[newbie-it] CDROM Audio
Aiuto, sembrerà strano, ma non riesco a montare CD Musicali su Linux Mandrake 7.2, neanche da KDE. Essendo specificato come file system l'ISO9660, con un disco audio mi dice file system non valido. Dove sbaglio?
[newbie-it] Errore in compilazione di Gnomemeeting
Ciao, ho un sacco di problemi nell'usare GnomeMeeting. Ho la 7.2, e dopo tantissimi affanni sono riuscito almeno a far funzionare il ./configure. Ho poi il seguente errore: [alberto@master GnomeMeeting-0.12.2]$ make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alberto/gnomemeeting/GnomeMeeting-0.12.2' Making all in macros . `/home/alberto/gnomemeeting/GnomeMeeting-0.12.2/intl'Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/alberto/gnomemeeting/GnomeMeeting-0.12.2/src' c++ -g -O2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include -o gnomemeeting callbacks.o gdkvideoio.o gnomemeeting.o connection.o endpoint.o menu.o toolbar.o pref_window.o videograbber.o config.o ldap_window.o splash.o docklet.o main_window.o audio.o gatekeeper.o ils.o cleaner.o misc.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lopenh323 -ldl -lpt -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/lib -rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -rdynamic -lgnorba -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -lm -ldb1 -lglib -ldl -L/usr/lib -lldap -llber -lresolv -lopenh323 -ldl -lpt -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lgthread -lglib -lpthread -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -L/usr/lib -lgdk_pixbuf -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnorba -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -lm -ldb1 -lglib -ldl -L/usr/lib -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib -lm -L/usr/lib -lldap -llber -lresolv -L/usr/lib -lldap -llber -lresolv -lresolv /usr/lib/libcrypto.so: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Ho provato un po' a giocherellare con le librerie, ma non so da cosa possa essere causato questo errore. Qualcuno ha un'idea su come fare ? Grazie, ciao. Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] CDROM Audio
Il giorno 13:57, mercoledì 26 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Aiuto, sembrerà strano, ma non riesco a montare CD Musicali su Linux Mandrake 7.2, neanche da KDE. Essendo specificato come file system l'ISO9660, con un disco audio mi dice file system non valido. Dove sbaglio? Semplice: nel montarli. Non devi montare i CD audio, semplicemente perchè non hanno un file system. Ti è sufficiente aprire XMMS o il lettore CD ed ascoltarli. Tutto qui. :-) Daniele
R: [newbie-it] CDROM Audio
Ciao , hai idea di come si faccia a togliersi dal news group??? Ci ho provato un sacco di volte ma non ci sono mai riuscito.. Grazie 1000 per l'aiuto. Ciao FAbio -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di Daniele Micci Inviato: mercoledì 26 dicembre 2001 19.22 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] CDROM Audio Il giorno 13:57, mercoledì 26 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Aiuto, sembrerà strano, ma non riesco a montare CD Musicali su Linux Mandrake 7.2, neanche da KDE. Essendo specificato come file system l'ISO9660, con un disco audio mi dice file system non valido. Dove sbaglio? Semplice: nel montarli. Non devi montare i CD audio, semplicemente perchè non hanno un file system. Ti è sufficiente aprire XMMS o il lettore CD ed ascoltarli. Tutto qui. :-) Daniele
[newbie-it] Informazioni su gnomemeeting
Ciao, ho un sacco di problemi con l'installazione di gnomemeeting, che non riesco a fare da RPM per dipendenze troppo pesanti (ho la 7.2, probabilmente l'RPM è per 8.0 o 8.1, comunque per librerie c più avanzate da quelle che ho io). Ho dunque provato col .tar.gz, e dopo aver lavorato un sacco per inserire le librerie che mi mancavano ho il seguente errore: c++ -g -O2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include -o gnomemeeting callbacks.o gdkvideoio.o gnomemeeting.o connection.o endpoint.o menu.o toolbar.o pref_window.o videograbber.o config.o ldap_window.o splash.o docklet.o main_window.o audio.o gatekeeper.o ils.o cleaner.o misc.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lopenh323 -ldl -lpt -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/lib -rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -rdynamic -lgnorba -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -lm -ldb1 -lglib -ldl -L/usr/lib -lldap -llber -lresolv -lopenh323 -ldl -lpt -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lgthread -lglib -lpthread -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -L/usr/lib -lgdk_pixbuf -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnorba -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -lm -ldb1 -lglib -ldl -L/usr/lib -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil -lglib -lm -L/usr/lib -lldap -llber -lresolv -L/usr/lib -lldap -llber -lresolv -lresolv /usr/lib/libcrypto.so: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [gnomemeeting] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/alberto/gnomemeeting/GnomeMeeting-0.12.2/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alberto/gnomemeeting/GnomeMeeting-0.12.2' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 Qualcuno ha un'idea su come possa fare ? Oppure mandarmi il suo libcrypto.so ? Grazie infinite, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:35:55 -0500, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:52:03 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In the download edition, the only exception to this rule (out of necessity) is Netscape 4. i thought netscape was open source software? Netscape 4.x and below is closed source. Netscape 6 and above is based on Mozilla, which is open source. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe--they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information needed a different program to access it. -- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re[2]: is an anti-virus mandatory ?
There are no GNU/Linux virii whatsoever. A few worms exist, but their impact has been minimal. There have been a number of competitions (with cash prizes) to write virii for GNU/Linux, but nobody has ever succeeded. Most of the stuff that exists in the press regarding virii in GNU/Linux is the result of ignorance or malice (e.g. from antivirus vendors trying to make money). The virus scanners that do exist for GNU/Linux are made to detect Windows virii. This can be placed on a GNU/Linux server to prevent Windows client machines from being infected. On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 10:51:06 +0800, Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux (kernel and supporting utilities) is a huge application and thus can be exploited by anybody patient, analytical and determined enough to cause misery on others. the only good point is that such persons will have to work harder to do damage in linux as exploitable flaws are found first by the contributing community before major damage is done. if ever there comes an exception and somebody creates a bug for linux, a patch could be made ASAP but the computers infected will already be hit. linux may attract more virus writers as it is becoming more popular. but that only proves that we should be forever vigilant whenever sensitive data is concerned. anyway you have better chances safeguarding your data in linux than in windows but that is my opinion alone. macro viruses wont be prevalent in linux until such a time when the developers of office-related applications start implementing support for self-executing macros. that goes to say that your data is safe as of this time. for how long is a question. ciao! [ © ª N ª ® i º JØË ]¹ wrote: Robin, Mandrake-group: Thank you for your comments. I do not know much about linux. I am a fisheries biologist and have been stuck to msoft for years. I have several gigabytes of compressed articles, data analyses, mathematical simulations, references, etc. on MSoft file formats. Bad. I am trying to, gradually, migrate to linux (I choose Mandrake out of several distributions I tested). The virus issue is of great concern to me. Profesionally, *I am* those files (years of work). I have read some viruses could attack linux systems and more are expected to come. I do not know well the internals of linux but, can you be sure of ... say ... a macro virus (such as those which destroy the MSWord .doc format+contents) is impossible to make for a linux system running ... say ... StarOffice ? Cheers, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Ø©Eªnº - þªT®iª - NØsT®ª] Wednesday, December 26, 2001, 2:20:11 [Islas Canarias, GMT]. robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió [25/12/2001, 12:39]: r For a workstation you shouldn't need antivirus software - it's normally r only necessary for servers where people are uploading stuff like Word r documents (e.g. someone using MS Word on a virtual drive could in theory r infect their files on that drive). r A virus, in the strict sense of the word, can't do much, if anything, on r a Linux system. As someone (on this list?) pointed out, to infect a r linux box with a classic e-mail ploy, you'd have to do something like this: r Dear user, r Please copy the attached file foo to your home directory, or better r still, if you have root priveleges, somewhere like /usr/bin. Then type r chmod a+x foo. Hit return, type ./foo and hit return again. r There are a few worms that can get into a Linux system, but again you r should only be worried if you're running a server - for normal r workstation purposes, it's enough to set security on Mandrake to medium. r Robin r [ © ª N ª ® i º JØË ]¹ wrote: Mandrake-group: I wonder whether · an antivirus is mandatory for Mandrake and, if positive, · which one is recommended. Is there any good open source antivirus (for workstations) ? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If I understood the GNU make syntax correctly (which is possibly not the case - GNU make is possibly the only example of overkill to rival GNU emacs), this looks like a reasonable idea. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hot keys for toggling btw text and graphic modes
Hi Ed, Thanks for your advise. I am using Grub. What I need is toggling to text mode at boot when graphic mode showing on screen for selecting kernels/OS. Esc and Tab keys did not work. I want to type single linux to start single use mode. How to modify /etc/grub.conf to have options for text and graphic mode selection at boot/start ? Thanks in advance. B.Regards and Merry X'Mas Stephen Liu At 12:20 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: ehh.. not sure of exactly what you mean, but, you can start linux as without Xwindows running, if you have configured lilo to start at run level 5 (Xwindows starts as soon as booted) by 9when first asked to choose) tab and then type linux 3 (without the quotes) this will start at run level 3, (multiuser, network, and no GUI). if you have already started and loged in an Xwindows session, you can try [Ctrl+Alt+f4, or any f key between 1-6) and to return to your Xwindow session that was left running by [Ctrl+Alt+f7, or possibly f9, depend on your setup.) On Thursday 20 December 2001 08:25, you wrote: Hi All People, What will be the hot keys for toggling between text and graphic modes at starting Linux Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re[2]: Off topic? How things are going with Linux...
