Re: [newbie] Kwikdisk
On 09 Feb 2003 23:46:03 -0700 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe changing my hair colour to purple's made me the equivalent of a > blonde but... > > I've been messing with Kwikdisk for the better part of 2 hours now. In > short, I can't seem to u/mount any of my CDRom drives. It insists that > (for example) my burner is /dev/scd0. This is not the case though. My > other cdrom is listed as a HDD device!? > > I know the answer is staring me in the face here... so what to do? I > tried to disable supermount too.. made no difference. > > Erm... Help? > > Femme > > > > > I've never used Kwikdisk before but I know the oddness of seeing your cd burner as an scsi cd drive and seeing your cd-rom as a HD. On my system (originally mdk 8.2 and now 9.0), my burner is id'd as scd0 because of the scsi emulation (i think) (ide=scsi append in lilo.conf) and my cd rom's dev entry (when i had 2 in here) was /dev/hde. /dev/cdrom was a link to /dev/hde under 8.2 I took out the extra cd drive when i installed 9.0 because i had such weirdness having 2 installed with 8.2 (things like rpmdrake asking over and over for me to insert cd 2 into /dev/scd0 even though it was already in there). My current /dev entry for the cd burner is /dev/scd0 and there's an entry in dev for cdrom0 which is lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 34 Dec 31 1969 cdrom0 -> ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd (same entry is listed for scd0) lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Feb 9 22:05 scd0 -> scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd might want to check that on yours ;) HTH Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
Well, how did you partition it? Mine, for instance, is /, swap, /home, /usr, /var. Any filename that starts with /home is on the /home partition, any filename that starts with /usr (ie. /usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf) is on the /usr partition, any filename that starts with /var is on the /var partition. Any filename (on my system) that doesn't start with /home, /usr, or /var is on the / partition. Dale Huckeby On 9 Feb 2003, Russ wrote: > I like to know where things are. Example, what files are on the / > partition, or the /usr, /var, /home. I just like to know what I am > playing with. > > Russ > > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 20:24, Todd Slater wrote: > > > For normal operation, why do you need to know what partition stuff is on? > > > > Todd > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kwikdisk
Maybe changing my hair colour to purple's made me the equivalent of a blonde but... I've been messing with Kwikdisk for the better part of 2 hours now. In short, I can't seem to u/mount any of my CDRom drives. It insists that (for example) my burner is /dev/scd0. This is not the case though. My other cdrom is listed as a HDD device!? I know the answer is staring me in the face here... so what to do? I tried to disable supermount too.. made no difference. Erm... Help? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: To all of you listers out there...
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:37, FemmeFatale wrote: > Just b/c no one takes the time to say this stuff... > A tear just welled up in my eye and drifted down my cheek (Oh wait, maybe it's because someone just stuck a dart in my eye) (g) -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:40:00 +1100 5:40pm up 3 days, 9:58, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.24, 0.26 -- |____ | 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 -- i'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- e. e. cummings Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: To all of you listers out there...
Just b/c no one takes the time to say this stuff... A very big thank you & congratulations! I know I know, OT topics aren't a big thing for everyone but I wanted to take the time to write out a small & somewhat meaningful Thanks to everyone here on the list. Most of all I want to thank all the listers who've helped me over this last while grapple with Linux. I also want to say thx to the lurkers out there for emailing me personally once in a while. Om the whole though I just wanted to say thx & that ppl do appreciate what you guys do on this list. Heh and besides that, its been nice having ppl answer my silly questions like "Which is better Vi or Emacs...". Also I wanted to give my thanks for putting up with the Mutt/Pine thread. I know damn well that some ppl out there were likely restraining their emotions b/c that whole issue has been so controversial on other lists in the past. (this one included i'm sure). Mmmm Oh yes... and a small request: if the person who came up with the idea of how to avoid that insufferable lag when opening a file-manager and pointing to a CD can email me off or on-list with their solution I'd be deeply grateful. I have loaded Krusader & gentoo both. Even those nice FM's (file managers) suffer from this icky lag. :( I also want to let the people who answered the VI/Emacs & Mutt/Pine threads that your insights, ideas & words were very appreciated. Ditto for the lack of flames. :D Anyway talk to you all soon I hope. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
Yes the Knoq thing did work, thank you. And as to the partitions, I know which ones I have but I am still learning exactly what goes on each. Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:42, Damian Gatabria wrote: > On Monday 10 February 2003 05:28, Russ wrote: > > I like to know where things are. Example, what files are on the / > > partition, or the /usr, /var, /home. I just like to know what I am > > playing with. > > > > Surely you are not telling us you don't know how you laid out your > own partitions, are you? :oP > > Now, seriously, did the konq thing do any good? > > Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:28, Russ wrote: > I like to know where things are. Example, what files are on the / > partition, or the /usr, /var, /home. I just like to know what I am > playing with. > > Russ > > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 20:24, Todd Slater wrote: > > > For normal operation, why do you need to know what partition stuff is on? > > > > Todd > Ok - here's a simple one for ya: / - the root of all the filesystem. DON'T put anything here - it's the top of the hierarchy /bin - basic binary programs/utils for the system (don't use this neither) /sbin - other system binaries (sbin - system binary) /lib - system libraries /usr/bin - the basic binaries for all users to use - you can put programs in here /usr/local/bin - same as above /usr/share - repository of all your programs OTHER dependant bits - except for libraries and includes /usr/lib - program libraries /usr/include - program includes /tmp - temporary crap /var - system variables and other program necessary information (and other cool things like ftp root and web root) /usr/X11R6 - the root for the XWindows system - sometimes things can go under here - but let the programs decide where they want to go so you don't break things. /home - the users home directory root - your personal root directory is here - and whomever else has an account on your machine. Does that make it a bit more, er, graphical? (g) Cheers! -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:35:01 +1100 4:35pm up 3 days, 8:53, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.14, 0.16 -- |____ | 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 -- Thank god!! ... It's HENNY YOUNGMAN!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
On 10 Feb 2003 15:04:06 +1100, Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:56, Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes > > where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating > > the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it > > is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is > > on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows > > explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, > > floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. > > Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would > > help me keep all these things straight. > > > > Thanks > > Russ > > > > This is the nature of the *nix file system structure. Every partition > and/or drive is mounted as part of the file system. This allows you to > have many drives, but a single file structure. To my knowledge, there > are heaps and heaps of different file managers, but nothing that will > ever show anything like a drive. > > If you've done a default installation side-by-side with a Windows > installation, you will find your Windows partition under /mnt/ > > The true beauty of the file system was designed from the beginning (more > than 30 years ago) to be able to have a single file system. > > If you open up a console window, you can type: > > sfdisk --list > > ...to get a listing of the partitions > > You can type: > > mount > > ...to view the drive mountings. > > If you're in KDE, you can type > > kwikdisk > > ...to show how drives are mounted and allow you to mount/unmount from > your system tray. > > Remember that you're going to have to rethink/relearn how the file > system works. In the reality of it, the MSDOS manner of drive labelling > is actually more clunky and less logical...only 26 drives? > H...strange...(grin) > > Peace! I agree 100%. A user should not have to even _think_ about physical devices. Everything should be transparent in a single hierarchy. The beauty of the UNIX way is that you can mount _any_ device (not just local partitions) at any point in the hierarchy, providing unparallelled power and flexibility. This may not be very evident on a single system with only a few partitions, but it becomes very obvious when multiple partitions and networked machines are involved. Russ, if you want to learn Linux/UNIX you will have to realise that it is a very different system than Windows, and that everything exists for a very good reason. You will have to 'unlearn' a lot of the (bad) habits and terms you learnt from Windows in order to properly adjust. Don't worry, it's isn't as hard as it sounds. I was in the same situation as you, back in 1999. I had been using DOS/Windows since 1985, and it seemed to make perfect sense to me. After I switched to GNU/Linux, I finally realised how stupid things can be in the DOS/Windows world. If you open your mind, you can learn all kinds of new and neat stuff :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'." -- Linus Torvalds msg118930/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] File Management
On Monday 10 February 2003 05:28, Russ wrote: > I like to know where things are. Example, what files are on the / > partition, or the /usr, /var, /home. I just like to know what I am > playing with. > Surely you are not telling us you don't know how you laid out your own partitions, are you? :oP Now, seriously, did the konq thing do any good? Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like "Edit textfile.txt" (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
I like to know where things are. Example, what files are on the / partition, or the /usr, /var, /home. I just like to know what I am playing with. Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 20:24, Todd Slater wrote: > For normal operation, why do you need to know what partition stuff is on? > > Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to installmandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:50, Richard Babcock wrote: > Dan, > I ordered the disks from cheapbytes and they work fine on my iMac. As I > recall, you need a mac boot partition to begin with (I made mine as small as > possible) and then you start the install program from your MacOS (8.2 in my > case). > I didn't keep ML 8.2 on my iMac, however, because I never got the nvida(sp?) > driver problem solved. I may try to make the iMac a web server but that > project can wait for another day. > R > - > Richard L. Babcock, Owner > Tower Training > At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! > www.towertraining.net I just remembered a question I was going to ask you several months ago - is there a reason as to why you're not running OS/X on this machine mate? -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:15:00 +1100 4:15pm up 3 days, 8:33, 5 users, load average: 0.22, 0.13, 0.09 -- |____ | 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 -- All power corrupts, but we need electricity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
On 09 Feb 2003 19:56:05 -0800 Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes > where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating > the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it > is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is > on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows > explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, > floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. > Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would > help me keep all these things straight. > > Thanks > Russ For normal operation, why do you need to know what partition stuff is on? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4
Dan, I ordered the disks from cheapbytes and they work fine on my iMac. As I recall, you need a mac boot partition to begin with (I made mine as small as possible) and then you start the install program from your MacOS (8.2 in my case). I didn't keep ML 8.2 on my iMac, however, because I never got the nvida(sp?) driver problem solved. I may try to make the iMac a web server but that project can wait for another day. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install > mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4 > > > On Saturday 08 February 2003 05:28 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > > Dan, I think it will be cheaper for you to order from > > here > > > > http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/index.php?PAGE=2 > > > > although it's giving up on burning. All my coasters are > > excellent for my daughters rifle-practice at 300 meters. > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > Sorry, Dan. I see you live in Canada, try here : > > http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010812.html > > HTH > 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] File Management
