Re: [newbie-it] come faccio funzionare il modem?
tom wrote: OK! ora mi manca solo la scheda audio! li non saprei proprio dove sbattere la testa. se qualcuno ha qualche idea .dateme na mano! Prima di fare cose piu` complesse (necessarie per certe schede audio) prova a disabilitare il supporto pnp del bios. Puoi farlo direttamente da BIOS, oppure vai nei file di configurazione di lilo o grub (quello che usi tu) e dove trovi le opzioni quiet devfs=auto aggiungi la parola nobiospnp con la stessa sintassi. Se usi lilo, ricordati di lanciare il comando /sbin/lilo per rendere effettiva la modifica. Al prossimo riavvio, prova a configurare la scheda con i classici tool (sndconfig, drakxconf, ...) ciao, Andrea
[newbie-it] Come passare in modalità grafica?
Per la verità è la seconda volta che spedisco questo messaggio, ma mi risulta non sia mai pervenuto... ho controllato nell'archivio e non compare... (in genere una copia giunge anche a me stavolta invece non è avvenuto) Comunque riformulo il quesito: Da ieri, per mia volontà, Mandrake 8.1 viene attivato solo in modalità testosi dice così no?, Dunque bella schermata nera... in modo talte da imparicchiare qualcosa sui comandi. Bene, il problema è questo: cosa devo fare se volessi tornare indietro? Se, insomma, volessi riappropriarmi della schermata in modalità grafica (KDE o Gnome..)? Ciao Gigi
Re: [newbie-it] Come passare in modalità grafica?
Perfetto!! Grazie tante. Una volta entrato in modalità grafica sono andato nel Mandrake Control Center, dopo ho scelto Boot, quindi Boot Config e ho deselezionato la voce Launch the X-Windows...etc., voce che avevo attivato precedentemente per entrare in modalità testo. Lavorando in modalità testo ho comunque appreso un sacco di cose soprattutto lo spirito di questo sistema operativo, praticamente nuovo per me, dato che lo sto studiando solo in questi giorni. E' però paradossale il fatto che non riuscissi a risolvere un problema. così elementare!! Mah!! Comunque ancora grazie all'amico L. De Pascale. Ciaooo Gigi Alle 10:51, martedì 12 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Emma e Gigi wrote: Per la verità è la seconda volta che spedisco questo messaggio, ma mi risulta non sia mai pervenuto... ho controllato nell'archivio e non compare... (in genere una copia giunge anche a me stavolta invece non è avvenuto) Comunque riformulo il quesito: Da ieri, per mia volontà, Mandrake 8.1 viene attivato solo in modalità testosi dice così no?, Dunque bella schermata nera... in modo talte da imparicchiare qualcosa sui comandi. Bene, il problema è questo: cosa devo fare se volessi tornare indietro? Se, insomma, volessi riappropriarmi della schermata in modalità grafica (KDE o Gnome..)? Ciao Gigi Non so se ho capito la domanda. Comunque (se stai chiedendo quello che penso): appena entrato in un account lancia startx. E questo aprira' l'ultimo desktop che hai usato. Poi dal centro di controllo dovresti trovare un opzione da flaggare. Nota: Io non mi ricordo piu' dove e' l'opzione, se la trovi mi maili?. Luigi
Re: [newbie-it] Cattiva qualità di stampa e problema con floppy
Il giorno 11:00, martedì 12 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Dopo aver installato mdk sto' cercando di creare un ambiente di lavoro accettabile :-) Grazie al consiglio di Daniele Micci ho risolto il problema dell'audio (in effetti era strano ascoltare un cd ad un volume così basso) Ciao, sono contento che il mio consiglio ti sia stato utile. il mio attuale problema riguarda la stampa dei caratteri con una laser lexmark optra e. La stampa avviene usando se non erro Cups o qualcosa del genere. Ma la qualità di stampa è scarsina i caratteri sono un po' sgranati con alcuni punti bianchi. Il fatto è che la stampante (e i driver) viene tranquillamente riconosciuta nel centro di controllo - nuova stampante. Qualcuno ha avuto un caso simile e come lo ha risolto? Non conosco la tua stampante, ma il fatto che l'installazione la riconosca senza problemi lascia ben sperare. Hai provato a configurare i parametri di stampa? Puoi farlo subito prima della stampa da un'applicazione, o utilizzando KUPS (se non lo hai installato, è sui CD). In entrambi i casi la configurazione - se usi CUPS - è molto simile alla finestra delle proprietà della stampante in Windows. Ieri ho provato a leggere il contenuto di un floppy (come utente pippo) ma non c'è stato verso. Cliccando su floppy c'è la possibilità di fare il mount (da quel che ho capito da utente bisogna farlo ogni volta) però viene fuori un msg simile a can't open device input/output error... lo stesso avviene per il cd rom e masterizzatore come devo comportarmi? I comandi devono essere dati da utente o da root e da terminale oppure da riga di comando oppure è indifferente? Probabilmente, hai lasciato DEVFS attivato. Devi modificare il file di configurazione del boot loader per disabilitare quell'opzione. Facci sapere se usi LiLo o GRUB. Scusate questa forma di parassitismo però non ho la più pallida idea di come muovermi in linux. Ad oggi (dopo una settimana) ho solo impostato il browser e configurato il tutto per ricevere e inviare le mail. Mi sarebbe utile copiare dall'ambiente linux alcuni file che ho in win. Stai tranquillo: il tuo non è parassitismo. Questa ML esiste apposta. Una delle cose che, da utente novellino, ho apprezzato più di Linux rispetto a Windows è proprio la maggior collaborazione che trovi in rete! Riesco ad aprirli e a leggerli. Ma abituato al copia e incolla non ho trovato un sistema simile. C'è rimedio? Che desktop manager usi: KDE o GNOME (o altro)? In KDE il copia/incolla di files funziona esattamente come in Windows. Personalmente, non uso praticamente mai GNOME (per quanto lo trovi più bello graficamente), quindi non so; ma immagino che anche lì sia così. Grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale risposta Ku68 Prego. Ciao! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?
Ciao ragazzi Ho un problema. Non riesco a vedere I divx. Ho provato con xine.compilo e istallo prima le lib poi passo a compilare ui e mi dice che prima devo istallare le lib...che ho gia istallato..mah Allora passo a xmps che vuole o il codec opendivx oppure le dll win 32..benissio... io non riesco a compilare nessuno dei due. Allora istallo il codec DivX 4.02 for Linux..tutto benee adesso come si usano? ; ( Morale della favola niente divx ; ( Qualcuno mi puo aiutare? Grazie Alberto
Re: [newbie-it] Skeda audio yamaha opl3-sax ......
Pollo wrote: Il dom, 2002-02-10 alle 17:07, Tom ha scritto: Avevo gia chiesto un aiuto per far funzionare la mia scheda audio una Yamaha opl3-sax sound system, e Pollo (che ringrazzio) mi aveva consigliato di modificare un file di grub. Per far funzionare la scheda devi aggiungere nobiospnp dopo il nome dell'immagine del kernel che vuoi avviare nel file menu.lst. noo qui non mene va dritta una! ho aggiunto nobiospnpma qui non si sente nulla! ho fatto tutto come hai detto tu.ma mi sa che qui devo avere qualche altro problema! x miKe : la scheda è questa, e per la domanda saei in grado di ricompilare il kernel? la risposta è no,ma spero di imparare al piu presto! x Andrea Celli : come rispondevo a Pollo ho modificato la stringa di un file di grub menu.Ist ma non ho avuto successo ragazzi ditemi ke dovrei fare? magari ora la scheda funziona ,solo che io la tengo con il volume al minimo! :) se si dovra ricompilare...vi avverto vi tempestero di mail per chiedere ogni minima spiegazione! grazie a tutti per la pazienza e aspetto vostre news Ciao , Tom -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Gratis per te il software per inviare e ricevere SMS direttamente dal tuo PC Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=278d=12-2
[newbie-it] come ci si cancella da quuesta perfida mailing list?
At 14.38 12/02/02 +0100, you wrote: Luigi De Pascale wrote: Heila' ho ancora qualche problemino con il PnP. Ecco il mio lilo.conf . append= devfs=mount append=nobiospnp .. append= devfs=mount failsafe ... - ho aggiunto io la riga sul pnp. Nonostante tutto il configuratore non trova nulla di pnp. Ci puo` essere un solo append per ogni blocco. quindi i tuoi devono diventare: append=devfs=mount nobiospnp .. append=devfs=mount nobiospnp failsafe Poi ricordati di lanciare /sbin/lilo, altrimenti i cambiamenti non vengono apportati su MBR. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] come ci si cancella da quuesta perfida mailing list?
leggendo i perfidi headers oppure recandosi sulla perfida pagina del sito di mandrake da cui ti sei iscritto oppure leggendo i quintali di e- mail con la stessa perfida domanda che trovi sul perfido archivio al perfido sito di mandrake! Ciao Un perfido Marco - la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una!!! -
Re: [newbie-it] Ancora PnP
Alle 14:38, martedì 12 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: cut Ci puo` essere un solo append per ogni blocco. quindi i tuoi devono diventare: append=devfs=mount nobiospnp .. append=devfs=mount nobiospnp failsafe Poi ricordati di lanciare /sbin/lilo, altrimenti i cambiamenti non vengono apportati su MBR. ciao, andrea Una domanda: disattivando il Pnp da bios, nel mio lilo.conf non trovo nessuna stringa che parli di nobiospnp; nulla di garve, vero? Voglio dire, il mio Pnp è disattivato e posso dormire tranquillo? ciao -- syd
[newbie-it] output
Saluti. Sarò un poco off/topics :) Avevo necessità di operare sotto ambiente dos (w2k/nt) usando una delle funzioni 'base' degli script unix, l'output di un comando nell'output di un comando padre... per capirci l'utilizzo in unix del ` che permette l'esecuzione e la cattura dell'output di un comando esterno. Esiste modo sotto dos? Se avete tricks inviatemi una email, è per un lavoro che sto svolgendo su batch dos (bla!!!)... thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cu s%N! Ciaociao Byez ! L8r \\marco [www] http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/verbal_666 ||| http://surf.to/verbal_666 [email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [icq] 19758469 ] do you have an opinion ? ] a mind of your own ? ] i thought you were special. ] i thought you should know. ] but i've run out of patience, ] i couldn't care less. ] now i lay me down to sleep, ] pray the Lord my soul to keep, ] if i die before i wake, ] pray the Lord my soul to take. ] 10 hippopotamuses to change your mind. ] Dance! Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. ] oh my God, it's full of stars!
