Re: [newbie] Thanks for help with Mozilla
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 21:28, Julie Sloan wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped with my recent Mozilla problem (under the header locked directory). big snip Congratulation, Julie. -- Just a few remarks : You did the whole process as root, which isn't necessary. You can download it anywhere and untar it as a normal, unprivileged user. Only the final step, running the actual install script should be done as root if you want all users on the system to use mozilla. Thanks Kaj, I didn't know that. I thought I had to be root for it to work for all users. Julie :) -- MS is to OS as AOL is to ISP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting a Linux computer to a MS Windows network
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:35:24 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it straightforward to connect a Linux computer to a MS Windows network, allowing this Linux computer to have access to shared disks and printers on the MS Windows? If so, where to get information how to do that? Paul, certainly not to nitpick but you probably need to give a little more info about what kind of Windows network you want to attach to. Domain level security is very different than connecting to a simple windows share network and Active Directory increases the complexity. Also, it is important to specify if you are the Admin of the Windows network in question and also if you have either permission or cooperation from said admin if you are not it. Bryan, In truth, my post was motivated by the fact that I would like to convince the system administrator at my work that there is no significant reason to not connect Linux computers to the MS Windows network. He said that he has heard some people claiming that samba has some problems with achieving the goal of having Linux computers running inside a MS Windows network. Thanks to you and to Derek for the information given to me. Regards, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 Jan 2005 06:47, Mike Chalmers wrote: Derek, I clicked on the link you posted for the 2.6.8 kernel. I then clicked on the file kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and the download box appeared. It gave me the option to Open with the default application (Software Installer). Is that what I should click on? Yes - Software Installer is a gui front-end for urpmi Also, I don't think urpmi is installed on my computer. When I check for it there is urpmq and urpmf. How do I get urpmi installed on the computer? Thnks. Urpmq and urpmf are part of urpmi. Don't worry about that. To understand better what's happening, go to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi which describes the command-line possibilities and what they do. You can easily add and remove software with the gui (which is in Mandrake Control Center) but the command line gives you a lot more possibilities. HTH Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+Lg0kFAvMr/nNX8RAjlsAJ4zX0nEz7yzIVOWCTdouRlR4tQVhQCfU2cy s7QvYN/aNT+renDzJrCeBfc= =0MKh -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
On Thursday 27 January 2005 06:47, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP I clicked on the link you posted for the 2.6.8 kernel. I then clicked on the file kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and the download box appeared. It gave me the option to Open with the default application (Software Installer). Is that what I should click on? Yes Also, I don't think urpmi is installed on my computer. When I check for it there is urpmq and urpmf. How do I get urpmi installed on the computer? Thnks. Mike Chalmers In Linux all system commands are only available to the system administrator (root user). We call this 'security'. A word that will be unfamiliar to anyone coming from a Windows environment ;-) When you use the graphical software installer it will prompt you for the root password so it can invoke urpmi on your behalf. When using urpmi on the command line you must become root user first with the command 'su' (SuperUser). 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] ATI Drivers :- Was need help patching kernel
On Thursday 27 January 2005 06:47, Mike Chalmers wrote: HUGE SNIP Mike I have deliberately 'hijacked' this thread because, I think you may be losing sight of what you are trying to achieve. This thread was started because your ATI Radeon video card was running very slowly and you hoped a new kernel might improve it. I did point out that there are proprietary ATI drivers for Radeon cards that will not be present in **any** kernel you obtain from Mandrake or kernel.org You can apply the ATI drivers to your current kernel by getting the drivers from ATI directly, but to make things easier Mandrake have already compiled drivers and make them available through Mandrake Club. Perhaps an ATI user could comment and tell Mike how to get the correct drivers working either on his existing Mandrake 10.0, or on 10.1? 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] images in emails
when downloading and reading emails ive noticed that the pictures or images
dont load up.is ther something im missing {softwware}
im using kontact to recive emails on mandrake 10.1.
