Re: [newbie-it] help: invio email...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:37, martedì 18 marzo 2003, beo ha scritto: Io ho risolto utilizzando un SMTP fornito da un non provider così ricevo dove voglio e trasmetto sempre indifferentemente da chi garantisce la connessione. Adesso sono connesso tramite ADSL aziendale, ricevo su inwind e trasmetto da yahoo :-) ciao GPaolo Lo puoi fare anche da Lycos, che a differenza di yahoo non dovrebbe far pagare niente (ma richiede autenticazione quindi kmail dal KDE 3.0 in poi) - -- 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+etnaTvJtVxCNwP4RAhGvAJ9tIaj3rWbsJDA2gdoRbSbywLUMUgCeMwFF t7FwcPppZq7eVJrp1CDeBCg= =Wd4h -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] help: invio email...
Il Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:22:31 +0100 Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:37, martedì 18 marzo 2003, beo ha scritto: Io ho risolto utilizzando un SMTP fornito da un non provider così ricevo dove voglio e trasmetto sempre indifferentemente da chi garantisce la connessione. Adesso sono connesso tramite ADSL aziendale, ricevo su inwind e trasmetto da yahoo :-) Lo puoi fare anche da Lycos, che a differenza di yahoo non dovrebbe far pagare niente yahoo.it di dà 5mb free (ma richiede autenticazione quindi kmail dal KDE 3.0 in poi) oppure il leggero e multipiattaforma sylpheed ;-) ciao Gpaolo
Re: [newbie-it] kde e gnome
Il Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:32:04 + Fabio Manunza [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Per KDE esiste kappfinder. Il Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:36:53 +0100 Germano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: ma come si fa a dire a kde/gnome di cercarsi i nuovi programmi installati? Intendi dire come si fa a farli apparire nel menu? yess Se è cosi dipende dal programma installato e dal gestore dei menu. Di solito è mandrake che gestisce i menu di tutti i WM ma puoi fare in modo che kde o gnome se li gestiscano da soli (sconsigliabile, perchè non vedono tutti i programmi). Altrimenti ti vai a vedere che files descrittivi ci sono nel pacchetto e li copi in /usr/share/applnk-mdk/ nel posto giusto. Se ho fatto tutto questo discorso inutilmente dimmelo e magari specifica più esattamente il tipo di problema. soprattutto per pacchetti non rpm per i quali bisogna individuare l'eseguibile e linkarlo sul desktop o sulla barra preferita. ma non c'è un'applicazioncina che li cerca ad sola e aggiorna i vari menù? (pigro el toso eh?) intanto provo kappfinder grazie ciao Gpaolo
RE: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
Hi Anne What is K3b? I am not familiar with the abbreviations... Oren -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 March 2003 13:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast On Friday 21 Mar 2003 10:33 am, Tsur, Oren wrote: Can't remember such a warning/suggestion/advice along the way. It is no big deal. When I 'list' the fstab it shows all my devices perfectly. I never had a problem accesing any of my drives. That is why I found it a bit strange that I couldn't see my DVD-ROM in X-CD-Roast. Oren Tsur Hi, Oren. XCDRoast can only work with scsi-emulated drives. As I said before, K3b can work with ide drives without the scsi-emulation, so you can keep the emulation on your burner (where you need it) but don't need to emulate on the dvd. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
XP stands for eXPerience... For myself, it stands for eXPen$ive... Albert Charron -Original Message- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake? Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: normally never.. I have not seen new lindows though, apparently it has user accounts (not all root) and fixit alot of stuff that people didn't like.. my main question is mdk's future.. I don't care really how they rate to mags.. I care about if there is gonna be a mandrake 10 rgds Frank I think there will be a Mandrake 11, mate... I hope so. Just as long as they don't start giving releases silly names like Mandrake Millenium or Mandrake PX. By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party members in the back (Paranoia being a wonderful exception that really captures the atmosphere of the IT world). And please don't answer that question by saying RTFM. We ain' gon' read no steenking Weendows manuel. 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] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 1:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday March 20 2003 05:16 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: I have just had exactly the same problem. Wrote a CDRW in GCombust, finished OK, wouldn't eject the CD. lsof reported that nothing on the cd was open. ie lsof|grep cdrom2 and lsof|grep scd0 both reported nothing. Seeing that nothing was open I unmounted it with umount -l /mnt/cdrom2 and that at least gave me my cd back. Everything appeared fairly sane I think. The jury is still out as to whether I can burn another CD following this one, and I'm no expert about what I might have broken with that unmount. I did have supermount enabled. CDr's are not mounted for burning. So 'umount' isn't part of the equation. I did open the CD in Konquerer immediately after the burn, just to make sure the data was there. This time through I closed GCombust first. (And closed konquerer before trying to eject, of course.) It's likely just coincidental that by the time you ran that command, whatever has holding on to the burner had released it. Next time try 'eject /dev/scd0' (or scd? depending on which ? your burner is). 'Course if you're burning as root (you shouldn't be) you'll need to run the eject command as root. $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, went back in again $ sudo umount -l /mnt/cdrom2 Password: $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, stayed out While I grant that that sequence took thirty seconds or so, and things may have changed between the two ejects, that was a lot less time than I took fiddling with it last night. It stands to reason that the burner must lock the drive closed while the burn is happening. I don't know how that happens. Even if it isn't a mount it might still have a similar effect on the top level mount/umount/eject functionality. Supermount has been vastly improved in 9.1. Specially if you use the premptable, low latency kernel found in contribs (2.4.21-0.16mm). OTOH, supermount isn't involved in this problem since CDr's are not mounted for burning anyway. The reason I'm doing this is to archive off my files so when I load 9.1, hopefully next week, I can nuke and pave, and this time get the partitions right so I don't have to do it next time. Not that a few backups now and then aren't a good thing ;-) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VMWare Installation Questions