R: [newbie-it] output
Saluti. Sarò un poco off/topics :) Avevo necessità di operare sotto ambiente dos (w2k/nt) usando una delle funzioni 'base' degli script unix, l'output di un comando nell'output di un comando padre... per capirci l'utilizzo in unix del ` che permette l'esecuzione e la cattura dell'output di un comando esterno. Esiste modo sotto dos? Se avete tricks inviatemi una email, è per un lavoro che sto svolgendo su batch dos (bla!!!)... thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Non è sufficiente la 'pipe', cioè il simbolo | ? Luca
Re: [newbie-it] Ancora PnP
syd wrote: . Una domanda: disattivando il Pnp da bios, nel mio lilo.conf non trovo nessuna stringa che parli di nobiospnp; nulla di garve, vero? Voglio dire, il mio Pnp è disattivato e posso dormire tranquillo? Si Io preferisco consigliare di togliere il supporto pnp da lilo/grub per due ragioni: - molti hanno paura a toccare il bios - molti hanno anche win che (credo) preferisce avere il supporto da bios ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] Star Office 6
Qualcuno di voi ha già provato ad installare Star Office 6 beta? Sapete dirmi se è stabile e soprattutto se vale la pena di sostituire la versione 5.2. Grazie, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] Star Office 6
From: Pollo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie-mandrake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [newbie-it] Star Office 6 Date: 12 Feb 2002 21:32:17 +0100 Qualcuno di voi ha già provato ad installare Star Office 6 beta? Sapete dirmi se è stabile e soprattutto se vale la pena di sostituire la versione 5.2. Grazie, Pollo. Caro Pollo ho trovato la star office 6 beta, e con il mio sistema non ha funzionato bene, io lavoro con la versione 7.0 di red hat . scusi il mio italiano,sono brasiliano O MSN Photos é o jeito mais fácil de compartilhar e imprimir suas fotos: http://photos.msn.com.br/support/worldwide.aspx
[newbie-it] kapm-idled
Ho questo processo che occupa l' 85.6% della CPU. A cosa serve? Devo preoccuparmi? Grazie anticipatamente, -- Ciao, Lux :-))
Re: [newbie-it] come ci si cancella da quuesta perfida mailing list?
At 15.42 12/02/02 +0100, you wrote: leggendo i perfidi headers oppure recandosi sulla perfida pagina del sito di mandrake da cui ti sei iscritto oppure leggendo i quintali di e- mail con la stessa perfida domanda che trovi sul perfido archivio al perfido sito di mandrake! Ciao Un perfido Marco - la mente è una cosa meravigliosa tutti dovrebbero averne una!!! - grazie per la perfida risposta.
Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?
--- Alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Beh tu trova la soluzione che il cappero lo mangio io! E poi ti prego di spiegarmela in ma,niera umana perché co sto linux sono un po 0 Comunque io le sorgenti di xine 0.9.5 sia le lib(gia istallate) sia le ui(che mi danno problema di compilazione perché non trovano le lib) In altre parole MAH ; ) Grazie ...Ecco il cappero e la soluzione ;)... Allora, le variabili da impostare sono XINE_CONFIG e LD_LIBRARY_PATH; la prima deve puntare al file xine-config (che di default viene installato in /usr/local/bin), la seconda deve puntare alle librerie di xine (che di default vanno a finire in /usr/local/lib). Per impostare delle variabili di ambiente si usa il comando export (man export per tutti i dettagli), quindi dalla shell puoi dare: export XINE_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/xine-config ed export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib In questo modo ti sei dichiarato le variabili, e puoi controllarle dando un export da solo, che ti visualizza tutte le variabili dichiarate all'interno della shell. A questo punto, ricompilando la ui (./configure make make install) dovrebbe andare tutto a posto. Occhio pero' a una cosa: le variabili hanno vita soltanto all'interno della shell nella quale sono state create: se per esempio ti crei le variabili e poi chiudi e riapri la shell, non le troverai piu' e se ne avrai ancora bisogno dovrai definirle nuovamente. In ogni caso queste variabili ti servono solo durante la compilazione della ui e non durante l'esecuzione di xine, quindi e' sufficiente che tu te le definisca prima di compilare. Spero di non essere stato troppo confuso... Fammi sapere!! Ciao! Steo. __ Dillo con una cartolina! http://it.greetings.yahoo.com/
[newbie-it] Mplayer
Stavolta non sono qui per chiedere aiuto, ma per riportare la soluzione a un problema :) Pur con tutte le questioni che ruotano intorno al programma, Mplayer resta il miglior lettore di file video per Linux; sono riuscito a risolvere i problemi di compilazione dei sorgenti (in rete li si possono trovare anche in formato rpm) semplicemente aggiornando il compilatore gcc alla versione più recente (sempre 2.96, però) scaricando il pacchetto e i (pochi) altri necessari per questioni di dipendenze da rpmfind; non ho riscontrato nessun effetto collaterale per l'aggiornamento, e sono riuscito a compilare Mplayer senza che il processo si blocchi per il non supporto da parte degli sviluppatori a quella versione di gcc... Corrado
[newbie-it] Kmail e allegati
Salve, volevo sapere un paio di cose: 1) è possibile fare in modo che nell'elenco dei messaggi di una cartella kmail mostri l'icona della graffetta per quelli che hanno l'allegato? 2) a volte oltre agli allegati soliti mi trovo anche il testo dell'email in html, che visualizzato mi restituisce il sorgente della lettera: si può eliminare? Grazie Ciao -- --- Perfect Dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Mandrake 8.1 P133 - 48 Mb Ram Incredibile! Posso fare altre cose con il PC mentre masterizzo!
Re: [newbie-it] Star Office 6
- Original Message - From: Pollo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie-mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Star Office 6 Qualcuno di voi ha già provato ad installare Star Office 6 beta? Sapete dirmi se è stabile e soprattutto se vale la pena di sostituire la versione 5.2. Io l'ho installata sotto linux e non è che l'ho molto esplorata. Miglioramenti: possibilità di creare un database con un foglio di calcolo da poter usare con writer, aggiunta di clip art, migliore maschera nella creazione di documenti col pilota automatico ed eliminazione desktop integrato. Peggioramenti: eliminazione dell'explorer (dove crei i vari gruppi), dello schedule e della possibilità di mandare e-mail. Se ti può interessare c'è una Ml dedicata http://www.domeus.it/groups/it.staroffice.openoffice e un ng free.it.software.staroffice (non è accessibile da tutti i provider) Ciao ku68
[newbie] pdf maker
Hi... Is it any application in linux which able to make/convert any documents in pdf format? thank u for your info... chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:15, christiyono wrote: Hi there, How to install Star office 5.2 in Mandrake 8.0 that every user can load and use it without installing in each user home directory? Is it true that every user must install it personally? Unfortunately, yes. You could probably write a shell script to automate the process, though, or install for one user and copy the fiiles to other users' home directories. BTW, I wouldn't recommend installing 5.2 - wait for 6.0 or use the latest Open Office build. Robin -- Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted. Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.
