[newbie] SMTP Question
I am trying to configure a server to send status e-mail to myself with the mail command. Sendmail is not running. How can I set mail to use the regular SMTP server? It always wants to use the local sendmail, which doesn't work because sendmail isn't running. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 2 questions
I have 2 simple and unrelated questions 1. Where can I go to download the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73, and ssh? 2. Purely for nostalgia, and simple curiosity, is there a place that one can go to download packages for CDE??? I know that Gnome and KDE are probably way better, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me here. :-) Dan
Re: [newbie] Gnome Xwindows
1:- when I Minimize some windows, I never find it, and I can't restore it, where is a windows ??? Gnome isn't nice enough just to give you a taskbar, and if that's what you're used to it's kind of annoying at first. There is an applet under the applet utilities menu. I can't find it at the moment (using kde) but it will show a bar to restore it. 2:- The screen saver of gnome is not work, only if I put screen saver of kde I have it. Why I had some grief with the permissions for the screen saver. In the .Xauthority or .xinitrc (I can't remember which one will execute things), add an xhost +localhost see if that helps you. Dan -- Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain
Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
Why use ghost? just become root and do a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/whatever substitute the whatever with the file that represents the hard disk you are trying to dump to. Works great :-) Dan -- Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain
Re: [newbie] Sendmail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a domain name registered to my IP Address. I am trying to set my Linux box up as a mailserver. All I want to do, is be able to get mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone out there give me some advice as to how to set this up using Sendmail. I am not sure where to start. I do have send mail up and running except when I type in; "sendmail status" from the command line it says "user uknown". Any help advice or refrences would be greatly appreciated. If you need more information or more specific information please let me know. Thanks in advance, -Mike Yeah, don't use sendmail. It will drive you batty. Qmail or Postfix would be much better choices. There is another mail server who's name I can't quite remember that is specifically designed for small time users. I wish I could remember the name offhand, maybe somebody else can remember. BTW, qmail's claim to fame is that it is VERY secure. There is/was some kind of prize on the qmail web site for somebody to find a security hole. Far as I know the prize is unclaimed :-) Dan
[newbie] gcc weirdness
This came to my attention after fighting ksnuffle for a week trying to get it to compile. So in frustration, I wrote to the developer of ksnuffle and was told that the problem stems from the fact that gcc 2.95 does not like me. Since that time, I have tried to compile multiple apps/utilities only to have gcc crash and burn. This was especially frustrating when I tried to compile kfstab and KDE explorer (can't remember the name now). These are apps that have compiled and worked before. I would like to convert to egcs, which I downloaded from a Mandrake mirror and installed. Heck, with my luck egcs would probably not work either :-) HOWEVER, the stinking autoconf configure scripts still find and use gcc. I don't know that much about the differences between egcs and gcc except that egcs is used by Red Hat, and gcc is used by Mandrake. So, here is the burning questionHow do I make egcs work instead of using gcc. Or am I all screwed up??? TIA, Dan
Re: [newbie] Netscape and .png
Get plugger. http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html Here is a list of mime types it supports. PNG is on there, along with WAV, MIDI, MPEG, MP3, and a shitload of others. It will make your web browsing in Linux as good as it is with Windows. (Would be better except Netscape crashes a lot :-) audio/x-mpegurl audio/x-mpeg-url audio/mpeg-url image/x-sun-raster image/sun-raster image/x-png image/png image/x-tiff image/tiff audio/x-wav audio/wav audio/x-basic audio/basic audio/x-psid audio/psid audio/x-sidtune audio/x-mpeg audio/mpeg audio/x-mpeg3 audio/mpeg3 audio/x-mpeg audio/mpeg2 audio/x-mod audio/mod audio/midi video/x-fli video/fli video/x-msvideo video/msvideo video/x-anim video/anim video/x-sgi-mov video/sgi-movie video/x-dl video/x-mpeg video/mpeg Dan
Re: [newbie] DSL
Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. I'm anxiously awaiting installation of a DSL line here at home. Are any of you currently accessing the web with DSL? If so, was it easy to set up and get on-line? How is it done? Thanks a million. Glennzo... Took me about an hour, because I didn't change all the IP address settings properly. So finally went in and did it with linuxconf and it worked perfectly after a reboot. Dan -- The British are coming! The British are coming!
