[newbie-it] Come configurare un server di posta per una rete locale?
Premetto che contemporaneamente sto effettuando una ricerca sugli archivi della lista... ;-) Il problema è questo: Abbiamo una rete di circa 25 PC (quasi tutti winzoz), un firewall SNF 7.2, un server MDK8.2 ed un server WIN2000. Attualmente navighiamo attraverso SNF con squid: nessun problema. I nostri files sono conservati sul server MDK8.2 che viene usato anche per la gestione di un sito intranet con phpgroupware. Il sistema WIN2000 è utilizzato per collegarsi periodicamente a Tiscali e ricevere ed inviare la posta elettronica. Vorremmo eliminare il server WIN2000 (e vai!!!) e gestire la posta elettronica attraverso MDK. NON SO DA CHE PARTE INIZIARE! Ad oggi i nostri PC si connettono a WIN2000 (port 110 e 25), inviano e ricevono la posta. Cosa devo installare su MDK ??? Aiutatemi a demolire l'ultimo server Winzoz! Grazie a tutti. Paolo ___ IncrediMail - il mondo della posta elettronica si è finalmente evoluto - Clicca Qui
Re: [newbie-it] shell-script (freefred e Lukenshiro)
Grazie ragazzi per i preziosi suggerimenti. Adesso smanetto un po'... :) At 14.38 29/06/2002 +0200, you wrote: In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Emiliano La Licata esclamo': su scrivere password Questo lo eviti inserendo i comandi (o il riferimento al file di script in cui questi sono contenuti) nel file rc.local o eventualmente in altri script di avvio. rm /dev/usb/lp0 scrivere y mknod /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0 uhm .. il dispositivo che vai a cancellare esiste / non esiste / ha un codice diverso da 'char 180 0' ? Questo perche': a) se esiste con lo stesso codice, quelle 3 righe sono inutili; b) se esiste con un codice diverso, la cosa e' molto strana ... c) se non esiste, stai utilizzando ancora il devfs che crea e distrugge dinamicamente i dispositivi e se ne frega altamente di quello che gli dici. Una volta disattivato il devfs puoi star certo che il dispositivo che dovessi creare resterebbe li' in eterno, senza bisogno di ricrearlo :) modprobe printer inseriscilo p.es. in /etc/modules (mi pare che esiste poi il modo di inserirlo in /etc/modules.conf come alias) cat /etc/printcap editare printcap nel modo giusto uscire da cat con control d qui ti ha gia' risposto freefred (per la serie semplifichiamo e sono perfettamente d'accordo). Ho motivo di credere che comunque /etc/princap sia ricreato di volta in volta dal sistema di stampa CUPS, dovresti fare riferimento al contenuto dei file di configurazione di questo (la sovrascrittura e' un escamotage piu' che essere una soluzione ;). -- L.U. #210970 L.M. #98222 S.U. #12583 - K 2.4.18-puro [Slackware 8.1] Altola' alle violazione delle liberta' digitali nel mondo da parte delle Autorita' federali USA.
Re: [newbie-it] file .avi
prova a scaricare il codec da www.xvid.org/download.php il codec o magari divx4linux da avifile.sourceforge.net/download.html (informazioni tartte da Linux magazine di Giugno. - Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] file .avi -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22:24, venerdì 28 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] file .avi, Francesco Speranza ha scritto: Puoi installare KDE3 ( da scaricare dal sito KDE.org ) e usare Aktion . Ciao , Francesco esagerato!! gli avi che non vede, molto probabilmente sono dei divx.. bastano i codec... se poi vuoi proprio leggere tutto, scarica e compila (è semplice..) mplayer legge qualsiasi file multimediale 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 iD8DBQE9HMpUF/9fksDJ4y0RAhakAKCjHJhbUMIXrxUyoQ3l4uPNf2PKVwCfeF1n +luI35OcIb3N2D2LUxBd4VA= =noPS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] Userdrake
ciao ragazzi, tento di avviare userdrake e il sistema mi comunica: Non posso bloccare la user lib i file /etc/ptmp e /etc/gtmp sono già presenti Non so come ma mi si è chiuso userdrake mentre aggiungevo un gruppo da un utente, ed ora non riesco più ad avviarlo,(estremi rimedi?) _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie-it] DiskDruid
Scusatemi se ritorno su questo argomento che è passato inosservato per altre domande più importanti sulla lista. Sto utilizzando da poco la RedHat 7.3 presa su Internetneuws. Dopo l'intallazione questa versione rende disponibile DiskDruid con la sola funzionalità di lettura. Confesso che non vedevo l'ora di aver installato il sistema operativo per provare questo ottimo tool di gestione e partizionamento che ho avuto modo di apprezzare molto in fase di installazione; anche la SuSE ne ha uno simile, molto potente e affidabile e volevo confrontarli. Con RedHat sono rimasto deluso ma penso che dipenda dal fatto che quella sulla rivista sia una versione ridotta. Vorrei sapere invece se la relativa versione originale della distribuzione DiskDruid funziona completamente, altrimenti mi pare un controsenso. Mi potete dare delle conferme o smentite su questo ? Grazie e saluti a tutti. Giuseppe
Re: [newbie-it] Come configurare un server di posta per una rete locale?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 09:42, sabato 29 giugno 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Come configurare un server di posta per una rete locale?, Paolo Astengo ha scritto: diciamo che ha allegato una serie di cose quasi illeggibili... comunque è semplice si configura un dns locale (dns-howto) quindi sendmail-qmail-curier e gnu/pop3 (intranet server-howto, mailserver-howto) con questi, potrai anche offrire un servizio interno di posta per l'uscita, è meglio usare il server smtp del provider, che è online h24 (altrimenti devi controllare sul server se la coda di posta è libera, prima di disconnetterlo) in questo caso il server stabilirà la connessione e farà da mascheramento sulla lan (nat-howto) 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 iD8DBQE9Hhp+F/9fksDJ4y0RAn2rAJ0fAabkL4gj9QrwXzeAoYwIXyADMgCgnYD/ EMPbOzGTB5pzs9qlC9JFVSY= =X3u1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] quesiti su Kmail - impostazioni risposte
C'e' la possibilita' di personalizzare le intestazioni alle risposte a seconda della cartella in cui e' conservata la mail cui si risponde? Per esempio, ho una cartella con una mailing list, e voglio che tutte le risposte inizino con ciao gente e finiscano con una firma particolare. Come faccio? Altra cosa: come associo un tipo di intestazione di una mail ad un indirizzo (della serie: quando scrivo a tizio, e solo a lui, voglio che la amil inizi sempre con ciao tesoro!) Su configurazioni di Kmail - composizione - generale c'e' qualcosina, ma mi ci vorrebbe una cosa del genere per ogni profilo che creo... -- Arwan
[newbie-it] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Ciao a tutti, sto cercando di usare la versione linux di Quake2, pero' ottengo il seguente messaggio di errore: [root@localhost quake2]# ./quake2 usage: set variable value [u / s] Added packfile ./baseq2/pak0.pak (3307 files) Added packfile ./baseq2/pak1.pak (279 files) Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files) execing default.cfg execing config.cfg usage: set variable value [u / s] Console initialized. --- sound initialization --- /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Could not open /dev/dsp Segmentation fault [root@localhost quake2]# Cosa vuol dire? cosa devo fare per liberare /dev/dsp e farlo usare da Quake2? Faccio presente che la shell dove avvio il comando, e' l'unico programma aperto quindi non ci dovrebbe essere nessun programma (ufficialmente aperto) che usa /dev/dsp! Grazie mille! Di Fresco Marco ICQ #51985192
[newbie-it] 1/2 OT: ntwrap.dll
Ciao a tutti, sto cercando di usare VMware Workstation per Windows in modo da avviare Linux da Windows; purtroppo VMware Workstation e' disegnato per WinNT/2K/XP ed io ho WinME e quindi quando cerco di avviarlo mi dice che non trova la libreria ntwrap.dll (che credo che sia inclusa WinNT/2K/XP) Se qualcuno ha WinNT/2K/XP (o sa dove farmi trovare il suddetto file in internet), potrebbe mandarmi il suddetto file in privato (o darmi l'URL) per favore? Grazie mille! Di Fresco Marco ICQ #51985192
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.1