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[newbie] media manager
-- in media manager ive noticed that i have 4 catogories borgnet installation dvd updates main is this all i need or do i need to add anything else.not shore how to use it properly... Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] images in emails
Dave Needham wrote:
when downloading and reading emails ive noticed that the pictures or images
dont load up.is ther something im missing {softwware}
im using kontact to recive emails on mandrake 10.1.
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default behavior of most e-mail clients these days, attacks have been
known to come thru images loaded from remote servers that are used in an
e-mail.
charles
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Re: [newbie] images in emails
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On Thursday 27 Jan 2005 10:49, Dave Needham wrote:
when downloading and reading emails ive noticed that the pictures or images
dont load up.is ther something im missing {softwware}
im using kontact to recive emails on mandrake 10.1.
If you mean what I think you mean, try View attachments. Many of us prefer
to keep attachments as icons so that they can be viewed with a click or
ignored if not relevant to us. Personally, I prefer to have the choice of
viewing, saving or ditching if it doesn't look right to me.
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Re: [newbie] media manager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 Jan 2005 10:53, Dave Needham wrote: -- in media manager ive noticed that i have 4 catogories borgnet installation dvd updates main is this all i need or do i need to add anything else.not shore how to use it properly... Get contrib - this is where not-entirely-free or commercial drivers are available, together with other software. I'd also recommend getting plf (software whose licensing is incompatible with MandrakeSoft's policy) and also go to www.eslrahc.com and follow instructions on his page to get Charles' contributions, which are often more up-to-date than the official versions. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+MwJkFAvMr/nNX8RArVtAJ461syQ+jNaMuuuvvhonSVKLcXJlQCePhNJ weuQctJlE/QSPRy6m2Vkp7w= =GQem -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] ATI Drivers :- Was need help patching kernel
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] ATI Drivers :- Was need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:48:55 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 06:47, Mike Chalmers wrote: HUGE SNIP Mike I have deliberately 'hijacked' this thread because, I think you may be losing sight of what you are trying to achieve. This thread was started because your ATI Radeon video card was running very slowly and you hoped a new kernel might improve it. I did point out that there are proprietary ATI drivers for Radeon cards that will not be present in **any** kernel you obtain from Mandrake or kernel.org You can apply the ATI drivers to your current kernel by getting the drivers from ATI directly, but to make things easier Mandrake have already compiled drivers and make them available through Mandrake Club. Perhaps an ATI user could comment and tell Mike how to get the correct drivers working either on his existing Mandrake 10.0, or on 10.1? 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 The ones I have installed numerous times are the ATI Linux drivers from ATI. They didn't work so that is why I am trying to update the kernel. Thnks. From, Mike Chalmers _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:20:13 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 06:47, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP I clicked on the link you posted for the 2.6.8 kernel. I then clicked on the file kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and the download box appeared. It gave me the option to Open with the default application (Software Installer). Is that what I should click on? Yes Also, I don't think urpmi is installed on my computer. When I check for it there is urpmq and urpmf. How do I get urpmi installed on the computer? Thnks. Mike Chalmers In Linux all system commands are only available to the system administrator (root user). We call this 'security'. A word that will be unfamiliar to anyone coming from a Windows environment ;-) When you use the graphical software installer it will prompt you for the root password so it can invoke urpmi on your behalf. When using urpmi on the command line you must become root user first with the command 'su' (SuperUser). 