[newbie-it] chiavi PGP ; ERA: prompt dei comandi..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 14:39, sabato 8 marzo 2003, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: Per favore, Luigi ma anche tutti gli altri che usano gpg/pgp pubblicate le vostre chiavi pubbliche, non è bello aspettare 45 secondi prima che pgp vada in timeout non ricevendo la chiave da nessun keyserver.. dal prompt è sufficiente lanciare: $ gpg --send-keys chiave per spedire al keyserver di default (indicato in .gnupg/options) [anche perchè una chiave pubblica, non pubblica, a che serve??] graz bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+ajTeF/9fksDJ4y0RAj/qAKCcZzanjYoJddarYWemt8GiqhsHQQCfRf0Z AvIH4LdPqDNoe5K/rSdAS28= =noVm -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP ; ERA: prompt dei comandi.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tra l'altro qualcuno mi spiega perché la metà dei messaggi che spedisco mi risulta la firma non valida? Tra l'altro anche quella di Mike è errata! Che il server della lista aggiunga o tolga informazioni? - -- Le ballerine sono coraggiosissime! Quante donne conoscete in grado di gettarsi tra le braccia di un omossessuale sperando che lui le afferri? Rita Rüdner -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+akC+TvJtVxCNwP4RAjMWAJ0aJ934oBmrpLB6xmsv4eDtQc17BwCgvGBf rlNNXwJaXDOKl1wwS+EGqCg= =NpaF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP ; ERA: prompt dei comandi.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:13, sabato 8 marzo 2003, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: Tra l'altro qualcuno mi spiega perché la metà dei messaggi che spedisco mi risulta la firma non valida? Tra l'altro anche quella di Mike è errata! Che il server della lista aggiunga o tolga informazioni? beh le firme dovrebbero passare senza problemi, io la mia la ricevo correttamente, in genere risulta errata quando qualcuno risponde , ma è corretto, anzi, semmai è una prova dell'avvenuta manipolazione della mail. se a te i tuoi post appaiono con firma danneggiata prova a spedirti una mail direttamente, senza passare dalla lista, se vuoi possiamo anche fare una prova, mandami la tua pubblica in attach e ti dico come interpreto i tuoi post. Quanto allo scaricamento da keyserver continua a non andare, dove hai fatto l'upload? bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+an/TF/9fksDJ4y0RAjCpAJ4nY2wOt0HROzUGlPzbzg1QKbjg+gCgjJxa MP6nPJqM2fb6jntM2n20mcQ= =JR6c -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:14:41 +: levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Can you 'repair' it by running aumix -L ? If so, perhaps you can add that to your ~/.xinitrc At least that would make a workaround. I had a similar problem with the volume in RealPlayer. After an upgrade the problem suddenly disappeared. Which still baffles me... Paul -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 10:53 am, Paul wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:14:41 +: levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Can you 'repair' it by running aumix -L ? If so, perhaps you can add that to your ~/.xinitrc At least that would make a workaround. I had a similar problem with the volume in RealPlayer. After an upgrade the problem suddenly disappeared. Which still baffles me... It's worth a try - thanks Paul Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tar tumbling?
