Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all.:-) This is my first email message sent from my new laptoppowered by Mdk Linux, and Mdk Linux ONLY! MS FREE NOTEBOOK HERE! I had a real marathon getting things setup. Does anyone have any idea why Mdk installer would not show me options to choose from various filesystems during my SEVERAL installations??? I tried expert mode as well as default. Is there any way to change from the ext3 that I have now to reiserfs? Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. TIA for any help. Best regards. --Angus Congratulations on getting the new machine up and running! Now that you've had a few hours to leap around the room celebrating, perhaps you could calm down and tell us which version of Mandrake you're using, and which kernel? Then maybe somebody will be able to help you ;-) -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Mozilla on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~ It's later than you think. ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Me too, I recently installed MD 10.0 on an Acer Aspire 1680 and it won't shut down unless I go into verbose mode and hit Power Down. I also have problem with Kontact email in that while I'm typing, the cursor keeps jumping to all sorts of different places and as I am an amateur typer I have to watch the keyboard and find that I've been typing in the wrong place. I don't think I'm hitting any wrong keys which would cause this Other than that the only other thing that won't work is printing through the USB cable. Any fixes for these things? You probably guessed I'm a (very) Newbie but love this OS. Thanks Geoff Queensland Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 20:00, geoff wrote: Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Me too, I recently installed MD 10.0 on an Acer Aspire 1680 and it won't shut down unless I go into verbose mode and hit Power Down. I also have problem with Kontact email in that while I'm typing, the cursor keeps jumping to all sorts of different places and as I am an amateur typer I have to watch the keyboard and find that I've been typing in the wrong place. I don't think I'm hitting any wrong keys which would cause this Other than that the only other thing that won't work is printing through the USB cable. Any fixes for these things? You probably guessed I'm a (very) Newbie but love this OS. Thanks Geoff Queensland Australia I thought that Queenslanders weren't allowed to run linux...only New South Welshman...(g) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
'ello mate, I lived in Sydney for 10 years but there are a few enlightened people up here. I belong to the Noosa Lug and I'm in awe of all the members. I've looked at a few other distro's and Mandrake just looks more professional. But what do I know. I'm loving evey minute of it and the other members say I'm hooked! Regards Wouldbe Geek Geoff I thought that Queenslanders weren't allowed to run linux...only New South Welshman...(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] Problem playing encrypted DVD using libdvdcss and Totem
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 06:37, Thomas Ewender wrote: The only problem now is that I can watch the intros of my movies (for about 5 secs) until a message shows up saying An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. Right now I'm installing Xine and give it a go using that instead of Totem. Maybe it makes a difference. Tom Xine from PLF is my main DVD player, usually using the Kaffeine front-end, but I also keep mplayer around for the few web video formats that Xine doesn't like. John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:56, Angus Auld wrote: I had a real marathon getting things setup. Does anyone have any idea why Mdk installer would not show me options to choose from various filesystems during my SEVERAL installations??? I tried expert mode as well as default. Is there any way to change from the ext3 that I have now to reiserfs? Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Greetings from a fellow Dell laptop user (i8600 here). You will find people around here pretty friendly, but even friendlier if you provide a few details such as Mandrake version :-) Thankfully, the questions asked are pretty generic to teh last couple of releases. On install, Mandrake takes a very conservative approach with Power Management by not enabling it fully, due to the large number of very buggy ACPI implementations out there in hardware land. You need to configure your machine after the install to tell it to use your laptop's ACPI power management. 1) Fire up the Mandrake Control Centre (MCC), aka Configure Your Computer in the Desktop Menu under System/Configuration 2) Go into the Boot tab, and choose Boot Loader 3) On the first screen, ensure that the Enable ACPI box is ticked, then select Next 4) If it wasn't already installed, MCC will now ask your permission to install acpi and acpid rpms, click on OK 5) Next you will see a list of boot options, select the default one (should be linux with an asterix next to it), and click on the Modify button 6) This brings up the details window, in the Append field make sure that there is an option acpi=on and not acpi=off or acpi=ht, modify it if needs be. Click on OK. 7) Now click on the Finish button to save your changes. 8) Next in the MCC, go to the System tab, and choose the Services option. 