still see issues with dependencies (you d/l a package, find out that it needs something else, so you go and d/l that too ad infinitum). And in one instance it gobbled up all my RAM and nearly all my swap (256m/300+ of swap) :(. And I'm (finally) convering my filesystems to reiserfs :) > Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Modem & LAN connections in the same box
Kppp bypasses the normal configuration scripts used by LM8.1. You should can KPPP in this situation and enable all of the modules in Linuxconf. Then use Linuxconf to set up your internet connection. Once done set up your LAN (if you are having problems) using Linuxconf. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of lee |Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 1:31 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Modem & LAN connections in the same box | | |hi folks, | |I've got a box here with a modem connecting kppp(which works |fine) and an nic |card(2 actually..1 is mb integrated). I can surf fine via |kppp. I can ping |the proxy(and vice versa) but no other requests go thru..using |squid as the |software. I can post whaever files that might help the wise |ones on here help |me. | |thank you all for your time,,hava great wknd all. | |Lee | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:29 pm, you wrote:
> > Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after
> > trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my
> > cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to
> > obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart
> > the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be
> > much appreciated.
>
> @home gave you an ID number. It's in the form of Cxxx-A. In windows
> this is the name of your computer (control panel -> network -> identity
> tab).
>
> In linux, set that as your host name, use dhcp, and your cable modem should
> fire right up.
>
> The easiest way to set the host name is to go into mandrake control center,
> then network->connection->configure.
>
> the only downside is your bash prompt will be [user@cxxx-a user]$,
> although there's surely ways to change that.
There's a still easier way to specify this.
Travel to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
Edit your ifcfg-eth0 file to include (at the top) the line
DHCP_HOSTNAME=cx{your details here]-a
This worked fine for me, and avoids the silly hostname prompt.
--mapdock
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Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why?
Hi Rob and Ed! I'm not an expert, but I have solved that problem deleting two files in /home/user: DCOPserver:localhost.localdomain and DCOPserver:localhost.localdomain_:0 I don't know why, but works. Carlos > in that users home directory, you should have a hidden file (got a "." in > fornt) called ".kderc" as I recall (and this is from memeory) this file can > be removed (in a text console, Su to root, type cd "/home/username" (where > username is the name of the user with the problem, "ls -all" without the > quotes, and then if the file is there, "rm .kderc" you should be able to > then restart x or login as that user and the kderc file will be > "regenerated". > > On Saturday 01 December 2001 01:48, you wrote: > > for the 2nd time since I have installed mandrake 8.1, kde fails to > > loads. I see the box and it stalls on the mechanical icon and it just > > wont go to the next icon which is the keyboard and mouse icon. then it > > just disappear and the only thing I see is a solid light blue color on > > the screen. no taskbar, no icons, nothing works. sadly I had to > > switch to gnome which I really dont like. The first time, there seems > > to be no hope on having kde back especially with my user name. KDE > > works in root or other username. Maybe I just have too many things in > > my home directory that it causes KDE to corrupt only in that directory. > > I had to create a new username and copy all the stuff I had saved and > > do more works as I had done with this one. works fine for the next > > month or two then I get this blue screen again. There a dead serious > > bug somewhere that causes this. Has anyone experienced this? If so do > > know why it did this and what is the solution to prevent it from > > happening again? Any help would be appreciate. > > > > Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem & LAN connections in the same box
hi folks, I've got a box here with a modem connecting kppp(which works fine) and an nic card(2 actually..1 is mb integrated). I can surf fine via kppp. I can ping the proxy(and vice versa) but no other requests go thru..using squid as the software. I can post whaever files that might help the wise ones on here help me. thank you all for your time,,hava great wknd all. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up the floppy drive?
On Saturday 01 December 2001 10:06, you wrote: > I'm having to use the floppy drive for the first time since I > set up Mandrake 8.1 a month and a half ago. The problem is that > it doesn't seem to be automatically mounted and I can't mount it > myself. I'm not even sure how it's supposed to be done in the > first place. I've tried > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (-> /dev/fd0: unknown device) > mount -t msdos /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy (-> /dev/floppy is not a block > device) mount -t msdos /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy (-> /dev/floppy/0: unknown > device) > > and HardDrake doesn't let me do anything with the floppy drive. > What gives? > > > +Cinquo The floppy should have been seen on install, so , to mount it just type: "mount /mnt/floppy" without the quotes and it should kick in. If you use KDE desktop you can right click on the icon and you will see Mount or unmount in the drop down list, also remember to "umount/mnt/floppy" when you are done so that the next time you stick one in it will run. HTH -- Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to set up the floppy drive?
