[newbie-it] font ttf e kde 2.2.2
Su un K7 con mdk 8.2 ho provato, essendo orfano di drakfont, a installare manualmente dei font ttf. Il risultato è che kde li vede solo da root. Da utente sono visti dai vari programmi indipendenti da kde. Per installarli ho fatto così: ho copiato i font nella cartella già esistente /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF (permessi a+r) poi ho dato i comandi: ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir poi sono andato a modificare /etc/X11/fs/config mettendo in cima all'elenco la cartella dove ho messo i font. quindi chkconfig --add xfs /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart Ho controllato in etc/X11/XFConfig-4 se c'era la voce unix/:-1 in FontPath e andava bene. Ho visto qualche risultato dopo aver riavviato il computer (stile winzozz)ma non erano proprio quelli sperati. Ho seguito una faq e non so bene cosa ho fatto. Spero che qualcuno sia più esperto! Biss
[newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...
Questa volta prima di ricorrere alla lista ho letto il tutorial di emacs ed un file html sul suo funzionamento :-). Tra un po' mi arriverà un intero libro su emacs (programma mostrusamente bello, da fare impallidire ogni altra cosa che gira su altri sistemi) ma di preciso non so quando... Ma ho trovato poco di quello che cercavo.. acc. acc. Probabilmente ho cercato male e forse in fretta... Nella scelta del dizionario di spell manca del tutto l'italiano, cè perfino il norvegese, e davvero non so come installare su emacs questa dizionario... Qualcuno lo ha già fatto? Grazie tante
[newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake
buon giorno oh gloriosa mailinglist! ho deciso di installare il virtual machine ware (vmware) ma ho un problema col kernel: sia il programma di configurazione che il manuale scaricato dal loro sito si vantano delle capacità del programma nel fare tutto in automatico... beh, come al solito non è così :'''( fatto partire il programma di configurazione questo se ne esce con testuali parole: None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] che posso fare? gli rispondo yes. al che lui risponde What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] la directory che lui consiglia nemmeno esiste, in realtà quello che lui vuole è in /usr/include immagino... solo che se gli suggerisco quella directory lui si inalbera e stizzito dice The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.18) does not match your running kernel (version 2.4.18-4mdk). Even if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel. e qui mi pianto... premesso che non ho idea di cosa vi sto chiedendo... esiste un modo per fargli mandare giù il kernel mdk senza troppe complicazioni? qualcun'altro usa vmware? se sì cosa devo fare e cosa mi aspetta dopo? grazie per l'aiuto ^_^
Re: [newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake
--- Beppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: buon giorno oh gloriosa mailinglist! ho deciso di installare il virtual machine ware (vmware) ma ho un problema col kernel: sia il programma di configurazione che il manuale scaricato dal loro sito si vantano delle capacità del programma nel fare tutto in automatico... beh, come al solito non è così :'''( fatto partire il programma di configurazione questo se ne esce con testuali parole: None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] che posso fare? gli rispondo yes. al che lui risponde What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] la directory che lui consiglia nemmeno esiste, in realtà quello che lui vuole è in /usr/include immagino... solo che se gli suggerisco quella directory lui si inalbera e stizzito dice The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.18) does not match your running kernel (version 2.4.18-4mdk). Even if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel. e qui mi pianto... premesso che non ho idea di cosa vi sto chiedendo... esiste un modo per fargli mandare giù il kernel mdk senza troppe complicazioni? qualcun'altro usa vmware? se sì cosa devo fare e cosa mi aspetta dopo? grazie per l'aiuto ^_^ Non ho mai installato WmWare, quindi non so darti spiegazioni in merito, ma sta cercando i sorgenti relativi alla versione del kernel che stai usando. Dovresti installare l'rpm dei sorgenti (dovrebbe automaticamente metterti tutto in /usr/src/linux); l'rpm si dovrebbe chiamare kernel-source-2.4.18-6mdk.i586.rpm. Ciao! Steo. __ Scommetti gratis sui Mondiali con Unibet.com! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://ads.unibet.com/adverts/it/yahoo/
Re: [newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake
[SNIP] What is the location of the directory of C header files that match you r running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] la directory che lui consiglia nemmeno esiste, in realtà quello che lu i vuole è in /usr/include immagino... No no, è un'altra cosa, la directory indicata dallo script di installazione di vmware non ce l'hai perché non hai installato i sorgenti del Kernel (li trovi sul 2° Cd di installazione) Cmq io uso vmware workstation 3.1 e funziona a meraviglia (attento che la 3.0 da qualche problema con Mdk 8.2 ... bisogna installare qualche patch se non ricordo male ...) Ciao Marco
Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...
Il 29.05.02 alle 13:27, il notabile Emiliano La Licata proferi' codeste parole: Nella scelta del dizionario di spell manca del tutto l'italiano, cè perfino il norvegese, e davvero non so come installare su emacs questa dizionario... Be' in teoria ti basterebbe installare il pacchetto ispell-it (l'rpm lo trovi con il solito rpmfind.net, controlla che la versione sia la stessa di ispell principale) oppure installare a manina quanto trovi per l'italiano a partire dal sito ufficiale di ispell [l'indirizzo lo trovi sempre con rpmfind, e' scritto prima dell'elenco degli rpm] Per utilizzarlo in emacs la cosa 'dovrebbe' essere semplice: tools - spell-checking - selezioni dizionario in italiano; poi per usarlo effettivamente: .. spell-check buffer. -- LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 K 2.4.18-puro * Slackware 8.1-rc1 ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf
miKe wrote: Il 17:48, martedì 28 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] lilo.conf, Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: E' possibile visualizzare al boot di lilo nomi più dettagliati per ciascun sistema da avviare senza dover sottostare al limite delle label in lilo.config ? si basta cambiare le label :) ... image = /vmlinuz-2.4.18 root = /dev/hda3 label = Slackware Forse sono stato troppo conciso... :-( Ripropongo la domanda in altro modo e spero di non essere prolisso. Premetto che in una specifica di configurazione di lilo.conf è affermato che non è possibile utilizzare alle voci label più di 15 caratteri alfanumerici consecutivi, inoltre non possono essere utilizzati gli spazi ecc. Siccome al boot di lilo i nomi per avviare ciascun sistema sono riportati appunto dalle label con queste limitazioni, chiedevo se era possibile scrivere, magari utilizzando comandi differenti di configurazione, e poter avviare , al boot di lilo , con la seguente riga di avvio di sistema : Windows XP Professional anzichè un sintetico WinXP o un troncato WinXPprofession (famoso limite dei 15 caratteri imposto alle label suddette). Questo ovviamente vale per tutti gli altri avvii di sistema al boot di lilo come per esempio Mandrake-Linux 8.2 che è sempre superiore a 15 caratteri e ha pure gli spazi ecc. Questo era il limite delle label in lilo.config a cui mi riferivo alla domanda precedente. Forse le info di cui sono in possesso non sono attendibili o troppo datate ? :-)Grazie e saluti da Giuseppe.
Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...
At 16.23 29/05/2002 +0200, you wrote: Il 29.05.02 alle 13:27, il notabile Emiliano La Licata proferi' codeste parole: Nella scelta del dizionario di spell manca del tutto l'italiano, cè perfino il norvegese, e davvero non so come installare su emacs questa dizionario... Be' in teoria ti basterebbe installare il pacchetto ispell-it (l'rpm lo trovi con il solito rpmfind.net, controlla che la versione sia la stessa di ispell principale) oppure installare a manina quanto trovi per l'italiano a partire dal sito ufficiale di ispell [l'indirizzo lo trovi sempre con rpmfind, e' scritto prima dell'elenco degli rpm] Scusami tanto ma ho dimenticato di dirti la cosa più importante, ispell-it è gia installato, tanto è vero che da console posso fare tanquillamente ispell... il rompicapo è appunto questo, perché da emacs in spell checking non esiste la voce italiano quando è già installata? Tu dirai puoi dare ispell da console.. che ti frega che ci sia pure in emacs beh in fondo è molto comodo mentre sei in emacs potere fare tutto... Grazie,
Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:47, Giuseppe Ferruzzi, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf wrote: sistema al boot di lilo come per esempio Mandrake-Linux 8.2 che è sempre superiore a 15 caratteri e ha pure gli spazi ecc. Allora direi che quello sia il limite. Potresti usare gli underscore windows_xp_pro, insomma ma ora che mi ci fai pensare anche la mdk scrive le label come mdk_kernel, insomma comprimendo. Deve anche forse esserci una spiegazione che sarei curioso di conoscere. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
[newbie-it] Cos che sfrutta tanta memoria (lunghetto)?
Ciao, ora faccio partire il memtest dall'avvio ma ci vorrà + di un'ora. Nel frattempo ho aperto da applicazioni - monitoraggio-informazioni sul sistema - informazioni dettagliate - informazioni sulla memoria ed ho notato che : total memory 255844 used memory 241340 free memory 14504 shared memory 0 buffers 20396 cached 157676 user 220944 total swap space 267868 used swap space 0 free swap space 267868 94% di memoria utilizzata. Tra le informazioni generali c'è scritto: release sistema operativo 2.4.18-6mdk versione della distribuzione mandrake linux release 8.2(blue bird) for i586 tipo di processore i686 Preciso che le uniche applicazioni aperte sono kmail e informazioni sul sistema. Non sono un esperto ma non è che la memoria utilizzata è un po' troppa e che quindi aprendo un'altra applicazione manda in tilt il sistema? In questo caso come si fa' a sapere quali sono i processi che succhiano così tanta memoria da poter eliminare? Per esempio vorrei togliere tutto quello che riguarda il controllo delle batterie dei portatili si può fare? Inoltre tra i processi attivi oltre al quelli di utente e root c'è ne sono un paio xfs e rpc di che si tratta? Sono indispensabili? Ciao e grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale risposta (e pazienza) ku68
Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:44, Emiliano La Licata, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell... wrote: Scusami tanto ma ho dimenticato di dirti la cosa più importante, ispell-it è gia installato, tanto è vero che da console posso fare tanquillamente ispell... il rompicapo è appunto questo, perché da emacs in spell checking non esiste la voce italiano quando è già installata? confesso di non conoscere molto bene emacs. comunque, da me la voce c'e', e posso selezionarla. ma quando provo a fare un check spell mi dice non trova /usr/lib/ispell/italian.hash e in effetti non c'e' ci sono solo quello inglese e quello americano. non so se ti possa essere utile. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14:26, mercoledì 29 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake, Beppe ha scritto: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] devi installare gli headers del kernel oltre ai sorgenti dello stesso... dovresti averli madrakizzati in un pacchetto chiamato kernel-headers-2.4.18-xxx.mdk.rpm :) bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE89QzZF/9fksDJ4y0RAlWeAJwLEAUTYbuzPKwE3Khv9+Q++9yQtgCfV7r8 ZCl3Yh/3VawQnt7O6mCqVYc= =jkRL -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...
