Re: [newbie] Using the rm command
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:29:32 +1200
SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only.
I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at
installing the later.
I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by
me. The README advises: To uninstall Acrobat Reader 5.0.9, simply
delete the directory where it was installed.
However, in doing a search :
# slocate acro
I have found that it is spread through quite a number of directories.
Though I am prepared to track them down and remove them all
individually I was wondering if there is a way to use the rm
command to search and remove them all at one time ?
And even better ~ if there was a way to check everything rm wanted
to remove first without having to say Y to every file one by one ?
Still, this is only a thought and not essential but if you know then
please share.
TIA
Regards
SnapafunFrank
Frank,
I think the find command is what you are looking for.
As root, run
find / -name acroread* -exec ls {} \;
to find the files you are looking for. (acro* gives too many false
positives, at least on my machine.)
Use
find / -name acroread* -exec rm {} \;
to remove the files..
find / -name acroread* -exec rm -i {} \;
gives you the possibility to skip certain files, and
find / -name acroread* -exec rm -r -i {} \;
also works recursively.
Then go on to search for Acrobat instead of acroread.
Björn
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Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-Claws
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:28:56 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:41:53 + Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List I have one annoying problem with Sylpheed-Claws after months of usage. When it goes out to retrieve pop mail and the server is not available, it leaves an unable to connect pop-up on whichever desktop I have working, many times under the open work. This leaves Sylpheed disabled. Until I realized what was happening, I killed Sylpheed. Seemed drastic, but apparently didn't hurt anything. Now I search like a kid playing hide-and-seek for the pop-up. Feels silly. I can't find anything in the configuration that allows me to disable the message, or let Sylpheed simply go on to the next task. I really don't care if the messages are irretrievable once in awhile. I have experienced the same thing with the Windows version of SC, but perhaps an upgrade to 1.0.1 might do the trickI can't remember experiencing it in Linux, you could also post a message to the Sylpheed Claws mailinglist (I do not have the adress though at the top of my head) /ANders I don't know about Claws, but in Sylpheed 1.0.0 you'll find the option under Configuration / Interface. In english it should be called someting like Don't show error dialog. Björn 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 page of Konqueror??
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:47:00 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 02:23 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Is there a way to have a specific web site open in Konqueror whenever it starts, using KDE (GUI) only? My broadband ISP, Road Runner, is a cable operation. The following site, http://www.rr.com/flash/;, is its home page and can be set by me to reflect the exact local news, local weather, and global headlines in which I am interested. Under Windows, I can use Tools/Options/General/Home Page/Use Current Page to open my browser to Road Runner's home page whenever I start Mozilla-Firefox or any other browser. MY question is: Is there a SIMPLE (meaning non-programming) KDE/GUI method, similar to Windows, to configure Konqueror to open to Road runner's home page whenever I start Konqueror? I do not understand programming, and at my age I don't want to have to start to learn it now. I would like to stop using Windows and I thought KDE/GUI would allow me to continue using my computer without trying to understand written commands, etc. That is the main reason I chose Mandrake. Is it possible to do what I want in Linux and specifically in Mandrake 10.1? Thank you, Andy BTW I am beginning to think I like Konqueror better than Firefox. It's appearance is cleaner, less clutter, and it is a lot faster. Also, the Road Runner start page using Windows has better fonts than when using Konqueror. I am not certain but I think the fonts in RR start page using Windows is Sans while the font when using Mandrake KDE is definitely different and much harder for me to use. Also the contrast is poor. I don't understand why this is true for Road Runner's home page under KDE - because other sites I open while using Konqueror are OK. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, Andy you can go into settingsconfigure Konquerorbehaviorand put in the URL of the home page you want where it has URL and a blank for fill in. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Or you can go to the page you want as your start page, enter the settings menu and click Save View Profile Web Browsing. This way you can keep another page/directory for use with Konqueror's home button. Myself I like to start with a blank page, so I enter about:blank in the adress field and hit Return before I save the profile. As for the fonts problem, I have no clue. Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to properly save Internet pages?
