[newbie-it] Editing come Root
Salve a tutti, devo aggiungere una riga ad un file,ma solo il "Root" user può modificarlo; vorrei sapere utilizzando un editing di KDE (con finestra) come faccio, dopo averlo aperto ed editato, a salvarlo con i diritti del"RootUser" ? saluto e ringrazio Marco Fortini
[newbie-it] Directory del Kernel
Salve a tutti, ho installato un Mandrake 8.0 con Kernel 2.4.3 come mai delle istruzioni dettagliate di un "Howto" danno per scontato che esiste una directory /usr/src/linux, mentre da me non esiste. di fatto non posso eseguire le istruzioni perchè anche quando poi invio il comando "make menuconfig" mi dice che non trova il .Config in tale sottodirectory linux Dove sta il Kernel ? Forse le istruzioni non si rivolgono alla versione 8.0 ? saluto e ringrazio Marco Fortini
Re: [newbie-it] Editing come Root
Entra nel sistema kde come root. Quando all'avvio kde ti chiede la password scrivi come userId: root e come password la password di root. - Original Message - From: Marco Fortini To: Mailing list Linux Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 6:08 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Editing come Root Salve a tutti, devo aggiungere una riga ad un file,ma solo il "Root" user può modificarlo; vorrei sapere utilizzando un editing di KDE (con finestra) come faccio, dopo averlo aperto ed editato, a salvarlo con i diritti del"RootUser" ? saluto e ringrazio Marco Fortini
Re: [newbie-it] Editing come Root
Il sab, 2002-01-12 alle 19:33, Stefano ha scritto: Entra nel sistema kde come root. Quando all'avvio kde ti chiede la password scrivi come userId: root e come password la password di root. O più semplicemente partendo da utente normale puoi aprire un terminale, digitare su root, premere invio, poi alla richiesta inserire la password; nel terminale (non nel restante ambiente grafico) sei root. Se ti è più comodo, puoi dallo stesso terminale lanciare un editor di file che potrai così usare come utente root e apportare i cambiamenti necessari ai files che ti interessano. Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] Directory del Kernel
Il 18:22, sabato 12 gennaio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Directory del Kernel, ha scritto: Salve a tutti, ho installato un Mandrake 8.0 con Kernel 2.4.3 come mai delle istruzioni dettagliate di un Howto danno per scontato che esiste una directory /usr/src/linux, mentre da me non esiste. ma, i sorgenti del kernel, li hai installati? altrimenti niente /usr/src/linux !! di fatto non posso eseguire le istruzioni perchè anche quando poi invio il comando make menuconfig mi dice che non trova il .Config in tale sottodirectory linux Dove sta il Kernel ? dove vuoi, baste che il link /usr/src/linux lo punti -- bye miKe Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.16-pk @ hp Xe3 R.U.# 219755 - S.R.U.# 705 - R.M.# 110932
[newbie] SIS630 / SIS301 video ?
Hallo! Does any of you have that video card? It belongs to SIS630 motherboards' chipset and this chipset includes LAN (SIS900) and audio (SIS7018). If you've got it installed please tell me how the video card performs in 3D (games). I know there are linux drivers for them at http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm but i don't know if they are working fine... Ah! I've seen a laptop with SIS630 and SIS630s chipsets, so that's why i'm asking you this ;) Thanks in advance! ;) -- 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] can we play cracked games with the new wine
umm since thats a shady question, then i suspect you wont get an answer here.. feel free to try but its up to you to support warez..after all if this was windows list you wouldnt ask for help with pirated shiznit.. im dont have much against warez per se but im not gonna help either...and i reckon youll not find too many else here that will either..try irc in a shady channel... mikecola Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:12:47 -0800 (PST) NY-Bro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [newbie] can we play cracked games with the new wine I understand that the new wine version supports games like quake 3 and counter strike, but here is my question can it be used to play games that are already cracked? like any of the cracked versions of counter strike? Or do we have to have the cd version of the game? Rob... ' __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ message.footer ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What can Linux do ???
yes if you either download the block (module), or write it your self, heck a shorter list might be what PHP and MY sql can NOT do. you might try hoard, imap-php, php-groupware, as far as other stuff linux can do, what do you want to do? windows=where do you want to go today Mac= go where you want, do what you want today MDK-linux been there, done that, got the tee shirt, why do you ask? On Friday 11 January 2002 21:16, you wrote: Oh can php create a webmail interface .. ? Best Regards, SKLIM +6012 391 3638 - Original Message - From: NDPTAL85 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What can Linux do ??? On Friday, January 11, 2002, at 08:35 PM, SKLIM wrote: Hi! I have configure Linux DNS , Sendmail SMTP Server , Squid Proxy , Apache and Samba Server. What can Linux do more ... ? Because I need come with a solution for Linux. Best Regards, SKLIM Install PHP and mySQL and start making some dynamic websites. --- I think, therefore, I am... not related to you. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Capture Suggestions Sought
I have quite a bit of analog video footage (i.e. standard VHS videocassettes) that I am interested in capturing and outputting into some kind of vcd format. From what I read, it is possible to put video onto a standard (non-DVD) CD-R in a format that can be played by most DVD players. If anyone has successfully done something like this in Linux, I would be grateful to hear of what hardware/software you used and what steps you followed. Thanks. if you have the power pack, or prosuite, you shou;ld have a video editing package called broadcast2000 or bcast2000 install and edit your videos with it, render the video as mpg1, and save. use gcombust to save and burn as *.vcd and stick the cd into your dvd to see the movies. I am sure there are better ways to save as .vcd, and some where some one must know more about the meni system used in dvd players than I do Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail install?
