[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and local area connection icon ?
Gentle folks, It makes me wonder if there is something similar to Windows taskbar icon for local area connections (speed: , sent: ___, received: ___ ) but for MDK 9.1 KDE's panel? In fact, I get something like that when a dial up connection is established, but would like to have it with LAN's connections. Any idea? Regards, Misko Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and local area connection icon ?
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 16:10, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, It makes me wonder if there is something similar to Windows taskbar icon for local area connections (speed: , sent: ___, received: ___ ) but for MDK 9.1 KDE's panel? In fact, I get something like that when a dial up connection is established, but would like to have it with LAN's connections. Any idea? Regards, Misko If you're running KDE, you can add an applet that shows network traffic/netload - else you can run gkrellm and get the same information in a more suitable display along with heaps of other system info. -- stephen kuhn --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses --- Flying saucers on occasion Show themselves to human eyes. Aliens fume, put off invasion While they brand these tales as lies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and local area connection icon ?
Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, It makes me wonder if there is something similar to Windows taskbar icon for local area connections (speed: , sent: ___, received: ___ ) but for MDK 9.1 KDE's panel? In fact, I get something like that when a dial up connection is established, but would like to have it with LAN's connections. Any idea? Regards, Misko Open up a terminal window and type draknet_monitor Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP
On Thursday 07 Oct 2004 19:33, Keith Powell wrote: I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as WindowsXP. I have received an e-mail from him saying that when he tries to install Mandrake, he gets a message saying to do a reboot and Mandrake will be loaded. This he does and then XP is started. He can get no further. Has anyone any suggestions I can pass on to him, please -apart from telling him not to dual boot? I have no first-hand experience of WindowsXP or dual-booting, so don't know what to suggest. If any further information is needed, I will ask him for it. Thanks to Marc, Miark and Thereidos for your replies. I have sent your replies on to him, but have not yet received the information you ask for. As soon as I hear from him, I'll let you know. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with playing certain wmv files with Totem
Dear All Some wmv files are not played with Totem. Where from could I get the appropriate pug-in (if it exists) so that Totem can play all wmp files? 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: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 01:30, g2 wrote: Hi folks, I am in a situation where I would like to move all the saved messages I have in KDE mail into a program under windows. I think I might be using the mozilla thunderbird. I do have a fat32 partition that I can see from both the linux and windows environments. Can anyone explain how I might go about importing the mail from KDE under linux into thunderbird in windows xp? Thanks a bunch! Gideon I don't think you'll find a lot of expertise on this, Gideon. Most of us are going the other way ;-) However, I would suggest that the first step would be to find out what import filters there are in thunderbird. Also, it would help, I think, for you to check whether you are using mbox or maildir format in kmail. Of course there's always the possibility of just using them as text files. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 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] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]
Hi, John. Still nothing. KPPP started PPPD, which now actually does something (receives!!!): Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: using channel 1 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttySHSF0 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x11c8cdec pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x70 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x70 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x71 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x71 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x72 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x72 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x73 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x73 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x11c8cdec pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x11c8cdec pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x11c8cdec pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:25 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:28 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x3 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:31 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x4 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:34 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x5 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:37 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x6 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:38 case pppd[6753]: Terminating on signal 15. Oct 9 11:44:38 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 User request] Oct 9 11:44:41 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 User request] Oct 9 11:44:42 case pppd[6753]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Oct 9 11:44:42 case pppd[6753]: Modem hangup Oct 9 11:44:42 case pppd[6753]: Connection terminated. Oct 9 11:44:42 case pppd[6753]: Exit. I tried to put your options in /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial, - WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 -- Initializing modem. -- Sending: ATZ ATZ OK -- Sending: ATQ0 X3 V1 E1 S0=0 C1 D2 +FCLASS=0 OK -- Modem initialized. -- Sending: ATDTproviderno -- Waiting for carrier. ATDTproviderno CONNECT 44000/ARQ -- Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. `` ` `` ` `` ``` ` ` ` `` `` ``` `` `` ` ` ` `` `` `` ``` `` ` ``` ` ` `` ` `` ``` ` ` ``` ``` ` ` -- Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best. -- Starting pppd at Sat Oct 9 12:02:47 2004 -- pid of pppd: 7411 -- pppd: using channel 5 -- Using interface ppp0 -- pppd: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 -- pppd: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xc7194576 pcomp accomp] (... same line 30 times, cut for mail's sake) -- pppd: Modem hangup -- pppd: Connection terminated. -- Disconnecting at Sat Oct 9 12:04:17 2004 -- The PPP daemon has died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code = 16) -- man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail. -- Try again and look into /var/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd man pages for more information. I tried to put Stupid Mode = yes in /etc/wvdial.conf, the only difference is that it starts PPPD without waiting for the prompt. Don't give up on me now, John, we are getting somewhere, don't you think :) And thanks. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Rye Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 2:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?] On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:15:06 +0200 Robert Lucencic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all! I've installed Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition recently. I'm having problems with my modem connection to the Net. Modem dials and connects, pppd terminates 10-20 secs later, saying Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: using channel 2 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x185fd023 pcomp accomp] Oct 6 22:59:59 case last message repeated 9 times Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: Connection
[newbie] Re: Problem with playing certain wmv files with Totem
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:18:07 +0100, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some wmv files are not played with Totem. Where from could I get the appropriate pug-in (if it exists) so that Totem can play all wmp files? It seems that, after installing xine-win32, the wmv file that I could not play with Totem is now correctly played with it. 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] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
Hi Gideon, I don't see why you would like to use such an inferior OS, but... we're here to help - no to pass judgment... ;-) I'm sure Thunderbird supports MBOX format (even Eudora does), so your best bet would be to convert all respective mailboxes to MBOX format (just create a new mailbox with a temp name, move all messages to it and delete the source when you're satisfied) and then immport it in Thunderbird. Good Luck, On Saturday 09 October 2004 02:30, g2 wrote: Hi folks, I am in a situation where I would like to move all the saved messages I have in KDE mail into a program under windows. I think I might be using the mozilla thunderbird. I do have a fat32 partition that I can see from both the linux and windows environments. Can anyone explain how I might go about importing the mail from KDE under linux into thunderbird in windows xp? Thanks a bunch! Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] executing in the network
Hi all; Perhaps this is not an easy question. I don't know. I would like to know if it is possible form the bash to give any statement to execute MS-DOS programs in other computers in the windows network. (I' ve mounted the remote folders tree in /home/javier/smb4k/PCw2k_12/doc_javier) I mean: the remote program is a windows executable in a windows computer, and I would like it to be able to be executed with the resources of the windows computer, and if possible, from it, to write the output back to my computer with the Linux box. ( for example, through samba, he sees my folder as \\Lnx_2\project12\MF2k_output\ If this is not for this forum, could anyone give me an address where I can send this question? Thanks all and best regards Javier -- A. Javier Garcia Water and Soil conservation department CEBAS-CSIC Campus Universitario Espinardo PO BOX 164 30100 Murcia (SPAIN) Phone: +34 968 39 62 57 Fax: +34 968 39 62 13 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] executing in the network
On Saturday 09 October 2004 13:44, rn001 wrote: Hi all; Perhaps this is not an easy question. I don't know. I would like to know if it is possible form the bash to give any statement to execute MS-DOS programs in other computers in the windows network. (I' ve mounted the remote folders tree in /home/javier/smb4k/PCw2k_12/doc_javier) I mean: the remote program is a windows executable in a windows computer, and I would like it to be able to be executed with the resources of the windows computer, and if possible, from it, to write the output back to my computer with the Linux box. ( for example, through samba, he sees my folder as \\Lnx_2\project12\MF2k_output\ If this is not for this forum, could anyone give me an address where I can send this question? Thanks all and best regards Javier The easiest and best shot would be VNC but taht would require a fast connection. If it's really bash and DOS you want you could try ssh or putty but that would require server versions on the DOS machines.I'm not quite sure what one could do with cygwin installed on the windows machines though. Probably some very cool stuff:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:30:45 +0200 Robert Lucencic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, John. Still