> Hi All, > > I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes > where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating > the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it > is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is > on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows > explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, > floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. > Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would > help me keep all these things straight. > > Thanks > Russ If you open up a terminal (like konsole or xterm) and type " df " you will see each partition, with information about it's free space and where is it mounted on. I felt a bit lost too at first, but as you gain more experience, you'll notice that Linux's way of handling devices and partitions is much more logical and flexible than Windows'. The reason you cannot see each drive separately is because Linux does not build it's structure on drives or partitions. It has one tree. One structure. And you can add partitions to any branch of it, giving you a whole lot of control of where stuff goes. If you REALLY need to manage your files in a partition-oriented way, you can open up konqueror. You'll have the tree view of all the directories, and on the right side, the main pane with the view of the current dir. Now, between the tree view and the right pane (depending on you konqueror version, you can have it at the left of the treeview too) you will see a small column of buttons. click on the one at the bottom. The treeview will dissapear and a new one with device-oriented structure will appear, much like explorer's. But, i must say this: You will not regret it once you get familiar with Linux and the way it does things. On the other hand, you might regret it if you try to make Linux behave like Windows as you will find that "Linux is not a better Windows than Windows." It is different. HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like "Edit textfile.txt" (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:46 pm, Russ wrote: > Isn't there a way to do this in KDE or Gnome? I think when you drag a file to a new location in Konqueror and release, it will ask you if you want to move, copy or create a link in the new location. The problem is you have to load Konq as root user to do what you wanted to do in the directory you wanted to do it in. There is a menu entry in the KDE menu to load the file manager in super user mode to be able to do this. I think it is Kmenu => applications => file tools => file manager SU mode. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Ryw7wDpHP6GALAARAvHAAJ0U1NJSm5QPR0ibPqK6wK9gs+FlYwCePzAB KsRKz6UBZxSo13+7iCyWUh8= =Q05k -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:11 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I have to say that I did not get a bootable bootdisk from there. I was > lucky however to have the other boot levels in LILO. Anytime I created a boot floppy here it was because the floppy disk turned out to be defective, not because the utility was defective. Anyway, it is always a good idea to test it before you rely on it. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RyrawDpHP6GALAARAsLDAJ99TzloFq/e5ZHlPdIlbH71KQAC9wCeKYFt xxaz5GzTi5YMqgZXSz0SdAU= =vpl2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File Management
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:56, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes > where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating > the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it > is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is > on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows > explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, > floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. > Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would > help me keep all these things straight. > > Thanks > Russ > This is the nature of the *nix file system structure. Every partition and/or drive is mounted as part of the file system. This allows you to have many drives, but a single file structure. To my knowledge, there are heaps and heaps of different file managers, but nothing that will ever show anything like a drive. If you've done a default installation side-by-side with a Windows installation, you will find your Windows partition under /mnt/ The true beauty of the file system was designed from the beginning (more than 30 years ago) to be able to have a single file system. If you open up a console window, you can type: sfdisk --list ...to get a listing of the partitions You can type: mount ...to view the drive mountings. If you're in KDE, you can type kwikdisk ...to show how drives are mounted and allow you to mount/unmount from your system tray. Remember that you're going to have to rethink/relearn how the file system works. In the reality of it, the MSDOS manner of drive labelling is actually more clunky and less logical...only 26 drives? H...strange...(grin) Peace! -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:55:00 +1100 2:55pm up 3 days, 7:13, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.15, 0.21 -- |____ | 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 -- Nothing I do is my fault. -- Calvin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] File Management
You are too used to Winblowz. Stay on Linux/UNIX for another year and you will totally disagree with your current self. Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ >> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:56 PM >> To: Newbie >> Subject: [newbie] File Management >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes >> where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating >> the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it >> is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is >> on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows >> explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, >> floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. >> Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would >> help me keep all these things straight. >> >> Thanks >> Russ >> >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] File Management
Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would help me keep all these things straight. Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some SAMBA Questions
Hi, I've kind of got Samba working and I've got a couple of questions before I go further. My network is 3 computers: - Windows ME with my HP DeskJet 694C printer - Windows XP on a laptop - Mandrake Linux 9.0 The two Windows machines see each other fine, sharing hard drives and the one printer. The two Windows machines can "see" the Linux box as a Windows machine with Samba running. The Windows XP machine is capable of logging and mapping a drive to a share based on username. When I connect from the XP machine I get a username/password prompt. When I attempt to connect from the WinME machine, I get a different prompt - no username field. It just says "\\servername\IPC$" and a password box. Isn't there someplace where I can set the default user or something, within Samba? If not, how do I get the WinME machine to login to the Linux box, in other words, what username is it requesting? Once I get this working, I'm assuming I'll need to setup CUPS on the Linux machine so it can print back to the Windows ME machine, correct? Thanks in advance! Regards, Marlo Montanaro CNE Registered Linux User 303184 "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
Actually, I think it would run on this toaster just fine: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/toasterpc/ ;-) R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware -snip- > 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 don't 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] Saving wallpaper to a folder
Hi Greg, Did it and it worked great (after I logged into the console as su). Isn't there a way to do this in KDE or Gnome? Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 17:45, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:29 pm, Russ wrote: > > Okay, I created this folder in my directory "file:/home/russ/wallpaper". > > Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say > > "file:/usr/share/wallpapers" which is where all the others are. > > > use ln -s > > so by example, if your wallpapers are in /home/russ/wallpaper and you want a > link to that directory in /usr/share/wallpapers called russpaper > > ln -s /home/russ/wallpaper /usr/share/wallpapers/russpaper > > You'll get an entry called russpaper in /usr/share/wallpapers/ that if you > click on it in your file manager, or cd to it from the command line, you will > be magically transported to /home/russ/wallpaper. > - -- > Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:41 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:35 pm, Russ wrote: > > Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case > > something goes haywire? > > Mandrake Control Center => boot => bootdisk I have to say that I did not get a bootable bootdisk from there. I was lucky however to have the other boot levels in LILO. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5
Batta bing! Just as your e-mail came through I noticed the same thing and fixed the problem. Paul On Monday 10 February 2003 02:18 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: > > > I upgraded to kde3.1 and have found one minor, but annoying glitch. > > > In kmail, the folder list is visible, but the folder names are > > > not. The number of unread messages in each folder is legibe (in > > > bold black text, or a "-" if there are no unread messages, both on > > > a white background. The folder names might as well be white text > > > on a white background. The list of messages is normal as are the > > > message bodies, just the folder list is affected. > > > > > > I haven't found any other kde3.1 text that is white on white (or > > > black on black for that matter). Does anyone know what the problem > > > is or how to fix? TIA > > > > I have not had that problem at all. My Kmail upgrade left me with > > screwed up folders, and a new (an in my mind useless) window. You can > > fix the fonts in Settings/configure/appearance/fonts/use custom > > fonts/folder list. > > > > I assume that you may have a system setting for white text that is > > being imported and used by kmail, so I would turn on custom text and > > change the features on Folder List. > > > > The useless window can be shut off at > > settings/configure/appearance/layout, and check "show mime tree" > > "never". > > > > The extra folder column on "total" can be shut off by right clicking > > on the folder header, and unselecting "total column". > > > > Rob > > Have you made sure that the name column is wide enough? I had to stretch > mine out a bit to see the folder names, they were offset to the right more > than in the old Kmail. So I clicked and held the left click button down > with the mouse arrow on the divider and stretched it to the right and the > folder names came out from hiding. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: > > I upgraded to kde3.1 and have found one minor, but annoying glitch. > > In kmail, the folder list is visible, but the folder names are > > not. The number of unread messages in each folder is legibe (in > > bold black text, or a "-" if there are no unread messages, both on > > a white background. The folder names might as well be white text > > on a white background. The list of messages is normal as are the > > message bodies, just the folder list is affected. > > > > I haven't found any other kde3.1 text that is white on white (or > > black on black for that matter). Does anyone know what the problem > > is or how to fix? TIA > > I have not had that problem at all. My Kmail upgrade left me with > screwed up folders, and a new (an in my mind useless) window. You can > fix the fonts in Settings/configure/appearance/fonts/use custom > fonts/folder list. > > I assume that you may have a system setting for white text that is > being imported and used by kmail, so I would turn on custom text and > change the features on Folder List. > > The useless window can be shut off at > settings/configure/appearance/layout, and check "show mime tree" > "never". > > The extra folder column on "total" can be shut off by right clicking > on the folder header, and unselecting "total column". > > Rob Have you made sure that the name column is wide enough? I had to stretch mine out a bit to see the folder names, they were offset to the right more than in the old Kmail. So I clicked and held the left click button down with the mouse arrow on the divider and stretched it to the right and the folder names came out from hiding. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:29 pm, Russ wrote: > Okay, I created this folder in my directory "file:/home/russ/wallpaper". > Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say > "file:/usr/share/wallpapers" which is where all the others are. > use ln -s so by example, if your wallpapers are in /home/russ/wallpaper and you want a link to that directory in /usr/share/wallpapers called russpaper ln -s /home/russ/wallpaper /usr/share/wallpapers/russpaper You'll get an entry called russpaper in /usr/share/wallpapers/ that if you click on it in your file manager, or cd to it from the command line, you will be magically transported to /home/russ/wallpaper. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RwRTwDpHP6GALAARAkoRAJ9quT7Se4wZ0qXzmmOF3HQcB3wKzwCeP3Na 2zrUKfCQIP1ttv+8zdcCpmY= =PcMU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:35 pm, Russ wrote: > Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case > something goes haywire? > Mandrake Control Center => boot => bootdisk - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RwNnwDpHP6GALAARAnM6AJ9c+H4LZr5m/CdgpK4bQuCIHEdxSwCgibV5 qaiLlRxN+whY9KbienOdiyo= =ebiB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Boot disk (floppy)
Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case something goes haywire? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
Okay, I created this folder in my directory "file:/home/russ/wallpaper". Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say "file:/usr/share/wallpapers" which is where all the others are. Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:18, David E. Fox wrote: > A possibly better way would be to symbolically link a directory to > /home/whereever/wallpapers. That way the other users can read (but not > alter, presumably) the contents of your wallpaper directory. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java...
