Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. That's because Frozen Bubble is controlled by the keyboard, not the mouse. It does not use a cursor. Navigate using the up/down arrows on your keyboard. WARNING: Frozen Bubble is seriously addictive and has a gazillion levels to work through. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1
On Thursday 07 April 2005 23:14, Tim wrote: Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Its for my mother, who wants to have a go on the Internet, I set her up with my old pc as above running XP but its infected with spy ware after only 2 days from a clean install, Mum forgot to start zonealarm before she went online. Tim Well my laptop is running 10.1 on a 233MHz Pentium I with 96MB of RAM, and it still runs (very slowly) if I set the RAM to 32MB. KDE is very slow, but IceWM or other lightweight window managers work acceptably. You would have to pick your applications carefully. Avoid any KDE app. I find good apps to use are Opera - browser (Faster than Firefox on a low end machine) Sylpheed - email client (although the email client built into Opera is also OK) Rox - file manager xmms - media player abiword - word processor (forget OpenOffice on this spec) You will need to select the kernel-i586-up-1GB kernel on a Pentium I. It will not boot with the standard kernel. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Friday 08 April 2005 01:14, Rafa Kamraj wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move Well, maybe there is a method in this madness. Anyone knew anything about thouse trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation? Rafa MandrakeSoft have been in dispute with the owners of the rights of 'Mandrake the Magician' a 1920's comic strip for some time. The use of the wand and stars in Mandrake's old logos did not exactly help their case. (now only the stars remain) IMO the name is not important, they may as well change it if only to get that magician off their backs. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 with support for sata raid
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:49, Isak Lyberth wrote: i have a Fujitsu-siemens server (primergy Econel 50) with a Intel fw82801fr chipset, that supports some raid settings. I have seen on a debian install that it worked with a 3ware driver, but couldn't get it to work with this on mandrake. Is there a mandrake linux kernel that i can download with support for this chipset? regards Isak Do you mean the 3w-9xxx driver? It is in the standard 2.6.8-12mdk kernel for Mandrake 10.1 If it is not loading try putting 3x-9xxx in the file /etc/modprobe.preload Or perhaps you could try the 3w- driver. That is in the kernel too. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 su or not to su
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:57, Robert Yu wrote: If I try to install a WIndows program with Wine, should I su to root before doing so? NO Read the documentation at http://www.winehq.org to learn how to install Windows programs. http://www.frankscorner.org/ can help you get some specific Windows apps working. Alternatively pay for a commercial version of Wine from www.codeweavers.com or www.transgaming.com if you do not want to work out all the problems yourself. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE /K3B problem
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent re-install I had been using the graphical login page, and I noted that it would not retain the faces settings. Mandrake Control Centre SystemDisplay Manager Select the 'KDM' display Manager derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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: KDE /K3B problem
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 13:59, Russell Butler wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:16, Russell Butler wrote: Hello all I have Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6.8.1-12mdk win4Lin kernel installed (dual boot with Win) and mostly use KDE. since a recent re-install I had been using the graphical login page, and I noted that it would not retain the faces settings. Mandrake Control Centre SystemDisplay Manager Select the 'KDM' display Manager derek Thanks for the suggestion Derek, but still the same behaviour. Is there any way to edit an .rc file or something, or at least debug what is happening? I am not entirely a newbie, but have not learnt my way around debugging. k3b --help doesn't seem to offer a verbose mode and no help from k3bsetup. Russell KDM configuration is in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc It is well commented. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 23:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles Ctl+Alt+F1 only moves you to a text console temporarily. It will not affect any future boot. If your computer will only boot to text then you have screwed it up in some other way. (Ctl+Alt+F7 will bring you back to X from a text console) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed
On Monday 04 April 2005 20:40, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select Thanks in advance, Paul Put the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:24, Isak Lyberth wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy server, with some new onboard graphics chipset. It has a PCI Express card which i do not intend to use. I might go looking for a PCI graphics card, but untill i find one i need to fix things through some other tool, what to use? Regards Isak Use framebuffer i.e. fbdev as a driver...that should work for almost all cardswhat is the card, anyway? If all fails (how did you install?) try using another box and connect with that using ssh (mandrake has X forwarding enabled by default) and start your gui app remotely. I have not found out what card it is, maybe someone else here knows which it is? it is anoying as the installation was the graphical one, and it looked fine. regards Whatever it is your graphics card is almost certainly supported. I assume when you boot it is coming up with a text login prompt? If so log in as root user and enter XFdrake You will see a text based GUI to set up your graphics card. select 'Graphics card' (Tab key moves between fields) The card that was autodetected will be the first shown, but if that is not working for you scroll down to the 'Xorg' section (space bar expands the menu) select the 'vesa' driver. That driver will work with just about every graphics card in existence. (The vga driver should also work) You will also need to set the screen resolution to one supported. Pick a conservative resolution initially (800x600) you can always change it later once you are working. When you are done reboot with shutdown -r now derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Excluding a certain package of begin installed
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:21, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:25 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of excluding a certain package of begin installed with urpmi --auto-select To always skip it, enter the package name in /etc/urpmi/skip.list. There doesn't apear to be a command line way to specify a single package to be excluded. (--excludepath excludes files, and not packages...) Thanks, Mikkel and Derek. For me, it does not work. # more /etc/urpmi/skip.list # Here you can specify the packages that won't be upgraded automatically abiword-2.2.5-1.norlug.i586 lyx-1.3.5-2.norlug.i586 amarok-1.2.3-1.101mcnl.i586 # Any ideas? Paul Yes. Take the version numbers off. /abiword/ /lyx/ /amarok/ derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Saturday 02 April 2005 14:49, Philippe Landau wrote: Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, and how to disable their snooping system: http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html kind regards philippe Following a post on slashdot I came across this page http://www.k-lug.org/~griswold/Progs/adobe7patch.html It seems that by disabling Javascript in acroread and applying this patch we can stop acroread spying on us. Of course a better solution is to stop using acroread. I tried out the patch. It seems to work. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:13, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:50, Derek Jennings wrote: It seems that by disabling Javascript in acroread and applying this patch we can stop acroread spying on us. Of course a better solution is to stop using acroread. I tried out the patch. It seems to work. derek I just don't like anyone spying on me, nor my reading of PDF documents, nor anything else. Just as with DRM, I find it an awful breach of privacy - et al. Xpdf and Gpdf have been useful enough and more than adequate for my tastes - and as Adobe enters the arena of gleaning personal information, that only causes me to build a further dislike of their products and services. IMHO. Oh, and Derek, quit spying on me. -- stephen kuhn I gave up spying on you when you started sitting at your terminal naked. Seriously though, I could live without acroread apart from the browser plugin. Anyone know of an opensource solution for embedded browser viewing of pdf docs? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 is the DrWeb Antivirus Directory in Mandrakelinux 10.0
On Friday 01 April 2005 22:33, Edward Rochon wrote: I receive update files from DrWeb. I am supposed to add them to their directory but cannot find it. The Search option cannot find DrWeb on the disk. I have mailed DrWeb without any answer. I am unable to use Mandrake Expert. Am I supposed to pay for this service in addition to Mandrake Online? I am a member of Mandrake Online. I am not even sure that DrWeb is installed on my machine. There is not application icon or menu item. DrWeb was supposed to send me a disk but did not, apparently because the software is already installed. I have a connection in Konqueror, but it is of no help. Can you help me out? I prefer that you send your reply to the email address listed below my name. Thank you. Sincerely, Edward E. Rochon [EMAIL PROTECTED] DrWeb is a commercial application to search for Windows viruses on a Linux mailserver. Mandrake Soft include an RPM package for Drweb on the Commercial CD of the Mandrake Powerpack boxed set. If you have a Powerpack you will find the rpm package on disc 4. Just click on the rpm package with konqueror and it will install. Also on the CDs are drweb mail filter packages for the various mail servers, Sendmail,Postfix, Courier etc. You should install the appropriate mail filter package for the mail server you are running. If you do not have a Powerpack then the drweb packages can be downloaded from MandrakeClub if you are a member or directly from the DrWeb download site at http://download.drweb.com/unix/Mandrake+Linux+10/ clicking on the rpm packages with konqueror will install them. However you get the packages drweb will not work until you have purchased a key from them. As for your other questions. Mandrake Expert allows you to ask 'paid for' questions, or 'no charge' community questions where you may (or may not) get an answer from any member of the Mandrake Community. In any case you are not likely to get an answer from Mandrake Expert about DrWeb since it is not a Mandrake product and not part of the official distro. MandrakeOnline is an entirely separate service to provide you with warning of available security updates. Once you have Dr Web installed I doubt if you will see an icon or menu entry because it is a 'daemon' that runs in background in conjunction with a mail server. I expect if you open MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices you would see a button to start the DrWeb service. I assume you know that there are effectively no Linux viruses, so the only point of using a virus scanner on Linux is to protect Windows users who fetch their mail from a Linux mailserver. There are other virus scanners available for Linux mailservers such as ClamAV which are open source and totally free. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:36, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh Which Digital TV card are you asking about? I don't know - something that is easy to set up with Mandrake! Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I currently use KDETV with an analog card. I did a 'click and install' of Myth TV, and it didn't run. I put it on my list of things to look at later - the list that gets put in a corner and never acted on. This may be a good reason to look at Myth again, in which case I would be most grateful for your rpms. I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek I have put my mythtv RPMS in the download area of my web site. You do not need all the packages. The core is libmyth0, mythtv-frontend, mythtv-backend, mythtv-themes, and mythtvsetup. The remaining packages are optional plugins. They are compiled to support DVB digital cards, and the hardware MPEG2 decoder of Via M10k motherboards, but they should work with analogue cards, and other motherboards also. If your analogue card is currently working with KDETV then myth should find it too. To use myth first install MySQL and then run 'mythtvsetup' to detect and setup your TV card and initialise the MySQL database. Then 'service mythbackend start' will start the myth backend server. You can then start the front end with 'mythfrontend' There is excellent documentation on myth at http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall have fun derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:09, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 02:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14990 (cooker) might be interesting. Note the reference to the kernel-multimedia. Good luck! -Frans That is very interesting... I just checked with the kernel-2.6.11-6mdk kernel in current cooker and it *does not* include the cx88-dvb driver I need for my Hauppauge Nova-T card, but the kernel-multimedia-2.6.10-3mm kernel in cooker contrib *does* derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh -- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Porterfield Which Digital TV card are you asking about? Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 and sound
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 00:44, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 05:27 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Any ideas why I can't get any sound out of xmms but realplayer, totem, and the system sounds work fine? TIA Paul Have you tried resetting it to the arts output plugin? or one of the others say alsa plugin if that is what you are running. Left click on the + sign in the upper left corner of the x multimedia system box and then choose prefernces. Look for the long bar that says Alsa or OSS or ArTs and change it by clicking on it. HTH You may need to install the xmms-alsa or xmms-arts packages first. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Cable modem
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 02:32, Tim wrote: Hello all, My 10.1 system has developed a strange problem. I have to set up a new modem connection every time i reboot, it just seems to forget that i set one up, but if i go into Manage connections its there but i can't do anything with it. I've tried deleting all connections and make a fresh one, but as soon as i reboot it says no connection configured. While booting it says failed to start eth0. This has been an intermittent problem since i converted, perhaps every 2-3 weeks i would have to make a new connection. But now its every time, you can imagine how annoying it is! Any ideas? Thanks Tim Does your /etc/modprobe.conf file contain the text alias eth0 usbnet ? If not put it in. If it is already there try putting the text usbnet in the file /etc/modprobe.preload If still no luck open a terminal and enter 'dmesg' and look for the boot messages concerning your usb network interface and tell us what they are. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files
On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio file formats? TIA Paul Grip is best if you want to rip files from CD, but konqueror also can be very useful. Press the 'services' button in your konqueror sidebar and you will see the 'Audio CD browser' (If you cannot see the sidebar hit F9 ) From the audio CD browser you can drag and drop audio files from the CD in .wav, .ogg, or .mp3 format. Note: Because mp3 is covered by patent Mandrake does not support creating mp3's out of the box. You will have to declare a urpmi source for 'plf' by going to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and install the lame and liblame0 packages. As for file formats, as I mention above mp3 is covered by patent and any time you use it a gentleman from the Fraunhofer institute is entitled to turn up on your doorstep demanding money. So us geeky open source types prefer .ogg. It is 'free' software and better quality than mp3 anyway. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4416 To convert between file formats there is a neat command line utility called 'sox' Install the sox package and then enter #sox in the url line of konqueror for instructions. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.
