Re: [newbie] DynDNS Update Client - Recommendation?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 October 2002 04:57 pm, Sevatio wrote: Can you recommend a good client for updating DynDNS with my current IP address? ** Sorry for the previous post, fingers too fast for brain ** One comes with Mandrake ez-ipupdate. - -- Cheers dg Windows - Where do you want to go today? Linux - Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD - You guys comin or what!? BeOS - What am I again? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9pLewbB4mtEtZUyERApp+AJ9TRAcFcaFNqvjQoCLauDJXL4SMWACfXcvK jEDGQ8k5l2S0XAUHk59Ri7s= =E9Rp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 - Define source for RPMDRAKE
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 01:52, Markus Bela wrote: In 8.2 this was possible to define the source of the packages. I want to keep them on my hard disk, but can't find how in 9.0 BTW, if no CD in the drive, RPMDRAKE spends long minutes trying to access. Isnt it an automount side effect? Bela Mandrake Control Center/Software Management/Software Sources Management Add and/or remove sources in there. You could disable Supermount to stop the seaking time when accessing /mnt (it's not just rpmdrake). As root type: supermount disable Be cognizant of the fact that now you must manually mount CD's and manualy eject. To reenable supermount; As root type: spuermount enable HTH -- Cheers dg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] How does one uninstall tarball packages?
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 00:22, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Sex 04 Out 2002 08:34, Derek Jennings escreveu: HI! You can find at http://freshmeat.net a software called checkinstall. checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm requires: libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm both found in the contrib directory of your fav Mandrake mirror. Once you have it installed, you have to call it *before* installing any tarball! It has a routine to uninstall any prog supervised ! I had used it in the past and it was very handy and functional! Nowadays, I prefer having a specific directory to install all my tarball, so it becomes very easy to uninstall them. Besides most tar.gz have a uninstall feature! []s Ricardo Castanho On Friday 04 Oct 2002 12:12 pm, Hesham Khonji wrote: How does one uninstall tarball packages? Does it require any maintenance of the actuall tarball? THanks Hesham Good question If you kept the directories you used to install the application then you can *sometimes* use make uninstall to remove all the files. The bad news is that make uninstall is often not supported by many applications, and you probably deleted your installation directory anyway :-( You are then reduced to hunting around the file structure deleting directories and files. The good news is that there is no 'registry' like under Windows for you to screw up. So you will get the idea by now that installing application in RPM form is preferable, because then you can do a simple urpme application_name to uninstall it. If your favourite application is not available in RPM format, you can create an RPM using an app called 'checkinstall'. Just type checkinstall in place of the 'make install' command and it will compile the application convert it to an RPM, install the RPM and then save the RPM in /usr/src/RPM for you. HTH derek Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra. Scan engine: VirusScan / Atualizado em 02/10/2002 / Versão: 1.3.13 Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://www.emailprotegido.terra.com.br/ -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Cheers dg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] cvs gui client
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 13:15, Azrael wrote: I can't seem to find a gui cvs client for mandrake that works... anyone able to point me to a working rpm for one? tkcvs works just fine. Comes in 8.1 and 8.2. -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Michael Adams wrote: [...] Cant see it in software manager with 8.2 Powerpack. I get xinitrc-2.4.4-60mdk and wizard-xinit-1.0.6-1mdk. Went to http://www.rpmfind.net/ and searched on xinit, got back all xinitrc's. I may be out in left feild here but could this be the package you want? By the way 2.4.4-60 seems the latest and it was available from rpmfind. A point of clarification, xinetd for ipv6 is not installed by default. xinetd is install almost always by default if you choose any type of networking packages or groups. Mandrake/RPMS/xinetd-2.3.4-4mdk.i586.rpm -- first CD Mandrake/8.2/CD/Mandrake/RPMS3/xinetd-ipv6-2.3.4-4mdk.i586.rpm -- 3rd CD of the download edition. For the Pwoerpack I'm not sure which CD it's on. From what I've observed on this and a couple other lists that the packages are rearranged on the boxed sets differently from the download ISO's. I find it hard to belive that CD1 (or even 2 for that matter) should differ across packs, but I only have the download edition this time around and can't confirm this. Just check out an ftp mirror. Example: mirrors.secsup.org/Mandrake/8.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ both the xinetd and xinetd-ipv6 packages are there. Download the one you want and install away. -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where has hdparm gone in 8.2?
