Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Monday 08 November 2004 00:55, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2004 03:34 am, Eric Scott wrote: Hold up. Reinstalling proftpd got me a default that worked... supposedly... but then why does it say 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) when I ftp into my domain. lol. Gee wizzle this is getting confusing. Here I thought I was dealing with proFTP, and now there's vsFTP... which I didn't even remember I installed. Anyway; since it's already running... where's the vsFTPd config file? lol. Sigma It should be in /etc/vsftpd.conf However, back to proftpd. On default installation (without any config to edit), you should be able to connect to your FTP server, using your system username and password. Well I got proFTPd working. Somehow (Don't ask me how) I got vsFTPd insatlled earlier from source with the config file someplace else. I couldn't find it in etc or anywhere. But yeah, I disabled vsFTPd and now proFTPd works fine. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Setup NFS access?
Yo peeps;
I'm trying to set up an NFS server on my Mandrake 9.2 server with client
access from a SuSE 9.1 box. Here's what I did on the server:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ssh sipca.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]# vi /etc/exports
snip
Added /var/www/html sipca.org(ro,root_squash)
/snip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]# exportfs -r
exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for export
*:/home/eric.
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions
exportfs: /etc/exports [3]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for export
sipca.org:/var/www/html.
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]#
On the SuSE box I got:
linux:/mnt # mount -t nfs sipca.org:/var/www/html /mnt/athlonxp
pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Timed out
mount: sipca.org:/var/www/html failed, reason given by server: Permission
denied
I'm new to NFS... and all this I just tried from a googled howto. Any help?
Thanx,
ES
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Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?
On Sunday 07 November 2004 14:08, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 07 November 2004 19:12, Eric Scott wrote:
Yo peeps;
I'm trying to set up an NFS server on my Mandrake 9.2 server with client
access from a SuSE 9.1 box. Here's what I did on the server:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ssh sipca.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]# vi /etc/exports
snip
Added /var/www/html sipca.org(ro,root_squash)
/snip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]# exportfs -r
exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for
export *:/home/eric.
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions
exportfs: /etc/exports [3]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for
export sipca.org:/var/www/html.
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric]#
On the SuSE box I got:
linux:/mnt # mount -t nfs sipca.org:/var/www/html /mnt/athlonxp
pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Timed out
mount: sipca.org:/var/www/html failed, reason given by server:
Permission denied
I'm new to NFS... and all this I just tried from a googled howto. Any
help? Thanx,
ES
Are you running a firewall? If so you need to open port 111 and also make
sure the portmapper service is running.
BTW: The easy way for newbies to set up NFS servers is to use the 'NFS
Mount' GUI in Mandrake Control Centre. It works over an ssh link. Just
start 'mcc' from your ssh shell.
derek
Whelp I don't have a firewall... and I don't know about you but my MCC only
lets me mount servers with NFS Mounts, not create them. Am I missing
something? My entire /etc/exports file is as follows:
/home/eric *(rw)
/var/www/html *(rw)
It says permission denied when I try to access. Any help?
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Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?
On Sunday 07 November 2004 17:24, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 07 November 2004 23:45, Eric Scott wrote: /home/eric *(rw) /var/www/html *(rw) It says permission denied when I try to access. Any help? Just open /home/eric with konqueror and rightclick the directory you want to share, and go down to the bottom of the menu and select share. If you haven't configured filesharing yet (be it nfs or samba) you can click on configure filesharing button there or (if you have); click on the shared radio button. That's about it...it can't get much harder IMO;) About /var/www/html; I'm not so sure that's shareable in the nfs way, I useally restrict myself to /home/triade files for safety's sake. Well sharing home direcories won't help me. I need the html directory. -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?
On Sunday 07 November 2004 17:53, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 08 November 2004 00:32, Eric Scott wrote: Well sharing home direcories won't help me. I need the html directory. So what are you trying to share? /var/www/html sounds more like a webserver to mewhich could be reached by:http://adres_of_your_box_here:80; depending on what webserver software you're running, or from where you're connecting from if you've got a firewall..don't need any sharing there! Right, I'm trying to share the web server directory read/write for easy remote website editing. It seems like it'd be much more convenient over NFS than FTP or SCP. If you've got a better idea I'm open for tips. My I-net connection has like a 4k upload rate, and editing over SSH/VNC is starting to become a real chore. I just got FTP running though, which I will need for a few clients, and can live with it for the present, but as a web host administrator I'd like to have NFS access to the entire http server directory. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firewall Admin?
Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES Chech you log files - the messages generated when you try to connect should be helpful. It may be that xinetd is listening because of the proftpd-xinetd file. If so, and the path to proftpd is wrong, you will get this kind of response. You will also get it if proftpd is not configured properly. You could also be running into a problem because of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. A lot of daemons check these files to see if the system trying to connect is allowed to use the service. Everything run through xinetd is subject to these rules. But the error message doesn't really indicate this problem. In any case, it is not a firewall problem right now, because you do connect, but the connection is dropped afterworlds. Mikkel Aha! Would it be because my /etc/proftpd.conf file has severtype set to standalone? What to I replace standalone with to tell it to work through xinetd? just inetd or xinetd? thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] POP3 on 9.2?
