Re: [newbie-it] pinnacle tvpro
ciao, non scrivo risposte ma domande, scusa. aspettavo qualcuno al varco da mesi. sto cercando una scheda tv che vada con linux (ho una matrox G450etv (credo) e non se ne parla ma sono disposto a cambiarla) hai una scheda tv? quale? funziona? sotto che mandrake? è facile da configurare (il mio concetto di facile è schiacciare un bottone, due è difficile)? grazie grazie grazie. Luigi Pinna ha scritto: omissis
Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found.
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 2:57 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 01:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:35, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect to the network: WORKGROUP not accessible The network name cannot be found snip This is the /etc/samba/smb.conf listing: [global] log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m dns proxy = no smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd load printers = yes printer = ML4600 netbios name = bnsee printing = cups server string = Samba Server %v socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 workgroup = netgroup This suggests to me that you have some machines addressing netgroup and others on workgroup. Have you checked that? Certainly something is making it look for 'workgroup'. Anne The WORKGROUP is netgroup. I was referring to it generically. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:16 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Very interesting. I think that if many of the magazines out there had any sense, they would be hiring Civileme to do tech article work. Seems like they would want their money to go where it would get the best results. It would be nice to hear some straightforward commonsense tech talk for a change in the trade rags instead of blah blah blather from non-tech journalists. LX I'll second that ! Kaj Haulrich. And, on a lighter note, : I don't hope they hire him before he finishes *rpmdrakexaphir1.0.rpm*:-) LOL! Thanks for the thought, Kaj. ;) -- Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. I probably would have responded to this sooner but I've been offline for a few days now. I've got to finish some local net wiring here...so I may be incognito for some time to come. LX __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Intel cs330 webcam
I have just found a cs330 webcam which we would like to use to take photos of our department to go on our intranet, can anyone point me in the direction of instructions on how I might do this?? If it matters, the webcam will go on the same PC as our intranet is hosted. Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 05:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:16 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 09:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Very interesting. I think that if many of the magazines out there had any sense, they would be hiring Civileme to do tech article work. Seems like they would want their money to go where it would get the best results. It would be nice to hear some straightforward commonsense tech talk for a change in the trade rags instead of blah blah blather from non-tech journalists. LX I'll second that ! Kaj Haulrich. And, on a lighter note, : I don't hope they hire him before he finishes *rpmdrakexaphir1.0.rpm*:-) LOL! Thanks for the thought, Kaj. ;) LX Not my idea really, Lyvim. Some time ago Civileme himself offered to *unify* the 4 software-screens you complained about under the appropriate name *rpmdrakexaphir.rpm*. I hope he's working on it over there in Alaska. Happy *wiring* to you - see you soon I hope. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found. SLOVED
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 07:45 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 2:57 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 01:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:35, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, [Deleted] I re-installed SAMBA and the problems seems to have gone away. No clue as to what they were. I also installed SWAT for the first time but it seems to hang when I try to start it from the command line. It seems to start ok when I select its icon using KDE. Whe I give the command: swat -s /etc/samba/smb.conf and then: jobs [1]+ Stopped swat -s /etc/samba/smb.conf Can anybody tell why it is stopped? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, on a lighter note, : I don't hope they hire him before he finishes *rpmdrakexaphir1.0.rpm*:-) LOL! Thanks for the thought, Kaj. ;) LX Not my idea really, Lyvim. Some time ago Civileme himself offered to *unify* the 4 software-screens you complained about under the appropriate name *rpmdrakexaphir.rpm*. I hope he's working on it over there in Alaska. Damn. (!) I'm taken aback, to put it mildly. I thought it WAS your joke! What thread did I miss this time??? Guess there was some mail that didn't get here or something. I'll have to thank Civ for the thought; it is massively considerate. Of course, he's an incredibly considerate guy. BTW, this is a good example of why the mail delivery problems on the list here bug me. You may see the whole story, or then again you may not. Happy *wiring* to you - see you soon I hope. Kaj Haulrich. -- OK, I've got a few more hours before I submerge for a few days. A few more emails... :) Take em easy, Kaj. Keep those Windows CDs in your gun sights. ;) LX __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 08:53 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Not my idea really, Lyvim. Some time ago Civileme himself offered to *unify* the 4 software-screens you complained about under the appropriate name *rpmdrakexaphir.rpm*. I hope he's working on it over there in Alaska. Damn. (!) I'm taken aback, to put it mildly. I thought it WAS your joke! What thread did I miss this time??? Guess there was some mail that didn't get here or something. I'll have to thank Civ for the thought; it is massively considerate. Of course, he's an incredibly considerate guy. /snip Yep. snip BTW, this is a good example of why the mail delivery problems on the list here bug me. You may see the whole story, or then again you may not. /snip That's why I sometimes check the archives. It seems the Mandrake-archive is faster then the *postman*. (BTW Lyvim, did you get my response to your genealogy question about a month ago ?) snip Happy *wiring* to you - see you soon I hope. Kaj Haulrich. -- OK, I've got a few more hours before I submerge for a few days. A few more emails... :) Take em easy, Kaj. Keep those Windows CDs in your gun sights. ;) LX /snip OK - but I'm rather short of of windows-CD's lately what with both my daughters doing their rifle-practice now. Using coasters instead. Lyvim, don't submerge for that long, especially in the Yukon. Might harm your health. Kaj haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] console question - search all files for text-string?