On Saturday 26 March 2005 13:58, Simon wrote: I am running the following cron job: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 I get the following message : Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 .. /bin/sh: line 1: mail: command not found Any ideas how to get the mail command to work? TIA, Simon. Try /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | /bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 If that does not work check the mail package is installed. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.
On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:38, Simon wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:15, Derek Jennings wrote: Try /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | /bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 If that does not work check the mail package is installed. Derek I tried that but it failed with : /bin/sh: line 1: /bin/mail: No such file or directory what mail package should I have installed? mailx derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] LDAP server
On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:25, Anthony Brooks wrote: I'm trying to setup a LDAP server. I've installed the server package and phpLDAPAdmin but I have no clue on what I'm doing. I've googled and looked at faq's but I was just wondering if there is an easy tutorial somewhere that I could look at. Thanks. Install the drakwizard package and then start Mandrake Control Centre There will be a new server section. In there is a wizard to set up LDAP for you. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] changing host/user name???
On Saturday 26 March 2005 16:20, Simon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ how do I change the above to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of my mac?? address? Simon. MandrakeControlCentreNetworkInternet to set a hostname If you did not set your MAC address as the hostname yourself, then your ISP is doing it via DNS. To stop it, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever) and add the line NEEDHOSTNAME=no Then restart networking and your hostname will revert to that set up in MCC. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] configuring advx (apache) on Mandrake
On Friday 25 March 2005 02:45, Joe wrote: Dear all, is there anyway i can configure ADVX on Mandrake easily without going through it's many conf files and without using webmin? is there a gui based, wizard based or something??? i have a problem setting up vitual host (name host not ip host). i downloaded apache docs but unfortunately Mandrake uses the modified version of apache which left me hanging like a dry leave. SNIP Setting up virtual hosts is easy. In /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf for each virtual host insert a stanza in the format VirtualHost www.myvirtualhost.net ServerName www.myvirtualhost.net ServerAlias myvirtualhost.net *.myvirtualhost.net #ServerPath /domain DocumentRoot /var/www/html/myvirtualhost /VirtualHost then restart the httpd service. Done! Naturally the virtual hostname must resolve to your IP address. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VNC Server startup script
On Friday 25 March 2005 13:34, DAN WALKER wrote: My vnc server now sort of works! I set the password, edited hosts.allow and my pc side now asks me for a password and presents me with a red screen. The problem I have is that it looks as though it has nothing to do when it opens the window. It sits there with the X style (not kde or gnome) watch icon. This is what is in '/root/.vnc/xstartup': (between the ***'s) *** #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc *** You are allowing remote users to log in as root. As you know logging in as root is discouraged. It is a security risk. Assuming you used the Mandrake tightvnc-server package then you have a set up file for your vnc server in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers This file defines the servers to be started when you boot. The line VNCSERVERS=1:myusername will start a vnc server on screen one with the user name 'myusername' chkconfig vncserver on service vncserver start will start the vnc service automatically at boot. In your example you are starting the vnc server with 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' if you look in that file you will see it is going to start X without a Window Manager. To start in KDE for example in your /home/myusername/.vnc/xstartup file put startkde To start fluxbox put fluxbox to start IceWm put icewm HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VNC Server startup script
On Friday 25 March 2005 14:51, DAN WALKER wrote: I did as you have suggested but I am still getting nowhere... This is what my xstartup now says (so you can trust I have done it right): #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc startkde You do not need the 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' line if you have the 'startkde ' line derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VNC Server startup script
On Friday 25 March 2005 15:07, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 14:51, DAN WALKER wrote: I did as you have suggested but I am still getting nowhere... This is what my xstartup now says (so you can trust I have done it right): #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc startkde You do not need the 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' line if you have the 'startkde ' line derek I should also have pointed out that the ~/.vnc/xstartup file has to be executable. Lots of people get caught out by that one :-) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1
On Friday 25 March 2005 08:42, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a package manager for 10.1 that allows me to look inside the rpm file to view folders and files. I liked kpackage in the older versions but I can't find it's equivalent. tia, Bill W. kpackage is still available. It is in kdeadmin-kpackage rpmdrake also allows you to view the file list. Press the 'Maximum Information' radio button derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 08:52, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, I have a system running Mandrake 10.1. I tried installing samba 3.0.11 on the system, but it failed as follows: # urpmi samba samba-3.0.11-1.i386.rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: samba-3.0.11-1.i386 (due to unsatisfied liblber-2.2.so.7) Can anyone tell me how and from where I could liblber-2.2.so.7 package via urpmi? Thanks, Madhu The latest version of Samba on the 10.1 update servers is samba-server-3.0.10.-0.1.101mdk You are trying to install what looks like a RedHat package. Is there a particular reason why you *have* to have 3.0.11 ? If you really must have samba-3.0.11 then you can get it in two ways. You can either upgrade your system to current 'Cooker' (probably not a good idea if this is a 'production' machine), or you can recompile the samba-3.0.11 src.rpm from Cooker for 10.1 You can get the src RPM from here ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/SRPMS/main and instructions for compiling a src rpm from here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=110751580509076w=2 derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:51, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hello Derek, Could you please point me to the update server from where I could pull down the samba kit? Thanks, Madhu SNIP It is on all the update servers. All you have to do is define an update urpmi source and then run the Software Install GUI to install samba if it is not already installed, or the Software Update GUI if it is already installed. If you do not have an update source defined yet go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the instructions to select one. (Tip: In linux copy/paste is highlight/press mouse wheel ) While you are there define sources for 'contrib' and 'plf' and you will have access to 100's of extra packages not on your CDs derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 11:00, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hello, I downloaded the samba source RPM, and when I tried to install it on my system, it resulted in an error: # rpm -i samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 26752624 error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Madhu First you should be installing as a user not root. Second you must have the directory structure defined in your /home as described in that link I gave you. Do not worry about the bad signature. That just means you do not have the Cooker GPG signature on your keyring. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: First you should be installing as a user not root. Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has the right to install or delete (system) software - this is a root privilege, (rpm group?), from my understanding. Of course they can install and delete in their own /home directory. Did I miss something? Thanks. This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled with an rpmbuild command (also as user). Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 which then has to be installed as root. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:04, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, Second you must have the directory structure defined in your /home as described in that link I gave you. Sorry, but I didn't quite get this. Thanks, Madhu I gave you the link http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=110751580509076w=2 That tells you to create these directories in your /home (~ is shorthand for your home directory) ~/rpm ~/rpm/BUILD ~/rpm/SPECS ~/rpm/SOURCES ~/rpm/RPMS ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 ~/rpm/RPMS/noarch ~/rpm/RPMS/i386 ~/rpm/RPMS/i686 ~/rpm/RPMS/athlon ~/rpm/SRPMS ~/rpm/tmp When you install the src.rpm (as a user) it will unpack the source code into ~/rpm/SOURCES After compiling the src.rpm (with 'rpmbuild -bb samba.spec'), a compiled rpm will appear in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 If those directories do not exist installing the src.rpm will fail. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SCSI module change from 2.6 to 2.4
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:38, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hi , Is it possible to successfully change the kernel on Mandrake 10.1 64 bit from 2.6 to 2.4. I do know that 2.4 modules run my scanner whereas the 2.6 will not run module dmx3191d. Is there a downside to doing this. Thank you for your time. Malcolm Candlish. Yes you can quite easily. With your Software Install GUI enter kernel in the search box You will see a list of available kernels. Install the 2.4 kernel. It will become the default kernel. Your 2.6 kernel will still be available in the lilo menu. If you want to change the default kernel use the Boot GUI in Mandrake Control centre. Note the 2.4 kernel loads its modules according to /etc/modules.conf, while the 2.6 kernel uses /etc/modprobe.conf so you must ensure both files are set up correctly. If you have an Nvidia video card and use the proprietary driver you will have to compile it for each kernel version (using the correct kernel-source) My own scanner does not work with the 2.6 kernel so I have to boot with 2.4 whenever I want to use it. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Fixing an application--?
