Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne Anne: It works here (cooker) without the '/'. Just man:iptables. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 08:51 +0700, Teddy Widhi wrote: Hi, in README.txt file i found this... but i not yet to try it. === Installion of the Browser plugin (not done by default): - To install the browser plugin, you would need to execute the script INSTALL_PATH/Browser/install_browser_plugin. Before doing so, please go through INSTALL_PATH/Browser/Browser_Plugin_HowTo.txt for details. -- I just tried and it worked. The entire session was: = $ cd /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/ $ ls Browser_Plugin_HowTo.txt install_browser_plugin* intellinux/ $ ./install_browser_plugin This will install the browser plugin for acroread. Enter the install directory for Adobe Reader 7.0.0 [/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0] 1. Perform global installation 2. Perform user-specific installation (Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape) Enter your choice [1/2] 2 Installation successful. Added the file /home/adolfobello/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so This will enable the plugin for Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape For the other browsers, either run this script again and choose - Perform global installation, or you would need to manually copy the file /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so to the plugin folder of the browser. In case of difficulties please refer to the documentation provided along with the browserfor addition of new plugins. $ === Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:20 -0600, Chris wrote: Yes, mine did the same, Mozilla shows the plug-in installed, however, clicking on a .pdf file withing Mozilla nets some drive action, but the .pdf never loads. Any ideas? I don't know. I just closed Mozilla (1.7.6), started it again and worked just fine. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname/Lan/SMB Problems
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:29 -0800, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: I have finally gotten through almost 600 msgs since joining and have found some hints on solving the hostname (renaming) problem. However I have a more pressing/puzzling problem. first of all, the machine is a Celeron 466mhz, 128MB ram and a 40gb HD. (found it in the alley a couple of weeks ago, works like a charm g) Anyway, I finally got the Linux box I needed. :-) Anyway, I installed mdk 10.0. Somehow I managed to get it connected to the internet and did the upgrade thing and everything was honky dory. However, I couldn't get it to connect to my W2K server machine. The hostname for the mdk box defaulted to mdkgroup. I called myself changing it in the snb.conf file but that didn't work. So it was getting late and since I don't have too much time to play during the week, I put it off until the weekend. Well, here it is the weekend (ok, it's near the end of the weekend) and low and behold, I can no longer connect to the internet. I can no longer connect to the router, it (machine) says the lan is not connected and yadda, yadda, ya! sigh I think once I can get the lan connection problem corrected, then I can work on the hostname problem, then I can probably get the smb problem taken care of too! Had a hell of a time trying to install the printer on it last week as well. :-( But that's another topic for another time! ARGH!!! The printer is installed on the server machine as well and the linux box is the only computer on the network that is being the PIA right now! Many TIA! Regarding the printer problem, I lost days trying to connect to a XP shared printer from MDK 10, something I had had no problem with 9.1. The problem was that CUPS changed the way it handles URLs. The new way is: smb://WORGROUP/username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHARE or smb://WORGROUP/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHARE So I fired drakprinter, picked Enter printer url and life was good again. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] [OT] Bookstores in South Florida
My wife is spending a couple of days in South Florida and I asked her to buy me some Linux books. She went to Barnes Noble and found some of them but others are still missing. I wonder if there is in South Florida any bookstore with a good stock of Linux books. If so, please, could you mail me privately its name and address, phone or, at least, its approximate location. Thanks in advance. Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S: Specifically, I am still looking for the following titles: -- Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services Timothy A. Howes, Mark C. Smith ISBN: 0672323168 -- High Performance MySQL Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling ISBN: 0596003064 - Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection and Recovery Bob Toxen ISBN: 0130281875 -- Linux Server Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tricks Rob Flickenger ISBN: 0596004613 --- Linux Shell Scripting with Bash: A Comprehensive Guide and Reference for Linux Users and Administrators Ken O. Burtch ISBN: 0672326426 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting win98 back
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 19:24 +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: Had a PII system at work that started to physically fry itself. Removed the hard disk and subsequently found it to be sound . In another up to date system I installed winXP and xandos ( will be changing to mandrake when I get the boss to 'support' it by actually coughing up some cash to help the effort here.) Physically installed the win98 hard drive as slave into this system before installing linux. Lilo recognized win98 OK but when I try to boot into it - no noise at all. So I suspect that win98 doesn't understand the new motherboard - maybe. What I would like to do is to be able to boot win98 because of some propriety software installed there. I am able to see the hard drive and all the file system OK so no worries there at present. I do know that if I use a rescue disk that I will lose the capability of running some of these programs. One thought is to copy the registry ( when I can remember where it is ) - rescue the win98 installation and then rewrite the registry with the saved one. I have been running linux ( Mandrake10 Official at present ) for so long now that I have forgotten most of this stuff. Anyone here been able to get something like this to work? And yes, if neseccary I am prepared to install Mandrake over xandros. The folk at work like things straight forward and a basic installation of Mandrake and KDE will get them using and eventually accepting linux. To recap, how can I boot win98 on hdb1 when win98 had been installed from a previous hardware system without having to re-install win98? A few months ago, I had a problem with my laptop CD drive. I borrowed an almost identical laptop from a friend, the only difference being the video card, put in it my hard drive and reinstalled XP and Mandrake 10. Then, I placed my hard drive back in my laptop, hoping that I didn't need to install every thing again. Well, Mandrake detected the hardware change and booted without problem. XP was simply unbootable, no matter what I tried.After fighting a few hours with it I decided to spend the 6+ hours reinstalling XP and its patches, MS Office and its patches, Autocad, and so on. I hope you better luck with W98. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache not starting?
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 15:06 -0500, Peter Davis wrote: I'm running 10.0, but Apache seems to be having a problem starting. When I try to browse to localhost, I just get a Google search page. Even using 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. The system log says: Syntax error on line 56 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/commonnhttpd.conf: Invalid command 'lfModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration It should be IfModule (an I instead of l). Change that and start Apache. It should work. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the - on the end, don't leave it off. change the /dev/scd0 to whatever device setting your drive is on your system. and where n is the number of sectors calculated above. All 3 md5sums should agree, ie, the published, your iso file, and the CD. If they don't agree you have either a duff write, or duff iso file. Hope this helps you, John `md5sum /dev/scd0` works fine here, no matter if the CD is mounted or not. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 12:09 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 04:56 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the - on the end, don't leave it off. change the /dev/scd0 to whatever device setting your drive is on your system. and where n is the number of sectors calculated above. All 3 md5sums should agree, ie, the published, your iso file, and the CD. If they don't agree you have either a duff write, or duff iso file. Hope this helps you, John `md5sum /dev/scd0` works fine here, no matter if the CD is mounted or not. Adolfo Yes, but in newer Mandrake versions the CD drives are seen as dev=ATA:0,0,0 I use 0,0,0 for example only, 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will return the actual numbers. The ATA device (burner) is linked to the numbers. EG, on my system dev=ATA:1,1,0 = /dev/hdd So 'md5sum /dev/hdd' returns the md5sum on the CD. BUT, it will not be correct unless you use the -dao option when burning the iso to CD. I burn on the CL using, 'cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=16 dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao name_of.iso' _Do_Not_ use options like -pad or -data. For speed I suggest 1/3 of the lesser capability, your burner or media speed. My Plextor is 52x, media is 52x, so I use speed=16 Actually I use an alias, alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=16 dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao' So simply 'biso name_of.iso' does the job! ... and I always check the md5sum of the burned CD. As always, I disdain the use of GUI apps for burning any kind of CD's, but particularly for .iso images. Use the CL and you'll know exactly what is going on. Y'allsMMV ;) I always use CLI to burn my CDs too. cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -dao archivo.iso What is new to me is the use of dev=ATA:1,0,0. I'll try it in next burn. Using Mandrake 10 fully updated. Thanks, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:23 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: dev=ATA:1,0,0 is only for the 2.6 kernels where the devices are set up as ATA devices. dev=1,0,0 is for most 2.4 kernels where the device is scsi-emulated. I use much the same cdrecord Cl as you. Whilst I'm not against the GUI front ends, when it comes to burning ISO's to disc I prefer the CL. For one thing you get a good script to see what is really going on.Otherwise when things go wrong you don't know why. John What calls my attention is that I've been using kernel 2.6.3 for about 8 months, and have burned tons of CDs with it without using the ATA thing. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that I use an external USB DVD/RW drive. BTW, nice trick your way of checking md5sums. Good to have it at hand. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 07:33 -0400, Rick Kunath wrote: BottomFeeder looked pretty rough for me here on Linux. Any advantage over RSSowl ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl/ ) ? I've been using RSSowl and find it works well. Sage an add-on for Firefox, Mozilla, or Thunderbird also does the job. Rick Kunath It looked rough to me too. I tried to read the help and got into a catch22 situation: there was no help because it had no browser defined, which I couldn't define. Also tried forumzilla. I had problems creating folders which are needed to place the feeders. I also needed to change mozilla/chrome and mozilla/components permissions to install this plugin. I didn't try hard: after a couple of minutes of fight I uninstalled it. So I am still using liferea which is not a rose garden but get the job done. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 18:32 -0500, Chris wrote: If I remember correctly I downloaded the Intel Linux version, unzipped it into my $HOME dir and ran it like this: ./bottomFeeder bottomFeeder.im HTH I missed the obvious. I downloaded the source instead of the Linux installer. Shame on me. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RSS feeds reader
Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any suggestion? TIA, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 21:50 -0500, Chris wrote: I'm kind of partial to BottomFeeder, easy to setup, easy to use http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/ Chris: It looks better than liferea but, how do I install this thing? I found instructions for doze and Mac but nothing for Linux. Regards, Adolfo smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [newbie] Problem with my web site
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:57 -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: I have just noticed a very troublesome problem with my web site and was hoping that someone here could point me in the right direction. I am using Postnuke CMS version .750 Gold, MySQL server and PHP 4.3.8. The site displays in IE, Opera fine but whenever I hit it from a Mozilla browser, including Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape, I get a really strange corrupted display. Another interesting item, if you go to the site as the root site using http://kislinux.org/ You get the corrupted display within Mozilla. If you go to http://kislinux.org/linux/ which is an alias for the same directory, the site comes up just fine. It is really bugging the crap out of me. If anyone uses php, apache, and wants to take a look and make suggestions, I am all ears and would really appreciate the help. It seems to be problem related to compressing pages served by Apache. The first url doesn't send the variable Vary: accept encoding while the second one does. That's the only difference that I could see using ethereal. Try removing gzip compression from httpd.conf. Also, take a look at IfSetEnv (or IfSetEnvNoCase). HTH Adolfo smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[newbie] MySQL 4.1 doesn't start in 9.2, 10.0 and 10.1
Hi: I've worked with MySQL 4.1 since the alpha release (4.1.0). I always download the latest rpms from mysql.com and install them with rpm. Until version 4.1.4 every thing was just fine. However, when I tried to install 4.1.5 rpms in my fully updated Mandrake 10.0, I got an error telling me that mysql didn't have permissions to access /root/tmp. MySQL was installed but couldn't be started. Humm, something wrong with this rpms. I post a message in the mysql list and they told me to give, temporarily, 777 access to /root/tmp to start the service, which I did. The service started but I couldn't work with the database after settings /root/tmp permissions back to the original ones (700). I went back to install 4.1.4, which I had working before, and I got the same error. My conclusion was that something was wrong with my box. I modified the mysql init script in /etc/init.d to start mysql as user root and the database started working nicely. After that I installed 4.1.5 which is now working without problem. However, running mysql as root is not considered a good security practice. Then, one of my coworker, who uses Mandrake 9.2, told me that he was facing the same problem with 4.1.5. After modifying mysql init script as I did the data base started to work. Then I decided to go to a different computer and installed 10.1 CE. The same problem with mysql. Again, modifying mysql init script solved the situation. Decided to go deeper into it, I installed mysql in a box running Debian 3.0r2 using the generic Linux installer. No problem whatsoever. Then I tried installing mysql in 10.0 using the same binary and I got the same problem. BTW, Debian has no /root/tmp at all. At this point, I believe that there is something in Mandrake causing the problem but I have no idea where to start looking at. Can I just remove /root/tmp and try to start mysql again? Has anybody in this list tried to install MySQL 4.1.4 or 4.1.5 in 9.2 or 10 fully updated or in 10.1 CE without update? Can some body give me a hint about where the problem might be? Any help would be highly appreciated. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MySQL 4.1 doesn't start in 9.2, 10.0 and 10.1
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 11:00, Stew Benedict wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi: I've worked with MySQL 4.1 since the alpha release (4.1.0). I always download the latest rpms from mysql.com and install them with rpm. Until version 4.1.4 every thing was just fine. However, when I tried to install 4.1.5 rpms in my fully updated Mandrake 10.0, I got an error telling me that mysql didn't have permissions to access /root/tmp. MySQL was installed but couldn't be started. Humm, something wrong with this rpms. I post a message in the mysql list and they told me to give, temporarily, 777 access to /root/tmp to start the service, which I did. The service started but I couldn't work with the database after settings /root/tmp permissions back to the original ones (700). I went back to install 4.1.4, which I had working before, and I got the same error. My conclusion was that something was wrong with my box. I modified the mysql init script in /etc/init.d to start mysql as user root and the database started working nicely. After that I installed 4.1.5 which is now working without problem. However, running mysql as root is not considered a good security practice. Then, one of my coworker, who uses Mandrake 9.2, told me that he was facing the same problem with 4.1.5. After modifying mysql init script as I did the data base started to work. Then I decided to go to a different computer and installed 10.1 CE. The same problem with mysql. Again, modifying mysql init script solved the situation. Decided to go deeper into it, I installed mysql in a box running Debian 3.0r2 using the generic Linux installer. No problem whatsoever. Then I tried installing mysql in 10.0 using the same binary and I got the same problem. BTW, Debian has no /root/tmp at all. At this point, I believe that there is something in Mandrake causing the problem but I have no idea where to start looking at. Can I just remove /root/tmp and try to start mysql again? Has anybody in this list tried to install MySQL 4.1.4 or 4.1.5 in 9.2 or 10 fully updated or in 10.1 CE without update? Can some body give me a hint about where the problem might be? Sounds like the init script is picking up root's TMPDIR TMP variables. You might try unsetting these in the init script, rather than running MySQL as root. You'll note the mandrake package defines these vars in start: TMPDIR=/tmp export TMPDIR TMP=/tmp export TMP That was it! It is working now as user mysql. Thanks a lot. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP Server
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:45, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - now I know I must be doing something wrong here folks; but let's start out from the beginning. I constantly have customer computers in here, and generally, when I slap them on the network, I give them a static IP address along with gateway and the whole nine yards. Today I decided I was exceptionally lazy and wanted to setup the DHCP server via the Mandrake Control Centre. Ok - no worries - accepted all the defaults and the likes. But it ain't seeming to work. Wassup? I have a customer machine here - rebooted even - tried to renew the IP, but getting nothing - NADA - WTF am I doing wrong - or do I need to spend more than five minutes on this? Mind you, I'm not having a whinge because of it, but I thought it should work right away and first off...(and I don't want to reboot) stephen kuhn - proprietor Are there any messages in the log from the DHCP server? There is also a DHCP client list, that shows the leases given out. I am not sure where Mandrake puts it. Check in the /var tree. You should also check the firewall settings on the server to see if it is even letting DHCP traffic in. Requests to the server require different settings then a client does. Mikkel Stephen: You can also check if you have a firewall on the client side blocking the DHCP address request. It happened to me not long ago. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless PCMCIA Card
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 19:16, Brandon Rife wrote: I'm looking for a wireless PCMCIA card that works 'out of the box' with MDK 10 and XP. Can someone suggest such a card? Thanks! I know from experience that cards with the Broadcom 94306 chip are *hard* to setup. I had to use ndiswrapper to get mine working (a Belkin FD7010). Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 07:57, Betti Ann Preston Smith wrote: Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from the ISO images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and Fedora Core 2 on my system Thanks Preston Take a look at install.html in the iso file for CD 1. That file contains instruction to install from hard drive and ftp. You will have to mount the ISO file with: /path/to/downloaded.iso /emptyfolder iso9660 loop HTH Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Capture Screen
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 05:28, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: Hi all, How to capture screen from Mandrake10 Installation and from command line. Thx, before. Makacih, From command line: import your_image.png Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] web based database program
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 12:58, Eric Huff wrote: What are your favorites for web based database programs? I have a project where i will have many items, each with a bunch of keywords, and i need to be able to search for all items containing a keyword, sort them by other keywords, blah blah blah. It will be accessed on the web (or thru a browser, at least), and will have the normal friendly gui interface of so many sites. The best thing is probably to use MySQL for your data, then scour Sourceforge and Freshmeat for a front-end that suits your needs (most of them are PHP, so you can hack them to your heart's content). Ok, thanks, i'll look into that. Now, if i wanted to do the same thing on computers w/o web access, am i looking at a completely different set of applications? Unfortunately, it would have to run in windows and macs, as well as linux. Thanks, eric Eric: Do you mean without Internet access? As long as the boxes can point their browser to the right server within an Intranet you can still work with PHP-MySQL-Apache. And you application will run just fine under Windows, Mac, Linux or Unix. You don't need Internet access to get your Web Application working. You don't even need a DNS server. Just one entry in your /etc/hosts or Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts. The only thing you need is a working TCP/IP LAN. HTH Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Start KDE application as root
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 10:49, Video 4Linux wrote: Is it possible in KDE to start a certain KDE application as 'root' when I'm logged in as a regular user? Greetings Bas Alt-F2 kdesu your_application Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Funny for the Day