NDPTAL85, Mandrake-group: Not xtra $ for hardware only (3x more expensive than high quality pc hardware): xtra $ for upgrades, xtra $ for service, software is more expensive, etc. Also, Apple has had infamous policy changes in the past. This is getting off topic. There is nothing more cost-effective than a linux intel/amd based box: cheap to service, cheap to upgrade, great performance. You could even get a dual pentium for what a low end Mac is worth. All our Macs are dead in the lab (nobody uses them anymore). They were bought with public funds and once they had to be upgraded, it was cheaper to buy intel based machines. Cheers, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Ø©Eªnº - þªT®iª - NØsT®ª] Wednesday, December 26, 2001, 2:30:44 [Islas Canarias, GMT]. NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió [26/12/2001, 2:15]: N worlds (mainstream apps and Unix apps). Its a question of do N you want to pay the extra money for Apple hardware. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)
Doug Lerner wrote: A little common sense can apply here. Certainly there are some examples that are obvious. For example, the letter a is obviously public domain. But C code that actually does something useful and was created with the effort of a developer - that is obviously different, isn't it? Dirt anybody can find in the ground. It doesn't mean that a beautiful clay pot that somebody creates then belongs to everybody, does it? OK, I'm getting way off topic here, so feel free to tell me to shut up. The problem, IMHO, is philosophical, and lies in the concept of property itself. Societies based on a more-or-less Western, more-or-less capitalist, more-or-less industrial model tend to regard prototypical property as manufactured exchangable physical objects. Intellectual property is a metaphorical extension of that notion, so we own an idea in the same way that we own a pot. One reaction, popular in Free Software circles, is to say that this analogy is false - you can own a pot but you can't own an idea. I believe this reaction is also based on false premises. If what makes a pot yours is your labour (as Locke claimed) then the labour you have put into a computer program should also make it yours - more so, in fact, since it does not rely on appropriation of common property (the dirt Doug mentions). Or does it? Ideas come from other ideas which are common property in much the same way as dirt is. A pot cannot be _wholly_ someone's property because it contains common property, not only in the form of dirt (or rather clay, which is not as common or worthless) but also in terms of ideas accumulated over thousands of years of ceramics. All this goes to show that property as an absolute concept is unworkable. A society _may_ choose to give certain people exclusive use of certain objects or ideas, and to give them the right to exchange these things, but only if this works for the benefit of all concerned. Ownership is no more than a convenient fiction. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore
perhaps i'm missing the point of the thread here, but i have in the past successfully had two seperate win9x partitions on my drive, both of which booted from lilo, a the moment i have a dos partition at hda1 and a winxp-ntfs partition at hda2, both these boot from lilo, perhaps the issue here is to do with 'hiding' partitions? just my thrup'ny bit from the christmas pud! bascule On Wednesday 26 December 2001 3:50 am, you wrote: Well, obviously everybody in the world except for me knew that Windows will not run from the 2nd partition. I will just re-install. The Windows installation is new anyway and I have no real data that is lost. I *do* think a warning in the installer would be a good idea though! doug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
This ones got me baffled. I am trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on my wifes computer. It's a pentium with a 10 gig hard drive running win98. I try to install in the expert mode and resize it. I get the massage that it can't be resized. After scandisk and defrag, and looking into fdisk, there is 6.1 gig free but the whole disk is active for win. I don't know why diskdrake won't resize it. I am not competent to use fdisk (never done it and I don't want to erase the wife's hard drive by error). Any suggestions on what might be the cause and the solution? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 32mg AGP
did u try gatos.sourceforge.net? they have some ati stuff - Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 11:36 PM Subject: [newbie] ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 32mg AGP I'm in the process of building a PC, and I'm considering using this video card. Any problems with that, that anyone knows of? This is going to be for use with both 7.2 and 8.1, primarily 8.1. I checked, but I did not see it listed in the Mandrake hardware page... 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] scanners
check out mandrake hard ware compatibility list on thier site - Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 4:00 PM Subject: [newbie] scanners I've got some Christmas dough burning a hole in my pocket. Can someone suggest a good, reasonably-priced scanner that will work well in Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1? Happy Holidays, SW 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] Off topic? How things are going with Linux...
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 17:26, Mark Weaver wrote: | - | If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do | the first time! yeah... what is it with men? ; ) I have to bite my tongue (daily I swear) so as not to say I told you so or if only you'd listen! grin 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: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)
Whether a pot is the result of thousands of years of accumulated knowledge about ceramics shouldn't matter. Somebody has to still decide to put forth the labor required to make an instance of the pot. After he or she does so it is the maker's thing to profit from. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): Doug Lerner wrote: A little common sense can apply here. Certainly there are some examples that are obvious. For example, the letter a is obviously public domain. But C code that actually does something useful and was created with the effort of a developer - that is obviously different, isn't it? Dirt anybody can find in the ground. It doesn't mean that a beautiful clay pot that somebody creates then belongs to everybody, does it? OK, I'm getting way off topic here, so feel free to tell me to shut up. The problem, IMHO, is philosophical, and lies in the concept of property itself. Societies based on a more-or-less Western, more-or-less capitalist, more-or-less industrial model tend to regard prototypical property as manufactured exchangable physical objects. Intellectual property is a metaphorical extension of that notion, so we own an idea in the same way that we own a pot. One reaction, popular in Free Software circles, is to say that this analogy is false - you can own a pot but you can't own an idea. I believe this reaction is also based on false premises. If what makes a pot yours is your labour (as Locke claimed) then the labour you have put into a computer program should also make it yours - more so, in fact, since it does not rely on appropriation of common property (the dirt Doug mentions). Or does it? Ideas come from other ideas which are common property in much the same way as dirt is. A pot cannot be _wholly_ someone's property because it contains common property, not only in the form of dirt (or rather clay, which is not as common or worthless) but also in terms of ideas accumulated over thousands of years of ceramics. All this goes to show that property as an absolute concept is unworkable. A society _may_ choose to give certain people exclusive use of certain objects or ideas, and to give them the right to exchange these things, but only if this works for the benefit of all concerned. Ownership is no more than a convenient fiction. Robin 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] Limewire and java-VM
Hi, I try to install 'Limewire' on my LM 8.1. There I get this message: # sh LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. I downloaded jre1.3.1 from sun and installed it with rpm -i . Who could me help to set up 'jre' in a correct way? ciao Michael -- ciao Michael *** Macht's gut, und Danke für den Fisch ... *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hot keys for toggling btw text and graphic modes
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:33:37 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ed, Thanks for your advise. I am using Grub. What I need is toggling to text mode at boot when graphic mode showing on screen for selecting kernels/OS. Esc and Tab keys did not work. I want to type single linux to start single use mode. How to modify /etc/grub.conf to have options for text and graphic mode selection at boot/start ? Stephen If you are wanting to have the option at boot as to choose to boot into either text or GUI, then this is not possible. Though there are other factors involved this operation in basicly handled by /etc/initab and can have only 1 default entry which is the run level to which the system will always boot, it can either be to X or 1 of the h other run levels. To drop to single user mode from the GUI login, Alt+Ctrl+F1-F4, login as root and run init3, to return and restart the X server init5. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] executing via cron
hopefully someone can help. I have three php scripts I'd like to execute autoimatically twice a day. My isp says I can do this a this via cron-oir he wont let me. He suggested that he could automate a perl script though. Can I get a perlscript to then execute the php scripts?- I dpo not know perl. Any ideas anyone cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Philips Nino PDA ?
