Re: [newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install
Have you tried running it with the Software renderer? Always a good failsafe to isolate problems. //philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs, not any binaries for Mandrake. I would rather use a binary than a tarball. Many thanks. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Thank you, it works... Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
On Monday 15 Mar 2004 9:01 pm, JoeHill wrote: cp /citibank/money/* /home/joehill/money Thank you so much! Why this kind of stuff is not better documented? It works for me! Blessings, Augustin -- www.masquilier.org Condorcet, Approval alternative voting. In order to prevent people from receiving viruses that would seem to originate from my email, if you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. Of course, this does not apply to GNU/Linux users. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Thank you, it works... Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 10:57 am, Anguo wrote: Why this kind of stuff is not better documented? Because nobody has contributed that document yet. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Thread view in OE, was Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files
On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 11:16 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:49:19PM +0200, Weiers Coetser wrote: Apologies for Hi-jacking. I did not know. Now the question is how I set my computer to receive the e-mails in a threaded form. But I suppose nobody would be interested to explain how to do that in Outlook express, since I still don't have a working modem in linux. OK, the first thing to do is stop using OE and download Mozilla or Thunderbird and use either one of those. If you absolutely must use OE, it's probably under View something or other. Don't forget, too, that many software apps have Help files built in. Try looking at the Help in the menu of OE. Outlook lets you thread by conversation topic, ie subject, but it doesn't see or produce the conversation reference header lines. The result is a hijacked thread looks fine under outlook, and outlook spawns disconnected threads. (Let me know if I'm wrong, I'd love to be able to do this on my work machine.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar compression software
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) I don't know about guis cause I just use em on CL, too. I found par2, and I also have unrar, but what to do in a situation where I have all the *.partNN.rar files - like from part01.rar to part59.rar, but no main.rar file? I have pars, but doing par2 r something.par2 just goes through all the files I have and then displays no repair is necessary. Meanwhile, I still don't have the main rar file, and rar won't extract anything. What to do, other than wait for someone more experienced to post the file and do this all over again? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Follow-Up: About your Internet connection problems
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:00:03 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QUESTION = I took this email and others like it to be a scam Is that correct ??? It's a fair assumption. I'd call it a scam. That address at the end of the email is undoubtedly a Mailbox Etc. type postal drop. i.e., 100 E. San Marcos Blvd. San Marcos, CA 92069 A nice note to the San Marcos DA might be in order. The message, as I understand it, is illegal to send in California. http://mail1.claydream.com/delete?l=MailMed.0-323b843-15de=bagsofch oice%40oldtolley.fsnet.co.uk Another dead giveaway. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
On Saturday 03 April 2004 21:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:43 pm, Charlie wrote: -What country or planet is that? Possibly Linux has not arrived there yet, but -please tell your friends it is on its way just as day after night. - -Charlie I know, I know, I've been trying to bring them into this century but...you know :-( If it is the new planet it could be a long time. A year is 10500 of our years. -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
Keith Powell wrote: Yesterday, I posted a request for help with automatic disconnecting from the Internet. Some time later when I next connected and checked my e-mails, it hadn't appeared on the list, but there was a message saying that it had bounced. So I sent it again to see what happened the second time. Later last night, there was still no sign of either message on the list. This morning, when I connected and checked, both the bounced posting and the second one were there, together with two replies from Robin and Hoyt. I got mislead with the message saying that my posting had bounced and I sent the duplicate too quckly. Sorry about that! That is the reason for the duplicate posting. Cheers Keith Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear just fine. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
On Saturday 03 April 2004 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:23 am, Lanman wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Don't forget to open Port 80 on your firewall Aron, and make sure that Apache starts at boot time. Thanks smitty Lanman I would also make sure I was NOT running mod_proxy... that was the 'mailing exploit' mentioned in an earlier message. -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN
Oli üks kena laupäev, 3. aprill 2004 22:40,kui Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjutas sellise kirja: On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:36:09 +0100 Katinka Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to communicate with them. Whenever I try to sign on to this account in Gnaim using the MSN protocol, I get the message [EMAIL PROTECTED] was unable to sign on: Protocol not supported. I`d be grateful for any suggestions. Are you using the most recent version of Gaim? If not I would upgrade and see what happens. If that fails you, I think I had to use a friends computer to set up my account initially and then once it was setup I was able to use Gaim on my own computer. Try the AMSN http://amsn.sourceforge.net or dMSN http://www.dmsn.nl Sorry if this double post, but previous mail hadn't appeared on the list I got a message saying that it had bounced. -- He who writes with no misspelled words has prevented a first suspicion on the limits of his scholarship or, in the social world, of his general education and culture. -- Julia Norton McCorkle -- Powered by Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Beta2) for i586 Registered Linux user #340381 http://counter.li.org Registered Linux machine #227943 http://counter.li.org 15:10:10 up 1 day, 16:12, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.44, 0.33 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:52, Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs, not any binaries for Mandrake. I would rather use a binary than a tarball. Many thanks. Keith Keith, try rpmfind.net : http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/wvdial-1.53-3mdk.i586.html HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs, not any binaries for Mandrake. I would rather use a binary than a tarball. IIRC, on 9.2 it was on one of the distro CDs. In 10.0 I couldn't find it there, but found it one on of the mirrors (main, not contrib). You can also find binaries at rpmfind.net Sir Robin -- If the lion could speak, we would not understand it. - 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 Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting to a network with a static IP.