Hello All, I am installing VMWare 3.2 and I am being asked for some information that i do not know. I am running a fairly out-of-the-box installation of Mandrake 9.0 and I am being asked the location of the C header files that match my running kernel. Does anyone know where I would find these? thanks, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 2:16 pm, Tsur, Oren wrote: Hi Anne What is K3b? I am not familiar with the abbreviations... Oren K3b is the name of the application. It is on your Mandrake CDs. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 2:33 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 1:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday March 20 2003 05:16 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: I did open the CD in Konquerer immediately after the burn, just to make sure the data was there. This time through I closed GCombust first. (And closed konquerer before trying to eject, of course.) I experience this open/fast close from time to time after browsing cds. It is clear that you must make abosolutely certain that no Konqueror windows are open before you try to eject. I think it would also mean that you must not be browsing the directory in a shell, either. Still there appear to be times when that isn't enough. Sometimes it sorts itself out after a while, but if it gets stuck, I generally log out, then in again. It's likely just coincidental that by the time you ran that command, whatever has holding on to the burner had released it. Next time try 'eject /dev/scd0' (or scd? depending on which ? your burner is). 'Course if you're burning as root (you shouldn't be) you'll need to run the eject command as root. $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, went back in again $ sudo umount -l /mnt/cdrom2 Password: $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, stayed out While I grant that that sequence took thirty seconds or so, and things may have changed between the two ejects, that was a lot less time than I took fiddling with it last night. It stands to reason that the burner must lock the drive closed while the burn is happening. I don't know how that happens. Even if it isn't a mount it might still have a similar effect on the top level mount/umount/eject functionality. I don't burn from the command line. Both XCDRoast and K3b have a setting to eject on completion, and I always use that. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500 video out
I have an S-video out that splits into composite out (which is the one I am using). I don't have a specific driver for it, since I don't know which one to use. gikoreno --- On Fri 03/21, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: John Richard Smith [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:44:46 + Subject: Re: [newbie] Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500 video out gikoreno wrote:brbrHey everyone:brbrI am trying to get the TV-out on a machine that's running Mandrake linux 9.0 to work.brbrWhat I would like to be able to do is to receive the TV signal through the coaxial cable and then use the S-video-out (using the provided s-video to composite converter) to output the signal on the actual TV.brbrThen I could also read DVDs from the PC and watch them on the TV screen.brbrIf I boot the computer with the s-video (or composite video) cable connected, it will boot to console mode no problem, and the console stuff will be visible on the TV too.brThe problem arises when trying to start the X server. I get the following message:brbr (EE) RADEON(0): No valid mode found for this DFP/LCDbr (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a useable configurationbrbrRunning XFdrake doesn't work, so I don't know what else I can do.brIf I disconnect the video-out cable and reboot, the Xserver will start like norm al, no problems will be encountered, but no output to TV will happen either...brbrHas anyone gotten this working, and could you provide me with the Xfree configuration file that works for the Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500?brbrThanks a lot. I've been looking everywhere on the net for this, but I only saw people having the same question, and no answers.brI am sure that there are lots of people who would be interested in knowing how to do that too.brbrThanks in advance,brbrgikorenobrbr brbrI have a working tv-out to tv, from my geforce3 card.brbrDo you have a working tv-out driver for your Radeon ?brbrXwindows does not provide tv-out.brbrJohnbrbr-- brJohn Richard Smithbr[EMAIL PROTECTED] brbrbrbrWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? brGo to http://www.mandrakestore.combr ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem hanging on connection
On Friday 21 March 2003 15:11, Chris wrote: Hi All, I have recently joined the many fleeing from M$ to Linux and have chosen Mandrake 9.0 to try out. The install was simple and flawless and similar success to working my way around the desktop etc... I have come unstuck however on connecting to my local isp . The computer in question is the server ( for want of a better word ) for my home lan and also the only one with a modem attached to it ( Maestro Woomera 56k ext ) The lan works fine with me being able to ping the other comps at home , the internet dial up seems to be more confusing than what I thought it should have been. I started with the Connect to Internet section in the What i want to do and it brought up the kppp interface ... I was feeling pretty confident to getting this going as I had watched a mate set up his dial up with RedHat 7.3 ...Easy ;-) After entering what i thought would be the relevant information the modem dials , connects and hangs... ( Not hangup - but hangs ) I can't access mail , web services or the like Was there anything amazingly simple I missed ...( Hangs head ) Any guidance in the right direction would be a great help.Thanks Chris Have you selected 'show log window' to see where it hangs? HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
I've just gone through the process again. On Friday 21 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 2:33 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 1:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday March 20 2003 05:16 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: I did open the CD in Konquerer immediately after the burn, just to make sure the data was there. This time through I closed GCombust first. (And closed konquerer before trying to eject, of course.) I experience this open/fast close from time to time after browsing cds. It is clear that you must make abosolutely certain that no Konqueror windows are open before you try to eject. I think it would also mean that you must not be browsing the directory in a shell, either. Still there appear to be times when that isn't enough. Sometimes it sorts itself out after a while, but if it gets stuck, I generally log out, then in again. This time I closed GCombust and ejected the CD before opening konquerer. Once from the button on the drive, once using eject. Both worked perfectly. Then I opened the CD using konquerer. No files. I then mounted the CD by hand (sudo mount /mnt/cdrom2.) The files appeared. Then I tried to eject the CD. No dice, the button is ignored and eject does the now-you-see-it-now-you-dont routine. I unmounted the CD by hand. The first time it refused device is busy. But it had only just retracted, and the drive was probably reading the index. I waited a second or two and the second umount worked. This time I got everything working without the -l flag to umount, so that is probably a red herring. My guess is that a standard umount will work, so long as you give it a while after a failed eject. Supermount was enabled at all times. Conclusion: Burning CDs can confuse supermount. Expect to mount/umount by hand. Wait for the drive to finish following a failed eject. I have finished my backups for now. I'll leave it to others to determine if ejecting and reinserting the disk after burning but before trying to read it reduces problems. It's likely just coincidental that by the time you ran that command, whatever has holding on to the burner had released it. Next time try 'eject /dev/scd0' (or scd? depending on which ? your burner is). 