Re: [newbie] Nvidia GF4 MX 440 wont work generic drivers in Mandrake
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 15:53, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: 1. Do I need an NVIDIA-kernel to get the generic drivers to work with this card? 2. Without a graphical interface how can I download and install the official nvidia drivers if that is what it is going to take? 3. Could the move have loused up the system in such a way that I would have to reinstall? I really doubt this, I mean its not like its a windoze partition. 1.) If you just change drives over - um, I think you're going to have issues with the new hardware; you going to have to boot into console mode and run XFdrake to reset the monitor settings and the video card settings... 2.) The official NVidia drivers ARE part of the MDK 10.0 OE installation. 3.) See number one. ONE of the things you can do is let the machine get all the way to the black screen - then hit CTRL-ALT-F2 - this SHOULD bring you to a console login...login as the root user, run XFdrake, and get all the settings right... YET another reason why I prefer a console login to a graphical login - easier to troubleshoot, easier to fix X problems, and not as much system resource overload by just having GDM (or similar) running in the background... 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. Academy: A modern school where football is taught. Institute: An archaic school where football is not taught. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A little guidence
Hello Shawn, I have been using MDK 10 for a month or so now. So far I have been unable to find documentation on MDK 10. Closest we can find is documentaion of 9.2 which is found at: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 I think most of these manuals can be used with MDK 10 also. Because core concept and command line utilities are same. I am also learning Linux with the help of these fine people List. They have been source or great knowledge and encouragement. If you find any docs about MDK 10, please do mention in list. Regards Kanwar Lal - Original Message - From: Shawn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Community [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:43 PM Subject: [newbie] A little guidence Good afternoon all I am new to the Linux Community and have recently been seeking out some good resources (books, sites) which will give me a clearer idea of the functionality of Mandrake Linux 10.0. If anyone would happen to know any good sites which contain documentation regarding line based commands of write ups of the GUI components of Mandrake 10.0 i would be most appreciative. Thank you in advance, Shawn Miller (newbie) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com [This E-mail has been scanned for viruses by AKUNET. Powered by Declude Anti-virus] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
The clean install without formating the /home partition will leave your past work retrievable, I had no problems doing this. [ This assumes you have a separate /home partition. - Great having it for things like this.] As to 'QingHua' comment about it being better than 9.1 - Not here it ain't. The problems I have remind me alot of my windows days. At least MDK10 appears to recover better and lilo has not acted up once - pluses for carrying on with it. Trouble is it takes a reboot to recover. Now that is too much like windows. Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Q.H.Wang wrote: Hi people, I have done an update from 9.1 to 10.0. Basically it's sucessful. Almost all the applications I installed with 9.1 are untouched in this update, though some of them need to start from scratch (run as the first time). There is an exception. Matlab can not start Java Virtual Machine, thus the command window disappears. Maybe I need to install it again, or maybe I can fix it by just installing Java package. Does anyone have similar experience? TIA. By the way, MDK 10.0 is much better than 9.1. Cheers! Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
As for me, so far so good with 10.0. Now that is too much like windows. It's more like Windows than 9.1 but not too much from my point of view. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Current scanners - Done!
Marco Verheul wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 22:05, Lanman wrote: Dear List; I'm looking to buy a new flatbed scanner which will work seamlessly with Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0. If anyone on the list has recently purchased a new scanner and had an easy time setting it up, could you please let me know? I'm also hoping that this scanner can be shared by the host PC to 2 or 3 other PC's on the network, but this isn't critical. Thanks In Advance,.. Lanman I have an Epson Perfection 1260. Runs on 9.1 and 10.0. Cheers, Marco Thanks Marco and everyone else who sent me suggestions for a scanner. The Canon CanoScan LiDE30 was won the door prize and will be picked up later this morning. I'll let you know how well it goes. 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] How does one print man pages.
On Thursday 29 July 2004 19:55, Chris wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2004 05:28 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 03:56, Hoyt Bailey wrote: There has to be a better way to print man pages than to use copy/paste. Please give me a clue? Here's a quick way to create a nice poscript printable man page: man nameofcommand | col -b nameofcommand.ps ..then simply print out the ps file, or import it into like OO or whatever... Or you can make it a pdf file: ps2pdf filename.ps Hadnt thought of that but might prove useful. -- 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] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.
Steve Jeppesen wrote: less than a week later, and it's been taken offline already...least that address is no good anymore :( On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:10:30 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, although it is Linspire, it´s still Linux : http://www.linspire.com/RunLinspireFlash.php Turn your sound volume up and have a good laugh. Kaj Haulrich. Microsoft and a record company or two probably threatened them with a lawsuit over it. I doubt Microsoft would have given them the right to use the WindowsXP logo or graphics, and I'm not sure that some of the record labels would have been too happy about the use of the original Doors music score either. Good thing that half the planet downloaded it to their own systems first! Now all we have to do is to watch the Internet news sites for Microsoft launching a lawsuit against Lindows. I'm sure they'll try to put an interesting spin on it regarding Linux as a whole being a cancer or virus or filled with hackers code! And they call us paranoid? 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] libstdc++.so.6
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.0/libstdc++.so /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.0 It's a bit strange. After my update to 10.0, my GCC is 3.3.2 thus I only have /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5 Is this a side effect of just update, not clean installation? QingHua 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: ADSL connection configuration not saved.
