Re: [newbie] linux books
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Will try get one or two from library first, then buy one. That is very wise, Rosemary. Not wanting to dampen anyone's enthusiasm, but all Computer books are out of date by the time they are published. The best up-to-date information is freely available on the Net. Having said that, even old computer books can be useful in terms of learning the concepts and methods involved. They are not always good at the finer details of the newer releases of various Linux distributions. Linux for Dummies isn't bad. cheers Duncan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] email problems
By the way. What file precisely does kmail/konqueror say it cannot find? derek /var/temp/kdecache-rosemary\krun\0.427.0 The print is tiny in the box that comes up - but I think that's it. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] email problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 02:05, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded Thunderbird but have had nothing but problems with not storing profile, freezing, and not opening links - well not connecting to browser to open links. So have come back to Kmail but now having the problem with links not opening here. I see the Firefox swirling timer thingie, then it disappears. The little dialogue progress box says file not found or something. How do I lnik it to Konqueror - maybe that will fix it? Check kcontrol Components File Associations text html and push konqueror (or mozilla if you like) to the top of the list. 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) iD8DBQFCHZ2ekFAvMr/nNX8RAh1/AKCD82Rt0x+8QI0A4uRSCETB/vY1CQCfQ1MR GwjBWgng0LnCCKflE0B73Lw= =4A4b -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] Silly move
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 02:46, Teilhard Knight wrote: I was all right and as I have a screen resolution 0f 1280x1024 in other OSs, I tried to change to that value in Mandrake. Now I get a plain out of range resolution screen when I boot. Please tell me how do I fix this. What is and where is the conf file to change? Thanks in advance. XFdrake can be run either from MCC or from the command line. You should be able to sort it there. You may need to look at colour depth as well as resolution - I avoid 24-bit depth as I know it has caused many people's problems. 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) iD8DBQFCHZ40kFAvMr/nNX8RAiKxAJwM1k2UTzWEXtKABwtclKW4vcoBqACgm3qm NRQTBU4ZBpyw2VMIhzSYXt8= =+RJz -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] Kmail has died
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 03:55, Chris wrote: I hate to keep adding to this thread all on my own, but I thought maybe this info would possibly be of help to anyone trying to assist me. I pulled up knode and I have the same reaction when trying to start a new article as I do when trying to start a new message in kmail. All other functions work though. I agree with the comments from Fajar(?) - it sounds like a lock file. Whether it's on your local box or the server I couldn't say. 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) iD8DBQFCHZ6IkFAvMr/nNX8RAs3+AJ0YuYrO+PY0okrJRxB/xhfEyXwitQCeKo6X 0Jb4JJrYls94SOqfs9h2BiI= =fA4w -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] Kmail has died!
On Thursday 24 February 2005 02:27 am, Chris wrote: This afternoon after I 'tried' to fwd a particularly large (2mb) file Kmail has refused to start new messages or to fwd them. The hourglass just continued to turn over an over and there is no response from Kmail until finally I get the (this application is not responding) popup. I've gone so far as to reboot to see if I could clear anything out of the system unfortunately it didn't work. Another odd thing is that when restarting Kmail even if I have it set to show long headers it wants to show full headers when restarted. Any help would be much appreciated at this time. Chris I guess it's a problem in your mail server side. Once I have tried to sent some mail over 20 MB (for test purpose) through KMail 1.6.1, it failed to deliver but nothing else wrong. You may seek for help for your net administrator. HTH, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Silly move