On Monday 21 March 2005 06:02, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, all. Wasn't sure how to title this post, as I've never run into this situation before. The application in question is Bookcase (v.0.6.6-1; I believe the applciation is now called something else). It's kind of a specialized thing, so I'm hoping that whatever is happening to me is a generalized problem and has a general solution. Basically, it won't run any more. I made the apparent mistake of trying to open a second data file before the first had been saved, and when I hit Cancel the program crashed. Now when I try to run it, I get the same error from the KDE crash handler that I got at the initial crash: 'The application Bookcase (bookcase) crashed and cause the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).' The following is my terminal output: Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 QCheckBox::property( title ) failed: property invalid or does not exist [the above is repeated seven times] WARNING: BookcaseDoc::loadDomDocument() - unsupported collection type! WARNING: Bookcase will probably crash at some point! QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key QGDictIterator::toFirst: Dictionary has been deleted I went looking for some kind of configuration file, or dotfile or .directory that I thought might be related to the program, but couldn't find anything. I uninstalled the program (via RPMdrake) and reinstalled, but I'm getting the same behavior. Any ideas? All guidance is greatly appreciated in advance. I am not familiar with this app, but normally your user configuration will be stored in a hidden file or folder in your /home. Set konqueror to show hidden files and you will be able to find it (They start with '.') If it is a KDE based app, then the set up file will be somewhere in ~/.kde/share/config or maybe in ~/.kde/share/apps If you delete the user config file a new one will be automatically created next time you run it with default configuration. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta
On Monday 21 March 2005 18:10, Christopher Taylor wrote: I am debating whether or not to upgrade to the 10.2 beta. Primarily the updates in KDE are appealing and some of the others as well. I know that I can get the iso's via bittorrent. Once burnt, how do I go about doing the upgrade? My main concern making sure that I don't lose any data. I can certainly backup my home directory to cd, but if I have to setup the users again then the ids will be wrong. Thanks in advance. Boot from CD1 and select 'Upgrade' It will not touch the contents of your /home But be aware this is a **beta** there **will** be things wrong with it. Some things that currently work fine may stop working. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location
On Monday 21 March 2005 22:31, SOTL wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:42, SOTL wrote: Hi All I have created a partition on one of my computer to store critical system data files called /System_Data. I am trying to configure MySQL so that it will use /System_Data as its default file storage. I looked for /etc/my.cnf; found I did not have one so I generated one. My /etc/my.cnf files contains exactly 1 line which is: datadir=/System_Data When I start MySQL I now receive the following error message: Found option without preceding group in config file /etc/my.cnf at line 1. Fatail error in default handling. Program aborted. Would appreciate help in ascertaining what should be added or how current should be modified. Frank It is failing because having created a /etc/my.cnf file it is expecting to find other parameters defined in there in addition to datadir (pid_file=, basedir=/, bindir=/usr/bin ) You could alternatively edit the datadir path in /etc/rc5.d/S90mysql which is the script that starts mysql Alternatively if you create a symlink from /var/lib/mysql to /mnt/System_Data/mysql then you would not need to change any configuration and your data would go in the folder you desire. BTW: In Linux /var is the default directory to hold data so why do you need to define a different one? derek Hi All and thanks Derek I have finally gotten back to the above issue in my attempts to resolve my setup issues. I have printed the instructions for Using Option Files as kindly pointed out to me by David G Stevenson located at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/option-files.html If I understand Derek correctly my.cnf should look something like [mysql] datadir=/System_Data basedir=/ bindir=/usr/bin pid_file= This raises two issues to me. First what is a 'pid_file=' ? And where is it located? Second I do not find pid_file, basedir, or bindir mentioned in the MySQL Reference Manual:: 4.3.2 Using Option Files. Thus to say the least I am confused. if someone would mind enlighten me on correct procedure I would appreciate it. Thank Frank The packager who built the Mandrake package for MySQL has created the file /etc/rc5.d/S90mysql to set up the defaults for MySQL so that a my.cnf file is unnecessary. I simply read that file and told you what the defaults were set to. I also told you that by using a symlink to /var/lib/mysql you could put your user data in a different folder without having to edit any files or create a my.cnf file. BTW: A pid file is a file usually kept in /var/run which identifies the Process Identifier number (pid) a daemon is using derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Move question...
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:09, SigmaX wrote: Hey; I'm headed on a 5-week vacation next month, and downloaded Mandrake Move this weekend to see what it'd do for me. I think it's coolio, and I have a little 64MB USB pendrive, that it mounts automatically under /mnt/windows of all things (I guess 'cause of the FAT filesystem). The description from the Mandrake website said something about the commercial edition of Move automatically using your configuration and files to a USB key. When it says 'configuration', does that mean that it will save... say... the way I have my KDE 3.2 desktop themed and all that to the pendrive, so that when I start up Mandrake Move on another computer later in my trip I'll still have the same setup that I configured to start with? If that's the case, then I'd consider purchasing Move (My first OS purchase in a while... Me be spoiled Linux-Downloader) ... but if not, then I'd just use it as a toy to test out systems with or show people Linux, rather than as a mobile guest computer. Thanx! SigmaX PS: Please CC me any reply Yes it does. But before you purchase MandrakeMove why not try out PCLOS first. It is a fork of Mandrake. It works as a 'liveCD' like Mandrake Move, with the additional option of being able to install itself to your hard drive. It comes with Nvidia drivers/Flash/Java built in, and is able to store your /home files on a USB flash drive. PCLOS is available as a free download at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html See the FAQ for booting with USB key. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:36, Robert T. Yu wrote:
Since urpmi has a feature to keep updated packages in
a cache directory for later, does RPMDrake adopt this
feature as well?
Thank you.
Yes
Put the text
no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never remember)
on a line between the first set of {}in the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
That makes the default behaviour for both urpmi and rpmdrake to save packages
in the cache.
derek
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Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. If you open MandrakeControlCentreHardwareScanners and select 'Add a Scanner Manually' you will see a list of supported scanners. Yours is not in the list :-( Then go to http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON and you see it is not listed there either, so it looks like you are out of luck. As for the printers MandrakeControlCentreHardwarePrinters select 'Add' uncheck the 'printer auto detect' box and pick an interface. You will then see a list of supported printers If your printer is not listed try a driver for a similar model. Also check out www.linuxprinting.org derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
On Friday 18 March 2005 10:52, Robert T. Yu wrote:
Yes
Put the text
no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never
remember)
on a line between the first set of {}in the file
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
You mean typing (--noclean) like so?
No
I mean what I said. Edit the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
and insert the text 'no-clean' between the braces.
Enter #urpmi.cfg in the URL line of konqueror to learn about the urpmi.cfg
file.
derek
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Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:26, Robert T. Yu wrote: Thank you for the answer and I hope I am not overstaying my welcome. If I were to do something like configuring Samba shares, do I have to login or SU as root? I figure that because I need to alter the smb.conf file. Once you have su'd to root enter konqueror to get a root copy of konqueror. You can edit smb.conf from there. Alternatively, if you use KDE hit Alt+F2 and in the box enter kdesu konqueror Alternatively if you have a 'contrib' urpmi source defined install the package ksambaplugin and then your KDE Control Centre will have a nice GUI from which you can enter admin mode and configure samba. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:53, Robert T. Yu wrote: Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? No Logging in as root is never necessary. Mandrake goes out of its way to make logging in as root as difficult and unpleasant as possible to try to discourage you. Anything you need to do as root you can do with kdesu or su in a terminal as I described. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] networking two mandrake 10.1 PC systems
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:29, Carlton Matthew wrote: I have two PCs sharing the same internet router, which I would like to network together. Both PCs are running mandrake 10.1, but I can't seem to make any network connections. Do I need to install something like samba on both machines? Thanks in Advance Carlton There are a number of ways you can network them together. (This is Linux you just knew there had to be more than one :-) Samba is one way. Other ways are NFS and Fish The simplest IMO is fish. I have a page on it here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/kio_fish.html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer recognition.