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:00:54 +0100 Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all. I have Mandrake Linux 9.1. When navigating in Internet with Konqueror, if I want to save a web page I choose the 'Save As...' item from the 'Location' menu. But all those small images that usually accompany and decorate a web page are not saved, so when I come back to read it it looks bad and sometimes difficult to view. Is there a way to work the problem out? I'm sorry to say, but MS Windows Internet Explorer doesn't have this problem. Maybe it's me that am missing some trivial basic operation? Thanks, Rodolfo Rodolfo, I don't remember what 9.1 is like but with 10.0, if you install the kdeaddons package, you'll find several new functions in the tools menu. One of them will be archive webpage. Maybe there's a similar package for 9.1? Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:21:40 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: snip, snip, snip Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original installation. Cheers, Maybe your pspfontcache-file has grown too big. Google for openoffice slow pspfontcache Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux? CLOSED
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:27:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 21:04, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 20:53, Björn Olsson wrote: snip Carroll, No, I haven't asked Epson yet. Asking the manufacturer och vendor is always the last resort, isn't it? ;-) However, I have gone over their website without finding anything worthwhile. But you are right, It _is_ worth asking, so I'll give them a call tomorrow. Björn /snip As another comment : Epson Perfection 2400 Photo works excellent on my MDK 10.1 CE. Although it isn't listed as a fully compatible scanner, the 2480 will probably work. You could try to use one of Epson's linux drivers from here : http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html I tried one of those drivers, but it insisted on device busy or some such, so I did'nt bother, but use xsane as my default driver. A 100 % pleasure. I forgot something : Epson scanners - including 2480 - are well supported by Vuescan from Hamrick Software. Although it is commercial it is reasonably priced : http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html Vuescan works great, but it is a bit more complicated (too many options for my small brain) than xsane. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Thanks for your input, all of you. Today I called Epson's support. As it turned out, the 2480 Photo is exactly the same model as the plain 2480, except it ships with a separate slide holder. So that means the SANE CVS-drivers should work. Even better, the next stable release of SANE-Backends is scheduled for 2004-11-07. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?
Hi all, I'm planning on buying a scanner for my Mdk 10.0 system. Most Epson scanners seem to be well supported by the Sane project (www.sane-project.org). Support for the plain Epson 2480 model is described as Good (CVS), but the 2480 Photo model isn't on the list. Does anyone here have any information? Alternatively, what are some other scanners of comparable quality and price? TIA, Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:29:13 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Björn Olsson wrote: Hi all, I'm planning on buying a scanner for my Mdk 10.0 system. Most Epson scanners seem to be well supported by the Sane project (www.sane-project.org). Support for the plain Epson 2480 model is described as Good (CVS), but the 2480 Photo model isn't on the list. Does anyone here have any information? Alternatively, what are some other scanners of comparable quality and price? TIA, Björn Olsson Epson 2400 photo certainly is supported. Is the 2480 much different ? John Hi, John I don't know, really. Judging by their product brochures, they don't seem very different. However the 2480 is considerably newer. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:16:08 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:29:13 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Björn Olsson wrote: Hi all, I'm planning on buying a scanner for my Mdk 10.0 system. Most Epson scanners seem to be well supported by the Sane project (www.sane-project.org). Support for the plain Epson 2480 model is described as Good (CVS), but the 2480 Photo model isn't on the list.Does anyone here have any information? Alternatively, what are some other scanners of comparable quality andprice? TIA, Björn Olsson Epson 2400 photo certainly is supported. Is the 2480 much different ? John Hi, John I don't know, really. Judging by their product brochures, they don't seem very different. However the 2480 is considerably newer. Björn Have you looked on sane website http://www.sane-project.org/ I'm guessing it ain't much different, change of plastic knobs and such like. If not the epson 2400 photo is still available here in UK. John Yeah, It is available in Sweden as well. I will probably settle for the 2400 just to be on the safe side. It may be a few years old, but I understand it is still a very good scanner for its price. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:04:23 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 Oct 2004 15:53, Björn Olsson wrote: I don't know, really. Judging by their product brochures, they don't seem very different. However the 2480 is considerably newer. Hi, Bjorn. Look at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2004-September/012106.html It seems that it does work, but you need an up-to-date sane. Anne Hi, Anne Well, that could work, but I'm not convinced. The SANE list of supported scanners also mentions the 2480 model but it says nothing about the 2480 Photo. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:00:11 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 11:24 am, Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:04:23 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 Oct 2004 15:53, Björn Olsson wrote: I don't know, really. Judging by their product brochures, they don't seem very different. However the 2480 is considerably newer. Hi, Bjorn. Look at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2004-September/012106 .html It seems that it does work, but you need an up-to-date sane. Anne Hi, Anne Well, that could work, but I'm not convinced. The SANE list of supported scanners also mentions the 2480 model but it says nothing about the 2480 Photo. Björn Bjorn: I don't mean to send you on a wild goose chase, but have you asked Epson? Way back when I first thought about installing Mandrake 7.0, I got prompt and useful responses from Creative (sound card), Zoom (modem) and Matrox (video). OTOH, Brother (printer) came back with Huh?. I learned elsewhere that my printer would work if I set it up as some kind of HP Laser at the cost of reduced resolution; since then cups sets it up right out of the box.-- cmg Carroll, No, I haven't asked Epson yet. Asking the manufacturer och vendor is always the last resort, isn't it? ;-) However, I have gone over their website without finding anything worthwhile. But you are right, It _is_ worth asking, so I'll give them a call tomorrow. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Command completion only for some users
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:05:18 + Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:01:24 +0200, Björn Olsson wrote about [newbie] Command completion only for some users: On my machine, which is running at msec level 4, I have two accounts. One of them is a member of the wheel group, which means command completion is activated. The other one is just a member of its own personal group, so command completion isn't working. Does anyone know how to activate this function on a per user basis? AFAIK the following line should be included in your ~/.bashrc: . /etc/bash_completion Perhaps it is already there preceded with a # , in which case just remove the # . HTH =Dick Gevers= Thanks for your answer, Dick. It didn't work, however, and it probably shouldn't, considering that this seems to be a security feature related to msec. If a user could bypass it just by adding a line to his or her own .bashrc, it would be pretty pointless. So I'll investigate further, but thanks anyway. -- Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re-starting from Linux to MS Windows
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:17:04 +0100 Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: Is there some way of re-starting from Linux to MS Windows (dual computer)? I am aware that I can achieve that with end of session plusreboot, but is there a more direct way? If you mean a faster way to reboot, I don't think there is. Yes, I meant that. Thanks, anyway. Paul See man rebootin I haven't used it for a long time but you'll have to be root IIRC. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Command completion only for some users
On my machine, which is running at msec level 4, I have two accounts. One of them is a member of the wheel group, which means command completion is activated. The other one is just a member of its own personal group, so command completion isn't working. Does anyone know how to activate this function on a per user basis? -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Test, please ignore
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Re: [newbie] A friend with sympa problems
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:07:11 +0100 JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still getting the delivery failure notifications I post to the group, and my message comes through, and is on the group. Then 10 minutes later, I get a delivery failure message. What is up? JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10CE Microsoft: Which Virus Would You Like to Catch Today? Registered Linux User #340061 20:05:51 up 3:00, 0 users, load average: 0.89, 1.09, 1.06 The same thing happened to me yesterday. My mails to the group ware delivered, or so it seemed to me anyway, but a while later a got a message from the Mandrake mailserver telling me they couldn't be delivered due to a mail loop. If you can read this, it is obviously working again. -- regards Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A friend with sympa problems
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:07:09 +0300 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received this from Christophe - does anyone know what the problem is? Hello, I tried again to sign up for the newbie list and every time I get this error message... Do you know what to do? Thank you Christophe Original Message Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:15:26 +0300 (EEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the Postfix program at host labris2.ttnet.net.tr. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. snip Hi, I'm having problems too. When I try to post anything to newbie, using my normal mail account with my ISP, I get no confirmation message from Sympa. My post gets delivered anyway, or so it seems to me because I receive it, but after a while I get a message from the Mandrake mail server, telling me the mail could not be delivered because of a mail loop. If I am wrong, please tell me; did you seen any postings in newbie from me yesterday? For sending this mail I have switched to another account (not my ISP). When using this I get the Sympa confirmation, so I suppose it gets through. Am I right? Which is the most likely point of failure, my ISP or Mandrake? I seem to be able to send mail to other addresses. -- Regards Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A friend with sympa problems
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:35:25 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 June 2004 03:15 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: The same thing happened to me yesterday. My mails to the group ware delivered, or so it seemed to me anyway, but a while later a got a message from the Mandrake mailserver telling me they couldn't be delivered due to a mail loop. If you can read this, it is obviously working again. That's a different message that we all get. His message was specifically pointed at sympa's inability to do a dns lookup on his hostname to resolve his ip address, which is a common problem with dynamic setups.-- /g I see. I haven't used this list for a while so I didn't know, sorry. Has this been going on for a long time? And what about Sympa's haphazard requests for confirmation? They are obviously not needed since most mails are delivered anyway? -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Popfile dies. Why?
