Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On July 26, 2004 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:36 pm, John Wilson wrote: On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: snip Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta The Community label is for public betas of Mandrake releases. We all get to be guinea pigs before the rest of the world gets a crack at the official relase. That's the cynical view. It is supposed to be the stabilization release that will be used to cut the next official release, and then updates go directly into the dist tree, unlike official, which sees all updates in the updates directory cooker \ \ Community \--- \ Official In any event the new Community will be 10.1 which is still in alpha stage. Actually I wasn't trying to be cyncial at all. :-) To me a public/late beta is exactly what we're getting with the Community Edition. And I'm not saying that it's a bad thing rather it's a good thing. It's a test on a much larger scale than Mandrake would otherwise be able to do and with some of the issues found in 10CE which were resolved by 10OE I'd say it's a very good plan. One that I'm happy to be part of. Now if we could just do something about bittorrent. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
Hi guys, A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way clear to posting it again, I would be most grateful -- Graham Watkins Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her. (Kinky Friedman - When The Cat's Away) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SpamAssasin with Evolution
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Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi guys, A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way clear to posting it again, I would be most grateful Don't worry, I just found it. (Sod's Law) -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
Graham, And the link is A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way clear to posting it again, I would be most grateful Don't worry, I just found it. (Sod's Law) Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux-Mandrake 10.0 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 = Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu 94C29CF3 === 18:28:06 up 1 day, 2:45, 0 users, load average: 1.04, 1.10, 1.16 -- Never mud wrestle with a pig.. you get dirty and the pig enjoys it! Never try to teach a pig to dance. You waste your time and annoy the pig. Theoretically pigs can fly if propelled with enough force. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
bascule wrote: stephen, i'd agree that a truly secure environment would prevent unknown programs from running, but a virus doesn't necessarily need root privs. if i can write a shell script that runs as a user, that can wipe my user files, send mail with attachments, create a dotfile and a user cron job to run it, then so can a virus writer, all that is required is that i be tricked into downloading the file/saving the attachment, making it executable and then running it, of course that involves a lot of social engineering compared to simply relying on a broken email client to do all that for you, but, let me say that again, but, in a world where every one switches to linux from windows there will be an awful lot of users on whom such social engineering will work. you and i, and probably most everyone on this list at this moment in time are, almost by definition, the kind of people who like to know more than just how to click a mouse button, folk who like to learn about our machines, in doing so we will inevitably pick up skills of net hygiene, if not by deliberate learning then by a form of osmosis, surrounded by a culture of people who truly 'know better'. one day that previous paragraph may no longer be true. that is why a lot of old hands in the linux/bsd/unix world will seem to be anal about things like md5sums, pgp sigs on mails etc. not because they all move in a harsh 'cracker eat hacker' world (though some do), but because they can see the future, or at least one possible iteration of it, and getting those habits down now, before they become necessary, can't hurt any :) bascule On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence an attack on a linux box is generally from outside, and not inside - unless someone was successful at running a rootkit on the machine in question. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com i found this on Linux viruses http://www.snake-basket.de/e/Linux-Wurm.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
bascule wrote: On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence an attack on a linux box is generally from outside, and not inside - unless someone was successful at running a rootkit on the machine in question. I can see it now, Your accout has been temporairily disabled due to security issues. please save this file somewhere, then open a terminal and type unzip .zip followed by: chmod 755 .zip then type: ./.sh when nothing noticable happens, please ignore it and go back to what you where doing. If you want to see the issues from roots perspective, then please type: su - before ./.sh (it would be difficult to create a method of GUI usage that would work across kde/gnome/icewm/etc and all versions thereof. and all mail clients and so on and so on but the command line would work everywhere... so what would happen? well one of two things, a method like the above, or a much bigger virus that has logic to work out what window manager and apps are in place that can respond appropraitly to that widow manager type and version and the installed apps. or something via shell, on the upside, clamav is totally GPL, so it won't be long till it's installed by default, and that will happen long before linux starts needing it. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) http://htmlfixit.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] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:57:50 -0400 Thanks for the tip, d00d, but I had an epiphany...well maybe that's giving it too much significance...anyway, in a few days www.freeyourmachine.org should be live and continuing my sinister plan to bore the world to death. Joe; Not to worry! Your new domain is working, and so is your philosophy! Grin! But you need to update your contacts page,... http://www.freeyourmachine.org/contact.php Just thought I'd let you know. And while I'm on the subject, how's about some dancing girls and more images of Tux? Or maybe that cute little Linspire ditty AND some dancing girls, or some Linux links and some dancing gir,..You get the idea! Grin! Tee Hee! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with konqueror.
On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 02:45, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote: Press F5 when you put a new disc in? Elwyn Thanks that works. What does F5 do I never had to do that before? It refreshes the Konq window - so apparently you were seeing cached data in the Konq window - hence why I always tune my EIDE drives, and rarely use Konq (Rox works, Nautilus works sometimes for large data caches, MC works great, the cli even better) Thanks when I get over some other problems I intend to investigate mc and cli works but not better much slower and more typing. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie]Camera with SD card
I have got a TRUST 910Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] digital Camera (plugged on USB) which works perfectly with MDK10 com. If I plug a SD 128mB card into the camera , Linux doesn't see the cam anymore . During the boot , I get sda was added , but nothing appears on the desktop . Nothing new in /etc/fstab , or in /proc/scsi/scsi (multiple LUNS ?); nothing new in /mnt/ (This camera is not supported by FLphoto ou DigiKam) What to do ?( the SD card works with Windows Me) . Thanks Jacques 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] Domain name expired...stupid me
I have had a bad experience with godaddy so I could not recommend them myself. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Dennis DuffnerSent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:51 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid meI didn't put in the registrar I use on my previous post, but www.godaddy.com is a great outfit to work with and the price is not out of this world either!At 09:57 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: JoeHill wrote: I went and let my domain name expire, and I can't remember who I originallyregistered it with.Even the 'whois' info is already gone :-(It comes up as unavailable at Network Solutions, any way to get it back?Or is it so stupid and inscrutable that I should just choose a new one?'fuckmicrosoft' is, unfortunately, taken ;-)/joehill opens hisself up to all the Don Rickles on the list...Joe; try "http://dotcanuck.com" . based out of Victoria, and they know their stuff. Extremely helpful guys. I use them for all my domains and for clients domains. Been 100% on the ball for 5 years.See? No Rickles! Maybe some Wrinkles, but No Rickles!LanmanWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Dennis Duffner[EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #362232Not yet M$ free-but getting closer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me