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 Thank you both. I went to the web site ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main/ , that Derek recomended. I tried to install several of the 2.6.8 kernel's and I get this message- Some package requested cannot be installed: kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied bootloader-utils[= 1.9]) do you agree ? I then tried to install one of the 2.4 kernels and it installed fine. So I do not know what to do? From, Mike Chalmers _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:03, Mike Chalmers wrote: Thank you both. I went to the web site ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main/ , that Derek recomended. I tried to install several of the 2.6.8 kernel's and I get this message- Some package requested cannot be installed: kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied bootloader-utils[= 1.9]) do you agree ? I then tried to install one of the 2.4 kernels and it installed fine. So I do not know what to do? From, Mike Chalmers This is what I meant when I said the kernel might require other packages. This kernel was built for Mandrake 10.1, and because of differences in the two releases it is asking for a package not available in 10.0. I would not recommend trying to install the bootloader-utils package. That will very likely demand other packages ad infinitum. So if you want a newer kernel, then I think you are restricted to either compiling your own, or upgrading to Mdk 10.1 BTW: That 2.4 kernel you installed will now be your default kernel. Your 2.6.3 kernel will be an option in the Lilo menu. You can uninstall the kernel with the Software Uninstall GUI. 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] Hope for mandrake 10.2 include QT 3.3.4
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 08:48 pm, Teddy Widhi wrote: Hi, I wish on the next release of Mandrake 10.2 including QT 3.3.4. its the bug fix and backward compatibility for QT 3.3.x. Ok Thank you. Then you should post this message to cooker where the devs hang out, not in newbie where the, well, newbie's hang out. ;) Hey Greg! Speak for yourself, eh? There's nothing on me that's Hangin' Outand I suspect that this is also true for most of the list members! I keep it ALL nicely tucked in, OK? Grin! Snicker! -- Lanman - The Other L-Word! Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hope for mandrake 10.2 include QT 3.3.4
On Thursday 27 January 2005 06:10 am, Lanman wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 08:48 pm, Teddy Widhi wrote: Hi, I wish on the next release of Mandrake 10.2 including QT 3.3.4. its the bug fix and backward compatibility for QT 3.3.x. Ok Thank you. Then you should post this message to cooker where the devs hang out, not in newbie where the, well, newbie's hang out. ;) Hey Greg! Speak for yourself, eh? There's nothing on me that's Hangin' Outand I suspect that this is also true for most of the list members! I keep it ALL nicely tucked in, OK? I used to hang out..but the ladies all laughed at me Grin! Snicker! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Linux, Wine and viruses
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[newbie] Installing a bootloader after the fact
I installed Mandrake 10.1 via ftp on a second drive configured as a slave. It would be accessed in a multiboot environment using a boot manager like GAG. So I didn't install a boot loader thinking that GAG would handle this. But when GAG identifies the Mandrake / partition on this drive and I attempt to boot from it, I get an error stating: Boot sector not found or invalid. So my question is, without reinstalling, can I go back and install a boot loader on the / partition of the Mandrake install on the second disk? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday 10:41AM up 30 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.14, 0.15 FreeBSD salamander.thesizemores.net 5.3-STABLE i386 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing a bootloader after the fact
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 Jan 2005 15:43, Trey Sizemore wrote: I installed Mandrake 10.1 via ftp on a second drive configured as a slave. It would be accessed in a multiboot environment using a boot manager like GAG. So I didn't install a boot loader thinking that GAG would handle this. But when GAG identifies the Mandrake / partition on this drive and I attempt to boot from it, I get an error stating: Boot sector not found or invalid. So my question is, without reinstalling, can I go back and install a boot loader on the / partition of the Mandrake install on the second disk? The usual method for restoring a bootloader is to boot from CD1, and when the install/upgrade screen comes up hit Esc, then type 'rescue'. From there you can use a menu entry to restore it. I presume the same method would work for you. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+Q3mkFAvMr/nNX8RAuzQAJoDN04Sb84JJ6bh9kzmlO4KHJ1SXACgghvZ nBVpnJ7O6Ymos4482pHZvU4= =UtlK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hope for mandrake 10.2 include QT 3.3.4
On Thursday 27 January 2005 08:30 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2005 06:10 am, Lanman wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 08:48 pm, Teddy Widhi wrote: Hi, I wish on the next release of Mandrake 10.2 including QT 3.3.4. its the bug fix and backward compatibility for QT 3.3.x. Ok Thank you. Then you should post this message to cooker where the devs hang out, not in newbie where the, well, newbie's hang out. ;) Hey Greg! Speak for yourself, eh? There's nothing on me that's Hangin' Outand I suspect that this is also true for most of the list members! I keep it ALL nicely tucked in, OK? I used to hang out..but the ladies all laughed at me Grin! Snicker! Jeez, why not just answer the man's question? qt 3.3.4 is already in 10.2 ~ $ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 ~ $ frpm qt3 libqt3-devel-3.3.4-2mdk qt3-example-3.3.4-2mdk libqt3-3.3.4-2mdk qt3-common-3.3.4-2mdk (alias frpm='rpm -qa | grep -i') -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Easiest way to transfer files from lin to win?
