Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 17:33, Andrea Nasso wrote: Scusate ma sono abbastanza novizio di questo mondo... Qualcuno sarebbe cosi gentile da aiutarmi a entrare in questa mentalità linux e mi guiderebbe nel semplice setup di un qualsiasi applicativo. So che la domanda è generica ma dopo aver installato il S.O. mi trovo un po bloccato quando scarico un software da internet. Grazie a chiunque abbia tempo di darmi una mano. puoi usare rmpdrake, l'ottimo tool di gestione dei pacchetti e degli aggiornamenti degli stessi. con questo programma non solo puoi installare i pacchetti presenti sui cd della distro (che probabilmente sono piu' che sufficienti per un primo approccio al sistema), ma anche aggiornare tali pacchetti direttamente dalla rete. sebastiano -- ... e cosi' me ne sto qui al sole a bere birra, leggere e riflettere, svolgendo cioe' i compiti doverosi che costituiscono il dovere per un uomo.
RE: [newbie-it] Installazione Software
Grazie mille :-D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of miKe Sent: lunedì 14 ottobre 2002 19.58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:09, lunedì 14 ottobre 2002, Andrea Celli ha scritto: Cercalo in formato rpm e poi dai $ rpm -i nome_pacchetto.prpm forse sarebbe meglio # rpm -i .. ;-) ciao, Andrea bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ 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 iD8DBQE9qwW2F/9fksDJ4y0RAlrEAJwLOH0ff1hDLv3NjTzpW/dNNldDdgCgszzL VrOb9k+wFuTF2au8KqirVnY= =xJJj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: [newbie-it] Installazione Software
Grazie mille -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Fabio Manunza Sent: lunedì 14 ottobre 2002 23.26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software Alle 17:33, lunedì 14 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Scusate ma sono abbastanza novizio di questo mondo... Qualcuno sarebbe cosi gentile da aiutarmi a entrare in questa mentalità linux e mi guiderebbe nel semplice setup di un qualsiasi applicativo. So che la domanda è generica ma dopo aver installato il S.O. mi trovo un po bloccato quando scarico un software da internet. Grazie a chiunque abbia tempo di darmi una mano. Consiglio: vai sul sito www.attivissimo.net e scarica Da Windows a Linux, un libro che ti sarà utilissimo per muovere i primi passi con il pinguino. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:18:21 +0200 francesco.melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: adesso sei tu ad avergli complicato la vita :) uno pari, palla al centro :-))) sai, sono un vecchio tradizionalista, ho sempre la konsole aperta e considero più semplice dare al volo la riga di comando. L'errore è che poi penso che sia più semplice anche per gli altri. ciao, andrea
[newbie-it] wine
ho installato il pacchetto wine dalla distro ,in rpm...come faccio a vederlo?grazie mario
[newbie-it] Hard disks su USB
Su una rivista ho letto recensioni di hard disks portatili collegati via USB (in particolare: Archos MiniHD e Iomega HDD20). Notizie di compatibilità Linux? Grazie in anticipo! guido Guido Milanese - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua - http://www.arsantiqua.org Salita del Passero 11, I-16126 Genova GE, Italy ** GAUDETE IN DOMINO SEMPER *
Re: [newbie-it] wine
Alle 12:48, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: ho installato il pacchetto wine dalla distro ,in rpm...come faccio a vederlo?grazie mario ..Vedere, cosa? Una volta installato, wine, in teoria, è pronto per essere a) manipolato; b) testato con gli applicativi di Win che intendi utilizzare; non pensare a schermate di benvenuto tipo windozz, o console tipo grustibus; da cruda linea di comando dai il comando wine seguito dal percorso dell'applicativo, e vedi un po' che succede. Consigliabile una capatina al sito di Wine, il cui indirizzo troverai nella (parca) documentazione allegata al pacchetto; da lì potrai scaricare ulteriori documenti che potranno esserti utili nella configurazione dell'emulatore; personalmente mi sono scontrato con wine come un caprone contro un muro, ma pare che l'ultima versione, presente nella mdk 9.0, sia piuttosto maturata da un punto di vista dei risultati; per cui, auguri, e facci sapere dei tuoi progressi. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] USB not working.... Help!
Hi yall Just installed ML 8.0 on a Toshiba 1710CDT and everything went fine during the install detected everything and was able to complete the USB mouse test successfully. Go and StartX and nada. Mouse is a MS Optical Intellimouse and its dead.. Any hints on how to configure it? .. TIA, DaveA
[newbie-it] Masterizzatore / Masterizzare.
Ciao a tutti Ho appena installato il Mandrake 9.0 dopo anni di winzozz capitemi... allora ho 2 domande da porre: che programma posso usare per masterizzare e dove lo trovo? Io ho un masterizzatore waitec scsi 624, ha bisogno di driver per funzionare da masterizzatore o lo rileva gia automaticamente il programma apposito? ciao a tutti Luca.
Re: [newbie-it] wine
Alle 14:44, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: [CUT] personalmente mi sono scontrato con wine come un caprone contro un muro, ma pare che l'ultima versione, presente nella mdk 9.0, sia piuttosto maturata da un punto di vista dei risultati [CUT] ... meno male, non sono il solo ad avere le corna (in senso figurato) ancora ammaccate dai tentativi... ;-) Tentando e ritentando e modificando il file di configurazione a caso (o quasi), ero riuscito ad ottenere buoni risultati con wine sotto Mandrake 7.2 o 8.0 (non ricordo)... da allora non sono più riuscito a ripetere l'alchimia... è anche vero che sto usando Windows sempre meno, quindi l'esigenza di simulare programmi (almeno per me) sta diminuendo sempre più... rimane la curiosità, però! Ciao... Daniele
[newbie-it] mozilla mail
Non riesco a configurare la posta elettronica con Mozilla mail. a dire il vero credo di fare tutto regolarmente : imposto i vari server in entrata per i vari account e quello in uscita. Quest' ultimo funziona : i messaggi li spedisco, ma incredibilmente non riesco a scaricare niente, con nessun account. Semplicemente quando clico su SCARICA MSG non succede assolutamente nulla ; non un messaggio d' erore, non un tentativo di connessioneniente. Non è che sia un problema grave perchè con Kmail è tutto regolare cerco solo di capire cosa può essere. Succede la stessa identica cosa anche ad una mia amica. C' è qualcun altro ???
Re: [newbie-it] mozilla mail
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:43:45 +0200 Fabio Gianferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non riesco a configurare la posta elettronica con Mozilla mail. a dire il vero credo di fare tutto regolarmente : imposto i vari server in entrata per i vari account e quello in uscita. Quest' ultimo funziona : i messaggi li spedisco, ma incredibilmente non riesco a scaricare niente, con nessun account. Semplicemente quando clico su SCARICA MSG non succede assolutamente nulla ; non un messaggio d' erore, non un tentativo di connessioneniente. Non è che sia un problema grave perchè con Kmail è tutto regolare cerco solo di capire cosa può essere. Succede la stessa identica cosa anche ad una mia amica. C' è qualcun altro ??? Siamo in due! Anzi tre!! Idem x tutti i passaggi...
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzatore / Masterizzare.
