Re: [newbie] RPM query
On March 31, 2005 06:04 am, WauloK wrote: If I wish to install RPMs not in the standard MDK update sites, I guess I need the version written for my specific KDE version ? (3.2 which comes with 10.1). I probably could not install: kdenetwork-kopete-3.4.0-4.mdk10.2.thac.i586.rpm I want the latest version of kopete, but cannot find one for 3.2 .. only this one for 3.4 No, This would want to install other things from kde 3.4, probably a whole lot of other things. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Mar 31 06:27:30 EST 2005 06:27:30 up 17:00, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.03 In vino veritas. [In wine there is truth.] -- Pliny Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] digikam update
On March 20, 2005 04:48 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed the newer package I get this after checking to see what version I have - digikam-0.6.2. What am I doing wrong? Rosemary As far as I understand newer versions of digikam will only work with newer versions of KDE, IE im sure the latest version only works with KDE 3.3 and newer. That is what the maintainers of the program have planed. I tryed to install the latest version on KDE 3.2.3 but did not match the requirements. Too bad for me as they have some nice stuff in the latest version. I will wait for Mandrake 10.2 before upgrading KDE. (i don't want to break what is already working well) If you have KDE 3.3 or better than it should work. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Mar 20 05:28:56 EST 2005 05:28:56 up 2 days, 19:33, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.02 Be *excellent* to each other. -- Bill, or Ted, in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On March 16, 2005 07:36 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated rpms for Mdk 10.1 amarok-1.2.2-2.1010.2mdk.i586.rpm (includes cpu patch) I had installed Gregs 1.2.1 package and it was fine. But when i tried to upgrade to thie 2.2.2 package it said everything was already installed. No big problem i just un-installed 1.2.1 and then installed 2.2.2 all went well. Regards, Dan Gordon -- 20:59:18 up 1 day, 13:11, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.24, 0.24 Wed Mar 16 20:59:18 EST 2005 Field experience is something you never get until just after you need it -- Murphy's Military Laws n°32 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On March 16, 2005 09:40 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Looking at my spec, I have my epoch set to two, which if Charles is set to 1, urpmi thinks my 1.2.1 package is newer than Charles' 1.2.2 package. I was using it during the beta run and forgot to reset it. No big problem really, just remove and install and away you go. Only the one package was required. It even remembered all my settings. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Mar 16 21:48:46 EST 2005 21:48:46 up 1 day, 14:00, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Rule the Empire through force. -- Shogun Tokugawa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] login manager
On March 14, 2005 04:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: kcontrol is a kde app, so you won't be able to do it from XFCE I think, but you could try, if you have kde installed. The login manager is one sub-section under kcontrol. I run any and all KDE apps from XFCE, that should not be any problem. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Mar 14 16:43:11 EST 2005 16:43:11 up 7:47, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.05, 0.04 An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. -- Adlai Stevenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] krecipes
On March 11, 2005 10:33 am, julie wrote: Has anyone tried using krecipes? Yes i have it working here, its nice but i found Gourmet Recipe Manager http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net To be a little nicer and easier to use IMO. Both programs i was able to build the latest versions from source. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Mar 11 12:43:46 EST 2005 12:43:46 up 6:23, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.04 If there isn't a population problem, why is the government putting cancer in the cigarettes? -- the elder Steptoe, c. 1970 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
On March 8, 2005 11:46 am, M.Schild wrote: Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? Well this is something i have been looking into but not done yet. Answer is yes but with an emulator. Problem is, you need a mac rom file taken from a mac, only mac i have right now is a classic and i don't have a floppy drive on this computer. So for the moment im SOL. I have the emulator (basilisk ll) (there are others) installed and working but no rom to install os with. Short answer is yes but your Friend needs to do some reading to get this to work. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Mar 8 13:37:17 EST 2005 13:37:17 up 17:30, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.00 Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you -- Murphy's Laws on Sex n°39 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
On March 8, 2005 02:29 pm, Paul wrote: And if you cannot get the hang of that: OpenOffice 2.0 Beta is out and that has a database system in it too. I have not played with it but is should be easy enough to use. I am having a look at the beta of OpenOffice 2 now but beware there are some bugs but is going to be real nice when its finished, then i can finally get rid of some other OS and database i have had to use for work. -- Tue Mar 8 15:11:50 EST 2005 15:11:50 up 19:04, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.00 Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On March 4, 2005 09:48 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Sounds like the servers are no longer holding 9.2 PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( I don't think plf is kept on the same servers. I could be wrong Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Mar 4 09:55:05 EST 2005 09:55:05 up 20:56, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.08, 0.01 If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? -- Marvin Kitman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk and Nvidia don't work
On March 1, 2005 12:13 am, Dennis Myers wrote: - Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-24mdk' - Performing CC test with CC=cc. ERROR: If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure you either have configured kernel sources matching your kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed on your system. If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel installed on your system. If you specified a separate output directory using either the KBUILD_OUTPUT or the O KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with the appropriate nvidia-installer command line option. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. Strange it worked perfectly here kernel smp and nvidia 6629, the only thing i can think of is did you use the kernel-source-stripped or the full source ? Here i used the full source. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Mar 1 08:48:03 EST 2005 08:48:03 up 17:01, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.13, 0.04 checkuary, n: The thirteenth month of the year. Begins New Year's Day and ends when a person stops absentmindedly writing the old year on his checks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RSS feeds
On March 1, 2005 01:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've been googling and looking at kmail info to see how to add RSS feed. I'm obviously looking in wrong place - can anyone direct me thanks Rosemary The only one I have found for Linux is Liferea, and it works well. Another good one is akregator. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Mar 1 13:22:09 EST 2005 13:22:09 up 2:11, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.08 A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants -- Murphy's Laws on Work n°1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] gimp2.2 urpmi
On February 26, 2005 06:12 pm, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all Trying to update gimp 2 to 2.2, on MDK 10.1 system I have uninstalled 2.0, urpmi gimp2_2 downloaded from Charles' site OK, but trying to run it I get: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/gimp-2.2: undefined symbol: gimp_enum_set_value_descriptions Seems to be libgimp version has not updated? ( /usr/lib/ contains libgimp-2.0.so.0 ) For some reason urpmi seems to have failed me. I just installed charles gimp 2.2 pakages the other day without any problem, however i did not remove the previous version, I wonder if his packages rely on libgimp-2.0.so.0 already being there ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Feb 27 11:18:36 EST 2005 11:18:36 up 12:30, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.06, 0.02 Paper Rabies: Hypersensitivity to littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quick question
On February 25, 2005 10:25 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: When I boot Mandrake the boot manager gives me a choice between: linux-smp, linux, and linux-nonfb. What is the difference between these? I'm going to guess that you have an Intel hyperthread processor, This is what i have and so some operating systems like linux see this as a dual processor machine. So that is what the smp kernel is for, the one labeled just linux would be a single processor. I am using the smp kernel and it works very well, but you should experiment and see what you like. As for linux-nonfb hopefully some one else can explain that to us as i have never tried that myself. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Feb 25 23:46:38 EST 2005 23:46:38 up 8:17, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.00 A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing. -- Kirk, The Menagerie, stardate 3012.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quick question
On February 26, 2005 12:17 am, Roland Hughes wrote: I believe the linux-nonfb means no frame buffer loaded in case you are having video problem. Roly Sounds logical captain, hope i never need to use it :-) Thanks Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Feb 26 01:05:29 EST 2005 01:05:29 up 9:36, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.00 There is no such thing as a perfect plan -- Murphy's Military Laws n°96 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final
On February 13, 2005 12:29 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: For anyone that have been using my beta packages of amaroK, I have test packages up for 1.2 final. I have been testing all morning, and everything seems good, but before 1.2 final is officially announced by the amaroK team, they would like to see the packages tested more. Since I am the only Mandrake user on the amaroK project, I am appealing to the expert and newbie lists for a few brave souls who will test these packages. http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1 http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/amarok-1.2-3.101mdk.i586.rpm http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/libmusicbrainz4-2.1.1-3mdk.i586.rp m http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/libmusicbrainz4-devel-2.1.1-3mdk.i 586.rpm A few notes. - mysql is now a runtime option, so now there is only one package. Both mysql and sqlite users can use the same package. There is a configuration screen to select the database you wish to use. - when you first start this verson, it should drop your collection and rescan. This should not (and in fact did not here) screw up your stats. - There is a small update to libmusicbrainz, so grab those packages too, but libtunepimp and taglib did not change, so if you have been using my beta packages and have already installed them, you will only need libmuiscbrainz. Please let me know about any problems. Well Greg I have been using this since you released it and so far no problems to report, I'm not using any sql at all and it works like a charm. Tomorrow I'm going to load my whole list and let it play random all day if that works without any problem then i will be convinced that this is the killer linux juke box app. And thanks so much for the rpm's they have never given me any problem what so ever. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Feb 17 20:06:51 EST 2005 20:06:51 up 1 day, 4:44, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.15, 0.10 No people are all bad, just as none are all good. Tecumseh, (Shawnee) to his nephew Spemica Lawba 1790 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