I need to transfer about 15GB of data from my linux laptop to a windows laptop. We will both be on the same wireless network, but I dont actually know anything about file transfer on linux or windows! Are there any quick pointers someone can give me to look into? Thanks, Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Easiest way to transfer files from lin to win?
Most linux installs now include an SSH server by default. If you get an SSH client installed on your Windows laptop, you can use secure file transfer between the two laptops. www.ssh.com has a Windows based, free for non-commercial use, SSH client with an easy to use GUI interface. Then it's just like using a GUI based FTP program to download/upload files back and forth. Paul JR wrote: I need to transfer about 15GB of data from my linux laptop to a windows laptop. We will both be on the same wireless network, but I dont actually know anything about file transfer on linux or windows! Are there any quick pointers someone can give me to look into? Thanks, Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Easiest way to transfer files from lin to win?
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:54:07 -0500 Paul Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most linux installs now include an SSH server by default. If you get an SSH client installed on your Windows laptop, you can use secure file transfer between the two laptops. www.ssh.com has a Windows based, free for non-commercial use, SSH client with an easy to use GUI interface. Then it's just like using a GUI based FTP program to download/upload files back and forth. Paul Otherwise a FTP-client would work as well or Putty /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Easiest way to transfer files from lin to win?
JR wrote: I need to transfer about 15GB of data from my linux laptop to a windows laptop. We will both be on the same wireless network, but I dont actually know anything about file transfer on linux or windows! Are there any quick pointers someone can give me to look into? Thanks, Jarlath You could set up Samba, a FTP server, a web server, or SSH on the Linux box. Samba is probably the easyest from as far as the actual transfere. One you have the Samba server up and running, you simply map the share containing the files on the Windows machine. You can then use drag and drop or any other windows copy feature on the Windows machine. If you set up an FTP server or a web server on the Linux box, you can use a web browser to download the files. This can be a pain if you have a lot of small files. (Not too bad using a windows ftp client...) You can use a ssh client on Windows and the ssh daemon on Linux, and copy files that way. I like PUtty for this. (Google can find the home page.) If you go this route, you will want to use sftp (psftp) to transfere files. It is basicly ftp over a secure connection. All the tools to do this on the Linux side are included with Mandrake. SSH probably takes the least amount of setup, but takes more work to do the actual transfere. Samba will take a bit more setup, but is probably worth the effort if you will need to copy files in the future. MCC will take you through the basic setup. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Re: upgrade 8.2 to 10.1: Error, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1.