often deleteing the first message (In the Kmail outbox) will cure the sending problem you had, often a mal-formed address will cause no server to pick up the message, so it stays in the outbox ,blocking the rest of the messages. On Friday 11 January 2002 09:52, you wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:44:11 -0500 Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I guess I'll have to install KDE then. Unless anyone knows of a better mail package out there? Hi there, I was just loving using Kmail as my email client, and then it started to act up. I started having problems sending to this list, my emails all of a sudden had SMTP errors while trying to send. A helpful individual here on the list suggested I use a different program. There is a few to choose from in LM 8.1. So I've started using Sylpheed. So far it's been great. There's also Mozilla, Netscape Mail, Evolution, all waiting to be discovered. Have fun. Mick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install win after install linux?
winblows does not have to be first, the install likes it (insists?) better tho, you can install and then change the harddrive toi the second channel, use lilo to dual boot. On Friday 11 January 2002 15:27, you wrote: As far as I know, Windows has to be the first primary partition of the first harddrive. He'd have to switch them. Miark - Original Message - From: James Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] install win after install linux? I really don't think you'd have to. That's why you make the linux disk the master. It will boot from hda, it will be hda. Then, it will see teh winders as hdb probably as a new device. It might prompt kudzu. You can easily then go change things using linuxconf. I really don't think an extra drive should mess with anything and cause a kernel panic. If it do, take out the winders disk. - Original Message - From: Fadel Cazor Casis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] install win after install linux? but, is possible boot in prompt mode (or like this) and mount manually /etc and modify fstab (change hda for hdc) and lilo conf for boot linux in hdc win in hda? Miark wrote: I could be mistaken, but I think swapping HDs will screw things up for at least Linux. It'll be looking to boot from hda, but will find Winsux and cause a kernel panic or something like that. There's probably a way around it, but I couldn't tell you what at the moment. fstab would have to be changed, lilo would too. It would definitely be a rescue operation. Miark - --- 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] can u read this?
This might help: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Damian G wrote: hey... i thought i was asking a simple question... ( perhaps too simple to be answered? ) did the list get my message? this is not the first time i get no response when i come here with a question.. :o/ a simple dunno will do... i was asking why i have to open harddrake every time i boot in order to get my sound working, and if devfs had anything to do with it... any ideas on how to solve this? bye. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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] Help with Real Player Plugin
On Monday 17 December 2001 13:36, you wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7179-1008635553-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have installed the RealPlayer Plugin into Netscape 6.2 for Linux. When I go to my work site (npr.org) to listen to a real-audio file, I keep getting an error that says that I have some conflict with the audio being opened. Audio does work, I have the KDE startup and exit music, I can play CD audio as well. I also have play audio from various games. In this multi-user environment, what else should I check for to see what could be taking away the audio from Real Player? I'm using LM 8.1 and I think the RealPlayer is from the 7.2 cdrom, because I had problems installing RP 8.0. Thanks in advance Dennis Herndon Manager Audio Engineering Support Services National Public Radio Engineering Washington, DC 20001 after adding these line to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file (at the end, as root) or running them as root in a text console it seems to have helped MY real-audio to listen to NPR (my favorite radio on the planet, personally) ln -s /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp ln -s /dev/sound/sequencer /dev/sequencer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [expert] How I got my USB card reader to work!
I haven't been able to get my SimpleTech Flashlink to work with Mandrake 8.1 - it keeps getting identified (after modprobe) as a 1 gig scsi drive, even without a card in it. I suspect that the fact that it's a combination reader, for both Compact Flash and Smart Media, might be the problem. At least, I've read of cases of units that are solely one or the other being able to work with Linux. I will try your fstab entry, though, just to see if it will work. - Original Message - From: Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:21 PM Subject: [expert] How I got my USB card reader to work! I have a PNY Smart Media reader that I purchased to read the Smart Media cards I use with my Olympus D460L digital camera. Like everyone else on the lists, I was unable to get it to work successfully with Linux (worked fine under Win98). But, tonight I got it to work! All I did was add the following line to my fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia msdos user (without the quotes, of course). The best that I can figure is that the msdos file system type is different from the vfat and that is why auto and vfat failed. I came up with this by looking at the properties of the reader under Windows and it showed the card was written to with 16bit MS-DOS. So, I thought I'd try it under Windows and it worked! My reader is listed under disks under Hard Drake as a SCSI on sda and the card is correctly identified as 32MB. I don't know if this will work for anyone else, but I post it hoping it will Joe 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] binding ip and new registered domain based website, have problem
On Friday 11 January 2002 07:09 pm, eric wrote: Dear linux user: about how to binding ip and domain name, I mean I have 12.34.56.78 's static ip, I can see test webpage by type in url as http://12.34.56.78, and I also register a domain name , like linuxspice.com , so I put the server name at apache config file as www.linuxspice.com, the other is default, but I can not see my site(that test page) by http://www.linuxspice.com, should I change /etc/resolv.conf domain centurytel.netto linuxspice.com? If you just want to see it YOURSELF, put it in /etc/hosts 12.34.56.78.linuxspice.com 12.34.56.78.www.linuxspice.com If you want the REST of the world to see it you need some DNS records. linuxspice.com. IN A12.34.56.78 www IN A12.34.56.78 ftp IN A12.34.56.78 smtp IN A12.34.56.78 pop IN A12.34.56.78 pop IN MX 10 linuxspice.com. smtp IN MX 10 linuxspice.com. put these in the zone file for linuxspice.com at NS1.DOTSAWAY.COM Good project, since you have a static IP do your own DNS. -- Gerald -- Registered Linux User 255245 Register at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] is client scanning possible with samba?