On February 9, 2005 03:56 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have at home dozens and dozens of books and when I want to find a specific book, sometimes I hard... Is there some program to manage our personal books? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Tellico is the program you want. Just type in a terminal as root urpmi tellico Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Feb 9 16:21:11 EST 2005 16:21:11 up 1 day, 9:18, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.01 Those who hesitate under fire usually do not end up KIA, MIA or WIA -- Murphy's Military Laws n°101 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to manage an archive of books
On February 9, 2005 08:50 pm, Chris wrote: I agreen Dan, Tellico is fantastic, does books, and others as well. Do you know why the author changed the name from Bookcase to Tellico? I think it is because the person(s) maintaining it changed hands. Regardless it does not matter it is a great program. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Feb 9 21:16:11 EST 2005 21:16:11 up 1 day, 14:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Task Manager
On February 8, 2005 10:03 pm, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: As a old Windows user, I find really useful the Windows' Task Manager utility, where I can close applications, check resources, etc. I actually don't know if there is a similar application already developed, but I'm willing to make one, based on the /proc files and kernel stuff. However, this email is for asking if some already knows of an application as the Task manager, so I don't waste time programming such application... I like gnome-system-monitor although I am sure there are others as well. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Feb 8 20:23:35 EST 2005 20:23:35 up 13:21, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 If you put your supper dish to your ear you can hear the sounds of a restaurant. -- Snoopy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
On January 31, 2005 12:52 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:24:27 -0500 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: Don't the list rules require that Mr. Lane send a case of good stuff to each of who received an out-of-office message? Case? I'm thinkin' Zip-Loc bag, but that's just me... We will split your case amongest ourselves then and was that like a peanut butter sandwich to go into that ziplock bag ? evil grin Um don't answer that ok :-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Jan 31 13:27:29 EST 2005 13:27:29 up 1:53, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.04 We place two copies of PEOPLE magazine in a DARK, HUMID mobile home. 45 minutes later CYNDI LAUPER emerges wearing a BIRD CAGE on her head! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to keep track of passwords
On January 30, 2005 10:18 am, Paul Smith wrote: I had tried that before, but with no success. Thanks anyway, Bryan. Is not there a similar program which I could use? Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Paul have a look at PWmanager from here, I've used it before as i never liked the intrusive behavior of the kde thingey. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10277 Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 30 10:26:08 EST 2005 10:26:08 up 3 days, 15:39, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.22, 0.12 Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Latest security updates not listed
On January 26, 2005 09:55 pm, Chris wrote: Thanks Dan, I'll wait a few days then and try again. I am seeing a whole bunch of updates today and even the much talked about new kernel yea :-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Jan 27 14:13:41 EST 2005 14:13:41 up 19:26, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.18, 0.09 You can have my Unix system when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. -- Cal Keegan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Latest security updates not listed
On January 26, 2005 07:23 pm, Chris wrote: I've got sources installed for main, updates and contrib. I received quite a few security update messages this morning and when going to MDK update they don't seem to be listed. Should I remove the source I currently have for updates and install another one or wait a bit to see if they show up? I have the same problem here, it may take a day or two for them to show up on all the mirrors. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Jan 26 21:00:39 EST 2005 21:00:39 up 2:13, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.07 Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apology
On January 23, 2005 09:57 am, Owen wrote: I would like to apologize for not responding to those who recently me offered help or advise. I screwed up my system so bad that it would no longer boot up therefore I had to reinstall and subsequently lost all my e-mail messages. Owen Hey welcome to the screw up my system club lol Its ok though no one here will hold it against you :-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- 10:13:45 up 14:35, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.02 Sun Jan 23 10:13:45 EST 2005 10) there is no 10, but it sounded like a nice number :) -- Wichert Akkerman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI
On January 23, 2005 09:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE Ok don't yell at us please :-) http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 23 10:16:18 EST 2005 10:16:18 up 14:37, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.01 America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
On January 23, 2005 07:44 pm, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: Quick question: when I type 'man man' in Konsole, and I don't want to read it, but instead I want to go to 'man rpm', how do I do that? The only way I found to do that now was starting a new Konsole session... there surely must be a better way, no? Ok if you are asking what i think just simply hit the Q key Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 23 20:02:46 EST 2005 20:02:46 up 1 day, 24 min, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.12, 0.03 For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race. -- Harlan Ellison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates to 10.0 Official
On January 20, 2005 11:47 am, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, When I run MCC and go to Updates under Software, I get a big list of all of the updates available. I see a lot of packages that are very similar in name except for the very ending. For example, aspell-0.50.5-3.1.101mdk and aspell-0.50.4.1-2.1.100mdk. Which do I choose? It won't let me choose both. Are the 100mdk packages for Mandrake 10.0 and the 101mdk packages for 10.1? The package with the highest number is the latest, ie 0.50.53.1.101mdk is newer then 0.50.4.1-2.1.100mdk. So I always go with the package that has the highest number attached to it. This is one of the problems with updates when you have just done a fresh install, you will sometimes see two different versions of a package. And yes they are both for 10.1 it is just that there have been two updates since the release of 10.1 Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Jan 20 12:13:55 EST 2005 12:13:55 up 59 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.07, 0.01 Epsilon3 Knghtbrd, if we wanted a lameass remark we would have said: Hey, neckro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking
On January 16, 2005 12:08 pm, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:36, Martin Hardie wrote: what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any error message, or just an apparent attempt to open, which disappears after a while? Anne this is what happens there is an apparent attempt to open and then nothing $ kword koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: /usr/lib/libkofficeui.so.2: undefined symbol: _ZN9KIconView22contentsDragEnterEventEP15QDragEnterEvent Sounds like missing libraries. When you say you downloaded it, where from? Did you use urpmi or Software Installer to install it, or some other method? Anne i used urpmi and got all the dependencies it wanted. But i suppose i could just uninstall and try again What you can do with Mandrake control center is open the software install program and do a search. In the drop down menu select in file name then type in libkofficeui.so.2 and it should tell you what package has that particular file in it. for me it was libkoffice2-progs HTH Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 16 13:17:00 EST 2005 13:17:00 up 1 day, 17:05, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.12, 0.09 I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. -- Steven Wright Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] AmaroK beta3
On January 14, 2005 08:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: For those interested, AmaroK released a 3rd beta of the 1.2 release. You'll need the libtunepimp and libmusicbrainz packages also to get the Muscibrainz support. Unfortunately, I only have packages for 10.1 available because I hosed my 10.0 build environment by accident. Then again, if you are still running 10.1, you probably shouldn't be beta testing software :) More info here: http://amarok.kde.org Packages here: http://www.gkmewb.com/amarok/10.1 Thanks Greg, but im getting unknown host on thus url. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Jan 14 21:10:26 EST 2005 21:10:26 up 58 min, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.09, 0.02 There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity. - David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] AmaroK beta3
On January 14, 2005 09:21 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 08:11 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On January 14, 2005 08:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: For those interested, AmaroK released a 3rd beta of the 1.2 release. You'll need the libtunepimp and libmusicbrainz packages also to get the Muscibrainz support. Unfortunately, I only have packages for 10.1 available because I hosed my 10.0 build environment by accident. Then again, if you are still running 10.1, you probably shouldn't be beta testing software :) More info here: http://amarok.kde.org Packages here: http://www.gkmewb.com/amarok/10.1 Thanks Greg, but im getting unknown host on thus url. Regards, Dan Gordon Drop the 10.1 on the end and then choose that folder once the site opens up. HTH Tried that and i get could not locate remote server Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Jan 14 22:38:28 EST 2005 22:38:28 up 2:26, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.08, 0.06 I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] AmaroK beta3
On January 14, 2005 11:09 pm, Glenn wrote: Try http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1 . It looks like Greg fat-fingered the w and e, so that they were transposed. Yep that was it, thanks Glenn Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Jan 15 00:03:00 EST 2005 00:03:00 up 3:51, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.01 When speculation has done its worst, two plus two still equals four. -- S. Johnson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages
On January 12, 2005 03:57 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 11, 2005 18:22, Dan Gordon wrote: ... Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and follow the instructions its very easy. http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Strange i just tried it right now and it works fine for me. That web site has been dead for some weeks now. Try this instead: http://urpmi.borgnet.us/ Always good to have a few alternatives though. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Jan 12 16:57:50 EST 2005 16:57:50 up 2 days, 5:58, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.10, 0.07 Harris's Lament: All the good ones are taken. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages
On January 12, 2005 12:34 am, Andy Yankovich wrote: I installed the four CDs for the $12.99 edition of) 10.1 successfully *except* that I could not retrieve the updates during the installation procedure. When I attempt to update through Control Center I get the following error message at the point of starting download of hdlist.cz from medium 'Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.1 )ftplu)'. The error message reads, in its entirety: It's impossible to retrieve the list of new packages from the media 'Updates for Mandrakelinux 10,1 (ftplu)'. Either this update is misconfigured, and in this case you should use the Software Media Manager to remove it and re-add it in order to reconfigure it, either it is currently unreachable and you should retry later. I have re-attempted to update many times so I doubt it is currently busy. Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and follow the instructions its very easy. http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Jan 11 20:21:27 EST 2005 20:21:27 up 1 day, 9:21, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00 Academicians care, that's who. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wizards
On January 9, 2005 01:30 pm, Owen wrote: I just completed a new installation of Mandrake version 10.1 power pack. While trying to establish a internet connection the documentation mentions wizards I can't seem to find them on my installation. Did I miss something while installing? Or are wizards a add on feature? Thanks, Owen urpmi drakwizard should get you what you are looking for. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 9 14:12:36 EST 2005 14:12:36 up 2 days, 18:16, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.18, 0.11 Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds. -- J. Finnegan, USC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wizards
On January 9, 2005 07:03 pm, Owen wrote: Thanks Dan, That did it. It also solved my connection problem. You are welcome, glad I could help. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 9 21:14:50 EST 2005 21:14:50 up 3 days, 1:18, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.06, 0.01 No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it. -- Hal Chadwick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firewall
On Thursday 30 December 2004 03:31 pm, neo wrote: could someone tell me a good firewall for mandrake 10.1 thank you For a basic setup which in my opinion is very good, install iptables and shorewall. This will get you started. I use iptables and firestarter which can be found here. www.fs-security.com/ The thing to keep in mind is, iptables is what makes the rules and shoewall or firestarter is just a front end to help you more easily create the rules. There are others on this list that are far more familiar with iptables and shorewall than I. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Dec 29 15:53:55 EST 2004 15:53:55 up 1:04, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.04 I know it all. I just can't remember it all at once. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? I got one a few hours ago, but so far just one and i thought it was addressed to the list. I did what I always do with them *DEL* I am on cable here and do get a lot of them from time to time. Oh yeah there is this new worm out was made just for Christmas. Sick bast**s Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Dec 15 23:22:27 EST 2004 23:22:27 up 11:53, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.05, 0.01 Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 11:28 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Oh yeah there is this new worm out was made just for Christmas. Sick bast**s Here is the link. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/15/holiday.worm/index.html Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Dec 15 23:32:08 EST 2004 23:32:08 up 12:03, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.07, 0.01 Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- Laurence Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Live! 24-bit supported in 10.1?
On Thursday 09 December 2004 09:52 am, Rick Kunath wrote: Does anyone have the Creative labs SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit card running in Mandrake 10.1 under alsa? The Mandrake supported hardware matrix has model numbers that don't seem to correspond to any model numbers on the Creative web site. I am in the market for a new low-end sound card and considered this card. I know the Live! 5.1 card works with the emu10k chipset, but these don't seem to be available any more. Other recommendations and advice welcomed? I am using the live value as it was called from about 6 or 7 years ago without any problems. As far as i know the live cards should work without problems under 10.1 Aside from the occasional volume level problem which is easy solved this card has always worked for me. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Dec 9 10:35:38 EST 2004 10:35:38 up 1 day, 1:10, 1 user, load average: 0.44, 0.12, 0.03 If Microsoft built cars, seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question, please. Does Mandrake find the on-board 10/100 ethernet chipset of this motherboard, or would I be better off still using my SMC card? I don't know what chip is used, as it doesn't tell on the Asus web site. Yes it works fine under Mandrake, this is the board i have and it has worked well for me. The onboard 10/100 ethernet also works just fine under Mandrake no problems here with this board at all. Mandrake 10 and up should find the ethernet for you without problems. The only thing I have changed was the onboard sound which works no problem but I wanted to put my live card in and disable the onboard and it also worked just fine. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Dec 3 11:26:59 EST 2004 11:26:59 up 22:24, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.14, 0.04 I think, therefore I am... I think. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Asus motherboards
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing. I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the specification of which looks good. At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question, please. Does Mandrake find the on-board 10/100 ethernet chipset of this motherboard, or would I be better off still using my SMC card? I don't know what chip is used, as it doesn't tell on the Asus web site. Here is how Mandrake 10.1 installed it on my M/B Asus P4P800 Vendor: 3Com Corp. Description: 3C940 10/100/1000 LAN Media class: NETWORK_ETHERNET Module name: sk98lin Mac Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Bus: PCI Location on the bus: 2 Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Dec 3 13:04:13 EST 2004 13:04:13 up 1 day, 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.15, 0.10 Why do they call them apartments when they are all stuck together? -- Why Why Why n°28 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS Searchbot
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 09:33 pm, JoeHill wrote: Was just following a thread on another list, thought I'd give y'all a heads up that run webservers. Seems this IP: 207.46.98.47 is an MS searchbot that is indexing web pages for its 'Google-killer' search engine. I'm reading a how-to now on .htaccess ;-) So that's whats been hittin me in the firewall lol Seem like they come a few at a time once every day for the last couple of days. Maybe I should add the ip to my blocked list. Naw the firewall is already blocking it. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Dec 1 22:12:06 EST 2004 22:12:06 up 7:09, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.00 Avoid strange women and temporary variables. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running
Greetings, I just updated Xorg and I would like to know the command to tell which version is running on my system. TIA Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Nov 24 15:27:08 EST 2004 15:27:08 up 13 min, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.25, 0.19 Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 03:47 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: If you run kcontrol, it should tell you what's the version, eh? kcontrol = Information = X-Server Thanks Alan and Stephen, humph never would have guessed to look there as I don't use kde very much exept when I want to show off linux to someone. Any way I could have swore the update said Xorg 6.8.x but im not seeing that at all ? still at 6.7 Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Nov 24 15:59:28 EST 2004 15:59:28 up 45 min, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.14, 0.10 It ain't over until it's over. -- Casey Stengel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 04:04 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Thanks Alan and Stephen, humph never would have guessed to look there as I don't use kde very much exept when I want to show off linux to someone. Any way I could have swore the update said Xorg 6.8.x but im not seeing that at all ? still at 6.7 Ok just read the advisory and it says 6.7 so I will put my gasses back on now. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Nov 24 16:08:58 EST 2004 16:08:58 up 55 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.07 Hat check girl: Goodness! What lovely diamonds! Mae West: Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie. -- Night After Night, 1932 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Which version of Xorg am I running
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 07:05 pm, JoeHill wrote: ...that may cause more problems than it solves ;-) Ryely i cna se nwo thsi si colo Regdars Gan Dordon -- Wed Nov 24 21:11:37 EST 2004 21:11:37 up 5:58, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon 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 failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I'm sure if you return it to the store it was purchased from they will replace it. As far as I know this is very uncommon. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Nov 23 09:41:59 EST 2004 09:41:59 up 1 day, 12:14, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I would however have a serious look at the power supply to make sure it is not the cause. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Nov 23 09:48:22 EST 2004 09:48:22 up 1 day, 12:20, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00 Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? -- Paul Simon 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 failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:01 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I replaced the P/S. That was my very first thought as well. It didn't make any difference as to the symptoms. Only replacing the video card returned it to a usable system. P/S can and is usually the cause of other hardware failure, even though a P/S may not show signs of failure itself it can cause great damage to other components. I recently had a system in which two new hard drives were toasted lucky for me the store where i purchased from was willing to replace them after of course replacing the P/S. I would still try and return the card you never know. As I said, its the very first time I've had a video card fail. It just doesn't seem to happen. Can I blame it on Doom3, since he was playing it when it happened? :-) Yeah doom3 most defiantly can burn stuff out, umm especially the mind. Keep an eye on him :-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Nov 23 11:36:02 EST 2004 11:36:02 up 1 day, 14:08, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.06 During the voyage of life, remember to keep an eye out for a fair wind; batten down during a storm; hail all passing ships; and fly your colors proudly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cable interface stopped - DHCPREQUEST?
