Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list
FemmeFatale wrote: You're corrected. One word: SAMBA. -- Femme This is sick... i sent these replies 2 days ago. Cept for this SAMBA one. :| STupid isp. or is it the list again? -- 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] Introduction
On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:36 pm, you wrote: Hello Members, I've done a few replies to some e-mails and did not realize that I haven't properly introduced myself to the list! The name's Jason Wilson and I hail from Pennsylvania. I am a computer geek (well, not THAT bad!) and discovered Linux about 3 years ago. I have been using Linux on and off for the last 3 years, using the Mandrake distribution. I currently dual-boot my system with Linux Mandrake 7.1 and Windows XP Home. Yes, I do need to upgrade my version of Mandrake but I am still learning all the aspects of Linux! I am here because I am somewhat of a newbie; although, I do know something about Linux. Some questions I know, I'll help out. Some questions I don't, I'll ask. :-) I hope with whatever problem I have now and in the future, I'll get help from some of you guys. Hail to Linux! -- Jason Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (old grizzly man sitting under bridge, rubbing hands together) ohhh guooody, new flesh. welcome young-one Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office question
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a stand alone the only one then that can us SO on your system then would be you, as opposed to using the network install that would allow any user logged into the system to use SO. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Introduction
--- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:36 pm, you wrote: Hello Members, I've done a few replies to some e-mails and did not realize that I haven't properly introduced myself to the list! The name's Jason Wilson and I hail from Pennsylvania. I am a computer geek (well, not THAT bad!) and discovered Linux about 3 years ago. I have been using Linux on and off for the last 3 years, using the Mandrake distribution. I currently dual-boot my system with Linux Mandrake 7.1 and Windows XP Home. Yes, I do need to upgrade my version of Mandrake but I am still learning all the aspects of Linux! I am here because I am somewhat of a newbie; although, I do know something about Linux. Some questions I know, I'll help out. Some questions I don't, I'll ask. :-) I hope with whatever problem I have now and in the future, I'll get help from some of you guys. Hail to Linux! -- Jason Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (old grizzly man sitting under bridge, rubbing hands together) ohhh guooody, new flesh. welcome young-one Don't mind Ed - he's mostly harmless as long as he takes his pills. You're still taking your pills, aren't you, Ed? . Ed? __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Introduction
On Monday 19 August 2002 06:28 am, you wrote: On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:36 pm, you wrote: Hello Members, I've done a few replies to some e-mails and did not realize that I haven't properly introduced myself to the list! The name's Jason Wilson and I hail from Pennsylvania. I am a computer geek (well, not THAT bad!) I personally perfer the term nurd, as we have some folks that post here every now and then that consider anyone able to install any OS to be a geek, and I believe that I speak for a lot of folks when I say I am PROUD to be a newbie, and will always be a newbie. (heck, after 8 years building systems, the only thing I learned then that it will all be obsolete in about 3 years, and discovered Linux about 3 years ago. I have been using Linux on and off for the last 3 years, using the Mandrake distribution. I currently dual-boot my system with Linux Mandrake 7.1 and Windows XP Home. Yes, I do need to upgrade my version of Mandrake but I am still learning all the aspects of Linux! I am here because I am somewhat of a newbie; although, I do know something about Linux. Some questions I know, I'll help out. Some questions I don't, I'll ask. :-) I hope with whatever problem I have now and in the future, I'll get help from some of you guys. I believe it was Confusious (or Confusion, one of them Cons) who said 'the difference between a wise man and a fool. is that a wise man knows what he knows not, the fool knows not what he knows not. far more valuble (around here anyway) to realize there is some things you CAN help with and just admit when you are streatching your limits. very often the asking of the correct newbie-orieninted questions will allow someone with greater experiance to complete the answer while you got it started in the correct direction. Hail to Linux! -- Jason Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (old grizzly man sitting under bridge, rubbing hands together) ohhh guooody, new flesh. welcome young-one Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list
