Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 00:52, Rick Kunath wrote: This one has me stumped... I have a pure 10 community install with the correct 10 official updates because I reinstalled Mandrake after the short mistaken trip some of us took to Cookerville. I know the Mandrake updates of the last few days are on the mirror I am using. I know I don't have them already installed. I have the correct Mandrake 10 updates and distribution set up via urpmi. I deleted the update source several times and forced a reload by recreating it. Still, no updates appear in the MCC list. Any idea as to why MCC isn't working. I've never seen this issue through all of the Mandrake distros I ever used. Rick, as far as I can see there is no didicated updates tree for MDK 10.0CE. It seems that all the updates go into main. I guess that's why Mandrake Update doesn't work. Now, if you have defined main, contrib and plf, try this : In MCC remove updates. Then, go to at root command-line and type urpmi --auto-select I wouldnt' be surprised if you suddenly find youself in a maelstrom of updates. Worked for me, but YMMV. 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] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:00 am, Margot wrote: I kept getting emails from Mandrake about available updates, I finally found a working mirror, but still didn't get any updates through MCC, so I checked the list of updates against the list of packages I had installed and found that the updates were for packages I didn't have installed! Maybe you have the same situation? MCC 'Update' only gives you updates for packages where you've got an out-of-date version installed. If you decide later that you do need these packages, go to 'Install' rather than 'Update' in MCC and you can then download the newest version from the updates mirror. Margot I thought the same thing too, but I did a check of one of the packages, xine-ui of yesterday. I have an old version of the package installed. The new version is on the updates mirror I have configured. I have the updates mirror configured correctly using the --update switch of urpmi, so it is actually recognized as an updates mirror. The path of the mirror is correct. If I enter xine into the search box of the update utility of MCC after it has run, showing nothing, the updated xine package appears in the package list, as I expected it to with the update check. But it won't appear during an update check, nor do any of the other packages that should. I am beginning to think that Mandrake Update is broken on 10? Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 updated just fine on several other of my boxes after I corrected the mirror info. No such luck on 10. There isn't any reason I can think of that the updates shouldn't show up in Mandrake Update. This one has me stumped. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:02, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:00 am, Margot wrote: I kept getting emails from Mandrake about available updates, I finally found a working mirror, but still didn't get any updates through MCC, so I checked the list of updates against the list of packages I had installed and found that the updates were for packages I didn't have installed! Maybe you have the same situation? MCC 'Update' only gives you updates for packages where you've got an out-of-date version installed. If you decide later that you do need these packages, go to 'Install' rather than 'Update' in MCC and you can then download the newest version from the updates mirror. Margot I thought the same thing too, but I did a check of one of the packages, xine-ui of yesterday. I have an old version of the package installed. The new version is on the updates mirror I have configured. I have the updates mirror configured correctly using the --update switch of urpmi, so it is actually recognized as an updates mirror. The path of the mirror is correct. If I enter xine into the search box of the update utility of MCC after it has run, showing nothing, the updated xine package appears in the package list, as I expected it to with the update check. But it won't appear during an update check, nor do any of the other packages that should. I am beginning to think that Mandrake Update is broken on 10? Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 updated just fine on several other of my boxes after I corrected the mirror info. No such luck on 10. There isn't any reason I can think of that the updates shouldn't show up in Mandrake Update. This one has me stumped. Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? 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] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise. I am still a bit leery about not knowing what is getting updated after my inadvertent trip to Cooker a few weeks ago, and the reinstall afterwards. I have a feeling that urpmi may be working, but not Mandrake Update. Any idea as to how to force urpmi to display a list of it's proposed updates? I did a lot of Googling, but couldn't seem to discover anything. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:55, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise. I am still a bit leery about not knowing what is getting updated after my inadvertent trip to Cooker a few weeks ago, and the reinstall afterwards. I have a feeling that urpmi may be working, but not Mandrake Update. Any idea as to how to force urpmi to display a list of it's proposed updates? I did a lot of Googling, but couldn't seem to discover anything. When I did urpmi --auto-select it showed me about 120 rpms and asked if I wanted to proceed. Like you, I was a little confused, so I compared the list to what I actually had installed on my system, and - lo and behold - all the proposed packages were of a newer version. So, I entered Y, and about ½ an hour later everything was up to date. I even compared the new rpms to the ones in the official updates tree, and you know what ? - Mine were newer. I think it's safe to conclude, that there are no updates to CE, but main, contrib and plf gets updated as time goes by. Who knows ? 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
[newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive
Hi all, I'm using Mdk 10.0 and I have a USB2 drive which is detected ok by hotplug (/etc/fstab gets updated when I plug the drive), but I still have to mount /mnt/removable to have it mounted. Is there a way to have it automatically mounted? Thanks, -- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Help! I Killed Samba
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 11:12, shaz wrote: Hi all Up until recently my system has been running fine. Then I had a power cut :( Now. I have two computers. 1 mandrake 9.1 and 1 winxp. linux connected to dialup modem. winxp thru network to linux. this is the situation after power cut. XP cannot ping itself (127.0.0.1) and cannot ping linux. linux cannot ping itself and cannot ping xp. linux = 192.168.0.2 xp = 192.168.0.1 static ip linux cannot see xp in linneighbourhood. linux cannot see itself in linneighbourhood. linux cannot access any xp hard drives. xp CAN see linux in windows explorer. but EXTREMELY slow exploring xp can see itself in windows explorer. xp CAN access linux hard drives. and xp has no problems connecting to internet thru linux. any ideas? any files i need to find and copy/paste to here? TIA Shaz Sounds like your TCP/IP is corrupt. Try removing, rebooting and re-insatlling the XP Network settings (Remove all protocols) then re-run DrakConnect to reset the network settings on the LinuxBox. I would switch the IP #s between them. IMHO, Linux should be 192.168.0.1... Good Luck, ::. Amichai Rotman The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 --- PLEASE READ: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution crashes while adding signature
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote: If that doesn't work, you might want to update/upgrade GTKHTML and the other associated libs; you can use Ximian's Red-Carpet to update Evo and the libs without a hassle/problem. Also, you might want to just completely upgrade Evo to the current standard for MDK 9.1 which is 1.4.4 = runs alot more smoothly and faster... Hi again Stephen, I downloaded red-carpet and ran it. It tells me the whole system regarding evolution-stuff is up to date. I then backed up the ~/.gconf and ~/evolution directories. Rename both the ~/.gconf/mail/evolution subdirectory and ~/evolution. Ran evo. It started up clear, but the accounts were still in there?? Tried creating a signature and things crashed again. What could yet another place be to look at? Does anyone have a clue? This is getting interesting... Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Question about remote access
I have a question concerning remote access and iptables. I have installed Mandrake 10.0 Community on a PII 450Mhz. with 256Mb RAM. I have tweaked all the settings in Mandrake Control Center, but I know nothing about iptables. I have assigned the following to the su and login commands: owner: root group: wheel PERMISSIONS: owner: read, write, execute, setuid group: read, write, execute others: forbidden And, I have added myself (the only user) to the wheel group. I have, and use, rkhunter. Even if someone had remote access to my system, they would not be able to call the su or login commands. I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms It seems that my box would be invisible to anyone trying to ping me and unavailable to anyone trying to telnet me. Is this sufficient? Or, must I learn how to deal with iptables? Ian MacGregor -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Knotify and Soundcard
An interesting one this I finally found the route to a stable(ish) 10 community, buy installing 9.2 and upgrading, as opposed to a clean install of 10. I've always had some driver issues with the soundcard (C Media CM8738), but nothing that was not easily sorted. Until today. Boot up, and you get the nice little KDE tune as KDE starts. Play a few MP3's with XMMS, and you get to hear music. Until after a while. Then, try to use the soundcard, and the error message pops up, saying that the soundcard is either not configured properly, or another program is blocking the soundcard. A quick look at ksysguard process table, revealed 7 instances of knotify running. Killed them all, and the sound is back again. Any ideas how to to either disable knotify, or configure it so that when it has notified, it exits? as for some reason it cant be killing itself, and thus is hogging the soundcard. Thanks, JRH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Question about remote access
