Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 12:00 pm, JRH wrote: Sorry I wont bother posting again then You mean this list doesent strip HTML attachments anyway? Oh well, I'll go back to lurking... Now that's the wrong attitude. We need everyone's participation to make this a great list. snip I have never heard of Incredimail before. Is it a windows mailer? Can't it be set to post in plain text? Incredimail it is a windows mailer, I know a few people that uses it and it can be set to send a plain text. A friend of mine send me email using incredimail and send plain text to me because she knows that I have several filters set up especially to delete emails using html. BJL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Accessing MySQL
When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server, everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated. I build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL. I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set everything up including the MySQL during the installation. Bobby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing MySQL
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 12 September 2004 17:04, Bobby wrote: When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server, everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated. I build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL. I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set everything up including the MySQL during the installation. Bobby Yes any application accessing the mySQL database will need a user name and password defined. (Do not use root) The best way to manage MySQL IMO is to install phpMyAdmin read the instructions at /usr/share/doc/phpMyAdmin and then point your browser at http://localhost/admin/phpMyAdmin/index.php Be careful with security. It is important to make sure the phpMyAdmin page is not visible from the internet derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com When ever I use phpMyAdmin I always rename it and setting it so have to log in whenever I access phpMyAdmin. I thought I might had to setup the a user just wasn't sure. Oh yeah most of the time I use MySQL Control Center at which both has it's good and bad point when I was dealing with this in windows. Bobby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Accessing MySQL
Bill Shirley wrote: I guess I woke up cranky this morning. (Still working on my 1st cup of coffee.) What is it you are wanting to do? You can access MySQL from Apache, perl, C, etc. You can administer MySQL from phpMyAdmin (a web interface). Bill RANT Why do ppl ask for help and only give vague descriptions? I installed xyz and it doesn't work! How can I fix it? /RANT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bobby Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Accessing MySQL When I had installed MDK 10.0 I also had the apache web server, everything related to PHP, and MySQL installed during the initial installation and been updating them when they needed to be updated. I build websites for the fun of it, but I'm having trouble accessing the database. Would I need go into the Konsole and set myself up in MySQL. I had always used Fox Serv, when it installed in my windows hdd it set everything up including the MySQL during the installation. Bobby Sorry Bill if it seems vague, and myself I just got up about ten minutes before I got on my computer. I'm not familiar with how MDK install MySQL during the initial installation, if it set my login name into linux up with MySQL or not and if I mneed to go in and setup a user name in MySQL. Because in windows I used Fox Serv and it set everything up. Bobby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] need help with menu
It's the newbness in me. lol have to check everything out to see what is what, and during this process I had changed my menu from the MDK default style to KDE style. How can I get the MDK menu style back. Because of this it also had altered my taskbar and it's back to the default layout. I had it setup the way I want it and what applets I wanted in the taskbar, but I can't put those particuliar applets in because their not in the menu now. Could someone help me getting my menu back to the default MDK style? Bobby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] problem playing DVD movies
Before I had redone my computer switching my MDK to my 160gb hdd I was able to watch movies with totem, but now when a movie is in my DVD Rom I can't click on Play Movie in the menu when it comes up. How can I fix this problem? Bobby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome hangs
