Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32
Alle 15:38, sabato 16 novembre 2002, Mavricijo Babič ha scritto: Salve a tuti, Ho un problema con dele partizoni Fat 32, le vedo da Linux ma non ne vedo il contenuto. Sa qualcuno dirmi perche? Garzie mile Facci vedere il tuo fstab, può essere utile per capirne di più. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia
buongiorno oh gloriosa mailinglist ^___^ e soprattutto buon weekend volevo sapere... esiste un modo in kmail per proteggere una cartella da guardoni indesiderati? tanto per dirla in parole povere: il mio computer lo uso solo io il 99% del tempo e non ci sono su cose personali quindi posso permettermi di usare l'auto login e di avere un solo user. Idem per la posta, MA quando si tratta di cuore ci terrei che la cartella dove kmail mette tutte le email importanti non fosse visibile da nessuno senza sapere una password. Il problema è che sono ESTREMAMENTE pigro, quindi non vorrei fare una cosa del tipo richiamare kmail da super user solo x il pop3 su cui arrivano le mail importanti e non vorrei che la password fosse richiesta ad ogni controllo di quel pop. c'è un modo per assecondare la mia pigrizia? Grazie in anticipo, ciao ciao! Beppe
[newbie-it] OT (ma carino) su debian e slack
Buon giorno oh gloriosa mailinglist ^___^ dopo le tante risposte ricevute riguardo al domandone filosofico su slackware vi tedio con un'altro OT (implorando in ginocchio il perdono di quelli a cui questo ot non interessa). Quando sentivo solo parlare di linux credevo che la massima aspirazione fosse Debian, metre ora vedo che chi ne sa molto usa Slack... anche in questa ML molta gente mi sembra usare slack ma di persone che usano debian non ne ho viste (nel caso mi stessi dimenticando di qualcuno... beh, scusate ^_^) allora la mia domanda è: dal punto di vista di un'utilizzatore esperto, perchè slack e non debian? o meglio, perchè prima di entrare a far parte di questa mailinglist la distribuzione per esperti avevo sempre sentito dire essere debian ed ora mi accorgo che la realtà è diversa? grazie in anticipo :-) ciao ciao, Beppe
[newbie-it] Surrisclaldamento e ventola
Salve a tutti, Sto facendo una piccola indagine diretta a coloro che hanno la mdk 9.0 su pc da tavolo e/o portatile Avete riscontrato cambiamenti riguardo i processi di surriscaldamento e successiva attivazione della ventola?? Nei pc dove ho installato la mdk 9.0 puntualmente dopo un po' parte la ventola. Lo stesso non accade sotto win, quindi escluderei gli elementi climatici !! Grazie Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!
Alle 23:25, sabato 16 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: okkio a non aver impostato la scheda audio in modo strano, spesso sovraccarica la cpu in particolare controlla che non sia settata in full duplex; i parametri standard vanno benone Tutto ciò è molto strano: da mandrake control ho visto la scheda audio e non si fa riferimento al full duplex, ho provato a settarla per Alsa è non cambiato molto... La cosa assai strana è che gkrellm segnala adesso la cpu con un lavoro normale e tuttavia il surriscaldamento avviene e la ventola si aziona... La cosa ancora più strana è che ho notato che questo accade anche al pc da tavolo.. dopo un po' ecco la ventola partire!! Mah! Che strano! Provo a chiedere ad altri se hanno rilevaro questa situazione Grazie miKe.
Re: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9
Alle 01:16, domenica 17 novembre 2002, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: - Original Message - From: gianni piazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9 Qualcuno mi sa spiegare come mai non riesco a scaricare gli aggiornamenticon mandrake update? Grazie!! questo succede anche a me, li scarico a mano come rpm e quindi li istallo.ovviamente mi tocca istallare anche le dipendenze grazie per la risposta!Io alla fine sono riuscito a scaricare gli aggiornamenti...non so cosa è successo di nuovo..a forza di tentare ad un certo punto me li ha fatti scaricare.Forse dipende dal trffico nei mirror...booo!!!
Re: [newbie-it] OT (ma carino) su debian e slack
Alle 12:21, domenica 17 novembre 2002, Beppe ha scritto: dopo le tante risposte ricevute riguardo al domandone filosofico su slackware vi tedio con un'altro OT ma ti diverti proprio... ;) allora la mia domanda è: dal punto di vista di un'utilizzatore esperto, perchè slack e non debian? o meglio, perchè prima di entrare a far parte di questa mailinglist la distribuzione per esperti avevo sempre sentito dire essere debian ed ora mi accorgo che la realtà è diversa? non è diversa.. 1. sei su una lista su mandrake, quindi se trovi delle persone che hanno usato o usano tuttora mdk e sono passate a slack, non significa che sia la norma, io, ad esempio, sono 'nato' con slack, ho usato poi prima suse, poi red hat, quindi mandrake, continuando a usare la prima per lavoro ed a casa, e l'ultima per le installazioni a tanti miei amici/parenti... 2. esistono molte ML tematiche su Debian 3. ci sono altri motivi 'filosofici' per cui molti (non tutti per fortuna!!) utenti Debian non si mischiano al resto del popolo... IMHO IMHO IMHO... (ne sai qualcosa Gian?) ciao ciao, Beppe bye miKe ___ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.19 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 - S.R.U.#705 - R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!
Alle 16:02, domenica 17 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: devi cercare dal pnnello di controllo di kde è artsd il responsabile a mio avviso ho controllato ed è tutto a posto, tra l'altro avevo pure disabilitato artsd nei giorni scorsi... altro responsabile potrebbe essere slocate cioè l'aggiornamento periodico del db che interroghi per ritrovare info sull'ubicazione di librerie, eseguibili ecc.. ricordo che mandrake era piuttosto intrusivo in questo questo non so come controllarlo... Ciao
Re: [newbie-it] Surrisclaldamento e ventola
Alle 17:40, domenica 17 novembre 2002, sandro ha scritto: Mdk 9.0 installata su una workstation e su un portatile, nessun problema di surriscaldamenti o ventole che entrano in funzione (il portatile - ovvio). Uhm... Ma quando parli di pc sui quali hai installato mdk9 intendi anche pc da tavolo? Sì...
[newbie-it] Strano!!!!