On Saturday 03 April 2004 03:15 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: -I'll probably go and ask linksys about this too, but first I thought I'd -turn here. - -I want to connect to my network with a static IP. I changed my -ifcfg-wlan0 file, and made sure the ip addy wasn't within the dhcp -range. Then, I ifdown'ed and ifup'ed wlan0, and got the IP. -Unfortunately, I had no internet connection. So then I tried pinging the -router, and it went fine. Then I tried getting to the http router -settings. Went fine as well. - -Anyone know what the problem is? - ---Marc Marc, on my setup here, I've got 192.xxx addresses assigned to our 4 comps. Ip address .100 is my main comp, .101 is my 13 yr olds, .102 is my 10 yr olds and .104 is my laptop. I've got the ip addresses for the comps in /etc/hosts on each comp. I started having problems when I was not the last one to logon with my laptop. Sometimes it would grab a dhcp assigned address that was not the one I had given my laptop in /etc/hosts. When it did this, I could use things like NFS and ping, but I could not get on the Internet. So I went into the settings page on my Dlink router and assigned by ip address. This worked, as long as the lease had not run out between logons. (or certain younger people are grounded from their comps when they are bad! grin). The best way I found was to assign by MAC address. I used ifconfig to check on all 4 comps then assigned them in the filters section of my Dlink router. This seems to have solved my problems - now no matter when I logon (after everyone else or with no one else on) my Dlink router recognizes my MAC address for my laptop and gives me one certain IP address, and all is well. HTHs - or at least points you towards the problem. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
- Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a well-known problem with 9.2 systems. If you just updated, all you should need to do is open a terminal, 'su' to root, and enter the command 'update-menus -v'. Your menus should be back when that process is finished. --Marc Hi Marc, I tried issuing the command you suggested but it didn't change anything, as far as I can tell. Any other suggestions? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:28 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched all through the various Internet configuration files, I can't find a way of doing it. Disconnection appears to only to be able to be done manually. If our dial-up connections could be set to be automatically terminated, it would be a help. It would mean that we could leave the computer downloading something, knowing that the connection would be terminated a few minutes after the download had finished, rather than having to watch for the download to finish. Any ideas, please, anyone? Many thanks Keith is this for everone using the dialup connection? if so,,, add (to the file /ect/ppp/options) the line (without the quotes, as root) IDLE=300 will give you a 5 min idle time before disconnection. also the command man pppd can be your friend too... -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New Mirror Structure coming soon
On Saturday 03 April 2004 11:36 pm, Aron Smith wrote: errors when you try to istall something or update. This will simply be because the paths on the mirrors will have changed, and consequently, your urpmi sources will have to be changed to accomodate this. Does tis mean that we will have to alter urpmi ? You should read more carefully ;-p -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site
you dont have to only use the spare computer for hosting your website i run run apache (port 80), proftpd (port 21), postfix, ...sometimes teamspeak server(port 8767 udp) and an irc.d (port 6667) and still use it as a desktop tho i do use samba to link the files on both computers so they are all avail. from my www or ftp.as for ideas for your website thats up to you ;-)) On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 H:04, et wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:23 am, Lanman wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Don't forget to open Port 80 on your firewall Aron, and make sure that Apache starts at boot time. Thanks smitty Lanman I would also make sure I was NOT running mod_proxy... that was the 'mailing exploit' mentioned in an earlier message. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting
On Sunday 04 April 2004 02:59 pm, robin wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs, not any binaries for Mandrake. I would rather use a binary than a tarball. IIRC, on 9.2 it was on one of the distro CDs. In 10.0 I couldn't find it there, but found it one on of the mirrors (main, not contrib). You can also find binaries at rpmfind.net Sir Robin altho man pppd might be more what you need,,, since WVdial is setting the options file for you -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
- Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Hi Hoyt, As I mentioned I don't have mcc listed as a menu option. I don't know how to access drakemenu or MCC without using the menu. When I click on the Welcome icon I get a link called This Computer that says it will configure the computer. If I click on this computer I get this error message. Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exits. Any thoughts on what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear just fine. Adolfo Latest Scores so far today! Messages posted to the list: 3 Messages appearing on the list: 3 Bounce messages received: 3 Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Hi Hoyt, As I mentioned I don't have mcc listed as a menu option. I don't know how to access drakemenu or MCC without using the menu. When I click on the Welcome icon I get a link called This Computer that says it will configure the computer. If I click on this computer I get this error message. Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exits. Any thoughts on what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit In a terminal type mcc without quotes will bring mcc up John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