9) You will now see a list of Services available to run on your machine. Make sure that both acpi and acpid have the On Boot boxes ticked so that they are run every time you boot-up. 10) Click on OK to exit Services, then reboot your machine to see if it works. Note that the changes will not take effect until you have rebooted. Once you have rebooted, now shutdown to check that it works properly. If it doesn't, report back here and I'll tell you where to look for some clues on what could be going wrong. If you use the KDE desktop, might I suggest you check you have the kdeutils-klaptop rpm installed to get a neat battery monitor in your System Tray, and check out the configuration options (right click on the battery meter in the system tray) for power saving options to enable. Now, on to choosing reiserfs instead of ext3. I don't do installs too often anymore, some I'm a bit hazy, but thankfully we have osdir.com with their screenshots collection to come to the rescue. So during the install, you will come to the Partioning question screen: http://osdir.com/shots/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=147slide=7 Choose the Custom Disk Partitioning radio button and click on next, which will bring up the DiskDrak screen (for which there isn't a screenshot unfortunately) where you can click on the Toggle to Expert Mode button, which should give you all the options you will ever need. If you are doing a new install, then try configuring the Power Management properly from the System Configuration Summary screen towards the end of the install: http://osdir.com/shots/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=147slide=18 Click on the Boot / Bootlader Configure button and then the Boot / Services Configure button and follow the instructions as above. Hope this helps. John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
- Original Message - From: John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!! Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:21:35 +1100 On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:56, Angus Auld wrote: I had a real marathon getting things setup. Does anyone have any idea why Mdk installer would not show me options to choose from various filesystems during my SEVERAL installations??? I tried expert mode as well as default. Is there any way to change from the ext3 that I have now to reiserfs? Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Greetings from a fellow Dell laptop user (i8600 here). You will find people around here pretty friendly, but even friendlier if you provide a few details such as Mandrake version :-) Thankfully, the questions asked are pretty generic to teh last couple of releases. On install, Mandrake takes a very conservative approach with Power Management by not enabling it fully, due to the large number of very buggy ACPI implementations out there in hardware land. You need to configure your machine after the install to tell it to use your laptop's ACPI power management. 1) Fire up the Mandrake Control Centre (MCC), aka Configure Your Computer in the Desktop Menu under System/Configuration 2) Go into the Boot tab, and choose Boot Loader 3) On the first screen, ensure that the Enable ACPI box is ticked, then select Next 4) If it wasn't already installed, MCC will now ask your permission to install acpi and acpid rpms, click on OK 5) Next you will see a list of boot options, select the default one (should be linux with an asterix next to it), and click on the Modify button 6) This brings up the details window, in the Append field make sure that there is an option acpi=on and not acpi=off or acpi=ht, modify it if needs be. Click on OK. 7) Now click on the Finish button to save your changes. 8) Next in the MCC, go to the System tab, and choose the Services option. 9) You will now see a list of Services available to run on your machine. Make sure that both acpi and acpid have the On Boot boxes ticked so that they are run every time you boot-up. 10) Click on OK to exit Services, then reboot your machine to see if it works. Note that the changes will not take effect until you have rebooted. Once you have rebooted, now shutdown to check that it works properly. If it doesn't, report back here and I'll tell you where to look for some clues on what could be going wrong. If you use the KDE desktop, might I suggest you check you have the kdeutils-klaptop rpm installed to get a neat battery monitor in your System Tray, and check out the configuration options (right click on the battery meter in the system tray) for power saving options to enable. Now, on to choosing reiserfs instead of ext3. I don't do installs too often anymore, some I'm a bit hazy, but thankfully we have osdir.com with their screenshots collection to come to the rescue. So during the install, you will come to the Partioning question screen: http://osdir.com/shots/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=147slide=7 Choose the Custom Disk Partitioning radio button and click on next, which will bring up the DiskDrak screen (for which there isn't a screenshot unfortunately) where you can click on the Toggle to Expert Mode button, which should give you all the options you will ever need. If you are doing a new install, then try configuring the Power Management properly from the System Configuration Summary screen towards the end of the install: http://osdir.com/shots/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=147slide=18 Click on the Boot / Bootlader Configure button and then the Boot / Services Configure button and follow the instructions as above. Hope this helps. John. Thanks a bunch for the helpful replies! Right now, I am using the standard kernel version that installs with Mdk10.0, which is what system I'm using. I am going to update to the latest kernel version this evening. I will implement the changes suggested, and report back on my progress. :-) You gotta love this list. Best regards. -- Angus PS (Margot). Do I have to stop *jumping for joy* about this installation already? ;-)) Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
Angus Auld wrote: Thanks a bunch for the helpful replies! Right now, I am using the standard kernel version that installs with Mdk10.0, which is what system I'm using. I am going to update to the latest kernel version this evening. I will implement the changes suggested, and report back on my progress. :-) You gotta love this list. Best regards. -- Angus PS (Margot). Do I have to stop *jumping for joy* about this installation already? ;-)) Angus, I don't wish to curb your enthusiasm, but I just think it would be easier to *fix* things if you calmed down a little first ;-) Good luck! -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Mozilla on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~ finlandia:~ apropos win win: nothing appropriate. ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