'Course if you're burning as root (you shouldn't be) you'll need to run the eject command as root. $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, went back in again $ sudo umount -l /mnt/cdrom2 Password: $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, stayed out While I grant that that sequence took thirty seconds or so, and things may have changed between the two ejects, that was a lot less time than I took fiddling with it last night. It stands to reason that the burner must lock the drive closed while the burn is happening. I don't know how that happens. Even if it isn't a mount it might still have a similar effect on the top level mount/umount/eject functionality. I don't burn from the command line. Both XCDRoast and K3b have a setting to eject on completion, and I always use that. GCombust is GUI, and was installed with MDK9.0 XCDRoast did not seem to be able to construct a CD, just to copy one. I may be wrong. Anne -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem hanging on connection
Hi Chris, it sounds like you havent set automatic IP adressing along with the gateway on the remote server. Be also sure that your resolv.conf is writabe by who executes kppp (or set suid flag on pppd) and that on connection it gets filled with the remote DNS address. Remember to set CR/LF on your connection. Hope this helps. Bye Leonardo Diciolla --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hi All, I have recently joined the many fleeing from M$ to Linux and have chosen Mandrake 9.0 to try out. The install was simple and flawless and similar success to working my way around the desktop etc... I have come unstuck however on connecting to my local isp . The computer in question is the server ( for want of a better word ) for my home lan and also the only one with a modem attached to it ( Maestro Woomera 56k ext ) The lan works fine with me being able to ping the other comps at home , the internet dial up seems to be more confusing than what I thought it should have been. I started with the Connect to Internet section in the What i want to do and it brought up the kppp interface ... I was feeling pretty confident to getting this going as I had watched a mate set up his dial up with RedHat 7.3 ...Easy ;-) After entering what i thought would be the relevant information the modem dials , connects and hangs... ( Not hangup - but hangs ) I can't access mail , web services or the like Was there anything amazingly simple I missed ...( Hangs head ) Any guidance in the right direction would be a great help.Thanks Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
In /etc/lilo.conf as root, add hdX=ide-scsi to the append line, where X is the proper device letter. Mine is on the fourth IDE channel, so my append line looks like this: append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi The last item is my DVD drive. Then, also as root, type lilo on the commandline to activate the change. Reboot. That should do it. Miark On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:34:49 - Tsur, Oren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark How do you emu-scsi your DVD-ROM drive? Thanks, Oren -Original Message- From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 March 2003 20:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 8:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 6:42 pm, Miark wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:11:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right place to find the disks. I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said about this, but I think it was so. Maybe I missed the point. If you install Linux from the DVD drive, and then later switch from IDE to SCSI emulation, that would confule urmpi. Is that what you mean? It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems? I think using K3b is _more_ dangerous because of the changes it makes directly to fstab (if you let it). Damned if you do, damned if you don't, eh? I forgot that some people had run foul of that one. I played cautious and said no, since I hadn't a clue what it would try to do. Turned out that was exactly the right answer g So be warned, Oren. If you install K3b it will ask if it can change your fstab. Say 'No'! Anne Fascinated Newbie in learn mode: What changes does it try to make? -- Richard Urwin Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 3:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: I've just gone through the process again. On Friday 21 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 2:33 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 1:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday March 20 2003 05:16 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: This time I closed GCombust and ejected the CD before opening konquerer. Wise, I think. Once from the button on the drive, once using eject. Both worked perfectly. Then I opened the CD using konquerer. No files. I then mounted the CD by hand (sudo mount /mnt/cdrom2.) The files appeared. Then I tried to eject the CD. No dice, the button is ignored and eject does the now-you-see-it-now-you-dont routine. I unmounted the CD by hand. The first time it refused device is busy. But it had only just retracted, and the drive was probably reading the index. I waited a second or two and the second umount worked. This time I got everything working without the -l flag to umount, so that is probably a red herring. My guess is that a standard umount will work, so long as you give it a while after a failed eject. Part of the problem is probably the longish spin-up spin-down time with modern faster drives. Supermount was enabled at all times. Conclusion: Burning CDs can confuse supermount. Expect to mount/umount by hand. Wait for the drive to finish following a failed eject. Which fits with my experience that it sometimes clears itself if left along. I have finished my backups for now. I'll leave it to others to determine if ejecting and reinserting the disk after burning but before trying to read it reduces problems. GCombust is GUI, and was installed with MDK9.0 OK - I haven't used it. XCDRoast did not seem to be able to construct a CD, just to copy one. I may be wrong. I use it all the time for backing up files. If you want to either post to list or direct to me, I will make some notes and give you a HOW-TO. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I use it all the time for backing up files. If you want to either post to list or direct to me, I will make some notes and give you a HOW-TO. Anne Ahh! Master Tracks. Now I see. How un-intuitive. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:12 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I use it all the time for backing up files. If you want to either post to list or direct to me, I will make some notes and give you a HOW-TO. Anne Ahh! Master Tracks. Now I see. How un-intuitive. 'Tis, a bit g That said, I find it very easy to use. I like the ability to add a directory, check the size of the burn, exclude inessentials for a later burn if it's too big, and so on. I have K3b installed, and it's pretty, but somehow I can't use it with the same ease. That's great, though, for tasks such as burning an iso, so there advantages in having both. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