On Friday 30 July 2004 02:06 am, Bjrn Lundin wrote: I had it before, with a beta mdk 10. I resolved it by launching the wizard, and then check the commandline it used, with (I think) ps -ef | grep perl then I ran it manually as root from Konsole, and found out it didn't find some config file. I just did a touch on that file (into it's correct location) and ran the wizard again. It was happy after that. Hello Bjrn, Thank you for your reply. I am still investigating what you told me. I'll see what happens next time I reboot. For now, I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED] augustin]# drakconnect error reading information on service tmdns: No such file or directory error reading information on service zcip: No such file or directory Shutting down interface eth0:[ OK ] Shutting down interface eth1:[ OK ] Shutting down loopback interface:[ OK ] Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] but: [EMAIL PROTECTED] services]# locate tmdns /usr/postinstall-rpm/tmdns-0.1-12mdk.i586.rpm /etc/netprofile/profiles/default/services/tmdns and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] services]# locate zcip /usr/share/doc/zcip-4 /usr/share/doc/zcip-4/TODO /usr/share/doc/zcip-4/README /usr/share/doc/zcip-4/Copyright /usr/share/doc/zcip-4/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-07.txt /usr/share/doc/zcip-4/Changelog /usr/share/man/man8/zcip.8.bz2 /sbin/zcip /var/lib/zcip I also checked all the files mentionned below. I'll see if anything is missing next time I reboot: 18:32:36 drakconnect[4896]: ### Program is starting ### 18:32:57 drakconnect[4935]: ### Program is starting ### 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: created directory /etc/ppp (and parents if necessary) 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: created file /etc/ppp/options 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: created file /etc/ppp/peers/adsl 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: modified file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: changed mode of /etc/ppp/pap-secrets to 600 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: modified file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: changed mode of /etc/ppp/chap-secrets to 600 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: modified file /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf 18:33:17 drakconnect[4935]: created file /etc/sysconfig/drakconnect 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: launched command: /sbin/chkconfig --add internet 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: removed files/directories /etc/resolv.conf 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: written eth1 interface configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: modified file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: written eth0 interface configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: writing host information to /etc/hosts 18:33:18 drakconnect[4935]: created file /etc/hosts thanks, Anguo -- www.masquilier.org Condorcet, Approval alternative voting. In order to prevent people from receiving viruses that would seem to originate from my email, if you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me. Of course, this does not apply to GNU/Linux users. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Friday 30 July 2004 04:07, Frank wrote: The clean install without formating the /home partition will leave your past work retrievable, I had no problems doing this. [ This assumes you have a separate /home partition. - Great having it for things like this.] As to 'QingHua' comment about it being better than 9.1 - Not here it ain't. The problems I have remind me alot of my windows days. At least MDK10 appears to recover better and lilo has not acted up once - pluses for carrying on with it. Trouble is it takes a reboot to recover. Now that is too much like windows. Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Q.H.Wang wrote: Hi people, I have done an update from 9.1 to 10.0. Basically it's sucessful. Almost all the applications I installed with 9.1 are untouched in this update, though some of them need to start from scratch (run as the first time). There is an exception. Matlab can not start Java Virtual Machine, thus the command window disappears. Maybe I need to install it again, or maybe I can fix it by just installing Java package. Does anyone have similar experience? TIA. By the way, MDK 10.0 is much better than 9.1. Cheers! Bests, QingHua A lot of the problems are probably coming from not doing a clean install. Backup /home to a cd and format /home and everything else for a clean install. -- 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] Image comparison.
Folks, This question is not directly related to Linux but some other stuff. I am in search of utility which will enable me to find difference between 2 images. It will compare images pixel by pixel and notify the difference. User may give tolerance for comparison. The images types can be JEPG,TIFF etc. Does any body know about such utility ? Please let me know. Thanks, ~Sujit.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
My plan was to firstly update, and see what would happen. So far it sounds good. If there are any problems I have to have clean installation. Thanks anyway. QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:15, Hoyt Bailey wrote: A lot of the problems are probably coming from not doing a clean install. Backup /home to a cd and format /home and everything else for a clean install. I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... EITHER WHICH, though, Tina and I have tested things here and a clean installation is by FAR the best way to go - and, as we found out, in doing her upgrade from 9.2 to 10.0 OE, she was offered far less option than was I - and my CLEAN installation caused no dramas with any of the packages, none of the CD's or what-have-you; although, I did have the Berillian Borks with my keyboard - and getting the dang cursor_themes to work properly...but hey, just cuz I'm picky... With that said, I'm actually poising myself for another clean installation; being that I have a bit of time on my hands - so as to back everything up to another server - and COMPLETELY wipe out all my stuff - which is going to be a long project considering the file library I keep along with the MP3 and Movie library (let alone the personal stuff and pr0n, ya know) Back to the trenches... 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. Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question. -- Charles Abbot, dean, University of Virginia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Image comparison.