On Sunday 04 April 2004 04:32 am, you wrote: This is the Postfix program at host smtp1.mandrax.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mail forwarding loop for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible that newbie is subscribed to itself? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT - Evolution Question
I'm having a problem when forwarding email with embedded graphics: the graphics don't show in the forwarded copy of the email. This was not a problem in the past because the graphics DID get forwarded to the recipients even though they didn't show in my copy, however, recently I'm being told that the graphics aren't there. Am I missing a setting? I know that the way around this is to save the original email and then attach it to an outgoing email, but this is a pain and it doesn't allow the original to be edited and cleaned up. Rich
Re: [newbie] Building a binary from a src RPM
Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 01:06:28 -0500, Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It says the file /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb isn't there. So I tried a urpmi rpmb, it installed the rpmbuilder, but I still can't do it. You mean the 'rpm-build' package? What is the 'ls /usr/lib/rpm' command's output? If you installed rpm-build and rpmb isn't in /usr/lib/rpm, something funky's going on. Either that, or you don't have execute permissions on /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb? //philip Figured it out. I had installed the 'rpmbuilder' package, which is a GUI that relies on rpm-build, I think. So I installed rpm-build. Now, I get this error: error: cannot create %sourcedir /root/RPM/SOURCES And I get a very similar one when trying it as a normal user. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar compression software
On Sunday 04 April 2004 06:37 am, David E. Fox wrote: I found par2, and I also have unrar, but what to do in a situation where I have all the *.partNN.rar files - like from part01.rar to part59.rar, but no main.rar file? I have pars, but doing par2 r something.par2 just goes through all the files I have and then displays no repair is necessary. Meanwhile, I still don't have the main rar file, and rar won't extract anything. Try extracting the part01.rar file. Not all archives have a single main rar file, some start at part01.rar and end at part58.rar. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar compression software
On Sunday 04 April 2004 05:37 am, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) I don't know about guis cause I just use em on CL, too. I found par2, and I also have unrar, but what to do in a situation where I have all the *.partNN.rar files - like from part01.rar to part59.rar, but no main.rar file? I have pars, but doing par2 r something.par2 just goes through all the files I have and then displays no repair is necessary. Meanwhile, I still don't have the main rar file, and rar won't extract anything. What to do, other than wait for someone more experienced to post the file and do this all over again? In the directory you have all the .rar's in run 'unrar e filename.part01.rar'Rar will start with the first one and then consequetively extract all the rest. If you're not missing any parts. Another way is to use file-roller. It looks for 'rar' tho. So first you must rename, copy, or link /usr/bin/unrar to /usr/bin/rar. Then just click on part01.rar in a file manager and file-roller will start. Then choose Action | Extract (or somethin like that) from the toolbar. I find it easier and quicker to use the CL. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:18, eric jackson wrote: snip Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? /snip 1. as root, run update-menus -v (watch the screen, the command doesn't exit by itself. When no more activity is seen, just press enter). 2. as root, run menudrake, edit and save. 3. if fluxbox is installed, uninstall it (there is a bug). HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar compression software
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 03:37:34AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) I don't know about guis cause I just use em on CL, too. I found par2, and I also have unrar, but what to do in a situation where I have all the *.partNN.rar files - like from part01.rar to part59.rar, but no main.rar file? I have pars, but doing par2 r something.par2 just goes through all the files I have and then displays no repair is necessary. Meanwhile, I still don't have the main rar file, and rar won't extract anything. What to do, other than wait for someone more experienced to post the file and do this all over again? Posters don't always use a .rar file, so sometimes you might see a post with file.rar file.r00 file.r01 . file.r59 and other times you'll see file.part01.rar file.part02.rar . file.part59.rar For the latter, unrar with unrar e file.part01.rar Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:48:23AM -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 11:17 am, Alexandre Dubois wrote: -Not sure what you are after, what is your current knowledge in IT in general -and Linux in particular. Oreilly (http://www.oreilly.com/) are known to be the -leader editor for opensource projects. O'Reilly is great, own several of the books myself - and I referred these friends to their web site. They responded that was great, but we don't see them here in our community/colleges... Darklord: I took a look at the Linux offerings from our local tech college (Wake County Community College) -- three courses related to Unix; no mention of Linux; lots of Windows/DOS stuff. Ouch. It gets worse when you consider that the campus is about five miles from Red Hat's headquarters; it's another ten miles further down the road to IBM's (huge) Research Triangle Park installation. Then I kicked it up a notch and went to North Carolina State University's website to check out their undergraduate Computer Engineering and Computer Science courses. Searches on Linux, Unix and even Windows came up empty. That's understandable given the traditional view that an engineering education is about learning basic principles rather than the specific details of a particular end technology. End result: Several courses on various aspects of operating system design, but zilch on any particular OS. That's OK for someone who is starting on a new career, but not for someone who's already out there chasing the bucks. snip At the tech college where I work, we have one person that dominates a portion of the IT curriculum. So, if you want to learn about Web publishing, you won't learn any free database or scripting languages, you'll be forced to learn IIS, java, asp and .NET. I keep telling them I don't know anybody who uses that stuff, which is probably just because I'm selective in choosing my friends ;) but seriously, to think we're graduating people who don't know squat about Apache, php, perl, mySQL etc. seems like we're doing a big disservice to our students. It's really dangerous, I think, to put all your eggs in one IT basket. But I'm just a freak that doesn't understand the business world so nobody listens to me. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] foo, master foo
