RE: [newbie] Samba server for shares
Thanx Will do. Regards, Jargon -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2004 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba server for shares On Monday 24 May 2004 06:07, Tobias Cloete wrote: Thanx, I'll setup die security to high only. I don't want anonymous access to the shares. Each user must access only their share and nothing more. They will only have read access too. Eg. \share\jargon; \share\someone; etc... I did read upon samba a bit more. I'm trying to get dit box to use samba-winbind for domain authentication. Any ideas? I do use die net join . command but, when I try to see the usr's om the windows dc, I get an error. I read somewhere on the list someone said something about, Keberos and using that to authenticate against a windows domain. Regards, Jargon I know what you want to do is possible, but it is outside my own experience. If you get no further replies here, I suggest you ask in the forum at MandrakeClub www.mandrakeclub.com. One of your fellow countrymen Buchan Milne posts there and is a real whizz at all things to do with Samba. He responds to virtually every Samba question on the forum. 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
[newbie] MD10 and Sane and OCR
Anyone use OCR with Sane yet ? How do you set it 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
Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters
On Sunday 23 May 2004 09:43 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: I'm looking into a problem my high school reunion chair is having. Apparently most of his e-mails to the class are not making it to classmates with known active e-addresses. Since the e-mail has ~200 names on the To: list, I suspect it's being picked up as spam by some ISP bent on blocking our class reunion. Does anyone know if my hypothesis is reasonable and how one might get around such a filter (other than by sending 200 e-mails)? Possible it is not making it off of the original mail server. Postfix has rules that can be implemented that limit the number of recipients. I am fairly certain that other MTA's do as well. There are a number of email packages that allow you to create distribution lists, each email would go out to a single address, but everyone on the distribution list would get a copy. He might want to look into getting such a package. However, he/she should probably insure that the mail is 100% opt-in/solicited, regardless of what the subject might be. If the recipients did not actively solicit the contact, high school reunion or not, the mail would be considered spam and the originating account will probably be forfeit. -- 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] Dead Laptop
From: Asa Rossoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 23 May 2004 03:51 am, Asa Rossoff wrote: From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i have a laptop here that belongs to a friend it is dead no OS i do not have a floppy for it I have set the BIOS to boot off the drive. I need tom get mandrake on this box (hey she's cute) Laptop is a Toshibatecra 550cdt any way to force it to read the CD? Alternatively...does the BIOS support PXE and network booting? 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] Ximian Connector for Mdk10
Do I need mdk10 official or will community edition do? Cause I get a 'unsatisfied libgal-ally-2.0.so.6' error. Regards, Jargon -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2004 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ximian Connector for Mdk10 On Monday 24 May 2004 06:59, Tobias Cloete wrote: Has anyone installed Ximian connector on mdk10 yet? If so, where can I get it? Thanx, Regards, Jargon http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=2050mode=nocomments It is available in the testing folder of MandrakeClub ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/testing/Mand rakeclub/10.0/i586 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] Ximian Connector for Mdk10
Very nice website Derek!!! -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2004 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ximian Connector for Mdk10 On Monday 24 May 2004 06:59, Tobias Cloete wrote: Has anyone installed Ximian connector on mdk10 yet? If so, where can I get it? Thanx, Regards, Jargon http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=2050mode=nocomments It is available in the testing folder of MandrakeClub ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/testing/Mand rakeclub/10.0/i586 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] Dead Laptop
On Monday 24 May 2004 04:13 am, David A. Ferguson wrote: From: Asa Rossoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 23 May 2004 03:51 am, Asa Rossoff wrote: From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i have a laptop here that belongs to a friend it is dead no OS i do not have a floppy for it I have set the BIOS to boot off the drive. I need tom get mandrake on this box (hey she's cute) Laptop is a Toshibatecra 550cdt any way to force it to read the CD? Alternatively...does the BIOS support PXE and network booting? Nope it is a real old POS if i can get the HDD Formated and a CDROM driver installed somehow. then it should be good to go. (her BF tried to install XP on it ) AFAICT he wiped out everything as it doesn't even boot. 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] arrrrggggggg
On Sat, 22 May 2004 13:36:27 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you do me a flavor? In the interests of Science? To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on system bios shadowing, but leave video shadowing off, and see if your system remains stable. I'm curious. LX P.P.S Have you flashed your mainboard to the latest bios available for it from Asus. Okay, today I turned BIOS shadowing on and left the Video Shadowing off. And yes, I got 2 more BIOS upgrades and tried them out. With Video Shadowing on, they made no difference. I still had an unstable Mandrake system. So I went back to the 1998 version of the Award BIOS that came with my motherboard. I won't be changing BIOSes for this test. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:46, The Other wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004 13:36:27 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you do me a flavor? In the interests of Science? To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on system bios shadowing, but leave video shadowing off, and see if your system remains stable. I'm curious. LX P.P.S Have you flashed your mainboard to the latest bios available for it from Asus. Okay, today I turned BIOS shadowing on and left the Video Shadowing off. And yes, I got 2 more BIOS upgrades and tried them out. With Video Shadowing on, they made no difference. I still had an unstable Mandrake system. So I went back to the 1998 version of the Award BIOS that came with my motherboard. I won't be changing BIOSes for this test. The Other __ OK, but the real question I had wasn't clearly answered, which was did you have system instabilities with the system shadowing only? And why in the world would you want to run an older bios on your motherboard if a newer one is available? LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help
On Monday 24 May 2004 12:09 am, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: Mandrake10 . I got all settled in and prepared to copy and transfer away. Wow! I never thought it would be such a process. I am not going to address any of the problems you laid out because I have had the most success doing this in a different way. It involves duplicating the file system using cp with the -a switch, which maintains all datestamps and file permissions (I think it stands for archive) I'll describe it to you and see what you think. First create your partitions as you have done. Then create a temporary mounpoint. I use something like /mnt/newdrive. Mount the new root partition at /mnt/newdrive and then create mountpoints for your other partitions there, I think you had /usr and /home. So you would now mount your new /usr and /home at /mnt/newdrive/usr and /mnt/newdrive/home. Now you can simply copy over the existing file system using cp -a. I do it one directory at a time to make sure everything goes smoothly. cp -a /boot /mnt/newdrive cp -a /etc//mnt/newdrive etc., etc. After you are done, make any modifications you need to your /etc/fstab and make sure that you can boot to the new drive by adding an entry to it in your exiting lilo.conf. Once you are booted to the new filesystem, then you can convert to using its LILO by setting up the lilo.conf and re-running lilo from the new filesystem. -- /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] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O
