Re: [newbie] devfs and udev
On Sunday 13 March 2005 04:13, SnapafunFrank wrote: I understand that devfs and udev ought not be running at the same time, but how do I stop devfs ? Within MCC I have stopped devfsd and unchecked it re boot up at start up, but still it runs. Question: I'm not even sure if devfsd and devfs are the same thing ~ anyone ? Here's what I see using: $ top ...snip... 214 root 15 0 1872 624 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.99 devfsd 282 root 6 -10800 12 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 udevd ...snip... Are all the above statements correct ? If so, then how do I turn devfs off and have it stay off through reboots ? ( It must be a simple edit of some file but I'm unaware of which one.) And of course the 'insight' question. Any ideas of the effect of leaving devfs turned off ? The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be unmounted and will not have the files seen, but when I do mount it manually, root can see the files but user cannot, making me think at times that I have wiped the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I followed allowed me to have any device I plugged in recognized for what it is within /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot though all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was within that session. ( I used the http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_si ngle/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6 to install udev - it's quite conclusive.) Funny thing is, on my system there's no devfs but nevertheless the devfsd is running as well as udev : kaj]$ rpm -qa | grep devfs devfsd-1.3.25-38mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaj]$ I have done endless permutations of devfs, devfsd, magicdev, udev, and supermount, but my USB devices (scanner, external hard drive, mp3 player and camera) still combat each other in a seemingly random way. So far I've come to the conclusion that one or two of those daemons (or is it devils ?) are written by Microsoft : my /etc/fstab keeps changing each time a USB device gets inserted, especially the umask=0022 statement. This of course prevents me as a ordinary user to write to the device. I have to unmount it as root, edit my fstab to umask=0 and remount. Drives me crazy. So, if someone here could point us to an explanation, I certainly would be happy. Good weekend, all. 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] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
On Sunday 13 Mar 2005 02:35, SnapafunFrank wrote: rikona wrote: Hello SnapafunFrank, Saturday, March 12, 2005, 3:21:26 PM, SnapafunFrank wrote: S I switched back to the cheap ones and burned at speed = 1.0 and S they then worked. Did you ever try a compare or verify to make sure they actually have good data? To be honest - no ~ but the files themselves never opened no matter what I tried, even though the full directory structures were in place and I was able to move down through them to the files. Note: the files themselves did show the correct file sizes when listed within konqueror using list the detail mode. and with the # ls -al command from konsole. You need to be sure, if you are going to rely on this. Check the permissions of the files. If necessary try to open them as root. If you can't even do that the backup is pretty useless, I would have thought. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpocnwHv9FSC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Mar 2005 02:35, SnapafunFrank wrote: rikona wrote: Hello SnapafunFrank, Saturday, March 12, 2005, 3:21:26 PM, SnapafunFrank wrote: S I switched back to the cheap ones and burned at speed = 1.0 and S they then worked. Did you ever try a compare or verify to make sure they actually have good data? To be honest - no ~ but the files themselves never opened no matter what I tried, even though the full directory structures were in place and I was able to move down through them to the files. Note: the files themselves did show the correct file sizes when listed within konqueror using list the detail mode. and with the # ls -al command from konsole. You need to be sure, if you are going to rely on this. Check the permissions of the files. If necessary try to open them as root. If you can't even do that the backup is pretty useless, I would have thought. Anne Thanks Anne but the above response says that I tossed the dvds I didn't trust. And like you have started to from now on, I'm checking the dvds before I consider them available for later recall. AS to permissions, it seems that regardless of what I set or who I am when burning, the owner always comes back as root:root so I have to dig further to correct that one, though I know I set it within xcdroast initially. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /etc/hosts
On Sunday 13 March 2005 05:53, SnapafunFrank wrote: Some time ago I got this working OK and only recently discovered that the /etc/hosts file has been re-written ~ possible still more stuff left over from the corruption of my .ICEauthority. Here's what I posted to assist someone at the time in regards to OOo opening slowly: Quote: mine reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 Snapafun.localdomainlocalhost 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.conSnapafun 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.conlocalhost Now that's somewhat overkill and needs a clean up but it works. End Quote: Since this time I have installed and have running at present ADSL via eth0. [ Dynamic with my ISP ] I seem to recall that another entry was required here for that ~ anyone know what that is supposed to be ? Hopefully this exercise will speed my system up to what it was before the .ICEauthority corruption. /etc/hosts has nothing to do with .ICEauthority You do not need to add anything when you go to ADSL The /etc/hosts file is simply a list to match host names to IP addresses. You did not need 4 separate lines, you could have just put 127.0.0.1 alias1 alias2 alias3 alias4 alias5 and so on... When you refer to a host name in for example a browser url, your computer will check to see if it is the hosts table before it bothers to ask a DNS server what the IP address of that host is. So if you try to browse to http://www.snapafun.con then your computer will immediately translate that as http://127.0.0.1 Thats all the /etc/hosts file does. You would most commonly use the hosts table to identify the other computers in a small local network with static addressing. 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] devfs and udev
On Sunday 13 March 2005 03:13, SnapafunFrank wrote: I understand that devfs and udev ought not be running at the same time, but how do I stop devfs ? Within MCC I have stopped devfsd and unchecked it re boot up at start up, but still it runs. Question: I'm not even sure if devfsd and devfs are the same thing ~ anyone ? If so, then how do I turn devfs off and have it stay off through reboots ? ( It must be a simple edit of some file but I'm unaware of which one.) And of course the 'insight' question. Any ideas of the effect of leaving devfs turned off ? If you installed Mdk 10.1 as a fresh install then it will have installed udev. If you upgraded from a preevious release it could still be using devfsd. devfs and udev are mutually exclusive udev will not run if devfs is running. To stop devfs running then edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza edit the 'append' line to include the option devfs=nomount Then run 'lilo -v' to write the config to the boot sector, then reboot. You can completely remove devfsd with urpme devfsd. Both udev and devfsd create the 'nodes' in /dev for your drivers to connect to. In my experience udev is considerably better than devfsd because it does not suffer the long delay when logging on I had with devfsd. There may be some hardware that devfs works with better than udev, the only one I have found myself is 'lirc' the Linux Infra Red receiver driver, but unless you have a specific problem I would advise using udev. 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] Hard disk led light synchronized with dvd recorder activity
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:50:04 +0100, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Paul and Mikkel. Can I then be sure that there is no bad consequences for my computer? I think you should be fine. Thanks, again, Paul and Mikkel. 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] K3B - Multi Session Burning