Greetings everyone, I seem to have a problem with my tar backups. When I check the backed up information, I see: -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 7 12:00 backup2.tar.gz Weird, since the backup1 file (made today) should be bigger than the one that rolled over to backup2 from yesterday; I installed OpenOffice 1.0.2. When listing the contents of the backup1 file (tar -tzf backup1.tar.gz), tar lists part of the file and then tells me gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I run Mandrake 8.2 with [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 The command I use to make the backup-file is tar -czf backup1.tar.gz -X ~/div/dont_do ~/* where ~/div/dontdo contains the extensions of some files I do not want backed up. Am I hitting some kind of limit with tar files? Would be strange, at work we tar files that grow into the 1Gb size (running HP-UX though). Paul -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Fri 2003-03-07 at 17:03:31 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its all to do with the x. for a file it means the owner/group can execute that file. But for a directory, anybody in the group for that directory can delete any file in the root of that directory, even if the group permissions for that file say they can't. Sorry, but that is wrong. The x bit for directories is about being able access the content of a directory at all. The w bit determines whether you may delete (or create) files within a directory. And for completness' sake, the r bit controls whether you may list the content: # preparation newton:~ mkdir test newton:~ echo bar test/foo newton:~ ls -ld test drwxrwx---2 philemon philemon 4096 Mar 8 00:29 test newton:~ ls -l test total 4 -rw-rw1 philemon philemon4 Mar 8 00:29 foo # test what x does newton:~ chmod a-x test newton:~ ls test foo newton:~ cat test/foo cat: test/foo: Permission denied newton:~ cd test test: Permission denied. newton:~ touch test/foo2 touch: cannot touch `test/foo2': Permission denied newton:~ chmod a+x test # summary: lack of x forbids any access except accessing list of contents # test for w newton:~ chmod a-w test newton:~ ls test foo newton:~ cat test/foo bar newton:~ cd test newton:~/test cd .. newton:~ rm test/foo rm: cannot remove `test/foo': Permission denied newton:~ touch test/foo2 touch: cannot touch `test/foo2': Permission denied newton:~ echo wah test/foo2 test/foo2: Permission denied. newton:~ echo wah test/foo newton:~ cat test/foo wah newton:~ chmod a+w test # summary: lack of w forbids only deletion or creation of files, but # allows changing of existing ones # test for r newton:~ chmod a-r test newton:~ ls test ls: test: Permission denied newton:~ cat test/foo wah newton:~ cd test newton:~/test cd .. newton:~ touch test/foo2 newton:~ chmod a+r test newton:~ rm -rf test # summary: lack of r forbids listing the directories content, but # direct access to content still works If you think about a directory as being a list of files and the permissions working on that, at least the r and w behaviour is intuitive at once: r tells if you are allowed to read the list of files (but nothing about accessing the files themselves); w tells if you are allowed to write to the list (creating/deleting files would change the list, but changing the content of existing files would not); and x can be thought of really being about what is contained in the directory, not the list of files (therefore looking at the list is still allowed, but nothing else). Thanks to Benjamin for putting that one to rest. Being the chivalrous person I am, I never respond to queries with RTFM, but I do think man chmod is a very valuable document which contains pearls of wisdom, e.g. The letters `rwxXstugo' select the new permissions for the affected users: read (r), write (w), execute **(or access for directories)* (x), execute only if the file is a directory or already has execute permission for some user (X), set user or group ID on execution (s), sticky (t), the permissions granted to the user who owns the file (u), the permissions granted to other users who are members of the file's group (g), and the permissions granted to users that are in neither of the two preceding categories (o). man ls and man rm a pretty good, too ;-) 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
[newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem
Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. The USB hub is detecting the device, KDE C C Info USB devices NEC Corporation |__EPSON Scanner USB OHCI Root Hub (1) |__Lexmark Z53 USB OHCI Root hub (2) USB UHCI Root Hub (4) USB UHCI Root Hub (5) USB UHCI Root Hub (6) |__ Generic USB Storage Device NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (3) Manufacturer: Linux 2.4.21pre4-1mdk ehci-hcd Serial #: 00:0b.2 Class9Hub Subclass 0 Protocol 0 USB Version 2 Vendor ID0x0 ProductID0x0 Revision 2.4 Speed480 Mbit/s Channels 5 Max.Packet Size 0 Bandwidth0 of 800(0%) Intr.request 0 isochr. request0 But when device is called , error message *No device available Could not send Command to Scanner* I thought maybe permissions needed setting, but no. Seems to me there is a problem. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail
Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? TIA -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ 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
[newbie] Don't mess with /etc
Hello all, I thought to be smart, but bit myself in the nose. I intend to go for Mdk 9.1 when it comes available. I remembered that the best thing to do is format / and /usr at least, to make the setup as clean as possible. Of course, one would leave /home alone. I have separate partitions for / /var /usr /home But I think that in /etc there are a lot of settings and such (like /etc/postfix), so I stuck that in a separate partition. Which is where things went sour after a reboot. The new /etc (/dev/hdf2) could not be unmounted, and after reboot it could not be found when the system went looking for /etc/inittab. Luckily CD1 and rescue mode were nice enough to help me get things up and running again. Is there no easy way to preserve all kinds of settings and configs from /etc other than selecting and backing up files by hand? (Damn, I am getting more lazy with Linux than winblows ever had me!) Thanks, Paul -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem
On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. My hp4300 works fine on latest cooker. Did you run scannerdrake? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own
On Friday 07 March 2003 11:57 pm, David Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for this at all. I've checked the logs. This also happened yesterday. Can anyone Just out of curiousity, is it rebooting at the same time or some multiple of time or is it random. It seems like its a random event. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org 7:52am up 14:05, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder
I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing this is that it is linux and box MDK9 and RH8 are both LSB 1.2 certified. So in that case as long as the appropriate rpm's are installed on the new box then it should work fine. Correct? TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own
Chris wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 11:57 pm, David Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for this at all. I've checked the logs. This also happened yesterday. Can anyone Just out of curiousity, is it rebooting at the same time or some multiple of time or is it random. It seems like its a random event. You don't have a green monitor ? (TCO marked) John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. My hp4300 works fine on latest cooker. Did you run scannerdrake? I did, It found the scanner but said something about not having listed somewhere or other. Note scanner worked so easily in M9.0. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own
On Saturday 08 March 2003 09:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Chris wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 11:57 pm, David Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for this at all. I've checked the logs. This also happened yesterday. Can anyone Just out of curiousity, is it rebooting at the same time or some multiple of time or is it random. It seems like its a random event. You don't have a green monitor ? (TCO marked) John I just have to say, do you think anyone would even have noticed (or not just expected it) if this box was running win95? IMHO that this thread even exists is a great reason to use Mandrake-Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder
Robert Wideman wrote: I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing this is that it is linux and box MDK9 and RH8 are both LSB 1.2 certified. So in that case as long as the appropriate rpm's are installed on the new box then it should work fine. Correct? Should be, so long as everything else is the same (e.g. Windows partition, if you're using one). Sir Robin -- A Perl script is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. - Larry Wall 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] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem
On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. The USB hub is detecting the device, KDE C C Info USB devices NEC Corporation |__EPSON Scanner USB OHCI Root Hub (1) |__Lexmark Z53 USB OHCI Root hub (2) USB UHCI Root Hub (4) USB UHCI Root Hub (5) USB UHCI Root Hub (6) |__ Generic USB Storage Device NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (3) Manufacturer: Linux 2.4.21pre4-1mdk ehci-hcd Serial #: 00:0b.2 Class9Hub Subclass 0 Protocol 0 USB Version 2 Vendor ID0x0 ProductID0x0 Revision 2.4 Speed480 Mbit/s Channels 5 Max.Packet Size 0 Bandwidth0 of 800(0%) Intr.request 0 isochr. request0 But when device is called , error message *No device available Could not send Command to Scanner* I thought maybe permissions needed setting, but no. Seems to me there is a problem. John Your onboard USB is a full hardware implementation (Usb-ohci) and your add-on is software-driven (usb-uhci). I fear that the modules dribving these two may not mix. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Don't mess with /etc
On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:39 am, Paul wrote: Hello all, I thought to be smart, but bit myself in the nose. I intend to go for Mdk 9.1 when it comes available. I remembered that the best thing to do is format / and /usr at least, to make the setup as clean as possible. Of course, one would leave /home alone. I have separate partitions for / /var /usr /home But I think that in /etc there are a lot of settings and such (like /etc/postfix), so I stuck that in a separate partition. Which is where things went sour after a reboot. The new /etc (/dev/hdf2) could not be unmounted, and after reboot it could not be found when the system went looking for /etc/inittab. Luckily CD1 and rescue mode were nice enough to help me get things up and running again. Is there no easy way to preserve all kinds of settings and configs from /etc other than selecting and backing up files by hand? (Damn, I am getting more lazy with Linux than winblows ever had me!) Thanks, Paul -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Well, of course many files in /etc are needed when / is mounted read-only before any other partitions are mounted... If you want to preserve /etc and perhaps other files, make a home directory as a repository for CVS and do a checkout daily or so then the files should be available to put into a new install. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Don't mess with /etc