Il 29.05.02 alle 19:27, il notabile freefred proferi' codeste parole: comunque, da me la voce c'e', e posso selezionarla. ma quando provo a fare un check spell mi dice non trova /usr/lib/ispell/italian.hash e in effetti non c'e' ci sono solo quello inglese e quello americano. Se in /usr/lib/ispell/ non ci sono italian.hash e italian.aff vuol dire che il pacchetto 'ispell-it' non e' installato. Per tornare al problema di Emanuele, forse per poter selezionare il dizionario in italiano bisognerebbe utilizzare change dictionary e poi scegliere italiano. -- LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 K 2.4.18-puro * Slackware 8.1-rc1 ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] Cos che sfrutta tanta memoria (lunghetto)?
Ciao, penso che tu non ti debba preoccupare piu' di tanto.Io di memoria ne ho un po' i piu' e mi trovo comunque nella stessa situazione. Il fatto e che linux ( credo di ricordare ) usa il piu' possibile la ram libera per fare una specie di cache del filesystem. Vi copia dentro dei dati che all'occorrenza ( p.es. lancio di programma particolarmente esigente ) svuota o swappa. Mi pare ci fossero gia' dei post a riguardo in lista. Spero di non aver detto ovvieta'. Ciao. Ste Il 19:21, mercoledì 29 maggio 2002, Lei hai scritto: Ciao, ora faccio partire il memtest dall'avvio ma ci vorrà + di un'ora. Nel frattempo ho aperto da applicazioni - monitoraggio-informazioni sul sistema - informazioni dettagliate - informazioni sulla memoria ed ho notato che : total memory 255844 used memory 241340 free memory 14504 shared memory 0 buffers 20396 cached 157676 user 220944 total swap space 267868 used swap space 0 free swap space 267868 94% di memoria utilizzata. Tra le informazioni generali c'è scritto: release sistema operativo 2.4.18-6mdk versione della distribuzione mandrake linux release 8.2(blue bird) for i586 tipo di processore i686 Preciso che le uniche applicazioni aperte sono kmail e informazioni sul sistema. Non sono un esperto ma non è che la memoria utilizzata è un po' troppa e che quindi aprendo un'altra applicazione manda in tilt il sistema? In questo caso come si fa' a sapere quali sono i processi che succhiano così tanta memoria da poter eliminare? Per esempio vorrei togliere tutto quello che riguarda il controllo delle batterie dei portatili si può fare? Inoltre tra i processi attivi oltre al quelli di utente e root c'è ne sono un paio xfs e rpc di che si tratta? Sono indispensabili? Ciao e grazie in anticipo dell'eventuale risposta (e pazienza) ku68
Re: [newbie-it] Cos che sfrutta tanta memoria(lunghetto)?
Il 29.05.02 alle 19:21, il notabile ku68 proferi' codeste parole: ora faccio partire il memtest dall'avvio ma ci vorrà + di un'ora. Ti consiglio di lasciarlo andare per ben piu' di un'ora (consiglierei una notte intera e anche qualcosa di piu' ... e' meglio fargli fare tutti i test analizzando tutta la memoria, per escludere problemi) total memory 255844 used memory 241340 [..] total swap space 267868 used swap space 0 free swap space 267868 Finche' lo swap non e' occupato credo che non debba preoccuparti. L'occupazione della RAM che noti in realta' e' solo fittizia (in parte), e in caso di necessita' quella utilizzata come cache per il disco verra' liberata. In questo caso come si fa' a sapere quali sono i processi che succhiano così tanta memoria da poter eliminare? dai un ps -waxuf e vedi tutti i processi attivi Per esempio vorrei togliere tutto quello che riguarda il controllo delle batterie dei portatili si può fare? Se c'e' un'applet che si occupa di questo, basta rimuoverla. Inoltre tra i processi attivi oltre al quelli di utente e root c'è ne sono un paio xfs e rpc di che si tratta? Sono indispensabili? xfs e' il font server e in mandrake e' indispensabile per la corretta visualizzazione dei caratteri in X. rpc AFAIK serve a portmap per la condivisione di dischi in NFS tra due sistemi *nix: se non ti serve basta disattivare nfsd con drakxservices. -- LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 K 2.4.18-puro * Slackware 8.1-rc1 ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 14:10, LukenShiro, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell... wrote: Se in /usr/lib/ispell/ non ci sono italian.hash e italian.aff vuol dire che il pacchetto 'ispell-it' non e' installato. vero. infatti ora funziona. a questo punto, in effetti, non ne so mezza:-) bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
[newbie-it] Fwd: [linux] --- MODEM HCF ROCKWELL/CONEXANT FUNZIONANTE!!!
Questo è per Arwan.. Forza e coraggio!! -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: [linux] --- MODEM HCFROCKWELL/CONEXANTFUNZIONANTE!!! Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:31:09 +0200 From: Borm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linuxc \(Mailing List\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finalmente è uscito un driver che riesce a far funzionare il mio modem, lo potete trovare sul sito http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/index.html che qualcuno di voi mi ha dato tempo fa. Adesso è uscita la versione 0.93 che funziona!!! Prima la 0.92 si installava ma diceva che non supportava il chip del modem ..mentre la 0.93 sembra che riesca a farlo funzionare senza problemi e sbattimenti vari. Se pensate che uso linux da qualche giorno!! :-) Per la cronaca il mio winmodem è di quelli preinstallati in un computer Acer Aspire di circa 3 anni fa. I chip che monta sono: 1: Quello più grande siglato 11229-14 Rockwell 97 2: Quello più piccolo siglato RLDL56DPFR6785-62 Rockwell 97 ...a uso la redhat 7.3 Spero che questa notizia vi possa servire - Istruzioni della mailing-list: http://ml.oltrelinux.com/ Archivio della mailing-list: http://ml.oltrelinux.com/linux/ --- -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Cos che sfrutta tanta memoria (lunghetto)?
Alle 19:21, mercoledì 29 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ciao, ora faccio partire il memtest dall'avvio ma ci vorrà + di un'ora. Nel frattempo ho aperto da applicazioni - monitoraggio-informazioni sul sistema - informazioni dettagliate - informazioni sulla memoria ed ho notato che : total memory 255844 used memory 241340 free memory 14504 shared memory 0 buffers 20396 cached 157676 user 220944 total swap space 267868 used swap space 0 free swap space 267868 94% di memoria utilizzata. Aspetta.. Used memory non vuol dire che quella memoria è utilizzata in quel momento. Da questa devi sottrarre quella in cache e quella nel buffer che, usando un paragone calcistico, sebbene non sia in panchina al momento non è utilizzata, ma sta a bordo campo a scaldarsi (..e qui i maestri jedi mi ammazzano.. :-) ) pronta ad essere utilizzata per qualunque necessità venga a presentarsi; sommala alla free ed avrai l'ammontare di memoria pronto a dar manforte ai ragazzi in campo.. vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!
Alle 19:36, mercoledì 22 maggio 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 18:49, mercoledì 22 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ho 256M di RAM e una partizione di swap di 500M che praticamente non viene mai usata (come si vede anche dall'immagine allegata al precedente msg). Lo pensavo anch'io, poi ho dato un'occhiata a top e mi sono dovuto ricredere.. Il colpevole è msec che è un link a securety.sh che a sua volta è configurato attraverso securety.conf Secondo voi, quali sono i controlli che posso disabilitare, tenendo conto che uso questa macchina come workstation (non per lavoro ma per divertimento)? CHECK_UNOWNED=no CHECK_SHADOW=yes CHECK_SUID_MD5=yes CHECK_SECURITY=yes CHECK_PASSWD=yes SYSLOG_WARN=yes CHECK_SUID_ROOT=yes CHECK_PERMS=yes CHKROOTKIT_CHECK=yes CHECK_PROMISC=no RPM_CHECK=no TTY_WARN=no CHECK_WRITEABLE=yes MAIL_WARN=yes CHECK_OPEN_PORT=yes CHECK_SUID_GROUP=yes -- saluti Giovanni Mazzamati mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux Mandrake 8.2 KDE 2.2.2 user Registred User #183142 Un giorno le macchine riusciranno a risolvere tutti i problemi, ma mai nessuna di esse potrà porne uno. Albert Einstein
Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...
At 20.10 29/05/2002 +0200, you wrote: Il 29.05.02 alle 19:27, il notabile freefred proferi' codeste parole: comunque, da me la voce c'e', e posso selezionarla. ma quando provo a fare un check spell mi dice non trova /usr/lib/ispell/italian.hash e in effetti non c'e' ci sono solo quello inglese e quello americano. Se in /usr/lib/ispell/ non ci sono italian.hash e italian.aff vuol dire che il pacchetto 'ispell-it' non e' installato. In effetti questi file sono presenti... Per tornare al problema di Emanuele, forse per poter selezionare il dizionario in italiano bisognerebbe utilizzare change dictionary e poi scegliere italiano. Ho provato anche questo, solo che questa opzione riesce a selezionare i dizionari presenti nella lista di spell checking, e dunque mancando quello italiano, mi dice sempre no match found... Tutto ciò è davvero molto strano perché davvero nella lista che riporta ci sono quasi tutte le lingue europee... Vi ringrazio
[newbie-it] PER ANDREA CELLI
CIAO IO VOLEVO CANCELLARMI USANDO L'INDIRIZZO DI SYMPAE INVECE SONO ANCORA QUI A RICEVERE..ORAMI NON SO PIù CHE FARE,L'HO FATTO DECINE DI VOLTE.NON RIESCO PIù A CAPIRE..MI SONO QUASI RASSEGNATA SOLO CHE SPESSO SONO VIA PER DEI GIORNI E HO UNA MAREA DI POSTA DA SCARICARE... SOB.CHE POSSO FARE? mi puoi aiutare? Laura
Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...