On 30 Apr 2002 11:11:48 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 18:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 29 April 2002 2:58 am, Brian Parish wrote: It was there a minute ago! Right before I did that clean install of 8.2 Is there some new all singing all dancing app to replace it? Can't find it in software manager. TIA Brian Well, there is drakopt It is not installed by default so just install the rpm. Exit from X and in a root console type drakopt. It will try out by experimentation every viable combination if HD parameters and select the optimum. It takes a long time to run, and there should be no other apps running. BTW: hdparm is in 8.2. You probably need to install the rpm. derek Thanks Derek, But drakopt calls hdparm, which isn't there and I'm damned if I can find it in software manager. Searched by file and by description, without any hits apart from powertweak and webmin,which are both installed. I'm cross-posting this to the expert list. Maybe someone over there has found it. cheers Brian 3rd CD of download edition (RPMS3) hdparm-4.6-1mdk.i586.rpm -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar/zip then untar/unzip (in detail though )
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:32:05 -0400 Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I need somebody to tell me what are the commands I need to run for the taring and zipping, and then untarring and unzipping into the new /home directory :) as root, cd / tar -cWvf home.tar home/ gzip -v home.tar gzip -vt home.tar.gz All three commands provide verification. Alternatively you could do a bzme home.tar.gz as well, which will compress to a .bz2 saving (most of the time) some more space yet. -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] anybody already on 8.2?
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 12:09 am, you wrote: u uptime of almost 24 hours. It's pretty sweet. -s 4:16pm up 1 days, 20 hours, 14 min, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.38, 0.31 And it's sweet. Not a huge difference between rc1 and release. But it's nice. Good candidate to take over the best mandrake yet (held by 7.2 for the longest time) -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Missing Locate Command
On Friday 15 March 2002 20:25, you wrote: I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed on 1 laptop and 1 desktop. In both cases, when I type locate somefile, i get bash: locate: command not found. This happens both as user and as root. If I do which locate I get which: no locate in (numerous paths given in parentheses). Is there such a thing as a linux system that does not have locate? Why would Mandrake not have a basic command like locate? Sounds like you don't have the package slocate installed yet. Slocate is a secure version of locate. As root, urpmi slocate once installed do (still as root) slocate -u -c or updatedb -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
Edmonton as well Cheers dg - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all IP:... Funny Hanan ;) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. *Bleah, I want to return to Toronto* Femme Paul_Vortex wrote: Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Name: Hanan Country: Fairfax, VA United States IP: .. nah ;-) Greenock, Scotland here. PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Mandrake RPM-howto (was Re: [newbie] XMMS CDs_
On Friday 08 February 2002 06:18, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:10:34 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Unfortunately, there are no RPM's for xmms-cdread... derek hi, does anybody know where i can get a downloadable version of the howto on building rpms, especially mandrake ones? there are references to the book MaximumRPM but i dont think its available here. im trying to learn how to build rpm packages but since internet connection is still at a premium, a downloadable version would be very nice. i have also considered using httrack but since the resulting _mirrored_ pages take on the form of http:/address/to/the/page/for/every/slash/delimination/index.htm, its a little bit ugly. thanks! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/ Also, checkout: http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/ for a downloadable version of maximum rpm cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Mandrake RPM-howto (was Re: [newbie] XMMS CDs_
On Friday 08 February 2002 06:18, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:10:34 + [...] does anybody know where i can get a downloadable version of the howto on building rpms, especially mandrake ones? there are references to the book MaximumRPM but i dont think its available here. im trying to learn how to I neglected to add the following link to my previous post. For downloadable howto for building mandrake rpms: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/resource/mdk-rpm.howto.tar.bz2 Sorry 'bout that. cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Cron
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 19:41, Mel Roman wrote: [... ] it, just type KCron. I believe there is [... ] Actualy, it's kcron -- no caps. The caps thing is confusing to people new to *NIX so I thought I would toss this out there to remove confusion. Cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Extra Programs on Installation CD's
On January 13, 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: Hello, This behavior leads me to think there may be other programs on the cds that aren't mentioned anywhere. Is there a good way to browse them and any way to tell what kind of program they are and what they do without actually installing them? I belive Lopster is on CD3 of the download edition. The full download version is 3 CD's now not 2 as previous releases. You can browse through the pkgs via SoftwareManager choosing to view either installed or installable. Cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] download / powerpack
