[newbie] xawtv fractured screen
Does anyone else have this problem? After watchting TV (happens randomly) in full screen, switching back to windowed shows the desktop as a bunch of long, horizontal rectangles. I can still follow the mouse around and read a single line of text if I find the top of a window and move it around. Logging out (CTRL-ALT-BKSP) and restarting x sometimes works, but most of the time, my consoles don't work anymore and the only solution is to shutdown or hit the reset button. I have a nVidia GeForce2 MX 400 AGP card and Mandrake 9.0 I'm running Mandrake's nv driver since xawtv doesn't work with nVidia's driver. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Network speeds: Mandrake - WindowsXP
Any reason why transferring files from a samba share to a windows folder would be faster when working from windows? I was at the console in Mandrake and used mv to move files from a directory to a mounted windows share and got about 7.2MB/s. Then, I stopped the transfer and went to the windows machine. Moving from Network Neighborhood to the local windows folder, I got 12MB/s (with peaks at 16MB/s). Both processes were moving the same data to the same folders. Both measurements were done from Task Manager in Windows XP and compared using net-monitor in Mandrake. BTW, I've got gigabit ethernet on these 2 machines and ATA 100 IDE drives. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDROM Lilo entry?
I noticed that there's a 'Boot from floppy' entry in lilo. Is there a way to add a 'Boot from CD' entry? I have an old laptop that can't boot from a CD. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC
On Monday 16 December 2002 06:50 am, ivette brusselmans wrote: 1 box Mandrake 8.2 (server) 1 box win98 (client) network OK (Komba 2) I can get the remote screen of the MDK box on my winbox without problem. But when I type the IPaddress of win98box in the VNC viewer on MDK 8.2, nothing happens. Could it have to do with the fact that win98 has tightVNC installed, not VNC? Thanks Did you include the screen number? I think VNC for Linux requires it. Add :0 to the end of the ip address (x.x.x.x:0) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] stopping X?
On Thursday 05 December 2002 11:28 pm, Jerry wrote:
tested out to see if ctrl-alt-backspace would stop xwindows like it did the
first time. instead of stopping xwindows totally, it restarted gdm and I'm
stuck back at the same place I was before. I know there's got to be a way
to do this. I don't have a problem writing a shell script with the
commands to do it the way i want, but i don't know which commands to use.
I imagine it has to do with starting Gnome withOUT starting gdm, am I
right? Thanks so much for your help on this :) You're very kind.
Jerry.
I'm a newbie too. Here's how I found to stop xdm/kdm/gdm:
CTRL-ALT-F1
ps -A
kill -9 {whatever the process number is for gdm}
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Re: [newbie] questions on apt-get
I run Debian on my server and I think it's great. Just leave it running and it takes care of itself, apt-getting the latest updates automatically. I thought I'd give this a try on my Mandrake system. Synaptic has half of my system marked for removal! There's only 3 broken packages. When I tell it to mark them for removal, over 50 other packages get marked, also. The 3 that are broken are: kdemultimedia - 1.3.0.3-7mdk kdevelop - 3.2.1.3-6mdk libpng3 - 2.1.2.4-3mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernels
Is there any reason why someone would/should not run an older kernel? I've got some gigabit ethernet cards that only have drivers for 2.2.10. I see that I have 2 choices (besides sending them back for something better): find a way to force them to work with 2.4.18 or downgrade to 2.2.10. Also, is there any reason to try 2.5.x? Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Trendware Gigabit NIC
Anyone have experience with these? They claim Linux compatability. At $50/card, it would make for some speedy file transfers... Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 'Always on Top' in Gnome?
Am I wrong in the assumption that there's no such concept in Gnome? No windows have that option and the few apps that have their own 'on top' function don't work. (XMMS comes to mind) Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 'Save All Attachments' in KMail?