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:41, JoeHill wrote: Look at what Andres S. Tanenbaum says about Mr. Brown: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/20/1427257 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] NVIDIA and PCMCIA
I just jumped into the wireless bandwagon with a Belkin F5D7010 pcmcia card. Previously I had installed the NVIDIA driver 1.0-5336. Every time I need to boot without the Belkin card plugged I lost X. I can no boot to runlevel 5 no matter if I plug the card again. I found out that this problem is easily solved adding the line alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia to /etc/modprobe.conf, which for some reason is deleted if I boot without the card plugged.. However, it really surprises me that plugging/unplugging a pcmcia card somehow breaks the NVIDIA driver or modprobe.conf. I am using the Belkin card with the CD Windows XP driver under Linuxant driverloader. Running Mandrake 10 Official with kernel 2.6.3-9. I wish I could get rid of this annoyance. Any hint will be truly appreciated. Adolfo 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 and PCMCIA
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 20:49, Derek Jennings wrote: Add the line to /etc/modules.conf Mandrake 10.0 is designed to support both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. In order to facilitate this there is a utility called generate-modprobe.conf which will create a modprobe.conf file from your modules.conf file. It seems harddrake calls this utility when it detects a change in your hardware and so is erasing your edits. derek Derek, it just worked However, it still surprises me that plugging/unplugging the PCMCIA ethernet card causes changes in the nvidia setting in modprobe.conf. Thanks a lot. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 18:43, JoeHill wrote: Easiest of all is 'scrot'. It's not in Main or Contrib or PLF, but you can find an RPM here: http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/ ...then just bind a key or create an icon with the command: scrot desktop.png (or whatever you want to call the file) You can use import too, which is installed by default. import anyname.png and click on the windows you want or grab the desired area. It also supports jpeg, eps and many other formats. Take a look at man import Adolfo Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] fuji finepix 2400
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:04, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I was going to try getting the fuji finepix 2400 going again in LM10. A search through the archives indicated a few threads, all seeming to indicate that 9.2 was almost an automatic install whereas 10 somewhat broke it. An inexpensive mp3 (usb) player is also not recognized. Has this usb issue been resolved in LM10 official? Has any list member been successful mounting the finepix camera on LM10 with 2.6.3-4 kernel? tia, Bill W. No problem with my finepix camera over here. It is recognized and mounted automatically. Mandrake 10, fully updated, kernel 2.6.3-9. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PHPGroupware
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 19:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 22:12, et wrote:
I guess we could start at teh begining.. you are running Apache, aren't you?
which version, since the setup is slighly different, and if apache 2, are you
loading apache2-mod_php?
Apache2, and yes, the mods are loading for php. Here's the error I get
when I try to browse to the http://localhost/phpgroupware/setup
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in
/var/www/html/phpgroupware/header.inc.php on line 37
This is a source code error. It seems to be a common problem for
phpgroupware users.
Take a look at:
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Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 07:03, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Le jeu 22/04/2004 à 12:47, Adolfo Bello a écrit : Out of curiosity, I just plugged the USB pen and went to a cli without clicking the desktop icon. It was automatically mounted. Argl, that's what I'd like to have!! This is the line in my fstab. none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,-- MDK 10 kernel 2.6.3.8 I use 2.6.3-7, maybe that's related... Do you have any additional running dameons that could be related? I had the same problem until I activated hotplug. I didn't mentioned anything because I saw you mentioned it in your original post. Is supermount enabled? I also have magicedev enabled. However, I read that it only works with CD drives. Not sure. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 06:47, Adolfo Bello wrote: In my previous post the /etc/fstab line was wrong. The line that is created in my /etc/fstab is: none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 I just made myself sure that the USB pen is mounted automatically. I rebooted to runlevel 3, plugged the thing and there it was nicely mounted. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 02:09, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Le mer 21/04/2004 à 23:20, Ian Urie a écrit : I'm afraid I use KDE..and the icon only appears when the drive (memory stick) is inserted. The drive must mount automatically , or the icon wouldn't appear as far as I can see. I don't think that's true... When the icon appears on your desktop, don't click on it. Open a shell and cd to the dir, you'll see it's empty, because it hasn't been mounted yet. It is mounted on the fly by KDE, when you click on that icon. So it's not available until the icon has been clicked, which can be an issue if we want to automate things. Besides, if you get this icon on your desktop, it won't be removed when your USB device is unmounted. If it were automatically mounted you could untick unmounted hard drive partition and then the icon would disappear when the drive is unmounted, which would be more elegant... Anyway, thanks again for the hints, Out of curiosity, I just plugged the USB pen and went to a cli without clicking the desktop icon. It was automatically mounted. This is the line in my fstab. none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,-- MDK 10 kernel 2.6.3.8 Adolfo. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 06:47, Adolfo Bello wrote: In my previous post the /etc/fstab line was wrong. The line that is created in my /etc/fstab is: none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 I just made myself sure that the USB pen is mounted automatically. I rebooted to runlevel 3, plugged the thing and there it was nicely mounted. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 07:03, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Le jeu 22/04/2004 à 12:47, Adolfo Bello a écrit : Out of curiosity, I just plugged the USB pen and went to a cli without clicking the desktop icon. It was automatically mounted. Argl, that's what I'd like to have!! This is the line in my fstab. none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,-- MDK 10 kernel 2.6.3.8 I use 2.6.3-7, maybe that's related... Do you have any additional running dameons that could be related? I had the same problem until I activated hotplug. I didn't mentioned anything because I saw you mentioned it in your original post. Is supermount enabled? I also have magicedev enabled. However, I read that it only works with CD drives. Not sure. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Damn Mozilla
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 04:25, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
Ok - I forgot - can't remember - but it's really irking me; WHAT was the
resolution for being able to get Mozilla to open up multiple instances -
as per from Evo or whatever - and I used to know the damn resolution,
but I reckon I'm catching Alzhiemer's from Kaj...
I upgraded to 1.6 and now this crap! Yarg!
stephen kuhn - owner
Stephen:
I don't know if this is what you're looking for but anyway here we go.
Create a script and put in there the command:
gnome-moz-remote --remote='openURL('$1', new-tab)' || gnome-moz-remote
$1
Now:
gnome-control-center - Advanced - Preferred Application - Custom Web
Browser: Command
and enter:
yourscript.sh %S
For multiple instances you may want to change new-tab by new-win.
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Re: [newbie] Damn Mozilla
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 08:06, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mi Amigo, nada. Still mierda. Kills me that I can't bloody remember what I did before - and since I broke Galeon, well, I can run Galeon as root or any other user on the system, but not myself (as though I really want to fix THAT); crap...any other ideas hermano? stephen kuhn - owner Now I understand you are having Mozilla locked for one user. If so, remove the file: ~/.mozilla/Default\ User/14t2ggl2.slt/lock Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Damn Mozilla
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 10:38, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Dios mio! Gracias Senor! Ya just made me day! stephen kuhn - owner LOL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Spamassassin and Bayes: I must be missing something
Hi: I am using Spamassassin version 2.63 (spamd and spamc invoked by procmail) installed from 10CE cd and it is only catching around 20% of spams, which in my case means that is missing between 60-70 spams a day. Since missing that large percent of spams is something that is only happening to me, my conclusion is that I must be doing something awfully wrong (or missing something extremely obvious). I have read that bayesian filters start doing their job after been trained with 2000 or more spams. I already have fed spamassassin with more than 2300 messages using the command: sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/adolfobello/evolution/local/sa-spam/mbox Less than 2 weeks ago I also started training it with hams. sa-learn --mbox --ham /home/adolfobello/evolution/local/sa-ham/mbox Every time that I run those commands I also delete the spam and ham mailboxes. (Is this the right thing to do?) My /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf looks like: ## rewrite_subject 0 report_header 0 use_terse_report 1 always_add_report 0 auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666 report_safe 0 use_bayes 1 # Every line in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs is commented out. Command to invoke spamc from procmailrc :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc -s 256000 Command to start spamd: /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m5 -H Mailing lists, mail from trusted domains and some other virus catching procmail filters are called before spamc. What am I missing or doing wrong? Any help will be truly appreciated. I am drowning in junk mails. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] realtek 8139 con mandrake 9.2
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 20:26, Gonzalo L. Villarreal wrote:
Hi. Tengo instalado Mandrake 9.2 en una pc con un mother ASUS a7-n266-VM
(obviamente, el que tiene problemas). Tb tengo una placa PCI conectada (aparte
de la realtek) y funcionando en eth0. El tema es que la realtek es reconocida,
existe, pero no funciona. Probé haciendo ifconfig, pero nop. Probe con
modprobe, pasándole nvnet, rtl8139, rlt8139 y nada. Cuando la quiero configurar
desde el menu gráfico, no me muestra ningun parámetro para configurar. Si la
resinstalo (reconfigurando la otra placa tb) y le pongo los parametros
manualmente, me dice que no son válidos. ¿soluciones? Si la idea es recompilar
el kernel, no tengo ni la más palida idea de como se hace eso. Gracias.