Thanks for the help Paul! That did the trick. Thanks to everyone who helped me out with this. Terry On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:45 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: On Thursday 27 June 2002 10:47 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Hi all, I've just installed KDE 3.x on my LM 8.2 machine, and am coming across a minor annoyance I wish to try and correct. Every time I login in to my machine in KDM and start KDE, it always goes through the configuration wizard for KDE, as if I'm running it for the first time. I already have made my settings the first time I ran it, so I just click to quit the wizard and keep my current settings. Is there a way to tell KDE that I've already done this and not to show me the wizard anymore? Thanks! Terry Find the file .kde3/share/config/kpersonalizerrc in your local directory. Add the line FirstLogin=false That did the trick for me. (I ran across this on Mandrake Forum shortly after kde3 was released.) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privoxy
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 13:55, Dennis Myers wrote: I have set up privoxy a couple of times in konqueror and each time I set it I can no longer connect to the internet at all. could not connect to host 127.0.0.1, try again later Disable the proxy server and all works. Yes I have RTFM. According to the manual I should have no problems setting up and using privoxy, but as usual the manual has left something out that is important to my configuration. Anyone had this kind of problem and how does it get fixed? Sometimes I need to have my hand held. TIA -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dennis I installed and used privoxy for a day or two last week. It worked...sort of. Didn't lose my net connection but it is very fussy as to what sites it will connect to and load. I had to try again for six out of every ten sites I went to. Too annoying to be really useful so I wiped it off. I think it will be really useful when it is developed further, but right now I'll pass on it. Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla
daRcmaTTeR wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: How do I get Mozilla Composer to add a signature to the text of an email. In view settings for the account I have | ticked | attatch signature, but it does not. Idon't seem able to store message in outbox, a warning reports, Please veryfy your Mail and Newsgroup account settings are correct and try again. The setting appear to be correct. I wondered in what way are my setting incorrect then . Thanks, John John, do you have a file somewhere in your home dir that has the text in it that you wish to have attached at the end of each email? if not, then you should make one, and after doing so go back into the preferences and tell Messenger where this file is so that it can read the file and append the contents of the file to the end of the email message. Composer is the HTML editor part of Netscape/Mozilla suite. it does *not* do email. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thank you, I do not have any file in my home directory that appears to hold the signature for my emails. and so I created a text file with the necessary info in it:- /home/.mozilla/home/5l4ggi0c.slt/signature-fsnet I cannot understand from the above where the link is to be made, can you be more specific,because, view settings for this accoun t- account settings - choose - choose a file, however the various tabs do not allow access to the newly created signature file Or, edit-preferences mail and news settings, similarly do not seem to have any provision for linking to the newly created signature file. When I attempt to send the newly composed message to my out boox if fails, with the abovementioned warning, it only allows me to send straight away, without delay. Why ? John Tell ya what John. I'll go ya one better. Here's an image of the Mail News Preferences in Messenger where the signature file setting is taken care of. Take notice to the areas that are highlighted in Red. Mark cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, This is in Tasks - Mailand Newsgroups - view settings for this account - | tick | attatch this signature | | Choose | which is where I suggested in my first email. The problem then is that the | choose | tab does not leed to the newly created signature file. Indeed if you go down this root I get nothing but a blank window. I don't know why. So instead of using the | choose | tab I merely typed the command line instead to where I created myself the new signature file, that is /home/.mozilla/home/515ggioc.sit/signature-fsnet and it addopted it, as you can see. I still do not know why the | choose | tab does not work. I do have unhide hidded files in konqueror - view . As far as I can see it ought to work. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privoxy
On 29 Jun 2002 17:30:49 +1000, Michael Biddulph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 13:55, Dennis Myers wrote: I have set up privoxy a couple of times in konqueror and each time I set it I can no longer connect to the internet at all. could not connect to host 127.0.0.1, try again later Disable the proxy server and all works. Yes I have RTFM. According to the manual I should have no problems setting up and using privoxy, but as usual the manual has left something out that is important to my configuration. Anyone had this kind of problem and how does it get fixed? Sometimes I need to have my hand held. TIA I installed and used privoxy for a day or two last week. It worked...sort of. Didn't lose my net connection but it is very fussy as to what sites it will connect to and load. I had to try again for six out of every ten sites I went to. Too annoying to be really useful so I wiped it off. I think it will be really useful when it is developed further, but right now I'll pass on it. I've been using Privoxy for about six months and I've had very few problems. The error given above should not really have anything to do with the proxy. The IP address that is causing the problem, 127.0.0.1, refers to yourself. When you communicate with 127.0.0.1, the network messages are 'looped back' to you, and you communicate with yourself. In your browser proxy settings, there should be a text box titled something like 'No proxy for'. In this box, enter 'localhost' (without the quotes). Save the settings and reactivate Privoxy. Make sure your browser is set to use Privoxy as a proxy. Now everything should work as it should, minus the advertising on Web pages. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. -- Bill Gates, 'An Open Letter to Hobbyists', 1976-02-03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] BUG WITH MANDRAKE POSTGRES (postmaster.opts and -i option)
i tried specifying -i in the /var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.opts file, but everytime i restart the machine, for some reason, the contents of the postmaster.opts reverts back to the original contents and the -i that i specified is lost. i also tried specifying the -i option in the /etc/init.d/postgresql file, but it didn't seem to work. i've gotten postgres to work with the -i by specifying it in the postmaster.opts file and restarting postgres, but again, the -i is lost when i restart the machine...? another person has been experiencing the same problem: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2001-06/msg00041.php is there any solution? btw, i'm using mandrake8.2 and postgres7.2.1. thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adding another window manager by hand to login screen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't find a completely clear exposition of this - all the usenet posts I've found are of the type look in X, Y and Z or it might be Q. I've downloaded and built Garnome in ~/garnome, and would like to have a 'gnome2' entry in the login screen's dropdown list. So far I've found where it's entered - Configurator | System | Login Manager, Sessions tab - but there's no indication how this entry is linked to anything. (man xdm, which the rather thin KDE 3.0.1 Help points to, is also unhelpful, giving far too much irrelevant information) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9HYCJCv59vFiSU4YRAtFNAJ4zLyezEM+AMfv2CO0QpMbqsLYsywCeMRoR MFeiqIx625lGLpsNzFU67OM= =HgWy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OO Writer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 June 2002 2:13 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Depending on your needs, don't overlook AbiWord. I expect it to be the best Linux word processor within a few years, with almost all the features of Word, and many similarities in the menus and so forth. AbiWord 1.0 has been released, and good progress is being made on incorporating tables for the next major release (tentatively 1.2) which I'd guess could be released before the end of the year. (That is strictly a guess, it could be earlier, it could be later.) I have to say that not supporting tables is a pretty spectacular omission for version 1.0 of a word processor! For that reason AbiWord is no use to me at the moment; every document I work with has multiple tables and some of those complex (cells spanning columns and other tricks). I'd say any technical document is almost bound to contain tables of one sort or another ... That said, if it wasn't for that mistaken (IMO) omission AbiWord is a very impressive package and, if there's beta testing, I shall set my documents on it (if its table support can cope with them it can cope with anything ...). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9HYiYCv59vFiSU4YRAu91AJ9qNHQKnqFMwS87AUccSzyD2SySdACdHOVG vKVT5HtNcfJN+7Gr4H6ZXjY= =JPnY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding another window manager by hand to login screen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 10:40:21 +0100, Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find a completely clear exposition of this - all the usenet posts I've found are of the type look in X, Y and Z or it might be Q. I've downloaded and built Garnome in ~/garnome, and would like to have a 'gnome2' entry in the login screen's dropdown list. So far I've found where it's entered - Configurator | System | Login Manager, Sessions tab - but there's no indication how this entry is linked to anything. (man xdm, which the rather thin KDE 3.0.1 Help points to, is also unhelpful, giving far too much irrelevant information) Open a root console and type chksession -l. It should list all the valid window manager choices that have been entered. If something's missing, find out what you you should run to execute it. For example, GNOME has gnome-session and KDE has startkde. Now visit the /etc/X11/wmsession.d directory. You will see a set of text files, each with a name beginning with a two-digit number followed by the name of the environment (GNOME, KDE, IceWM ...). The structure of these files should be something like this: NAME=IceWM ICON=icewm-wmsession.xpm EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/starticewm DESC=Lightweight desktop environment SCRIPT: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/starticewm Create a text file with a name beginning with a number that has not already been used followed by the name of the environment (e.g. 02GNOME). Put the same information as above into the file, but replace the parts after the equal signs and colon to what suits the environment you wish to enter. So you could make a file called 02GNOME with the contents: NAME=Gnome ICON=gnome-logo-icon-transparent.xpm DESC=Gnome Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/startgnome SCRIPT: exec /usr/bin/startgnome Run chksession -l again. This time, you should see your new entry amongst the others. Make sure that you have the new environment installed and that you have set X to start at boot (you can use XFdrake as root to do this). Start/restart X (or reboot), and all should be well. If not, you may need to go through the setup utility for your login manager and add the new entry to it. Alternatively, you can use the Xtart utility if you prefer to load X from the command line (negating the need for a login manager). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started
On Sunday 31 December 2000 11:33 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: Not done with 'ya yet Terry ;) Try up to 12.5 x 143 (1788 Mhz), I couldn't get a 12.5 x 143, So I left the multiplier on auto and bumped the fsb up to 143 noticeable improvement! Multipliers on XP's are locked, and quite difficult to unlock. There's some (messy) workarounds posted on various websites, but I wouldn't fool with it. My 1.4 Tbird is factory unlocked, so rather than run it at 10.5x133, I can set it to 11.5x135 (1553mhz). You'll be in the XP 2200+ ++ range, solid as a rock ;~ post displayed 1788mhz!! XP 2200+ runs at 1767mhz, almost equals the performance of a P4 at 2.5 Ghz. Just to be clear here, I advocated tryin up to 143mhz, but not to neccesarilly run at that speed. Now that you know it's stable at 143, run it at around 140. That'll give you 1750mhz (nearly a 2200+ ;) and your PCI will be close at 35mhz. As noted in a later post about heat problems my machine was experiencing you recommended I install lm_sensors. I did that and now I am unable to set it up. sensors -s gives a no sensors found message. I looked at the sensors.conf file and I know I need help in setting it up. Did you read the docs, run 'sensors-detect', and put the appropriate lines in modules.conf and rc.local ? You don't need to change anything in sensors.conf. As to, no sensors found, you'll probly still get that warning, but if you look at 'dmesg |less', you'll see the later on in the boot process the i2c modules are loaded. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] enlarge a linux partition?
Hey everyone, my question is simple but solution might not be. I have installed some time ago MD 7.2 and have only / and /home mounted on two partitions. I need to enlarge my / (root) partition because I continue adding applications but there is not much space left. Should I simply use Partition Magic and enlarge it, or maybe create another partition and mount it on /usr or /etc or any other space-consuming partition? Thanks for any help, Zlatko --- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privoxy
On Saturday 29 June 2002 03:56 am, you wrote: On 29 Jun 2002 17:30:49 +1000, Michael Biddulph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 13:55, Dennis Myers wrote: I have set up privoxy a couple of times in konqueror and each time I set it I can no longer connect to the internet at all. could not connect to host 127.0.0.1, try again later Disable the proxy server and all works. Yes I have RTFM. According to the manual I should have no problems setting up and using privoxy, but as usual the manual has left something out that is important to my configuration. Anyone had this kind of problem and how does it get fixed? Sometimes I need to have my hand held. TIA I installed and used privoxy for a day or two last week. It worked...sort of. Didn't lose my net connection but it is very fussy as to what sites it will connect to and load. I had to try again for six out of every ten sites I went to. Too annoying to be really useful so I wiped it off. I think it will be really useful when it is developed further, but right now I'll pass on it. I've been using Privoxy for about six months and I've had very few problems. The error given above should not really have anything to do with the proxy. The IP address that is causing the problem, 127.0.0.1, refers to yourself. When you communicate with 127.0.0.1, the network messages are 'looped back' to you, and you communicate with yourself. In your browser proxy settings, there should be a text box titled something like 'No proxy for'. In this box, enter 'localhost' (without the quotes). Save the settings and reactivate Privoxy. Make sure your browser is set to use Privoxy as a proxy. Now everything should work as it should, minus the advertising on Web pages. Thanks for the help Sridhar, I tried the no proxy setting and still get the can't connect to 127.0.0.1. Guess I don't understand proxy and will just put up with the junk for now. I will continue to study docs and manuals to get an understanding and try again later. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an app that will alow me to configure routers, switches etc via serial console connections? Well, I know there is, I've just never tried it from Linux. Don't know if telnet would do the job, if not there are some tools with tty in the name (like mintty, etc.??) that might do the job. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will answer you! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal?