On Thursday 18 November 2004 04:58 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I cannot really find a reason why this happened. Could it be that the lease on the IP number somehow runs out after a certain amount of time? Paul Yes DHCP leases do expire, but then the DHCP client will simply ask for a new lease, and in most cases will be granted the same IP address back again. Somehow your ISP's DHCP server seem to have got its knickers in a twist and was not responding to lease renewal requests. I have seen this happen when my isp has to regroup (i know there is a propper term for this) several subnets to gain performance, a few ip's will be lost off of a subnet and a few new ones gained, i have seen my ip go from 24.116.x.x to 24.226.x.x so if the ip you had was put into another subnet then its possible the DHCP server did get it knickers in a twist. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Nov 18 18:27:54 EST 2004 18:27:54 up 5:19, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.04 He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die. -- Giacomo Leopardi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TWiki - How you can help (was Plea for help!)
On Sunday 14 November 2004 10:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: This came from Pierre Fortin on the expert list. It is a very good idea, should help us a lot. quote Here's one idea for finding info about the TWiki on your own system... 1. If everyone who's gone to Twiki pages can issue the following command on their system, maybe we can build a memory-jogger list of pages. Just copy and paste the three lines in one action, and you'll get a list of pages you've visited... --%--- grep vmlinuz.ca .mozilla/`whoami`/*/history.dat | \ awk /vmlinuz/'{split($0,a,Main/);split(a[2],a,));\ split(a[1],a,?);print a[1];next;exit}' | sort | uniq --%--- I tried this but then realize I use opera, so i changed .mozilla to .opera but it did not work I'm posting my output in a separate thread: Re: [expert] Plea for help! -- MY MEMORY JOGGER LIST 2. The above command seems a bit convoluted; but here's how to read it so that you can modify it to find other info on your own system: grep vmlinuz.ca # just a stock grep .mozilla/`whoami`/*/history.dat | \ # the file to grep (`whoami` - your userid) awk /vmlinuz/ # look for lines containing vmlinuz # the next part says what to do with it '{split($0,a,Main/); # split a matching line ($0) at Main/; put result in array a split(a[2],a,));\ # split the 2nd (right) part at ) -- may not have ) split(a[1],a,?); # split the 1st (left) part from previous at ? -- may not have ? print a[1]; # output the result (left part) next; # loop on all the lines from grep exit}' | # exit when done and pipe to: sort | # sort output of awk and pipe to: uniq # which removes duplicates Note that a[1] refers to the left side of the split result and a[2] to the right side (assuming a simple split)... Do NOT post your results to this list; I'm starting a separate thread for that... /quote Is there a way for anyone who uses a different browser to get the needed output ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Nov 14 11:29:09 EST 2004 11:29:09 up 9:06, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.08, 0.02 I suppose you expect me to talk. No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die. -- Goldfinger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TWiki - How you can help (was Plea for help!)
On Sunday 14 November 2004 11:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 14 Nov 2004 16:32, Dan Gordon wrote: Is there a way for anyone who uses a different browser to get the needed output ? The path in the first line needs to be changed to point to the history file for your browser - FWIW, I use Mozilla, and I had to adapt it too. If you don't know where the history file is, use Konqueror and search for a file called history - that should help you find it. Of course the history file, Thanks Anne. Will have a look later right now the in-laws are coming Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Nov 14 13:34:17 EST 2004 13:34:17 up 11:12, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.09, 0.02 Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Am I right in thinking..
On Sunday 14 November 2004 04:17 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:16, evolt wrote: [...snip] I would reccomend mldonkey, it can access many different p2p networks like fastrack a.k.a kazaa, edonkey/emule, gnutella/gnutella2, soulseek, direct connect, open napster, and bittorent. Go to urpmi.org, use easyurpmi to help you set up a repository for plf, I just tried that - I got back this command: urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandrake/10.0 with hdlist.cz which I put in, and just over an hour later it finished downloading *something*... It seemed to work, but: I don't know how you connect to the internet but these hdlist.cz files are about 27 mb in size if you are on dial-up then i can imagine it taking one hour. ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.plf.cz] writing list file for medium plf examining pubkey file of plf... ...imported key caba22ae from pubkey file of plf built hdlist synthesis file for medium plf found 0 headers in cache then I tried the following: then as root type: urpmi mldonkey-gui and got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi mldonkey-gui no package named mldonkey-gui [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Im using one of the french mirrors and I just checked and found mldonkey-gui so I think the mirror you selected must be messed up, which has been happening a lot lately :-( The second stage at easy urpmi when it asks you to select mirrors there are drop down lists to select the mirrors of your choice. You may be able to find a closer/faster mirror that the one you have selected. Also you need to select a main and contrib source as well as the plf one. Main and contrib are where you will find the official mandrake stuff. hmm... I wonder how many headers it was *supposed* to find in the cache??? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Nov 14 17:01:25 EST 2004 17:01:25 up 14:39, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.13, 0.05 Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires. -- La Rochefoucauld Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?
On Friday 12 November 2004 11:06 am, JoeHill wrote: My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing Queen' and the like. Is this safe? Has anyone successfully copied some Abba to their HD without hosing their system? Are there special precautions I can take in advance? LOL some are not getting it Joe but if its any consolation I can dcc you my ear muffs Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Nov 12 12:25:13 EST 2004 12:25:13 up 2:30, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.04, 0.01 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange printing problem
Hey all, I'm having a strange problem with my printer. The printer works just fine except for one thing, I can not print color from the computer it is connected to. The printer is a Canon S200 connected to Mandrake 10.1 Official, I can print black or shades of Grey only from this computer. But I can print color no problem from a win-xp box on the network. I have checked the settings and can not see anything that smacks me in the face but then printing in linux is new to me. Any help is appreciated. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Nov 11 20:31:47 EST 2004 20:31:47 up 5:13, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.08 I'm free -- and freedom tastes of reality. -- The Who Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange printing problem
On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Dan: Canon printers are not noted for being Linux friendly, but sometimes they work. (My wife has a BJC3000 which does work, although at glacial speed.) Perhaps this will help: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S200 Thanks Carroll, That's what I figured, I just think its so strange that a windows computer on the network can print color but the computer its connected to cant. My bjc2400 worked real good but alas it died. I'm gona have a look at the turboprint driver and see if it will work for me. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Nov 11 21:40:59 EST 2004 21:40:59 up 6:22, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.01 A man who keeps stealing mopeds is an obvious cycle-path. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange printing problem
On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:16 pm, Aron Smith wrote: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S200 lists it as a paperweight (bad) Ummm yes thanks Aron I did see that, it just made me drink more beer to forget about how hardware vender's have us by the short and well you know. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Nov 11 22:57:48 EST 2004 22:57:48 up 7:39, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00 Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people. -- James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TCP logging?
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 10:03 am, Eric Scott wrote: Yo peeps; I'm trying to set up some simple TCP connection's logging on my Mandrake 9.2 box. Is there a simple script or something I can write and execute that will do something like execute date html_logs/ssh.log netstat -a | grep tcp html_logs/ssh.log every ten seconds or so? I dont know if this is what you want but there is apache top Summary: ApacheTop: top-like display of Apache logs. Description: ApacheTop: top-like display of Apache logs. ApacheTop watches a logfile generated by Apache (in standard common or combined logformat, although it doesn't (yet) make use of any of the extra fields in combined) and generates human-parsable output in realtime. It is available via urpmi or Mandrake control center Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Nov 9 10:30:58 EST 2004 10:30:58 up 1 day, 23:56, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.07, 0.05 I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.' -- Robert G. Ingersoll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT: gnupg version 1.2.4 or 2-1.9.10
I see that gnupg 1.2.4 is installed by default, but also see that for some things like S/MIME in kmail it seems version 2-1.9.10 is needed. Is it safe to install the latter version ? I have always had problems understanding why there seem to be more that one version of pgp available. Any input is appreciated. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Nov 5 19:26:33 EST 2004 19:26:33 up 1 day, 6:05, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.21, 0.22 If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires. -- Abigail Van Buren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?
