Re: [newbie] printer - yext not printing as preview shows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 Feb 2005 05:45, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi I posted this question a few days ago and someone replied - Anne I think. Unfortunately I had email problems and lost a whole lot of information. Printing emails or webpages in linux - text is jammed up, with some text covering other words, lines incomplete even when preview shows correctly. If I copy and paste to Open Office it prints fine - but that's a pain to do of course. I think the solution was to do with lp or something. I am new to linux - so need simple instructions thanks. The advice I gave was based on what I do in Mozilla, so I hope it works for you. If it does, doing this onece makes it permanent, so you may wish to just jot down the current printer command in the window before you make the change. So - File Print then follow what you see on the attached screenshot. 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) iD8DBQFCIZjRkFAvMr/nNX8RAsjpAJsEmK+bCY0uhWj095/iFDWQwoX3tgCfWFDF OUsgyog99yVN+HUKrMv8Lrw= =jyqT -END PGP SIGNATURE- attachment: print.jpg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:51, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 22:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. Unfortunately there is no entry for SpamAssassin. . Can anyone give an incantation to get it there (or even visible in Webmin)? The RPM is SpamAssassin-3.0.2-0.1010.lmdk.i586.rpm. Regards David The service is called 'spamd' I'll correct the document. derek Hmm, I'm still running v9.2 here so some things may be different, and if they are, I apologise for wasting the bandwith but... here...if I use spamd it takes a lot longer to d/l my e-mail. If I use spamc on the other hand, all is well. Just a random observation there. PS This however, is not with postfix, just running it through kmail. That´s my problem too! How can I change from spamd to spamc, since spamd is started at boot time? Ricardo Castanho Brazil I think there is a little misunderstanding here. You can use spamassassin in two ways. Firstly as a perl standalone application, in which case you call it with the command 'spamassassin'. This is the simplest way to use spamassassin. See 'man spamassassin' Or secondly as a pair of C programmes called spamd and spamc. Spamd is the daemon which runs continuously, and spamc is the client to access spamd. Spamd/spamc are better for larger mail servers because they have much smaller memory requirements and are faster. My guide describes using spamd/spamc with a Postfix server. See 'man spamc' 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] gimp2.2 urpmi
Hello all Trying to update gimp 2 to 2.2, on MDK 10.1 system I have uninstalled 2.0, urpmi gimp2_2 downloaded from Charles' site OK, but trying to run it I get: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/gimp-2.2: undefined symbol: gimp_enum_set_value_descriptions Seems to be libgimp version has not updated? ( /usr/lib/ contains libgimp-2.0.so.0 ) For some reason urpmi seems to have failed me. Any help please? Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No cooperation at all in this world of ours. For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The laptop is a toy. Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably due to the 256m memory in the laptop. I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 Community on laptop
Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx. Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded. How do I change this? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No cooperation at all in this world of ours. For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The laptop is a toy. Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably due to the 256m memory in the laptop. more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is shared video memory so to get the install, when it askes hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) linux mem=240M (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M) I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. Lee -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.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] 10.1 Community on laptop
On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:43, Lee Wiggers wrote: Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx. Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded. How do I change this? Try chkconfig numlock off as root. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:50 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Spamc is just a wrapper for spamd, so spamd has to be up and running. But if you want real email filtering you really need to be running spamassassin with more than just the basic rules. That caused me to fetchmail/maildrop/spamassassin/razor/pyzor all my mail before kmail picks it up all marked locally, and its not a hard configuration. The checking of each email with this setup is about 1 to 2 seconds each with my XP-2100, so the hit on Kmail would be serious. Rob Right. spamd is running here. Spamassassin is a service. Again noting that I'm not running postfix, but using it via kmail, that when the filters are setup, if you call spamd instead of spamc, the load and e-mail times are relatively huge. I can't remember how this came up before (but it did), but the simple answer was never to call spamd but always use spamc. I know it made a heckuva difference here, in v9.2. Again, if this has nothing to do with the original post, I apologize - its just what works here. Everyone elses' mileage may vary. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:13 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No cooperation at all in this world of ours. For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The laptop is a toy. Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably due to the 256m memory in the laptop. more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is shared video memory so to get the install, when it askes hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) linux mem=240M (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M) I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. Lee Lee has the same laptop I do - I had to use a small patch to increase video memory from 1 meg (wow!) to my current 128 megs, under v9.2. (I've got 512 total though). Amazingly enough, you can't do it from BIOS. (Dell Inspiron 1100). -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Community on laptop