In reply to civileme's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 06:54:43 -0900: Is there no easy way to preserve all kinds of settings and configs from /etc other than selecting and backing up files by hand? Well, of course many files in /etc are needed when / is mounted read-only before any other partitions are mounted... That dawned on me at the moment the reboot failed. *sheepish grin* Better late than never. and perhaps other files, make a home directory as a repository for CVS and do a checkout daily or so then the files should be available to put into a new install. Great advice, as usual, from you. Thank you! Paul -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Saturday March 8 2003 04:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne Well, as we get older everyone seems to complain about the effects of gravity ; Seriously, I've never seen that behavior, have no clue as to why or how to fix it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 5:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday March 8 2003 04:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne Well, as we get older everyone seems to complain about the effects of gravity ; :-) Seriously, I've never seen that behavior, have no clue as to why or how to fix it. Well, as I said, it isn't important. Just one of life's niggles g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] howto for setting up a digital audio workstation with Mandrake 9.1
I would like to reprint something from cooker, since I know Austin does not possibly have the time to have monitored newbie as well as put this together for us and many many THANKS to Austin, Well, since 9.1 should be out next week, and most of the kernel/alsa/jack problems seem to be cleared up, I'd like to present the howto for setting up a digital audio workstation with Mandrake 9.1. While several specialty distros have tried to come up with a pro quality, easy to set-up DAW, they have failed or are floundering. What people don't realize is that you don't need a specialty distro. You can set up a DAW on Mandrake 9.1 with about six commands. Hopefully this will be publicised a bit, and may be a good selling point for Mandrake 9.1. see http://groundstate.ca/mdkaw.html Comments/corrections/suggestions are welcome. Many thanks to Buchan, Danny, and Quel for assistance and ideas. Enjoy, Austin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ntpd issues
I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, its b/c i had one specified in ntp.conf and its not the server that i thought it was. I changed the line that stated server ntpd server name to the IP of the Cisco router and restarted NTPD and i am getting no server suitable for syncronization found in /var/log/messages. MCC does NOT allow me to type in a different NTP server than what is listed thereit only lets me choose from the drop down menu. I do NOT want to select one of those, I want to type in the IP of my NTP server on my Cisco router. How do i change this on MDK9? TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own
Chris wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:52 am, John Richard Smith decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for this at all. I've checked the logs. This also happened yesterday. Can anyone Just out of curiousity, is it rebooting at the same time or some multiple of time or is it random. It seems like its a random event. You don't have a green monitor ? (TCO marked) John Ok, John, not wanting to really appear stupid on the list I'll reply off-list. If you mean, a powersaving monitor, yes I do, is it enabled, no its not. If you meant something else, please let me know. No, that's exactly what I mean, because I think it is something to do with the problem, I have had something similar, none of this I can prove beyond all doubt, but these power management systems are getting complicated. First , there is bios putting it's ore in, in my case bios not only manages it's own powerdown system , but also manages to monitor in the green state irq traffic , as well as screen mode or state , and I dare say other things as well. Second you have the OS's own screensave, and powerdown aspects. Most of this can be shut off, but on M9.0 powersave does not shut down effectively.Not even on the command line. Third , These TCO monitors ( known as green monitors, becuase of their low energy consumption when in the powerdown state) have some sort of chip based programme built into then, in other words they control themselves by reading the state of the CPU / Memory / keyboard / mouse use, and I suspect something is not right about the way Mandrake handles these issues. None of this is proven. I'm just gessing it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem
civileme wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Your onboard USB is a full hardware implementation (Usb-ohci) and your add-on is software-driven (usb-uhci). I fear that the modules dribving these two may not mix. Civileme Civileme, What would you advise me doing about it, if anything. I realise this is still a beta update version, I'm reporting on, so maybe I just leave it and wait and see if the final version corrects it. On the otherhand I and others like me went to all this trouble to detect these problems. I'm only a newbie , I don't really know how to go about these things properly, and I'm completely out of my depth on cooker. I just hope someone is listening and might pick up on it. for the record mine is an Epsom Perfection 2400 Photo. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ntpd issues
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 5:38 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, its b/c i had one specified in ntp.conf and its not the server that i thought it was. I changed the line that stated server ntpd server name to the IP of the Cisco router and restarted NTPD and i am getting no server suitable for syncronization found in /var/log/messages. MCC does NOT allow me to type in a different NTP server than what is listed thereit only lets me choose from the drop down menu. I do NOT want to select one of those, I want to type in the IP of my NTP server on my Cisco router. How do i change this on MDK9? TIA Rob I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. Keeps time great here. Webmin Hardware System Time I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk Hope this helps you out -- 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] ntpd issues
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:22 pm, magnet wrote: I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. Keeps time great here. Webmin Hardware System Time I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk Hope this helps you out I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup IP address for ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk '. What am I missing? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ntpd issues