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 16:57, Thujan wrote: Can somebody explain what these terms means, foo, foo bar, You might want to check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable Archie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 17:36, The Other wrote: Does 'checkinstall' make actual RPMs? Yes, it does indeed. because I was under the impression 'checkinstall' will make an RPM entry into Mandrake's Software Manager section so everything can be removed from the Uninstall Packages menus. (I'm not entirely You can uninstall the package using any of the rpm package managers (including mdk's). I've never figured out if 'checkinstall' makes the actual RPM and there is a file somewhere on computer. Additionally, this script will leave a copy of the installed package in the source directory (or in the storage directory you specify) so you can install it wherever you want. http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/docs/README Archie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
snip Is it possible that newbie is subscribed to itself? -- /g Maybe, I got the same message. :) Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get procmail to forward spam
Procmail should be invoked automatically over the .forward file mecha- nism as soon as mail arrives. from man procmail. I'm set-up, so fetchmail grabs my email from the POP, passes it to postfix, which handles local deliveries, which sends it to procmail, which processes the mail. I don't use Spam Assassin, procmail works fine by itself so far, but I'd guess you're downloading your mail through Kmail, so it never gets sent to postfix, which would pipe it to procmail. If you want to keep using your set-up, maybe kmail has a couple of options somewhere where you can a execute a command when mail arrives, or add procmail to your send command? More reading on procmail: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ On Sat, Apr 03, 2004, Chris wrote: Yes, I'm a procmail newbie trying to setup procmail to forward my spam to Earthlinks junkmail address. I've setup a $HOME .procmailrc file (below) SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail# You'd better make sure it exists # DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from # LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail :0c *^X-Spam-Status: Yes |/usr/bin/reporter.pl :0a Spam/ The Spam folder is in maildir format in $HOME/Mail/Spam. I've setup a $HOME .forward file |IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #chris I've read the FAQ, printed and gone through the man pages, my question is how is procmail started. I'm running Kmail as my mailer with all mail filtered through SA. If procmail is started from the CLI, the process is shown as running, but I'm sure that this isn't the correct way to start it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. My spam folder is in maildir format, do I need to tell the procmailrc file that my mail dir is $HOME/Mail/Spam/cur before it will forward? Appreciate any help. Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 3:41pm up 4 days, 21:52, 5 users, load average: 0.98, 1.68, 1.99 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD playback question
Okay, I usually can play just about any DVD I want to, between Kaffeine and Mplayer. I've got one now that is doing something I've not encountered before. I've got a KISS DVD, small size, containing about 5 or 6 of their videos. ($5.88 at Wal-mart). Video plays fine. Audio is fine thru the opening credits, interim screens and main menu. Pick any of the actual songs themselves though, and I get nothing but HISS. Kinda reminds you of the hiss on a dead channel on TV. Trying to play it from the command line with Mplayer gives an error message to the effect that there are too many audio packets. It suggests that if its an AVI file to use the -ni option. Well, its DVD and not AVI but I tried it anyways and it didn't make a difference. Thanks in advance! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear just fine. Adolfo Latest Scores so far today! Messages posted to the list: 3 Messages appearing on the list: 3 Bounce messages received: 3 Cheers Keith And I've just been bounced again. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] thanks for the help :-)
Hi again: I wanted to thank everyone on the list who offered some suggestions for my problem with the Mandrake Community 10 ISO's. I feel like an idiot now. It never occurred to me to try another of the CD's to see it it would boot from that. I put the CD 2 in and it booted up just fine. I switched to CD 1 when instructed and the install started just fine. Unfortunately I had some problems with the install (it is beta after all) and it crashed my system (my fault). I just got it back up last night, and then went to bed. Anyway, I've got it up and running now, so I can get a look at all the new goodies. Thanks again for the help. Regards Pete Doak College of the Mainland Texas City, Texas USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD playback question