Alle 16:48, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti Ho appena installato il Mandrake 9.0 dopo anni di winzozz capitemi... allora ho 2 domande da porre: che programma posso usare per masterizzare e dove lo trovo? XCd-Roast può essere quello che fa per te; ti consiglio comunque una scorta al cd-recording How-to: ti farà capire cosa stai utilzzando, e ti permetterà di acquisire le basi necessarie per poter masterizzare anche da riga di comando (una cosa che un vero linuxiano prima o poi deve fare - vedila come un rito iniziatico...) Io ho un masterizzatore waitec scsi 624, ha bisogno di driver per funzionare da masterizzatore o lo rileva gia automaticamente il programma apposito? no problem ciao a tutti Luca. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Modem
Alle 16:56, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti altro problemuccio... io ho un modem pci Conexant/Rockwell HSF. i driver per linux si trovano senza problemi( navigando con winzozz) ma come faccio a portarli a linux? Posso mettreli su un dichetto formattato da windows e vederli poi qui? il file ha estensione *.rpm posso cliccarci sopra tranquillamente come in winzozz? cia e scusate la mia ignoranzasono appena nato by luca ...Il cosiddetto cavallo di S. Francesco, può essere un buon sistema per il riversamento di file da un sistema all'altro; un'altro può essere quello di operare come root, avendo il libero accesso a tutte le partizioni del disco; sconsigliabile rendere accessibile in scrittura la partizione win al semplice utente: questioni di sicurezza. Asssicurati che il driver che hai scaricato sia compatibile con il kernel della distribuzione; assicurati che il tuo modem sia realmente un HCF (mdk ha la pessima abitudine di confondere HCF con HSF per un certo tipo di modem); controlla perciò l'identificativo del tuo modem con la lista seguente: PCI ID 127A:1025 (Some units are HCF however) PCI ID 127A:2005 (Some units are HCF however) In questo caso potresti avere un HSF: scarica i driver adatti. Una volta installato il tutto, controlla le impostazioni e lancia kppp; dovrebbe avviarsi tutto senza problemi. I driver Conexant si sono resi disponibili in tempi relativamente recenti, ma il modem si disimpegna veramente bene: un'altra piccola porzione di terreno sottratta a Zio Bill... Vale. P.S. Sito driver Conexant: www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Modem
Alle 16:56, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti altro problemuccio... io ho un modem pci Conexant/Rockwell HSF. i driver per linux si trovano senza problemi( navigando con winzozz) ma come faccio a portarli a linux? Posso mettreli su un dichetto formattato da windows e vederli poi qui? il file ha estensione *.rpm posso cliccarci sopra tranquillamente come in winzozz? cia e scusate la mia ignoranzasono appena nato by luca Ciao Luca, per quanto riguarda la prima domanda, puoi accedere da Linux alla partizione di Windows: nella cartella /mnt/ troverai una serie di sub-cartelle... una è quella di windows (solitamente /mnt/windows ... chi l'avrebbe mai detto?)... accedi al punto dove hai salvato il file RPM e copialo/spostalo nella partizione Linux. Per quanto riguarda la seconda domanda, non saprei (non ho mai installato quei driver)... ma il fatto che siano in formato RPM farebbe propendere per il sì. Sicuramente, però, troverai le informazioni che cerchi nel sito da cui li hai scaricati. Ciao... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzatore / Masterizzare.
Alle 16:48, martedì 15 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] Masterizzatore / Masterizzare., [EMAIL PROTECTED] hai scritto: Ciao a tutti Ho appena installato il Mandrake 9.0 dopo anni di winzozz capitemi... allora ho 2 domande da porre: che programma posso usare per masterizzare e dove lo trovo? Guarda se, durante l'installazione, il sistema ha scelto per te: barra delle applicazioni - applicazioni - archiviazione. Oppure cerca nei Cd della tua distro un gcombust o xcdroast (puoi anche installarli da barra delle applicazioni - configurazione - gestione pacchetti). Io preferisco lavorare da shell, con cdrecord; ci sono in circolazoine dei chiari how-to per capire come funzia, oltre che gli appuntilinux. Se ci sono riuscita io... -- Arwan
[newbie-it] Crash!
Buonanotte... nel vero senso della parola! Son due giorni (ieri e oggi) che KDE mi va in crash. Ieri e' capitato mentre mandavo una mail; per rispedire ho dovuto uscire da KDE, rifare il login (senza reboot) e riavviarlo. Dopo cio', tutti i collegamenti (del desktop e della barra) se cliccati davano errore. Sono uscita da KDE e, in tutti i terminali virtuali, s'e' presentata una finestra grigio scuro, senza possibilita' d'azione. Il disco fisso era fermo. Al reboot (forzato :-( ) non sono piu' stata in grado di montare una delle partizioni; arrivato a questo punto il processo d'avvio si inchiodava con un kernel panic (mi diceva che un non so cosa puntava a NULL). Non sono riuscita a sistemare le cose nemmeno partendo dall'altro Linux che ho installato, una Slack, nonostante con e2sfck le cose sembravano essersi messe a posto (ma la slack mi permetteva di lavorare solo in lettura). Oggi stessa storia, solo che (dopo aver doppiato i miei dati sul disco fisso di Giorgio :-) e aver modificato il fstab in modo che non caricasse la partizione incriminata, oltre ad aver lanciato un e2sfck pressoche' ovunque :-))) ) s'e' inchiodato mentre salvavo un file di testo. In tre riavvii successivi (solito kernel panic, filesystem corrotto e simili, stavolta sulla partizione con il sistema operatvo) finalmente MDK mi ha presentato la schermata del login: qualsiasi utente mettessi, pero', anziche' permettermi di lavorare mi ripresentava la schermata del login. Ho spento (forzatamente :-( ) e sono ripartita con la Slack: qui il fstab era completo ed ha caricato tutto tranquillamente, comprese le partizioni che il giorno prima non andavano; ho fatto e2sfck sulla partizione con la MDK, reboot e, finalmente, mdk e' partita. Al prossimo crash che devo fare??? NON VOGLIO REINSTALLARE... -- Arwan
Re: [newbie-it] Crash!
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:45 pm, Arwan wrote about S%: Buonanotte... nel vero senso della parola! Son due giorni (ieri e oggi) che KDE mi va in crash. Ieri e' capitato mentre mandavo una mail; per rispedire ho dovuto uscire da KDE, rifare il login (senza reboot) e riavviarlo. Probabile opti per soluzioni drastiche ma mi sembra tu non sia messa benissimo. In questi casi io di solito, dopo aver salvato alcune cose, tipo il kmailrc, l'addressbook ec., cancello la dir .kde nella home e ne faccio creare un'altra al successivo login. Di solito i problemi gravi col kde si risolvono (anche se il 3 ancora non me ne ha mai dati). Dopo cio', tutti i collegamenti (del desktop e della barra) se cliccati davano errore. Si' un classico errore, non ti trovava o era morto il dcop direi, desktop communication protocol dovrebbe essere. Sono uscita da KDE e, in tutti i terminali virtuali, s'e' presentata una finestra grigio scuro, senza possibilita' d'azione. Il disco fisso era fermo. Al reboot (forzato :-( ) non sono piu' stata in grado di montare una delle partizioni; con quale errore? arrivato a questo punto il processo d'avvio si inchiodava con un kernel panic (mi diceva che un non so cosa puntava a NULL). Non sono riuscita a sistemare le cose nemmeno partendo dall'altro Linux che ho installato, una Slack, nonostante con e2sfck le cose sembravano essersi messe a posto (ma la slack mi permetteva di lavorare solo in lettura). puoi entrare con un floppy o col cd della mandrake. il problema del solo lettura probabilmente se ricordo bene lo risolvi con un chroot sulla partizione montata, che altrimenti, immagino per sicurezza, viene montata in read only. Oggi stessa storia, solo che (dopo aver doppiato i miei dati sul disco fisso di Giorgio :-) e aver modificato il fstab in modo che non caricasse la partizione incriminata, oltre ad aver lanciato un e2sfck pressoche' ovunque non capisco pero', tutto questo l'ha generato il kde? se dai un fsck non va a buon fine? finalmente MDK mi ha presentato la schermata del login: qualsiasi utente mettessi, pero', anziche' permettermi di lavorare mi ripresentava la schermata del login. ehm, a me il kdm (login grafico) della mdk dura ormai massimo tre giorni. E arriva sempre a farmi questo. Parto in init 3 e lancio startx. Al prossimo crash che devo fare??? NON VOGLIO REINSTALLARE... Cerca di capire meglio che succede. Parti in console, fai un fsck, fai fare alla mandrake i suoi controlli, e spera che non si sia danneggiato il disco o il sistema operativo. Una volta che a causa di continui reboot durante il caricamento anche il mio linux si trovava in una situazione simile, glielo reinstallai sopra, un finto upgrade insomma. Ti installera' probabilmente anche cose che non vuoi, ma dovrebbe aggiustare e non tocca le configurazioni. bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://web.genie.it/utenti/f/freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Modem
Il Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:56:39 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Ciao a tutti altro problemuccio... io ho un modem pci Conexant/Rockwell HSF. i driver per linux si trovano senza problemi( navigando con winzozz) ma come faccio a portarli a linux? puoi anche copiarli sulla partizione di win$, tanto con linux riesci a leggerli senza problemi. cia e scusate la mia ignoranzasono appena nato by luca ciao. giamgax __ Mio Yahoo!: personalizza Yahoo! come piace a te http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.my.yahoo.com/
[newbie] DNS config
Hello What config file stores the DNS server information in LM 9.0? I can't find it. Thanks -K -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
Hands up all those that have had major isues trying to uninstall Bonzai Buddy from computers when it had been inadvertently downloaded. This would be a lot less of a problem in Linux even if the buddy came in an RPM. On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:09, E T wrote: ever seen the bonzi buddie as parrot like the paperclip in m$oriface, that was free, but better spyware than doubleclick could buy. same folks, I would wonder about the firewall and weither it was spyware too. On Monday 14 October 2002 05:30 am, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 1:46 pm, Marco Verheul did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting unwanted visitors. I was directed to the following link: it is a pop-up ad for a useless product, i connect through a pretty damn good firewall and do _not_ broadcast anything, but i get it all the time. - -- The sum of the intelligence of the world is constant. The population is, of course, growing. 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 v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9qo6rBwq+ZwvIN/oRAic3AJsFxyxx8iAdQ7HqQGZ7INDo6stXEwCfa9tm uvfS4og88630q0lTuHkeqRQ= =pVI9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video Capturing with geforce 3?