Hi, I installed Popfile (0.20.0a-1mdk from Contrib) yesterday and it appeared to run junt fine. Today, however, it has started dying on me. Usually it runs for a few minutes but then suddenly stops, and it always appears to happen when it is checking for and downloading mail. The connection is lost to ports 110 and 8080. # service -s | grep popfile popfile is dead but the subsystem is locked # service popfile restart Stopping POPFile: kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec][ OK ] Starting POPFile:[ OK ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# A copy of POPFile appears to be running. Attempting to signal the previous copy. Waiting 10 seconds for a reply. The other POPFile failed to signal back, starting new copy [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Other people seem to have similar problems, in Linux as well as Windows, but I haven't found any solution. Anyone? -- Regards Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Popfile dies. Why? Follow up.
When restarted it runs without a hitch until I reboot. -- Regards Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] Set unlimited history entry
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:34:27 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, IIRC, I set up mdk92 back at the office and during the installation it asked me whether I want to set the history entry unlimited or not, or specific amount. Now, at home, I tried to find the setting but couldn't. I looked into MCC security, but with no success. How do I set it up? Since I'm learning here, I want to record all what I typed in bash :) TIA. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 00:31:39 up 2:03, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 snip Hi Fajar You can set it manually in /etc/profile by changing the HISTSIZE variable. -- Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:46:08 + Björn Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here good at diagnosing hardware failures? I recently got a spare Dell Optiplex GX1 to bring home from work. It came without memory, HDD och CD, so I had to search my stock for suitable parts. But today, when I were to bring life to my creation, it simply refused to cooperate! I feel very offended and rightfully upset :) Power to diodes on front YES Power to HDD YES Power to CD YES Power to CPU fan YES Power to expansion cardYES Power to monitorYES Power to keyboard NJET And there was no signal to the monitor. I tried with two different monitors and a separate graphics card as well as the onboard one. Any suggestions welcomed Björn Thank you for your answers, all of you. The problem turned out to be a faulty memory. After I changed it, all worked well. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xfree86 nv vs. Nvidia drivers (was: Why do I have to start KDE manually?)
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:20:56 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:04 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: What is your hardware? If you have a nvidia geforce4 have you installed the drivers? Tony. I don't believe that's the problem. I have a GeF4 and it works out of the box with the Xfree86 'nv' driver. No need to install any drivers. OTOH, there's no tellin what kind of bugs installin the proprietary nVidia driver can cause. schnip Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas My box is equipped with a GeForce 4 Ti 4200. With the Xfree86 nv driver some of the screensavers in Xscreensaver had an fps rate of just 5 to 10. When I installed Nvidia's driver I saw an increase to about 40 fps. So maybe the choice of driver isn't the problem in the above-mentioned case, but the right driver can certainly mean a lot to performance. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
Anyone here good at diagnosing hardware failures? I recently got a spare Dell Optiplex GX1 to bring home from work. It came without memory, HDD och CD, so I had to search my stock for suitable parts. But today, when I were to bring life to my creation, it simply refused to cooperate! I feel very offended and rightfully upset :) Power to diodes on front YES Power to HDD YES Power to CD YES Power to CPU fan YES Power to expansion cardYES Power to monitorYES Power to keyboard NJET And there was no signal to the monitor. I tried with two different monitors and a separate graphics card as well as the onboard one. Any suggestions welcomed Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wallpaper
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:26:24 +0200 Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi does anybody know where to downlaod this wallpaper? http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/screenshots/mdk91-scr2.jpg remo http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/222899/ Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Filtered TCP ports 1080-1081
Good evening, or morning or whatever... Every now and then I use to scan my machine for open ports. Today I visited www.pcflank.com and did a more thorough scan than usual. With all firewalls disabled (Yes, I _did_ disable them. Stupid, I know, but I was curious.) most ports showed up closed but TCP ports 1080 and 1081 were stealthed. Now, how can that be? Could it be that they are filtered by my ISP? Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Difference hdlist synthesis.hdlist