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:41:48 +: I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup IP address for ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk '. What am I missing? See if you can ping that host: [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ ping ntp2a.mcc.ac.ak ping: unknown host ntp2a.mcc.ac.ak [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ ping ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk PING maverick.mcc.ac.uk (130.88.202.49) from 217.120.72.79 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from maverick.mcc.ac.uk (130.88.202.49): icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=46.909 msec 64 bytes from maverick.mcc.ac.uk (130.88.202.49): icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=61.586 msec It worked here. If that is already impossible, it might be a DNS problem with your ISP. Paul -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 02:02, Chris wrote: I had thought about that also Stephen. I did a few calculations. The xscreen saver kicked in about 10:15 last night and as of 7:30 this morning hadn't rebooted. I have 118 screensavers ticked and its set to randomly pick one. The time between savers is 2 minutes. So, if it did run through them all, its possibly not xscreensaver, but if it didn't run all of them, then it could still be the key. I guess the only way to find out for sure is to run one at a time and see. If I wanted to try and track this down by checking logs, where would I start Stephen? I'd start in several manners - just out of habit: 1.) Check BIOS settings for the RAM and system speed and the likes 2.) Set all HD parameters to optimal settings 3.) Check the video drivers (or update them and make sure the proper settings are in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as per the graphics card) 4.) Check all path statements in /etc/profile and in the /etc/ld.so.conf for any path conflicts or library conflicts 5.) Make sure that all file systems are checked (fsck) so that all inconsistencies are repaired 6.) Turn off all unnecessary services that are running in the background 7.) Clean out anything unnecessary in the /tmp directory 8.) Monitor your logfiles: /var/log/messages /var/log/XFree86.0.log What I still haven't heard about this issue, though, is when did the machine work properly last? What has changed or been modified or installed since that time? -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:00:00 +1100 6:00am up 19:04, 5 users, load average: 1.15, 0.92, 0.66 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Mix's Law: There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building. There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ntpd issues
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:22 pm, magnet wrote: I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. Keeps time great here. Webmin Hardware System Time I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk Hope this helps you out I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup IP address for ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk '. What am I missing? Anne Hi Anne, Did you try clicking on the link in the top/left of the screen module.conf ans see if it picked up the time server? Just for your info this is what that screen shows here: Configurable options for System Time Acceptable number seconds of delay between5 system time and hardware time Default time server[ ] none[x] ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk System time setting format [x] optionA[ ] optionB [ ] optionC Timezone file /etc/localtime File listing possible timezones /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab Directory of timezone files /usr/share/zoneinfo -- 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] ntpd issues
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 7:04 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:41:48 +: I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup IP address for ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk '. What am I missing? See if you can ping that host: No problem with that. It must be something fairly basic that I've missed, presumably in webmin. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ntpd issues
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 7:15 pm, magnet wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:22 pm, magnet wrote: I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. Keeps time great here. Webmin Hardware System Time I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk Hope this helps you out I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup IP address for ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk '. What am I missing? Anne Hi Anne, Did you try clicking on the link in the top/left of the screen module.conf ans see if it picked up the time server? Just for your info this is what that screen shows here: Configurable options for System Time Acceptable number seconds of delay between5 system time and hardware time Default time server[ ] none[x] ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk System time setting format [x] optionA[ ] optionB [ ] optionC Timezone file /etc/localtime File listing possible timezones /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab Directory of timezone files /usr/share/zoneinfo That's exactly what I've got. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne This isn't on of those save current settings when exiting kde things is it? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 7:39 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne This isn't on of those save current settings when exiting kde things is it? Not that I know of. Do you want to be more specific? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) -- 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] Getting old threads sent by mail