Lee Wiggers wrote: Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx. Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded. How do I change this? To change it permanently, remove the numlock package using the package manager. To keep the package on the system but disabled, go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure Your Computer) - System - Services, scroll down until you find numlock and remove the cross from the on boot box, and press the stop button. Click on OK and numlock is disabled. If your GUI is broken for any reason, or if you prefer the command line, su to root and type chkconfig --del numlock which will disable the service(or disservice). I had to do this because I have a Thinkpad, and I was going nuts because it was telling me that my password was invalid all the time, until it dawned on me that this silly service was running. (It must have been designed for people who are in too much of a hurry to press the numlock key.) 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] 10.1 Vent
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:13:57 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is shared video memory so to get the install, when it askes hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) linux mem=240M (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M) Thanks Ed. That'll make the next self-destruction recovery easier. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:47:57 + Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:13 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No cooperation at all in this world of ours. For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The laptop is a toy. Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably due to the 256m memory in the laptop. more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is shared video memory so to get the install, when it askes hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) linux mem=240M (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M) I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. Lee Lee has the same laptop I do - I had to use a small patch to increase video memory from 1 meg (wow!) to my current 128 megs, under v9.2. (I've got 512 total though). Amazingly enough, you can't do it from BIOS. (Dell Inspiron 1100). -- /\ DarkLord \/ Ok DL, fess up. That's really my only complaint with the 1100. BTW, 10.1 was really painless as long as I stayed clear of the club dl's. No driver problems, etc. It sure didn't care for an upgrade using the club mirrors, though. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Community on laptop
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:39:53 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:43, Lee Wiggers wrote: Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx. Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded. How do I change this? Try chkconfig numlock off as root. -- Bryan Phinney That did it, Bryan. After logging in and out a couple of times and watching the numlock toggle on and off at odd times, I rebooted. No doubt there was a more Linux-proper way to start over, but it is now a well behaved little box. Thanks, Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Community on laptop
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:48:48 +0200 Duncan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx. Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded. How do I change this? To change it permanently, remove the numlock package using the package manager. To keep the package on the system but disabled, go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure Your Computer) - System - Services, scroll down until you find numlock and remove the cross from the on boot box, and press the stop button. Click on OK and numlock is disabled. If your GUI is broken for any reason, or if you prefer the command line, su to root and type chkconfig --del numlock which will disable the service(or disservice). I had to do this because I have a Thinkpad, and I was going nuts because it was telling me that my password was invalid all the time, until it dawned on me that this silly service was running. (It must have been designed for people who are in too much of a hurry to press the numlock key.) cheers Duncan That's how I noticed. Nothing like a little frustration when you are trying to login on a fresh install. I still think it's part of a plot to get me. Thanks Duncan, for your input Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
Derek, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 1:24:13 AM, you wrote: The service is called 'spamd' I'll correct the document. derek But I don't have a spamd service there either. On searching the system for spamd I only find a perl program called spamd, and not the c-wrappered spamd you mention in a later posting. -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
Fajar, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 2:00:22 AM, you wrote: Did you successfully install Spamassassin? If so, you should be able to run it by: service spamassassin start There was nothing to say that the installation had not been successfull. Using service spamassassin gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# service spamassassin start Cannot find spamassassin service Usage: service -[Rfshv] SERVICE ARGUMENTS -f|--full-restart: Do a fullrestart of the service. -R|--full-restart-all: Do a fullrestart of all services currently running. -s|--status-all:Print a status of all services. -d|--debug: Launch with debug. -h|--help: This help. -v|--version: Print version. version 1.14 -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