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:22, Sujit Apte wrote: Folks, This question is not directly related to Linux but some other stuff. I am in search of utility which will enable me to find difference between 2 images. It will compare images pixel by pixel and notify the difference. User may give tolerance for comparison. The images types can be JEPG,TIFF etc. Does any body know about such utility ? Please let me know. Thanks, ~Sujit.. There have been a few utils like that on: http://www.icewalk.com and, of course, http://freshmeat.net I do believe, however, that the main gist of the development was for motion detection... 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. Pudder's Law: Anything that begins well will end badly. (Note: The converse of Pudder's law is not true.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... I don't like your tone and attitude very much! Linux is a FREE world. People can do what they want to do as their wishes. I just want to post my experience here that might be a bit useful. If you think it's nothing you just simply skip it like most people do! You are not suppose to be the BIG BROTHER who everybody must follows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 22:51, Q.H.Wang wrote: I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... I don't like your tone and attitude very much! Linux is a FREE world. People can do what they want to do as their wishes. I just want to post my experience here that might be a bit useful. If you think it's nothing you just simply skip it like most people do! You are not suppose to be the BIG BROTHER who everybody must follows. SARCASM, mate - chill out, take it easy - just being sarcastic. I didn't mean to wee on your weetbix, my friend... 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. You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish -- only if the folly of it escapes you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Friday 30 July 2004 08:51 am, Q.H.Wang wrote: I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... I don't like your tone and attitude very much! Linux is a FREE world. People can do what they want to do as their wishes. I just want to post my experience here that might be a bit useful. If you think it's nothing you just simply skip it like most people do! You are not suppose to be the BIG BROTHER who everybody must follows. I don't think Stephen was aiming any comment at you, but was instead expressing general frustration at the upgrade process. I think he meant that despite all of us that keep testing and trying it, the experience is not as good as a clean install. He always finds it is much more work. At least that's how I read it. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cgi-bin for virtual host
I have the following vhost. How can I setup the cgi-bin for it? VirtualHost127.0.0.1 ServerName www.xyz.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/xyz/htdocs /VirtualHost Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
Sorry for my words, man. I confess I somehow misunderstood it. I had a clean install on another PC but this time I got no luck. During the course I was not able to confgiure the graphic card correctly (in MDK 9.1 I remember it's Radeon 9000, but I could not find it in MDK 10.0) thus could not install XFree 4.3. I will sort it out. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A little guidence
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 30, 2004 01:25:01, KLG wrote: Hello Shawn, I have been using MDK 10 for a month or so now. So far I have been unable to find documentation on MDK 10. Closest we can find is documentaion of 9.2 which is found at: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 I think most of these manuals can be used with MDK 10 also. Because core concept and command line utilities are same. I am also learning Linux with the help of these fine people List. They have been source or great knowledge and encouragement. If you find any docs about MDK 10, please do mention in list. Regards Kanwar Lal If you can't find the documentation you either haven't been looking very hard or you looked in the wrong places. The Mandrake Documentation comes on the install disks. For 10.0 there was an update. Fetch that here: ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/official/updates/10.0/RPMS/mandrake-doc-common-10.0-5.1.100mdk.noarch.rpm You'll also need to fetch the language specific package for the language you use the distribution in. You should be able to find that opening a terminal, typing su then strike the Enter key to become super user and providing the root password when prompted, then type mandrake-doc and strike the Enter key. Have fun! KLG, please lose the Reply To: in your mail client for list posts? Thanks. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 09:13:22 up 8:28, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.13, 0.16 A 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCmdAZqvqlrLPr5YRAryFAKCvRduZ1G7Ty1uhwAMxpP3uP7qKJACgjVKl bFNkU3UtJZMOMQfBNZpjqAo= =zv2O -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
[newbie] Webmin
Hi, I've just gotten back online after my always on broadband conection stoped working because of some problem outside my house. I was looking at Webmin but I don't see any docs. Anyone know where the docs are? Or does anyone know of a good article on using Webmin? I don't know what to do first. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Keyboard hangs
Hi there! If you can help me... I Installed Mandrake 10 on my laptop (Compaq Presario X1010UX, PentiumM 1.3GHz, 512MB, 60GB, DVD e CDR-W) and my keyboard don't stop hanging... Describing the problem From time to time my keyboard stops to respond correctly, and when this happens, the keys repeats like crazy... for example: If the keyboard hangs when I type cd /etc eh stops responding and randomly it's repeat the keys I typed dd //eetttc So I MUST type (1000 times) CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart KDE... SOme idea?! Looks like this happens after a Idle time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] a program to email upon website changes?