Es Dilluns 24 Desembre 2001 20:03, en [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: hey, i have the nino 500. i've tried to get it to connect but have not gotten it. ive even tried to use wine on the windoze connection program but it crashes. somehow i don't think the nino will ever connect w/ linux. the real good wuestion to ask is if anyone has ever put linux on the nino. i've seen it done on a compaq ipaq. but not on the nino Joe Mine is Nino 200; WinCE 2.0 is in ROM so i have to change it if i want to try... I was going to try wine but... what's the .exe i have to run ?? 8.? Thanks for your answer !! -- Bon Nadal i feliç any nou !! Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
You are right about why it won't partition; it has lots of files at the end of the disk, according to the defrag detail. I remembered that Norton speed disk orders things differently, so I tried that. That organized the disk so that thousands of red flagged clusters are now at the end of the disk. And a subsequent defrag won't touch them. So I suppose I am into something like you are talking about below. I am not competent enough to do the whole shooting match you suggest, so I will evaluate other options. If I get pissed enough, I'll just wipe the disk clean and put windows where it belongs. If any other idea comes to mind, or if anyone else has had any luck doing this in a more simplified way, I would appreciate knowing about it. Thanks. On Wednesday 26 December 2001 04:26 am, you wrote: Charles Jennings wrote: This ones got me baffled. I am trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on my wifes computer. It's a pentium with a 10 gig hard drive running win98. I try to install in the expert mode and resize it. I get the massage that it can't be resized. After scandisk and defrag, and looking into fdisk, there is 6.1 gig free but the whole disk is active for win. I don't know why diskdrake won't resize it. I am not competent to use fdisk (never done it and I don't want to erase the wife's hard drive by error). Any suggestions on what might be the cause and the solution? Thanks. This one means that a windows program has placed a non-relocatable cluster near the end of the disk or that you are using the NTFS filesystem which we do not write-enable in the install kernel. SInce you are running 98 which does not support NTFS, do the disk defrag and scroll down on the full display--near the bottom you will find one or more red-marked clusters. The solution is non-trivial, Either remove programs one by one and defrag and try linux after each such removal or install linux on another large disk with a grub boot, copy all of your windows data over (but not your installed programs), then scrub windows and go back to fdisk and set up windows on a smaller primary partition, reinstalling software then set up linux again on the primary master drive and mount the second drive to restore the data you wanted to back up. I have done this in another situation--a rather full 10G disk where Win98 was installed and the user attempted an XP upgrade, losing mouse and keyboard (both Microsoft brand hardware products, BTW) in the process. I could not shrink the winpartition enough to make room for the 2.2G of data he wanted to rescue, so I used a second disk and a linux install on it, then scrubbed the first disk after copyiong over the info he wanted. The clean install of XP still could not see his mouse or keyboard, so he is running 98 and Mandrake dual boot these days, and he seems very grateful that linux was able to save his data from an otherwise trashed situation. Civileme 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] Windows partition won't load anymore
No, the issue is that win2k/NT *has* to be on the first partition on the drive or it won't load. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
I had the same problem the first time I tried to install Mandrake. The thing that worked for me was to use partition magic. At the very least, if it doesn't work for you, you're in no worse shape than you currently are. But if it does work, you can handle the resize and also create your linux partitions before you even start the install. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] executing via cron
php is not really meant to be executed via the command line (although it can be). It is meant for dynamic websites. In dynamic websites, php is already 'executed' everytime someone visits the website. If you are going to run something via cron, you'd be better off writing it in perl, C, or shell. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:57 PM 12/28/2001 -, you wrote: hopefully someone can help. I have three php scripts I'd like to execute autoimatically twice a day. My isp says I can do this a this via cron-oir he wont let me. He suggested that he could automate a perl script though. Can I get a perlscript to then execute the php scripts?- I dpo not know perl. Any ideas anyone cheers 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] Windows partition won't load anymore
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 08:12:52 -0800 (PST) Ken Nowack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, the issue is that win2k/NT *has* to be on the first partition on the drive or it won't load. That statement simply Is Not true. Win2k can be installed to or booted from any partition or even any drive on your system. I have used and unstalled it thus. I have even moved the drive to another system and Grub was able to pick up boot both the Win2K and Win98 partitions. The problem is that for whatever reason the NT bootloader can be as fickle as win itself. 9 out of 10 times no problem occurs but on the 10th ntloader.exe is damaged or not able to be properly transfered. The best option If lilo is being used And lilo has been installed Only once is to run /sbin/lilo -u to restore the 2K bootloader. If 2k will now auto boot without problem, use the floppy to boot linux and reinstall lilo. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Philips Nino PDA ?
I just tried installing the whole program w/ wine into a fake windoze directory that it made. That didn't really work too well. I then tried to use wine on the .exe's in the real windoze directory, but they would all crash w/ errors. The new versions of wine may get them to work, I used the older ones being that I tried this a while ago.
Re: [newbie] New
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:47:35 -0600 Ricky Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Ok, Well my when I say my network browsing I do mean my LAN. See it is realy funny because I am connected to the internet through my LAN. And the internet is working just fine. But I can not explore the network. Well I am going to boot out of windows now and go try to setup my E-Mail on linux. well, in order to figure out just why you can't browse your LAN with your Linux box we're going to have to know what kind of network you're connected to. 1) is it a Microsoft NT network of sorts? 2) is it a Unix network? 3) is it a Novell network using IPX protocol? these three use slightly different methods of communictation and authentication across the network from the clients to the servers. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 12:05pm up 10 days, 3:54, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.19, 0.33 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
I helped a friend deal with the same situation by using a little utility called FIPS. You can find it on your Mandrake CD's. It doesn't have a fancy GUI but it will take you through the resizing process step-by-step and is really pretty easy to use. TC --- tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Jennings wrote: This ones got me baffled. I am trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on my wifes computer. It's a pentium with a 10 gig hard drive running win98. I try to install in the expert mode and resize it. I get the massage that it can't be resized. After scandisk and defrag, and looking into fdisk, there is 6.1 gig free but the whole disk is active for win. I don't know why diskdrake won't resize it. I am not competent to use fdisk (never done it and I don't want to erase the wife's hard drive by error). Any suggestions on what might be the cause and the solution? Thanks. This one means that a windows program has placed a non-relocatable cluster near the end of the disk or that you are using the NTFS filesystem which we do not write-enable in the install kernel. SInce you are running 98 which does not support NTFS, do the disk defrag and scroll down on the full display--near the bottom you will find one or more red-marked clusters. The solution is non-trivial, Either remove programs one by one and defrag and try linux after each such removal or install linux on another large disk with a grub boot, copy all of your windows data over (but not your installed programs), then scrub windows and go back to fdisk and set up windows on a smaller primary partition, reinstalling software then set up linux again on the primary master drive and mount the second drive to restore the data you wanted to back up. I have done this in another situation--a rather full 10G disk where Win98 was installed and the user attempted an XP upgrade, losing mouse and keyboard (both Microsoft brand hardware products, BTW) in the process. I could not shrink the winpartition enough to make room for the 2.2G of data he wanted to rescue, so I used a second disk and a linux install on it, then scrubbed the first disk after copyiong over the info he wanted. The clean install of XP still could not see his mouse or keyboard, so he is running 98 and Mandrake dual boot these days, and he seems very grateful that linux was able to save his data from an otherwise trashed situation. Civileme 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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 08:12:52 -0800 (PST) Ken Nowack [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: No, the issue is that win2k/NT *has* to be on the first partition on the drive or it won't load. _thats_ been a known issue with NT forever. Most familiar with NT already know this so it's really a non-issue. However, those never having dealt with NT before and being new to Win2K very well might not know this and would likely run into this difficulty. So, I wouldn't think it would be the responsibility if the Mandrake documentation people/process to advise or inform folks that there will be problems _if_ windows isn't, in this situation, the first OS on the drive. This is a matter of knowing your current OS and it's needs and compatability issues _before_ making major changes to the existing system. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 12:05pm up 10 days, 3:54, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.19, 0.33 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] executing via cron
it is written in php because i do not knoe c or perl unfortunately -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Viron Sent: 26 December 2001 16:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] executing via cron php is not really meant to be executed via the command line (although it can be). It is meant for dynamic websites. In dynamic websites, php is already 'executed' everytime someone visits the website. If you are going to run something via cron, you'd be better off writing it in perl, C, or shell. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:57 PM 12/28/2001 -, you wrote: hopefully someone can help. I have three php scripts I'd like to execute autoimatically twice a day. My isp says I can do this a this via cron-oir he wont let me. He suggested that he could automate a perl script though. Can I get a perlscript to then execute the php scripts?- I dpo not know perl. Any ideas anyone cheers 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] how do i know if USB was detected? and iomega external CDRW ?
Greetings. I've done a default 8.1 installation on my laptop and everything seems to be functioning properly, including an ethernet connection that i was a little concerned about ... how do i tell if USB installed properly as well? the only USB gadget i have with me today at the office is an external Iomega zipCD drive, and i can't tell if it's seeing it or not ... i guess i also have an iomega usb zip drive, but that's also not listed as supported ... has anyone had any luck with either one of these products? thanks in advance, kennM __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am stumped. Thanks in advance if you can help, Mithrilhall =Mithrilhall= Linux - Mandrake 8.1 AMD K-2 / 350 Mhz File Server FTP Server Web Server = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System attack Recovery Question
What a holiday! Our box that runs our mail server was hacked on Dec. 23 and we are still trying to clean up the mess... I know this may be a tad off topic so if you have an answer to this question, you can always just email me privately. I just thought someone here might know how to solve this one last issue. This particular server is running RH 6. They changed /bin/ps to something that is totally different than what we had on there before and created a hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard link. My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete it, and then reinstall the rpm Even forcing the rpm install returns the following: # rpm -i --force /test/procps-2.0.2-2.i386.rpm can't rename /bin/ps to /bin/ps-RPMDELETE: Operation not permitted unpacking of archive failed on file /bin/ps: cpio: unlink failed - Operation not permitted Thanks in advance... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it; when people are saying it can't be done. - Mary Francis Berry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Has our list-server gotX-MAS hiccups ? 2nd try
I donno..perhaps I still have a mail problem? I posted this 24hrs ago and it went to the bit bucket in the sky? this is a test repost..olly P #c0; text-decoration: none; }Re: [newbie] Has our list-server got X-MAS hiccups ? (Oliver L. Plaine Jr, Tue Dec 25 11:42:12 2001) On Tuesday 25 December 2001 07:13, Kaj was quoting his friend. Have you ever come across this before. As of a day or two ago, I can no longer post to the newbie list on Mandrake. My emails are constantly being returned as errors. I called my ISP and asked them to look into the matter. I can receive email from the list, so I am still subscribed to it. I am including the latest error message from my ISP if it'll help. I can also send and receive email from everyone else in my address book, but not 'to' the 'Newbie' list! I even tried using my wifes machine to post to the list, still nothing. -- Tue Dec 25 11:23:34 2001 61degF and cloudy Happy holidays Y'all I had this problem just last week...I could not post to newbie , although I could receive OK...and I could not resub as the MDK server refused to accept anything from me Other people in my address book received my messages OK it seemed but then I discovered that anyone on AOL was not getting them either. My problem turned out to beas I was fooling with Kmail I misspelled worldnet in the from line as wroldnet but the reply to address was spelled correctly. most ISP's do not check to see if a sender uses a valid addressbut evidently AOL and newbie does? as they rejected my messages.I suppose that is a anti spam thing? double check those spellings, I overlooked that one a dozen times...also look for a random period that you finger may have put in by itself? like the tester once said (paraphrased)those tiny viruses get their sharp little claws into my keyboard -- Olly P. Biloxi Mississippi Linux MDK 8.0 and Kmail 2.1.1 ATX Plll 600mhz Asus CUBX ...384m PC133ram 11:37am up 58 min, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do i know if USB was detected? and iomega external CDRW ?