That is brilliant. Many thanks Miark Oren -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 March 2003 15:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast In /etc/lilo.conf as root, add hdX=ide-scsi to the append line, where X is the proper device letter. Mine is on the fourth IDE channel, so my append line looks like this: append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi The last item is my DVD drive. Then, also as root, type lilo on the commandline to activate the change. Reboot. That should do it. Miark On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:34:49 - Tsur, Oren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark How do you emu-scsi your DVD-ROM drive? Thanks, Oren -Original Message- From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 March 2003 20:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 8:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 6:42 pm, Miark wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:11:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive, there would be problems in that the software installer would not be looking at the right place to find the disks. I'd have to check back to see exactly what was said about this, but I think it was so. Maybe I missed the point. If you install Linux from the DVD drive, and then later switch from IDE to SCSI emulation, that would confule urmpi. Is that what you mean? It's worth remembering that just about anything he wants to do can be done on that disk without scsi-emulation, so why risk problems? I think using K3b is _more_ dangerous because of the changes it makes directly to fstab (if you let it). Damned if you do, damned if you don't, eh? I forgot that some people had run foul of that one. I played cautious and said no, since I hadn't a clue what it would try to do. Turned out that was exactly the right answer g So be warned, Oren. If you install K3b it will ask if it can change your fstab. Say 'No'! Anne Fascinated Newbie in learn mode: What changes does it try to make? -- Richard Urwin Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: ... I find it very easy to use. I like the ability to add a directory, check the size of the burn, exclude inessentials for a later burn if it's too big, and so on. I have K3b installed, and it's pretty, but somehow I can't use it with the same ease. That's great, though, for tasks such as burning an iso, so there advantages in having both. Anne GCombust has a button that suggests which directories to remove to shrink the image down below the size of the CD while wasting the minimum amount of space. What would be useful is if you could mark those directories as not in the current image, but have them hang around until you did the next burn, so you don't forget which ones you've done, or more likely, haven't. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:30 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: ... I find it very easy to use. I like the ability to add a directory, check the size of the burn, exclude inessentials for a later burn if it's too big, and so on. I have K3b installed, and it's pretty, but somehow I can't use it with the same ease. That's great, though, for tasks such as burning an iso, so there advantages in having both. Anne GCombust has a button that suggests which directories to remove to shrink the image down below the size of the CD while wasting the minimum amount of space. That sounds useful What would be useful is if you could mark those directories as not in the current image, but have them hang around until you did the next burn, so you don't forget which ones you've done, or more likely, haven't. Excluded files/subdirectories are clearly marked with a red arrow in the selection page, which can be returned to when you've finished. (Since it can eject at the end of the burn, you can just keep the program open.) I then note down those excluded ones, clear the list, and start by putting those at the head of the list. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:33 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:30 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 4:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: ... I find it very easy to use. I like the ability to add a directory, check the size of the burn, exclude inessentials for a later burn if it's too big, and so on. I have K3b installed, and it's pretty, but somehow I can't use it with the same ease. That's great, though, for tasks such as burning an iso, so there advantages in having both. Anne GCombust has a button that suggests which directories to remove to shrink the image down below the size of the CD while wasting the minimum amount of space. That sounds useful What would be useful is if you could mark those directories as not in the current image, but have them hang around until you did the next burn, so you don't forget which ones you've done, or more likely, haven't. Excluded files/subdirectories are clearly marked with a red arrow in the selection page, which can be returned to when you've finished. (Since it can eject at the end of the burn, you can just keep the program open.) I then note down those excluded ones, clear the list, and start by putting those at the head of the list. Anne Almost perfect! But why not a clear all but excluded files button. GCombust can only delete them out of the image, and since they're automatically chosen I'd imagine that they'd be scattered throughout the image - so a lot of writing. It can save the current file list, but not the marked subset of it, or invert the selection. Either of those would have been enough. I suppose it's open source. If I wanted it badly enough I'd add it. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday March 21 2003 08:33 am, Richard Urwin wrote: $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, went back in again $ sudo umount -l /mnt/cdrom2 Password: $ eject /dev/scd0# Came out, stayed out Here again, I don't think it was the 'umount' that did the trick. Konqueror's hold on the device had probly expired by then. IME, even tho you had already closed Konqueror, it still takes some time to release. A CDr can't be mounted, since you can only mount filesystems. There ain't one on blank CDr's (or images like audio CD's) ;) After you burned it, and then checked with a file manager, supermount did mount it, and it was probly Konq that took it's sweet damn time lettin it go. While I grant that that sequence took thirty seconds or so, and things may have changed between the two ejects, that was a lot less time than I took fiddling with it last night. I don't know about GUI's, but all my CL solutions (biso, bacd, bdcd) contain 'eject'. ie, alias bdcd='cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data' So the CDr is immediately ejected right after fixating is finished. Then to check the CD, I push the drawer back in and bring it up in a terminal and do a 'ls' on it, or use a file manager like Konqueror. Then I either wait a while, or if I'm impatient, use 'eject /dev/scd0' to retrieve it. 