Geoff, I have 10.0 on an Inspiron. 10.0 did not install the proper mouse driver, resulting in the jumping cursor. Have you looked there? Lee On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:05:55 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 20:00, geoff wrote: Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. Me too, I recently installed MD 10.0 on an Acer Aspire 1680 and it won't shut down unless I go into verbose mode and hit Power Down. I also have problem with Kontact email in that while I'm typing, the cursor keeps jumping to all sorts of different places and as I am an amateur typer I have to watch the keyboard and find that I've been typing in the wrong place. I don't think I'm hitting any wrong keys which would cause this Other than that the only other thing that won't work is printing through the USB cable. Any fixes for these things? You probably guessed I'm a (very) Newbie but love this OS. Thanks Geoff Queensland Australia I thought that Queenslanders weren't allowed to run linux...only New South Welshman...(g) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer. -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB Camera
Hi List, When I plug in my Sony 717 camera the first time, it automounts as /mnt/camera and when I unplug it, several hours later it unmounts. Then when I plug it back in, it does not mount. I can go to mcc and mount anything config screens and it then mounts without me doing anything else. This only rates as a small pita, but I'm curious. mdk 9.2 Any ideas? Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Camera
On Friday 05 November 2004 08:26, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi List, When I plug in my Sony 717 camera the first time, it automounts as /mnt/camera and when I unplug it, several hours later it unmounts. If an icon pops up, what happens if you right-click it and choose unmount ? Then when I plug it back in, it does not mount. I can go to mcc and mount anything config screens and it then mounts without me doing anything else. This only rates as a small pita, but I'm curious. Please post your /etc/fstab file, maybe we can find something. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
Thanks Lee, How do you find and install the right mouse driver Geoff On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 05:17 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Geoff, I have 10.0 on an Inspiron. 10.0 did not install the proper mouse driver, resulting in the jumping cursor. Have you looked there? 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] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:18:18 +1000 geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you find and install the right mouse driver Geoff ConfigureConfigure your computerhardwaremouse should do it. 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] USB Camera
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:32:58 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 08:26, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi List, When I plug in my Sony 717 camera the first time, it automounts as /mnt/camera and when I unplug it, several hours later it unmounts. If an icon pops up, what happens if you right-click it and choose unmount ? Then when I plug it back in, it does not mount. I can go to mcc and mount anything config screens and it then mounts without me doing anything else. This only rates as a small pita, but I'm curious. Please post your /etc/fstab file, maybe we can find something. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 //lilblack/C /home/lee/Conlilblack smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.lilblack.lee 0 0 //lilblack/D /home/lee/Donlilblack smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.lilblack.lee 0 0 //gold.aeis.tv/public /home/lee/goldpublic smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.gold.aeis.tv.lee 0 0 //tan/homes /home/lee/leeontan smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.tan.lee 0 0 //tan/public /home/lee/publicontan smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.tan.lee 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /idn1 xfs defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,user,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,nodev,nosuid,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,sync,iocharset=iso8859-1, umask=0 0 0 //black.aeis.tv/public /mnt/public smbfs user,dev,suid,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.black.aeis.tv.lee,exec 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 idn2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7 idn3 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb8 idn4 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/camera supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 Needs some weeding out, but works except mnt/unmount of the camera. 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] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:09, Margot wrote: Angus Auld wrote: Thanks a bunch for the helpful replies! Right now, I am using the standard kernel version that installs with Mdk10.0, which is what system I'm using. I am going to update to the latest kernel version this evening. I will implement the changes suggested, and report back on my progress. :-) You gotta love this list. Best regards. -- Angus PS (Margot). Do I have to stop *jumping for joy* about this installation already? ;-)) Angus, I don't wish to curb your enthusiasm, but I just think it would be easier to *fix* things if you calmed down a little first ;-) Good luck! Angus - them was fightin words. INVADE ENGLAND! (offtopic joke) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- I guess you guys got BIG MUSCLES from doing too much STUDYING! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: Connection to host localhost is broken. When I replace the original Webmin rpm the problem disappears. Any ideas please as, If I remember rightly, the update is a security issue. Thanks, Simon. Confirmed. Will investigate/reissue if I can fix it. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude 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] Error at boot: BIOS data check successful...?