On Saturday 12 March 2005 03:47 pm, David wrote: Is it me or does K3B not like to undertake multisession burning. I thought that I was burning the downloaded update RPM's (in multisession mode) only to find out after I'd loaned the Cd to a friend that they had not burnt although K3B had indicated that everything had been successfully burnt. Luckily for me that I'd not deleted the files after having burnt them so was able to burn them onto a CD-RW. Anyone with any ideas on this? E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk @ 09:38:41 up 17:24, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.03, 1.03 might have been the implamentation of UDf on the other computer, or a need to finaliaze the CD-rw disk so it could be read on other computers. did the computer you were trying to read the CD on have a burner installed? it might not have UDF file reading ability. could your computer (the one that burned the CDrw) read the disk? did K3B think the disk was still a blank? -- 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] Signature Randomizer
At 11:43 PM 3/12/2005, Stephen Kühn said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:09, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to KookieJar for Windows. Thank you, I use the fortunes database for my random sigs; echo --br echo stephen kuhnbr echo mobile: 0410-728-389br echo illawarra and regional new south wales echo ---br echo GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternativesbr echo 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option.br echo Registered Linux User # 267497br echo ---br fortune Does it let you create your own taglines? I see a lot of ones already there, but I have my own collection that I like. Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. --Thornton Wilder Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] X Compile Error
Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] qsstv-5.3c]# I had this last year, and someone helped me out but I cant remember how I did it! Help! Many thanks, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de M0TJC Yaesu FT-902DM 100w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E 50w/40w Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Key KM-80 16ch 4m, Dipole Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: Philips FM1100 2x 5/8 Colinear 70cm Philips FM91 Carphone 1/2wave 2m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
Amy wrote: Hey guys, I want to connect my Nokia 6800 phone to my computer to put my own images on it (the ones that came with it suck, and the ones I can download are over priced for what they are), and I was wondering if anyone's been able to connect a mobile phone to a computer running Mandrake in order to upload pictures and sounds to it? More specifically, has anyone gotten the Nokia 6800 connected correctly? I'm tight on money at the moment, and so I'd like to avoid spending money on a data cable that's going to do me no good. I haven't had much, if any luck, with what I saw on Google, and I didn't see anything about connecting mobile phones in the list's Wiki. Thanks in advance for any help! Amy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I can't speak to Nokia from experience, but I've gotten Samsung and Sanyo phones connected to Mandrake with bitpim (http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/). The bitpim site only indicates one Nokia phone model known to work, but states others may work, though they are untested. You'll need a USB cable made for your phone, and it looks like you can get one here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5755884150category=20366 I bought my cable on eBay, and it worked like a charm. The eBay knock-offs are about $50 less than the cable the phone vendors sell. Good luck! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found
joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RickSisler wrote: did you try what bascule mentions: try the full path to urpmi # /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels I did, and like magic, urpmi worked. The question I have, is why is /usr/sbin no longer in my $PATH, and/or how should I edit my bashrc so that it is. Here is what i get from echo $PATH: echo $PATH /usr/lib/distcc/bin:/home/fcrozat/GNUstep/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools :/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin :/usr/games:/home/fcrozat/bin Joe, why do you have fcrozat settings I wonder ? I wouldn't think a rpm package would bring that in ? is your username fcrozat ? or do you have a user named fcrozat ? did you type echo $PATH from a root login ? which you did before but I am just confirming it .. something sounds strange here .. GNUstep is for LSB compliance, I think, can someone conform this ? What version of mdk are you using ? 10.1 ? (I mis-spoke myself about /etc/bashrc, mine is customized. And I typed from my user's PATH, which is different than root's, sorry) On my other system, which is not custom but a fresh install, root's .bashrc is also setting the $PATH PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin Then /etc/profile seems to add /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/games A look in rc.sysinit (which is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) for the global path statements, verifing these lines: rc.sysinit: # Set the path rc.sysinit: PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin you have these in your posted path, *except* /usr/sbin/ Verify that it is missing in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, if so, add it, reboot and you should be back on track. HTH -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Can't find win32-codecs
Dear All Could someone please tell me where can I find win32-codecs? I have tried several plf mirrors but with no success. 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] Can't find win32-codecs
On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could someone please tell me where can I find win32-codecs? I have tried several plf mirrors but with no success. Thanks in advance, Paul PLF has split into 'free' and 'nonfree' sections. (nonfree as in subject to patents or something, not as in you have to pay) Win32 codecs are in nonfree ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.1/i586/win32-codecs-1.6-3plf.i586.rpm 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] Can't find win32-codecs
On Sunday 13 March 2005 15:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could someone please tell me where can I find win32-codecs? I have tried several plf mirrors but with no success. Thanks in advance, Paul Hi, http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find win32-codecs
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:07:04 +0100, Pablo Ortuzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone please tell me where can I find win32-codecs? I have tried several plf mirrors but with no success. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ Thanks to all who have answered. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Permissions
Hi All Little bit by little bit this system is beginning to work. As some of you may recall I set this box up with a data storage partation of /mnt/System_Data. From a operation perspective I have found that using a separate partition for data is much safer than storing data under any Linux normal partition like /home as it allows one to install, upgrade, and repair systems with lower probability of data loss. This system being different though I did not set it up as I normally do and mount the data partition to /home/user/data partition this has lead to a slight bit of confusion on my part. I attempted to set permissions on the data partition by modifying permission in root control center - Security - Permissions and then adding permission for user to access /mnt/System_Data This did not give me permission. My confusion comes about that I know that permission can be changed by command line [not performed yet as I forgot the commands and will have to look them up when I get home] in that either I did something wrong with setting permission or permission for a partition can not be set by use of the GUI procedure. The second part of the issue is that in another box I have my data storage mounted as /home/user/Common_Data which gives no permission issues that I know of if I use Konqueror as a file manager but if I use MidnightCommander I have issues exemplified by my moving a file from /home/user/file name. to /home/user/Common_Data I will receive a red which says: Cannot chmod target file /home/user/file name Operation not permitted Skip Retry Abort When I hit Skip or Abort I find that file has transferred. I would appreciate what enlightenment into my root issue anyone may provide. 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] You know it's gonna be a bad day when,...
