[newbie-it] Manutenzione stampante Epson (MTINK)
In Mandrake9.0 esiste un programma MTINK per manutenzione delle stampanti Epson, utilizzato da root funziona ma se tento di usarlo da utente compare una finestra con le seguenti scritte. 'Errore nessun accesso al file del dispositivo stampante. assicurarsi che mtink abbia i diritti per accedere ai file dispositivo fai anche riferimento alla documentazione.' Il tasto 'Aiuto' non da alcun aiuto. Qualcuno può indicarmi il modo di utilizzare MTINK da utende. G.M.
Re: [newbie-it] Manutenzione stampante Epson (MTINK)
Alle 09:51, giovedì 6 febbraio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: In Mandrake9.0 esiste un programma MTINK per manutenzione delle stampanti Epson, utilizzato da root funziona ma se tento di usarlo da utente compare una finestra con le seguenti scritte. 'Errore nessun accesso al file del dispositivo stampante. assicurarsi che mtink abbia i diritti per accedere ai file dispositivo fai anche riferimento alla documentazione.' Il tasto 'Aiuto' non da alcun aiuto. Qualcuno può indicarmi il modo di utilizzare MTINK da utende. G.M. Due opzioni: esegui mtink da console di root (come faccio io), oppure rendi mtink suidato, così che ogni utente possa eseguirlo con i diritti di root. Ciao... Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
[newbie-it] I soliti casini con OO
Intanto, grazie a tutti i consigli per il problema della stampante; sto scaricando il pdf995 e a breve lo testero'. Il motivo della mia mail, pero', e' il seguente: ho un file fatto con kspread, e dovrei convertirlo in un formato leggibile da OO. Ovviemente, posso esportarlo come file di testo oppure come un csv, ma a quel punto OO lo apre come testo (in tutti e due i casi) e non ne vuole sapere di farmi vedere i dati in un foglio di calcolo. Con il copia incolla non funziona, e se gli dico importa dati posso selezionare il file da importare, mi mostra come sara' il tutto ad operazione terminata, do' OK ma poi mi ricompare la finestra di importazione, con la casella dell'OK non attiva... Che devo fa'? -- Arwan
[newbie-it] compilato kde 3.1 ma no antialiasing
Salve a tutti, ho compilato (con l'aiuto dell'ottimo konstruct) kde 3.1 su mandrake 9. Tutto bene a parte l'antialiasing, che non funziona ne' sui caratteri ne' sulle icone (le quali risultano proprio brutte). Qualcuno ha qualche idea ? credo che sia una cosa che dipenda da come kontruct ha compilato le qt 3.1, ma non ne sono sicuro... Grazie, saluti ! -- [HCS]OKreZ
[newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
Ciao a tutti, vi scrivo per chiedervi dei suggerimenti, come al solito avete a che fare con un utente tuttosommato nuovo a linux, anche se ho passato un po' di tempo a fare qualche prova. Bene, fatte le presentazioni passo ad illustrarvi l'antefatto che mi porta a chiedervi dei suggerimenti. Convinto un amico che linux è la soluzione a portata di tutti gli propongo di installarlo in versione essenziale con un programma per i testi tipo kwrite e un foglio elettronico, e mi ritrovo così col suo computer in casa e una bella gatta da pelare. Io avevo pensato di installare la Mandrake 8 o la 9, ovviamente con interfaccia grafica magari KDE 3 e magari con OpenOffice, ma ho subito capito che il suo computer non le regge. Pentium 166, Mainboard FX, scheda video S3virge 4Mb, 24Mb di ram,hard disk da 540MB, Cd-Rom 2x Creative (Panasonic 563B) interfaccia proprietaria su sound blaster 16 (ISA). Al che c'è da aggiungere che il Bios supporta il boot solo da A o da C e ovviamente non si può bootare dal Cd Creative. Può essere una soluzione provare con altre distribuzioni magari più leggere Qualsiasi suggerimento è ben accetto Ciao Alessandro
Re: [newbie] KDE3.1?
Has anyone used Texstar's KDE3.1 rpms=20 (ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distri= butions/mandrake/9.0/KDE-3.1)=20 People generally have had good success with the Texstar RPMS. That said, I recently updated using the cooker RPMs and things generally work well, save for one serious problem with the X autostart - which may not be a KDE issue (probably not) but graphical logins don't work. It claims the user does not exist in the logs, but just shakes the screen and makes you relogin again. I can circumvent that with a telinit 3 and restart via 'startx', which I actually prefer doing. The other issue is kstars - this one app is problematic; in some releases it doesn't work at all, and in others it works very well. In (at least) the 3.1 from cooker, it starts up but takes *far* too many CPU cycles for itself. On my 1000mhz, most everything else is unuseable if it is loaded, and simple commands within kstars take a while before updating the screen. It's as if everything is frozen. Also - anyone yet try atlantik (monopoly) - I've been waiting for a decent way to play monopoly on linux (seriously) :) but atlantik doesn't seem to want to do anything, it just sits there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GLX gears
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 6:17 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:36, s wrote: oh, I love this game! :D You would! I can still remember what your lilo.conf looks (looked) like! Oh man, it's worse now cuz I added a few more cooker partitions and each one of them have two or three kernels. It's a ole big mess. Lilo does the job tho! :D AMD xp2100+, 512mb ddr ram, Geforce4 ti4400 with nvidia's 4191 drivers in kde on cooker. OK, I'm a just a tad jealous ; ) Shoot, I think ole DarkLord got me beat! :D Well, he's running smaller res too. I'm might try mine at that lower res and see what I get. teehee I'm coming to get you DarkLord - you haven't seen the last of me!!! -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
Personally if i want a new kernel i DL the source and build it from www.kernel.org This is me personally. Take it as you wish. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ? On Wednesday 05 February 2003 01:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hello list. I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new kernel. Opinions ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Hello Kaj; I can't remember if urpmi was written to update kernels or install them, even though the /etc/urpmi/skip.list has the kernel written into it. Among other things. I do know that I always play safe; download the kernel and the kernel source rpms then in a super user terminal I do without the : rpm -ivh kernel-version.rpm instead of the upgrade Uvh, then; rpm -ivh kernel-source-version.rpm and; /sbin/lilo -v to add the new kernel. If something goes kerflooey (a technical term I'm intimately familiar with g) you'll still have a working kernel to work with. Just seems safer that way. But then I hate reinstalls when I screw up. That happens often too. g Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. -- Ambrose Bierce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie]
Yeah this is true. The ROM of the drive has to support it. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] At 02:19 PM 2/5/2003 +, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: MMM, I dont know about this Finalize thing. I use Nero for Winbloz and I do NOT have to finalize a cd in order to read it on another machine w/o Nero. I can even see the files in Linux boxes no problem. Just my 2 cents on this issue. Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only know that others have found this not to be so. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 As long as you don't finalize a CD it is readable on most CDR/W cdrom players. If the technology (CDROM, not the disc) is older, usually it has to be finalized. Having said that, some newer CDRom players DO read un-finalized discs. Plextor AFAIK is the better one for this function. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored
Sleep is good... Just had 11 hours of it, thanks. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lost about swap
and running out of swap on a running system is *not* something you want to have happen, ever. It creates quite the headache. That is quite true. A historical anecdote: a friend of mine and early linxu adopter (1993ish) had a 386 dx 4 meg RAM system. Back then it was fairly serviceable - I myself had a working SLS linux install on a packard bell 386sx/16 with 4 megs (later upgrading to 8). At any rate, friend decided not to install a swap partition. Bad move, especially on a machine with not much RAM available. And, my friend was then and still is a rather casual and light user of the system, mostly doing editing and so forth using emacs. Well, of course, on a small footprint machine you can barely fit kernel+some deamons+bash+emacs in RAM. Needless to say, he exceeded his resources and his machine seemingly locked up. But he didn't reboot. He hit ctrl-x ctrl-c to quit/save Emacs --- and guess what --- 45 *minutes* later, he got his shell prompt back. Yes, that's right. 45 *minutes*! All that time the kernel (which was likely pre-1.0 then) or more properly, the memory management system, rummaging through pages panicing trying to find room. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me!