On Sunday 23 May 2004 11:59 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: g2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O I am trying to get my ipod (original 5 gig first gen) to work with MDK 10.0 O. I am ussing gtkpod 7.0 I am able to READ from the ipod, that is see the files and play them, but I am not able to write to it. When I try to synch gtkpod reports: Could not open iTunesDB /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB for writing. I have an inkiling that the the file /usr/fstab might have something to do with my problem (just a guess). I include the text of the file below, in case that is helpfull. I also tried changing combinations of the user and group of the whole directory recursively using chown, chgrp, and chmod. I couldnt get this to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks. Gideon /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda5 /fat32 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 I also have yet to get my iPod to work with Linux. GTKPod always crashes, so I've tried GNUPod, but I don't think it works with gen3s. --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hu, I never had gtkpod crash. I did say i am ussing a first gen ipod. Did you get GNUPod fully working with read and write capabilities? If so, what does your fstab entry look like and what do your permissions look like? Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O
On Monday 24 May 2004 03:54 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 05:01, g2 wrote: SNIP Thanks derek for the info. Could you provide additional direction? What am I looking at in the urpmf results? libfaad2_0 is the file I am finding out about and the results say this file is in all these diferent packages on my system? So the same file is in all those packages, or all those packages somehow depended on one single copy of the file on my HD? It seems to me like I have lots of faab! The results of urpmf libfaad are below. I am still confused about how to located the missing package. I do believe I have a plf sourse entered in software media manager (urpmi?) my plf entry is: ftp://mandrakeusers.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/10.0 Result of urpmf libfaad: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aacplugin-1.1.4]# urpmf libfaad libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.la libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.la libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.a libfaad2_0-static-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.la libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libfaad.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libfaad.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so.0 libfaad2_0:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so.0.0.0 libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/faad.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mp4.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mp4ff.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/mpeg4ip.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/include/systems.h libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libfaad.so libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4ff.so libfaad2_0-devel:/usr/lib/libmp4v2.so vlc-plugin-faad:/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libfaad_plugin.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] aacplugin-1.1.4]# Thanks so much for your time. You probably didn't figure I was quite THIS confused ! :) Gideon urpmf libfaad will list all packages containing files with that string in them. As you see that are four different packages. libfaad2_0-static-devel, libfaad2_0, libfaad2_0-devel and vlc-plugin-faad libfaad2_0 is the actual library. We know this because it contains the file libfaad.so.0 The 'so' means 'shared object' i.e. a library. You need this installed to use any application involving libfaad. The two 'devel' packages contain the header files of the libfaad library and are necessary if you want to compile any application that requires libfaad. The 'static' devel package is used when you want to integrate libfaad inside the application you are compiling so it is not necessary to separately install the libfaad package. This is known as 'static' linking. The other 'devel' package is used to compile dynamically linked applications where the libfaad package has to be separately installed. Dynamic linked applications are smaller in size than static ones because they do not need to contain all the dependency libraries. When compiling apps we normally use dynamic linking, so in order to compile your application install just libfaad2_0-devel. You will also need to install libfaad2_0 in order to actually run your application. The last package vlc-plugin-faad contains a library to use faad with the Vlc media player (available from plf) The fact that urpmq lists these packages at all means that your plf source is correctly set up. You can install them either using the software install GUI or from the command line (as root) urpmi libfaad2_0-devel libfaad2_0 If the install fails, then it may be your database for plf is out of date. Refresh it with urpmi.update plf If you want to try out the Vlc player (which supports aac), then :- urpmi vlc vlc-plugin-alsa vlc-plugin-faad kvlc derek Great, Thanks for the clear explanations. I appreciate the primer. The fact that urpmq lists these packages at all means that your plf source is correctly set up. Doesn't it show that those files are already installed on my HD? I did do a refresh of urpmi. and Installed the Vlc player, which is working fine. I tried installing faad from the command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] g]# urpmi libfaad2_0-devel libfaad2_0 Everything already installed Yet when I ./configure I still get: ... checking for main in -lfaad... no configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please install first *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] aacplugin-1.1.4]# Now when I do the ./configure I am ussing the same folder that I tar(ed) before installing a bunch of these packages. Thats fine, right? Its the ./configure command which is rechecking my system to see if i have everything needed, and STILL NOT FINDING FAAD ! In addition, neither libfaad2_0-devel or libfaad2_0 finds anything when searching from rpmdrake. I tried each of the three search methods, by name, file name, and descritpion. Is it not finding anything because I already have them installed? Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 23 May 2004 09:43 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: I'm looking into a problem my high school reunion chair is having. Apparently most of his e-mails to the class are not making it to classmates with known active e-addresses. Since the e-mail has ~200 names on the To: list, I suspect it's being picked up as spam by some ISP bent on blocking our class reunion. Does anyone know if my hypothesis is reasonable and how one might get around such a filter (other than by sending 200 e-mails)? Possible it is not making it off of the original mail server. Postfix has rules that can be implemented that limit the number of recipients. I am fairly certain that other MTA's do as well. There are a number of email packages that allow you to create distribution lists, each email would go out to a single address, but everyone on the distribution list would get a copy. He might want to look into getting such a package. However, he/she should probably insure that the mail is 100% opt-in/solicited, regardless of what the subject might be. If the recipients did not actively solicit the contact, high school reunion or not, the mail would be considered spam and the originating account will probably be forfeit. I don't think spam filters take this into account (in fact I don't see how they could). Since our mail server has started using spamassassin, I've had to put in procmail recipes to stop a large number of mail services I've opted into from being tagged as spam. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi 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] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 00:09, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: I have read many HowTo manual concerning anything close to this topic. There does not seem to be a lot out there specifically on partition transfer from disk to disk. Either this is a very easy process and I am one of the few people having a problem--or, this is not something that is done very often. The files on the dd command are few. Lost I am. I am truly at my wits end. Please, if anyone has copied or cloned or rewritten their setup from one drive to another--keeping all executable programs) I could really use the help. I should say that I do not have windows on this computer, don't want, don't want to need it. I gave it up. So, as wonderful as Ghost is or Partition Magic, they are not really a solution. Any other suggestions a will gladly receive. This has been done before I am sure of it. Thanks in advance for any responses. tsw If you want to transfer files from one partition to another cleanly formatted partition, there are several easy ways to do this. Although there are many variations, here are a few that I have on hand: GNU Copy command: mkdir to_dir; cp -ax from_dir to_dir GNU Cpio command: cd from_dir; find | cpio -pd to_dir GNU Tar, Method A: mkdir to_dir; tar clf - -C from_dir . | tar xvf - -C to_dir GNU Tar, Method B: (cd from_dir tar cf - .) | (cd to_dir tar xpvf -) This next method has been touted for RAID partitions. Don't know quite why, and I haven't tried it: tar clf - / | tar xpfC - /mnt/raidwasmountedhere Now, the method I personally would use, if I were you, would be the GNU Cpio command method. Reason why is that since you are using the find command to grab all the filenames, this gives you extreme control over where the filenames are grabbed from. In other words, suppose you have your filesystems mounted, all of them, normally, the system is up and working, and you have mounted the new partitions under the /mnt directory and you want to transfer, say, the root ( / ) partition over. How do you do that without also grabbing /usr, /var, /tmp and /boot, which for instance on my system are all on seperate and distinct partitions? Easy. Find lets you do that with the -mount qualifier. For instance, lets say you want to grab the root filesystem and leave all the other partitions OUT of the picture. You would do: cd /; find -mount | cpio -pd /mnt/hdb6 Where /mnt/hdb6 is where you have your root partition mounted. Find will now seek out all files on the root partition, including their permissions, ownership, sticky bit settings, etc, etc, etc, and faithfully pass that info along to cpio, which then will faithfully reproduce the whole thing on /mnt/hdb6. This saves you alot of work, assuming you were planning to copy each directory manually and individually. ;) LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters
On Monday 24 May 2004 11:24 am, robin wrote: I don't think spam filters take this into account (in fact I don't see how they could). Since our mail server has started using spamassassin, I've had to put in procmail recipes to stop a large number of mail services I've opted into from being tagged as spam. Well, spam filters don't yank accounts, ISP's do after they have received complaints by recipients that someone is sending out spam from their system. I was cautioning him before he gives advice on how to send out mass mailings to make sure that they have permission from the recipients. Or inevitably, complaints will follow and accounts will be cancelled, or IP's will get blacklisted. Usually fairly swiftly. -- 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] OT: annoying spam filters
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 11:24 am, robin wrote: I don't think spam filters take this into account (in fact I don't see how they could). Since our mail server has started using spamassassin, I've had to put in procmail recipes to stop a large number of mail services I've opted into from being tagged as spam. Well, spam filters don't yank accounts, ISP's do after they have received complaints by recipients that someone is sending out spam from their system. I was cautioning him before he gives advice on how to send out mass mailings to make sure that they have permission from the recipients. Or inevitably, complaints will follow and accounts will be cancelled, or IP's will get blacklisted. Usually fairly swiftly. Ah right, I see what you mean. However, I doubt if any of the people on this particular list would complain to the ISP, they'd just mail him. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi 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
[newbie] KDE Configure/Make errors
Hi all. I'm having trouble installing stuff using the ./configure command (from tarballs etc. Everything appears to be going well, then suddenly, it will throw up and error. The shell output is pasted below (well, the last few lines, anyhow). Can anybody tell me what I havent got installed, that it probably needs? I had this whilst trying to install something different yesterday as well... checking if Qt compiles without flags... no checking for moc... /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc checking for uic... /usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic checking whether uic supports -L ... yes checking whether uic supports -nounload ... yes checking if Qt needs -ljpeg... no checking for rpath... yes checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! [EMAIL PROTECTED] klog-0.2.9]$ Any Ideas? 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] KDE Configure/Make errors
On Monday 24 May 2004 12:43 pm, JRH wrote: Hi all. I'm having trouble installing stuff using the ./configure command (from tarballs etc. Everything appears to be going well, then suddenly, it will throw up and error. The shell output is pasted below (well, the last few lines, anyhow). Can anybody tell me what I havent got installed, that it probably needs? I had this whilst trying to install something different yesterday as well... checking if Qt compiles without flags... no checking for moc... /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc checking for uic... /usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic checking whether uic supports -L ... yes checking whether uic supports -nounload ... yes checking if Qt needs -ljpeg... no checking for rpath... yes checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! [EMAIL PROTECTED] klog-0.2.9]$ Any Ideas? Either you don't have the right libraries installed or the ones you need are in a different location than the Makefile has specified them in (sometimes mdk moves stuff). What are you trying to install from source. Have you checked the contrib repository to see if the software you are trying to compile has already been packaged for mandrakelinux. -- /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] MP3 Burning
David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004 19:14:28 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: format. I have found a Windows program that will create them, but I would like to know how to make them using Linux software. Which portable? I think you may find that mp3 cd format is just an iso9660 with a bunch of mp3 files stored. See my other post. If by any chance you've got a Sony player, I've been happily making and playing mp3 disks for it for nearly a year. I don't have it handy, so I can not give you the brand right now. I am not sure what the difference is in the format, because it does look like a standare data CD if you look at it in the computer, but there is something different in the headers because a data CD set up the same way, but burned with a normal burning program does not work. Both formats will work in the car. The CD player has no problem with the MP3s being in directorys - it treats each directory as an album, and will let you skip to the nex one, repeat just the directory you are in, do randum play of the entire CD, ect. I have dumped the headers using dd, but I have not figured out the format. I remember reading something about support for the MP3 format being on the TODO list, but I do not remember if it was a mkisofs or cdrecord WEB page. It was last fall that I ran accross it, and I could not find it when I went looking. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters
On Monday 24 May 2004 12:23 pm, robin wrote: Well, spam filters don't yank accounts, ISP's do after they have received complaints by recipients that someone is sending out spam from their system. I was cautioning him before he gives advice on how to send out mass mailings to make sure that they have permission from the recipients. Or inevitably, complaints will follow and accounts will be cancelled, or IP's will get blacklisted. Usually fairly swiftly. Ah right, I see what you mean. However, I doubt if any of the people on this particular list would complain to the ISP, they'd just mail him. Well, if I were to receive email from someone talking to me about a high-school reunion that I did not solicit and who did not ask my permission before they began sending mail to my email address, I would likely complain to the ISP about receiving spam. That does beg the question of how my email address was obtained, but obtaining an email address is not the same as obtaining permission to send email to that address. If the To: line showed more than 50 recipients, along with my own email address, broadcast to every person on that list, I would positively complain to the ISP about receiving spam. Most ISP's have policies against mass mailing, definitely have policies against unsolicited mass-mailing and in most cases will cancel a user account rather than risk being labeled spam-friendly. In any group of 200+ people, you have to expect that at least a few would be heartless net-nazi's like me. ;-} -- 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] KDE Configure/Make errors
On Monday 24 May 2004 12:43 pm, JRH wrote: I had this whilst trying to install something different yesterday as well... checking if Qt compiles without flags... no checking for moc... /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc checking for uic... /usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic checking whether uic supports -L ... yes checking whether uic supports -nounload ... yes checking if Qt needs -ljpeg... no checking for rpath... yes checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! [EMAIL PROTECTED] klog-0.2.9]$ Any Ideas? It is possible that it is looking for specific files that are not in your path as a user. You might try switching to root and run configure and see if the result is the same. If not, then try to figure out the differences between your path as root and your path as a user and you can add those directories in for future compiling. I have had to do this previously for some packages that checked for certain development libraries that are not routinely included in the user's default path. -- 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] KDE Configure/Make errors
On Monday 24 May 2004 17:52, Greg Meyer wrote: Either you don't have the right libraries installed or the ones you need are in a different location than the Makefile has specified them in (sometimes mdk moves stuff). What are you trying to install from source. Have you checked the contrib repository to see if the software you are trying to compile has already been packaged for mandrakelinux. -- /g Hi Greg, Someone did suggest I didnt have the Devel files for KDE installed, but I have everything with the word devel installed (well, that is relevant to KDE!). I'm trying to install an Amateur Radio contact logging program, which are basically written by Home Writers, and dont get packaged, as they arent generally that widely used. If I cant get it sorted, I may have to download and use a windows application (AAARRRGHGHH!!) 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] OT: annoying spam filters
On Monday 24 May 2004 6:26 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 12:23 pm, robin wrote: Well, spam filters don't yank accounts, ISP's do after they have received complaints by recipients that someone is sending out spam from their system. I was cautioning him before he gives advice on how to send out mass mailings to make sure that they have permission from the recipients. Or inevitably, complaints will follow and accounts will be cancelled, or IP's will get blacklisted. Usually fairly swiftly. Ah right, I see what you mean. However, I doubt if any of the people on this particular list would complain to the ISP, they'd just mail him. Well, if I were to receive email from someone talking to me about a high-school reunion that I did not solicit and who did not ask my permission before they began sending mail to my email address, I would likely complain to the ISP about receiving spam. That does beg the question of how my email address was obtained, but obtaining an email address is not the same as obtaining permission to send email to that address. If the To: line showed more than 50 recipients, along with my own email address, broadcast to every person on that list, I would positively complain to the ISP about receiving spam. Most ISP's have policies against mass mailing, definitely have policies against unsolicited mass-mailing and in most cases will cancel a user account rather than risk being labeled spam-friendly. In any group of 200+ people, you have to expect that at least a few would be heartless net-nazi's like me. ;-} You might also consider whether all 200 recipients should be able to see all the other addresses. -- 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] MDK 10 Official, when?
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:40, frankieh wrote: Stephen, you are in Sydney aren't you??? Sydney is probably the most covered broadband city in Australia, why can't you get ADSL or Cable? Incidently, you also have wireless broadband options now with iBurst going online in Sydney as well... So whats the word? why have you not made the leap to broadband? (I'm in Perth, the ass end of australia and even I have ADSL... ) ILLAWARRA. Check your geography, Mr. Perth. The Illawarra is south of Sydney. Wollongong, Lake Illawarra and etc. On top of that, this entire area is a Telstra nightmare; two different sets of hardware, and several different types of fsck-ups that Telstra has been trying to hide from the public for more than twenty years. No joke. Telstra might tell someone they can have ADSL, but in reality, only about 40% of the folks they tell CAN have it CAN have it. No joke. It's something of a thorn in Telstra's side and it's been made public before but Telstra (and affiliates) do everything they can to hush it up (which they do quite a good job of)(and I'm sure you've dealt with Telstra before as they own all the hardware) Secondly, when I was marred, er, married, we lived in two different places that were completely ADSL unaccessible. No other forms were available either. BUT, now that Tina and I live at the entrance to Lake Illawarra in Windang, we're literally right next to the exchange junction and it's only a matter of her and I getting the money together to get it going. I already own an ADSL/modem/router (with firewall) so we're going to end up with 512/256 unlimited (yes, truly unlimited) service through Telpacific for $80 AUD per month (no caps, nothing - check their website)(oh, and I get a discount because of my tenure with them and due to the fact that I've worked on their dial-up exchange many times before as I'm the only one south of Chatswood that can be there in less than 15 minutes)(Ha!) But overall, Tina and I are saving our pennies to take a trip to SA for a Teddy Bear seminar at the end of June - and to have a complete servicing on the vehicle (a Ford Laser xsi w/1.8l engine) which is going to cost the better part of a thousand bucks... So, in about two months time, we'll be happily surfing at high speed - and it's nice that she at least understands the importance of high speed - the ex-wife certainly didn't (although she's whinging about it nowadays! Ha!) 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 -- Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. -- Mark Twain Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Threaded messages in KMail??
