Re: [newbie] path
I read this and tried to create a symlink from /usr/bin to my Mozilla directory. But when I run mozilla I get the message 'run-mozilla.sh: no such file or directory'. This happens even if I create symlinks to run-mozilla.sh as well. What have I done wrong? Dave Jan Wilson wrote: * rich [000416 22:04]: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. If you type ./mozilla you are saying, "run the executable file mozilla, which you will find in the current directory." So that has nothing directly to do with the path. The path you are talking about is the environment variable $PATH, which gives a sequence of directories to search if no path is given. That is, you type 'mozilla' rather than './mozilla' or '/usr/bin/mozilla' or whatever. It is usually set in shell scripts in /etc/profile, or in the directory /etc/profile.d/ or in the user's home directory in a file like .bashrc ... One note, though. Be careful. Linux will happily let you add a world-writeable directory to the beginning of your path. In that case anyone could add a shell script named 'mozilla' into that directory and when you type mozilla you will run it. If it does whatever it wants to, and then runs the regular mozilla, you probably won't know that someone has hijacked your system. For this reason some recommend using symlinks or typing the full path. They must type faster than I do ;-) -- Jan Wilson _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Community College| |:' Corozal Junior College Corozal Town, Belize | /' Central America Visit our Corozal site |_/ http://www.corozal.com
Re: [newbie] take off your mailing list
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Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???
Get the M14 milestone build of Mozilla from www.mozilla.org. It's much faster than Netscape and really pretty stable. Then if you're feeling really cool, download the Sullivan skin from www.mozillazine.org Woohoo! dave andy barnes wrote: snip Are there any options to Netscape for (decent) web browsing? I never liked Nutscrape..I came to the PC around the time IE4 hit the streets, and I've always found it a lot easier to use Cheers Andy
Re: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
If you have a custom boot disk for mandrake, the simplest thing is probably to load DOS from a floppy and type fdisk /mbr. This will reformat your master boot record DOS style, which means that you won't be able to boot linux. But you should be able to get into windows, and you can boot linux from the floppy. After that you will probably want to play with your lilo.conf file in /etc/lilo.conf. Dave - Original Message - From: To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:00 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install The only options I get are: linux floppy Regards. M you should be able to hit TAB at the prompt and get a list of OS to load. At 03:16 PM 4/13/00 +0100, you wrote: I found that typing windows at the LILO loader also failed. Try typing DOS instead. It worked for me. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:03 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latestcdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to befaulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
Re: [newbie] Booting Up Multiple OS's
The floppy disk should do the trick. Just boot from it. Then rerun lilo from within linux. This will overwrite W98. You may need to edit your lilo.conf file first, to make sure it has windows as an option, on the correct partition. cheers dave andy wrote: Here's the deal.. I had a single 8.4gb hard drive, partioned with W98 in 6 gb, Linux in the remainder..Lilo worked just fine... Now.. I installed a 20gb h/d in addition to this this week-I've kept the original as master and the new one as slave. My plan was to put a completely clean install of W98 onto the new drive, make an image file using Norton Ghost, burn that onto a CD (Makes re-installing windows a brze!!), then drag all my personal files over and re-install the apps onto the new drive, then allow Linux to take over the entire original 8.4 gb by re-sizing the partitons. Fine..on paper (Or in my head!!) When I'd done the fresh install of W98 on the new drive, I lost access to my original hard drive, so the only thing I could boot into was the new copy of W98.. I think I remember reading that, if you install Windows AFTER Linux, it over-writes the boot records so Lilo boesn't function any more. Is that right? The t*t that I am..I didn't make a boot floppy on my last Linux install (.hangs head in shame and stands in the corner!!) To cut this short then..I've finished up fdisk-ing the lot, installing Linux first onto the slave h/d in a 6 gb partition (Should be enough, shouldn't it??) and I'll put W98 on the original 8.4 gb drive. Now, when I re-install W98 tonight, that mean that lilo will disappear again, won't it? So the question is..how do I boot into Linux without it (i've created a floppy disc this time, that will probably help) and once I've managed to get into Linux, can I then re-install Lilo at all? Thanks for listening Andy
Re: [newbie] Problems
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: The culprit is the linux.ld.so file. It somehow either leaks memory, or mismanages the resources. Is there a fix?