Il 29.05.02 alle 22:28, il notabile Emiliano La Licata proferi' codeste parole: bisognerebbe utilizzare change dictionary e poi scegliere italiano. Ho provato anche questo, solo che questa opzione riesce a selezionare i dizionari presenti nella lista di spell checking, e dunque mancando quello italiano, mi dice sempre no match found... Ops, prima di tutto scusa per il nome sbagliato .. una svista :-(( Mi viene un dubbio che sia un problema di permessi: in /usr/lib/ispell/ i file sono leggibili da tutti? Tutto ciò è davvero molto strano perché davvero nella lista che riporta ci sono quasi tutte le lingue europee... Si' ma devi considerare che sono solo astrattamente utilizzabili (= niente da fare se non hai installato la localizzazione ispell relativa) -- LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 K 2.4.18-puro * Slackware 8.1-rc1 ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!
Il 29.05.02 alle 21:45, il notabile Giovanni Mazzamati proferi' codeste parole: Il colpevole è msec che è un link a securety.sh che a sua volta è configurato attraverso securety.conf [..] Secondo voi, quali sono i controlli che posso disabilitare, tenendo conto che uso questa macchina come workstation (non per lavoro ma per divertimento)? IMHO e' sconsigliabile modificare le voci a mano. Ma il problema del frullamento te lo da' anche se riduci al quasi minimo il livello di sicurezza (1)? A naso direi che ora stai usando almeno il livello 3. Qui ci sono i significati di ogni livello di sicurezza: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php Per le esigenze che riporti non vedo la necessita' di una macchina blindata. -- LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 K 2.4.18-puro * Slackware 8.1-rc1 ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 16:47, mercoledì 29 maggio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf, Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: E' possibile visualizzare al boot di lilo nomi più dettagliati per ciascun sistema da avviare senza dover sottostare al limite delle label in lilo.config ? si basta cambiare le label Premetto che in una specifica di configurazione di lilo.conf è affermato che non è possibile utilizzare alle voci label più di 15 caratteri alfanumerici consecutivi, .. :-)Grazie e saluti da Giuseppe. scusa, non avevo capito... pare che non sia possibile.. (anche se 15 caratteri..) ma puoi sempre dettagliare in /boot/boot_message.txt dove non hai limitazioni ed alle label associ una bella spiegazione bye miKe __ Slackware 8 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE89VAPF/9fksDJ4y0RAjfdAJ9PtSp2BdA7sYcuG/MheRezjuOdRACgk5d6 YSJRioCD9uikkD+zF+6si8g= =kKNU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
We have a slight misunderstanding here. I'll try to be clearer (wouldn't be difficult). 1. Write down on a piece on paper the IP address of the primary and secondary DNS servers provided by your cable operator. 2. Click on the console icon - if you are using KDE, that's the third icon from the left at the bottom of the screen. Looks like a screen with a shell on it. 3. type the following commands: su you are prompted for the root password - type it in kwrite /etc/resolv.conf enter the nameserver addresses like: nameserver primary.ip.addr nameserver secondary.ip.addr 4. Save and exit from the editor Now if your ip address, subnet and gateway are set up as mentioned earlier, you should have internet access. HTH Brian On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I quess this is what it should do but most everthing else ask for root but konsole,choose root console and does nothing ,logout and login as root screen turn,s red then warning about this is a bad ideal.I stop and got out there to unsure. - Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] accesss shareing On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 15:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank,s Brain,I made the changes still no contection I haven,t got much time in with linux GREEN-GREEN and you lost me on checking with the /ect/resolv.config didn,t understand were to do it. From a console, type: cat /etc/resolv.conf This will show you what's in there (maybe not much). If you need to add the nameservers manually, try: su password for root kwrite /etc/resolv.conf or use another editor of your choice. Come back if it's still not clear. Brian 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] accesss shareing
I don't know about all cable providers but all I had to do was enter my computer's name that the cable company gave me and dhcpcd set the rest up for me - I didn't need to input nameservers or anything. James We have a slight misunderstanding here. I'll try to be clearer (wouldn't be difficult). 1. Write down on a piece on paper the IP address of the primary and secondary DNS servers provided by your cable operator. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:56, James Thomas wrote: I don't know about all cable providers but all I had to do was enter my computer's name that the cable company gave me and dhcpcd set the rest up for me - I didn't need to input nameservers or anything. James Yes, but presumably you were connecting one machine. This is about connection sharing - accessing the cable connection thru another machine. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning
On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root directory had a boot directory beneath it holding the boot files. I was stumped. Is this standard behaviour or did I screw something up? *not that that'd be the first time I manage to FUBAR a system.* TIA Not sure Femme. If you told it /boot is a partition, the directory should have been effectively a hard link to your /boot partition. In my understanding, often error prone, in up to 8.1 /boot and / both needed to be ext2 but not under 8.2. Without knowing exactly what you tried and how you went about it, it is hard to tell more. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
Also if you use krusader or nautilus you can do it without problems. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Mayo 28, 2002 11:36 pm Asunto: Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE? On Tuesday 28 May 2002 23:02, you wrote: Just wondering - seems like I read this somewhere before...is there a bug in the drag 'n drop filecopy to an open floppy window under KDE with v8.2? The reason I'm asking is - I did it, from an window on /home/darklord to an open window on /mnt/floppy and I got a complete and total system wide lockup. None of the usual control alt's would work, had to power down and backup. Of course, then I went thru the time-honored I'm fsck'ed shuck 'n jive... I opened a term and did a cp filename.ext /mnt/floppy and it worked just fine. Thanks in advance! ;-) I had the same experience but kept quiet as apparrantly , me and floppies don't mix well:o( Anyhow, disabling automount for the floppy-device resolved all that. Had to do that by manually by editing /etc/fstab/ and rebooting cause even as 'root' I got 'access denied' whenever I tried to change the floppy configuration:o( Automount for the cd-rom works just fine untill now, i.e. this is the first time round I have allowed it in all my gnu/linux days. Good hunting, Harm. 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] Sound Mixer
Hi, The actual problem is this: Allthough The soundcard is configured correctly, there seems to be no sound mixer. When I try to play MP3's I get en error warning me to check if my soudcard is configured correctly (which is) or that my kernel might not have sound playback capabilities (??). How do I fix this? I use Mandrake 8.0 --- Welcome to the Jungle! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digest version of Newbie available
On Wed, 29 May 2002 14:33, dfox wrote: First question: I have a 6 gig disk internal and it is already partitioned. Can I just clean one of those partitions and install linux on it so it is not necessary to blow away the whole disk and all my wonderful contents? Should be able to do that. I'm running 8.1 on hdb7 (seventh partition of second IDE drive). Other partitions were saved from earlier installs, although I set this up (and installed 7.2) on a new drive when my earlier driev had become too small to be useful. dh Yeah, You probably want about half (2.5-3Gig) for a good GUI install. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails until the power came back up an hour later. Mandrake started as if i had asked for a restart. No apps, but no corruption. Thankyou god/s. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video again
On Tue, 28 May 2002 23:07, Nicolas VERITE wrote: Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2002 02:37, Nicolas VERITE wrote: USB is for photos and the MPEG low quality videos, FireWire (or iLink) is made for DV video. Ah, all is now clear! So I can, in theory, get my camcorder to stream crappy video through the USB port, but if I want to do anything serious, I should buy a FireWire card. Sir Robin That's how I've seen many camcorders work... For example, in the Sony line of camcorders, you have the Memory Stick cards in which you can store photos, but also low-quality MPEG videos copied from your DV tape (10 to 15 sec max for around 1 MB). This can be usefull for video-e-mails... Video e-mails... argh! Our poor submarine fibre-optic cable will fry all the way from Auckland to Hawaii. Read the docs and try... everything ! Everything is not usefull for anybody... Nÿco -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to share my cable connection in win2000 sstem(which turns out I lost my help files acouple of week,s ago) with mandrake 8.2.I installed to 2 card in the 2000 system went thur the auto shareing dos promting the system I got the card ad DNS nothing IP address 192.168.01 sub mast 255.255.255.0 gateway nothing running auto config in linux I got gateway 192.168.01 ip address 192.168.01 netmask 255.255.255.0 protocol DHCP start on boot yes I know there is are thing wrong here because it does seem to work but as I said I,m missing my help files.Can anyone see what needs changeing. This may be stating the obvious, but you do know you have to either use a special crossover cable between the two computers, or else connect them both to a hub don't you? Before you get too deep into changing configuration options just check that the command 'ping ip_add_of the_other_computer' works from a root terminal in Linux, and a command Window in Windows. The reason I suggest this is because even when you have a crossover cable, if the network adapters default to 100Mbps then depending on the quality of the cable you may not have a reliable connection. (I have seen that too many times to be funny :( ) (To get a root terminal just open a normal terminal type su Enter and then give the root password. No need to actually log in as root which is frowned upon) HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java install error
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 3:30 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings to all I have tried to install j2re 1.4.0 from Sun on my 8.2 system. I got the j2re-1_4_0- linux-i386.rpm.bin and ran the install script giving me, j2re-1_4_0-fcs-linux- i386.rpm. I then ran the rpm command, rpm -iv j2re-1_4_0-fcs-linux-i386.rpm. I then got a checksum error on /usr/java/j2re1.4.0/lib/fonts/LucindaB. I then tried to rpm -e the package, but I am told that it is not installed. However, I now have a /usr/java/j2re1.4.0folder containing lots of files on my system where there was none before. I am very new to Linux, and would appreciate some help as to how I may remove the j2re components from my system so I can hopefully reinstall correctly. --Angus Bad luck on getting the checksum failure. I am surprised rpminst does not confirm the checksums before installing anything. Unless the problem is actually writing on your hard drive? You can confirm if java is actually installed with rpm -q j2re If it comes back and says it is not installed then you should be able to download the file again and reinstall. All the existing files will just get overwritten. If it is installed then rpm -e whatever the last command returned will remove it. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning
On 29/05/2002, The following message was beamed across the Internet: Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root directory had a boot directory beneath it holding the boot files. I was stumped. Well I used the ext3 (the journal one) and made /boot swap / on my HDD and it all went fine, boot was for boot swap for swap and / for the rest :) MDK 8.2 -- Regards, Mark Van Bruggen [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is always a way, it's just reality that's the problem !! == Mark Van Bruggen Microsoft OEM Certified Phone : 07 4926 4900 Computer Systems Supplier Mobile: 04 3886 4900 Internet / Computer Technician E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockhampton QLD AU == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:52, you wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root directory had a boot directory beneath it holding the boot files. I was stumped. Is this standard behaviour or did I screw something up? *not that that'd be the first time I manage to FUBAR a system.* TIA Just my penny's worth. First I know nothing about mixed file systems,all mine have been in ext2. If you have a /boot partition created , all my experience is that DrakX know's exactly what to do, the only proviso I can think of is that on the first OS install you have to manually select the partition you have created for the /boot partition and define it from a dropdown list in th DrakX partition tool menu. On the second Linux OS install it is already designated /boot partition, in the same way as /swap is already designated as such, you merely select another partition and designate the / for this partition and that is where the second linux OS's binaries are installed. Now, I have never bothered myself with /home and /var partitions, but I bet DrakX know's about them too and will avoid interefering with them. Femme it's hard to guess what has gone wrong for you without being physically present as you are doing these things, but all I can say is that I have now done perhaps 40 or 50 dual linux , with at least one windows install , I always go the /boot /root /swap method and I haven't once had a failure to install the kernel and initrd files in the designated /boot partition, therefore I suspect somewhere along the line you are not correctly telling DrakX where the /boot partition is, the result is that it merely resorts to plan B and sticks them in the /root partition as a subdirectory of /. I cannot remember whether you ever said that you also run at least one windows OS, like I do, but if you don't , then there is no Windows MBR for lilo, but if this is the case then just possibly in some way it might affect the outcome for you, it's hard to see why, but I am trying to think of ways that may mean a difference . I don't really hold much truck with this possibility , after all where the bootloader lilo goes ought not to affect in any way the way DrakX decides where to put your kernels and initrd files . The only other suggestion I can think of is that next time you have a try, write down a step by step ,blow by blow account of how you went about creating the partitions and designating them, not forgetting to let us know which partition tools you use etc. I take it you are not having any trouble with your lilo installs. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OS BACKUPS
I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS backups. It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create compressed multi CD writes. So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. The only utility I know of is dump , it's command line, which scares me stiff where backups are conscerned, all that time and effort spent configuring your OS, and it can so easily go wrong, but still there is a time for all men to learn and perhaps this is mine. One thing to consider, I am dual linux booting,and therefore have /boot /root /swap partitions. Do I create seperate backups for each, or one big backup file . Obviously one doesn't back up the /swap partiton. Hitherto I have always used a drive image programme. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 1:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS backups. It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create compressed multi CD writes. So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. The only utility I know of is dump , it's command line, which scares me stiff where backups are conscerned, all that time and effort spent configuring your OS, and it can so easily go wrong, but still there is a time for all men to learn and perhaps this is mine. One thing to consider, I am dual linux booting,and therefore have /boot /root /swap partitions. Do I create seperate backups for each, or one big backup file . Obviously one doesn't back up the /swap partiton. Hitherto I have always used a drive image programme. John Two solutions for you John 1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It is on your CD's but I think the latest version is better. It will comoress and copy your image to multiple CDs Very hihjly spoken of, but I'm afraid it is command line. 2/ drakbackup - It is in the rpm drakxtools on your CD In a root terminal just type drakbackup and you get a nice little GUI complete with a wizard. I have no idea why this application is not in Mandrake Control Centre. It was in there in Mandrake 8.2beta2, but somehow it got taken out again. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason - Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] accesss shareing On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:56, James Thomas wrote: I don't know about all cable providers but all I had to do was enter my computer's name that the cable company gave me and dhcpcd set the rest up for me - I didn't need to input nameservers or anything. James Yes, but presumably you were connecting one machine. This is about connection sharing - accessing the cable connection thru another machine. Brian 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] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 05:36 pm, you wrote: I had the same experience but kept quiet as apparrantly , me and floppies don't mix well:o( :-) Anyhow, disabling automount for the floppy-device resolved all that. Had to do that by manually by editing /etc/fstab/ and rebooting cause even as 'root' I got 'access denied' whenever I tried to change the floppy configuration:o( Automount for the cd-rom works just fine untill now, i.e. this is the first time round I have allowed it in all my gnu/linux days. Good hunting, Harm. Thanks for the advice, Harm - I'll try it. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: Yes there is. IT was on expert list it relates to copying froma Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :) Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a: supermount -i disable ;-) Thanks, Femme. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
On Wed, 29 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason j, what you may want to do is setup the connection sharing and then be sure when you setup your firewall that you enable NAT so that all the data packets leaving the outer interface appear as though they're all coming from the same machine. I've got that running on my gateway at home and it works flawlessly. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
This may be a bit off topic but most likley of intrist to a few folks here. The other day I pulled the last of the money that I had in the stock market out. Lucky for me that everything else I had in the market I had pulled out several years ago before the whole market went way down. I really know next to nothing about the stock market and have very little intrest in it. In spite of this I got to thinking about all the stuff that I had read in the past year or so here and a number of other places about all the people , goverment agencys, school districts, colleges and corperations that have been dropping microsoft like a hot rock and all the bad press that microsoft has had a number of places around the world. It seemed to me that this was a trend that was going to continue. Also it seemed to me that it would start to catch on more in the home pc user market also. What if all this diccontent with microshaft continues to grow, it seems like it will. Where will all these unhappy computer users do for there next OS. It seemed to me that they have little to choose from but Linux and Mac but mac machines seem overpriced and not very avalable. That leaves very little in the way of options except linux. I thought this over a little bit more, most of these people are not computer ginuses and know just enough to do basic stuff in windows, they are going to need something user friendly with a desktop similar to windows and they are going to need some good customer support to get started. It seems to me that Mandrake Linux fills these needs better than any other Linux distro. Is Mandrake destined for great success in the next couple of years, it seems to me like they should be. I looked at what Mandrake stock has done in the past year. It has really dropped, I have trouble understanding why. As best as I can tell from all this stock market gibberish mandrake seems VERY undervalued. It also seems to me that it has nowhere to go but up and maybe way way up. What do all you folks think? do all of us have a inside track on something that is destined to really go places? Maybe we all should be buying into Mandrake. I can not base any of this on stock market knowlage but just what seems like common sense to me. Sorry for something that is such a long post on something that is somewhat off topic. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:22 am, Michael Adams wrote: Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails until the power came back up an hour later. Mandrake started as if i had asked for a restart. No apps, but no corruption. Thankyou god/s. Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your hardware from spikes and brownouts. While the FS can escape damage, your hardware sometimes can't. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason yeah they think you buy a connection for a machine, not a household. but heym atleast they still let multiple people use one machine. for now. -- windows XP, while X stands for cra shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:22 am, Michael Adams wrote: Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails until the power came back up an hour later. Mandrake started as if i had asked for a restart. No apps, but no corruption. Thankyou god/s. Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your hardware from spikes and brownouts. While the FS can escape damage, your hardware sometimes can't. Hi Tom, Just out of curiosity, how many systems can you safely run on one UPS? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] g++ problems
Thanks a lot for your help. I did again the gcc installation and know it works. I have long time working with linux, but now I'm the manager. In other words, I'm a beginner :) Yas -Message d'origine- De : Len Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mardi 28 mai 2002 00:34 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [newbie] g++ problems On Mon, 27 May 2002, MELEAN Yasmin wrote: Hi, I just installed mandrake 8.2 and I have some problems. When I try to run g++ compiler it gives the message: g++ installation problem, cannot exec 'cpp0': no file of this type. Can someone help me? Could you try locate cpp0 from the command line and see if you have it installed. On my 8.1 system it turns up in the directory tree under /usr/lib/gcc-lib/... There are versions for gcc 2.96 and 3.0.1. The permissions are 755 and they belong to root. -- Len Lawrence [frans@amd frans]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/cpp0 gcc-cpp-2.96-0.76mdk [frans@amd frans]$ So I guess you have to install the gcc-cpp RPM, it's on your CD's. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: you privacy nuts
i know there are a few of you out there. some of you have said so (but won't admit it!) if only we could read your crypto. anyway, http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25083.html -- warning: this sig file has been found to be un-PC by the list nazis. it may contain ideas that are hazardous to your preconcieved notions. this sig file is intended for use under adult supervision. do not read while operating Windows. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
On Wed, 29 May 2002, shane wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason yeah they think you buy a connection for a machine, not a household. but heym atleast they still let multiple people use one machine. for now. Shane! you don't really think they'd actually attempt to do something like that, do you? grin Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
How long is a rope? I have 4 boxes on one ups. 1200 watt supply Just the boxes. No monitors or anything else. I'm probably pushing my luck, though. We have many small outages this time of year and I haven't run out of volts yet. Lee On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:22 am, Michael Adams wrote: Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails until the power came back up an hour later. Mandrake started as if i had asked for a restart. No apps, but no corruption. Thankyou god/s. Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your hardware from spikes and brownouts. While the FS can escape damage, your hardware sometimes can't. Hi Tom, Just out of curiosity, how many systems can you safely run on one UPS? Mark -- Registered Linux user #223705 The best indication that there is intelligent life elsewhere is that they haven't contacted us. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance - Derek Bok Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