Salve a tutti, ho scaricato un file zippato da internet, lo decompattato nella directory tmp, ad un cero punto ho cercato di cancellarlo, ma Linux, mi ha detto che l'accesso e' negato, ho pensato Non ho i permessi giusti faccio un semplice ls -l, e mi accorgo che ho i seguenti permessi -rw-rw-rw- il propietario, sono io e il gruppo e' il mio PERCHE' NON POSSO CANCELLARE UN MIO FILE? logandomi da root, l'ho cancellato senza problemi -- \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella -- Home Page == http://www.santarella.too.it Email : ( Per scrivermi togli -NOSPAM- ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia
On Sunday 17 November 2002 12:10 pm, Beppe wrote about [newbie-it] kmail, protezione e pigrizia: fare una cosa del tipo richiamare kmail da super user solo x il pop3 su cui arrivano le mail importanti e non vorrei che la password fosse richiesta ad ogni controllo di quel pop. prima o poi pero' una password dovrai inserirla. forse potresti far scaricare i messaggi che vuoi tenere privati in una mailbox di proprieta' di root, poi pero' dovresti cambiare i permessi ogni volota che vuoi leggerla, anche se non ci vorrebbe molto. 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] xine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:57, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti Qualcuno di voi sa come fare per velocizzare le immagini dei dvd con xine? visto che va a scatti in modo impressonante C'è il sistema? Cosa devo fare? Grazie dell'attenzione Potrebbe essere qualcosa che riguarda la gestione della scheda grafica? Oppure qualche settaggio della scheda madre? A me con win la lettura dei dvd, ad esempio, mi va a scatti, con linux liscia come l'olio. Hai fatto la prova con win, se l'hai installato ovviamente? Ciao Sandro - -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - A.I.P. n° 2075 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 8.2 on PIII 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux Machine #103048 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE92JQ+/ayi1TbZzlQRAnU/AJ9sK8Zd/JKjdRlCfXOLFHQRjexGYQCgmc7g MSYa+gUZ6ow/KeBZe2Gbk3A= =TK9j -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
Am Sam, 2002-11-16 um 19.10 schrieb Derek Jennings: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:28:52 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul -- How odd - but it is on. Anne Clt+Alt+ 'keypad +/-' rotates among all the screen definitions defined in your XF86Config-4 file. If when you did your recent install you selected a monitor with only one resolution, then obviously you will not be able to rotate resolutions. (Oh and it only works in KDE) It works fine with Gnome, too. Why did you reinstall anyway? That is Windows thinking derek Matthias Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:40, Matthias R. Fischer wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul -- How odd - but it is on. Anne Clt+Alt+ 'keypad +/-' rotates among all the screen definitions defined in your XF86Config-4 file. If when you did your recent install you selected a monitor with only one resolution, then obviously you will not be able to rotate resolutions. (Oh and it only works in KDE) It works fine with Gnome, too. derek Matthias Dang - I still can't get it to work with XP... -- Sun Nov 17 21:20:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. -- Evan Davis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:02, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: What about removing the modem, rebooting, putting the modem back in, rebooting and seeing if the modem is found again? Just a thought, can't you do the same thing, but just run kudzu for detection instead of having to reboot? -- Yeah - yeah - that's a good point... -- Sun Nov 17 21:20:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. -- Evan Davis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP 4400C ScanJet
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 11:05, Chris wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 04:31 am, you said, and I quote: On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 13:00, Chris wrote: Any hope though that I can get this one up and running? Have you been to the SANE website and have you gotten their latest back ends for SANE? They update the back ends quite often...and by upgrading your SANE, you might get more than lucky mate... Yep, went there, downloaded and installed the latest version 1.0.9, still no luck when I run sane-find-scanner. Guess I'm doomed to get a new one. Thanks for the help though. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org 5:42pm up 19 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.04 Mate, I wouldn't give up just yet - that is, unless you really want to purchase new equipment - but check through ALL the newsgroups - like on www.dejanews.com - see if anyone else is experiencing the exact same issue (even if it's with another form of linux - but the same - I'd dig through the newsgroups tonight, but man, I'm tired and have to get up early to train to Sydney...else I'd be out there diggin... -- Sun Nov 17 21:20:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. -- Evan Davis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Now VERY OT - Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 18:24, Anne Wilson wrote: Example to make a printable file of the tar manual: $ man tar | col -b tar.txt Then take a look at tar.txt in an editor before printing and you'll see that its all formatted for you. HTH Sharrea That sounds brilliant. Thanks, Sharrea Anne Dis be a good one, m8 !! I like it even better than the script I use - so now I have to change it...(who says ya don't learn sumtin new every day?) Cheers! -- Sun Nov 17 21:25:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so. -- John Donne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: mandrake control center unreachable
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 19:22, ivette brusselmans wrote: KDEDIR='/USR' Uh - well, the KDEDIR='/usr' should be exactly like that - you have no /USR directory, but you DO have a /usr directory... ...meanwhile, I was trying to emulate your situation on my Mandrake box, and I couldn't. There HAS to be something more to this picture than meets the eye (or doesn't meet the eye). -- Sun Nov 17 21:30:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Gentlemen, Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M. ship from London to Lisbon and thence by dispatch to our headquarters. We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all manner of sundry items for which His Majesty's Government holds me accountable. I have dispatched reports on the character, wit, and spleen of every officer. Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence. Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous confusion as the the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall. This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions from His Majesty's Government so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it must be one of two alternative duties, as given below. I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both: 1. To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance: 2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain. -- Duke of Wellington, to the British Foreign Office, London, 1812 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 - import files
Well, the hardware install was faultless - I can't believe it. I've still got some configuration to do, and some file copying from the old /home directories, users to set up, etc., but that's just time. One thing is panicking me a little - I can't find my old korganiser file. Nor do I see how to import it (I presume 3.0 won't simply use a copied file?) I'm going on a hunt now for kaddressbook, and I assume that might have a similar problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 10:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:02, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: What about removing the modem, rebooting, putting the modem back in, rebooting and seeing if the modem is found again? Just a thought, can't you do the same thing, but just run kudzu for detection instead of having to reboot? -- Yeah - yeah - that's a good point... Yeah that works!! Thanks a million guys. Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Downloading packages.
Sorry for such very newbie questions, but I am lost! Is there a good tutorial on downloading and installing packages from the Internet? The Package Manager section of the Mandrake manual is far too sketchy for me: it hardly mentions it. I have no problems installing from the disks, or doing an update from a mirror site. However, I can't find out how to get the Package Manager to give me a list of all the packages available on a particular site, or on the cooker site, and install any I have selected (with dependencies). The only way I have found, is to manually go to the appropriate folder on the site, download the file to my harddrive by dragging it, and then run KPackage to install it. However, with one package I have tried, KPackage gives me a list of about twelve dependencies (mainly libraries) which need to be installed. I then tried running urpmi from the command line, as I thought that program took care of finding and installing packages and dependencies, but it didn't. It failed the installation with the list of dependencies. I even tried it when connected to the mirror. I have followed the Finding Dependencies thread and tried all the suggestions given. But none work for me. So if anyone can point me to a good tutorial, I would be very grateful. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] addendum
On November 16, 2002 12:10 pm, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: An addition to my previous correspondence. The computer now looks for the internet addy for shaw.ca ...I think I my have keyed in the wrong thing for host and now the poor computer is dreadfully confused Hi Alexa; Depends what Shaw node you're on; and in what city. For example for my service in Edmonton: Primary Server Name: ns2ar.ed.shawcable.net Primary Server IP: 24.70.95.212 Secondary Server Name: ns1ar.ed.shawcable.net Secondary Server IP: 24.70.95.195 If I'm correct in the assumption that you're in the Okanagan you'd use: Primary Server Name: ns2ht.ok.shawcable.net Primary Server IP: 24.67.253.212 Secondary Server Name: ns1ht.ok.shawcable.net Secondary Server IP: 24.67.253.195 If I'm incorrect in my guess about the location someone (Derek I believe) already gave a link to the trouble shooting page at Shaw that lists all the DNS servers. Here it is again: http://support.shaw.ca/troubleshooting/dnsservers.htm Depending on what version of Windows hubby is running you should be able to gather the rest of your information (LAN settings including assigned IP address for your machine on the local area network) you need from there. Actually you can get it from any version, I'm just not that familiar with all versions. Such as XP. I'm a Shaw customer as well so ask away. If I don't know I'll probably know someone that does. But never forget that the more information you give the easier it will be for the fine people here to help. Hell; I may even be able to jump in once in a while too with help. vbg I'm one of those people that always says the only dumb questions are the ones you _don't_ ask. :-) Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org You will gain money by an illegal action. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 - import files