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[newbie] 10 or cooker?
Hello people: I am using 10CE since RC1 appeared. I was updating my system using the cooker sources from easy urpmi. Some days ago I saw that easy urpmi had an entry for 10, so I updated my sources to reflect this change. Now, every time that I try to update my system I get the message Everything already installed. My question is: should I point my sources to cooker or should I stay with my sources pointing to 10? Nothing life threatening. Mdk 10 is a gem. I just want to make sure that my system is up to date. Adolfo 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 or cooker?
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 10:31, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 21:17, Adolfo Bello wrote: Nothing life threatening. Mdk 10 is a gem. I just want to make sure that my system is up to date. Adolfo How do you stack it up against, say, 9.1 or 9.2? I've been graced with a heap of CD's and am DYING to install it on something - anything... (Got a copy of Slackware 9.1 as well - nice) stephen kuhn - owner I've been using Mandrake since version 9.0. This release (10) has been, until today, the most rewarding experience with Linux, including SuSe 9, which I also use. 10CE is fast. The new ACPI interface is really nice. For the first time in my laptop life I have no problem with sound, power saving options and programs running at 100% processor load when I turn ACPI on. Using a USB keyring is a pleasure. Hotplug works fine. When I installed RC1 I had a minor annoyance with aRts every time that I booted the laptop. However, sound worked fine. The message disappeared after updating my system with urpmi. I have not tried any Irda or firewire device yet. I recommended 10CE to some of my coworkers and they are really happy using it. I am using kernel 2.6.3-7. BTW, it is a pleasure to see you posting again to the list. Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Old problem resurfaced with konqueror
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 20:59, Hoyt Bailey wrote: The last time this happened I destroyed the installation and I forget what the solution is. The problem is that konqueror is coming up with a particular ugly font that is unreadable unless it is very large, it appears to be actionis (first on list). The standard font is sans and the fixed font is monospace (default's). Both look ok. The font used to be ok but has changed. And no matter what I select it dos not change. I had a problem like this with Mozilla. Something to do with Gtk. I don't know about Konqueror. Try starting gnome-control-center and double clicking the Fonts applet. It takes a few seconds to open. After it does, just close it and see if that fix your problem. In case it works, create this file in ~/.kde/Autostart: $ cat .kde/Autostart/gsd.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=gnome-settings-daemon Exec=gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon Terminal=false Type=Application $ That solved my problem for good. HTH Adolfo 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 or cooker?
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:23, franki wrote: Dan Gordon wrote: On April 5, 2004 12:00 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote: I upgraded to 10CE over 9.2 with virtually no farts ... only problems I recall were flatulent (ugly) fonts upon first boot (manually did some switching around/assigning of fonts), and some of my desktop icons (those I had added) were broken (just recreated them). That was about it. Oh, xmms would crash upon attempting to play an .mp3, but that was fixed in the first round of updates for me. (There will be a //ton// of updates, so be prepared for a long update session after install.) I installed 10 yesterday and did 975MB of updates just after i installed. Its working beutifully. Regards, Dan Gordon Can you tell me where you got the updates?? from what ftp server I mean.. and what path.. I've been trying to add an update source to get all these packages.. I must have done it wrong, because it added the new sources but still said there was no updates. (I wasn't using the default mirror list in mandrakeupdate, I manually added a couple of what I thought were cooker sources, I guess I got it wrong so I'm hoping someone can show me an example of what they setup for the updates.) It was happening to me until this evening. I just refreshed my urpmi sources and 42 packages were updated. Using ftp.rediris.es sources as supplied by easy urpmi. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Double Posting
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when my posts appear just fine. Adolfo 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 swap partition after suspend to disk failed
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 19:03, Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got exactly 1GB). However, if I resume (in lilo.conf automatically resume=/dev/hda8 is set). It fails and causes a reset of the pc. So I booted without resuming (lilo: linux noresume) and removed the resume parameter in lilo.conf by hand. The problem is now: My swap partition is no longer used as swap. I get a error message like: swapon /dev/hda8 [failed] Do I have to format my swap partition to get rid of it? Or is there a acpi command which cleans up a broken hibernation swap file? /var/log/acpi dosn't tell me something usefull. Is there another logfile, which is important to hibernation, acpi, suspend etc? Cheers, Stephanus I had the same problem. After booting with the noresume option, the swap partition wasn't mounted. I fired diskdrake, formatted the swap partition and mounted it again with diskdrake. Everything was back to normal. After that, I haven't tried hibernation again. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Learning aid: recording CLI screen into file
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 23:54, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I'm compiling qmail and all its stuffs. For studying purpose, I'd like to record all what is displayed during my compiling activities in the console into a file. Can I do that? I mean, not just the bash history, but also the output when the compiling runs, you know, all those screen scrolling filled with hi-tech text like this: man script Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing Secure Webpages: PROBLEM UPDATE
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 21:30, taylord-angwyn wrote: Hi All, I posted the following a couple of weeks and was advised that a change in /etc/ppp/options of MRU/MTU values (both higher and lower) fix the problem. It didn't. As no other advise has come my way decide to have another shot at it to see if it catches the eye of someone who missed it the first time round who may have an idea of whats going on. System: DSE Terminator 1100 Opsys: Mandrake 9.2 (Powerpack, recently installed) Problem: using Mozilla Firebird and Konqueror I cannot access any secure sites, eg those sites whose address bigins https:// etc The statistics panel from kppp shows very low levels of activity which appears to be my hanshaking to the remote in red but the remote is a solid blue line (no response?? maybe??) I have fiddled with /etc/ppp/options to get it the same as one other local Mandrake user. I have added domain clear.net.nz to resolv.conf (both copies). I have checked and rechecked my settings in kppp and the browsers but cannot find the reason for this strange behaviour. As a side note I can easily browse other pages, even with my slow dial-up connection, without too many delays, I can fetch, but not send email. Something is missing?? but what?? UPDATE PART I tried adjusting the MRY/MTU values as suggested but to no avail. Last week did a complete reinstall from the ground up so to speak. Problem still exists,although I can now send mail provided the text is no more than 280 charactors, ie 2 and a bit lines. On longer mails the client hangs at 'sending DATA'. Could this be a smtp config problem and if so how and where do I fix? Could the mail problem be connected to the inablitiy to be able to connect to https:// pages. TIA David a confused Newbie Very weird. Taylord, have you checked the quality of your phone line/modem connection? Something simple, like an ifconfig, will tell you how many packets are dropped during a session. $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:39:98:B4:9D inet addr:192.168.0.242 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:39ff:fe98:b49d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:39497 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:39530 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 ^ ^ HTTPS is a more demanding protocol than HTTP. Packet losses can make a HTTPS (HTTP over SSL) connection impossible. In addition to the standard handshake with HTTP, under HTTPS there is public key interchange and symmetric key and algorithm agreement. Dropping packets at these stages may be critical to establishing the connection. Regarding SMTP, I really don't know what to tell you but, again, I would check a possible noisy phone line. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Fonts annoyance
I don't know if this is the right list to post this problem. I am using KDE under Mandrake 10, kernel 2.6.3. A few days ago my laptop was shutdown improperly (a power lost). After that, every time X is started the fonts in Evolution, Mozilla and some other applications are pretty small, let's say something like 6/7 points. After googling for a solution I found out that starting gnome-control-center and double clicking on Fonts everything was back to normal. Further research pointed to gnome-settings-daemon as being the program to run to get the fonts looking nice. This is not a major problem because my computer stays up and running after I started it in the morning and I just need to start gnomecc once a day but, is there any way to get the original behavior? Thanks in advance. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring Gotmail
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 05:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I would like to configure Gotmail to fetch automatically my Hotmail e-mail every 5 minutes. Could someone here please help me, in case such a configuration is possible? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul I use a cron job for this. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] NVIDIA and Sound on 10rc1