On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:55:44 +0200, Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Kindly explain to me the difference between the 2 lists I noticed that hdlist is megabytes synt..hdlist is kilobytes OK, what I would like to know what is the trade off. Will all loaded software still be updated. Thanks Johan -- May this be a good day for learning --- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ hdlist and synthesis are gzipped text files with information on the RPMs. They both contain the most vital information, like name and version of the RPMs and what other packages they depend on. The hdlist contains a lot of additional info on each RPM, not absolutely essential but very nice. In rpmdrake you can see the difference if you switch between normal / maximal information. The smaller list is a good alternative for people with a slow connection. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot, win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind of shell command like reboot win and be the equivalent of that. thanks with anticipation I use rebootin windows as root. See man rebootin. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:11:41 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Björn Olsson wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot, win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind of shell command like reboot win and be the equivalent of that. thanks with anticipation I use rebootin windows as root. See man rebootin. wow .. thanks ... but there's a problem ... I wanted to be able to reboot with a simple fast command from my user .. so I made a script, put it in /usr/bin that would do /usr/sbin/rebootin w2k ... however .. it only works as root, when I run it as my user i get: Can't detect your bootloader is there something I need to do ? I'd like to run it as a normal user as well, but I don't think it's possible. In the rebootin script there is a variable $bootloader with a reference to another script, detectloader. In detectloader is a line that reads The detectloader must be run as root to work properly. Maybe someone else can suggest a solution? Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Removal of duplicate words from text file?
Can someone please suggest a way to remove duplicate words from text files? In my case I have cat'ed several dictionary files into one large for use with John. Unfortunately several words were the same, so now I need to get rid of them. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't figure out how to get the background in Konqueror to be a colour other than blue
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 16:29:02 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: help? Subject says it all... and I looked in the KDE CC for colours...looked in Konq's settings...can't find anything. WTH? Help? Femmes In Konqueror use View (Show in english?) / Background colour. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enemy territory
On Tuesday 2 Sep 2003 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I don't mean I am root, I mean just a stand alone game not online. So even if you are not playing others do you need access to the ports. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes, you can host a game without connecting to the outside world. Though I don't see why you would want to that, since you would be all alone in the game and have no one to play against. Or have I missed something? Is it possible to play against the computer? -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enemy territory
On Tuesday 2 Sep 2003 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:48 am, Tango Echo wrote: Denis, any progress with this? After I installed it, a menu short cut (KGamesEnemy Territory) automatically appeared. Was this not the case with you? Yes I have the shortcut it just gives me a black screen. Nothing happens.-- Dennis M. linux user #180842 What if you try it from the command line? Does it give you any helpful error messages? Have you checked the XFree86 logs in /var/log? Maybe you can find a hint in there. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enemy territory
On Tuesday 2 Sep 2003 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wow .. mighty generous of ID to do this ... about the ports .. I'm not sure if I do this stuff right .. is it enoguh if in Mandrake Control Center I go to the firewall, advanced and do 27950/udp ? many many thanks for all the info .. atm this is the biggest free game available for download that I know of :) Sorry, I don't use MCC for configuring the firewall so I wouldn't know. One way to check which ports to open is to start with all ports closed, run ET (or any other application) and then check /var/log/messages to see on what ports it tried to connect. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enemy territory
On Monday 1 Sep 2003 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As single user mode do you have to have those ports open? All I get is a black screen when I type et in a console. Yes I am behind a firewall, so is that the reason I get a black screen? A little help here, thanks,-- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Single user mode? You mean you are logged in as root when connecting to the Internet? Isn't that a bit risky? Anyway, I don't think this would make any difference as far as the ports are concerned. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. When the game is started you are first presented with a menu, and I don't think it it tries to connect to the net at that point. It doesn't do that until you tell it to. So no, if you don't even get to the menu, that probably has nothing to do with the firewall. I have had this problem myself too. Usually everything works just fine but occasionally I get a black screen. When I try again it works again. Sorry, but I can't help you more. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail
On Monday 1 Sep 2003 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 01:19 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means? The originating domain is obviously false. The only number newbie I have tried to send anything to is this list. I think that this is a bounce from the guy who forwarded the message list to his instant message account on his cellphone. This isn't anything that you have done, it is coming from his account because he subscribed his cellphone or sms service to the mailing list. I might be getting those too, but I won't see them because I created a filter to bitbucket those things as soon as they come in. I really wish Mandrake-admins would just zap these idiots off the list when they do boneheaded things like this. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Thanks for the answer. You seem to be right; I have posted several mails to this list today and every time I have got this response. Mr sms at kaluga.mts.ru will, from now on, have a permanent place in my filters. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] non MCC enabling ports