On Monday 19 August 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: You're corrected. One word: SAMBA. -- Femme This is sick... i sent these replies 2 days ago. Cept for this SAMBA one. :| STupid isp. or is it the list again? I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download beta3 iso1. since it's dialup, it take a cople of days to get an ISO, so unless I stop the download and let the mail go, it might take all day b4 they get sent. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Introduction,,, way OT
(old grizzly man sitting under bridge, rubbing hands together) ohhh guooody, new flesh. welcome young-one Hail to Linux! Don't mind Ed - he's mostly harmless as long as he takes his pills. You're still taking your pills, aren't you, Ed? . Ed? __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com damn I knew I forgot something when I was at the drugstore... I did get this nifty card tho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office question
On Monday 19 August 2002 06:47 am, you wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a stand alone the only one then that can us SO on your system then would be you, as opposed to using the network install that would allow any user logged into the system to use SO. Really? I thought the difference was the network install would put all the files in a space accessible by all users and only install about 20 megs in the users space and the single install put about 200 megs in the users folders and all the 200 megs could only be accessed by the user that installed SO? and since I bet (don't really know, only a guess) Adabas would require (or like to have) multiple users, the net install would be the recommended manner. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] GCombust permissions problem
Hi, Was the CD-ROM burnt using Rock Ridge extensions enabled? If so, then file permissions were recorded to the disc. This means that the files on the disc behave as if they're on your hard drive, in that you need the correct user permissions to access them. Thank you for your thoughts and help. I think I know what I am doing wrong. I have not fixed it yet but your info has made me realize what to do. Yes, I think the Rock Ridge extensions were enabled so I will disable those and try again. Thanks alot for you help. Glad I could help. Rock Ridge can be very useful for backups, since it preserves file permissions. For other things it can be a real pain. Rock Ridge shouldn't be the problem if it is used properly. I am not sure about the way the frontends use it but with cdrecord -R preserves the access rights, -r sets them to a+r. AFAIK. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] palm programming tools for linux?
Greetings. I'm looking for programming tools for programming my PDA on my linux box ... In the Windows world, I've been using PocketC with great success, but would like to find a way to program my PDA on my linux box (preferrably in C, though I'm willing to look at other options). I came up dry in a search at google.com and elsewhere ... anyone have any ideas? thanks, kennM __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] palm programming tools for linux?
should have made it clear that it's PALM OS that I'm working with --- Kenn Murrah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. I'm looking for programming tools for programming my PDA on my linux box ... In the Windows world, I've been using PocketC with great success, but would like to find a way to program my PDA on my linux box (preferrably in C, though I'm willing to look at other options). I came up dry in a search at google.com and elsewhere ... anyone have any ideas? thanks, kennM __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star Office question
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, et wrote: On Monday 19 August 2002 06:47 am, you wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a stand alone the only one then that can us SO on your system then would be you, as opposed to using the network install that would allow any user logged into the system to use SO. Really? I thought the difference was the network install would put all the files in a space accessible by all users and only install about 20 megs in the users space and the single install put about 200 megs in the users this is correct. folders and all the 200 megs could only be accessed by the user that installed SO? and since I bet (don't really know, only a guess) Adabas would require (or like to have) multiple users, the net install would be the recommended manner. the network install places the program files and all other files in a central instalation folder. (I usually install mine to /usr/local/staroffice6.0) and then as you say when the user runs the setup program copies about 20MB with of files over to the ~/$USER. as for Adabas I don't think it really cares whether it's in multi-user environment or not. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting Clock to 12 time
Can some one tell me how to set my clock to 12 time on Mandrake 8.2? I know this is an easy question I haven't had problems figuring it out in the past Thanks David
[newbie] MSEC is changing /hom permissions
MSEC is setting users's home dirs permission to 755 making them visible for other users. I want to have permission 700. As a temporary fix I stopped MSEC, but how to configure it properly? I was looking into the files installed and check the different levels but did not find the right solution. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] wxGTK6