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:52PM -0400, g2 wrote: folks, does anyone know of a program, hopefully, appropriate for a linux/mandrake newbie, that will send an email with the text content of a website I specify. I know there are various web based services that do this, however none that I have found meet my needs. Specifically, the site that i need to track is a simple text page, which some of the web services can't seem to deal with, and I want to check it for changes often, like every 15 minutes, many only offer hourly or even daily checking. Any thoughts? I can't help with an program that will email you, but did you know that Mozilla/Firefox has a feature that will notify you if a bookmarked site you specify is updated? Go to Manage Bookmarks, click the bookmark you're interested in, click Properties, and check out Schedule and Nofify. Also, it should be easy to write a bash script to do what you want--retrieve the page with wget, compare it to the last version by running diff or something, if there's no change do nothing, if there is email yourself an alert. Todd -- Name that tune #13: When they said come down I threw up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
|On Friday 30 July 2004 05:23 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: | On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:15, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | A lot of the problems are probably coming from not doing a clean | install. Backup /home to a cd and format /home and everything else for | a clean install. | | I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those | that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will | test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to | make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... As you'all know, I have always felt that Mandrake is a cutting edge distro. When a new release comes out, I will only install it on an experimental box, and then only if I really have the time to mess with it and find if I can get it working to my satisfaction. If anyone is interested, I still haven't installed any flavor of 10 because I don't have the time to deal with the new set of problems that seems to be cropping up (and 9.2 works perfectly for me, across numerous installs). Whether the problems are kernel-related with 2.6, or Mandrake-tools related, or a combination of the two, I don't know. 10 works perfectly for a lot of people, and is a major PITA for others. If you like living on the bleeding edge--go for it. If you only have one box, my own opinion is that you should install 9.2, unless you have a piece of hardware that will absolutely, positively not work with 9.2. Or, install SuSe, which tends to be a generation behind Mandrake, although you can still have issues that are kernel related (and SuSe tools and layout sucks, compared to Mandrake's). Just my worthless opinion e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Webmin
Eric Jackson wrote: Hi, I've just gotten back online after my always on broadband conection stoped working because of some problem outside my house. I was looking at Webmin but I don't see any docs. Anyone know where the docs are? Or does anyone know of a good article on using Webmin? I don't know what to do first. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric; See if this helps. http://www.webmin.com/index2.html Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] automount smb shares
Okay, I'm one simple step from success. All 7 boxes, mdk9.2,10.0, and win2k are all sharing files as smb shares. One box is set to force and win elections, but if it is down I don't lose the rest. Can I automount all shares at boot, or when smb service starts? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automount smb shares
Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, I'm one simple step from success. All 7 boxes, mdk9.2,10.0, and win2k are all sharing files as smb shares. One box is set to force and win elections, but if it is down I don't lose the rest. Can I automount all shares at boot, or when smb service starts? Lee Lee; You should be able to use LinNeiborhood to set up your mount points per system, and somewhere in it's title bar menu is a little utility called Create Mountscript which will take the mounted shares and put them in a desktop shortcut that you can click on as needed. That way, you can mount the shares if they're needed, and they'll stay mounted until you log off. You might need to switch to root so that you can change the permissions of the mountscript icon on your users' desktop one time, but that's about it. HTH 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] automount smb shares
Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, I'm one simple step from success. All 7 boxes, mdk9.2,10.0, and win2k are all sharing files as smb shares. One box is set to force and win elections, but if it is down I don't lose the rest. Can I automount all shares at boot, or when smb service starts? Lee I am not sure exactly what you are asking here. If you want a machine to mount remote Samba shares when it boots, that is not problem. You do not need the smb service running on a machine to mount remote shates. If there is an entry in /etc/fstab for the share, the system will try to mount it. (Unless the mount is marked noauto.) The bad part if that if the server is down, you will get a delay while booting, while mount times out. You get the same delay with NFS mounted shares. If what you are after is to have the remote machines mount the shares when the server boots, and starts Samba, then it is not so easy. You could probably create a script that watches the Samba log files, and waits for the server to win the election, and then mounts the shares. But this will only work on machines running nmbd. There may be a better way, but I have never had to do it... 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] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:51:30 +0100 Q.H.Wang disseminated the following: I don't like your tone and attitude very much! And this is a concern of ours because... -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:43:31 up 16 days, 6:58, 4 users, load average: 0.24, 0.26, 0.20 +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth. -- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Package list help.
To: Our Gang; Is there a command that will provide me with a detailed package list of all installed rpms? Since doing the install on my system, I've added, updated and removed quite a few of them, and I'd like to create a repository of the packages that are currently installed. That way, I can re-install them from a local source if I have to recover from a cooker install of 10.1. I know that I have a package list from my original install, but I'm looking for an updated list. Is it possible to extract the list from the RPM database? ideas? suggestions? TIA Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kmail problem
I need a little help, please, in setting up Kmail again. A couple of days ago I added a Smart Media card reader to one of my USB ports and (I assume a bug in the driver) as a result the machine would not then boot. Later the USB driver was updated and I noted that a bug had in fact been corrected. The start up problem was then sorted using Mandake 10's CDs to upgrade the OS and then all was well except that previously I had been able to fire up a URL within Kmail and now cannot do so. I don't remember having to do anything previously to create a link here (I think to Konqueror) and cannot find anything to help in the help files. I imagine the problem is very simple and basic but it is also proving frustrating and annoying. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Alan -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Switching from SuSE to Mandrake.