Hello, So far things are going well. I've got samba up and running finally. It needs a little tweaking still, but it's working. I've got an HP OfficeJet G55 all-in-one printer connected to the samba server. I installed it using cups for the print manager. Behind the server I've got 3 win2k clients. I installed drivers locally on each client for the printer and set them to send print jobs in raw mode. That has been working fine so far. They bought this particular printer so they could scan and make copies at the office. In the supported printers section it mentions that scanning is supported on this printer via sane. So, if I install the proper sane drivers and so forth to get scanning to work under 8.1, is it then possible for me to configure each client to be able to scan via samba/sane or samba/raw data? I've been looking for mentions of this in the samba doc's and mailing lists and haven't come up with anything. If it's not possible via samba, does anyone have any idea how this might work? I mean, I suppose I could reconfigure the network a little bit, connect the printer to a win2k client and set it to do the sharing. That way I should be able to scan fron each client machine using native windows drivers. That's how I originally had the printer connected. I found that printer sharing is a LOT more stable under samba when it's working vs. win2k peer-to-peer though. Besides, the idea is to eliminate the need to utilize any peer-to-peer functions on this network. I'd much rather enable scanning via the server if possible. Anyway, thanks for your time, Ken __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING
(swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? For family members, it is often the most difficult and painful decision they will face: to accept that a loved one - a parent, a spouse, perhaps a sibling - is technologically impaired and should no longer be allowed to live independently, or come near a computer or electronic device without direct supervision. The time has come to place that loved one into the care of an Assisted Computing Facility. But you have questions. So many questions. We at Silicon Pines want to help. WHAT EXACTLY IS AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? Sometimes referred to as Homes for the Technologically Infirm, Technical Invalid Care Centers, or Homes for the Technically Challenged, Assisted Computing Facilities (ACFs) are modeled on assisted living facilities, and provide a safe, structured residential environment for those unable to handle even the most common, everyday multitasks. Most fully accredited ACFs, like Silicon Pines, are an oasis of hope and encouragement that allow Residents to lead productive, technologically relevant lives without the fear and anxiety associated with actually having to understand or execute the technologies themselves. WHO SHOULD BE IN AN ACF? Sadly, technology is advancing at such a dramatic rate that many millions, of all ages, will never truly be able to understand it, putting an undue burden on those friends and family members who must explain it to them. But unless the loved one is suffering from a truly debilitating affliction, such as reinstallzheimers, the decision to commit is entirely personal. You must ask yourself: How frustrated am I that my parent/sibling/spouse is unable to open an email attachment? How much of my time should be taken up explaining how RAM is different from hard drive memory? How many times can I bear to hear my dad say, 'Hey, can I replace the motherboard with a fatherboard? Ha ha ha!' To make things easier, we have prepared a list of Warning Signs which we encourage you to return to often, or, if you can't figure out how to bookmark it, print out. Also, please take a moment to read I'm Glad I'm in Here! - A Resident's Story. MUST IT BE FAMILY, OR CAN I PLACE ANYONE IN AN ACF? Several corporations have sought permission to have certain employees, or at times entire sales Departments, committed to ACFs. At present, however, individuals can be committed only by direct family or self-internment. The reason is simple: there are not nearly enough ACFs in the world to accommodate all the technologically challenged. For example, there are currently only 860,000 beds available in ACFs, but there are 29 million AOL users. HOW MUCH WILL IT COST? ACF rents range from free up to $12,500 per month. The disparity is currently a point of contention in the ACF industry. Many residents are covered through government programs such as Compucaid or Compucare, but reimbursement rates are low and only cover a portion of the fees. Exacerbating the situation are the HMOs (HelpDesk Maintenance Organizations), which often deny coverage, forcing residents to pay out of pocket or turn to expensive private techcare insurers such as BlueCache/BlueScreen. Offsetting the costs are technology companies themselves, many of which subsidize ACFs. Firms such as Microsoft, Dell, Qualcomm, and America Online will pay up to 100 percent of a resident's monthly bill, but there is a catch. ISPs, for instance, require residents to sign service contracts lasting a year or more. Microsoft, meanwhile, prohibits the installation of any competitive software, while Priceline requires that residents buy shares of its stock, which seems onerous but saves residents on lavatory tissue. HOW OLD MUST I BE TO HAVE SOMEONE COMMITTED? Until very recently, you had to be 18 or older to legally commit a family member. However, the now famous British court case Frazier vs. Frazier and Frazier has cleared the way for minors to commit their parents. In that case, 15-year-old Bradley Frazier of Leicester had his 37-year-old parents committed to an ACF in Bournemouth after a judge ruled Ian and Janet Frazier were a danger to themselves and the community. According to court records, Bradley told his parents about the I LoveYou virus and warned them not to click attachments, then the next day his parents received an I LoveYou email and clicked on the attachment because, they explained, it came from someone we know. WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR IN AN ACF? First, make sure it's a genuine Assisted Computing Facility, and not an Assisted Living Facility. To tell the difference, observe the residents. If they look rather old and tend to openly discuss bowel movements, this is probably 'assisted living.' On the other hand, if they vary in age and say things like, I'm supposed to figure that out? I'm not Bill Gates you know!,
Re: [newbie] SIS630 / SIS301 video ?