Okay, so I gotta get a POP3 server on my MDK 9.2 box. Any suggestions on what I should use? I need something simple; I've never run a mail server before. And, at that, how do I set it up? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 18:32, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek Well I did what you said and got it reinstalled. I installed everything that came up when I searched for proftp, but there's still no server section in the control center. I installed gproftpd, but it only works for standalone, and I'd prefer to run it via xinetd (Which is the default setup.) I've found enough howto's that I might be able to dig and and config it manually via the /etc/proftpd.conf file... maybe :-P. One plus: I know the server works now. lol; in konqueror when I go to ftp://[mydomain] it logs in and gives me an empty directory with a pub folder... it's a start. Anyway, do you know the package for the proftp server config module you mentioned? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some basics. Thanx, SigmaChi MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall Tick the box for FTP server Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net derek Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: quote Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you. derek Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek Well I did what you said and got it reinstalled. I installed everything that came up when I searched for proftp, but there's still no server section in the control center. I installed gproftpd, but it only works for standalone, and I'd prefer to run it via xinetd (Which is the default setup.) I've found enough howto's that I might be able to dig and and config it manually via the /etc/proftpd.conf file... maybe :-P. One plus: I know the server works now. lol; in konqueror when I go to ftp://[mydomain] it logs in and gives me an empty directory with a pub folder... it's a start. Anyway, do you know the package for the proftp server config module you mentioned? Thanx, SigmaChi Hold up. Reinstalling proftpd got me a default that worked... supposedly... but then why does it say 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) when I ftp into my domain. lol. Gee wizzle this is getting confusing. Here I thought I was dealing with proFTP, and now there's vsFTP... which I didn't even remember I installed. Anyway; since it's already running... where's the vsFTPd config file? lol. Sigma -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! 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 10.1 Official without ISO cds
KMail has a reply-to-list feature. Just hit the L key, or you can set up a toolbar icon. Useful for keeping my blood pressure under control.-- cmg I knew about the reply-to-list, but not the L key. Thanks for the tip.-- Actually, I didn't know about the L key thing myself until earlier today when I was answering your question and looked at the options in the Message toolbar heading; I've always installed the reply-to-list icon in the toolbar. -- cmg It's been awhile since i used Kmail, but i think you can program the whichever key you want to be list reply. I thin i had it set up so that the normal reply to key was actually the reply to list key. If there wasn't a list, it would default to the sender. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
I do sort my mail into folders but I don't have the list parameter set, and the L key works just fine. (KMail 1.5.4 under KDE 3.1.4) I think all the good mailers grab info from headers like this: List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] ProFTPD not Jiggy
Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? Thanx, SigmaChi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] cel phone synch software for linux?
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I did the usual search of sourceforge, google, etc, but only came up with one for an ericson t610. I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. Thanks for any leads, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] cel phone synch software for linux?
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I did the usual search of sourceforge, google, etc, but only came up with one for an ericson t610. I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. I should also mention that it uses an rs232 serial cable, not bluetooth... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] cel phone synch software for linux?
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. Ok, multisync (in the urpmi sources, duh) does work with the ericson. I don't have a cable yet for the motorola, so i'll have to see... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] ProFTPD?
Heya. I have a server at work running Mandrake 9.2. I'm administering it remotely through webmin/vnc/ssh and all that fun stuff. Here's the problem: I want to set up my /var/www/html directory with limited FTP access. I can't figure out or find howtos on the webmin module for proftpd, and apparently I don't know how to work the /etc/proftp.conf file because the changes I make seem to make no difference. Can anybodye give me a basic howto to set this up? I'm not a very experienced linux user or server admin, so don't get to techy on me. :-) Thanx, ES PS: My thanx to this list, if it weren't for you guys I probably never would have gotten familiar enough with linux to use it as a server. Either that or I'd be trying SuSE or something over Mandrake right now. :-\ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?
EH The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), Over what time period is the gap? EH It is from nov 2003 until a few days ago when it was EH started up again. For that time period, we need to use the EH other sources... I think marc. theaimsgroup.com is up to date all along... Yeah, they are both up to date. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 are the archives?
EH The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), but the EH gap hasn't been filled. Over what time period is the gap? EH It is from nov 2003 until a few days ago when it was started EH up again. For that time period, we need to use the other EH sources... I can supply you with that time period if you like. It is in text format, with blocks of time in each file. Let me know and I'll send it to you. There's really nothing i can do with them, but Vincent might be able to use them. I'll send you his email address if you need it. thanks for helping, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 are the archives?
Hello Eric, Monday, October 4, 2004, 6:40:24 PM, Eric wrote: EH I should have sent the answer to this thread. EH The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), but the EH gap hasn't been filled. Over what time period is the gap? It is from nov 2003 until a few days ago when it was started up again. For that time period, we need to use the other sources... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Fw: newbie archives
Vincent corrected the newbie archive problem. It doesn't fill in the gap, but it will archive from this point forward. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 boot to terminal
I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm afraid I'll have to change inittab back to 5. Or you could set his account to startx by modifying the .bash_profile file. Add startx in there, and make sure KDE is his default desktop (i don't at the moment remember how to do that). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 are the archives?
I should have sent the answer to this thread. The archives have been started back up (thanks to Vincent), but the gap hasn't been filled. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] adding windowmanager to login
I've got Xtart installed Stephen, one question though, how to boot into rl 3? Edit the /etc/inittab and where you see the default is 5, change it to 3, reboot, login to the console as yourself, then run Xtart to choose from whatever installed WM's you have (and you might find that performance overall is heaps better - especially with KDE or Gnome... I always boot at level 3, but at the same time i am lazy and don't like to have to start X after i login. So i have my .bash_profile setup so that if i log into tty 1, it automagically launches my favorite window manager, sylpheed, rox and firefox. If i log into any of the other ttys, i just get the prompt. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 are the archives?
I may be jumping to conclusions, but when mandrake's newbie archive stopped at exactly the same time as a mass unsubbing, i had assumed the same of the mandrake archives. IIRC, you're right that the archives stopped being maintained simultaneously with the mass unsubscribing. I just did a little more digging, and the expert archives are not only current, but they appear to be complete. This was definitely not the case the last time I checked early this year when there were no updates of either archive beyond November 15, 2003. Somewhere along the line, Mandrake seems to have corrected the problem with the expert archives but the newbie list got missed in the shuffle. Curious. Well, that is curious. If they were able to recreate the expert archives, maybe they can do the same for newbie? I just sent an email to Vincent. I'll report back with any answers. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 are the archives?
Is Vincent still active? having read a news release from Mandrake within the last few weeks that said Mandrake was getting a $3 mill. contract from the French Gov. to create a secure OS for French use, I would guess Vincent was about as active as he could stand, just not with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I would like to congrats him and Mandrake for pulling those teeth from the French Gov. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2509 That's great! I missed the article earlier, so thanks for reposting. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 are the archives?