This is what happens when you wake up in the morning and you're out of coffee! You start imagining all sorts of scary things! 1) You wake up from a nightmare where all your computers had Windows installed instead of Linux, and all your systems have blue-screened on you, 2) You wake up with the phone in your hand and your STILL on hold with Microsoft support, and it's the Christmas holidays, 3) You receive a Microsoft Audit CD in the mail, but you've never used anything but Linux, 4) Microsoft releases MS Linux which has NO security, crashes often, has a whack of bugs in it which you can't fix, includes an optional BSOD splashscreen, and patents all the source code for it, 5) PHP and Perl turn out to be HTML and Visual Basic in disguise and you just bought every book on the subject, 6) Microsoft patents the GPL, 7) You receive SPAM emails with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer 'dressed-in-drag' pictures attached and they're so horrible that they cause permanent brain trauma! 8) All your Linux and Open-Source T-Shirts get stolen and you haven't a thing to wear! Feel free to add to the list. Maybe the one thing we really should add to the Mandrake Twiki is a humour section? Let the games begin! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found
joe wrote: RickSisler wrote: joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: bascule wrote: have you checked your path? echo $PATH try the full path to urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path Joe, the variable name is declared with Capital letters, so type:: # echo $PATH I am working on setting up my path again. Wondering what happened to it. if the above doesn't work, check your /etc/bashrc .. did you try what bascule mentions: try the full path to urpmi # /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels I did, and like magic, urpmi worked. The question I have, is why is /usr/sbin no longer in my $PATH, and/or how should I edit my bashrc so that it is. Here is what i get from echo $PATH: echo $PATH /usr/lib/distcc/bin:/home/fcrozat/GNUstep/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/fcrozat/bin The directoryies /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin are not normaly in a user's path. They are in root's path when you log in as root, or when you su - to root. Normaly, when you do su instead of su -, you keep the same path. But in Mandrake 10.1, when ever root opens a shell, the path is set to fixed path by /root/.bashrc. So you may want to check the .bashrc file in /root to be sure it is correct. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions
On Sunday 13 March 2005 15:46, SOTL wrote: Hi All Little bit by little bit this system is beginning to work. As some of you may recall I set this box up with a data storage partation of /mnt/System_Data. From a operation perspective I have found that using a separate partition for data is much safer than storing data under any Linux normal partition like /home as it allows one to install, upgrade, and repair systems with lower probability of data loss. This system being different though I did not set it up as I normally do and mount the data partition to /home/user/data partition this has lead to a slight bit of confusion on my part. I attempted to set permissions on the data partition by modifying permission in root control center - Security - Permissions and then adding permission for user to access /mnt/System_Data This did not give me permission. SNIP This is not by any chance a FAT32 partition is it? If so then you cannot change permissions because FAT32 has no attribute bits you can change. Instead you have to define pseudo attributes for the entire partition when you mount it. To set this MandrakeControlCentreMount PointsPartitions select the partition then ToggletoExpertOptions Select umask=0 That will force the permissions to 777 for all users. 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] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Mar 2005 02:35, SnapafunFrank wrote: rikona wrote: Hello SnapafunFrank, Saturday, March 12, 2005, 3:21:26 PM, SnapafunFrank wrote: S I switched back to the cheap ones and burned at speed = 1.0 and S they then worked. Did you ever try a compare or verify to make sure they actually have good data? To be honest - no ~ but the files themselves never opened no matter what I tried, even though the full directory structures were in place and I was able to move down through them to the files. Note: the files themselves did show the correct file sizes when listed within konqueror using list the detail mode. and with the # ls -al command from konsole. You need to be sure, if you are going to rely on this. Check the permissions of the files. If necessary try to open them as root. If you can't even do that the backup is pretty useless, I would have thought. Anne I think we have a bit of cross communication here. It is not the bad DVDs that you need to check, but the ones you think are good. Make sure the backups are working correctly. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X Compile Error
JRH wrote: Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] qsstv-5.3c]# I had this last year, and someone helped me out but I cant remember how I did it! Help! Many thanks, James It sounds like you are missing some of the -devel packages. Chances are, you are missing more then just the libxorg-x11-devel package. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions
SOTL wrote: Hi All Little bit by little bit this system is beginning to work. As some of you may recall I set this box up with a data storage partation of /mnt/System_Data. From a operation perspective I have found that using a separate partition for data is much safer than storing data under any Linux normal partition like /home as it allows one to install, upgrade, and repair systems with lower probability of data loss. This system being different though I did not set it up as I normally do and mount the data partition to /home/user/data partition this has lead to a slight bit of confusion on my part. I attempted to set permissions on the data partition by modifying permission in root control center - Security - Permissions and then adding permission for user to access /mnt/System_Data This did not give me permission. My confusion comes about that I know that permission can be changed by command line [not performed yet as I forgot the commands and will have to look them up when I get home] in that either I did something wrong with setting permission or permission for a partition can not be set by use of the GUI procedure. The second part of the issue is that in another box I have my data storage mounted as /home/user/Common_Data which gives no permission issues that I know of if I use Konqueror as a file manager but if I use MidnightCommander I have issues exemplified by my moving a file from /home/user/file name. to /home/user/Common_Data I will receive a red which says: Cannot chmod target file /home/user/file name Operation not permitted Skip Retry Abort When I hit Skip or Abort I find that file has transferred. I would appreciate what enlightenment into my root issue anyone may provide. Thanks Frank Frank, This sounds like you are copping to a FAT or VFAT partition. You can not change permissions on this type of partition like you would an ext2 or ext3 partition. You have to set the partitions when you mount the partition. (Or by remounting it with new permissions.) For this type of partition, I normaly use something like /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noexec 0 0 in /etc/fstab. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] devfs and udev