Just to provide another datapoint: I run three (older) boxes on one UPS rated at 300 VA, 180 Watts. The power supplies total 750 watts (IINM (If I'm Not Mistaken) -- 2 200s and 1 350)). 2 cpus are ~300 MHz, 3rd is 700 MHz, all AMD. I also am looking for protection from short outages (2-60 seconds). UPS is Conexant. Includes an indicator light to show if the UPS is overloaded -- no indication so far. One day I will try a fourth system. BTW, if you live near a Staples, Staples had (and might still have) a $40 rebate running on two different brand 500 VA UPSs (Conexant and APC, IIRC), brought the price down to $10. Nothing fancy like a serial output to shut down your computer, but will do quite well if you deal mainly with short outages like I do. Randy Kramer Lee wrote: I have 4 boxes on one ups. 1200 watt supply Just the boxes. No monitors or anything else. I'm probably pushing my luck, though. We have many small outages this time of year and I haven't run out of volts yet. On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Just out of curiosity, how many systems can you safely run on one UPS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote: So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. Two solutions for you , John 1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It is on your CD's but I think the latest version is better. It will comoress and copy your image to multiple CDs Very hihjly spoken of, but I'm afraid it is command line. 2/ drakbackup - It is in the rpm drakxtools on your CD In a root terminal just type drakbackup and you get a nice little GUI complete with a wizard. I have no idea why this application is not in Mandrake Control Centre. It was in there in Mandrake 8.2beta2, but somehow it got taken out again. HTH derek Thanks Derek, I've found drakbackup and I am downloading right now Mondo. One thing puzzles me though. I can see how these programmes can from the desktop so to speak create backup files , and I can see how they might write to disc from desktop, but I cannot see how one restores from CD still in the desktop. You are asking the system to write over it's own existance, so to speak. All other restore backup programmes I have ever worked with create a mini OS in memory of the basic hardware and load a small graphical programme into memory as well, to do the restore. Can someone please explain this to me. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have looked at Smoothwall, but I am looking for a good custom firewall that has IDS, reporting, and preferably a Web interface, as I am not a Linux guru by an means. Has anyone heard of Wolverine? I found this one while searching for other firewalls, and this one came up. It appears that the developers are trying to make a Watchguard-like firewall with the 2.4.x kernel. Has anyone tried this distro? Any thoughts? Any other ideas for a firewall? I really do not want to have to take a Red Hat or Mandrake 8.x distro and turn it into a firewall, as I don't know what to have and not to have installed. Thanks, Chris - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems. et wrote: boy I don't know if stuff has changed or what, but used to be SINGLE Network firewall mean only one lan and one external interface no wonder you have a problem with SINGLE NETWORK on MULTIpul eth interfaces... have you ever considered useing only eth0 for the inside lan as the gateway (192.168.0.1) and eth1 as the (dhcp?) outside lan? and maybe consder a complete distro custom setup as a firewall machine to get all these other ETH2, ETH3, ppp0,ppp1,ppp2, running at the same time? That or consider Smootwall for your needs - -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - - Source: Dilbert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.1 Comment: Public Key Signature for Chris Lynch iQA/AwUBPPT7UEr5pFJx+BQ5EQKOewCfd4wfM24KlNH400q8NWQsUrAkEb4AoP15 7TXm8fwKwmaOIA3FhODwcc8+ =yd4D -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree with you on the name of the product. But, why include routed or gated if you don't intend the product to be used in a network that I have designed? The firewall just sits before my private edge router, and is the last hop before the Internet. Like I said. I can manage the firewall remotely from another segment, but not a single device can get to the Internet, except the firewall itself. Here is the bastille-firewall.conf file from my firewall: # the configuration values should be whitespace-delimited lists of # appropriate values, e.g. # TCP_PUBLIC_SERVICES=80 smtp ssh # lists Web (port 80), SMTP mail, and Secure Shell ports # # This script is suitable for workstations or simple NAT firewalls; # you may want to add more output restrictions for serious servers # 0) DNS servers. You must list your DNS servers here so that # the firewall will allow them to service your lookup requests # # List of DNS servers/networks to allow domain responses from # This _could_ be nameservers as a list of ip-address/32 entries #DNS_SERVERS=a.b.c.d/32 e.f.g.h/32 # If you are running a caching nameserver, you'll need to allow from # 0.0.0.0/0 so named can query any arbitrary nameserver # (To enable a caching nameserver, you will also probably need to # add domain to the TCP and UDP public service lists.) #DNS_SERVERS=0.0.0.0/0 # # To have the DNS servers parsed from /etc/resolv.conf at runtime, # as normal workstations will want, make this variable empty #DNS_SERVERS= # # Please make sure variable assignments are on single lines; do NOT # use the \ continuation character (so Bastille can change the # values if it is run more than once) # ISPDrake: Allow all DNS reply if host is a DNS server else this variable is set with resolv.conf value DNS_SERVERS=192.168.150.1/32 # 1) define your interfaces # Note a + acts as a wildcard, e.g. ppp+ would match any PPP # interface # # list internal/trusted interfaces # traffic from these interfaces will be allowed # through the firewall, no restrictions #TRUSTED_IFACES=lo# MINIMAL/SAFEST # # list external/untrusted interfaces #PUBLIC_IFACES=eth+ ppp+ slip+# SAFEST # # list internal/partially-trusted interfaces # e.g. if this acts as a NAT/IP Masq server and you # don't want clients on those interfaces having # full network access to services running on this # server (as the TRUSTED_IFACES allows) #INTERNAL_IFACES= # SAFEST # # Please make sure variable assignments are on single lines; do NOT # use the \ continuation character (so Bastille can change the # values if it is run more than once) # ISPDrake: Fixed TRUSTED_IFACES, no routing beetween interfaces TRUSTED_IFACES=lo eth0 # ISPDrake: search for the public and external interface in backend value # When ADSL type is pppoe or pptp, the public interface must be ppp0 PUBLIC_IFACES=eth2 INTERNAL_IFACES=eth0 eth1 # 2) services for which we want to log access attempts to syslog # Note this only audits connection attempts from public interfaces # # Also see item 12, LOG_FAILURES # #TCP_AUDIT_SERVICES=telnet ftp imap pop-3 finger sunrpc exec login linuxconf ssh # anyone probing for BackOrifice? #UDP_AUDIT_SERVICES=31337 # how about ICMP? #ICMP_AUDIT_TYPES= #ICMP_AUDIT_TYPES=echo-request# ping/MS tracert # # To enable auditing, you must have syslog configured to log kern # messages of info level; typically you'd do this with a line in # syslog.conf like # kern.info /var/log/messages # though the Bastille port monitor will normally want these messages # logged to a named pipe instead, and the Bastille script normally # configures syslog for kern.* which catches these messages # # Please make sure variable assignments are on single lines; do NOT # use the \ continuation character (so Bastille can change the # values if it is run more than once) # translate perl list in right shell executable list TCP_AUDIT_SERVICES= UDP_AUDIT_SERVICES= ICMP_AUDIT_TYPES= # 3) services we allow connections to # # FTP note: # To allow your machine to service passive FTP clients, # you will need to make allowances for the passive data # ports; Bastille users should read README.FTP for more # information # # public interfaces: # TCP services that public hosts should be allowed to connect to #TCP_PUBLIC_SERVICES= # MINIMAL/SAFEST # # UDP services that public hosts should be allowed to connect to #UDP_PUBLIC_SERVICES= # MINIMAL/SAFEST # # internal interfaces: # (NB: you will need to repeat the public services if you want # to allow internal hosts to reach those services, too.) # TCP services that internal clients can connect to #TCP_INTERNAL_SERVICES= # MINIMAL/SAFEST # # UDP services that internal clients
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
Hi Marc, Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 1:45:41 PM, you wrote: M It seemed to me that they have little to choose from but Linux and M Mac but mac machines seem overpriced and not very avalable. That M leaves very little in the way of options except linux. Consider how you're doing the analysis of value. Running a business, it's important to factor in not only the capital expenditure on the equipment itself but also the long term usage and short/mid term training factors relating to staff. I use Win2000 day to day, I have a Apple PowerBook G3 running pure OSX and play around with Mandrake. I have a slight emotional attachment to Mac's but I don't let that influence my maths. Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive up front, but has lowish support costs as most people are familiar with it (yes, there is a cost issue re. potential virus problems, etc). Mac's are easy to use, people like them and so use them more (in my experience of business buying anyway). They cost more, generally, than a equally/more powerful Win box. I'd love to recommend Macs but as a hard nosed business type I'd have to recommend Windows boxes for most people. Linux ... not even in the running for most people who have to worry about support and training. Just 2c's worth and I await friendly flames ;-) With best wishes, Dave -- David Conroy MSW Consultant, Trainer Management Coach International Coach Federation, ID 1006660 Voluntary sector support: http://www.coaching-lab.com Coaching via e-mail: http://www.e-coaching-only.com Coaching for women: http://www.womens-life-coach.com Web development/hosting: http://www.turnkey-coach.com ICQ 127865569 Phone/Fax +44 (0)1225 314694 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.
Try out the following. At worst, you'll need to do a search at http://www.google.com/linux to find them. SME server at www.e-smith.org http://www.astaro.org/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome Those out to do. Lanman - Original Message - From: Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:01 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have looked at Smoothwall, but I am looking for a good custom firewall that has IDS, reporting, and preferably a Web interface, as I am not a Linux guru by an means. Has anyone heard of Wolverine? I found this one while searching for other firewalls, and this one came up. It appears that the developers are trying to make a Watchguard-like firewall with the 2.4.x kernel. Has anyone tried this distro? Any thoughts? Any other ideas for a firewall? I really do not want to have to take a Red Hat or Mandrake 8.x distro and turn it into a firewall, as I don't know what to have and not to have installed. Thanks, Chris - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems. et wrote: boy I don't know if stuff has changed or what, but used to be SINGLE Network firewall mean only one lan and one external interface no wonder you have a problem with SINGLE NETWORK on MULTIpul eth interfaces... have you ever considered useing only eth0 for the inside lan as the gateway (192.168.0.1) and eth1 as the (dhcp?) outside lan? and maybe consder a complete distro custom setup as a firewall machine to get all these other ETH2, ETH3, ppp0,ppp1,ppp2, running at the same time? That or consider Smootwall for your needs - -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - - Source: Dilbert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.1 Comment: Public Key Signature for Chris Lynch iQA/AwUBPPT7UEr5pFJx+BQ5EQKOewCfd4wfM24KlNH400q8NWQsUrAkEb4AoP15 7TXm8fwKwmaOIA3FhODwcc8+ =yd4D -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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] OS BACKUPS
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote: So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. Two solutions for you , John 1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It is on your CD's but I think the latest version is better. It will comoress and copy your image to multiple CDs Very hihjly spoken of, but I'm afraid it is command line. 2/ drakbackup - It is in the rpm drakxtools on your CD In a root terminal just type drakbackup and you get a nice little GUI complete with a wizard. I have no idea why this application is not in Mandrake Control Centre. It was in there in Mandrake 8.2beta2, but somehow it got taken out again. HTH derek Thanks Derek, I've found drakbackup and I am downloading right now Mondo. One thing puzzles me though. I can see how these programmes can from the desktop so to speak create backup files , and I can see how they might write to disc from desktop, but I cannot see how one restores from CD still in the desktop. You are asking the system to write over it's own existance, so to speak. All other restore backup programmes I have ever worked with create a mini OS in memory of the basic hardware and load a small graphical programme into memory as well, to do the restore. Can someone please explain this to me. John Well in the case of Mondo the first CD in the set it creates is a bootable CD with its own mini Linux distro on it. You just boot from that CD and then you can restore partions,directories or the entire installation. Trouble with Mondo is it needs 7 CD's for my system so I cannot be bothered running it very often. Your post reminded me to take a closer look at drakbackup which I had not looked at since the 8.2beta2. Drakbackup makes an incremental backup to ftp, or a Directory (local or NFS) at present. It does not backup to CD, and it only backs up home directories, the /etc directory and other directories you specify. The thinking there is you can restore the other folders by installing again from your install CD's so you only need to backup the 'volatile' data. Drakbackup can be run from the GUI or the terminal, although I have not been able to get it to run in a cron job yet. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: How long is a rope? snip roflmao,,, I was gonna offer a 35Kw standby gen as my secondary UPS, and I am sure an entire automobile dealership and a cargo airline can stay up for a reallly long time Hi Tom, Just out of curiosity, how many systems can you safely run on one UPS? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?
Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot to change the 'Reply to' address. Derek, I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS should be transparent to the kids - they shouldn't need to know which OS I'm running. Currently, we run a MS peer-to-peer network, with my W2K box acting as gateway. I have read that it is notoriously difficult to set up Samba if NETBUI is installed (which it is on the W98 m/cs), and one should get rid of it if at all possible. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible, as without it the W2K machines and the W98 machines cannot see each other. TCP/IP is on all m/cs, and is properly set up, as the W98 m/cs connect to the Internet from my W2K m/c over TCP/IP. I wonder, too about m/c names. Under the peer-to-peer setup, no name server is required. I don't see how a hosts list can be set up when two m/cs have static IP addresses and the other two have dynamic (provided by my m/c). We haven't used either DNS or WINS. This sets me to thinking about host names on Mdk - I haven't set this up, I think, and I guess I need it? How can Samba recognise and authenticate a m/c without DNS? And how could I set up DNS with m/cs that don't have a static IP address? I have a feeling that there are lots of things like this that I will have to set up. I forgot that this will not be peer-to-peer, but in fact I will be using this m/c as a server - and I didn't specify that at installation. Yet I was offered the ICS option? Just thinking aloud, but would welcome your comments. Anne PS I just got your smb.conf file, and I'll check it out. Again, pinging is a problem, as I don't have a static address. I think this is possibly the root of the problem and I don't know what to do about it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your hardware from spikes and brownouts. While the FS can escape damage, your hardware sometimes can't. Just out of curiosity, how many systems can you safely run on one UPS? Mark I've got a Tbird oc'd to 1.55 gig, Cdrom, CD-RW, 2 HDD's, 17 monitor, and a Altec Lansing subwoofer sound system IOW's a real power hog. I've got an old APC BackUPS 500 that'll keep it all runnin for ~15 minutes when the power goes south. The batteries are original, and I've not needed to replace 'em, or seen a drop in their performance. Just as important, maybe more so tho, an UPS feeds clean power to the system, no spikes or drops. Very important for sensitive electronics reliability and performance. It's only a 500VA UPS, but plenty for a single desk top system. Price was $123 some 5 years ago. They make other UPS systems that can handle multiple systems, even up to multiple rack servers. 'Course they cost more $$'s. APC is the preferred brand, but there's other good ones. They're heavy, so buyin one locally (I got mine at Wall*Mart) is probly a better option than buyin online and payin lot'sa shipping. FWIW, since I asked, after 3 experiences with XFS, I'm back to good 'ol tried'n true ReiserFS for all my Linux partitions. Sort'a way OT, I got a 350W inverter for $47 from Wally World a few months ago. It'll run a 19 TV for 5 to 6 hours off the battery in my Chevy ... and then the truck still starts like nothin was drainin it. It's magic!! So after I have to shut down the computer when the power goes out at least I can still watch TV by candle light ;) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HOw to make Mandrake 8.1 broadcast XDMCP protocol
I would like my Mandrake box to broadcast the XDMCP Protocol, but I cannot seem to figure out how to make it do this. Can anyone provide me with a way to do this. Thanks MIke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, since I asked, after 3 experiences with XFS, I'm back to good 'ol tried'n true ReiserFS for all my Linux partitions. Sort'a way OT, I got a 350W inverter for $47 from Wally World a few months ago. It'll run a 19 TV for 5 to 6 hours off the battery in my Chevy ... and then the truck still starts like nothin was drainin it. It's magic!! So after I have to shut down the computer when the power goes out at least I can still watch TV by candle light ;) Tom, Now you've got me wondering. I had been using Reiser and hadn't had any trouble at all, but a few months back I bought a brand new Dell and when I loaded Mandrake on it I chose XFS as opposed to Reiser. Mostly because of what I'd been reading here on the list. as I understood it Reiser was concerned mostly with the metadata of the files and not the entire file itself, whereas XFS looked after the entire file. header and content together and was able to recover both if necessary. am I wrong in my understanding? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive up front, but has lowish support costs as most people are familiar with it (yes, there is a cost issue re. potential virus problems, etc). http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/05/28/1010235.shtml?tid=9 http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=9726 http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html It's only a matter of time before lot'sa people will need to unlearn Windows, and learn somethin else. Specially with M$'s new fangled SA programs (price gouging scams), and the horrific security holes that all M$ OS's and software feature. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?
What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS should be transparent to the kids - they shouldn't need to know which OS I'm running. Quite right. A Samba server will look just like an NT server to the other computers. Currently, we run a MS peer-to-peer network, with my W2K box acting as gateway. I have read that it is notoriously difficult to set up Samba if NETBUI is installed (which it is on the W98 m/cs), and one should get rid of it if at all possible. True: Samba does not work over NETBEUI The Windows computers must have the TCP stack installed, and there should be a binding between TCP/IP and 'Client for Microsoft Networks' service in the Windows Network Control Panel. It does not matter if you remove Netbeui or not.(Right click on the TCP/IP protocol in the Windows Networking control panel, and select 'PropertiesBindings') Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible, as without it the W2K machines and the W98 machines cannot see each other. Take a look at that binding. TCP/IP is on all m/cs, and is properly set up, as the W98 m/cs connect to the Internet from my W2K m/c over TCP/IP. I wonder, too about m/c names. Under the peer-to-peer setup, no name server is required. I don't see how a hosts list can be set up when two m/cs have static IP addresses and the other two have dynamic (provided by my m/c). We haven't used either DNS or WINS. This sets me to thinking about host names on Mdk - I haven't set this up, I think, and I guess I need it? How can Samba recognise and authenticate a m/c without DNS? And how could I set up DNS with m/cs that don't have a static IP address? Samba does not need the hosts table or DNS to find Windows computers. The Windows machines will respond to a broadcast poll and identify themselves with the name you define in 'Identity' in the Windows Network Control Panel You only need a hosts table or DNS lookup when you want to refer to a remote machine with a meaningful name instead of an IP address. So for example 'ping micky' requires the host name Micky to be either in the /etc/hosts table, or able to be looked up in a DNS server, or searchable in the localdomain. It is_permissable to have 1 machine with a static address while the others are dynamic so long as the static address is known to the DHCP server so it does not award the same IP address to someone else, and so it can resolve searches to that host. You are best off however just defining your Linux computer to use DHCP and let your Win2k machine serve an IP address to it. You should also define the win2k machine to be the 'default gateway' for the Linux computer, and set your ISP's DNS server addresses so that the Linux computer can resolve names on the Internet. A convenient GUI to set this all up in is KMenuConfigurationNetworkingnetconf I have a feeling that there are lots of things like this that I will have to set up. I forgot that this will not be peer-to-peer, but in fact I will be using this m/c as a server - and I didn't specify that at installation. Yet I was offered the ICS option? You did not select Internet Connection Sharing did you? You select that if the Linux machine is the gateway. You are using Win2k as the gateway aren't you? BTW: Did you see this http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=2169lang=en It should help you access Windows shares from Linux which is a lot easier than the other way round. Note komba2 is recommended. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your hardware from spikes and brownouts. While the FS can escape damage, your hardware sometimes can't. Just out of curiosity, how many systems can you safely run on one UPS? Mark I've got a Tbird oc'd to 1.55 gig, Cdrom, CD-RW, 2 HDD's, 17 monitor, and a Altec Lansing subwoofer sound system IOW's a real power hog. I've got an old APC BackUPS 500 that'll keep it all runnin for ~15 minutes when the power goes south. The batteries are original, and I've not needed to replace 'em, or seen a drop in their performance. Just as important, maybe more so tho, an UPS feeds clean power to the system, no spikes or drops. Very important for sensitive electronics reliability and performance. It's only a 500VA UPS, but plenty for a single desk top system. Price was $123 some 5 years ago. They make other UPS systems that can handle multiple systems, even up to multiple rack servers. 'Course they cost more $$'s. APC is the preferred brand, but there's other good ones. They're heavy, so buyin one locally (I got mine at Wall*Mart) is probly a better option than buyin online and payin lot'sa shipping. FWIW, since I asked, after 3 experiences with XFS, I'm back to good 'ol tried'n true ReiserFS for all my Linux partitions. Sort'a way OT, I got a 350W inverter for $47 from Wally World a few months ago. It'll run a 19 TV for 5 to 6 hours off the battery in my Chevy ... and then the truck still starts like nothin was drainin it. It's magic!! So after I have to shut down the computer when the power goes out at least I can still watch TV by candle light ;) Ok then...thanks for the input. that pretty much settles it then. at least for now I'll setup a medium sized UPS to attach the main server and my desktop workstation to to guard against sudden outages brought on by the daily T-storms that we've been getting in Pennsylvania these last few weeks. It's been great though and I'm not complaining. I keep backups of data, and would gladly sacrifice an FS for a farmers field full of corn. How about it Randy K.? you guys down your way getting any of these storms or are they petered out till then get to that end of the state? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] accesss shareing
Hi, I'm new here, but one thing that I found that worked was to put my LAN on a seperate subnet. I put what should have been an internal class c subnet to a class b. It fixed the packet colissions I was having. My cable company had the same setup where they only allowed one ip that was to be unshared and I was to purchase each aditional ip. efore I got a router that did it all for me, to simplify my life. I had 2 nics in my server and shared the connection from it to a hub and then the other boxes all set manually on the class c range IPs w/ the class b subnet. It was the only thing I found that worked to both have internet and see each other. With the internal on the same subnet as teh external, I was only ale to see the internal lan from my workstations. That was just my experience, but I hope it helps. Seraph On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:56, James Thomas wrote: I don't know about all cable providers but all I had to do was enter my computer's name that the cable company gave me and dhcpcd set the rest up for me - I didn't need to input nameservers or anything. James Yes, but presumably you were connecting one machine. This is about connection sharing - accessing the cable connection thru another machine. Brian 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] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:43 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Tom, Now you've got me wondering. I had been using Reiser and hadn't had any trouble at all, but a few months back I bought a brand new Dell and when I loaded Mandrake on it I chose XFS as opposed to Reiser. Mostly because of what I'd been reading here on the list. as I understood it Reiser was concerned mostly with the metadata of the files and not the entire file itself, whereas XFS looked after the entire file. header and content together and was able to recover both if necessary. am I wrong in my understanding? Mark Heck if I know!! ;) All I know is I experienced some little gremlins here'n there with XFS, and I don't with Reiser. Mostly file transfer problems to vfat partitions, and occasional FS error messages while shutting down. Probly specific to my hardware, or my keyboard/mouse/chair interface ;) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)
On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:32:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heck if I know!! ;) All I know is I experienced some little gremlins here'n there with XFS, and I don't with Reiser. Mostly file transfer problems to vfat partitions, and occasional FS error messages while shutting down. Probly specific to my hardware, or my keyboard/mouse/chair interface ;) I know Civileme is a vocal proponent of XFS. On the other-hand I am in league with Tom and use reiser exclusively and have done so since 7.2 when it became possible to use same as /. Running cooker as well as building some of my own programs I am oft times in the position of needing to use the hammer and chisel approach to either unfreeze or reboot my system. Reiserfs has yet to betray me or take revenge for my miss-handling of it. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
daRcmaTTeR wrote: How about it Randy K.? you guys down your way getting any of these storms or are they petered out till then get to that end of the state? We had a good downpour a few nights ago, and some rain, but not all that much, and not enough to end the drought concern. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wed, 29 May 2002, et wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: How long is a rope? snip roflmao,,, I was gonna offer a 35Kw standby gen as my secondary UPS, and I am sure an entire automobile dealership and a cargo airline can stay up for a reallly long time Ed! where the heck ya been man! seems like it's been forever since I've seen you post here. so, what are you saying grin? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba Issue?