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:25, Carlton Matthew wrote: I have a HP laserjet 4 printer attached directly to the parallel port of my PC, Runing windows XP, the printer operates correctly. Mandrake 10.1 fails to locate the printer at all. any ideas? Thanks in advance Carlton Laserjet 4 is supported by Mandrake so it should find it. You did run the printer GUI in Mandrake Control Centre didn't you? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enlarging / partition
On Sunday 13 March 2005 21:18, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How can I enlarge the / partition? Thanks in advance, Paul diskdrake in MandrakeControlCentreMountPointsPartitions can resize a Linux partition, but that assumes that you have contiguous free space available on your drive at the end of the current partition. A more likely scenario is that you have space on a different hard drive, or on a different part of your existing drive, in which case the simplest solution is to mount part of your current file system on a new partition. You could for example mount /usr on a new partition. When you use diskdrake to create a new partition and select a mount point which already contains files (such as /usr), then diskdrake will offer to copy the existing files to the new partition for you. The new partition can then be mounted without any interruption. Note: I am not sure if diskdrake will remove the files from the 'old' partition in which case they will still be there and consuming space, but will be hidden from view by the 'new' /usr partition sitting on top. In order to delete those files and free up the space you would have to boot with MandrakeMove, Knoppix or some other liveCd distro and delete them. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:42, SOTL wrote: Hi All I have created a partition on one of my computer to store critical system data files called /mnt/System_Data. I am trying to configure MySQL so that it will use /mnt/System_Data as its default file storage. I looked for /etc/my.cnf; found I did not have one so I generated one. My /etc/my.cnf files contains exactly 1 line which is: datadir=/mnt/System_Data When I start MySQL I now receive the following error message: Found option without preceding group in config file /etc/my.cnf at line 1. Fatail error in default handling. Program aborted. Would appreciate help in ascertaining what should be added or how current should be modified. Frank It is failing because having created a /etc/my.cnf file it is expecting to find other parameters defined in there in addition to datadir (pid_file=, basedir=/, bindir=/usr/bin ) You could alternatively edit the datadir path in /etc/rc5.d/S90mysql which is the script that starts mysql Alternatively if you create a symlink from /var/lib/mysql to /mnt/System_Data/mysql then you would not need to change any configuration and your data would go in the folder you desire. BTW: In Linux /var is the default directory to hold data so why do you need to define a different one? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] --noclean
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 05:38, Julie Sloan wrote:
how would I go about making the --noclean option default for urpmi'ing, so
I don't have to remember to add it each time I d/l a program?
ty
In /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
add the line
noclean
between the first set of {}
(or is it no-clean ?)
derek
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Re: [newbie] Enlarging / partition
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:40, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:01:31 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I enlarge the / partition? diskdrake in MandrakeControlCentreMountPointsPartitions can resize a Linux partition, but that assumes that you have contiguous free space available on your drive at the end of the current partition. A more likely scenario is that you have space on a different hard drive, or on a different part of your existing drive, in which case the simplest solution is to mount part of your current file system on a new partition. You could for example mount /usr on a new partition. When you use diskdrake to create a new partition and select a mount point which already contains files (such as /usr), then diskdrake will offer to copy the existing files to the new partition for you. The new partition can then be mounted without any interruption. Note: I am not sure if diskdrake will remove the files from the 'old' partition in which case they will still be there and consuming space, but will be hidden from view by the 'new' /usr partition sitting on top. In order to delete those files and free up the space you would have to boot with MandrakeMove, Knoppix or some other liveCd distro and delete them. Thanks, Derek. Probably, I was not clear enough: I have a 80GB hard disk with 5GB for /, 1GB for the Swap partition and the remaining for /home. What I am wanting is to have 10GB for /, stealing 5GB from /home. Paul The answer remains the same. diskdrake can shrink /home for you. It will probably have to be unmounted at the time which means you will have to be logged in as root or else you will not be able to unmount /home. (Or boot up with MandrakeMove) The space freed up by shrinking /home is not going to be contiguous with your current '/' partition, so the easiest way to make use of it is to mount part of the file system on it as I described. I suggested /usr because there is quite a lot of files in there, but you could just as easily use /var or something. PS: I suggest backing up /home first. I would hate to be accused of making you trash all your data. BTW: You only appear to be using 16GB out of an 80GB drive. I hope you are not wasting that space with another Operating System? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] /etc/hosts
On Sunday 13 March 2005 05:53, SnapafunFrank wrote: Some time ago I got this working OK and only recently discovered that the /etc/hosts file has been re-written ~ possible still more stuff left over from the corruption of my .ICEauthority. Here's what I posted to assist someone at the time in regards to OOo opening slowly: Quote: mine reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 Snapafun.localdomainlocalhost 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.conSnapafun 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.conlocalhost Now that's somewhat overkill and needs a clean up but it works. End Quote: Since this time I have installed and have running at present ADSL via eth0. [ Dynamic with my ISP ] I seem to recall that another entry was required here for that ~ anyone know what that is supposed to be ? Hopefully this exercise will speed my system up to what it was before the .ICEauthority corruption. /etc/hosts has nothing to do with .ICEauthority You do not need to add anything when you go to ADSL The /etc/hosts file is simply a list to match host names to IP addresses. You did not need 4 separate lines, you could have just put 127.0.0.1 alias1 alias2 alias3 alias4 alias5 and so on... When you refer to a host name in for example a browser url, your computer will check to see if it is the hosts table before it bothers to ask a DNS server what the IP address of that host is. So if you try to browse to http://www.snapafun.con then your computer will immediately translate that as http://127.0.0.1 Thats all the /etc/hosts file does. You would most commonly use the hosts table to identify the other computers in a small local network with static addressing. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] devfs and udev
On Sunday 13 March 2005 03:13, SnapafunFrank wrote: I understand that devfs and udev ought not be running at the same time, but how do I stop devfs ? Within MCC I have stopped devfsd and unchecked it re boot up at start up, but still it runs. Question: I'm not even sure if devfsd and devfs are the same thing ~ anyone ? If so, then how do I turn devfs off and have it stay off through reboots ? ( It must be a simple edit of some file but I'm unaware of which one.) And of course the 'insight' question. Any ideas of the effect of leaving devfs turned off ? If you installed Mdk 10.1 as a fresh install then it will have installed udev. If you upgraded from a preevious release it could still be using devfsd. devfs and udev are mutually exclusive udev will not run if devfs is running. To stop devfs running then edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza edit the 'append' line to include the option devfs=nomount Then run 'lilo -v' to write the config to the boot sector, then reboot. You can completely remove devfsd with urpme devfsd. Both udev and devfsd create the 'nodes' in /dev for your drivers to connect to. In my experience udev is considerably better than devfsd because it does not suffer the long delay when logging on I had with devfsd. There may be some hardware that devfs works with better than udev, the only one I have found myself is 'lirc' the Linux Infra Red receiver driver, but unless you have a specific problem I would advise using udev. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find win32-codecs
On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could someone please tell me where can I find win32-codecs? I have tried several plf mirrors but with no success. Thanks in advance, Paul PLF has split into 'free' and 'nonfree' sections. (nonfree as in subject to patents or something, not as in you have to pay) Win32 codecs are in nonfree ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.1/i586/win32-codecs-1.6-3plf.i586.rpm derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions
On Sunday 13 March 2005 15:46, SOTL wrote: Hi All Little bit by little bit this system is beginning to work. As some of you may recall I set this box up with a data storage partation of /mnt/System_Data. From a operation perspective I have found that using a separate partition for data is much safer than storing data under any Linux normal partition like /home as it allows one to install, upgrade, and repair systems with lower probability of data loss. This system being different though I did not set it up as I normally do and mount the data partition to /home/user/data partition this has lead to a slight bit of confusion on my part. I attempted to set permissions on the data partition by modifying permission in root control center - Security - Permissions and then adding permission for user to access /mnt/System_Data This did not give me permission. SNIP This is not by any chance a FAT32 partition is it? If so then you cannot change permissions because FAT32 has no attribute bits you can change. Instead you have to define pseudo attributes for the entire partition when you mount it. To set this MandrakeControlCentreMount PointsPartitions select the partition then ToggletoExpertOptions Select umask=0 That will force the permissions to 777 for all users. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Thursday 10 March 2005 03:16, Amy wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:58:43 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command modinfo 3c59x lists the options for that driver, and we can refer to this page for a description http://www.scyld.com/vortex.html To force this driver to be full duplex edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf as root user (Alt+F2 and type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box to get a root copy of konqueror file manager) Add the line options 3c59x full_duplex=1 Then reboot derek Do I have to reboot? Shouldn't there be some way to restart the card/settings/whatever without rebooting? I'm spoiled and really really don't want to have to reboot my computer unless it is absolutely required. It feels like it takes too frellin' long to wait for it to shut down and restart itself. *pout* No rebooting is not essential. I just thought for a recent Windows refugee it would be something you were used to doing. ifdown and ifup are sufficient to cause the card to autodetect again, but it will not force reloading of the driver. What you need to do is service network stop rmmod 3c59x modprobe 3c59x service network start derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:57, Amy wrote: SNIP Part of the reason I left windows was to avoid stupid things like restarting my computer. Ug. That and I liked that my computer doesn't go funny on me just because it's been on for hours and/or days at a time. I ended up getting help from a friend though, which seems to have temporarily fixed the problem. We'll see if it holds whenever I end up having to turn my computer off for whatever reason. Probably the next time will be when I go to take it over to my boyfriend's house, but that will also include the adventure of getting it to work with a wireless adapter since he and his roommate have a wireless network happening. My friend talked me through using mii-tool to figure out what's up. First he had me check what the actual connection was (mii-tool eth1), to make sure it matched what the router was telling me. Then he had me use mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 to set it for full duplex mode. eth0 is the NIC onboard on the motherboard, I use a PCI NIC because my last motherboard had trouble with the onboard NIC. Anyhow, now, my router still doens't have the dull duplex light turned on, but if I do enough with my internet connection, it'll come on long enough to cooperate, and I am indeed back up and running for now. I'll make another post to this thread later if this change doesn't stick and I still have problems. But I should most likely be able to fix it with the other information provided in the thread if this doesn't stick if/when I have to restart next. Thanks for all your help! mii-tool is the other way of forcing full duplex. It will not survive a reboot you will have to run it every time you restart networking. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bittorrent setup