I've had good luck with www.registerfly.com , and I feel comfortable giving them a good recommendation. Jeff - Original Message - From: Tony S. Sykes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me I have had a bad experience with godaddy so I could not recommend them myself. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Dennis DuffnerSent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:51 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid meI didn't put in the registrar I use on my previous post, but www.godaddy.com is a great outfit to work with and the price is not out of this world either!At 09:57 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: JoeHill wrote: I went and let my domain name expire, and I can't remember who I originallyregistered it with.Even the 'whois' info is already gone :-(It comes up as unavailable at Network Solutions, any way to get it back?Or is it so stupid and inscrutable that I should just choose a new one?'fuckmicrosoft' is, unfortunately, taken ;-)/joehill opens hisself up to all the Don Rickles on the list...Joe; try "http://dotcanuck.com" . based out of Victoria, and they know their stuff. Extremely helpful guys. I use them for all my domains and for clients domains. Been 100% on the ball for 5 years.See? No Rickles! Maybe some Wrinkles, but No Rickles!LanmanWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Dennis Duffner[EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #362232Not yet M$ free-but getting closer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have receivedit in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the informationin any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately.The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst everyeffort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails.Business Computer Projects LtdBCP House151 Charles StreetStockportCheshireSK1 3JYTel: +44 (0)161 355-3000Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com
[newbie] MathML
Does any of the Linux browsers support MathML? 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; An alternative to windows
I downloaded the OpenCD yesterday, and I'm looking forward to checking it out! Jeff - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] OT; An alternative to windows I don't know how many of the list-members are aware of this, so I'll pass it along as an FYI bit. There are a number of sites offering ISO images of CD's containing Open-Sourced programs for Microsoft Windows. These are the 3 that I've found so far. Of the 3, the fist has the nicest installer and a good lineup of software, while the second seems to have the most software. http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/ http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/ http://osscd.sunsite.dk/ For Windows users who haven't tried Open-Source (OS) software yet, one of these CD's is a good eye-opener to Linux and Open-Source apps, and it gives Windows users the ability to try typical Open-Source software before venturing into Linux. Once they're familiar with these, trying Linux probably won't be as difficult to try, especially if they see the same apps in Linux when they launch their desktops for the first time. Just thought you should know about them. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me
You have? might I ask what type of bad experiance? I ask becaues I've been using them for all my domains, so if there is a problem, I'd rather know about it now then later. rgds Franki Tony S. Sykes wrote: I have had a bad experience with godaddy so I could not recommend them myself. -Original Message- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Sunday 25 July 2004 14:14, Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 04:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | I need to install filters but have forgotten how they should be set | up and at the moment I cant find my notes. I have trained | spamassassin with enough email (spam ham) so they should be | useful but cant get it to function. Are you talking about filters in Kontact (Kmail), or are you talking about rules for SA? If filters, the uk site is an excellent step-by-step. For the *.cf rules, just download them and copy them to /etc/mail/spamassassin. Five of my favorites are antidrug.cf,backhair.cf, chickenpox.cf, Obfu.cf and weedsonly.cf. Be sure to run spamassassin --lint because of a typo or two in backhair. I'm attaching my /home/username/.spamassassin/user_prefs as a guide to what is working for me. Note that I am using SA 2.55, so you wouldn't want to use the am_biz section. Also, note that I filter very aggressively at 4.0 hits, but still, false positives are extremely rare. Thanks Erylon In the meantime I read the Settings drop down menu and there was a wizard there that took care of adding the proper filters and the first message input resulted in 27 spams. Good show. I was aware of the cf.rules but for now I want to monitor and check the rejects. My spam load is very low: Ham=4105 Spam=981 about 24%. -- Regards; Hoyt 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] Domain name expired...stupid me
I was doing a domain name transfer, the people who had it refused to transfer after about 1 month so I thought nothing of it, godaddy charged me each month for hosting the web site even though they were not hosting it. I noticed this after 4 months (don't check my account very often) and asked them for a refund, they refused as I had requested the domain transfer and did not cancel it after they emailed me with the confirmation that they could not host it. I stupidly assumed if they could not complete the transfer (host my site) the contract between us was broken and I would not be charged. However the contract is not broken till you cancel it even though the only service they are providing you with is the removal of your money from your bank account (Did that sound bitter?). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of frankieh Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me You have? might I ask what type of bad experiance? I ask becaues I've been using them for all my domains, so if there is a problem, I'd rather know about it now then later. rgds Franki Tony S. Sykes wrote: I have had a bad experience with godaddy so I could not recommend them myself. -Original Message- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.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] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:55:32AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Joe; Not to worry! Your new domain is working, and so is your philosophy! Grin! But you need to update your contacts page,... http://www.freeyourmachine.org/contact.php Just thought I'd let you know. And while I'm on the subject, how's about some dancing girls and more images of Tux? Or maybe that cute little Linspire ditty AND some dancing girls, or some Linux links and some dancing gir,..You get the idea! Grin! Naked dancing girls? Tux is naked, is he not? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me
ROTFLMAO At 10:50 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:57:50 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: Or is it so stupid and inscrutable that I should just choose a new one? 'fuckmicrosoft' is, unfortunately, taken ;-) /joehill opens hisself up to all the Don Rickles on the list... Joe; try http://dotcanuck.com . based out of Victoria, and they know their stuff. Extremely helpful guys. I use them for all my domains and for clients domains. Been 100% on the ball for 5 years. See? No Rickles! Maybe some Wrinkles, but No Rickles! Thanks for the tip, d00d, but I had an epiphany...well maybe that's giving it too much significance...anyway, in a few days www.freeyourmachine.org should be live and continuing my sinister plan to bore the world to death. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 23:48:29 up 12 days, 16:02, 5 users, load average: 2.19, 1.92, 1.85 +++ If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -- Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Dennis Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #362232 Not yet M$ free-but getting closer
Firefox TinyURL extension, was Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:36:56AM +0100, Graham Watkins wrote: http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 If y'all use Firefox and aren't using the TinyURL extension, get it now! This great extension uses the tinyurl site to generate shortened url's that are great for forwarding to friends and lists, something like http://tinyurl.com/22hlv. The extension also saves the sites you've tinyurl-ed. Not to criticize Graham, just a tip! Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch whisky Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt family. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Program to serve as a database for the contents of CDs
Dear All I am looking for a program to serve as a database for the contents of my data CDs. Could somebody here give me some directions? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered
From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/07/26 Mon PM 08:17:35 CDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered On Monday 26 July 2004 08:59 pm, Lanman wrote: et wrote: On Monday 26 July 2004 07:09 pm, Lanman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original message was included as attachment WTF??? the attached zip file seems to have a whack of virus files inside! Lanman so what do the whole headers look like? DoH! Forgot to look. Deleted the email, but it was sent to the list, so I figured that everyone got it. Didn't think about keeping it. My Bad. Lanman Is it in the archive at marc.theaimsgroup.com? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2? maybe the list was a faked address? -- 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 It was definitely a spoofed address cause I did not send it. My comp is totally Mandrake Linux and use kmail. Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with konqueror.