Shortly after that, they set up a script at mandrake to kill bouncing addresses, so the two are linked, though it's funny that was the last post! It's a shame mandrake never re-subscribed themselves to the list after the big burp. I'm a little confused. What do you mean mandrake never re-subscribed? The non-mandrake archives get the messages by being subscribed to the list. I may be jumping to conclusions, but when mandrake's newbie archive stopped at exactly the same time as a mass unsubbing, i had assumed the same of the mandrake archives. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
reply-to stuff again, was Re: [newbie] Re: data cd's
The reply-to address issue was already discussed here. It is not my fault, as GMail does not allow the users to set the I know it takes a little training, but so far both the mailers i have used in linux (kmail and sylpheed) have reply-to-list actions. Since i found those (wy back) i have not been bothered by reply-to settings. For people that are just on mandrake lists it seems like a pain to switch habits. I am on a bunch of lists, and some don't set the reply-to at all, so it was easier for me make the switch. ctrl+l for lists, ctrl+r for individuals. Another option is to set it to reply-to-list all the time. If there's no list, it just goes to the person. And i would like to remind people again that the welcome message and the etiquette (i never spell that correctly) page aren't mine: they were written by me and several other list members. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] 10.1CE
If Konqueror (gecko) would get it's javascript right I'd never even contemplate another browser. Konq isn't based on gecko, is it? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] ** Welcome to Newbie **
Hi Eric, I cannot access e-mail with ML 10.0. I am on the internet but no e-mail. This was sent by Linspire 4.5 on Portable computer. Richard H. Peddie. Not sure what the problem would be. Best bet is to start a new thread and ask the list. You'll want to explain what mailer you are trying to use, which desktop, etc. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] OT - Mac OSX anyone?
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:35, Todd Slater wrote: Anyone on the list use a Mac with OSX? I'm about to get one at work and was wondering how easy it is to use the FreeBSD under the hood--such as for installing apps I'm accustomed to like vcdimager, instiki, and others. Todd Laura just got an emac with OSX, so i am learning my way through it. Anyway, I won't be much help as far as installing linux-ish apps, but it sure is nice to be able pop open a terminal and ssh, run emacs, etc like i am used to. It realy is (to me) a breath of fresh air compared to helping people with windows or the earlier mac os's. There are the occasional huge annoyances like not being able to see the entire path in the file manager, and Safari is very uncomfortable to me (i installed firefox 1.0PR, which runs with a couple bugs). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]
[Oh, btw, I still didn't get any answer about how to get my bookmarks and passwords back in Mozilla, in the other thread...] Is there a Linux equivalent of the registry that I should back up? [and would it work with 10.0 anyway?] bookmarks should be in a bookmarks.html file. Search on windows for it, not sure where it would be (documents settins/username/...) Then find the /home/merlin/.mozilla/... folder mine is /home/huff/.mozilla/default/584oqng7.slt/bookmarks.html You should be able to copy your windows bookmarks into here. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 are the archives?
...of course, someone *could* update the Twiki with alternative links to the updated archives. Oh, jeez, here comes Anne, gotta run! :-D The links look ok: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MailingLists points to http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/ Except that now the mandrake one doesn't load. They probably never had more than one person looking there at the same time before. :) http://www.mail-archive.com/expert%40linux-mandrake.com/ is out of date, though. The reason is probably this: when the big unsubbing in nov 2003 happened, some of the archives got unsubbed, too. I remember getting newbie back on the archive lists but, man, i can't remember exactly what happened with expert. Do we get subscription confirmation message that need to be answered to subscribe? I think that's the case, and if so, it explains why i was able to get newbie going and not expert. I talked to Hank at MARC and he added newbie for us and if it needed it, expert, too. I know i did post to expert asking who had the ability to add subscribers (to get us back on mail-archive.com), and got no response. Brings back memories: i was getting swamped with *thousands* of bounced emails before they set up the kill scripts... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 are the archives?
Looks like they updated the Expert list, but Newbie is still showing nothing for September. Joe: I dug a little deeper, and found that the last message indexed at archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie was by Eric Huff at 04:29 on November 15, 2003; the subject was (are you ready) ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **. (How's that for irony?) LOL! If i remember correctly, that post was probably about the thousands of emails bouncing from ex-listmembers or members with full accounts. Shortly after that, they set up a script at mandrake to kill bouncing addresses, so the two are linked, though it's funny that was the last post! It's a shame mandrake never re-subscribed themselves to the list after the big burp. Who do we contact there these days? Is Vincent still active? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Helix vs. Real Player?
I'd be way pleased if you or anyone could tell me why this isn't working: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/ When I try to view a clip, I get 'loading movie...', but that turns out to be a damned lie! ;-) I either get what you got (new window, but no downloading) or firefox 0.8 crashes... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] PLEASE READ: etiquette and Welcome messages: was [OT] Yet another MS threat
Eric might also be interested to know that your candy ass was spanked so bad on the OT list that you ran back over here. I have been staying out of these threads but i have seen my name mentioned a couple times and i want to clear a few things up: I do not by any means moderate this list or punish people with removal. The only time i have removed people that didn't ask for it was an occasional vacationer that set up return message. Bad addresses are (now) handled by a script that i have never even seen and don't have control over. The only reason i was given the ability to sign people on and off was because: 1. i am here and the owners of the list aren't usually subscribed. 2. I was more likely to see when someone needed help. 3. I volunteered. (As a side note: for the experts out there, i don't have subscription powers on expert, just newbie). As for the etiquette rules, those are on the Twiki, and we came up with those as a group. The welcome message was written by several of us to be helpful, and i volunteered to to have my machine send it, which has nothing to do with moderation or anything else. Hopefully this clears some things up, especially for the newer people here. Eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] archiving to multi volumes
can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other(no file spliting); that volume name is smart (e.g. vol1.tar; vol2.tar vol3.tar; ...) I've been thinking about the same thing. Haven't come across a tool to do it yet (though I've haven't searched all that hard). I sometimes use the following type of command to create a compressed tarball: tar cvf - . | gzip -9 tarball.tgz YMMV, but i don't compress backup because it's easier for them to become corrupted. (i am paranoid). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. From a fellow anit-MS folk, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] TightVNC Server... wassup??
Yo; I have TightVNC running on a Mandrake 9.1 box on a network with several Windows NT based computers. I've figured out how to get vncserver running... and have it running on display 2. When I access it from the remote computer, however, it starts to load the KDE desktop... then the taksbar disappears, the cursor switches to the loading (watch) icon, and it stalls. any help? Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 21:19, JoeHill wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm really glad you joined our little group here. Now fuck off. Lol, don't worry, I was already considering trying out debian on the server I'm about to buy, in which case you won't have to deal with me on your little group list any longer - 'cept when I need to deal with this box. :-P God Bless, Sc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT Basic C/MySQL error?