On February 27, 2005 09:19, David Anderson wrote: But I don't have a spamd service there either. On searching the system for spamd I only find a perl program called spamd, and not the c-wrappered spamd you mention in a later posting. You may need to install additional packages: spamassassin-spamc-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk spamassassin-spamd-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk -- Saul Arias - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gimp2.2 urpmi
On February 26, 2005 06:12 pm, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all Trying to update gimp 2 to 2.2, on MDK 10.1 system I have uninstalled 2.0, urpmi gimp2_2 downloaded from Charles' site OK, but trying to run it I get: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/gimp-2.2: undefined symbol: gimp_enum_set_value_descriptions Seems to be libgimp version has not updated? ( /usr/lib/ contains libgimp-2.0.so.0 ) For some reason urpmi seems to have failed me. I just installed charles gimp 2.2 pakages the other day without any problem, however i did not remove the previous version, I wonder if his packages rely on libgimp-2.0.so.0 already being there ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Feb 27 11:18:36 EST 2005 11:18:36 up 12:30, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.06, 0.02 Paper Rabies: Hypersensitivity to littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] handy kill
riccardo wrote:
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:11 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
difference between doing this script, and using the killall command?
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~ have been doing some [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. . . before doing a backup this morning, i gave root command :
killall Fah . . . but that did not kill [EMAIL PROTECTED] processes,
whereas, kl Fah did kill [EMAIL PROTECTED] processes
.
kl being :-
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#!/bin/sh
#
# kill process/program
#
while true
do
kill -9 `ps aux | grep -i $1 | awk '{ print $2 }'` sleep 2
done
..
best rgds
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I can see the difference, and I am not sure if I like it. It is too easy
to kill processes you don't want to kill. Nasty if you want to kill all
the foo processes, but not the foobar processes. kl would kill both
because grep would match both foo and foobar if you specified foo.
Mikkel
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Re: [newbie] gimp2.2 urpmi
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 10:12 +1100, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all Trying to update gimp 2 to 2.2, on MDK 10.1 system I have uninstalled 2.0, urpmi gimp2_2 downloaded from Charles' site OK, but trying to run it I get: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/gimp-2.2: undefined symbol: gimp_enum_set_value_descriptions Seems to be libgimp version has not updated? ( /usr/lib/ contains libgimp-2.0.so.0 ) For some reason urpmi seems to have failed me. Any help please? Russell I had the same problem. Just urpmi libgimp2.0 and it'll work. Charles told me he is going to changes the requirements as soon as possible. -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 13:50:13 up 8:55, 1 user, load average: 0.47, 0.27, 0.10 ** Este mundo é redondo, mas está ficando muito chato. Barão de Itararé Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Microphone with nvidia chipset
Hello, I'm unable to make microphone working on my system; I did a brief search between other users and it does seems the problem does only involve Mandrake with nforce2 chipset; I also have SuSE 9.2 (free edition) installed on the same pc and the mike works perfectly (driver intel 8x0); so I need any suggestion and, even more important since I'm going to upgrade my hardware, I'd like to know if people using nforce3 based m/boards are still experiencing the same problem Thank you all! -- Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10.1 Official DVD replay problem
I have 10.1 Official (download version) installed on an IBM T23. Very impressed, but there are a few problems... I installed Xine and the libdvdcss stuff. It works fine, but only once. I can open Xine and play a DVD, but the next time I try, it will not produce any sound. Instead, I get a file called ~/xine-out.wav and silence. It seems that as soon as the Xine config is applied or saved, the sound output vanishes. Can anyone suggest what I should be looking at to cure this? I've tried both the offical version of xine-ui and xinelib and the PLF version, but get the same results with both. I've not had this problem with Xine in the past, and I really don't know where to look. If I delete ~/.xine/config I can get sound again until the next time I reopen Xine, but that's not exactly a wonderful solution... Thanks in advance for any suggestions paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marwick Computer Services - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK OS/2, LAN and general Computer Consultants Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Beware, Firefox is a spyware :)
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:23:52 -0500 Alex Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we know that image is real? It's probobly just a joke. If MS Anti-spyware actually did mark Firefox as spyware, we would have heard alot on it by now. Unless anyone else can confirm it, it's a joke. It's a joke. I tried it on my windoze partition and it didn't find firefox as spyware. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
Saul, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 3:18:49 PM, you wrote: You may need to install additional packages: spamassassin-spamc-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk spamassassin-spamd-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk Thanks very much - that did the trick! -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mardakesoft grows - I do hope so!