On Tuesday 27 Jul 2004 13:14, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 02:45, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote: Press F5 when you put a new disc in? Elwyn Thanks that works. What does F5 do I never had to do that before? It refreshes the Konq window - so apparently you were seeing cached data in the Konq window - hence why I always tune my EIDE drives, and rarely use Konq (Rox works, Nautilus works sometimes for large data caches, MC works great, the cli even better) Thanks when I get over some other problems I intend to investigate mc and cli works but not better much slower and more typing. It refreshes most things. Works on Windows so wasnt really surprised it worked here as well :) In Windows I was also used to Shift-Click a link to open in new window, and in Konq it's Ctrl-Click :) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 02:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/07/26 Mon PM 08:17:35 CDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered On Monday 26 July 2004 08:59 pm, Lanman wrote: et wrote: On Monday 26 July 2004 07:09 pm, Lanman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original message was included as attachment WTF??? the attached zip file seems to have a whack of virus files inside! Lanman so what do the whole headers look like? DoH! Forgot to look. Deleted the email, but it was sent to the list, so I figured that everyone got it. Didn't think about keeping it. My Bad. Lanman Is it in the archive at marc.theaimsgroup.com? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2? maybe the list was a faked address? -- 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 It was definitely a spoofed address cause I did not send it. My comp is totally Mandrake Linux and use kmail. Dennis M. Must be an issue with KMail...that, or must be something inherently from Michigan. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to serve as a database for the contents of CDs
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 02:16, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to serve as a database for the contents of my data CDs. Could somebody here give me some directions? Thanks in advance, Paul gtktalog It's quick and easy to use. stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. A penny for your thoughts? A dollar for your death. -- The Odd Couple Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]Camera with SD card
Back in Mandrake 9.2, I had something similar with a Minolta DimageX. When I first plugged it in, nothing happened. Then the next time I tried some days later, voila, it accepted it normally, meaning I could mount it from root. It still wasn't automatically added to the desktop. Then I just had to add the appropriate lines to /dev/fstab and create a link on my desktop. If you do see a /dev/sda, try mounting it manualy after rebooting (hey I know this is linux and you don't have to reboot, but I still don't know what individual processes need restarting). From what I know, the camera's internal memory is CF based, and SD uses different kernel thingys. Very professional. I'm just not on first name basis with my kernel. Yet. Hope this helps. cheers Andras On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:54, jacques wrote: I have got a TRUST 910Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] digital Camera (plugged on USB) which works perfectly with MDK10 com. If I plug a SD 128mB card into the camera , Linux doesn't see the cam anymore . During the boot , I get sda was added , but nothing appears on the desktop . Nothing new in /etc/fstab , or in /proc/scsi/scsi (multiple LUNS ?); nothing new in /mnt/ (This camera is not supported by FLphoto ou DigiKam) What to do ?( the SD card works with Windows Me) . Thanks Jacques __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sorbs/Postfix
Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by several mailservers to verify 'official' mail servers. (Probably to weed out spammers.) The message I get is host rbl.livjm.ac.uk[150.204.254.42] said: 521 The IP xxx.xxx.xx.xx is Blacklisted by dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net.RDynamic IP Address See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=xxx.xxx.xx.xx (in reply to RCPT TO command) When I look up my IP-address on that site I see: Dynamic IP Space (LAN, Cable, DSL Dial Ups) Netblock: 217.120.0.0/14 (217.120.0.0-217.123.255.255) Record Created: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Record Updated: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Additional Information: [Dynablock] Dynamic IP address, use your ISPs mail server Does anyone know how I can keep using Postfix instead of having to use my ISPs mail server? The latter is down VERY much, making it a pita to use. Paul -- If you're a Capricorn, remember that Capricorns don't believe in astrology. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? 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] Domain name expired...stupid me
Dennis Duffner wrote: ROTFLMAO Dennis Duffner It's allowed Dennis, but don't do it in public or on a crowded transit bus! That would be bad! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was definitely a spoofed address cause I did not send it. My comp is totally Mandrake Linux and use kmail. Dennis M. Didn't think it was you Dennis. When checking the archive, I saw that it came from someone else up the chain. Use the link above and you'll see what I mean. I was just surprised that this email might have gone thru normal channels, but I forgot to check the headers before posting back to the list. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:55:32AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Joe; Not to worry! Your new domain is working, and so is your philosophy! Grin! But you need to update your contacts page,... http://www.freeyourmachine.org/contact.php Just thought I'd let you know. And while I'm on the subject, how's about some dancing girls and more images of Tux? Or maybe that cute little Linspire ditty AND some dancing girls, or some Linux links and some dancing gir,..You get the idea! Grin! Naked dancing girls? Tux is naked, is he not? Todd Who said anything about Naked? Not me! That would be Politically IN-Correct! 2 or 3 strategically-placed Band-Aids would be OK, I suppose! Grin! Drool! Sneer! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 03:12, Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by several mailservers to verify 'official' mail servers. (Probably to weed out spammers.) The message I get is host rbl.livjm.ac.uk[150.204.254.42] said: 521 The IP xxx.xxx.xx.xx is Blacklisted by dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net.RDynamic IP Address See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=xxx.xxx.xx.xx (in reply to RCPT TO command) When I look up my IP-address on that site I see: Dynamic IP Space (LAN, Cable, DSL Dial Ups) Netblock: 217.120.0.0/14 (217.120.0.0-217.123.255.255) Record Created: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Record Updated: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Additional Information: [Dynablock] Dynamic IP address, use your ISPs mail server Does anyone know how I can keep using Postfix instead of having to use my ISPs mail server? The latter is down VERY much, making it a pita to use. Paul I do know that if you change your settings to directly send to your ISP's smtp server, you won't get this error - what's happening is that you're getting backlash from sending from your own server - postfix or sendmail or what have you - so the name isn't being recognised as a fair dinkum mail server - hence the error... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. My folks didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat. 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; An alternative to windows