nothing. KPPP started PPPD, which now actually does something (receives!!!): Ok, [large snip] Let's go back to basics with a few questions. Why did you change from the external modem? They are usually very reliable. Have you ever been able to connect to your ISP using either of these modems from this machine using Linux or Windows? You have obviously run the following command (without the quotes) as root haven't you: 'wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf'. Would you do so with the external modem plugged in and turned on and paste the contents of /etc/wvdial.conf here. I think we need to see which modem is being detected by wvdial The other thing you need to think about is if you have kppp setup correctly. I've looked at the following webpage: http://www.vodatel.hr/index.cgi?menu_id=54 which shows the POP, SMTP and DNS settings for your ISP. Would you recheck them and I suggest trying with the DNS part set to manual so that the nameserver is clearly defined. Cheers John (NZ) pgpI5XnquLuZH.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Network lesson
OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? TIA smitty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] unable to mount/read floppy
Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks -- Johan Registered linux user #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network lesson
On Saturday 09 October 2004 12:21, aron Smith wrote: OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? TIA smitty urpmi cups on both machine, to start... -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network lesson
On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 17:21, aron Smith wrote: OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? TIA smitty Are you using samba? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 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
[newbie] logrotate question
I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and mail
it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old log isn't
being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter that sends me the
output of rkhunter after its run as a cron job and before its compressed.
Below are my settings:
# system-specific logs may be configured here
/var/log/rkhunter.log {
daily
rotate 5
nocreate
maillast
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
/var/log/snort/session.log {
daily
rotate 5
nocreate
maillast
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
Any ideas?
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Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
Thanks folks. Yes, I thought I might get more flack for my message than I did. As far as the port, I have since looked at the site for thunderbird, which BTW works on win/mac/linux and it looks like it should be easy to move the mail. I haven't tried it yet, and will certainly return here if I need help with it. I do appreciate peoples willingness to offer help, even though the purpose is unsavory. I will give you a short idea of why I am thinking of moving back to win. I came to mandrake linux from being a long time mac user and occasional windows user. I was using an ancient mac with ancient OS and wanted a much faster computer. So i built a a very modest box which is vastly better than what I came from. I would have stuck with mac if I had the money, but not really NEEDING any highend mac software (video, sound editing etc) I decided to give linux a try. (yes, I know there is a tons of great linux software.) The experience has been good and in a lot of ways I really liked mandrake. However I had a lot of problems installing new software and generally trying to change things around. It was terrific when I used the software that came with the installation. But installing other things was really difficult for me. For instance, I got my ipod working under mandrake but I couldn't transfer aac files. I successfully installed a program that aloud me to me encode to aac but it appeared not to be compatable with the program I needed to move the files to the IPOD. That is there seemed to be two different software programs that aloud for use of AAC files. I installed one of them and got the encoding to work. But then I seemed to need another one for GTKPOD to be able to transfer the files to the ipod. This is just an example. I know there was a solution and I am sure people would have helped me to find it eventually, but this is the kind of problems that I was having. I can definitely reccomend Mandrake to people switching who want to do basic computer functions and not install allot of new software and change things around. Installation was easy and the system and software were very usable. Unfortunately I never tried the mandrake club service. I understand that might have helped allot in providing ready made rmps of a lot of software. I did want to try it but was just never ready to spend the money on a six month subscription. I wish they offered a very short trial subscription so that one could see its usefullness. I certainly would have paid $5 for instance to use it for a day or a few days in order to try it out. Thanks again! PS: just out of curiosity, is there a way to have both mandrake and windows running at the same time on a single processor? I realize that this would greatly affect system resources, if it is even possible, but I was just wondering. I currently have a dual boot setup. Gideon On Friday 08 October 2004 08:30 pm, g2 wrote: Hi folks, I am in a situation where I would like to move all the saved messages I have in KDE mail into a program under windows. I think I might be using the mozilla thunderbird. I do have a fat32 partition that I can see from both the linux and windows environments. Can anyone explain how I might go about importing the mail from KDE under linux into thunderbird in windows xp? Thanks a bunch! Gideon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy
On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepag e=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks Not that I know of, I seldom use floppy (too small) but am including my /etc/fstab FWIW: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Looks a lot like yours except the fs=. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 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] unable to mount/read floppy
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:07 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepag e=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks Not that I know of, I seldom use floppy (too small) but am including my /etc/fstab FWIW: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Looks a lot like yours except the fs=. *** Thanks for your reply To me it looks the same. True floppy is small. But after install I always make myself a grub boot floppy. This saved some heart ache a lot of times. True cd 1 can be used to boot .. but floppy is easy and quick. Johan Registered linux user #330034 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 to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 17:43, g2 wrote: I can definitely reccomend Mandrake to people switching who want to do basic computer functions and not install allot of new software and change things around. Installation was easy and the system and software were very usable. As I'm sure you realise, linux is not only good for basic needs. However, the problems you have met spring largely from having pre-conceived ideas (we all have them if we have used a different OS) and having to learn new ways of doing things, as well as being adventurous in trying things out. Sometimes things get broken that way ;-) There's usually plenty of help in sorting them, but, of course, it takes time. Unfortunately I never tried the mandrake club service. I understand that might have helped allot in providing ready made rmps of a lot of software. I did want to try it but was just never ready to spend the money on a six month subscription. I wish they offered a very short trial subscription so that one could see its usefullness. I certainly would have paid $5 for instance to use it for a day or a few days in order to try it out. I wonder if you had sources set up for additional programs? There are many more available in rpms for Mandrake than those on the cds. If you are interested in looking further, you might like to try urpmi.org/easyurpmi to get additional souces - in particular plf, which is a repository for apps that cannot be included in the distro for licensing issues. There are other useful ones, too, and I'm sure people will give you urls for them if you want them. PS: just out of curiosity, is there a way to have both mandrake and windows running at the same time on a single processor? I realize that this would greatly affect system resources, if it is even possible, but I was just wondering. I currently have a dual boot setup. You can run much of windows software, using wine, win4lin or vmware, but they will only work if you have the hardware working under linux. Good luck! Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 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] unable to mount/read floppy
On Saturday 09 October 2004 12:27, Johan wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:07 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,cod epag e=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks Not that I know of, I seldom use floppy (too small) but am including my /etc/fstab FWIW: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codep age=850 0 0 Looks a lot like yours except the fs=. *** Thanks for your reply To me it looks the same. True floppy is small. But after install I always make myself a grub boot floppy. This saved some heart ache a lot of times. True cd 1 can be used to boot .. but floppy is easy and quick. Johan Registered linux user #330034 They are the same somehow I read yours as fs=vfat my eyes are going I guess. About the only time I use floppy is to reinstall with the same pkg list I dont do that very often. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 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] logrotate question
Chris wrote:
I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and mail
it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old log isn't
being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter that sends me the
output of rkhunter after its run as a cron job and before its compressed.
Below are my settings:
# system-specific logs may be configured here
/var/log/rkhunter.log {
daily
rotate 5
nocreate
maillast
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
/var/log/snort/session.log {
daily
rotate 5
nocreate
maillast
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
Any ideas?
How long have you been running the snort/session.log rotate
if rotated 5 times, once daily would take 6 days i think till last
log to expire and be mailed? Just a guess.
Mike
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Re: [newbie] logrotate question
On Saturday 09 October 2004 01:29 pm, mike wrote:
Chris wrote:
I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and
mail it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old
log isn't being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter
that sends me the output of rkhunter after its run as a cron job and
before its compressed. Below are my settings:
# system-specific logs may be configured here
/var/log/rkhunter.log {
daily
rotate 5
nocreate
maillast
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
/var/log/snort/session.log {
daily
rotate 5
nocreate
maillast
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
Any ideas?
How long have you been running the snort/session.log rotate
if rotated 5 times, once daily would take 6 days i think till last
log to expire and be mailed? Just a guess.