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:05, Ian MacGregor wrote: I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms It seems that my box would be invisible to anyone trying to ping me and unavailable to anyone trying to telnet me. Is this sufficient? Or, must I learn how to deal with iptables? I'd have a look at the IPaddress your machine has when connected to the net, send that to a good friend and see if (s)he can ping you. That would be a better test imho. If you are hesitant about IPtables, there are helpful scripts, like EasyTables, QuickTables etc, that do a great job in helping you set up a good firewall. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Question about remote access
Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( On Wednesday 21 April 2004 8:21 am, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:05, Ian MacGregor wrote: I tried to telnet myself in a konsole session and got a reply telling me connection refused. I tried to ping myself and got 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms It seems that my box would be invisible to anyone trying to ping me and unavailable to anyone trying to telnet me. Is this sufficient? Or, must I learn how to deal with iptables? I'd have a look at the IPaddress your machine has when connected to the net, send that to a good friend and see if (s)he can ping you. That would be a better test imho. If you are hesitant about IPtables, there are helpful scripts, like EasyTables, QuickTables etc, that do a great job in helping you set up a good firewall. Paul -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 13:55, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise. I am still a bit leery about not knowing what is getting updated after my inadvertent trip to Cooker a few weeks ago, and the reinstall afterwards. I have a feeling that urpmi may be working, but not Mandrake Update. Any idea as to how to force urpmi to display a list of it's proposed updates? I did a lot of Googling, but couldn't seem to discover anything. Rick urpmi --update --auto-select --auto installs without showing a list urpmi --update --auto-select shows you a list of proposed updates and asks for confirmation. Mandrake Software Install GUI has a filter on 'Update Availability' so you can browse the descriptions before deciding to install updates. Mandrake Update GUI similarly shows a list of updates mdkonline will pull up mdkupdate when you select 'Install Updates', and will then show a list. How many more ways do you need? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.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] Question about remote access
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:27, Ian MacGregor wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( Hmmm. Not sure if you could see me as a good friend, but I do ping once in a while. You can send me your IP through private mail, I could check for you. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Question about remote access
I just sent you some info. thanks for volunteering. On Wednesday 21 April 2004 8:36 am, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:27, Ian MacGregor wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who knows how to ping :( Hmmm. Not sure if you could see me as a good friend, but I do ping once in a while. You can send me your IP through private mail, I could check for you. Paul -- - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 17:32, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 13:55, Rick Kunath wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 08:28 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Me too. Have you tried (as root) : urpmi --auto-select ? Yes. Urpmi wanted to do an update, but I aborted it because I had no idea as to what it wanted to install, package wise. I am still a bit leery about not knowing what is getting updated after my inadvertent trip to Cooker a few weeks ago, and the reinstall afterwards. I have a feeling that urpmi may be working, but not Mandrake Update. Any idea as to how to force urpmi to display a list of it's proposed updates? I did a lot of Googling, but couldn't seem to discover anything. Rick urpmi --update --auto-select --auto installs without showing a list urpmi --update --auto-select shows you a list of proposed updates and asks for confirmation. Mandrake Software Install GUI has a filter on 'Update Availability' so you can browse the descriptions before deciding to install updates. Mandrake Update GUI similarly shows a list of updates mdkonline will pull up mdkupdate when you select 'Install Updates', and will then show a list. How many more ways do you need? derek Derek, I think the confusion stems from the re-arranged mirrors. When launching Mandrake Update, nothing happens although there are tons of upgrades to 10.0CE. A closer look reveils that the original sources in Mandrake Update are out of date. Furthermore, when browsing the updated mirrors, i.e. proxad, the are a multitude of Mandrake trees. In the devel-branch, however, no updates are anywhere to be found. But in the official tree, there is the usual updates tree for all, recent versions. My guess is, that for official the GUI Update works, but it certainly doesn't in CE. Hence this long thread. Your above mentioned CLI options do, luckily. 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
[newbie] Knotify and Souncard issue......