tester wrote: I have tweaked them a bit and they do work fine, and the drivers are already in the XFree4.1.0 Civileme, Interesting! When I try to install Mandrake 8.1 (or 7.2) (expert mode, both cases) (Matsonic 8308E(P) motherboard), it doesn't offer to install XFree 4, but only Xfree 3 (with or without the experimental 3D support). I assumed it was because the driver for the SiS 630 has some problems (as mentioned but not explained on the Xfree website). How can I force the installation of XFree 4 (or the framebuffer) during (expert) installation of Mandrake 8.1? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [ OT ] StarOffice 5.2 vs. OpenOffice 6.0
Thanks for your response! I haven't tried OpenOffice so I can't offer any comparisons. I see that others have, and I see your response that they have helped! Good luck! Randy Kramer Mandrake Newbie wrote: My swap space is not yet even touched. Actually, more than 100 MB are still free even if I'm using very heavy packages including Gnome 1.4 as my desktop. snipped Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING
On Saturday 12 January 2002 11:39 am, you wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? oh my ... lolol. I have a few candidates in mind. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unable to dial out due to logfile not opening
I cannot dial out using my external modem - any error message says cannot open logfile. I have checked my DNS settings in \etc\resolv.conf and they contain the correct DNS settings. I then deleted and reinstalled my ISP settings (username/password/phone number) and my PC can dial out to the modem but then just fails connecting. The error message says cannot open logfile. I can connect using another PC with the extact external modem and ISP, but not this particular PC. Can anyone help me, pleaase ? Minhaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING
At 11:39 AM 1/12/02 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? This originated on the SatireWire site several months ago. (See http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.shtml) Yup, it's funny. And so is a lot of their other stuff. See http://www.satirewire.com/news/0111/microsoft_settlement.shtml Case Settled: Justice to Break Up Apple for Making Microsoft a Monopoly http://www.satirewire.com/news/0103/outlook.shtml Foot-and-Mouth First Virus Unable To Spread Through Microsoft Outlook andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SIS630 / SIS301 video ?
Es Dissabte 12 Gener 2002 17:16, en tester va escriure: I have tweaked them a bit and they do work fine, and the drivers are already in the XFree4.1.0 Ok, fine. SiS has been the most linux-friendly of the chipset makers for a while. If you go to www.linuxbios.org, you will find that there is a BIOS that boots linux with framebufferX in 3 seconds installed on boards boasting the 630 chipset. 8-) If i purchase a laptop with that chipset i think i'll wait until garanty has expired ;) Performance of video is moderate, not what can be accomplished by say a voodoo card, but still quite well for an integrated chipset. This is almost the only thing worrying me. My first (and last) laptop was a 500mhz celeron with an AGP2x Ati and It had low performance for games... and my neibourgs were angry!! ;) I've found some information on SIS630 chipset at: http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000810/budget-02.html http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q4/001009/ But it is compared with a Geforce2 DDR. If i was sure the SIS630 graphics engine had similar performance to a Geforce2mx200 for instance... Poorly-designed boards with SiS 7018 sound sometimes cannot be detected, but a kernel driver has been in since 2.3.40. The ECS K7S5A is an example of poor board design limiting the usefulnes of the chipset (in this case the 735 from SiS). So i could have a linux with no sound... as i already had with my old laptop 8-/ The SiS900 also has a driver in the kernel, and those open-source drivers were written by SiS. Those are good news ;) CIvileme Thanks again for your answer! As i'm not in a hurry (it's for personal use) i'll wait until Athlon4 is really in the market ;) -- 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] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING
Gee, Tom -- do you think I could apply? One month, I installed W98 over 100 times, before realizing that my had motherboard died. So, I bought another one, but this time I plugged it in, and it had Linux on it! Btw, I'm still waiting for my refund from MS. Hopefully yours, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember, in your prayers, the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly with His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Step in system time at boot
Hi! I have a Mandrake 8.1 workstation with a dial-up internet connection. I'm trying to synchronize the system time to some ntp servers with chronyd package but it can't work well. I realised that there are two step in system time while the system boots up and I think that this affects the system time accuracy. Here is that part of the syslog file: Jan 12 17:56:59 cornflower kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] Jan 12 17:56:59 cornflower kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(00) Jan 12 17:56:59 cornflower kernel: parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(00) Jan 12 17:56:59 cornflower kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(00) Jan 12 17:56:59 cornflower kernel: parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(00) Jan 12 17:56:59 cornflower kernel: parport_pc: Strange, can't probe Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378, irq=-1, dma=-1 Jan 12 17:56:59 cornflower kernel: devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: 0 Jan 12 17:56:59 cornflower kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). Jan 12 18:56:45 cornflower devfsd: Started device management daemon for /dev Jan 12 18:56:45 cornflower devfsd: error calling: symlink in GLOBAL Jan 12 18:56:45 cornflower rc.sysinit: Running DevFs deamon succeeded Jan 12 18:56:45 cornflower devfsd[109]: error calling: unlink in GLOBAL Jan 12 18:56:46 cornflower rc.sysinit: Unmounting initrd: succeeded Jan 12 18:56:46 cornflower rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters: succeeded Jan 12 17:56:47 cornflower date: Sat Jan 12 17:56:47 CET 2002 Jan 12 17:56:47 cornflower rc.sysinit: Setting clock (localtime): Sat Jan 12 17:56:47 CET 2002 succeeded Jan 12 17:56:47 cornflower rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded Jan 12 17:56:47 cornflower rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions: succeeded Jan 12 17:56:47 cornflower rc.sysinit: Setting hostname cornflower.localdomain: succeeded Long lines are unfortunately wrapped. My timezone is CET (UTC+1), and the RTC is set to local time. Can anybody know what happens? Thank you in advance. Attila Zsigmond, Hungary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3
You might find winex is better than standard wine. They have put work recently into handling of CD's for games. Winex is a 'fork' of wine devoted to making games work. Eventually the work will be folded back into wine, but first the developers want to recover their costs by selling subscriptions. Go over to www.transgaming.com You will find there a catalogue of games, and how well they work under winex. If you want an RPM of winex you will have to subscribe for at least 3 months subscription at $5 a month, or else you can get the CVS source for free if you follow their links. HTH derek On Saturday 12 January 2002 02:38, you wrote: The only program that I use Win98 partition is Caesar 3. I'd like to wine it, and run it within Linux. So far, I've managed the get the splash screen with an empty dialogue box, and it hangs. I'm aware that the game needs the cd running, and therein lies my problem. How do you write the argument for wine to get it to run the cd? What I run: I've cd to /Caesar3 [all the files are on my linux partition] then typed in: wine c3.exe c3_mapping.exe Obviously, I'm missing something [perhaps /mnt/cdrom/Caesar3??] Any help will be appreciated [I'd really like to dump W98!] Tia, Andre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Accessing Windows Files