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Silly move -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 02:46, Teilhard Knight wrote: I was all right and as I have a screen resolution 0f 1280x1024 in other OSs, I tried to change to that value in Mandrake. Now I get a plain out of range resolution screen when I boot. Please tell me how do I fix this. What is and where is the conf file to change? Thanks in advance. XFdrake can be run either from MCC or from the command line. You should be able to sort it there. You may need to look at colour depth as well as resolution - I avoid 24-bit depth as I know it has caused many people's problems. Thank you, Anne, it's good to know this stuff, I've never had problems with screen resolutions I can manage. I do not remember if in other computers I installed Mandrake upon, but not in these two I am dealing with now (which are the most modern). I still have a look at color depth which I think I set at 24 bit. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Silly move
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 11:03, Teilhard Knight wrote: Thank you, Anne, it's good to know this stuff, I've never had problems with screen resolutions I can manage. I do not remember if in other computers I installed Mandrake upon, but not in these two I am dealing with now (which are the most modern). I still have a look at color depth which I think I set at 24 bit. 16-bit has quite enough colours to fool my eyes ;-) 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) iD8DBQFCHbXSkFAvMr/nNX8RAtDAAJ9bcnGMzjeaPbsdFRU3/LCeFaDogQCcDbgn uTuDEH3xdwB5/eCvAY45FxU= =XMKd -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] Silly move
Teilhard Knight wrote: I was all right and as I have a screen resolution 0f 1280x1024 in other OSs, I tried to change to that value in Mandrake. Now I get a plain out of range resolution screen when I boot. Please tell me how do I fix this. What is and where is the conf file to change? Thanks in advance. Teilhard The config file is /etc/X11/XF86Config. But you will probably want to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in as root, and run drakxconf. Make sure you have the correct monitor defined. You should be able to get 1280 x 1024 as long as you have the refresh rates set correctly. Thank you, Mikkel. I am sure I set the refresh rates correctly as I got them from my monitor specs (Sony Trinitron G220). I am also surprised why I cannot have 1280x1024. I am now at 1024x768 and the icons seem a bit bulky, but it is nothing that terrible. In another computer I HAD to set 1280x1024 in order to have things set properly. Something in XF86Config you think? Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Silly move
Subject: Re: [newbie] Silly move -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 11:03, Teilhard Knight wrote: Thank you, Anne, it's good to know this stuff, I've never had problems with screen resolutions I can manage. I do not remember if in other computers I installed Mandrake upon, but not in these two I am dealing with now (which are the most modern). I still have a look at color depth which I think I set at 24 bit. 16-bit has quite enough colours to fool my eyes ;-) Yes, I would agree with you that 24 bit is perhaps too much. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] is this possible?
OK, here we go, I had a thought (Oh yes, even I can get them sometimes) this morning, I have a flatscreen monitor and has it connected with DVI to the video card, now my thought was to feed the picture from the card via S-Video or whatever to my TV and if so could it be done at the same time and how? Cheers 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] email problems
On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 08:32, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: By the way. What file precisely does kmail/konqueror say it cannot find? derek /var/temp/kdecache-rosemary\krun\0.427.0 The print is tiny in the box that comes up - but I think that's it. Rosemary I had this problem when using Firefox to open URL's, The solution was to go to SystemconfigurationKDEcomponentsFile associationstexthtml and edit the mozilla firefox entry by changing the application command from soundwrappet /usr/bin/mozffremote to :- /usr/bin/mozffremote %u This fixes the problem until you do anything to update the menus when the command gets changed back, in order to fix this you need to make the same adjustment in usr/lib/menu/mozilla-firefox HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux books
On Thursday 24 February 2005 07:47 am, Duncan Anderson wrote: but all Computer books are out of date by the time they are published most are not page-turners/good bedtime reading . . . thus, a Google Search is more likely to turn up the goods :) best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kmail has died!