I'm exploring basic C/C++ programming in accessing MySQL server. I'd
prefer PostgreSQL in C++, but the only tutorial/example I found easily
was MySQL in C. I know very little about C/C++ or SQL; just barely
enough that I see a little more than jibberish... I see intelligent
jibberish. :-P I'm running MySQL and KDevelop on a Mandrake 9.1 box. I
know this is quite off topic, but I figured I'd try it on this awesome
list anyway. :-P Anywho, this is the example I found:
code sample
#include ltmysql/mysql.h
#include ltstdio.h
int main(){
MYSQL mysql;
MYSQL_ROW row;
MYSQL_RES *result;
unsigned int num_fields;
unsigned int i;
mysql_init(mysql);
if
(!mysql_real_connect(mysql,localhost,root,,MyDatabase,0,NULL,0))
{
fprintf(stderr, Failed to connect to database: Error: %s\n,
mysql_error(mysql));
}
else {
if(mysql_query(mysql, SELECT * FROM my_table));
//here goes the error message :o)
else {
result = mysql_store_result(mysql);
num_fields = mysql_num_fields(result);
while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(result)))
{
unsigned long *lengths;
lengths = mysql_fetch_lengths(result);
for(i = 0; i num_fields; i++)
{
printf([%.*s] \t, (int) lengths[i], row[i] ?
row[i] : NULL);
}
printf(\n);
}
}
}
return 0;
}
/code sample
I replaced the MyDatable, My_table and root password sections with
data specific to my server. Keep in mind that I'm newbie to about
everything SQL/Linux/C/C++. On compiling I get hundreds of lines of
stray '\240' in program intermingled with other various errors, and
the build fails. Anyone have a clue whats up?
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Re: [newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:04:28 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! I thought I'd best back it up so I tried ripping it with cdparanoia to encode to flac, but it just hangs with all sorts of problems. So, why the diff? Any way to rip it from my stereo's cd? (Technics SL-PG480A) You can attach a cable from the audio out on your CD player to the line in on your computer. There are several programs you can use to record. I often use Audacity myself. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd -- 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 you resume a bittorrent download?
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:13:13 -0400, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 08:01 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I live right outside of Boston. Friday afternoon at about 3 PM I started downloading the first 3 CDs from the latest Mandrake release. After a few minutes, it was indicating that it as going to take over 30 hours to download. I went out for a few hours and when I got back it was saying 56 hours remaining! Last night I went to bed at about 1 AM. The download was 50% completed and was showing it had over 34 hours remaining. I just got up a few minutes ago at about 7 AM. It was 54% complete but it is still saying 34 hours remaining. Are you sure you have the right ports open. Slow downloads are usually I'm pretty sure I have the right ports open. I'll check. Recently several people posted saying they had the right ports open but the downloads were extremely slow. because the tracker cannot talk to the client, so it thinks you are not sharing and it reduces (greatly) the rate at which the download occurs. The idea being the more you share, the faster you're download will go. If you are behind a NAT device, forward ports 6881-6999 to your client machine. If you are directly connected to the DSL modem and have shorewall on, open those same ports. Thanks for the tip. I'll check. I have to go to work Monday evening and I leave my house about 6 PM. AS of right now, it should finish just before I leave for work. I am concerned that if it slows down, I'll have to disconnect my laptop so that I can take it with me to work. Is it possible to resume my download when I get home? Yes. This is one of the huge advatages to BT. If you retain the same IP address, just restart the torrent. If you get a new one, you'll need to download a new torrent from club, but it should still resume from where it left off. I think I'll try again using one of my other computers so that if it takes forever again I won't tie my laptop. I know Mandrake claims that using bittorrent is a benefit of membership but my experiences using bittorrent doesn't make me feel like I'm getting any benefit. In the past I have downloaded files using this method and it took days to download only to find out the CDs were corrupt. I just refused to download 10.1 using bit torrent because of the speeds I got when I tried but I figured I'd try again with this new release. I have a broadband connection and I can normally download an iso in about 45 minutes. So when I use one of my Mandrake Club benefits and it tells me it's going to take days to download what I want, I really don't see that as a benefit. I told my wife I thought it was punishment. It may take longer to download, but you're still getting it a month earlier than when the ftp downloads are available. I've never really understood the logic of people that want the new isos, but will wait a month to download them in two hours rather than download them over a day or two with BT and have them 28 days before everyone else. I guess it is just a by-product of our instant gratification society. Well I was wiling to wait a day or two but it's been downloading since Friday afternoon and it still has 30 hours to go. Having a broadband onnection I just find it frustrating to get speeds that are slow even by dial-up standards. Unless some one really needs the isos immediately I can certainly understand not wanting to download something that is going to take forever. Maybe I'm spoiled because I have a broadband connection. As I mentioned I can download an iso normally in about 45 minutes. The advantage bittorrent offers is that I can get it a month earlier if I'm willing to spend several days downloading. I didn't get a broadband account so that I can take forever to download a file. By the way it's just about 8 AM now and it's saying 55% downloaded and a little less than 34 hours to go. Kill it, wait a few minutes and restart it. The first thing that will happen is that the portion already downloaded will be analyzed, and then the client will try to reconnect tot the tracker. Then it will start downloading from where it left off. As I mentioned, I think I'll try it on one of my other computers first. If that is just as slow then I'll try to resume the download I'm doing now. Thanks for your suggestions. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Domain access wtih Samba?
Yo; I use Samba to connect my Mandrake 9.1 box to my Windows 2000 Server box. The Wintel Server has a domain network setup... can I join this via Samba? Or maybe from some other program; I'm just familiar with Samba. It really makes no difference in efficiency or other, ask LinNeighborhood makes access to the remote domain as easy as to the local workgroup, I'm just tired of having my two different computers listed under seperate workgroups. thanx, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 http://counter.li.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] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 01:06, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 12:06, Eric Scott wrote: You have been paying too much attention to CBS the like we still havent given up to the neocomms. I know how you feel, as I had just about the same view a year or so ago. But I've found that if you give it a second chance... and turn a blind eye to the political corruption... America really isn't all that bad. We've got plenty of flaws, PLENTY, but all the same America is still the greatest and, relatively, one of the free-est contries on earth, and I'm sticking with it. If all else fails we can all move to Scotland. Cheers, ES Thanks for the complement, Eric. You should join us on the MandrakeOT mailing list. You've got a uk addy though. Are you not in the states? LX Lol, I'm in little ol' Hicksville USA (Illinois). I just happened to find a good pop server in the UK, and am also into my Scottish roots. :-P MandrakeOT list,huh? Sounds really... um... OT. lol. ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Good, Intuitive developement platform?
Yo; Though I'm not a proficient or experience developer, I like to tinker with code every now and then and learn what I can. What are some of the best development environments can I run on my Mandrake 9.1 box that have something like the intuitiveness of KDevelop and something in the neighborhood, or at least the same state, as Visual Studio .net? Thanx, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Registered Linux User #366862 Registered Linux Computer #261856 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Web hosting 101...