I just installed 10rc1 from scratch and updated this morning with cooker sources. Using kernel 2.6.3. Everything works beautifully but I have a problem between NVIDIA and sound, no matter whether I use the open or close source driver. When KDE starts it gives a couple of message boxes. The first one says: During the previous startup, KNotify crashed while instantiating KNotify. Do you want to try again or disable aRts sound output? The second one: The application KNotify (knotify)crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV). After restarting X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sound is back working fine. Is there any place that I can take a look at? No funny messages out of dmesg. Everything OK. Toshiba laptop with ACPI turned on working real nice out of the box for the first time. I love this version!! Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] External Projector
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:50, yankl wrote: Check the http://www.linux-laptop.net/toshiba.html. Thanks for the link. I partially solved some of the problems with the NVIDIA driver. I still have to boot to switch between LCD and proyector, but it is just an annoyance. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphical login - again
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:18, Bill W. wrote: Hi everyone, I've been trying to track down the reason that my machine won't boot into a graphical login manager. Remember, my machine is set to boot graphically in MCC and it seems to trya blue screen appears for a moment then flashes offthis occurs twice. I checked the boot.log and there was no mention of any failed steps. Can anyone tell me which file contains the boot config? I should take a look and see if it is ok. tia, Bill W. If you mean the file to choose between graphic or console, it is /etc/inittab. Look for the line: id:5:initdefault: and change it to: id:3:initdefault: That will boot your PC to console instead of graphic. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux install
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:23, P J Scott wrote: Well the problem is this. I have a new computer and a new distro 9.2. When I try to install it all that happens is I get the message lost interupt over and over so have to abort installation . Anne thought it might be the pnp in my bios but like you say no way to turn it off. So basically im stuck...Philip I had Lost interrupt problem with 9.1. I sorted out placing the option noapic in the append line in lilo. HTH Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] linux install
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:31, Anne Wilson wrote: Adolfo - he's not even getting it installed. I think he needs to pass noapic during the install. Can you tell him exactly how that's done? Anne Sorry I couldn't answer before. Here is a link that explains how to pass options during installation: http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Quick_Startup.html/ch03s01.html So after getting the boot prompt, enter linux noapic HTH, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 00:53, Ramin wrote: Hi, Would you tell me what these options should be in a practical example. For example my internet provider is videotron (videotron.ca). Now I assume localhost is videotron and localhost.localdomain is videotron.ca. Am i right? And if so, what is my hostname and my domain name then? (sorry if my question is kinda too dump.) Thanks, Ramin To find out what your hostname.domainname is: cat /etc/sysconfig/network Mine looks like: $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=abbmdk.mshome.net NETWORKING=yes $ From there you get: yourhostname=abbmdk yourdomainname=mshome.net My /etc/hosts looks like 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.1 abbmdk abbmdk.mshome.net Good luck, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 01:21, Miark wrote: On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:59:48 -0400, Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It happened to me for a week. Every time I tried urpmi any-package I got the everything installed message. Then I realized that I was missing the --update part of the command. urpmi --update any-package I've never had to use --update. If I do a urpmi vlc when vlc is already installed, urpmi knows enough to ask me if I want to update what I've got. In fact, --update seems wholly, totally, and completely redundant 8^) Miark I am now understanding it much better. I have to wait for the next bunch of updates to try what I have learned. Just before this thread started I had upgraded my kernel and kernel sources. Gracias, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 18:38, Warren Post wrote: Frequently when I try to update my system, rpmdrake (urpmi) tells me that everything is already installed. For example, I have bind-utils-9.2.0-6mdk currently installed. bind-utils-9.2.1-2.2mdk is available on the update mirrors, but when I try to update it I am told everything already installed. If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. It happened to me for a week. Every time I tried urpmi any-package I got the everything installed message. Then I realized that I was missing the --update part of the command. urpmi --update any-package Just in case ;-) Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:02, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 05:59 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. It happened to me for a week. Every time I tried urpmi any-package I got the everything installed message. Then I realized that I was missing the --update part of the command. urpmi --update any-package Don't forget that you have to run 'urpmi.update --update' first to update your urpmi database with the new packages for the update source. Something new to me. What I ended up doing was using the graphical interfase to check for new updates. After that 'urpmi --update' did the rest. I never used urpmi.update. Does the graphical interfase do an urpmi.update automatically? Any way, next time I will use urpmi.update. Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:31, jpearl24 wrote: It seems when i have evolution open for a long time. X freezes. I dont think its my video card because of the games i play stay on and i can watch a dvd with no problems... but when i got done with the dvd and unrolled Evo from its rolled up state x froze immediately any ideas.. i downloaded all the updates and it still pauses when i type every 30 seconds.. i think that is causing the freezing.. Try adding to your /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 yourhostname yourhostname.yourdomainname It fixed that problem in my box. I have also read that leaving blank or comment lines in /etc/hosts is another source of problems for Evolution. HTH Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] umask settings based on directory
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 03:35, Eric Huff wrote: Is there any way to make a certain directory have different umask properties than the default? yes if you are the owner of the file right click on it and choose permissions and set them how u like.. im assuming you are in X I don't mean the permissions, but the umask settings. This way, any new files createdin that directory will be created with a different umask than the default. But i don;t think it is possible... thanks, eric From man mkdir -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), not rwxrwxrwx - umask Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 09:17, Merlin Zener wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:57, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] 8139 suggests a Realtek, which are usually OK. Do you use dhcp or static IP? I've got no idea. When both machines are running windoze it *just works*. I've never entered a specific IP address to connect to the net [via modem] so I'm assuming the ISP assigns one to me. I didn't think I needed an IP address to get my local network running - I thought that was only to connect to outside web pages etc? How would I find out what Linux *thinks* it's using? TIA Hi Merlin: First of all, let's find out whether Mandrake is loading your NIC driver. For this, enter the command: lsmod | grep 8139too Next, let's see what your NIC setup is. Enter the command: cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Please, post in a message the outputs of these two commands, no matter what they are. Anne, Since in Windows the IP are 169.254.something I assume it is using ZEROCONF to setup the lan connection. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing .tar.bz2
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 18:38, robin wrote: Let's say your file is foo.tar.bz2. First open a terminal and cd to the directory you downloaded it to (e.g. cd /home/steven/). Then type bunzip2 foo.tar.bz2 (without the quotes, of course). This will give you a new file, foo.tar. Type tar xvf foo.tar and it will expand to give you a new directory. You may also save some typing with: tar jxvf foo.tar.bz2 Salud Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rm-command
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 14:03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 16:09, Paul wrote: On 12/25/2003 04:43 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote: Well, I never do a general ./* I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt. I once deleted the content of one whole directory, and since then I never did this stupid * stuff ;-) . That is _the_ way to learn... My way was the same way, except it was my $HOME. With subdirs... *grin* That is also when my paranoia with backups paid off! Paul Allow me to quote the legendary Civileme : quote rm -r /whateverdirectoryname/and/path -f the -r is for recursive (i. e. descend into subdirectories) and the -f is for force without asking, While rm -rf /whateverdirectoryname/and/path will work to the same effect, it is considered bad form. Imagine that you type this far rm -rf / and then the household cat launches for your desktop and plops a fat paw on the enter key. Your entire filesystem(s) are bye-bye, even /mnt/windows_c if you happen to have one and it is writeable. Aside from having the household cat for supper, there is no compensation, and of course even less when you fat-finger the enter key yourself. Take it from someone who has committed that faux pas. Civileme /quote Merry Christmas all ! Kaj Haulrich. Wow! I like it. I was typing 'rm /any/dir' and adding the '-rf' switches afterward to get 'rm -rf /any/dir'. Thanks a lot, Kaj. -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway config???