Re: [newbie] DSL
Romanator wrote: Dan, Are you set up to some sort of @Home cable service? I am racking my brains trying to configure my LANcity modem with my cable service through Linux Mandrake 7.0. I can't believe it is taking so long? I am ready to give up on this!! Any ideas? Nope, no ideas. Our DSL is with a business DSL provider and I access it with a router. So if you have a modem card, better hope it's not a PCI plug and play win modem type. Because if it is, you may not get it to work in linux. Heck, just stick it in a Win98 box and run a cheapo copy of WinRoute Pro. Not very secure but it would probably work. Dan
[newbie] chroot and ftp
Is there a way to use chroot to force a user to stay within a specific directory tree when logged in with bero-FTPD? I have a number of FTP accounts on this computer, and would like to keep the users from changing out of their home directories. Security thing :-) TIA, Dan
Re: [newbie] Dead Simple One
andy barnes wrote: What is the quickest, easiest and safest route to get into root when you are logged on as a user, and is it possible to do so without cutting your ISP connection? go to the command line type "su" w/o the quotes. enter the password off you go. Dan
Re: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...
Mike Perry wrote: Install the Mozzilla fonts in your Netscape. YES!! Thanks for pointing that out. Easy to install, and the fonts are really nice. Dan
Re: [newbie] DAMN ftp!!!
Vic wrote: I need serious help here, I tried to install ProFtp because I thought it was "sooo neat" and NOW-- I can't even do ftp at all!! God I am ready to kick this dam computer out the phreaking window Sorry about that, would anyone know how I can get my ftp server back online?? I uninstalled pro ftp and re installed wu ftp like before, and that does not even work. Try Igloo FTP, it works GREAT. But is not free, you have to pay like 15 bucks. Well worth it. http://www.littleigloo.com Dan Or gftp, or ftp, or nftp, or dpsftp, and on and on and on :-) -- n = ((n 1) 0x) | ((n 1) 0x); n = ((n 2) 0x) | ((n 2) 0x); n = ((n 4) 0x0f0f0f0f) | ((n 4) 0xf0f0f0f0); n = ((n 8) 0x00ff00ff) | ((n 8) 0xff00ff00); n = ((n 16) 0x) | ((n 16) 0x); -- Yet another mystical 'C' gem. This one reverses the bits in a word.
Re: [newbie] parport.o did not compile
Stephen Bosch wrote: I'm probably not gonna be a lot of help since I haven't done the new kernel thing for a long time. However, as I recall, when you type 'make config' it gives you three choices for every option. y,n, or m. If you type 'n' then it doesn't make anything. You have to type in 'm' to specify that you want it as a module. Bummer dude :-( Dan
Re: [newbie] sendmail
Richard Kim wrote: how do you start the sendmail program? As a daemon, or from the command line? From the command line, just type in sendmail and follow its instructions. As a daemon, you will probably have to use some init editor to tell it to start sendmail when the computer boots. Dan -- If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.
Re: [newbie] FTP andf Telnet
Barry Winch wrote: This has to be a case of missing the obvious!! I have installed Manfrake 6.1 (2.2.13-22mdk). I can FTP and TELNET OUT of the box, but I can't telnet in, no connection is ever established I can't even "telnet 127.0.0.1", all I get is : Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Escape character is '^]' Connection closed by foreign host If I FTP in from either the host, or anothr machine on the lan, I get all the right prompts, but then always: 530 Login incorrect Login Failed. This occurs whether I try to log in as root, or any other user. Any ideas, I know its something stupid I've forgotten to do, but I am currently brain deas and can't think what it is TIA Barry Install the telnet server from the Mandrake CD, then uncomment out the lines for telnet in the inetd.conf. Dan -- What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.
Re: [newbie] LDAP
Joel West wrote: PLease pardon my ignorance but : What is LDAP? Why would I use LDAP? How do I use LDAP? Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. As I recall...I think its to help integrate UNIX stuff with a Netware 4.1+ directory tree. But I could be wrong...look it up on the pcwebopedia. http://www.pcwebopedia.com Dan -- As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such things as a free variable."
