[newbie] OT: Ulysses?
Pardon the OTness of this, but does anyone know if the beta title comes Greek mythology, or from the fact that there's an Irish bloke working at Mdk? -- Damien Mc Kenna, Paraprofessional The Computer Institute, 100 Waldon Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 407-328-4722 x3397
[newbie] Problem with Apache/OpenSSL
I've just installed 7.1dlx on a system here and I got the crypt files. I fixed up the network stuff so it is ok, but when httpd (apache) starts I get this in the error_log: [Wed Aug 30 16:30:33 2000] [error] mod_ssl: Child could not open SSLMutex lockfi le /var/log/httpd/ssl_mutex.15515 (System error follows) [Wed Aug 30 16:30:33 2000] [error] System: Permission denied (errno: 13) The same thing is repeated in ssl_engine.log. I changed the ownership of the log directory so that user group 'nobody' owned it, but that didn't make any difference. Any idea? -- Damien Mc Kenna, Paraprofessional The Computer Institute, 100 Waldon Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 407-328-4722 x3397
Re:[newbie] A letter on Mandrake 7 and security
On 1/19/00 7:49:58 AM, Hugh Semmler wrote: While going through my news groups I found a letter written in about Mandrake. It say much about the new security options. If you care to read it let me know and I can forward it to the list Please do, I'm interested to know what others say about it. Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
Re:[newbie] Mdk7.0 Kernel RPM files
On 1/17/00 2:01:59 PM, Damien Mc Kenna wrote: kernel kernel-fb kernel-ibcs kernel-linus kernel-secure DOH! I looked at the files I'd installed already via kpackage and found out most of them. Still, anyone know what the kernel-linus or -secure packages are? Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
[newbie] Web admin
How do people here set up a 'webadm' user: - add a new user who'd be given access to the httpd home. - add a group, change the httpd dir to allow users in it access? - just change permissions of the httpd home to allow an existing user access? Suggestions would be appreciated. Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
[newbie] Admin user/group?
I'd like to set up an admin user, with possibilities to add more admins in the future. Should I set up a separate group for them and change the file and dir permissions to eg 'admin' instead of 'root', or just add them to the 'root' usergroup? Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
Re: [newbie] Samba problem
On 1/12/00 5:02:01 PM, Dennis wrote: I'm trying to run Samba on my Mdk6.1 system. The username and password that you are logged on as on the wondows box must match a user name and password on the linux box. That user must also have access rights to the shared drive or directory on the linux box. Any way to work around that? Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
[newbie] Samba problem 2
Another problem with Samba is that when I mount a share to a directory its permissions seem fixed to rwxr-xr-x whereas I want to change them all to rwx. Any way of doing this? (Mdk6.1) Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
Re:[newbie] just some questions
On 1/12/00 4:34:22 AM, Mark Baseggio wrote: umm.. also any GOOD e-mail proggies? i really don't like netscape's reader that much, and want an X email reader. Have a look through the ones you should have gotten with Mdk, presuming you installed all the applications - there's at least one good one there, or you could wait until (approx) the summer when MailWarrior is released for Linux. Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re:[newbie] Networking Connectivity Problem
On 1/12/00 12:39:15 AM, Toyswins wrote: I've got a Windows 98 and LINUX box set up through an unmanaged hub. NIC cards and lo on both machines ping just fine. I can't seem to get the two to talk. Trying to ping the other machine, either way, fails. I've checked the hosts files, configured SAMBA and it's running, Windows networking can see itself and is enabled, protocols and all are fine. What have you set the IPs as? I use 198.168.0.1 for my Windows box, and 198.168.0.2 for my Linux box. In both cases set the net mask to 255.255.255.0. Then just make sure to turn of WINS and DNS on the Win box and it should run smoothly. Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] Samba problem
I'm trying to run Samba on my Mdk6.1 system. I've got the client working A-OK (smbmount will connect to my Windows box fine), but I can't get the server-side working. When I look in my Windows Network Neighborhood thing it lists the Mandrake machine, but when I try to view the shares I configured it says asks me for a password for the resource \\SERVER\IPC$ which I'm lost at. I looked in /var/log/samba and smb.log says this: - smbd version 2.0.5a started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2000/01/13 12:31:15, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available. [2000/01/13 12:32:14, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(262) Denied connection from ppro (198.168.0.1) [2000/01/13 12:32:14, 1] smbd/process.c:process_smb(608) Connection denied from 198.168.0.1 - Here's the smb.conf, or at least the uncommented lines: - [global] workgroup = McKenna server string = P166 running Linux hosts allow = 198.168.0. 127. printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes [webhome] comment = Website home path = /home/httpd/html public = yes writable = yes [rootdir] comment = Dangerous! Be Careful! path = / public = yes writable = yes - Any ideas? Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
[newbie] PHP4beta ML traffic?