Hi, I was wondering if it there is any drivers / software for video capturing in linux with a geforce 3. Thanks, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Security alert
the worst spyware is IMHO Alexa, They even say in their license that they will collect Some personially identifable material they record where you go, what you enter into online forms and a ton of other stuff,,, that is such strong spyware, that it should class as a trojan horse... luckily, thats just something else for win users to worry about. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of E T Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 7:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Security alert ever seen the bonzi buddie as parrot like the paperclip in m$oriface, that was free, but better spyware than doubleclick could buy. same folks, I would wonder about the firewall and weither it was spyware too. On Monday 14 October 2002 05:30 am, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 1:46 pm, Marco Verheul did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting unwanted visitors. I was directed to the following link: it is a pop-up ad for a useless product, i connect through a pretty damn good firewall and do _not_ broadcast anything, but i get it all the time. - -- The sum of the intelligence of the world is constant. The population is, of course, growing. 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 v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9qo6rBwq+ZwvIN/oRAic3AJsFxyxx8iAdQ7HqQGZ7INDo6stXEwCfa9tm uvfS4og88630q0lTuHkeqRQ= =pVI9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound in LM9
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Does anyone know how the /etc/modules.conf should read if one has LM9? When mine worked in 8.2 it had a different looking /etc/modules.conf than in LM9. I have the viachipset onboard sound. Does anyone have LM9 with the viachipset onboard sound and has it working with alsa? If so, would you please let me know how you got it to work? Thanks, Marcia I have via 8233 chipset on msi mobo , and it worked in LM9.0 beta2 with:- /etc/modules.conf above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
i did indeed go to the site below and my Black Ice Defender proved completely stealthy. thank you.. eric At 09:03 AM 10/15/2002 +, you wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote: another good firewall program that i use is the black ice program and of course norton sells a good one as well. i wouldn't worry about broadcasting your I P address, but if you do a lot of surfing, you should consider a firewall. i think Linux has a built in firwall, doesn't it. if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a firewall, ZoneAlarm is the choice. -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.4.3 ~ KDE 3.0.3 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert
Hi, if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a firewall, ZoneAlarm is the choice. i did indeed go to the site below and my Black Ice Defender proved completely stealthy. thank you.. It is not a problem with inbound traffic (which you probably tested), it's a problem with outbound traffic. http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm and http://grc.com/lt/bidresponse.htm -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
Hi all, I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is there a security level that will trigger those options to disappear? I have the Higher security setting on right now. This isn't tearing me apart, but its rather annoying... I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x permission for all, so, I wonder, what setting/file do I need to change in order to be able to run shutdown as a regular user? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
Shutdown is under the control of PAM (Permissions access module?) If you look at /usr/bin/shutdown you will see it is in fact a symlink to an application called 'consolehelper' Consolehelper is a wrapper which looks at the name of the symlink it was called from (in this case shutdown) and looks it up in /etc/pam.d If it finds a file in there with the same name as the symlink it applies the authentication tests it finds there. If authentication passes consolehelper will pass control over to the requested application. ( /sbin/shutdown) /etc/pam.d/shutdown contains :- #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so #auth required/lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth accountrequired /lib/security/pam_permit.so In your case I think it is the last line which is stopping you running shutdown. Probably because of your security level. If you ask for high security, then that is what you get :) derek On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 11:50 am, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi all, I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is there a security level that will trigger those options to disappear? I have the Higher security setting on right now. This isn't tearing me apart, but its rather annoying... I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x permission for all, so, I wonder, what setting/file do I need to change in order to be able to run shutdown as a regular user? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
Hey Derek, I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x permission for all, so, I wonder, what setting/file do I need to change in order to be able to run shutdown as a regular user? Shutdown is under the control of PAM (Permissions access module?) If you look at /usr/bin/shutdown you will see it is in fact a symlink to an application called 'consolehelper' Consolehelper is a wrapper which looks at the name of the symlink it was called from (in this case shutdown) and looks it up in /etc/pam.d If it finds a file in there with the same name as the symlink it applies the authentication tests it finds there. If authentication passes consolehelper will pass control over to the requested application. ( /sbin/shutdown) /etc/pam.d/shutdown contains :- #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so #auth required/lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth accountrequired /lib/security/pam_permit.so In your case I think it is the last line which is stopping you running shutdown. Probably because of your security level. If you ask for high security, then that is what you get :) Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was Medium). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba Troubles
Greetings all, I'm having a little trouble getting Samba going. I've got Mandrake 9.0 on my deskop, win2k on my laptop and trying to get these bad boys to have a conversation. I can ping the Laptop from Linux, and vice versa. I edited the smb conf file to reflect the workgroup name, also enabled encrypted passwords. (as per some documentation I have). I went into the terminal and started samba with /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start It starts up fine. I load up my browser and key in 127.0.0.1:901 What do I get? Connection refused by server! I've been toying with this for a couple of days. I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing. Any direction on this? Sean mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 12:25 pm, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey Derek, I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x permission for all, so, I wonder, what setting/file do I need to change in order to be able to run shutdown as a regular user? Shutdown is under the control of PAM (Permissions access module?) If you look at /usr/bin/shutdown you will see it is in fact a symlink to an application called 'consolehelper' Consolehelper is a wrapper which looks at the name of the symlink it was called from (in this case shutdown) and looks it up in /etc/pam.d If it finds a file in there with the same name as the symlink it applies the authentication tests it finds there. If authentication passes consolehelper will pass control over to the requested application. ( /sbin/shutdown) /etc/pam.d/shutdown contains :- #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so #auth required/lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth accountrequired /lib/security/pam_permit.so In your case I think it is the last line which is stopping you running shutdown. Probably because of your security level. If you ask for high security, then that is what you get :) Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was Medium). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? No I do not think that would help. You have to 'pass' a test to get access to the command. If you have medium security I do not understand why your system should behave differently to mine (also medium) My ordinary users can use shutdown without a problem. Have you ever had high security?, or did you upgrade instead of install? It might be worth taking a look at /etc/security/console.apps I have a zero byte file in there called shutdown. It may be that at higher security levels that file does something. You could also try editing /etc/pam.d/shutdown like this :- #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth #accountrequired/lib/security/pam_permit.so I think you will then be prompted for a password before shutdown derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] damn mandrake apache.!!! nothing in logs to tell me what the problem is.
Hi guys, I am getting stressed here, so excuse my abruptness.. :-) anway, the source of my problem is that apache is giving me no feedback on why it won't start. apachecrl configtest passses both httpd.com and httpd-perl.conf I have looked in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages and /var/log/httpd/error_log nothing in any of them to even indicate it tried to start. when I try, I get this: service httpd start Starting httpd:[PASSED] [PASSED] [PASSED] nothing shows up in the logs, hell, nothing shows up anywhere.. surely there must be some way of getting a verbose start log.. anyone?? I have uninstalled rpmdrakes php rpms, and put the old ones back, and I did likewise with the conf files.. still gives me [PASSED] mesages and no feedback at all as to why. Please, Does anyone have any idea how to get this thing working again? I'm in the shitter if I don't get it sorted before its needed tomorrow.. Incidently, I am doing this remotely over ssh with X forwarding.. not that that should make any difference. your help would be really appreciated. rgds franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:07 am, you wrote: snip Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was Medium). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? No I do not think that would help. You have to 'pass' a test to get access to the command. If you have medium security I do not understand why your system should behave differently to mine (also medium) My ordinary users can use shutdown without a problem. Have you ever had high security?, or did you upgrade instead of install? It might be worth taking a look at /etc/security/console.apps I have a zero byte file in there called shutdown. It may be that at higher security levels that file does something. You could also try editing /etc/pam.d/shutdown like this :- #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth #accountrequired /lib/security/pam_permit.so I think you will then be prompted for a password before shutdown derek Guys, I don't about 9.0, or which versions (RC releases, boxed set, d/l versions) you're using, but I had this same trouble with 8.2. Using the d/l 3 CD version, any normal user on my system could not shut it down. As soon as I purchased the boxed set (7 CD Powerpack), my normal users could once again shut down. I don't know if its relevant here or not, but its just a thought... See ya... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] host to host or two host to hub?