Hi After installing wxGTK6 and wxGTK6-devel with rpmdrake I try to compile ( at least ) the sample-files in /usr/share/doc/wxGTK6-devel.../ but I get the message: ../../src/makeprog.env No such file or directory which unfortunately is true. Can someone help me bringing my wxGTK ( wxWindows ) to run? thanks a lot in advance Tom This message possibly contains confidential data or items of information. It is intended solely for the rightful recipient. If you should have received the message wrongfully, it is not permitted to disclose the e-mail message or its contents to third parties, to copy or use it. We would respectfully request you to destroy the message with the exclusion of any reproduction and to notify this to the originator by e-mail. Thank you very much. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem help
Hi there, some Lucent modems are supported under Linux. My friend has one, (I'm not sure what chipset) and it has worked well for him w/Mdk Linux 8.2. You can check out this site for drivers for Lucent modems, but you will have to know what chipset you have: http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/ Hope this helps. Best of luck to you.:) --Angus LET US NOT LOOK BACK IN ANGER OR FORWARD IN FEAR, BUT AROUND IN AWARENESS.James Thurber _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Clock to 12 time
On Monday 19 August 2002 07:37 am, David Sexton wrote: Can some one tell me how to set my clock to 12 time on Mandrake 8.2? I know this is an easy question I haven't had problems figuring it out in the past Thanks David ~~ Right click on the clock in the panel and select Date Time Format may work? Just a guess. :-) -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org NT (as in Windows NT) is short for No Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries
Sharrea wrote: I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be much appreciated. I can't recite the details, but a disk can be formatted with different geometries. (I don't know if that was what I meant to say.) Try again: In some programs (fdisk, partition commnder, bios ) I have seen more than one geometry reported for the same hard disk. (AHH, IIRC, it was in the bios.) Although there was a mechanism to choose any one of them, if I chose the wrong one the disk was unreadable. Maybe someone else can provide more insight on this. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list
et wrote: I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download beta3 iso1. since it's dialup, it take a cople of days to get an ISO, so unless I stop the download and let the mail go, it might take all day b4 they get sent. I'm curious -- are you using a local email server (like postfix) or is kmail configured to send mail direct to your isp (via smtp). IIUC, a way to tell is to check your kmail configuration -- is it set to use smtp to your ISP? (Reason I ask is that I know postfix (and most other email servers) will hold mail for an exponential delay after a failed attempt to send. But, I guess the email would be gone from your outbox in any case -- it might just come back in 5 days and say failed to deliver after 5 days (approximately).) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries
Hi, Sharrea wrote: I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be much appreciated. I can't recite the details, but a disk can be formatted with different geometries. (I don't know if that was what I meant to say.) Try again: In some programs (fdisk, partition commnder, bios ) I have seen more than one geometry reported for the same hard disk. (AHH, IIRC, it was in the bios.) Although there was a mechanism to choose any one of them, if I chose the wrong one the disk was unreadable. Maybe someone else can provide more insight on this. AFAIK the different reports are normal - the disk can be accessed in many ways. If it is a 1GB+ disk you only should make sure that in BIOS the access method is set to LBA, in no way NORMAL or LARGE. You can make check that at the screen right after after the memory check - the sort of table with CPU and disk info before it says loading grub or loading lilo. Before info about your capacity there should be LBA. My friend's P3 800 had his 30GB disk set to LARGE and it screwed up the whole partition table when I tried to install MDK 8.2 (said something about sector 633GB conflicting with some 800GB sector... oh well). -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list
On Monday 19 August 2002 10:47 am, you wrote: et wrote: I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download beta3 iso1. since it's dialup, it take a cople of days to get an ISO, so unless I stop the download and let the mail go, it might take all day b4 they get sent. I'm curious -- are you using a local email server (like postfix) or is kmail configured to send mail direct to your isp (via smtp). IIUC, a way to tell is to check your kmail configuration -- is it set to use smtp to your ISP? (Reason I ask is that I know postfix (and most other email servers) will hold mail for an exponential delay after a failed attempt to send. But, I guess the email would be gone from your outbox in any case -- it might just come back in 5 days and say failed to deliver after 5 days (approximately).) Randy Kramer I use the ISP mail server and just straight to kmail, it sends it6 when thye dialup ain't so busy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postgres and AX.25