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 2:26 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: One thing is panicking me a little - I can't find my old korganiser file. Nor do I see how to import it (I presume 3.0 won't simply use a copied file?) I'm going on a hunt now for kaddressbook, and I assume that might have a similar problem. Unfortunately lilo did not pick up 8.2, and I cannot boot into it. I had thought that one solution to my address and calendar problems was to export the files, but since I can't access them that's out. I tried editing lilo.conf to look like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Mandrake 9.0 root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Mandrake 8.2 root=/dev/hde6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi failsafe read-only but it didn't work - I still only got one linux option + the usual failsafe, windows, floppy. I don't know whether too persevere trying to fix this or not. If I can get my kaddressbook and korganiser files in I'm not worried about anything else. I think I have found the organiser, but can't open it, and the only import option is ical. This is desperately important to me - my whole life is in that organiser! Anne You need totake a bit more care of your lilo stanzas. For a start , define the kernels and initrd files to boot from, here is mine, boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=791 default=82-2.4.18-6 keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk label=82-2.4.18-6 root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp vga=791 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk label=90-2.4,19-16mdk root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nobiospnp vga=791 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=W2000 table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe this is a share /boot partition setup, I think yours is the same. Of course, it will be the vmlinuz version statement, won't it? I have to go out for a while now, but I'll look at that when I get back, thanks. Anne That's right and the initrd version to suit. If you install lilo via M9.0 cd1 , I'm pretty sure it will splay the kernel and intrd version available to you in the /boot partition.It certainly does in the mandrake installer version of lilo install, though you will need to sellect from a drop down list on each entry item. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fixating CD's
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 17 November 2002 09:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: We all know what the effect of fixating is, but what actually is the physical process of fixation. For instance, what if anything, is the lazer doing to the newly etched track. John This doesn't really answer the question of what the laser is really doing but... To fixate a CD (close a writable CD by writing its permanent table of contents), simply remove the wa or wd directory. The directory removed selects whether the CD is fixated as an audio or data CD; since each track carries its own type information, very few readers care which fixation type was used.Writing the permanent TOC effectively closes the CD as I understand it. HTH Yes, that's how it seems, I don't think the writer is actually doing anything more than writing a TOC file, whether final or partial, depending whether you want the whole disc fixed or only partially fixed. However I have never found an explanation it is only a feeling based on observing the process at work. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On 17 Nov 2002 21:21:51 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dang - I still can't get it to work with XP... Um, You may have a problem getting THAT to work! I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oh, I thought XP means Xtra Problems. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Brother printer - heads up
If you have a Brother HL-1040, HL-1050, HL-1060 or MFC-P2000, be aware that they are the subject of a factory recall campaign. There is a problem with the fuser cartridges (the expensive one) that can cause a fire. Details are available at www.brother.com/usa. They'll give you the name of whoever handles Brother service in your area. You'll have to take the printer there along with a printed copy of the recall page, and they will replace the fuser cartridge. In my case (Raleigh NC), the local guy says that the fusers are on backorder, and they wouldn't/couldn't give me a date when they will have the replacements. Moral: Call ahead. The upside is that mine is almost 4 years old, and was probably due for replacement soon. Even though this message may be OT, I'm posting it because the recall has not been widely publicized. I only found out about it by accident when I visited the Brother site for another purpose and saw this little note up in the corner of their home page. For some reason, Brother doesn't seem to have made any attempt to directly contact registered owners, although they've never hesitated to send me e-mails about their latest and greatest. (And yes, I _did_ register my printer.) HTH someone -- -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting Default Browser for Evolution
Greetings, I am currently running Mandrake 9.0 with Evolution 1.20tex. I am trying to set the default browser that Evolution uses to be either Mozilla XFT or Netscape 7.0. I have changed the settings in the KDE Control Center and in the Gnome Control Center to one of the above mentioned browsers without success. In both I tried to set the default HTML handler to the browser of my choice without success. Evolution continues to want to use the Mozilla browser that came with Mandrake. This unfortunate because when it starts, it hangs at the profile manager screen and Mozilla never starts. This also happens if I try to start Mozilla independently although the other browsers fire up fine(Netscape and Mozilla XFT). If I happen to have Netscape 7.0 or Mozilla XFT already running it works fine. In previous versions of Gnome you could set the default URL handler in the control center, but I am unable to find this section in Gnome 2. I have searched the Google archives but have not been able to stumble across a solution. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank You Pat -- Pat Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
Dang - I still can't get it to work with XP... Um, You may have a problem getting THAT to work! I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!! -- In the case of Winblows I thought it was for Xtra Pay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step
Right, Derrick. Good advice. But, if you do mix up users, or if the distro starts the UID numbering sequence differently (as in RH vs Mandrake, 500 vs 501), you can 'handedit' the /etc/passwd file. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 13:01, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:47:42 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: When installing v.9.0 I considered sharing the existing /home directory, which I was told is possible. However, I then realised that I would be likely to cause version conflicts in the various dot file/directories unless I registered as a different user. Then I considered what I would have to do about the existing other users - problems. The other users never log on directly, but need access from their windows machines over samba, partly for filesharing and partly for backup of their work. Possible solution - clean install with new /home, mount old home as /oldhome, copy their data only onto the new setup. a) Will I be able to mount the old home in this way, or will 9.0 insist that I already have a /home? They will not be on the same hdd, if that makes any difference (don't see why it would). b) Any other comments? Anything I need to think more about? Anne I don't think there is anything to worry about in regard to a shared /home partition. You will of course have the same user profile for both OS's, that is all. I choose not to have one /home partition. I don't think it's possible to share the same /home directory, persumeably in one or other Mandrake OS. Each OS has it's own /home directory, and you may set them up hower you desire. Generally speaking it's not fifficult to copy setup files from one /home directory to another, which aids the user configuration process. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no need to create new home directiries so long as you take one simple precaution when you install 9.0 Simply add your users in *exactly* the same order as you did when you installed 8.2 This will ensure that each user has the same UID number (User Identification Number) as in the old installation. And the ownerships of all the files in the existing home directories will be OK. Add the users in a different order and crazy things will happen like files in userA's home will only be readable by userB There is no need to worry about the 'dotfiles' in the homes. KDE will for example automatically upgrade a kde2.2 ~/kde directory to kde3 format the first time you log in. You will not lose any config data. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] upgrade problem
Since I upgraded to 9.0, I am having problems using my old (8.1) ~/.xinitrc If I even create the file, then startx will not work. I don't know what the cause is, can someone point me in the right direction? The contents of my old .xinitrc are: #!/bin/bash export LANG=en_US export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP export LC_MESSAGES=en_US export XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2 kinput2 -wnn -ccdef /home/mattv/myccdef imwheel startkde Also, if there is somewhere better for me to to do this stuff, let me know. I am just trying to get rudimentary Japanese input and display support. Thanks, Matthew Van Horn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again? From scratch, or will an update work? Sorry for the OT, but in a sense, knowing helps with MDK, too. TIA T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 5:11 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Right, Derrick. Good advice. But, if you do mix up users, or if the distro starts the UID numbering sequence differently (as in RH vs Mandrake, 500 vs 501), you can 'handedit' the /etc/passwd file. How? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 - import files
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 4:09 pm, you wrote: Of course, it will be the vmlinuz version statement, won't it? I have to go out for a while now, but I'll look at that when I get back, thanks. Anne That's right and the initrd version to suit. If you install lilo via M9.0 cd1 , I'm pretty sure it will splay the kernel and intrd version available to you in the /boot partition.It certainly does in the mandrake installer version of lilo install, though you will need to sellect from a drop down list on each entry item. John I installed from my Powerpack CD1. I'm not sure what you mean here - are you suggesting that I should run the CD1 lilo installer? Anne Only in as much as if you are trying to boot on those lilo stanzas I doubt that you are on desktop on either OS. where you can mere use a text editor, and running /sbin/lilo will suffice, So, Boot from CD1,at the first splash screen hit,F1 At the prompt, type,rescue From menu select replace LILO, enter That should allow you to remake lilo , I've only had to do this once so I cannot quite remember how the procedure went , but if my memory serves me well there is a dropdown list for each entry that needs correction. I guess the programme merely reads what ever there is to find in /boot partition and asks you to choose.If not then it's a text editor job and it would be best to write down the entries you think you want to make, because it's easy to forget something. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:32, Technoslick wrote: I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again? From scratch, or will an update work? Sorry for the OT, but in a sense, knowing helps with MDK, too. No of course you don't. Just log in under 'linux single' in grub then change the root password. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPPoE in Allied Modem.