Little help... if somebody have downloaded an *.iso, it is no need to burn it, you can extract the files from it under windows by using a Magic ISO Maker utility. Search google to find a downloadable evolution version (1.7M) Best Regards Catcher - Original Message - From: Jeff Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT; An alternative to windows I downloaded the OpenCD yesterday, and I'm looking forward to checking it out! Jeff - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] OT; An alternative to windows I don't know how many of the list-members are aware of this, so I'll pass it along as an FYI bit. There are a number of sites offering ISO images of CD's containing Open-Sourced programs for Microsoft Windows. These are the 3 that I've found so far. Of the 3, the fist has the nicest installer and a good lineup of software, while the second seems to have the most software. http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/ http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/ http://osscd.sunsite.dk/ For Windows users who haven't tried Open-Source (OS) software yet, one of these CD's is a good eye-opener to Linux and Open-Source apps, and it gives Windows users the ability to try typical Open-Source software before venturing into Linux. Once they're familiar with these, trying Linux probably won't be as difficult to try, especially if they see the same apps in Linux when they launch their desktops for the first time. Just thought you should know about them. Lanman -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On July 27, 2004 01:36, John Wilson wrote: ... Now if we could just do something about bittorrent. :-) ttfn John Actually, there is something we can all do about bittorrent, or at least those of us on high speed connections: leave your bittorrent client running, even after you've downloaded everything, so that other people can upload from you. I did this for a while on the Windoze machine I used to download Mandrake in the first place. But I had to keep going on a vpn for work, which got in the way, I've been meaning to start doing it on my Mandrake box, but I don't have the iso's there at the moment. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:44:43 +0800, frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bascule wrote: On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence an attack on a linux box is generally from outside, and not inside - unless someone was successful at running a rootkit on the machine in question. I can see it now, Your accout has been temporairily disabled due to security issues. please save this file somewhere, then open a terminal and type unzip .zip followed by: chmod 755 .zip then type: ../.sh when nothing noticable happens, please ignore it and go back to what you where doing. If you want to see the issues from roots perspective, then please type: su - before ./.sh (it would be difficult to create a method of GUI usage that would work across kde/gnome/icewm/etc and all versions thereof. and all mail clients and so on and so on but the command line would work everywhere... so what would happen? well one of two things, a method like the above, or a much bigger virus that has logic to work out what window manager and apps are in place that can respond appropraitly to that widow manager type and version and the installed apps. or something via shell, on the upside, clamav is totally GPL, so it won't be long till it's installed by default, and that will happen long before linux starts needing it. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) http://htmlfixit.com I apologize if I cover points already made, I am new to the list, so please forgive me if that happens. I have been arguing these points elsewhere for a long time and looking at the problems with creating viruses for Linux. It would be easy to destroy a users data with just a little social engineering, but the problem with writing something to escalate priveleges and actually do harm to the system itself becomes much more complicated and would affect a limited number of systems for each iteration of the virus. This is due to all the different kernel versions, gcc versions, etc. Crackers tend to be the lazy sort and only exploit something easy (unless they are after something specific) so writing viruses for Linux wouldn't get them the same satisfaction as it does for Windows at the very core of things. When we saw slapper exploit ssl it was easy, because pretty much ever version of SSL had the same vulnerabilities. I saw this firsthand working for a webhosting provider, we got slammed by slapper as did a lot of other companies. But with kernel exploits and the like, we usually only saw those when someone targetted the systems. We occasionally had script kiddies scan subnets and take gain access to a few boxes that way, but it was very rare. Based on the observations of how things got cracked and the way the slapper worm did it's work, I came to the conclusion that I had been wrong about Linux viruses. I originally thought we would see as many as there are for Windows if the unwashed masses started using Linux, working at a large hosting provider really changed my mind. Of course we will see a growth in viruses, but the level of viruses on Windows is directly related to the security problems in the OS itself, conversely when Linux becomes more prevalent we will see more virus type activity, but it's not possible for there to be near as much. The other problem is simply one of educating new users as they start to move away from Windows. If we don't do this we will have people running as root all the time just like 'doze users run as administrator all the time. We need to come up with a solution for software installation, one that windows doesn't have and one that Linux is currently lacking. Sure most of us could install anything we want into our user space via the shell by simply changing the ./configure options, but my mom couldn't. I don't know of any distro that does this, but a user space rpm would be a nice solution. The main rpm command would be chrooted to the user space, this way in a home environmant the users rarely if ever have to login as root except to do os updates. Sort of a Mandrake Home Version or some such, really aimed at protecting the users from themselves. XP Home fell flat on it's face with the all or nothing security options, and it wouldn't take much to develop this sort of installer for the home users. The other issue is the one that originally drew me to open source, and that is choice. With everyone using different e-mail clients it becomes harder to get viruses to propogate. In a home version the defualt install could drop pine, sendmail, et al and not leave a real way to propogate via e-mail from a simple script delivered via e-mail. I could send something all day long designed to send via Thunderbird to a friend using Sylpheed and accomplish nothing, this then goes back to the laziness issue. It's just not fun to write
[newbie] Linux OS Installers
Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will not be a LiveCD. Also, it has to be for an RPM-based distro. TIA Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
On July 22, 2004 07:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 05:54 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I don't want to run my own mail server (not at the moment). I rely on my isp for sending and receiving email. Is there a simple way to do this? Can I somehow tell kmail to do it for me? If not, can someone point me to some good instructions for configuring postfix to do what I need without interfering with email to/from my isp, and without opening up security holes in my system (e.g. an open relay). Look for and install a package called esmtp, that mirrors sendmail functionality but doesn't actually work as an MTA itself, it simply relays messages to your MTA of choice. In essence, it provides you with full sendmail compatibility for scripts but it only relays messages just as your mail client would. There are a couple of other packages that do the same thing as well but esmtp is very simply to setup and configure for what you want it to do. The only drawback is that it won't route local messages to your machine, you have to send to fully qualified email addresses because you are are relaying through an external server. IOW, you can't send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. Thanks, esmtp is exactly what I needed. It would have been nice if Mandrake installed this by default. I was trying to use the mail command, but it just dies with an error that /usr/sbin/sendmail is missing. But I suppose it wouldn't work anyway without a suitable config file. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix
Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by several mailservers to verify 'official' mail servers. (Probably to weed out spammers.) The message I get is host rbl.livjm.ac.uk[150.204.254.42] said: 521 The IP xxx.xxx.xx.xx is Blacklisted by dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net.RDynamic IP Address See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=xxx.xxx.xx.xx (in reply to RCPT TO command) When I look up my IP-address on that site I see: Dynamic IP Space (LAN, Cable, DSL Dial Ups) Netblock: 217.120.0.0/14 (217.120.0.0-217.123.255.255) Record Created: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Record Updated: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Additional Information: [Dynablock] Dynamic IP address, use your ISPs mail server Does anyone know how I can keep using Postfix instead of having to use my ISPs mail server? The latter is down VERY much, making it a pita to use. Paul There is not much you can do. You will need to find a mail server to relay through. I can see this becomming more of a problem in the future. What may have to happen is for one of the places that manages DNS for sites with dynamic IPs to start offering a relaying mail server as part of the package. Or posibly listing valid mail source IP addresses using something like http://spf.pobox.com. Not much help for you right now though. And changing maal programs, or your local configuration will not help, unless you have a server to realy through. Maybe it is time to have a talk to your ISP, or start shopping for a new one with a better mail server? The way I solved it was to pay for a web hosting that included a mail server. At $10/year, it is worth it for me. The web site is mainly a joke, and doesn't get much trafic, but the mail server gets a real workout. 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] Sorbs/Postfix