On Tuesday 2 Sep 2003 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but if you don't use MCC how do you enable ports? The actual firewall in the 2.4 series of Linux is called IPtables and is built into the kernel itself. This is the piece of software that is doing the hard work. However, there is a staggering number of front ends, gui as well as command line based. The Mandrake firewall is just one of them. You'll find at least six other on the Mandrake discs and the various Mdk related RPM sites (Firestarter, Fwbuilder, Guarddog, Kmyfirewall, Knetfilter, Shorewall). If you don't like any of these, take a look at http://sourceforge.net/ or some similar site and search for firewall. You are bound to find one you like... -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail
On Monday 1 Sep 2003 Björn Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means? The originating domain is obviously false. chop There is still one thing I don't understand about this mail. It was first received from anydomain, 10.2.131.4. That's an RFC 1918 address. Would this be the address of the cell phone? -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail
On Tuesday 2 Sep 2003 Björn Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 1 Sep 2003 Björn Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means? The originating domain is obviously false. chop There is still one thing I don't understand about this mail. It was first received from anydomain, 10.2.131.4. That's an RFC 1918 address. Would this be the address of the cell phone? -- Björn Stupid question, I know. Phones have no IP addresses... As I said, I don't get it. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cool games?
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi .. I'm trying to gather as many cool games as I can under Linux snip ... please help me build up my repertoire of cool Linux games (let's try to avoid comercial ones). I have spent *far* too much time on Enemy Territory myself. It's based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein so in a way it is a comercial game, though it is given away for free. You can find more information at http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/ http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewdownloadcid=7 http://www.enemy-territory.com/ -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enemy territory
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Björn Olsson wrote: I have spent *far* too much time on Enemy Territory myself. It's based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein so in a way it is a comercial game, though it is given away for free. You can find more information at http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/ http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewdownloadcid=7 http://www.enemy-territory.com/ I can't figure out this game though ... is it comercial, is it free? .. seems at one point there is only windows version ... and the general impression that it's maybe an addon for something like 'return to castel wolfenstein' and you can't play it unless you've got the game. Please clarify ... promissingly enough I see a big download ... is this really somethign that you can download, install play and don't need anything else? Or is it just a demo? ET was obviously planned as an expansion pack for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but for some reason Id Software changed their minds and decided to make it a stand alone game and give it away for free. You won't have to spend a single leu (apart from the cost for downloading). There is a Linux version as well as a Windows one. On this page you'll find links to several Linux download sites: http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewsdownloadsid=2 The file you download contains a client as well as a game server, so if you want to, you'll be able to host your own games with up to 50 participants. The original game contains six maps, but custom maps have begun to pop up as well. You can find many of them here: http://www.pcgamemods.com/4/ If you are behind a firewall you'll have to open udp ports 27950, 27951, 27952, 27960, and 27965. Good luck, and see you in 1944 Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Interpreting an e-mail
This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means? The originating domain is obviously false. The only number newbie I have tried to send anything to is this list. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by d1o984.telia.com (8.10.2p2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id h81Glhx25925 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:47:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from madlen.mts.ru (madlen.mts.ru [212.44.140.2]) by mailg.telia.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h81GlZjX028458 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:47:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from maeko.inside.mts.ru (maeko [192.168.10.3]) by madlen.mts.ru with SMTP id h81GlZ907183 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:47:35 +0400 (MSD) Received: (from SolarisServer [10.2.130.2]) by maeko.inside.mts.ru (NAVGW 2.5.2.12) with SMTP id M2003090120473517891 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:47:35 +0400 Received: from rtc_srv_nt.kaluga.mts ([10.2.130.1]) by SolarisServer (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA13002 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:47:35 +0400 (MSD) From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (from anydomain [10.2.131.4]) by rtc_srv_nt.kaluga.mts (NAVGW 2.5.1.13) with SMTP id M2003090120473314718 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:47:33 +0400 content-type: text/plain;charset=windows-1251 subject: Can't deliver SM to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:47:33 +0400 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: The limit of e-mails for the number newbie has been reached. Try again tomorrow. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How can I evaluate how fast a fast connection is ?