Can Postgres and AX.25 be installed on a mandrake 8.2 pro server? Is PERL installed by default? And finally is there RPM for Expect? I am thinking of moving a utility I run over to a mandrake box, but it requires those packages: 1. Perl 2. Postgres 3. AX.25 4. Expect Just musing.thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list
On Monday August 19 2002 09:47 am, Randy Kramer wrote: et wrote: I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download beta3 iso1. since it's dialup, it take a cople of days to get an ISO, so unless I stop the download and let the mail go, it might take all day b4 they get sent. I'm curious -- are you using a local email server (like postfix) or is kmail configured to send mail direct to your isp (via smtp). IIUC, a way to tell is to check your kmail configuration -- is it set to use smtp to your ISP? (Reason I ask is that I know postfix (and most other email servers) will hold mail for an exponential delay after a failed attempt to send. But, I guess the email would be gone from your outbox in any case -- it might just come back in 5 days and say failed to deliver after 5 days (approximately).) Randy Kramer I believe what Ed is referring to is that so much of his current bandwidth is being used by the d/l, that the connection to his ISP's mail server times out (eg, no host...), and Kmail just keeps the post(s) stored in the Outbox folder. I run into this all the time with my 56k dialup while I've got d/l's going. Two solutions, keep trying until the send finally succeeds, or use a d/l manager like Downloader for X (d4x) which allows you to 'throttle' down your d/l speed till while you're tryin to send/get mail. One of the main reasons I like d4x so much ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:08, et wrote: On Sunday 18 August 2002 07:26 pm, you wrote: snip After my sh*tty IBM Deskstar drive dying on me last week, I'm wondering whether it was thru my own doing so can someone please help me determine what the correct parameter for my hard drives are. I have two hard drives: 60GB Seagate Barracuda IV and 6.4GB Quantum Bigfoot. I'm using Mandrake Cooker and lilo-22.3.2-5 gives the following warning (I've been getting warnings about differing geometries with the last 3 or 4 versions of lilo, including on the now-dead IBM Deskstar) : snip Sharrea now was one of these drives (my guess the seagate) in a computer that had a bios that could not see a drive as big as this? maybe when brand new? and has since gotten ether an new motherboard or a BIOS upgrade? and was setup with the manufacturers setup disk? maybe backup first, then a fooling around with diskdrake from the install CD is in your future. maybe a newdrive is also in your future, but not as likely unless you feel like spending the cash. Sounds like you're onto something there! The drive that is now a paper-weight (I'm going to take it apart to see whats inside to satisfy my curiosity) is the 60GB IBM Deskstar which only lasted 18 months! Yes, it came with the IBM Drive Manager installed on it which I originally used when installing Windoze 98SE. IIRC, I later formatted the drive and removed the Drive Manager only to find that the BIOS did not recognise the full capacity. I did a BIOS flash upgrade but it still didn't recognise full capacity so I installed the Ontrack Dynamic Drive Overlay to be able to utilise the full 60GB. Next came the PC upgrade (new case, mobo, cpu, ram, etc) and I transferred the drive to that PC. Then last year when I first started using linux, Civileme said that I should remove the DDO and use the hd geometries from hdparm. I messed around with that trying every possible thing I could think of but Mandrake could only see the 30GB (same in the BIOS) so I had no choice BUT to use the DDO. I tried all that again about a month ago but it was a waste of time. Then we had a wicked power outage a few weeks ago which fried part of the drive - it affected one of the RedHat (dual booting with Mandrake) partitions. I continued to use the drive knowing it was only a matter of time before it was completely stuffed - it was making loud screeching noises whenever that part of the drive was accessed. And finally I decided to use the Seagate drive in my main PC so switched drives, removed all partitions, created new partitions and formatted (on both drives). The IBM drive didn't complete the formatting process (not that I expected it to) so I turned the computer off. When I turned it back on: nada, nothing but screech... screech... Never did like that stupid drive anyway, especially having to use the DDO and it was noisy. And would you believe I paid NZ$1109 (approx US$550) for it 18 months ago! So I'm just a bit worried about lilo's warnings of differing geometries and wondering why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all use different geometries on the Seagate and Quantum. Jeez this has turned into long rant. Thanks for your input. Cheers Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal problem solved