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 02:22 -0300, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Oh, by the way, Conectiva was bought from the original founders (Arnaldo C. de Melo, aka ACME was one of them) by a financial corporation based in Europe (bank?) years ago. Ricardo Castanho Brazil As far as I know, Banco Itaú - a Brazilian bank - and HSBC Amro Bank were share-holders of Conectiva. -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/mytrip usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 15:06:50 up 10:11, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.77, 0.71 ** Este mundo é redondo, mas está ficando muito chato. Barão de Itararé Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics
I just posted another issue with nvidia and the solution is related to ACPI. This is the forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=553343#post553343 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
Hi All Help ! Sorry for screaming but I do feel a bit better now. I added 1 computer to the network so now there are a total of 3 as follows: MSI with name of Reality_Check @ 192.168.2.7 with Mandrake 10.1 HP with name Meatloaf_Night @ 192.168.2.9 with Mandrake 9.2 IBM with name Big_Nate @ 192.168.2.2 with Mandrake 10.1 I do not have the ability to install 10.1 on the HP with out replacing the CD reader with a DVD reader. From any one box I can ping either [or both at the same time] of the other two boxes. For example from the IBM box I can ping MSI by using 192.168.2.7 and/or HP by using 192.168.2.9. I can not ping either of the other boxes by using names. For example I can not ping MSI or HP by using the names Reality_Check or Meatloaf_Night nor can I ping the IBM box from either MSI or HP using Big_Nate. So, numbers work; names do not work. I was able to access the MSI box from both the HP box and the IBM box by using the following: fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was not able to access any box by fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory I was not able to access the IBM box from either the HP box or the MSI box using fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory I was not able to access the HP box from either the IBM box or the MSI box using fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory So, one function apparently correctly two did not function as expected. I checked packages for the IBM and HP against the MSI. The MSI and IBM have the following packages installed: kdeutils-kdessh openssh openssh-askpass openssh-askpass-gnome openssh-client openssh-server scanssh sshd-monitor The HP package are somewhat different and due to inadequate notes I may not have the content exactly correct so we will skip that at this time. First Question: Are there other packages that are required to ssh into a box that I do not have listed above? Second Question: If there are no additional packages required why does one work [of sorts] and one not? That above [of sorts] is important as after completing I left work went home did laundry and returned to work to attempt to make the other two boxes work. Firing up all 3 computers the 2 which I was not able to access by fish came up normal and functioned normal. The MSi box which I was able to access by fish came up with video up to 3/4 way through KDE boot at which time it lost video and maybe key and mouse too as they did not appear to be functioning either. I shut the box down by turning power off [bad practice] since I appear to have no control of box. I repeated the above several times with identical results. I attempted to access box by fish and was able to do so. I placed Mandrake 10.1 disk in DVD drive and did an upgrade. Booting box after upgrade I still got blank screen and most possible no mouse and no keyboard. Third Question: How does one go about establishing why, how issue develops and how does one repair? Thanks Frank /etc/hosts is a system file and can only be edited by root user. If you are in KDE hit Alt+F2 and enter 'kdesu konqueror' to get a root copy of konqueror file manager. If your IP address does keep changing, then it may be more convenient to use samba instead of fish. Samba allows you to join a Windows network, and you can pass files between both Windows and Linux computers. Since I would imagine part of my ping issue is that hostname is not set and user name may not be [not sure if user name is same as login user or if this is different user name] lets tackle username and host name first. How do I set them up? The user name is the login name. derek Thanks for the help Frank HTH derek 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 Help ! Sorry for screaming but I do feel a bit better now. I added 1 computer to the network so now there are