This a general question about networking: is itbetter to connect two computers directly with a crossover cable than via a hub because that way it would run in full-duplex as oppose to half-duplex? HeshamSend and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across the Login Manager. Its kinda hidden in Dolphin's menus. In any case, in the Login Manager, I went to the Sessions tab. The very first setting is called Allow Shutdown and you have a subsetting for the Console and Remote. The setting for Console said Nobody; I simply changed it to Everybody. I logged out and logged back in, and then tried to log out again. To my delight, I now had the options to halt/reboot/logout. Success! Now I could be wrong about this; I could have changed a different setting somewhere else, but I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT. (In other words, I don't know why this setting change accomplished what I was after). The point is that it worked and I'm finished. Ugh! -Lawrence Winstead 10/15/2002 7:51:53 AM, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:07 am, you wrote: snip Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was Medium). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? No I do not think that would help. You have to 'pass' a test to get access to the command. If you have medium security I do not understand why your system should behave differently to mine (also medium) My ordinary users can use shutdown without a problem. Have you ever had high security?, or did you upgrade instead of install? It might be worth taking a look at /etc/security/console.apps I have a zero byte file in there called shutdown. It may be that at higher security levels that file does something. You could also try editing /etc/pam.d/shutdown like this :- #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient/lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth #accountrequired /lib/security/pam_permit.so I think you will then be prompted for a password before shutdown derek Guys, I don't about 9.0, or which versions (RC releases, boxed set, d/l versions) you're using, but I had this same trouble with 8.2. Using the d/l 3 CD version, any normal user on my system could not shut it down. As soon as I purchased the boxed set (7 CD Powerpack), my normal users could once again shut down. I don't know if its relevant here or not, but its just a thought... See ya... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DNS config
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 02:59, Kalle Saarinen wrote: Hello What config file stores the DNS server information in LM 9.0? I can't find it. Thanks -K Not exactly sure what you are referring to here. If you are talking about a bona fide DNS server that's running named and serving DNS data out of port 53, then the DNS zone data files are in /var/named. On the other hand if you are looking for where the system stores DNS names for DNS lookups, then that is /etc/resolv.conf. 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] Extra Hard Drive
hi, I have a ten GB partition devoted to miscellaneous things. I use it for: 1) saving downloaded rpm's and tarballs 2) a place to rip dvd's and music 3) a place to download music to 4) backing up my computer whenever I need to The only reason it would make it faster is if the games and mp3's on you system drive were fragmented in with the rest of your files. Linux does not do this so you will not notice much of a difference in access speed. John Drouhard I think I'll do just that. After I figure out how to build it into a RAID. Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] host to host or two host to hub?
I suppose it would depend on the hub -- if it supports full duplex, then I'd use the hub to allow for the flexibility of adding another host later. I use a switchwhich supports full-duplex, soall 6 hosts in my home get full duplex. --Matthew -Original Message-From: Hesham Khonji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:28 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] host to host or two host to hub? This a general question about networking: is itbetter to connect two computers directly with a crossover cable than via a hub because that way it would run in full-duplex as oppose to half-duplex? Hesham Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here
Re: [newbie] Security alert
On Monday October 14 2002 04:23 pm, Franki wrote: other then that, don't worry about it, head over to grc.com and run shields up to see if you have anything open.. (its not a great scanner, but better then nothing.) Frank Shields up is a fairly easy test to pass. The security products he touts are for Windoze, and are also fairly weak. MOF, grc.com has been itself hacked several times. http://scan.sygatetech.com/ There's a coupl'a quick scans and several more comprehensive ones that take quite some time to run. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 3:39 pm, Travis Crook wrote: If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a software RAID drive. RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read from one drive, and some from the other effectively halving the seek time. Software RAID is real easy to set up using diskdrake. You just need two hard drives (on different IDE controllers) The drives do not have to be the same size or same make (unlike hardware RAID on Wintel MBs) You just identify partitions on each drive as RAID partitions in diskdrake and then mount them as a single partition. The partitions do not even need to be the same size. Other partitions on the drives may be configured as non RAID The downside of software RAID is If your system is already installed it is complicated moving partitions about to create the RAID partitions. The seek time will be limited by the seek time of the slowest drive. So if your 10GB drive is an old piece of rubbish it is counterproductive. If either drive has a data corruption it will trash the data on the other as well (unless you use RAID3? (mirror+stripe) which uses twice the disc space) Just an idea derek I have always wanted to play around with a RAID on a workstation. I didn't realize Linux could do it with different sized drives. I think I know what I'll do with that extra drive! Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond There was a thread on this about a year ago. I think Civileme and Sridhar were discussing it. A search in the archives might be useful. Also most HOWTOs you find might make it look more complicated than it is. I do believe diskdrake will do the whole thing for you nowdays. If it works out OK for you, I might take my own advice and put that old hard drive to use :-) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] looking for hands-on help
As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me sufficiently grounded to start real learning. Right now, after weeks of installing Linux Mandrake 8, I am still dealing with the facts that I cannot install my printer, the sound system works for the CD player but for nothing else, I can't install downloaded programs, have not a single clue as to what all these file names and acronyms mean (and since I can't print I have no way of making reference docs and like many people I am screen-dyslexic but can do fine with hard docs) and so on - all of which stand in the way of actually learning and enjoying the system. As I said, if there is a tutoring venue in the NY/NJ area that would ground me in the basics, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it. TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive
If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a software RAID drive. RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read from one drive, and some from the other effectively halving the seek time. Software RAID is real easy to set up using diskdrake. You just need two hard drives (on different IDE controllers) The drives do not have to be the same size or same make (unlike hardware RAID on Wintel MBs) You just identify partitions on each drive as RAID partitions in diskdrake and then mount them as a single partition. The partitions do not even need to be the same size. Other partitions on the drives may be configured as non RAID The downside of software RAID is If your system is already installed it is complicated moving partitions about to create the RAID partitions. The seek time will be limited by the seek time of the slowest drive. So if your 10GB drive is an old piece of rubbish it is counterproductive. If either drive has a data corruption it will trash the data on the other as well (unless you use RAID3? (mirror+stripe) which uses twice the disc space) Just an idea derek I have always wanted to play around with a RAID on a workstation. I didn't realize Linux could do it with different sized drives. I think I know what I'll do with that extra drive! Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive
start smart ass redneck with two teeth remarks send it to me, by far the best use for it. / smart ass redneck with two teeth remarks end LOL! Would it make file access faster if it was used as a file drive (i.e. I install games, mp3s, etc. on it instead of the system drive)? What else could I do with it? Thanks Travis Crook Visions Beyond depends on it's speed The drive is an older Western Digital, but it does support UDMA. Derek suggested RAID so I think I'll give that a whirl. Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] buying 9.0
Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow 9.0 is coming and out it's deafeningly quiet!:o( I don't mind buying 9.0 again, it's all in a good cause, but I would like to know what's up! Anyone got the same feeling, or am I the only one? Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help
Instead of a class, you may consider getting one of those mondo manuals like Using Linux by Que. I find them very class-like in that they cover all the basics, but in depth, and in a way that's friendly to those new to the game. They cover sound and the rest. Miark Joe Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: As I said, if there is a tutoring venue in the NY/NJ area that would ground me in the basics, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] buying 9.0
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow 9.0 is coming and out it's deafeningly quiet!:o( I don't mind buying 9.0 again, it's all in a good cause, but I would like to know what's up! Anyone got the same feeling, or am I the only one? Harm Harm: IIRC, it takes about four weeks after the release of a new version before the packaged sets get out into the world. I've lost track of the release date, but those boxes should be shipping soon -- next week? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.
Hi all, I want to add a contribs directory: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contrib /RPMS/ to mandrake9.0's urpmi sources... how do I do that? I don't really understand the whole synthesis.hdlist.cz thing.. and it doesn't seem to work. can anyone help me out here?? rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.