Hi all I've used SuSE for over five years, mostly in servers, and have been experimenting with getting a workable desktop adjunct or replacement for Windows. Each successive SuSE distribution had come closer for my needs with the exception of SuSE 9.0. which had major problems (e.g. taking over 9 minutes to boot). I had lots of great help from the SuSE users on the mailing list but no help from SuSE. In the end it was an apparently buggy USB/hotplug boot processes with no alternative except SuSE 9.1 - and it was having problems too. My motherboard has 4 USB 1.1 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports - probably the hardware stimulus for the boot problems). So I downloaded Slackware, Debian and Mandrake - and Mandrake 10.0 was a breath of fresh air. Here are the high points - Boot time: 9 minutes *to* 90 seconds. - Scanner: doesn't work except as superuser *to* works fine with normal user after installation with no additional configuration. - DualHead display: Requires trial and error with YAST *to* works after installation with no additional configuration. - Installation options: None available (to avoid problematic boot processes) *to* available (e.g. disable hotplug). - Vendor support: Promised, needed and non-existent *to* not needed. - USB: problematic *to* no problems. - KDE: Works OK *to* improved screen presentation e.g. more suitable configuration from install. - Speed: Slower than Win2K *to* Faster than Win2K and much faster than SuSE 9.0 - Kernel: 2.4 optimized for AMD *to* 2.6 not optimized. - Ease of installation: Very long with moderate difficulty *to* fast and easy. - Graphic installation: Pretty but sometimes confusing *to* simple and straightforward. - Printer: Worked after additional configuration *to* worked after installation with no additional configuration. - GRUB: Restore MBR fails *to* Restore MBR works. - VGA boot screen: flips back and forth from graphic to text, text hard to read *to* easy to read (except it goes so fast) text mode. - User group support: Great *to* too soon to tell but looks good. I don't want to start a big X vs. Y thread here, I'm sure there are many features of SuSE that are better than Mandrake, but here I'm focusing on the problems I had with SuSE that basically made it unusable for me as a desktop. Look forward to working with the Mandrake community Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Package list help.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 30, 2004 12:44:12, Lanman wrote: To: Our Gang; Is there a command that will provide me with a detailed package list of all installed rpms? Since doing the install on my system, I've added, updated and removed quite a few of them, and I'd like to create a repository of the packages that are currently installed. That way, I can re-install them from a local source if I have to recover from a cooker install of 10.1. I know that I have a package list from my original install, but I'm looking for an updated list. Is it possible to extract the list from the RPM database? ideas? suggestions? TIA Lanman /var/log/rpmpkgs should show you what you want. It's plain text so it may just be easier than all the grepping and diffing. GRIN Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 13:29:01 up 12:44, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.13, 0.13 Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCqHOZqvqlrLPr5YRAu3pAJ97BpA703nNZT0R4zF8Gac4Mjg0NACdFbcO k5/2DGUhN9srZagSyRYYWR8= =Wa8j -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] automount smb shares
On Friday 30 Jul 2004 H:02, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, I'm one simple step from success. All 7 boxes, mdk9.2,10.0, and win2k are all sharing files as smb shares. One box is set to force and win elections, but if it is down I don't lose the rest. Can I automount all shares at boot, or when smb service starts? Lee yes eg one of the lines i added to my /etc/fstab file for a share to my linux2 box reads //linux2/movies /var/ftp/pub/movies smbfs username=% 0 0 i use for extending my ftp server harddrive space to linux2 mounts at boot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Switching from SuSE to Mandrake.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 30, 2004 13:13:01, Larry Johnson KISE wrote: broadaxed Hi all Howdy and Welcome Home! Now please drop the Reply To: mail client setting and we'll be fine. Or don't post with Outhouse errr sorry! Outlook. grin You may find the Community Encyclopedia useful when searching for Mandrake specific answers: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Enjoy! Charlie P.S.: If you think 10.0 is good wait 'til you see what they're doing to 10.1. C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 13:36:03 up 12:51, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.08 A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. - -- Ramsey Clark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCqWSZqvqlrLPr5YRAlewAJ4kICnwoQWjpbU99JHzvkbtG9xSmgCeOf79 TftJMRQ1PUG5uZoerLxWJQE= =Wb5T -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
[newbie] mplayer xvideo adapters
I'm trying to get mplayer to work on a 9.1 Mandrake system. After going through the logs and correcting a bunch of problems, I am unable to receive video output and get the following error message from mplayer: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (:0.0 = local display) I ran 'xvinfo' as suggested in the logs and got the following: X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present The video card is SiS650/651/740 GUI 2D/3D Accelerator. Mandrake indicates the kernel module is unknown and media class is display_vga. mplayer -vo help produced a list of 22 available drivers, including xv, x11, ggi, and so forth. The other remaining error concerns fonts: font: can't open file: $HOME/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc My system doesn't have the file /font/font.desc -- I did a search and it doesn't appear to exist. I installed mplayer from a Mandrake 9.1 binary, mplayer-0.90-0.rc4.5.91mdk.i586.rpm. Any ideas on how I can get video output from mplayer? Thanks, deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit WordStar GNU/Linux http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://cbabbage.wordstar2.com -- ___ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail problem
On Friday 30 July 2004 02:50 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: - -I need a little help, please, in setting up Kmail again. A -couple of days ago I added a Smart Media card reader to one of -my USB ports and (I assume a bug in the driver) as a result the -machine would not then boot. Later the USB driver was updated -and I noted that a bug had in fact been corrected. - -The start up problem was then sorted using Mandake 10's CDs to -upgrade the OS and then all was well except that previously I -had been able to fire up a URL within Kmail and now cannot do -so. I don't remember having to do anything previously to create -a link here (I think to Konqueror) and cannot find anything to -help in the help files. - -I imagine the problem is very simple and basic but it is also -proving frustrating and annoying. - -Any help would be much appreciated. - -Thanks - -Alan Alan, I know in the KDE control center there is a place where you can set all your file associations, but what has always worked for me is to: 1. Open /home/youruser 2. Right click, pick create new HTML file (name it anything you want) 3. Right click on this file, pick Edit file type 4. Pick whatever browser you want to open it with, and move it to the top of the list. Its now the default Now, when you open a (html) URL in Kmail, it will use the default browser. HTHs! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Switching from SuSE to Mandrake.