Sorry if I'm not making this a threaded msg, anyway, I'm using imap folders only with fetchmail to get mail from my isp and procmail to process toss it into the folders. Not connecting to an imap server. I looked for any lock files, couldn't find any. Would deleting my .kde folder in /home and restarting kde possibly clear up the problem? As I said, its the same in knode, I can't start any new articles there either. Both apps just lock up. Thanks again for any help Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] I want to migrate to Mandrake
I would be delighted if my default OS was Mandrake. But I have three computers where I have installed the OS on and in each of these there is one problem. I once posted a couple of problems in the same message and was told not to do so. Therefore I will post my three problems separately. Now let's call the machines compute1, computer2 and computer3. I cannot set wireless Internet in computer1. Now computer2 which uses the same wireless adapter than computer1 (SMC2662W) has Internet and works just fine. Neither machine lists the adapter in Hardwaredrake. The protocol in the machine where the adapter works is wlan(0). If I go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure your Computer) and I select Manage Connections it doesn't give the driver the connection is using, so, I cannot know what to try in the computer1. I know (If I am mistaken please correct me) that this device is an Orinoco device. Well, none of the Orinoco drivers work in computer1. To end, the adapter SMC2662W is an USB adapter, and I am using Mandrake 10.1. All feedback will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Resumption of DSL Connection
Hi All I have Mandrake 10.1 using an eathernet RJ45 DSL input. If I am connected to the internet and the RJ45 plug is unplugged and plugged back in I loose my Internet connect and the ability to reconnect to the internet. The only method I have found yet to restore an internet connection is to do a system upgrade or reinstall the system. Now since this is a test box with no critical data on it the only issue with that box is the inconvenience of restoration which is becoming a pain. If of course this was a box with critical data on it the issue would be more dynamic. Question is there some other method to reestablish an internet connection besides reinstallation. Note going to internet set up and reconfiguring does not produce positive results of reestablishing an internet connection. Thanks Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] connecting to another computer
Hello ! I installed 10.1 for a friend and it would be wonderful if I could access his computer from here because he lives very far. How could I do that ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 11:22:56 up 15:01, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.33, 0.33 ** Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde 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 to another computer
Use SSH, you must be an user in the other machine or know the password for an existing user On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:26:26 -0500, Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! I installed 10.1 for a friend and it would be wonderful if I could access his computer from here because he lives very far. How could I do that ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 11:22:56 up 15:01, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.33, 0.33 ** Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- In a World without walls and fences who needs WINDOWS and GATES? - Jose Rafael Carrero Leon Linux User #355756 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 to another computer
On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:38, Jose Rafael Carrero Leon wrote: Hello ! I installed 10.1 for a friend and it would be wonderful if I could access his computer from here because he lives very far. How could I do that ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques Use SSH, you must be an user in the other machine or know the password for an existing user To expand on that a little more. ssh is much more secure than telnet. Just install the openssh-server package on his machine, and openssh-clients on yours and then open a terminal and enter ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] He must have port 22 open in his firewall to allow the ssh connection in. Your security is only as good as the passwords you choose. So make a strong password or else someone **will** hack into his computer. You can make the security stronger by setting his shorewall firewall to only accept ssh connections from your IP address. In his /etc/shorewall/rules insert a line ACCEPT net:your_ip_addyfw tcp ssh then 'shorewall restart' to apply the new rule. This assumes of course that your IP address does not change. You can make ssh even more secure by implementing private keys as described here http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:D2iGdSh6vZQJ:www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php+mandrakesecure+making+most+sshhl=en Then only users whose private security key is known to the host can make an ssh connection. 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] Resumption of DSL Connection