I am running W2K and my Man 8.1 seems to work with it fine (However, I have not accomplished any writing to the NTFS from Linux... Just reading). Hope this helps... =^} -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Stevenson Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 1:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing Windows Files On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:38:33 -0500 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 January 2002 23:04, you wrote: On Friday 11 January 2002 10:41 pm, Charles Muller wrote: Hello All, I am a newcomer to Linux and to this list. I hope that you will not be bothered by my extremely elementary questions. never I have installed Mandrake 8.1 in a dual boot with Windows 2000 on my Dell desktop. The first thing I would like to do is get some of my previous text documents transferred from the Windows sector into Linux. But with the KDE file manager, I cannot see into the Windows area. Can someone advise me on how to do this? Mandrake may have already set up your windows files as a directory under /mnt If you go into Konqueror File Manager, labelled 'home directory' on your desktop and look in the left pane you will see the root directory. Just click on the plus sign in front of it (like in Windows) or double click on it and all the 'sub' directories will appear. One of them will be the mnt directory. Click on the plus sign in front of it and within it should appear the windows directory labelled 'windows'. Once there, it should all be familiar territory. mnt is where linux puts other file systems and Mandrake is very good at setting it up during installation. hth, Bill W. You may have a problem if you have Win2K using NTFS? Not done it myself, but I think NTFS and Linux have a problem. Someone advise please? Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Small OS for Old Hardware
Barb wrote: I know this is a mandrake list, but I have a couple of old dells like that and I install Debian with a few floppy images and the rest a network install. Barbara At 03:59 PM 1/11/2002, you wrote: Shane, thanks for the response, but I am really looking for something even smaller than that...the problem may be that it doesn't have a built in CD-ROM, but a 1st generation backpack, therefore, I would like to be able to do a complete install from a handful of floppies... thanks again! ned - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Small OS for Old Hardware mandrake 7.2 (older but still a nice distro) would run fine on that chip and ram. but depending on what you like and the other laptop hardware the harddrive may be a bit tight:-) On Friday 11 January 2002 13:31, you spoke unto me thusly: I want to install Linux on an old laptop with currently has 98SP2 on it...it is a P1, 166, with 400 mg HD and 32 mgs RAM. I was pointed in the direction of both TinyLinux and SpyLinux, but I was wondering if anyone here had any better ideas...maybe a Mini_mandrake or something of the sort... Thanks in advance, ned -- Give me ambiguity or give me something else. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html http://www.nettwork.com/martin/mlmandrake/ It is German-only support at this time (German keyboard), but will run on a 386 with 4M OR http://linux-embedded.com/ Hosted by guess who? Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING
I'm with ya... I got a lot of ppl that could be put in this home... All My users at work, parents, wife, kids... Hmmm... Almost all I know... hehe Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING On Saturday 12 January 2002 11:39 am, you wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? oh my ... lolol. I have a few candidates in mind. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3
Thanks Derek, I downloaded winex CVS source last night. Everything went smoothly except for the final make install where I got an error message: Could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory. Invalid path `C:2\windows' for windows directory: does not exist Now, I'm confused. Are they talking about how LM names the directory (/mnt/win_c/windows) or MS (C:\Windows). The entry in the error message seems to be a mix of LM and MS! [My other drive is /mnt/win_2 but does not have windows installed, but is formatted VFAT.] Perhaps, as a newbie I messed up by doing everything as root. Now I don't have an entry for ./wine in my home directory . . .sigh! Can I do a mmake install as a local user as well? These things seem so simple, once you've got them working, but I'm unclear about the protocol for naming MS//LM drives -- which does Wine want? Can you help me out here? Tia, Andre On Saturday 12 January 2002 14:56, you wrote: You might find winex is better than standard wine. They have put work recently into handling of CD's for games. Winex is a 'fork' of wine devoted to making games work. Eventually the work will be folded back into wine, but first the developers want to recover their costs by selling subscriptions. Go over to www.transgaming.com You will find there a catalogue of games, and how well they work under winex. If you want an RPM of winex you will have to subscribe for at least 3 months subscription at $5 a month, or else you can get the CVS source for free if you follow their links. HTH derek On Saturday 12 January 2002 02:38, you wrote: The only program that I use Win98 partition is Caesar 3. I'd like to wine it, and run it within Linux. So far, I've managed the get the splash screen with an empty dialogue box, and it hangs. I'm aware that the game needs the cd running, and therein lies my problem. How do you write the argument for wine to get it to run the cd? What I run: I've cd to /Caesar3 [all the files are on my linux partition] then typed in: wine c3.exe c3_mapping.exe Obviously, I'm missing something [perhaps /mnt/cdrom/Caesar3??] Any help will be appreciated [I'd really like to dump W98!] Tia, Andre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember, in your prayers, the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly with His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3
Now, I'm confused. Are they talking about how LM names the directory (/mnt/win_c/windows) or MS (C:\Windows). The entry in the error message seems to be a mix of LM and MS! [My other drive is /mnt/win_2 but does not have windows installed, but is formatted VFAT.] Perhaps, as a newbie I messed up by doing everything as root. Now I don't have an entry for ./wine in my home directory . . .sigh! Can I do a mmake install as a local user as well? If you already did the work on your root account, just copy the config files to your regular user directory and change the permissions. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tried to install xwine cvs... got error
Hi, I'm trying out the xwine cvs did the standard ./configure make depends make and make install No errors at all [WoW] but when i try to run ./wine as root or as a my main user.. me, i got this error any clues... ./wine: Symbol `Dosvm' has different size in shared object, considerr re-linking wineserver: chdir /root/.wine : No such file or directory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OK I got LICQ working...