Frank, 1) Do the add command 2) Give the source a shorthand name of your choice 3) Specify the URL of the contribs RPMs directory 4) Use the word with and pecify the path of the hdlist relative to the RPMs directory. With normal packages, it's often ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz, but contrib packages are usually in the same directory and hdlist is actually hdlist2. So in your case: urpmi.addmedia cif-contrib ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist2.cz Miark Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I want to add a contribs directory: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contrib /RPMS/ to mandrake9.0's urpmi sources... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.
cool, how I got it, so the hdlist.cz files are a binary that is put in the ftp sites, and it somehow contains a list of packages that are in the directory?? is it recreated by a cron job on the server whenever new packages are added? thanks for the tip, much appreciated. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 1:20 AM To: Newbie at MDK Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi. Frank, 1) Do the add command 2) Give the source a shorthand name of your choice 3) Specify the URL of the contribs RPMs directory 4) Use the word with and pecify the path of the hdlist relative to the RPMs directory. With normal packages, it's often ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz, but contrib packages are usually in the same directory and hdlist is actually hdlist2. So in your case: urpmi.addmedia cif-contrib ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contrib /RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist2.cz Miark Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I want to add a contribs directory: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contrib /RPMS/ to mandrake9.0's urpmi sources... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] buying 9.0
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow 9.0 is coming and out it's deafeningly quiet!:o( I don't mind buying 9.0 again, it's all in a good cause, but I would like to know what's up! Anyone got the same feeling, or am I the only one? Harm Harm: IIRC, it takes about four weeks after the release of a new version before the packaged sets get out into the world. I've lost track of the release date, but those boxes should be shipping soon -- next week? -- cmg I've pre-ordered, and I understood that they would not be out until the end of October. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:00 am, Franki wrote: Hi all, I want to add a contribs directory: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contri b /RPMS/ to mandrake9.0's urpmi sources... how do I do that? I don't really understand the whole synthesis.hdlist.cz thing.. and it doesn't seem to work. can anyone help me out here?? rgds Frank This is what I used in a terminal (super user) Frank: quote # urpmi.addmedia contribs ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz \quote That's all one line with single space before and after the word contribs, after RPMS, and after the word with. I couldn't even find the contribs (hdlist2.cz) list on the mirror you linked. I did see the one for the Club and (I think) unsupported though. They're in the directory with the RPMS. The path to the hdlist2.cz is (or should be) in the /Mandrake/base directory, which makes an interesting relative path to the hdlist2.cz, doesn't it? :-) It works here. Hope it helps. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it. -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KonCD
KonCD appeared to recognise my ide cdreader, so I hoped to use it for a disk copy. I got the following error: /usr/bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ''. Error, Exit status: 2 I have checked that permission are set to give access to the group cdwriter, of which I am a member. What does the . signify, I wonder? Any ideas as to the problem would be gratefully received Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 4:20 am, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me sufficiently grounded to start real learning. Right now, after weeks of installing Linux Mandrake 8, I am still dealing with the facts that I cannot install my printer, the sound system works for the CD player but for nothing else, I can't install downloaded programs, have not a single clue as to what all these file names and acronyms mean (and since I can't print I have no way of making reference docs and like many people I am screen-dyslexic but can do fine with hard docs) and so on - all of which stand in the way of actually learning and enjoying the system. As I said, if there is a tutoring venue in the NY/NJ area that would ground me in the basics, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it. TIA I don't know about any classes and anyway I'm in NZ, but... I felt the same way when I first started using linux 16 months ago. I started off initially by reading the Mandrake docs (which I see have changed a lot since then - must have another good look at them). This provided a basic understanding of the filesystem structure and basic commands in a console as well as some insight as to just what you can do in linux. The rest of my learning so far came from this newbie list, man pages and the vast array of HOWTOs that are available on the net for just about anything to do with linux. Oh, and hubby bought me (with some subtle hints from me) Linux in a Nutshell by O'Reilly for Christmas which is a very handy reference. When first starting to use linux it all seems very confusing (for some of us) but perseverance pays off and like a lot of us newbies, you just might find that the learning process is actually FUN! Good luck Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] buying 9.0
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow 9.0 is coming and out it's deafeningly quiet!:o( I don't mind buying 9.0 again, it's all in a good cause, but I would like to know what's up! Anyone got the same feeling, or am I the only one? Harm Harm: IIRC, it takes about four weeks after the release of a new version before the packaged sets get out into the world. I've lost track of the release date, but those boxes should be shipping soon -- next week? -- cmg I've pre-ordered, and I understood that they would not be out until the end of October. I've thought and supposed on the same lines and fact is that I feel it's inapropiate to be kept totally in the the dark, this way. The boxed version dropping on my doormat tomorrow wouldn't change that feeling. Fact is I don't even know what I bought (boxed download version or power pack or whatever) at the time. I just wanted to contribute. I don't want a pat on the back but I don't want to feel forgotten either. At least now I know I'm not the only one in the dark:o) I hope somebody at Mandrake takes the hint and realizes one sometimes has to throw a bone into the pack to keep it happy and make it feel useful. Harm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 4:20 am, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me sufficiently grounded to start real learning. Right now, after weeks of installing Linux Mandrake 8, I am still dealing with the facts that I cannot install my printer, the sound system works for the CD player but for nothing else, I can't install downloaded programs, have not a single clue as to what all these file names and acronyms mean (and since I can't print I have no way of making reference docs and like many people I am screen-dyslexic but can do fine with hard docs) and so on - all of which stand in the way of actually learning and enjoying the system. As I said, if there is a tutoring venue in the NY/NJ area that would ground me in the basics, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it. TIA I don't know about any classes and anyway I'm in NZ, but... I felt the same way when I first started using linux 16 months ago. I started off initially by reading the Mandrake docs (which I see have changed a lot since then - must have another good look at them). This provided a basic understanding of the filesystem structure and basic commands in a console as well as some insight as to just what you can do in linux. The rest of my learning so far came from this newbie list, man pages and the vast array of HOWTOs that are available on the net for just about anything to do with linux. Oh, and hubby bought me (with some subtle hints from me) Linux in a Nutshell by O'Reilly for Christmas which is a very handy reference. When first starting to use linux it all seems very confusing (for some of us) but perseverance pays off and like a lot of us newbies, you just might find that the learning process is actually FUN! Good luck Sharrea Using Linux, Que books, was very good when I first started - a good deal of depth in easily digested mode. The version I have is a couple of years old, and therefore not entirely up to date. It also does rather heavily favour Redhat, but having said that, it was very helpful. I agree about the Linux in a Nutshell, and the third book that filled in gaps was Linux for Dummies. The three books with their different styles and content should cover most of what is not distro specific. The Mandrake documentation and this list does the rest. Enjoy Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help
Since you're in the NY/NJ area, I would suggest that you get in contact with the New York Linux Users group (NYLUG). You can get a lot of help and learn quite a bit from joining a LUG (Linux Users Group). The website is: http://www.nylug.org Rick On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 11:20, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me sufficiently grounded to start real learning. Right now, after weeks of installing Linux Mandrake 8, I am still dealing with the facts that I cannot install my printer, the sound system works for the CD player but for nothing else, I can't install downloaded programs, have not a single clue as to what all these file names and acronyms mean (and since I can't print I have no way of making reference docs and like many people I am screen-dyslexic but can do fine with hard docs) and so on - all of which stand in the way of actually learning and enjoying the system. As I said, if there is a tutoring venue in the NY/NJ area that would ground me in the basics, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it. TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi.
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:22 pm, Franki wrote: Thanks mr Charlie, There was a hdlist.cz file in the contribs dir.. I used that and it worked.. first time for everything huh?? I am surprised that mdk don't make a contribs source part of the base install, its very handy. rgds Frank You're quite welcome Frank. Mandrake is so user friendly that even a gnubie such as myself can occasionally answer a question and be right. :-) I don't quite remember what the reasoning was for not including a source at release, something to do with licenses that possibly don't quite fit the open source nature of Mandrake Download Edition I think. As long as you get what you need who the heck cares, right? :-) -Original Message- From: Charlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 2:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi. On Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:00 am, Franki wrote: Hi all, I want to add a contribs directory: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contri b /RPMS/ to mandrake9.0's urpmi sources... how do I do that? I don't really understand the whole synthesis.hdlist.cz thing.. and it doesn't seem to work. can anyone help me out here?? rgds Frank This is what I used in a terminal (super user) Frank: quote # urpmi.addmedia contribs ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPM S with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz \quote That's all one line with single space before and after the word contribs, after RPMS, and after the word with. I couldn't even find the contribs (hdlist2.cz) list on the mirror you linked. I did see the one for the Club and (I think) unsupported though. They're in the directory with the RPMS. The path to the hdlist2.cz is (or should be) in the /Mandrake/base directory, which makes an interesting relative path to the hdlist2.cz, doesn't it? :-) It works here. Hope it helps. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. -- Garfield Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] damn mandrake apache.!!! nothing in logs to tell me what the problem is.