On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:54, SOTL wrote: Hi All I have Mandrake 10.1 using an eathernet RJ45 DSL input. If I am connected to the internet and the RJ45 plug is unplugged and plugged back in I loose my Internet connect and the ability to reconnect to the internet. The only method I have found yet to restore an internet connection is to do a system upgrade or reinstall the system. Now since this is a test box with no critical data on it the only issue with that box is the inconvenience of restoration which is becoming a pain. If of course this was a box with critical data on it the issue would be more dynamic. Question is there some other method to reestablish an internet connection besides reinstallation. Note going to internet set up and reconfiguring does not produce positive results of reestablishing an internet connection. Thanks Frank Not quite sure what you mean by loose the internet connection ? In any case, it should not require a complete re-install or upgrade. If you just unplug the RJ45 and plug it back later, try (as root) : service network restart or ifup eth0 or ifconfig eth0 If, on the other hand, you loose the connection permanently, I'm out of ideas. 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
[newbie] Mardakesoft grows
This is good news for stockholders. Mandrakesoft is acquiring Conectiva: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2539wslang=en 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] I want to migrate to Mandrake
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:59:35 -0600, Teilhard wrote: I cannot set wireless Internet in computer1. Now computer2 which uses the same wireless adapter than computer1 (SMC2662W) has Internet and works just fine. Neither machine lists the adapter in Hardwaredrake. They probably do with usbview. The protocol in the machine where the adapter works is wlan(0). If I go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure your Computer) and I select Manage Connections it doesn't give the driver the connection is using, so, I cannot know what to try in the computer1. I know (If I am mistaken please correct me) that this device is an Orinoco device. Well, none of the Orinoco drivers work in computer1. Yes, I've had the same experience. I have a a USB wireless adapter that uses prism_usb, but I cannot set up the driver manually using it. I doubt it's a driver problem, though. To end, the adapter SMC2662W is an USB adapter, and I am using Mandrake 10.1. Ah. I hid a similar problem. I installed a wireless USB NIC on a machine, then had to reinstall 10.1 after a nasty power outage. After the re-install, I had a very tough time getting it to configure. What I ended up doing was using Mandrake Control Center to set it up as a LAN connection (not WLAN!). It spotted the USB NIC fine. Then to get it working on my network, I used a small app called wlanfe which allows you to configure the wireless connection. That got it completely working. Then, once it was working, active connection, I went back to mcc, added a real wlan connection, and mcc found it just fine. I can't remember if I set up the wireless stuff at that point or had to go to manage connections after that. But that was the basic procedure: add it as a lan connection, get the connection actually working with wlanfe, then re-add the connection as a wlan connection, and optionally configure it with Manage Connections if need be. 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] Mardakesoft grows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 15:44, Miark wrote: This is good news for stockholders. Mandrakesoft is acquiring Conectiva: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2539wslang=en Apparently it gives them access to good RD possibilities. It can't hurt to have access to South American markets, either. 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) iD8DBQFCHfvgkFAvMr/nNX8RAp4sAJ4mlCaKWPofnf7dikrKkPUkAkckCgCfSmmm SnYQoGjP1f+rFDAhT+cVOKs= =w6Sx -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] connecting to another computer
It's easier if they have a 24/7 broadband connection. In that case Linux has a lot of good tools for remote access connections (ssh, etc) If they use a dial up modem it's harder because their IP address will be changing all the time. Paul Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello ! I installed 10.1 for a friend and it would be wonderful if I could access his computer from here because he lives very far. How could I do that ? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How to program shell scripts?
Dear All I would like to learn how to program shell scripts. Could someone here please recommend me a good site with information to start with? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to program shell scripts?
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I would like to learn how to program shell scripts. Could someone here please recommend me a good site with information to start with? Thanks in advance, http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing PHP
I'm new to Linux and I just got a 1.8GHz pc with no OS so I downloaded the 3 iso's and installed 10.1. I see that Apache is running. Is there a resource available that would tell me how to install php and mySQL? I would really like to debug my websites locally. Any help is greatly appreciated. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to program shell scripts?
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:36:30 -0600, Avi Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to learn how to program shell scripts. Could someone here please recommend me a good site with information to start with? http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Thanks, Avi. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Club membership question?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:39:00 + Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote: How about contacting the one person that can help? The webmaster of MandrakeClub. Thought about that. :-) Just thought I'd see if someone knew an easy way to do it from the website. Thanks Greg. -- /\ DarkLord \/ DL I would be very interested to know if you get a response before your new membership expires. Care to place a small wager? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: How to program shell scripts?