On Monday 24 May 2004 8:29 am, John Wilson wrote: On May 23, 2004 08:26 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: I'm not sure, but in my KMail, all I have to do is open the menu Folder Threaded message, and all messages in the folder got threaded. But, some messages do get failed to be threaded. I dunno why. It's because the writer didn't really reply to the original thread but created the RE: and stuff themselves. So it loses the threading that the mailer is looking for. This one bugged me for a while till I started to examine headers and figured it out. Oh, and I did it myself too pressing the new message option instead of reply. :) If adding the RE: yourself is too much trouble, Outlook has the same brain-dead behaviour. -- 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] MDK 10 Official, when?
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:44, frankieh wrote: So your saying the problem is money??? No - money isn't the problem - it's bills and other costs and other things we're saving up for that are even more important (car servicing, taking a trip to SA...etc...) 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 -- QOTD: I drive my car quietly, for it goes without saying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ximian Connector for Mdk10
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:59, Tobias Cloete wrote: -- Has anyone installed Ximian connector on mdk10 yet? If so, where can I get it? Thanx, Regards, Jargon www.ximian.com 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 -- The world really isn't any worse. It's just that the news coverage is so much better. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 17:48, Frank wrote: Checking `bindshell'... not infected Checking `lkm'... You have 2 process hidden for readdir command You have 2 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Checking `rexedcs'... not found Er, have you RTFM the README files from chkrootkit? 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 -- Brain fried -- Core dumped Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Ximian Connector for Mdk10
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:05, Tobias Cloete wrote: Do I need mdk10 official or will community edition do? Cause I get a 'unsatisfied libgal-ally-2.0.so.6' error. Regards, Jargon It's usually best to use the Ximian Red-Carpet to install such things - and it's easier to use than you might think - and gives you an alternative for updating MDK other than MDK... 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 -- Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. -- Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Ximian Connector for Mdk10
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:07, Tobias Cloete wrote: Very nice website Derek!!! Where the heck you get the photogallery bit from Derek? (nice looking family - certainly was a BIG surprise) (joking) 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 -- Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing. -- H.S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MD10 and Sane and OCR
On Mon, 2The Ultimate One Women 004-05-24 at 13:04, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone use OCR with Sane yet ? How do you set it up ? John I'd never tried it before, so gave it a go when I read your message, and found it was all set up.. Started Xsane, preview, then scan. Viewer opened, clicked on file saved under OCR. As someone said the other day, linux is so difficult to set up compared with windows. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: OT: annoying spam filters
On Sun, 23 May 2004 21:43:19 -0400, Paul Kaplan hath writ: Since the e-mail has ~200 names on the To: list, ... Just what I like to see: My email addy in a monstrous To: list to be found on gawd-knows how many infected Winder$ boxes. Jonesy -- | Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | OS/2 | Gunnison, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | linux __ | 7,703' -- 2,345m | config.com | DM68mn SK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Login Manager Shutdown Settings
Hello, I´m taking my first steps in mandrake 10 and have the following problem: I want to make it possible for every user to reboot and halt the system. What I did is in the SystemConfigurationKDESystemLogin Manager change Allow Shutdown from nobody to everybody. This works fine because when I logout I can halt or reboot the system. However when I halt the system and turn it back on the option is back to nobody and I can´t shutdown the system anymore (also not as root). Anybody who had the same problems and know the solution to this? Bas _ Hotmail en Messenger on the move http://www.msn.nl/communicatie/smsdiensten/hotmailsmsv2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning
On Monday 24 May 2004 10:12 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004 19:14:28 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: format. I have found a Windows program that will create them, but I would like to know how to make them using Linux software. Which portable? I think you may find that mp3 cd format is just an iso9660 with a bunch of mp3 files stored. See my other post. If by any chance you've got a Sony player, I've been happily making and playing mp3 disks for it for nearly a year. I don't have it handy, so I can not give you the brand right now. I am not sure what the difference is in the format, because it does look like a standare data CD if you look at it in the computer, but there is something different in the headers because a data CD set up the same way, but burned with a normal burning program does not work. Both formats will work in the car. The CD player has no problem with the MP3s being in directorys - it treats each directory as an album, and will let you skip to the nex one, repeat just the directory you are in, do randum play of the entire CD, ect. I have dumped the headers using dd, but I have not figured out the format. I remember reading something about support for the MP3 format being on the TODO list, but I do not remember if it was a mkisofs or cdrecord WEB page. It was last fall that I ran accross it, and I could not find it when I went looking. Are your TOC files included? Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Login Manager Shutdown Settings
On Monday 24 May 2004 21:53, Video 4Linux wrote: Hello, I´m taking my first steps in mandrake 10 and have the following problem: I want to make it possible for every user to reboot and halt the system. What I did is in the SystemConfigurationKDESystemLogin Manager change Allow Shutdown from nobody to everybody. This works fine because when I logout I can halt or reboot the system. However when I halt the system and turn it back on the option is back to nobody and I can´t shutdown the system anymore (also not as root). Anybody who had the same problems and know the solution to this? Bas My guess is, that you have set your security level to higher or even paranoid. If so, try to set it to high. For an explanation, type (in a console) : man msec 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
[newbie] Setting Up Intellimouse Optical on Mandrake 10
Hello, my name is Brian and I am a Linux newbie. ;-) I just installed Mandrake 10 Official via an FTP install on Saturday, which took approximately 4.5 hours to complete. My system is a dual boot with XP Professional. I have an intellimouse optical mouse connected via ps/2 (via kvm switch), and am confused as to how to configure it so the scroll wheel and two side buttons work correctly.I googled and found several different ways to go about setting it up, all of them different and none 100% guaranteed. Can somebody point me in the right direction on how to configure it? It works perfectly under windows (wheel scrolls, two side buttons go back and forward when browsing). Thanks!!! Brian
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Intellimouse Optical on Mandrake 10