On Saturday 29 June 2002 08:07, Randy Kramer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an app that will alow me to configure routers, switches etc via serial console connections? Well, I know there is, I've just never tried it from Linux. Don't know if telnet would do the job, if not there are some tools with tty in the name (like mintty, etc.??) that might do the job. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will answer you! Randy Kramer minicom maybe? I've used it to configure external modems when I was running MDK 7.0 Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2
D. Olson wrote: Well, the link worked for me Ok, I suspected the email problem might depend on the client you're using -- what client do you use? (I'll have to recheck when I don't have a headache, but, IIRC, the link did not work for me yesterday from my Netscape 3.04 mail client, but then, they almost never do -- I cut and paste them to IE. (Sorry!)) But anyway, that's all beside the point... But I meant the link on the site... Yeah, you're right! Found the problem -- it's due to the square brackets that were around newbie. Fixed that, but now having trouble navigating from the cited post to the one by you == probably will have to re-search the archives and put a new link in. I've probably got several pages with the same problem (square brackets around newbie or expert). Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal?
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 10:28, Bill Spatz wrote: minicom maybe? I've used it to configure external modems when I was running MDK 7.0 Bill Minicom will work, I think that's one of the things it was intended for. :) LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2
All you're mail are belong to KMail. On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:53 am, you wrote: D. Olson wrote: Well, the link worked for me Ok, I suspected the email problem might depend on the client you're using -- what client do you use? (I'll have to recheck when I don't have a headache, but, IIRC, the link did not work for me yesterday from my Netscape 3.04 mail client, but then, they almost never do -- I cut and paste them to IE. (Sorry!)) But anyway, that's all beside the point... But I meant the link on the site... Yeah, you're right! Found the problem -- it's due to the square brackets that were around newbie. Fixed that, but now having trouble navigating from the cited post to the one by you == probably will have to re-search the archives and put a new link in. I've probably got several pages with the same problem (square brackets around newbie or expert). Thanks, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 06:18, D. Olson wrote: That has some interesting points of view, however, this most likely will happen. Why? Because people are stupid. I signed the petition stating so too. People were warned about XP, what do they do? They buy it anyhow. People were warned about the serial numbers on Intel CPUs, what do they do? They buy it anyhow. They were warned not to believe every email they receive, what do they do? They start deleting their sulfnbak.exe files. Face it. People are dumb. They are going to continue Microsoft's path to the utter destruction of the entire computer industry. Disclaimer: In the event that someone gets a clue and doesn't buy into this shit, then hey, I guess I was wrong. Well, that has happened once before, so it's not a big surprise to me. And I am not disappointed, more... Shocked. Dana. There is more than a little merit in what you are saying, my friend. Most of our woes today are the result of worldwide mea culpa. Unfortunately most people lack the wisdom to see past their own experiences; therefore they remain caged within them. As a result their cage becomes our cage, since their malformed buying decisions and actions shape the destiny of the world. If people sought excellence in all things instead of a quick fix to all things we would be running linux right now and Gates would have never made it. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is there anything similar to HyperTerminal?
Bill Spatz wrote: minicom maybe? I've used it to configure external modems when I was running MDK 7.0 Yes, I think that's what I was actually trying to remember (as opposed to mintty). Thanks, hope that helps the original poster. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2
D. Olson wrote: All you're mail are belong to KMail. ;-) Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 06:18, D. Olson wrote: That has some interesting points of view, however, this most likely will happen. Why? Because people are stupid. I signed the petition stating so too. People were warned about XP, what do they do? They buy it anyhow. I wonder what the sales figures are really like. As I said before, I only know one person who uses XP, and that was only because he bought a new computer. He's persevering with it, but is still considering going back to Win98. More stable it may be, but my brief experience of trying to get it connected to the Internet so it wouldn't self-destruct in five days made me really appreciate how easy Mandrake is to configure. In contrast, although I sometimes see posts from people using Mandrake 7.2 or 8.0, most of us upgrade whenever a new distro comes out; it's partly curiosity, and partly a feeling of confidence that even if upgrades are someimtes disappointing, they're not likely to screw us completely. I still find it amzing that people are still writing articles with titles like Is Linux ready for the desktop? Linux has been ready for some time now; the question is how far ahead will it get, how fast? Sir Robin -- It suits the poet himself to be dutifully chaste, his verses not necessarily so at all - Catullus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 16:03, D. Olson wrote: That's fine. You are entitled to your opinions. And so am I. And as you know, my opinion is that people are stupid. I know people that KNOW that Linux is much better than Windows, that OSS is better than proprietary crap, and so on. Do they use the better stuff? No. They try it, then they go back to Windows, because I don't want to configure my scanner or I can't play Tribes 2 both of which have workarounds... They laugh at me because I talk about Linux too much. I tell them all the evil shit that MS is doing, and they don't care... The VERY sad part about it is that we are all in a CNET course, almost done, and this is going to play a major part of our future... Maybe it's just me, but I think that they are stupid. They aren't ignorant, as ignorant implies that they don't know which is better. They don't have very valid reasons for going back to Windows, which isn't because they learned that Linux sucks, but because they are lazy/cheap/stupid... This is kinda scary cause I get the impression that this email somehow crossed the boundaries of a parallel universe, and I have an alternate self over there relating his experiences. Real spooky...cause I have exactly the same experiences and conclusions as you do; right down to the Mandrake erasure thing for more space. Now...on the content of your message. I'm compelled to respond because I agree with your conclusions and I understand what you are saying. I've had an identical experience with someone that is technically capable, but yet makes a conscious adult decision to further the cause of M$ by continuing to use XP. When he KNOWS that he can get the same functionality in Mandrake, and more stability, and NOT be in the position of promoting a negative social force. Hell, I installed it for him, for pete's sakeplayed Diablo 2 in front of him for 30 minutes, after a protracted argument about the problems with command lines and clueless users; neither of which are valid rebuttals since the advent of Mandrake Linux. The conclusion I reluctantly arrived at was that proving somebody wrong does not necessarily obliviate their need to continue being wrong. As for an examination of this person's motivations, I think that his ego dictates that he be able to look and feel (feel is important here) *competent* to both himself and those around him. For some static individuals who cut their teeth on Winblows, this is the only way they can maintain their fiction; their illusion. For some, as long as they don't *feel* competent