[newbie] netscape question
I downloaded and installed Netscape 4.72 today, and just had a quickie question. When I installed, I attempted to check my e-mail with messenger, and Netscape crashed. So, I ran it from a terminal to see the error messages. It crashed again, and displayed the error message "Bus Error" Anyone know what this means??? I got it to work by reinstalling it, but I was still curious. TIA, Dan -- "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -- Winston Churchill
Re: [newbie] xcdroast
David van Balen wrote: As a side note, xcdroast should run as root so that cdrecord can run with a more favorable nice value, reducing the possibility of buffer underruns. Hence running as suid root and not changing the ownership of the file... DvB On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does xcdroast change the nice value of cdreocrd automagically, or does one still have to do it by hand? Dan -- Decaffeinated coffee? Just Say No.
Re: [newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?
Aaron Zuercher wrote: Hello, I'm used to using MS Outlook Express and also Agent for email in Windows. Looking for a comparable program in Linux. Any Ideas? Thanks, Aaron Netscape. Or Kmail. Or Spruce. Or Balsa. Or Pine. :-) Or Elm :-) Actually, Magellen is what I am waiting for. Unfortunatly, there is no code avaliable for download. Because it will support anything you could ever want from an e-mail client. Supposedly it will be out in time for KDE2. Currently Netscape mail is probably the most full featured, although it is not exactly what you would call bug free. If you want simple and easy, and you use KDE, try Kmail. Dan
Re: [newbie] Programming C
Joe Knapp -Technician wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm 3 days old in linux. Using ver 7.02 of mandrake (GOD THAT WAS A LONG DLOAD!). Heh, anyway my question is a simple one, what is the best programming envinronmet for coding c in linux? I'm just looking for some opinions on this one so go ahead and fire away... also to at least keep me satisified temporarily what is the procedure for coding and compiling via command line. Joe Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although I'm not a C programmer (well as little as possible :-), I can give you a few pointers. If you like KDE, and plan to write Object Orienated programs for KDE, try Kdevelop. It has a bunch of nice wizards for making widgets and classes and all that stuff. http://www.kdevelop.org There is another programming IDE for KDE as well, but I can't remember the name, or the web page. I do not think that it is as far along in development as Kdevelop is. Kdevelop is past version 1.0 (I think its on 1.1 or 1.0.1 I don't remember and don't feel like checking) If you want to use GTK+, there are a bunch of IDEs avaliable for it as well. I think there is even one that is specifically for Gnome. Go to http://www.gtk.org to check that out. Good luck. Dan
Re: [newbie] HELP fstab
"Hill, Andrew" wrote: I need a little help! I wanted to gain access to my windows drives, hda1 and hda5/6, as a normal user. I asked for advice and received some which suggested adding a new user group and allowing this group access to the hda1/5/6. I did this using linuxconf, this resulted in adding the new group and adding the permissions to access the drives. That worked, however, when I rebooted I am told that the fstab file is invalid or non-functional. But it worked after the first change. I am new to Linux, therefore as an old windows user I backed up the fstab file to fstab2, in the same directory, /etc. Can I re-invoke this fstab2 file, edit the fstab new or what ? Suggestions. Dr Andrew J Hill Department of Anaesthesia Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton BN2 5BE 01273 609060 add this (you have to be root): /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsautouser,noauto,rw Make sure you load the vfat file system support into the kernel as well (you have to be root for this as well). modprobe -a vfat.o you can also use insmod, but I always just used modprobe. To make it add support for vfat at bootup, cd to /etc/rc.d. Then add the modprobe -a vfat.o line to the end of the rc.local file. If you do a man on fstab, modprobe, and insmod, you will get a list of options for the commands and an explanation of the fields for the files. Remember to make backups of all system configuration files before you mess with them. Dan
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
Lets see, I use Netscape 99% of the time, even on Windows. The Netscape for Linux is bloated and not terribly stable, but it has more featurs than anything else out there. I also use KFM/Konqueror, and Amaya. Unfortunatly, I admit to some use of Internet Explorer. What a piece of crap that is. Dan -- You can have a dog as a friend. You can have whiskey as a friend. But, if you have a woman as your friend you're going to wind up drunk and kissing your dog.