What's the console command that I can use to search for all files (in a harddrive) for a string of text? Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] console question - search all files for text-string?
How can I verify how much RAM is installed on a PC? What about to determine the CPU type speed? Also, what does the msec* script in cron.hourly? Frank J. Facciola (212) 431-2387 Network Services Group New York Law School - Original Message - From: Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:20 PM Subject: [newbie] console question - search all files for text-string? What's the console command that I can use to search for all files (in a harddrive) for a string of text? Thanks, Sevatio 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] console question - search all files for text-string?
Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the console command that I can use to search for all files (in a harddrive) for a string of text? Thanks, Sevatio man grep (that should tell you about grep and I believe that willd o what you want. Ken -- Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together. www.kenwstevens.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Twin head--but not
When I install Mandrake (any release) I choose the video card it selects (SiS 5597) and then I get a message that says, Your system supports multiple head configuration. What do you want to do? And it gives me the following choices: Configure only card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5597 [SiS5582] (PCI:0:0:0) Configure only card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5597/5598 VGA (PCI:0:20:0) There's only one card in there, and there's only one VGA port on the card, but either choice works. This isn't a problem, but I'm curious as to what's going on. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Twin head--but not
On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 8:42 pm, Miark wrote: When I install Mandrake (any release) I choose the video card it selects (SiS 5597) and then I get a message that says, Your system supports multiple head configuration. What do you want to do? And it gives me the following choices: Configure only card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5597 [SiS5582] (PCI:0:0:0) Configure only card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5597/5598 VGA (PCI:0:20:0) There's only one card in there, and there's only one VGA port on the card, but either choice works. This isn't a problem, but I'm curious as to what's going on. Miark I may be wrong here, but doesn't twin head refer to running 2 monitors from the one card. AFAIK the GeForce Ti range have this capability but I've never looked into it yet. Correct me if I'm wrong though. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 5 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Mandrake 9.0. 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Windows 2000 Profressional 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop running Windows ME 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] console question - search all files for text-string?
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 03:20 pm, ffacciola wrote: How can I verify how much RAM is installed on a PC? What about to determine the CPU type speed? Also, what does the msec* script in cron.hourly? Frank J. Facciola Hi Frank. I can't help you with msec in cron.hourly but... cat /proc/cpuinfo cat/proc/meminfo will help with uh, cpu and memory information:-) HTHs! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:15, Miark wrote: I use NT and the downloader that comes with KDE 3.1, but I'd like a download manager that will accept a URL, and give you the option of downloading _everything_ from that URL. Is there anything like that out there? You can try offline browser like httrack (Windows and Linux platform available). - -- Palestinian jargon : Freedom or Die. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZK/jH9VEhcXPGz4RAgf7AKDh5PWuFrBaPkWVsoxefvIWgG7eCgCfclo+ Lulm05wAUX6JhUa+vtPki5Y= =7Nw5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Mirrors Down?
Are the mirrors down? All of them fail when I try to do Mandrake Update. They worked yesterday. J. kelley Jernigan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Twin head--but not
I think mandrake gives the same message if card supports two monitors, or pc has two cards.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of magnet Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Twin head--but not On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 8:42 pm, Miark wrote: When I install Mandrake (any release) I choose the video card it selects (SiS 5597) and then I get a message that says, Your system supports multiple head configuration. What do you want to do? And it gives me the following choices: Configure only card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5597 [SiS5582] (PCI:0:0:0) Configure only card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5597/5598 VGA (PCI:0:20:0) There's only one card in there, and there's only one VGA port on the card, but either choice works. This isn't a problem, but I'm curious as to what's going on. Miark I may be wrong here, but doesn't twin head refer to running 2 monitors from the one card. AFAIK the GeForce Ti range have this capability but I've never looked into it yet. Correct me if I'm wrong though. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 5 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Mandrake 9.0. 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Windows 2000 Profressional 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop running Windows ME 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] Download manager, grab everything
Rifza Adriansyah wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:15, Miark wrote: I use NT and the downloader that comes with KDE 3.1, but I'd like a download manager that will accept a URL, and give you the option of downloading _everything_ from that URL. Is there anything like that out there? httrack Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] console question - search all files for text-string?