Yo. I'm done some experimenting with web hosting, but I'm really quite new at it. I have a little home network with a single static IP. The internet server (Windows 2000 Server... I'd prefer a Mandrake box, but anyway) is the only computer with the static IP. I also have an ol' Mandrake 9.1 box attatched. My experience is really close to null; what I'd like to know is this: is it possible, basically, to host a website on the Mandrake box and have it easily acessable to the web? I know that the Win2k box is up to it, IIS's http ftp servers work without flaw, but is there any way that I can route a domain to the Mandrake box that doesn't have an Internat IP? sure, it's got a local IP, but that doesn't do much good. Thanx, ES -- If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web hosting 101...
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 23:57, frankieh wrote: Eric Scott wrote: Yo. I'm done some experimenting with web hosting, but I'm really quite new at it. I have a little home network with a single static IP. The internet server (Windows 2000 Server... I'd prefer a Mandrake box, but anyway) is the only computer with the static IP. I also have an ol' Mandrake 9.1 box attatched. My experience is really close to null; what I'd like to know is this: is it possible, basically, to host a website on the Mandrake box and have it easily acessable to the web? I know that the Win2k box is up to it, IIS's http ftp servers work without flaw, but is there any way that I can route a domain to the Mandrake box that doesn't have an Internat IP? sure, it's got a local IP, but that doesn't do much good. Thanx, ES -- If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Yes you can, all you need to do is port forward port 80 on the windows box to port 80 on the internal IP of the mandrake box. I haven't used 2000 in a while, but I did once use it that way, and right clicking on the network interface in question and selecting properties is how to find the place to set the port forward. I'd imagine google would be quite handy if you can't find it yourself. Okie day, seems simple enough. I found some basic how-to's via google, and supposedly got port 80 forwarded to my Linux box's IP. Problem is it seems to make no difference. supposedly I should just be able to go to http://[my.internet.ip]:80/index.shtml or whatever and get apache... right? I know apache is working okay because I can go to http://[my.local.ip]/index.shtml and it pops up with it's placeholder. what am I not doing? Thanx, ES -- Sent from a proudly owned Pentium One computer running Mandrake Linux 9.1 (A good use for an old box) To mess up a Linux box, you have to work at it; To mess up a Windows box, you just have to work on it. If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] tar.gz files
One reason that my root terminal sessions have red backgrounds. But, of course, not su'd sessions. My root sessions have yellow backgrounds but then again - not the su'd ones. You can change the color of the prompt itself. I put this into my .bashrc for root: if test $(tty | grep -c /dev/pts/) != 0 ; then# if in X11 PS1=\[\033]0;ROOT IN \W\007\]\[\033[31m\]ROOT in \W * else # if in text mode, there is no title PS1=\[\033[31m\]ROOT in \W * fi This way the prompt shows up red and has ROOT in it. I use another color if i am ssh'd into my user account on the 2nd machine. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] VS.net SQL clones?
Heya, I am just now making the switch from Windows to Mandrake 9.1 as my primary operating system. Really the only two things that I'm missing from Windows are Visual Studio .net and SQL server. What are the advantages and disadvantages of MySQL/PostgreSQL or any others over MS SQL Server 2000? And what's the closest developement tool I can get to the power of Visual Studio? I'm not a professional developer, but I still need both of these for some odd jobs I'm doing, so your feedback is appreciated. Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 14:38, Vincent Voois wrote: Eric Scott wrote: Anybody know of a program that will let me format a given partition as NTFS? Fat32 might do it, I don't know. I'm trying to deal with a faulty Windows installation, and as I'm sure you know, Windows' installer/rescue is the worst on earth. No joke. Anyway, it wants me to have a Windows 2000 compatable partition on hda for (I assume) it's bootloader process, even though I'm installing on hdb. Windows installer tells me to make a Win2k compatable partition on hda, but doesn't provide me with the resources to do so. (The diskdrake thingy in MDK control center doesn't create a valid FAT partition, which is why I need another) FAT16 and FAT32 are also Windows 2000 compatible partitions :P Try fdisk. It was my problem; I forgot to hit the format button in MDK control center, and therefore Windows couldn't recognize the unformatted FAT partitions that I had defined. Oops :-P It's alright though, 'cause the Windows Setup I was trying to use killed the disk somehow... problems over. When there's no disk to format you don't have much of a problem formatting. :-P thanx, ES __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache2
Well, anyway, with all the hijacking going on, we should write a 'Hijacker's Guide to the Mailing List'. LOL! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
crontab hijack: was Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature
cron() is a lot more flexible than the example that you were give. The values in crontab are: minute hour day_of_month month day_of_week command So the example you were given was hourly: 0 * * * * command (meaning 0 minute of every hour, day, etc. If you wanted it every half hour: 0,30 * * * * command Thanks for the explanation! Now, is there any way to make sure anacron runs the stuff in this files (which is in /var/spool/cron) ? Anacron happily runs thew default cron jobs, which are executable scripts in directories listed in /etc/crontab, but it doesn't look at the user ones at all. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] OT: hijacking
In mozilla all I need to do is right click on the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address and select compose email to'. Surely there is something similar in kmail? Doubleclick on the address in kmail and sylpheed. Not only that, you can set it up so that if you are in a particular folder, new messages default to the list. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] OT: hijacking
Doubleclick on the address in kmail and sylpheed. Not only that, you can set it up so that if you are in a particular folder, new messages default to the list. ...*and* override people's 'reply-to' settings :-) True! We should add this to the etiquette page... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
IIRC, one of the reasons I wanted to switch to Claws was that it was *easier* to drag files to a compose window to attach...but then I discovered I could just create a script to do that for me (ie. the ROX Send To menu). I do the same with send to. but in regular sylpheed, you could put files in as an attachment, but still not out... Well, unless I'm misunderstanding you, with 'plain' Sylpheed, you had to attach a file with the 'browse' method, then you could drag other files into the attachment 'field', whereas with Claws, this field was there with every new compose window. In regular (also IIRC) there was a way to show the attachment field, then i could drag stuff into it. But like you said, there's an easier way anyway. It's really getting attachments *out* of sylpheed that i want. In regular it worked with xftree, but not rox. In claws it doesn't work with xftree, either. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
It's really getting attachments *out* of sylpheed that i want. Well, I filed a bug report on the Sylpheed-GTK2 Sourceforge page, we'll see what happens with that. Hey, thanks for being proactive. I was going to get to it at some point. Have you tried it with the latest CVS of Sylpheed? That may be eons ahead of the GTK2 port... I haven't. I figured that as often as Charles updates Claws, there's wouldn't be much lag. I will check into it, though. Sorry to be so lame, but it might be a bit before i do real work on it instead of just ask for answers. I ended up starting a seat conversion project on my 74 valiant, so i am trying to get it back to drive-ability... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Completely out of space - major problem!