in a certain bailiwick, they won't stay there...EVEN IF IT MEANS THEY WILL EVOLVE INTO SOMETHING BETTER; to a GREATER LEVEL OF COMPETENCY !!! To me, stupidity is the act of making a conscious adult choice to do the wrong thing; and although we have alot of winblows users that got there by accident and stay there by accident, we also have alot of informed experts that decide to stay there and promote it simply because they lack the balls to advance their status quo, or the world's status quo. Now that's stupidity. I offered to configure the scanner for the guy, and I don't expect everyone to just know Linux stuff off the bat... That's not what I am saying. But this guy knows all about it, he's good on the command line, he was using it for about 2 months with no Windows... But now he's back to Win2K... Another guy makes jokes about freeing up space on his hard drive by deleting Mandrake... It isn't a very funny joke, but a stupid joke. And I could go on and on and on, but the point is, people are still stupid. In relation to this topic, the new Microsoft crap, no matter how informed people are, they are STILL going to buy the CPUs, they are STILL going to buy Longhorn, they are STILL going to buy Clippy -er, Office I mean, they are STILL going to write Linux off as a geeks-only OS. I hope that this changes, but as you can tell, I don't have faith in people at all. I don't mean to offend anyone by saying people are dumb or stupid, so PLEASE, DO NOT BE OFFENDED. I'm not because I understand what you are getting at. I just mean, that in my experience, people will find out truths and continue to ignore the facts. That's how it is. Face it, if you are on this list, you are an enlightened person. Not ONLY people on this list, but you are some of them. Now, please, don't start attacking me. This is not a censored list (apparently) and I am free to express my opinions however I want. And I am willing to bet that how I have expressed them above is going to be misinterpreted, as that's what often happens to me via text messaging. I would strongly suggest that you continue your expression here because your experiences and conclusions have intrinsic value. Keep on truckin, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution
Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 June 2002 12:17 pm, robin did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I wonder what the sales figures are really like. As I said before, I only know one person who uses XP, and that was only because he bought a i don't know what they are like now, after the comes installed factor, but after MS had a press statement a month after release that said they can't keep it on the shelves i asked a guy at compusa about it. he said, and i quote: maybe they can't keep it on the shelves because the box is top heavy and it keeps falling off. i stock our software shelf and in 4 weeks i have replaced 2 boxes. my brother does tech support for dell (i know, i know, i told him to have _some morals and become a pimp, did he listen?) and the techs there refer to XP as the only OS to eat its own certified drivers and ask for seconds. :) - -- Give me ambiguity or give me something else. 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/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Heb0Bwq+ZwvIN/oRAgCWAJsGBcEMjcCIUG/uvFWVeiq//N5MbACfa1Ke vnN/sypmP7hCOlr3s+wREnk= =9+Au -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0
Alastair Scott wrote: Oh no you don't have to pay for it and QT and KDE are installed in a oner :) Not sure if there are any up-to-date HOWTOs around, but the drill is: i. Download *every* package from here and put them all in one directory: ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/8.2/ ii. Log in as root: su password Thanks Alastair, I've done the above steps, now when I type urpmi.addmedia kde3 file://path to directory I get this message, unable to access medium kde3 unable to create medium kde3 is it because I'm typeing these commands in a console running under kde? or am I doing somethig else equally as stupid ? Norm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Richard Smith wrote: | | John, | | Actually it does have an outbox. The send-later function is | [CTRL+SHIFT+RETURN] will queue the message for sending later. ut of | curiosity, what version of Mozilla are you running? | | mozilla -v | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204, | build 2002031216 | | Mandrake 8.2 standard issue | | I tried [Ctrl+Shift+Return] and it just zapped this message off to you. | | John | Hi John, Ok...now things are starting to make a little more sense. you will want to upgrade to the latest release of Mozilla. The latest release is 1.0 and it's definately awesome, and in much better shape then the version you're currently running. you'll see the difference immediately. you can grab it from my ftp server if you like. It's a nice fast cable connection so you should have any trouble getting good download speed. host: mdw1982.dyndns.org password: your-email-address path: /pub/linux/online filename: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-1.0-sea.tar.gz This particular tarball comes with an install script so all you have to do is untar it, enter the directory created when untarring the package and run the install script. real straightforward. - -- daRcmaTTeR - -- Registered Linux User 182496 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9HexWJuZ1geTzHgERAg6uAJ0RYXHWEHtFthr4QLlJmXSHhVPIwgCg1tCB gHGu8AeQHBLl40r9uyPsY28= =MI1c -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 June 2002 5:56 pm, Norm wrote: Thanks Alastair, I've done the above steps, now when I type urpmi.addmedia kde3 file://path to directory I get this message, unable to access medium kde3 unable to create medium kde3 is it because I'm typeing these commands in a console running under kde? or am I doing somethig else equally as stupid ? urpmi is just a plain old command, so what the console is running under shouldn't matter. When doing this are you logged in as root (type su then the root password) and is file://... pointing to the right directory? If both these are OK this is baffling - urpmi.addmedia should work :/ BTW I should've read the original email more carefully - if you're installing KDE 3.0.1 on Mandrake 8.0 and/or 8.1 you need to download the files from ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/8.0 ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/8.1 Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9He5aCv59vFiSU4YRAs5rAKClndFIO9H76Hgwb1vr6bJeelWAOACfT2jW Giew5tMVyk8eEmMBGj2xbus= =U8O3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Repeat answer please
Someone posted an answer to how to convert a three quarter view into a profile in Gimp. Would that person please repost the answer? Tom Beno Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding another window manager by hand to login screen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 June 2002 11:40 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Open a root console and type chksession -l. It should list all the valid window manager choices that have been entered. If something's missing, find out what you you should run to execute it. For example, GNOME has gnome-session and KDE has startkde. Now visit the /etc/X11/wmsession.d directory. You will see a set of text files, each with a name beginning with a two-digit number followed by the name of the environment (GNOME, KDE, IceWM ...). The structure of these files should be something like this: It adds the entry although Gnome2 bombs out halfway through starting up (to be investigated) :/ Thanks for the help - this is a rare case where the correct answer is _simpler_ than would first appear! Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9HfW5Cv59vFiSU4YRAgATAKCxq7lq0XA7T8eecqpAIoTTot76uACeO1BM CP8JARtOHmvUsT13kTINX04= =GiWE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0
Hi Alastair, Got to the bottom of it, the path didn't seem to work when I used the absolute path ie /home/norm/temp/kde so I cd'd to /home... and used file://. and it worked perfectly ( well except for a few dependencies I had to fetch ). Now I can see what I think of KDE3. Thanks for being so helpful. Norm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] P/S Needed for XP2000?