Oh yeah ! Works your tip ! Thank you !! Bruno Gunter On Saturday November 16 2002 08:40 am, Bruno Gunter wrote: Hi all, I tried to put a Allied modem to connect via ASDL in mandrake 9.0, I tried several times and does not work. I used: - DHCP server to take IP and DNs from the server (ISP); - RP-PPoE; - I edited the files: /etc/ppp/firewall-standalone and /etc/ppp/firewall-masq; - I runned the adsl-setup; And always appears to me: Your connection failed! Anyone knows to resolve this ? Bruno Gunter Try usin the GUI, it's very simple (rp-pppoe-gui-3.5-1mdk). Also, choose 'none' for firewall. At least til you get the connection up. Does your ISP provide auto DNS ? Try setting up without entering DNS, eg, just leave those lines blank. Make sure your NIC is recognized, eg tom$ lspci | 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10) IF it's not, or if you don't see 'adsl' in the system | services section of MCC (drakconf, as root), it'd probly be easiest to put your 1st Mandrake CD in and choose expert-upgrade. I only had a very few problems in the beginning. It seemed the only firewall setup that wanted to play nice with my adsl was Guarddog. (guarddog-2.0.0-2mdk). Very easy and intuitive setup. Installing portsentry interfered with the connection after a while (dynamic IP), so I uninstalled that. I once had to 'power cycle' the modem, ie, disconnect power to it for about a minute, then power it back on. I used the switch on the surge protector it's plugged into. Now I just leave it always on. It's a very good idea to have your phone line and power for dsl run thru a quality surge protector. Read the docs and faq on RP's website http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ The DSL-howto also has a lot of info including a trouble shooting section. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas 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] Planning ahead - next step
Anne, Here's a snippet from my RH 8.0 /etc/passwd file: ... pvm:x:24:24::/usr/share/pvm3:/bin/bash radvd:x:75:75:radvd user:/:/bin/false terry:x:501:501:Terry Smith:/home/terry:/bin/bash . The last line is associated with user 'terry' and includes the user name:whether the user employs the x server:the user id (UID):the group id:the user's full name:the user's home directory:the user's preferred shell. If I had problems across two distributions, for example, I would check the other distro's /etc/passwd file. Suppose it has a user 'terry' with UID = 500. I would open that /etc/passwd file in an editor and change the 500 to 501. The new distribution should now have the correct permissions (that is, the same as the old distro in this case) set for user 'terry'. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 5:11 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Right, Derrick. Good advice. But, if you do mix up users, or if the distro starts the UID numbering sequence differently (as in RH vs Mandrake, 500 vs 501), you can 'handedit' the /etc/passwd file. How? Anne 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] Planning ahead - next step
Thanks, Terry. That's worth filing for reference :-) Anne On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 6:34 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Anne, Here's a snippet from my RH 8.0 /etc/passwd file: ... pvm:x:24:24::/usr/share/pvm3:/bin/bash radvd:x:75:75:radvd user:/:/bin/false terry:x:501:501:Terry Smith:/home/terry:/bin/bash . The last line is associated with user 'terry' and includes the user name:whether the user employs the x server:the user id (UID):the group id:the user's full name:the user's home directory:the user's preferred shell. If I had problems across two distributions, for example, I would check the other distro's /etc/passwd file. Suppose it has a user 'terry' with UID = 500. I would open that /etc/passwd file in an editor and change the 500 to 501. The new distribution should now have the correct permissions (that is, the same as the old distro in this case) set for user 'terry'. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 5:11 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Right, Derrick. Good advice. But, if you do mix up users, or if the distro starts the UID numbering sequence differently (as in RH vs Mandrake, 500 vs 501), you can 'handedit' the /etc/passwd file. How? Anne 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] OT: Root Password Failure
Thanks, Anthony! I couldn't remember what I needed to do. After spending three days trying to get some older video hardware to work with RH 8, I was getting so peeved! This was my first attempt at uisng Grub outside of a normal boot-up. Someone here once said that GRub was a nice boot manager, but not very intuitive. Yep. I will agree to that statement. I had to do a search on the Web to get the instructions. It really isn't that obvious to me. LILO is so much easier to use. Once I was able to boot into Level 1 mode, it was a an easy task to use 'passwd' to change my mistake. Now, here's one for you If booting into Level 1 is this 'easy', I would think that you would want to eliminate this possibility in a network environment (for Grub or LILO) to keep intruders from bypassing the need for a password and getting root access. Would you password Grub or LILO? Thanks again for the help. Saved me a few more hours of aggrevation. BTW, Red Hat 8.0 may be a big improvement over 7.x, but it sucks with older video cards! It comes with XFree86 4.2.0-17, and every Diamond and Tident card in my place won't work right with it. I even struggled to get my ATi 3D Rage Pro to work! Outside of that? Not bad...but, it ain't Mandrake! T From there, I was able to cha - Original Message - From: Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake-Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:32, Technoslick wrote: I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again? From scratch, or will an update work? Sorry for the OT, but in a sense, knowing helps with MDK, too. No of course you don't. Just log in under 'linux single' in grub then change the root password. Anthony 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] well, help!
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 23:43, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 23:40, Robin Turner wrote: Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. snip there are cheaper alternatives - thrid-party distributors such as www.chepabytes.com sell Mandrake very cheaply, /snip Thats www.cheapbytes.com HTH Pete Why are we talking about buy Mandrake when it's freely downloadable? This is free software - you pay for packaging, support and the likes...otherwise, it's free software. We should be promoting it as free software - no matter what version of linux you favor...They've got ADSL - they can download the entire set if she already doesn't have it - or even go so far as to do a reinstall via ftp... ...but buy? -- Mon Nov 18 06:25:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Tell me, O Octopus, I begs, Is those things arms, or is they legs? I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me us. -- Ogden Nash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
[snip] Now, here's one for you If booting into Level 1 is this 'easy', I would think that you would want to eliminate this possibility in a network environment (for Grub or LILO) to keep intruders from bypassing the need for a password and getting root access. Would you password Grub or LILO? Thanks again for the help. Saved me a few more hours of aggrevation. BTW, Red Hat 8.0 may be a big improvement over 7.x, but it sucks with older video cards! It comes with XFree86 4.2.0-17, and every Diamond and Tident card in my place won't work right with it. I even struggled to get my ATi 3D Rage Pro to work! Outside of that? Not bad...but, it ain't Mandrake! Well first of all I absolutely loved Redhat... until 8.0. Hated what they did with KDE, since KDE is my preferred gui. It's what caused me to switch from Redhat to Mandrake. And I have to say I'm pretty happy that I did. (.0 is really nice! As far as security goes, yes absolutely, you should password protect Grub, as well as place put a bios password on your system and disable booting from floppy and cd-rom. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 - import files
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 23:46, Anne Wilson wrote: I don't know whether too persevere trying to fix this or not. If I can get my kaddressbook and korganiser files in I'm not worried about anything else. I think I have found the organiser, but can't open it, and the only import option is ical. This is desperately important to me - my whole life is in that organiser! Anne I really hate to say it, but shouldn't that have been done prior to your re-installation of MDK? -- Mon Nov 18 06:30:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no. -- J.R.R. Tolkien Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] well, help!
On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 23:43, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 23:40, Robin Turner wrote: Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. snip there are cheaper alternatives - thrid-party distributors such as www.chepabytes.com sell Mandrake very cheaply, /snip Thats www.cheapbytes.com HTH Pete Why are we talking about buy Mandrake when it's freely downloadable? This is free software - you pay for packaging, support and the likes...otherwise, it's free software. We should be promoting it as free software - no matter what version of linux you favor...They've got ADSL - they can download the entire set if she already doesn't have it - or even go so far as to do a reinstall via ftp... ...but buy? Yeah, buy, I do crashtesting and beta testing on ML since 8.0 and still buy the boxed set from Mandrake just to give the company support. I also need to join the Club but haven't yet cause I keep spending money on the wrong things. : ) Anyway, if no one buys from Mandrakesoft then they go away : ( The Standard box set for 3 CDs and the manual is only $39 US . I realize that in many cases that is a considerable amount of money but for a few out there it is in the budget area. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 03:14, John Richard Smith wrote: I thought XP meant Xtreme Propritary!!! Oh, I thought XP means Xtra Problems. eXtraneous Problems. BTW, I can get the CTRL/ALT/+ to work in XP - but I'm running RH 7.3 in a VMWare window when I do it! (g) -- Mon Nov 18 06:45:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 If you are too busy to read, then you are too busy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 04:32, Technoslick wrote: I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again? From scratch, or will an update work? Sorry for the OT, but in a sense, knowing helps with MDK, too. TIA T You should be able to use the boot CD and get in via linux rescue - once you're in and you chroot /mnt/sysimage you can change the password for the root account...easy as pie! -- Mon Nov 18 06:50:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW. Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other operators include the California booleans, AX and NOWAY. Loops are accomplished with the FOR SURE construct. A simple example: LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START IF PIZZA=LIKE BITCHEN AND GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND VALLEY GIRL =LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2 THEN FOR I =LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100 DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT) SURE LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE GOTO THE MALL VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY AWESOME! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] well, help!