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:36:30 -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote: Paul Smith wrote: I would like to learn how to program shell scripts. Could someone here please recommend me a good site with information to start with? http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ And, start reading: comp.unix.shell ...which really ain't just about Unix. Jonesy -- | Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux | Gunnison, Colorado | @ | Jonesy |OS/2 __ | 7,703' -- 2,345m | config.com | DM68mn SK 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 PHP
On Thursday 24 February 2005 18:19, Christopher Taylor wrote: I'm new to Linux and I just got a 1.8GHz pc with no OS so I downloaded the 3 iso's and installed 10.1. I see that Apache is running. Is there a resource available that would tell me how to install php and mySQL? I would really like to debug my websites locally. Any help is greatly appreciated. Christopher Taylor MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputer?SoftwareInstall type php in the search box and select the apache2-mod-php package, type mysql in the search box and select the MySQL and MySQL-client packages. Install them, then restart apache from MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices restart the httpd service. Thats it done! To administer MySql the phpMyAdmin package is very useful. 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] Mardakesoft grows
On Thu February 24 2005 09:08, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 15:44, Miark wrote: This is good news for stockholders. Mandrakesoft is acquiring Conectiva: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2539wslang= en Apparently it gives them access to good RD possibilities. It can't hurt to have access to South American markets, either. Anne I'm a little surprised that, after last years fears of Mandrakesoft going down the tubes, they're in a position to acquire another company. Good on them. Glenn -- 15:49:56 up 7 days, 10:08, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Registered Linux user #324360 ...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your *computer* being struck by lightning. -- Matt Welsh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mardakesoft grows
On Thursday 24 February 2005 23:51, Glenn wrote: On Thu February 24 2005 09:08, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 15:44, Miark wrote: This is good news for stockholders. Mandrakesoft is acquiring Conectiva: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/ 2539wslang= en Apparently it gives them access to good RD possibilities. It can't hurt to have access to South American markets, either. Anne I'm a little surprised that, after last years fears of Mandrakesoft going down the tubes, they're in a position to acquire another company. Good on them. Glenn I think they had to get a base outside the EU (and US ?) in order to survive the upcoming Patent Directive. Brazil seems a clever choice. 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] Mardakesoft grows
- Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mardakesoft grows On Thursday 24 February 2005 23:51, Glenn wrote: On Thu February 24 2005 09:08, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 15:44, Miark wrote: This is good news for stockholders. Mandrakesoft is acquiring Conectiva: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/ 2539wslang= en Apparently it gives them access to good RD possibilities. It can't hurt to have access to South American markets, either. Anne I'm a little surprised that, after last years fears of Mandrakesoft going down the tubes, they're in a position to acquire another company. Good on them. Glenn I think they had to get a base outside the EU (and US ?) in order to survive the upcoming Patent Directive. Brazil seems a clever choice. If they buy (or build) a company like Conectiva in Mexico, then they'll earn the entire LatinAmerica market. Unix is unknown at least in Mexico. Colleges and universities all run under Windows, and thus never teach programming under Unix. Mandrake would be wise to target this market as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Resumption of DSL Connection
-Original Message- From: SOTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 12:54 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] Resumption of DSL Connection Hi All I have Mandrake 10.1 using an eathernet RJ45 DSL input. If I am connected to the internet and the RJ45 plug is unplugged and plugged back in I loose my Internet connect and the ability to reconnect to the internet. The only method I have found yet to restore an internet connection is to do a system upgrade or reinstall the system. Now since this is a test box with no critical data on it the only issue with that box is the inconvenience of restoration which is becoming a pain. If of course this was a box with critical data on it the issue would be more dynamic. Question is there some other method to reestablish an internet connection besides reinstallation. Note going to internet set up and reconfiguring does not produce positive results of reestablishing an internet connection. Thanks Frank I had an ADSL connection from Mandrake 10.1 (now 10.2), and I would often unplug the RJ45 overnight if the firewall was down. I'd plug it in the following morning and all would be fine. If Kaj's ideas don't help, I suspect you are going to need to provide more information about your modem and ISP Hugh 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 to another computer
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:13 -0500, Paul Greene wrote: It's easier if they have a 24/7 broadband connection. We both are, but IP adresses change every time a new connection is made. -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 20:38:07 up 20 min, 1 user, load average: 1.40, 0.69, 0.32 ** A diferença entre a verdade e a ficção é que a ficção faz mais sentido. Mark Twain 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 to another computer