Re: [newbie] HELP!!!!!
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Gustavo Halperin wrote: also from the command line: shutdown -h now for the shutdown command you can try: Ctrl+Alt+Delete+F9 Robin wrote: OK. Worked with NT for a while, and was just won over to the light side! I need help! I have just done my first install, and even though I have a single 256 MB DIMM, the system is only seeing 64!!?!?!? I have never seen this before. Any ideas? Also, from console, what the hell is the shutdown command?? Thanx, Robin. -- _/_/_/_/.._/. _/._/_/_/_/._/_/_/_/_/._/_/_/_/ _/.._/._/_/_/_/.. ..._/..._/._/._/..._/..._/.._/.._/_/.._/._/... .._/..._/_/.._/._/._/_/_/_/..._/..._/_/_/_/..._/..._/.._/._/ ._/.._/.._/._/._/..._/..._/.._/_/._/..._/._/. _/_/_/_/.._/_/_/_/._/_/_/_/.._/..._/.._/._/_/..._/_/_/_/.. .Gustavo Halperin... .Paradigm Geophysical..\\\Y///. [EMAIL PROTECTED]\\ ^ ^ // .972-9-9709318..(/ @ @ \).. -oOOo-(_)-oOOo- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
Re: [newbie] Virtual Desktop
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Gustavo Halperin wrote: Hi. My virtual Desktop is jump from a virtualt desktop '1' to virtual desktop '2' when I go to dawn with a mouse or from the '2' to the '1' when I go to up with the mouse, haw I stop this , can any one help me. Is possible add to the desktop a 'Desks Overview' ??? If you are using KDE, use the KDE configuration tool (on the taskbar) and change the settings for 'resistance' in 'desktops'. Or you can just turn it off, I think. GNOME has a funky little program which shows a mini picture of all four desktops. Should be there automatically. I don't know if it will work with KDE.
[newbie] modifying a shell script
Just started taking a few first steps into the shallow water... I modified my xinitrc script to start a program. At the end of the script I added /usr/X11R6/bin/xlassie (plus various commandline options) to run xlassie, an email checker. X started fine but xlassie didn't show up. Have I got the wrong end of the stick? (No pun intended) cheers Dave
RE: [newbie] Thank you.
Another problem with web-based email is reliability: my mail.com account is down as they 'upgrade the website'. Probably best to have both web-based and normal email. dave On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Rial Juan wrote: On Apr 9 Mike Perry wrote: 1. Generally less secure Not when done with SSL, which is IMHO the way to go when you're providing web-based email. How secure do you think pop3 is anyway? Everything gets sent over in cleartext, including your username/password. Not much of an issue for people at home with modems, I suppose, but for people like me who sit on a lan, it makes us vulnerable to sniffers on the subnet. 2. Often Slower Probably not if he's referring to web-based email provided by his ISP; instead of waiting for all messages to be retreived at once (pop3), you'll only have a slight pause when opening the next one. Potentially web-based email can be even faster, since long attachments don't get downloaded automatically; you have the choice now. 3. Often much more restrictive on attached files Again: not when it's your ISP's web-based email. It's the same account, so the same restrictions apply. Note: this applies only to my experience with places like hotmail and other sites offering "free web based email", so maybe I am just talking total bullshit :-) Nope, when it comes to hotmail/bigfoot/... I couldn't agree more with you. I hate those too. But not all web-based mail has those disadvantages, although I prefer mail being forwarded to my box directly (unfortunately impossible when at home due to high internet fees).
RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!!