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 06:46, Dennis Myers wrote: Yeah, buy, I do crashtesting and beta testing on ML since 8.0 and still buy the boxed set from Mandrake just to give the company support. I also need to join the Club but haven't yet cause I keep spending money on the wrong things. : ) Anyway, if no one buys from Mandrakesoft then they go away : ( The Standard box set for 3 CDs and the manual is only $39 US . I realize that in many cases that is a considerable amount of money but for a few out there it is in the budget area. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 From the start of this thread, mention of spending very little - if any - was made clear - hence I make the statement about money. And when I lived in the States, yeah, all my life $40 bux wasn't a bad price for anything - but now I've come to realize that $40US is literally $80AUD - so here, we try NOT to buy as much as we can - and getting Mandrake out of a magazine was a good way of getting marketing done for our particular population... I fully agree that money should go to Mandrake and the other companies...but we can't market linux - we can market PACKAGES... -- Mon Nov 18 06:55:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 The hatred of relatives is the most violent. -- Tacitus (c.55 - c.117) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
Thanks, Stephen... I went in another way...using my boot floppy that I created during the install. As I mentioned in my reply to Anthony, my biggest hassle was passing linux single to Grub. It has been years since I used Grub, and then it was a text-based booter. Once I was able to boot to single user, I solved my problem. BTW, in researching how to get into Grub, I found the directions for using 'linux recovery, as well. I didn't have to mount /proc...just type 'passwd' at the command line by going this root. Really way too simple. That's what I asked Anthony about security around Grub and LILO. I don't need this kind of security within my own network (Heaven help us all, but I am the only 'expert' on Linux here!), but I would consider this later on in helping small businesses switch over to Linux. :-) T - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 04:32, Technoslick wrote: I cannot log in as root on my new installation of RH 8.0! I am sure that it was caused by my fat fingered typing during installation. Is there a way to recover or change an erroneous password for root? Or am I going to have to reinstall again? From scratch, or will an update work? Sorry for the OT, but in a sense, knowing helps with MDK, too. TIA T You should be able to use the boot CD and get in via linux rescue - once you're in and you chroot /mnt/sysimage you can change the password for the root account...easy as pie! -- Mon Nov 18 06:50:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW. Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other operators include the California booleans, AX and NOWAY. Loops are accomplished with the FOR SURE construct. A simple example: LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START IF PIZZA =LIKE BITCHEN AND GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND VALLEY GIRL =LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2 THEN FOR I =LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100 DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT) SURE LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE GOTO THE MALL VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY AWESOME! 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] Get me out of this - PLEASE
After installing 9.0 on my second hdd I was not getting a choice at lilo stage. Following advice I re-wrote lilo from the CD1 of 9.0 This was a really bad idea. It reinstalled my boot loaded for 8.2, and now I'm stuck in 8.2 with a perfectly good 9.0 installation inaccessible. I have re-written lilo to what it was originally, like this: map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi failsafe read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe What is stopping this working? Is it that map=/boot/map line - the map being overwritten? There must be a way out of this. How do I get back to 9.0 without re-installing? I'm devastated. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Galeon instability revisited.
Hi, all. I mentioned earlier that I was having stability issues in Galeon on several different machines, both upgrades and fresh installs. I tried deleting the .galeon folder, also running some cleanup scripts. I also run galeon without the soundwrapper option, but still unstable. I am writing now again, because I am being told by several users that the program is becoming so inconvenient as a result of the crashes to be almost unusable. It seems to happen most often when selling on Amazon and EBay, but frequently occurs on other sites as well. - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] well, help!
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [snip] Why are we talking about buy Mandrake when it's freely downloadable? This is free software - you pay for packaging, support and the likes...otherwise, it's free software. We should be promoting it as free software - no matter what version of linux you favor...They've got ADSL - they can download the entire set if she already doesn't have it - or even go so far as to do a reinstall via ftp... ...but buy? Yeah, buy, I do crashtesting and beta testing on ML since 8.0 and still buy the boxed set from Mandrake just to give the company support. I also need to join the Club but haven't yet cause I keep spending money on the wrong things. : ) Anyway, if no one buys from Mandrakesoft then they go away : ( The Standard box set for 3 CDs and the manual is only $39 US . I realize that in many cases that is a considerable amount of money but for a few out there it is in the budget area. I think we've had this debate on this list before. It's a tricky issue to address, because Free Software is working with a radically different economic model to the commodity market model of proprietary software. In the proprietary model, a software package is seen as a commodity just like a table. The model doesn't work for software (not that it works wonderfully for physical property either), for reasons better explained elswhere (Raymond, Stallman etc.). The new model is still being worked out, the main question being, put crudely, how do the coders eat? Paying for boxed distributions is one good way of putting food on programmers' tables. The point I was trying to make is that the proprietary model is negative (copy this software and you're a criminal) whereas the Free Software model is positive (you can have it for free, but if you'd like to pay for it, or contribute in some other way, that's great!). Dennis is to be applauded, but that doesn't make people who download their copies bad. On a more practical note, I wish Mandrake would sell a plain download CD set as soon as each distro comes out (a la Cheapbytes). I'd certainly buy that, even if it were a dollar or two more than third-party releases. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:10, Technoslick wrote: Thanks, Stephen... I went in another way...using my boot floppy that I created during the install. As I mentioned in my reply to Anthony, my biggest hassle was passing linux single to Grub. It has been years since I used Grub, and then it was a text-based booter. Once I was able to boot to single user, I solved my problem. BTW, in researching how to get into Grub, I found the directions for using 'linux recovery, as well. I didn't have to mount /proc...just type 'passwd' at the command line by going this root. Really way too simple. That's what I asked Anthony about security around Grub and LILO. I don't need this kind of security within my own network (Heaven help us all, but I am the only 'expert' on Linux here!), but I would consider this later on in helping small businesses switch over to Linux. :-) T Generally, in situations where security is a concern, I like to disable the single logon...and keep any boot disks in a safe. -- Mon Nov 18 08:00:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 I want another RE-WRITE on my CEASAR SALAD!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
Best. Sig. Ever. Stephen Kuhn, Sunday 17 November 2002 19:53: THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW. Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other operators include the California booleans, AX and NOWAY. Loops are accomplished with the FOR SURE construct. A simple example: LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START IF PIZZA=LIKE BITCHEN AND GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND VALLEY GIRL =LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2 THEN FOR I =LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100 DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT) SURE LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE GOTO THE MALL VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY AWESOME! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon instability revisited.
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:59, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, all. I mentioned earlier that I was having stability issues in Galeon on several different machines, both upgrades and fresh installs. I tried deleting the .galeon folder, also running some cleanup scripts. I also run galeon without the soundwrapper option, but still unstable. I am writing now again, because I am being told by several users that the program is becoming so inconvenient as a result of the crashes to be almost unusable. It seems to happen most often when selling on Amazon and EBay, but frequently occurs on other sites as well. - Paul Rodriguez Being that you have users that are being inconvenienced, have you considered going the avenue of doing a quickie uninstall of Galeon altogether - not just in the ~/home directories (the dotfiles), but also removing the /share/galeon and everything else - then doing a reinstallation from the original RPM's? Personally, when faced with an issue such as this, I would revert to the last version that worked properly - if I can't install it via the RPM's, then to get the source and compile from the tarballs. There is something obviously wrong with the version that is running currently - and do keep in mind that by far, most of those types of websites are aimed at IE and Netscape - so there is a high chance that there are activeX, vbscripts and IE specific jscripts being used - yet another reason why I switched to Netscape 7. -- Mon Nov 18 08:05:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:15, RichardA wrote: Best. Sig. Ever. Stephen Kuhn, Sunday 17 November 2002 19:53: THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW. Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other operators include the California booleans, AX and NOWAY. Loops are accomplished with the FOR SURE construct. A simple example: LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START IF PIZZA=LIKE BITCHEN AND GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND VALLEY GIRL =LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2 THEN FOR I =LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100 DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT) SURE LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE GOTO THE MALL VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY AWESOME! __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hehehhehee...yeah - I like using the fortune database to generate the quips at the end of the sig...real simple script that runs every minute via cron job. Anytime I get a chance to update the fortune's database, I do... -- Mon Nov 18 08:10:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 I am NOMAD! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS hangup
El jue, 14-11-2002 a las 14:34, Anne Wilson escribió: For some peculiar reason every time I try to print I am having problems. The printer starts OK, but hangs part way down the page. It is as though the print is not spooling, and drawing direct so that the slightest thing interferes with it. Has anyone got a fix for this? My printer (a Brother MFC 4500ML) would also hang midpage with anything but the most simple documents. It turns out that I didn't have enough memory in the printer, and installing more solved the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution folder repair