On October 22, 2004 09:57 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: BUT, do it _now_! Cooker will unfreeze and begin 10.2 development shortly. As to Dan's misgivings, using 2.6.8.1-12 kernel and kernel-source from a cooker mirror will not pose a problem on a 10.1 system. This kernel has been in use for quite some time and is well tested. Thanks Tom, its just the kernel and or source I need for now the rest I can wait for. So I will just pull the kernel and source and then wait for the 10.1 trees to settle in. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Oct 22 10:34:21 EDT 2004 10:34:21 up 1 day, 2:37, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.08, 0.02 panic(esp: what could it be... I wonder...); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?
I just did a install of Mandrake 10.1 comminty on another computer, kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdk, and have checked two diferent sets of mirrors and can not find any source at all for my kernel. What I am seeing is a lot of older kernel stuff like 2.6.8.0.rc2.2mdk that was not there two days ago. I have checked this against this computer that I have already got the source for the same kernel and I am seeing the same thing. Anyone have any ideas ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Oct 21 16:19:53 EDT 2004 16:19:53 up 8:22, 2 users, load average: 0.49, 0.21, 0.07 Some people have a great ambition: to build something that will last, at least until they've finished building it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?
On October 21, 2004 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Yes, Dan. Go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and get some cooker sources. There you will find 2.6.8.1-12mdk and its source rpm. This will be in 10.1 Official, I believe. Anne Ahh ok I never thought to look on cooker, silly me ;-) But wont that put 10.1 into a cooked sorta state, I dont wana wreck things too quick. Thanks Anne Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Oct 21 18:03:20 EDT 2004 18:03:20 up 10:06, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.06 Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. -- Richard Lewis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?
On October 21, 2004 06:32 pm, Margot wrote: Dan Anne, Up until yesterday, cooker was the correct place to find 10.1 updates, but (as per Warly's message about 12 hours ago) the 10.1 Community mirrors now carry the updates for 10.1 Community. Don't use the cooker sources any more unless you want to end up running cooker! So easy urpmi just has not caught up yet then ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Oct 21 19:01:41 EDT 2004 19:01:41 up 11:04, 2 users, load average: 0.55, 0.16, 0.04 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On October 19, 2004 08:54 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Im beginning to think its a kernel or kernel source problem at this point but im going to try this on another computer, a p3 800 with a older nvidia card just to see what happens as soon as I have some time. Will let you all know how it goes. Ok after some googling I found these instructions. For kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp you need the stripped kernel source, don't do anything to it. This is an nvidia installer problem. Now in a term as root run the installer like this NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --x This will extract the installer files into a directory. Now with your favorite editor go to /usr/src/nv.c In this file go to line 3697 and change PM_SAVE_STATE to PM_SUSPEND_MEM Then get into run level 3 and go to the directory where the nvidia installer was extracted and run as root ./nvidia-installer --kernel-source-path /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-10mdk This will install the drivers. Now this is important, before you get back into run level 5 edit the file /etc/modprobe.preload and add nvidia on a line by itself, save the file then boot back into run level 5 and enjoy. Hope this can help someone. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Oct 20 08:44:23 EDT 2004 08:44:23 up 5 min, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.29, 0.15 Murder is always a mistake -- one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner. -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On October 20, 2004 08:58 am, Dan Gordon wrote: This will install the drivers. Now this is important, before you get back into run level 5 edit the file /etc/modprobe.preload and add nvidia on a line by itself, save the file then boot back into run level 5 and enjoy. Hope this can help someone. PS dont forget to edit the xf86config file as per the nvidia instructions. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Oct 20 09:15:04 EDT 2004 09:15:04 up 36 min, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.08 Ah say, son, you're about as sharp as a bowlin' ball. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On October 18, 2004 04:54 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Monday 18 October 2004 03:32 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: snip At least in 10.0 OE AFAIK kernel-source-stripped was the rpm you need for building external modules. Well, so far I have tried both the stripped and the regular kernel-source and both have produced the same results,, with both I am at least able to install the nvidia 5336 version of the driver but x wont start complaining that it cant find any screens. I have tried Randall's approach with three versions of the installer but each time it will not rebuild the custom installer. So here is what I'm running once again. Mandrake 10.1 Community with kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp which is running real nice. Video is a asus V9570 TD FX 5700 256mb ddr. I have tried to install the drivers under single processor kernel as well with the same results. Im beginning to think its a kernel or kernel source problem at this point but im going to try this on another computer, a p3 800 with a older nvidia card just to see what happens as soon as I have some time. Will let you all know how it goes. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Oct 19 20:37:22 EDT 2004 20:37:22 up 8:58, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ... bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Monday 18 October 2004 08:52 am, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Morning Dan. Sorry for the late reply - but Monday mornings come really early for me, so I've got to get a little rest before coming to the office ;-) OK, do me a favor. Please post the output from the next couple of commands when you have time: $ rpm -qa | grep kernel This should list off the kernel packages you have installed... $ uname -r This will list the kernel version you are currently using. Then, how about also posting the contents of /var/log/nvidia-installer.log as well. This might give us more information than what the installer is giving you (it tends to be a little terse when giving out info, but the log file helps you figure out what's actually going wrong). This should help us find something that might be causing the problem. No problem Randall, well I was waiting i did a fresh install and installed kernel source which I think may be the problem. However before making any changes to anything i went ahead and tryed to run the installer in the normal way. 6111 and 6106 both would not install but 5336 installed without any complants. When I edited the x config file and booted back into run level 5 it just puts me into a text login and does not show any errors. Weird huh ? Here is the output of kernel and uname [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk kernel-smp-2.6.8.1.10mdk-1-1mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]$ uname -r 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Oct 18 11:00:02 EDT 2004 11:00:02 up 6 min, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.18, 0.09 No matter whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme court follows th' iliction returns. -- Mr. Dooley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Monday 18 October 2004 11:06 am, Dan Gordon wrote: No problem Randall, well I was waiting i did a fresh install and installed kernel source which I think may be the problem. However before making any changes to anything i went ahead and tryed to run the installer in the normal way. 6111 and 6106 both would not install but 5336 installed without any complants. When I edited the x config file and booted back into run level 5 it just puts me into a text login and does not show any errors. Weird huh ? Here is the output of kernel and uname [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk kernel-smp-2.6.8.1.10mdk-1-1mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]$ uname -r 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp And this is the last bit of xorg.log (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module vgahw (II) LoadModule: vgahw (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xFD00 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.Org Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Oct 18 11:33:29 EDT 2004 11:33:29 up 40 min, 3 users, load average: 0.48, 0.27, 0.23 But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about. -- Hilaire Belloc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Monday 18 October 2004 12:04 pm, Randall Hobbs wrote: Hi Dan. When you reinstalled the source, did you prep it? If not, that might cause you some problems. I'm sorta' throwing together a tute page for this, so if you want me to send it to you let me know and I'll send you the link (it's at a temporary location right now, but will be made publicly available once I get time to set the new domain up and get the pages moved over). No not yet but im going to try it again. Yes a tutorial would be great. Thanks Randall Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Oct 18 12:34:14 EDT 2004 12:34:14 up 1:40, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.17, 0.10 The average individual's position in any hierarchy is a lot like pulling a dogsled -- there's no real change of scenery except for the lead dog. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Monday 18 October 2004 12:04 pm, Randall Hobbs wrote: Hi Dan. When you reinstalled the source, did you prep it? If not, that might cause you some problems. I'm sorta' throwing together a tute page for this, so if you want me to send it to you let me know and I'll send you the link (it's at a temporary location right now, but will be made publicly available once I get time to set the new domain up and get the pages moved over). I have only one question that has not been clear to me. uname -r tells me my kernel is 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp so for the set EXTRAVERSION part would I put 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp or -10mdksmp ? Thanks for all your help Randall Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Oct 18 13:12:51 EDT 2004 13:12:51 up 2:19, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.09 I saw Lassie. It took me four shows to figure out why the hairy kid never spoke. I mean, he could roll over and all that, but did that deserve a series? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Monday 18 October 2004 01:28 pm, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Should just be -10mdksmp Thanks for all your help Randall Not a problem at all... Ok I followed you directions exactly but still a no go. Here is the output of grep kernel and uname -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-10mdk kernel-smp-2.6.8.1.10mdk-1-1mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]$ uname -r 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] mister]$ and here is the nvidia-installer.log nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Mon Oct 18 14:02:58 2004 option status: license pre-accepted: false update : false force update: false expert : false uninstall : false driver info : false no precompiled interface: false no ncurses color: false query latest driver ver : false OpenGL header files : false no questions: false silent : false X install prefix: /usr/X11R6 OpenGL install prefix : /usr Installer install prefix: /usr kernel source path : (not specified) kernel install path : (not specified) proc mount point: /proc ui : (not specified) tmpdir : /root/tmp ftp site: ftp://download.nvidia.com Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface - Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdksmp/build' - Copying kernel module sources to temporary directory. - Building kernel interface: executing: 'cd /root/tmp/nvidia-5954; make nv-linux.o SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2. 