Hi, I checked it right now with the win2k Disk Management tool and it says FAT32. I know that Harddrake also says FAT32. Thanks, Seedkum Jeroen v.d. Westelaken wrote: Hi, 1,9 Gb is the legendary maximum amount of an older FAT type partion. Are you sure you used the right format? Greetings, Jeroen v.d. Westelaken EXEcute-IT Internet: http://www.execute-it.nl -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Seedkum Aladeem Verzonden: dinsdag 12 februari 2002 8:08 Aan: Newbie at MDK Onderwerp: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem. Hi, Harddrake says that a drive is taking the full space of a partition but the visible size is about half the size of the partition. The other half is not visible and I cannot reach it. The following is a description of what I did and what I observed. Hopefully someone can tell me what is going on and how to fix it. I had an NT4 NTFS partition (~1.9 Gig) and a FAT32 partition (~1.9 Gig). I used Harddrake to delete both of them and create a single FAT32 partition out of them (~3.8 Gig). When I looked at the properties of the directory mount point using Konqueror (with the new partition mounted) I saw a size of only ~1.9 Gig! Rebooting did not remove the discrepancy between Harddrake and Konqueror. Harddrake showed no empty (unused) partition. I went and installed win2k on this new FAT32 partition. Win2k did the same thing. Explorer said the drive was ~1.9 Gig but the Disk Management tool said it was ~3.8 Gig. The disk management tool showed no empty (unused) partition, like Harddrake. I hope somebody can make sense out of this. Seedkum 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] Installing StarOffice 5.2
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:15:40 +0200, Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:15, christiyono wrote: Hi there, How to install Star office 5.2 in Mandrake 8.0 that every user can load and use it without installing in each user home directory? Is it true that every user must install it personally? Unfortunately, yes. You could probably write a shell script to automate the process, though, or install for one user and copy the fiiles to other users' home directories. BTW, I wouldn't recommend installing 5.2 - wait for 6.0 or use the latest Open Office build. If you run the StarOffice setup with the /net flag, you'll only have to install a couple of megs worth of data into each user's home directory (i.e. not the whole suite). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I think that throttling writers is fine and good, but as it stands now, the dirty buffer balancing will throttle anybody, not just the writer. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DelTree
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:29:19 -0500 John Alex Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rm -rf top-level derectory going to be deleted This could be very dangerously if carelessly. you could also use mc for all your file management needs mc is a console file manager that resembles the old DOS Norton Commander it has lots of cool feature like browsing rpms and tar files and viewing pdfs, man pages, htmls as formated text. you can delete whole directories from mc very easily. cheers, Alaa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] writing/deleting files to a FAT32 partition
Richard, unfortunately I think that linux can't write/delete from a FAT32 partition. That was possible in the old FAT partitions, but became impossible with FAT32. Maybe you can find a program that makes it for you. For example, there is a program for windows that reads ext2 partitions and has experimental support for writting ext2 partitions. It is called explore2fs and you could try it in order to see if it can really write to an ext2 partition and then change your data partition to this format, this is an idea. Also you can look for a linux program that does the opposite, writting to a FAT32 partition. Well, I hope my suggestions can help you, good luck ! Rodrigo Barran, Richard wrote: Hello all, My home PC is set up with 3 partitions: - a FAT32 partition for Win98. - another FAT32 partition for data. - an ext2 partition for Mandrake 8.1 (straight out of the box, nothing special about it). My idea was that I'd use the data partition to store MP3s and so on, and that I could read from both Windows and Linux. So I download some MP3s within Windows and store them on the Data partition. Then... I tried to delete some of the files from within Linux, and I couldn't. I checked the file/folder properties and went 'aha': the owner of files on the FAT32 drive is 'root' and only 'root' has write permissions, although anyone can read/execute those files... ok, so I go to a command line, log in as root, and type 'chmod 777 filename'... nothing. The command seems to execute successfully (well, when I use the -v (verbose) switch it reports success), but a 'ls -l' straight after the chmod shows no changes to the file attributes. I tried this on both files and folders on the FAT32 partition, with no success in either case. Ok, I think, you can't set file/folder rights and permissions in FAT32, because it doesn't support the concept. So I give up... can anyone point out the simple thing I seem to be missing and that will allow me to manipulate files on a FAT32 partition from Linux? Thanks, Richard *** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.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] proftpd question
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=- wrote: %_I have set up proftpd to allow a user by the name anonymous to login and download files. They seem to be able to browse my other directories and download from them. Is there a way to make the user anonymous only able to view their home directory and download from that alone? DefaultRoot /ftp/ftp.foo1.com -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] finding my ip
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Paul Rodríguez wrote: %_ Is the ip address that shows up when I run ifconfig my real ip address? I connect via adsl i get assigned dynamic ip's, but how do I find out what my real ip address is right now? - Paul ifconfig should reveal your 'real' address, when you are connected to your ISP -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: %_Hi, I checked it right now with the win2k Disk Management tool and it says FAT32. I know that Harddrake also says FAT32. Sometimes you have to completely reinitialize a disk, I use IIRC dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx where x is the harddrive, sometimes /dev/hdd or /dev/hde Just make sure it is the right one, been-there and done-that too It takes some time, but thil will completely remove any bad configurations from a disk -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc
Walter Logeman wrote: In other words, I'd like to convert the text output from what comes out of col -b into something that would have each paragraph on a single long line so I can easily copy and paste it into a wiki. To piggy back on this... I used an editor in Windows called Textpad which allowed me to easily remove all the par endings. or reformat to a new line length. The editors i have tried Kate and Kwrite do not seem to have this option ... is there one around? I know... emacs - but I am not in the space to learn a new system... so far there are only two programs I miss from Windows - Textpad and Forte Agent - I am sure there are better ones here anyway, just have not found them. Walter (or anyone), I'm not familiar with Textpad so I'm curious about how it does that -- in Word I use search and replace to get rid of paragraph endings -- depending on what's in the document. In other words, I look at it with the view hidden text option on, and then I may do things like: (a sequence): * replace all ^p^p (two paragraph marks in a row) with %% (some odd symbols not used in the document) * replace all ^p (a single paragraph mark) with * replace all %% with ^p I wrote the above from memory -- I might have found some better ways, but can't recall at this time -- there usually is some manual cleanup to do. or, under other circumstances, * replace (4 spaces) with Again, at times I'll go further, like then replacing . with . (or something like that) -- again, there is manual clean up to do. The best editor I've found so far in Linux (IMHO) is nedit which includes search and replace using regular expressions, macros, and (incidentally), some ways to vary the wrapping of a line (I've only used what they call continuous wrap (I call it soft wrap) -- it wraps the text to the width of the screen while in nedit, not permanently -- in other words it does not insert any paragraph marks. Usually I still do the changes described above in Word, but nedit is certainly capable of them. Does Textpad have some better magic? Can you describe it or point to a link? Thanks, Randy Kramer PS: Nedit is included in Mandrake, 7.2 and 8.1, but was not installed by default on my last 8.1 install. IIRC, on a previous install I did find it on the disks and manually installed it after the install. Unfortunately, nedit looks a little klunky because it is based on lesstif and the lesstif widget set -- not as spiffy as a typical kde application. Some things are a little tricky -- it took a little learning on my part to be able to repeat a search and replace -- I had to learn to click the Keep Dialog checkbox before doing the first search -- otherwise, IIRC, it disappears and clears the search and replace strings. Also, the idiom of search and replace was a little strange to me (different than what I'm used to) -- after you find and replace the first instance, it doesn't automatically find the next instance -- you have to click find again. Now I'm wondering why I consider this my favorite editor in Linux (and I haven't checked them all). It shows black text on a white background by default. (Things like Cool Edit, IIRC, had some hard to read color combinations by default.) It has the soft wrap feature (few other editors had that). It has macros (few other editors had that). It has regular expression search and replace (I think several other editors had that). My search was a fairly quick comparison of the editors installed by default on Mandrake 7.2 -- these included kedit, kwrite, the k binary editor, cooledit, gedit, xedit, yudit. I ignored vim and emacs (I learned the important part of vim in an earlier experience (:q), and the important part of emacs (don't start it) ;-) -- I also ignored the command line editors like joe, jstar, pico -- I do use joe and jstar at the command line. (I may have sold pico short, but I heard it described as a simple editor -- I was looking for a full featured editor.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions: Nobody in Apache + PHP
Hi Kevin,
Just wanted to thank you for your help.
Figured out the problem -- it was partly permission problem (that you helped
to solve). I tried a simpler script, testing to see whether I could simply
write to a file. I could. It would even append. But back in the
graffiti.php it still wouldn't recognize or pass the variable.
I looked at phpinfo() output and noticed that:
register_globals=off and register_argc_argv= off
No wonder it wasn't passing the variable. The php.ini told it not to. Changed
both to on, and bingo - a working script!
Thanks again,
Andre
On Sunday 10 February 2002 01:42, you wrote:
Andre,
Yes, your problem is testing the script as root. As a rule of thumb, never
write scripts or test stuff as root. The root user should only be used
when you need to install something new, or perform system maintenance.
Kevin
- Original Message -
From: Andre Dubuc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Kevin Old [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Permissions: Nobody in Apache + PHP
Kevin,
My tmp directory was set to drwxrwxr-t -- I changed it, as well as the
graffiti.dat in /htdocs. The file in both /tmp and /htdocs was not
apache: apache but root:root. Is this where the problem lies? I'm testing
the
script
while in root (Btw, I wrote it in root: I can't seem to get any script to
work as user).
Where would I find errors in my browser?
Thanks for your advice!
Andre
On Saturday 09 February 2002 23:00, you wrote:
Andre,
I copied the code and executed it and worked fine for me.
Make sure your tmp directory is set like this
drwxrwxrwt4 root root 1024 Feb 9 16:41 tmp/
This is how the file was created
-rw-r--r--1 apache apache 0 Feb 9 16:38 graffiti.dat
Are you getting any errors back in your browser from PHP?
Kevin
- Original Message -
From: Andre Dubuc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Kevin Old [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Permissions: Nobody in Apache + PHP
Thanks Kevin,
You're right it's a permission thing, but it doesn't make any
difference
sinc
I palced Grafiti.dat and graffiti.php in the same directory (htdocs).