Mine worked great after i redid the darn files/directories. If you want to search in the archives its all there. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of daRcmaTTeR Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me! you guys are all making me feel bad cause mine works correctly. geez! -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update
thats ok... but it sounds like you've been brain-washed into thinking graphical interfaces are a bad thing. they're real handy to have around when you've got a ton of other things to do and you just need to get something config'ed quickly so's you can get that assignment finished before it's time to leave for class or something. ;) I dont think they are bad, just some ways i like to do via CLIits just me i guess. Yes i like GUI myself. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] update-problems
Hi, I would like to know how to prevent system breaking in updating? Last time when I took updates on Mdk9.0 it was like 300mb size? And when installed it caused several malfuntions like kde loading problems, etc. I have experienced same problems with rh8.0 too. I was wondering is there any rules how to take updates? Like which components shouldn't update in same time? Or is there any maintain commands which should be run after updating like depmod -a, updatedb, etc. -- (\\!//) ( ) t.Tuija :-) alias \ / thujan errare humanum est Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:39:34 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 02:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hello list. I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new kernel. Opinions ? Kaj Haulrich. SNIP OK I've been following this thread with interest, checking my /etc/urpmi/skip.list and /etc/urpmi/inst.list, reading advice by the replies on this thread. I went to MandrakeUpdate and all that showed was the kernel-source. So am I correct in assuming I need to compile it or could it be that the mirror that I am using does not have the actual kernel rpm? TIA Jerry -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (¬_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] - should have been Multisession CDRs
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:37:32 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out snip snip -- Ummm if you do multisession CDs, only the drive that is making them can read them until you have closed all sessions and fixated the disk. That is the way it works. Thanks for the clarification, and thanks to everybody else for their comments. And apologies for forgetting the subject line. Old men do forget things. -- Len Lawrence -- The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: MMM, I dont know about this Finalize thing. I use Nero for Winbloz and I do NOT have to finalize a cd in order to read it on another machine w/o Nero. I can even see the files in Linux boxes no problem. Just my 2 cents on this issue. Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only know that others have found this not to be so. Anne Actually it's a mite more complicated than that. Audio discs do not have to be fixed in order to play on a good modern computer but data cd's do.but an unfixed audio disc will not play on a regular cd player. Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the written portion of, and leave the rest of the disc unfixed, then add some more data files at a later date and fix those and so on. However I have never succeded with any of the linux writer programmes. EasyV5 and nero can do it easily. I believe xcdroast can do these things, but as I say I have never succeded myself. I know cdrecord can do it, but it is not simple, well, not in my opinion, other might feel diferent about it. John Generally speaking -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:12:11 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 11:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the drag-and-drop feature for selecting directories. I mainly use XCDroast, and could help with general instructions on that if it will help, but I haven't really tried multisession (I usually have to exclude less important bits to get all I want on a disk :) ) snipped --- Thanks Anne. I have configured XCDroast but not tried using it yet. Will give it a go. Undoubtedly your problem is caused by fixating. That effectively closes the disk from further writes. Most non-burner drives have problems reading a non-fixated disk, I believe, though I think it is largely a software problem, as the burner program is the one that handles that. (Could be off-beam here, though) If GToaster forces fixation then use something else for multisession. Thanks for the confirmation. Cheers -- Len -- Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Searching 101
At 03:28 PM 2/5/2003 -0600, you wrote: I'll post later today or tommorow. I'll divide them into categories for you boys girls here on the list. If the list is interested that is... Any yeas or nays? Or should I just email them offlist? - FemmeFatale On list or pvt email whatever I would like to see these links for newbies and would like to pass them around at our local LUG thursday night. Thanks Marc If the links are dead (I'll check them all as best I can) or unreadable pls email me or post to the list. I'm using Mozilla 1.x from Windows atm. Mostly cause I'm going to game after this and i'm lazy... so I didn't boot to linux. :) Links as promised Mandrake Specific http://www.trylinuxsd.com/ http://plf.zarb.org/%7Enanardon/urpmiweb.php http://www.atechsol.net/kde3.html (KDE 3.0 for LM 8.2, somewhat out of date but still useful) Distro Independant --- http://linuxlinks.propagation.net/Beginners/ (Web site listing links for other Newbie websites/self-help sites for Linux) :) http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/ http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal http://maththinking.com/boat/languageBooksIndex.html (this one may NOT be newbie specific but it contains lots of books good for all levels IMO) http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/ (newb/intermediate) http://www.linuxdot.org/nlm/ (quite up to date info for all Newbies) http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz (Newby/Intermediate level. Hard to say really, use at your own risk?) http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash/ (somewhat spartan text but some good links here too) http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html (most useful page for Newbies who fubar their systems) http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_4.html#SEC36 (fairly plain english type of site covers a lot of ground) http://www.linuxgames.com/ (Gaming How-To's Some demos for linux) http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue14/bashtip.html (BASH specific page. Linux Gazette has other stuff too though) Well thats all I have for now. If I come across more I'll post it when possible. I would have had more but my files got fubared some time ago I lost probably another 20 bookmarks. HTH - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble logging in via Mandrake splash screen
Log into a console, type passwd - change your passwd (change it to the same thing you had before if you want, just retype it all in) and then try logging Hmm. I sidetracked, and I was able to log into a console. I don't see how I wouldn't be able to log in via the GUI - it's not like the GUI uses something other than /etc/passwd. And going through the syslog suggests that the username is not valid. At any rate, shutting down to telinit 3 and restarting via startx is an effective workaround for now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will
matter which machine I'm on in the future (be it a friends with linux on it who's fubared X, or my own) I can edit files cfgs quickly painlessly. Then vi should be worth learning. No matter what system you are going to work on - as long as it is Unix - vi is almost guaranteed to be there. If not, it'll fit on a floppy - as long as (of course) the binary is compatible with the target system. If you happent to be on a DOS or Windows based system, you might have difficulty, but there are versions of vi / vim that are runnable on Windows too. There are certainly other choices available, but vi is about the only real standard in editors. Back in the old DOS days, most everyone used something other than edlin.com to edit files, but if you were stuck, or if you had a friend with a sick system, about all you could guarantee is that edlin.com was available, or you brought it to the problem system. FemmeFatale Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] UPDATED my bookmarks for Linux
Here are my links in a single email with no attachments. Some i have not been to for like 2-3years and some i go to everyday. Have fun. Rob Boot Disks The Linux Disk Editor http://lde.sourceforge.net/ Making Bootable Linux CDs http://www.geocities.com/potato.geo/bootlinuxcd.html BBLCD Toolkit http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd Timo's Rescue Cd Set - Ver. 0.9 http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/ tomsrtbt http://www.toms.net/rb/ Trinux A Linux Security Toolkit http://trinux.sourceforge.net FreeBSD Bsd.org http://www.bsd.org BSDi http://www.bsdi.com/ Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD--online book http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/ D E F C O N 1 . O R G http://www.defcon1.org/ FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages ipfw http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwamp;apropos=0amp;sektion=0am p;manpath=FreeBSD+4.0-RELEASE%2FPortsamp;format=html FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages tcpdump http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcpdumpamp;apropos=0amp;sektion=0 amp;manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASEamp;format=html FreeBSD Online Books http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ SCSI Iomega ZIP drives under FreeBSD http://www.vmunix.com/mark/FreeBSD/ZIP-FAQ.html Setting up a DHCP Client on FreeBSD http://freebsd.simplenet.com/dhcp.html The FreeBSD 'zine Home http://www.freebsdzine.org/ The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/ OpenBSD OpenBSD Home Page http://www.openbsd.org/ IPF Mailing List Archive http://www.false.net/ipfilter/ OpenBSD Packet Filter http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf.html IP Filter - TCP-IP Firewall-NAT Software http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ipfilter/ MUSESS '02 OpenBSD Secure The System http://www.openbsd.org/slides/musess_2002/index.html The OpenBSD Packet Filter HOWTO http://www.inebriated.demon.nl/pf-howto/html/ DVD-ISO's How to make your own RedHat 8.0 DVD from the CD ISO images https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/000323.html DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/ Desktop Mandrake - DVD DivX On Linux http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/xine.htm Linux Media-DVD Ripping http://dvdripping-guid.berlios.de/ DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/ DVD Ripping for Linux http://diablonetwork.net/dvd.html Welcome to trylinuxSD.com http://www.trylinuxsd.com/ Kernel Info The User-mode Linux Kernel Home Page http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Welcome to KernelHQ http://www.kernelhq.org/ KernelTrap http://kerneltrap.org/ developerWorks : Linux : Education : Tutorials - Introduction to User-Mode Linux http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytit le/7E31B64596CDAAFB86256CB7004E9978?openca=dgr-lnxw06UserMode chkrootkit -- locally checks for signs of a rootkit http://www.chkrootkit.org/ The Linux Virtual Server Project - Linux Server Cluster http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ Ultra Monkey http://www.ultramonkey.org/2.0.0/ LinuxKernelConf http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ezippel/lc/ Anticipatory Scheduling solves Deceptive Idleness http://www.cs.rice.edu/%7Essiyer/r/antsched/ Mel: Linux VM Project http://www.csn.ul.ie/%7Emel/projects/vm/ Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3168.txt ECN-under-Linux Unofficial Vendor Support Page http://gtf.org/garzik/ecn/ 802.1Q VLAN implementation for Linux http://www.candelatech.com/%7Egreear/vlan.html Abe's Linux Encrypted File System Howto http://207.115.67.41/crypto/ Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO http://www.ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/ Linux Networking HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/index.html The Linux Kernel HOWTO http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html Linux Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO http://lartc.org/#download Linux Links -= T h e - L i n u x - G l o s s a r y =- http://glossary.linux-support.net/ Attrition.org http://www.attrition.org/ FirstLinux - the Linux meta-site http://www.firstlinux.com/ FixUnix --The Future Of Open Source http://www.fixunix.com/ FrankenLinux.com - Linux for Newbies and SysAdmins http://www.frankenlinux.com/index.html GEEK DASH GIRL DOT COM http://geek-girl.com/ Jargon File Resources http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/jargon/ Learning Linux http://www.learninglinux.com/ Linux Counter Home Page http://counter.li.org/ Linux HeadQuarters http://www.linuxhq.com/ Linux Links - The Linux Portal Site http://www.linuxlinks.com/ Linux NOW! http://new.linuxnow.com/ Linux Orbit - Linux on the desktop You bet. http://www.linuxorbit.com/index.php3 Linux tutorials,free games,books,comics - HardcoreLinux http://www.hardcorelinux.com/ Linux. An eclectic compendium for Linux Newbies http://www.xmission.com/%7Ehowardm/ linuxfromscratch.com http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/intro.shtml Linuxiso.org http://www.linuxiso.org/redhat.html Linuxlaboratory.org http://www.linuxlaboratory.org/ LinuxPrinting.org http://www.linuxprinting.org/ Maximum Proformance http://www.maxpro.org/ Redefine the
RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update
to tell you the truth though, it's been my experience that going Linux to Linux, which I do 97% of the time on my home Lan, NFS is killer compared to the misery Linux-Linux samba brings. IMHO samba only exists to allow winders machines to connect to and share files with a Linux machine. I agree. Also isnt NFS more secure? I mean can be more secure if properly setup. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:15 am, Ian Moran wrote: Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian A quick Google reveals that the Compaq WLAN110 is an OEMed Lucent Orinoco card. As such it ought to be recognised OK by Mandrake 9.0 When you boot you should hear some 'beeps' when the pcmcia card is recognised. Make sure you have the 'wireless-tools' RPM installed and then go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre. The wizard should recognise your card and install either the wvlan_cs driver, or the orinoco driver (they both work) When in the wizard you will be prompted for the wireless parameters. The most important ones are MODE - Managed for use with an Access Point or Ad-Hoc for no access point ESSIS - set this the same as the other wireless cards in your net. KEY - Your encryption key. Must be the same as your other cards enter as either a series of Hex numbers (aabbccddeeff or aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ) or as an ascii string ( s:ascii_string ) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] my bookmarks for Linux, and more
I am sending it as an attachementso you can save it. If you want it another way I will try to do it before it is asked. Rob Title: Bookmarks Bookmarks linux stuff boot disks LDE - The Linux Disk Editor Making Bootable Linux CDs The BBLCD Toolkit Timo's Rescue Cd Set - Ver. 0.9 tomsrtbt home page Trinux A Linux Security Toolkit FreeBSD bsd,org BSDi - BSDi - Powering the Internet Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD--online book D E F C O N 1 . O R G FreeBSD Cheat Sheets FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages ipfw FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages tcpdump FreeBSD Online Books SCSI Iomega ZIP drives under FreeBSD Setting up a DHCP Client on FreeBSD The FreeBSD 'zine Home The FreeBSD Diary OpenBSD IPF Mailing List Archive benzedrine.cx - OpenBSD Packet Filter IP Filter - TCP-IP Firewall-NAT Software MUSESS '02 OpenBSD Secure The System The OpenBSD Packet Filter HOWTO DVD-ISO's How to make your own RedHat 8.0 DVD from the CD ISO images DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux Desktop Mandrake - DVD DivX On Linux Linux Media-DVD Ripping DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux DVD Ripping for Linux Welcome to trylinuxSD.com HOWTO HOWTO-upload.configuration.HOWTO Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO Linux Networking HOWTO The Linux Kernel HOWTO Linux Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO Beowulf Installation and Administration HOWTO Abe's Linux Encrypted File System Howto Apache Compile HOWTO (Linux edition) Kernel info The User-mode Linux Kernel Home Page http://www.kernelhq.org/ KernelTrap developerWorks : Linux : Education : Tutorials - Introduction to User-Mode Linux chkrootkit -- locally checks for signs of a rootkit The Linux Virtual Server Project - Linux Server Cluster Ultra Monkey: LinuxKernelConf Anticipatory Scheduling solves Deceptive Idleness Mel: Linux VM Project http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3168.txt ECN-under-Linux Unofficial Vendor Support Page 802.1Q VLAN implementation for Linux linux links -= T h e - L i n u x - G l o s s a r y =- Attrition.org FirstLinux - the Linux meta-site FixUnix --The Future Of Open Source FrankenLinux.com - Linux for Newbies and SysAdmins GEEK DASH GIRL DOT COM Jargon File Resources Learning Linux Linux Counter Home Page Linux HeadQuarters Linux Links - The Linux Portal Site Linux NOW! Linux Orbit - Linux on the desktop You bet. Linux tutorials,free games,books,comics - HardcoreLinux Linux. An eclectic compendium for Linux Newbies linuxfromscratch.com Linuxiso.org Linuxlaboratory.org LinuxPrinting.org Maximum Proformance Redefine the Fine Manual Linux Tips and HowTo's Database Security-Enhanced Linux The Linux Kernel UNIX Tutorial Absolute Beginner to Linux Expert in 10 Lesson userlocal.com A Focal Point For The Online Slackware Comm Welcome to LinuxSelfhelp.com! YoLinux.com Help and Information man pages CampusCGI Facility Man Page Access FreeBSD Hypertext Man
Re: [newbie]
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 03:37, civileme wrote: Ummm if you do multisession CDs, only the drive that is making them can read them until you have closed all sessions and fixated the disk. That is the way it works. Civileme Wow! This is the first (maybe last) time I have to take issue with something from Civileme. I work as a computer guy, which means most of the time is spent unscambling the various messes W$ generates. My toolkit is a set of CDs which get updated on a regular basis. I use Nero for these because it works reliably and generates CDs that my client's machines can usually read. (linux for everything else!) I regularly burn CD's using the don't finalize option in Nero, use them in various machines - some quite old - then add another session to them, use them some more. I have never found any difficulty in reading a multisession disk in another CDROM drive, apart from drives that refuse to read just about anything. Now audio CDs - that's a different story! So what gives here? Am I dreaming? cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update
That seems to be the norm, Rob. A healthy mix of GUI and C/L, that is. I would think that most newbie's with a bit of experience under their respective belts would probably agree. Once again, it boils down to a matter of choice, and the choices are just about limitless. My biggest focus is finding apps and programs that will allow my clients to migrate to Linux a.s.a.p., and having user-friendly apps becomes crucial to the End-user experience. Of course, once their sysadmins get up to speed, they're usually unwilling to use a GUI, and prefer to stick to the C/L, and/or Webmin . Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/5/2003 at 11:42 PM Robert Wideman wrote: thats ok... but it sounds like you've been brain-washed into thinking graphical interfaces are a bad thing. they're real handy to have around when you've got a ton of other things to do and you just need to get something config'ed quickly so's you can get that assignment finished before it's time to leave for class or something. ;) I dont think they are bad, just some ways i like to do via CLIits just me i guess. Yes i like GUI myself. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dan LaBine President Maximum Lans [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 489-7825 6915 Fielding Ave. Suite # 228 Montreal, Quebec, H4V 1P4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 11:57 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: On Wed, February 5 2003 8:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: : On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: : Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or : not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only : know that others have found this not to be so. : : Anne I have placed unfinalized CDs and CD-RWs into regular CD-rom drives, and about 90% of the time they read them.. IF the drive is less than about 2 years old.. any older than that, it's still possible, but slim.. Heck.. my old 1x mitsumi actually read a CD-RW disc.. kinda.. I managed to mount the disc.. and get a directory listing.. but the files were all garbage. Interesting, Chuck. As I said, I have no personal experience. I've never really bothered with unfinalized disks, as media are so cheap, but I can see that there may be circumstances in which they are desirable. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 12:25 am, FemmeFatale wrote: At 02:19 PM 2/5/2003 +, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: MMM, I dont know about this Finalize thing. I use Nero for Winbloz and I do NOT have to finalize a cd in order to read it on another machine w/o Nero. I can even see the files in Linux boxes no problem. Just my 2 cents on this issue. Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only know that others have found this not to be so. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 As long as you don't finalize a CD it is readable on most CDR/W cdrom players. If the technology (CDROM, not the disc) is older, usually it has to be finalized. Having said that, some newer CDRom players DO read un-finalized discs. Plextor AFAIK is the better one for this function. Thanks for the clarification, Femme. I guess some of us still use older readers :) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
On Wednesday February 5 2003 04:12 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 09:03 pm, Charles A Edwards I just installed it today using rpmdrake on my 9.0 machine. Do you update your update_source before you checked for updates? Also the Announce just went out today so it is possible that it is not on all the mirrors yet, I use nuplug. Charles Thanks Charles. Yes, I run *urpmi.update -a* as a chron job every day. You are probably right about the mirror-thing, so I'll try again tomorrow (it's a little late over here). The primary mirrors are often updated on the hour. It'd probly be a good idea to run 'urpmi.update -a' just before you try again Still though, I don't understand the *update* - term. Shouldn't kernels be *installed* ? I'll sleep on that one. I think somebody already mentioned it, but urpmi (which is what the GUI pkg managers run) was modified sometime back (8.x ?) because so many people were ignoring the warnings NOT to Upgrade, but to Install kernels. To see if your version is so modified, look in /etc/urpmi/ and inst.list, as Mandrake installed it, should look like this, # Here you can specify packages that need to be installed instead # of being upgraded (typically kernel packages). kernel kernel-smp kernel-secure kernel-enterprise kernel-linus2.2 kernel-linus2.4 kernel22 kernel22-secure kernel22-smp hackkernel As far sa the term 'update', when you Install a new kernel, haven't you updated your system? update != Upgrade -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
After thinking about my previous post on DLing from kernel.org and recompiling everything. Where is the info about the MDK kernels comparing them to the kernel.org's? I know they are the same except MDK makes/does everything for you. Just wondering. Would probably clarify a lot on this thread. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:25 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Update the kernel ? Hello list. I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new kernel. Opinions ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:26:59 -0700 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I've been following this thread with interest, checking my /etc/urpmi/skip.list and /etc/urpmi/inst.list, reading advice by the replies on this thread. I went to MandrakeUpdate and all that showed was the kernel-source. So am I correct in assuming I need to compile it or could it be that the mirror that I am using does not have the actual kernel rpm? If you used rpmdrake the kernel will not be listed as a update. Either select the list all alphabetical or the addable and you will find it. Charles -- Well, I'm disenchanted too. We're all disenchanted. -- James Thurber - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-3mdk - msg118378/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Connection sharing questions
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 08:53, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I give up. How do you enable connection sharing from my main comp to the 2 comps on my Lan under v9.0 of Mandrake? Caveat: with OUT losing all other services and having my networks card changed from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.1 without my permission? I lose the ability to ping, NFS, etc, etc,... I tried opening the ports up for these in Shorewall but it never would work. I finally had to re-run the network config wizard and setup eth0 again. Disable/stop Shorewall, and all works again. Heck, after the connection wizard got done, I couldn't even access e-mail or web pages That bytes... :-) Thanks all. PS I did this under v8.2 of Mandrake - it was a no-brainer operation - with the same comps/LAN nothing got screwed up. Worked great. Been there.. My solution was to can Shorewall, D/L gShield, spend about 30 seconds editing it's config file and put: 192.168.0.0/24 in it's NATS file. Done! HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Searching 101