On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 8:20 pm, Sevatio wrote: What's the console command that I can use to search for all files (in a harddrive) for a string of text? Thanks, Sevatio slocate Install the slocate rpm and then run updatedb to compile the database of file names. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything
Rifza; Have you tried using Konqueror in KDE? Not only is it a file manager, web-browser, and FTP client, but it allows you to drag and drop entire folders from ftp sites, and manages multiple downloads very smoothly. Just a thought, but it's been bullet-proof for me. Lanman On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 17:45, robin wrote: Rifza Adriansyah wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:15, Miark wrote: I use NT and the downloader that comes with KDE 3.1, but I'd like a download manager that will accept a URL, and give you the option of downloading _everything_ from that URL. Is there anything like that out there? httrack Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Mirrors Down?
Are the mirrors down? All of them fail when I try to do Mandrake Update. They worked yesterday. J. Kelley Jernigan --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intel cs330 webcam
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 03:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just found a cs330 webcam which we would like to use to take photos of our department to go on our intranet, can anyone point me in the direction of instructions on how I might do this?? If it matters, the webcam will go on the same PC as our intranet is hosted. Thanks, Jamie Biggest part is to get the cam working with linux in the first place. Once you do that - have secured/installed the drivers and the likes, and tested it with xawtv, you can use the webcam utility to snap pix every so many minutes, or stream even... -- Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:25:00 +1100 11:25am up 1:03, 2 users, load average: 1.33, 1.02, 0.65 -- |____ | 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 -- Come fill the cup and in the fire of spring Your winter garment of repentence fling. The bird of time has but a little way To flutter -- and the bird is on the wing. -- Omar Khayyam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found. SLOVED
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 06:36, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: I re-installed SAMBA and the problems seems to have gone away. No clue as to what they were. I also installed SWAT for the first time but it seems to hang when I try to start it from the command line. It seems to start ok when I select its icon using KDE. Whe I give the command: swat -s /etc/samba/smb.conf and then: jobs [1]+ Stopped swat -s /etc/samba/smb.conf Can anybody tell why it is stopped? Thanx, Seedkum Not sure why it stopped, but I do know that when firing it up from the terminal, it does take a bit to get going. If you've installed it, then best is to access it via the Webmin tool - then it integrates it with the Samba server section in there and makes it all the more easy to configure, test, tweak, yadda yadda yadda... -- Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:25:00 +1100 11:25am up 1:03, 2 users, load average: 1.33, 1.02, 0.65 -- |____ | 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 -- Come fill the cup and in the fire of spring Your winter garment of repentence fling. The bird of time has but a little way To flutter -- and the bird is on the wing. -- Omar Khayyam Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Quotas
Hi, I'm experimenting with using quotas for the first time. But I cannot get them to work. I have changed the fstab and added usrquota like: /dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults,usrquota 1 2 I've also created a blank file called aquota.user in /home. But, when trying to turn quotas on using: quotaon -vgu /dev/hda5 I get this error: quotaon: using /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda5: Invalid argument I've read the mini-HOWTO and it doesn't mention this error :( Can anyone help me please? Thank you, Jord -- Jordan Elver If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] console question - search all files for text-string?
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 07:20, Sevatio wrote: What's the console command that I can use to search for all files (in a harddrive) for a string of text? Thanks, Sevatio You can use grep - open a terminal and type : man grep Great tool mate. -- Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:55:00 +1100 12:55pm up 2:33, 2 users, load average: 0.64, 0.55, 0.39 -- |____ | 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 -- Drinking is not a spectator sport. -- Jim Brosnan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] console question - search all files for text-string?