On Monday 01 November 2004 20:08, J S wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Error at boot: BIOS data check successful...? On Monday 01 November 2004 18:22, J S wrote: Hello, I've just installed Mandrake Linux 10.0 without problems. But after I restart the computer choose Linux in the LILO menu, I'm presented with the following: Loading Linux... BIOS data check successful whereafter the computer just locks and I have to CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart it. I've already looked around on the web, and it seems that others who experienced the same problem were advised to change a certain arch/i386/boot/video.S file (a CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT in the file..) , but being a novice I don't know how to access this file (apparently on the Linux partition) since I can't boot from the hard drive. Is that the way to go and/or could someone please help me out here.. I'm using a 3Dfx Voodoo graphics card if that can be of any help... I'm also running Windows 2000 on another partition which is running just fine.. Thanks for any advice! // Arthur At the lilo log on screen try hitting Esc, and then at the prompt enter linux noapic noacpi That will try to boot with those features disabled. If that works come back and we can show you how to make the change permanent. If it does not work tell us what mobo/CPU/chipset you are using. derek Thanks for the tip, but it didn't work.. Also, I had to press Escape to leave the graphical LILO menu before being able to write the line linux noapic noacpi. I suppose that is normal... (?) I have an Intel Pentium 800 MHz with PhoenixBIOS (v.4.06) and 128 MB RAM. The chipset is a Intel 800 series (yeah, I admit - haven't got a clue what that means... ;-) ). Could it perhaps be my Voodoo 4 graphics card causing the problems? I'm also running Windows 2000 on another partition, and that works great. / Arthur Is this the sort of link you found in Google? http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0554.html It suggests this error is found when you have a digital interface plugged into your video card. Can you boot if you disconnect the monitor during the initial boot? If so it is possible that it might be fixed in Mandrake 10.1 Mandrake 10.1 community Edition is currently available for download if you want to give that a try. BTW: Could you avoid top posting please? It makes it difficult for people to follow the flow of your problem. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 01:51, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: Connection to host localhost is broken. When I replace the original Webmin rpm the problem disappears. Any ideas please as, If I remember rightly, the update is a security issue. Thanks, Simon. Confirmed. Will investigate/reissue if I can fix it. FYI: It is always best to upgrade/update Webmin THROUGH Webmin - sometimes doing it outside (via RPM or what have you) can break modules (of which cron is); therefore, when you want to update try to do so whilst in Webmin (along with modules); you'll find that the experience is slight more, er, happy? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it. -- Confucius Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dba patch?
I was looking over what might have gone wrong with getting the libreadline.so.4 error when I tried to install this package. mdbtools-0.5-1.i386.rpm I have all the libreadline packages installed and yet it doesn't seem to detect them. Now, there is a patch that the installation instructions say to apply, though I am a newbie and don't know how to apply such a patch. Can anyone help with how one might do this, or if that might be my problem. The website for the instructions is http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/mdb/index.html I am running Mdk 10.0 Official, dload version. No one on the dba-dev mail list is answering, so if you guys know something, I appreciate it. Everyone has helped so far as I read all the new posts. I am very grateful for how helpful the linux community has been. Elliot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Kühn wrote: FYI: It is always best to upgrade/update Webmin THROUGH Webmin - sometimes doing it outside (via RPM or what have you) can break modules (of which cron is); therefore, when you want to update try to do so whilst in Webmin (along with modules); you'll find that the experience is slight more, er, happy? Unless you hope to keep your rpm database in sync with the installed software. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude 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] Updating Webmin.