I'm shopping to build a linbox for a friend and I'm having trouble getting information on how big of a power supply I need for the AMD XP2000 chip. I'll have two HD and a CD and CDRW drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Opinion on MSI Motherboards?
Can any of you offer your opinion on MSI Motherboards and any issues that you've experienced? I'm considering one for a new box I'm building and have never used MSI. Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enlarge a linux partition?
On Saturday 29 June 2002 17:01, Zlatko Savic wrote: Hey everyone, my question is simple but solution might not be. I have installed some time ago MD 7.2 and have only / and /home mounted on two partitions. I need to enlarge my / (root) partition because I continue adding applications but there is not much space left. Should I simply use Partition Magic and enlarge it, or maybe create another partition and mount it on /usr or /etc or any other space-consuming partition? Thanks for any help, Zlatko With MDK 8.2 you have the possibility with harddrake to create a new partition , for instance /usr. you will be asked if you want to move the data which is in your old /usr partition. Then say yes and you will get a new /usr partition and then your / partition will be bigger. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] P/S Needed for XP2000?
June 29, 2002 01:01 pm, Sevatio wrote: I'm shopping to build a linbox for a friend and I'm having trouble getting information on how big of a power supply I need for the AMD XP2000 chip. I'll have two HD and a CD and CDRW drive. ~~~ You should be able to find everything you'll need from the AMD Athlon XP+ configurator pages at: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_869_4348%5E4376,00.html for power supply recommendations, and at: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_182_869_4348%5E4378|115_3_XP,00.html for mainboard recommendations for that specific processor. HTH -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Pascal Users: The Pascal system will be replaced next Tuesday by Cobol. Please modify your programs accordingly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] P/S Needed for XP2000?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 June 2002 8:01 pm, Sevatio wrote: I'm shopping to build a linbox for a friend and I'm having trouble getting information on how big of a power supply I need for the AMD XP2000 chip. I'll have two HD and a CD and CDRW drive. The best resource (better than the ones posted) is: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/26003.pdf (6MB PDF file). It is a crucial paper and, among much else, provides an algorithm which allows you to work out exactly how much power you need. Off the top of my head I would recommend a 350W PSU; too big is better than too small. My XP2000+ system has a 300W one but only one HD and one CD-RW drive (those together use about 45W as I remember). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9HhS/Cv59vFiSU4YRAlFGAJ49rKP2QESKt+T26xIm9aI76coH6gCguNdT +trIzo1u6bDJv0kPPW+tQLo= =ryNZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big / partiton? What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privoxy
On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 4:55 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I have set up privoxy a couple of times in konqueror and each time I set it I can no longer connect to the internet at all. could not connect to host 127.0.0.1, try again later Disable the proxy server and all works. Yes I have RTFM. According to the manual I should have no problems setting up and using privoxy, but as usual the manual has left something out that is important to my configuration. Anyone had this kind of problem and how does it get fixed? Sometimes I need to have my hand held. TIA I'm running privoxy without any problem version privoxy-2.9.13-3.i386.rpm which I got from the privoxy download page. The only things I had to do was start the service (service privoxy start) and then point my browsers to port 8118 on localhost for http and https. Is your privoxy service running? It comes up in Mandrake Control centreSystemServices. I have not had to do any customising at all. Default settings work great. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
Barry Michels wrote: The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big / partiton? What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? the main reason I use a / partition and a separate /home is for the occasional update and or reinstall. that way I only change the operating part of the system, without losing all my personal files, like music, or documents , etc. a reasonable / partition ( in my case a 4-5 gig partition ) has always been ample. on my laptop I only have a 2 gig root partition and a 3 gig /home. still plenty. It's really handy to have different partitions for different purposes too. I also have a /backup partition of 10 gig on my main box I use for storage. I would hate to lose anything on that partition if I had to reinstall because i broke something playing around with stuff. and there are no doubt other good reasons to use multiple partitions. My two cents. ;-) Mike McNeese Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:21 pm, Barry Michels wrote: The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big / partiton? You are correct. That is why my laptop which only has a 2G HD uses one big '/' partition. You can resize and move partitions, but that is obviously a pain. What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not as reliable as users would like, and many people are more comfortable with a fresh install right down to reformatting the partitions. If you have just one big '/' partition that would mean you would lose all your user data in /home, all your configuration settings in /etc and all your 'extra' applications you mat have put in /opt. So by having separate partitions you can reformat '/' and '/usr' without destroying all the other data. Also if you were running a heavy duty server you would want to have different partitions to optimise HD performance, but that is not usually a consideration in a desktop system. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
So, are there any recommendations on size for these different partitions? I've got a 60gb drive that I want to dedicate to Linux. The 100GB and 120GB are going to be for miscellaneous storage. Barry - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions? On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:21 pm, Barry Michels wrote: The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big / partiton? You are correct. That is why my laptop which only has a 2G HD uses one big '/' partition. You can resize and move partitions, but that is obviously a pain. What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not as reliable as users would like, and many people are more comfortable with a fresh install right down to reformatting the partitions. If you have just one big '/' partition that would mean you would lose all your user data in /home, all your configuration settings in /etc and all your 'extra' applications you mat have put in /opt. So by having separate partitions you can reformat '/' and '/usr' without destroying all the other data. Also if you were running a heavy duty server you would want to have different partitions to optimise HD performance, but that is not usually a consideration in a desktop system. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privoxy
SNIP I installed and used privoxy for a day or two last week. It worked...sort of. Didn't lose my net connection but it is very fussy as to what sites it will connect to and load. I had to try again for six out of every ten sites I went to. Too annoying to be really useful so I wiped it off. I think it will be really useful when it is developed further, but right now I'll pass on it. Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia That message you get is often because the web site you were at redirects you to another site in a different domain. Since that sort of behaviour is indicative of 'advertising', privoxy's default behaviour is to block the page but offer to take you there if you really want to go. You can change the default behaviour either globally or on a site by site basis quite easily. Unfortunately it is very difficult for any proxy to 'know' if a page is advertising and to be blocked, or is a legitimate page. It can only follow general rules. The nice thing about privoxy is that it puts *you* in control of what those rules are. Personally I welcome the fact that I have not seen a pop up for On Line Casino Gambling, rated sites or Tiny video cameras for many months :-) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:56 pm, Barry Michels wrote: So, are there any recommendations on size for these different partitions? I've got a 60gb drive that I want to dedicate to Linux. The 100GB and 120GB are going to be for miscellaneous storage. Recommendations? Hmm.. Well first of all remember that almost everyone changes their partitions when they upgrade because they got it wrong first time :-) Also *everyone* has their own opinion. There is no 'right way'. Here is what I have at present (and why) / 2.3GB 28% full /usr 6.5GB 30% full (almost every app goes in here so it needs to be big) /usr/src 2.6GB 24% full (most people do not have a /usr/src partition. I keep one because I like to keep copies of all RPMs not on the install CDs that I have installed here. That way I can reinstall those apps very quickly after an upgrade) /home 8GB 21% full derek Barry - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions? On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:21 pm, Barry Michels wrote: The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big / partiton? You are correct. That is why my laptop which only has a 2G HD uses one big '/' partition. You can resize and move partitions, but that is obviously a pain. What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not as reliable as users would like, and many people are more comfortable with a fresh install right down to reformatting the partitions. If you have just one big '/' partition that would mean you would lose all your user data in /home, all your configuration settings in /etc and all your 'extra' applications you mat have put in /opt. So by having separate partitions you can reformat '/' and '/usr' without destroying all the other data. Also if you were running a heavy duty server you would want to have different partitions to optimise HD performance, but that is not usually a consideration in a desktop system. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Opinion on MSI Motherboards?