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 1:42 am, Franki wrote: anway, the source of my problem is that apache is giving me no feedback on why it won't start. apachecrl configtest passses both httpd.com and httpd-perl.conf I have looked in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages and /var/log/httpd/error_log nothing in any of them to even indicate it tried to start. when I try, I get this: service httpd start Starting httpd:[PASSED] [PASSED] [PASSED] nothing shows up in the logs, hell, nothing shows up anywhere.. surely there must be some way of getting a verbose start log.. anyone?? I have uninstalled rpmdrakes php rpms, and put the old ones back, and I did likewise with the conf files.. still gives me [PASSED] mesages and no feedback at all as to why. Please, Does anyone have any idea how to get this thing working again? I'm in the shitter if I don't get it sorted before its needed tomorrow.. Incidently, I am doing this remotely over ssh with X forwarding.. not that that should make any difference. franki, don't know if this makes a difference (probably not, but woth a try): # apachectl start or # apachectl graceful to restart Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Smart partitioning
Hello, For those who didn't read the other mail, I'm going to kick Windows and use Linux exclusively on my PC. I intend to re-partition and install Mandrake 9.0 and I need some tips on how to do this in a smart way. I have a disk of 40GB which now is devided in 10GB Linux and 30GB Windows. I have very basic partitions for Linux. I want to have a separate home-partition to start with. Further I would like to get started in a while with developing websites linked to a database (with Python/Apache/MySQL) and to install Oracle 9ias with development tools. I imagine it could be handy to use a seperate partition for toying around with that. All in all I don't want to make it too complicated, just usefull. I'd like to know your recommandations on what partitions I should create and their sizes. Thanks. Regards, Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Making a good backup
Hello fellow Mandrake users, I decided the time has come to create myself a microsoft free environment, so I'm going to erase Windows ME that I don't use anyway from my PC. The plan is to make a new install after re-partitioning my hard-disk of Mandrake 9.0. Before I do that I could use some tips on how to backup my current data in mdk 8.1 so I can be up to speed in no-time after the new install. I will ask some re-partitioning tips in a separate mail. The questions: - which files should I backup for Evolution and how do I restore my current mailboxes? Will there be a version conflict with a newer version of Evolution? - i noticed that it's hard to copy directories with their contents using Konquerer or Nautilus. It's no problem on the command line with copy -r. Can I expect similar problems with burning a data CD using x-cd-roast? - any usefull ideas that I didn't think of?? Thanks for your input. REgards, Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert
Roman Korcek, Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:47: Hi, if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a firewall, ZoneAlarm is the choice. i did indeed go to the site below and my Black Ice Defender proved completely stealthy. thank you.. It is not a problem with inbound traffic (which you probably tested), it's a problem with outbound traffic. http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm and http://grc.com/lt/bidresponse.htm Although ZoneAlarm is a good software firewall, grc.com is not the place to go for unbiased information about it. BTW, Steve Gibson was frothing at the mouth before Win XP was released, saying because it could spoof packets the whole web would crash and burn... It didn't. He likes CAPITALS and MELODRAMA. RichardA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert
yeah, i remember reading about that as well.. I like steve gibson, he is a very smart man (I think anyone that can program assembly is smart), so what, he is a tad melodramatic... if it gets the point across, good on him.. As to the firewalls, as I remember it, he had good stuff to say about all of them except Black Ice and that was just on trojans and stuff.. As for XP, it has continued the fine M$ tradation of big exploits.. but it has no where near the marketshare that 98 has, so maybe we have to wait a while.. :-) If someone writes a nimda or klez or whatever that spoofs its IP, then perhaps the chaos you long for will ensue... :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of RichardA Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 4:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert Roman Korcek, Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:47: Hi, if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a firewall, ZoneAlarm is the choice. i did indeed go to the site below and my Black Ice Defender proved completely stealthy. thank you.. It is not a problem with inbound traffic (which you probably tested), it's a problem with outbound traffic. http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm and http://grc.com/lt/bidresponse.htm Although ZoneAlarm is a good software firewall, grc.com is not the place to go for unbiased information about it. BTW, Steve Gibson was frothing at the mouth before Win XP was released, saying because it could spoof packets the whole web would crash and burn... It didn't. He likes CAPITALS and MELODRAMA. RichardA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] buying 9.0
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow 9.0 is coming and out it's deafeningly quiet!:o( I don't mind buying 9.0 again, it's all in a good cause, but I would like to know what's up! Anyone got the same feeling, or am I the only one? Harm Harm: IIRC, it takes about four weeks after the release of a new version before the packaged sets get out into the world. I've lost track of the release date, but those boxes should be shipping soon -- next week? -- cmg I've pre-ordered, and I understood that they would not be out until the end of October. I've thought and supposed on the same lines and fact is that I feel it's inapropiate to be kept totally in the the dark, this way. The boxed version dropping on my doormat tomorrow wouldn't change that feeling. Fact is I don't even know what I bought (boxed download version or power pack or whatever) at the time. I just wanted to contribute. I don't want a pat on the back but I don't want to feel forgotten either. At least now I know I'm not the only one in the dark:o) I hope somebody at Mandrake takes the hint and realizes one sometimes has to throw a bone into the pack to keep it happy and make it feel useful. I also think that it's counterproductive to have such a long waiting period. I realise that printing the documentation takes time, but surely it would be possible to release a CD-only version before, or at least at the same time as, it's available from third-party vendors. For the record, here's how I got my various distros (for home, that is - at the office I just FTP install from our university's mirror). 7.0 - free with a Turkish PC magazine (this was the distro that turned me on to Mandrake - one of the best ever) 7.2 - www.cheapbytes.com 8.0 - bought on the street (literally - the guy was sitting in a pile of pirated Windows software, so I thought I'd encourage his interest in Open Source) 8.2 - free with Linux Format In all cases (except perhaps the first), if there had been a reasonably-priced (even slightly more expensive) CD set available from Mandrake, I'd have oredered that instead. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mencoder results and questions
Well, I just d/led and installed the latest MPlayer. I went to PLF and grabbed all the required dependencies (AFAICT) and I compiled it. Its running, I can play DVD's, DIVX, and VCD's... So I thought I'd be brave and use Mencoder to rip a DVD. I looked at the docs, tracked down some Mencoder references from the Mandrake news archive, and tried this: mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Ronin_2.avi This is all on one line of course. The DVD was a Ronin Warriors cartoon set. It took some time, but appeared to work. I've got a 424.8 meg AVI file which MPlayer will play. I have to admit though, that I was a wee bit disappointed in the video quality (audio seems fine). I noticed some artifacting where colors blend together. Is there a setting that I can change/use to increase the video quality that will still keep it in the filesize range that will allow it to be burnt to a CD? I'd love to be able to give just 2 copies to my sons (they don't have DVD's in their comps). Thanks a lot! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smart partitioning