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:51 +, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:38, Jose Rafael Carrero Leon wrote: Hello ! I installed 10.1 for a friend and it would be wonderful if I could access his computer from here because he lives very far. How could I do that ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques Use SSH, you must be an user in the other machine or know the password for an existing user To expand on that a little more. ssh is much more secure than telnet. Just install the openssh-server package on his machine, and openssh-clients on yours and then open a terminal and enter ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] He must have port 22 open in his firewall to allow the ssh connection in. Your security is only as good as the passwords you choose. So make a strong password or else someone **will** hack into his computer. You can make the security stronger by setting his shorewall firewall to only accept ssh connections from your IP address. In his /etc/shorewall/rules insert a line ACCEPTnet:your_ip_addyfw tcp ssh then 'shorewall restart' to apply the new rule. This assumes of course that your IP address does not change. You can make ssh even more secure by implementing private keys as described here http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:D2iGdSh6vZQJ:www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php+mandrakesecure+making+most+sshhl=en Then only users whose private security key is known to the host can make an ssh connection. derek Thank you so much, Derek ! If you ever come to Brazil, I'll pay the beer ! -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 20:36:05 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.18, 0.12 ** When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer... Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Resumption of DSL Connection
Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: SOTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 12:54 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] Resumption of DSL Connection Hi All I have Mandrake 10.1 using an eathernet RJ45 DSL input. If I am connected to the internet and the RJ45 plug is unplugged and plugged back in I loose my Internet connect and the ability to reconnect to the internet. The only method I have found yet to restore an internet connection is to do a system upgrade or reinstall the system. Now since this is a test box with no critical data on it the only issue with that box is the inconvenience of restoration which is becoming a pain. If of course this was a box with critical data on it the issue would be more dynamic. Question is there some other method to reestablish an internet connection besides reinstallation. Note going to internet set up and reconfiguring does not produce positive results of reestablishing an internet connection. Thanks Frank I had an ADSL connection from Mandrake 10.1 (now 10.2), and I would often unplug the RJ45 overnight if the firewall was down. I'd plug it in the following morning and all would be fine. If Kaj's ideas don't help, I suspect you are going to need to provide more information about your modem and ISP Hugh It might be a bit more work if he is using something like PPPoE or PPPoA to connect. But doing a network restart should handle that. It should also handle NICs that don't report connection status. ifplugd doesn't work too well without that. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Networking
Hi All As a user not a geek I have worked with and used Linux for some time but until recently I have not had the opportunity of using my computers on anything but dial up internet connections. Currently I have that opportunity. I would purchase a book on networking except that I have several older ones which did not help when I attempted networking several years ago. Likewise I find on line Howtos impossible since there are so many contradictory ones addressing different issues. What I would like to do is network 2 linux computers so that one may copy files from one to the other and possible other connections later such as storing a data base on one that may be read by another. Physically what I have is 2 computers 1 running Mandrake 10.1 and 1 running Mandrake 9.2 [sorry this computer can not be upgraded to 10.1 with current hardware and my current knowledge as that would mean network installation or the purchase of additional hardware or CDs] connected together with a hub which is also connected to an eithernet RJ45 line and the internet. Each computer has internet capability and is fully operational in that I can and do get web sites and e-mail to and from each. Neither computer can ping the other. First question: Do I need to install share? [Mandrake Control Center - Network Internet - Internet connection Sharing] Second Question: How do I set up computers so that they maintain DSL addressing and are able to ping eachother? Third question: Would it be better to use a firewall/router instead of a hub or would that add an unnecessary complication, which I do not need at this time, to my networking attempts [attempts based on past failures]? Thanks Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Thursday 24 February 2005 19:17, SOTL wrote: Each computer has internet capability and is fully operational in that I can and do get web sites and e-mail to and from each. Neither computer can ping the other. Does computers have public or private IP addresses? ifconfig from cli and look for inet addr: if number after it lokks like 10.X.X.X or 192.168.X.X then you have private addresses. First question: Do I need to install share? [Mandrake Control Center - Network Internet - Internet connection Sharing] No you do not need it. Second Question: How do I set up computers so that they maintain DSL addressing and are able to ping eachother? They must bee in same subnet and workgroup. Third question: Would it be better to use a firewall/router instead of a hub or would that add an unnecessary complication, which I do not need at this time, to my networking attempts [attempts based on past failures]? Fierwall is allways better linksys router would be a good start. Thanks Frank -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