SnapafunFrank wrote: I understand that devfs and udev ought not be running at the same time, but how do I stop devfs ? Within MCC I have stopped devfsd and unchecked it re boot up at start up, but still it runs. Question: I'm not even sure if devfsd and devfs are the same thing ~ anyone ? Here's what I see using: $ top ...snip... 214 root 15 0 1872 624 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.99 devfsd 282 root 6 -10800 12 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 udevd ...snip... Are all the above statements correct ? If so, then how do I turn devfs off and have it stay off through reboots ? ( It must be a simple edit of some file but I'm unaware of which one.) And of course the 'insight' question. Any ideas of the effect of leaving devfs turned off ? The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be unmounted and will not have the files seen, but when I do mount it manually, root can see the files but user cannot, making me think at times that I have wiped the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I followed allowed me to have any device I plugged in recognized for what it is within /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot though all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was within that session. ( I used the http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6 to install udev - it's quite conclusive.) You can try editing /etc/lilo.conf, and adding devfs=nomount to the append= line. You would end up with something like: append=resume=/dev/hda9 splash=silent devfs=nomount Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FreeNX, kNX on Mandrake 10.1
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:34, Adrian Coman wrote: Hi, Did anyone succeded in running a FreeNX server and connection with a kNX client (or with nxclient from www.nomachine.com)? If yes, how? No, I haven't got it to work yet not knx nor nxclient:( It logs in to the server and then hangs demanding a password for user: nx. It should authenticate using the keys but somehow it won't..grrr. Are there NX, FreeNX and kNX RPMs for Mandrake? Yes, check out cooker(10.2)...they're all there:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] devfs and udev
SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be unmounted and will not have the files seen, but when I do mount it manually, root can see the files but user cannot, making me think at times that I have wiped the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I followed allowed me to have any device I plugged in recognized for what it is within /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot though all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was within that session. ( I used the http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6 to install udev - it's quite conclusive.) If you set up rules for udev to give specific names to USB devices, in place of the names the kernel gives them, you will break the automounting that hotplug does. You can create your own rules to handle the mounting in place of the standard ones. This allows you to control how things get mounted. For example, when you plug in a PNY memory stick, you can have it get mounted on /mnt/pny instead /dev/removable. (Don't ask for the full details yet - I am still playing with this.) You can get more specific, and do things like have 32MB sticks mount one place, and 64MB mount in another. Basicly, you can test any of the tags that udev know about, and build rules based on them. While mounting specific memory devices in specific places may not be real usuefull, when you start talking about USB hard drives, that is another story. If you have more then one partition on the drive, then current hotplug code will not mount it. Also, if you have requirments that different partitions on the drive be mounted in specific places, you can handle them this way. Maybe one partition needs to mount on /backup, and another on /opt/pictures, or something like that. Now, as far as users being able to access files on USB storage devices, it depends on how you mount them. If you just do something like mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable, then your users will not be able to access the files. But if you do something like mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable -o umask=0, then they will have access. Using sda1 may not be the best choice in this example, as if you plug in a USB PEN drive, and it uses the default device, it will get automounted, but I think you get the idea. If you have udev set to create something like /dev/pen and /dev/pen1, then use pen1 in place of sda1, and it will work. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X Compile Error
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JRH wrote: Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] qsstv-5.3c]# I had this last year, and someone helped me out but I cant remember how I did it! Help! Many thanks, James It sounds like you are missing some of the -devel packages. Chances are, you are missing more then just the libxorg-x11-devel package. Mikkel Thanks Mikkel. I knew it would be something as simple as the -devel packages... a quick urpmi soon sorted it. Cheers, James -- Sent using Mozilla Thunderbird on Mandrake Linux 10.1 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! 73 de M0TJC Yaesu FT-902DM 100w with quad band nested dipoles Yaesu FT-7800E 50w/40w Dual Band, Watson W20 Vertical Key KM-80 16ch 4m, Dipole Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: Philips FM1100 2x 5/8 Colinear 70cm Philips FM91 Carphone 1/2wave 2m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] You know it's gonna be a bad day when,...
On Sunday 13 Mar 2005 15:59, Mr. Geek wrote: Maybe the one thing we really should add to the Mandrake Twiki is a humour section? Let the games begin! Feel free - it *is* a TWiki :-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Changing the fonts of the menus of Abiword
Dear All Is there some way of changing the fonts of the menus of Abiword? 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] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
Hello Mikkel, Sunday, March 13, 2005, 8:39:00 AM, Mikkel wrote: You need to be sure, if you are going to rely on this. Check the permissions of the files. If necessary try to open them as root. If you can't even do that the backup is pretty useless, I would have thought. MLE I think we have a bit of cross communication here. It is not the MLE bad DVDs that you need to check, but the ones you think are good. MLE Make sure the backups are working correctly. Agree totally! BUT - from the recent messages, it appears that there is NO WAY to verify a just-burned CD/DVD to make sure the data is the same and can be read OK. Still looking.. -- rikonamailto:[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] K3B - Multi Session Burning
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:12:49 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #On Saturday 12 March 2005 03:47 pm, David wrote: # Is it me or does K3B not like to undertake multisession burning. I thought # that I was burning the downloaded update RPM's (in multisession mode) only # to find out after I'd loaned the Cd to a friend that they had not burnt # although K3B had indicated that everything had been successfully burnt. # Luckily for me that I'd not deleted the files after having burnt them so # was able to burn them onto a CD-RW. # # Anyone with any ideas on this? # # E. David I. Taylor # # #might have been the implamentation of UDf on the other computer, or a need to #finaliaze the CD-rw disk so it could be read on other computers. did the #computer you were trying to read the CD on have a burner installed? #it might not have UDF file reading ability. #could your computer (the one that burned the CDrw) read the disk? did K3B #think the disk was still a blank? Yes my friends computer does have a burner. The disc (a Transonic) that I did the multsession burn on when I tried to read in both mc and konqurer showed that no data was recorded yet on completion of the burn k3b had told me that the burn was successful. When I tried to continue multi session burn it recognised that the disc had previously been burnt to. Having talked to my friend (a linux guru) we've more or less come to the conclusion that Transonic disc's don't like to be burnt multisession. E. David I. Taylor Beneath the Mountain, beside the Sea; Taranaki, the place to be. composed using Sylpheed, sent from a 100% Linux/Open Source computer featuring Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk @ 09:08:47 up 1 day, 16:54, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.04, 1.02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer
Chris wrote:
On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:09 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to
KookieJar for Windows.