An interesting one this I finally found the route to a stable(ish) 10 community, buy installing 9.2 and upgrading, as opposed to a clean install of 10. I've always had some driver issues with the soundcard (C Media CM8738), but nothing that was not easily sorted. Until today. Boot up, and you get the nice little KDE tune as KDE starts. Play a few MP3's with XMMS, and you get to hear music. Until after a while. Then, try to use the soundcard, and the error message pops up, saying that the soundcard is either not configured properly, or another program is blocking the soundcard. A quick look at ksysguard process table, revealed 7 instances of knotify running. Killed them all, and the sound is back again. Any ideas how to to either disable knotify, or configure it so that when it has notified, it exits? as for some reason it cant be killing itself, and thus is hogging the soundcard. Thanks, JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10 Community Exposing Microsoft products directly to the internet, is a bit like painting a large bullseye on your butt, and bending over, naked, in a San Francisco steam room. Except, Microsoft isnt nearly as safe Registered Linux User #340061 ICQ: #86015236 Yahoo!: v6vitanic 17:07:51 up 2:12, 1 user, load average: 0.60, 0.27, 0.29 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10 Updates not showing?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op woensdag 21 april 2004 00:52, schreef Rick Kunath: This one has me stumped... I have a pure 10 community install with the correct 10 official updates because I reinstalled Mandrake after the short mistaken trip some of us took to Cookerville. I know the Mandrake updates of the last few days are on the mirror I am using. I know I don't have them already installed. I have the correct Mandrake 10 updates and distribution set up via urpmi. I deleted the update source several times and forced a reload by recreating it. Still, no updates appear in the MCC list. Any idea as to why MCC isn't working. I've never seen this issue through all of the Mandrake distros I ever used. Rick Kunath take a look at http://www.anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mandrake/ HTH. ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhqj5oPgG5kUDwJIRAhllAJ0db6cjhKWYTVxixI/WssEat1hOWQCeLNmI cDfL3rhRnYgsG5lRcprJC3c= =FtnG -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] Automatically mount a USB drive
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 14:06, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Hi all, I'm using Mdk 10.0 and I have a USB2 drive which is detected ok by hotplug (/etc/fstab gets updated when I plug the drive), but I still have to mount /mnt/removable to have it mounted. Is there a way to have it automatically mounted? Thanks, In KDE...go to behaviour , tick the mounted hard drive partition. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broadband for Doon Valley It's a reality!!! Now going penguin hunting!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Knotify and Soundcards......
An interesting one this I finally found the route to a stable(ish) 10 community, buy installing 9.2 and upgrading, as opposed to a clean install of 10. I've always had some driver issues with the soundcard (C Media CM8738), but nothing that was not easily sorted. Until today. Boot up, and you get the nice little KDE tune as KDE starts. Play a few MP3's with XMMS, and you get to hear music. Until after a while. Then, try to use the soundcard, and the error message pops up, saying that the soundcard is either not configured properly, or another program is blocking the soundcard. A quick look at ksysguard process table, revealed 7 instances of knotify running. Killed them all, and the sound is back again. Any ideas how to to either disable knotify, or configure it so that when it has notified, it exits? as for some reason it cant be killing itself, and thus is hogging the soundcard. Thanks, JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10 Community Exposing Microsoft products directly to the internet, is a bit like painting a large bullseye on your butt, and bending over, naked, in a San Francisco steam room. Except, Microsoft isnt nearly as safe Registered Linux User #340061 ICQ: #86015236 Yahoo!: v6vitanic 18:30:32 up 3:34, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.23, 0.24 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved? I tried: 1. draksync BUT it gives up (does nothing) especially when the stuff gets big; AND 2. ncftp with recursive get but recurses only 2 levels down with sub-subdirectories having no contents AND permissions NOT preserved. Is there a much simpler way to do this? Would rsync work? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updating: ftp vs. http
Hi all, I am trying to add sources via urpmi. When I try and add a source that is ftp it times out - no matter which one I use. When I try a source that is http, it connects no problem and adds the source. Any ideas as to why? I am behind a firewall but haven't seen ftp problems using an ftp program. -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Official ATI drivers in 10.0
I see I have access to official ATI drivers from http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/, but how do I get them to work (with my Radeon)? I have downloaded and installed ATI_GLX-3.7.6-2mdk.i586.rpm ATI_GLX-utils-3.7.0-2mdk.i586.rpm ATI_kernel-2.6.3.7mdk-3.7.6-2mdk.i586.rpm and was told to run XFdrake. I did, but what driver should I choose (none seems to have any effect on 3D performance)? Is there something else I'm missing? -- Karl Ove Hufthammer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive
On April 21, 2004 11:27, Ian Urie wrote: ... In KDE...go to behaviour , tick the mounted hard drive partition. I take it you mean System - Configuration - KDE - LookNFeel - Behavior I was trying this out (I'm having usb problems too), and noticed the option to show icons for unmounted drives. Decided to check it out (when the icons only appear on mount, they seem to appear in random screen locations, not lined up with the other icons, which is kinda ugly; call me neurotic, but I like to keep my desktop neat). So then I got curious what happens when I double click an icon for an umounted drive. Guess what? It mounts it, even if there's nothing in it (I tried it with my cdrom drive empty). So then I unmounted, and it hung my system solid - mouse, keyboard, everything frozen! Had to hit the reset button. After it rebooted, it had shifted my display an inch to the right and a half inch up (had to use the menu built into my monitor to reposition), and randomly repositioned all my desktop icons. Nasty! BTW, I'm on 10.0 CE download, with no updates (cuz in 6 weeks, I haven't gotten MU or urpmi to work once; always dies on a curl error). Is there a Mandrake equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del, which on Windoze 2K usually at least allows me to gain enough control to do a clean shutdown (I'm not a Windoze fan, my employer makes me use it, I just like to have that particular feature available). -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net 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 mount a USB drive
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21:40, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: snip Is there a Mandrake equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del, which on Windoze 2K usually at least allows me to gain enough control to do a clean shutdown (I'm not a Windoze fan, my employer makes me use it, I just like to have that particular feature available). /snip Depending on your setting in /etc/inittab the Windows-salute should initiate a clean shutdown or reboot. But, honestly, this is hardly ever needed in linux. In case of a hanging application (in KDE) you can hit Ctrl + Alt + Esc then move your cursor (now a skull) to the offending application and left-click. That's a kill. In case of a hanging GUI (X-server), you can hit Ctrl + Alt + Backspace. This kills X and gets you to a new login. In case of nothing (exept the keyboard) working, and right before you consider a hard reset, you have to play a little piano-sonata : Alt + SysRq + r + s + e + i + u + b (Mnemotech : Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring) This sequence performs a clean reboot, including sync. 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] trying xfce4 - help
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 5:20 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can run anything you like from within XFCE, the right-click menu should be the same as your KDE or Gnome menus Hi Joe, I didn't find this to be true in my case. I'm running Mandrake 10.0 and, since I was having trouble with urpmi in general at the time, I installed xfce4 from sources. Is there a way to add my KDE menus to the desktop menu, short of manually adding everything to menu.xml? I didn't see anything mentioned in the online manual. If you install from Charles' source the Mandrake menu appears as on entry in the right click menu. You'll have to ask him how he did it though if you want to stick with the compiled version. My best tip: load the command line applet and add it to the panel. You'll soon wonder how you survived without it. -- 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] wc
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 5:51 am, JoeHill wrote: Just saw this on the Procmail Tips page and it has me all excited: see 'man wc' ...haven't the faintest idea what to use it for yet, but I haven't been this horned up about a command line tool since I discovered 'grep' :-D On a distant list, far away... Someone asked if Ethereal had the functionality of Sniffer (the commercial equivalent) to draw a picture of the communications between machines. It only took me an hour and a half to write a command line script that accepted a network capture file and produced a picture (gif, postscript or what-have-you) that showed conversations between machines as lines between labelled boxes. Then someone else pointed out that two sed invocations and a tr could be replaced by a simple awk script. I love Linux. To blow your mind: man awk -- 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] Updating: ftp vs. http
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 02:22 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I am trying to add sources via urpmi. When I try and add a source that is ftp it times out - no matter which one I use. When I try a source that is http, it connects no problem and adds the source. Any ideas as to why? I am behind a firewall but haven't seen ftp problems using an ftp program. Most mirrors allow a certian number of connections from ftp and http clients. You probably found a mirror that was full-up on it's ftp connections but had some available http connections. -- /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] Automatically mount a USB drive
Le mer 21/04/2004 à 19:27, Ian Urie a écrit : In KDE...go to behaviour , tick the mounted hard drive partition. Hi, thanks for the tip. Actually this was already ticked, I also ticked unmounted hard drive partition and it appeared when I plugged my USB device, so it's kinda working. But I don't use KDE that often (XFCE4 is my desktop), and there is no desktop icons. Would there be a way to tell the system to mount the drives as soon as they are created by hotplug? Then it shouldn't be configured at the desktop level... Again, thanks for your help, -- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 mount a USB drive