I
also
tried it in /tmp, setting the permissions the same. No go. Since this
is
a tutorial script, (PHP 101 - Part 5 from DevShed.com) I wonder if
there's a mistake in it: the variable $graffiti does not seem to be
defined except
by
the name=graffiti function in the form section.
My error log is a mess! Primary error: $graffiti not defined, and,
no permission to grafiti.php. The script is simple and should work: I
included
it below. If you would be so kind as to scan for errors (particularly
for
$graffiti definition):
html
head
basefont face=Arial
/head
body
?php
// set the file name
$filename = /tmp/graffiti.dat;
// open the file
$handle = fopen ($filename, a+);
// write the string to the file handle
fputs ($handle, $graffiti);
// close the file
fclose ($handle);
?
form action=graffiti.php method=get [I changed graffiti.php4 to
php] input type=text size=30 name=graffiti
input type=submit name=submit value=Add your two bits!
/form
?php
// Display current contents of file if available
if (file_exists ($filename))
{
echo bCurrent graffiti reads: /b;
readfile ($filename);
}
else
{
echo File not found!;
}
?
/body
/html
Somehow, I think there's a boo-boo in here (but then again, I'm a
newbie!
:)
Tia, (and thanks for your help!)
Andre
On Saturday 09 February 2002 20:47, you wrote:
Andre,
Yes, it has to be a permissions issue. Here's one thing that has
gotten
me
in the past. Make sure that the directory (and ones above it) for
grafitti.dat have the same permissions and are owned and grouped
exactly
as
grafitti.dat is. Try that and let me know what happens. Also,
check
your
Apache error_log for error messages and they might help you
pinpoint the problem.
As for your original question, nobody is just an ordinary user like
any
other. The only thing is that the nobody account is disabled so
that
nobody can log in in the normal way. The purpose of having such an
account is to limit the power of processes that run as this user
and
to
partition them off to some extent from other users although there
seems
to be something of a trend nowadays to run various services as
their own separate users (eg, in Debian: www-data for Apache, proxy
for squid, et al.)
If you want to know why 'nobody'
Re: [newbie] pdf maker
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 10:50, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:21:29 +0700, christiyono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it any application in linux which able to make/convert any documents in pdf format? Most apps can print to a postscript file. Do this and run ps2pdf to make a PDF version of it. Be careful about fonts though, or you may end up with a PDF file that looks fine viewed in, say, ghostview but is ugly (or even blank) in Acrobat/Windows (well, they've been doing it to us long enough ...). Any of the adobe font family should give you good clean results. A good way to find out command-line tricks is using the tab key. Type the format you want to convert from, hit tab, and you'll get a list of likely converters; e.g., ps - tab will get you ps2pdf, ps2ascii, ps2png andso on. If you have the pstricks package installed, you can find some fun stuff here. BTW, you can specify the compatibility level of the PDF file. If you're sure your readers have Adobe Acrobat 4+ or the equivalent, you can use ps2pdf13, though I've never bothered with it. Robin -- Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted. Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] writing/deleting files to a FAT32 partition
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:24:05 -0200, Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, unfortunately I think that linux can't write/delete from a FAT32 partition. That was possible in the old FAT partitions, but became impossible with FAT32. I think you're getting confused with NTFS. Linux handles FAT32 very well :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 2nd ed, p.25 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?
Greetings. Does anyone have a recommendation for a quicktime plugin for linux browsers? A search on Google turned up Crossover from Codeweavers ... does anyone have any feedback about this product? I was hoping for free, but I'll spend the $20 if it's a worthwhile program and nothing else is available. Thanks in advance for the help. Kenn _ 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] Re: Frontpage like application for Linux
On Monday 11 February 2002 08:46 am, Chuck Henson wrote: At 02:29 AM 2/11/02 +0100, you wrote: Now Hanan, why on earth use a mediocre WYSIWYG-editor when it's so simple to write real HTML ? As a web designer myself, I can only give one answer. There is no excuse for using a mediocre editor when there are some very good ones available. At least ones that can handle the more monotonous tasked involved in page layout. Then as long, as long as you do know how to hand code, you can shape things up as you see fit, and make things happen much more quickly in my opinion. I wouldn't throw Dreamweaver away if you paid me to. Of course, I can't get it to work with Linux so I'm forced to have a Windows/Linux partition battle. Anyhow, if I had to loose DW then I would probably still try to use NoteTab, UltraEdit, or HTML-kit to make things a little bit more automated. Thank you! I used to use UltraEdit and was quite satisfied with the way it works. I agree that Quanta has equivalent or better functionality, though, plus it runs on Linux. If that's the SOLE reason you're keeping Windows,kill it! Cathal ap Donnchadh ... Tobar naomh, ruith a steach mise! Teinne naomh, ls a steach mise! Crann naomh, fas a steach mise! ... My Gaelic's rusty. What does this translate as? Off-list is fine. Regards, David R -- Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3
Hi list, I just recently learned of there being a disk 2 3 to the MD8.1 'set'(from a reply in htis mailing list actually). Now before I download this 1.36 Gig for the other disks, can someone inform me of what is on them and its importance to me? tia Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3 Take a look at this page, the CDs 23 should correspond to those in the retail packs so Second Install CD and Supplementary Open Source Apps CD are what you would get with download CDs. HTH http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/81/applications -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3 Hi list, I just recently learned of there being a disk 2 3 to the MD8.1 'set'(from a reply in htis mailing list actually). Now before I download this 1.36 Gig for the other disks, can someone inform me of what is on them and its importance to me? tia Dave
[newbie] finding my ip
Is the ip address that shows up when I run ifconfig my real ip address? I connect via adsl i get assigned dynamic ip's, but how do I find out what my real ip address is right now? - Paul _ 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] DelTree
rm -fr directory name will remove the directory and all the folders and file s contained within given the correct permissions This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1013458257-13086-40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I delete a directory that contains files and more directories. I want to erase everything in the folder. Command Line please. I hated the command line but its like crack, very addictive. Its actually easier and much more efficient then the gui. If your not using it I recommend learning as much as possible. =_1013458257-13086-40 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1013458257-13086-40-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCMCIA AGAIn
Thanks.. I install pcmcia-cs.. all ok.. and now? how i connect my modem? thanks please send me all explaint.. __ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:22:48 -0600, Kenn Yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. Does anyone have a recommendation for a quicktime plugin for linux browsers? A search on Google turned up Crossover from Codeweavers ... does anyone have any feedback about this product? I was hoping for free, but I'll spend the $20 if it's a worthwhile program and nothing else is available. The problem with Quicktime is that most videos nowadays are encoded in the Sorenson format. This format is patented and it would be difficult to legally create a decoder for it. Codeweavers' Crossover is an excellent product. It uses WINE to allow Quicktime, Shockwave, and the MS viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint to work in x86 GNU/Linux. While the apps don't work quite as well as they do in Windows, they are still perfectly usable. Codeweavers is a good company, and they have devoted a lot of resources to WINE development. Your US$20 contributes to this development, so in effect you are supporting open source. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Software evolves. It isn't designed. The only question is how strictly you _control_ the evolution, and how open you are to external sources of mutations. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] finding my ip
Yes. Or at the very least, it is the IP that you currently have leased from the dhcp server. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:33 AM 02/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: Is the ip address that shows up when I run ifconfig my real ip address? I connect via adsl i get assigned dynamic ip's, but how do I find out what my real ip address is right now? - Paul _ 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks, Andrei --- Registered Linux user 226850 Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really religious Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks, Andrei The best document I've ever read is Tales of the BeOS refugee. This compares not only MacOS X and Linux, but also Win and BeOS. In fact, it is a comparison of BeOS and MacOS X, with a look at Linux and Win. The point of view is : the power-user. Really a reference document to me ! http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=421 You can also read comments, there is a feedback version of this doc somewhere, but I can't find it... Enjoy ! Nyco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Title: Message Now, I ask: Have you ever come across a Mac user whom is not religious about it? I am getting that way about (Mandrake) Linux... Also, thanks to all the people who replied to "Speed... or lack of?" post, I added 256MB of RAM, and I hardly notice any slow down. I read about updating my kernel, I don't know if I need to just yet. Thanks again! -Original Message-From: Andrei Raevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:13 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?! Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks, Andrei --- Registered Linux user 226850 Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?
okay, you sold me ... i just ordered it, and it's downloading on the other box right now ... thanks for the good advice ... kennM - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ? | On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:22:48 -0600, Kenn Yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Greetings. | | Does anyone have a recommendation for a quicktime plugin for linux browsers? | A search on Google turned up Crossover from Codeweavers ... does anyone have | any feedback about this product? I was hoping for free, but I'll spend the | $20 if it's a worthwhile program and nothing else is available. | | The problem with Quicktime is that most videos nowadays are encoded in the | Sorenson format. This format is patented and it would be difficult to legally | create a decoder for it. | | Codeweavers' Crossover is an excellent product. It uses WINE to allow Quicktime, | Shockwave, and the MS viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint to work in x86 | GNU/Linux. While the apps don't work quite as well as they do in Windows, they | are still perfectly usable. Codeweavers is a good company, and they have devoted | a lot of resources to WINE development. Your US$20 contributes to this | development, so in effect you are supporting open source. | | -- | Sridhar Dhanapalan | | Software evolves. It isn't designed. The only question is how strictly you | _control_ the evolution, and how open you are to external sources of mutations. | -- Linus Torvalds | | | 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
[newbie] Disk Problems
Hi
I am getting a few apps lock up and the disk wont stop reading. I have
looked at the messages log file and this is what I see. I have tried fsck,
but my problem is still here. Does anybody know what else I can try? Or is
my HD past it!