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 12:20:19 -0800 Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the console command that I can use to search for all files (in a harddrive) for a string of text? Thanks, Sevatio You have gotten two correct answers for two different questions :) slocate for file names grep for text inside the files I'd hate to run grep on an entire hard drive, though. Can you narrow your search any? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] eureka urpmi
I'm always running behind the times, just like this old train (name that tune). I feel like the only one on the list running 8.2 instead of 9.1rc1! Anyway, a few days ago I started looking into urpmi and had some success, updating gaim. Today I was surfing and came across a great tool for setting up sources for urpmi. Just select your version # and mirrors, submit, and you get everything you need. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I thought that might help some other urpmi newbies out there. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eureka urpmi
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:02 pm, you wrote: I'm always running behind the times, just like this old train (name that tune). I feel like the only one on the list running 8.2 instead of 9.1rc1! Anyway, a few days ago I started looking into urpmi and had some success, updating gaim. Today I was surfing and came across a great tool for setting up sources for urpmi. Just select your version # and mirrors, submit, and you get everything you need. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I thought that might help some other urpmi newbies out there. Todd You are not the only one. -- Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Homepage http://lazyalfalfa.tripod.com/ 10:12pm up 1 day, 11:43, 3 users, load average: 2.09, 2.08, 2.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eureka urpmi
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:02 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I'm always running behind the times, just like this old train (name that tune). I feel like the only one on the list running 8.2 instead of 9.1rc1! Anyway, a few days ago I started looking into urpmi and had some success, updating gaim. Today I was surfing and came across a great tool for setting up sources for urpmi. Just select your version # and mirrors, submit, and you get everything you need. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I thought that might help some other urpmi newbies out there. Dude, welcome to the group of the enlightened. I personally think that urpmi is one of the most powerful tools that MandrakeSoft has built and by learning a few simple commands is much easier and faster than using the rpmdrake gui. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eureka urpmi
I would like to give it a try? I have a old copy of GAIM program on my system and I am tying to get this URPMI to upgrade my gaim but the interface said that its all installed... HOW does it work??? Thanks! YPK On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 22:31, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:02 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I'm always running behind the times, just like this old train (name that tune). I feel like the only one on the list running 8.2 instead of 9.1rc1! Anyway, a few days ago I started looking into urpmi and had some success, updating gaim. Today I was surfing and came across a great tool for setting up sources for urpmi. Just select your version # and mirrors, submit, and you get everything you need. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I thought that might help some other urpmi newbies out there. Dude, welcome to the group of the enlightened. I personally think that urpmi is one of the most powerful tools that MandrakeSoft has built and by learning a few simple commands is much easier and faster than using the rpmdrake gui. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eureka urpmi
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:02 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: I would like to give it a try? I have a old copy of GAIM program on my system and I am tying to get this URPMI to upgrade my gaim but the interface said that its all installed... HOW does it work??? Thanks! http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jwrobinson/docs/urpmi-howto/ -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT switch
I don't know if this has been posted before, so here goes. I came across this a couple of weeks ago and about busted a gut. http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT switch
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:47 pm, you wrote: I don't know if this has been posted before, so here goes. I came across this a couple of weeks ago and about busted a gut. http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ Todd That is so funny. -- Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Homepage http://lazyalfalfa.tripod.com/ 12:07am up 1 day, 13:38, 3 users, load average: 2.33, 2.36, 2.25 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] server confiuration wizards
I am VERY new to all of this and am about to run home to NT. However if you all think I should keep going then I will try. This is the first time I have posted a question and I am not sure ifI'm even doing this right! here goes: The Mandrake quick configuration server guide tells me that the server configuration menu will appear whenthe wizdrake package is installed. Icannot find any mention of thisin the install software / rpmdrake tool how do I install wizdrake? please don't laugh Brett
Re: [newbie] server confiuration wizards