I'm having to use the floppy drive for the first time since I set up Mandrake 8.1 a month and a half ago. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be automatically mounted and I can't mount it myself. I'm not even sure how it's supposed to be done in the first place. I've tried mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (-> /dev/fd0: unknown device) mount -t msdos /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy (-> /dev/floppy is not a block device) mount -t msdos /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy (-> /dev/floppy/0: unknown device) and HardDrake doesn't let me do anything with the floppy drive. What gives? +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
>Is it safe to delete most everything in the /tmp directorys? >And what else is safe to delete to free up space? > >This is what I have: >/dev/hda5 3.4G 2.7G 525M 84% / >/dev/hda7 14G 361M 13G 3% /home >/dev/hda1 19G 6.4G 13G 33% /mnt/windows > >Taking the advice of Michael: >> If any % is higher than about 75-80%, it's usually >> time to take a look to see where you can free up some room. > >I would like to lower that 84% somehow. What options do I have? > >Thanks a ton. This list has been a life saver. > >Lori There are a few places to look, most of /tmp can be cleaned out (except files pertaining to X, since if you are running X, and you delete those files, X might lockup), you can also look in /var/log (anything with .gz or .1, .2, .3, etc can be removed), and also in /var/spool/mail (since there are a lot of things that root will receive from cron jobs that occur periodically). 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] How to find Space on HD?
On Saturday 01 December 2001 01:04 am, Mr. Eds Brittanys wrote: > I did it this time. I couldn't log in this morning at all. Rec. the > msg: exited with non-zero status > Please contact your system administrator. > > I guess I'm the sys admin and since I don't know anything, it was > time to panic. > This is what I have: > /dev/hda5 3.4G 2.7G 525M 84% / > /dev/hda7 14G 361M 13G 3% /home > /dev/hda1 19G 6.4G 13G 33% /mnt/windows >Lori Your best bet is to reinstall. Next time giving / a lot more space, and /home a lot less. OR, just avoid the issue altogether and install everything in one big / . You could do this on hda7 and keep hda5 for storing backups of /home and other stuff. Good setup for a single user desktop. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] taking screenshots / what programs using how much memory
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 04:04, you wrote: > At 00:31 01/12/01 -0600, you wrote: > >On Friday 30 November 2001 10:23 am, you wrote: > > > taking screenshots > > > > > > > > > can anyone describe briefly how you take screenshots in xwindows? > > > >If you're using KDE then ksnapshot is pretty nice. It's in the K menu at > >multimedia -> graphics -> Screen capture > > wow! that is a great program! thanks! it would be neat to also be able > to save as .jpg, but i guess that many of the graphic converters out there > could easily do it. can you recommend any? thanks again! :) > Just try typing the file name you want to save with .jpg on the end. KDE is smart enough to know what format to save based on the suffix. PNG is just the default. John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] taking screenshots / what programs using how much memory
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, tek1 wrote: > At 00:31 01/12/01 -0600, you wrote: > >On Friday 30 November 2001 10:23 am, you wrote: > > > taking screenshots > > > > > > > > > can anyone describe briefly how you take screenshots in xwindows? > > > >If you're using KDE then ksnapshot is pretty nice. It's in the K menu at > >multimedia -> graphics -> Screen capture > > wow! that is a great program! thanks! it would be neat to also be able > to save as .jpg, but i guess that many of the graphic converters out there > could easily do it. can you recommend any? thanks again! :) ImageMagick should work. The import command allows you to specify output format and either a window or a region - left click on window or root window or click and drag for screen region. e.g. import thatwindow.jpg import thescreen.gif import abitofhtescreen.png -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why?
in that users home directory, you should have a hidden file (got a "." in fornt) called ".kderc" as I recall (and this is from memeory) this file can be removed (in a text console, Su to root, type cd "/home/username" (where username is the name of the user with the problem, "ls -all" without the quotes, and then if the file is there, "rm .kderc" you should be able to then restart x or login as that user and the kderc file will be "regenerated". On Saturday 01 December 2001 01:48, you wrote: > for the 2nd time since I have installed mandrake 8.1, kde fails to > loads. I see the box and it stalls on the mechanical icon and it just > wont go to the next icon which is the keyboard and mouse icon. then it > just disappear and the only thing I see is a solid light blue color on > the screen. no taskbar, no icons, nothing works. sadly I had to > switch to gnome which I really dont like. The first time, there seems > to be no hope on having kde back especially with my user name. KDE > works in root or other username. Maybe I just have too many things in > my home directory that it causes KDE to corrupt only in that directory. > I had to create a new username and copy all the stuff I had saved and > do more works as I had done with this one. works fine for the next > month or two then I get this blue screen again. There a dead serious > bug somewhere that causes this. Has anyone experienced this? If so do > know why it did this and what is the solution to prevent it from > happening again? Any help would be appreciate. > > Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] taking screenshots / what programs using how much memory
On Saturday 01 December 2001 09:46, Brendan wrote: > Try this: > > #!/bin/bash > > wait=5 > dir=$HOME Awesome! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't find qt when compiling theme
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:51:05 -0800 ajax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to compile a couple of themes under mandrake8.1 > I keep getting an error saying it can't find Qt. I assume its installed > since I'm running kde. I've tried the suggested prefix and a couple of > others. Any ideas? I think you also need the devel .rpm: [frans@amd frans]$ rpm -qa | grep qt libqt2-devel-2.3.1-14mdk libqt2-2.3.1-14mdk [frans@amd frans]$ -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