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:36, Adolfo Bello wrote: Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? TIA If it is a specific thread just read the archives. If you specifically want it in e-mail form for inclusion in a folder, then copy and paste from browser to e-mail. Then mail them to yourself. I myself am constantly fighting to minimise the mail folder contents. Archives are listed here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] howto for setting up a digital audio workstation withMandrake 9.1
et wrote: I would like to reprint something from cooker, since I know Austin does not possibly have the time to have monitored newbie as well as put this together for us and many many THANKS to Austin, Well, since 9.1 should be out next week, and most of the kernel/alsa/jack problems seem to be cleared up, I'd like to present the howto for setting up a digital audio workstation with Mandrake 9.1. While several specialty distros have tried to come up with a pro quality, easy to set-up DAW, they have failed or are floundering. What people don't realize is that you don't need a specialty distro. You can set up a DAW on Mandrake 9.1 with about six commands. Hopefully this will be publicised a bit, and may be a good selling point for Mandrake 9.1. see http://groundstate.ca/mdkaw.html Comments/corrections/suggestions are welcome. Many thanks to Buchan, Danny, and Quel for assistance and ideas. And thanks to you! I've bookmarked it for future reference, i.e. when I have some better hardware. 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] No icons in KDE 3.1
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 06:39, robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) Honourable Sir Robin, Methinks that this was previously regurgitated in the kde-linux group - tried doing a search through, but can't quite seem to locate the particular thread - or could be due to dain bramage. I recall, though, something to the effect of a bad linking against older libraries... You might, dear Sir, want to have a peruse of that listing...as there is quite a bit of good talk... BTW, KDE 3.1 kicks-ass. Gnome 2.2.0 still leaves alot to be desired... Cheers and Turkish Beers! -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:45:01 +1100 6:45am up 19:49, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.13, 0.15 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: For more than a thousand generations the Jedi were the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. Before the dark times. Before the Empire. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:49, Michael Adams wrote: If it is a specific thread just read the archives. If you specifically want it in e-mail form for inclusion in a folder, then copy and paste from browser to e-mail. Then mail them to yourself. I myself am constantly fighting to minimise the mail folder contents. Archives are listed here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Thanks for your response. I assumed that there might be an easier way. Thanks again, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 22:47, robin wrote: man ls and man rm a pretty good, too ;-) Sir Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man woman No manual entry for woman [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man sense No manual entry for sense [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man brains No manual entry for brains -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:50:00 +1100 6:50am up 19:54, 5 users, load average: 0.64, 0.37, 0.25 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of a lower grade ... -- Stanislaw Lem, Cyberiad Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 04:15, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:38:20PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi it cannot be deleted (I tried '/' '/etc' '/home'). But still, I think that some time ago I tried to delete a root file from my home, and had to su to manage. On everybody else's system its' the same? i just tried it on my system and the same thing happens. Hadn't noticed before that I could delete a root-owned file if it was in my home directory. very curious... Why would you want something in your home directory that you couldn't delete? I'm not being obtuse - is there any reason you can think of that would make root place a file in your home directory but not want you to be able to delete it? Anne Just as an extra measure of security--something to protect me from myself :) Sometimes I do iso images in my ~/ as root. I'd prefer to switch to root to delete these. Todd Then disabling your write permission is your alternative. That way you need not invoke nasty old tricksy root, my precious. (Sorry, Tolkien overload) $ chmod -w my_file_name This ensures no-one can write or erase the file. Usually i would use octal but in this instance this syntax is shorter. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] vmware hosting
Hi all. Just installed vmware and set it up as host omly but how can I access the internet from this setting. When using Nat I can easily access once I login with my linux box but then cannot access the host file system. It seems it's either one or the other at present whereas I would like them both. I do not have an ethernet card but instead aiming to run as a virtual network. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd not working
Hi all Got a prob with my cd/dvd player. Whenever I put in a cd, say from a linux magazine, it cannot be read saying that the files do not exist. Sometimes the files names are shown but when I click on them I get theabove message. This means I have to place all the apps I want onto my windows partion (which I want o ditch) and the reboot into linux and copy them across. Can anyone help!!! Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:36:52AM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? Don't know about sympa commands, but mail servers will usually try to deliver for a few days. Just the longer there's no answer, the longer the amount of time between attempts. You will probably eventually get mostly everything (when you start getting messages that people have already replied to you'll know :) ). At least, that's been my experience. -- Paul pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] vmware hosting