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:20, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:59 pm, wrnash wrote: > > For mandrake 9.0 you can do the following > > > > After install of the bin you will need to link it to the java bin > > > > ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java > > > > Change j2re1.4.1_01 to what java you have installed. > > You can also just move the files over to the /usr/bin/java directory, > as they are installed in a block, in what ever directory they get > put. Or you can just add the new java directory to your path. Or you could do it the way it is done by default in 9.0, with the /etc/alternatives system... As root do: update-alternatives --display java you should get something like the following output: java - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java - priority 30 to add the new java to the alternatives system do (as root): update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java 40 The above is one line. Then 'update-alternatives --display java' should give the following output: java - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java - priority 30 /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java - priority 40 man update-alternative will give you the inside scoop. Hope this helps Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java...
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:59 pm, wrnash wrote: > For mandrake 9.0 you can do the following > > After install of the bin you will need to link it to the java bin > > ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java > > Change j2re1.4.1_01 to what java you have installed. You can also just move the files over to the /usr/bin/java directory, as they are installed in a block, in what ever directory they get put. Or you can just add the new java directory to your path. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ADSL Modem/Router
I have a customer that has a Dynalink ALE070 ADSL USB modem; has ANYONE either experienced this animal - either in getting it to work or not? (Feels nice to ask y'all a question for a change, ya reckon?) -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:40:00 +1100 9:40am up 3 days, 1:58, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.17 -- |____ | 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 -- There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. -- G.K. Chesterton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:18 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > as symbolic links can't be created across partitions, Minor correction. symlinks can be made across partitions, hardlinks cannot. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RtYuwDpHP6GALAARAvtbAJ99iXsw6Z194gmb/vwjpF/KLtu38ACfQE3u 0LC1rxl4mNGID6PFLZ3pzN4= =uTYk -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 update wrecked my system.
Recently, my monitor died and the process of finding a suitable replacement led to a series of new problems. Someone at Mandrake told me that I really needed to update my 8.1 system (which had been working just fine), and the process of installing the updates royally messed everything up. Now, when I try to boot up with Linux or Win4Lin, after the system goes through all the usual start-up processes, a shell login appears on the screen for less than second and then the screen goes black and there is nothing I can do except hit reset on the box. If I boot up with either Linux-nonfb or failsafe, the computer starts up fine and everything works fine, except I cannot start up Win4Lin. I have been trying for more than two weeks to solve this problem, without any progress. I am willing to pay a reasonable fee for a satisfactory solution, but feel that the Mandrake 8.1 updates are responsible for my problems and it irks me to have to pay for a solution that Mandrake caused. My system worked just fine before doing the Mandrake updates. Since I am not currently subscribed to receive all the newbie mailing list mail, please respond directly to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Joe Lowder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mesa, Arizona Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:48 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote: > > I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs > > to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: > > > > Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. > > > > I have checked permissions and they are correct. > > > > Any ideas to overcome this error, please? > > Are you running KDE. It sounds like the kde sound server (arts) not > releasing the dsp to arts unaware software. Try killing the sound server > in the KDE Control Center and see if that changes it. If it does, you can > try setting the idle suspend to a shorter time, or leave it off completely. > - -- > Greg Thanks for the suggestions, Greg. Sorry, but they don't work. I deselected arts, rebooted and tried starting the program in KDE, Gnome, IceWM and Failsafe. Always the same error messages. In my reply to Derek, I mentioned that the program ran in SuSE. I was running KDE with arts active. I have just got rid of the "sampling rate" error, by reselecting arts and setting the "use custom sampling rate" to 4800 in the soundserver section of the KDE Control Center. It's just the dsp device now to crack. I wonder if I should set "use custom device" to /dev/sound/dsp or /dev/dsp? I'll try it tomorrow. -- Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
> be root to write the files to /usr/share/anyfolder, or change folder=20
> permissions.
A possibly better way would be to symbolically link a directory to
/home/whereever/wallpapers. That way the other users can read (but not
alter, presumably) the contents of your wallpaper directory. However,
if /usr or /usr/lpcal/ is on another partition, you're probably
screwed, as symbolic links can't be created across partitions, and
apparently hard links for directories can't be created. So you're
basically screwed, I guess. A pity, because ideally one would give
other people accessibility to the common area without having to dig
into your personal home directory, without having to keep updating the
public directory with "private" contents. ("private" in the sense that
they're in a private directory, i.e., your home directory.)
I suggest /usr/local/share/wallpapers though - slight nitpick, as
/usr/share is part of the distribution, and you don't want your stuff
lost when you do an upgrade. Of course, with a symlink, removing a
link doesn't remove the data, only a path to it.
And of course, you could always keep the wallpaper in the public
directory - that's probably the fail-safe position. In other words,
punt. :) And it need not be root-owned - the permissions could be set
up like /tmp (i.e, anywone can write there but one user can't delete
the other user's files).
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Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems
Oops. This was meant to go to the list. On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 06:44, civileme wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 04:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: > > Hmmm. When diskdrake runs during an install, I can create partitions of > > type "linux raid" (I think that was it) and then add them to a raid > > set. Now on a working 9.0 system, when I run diskdrake I only get a > > small subset of the options offered during install. Linux raid ain't > > one of 'em. > > > > Is this a feature to stop me doing something stupid, or am I missing > > something? > > > > TIA > > Brian > > Well, if you have two disks and space on each and you TOGGLE TO EXPERT MODE, > your options should appear. > > http://www.geocities.com/civileme/raiddoc.html > > The screenshots there were made with DiskDrake > > Civileme Thanks Civileme, Robert and Greg, I must have clicked that button a hundred times, but not for this instance. I note in Civileme's how-to: If the reader is wondering why no screenshots of the setting of mount points and file types, DiskDrake as part of Mandrake Control Center on a running system balks at this point, bringing down X and making the system go into a huddle that can be met only with Alt-sysrq-r, alt-sysrq-s, alt-sysrq-b. RAID must really be defined at install time. Just to clarify: I have a running system, but with two disks in addition to that holding /, /usr, /home, /var and /tmp. These can be completely repartitioned when setting up raid - in this case just a RAID1 mirror of the complete disks. Is diskdrake going to choke in this circumstance? That machine is on another site, so I can't play with it for the moment. If it's going to screw up, then I better start reading about how to do it with the CLI. thanks again Brian -- Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:46 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:49 pm, Keith Powell wrote: > > I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs > > to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: > > > > Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. > > > > I have checked permissions and they are correct. > > > > Any ideas to overcome this error, please? > > You could try setting it to use /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp1 > If there is no configuration option available try creating a symlink > ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/sound/dsp > > derek Hello Derek. Thank you for the suggestions, but unfortunately none of them work. In fact, things have got more complicated. There is no config file for the program. The configuration is set up from the program when it is running. The "error box" which shows the device (/dev/sound/dsp), appears to have the facility to change the device by typing in a different one. I have altered it to /dev/dsp, but pressing the OK button still gives the same error. However, on restarting the program, the original device is shown again. There is no dsp1, only /dev/dsp and /dev/sound/dsp. Should there be a dsp1? When I create the symlink, it says that the file /dev/sound/dsp already exists. So, I uninstalled the program and reinstalled it. Now, I get the error message: inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000Cannot open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: Invalid argument BUT! I have just installed the program into SuSE (which I rarely use these days, preferring Mandrake). It runs perfectly, with no error messages about not opening /dev/sound/dsp or the sampling rate. The plot thickens! Sorry your suggestions did not work. -- Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xserver??