It was an anti-piracy thing, I think, but I don't recall if they ever told me specifically. Maybe they thought that if they checked for the presence of a CD drive that it would stop people from using Virtual CD and the like. Miark Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Saturday 17 August 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote: I had the misfortune of calling up InfoGames or whoever makes Unreal because I was having problems with installation. During the call they told me that Unreal Tourney was designed _not_ to run on DVD drives. At the time I was pretty upset cuz that's all I had. I'm still pissed off that they did that. Miark Hi Miark! Well...thats certainly enlightening. I wonder why? You know come to think of it, I believe I did add my DVD after I had installed UT (the first time, I mean). I still can't figure out why - did they tell you? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: IBM drives made in the year or so have had major reliability problems. In fact, IBM are trying to get out of the business by selling most (70%) of their hard drive unit to Hitachi. Quantum Bigfoots have had reliability problems as well. I am on my third 12GB Bigfoot TX after the first two died on me. Fortunately, this one seems to be doing very well. The Seagate Barracuda IV is, I believe, a reliable drive. I have 2 80GB models in one machine and I've had no trouble. Yes, in the last six months I've read many complaints and horror stories about IBM drives so it came as no surprise to me when my IBM drive died. I've had no problem with my old Quantum tho (touch wood). I've only had the Seagate approx. 4 months and so far so good - jeez its so quiet I keep checking the light to see if its doing anything! What are your hard drive BIOS settings? Both drives set to Auto Detection in BIOS which shows: Seagate (/dev/hda) CHS=28733/16/255 Size=600025 MB Quantum (/dev/hdb) CHS=13446/15/63 Size=6506 MB Is LBA turned on? How do you turn LBA on? I have lba32 (without the quotes) in lilo.conf if thats what you mean. What you should do is go to the Seagate and IBM Web sites and download their drive diagnostic utilities. They will hopefully be able to analyse the drives and tell you what's wrong. I went to the Seagate web site but their diagnostic utility only runs in Windoze which I'm pleased to say does not exist on this PC. My 2nd PC will have Mandrake and Windoze when my new hard drive arrives - I've just ordered an 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV. In addition, the IBM Feature Tool can turn off Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) on the Seagate drive, giving you better drive performance (hdparm can do this as well, but I'm not sure if that setting remains after a reboot) . I'll check that out. Is the drive still so quiet when AAM is turned off? Also, may I ask what your model and settings are for your 80GB Seagate drives so that I might have some idea when my new one arrives? Thanks for your input Sridhar. I'll go check out the IBM Feature Tool now. Cheers Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal problem solved
On Monday 19 August 2002 01:22 pm, you wrote: It was an anti-piracy thing, I think, but I don't recall if they ever told me specifically. Maybe they thought that if they checked for the presence of a CD drive that it would stop people from using Virtual CD and the like. Miark Okay, thanks for the info! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] test
just a test. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] swat/telnet not installed
hello, i was looking in the services section of the mandrake control center and both swat and telnet are set to automatically start when the machine boots. i went hmmm when i saw that the services were stopped. i clicked on the start button and it said it couldnt find swat. same for telnet. i then did urpmi telnet and urpmi swat and it couldn't find them? any hints? t _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iptables help
Hi Toddy, I used Software Manager to remove ipchains, and after I use use WizDrak (Firewall module), to configure iptables rgds, Rodrigo - Original Message - From: Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: [newbie] iptables help I have never used iptables that I'm aware of, and was reading about it today. I'm trying to add some IPs to a rule that will block nimda/code red infected computers. But, when I try to write the rule, I get the following error: /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o.gz: init_module: Device or resource busy modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod ip_tables failed iptables v1.2.5: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. What should I do? Todd -- Todd Slater The current tune is Parliament - Gloryhallastoopid - (Gloryhallastoopid) Pin The Tail On The Funky Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. (Bertrand Russell) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how do i install wizdrake, or see if it is installed?