Here is a problem I'm having and I'm not sure if it's a Samba issue or a Linux issue: I have a bunch of users that connect to a shared folder and upload shared files. The problem here is the read / write permissions: Whenever anything gets put up on the server, the other users do not have access to this file. Subsequently, when the author tries to bring it over via Network Neighborhood in Windows, the file is marked as read only. Is this a samba issue or a Linux issue? What would be a correct solution? TIA, Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Tv Card
This is my hardware mobo=Intel Pentium 4 Tv card chipset=Brooktree Is a PCI TV card Im in Mexico we use NTSC. When I try to watch tv I get the noisy screen like if there was not transmition. XawTV doesnt found any channel in any frequency. I tried other apps and I get the same screen. This tv card works fine in windows. You Wrote: -- mobo= MOtherBOard, chipset is the chip used as controllers on the MoBo, ALi Is Acer labs, Via is VIA technoldeges, Intel you know, Brooktree is the chipset (and drivers) for the Video card. On Tuesday 28 May 2002 09:37 am, you wrote: Yes, it works under windows. what is Mobo? I think brooktree is the Chipset, and is a pci tv card. You Wrote: -- nope no need to mount anything. do you dual boot? does it work under windows? what Mobo and chipset do you have (known problems with Ali and via chipsets, and pci tv cards) On Monday 27 May 2002 10:57 pm, you wrote: I have already changed this settings but Im unable to watch tv. Do I have to mount this divice? Any ideas? You Wrote: -- left click on the picture box, and turn off overlay, and turn on ntsc (not pal) edit channels to suit you, save and close, this assumes the USA (bellsouth.net). On Monday 27 May 2002 04:15 pm, you wrote: On Monday 27 May 2002 10:55 am, Misael M. wrote: I have a Brooktree Tv card but I cant watch tv in my linux box. xawtv does not found any channel. Does anyone know how to fix this? thanks try scantv or look for their site for a config template (~/.xawtv). -s ___ ___ ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: Just to provide another datapoint: I run three (older) boxes on one UPS rated at 300 VA, 180 Watts. The power supplies total 750 watts (IINM (If I'm Not Mistaken) -- 2 200s and 1 350)). 2 cpus are ~300 MHz, 3rd is 700 MHz, all AMD. I also am looking for protection from short outages (2-60 seconds). UPS is Conexant. Includes an indicator light to show if the UPS is overloaded -- no indication so far. One day I will try a fourth system. BTW, if you live near a Staples, Staples had (and might still have) a $40 rebate running on two different brand 500 VA UPSs (Conexant and APC, IIRC), brought the price down to $10. Nothing fancy like a serial output to shut down your computer, but will do quite well if you deal mainly with short outages like I do. Randy Kramer actually Randy, there is not only a Staples near where I live, but also an Office Max and another tech store that I can't remember the name of at the moment. all of which I'm forbidden to enter under pain of immasculation. :) Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
friendly flames? like friendly fire? :) On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:13 am, Dave Conroy opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive up front, but has lowish support costs as most people are familiar with it (yes, there is a cost issue re. potential virus problems, etc). a few recent studies show that linux has a lower total cost of ownership than windows. i do _not_ recall if this was with virus factors figured in. the very few groups i know that have made the change found it is more difficult (by far) to teach a person from scratch than to teach them to use a different OS. one person actually commented that his biggest problem was teaching ppl to click once rather than double click to start things from the desktop. if that is your biggest problem. also remember, with the new MS forced upgrade system, you buy everything, every release, use it or not. the (very) long term cost of using windows is a lack of innovative products and a monopoly that wants to bleed you dry. i would rather retrain people, but like you said, just an opinion. ;) Just 2c's worth and I await friendly flames ;-) -- I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said free firewood and I said who is firewood and what did he do? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:13, you wrote: Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive up front, but has lowish support costs as most people are familiar with it (yes, there is a cost issue re. potential virus problems, etc). Not realy surprising. My 10 year old daughter gets taught how to type MsWord docs at primary school. So the taxpayers (us!) are paying for the training. Count that in and your costs aren't that low anymore. Good Hunting, Harm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
shane said onto me: -- snip |one person actually commented that his biggest problem was |teaching ppl to click once rather than double click to start things from |the desktop. if that is your biggest problem. snip -- tell me about it.. which, IIRC, under kde/konq can be set to either single or double click anyway -- °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.5claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Rfbdrake
Can someone please point me in the right direction to find this program on my version of 8.2? Thank You kind regards, Ashley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot to change the 'Reply to' address. Derek, I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS should be transparent to the kids - they shouldn't need to know which OS I'm running. Currently, we run a MS peer-to-peer network, with my W2K box acting as gateway. I have read that it is notoriously difficult to set up Samba if NETBUI is installed (which it is on the W98 m/cs), and one should get rid of it if at all possible. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible, as without it the W2K machines and the W98 machines cannot see each other. TCP/IP is on all m/cs, and is properly set up, as the W98 m/cs connect to the Internet from my W2K m/c over TCP/IP. I wonder, too about m/c names. Under the peer-to-peer setup, no name server is required. I don't see how a hosts list can be set up when two m/cs have static IP addresses and the other two have dynamic (provided by my m/c). We haven't used either DNS or WINS. This sets me to thinking about host names on Mdk - I haven't set this up, I think, and I guess I need it? How can Samba recognise and authenticate a m/c without DNS? And how could I set up DNS with m/cs that don't have a static IP address? I have a feeling that there are lots of things like this that I will have to set up. I forgot that this will not be peer-to-peer, but in fact I will be using this m/c as a server - and I didn't specify that at installation. Yet I was offered the ICS option? Just thinking aloud, but would welcome your comments. Anne PS I just got your smb.conf file, and I'll check it out. Again, pinging is a problem, as I don't have a static address. I think this is possibly the root of the problem and I don't know what to do about it. Hi Anne, I've been loosely following this and I'm curious why you haven't tried setting up a Mandrake box to do the gateway/firewall/file serving duties for the other machines on your LAN. That is how many of us here are doing it. I had many of the same questions you're asking when I first started home-networking, and realized quickly that not only did I not want a p2p network, but that I couldn't see how windows was going to talk to Mandrake with out something like Samba. thus began the journey. It took about a month to get everything squared away, but once it was all setup and working it was well worth the effort. I should mention that there are many here now that helped me a lot to get things up and working. couldn't have done it without them. At present I've got a Mandrake 8.2 machine takin care of the server duties. (all of them - the poor bugger is working very hard!) in addition I've got a mandrake workstation connecting to this LAN, one XP workstation, and one Win98 workstation. it all works very nicely. O, and this includes printing as well. that was a real PITA, but I was able to get it working. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
darklord wrote:
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote:
Yes there is. IT was on expert list it relates to copying froma
Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :)
Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a:
supermount -i disable
;-)
Thanks, Femme.
--
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DarkLord
\/
Well IIRC it had nothing to do with Supermount in that instance. It was
purely a coincidence that was brought up in the thread. Its a Konq. bug
in itself apparently. Disable supermount, try it anyway. If i'm wrong,
let us know.
--
Femme
Good Decisions You boss Made:
We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
character from Peanuts.
- Source: Dilbert
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Re: [newbie] Rfbdrake
In the menu, go to Networking - Remote Access - Virtual Network Connection Here you'll be able to control someone's system or allow someone to control yours. Vince On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 15:59, ashley.bowyer wrote: Can someone please point me in the right direction to find this program on my version of 8.2? Thank You kind regards, Ashley 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] winex install fail
got my handy dandy copy of WineX and went to install it, using both methods (1--./configure make depends make make install 2--./tools/wineinstall) both give the following errors: make[2]: *** [caps.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yup/wine/dlls/d3dgl' make[1]: *** [d3dgl/libd3dgl.so] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yup/wine/dlls' make: *** [dlls] Error 2 Compilation failed, aborting install. looked in the dir /home/yup/wine/dlls/d3dgl, contents: [root@c327911-b d3dgl]# ls caps.c d3dgl_main.c d3dgl.spec Makefile prim.c texture.c CVS/d3dgl_private.h light.c Makefile.in state.c i see in the dir /home/yup/wine/dlls an executable called make_dlls do i need to run that first? is that what it needs or is there some other problem? i'm kinda lost at how to interpret error messages. thx Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] windows2000 shareing access
Tryed this thing last night and never got it just started fooling with it today and saw remote access configuration .What is rdesktop? install it with urpmi rdesktop?ip address,config should be right by the help acouple of guys gave me last night could this be my problem?
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: It's only a matter of time before lot'sa people will need to unlearn Windows, and learn somethin else. Specially with M$'s new fangled SA programs (price gouging scams), and the horrific security holes that all M$ OS's and software feature. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas a) won't happen soon enough b) won't happen. Why? Because linux will never be a desktop OS for the masses IMO. Requires too much tech knowledge and most just want their machine to work. Shrugs, My opinion. I know its come a long way but its still got a longer way to go yet. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.