I've googled and come up with nothing... I have collected several attachments in a folder that's getting pretty big. I'd like to save all the attachments to a directory and then empty the mail folder. Any ideas? Thanks, Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 5:06 pm, Franki wrote: yep... vncserver rules.. I have a window open on my win2000 box, that window is my linux server.. logged in as my normal user.. works great, I am gonna start fiddling soon and see if i can't get it to tunnel via ssh... then i can use it on remote servers.. rgds Frank I run VNCServer on my 2 home computers and have a firewall with only ports 80, 25 and 22 open. When I want to check my e-mail, I tunnel 110 over SSH. Also, I tunnel 5901 and 5902 over SSH to access my 2 desktops using VNC. Works great, especially with the -C option. :) Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PHP4/SSL/Apache
https://www.barrymichels.com Why is the PHP script not executed? Instead I'm prompted to save or select a viewer... Thanks Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PHP4/SSL/Apache
It works normally without SSL, but I'm playing around with encryption and was surprized to see PHP not executing. On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:10 pm, Barry Michels wrote: https://www.barrymichels.com Why is the PHP script not executed? Instead I'm prompted to save or select a viewer... Thanks Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disk Full notification?
It's running. After looking at this issue again, I realized that I had no notification at all under Debian, where there is no partmon. However, under Mandrake, I get messages saying that the drive is full, but cp keeps going, leaving 0 length files. Not much better. It would be nice if partmon would stop cp and delete the last partial file created. Barry On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:20 am, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey Barry, When copying files from one drive to another at the console, I don't get a disk full notification. When the drive fills up, it keeps trying to copy until it reaches the end, then it returns to the prompt. No note saying anything went wrong. Then I have no idea which file it was working on when the drive filled up. The only clue is a bunch of 0 length files. The file it failed on is of partial length. Is there a way to change this behavior? Check if you have the partmon service enabled in running under Mandrake Control Center - System - Services. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disk Full notification?
When copying files from one drive to another at the console, I don't get a disk full notification. When the drive fills up, it keeps trying to copy until it reaches the end, then it returns to the prompt. No note saying anything went wrong. Then I have no idea which file it was working on when the drive filled up. The only clue is a bunch of 0 length files. The file it failed on is of partial length. Is there a way to change this behavior? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lockup on SCSI detection during installation
I'm trying to install 9.0 on our old server at work. It's got an Adaptec AHA-2940UW PCI SCSI adaptor with a SCSI hard drive and an OnStream SC-50 tape drive. There's also a 40GB IDE drive. Right after selecting 'Expert' and Install, a window pops up that says: Installing driver for disk/scsi|hardware_raid card Adaptec|AIC-7881U Then it locks up hard. Is there any way to block the SCSI detection or force it to recognize the correct device? Thanks, Barry Michels Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Those USB Thumb drives...
I just plug mine in and it mounts itself to /mnt/removable. I don't know how it works, I guess it was default. And, yes, those things are VERY useful. 4 of the technicians in my company have them and I'm trying to talk my boss into getting one for each of the rest. Barry On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:21 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey, One thing I haven't figured out how to do is how to get my 128-meg Thumb Drive (USB-based disk) to work as a hot plug into linux. I can do it with WinXP and Win2k all day long which I use on a regular basis as a FAT filesystem. These things are SO useful! Does anyone know of a way to get them to work as a hot-plug mount/dismount under Linux Mdk 9.0? Thanks in advance!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralph[at]boundariez[dot]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windblows
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Re: [newbie] nVidiaGeForce2Go card on Dell laptop - NO X WILL WORK!!
But, that file requires installing the source tars from nvidia's website. You need the GLX and kernel files. (install kernel first, then GLX) Barry - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:57 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] nVidiaGeForce2Go card on Dell laptop - NO X WILL WORK!! Try this one.. someone nice sent it to me to try... good luck. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ralph M. Los Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nVidiaGeForce2Go card on Dell laptop - NO X WILL WORK!! Sensitivity: Confidential Like the subject line says - I can't get a SINGLE X-server config to work right. I don't get it. I've tried the defaults it gives (nVidia2 (generric) + flat panel 1024x768 + 1028x768@16bpp) and it still doesn't load right. 3.3.6 and 4.0.2 (I'm not entirely sure on ver #) don't work!! HELP PLEASE would be most appreciated. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralphatboundariezdotcom | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty pissed off with...