i have just done what i thought was a successful installation...but i can't tell if Wizdrake is installed. the documentation, Mandrake Linux 8.1: Reference manual, says it you have Wizdrake installed then you can use the wizards to help configure the Network, Samba, DNS, DHCP, etc. snipThe server configuration wizards are available through the Control Center. When the wizdrake package is installed, a new menu entry appears in the Mandrake Control Center tree menu (figure 15-2).snip When i run the Control Center i cannot see the new entry that is supposed to appear so i can then go to the screen depicted in fig 15-2. i wasn't prompted during install to load any wizards. I can't find in the Software Manager section of the Control Center where I can even install Wizdrake. any help? thx _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Test (ignore)
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[newbie] cron or anacron
Does anyone know if its possible to have anacron run tasks for individual users, in a similar way to how each user can be allowed their own crontab? I have a script that involves an ftp operation and must access .netrc in the users home directory, so it seems that it can only be run by that specific user. I need to be sure that the script runs at least once a week but my system does not run all the time. Any advice will be much appreciated. thanks Ross Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] oops sent wrong msg...how bout: telnet/swat installation
ignore my last msg about wizdrake...it was sent in error...what i meant to ask was: i can't figure out how to install telnet or swat. i look in the services section of the mandrake control center and it says telnet and swat are to start at boot. lo and behold they are stopped. i try to start them and i am told they cannot be found. i then try urpmi telnet and urpmi swat and urmpi can't find them to install them. any ideas? t _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD subtitles
I need some help here: I just have extracted somes vobs to HD (vobcopy) , but I can't figure how to extract subtitles. Thanks -- el charlie Linux MDK 8.2, KDE 3.0.1, Kmail 1.4.1 6:55pm up 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.78, 0.79, 0.61 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list
On Monday 19 August 2002 11:46 am, you wrote: On Monday August 19 2002 09:47 am, Randy Kramer wrote: et wrote: I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download beta3 iso1. since it's dialup, it take a cople of days to get an ISO, so unless I stop the download and let the mail go, it might take all day b4 they get sent. I'm curious -- are you using a local email server (like postfix) or is kmail configured to send mail direct to your isp (via smtp). IIUC, a way to tell is to check your kmail configuration -- is it set to use smtp to your ISP? (Reason I ask is that I know postfix (and most other email servers) will hold mail for an exponential delay after a failed attempt to send. But, I guess the email would be gone from your outbox in any case -- it might just come back in 5 days and say failed to deliver after 5 days (approximately).) Randy Kramer I believe what Ed is referring to is that so much of his current bandwidth is being used by the d/l, that the connection to his ISP's mail server times out (eg, no host...), and Kmail just keeps the post(s) stored in the Outbox folder. I run into this all the time with my 56k dialup while I've got d/l's going. Two solutions, keep trying until the send finally succeeds, or use a d/l manager like Downloader for X (d4x) which allows you to 'throttle' down your d/l speed till while you're tryin to send/get mail. One of the main reasons I like d4x so much ;) you are absolutly correct , sir, and I will be checking out d4x for disk 2... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do i install wizdrake, or see if it is installed?
On Monday 19 August 2002 03:57 pm, you wrote: i have just done what i thought was a successful installation...but i can't tell if Wizdrake is installed. the documentation, Mandrake Linux 8.1: Reference manual, says it you have Wizdrake installed then you can use the wizards to help configure the Network, Samba, DNS, DHCP, etc. snipThe server configuration wizards are available through the Control Center. When the wizdrake package is installed, a new menu entry appears in the Mandrake Control Center tree menu (figure 15-2).snip When i run the Control Center i cannot see the new entry that is supposed to appear so i can then go to the screen depicted in fig 15-2. i wasn't prompted during install to load any wizards. I can't find in the Software Manager section of the Control Center where I can even install Wizdrake. any help? thx _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com in a text console, as root, type, without the quotes wizdrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list
et wrote: On Monday 19 August 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: You're corrected. One word: SAMBA. -- Femme This is sick... i sent these replies 2 days ago. Cept for this SAMBA one. :| STupid isp. or is it the list again? I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download beta3 iso1. since it's dialup, it take a cople of days to get an ISO, so unless I stop the download and let the mail go, it might take all day b4 they get sent. well they went out of my mailbox...but i'm guessing my ISP holds them up somehow in the routing ... or i dunno what the answer is. But thx i'll watch for that -- 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
[newbie] How to stay in non-graphical mode ?