I have just today upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1, and it's getting to the point where I'll be surprised when the install *doesn't* go smoothly! But I have a similar question about USB devices. Mine were recognized by Mandrake, as seen by running USBViewer. It picked up my SmartMedia / CompactFlash Adapter, the scanner, and even a joystick and a modem. Trouble is: what do I do now? Out on Mandrake's site, I see that USB storage devices, such as the SM/CF adapter, should be mounted like SCSI stuff. As in: External USB storage devices are handled like SCSI devices, so everything I said about mounting parallel devices above also applies here, i.e. to mount a ZIP disk in a USB connected ZIP drive, you'd most likely use mount /dev/sda4 -t vfat /mnt/zip --- Trouble is, the info in USBView doesn't seem to include any info such as something that's found in the /dev directory. I would love to be able to use the scanner and especially the SM/CF adapter - two less reasons to boot up into Windows. So, how do I go about attaching these recognized USB devices to something that I can then 'mount'? -- Thanks! Kenn Murrah wrote: Greetings. I've done a default 8.1 installation on my laptop and everything seems to be functioning properly, including an ethernet connection that i was a little concerned about ... how do i tell if USB installed properly as well? the only USB gadget i have with me today at the office is an external Iomega zipCD drive, and i can't tell if it's seeing it or not ... i guess i also have an iomega usb zip drive, but that's also not listed as supported ... has anyone had any luck with either one of these products? thanks in advance, kennM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 25 December 2001 07:17 pm, Doug Lerner wrote: What do people think about free vs commercial software in general? I myself don't object to commercial software. In fact, I work for a company that makes very high-quality commercial software with a great, loyal customer base. Surely there is nothing wrong with paying to have software supported and updated? doug Well the analogy of the clay pot may not be good at all. Consider this-- I make a clay pot, and I fire it and I go to a lawyer and show him the product and get him to draft a patent so that no one else can glaze clay pots or decorate them in any way without paying me royalties. I file the patent and use the proceeds from my clay pots to threaten to keep anyone else who fires clay pots in court for years of ruinous spending battling my army of lawyers unless they pay me ransom for protection against lawsuit. This has happened more than once. Long before hyperlinks were a reality, British Telecom patented the idea of them and could make life difficult for all of us. Does your specilaized software use hyperlinks? or perhaps themes? Well the idea of themes belongs to Apple computing... Patented. As a matter of fact, you cannot write software without significant risk of inadvertant infringement. And the current patent laws set up a legal protection racket whereby technology companies trading in intellectual property with a CEO and a couple battalions of lawyers and _no_ programmers make themselves moderately wealthy by extorting license fees for protection from suit. It even gets as subtle as We hold patent to this technology and your website subscribers might be using graphics in our format created with unlicensed software, but you can buy a license to avoid litigation in the event this does occur for $7.500 The problem does not rest with Intellectual property but with application which has definitely become a reductio ad absurdem. Non-productive drones feast off the efforts of the workers, the software writers, and squelch creativity. This is the reality and it is why anything I write is GPL. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is an anti-virus mandatory ?
tek1 wrote: hi robin. is there a detailed description as to what each mandrake security level entails (e.g. what settings are changed)? also, is there a way to change the level easily after installation? thx and happy holidays! :) At 14:39 01/12/25 +0200, you wrote: There are a few worms that can get into a Linux system, but again you should only be worried if you're running a server - for normal workstation purposes, it's enough to set security on Mandrake to medium. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com go to control center and click on security and you can do it there. Security levels go as follows Welcome to Crackers --Level 0 -- no login or password and you are running as root Poor -- No checks and no passwords, user and root are distinct Level 1 Low -- Suitable for a modicum of security on unconnected computers ... Passwords and users are intact but no dynamic checking is done. Medium--Dynamic security checking is done and you get mail from the msec daemon about weak points Suitable for workstations connected to internet High--checking and correction of some problem areas is done Root login is not allowed, no services are started by default Suitable for most server use Weak passwords not permitted Paranoid--Level 5--Suitable for DNS and other servers where tunneling becomes a possibility. Most everything has to be run in chroot jails or it won't work. Now for more detail, try file:/usr/share/doc/msec-0.15 right on your installed system. Same general rule applies--look for a program name folder in /usr/share/doc when you have questions about other software. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:47:25 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: What a holiday! Our box that runs our mail server was hacked on Dec. 23 and we are still trying to clean up the mess... I know this may be a tad off topic so if you have an answer to this question, you can always just email me privately. I just thought someone here might know how to solve this one last issue. This particular server is running RH 6. They changed /bin/ps to something that is totally different than what we had on there before and created a hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard link. My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete it, and then reinstall the rpm Even forcing the rpm install returns the following: # rpm -i --force /test/procps-2.0.2-2.i386.rpm can't rename /bin/ps to /bin/ps-RPMDELETE: Operation not permitted unpacking of archive failed on file /bin/ps: cpio: unlink failed - Operation not permitted Thanks in advance... Ed ~~ Ed, have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way? -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 3:05pm up 10 days, 6:54, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.55, 0.54 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question
At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, you wrote -= On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:47:25 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard link. My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete it, and then reinstall the rpm Ed, have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way? No - but we will give it a try. Thanks for the tip After thinking about this, would booting with single work as well?? - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Perfect! I added it to my list Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA Linux registered user 219525 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lost My nVidia Install Instructions!
Hello everyone, I hate doing this, especially a subject that has been discussed so much already. I installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 (Powerpack). Someone was nice enough to send me step-by-step directions for installing the nVidia drivers (the glx file and the kernel?). I sucessfully downloaded the 1541 version and installed them. Then due to lots of other things I had to reinstall (yet again, oh I hope this is the last time for a while!) the OS. Yup, you guessed it, I didn't keep a hard copy of the directions, and of course the email was wiped by the reinstall. I am hoping a good samaritan will talk me through this one more (last) time. In return I promise not only to PRINT a copy, but to try to help someone else when they try to install. I would like to install the latest kernel(?) which is 2314. I couldn't find a 2314 glx file but I read @ nVidia's site that I can use the 2313 - I think (sorry, working nights means I've been up about 23 hours). Anyhow, I've got every form of the 2313 files that I could find for Mandrake 8.1 (uni-processor). I also got both forms of the 2314 file. I think they are both source files, but one is tar? I was using 1541 and having lockups, but I have determined that they were due to a bad setting in my bios causing my soundcard to lock the system. IOW, it wasn't happening on GL function, but when it tried to play sounds, such as booting into KDE. I seem to have fixed that one, though. I can not only boot KDE with my sound card installed now - I can play .mp3's while browsing with Opera, downloading files, etc. So I hope that I won't encounter any more of the kind of lockups that only a reset switch will cure. That's what finally caused me to reinstall this last (actually most of them) time, one too many resets corrupted my filesystem or simply enough files that I couldn't boot. I've been going through this all month, first with many problems that I couldn't solve no matter what I tried (turned out to need a bios upgrade, which caused Win98 to swear I had no sound/video/modem (oops) but Linux sure seemed to like it. Then video, then the soundcard (after the reinstall). So you can see why I fear that I'll screw it up. I've read several ways to do this on the web, but I am getting more confused the more I read. I think that whichever set of files I choose to use I only need two of them? That is how I did the 1541 set. I know whatever tools I need to manipulate/install them are installed on my system (along with 3+gigs of other things I have yet to fully explore, WOW! Matches my Windows partition exactly for size, and that includes lots of music cd's I've loaded in as mp3s! Someone please help me put my desktop out of its misery (by being able to finally stay out of Win98SE). BTW, are there many users out there like my wife and myself - wanting to use Mandrake 8.1 as a pure desktop box? Comparing the useful software preinstalled on most new computers against my Powerpack install? I may never actually NEED to buy or download another application again (but I will, there are so many out there) if I don't want to. I would like to see Mandrake start a heavy advertising campaign targeting Joe Desktop. Thanks very much, Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 252649 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 12:04, E Estes wrote: | I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but | they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see | how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked | around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see | anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple | thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am | stumped. | | Thanks in advance if you can help, | Mithrilhall | | =Mithrilhall= | Linux - Mandrake 8.1 | AMD K-2 / 350 Mhz | File Server | FTP Server | Web Server | = I know nothing about servers but perhaps the same principle applies as with any directory or file: In the Mandrake documentation Reference Manual Chapter 3 - Introduction to the Command Line 3.2.2 chmod: Changing Permissions on Files and Directories Thats where I learned about dir/file permissions. There is also man chmod and info chmod. HTH 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] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
Not being a great command line user, but not too afraid of DOS, I would like to try using FIPS if it might do it. I looked at it on the first cd of Mandrake while in windows and it cautioned that it needs to be run in DOS. With what little I know of DOS, I tried to call it up from the cd in DOS without luck. Can anyone give me more specific instructions on how to use it? On Wednesday 26 December 2001 10:50 am, you wrote: I helped a friend deal with the same situation by using a little utility called FIPS. You can find it on your Mandrake CD's. It doesn't have a fancy GUI but it will take you through the resizing process step-by-step and is really pretty easy to use. TC --- tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Jennings wrote: This ones got me baffled. I am trying to install Mandrake 8.1 on my wifes computer. It's a pentium with a 10 gig hard drive running win98. I try to install in the expert mode and resize it. I get the massage that it can't be resized. After scandisk and defrag, and looking into fdisk, there is 6.1 gig free but the whole disk is active for win. I don't know why diskdrake won't resize it. I am not competent to use fdisk (never done it and I don't want to erase the wife's hard drive by error). Any suggestions on what might be the cause and the solution? Thanks. This one means that a windows program has placed a non-relocatable cluster near the end of the disk or that you are using the NTFS filesystem which we do not write-enable in the install kernel. SInce you are running 98 which does not support NTFS, do the disk defrag and scroll down on the full display--near the bottom you will find one or more red-marked clusters. The solution is non-trivial, Either remove programs one by one and defrag and try linux after each such removal or install linux on another large disk with a grub boot, copy all of your windows data over (but not your installed programs), then scrub windows and go back to fdisk and set up windows on a smaller primary partition, reinstalling software then set up linux again on the primary master drive and mount the second drive to restore the data you wanted to back up. I have done this in another situation--a rather full 10G disk where Win98 was installed and the user attempted an XP upgrade, losing mouse and keyboard (both Microsoft brand hardware products, BTW) in the process. I could not shrink the winpartition enough to make room for the 2.2G of data he wanted to rescue, so I used a second disk and a linux install on it, then scrubbed the first disk after copyiong over the info he wanted. The clean install of XP still could not see his mouse or keyboard, so he is running 98 and Mandrake dual boot these days, and he seems very grateful that linux was able to save his data from an otherwise trashed situation. Civileme 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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lost My nVidia Install Instructions!