Mike
A couple of days now, however, what confuses me is that the raw rkhunter log
output was mailed to me the first time the log was rotated. Since its
already gone through 5 rotations I'm getting the compressed log mailed to
me now, which I really don't want. I've changed the rotate 5 to rotate
1 on the snort log and will see what happens.
--
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Re: [newbie] Network lesson
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:21:28 -0700 aron Smith disseminated the following: OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? 1st make sure you have the Mandrake Server Wizards and Samba installed. Then you should be able to configure the whole thing through MCC -- Server Configuration -- Samba Wizard (this is on the machine with the printer connected, the 'server') Then on the client, MCC -- Hardware -- Printerdrake. This is assuming nothing has changed too drastically since 9.2... -- JoeHill RLU / #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:11:17 up 66 days, 16:59, 8 users, load average: 0.08, 0.39, 0.25 +++ Contrary to Bush's claim that his regime change in Iraq has produced a more stable Middle East, his actions have opened a hornet's nest of death and destruction. -- Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law 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: Dual Boot Dual HDD
Adam Messinger wrote: I'm on my work PC, and hence don't have access to Linux for confirmation of this, but I think there's a way to solve your problem in Mandrake Control Center. There should be a Boot category, or something similar, that you can click on in MCC. Under this you should find an icon labeled Boot Loader. Click on this to make configuration changes to LILO or GRUB. I *think* one of the changes you can make is which mount point each OS choice in the list boots. This is probably what you want to change to fix this particular problem. Disclaimer: I'm not a guru, just a Windows power user trying my hand at something new. Take my advice with a half-shaker of salt and call me in the morning. ;-) -- Adam Mark Stosberg wrote: On 2004-09-01, SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, when I tried to go the update route with Mandrake10, lilo showed me boot options for partitions that had no OS on them, ie the FAT partitions. Yet when I did a clean install I didn't strike this problem? I also had a similar experience when helping a friend upgrade to Mandrake 10. With 9.2, he was happily dual booting with Windows 95 (98?). After upgrading to 10.0, selecting the windows option produces a black screen with a blinking cursor. However, if I go to BIOS and tell it to boot off of the Windows drive first, Windows boots fine and appears to be undisturbed. I believe he tried switched to grub and got the same result. Is there any way to make lilo or grub boot Windows again? It's on a second drive all by itself. Mark OK I'm a little behind here but if you are prepared to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file [as su ] then maybe my file contents would help as this works perfectly on my system. # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=windows keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linuz263NNet root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent nonetworking=yes vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=linux-nonfb263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz263 label=failsafe263 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd263.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=failsafe267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz267 label=linux-nonfb267 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd267.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz2422 label=2422-21 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd2422.img append=noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/memtest-1.11.bin label=memtest-1.11 read-only At present 'windows' is the default for Jan's sake but this works well with windows on the slave HDD. Don't forget to issue : # /sbin/lilo when you are done and correct any errors before you log out. PS. Ignore the ' linuz263NNet ' label as I have yet to get this working the way I want. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 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 to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows
Anne, Thanks for your message. Yes, I had set up urmp with some additional sources, I am pretty sure including a plf source. However I still found it difficult to browse for software. What I found myself wanting, no doubt from my past experiences with other OS's, were lists of software by type with easy to understand explainations of what they did. I found this quite dificult. I will check out urpmi.org/easyurpmi I am not completly giving up on linux. I am however probably switching my primary OS to win xp. I will keep the dual boot and continue to play around with linux when I have the time. Perhpase I will switch back sometime. Thanks again! PS: does the rmp software depository at the mandrake club offer something important over that of other sources, such as ones I might find at easyurpmi? Perhpase just beyond MORE software? Such as easier browsing, better catagorization etc? Gideon On Saturday 09 October 2004 01:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 17:43, g2 wrote: I can definitely reccomend Mandrake to people switching who want to do basic computer functions and not install allot of new software and change things around. Installation was easy and the system and software were very