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 15:03, craig wrote: Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig Any suggestions Thanks /etc/sysconfig/network Parameters are GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS 2.0
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 07:32, Nestor Castro wrote: Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:56:50AM +0100, Nestor Castro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jncasmed]# route -n_ _Kernel IP routing table_ _Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface_ _192.168.147.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1_ _127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] jncasmed]#_ arrrgh,, You have no default gateway defined. Use the route command to add it. route add default gw 192.168.0.1 dev eth1 (check the real ip address of the gateway) Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok, that worked just fine, but every time I reset my box, I have to use the command to add it again, which file do I have to edit, so that it executes every time I turn on my comp.. Thanks Try these two lines in /etc/sysconfig/network: GATEWAY=1.2.3.4 GATEWAYDEV=eth1 I can't remember if the double-quotes () are needed. Merry Christmas, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache2
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 15:24, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hey list... I thought Apache served index.html by default. Evidently not, though. My hda died, fubar beyond help last weekend and piecing everything together I noticed that now aeis.tv/Before which always went to aeis.tv/Before/index.html now gives me an error. If I specifically ask for aeis.tv/Before/index.html, it serves the page. Where, pray tell, do I set the default? Lee You can use the DirectoryIndex option: DirectoryIndex index.html You can also use it inside a VirtualHost block. Merry Christmas to this wonderful list. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 03:22, Melissa Reese wrote: under Wine. Also...I don't know why this happens, but very often, Evolution freezes for several seconds, and this is quite annoying. Hi Melissa: I also had this problem with Evolution and some other applications. After I put: 127.0.0.1 myhostname.mydomain myhostname in /etc/hosts it started to work flawlessly. Happy Holidays, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gotmail - new version works
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 07:05, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Dec 2003 10:40 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Hi all for those who were using gotmail-0.79 which stopped working a few weeks ago - the new version 0.8 (beta) at sourceforge works fine. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gotmail/ Sharrea Sharea, I get very little hotmail, so I didn't notice that it wasn't working. On checking I have 2 messages, one of which is a month old. I have unzipped the file to the same directory as the old hotmail script, which has worked in the past, but I can't remember what I had to do to set up calling the old script. Obviously just replacing the perl script is not working, so can you tell me what else I need to do? Thanks Anne Anne: My previous gotmail executable was in /usr/bin. I overwrote it with the new one and it worked. Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 05:40, jason pearl wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 02:29, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:17:26 +0800 Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you mean that I should boot with new_kernel, and from the console do urpmi new_nvidia_driver. I should NOT do it from current_kernel. Just to be on the safe side. I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the Nvidia RPM knows which kernel to install to, but hey... After having done so, I will still have the choice in LILO to boot EITHER with current_kernel and current_nvidia_driver OR with new_kernel with the newly installed new_nvidia_driver. Thus, even if the new_nvidia rpm is badly corrupted, I WILL still have a working X running or current_kernel. Is this what you mean? Yep. You shouldn't be in X when installing the Nvidia drivers anyway. The reason, of course, that X won't start with the new kenel, is that in your XF86Config-4 you have it set to load the Nvidia driver. As long as the old kernel is still loading the Nvidia driver, you can always go back. This whole kernel business *is* kinda unnerving, no? ;-) so how do u stop x? get out then xserver stop ??? then do the rpm nvidia.*.rpm? If you boot directly to graphic mode: init 3 To go back to graphic mode: init 5 You must be root to enter those commands. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 12:25, Martin Brandt wrote: Damn it is NTFS. I'll just have to work out how to Detect my linux boot on the windows OS then, if thats possible, or else ill have to write a CDRW each time i want to transfer files... If you have an ext2/ext3 partition you can access it from Windows using explorer2fs. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 09:48, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John I uninstalled bootsplash urpme bootsplash I don't know if it can be done without uninstalling. -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:43, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:53, Nestor Castro wrote: whaang (chainsaw snipping;)) * Thanks Again for your time and patience. Nestor * 1)Can you ping the other boxes on your subnet? yeaa, that, I can do If so does it work using their names as well? noop 2)Can you ping the internet using IP addresses? that`s also a No 66.102.11.99 (google) for instance. Good luck, HarM damn, that chainsaw is getting dangerously close. I`ll atach a diagram of how my LAN is connected, and see if this helps you guys get a better perspective. Thanks. Nestor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I don't get it, if you have a line into the linux comp and a line out then you have to have two nic cards eth0 and eth1 in order to connect two cables to that computer. If that is the case then you have one nic that is not functioning. So if one is a built in to the motherboard it would seem that it may need to be activated in the bios. If it is active it should show up when you do ifconfig in console. Also you should see the active light on the back of the comp in two places. Something is missing or am I just daft? My guess is that the routing table will show that the interface to the gateway is the inactive card (which is eth0). Please, could you post the outputs of route -n and ifconfig? Use the chainsaw before posting. LOL. -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:44, P J Scott wrote: Trying to install 9.2 on a new system from a set of three disks, these are from the cover of Linux format magazine. The CD boots ok then starts its checks, after a while it give the message log interupt , it says it cant find cd or much of any hardware this is a new machine xp2600 80gb hdd dvd rom and cd rewriter 128mb g force 4 512 ddr ram with windows me installed is this a hardware problem ??? help I had the hda: lost interrupt problem with 9.1 in one machine. I passed the noapic option to lilo (after a lot of googling) and every thing worked just fine. HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 15:41, P J Scott wrote: You did the what to the what - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:44, P J Scott wrote: Trying to install 9.2 on a new system from a set of three disks, these are from the cover of Linux format magazine. The CD boots ok then starts its checks, after a while it give the message log interupt , it says it cant find cd or much of any hardware this is a new machine xp2600 80gb hdd dvd rom and cd rewriter 128mb g force 4 512 ddr ram with windows me installed is this a hardware problem ??? help I had the hda: lost interrupt problem with 9.1 in one machine. I passed the noapic option to lilo (after a lot of googling) and every thing worked just fine. HTH -- Here is a link that explains how to pass options to the install program. http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Quick_Startup.html/ch03s01.html Try: linux noapic HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:01, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 which uses this gateway, everyone connected also has access to the internet. I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and assigned an address , configured Mozilla and worked just fine, I can send and receive mail, I can PING my gateway normally and also any other IP address in the LAN, but when I try to PING my computer from another one it does not answer, as a result I can`t connect to the Internet. How do I tell LINUX to be seen by others in my LAN, I experimented on security, but could not find something helpful.. I'd appreciate any help.. Nestor It looks to me as you have not defined the DNS server(s) or the gateway. Take a look at /etc/resolv.conf. If every thing looks fine, then verify with route -n that you have defined the gateway. Regarding ping, it might be a firewall in 9.2 box blocking them. HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:32, Nestor Castro wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing /etc/hosts.allow and All: 192.168.147.0 I suppose the problem is with my gateway because when I use route -n sends me this information..: Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetric RefUseIface 10.5.66.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 u00 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 u00 0 eth1 I checked /etc/sysconfig/network and the information is Hostname uabc.com(my machine) networking =yes gateway=192.168.147.10 (the one defined in Drakcontrol) gatewaydev=eth1 I`m getting close, I know ..or..I hope. Thanks for your help I am confused. How is this all connected? Where is the 10.5.66.0 subnet that appears in your route? the 10.5.66.0 subnet is my LAN, but one computer with IP 192.168.147.10 works as a gateway What does ifconfig show? eth1 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:DB:74:3F:A1 inet addr: 10.5.66.66Bcast:10.5.66.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX:Packets:7688987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4910174 errors:0 dorpped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txquelen:100 RX bytes:2370586634 TX bytes:480970958 lo Link encap: Local Lopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 mETRIC:1 rx packets:1105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1105 erros:0 dropped:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 It won't work. The gateway and your computer have to be in the same subnet. Given that your mask is 255.255.255.0, your gateway should be something like 10.5.66.X. HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:48, John Richard Smith wrote: If you're on desktop and accidentally deleted your kernel from /boot directory is there any way to put one back other than reinstall everything from the beginning. Can you rebuild a replacement while on desktop ? Can I run CD1 install disc and get it to rebuild and install a new kernel only ? That is without installing or altering anything else, the upgrade route ? In any case it won't have nvida driver will it ? I think I still have a boot floppy, but never tried it, sometimes they don't work. John Actually , I had better make it clear that I accidentally deleted vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk from /boot directory and need to replace it, and not initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img can that be done from desktop ? John later === mkinitrd will not work, and in anycase I didn't delete the initrd file, mkrescue will not work because there is no Kernel file: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk does not exist so are there any options left ? John Just a wild guess. Try upgrading to kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk. At least you will have a kernel to boot to. Again, just a *wild guess*. HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Script in the init dir
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 07:50, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: I can't seem to be able to run a script when my machine boots up... I copied it in /etc/init.d/ though, and I can run it from the shell (/etc/init.d/myscript start), but it's not launched at boot time. Am I missing something here? Thanks, Startup scripts has to follow some rules. For example, it is mandatory to have a coupe of lines hinting default runlevels and priority at start up and shutdown. Something like: # chkconfig: 2345 90 20 # description: A comment to describe what this script does. You have to handle at least the cases to start and stop the service you are dealing with this script. OTOH, if you are trying to start a program, not a service, you better use rc.local. HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Script in the init dir
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 09:27, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I thought that the start and stop priority were provided by the /etc/rcx.d/ symlink names, i.e. S03iptables S10network starts iptables before network. Are those two lines relly needed by rc script, or by some other configuration utility? thanks, raffaele chkconfig uses that line (the # chkconfig one) to create the symlinks. For more information, take a look at the RUNLEVEL FILES section in man chkconfg. Saludos, -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:24, JoeHill wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:30:26 -0500
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Viagra!
This may be where I need to start learning about locking as well.
I got an error in pmlog at one point:
procmail: Timeout, was waiting for /var/spool/mail/joehill
Am I correct in assuming that this is to do with the fact that my recipe
referencing /var/spool/mail/joehill:
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0
/var/spool/mail/joehill
}
is the cause of this, in that it has no lock, ie. the trailing colon after
:0?
Joe:
You should write that recipe as:
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/spool/mail/joehill
From man procmailrc:
===
A line starting with ':' marks the beginning of a recipe. It has the
following format:
:0 [flags] [ : [locallockfile] ]
zero or more conditions (one per line)
exactly one action line
===
So it looks like the recipe is waiting for an answer from
/var/spool/mail/joehill.