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 02:37, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Khn wrote: FYI: It is always best to upgrade/update Webmin THROUGH Webmin - sometimes doing it outside (via RPM or what have you) can break modules (of which cron is); therefore, when you want to update try to do so whilst in Webmin (along with modules); you'll find that the experience is slight more, er, happy? Unless you hope to keep your rpm database in sync with the installed software. Webmin is standalone from the entire RPM system structure - bear in mind that it is autonomous to your distro - it is a tool that is able to adminster almost any *nix system - and can be kept from the local system's package database. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- Today is the first day of the rest of the mess. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Friday 05 Nov 2004 14:51, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: Connection to host localhost is broken. When I replace the original Webmin rpm the problem disappears. Any ideas please as, If I remember rightly, the update is a security issue. Thanks, Simon. Confirmed. Will investigate/reissue if I can fix it. Thanks for that. Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 Linux Kernal 2.6.3-7mdk GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning 10.1 iso's
Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have brought down the 10.1 Official iso's (4) and am having trouble burning them. I have tried kb3 with checking after burn and it always comes up with a error. I have tried cdrecord on the command line and ran md5sums on the cd after and and it comes up with a different result than what came down with the files. This is not significant, some burner return garbage at the end of file, or skip the last few bits. You should try to use mkcd --k /dev/cdrom if you want to test the integrity of your disc. -- Warly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.
On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: Connection to host localhost is broken. When I replace the original Webmin rpm the problem disappears. Any ideas please as, If I remember rightly, the update is a security issue. Thanks, Simon. Confirmed. Will investigate/reissue if I can fix it. Stew, this bug exists in Cooker too. I reported it as bug #12129, so if you fix it in 10.0, please fix it in 10.1 and cooker also? -- /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] dba patch?
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Elliot Somers wrote: I was looking over what might have gone wrong with getting the libreadline.so.4 error when I tried to install this package. mdbtools-0.5-1.i386.rpm I have all the libreadline packages installed and yet it doesn't seem to detect them. Now, there is a patch that the installation instructions say to apply, though I am a newbie and don't know how to apply such a patch. Can anyone help with how one might do this, or if that might be my problem. The website for the instructions is http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/mdb/index.html I am running Mdk 10.0 Official, dload version. No one on the dba-dev mail list is answering, so if you guys know something, I appreciate it. Everyone has helped so far as I read all the new posts. I am very grateful for how helpful the linux community has been. Elliot You'd probably have much more luck using the mandrake package, rather than some foreign rpm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmq -i mdbtools extracting mdbtools-0.5-2mdk.i586 Name: mdbtools Version : 0.5 Release : 2mdk Group : Development/Databases Size: 151954 Architecture: i586 Source RPM : mdbtools-0.5-2mdk.src.rpm Build Host: klama.mandrake.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 short answer: urpmi mdbtools -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude 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] Updating Webmin.
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Kühn wrote: Webmin is standalone from the entire RPM system structure - bear in mind that it is autonomous to your distro - it is a tool that is able to adminster almost any *nix system - and can be kept from the local system's package database. What? It's not independent of the rpm database if it was installed via rpm originally. -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude 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] Updating Webmin.
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: Connection to host localhost is broken. When I replace the original Webmin rpm the problem disappears. Any ideas please as, If I remember rightly, the update is a security issue. Thanks, Simon. Confirmed. Will investigate/reissue if I can fix it. Stew, this bug exists in Cooker too. I reported it as bug #12129, so if you fix it in 10.0, please fix it in 10.1 and cooker also? OK. Cooker I would hope would go to a newer version, but I think it's orphaned with gc's departure. 10.0 issue is definitely related to the last tmpfile fix. You guys are making my day :) -- Stew Benedict Mandrakesoft --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude 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] first email from new laptop w/Mdk!!!
On November 5, 2004 03:52, Angus Auld wrote: ... Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to manually do it with my start button. :-( Besides that though, it looks good. ... Thanks a bunch for the helpful replies! Right now, I am using the standard kernel version that installs with Mdk10.0, which is what system I'm using. I am going to update to the latest kernel version this evening. I will implement the changes suggested, and report back on my progress. :-) You gotta love this list. Best regards. -- Angus When I had Mdk 10.0 Official on my Dell Inspiron 3800, I had quite a few little problems, including the power off problem you mentioned. Also my wireless card would only work on every 2nd boot, and suspend didn't work properly (it would hang if you left it suspended for more than 30 minutes). When I went to 10.1 Community, some things got better, but some got worse. Some were downright weird. When I tried to install with my wireless card in, it would ask me for my driver floppy (driver floppy? what is this, Win 95?), which I don't have, and couldn't put in anyway, because I can't connect my floppy drive and cd drive at the same time (lost the cable that allowed this). First time I've heard of a Linux install that required the use of a floppy. When I tried to install it later, it worked, but it trashed my system font (default kde font went to 6 point italic or something like that, and could not be switched back). Wireless drivers trashing fonts? That sounds way too much like Windoze! 10.1 Official seems to have gotten all that sorted out. Wireless, power off, suspend, all just work with the default install, no customization on my part. In fact, they seem to have incorporated hints I saw in older articles on Linux for Dell laptops (e.g. I noticed when I hit Fn-Suspend that it does a cardctl eject, which prevents the wireless card from causing a hang during resume; I do still recommend doing Ctrl-Alt-F1 before suspending, seems to be more reliable) Of course I haven't tried my digital camera (see earlier thread on this). And I still haven't sorted out a weird display problem, but it's not unique to Mdk (shows up under Knoppix too). I'll save it for a separate thread. Long story short, I recommend going straight to 10.1 for any Dell laptops. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firewall Admin?
Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] programs at startup
good day all. For the newbie question of the year. I want to run a program (updatedd-wrapper) ¨a program that updates a ip adress on a dns server¨ whenever i start my pc. I want to run it in some way that the machine doesn´t have to wait for it to complete cause it sometimes takes about 30-40 seconds to complete. I would preferebly like it to start after kde is launched. Thanks -- -- Linux user 321006 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] programs at startup
On Friday 05 November 2004 17:13, Alan wrote: good day all. For the newbie question of the year. I want to run a program (updatedd-wrapper) ¨a program that updates a ip adress on a dns server¨ whenever i start my pc. I want to run it in some way that the machine doesn´t have to wait for it to complete cause it sometimes takes about 30-40 seconds to complete. I would preferebly like it to start after kde is launched. Thanks Dunno about updatedd-wrapper apart from what I read here http://www.philipp-benner.de/informatics/linux_unix/tools/updatedd/updatedd-2.2-english.pdf , but I use ddclient which does the same thing. An RPM of ddclient is on any contrib mirror. ddclient runs as a 'service' in Mandrake continuously, so it starts at boot with no delay. It updates your dynamic DNS only when your IP address changes or once every 28 days. A simple config file at /etc/ddclient.conf configures it. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] programs at startup
Alan wrote: good day all. For the newbie question of the year. I want to run a program (updatedd-wrapper) ¨a program that updates a ip adress on a dns server¨ whenever i start my pc. I want to run it in some way that the machine doesn´t have to wait for it to complete cause it sometimes takes about 30-40 seconds to complete. I would preferebly like it to start after kde is launched. Thanks One way to run a program where you do not wait for it to finish is to put after it. This works well unless the program produces output. The you need to direct the output to someware, or it waits to be brought back to the foreground. So, if your program doesn't report results, use: program name If it does, use something like: program name log.file or program name /dev/null (replace program name with the actual name, including path if necessary...) 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] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES Chech you log files - the messages generated when you try to connect should be helpful. It may be that xinetd is listening because of the proftpd-xinetd file. If so, and the path to proftpd is wrong, you will get this kind of response. You will also get it if proftpd is not configured properly. You could also be running into a problem because of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. A lot of daemons check these files to see if the system trying to connect is allowed to use the service. Everything run through xinetd is subject to these rules. But the error message doesn't really indicate this problem. In any case, it is not a firewall problem right now, because you do connect, but the connection is dropped afterworlds. 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] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES Chech you log files - the messages generated when you try to connect should be helpful. It may be that xinetd is listening because of the proftpd-xinetd file. If so, and the path to proftpd is wrong, you will get this kind of response. You will also get it if proftpd is not configured properly. You could also be running into a problem because of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. A lot of daemons check these files to see if the system trying to connect is allowed to use the service. Everything run through xinetd is subject to these rules. But the error message doesn't really indicate this problem. In any case, it is not a firewall problem right now, because you do connect, but the connection is dropped afterworlds. Mikkel Aha! Would it be because my /etc/proftpd.conf file has severtype set to standalone? What to I replace standalone with to tell it to work through xinetd? just inetd or xinetd? thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] POP3 on 9.2?