'man eject' says If the device is currently mounted, it is unmounted before ejecting. Maybe in your case it's havin trouble over riding Konq's hold? Doesn't happen to me, I suspect it could be permissions. What's your msec level? I run at msec 2 just so my system doesn't argue with me about what I wanna do ; To tell the truth, 'bout the only time my burner won't give up a CD is after doin 'md5sum /dev/scd0' to check the integrity of burned iso's. 'eject' always gets it for me tho ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 5:11 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I don't know about GUI's, but all my CL solutions (biso, bacd, bdcd) contain 'eject'. ie, alias bdcd='cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data' So the CDr is immediately ejected right after fixating is finished. Then to check the CD, I push the drawer back in and bring it up in a terminal and do a 'ls' on it, or use a file manager like Konqueror. Then I either wait a while, or if I'm impatient, use 'eject /dev/scd0' to retrieve it. 'man eject' says If the device is currently mounted, it is unmounted before ejecting. Maybe in your case it's havin trouble over riding Konq's hold? Doesn't happen to me, I suspect it could be permissions. What's your msec level? I run at msec 2 just so my system doesn't argue with me about what I wanna do ; To tell the truth, 'bout the only time my burner won't give up a CD is after doin 'md5sum /dev/scd0' to check the integrity of burned iso's. 'eject' always gets it for me tho ;) msec is 3. The eject option is probably the way to go. The disk is reinserted as a valid filesystem rather than suddenly turning into one. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Friday 21 March 2003 10:53 am, Richard Urwin wrote: Supermount was enabled at all times. Conclusion: Burning CDs can confuse supermount. Expect to mount/umount by hand. Wait for the drive to finish following a failed eject. What is happining is the following cd is finished burning (but not mounted) supermount sees that a valid cd is in the drive, and then mounts it cd is now mounted. This is one of the main reasons that i do not use supermount. -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB ports
Hello. First time I post here. I find it rather to our disadvantage that we newbies are kept packed together. Sometimes we have problems which need the intervention of an experienced user. But anyway, I'll try to keep my questions not too complicated. Problem is, my Mandrake doesn't recognize my USB ports. When I installed, they were disabled in the BIOS. I do not have the slightest idea of how they got disabled. Now, I have a USB printer, and I want to have it local, so I need those ports. Any suggestions on how to solve this? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare Installation Questions
Op Friday 21 March 2003 16:03, schreef Brian: Brian , I 've got VMware working after installing glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk.i586.rpm . goto http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/index.html for this rpm . greets , Bart. Hello All, I am installing VMWare 3.2 and I am being asked for some information that i do not know. I am running a fairly out-of-the-box installation of Mandrake 9.0 and I am being asked the location of the C header files that match my running kernel. Does anyone know where I would find these? thanks, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB ports
Hello. First time I post here. I find it rather to our disadvantage that we newbies are kept packed together. Sometimes we have problems which need the intervention of an experienced user. But anyway, I'll try to keep my questions not too complicated. Problem is, my Mandrake doesn't recognize my USB ports. When I installed, they were disabled in the BIOS. I do not have the slightest idea of how they got disabled. Now, I have a USB printer, and I want to have it local, so I need those ports. Any suggestions on how to solve this? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB ports
On Friday 21 March 2003 20:54, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello. First time I post here. I find it rather to our disadvantage that we newbies are kept packed together. Sometimes we have problems which need the intervention of an experienced user. But anyway, I'll try to keep my questions not too complicated. Don't let the name fool youthis list is frequented by some very honourable linux veterans as well as extremely savvy newbies:o) I'ts more a description of the kind of topics to be expected here. Problem is, my Mandrake doesn't recognize my USB ports. When I installed, they were disabled in the BIOS. I do not have the slightest idea of how they got disabled. Now, I have a USB printer, and I want to have it local, so I need those ports. Any suggestions on how to solve this? Just enable them there and Mdk should see the ports just fine and you'll be able to configure your printer. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cd after burning
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:05:22 -0500 A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is happining is the following cd is finished burning (but not mounted) supermount sees that a valid cd is in the drive, and then mounts it cd is now mounted. This is one of the main reasons that i do not use supermount. This is not a global problem, though. I've always used supermount with Mandrake and never had a problem with locked trays (or anything else, for that matter). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast
El Jue 20 Mar 2003 08:05, Tsur, Oren escribió: Hi All Before I start, I am using KDE under MDK 9.0 - 1) How do I get X-CD-Roast to see my DVD-ROM drive? I want to use it as primary or secondary reading device. When I go into set up it shows my cd-rw as the recording device (which is fineda) but in the reading device I can only see the recorder drive again. Many thanks, Oren Oren: From www.xcdroast.org, download the last version (0.98alpha13), and you don't need SCSI emulate your DVD reader. Suerte. pilagá -- Taken from FAQ: /28. That new ATAPI mode causes problems! Should I use it?