Hi Walt My problems were related (apparently) to the SuSE boot process and the fact that my mother board has 4 USB 1.1 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I disabled the 4 USB 1.1 ports, the boot time would drop to 4 minutes. The scanner would work for a user if you unplugged USB and then re-plugged it - the scanner has no power button and, alas, the USB connection is on the back. SuSE 9.0 could configure DualHead but the process was undocumented and following normal protocols would fail the configuration. It helped to have configured it for SuSE 8.2 after upgrading xf86 (8.e did not support multiple monitors). The hotplug problems were discussed in mail lists at hotplug projects at sourceforge by SuSE developers at the time 9.0 was released. After the long boot, SuSE 9.0 was ok except that it was very slow and (according to xload) really demanded a lot from the os/cpu. I don't know why. Mandrake 10.0 is very much faster on my AMD workstation. No one on the SuSE list complained about long boots. Perhaps because during the install SuSE would become unresponsive for long periods and they gave up at that point. After several attempts to install, I just let it run and the installation succeeded. Strangely enough, I upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 originally and begin to get many warning about configuration files being wrong, and also an extended boot time (about three minutes, up from 1-2 minutes with 8.2). Later, when GRUB started being unresponsive for a long time during boot, I decided to go with a clean install to fix those annoyances, and that's when all the problems began. Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc. -Original Message- From: WaltFrampus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Switching from SuSE to Mandrake. On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 15:13, Larry Johnson KISE wrote: Hi all I've used SuSE for over five years, mostly in servers, and have been experimenting with getting a workable desktop adjunct or replacement for Windows. Each successive SuSE distribution had come closer for my needs with the exception of SuSE 9.0. which had major problems (e.g. taking over 9 minutes to boot). It's funny, I had problems with mandrake 10.0 and no problems with Suse 9.1 on my desktop. I still use Mandrake 10 on my laptop with no problems. I have been using Mandrake for 5 years now and am loyal to them and will still use their distro. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer xvideo adapters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 30, 2004 14:15:02, deedee emrys wrote: I'm trying to get mplayer to work on a 9.1 Mandrake system. After going through the logs and correcting a bunch of problems, I am unable to receive video output and get the following error message from mplayer: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (:0.0 = local display) Not with that graphics adapter you won't! Reduce the resolution and the depth if you actually want anything usable. I ran 'xvinfo' as suggested in the logs and got the following: X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present The video card is SiS650/651/740 GUI 2D/3D Accelerator. Mandrake indicates the kernel module is unknown and media class is display_vga. What kernel? Have you upgraded? I'd at least install the multi-media kernel that was available in contribs, but there should have been at least one update kernel available as well. I also vaguely recall from customer's budget boxes with that chipset that the SiS chipset wasn't fully supported until at least 9.2 or 10.0. I could be wrong though since I have a list of customer systems and routinely back them up and do a frsh install of the latest release of Mandrake. mplayer -vo help produced a list of 22 available drivers, including xv, x11, ggi, and so forth. The other remaining error concerns fonts: font: can't open file: $HOME/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc My system doesn't have the file /font/font.desc -- I did a search and it doesn't appear to exist. There's a newer mplayer for 9.1 from PLF. See below. I installed mplayer from a Mandrake 9.1 binary, mplayer-0.90-0.rc4.5.91mdk.i586.rpm. That's the correct package for 9.1 Official. It's from the updates directory. But there's a newer one from PLF. Any ideas on how I can get video output from mplayer? Thanks, deedee Try adding a plf source so you can install all of the questionable audio and video codecs. In a terminal as super user paste this: urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/10.0 with hdlist.cz and strike the Enter key. Then do urpmi mplayer [Enter] Or even: urpmi --auto-select [Enter] to do it all at once but be careful with that one! There are no guarantess and I don't know what other sources you have defined for packages. Let the list know if any of it helps? Thanks. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 14:43:43 up 13:59, 2 users, load average: 0.37, 0.51, 0.42 Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. -- Lazarus Long -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCrYxZqvqlrLPr5YRAta/AJwKCtCwln9SMqAZ/kvC6cayzLYahgCgtX0H kkMByxj+2jjKzBTlKO98Jvk= =7Jd2 -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] Package list help.
On Friday 30 July 2004 14:30, Charlie Mahan wrote: On July 30, 2004 12:44:12, Lanman wrote: To: Our Gang; Is there a command that will provide me with a detailed package list of all installed rpms? Since doing the install on my system, I've added, updated and removed quite a few of them, and I'd like to create a repository of the packages that are currently installed. That way, I can re-install them from a local source if I have to recover from a cooker install of 10.1. I know that I have a package list from my original install, but I'm looking for an updated list. Is it possible to extract the list from the RPM database? ideas? suggestions? TIA Lanman /var/log/rpmpkgs should show you what you want. It's plain text so it may just be easier than all the grepping and diffing. GRIN Charlie Perhaps you mean '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms'? -- 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] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 23:15, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 08:51 am, Q.H.Wang wrote: I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... I don't like your tone and attitude very much! Linux is a FREE world. People can do what they want to do as their wishes. I just want to post my experience here that might be a bit useful. If you think it's nothing you just simply skip it like most people do! You are not suppose to be the BIG BROTHER who everybody must follows. I don't think Stephen was aiming any comment at you, but was instead expressing general frustration at the upgrade process. I think he meant that despite all of us that keep testing and trying it, the experience is not as good as a clean install. He always finds it is much more work. At least that's how I read it. Yeah - what he said. 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. Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3 -- not even for large values of 2. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Package list help.