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 00:07, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: - what is the guest OS, BTW? Win98 for the girlfriend. Andrew OK, so being that you can't replace the girlfriend with a linux girlfriend, I'd tend to reckon that you need to make ABSOLUTELY sure you have Samba setup on the host box with the right workgroup/domain name, and set to share whatever shares you want (Use Webmin/SWAT to setup Samba - so so so much easier); afterwards, make sure you have the Win98 guest OS setup to obtain by DHCP, use the same workgroup/domain settings you just mucked with in linux, set TCP/IP as the default protocol, add the linux box to the C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS file for further solidity, set the sharing in Win98 to be turned on, and the virtual ethernet card to 10mbps - full duplex (as that's all it's capable of dealing with); and restart the VM...you should be able to not only share the internet connection, but have visible shares of the linux host to the Win98 guest... Sounds all rocket-science and the likes, but in reality it's fairly simple. I use VMWare for XP-Pro in a Windows - not that I use it even much anymore - been over a month since I fired it up...but it does work nicely. I found as well, that by putting the virtual machine on a different physical drive than that of the OS that I get better performance - as well, after tweaking/tuning the HD params you get some really good performance - moreso than an actual installation of Win98. You can also setup a second virtual HD for the Win98 guest - nice place to put the \TEMP, the Win98 swap and the IE's temporary internet files...just to improve performance a tad bit more... HTH! Cheers! -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 08:20:00 +1100 8:20am up 21:24, 4 users, load average: 0.79, 0.41, 0.33 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- egrep patterns are full regular expressions; it uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space. -- unix manuals Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 07:47, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 16:08, Paul Cox wrote: I guess it is not the case for mailing lists. What they do is to send you a probe, let's say 24 hours after te messages to you start bouncing, warning that if the probe bounces too then you will be removed from the list. It is a nice feature in some lists like MySQL or VIM ones. Thanks a lot for your response Adolpho's being probed! (Gads, I watch way too much South Park) -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 08:25:01 +1100 8:25am up 21:29, 4 users, load average: 0.55, 0.29, 0.28 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Richard B. Johnson wrote: It's a tomorrow thing. Ten hours is too long to stare at a screen. Sissy! - Jens Axboe on linux-kernel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD movies
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely different program. Did you look at plf.zarb.org I've been using a DVD player called Ogle...can't remember where I got it, but I'm sure a quick googling will take care of that. I like it better than mplayer for DVDs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD movies
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 22:14, Roger Sherman wrote: There's also a prog called vlc On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely different program. Did you look at plf.zarb.org I've been using a DVD player called Ogle...can't remember where I got it, but I'm sure a quick googling will take care of that. I like it better than mplayer for DVDs. -- O o _\_ o \\/ o\ . //\___= '' Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:27:52 + 10:27pm up 13:16, 0 users, load average: 2.09, 2.05, 2.01 Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life. -- Marvin the Paranoid Android Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DVD movies
Check out this site and follow it. It got me going. http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD movies On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely different program. Did you look at plf.zarb.org I've been using a DVD player called Ogle...can't remember where I got it, but I'm sure a quick googling will take care of that. I like it better than mplayer for DVDs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DVD movies
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 09:27, Robert Wideman wrote: Check out this site and follow it. It got me going. http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Rob If it got you going, then I'd be frightened! -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 09:30:00 +1100 9:30am up 22:34, 4 users, load average: 2.03, 1.77, 1.39 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have the same problem Robin. Think I will just live with it until 9.1. Charles 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 Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:29, Lanman wrote: 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. Hmm, Is it a new feature for Konqueror in KDE 3.1 ?. I haven't tried KDE 3.1. I should upgrade my AMD Duron to Athlon XP to try KDE 3.1. ;-) - -- The hardware that doesn't support Linux is not a good hardware. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ag4xH9VEhcXPGz4RAonjAKDxXMSttxjr5Q+0ZVmv+VHnROWbngCg0rxo Qjkv2WxmeNfridNe9uu+53c= =83m/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything
On Saturday 08 March 2003 09:37 am, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:29, Lanman wrote: 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. Hmm, Is it a new feature for Konqueror in KDE 3.1 ?. I haven't tried KDE 3.1. I should upgrade my AMD Duron to Athlon XP to try KDE 3.1. ;-) - -- The hardware that doesn't support Linux is not a good hardware. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ag4xH9VEhcXPGz4RAonjAKDxXMSttxjr5Q+0ZVmv+VHnROWbngCg0rxo Qjkv2WxmeNfridNe9uu+53c= =83m/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Actually Konqueror web browser has had this capability as far back as 7.2 that I know of and maybe before that. It's very handy. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tar tumbling?