Thank you,
Yes, its called fortune and I believe its installed as part of a normal
install. You can call it from a script such as this:
#!/bin/bash
echo Chris
echo Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org;
STR=$(uptime)
TIME=${STR% user}
RESULT=${TIME%}
echo $RESULT
echo Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel $(uname -r)
echo
/usr/games/fortune
echo
if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio
UK $( grep Title: /tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print $2}' )
fi
If using Kmail you can under Settings configure Kmail identies
signature then select Obtain signature text from Output of Command. For
instance mine is /home/chris/./sig. You can learn more about fortune from
man fortune
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Thanks for the tip.
I was able to get it to work in thunderbird by making a script like you
suggested and calling it via cron to generate a signature like this
every 15 minutes.
First make sig-pubmail executable like so:
chmod 0755 sig-pubmail
Then edit your /etc/crontab file and add a lines like mine below:
0 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
15 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
30 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
45 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Then of course just have thunderbird use that file as it's signature.
sigpubmail.txt
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Re: [newbie] X Compile Error
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 01:31, JRH wrote: Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] qsstv-5.3c]# I had this last year, and someone helped me out but I cant remember how I did it! Help! Many thanks, James Make sure you have the development libraries installed and you should be right. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for 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] Signature Randomizer
Dave Ashmore wrote:
Chris wrote:
On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:09 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to
KookieJar for Windows.
Thank you,
Yes, its called fortune and I believe its installed as part of a
normal install. You can call it from a script such as this:
#!/bin/bash
echo Chris
echo Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org;
STR=$(uptime)
TIME=${STR% user}
RESULT=${TIME%}
echo $RESULT
echo Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel $(uname -r)
echo
/usr/games/fortune
echo
if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo Live - Classic Rock - From
Virgin Radio UK $( grep Title: /tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print
$2}' )
fi
If using Kmail you can under Settings configure Kmail identies
signature then select Obtain signature text from Output of Command.
For instance mine is /home/chris/./sig. You can learn more about
fortune from man fortune
HTH
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http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Thanks for the tip.
I was able to get it to work in thunderbird by making a script like you
suggested and calling it via cron to generate a signature like this
every 15 minutes.
First make sig-pubmail executable like so:
chmod 0755 sig-pubmail
Then edit your /etc/crontab file and add a lines like mine below:
0 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
15 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
30 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
45 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Then of course just have thunderbird use that file as it's signature.
sigpubmail.txt
A better way would be to set EDITOR to your farerate text editor, and
run crontab -e as your normal user. (If you have crontab enabled for
normal users - depends on security.) Add.
0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/djash/sig-pubmail .home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Save, and exit.
The biggest drawback with the way you have done it is that the script is
run as root. Running a script that a user can modify as root is a BIG
security risk!
Also, the signiture file will be owned by root, instead of djash.
Mikkel
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Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
rikona wrote: Hello Mikkel, Sunday, March 13, 2005, 8:39:00 AM, Mikkel wrote: You need to be sure, if you are going to rely on this. Check the permissions of the files. If necessary try to open them as root. If you can't even do that the backup is pretty useless, I would have thought. MLE I think we have a bit of cross communication here. It is not the MLE bad DVDs that you need to check, but the ones you think are good. MLE Make sure the backups are working correctly. Agree totally! BUT - from the recent messages, it appears that there is NO WAY to verify a just-burned CD/DVD to make sure the data is the same and can be read OK. Still looking.. It depends on how you built the backup. If you used tat to backup the files, before burning them, then the -d option of tar will let you compair the files in the archive to the origionals. For a quick, cheap, and dirty check of the files, I find something like for i in /mnt/dvd/* ; do echo Reading $i ; cat $i /dev/null ; done works well. It will tell you if the files are readable. It will not tell you if the files match the origional ones. It also doesn't follow directories. Do not forget the quotes around $i in the cat command, or you will get errors if you have any file names with spaces in them. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver
Hi All, First post :-) I've recently started the transition from XP to Mandrake and things are generally going very well. Mandrake is great !! However, inevitably help is needed. Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:01:24 +, Charles Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, First post :-) I've recently started the transition from XP to Mandrake and things are generally going very well. Mandrake is great !! However, inevitably help is needed. Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com try this site:http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Saturday 12 March 2005 08:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: | On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: | OK - that's out, then. What about the fstab line? It feels a long time | since I used a 2.4 kernel, so I may be remembering wrongly, but is the | cdrom really scd1? I would go to MCC Hardware Mountpoints and check | everything there - not forgetting the advanced tab. I usually find that | fixes any problems I have. | | Anne | | No, its really an IDE device (the Toshiba DVD reader at /dev/scd0 is truly | a SCSI device). Before when it was working fine, I had it setup as scd1 in | the /etc/fstab file, so I dunno. | You know, I've found that occasionally something will monkey with fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab as soon as I get everything working, so I can refer back to it when things go south. (The fstab backup created at changes isn't reliable, because sometimes I don't notice that stuff isn't working for a while, and several changes may have been made). K3b seems to be a big offender (as you have found out). Also, turn off harddrake--you can always turn it back on when new hardware is added. And sometimes, things seem to happen for no good reason that I can determine. I thought that I might be the only one, but I guess not. These are the fstab lines for my CD's with Mdk9.2, no scsi emulation on the reader. If there was, it might make cdrom2 /dev/scd1. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 One thing I know, if you unplug a usb device, and don't reboot when you plug it back in, a second mount point for the same device will be added (my camera does this continuously), and it drives me nuts! Anyone know how to stop this? And finally, I quit using K3b. I have a lot less problems with Eroaster because it doesn't continually lose my devices. I don't have any DVD writers, though, just CDRWs, so I don't know if Eroaster even works with DVDRW. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver
On Sunday 13 March 2005 23:01, Charles Rodgers wrote: Hi All, First post :-) I've recently started the transition from XP to Mandrake and things are generally going very well. Mandrake is great !! However, inevitably help is needed. Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. Charles Welcome Charles... The HP Photosmart maybe new, so I guess you could use this one : http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PhotoSmart_8400 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] HP 8450 Printer Driver