usable. As I'm sure you realise, linux is not only good for basic needs. However, the problems you have met spring largely from having pre-conceived ideas (we all have them if we have used a different OS) and having to learn new ways of doing things, as well as being adventurous in trying things out. Sometimes things get broken that way ;-) There's usually plenty of help in sorting them, but, of course, it takes time. Unfortunately I never tried the mandrake club service. I understand that might have helped allot in providing ready made rmps of a lot of software. I did want to try it but was just never ready to spend the money on a six month subscription. I wish they offered a very short trial subscription so that one could see its usefullness. I certainly would have paid $5 for instance to use it for a day or a few days in order to try it out. I wonder if you had sources set up for additional programs? There are many more available in rpms for Mandrake than those on the cds. If you are interested in looking further, you might like to try urpmi.org/easyurpmi to get additional souces - in particular plf, which is a repository for apps that cannot be included in the distro for licensing issues. There are other useful ones, too, and I'm sure people will give you urls for them if you want them. PS: just out of curiosity, is there a way to have both mandrake and windows running at the same time on a single processor? I realize that this would greatly affect system resources, if it is even possible, but I was just wondering. I currently have a dual boot setup. You can run much of windows software, using wine, win4lin or vmware, but they will only work if you have the hardware working under linux. Good luck! Anne 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: Allowing SSHD to accept outside connections
snip You can also prohibit login by root user by putting the line PermitRootLogin no in /etc/sshd_config (It might be the default I do not remember) snip As of 10.0 (possibly earlier than that) the sshd_config file is under /etc/ssh/sshd_config. You are correct that it does set PermitRootLogin no as the default (as part of the comments, uncommented values change the defaults. Michael -- Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepag e=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks In earlier version of Mandrake, there was a floppy group that you had to be part of in order to mount floppy disks. As of 10.0 it was still in there, so it is a good bet that it is still part of 10.1 CE. Try adding yourself to floppy and see if that works. Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Partitioning new HD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Kaplan Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning new HD I suggest increasing / to 10-15Mb, then putting everything but /home there. I find this leaves me plenty of room to modify an installed system. If you need more space for personal files, you can always add an external drive. Keeping /home separate allows you to destroy / and leave your personal stuff untouched. P snip I'm guessing you mean 10 - 15 GB here. With regards to partitioning, it really depends on what you are going to use the system for. With a server, you typically separate /boot, /var /home, /tmp, /, and /usr to separate partitions. With a desktop, most people will only set up a / and /home partition (possibly adding /boot). Michael -- Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network lesson
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:21, aron Smith wrote: OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? TIA smitty There's 2 options: If both boxes are Mandrake/Linux/Unix, then CUPS can share the printer for you. I'll explain how to do this through MCC, but you can also do it through Webmin or any other CUPS configuration tool (and may be easier and more reliable than PrinterDrake). In fact, I suspect it actually comes configured out-of-the box. If one box is Windows, then you need to use Samba. I'll leave it up to others to explain that one. Assuming both are Mandrake boxes, on the box with the printer attached and already installed, go into the Mandrake Control Centre (MCC), go to Hardware, and then Printers. When the Printer tool comes up, go to the Options menu and select Expert Mode. Then click on the Configure CUPS button. Make sure you have the first two boxes ticked to make printers available to other computers, and to automatically find remote printers. Now click on the button for Printer Sharing, which will show you a list of networks, you should have an option for Local Networks which _should_ cover all local networks, but you may wish to get more specific with your actual interface. Click on Done/OK as required, and in theory all should be running OK on your Print Server. On the machine without the printer, repeat the above procedure to ensure remote sharing is enabled. Now choose the tab for Configured on other machines and hit the refresh button and if you are lucky the shared printer should appear. If not, use the Add Printer button. If Add Printer doesn't work, then there's either a problem in your CUPS set-up, or it's just PrinterDrake being temperamental. Try restarting CUPS on both machines to see if that helps. If that fails, instead of MCC try the CUPS WWW Interface (http://localhost:631/), or Webmin if you have it installed (https://localhost:1/), or the KDE Control Centre Peripherals/Printers/Add Printer option which has a nice wizard with an option for remote CUPS, or whatever the Gnome equivalent is. Cheers! John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