a total of 3 as follows: MSI with name of Reality_Check @ 192.168.2.7 with Mandrake 10.1 HP with name Meatloaf_Night @ 192.168.2.9 with Mandrake 9.2 IBM with name Big_Nate @ 192.168.2.2 with Mandrake 10.1 I do not have the ability to install 10.1 on the HP with out replacing the CD reader with a DVD reader. From any one box I can ping either [or both at the same time] of the other two boxes. For example from the IBM box I can ping MSI by using 192.168.2.7 and/or HP by using 192.168.2.9. I can not ping either of the other boxes by using names. For example I can not ping MSI or HP by using the names Reality_Check or Meatloaf_Night nor can I ping the IBM box from either MSI or HP using Big_Nate. So, numbers work; names do not work. You need to put the names in /etc/hosts is each box, or run a name server on the lan. YOu may want to look at the tmdns package - I have not used it, or even done more then look at the description of the package, but it looks like it may be fore networks like yours. I was able to access the MSI box from both the HP box and the IBM box by using the following: fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was not able to access any box by fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory I was not able to access the IBM box from either the HP box or the MSI box using fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory I was not able to access the HP box from either the IBM box or the MSI box using fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory So, one function apparently correctly two did not function as expected. I checked packages for the IBM and HP against the MSI. The MSI and IBM have the following packages installed: kdeutils-kdessh openssh openssh-askpass openssh-askpass-gnome openssh-client openssh-server scanssh sshd-monitor The HP package are somewhat different and due to inadequate notes I may not have the content exactly correct so we will skip that at this time. First Question: Are there other packages that are required to ssh into a box that I do not have listed above? On the box you want to ssh into, you need the openssh-server and openssh packages, and the libs they are dependant on. You also need to start the sshd daemon running. It is not started by default. chkconfig sshd on service sshd start Second Question: If there are no additional packages required why does one work [of sorts] and one not? That above [of sorts] is important as after completing I left work went home did laundry and returned to work to attempt to make the other two boxes work. Firing up all 3 computers the 2 which I was not able to access by fish came up normal and functioned normal. The MSi box which I was able to access by fish came up with video up to 3/4 way through KDE boot at which time it lost video and maybe key and mouse too as they did not appear to be functioning either. If the screen just went black, then you may have to tweek the monitor settings. Maybe decrease the number of colors, or resulation. This is usualy caused by trying to use higher settings then the monitor supports. (This is a big improvment from the older monitors - they would let out all the magc smoke if you did that!) I shut the box down by turning power off [bad practice] since I appear to have no control of box. You may be able to get the box to reboot using Ctrl-Alt-DEL - it takes a bit, because it does a controlled shutdown/reboot. You may also be able to get a CLI login prompt by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1. I repeated the above several times with identical results. I attempted to access box by fish and was able to do so. I placed Mandrake 10.1 disk in DVD drive and did an upgrade. Booting box after upgrade I still got blank screen and most possible no mouse and no keyboard. Third Question: How does one go about establishing why, how issue develops and how does one repair? Thanks Frank For networking problems, looking in the logs in /var/log is a good lace to start. Especialy on the machine you are trying to connect to. A lot of the time, you will see a message telling you why the connection was not allowed. Firewalls can make things especialy interesting. For X problems, trying a lower resulation setting, and/or less colors is a good place to start. Booting to run level 3, and running tools like drakxconfig is a good place to start. You can tweek settings, and try them out without having to reboot. When it comes to things like being able to access a machine by IP address, but not name, you have to learn about DNS, and how it works. I don't know how to give a short and simple explination on how to troubleshoot it. When you tell a machine to connect to another machine, it has to translate the name you give it to an
[newbie] MP3 repair utility, anyone?