Anyone know what the traffic on the PHP4beta mailing list is like, ie roughly how many messages per day do they get? Damien Mc Kenna, wife, four cats http://mckenna.brinet.net/ Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] Watch out, I've got a PC and I'm not afraid to use it! ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/14/99 8:05:30 PM, you wrote: Everything but the RAM is sufficient. 32 mb RAM is BARELY sufficient. I'd double that, especially if you plan on running KDE as your window manager. That's a real memory hog and it's the default window manager in Mandrake. I'd say that to cut down memory usage: - don't use Netscape Communicator 4.61, maybe just the barebones Netscape Navigator 4.7 though. - If you're using KDE: - don't use backdrop pictures. - use only two desktops Following these two ideas I've made a P100 pretty usable with KDE, but once I get the server working right I'll probably stop it booting into X at bootup. Damien Mc Kenna, wife, four cats http://mckenna.brinet.net/ Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] Watch out, I've got a PC and I'm not afraid to use it! ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.
Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/14/99 8:05:30 PM, you wrote: Everything but the RAM is sufficient. 32 mb RAM is BARELY sufficient. I'd double that, especially if you plan on running KDE as your window manager. That's a real memory hog and it's the default window manager in Mandrake. I'd say that to cut down memory usage: - don't use Netscape Communicator 4.61, maybe just the barebones Netscape Navigator 4.7 though. - If you're using KDE: - don't use backdrop pictures. - use only two desktops Following these two ideas I've made a P100 pretty usable with KDE, but once I get the server working right I'll probably stop it booting into X at bootup. Damien Mc Kenna, wife, four cats http://mckenna.brinet.net/ Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] Watch out, I've got a PC and I'm not afraid to use it! ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] alternative browser?
Hi Dreja Julag ! On 11/10/99 6:49:48 PM, you wrote: Does anyone know if NeoPlanet has a port yet? NeoPlanet runs on top of Internet Explorer, so I severely doubt it. You may just have to wait until KDE2 for a good Linux browser.. Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] alternative browser?
Hi Dreja Julag ! On 11/10/99 6:49:48 PM, you wrote: Does anyone know if NeoPlanet has a port yet? NeoPlanet runs on top of Internet Explorer, so I severely doubt it. You may just have to wait until KDE2 for a good Linux browser.. Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations
Hi pete moss ! On 11/9/99 3:33:33 PM, you wrote: if you want an optical pointing device, check out the logitech trackman marble+. it is ps/2 and it has a scroll wheel that works under imwheel perfectly in linux. the best mousy thing i have ever used! How does it compare to the FirstMousePlus, I assume its just bigger? Does Mandrake (6.1) have imwheel as standard? Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations
Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/9/99 2:46:53 PM, you wrote: Much as I hate microsoft software, if I had the money, I'd probably get their new optical PS/2 scroll mouse. It does seem interesting, and it'll fit a large hand too.. As for a modem, almost any ISA modem will work, but I would recommend you avoid PCI modems, as the vast majority of them are not compatible with Linux. Is it just me or are _all_ PCI modems winmodems? Some of them don't say it, but at some of the prices they go for, I wonder sometimes. Your best assurance that a modem will work with Linux is to pick up an external modem. Nah, just make sure its ISA and non-winmodem - almost guaranteed to work every time. My 3com/USR 56k PnP Int is cool. Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] Apache PHP
Hi "David M. Kufta" ! On 11/9/99 8:15:25 PM, you wrote: I find the below statement rather curious Midgard works just fine I have it installed and use it to administer my web pages with no problem, it does require one to read the documentation and understand how Midgard work's. The INSTALL file for Midgard gives very good instruction on how to install it and MySQL, I find to be one of the easier to configure. My main issue with the whole Mandrake/Midgard/PHP thing is that the default installation doesn't work, you have to go playing with it to get it to a reasonable stage, which I thought was a problem that Mdk wanted to solve. Heck, if I'd known it wasn't going to work I'd have just stuck with RH6.0 and RPM'd everything I needed instead. Midgard help is avilable from vmware should you have difficulty with the installation, and I find it to have many advantages over standard php That may be true, but when a ditro aimed at beginners has one of its major advantages shortchanged due to lack of bugtesting, it sucks. I thought Mdk would be better than that. Maybe Mdk 6.2 will be? I'd like it if there was a KDE configurator for Midgard, which could also make the relevant changes to your httpd.conf too. *That* would bring a lot of converts. Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?