On Saturday 29 June 2002 02:14 pm, Sevatio wrote: Can any of you offer your opinion on MSI Motherboards and any issues that you've experienced? I'm considering one for a new box I'm building and have never used MSI. Sevatio MSI makes good stuff. BUT you really need to add what cpu (ie, AMD, Intel, etc) you want to use, and what for ? with what? If I can add anything to your general query, MSI has long been a overclocker's favorite. If a board's built to oc, it'll usually more than satisfy a regular users needs (stabiltity!). Between, price and features, you might also look at Asus, Soyo, Epox, Gigabyte, Aopen, maybe Iwill ...These are the well known quality boards, have been for some time. For a AMD centered machine, I'd suggest one of their recommended boards (www.amd.com, MSI's on the lists ;) Still a particular users needs should rule the roost. Buy a board based on how it matches what you're lookin for, what you wanna use it for. I usually avoid the latest and greatest. So what do you wanna run on it ? If you're lookin to build an Intel based system, IMO, all i8xx chipset boards suck, avoid SiS, and nForce. Y'all'sMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0
Len Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: It does. That seems the best course of action, especially as I usually buy from Linux Emporium. On another thread it was pointed out that there might be an advantage in obtaining both the download and boxed sets of latest releases, to fill in the gaps. Thanks again for everybody's replies. Good news. Open Office 1.0 is on one of the CDs that comes with the latest issue of Linux Format magazine. Don't know how widely throughout the world it's available. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enlarge a linux partition?
Zlatko Savic wrote: Hey everyone, my question is simple but solution might not be. I have installed some time ago MD 7.2 and have only / and /home mounted on two partitions. I need to enlarge my / (root) partition because I continue adding applications but there is not much space left. Should I simply use Partition Magic and enlarge it, or maybe create another partition and mount it on /usr or /etc or any other space-consuming partition? Here's what I did. I did tar.gz backups of both / and /home partitions. Copied them to spare space on my Windows partition (one of the few uses for it these days), also backed them up onto cdrw (belt and braces). Then did a re-install of MDK 7.2 (since migrated to 8.2), adjusting partition size - transferring space from /home to / during this procedure. Having completed all that, I restored the backups. All accomplished in about half a day. Experts may know of a shorter route. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 15:54, Miark wrote: That is what I wanted to check. Downloading impossible at 28.8 kbs. Why impossible? Download only at night, and use a download manager so you can resume the download each night. Shouldn't take more than two nights--it's not _that_ big a download. Miark Yeah, that's what I say too, Miark. I used to download entire slackware CD ISO's off a 28.8 connection. Not a biggie; you just use an FTP site that's capable of resume. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unix Book
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 02:40, Gerard G. Dangca II wrote: hi, can you suggest a good book in Unix C network programming? what do you think of Richard Stevens book? im a novice in Networking so I was thinking of a great buy to help me in my studies. thanks! -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent I don't know about targeting network programming. But the best book I've ever seen on C programming is C How To Program, second edition, by H.M. Deitel and P.J. Deitel. They've got a third edition, but I still like the second edition better. I can do without the cute little bugs, highlighting works just as well for me. They've also got a C++ version, second and third. Content is superb in all of them. The one i have here is ISBN 0-13-226119-7. HTH, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] reinstalling a package with dependencies
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:36, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:22:17 -0500 (CDT) Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I found that one of the packages installed has been compiled with the wrong options. The problem is, this package has dependencies (so I cannot remove this package). How do I reinstall this package ? From CMD line su to root and rpm -e --nodeps (pkgs) then cd to the dir that contains the correct pkg and rpm -ivh (correct pkg) Charles Or you can recompile the rpm with the correct options, and then reinstall it with the -Uvh option. Cuts out a few steps and doesn't break anything. HTH, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Broadcastig
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:22:44 +0700 mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any one know how to Broadcast from a linux server? Icecast. -- Todd Slater Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privoxy
On Saturday 29 June 2002 05:03 pm, you wrote: SNIP I installed and used privoxy for a day or two last week. It worked...sort of. Didn't lose my net connection but it is very fussy as to what sites it will connect to and load. I had to try again for six out of every ten sites I went to. Too annoying to be really useful so I wiped it off. I think it will be really useful when it is developed further, but right now I'll pass on it. Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia That message you get is often because the web site you were at redirects you to another site in a different domain. Since that sort of behaviour is indicative of 'advertising', privoxy's default behaviour is to block the page but offer to take you there if you really want to go. You can change the default behaviour either globally or on a site by site basis quite easily. Unfortunately it is very difficult for any proxy to 'know' if a page is advertising and to be blocked, or is a legitimate page. It can only follow general rules. The nice thing about privoxy is that it puts *you* in control of what those rules are. Personally I welcome the fact that I have not seen a pop up for On Line Casino Gambling, rated sites or Tiny video cameras for many months :-) derek Ok, I am going to give it a trial run. Someone else also asked if it was running so I did services privoxy start from command line and now it seems that it is working in Netscape. I will set it for Konqueror also since that is my prefered browser. Thanks for all the help folks. I already see a lack of popups, so let's see what else doesn't show up. Thanks again, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not Agreed, especially in the case of /home. When I last did a fairly major upgrade, /home was on a 150 meg partition sitting on a old drive that I just pulled from the system when I upgraded to a new hard driev. Having home separate was easy - I just tared up the old partition and transplanted it into a bigger space. I don't see how /etc can be on a separate partition, but still, tarring up /etc is pretty easy to do - I've done it a few times during upgrades or reinstalls. My biggest changeover was from a 1.6 gig drive with Redhat 6.2 to Mandrake 7.2 on a 30 gig drive. I had plenty of space, so I made / rather large, but still had separate partitions for /usr/local, /home, /var, and oene or more others. I've had enough space *someplace* (I can usually throw stuff in /tmp, and / is large) to make moving partitions around, which I've had to do a few times. Underestimating one's needs usually causes one to have to resize :( -- in that respect, having a large / is good. Typically, a large / also gives you enough room in /usr, where all the 'goodies' are, and there seems to be fewer instances of a partitino split between / and /usr. But that's probably subjective. One point about /opt -- I figured originally I was going to need more room for 'extras' and found that it was mostly wasted: I didn't need 5 gigs of space for KDE and star office and maybe some other stuff - so I just folded /opt back into /, and used the space elsewhere. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big It's certainly inconvenient when that happens, but as long as you have enough space spmeplace else - enough to hold the image of whatever you need to transplant, that way you don't have to stuff it somewhere external like tape or CD-RW. It's not a good idea to have everything in one massive partition because often if one segment fills up (/var for instance) it can hose your system. Even putting /var on a separate partition can hose things if /var fills up, though. It's easier to recover from if it's separated out, I think. Over here, I have two drives, and I've hosted /var and /var/spool on the same drive -- then I found that my /var was filing up, and I had to do some moving things around, end opted to have /var all by itself on the old drive, and /var/spool on its own partition (I pull news down, and that generates copious amounts of data in /var). Having a separated out /home is a very good idea so you don't have to lose your data between upgrades. Other partitions can be kept as part of / : it really depends on what you are going to use them for. Back in the older days wehn most had smaller drives, it was easy for the novice to underestimate how much space would be required, and that is still a strong argument for not having multiple partitions - at least until you can guage your disk usage for a while. But nowadays with larger drives - typically 30 gigs on up - making a 30 gig / partition is hardly the right approach. For what it's worth over here, my main Linux is on about 11 gigs of what was left over after I figured what I'd want for everything else, like 5 gigs for /home, 5 gigs for /usr/local, 5 gigs for spool, etc. The way I'm going, I'm probably going to run close to running out of room on /home, and realistically (tm of Radio Shack) ;) that was a poor choice on my part - 11 gigs is way more than enough for the OS / applications portion. (That's one reason I just folded /opt in rather than having it as a separate partition). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] P/S Needed for XP2000?
tom brinkman wrote: On Saturday 29 June 2002 03:12 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Saturday 29 June 2002 8:01 pm, Sevatio wrote: I'm shopping to build a linbox for a friend and I'm having trouble getting information on how big of a power supply I need for the AMD XP2000 chip. I'll have two HD and a CD and CDRW drive. The best resource (better than the ones posted) is: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_ docs/26003.pdf (6MB PDF file). It is a crucial paper and, among much else, provides an algorithm which allows you to work out exactly how much power you need. There's websites that'll do the same w/o the 6mb d/l APC has one. IMO, they tend to inflate usage tho Off the top of my head I would recommend a 350W PSU; too big is better than too small. My XP2000+ system has a 300W one but only one HD and one CD-RW drive (those together use about 45W as I remember). Alastair Most desktop systems average 150w to 180w usage, even with 2 HDD's, 2 CD drives, and hog monitors and separate hog sound systems. Still, like a car with 250hp that runs down the freeway at 70 mph usin maybe 65hp ... horsepower's not everything ... neither are watts, steady torque is. (BTW y'all, do a Google on James Watt and horsepower and you'll learn all about mule ponies in coal mines in the 1800's ;) What is of very most importance in a PSU is not raw power ouput in watts, but the cleanness and steadiness of those watts (sort'a kind'a like torque ;). Call it quality. Brand names are of little import, since a few good manufacturers sell under many brand names. Model numbers tell the story. Best database of good ones can be found at www.amd.com And again, you might find a appr'vd Sparkle, sold under the name Powerman, but with the same model number. It's the same unit. So pay attention to model numbers more than names. 300w 's about all that's needed, but they _need_ to be a _good_ 300 for newer desktop systems. Lot'sa torque ; This is a good hardware subject IMO. The motherboard and PSU are the very heart and foundation of any system. Skimp there, and everything else sux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks! You brought up an interesting point that relates to the quality of the power supply. I never thought about it until you mentioned. Perhaps this is the cause of my Asus board rebooting at random times. Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
Hello, On 2002.06.30, at 06:16, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:56 pm, Barry Michels wrote: So, are there any recommendations on size for these different partitions? I've got a 60gb drive that I want to dedicate to Linux. The 100GB and 120GB are going to be for miscellaneous storage. Recommendations? Hmm.. Well first of all remember that almost everyone changes their partitions when they upgrade because they got it wrong first time :-) Also *everyone* has their own opinion. There is no 'right way'. Here is what I have at present (and why) / 2.3GB 28% full /usr 6.5GB 30% full (almost every app goes in here so it needs to be big) Yes, these are reasonable figures. And if you take into account that there are 7 CDs for one distro, and that you have 2 cds of source, 5 CDs if you install everything (very unlikely), will represent 5 x 650 = 3250 MBytes. Mandrake's auto-format creates a 3.4 GB root partition, at least if your HD allows it. So it sounds like in most of the cases, you will not install more than 3.4 GB in the root partition. So with a disk like 60 GB, I would simply let Mandrake installer take care of everything. Pascal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Writing .iso file to CD (Gcombust)
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 13:54, RichardA wrote: Hi all, This sounds like a daft question... but how do I write an .iso file to a cdr using cdrecord? I know this often comes up as a problem, but I actually want to do it (to archive an .iso image, is that so strange?). ttfn, RichardA Gcombust does an excellent job of writing ISO's to CD. It's also capable of alot more; like writing entire directories and sets of files to CD. It acts primarily as a gui frontend to cdrecord. Very useful tool. HTH, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
Hello! What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Yes, the advantage of having /home, /opt, and /etc _DIRECTORIES_, as you write yourself, no doubt about that. But is there any benefit of having these on different _PARTITIONS_? Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not as reliable as users would like, and many people are more comfortable with a fresh install right down to reformatting the partitions. But if you want to install, you don't have to reformat the partition. The installer will install every file (thus replacing all the files having the same name), and it will work exactly as it would on a clean partition, the only difference being that the files that are not use anymore would still remain. as far as the installer installs all the necessary files, I cann't see any reason that could make it less reliable than a clean (i.e. with formatting) install. As for upgrade, you may be right. It depends how the upgrade is done, which files are kept and which ones are overwritten... If you have just one big '/' partition that would mean you would lose all your user data in /home, Only if you reformat. I use Mandrake's default formatting, so in case of installing a new version, I format the partition in order to clean everything, but it's not mandatory. BeOS used a single partition and it was perfectly possible to install without formatting, and without loosing your previous settings. all your configuration settings in /etc and all your 'extra' applications you mat have put in /opt. So by having separate partitions you can reformat '/' and '/usr' without destroying all the other data. Also if you were running a heavy duty server you would want to have different partitions to optimise HD performance, but that is not usually a consideration in a desktop system. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