Took installing on Mandrake 8.1. I never did get it working on 8.0..the default install of Licq that is. As to what i did, i just installed the package, found my password was wrong; had to figure out where the dir. ~ was then edited the config file for Licq. Put in the correct password it works fine. Go figure. K so.. New question! (Right i see you're all scared now. Good!) I went into the Security tab in Control Centre. On install of Man. 8 or 8.1 the security setting always goes to Welcome to crackers! Yet i've changed it numerous times to Medium, as soon as i logout/in, it goes back to Welcome.. K so what the hell am i doing wrong...or rather wtf is Man. 8x doing !??? I also configured the little firewall utility in the Security panel. IS that Bastille's firewall!? If not, where do i find their utility? I did install it... Final Question (ya i'm full of them), I had found a driver for my MS Trackball Explorer. My HDD crashed a while back lost the bookmark *B HISSS to windows :(*. I have yet to be able to re-find the driver. Any idea where i can look? I wanted it b/c i have a 4 button trackball (5 if you include pressing the wheel) and Man.8x doesn't use all the buttons. It tends to dupe the functions on some of the other buttons. Help? Thx, Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3
Not sure how it works with CVS since I used the RPM's but you should end up with a folder called .transgaming in your home directory which in my case contains :- folder c_drive/ #which is your 'dummy C drive' for installing windows apps folder wineserver-username.localdomain/ cachedmetrics.:0.0 config dyndata.reg t g_config_version user.reg system.reg userdef.reg There is also a symlink between the .transgaming folder and ~/TransGaming_Drive When you install games using winex they will by default go into your dummy C drive in your linux partition. It is possible to install and run games from within your windows partition, but the lack of user id bits in the vfat file system means that if winex or wine goes crazy, it is theoretically possible for it to dump all over your windows registry or other vital files. Therefore the wine authors recommend installing windows games into a linux partition. derek On Saturday 12 January 2002 20:39, Miark wrote: Now, I'm confused. Are they talking about how LM names the directory (/mnt/win_c/windows) or MS (C:\Windows). The entry in the error message seems to be a mix of LM and MS! [My other drive is /mnt/win_2 but does not have windows installed, but is formatted VFAT.] Perhaps, as a newbie I messed up by doing everything as root. Now I don't have an entry for ./wine in my home directory . . .sigh! Can I do a mmake install as a local user as well? If you already did the work on your root account, just copy the config files to your regular user directory and change the permissions. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Root in Kongueror and download
I am using LM 8.1. I am the only user. I have read and write privileges for all directories and files. However, when downloading I can only download into my home/gary directory. Once downloaded i can move them to another directory while in root. If I try to download into any other directory, it goes someplace where I can't find it. Also I can not edit any files from Konquorer. Is there some way I can correct this? I would like to edit from Konquorer. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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[newbie] e-mail via SSL
Is there a HOWTO for doing e-mail via SSL? I found a HOWTO for e-mail via SSH but that's not what I want to do (besides, this HOWTO uses telnet to access e-mail which I have disabled). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Importing Addressbooks/kspreadsheets
I'm in the final stages of becoming a linux-only household, now that I have a usb flashcard reader that works. My final problem is importing my wife's Outlook Address book to the kaddress book. I've found that the kmail import tool will import all mail folders, after I imported the Outlook folders into Outlook Express, except the Contacts folder (it's in a proprietary MS format, and OE doesn't appear to really import it, but just reads it). I exported Contacts to a .CSV file, then imported that into kspread. Now, my problem is, how do I import and convert the ksp file into a .kab? I've tried opening my kaddress book and choosing fileimport, but the only option I'm given is to import the version1 address book (which I never set up). Hitting the 'folder' icon doesn't give me an option of opening anything, and 'fileopen' only gives me the option of opening a *.kab. Or, as an alternative, has anyone successfully imported a *.wab or a 'Contacts' folder without first converting it to another format, or if first converting, what format did you use? 'Contacts' is not a '.dbx' and Outlook won't export directly to '.dbx' anyway, only to '.dbf'. This Contacts folder contains hundreds of address, which she uses regularly, so redoing it by hand is a last resort. thanks e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script
one of my scripts logs into a cvs site and i want to send a carriage return as the next command so that i can (automatically) log in anonymously (return = anonymous login). the script pauses when the cvs site asks for the password though, and i have to hit return manually. after that though, the script continues to execute everything else fine. any ideas? thanks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script
I believe it's a ^M Can always give it a try while you wait for someone else who is sure. Dan B - Original Message - From: tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 3:43 AM Subject: [newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script one of my scripts logs into a cvs site and i want to send a carriage return as the next command so that i can (automatically) log in anonymously (return = anonymous login). the script pauses when the cvs site asks for the password though, and i have to hit return manually. after that though, the script continues to execute everything else fine. any ideas? thanks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] e-mail via SSL
SSL isn't a protocol in and of itself. It's a way of encrypting communications between two machines. You can, however, wrap just about any protocol in ssl (which is what they've done with pop3 / imap). Try linuxdoc.org to see if there is a HOWTO or do a search in your favorite search engine protocol ssl (where protocol is the type of connection you want to encrypt). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 02:24 PM 01/12/2002 -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: Is there a HOWTO for doing e-mail via SSL? I found a HOWTO for e-mail via SSH but that's not what I want to do (besides, this HOWTO uses telnet to access e-mail which I have disabled). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can we play cracked games with the new wine
I agree with u, no need to rip free software, but do u think I am going to pay whatever I have to pay to have Age of Emires, or MS Flight simulator? I am a very poor guy... --- Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: WINE seems to run cracked stuff better :) SomeTIMES, I even got a cracked version of Microsoft Zoo Tycoon to run perfectly under wine (good god did that game suck !!) especially stuff that uses secureROM and safedisc. I don't see a problem with windows warez, I do completely disagree with linux warez though, no need to rip off a company that's already bankrupt (long live loki) mark umm since thats a shady question, then i suspect you wont get an answer here.. feel free to try but its up to you to support warez..after all if this was windows list you wouldnt ask for help with pirated shiznit.. im dont have much against warez per se but im not gonna help either...and i reckon youll not find too many else here that will either..try irc in a shady channel... mikecola Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:12:47 -0800 (PST) NY-Bro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [newbie] can we play cracked games with the new wine I understand that the new wine version supports games like quake 3 and counter strike, but here is my question can it be used to play games that are already cracked? like any of the cracked versions of counter strike? Or do we have to have the cd version of the game? Rob... ' __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ message.footer ...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!- Trent Double Down (Vince Vaughn) -- www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com -- 11:15am up 1 day, 15:32, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.17, 0.18 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK I got LICQ working...