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Aaron wrote: > I have a dual processor pentium III 550MHz with 128 meg ram, A Matrox > G400 dual head. > > I have had lots of problems so far with system lock ups this has been > connected with pro audio applications. I was told that it could be my > mother board and when I I searched for info on system lockups and my > Tyan thunderbolt I saw there were problems. > > I would like to speed up my system (and do some audio work) and let my > kids play a few games > Aaron > Aaron, All that should be necessary for you to upgrade from XFree86 3.3.x to 4.x.x is to open MCC and redefine your monitor, screens, color depth and so on as you did when you first installed Mandrake. That should take care of things. -- 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] How long to download 9.0
> I get about 500 to 550 MB's/hour from decent sites with a > 1.5Megabit adsl line (~150K/sec). DSL connections also vary quite a > bit, from half my speed to almost twice as fast. The mirror you use, My DSL is 384k-1.5 megabyte variable, nat fixed. All that's guaranteed is the 384k and I don't think I've ever seen the line drop below that, but as you say, the speed is highly variable. I've had good results from Netherlands mirrors, of all places (nluug.nl) and it's my primary source for cooker stuff. olf's site in CA (the penguin liberation front) though is very slow - a couple of K per second. By comparison, nluug is roughly 150k or more per second. Last time I downloaded 9.0 CD images I think it took maybe 3-4 hours or so per CD. BTW, I don't have a burner - I botched my first install of 9.0, so someone was kind enough to burn a 0.0 CD. However you need disk 2 and 3, so I got them as ISOs and have them loopback mounted for file access. As far as the spped of various hosts go, I suppose one can write a script that does the comparisons, and then picks the fastest mirror. I got a script that's designed for CVS mirrors, specifically for KDE, but it could I suppose be tailored for cooker and/or Mandrake mirrors. > I recently d/l weren't on the mirror yet, so I had to get 'em one at > a time as they appeared. Worst way is to use a browser to d/l. I do nearly all my downloading via ncftp. I've also used cvs and rsync in the past. > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:01 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:51 pm, et wrote: > > the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound > > mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to > > the internet > > Could you clarify what you mean? I think Adolfo corrected me, I was under the impression you had a miss-configured sendmail or whatever MTA. > - -- > Greg > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+RpdqwDpHP6GALAARAujNAJ9fr21rZxaaQwIF7agAXOMC20AOagCfbhHq > MYtiu6hpJgmPx4yE/a+B7KA= > =Usuw > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem
- Original Message - From: "Scott Thayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem > I have been running SBC DSL on Mandrake for a couple of years, although I can't speak to what effect the recent "upgrade" to "yahoo-DSL" may have. (For once I'm planning not to fix something that isn't broken.) > I have had very good luck w/ Roaring Penguin's RP-PPPoE with and without the gui. The rpms are on the distro. > The distro uses rp-pppoe to install adsl pppoe networking, but I have always had better luck explicitly installing it. Once installed, execute "tkpppoe" (or "adsl-setup" from CLI) as root and it will walk you through setting up your ADSL connection. Since you're installing from the mdk rpms, it will even show up on the Mandrake 9.0 menu under Networking> Remote Acess. > HTH, > Scott Thanks Scott, Robert, and Tom, You guys are the greatest! I managed to get SBC DSL running because of the info you provided. I realized that I made a mistake during the Mandrake install. It recommended using Ethernet for the DSL setup, which worked on my previous DSL provider, but the ADSL was the one to choose. It automatically set up the PPOE software and now I am connected! Thanks a million! Mick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems
On Sunday 09 February 2003 04:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: > Hmmm. When diskdrake runs during an install, I can create partitions of > type "linux raid" (I think that was it) and then add them to a raid > set. Now on a working 9.0 system, when I run diskdrake I only get a > small subset of the options offered during install. Linux raid ain't > one of 'em. > > Is this a feature to stop me doing something stupid, or am I missing > something? > > TIA > Brian Well, if you have two disks and space on each and you TOGGLE TO EXPERT MODE, your options should appear. http://www.geocities.com/civileme/raiddoc.html The screenshots there were made with DiskDrake Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: > I upgraded to kde3.1 and have found one minor, but annoying glitch. > In kmail, the folder list is visible, but the folder names are > not. The number of unread messages in each folder is legibe (in > bold black text, or a "-" if there are no unread messages, both on > a white background. The folder names might as well be white text > on a white background. The list of messages is normal as are the > message bodies, just the folder list is affected. > > I haven't found any other kde3.1 text that is white on white (or > black on black for that matter). Does anyone know what the problem > is or how to fix? TIA I have not had that problem at all. My Kmail upgrade left me with screwed up folders, and a new (an in my mind useless) window. You can fix the fonts in Settings/configure/appearance/fonts/use custom fonts/folder list. I assume that you may have a system setting for white text that is being imported and used by kmail, so I would turn on custom text and change the features on Folder List. The useless window can be shut off at settings/configure/appearance/layout, and check "show mime tree" "never". The extra folder column on "total" can be shut off by right clicking on the folder header, and unselecting "total column". Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xserver??
I have a dual processor pentium III 550MHz with 128 meg ram, A Matrox G400 dual head. I have had lots of problems so far with system lock ups this has been connected with pro audio applications. I was told that it could be my mother board and when I I searched for info on system lockups and my Tyan thunderbolt I saw there were problems. I would like to speed up my system (and do some audio work) and let my kids play a few games Aaron On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 19:51, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 02:25 pm, Aaron wrote: > > Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older > > version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed > > my problem down to hardware. > > > > I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. > > Aaron > > You really should be using 4.2.1 to take advantage of the latest hardware > drivers. What is your hardware setup? > - -- > Greg > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+RpUOwDpHP6GALAARAp/6AKCZrFD94iDfUe7m1q2ir0GW6UlApwCfXFym > wfMSoXlWBDL3odpcFI9M4cU= > =I0Zm > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > __ > > 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] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
SNIP > > Thanks Derek, that was exactly what I needed. Who knew that "." was a > regular expression? I don't seem to get much spam from any source, maybe > once a month, but I know that sooner or later it will come. Your help is > appreciated. So much to learn, so little time. : ) 1 a month! I get about 50 a day! I have obviously been too careless with my email address :-( With spamassassin in place that comes down to about 1 spam every 2 weeks, and zero false positives. BTW: Spamassin can be tuned to add more tests, (some tests are disabled by default because they are chargable for non personal use), to set the spam points threshold, or to tune the points of individual tests. This is what I use as my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs required_hits 6 #default is 5 whitelist_from *.mandrakeclub.com blacklist_from *.amazingwebspecials.com #these guys make their spam #look innocent score RCVD_IN_RBL 10 score RCVD_IN_RSS 1 score RCVD_IN_DUL 1 score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET4 score FROM_AND_TO_SAME_1 5 If spamassassin was installed from the Mandrake RPM from Contrib, then the default scoring is rather strange. (For example mails sent with Kmail are considered as 'spammish' ) I always replace the /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf file with the one from the spamassassin tarball at http://www.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.41.tar.gz Have fun derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 13:51, et wrote: > the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail > thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the > internet > No, it is not that way. They are sending their mails through their hosting service smtp server. The hosting service has a DNS misconfiguration. SMTP helo command is given by the right server but reverse lookup returns a non DNS qualified machine. I had the problem that you mentioned trying to use sendmail, but now I route my mails through my hosting service SMTP server. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / <_/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:51 pm, et wrote: > the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound > mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to > the internet Could you clarify what you mean? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpdqwDpHP6GALAARAujNAJ9fr21rZxaaQwIF7agAXOMC20AOagCfbhHq MYtiu6hpJgmPx4yE/a+B7KA= =Usuw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:24 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:17, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Thanks for jumping in here Civileme. Your detailed knowledge of > > Mandrake's systems always adds a level of understanding that can't be > > reproduced without your presence. It's good to see you back around. > > > > Anyway, backed to the discussion at hand. I have already checked this > > out with the ISP and they have told me the problem relates to the fact > > that I am on a virtual host. Since so many domains point to the ip > > address, the reverse lookup is actually the machine name doing the > > virtual hosting, in this case Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. My > > domain, gkmweb.com, points to the numeric ip address that you looked up > > (64.72.132.17), which on a reverse lookup points to > > Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. > > Sorry to jump into this thread. > My domain name (bisapi.com) is hosted as a virtual domain by the server > server653.gisol.com. > > adolfobello # host bisapi.com > bisapi.com has address 64.246.18.79 > > > adolfobello # host 64.246.18.79 > 79.18.246.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer server653.gisol.com. > > Mandrake list does not check that the name/ip match because it if would > then my mails were rejected and they are not. As those from any other > virtual domain. > > I think that Mandrake list checks the servername/ip no matter the domain > from which the mail is sent. Something like this: > > 1.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends (smtp) to bisapi.com(64.246.18.79) > impersonated by server653.gisol.com > 2.- server653.gisol.com (64.246.18.79) tries to deliver mail from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is served by > smtp.mandrake.com > 3.- smtp.mandrake.com makes a reverse lookup on 64.246.18.79, gets > server653.gisol.com and receives the mail form [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If at point 3, the reverse lookup don't yield the name of the server > that is trying to send the mail, then it rejects it. > > Mu question would be: is Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com (64.72.132.17) > the server name trying to deliver the mail? > > A lookup of the server results in a "no host found" response. > adolfobello # host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com > Host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > In any case, these people have a problem with their DNS setup. A name in > the arpa zone with no CNAME or A register associated in the direct zone. > > > Perhaps you can tell me if they are all wet and this can be fixed with > > changes to the DNS entries. > > - -- > > Greg > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+RnEAwDpHP6GALAARAon7AJ9MeKI5qMMCqSaTX1vj4YWTaOOfNgCePeM8 > > 5bT9BiCtYxbdf6iGN5n0dAo= > > =2XSh > > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > > > > > __ > > > > 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] xserver??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 02:25 pm, Aaron wrote: > Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older > version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed > my problem down to hardware. > > I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. > Aaron You really should be using 4.2.1 to take advantage of the latest hardware drivers. What is your hardware setup? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpUOwDpHP6GALAARAp/6AKCZrFD94iDfUe7m1q2ir0GW6UlApwCfXFym wfMSoXlWBDL3odpcFI9M4cU= =I0Zm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote: > I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to > access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: > > Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. > > I have checked permissions and they are correct. > > Any ideas to overcome this error, please? Are you running KDE. It sounds like the kde sound server (arts) not releasing the dsp to arts unaware software. Try killing the sound server in the KDE COntrol Center and seeif that changes it. If it does, you can try setting the idle suspend to a shorter time, or leave it off completely. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpR5wDpHP6GALAARAu/5AJ9ZFVbeWTrPkD3wQ42Da9fDloO/1ACePYCh 1CqGHLCpBOZe5mQc5h5DOyc= =sIcs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble with Hardware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:01 am, Yaakov wrote: > Hello, > i'm hannes and i have got some trouble running mandrake 9.0 on my system. > after the installation and starting kde i tried to run several programs > like kwrite, some games, etc. but everything program took a long time > loading. so i was checking the hardware on the mandrake control center and > what i found was the mandrake could not find certain modules for my chipset > and for usb. > i already read the support on the intel website but nothing i tried > applied. can you help me? is it my processor? or my motherboard or even my > harddrive? here are the information about my current system: P4 2,53GHz; > Epox 4G4A with Intel i845G chipset; Radeon 8500; Seagate Barracuda 80GB > (2x) thx for helping me > It is the harddrive. The new kernel update for 9.0 (2.4.19-24mdk) patches the kernel to allow udma access with your chipset (i845). You should install it. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpQIwDpHP6GALAARAlh6AKCRXw3vSX073g26r7iQBQo49JVIrACgmaSE Hbs/THDCQIJ3D9DSSLwes4Y= =s0t+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:04 pm, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone > can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a > folder called "more" in "/usr/share/wallpapers/" but I cannot save any > images there. Anyone wish to shed some light on the hoops I have to jump > through to get this done? > that directory probably has write access for root only. You could copy everything you want to put there into a folder in your home, and then load File Manager as root and make the move that way. K Menu => Applications => File Tools => File Manager - Super User Mode Or assuming you have all the wallpapers in a folder, change to that directory at a command line and as root type cp ./* /usr/share/wallpapers/ assuming everything is now copied where you want it, you can delete the items in your home, or leave them there as a backup for when you reinstall and they get wiped out. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpOOwDpHP6GALAARAmyTAJ9s9NneMM4sBICaJ+3x+aZXDpU5RACdHrac AIlvOq+wlvHkQjhnCljrF8s= =Gakw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:04 pm, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone > can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a > folder called "more" in "/usr/share/wallpapers/" but I cannot save any > images there. Anyone wish to shed some light on the hoops I have to jump > through to get this done? > > Thanks > Russ be root to write the files to /usr/share/anyfolder, or change folder permissions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.1bwta3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good to see people testing. On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > 1) Diskdrake failed to colour classify correctly one ext2 partition > /dev/hda10 which it insisted was NTFS and it therefore colour coded it > blue in accordance with diskdrake colour menu, but the partition was in > fact an ext2 partition and any attemt to rectify the file system > clasification threatened elimination of all data, which I certainly did > not want it to do. I chose to leave it as it was. > I recall a couple of bug reports coming across and this may have been fixed already. I cannot confirm though. > 2) Once again it insisted on installing lilo,which I would of prefered > it did not, since I have a dualboot M9.0/M9.1beta3 setup and if anything > goes wrong with this beta install it messes up my M9.0 boot, and indeed > this is precisely what it did as will become apparent. > This has been fixed in the latest Cooker. You can now choose whether to install lilo to floppy or root partition as wel as mbr. > 3) No printer configuration at all, error message: foomatic rpm not found . > This has been fixed in the latest Cooker > 4) The whole install programme finally came to a complete halt at any > attempt to install monitor configuration,and video card drivers etc. > There was no xwindows at all, as the install completely hung right at > the beginning .I had to crash to get out of it. > Not sure about this as it went okay here. You may want to have a look at bugzilla to se if there are any workarounds for this. > > I will have another attempt tonight at a fresh install, but I do wish > the installer gave us an option not to install lilo at all, it makes > beta testing, a likely high risk failure rate process, far less trying. > Make a boot floppy for your 9.0 install and test it before you try again. Hopefully it goes smotther next time. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpFTwDpHP6GALAARAoS9AJ4zawVvDCys38+/wFGF5h4ADwwOcwCgmc23 JAxIbTd89NcLELeIdgKJDsY= =iqFK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xserver??
Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed my problem down to hardware. I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. Aaron On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:55, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:33 pm, Aaron wrote: > > I need to know how to upgrade my xserver. I am using MDK 9.0 > > Thanks > > To what? for what purpose? > > - -- > Greg > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+RofnwDpHP6GALAARArfrAJ9tRtRsorLG3ECOWX/D7ZMITGKlqQCfbzM3 > yW2xMAcegKsBQXOpeTZq+F4= > =yhig > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > __ > > 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] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:59 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > > > I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a
> > > > folder in my kmail setup. I have given the command "spamassassin
> > > > --log-to-mbox=Spam" in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the
> > > > job. Should I have used the -l switch first or just how does one get
> > > > it to filter and send to a particular folder? TIA for any help or
> > > > suggestions.
> > >
> > > The way I do it is to use a procmail recipe like this :-
> > >
> > >
> > > JUNKMAIL=/home/derek/Maildir/.junkmail/
> > > #Run SpamAssasin
> > >
> > > :0fw
> > > :
> > > | spamassassin -a -P
> > > |
> > > :0e
> > >
> > > {
> > >EXITCODE=$?
> > > }
> > >
> > > :0: $LOCKFILE
> > >
> > > * ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
> > > $JUNKMAIL
> > >
> > >
> > > This recipe will pipe a mail through spamassassin. Any positive mails
> > > will have their 'Subject' line modified, and the recipe then puts all
> > > mails with modified subject into a spam mailbox.
> > >
> > > Alternatively if you use Kmail, you can configure filters to run
> > > spamassassin for you. This is explained in the spamassassin
> > > installation notes. You may find it at
> > > /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.41/INSTALL
> > >
> > > derek
> >
> > This would be fine except I have no idea what or which regular expression
> > to use. I have little to no programming experience. Is your next to last
> > line in script above the regular expression you use for filter? Thanks
> > for your patience
>
> Dennis. I see from your Email header you are using Kmail. So the simple way
> to get Spamassassin going is :-
>
> 1/ Settings>ConfigureFilters
>
> 2/ Click on 'New Filter' button (bottom left above 'Help') Highlight the
> new filter and use the 'Up' button to move it to the top of the list.
>
>
> 3/ Select 'Match all' , In the first row of drop down options select ' header>', 'matches regular expression', and in the right hand box just
> put '.' (without the quotes) (All mails will match this regex, so
> everything gets piped through spamassassin)
>
> 4/ Set Filter Actions 'pipe through' 'spamassassin -Pa' (without quotes)
>
> 5/ Create another filter below the last one. Set
> 'Subject', 'contains', '***SPAM***' (without quotes)
> Filter Action 'Move to Folder', 'Junkmail' where Junkmail is a mail folder
> you previously created.
>
> derek
Thanks Derek, that was exactly what I needed. Who knew that "." was a regular
expression? I don't seem to get much spam from any source, maybe once a
month, but I know that sooner or later it will come. Your help is
appreciated. So much to learn, so little time. : )
--
Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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Re: [newbie] how to "cron"? - working now
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:14 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: > > > I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using > > > streamer. > > > > > > I'm using "v4lctrl setstation " to set the correct > > > channel. and then "streamer... .blah blah" to do > > > the capturing. > > > > > > These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this > > > script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in > > > /home/bin/my_script.sh ? > > > > > > Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? > > > > > > Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) > > > > There is a setup tool for cron jobs in the Mandrake Control Center. You > > can also use webmin, which I personally like better. The third option > > (which I add only for edification and illuminiation) is to hand edit the > > file /var/spool/cron/ replacing with the username that you > > want the job run under. > > For the hand edit option the official methed is "crontab -e". > Try "man crontab" first. Right. Update for anyone following this thread. Found a typo within the script. Not sure if this had a follow-on effect for everything after but it all seems to be working fine now. Thanks very much for the pointers/hints/advice as usual with this problem. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. "My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake9.1bwta3
May I begin this experience with a thankyou to Tom Brinkman whose kindness enabled me to have a 3cd set to do this beta install with. First Install M9.1beta3 === I chose f1 graphical expert mode and all began to go downhill from after mouse install whereupon on many occasions, near halt as the programme appeared to hang for a long time, but eventually managed to clear itself while despirately trying to hit various keys to get things moving again. So, 1) Diskdrake failed to colour classify correctly one ext2 partition /dev/hda10 which it insisted was NTFS and it therefore colour coded it blue in accordance with diskdrake colour menu, but the partition was in fact an ext2 partition and any attemt to rectify the file system clasification threatened elimination of all data, which I certainly did not want it to do. I chose to leave it as it was. 2) Once again it insisted on installing lilo,which I would of prefered it did not, since I have a dualboot M9.0/M9.1beta3 setup and if anything goes wrong with this beta install it messes up my M9.0 boot, and indeed this is precisely what it did as will become apparent. 3) No printer configuration at all, error message: foomatic rpm not found . 4) The whole install programme finally came to a complete halt at any attempt to install monitor configuration,and video card drivers etc. There was no xwindows at all, as the install completely hung right at the beginning .I had to crash to get out of it. I then found myself with an install that had no possibility of ever reaching desktop in M9.1beta3, but with only a duff lilo install to get back to M9.0 I did manage to install M9.0's lilo but not without having to make use of M9 f1, resue , and a vi editor , which I personally hate as a text editor, as it's not intuitive, and the help file omits key crucial operational infomation, but not without considerable difficulty, did I manage to rewrite my M9's lilo.conf, save and exit, and run /sbin/lilo. I then went Rescue and install lilo. Much releieved I felt after half a day's absence from M9's desktop. I will have another attempt tonight at a fresh install, but I do wish the installer gave us an option not to install lilo at all, it makes beta testing, a likely high risk failure rate process, far less trying. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: > > I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using > > streamer. > > > > I'm using "v4lctrl setstation " to set the correct > > channel. and then "streamer... .blah blah" to do the > > capturing. > > > > These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this > > script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in > > /home/bin/my_script.sh ? > > > > Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? > > > > Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) > > There is a setup tool for cron jobs in the Mandrake Control Center. You > can also use webmin, which I personally like better. The third option > (which I add only for edification and illuminiation) is to hand edit the > file /var/spool/cron/ replacing with the username that you > want the job run under. For the hand edit option the official methed is "crontab -e". Try "man crontab" first. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder
Hi All, I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a folder called "more" in "/usr/share/wallpapers/" but I cannot save any images there. Anyone wish to shed some light on the hoops I have to jump through to get this done? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xserver??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:33 pm, Aaron wrote: > I need to know how to upgrade my xserver. I am using MDK 9.0 > Thanks To what? for what purpose? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RofnwDpHP6GALAARArfrAJ9tRtRsorLG3ECOWX/D7ZMITGKlqQCfbzM3 yW2xMAcegKsBQXOpeTZq+F4= =yhig -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:59 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > > I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a
> > > folder in my kmail setup. I have given the command "spamassassin
> > > --log-to-mbox=Spam" in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the
> > > job. Should I have used the -l switch first or just how does one get it
> > > to filter and send to a particular folder? TIA for any help or
> > > suggestions.