Perhaps this will help someone. I had a mail folder in Evolution become corrupt. Evolution's error message went so far as to declare the entire folder irrecoverably lost. Not true! It's easy to fix: I closed Evolution and went to the relevant directory (/home/username/evolution/local/foldername/). There you will find several files, among which are mbox (the messages themselves) and mbox.ev-summary (a summary of the contents of mbox). This summary file became corrupt and had to be rebuilt, so I renamed mbox.ev-summary. Then I reopened Evolution and accessd the folder in question. Evolution rebuild the folder's summary file and the folder worked fine. To clean up, I then deleted the renamed mbox.ev-summary file. Easy. Perhaps this fix will work with other mbox based email clients as well. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 07:02, Anne Wilson escribió: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus sign and Ctrl-Alt-minus sign are what you want, I think. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 16:49, Peter Spotts escribió: Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four to six pixels. The side-to-side alignment seems OK. I have the laptop set up as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on the other side of the no-byte zone. The problem doesn't exist on that side of the divide. I also made sure I selected the appropriate driver when I installed MDK8.1 (ATI Radeon). Any thoughts as to how I can get an exact fit of desktop to screen? I had a similar problem: the X display was off center. Outside of X the display was centered correctly. I solved it by running xvidtune, which among other things lets you align the X display horizontally and vertically. Try it and let us know if the problem persists. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Get me out of this - PLEASE
This should be fixable with some additional information. Looks like you need a new 'stanza' for the 9.0 install. What is the name of the drive 9.0 is installed on (e.g. hdb)? What are the partitions for /boot and / on that drive (e.g. /dev/hdb1 = /boot, etc.)? What is the name of the boot image on the 9.0 boot partition? (e.g. vmlinuz)? With that info a number of us should be able to help you edit the lilo.conf file so that you can access your 9.0 installation. Terry Smith On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 15:10, Anne Wilson wrote: After installing 9.0 on my second hdd I was not getting a choice at lilo stage. Following advice I re-wrote lilo from the CD1 of 9.0 This was a really bad idea. It reinstalled my boot loaded for 8.2, and now I'm stuck in 8.2 with a perfectly good 9.0 installation inaccessible. I have re-written lilo to what it was originally, like this: map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi failsafe read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe What is stopping this working? Is it that map=/boot/map line - the map being overwritten? There must be a way out of this. How do I get back to 9.0 without re-installing? I'm devastated. Anne 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] Get me out of this - PLEASE
-- Original Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Get me out of this - PLEASE From: Terry Smith microsmith To: newbie newbie Date: 17 Nov 2002 16:28:28 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This should be fixable with some additional information. Looks like you need a new 'stanza' for the 9.0 install. What is the name of the drive 9.0 is installed on (e.g. hdb)? hdf - root partition is hdf1. Everything except home is mounted there. What are the partitions for /boot and / on that drive (e.g. /dev/hdb1 = /boot, etc.)? What is the name of the boot image on the 9.0 boot partition? (e.g. vmlinuz)? I'm pretty positive that was what was in the original lilo.conf. With that info a number of us should be able to help you edit the lilo.conf file so that you can access your 9.0 installation. Terry Smith Much appreciated Anne On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 15:10, Anne Wilson wrote: After installing 9.0 on my second hdd I was not getting a choice at lilo stage. Following advice I re-wrote lilo from the CD1 of 9.0 This was a really bad idea. It reinstalled my boot loaded for 8.2, and now I'm stuck in 8.2 with a perfectly good 9.0 installation inaccessible. I have re-written lilo to what it was originally, like this: map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi failsafe read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe What is stopping this working? Is it that map=/boot/map line - the map being overwritten? There must be a way out of this. How do I get back to 9.0 without re-installing? I'm devastated. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Attachment: message.footer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen
Warren Post wrote: El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 16:49, Peter Spotts escribió: Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four to six pixels. The side-to-side alignment seems OK. I have the laptop set up as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on the other side of the no-byte zone. The problem doesn't exist on that side of the divide. I also made sure I selected the appropriate driver when I installed MDK8.1 (ATI Radeon). Any thoughts as to how I can get an exact fit of desktop to screen? I had a similar problem: the X display was off center. Outside of X the display was centered correctly. I solved it by running xvidtune, which among other things lets you align the X display horizontally and vertically. Try it and let us know if the problem persists. I've always had this problem. Being the Linux bigot that I am, I assumed it was Windows that was off-centre. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?
Hi all, OK, now that I think that everything is working (I'l find out for sure tomorrow when I try to access my mail server from outside my ISP) I want to control who sends mail through my smpt server. What is the best way to do this? I guess I have two thougts: 1) change the port number 2) implement passwords for sending mail What is anyone's thoughts on either of these and how hard are they to implement. thanks, Jordan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS
I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one, would like to see both intergrated into MCC. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] setting an eviromment variable in bash
now you'd think this was easy and I'm sure it is once you know how ;-) I want to do a setenv (which does not exist in bash.) I am using ant which expects JAVA_HOME to be set to wherever your jre is. I tried: set JAVA_HOME=yadayada when I do this, and then do a set | grep HOME, I get: _=JAVA_HOME=yahdyada I'd like to put this into my .bash_profile when I am done. I had to change my shell to tcsh, do a setenv JAVA_HOME yadayada and use ant from tcsh - there must be an easier way! thanks, Jordan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:58, John Richard Smith wrote: I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one, would like to see both intergrated into MCC. John Much nicer as a panel-applet (for either KDE or Gnome/Gnome2 or IceWM) I don't mind gKrellm, but it's yet another floaty in the desktop area - which I don't mind in Enlightenment, but for KDE or Gnome, it sucks for my purposes. Panel-apps are nice cuz they're out of the way and integrated - when you're wanting to have as much desktop property as I like to have (even running at 1600x1200), ANYTHING that floats bloats, as it were... BTW, I saw (somewhere and I can't remember where) a really cool proggie that showed your temps/fan speeds/voltages in an OSD - but can't quite remember where the hec it was - but going to try to find it this week...THAT would definately turn a few heads... -- Mon Nov 18 09:00:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak. -- Arab proverb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] setting an eviromment variable in bash
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:02, Jordan Thompson wrote: now you'd think this was easy and I'm sure it is once you know how ;-) I want to do a setenv (which does not exist in bash.) I am using ant which expects JAVA_HOME to be set to wherever your jre is. I tried: set JAVA_HOME=yadayada when I do this, and then do a set | grep HOME, I get: _=JAVA_HOME=yahdyada I'd like to put this into my .bash_profile when I am done. I had to change my shell to tcsh, do a setenv JAVA_HOME yadayada and use ant from tcsh - there must be an easier way! thanks, Jordan You can edit the /etc/profile file - this affects all users, all shells. Add in there the following: --- JAVA_HOME='/yadayadayada' export JAVA_HOME --- Das ist alles! -- Mon Nov 18 09:10:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. -- Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing
Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system software management I also tried logging in as root first and then engaging the mandrake control center but not dice. I also looked in the package manager to see if there was anything that looked close but I could not find anything. Has anyone seen this problem before? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. --Mazer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing
On Sunday 17 November 2002 11:18 am, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system software management I also tried logging in as root first and then engaging the mandrake control center but not dice. I also looked in the package manager to see if there was anything that looked close but I could not find anything. Has anyone seen this problem before? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. --Mazer During installation did you select any of the server functions, like apache or mysql or something. If not that may be why no server option in MCC. Just guessing cause I have not run into this before. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 5:18 pm, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system software management I also tried logging in as root first and then engaging the mandrake control center but not dice. I also looked in the package manager to see if there was anything that looked close but I could not find anything. Has anyone seen this problem before? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. --Mazer You do not see the server config options because you did not select 'server' when you did your original install. But do not worry. All you have to do is install the 'drakwizard' RPM and they will appear. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing
On Sunday 17 November 2002 9:18 am, mazer did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system software management services should be within system -- Microsoft, Windows, Windows 98, Bugs, Lacking Features, IRQ Conflicts, System Crashes, Non-Functional Multitasking, The Y2K Problem and The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington, USA. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 9:52 pm, Jordan Thompson wrote: Hi all, OK, now that I think that everything is working (I'l find out for sure tomorrow when I try to access my mail server from outside my ISP) I want to control who sends mail through my smpt server. What is the best way to do this? I guess I have two thougts: 1) change the port number 2) implement passwords for sending mail What is anyone's thoughts on either of these and how hard are they to implement. thanks, Jordan By default Postfix will only relay mail for users on the local network (to avoid spammers taking over your mail server). So without having to do *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) It is also possible to configure Postfix to allow connections only from named hosts. But if you want the most secure method of allowing selective users to access your mail server from outside your local net. the safest way IMO is to only allow SMTP over SASL. There is a good tutorial on sasl at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php and a good ssh tutorial http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] well, help!