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 14:30, Charlie Mahan wrote: On July 30, 2004 12:44:12, Lanman wrote: To: Our Gang; Is there a command that will provide me with a detailed package list of all installed rpms? Since doing the install on my system, I've added, updated and removed quite a few of them, and I'd like to create a repository of the packages that are currently installed. That way, I can re-install them from a local source if I have to recover from a cooker install of 10.1. I know that I have a package list from my original install, but I'm looking for an updated list. Is it possible to extract the list from the RPM database? ideas? suggestions? TIA Lanman /var/log/rpmpkgs should show you what you want. It's plain text so it may just be easier than all the grepping and diffing. GRIN Charlie Perhaps you mean '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms'? Hoyt; Thanks for the suggestion, but '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms' is where rpms are temporarily stored until urpmi is ready to install all rpms that have been selected by the user. Once all the rpms required are download to this folder, urpmi then installs from that location. What I'm actually looking for is a detailed list of the rpms which would be currently installed on a system, not every package or rpms that was ever installed on a system. Charlie suggested that I try /var/log/rpmpkgs , but that doesn't seem to be accurate since I see rpms in that list that were recently removed from the system. I'm hoping that I can build a list of the exact rpms which are currently installed and use it as a guide for creating an archive of those exact rpms. Once those rpms are archived, I can then burn a CD or DVD of those rpms and take them to friends and clients and do a very fast update to any of them, assuming that they're already running Mandrake 10.0. urpmi *rpm would do the trick once the CD or DVD had been mounted, and I could work on another system while that was going on. Since I have rpms from Charles, PLF, Contribs, etc., I'd like to have the current ones rapidly available for install on new systems as well. Isn't there supposed to be an rpms database on my system? How does urpmi keep track of what's installed? Hmmm, back to the drawing board! 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] Webmin
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 01:23, Eric Jackson wrote: Hi, I've just gotten back online after my always on broadband conection stoped working because of some problem outside my house. I was looking at Webmin but I don't see any docs. Anyone know where the docs are? Or does anyone know of a good article on using Webmin? I don't know what to do first. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] In all reality, I've always went directly to the webmin site for anything I didn't understand or wasn't able to click on within webmin itself... What kinda info are you after? 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. The combination of a number of things to make existence worthwhile. Yes, the philosophy of 'none,' meaning 'all.' -- Spock and Lincoln, The Savage Curtain, stardate 5906.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 04:44, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:51:30 +0100 Q.H.Wang disseminated the following: I don't like your tone and attitude very much! And this is a concern of ours because... It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt across the Southern Pacific, the the coast of Mejico, across that bland barren mid-west US, cross that border, and slap you with a trout! 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. Jones' Motto: Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
Stephen Kühn wrote: It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt across the Southern Pacific, the the coast of Mejico, across that bland barren mid-west US, cross that border, and slap you with a trout! I hate it when that happens! Still, it would be nice to get Stephen up here for a visit! We could go to all the Microsoft users groups meetings (a.k.a. Emotional support groups),and laugh our asses off, while firing up our Mandrake-Powered laptops! Just a thought Stephen, but it would be a lot of fun, eh? 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] Package list help.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 30, 2004 15:57:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 14:30, Charlie Mahan wrote: On July 30, 2004 12:44:12, Lanman wrote: To: Our Gang; Is there a command that will provide me with a detailed package list of all installed rpms? Since doing the install on my system, I've added, updated and removed quite a few of them, and I'd like to create a repository of the packages that are currently installed. That way, I can re-install them from a local source if I have to recover from a cooker install of 10.1. I know that I have a package list from my original install, but I'm looking for an updated list. Is it possible to extract the list from the RPM database? ideas? suggestions? TIA Lanman /var/log/rpmpkgs should show you what you want. It's plain text so it may just be easier than all the grepping and diffing. GRIN Charlie Perhaps you mean '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms'? Or perhaps not Hoyt. That's where the packages go before they're installed but unless you use a no-clean or keep flag that directory gets emptied after all transactions are finished. The file that I posted about is where everything that has been installed is listed. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 17:01:08 up 16:16, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.17 Sweater, n.: A garment worn by a child when its mother feels chilly. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCtOyZqvqlrLPr5YRAveuAJ9AlHnTZJsKSa9/N5sx53edfEFkYgCeLJhs dzWtCkf66HIF5+i6rHAPWko= =N+Vn -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] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Friday 30 July 2004 06:24 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 23:15, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 08:51 am, Q.H.Wang wrote: I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... I don't like your tone and attitude very much! Linux is a FREE world. People can do what they want to do as their wishes. I just want to post my experience here that might be a bit useful. If you think it's nothing you just simply skip it like most people do! You are not suppose to be the BIG BROTHER who everybody must follows. I don't think Stephen was aiming any comment at you, but was instead expressing general frustration at the upgrade process. I think he meant that despite all of us that keep testing and trying it, the experience is not as good as a clean install. He always finds it is much more work. At least that's how I read it. Yeah - what he said. Speak for yourself, Buddy -- /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] Package list help.