On Thursday 10 March 2005 14:03, Christopher Taylor wrote: Some of the sites that I am looking at only have downloads via bittorent. Can someone explain what this is and how it is setup? Thanks. Bittorrent is a peer2peer file transfer protocol that is especially good for big files such as iso images. When you join a torrent you download fragments of the file from many people at once and simultaneously you upload to other people. To use bittorrent install bittorrent and bittorrent-gui packages Also make sure the mozplugger package is installed if it is not already. (Restart your browser after installing mozplugger - mozplugger tells your system how to handle most browser file types. For a torrent file it will open up btdownloadgui.py for you) You should then be able to join a torrent just by clicking on the 'seed' file displayed on web pages with firefox/mozilla/konqueror/opera If that does not work then save the torrent seed file to disc and then open MenuInternetFileTransferBittorrentGUI and select the downloaded file. For Bittorrent to work you MUST open your firewall to permit uploading to other users. Bittorrent does not permit 'leeching'. (Taking without giving) In your firewall open ports 6881to 6889 and 6969 If you have an external firewall then forward those ports to your Linux computer. See http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] E mail server
On Thursday 10 March 2005 19:06, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello folks, I'm installing a web server, apache, and nowadays its running quite well. The next step is to provide full email service for those domains (nowaday we have two, zeti.net and kendersoftware.net). I've been googling for documentation about it, and i found some options like Postfix, Sendmail, Fetchmail and QMail (some of these are available through my Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack copy). I'd like to hear some opinions about, maybe someone out there can help me choose a server. Furthermore, I'd thank a lot if someone can provide me a tutorial, docs, etc, on what I need for making this stuff work (I'm looking at postfix.org docs 'cause Postfix seems to be reliable, but the material there is rather confussing...). Thanks for your time. Best wishes, Fernando Gómez. Follow my signature derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:00, Gica wrote: hi, I'm trying to install xmms for mandrake 9.2 in kde, but I have this error message. Can somebody told me what's wrong and what do I have to do? thanks Gica At a guess I would say you need to install gcc-c++ I assume there is a reason why you are compiling xmms and not just installing the RPM package? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 occurance with Firefox install
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. Before I did I backed up my home folder onto CD. After re-installing, I installed firefox and thunderbird with urpmi. I also restored the home folder from the CD. I saw immediately that the firefox was an older rev tried to use the version of firefox in my home folder (from the CD backup). It worked fine, until I tried to save bookmarks. The bookmarks stayed in the list until I shutdown firefox. I tried uninstalling both the older copy via the control panel and deleting the folder that had my backup copy. I then installed 1.0 via the installer. STill the same problem. I did find out that if I logged in to a root console and started firefox that way the bookmarks persisted. It was only starting from my account. I was able to solve the problem by removing the folders, in a root night commander console deleted the mozilla in my root folder and my account folder, the downloading 1.0.1 and installing to a folder in my home. Now I can save bookmarks. Tonight, I am going to try and go through the same procedure with Thunderbird which does not save my accounts. Take a look at the ownership of the files you have restored from the CD. Files contain attributes to determine their ownership and permissions. The ownership attribute is the UID:GID numbers (user and group IDs) If you added your users in a different sequence when you did the reinstall you will have a different UID from last time and you will not 'own' the files you backed up from CD. You will have to be root user to change the ownerships derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install
On Monday 07 March 2005 10:53, Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the internet. He has an NTL cable modem. I've never had a problem downloading support for my ISA linmodem, but he's not a techie, and I've never used cable modems before. I'm trying hard to prevent him from crossing over to the dark side, but he thinks he needs XP to access the net. I thought the Mandrake installation wizard detected modems like that, but I doesn't think it has. Can anyone who has experience please suggest some questions/solutions I can ask/recommend to him? Thanks very much. Marcus I am using NTL cable modem without any issue whatsoever. If he is connecting with an Ethernet cable then all he has to do is run the connect wizard and set it up for a LAN connection. He DOES NOT have to define it as a cable connection (I am not even sure what selecting 'cable connection' does in the wizard, but whatever it is he does not need it) He should set it to use DHCP and it will get its IP address from NTL and automatically use NTLs DNS servers. If he is using a USB cable to connect to his cable modem, then he will need to use the 'usbnet' driver. Now I am not sure if this will be automatically loaded with Mandrake 10.0 because I have never needed to try it out. I know the driver is present in 10.1 (in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/net ), and I also know that the LiveCD distribution PCLOS which is a Mandrake fork http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html will install the driver automatically for an NTL modem because I installed it for a friend last month with USB. If Mandrake does not automatically detect the modem when usb connected then put this line in /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 usbnet (Assuming there is not already another Ethernet port in the computer in which case use eth1) He should then be able to run the connection wizard and access the net. He has nothing to lose but his chains. Of course if he LIKES viruses, trojans, spyware, DRM derek On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:13, Davage, Marcus wrote: Where do I set it to use DHCP? Marcus The second page of the new connection wizard asks Automatic IP (BOOT/DHCP) or Manual Connection derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 occurance with Firefox install
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:53, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:12:17 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. Before I did I backed up my home folder onto CD. After re-installing, I installed firefox and thunderbird with urpmi. I also restored the home folder from the CD. I saw immediately that the firefox was an older rev tried to use the version of firefox in my home folder (from the CD backup). It worked fine, until I tried to save bookmarks. The bookmarks stayed in the list until I shutdown firefox. I tried uninstalling both the older copy via the control panel and deleting the folder that had my backup copy. I then installed 1.0 via the installer. STill the same problem. I did find out that if I logged in to a root console and started firefox that way the bookmarks persisted. It was only starting from my account. I was able to solve the problem by removing the folders, in a root night commander console deleted the mozilla in my root folder and my account folder, the downloading 1.0.1 and installing to a folder in my home. Now I can save bookmarks. Tonight, I am going to try and go through the same procedure with Thunderbird which does not save my accounts. Take a look at the ownership of the files you have restored from the CD. Files contain attributes to determine their ownership and permissions. The ownership attribute is the UID:GID numbers (user and group IDs) If you added your users in a different sequence when you did the reinstall you will have a different UID from last time and you will not 'own' the files you backed up from CD. You will have to be root user to change the ownerships derek -- Derek, That makes sense. The name was the same. I couldn't tell that there were different IDs from the terminal. I did try changing the ownerships at one point, but it was only for the sortcut on the desktop. From the command line ls -ln will list the UID/GID numbers derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:39, Gica wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:23 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:00, Gica wrote: hi, I'm trying to install xmms for mandrake 9.2 in kde, but I have this error message. Can somebody told me what's wrong and what do I have to do? thanks Gica At a guess I would say you need to install gcc-c++ I assume there is a reason why you are compiling xmms and not just installing the RPM package? derek If I'm trying to instal the rpm package I have this message : warning: user havardk does not exist - using root warning: group havardk does not exist - using root warning: user havardk does not exist - using root warning: group havardk does not exist - using root Thats OK. Its a warning not an error. It simply means the person who built the package was not root user when he created it. Your system has made root the owner of the files in the package which is normal. The package is now installed. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:03, Amy wrote: Hey guys! I noticed recently that my linksys router isn't showing the connection between my computer and the router as being functional in full duplex mode. This occurred after last friday when my Dad was having a new heater and air conditioning unit put in, the guys doing the installation accidentally turned off the power to the outlet my computer was hooked to. Since I wasn't home at the time, and my dad didn't realize this was going to happen (even if he did, I don't know that he would have been able to shut my computer down), my computer was turned off without shutting down correctly. The problem with the full duplex mode showed up after this occurred. I'm hoping it's just a setting was frelled, and that this can be fixed without replacing the network card in my computer, but my wandering through preferences hasn't lead me to find anything that might control the duplex mode. If anyone can point me towards where I might be able to fix this (or at least confirm that it is indeed my hardware that's the problem), I would most appreciate it. And in case anyone asks, I have reconnected the network cable on both ends, and I have plugged into various ports on the router to make sure it wasn't just the little light on the router that died. Thanks in advance! Amy Selection of half/full duplex is autodetected by the card itself. If it was working before, and now it isnt, then that would suggest something physical, a dodgy connector maybe, or a hardware fault. It is possible to force half or full duplex in most Linux drivers. It is just a matter of putting an option line in /etc/modprobe.conf If you let us know which driver you are using I can show you how to do that. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:45, Amy wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:34:13 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selection of half/full duplex is autodetected by the card itself. If it was working before, and now it isnt, then that would suggest something physical, a dodgy connector maybe, or a hardware fault. It is possible to force half or full duplex in most Linux drivers. It is just a matter of putting an option line in /etc/modprobe.conf If you let us know which driver you are using I can show you how to do that. derek I'm not sure which driver I'm using, it was auto detected when I did the install. How do I check? Mandrake ControlCentreNetworkManageConnections select your Interface and the 'Options Tab' The driver name is listed under 'Module name' derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Thursday 10 March 2005 00:26, Amy wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:55:30 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:45, Amy wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:34:13 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selection of half/full duplex is autodetected by the card itself. If it was working before, and now it isnt, then that would suggest something physical, a dodgy connector maybe, or a hardware fault. It is possible to force half or full duplex in most Linux drivers. It is just a matter of putting an option line in /etc/modprobe.conf If you let us know which driver you are using I can show you how to do that. derek I'm not sure which driver I'm using, it was auto detected when I did the install. How do I check? Mandrake ControlCentreNetworkManageConnections select your Interface and the 'Options Tab' The driver name is listed under 'Module name' derek Module name: 3c59x The command modinfo 3c59x lists the options for that driver, and we can refer to this page for a description http://www.scyld.com/vortex.html To force this driver to be full duplex edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf as root user (Alt+F2 and type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box to get a root copy of konqueror file manager) Add the line options 3c59x full_duplex=1 Then reboot derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:27, SOTL wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 19:05, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 22:21, SOTL wrote: Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log of fish's connection to the other computer. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this? Thanks Frank Spelling Correction The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log off [out of] the fish's connection to the other computer. Just close the window derek I tried that. Then I open another and I was still connected. I closed Konqueror and reopened that and I was still connected. I log out of the desk top and log back in and I was still connected. I rebooted and I was still connected. I rebooted the computer I was loged into and the connection was broken. Thanks Frank The ssh protocol (on which fish sits) has two mechanisms to test if the client is still there. TCPKeepAlive - will send packets to the client and will detect if the window has been closed or the computer rebooted. TCPKeepAlive defaults to ON in Mandrake. I think it takes about a minute before tearing down the connection. ClientAliveInterval/ClientAliveCountMax passes encrypted messages to the client to detect if it is still active. In Mandrake this feature defaults to OFF You can see/change the configuration if you look at the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config Where you see a line commented out with a '#' the value shown is the default. If you want to change it remove the '#' and restart ssh service in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. You can read all the options for ssh here http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man5/sshd_config.5.php I have been using ssh and fish now for several years, and have never had a need to change the default behaviour. Just kill a fish window when you are finished with it and everything will be fine. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking - OpenOffice