On Sunday 31 August 2003, Josenildo Marques wrote: I've got a ADSL connection now and I'd like to know if there is an app that would show me how fast the connection is. I'm running 9.1. Much obliged. You might want to try out TPtest at http://tptest.sourceforge.net/index.php. I haven't used it myself since the half forgotten days of the dark ages when I used *the other* OS. Maybe it's of limited use to an international audience, since the test servers are located i Sweden. For those of you living nearby it could be well worth a look though. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] enemy territory
On Tuesday 2 Sep 2003 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 's a lion :P I can't find the post you're referring to anywhere .. but I think somebody did a bit of research (how the heck?) and found out that I live in romania where the currency is leu/lei (in translation that would be lion/lions) :P You're right, IIRC ro in your address is the code for Romania. I didn't know what it meant though. Is there a story behind the name? -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla profile in use
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 fifner the dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I try to start Mozilla it sais Mozilla cannot use the profile default because it is in use. Please choose another profile or create a new one. I'm the only one using this computer and it's the same when I restart the computer. How can it be in use? Thanks in advance, Fifner I had the same problem some time ago. It was due to a lockfile in one of the directories under ~/.mozilla/default/. Get rid of that file, and Mozilla should start all right. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Preventing Popups
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 Derek Jennings wrote: If you install privoxy (In contrib I think) and then set up your browsers to use a proxy server on port 8118, then not only will you not get pop ups, you will also not get adverts. This also applies to any Windows computers running Internet Explorer in your local network. www.privoxy.org derek One drawback is that some pages won't load properly when their Java scripts, pop-ups, cookies etc are filtered. You can configure this behaviour per site in/etc/privoxy/user.action, though. Look for info and examples i default.action. -- Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /usr/postinstall-rpm
On 01 Jul 2003 Stephen Kuhn wrote:: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 08:22, Björn Olsson wrote: I just stumbled over the directiory /usr/postinstall-rpm. It is full of rpms, some of which may have been installed once and others that I don't recognize at all. Thay all have a modification time of april 7, and I suppose that's when I installed 9.1. Is it needed for anything or is it safe to delete? -- Björn Olsson Yeeesh - that almost sounds as if the directory is fulla stuff that didn't get installed properly - you might want to verify that the packages in that directory ARE installed - just in case the installation process got hosed up and you didn't even know about it... snip stephen kuhn snip None of them is installed and I don't want them either. I certainly didn't mark them for installation. So I just bid 'em farewell... -- Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] question for mozilla users
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 Michael wrote: i don't know if i messed up a setting somewhere, but every time i open mozilla or i click on a link from a web page and it opens another page, it's FULL SCREEN. it's kind of annoying actually and i don't need it full screen, especially with a 19 moniter. i've been checking everywhere for an answer to this, but i can't seem to find anything. that includes checking the mozilla home page and looking under every setting and option for mozilla. i can't seem to find it. Konqueror opens up fine, but i like mozilla better. i'm running md9.1 and operating in the KDE desktop enviornment. i havn't tried using tabbed browsing to see if it tries to do it there after i resize mozilla after opening it, but that's because i didn't like tabbed browsing the last time i tried it. thanks in advance. Mike Open a Mozilla window and right click the title bar. Un-check the Maximize option. Then resize the window to your liking and check the Save window configuration option. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] /usr/postinstall-rpm