Okay, so I gotta get a POP3 server on my MDK 9.2 box. Any suggestions on what I should use? I need something simple; I've never run a mail server before. And, at that, how do I set it up? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Friday 05 November 2004 18:32, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] NO CD ROM FOUND WHEN INSTALLING 10.1 CE
Hello Friends, I am trying to install Mandrake 10.1 CE but there seems there is a new LG problem with the new distro. When I boot from Mdk first Cd ; System boots and begins to install but after some few seconds , it gives an error saying No Cd Rom detected , Please insert a boot floppy . I have downloaded and burnt first CD once more. But the same thing happened ! Strange point is I can easily install MDK 10.0 CE (but by means of that : firstly second CD after that first CD install method ) My system is : Gigabyte 8IPE-G ( intel 865 pe chipset . Dont say LGA 775 does not run with this chipset. It runs very well. It is a special produced mobo of Gigabyte for LGA 775 cpu's) LG DVD RW (LG's latest DVD writer rewriter ) Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz LGA 775 cpu 160 GB Samsung serial ata HDD 512 MB Kingston DDR ram Best Regards Hertas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Camera
On Friday 05 November 2004 10:40, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip none /mnt/camera supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso885 9-1 0 0 Needs some weeding out, but works except mnt/unmount of the camera. /snip Lee, not that I can explain what is going on, but I remember from my 9.2 days, that supermount was not 100% trustworthy. IIRC setting it to auto instead worked for me. You could try , as root : supermount -i disable and reverse that with supermount -i enable, if it doesn't work either. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 18:32, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek Well I did what you said and got it reinstalled. I installed everything that came up when I searched for proftp, but there's still no server section in the control center. I installed gproftpd, but it only works for standalone, and I'd prefer to run it via xinetd (Which is the default setup.) I've found enough howto's that I might be able to dig and and config it manually via the /etc/proftpd.conf file... maybe :-P. One plus: I know the server works now. lol; in konqueror when I go to ftp://[mydomain] it logs in and gives me an empty directory with a pub folder... it's a start. Anyway, do you know the package for the proftp server config module you mentioned? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Camera
big snip Thanks Kaj I'll try that just for sport. Haven't broken the 9.2 box recently, anyway. 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] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek Well I did what you said and got it reinstalled. I installed everything that came up when I searched for proftp, but there's still no server section in the control center. I installed gproftpd, but it only works for standalone, and I'd prefer to run it via xinetd (Which is the default setup.) I've found enough howto's that I might be able to dig and and config it manually via the /etc/proftpd.conf file... maybe :-P. One plus: I know the server works now. lol; in konqueror when I go to ftp://[mydomain] it logs in and gives me an empty directory with a pub folder... it's a start. Anyway, do you know the package for the proftp server config module you mentioned? Thanx, SigmaChi Hold up. Reinstalling proftpd got me a default that worked... supposedly... but then why does it say 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) when I ftp into my domain. lol. Gee wizzle this is getting confusing. Here I thought I was dealing with proFTP, and now there's vsFTP... which I didn't even remember I installed. Anyway; since it's already running... where's the vsFTPd config file? lol. Sigma -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT: gnupg version 1.2.4 or 2-1.9.10
I see that gnupg 1.2.4 is installed by default, but also see that for some things like S/MIME in kmail it seems version 2-1.9.10 is needed. Is it safe to install the latter version ? I have always had problems understanding why there seem to be more that one version of pgp available. Any input is appreciated. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Nov 5 19:26:33 EST 2004 19:26:33 up 1 day, 6:05, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.21, 0.22 If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires. -- Abigail Van Buren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Boot record
On a ML installation when it gets to the part about where to put the boot record the first sector is one of the options. How would this affect how the machine boots? What would be the reason to use the root partision for the boot instead of the first sector of the MBR or a floppy? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Boot record
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:04, Marc wrote: On a ML installation when it gets to the part about where to put the boot record the first sector is one of the options. How would this affect how the machine boots? What would be the reason to use the root partision for the boot instead of the first sector of the MBR or a floppy? __ A floppy is obviously not a convenient option unless this is a test scenario and you want to be able to boot the new system without touching the boot manager currently in use. Putting it on the first sector is useful if you are adding this as a second or third or whatever system and want to use an existing boot manager in the MBR, adding the new one manually. Mostly the MBR is the easiest choice - certainly for the scenario where you have an existing doze system and are setting up the standard dual boot scenario. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake updates
The updates for 10.1 seem to have fixed the problem with usb devices and konqueror hanging. My scanner, usb compact flash card reader and usb hard drive are all detected and running. 10.1 is now durn near perfect. Well almost. It still isn't there for a raw beginner, but getting closer. If pre-installed on a computer with the updates a total newbie would probably do just fine. With this lists help of course. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