FemmeFatale wrote: Took installing on Mandrake 8.1. I never did get it working on 8.0..the default install of Licq that is. As to what i did, i just installed the package, found my password was wrong; had to figure out where the dir. ~ was then edited the config file for Licq. Put in the correct password it works fine. Go figure. K so.. New question! (Right i see you're all scared now. Good!) I went into the Security tab in Control Centre. On install of Man. 8 or 8.1 the security setting always goes to Welcome to crackers! Yet i've changed it numerous times to Medium, as soon as i logout/in, it goes back to Welcome.. K so what the hell am i doing wrong...or rather wtf is Man. 8x doing !??? Well Femme Fatale, you did nothing fatally wrong ! - I've wondered a bit about that myself, but it seems that it's only a glitch, the security-screen falling back to the cracker-welcome : Actually, it accepts your settings, for instance medium and keeps them, regardless of the cracker-message. You can verify that in numerous ways. A simple test : open a file-manager and try to read other users stuff. In medium-state that should be impossible (as long as you are not root). Then try to set the welcome to crackers-option, and repeat the procedure - you will now be able to do almost anything, included accessing other users files. If, on the other hand, you set the paranoid-option, you can do next to nothing ! - So relax, everything is OK. About Bastille etc., I think others are more capable then me, which leads to a good advice : it's a generally a good idea to post only one question at a time. That way it's easy to locate a subject in the mail-archive and the chances are you'll get more - and quicker - answers from various people here on the list. Bonne chance, Femme Fatale ! Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3
On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:48 pm, you wrote: Not sure how it works with CVS since I used the RPM's How's that working out for ya'? Are the games really enjoyable? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wine Caesar 3
Thanks for asking . . . I just dumped the mess I had created. Everything went fine until I got the error: Could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory. Invalid path `C:2\windows' for windows directory: does not exist Figured out it had to be the mess I created when the MBR wouldn't allow LILO to load (it's a WD hd with its own bootlaoder). Finally got LM working by loading another drive, D, with windows and linking back to C. Sounds messy: it was/it is. Soon, I'll be dumping windows, and getting a new hd. Fix it up then. IAW, Regards, Andre On Saturday 12 January 2002 18:20, you wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:48 pm, you wrote: Not sure how it works with CVS since I used the RPM's How's that working out for ya'? Are the games really enjoyable? -s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember, in your prayers, the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly with His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OK I got LICQ working...
On Friday 05 January 2001 03:09 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Took installing on Mandrake 8.1. I never did get it working on 8.0..the default install of Licq that is. As to what i did, i just installed the package, found my password was wrong; had to figure out where the dir. ~ was then edited the config file for Licq. Put in the correct password it works fine. I did the same thing. I had accidentally entered the wrong password when I started up LICQ the first time, and from there on out no amount of GUI menus would allow me to correct it. So I ended up deleting the .licq folder and starting over. Worked fine ever since (oh, and I'm still using 8.0). Regards, David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script
In perl, you could send a newline character: \n or the Control-M: \cM But I dunno about shell scripts. Miark - Original Message - From: tek1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 1:43 AM Subject: [newbie] sending carriage return from .sh script one of my scripts logs into a cvs site and i want to send a carriage return as the next command so that i can (automatically) log in anonymously (return = anonymous login). the script pauses when the cvs site asks for the password though, and i have to hit return manually. after that though, the script continues to execute everything else fine. any ideas? thanks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:19:12 +0100 Pinhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: subscribe newbie Uhm, happy to wellcome a newbie of course, but see this link to subscribe: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 ,note the address :) -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /dev/shm (again)
Thanks to who explained me /dev/shm (ach... I dleted the mail :( ); one thing I wonder, anyway: when I type df (diskfree) on a terminal, I now can see something like this: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc5 1965344 1342184523324 72% / none 63352 0 63352 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdc7 1164028 1087732 17168 99% /home /dev/hdc1 915424887536 27888 97% /mnt/windows /dev/scd0 369634369634 0 100% /mnt/cdrom /dev/shm started appearing here a few weeks ago, after I tried the Apply Filters option on KMail; before that, never saw it here... I'd like to understand what's happened exactly and whay *now* /dev/shm is listed... (you know, Windows is not exactly my fav OS because I'd like an OS let me know what it's doing... :-) Corrado Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB Scanner not seen
OK, I thought this was going to be an easy one. Apparently I was wrong. I have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner chosen partially because it is supported by SANE under Linux. I am running Mandrake 8.1 which has USB support. But the scanner does not show up in /dev/usb, though usbview shows it as present. And, of course, it doesn't show up --- nothing does --- in sane-find-scanner run as root. I downloaded and installed the latest versions of sane (1.0.6) and xsane (0.83) to no avail. Help! I have been through the newbie and expert email archives and found nothing that seems relevant. Where do I look next? Anybody got a spare clue for me? andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Scanner not seen