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 30, 2004 16:24:04, Lanman wrote: Hoyt; Thanks for the suggestion, but '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms' is where rpms are temporarily stored until urpmi is ready to install all rpms that have been selected by the user. Once all the rpms required are download to this folder, urpmi then installs from that location. What I'm actually looking for is a detailed list of the rpms which would be currently installed on a system, not every package or rpms that was ever installed on a system. Charlie suggested that I try /var/log/rpmpkgs , but that doesn't seem to be accurate since I see rpms in that list that were recently removed from the system. I'm hoping that I can build a list of the exact rpms which are currently installed and use it as a guide for creating an archive of those exact rpms. Once those rpms are archived, I can then burn a CD or DVD of those rpms and take them to friends and clients and do a very fast update to any of them, assuming that they're already running Mandrake 10.0. urpmi *rpm would do the trick once the CD or DVD had been mounted, and I could work on another system while that was going on. Since I have rpms from Charles, PLF, Contribs, etc., I'd like to have the current ones rapidly available for install on new systems as well. Isn't there supposed to be an rpms database on my system? How does urpmi keep track of what's installed? Hmmm, back to the drawing board! Lanman That file holds the changes made to the rpm database by updating, adding, and removing packages. I thought that's what you were after, sorry. The only other file I can think of that might hold relevant data would be the urpmi.log, but once again I think that one holds information all the way back to first install. In the /root directory there's a drakx sub directory that holds an image file used for replaying the install. Is that the one you mean? I'll shut up now. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 17:03:36 up 16:19, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.10, 0.14 Force it!!! If it breaks, well, it wasn't working anyway... No, don't force it, get a bigger hammer. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCtX6ZqvqlrLPr5YRAoP6AKCR+uQAP5BFoCtbPMe7aodAqK1ltACeNSqQ 8oR2Qw1a9WhhgVmRuD1qeDQ= =IEnn -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] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 09:01, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt across the Southern Pacific, the the coast of Mejico, across that bland barren mid-west US, cross that border, and slap you with a trout! I hate it when that happens! Still, it would be nice to get Stephen up here for a visit! We could go to all the Microsoft users groups meetings (a.k.a. Emotional support groups),and laugh our asses off, while firing up our Mandrake-Powered laptops! Just a thought Stephen, but it would be a lot of fun, eh? Lanman ...but I'd end up in jail after bashing M$ junkies senseless with their XP tablets and CE pda's...and prolly end up with a few public drunkness tickets to boot... 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. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. -- J. Paul Getty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What commands a package provides
I'm trying to figure out what the gnome-applets package provides, but 'man rpm' is not getting me anywhere. I tried rpm --provides gnome-applets, no go. What am I missing here (besides a clue)? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:20:24 up 16 days, 11:35, 7 users, load average: 2.24, 1.64, 1.54 +++ The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death. -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cgi-bin for virtual host
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:15:04 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following vhost. How can I setup the cgi-bin for it? VirtualHost127.0.0.1 ServerName www.xyz.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/xyz/htdocs /VirtualHost That depends, do you want the cgi-bin to be seperate from the paths on the web? To only execute scripts? To be off of the main html dir? To be able to be a normal dir that also executes scripts? Or to have scripts be executable from anywhere in the path? Just a little more info and I can give you the lines you need :) -- 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] Package list help.
On Friday 30 July 2004 17:24, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 14:30, Charlie Mahan wrote: On July 30, 2004 12:44:12, Lanman wrote: To: Our Gang; Is there a command that will provide me with a detailed package list of all installed rpms? Since doing the install on my system, I've added, updated and removed quite a few of them, and I'd like to create a repository of the packages that are currently installed. That way, I can re-install them from a local source if I have to recover from a cooker install of 10.1. I know that I have a package list from my original install, but I'm looking for an updated list. Is it possible to extract the list from the RPM database? ideas? suggestions? TIA Lanman /var/log/rpmpkgs should show you what you want. It's plain text so it may just be easier than all the grepping and diffing. GRIN Charlie Perhaps you mean '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms'? Hoyt; Thanks for the suggestion, but '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms' is where rpms are temporarily stored until urpmi is ready to install all rpms that have been selected by the user. Once all the rpms required are download to this folder, urpmi then installs from that location. What I'm actually looking for is a detailed list of the rpms which would be currently installed on a system, not every package or rpms that was ever installed on a system. Charlie suggested that I try /var/log/rpmpkgs , but that doesn't seem to be accurate since I see rpms in that list that were recently removed from the system. I'm hoping that I can build a list of the exact rpms which are currently installed and use it as a guide for creating an archive of those exact rpms. Once those rpms are archived, I can then burn a CD or DVD of those rpms and take them to friends and clients and do a very fast update to any of them, assuming that they're already running Mandrake 10.0. urpmi *rpm would do the trick once the CD or DVD had been mounted, and I could work on another system while that was going on. Since I have rpms from Charles, PLF, Contribs, etc., I'd like to have the current ones rapidly available for install on new systems as well. Isn't there supposed to be an rpms database on my system? How does urpmi keep track of what's installed? Hmmm, back to the drawing board! Lanman The reason I made the suggestion was because I couldnt find rpmpkgs. I just looked again and found 2 of them. Sorry if I caused any difficulty. -- 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] What commands a package provides
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:21:57 -0400 JoeHill wrote: What am I missing here (besides a clue)? -q as in rpm -q --provides Charles -- Great American Axiom: Some is good, more is better, too much is just right. - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpajbksjpSfF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:37:07 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: I don't like your tone and attitude very much! And this is a concern of ours because... It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt across the Southern Pacific, the the coast of Mejico, across that bland barren mid-west US, cross that border, and slap you with a trout! Okay, but it's a long lineup, in fact you'd be better off heading *west* ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:09:47 up 16 days, 12:24, 7 users, load average: 0.03, 0.66, 1.12 +++ Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth. -- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