SOTL wrote: Hi All As a user not a geek I have worked with and used Linux for some time but until recently I have not had the opportunity of using my computers on anything but dial up internet connections. Currently I have that opportunity. I would purchase a book on networking except that I have several older ones which did not help when I attempted networking several years ago. Likewise I find on line Howtos impossible since there are so many contradictory ones addressing different issues. What I would like to do is network 2 linux computers so that one may copy files from one to the other and possible other connections later such as storing a data base on one that may be read by another. Physically what I have is 2 computers 1 running Mandrake 10.1 and 1 running Mandrake 9.2 [sorry this computer can not be upgraded to 10.1 with current hardware and my current knowledge as that would mean network installation or the purchase of additional hardware or CDs] connected together with a hub which is also connected to an eithernet RJ45 line and the internet. Each computer has internet capability and is fully operational in that I can and do get web sites and e-mail to and from each. Neither computer can ping the other. First question: Do I need to install share? [Mandrake Control Center - Network Internet - Internet connection Sharing] Not to get them talking to each other. You may want to add it later, so that both can access the Internet at the same time, when one is online. Second Question: How do I set up computers so that they maintain DSL addressing and are able to ping eachother? I think you mean IP address, not DSL addressing. You can set up each with a static address. This makes the rest of the setup simple, with the setup you have here. Third question: Would it be better to use a firewall/router instead of a hub or would that add an unnecessary complication, which I do not need at this time, to my networking attempts [attempts based on past failures]? You can do it ether way. It is not hard to set up a system with static IP addresses, and connected using a hub. Using a firewall/router when you are using a dialup connection actualy makes things harder. If you were using DSL or a cable modem, then it would be a good idea. Thanks Frank If you are going to use a hub, here is what I would do. Give each computer a static IP address. Use MCC if you are comfortable with it, or create/edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 if you are more comfortable with that. In ether case, make sure they have different IP addresses in the same netowrk. What I would use is: Computer 1: IP address192.168.1.101 Netmask255.255.255.0 Computer 2: IP address192.168.1.102 Netmask255.255.255.0 Do not set a gateway on ether computer. A gateway is created when you make the dialup connection, and when the dialup connection is down, you do not have a gateway to the Internet. If you want to be able to use names, instead of IP addresses when refering to the two computers, then you will want to add the IP addresses to /etc/hosts. You may also want to add the hostnames in MCC or /etc/sysconfig/networking. The hosts file probably looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost You can edit it to add the hostnames. 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.101 one.localnet one 192.168.1.102 two.localnet two You will probably want more creative names, but that should give you the idea. You will need to assign the IP addresses, and be able to ping the systems before going on two other things. When it comes to file sharing, you have many options. The most common are NFS and Samba. Both will let yo mount directories from one computer on the other computer. If you only run Linux, then NFS will probably work well for you. If you also run Windows, you may want to use Samba, as it will also let Windows computers access directories on your Linux machines. If you are using one of the flavors of SQL for your database, then you can also access the database server over the network, independly of the file sharing. But I think we need to take things one step at a time. Lets get the machines hooked up to a hub or router, and talking to each other. Once they can ping each other, then it is time to work on things like firewall settings, file sharing, SQL servers, etc... 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] connecting to another computer
On Friday 25 February 2005 01:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:13 -0500, Paul Greene wrote: It's easier if they have a 24/7 broadband connection. We both are, but IP adresses change every time a new connection is made. Then get him to get a dynamic domain name from www.dyndns.org, install ddclient from contrib, edit /etc/ddclient.conf with your dyndns account details. Every time his IP address changes ddclient will inform the dyndns server and you can reach him using his domain name. 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] Networking
On Friday 25 February 2005 00:17, SOTL wrote: Hi All As a user not a geek I have worked with and used Linux for some time but until recently I have not had the opportunity of using my computers on anything but dial up internet connections. Currently I have that opportunity. I would purchase a book on networking except that I have several older ones which did not help when I attempted networking several years ago. Likewise I find on line Howtos impossible since there are so many contradictory ones addressing different issues. What I would like to do is network 2 linux computers so that one may copy files from one to the other and possible other connections later such as storing a data base on one that may be read by another. Physically what I have is 2 computers 1 running Mandrake 10.1 and 1 running Mandrake 9.2 [sorry this computer can not be upgraded to 10.1 with current hardware and my current knowledge as that would mean network installation or the purchase of additional hardware or CDs] connected together with a hub which is also connected to an eithernet RJ45 line and the internet. I doubt very much if your hub is directly connected to the internet. You mean it connects to a DSL modem or router? Both computers seem to work, so they must both have IP addresses, and something is performing NAT (Network Address Translation) or else they could not both work at the same time. Can you be more specific please? Each computer has internet capability and is fully operational in that I can and do get web sites and e-mail to and from each. Neither computer can ping the other. If you have enabled the shorewall firewall then pings are disabled by default. If you want to enable ping put ACCEPT net fw icmp8 into /etc/shorewall/rules and restart shorewall First question: Do I need to install share? [Mandrake Control Center - Network Internet - Internet connection Sharing] No If you want to share files between Linux computers and you are a KDE user the 'fish' protocol is ideal. See http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/kio_fish.html 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] How do you stop urpmi from cleaning download cache?