On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:07 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:08:00 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:26 PM 2/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: Heh anyway, email me on or offlist. I'll give you some useful sites to prowl. And if you feel overwhelmed feel free to email me pvtly. I'll be happy to help anyway I can luv. Yours sincerely, Heather/Femme I'll post later today or tommorow. I'll divide them into categories for you boys girls here on the list. If the list is interested that is... Any yeas or nays? Or should I just email them offlist? Sendem to the list, please :) Todd Seconded Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] visualizing mem/swap usage
Dang.. I just realized I have over 300megs of disk cache! This seems like an extraordinary amount of cache... Yeah, but it's relative. If you have a gig+ of RAM, then it's only 30% of your RAM. But you weigh that along everything else, your usage of the system, and it's conceivable that a large amount of RAM would be devoted to buffers or cache. This is especially true if you have a large amount of RAM to spare and you're doing something disk intensive like slocate / find etc. For instance I frequently notice a large amount of RAM for disk/cache in the morning, after my system does its nightly disk-intensive processing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 12:36 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 03:37, civileme wrote: Ummm if you do multisession CDs, only the drive that is making them can read them until you have closed all sessions and fixated the disk. That is the way it works. Civileme Wow! This is the first (maybe last) time I have to take issue with something from Civileme. I just found the only multi-session cd I ever wrote (as an experiment), which is unfixated. It does only have one write on it, so I don't know whether that is relevant. It was written by Nero 5 (can't remember which point revision). I put it into a laptop with winme. The files are large bitmaps (7.2MB) and the read was painfully slow, but they did read. Civileme's understanding is the same as mine was. I wonder if that is because there was a limitation that has been overcome by later writer software or maybe even hardware? It certainly _was_ true. I remember a time when essential files were required during a rebuild. They had been written multisession by EZcdcreator, and they were unreadable until EZ had been reinstalled. This was a couple of years or so ago. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 8:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: MMM, I dont know about this Finalize thing. I use Nero for Winbloz and I do NOT have to finalize a cd in order to read it on another machine w/o Nero. I can even see the files in Linux boxes no problem. Just my 2 cents on this issue. Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only know that others have found this not to be so. Anne Actually it's a mite more complicated than that. Audio discs do not have to be fixed in order to play on a good modern computer but data cd's do.but an unfixed audio disc will not play on a regular cd player. Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the written portion of, and leave the rest of the disc unfixed, then add some more data files at a later date and fix those and so on. Are you sure about this, John? I have always understood that fixating closed the disk. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Searching 101
Thirded! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/6/2003 at 10:29 AM Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:07 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:08:00 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:26 PM 2/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: Heh anyway, email me on or offlist. I'll give you some useful sites to prowl. And if you feel overwhelmed feel free to email me pvtly. I'll be happy to help anyway I can luv. Yours sincerely, Heather/Femme I'll post later today or tommorow. I'll divide them into categories for you boys girls here on the list. If the list is interested that is... Any yeas or nays? Or should I just email them offlist? Sendem to the list, please :) Todd Seconded Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dan LaBine President Maximum Lans [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 489-7825 6915 Fielding Ave. Suite # 228 Montreal, Quebec, H4V 1P4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.1 beta 3 and dual processors
Hello! I have used linux for some time, but this is my first jump into Mandrake. I tried beta 3 for KDE 3.1 anyways, i have a dual PIII 1.13 with 512 cache on each chip. Mandrake 9.1 b3 is not recognizing the 2nd proc. Did I miss something or is this a beta issue? Thanks Ross Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 8:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: MMM, I dont know about this Finalize thing. I use Nero for Winbloz and I do NOT have to finalize a cd in order to read it on another machine w/o Nero. I can even see the files in Linux boxes no problem. Just my 2 cents on this issue. Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only know that others have found this not to be so. Anne Actually it's a mite more complicated than that. Audio discs do not have to be fixed in order to play on a good modern computer but data cd's do.but an unfixed audio disc will not play on a regular cd player. Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the written portion of, and leave the rest of the disc unfixed, then add some more data files at a later date and fix those and so on. Are you sure about this, John? I have always understood that fixating closed the disk. Anne Petty sure, as I say I have never got it to fix the data only on a linux programme, but all of the windblows proggies can fix the data only amount ofa cd and leave the rest of the blank cd open to add more .It's just a question of getting the right option ticked . It goes, (from memory) something like fix data don't fix disc before the final write begins. I'm sure that roast can do it too, and cdrecord, but as I say I cannot get it to work for me. Whenever I have tried it fixes the whole disc and I cannot add more. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mgetty+send fax configure
Hello, I'm trying to set up mgetty to work as a answer machine and fax machine. I have the following hardware. Hayes accura external v.90 fax/voice modem This modem also has integrated voice mail linux mandrake 9.0 with mgetty install able to see modem and configure the number of rings to answer via webmin i have downloaded TkVoice to see if i can get the program to work. problem i'm having when the phone rings it keep ringing the modem will not answer till the phone hangs then the modem will answer. 2nd problem. I do not have a greeting message and would like to use just a default recording till i can record a message. -- William R. Nash, CCEMT-Paramedic, NREMT-Paramedic 488 Thornbrooke Drive Hiram, Georiga 30141 (770) 577-2122 (Home) (678) 910-4505 (Cell) www.wrnash.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 beta 3 and dual processors
better ask on Cooker for beta stuff, on my dual p3, running 9.0, I have to select the smp image in lilo on boot, (but it was the default on install) but ain't linux sexy on a dual cpu box (compared to a M$win product)... On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:44 am, Ross Ferson wrote: Hello! I have used linux for some time, but this is my first jump into Mandrake. I tried beta 3 for KDE 3.1 anyways, i have a dual PIII 1.13 with 512 cache on each chip. Mandrake 9.1 b3 is not recognizing the 2nd proc. Did I miss something or is this a beta issue? Thanks Ross Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mgetty+send fax configure
On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:48 am, William R. Nash wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up mgetty to work as a answer machine and fax machine. I have the following hardware. Hayes accura external v.90 fax/voice modem This modem also has integrated voice mail linux mandrake 9.0 with mgetty install able to see modem and configure the number of rings to answer via webmin i have downloaded TkVoice to see if i can get the program to work. problem i'm having when the phone rings it keep ringing the modem will not answer till the phone hangs then the modem will answer. 2nd problem. I do not have a greeting message and would like to use just a default recording till i can record a message. first off, I know nothing about getting mgetty to work with an external voice medem, in fact, I never have had an external voice modem, I have had a few internal voice moodems tho... but... I think the modem init strings (hayes command set) might not be set correctly for the modem to answer on so many rings, what are you doing to setup mgetty and I guess man mgetty could be your friend? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.1 beta 3 and dual processors
I love it ! - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.1 beta 3 and dual processors better ask on Cooker for beta stuff, on my dual p3, running 9.0, I have to select the smp image in lilo on boot, (but it was the default on install) but ain't linux sexy on a dual cpu box (compared to a M$win product)... On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:44 am, Ross Ferson wrote: Hello! I have used linux for some time, but this is my first jump into Mandrake. I tried beta 3 for KDE 3.1 anyways, i have a dual PIII 1.13 with 512 cache on each chip. Mandrake 9.1 b3 is not recognizing the 2nd proc. Did I miss something or is this a beta issue? Thanks Ross 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] Searching 101
On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:22 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Hope this helps somewhat. Rob Rob: A very nice list. 22.7KB well spent IMHO. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 07:29, Marc Oestreicher wrote: I am using sylpheed-claws and I am really happy with it except for 1 small problem, if someone sends a link in a email I am unable to click on it and have it open a browser. So far I have not been able to find a place to change this in any of the sypheed settings. Is anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it? Marc __ Under configuration/common preferences/other you'll find a few options. Your cursor doesn't change when hovering over a link but if you double-click it will work! David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT
Your cursor doesn't change when hovering over a link but if you double-click it will work! As Netscape seems to be the default handler for that it might need to be changed if Netscape is not installed. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 2:49 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 8:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: MMM, I dont know about this Finalize thing. I use Nero for Winbloz and I do NOT have to finalize a cd in order to read it on another machine w/o Nero. I can even see the files in Linux boxes no problem. Just my 2 cents on this issue. Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only know that others have found this not to be so. Anne Actually it's a mite more complicated than that. Audio discs do not have to be fixed in order to play on a good modern computer but data cd's do.but an unfixed audio disc will not play on a regular cd player. Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the written portion of, and leave the rest of the disc unfixed, then add some more data files at a later date and fix those and so on. Are you sure about this, John? I have always understood that fixating closed the disk. Anne Petty sure, as I say I have never got it to fix the data only on a linux programme, but all of the windblows proggies can fix the data only amount ofa cd and leave the rest of the blank cd open to add more .It's just a question of getting the right option ticked . It goes, (from memory) something like fix data don't fix disc before the final write begins. Haven't used Nero since I lost my windows in November, so I'm rusty, but I remember the 'dont fix disk' setting - I just don't remember anything about fixing data. I'm sure that roast can do it too, and cdrecord, but as I say I cannot get it to work for me. Whenever I have tried it fixes the whole disc and I cannot add more. Again, I'm fairly sure I've seen the setting, but not used it. I'll have a look at that next week when I have more time. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT
On 06 Feb 2003 15:25:14 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 07:29, Marc Oestreicher wrote: I am using sylpheed-claws and I am really happy with it except for 1 small problem, if someone sends a link in a email I am unable to click on it and have it open a browser. So far I have not been able to find a place to change this in any of the sypheed settings. Is anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it? Marc __ Under configuration/common preferences/other you'll find a few options. Your cursor doesn't change when hovering over a link but if you double-click it will work! David -- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur I found that the default setting on mine (which was something like mozilla -remote 'openURL(%s,new window)' ) didn't work but if i just changed it to mozilla %s it did. and yes, the cursor doesn't change but if you dbl click it will open. Jerry -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (¬_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:52:39 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you used rpmdrake the kernel will not be listed as a update. Either select the list all alphabetical or the addable and you will find it. Charles -- Thanks that did it :) -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (¬_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connection sharing questions
On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:14 am, Lanman wrote: At least that way, you're up and running, with a fall-back firewall and masquerading config. That way you can take the time to learn Shorewall, and test it before dropping Bastille. If you don't have it, write me off-list and I'll forward you the 2 files you'll need. Then you can manually edit the config file, and be up and running in a couple of minutes. Lanman Thanks for the offer Lanman! I think I'll try Gshield for now, but if I can't come to grips with it, I'll keep what you said in mind. I did use Bastille under the 8.x distro's, but I never saved anything from them... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Searching 101
Golly!!! On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:22:49 -0600, Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hope this helps somewhat. Rob Boot Disks The Linux Disk Editor http://lde.sourceforge.net/ Making Bootable Linux CDs http://www.geocities.com/potato.geo/bootlinuxcd.html BBLCD Toolkit http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd Timo's Rescue Cd Set - Ver. 0.9 http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/ tomsrtbt http://www.toms.net/rb/ Trinux A Linux Security Toolkit http://trinux.sourceforge.net FreeBSD Bsd.org http://www.bsd.org BSDi http://www.bsdi.com/ Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD--online book http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/ D E F C O N 1 . O R G http://www.defcon1.org/ FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages ipfw http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwamp;apropos=0amp;sektion=0am p;manpath=FreeBSD+4.0-RELEASE%2FPortsamp;format=html FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages tcpdump http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcpdumpamp;apropos=0amp;sektion=0 amp;manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASEamp;format=html FreeBSD Online Books http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ SCSI Iomega ZIP drives under FreeBSD http://www.vmunix.com/mark/FreeBSD/ZIP-FAQ.html Setting up a DHCP Client on FreeBSD http://freebsd.simplenet.com/dhcp.html The FreeBSD 'zine Home http://www.freebsdzine.org/ The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/ OpenBSD OpenBSD Home Page http://www.openbsd.org/ IPF Mailing List Archive http://www.false.net/ipfilter/ OpenBSD Packet Filter http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf.html IP Filter - TCP-IP Firewall-NAT Software http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ipfilter/ MUSESS '02 OpenBSD Secure The System http://www.openbsd.org/slides/musess_2002/index.html The OpenBSD Packet Filter HOWTO http://www.inebriated.demon.nl/pf-howto/html/ DVD-ISO's How to make your own RedHat 8.0 DVD from the CD ISO images https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/000323.html DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/ Desktop Mandrake - DVD DivX On Linux http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/xine.htm Linux Media-DVD Ripping http://dvdripping-guid.berlios.de/ DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/ DVD Ripping for Linux http://diablonetwork.net/dvd.html Welcome to trylinuxSD.com http://www.trylinuxsd.com/ Kernel Info The User-mode Linux Kernel Home Page http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Welcome to KernelHQ http://www.kernelhq.org/ KernelTrap http://kerneltrap.org/ developerWorks : Linux : Education : Tutorials - Introduction to User-Mode Linux http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytit le/7E31B64596CDAAFB86256CB7004E9978?openca=dgr-lnxw06UserMode chkrootkit -- locally checks for signs of a rootkit http://www.chkrootkit.org/ The Linux Virtual Server Project - Linux Server Cluster http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ Ultra Monkey http://www.ultramonkey.org/2.0.0/ LinuxKernelConf http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ezippel/lc/ Anticipatory Scheduling solves Deceptive Idleness http://www.cs.rice.edu/%7Essiyer/r/antsched/ Mel: Linux VM Project http://www.csn.ul.ie/%7Emel/projects/vm/ Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3168.txt ECN-under-Linux Unofficial Vendor Support Page http://gtf.org/garzik/ecn/ 802.1Q VLAN implementation for Linux http://www.candelatech.com/%7Egreear/vlan.html Abe's Linux Encrypted File System Howto http://207.115.67.41/crypto/ Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO http://www.ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/ Linux Networking HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/index.html The Linux Kernel HOWTO http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html Linux Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO http://lartc.org/#download Linux Links -= T h e - L i n u x - G l o s s a r y =- http://glossary.linux-support.net/ Attrition.org http://www.attrition.org/ FirstLinux - the Linux meta-site http://www.firstlinux.com/ FixUnix --The Future Of Open Source http://www.fixunix.com/ FrankenLinux.com - Linux for Newbies and SysAdmins http://www.frankenlinux.com/index.html GEEK DASH GIRL DOT COM http://geek-girl.com/ Jargon File Resources http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/jargon/ Learning Linux http://www.learninglinux.com/ Linux Counter Home Page http://counter.li.org/ Linux HeadQuarters http://www.linuxhq.com/ Linux Links - The Linux Portal Site http://www.linuxlinks.com/ Linux NOW! http://new.linuxnow.com/ Linux Orbit - Linux on the desktop You bet. http://www.linuxorbit.com/index.php3 Linux tutorials,free games,books,comics - HardcoreLinux http://www.hardcorelinux.com/ Linux. An eclectic compendium for Linux Newbies http://www.xmission.com/%7Ehowardm/ linuxfromscratch.com http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/intro.shtml Linuxiso.org http://www.linuxiso.org/redhat.html Linuxlaboratory.org
[newbie] refreshing rpm database with installed packages.. DB is currently missing all installed packages.
Hi guys, I still have a web/MySQL server that has practically nothing in the rpm database... even though there are a ton of packages.. rpm -qa |grep kernel gives no response... Is there a way to get the rpm db populated with the installed packages so that MandrakeUpdate will register some packages?? Any help, thoughts, flames etc rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
Thanks Derek ! Yes the card appears to have been recognised as the machine beeps twice during boot and the power light at least comes on in the card. The driver loaded is wvlan_cs and I have set the parameters you indicate, these are written to /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 I'll have another play, thanks again ! Ian -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2003 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:15 am, Ian Moran wrote: Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian A quick Google reveals that the Compaq WLAN110 is an OEMed Lucent Orinoco card. As such it ought to be recognised OK by Mandrake 9.0 When you boot you should hear some 'beeps' when the pcmcia card is recognised. Make sure you have the 'wireless-tools' RPM installed and then go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre. The wizard should recognise your card and install either the wvlan_cs driver, or the orinoco driver (they both work) When in the wizard you will be prompted for the wireless parameters. The most important ones are MODE - Managed for use with an Access Point or Ad-Hoc for no access point ESSIS - set this the same as the other wireless cards in your net. KEY - Your encryption key. Must be the same as your other cards enter as either a series of Hex numbers (aabbccddeeff or aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ) or as an ascii string ( s:ascii_string ) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adding Another Drive
I just purchased a new hard drive for my Linux machine. How do I format it / get Linux to recognize it? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Shorthand
Being a newbie AND thick, I get mystified by quite a lot of the shorthand used in Newbie e-mails. Is there a glossary somewhere that will tell me the meaning of LOL, BTW, FUD.. ? Thanks, -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
Brilliant, it works, was missing the s:string in the gui, cheers ! Ian -Original Message- From: Ian Moran Sent: 06 February 2003 17:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Derek ! Yes the card appears to have been recognised as the machine beeps twice during boot and the power light at least comes on in the card. The driver loaded is wvlan_cs and I have set the parameters you indicate, these are written to /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 I'll have another play, thanks again ! Ian -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2003 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:15 am, Ian Moran wrote: Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian A quick Google reveals that the Compaq WLAN110 is an OEMed Lucent Orinoco card. As such it ought to be recognised OK by Mandrake 9.0 When you boot you should hear some 'beeps' when the pcmcia card is recognised. Make sure you have the 'wireless-tools' RPM installed and then go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre. The wizard should recognise your card and install either the wvlan_cs driver, or the orinoco driver (they both work) When in the wizard you will be prompted for the wireless parameters. The most important ones are MODE - Managed for use with an Access Point or Ad-Hoc for no access point ESSIS - set this the same as the other wireless cards in your net. KEY - Your encryption key. Must be the same as your other cards enter as either a series of Hex numbers (aabbccddeeff or aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ) or as an ascii string ( s:ascii_string ) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] update-problems
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:41 pm, tuija wrote: Hi, I would like to know how to prevent system breaking in updating? Last time when I took updates on Mdk9.0 it was like 300mb size? And when installed it caused several malfuntions like kde loading problems, etc. I have experienced same problems with rh8.0 too. I was wondering is there any rules how to take updates? Like which components shouldn't update in same time? Or is there any maintain commands which should be run after updating like depmod -a, updatedb, etc. well depmod -a and updatedb are always good ideas after extensive updating, and rpm --rebuilddb, too, but the most critical thing is ALWAYS INSTALL the kernel, never update it. updates are extensively tested by Vincent Danen, by his security team, and by QA before they are released We even have dodges for an rpm whose %postun stanza removes links, to reestablish them afterward in the case of update. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding Another Drive
In reply to Paul's mail, d.d. Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:16:54 -0800 (PST): I just purchased a new hard drive for my Linux machine. How do I format it / get Linux to recognize it? First run fdisk (as root gives best results) like fdisk /dev/hdb (this assumes the first HD is hda). From there you can follow the prompts in fdisk. If I recall correctly, there is no need to format the disk after that (but I will bow to people who know better.) Paul -- Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. -Mark Twain http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorthand
On Thursday 06 February 2003 10:32 am, Douglas B. wrote:
Being a newbie AND thick, I get mystified by quite a lot of the
shorthand used in Newbie e-mails. Is there a glossary somewhere that
will tell me the meaning of LOL, (laughing out loud) BTW, (see below)FUD
(fear uncertainty and doubt, or if it comes out of Microsoft's PR {public
rape} advertising empire: freaking useless drivel).. ?