Feb 11 15:08:49 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Feb 11 15:08:49 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x01 {
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1996556, sector=149837
Feb 11 15:08:52 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Feb 11 15:08:52 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x01 {
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1996556, sector=149837
Feb 11 15:08:53 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Feb 11 15:08:53 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x01 {
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1996556, sector=149837
Feb 11 15:08:53 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success
Thanks
Mark
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Re: [newbie] proftpd question
Mithrilhall, That somehow seems contradictory. If users are to be sent to their home directory, then they need to long in as themselves, no? I would think that you'd want anonymous logins to be sent to /pub or whatever it is nowadays. Maybe I'm wrong. Miark - Original Message - From: Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:40 PM Subject: [newbie] proftpd question I have set up proftpd to allow a user by the name anonymous to login and download files. They seem to be able to browse my other directories and download from them. Is there a way to make the user anonymous only able to view their home directory and download from that alone? Thanks, Mithrilhall 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] redhat programs on mandrake
can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix on Mandrake 8.1
Hello all, Quick question on using Postfix on Mandrake 8.1. What I have is basically a gateway for my intranet that all machines go through. 2 NICs on the machine and a DSL connection. NIC with IP 192.168.1.1 is eth1 and is the internal IP. NIC with 192.168.1.5 is the one that ppp0 is bound to. I have a domain at dyndns.org - oldcomm.dyndns.org and have the it updating the IP via one of the clients so that I can get to my machine from oldcomm.homeip.net even when I get a new IP. Haven't set an MX record on dyndns.org configurationthey said I could do it without that. Now with all that said, I want to configure Postfix (or Sendmail) to simply send and receive mail from my domain (oldcomm.homeip.net). I've looked at several tutorials and examples and can't figure out what I need to do. I can send config files if needed. Thanks, Kevin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks, Andrei I use both Mac OS X and Mandrake Linux. Either one is fine for desktop usage. Let him stick to what he has, there really is no need for you to convince him to switch. Mac OS X is an excellent Unix by the way. There isn't much you can do with one that you can't do with the other. -- Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Mandrake Linux and Windows XP Pro are my OS's. I am GEEK, hear me roar. --
[newbie] PCMCI external CD-RW
Hi again, I am shopping for an external CD-RW drive for my notebook, one that I'd be able to use with my PC as well ( thats why I'm looking for ones with USB + pcmci interfaces ), I need some advise from you folks. will any CDRW drive with a pcmci interface work with Mandrake ?? or do I have to look for one that states specifically that it works with linux ? I checked the Mandrake hardware database but it mostly showed internal ones, and wasnt of good help. same thing for the USB interface...does it really need to secify that it works with linux ? ... Or shall I go for SCSI ?? ( if someone suggests that I go for SCSI please also advise with a good SCSI inteface card for notebooks ():-) any advise will be highly appreciated :) -- Hanan Z. Shargi Registered Linux User# 259916 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive
I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). Harddrake sees it as hdd. It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, I cannot mount it within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are still good. I've got a known good ZIP disk in the drive. * Here is my entire FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhid e 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 * And from dmesg (anything that looked interesting or remotely related is included here, the rest cut): Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 2731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001 Calibrating delay loop... 1064.96 BogoMIPS Memory: 254824k/262080k available (1086k kernel code, 6868k reserved, 397k data, 712k init, 0k highmem) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=791/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=6149/64/32, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 4.11 detected OK (220) Sound Blaster 16 (4.11) at 0x220 irq 7 dma 0 Sound Blaster 16 at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0,0 cdrom: open failed. /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p4 devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: 0 cdrom: open failed. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 cdrom: open failed. I've tried: Mkdir /mnt/zip Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD -- it's the 2nd device on the 2nd IDE channel) ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device ...so I tried: Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide total 0 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ./ 10 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ../ 10620 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 21 11:28 cd/ 6770 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 20 14:50 hd/ 3650 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 10:32 host0/ 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 zip/ root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide/zip/ total 0 6760 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:19 ./ 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ../ Any ideas? I hadn't noticed the /dev/ide/zip directory before, but it's empty... Don't know how to proceed! --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Space left
Paul Kraus wrote: How do I see how much space is left on a drive? ls -lt doesn't show space left. I prefer command line. Thanks. do a du or df... Also, for more info, do a man df etc, etc, to see all the options. Lots there. ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks, Andrei Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. --
Re: [newbie] Audio CDs rodrigo
Rodrigo wrote: Guys, I need help ! I can't play audio CDs. When I run kscd, I always get the following message: read or access error, make sure you have access permissions to /dev/cdrom. I tried ConfigurationKDESoundAudio CD IO Slave to change de device to /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom0, but the problem remained the same, same error message. I started ferretting my /dev directory and found these links: cdrom - /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 (this one appears flashing on a red background, as if it was an invalid link ?!? ) cdrom0 - /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 well, all of the above links will end up pointing to /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd as /dev/hdc does. Seems to be everything ok, unless for the /dev/cdrom flashing in red. I can mount data cds with mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom but, if I use mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom, I get an error message, telling that there is no cdrom device (?!?!?). Another problem, I can't mount the cdrom by the icon on my KDE desktop, it says /bin/sh - permission denied. I tried /bin/chmod a+x mount and chmod a+w /mnt/cdrom but it didn't work. The message now is you must be superuser to mount. So, I can only mount as root using the command line. The final issue: I don't have a sound card, I have a media controller, an onboard via686a. There is no cable linking the cdrom device to my mother board, so, the audio playback must be digital by the IDE interface. At least that was the way I played audio cds in Window$. The question is, in case I can solve the access problem with kscd, how can I make it play in digital mode ? I am using mdk8.1 and I can play mp3, wav, midi ok, without any problem. In other words, my media controller seems to be working pretty fine. If someone knows how to solve this mess, please help me, I'd appreciate ! Thanks, Rodrigo I don't know if it can help but for me the only way to make kscd work was changing the file (home)/.kde/share/config/kscdrc by a text editor changing the row CDDevice=hda (in my system I connected cd as master and hd as slave to add a little bit of confusion), in yours should be hdc of course. Idem no way to mount cd from kde panel using devices like /dev/cdanything only way was /dev/hda; someone said some days ago that a program called xmms-cdread should read cds via ide digital cable; someone says it is in 8.1 distribution, someother says it don 't. bye. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] proftpd question
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:40:18 -0800 Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I have set up proftpd to allow a user by the name anonymous to login and download files. They seem to be able to browse my other directories and download from them. Is there a way to make the user anonymous only able to view their home directory and download from that alone? Thanks, Mithrilhall edit your /etc/proftpd.conf and add the following lines at the bottom (or uncomment this one if you have it) # Default root can be used to put users in a chroot environment. # As an example if you have a user foo and you want to put foo in /home/foo # chroot environment you would do this: # #DefaultRoot /home/foo foo DefaultRoot ~ ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pdf maker
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:21, christiyono wrote: Hi... Is it any application in linux which able to make/convert any documents in pdf format? Yup. Scribus is a DTP app still in early beta but getting on nicely. It exports its files straight into pdf. Kword will save to pdf, but you do it via the print menu - just select the pdf printer and go. Same goes for Abiword. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] redhat programs on mandrake
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 19:31, Stojs wrote: can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Generally, yes, if the redhat rpm is fairly recent. But look on rpmfind.net for a mandrake version first. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] redhat programs on mandrake
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 11:31, Stojs wrote: can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Thanks in advance, Stojs Generally speaking, yes. RedHat compiles their RPMs for a lower CPU platform (i386 instead of i586), and occasionally RedHat's filesystem layout is different enough from Mandrake to cause a program to give errors, but these are rare enough and easily fixed that you should have no major problems. And most of the time (in my experience -- YMMV), RedHat RPMs just install and go! Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] redhat programs on mandrake
Stojs wrote: can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Maybe. How are you getting the programs: * Are they binary rpms? If so, there is a chance they will work. * Are they source rpms? I don't no -- I think there is a chance because I believe they get compiled when you install them. * Are they tar.gz source files? There should be a good chance because you compile these -- in general, I think any tar.gz should work if the dependencies are satisfied. And, the dependencies need to be satisfied in any of these cases. But, it would be better in the case of an rpm to get an rpm made for your distro and the particular version of your distro. Note also that there was a change in rpm format (or something) between rpm 3 and 4 and the two are not compatible. Mandrake has many programs hidden away in things like cooker or contrib -- are you looking for a particular program and can't find it? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] wvdial used with ifup (Answered my own Question.)