Op Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:35:09 +1000 schreef Stephen Kühn: Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). I do know that if you change your settings to directly send to your ISP's smtp server, you won't get this error - what's happening is that you're getting backlash from sending from your own server - postfix or sendmail or what have you - so the name isn't being recognised as a fair dinkum mail server - hence the error... Hi Stephen, I already suspected something like that. I'll give this a shot and hope the SMTP-server of my ISP plays nice now. It has given me big problems in the past... Thanks, Paul -- If you're a Capricorn, remember that Capricorns don't believe in astrology. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:01:26 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by several mailservers to verify 'official' mail servers. (Probably to weed out spammers.) The message I get is host rbl.livjm.ac.uk[150.204.254.42] said: 521 The IP xxx.xxx.xx.xx is Blacklisted by dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net.RDynamic IP Address See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=xxx.xxx.xx.xx (in reply to RCPT TO command) When I look up my IP-address on that site I see: Dynamic IP Space (LAN, Cable, DSL Dial Ups) Netblock: 217.120.0.0/14 (217.120.0.0-217.123.255.255) Record Created: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Record Updated: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Additional Information: [Dynablock] Dynamic IP address, use your ISPs mail server Does anyone know how I can keep using Postfix instead of having to use my ISPs mail server? The latter is down VERY much, making it a pita to use. Paul There is not much you can do. You will need to find a mail server to relay through. I can see this becomming more of a problem in the future. What may have to happen is for one of the places that manages DNS for sites with dynamic IPs to start offering a relaying mail server as part of the package. Or posibly listing valid mail source IP addresses using something like http://spf.pobox.com. Not much help for you right now though. And changing maal programs, or your local configuration will not help, unless you have a server to realy through. Maybe it is time to have a talk to your ISP, or start shopping for a new one with a better mail server? The way I solved it was to pay for a web hosting that included a mail server. At $10/year, it is worth it for me. The web site is mainly a joke, and doesn't get much trafic, but the mail server gets a real workout. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! You can even get cheaper hosting than 10.00 a month that includes a mailserver. I won't pimp the company I actually work for since that is more than likely against list rules but you can get reliable hosting if you only need the mailserver for pretty dang cheap. You don't even need to register a domain, just use the IP of the server and you are good to go. This is about the only solution. I fight with the blocklists every day in the course of work and they are no fun, I have come to really hate them. They may have a good concept behind them, but the implementation really bites, and they don't seem to care even one tiny bit. -- This is me with the words on the tip of my tongue And my eye through the scope down the barrel of a gun Remind me not to ever act this way again - Taking Back Sunday -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBqeVfHXjcMfoResRAkEAAKCJYsCJa72nJMEk8tS5IC75SOyIbgCfaH5N gXAle9QDujbcMcHVOEiS6UY= =oaCY -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] Linux OS Installers
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:58:39PM -0400, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will not be a LiveCD. Also, it has to be for an RPM-based distro. I think mklivecd, based on MDK, lets you install, i.e. you don't have to run it as a livecd. That's a pretty big think there, meaning I'm not 100% sure, but I built my own livecd with it and joined the list and development is pretty active. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re:[newbie]Camera with SD card
jacques wrote: I have got a TRUST 910Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] digital Camera (plugged on USB) which works perfectly with MDK10 com. If I plug a SD 128mB card into the camera , Linux doesn't see the cam anymore . During the boot , I get sda was added , but nothing appears on the desktop . Nothing new in /etc/fstab , or in /proc/scsi/scsi (multiple LUNS ?); nothing new in /mnt/ (This camera is not supported by FLphoto ou DigiKam) What to do ?( the SD card works with Windows Me) . Thanks Jacques Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I just went through this myself a week ago or so with Digikam. My camera did not show up turns out it did show in /mnt/camera. In digikam scroll to the bottom and select USB Mass Media. You can label it anything you want then be sure and save it. When you get to the camera selection be sure you don't click on any other selection first. That seems to mess things up. After that it should work. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.0 Official Mozilla 1.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:27:25 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flesh.99 wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:01:26 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by several mailservers to verify 'official' mail servers. (Probably to weed out spammers.) The message I get is host rbl.livjm.ac.uk[150.204.254.42] said: 521 The IP xxx.xxx.xx.xx is Blacklisted by dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net.RDynamic IP Address See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=xxx.xxx.xx.xx (in reply to RCPT TO command) When I look up my IP-address on that site I see: Dynamic IP Space (LAN, Cable, DSL Dial Ups) Netblock: 217.120.0.0/14 (217.120.0.0-217.123.255.255) Record Created: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Record Updated: Mon Nov 24 18:27:07 2003 GMT Additional Information: [Dynablock] Dynamic IP address, use your ISPs mail server Does anyone know how I can keep using Postfix instead of having to use my ISPs mail server? The latter is down VERY much, making it a pita to use. Paul There is not much you can do. You will need to find a mail server to relay through. I can see this becomming more of a problem in the future. What may have to happen is for one of the places that manages DNS for sites with dynamic IPs to start offering a relaying mail server as part of the package. Or posibly listing valid mail source IP addresses using something like http://spf.pobox.com. Not much help for you right now though. And changing maal programs, or your local configuration will not help, unless you have a server to realy through. Maybe it is time to have a talk to your ISP, or start shopping for a new one with a better mail server? The way I solved it was to pay for a web hosting that included a mail server. At $10/year, it is worth it for me. The web site is mainly a joke, and doesn't get much trafic, but the mail server gets a real workout. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! You can even get cheaper hosting than 10.00 a month that includes a mailserver. I won't pimp the company I actually work for since that is more than likely against list rules but you can get reliable hosting if you only need the mailserver for pretty dang cheap. You don't even need to register a domain, just use the IP of the server and you are good to go. This is about the only solution. I fight with the blocklists every day in the course of work and they are no fun, I have come to really hate them. They may have a good concept behind them, but the implementation really bites, and they don't seem to care even one tiny bit. I pay $10.00 for a year, not a month. So I gess $0.84 is fairly cheap. Besides, it keeps my domain name active. (It is actualy something like $10.04/year, but close enough...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! I totally misread what you typed, yeah .84 is really nice! WIth all the RBL issues going on there might just be a market for a reliable SMTP only service, it could be provided cheaply and setup securely. -- This is me with the words on the tip of my tongue And my eye through the scope down the barrel of a gun Remind me not to ever act this way again - Taking Back Sunday -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBqeVfHXjcMfoResRAkEAAKCJYsCJa72nJMEk8tS5IC75SOyIbgCfaH5N gXAle9QDujbcMcHVOEiS6UY= =oaCY -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] www.eslrahc.com fallen over?