On 15 Oct 2002 22:14:25 +0200, Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For those who didn't read the other mail, I'm going to kick Windows and use Linux exclusively on my PC. I intend to re-partition and install Mandrake 9.0 and I need some tips on how to do this in a smart way. I have a disk of 40GB which now is devided in 10GB Linux and 30GB Windows. I have very basic partitions for Linux. I want to have a separate home-partition to start with. Further I would like to get started in a while with developing websites linked to a database (with Python/Apache/MySQL) and to install Oracle 9ias with development tools. I imagine it could be handy to use a seperate partition for toying around with that. All in all I don't want to make it too complicated, just usefull. I'd like to know your recommandations on what partitions I should create and their sizes. Thanks. Regards, Marco Marco, It's not the last word in partioning, but it has worked well for me on Mdk 8.1. Here's what I did based on info from a magazine and my experience: http://es.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList It's in English though there's also a Spanish version. It's been checked over by people who know more than I do. Hope it helps. Richard. PD: If you find any errors or points for discussion, please let me know. rh. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:12, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 4:20 am, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me sufficiently grounded to start real learning. Right now, after weeks of installing Linux Mandrake 8, I am still dealing with the facts that I cannot install my printer, the sound system works for the CD player but for nothing else, I can't install downloaded programs, have not a single clue as to what all these file names and acronyms mean (and since I can't print I have no way of making reference docs and like many people I am screen-dyslexic but can do fine with hard docs) and so on - all of which stand in the way of actually learning and enjoying the system. As I said, if there is a tutoring venue in the NY/NJ area that would ground me in the basics, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it. TIA I to find myself in the same mess. I installed Linux as i was so tired of the MS game... although i can get on net.. I cant seem to install LICQ and have no correct way to do it. Im in a remote little town with no other linux users about.. Got printer working, got a new hayes modem running, but so need LICQ I download and from there its a messonline docs for installing downloaded programs is nill as well as the books I got with the install are confusing. I come from the days of the Vic 20 and having to type in all programs from say RUN or Compute magazine and after that a MS USER Ive been so ruined by just being a MS operator. Classes in this area??? none books in stores on linux??? nill I to have no clue haow to get downloaded programs to work... Bout all I got is a email running and a browser.. oh well may have to do another MS OS install if it gets worse and geeez all I wanted was LICQ to keep track of my family members... Mike in a rural farm townwhere linux is unknown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is lnx4win a FAKE?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 11:58 pm, H.J.Bathoorn did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: If it's really needed to run Linux from a Win/dos folder (older laptops sometimes need dos for the hardware) Markus could try using 'zipslack' or 'bigslack'. if it is just to get a feel for linux, look for a linux live cd. boot and run, no harddrive changes at all. - -- you can have peace or freedom, but never count on both at once -heinlein 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 v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9q97kBwq+ZwvIN/oRAjMZAJ9aAwX0OSsBrZnAAOTOMfMt11UciwCfUbgq cuCExmh16clhPBGjg9hYXEM= =8UC9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help
of course you have beeen here; http://www.mandrakecampus.com; On Tuesday 15 October 2002 03:12 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 4:20 am, Joe Harkins wrote: As a newbie who is impresssed with and wants to learn Linux Mandrake but remains totally at sea due to more than 20 years of DOS and Windows, I would find it a great help if I could find classes or seminars or whatever that would get me sufficiently grounded to start real learning. Right now, after weeks of installing Linux Mandrake 8, I am still dealing with the facts that I cannot install my printer, the sound system works for the CD player but for nothing else, I can't install downloaded programs, have not a single clue as to what all these file names and acronyms mean (and since I can't print I have no way of making reference docs and like many people I am screen-dyslexic but can do fine with hard docs) and so on - all of which stand in the way of actually learning and enjoying the system. As I said, if there is a tutoring venue in the NY/NJ area that would ground me in the basics, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it. TIA I don't know about any classes and anyway I'm in NZ, but... I felt the same way when I first started using linux 16 months ago. I started off initially by reading the Mandrake docs (which I see have changed a lot since then - must have another good look at them). This provided a basic understanding of the filesystem structure and basic commands in a console as well as some insight as to just what you can do in linux. The rest of my learning so far came from this newbie list, man pages and the vast array of HOWTOs that are available on the net for just about anything to do with linux. Oh, and hubby bought me (with some subtle hints from me) Linux in a Nutshell by O'Reilly for Christmas which is a very handy reference. When first starting to use linux it all seems very confusing (for some of us) but perseverance pays off and like a lot of us newbies, you just might find that the learning process is actually FUN! Good luck Sharrea Using Linux, Que books, was very good when I first started - a good deal of depth in easily digested mode. The version I have is a couple of years old, and therefore not entirely up to date. It also does rather heavily favour Redhat, but having said that, it was very helpful. I agree about the Linux in a Nutshell, and the third book that filled in gaps was Linux for Dummies. The three books with their different styles and content should cover most of what is not distro specific. The Mandrake documentation and this list does the rest. Enjoy Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Security alert
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 21:50, FemmeFatale wrote: For windows both norton blackice bite the bikey. Plain simple. If you want proof I Can direct you off or on list to a website. Zonealarm is the only software firewall for Winblows i personally trust. *Dons her tinfoil hat* :) --- Femme VERY GOOD, Femme. Not bad..not bad at all!! (hands Femme silver star) Keep up the good work. ;) 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] Mencoder results and questions
El Mar 15 Oct 2002 17:56, Ronald J. Hall escribió: Well, I just d/led and installed the latest MPlayer. I went to PLF and grabbed all the required dependencies (AFAICT) and I compiled it. Its running, I can play DVD's, DIVX, and VCD's... So I thought I'd be brave and use Mencoder to rip a DVD. I looked at the docs, tracked down some Mencoder references from the Mandrake news archive, and tried this: mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Ronin_2.avi This is all on one line of course. The DVD was a Ronin Warriors cartoon set. It took some time, but appeared to work. I've got a 424.8 meg AVI file which MPlayer will play. I have to admit though, that I was a wee bit disappointed in the video quality (audio seems fine). I noticed some artifacting where colors blend together. Is there a setting that I can change/use to increase the video quality that will still keep it in the filesize range that will allow it to be burnt to a CD? I'd love to be able to give just 2 copies to my sons (they don't have DVD's in their comps). Thanks a lot! :-) Hola. Ronald: I'm using 'video dvd rip' (plf). With a nice gui, dvdrip let you choose every parameters (video bitrate; 1,2,3,4 CDs as target media, preview images, etc.). I think mencoder is part of dvdrip. Steps are: Storage locationRIP titleClip ZoomTranscodeBurn. Buena suerte. Sorry: I'm not so good with English. -- Carlos Arigós Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 9:33pm up 49 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] buying 9.0
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 03:06 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snipped stuff about when/if boxed sets will arrive I've thought and supposed on the same lines and fact is that I feel it's inapropiate to be kept totally in the the dark, this way. I agree. It would be nice to get an e-mail/notice on the LM homepage/whatever about when to expect the boxed sets. However, my experience has been that it gets here just about when they said that it would, so I'm not worried. Yet. Mandrake does a helluva good job on The Really Important Matters, but its customer relations could stand some improvement. Maybe once their cash flow improves The boxed version dropping on my doormat tomorrow wouldn't change that feeling. Given that your doorstep is a canal barge, I understand your concern. ;^) Harm, try looking at it this way: When we do get our boxes, those of us who've chosen to go the boxed set route will have a better idea as to the challenges that lay ahead. Not having high speed access isn't all bad. We don't have to mess with md5sums, burning CD's, humongeous downloads, etc. For me, that's a fair exchange. ymmv I hope somebody at Mandrake takes the hint and realizes one sometimes has to throw a bone into the pack to keep it happy and make it feel useful. Harm. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] buying 9.0
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 09:12 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 03:06 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snipped stuff about when/if boxed sets will arrive I've thought and supposed on the same lines and fact is that I feel it's inapropiate to be kept totally in the the dark, this way. I agree. It would be nice to get an e-mail/notice on the LM homepage/whatever about when to expect the boxed sets. However, my experience has been that it gets here just about when they said that it would, so I'm not worried. Yet. Mandrake does a helluva good job on The Really Important Matters, but its customer relations could stand some improvement. Maybe once their cash flow improves The boxed version dropping on my doormat tomorrow wouldn't change that feeling. Given that your doorstep is a canal barge, I understand your concern. ;^) Harm, try looking at it this way: When we do get our boxes, those of us who've chosen to go the boxed set route will have a better idea as to the challenges that lay ahead. Not having high speed access isn't all bad. We don't have to mess with md5sums, burning CD's, humongeous downloads, etc. For me, that's a fair exchange. ymmv I hope somebody at Mandrake takes the hint and realizes one sometimes has to throw a bone into the pack to keep it happy and make it feel useful. Harm. -- cmg I have unlimited dialup, and have managed to download all 3 iso and am enjoying 9.0, but still waiting for my advanced purchase to arrive too, and I have to admit, I expect it anyday, cause I have preordered 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2, and in each case, just as soon as I get my pants all wound up it gets here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...