Does anybody know of a quick and easy MP3 repair utility, please? I've got a set of MP3s that are showing the wrong bit rate (showing the minimum bit rate of a VBR file, that being 32), and is showing total lengths in the range of about 18-25 mins (whereas they're all in the 2.5 - 5 min range). MP3_check is showing the correct info for the files, but Amarok is reading the incorrect data (and just for these files). TIA for any good hints. Glenn -- 14:44:47 up 10 days, 9:03, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Thirteen at a table is unlucky only when the hostess has only twelve chops. -- Groucho Marx 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 Sunday 27 February 2005 16:47, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SOTL wrote: Hi All Help ! Sorry for screaming but I do feel a bit better now. I added 1 computer to the network so now there are a total of 3 as follows: MSI with name of Reality_Check @ 192.168.2.7 with Mandrake 10.1 HP with name Meatloaf_Night @ 192.168.2.9 with Mandrake 9.2 IBM with name Big_Nate @ 192.168.2.2 with Mandrake 10.1 I do not have the ability to install 10.1 on the HP with out replacing the CD reader with a DVD reader. From any one box I can ping either [or both at the same time] of the other two boxes. For example from the IBM box I can ping MSI by using 192.168.2.7 and/or HP by using 192.168.2.9. I can not ping either of the other boxes by using names. For example I can not ping MSI or HP by using the names Reality_Check or Meatloaf_Night nor can I ping the IBM box from either MSI or HP using Big_Nate. So, numbers work; names do not work. You need to put the names in /etc/hosts is each box, or run a name server on the lan. YOu may want to look at the tmdns package - I have not used it, or even done more then look at the description of the package, but it looks like it may be fore networks like yours. I was able to access the MSI box from both the HP box and the IBM box by using the following: fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was not able to access any box by fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory I was not able to access the IBM box from either the HP box or the MSI box using fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory I was not able to access the HP box from either the IBM box or the MSI box using fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory So, one function apparently correctly two did not function as expected. I checked packages for the IBM and HP against the MSI. The MSI and IBM have the following packages installed: kdeutils-kdessh openssh openssh-askpass openssh-askpass-gnome openssh-client openssh-server scanssh sshd-monitor The HP package are somewhat different and due to inadequate notes I may not have the content exactly correct so we will skip that at this time. First Question: Are there other packages that are required to ssh into a box that I do not have listed above? On the box you want to ssh into, you need the openssh-server and openssh packages, and the libs they are dependant on. You also need to start the sshd daemon running. It is not started by default. chkconfig sshd on service sshd start Second Question: If there are no additional packages required why does one work [of sorts] and one not? That above [of sorts] is important as after completing I left work went home did laundry and returned to work to attempt to make the other two boxes work. Firing up all 3 computers the 2 which I was not able to access by fish came up normal and functioned normal. The MSi box which I was able to access by fish came up with video up to 3/4 way through KDE boot at which time it lost video and maybe key and mouse too as they did not appear to be functioning either. If the screen just went black, then you may have to tweek the monitor settings. Maybe decrease the number of colors, or resulation. This is usualy caused by trying to use higher settings then the monitor supports. (This is a big improvment from the older monitors - they would let out all the magc smoke if you did that!) I shut the box down by turning power off [bad practice] since I appear to have no control of box. You may be able to get the box to reboot using Ctrl-Alt-DEL - it takes a bit, because it does a controlled shutdown/reboot. You may also be able to get a CLI login prompt by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1. I repeated the above several times with identical results. I attempted to access box by fish and was able to do so. I placed Mandrake 10.1 disk in DVD drive and did an upgrade. Booting box after upgrade I still got blank screen and most possible no mouse and no keyboard. Third Question: How does one go about establishing why, how issue develops and how does one repair? Thanks Frank For networking problems, looking in the logs in /var/log is a good lace to start. Especialy on the machine you are trying to connect to. A lot of the time, you will see a message telling you why the connection was not allowed. Thanks for the information on where to look. I found the following in my auth.log file Sorry but I have no idea of what it means. Feb 27 15:05:00 Big_Nate sshd[13832]: Did not receive identification string from :::127.0.0.1 Firewalls can make things especialy interesting. Firewall for all 3 boxes are set to standard which I believe is off. There is NO firewall/router being used
[newbie] Sneaking Software Patents in the back door...