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:41:45 -0400, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:40:26 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion wrote: I tried to get a rpm down from Charles site and was getting 404 errors. I assume I'm not the only one? Hope its nothing too serious Charles and you get back up and running soon. I posted this to the expert list and am coping it here as it pertains to your query On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:33:31 -0400 David Relson wrote: 1000MB/month for $0 extra 20GB/month for $7.95 extra I don't know which plan he has. I didn't see a plan with greater download capacity, so if he's at 20GB there may not be room for expansion. (Of course I didn't read _everything_ the hosting service has posted). (My apologizes to David who is seeing part of this for a 2nd time) I use a hosting site and have a 30gb traffic allowance. Normally that is adequate as dls run just under 1gb per day. This month though traffic has been nearly 1.5gb per day so I have now exceeded my limit for the month. Fraid that means my site will be 'down' until Aug 1 (Sun) )-: I am looking at increasing that allowance by an additional 10GB per month. Am already at the highest tier that is normally offered so the request for additional 1st needs go through CS to make that increase option avaiable for my account. As it will not break me financially, yet anyway (-:, I appreciate those who have suggested monetary assistance,that is not necessary. As long as the allowance I have is needed/used I have no qualms with paying to have it increased. I just do not want to pay for more than will be normally used. For those who do wish to assist, all I ask is that you continue to dl the rpms I offer and to promote my site to others (plug it on your site if you have one). The more it is used the better I feel about the money/time spent in maintaining the site, special thanks here to John, and the rpms that can be found therein. Charles -- ...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals. (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center) - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - Would you be willing to let folks mirror for you? I have a server right now doing pretty much nothing. I would be willing to mirror for the 4 days and maybe even longer if you need it. Just a thought... -- This is me with the words on the tip of my tongue And my eye through the scope down the barrel of a gun Remind me not to ever act this way again - Taking Back Sunday -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBqeVfHXjcMfoResRAkEAAKCJYsCJa72nJMEk8tS5IC75SOyIbgCfaH5N gXAle9QDujbcMcHVOEiS6UY= =oaCY -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] The Linux virus myth
-- SNIP -- Setting up the commands to install RPM's in userspace would not be that hard. Most of the framework is already there. You can tell RPM to use a database in the user's home direstory instead of the system database. The bigest problem is that most RPMs are not relocatable. They can be, but most packagers do not do the extra work invloved. This is understandable, because most RPMs are installed as root, and when installed this way, they do not need to be relocatable. Also, some of the programs do not handle being relocated well. They look for config files in specific places, or expect to be located in specific places. But it would not be hard to make a large number of the GUI programs user installable. Most look for config files in the user's home directory any way. It is also possible for each user to have their own menues. It gets interesting when you install a new system program, as the user's own menu may not get updated with the new program. But this could be solved by checking the date of the system menu, and updating the local menu, or offering this as an option to the user, when the system menu is newer... About the only thing that I can think of that would require some change is to have the userspace installer check the system RPM database for programs and dependencies before checking the user RPM database. That way, the user would not install local software that is already installed as system software. You might also run into problems when upgrading system software, where the upgrade breaks user software. I am not sure how to handle that... Well, enough rambling Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! One thing that could be done is make the system RPM database readable but not writable by the users, this would cut down on redundancy on deps installed in user space. It would take some writing, but you have cron that updates the main db off of the users db's nightly to cover breaking stuff. Their stuff gets added to the main rpm db every night. The next step would take a little rewriting of rpm, have the db have a flag for user space or system installs and the root user could then decide if they wanted to break stuff by upgrading system libs and such. The menuing qouldn't be all that hard really, just have the menu update off of the system menu at each login, pull the system entries into the user specific menu. You could also build in a refresh function that does the same thing. This takes care of menuing for the users as well as some other little issues I have seen in menus at times. Now if only I knew C I would be starting work :) It's on my list of things to learn as I have other projects I want to get involved with, but this seems to be a decent idea. The concept of a user space installer is good, the other idea I had that would involve much more work was to set everything to run in a sandbox, allow the users a kind of sudo to install software but have it all install into sandboxes to protect the OS itself, but that requires much more work than it might be worth. -- This is me with the words on the tip of my tongue And my eye through the scope down the barrel of a gun Remind me not to ever act this way again - Taking Back Sunday -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBqeVfHXjcMfoResRAkEAAKCJYsCJa72nJMEk8tS5IC75SOyIbgCfaH5N gXAle9QDujbcMcHVOEiS6UY= =oaCY -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] Linux OS Installers
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:58, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will not be a LiveCD. Also, it has to be for an RPM-based distro. TIA Lanman BitRock InstallBuilder: http://www.icewalk.com/Linux/Software/521230/BitRock-InstallBuilder.html stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Remark of Dr. Baldwin's concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] x-mplayer2
_nasturtium wrote: I have not been able to have KMPlayer working on any other sites. However, it plays the mp3 files in my hard disk. Do you have xine installed? I'm not sure if mplayer supports .asx. (For xine, you might have to link directly e.g. http://10.133.169.15:80/tsfdirecto instead of www.tsf.sapo.net/tsfdirecto.asx). Hi, _nasturtium, Thanks for your reply. Meanwhile, I was able to solve the problem: I have installed CrossOver (http://www.codeweavers.com/) and, now, I can use Internet Explorer 6 and Windows Media Player under Linux. Regards, 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] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Monday 26 July 2004 14:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:12, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand. I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is only a short pause, and everything is running. I wish I could, but ya see, my system is setup as a global mail server (for Tina and myself) - so the configuration I'm using is system wide, hence not being able to use it from within Evolution; I try to mirror my client's setups; clamd is smaller than calling SA proper. Tell me please that you are NOT running these server programs on your workstation rather than a seperate server box. LX I wish I could - but until I have the time to take this lowly P200 I have sitting next to my workbench and turn IT into a mail server, well, my workstation IS the server...time, my friend...time...and resource...but eventually, I will move all server related services to another box...