6.8.1-10mdksmp/build'... If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure you either have configured kernel sources matching your kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed on your system. If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel installed on your system. If you specified a separate output directory using either the KBUILD_OUTPUT or the O KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with the appropriate nvidia-installer command line option. *** Unable to determine the target kernel version. *** make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1 - Error. ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module interface. ERROR: Unable to add a precompiled kernel interface for the running kernel. I hope this can tell you something, cause I'm lost lol. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Oct 18 14:05:15 EDT 2004 14:05:15 up 12 min, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.14, 0.09 You're already carrying the sphere! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Monday 18 October 2004 03:32 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: snip At least in 10.0 OE AFAIK kernel-source-stripped was the rpm you need for building external modules. HTH, -Frans Thats what I was wondering, so can I remove the wrong source now and install the right one or do I have to start over ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Oct 18 16:52:42 EDT 2004 16:52:42 up 10 min, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.17, 0.11 Spelling is a lossed art. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] smp kernel
On October 17, 2004 01:06 am, Marek Pawinski wrote: I am having a lot of segfaulting, my kernel, update kernel uninstalls itself and after a day or two my rpms i download seem to go bad with a smp kernel on ML OE, did you have these problems ? Can i run a normal kernel on a Hyper Threading machine ? Marek I had the same problems with Mandrake 10, now im running Mandrake 10.1 and smp is working very well. Yes a normal kernel should work just fine for you. What version of Mandrake are you running ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Oct 17 08:27:49 EDT 2004 08:27:49 up 9:57, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. -- H. Allen Smith, Let the Crabgrass Grow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] smp kernel
On October 17, 2004 08:41 am, Marek Pawinski wrote: Dan Gordon wrote: On October 17, 2004 01:06 am, Marek Pawinski wrote: I am having a lot of segfaulting, my kernel, update kernel uninstalls itself and after a day or two my rpms i download seem to go bad with a smp kernel on ML OE, did you have these problems ? Can i run a normal kernel on a Hyper Threading machine ? Marek I had the same problems with Mandrake 10, now im running Mandrake 10.1 and smp is working very well. Yes a normal kernel should work just fine for you. What version of Mandrake are you running ? Regards, Dan Gordon I tried ML 10.0 Official at first and then i tried ML 10.1 Community with the same results. I will try the normal kernel, can i leave HT enabled in the BIOS still though with the normal kernel ? Yes just select normal kernel instead of smp when you get lilo prompt. Regards, Dan Gordon -- 09:01:42 up 10:31, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.12, 0.05 Sun Oct 17 09:01:42 EDT 2004 At the end of your life there'll be a good rest, and no further activities are scheduled. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kde 3.2.3 and kdepim-3.3.0-7
I was just browsing kde apps to see if i needed anything else installed on the urpmi mirror I am using and noticed kdepim-3.3.0-7 was available, everything else is still 3.2.3. I currently have kde 3.2.3 installed, now is this a mistake or can I upgrade only kde pim to this version without any problems ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Oct 17 17:22:21 EDT 2004 17:22:21 up 18:51, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.07, 0.04 Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On October 16, 2004 05:47 am, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Hi Dan. After preparing your source code (using the method I sent you earlier), go to your directory where you have the NVidia drivers. Run the file like so: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --add-this-kernal This will add your current kernel to the setup, and it will generate a new NVidia driver file. After that, go into init 3: # init 3 Then run the newly created file: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1-custom.run This will install the driver, and all you'll need to do is modify the XFree86Config-4 file to load the 'nvidia' module. Hi Randall I cant seem to get it to build the new driver. I do ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --add-this-kernel and I get permision denied no matter how I do this as root or user. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Oct 17 22:10:10 EDT 2004 22:10:10 up 23:39, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01 Anyone stupid enough to be caught by the police is probably guilty. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On October 17, 2004 10:33 pm, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Hi Dan. Out of curiousity, what's the permissions on the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run file? Do the following: # stat NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run You should see something like: File: `NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run' Size: 8167999 Blocks: 15984 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 900h/2304d Inode: 32778 Links: 1 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 501/mandrake) Gid: ( 501/mandrake) Access: 2004-10-17 19:54:32.0 -0500 Modify: 2004-09-30 17:12:18.0 -0500 Change: 2004-10-05 21:55:03.0 -0500 If the executable bit isn't set, you won't be able to execute it, no matter which user you're trying to run it with. To correct it, simply type: # chmod 0755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run Then you should be able to execute the file without any problems. Let me know if that's indeed the problem, or if we should dive a little deeper into it. Ok I did chmod which alowed me to execute the file but now I get this error. unable to build the nvidia kernel module interface, then unable to add a precompiled kernel interface for the running kernel BTW I have tryed this in smp and single kernel just to check the errors and they were both the same. I have also tryed the nvidia 5336 installer which complains about not finding a matching source for the kernel. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Oct 17 23:22:18 EDT 2004 23:22:18 up 5 min, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.14, 0.07 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing? -- Job 16:3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On October 16, 2004 05:47 am, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Hi Dan. After preparing your source code (using the method I sent you earlier), go to your directory where you have the NVidia drivers. Run the file like so: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --add-this-kernal This will add your current kernel to the setup, and it will generate a new NVidia driver file. After that, go into init 3: # init 3 Then run the newly created file: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1-custom.run This will install the driver, and all you'll need to do is modify the XFree86Config-4 file to load the 'nvidia' module. Thanks Randall, I will give this a try later tonight. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Oct 16 09:08:07 EDT 2004 09:08:07 up 9:56, 3 users, load average: 0.47, 0.20, 0.11 ultima netgod: My calculator has more registers than the x86, and -thats- sad Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] smp kernel
Hello list, A long time ago right about the time Mandrake 10 comunity came out someone asked me to let them know how the smp kernel was running for me. Well all I can say is it was not good for me. 75% of the time applications were segfaulting on me so I went with a regular kernel. Now I have installed Mandrake 10.1 yesterday and the default kernel it installed was 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp and I am happy to report it is running very well, I am very impressed with how things are working and want to say way to go Mandrake. Keep up the good work. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Oct 16 22:54:02 EDT 2004 22:54:02 up 23 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 I know engineers. They love to change things. - Dr. McCoy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel source
Hello all, I just installed Mandrake 10.1 community and am running kernel 2.6.8.1-10smp which is working real well for me this time. I need the kernel source. Question is I see only a kernel source 2.6.8.1-10 (does not say smp) is this what i need or should i be looking for something else ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Oct 15 17:09:18 EDT 2004 17:09:18 up 1:01, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.11, 0.09 My EARS are GONE!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel source
On Friday 15 October 2004 07:33 pm, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 04:13 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Hello all, I just installed Mandrake 10.1 community and am running kernel 2.6.8.1-10smp which is working real well for me this time. I need the kernel source. Question is I see only a kernel source 2.6.8.1-10 (does not say smp) is this what i need or should i be looking for something else ? Hi Dan. That's what you need. Grab that, then install it. Then go into the /usr/src/linux directory, and do as follows: # make mrproper # cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config # make oldconfig # vi Makefile (set the EXTRAVERSION to what you have) Your kernel source should then be properly prepared for your kernel, and you'll be good to go. I tryed this but when trying to install nvidia drivers the error I get is something about not being able to determin the source version. I have had these problems with smp before so i think im just going to reinstall with a regular kernel and source and try again. Thanks for the info I may try this again soon but right now I need things running by tomorrow. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Oct 15 20:49:12 EDT 2004 20:49:12 up 10 min, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.25, 0.11 I need to discuss BUY-BACK PROVISIONS with at least six studio SLEAZEBALLS!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] urpmi problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JoeHill Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:24 AM To: Mandrake Newbs Subject: [newbie] urpmi problem So far nothing is *broken*, ie. I can install the newest imlib2 with just 'make install' and everything appears to work OK, however I would like to have it installed as an RPM so that MDK doesn't think it's missing at some point in the future. Joe have you tried urpmi.update -a to see if that cleans and updates your database ? Regards, Dan Gordon Beer is the answer Now, What was the question ? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.772 / Virus Database: 519 - Release Date: 10/1/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] gDesklets
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have had this running before, im not at my computer atm but I think the first time you run gdesklets you have to tell it to run a display as well something like gdesklets calendarwhatitis os something along those lines. It then adds the display to the gdesklet window for the next start. When I get to my computer I will send the proper Im not home yet but here is the command you want, if I want to add my weather display I would do gdesklets-add-weather-display then if there is another display you want to add do gdesklets-add-another-display and so on. HTH Regards, Dan Gordon Beer is the answer Now, What was the question ? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.770 / Virus Database: 517 - Release Date: 9/27/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange diff check ?