/ That new ATAPI mode is enabled by default in X-CD-Roast on linux. It requires a kernel 2.4.x and is able to access ATAPI devices directly through the IDE driver, without the help of SCSI emulation. However, that mode is still experimental and causes some problems. Using a CD writer in that mode is not recommended - please use always SCSI emulation here. The ATAPI mode on a writer will cause great delays in all X-CD-Roast operations, because communication with a device takes much more time. You will also notice a lot of driver errors in your system log files. This seems to be normal. You can tell X-CD-Roast to ignore the ATAPI mode when you start it with the -a option. There is also no DMA transfer supported at all though the ATAPI interface. On some not correctly installed machines X-CD-Roast will find your devices both via SCSI emulation and via ATAPI - they are displayed double in the setup. Things could work nevertheless, but use the scsi-emulated devices only then. (The devices without the ATAPI:-marking) Conclusion: Use your writer only with SCSI emulation, but a normal CD/DVD-ROM drive as read only device will work fine in ATAPI mode. This is also the default setup for many Linux distributions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting MySQL at boot time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Divendres 21 Març 2003 05:45, en Joeb va escriure: This is in 9.1, but I think it holds true for 9.0, also. Go to the Mandrake Control Center, and go to the System option. From there, there should be an option called DrakServices. Select it and it gives you all the various services installed. Select the one for MySQL and tell it to start at boot. That doesn't work in 9.0: it is selected but mysql service is stopped after reboot... - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+e4Ycok8j9RhtetwRAqd1AKCoXkFMBqZjA63rNNHjkkn81viu0gCggQA3 4eVaCEbYn/BAkXdGsE75AMo= =k3v5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] supermount
Both my CDROM and Floppy are set to supermount. CDROM works fine, but my Floppy is giving me errors... input/output error, you do not have permission, etc. Any idea why my floppy isn't working (I just got a new one thinking it was the floppy itself..)? Rachel On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:24, Miark wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:05:22 -0500 A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is happining is the following cd is finished burning (but not mounted) supermount sees that a valid cd is in the drive, and then mounts it cd is now mounted. This is one of the main reasons that i do not use supermount. This is not a global problem, though. I've always used supermount with Mandrake and never had a problem with locked trays (or anything else, for that matter). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Rachel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of RachelDesigns.com -- - Are you a Christian Mother? Please come and join us at.. --- www.Christian-Mommies.com --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Starting MySQL at boot time
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:37, Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Divendres 21 Març 2003 05:45, en Joeb va escriure: This is in 9.1, but I think it holds true for 9.0, also. Go to the Mandrake Control Center, and go to the System option. From there, there should be an option called DrakServices. Select it and it gives you all the various services installed. Select the one for MySQL and tell it to start at boot. That doesn't work in 9.0: it is selected but mysql service is stopped after reboot... It didn't work for me either. My first solution was to insert the line: service mysql start at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local It worked. Then, reading this list, I learned of chkconfig. Enter: chkconfig --level 35 mysql on My recommendation is to use chkconfig and forget about adding lines to rc.local. Anyway, they both work. HTH -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] supermount
On 21 Mar 2003 16:41:25 -0500 R.L.M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both my CDROM and Floppy are set to supermount. CDROM works fine, but my Floppy is giving me errors... input/output error, you do not have permission, etc. Any idea why my floppy isn't working (I just got a new one thinking it was the floppy itself..)? Are you able to manually mount it (after turning off supermount) ? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Windows more secure than Linux
Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is needed here : My box is set up with 4 users : My ever-beloved wife, my two daughters and the man himself. (Our two cats use it as well, but only because it's a nice, warm place to take a nap). We respect each others privacy. Accordingly the security-level is set to *high*. We can't peep into each others stuff. Fine. But we have a lot in common. We have various family-related stuff, letters, and the family photo-album. Now, the last time the *sysadmin* (me) installed Mandrake he wanted to show off : creating a *common* partition on the 80 GB drive. In fact, besides the usual / , swap and /home partitions - all ReiserFS - he created a fourth : a FAT32 partition (/dev/hda4). The reason for FAT32 (VFAT) was simple : a Windows-FS. No permission issues, no security at all, free access to everyone, everything in public, belly-up. Surprise, surprise. Initially everything was perfect, but after a few weeks the FAT32 partition seems to close its *Gates*. - Normally it would have *dwrxrwxrwx* permissions, meaning that it was showing off nude in public. But maybe it's getting shy : now the permission are *dwrxr-xr-x*, meaning that only root (me again) can write to it. That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to become root and change the permissions by issuing the command : chmod 777 * . Guess what ? : No effect at all ! Then : chmod u+w * .. : Operation not permitted And so on and so forth. Conclusion : Bill Gates finally found a way to defeat even a linux - ROOT. At least on my box. 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] supermount
Hi Rachel I have had that problem to with my floppy but found it to be the disk. Ones that I have used on a windows system are the main problem but found that if I format them on the Linux box it works fine. If it had info I need then I would try a different computer that work for me too. On Friday 21 Mar 2003 9:41 pm, R.L.M. wrote: Both my CDROM and Floppy are set to supermount. CDROM works fine, but my Floppy is giving me errors... input/output error, you do not have permission, etc. Any idea why my floppy isn't working (I just got a new one thinking it was the floppy itself..)? Rachel On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:24, Miark wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:05:22 -0500 A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is happining is the following cd is finished burning (but not mounted) supermount sees that a valid cd is in the drive, and then mounts it cd is now mounted. This is one of the main reasons that i do not use supermount. This is not a global problem, though. I've always used supermount with Mandrake and never had a problem with locked trays (or anything else, for that matter). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Thank You Benjamin Jeeves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux
Kaj, Try to pass an scandisk to your windows partition, I had a similar problem long times ago due to disk-error; mandrake couldn't write in the partition but after pass an scandisk windows detected several errors and repaired it. Until that moment mandrake could again write on the windows partition. So, windows was writing on a partition with problems, mandrake didn't that. Guess what ? : No effect at all ! Then : chmod u+w * .. : Operation not permitted And so on and so forth. Conclusion : Bill Gates finally found a way to defeat even a linux - ROOT. At least on my box. Kaj Haulrich. -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fw: [newbie] Linux+ certification???