(oh, yeah, it takes MONEY too, forgot to mention that) stephen kuhn - proprietor time=money -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:21, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Monday 26 July 2004 14:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:12, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand. I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is only a short pause, and everything is running. I wish I could, but ya see, my system is setup as a global mail server (for Tina and myself) - so the configuration I'm using is system wide, hence not being able to use it from within Evolution; I try to mirror my client's setups; clamd is smaller than calling SA proper. Tell me please that you are NOT running these server programs on your workstation rather than a seperate server box. LX I wish I could - but until I have the time to take this lowly P200 I have sitting next to my workbench and turn IT into a mail server, well, my workstation IS the server...time, my friend...time...and resource...but eventually, I will move all server related services to another box...(oh, yeah, it takes MONEY too, forgot to mention that) stephen kuhn - proprietor time=money How well I know that one mate; meanwhile, just by chance, after doing a reboot of the system (I hate doing that) spamd doesn't seem to be eating up much resource - and I only removed the one recipe...strange that...but I'm still going to get that other box up and running; I've also changed my one email account that gets spammed the most - so that will help ease the tension... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:58, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will not be a LiveCD. Also, it has to be for an RPM-based distro. TIA Lanman BitRock InstallBuilder: http://www.icewalk.com/Linux/Software/521230/BitRock-InstallBuilder.html stephen kuhn - proprietor Thanks Stephen. This may also be useful. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers
Try going to redhat's website - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:08:24 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:58, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will not be a LiveCD. Also, it has to be for an RPM-based distro. TIA Lanman BitRock InstallBuilder: http://www.icewalk.com/Linux/Software/521230/BitRock-InstallBuilder.html stephen kuhn - proprietor Thanks Stephen. This may also be useful. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Tobinator -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. 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] Sorbs/Postfix
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 01:12 pm, Paul wrote: Does anyone know how I can keep using Postfix instead of having to use my ISPs mail server? The latter is down VERY much, making it a pita to use. There are three possible solutions to this problem. 1. You can contact the ISP that is rejecting your mail based on the IP designation as dynamic space and ask them to stop doing that. IMO, that is very unlikely to work. For each responsible person like yourself running a secure mail server on a secure OS, there are 200 Windows machines that have either been exploited already or are waiting to be exploited and turned into spam spewing zombie machines. 2. You can smart host through an ISP server or pay someone to allow you to relay through their server. This is the likeliest solution. 3. You can buy a domain, get DNS server for the domain and setup Sender Policy Framework records that get updated with your dynamic IP address and hope that the ISP currently rejecting your mail will implement it and allow that to override the dynamic space blocklist that they currently use. I wouldn't count on this solution currently, but it is MUCH more likely to work in a year or so from now. Of course, the converse is that you are much less likely to be able to operate your own mail server a year from now unless you own a domain and control dns records for that domain. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 02:20 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Thanks, esmtp is exactly what I needed. It would have been nice if Mandrake installed this by default. I was trying to use the mail command, but it just dies with an error that /usr/sbin/sendmail is missing. But I suppose it wouldn't work anyway without a suitable config file. Correct. Also, Mandrake installs Postfix by default if you tell it you want to operate a mail server. esmtp won't coexist with Postfix since they both offer compatibility with sendmail. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:16 pm, flesh.99 wrote: good to go. This is about the only solution. I fight with the blocklists every day in the course of work and they are no fun, I have come to really hate them. They may have a good concept behind them, but the implementation really bites, and they don't seem to care even one tiny bit. Of course, the RBL's are only publishing lists of IP space, just as a newspaper might publish crime statistics. If people avoid a neighborhood because the paper is printing a list of all the robberies in your area, you would be a fool to blame the reporters for a loss of business or inconvenience to yourself who live there. You would be much more accurate to blame the criminals robbing visitors. The choice is either move to a better neighborhood or take drastic action to clean up your own. Just because the crack house is cheaper than a nice one doesn't mean that I am justified in buying it and then complaining because my friends and neighbors refuse to come and visit me. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
Hi all, First up, let me introduce myself. I'm Wafa, a grad student of economics, I've been running various versions of Mandrake for over a year now - I started with 9.0 now have 9.2 running smoothly on a Dell desktop at home. The problem is with my Toshiba A45-S121 notebook, on which I'm trying to install Mandrake 10.0. I've kept a 10 GB unformatted partition for it; the rest of my hard drive is being used by WinXP, across two NTFS one FAT32 partition. The problem: When I boot from the Mandrake install cd, less than a minute into the install process (after choosing a standard graphical install), I get an error saying Unable to create ramdrive. I looked at the kernel errors logs, there was something on the lines of the installer trying to access blocks of memory that do not exist. When I hit the space bar to indicate 'ok', the install continues. I reach the language selection screen, am able to use my USB mouse to select click 'Next'. However, the minute I click 'Nest', the installer vanishes, I am back to the text screen. It starts to shut down, i.e. I get messages saying Sending TERM signalsending killall to all processes ... etc. It then says It is now safe to restart your machine. Looking at the lines above this, I noticed that XFree86 had been unable to load a number of modules. This process happened identically twice; once when I hit enter at the main screen, the next time when I hit f1 at the first menu then typed 'linux' at the next menu. Some basic specs of the machine: HDD_Int: Intel ICH4-M Sound:ANALOG DEVICES AD1981B VGA: Intel 852GME CPU: Intel Celeron 2800M RAM: PC2100 Modem:Softmodem (Lucent SCORPIO) USB: Intel ICH4-M (USB2.0) CD_Int: Intel ICH4-M PCMCIA: Toshiba ToPIC100 (Intel 82365 comp) Chipset: Intel 852GME Network: Intel 82562ET (Kinnereth) Should I just try installing 9.2, which I know works fine on my home machine, then upgrade 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel, since that contains some newer acpi support that this laptop needs? Or is there a way out of this? Thanks in advance... Regards, Wafa. -- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. --Terry Pratchett Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 07:27 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: Should I just try installing 9.2, which I know works fine on my home machine, then upgrade 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel, since that contains some newer acpi support that this laptop needs? You might try adding the linux noapic line to see if that gets you any further. You can also try to add the acpi=off line to see if that helps. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