I'm trying to do the same thing in my company. I'll never be able to totally convert over to Linux because of the closed-source software we have to run is only available for Windows. But, I've installed a Linux machine as a router (up 83 days and counting). This week, I'm going to convert our old server into a file printer sharing server. Maybe one day I'll be able to replace our Exchange server with something under Linux... Slowly, but surely. Barry - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:52 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty pissed off with... I got lucky,,, my position has some perks, and I use all of them to proclaim the coolness of linux.. My boss knows I am a nut for it, and HE asked me if I could replace all their windows/office machines, with linux variants.. So I am starting with one machine, see if I can make it as useful, and if they are happy with the result, then we can put it on all of them... very cool :-) The more business and home users we initiate to linux, the harder it will be for M$ to use paladium to reinforce their monopoly.. (and collect info from users) rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?
Maxtor?!? All but 2 I've been around (at work) have died at one time or another. I would never buy a Maxtor or Quantum. YMMV - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives? Miark wrote: I never had one, but I understood they were very good. But I thought IBM is getting out of the hard drive business...? Miark Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: What's your opinion of IBM Hard Drives? I was going to continue buying them since IBM is a supporter of Linux. However, some of the customer feedbacks I've been reading makes me apprehensive about touching these. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Basically, stay away. The new ones are not rated for 24/7 operation. The only decent drives left in IDE seem to be Maxtor, and I have returned one of their 60G models this year. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound themes
Ok, I've finally gotten my system setup the way I want it visually, but the sounds suck. I've searched online, but all I can find so far is visual themes. Anyone know of a library of sound scheme? If it matters, I'm running KDE3. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0
I found this tutorial ( http://www.atechsol.net/kde3.html ) and it worked. KDE3 looks great! I've got a liquid theme with transparent menus and a digitally created water wallpaper. I'm still going through all the areas in Control Center to see what all can be changed Barry On Friday 05 July 2002 08:07 pm, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 03:50 am, Barry Michels did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I installed from the rpms and now have a /opt/kde3 directory. I've chanded my path to include it's bin directory. With or without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, I still get KDE2. how are you starting it? kdm? if so you should comment out the line in /etc/profile.d/kde3.sh that say export path. that should give you both a kde choice and a kde3 choice. the kde3 choice will likely be at the bottom of the list. - -- I do not believe that I am dreaming this life, but I can not prove that I am not. -Bertrand Russell shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9JjTMBwq+ZwvIN/oRAqsqAJ9aNiJ3PL3zTDhadPX6NoY3fjXCxgCdHVS3 2/JpaoOWoNLgXKM256pLFl4= =OfD6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
This is a real problem with RPM-based distros. The Debian distros can upgrade all they want with no problem. In fact, you only need to install Debian once. After that you can upgrade as often as you wish. I would like to know how to do this. I've been playing with other distros to see which one I like best. The apt-get feature is nice enough that I'm going to switch to Debian just for that. Also, since Familiar and Intimate are based on Debian, I can be consistant when switching from my desktop to my ipaq. Anyway, when messing with apt-get, I had to re-install a few times because apt-get fried the system. Maybe because I put the testing feeds into the sources list... I couldn't boot back up after upgrading and I don't know enough about Linux to know what was wrong or how to fix it. When I get done re-installing my system, I'm sticking with the stable feed. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big / partiton? What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
So, are there any recommendations on size for these different partitions? I've got a 60gb drive that I want to dedicate to Linux. The 100GB and 120GB are going to be for miscellaneous storage. Barry - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions? On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:21 pm, Barry Michels wrote: The way I look at it, if I run out of space somewhere and have more space on another partition, I'm screwed, right? So, isn't it better to have one big / partiton? You are correct. That is why my laptop which only has a 2G HD uses one big '/' partition. You can resize and move partitions, but that is obviously a pain. What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not as reliable as users would like, and many people are more comfortable with a fresh install right down to reformatting the partitions. If you have just one big '/' partition that would mean you would lose all your user data in /home, all your configuration settings in /etc and all your 'extra' applications you mat have put in /opt. So by having separate partitions you can reformat '/' and '/usr' without destroying all the other data. Also if you were running a heavy duty server you would want to have different partitions to optimise HD performance, but that is not usually a consideration in a desktop system. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2
All this talk about swapping video cards has reminded me to ask, is there anything that should be done before swapping my Voodoo3 3500TV for a GeForce2 400MX? I'm swapping hardware between 2 computers in an attempt to get 1 really nice one for linux and make a winblows machine with the leftovers. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:33, Cory wrote:
{...snip...}
(There ARE some who actually do know a lot about computers, but I
can guarantee that the knowledge you possess did not come from any of
Microsoft's training regimes).