> >
> > The way I do it is to use a procmail recipe like this :-
> >
> >
> > JUNKMAIL=/home/derek/Maildir/.junkmail/
> > #Run SpamAssasin
> >
> > :0fw
> > :
> > | spamassassin -a -P
> > |
> > :0e
> >
> > {
> >EXITCODE=$?
> > }
> >
> > :0: $LOCKFILE
> >
> > * ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
> > $JUNKMAIL
> >
> >
> > This recipe will pipe a mail through spamassassin. Any positive mails
> > will have their 'Subject' line modified, and the recipe then puts all
> > mails with modified subject into a spam mailbox.
> >
> > Alternatively if you use Kmail, you can configure filters to run
> > spamassassin for you. This is explained in the spamassassin installation
> > notes. You may find it at /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.41/INSTALL
> >
> > derek
>
> This would be fine except I have no idea what or which regular expression
> to use. I have little to no programming experience. Is your next to last
> line in script above the regular expression you use for filter? Thanks for
> your patience
Dennis. I see from your Email header you are using Kmail. So the simple way to
get Spamassassin going is :-
1/ Settings>ConfigureFilters
2/ Click on 'New Filter' button (bottom left above 'Help') Highlight the new
filter and use the 'Up' button to move it to the top of the list.
3/ Select 'Match all' , In the first row of drop down options select '', 'matches regular expression', and in the right hand box just put
'.' (without the quotes) (All mails will match this regex, so everything
gets piped through spamassassin)
4/ Set Filter Actions 'pipe through' 'spamassassin -Pa' (without quotes)
5/ Create another filter below the last one. Set
'Subject', 'contains', '***SPAM***' (without quotes)
Filter Action 'Move to Folder', 'Junkmail' where Junkmail is a mail folder
you previously created.
derek
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Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:28 pm, magnet wrote: > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: > > > I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using > > > streamer. > > > > > > I'm using "v4lctrl setstation " to set the correct > > > channel. and then "streamer... .blah blah" to do > > > the capturing. > > > > > > These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this > > > script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in > > > /home/bin/my_script.sh ? > > > > > > Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? > > > > > > Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) > > > > The script can go wherever you please > > As for cron The easy way to set it up is with webmin. > > Install webmin RPM and then point your browser to https://localhost:1 > > You will find cron setup under the 'System' Tab > > > > HTH > > > > derek > > Hi Derek, > Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. > I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 > machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help > would be appreciated. > In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... > Execute cron job as "magnet"<-- username > Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? > Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if > needed? Dunno, I always put the entire command including options in the 'Command' box derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 12:52, Greg Meyer wrote: > The same exact problem that adelphia has. Thank you very much for clarifying, > I now have the info that I need to speak with the ISP again. > - -- > Greg Greg, could you send me an email directly to my account? Just out of curiosity and to get more information with the delivery path. Using your problematic account, of course -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / <_/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:57 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > > Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to > > confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. > > > > Here is my shell output > > > > [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh > > bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory > > > > Any clues what Ive done wrong? > > Putting ./ infront of a file means in "this" directory. > > If "drive1" is in root, and if the cd is "/drive1/magnet", then > "./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh" means > "/drive1/magnet/drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh" and test.sh wont be found. Try > "/drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh" wothout the dot in front. ok, slight typo in last posting by me... here is latest attempt: [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ /drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh : bad interpreter: No such file or directory I have started my script with #!/bin/bash so Im not sure what this error means. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. "My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:39 am, magnet wrote: > The script is located here: /drive1/magnet/vcrtest.sh Than eliminate that the . in front. ./ is the directory entry for the current directory, which is why you have to use it when you are running a script from the directory you are in. If you are using the full path, you don't need the dot. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Roe+wDpHP6GALAARAhbxAJ4pR6QpsI3uoi0dh+AaICUM9iCGigCfag9w BqUlK9z05WX/wP0Q0HGeaSw= =jexM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:24 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > If at point 3, the reverse lookup don't yield the name of the server > that is trying to send the mail, then it rejects it. > > Mu question would be: is Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com (64.72.132.17) > the server name trying to deliver the mail? > > A lookup of the server results in a "no host found" response. > adolfobello # host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com > Host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > In any case, these people have a problem with their DNS setup. A name in > the arpa zone with no CNAME or A register associated in the direct zone. The same exact problem that adelphia has. Thank you very much for clarifying, I now have the info that I need to speak with the ISP again. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RodLwDpHP6GALAARAq6/AKCMF8DiiaFCaF0myLxwZQ3jhsrvNACeIOCa KoFR2EakJubuFyNJzwDNCPs= =9tlg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:12, magnet wrote: > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:47 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: > > > Hi Derek, > > > Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one > > > place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across > > > all 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little > > > more help would be appreciated. > > > In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... > > > Execute cron job as "magnet"<-- username > > > > > > > > > Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? > > > > Yes > > > > > Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if > > > needed? > > > > Yes > > > > > When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) > > > > Yes > > - -- > > Greg > > Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to > confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. > > Here is my shell output > > [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh > bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory > > Any clues what Ive done wrong? Putting ./ infront of a file means in "this" directory. If "drive1" is in root, and if the cd is "/drive1/magnet", then "./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh" means "/drive1/magnet/drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh" and test.sh wont be found. Try "/drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh" wothout the dot in front. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound problem
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:49 pm, Keith Powell wrote: > I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to > access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: > > Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. > > I have checked permissions and they are correct. > > Any ideas to overcome this error, please? You could try setting it to use /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp1 If there is no configuration option available try creating a symlink ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/sound/dsp derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xserver??
I need to know how to upgrade my xserver. I am using MDK 9.0 Thanks Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:31 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:12 am, magnet wrote: > > Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to > > confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. > > > > Here is my shell output > > > > [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh > > bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory > > > > Any clues what Ive done wrong? > > Your path looks weird. Where exactly is your script located? > > I use a scripts directory in my home, which I would write like this: > > ~/scripts/script_in_question.sh > > or > > /home/greg/scripts/script_in_question.sh > > What is the ./ at the beginning of your path for? > > - -- > Greg The script is located here: /drive1/magnet/vcrtest.sh -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. "My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:12 am, magnet wrote: > > Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to > confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. > > Here is my shell output > > [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh > bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory > > Any clues what Ive done wrong? Your path looks weird. Where exactly is your script located? I use a scripts directory in my home, which I would write like this: ~/scripts/script_in_question.sh or /home/greg/scripts/script_in_question.sh What is the ./ at the beginning of your path for? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RoJrwDpHP6GALAARAhBUAJ99Aau4Nk0KCW3aknzBD+AM81lE8wCffw8t iVhQt93iT0OjxOpo89hN9Qo= =rUUi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] security update "corrupted package"
Hello, when security updating on ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS/ I keep getting the message: package "samba-client-2.2.7-2.1mdk.i568.rpm" is corrupted. I tried serveral other mirrors, same message. cannot install any security updates thanx _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:17, Greg Meyer wrote: > Thanks for jumping in here Civileme. Your detailed knowledge of Mandrake's > systems always adds a level of understanding that can't be reproduced without > your presence. It's good to see you back around. > > Anyway, backed to the discussion at hand. I have already checked this out > with the ISP and they have told me the problem relates to the fact that I am > on a virtual host. Since so many domains point to the ip address, the > reverse lookup is actually the machine name doing the virtual hosting, in > this case Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. My domain, gkmweb.com, points to > the numeric ip address that you looked up (64.72.132.17), which on a reverse > lookup points to Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. Sorry to jump into this thread. My domain name (bisapi.com) is hosted as a virtual domain by the server server653.gisol.com. adolfobello # host bisapi.com bisapi.com has address 64.246.18.79 adolfobello # host 64.246.18.79 79.18.246.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer server653.gisol.com. Mandrake list does not check that the name/ip match because it if would then my mails were rejected and they are not. As those from any other virtual domain. I think that Mandrake list checks the servername/ip no matter the domain from which the mail is sent. Something like this: 1.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends (smtp) to bisapi.com(64.246.18.79) impersonated by server653.gisol.com 2.- server653.gisol.com (64.246.18.79) tries to deliver mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is served by smtp.mandrake.com 3.- smtp.mandrake.com makes a reverse lookup on 64.246.18.79, gets server653.gisol.com and receives the mail form [EMAIL PROTECTED] If at point 3, the reverse lookup don't yield the name of the server that is trying to send the mail, then it rejects it. Mu question would be: is Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com (64.72.132.17) the server name trying to deliver the mail? A lookup of the server results in a "no host found" response. adolfobello # host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com Host Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) In any case, these people have a problem with their DNS setup. A name in the arpa zone with no CNAME or A register associated in the direct zone. > > Perhaps you can tell me if they are all wet and this can be fixed with changes > to the DNS entries. > - -- > Greg > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+RnEAwDpHP6GALAARAon7AJ9MeKI5qMMCqSaTX1vj4YWTaOOfNgCePeM8 > 5bT9BiCtYxbdf6iGN5n0dAo= > =2XSh > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / <_/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:47 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: > > Hi Derek, > > Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one > > place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all > > 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more > > help would be appreciated. > > In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... > > Execute cron job as "magnet"<-- username > > > > > > Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? > > Yes > > > Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if > > needed? > > Yes > > > When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) > > Yes > - -- > Greg Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory Any clues what Ive done wrong? -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. "My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Java...