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 06:34, Brian Long wrote: Hello, my name is Brian and I am a Linux newbie. ;-) I just installed Mandrake 10 Official via an FTP install on Saturday, which took approximately 4.5 hours to complete. My system is a dual boot with XP Professional. I have an intellimouse optical mouse connected via ps/2 (via kvm switch), and am confused as to how to configure it so the scroll wheel and two side buttons work correctly. I googled and found several different ways to go about setting it up, all of them different and none 100% guaranteed. Can somebody point me in the right direction on how to configure it? It works perfectly under windows (wheel scrolls, two side buttons go back and forward when browsing). Thanks!!! Brian I would tend to reckon that a Microsoft Intellimouse is going to work with Microsoft Windows(whatever fsck'ed up version). It's not obvious? Meanwhile, there are many many hacks to get all the buttons working - none of them easy, none of them for the feint of heart. Don't expect to get it working the same way as in Windows, mate. Be happy that you can get the left and right and scroll bits working. (Run /usr/sbin/mousedrake as the root user) 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 -- C for yourself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
I had bought and installed Eric's Ultimate Solitaire under Mandrake 9.1 When I tried to install and run under 10.0 (with 2.6.whatever kernal) I get a segmentation fault. Since this is typically a compilation type of problem and I would not expect to have this type of problem on an upgrade, is there something that I am missing or can do? -- ( )_( ) ( 0 0 ) --( )-- --0-- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MD10 and Sane and OCR
PM wrote: On Mon, 2The Ultimate One Women 004-05-24 at 13:04, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone use OCR with Sane yet ? How do you set it up ? John I'd never tried it before, so gave it a go when I read your message, and found it was all set up.. Started Xsane, preview, then scan. Viewer opened, clicked on file saved under OCR. As someone said the other day, linux is so difficult to set up compared with windows. Now that seems odd, I have of couse got sane set up. The preview window comes up, I scan a piece of text, but on my sane setup the window that displays the 1:1 view that used to contain the OCR tab doesn't appear, it scans the image to file and that is that. It's gonna be a settings configuration problem, something has to be reset to give me that 1:1 view window, whatever it is called, I used to have it in MD9.1, that is where I first came across it . No wait a minute, I see what it is, I chose to select save in the drop down list that comes up with viewer as default and that dispenses with the 1:1 view window, but if I lieve it on viewer then you do get the 1:1 view window and that gives you the option to use OCR. OK, thanks , that solves it. 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
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Intellimouse Optical on Mandrake 10
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting Up Intellimouse Optical on Mandrake 10 On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 06:34, Brian Long wrote: Hello, my name is Brian and I am a Linux newbie. ;-) I just installed Mandrake 10 Official via an FTP install on Saturday, which took approximately 4.5 hours to complete. My system is a dual boot with XP Professional. I have an intellimouse optical mouse connected via ps/2 (via kvm switch), and am confused as to how to configure it so the scroll wheel and two side buttons work correctly. I googled and found several different ways to go about setting it up, all of them different and none 100% guaranteed. Can somebody point me in the right direction on how to configure it? It works perfectly under windows (wheel scrolls, two side buttons go back and forward when browsing). Thanks!!! Brian I would tend to reckon that a Microsoft Intellimouse is going to work with Microsoft Windows(whatever fsck'ed up version). It's not obvious? Meanwhile, there are many many hacks to get all the buttons working - none of them easy, none of them for the feint of heart. Don't expect to get it working the same way as in Windows, mate. Be happy that you can get the left and right and scroll bits working. (Run /usr/sbin/mousedrake as the root user) stephen kuhn - owner == ** Hi Brian, I have a MS Intellimouse Optical on my Mdk 9.2 system, and it works perfectly fine, albeit w/o the full functionality as under MS. I have it attached as PS/2, and configured as a Standard PS/2 scroll mouse. Works for me. It should work as well under Mdk 10 I think. I don't have the side button functionality at all, and I don't know if there is a way to get it to work under Linux. I haven't heard of anyone doing so, but maybe it's possible. Best regards to you Brian, and welcome to Mdk Linux! --Angus PS. This list is a truly invaluable resource for the linux newbie. You'll find that there are a lot of experienced Linux users here, excluding yours truly ;-), who are more than willing to help you get computing with Mdk Linux. Have fun! Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
On Monday 24 May 2004 10:28 pm, David B. Williams wrote: I had bought and installed Eric's Ultimate Solitaire under Mandrake 9.1 When I tried to install and run under 10.0 (with 2.6.whatever kernal) I get a segmentation fault. Since this is typically a compilation type of problem and I would not expect to have this type of problem on an upgrade, is there something that I am missing or can do? Not, in my experience a compilation problem. I would guess that you have newer libraries than the application is expecting. I suggest that you complain bitterly to the software producer and see if you can get them to help you narrow down the problem. For instance which libraries it uses, and which versions of those libraries it has been tested against. -- 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] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help
--- Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 00:09, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: I have read many HowTo manual concerning anything close to this topic. There does not seem to be a lot out there specifically on partition transfer from disk to disk. Either this is a very easy process and I am one of the few people having a problem--or, this is not something that is done very often. The files on the dd command are few. Lost I am. I am truly at my wits end. Please, if anyone has copied or cloned or rewritten their setup from one drive to another--keeping all executable programs) I could really use the help. I should say that I do not have windows on this computer, don't want, don't want to need it. I gave it up. So, as wonderful as Ghost is or Partition Magic, they are not really a solution. Any other suggestions a will gladly receive. This has been done before I am sure of it. Thanks in advance for any responses. tsw If you want to transfer files from one partition to another cleanly formatted partition, there are several easy ways to do this. Although there are many variations, here are a few that I have on hand: GNU Copy command: mkdir to_dir; cp -ax from_dir to_dir GNU Cpio command: cd from_dir; find | cpio -pd to_dir GNU Tar, Method A: mkdir to_dir; tar clf - -C from_dir . | tar xvf - -C to_dir GNU Tar, Method B: (cd from_dir tar cf - .) | (cd to_dir tar xpvf -) This next method has been touted for RAID partitions. Don't know quite why, and I haven't tried it: tar clf - / | tar xpfC - /mnt/raidwasmountedhere Now, the method I personally would use, if I were you, would be the GNU Cpio command method. Reason why is that since you are using the find command to grab all the filenames, this gives you extreme control over where the filenames are grabbed from. In other words, suppose you have your filesystems mounted, all of them, normally, the system is up and working, and you have mounted the new partitions under the /mnt directory and you want to transfer, say, the root ( / ) partition over. How do you do that without also grabbing /usr, /var, /tmp and /boot, which for instance on my system are all on seperate and distinct partitions? Easy. Find lets you do that with the -mount qualifier. For instance, lets say you want to grab the root filesystem and leave all the other partitions OUT of the picture. You would do: cd /; find -mount | cpio -pd /mnt/hdb6 Where /mnt/hdb6 is where you have your root partition mounted. Find will now seek out all files on the root partition, including their permissions, ownership, sticky bit settings, etc, etc, etc, and faithfully pass that info along to cpio, which then will faithfully reproduce the whole thing on /mnt/hdb6. This saves you alot of work, assuming you were planning to copy each directory manually and individually. ;) LX Thanks for the reply. That is some terrific information. Another person also hipped me to the 'tar' method of file transfer, although the flags he suggested were different. Thus, I believe I'll give 'tar' a shot first and if that fails onto Cpio. Really, thank you so much for the suggestions. I'll let you know how it turns out. tsw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.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] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help
--- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 12:09 am, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: Mandrake10 . I got all settled in and prepared to copy and transfer away. Wow! I never thought it would be such a process. I am not going to address any of the problems you laid out because I have had the most success doing this in a different way. It involves duplicating the file system using cp with the -a switch, which maintains all datestamps and file permissions (I think it stands for archive) I'll describe it to you and see what you think. First create your partitions as you have done. Then create a temporary mounpoint. I use something like /mnt/newdrive. Mount the new root partition at /mnt/newdrive and then create mountpoints for your other partitions there, I think you had /usr and /home. So you would now mount your new /usr and /home at /mnt/newdrive/usr and /mnt/newdrive/home. Now you can simply copy over the existing file system using cp -a. I do it one directory at a time to make sure everything goes smoothly. cp -a /boot /mnt/newdrive cp -a /etc//mnt/newdrive etc., etc. After you are done, make any modifications you need to your /etc/fstab and make sure that you can boot to the new drive by adding an entry to it in your exiting lilo.conf. Once you are booted to the new filesystem, then you can convert to using its LILO by setting up the lilo.conf and re-running lilo from the new filesystem. -- /g Thanks alot! Your detailed explanation made it very easy to understand. There are a few questions though about the 'cp' command. When I read about it over the weekend I was unsure of two ellements: 1. Does 'cp' maintain the integrity of exacutable files? 2. Will 'cp' work if the destination partition is larger than the source partition? I gather from your description that Yes answers both questions. One question more. At what point do I make the new hd the master? After I boot onto in from the current drive's boot-loader and deal with /ect/fstabs, or do I deal with it straight away using the rescue disk to install a boot-loader? Thanks again for your thought and clarity. tsw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Md10 Shutdown
Hello I have been configuring the desktop and somewhere along the way I must have changed the shut down setting. When I try to shut down,it goes through all the TERM processes and indicates ok but the final line is power down. It doesn't shut down clean as I have to cut the power off. I have looked but cannot find where I can change this setting. Thanks in advance for any info. 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] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help
On Monday 24 May 2004 07:47 pm, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 12:09 am, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: Mandrake10 . I got all settled in and prepared to copy and transfer away. Wow! I never thought it would be such a process. I am not going to address any of the problems you laid out because I have had the most success doing this in a different way. It involves duplicating the file system using cp with the -a switch, which maintains all datestamps and file permissions (I think it stands for archive) I'll describe it to you and see what you think. First create your partitions as you have done. Then create a temporary mounpoint. I use something like /mnt/newdrive. Mount the new root partition at /mnt/newdrive and then create mountpoints for your other partitions there, I think you had /usr and /home. So you would now mount your new /usr and /home at /mnt/newdrive/usr and /mnt/newdrive/home. Now you can simply copy over the existing file system using cp -a. I do it one directory at a time to make sure everything goes smoothly. cp -a /boot /mnt/newdrive cp -a /etc//mnt/newdrive etc., etc. After you are done, make any modifications you need to your /etc/fstab and make sure that you can boot to the new drive by adding an entry to it in your exiting lilo.conf. Once you are booted to the new filesystem, then you can convert to using its LILO by setting up the lilo.conf and re-running lilo from the new filesystem. -- /g Thanks alot! Your detailed explanation made it very easy to understand. There are a few questions though about the 'cp' command. When I read about it over the weekend I was unsure of two ellements: 1. Does 'cp' maintain the integrity of exacutable files? 2. Will 'cp' work if the destination partition is larger than the source partition? I gather from your description that Yes answers both questions. One question more. At what point do I make the new hd the master? After I boot onto in from the current drive's boot-loader and deal with /ect/fstabs, or do I deal with it straight away using the rescue disk to install a boot-loader? Thanks again for your thought and clarity. tsw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ now if it were me, I might want to use a gui, and so would start out on text console, but su to root and type mcc, bringing up the Mandrake control center, and I would first run hardware, then hardware again, then click on the proper disk,and run config tool, which would start diskdrake (of course you could start diskdrake, just like I started mcc) and in expert mode, diskdrake will setup and offer to copy over the files from whatever the same name partition as you had before, as long as it is one of the partitions you are allowed to put on a different drive from / -- 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] Text Mode Framebuffer
Asa Rossoff said: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm not sure it's the value I'm using, since I tried changing it to vga=791 to no avail. Isn't there some need to have the nvidia module loaded at first boot for framebuffer mode to work? Would it make a difference using the decimal value vs. the other? I was disappointed to find only a minimal set of very low-res framebuffer modes listed on my system, too, so if there's some solution I'm certainly interested. I'm using a different video card -- 3D Labs Permedia 2 -- and after discovering that Xfree 4.x drivers for this card don't work, I didn't even bother to ask anyone why the kernel doesn't seem to support it Although, in fact, some very old Ms-dos programs that set various vesa modes without any special drivers work brilliantly. I just did a search and saw that there were some solutions to this issue posted on the mandrake-expert list, although Joe wasn't able to get a workable setup. For the record: 1) vga=ASK in lilo.conf does not always list every available mode. e.g. vga=788 (800x600x16) was available on Joe's system, although it wasn't listed. 2) There are some good how-to guides about setting up framebuffer, including idiosyncracies with various cards and configurations: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/hiresconsole.html and http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html 3) The first of those how-tos also gives instructions for setting up SVGATextMode instead of using the kernel framebuffer driver. 4) Both how-tos talk about the need to rebuild the kernel to support various video cards that the default vesafb kernel driver doesn't support. This is what I understood from those sources, anyway. I'm a newbie, though :-) It looks like there is specific support for my video card, so hopefully I'll get that going. Asa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:57:10 -0400 David B. Williams wrote: The software producer is Loki and I think that they are out of business. Oh, well. I didn't pay that much for it anyway. Try pysol, it's basicly the same as Ultimate and is in Main, cardsets and music in contrib, I play it all the time. Charles -- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpJyephFfVs0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed messages not readable in MS Outlook?