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 9:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: In case of nothing (exept the keyboard) working, and right before you consider a hard reset, you have to play a little piano-sonata : Alt + SysRq + r + s + e + i + u + b (Mnemotech : Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring) This sequence performs a clean reboot, including sync. There are one or two people who have recently said they had no option but a hard reset. I would say it was absolutely vital to do this sequence, even if you think the keyboard is dead. I would suggest that Raising Skinny Elephants Is Sometimes Utterly 'Orrible, because It's probably a good idea to sync after killing all the tasks. A soft reboot doesn't send a bus reset to the peripherals, so it might leave them in a bad state. Given the choice it's better to switch the machine off. But either version is a lot better than nothing. -- 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] Copying FTP tree
Noong Thursday 22 April 2004 01:20, isinulat ni Todd Slater: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved? I tried: 1. draksync BUT it gives up (does nothing) especially when the stuff gets big; AND 2. ncftp with recursive get but recurses only 2 levels down with sub-subdirectories having no contents AND permissions NOT preserved. Is there a much simpler way to do this? Would rsync work? I get overwhelmed by rsync array of options. What are the most common options used with rsync? I tried using mirrordir and it seems to working fine (except for a really big file). I am working on it now. Thanks Guys! :-) -- Arys P. Deloso Home Page: http://arys.deloso.net/ Registered Linux User #345763 (counter.li.org) PGP Key ID: B57512A8 Mandrake Linux 9.2 (FiveStar)KMail/GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree
How about wget? from man wget: -m --mirror Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf -nr. On Thu, Apr 22, 2004, Arys P. Deloso wrote: Noong Thursday 22 April 2004 01:20, isinulat ni Todd Slater: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved? I tried: 1. draksync BUT it gives up (does nothing) especially when the stuff gets big; AND 2. ncftp with recursive get but recurses only 2 levels down with sub-subdirectories having no contents AND permissions NOT preserved. Is there a much simpler way to do this? Would rsync work? I get overwhelmed by rsync array of options. What are the most common options used with rsync? I tried using mirrordir and it seems to working fine (except for a really big file). I am working on it now. Thanks Guys! :-) 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 mount a USB drive
On April 21, 2004 14:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21:40, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: snip Is there a Mandrake equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del, which on Windoze 2K usually at least allows me to gain enough control to do a clean shutdown (I'm not a Windoze fan, my employer makes me use it, I just like to have that particular feature available). /snip Depending on your setting in /etc/inittab the Windows-salute should initiate a clean shutdown or reboot. But, honestly, this is hardly ever needed in linux. I haven't touched my inittab, just whatever 10.0 CE has by default. I see these lines in there: # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now Looks like what you're talking about. But I tried it before (out of habit), and it did nothing. Just tried it again, and all it did was log me out. In case of a hanging application (in KDE) you can hit Ctrl + Alt + Esc then move your cursor (now a skull) to the offending application and left-click. That's a kill. Sweet. In case of a hanging GUI (X-server), you can hit Ctrl + Alt + Backspace. This kills X and gets you to a new login. In case of nothing (exept the keyboard) working, and right before you consider a hard reset, you have to play a little piano-sonata : Alt + SysRq + r + s + e + i + u + b (Mnemotech : Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring) This sequence performs a clean reboot, including sync. Interesting. I thought I saw the alt+sysrq somewhere. It didn't do anything for me. I didn't know the rest of the incantation. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Problem is I won't remember these the rare times I need them (I'm kind of like Dory in Finding Nemo). I could just hold down ctrl and alt and hammer randomly on the keyboard :^). I suppose I should write it down. Anyway, thanks for the tips. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Trying to get usb cd burner working
Sent this yesterday, but it seems that I didn't respond to the confirmation soon enough, so it was never distributed... And to update a bit: 1. I discovered that the harddrake and hotplug services were not set to start at boot, so I manually started them, and set them to start at boot. 2. lspcidrake -v still gives me the same result, even after a reboot (due to the hang I mentioned earlier today). Is there some table I have to update or something to get the device to be recognized from the id? 3. There's no /etc/fstabs entry for this device. Do I need to add one manually, or should hotplug do this for me? How do I know what device this would be in /dev? Anything else I should be looking at? Ron -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Trying to get usb cd burner working Date: April 20, 2004 17:43 From: Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I'm trying to get my clunky old Micro Solutions Backpack CD Rewriter running under 10.0 CE on my clunky old Dell Dimension XPS R400 desktop (so that I can backup my personal files before upgrading to 10.0 Official). I've installed the driver RPM available from http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/linux/index3.html (thanks Micro Solutions for providing a Linux driver). Now what? The device shows up as Unknown/Others in the Hardware - Hardware section of MCC, with the following details: Vendor: (null) Bus: USB Description: Module: unknown Media class: lspcidrake -v gives me the following line: unknown : unknown (0ac9///) I know this is the right line, because it disappears if I unplug the burner. On http://www.linux-usb.org/ I see the following in the list of Linux USB devices: 0ac9 Micro Solutions, Inc. BackPack CD-ReWriter It says somewhere else on this site that this device has been supported since 2002. I'm seeing the right device id. So why doesn't it recognize the device? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I'm a total newbie to Linux - Mandrake 10.0 CE download is my first Linux install, and it'll be 6 weeks tomorrow. I am a techie though, and have some Solaris sys admin experience more years ago than I care to admit. So I can track down a problem when I have to, but I prefer when things just work. So far Mandrake is great. I had to disable power management to keep it from making my display all wonky (black and white horizontal stripes, jailbird style), and I still can't get my sound working. But I'm waiting to see if Official fixes that. Oh, and I've yet to get a successful update from Mandrake too. Otherwise, it's been smooth sailing, other than the inevitable learning curve. I can tell you that it's easier to administer than the NT 4.0 that it replaced (good riddance!). Been meaning to take this plunge for a while, but couldn't find the time (thanks in part to the Microscum treadmill). Anyway, enough babble. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net --- -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:10:27AM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: Noong Thursday 22 April 2004 01:20, isinulat ni Todd Slater: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved? I tried: 1. draksync BUT it gives up (does nothing) especially when the stuff gets big; AND 2. ncftp with recursive get but recurses only 2 levels down with sub-subdirectories having no contents AND permissions NOT preserved. Is there a much simpler way to do this? Would rsync work? I get overwhelmed by rsync array of options. What are the most common options used with rsync? I tried using mirrordir and it seems to working fine (except for a really big file). I am working on it now. Thanks Guys! :-) If you use --archive I think it uses sensible options to preserve dates, owner, group, permissions, recurses, etc. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Legends
I was excited to try a Tribes-type game called Legend: http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/ but the fonts used in the in-game menus are so screwed up that I can't configure it. No mention of this in their FAQ or forums. Any ideas? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] chmod directory and file?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I found out that some directories and files that I copied from windows have 777 in permission. I tried to chmod -R 644 /directoryname, all files were correctly set into 644, but then all directories were also set into 644. I understand that directory must be set into 755? So, how do I set all files to 644 while also setting the directories into 755? I tried man chmod, but the only seemed related options was -R which gave me the wrong result. TIA, - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 03:57:19 up 19:52, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhuEgkp5CsIXuxqURAhF1AKCRAri9KWWs5NkSI4p/rDtF13cBhACfaU28 wwDcLRbg71uumBC+P9JXXz0= =JUsk -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] Evolution crashes while adding signature
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 00:57, Paul wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote: If that doesn't work, you might want to update/upgrade GTKHTML and the other associated libs; you can use Ximian's Red-Carpet to update Evo and the libs without a hassle/problem. Also, you might want to just completely upgrade Evo to the current standard for MDK 9.1 which is 1.4.4 = runs alot more smoothly and faster... Hi again Stephen, I downloaded red-carpet and ran it. It tells me the whole system regarding evolution-stuff is up to date. I then backed up the ~/.gconf and ~/evolution directories. Rename both the ~/.gconf/mail/evolution subdirectory and ~/evolution. Ran evo. It started up clear, but the accounts were still in there?? Tried creating a signature and things crashed again. What could yet another place be to look at? Does anyone have a clue? This is getting interesting... Paul Now ya got me stumped - but you might want to get on the mailing list for Evo and ask there - they're wizards in that group. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. -- La Rochefoucauld Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 07:08, Richard Urwin wrote: If you install from Charles' source the Mandrake menu appears as on entry in the right click menu. You'll have to ask him how he did it though if you want to stick with the compiled version. My best tip: load the command line applet and add it to the panel. You'll soon wonder how you survived without it. MenuMaker-0.17 Find it at SourceForge.net Very simple to setup. Else you can manually edit the /usr/local/etc/xfce4/menu.xml stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- 'Detectoring is like gambling,' said Vimes, putting down the clove. 'The secret is to know the winner in advance.' (Jingo) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution crashes while adding signature
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 06:43, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Now ya got me stumped - but you might want to get on the mailing list for Evo and ask there - they're wizards in that group. Okay, I'll do that. Thanks for the help and the tips!! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] chmod directory and file?