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I usually can play just about any DVD I want to, between Kaffeine and Mplayer. I've got one now that is doing something I've not encountered before. I've got a KISS DVD, small size, containing about 5 or 6 of their videos. ($5.88 at Wal-mart). Video plays fine. Audio is fine thru the opening credits, interim screens and main menu. Pick any of the actual songs themselves though, and I get nothing but HISS. Kinda reminds you of the hiss on a dead channel on TV. Trying to play it from the command line with Mplayer gives an error message to the effect that there are too many audio packets. It suggests that if its an AVI file to use the -ni option. Well, its DVD and not AVI but I tried it anyways and it didn't make a difference. Thanks in advance! Ronald; This is just a stab in the dark, but the actual music audio may have some protection built in or encrypted into the files or the disc itself. It's more likely that you're missing a compression codec or that your audio may not be set to handle the playback or bitrate of these files, but I thought it was worth mentioning. This might not be Microsoft's DRM crap, but possibly Macrovision's ACP protection by the sound of it ( No pun intended ). I'm assuming that you don't have problems playing back other DVD's, so my guess is either a missing codec or protection technology. This doesn't help much , but if all else fails, I didn't want you beating your head against the wall. Good drywall guys are hard to find these days, and you'd end up with a nasty hole in the wall. Grin! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
Graham Watkins wrote: Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear just fine. Adolfo Latest Scores so far today! Messages posted to the list: 3 Messages appearing on the list: 3 Bounce messages received: 3 Cheers Keith And I've just been bounced again. I think it's happening to a lot of the list-members. It happens to me quite often, and he funny thing is that I'm receiving the bounce message long after my post shows up on the list. Go Figure! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:02:15 +0100
Graham Watkins disseminated the following:
Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in
the list software perhaps?
Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one.
I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear
just fine.
Adolfo
Latest Scores so far today!
Messages posted to the list: 3
Messages appearing on the list: 3
Bounce messages received: 3
Cheers
Keith
And I've just been bounced again.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
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The spam's been really heavy lately, so I would imagine the 'lag time' in posts
showing up is just heavy traffic. I had a coupla days around the end of March
where I was filtering over 150 spam mails/day :-\
--
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Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org
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Re: [newbie] Can't get procmail to forward spam
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 15:48:32 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: Yes, I'm a procmail newbie trying to setup procmail to forward my spam to Earthlinks junkmail address. I've setup a $HOME .procmailrc file (below) Heh, saw your post on the Procmail list too! Anyhow, I would take the recommendation they gave you there and use fetchmail to retrieve. It's easy to configure, and it saves KMail from having to do any fancy business. Just tell KMail to pick up the mail from wherever Procmail deposits it, and yer done. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Give me crack and anal sex, take the only tree that's left, and stuff it up the hole in your culture; Give me back the Berlin wall, give me Stalin and St Paul; I've seen the future, brother: it is murder. -- Leonard Cohen, 'The Future' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op zaterdag 3 april 2004 18:44, schreef Ronald J. Hall: Any? Some friends of mine in IT here in this county say there are no Linux refs/books for IT - in other words, how to use Linux in the workplace. Any thing I can point them at? maybe this is useful? http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-roadmap.html regards ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAcDsDoPgG5kUDwJIRAllDAKCMLioiWUevwJqHFM4QWcAN/wmywQCgjUpT cBIa6qZeXJkQggZbvei2ruM= =EwOD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar compression software
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:24:20 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the latter, unrar with unrar e file.part01.rar Todd - thank you. It was that simple. Really it threw me for a loop. Todd -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
On April 4, 2004 07:33 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip At the tech college where I work, we have one person that dominates a portion of the IT curriculum. So, if you want to learn about Web publishing, you won't learn any free database or scripting languages, you'll be forced to learn IIS, java, asp and .NET. I keep telling them I don't know anybody who uses that stuff, which is probably just because I'm selective in choosing my friends ;) but seriously, to think we're graduating people who don't know squat about Apache, php, perl, mySQL etc. seems like we're doing a big disservice to our students. Your college is when you consider the large number of sites that use the services you named and what appears to be the decilining number of sites that use junk like IIS. The java course might be useful but knowing Apache, php, perl, mySQL etc is a ticket to ride these days. People trained on M$ stuff are a dime a dozen right now. People trained in the good stuff seem to be mighty rare. :-) It's really dangerous, I think, to put all your eggs in one IT basket. But I'm just a freak that doesn't understand the business world so nobody listens to me. I'd say your person who dominates the IT cirriculum is the one who isn't paying attention to the real world. But then perhaps the real world has nothing to do with it. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
JoeHill wrote:
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:02:15 +0100
Graham Watkins disseminated the following:
Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in
the list software perhaps?
Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one.
I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear
just fine.
Adolfo
Latest Scores so far today!
Messages posted to the list: 3
Messages appearing on the list: 3
Bounce messages received: 3
Cheers
Keith
And I've just been bounced again.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
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;-)
I don't use any of the mailserver programs but I suppose I could set up
a filter in Moz to send them to trash.
(pause)
There I've done it. This one will test whether it works.
The spam's been really heavy lately, so I would imagine the 'lag time' in posts
showing up is just heavy traffic. I had a coupla days around the end of March
where I was filtering over 150 spam mails/day :-\
Don't see any spam these days. Mind you, I had to change my E-mail
address last September to stop the infernal stuff.
--
Graham Watkins
On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used
the word relationship.(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time)
Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org
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Re: [newbie] .mpv + .mpa to .bin + .cue
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:49:59 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked at 'man mplex', but I'm not grokkin' it. In fact I'm not even absolutely sure it's mplex I should be using on the .mpv and .mpa. I've had the same thing happen to me when using the mencvcd script. I'm trying now to include the -cdsize option, and hopefully that will make a difference. I didn't manage to get very far on encoding an mp4 file with it - the file in question is 900+megs, far too big to fit on a CD, and 'file' reports it's Apple Quicktime. I'm now trying to use gmencoder on it. mplex is what you want to use. The output of mplex is appropriately sized chunks of the original file. mplex multiplexes the video (mpv) and audio (mpa) components. If you are lucky, you'll get a file that won't be out of sync (audio with respect to video). Currently, that seems to be the main difficulty I'm facing. That, and not having enough intervening disk space to hold all the intermediary copies (avi, mpa, mpv, cd image, etc.) Anyway, if you try: mplex -o movie%d -S 700 movie.mpa movie.mpv you should then get a number of files (movie01 movie02 etc.) which then can be turned into VCD by using vcdimager. Any pointers appreciated. I should have set the CD size at the beginning, but this is the first time I've run into an animated flick that ended up being so huge when encoded :-\ It's not just you - I once ripped an episode of Outer Limits (new) from DVD. A single episode, about 45-50 minutes of video, and the resulting avi file was 1.6 gigs. O my poor hard drive :). gmencoder seems to try and tailor the output to appropriate CD-sized chunks, but that's not all that useful IMHO when the desired output is SVCD or VCD. JoeHill -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar compression software
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:24:20 -0400 Todd Slater disseminated the following: file.rar file.r00 file.r01 jeez, I haven't seen that since my warez days... -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Spamassassin acting funny
When I request kmail to check in messages it may run a while or hang almost instantly. I traced the problem to spamassassin using 94.7 % of the cpu using top. When I kill the PID assigned to spamassassin with signal 15 things work well until done with spamassassin using from 0.3 to 25.7 % of the cpu. Otherwise spamassassin seems to work ok except when using sa-learn when it seems to hang. Any ideas? -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar compression software
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:14:07 -0400 JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:24:20 -0400 Todd Slater disseminated the following: file.rar file.r00 file.r01 jeez, I haven't seen that since my warez days... My warez days stopped about the same time I installed linux. CoincidenceI think not. -- Job Evers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:08:29 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New keyboard time but first turn it upside down and give it a vigorus shaking you won' believe the crap that's gonna fall out. I usually get about a year out of a keyboard.( thank God they are cheap) I used to have limited keyboard life too but luckily this cheap keyboard (Micro) purchased at Central Computer has lasted three years. It's filthy. :) The one I had before didn't even last a week :(. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:55:33 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes me think of that one PC magazine editor that used to take his keyboard into the shower with him to clean it out (or so he said - I don't think we There's this guy at my local LUG a few years ago - he said he washed the keyboard in the dishwasher, after taking it apart carefully of course, and then allowing it to dry, it worked... -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 08:18, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Hi Hoyt, As I mentioned I don't have mcc listed as a menu option. I don't know how to access drakemenu or MCC without using the menu. When I click on the Welcome icon I get a link called This Computer that says it will configure the computer. If I click on this computer I get this error message. Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exits. Any thoughts on what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! - --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Open a terminal and type mcc. If you don't have a terminal try ctl-alt-F1 and try it from CLI. You might also try update-menus -v from CLI. My welcome icon has done that to me as well. But it came back. -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD playback question
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:11 pm, Lanman wrote: snip - of it ( No pun intended ). I'm assuming that you don't have problems -playing back other DVD's, so my guess is either a missing codec or -protection technology. Correct - its the first one I've had problems with. -This doesn't help much , but if all else fails, I didn't want you -beating your head against the wall. Good drywall guys are hard to find -these days, and you'd end up with a nasty hole in the wall. Grin! - -Lanman grin Understood, and thanks for the reply. I might go codec looking on Mplayers home page, see if I can find something I don't currently have. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:42 pm, Ronald wrote: -maybe this is useful? - -http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-roadmap.html - -regards ronald Thanks, I'll use that! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
- Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Sunday 04 April 2004 08:18, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a menu entry for Mandrake Control Center or for any of the selections that are usually listed under Packaging. Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakemenu avilabele in mcc or welcome icon on desktop under systems. -- Regards; Hoyt Hi Hoyt, As I mentioned I don't have mcc listed as a menu option. I don't know how to access drakemenu or MCC without using the menu. When I click on the Welcome icon I get a link called This Computer that says it will configure the computer. If I click on this computer I get this error message. Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exits. Any thoughts on what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! - --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Open a terminal and type mcc. If you don't have a terminal try ctl-alt-F1 and try it from CLI. You might also try update-menus -v from CLI. My welcome icon has done that to me as well. But it came back. -- Regards; Hoyt I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. Someone suggested the update-menus command so I tried that. That seems to be doing something because the output the command gives seems to indicate it's working but there is no visible change in my menus. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 14:14, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. Someone suggested the update-menus command so I tried that. That seems to be doing something because the output the command gives seems to indicate it's working but there is no visible change in my menus. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I don't have any more ideas. If it was happening to me at this time I would reinstall. Before you do however you might wait a while until someone tells us why that is the stupidest thing you could do. -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Boot hangs with a usb Hard Drive
I have a ACOMDATA 120gig usb external harddrive attached to this computer. When I boot up that drive has to be turned off until I get lilo action. In other words it hangs right after the bios check and the check of the two CDRom devices. I am missing something here. It should boot up with no problem cause the device is sda1 and sda5 and it shows in mtab and fstab. Should something be turned of in the bios settings or Any ideas are appreciated. -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 03:14 pm, eric jackson wrote: I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. how about drakconf. Are you root when you type it? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar compression software
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:24:18 + Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My warez days stopped about the same time I installed linux. CoincidenceI think not. Well nowadays, we download moviez :) Job Evers -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Attempting to install mplayerplugin for mozilla.
I have unpacked: mplayerplug-in-2.50.tar.gz into /usr/src/RPM?SOURCES then ran the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mplayerplug-in]# ./configure checking for g++... g++ checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for gawk... gawk checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for mozilla-plugin... Package mozilla-plugin was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `mozilla-plugin.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'mozilla-plugin' found configure: error: Unable to find gecko sdk PKG_CONFIG_PATH='null'. I don't know where to put the package (mplayerplug-in2.50.tar.gz) I assume? What is gecko sdk? Is this dependency hell? -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
Oli üks kena pühapäev, 4. aprill 2004 22:18,kui eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjutas sellise kirja: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:18, eric jackson wrote: snip Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? /snip 1. as root, run update-menus -v (watch the screen, the command doesn't exit by itself. When no more activity is seen, just press enter). I've done that several times but I haven't noticed any change in my menus. 2. as root, run menudrake, edit and save. When I enter menudrake, bash tells me it can't find the command 3. if fluxbox is installed, uninstall it (there is a bug). I will check on that in a few minutes. Thanks for the advice. Eric HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Some time ago I had same menuproblem with 9.2. From old e-mail I found this: Margot wrote: ronald wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:49:53 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what I need to know is how to transfer this list of applications to the 'user' version of menudrake, so I can add them to the user menu. hey Margot, if you start menudrake as user there is an option to Use system administrator settings in the actions change-style tab HTH. ronald Thanks for the thought, but the 'system administrator' style has even less on it than the 'all applications' style that I've been using! Hi Margot, I had a similar problem with my kde, and everything I tried could not get my menus back to the way they were. update-menus -v generated some errors, I wasn'nt sure what to due about them. I did some searching and found a post on MandrakeExpert list archives by James Sparenberg heres a link. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg79939.html My problem under the file /home/mike/.menu/menudrakeentry was similar to below. ?package(menu): needs=fluxbox section=Fluxbox/Styles/usr/ icon=applications_section.png title= charset=utf8 The title= was my problem so I (knowing this is not the right way) looked at other entries guessed on what it should be so I used editer and changed title= to title=share saved the file and ran update-menus -v again and got all my menus back. Check your /home/Margot/.menu/menudrakeentry file and if you have a missing title= line post back and perhaps someone on list may have the correct entry for that particular line? Thats if, you have the same problem as I had. -- Mike -- Spirtle, n.: The fine stream from a grapefruit that always lands right in your eye. -- Sniglets, Rich Hall Friends -- Powered by Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Beta2) for i586 Registered Linux user #340381 http://counter.li.org Registered Linux machine #227943 http://counter.li.org 01:44:05 up 2 days, 2:46, 2 users, load average: 1.26, 0.91, 0.87 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Taskbar in Pekwm
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Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just installed and am using pekwm. I really like the grouped windows
feature; a big smile came over my face when I grouped my first windows
together.