I had looked through the other emails and saw that someone else had a problem with KDE (subject of email [newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE) . I followed the advice presented there which was to edit the /etc/profile file and remove .kde/ folder, and run ldconfig. But I tried ldconfig again still nothing. I get a splash screen for KDE 3.1 and it has 7 icons underneath it. It loads upto the second icon which is a wrench and it says initializing system services that's when it hangs and goes to a blue screen. doing some research I think it may be a hardware problem. - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bobby Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome hangs On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:20, Bobby Patel wrote: I did a fresh install of 9.1, and then I get prompted for a username/password and sesison type I would like to use. The sesison type choices are KDE, GNome, IceWm, failsafe, and defualt. The only things that work are failsafe and IceWm. When I try to login with KDE or Gnome, the cursor turns to a busy cursor and the background is the splash screen and I can hear the hardrive reading and writing, but this goes on for more than my patience (which is 20 mins). I went through IceWm and through the system configure tools and installed all packages under the Graphical Environment (KDE, GNOME) (45 MB in all) . But still the same problem. Any ideas? I'm totally new to installing linux, so I'm totally lost. Since this is a fresh install, I'm assuming you've set the system to login via graphical mode instead of console mode - so you might want to do a CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a console login prompt - once you get there and login as root, type: ldconfigat the prompt, then type: reboot and after the system happily reboots/resets, try to login again. If you can't get past that, then we'll attack another method...unless someone wants to add their two cents...(or pence, or pfenning or whatever) -- Tue Apr 1 17:55:00 EST 2003 17:55:00 up 11 days, 5:42, 3 users, load average: 0.33, 0.37, 0.32 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE and Gnome hangs
I did a fresh install of 9.1, and then I get prompted for a username/password and sesison type I would like to use. The sesison type choices are KDE, GNome, IceWm, failsafe, and defualt. The only things that work are failsafe and IceWm. When I try to login with KDE or Gnome, the cursor turns to a busy cursor and the background is the splash screen and I can hear the hardrive reading and writing, but this goes on for more than my patience (which is 20 mins). I went through IceWm and through the system configure tools and installed all packages under the Graphical Environment (KDE, GNOME) (45 MB in all) . But still the same problem. Any ideas? I'm totally new to installing linux, so I'm totally lost. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ISO naming convention and no MD5 for 9.1
I was curious of the naming convention for the isos? I have seen two types of isos, some that have rcX something like Mandrake91-rc2-cd1.i586.iso (this is just from memory, so there might/will be a typo). Does the rc, stand for release/revison number? I tried looking for it on google with no results. The other type of iso's ( from ftp.phys.ttu.edu, for example) have the filenames as Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso, Mandrake91-cd2-ext.i586.iso, Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso. I understand these names (CD1 - instalation CD, CD2 - Extras Modules) but the last one doesn't make sense to me. When looking at it I just see more rpms (modules). Also, the ftp sites that do have 9.1 Mandrake don't have a checkum file for non-rcX 9.1 isos, however they do have one for 9.0. I thought checksum files should are created the same time isos are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems With The Audio Mixer (/dev/mixer)
I am using 7.2 beta 2, b/c I had to give up my cable modem until I move and I am too po to buy the release until I start work (graduating from Texas AM, btw). I try to use different mixer apps like 'gmix', but I get "No mixers found" and that I should make sure that I have sound support compiled into the kernel. BTW, all sound works fine (mp3, wav, cd's, etc ...). I tried to chmod /dev/mixer just for kicks, but no good. Any ideas or do I just have to wait until I start work? : ) Thanks! _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
[newbie] Problem compiling modules
I have 7.2. Installed fine, works great, but my ethernet card is not regognized. I went online, found out that I had to download a driver module. I have a Netgear FA311. The driver is natsemi.c I got it from www.scyld.com . When I try to compile it, I get all sorts of errors, which I should not be getting. I was wondering if this was a problem with the version of gcc that is on the system? Thank you for any help -- Get your free POP3 e-mail from http://www.HotPOP3.com/ Please report spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Great China Click eXchange - Build Network Finance for You And get up to 20% commission from your 5-tier referrals http://www.gccx.com/public/index.php3?referrer=hotpop3
[newbie] error msg will not load into linux Desktop
what I receive is it says in the last sentence this-( kernel Panic : VFS: unable to mount root FS on 07:07) please help me get to the linux desktop, Iam using win 98 and I loaded linux using the easy load linux4win CD'S I just Loaded the first Two CD'S untill the operading System told me it was loaded succesfully. Thanks for any help you can give me to reach the linux desktop , win 98 loads fine no Problems with it.