Hi "Darin Martin" ! On 11/8/99 9:34:23 PM, you wrote: BING! Wrong. Merced is a different technology (IA-64) that HP is designing for Intel using some of the HP-PA wizardry. The first chip in that series seems like it won't be much faster than the 786 chips due next year... ... which are called Williamette. They'll be Intel's first official 786 chips and will probably have a number of similar tricks to AMD's Athlon to speed things up yet again. Umm.. Sorry, but you are in fact, incorrect... I'm not. Maybe the way I phrased it may have looked like I was saying Merced was a 786 when its not. And, if you go to this page, you will see the IA-32 is targeted at mainstram desktop, mobile, and low end server/workstations while the IA-64 (Merced) is targeted at high-end servers. I know that, I didn't say it wasn't. The Merced (aka Itanium) uses the IA-64 architecture which is backward compatible with IA-32.. But the Willamete design is IA-32 only.. Not IA-64. I know, thats what I was saying... Intel are continuing the x86 line (IA32) with the Williamette chips due some time next year. This will probably be the last new x86 core that they'll do, after that they'll try to push everyone to the IA64. The first IA64 chip is also due next year, and is called Itanium, as we've discussed. The Itanium is being designed a lot by HP (its an HP/Intel cross-development thing, but a lot of the original Intel guys on the project left). Even HP are saying that the IA64 won't hold up much until the second generation of it, codename McKinley I believe, hence my statement that the Itanium wouldn't be much faster than the 786 (Williamette). Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] Hardware recommendations
Hi "Mrs. Karen Heiby" ! On 11/9/99 3:24:52 AM, you wrote: I would like to get a new external modem and a PS/2 mouse, OR an internal modem and a PS/2 mouse (that's how my system has to be set up). I would appreciate anyone's brand name recommendations for the least hassle getting these to work in Linux-Mandrake. For a modem, 3Com/USRobotics non-Winmodems work great (either internal or external), and for a mouse, Logitech are excellent. Both are pretty much plug in, tell Mdk what they are, and they work! I've got an internal 3c/USR 56k plain faxmodem and a Logitech First Mouse Plus, both work well, though I dunno how to get the scroll-wheel to work on the mouse (anyone got any ideas?). In general, any mouse should work fine, but stay well clear of any "Winmodem" type modems, they suck! Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?
Hi John Aldrich ! On 11/5/99 9:05:01 PM, you wrote: Yes! A Pentium is a 586-class processor. I think Technically a Pentium is a 586, a Pentium Pro is a 686, a PII would be a 786, and a PIII would be an 886 (hmm.scaryalmost the same code # as the "first PC" processors! G) A Pentium is a 586, and all the chips that use the PentiumPro core are 686s, ie the PentiumII, PentiumIII, Celeron, Coppermine P3's, Xeons, etc, are all 686s! The Williamette, due for launch next year, will be Intel's first next-generation (786) core, and probably last too. The Athlon (K7) is comparable to a 786, and AMD are working on an "886" core too, the K8. Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?
Hi "Darin Martin" ! On 11/8/99 7:38:54 AM, you wrote: You are correct... The P-II/P-III/Celeron/Xeon are all based on the Pentium Pro.[snip] However, the main instruction set for the CPU remains unchanged since the P-Pro came out in late 1995. Correct. Intel's 7th generation processor is supposed to be released 4th quarter 2000. They've bounced around a few different release dates, and as always with Intel, you can't really judge it until its actually released. Expect probably at least 3Q2000. It has been code named Merced for the last 4 years or so.. BING! Wrong. Merced is a different technology (IA-64) that HP is designing for Intel using some of the HP-PA wizardry. The first chip in that series seems like it won't be much faster than the 786 chips due next year... ... which are called Williamette. They'll be Intel's first official 786 chips and will probably have a number of similar tricks to AMD's Athlon to speed things up yet again. Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
[newbie] SQL systems comparison?
For doing a pretty large databased web site for a college department (with all the cool stuff in PHP), which would people recommend I use: PostreSQL or MySQL? I've noticed that a lot of the PHP packages I'm looking at seem to favor MySQL, but PostgreSQL is getting more support these days. Should I just read through their respective documentations and figure it out for myself, or does anyone have a recommendation, or are there any good comparisons of them on the net? Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
[newbie] Graphical text editors?
I'm looking for a graphical text editor, something that supports syntax coloring for HTML, and preferably PHP and SQL too. I'll go with either a KDE or Gnome app, and no, EMACS variants don't count. For those of you familiar with them, I'm looking for something like EditPlus or NoteTab in Windows or GoldEd on the Amiga. Damien Mc Kenna Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student http://www.mckenna.brinet.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 17066133
[newbie] PHP4?
Anyone try installing the latest PHP beta? If so, how did you get it to work? I've spent about three hours wrestling with it to no avail. Damien Mc Kenna, wife, four cats http://mckenna.brinet.net/ Keene State College, BSc Computer Science Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] Watch out, I've got a PC and I'm not afraid to use it! ICQ 17066133