Asa Rossoff kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 25. toukokuuta 2004 06:18): I often read this list in Outlook Express, since I still spend more time in Windows (haven't gotten Linux to work well with my video card, so until I upgrade...), and noticed that some messages appear blank, but have an attachment that outlook has named ATT00###.py (where ### is a number). The first time I saw this, I thought it was a worm of some sort distributing Python scripts, but when I looked at that attachment it contained the body of the message. In each case, the headers revealed that the mailer used was Sylpheed. (Example message, today, from Charles A. Edwards re. Intellimouse). I also noticed his message had the following Mime header: :: Mime-Version: 1.0 :: Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol=application/pgp-signature; :: micalg=pgp-sha1; :: boundary=Signature=_Mon__24_May_2004_22_28_18_-0400_EG0sF5HbG3/RPIn1 Anyway, I thought this might be of interest, since Outlook is such a popular mailer, and it's probably desirable to have messages readable there. Any ideas what's causing this? (The short answer is probably Microsoft's broken mailer, but...) :) Asa That is intresting matter why outlook respond gpg-mime signature also with other clients than sylpheed, at least mutt with gpg-mime and balsa with gpg-mime and evolution with gpg-mime does that. Older outlooks also respond with the word beginspacespace I haven't heard why these features are in outlook? I don't believe it is cause its broken they have some another purpose for that behaving, just don't know what? Is it cause outlook can run scripts so well or what? -- best rgds tt 06:23:29 up 1:15, 0 users, load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.08 2.6.3-9mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
Okay, today I turned BIOS shadowing on and left the Video Shadowing off. And yes, I got 2 more BIOS upgrades and tried them out. With Video Shadowing on, they made no difference. I still had an unstable Mandrake system. So I went back to the 1998 version of the Award BIOS that came with my motherboard. I won't be changing BIOSes for this test. __ OK, but the real question I had wasn't clearly answered, which was did you have system instabilities with the system shadowing only? And why in the world would you want to run an older bios on your motherboard if a newer one is available? You're right, I wasn't clear in my post. BIOS Shadowing had always been turned off. Only Video Shadowing was turned on. I'm now running with Video Shadowing off and BIOS Shadowing on. And yes, I've noticed an improvement in program performance with BIOS Shadowing on. There's 128MB of RAM on this box. As to why I didn't stay with an updated BIOS... There was a warning in my documentation about upgrading the BIOS that said something to the effect, If it's not broken, don't fix it. The exact reason said that while the updated BIOS may fix a few known problems, it might also introduce a few unknown problems. Oh, and it is an Award BIOS. Well, if ASUS and AWARD weren't absolutely positive about the BIOS upgrades, I didn't see any reason to add more uncertainty as to what was causing the Mandrake system instability. So I went back to the original BIOS version. The original BIOS was Version 1002, released around spring1998. Version 1011 was released around fall 1999. And Version 1012 was the last version released spring 2000. (Don't hold me to these exact dates, but I think I'm fairly close.) There wasn't much difference in the BIOS options between the 3 versions. Version 1012 offered some type of hard disk failure monitoring, which some people told me was marketing hype and others told me it was worth it and worth the performance drop. So during those 4 months I tried all 3 versions of the BIOS, and suffered the same problems. Once again, Video Shadowing was on and BIOS shadowing was off. In a perverse sort of way, I like hearing that the problem may have been the Matrox G100 AGP card and Video Shadowing. The G100 was the start of Matrox's AGP line, and could have been the victum of an early bug. The G400 card seems to be very stable. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed messages not readable in MS Outlook?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:18 am, Asa Rossoff wrote: I also noticed his message had the following Mime header: :: Mime-Version: 1.0 :: Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol=application/pgp-signature; :: micalg=pgp-sha1; :: boundary=Signature=_Mon__24_May_2004_22_28_18_-0400_EG0sF5HbG3/RPIn1 Anyway, I thought this might be of interest, since Outlook is such a popular mailer, and it's probably desirable to have messages readable there. Any ideas what's causing this? (The short answer is probably Microsoft's broken mailer, but...) :) Asa I think that's because Slypheed doesn't support the inline gpg signature? I also notice it in Evolution. That's why I'm using Kmail now (not to start a flame war though, pls). - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 10:55:25 up 2:44, 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) iD8DBQFAssQgkp5CsIXuxqURAq6yAJ9hwb9iqHCkS9TKV/Xel/03oGEKMwCeL0kK m0FTBXh/PkiHiMA6y8zpoqY= =2nka -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] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help
diskdrake will setup and offer to copy over the files from whatever the same name partition as you had before, as long as it is one of the partitions you are allowed to put on a different drive from This is very interesting to me. I did not know that diskdrak wil copy partitions. What exactly do you mean by one of the partitions you are allowed to put on a different drive? _ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ now if it were me, I might want to use a gui, and so would start out on text console, but su to root and type mcc, bringing up the Mandrake control center, and I would first run hardware, then hardware again, then click on the proper disk,and run config tool, which would start diskdrake (of course you could start diskdrake, just like I started mcc) and in expert mode, diskdrake will setup and offer to copy over the files from whatever the same name partition as you had before, as long as it is one of the partitions you are allowed to put on a different drive from / -- 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.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] Re: OT: annoying spam filters
Hello Jonesy, Monday, May 24, 2004, 11:03:40 AM, you wrote: J Just what I like to see: My email addy in a monstrous To: list to J be found on gawd-knows how many infected Winder$ boxes. STOP! You're going to give me nightmares. :-)) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