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 04:51 pm, you wrote: I completely agree on the Desktop issue, they should really begin advertising towards a lower common denominator. The Geeks and Gurus out there already know what the options are, and know that Mandrake is up there w/ the best. If they would start bundleing Star Office or Open Office as default on the 2nd CD instead of another popular office sweet (COUGH! KoFFICE COUGH!)things would be much better. Right. It was purely by chance that I found ManLin8.1PwP. The only probs I had with installation were due to flaky hardware (bad settings, rather old bios, me trying to fix things that weren't actually broken thinking they would take care of my problems, such like that) and resetting when I insisted on locking the computer by doing the same silly things over and over. The average user probbably wouldn't have any trouble as long as they did the expert installation and took their time to read everything. My version came with StarOffice (only 5.2, but it's a start) and Koffice. What is OpenOffice? I've heard about it but really haven't had time to check. A friend of mine in the UK (Paul Woodward) downloaded StarOffice 6.0 for me (I only have 28.8 dialup in a real modem) and I think sent me the CD of it. I heard 6.0 is a totally different beast (in a good way). Guess what... time to recompile the NVIDIA_kernel driver. The steps are pretty simple. rpm -e --nodeps the NVIDIA_kernel. I don't think I have the nvidia_kernel installed yet. This is a FRESH install of ManLin8.1. I did search for find an uninstalled package of nVidia driver but it is OLD, 1012 or something like that. It remains uninstalled. Download the NVIDIA_kernel-xxx.src.rpm Download the System Kernel you want to use, AND it's source. Install the System Kernel AND its source. Err, you mean the kernel AND the GLX? rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-xxx.src.rpm goto /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686 and install the new NVIDIA_kernel-xxx.rpm Confuzed. All should be good from there, however you might want to update both your NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX to newer versions as well, as 1512 is 2 (?) versions old? No, I had 1541 on a previous install. I've had to reinstall at least 15 times (more like 20) and those drivers are long gone. I haven't reinstalled ANY of them yet (because I lost the concise step-by-step directions and I'm tired of reinstalling because I got a dot where I meant to have a dash which was actually an underscore). I WANT to install 2314 b/c it seems to have been out for a while. I could probbably go with 2313 and never know the difference, and I suppose I could get by with 1541 (I only have a TNT so I am not all that clear if the newer versions have any more features for me than the older ones. But I assume they might have bugfixes). Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 252649 and more confused every second! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [nVidia on Mandrake]
1)Yes you are using the right Kernel. The OS is listed as a 586 because Mandrake by default loads a 'safe' Pentium/AMD/mmx kernel. You can make your own kernel with the simple GUI tools built into Mandrake, but This is as I thought... But that would be the first thing I've gotten right in a month of trying. compiling an AMD Athlon specific kernel has been known to cause problems. I've also been seeing hints that the Athlons (rather the mobos they go in) might not be the best for an install and forget it Linux. SIGH This is NOT a Linux problem. Some motherboard makers skimp here and there As I've noticed myself. I've actually cured a lot of my ills by upgrading the bios on my KA7 to current. which can cause 'noise' problems. Feel free to experiment, but I would stick with the default kernel for now. My wife saw that and told me I've done more than enough experimenting on this desktop. She has been waiting since 12/02/01 to actually use Linux. 2) Your X_Free version is fine. Good. Reassuring. Thanks. 3) You need to download these files: NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.tar.gz AND NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm. You do not need the source file. You can also download the Mandrake RPM files, but I have found that doing a 'make' using the above files has worked better for me. What about 2314? It is only avail in source, but has been up for a while now I think. I actually have the following files on my system (some in Linux since I've reinstalled, and some I actually thought to download in Windows partition - they may not be the right ones though) in no particular order: NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.mdk81up.i686.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2314.src.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2314.tar.gz NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.src.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.tar.gz Follow the directions on page 22 of the nVidia instruction PDF to install the drivers. I think this is where I got so very confused. I have these files in a directory (/home/wes/NVIDIAfiles) but I can move them to another directory if I need to. Then follow the instructions on the PDF on pages 22-23 to edit the X-Free config file. I remember (more or less) doing the config editing when I did the 1541 drivers in a previouse Mandrake install (all the installs I've done this month are really running together. Just an aside, I ran Windows 3.1 for 7 years with no reinstall. Lucky I guess. Being to simple to run most virus programs probbably saved my butt there though. The latest nVidia driver version is 1.0-2313. I haven't tried it yet as I have been out of town for the past 3 months. It is probably ok. I haven't heard of any problems with it. I've nosed around on nVidia's Linux (etc) forums, lots of people having lots of trouble with all of them. I guess a lot of the people are like me (ie, most problems are operator error) but still some seem knowledgable. I think some of the settings in the newer versions have to be tweaked for the nicer/newer cards. Plus like you mentioned, AMD their mobo's have issues with this OS. I am getting the idea that that is causing a lot of the nVidia drivers' problems (for people running single or multi AMD cpus that is). Of course _I_ have an AMD cpu (the old model 650 mHz Athlon). I am remaining cautiously optimistic. I've thought about going back to the 1541's but I can't recall how I installed them and some have issues with them as well. I thought I'd try the newer ones first. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any additional questions. Done and done. I sure hope you don't come to regret saying that. But thanks in any case, Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 252649 Lost With No 3d/accelerated gfx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scanners
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 09:00, Scott wrote: I've got some Christmas dough burning a hole in my pocket. Can someone suggest a good, reasonably-priced scanner that will work well in Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1? I can enthusiastically recommend the Epson 1200U, a USB scanner that works well with SANE and gives great scans. This scanner is easy to get working in Linux. As a general rule, Epsons are known for being easy to set up in Linux. You should still check the SANE page to make sure you have a model that is known to work. Some useful documents: http://www.mostang.com/sane/ http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/index.html (Epson backend info) *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Off topic? How things are going with Linux...
Well you know why Moses spent 40 years wandering through the desert? Even back them men wouldnt stop and ask for directions. On Wednesday 26 December 2001 04:33, you wrote: On Wednesday 26 December 2001 17:26, Mark Weaver wrote: | - | If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do | the first time! yeah... what is it with men? ; ) I have to bite my tongue (daily I swear) so as not to say I told you so or if only you'd listen! grin skinky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question
We tried runlevel 1 but the file system for hda1 gets mounted as read only for some reaon How does one get around that? Ed At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, Mark Weaver wrote -= have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way? Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. --Samuel Butler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 12:47 pm, you wrote: This particular server is running RH 6. They changed /bin/ps to something that is totally different than what we had on there before and created a hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard link. My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete it, and then reinstall the rpm Get the inum of /bin/ps using 'ls -i' and then find it using 'find / -mount -inum number -print'. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hotmail
I am trying to set up a hotmail account but neither konqueror or netscape will allow me to enter the hotmail site in order to check my mail. (they let me set up an account just fine) Is this just a MS anti linux thing or am I doing something wrong? Also is it possible to have Kmail check and download mail from the hotmail server so I dont have to go to their website. TIA -- Chris Swain Registered linux user 226399 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Limewire and java-VM
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:47:24 +0100 Michael Dannhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try to install 'Limewire' on my LM 8.1. There I get this message: # sh LimeWireLinux.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. I downloaded jre1.3.1 from sun and installed it with rpm -i . Who could me help to set up 'jre' in a correct way? snip im using the java sdk but the principle is the same so this might work but your mileage might vary. issue rpm -ql on the jre package to get a list of all files installed in your system. take note of the directories named /usr/../bin and /usr/../lib. now add the path of the bin to your PATH. i usually add it to the $HOME/.bashrc but i always get 'corrected' that the correct place to put it is in the $HOME/.bash_profile so i have this in my .bash_profile export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/ export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib PATH=$OLDPATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export PATH you can substitute the jre directory as the value contained in JAVA_HOME. there are some instances (especially with older jre and sdk) when you have to specify in the classpath the zipped class file. if that is the case just look into the lib directory for classes.zip (version 1.1.x)or tools.jar (1.2.x or greater) and add it to the classpath. export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip #replace with tools.jar if it is what you have. give the list a holler if things are still not going right for you. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Off topic? How things are going with Linux...