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of the hardware in the machine that your using. (snip) Hey, don't go blaming it on the hardware now. It's pretty clear that Linux is not an easy ride to install, no matter how stable it may be afterwards. Mandrake 7.0 seems pretty good to me (well, apart from trashing my Windows partition - do you think OS's suffer from sibling rivalry?) dave On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine mewed: OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough PC savvy to get through this.. Linux is driving me crazy!! snip I want to make it work..but it is becoming a pain in the ass!! Sorry, I just had to shout at someone!! I understand completely...I've been trying to get various flavours of Linux to run on my machine for about half a year now - Redhat 5.2, 6.1, Suse 6.something, and Mandrake 7 is the first that's actually managed to make it to the end of the installation. And still, I get freezes, crashes - at least with Windows you sometimes get a chance to recover, but with Linux it just stops working, kaput. With this plus all the hassle having to configure every little detail yourself, I think Linux for me is just going to remain a toy OS for the forseeable future...
[newbie] pointer display problem Pine problem
Just reinstalled and am having 2 problems. (1) I have a Trio3D/2X video card. MThis works fine, but normally I have to add a line to my XF86Config file saying Option "SWCursor" in the Device section This prevents my mouse pointer displaying as a big white square. I have reinstalled with black box, and this option no longer seems to work. What am I doing wrong??? (2) Did a custom install to save space, and forgot to add a mail client - duh. I have installed pine from the RPM, but it isn't working. It offers to compose a message, then exits with the message: Creating subdirectory "/root/mail" where Pine will store its mail folders. Pine finished Pine finished star Any ideas? cheers Dave HJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?
according to this magazine I've got here, most music applications are porting to BeOS rather than Linux. (Better at multimedia.) Dave On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Ernie mewed: Use Cooledit and wavelab in win2k or windows NT, I run both progs in win2k and have never locked it up. As far as hard disk recording, i don't think linux has any software yet, tho i've heard of some companies thinking of porting.
[newbie] 7.0 killed my FAT drive!
I installed 7.0 without seeing this: http://www.pcplus.co.uk/discs/163a.asp or this: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3 Result: my FAT filesystem is a mess. Everything directly under my C: drive is OK, but everything in subdirectories is scrambled (files, directories, the lot) Names are changed from e.g. 'britney.mpg' to '74£hjk;d;¬! @' (yes, I know, that's an improvement). Windows won't boot (because everything in C:\windows has been changed). Does anyone know how I can recover from this via linux or msdos? I have a windows boot disk but that is all. I would like to get my installation back, but failing that, can I at least recover the files? any help gratefully received cheers Dave
[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 standard install, Windows filesystem probs
Dear all, I recently installed Mandrake 7.0 in a dual-boot setup with Windows. All worked fine, but my MS-DOS filesystem seeems to be messed up. File names have been replaced with nonsense, and the partition table is in a mess. cfdisk gives: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends before sector 0 fdisk -l /dev/hda1 gives: -- Disk /dev/hda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1p1 ?120513235786 925929529+ 68 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(288, 101, 46) should be (288, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p2 ? 82801116350 269488144 79 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 13, 10) should be (0, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p3 ? 33551120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(324, 77, 19) should be (324, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p4 ? 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(335, 78, 2) should be (335, 254, 63) -- I assume (hope) that my partition table is corrupt, rather than my entire msdos system! I have a rescue disk to get into windows; if I 'format /mbr' from there, can I later reformat to get into linux or will i have to reinstall? Alternatively, can I use fdisk to reformat without destroying my windows partition? all help gratefully received Dave davidhjatmaildotcom __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] How to configure the network?
"Rodriguez Jimenez, Luis" wrote:
I am new using linux Mandrake anh i have troubles to configure my
network. I don{t know where and how must i do.
Please help me.
Luis.
Okay, I _think_ I can help a little.
First, you will need to know:
-your IP number, which looks like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (e.g. 131.111.123.456)
-your machine name (e.g. luis1 )
-your domain name (e.g. mydomain.com)
-from this you get the full address of your machine (e.g.
luis1.mydomain.com)
also, if you are on a network:
-your gateway number, which looks like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and is the IP of
the machine which is -your gateway to the internet
-your subnet mask, which will be something like 255.255.255.0
ask your system administrator for these.
when you have these details, log in to X and click on the desktop icon
called DrakConf. Then click on network configuration, and enter the
stuff above in the relevant places (mostly basic host information and
name server specification).
That's how I do it; for you it may be different ;)
dave
Dave