I got this tonight when the nightly security check was done. Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed, maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor... - Checksum changed file : /usr/bin/lbp660 I looked at the file it looks like an unknown file, the general proterties says its an unknown file type but permisions says it is executable and ownership is user root and group system. Maybe its nothing but it kinda got the hair up on the back of my neck. Anyone seen this before ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Sep 24 00:19:20 EDT 2004 00:19:20 up 53 min, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.12, 0.10 A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. -- Whitney Balliett Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] IRC Client
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kunath Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IRC Client On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick I am interested in the cvs version, if you can give me some hints I would appreciate it. Regards, Dan Gordon Here are some cheat sheets I made up a while ago... -- To install Kvirc CVS on Mandrake 10.0 - Get the latest CVS version: After opening the terminal window in the desired source directory, do the following... (in other words, decide where you want the Kvirc CVS folders to be stored, I usually use my /home directory for this, so open a terminal in your home directory). And note that if you decide to place the kvirc CVS folders somewhere convenient, make sure that no folder name has a space in it or you'll have trouble with recursive errors, for some reason compiling with folder names with spaces in the path causes errors on some systems, better to avoid it. Enter these into the terminal window followed by enter: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs login (If you have trouble here open the Mandrake Control Center and install cvs. Then try again.) You will be asked for a password...just hit return. Then enter: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs co kvirccvs The files will now be downloaded. When finished enter these commands (each followed by enter.): cd kvirccvs/kvirc ./autogen.sh (this will take a while) (You'll see errors here, ignore them.) (If you have trouble here make sure automake and autoconf are installed.) (Autoconf 2.13 and 2.5 are usually installed together.) The CVS will be made ready for configuring... Once this finishes: Open a terminal window in the Kvirc source directory. This will be the /kvirccvs/kvirc directory and located in the directory wherever you opened the first terminal window.. You'll have to change to this directory from the previous stuff. Paste in the following commands into the terminal (enter after each). export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde Then Paste this command in: ./configure --with-kde-library-dir=/usr/lib/kde3 --with-big-channels --enable-debug Note that this needs to be all on one line. (The debug stuff is needed if you ever have trouble and the big-channels makes Kvirc work better on large channels with no effect on smaller ones.) After this finishes, check for errors and missing packages. Once you're happy (see below for more info on this): make (enter) (this will take a while) su to root priveliges (in other words, type su and enter, then the root password and enter. You should be now in terminal as root) make install (enter) (note that make install won't work as a user, you must su to root.) Commands can be copied from here and pasted into konsole. Do all of your compiling as a user, and su to root only for the make install part. Compiling with make takes a while, and the first time so does the make install, as the modules are created. After that it is faster as only the changed stuff gets re-compiled. Fire it up with the command kvirc. Go through the Kvirc setup and enable whatever features you need. -- -- I have attached the file /kvirccvs/kvirc/config.log from my compile of this morning. You can use it to wade through your own file. This file will be created as you do the ./configure... command from above. Go through the file I sent and make sure yours is similar. There may be some differences in kernel level, but if you have package errors I don't have on mine, hunt them up and install them. It's easy. Tere will be some errors reported that are just differences in *nix operating systems. Configure will try to determine what it needs according to the OS you have. If you have trouble locating something, let me know (I have them all squirreled away here.) This should be easy though. In general, make sure you have the kernel source and the devel files for packages you have installed, and things will go smoothly. There is a section in the kvirc install info file that will describe what to do to get the compression for the DCC voice chat working. It only needs to be done once. You can skip this if you don't care about DCC voice chat. -- -- - Here's the voice section: - (Optional) If you want DCC VOICE
Re: [newbie] Strange samba problem
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 01:42 am, Dan Gordon wrote: Hello all, Well it has taken me about a year to get samba to the point where two boxes can see each others shares. The problem is on box a i can see the share on box b but cant mount it the error is bad password. on box b i can see the share locally but cant mount it error is bad password. On box b i can see the share on box a and can mount it. Also can mount the share locally. Both boxes have been set up exacly the same and am using samba 3.0.2a on both boxes. Have tried linneighbourhood, smb4k (which dont work at all) and gnome samba browser with the same results. The only diferences between these two boxes is one has mandrake 10 CE and the other has mandrake 10 official. The exact error message is SMB connection failed 11762: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw -- Tue Aug 17 02:05:50 EDT 2004 02:05:50 up 2:59, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.01 Operator, please trace this call and tell me where I am. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange samba problem
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:51 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:42, Dan Gordon wrote: Hello all, Well it has taken me about a year to get samba to the point where two boxes can see each others shares. The problem is on box a i can see the share on box b but cant mount it the error is bad password. on box b i can see the share locally but cant mount it error is bad password. On box b i can see the share on box a and can mount it. Also can mount the share locally. Both boxes have been set up exacly the same and am using samba 3.0.2a on both boxes. Have tried linneighbourhood, smb4k (which dont work at all) and gnome samba browser with the same results. The only diferences between these two boxes is one has mandrake 10 CE and the other has mandrake 10 official. any ideas would be apreaciated. Oh and if you wondering why it took me a year to get this farwell i could not have cared less untill today LOL. Regards, Dan Gordon Dunno why you're having such major probs with Samba; and sorry to say, have you RTFM? I can get Samba up and running in literally no time at all; either as a normal Windows sharing system or as a domain controller; using SWAT through Webmin and it's interface, or either by manually editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf - it truly isn't all that hard especially if you use SWAT. Why not post the /etc/samba/smb.conf and let someone looksee? (BTW, the Samba mailing list is a great place to bounce things around as well) Found the problem, it seems that I had to log into kde as root go into kcontrol and set the netbios name in the samba configuration section. Now even smb4k works. I will have a look at the samba mailing list though as I now have to get a XP box to connect. Thanks for the help guys. -- Tue Aug 17 10:27:14 EDT 2004 10:27:14 up 11:20, 0 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.04 A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps. -- Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange samba problem
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:51 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: Dunno why you're having such major probs with Samba; and sorry to say, have you RTFM? I can get Samba up and running in literally no time at all; either as a normal Windows sharing system or as a domain controller; using SWAT through Webmin and it's interface, or either by manually editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf - it truly isn't all that hard especially if you use SWAT. Why not post the /etc/samba/smb.conf and let someone looksee? (BTW, the Samba mailing list is a great place to bounce things around as well) I guess my biggest problem with samba has been trying to forget the micromouse way of doing things. But Stephen, after a few beers last night the old way was not making any sence anymore and the more i RTFM the better sence samba made to me. And yes I could probly set it all up now in a few minutes. So when you cant make sence of things beer is the answer right *grin* Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Aug 17 11:35:38 EDT 2004 11:35:38 up 12:28, 0 users, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00 The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbours. -- F.H. Bradley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange samba problem
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 12:16 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I prefer sour mash bourbon after 8 oz everything makes sense. Yes a little JD never hurt anyone. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Aug 17 12:42:57 EDT 2004 12:42:57 up 13:36, 0 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.01 Have you seen the latest Japanese camera? Apparently it is so fast it can photograph an American with his mouth shut! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Connecting to web server locally.
How would one go about connecting to a apache server on a local network? I can connect from the local computer using http://localhost but not from any other computer. I have tryed http://localhost http://localhost:80 this gives access to this port is disabled for security reasons http://localhost:8080 http://netbiosname the rest just say could not connect to remote server TIA Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Aug 17 13:41:10 EDT 2004 13:41:10 up 14:34, 0 users, load average: 0.05, 0.04, 0.02 Walk softly and carry a BFG-9000. 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: Connecting to web server locally.