On Saturday 05 January 2002 14:16, you wrote: Just a guess, but I would think that it does matter. When you install the download edition, it askes you during setup if you have the other -two- discs. If it were possible to use any disc 1 with any edition, then the download edition would also ask you you have, say the other six discs of the Powerpack. Miark Actually, all you need do is install with download edition and _add_ new sources in RpmDrake, the additional CD's from the powerpack edition. All works fine. Cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux don´t see my NTFS partition
On Thursday 03 January 2002 20:36, you wrote: On Thursday 03 January 2002 01:48, you wrote: When I was running MDK 8, Linux did see my DOS partition, but now I´ve moved to XP and from MDK 8.1 I can´t see my NTFS partition, wich is a mess!!! Where can I look to fix it up?!?!?! Any suggestion would be apreciated. There is already a nicely explained thread going on (which civilme has been responding very well on) regarding NTFS/NTFS5 etc. Basicaly, Linux doesn't recognize NTFS5 due to propietary M$ =). You could install XP on a fat32 fs instead and Linux will recognize the partition. Another option might be to make a small pimary partition at the beginning of the drive (C) so that XP will install it's special files there, installing XP then to the next partition as NTFS5 and then Mandrake on yet another extended partition. This will allow proper dual booting of XP or Linux. However, you still won't be able to read the NTFS5 from within Linux. cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] x686 and Athlon Kernel Settings
On Friday 04 January 2002 00:44, you wrote: I have an Athlon 800 and my kernel following installation is set at an x686 processor. Is there any real advantage by re-setting the kernel to the Athlon/Duron setting? Nev Frankly, very nominal at best, using Athlon arch can actualy have adverse affects on your performance if something isn't just tweaked correctly (speaking in terms of hardware not software). There was a heavy discussion on the lkml sometime back, and I was somewhat surprised when RedHat chose to include an Athlon optimized kernel in their default install of 7.2. I see no speakable difference between my Mandrake 8.1 using i686 arch and my RedHat 7.2 install using the Athlon kernel. NOTE: They are different kernel versions, but thats a different story all together. Once again, I belive it to be nominal if _any_ gain what-so-ever. cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with Software Manager
On Sunday 30 December 2001 12:34, you wrote: snip Must just be me then, I've had no problems with SoftwareManager in 8.1 at all. Yes it refreshes the headers when I choose Reload Lists and Mandrake Update works fine as well. More than I can say about it in 8.0 where I had lots of issues. One thing, that is with all rpm based update/pkg managers I've used so far, if your doing several pkg install/updates, you need to (on the command line as root) rpm --rebuilddb frequently ( I do it after each pkg or two ). This makes sure that the rpm database has all the current headers of installed pkgs up to date. This is done on a daily cron job as well _I think_. So doing it manualy just keeps you fresh right away. Just my 2-cents Cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP! WinXP
On Sunday 30 December 2001 13:18, you wrote: Ultimately, could any one help on how to create a bootdisk for ntfs ? i'm getting tired of XP anyway so if i can't fix it.. Sounds like some internal XP links are messed up somehow... You could try inserting the XP CD, and choosing boot from CD after restarting your system, then choosing Repair option at installation question. I have a machine here dualing Linux and XP. I've not had any problems yet, coarse, I've not used XP much either so... Cheers deg __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 18:38, you wrote: Last year, this was the place and the flames were on the expert list. This year, I would say try the expert list. I may start a list as well, but I am sure to be branded a Nazi for censoring it, and I would, too, because I believe there are adequate avenues for freedom of speech. If I start a list, I will let you know. I would not moderate it but I would insist on courtesy with removal for flames. Actually, this isn't that hot. Try a RH list if you don't believe me. Civileme Actually, there seems to be a slight increase of flaming here, but it is definately not like a lot of lists out there. I do think that, as a newbie list, flames should be swollowed not passed on. Sometimes it's just a frustrated new user, flaming them back is not the answer. But to be totaly flame/troll free, moderated lists are the way to go. civilme, thats a lot of work, but I would support it and join it if you chose to start one. As your one of the preimer responders to help requests, I think you would get much support. For newbie list, I guess we should all try and remember when we first started out with Linux (any distro). When I started out lists were few, usenet was the place...and there, flaming is an art form, even today. deg -- Two things are certain about science. It does not stand still for long, and it is never boring. Oh, among some poor souls, including even intellectuals in fields of high scholarship, science is frequently misperceived. Many see it as only a body of facts, promulgated from on high in must, unintelligible textbooks, a collection of unchanging precepts defended with authoritarian vigor. Others view it as nothing but a cold, dry narrow, plodding, rule-bound process -- the scientific method: hidebound, linear, and left brained. These people are the victims of their own stereotypes. They are destined to view the world of science with a set of blinders. They know nothing of the tumult, cacophony, rambunctiousness, and tendentiousness of the actual scientific process, let alone the creativity, passion, and joy of discovery. And they are likely to know little of the continual procession of new insights and discoveries that every day, in some way, change our view (if not theirs) of the natural world. -- Kendrick Frazier, The Year in Science: An Overview, in 1988 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. --- 6:44pm up 2:35, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!