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 07:17:12 -0800 Grant Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Well you know why Moses spent 40 years wandering through the desert? Even back them men wouldnt stop and ask for directions. well...I'm speachless. I can't believe some of the other guys on this list don't actually know the answer to this question. I've known the answer to this question for quite a long time. the reason guys don't ask for directions is because it's in our genes to hunt and gather. it's the thrill of the hunt, for cryin out loud. womenfolk just took advantage of this knowledge early on one day when one of their husbands appeared to not know where he was going when actually all he was doing was just enjoying the hunt! -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 8:05pm up 10 days, 11:54, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.62, 0.44 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:28:54 -0700 Charles Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Not being a great command line user, but not too afraid of DOS, I would like to try using FIPS if it might do it. I looked at it on the first cd of Mandrake while in windows and it cautioned that it needs to be run in DOS. With what little I know of DOS, I tried to call it up from the cd in DOS without luck. Can anyone give me more specific instructions on how to use it? why not just use diskdrake to repartition the drive? You can do this during an install process when you've booted from the Mandrake install CD. I've found this method to be quite easy and quick. Especially when dealing with badly behaved partitions that just don't seem to want to do what you want them to do. fdisk is out of the question because it's just not powerful enough. If you're considering using FIPS then the situation warrents the use of something powerful. diskdrake definately fits here and allows for much more control then FIPS. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 8:05pm up 10 days, 11:54, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.62, 0.44 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:04:29 -0800 E Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am stumped. Thanks in advance if you can help, Mithrilhall =Mithrilhall= Linux - Mandrake 8.1 AMD K-2 / 350 Mhz File Server FTP Server Web Server = hi, do the users have to share a common space like a public directory for storing files? or are they restricted to their own home directories? im asking this because i run a proftpd server here in the local office network and there is an option in the proftpd configuration named DefaultRoot which limits the users to a certain directory. there are a slew of options in the readme that comes with proftpd so it is a recommended read. and i assume you will get all the notes that say ftp is bad because is transmits 'clear-text' passwords which is easily caught by spoofers so try the ssh variety instead. in my case im running a personal server in a secure environment so ftp works enough for my needs. HTH -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:50:44 +1300 skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Tuesday 25 December 2001 12:04, E Estes wrote: | I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but | they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see | how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked | around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see | anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple | thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am | stumped. | I know nothing about servers but perhaps the same principle applies as with any directory or file: In the Mandrake documentation Reference Manual Chapter 3 - Introduction to the Command Line 3.2.2 chmod: Changing Permissions on Files and Directories Thats where I learned about dir/file permissions. There is also man chmod and info chmod. HTH first of all, if you're setting up an FTP server I would strongly recommend using Proftpd. It comes with the Mandrake d/l CD's, however you can use wu-ftpd if you so desire. to allow for anonymous users to upload you have to set things up in a specific manner. all the docs you need come with either package. at this URL -- http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/ there are some good docs that will get you all setup and going for wu-ftpd. For anon uploading pay particular attention to Upload Configuration HOWTO -- http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/upload.configuration.HOWTO if you're going to use ProFTPd then here's where you wanna go -- http://www.proftpd.org/docs/ Once you've decided which server you wish to use and you need more help just holler. there are quite a few here including myself that have setup one or both of these and are currently using one of these two servers. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 8:05pm up 10 days, 11:54, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.62, 0.44 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:34:47 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: We tried runlevel 1 but the file system for hda1 gets mounted as read only for some reaon How does one get around that? Ed At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, Mark Weaver wrote -= have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way? Ed Ed, At this point I would boot the install CD. when the startup screen appears choose F1 and then type rescue. When everything has loaded and is running you will cd to /mnt/bin, then rm -vf ps and that should take care of the problem. Then reboot the machine and log in as root. INstall the package for ps and that is that as they say. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 8:05pm up 10 days, 11:54, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.62, 0.44 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:20:30 -0500 Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:04:29 -0800 E Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am stumped. Thanks in advance if you can help, Mithrilhall hi, do the users have to share a common space like a public directory for storing files? or are they restricted to their own home directories? im asking this because i run a proftpd server here in the local office network and there is an option in the proftpd configuration named DefaultRoot which limits the users to a certain directory. there are a slew of options in the readme that comes with proftpd so it is a recommended read. and i assume you will get all the notes that say ftp is bad because is transmits 'clear-text' passwords which is easily caught by spoofers so try the ssh variety instead. in my case im running a personal server in a secure environment so ftp works enough for my needs. HTH -- forgot to mention that if you are not allowing anonymous log-in then quota could be useful to you to limit the space allowed per user. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Question about directory and file permissions
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:28:52 -0500 Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:20:30 -0500 Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:04:29 -0800 E Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a ftp server for anonymous users but they have the ability to delete files and/or directories. You can see how this would be bad if a malicious user logged on to it. I looked around in the User Manager, Userconf, and Userdrake and didn't see anything pertaining to what I need to do. I know it will be a simple thing to do (I would rather learn how to do it in shell) but I am stumped. Thanks in advance if you can help, Mithrilhall hi, do the users have to share a common space like a public directory for storing files? or are they restricted to their own home directories? im asking this because i run a proftpd server here in the local office network and there is an option in the proftpd configuration named DefaultRoot which limits the users to a certain directory. there are a slew of options in the readme that comes with proftpd so it is a recommended read. and i assume you will get all the notes that say ftp is bad because is transmits 'clear-text' passwords which is easily caught by spoofers so try the ssh variety instead. in my case im running a personal server in a secure environment so ftp works enough for my needs. HTH -- forgot to mention that if you are not allowing anonymous log-in then quota could be useful to you to limit the space allowed per user. ciao! -- that is esentially the idea behind the way Proftpd setup uses to secure the FTP server filesystem. for more on this check out one of the proftpd.virtual.conf configurations. their examples that come with the Proftpd package give excellant samples of ways to configure the server. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 8:05pm up 10 days, 11:54, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.62, 0.44 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /dev/sequencer busy?
I've not really tackled the problem of my sound card not working since my computer started yet, because there were other priorities. However tis the holiday season and my ecards gave me another clue as to what's going on while trying to play a midi file. Couldn't open /dev/sequencer Probably there is another program already using it I've never gotten a peep of sound, except for the computer default beep. Not as root, or my user login. Not with a midi, wav, or mp3. The sound settings appear to be on, nothing happens. This is the first time I've actually seen an 'error' message out of it. In KDE COntrol Center, there would appear to be no MIDI device selected, and the aRTs soundserver is selected to begin on startup of KDE. Under Information, no information is available about the soundcard. As far as HardDrake is concerned, it calls my sound card VIA Technologies VT82C686 (Apollo Super AC97/Audio). A possible problem seems to be under Other Devices (?), where three other VIA Technologies devices are listed. Unknown device ID 11060305, Unknown device ID 11060305 again, and another copy of what's listed under soundcard, except it's labeled Apollo Super ACPI. What the heck happened here? I'm not yet clear how much was screwed up by the guy who installed this for me, and how much is inherent Linux difficulties. TIA, David Reynolds -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3 logo
Thanks. I knew someone here would have a suggestion. LPH On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 14:50, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 24 December 2001 02:15 pm, LPH wrote: When KDE 3 starts up there is a really nice set of images. Where are these images located? I was looking in /opt/kde3 ... but couldn't find the opening set of images. Anyone else tried to look? Ok, I used Applications | File Tools | Find Files ... set it to search /opt/kde3/ and told it to look for *.png. Came back with a sh!+load, mostly in /opt/kde3/share/various dirs. Might want'a start poke'n around there. Gqview would be a good tool. I wasn't too impressed with KDE3, and didn't think beta1 is worth the too many minor bug hassles to use on a daily basis. I didn't like the new eye candy all that much either. Back to 2.2.2 for me. I guess I'm just an old fuddy duddy ; BTW, I found if you spend too much time in kde3, you're probly gonna need to --force --nodeps back in kde 2.2.x rpms, reset some things in kde2 apps (like kmail) as kde 3 is gonna corrupt some kde2 stuff and configs, even tho you (like I did), put it in /opt. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)
On a day-to-day basis, if you want to have a working economy, where people can support themselves then, for sure, it makes more sense to compensate labor and effort which can be attributed. In other words, pay the programmers who create programs. The compensation to society for providing the environment is paid in taxes. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): Doug Lerner wrote: There is a huge difference between an idea and an instance of putting the idea to use. And which is more valuable, or more worthy of being compensated (for)? Randy Kramer 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] Kmail spell check
I am working in Mandrake 8.1 I have configured Kmail Settings, Spellchecker with client aspell, dic default English british and encoding US-ASCII. But when I do spell check using icon on tools bar or menu I get msg as ISpell couldn't be started. Please make sure you have ispell properly configure and in your path. aspell is in path and installed. How to get it working. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 25 December 2001 07:17 pm, Doug Lerner wrote: What do people think about free vs commercial software in general? I myself don't object to commercial software. In fact, I work for a company that makes very high-quality commercial software with a great, loyal customer base. Surely there is nothing wrong with paying to have software supported and updated? doug Well the analogy of the clay pot may not be good at all. Consider this-- I make a clay pot, and I fire it and I go to a lawyer and show him the product and get him to draft a patent so that no one else can glaze clay pots or decorate them in any way without paying me royalties. I file the patent and use the proceeds from my clay pots to threaten to keep anyone else who fires clay pots in court for years of ruinous spending battling my army of lawyers unless they pay me ransom for protection against lawsuit. I believe that patent law requires more than just something new. It has to be something that is not obvious too. Let me ask the opposite question. Suppose a drug company takes hundreds of millions of dollars from thousands of investors and uses the money for research and creates a drug that improves the daily lives of millions of people. Do the people who invested in the enterprise deserve to profit from this? Or should anybody be allowed to come along and make generic copies of the drug without bothering to invest in time and effort to do the research? The problem does not rest with Intellectual property but with application which has definitely become a reductio ad absurdem. Non-productive drones feast off the efforts of the workers, the software writers, and squelch creativity. This is the reality and it is why anything I write is GPL. Civileme 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] Recommended office suites?