I was wandering how I could stop X-window to kick in before I logging. After a system crash I quickly run the Mdk setup to repair my installation now X-windows is starting straigth away... TIA, Thomas, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list
Thanks! Randy Kramer et wrote: I believe what Ed is referring to is that so much of his current bandwidth is being used by the d/l, that the connection to his ISP's mail server times out (eg, no host...), and Kmail just keeps the post(s) stored in the Outbox folder. I run into this all the time with my 56k dialup while I've got d/l's going. Two solutions, keep trying until the send finally succeeds, or use a d/l manager like Downloader for X (d4x) which allows you to 'throttle' down your d/l speed till while you're tryin to send/get mail. One of the main reasons I like d4x so much ;) you are absolutly correct , sir, and I will be checking out d4x for disk 2... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD subtitles
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:00:01 -0300, Carlos Arigos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help here: I just have extracted somes vobs to HD (vobcopy) , but I can't figure how to extract subtitles. Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ and learn to use Mencoder, the MPlayer encoder. The manual tells you how to extract subtitles. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We will get the source code up on the Web - anybody who specifically wants a copy can just ask. -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] running a mud
Hi, Got a question for you all, anyone have any idea how to open another port, say port 4000 for a mud? My telnet server is up and running and everything is working fine on it. But it won't allow a connection to port 4000 ;( any suggestions would be very helpful Arron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burn an iso to disk
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 14:12, Dennis Myers wrote: I don't see where it says to burn as an image. Followed the XCDroast instructions and still got a bunch of text and no files. No joy. : ( -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Make sure that you have a good ISO file. Did you download the ISO using ASCII mode FTP? (this is bad). Did you validate the downloaded ISO file with md5sum? (this is good). Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help with home network selection
Hello List, I have two machines one is my workstation running 8.1 on an Athlon 2100 + 256mb of ram and two maxtor hard disks a 40gm and a 12gb. My other machine is a K6 300mhz box running 95 rel 2. I would like to netwok these two where sharing a network connection 'might' be possible and the ability to run wine a must. Thanks, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries
Sharrea wrote: Hi all Large snip, equivalent to a surgical procedure i'm sure. Sorry couldn't resist :) I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be much appreciated. For now I'll try booting with a dos floppy and doing fdisk /mbr then rebooting with Mandrake boot disk and running lilo - just in case the lilo upgrades caused this problem - a long shot I know. Sharrea -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux. Sounds like bad sectors. Probably (IF thats the case) its a dying drive. RMA or chuck it. Not your fault. And fwiw, BIOSes, other OSes, etc all read HDD geom. very differently. Hell theres a few threads on this in the archives. I know, i wrote a whole little diatribe on it myself. so did Ed Tharp et al. -- 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 -- 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] Modem help
There was IIRC a hacked AOL installer for Linux. Do a google search for it. It may still be out there. Recent too afaik. -- 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 -- 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] cron or anacron
In reply to Ross's mail, d.d. Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:27:21 +0100: AFAIK Anacron will pick and run any jobs that have not been executed by cron in time. So when you set up the FTP in the user crontab and the machine is down, anacron will perform the task after booting the machine. That is what anacron is made for. Paul Does anyone know if its possible to have anacron run tasks for individual users, in a similar way to how each user can be allowed their own crontab? I have a script that involves an ftp operation and must access .netrc in the users home directory, so it seems that it can only be run by that specific user. I need to be sure that the script runs at least once a week but my system does not run all the time. -- What you will do matters. All you need is to do it. -Judy Grahn http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.0 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Software database?
I've been eyeing Debian a little bit lately, and came across this page (http://packages.debian.org/stable/) which was really enticing. It is EXACTLY the kind of page I have been looking for forever for Mandrake-Linux and just in general. I even went to the efforts of drawing out on paper the kinds of software I'd want loaded on a site like this with the intention of perhaps arranging such a site myself (until I found this one at debian.org). Does L-M have a page like this? I'm looking for a simple way to find upgrades for every single piece of software that comes with the various packages of Mandrake. Anyone know where to direct me? Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