On April 21, 2004 15:01, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Hi all,
I found out that some directories and files that I copied from windows have
777 in permission.
I tried to chmod -R 644 /directoryname, all files were correctly set into
644, but then all directories were also set into 644. I understand that
directory must be set into 755? So, how do I set all files to 644 while
also setting the directories into 755?
I tried man chmod, but the only seemed related options was -R which gave me
the wrong result.
TIA,
That's something I always thought was a deficiency of the chmod command in
Unix, thatthere's no easy way to do this. They seemed to have propagated this
deficiency to Linux. Should be an option that goes with -R, but there isn't.
There's an incantation with the find command that can do this. I can never
remember it exactly, but it's in the man pages. Something like this:
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
where the . indicates the current directory. Put any other path there if
you're not in the directory where you want to do this. I might not have the
syntax exactly correct (could be you need a \ before the {} too).
--
Ron Hunter-Duvar
ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net
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Re: [newbie] Re: Mozilla fonts
John Richard Smith wrote: Now I am not saying that the problem you are experiencing is due to this ongoing problem, but it may be, If you cannot get true trype fonts to work now maybe the problem is that they have fixed the ghostscript to work with the new fonts and in doing so messed up the others, I don't know, but in the back of my mind is a feeling that we are going to have trouble with fonts from now on. Maybe that might be the case. I remember that long ago with Red Hat 6.1 (6.2 or like) I had the similar problem but in the opposite direction. Those distros came with Netscape and I wanted to add some Mozilla to try it. You bet, although the 'original' Netscape looked fine on the screen, the new added Mozilla was capable to execute and run - but looked ugly. Certainly betweenM9.0 and M9.1 my printer had enormous trouble printing almost every font in kde properly, Haven't tested printing yet (at least seems that KDE's initial printer setup test was ok, as long as I remember now). Will check about. Misko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Mozilla fonts
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On windoze 2k (forced to use it by my employer), I installed mozilla, then later netscape (can't remember why I needed netscape). Netscape stomped all over my mozilla settings. Trashed my bookmarks and everything (it grabbed the existing profile without asking me). I was quite upset. Don't know if this is related to your problem, but netscape does not cooperate well with mozilla on the same machine. Haven't tested them both on Windows yet. What is suggested by setup manuals is that Netscape 6/7 and Mozilla should NOT share users' profiles. But I think that is true only when you try to activate both of software in the very same time (i.e. the other while the first is running). Seems that the first program started somehow 'lock' the profile and the other program reports that a specific profile can't be used. I find that resonable and, btw there's no logic to handle incoming email with two mailers in the same time, is it? The other problem might be with the OS. In fact, either Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.6 use different folder paths to be installed under Linux (per default), so if you follow those paths there is low chance to screw up things. In the same time, user's profile(s) shouldn't be changed because they're located in *separate* user's homes. So I don't see reasons something like that to be a problem. Maybe, on Windows installations they *share* a part of 'Program Files' path and that could be a problem. Misko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Mozilla fonts
JoeHill wrote: Nothing, just an a suggestion *if you wanted the TrueType fonts*. Does it mean that the 'original' Mozilla that comes with Mdk 9.1 does not use TrueType fonts? It looks just fine. Anyway, tnx for suggestion. Misko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