I don't know if this will help, since I don't have a USB scanner, but I do have a USB smart card reader. It shows up under /proc/bus/usb and also as a SCSI device as sda. Have you tried loading Harddrake and seeing if it sees your scanner? Joe On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:47 pm, you wrote: OK, I thought this was going to be an easy one. Apparently I was wrong. I have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner chosen partially because it is supported by SANE under Linux. I am running Mandrake 8.1 which has USB support. But the scanner does not show up in /dev/usb, though usbview shows it as present. And, of course, it doesn't show up --- nothing does --- in sane-find-scanner run as root. I downloaded and installed the latest versions of sane (1.0.6) and xsane (0.83) to no avail. Help! I have been through the newbie and expert email archives and found nothing that seems relevant. Where do I look next? Anybody got a spare clue for me? andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB Scanner not seen
On Saturday 12 January 2002 21:47, you wrote: OK, I thought this was going to be an easy one. Apparently I was wrong. I have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner chosen partially because it is supported by SANE under Linux. I am running Mandrake 8.1 which has USB support. But the scanner does not show up in /dev/usb, though usbview shows it as present. And, of course, it doesn't show up --- nothing does --- in sane-find-scanner run as root. I downloaded and installed the latest versions of sane (1.0.6) and xsane (0.83) to no avail. Help! I have been through the newbie and expert email archives and found nothing that seems relevant. Where do I look next? Anybody got a spare clue for me? andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Hi Andy, I hope I can help: I have an Epson 1240U, and had similar problems with LM 8.0 (I haven't upgraded yet.) First place to check: cat /proc/bus/usb/devices For my machine the vendor # is 0x04b8 and the Product # is 0x010b (it'll be different for your 1650U) once you've found the Product # you can modprobe: modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0--- create the device file in /dev: mknod /dev/usbscanner0 c 180 48 chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner0 then edit your /etc/sane.d or /usr/local/etc/sane.d: usb /dev/usbscanner0 Hope this helps: it got my scanner up and running in LM 8.0. I can't vouch what will happen in LM 8.1 because I've never seen the file system. Regards, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion. Remember, in your prayers, the suffering souls in Purgatory. May God bless you abundantly with His love! For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING
On Saturday 12 January 2002 01:13 pm, Andre Dubuc wrote: Gee, Tom -- do you think I could apply? everybody's eligible, sooner or later ;) One month, I installed W98 over 100 times, before realizing that my had motherboard died. So, I bought another one, but this time I plugged it in, and it had Linux on it! reinstallzheimers, In Texas we jus' call it 'sometimers' 'course that applies to just about everything Btw, I'm still waiting for my refund from MS. You still holdin your breath too ?? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING
On Saturday 12 January 2002 12:22 pm, Andy Davidson wrote: At 11:39 AM 1/12/02 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? This originated on the SatireWire site several months ago. (See http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.shtml) Yup, it's funny. And so is a lot of their other stuff. See http://www.satirewire.com/news/0111/microsoft_settlement.shtml Case Settled: Justice to Break Up Apple for Making Microsoft a Monopoly http://www.satirewire.com/news/0103/outlook.shtml Foot-and-Mouth First Virus Unable To Spread Through Microsoft Outlook andy Thanks Andy! Bookmarked. 'Course I vaguely remember I had this site book'd at one time and managed to loose it in the meantime. Surely that doesn't qualify me for commitment to an ACF tho . does it ?? Everybody loses a bit ever' once in a while with upgradeitis, and just 'cause I have a touch of CRS sort'a kind'a NBD, right? Normal right? .. ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Accessing Windows Files
Thanks to all who advised on locating the Windows partitions. Indeed, it was right there under root/mnt. Regards, Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary http://www.acmuller.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can we play cracked games with the new wine
On Saturday 12 January 2002 05:16 pm, NY-Bro wrote:
I agree with u, no need to rip free software, but do u
think I am going to pay whatever I have to pay to have
Age of Emires, or MS Flight simulator? I am a very
poor guy...
If you hadn't mentioned MS Flight simulator I probly woudn'ta
responded. FS won't run under any wine I've ever tried. To crack or
not is, and should be a personal, subjective decision. And cracks can
run anywhere from eliminating the need to have the store bought CD in
the drive to run the game (like FS), to outright theft, with no
intention of ever buying, to even worse, selling of pirate copies.
OTOH, ...
There's more than one wine, comes in several flavors. Seems there's
the 'regular' wine that's released now'n then (the rpm is probly on
your ML CD's), the 'snapshot' (latest CVS) source version, specialized
distro versions, and codeweavers'. There probly more, but my best
experience has been with Codeweavers, even tho their version seems to
always be a little behind the latest release.
http://wine.codeweavers.com/ Auto install, no need to edit a
wine.conf file, config is detected and generated (altho it ain't that
hard to do with 'regular' wine either). I'm currently usin
codeweavers-wine-20011108-5.i386.rpm with good results for Apple's
QuickTime and M$ Auto Map on cooker ML 8.2 (~ 1/12/02).
As to special distro versions of wine (like ML Gaming version), I
have no experience. Well, maybe other than like anything else, and it's
apparent to me anyhow, that changes (ie, kernel, kde/gnome/other WM,
libs, modules, apps, etc) on your basic Linux system will affect how
these sort'a kind'a borderline proprietary (eg, wine), to down right
evil B$ corrupt (eg, windoze stuff) apps will function under Linux.
IE, upgrade nVidia drivers... break what was a good workin wine. So a
specialized distro might have better control of this ... if you don't
ever change anything, and don't have any special hardware requirements.
YMMV, but that's why I dual boot W98 to fly (M$FS) airplanes ;
with no M$ CD in the drive ;~
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
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[newbie] Apache problems
Still having apache permission problems. I can't find the messages that were just sent to the list on how this was fixed. I am not even sure if its a permission problem, everytime I type in my webaddress it changes to 192.168.0.3 which I thought was how my windows box connected to the network, any one have any clues? -- Got Root? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