Thanks Christopher, On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:08:27 -0500, you wrote: Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. try this site:http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ The nearest available on that site is for the HP Photosmart 8400, which is the one that I have installed. Problem is that I can't get it to print landscape :-( Maybe it's the same driver for all the 8400 series - guess I'll have to keep trying to get it to work properly Thanks for your help, Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cleaning optical mouse
The is may or may not be OT, anyway, my 10yr old Logictech wheel mouse finally quit performing correctly last night after I cleaned it. The left button would only work about 50% of the time. Bought a new Logictech wheel optical mouse, Mandrake still sees it as the old one which I figured it would since the only difference is instead of a ball there is a light. Question is, how is this mouse cleaned? Do I clean the lens on the bottom? If so, with what? Thanks Chris -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 16:55:14 up 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.56, 0.48 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio UK Wings - Maybe I'm amazed - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thunderbird access question
My MTA is Postfix, my mail client is Thunderbird. ML10.1. When I try to retrieve my messages I get a message stating Movemail cannot create a lock file, and I am supposed to chmod /var/spool directory mode 1777, which solves the problem until the following day. The security level of my system does not like /var/spool being world writable and changes the mode back to what is was. I read somewhere that I could get around this by adding something to the mail group, but I cannot locate it again. Your assistance would keep me from pulling out what little hair I have left. Thanks, JB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
On Sunday 13 Mar 2005 06:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: Dave Ashmore wrote: Hello all. I'd like to take this chance to offer to bring a new user up to speed on Mandrake. I don't consider myself an expert but would like to give a little back to a community where I've learned so much about linux. So, If someone needs some help learning how to get around Mandrake Linux via Skype (voip application) I'm looking to help sometime tomorrow afternoon EST. (not exactly sure when) I'll turn on skype an await a call as mentioned above. Skype name: djash34 Till then take care I'm assuming from this you Skype up and running on Mandrake? Is it 10.1, and was it difficult to set up? I used it briefly in windows to communicate with a friend and thought it was great. Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. Give me a call if you need some help. Skype: djash34 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:53, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 15:46, SOTL wrote: Hi All Little bit by little bit this system is beginning to work. As some of you may recall I set this box up with a data storage partation of /mnt/System_Data. Partation is Linux ext2 [or 3] This is a single boot box. ALL partations are Mandrake 10.1 default which if memory serves me correct is ext2 although that could be ext3. From a operation perspective I have found that using a separate partition for data is much safer than storing data under any Linux normal partition like /home as it allows one to install, upgrade, and repair systems with lower probability of data loss. This system being different though I did not set it up as I normally do and mount the data partition to /home/user/data partition this has lead to a slight bit of confusion on my part. Partation is fat32 This is a dual boot box with MS Windows in the first partition, Common_Data in the middle, and Mandrake 10.1 on the opposite end of the HD. Mandrake has partitions /boot, /, swap, /home in that order. I attempted to set permissions on the data partition by modifying permission in root control center - Security - Permissions and then adding permission for user to access /mnt/System_Data This did not give me permission. SNIP This is not by any chance a FAT32 partition is it? If so then you cannot change permissions because FAT32 has no attribute bits you can change. Instead you have to define pseudo attributes for the entire partition when you mount it. To set this MandrakeControlCentreMount PointsPartitions select the partition then ToggletoExpertOptions Select umask=0 That will force the permissions to 777 for all users. 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] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
On Monday 14 March 2005 00:23, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: (snip) I'm assuming from this you Skype up and running on Mandrake? Is it 10.1, and was it difficult to set up? I used it briefly in windows to communicate with a friend and thought it was great. Hi, it's in your installation CDs. You can also download Skype: http://www.skype.com/ Works great. -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:21:23 -0600, skunge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amy wrote: Hey guys, I want to connect my Nokia 6800 phone to my computer to put my own images on it (the ones that came with it suck, and the ones I can download are over priced for what they are), and I was wondering if anyone's been able to connect a mobile phone to a computer running Mandrake in order to upload pictures and sounds to it? More specifically, has anyone gotten the Nokia 6800 connected correctly? I'm tight on money at the moment, and so I'd like to avoid spending money on a data cable that's going to do me no good. I haven't had much, if any luck, with what I saw on Google, and I didn't see anything about connecting mobile phones in the list's Wiki. Thanks in advance for any help! Amy I can't speak to Nokia from experience, but I've gotten Samsung and Sanyo phones connected to Mandrake with bitpim (http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/). The bitpim site only indicates one Nokia phone model known to work, but states others may work, though they are untested. You'll need a USB cable made for your phone, and it looks like you can get one here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5755884150category=20366 I bought my cable on eBay, and it worked like a charm. The eBay knock-offs are about $50 less than the cable the phone vendors sell. Good luck! I can probably get the data cable I need through work, and only pay a couple to a few dollars more than the cost of the cable you linked + shipping. Maybe even about the same taking my employee discount into consideration. Though, if I hadn't caught the subtext of the coupon Nokia gave me when I registered my phone, I might have bought it from them. They charge $49.95, and I have a coupon for $10 off, but it requires me to spend $50 or more, and that usually doesn't round up five cents. *shrugs* I'll look into the one at work though, thanks. If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! Amy -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Dave Ashmore wrote:
Chris wrote:
On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:09 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to
KookieJar for Windows.
Thank you,
Yes, its called fortune and I believe its installed as part of a
normal install. You can call it from a script such as this:
#!/bin/bash
echo Chris
echo Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org;
STR=$(uptime)
TIME=${STR% user}
RESULT=${TIME%}
echo $RESULT
echo Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel $(uname -r)
echo
/usr/games/fortune
echo
if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo Live - Classic Rock - From
Virgin Radio UK $( grep Title: /tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print
$2}' )
fi
If using Kmail you can under Settings configure Kmail identies
signature then select Obtain signature text from Output of
Command. For instance mine is /home/chris/./sig. You can learn
more about fortune from man fortune
HTH
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Thanks for the tip.
I was able to get it to work in thunderbird by making a script like
you suggested and calling it via cron to generate a signature like
this every 15 minutes.
First make sig-pubmail executable like so:
chmod 0755 sig-pubmail
Then edit your /etc/crontab file and add a lines like mine below:
0 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
15 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
30 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
45 ** * * root/home/djash/./sig-pubmail
/home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Then of course just have thunderbird use that file as it's signature.
sigpubmail.txt
A better way would be to set EDITOR to your farerate text editor, and
run crontab -e as your normal user. (If you have crontab enabled for
normal users - depends on security.) Add.
0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/djash/sig-pubmail .home/djash/sigpubmail.txt
Save, and exit.