I would like to have a taskbar of some sort though (ala gnome/kde)
that lets me see what windows I have open on that desktop.
you can use any ewhm compliant taskbar or panel, this includes Gnome and
KDE panels, Rox filer, XFCE taskbar etc.
if you prefer something lightweight to mach pekwm you might want to look
at hpanel http://freshmeat.net/projects/hpanel/
you'd better get this patch though
http://wiki.pekwm.org/index.php/HpanelPatch
if you want more eye candy try pypanel @ http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/
Also I would like to be able to access the mandrake main menu instead
of the limited pekwm menu.
ah yes thats one big problem with the Mandrake PekWM package, use this
menu method script http://wiki.pekwm.org/index.php/MandrakeMenuMethod
Any advice is most welcome.
get cool dynamic menu scripts :-)
cheers,
Alaa
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[newbie] Recording from a microphone in MDK -- Help!!!!
Hi folks, I seem to have hit a brick wall here. I've managed to get a mike up and working, sound coming out of the speaker and all that. The problem is that whenever I try to record from that mike in Audacity or in Rezonds I get nothing..flatline..nada. In Audacity the input is set to mike, Rezonds doesn't seem to have such a thing. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Secure Webpages: PROBLEM UPDATE
Adding to my original post re possible loss of 2 files: on Fri, 02 Apr 2004 05:28:56 -0400 Adolfo Bello wrote Taylord, could you please post the entire output of /sbin/ifconfig and route -n/ These readings were taken whilst trying to access the login page of my webmail account. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin] $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:EO:18:A2:DO:FA inet addr:192.168.1.45 Bcast:192.168.1.255 mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0(0.0 b) TX bytes:11158 (10.8 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX byres:5890 (5.7 Kb) Tx bytes:5890 (5.7 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:218.101.84.3 P-t-P: 218.101.58.33 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1 RX packets:403 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:326543 (318.8 Kb) TX bytes:68685 (67.0 Kb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]$ route -n Kernal IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 218.101.58.33 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 218.101.58.33 0.0.0.0UG 0 0 0 ppp0 regards David This morning was looking in mcc to see if I could find anything to do with see which ports were open or closed and saw in Drakperm that it showed: /usr/sbin/sendmail User root Group mail Permissions2711 /etc/sendmail.cf root mail 644 Looked in mc and these files are not shown. In Konsole it states for both no sure file or directory. Question. Do I need these files to fix my smtp problem (ie unable to send mail) and could it be connected to my https:// problem. All suggestions welcomed. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Taskbar in Pekwm
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 01:06:10 +0200 Alaa The Great [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:41:10 + Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed and am using pekwm. I really like the grouped windows feature; a big smile came over my face when I grouped my first windows together. I would like to have a taskbar of some sort though (ala gnome/kde) that lets me see what windows I have open on that desktop. you can use any ewhm compliant taskbar or panel, this includes Gnome and KDE panels, Rox filer, XFCE taskbar etc. i managed to figure out how to use the gnome-panel ($ gnome-panel did the trick) but have not been so lucky with finding such commands for KDE of XFCE. if you prefer something lightweight to mach pekwm you might want to look at hpanel http://freshmeat.net/projects/hpanel/ you'd better get this patch though http://wiki.pekwm.org/index.php/HpanelPatch if you want more eye candy try pypanel @ http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/ pypanel is definitely eye candy, thanks for the suggestion. Also I would like to be able to access the mandrake main menu instead of the limited pekwm menu. ah yes thats one big problem with the Mandrake PekWM package, use this menu method script http://wiki.pekwm.org/index.php/MandrakeMenuMethod I was a fool and installed from source, but regardless this should fix things for me. If not I'll uninstall my install of pekwm and use the mandrake package. Any advice is most welcome. get cool dynamic menu scripts :-) now that I know about them, i most certainly will. -- Job Evers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared
On Sunday 04 April 2004 07:31 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:18, eric jackson wrote: snip Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? /snip 1. as root, run update-menus -v (watch the screen, the command doesn't exit by itself. When no more activity is seen, just press enter). 2. as root, run menudrake, edit and save. 3. if fluxbox is installed, uninstall it (there is a bug). HTH You also need to install the 6 updates to rpm. I installed all 6 manually (with the --nodeps option) and it solved my problems, allowing update-database to run properly. Do a search for update database bugfix or something similar (the Mandrake-secure servers seem to be down, so that may be a deadend). There is also a thread somewhere in this list's archives where I listed the 6 rpms that had to be installed. e Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