i personally think that x windows is a complete ram hog.. As a 166mhz 32ram cannot run it... _ 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] normal user can't browse internet
This isn't strictly mdk related, but I'll ask anyhow. I was given an old P90 with 32megs and I tried mdk 7.1, but it was waaay slow, so I installed RH6.0. With RH, it's a reasonably snappy little box, but I do have a problem. I can connect to my isp fine, and browse with Netscape as root (bad idea, I know), but I can't get anywhere as user--netscape gives me can't find server and Opera gives basically the same message after timing out looking up hostname. I did chmod 644 on my /etc/resolv.conf and have search myLAN myISP_name and also have my nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP defined. It definitely looks like a permissions problem, but I'm lost at where to go from here, since I don't really know RH or its defaults, and the RH website has everything but the info I need. Yes, I like Mandrake better, but I don't have an older version that will work well on that machine. Thanks for the help, in advance. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore
Actually, since I need to run Windows rarely, what I think I'll do is delete the second partition containing Win 2000 and use it for Linux. Is that easy to accomplish? Then I'll just run Windows when I need it under Virtual PC on my Mac. doug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore
There is nothing wrong with being nice about it and including a warning, is there? It seems like something that might happen fairly often. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 08:12:52 -0800 (PST) Ken Nowack [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: No, the issue is that win2k/NT *has* to be on the first partition on the drive or it won't load. _thats_ been a known issue with NT forever. Most familiar with NT already know this so it's really a non-issue. However, those never having dealt with NT before and being new to Win2K very well might not know this and would likely run into this difficulty. So, I wouldn't think it would be the responsibility if the Mandrake documentation people/process to advise or inform folks that there will be problems _if_ windows isn't, in this situation, the first OS on the drive. This is a matter of knowing your current OS and it's needs and compatability issues _before_ making major changes to the existing system. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 12:05pm up 10 days, 3:54, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.19, 0.33 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] Mandrake support
I have purchased mandrake powerpack 8.1. I got registered also. I did login. and started creating an incident. I am not sure what is the title? I typed one for power pack i got the next screen saying that I don't own any unit. I typed my user name. Then also same how to roceed to use the mandrake expert during this period. Validity exist upto 25/2/2 -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:02:20 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Well, I didn't mention responsibility or anything like that. :-) But since the Mandrake online information *does* say that you can continue to use your old OS on the same machine, it would be a good idea to give a word or two of caution at this important step in the installation process. doug yes...i see your point. it would at that. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 11:05pm up 10 days, 14:54, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 0.90, 0.76 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore
Is there a way of removing the Windows partition and then just adding the reclaimed space to the already existing /home partition? doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): Doug Lerner wrote: Actually, since I need to run Windows rarely, what I think I'll do is delete the second partition containing Win 2000 and use it for Linux. Is that easy to accomplish? Then I'll just run Windows when I need it under Virtual PC on my Mac. doug Sounds like a plan ;-) Yep, just go to control center And choose HardwareMountPoints which will bring up diskdrake click on the winpartition, click on unmount if ti is mounted. Change the type to linux native or to XFS or whatever you prefer like ext3 or JFS or Reiser... then click format to make it whatever, then select a mount point --whatever you want to name it If for example you decide you want a separate partition for the /home directory, just make the mount point /spare and mount it then exit. then run cp -a /home/* /spare and then bring up diskdrake again, unmount /spare, change the mount point to /home and exit without mounting it still as root in a terminal rm -r /home -f mount /home will destroy the old home directory and reclaim the space and then make the new /home directory available. Civileme 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] segmentation faults 8.1-gamimg edition
Hi Folks, Just what is a segmentation fault ? And why would it tell me seems like memory is missing Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSHD not running
More specifically, Make sure that openssh, openssh-clients, and openssh-server are installed. The openssh-askpass and openssh-askpass-gnome packages don't need to be installed unless you want to tunnel an X display via your ssh connection. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 11:10 PM 12/26/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:14:27 -0500 Allen May [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I just re-installed Mandrake 8.1 and found that SSHD didn't get installed. When installing, what module do I need to include to have it install? If I want to add it.. do I download OPENSSH RPM? Thanks -Allen May Alan, install all the openssh packages from your install Cd's and you're good to go. -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 11:05pm up 10 days, 14:54, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 0.90, 0.76 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] Unable to read partition table
Is this as a user or as root that you can't access your CDRW? Are you trying to burn something or mount a CD? The more info (like the above) that we have, the more likely that someone on the list will have an idea as to what's going on. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:46 AM 12/27/2000 +, you wrote: Hi all I have installed Mandrake 8.1. When it boots it sends the folowing message: LDM:Unable to read partition table. After all it boots, but i don't have access to my CDRW. Can anyone help me? What can i do? Thanks Antonio 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] segmentation faults 8.1-gamimg edition
Well I'm gonna answer my own post..lol. Seems to be a hardware prob perhaps..or a memory timing ? I think I've got it fixed..maybe. Switched the drive to another box,diff motherboard..same bios tho..with the same settings even..all the way thru. Not quite sure what went on today,but I spent all day doing it..lol. hava great week all :-) Lee Hi Folks, Just what is a segmentation fault ? And why would it tell me seems like memory is missing Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hotmail
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:06:39 + Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, i use this account from linux just fine, however, i did not create this account from linux. BTW, i'm pretty sure there is some anti-linux stuff in here. the only way i can delete a complete page of message ( by pressing select all ) just selects the first one, and i have to select manually the remaining 49... i figure Billy thinks that Java is not right the way it is and is thinking about making his own super-exclusive-proprietary version ;oP when this started to happen, i immediately started looking some other mail account, somewhere else.. i only use this one for this mailing list now.. so i delete few emails.. ( someday i'll take the time and subscribe to this list from somewhere else.. ) ( HINT! . WHY hotmail?? ;oP ) see ya! i would suggest softhome.net. i use it for my home accounts. their smtp has some trouble recently but you could just use your isp's mail server as that would be quicker and more efficient. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Using Japanese?
Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, tester wrote: Civileme! Isn't possible that using a third party program (like Norton System Works) the windows swap file is located at the end of the disk? This happened to me once! I had to use the 'original' defrag [sorry I forgot the real name!] from MS (I know that defrag was bought from Norton!). Ricardo Castanho This one means that a windows program has placed a non-relocatable cluster near the end of the disk or that you are using the NTFS filesystem which we do not write-enable in the install kernel. SInce you are running 98 which does not support NTFS, do the disk defrag and scroll down on the full display--near the bottom you will find one or more red-marked clusters. The solution is non-trivial, Either remove programs one by one and defrag and try linux after each such removal or install linux on another large disk with a grub boot, copy all of your windows data over (but not your installed programs), then scrub windows and go back to fdisk and set up windows on a smaller primary partition, reinstalling software then set up linux again on the primary master drive and mount the second drive to restore the data you wanted to back up. I have done this in another situation--a rather full 10G disk where Win98 was installed and the user attempted an XP upgrade, losing mouse and keyboard (both Microsoft brand hardware products, BTW) in the process. I could not shrink the winpartition enough to make room for the 2.2G of data he wanted to rescue, so I used a second disk and a linux install on it, then scrubbed the first disk after copyiong over the info he wanted. The clean install of XP still could not see his mouse or keyboard, so he is running 98 and Mandrake dual boot these days, and he seems very grateful that linux was able to save his data from an otherwise trashed situation. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com - -- delivery NOT reliable = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Para mais informações veja http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwqug4ACgkQqJymTCNNyXGByQCgrYWSrQna1gn0mAmnRabi/RMr GV4An3DD04wz5YKxBd0tZlrb5G9KwHE1 =Qykl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:01:18 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo yes there is, its called FreeWNN and i think its somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd CD (the japanese locales is in the 3rd CD). how to make it work, i still do not know. there is no accompanying docu for the rpm and the website is in japanese. im still trying to figure it out as my nihongo is not that good ( i just took JLPT level 4 and i dont know if ill pass ;-). you will also need a terminal that is unicode-aware and the installation CD has kterm but it sucks. there was an article in the mandrakeforum.com related to this but i havent really read it yet. if you have made any success ill be grateful if you could give me some pointers even if privately. domo arigato gozaimasu. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 18:04:47 -0800 (PST) Jesse Angell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i personally think that x windows is a complete ram hog.. As a 166mhz 32ram cannot run it... what version of Mandrake are you using? it is stated somewhere in the mandrake site that the recommended minimum for 8.1 is 64MB. if you have older CPUs then it would also be logical to use lightweight window managers like blackbox, xfce or anything like it and stay away from desktop managers like KDE and GNOME as these are the really cpu intensive apps. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation faults 8.1-gamimg edition
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 08:59:22 -0500 lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Just what is a segmentation fault ? And why would it tell me seems like memory is missing Lee plainly said , a segmentation fault occurs when a program accesses a memory space which it is not supposed to. this is usually due to the programming wherein the programmer has not anticipated a circumstances and hasnt safeguarded his code correctly for this kind of thing. this can also be caused by the hardware (not so quite often) but i cannot give you any concrete examples so i pass that privilege to those more knowledgeable than me. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
Doug Lerner wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo H well since you have one partition open where win2k was, try searching on Two Mandrake at www.mandrakeforum.com and set up a second mandrake system and choose to _install_ in Japanese. Also, the install usually permits additional languages--there is no specific kit, just additional languages that may be chosen. Civileme 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] System attack Recovery Question
At 08:26 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, daRcmaTTeR wrote -= On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:34:47 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: We tried runlevel 1 but the file system for hda1 gets mounted as read only for some reaon How does one get around that? Ed At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, Mark Weaver wrote -= have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way? Ed Ed, At this point I would boot the install CD. when the startup screen appears choose F1 and then type rescue. When everything has loaded and is running you will cd to /mnt/bin, then rm -vf ps and that should take care of the problem. Then reboot the machine and log in as root. INstall the package for ps and that is that as they say. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Luckily, having a recent backup I didn't have to resort to a re-install But I did learn something new about file attributes in fs2 though. It seems that ps was set with the immutable attribute - hence not deletable or writable or even changeable without first resetting the attribute with chattr. From the man page for chattr: A file with the `i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file and no data can be written to the file. Only the superuser can set or clear this attribute. Once we cleared all the atributes, we deleted the offending programs and re-installed procps. They had changed just about every tool one would use to monitor activity including ps, netstat, w, who and a few others... That was no fun... Thanks again for the help!!! Ed Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. -Mark Twain Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
hi all. i'm also trying to figure out how to get japanese working on my system. the main freewnn site is at: http://www.freewnn.org/ (in japanese), but they have an english page at: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/tomoko-y/biwa/root/wnn_e.html here are some other links that i've collected, but have yet to really go through and try: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html http://freekde.org/article.php?sid=5mode=nestedorder=0 http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wp7s-mrn/slack80.html (japanese; says slackware, but could apply to any distribution, i think) if one of you has time to try and gets it to work, please let us know! :) hope the above links help... all the best. p.s.i will try to read through the japanese dox. i've lived and worked in japan for the past 6 years at a japanese systems integration firm, and passed level 2 of the jetro business japanese exam. (currently in hometown of philly though). :) At 14:17 01/12/27 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:01:18 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo yes there is, its called FreeWNN and i think its somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd CD (the japanese locales is in the 3rd CD). how to make it work, i still do not know. there is no accompanying docu for the rpm and the website is in japanese. im still trying to figure it out as my nihongo is not that good ( i just took JLPT level 4 and i dont know if ill pass ;-). you will also need a terminal that is unicode-aware and the installation CD has kterm but it sucks. there was an article in the mandrakeforum.com related to this but i havent really read it yet. if you have made any success ill be grateful if you could give me some pointers even if privately. domo arigato gozaimasu. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === 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] Spam
I heard a second hand story from someone who had setup a defined list of people who he could receive e-mail from in his evolution client. Anyone whom wasn't on his list would receive an automated warning saying if they e-mail him again they must pay a 5,000 dollar fine. Eventually it caught someone; he took them to court and won just an idea. Adam On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Alan Dunford wrote: Has anyone had experience with spam filters - I am thinking of those routines which will identify spammed messages and send relevant data to the growing spam filter servers? I have had a cursory look at spamassassin and mailscanner but have not got either running successfully. Having had this new account for two weeks only, I am now starting to receive spam and would like to do my bit to reduce this annoying menace. Any help would be much appreciated. Regards -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming to you from a Microsoft - free zone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is an anti-virus mandatory ?
thank you very much!!! :) At 11:32 01/12/26 -0900, you wrote: Security levels go as follows Welcome to Crackers --Level 0 -- no login or password and you are running as root Poor -- No checks and no passwords, user and root are distinct Level 1 Low -- Suitable for a modicum of security on unconnected computers ... Passwords and users are intact but no dynamic checking is done. Medium--Dynamic security checking is done and you get mail from the msec daemon about weak points Suitable for workstations connected to internet High--checking and correction of some problem areas is done Root login is not allowed, no services are started by default Suitable for most server use Weak passwords not permitted Paranoid--Level 5--Suitable for DNS and other servers where tunneling becomes a possibility. Most everything has to be run in chroot jails or it won't work. Now for more detail, try file:/usr/share/doc/msec-0.15 right on your installed system. Same general rule applies--look for a program name folder in /usr/share/doc when you have questions about other software. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, tester wrote: Civileme! Isn't possible that using a third party program (like Norton System Works) the windows swap file is located at the end of the disk? This happened to me once! I had to use the 'original' defrag [sorry I forgot the real name!] from MS (I know that defrag was bought from Norton!). Ricardo Castanho This one means that a windows program has placed a non-relocatable cluster near the end of the disk or that you are using the NTFS filesystem which we do not write-enable in the install kernel. SInce you are running 98 which does not support NTFS, do the disk defrag and scroll down on the full display--near the bottom you will find one or more red-marked clusters. The solution is non-trivial, Either remove programs one by one and defrag and try linux after each such removal or install linux on another large disk with a grub boot, copy all of your windows data over (but not your installed programs), then scrub windows and go back to fdisk and set up windows on a smaller primary partition, reinstalling software then set up linux again on the primary master drive and mount the second drive to restore the data you wanted to back up. I have done this in another situation--a rather full 10G disk where Win98 was installed and the user attempted an XP upgrade, losing mouse and keyboard (both Microsoft brand hardware products, BTW) in the process. I could not shrink the winpartition enough to make room for the 2.2G of data he wanted to rescue, so I used a second disk and a linux install on it, then scrubbed the first disk after copyiong over the info he wanted. The clean install of XP still could not see his mouse or keyboard, so he is running 98 and Mandrake dual boot these days, and he seems very grateful that linux was able to save his data from an otherwise trashed situation. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com - -- delivery NOT reliable = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Para mais informações veja http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwqug4ACgkQqJymTCNNyXGByQCgrYWSrQna1gn0mAmnRabi/RMr GV4An3DD04wz5YKxBd0tZlrb5G9KwHE1 =Qykl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, I am no expert on windows and I have never used Norton, but putting the swap file out there is possibly a way to mess things up. Certainly placing the swap file where there is _guaranteed_ to be a lot of stepping is very inefficient, but then most winprogrammers are more concerned with just getting something to work cause no one really uses all that horsepower under the hood. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
I was hping to do Japanese reading and writing without installing a Japanese OS interface. Every time somebody suggests something like that I always think, Do they also suggest installing a French OS if they want to read and write email in French? :-) I didn't see anything in the installation about additional languages. Certainly nothing came up during the recommended install. Is there a way of running the installer again and adding stuff to the existing installation? Thanks, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): Doug Lerner wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo H well since you have one partition open where win2k was, try searching on Two Mandrake at www.mandrakeforum.com and set up a second mandrake system and choose to _install_ in Japanese. Also, the install usually permits additional languages--there is no specific kit, just additional languages that may be chosen. Civileme 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
Hmm... I just read the Japanese freewnn page, and the Japanese install instructions. Two comments: * The page hasn't been updated in over two years. Is that project even active anymore? * The installation instructions end with And that is how you install the server part. Then you need to set the clients to use wnn. I'll post instructions on how to do that in a few days. But that is it. :-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): hi all. i'm also trying to figure out how to get japanese working on my system. the main freewnn site is at: http://www.freewnn.org/ (in japanese), but they have an english page at: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/tomoko-y/biwa/root/wnn_e.html here are some other links that i've collected, but have yet to really go through and try: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html http://freekde.org/article.php?sid=5mode=nestedorder=0 http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wp7s-mrn/slack80.html (japanese; says slackware, but could apply to any distribution, i think) if one of you has time to try and gets it to work, please let us know! :) hope the above links help... all the best. p.s.i will try to read through the japanese dox. i've lived and worked in japan for the past 6 years at a japanese systems integration firm, and passed level 2 of the jetro business japanese exam. (currently in hometown of philly though). :) At 14:17 01/12/27 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:01:18 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo yes there is, its called FreeWNN and i think its somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd CD (the japanese locales is in the 3rd CD). how to make it work, i still do not know. there is no accompanying docu for the rpm and the website is in japanese. im still trying to figure it out as my nihongo is not that good ( i just took JLPT level 4 and i dont know if ill pass ;-). you will also need a terminal that is unicode-aware and the installation CD has kterm but it sucks. there was an article in the mandrakeforum.com related to this but i havent really read it yet. if you have made any success ill be grateful if you could give me some pointers even if privately. domo arigato gozaimasu. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
I did find this page. A lot of steps, but maybe I'll give it a try: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stefanss/japanese/index.html doug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