[newbie] Licq problems =(
Hello, I have just installed the licq-0.75.3.a-2mdk and licq-data-1.5-1mdk RPMs but I cannot get licq to work. It starts up but just seems to hang. Has anyone had this problem?? I have been running licq-0.70.1-2mdk and did not experience anything like this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bobby
[newbie] star office???
Does anyone know where i can find an rpm for the new version of staroffice?
[newbie] netscape .. slow startup
When I first start up netscape after logging in to my account, it seems to take a while for it to fully initialize. It almost seems like it is going to hang, but, it finally starts up. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated =)
[newbie] cdrw and fstab
I beleive that someone had posted a solution to fixing the problem with a cd-rw not being reconginzed by a file manager. Could someone please re-post that message .. I would really appreciate it =) thanks
[newbie] mouse and the resolution setting
I am trying to speed up my mouse. I have read that the Resolution setting can be added to the XF86Config file under the pointer section. I have also read that this only works with some of the OSs .. is Linux one of them?? Also, does anyone know what the allowable ranges for the Resolution settings are?
[newbie] netscape startup??
Does anyone know how to get the following file: file:/usr/doc/HTML/index.html to stop being displayed everytime netscape is started up?? I have the "browser start with blank page" option selected but i still get the mandrake html page (file:/usr/doc/HTML/index.html) when i start netscape. Any help would be appreciated =) thanks
[newbie] file permissions and pppd
Hello, I would like for a user to be able to use the /usr/sbin/pppd command .. this is so that the user can connect to the internet via a modem using custum scripts. Now .. when i am logged in as user and I issue the command ./usr/sbin/pppd i get the following error: ./pppd: must be root to run ./pppd, since it is not setuid-root. Now, i have tried giving the user permission to execute the pppd command using chmod 555 .. but I can still not execute the command as the user. I then tried to create a group by editing the /etc/passwd file and the /etc/group giving both root and the user permission to execute this file .. i then changed the group for the file by typing in the following command: chgrp .newgroup pppd .. i still could not execute the pppd as user .. i then tried chgrp newgroup .newgroup pppd .. i still could not execute pppd. I do have linuxconf installed on my system .. now after i had changed the group settings manually and then started linuxconf .. when i went to exit linuxconf it said that it wanted to set the group settings for pppd back to root.root. Is there some sort of file that linuxconf keeps that is overriding what i am doing .. or am i doing somehthing wrong??? any help would be greatly appreciated =)
[newbie] usb wheel mouse
I was wondering if anyone who has a usb wheel mouse has been able to get the wheel to function properly in linux. I have tried imwheel but it does not appear to work correctly with a usb mouse. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Re: [newbie] install 7.0 problems
I downloaded the iso and used Nero to burn the image onto a CD. The install went without a hitch .. even got my usb mouse working =) If you do use nero to burn the CD, you must note that Nero (version 4.0.7.5) is unable to open a *.iso file and properly recognize it(or at least I could not find out how to do it ... still a newbie at all this). So, what I did was rename the file with a .nrg extension (extension that nero seems to use for a CD-image), opened the file up with Nero, and burned the imagethis worked for me. gl Bobby - Original Message - From: "Marc Herms" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 5:03 PM Subject: [newbie] install 7.0 problems I had downloaded the directories /Mandrake and /images and /dosutils and created a boot disk. Everything SEEMED fine and it started the installation (graphical, very nice...) :-) At about the sixth or seventh point it told me that it couldn`t install all packages. It continued though. Then, there was another error message, but still continued. However, I ended up that there was STILL Mandrake 6.1 and not 7.0 installed. I *guess* that the problem is that I downloaded the directories with Go!Zilla and it did NOT create any symlinks. Could that be? I am now about to download the iso file but this will take me another day... or so.. :-) which program is best to burn? Easy CD Creator or Nero Burning? I just can download the iso file and burn it on cd, right?! That´s it... ok. thanks, marc
[newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
I want to give a special acces to a user in my linux box to shutdown it, how will i do it? I'm using MDK 6.0 (Venus) Thanks