HTH
--
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Re: [newbie] Lilo start entries
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 06:42, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, Just wanting to improve my linux knowledge and so When I boot I use LiLo to display as I also have a Win95 OS HDD in one of the IDE chains. Lilo presents me with the following listing: Linux Linux-nonfb failsafe dos floppy I know that selecting the linux entry will boot my normal linux, the dos entry will boot up the Win95 OS HDD and the floppy entry will alllow me to boot off floppy. What about failsafe and linux-nonfb? I would asume that failsafe is very similar to the Windows Safe Mode but the linux-nonfb meaning escapes me. No framebuffer. Any ideas and of course what files to edit using a root Kwrite editor? I know I can edit the entries in the MCC but I would prefer to do it via the CLI. /etc/lilo.conf After you edit the file, run lilo. TIA -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 13:47, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:38:33 -0400
Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should write that recipe as:
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/spool/mail/joehill
From man procmailrc:
===
A line starting with ':' marks the beginning of a recipe. It has the
following format:
:0 [flags] [ : [locallockfile] ]
zero or more conditions (one per line)
exactly one action line
===
So it looks like the recipe is waiting for an answer from
/var/spool/mail/joehill.
I've been following the format I originally snagged from Stephen K.'s site:
http://thor.prohosting.com/~kilgoret/files/procmailrc
So that my recipe file looks like this:
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0:
/var/spool/mail/joehill
}
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0:
/var/spool/mail/joehill
}
:0
* !^Message-Id
{
:0
$MAILDIR/spam
}
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0
/dev/null
}
:0
* ^Subject:.*joehill
{
:0
$MAILDIR/spam
}
:0
* ^Subject:.hi$
{
:0
$MAILDIR/spam
}
:0
* ^Message-Id:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0
$MAILDIR/spam
}
:0 B
* .*viagra
{
:0
/dev/null
}
as you can see, I added a lock (:) to the rules which forward to
/var/spool/mail/joehill, as I think what was happening was if I got two mails
both trying to write to there, it was timing out. Since adding the lock, I don't
seem to be having any probs, but I'll keep an eye on it.
I've been reading everything I can get my hands on for Procmail, esp the list
archives, and I'm *beginning*, I think, to understand the concept of the
lock, among other things.
Cheers!
I don't see the point of having something that does nothing. Rewriting
the recipe the way I wrote it does the same thing as using the recipe
with {} and a second :0.
I really respect Stephen's knowledge but in this case I don't see any
point in having a recipe like:
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* ^Subject:.*
{
:0
/dev/null
}
which translates into: if the message is coming from any body at
fc.emc.com.ph *and* the subject is any thing, send it to /dev/null. To
me, the subject line is adding no value to the recipe.
Take a look at man procmailex (procmailrc examples), specially at the
second example, and see how they avoid using unneeded {}.
Wow, you made me read some stuffs before posting a reply :-)
Saludos,
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Re: [newbie] bind and dhcp
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 06:19, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I setup a slave name server in the domain. It gets zone transfer from the master. I also use dhcp that dynamically update the zone in the master server. The question is: Should I mention the slave server in clients option in dhcpd.conf? So that clients would know to which name server in case the master is down? Since you are using a private domain name (systek.kom), there is no way the clients find out about the secondary name server unless you explicitly tell them about it. IOW, you should mention it. In the case of public domain name, most of the time you register at the root authority 2 name servers to handle your domain. If the first one goes down the other enter action. -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gotmail is not working
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 09:07, Derek Jennings wrote: Me too. I assume Hotmail have changed their site and we will need a new version of gotmail. derek Thank you, Derek. You just avoided me a lot of headaches :-) Saludos, -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist
It was filtered, didn't it? You have to change: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] to * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 21:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:30:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viagra! Penis spamassassin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Eleven days...some thoughts
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 06:23, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It's now been eleven days since I installed Mandrake, and I'd like to share a few thoughts. This may be a bit long, so I apologize in advance for my sound-byte challenged condition. First, I want to thank all of the very helpful and patient people on this list...you're all great! You've not only helped me with technical issues, but have also given me an appreciation for the community effort that is Mandrake in particular, and Linux in general. I'm going to keep working on tweaking my Mandrake and associated programs, but I'm also going to slow down the pace of my Linux project. You see, I'm a busy person, and I'm realizing that I'm spending way too much time staring at this silly screen, and not getting, amongst other things, enough sleep. Do beware though...I'm not through with you yet! No doubt I'll be back, sooner than you might hope...to ask more stupid and silly questions. :-) In another thread - leaving linux again - Void was concerned about not being able to get the television tuner working. Both the original post and the several replies allowed me to ponder the irony of the value of spending so much time staring at one type of screen or another. At the end of the day, how much real difference is there between watching television and watching a computer screen? I may happen to agree with many that between the two, spending time with the computer *can* be more productive than spending the same time looking at a television, but what about the time taken away by either from the rest of life? Remember the world just on the other side of our windows? No...not the Windoze or xWindows...but those transparent glass barriers between where we are at this moment, and all that fresh air out there! And what about spending some quality time curled up by the fire with a cup of tea and good book? As I said, my life is busy. I'm a musician, a kayaker, a boat builder, a chess player, a bicyclist, a reader, a beach bum, and another thing or two or three. I know the rest of you have lives beyond your computers as well, so I know you understand. I do enjoy keeping in touch with my friends via email, and I use my computer when I write poetry and prose. I use the computer to research things I'm interested in, and to play a bit of chess with people all over the world. It's a wonderful and rather amazing tool. However, it is the world beyond this keyboard, mouse, and monitor that fascinates me even more, and I'm feeling like I'm missing too much of it as I sit here for hours on end typing Klingon phrases into a little black Konsole (again...who's in charge of spelling around here?! :-)). Though tweaking software can be interesting to me - to a degree - I really only ever do it out of necessity...never because I just like to tweak. I'm finding that to be a Linux user *is* to tweak and to tinker, and in reality, I find myself doing more tinkering than emailing, playing chess, or writing. Worse yet, I'm doing more tinkering in the glow of this screen this past week than I am paddling my kayak and walking on the beach, and this I find disturbing. I know that after these initial weeks of understandable intensity I *should* be able to do a bit less tweaking and a bit more of other things, but I can also see an emerging pattern of increased screen time devoted just to the machine and OS itself, rather than just doing what I want with this tool, then moving on to other things. There are, after all, only 24 hours in each day, and I must balance my life a bit better than I have these past several days. A few thoughts about Windows versus Linux... I've come to really appreciate the Linux philosophy, and the community of users/developers that make all this possible. It really is pretty amazing. In spite of my general dislike of the Microsoft way, I must also acknowledge some of the really sophisticated and refined programs written for Windows. I'm not talking about MS applications beyond the OS itself, but about many third party applications that I truly enjoy using. Sometimes, when we're so passionate about one way of doing things over another, we can overlook some practical realities. There are indeed some really wonderful Windows programs that just don't have truly comparable Linux counterparts...yet. The email program I'm writing from at this moment (The Bat!) is one of those very elegant programs written for Windows, and is not, at this time, ported to Linux. For the sake of Linux users everywhere, I do hope someday it will be. I've been told that since it's written in Delphi, that may make the transition easier. I don't really know what that means in technical terms, but several people more knowledgeable than myself have told me this...and I hope it's true. With all the corresponding and writing I do, I've always been a
Re: [newbie] OT: need advice on notebook
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 23:32, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I want to buy a notebook, but I'm not really sure because it's quite expensive. I thought of buying a Pentium 4 one. Could you pls give me advice on: 1. Regarding the price and technology, is it the right time to buy a notebook? 2. What brand and series do you suggest that work best for Linux installation? Many thanks, Fajar. Stay away from Toshiba. Lousy support to Linux, if any. There is a class action regarding the 5005-S504. http://www.kbla.com/active/case_toshiba.php I own one of this model and this is a partial list of features: .- Battery is dead. I mean dead. 0 seconds battery life. .- CD/RW is almost dead. It can't write or read. It just spins (the reason for qualifying it as almost*). .- The machine over heat. Good to fry eggs. I love this nicety: the only way to setup your bios is through a Windows applet. Google for toshiba 5005 class action and you'll find more information about this expensive desktop :-( -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: need advice on notebook