The biggest drawback with the way you have done it is that the script
is run as root. Running a script that a user can modify as root is a
BIG security risk!
Also, the signiture file will be owned by root, instead of djash.
Mikkel
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I will do what you suggested.
How do I set editor to nano?
--
Regards
Dave Ashmore
MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1
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Re: [newbie] K3b help?
On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:31 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: You know, I've found that occasionally something will monkey with fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab as soon as I get everything working, so I can refer back to it when things go south. (The fstab backup created at changes isn't reliable, because sometimes I don't notice that stuff isn't working for a while, and several changes may have been made). K3b seems to be a big offender (as you have found out). Also, turn off harddrake--you can always turn it back on when new hardware is added. And sometimes, things seem to happen for no good reason that I can determine. I thought that I might be the only one, but I guess not. These are the fstab lines for my CD's with Mdk9.2, no scsi emulation on the reader. If there was, it might make cdrom2 /dev/scd1. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 One thing I know, if you unplug a usb device, and don't reboot when you plug it back in, a second mount point for the same device will be added (my camera does this continuously), and it drives me nuts! Anyone know how to stop this? And finally, I quit using K3b. I have a lot less problems with Eroaster because it doesn't continually lose my devices. I don't have any DVD writers, though, just CDRWs, so I don't know if Eroaster even works with DVDRW. e Hi Erylon, thanks for the reply. Well, see...it was a working setup that I had. Then the problem with my /home occurred and I had to reinstall. I thought I put everything back the way I had it before, but its obvious that I must not have. I use Gcombust here, like it a lot - it works fine with my setup. It does not support DVDs though. K3b did, until now, after the reinstall. So I guess I'll just keep playing with it. :-) -- /\ 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] Cleaning optical mouse
I have had a Microsoft optical trackball for about 18 months, and find that all I need do is remove the 'gunk' that builds up on the three rollers/bearings that hold the ball in place. I have had no need to do anything with the optics Hugh -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 14-Mar-05 09:59 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Cc: Subject:[newbie] Cleaning optical mouse The is may or may not be OT, anyway, my 10yr old Logictech wheel mouse finally quit performing correctly last night after I cleaned it. The left button would only work about 50% of the time. Bought a new Logictech wheel optical mouse, Mandrake still sees it as the old one which I figured it would since the only difference is instead of a ball there is a light. Question is, how is this mouse cleaned? Do I clean the lens on the bottom? If so, with what? Thanks Chris -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 16:55:14 up 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.56, 0.48 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio UK Wings - Maybe I'm amazed - winmail.dat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cleaning optical mouse
On Sunday 13 March 2005 07:02 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: I have had a Microsoft optical trackball for about 18 months, and find that all I need do is remove the 'gunk' that builds up on the three rollers/bearings that hold the ball in place. I have had no need to do anything with the optics Thanks Hugh, this mouse has no rollers/bearings or ball. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 19:13:30 up 3:19, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.35, 0.32 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk HOW YOU CAN TELL THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A ROTTEN DAY: #32: You call your answering service and they've never heard of you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype
Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 00:23, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: (snip) I'm assuming from this you Skype up and running on Mandrake? Is it 10.1, and was it difficult to set up? I used it briefly in windows to communicate with a friend and thought it was great. Hi, it's in your installation CDs. You can also download Skype: http://www.skype.com/ Works great. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Yes I would recommend the download as I'm sure it's the latest version. Then go to konsole and type su to become root and type roots password. The type urpmi /pathto/getskype-linux-mdk.rpm You may have to play with the sound mixer settings for your mic. http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html Good luck. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Thunderbird 1 Sometimes I can be reached via Skype as djash34 Disclaimer: The below quote is randomly generated and I may or may not agree with the quote. Frobnicate, v.: To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. Derived from FROBNITZ. Usually abbreviated to FROB. Thus one has the saying to frob a frob. See TWEAK and TWIDDLE. Usage: FROB, TWIDDLE, and TWEAK sometimes connote points along a continuum. FROB connotes aimless manipulation; TWIDDLE connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; TWEAK connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing 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] Signature Randomizer
Dave Ashmore wrote: I will do what you suggested. How do I set editor to nano? For one time use, export EDITOR=nano is the xterm or vc you are going to run crontab-e in. For a lasting change, edit .bashrc, and add: EDITOR=nano export EDITOR The change will not take effect untill you close the term, and open a new one, or logout and log in if in the CLI. So use the first form as well, if you want it changed right away. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found PROBLEM SOLVED
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The directoryies /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin are not normaly in a user's path. They are in root's path when you log in as root, or when you su - to root. Normaly, when you do su instead of su -, you keep the same path. But in Mandrake 10.1, when ever root opens a shell, the path is set to fixed path by /root/.bashrc. So you may want to check the .bashrc file in /root to be sure it is correct. Mikkel Problem solved! Never used su - before, but when I did, echo $PATH reported: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin URPMI works (again). \ Thanks to all for the help. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver
On Sunday 13 March 2005 05:52 pm, Charles Rodgers wrote: Thanks Christopher, On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:08:27 -0500, you wrote: Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. try this site:http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ The nearest available on that site is for the HP Photosmart 8400, which is the one that I have installed. Problem is that I can't get it to print landscape :-( Maybe it's the same driver for all the 8400 series - guess I'll have to keep trying to get it to work properly Thanks for your help, Charles Charles: Does this help? http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/hp-list/2004q4/005961.html -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound in a laptop
I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on top of 10.0 in my laptop. That's the only way I can get the multithread boot option. My problem is that I have no sound. For what I gather the problem is that /dev/dsp does not exist in my system. I have gone through the troubleshooter and the driver doesn't seem to be loaded. I will appreciate any advise. 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] K3b help?