OK... now I've got 9.0 working, time to do something with it! I need Java on here, so I've downloaded the .bin distribution from Sun. Since I'm still a Clueless Newbie at this stage, I want advice on the best place to install it... On a Windows machine I'd just install it any-dam-where and add the directory to the path. Is this the recommended way on Linux, or should the Java folder tree live somewhere in particular? Thanks! julian Templeman Consulting Ltd. London and North Wales Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Trouble with Hardware
Hello, i'm hannes and i have got some trouble running mandrake 9.0 on my system. after the installation and starting kde i tried to run several programs like kwrite, some games, etc. but everything program took a long time loading. so i was checking the hardware on the mandrake control center and what i found was the mandrake could not find certain modules for my chipset and for usb. i already read the support on the intel website but nothing i tried applied. can you help me? is it my processor? or my motherboard or even my harddrive? here are the information about my current system: P4 2,53GHz; Epox 4G4A with Intel i845G chipset; Radeon 8500; Seagate Barracuda 80GB (2x) thx for helping me regards Hannes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound problem
I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. I have checked permissions and they are correct. Any ideas to overcome this error, please? -- Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder
> > in my kmail setup. I have given the command "spamassassin
> > --log-to-mbox=Spam" in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the job.
> > Should I have used the -l switch first or just how does one get it to
> > filter and send to a particular folder? TIA for any help or suggestions.
>
> The way I do it is to use a procmail recipe like this :-
>
>
> JUNKMAIL=/home/derek/Maildir/.junkmail/
> #Run SpamAssasin
>
> :0fw
> :
> | spamassassin -a -P
> |
> :0e
>
> {
>EXITCODE=$?
> }
>
> :0: $LOCKFILE
>
> * ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
> $JUNKMAIL
>
>
> This recipe will pipe a mail through spamassassin. Any positive mails will
> have their 'Subject' line modified, and the recipe then puts all mails with
> modified subject into a spam mailbox.
>
> Alternatively if you use Kmail, you can configure filters to run
> spamassassin for you. This is explained in the spamassassin installation
> notes. You may find it at /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.41/INSTALL
>
> derek
This would be fine except I have no idea what or which regular expression to
use. I have little to no programming experience. Is your next to last line
in script above the regular expression you use for filter? Thanks for your
patience
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Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: > Hi Derek, > Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. > I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 > machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help > would be appreciated. > In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... > Execute cron job as "magnet"<-- username > Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? Yes > Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if > needed? > Yes > When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) Yes - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RngHwDpHP6GALAARAs+MAJsH2B8nppB4iTGXgN/HGPfaymDoWgCgiS7r CCPwZNvWLHA2+L/csEjszuk= =CFX+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: > > I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using > > streamer. > > > > I'm using "v4lctrl setstation " to set the correct > > channel. and then "streamer... .blah blah" to do the > > capturing. > > > > These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this > > script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in > > /home/bin/my_script.sh ? > > > > Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? > > > > Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) > > The script can go wherever you please > As for cron The easy way to set it up is with webmin. > Install webmin RPM and then point your browser to https://localhost:1 > You will find cron setup under the 'System' Tab > > HTH > > derek Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help would be appreciated. In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... Execute cron job as "magnet"<-- username Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if needed? When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. "My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
Are both the client and GUI set to use the same port? IIRC, the default port is 4001. If the GUI is running on another system, might there be a firewall blocking communication? If they are both on the same system, do you have loopback networking running? To check, type '/sbin/ifconfig lo' in a root console and see if it says something like "UP LOOPBACK RUNNING". On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:25:29 +, Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 12:03 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Thanks for the advice. > > See the only problem I have with eDonkey is that I am having a problem trying > to get the GUI to be able to connect to the core. I can load load both > manually but can't seem to get both to talk. > > I am pulling my hair out. > > > > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 > > > > Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from > > > Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you > > > must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 > > > > > > God luch! > > > > And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks > > like Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try > > connect (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's > > greedyness. I haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's > > kind-of like a web-crawler logging into several different networks and so > > on, finding your files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated > > by just one client that it's become the "Nazi of file-sharing programs". > > I'm not trying to start yet another long chain of bunny-bashing > > yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing you ;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and > > then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct Connect Client), chances are you > > won't get into any of the popular servers due to your IP ban. Your IP is > > normally published directly into the main chat to make matters more > > interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, leaving you to a > > peril of the kiddie-hackers. > > > > I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but > > I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these > > kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work > > ;-) > > > > Greetings > > Ralph -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others." -- Linus Torvalds msg118842/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:03:21 +0100, Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 > Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from > > Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must > > open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 > > > > God luch! > > And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like > Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect > (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I > haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a > web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your > files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client > that it's become the "Nazi of file-sharing programs". I'm not trying to start > yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing > you;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct > Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due > to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to > make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, > leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers. > > I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I > do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind > of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-) According to the MLDonkey FAQ (http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/faq.html), only the eDonkey and Overnet networks are supported in the official release. To connect to other networks, you need to be using a CVS build. MLDonkey has full client (and some server) support of the eDonkey network. Unfortunately, on Overnet it can only download, which the MLDonkey developers blame on a lack of cooperation on the part of the Overnet developers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "It is particularly easy to cut down the load on the [UNIX] system so that only the minimum number of services is running. This reduced complexity aids stability and transparency." -- Microsoft, 'Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows', 2000-22-08 msg118841/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:00 am, civileme wrote: > > It is being rejected because reverse lookup doesn't work. His ISP has the > dns misconfigured. > >Search results for: 64.72.132.17 > > > OrgName:One Call Communications > OrgID: OCCI > Address:801 Congressional Blvd > City: Carmel > StateProv: IN > PostalCode: 46032 > Country:US > > NetRange: 64.72.128.0 - 64.72.143.255 > CIDR: 64.72.128.0/20 > NetName:OCC-2-NET > NetHandle: NET-64-72-128-0-1 > Parent: NET-64-0-0-0-0 > NetType:Direct Allocation > NameServer: NS1.ONECALL.NET > NameServer: NS2.ONECALL.NET > Comment:ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE > RegDate:2002-01-30 > Updated:2002-10-16 > > NOCHandle: TECHN2-ARIN > NOCName: Technical Contact > NOCPhone: +1-888-223-8633 > NOCEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > SInce they are direct allocation addresses, he may need to set up his own > reverse dns zone on his own machine to respond. > > [tester@ibm333 tester]$ host -a 64.72.132.17 > Trying "17.132.72.64.in-addr.arpa" > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19162 > ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;17.132.72.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > 17.132.72.64.in-addr.arpa. 172800 INPTR > Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > 132.72.64.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS NS1.ONECALL.NET. > 132.72.64.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS NS2.ONECALL.NET. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > NS1.ONECALL.NET.42844 IN A 216.37.1.19 > NS2.ONECALL.NET.42844 IN A 206.223.22.1 > > Received 193 bytes from 209.193.4.7#53 in 698 ms > [tester@ibm333 tester]$ > > But it looks OK from here so most likely someone has a badly set subnet > mask. > Thanks for jumping in here Civileme. Your detailed knowledge of Mandrake's systems always adds a level of understanding that can't be reproduced without your presence. It's good to see you back around. Anyway, backed to the discussion at hand. I have already checked this out with the ISP and they have told me the problem relates to the fact that I am on a virtual host. Since so many domains point to the ip address, the reverse lookup is actually the machine name doing the virtual hosting, in this case Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. My domain, gkmweb.com, points to the numeric ip address that you looked up (64.72.132.17), which on a reverse lookup points to Hosting-132-17.PHPWebHosting.Com. Perhaps you can tell me if they are all wet and this can be fixed with changes to the DNS entries. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RnEAwDpHP6GALAARAon7AJ9MeKI5qMMCqSaTX1vj4YWTaOOfNgCePeM8 5bT9BiCtYxbdf6iGN5n0dAo= =2XSh -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: > I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. > > I'm using "v4lctrl setstation " to set the correct channel. > and then "streamer... .blah blah" to do the capturing. > > These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script > should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? > > Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? > > Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) The script can go wherever you please As for cron The easy way to set it up is with webmin. Install webmin RPM and then point your browser to https://localhost:1 You will find cron setup under the 'System' Tab HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to "cron"?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: > I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. > > I'm using "v4lctrl setstation " to set the correct channel. > and then "streamer... .blah blah" to do the capturing. > > These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script > should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? > > Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? > > Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) There is a setup tool for cron jobs in the Mandrake Control Center. You can also use webmin, which I personally like better. The third option (which I add only for edification and illuminiation) is to hand edit the file /var/spool/cron/ replacing with the username that you want the job run under. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Rm7qwDpHP6GALAARAoHDAJ9gpf2j9opcKtRqjJyH7aNy2dQHqwCcDRw1 8bw+rnnCfbG+yRdxtEsPr/o= =lI7q -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:25, Philip wrote: > On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 12:03 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Thanks for the advice. > > See the only problem I have with eDonkey is that I am having a problem > trying to get the GUI to be able to connect to the core. I can load load > both manually but can't seem to get both to talk. > > I am pulling my hair out. > Have you made sure you started the commandline client with the "-!" parameter? as in: ./donkey -! this tells the command line client that there is a GUI controller expected. If you miss out this parameter, it will not accept any connections. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:14:36AM +0200, Gil Katz wrote: > Ok > i didn??? express myself ouite clear enough > i got several accounts in hotmail and the easiest way to handel them is by > outlook express so that what i need. > Gil I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. Do you want to access your various Hotmail accounts using a mail client like Outlook or any other client that can read multiple accounts? I set my wife up with hotwayd, which lets your computer act like a pop3 server to interface with Hotmail. She can access her Hotmail account without going to that dreadful website. You can get hotwayd here: http://people.freenet.de/courierdave/ Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to "cron"?
I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using "v4lctrl setstation " to set the correct channel. and then "streamer... .blah blah" to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. "My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:58:30 +0200, Gil Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any HTML e-mail client like outlook express? There are several. If you're familiar with Outlook Express you'll feel right at home with Evolution. It does everything Outlook does except propagate viruses. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba and XP - Is there a way around it?