Quote: Europe, are you watching? FT.com has the jaw-dropping story about European futures exchanges, brokers and traders preparing for patent infringement claims from Trading Technologies, a US software company, natch, located in Chicago -- where else? -- which has hit on what it appears to view as a pot of gold for itself by obtaining two patents on its MD Trader software product in August of 2004, patents it is now aggressively enforcing. It settled [PDF] two patent infringement cases [PDF] already, under circumstances some are questioning, for some licensing dough, and it is currently suing eSpeed, the electronic arm of Cantor Fitzgerald. eSpeed just had one of its patents ruled invalid in a patent infringement lawsuit it brought in July of 2003, after getting the patent in May, so it's been playing the patent game too. Game? It's like musical chairs. You may also recall eSpeed's Wagner patent. And they say *Linux* needs to grow up. TT has suggested to the four main futures exchanges ___- two in Chicago and two in Europe, Euronext.Liffe and Eurex ___- that they should cross its palm with silver to keep it from launching patent infringement lawsuits against them. Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050223205453141 Just what Capitalists love to do, sit around doing absolutely nothing and watch the money roll in. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:46:08 up 6 days, 19:48, 10 users, load average: 1.35, 1.41, 1.36 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 repair utility, anyone?
On Sunday 27 February 2005 1:49 pm, Glenn wrote: Does anybody know of a quick and easy MP3 repair utility, please? I've got a set of MP3s that are showing the wrong bit rate (showing the minimum bit rate of a VBR file, that being 32), and is showing total lengths in the range of about 18-25 mins (whereas they're all in the 2.5 - 5 min range). MP3_check is showing the correct info for the files, but Amarok is reading the incorrect data (and just for these files). You can use Konqueror, audacity, or EasyTag to replace the data in the tags of those mp3s. That's all that's wrong it seems as you are not complaining about sound quality. If they have sound quality problems, then I would just rerip them using grip, as I have never had a problem with that software. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] wmv to vcd converter
I would like to get some wmv files to playt on my TV (dvd player). The player can handle VCDs and of course DVDs. Any ideas? Nero was suggested, but of course that's a windows app and not very free. K3b needs mpegs to make a vcd. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] MP3 repair utility, anyone?
On Sun February 27 2005 16:14, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 1:49 pm, Glenn wrote: Does anybody know of a quick and easy MP3 repair utility, please? I've got a set of MP3s that are showing the wrong bit rate (showing the minimum bit rate of a VBR file, that being 32), and is showing total lengths in the range of about 18-25 mins (whereas they're all in the 2.5 - 5 min range). MP3_check is showing the correct info for the files, but Amarok is reading the incorrect data (and just for these files). You can use Konqueror, audacity, or EasyTag to replace the data in the tags of those mp3s. That's all that's wrong it seems as you are not complaining about sound quality. If they have sound quality problems, then I would just rerip them using grip, as I have never had a problem with that software. Rob Nope, those would have been easy fixes. I've attatched an example of one of those viewed in Easytag. The results are about the same in Amarok. This is a VBR file with a bit rate of ~224, which should be way shorter than 16:33 mins and which, when played in Amarok, is way shorter. The file is confused internally, as far as I can see, not in the tag. -- 16:30:01 up 10 days, 10:48, running Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Registered Linux user #324360 I stood on the leading edge, The eastern seaboard at my feet. Jump! said Yoko Ono I'm too scared and good-looking, I cried. Go on and give it a try, Why prolong the agony, all men must die. -- Roger Waters, The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking attachment: snapshot17.png Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] amarok 1.2.1 - Bugfix Release
A bugfix release of amaroK has been made, version 1.2.1, and as I have been, I made packages of it for Mandrake 10.1. http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1 Please note that this will probably be the last set of packages that I do of amaroK for Mandrake 10.1, as the devs are going to drop KDE 3.2.x support and I myself am going to move on to cooker/10.2. Happy listening. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