Thanks,
Here Douglas, have fun!
http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm
Scroll down the list on the left side and click away.
I like this site better for a lot of reasons. Mostly because you can find so
many obscure answers there maybe.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definitionsCategory/0,289915,sid9_tax1671,00.html
Knock yourself out. g That's a grin BTW. (by the way)
Regards;
--
Charlie
Edmonton,AB,Canada
Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org
I am the mother of all things, and all things should wear a sweater.
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Re: [newbie] Shorthand
On Thursday February 6 2003 11:32 am, Douglas B. wrote: Being a newbie AND thick, I get mystified by quite a lot of the shorthand used in Newbie e-mails. Is there a glossary somewhere that will tell me the meaning of LOL, BTW, FUD.. ? Thanks, http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=email+acronymnsbtnG=Google+Search In case your email reader truncates that, Google 'email acronymns' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] update-problems
Viestissä Torstai 6. Helmikuuta 2003 19:43, civileme kirjoitti: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:41 pm, tuija wrote: Hi, I was wondering is there any rules how to take updates? Like which components shouldn't update in same time? Or is there any maintain commands which should be run after updating like depmod -a, updatedb, etc. well depmod -a and updatedb are always good ideas after extensive updating, and rpm --rebuilddb, too, but the most critical thing is ALWAYS INSTALL the kernel, never update it. updates are extensively tested by Vincent Danen, by his security team, and by QA before they are released We even have dodges for an rpm whose %postun stanza removes links, to reestablish them afterward in the case of update. Thanks this # rpm --rebuilddb seems to help little bit :-) I don't know what it did but at least it takes quite a while to run it! -- (\\!//) ( ) t.Tuija :-) alias \ / thujan errare humanum est Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 08:13 pm, David E. Fox wrote: matter which machine I'm on in the future (be it a friends with linux on it who's fubared X, or my own) I can edit files cfgs quickly painlessly. Then vi should be worth learning. No matter what system you are going to work on - as long as it is Unix - vi is almost guaranteed to be there. If not, it'll fit on a floppy - as long as (of course) the binary is compatible with the target system. If you happent to be on a DOS or Windows based system, you might have difficulty, but there are versions of vi / vim that are runnable on Windows too. There are certainly other choices available, but vi is about the only real standard in editors. Back in the old DOS days, most everyone used something other than edlin.com to edit files, but if you were stuck, or if you had a friend with a sick system, about all you could guarantee is that edlin.com was available, or you brought it to the problem system. FemmeFatale Hmmm, e3 will fit on a floppy including all its source and will run on embedded ARM-processor based systems as well as linux, FreeBSD and UNIX. The version written in C uses only the Wordstar-compliant key bindings, and so also with the 16-bit systems supported (e.g. DOS), but the linux version and ARM version has keybindings matching vi e3vi emacs e3em pico/nano e3pi wordstare3 or e3ws Nedit e3ne I have it on my system and also on floppy (DOS compatible). It takes up very little space, even with source, and runs from a 12K file on my system. It is not likely to be installed, but that is a relatively quick matter to fix. What it took for 9.0 was copying its binaries to /usr/bin (doesn't depend on any external libs) It even has an Undo. Now the one caution is that for supporting regular expressions it pipes through sed, so knowledge of sed is necessary to support regular expression manipulations. I am not necessarily recommending it, though I do think the authors have done an excellent job with that tiny editor. I just wanted to point out that the argument everyone is using it, so you better learn/use it could be applied to many, many situations, as in management's choosing an operating system, desktop, and office package for a large company without necessarily yielding the most compatible or technically best choices. We have met the enemy and he is US --Walt Kelly Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 06 February 2003 03:36 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 03:37, civileme wrote: Ummm if you do multisession CDs, only the drive that is making them can read them until you have closed all sessions and fixated the disk. That is the way it works. Civileme Wow! This is the first (maybe last) time I have to take issue with something from Civileme. I work as a computer guy, which means most of the time is spent unscambling the various messes W$ generates. My toolkit is a set of CDs which get updated on a regular basis. I use Nero for these because it works reliably and generates CDs that my client's machines can usually read. (linux for everything else!) I regularly burn CD's using the don't finalize option in Nero, use them in various machines - some quite old - then add another session to them, use them some more. I have never found any difficulty in reading a multisession disk in another CDROM drive, apart from drives that refuse to read just about anything. Now audio CDs - that's a different story! So what gives here? Am I dreaming? cheers Brian Interesting, Brian. I got that off a Nero instruction manual a while back. That was all they would guarantee. I am happy to hear the situation is somewhat improved. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 08:47 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: After thinking about my previous post on DLing from kernel.org and recompiling everything. Where is the info about the MDK kernels comparing them to the kernel.org's? I know they are the same except MDK makes/does everything for you. Just wondering. Would probably clarify a lot on this thread. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:25 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Update the kernel ? Hello list. I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new kernel. Opinions ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === The same? Ummm, well the kernel is rather highly patched with new features unless you grab kernel-linus. Supermount is there, and the stubs for lm_sensors, and quite a few things that might not be in the kernel.org package. It is not as extreme as when 7.2 was out and the Mandrake kernel supported udma3 and udma4 and udma5 while the kernel-linus did not. Gee, even Reiserfs required kernel patches. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 11:32, FemmeFatale wrote: *giggles* Mike: I'd love to say theres no flames cause I put my foot down in the subject line. I can't say that though cause this list really is civil most days. And the ppl are great too! :) - FemmeFatale ...and HOW can you say that this list is civil? We have Canucks in here, that isn't civil...(g) (Tony the Tiger says They're Great - but he eats the Frosted Flakes. I'd tend to reckon if someone was saying They're Great about us, well, you can follow that logic...) -- Fri, 7 Feb 2003 05:50:00 +1100 5:50am up 1 day, 12:25, 3 users, load average: 0.60, 0.59, 0.42 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- (At the Mensa society meeting) Lisa: Now next week is our state of the city address. Has everyone finished their proposals. CBG:Well first of all I've a plan to eliminate obesity in women. They Saved Lisa's Brain (Episode AABF18) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored
...and HOW can you say that this list is civil? We have Canucks in here, that isn't civil...(g) Heyas a halfcanuck I take offense to that ;o) *grins* Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Need good Message Log filter program recommendation
Hi all, I have a log server (some logs come from an MNF box) that I'm trying to build. Is there a decent program that will filter these logs? I've had the box up only a few days and already the message log file close to a MB. Perhaps this message filter program could alert the sys admin of suspicious activity and provide a web interface too? There are log entries from SNORT as well... Any ideas? Thanks in advance! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 2:49 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 8:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: MMM, I dont know about this Finalize thing. I use Nero for Winbloz and I do NOT have to finalize a cd in order to read it on another machine w/o Nero. I can even see the files in Linux boxes no problem. Just my 2 cents on this issue. Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only know that others have found this not to be so. Anne Actually it's a mite more complicated than that. Audio discs do not have to be fixed in order to play on a good modern computer but data cd's do.but an unfixed audio disc will not play on a regular cd player. Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the written portion of, and leave the rest of the disc unfixed, then add some more data files at a later date and fix those and so on. Are you sure about this, John? I have always understood that fixating closed the disk. Anne Petty sure, as I say I have never got it to fix the data only on a linux programme, but all of the windblows proggies can fix the data only amount ofa cd and leave the rest of the blank cd open to add more .It's just a question of getting the right option ticked . It goes, (from memory) something like fix data don't fix disc before the final write begins. Haven't used Nero since I lost my windows in November, so I'm rusty, but I remember the 'dont fix disk' setting - I just don't remember anything about fixing data. I'm sure that roast can do it too, and cdrecord, but as I say I cannot get it to work for me. Whenever I have tried it fixes the whole disc and I cannot add more. Again, I'm fairly sure I've seen the setting, but not used it. I'll have a look at that next week when I have more time. Anne I've just taken a look at EZCD V5 and it says , Finalize Session, don't finalize CD, I guess youcan read that both ways,but to my mind, and in accordance with what it actually does, it fixes the data tracks, and leaves the unwritten part of the cd open for more writes. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws opening links somewhat OT
On 06 Feb 2003 15:25:14 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 07:29, Marc Oestreicher wrote: I am using sylpheed-claws and I am really happy with it except for 1 small problem, if someone sends a link in a email I am unable to click on it and have it open a browser. So far I have not been able to find a place to change this in any of the sypheed settings. Is anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it? Marc __ Under configuration/common preferences/other you'll find a few options. Your cursor doesn't change when hovering over a link but if you double-click it will work! David No double clicking a link does not do a thing. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] console/ascii games?