I just stumbled over the directiory /usr/postinstall-rpm. It is full of rpms, some of which may have been installed once and others that I don't recognize at all. Thay all have a modification time of april 7, and I suppose that's when I installed 9.1. Is it needed for anything or is it safe to delete? -- Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On 23 Jun 2003 21:28:46 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Problem. You are known as Björn, dear Bjoern. ;-) Paul Good, just had to check. -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On 23 Jun 2003 14:28:04 -0500 N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good here in evolution, Bear. That's one of the few words of baby-talk Swedish my grandparents taught me that I can remember from 50 years ago. Wow, I'm impressed! I suppose you haven't used that word for some time :). Trevligt att träffas. This queer language is really a pidgin: Germanic structure and vocabulary with Frenchified fancy words. Nobody could agree on grammar or what gender nouns should have, so we just gave all that up. Must be hard to learn You bet! But no, it isn't that hard, really. After all you hear and read english every day. There's simply no way you could avoid it, even if you wanted to. Anyway, this kind of forum gives you some time to think, and to correct at least the worst misstakes before you hit Send. -- N. B. Day I'll keep to my habit of ending my letters with a question. (It's amazing how they keep popping up when you have started asking one.) This one is definitely a newbie question of the highest degree. It concerns the use of mailing lists at large, namely: How do you end a thread that you started? It would be kind of rude to just cease answering the replies, but I have seen far too many threads get out of hand, as well as out of topic, on this list already. Time for bed See you all -- Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
On 22 Jun 2003 10:58:18 -0400 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue. Now should every one who see a question/s should reply sorry no help - This system will COMPLETELY be overloaded. As it is if I skip a day or two I found up 785 messages waiting on server. I suggest - join more user groups and post again. Regards Johan May this be a good day for learning or just post again, adding note; no help in three days to the subject line. it may well be that in with the other mail, your question was just missed, or no-one knew the answer. Asking again, and adding something like can anyone hear or help me might at least get an answer of no, i are 'tupid. Hi A few days ago I posted a question about running Enemy Territory as a regular user, but I haven't got any answer thus far. No offence taken, of course; some questions get answered and others don't. And would you really like me (and others) to post the same questions over and over? I take it that if no one answers, it is because no one knows. Besides, for some months now I have been lurking in the shadows of this list (one of the few things I'm actually good at :-) ), inhaling the wisdom of the non newbies, but without lifting a finger myself to help anyone. So I am hardly in a position to complain. But beware, I may be back! Until then, see you in the shadows Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Running Enemy Territory as regular user
Hello The previous ET thread on this list got me interested, so I downloaded the game. I then installed it as root. Now, it behaves all right when I run it as root but otherwise it refuses to start. When run with the option +set r_allowSoftwareGL 1 mentioned below, it does actually start but runs incredibly slow. Does anyone know a remedy? I don't see the reason for the line libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted, since the file powervr.o in /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/char/drm is readable to all. Or could DRM mean something else? I'm running mdk 9.1 and the graphics card is a Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 (Kyro II chipset from PowerVR). Can someone please help? I don't look forward to go on-line as root :-( -- Björn Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] bjorn]$ et ET 2.55 linux-i386 May 27 2003 - FS_Startup - Current search path: /home/bjorn/.etwolf/etmain /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/etmain/pak0.pk3 (3725 files) /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/etmain/mp_bin.pk3 (4 files) /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/etmain -- 3729 files in pk3 files execing default.cfg couldn't exec language.cfg couldn't exec autoexec.cfg Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok --- Input Initialization --- Joystick is not active. Bypassing CD checks - Client Initialization - - Initializing Renderer --- - Client Initialization Complete - - R_Init - ...loading libGL.so.1: Initializing OpenGL display ...setting mode 4: 800 600 Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.2 XF86DGA Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized XFree86-VidModeExtension Activated at 800x600 libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering Using 4/4/4 Color bits, 24 depth, 0 stencil display. GL_RENDERER: Mesa GLX Indirect *** You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)! Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1 If this is intentional, add +set r_allowSoftwareGL 1 to the command line when starting the game. *** ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (4) Initializing OpenGL display ...setting mode 3: 640 480 Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.2 XF86DGA Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized XFree86-VidModeExtension Activated at 640x480 Received signal 11, exiting... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