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:02, SOTL wrote: Hi All Well the positive news is that I am able to connect the two computers and transfer files by fish even though I am unable to log off the computer I am SSH into without rebooting that computer so I have fish working with a slight issues. Next item on the Network agenda is to access the Test Data Base that I have on one box using OpenOffice 1.9 database management program in the other box. You may recall that I have two Mandrake 10.1 boxes connected with a router [Fire wall currently turned off. Fire will to be activated after I figure out DB connection procedure.] Anyway I did the following in this attempt to connect: Opened OpenOffice 1.9 selected new DB and then connect to an existing DB. [Why connect to an existing DB is under Create New DB instead of being under Open is beyond my grasp but that is where it is located.] Anyway a dialog box opens where you can either directly enter the file name or select by browse for the directory where the DB is located you want to connect to. I tried entering: http://branch @192.168.1.3/home/Test-DB I received the folowing notice: The file does not exist. Would you like to create it? I tried entering: fish://branch @192.168.1.3/home/Test-DB And I again received the folowing notice: The file does not exist. Would you like to create it? If anyone knows how to use OpenOffice DB manager to connect to a DB in another computer I would appreciate a little guidance in doing such. Thanks Frank I have no experience with OpenOffice 1.9 or using it with databases, but I know for sure that http://; and fish:// are not the file types you should be using. If it is a local file the file type will be file:// As I pointed out when you first contacted the list, fish:// is only understood by KDE applications. Open Office does not use it. One method you *can* use with OpenOffice is NFS (Network File System) NFS allows you to mount remote folders as if they were local folders. Open Office would not even be aware the database was remote. (If the remote database was MySQL then it would not need to be mounted at all. Open Office could connect to it directly) To set up NFS in Mandrake install portmapper, nfs-utils and nfs-utils-clients. On the server edit the file /etc/exports and add lines in the format /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash) This line will advertise that the folder /home may be accessed by computers on the 192.168.1 subnetwork for read and write. Note : There MUST be a TAB character after the directory name NOT SPACES The last line must end in new line Then in a root console enter exportfs -ra This will make the share available to other computers. Now in the client open MandrakeControlCentreMount PointsNFS Click the button to search the network. It should find the directories you just shared on the server. Pick a mount point for the folder (normally somewhere under /mnt ) When you boot the client it will by default automatically connect to the server. If the server is down at boot time you will have to mount it manually. There is a tool in KDE to do this MenuSystemMonitoringKwikDisk an applet will appear in the Quickstart menu. NFS is notoriously insecure and should not be used on a non trusted network. NFS is also VERY particular about file attributes. If a file does not have public permission (777) then the UID (User) and GID (Group) numbers of users on the two computers must match or else you will not be able to read the file. For example on this computer my username is derek and my UID:GID numbers are 501:501 If the remote computer has files owned by user derek with UID:GID of 502:502 I would not be able to read those files over NFS. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:44, Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but the remaining Windows boxes could not. The gateway on the Windows boxes was set to 192.168.4.111 which is the static IP of the Mandrake box. I tries setting up the Mandrake box as a proxy (I've been using drakwizard to set these up) using squid, but the the Windows box still could not access the internet. I did change the proxy settings on the Windows box to use ip 192.168.4.111 and the port suggested by drakwizard. What is it that I need to do? My goal is to have everything routed through the Mandrake box under one firewall. Eventually I would like to expose the server to the outside world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. The gateway is the box that is physically connected to the internet. That is still your Linksys, so you must set 192.168.4.1 as the gateway address regardless which box is the DHCP server. (I assume the Windows boxes are also on the 192.168.4 subnet) If you are using Squid proxy, then the Windows clients will not need the Linksys as a gateway for browsing, but the Windows clients must be configured to use a proxy on 192.168.4.111 port 3128 If you still have problems check you do not have a firewall on the Linux box blocking access to the proxy. BTW: You could keep the Linksys but set it up to do port forwarding to the Linux box for your remote access. Your Linksys manual will describe port forwarding. You can still use dynamic DNS (which is what I assume you mean by dynamic dhcp) by using ddclient to update dynamic DNS servers with the external IP address of the Linksys. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install
On Monday 07 March 2005 10:53, Marcus Davage wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to convert a friend, who's built his own PC, from XP to Linux. So far, his experience with installing Mandrake 10.0 (the only version I had to lend him) has been good, except that he says he can't connect to the internet. He has an NTL cable modem. I've never had a problem downloading support for my ISA linmodem, but he's not a techie, and I've never used cable modems before. I'm trying hard to prevent him from crossing over to the dark side, but he thinks he needs XP to access the net. I thought the Mandrake installation wizard detected modems like that, but I doesn't think it has. Can anyone who has experience please suggest some questions/solutions I can ask/recommend to him? Thanks very much. Marcus I am using NTL cable modem without any issue whatsoever. If he is connecting with an Ethernet cable then all he has to do is run the connect wizard and set it up for a LAN connection. He DOES NOT have to define it as a cable connection (I am not even sure what selecting 'cable connection' does in the wizard, but whatever it is he does not need it) He should set it to use DHCP and it will get its IP address from NTL and automatically use NTLs DNS servers. If he is using a USB cable to connect to his cable modem, then he will need to use the 'usbnet' driver. Now I am not sure if this will be automatically loaded with Mandrake 10.0 because I have never needed to try it out. I know the driver is present in 10.1 (in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/net ), and I also know that the LiveCD distribution PCLOS which is a Mandrake fork http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html will install the driver automatically for an NTL modem because I installed it for a friend last month with USB. If Mandrake does not automatically detect the modem when usb connected then put this line in /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 usbnet (Assuming there is not already another Ethernet port in the computer in which case use eth1) He should then be able to run the connection wizard and access the net. He has nothing to lose but his chains. Of course if he LIKES viruses, trojans, spyware, DRM derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Script for iptables
On Monday 07 March 2005 11:09, Dennis wrote: How do I create a script for iptables? You can google for one. But is not the sort of thing a newbie needs to do. There are perfectly good front ends for iptables such as the shorewall firewall built into Mandrake that makes writing your own iptables scripts unnecessary. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Monday 07 March 2005 22:21, SOTL wrote: Hi All The good news is that I am able to connect from either of my computer to the other by fish. The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log of fish's connection to the other computer. Does anyone have any ideas of how to do this? Thanks Frank Spelling Correction The bad fish news is that I do not understand how to log off [out of] the fish's connection to the other computer. Just close the window derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with Ipw2200 BG
On Sunday 06 March 2005 18:23, Henriette Holm wrote: Hi. You've probably all seen a question like this before, but here goes I have a laptop running MDK 10.1. I'm trying to get my wireless adapter to work. I've been looking through different mailing lists, forums etc. but what I really need is a step-by-step guide getting this to work. I can see that Mandrake already comes with a driver but what to do with thisI haven't a clue. Please help. -Henriette Mandrake supplies the driver but not the Intel proprietary firmware. Go here http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php download the correct .tar.gz file To uncompress the file just click on it with konqueror. Extract the firmware and put it into /lib/hotplug/firmware You will need to be root user to do that so open up a root copy of konqueror with Alt+F2 and type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box. Reboot and the firmware should load and you should be able to run through the new connection wizard in MandrakeControl Centre. I hope I got that right since I do not actually own one of those. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] workgroup
On Sunday 06 March 2005 20:11, Michel Leunen wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: You don't Linux does not use workgroups. I assume that you are running Samba somehow, as Samba uses workgroup names to meet Windows networking conventions. The default samba workgroup is 'mdkgroup',that's what I wanna change. The Windows machines on a network need to have a workgroup, Linux machines don't have to have a workgroup, but may to fool Windows. Do you mean that it doesn't matter? I can connect to windows machines on a different workgroup (MSHOME) but does it mean no matter what the linux workgroup is I can *always* connect to the MSHOME workgroup? It seems to be the case but... Thanks. Michel Install ksambaplugin and your KDE control Centre will have a nice little GUI in which you can configure Samba including the workgroup name. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with Ipw2200 BG
On Sunday 06 March 2005 22:49, Julie Sloan wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 03:35 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: download the correct .tar.gz file To uncompress the file just click on it with konqueror. You will need to be root user to do that so open up a root copy of konqueror with Alt+F2 and type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box. kdesu konqueror! how cool! this is handy to know. (Alt-F2 does nothing on my box - is this a keyboard problem?) I was assuming KDE was the Window Manager. Alt+F2 in KDE gives you a Run box to enter a single command. kdesu is simply a way to run a single command as root. The alternative is to open a terminal and enter su to become root user, then all commands will run as root. e.g. konqueror (The '' runs the command in background so the terminal can do other things.) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CD sound