Hey, One thing I haven't figured out how to do is how to get my 128-meg Thumb Drive (USB-based disk) to work as a hot plug into linux. I can do it with WinXP and Win2k all day long which I use on a regular basis as a FAT filesystem. These things are SO useful! Does anyone know of a way to get them to work as a hot-plug mount/dismount under Linux Mdk 9.0? Thanks in advance!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:21, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey, One thing I haven't figured out how to do is how to get my 128-meg Thumb Drive (USB-based disk) to work as a hot plug into linux. I can do it with WinXP and Win2k all day long which I use on a regular basis as a FAT filesystem. These things are SO useful! Does anyone know of a way to get them to work as a hot-plug mount/dismount under Linux Mdk 9.0? Mine (TechTone/Desay USA 32MB) is detected and can be mounted by, as root: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/your_mount_point and an /etc/fstab entry would be: /dev/sda1 /mnt/your_mount_point vfat user,exec,noauto,rw,sync,umask=0 0 0 Note that you'll need the usb-storage module. Hotplug will typically load all the proper modules. Make sure that you substitute the actual mount point (which you have created with mkdir) for your_mount_point. Let me know if you have problems. Thanks in advance!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SMB package missing
HI all! Ok, so here is the deal. I am trying to set up a samba server on my home network. In KDE I right click on the file I want to share, I follow the dialog to share the file but then at the end I get a funny message: Diskdrake Mandatory package SMB is missing But the kicker is that SMB is installedI'm pretty sure it is. SoI guess my question is: how can I verify the integrity(existence?) of my SMB package...and I guess I wanted to see if anyone else was having this problem. Prob just me. Ok so I wanted to say thanks in advance to all who help me with this problem...and thanks for having me in the Mandrake community. Ted Manka Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SMB package missing
Ted, When you run a rpm -qa | grep samba what do you get? This command will query the rpm database and grep (search for) samba. I get: samba-common-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-client-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-server-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-swat-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk I have the samba client (common and client) installed, which is default I believe, and the samba server (server and swat), which is not by default. I you do not have the last two then you need to install then. I would use the Install Software application and search for samba, you should find the server and swat on disk 2. Jim F. On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 00:55, Ted Manka wrote: HI all! Ok, so here is the deal. I am trying to set up a samba server on my home network. In KDE I right click on the file I want to share, I follow the dialog to share the file but then at the end I get a funny message: Diskdrake Mandatory package SMB is missing But the kicker is that SMB is installedI'm pretty sure it is. SoI guess my question is: how can I verify the integrity(existence?) of my SMB package...and I guess I wanted to see if anyone else was having this problem. Prob just me. Ok so I wanted to say thanks in advance to all who help me with this problem...and thanks for having me in the Mandrake community. Ted Manka Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...
I just plug mine in and it mounts itself to /mnt/removable. I don't know how it works, I guess it was default. And, yes, those things are VERY useful. 4 of the technicians in my company have them and I'm trying to talk my boss into getting one for each of the rest. Barry On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:21 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey, One thing I haven't figured out how to do is how to get my 128-meg Thumb Drive (USB-based disk) to work as a hot plug into linux. I can do it with WinXP and Win2k all day long which I use on a regular basis as a FAT filesystem. These things are SO useful! Does anyone know of a way to get them to work as a hot-plug mount/dismount under Linux Mdk 9.0? Thanks in advance!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...
..so there's no possible corruption (like Windows warns) when you plug/unplug at will? Do you have to un-mount before you unplug? Anything else I should know before I try the solution outlined earlier? THANKS ALL - I'm completely new - I don't quite understand what I'm doing so I'm asking for mechanics behind the thing... ---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ + s.Wizard ---]Security Specialist + +---+ +---+ + SekurityWizard@boundariez[spamSUX].com + +---+ +---+ ---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ -Original Message- From: Barry Michels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives... I just plug mine in and it mounts itself to /mnt/removable. I don't know how it works, I guess it was default. And, yes, those things are VERY useful. 4 of the technicians in my company have them and I'm trying to talk my boss into getting one for each of the rest. Barry On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:21 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey, One thing I haven't figured out how to do is how to get my 128-meg Thumb Drive (USB-based disk) to work as a hot plug into linux. I can do it with WinXP and Win2k all day long which I use on a regular basis as a FAT filesystem. These things are SO useful! Does anyone know of a way to get them to work as a hot-plug mount/dismount under Linux Mdk 9.0? Thanks in advance!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...
OK, assume I'm a complete idiot and know nothing about Linux. Can I plug in the USB drive after I boot up? Or do I require a re-boot every time I plug in, unplug, etc? Can you give me an idiot's guide to getting this working? Like I said, I installed linux about...oh.3 weeks ago and am going at it from the ground-up. Thanks, patience is much appreciated with a n00b. Ralph ---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ + s.Wizard ---]Security Specialist + +---+ +---+ + SekurityWizard@boundariez[spamSUX].com + +---+ +---+ ---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ -Original Message- From: Michael Notforyou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives... On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:21, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey, One thing I haven't figured out how to do is how to get my 128-meg Thumb Drive (USB-based disk) to work as a hot plug into linux. I can do it with WinXP and Win2k all day long which I use on a regular basis as a FAT filesystem. These things are SO useful! Does anyone know of a way to get them to work as a hot-plug mount/dismount under Linux Mdk 9.0? Mine (TechTone/Desay USA 32MB) is detected and can be mounted by, as root: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/your_mount_point and an /etc/fstab entry would be: /dev/sda1 /mnt/your_mount_point vfat user,exec,noauto,rw,sync,umask=0 0 0 Note that you'll need the usb-storage module. Hotplug will typically load all the proper modules. Make sure that you substitute the actual mount point (which you have created with mkdir) for your_mount_point. Let me know if you have problems. Thanks in advance!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Making a good backup
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 06:14, Marco Verheul wrote: Hello fellow Mandrake users, I decided the time has come to create myself a microsoft free environment, so I'm going to erase Windows ME that I don't use anyway from my PC. The plan is to make a new install after re-partitioning my hard-disk of Mandrake 9.0. Before I do that I could use some tips on how to backup my current data in mdk 8.1 so I can be up to speed in no-time after the new install. I will ask some re-partitioning tips in a separate mail. The questions: - which files should I backup for Evolution and how do I restore my current mailboxes? Will there be a version conflict with a newer version of Evolution? - i noticed that it's hard to copy directories with their contents using Konquerer or Nautilus. It's no problem on the command line with copy -r. Can I expect similar problems with burning a data CD using x-cd-roast? - any usefull ideas that I didn't think of?? Thanks for your input. REgards, Marco Marco, As you are trashing the ME partition anyway, one easy way to do your backup would be to convert it to a linux partition before re-installing. Copy all your data onto it, then do your install. Choose expert mode and use diskdrake during the install to blow away all the other paritions and set them up as you would like. Make sure the backup partition is not included in the list for formatting! Then you only have to copy things back as required. There's nothing whatsoever wrong with having the first partition as a data area, so once you've got everything back where you want it, you are done. Of course if you are looking for more space for your main partitions, you don't need to use all the space currently occupied by ME. Just create one big enough to backup the required data. For evolution, you only need to copy the evolution directory and all its subdirectories (cp -r). Just put them back again before running evolution for the first time and all will be as it was. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] an unexpected icon and a forgotten password
Login to the window manager using the login name 'root' and then your root pw as the pw. Then you can call up Mandrake control center and set up user accounts there or you can also do it in the terminal if you wish. On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 03:57, Joe Harkins wrote: I'm running Mandrake8.2 and using KDE. At the bottom of my screen I noticed an icon has apeared in the form of a small lock. When I clicked on it the screen went black and a prompt appeared that wanted my user password. Since I don't recall what the user pw is (and don't get to see it on boot) the only way out was to cut the power. After going through a few failed reboots to restore the system, I see the lock is still there. So, I have three related questions. 1) what is that lock and what would I have done to cause it to appear 2) whay is the prompt wanting to acomplish? 3) how to I determine or change my user password? I live alone so it doesn't much matterI have the root password pasted right to the front of the machine where I can see it. .B.but I went through so much crap and so many reinstalls before getting a functioning system, I haven't any idea what the user pw is. Can I assume that having the root pw should allow me to install a new user name and user password? 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] Apple Airport Card
Title: Apple Airport Card Hello, I am a newbie and I just installed mandrake 8.2 on my powerbook g4 667. I am very satisfied with the OS with the exception that I cannot seem to get the airport card to work. If anyone has encountered this problem and resolved it your help would be greatly appreciated? Thanks Chris
Re: [newbie] looking for hands-on help
shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 October 2002 3:32 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Got printer working, got a new hayes modem running, but so need LICQ I download and from there its a messonline docs for installing downloaded programs is nill as well as the books I got with the install i don't use licq, but i know there should be an rpm at rpmfind.net or possibly on the cds (did you look in the software installer) and if you are still lost, we are the best resource. what version you running? you need any old icq or do you prefer licq for a reason? help us help you. - -- 1 if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by interdimentional teleportation. 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 v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9q+d5Bwq+ZwvIN/oRAtOmAJ9931R1fqqe08nOE2DxKCaMoDRo2gCbBVCM UELVgthIApqgqhYQ+Trfvk8= =BJ6I -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com licq is packaged on cd2 of the download edition of mdk 9.0 HTH Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