You got that right! I wasted $9,000 for my MCSE course. What a joke. I'm
so glad my boss picked up the student loan payments. If I ever get around
to upgrading from NT 4.0 cert to 2k, I'll do it on my own time instead of
paying an instructor to get instruction from me. The school had a PC setup
with Win2k that had 3 NIC cards acting as a router for the 2 classrooms.
They couldn't figure out how to get internet access using that setup! It
took me all of 5 minutes to get things configured so I could browse the
internet from my desk. After that, any time the instructor couldn't answer
a question, he'd ask me. Either I already knew the answer or could find it
quickly on the net.
Just about all of my training was done on my own time. I've been
programming since age 8, starting with the TI99/4a and moving thru TRS-80,
Apple II (YUK!) and finally PC's starting at age 15. The ONLY reason I
wanted to get my MCSE was so I'd have something to show an employer. How in
the world did you find someone that would hire you based on unofficial
training? I searched from age 15 to age 22 and finally found my current
employer, which isn't really in the computer field. I work for an HVAC
system installer as tech support, IT, software development, instructor, etc.
Not exactly my choice of work, but every resume I've sent in gets rejected
because of no formal training.
Lastly, one thing I really regret was never being exposed to Linux as a
child. My parents bought a PC based on what friends suggested (MSDOS 3.3
Windows 3.1). So, I grew up on M$. Later, my exposure to *nix OS's was
very difficult. Now I look back and wish I would've gotten in on Linux much
earlier. I'm slowly making the transition. I've got a XP machine for
e-mail, games, TV, music, etc. And, a Mandrake machine for my website,
e-mail server general Linux learning. Last week I got into Linux on my
iPAQ. That's pretty cool. Unlike desktop Windows vs Windows CE, Linux is
the same on the handheld and the desktop.
{...snip...}
I have
been hired as part of the IT staff, and none of us have had ANY official
Microsoft training of any kind. In the interview I was asked what my
training level was. My response was None, officially, then he asked if
I
would like to get my MCSE in the future, and I said a lot of what's in
this
post. Now I'm here.