On 30/05/2002, The following message was beamed across the Internet: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have looked at Smoothwall, but I am looking for a good custom firewall that has IDS, reporting, and preferably a Web interface, as I am not a Linux guru by an means. Checkout IPCop, it is one step ahead of smoothwall and has nice people on the email groups. It was originally based on Smoothwall 0.9.9 but has grown some since then... :) http://www.ipcop.org -- Regards, Mark Van Bruggen [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is always a way, it's just reality that's the problem !! == Mark Van Bruggen Microsoft OEM Certified Phone : 07 4926 4900 Computer Systems Supplier Mobile: 04 3886 4900 Internet / Computer Technician E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockhampton QLD AU == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS
Are you running the Beta version of drakbackup Jerry? I'm running version 1.0 from drakxtools-1.1.7-98.1mdk and it does not offer CD backup, but I notice the changelog says some 'unstable features' were removed in January to satisfy Mandrake QA Sorry no idea about toto. derek On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:35 pm, Jerry wrote: I ran drakbackup in /usr/sbin from a root command prompt and it did give me the option to backup the entire system or parts.. and option for cd-rom.. but it's saying i need to install toto. i did a search in the 8.2 disks for toto, looked on rpmfind.net for toto, ... nothing anyone know what this toto is? are we not in kansas anymore ? lol thanks Jerry On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 10:30, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote: So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. Two solutions for you , John 1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It is on your CD's but I think the latest version is better. It will comoress and copy your image to multiple CDs Very hihjly spoken of, but I'm afraid it is command line. 2/ drakbackup - It is in the rpm drakxtools on your CD In a root terminal just type drakbackup and you get a nice little GUI complete with a wizard. I have no idea why this application is not in Mandrake Control Centre. It was in there in Mandrake 8.2beta2, but somehow it got taken out again. HTH derek Thanks Derek, I've found drakbackup and I am downloading right now Mondo. One thing puzzles me though. I can see how these programmes can from the desktop so to speak create backup files , and I can see how they might write to disc from desktop, but I cannot see how one restores from CD still in the desktop. You are asking the system to write over it's own existance, so to speak. All other restore backup programmes I have ever worked with create a mini OS in memory of the basic hardware and load a small graphical programme into memory as well, to do the restore. Can someone please explain this to me. John Well in the case of Mondo the first CD in the set it creates is a bootable CD with its own mini Linux distro on it. You just boot from that CD and then you can restore partions,directories or the entire installation. Trouble with Mondo is it needs 7 CD's for my system so I cannot be bothered running it very often. Your post reminded me to take a closer look at drakbackup which I had not looked at since the 8.2beta2. Drakbackup makes an incremental backup to ftp, or a Directory (local or NFS) at present. It does not backup to CD, and it only backs up home directories, the /etc directory and other directories you specify. The thinking there is you can restore the other folders by installing again from your install CD's so you only need to backup the 'volatile' data. Drakbackup can be run from the GUI or the terminal, although I have not been able to get it to run in a cron job yet. derek 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] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning
On Tue, 28 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root directory had a boot directory beneath it holding the boot files. I was stumped. Just curious, Femme...why would you have any need of a boot partition? Is this standard behaviour or did I screw something up? *not that that'd be the first time I manage to FUBAR a system.* TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Rfbdrake
I don't seem to have this option. Do I need to install an additional rpm? Ashley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Colombo Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Rfbdrake In the menu, go to Networking - Remote Access - Virtual Network Connection Here you'll be able to control someone's system or allow someone to control yours. Vince On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 15:59, ashley.bowyer wrote: Can someone please point me in the right direction to find this program on my version of 8.2? Thank You kind regards, Ashley 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] DosEmulator
Thank you both. I don't have a Win system anymore. I got tired of it crashing on me several times a day. I may need to get a new processor. Ah well. I'm going to play around with it and see what happens. I'd like to familliarize myself with as much of Linux as I can, kinda the same way I did with Windows. Here's hoping. Iceburgh69 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Tv Card
have you tried turn capture to off? I get no picture (in MDK 8.2) until I change the capture setting from overlay to grabdisplay or off... I guess it has to do with my video card and drivers On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:11 pm, you wrote: This is my hardware mobo=Intel Pentium 4 Tv card chipset=Brooktree Is a PCI TV card Im in Mexico we use NTSC. When I try to watch tv I get the noisy screen like if there was not transmition. XawTV doesnt found any channel in any frequency. I tried other apps and I get the same screen. This tv card works fine in windows. You Wrote: -- mobo= MOtherBOard, chipset is the chip used as controllers on the MoBo, ALi Is Acer labs, Via is VIA technoldeges, Intel you know, Brooktree is the chipset (and drivers) for the Video card. On Tuesday 28 May 2002 09:37 am, you wrote: Yes, it works under windows. what is Mobo? I think brooktree is the Chipset, and is a pci tv card. You Wrote: -- nope no need to mount anything. do you dual boot? does it work under windows? what Mobo and chipset do you have (known problems with Ali and via chipsets, and pci tv cards) On Monday 27 May 2002 10:57 pm, you wrote: I have already changed this settings but Im unable to watch tv. Do I have to mount this divice? Any ideas? You Wrote: -- left click on the picture box, and turn off overlay, and turn on ntsc (not pal) edit channels to suit you, save and close, this assumes the USA (bellsouth.net). On Monday 27 May 2002 04:15 pm, you wrote: On Monday 27 May 2002 10:55 am, Misael M. wrote: I have a Brooktree Tv card but I cant watch tv in my linux box. xawtv does not found any channel. Does anyone know how to fix this? thanks try scantv or look for their site for a config template (~/.xawtv). -s ___ ___ ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dangerous computers
I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to loose an apendage to a computer before,,, but last night, the big server just up and bit off one of my toes.. thats right, I had the cover off and spun around in my chair to pick up a tweezer, and that sharp edge got me (good thing I keep Duct tape around) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dangerous computers
make sure you disinfect the wound.you wouldn't want to catch a 'virus' On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to loose an apendage to a computer before,,, but last night, the big server just up and bit off one of my toes.. thats right, I had the cover off and spun around in my chair to pick up a tweezer, and that sharp edge got me (good thing I keep Duct tape around) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dangerous computers
Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: make sure you disinfect the wound.you wouldn't want to catch a 'virus' He didn't say he was working on a M$ server ;-) Miark On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to loose an apendage to a computer before,,, but last night, the big server just up and bit off one of my toes.. thats right, I had the cover off and spun around in my chair to pick up a tweezer, and that sharp edge got me (good thing I keep Duct tape around) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Greetings everyone
Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS and am interested in learning as much as i can. I am currently having trouble setting up my cmi8338 sound card. It plays the error sounds but doesn't want to play any of my audio Cd's. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks Igor Scerbina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
El Mié 29 May 2002 09:25, escribió:
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote:
Yes there is. IT was on expert list it relates to copying froma
Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :)
Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a:
supermount -i disable
;-)
Thanks, Femme.
Hola, a todos.
I have solved all that stuff changing filesystem from vfat to auto. No
problems anymore. (Just copy and paste, no drag and drop.)
Here is the entry from fstab:
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0
Suerte.
el charlie
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Carlos Arigós
Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Linux MDK 8.2 Kmail 1.3.2
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---Windows se reiniciará para que los cambios sean aplicados.
9:26pm up 32 min, 2 users, load average: 0.79, 0.40, 0.18
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Re: [newbie] dangerous computers
na,,, it was so dead it was stirile... but don't say I was having sex with a dead thing, just cause the computer had already fsk'd me, by toasting an old scsi (540meg, with a adaptec 1542C Isa scsi card) hard drive that had my wife's most current resume on it. On Wednesday 29 May 2002 08:56 pm, you wrote: Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: make sure you disinfect the wound.you wouldn't want to catch a 'virus' He didn't say he was working on a M$ server ;-) Miark On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to loose an apendage to a computer before,,, but last night, the big server just up and bit off one of my toes.. thats right, I had the cover off and spun around in my chair to pick up a tweezer, and that sharp edge got me (good thing I keep Duct tape around) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone / CD volume
Hi Igor, I am currently having trouble setting up my cmi8338 sound card. It plays the error sounds but doesn't want to play any of my audio Cd's. Have you checked Sound Mixer or aumix to see if the CD volume is up high enough to hear? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock
Femme, As you said Linux has come a long way, but I do not think that it is that far away from being an option for the desktop. Keep in mind that Corel Linux OS (before Corel spun it off as Xandros (http://www.xandros.net/)), hid virtually all configuration behind the scenes (including partitioning) and featured a desktop that looked very close to MS. Mandrake also is very close. Just about everything you could possibly want to configure can be done via GUI programs. Want to install something? There is rpmdrake (specifically created by Mandrake), as well as Gnome and KDE equivalents. Want to browse the web? You can choose from Netscape, Mozilla, Konquerer, etc. Want to configure your system? You can do it via Mandrake Control Center, Linuxconf, or any one of a number of GUI based configuration tools. Want to read e-mail? Try K-Mail, Evolution, or any of the other GUI items out there. This is a far cry from Slackware 2.x and 3.x, which pretty much required you to hand-compile everything, and which had no way of knowing whether a dependency was installed or compiled without running a configure from the command line. Heck, the default kernel in Slackware 2.x and 3.x did not include networking by default, so if you even wanted to access the internet you had to recompile from scratch -- configuring it via a text based question / answer. In mandrake (as well as several other distros), the dependencies (for the most part) are take care of automatically. You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. But, believe me, things could be a lot more tech oriented then they are now. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer, General Education Online Core System Administration Team, Simple End User Linux At 03:44 PM 5/29/2002 -0600, you wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: It's only a matter of time before lot'sa people will need to unlearn Windows, and learn somethin else. Specially with M$'s new fangled SA programs (price gouging scams), and the horrific security holes that all M$ OS's and software feature. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas a) won't happen soon enough b) won't happen. Why? Because linux will never be a desktop OS for the masses IMO. Requires too much tech knowledge and most just want their machine to work. Shrugs, My opinion. I know its come a long way but its still got a longer way to go yet. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert 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] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:18 pm, you wrote: Well IIRC it had nothing to do with Supermount in that instance. It was purely a coincidence that was brought up in the thread. Its a Konq. bug in itself apparently. Disable supermount, try it anyway. If i'm wrong, let us know. And another use says its because the floppy drive is auto-mounted and if I just change that in /etc/fstab it will work okay. I'll try both routes and see what happens. ;-) Thanks as always for your help! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:04, you wrote: Hello Igor, Is your sound card an onboard sound card ? Which application do you use to play your audio cds ? Can you play mp3 or wav files ? Regards, Rodrigo Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS and am interested in learning as much as i can. I am currently having trouble setting up my cmi8338 sound card. It plays the error sounds but doesn't want to play any of my audio Cd's. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks Igor Scerbina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