- Original Message - From: T E [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christopher Steimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux+ certification??? I too have this question. I like certifications becuase they give you a goal to strive for and also teach you much along the way =) Chris, I've heard the LPI exam is pretty good too. But like you, I've been thinking of the Linux+ as well. Don't know if I'd recommend the RHCE tho... Does anyone know of other Linux certs out there? And can any of you recommend them?? TIA --- Christopher Steimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any advice or opinions about the Linux+ certification. I am new to Linux and just graduated from Penn State and while I'm trying to find a job, I have decided to tackle Linux. All suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated (job offers are accepted as well...HAHA) Thank you __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux
Kaj, You can't change permisions on VFAT filesystems from the commandline. You have to specify it at mount time. Make sure your fstab entries have umask=0 0 0. Miark On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:08:02 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is needed here : My box is set up with 4 users : My ever-beloved wife, my two daughters and the man himself. (Our two cats use it as well, but only because it's a nice, warm place to take a nap). We respect each others privacy. Accordingly the security-level is set to *high*. We can't peep into each others stuff. Fine. But we have a lot in common. We have various family-related stuff, letters, and the family photo-album. Now, the last time the *sysadmin* (me) installed Mandrake he wanted to show off : creating a *common* partition on the 80 GB drive. In fact, besides the usual / , swap and /home partitions - all ReiserFS - he created a fourth : a FAT32 partition (/dev/hda4). The reason for FAT32 (VFAT) was simple : a Windows-FS. No permission issues, no security at all, free access to everyone, everything in public, belly-up. Surprise, surprise. Initially everything was perfect, but after a few weeks the FAT32 partition seems to close its *Gates*. - Normally it would have *dwrxrwxrwx* permissions, meaning that it was showing off nude in public. But maybe it's getting shy : now the permission are *dwrxr-xr-x*, meaning that only root (me again) can write to it. That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to become root and change the permissions by issuing the command : chmod 777 * . Guess what ? : No effect at all ! Then : chmod u+w * .. : Operation not permitted And so on and so forth. Conclusion : Bill Gates finally found a way to defeat even a linux - ROOT. At least on my box. 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] USB ports
On Friday 21 Mar 2003 7:41 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello. First time I post here. I find it rather to our disadvantage that we newbies are kept packed together. Sometimes we have problems which need the intervention of an experienced user. But anyway, I'll try to keep my questions not too complicated. Problem is, my Mandrake doesn't recognize my USB ports. When I installed, they were disabled in the BIOS. I do not have the slightest idea of how they got disabled. Now, I have a USB printer, and I want to have it local, so I need those ports. Any suggestions on how to solve this? Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Well assuming you have now enabled the ports in BIOS, edit the file /etc/modules.conf and add a line probeall usb-interface uhci If that does not work replace uhci with ohci to use the 'other' usb driver Then just go through the printer wizard in Mandrake Control Centre and it will install your printer for you. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux
On Friday 21 March 2003 11:38 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Kaj, Try to pass an scandisk to your windows partition, I had a similar problem long times ago due to disk-error; mandrake couldn't write in the partition but after pass an scandisk windows detected several errors and repaired it. Until that moment mandrake could again write on the windows partition. Well Francisco, thanks. But I don't have Windows or Scandisk. I don't think that's the issue. What I mean is : a FAT32 filesystem (windows) is not supposed to have any security at all. The problem - if you can call it that - is within the Mandrake security system : Normally a *root* account can do anything, including destroying everything. However, Mandrake has added some restrictions to protect you from yourself. One of those is the msec package. Another is Shorewall. Obviously it is a Mandrake problem. Of course a FAT32 filesystem can't be secure. But I think the Mandrake-team figured that Windows-refugees needed some protection against themselves : not loosing their *precious* ( sorry, Tolkien-addicted) files. So, my guess is that Mandrake took some - overly - precautions not to alter Windows file systems. I I can't - for the of me - figure out how they did it ? But it works : I can't do my root-jobs on a Windows-partition ! 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] Windows more secure than Linux
On Friday 21 March 2003 05:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is needed here : My box is set up with 4 users : My ever-beloved wife, my two daughters and the man himself. (Our two cats use it as well, but only because it's a nice, warm place to take a nap). We respect each others privacy. Accordingly the security-level is set to *high*. We can't peep into each others stuff. Fine. But we have a lot in common. We have various family-related stuff, letters, and the family photo-album. Now, the last time the *sysadmin* (me) installed Mandrake he wanted to show off : creating a *common* partition on the 80 GB drive. In fact, besides the usual / , swap and /home partitions - all ReiserFS - he created a fourth : a FAT32 partition (/dev/hda4). The reason for FAT32 (VFAT) was simple : a Windows-FS. No permission issues, no security at all, free access to everyone, everything in public, belly-up. Surprise, surprise. Initially everything was perfect, but after a few weeks the FAT32 partition seems to close its *Gates*. - Normally it would have *dwrxrwxrwx* permissions, meaning that it was showing off nude in public. But maybe it's getting shy : now the permission are *dwrxr-xr-x*, meaning that only root (me again) can write to it. That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to become root and change the permissions by issuing the command : chmod 777 * . Guess what ? : No effect at all ! Then : chmod u+w * .. : Operation not permitted And so on and so forth. Conclusion : Bill Gates finally found a way to defeat even a linux - ROOT. At least on my box. Kaj Haulrich. were you changing permissions on the fils? try changing the mount points (ie. chmod 777 /mnt/fatpartitionnamegoeshere -- Linux counter number 167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:09 am, Miark wrote: Kaj, You can't change permisions on VFAT filesystems from the commandline. You have to specify it at mount time. Make sure your fstab entries have umask=0 0 0. Miark Thanks Miark - that did the trick ! 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] Windows more secure than Linux