On Monday 17 December 2001 11:31, you wrote: When is this damn useless compiler going to work? I have Mdk 8.1 and the default compiler is useless, 2.96 is a piece of trash, so I took it off and put on gcc3, again TRASH, so I try to put on 2.95 and all it can give me is the same bullshit over and over WHEN IS THIS STUPID ASS THING going to WORK?? I am very coselgjyuh to going back to readhat. fuc, the typos i'm pissed off snip --- don't feed da Trolls!! - ;) -- No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson --- 6:15pm up 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
On Sunday 16 December 2001 11:56, you wrote: Ditto. I've had some good experiences like Steve below with Mozilla's installer. Don't forget that to install flash and java you may need some extra steps. Flash is pretty straight forward, follow the README. You will need to download and install jre from java.sun.com . Then create a symlink from /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to you mozilla plugin directory, for me: ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ To give credit where it's due, someone on #mandrake on irc.openprojects.org helped me figure this out. You can get help there too if you need it, try xhcat from the networking menu. *smiles and winks* Cheers -Paul Rodríguez On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 13:12, Steve wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:45:55PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote: I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz 0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ... which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng, since many apps depend on it. I tried rebuilding from src.rpms, but that didn't work. I also tried using RedHat's rpms, but had no luck rebuilding. Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc. Michael, I've always had better luck using the official Mozilla binaries/installer. I'm using 8.1 as well and I've never had to worry about this dependency you're having and I'm using the latest nightly. Since you appear to have an official Mandrake mozilla package, leave it installed and install using mozilla's net install. Then all you need to do is call mozilla from the command line using the default path, which is /usr/local/mozilla. A bit of a kludge but it's the easiest way to do things IMHO. HTH. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- H. L. Mencken's Law: Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach. Martin's Extension: Those who cannot teach -- administrate. --- 12:28pm up 3:33, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 14:21, you wrote: I tried going to the same site and couldn't get in. Probably overloaded with hits from too many curious lookyloos. snip Mandrake Newbie list's version of ./'ing Cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Sunday 09 December 2001 16:04, you wrote: If I apply every update there is to my Mandrake Linux 8.1 install, why wont it be identical to the future 8.2 release? Or, what is the difference between an updated 8.1 and 8.2 when it releases? Various differences are contained between one release and another. The updates are for bug and security fixes. New releases normaly contain new versions of software, or reconstruction of the distro and/or design. No, a fully updated, say 8.0 is not the same as 8.1. Albeit close in most user issues. Thank you, Bob Sprowls -- Cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo
On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:44, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake on a Dell Pentium III machine. It runs well alongside Windows ME. Easiest way to get used to how lilo uses the entries, as root: copy to lilo.conf.old. (cp lilo.conf lilo.conf.old) Assuming your using 8.1: Open Control Center, choose Boot on the menu on the left, Choose Boot Config then choose configure. On the small window that pops up choose OK. It will bring up one more small window, click on the windows entry and choose modify. Select default, then OK, then done. In a shell as root type lilo -v (making sure there are no errors). Now you can look at the two versions (lilo.conf and lilo.conf.old) and see how it changed the entries. I often chose this method to review how things changed entries to learn the symantics. A visual is worth more than words. Your good to go. Cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