On Monday 07 March 2005 00:03, Teilhard Knight wrote: The wiring is OK in the three computers. I can listen to CD music in other OSs. Teilhard That is not proof the wiring is OK Windows does not need the analogue cable since it reads audio CDs using the IDE interface. So to save money many computer manufacturers omit the audio cable. The advice Kaj gave is good install xmms-cdread and configure xmms to read audio CDs through IDE See my page here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups
On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:23, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:25:53 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, DJ webdav or ssh automatically at regular intervals. You can DJ configure drakbackup to do a full backup, or an incremental backup DJ from the previous one. Is it possible to back up only certain (and previously specified) directories and NOT the whole /home? Thanks in advance, Paul yes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:04, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: SNIP Further question. Have been looking at cron directories (I think anyway!). Have a long list of /etc/rc or etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly and so on. With regard to the above script - do I navigate to the appropriate line eg /etc/cron.daily then insert the script? I know this sounds basic to experienced users, but it is like speaking a foreign language to me. Thanks Rosemary As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups for you. Make sure drakxtools is installed then, Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, webdav or ssh automatically at regular intervals. You can configure drakbackup to do a full backup, or an incremental backup from the previous one. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, 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? ;-) Thanks. 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. :-( Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? I just tried it and it works. BTW: The page is quite pretty now isn't it? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT - backups
On Friday 04 March 2005 20:30, rikona wrote: Hello Derek, Friday, March 4, 2005, 1:29:09 AM, Derek wrote: DJ As usual Mandrake has a nice newbie friendly tool to do backups DJ for you. DJ Make sure drakxtools is installed then, DJ Mandrake Control CentreSystemBackups DJ It will back up your /home and /etc folders to CD, ftp, rsync, DJ webdav or ssh automatically at regular intervals. You can DJ configure drakbackup to do a full backup, or an incremental backup DJ from the previous one. Does this backup include a verify step, especially if to CD/DVD, for us paranoid types? :-)) I have never tried it to CD, but I can confirm when you do an ssh backup you will be sent an email with a positive acknowledgement that the files were received intact on the server. I took a look at the code, and it does not seem to do a verify after write on CD. If you need that feature then raise a feature request on Bugzilla. Drakbackup is maintained by Stew Benedict. He often can be found on the expert list. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices
On Friday 04 March 2005 23:07, Paul Kaplan wrote: Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set to your address. You do not need a Reply To set for *any* emails unless you are sending from one address and want the replies to go to another. If there is no Reply To then replies will go to whoever sent the mail. In the case of your personal mails that will be you, in the case of list mails that will be the list. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Suggestions for replacement applications
On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:04, hackhound wrote: I am slowing making the transition from W2K to Linux. Two of the applications that I miss the most are MS Money and Macromedia Dreamweaver. I am looking for a good Linux alternative. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, JB Both MS Money and Dreamweaver will work under Linux if you purchase Crossover Office (www.codeweavers.com) Crossover is a commercial version of Wine. You could use the standard free version of Wine, but it can be a lot harder getting apps to work. The guys at Codeweavers have done a great job at making Windows apps easy to install and run. (and they are the single largest contributor to the Wine project www.winehq.org ) As for Native Linux applications instead of MSMoney you can try Gnucash (on your CDs) www.gnucash.org, or Moneydance moneydance.com (non free), but personally I do not think they are as good as the Quicken I use under Crossover. As for a Dreamweaver alternative, I have never used it and do not know its capabilities. I make my web pages with Quanta (its on your CDs). Open Office also does a decent job of generating HTML. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Suggestions for replacement applications
On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:50, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:04, hackhound wrote: I am slowing making the transition from W2K to Linux. Two of the applications that I miss the most are MS Money and Macromedia Dreamweaver. I am looking for a good Linux alternative. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, JB Both MS Money and Dreamweaver will work under Linux if you purchase Crossover Office (www.codeweavers.com) Crossover is a commercial version of Wine. You could use the standard free version of Wine, but it can be a lot harder getting apps to work. The guys at Codeweavers have done a great job at making Windows apps easy to install and run. (and they are the single largest contributor to the Wine project www.winehq.org ) As for Native Linux applications instead of MSMoney you can try Gnucash (on your CDs) www.gnucash.org, or Moneydance moneydance.com (non free), but personally I do not think they are as good as the Quicken I use under Crossover. As for a Dreamweaver alternative, I have never used it and do not know its capabilities. I make my web pages with Quanta (its on your CDs). Open Office also does a decent job of generating HTML. HTH derek Correction to my previous post. MS Money is not officially supported by Codeweavers, although posts on their support site mention people running it on the latest release. DreamweaverMX works quite well, but Dreamweaver MX2004 does not yet work. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 KDE
On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:33, Phlod wrote: Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. After searching through the list archive, I couldn't find an answer to my question, so I thought I'd ask here. Please excuse me if this has been answered already. Anyway, what I want to know is, how much of a pain is upgrading to KDE 3.3, and what the best/most painless way to go about it? I have the thracs.rpms repository added. Is it really as simple as 'init 3', and 'urpmi kdebase-3.3.3-20'?? I've also heard people suggest adding the cooker repository and upgrading that way, but I'm rather leery of doing that, since I don't *really* want to run an unstable distro, no matter how stable it actually is. Also, if I do the kdebase upgrade, and still have older parts of KDE installed (Kopete, amaroK, etc.), will it blow up, or just run them until I upgrade those parts too? Sorry about multiple questions here, but I'm trying to avoid having to re-install, (which would be my kneejerk reaction if the KDE upgrade doesn't work). --Phlod Actually you do not even need the 'init 3' You can upgrade KDE while you are running it. Just do not try opening any new applications while you are halfway through the upgrade. Do NOT add Cooker repository unless you want to upgrade your entire system to Cooker. Even though you only want to install KDE you will find 100's of other packages will get pulled in as dependencies. As soon as you upgrade kdebase with urpmi, any other application which depends on kdebase will also get upgraded. That means most KDE apps. And of course if you screw it all up you will still be able to log in with a different Window Manager. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up virtual IP address
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 04:18, Antony Paul wrote: Hi all, I need to have multiple IP address for the same ethernet card for development purposes in MDK 10.1. I was unable to set up it using the Configure application. SO I googled and learned how to do it manually. I added following file to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory. ifcfg-eth0:0 Its permissions are -rw-r--r-- . The contents are IPADDR=192.168.4.174 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 Now I have it working but shorewall is not starting up it says in var/log/messages shorewall:Error: Invalid Interface Name: eth0:0 shorewall: /etc/rc5.d/S10shorewall: line 89: 1697 Terminated /sbin/shorewall check rc: Starting shorewall: failed How to fix it ? rgds Antony Paul Google is my friend See Example 7 at http://www.shorewall.net/Documentation.htm#Interfaces derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:51, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 22:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. Unfortunately there is no entry for SpamAssassin. . Can anyone give an incantation to get it there (or even visible in Webmin)? The RPM is SpamAssassin-3.0.2-0.1010.lmdk.i586.rpm. Regards David The service is called 'spamd' I'll correct the document. derek Hmm, I'm still running v9.2 here so some things may be different, and if they are, I apologise for wasting the bandwith but... here...if I use spamd it takes a lot longer to d/l my e-mail. If I use spamc on the other hand, all is well. Just a random observation there. PS This however, is not with postfix, just running it through kmail. That´s my problem too! How can I change from spamd to spamc, since spamd is started at boot time? Ricardo Castanho Brazil I think there is a little misunderstanding here. You can use spamassassin in two ways. Firstly as a perl standalone application, in which case you call it with the command 'spamassassin'. This is the simplest way to use spamassassin. See 'man spamassassin' Or secondly as a pair of C programmes called spamd and spamc. Spamd is the daemon which runs continuously, and spamc is the client to access spamd. Spamd/spamc are better for larger mail servers because they have much smaller memory requirements and are faster. My guide describes using spamd/spamc with a Postfix server. See 'man spamc' derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] postifx not receiving outside mail
On Saturday 26 February 2005 21:44, hackhound wrote: Okay, I have postfix installed and configured (I think correctly). I can send email between local users, and out to the world, but I cannot receive any messages. I have ports 25 and 110 open on my firewall (router). I am stumped about what I am missing. Thanks, Hackhound I assume your domain name resolves? If you let us know what it is we can try connecting to your postfix server. The log files in /etc/log/mail can be very informative. And are you sure your ISP does not block port 25? BTW You only need port 110 open if you want to read your mail via POP3 while travelling. If you do not need that, then close the port. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup
On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. Unfortunately there is no entry for SpamAssassin. . Can anyone give an incantation to get it there (or even visible in Webmin)? The RPM is SpamAssassin-3.0.2-0.1010.lmdk.i586.rpm. Regards David The service is called 'spamd' I'll correct the document. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Friday 25 February 2005 12:37, SOTL wrote: I doubt very much if your hub is directly connected to the internet. You mean it connects to a DSL modem or router? Both computers seem to work, so they must both have IP addresses, and something is performing NAT (Network Address Translation) or else they could not both work at the same time. Can you be more specific please? Local LAN is not mine, nor do I currently have access to which previously I did so I am going from memory. Earhernet line from ISP goes as you suggested to DSL modem which in tern is connected to [if I understand correctly] a switch [which could be a hub] which splits into 4 or 5 computer connections and to at least one additional switch [or hub]. Here is where I am vague. One of the lines from one of the first or second [I know not which] goes to a wireless router which is used to transmit signal from main building to secondary building where my current office is. Signal from wireless router is at that point picked up by internal wireless cards in 3 computers and by my wireless bridge. Bridge is connected to my 2 test computers with Mandrake 10.1 and Mandrake 9.2. OK, So I imagine you are getting your IP addresses from your company DHCP server. If you look at the connection info in Mandrake Control Centre you should be able to see your IP addresses. SNIP Fire wall was set to default in both computers at time of installation. Does that mean I have shorewall Installed and need the above modification. I just checked configuration on 10.1; firewall is set to off. Not certain on 9.2 box at this time but believe it to be same as 10.1 box. If the Firewall GUI in MandrakeControl Centre is set to 'Off' then shorewall is either not installed or active and you do not need this modification. When the firewall is off each computer should respond to a ping if you give the correct IP addresses. No If you want to share files between Linux computers and you are a KDE user the 'fish' protocol is ideal. See http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/kio_fish.html As I understand the instructions I need SSH running on both computers and I access remote computer by: fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory Here is where my lack of knowledge of Mandrake and linux enters. I have not