Hi! Here's a couple: OVERKILL (LOL) http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~brain/0verkill/ QII ! http://www.jfedor.org/aaquake2/ For more, search for ascii games on freshmeat.net Enjoy, and let us know how it goes :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] console/ascii games? Hi, Can anyone point me to some good console/ascii games? Once, I saw a really hilarious 'wolfstein-like' with all the graphics in ascii and I thought that it was something really neat in the age of X and 3D acceleration. Also - do you know of neat ascii-art utilites? Thanks, Andrei __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
Thanks Charlie, Dennis, Tom and Civileme ! At least some sleep made me good. This update/upgrade/install confusion seems a little bit less confusing today. I found out to do it by hand ( at least I think I did). Funny thing is the *automatic* Mandrake Update only gave me one option this morning : to update slocate (which I did, of course). But when you go to the Mandrake Secure Site, you'll notice that slocate was added AFTER the kernel, so it seems the MDK-update just skips the kernel-patches. Maybe for a good reason. Anyway, my box still runs as a *greased lightning* as we say around here. - thanks to you ! Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Adding Another Drive
Title: RE: [newbie] Adding Another Drive -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Dimitriu Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Adding Another Drive I just purchased a new hard drive for my Linux machine. How do I format it / get Linux to recognize it? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Actually if you are installing as a new primary master it should come up with the partitioning tool diskdrake early on in the installation. If you are going to use it as a slave or secondary master make sure the jumper is set for which one you want connect it to the ide cable and power and then power up the computer and go into diskdrake it should show up as hdc tab. Click on the tab and partition and format it format is one of the choices. Diskdrake should do a fine job. HTH Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:21 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks Charlie, Dennis, Tom and Civileme ! At least some sleep made me good. This update/upgrade/install confusion seems a little bit less confusing today. I found out to do it by hand ( at least I think I did). Funny thing is the *automatic* Mandrake Update only gave me one option this morning : to update slocate (which I did, of course). But when you go to the Mandrake Secure Site, you'll notice that slocate was added AFTER the kernel, so it seems the MDK-update just skips the kernel-patches. Maybe for a good reason. Anyway, my box still runs as a *greased lightning* as we say around here. - thanks to you ! Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Ya just gotta love a company; and a community, that can build things this good while the Chapter 11ish hounds are attempting to remove their keister. I do anyway. g Thanks for including me in the 'thanks' Kaj. My help is always minimal, especially compared to the others you named. It's an honour to be included in the same breath (in the same message? bg) with such luminaries. All the best. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org A bit of talcum Is always walcum -- Ogden Nash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
I noticed in my book from EZ cd Creator 5 Platinum, it says a bunch about udf v1.5 and also multiread CDroms, it mentions that it installs a UDFv1.5 reader and unless the computer has this reader it can not read multiread CDroms. On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:30 pm, civileme wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 03:36 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 03:37, civileme wrote: Ummm if you do multisession CDs, only the drive that is making them can read them until you have closed all sessions and fixated the disk. That is the way it works. Civileme Wow! This is the first (maybe last) time I have to take issue with something from Civileme. I work as a computer guy, which means most of the time is spent unscambling the various messes W$ generates. My toolkit is a set of CDs which get updated on a regular basis. I use Nero for these because it works reliably and generates CDs that my client's machines can usually read. (linux for everything else!) I regularly burn CD's using the don't finalize option in Nero, use them in various machines - some quite old - then add another session to them, use them some more. I have never found any difficulty in reading a multisession disk in another CDROM drive, apart from drives that refuse to read just about anything. Now audio CDs - that's a different story! So what gives here? Am I dreaming? cheers Brian Interesting, Brian. I got that off a Nero instruction manual a while back. That was all they would guarantee. I am happy to hear the situation is somewhat improved. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorthand
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:32:43PM +, Douglas B. wrote: Being a newbie AND thick, I get mystified by quite a lot of the shorthand used in Newbie e-mails. Is there a glossary somewhere that will tell me the meaning of LOL, BTW, FUD.. ? Thanks, It's currently down for maintenance, but try The Acronym Database: http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/ Set up a custom search in Mozilla and you'll never be at a loss! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?
On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:47 pm, Charlie wrote: snip Ya just gotta love a company; and a community, that can build things this good while the Chapter 11ish hounds are attempting to remove their keister. I do anyway. g /snip So do I Charlie. Let us hope for the best of Mandrake. Or even better : throw a little dough in their direction. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang
Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2430 laptop (P4 2.4, 256MB, NVidia 4GO 420). Using the install guidelines, I've tried to install booting from CD and boot floppy (using cdrom.img). In each case, the graphical installation screen gives the option of pressing enter for a graphical install, or other options such as text install, expert etc. However, no matter which of these I use, the install hangs almost immediately after pressing ENTER. In text mode, the screen output is: Loading alt0... Loading alt0/all.rgz... Ready... Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the Kernel. Here is where the system hangs (no screen output or CPU activity) and i end up having to shut down. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a fix. Could be a SETUP BIOS problem? thanks, Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
Hello, I would like to put Mandrake 9.0 on a white box that I have at home. Will Mandrake 9.0 run on Intel hardware? Would this be the i586 designation, or is there another distribution that I should be downloading? Thanks for your help, Brian
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 16:35, Brian Smith wrote: Hello, I would like to put Mandrake 9.0 on a 'white box' that I have at home. Will Mandrake 9.0 run on Intel hardware? Would this be the i586 designation, or is there another distribution that I should be downloading? Yup, it sure will, and yes your designation would be i586. -- Anthony Abby - http://www.aplusdata.com Comic Book Community News | Web Programming Inventory Control, Auction, Management | Cold Fusion PHP ASP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
Should run just fine!! ~~Brad On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:35 pm, you wrote: Hello, I would like to put Mandrake 9.0 on a 'white box' that I have at home. Will Mandrake 9.0 run on Intel hardware? Would this be the i586 designation, or is there another distribution that I should be downloading? Thanks for your help, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 16:21, Simon Hosking wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2430 laptop (P4 2.4, 256MB, NVidia 4GO 420). Using the install guidelines, I've tried to install booting from CD and boot floppy (using cdrom.img). In each case, the graphical installation screen gives the option of pressing enter for a graphical install, or other options such as text install, expert etc. However, no matter which of these I use, the install hangs almost immediately after pressing ENTER. In text mode, the screen output is: Loading alt0... Loading alt0/all.rgz... Ready... Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the Kernel. Here is where the system hangs (no screen output or CPU activity) and i end up having to shut down. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a fix. Could be a SETUP BIOS problem? thanks, Simon __ try an alternate kernel...when you boot to the CD, hit F2 instead of enter and type alt2 or which ever kernel you want to use..I have to use alt2 for my system Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang
I had a similar issue on a machine. It turned out to be my CD's. I tried new, freshly burned CDs and it worked fine. ~~Brad On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:21 pm, you wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2430 laptop (P4 2.4, 256MB, NVidia 4GO 420). Using the install guidelines, I've tried to install booting from CD and boot floppy (using cdrom.img). In each case, the graphical installation screen gives the option of pressing enter for a graphical install, or other options such as text install, expert etc. However, no matter which of these I use, the install hangs almost immediately after pressing ENTER. In text mode, the screen output is: Loading alt0... Loading alt0/all.rgz... Ready... Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the Kernel. Here is where the system hangs (no screen output or CPU activity) and i end up having to shut down. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a fix. Could be a SETUP BIOS problem? thanks, Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang
walt wrote: __ try an alternate kernel...when you boot to the CD, hit F2 instead of enter and type alt2 or which ever kernel you want to use..I have to use alt2 for my system Walt sorry, not very familiar with alternative kernels. what are the implications of using different kernels (e.g., alt2), and are there differences in kernel performance? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients
Hm... went to see both Pines Mutts web sites. Wondered ppl's opinions on both which is more newbie friendly. Basically I want to learn either one (whichever is easier for now) just so that again I can use an email client on any system anywhere to retrieve mail. Plus I'm curious to see how a text based client handles things. :) Ya theres a trend here... its called Learn things on the CLI bang your head against a wall for a while till you know this stuff cold. And you can do this anywhere/anytime on any system. :) Heh same question in the vein of the emacs/vi post. Sorry if ppl feel like i'm wasting bandwith but I have done some research on this I am not entirely clear on which one would suit better to learn on. Besides, learning is fun! Or so I'm told... :D - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
At 10:32 AM 2/6/2003 +, you wrote: As long as you don't finalize a CD it is readable on most CDR/W cdrom players. If the technology (CDROM, not the disc) is older, usually it has to be finalized. Having said that, some newer CDRom players DO read un-finalized discs. Plextor AFAIK is the better one for this function. Thanks for the clarification, Femme. I guess some of us still use older readers :) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Heh I have 2 cdrom drives in this comp. One is an 4-5 year old panasonic. The newer is a Plextor 40/12/40a drive. Its the burner. Works fine. I knew the answer from testing I had done between both drives. Also my g/f has an older HP 82xx drive some POS Acer drive. Found out neither of them likes un-finalized cd's either. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
At 10:28 AM 2/6/2003 +, you wrote: snip Interesting, Chuck. As I said, I have no personal experience. I've never really bothered with unfinalized disks, as media are so cheap, but I can see that there may be circumstances in which they are desirable. Anne Hm.. something just occurred to me. If you update the firmware on your drive, it may be possible to read unfinalized cd's later with it. I just updated to plextors newest firmware, and it allows me to read/write more reliably with certain media because of that. HTH - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:35:46 -0500 Brian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to put Mandrake 9.0 on a 'white box' that I have at home. Will Mandrake 9.0 run on Intel hardware? Would this be the i586 designation, or is there another distribution that I should be downloading? Thanks for your help, Brian To the Best of my knowledge Mandrake 9.0 will run on all most anything with 64 MB or more of ram and a large enough hard drive for all the options that you want to install. Well anything with in reason dont try to run it on a toaster or can opener. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
At 12:38 PM 2/6/2003 +, you wrote: snip Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the written portion of, and leave the rest of the disc unfixed, then add some more data files at a later date and fix those and so on. Are you sure about this, John? I have always understood that fixating closed the disk. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Unless I'm mistaken John is referring to multi-session writing. That means that essentially you can write to the cd again later, b/c it hasn't been completely finalized. Takes some finagling but you can leave part of the cd open parts closed. This requires, if i'm not mistaken, quite a bit of knowledge in teh use of NERO or some other burning program. Nero has some nifty tricks to do this but unless you are well versed in how to do so, I suggest leaving it be just close the whole CD session (Finalize it). Audio, ofc, is different again. I won't even try to explain that stuff as I don't understand it myself. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 18:03, FemmeFatale wrote: Hm... went to see both Pines Mutts web sites. Wondered ppl's opinions on both which is more newbie friendly. Basically I want to learn either one (whichever is easier for now) just so that again I can use an email client on any system anywhere to retrieve mail. Plus I'm curious to see how a text based client handles things. :) Hey Femme, Couldn't get a good flame war going w/ emacs/vi so now you're trying this tac? ;-) Next you'll be asking us about KDE/Gnome; less filling/tastes great ;-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
At 03:53 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: I noticed in my book from EZ cd Creator 5 Platinum, it says a bunch about udf v1.5 and also multiread CDroms, it mentions that it installs a UDFv1.5 reader and unless the computer has this reader it can not read multiread CDroms. snip Heh I'd forgotten about UDF. (Universal Device Filemanager, IIRC). Neat software program. Allows older cdroms to read unfinished/unfinalized cd's. Of course it also needs that CDRom to be UDF compliant (a firmware update if possible will fix that. usually.). Ran into this nifty little util years ago when I got my Panasonic a friend gave me a cd it couldn't read. :) These days UDF is de riguer in any CDRoms' firmware. It allows almost universal reading of any cd in almost any format. Exceptions are rare (and I can't think of any offhand... anyone?). - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will
On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:55 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:28 AM 2/6/2003 -0900, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 08:13 pm, David E. Fox wrote: matter which machine I'm on in the future (be it a friends with linux on it who's fubared X, or my own) I can edit files cfgs quickly painlessly. snippers I have it on my system and also on floppy (DOS compatible). It takes up very little space, even with source, and runs from a 12K file on my system. It is not likely to be installed, but that is a relatively quick matter to fix. What it took for 9.0 was copying its binaries to /usr/bin (doesn't depend on any external libs) It even has an Undo. Now the one caution is that for supporting regular expressions it pipes through sed, so knowledge of sed is necessary to support regular expression manipulations. snip Civileme Ok... thats sounds tres cool to me :) Thx CM. Question: what are regular expressions ? And sed? Heard of it... but no clue what it is... I'll look it up later. The regular expressions has me stumped though mostly. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert man sed man regexp A regular expression is something like ^[K][k].*retry\ [[:lower:]] Which would match lines starting with K or k and have retry followed by a space and lowercase characters It allows for REALLY advanced searches and works well with grep egrep rgrep etc. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Module question?