Cory Grey
Coastal Pacific Xpress
www.cpx.ca
(604) 575-0983
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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). - Original Message - From: Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query download the tarball ( it contains MPlayer and Mencoder and it will do everything you say you need ) and at least one skin. ( the skin works for MPlayer, but for Mencoder you will still have to use CLI for now. ) oh and you will probably need the codecs, too. download the package named win32 codecs unpack it and copy all of it's contents to /usr/lib/win32 unpack the mplayer-0.90pre5 tarball, enter it's directory, and do this: ./configure --enable-gui make make install once you have done this, you unpack your mplayer skin to /home/(your-user)/.mplayer/Skin ( note the capital S on Skin ) and put the skin in a subdirectory. (i.e. if you downloaded default skin, copy it to /home/(user)/.mplayer/Skin/default/ as you have compiled and installed MPlayer as root, make sure you give your user permission to read the skin files. otherwise mplayer will report it didn't find any. chmod +777 -R /home/(user)/.mplayer ... and i think that's all there is to it. MPlayer is a huge program, but all of those tons of information will be severely reduced once it compiles in your machine and excludes all the stuff your computer doesn't need. don't worry. once all is done, you can launch mplayer ( CLI ) or gmplayer ( GUI ) mplayer's biggest problem for a newbie is choosing the video output ( vo ), since you may found better features/speed with some drivers depending on your videocard. some video drivers installed may not even work. However SDL or X11 seem to work for almost everyone. ( mplayer -vo sdl moviefile.avi ) you can also play net streams, or to dump them to disk ;o) ( mplayer -vo sdl mms://server.net/moviefile.asf ) and ( mplayer -dumpstream mms://server.net/moviefile.asf will create a stream.dump file that you can then rename to *.asf ) and mencoder ( CLI ) encodes movie files in virtually any format available. notice, however, that mencoder requires very precise parameters in the commandline, so it requires some reading... HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page On Wednesday 05 June 2002 11:02 pm, you wrote: My site: www.barrymichels.com is running under Apache. I found it very easy to setup. Just install and put all your html docs in /var/www/html. Not much to it. IIRC, it took about a half-hour to get up running. Then another 4 hours to translate all my ASP code into PHP. If the OS installs it during setup (like my current installation), then it's even easier since all you do is place your files in the published directory. Looks, great, where did you find those good-looking models? A kid next door made them for me with his penknife and some old sticks from the backyard. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 hmm, must've missed the original reply The first 9 are Gillian Anderson and the last one is Charlize Theron. All of them are drawn from either magazines or from printed images downloaded from the internet. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page
My site: www.barrymichels.com is running under Apache. I found it very easy to setup. Just install and put all your html docs in /var/www/html. Not much to it. IIRC, it took about a half-hour to get up running. Then another 4 hours to translate all my ASP code into PHP. If the OS installs it during setup (like my current installation), then it's even easier since all you do is place your files in the published directory. Barry - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page Has anyone set up Apache to host their own web page, and if so what is a good way to start? I have been through the man for apache and several online sources but can't really get a feel for making the html available to the internet. I will put the server ahead of my firewall but from there I am not sure how to load the pages and set the URL. Is Running Apache by O'Reilley a good instructional book for this? Point me and I will forge onward. Thanks for any Help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page
I don't know of any, and didn't want to use it either. I enjoy learning new languages. There's a PDF online that I used to lookup the commands. A converter would probably be easily done, since just about every command in ASP has an equivalent in PHP. Barry - Original Message - From: John King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page to translate all my ASP code into PHP. If the OS installs you don't by chance happen to have a program to this automatically?? Can you tell me where I can download / purchase it (if it exists?) Thanks John - Original Message - From: Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page My site: www.barrymichels.com is running under Apache. I found it very easy to setup. Just install and put all your html docs in /var/www/html. Not much to it. IIRC, it took about a half-hour to get up running. Then another 4 hours to translate all my ASP code into PHP. If the OS installs it during setup (like my current installation), then it's even easier since all you do is place your files in the published directory. Barry - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page Has anyone set up Apache to host their own web page, and if so what is a good way to start? I have been through the man for apache and several online sources but can't really get a feel for making the html available to the internet. I will put the server ahead of my firewall but from there I am not sure how to load the pages and set the URL. Is Running Apache by O'Reilley a good instructional book for this? Point me and I will forge onward. Thanks for any Help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] phpSysInfo question
http://www.barrymichels.com/phpSysInfo-2.0/ This script will show data right after a reboot, for about an hour or so, then N/A's everywhere. Any ideas why? I've searched through their forums, but they don't help. Their main suggestion is not to run php in safe mode, but I don't. I've tried re-starting several processes, but nothing I do short of rebooting will fix it. I'll never set a record for the longest up-time doing that... :) If you notice the 'Modified by' text at the bottom, keep in mind that this problem was occurring before I modified it. The only changes I made were to what data was shown in the templates. Which brings up another question: does any one know where the command is to create the title? I want to get rid of the intranet IP address. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compiling Permission?