Re: [newbie] Setting the time in Mandrake?
You could try using the timetool. Go to a console and type "su -c timetool" enter the root password and off you go. Dan
Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?
In your .bash_profile file, or whatever shell you use, add the following: alias ls='ls -Fa' then whenever you type ls, it will actually do an ls -Fa. Dan
[newbie] libsnmp.o
I am trying to install ethereal 0.8.3. It needs libsnmp.o, does anyone know where to get the sources for this library??? Dan
Re: [newbie] ICQ reg. Off topic
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: How can someone sign up for ICQ when running Linux? My niece wants to sign up for her own account But ICQNIX doesnt support that feature. I cant find anything on ICQ's site to let her sign up there. Any Ideas? Hugh -- "I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere." -- Get Kxicq. It has a thing to allow you to register an ICQ number. There is a link to the kxicq page from http://www.kde.org
Re: [newbie] atapi zip ddrive
According to my know it all LInux book: "Because they just standard (but removeable) SCSI or IDE disks most aspects of their use are similar to those for other block devices." In other words: Find out which disk represents your zip drive. hda, hdb, hdc, or hdd. Then edit your fstab with the following line: /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipautouser,noauto,rw 0 0 Of couse, replace your /dev/hdc4 with the block device that represents your zip drive. Then make sure that you create the directory /mnt/zip. Remember that Iomega uses primary partition number 4. They just do, nobody knows why. This is what you get if you format a Zip disk under Windows. If you want to make a zip disk work under Linux, you have to use fdisk and then mkfs to make the file system. All done! Dan
Re: [newbie] Need your help!!
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, you wrote: I've installed the linux, and at the screen of a linux logo there, it ask me to type the login name and password, after I type it, it don't not go to the KDE interface but go into the bush command interface like dos ...how can I get into the KDE interface? Thanks Johnson At the command prompt type "startx " (minus the quotes of course) see if that helps. Dan
Re: [newbie] Shockwave
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, you wrote: Would anyone know of a shockwave plugin thats a rpm? Or how about a real working sub.? Thanks in advance Hugh -- "I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere." -- Macromedia makes a Shockwave plugin for Linux. I have used it and it works great. I believe that it only comes in a tarball, but its really easy to install. Just unzip it untar it, then copy the .so file to your $HOME/.netscape/plugins directory. Dan
Re: [newbie] Uninstall? Please Help a Newbie!
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: I have just purchased Linux-Mandrake and decided to install it on one of my computers. I decided to let it have all three of the HDD's. Now that I have installed it I want to try other things such as a duel boot, but all I have is Linux right now. If I try to format the HDD's and install NT, when I boot it comes up with "LI" and then freezes. It appears that "LILO" (which I have no experience with) somehow is still on the computer, yet I fdisked and formated the HDD - So why won't it boot? I'm mistified! Obviously Linux operates at a lower level than what I am used to working with. I don't mind learning how it works if there's adequate documentation, but for now I just want my system back. Basically, I was wondering how to UNINSTALL linux and why does it seem impossible to find information about uninstalling Linux? I feel that uninstalling is as important as installing. Anyways, any help on the subject is a blessing and I thank responders in advance! According to my Red Hat 5.2 Manual, if you want to dual boot, you need to install the non-Linux OS first. So, fdisk and format the computer, then boot up a startup disk and install Windows normally. Dan
[newbie] A question
I have a question. After spending my day at work fixing some problems with Windows it lead me to think about this. Why is Linux more Stable than Windows??? All I hear about is how great Linux is compared to Windows but none of my books really explain WHY except that it is free. Linux is multi-user preemptive multi-tasking, multi-threading, and has memory protection between applications. Windows is multi-user multi-tasking and multi-threading, and has memory protection between applications. Linux never crashes. Windows crashes all the time. Now before you anwser. I want REAL anwsers. Not anwsers like "Well, Windows sucks because Micorsoft is big and rich." Anwsers like "Windows sucks because applications don't check to see if they should give up the CPU for another application."(JUST an example) are more acceptable. I have run Linux for almost a year with no real problems at all. I have run windows for several years with nothing but grief. Just curious thanks. Dan