On Sunday 13 March 2005 06:13 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:31 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: You know, I've found that occasionally something will monkey with fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab as soon as I get everything working, so I can refer back to it when things go south. (The fstab backup created at changes isn't reliable, because sometimes I don't notice that stuff isn't working for a while, and several changes may have been made). K3b seems to be a big offender (as you have found out). Also, turn off harddrake--you can always turn it back on when new hardware is added. And sometimes, things seem to happen for no good reason that I can determine. I thought that I might be the only one, but I guess not. These are the fstab lines for my CD's with Mdk9.2, no scsi emulation on the reader. If there was, it might make cdrom2 /dev/scd1. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 One thing I know, if you unplug a usb device, and don't reboot when you plug it back in, a second mount point for the same device will be added (my camera does this continuously), and it drives me nuts! Anyone know how to stop this? And finally, I quit using K3b. I have a lot less problems with Eroaster because it doesn't continually lose my devices. I don't have any DVD writers, though, just CDRWs, so I don't know if Eroaster even works with DVDRW. e Hi Erylon, thanks for the reply. Well, see...it was a working setup that I had. Then the problem with my /home occurred and I had to reinstall. I thought I put everything back the way I had it before, but its obvious that I must not have. I use Gcombust here, like it a lot - it works fine with my setup. It does not support DVDs though. K3b did, until now, after the reinstall. So I guess I'll just keep playing with it. :-) There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
Hello Anne, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 8:33:17 AM, Anne wrote: AW On Thursday 10 Mar 2005 14:39, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 3:56:25 AM, Anne wrote: AW Now I'll go back and burn it again, and I'll verify this time. How do you do a verify? AW In XCDRoast I couldn't find how to verify except when you are AW burning an image, so I settled for moving the disk to another AW drive and checking random files on it before filing it away. I'll AW have to take a look at k3b and see if that handles it better. I just burned a few non-crucial photos to CD using k3b, to give to someone else. I did a quick drag and drop, and a slightly different sets of options seemed to come up, and in this window was an option to do a binary compare. I selected it and it did a verify/compare. I'm not sure what was different in my first test of k3b, when it did not seem to give me that option, but it DOES look like it will do a verify. Whew! Makes us paranoid folks feel lots better. A happy camper again -- rikonamailto:[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] Cleaning optical mouse
- Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Cleaning optical mouse Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:14:33 -0600 On Sunday 13 March 2005 07:02 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: I have had a Microsoft optical trackball for about 18 months, and find that all I need do is remove the 'gunk' that builds up on the three rollers/bearings that hold the ball in place. I have had no need to do anything with the optics Thanks Hugh, this mouse has no rollers/bearings or ball. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 19:13:30 up 3:19, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.35, 0.32 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk *** I have a Logitech Optical for Notebooks on my Inspiron, and had a MS Intellimouse Optical on my desktop, and didn't find there was any need to do much cleaning beyond wiping the bottom once in a while. The optical lens is tucked up inside the bottom, and is quite well sheltered from any buildup. HTH. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound in a laptop
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:23:08 -0600, Teilhard wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on top of 10.0 in my laptop. That's the only way I can get the multithread boot option. My problem is that I have no sound. For what I gather the problem is that /dev/dsp does not exist in my system. I have gone through the troubleshooter and the driver doesn't seem to be loaded. I will appreciate any advise. Try running sndconfig. If that doesn't do the job, try alsaconf which is part of also-utils. 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] Cleaning optical mouse
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:59:41 -0600, Chris wrote: Question is, how is this mouse cleaned? Do I clean the lens on the bottom? If so, with what? I've had a MS optical mouse for at least 3 years and have never had to clean it, although I blow lint out with just my mouth once in a while. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable
Hello Mikkel, Sunday, March 13, 2005, 1:31:52 PM, Mikkel wrote: Agree totally! BUT - from the recent messages, it appears that there is NO WAY to verify a just-burned CD/DVD to make sure the data is the same and can be read OK. Still looking.. MLE It depends on how you built the backup. It seems I was mistaken about k3b - it DOES do a binary verify of data. I recently put in a DVD burner in one box, and fired up k3b to test it out. In this first test of both, it did not seem to have a verify option, and so I started asking about ways to verify, perhaps using other software. I just ran a small copy of a few photos to CD using k3b, and in this case I did get an option to verify, which it did. Seems much more reasonable that it would. Don't know what happened the first time. Perhaps people were being nice to me by not pointing out that k3b really does verify, thus showing how dumb my first conclusion and statement really was. :-) Thanks. -- rikonamailto:[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] /etc/hosts
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 05:53, SnapafunFrank wrote: Some time ago I got this working OK and only recently discovered that the /etc/hosts file has been re-written ~ possible still more stuff left over from the corruption of my .ICEauthority. Here's what I posted to assist someone at the time in regards to OOo opening slowly: Quote: mine reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 Snapafun.localdomainlocalhost 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.conSnapafun 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.conlocalhost Now that's somewhat overkill and needs a clean up but it works. End Quote: Since this time I have installed and have running at present ADSL via eth0. [ Dynamic with my ISP ] I seem to recall that another entry was required here for that ~ anyone know what that is supposed to be ? Hopefully this exercise will speed my system up to what it was before the .ICEauthority corruption. /etc/hosts has nothing to do with .ICEauthority You do not need to add anything when you go to ADSL The /etc/hosts file is simply a list to match host names to IP addresses. You did not need 4 separate lines, you could have just put 127.0.0.1 alias1 alias2 alias3 alias4 alias5 and so on... When you refer to a host name in for example a browser url, your computer will check to see if it is the hosts table before it bothers to ask a DNS server what the IP address of that host is. So if you try to browse to http://www.snapafun.con then your computer will immediately translate that as http://127.0.0.1 Thats all the /etc/hosts file does. You would most commonly use the hosts table to identify the other computers in a small local network with static addressing. derek Thanks derek ~ in a nutshell and well understood ~ really simple really when it's explained like this ~ greatly appreciated. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Can not compose mails
Hi all Today I am finding a strange problem. When I open my university E-Mail page it opens my INBOX but as soon as I press compose but it closes all the browsers windows. The same was happening with hotmail but now it opened first time and I am writing this mail I don't know whether I would be able to send it. I am using Mandrake 9.2. The second thing is I usually have to set 7/8 PATH variables or environment variables. I have written a script. I run this script and it runs but I need to export the variables after this otherwise my program does not work. I also tried to put it in .bash_profile and .bashrc but nothing happens and I could not set them permanantly. Any suggestion please. Thanks for your time. I am in trouble. Tahir Tahir _ Need a credit card fast? Apply now! Must be over 18. AU only: http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/clk;11046970;10638934;f?http://www.anz.com/aus/promo/first0105ninemsn/default.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