Awesome! I changed the permissions yesterday, but on the wrong file. I had to follow the links from gcc to /etc/alternatives and then back to gcc-2.96 to figure out which one to change. Had to do the same thing with c++ /etc/alternativesg++-2.96. Thanks - Original Message - From: K Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Compiling Permission? If your question is as it sounds, your user account obviously needs to have executable access. Typing ls -l `which gcc` should show you the existing permissions on the file. You can either make gcc executable by other (chmod o+x `which gcc`) so that all users can run it, or you can make it group executable (chmod g+x) and make sure your user is in the group that has access. The first solution is probably better for you, provided you have no security concerns. - Kathy On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:27, Barry Michels wrote: I've just embarked on my first Linux application and can't even compile. When I try to start a new project, I get 'Permission Denied'. I can run gcc as root, but what permission do I need to give my user account so I can compile when logged in normally? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compiling Permission?
Unfortunately the permissions reset themselves after a reboot, so I had to add myself to the ctools group. Now it works all the time. - Original Message - From: Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Compiling Permission? Awesome! I changed the permissions yesterday, but on the wrong file. I had to follow the links from gcc to /etc/alternatives and then back to gcc-2.96 to figure out which one to change. Had to do the same thing with c++ /etc/alternativesg++-2.96. Thanks - Original Message - From: K Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Compiling Permission? If your question is as it sounds, your user account obviously needs to have executable access. Typing ls -l `which gcc` should show you the existing permissions on the file. You can either make gcc executable by other (chmod o+x `which gcc`) so that all users can run it, or you can make it group executable (chmod g+x) and make sure your user is in the group that has access. The first solution is probably better for you, provided you have no security concerns. - Kathy On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:27, Barry Michels wrote: I've just embarked on my first Linux application and can't even compile. When I try to start a new project, I get 'Permission Denied'. I can run gcc as root, but what permission do I need to give my user account so I can compile when logged in normally? -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compiling Permission?
I've just embarked on my first Linux application and can't even compile. When I try to start a new project, I get 'Permission Denied'. I can run gcc as root, but what permission do I need to give my user account so I can compile when logged in normally? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux server that works with MS Outlook?
You got it... But, I bet MS would probably *try* to keep such a thing from hitting the market... - Original Message - From: Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux server that works with MS Outlook? I believe he is asking for something to use instead of Exchange that can talk to M$ Outlook. The connector would let Evolution talk to Exchange. Joe On Wed, 29 May 2002 20:12:47 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i believe their is a ximian product that does what you are looking for. connector i think? http://www.ximian.com/ On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:47 pm, Barry Michels opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Is there something available for Linux that could work as a server for a MS Outlook client? -- Microsoft, Windows, Windows 98, Bugs, Lacking Features, IRQ Conflicts, System Crashes, Non-Functional Multitasking, The Y2K Problem and The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington, USA. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Voodoo3 TV
Anyone know if there's drivers for a Voodoo3 3500TV? Specifically, what programs would be used to watch TV using the video input feature of that card? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Qmail problem
I just got it working. My system was accessing the Linux box by connecting from the internet side of my router, so I had to put in my i-net side IP address into the tcp.smtp filter... - Original Message - From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NewbieMandrake-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Qmail problem On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 09:34, Barry Michels wrote: So, no Qmail/tcpserver 'experts' out there? - Original Message - From: Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Qmail problem I finally got my Linux machine out of a VMWare virtual machine and into some real hardware. Windows XP kept crashing and taking Linux with it... Anyway, after several hours working on getting qmail running, I finally got it up, but one feature won't work. In tcp.stmp, you're supposed to be able to put 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= and get it to bypass rcpthosts for local machines. Well, that doesn't work. Any ideas? What info would you need to see to help diagnose the problem? Barry I think you've made the best choice for a mailserver; I'm getting ready to install qmail myself, but I'm after integrating it with Mysql, similar to what postfix is capable of. That takes a bit more time, and I've been putting it off, so I can't offer any advice as of yet. I hope there are some qmail lurkers out there who can, tho. Anybody? LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Qmail problem
I finally got my Linux machine out of a VMWare virtual machine and into some real hardware. Windows XP kept crashing and taking Linux with it... Anyway, after several hours working on getting qmail running, I finally got it up, but one feature won't work. In tcp.stmp, you're supposed to be able to put 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= and get it to bypass rcpthosts for local machines. Well, that doesn't work. Any ideas? What info would you need to see to help diagnose the problem? Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is VNC-Only possible?