Hi all, If anyone is interested, here is how I just got ip aliases for ppp0 working with wvdial in control of the connection. add your ifcfg-ppp0:0 line as normal, (or use linuxconf to do it.) edit the file and add the line DEVICE=ppp0:0 to the top of it.. do the same for any other ip aliases files. then create a executable file called dial and put it in /usr/sbin in that file do something like this: #!/bin/sh wvdial # The starts wvdial in the background or it won't return control of your terminal. sleep 20 ifup ppp0:0 ifup ppp0:1 ifup ppp0:2 /etc/firewall/gShield.rc #This is my firewall, you may have something different. fetchmail # If you want to start fetchmail deamon after dialup then edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and at the end add: /usr/sbin/dial then your system will dial when it boots, and bring up your ip aliases. then you can create a hangup file in /usr/sbin with just killall wvdial in it. and thats it, now I can use virtual IP's with wvdial, which does a much better job of connecting to my ISP then any tool Mandrake or Redhat have thus far released. pretty easy actually, it was the device line that had me.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2002 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] wvdial used with ifup Hi all, I want to use ifup and ifdown to activate/deactivate my dialup connection, but I want to use wvdial to establish the connection.. with no extra parameters. The reason for this, is that I want to bring up all the virtual IP's that are associated with ppp0.. wvdial connects great, but unfortunately, it doesn't bring up any of the virtual IP's with the interface.. is there a way to do it manually? or as I stated, use ifup ppp0 to activate the interface and bring up all the virtuals IP's around it. Has anyone done this or is it not possible? rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA rpm
Terry S. wrote: All, Thanks to everyone who responded to my dilema of trying to get the NVIDIA_kernel RPM for my LM 8.1 system. I did as everyone suggested and downloaded, rebuilt, and instlled the source RPM. Things seemed to go well as the packages installed, with only the customary warnings that NVIDIA warns you about when installing the packages. I made the necessary changes in my /etc/X11/XFconfig-4 (i think that's what it's called, i'm not at my linux box) as suggested by NVIDIA's website, and then rebooted. Things booted up just fine, but as soon as X started up and showed the KDM login screen, the machine completely locked up, forcing to press the reset button to get out of it. Anyone have any more suggestions on how to remedy this situation? I've looked the the Xserver logs, and nothing seems out of the ordinary. It shows that the NVIDIA kernel, the NVdriver, and even the glx libraries loading ok (at least it doesn't show any errors about loading them). Does anyone have any other suggestions to get this to work properly? Thanks! Terry Terry, through 2 Nvidia video cards, I've always done away with the graphical login...kill that, then when you logon, you just have to do a startx from the shell... Works great here... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network Issues. (Has been posted before. Last post on this subject)
I still can not get my laptop to boot up without eth1 failing. MDk found two nics in my laptop even though there was only one pcmcia nic. eth0 doesn't start at startup. eth1 does. When it does it fails... and it takes forever to fail so boot up takes so long. Once its up I can go into mandrake config - Networking - Connection - Expert Setup - eth1 then I can click activate and it comes up immeditly. Any thoughts? I hate having to do this evertime I boot. Paul Kraus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2
Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:15, christiyono wrote: Hi there, How to install Star office 5.2 in Mandrake 8.0 that every user can load and use it without installing in each user home directory? Is it true that every user must install it personally? Unfortunately, yes. You could probably write a shell script to automate the process, though, or install for one user and copy the fiiles to other users' home directories. Robin I'm sorry, but on this matter I must disagree completely with you, Robin ! On my box I have Star Office installed in my /opt/office52 directory. Doing this is easy : become root, go to the CD (or ftp-site), change directory to linux, cd to office52, cd to program. Verify the presence of the file setup. Now, issue the command : ./setup /net (or ./setup -net) depending on the distro. This will install the whole kidoodle once and for all. Remove the install-media. Then become a normal user. Go to the directory where you installed SO, and -once again- find the setup file. Run it (this time without the ./ things) and it will install about 1.5 MB in this users home directory. Repeat the procedure for every user on the system. Done and ready to use ! HTH Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even open source with their next OS is anything but opportunism born out of dire need. As for their OS - look at Linus T's comments about it in his book. Cheers, Andrei _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA rpm
On Monday 11 February 2002 07:23 pm, you wrote: All, them). Does anyone have any other suggestions to get this to work properly? Well, don't know if it'll help you, but I had to put an agpgart option in my XF86Config-4 file as the default on later nvidia drivers is 'try system agpgart first'. this caused mine to exit right back to console. By changing that to 'use nvidia's agpgart' fixed mine. Looks like this: Option NvAGP 1 and this one is cool too - unless you like the big white screen with nividia's logo: Option NoLogo on And this one is really neato: Option CursorShadow on Option CursorShadowXOffset 2 Option CursorShadowYOffset 1 Read that 60 page doc from nvidia - there's all kinds of goodies in there. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:56 am, you wrote: I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). Harddrake sees it as hdd. I've tried: Mkdir /mnt/zip Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD -- it's the 2nd device on the 2nd IDE channel) ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device ...so I tried: Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device Well, I'm not sure it makes any diff, but I think it's mount -t type dev dir. So, try: mount -t vfat /dev/hdd mnt/zip if that works, fix your fstab. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution
I am trying to setup evolution. Is there any way I can import my outlook contacts or a csv or anything? Also it is version 0.13. When I download the 1.x version it won't let me instal. Says it is already installed. Thanks Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import
How do Import a pipe deliminated text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DelTree
Paul Kraus wrote: How do I delete a directory that contains files and more directories. I want to erase everything in the folder. Command Line please. I hated the command line but its like crack, very addictive. Its actually easier and much more efficient then the gui. If your not using it I recommend learning as much as possible. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com rm -r /whateverdirectoryname/and/path -f the -r is for recursive (i. e. descend into subdirectories) and the -f is for force without asking While rm -rf /whateverdirectoryname/and/path will work to the same effect, it is considered bad form. Imagine that you type this far rm -rf / and then the household cat launches for your desktop and plops a fat paw on the enter key. Your entire filesystem(s) are bye-bye, even /mnt/windows_c if you happen to have one and it is writeable. Aside from having the household cat for supper, there is no compensation, and of course even less when you fat-finger the enter key yourself. Take it from someone who has committed that faux pas. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba
I am trying to setup samba. I am able to connect to other pc's using the smbmount command. But when I can't connect to my pc from others on the network. The Smb Server is running. I can see my laptop in network neighborhood on the windows machines but when I click on my pc I get an error saying its not on the network??? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] system tray
I am running gnome desktop. Is there system tray that will work globablly for apps? I want to at a glance see If i have IM's or Email waiting to be read. With having to have the app open on the desktop. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] system tray
Title: RE: [newbie] system tray Have a look at the gKrellm app I think you can configure it to do a mail notify, not sure about IM. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] system tray I am running gnome desktop. Is there system tray that will work globablly for apps? I want to at a glance see If i have IM's or Email waiting to be read. With having to have the app open on the desktop. PK
Re: [newbie] FrontPage like applicatiopn for Linux ?