On Sunday 17 November 2002 03:09 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [snip] Why are we talking about buy Mandrake when it's freely downloadable? This is free software - you pay for packaging, support and the likes...otherwise, it's free software. We should be promoting it as free software - no matter what version of linux you favor...They've got ADSL - they can download the entire set if she already doesn't have it - or even go so far as to do a reinstall via ftp... ...but buy? Yeah, buy, I do crashtesting and beta testing on ML since 8.0 and still buy the boxed set from Mandrake just to give the company support. I also need to join the Club but haven't yet cause I keep spending money on the wrong things. : ) Anyway, if no one buys from Mandrakesoft then they go away : ( The Standard box set for 3 CDs and the manual is only $39 US . I realize that in many cases that is a considerable amount of money but for a few out there it is in the budget area. I think we've had this debate on this list before. It's a tricky issue to address, because Free Software is working with a radically different economic model to the commodity market model of proprietary software. In the proprietary model, a software package is seen as a commodity just like a table. The model doesn't work for software (not that it works wonderfully for physical property either), for reasons better explained elswhere (Raymond, Stallman etc.). The new model is still being worked out, the main question being, put crudely, how do the coders eat? Paying for boxed distributions is one good way of putting food on programmers' tables. The point I was trying to make is that the proprietary model is negative (copy this software and you're a criminal) whereas the Free Software model is positive (you can have it for free, but if you'd like to pay for it, or contribute in some other way, that's great!). Dennis is to be applauded, but that doesn't make people who download their copies bad. On a more practical note, I wish Mandrake would sell a plain download CD set as soon as each distro comes out (a la Cheapbytes). I'd certainly buy that, even if it were a dollar or two more than third-party releases. Sir Robin Didn't want to get this started up again, and meant no disrespect to anyone on the list. Just felt that with the daily death of one corporation after another here in the US, the issue of how people get paid should be mentioned. So let us do what we can but enjoy the freedom any way we can. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?
By default Postfix will only relay mail for users on the local network (to avoid spammers taking over your mail server). So without having to do *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) Well, the reason I set this up was so that I could use my server from _anywhere_. It is also possible to configure Postfix to allow connections only from named hosts. This won't work, 'cause I don't know where I'm going to be at. But if you want the most secure method of allowing selective users to access your mail server from outside your local net. the safest way IMO is to only allow SMTP over SASL. This is the best way. I really only want known users accessing my smtp server. There is a good tutorial on sasl at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php and a good ssh tutorial http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php Which one is better? I really don't need anything too complicated - I only have 4-5 users. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- /*Jordan R. Thompson*/ Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.Jordan.ThompCo.com Tel:(321) 777-8377 Fax:(509) 267-5577 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS
El Dom 17 Nov 2002 18:58, John Richard Smith escribió: I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one, would like to see both intergrated into MCC. John Hola, John. I have changed gkrellm by ksensors. With ksensors you can dock in KDE panel the sensors that you really need, and you don't need a magnifier to see what is going there. Suerte. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 7:35pm up 3:41, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.09 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 04:18, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system software management I also tried logging in as root first and then engaging the mandrake control center but not dice. I also looked in the package manager to see if there was anything that looked close but I could not find anything. Has anyone seen this problem before? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. --Mazer You can use Webmin to handle that stuff for ya mate: https://localhost:1 Login as root w/ your root password - then go to SERVERS. EZ as pie. -- Mon Nov 18 09:55:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?
snip -Original Message- *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) derek /snip Let's just be clear on a relay so we don't confuse the new guys... A relay is sending mail from one **domain** to another **domain** using the services of the mail server in a **third domain** Examples: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via server in domain3.com is a relay. from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to mail server in domain1.com to mail server in domain2.com to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a relay (in fact, this is normal mail). The most secure method, in general, to secure a mail server against relaying is to NOT allow users from other domains to connect to your mail server. You can use several methods including: screen users via IP address force some other sort of authentication and/or encryption There may be other methods depending on the mail server software in use. As a practical example, if you have a mail server behind a firewall/router on your home network, you would only accept mail from the valid IP addresses within your network (192.168.1.x, as an example). If you wanted to allow relays from your office computer when you are there, assuming you have a firewall or something on your office network, you would allow relaying from the single IP of your office firewall or office mail server. Anything else attempting to send via your home mail server would get blocked. Various mail servers have different methods for configuring anti-relaying. I'm not up on postfix, but in SendMail you have things like the /etc/mail/relay-hosts and /etc/mail/access files that can be configured. In those files you can put IP addresses and valid host names, and valid domain names. If you don't know where you're going to be coming from, you have to find a method of authentication to use, and I believe one of those previously mentioned by Derek will work. I'm not up on them because I use the IP method at work- you don't know your IP address go away! (We have a real problem with AOL users who want to relay mail from their home computers- sorry- to insecure to allow them access.) Good luck! Marlo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting upamailserveron9.0?
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:45, Jordan Thompson wrote: By default Postfix will only relay mail for users on the local network (to avoid spammers taking over your mail server). So without having to do *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) Well, the reason I set this up was so that I could use my server from _anywhere_. I use pop-before-smtp for this. Mandrake RPMs can be found using rpmfind.net. The home page (popbsmtp.sourceforge.net) doesn't appear to be available right now. Anyway, pop-before-smtp allows your server to relay for users who successfully authenticate via POP. I use this successfully to host mail for my family. You will need to set the mail client to log in before sending mail for this to work. Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slow boot
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:41, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I recently loaded mandrake 9.0 and am thrilled with it overall. I have had some problems with a HP CD-writer that I finally unplugged as I have another USB HP CD-RW that works fine. I am suspecting a problem from doing this. When Linux boots, it pauses for a few minutes finding module dependencies and then proceeds to boot up quickly after that. Is there any particular reason for this? I have a network card installed but have no other computers connected currently. Could that be causing this also? Many thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It sounds like it is waiting for something to time out before it can proceed. Is there still a reference to the old CD-writer in you /etc/fstab? What about, after disconnecting the drive (both power AND data cable, right?), did you remove it from the CMOS settings if it was originally manually set (versus auto-detect)? I had a problem with a failed floppy disk (actually, the cable was loose). The boot process would hang while trying to access the device. I replaced the cable and all was well. It could also be your network card. Unless you told Mandrake otherwise, during the install, I believe it tries to look for a dhcp and dns server. If you aren't using the network card at this time, you can always tell it to not load at startup and see if that improves the boot time. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure
As far as security goes, yes absolutely, you should password protect Grub, as well as place put a bios password on your system and disable booting from floppy and cd-rom. Anthony Not to mention that if you're using the machine as a server, it would be a wise idea to get a case that you can lock the case and the front. This way, someone can't get into the case, pull out the bios battery (resetting the bios to the default settings.) or press the power button to shutdown the machine. Of course, it isn't very likely that someone will go to all that trouble unless you've got some seriously confidential stuff on there. Of course, servers should also preferably be kept in a room that only required personnel have access to. Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Print Sharing-HP Laserjet 3100
Has anyone successfully shared an HP LaserJet 3100 off of a Linux PC, where the clients PCs are running Windows? If so, through Samba, print server? TIA T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slow boot
Yes, I did the cmos thing, etc. It must be the network card. How do I stop the network from loading at startup? Thank you On Sunday 17 November 2002 06:46 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:41, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I recently loaded mandrake 9.0 and am thrilled with it overall. I have had some problems with a HP CD-writer that I finally unplugged as I have another USB HP CD-RW that works fine. I am suspecting a problem from doing this. When Linux boots, it pauses for a few minutes finding module dependencies and then proceeds to boot up quickly after that. Is there any particular reason for this? I have a network card installed but have no other computers connected currently. Could that be causing this also? Many thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It sounds like it is waiting for something to time out before it can proceed. Is there still a reference to the old CD-writer in you /etc/fstab? What about, after disconnecting the drive (both power AND data cable, right?), did you remove it from the CMOS settings if it was originally manually set (versus auto-detect)? I had a problem with a failed floppy disk (actually, the cable was loose). The boot process would hang while trying to access the device. I replaced the cable and all was well. It could also be your network card. Unless you told Mandrake otherwise, during the install, I believe it tries to look for a dhcp and dns server. If you aren't using the network card at this time, you can always tell it to not load at startup and see if that improves the boot time. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing
Steven Kun and Derek Jennings You guys rock!!! Thanks for the help. On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 17:25, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 5:18 pm, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system software management I also tried logging in as root first and then engaging the mandrake control center but not dice. I also looked in the package manager to see if there was anything that looked close but I could not find anything. Has anyone seen this problem before? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. --Mazer You do not see the server config options because you did not select 'server' when you did your original install. But do not worry. All you have to do is install the 'drakwizard' RPM and they will appear. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Non-Destructive Resizing of NTFS Partitions
I was doing a little reading and found the name of a Linux app that safely resizes NTFS partitions. (Win NT 4.0, Win 2K, Win XP...supposedly) This has been discussed here before, but I thought I would post it again for anyone needing it now, or searching the listserv for it later: File Name: parted Boot Image: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk/partboot.img Documentation: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/USER (also on boot image) FYI T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] localhost file rendering with apache server
I have apache running. I have a perl script in cgi-bin to concatenate various text files for header body and tail and display it when requested using a module from tripod TripodPage.pm. It works OK for pure text files. But when the created html file contains reference to a .jpg pic, it is not shown. I have checked size and space allocation for picture etc. Any help will be appreciated. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server option in mandrake contol center is missing
On November 17, 2002 09:18 am, mazer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to configure postfix BUT there is no server option in the mandrake control center for server optionswhat I have is the following: Boot Hardware Mount points Network and internet security system software management I also tried logging in as root first and then engaging the mandrake control center but not dice. I also looked in the package manager to see if there was anything that looked close but I could not find anything. Has anyone seen this problem before? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. --Mazer MCC System Services Thats if you have what you want installed Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for an app that ...