I have a Linux machine with no monitor. Is it possible not to run X, but just a VNC server on screen :0 for access from my XP machine? I will also run a SSHD server so I would be able to restart the VNC server in the event of an accidental logoff. :) Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Any ideas? - 8.2 w/ Celeron GA-6VX7-4X Motherboard
I just got this machine as a cheap system to learn Linux on, but it won't install correctly. As soon as it gets to the boot floppy creation step, I click 'No' and it freezes immediately. That's in Expert mode. In regular mode, it gets all the way to the X video mode selection and freezes at a black screen, apparently after trying a video mode. Here's my hardware: Gigabyte motherboard: GA-6VX7-4X 256MB ram Celeron 800 CPU 27.3GB IBM drive S3 Virge/VX PCI video card (the computer won't even boot with my AGP Voodoo3500) Microsoft Natural Pro USB Intellimouse Explorer Thanks, Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSH problem
Well, actually, I'm using SecureCRT that supports SSH, but I was using telnet just to test the connection. That suggestion fixed it. The line was in there, but I put: shhd : ANY : allow instead of: sshd : ANY : ALLOW I found that line in one of the online HOWTO's. Oh, well, I'm still learning.. Thanks, Barry - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SSH problem Howdy Barry, You seem to be using telnet and ssh interchangabley when they're not. SSH is secure, while telnet is not, and SSH uses port 22, while telnet uses port 23. I recommend using SSH. Now, the box that you're ssh'ing to must specifically allow ssh connections, which is configured independently of the ssh daemon. Instead, you must add the following lines to /etc/hosts.allow: sshd sshd1 sshd2 : ALL : ALLOW Give that a shot and let us know if that does the trick. Miark Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: But, I'd like to telnet into it remotely as VNC doesn't work well with screen updates of virtual machines. Using telnet on my XP machine to access port 22 results in a blank screen and a disconnect in a few seconds. The log shows 'sshd refused connect from 140.150.160.2' (my XP machine's intranet address). After several hours searching, I'm no closer to figuring out what's going on. Although, I am learning a LOT about interacting with Linux from the command line. BTW, the purpose of this virtual machine is to get more comfortable with Linux before dedicating real hardware for a web server. The Apache server with PHP is already running at: www.barrymichels.com Thanks, Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Package question
All of the info I've seen about updating Mandrake talks about using the MandrakeUpdate under X. What about for a console-only installation? What's the procedure? Thanks, Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Package question
ok, I finally got drakupdaterobot installed and setup, but every time I run it, it says: Segmentation fault (core dumped) Here's the txt file log: Stage 1: Opening the RPM (Redhat Package Manager) Database * RPM database is successfully opened! * Now locking the database, and no other program can use RPM database while MUR is running. Stage 2: Getting information from this machine * You are running Linux Mandrake version 8.1 with update machine type: updatesi586 Stage 3: Reading downloaded files in directory /home/RPMS... Number of files in /var/cache/grpmi = 0 Stage 4: Downloading the mirror Visiting ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/updates, Retry count=0 Listing directory ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS/ Upgrading RPM packages from mirror:ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPM S/ - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Package question There is a nice little package done by a contributor called MandrakeUpdateRobot which works from the command line. It is on the downloadable CDs since 8.1 and is abvailable through rpmfind as well. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