Mark Finlay wrote: check out http://html.about.com/cs/linuxunixeditors/ Mark Finlay On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 18:41, Hanan Z. Shargi wrote: Does anybody know of any visual web building application for linux such as Front Page ?? Regards, -- Hanan Z. Shargi Registered Linux User# 259916 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Quanta+ is more like Hippie, and though screem is close, it segfaults on many platforms. Bluefish seems to work tolerably well. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Anybody Else? Re: [newbie] in runlevel 3 - screen goes blank after a time
My machine does that too. Assumed it was the 3d screen saver not being able to display correctly because i have a rather strange video card (elsa erazor x2). I changed my screen saver to something more simple and it was ok. Do you have to reboot after the blanking? Does your monitor go into power saving mode? Does you status light on your screen turn amber or does it stay green? ProXy_ReD -Original Message- From: Jon Dowd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2002 15:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anybody Else? Re: [newbie] in runlevel 3 - screen goes blank after a time Thanks, but I think it's in the OS, not the monitor (this display is switched to run 4 boxes and Mandrake Linux is the *only* one that goes blank). Where do I disable screen blanking in init 3 (or in the command line interface) ? Thanks, Jon - Original Message - From: Spencer Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] in runlevel 3 - screen goes blank after a time On Monday 11 February 2002 02:37, you wrote: Hello list, While I am running in runlevel 3 (not X) the display or screen will go blank after a while of inactivity. What file should I edit to stop the screen blanking or whatever is causing the screen to go black. Again, that's in init 3. The only things I can find on the subject talk about changing the value for xset in xinitrc. Thanks, Jon It's possible that your computer and monitor powersaver features are interacting to cause this. One of my machines goes into powersave mode after about five minutes, including shutting down the monitor output. The connected monitor then goes into powersave mode because it detects no video signal. HTH S -- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines Remove the fruit to obtain reply address: spencer at lasermount orange dot uklinux dot net 8:30am up 3 days, 16:45, 3 users, load average: 0.34, 0.39, 0.61 Registered Linux User #232457 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.319 / Virus Database: 178 - Release Date: 1/28/02 * The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) are confidential and may be legally privileged. The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material permanently from any computer. * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
okay, i'm curious .. WHICH linus t book? - Original Message - From: Andrei Raevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?! | | | Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need | to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? | | For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good | thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even | open source with their next OS is anything but opportunism born out of dire | need. As for their OS - look at Linus T's comments about it in his book. | | Cheers, | | Andrei | | _ | Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | _ 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] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3
thanks.. downloading now On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 09:56, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Take a look at this page, the CDs 23 should correspond to those in the retail packs so Second Install CD and Supplementary Open Source Apps CD are what you would get with download CDs. HTH http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/81/applications -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3 Hi list, I just recently learned of there being a disk 2 3 to the MD8.1 'set'(from a reply in htis mailing list actually). Now before I download this 1.36 Gig for the other disks, can someone inform me of what is on them and its importance to me? tia Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Space left
Paul Kraus wrote: How do I see how much space is left on a drive? ls -lt doesn't show space left. I prefer command line. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com df and du Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive
Thanks for the tip. I tried that, and got: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device Tried it also with /dev/hdd4, and got: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === -Original Message- From: s [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:56 am, you wrote: I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). Harddrake sees it as hdd. I've tried: Mkdir /mnt/zip Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD -- it's the 2nd device on the 2nd IDE channel) ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device ...so I tried: Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd ...and I got this error: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device Well, I'm not sure it makes any diff, but I think it's mount -t type dev dir. So, try: mount -t vfat /dev/hdd mnt/zip if that works, fix your fstab. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Firewall
Hello all ! What is the best way to make a firewall for a desktop station ? There aren't any servers running on my computer. Right after installing mdk8.1 I ran the control center and set the firewall answering the questions. Some time ago I decided to explore the BastilleInteractive options (I was curious) and left almost all the items set with the default options. I think it didn't make much difference for me and I have the same settings I had with the control center's firewall, but there is a doubt: how can I make sure that my firewall is running ? I don't see any process called Bastille or iptables with ps -ax, I only see a message during the boot process, initializing Bastille Firewall [OK]. Another question, are all the standard firewall that come with mdk8.1 dependant on Bastille or I can disable Bastille at start-up ? Thanks, Rodrigo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] proftpd question
Maybe I sent the wrong message. When the user anonymous logs in he is sent to the proper directory but they are able to browse other users home directories and are capable of downloading from them. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: February 12, 2002 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] proftpd question Mithrilhall, That somehow seems contradictory. If users are to be sent to their home directory, then they need to long in as themselves, no? I would think that you'd want anonymous logins to be sent to /pub or whatever it is nowadays. Maybe I'm wrong. Miark - Original Message - From: Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:40 PM Subject: [newbie] proftpd question I have set up proftpd to allow a user by the name anonymous to login and download files. They seem to be able to browse my other directories and download from them. Is there a way to make the user anonymous only able to view their home directory and download from that alone? Thanks, Mithrilhall 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] Samba
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:55, Paul Kraus wrote: i start the demon. I can smbclient -L any windows pc on the network. I can see my machine in all the windows network neighborhoods. But when I try to attch from anywhere I am rejected. When I even try to do an smbclient -L mymachine name as root I get this message. added interface ip=192.168.254.100 bcast=192.168.254.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=192.168.157.1 Bcast = 192.168.157.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip = 175.16.17.1 bcast=172.16.17.255 nmask 255.255.255.0 Got a positve name query response from 192.168.254.1 (192.168.254.100) error connecting to 192.168.254.100:139 (connection refused) Connection to my machine failed This looks like you don't have Samba users set up yet. Samba has its own /etc/smbusers and /etc/smbpasswd files to authenticate users and passwords over the network. For small networks, you generally don't need to worry about the smbusers file, but the smbpasswd file is always used. To create Samba users, run the following command as root: # smbpasswd -a username When you press Enter, you will be prompted to enter a password for the named user, twice. The user name and password should match the Windows user name and password when they login to their desktop. It is not necessary to match Windows user accounts to actual Linux user accounts in Samba, though it might make things easier to administer for you. Also, if you DO use actual Linux user accounts, then any time a user opens Network Neighborhood to view the server, they will automatically have a share created from their home directory (based on the [homes] section of smb.conf). Also see my comments below... # Share Definitions == [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes writable = no So when a user logs in, their Linux home directory is read-only. You might want to change this, unless you have a good reason. Remember, the home share is created on the fly for each user, and is not visible to other users. That is to say, when I login to my laptop as dave and open Net Neighborhood, I see a Public share and a Dave share on my Samba server. My wife sees a Public share and a Carrie share. We do not see each other's home shares, only our own. # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /home/paul/share read only = no public = yes This is a good one. Remember to set the directory permissions on share/ to 777, otherwise Samba won't really be able to use it properly. Also, notice that writable=no is the *same* as read only=yes, and vise versa. # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in # the staff group [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/pdk/share public = yes writable = yes write list = @staff Another good one, with an entire user group (taken from the /etc/groups file) given permission to the share. Again, remember to set proper directory permissions. # a service which has a different directory for each machine that connects # this allows you to tailor configurations to incoming machines. You could # also use the %u option to tailor it by user name. # The %m gets replaced with the machine name that is connecting. [pchome] comment = PC Directories path = /usr/pc/%m public = no writable = yes Does this one exist on your system, or is it a relic of the sample smb.conf file? Personally, I would never put a share in /usr. Move it to /home instead. # The following two entries demonstrate how to share a directory so that two # users can place files there that will be owned by the specific users. In this # setup, the directory should be writable by both users and should have the # sticky bit set on it to prevent abuse. Obviously this could be extended to # as many users as required. [myshare] comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff path = /usr/somewhere/shared valid users = mary fred public = no writable = yes printable = no # create mask = 0765 I *know* this one is a relic from the sample file. However, it shoes a good example of the creation mask to automatically set permissions on all files created in this share, so others can access them as well. Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Evolution
Paul, I am using 1.0.1 In the help it describes how to import, but not from Outlook directly due to a proprietory format being used. It does describe some work-arounds though, using other apps like Mozilla or Eudora to get the job done in two steps. On the install issue: How are you trying to do this? Should be a matter of putting the evolution RPM and all the dependent RPMs in a directory, then saying: rpm -Uvh * (without the quotes). The RPMs you'll need for 1.0.1 are: evolution-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpmlibgal19-0.19-2mdk.i586.rpm evolution-pilot-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libGConf1-1.0.7-2mdk.i586.rpm gtkhtml-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm libgtkhtml20-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm libcapplet1-1.5.11-1mdk.i586.rpm I think there is a slightly later version of some of these on cooker now, but have no idea what they fix. Hope this helps. Brian On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 00:50, Paul Kraus wrote: I am trying to setup evolution. Is there any way I can import my outlook contacts or a csv or anything? Also it is version 0.13. When I download the 1.x version it won't let me instal. Says it is already installed. Thanks Paul 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] Firewall
Rodrigo wrote: Hello all ! What is the best way to make a firewall for a desktop station ? There aren't any servers running on my computer. Right after installing mdk8.1 I ran the control center and set the firewall answering the questions. Some time ago I decided to explore the BastilleInteractive options (I was curious) and left almost all the items set with the default options. I think it didn't make much difference for me and I have the same settings I had with the control center's firewall, but there is a doubt: how can I make sure that my firewall is running ? I don't see any process called Bastille or iptables with ps -ax, I only see a message during the boot process, initializing Bastille Firewall [OK]. Another question, are all the standard firewall that come with mdk8.1 dependant on Bastille or I can disable Bastille at start-up ? Thanks, You can test your firewall to see if it's protecting you here: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] standard compressed archive format ?
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:00:26 -0500 Alaa The Great [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:10:52 +0100 Nicolas VERITE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Is there any multi-platform standard in compressed archive formats ? WinZip is the defacto standard for the Windows platform. Does WinZip produce .zip files that can be manipulated by Linux OpenSource software ? there is a package called unzip but I don't know about a tool to make zip files, anyway winzip will open tar.gz files. well if there is a package unzip then there certainly is a package named zip which you can use to creata zip files. ;-) ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] writing/deleting files to a FAT32 partition
Guys, Iam sorry for I wrote a lot of wrong things about these FAT32 stuff . I really got messed up with something else and mixed things up. Sorry for this inconvenience. Rodrigo ed tharp wrote: wrong the default owner is whom ever first created the mount point. (root in MDK, during install) change to superuser mode and see On Tuesday 12 February 2002 07:24, you wrote: Richard, unfortunately I think that linux can't write/delete from a FAT32 partition. That was possible in the old FAT partitions, but became impossible with FAT32. Maybe you can find a program that makes it for you. For example, there is a program for windows that reads ext2 partitions and has experimental support for writting ext2 partitions. It is called explore2fs and you could try it in order to see if it can really write to an ext2 partition and then change your data partition to this format, this is an idea. Also you can look for a linux program that does the opposite, writting to a FAT32 partition. Well, I hope my suggestions can help you, good luck ! Rodrigo Barran, Richard wrote: Hello all, My home PC is set up with 3 partitions: - a FAT32 partition for Win98. - another FAT32 partition for data. - an ext2 partition for Mandrake 8.1 (straight out of the box, nothing special about it). My idea was that I'd use the data partition to store MP3s and so on, and that I could read from both Windows and Linux. So I download some MP3s within Windows and store them on the Data partition. Then... I tried to delete some of the files from within Linux, and I couldn't. I checked the file/folder properties and went 'aha': the owner of files on the FAT32 drive is 'root' and only 'root' has write permissions, although anyone can read/execute those files... ok, so I go to a command line, log in as root, and type 'chmod 777 filename'... nothing. The command seems to execute successfully (well, when I use the -v (verbose) switch it reports success), but a 'ls -l' straight after the chmod shows no changes to the file attributes. I tried this on both files and folders on the FAT32 partition, with no success in either case. Ok, I think, you can't set file/folder rights and permissions in FAT32, because it doesn't support the concept. So I give up... can anyone point out the simple thing I seem to be missing and that will allow me to manipulate files on a FAT32 partition from Linux? Thanks, Richard *** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Frontpage like application for Linux
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:25:49 -0600 David Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Thank you! I used to use UltraEdit and was quite satisfied with the way it works. I agree that Quanta has equivalent or better functionality, though, plus it runs on Linux. If that's the SOLE reason you're keeping Windows,kill it! snip hi, if its of any interest, i have run ultra-edit in linux using the transgaming winex (well i was just testing what applications i could run ;-). it's usable so you could try installing it using winex to your all-linux platform but YMMV. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disk Problems
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:06:02 +, Mark Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi
I am getting a few apps lock up and the disk wont stop reading. I have
looked at the messages log file and this is what I see. I have tried fsck,
but my problem is still here. Does anybody know what else I can try? Or is
my HD past it!