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 01:57 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: localhost is the computer you are typing to. if you don't have DNS on the network nor an entry in /etc/hosts for the computer you wan't to reach, try the ip-address ie http://192.168.0.4 if that is the ip of the computer having the web-server So to add it to the hosts file i would add the netbios name for example computera 127.0.0.1 and the same for all computers on the network? TIA Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Aug 17 14:43:11 EDT 2004 14:43:11 up 15:36, 0 users, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.02 Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. -- Russell Baker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange samba problem
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 10:53 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay people, what the h is logging into kde as root and setting netbios name? Lee Well thats what i did, i logged into kde as root went to kcontrolnetworksamba configuration and put the netbios name i wanted for the computer and boom it started working. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Aug 17 14:55:23 EDT 2004 14:55:23 up 15:48, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.00 71. Ooops. --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange samba problem
Hello all, Well it has taken me about a year to get samba to the point where two boxes can see each others shares. The problem is on box a i can see the share on box b but cant mount it the error is bad password. on box b i can see the share locally but cant mount it error is bad password. On box b i can see the share on box a and can mount it. Also can mount the share locally. Both boxes have been set up exacly the same and am using samba 3.0.2a on both boxes. Have tried linneighbourhood, smb4k (which dont work at all) and gnome samba browser with the same results. The only diferences between these two boxes is one has mandrake 10 CE and the other has mandrake 10 official. any ideas would be apreaciated. Oh and if you wondering why it took me a year to get this farwell i could not have cared less untill today LOL. Regards, Dan Gordon -- 01:26:28 up 2:19, 0 users, load average: 0.45, 0.12, 0.03 If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xmms problem
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:07 am, JASON JESSO wrote: when I run xmms like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jason]$ soundwrapper xmms Segmentation fault You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report. I just tried this and it works ok but i get this part of the error after i quit xmms. Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x11c2)! I don't however get this part of the error, very strange indeed. As you can see there is a problem. If I just run xmms as is, no problem. Known problem? Have you checked at www.xmms.org I will look later but work is calling me now :-( Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Aug 10 11:46:39 EDT 2004 11:46:39 up 22:27, 0 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 Don't sweat it -- it's only ones and zeros. -- P. Skelly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the sources
On Monday 09 August 2004 10:29 am, Morissette Jean wrote: Hi all, I have installed Mandrake 10.0. Now, to install VWware, I need to find the source code (the header files *.h). Is there on the CDs? Thank for your help Jean If they are downloaded cd's then i dont beleive the kernel sources are there. If thats the case you will need to set up a urpmi source at this web site http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and find the matching kernel source for you kernel. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Aug 9 12:56:56 EDT 2004 12:56:56 up 12:36, 0 users, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.03 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SIGSEGV crashed w/signal 11 - Nvidia driver upgrade problem - HELP!!
On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:22 pm, Tango Echo wrote: On my Mandrake 10 OE home install I recently tried to upgrade my kernel and nvidia graphics driver. That's what started this whole problem. First I installed my newer driver, 2.6.3-15mdk, and booted into with no problems. As usual, when I upgrade the kernel I need to reinstall my vid driver. I downloaded the 1.0-6111 version of the geforce driver that was released Aug 5th. From the 2.6.3-15mdk KDE session I ran init 3 to install the driver as usual. When I attempted to run the file I got a strange error about a rivafb (something like that?) module being loaded but it would be able to continue. Since it didn't seem serious I continued. The install failed while trying to build the kernel for nvidia. The nvidia log didn't produce any immediate clues, either. So I uninstalled and tried it under my 2.6.3-13mdk kernel. That failed too... Now, I have no graphics accelleration and I keep getting this strange error in KDE: SIGSEGV crashed with signal 11 ...That is paraphrased, but it appears in the generic KDE crash window with the picture of a bomb/gear. First it appears when I boot into KDE then randomly thoughout the day. Any ideas here? The errors are annoying and obviously not healthy. Plus I can't play any games... There seems to be an issue with the latest nvidia release, I have the same setup as you on two machines and the 6111 driver refuses to install complaining in the install log about the kernel having to have make mrproper run on it. I tryed this on one computer and no go, so i grabbed the last nvidia release 6106 and it installed on both macheines no problem. Maybe someones else can help with the SIGSEGV your getting but i wonder if the 6106 nvidia driver might clear that up ? Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Aug 8 13:37:18 EDT 2004 13:37:18 up 22 min, 0 users, load average: 0.19, 0.20, 0.09 I don't drink, I don't like it, it makes me feel too good. -- K. Coates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading 10 CE to 10 Official ?
On Saturday 07 August 2004 10:11 pm, Carl J. Bauman wrote: That seemed to work for me. I changed sources and then ran urpmi --auto-select --auto. This results in a pretty sizeable download, so you might want to reconsider this approach if you're not on some sort of broadband connection. There's always cheapbytes.com... HTH, Carl Sorry about the multiple posts! My email client kept telling me that the smtp server was refusing connections... Carl Thats ok, thanks for the answer, im on cable so it should not be a problem for me have two boxes to do hahaha, errmm ummm. sorry for the foolish laughter been a long day. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Aug 8 00:46:17 EDT 2004 00:46:17 up 4 days, 4:21, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Absence makes the heart grow fonder. -- Sextus Aurelius 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 determine that Firestater is running?
On Friday 06 August 2004 06:28 am, Paul Smith wrote: Sorry for my ignorance, Dan, but where to find the iptables and how to install them? Thanks in advance, Paul In a termial as root type urpmi iptables without the quotes. It may ask you for one of the instalation cd's, and it will be installed. Regards, Dan Gordon -- 07:13:50 up 2 days, 10:49, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.01 I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. -- Spock, This Side of Paradise, stardate 3417.3 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 determine that Firestater is running?
On Friday 06 August 2004 07:35 am, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Dan. I have iptables installed on my computer. However, at the site www.grc.com, it says that the majority of my ports are closed and not stealth. Is it really possible to get all ports stealth? Yes it is, as long as you not running a service that requires open ports like ssh or web server or ftp server. Read the rest of this thread and then, google for an aplication called firestarter, all the info you need to get starterd are on there web page. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Aug 6 08:02:49 EDT 2004 08:02:49 up 2 days, 11:38, 0 users, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.01 Why isn't there some cheap and easy way to prove how much she means to me? 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 determine that Firestater is running?
On Thursday 05 August 2004 09:06 pm, you wrote: You really have me confused now Dan :( Attached is my firewall.sh file from /etc/firestarter. To me it seems to have rules already in it. I turned iptables back on, checked at grc.com and its all the same, 21, 23, 80 open, rest closed. I've been trying to figure this out for as long as I've been running FS. Why won't a scan of my system show any stealth ports. Below is the output from grc.com: This textual summary may be printed, or marked and copied for subsequent pasting into any other application: - - GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2004-08-06 at 01:04:18 Results from scan of ports: 0, 21-23, 25, 79, 80, 110, 113, 119, 135, 139, 143, 389, 443, 445, 1002, 1024-1030, 1720, 5000 3 Ports Open 22 Ports Closed 1 Ports Stealth - 26 Ports Tested Ports found to be OPEN were: 21, 23, 80 The port found to be STEALTH was: 0 Other than what is listed above, all ports are CLOSED. TruStealth: FAILED - NOT all tested ports were STEALTH, - NO unsolicited packets were received, - A PING REPLY (ICMP Echo) WAS RECEIVED. - Chris, if you have just turned iptables back on did you reboot? it might help, also did you re-run the firestarter wizard? this may also help. All I have ever done was install iptables, then firestarter and reboot, then run the wizard and it was all steath. I have verified this config by stoping firestarter and scanning again to find all closed, but thats all iptables will do by default unless you give it some rules to go by. This is what firestarter is for an easy way to create rules for iptables. As for your open ports it looks like you have maybe installed a ftp server port 21 uses this and apache web server port 80 uses this. And im not sure what port 23 us used for, maybe someone else can help there. and Cris please send you replies back to the list as it might be helpfull to some one else as well. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Aug 5 22:55:35 EDT 2004 22:55:35 up 2 days, 2:30, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Where are the calculations that go with a calculated risk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] TightVNC ssh
On Thursday 05 August 2004 08:41 am, J. Gregory Croes wrote: Hallo, bryan. How can I setup Tight VNC ssh on my mandrake box? I will prefer an gui installation. If not can you show me an easy way to installed via commandline? I am a newbie. Forgive me if my question sucks. Gregory Here is what Bryan wrote: You should consider tunneling TightVNC through SSH for improved security. http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/VNC/vnc-over-ssh.html This url is the place to read about doing this. Using a dynamic IP service like NO-IP is very easy, you simply connect to your NO-IP name rather than directly to an IP address. Also Mandrake has rpm's for tight VNC that come with a graphical interface to run the server. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Aug 5 23:12:32 EDT 2004 23:12:32 up 2 days, 2:47, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.00 Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com