set up either SSH or hostname. SSH may be set if and only if it was set automatically during installation. To install ssh use the MandrakeControlCentreSoftwareInstall GUI and install the packages openssh and openssh-clients It will start running automatically. (You can confirm it is running in MCCSystemServices) You can use fish with either fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory Your Hostname is set in MandrakeControlCentreNetworkInternet access If you want to use hostnames to connect to a remote computer your Computer needs to be able to translate host names into IP addresses. You may have a company DNS server which can do that for you, or else if your IP addresses never changes you can put an entry in the file /etc/hosts which matches IP addresses to host names. /etc/hosts has the format ip_address hostname1 hostname2 where hostname1 and hostname2 are alternative hostnames for the same computer. /etc/hosts is a system file and can only be edited by root user. If you are in KDE hit Alt+F2 and enter 'kdesu konqueror' to get a root copy of konqueror file manager. If your IP address does keep changing, then it may be more convenient to use samba instead of fish. Samba allows you to join a Windows network, and you can pass files between both Windows and Linux computers. Since I would imagine part of my ping issue is that hostname is not set and user name may not be [not sure if user name is same as login user or if this is different user name] lets tackle username and host name first. How do I set them up? The user name is the login name. derek Thanks for the help Frank HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Friday 25 February 2005 15:58, SOTL wrote: SNIP I can NOT find kio_fish when I check for installed package or for packages that I have NOT installed yet. I am thus assuming that this package was not included with Mandrake 10.1 or that I am not searching for the correct package. Before I download a tar file from KDE and attempt to install please verify that kio_fish is not hiding is some package by another name. Also how do I verify that I do or do not have the package running. Above check was made by install and uninstall packages in software management. Thanks Frank The plugin is installed by default in Mandrake 9.2 onwards The kio_fish plugin is already part of your KDE. You do not need to download/install anything as you will see if you use urpmf $ urpmf kio_fish libkdebase4:/usr/lib/kde3/kio_fish.la libkdebase4:/usr/lib/kde3/kio_fish.so libkdebase4:/usr/lib/kde3/kio_fish.la libkdebase4:/usr/lib/kde3/kio_fish.so derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] connecting to another computer
On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:38, Jose Rafael Carrero Leon wrote: Hello ! I installed 10.1 for a friend and it would be wonderful if I could access his computer from here because he lives very far. How could I do that ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques Use SSH, you must be an user in the other machine or know the password for an existing user To expand on that a little more. ssh is much more secure than telnet. Just install the openssh-server package on his machine, and openssh-clients on yours and then open a terminal and enter ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] He must have port 22 open in his firewall to allow the ssh connection in. Your security is only as good as the passwords you choose. So make a strong password or else someone **will** hack into his computer. You can make the security stronger by setting his shorewall firewall to only accept ssh connections from your IP address. In his /etc/shorewall/rules insert a line ACCEPT net:your_ip_addyfw tcp ssh then 'shorewall restart' to apply the new rule. This assumes of course that your IP address does not change. You can make ssh even more secure by implementing private keys as described here http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:D2iGdSh6vZQJ:www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php+mandrakesecure+making+most+sshhl=en Then only users whose private security key is known to the host can make an ssh connection. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing PHP
On Thursday 24 February 2005 18:19, Christopher Taylor wrote: I'm new to Linux and I just got a 1.8GHz pc with no OS so I downloaded the 3 iso's and installed 10.1. I see that Apache is running. Is there a resource available that would tell me how to install php and mySQL? I would really like to debug my websites locally. Any help is greatly appreciated. Christopher Taylor MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputer?SoftwareInstall type php in the search box and select the apache2-mod-php package, type mysql in the search box and select the MySQL and MySQL-client packages. Install them, then restart apache from MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices restart the httpd service. Thats it done! To administer MySql the phpMyAdmin package is very useful. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] connecting to another computer
On Friday 25 February 2005 01:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:13 -0500, Paul Greene wrote: It's easier if they have a 24/7 broadband connection. We both are, but IP adresses change every time a new connection is made. Then get him to get a dynamic domain name from www.dyndns.org, install ddclient from contrib, edit /etc/ddclient.conf with your dyndns account details. Every time his IP address changes ddclient will inform the dyndns server and you can reach him using his domain name. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
On Friday 25 February 2005 00:17, SOTL wrote: Hi All As a user not a geek I have worked with and used Linux for some time but until recently I have not had the opportunity of using my computers on anything but dial up internet connections. Currently I have that opportunity. I would purchase a book on networking except that I have several older ones which did not help when I attempted networking several years ago. Likewise I find on line Howtos impossible since there are so many contradictory ones addressing different issues. What I would like to do is network 2 linux computers so that one may copy files from one to the other and possible other connections later such as storing a data base on one that may be read by another. Physically what I have is 2 computers 1 running Mandrake 10.1 and 1 running Mandrake 9.2 [sorry this computer can not be upgraded to 10.1 with current hardware and my current knowledge as that would mean network installation or the purchase of additional hardware or CDs] connected together with a hub which is also connected to an eithernet RJ45 line and the internet. I doubt very much if your hub is directly connected to the internet. You mean it connects to a DSL modem or router? Both computers seem to work, so they must both have IP addresses, and something is performing NAT (Network Address Translation) or else they could not both work at the same time. Can you be more specific please? Each computer has internet capability and is fully operational in that I can and do get web sites and e-mail to and from each. Neither computer can ping the other. If you have enabled the shorewall firewall then pings are disabled by default. If you want to enable ping put ACCEPT net fw icmp8 into /etc/shorewall/rules and restart shorewall First question: Do I need to install share? [Mandrake Control Center - Network Internet - Internet connection Sharing] No If you want to share files between Linux computers and you are a KDE user the 'fish' protocol is ideal. See http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/kio_fish.html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org 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 do you stop urpmi from cleaning download cache?
On Friday 25 February 2005 01:23, Mark Cooke wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this question has been asked a thousand time, but I cannot find any details on how to do this (probably wrong search terms), but.. Is there a way to stop urpmi from cleaning out the cache of rpm's it has downloaded into: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms I have managed to find the command option --noclean, and I have tried adding it into the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file, as both: noclean urpmi --noclean but this still cleans out any downloads, after using the mandrake control center installer module. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I would like to install Mandrake on my wife's machine and do not fancy downloading all the files again on a 56k modem. Thanks Mark Did you try no-clean ? The manual does not explicitly mention it, but other commands can be negated with 'no-' See man urpmi.cfg derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] logging off
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 14:54, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: riccardo wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 08:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time? ~ maybe, it is stopping starting that puts most wear on PC . . . best leave puter on 24/7 [ sometimes have puter running for a month without a shutdown ] - just unplug the monitor power at night. ~ during spare-time perhaps you might like to do a bit of [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], or something like that? best rgds ___ I'm not keen to have computer connected to Internet for long periods as I don't have a firewall or any other security set up yet in Mandrake. Fine about leaving it on though. Well it is only a few clicks in MandrakeControlCentreSecurityFirewall to turn the firewall on. But even without a firewall your Linux computer is remarkably safe compared to a Windows machine. I forget the web address, but sometime ago a security analysis site put a Mandrake computer with default settings on the web without a firewall, and invited all comers to try to crack it. It took over 6 months before anyone managed to find a way in. And before you ask, No you do not need any anti virus software in Linux. Effectively there are no Linux viruses. You are not going to get infected. The only time you need anti virus software is if you act as a mail server for Windows clients and want to protect Windows users from infection. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Does CUPS automatically detect network printer
On Thursday 24 February 2005 03:00, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use CUPS through mcc. When it searched for network printer, it found nothing. I'm totally new with this CUPS thing. Could you give me some direction? Does CUPS automatically detect network printer, or is there some conf files I should edit? Thanks. If its a Windows printer you will need to have samba-client installed before CUPS will find it. (And the printer must be configured for sharing in Windows) If the scan does not find it then put the explicit IP address in the wizard. Also if you have a firewall in place then you will need to open the appropriate port. 631 for CUPS servers 9100 for print server. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] email problems
On Thursday 24 February 2005 02:05, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I downloaded Thunderbird but have had nothing but problems with not storing profile, freezing, and not opening links - well not connecting to browser to open links. So have come back to Kmail but now having the problem with links not opening here. I see the Firefox swirling timer thingie, then it disappears. The little dialogue progress box says file not found or something. How do I lnik it to Konqueror - maybe that will fix it? Thanks Rosemary MenuSystemConfigirationConfigureyourDesktop ComponentsFileAssociations put html in the search box select the html type, and in the right hand panel move konqueror to the top of the application preference order. By the way. What file precisely does kmail/konqueror say it cannot find? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Courier-imap in xinetd (was Bad gateway)
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 05:54, Paul wrote: SNIP Derek wrote: In squirrelmail did you set $domain = 'cp143764-a.mill1.nb.home.nl'; That is what I tried last night, and that at least got me to the loginscreen of Squirrelmail. From there I got the problem that the connection was refused (error message 111) which started this thread. So to paraphrase your problem : You need to tell squirrelmail to use the domain cp143764-a.mill1.nb.home.nl or else you do not get the squirrelmail login, but when you do, then you get code=DNS_HOST_NOT_FOUND when you try to log in? Does your Apache access/error logs throw any light on what it is trying to do? Also if you set DEBUG_LOGIN=2 in /etc/courier/imapd and restart courier-imap then you will get detailed log in messages in the log including passwords. That may give you a clue. And can you confirm what version of squirrelmail you are using? Mine is squirrelmail-1.4.3a-10mdk derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP, Firewall and Proxy
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:11, Dennis wrote: Hi, I want to setup a DHCP, Firewall and Proxy server. What do I need to install first? Thanks Install drakwizard and your MandrakeControl Centre will have a new 'Server' section to allow you to install the DHCP and Proxy servers. For the Firewall use the Mandrake GUI for the initial setup, but then use the shorewall firewall module in Webmin for more detailed setup. (Install webmin, then start the webmin service in MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices, then point your browser to https://localhost:1 ) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