2005. janur 27. 00.55 dtummal Mikkel L. Ellertson ezt rta: Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jan 24, Mikkel L. Ellertson did say: I would like to see the output of route -n and ifconfig and ifconfig -a. Something is definitly strange here. Mikkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ifconfig -a loLink encap:Local Loopback UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Does that help??? Well, I can see the direct cause of the problem, but not the underlying cause. For some reasion the lo interface is not comming up. Now to find out why... The next step would be to look at /etc/hosts, and /etc/sysconfig/networking/cfg-lo and see if there is something strange there. (You may want to check to be sure /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo is a link pointing to ../networking/ifcfg-lo.) Mikkel it says, if you have problems, try another netmask... # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) maybe it could help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Latest security updates not listed
On January 26, 2005 09:55 pm, Chris wrote: Thanks Dan, I'll wait a few days then and try again. I am seeing a whole bunch of updates today and even the much talked about new kernel yea :-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Jan 27 14:13:41 EST 2005 14:13:41 up 19:26, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.18, 0.09 You can have my Unix system when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. -- Cal Keegan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Powershell and $TERM
When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
Op Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:00:09 -0500 schreef Miark: How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Through a script? Paul -- What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he is staring out the window. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php 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] Le mot maudit - just a test
Just a test to see if my posts aren't getting through because of something in my new sig. This one is clean. -- N. B. Day Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Le mot maudit -- just a test
Just a test to see if my posts aren't getting through because of something in my sig. This one has the sig. -- N. B. Day Registered User 333228 at http://counter.li.org 12:42pm up 1 day 4:05, 4 users, load average: 0.22, 0.17, 0.08 SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] the easy way?
On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 23:48, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 23:10, Ian wrote: On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 22:48, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 22:43, Ian wrote: Since the list is convinced that Home is better if it is in a separate partition, what is the best and easiest way to accomplish this. At present, Home is in the same partition as the rest of the distro (standard install). How do I ensure if I move the contents of Home to a new partition that all links will change? The easy way is simply to define your new /home partition with Mandrake Control Centre. It will recognise that there are already files in /home on the old partition and will offer to copy them to the new partition for you. I take it, the part that allows me to specify where home is in System/Users and groups? I'd really hate to screw up what is an extremely stable setup :-) But Mandrake will move release new distros and I'd also hate to make : an install harder...or even worse, lose all the data accumulated No Users and Groups is where you define new users. MandrakeControlCentreMountPointsPartitions is where you define partitions. If you have empty space on your hard drive just click on the empty space and define a partition on it. Select the mount point to be /home. If you have no free space you may resize an existing partition, but it is not possible to resize a partition that is currently already mounted. The GUI allows you to unmount a partition, but you cannot unmount a partition currently in use. If you have just a single partition consuming the whole drive then it is not easy to alter it unless you boot from a Mandrakemove Live CD, or Knoppix if you prefer. (MandrakeMove will have the more familiar tools) If you have valuable data, then make a backup first. derek Many thanks, Derek. my /home is now a new partition, and all worked well. although I did cheat and used partition magic to create it, then as above :-) Now to wait for 10.2 official .. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Removing KDE removes...everything?
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:56:35 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: I thought to myself, 'hey, I don't use KDE, why don't I just remove it?'. Well, according to MCC, that means uninstalling most of my system, including seemingly most of Gnome and it's associated lib's as well. WTF? ...just in case anyone was confused, this *is* actually a question, not just a shot at KDE, though I have to say I'd be really annoyed to find that Mandrake had so integrated everything with KDE that I can't have a working system without it :-\ Anyone have any info on this? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:09:23 up 25 days, 7:49, 9 users, load average: 0.49, 0.16, 0.05 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hope for mandrake 10.2 include QT 3.3.4
On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:10 am, Lanman wrote: Then you should post this message to cooker where the devs hang out, not in newbie where the, well, newbie's hang out. ;) Hey Greg! Speak for yourself, eh? There's nothing on me that's Hangin' Outand I suspect that this is also true for most of the list members! I keep it ALL nicely tucked in, OK? Grin! Snicker! :p -- /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] Connecting a Linux computer to a MS Windows network