Install 'fsv' from a contrib mirror and you will be able to visualise where all your drive space is being consumed. (Fsv is like the scene in Jurassic Park where the little girl says This is Unix. I can use this! and then flies through a 3D visualisation of a file system.) That is way cool!. Apparently (too bad) it only allows you to 'visualize' your file system, you can't actually do any operations on the file(s)/system though. There is also kdirstat, which is not 3D but does let you delete things (and maybe look into, not sure). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
I have been meaning forever to see where to go to figure out how to get files to drag and drop out of sylpheed. For some reason, claws doesn't work in or out, but in regular sylpheed, you could put files in as an attachment, but still not out... A point of order!! If you are using rpms from my site you Are Never allowed to say anything disparaging of sylpheed-claws (-: I apologize and accept all punishment. :) Seriously, though, i *love* claws and am very gracious you rpm it for us! eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
Oooh, tell us more. I use rox all the time, but haven't sent much time on the extra goodies. If you install ROX as a regular user, ie. from the source tarball, it automagically creates an ~/Apps and a ~/Choices dir, where you can drop all those handy and kewl apps for easy access, I get the Choices, but not the Apps dir. I think i will do a user install. They seem to keep adding goodies over there... easily add them to the'Send To' menu. See my site for shots of a couple of examples of this in action. I really like MusicBox and RoxDao for playing MP3's and burning WAV's to CD. Ok, i guess i will finally have to take the plunge and figure out the rest of rox. I like the Apps dir and the send to with icons instead of just crunch-wheels: http://www.freeyourmachine.org/pics/roxnpekwm.png Thomas Leonard seems to think it might be a bug in Sylpheed: http://www.freedesktop.org/bin/view/Main/Draganddropwarts#Wart_3_Malformed_URIs_in_text_ur hmm... I'll keep that one handy. Thanks for the tips, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4
Just in case anyone *has* missed the last 3 years: http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ However, *best* way to install it is as a regular user (ie. download tarball, untar, run it, compiles itself) so's you have easier access to all the software goodies that go along with it. Oooh, tell us more. I use rox all the time, but haven't sent much time on the extra goodies. Mildly related: I have been meaning forever to see where to go to figure out how to get files to drag and drop out of sylpheed. For some reason, claws doesn't work in or out, but in regular sylpheed, you could put files in as an attachment, but still not out... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] GZIP/GUNZIP
They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. At the command line you can tar -xvzf filname.tgz or whatever it is called I made an alias for it since i use it a lot: alias untar='tar -xvzf' eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Burning files to a cd from the console
Also, for anything but audio cd's an image must be made first, You can do it with a pipe (and not save to disk) if you want to: mkisofs -r $FILE_TO_BURN | cdrecord -v -eject fs=6m speed=4 dev=ATA:1,0,0 - Came in handy when i had filled my drive to where a 600 MB iso wouldn't fit... By the way, most of my cd burning aliases and scripts have evolved from Tom's evangelism, too. :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Phone program for Kontact hook up.
Hi, please can anyone point me in the right direction for a phone program that hooks up with Kontact so that I can click on the phone numbers of Kontact contacts and have my pc dial up the number. Simon. That there was a hijack... I suspect that's why you didn't get ay answers. Check out http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Screenshots
I agree, and I think KDE bashing is a pointless affair, its one of our tools, and at least with linux you get a choice.. What about JoeHill bashing? (grin) see: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Screenshots
http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png I get the message clevername.homeip.net could not be found Hmm, may have been something temporary, everything seems OK here now? yep. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 the net
I can't get the Mandrake program to find my printer, and I can't get connected to my provider and out to the net from the Mandrake program (which is why I am using Windows.) What kind of computer do you have? Are you using the parallel port for printing? I have a compaq presario celeron (sucks-eron), and i can only get the printer to work if i have acpi turned off. If this turns out to be your problem you will probably see this line in the dmesg (run dmesg at the command prompt) output (though i don't know if you'll see it for other reasons, too): lp: driver loaded but no devices found Here is what i get now (toward the end of the dmesg output) parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready Anyway, if acpi turns out to be your problem: Use Mandrake Control Center -- boot -- boot loader then unclick acpi (if it is clicked). And PLEASE let me know. I have not found anyone else with this problem yet... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Do I need to start over
I'm gonna chop this up to respond to specific points. Hope that doesn't mess with anyone's mind. Mess? It's actually a sanctioned activity. :) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette It even promotes snippage... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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: Bad signatures
Eric Huff disseminated the following: That should be added to the list etiquette thingie :-D http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette ROFL! Thanks Eric, but 10 *per list member*??!! I figured 10 *total* was plenty. I should have made that more clear. :) But it is the TWiki, so it can be changed, even by the zingee... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Finally - an ad we can enjoy.