Feb 11 15:08:49 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Feb 11 15:08:49 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x01 {
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1996556, sector=149837
Feb 11 15:08:52 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Feb 11 15:08:52 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x01 {
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1996556, sector=149837
Feb 11 15:08:53 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Feb 11 15:08:53 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x01 {
AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1996556, sector=149837
Feb 11 15:08:53 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success
I think your drive is dying. Back up everything ASAP and start looking for
another :(
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
Can other people try the test-program and see if we have a pattern (ie it
happens only on Athlons, or Linus is on drugs and it happens for everybody
else).-- Linus Torvalds
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Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop and months ago the company that housed the original PostgreSQL developers shut down. Oh yeah Loki shut down too. When these companies shut down, the software doesn't die because its GPL, but thats really no consolation. If they can't afford to work on it any longer then the software really doesn't go anywhere. It just lingers and gets more and more out of date. None of these companies wrote GPL software as their main product (if at all). Most of Loki's offerings were closed source. These died with Loki. Other pieces of software live or die according to their license. PostgreSQL will not die any time soon -- there are far too many companies and individuals using it for that to happen. Red Hat have their own database software based on PostgreSQL. If there is enough interest in the product, the software will live. Just look at Nautilus: Eazel failed last year but Nautilus development is alive and well. The original developers don't have to be there; the GPL makes it simple enough for anybody to take over if necessary. I have seen this happen time and time again with GPL projects. The beauty of the GPL and some other open source licenses is that they are almost totally divorced from business cycles. Sure, some corporte input can be a bonus, but it is hardly necessary. GPL software only really began to be noticed by corporations in 1998, but they had been in active development since 1984. In that time, a complete operating system had been written, complete with a developer tools and a multitude of applications. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Life does not end at 2.4.0. Think of it more as a no more excuses release. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import
On 12 Feb 2002 09:25:51 -0500, Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do Import a pipe deliminated text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Assuming that OpenOffice.org can't do it itself... Have a look to see if there is any way to convert this file into a format that can be read in OpenOffice.org, via another app like StarOffice 5.2, Gnumeric, Kspread or even Excel (in WinDOS). If that doesn't work, try opening the file in a text editor and doing a search and replace to change all pipe symbols to commas. The resulting file will be in CSV (Comma Separated Value) format. This format can be read by most spreadsheets. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] system tray
On 12 Feb 2002 09:54:55 -0500, Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running gnome desktop. Is there system tray that will work globablly for apps? I want to at a glance see If i have IM's or Email waiting to be read. With having to have the app open on the desktop. Have you tried looking at GNOME's Panel applets? There are several mailchecking applets, and some IM apps (e.g. GnomeICU) can embed status indicators into a Panel. If you want, you can even swallow entire apps into a panel, overriding the window manager. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan phj34r my 5kr1p7 k!1d13 haxX0r 73kn!q. ! 0wn j0o ll4m@ +00|z Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop http://www.arsdigita.com/ All the links seem to work. Maybe you meant ADUniversity? The ACS is still open source and still available, though it's been converted from TCL to Java. - C Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import
Paul, I asked on the OpenOffice.org Discuss list. These are the answers I got: How to Import a pipe delimited text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Paul This is a common scenario if you are dealing with output from a 'nix database (Ingres, MySQL both come to mind). When you do an sql dump you many times get a text-based, tabular output: | some data | some more data | yet some more | In Excel, I've used text file import and select other for the seperator and enter the pipe | character. I imagine OOo has similar functionality? Stew B At a guess it means the file is structured like column1|column2|column3 moreC1|MoreC2|MoreC3 to do this open calc file -- open select type text csv ( its towards the bottom ) select the file and click on OK in the text import box tick seperator other and put | in the box next to it Thats all there is to it - Justin In a comma-delimited file (a.k.a comma-separated-values, or *.csv in the MS world), data fileds are delimited/separated by commas ,. There are also Tab-delimited values (separated by TAB characters. My guess is that pipe-delimited files have fields delimited by the character normally used to pipe stuff around *nix systems, i.e |. John H From the Help section in OOo641c: OpenOffice.org normally automatically recognizes the correct file type when a file is opened. In some cases, you may need to select the file type in the Open dialog. For example, say you have a database table in text format that you want to open as a database table. In this case you would not only select the file but also specify the file type Text - txt -csv (OpenOffice.org Calc). The (vnd.sun.star.help://scalc/65608?Language=en-USSystem=WIN ) dialog will open. For example, you can select the US English option so that the contents are interpreted as US English formatted numbers irrespective of the system language. The Englisch names of the months will be recognized automatically. With a Calc sheet open, press F1, under the Index tab, enter Importing a database table as text. that shows info on how to import using various delimiters. I wasn't really sure about the | character. Delimited with |'s instead of ,'s ? I've opened *.csv files in OOo directly from the OpenFile dialog. Hope this helps, regards, Richard Holt. GO-TRO,ca Instrumentación, 011-58-265-641-0003, fax.641-3457 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] proftpd question
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 08:09 pm, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: Maybe I sent the wrong message. When the user anonymous logs in he is sent to the proper directory but they are able to browse other users home directories and are capable of downloading from them. You must use a DirectoryRoot directive this directive chroots the user to a jail Check out the following URL http://proftpd.org/docs/complex-virtual.conf look at the anonymous configurations -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] EBDA too big
I've launched Software Manager, and selected lots of packages for install/update from CDs (can't remember which ones in particular), X freezes, CRTL+ALT+Fn show a real mess, try to blindly login as root and shutdown -r now. Now, ever and ever again : EBDA too big carriage return dot sign nothing more I boot on 1st install CD, type rescue... many different behaviours, each leading to the same kernel panic. Searched Google and more for EBDA too big, no solution worked fine... What's best ? Thanx Nyco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] emu-tools
Hey, --- Your kernel must be compiled with loadable modules and soundcard support and without any integrated emu10K1 soundcard drivers. How do I check, please? Look for CONFIG_MODULES = y for the loadable modules support CONFIG_SOUND = y/m for soundcard support and CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 = m/n for non-integrated emu10k1 soundcard drivers. y = yes (compiled directly into the kernel) n = no (not included/supported) m = module (included as module which can be loaded but not compiled directly in the kernel) In your /boot directory there should be a file called config-[your kernel] which I think is the config used for your kernel. You can search this file, for example: $ grep -i CONFIG_MODULES /boot/config-2.4.17.13mdk CONFIG_MODULES=y $ grep -i CONFIG_SOUND /boot/config-2.4.17-13mdkenterprise CONFIG_SOUND=m -- (plus many more listed) $ grep -i CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 /boot/config-2.4.17-13mdkenterprise CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m -- (this was already shown in the long list from the above search) OK (and in my case knowledge on this subject is _very_ limited). Well anyways... even tho I couldn't help you with your soundcard problem, at least you know a bit more about your kernel now ;) Don't worry and thank you. ;-) Greetings Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Hello, Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even open source with their next OS is anything but opportunism born out of dire need. As for their OS - look at Linus T's comments about it in his book. Id depends on what you want. For most of the people of this list (including me), Mandraje provides everything for the daily use. As for my frustrations: - No consistent cut paste; - No way to reassign the shortcuts consistently to mimick Mac's behaviour. At least not in KDE, and the changes don't apply consistently everywhere. - Fonts / encoding problems as soon as you don't use an english platform. I am still unable, for instance, to send a message that contains French AND Japanese in the same page. Either the accents or the kanjis are unsuported. We (on this list) can cope with this, but as for a person coming from MacOSX world where the 3 points above work perfectly, I guess it is not easy and for them, Mac is still the only solution that works out of the box, without any other config. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop http://www.arsdigita.com/ All the links seem to work. Maybe you meant ADUniversity? The ACS is still open source and still available, though it's been converted from TCL to Java. Yeah its closed. Went out of business. It was announced on Slashdot last week. There's OpenACS too but who knows where that will lead. -- Computers come in two styles - prototype and obsolete! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BIG thanks ;o)
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 18:50, Damian G wrote: Where did you find the 2.4.17 kernel? right here: ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS then i downloaded and installed kernel*.rpm ( you don't need the kernel-source or docs to install it, i just needed them myself to make vmware workstation work. ) oh, someone else mentioned that if you use iptables you had to upgrade them too. And iptables usually requires initscripts. Also the last kernel upgrade I did, initscripts required setup. So if you download a new kernel it might pay to grab those 3 files at the same time. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