Brian; In order to get Samba and XP playing nice together, there are several considerations to take into account. 1) What name does the XP box have? Not the username, the host name of the XP box? 2) Are the XP box and the Samba box in the same domain? ie; xp.localdomain or xp.briansdomain.com and samba.localdomain or samba.briansdomain.com ? 3) Are the XP box and the Samba box in the same workgroup? If not, is the XP box's workgroup also a workgroup on the samba box, as a LINUX workgroup? 4) What is the version of Samba you're running on the box? 5) Did you re-enter the XP box user's password in webmin, as a new password? Did you also UNcheck the "No Password Required" box in the "Edit Samba users" section of Webmin/Samba for the XP user? Let's start with these questions first. Get back to me on or off-list. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/10/2003 at 12:13 AM Brian Parish wrote: >OK, I know that XP manages to make life as difficult as possible for >Samba, but does anyone have a way to make a workable solution preserving >at least minimal security? > >All I want to do is to have one totally open, public share available to >all W$ machines and one share that is secured by a password. W98 can be >made to behave enough to have this work I believe, but the "secure" >share needs to be accessed by a XP machine. > >I can make the XP machine see and use the open share by setting Samba to >allow guest access, but for any security, I need to pass a username and >password from XP and no matter what I do it arrives as a guest. >Usernames and password are identical on the Samba machine and the XP >machine and Samba is set to allow encrypted passwords. > >I believe that M$ have broken XP sufficiently to make this intentionally >difficult. They seem to have screwed up W$ to W$ networking fairly >convincingly in the process, but that's another story. > >Any clues gratefully received. > >TIA >Brian > > > >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] ooopps lost X!!!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:51 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > > When you get to the command line and type startx, what is the error > > message > > It mentions having problems reading /etc/X11/XF86Config. Talks of "Data > Missing" from this file > > Andrew Post the contents of that file so we can take a look at it. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Rl10wDpHP6GALAARAt3+AJ0RXS27cGiEj5uOG71bP92sQd8nxwCbBkWL t9EjrOH3Sxx96e7qzbfCzsM= =iGmj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem
On Saturday February 8 2003 05:47 pm, MRE wrote: > Has anyone on this list been successful getting Mandrake 9.0 or > RH8.0 to work on SBC Yahoo DSL? I had been using DirectvInternet > DSL for over a year on my AMD 500 system so I know there is no > hardware problem. If you had luck using SBC DSL, pleae let me know > what you did to get it to work... I've tried auto and manual > approaches, but so far have not had any luck. I have the primary > and secondary DNS nos. and IP address, but manually configuring > does not seem to work... > > Thanks, Mick I've seen the other replies. I've got sbc dsl, dynamic. As was already suggested, I use rp-pppoe. I don't enter any IP or DNS numbers, as dns is provided by sbc's server. All I enter in 'adsl-setup' (actually with 9.1 you don't even need to do this step if you set it up during installation) is provider/username/passsword, and for dns, enter 'server'. Also as somebody already said, if you're setting it up after installation of 9.0, use 'tkpppoe' as root. The only little glitches I ran into when I first got the service was sbc's server wont accept just my user name, it insists on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also for the first several days I had service, it was neccesary two or three times, to completely power off (unplug) the "modem", leave it off for a minute, then power back on and wait a few moments for it to re-sync. I got that suggestion from the dsl-howto's trouble shooting section. It worked each time, I haven't had to do it again since. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: > > Is this a feature to stop me doing something stupid, or am I missing > something? > Yes ;-) There should be a button on the gui to put yourself in expert mode, which should give you back the options. You may want to read the software RIAD howto's for your illumination. I found the boot on RAID howto to be the most well written for understanding how to set up any RAID partition. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Rl0QwDpHP6GALAARAlUKAJ9lXuLIijFNRPiOe9ixSQFTKN3M7wCePnUN BUixsKKgPQpqXR2/laGFtCE= =BBLc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from > Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must > open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 > > God luch! And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client that it's become the "Nazi of file-sharing programs". I'm not trying to start yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing you ;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers. I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ "Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder
> in my kmail setup. I have given the command "spamassassin
> --log-to-mbox=Spam" in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the job.
> Should I have used the -l switch first or just how does one get it to
> filter and send to a particular folder? TIA for any help or suggestions.
The way I do it is to use a procmail recipe like this :-
JUNKMAIL=/home/derek/Maildir/.junkmail/
#Run SpamAssasin
:0fw
| spamassassin -a -P
:0e
{
EXITCODE=$?
}
:0: $LOCKFILE
* ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
$JUNKMAIL
This recipe will pipe a mail through spamassassin. Any positive mails will
have their 'Subject' line modified, and the recipe then puts all mails with
modified subject into a spam mailbox.
Alternatively if you use Kmail, you can configure filters to run spamassassin
for you. This is explained in the spamassassin installation notes. You may
find it at /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.41/INSTALL
derek
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Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! El Domingo, 9 de Febrero de 2003 09:33, Philip escribió: > Firstly a big HELLO to you all. > > This is my first post on the list and I hope that I can be of some > assistance to you all, I said, "I hope". > > I have a few problems my self and the first is: > > Does anyone know anything about this program?? I have installed it on my > Mandrake 9.0 distro but seem to be having a few MINOR difficulties with it. > I don't want to bother you with the details unless someone has installed > this program or knows anything about it. > > Thanking you in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux
On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:46 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Nothing is wrong with wineX, I just don't use it. I stay away from the > Evil Empire by not running anything that needs it. > > Rob Hey Rob. There has been a lot of debate for/against WineX. Its been a real Godsend for me and my boys here. We love Jedi Knight 2, Diablo 2: LOD, Starcraft, Soldier of Fortune 2, Warcraft 3, etc, etc... All great games - especially multiplayer (well - except for SOF2 - can't get that one to work across the LAN). If it wasn't for WineX - which does NOT require that you have Windows installed anywhere, then I'd have to dual-boot if I wanted to play these games. I loathe Windows, so WineX is perfect. Don't get me wrong - you'll never see me buy a Windows game if there is a Linux port for it! Until all game makers wake up and port their games to Linux - WineX is a good interim solution. :-) PS Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting Doom 3 and Neverwinter Nights for Linux! :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Problem Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Asus A7V Motherboard
Troubleshoot, troubleshoot, troubleshoot. For starters, try taking out your scsi card and tape drive and 2nd HDget down to BARE MINIMUM. If it gets past the install then start adding parts till you find the piece it doesnt like. Also try updating your MB, i have same MB...A7V333. If that doesnt help then try another video card...what kind of video card do you have anyway? Mine is fine with ATI AIW 7500 and Diamond v770. Also check what is enabled in the bios, might disable everything you dont need...serial, parrallel, etc. Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Passaniti >> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:56 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Asus A7V >> Motherboard >> >> >> Thanks for the reply, but it didn't help. As I wrote in my original >> message, I tried using the alternate boot images on floppies, but your >> suggestion of using the "alt1" and "alt2" images directly from the >> CD-ROM appears to be functionally equivalent. Both of these images >> result in largely the same thing-- the only difference being that >> instead of identifying the Promise controller (PDC20265), the boot >> messages give it a different name (presumably a more generic IDE >> controller). >> >> And yes, I forgot to mention it, but I do have the BIOS set to not >> assume a plug-and-play operating system. >> >> >> > -Original Message- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher >> > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:15 PM >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Asus >> > A7V Motherboard >> > >> > >> > On Saturday 08 February 2003 21:22, John Passaniti wrote: >> > > I am trying to install Mandrake 9.0 and I can't get very >> > far. I can >> > > boot from the CD-ROM and get the graphical screen telling >> > me to press >> > > F1 or Return. I press Return to start the graphical >> > installation, and >> > > as Linux is booting, the system hangs. >> > > >> > > My system's configuration: >> > > >> > > Asus A7V motherboard, 900 MHz Athlon, 256M of RAM >> > > Two hard drives on primary IDE (not Promise controller) >> > > One CD-ROM drive on secondary IDE (again, not Promise controller) >> > > Adaptec AHA-2930 controller with HP T20 tape backup unit >> > > >> > > Here are the messages I see prior to Linux hanging (I'm >> > retyping these >> > > from the screen, excuse any minor typos): >> > > >> > > - - - >> > > PDC20265: chipset version 2 >> > > PDC20265: not 100% native mode, will probe iqrs later >> > > - - - >> > > >> > > The system hangs at that point. Rarely, I see it add three more >> > > messages before it hangs: >> > > >> > > - - - >> > > PDC20265: (U)DMA burst bit DISABLED Primary PCI Mode >> > Secondary PCI Mode >> > > ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8000-0x8007, BIOS settings hde:pio, hdf:pio >> > > ide3: BM-DMA at 0x800e-0x800F, BIOS settings hdg:pio, hdh:DMA >> > > - - - >> > > >> > > The problem appears to be with the Promise controller on the >> > > motherboard. I have *nothing* connected to it (and I don't >> > intend to >> > > use it at all). I have flashed the motherboard with the >> > latest BIOS, >> > > and I have disabled the Promise controller-- well, at >> > disabled it as >> > > far as the BIOS goes. There doesn't seem to be any way to truly >> > > disable it. >> > > >> > > The kernel version of Linux that is shown on the screen as it boots >> > > is: >> > > >> > > Linux 2.4.19-16mdkBOOT >> > > >> > > I have also tried creating a boot floppy using the two alternate >> > > images provided for CD-ROM installation, and both also fail in the >> > > same way. >> > > >> > > I could probably install Mandrake Linux 9.0 without problems if I >> > > could somehow tell Linux to ignore the Promise controller >> > entirely. >> > > Are there any command-line flags that I could provide the >> > kernel that >> > > would make it ignore this device? >> > > >> > > Any help or suggestions people can provide will be much appreciated. >> > >> >I had a similar problem with a install of 9.0 a couple of >> > months ago. You >> > may want to try this . right after starting the machine with >> > the CD in the >> > cup holder press and hold F1 this should bring up a screen >> > where you can >> > choose to install 1 of 3 alternate kernals labeled OLT 0, OLT >> > 1 and OLT2 >> > they should say ALT in stead of OLT but the folks at mandrake >> > made a typo, >> > >> >Try each of the alternate kernals one at a time and see if >> > things go >> > better. Also make shure your BIOS is set for a non PNP OS. >> > >> >Hope this helps >> > Marc >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