Okay, I've done man on modprobe, insmod, and depmod but I'm at a loss to understand how to get the adi module to load and then -be- loaded everytime I powerup. Using insmod results in some unresolved symbol errors modprobe seems to work, adi is then shown by lsmod depmod -a after all this, but the next time I reboot, its not there. I tried sticking modprobe adi in modules.conf and BOOM, I lost several services as well as the ability to startx (Nvidia). I put adi in modules and nothing happens there. Can anyone help - I just really want to get my Logitech Wingman USB joystick to work :-) Thanks. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang
g'day walt, booting from alt2 works: the kernel loads. there are a couple of warning messages during install that i should be using a 2.4 kernel, rather than 2.2. Have you had any problems with this? walt wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 16:21, Simon Hosking wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2430 laptop (P4 2.4, 256MB, NVidia 4GO 420). Using the install guidelines, I've tried to install booting from CD and boot floppy (using cdrom.img). In each case, the graphical installation screen gives the option of pressing enter for a graphical install, or other options such as text install, expert etc. However, no matter which of these I use, the install hangs almost immediately after pressing ENTER. In text mode, the screen output is: Loading alt0... Loading alt0/all.rgz... Ready... Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the Kernel. Here is where the system hangs (no screen output or CPU activity) and i end up having to shut down. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a fix. Could be a SETUP BIOS problem? thanks, Simon __ try an alternate kernel...when you boot to the CD, hit F2 instead of enter and type alt2 or which ever kernel you want to use..I have to use alt2 for my system Walt 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(?) Mutt Pine email clients
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, FemmeFatale wrote: Hm... went to see both Pines Mutts web sites. Wondered ppl's opinions on both which is more newbie friendly. Basically I want to learn either one (whichever is easier for now) just so that again I can use an email client on any system anywhere to retrieve mail. Plus I'm curious to see how a text based client handles things. :) Ya theres a trend here... its called Learn things on the CLI bang your head against a wall for a while till you know this stuff cold. And you can do this anywhere/anytime on any system. :) Heh same question in the vein of the emacs/vi post. Sorry if ppl feel like i'm wasting bandwith but I have done some research on this I am not entirely clear on which one would suit better to learn on. Besides, learning is fun! Or so I'm told... :D pine, baby, pine - it's just cooler. ;- good luck with the command line thing - and while youre at it, you might want to pick up a book that was a tremendous help for me when i was doing the same thing - linux system commands, by volkerding and reichard. lists commands in three categorys - what they do, what their dos equivalent is, and what section of the book they're described in depth in. it's never out of arms reach for me when i'm on the pc. please pardon the lack of caps - i installed 9.1b3 today, and it apparently came without caps. ;-/ -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will
At 02:56 PM 2/6/2003 -0900, you wrote: snap. got tired of snip man sed man regexp A regular expression is something like ^[K][k].*retry\ [[:lower:]] Which would match lines starting with K or k and have retry followed by a space and lowercase characters It allows for REALLY advanced searches and works well with grep egrep rgrep etc. Civileme Ugh... Thx for the info... I'll pass on that for now heh. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients
At 01:03 AM 11/8/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, FemmeFatale wrote: Hm... went to see both Pines Mutts web sites. Wondered ppl's opinions on both which is more newbie friendly. Basically I want to learn either one (whichever is easier for now) just so that again I can use an email client on any system anywhere to retrieve mail. Plus I'm curious to see how a text based client handles things. :) Ya theres a trend here... its called Learn things on the CLI bang your head against a wall for a while till you know this stuff cold. And you can do this anywhere/anytime on any system. :) Heh same question in the vein of the emacs/vi post. Sorry if ppl feel like i'm wasting bandwith but I have done some research on this I am not entirely clear on which one would suit better to learn on. Besides, learning is fun! Or so I'm told... :D pine, baby, pine - it's just cooler. ;- good luck with the command line thing - and while youre at it, you might want to pick up a book that was a tremendous help for me when i was doing the same thing - linux system commands, by volkerding and reichard. lists commands in three categorys - what they do, what their dos equivalent is, and what section of the book they're described in depth in. it's never out of arms reach for me when i'm on the pc. please pardon the lack of caps - i installed 9.1b3 today, and it apparently came without caps. ;-/ -- peace, Rog Rofl @ Rog! No caps huh? Hm... might make flaming a bit tougher to do... but i'm sure you'll manage. :) Thx... I am leaning to Mutt atm only cause it looks somewhat simpler more configurable. I figured I'd ask this anyway cause ... well.. why not? Worst thing that will happen is I'll get a million ppl posting things like: Are you trying to level your own country!? We did that in teh Crusades to Europe the Mid-East!!! Why repeat history!? :) - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will
On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:56 pm, civileme wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:55 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:28 AM 2/6/2003 -0900, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 08:13 pm, David E. Fox wrote: matter which machine I'm on in the future (be it a friends with linux on it who's fubared X, or my own) I can edit files cfgs quickly painlessly. snippers I have it on my system and also on floppy (DOS compatible). It takes up very little space, even with source, and runs from a 12K file on my system. It is not likely to be installed, but that is a relatively quick matter to fix. What it took for 9.0 was copying its binaries to /usr/bin (doesn't depend on any external libs) It even has an Undo. Now the one caution is that for supporting regular expressions it pipes through sed, so knowledge of sed is necessary to support regular expression manipulations. snip Civileme Ok... thats sounds tres cool to me :) Thx CM. Question: what are regular expressions ? And sed? Heard of it... but no clue what it is... I'll look it up later. The regular expressions has me stumped though mostly. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert man sed man regexp A regular expression is something like ^[K][k].*retry\ [[:lower:]] Which would match lines starting with K or k and have retry followed by a space and lowercase characters It allows for REALLY advanced searches and works well with grep egrep rgrep etc. Civileme is this the stuff that makes the command line cool,,, or what... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] starting mplayer
Hi List ! I've installed Mplayer, but I can't run it. Will you have a look and maybe tell me what I am supposed to do ? Thank you very much. [root@localhost root]# gmplayer Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale MPlayer 0.90rc2-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config [cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf Reading config file /root/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory vo: X11 running at 800x600 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (:0.0 = local display) Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio 125 video codecs font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz) Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin' SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin' [skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found. Skin not found ( default ). [root@localhost root]# -- Are we speachin d'anglas landadge or are you sprakin sea Djoytsch? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote: *snip* Petty sure, as I say I have never got it to fix the data only on a linux programme, but all of the windblows proggies can fix the data only amount ofa cd and leave the rest of the blank cd open to add more .It's just a question of getting the right option ticked . It goes, (from memory) something like fix data don't fix disc before the final write begins. *snip* What's happening is, it's closing the session, and not the disc. I'm fairly certain that cdrecord automatically closes the session on every burn, and the fixate closes the disc. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pithy Comment #25434 - Chuck Burns Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