On Thursday 27 January 2005 04:27, Paul Smith wrote: In truth, my post was motivated by the fact that I would like to convince the system administrator at my work that there is no significant reason to not connect Linux computers to the MS Windows network. He said that he has heard some people claiming that samba has some problems with achieving the goal of having Linux computers running inside a MS Windows network. Probably has heard that. I hear it is a popular topic of conversation in the reeducation camp, I mean MS Developer Network. Well, let me run down the realities of this battle with you (Having been there done that and survived the glazed look of MS's stalwart evangelicals). On the one hand, you have a competent System Administrator (Windows or not) in which case, he is aware of alternate operating systems, he is certainly aware that Linux has fewer security issues and problems, and he either knows enough to help and support you, or he knows enough to tell you that you are totally on your own, won't oppose you and will thank his lucky stars that he has one less goofball to support. However, best guess is that if you had a Windows Admin like that, he is probably already running a few Linux boxen himself and would probably have been really happy to see another lonely face added to the club, share war stories and revel in liberation. On the other hand, you are stuck with a full fledged graduate of the MS school of FUD, with MSCE and assorted other letters attached to his name, in which case, he couldn't find a power supply if his gonads were grounded to it, and he won't believe anything that you say anyway (cause it doesn't come straight from the mouth of Pope Gates or Cardinal Ballmer), in which case, there is pretty much nothing that you can do to convince him to even tolerate, much less help you put an alternate OS on his virused, wormed, swampy network. After all, if he let you do it, the other peons might get uppity and want to do it too and then next thing you know, he would have to learn something that doesn't involve dragging and clicking a mouse. You have my sympathies. Getting serious, the fact is, if you know what you are doing, you can put a Linux machine on a Windows network, regardless of what kind of MS crud they have put in place to stop you, without any problems. Granted, you won't be able to attach to a Windows domain unless the admin adds you to the network, but connectivity with Windows virus factories is very overrated. Between email and the Internet, there should be relatively no reason to connect directly to a windows machine or drive. And, if you really have to, you can always dual boot, copy the files you need to the Win partition and then switch back and move them over to Linux. Granted, waiting the eternity it takes for Win2k and such to boot up and shut down is a hassle, but I like to tell myself that it is good to have a semi-regular reminder of why I love Linux. I almost guarantee that you can access network printers because in most companies, those will be attached via direct connect on an ethernet card in the printer, not running through a windows print server. On those, you simply need to figure out what the IP address is, and then you are in business. You don't call them for support, with problems, or ask them for any help and you will slip right under the zombie glaze of the MS undead. Install a firewall and lock the ports down and Chuckles the MS Monkey won't even be able to tell what OS you are running when you connect to the net. Assuming that he is smart enough to figure that out without a blaring MS provided Alternate OS Detected siren wailing to clue him in. I got away with it for 9 months straight until they noticed that I wasn't downloading my windows defects, I mean updates, and sent someone around to check on it. Luckily for me, the screensaver was up and I use a generic one so Goober didn't even know what OS I was running. I booted back over to Windows, let it update and then switched right back to Linux. After that, I told them that I had installed VMWare (for Testing purposes) and that it just looked like I had Linux installed. With the McDonald's rejects that get hired for tech support these days, I am not too concerned that I am going to get outsmarted or called on it. If you don't have the drive space, get Mandrake Move (Live CD) or one of the other varieties, put your config files on a small folder set aside for the purpose and boot directly from the CD. If someone happens to come by, simply pull the plug, and complain that this is the 20th time today that Windows has crashed on your computer and I guarantee you won't see a tech around for another month. Either way, where there is a will, there is certainly a way. Just make sure that when everyone else's machine gets taken down by the latest worm or virus, that you don't keep working too hard and be sure to