[newbie] NIS
I am attempting to set up NIS to share passwords between two Linux computers. When I go to make the NIS database I get the following: failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredfailed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredyphelper: This program is for internal use from some ypserv scripts and should never be called from a terminal failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredyphelper: This program is for internal use from some ypserv scripts and should never be called from a terminal failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registered These errors come from the password, group, and the shadow files. I have no idea, my book doesn't cover this particular error :-( Any ideas, its probably obvious but I don't know. Dan
[newbie] NIS
I have been trying to make an NIS database to share passwords and groups between my two Linux computers, but I keep on getting the following errors when I try to make the database: failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredfailed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredyphelper: This program is for internal use from some ypserv scripts and should never be called from a terminal failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredyphelper: This program is for internal use from some ypserv scripts and should never be called from a terminal failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registered I am trying to make a database of the password, group, and shadow files. Any ideas??? Dan
Re: [newbie] Samba
On Tue, 07 Dec 1999, you wrote: You probably get this question alot, but here goes: Ive got a little home network, with NT 4 as a server. I keep all my downloads on NT, for exemple, so how do i view them in linux? Is there something I have to do in NT, AND in samba? Also, after a few attempts and glancing at the how to's, im still unsuccessfull at sharing a linux folder so that NT sees it. 1. Turn off html. I found the red text to be difficult to read. Thank you :-) 2. Using Samba to access NT shares is pretty easy. 1. Go into /usr/bin or wherever you samba binaries, su to root and do a chmod +s on smbmount, smbmnt, and smbumount 2. Then just do this: smbmount //server-name/share-name /mountpoint -I put the ip address of your server here then enter your password when it prompts you to. To unmount just do a smbumnt /mountpoint. The easiest thing to do is to write a couple of small shell scripts to do the mounting and unmounting for you. I think you can even put in the password automatically as smbmount has a -P option as I recall. As far as making Linux shares avaliable to NT, I don't know how to do that, never had much desire. Oh, also make sure that you have tcp/ip bound to the netbios stuff in NT, otherwise Linux won't be able to use the shares. Dan
Re: [newbie] Lots of problems on install
Thanks for the help. I now have two more problems. These are probably the last two before I will have Mandrake running as well as my old RH 5.2 setup. First is this, I have an HP CDRecorder Plus IDE cdrecorder on /dev/hdd. I would like to be able to burn cds with it. I have cdrecord version 1.8. Is this an issue with cdrecord not seeing the cd writer, or could it be something else. I can use it as a normal cd rom drive to play music cds etc etc etc. Second are some very weird samba problems. I have samba 2.0.5 installed. I mount some NT shares where I like to keep my stuff since it is backed up regularly. However, after I mount a share and wait for a little while (don't know how long) Linux seems to loose the directory. If I attempt to remove the directory then it gives an input/output error. When I reboot, samba returns an error about missing inode. I have no clue about this stupid problem, and its very annoying. Our NT server has service pack 6 on it FYI. I have heard there were problems with service pack 6, but again, I am not sure. My next attempt will be to install a down level version of samba and try again. Thanks for any help. Dan.
[newbie] Lots of problems on install
Well. I just got Mandrake Installed. So far nothing but grief with it. Don't know what its doing but I have a couple of problems. 1. Seems that it installed KDE fine. Only problem is that it somehow messed up the graphics for the buttons. NONE of the KDE apps have the correct pixmaps for their buttons. 2. Netscape seems to hang when I start. Not only that, it crashes my proxy server when it connects. I looked at the Netscape problem page on the mandrake web page, and set the environment variables that it told me to set, but still no luck. 3. When I open a console in X, and I SU to root and try to run an X application (any one doesn't matter) it gives me an error that I an unable to connect with the X server permission is denied. What permissions do I have to change. Funny thing, this only messes up when I am ROOT not a normal user. ??? Thanks for any help you can give. Dan