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:44 am, et wrote: On Friday 21 March 2003 05:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is needed here : My box is set up with 4 users : My ever-beloved wife, my two daughters and the man himself. (Our two cats use it as well, but only because it's a nice, warm place to take a nap). We respect each others privacy. Accordingly the security-level is set to *high*. We can't peep into each others stuff. Fine. But we have a lot in common. We have various family-related stuff, letters, and the family photo-album. Now, the last time the *sysadmin* (me) installed Mandrake he wanted to show off : creating a *common* partition on the 80 GB drive. In fact, besides the usual / , swap and /home partitions - all ReiserFS - he created a fourth : a FAT32 partition (/dev/hda4). The reason for FAT32 (VFAT) was simple : a Windows-FS. No permission issues, no security at all, free access to everyone, everything in public, belly-up. Surprise, surprise. Initially everything was perfect, but after a few weeks the FAT32 partition seems to close its *Gates*. - Normally it would have *dwrxrwxrwx* permissions, meaning that it was showing off nude in public. But maybe it's getting shy : now the permission are *dwrxr-xr-x*, meaning that only root (me again) can write to it. That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to become root and change the permissions by issuing the command : chmod 777 * . Guess what ? : No effect at all ! Then : chmod u+w * .. : Operation not permitted And so on and so forth. Conclusion : Bill Gates finally found a way to defeat even a linux - ROOT. At least on my box. Kaj Haulrich. were you changing permissions on the fils? try changing the mount points (ie. chmod 777 /mnt/fatpartitionnamegoeshere Nope Ed. I actually WAS in that directroy trying to change permissions. Operation not permitted However, I think Miark solved the issue right now : umask=0 0 0. 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] Starting MySQL at boot time
This did the trick: chkconfig --level 35 mysql on Thanks, guys. Chris Shaffer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 56k modem
Anonymous wrote: I've reinstalled mandrake 9, and now the modem works; however, the symptom (being able to surf for awhile, then for some odd reason not) remains. This happened with Redhat 8 as well ... I'm testing an old machine with Mandrake 9 -- it has an ISA internal 56k modem, and DOES NOT have that symptom...I'm using the 2 machines simultaneously (2 different phone lines, same outlet) ... I also bought and tested another modem, and the symptom began immediately when I connected. Mandrake 9 must not like PCI modems? Or what do you think? BTW, both modems are HARDWARE modems. What are the troubleshooting steps I need to take (if there are any, please be specific rather than general about how to do these tests. I'm very much a newbie). Rita __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Rita: I have been using this modem for several years with no problems. If you would like, I can send you the output of 'setserial'. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
--- robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope so. Just as long as they don't start giving releases silly names like Mandrake Millenium or Mandrake PX. By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any decent RPG, you don't get experience points for stabbing other party members in the back (Paranoia being a wonderful exception that really captures the atmosphere of the IT world). Sir Robin eXcrement Packaged --LX __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
I hope so. Just as long as they don't start giving releases silly names like Mandrake Millenium or Mandrake PX. Well, they could start using Roman numerals a la Superbowls. :) I really was expecting Superbowl XXX to be renamed Superbowl 30 here in the US, in order to dissasociate it with pornography (i.e., the other XXX) - nevver happened. :) By the way, what does the XP in Windows XP stand for? Where I come from, it means experience points, but that can't be it, because in any eXtra Pricey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?
I'm sure another company or group of volunteers will take it up and make a new distro called, I dunno, Ginseng Linux, maybe. Sure, and then some weed freak from the (misguided) herbs and so-called natural/homeopathic medicine group sues. :) About the XP thing: I just thought about it, and maybe it's not really supposed to stand for anything, besides added marketing hype. Lately here in the US, there's been a trend to add random, seemingly meaningless extra letters to a product's name and it's mothing but market-speak. It first became popular with car tires and has spread into other markets, such as over-the-counter or prescription drugs. America there are more geek-savvy investors). A foundation seems like a better way to run a Free software project, as the FSF, GNU and Debian As experience with 386bsd/netbsd/freebsd has shown, that model can fractionalize as well and get bogged down with political issues - this does seem to be the case with the splits in the BSD camp. I'm not saying at all that Debian will do this, though. have done (I admit this also has its problems, since such foundations can become isolated from end-users - I didn't go down the Debian It seems that Debian may be more difficult, and I wouldn't recommend it either to a linux newbie. long and prospers, but if it doesn't, the software will live on. You can't keep a good idea down. Certainly it will. But with a good set of standards in place which I think already might exist, it shouldn't matter so much what distribution I install -- in other words, do we need packages for Mandrake, Debian, Red Hat, etc., etc.,? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File encryption software
pkzip under dosemu. pkzip is not open source. dosemu is. yeah and pkzip has to be the most widely-distributed and most-unpaid-for piece of begware in DOS :). Be that as it may, there are open-source alternatives to pkzip under Windows as well - but they probably won't do encryption. There used to be a Unix command named 'crypt' but because of over- reactions regarding so-called munitions there doesn't seem to be an equivalent in Linux. But file-based encryptioo should be the primary task of such a tool; archiving is secondary. In other words, you shouldn't need pkzip because it can encrypt a .zip file - you can store the data any way you want, archived or no, and then just selectively encrypt. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