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:33:27 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:03, Mike Chalmers wrote: Thank you both. I went to the web site ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main/ , that Derek recomended. I tried to install several of the 2.6.8 kernel's and I get this message- Some package requested cannot be installed: kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied bootloader-utils[= 1.9]) do you agree ? I then tried to install one of the 2.4 kernels and it installed fine. So I do not know what to do? From, Mike Chalmers This is what I meant when I said the kernel might require other packages. This kernel was built for Mandrake 10.1, and because of differences in the two releases it is asking for a package not available in 10.0. I would not recommend trying to install the bootloader-utils package. That will very likely demand other packages ad infinitum. So if you want a newer kernel, then I think you are restricted to either compiling your own, or upgrading to Mdk 10.1 BTW: That 2.4 kernel you installed will now be your default kernel. Your 2.6.3 kernel will be an option in the Lilo menu. You can uninstall the kernel with the Software Uninstall GUI. 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 Alright, I installed Mandrake 10.1. Does it use XFree 86? If so what version? If not what does it use? From, Mike Chalmers _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:27 pm, Mike Chalmers wrote: From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:33:27 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:03, Mike Chalmers wrote: Thank you both. I went to the web site ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main / , that Derek recomended. I tried to install several of the 2.6.8 kernel's and I get this message- Some package requested cannot be installed: kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied bootloader-utils[= 1.9]) do you agree ? I then tried to install one of the 2.4 kernels and it installed fine. So I do not know what to do? From, Mike Chalmers This is what I meant when I said the kernel might require other packages. This kernel was built for Mandrake 10.1, and because of differences in the two releases it is asking for a package not available in 10.0. I would not recommend trying to install the bootloader-utils package. That will very likely demand other packages ad infinitum. So if you want a newer kernel, then I think you are restricted to either compiling your own, or upgrading to Mdk 10.1 BTW: That 2.4 kernel you installed will now be your default kernel. Your 2.6.3 kernel will be an option in the Lilo menu. You can uninstall the kernel with the Software Uninstall GUI. 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 Alright, I installed Mandrake 10.1. Does it use XFree 86? If so what version? If not what does it use? From, Mike Chalmers _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ It uses xorgx11 I think it is called. It is basically xfree86 but a branch that uses the original GNU license. XFree86 changed their license and made it a bit of a problem as far as free and open source folks are concerned. -- 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
[newbie] environment variable manpath
When trying to read manpages with konqueror I get the following error: KDE Man Viewer Error No man page matching to man lilo found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE. I've tried googling for an answer, but can't seem to find the correct one. Could some kind soul point me in the right direction? Thanks -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 21:53:03 up 16 days, 4:29, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.36, 0.38 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio UK Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:42:29 +0100, Paul wrote:
Op Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:00:09 -0500 schreef Miark:
How do I make this change permanent without affecting
other working term emulators which I still use regularly?
Through a script?
Got anything more specific? :-) My Perl is better than my bash,
so I tried to get the following Perl one-liner on every shell:
$ENV{TERM} = xterm if `echo \$TERM` =~ m/dumb/i;
which works, but only as long as the script--a split second, and
then Powershell continues to run without TERM.
What's the proper way to do this with bash? (Although I am also
curious as to how to make this work in Perl, too.)
Miark
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Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:45:25 -0500 schreef Miark:
Through a script?
Got anything more specific? :-) My Perl is better than my bash,
so I tried to get the following Perl one-liner on every shell:
$ENV{TERM} = xterm if `echo \$TERM` =~ m/dumb/i;
which works, but only as long as the script--a split second, and
then Powershell continues to run without TERM.
What's the proper way to do this with bash? (Although I am also
curious as to how to make this work in Perl, too.)
In a bash-script it would look like this:
TERM=vt100
MicroEMACS # Insert proper command if this is wrong.
When this is together in the script, you do not need to export the TERM
variable, it will hold only for the session of that script.
Paul
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Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:52:48 +0100, Paul wrote:
Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:45:25 -0500 schreef Miark:
Through a script?
Got anything more specific? :-) My Perl is better than my
bash, so I tried to get the following Perl one-liner on every
shell:
$ENV{TERM} = xterm if `echo \$TERM` =~ m/dumb/i;
which works, but only as long as the script--a split second,
and then Powershell continues to run without TERM.
What's the proper way to do this with bash? (Although I am
also curious as to how to make this work in Perl, too.)
In a bash-script it would look like this:
TERM=vt100
MicroEMACS # Insert proper command if this is wrong.
When this is together in the script, you do not need to export
the TERM variable, it will hold only for the session of that
script.
Ah, that's good. But there are other things that need it too,
such as less and god knows what else. Is there a way to export
the variable permanently?
Miark
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