Hi. On Sat 2003-03-08 at 12:31:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have a problem with my tar backups. Yes, you do have. ;) When I check the backed up information, I see: -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 7 12:00 backup2.tar.gz The size is exactly 100.000*1KB. Looks like you are hitting an imposed file size limit. Type ulimit -a and you should get something like [...] file size (blocks, -f) 10 That means the system won't allow you to write files bigger than 100.000KB. One obvious way to change it is to use ulimit itself, although non-root users are limited in the ways changing the limits. From the top of my head, I am not sure where to change the system wide defaults. /etc/security/limits.conf might be one place to look at. HTH, Benjamin. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta
$ mkdosfs /dev/fd0 is only part of the story. Presumably working on preformatted or prepped disks? Yep - presumably the disk has already been (fd) formatted. But most floppy disks purchased these days have already been formatted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0
of the board, but it does have Fresno printed along one edge. FSB is I guess the bus speed to the expansioh slots - supposedly the front side of the CPU. Doesn't make much sense. I guess it's related to the speed that the CPU can interface with the peripherals, memory, etc. If it's in front of anything my guess it's in frunt of the CPU. - Intel 82810 Onbaord Video Graphics with 4 Mb of shared video memory (Integrated into chipset, no AGP slot) Others have suggested it may be a problem. 4 megs of video should be enough for most things. I've got 16. Supposedly, 32-bit color at 1024x768 resolution needs just a little over 4 megs. But that should not impact the installer, and you can select a particular resolution and test different ones during the X setup. - 56K v.90 Modem PCI (Cheetah apparently) This might be a concern - many PCI modems are winmodems. If so, modeming will be difficult because the winmodems are dumbed-down modems' that require Windows hardware calls to function. - Internet Multimedia Keyboard full size (104 key) Marketing hype. Does the keyboard play sound? :) - 2 button Mouse PS/2 Wonder why they didn't market the mouse as multimedia :). Diane Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update
As an update - I just disconnected the CD-RW - Still can't boot from the CD-ROM. Now I'm going to set up the CD-ROM as Primary SLAVE and see where that gets me. I have had difficulties - not really linux related but it's the only OS I've run in several years - but likely hardware issues on an older Pentium 100 mainboard. Getting the BIOS to see the CDROM is very problematic if it is set to anything other than master, with two drives in the system. I toook that advice (learned from experience) and when I put together my existing athlon box I put the CDROM on the secondary IDE channel (/dev/hdc). Of course, your mileage may vary. FWIW dept: I attempted to install 9.0 back in September using a net image - i.e., boot from floppy and get it from predownloaded RPMS - no go. Ruined my box :(. I got some friends to mail me CD-ROMs as I have no burner here. Diane Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD movies
I'm using Xine with encrypted dvds. You can get the version of decoder software and the version of Xine it works with at my site. http://www12.brinkster.com/cowgirlk/xine.htm Everything should work fine after that :) Good Luck! -- LeaAnne Kolp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User #288129 On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely different program. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip -- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD movies
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely different program. Did you look at plf.zarb.org -- Greg Have you got libdvdcss installed? That seems to be important for ogle, xine, and mplayer. The PLF site has RPMs, some specific to ogle. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