Hi, I'm sorry if this question has been asked a thousand time, but I cannot find any details on how to do this (probably wrong search terms), but.. Is there a way to stop urpmi from cleaning out the cache of rpm's it has downloaded into: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms I have managed to find the command option --noclean, and I have tried adding it into the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file, as both: noclean urpmi --noclean but this still cleans out any downloads, after using the mandrake control center installer module. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I would like to install Mandrake on my wife's machine and do not fancy downloading all the files again on a 56k modem. Thanks Mark -- A fool lies awake at nights, worrying of this and that; weary is he when morning breaks, and all remains as before. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do you stop urpmi from cleaning download cache?
On Friday 25 February 2005 01:23, Mark Cooke wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this question has been asked a thousand time, but I cannot find any details on how to do this (probably wrong search terms), but.. Is there a way to stop urpmi from cleaning out the cache of rpm's it has downloaded into: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms I have managed to find the command option --noclean, and I have tried adding it into the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file, as both: noclean urpmi --noclean but this still cleans out any downloads, after using the mandrake control center installer module. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I would like to install Mandrake on my wife's machine and do not fancy downloading all the files again on a 56k modem. Thanks Mark Did you try no-clean ? The manual does not explicitly mention it, but other commands can be negated with 'no-' See man urpmi.cfg 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] Kmail has died
On Thursday 24 February 2005 03:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 03:55, Chris wrote: I hate to keep adding to this thread all on my own, but I thought maybe this info would possibly be of help to anyone trying to assist me. I pulled up knode and I have the same reaction when trying to start a new article as I do when trying to start a new message in kmail. All other functions work though. I agree with the comments from Fajar(?) - it sounds like a lock file. Whether it's on your local box or the server I couldn't say. Anne Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. I ended up renaming my .kde folder, logging out and back in again to recreate the .kde folder. Then started copying over *rc files until I found the problem which appeared to be my emailidenties. For some reason, something didn't like my sig anymore. However, it appears that all is almost back to normal, just some config changes in my kde setup. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 20:03:11 up 22:40, 1 user, load average: 0.74, 0.67, 0.51 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11 Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio UK ZZ Top - Alley-gator - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] email problems
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 02:05, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded Thunderbird but have had nothing but problems with not storing profile, freezing, and not opening links - well not connecting to browser to open links. So have come back to Kmail but now having the problem with links not opening here. I see the Firefox swirling timer thingie, then it disappears. The little dialogue progress box says file not found or something. How do I lnik it to Konqueror - maybe that will fix it? Check kcontrol Components File Associations text html and push konqueror (or mozilla if you like) to the top of the list. Anne Thanks - I checked the Thunderbird forums and it sems to be a problem in Thunderbird. Scripts have been provided but I need to get my head around that a bit before trying to do it. Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] email problems
Peter Watson wrote: On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 08:32, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: By the way. What file precisely does kmail/konqueror say it cannot find? derek /var/temp/kdecache-rosemary\krun\0.427.0 The print is tiny in the box that comes up - but I think that's it. Rosemary I had this problem when using Firefox to open URL's, The solution was to go to SystemconfigurationKDEcomponentsFile associationstexthtml and edit the mozilla firefox entry by changing the application command from soundwrappet /usr/bin/mozffremote to :- /usr/bin/mozffremote %u This fixes the problem until you do anything to update the menus when the command gets changed back, in order to fix this you need to make the same adjustment in usr/lib/menu/mozilla-firefox HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Thanks - seems to be a problem in Tbird. Have been to forums, now need to get my head around the scripts and how to actually do it. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