On Saturday 16 November 2002 02:33 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 00:14, Gary Armstrong wrote: I'm having trouble putting a name to what I want, so not suprisingly I'm having trouble finding anything. I want describe the network of a small company. So I'm hoping to find some graphing tool that does that or maybe a general purpose tool with pre-existing symbols for computing/communication hardware. Just in case I'm thinking to small, if there is some app that would do more than draw it, I'd be very interested. As always money counts. Can anyone make a recomendation? TIA Gary There are network diagramming and diagnostic programs - there is a version of OpenView for linux (HP OpenView) - there are other network utils that will quite literally draw a flowchart of your network. Are any open source/free? I am interested. Dia for Gnome has stencils that come with it to do hand baked diagrams of networks - if you want to do it manually (yech). I probably stated my problem poorly. I'm really defining what it will be. So dia is probably ok. It would be nice, if there was a tool that would find my mistakes before I implement(and learn the hard way). I'm trying to help a start-up get started. They have about 20 Solaris sparc boxes and maybe 15 Wintel boxes. They are currently part of another company, but in about a month they need to look like their own domain/company. Costs are to be avoided, so I'm thinking linux for anything new. That most notably will be there interent capabilities. Does anyone know a good newbie list for connectivity/net design? I wouldn't want to get to off topic here. Thanks Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?
I use pop-before-smtp for this. Mandrake RPMs can be found using rpmfind.net. The home page (popbsmtp.sourceforge.net) doesn't appear to be available right now. I think I have this on my machine already, but I can't remember how to get to it. Anyway, pop-before-smtp allows your server to relay for users who successfully authenticate via POP. I use this successfully to host mail for my family. I remember seeing this option somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find it. I am pretty sure this is the option I want to go with. If you get a chance, could you send me the appropriate settings in the appropriate file? thanks You will need to set the mail client to log in before sending mail for this to work. Is this where you set log on using secure password authentication in Microshlock's Outlook Express? Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to open .exe files
Dear All, Is there a program in linux that will open .exe files or programs? Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to open .exe files
On November 17, 2002 07:24 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Is there a program in linux that will open .exe files or programs? Thanks. Marcia Wine;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to open .exe files
Try wine or vmware. - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 9:24 PM Subject: [newbie] How to open .exe files Dear All, Is there a program in linux that will open .exe files or programs? Thanks. Marcia 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] ML 9.0 and fonts
Anyone else have trouble with crappy (technical term) looking fonts in ML 9.0 on a laptop? The last time I had fonts this crappy I was playing games on my Atari. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to open .exe files
.exe files are dos/windows executables... they are not natively supported on linux.. but with wine, you can create a windows compatability layer that can allow you to run them..(sometimes) bascially, wine creates a fake windows enviroment, and tries to fool windows programs into thinking they are running on windows... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.. depends on the program in question.. look up codeweavers in google.com and it will lead you to a database of tested proggies. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marcia Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to open .exe files Dear All, Is there a program in linux that will open .exe files or programs? Thanks. Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] slow boot
Alternatively, instead of disabling the NIC you may want to assign a fixed IP address ''192.168.0.1'' with a mask ''255.255.255.0'' for instance. This will make your system is not waiting for DHCP reply anymore. For this setup and for disablib the NIC, use the MCC, Mandrake Control Center. Have your root password handy. HTH Peter -Original Message- From: Jim Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Joseph Braddock Subject: Re: [newbie] slow boot Yes, I did the cmos thing, etc. It must be the network card. How do I stop the network from loading at startup? Thank you On Sunday 17 November 2002 06:46 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:41, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I recently loaded mandrake 9.0 and am thrilled with it overall. I have had some problems with a HP CD-writer that I finally unplugged as I have another USB HP CD-RW that works fine. I am suspecting a problem from doing this. When Linux boots, it pauses for a few minutes finding module dependencies and then proceeds to boot up quickly after that. Is there any particular reason for this? I have a network card installed but have no other computers connected currently. Could that be causing this also? Many thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It sounds like it is waiting for something to time out before it can proceed. Is there still a reference to the old CD-writer in you /etc/fstab? What about, after disconnecting the drive (both power AND data cable, right?), did you remove it from the CMOS settings if it was originally manually set (versus auto-detect)? I had a problem with a failed floppy disk (actually, the cable was loose). The boot process would hang while trying to access the device. I replaced the cable and all was well. It could also be your network card. Unless you told Mandrake otherwise, during the install, I believe it tries to look for a dhcp and dns server. If you aren't using the network card at this time, you can always tell it to not load at startup and see if that improves the boot time. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Get me out of this - PLEASE
Anne Wilson wrote: After installing 9.0 on my second hdd I was not getting a choice at lilo stage. Following advice I re-wrote lilo from the CD1 of 9.0 This was a really bad idea. It reinstalled my boot loaded for 8.2, and now I'm stuck in 8.2 with a perfectly good 9.0 installation inaccessible. I have re-written lilo to what it was originally, like this: map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi failsafe read-only other=/dev/hde1 label=windows table=/dev/hde other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe What is stopping this working? Is it that map=/boot/map line - the map being overwritten? There must be a way out of this. How do I get back to 9.0 without re-installing? I'm devastated. Anne Don't you have a windblows partition ? If so, then first entry should be , boot=/dev/hda , ( says to boot from your mbr lilo, hense no hda number) then map=/boot/map etc etc, also it may be correct, but I don't understand it, what is disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80, I don't have any such entry in mine. You don't have to reinstall, it's a question of getting your lilo entries right. And if you want to ensure you use the correct /etc/lilo.conf script , remember you have the choice to use, either M8.2, or M9.0 's lilo.conf depending on which CD1 you repair with. So, M9.0's CD1 repair will set up reading from M9.0's /etc/lilo.conf whereas M8.2's CD1 will read from M8.2's /etc/lilo.conf. When setting up these lilo enties it is best to begin the exercise by printing off one set of /etc/lilo.conf enties, then make the necessary alterations for the new stanza's , this way you mind is prepared in advance as to what the new stanzas will look like.It is all to easy to leave something out, or make a typo. Keep this by you in some file, and refer to it when making changes. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS
Pilagá wrote: El Dom 17 Nov 2002 18:58, John Richard Smith escribió: I just wanted to say that now that I have had time to really use both gkrellm and lm_sensors and mastered how to get the gui display up large enough to display the results to perfection I for one am impressed, and I for one, would like to see both intergrated into MCC. John Hola, John. I have changed gkrellm by ksensors. With ksensors you can dock in KDE panel the sensors that you really need, and you don't need a magnifier to see what is going there. Suerte. Yes the initial gkreallm gui is so tiny it's unreadable, but in fact it is fully reconfigurable to any size and shape you desire . Yes it takes more horsepower to display gui, but the ease with which it is possible to cover the changes in resource usage as different things happen is very helpful in understanding resource use, and in adition there is additional info in the gkreallm gui display than lm_sensors displays on it's own. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