Brett! Welcome to the club! Everyone of us was New to Mandrake or Linux at one point or another! I don't think you'll get laughed at here for asking questions, but you may get a chuckle ro two when you remind us of the times when we went through the change from Windows to Linux, and the mistakes we made (and some of them were really big mistakes!). So don't give up. You'll have a lot to learn, but you;ll also get a lot of help from this list! On to your problem,...First, it's always a good idea to include which version of Mandrake you're trying to setup. There can be minor and/or major differences between versions, and knowing which one you're using would help us to be more specific in solving your problem, and would allow many on the list to offer tips and tricks about the specific version you've got. It's been my experience that the Wizards have not been very helpful in setting up a server. They are good for inputting basic information you'll need before actually setting up the services you'd like, but not detailed enough to get things done completely. However, these basic bits of information can be easily configured by other means just as fast as by using the wizards. Have you tried webmin? It's a web-based tool which resides on the server (assuming that it was installed in the first place!), and allows you to configure your srver in great detail. Some of the users on this list will scream at the suggestion of using webmin, and scream about using ssh in a shell or console to do all your server configurations and adjustments, but if you're coming from a Windows environment, webmin is probably the ticket to get you started. There'll be plenty of time to learn command-line stuff later. You can access webmin by loggin into the server as any user, and opening a web-browser, and typing the folloing URL - https://localhost:1 - Notice the s in https ? when you get your log in prompt, use the root user's password you supplied during the install. You should probably spend a few days just playing with webmin, so that you can get familiar with it. If you get into trouble, you can contact me off-list, or get more help from the list. Good Luck, and welcome to the world of Linux! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/5/2003 at 4:52 PM brett dunkley wrote: I am VERY new to all of this and am about to run home to NT. However if you all think I should keep going then I will try. This is the first time I have posted a question and I am not sure if I'm even doing this right! here goes: The Mandrake quick configuration server guide tells me that the server configuration menu will appear when the wizdrake package is installed. I can not find any mention of this in the install software / rpmdrake tool how do I install wizdrake? please don't laugh Brett Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] server confiuration wizards
Brett, install drakwizard. More info on: http://www.trylinuxsd.com/nuke/pages/ good luck From: brett dunkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] server confiuration wizards Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:52:05 +1100 I am VERY new to all of this and am about to run home to NT. However if you all think I should keep going then I will try. This is the first time I have posted a question and I am not sure if I'm even doing this right! here goes: The Mandrake quick configuration server guide tells me that the server configuration menu will appear when the wizdrake package is installed. I can not find any mention of this in the install software / rpmdrake tool how do I install wizdrake? please don't laugh Brett _ Chatten met je online vrienden via MSN Messenger. http://messenger.msn.be Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. There must be somebody here who understands how CUPS references Type1 fonts. I have a problem which has resisted solution for well over two years now. No help from the CUPS documentation, which comes in eleven volumes, nor from www.linuxprinting.org, or from any other source. Linux Format Magazine has refused to respond to two enquiries about this, nor has anybody on this list responded to previous pleas for help. I post this in the hope that some expert might be browsing the list and willing to shine a little light on this shadowy corner of the UNIX world. Any answer needs to be useful in the context of Mandrake and portable from 8.2 to 9.* - I gather that there has been a recent change in the way that CUPS and Ghostscript interact. My specific problem is adding more typefaces to PostScript files generated from one of my home grown applications; i.e. the file might reference Andale Mono, Verdana, Tahoma, Densmore or whatever. Yes, I do have a Window$ licence, OS not installed. These are all available to X and to OpenOffice.org but not apparently to CUPS, and CUPS does not appear to have a regular mechanism for importing fonts. Presumably everything has to be done by hand. I have converted the TrueType fonts to Type1 .pfb files and placed these in the /usr/share/cups/fonts directory under the names, for example Verdana, AndaleMono, Verdana-Bold, etc, in imitation of the existing font names (and restarted CUPS) but they still print as the default Courier typeface. The default set of fonts are listed in the PPD file in /etc/cups/ppd but it is not clear how font information should be added to this file. The meaning of the various fields is not documented. This may all be nonsense. Maybe the font files should go somewhere in the Ghostscript font path together with fonts.dir, fonts.scale and fonts.alias files. I really don't have a clue. Before I sign off, this is my impression of how CUPS works: lpr - CUPS - GS filter PPD || || pstoraster - driver | | spooler? - printer This again may be wrong. Please correct me somebody. In words; a postscript file, for instance, is given to lpr aka lpr-cups which passes it on to Ghostscript for filtering (if it were raw text it would be converted to PostScript format). If the printer is not PostScript capable, the file is fed to the rasterization section which generates a bitmap of the printed page. This then goes to a printer specific driver which converts it into a series of graphics commands native to the printer. The driver may consult the PPD file for defined or allowed options as well and the result is delivered to the spooler which stores it on disk for a while before it, or some other daemon, dumps it to the printer. Somewhere in there the system must try to locate the font resource specified in the PostScript file, but where exactly, and what form does the resource take? All this has taken up far more than the 3.5 minutes I have to spare each day (and I am not kidding) so help would be appreciated and would surely be of interest to other members of the list. -- Len Lawrence -- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] server confiuration wizards
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:52, you wrote: how do I install wizdrake? First way. Open any of consoles (like konsole or rxvt). su to root (that is, type 'su' and give the password it asks). Type 'urpmi wizdrake'. Insert any CDs it asks. Done. Second way. Run Mandrake Control Center. Find package management section. It should be pretty much obvious from there. After its done, a new section (probably called Servers) appears in Mandrake Control Center, providing you with simple wizards for setting up common servers. Warning: using these wizards is hazardous! You will get the job done fast but without learning anything :-)) Also they are rather simplistic. Even a little bit more sophisticated task will require additional tweaking. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