Hi, Thanks - I tried it, but no luck. I got exactly the same error messages, when I tried linux noapic then again when I tried acpi=off. Here are the errors, in more detail: First, there is a dialog box saying: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably a hardware error in reading data. The logs for this stage said: trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk reading compressed ramdisk: IO_ERROR unsetting automatic The kernel messages at this stage were: hdc:rw=0, want=1351260, limit=1262784 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 337814 Then the install continued. A small line at the bottom of the screen appeared, saying VERSION file missing. Then the language screen came. At the language screen, for fun I tried selecting another language. Anyway, same story; I clicked 'Next', screen exits. I saw the following error messages on the screen: Couldn't open RGB_DB 'usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb' Gdk-warning: locale not supported GLib-warning: getpwuid_r() failed due to unknown user id(0) at usr/bin/perl-install/install_gtk.pm line 229 then the sending term signal, sending killall signal, etc; finally it tells me it is now safe to restart your computer. Sorry if these messages are less than 100% accurate; I was scribbling them down with a pencil as they appeared. :) Once again, thanks in advance...hope this can be figured out! I like Mandrake too much to want to try another distro just yet... Regards, Wafa. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. --Terry Pratchett Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 07:27 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: Should I just try installing 9.2, which I know works fine on my home machine, then upgrade 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel, since that contains some newer acpi support that this laptop needs? You might try adding the linux noapic line to see if that gets you any further. You can also try to add the acpi=off line to see if that helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 July 2004 06:22 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: First, there is a dialog box saying: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably a hardware error in reading data. This sounds to me as one of the following: a - bad burn of the iso b - CD drive done gone south for the winter Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBvVczHeHGYMT3rQRAkQsAJ0aXeFGNxduZoVwRqzD9YvgGak+AQCfTpEW TkZBkPhIYUsC0Ui9qZWXkjM= =11rq -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] Won't play MIDI
Em Qua, 2004-07-21 às 02:32, David E. Fox escreveu: No go (at least for the first part) -- there is just nothing coming out of the speakers. Other sounds work. I tried Test Sound in KDE config menu under Sound - OK on Test Sound but nothing on Test Midi. I may try the other possible method listed in that file next, probably tomorrow or another day. Should you get this working in 10.0, please advise. One point - the content of my /etc/modules.conf ATM looks like: probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias agpgart via-agp alias eth0 tulip above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-emu10k1 enable=1 I'm confused slightly on these settings. When my box boots up, I definitely see the Using Alsa driver emu10k1 message. Now IIRC, the snd part means I'm using the ALSA, right? The line above tells me I'm using oss though, if I interpret it correctly. I did fiddle with the settings a couple of times, and through a number of reboots later got it to finally spit out Using ALSA driver but I'm thinking that the particular driver was always there -- because when I launch kmix I get a large number of sliders (with the other driver I only get a few, and a missing /dev/sequencer. (Trying to cat a midi to /dev/sequencer results in a no space left on device message). The second part mentions kmidi, which I do not seem to have. But if I run urpmi kmidi I get everything already installed - but no output if I do urpmf /usr/bin/kmidi. Seems perhaps I'll need to rerun urpmi. I did that, still no kmidi, that package seems to not be part of 10.0. Sorry I took so long to respond. I've just done and it is working like a charm. I have a Sound Blaster Live! card. Here is the content of my modules.conf file. probeall usb-interface usb-ohci alias sound-slot-1 snd-emu10k1 above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss alias eth0 3c59x above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci As you can see, they're pretty much the same, so I guess you're running Alsa. The article whose link I sent says we have to install the following packages: awesfx and awesfx-devel. So, I did it. Then, I created the directory /usr/share/midi and copied the sound fonts to the newly-created directory # cp /mnt/cdrom/AUDIO/COMMON/SFBANK/8MBGMSFX.SF2 /usr/share/midi And, finally, I ran the command below to load the sound fonts # sfxload /usr/share/midi/8MBGMSFX.SF2 The trick here is to run that command every time Linux boots up. otherwise the fonts won't load up again. I started Kmid (not Kmidi) and chose the second MIDI device. Then I opened a .kar file and it all worked. A .kar file is just like a .mid file; the difference is that .kar files have text. I also have Timidity installed and it's playing .mid files flawlessly. If you're using KDE, you probably have to kill Arts before playing midi files. There's also playmidi, which you might want to check out. Just urpmi it. Let me know how it goes. HTH -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ** Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel.h and lilo
Mikkell/List: See below: On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 13:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: List, I just got done upgrading to a new kernel and cleaning up my lilo.conf of older kernel and src versions, when I noticed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ ls -l /boot total 6276 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 7 14:58 boot.0300 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jan 19 12:42 boot.1600 What are the above two? If I remember correctly, they are boot record save files. Not real usefull unless you want to uninstall lilo. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 17 11:54 config - config-2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56579 Jun 18 02:07 config-2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56580 Jul 2 22:50 config-2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5032 Feb 19 12:03 diag1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16796 Feb 19 12:03 diag2.img What are those two above? They are part of the lilo package. Used for debugging? drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 May 2 11:03 grub/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247691 Jul 17 11:47 initrd-2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147590 Jul 17 11:19 initrd-2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB.img lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 17 11:19 initrd.img - initrd-2.6.3-15mdk-i686-up-4GB.img lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jul 17 11:27 kernel.h -/boot/kernel.h-2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 537 Jun 27 12:38 kernel.h-2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB Is this a problem? I still have installed the 14 kernel src as well as the newer 15 kernel src and the file /usr/src/linux is slinked to the newer kernt which will be the new default. This link is changed to reflect the kernel you booted with. It should always point to the currently running kernel .h file. So if I reboot to the new kernel, the system will automatically update the kernel.h file? Sorry about the long span between replies, I got caught up in installing games :). Terry Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-14mdk-i686-up-4GB 20:07:54 up 24 days, 7:11, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.07 Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. -- The Best of Will Rogers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 10:32 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: whack My spam load is very low: Ham=4105 Spam=981 about 24%. Hoyt: I wouldn't call 24% low -- my personal scream and yell threshold is about 15%, and I'm running comfortably below that at present. My ISP runs a reasonably effective spam filter (IIRC, Brightmail). Although things started to get out of hand last winter to the point where I was thinking about installing SpamAssassin, EL must have tightened their filters, because there was an abrupt drop in the amount of undetected spam that got through. It does seem to be starting to creep up again, though. One day at a time... -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:39 pm, flesh.99 wrote: it's all above, folks I'm not sure this is a good idea, guys. Ease of use is one of the main reasons for all of those rooted PC's out there that keep spamming us. It's also the main source of all of those emails to windows help lists that begin, Ever since I installed BlahBlah, my computer (runs slow/keeps going to porn pages/won't boot/makes my coffee taste funny). Even for a simple single user/home based PC, the act of having to enter the root password should point out the seriousness of that which is to follow. On any networked system, of course, user-installed software is a recipe for disaster. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