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 09:55, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 08:21 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: Google for toshiba 5005 class action and you'll find more information about this expensive desktop :-( Adolfo, you seem bitter. PO would describe much better how I feel about this craptop :-) -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +58 212 953/4374 Telefax: +58 212 952-6797 Móvil: +58 416 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 02:48, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've copy/pasted, below my signature here, a message I received directly (not via the list). It was CC'd to the list, but I haven't seen it come back via the list, so I'm assuming there was a problem. As you can see from the headers, it looks like it was sent via sendmail. I'm wondering if the problems David is having with relaying denied has something to do with sendmail? Anyway, below is David's message, with complete headers. - -- Melissa A couple of days ago Pierre Fortin made a wonderful description of this problem (it might have been at the expert list). To filter spams, Mandrake makes a reverse address lookup using the ip of the sending server. If it can't find any registered name or if found name doesn't match the name of the sending server it rejects the mail. IOW, if your machine doesn't have a FQDN don't try to send mails directly to the list. Use as a relay host your ISP's SMTP server. -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +58 212 953/4374 Telefax: +58 212 952-6797 Móvil: +58 416 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 14:16, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] test IOW, if your machine doesn't have a FQDN don't try to send mails directly to the list. Use as a relay host your ISP's SMTP server. But mine does. 'dig m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com'. I sent a short message directly to the list with 'mail' a minute ago. If that works perhaps it's an issue with kmail? Yes, but there is no way to get its name from a reverse lookup, i.e, its ip address doesn't report the name 'm206-157.dsl.tsoft.com' as a valid host hooked to it. $ dig m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com ... ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com.IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com. 3600IN A 198.144.206.157 Now, let's do the reverse lookup. $ dig -x 198.144.206.15 ; DiG 9.2.2 -x 198.144.206.15 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19460 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;15.206.144.198.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 15.206.144.198.in-addr.arpa. 10747 IN PTR external.gumbyware.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 206.144.198.in-addr.arpa. 10747 IN NS ns.tsoft.net. 206.144.198.in-addr.arpa. 10747 IN NS ns2.tsoft.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.tsoft.net. 917 IN A 198.144.192.42 ns2.tsoft.net. 917 IN A 198.144.192.131 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.254#53(192.168.0.254) ;; WHEN: Sat Nov 29 15:49:34 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 157 -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 22:28, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 05:20 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: If someone sends a picture attached to an email, and I try to open it, I get the following error message: KDEInit could not launch kiconedit Could not find kiconedit executable Well, disregarding kiconedit for the moment, I did manage to get pictures to show... In trying to solve my K menu problem (still not completely solved, but better now), I used the AppFinder. It found 31 legacy programs, and added them to the K menu (Emacs is back, as well as other email clients, etc., but the sub-menu I really wanted back is still missing...the Configurations menu (included such things as rpmdrake and other packages options, Mandrake Control Center, etc.). Anyway...amongst the lost programs that was found with AppFinder was Gimp. Gimp did open up a .png picure file I clicked on, though instead of just displaying the picture, it opened up all of its various picture editing bits as well. Is there a program (kiconedit perhaps?) that only displays a picture file without all the editing options being brought up as well? In any event, I'll keep trying to find my lost menu items. :-/ - -- Melissa Melissa: Try this to recover your menu: Ctrl-Alt-F2 login as root update-menus -n -v Ctrl-Alt-F7 I am still using 9.1 but I have read that it should put your icons back in 9.2. -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 23:05, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 November 2003 06:36 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: Try this to recover your menu: Ctrl-Alt-F2 login as root update-menus -n -v Ctrl-Alt-F7 Hi Adolfo, Thanks for trying to help, but this didn't change anything. I don't think all those configuration programs were un-installed during installation of the updates, because I can still get to the Mandrake Control Center via the command line (mcc), but I don't know the commands for all the others. I'd still rather just have the sub-menu I used to have. I've also looked at the menu configuration options, and couldn't find anything to restore what I had before. This is really strange and disturbing. Thanks for trying! :-) - -- Melissa I also read somewhere that going to menudrake and just saving without doing anything else would restore your icons. Good luck! -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Resubbed?
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Re: [newbie] Resubbed?
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 08:19, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:11:07 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Test Had the same prob myself.. also just re-subscribed and it's fine. I wonder how long it'll take the others to catch on too... Greetings Ralph I wonder whether Mandrake should resub everybody that was in the list just before the mess. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is the list down ?
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 06:12, Poogle wrote: Received no posts since yesterday morning (and the archives show no updates since 15 Nov) so I re-subbed and still nothing, if this hits the list can somebody reply to me please? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It seems that a new sympa script to manage bouncers caused almost every body in the newbie list to be unsubbed. Resubscribing should do it. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache and php help needed
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 04:29, Mike 'yomcat' Welsh wrote: on 17/11/03 3:34 PM, Charlie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Apache root directory /etc/httpd2 does not exist. If you have Apache installed, adjust the module configuration to use the correct paths Edit your httpd.conf file. You might nede to put in the PHP stuff as well. Add the lines: LoadModule php4_modulemodules/libphp4.so AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] test
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 20:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:23 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: Not receiving mails from the list for a while Adolfo: Perhaps the simplest solution is to resubscribe. Sympa gets forgetful from time to time. -- cmg Thanks, Carroll. My ISP mail server was down for about an hour. I realized that when I couldn't send the test mail. I just forgot to remove it from the outbox. Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Many thank's for your reply.........
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:05, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 7:37 pm, Paul Downey wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks ever so much for your speedy reply, Your suggestions are great, If I understand you correctly, your suggestion / solution implies that the dial-up / ppp connection is running on the same machine that fetchmail is. Therefore the dial up( if-up.local ) script calls fetchmail when it has brought the modem link up...! I am not sure if I made my self clear, my apoligies... My dial-up connection is on another box ( a smoothwall / firewall ) and it is this box that has a modem attached to act as my gateway device. ( dial on demand. ) I run fetchmail on my mandrake 9.0 work station, and it times out with a dns error I think this is due to the amout of time that the smoothwall box takes to dial up my isp? I have looked into my Reply To setting in my LookOut Express Once again many thanks. Paul Ok Well in that case you will not like my second suggestion either. Running fetchmail as a daemon would cause your firewall to redial the modem every 3 minutes :-( I assume the firewall saves the packets it has received while it is waiting for the modem to dial, so does the 3rd solution help? (Using an explicit IP address in fetchmail configuration) The other solution that comes to mind is to run fetchmail on your firewall and save your mail on there. You could run your cron job on the firewall itself. derek Could a small script like this help? - #!/bin/sh # To activate the connection ping -c 4 pop.myisp.com /dev/null # Wait 30 seconds sleep 30s # fetch you mails /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -t 200 -D mydomain.co.uk -F - Try pinging pop.myisp.com to find out if the dial on demand connection is activated. If so, use the script in a cron job instead of calling fetchmail. HTH Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thank you to all that replied - that little script done the trick very groovy.....!
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 19:46, Paul Downey wrote: Well I tried the little script, and with a few tweeks, I managed to get it to do what I have been wanting all along...? many many thanks to all that replied to my emails to the newbie lists. another happy Linux user (newbie.) I am slowly weening my self off using Microsoft's soft ( hope that comment's not too taboo). Cheers. Paul. Could a small script like this help? - #!/bin/sh # To activate the connection ping -c 4 pop.myisp.com /dev/null # Wait 30 seconds sleep 30s # fetch you mails /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -t 200 -D mydomain.co.uk -F - Try pinging pop.myisp.com to find out if the dial on demand connection is activated. If so, use the script in a cron job instead of calling fetchmail. HTH Adolfo - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Many thank's for your reply. On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:05, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 7:37 pm, Paul Downey wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks ever so much for your speedy reply, Your suggestions are great, If I understand you correctly, your suggestion / solution implies that the dial-up / ppp connection is running on the same machine that fetchmail is. Therefore the dial up( if-up.local ) script calls fetchmail when it has brought the modem link up...! I am not sure if I made my self clear, my apoligies... My dial-up connection is on another box ( a smoothwall / firewall ) and it is this box that has a modem attached to act as my gateway device. ( dial on demand. ) I run fetchmail on my mandrake 9.0 work station, and it times out with a dns error I think this is due to the amout of time that the smoothwall box takes to dial up my isp? I have looked into my Reply To setting in my LookOut Express Once again many thanks. Paul Ok Well in that case you will not like my second suggestion either. Running fetchmail as a daemon would cause your firewall to redial the modem every 3 minutes :-( I assume the firewall saves the packets it has received while it is waiting for the modem to dial, so does the 3rd solution help? (Using an explicit IP address in fetchmail configuration) The other solution that comes to mind is to run fetchmail on your firewall and save your mail on there. You could run your cron job on the firewall itself. derek Could a small script like this help? - #!/bin/sh # To activate the connection ping -c 4 pop.myisp.com /dev/null # Wait 30 seconds sleep 30s # fetch you mails /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -t 200 -D mydomain.co.uk -F - Try pinging pop.myisp.com to find out if the dial on demand connection is activated. If so, use the script in a cron job instead of calling fetchmail. HTH Adolfo Glad to know you got your problem solved. See you around, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