I downloaded the SWF file several days ago. I love it! :-) I just uploaded it to my site so the group can continue to enjoy it. It is available here: http://www.bipolarrecovery.com/RunLinspire.swf Please download the file to your system rather than playing it repeatedly from my site! Thanks! :-) BTW, just FYI if anyone looks at it, my site is new and is by no means complete. I have not even officially taken it live yet. Anyway, enjoy! Thanks for posting! That's awesome... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Message could not be delivered
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was definitely a spoofed address cause I did not send it. My comp is totally Mandrake Linux and use kmail. Didn't think it was you Dennis. When checking the archive, I saw that it came from someone else up the chain. Use the link above and you'll see what I mean. I was just surprised that this email might have gone thru normal channels, but I forgot to check the headers before posting back to the list. Lanman (or anyone) would you explain the header disection? Mainly how it's obvious that it didn't come from Dennis? I always feel unsure of my conclusions... thanks, eric - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: ehuffy-ehuffy:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 73164 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2004 22:47:56 - Received: from smtp.mandrake.com (212.85.147.176) by enso.pair.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2004 22:47:56 - Received: from smtp.mandrax.org (smtp.mandrax.org [212.85.147.169]) by smtp.mandrake.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB86383C30; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:08:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5938256A12; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:47:36 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from a2c.omhcoxmail.com (ca-areage-bluewave2a-1-149.vnnyca.adelphia.net [24.53.56.149]) by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5152856A04 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:46:46 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Webmin
Hi, I've just gotten back online after my always on broadband conection stoped working because of some problem outside my house. I was looking at Webmin but I don't see any docs. Anyone know where the docs are? Or does anyone know of a good article on using Webmin? I don't know what to do first. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster MP3+
Hi, I have a Sound Blaster MP3+ USB soundcard installed on my Windows laptop. It runs fine. I tried to unstall it on my linux box running 10.0 Official. Mandrake recognized it as an unknown audio device. Has any one gotten this soundcard to work under Mandrake? If so could you please tell me what you did to get it to work? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] recording to my hard drive
Hi, I have recorded several lps to CD over the last few weeks. Yesterday when I tried to do some recording, nothing happened. To clarify, I could hear the sound but it wasn't recording. I tried using both Audacity and Gramofile and no luck with either. I have 3 mixers installed (at least). Kmix, AlsaMixer and Aumix. (Should I uninstall some?) When I look at the mixers I don't see any reason why it won't record. Anybody got a clue what the problem might be? I'm not sure if this is relevant or not but since the last time I recorded an lp I installed a DVD burner and a second hard drive. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ 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 ROM's Not Mounting Up
Hi All, I went up to 10OE yesterday, and now my CD ROM drives arent automounting. If youre installing something, and Mandrake asks for something, it will open the drawer and load from the CD ok. However, stick a cd in, and that's it, no desktop icon, and if you go into /mnt/cdrom/, just a blank page. How can I turn Automount on? I have looked, but cant see! What WM are you using? I have the answer at home, but i'll try to remember here: Read the release notes for the either the 2.6 kernel or Mandrake itself, there's a small paragraph on supermount or automount that says they are disabled by default, and some other kde/gnome usable thing replaced it. Just do a text search for supermount or automount. I uninstalled that (i don't use gnome or kde) and re added the supermount stuff. HTH, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:43:00 -0400, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the link? TIA Lanman Try this. Mandrake 10.X carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/10.0/contrib/i586/apt-0.5.15cnc5-4mdk.i586.rpm I think apt-get is part of this package. I found the package by doing a search at http://rpm.pbone.net/ Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day
EH So, if i have xinetd and sshd running, is that duplicating EH services? Only if your xinetd configuration has sshd enabled under xinetd. If not, you can run xinetd and sshd simultaneously (since, like I said, xinetd is basically just a wrapper for services, and if sshd isn't enabled, it won't be served) EH Or does xinetd intercept calls and then pass them to sshd? Yes, xinetd does intercept incoming connections and passes them to the *xinetd* version of sshd. If you have a standalone version of sshd running, it won't get the connections that are accepted by xinetd. I know this is confusing, but just remember that you can have multiple instances of the same server daemon running (think of it as multiple web browser windows open at the same time). Ok. I just turned xinetd off, and everything stillseems to be working... Thanks for the rundown. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Noob question of the day
E What is xinetd? xinetd is an enhanced version of inetd (internet daemon), which is basically a wrapper for other internet daemons. You can use xinetd to run FTP, BIND, Apache, etc. The benefit as opposed to standalone is that since everything goes through xinetd, you can tweak it more. Xinetd allows you to customize network utilization, set priorities for certain daemons, and tons of other crap. If you're a desktop user (or even a small server operator), its usually better to run everything in standalone. However, for larger scale stuff xinetd is invaluable to allocating resources. So, if i have xinetd and sshd running, is that duplicating services? Or does xinetd intercept calls and then pass them to sshd? Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Packages Installer
- Original Message - From: EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:32 AM Subject: [newbie] Packages Installer Guys/Gals I Installed freetype-1.3.1-20mdk.i586.rpm* I got few error but later I lost my menu System|Configuration|Packages|Install Package Any idea When this happened to me updating the menus didn't help. Most of the Packages stuff was no longer installed. Does urpmi still work? If so try to install rpmdrake. It will offer to install several other packages or at least it did when I lost my menus. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised
- Original Message - From: Raffaele BELARDI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised eric jackson wrote: I just had a Maxtor Ultra Series 250 GB hard drive installed as a slave. The box says it operates at 7200 RPM. It also says Ultra ATA/133. Mandrake 10.0 recognizes it but it only shows about 129 GB. The installation guide lists certain ATA cards that will only recognize 137 GB but the Ultra ATA 133 is not listed as having that restriction. Eric, You say the drive is UATA/133, but does the *motherboard* support UATA/133? If not, there is little you can do, except using only the lower 130Gb of the disk. Bios upgrade will not necessarily cure the problem. I had a similar issue with a Maxtor 160Gb when I installed it on my 5-years old Asus P5A-B last winter. You can fine more info in Twiki (http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ProBlems) under Large Drive BTW, I noticed that the kernels included in 10.0 (both the 2.4 and the 2.6 series) do test the system for large disk compatibility and print a message to syslog if incompatibility is found, you might want to check the syslog to be sure. The kernel in 9.2 was not so smart so I lost some gigs of avi's before finding out! raffaele Thanks for the information.I'll have to dig around and find out if the motherboard will support my drive. I'll check syslog also. I'll let you know how things worked out in a few days. Thanks again Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 6:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just had a Maxtor Ultra Series 250 GB hard drive installed as a slave. The box says it operates at 7200 RPM. It also says Ultra ATA/133. Mandrake 10.0 recognizes it but it only shows about 129 GB. The installation guide lists certain ATA cards that will only recognize 137 GB but the Ultra ATA 133 is not listed as having that restriction. Anybody else using this drive? Does anyone have any clues why this is happening? Thanks for your help. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 10.0 recognizes it but it only shows about 129 GB Bios limitations ? Yeah, I wondered about that myself. I can't seem to fnd that out from the manuals that came with my Gateway. What does your mobo manufacturer say the bios version limit on HD size is ? website Again I can''t find that information in a manual but I will try to find the website of the motherboard manufacturer. Thanks for the tip on where to look. You can often updated bios to recognise larger drives. I'll try that. Thanks. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go to the mobo website and start digging , especially in the bios update sections, look up your bios version, and it invariable says something about having upgraded the bios to detect HD size XXXgigs, My bet is yours is 130Gigs, and then some time later they bring out a later bios vesion that upgrades it again to maybe 260Gigs and so on and so forth. You may be unlucky and no mention is made of the HD size limitation, if so you need to contact your mobo manufacturer support desk and ask them what the HD size limitations are on your bios version and can you upgrade. Ok. I'll check into the information you suggested about my motherboard and bios. Thanks. Before you do though look up what the bios is saying about your HD size , if it sees it all it, it ain't a bios limitation, but if it sees 130G then I would think this is where to start. I'll take a look. Sometimes the OS itself has HD limitation but I don't think it is your case . Some modern HD's also have a cap limit Jumper and yours may have it set up as limited to 130G, but that is a large cap limit in my experience. Okay. I'll get to work and look into the things you suggested. Thanks for the information. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised
- Original Message - From: Raffaele BELARDI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised John Richard Smith wrote: Go to the mobo website and start digging , especially in the bios update sections, look up your bios version, and it invariable says something about having upgraded the bios to detect HD size XXXgigs, My bet is yours is 130Gigs, and then some time later they bring out a later bios vesion that upgrades it again to maybe 260Gigs and so on and so forth. You may be unlucky and no mention is made of the HD size limitation, if so you need to contact your mobo manufacturer support desk and ask them what the HD size limitations are on your bios version and can you upgrade. The BIOS settings is not so important to Linux. I have a disk which is set to 'none' in the BIOS, Windows doesn't see it but it works just fine with Linux! It's only important for the boot - it's the BIOS that loads LILO from the MBR. After that, Linux uses it's own code to access the disk. Before you do though look up what the bios is saying about your HD size , if it sees it all it, it ain't a bios limitation, but if it sees 130G then I would think this is where to start. Sometimes the OS itself has HD limitation but I don't think it is your case . Not for decently recent Linux kernels. For sure not an issue from MDK9.2 on. Some modern HD's also have a cap limit Jumper and yours may have it set up as limited to 130G, but that is a large cap limit in my experience. John That is a good point. If that is not the issue, then I'm afraid it's a motherboard issue, and there is no cure for that :-( What motherboard are you using, Eric? I'm using a Gateway 1200. It has an MSI Athlon motherboard. The bios is Amibios 7.00.xx.. Eric raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com 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 playing? :-\
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:22, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:09, Eric Scott wrote: I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still doesn't play CDs. The counter runs and it does everything else it's supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. Anybody know how I can fix this? I'm pretty newbie so be basic. Thanx, ES It does have the cable between Cd sound card doesn't it? ooo; mwehe. I'm smart when I wanna be ;-) I'm sure I have it in a drawer somewhere... but I don't recall plugging it in when I replaced it's old crappy 4x drive. :-P Thanx! This list rocks even with *duh* stuff. lol ES 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 playing? :-\
Yeah. I thought I already had a cable... but I can't find it newhere :-S. It's wierd, under windows I can just plug into the headphone jack on the CD player and it'll go fine, but I still can't get sound to come out of it w/ KsCD. U know where I could download Totem or one of those things? I have 9.1 and don't dare to put anything too much more advanced on this ol' computer, it runs slow enough after choosing 9.1 over 8.2. :-P On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 22:09, Eric Scott wrote: I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still doesn't play CDs. The counter runs and it does everything else it's supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. Anybody know how I can fix this? I'm pretty newbie so be basic. Thanx, ES If you use the KsCD player, it will need an audio cable from the drive to the soundcard/motherboard. In 10.0 one can use Totem, because it uses the IDE interface. However, i think XMMS and maybe Grip can be tweaked to use that as well. But without an analog cable KsCD is a no-go. An audio cable comes at around $ 1. Kaj Haulrich. 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 playing? :-\
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 22:13, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 01:49 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yeah. I thought I already had a cable... but I can't find it newhere :-S. It's wierd, under windows I can just plug into the headphone jack on the CD player and it'll go fine, but I still can't get sound to come out of it w/ KsCD. U know where I could download Totem or one of those things? I have 9.1 and don't dare to put anything too much more advanced on this ol' computer, it runs slow enough after choosing 9.1 over 8.2. :-P On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 22:09, Eric Scott wrote: I recently reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my good ol' Pentium 1 @ 233Mhz. It's an old computer, but it had a 40x12x48 CD RW drive. I have sound up and running fine (via sndconfig), but the CD player still doesn't play CDs. The counter runs and it does everything else it's supposed to do, except for actually spit out the sound. Anybody know how I can fix this? I'm pretty newbie so be basic. Thanx, ES If you use the KsCD player, it will need an audio cable from the drive to the soundcard/motherboard. In 10.0 one can use Totem, because it uses the IDE interface. However, i think XMMS and maybe Grip can be tweaked to use that as well. But without an analog cable KsCD is a no-go. An audio cable comes at around $ 1. Kaj Haulrich. Open XMMS right click in the upper left corner.. A menu should drop down click on Visualization plugins Configure and activate the CD player plug-in (might as well activate the mp3 plug-in too . (you don't necessarily need the sound cable) Okie day. I think I follow so far... but I can't find anywhere where it will let me tell it to play via IDE. The plugins are all enabled by default. ?? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com 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 RealPlayer
I tried installing RealPlayer, and the system says it's installed, but I can't find it anywhere, and the browser doesn't acknowledge it. Does anyone know where that puppy would be hiding? Here's mine: ~ $ which realplay /usr/bin/realplay eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] interesting feature with sym links and progs
Here's something i didn't know. Apparently, a program can find out what sym link was called to run it: soffice - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* spadmin - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* If i run soffice, i get soffice. If i run spadmin, i get the printer setup box. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 RealPlayer
In a console, type : which realplay instead of using the command 'which', you could use the command 'type'. Using type also tells you if it is an embedded bash program or not. It finds more programs if you use it. Try 'type time', and then 'which time', and you'll see the difference. ~ $ which time /usr/bin/time ~ $ type time time is /usr/bin/time On s imilar note (ie shell tricks) I really do like the new extended tab functionality for bash. No need to ESC ! anymore. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] interesting feature with sym links and progs
Here's something i didn't know. Apparently, a program can find out what sym link was called to run it: soffice - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* spadmin - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* If i run soffice, i get soffice. If i run spadmin, i get the printer setup box. The first parmiter passed to a program or script is always the program name, with path, if any. Try this script. #!/bin/bash echo $0 Name is anything you like, make it executable, and try calling it using different path names. (./script, /home/mikkel/bin/script, etc) That is cool. I always muck my way thru bash, but i would like to get more fluent in it... thanks for the further explanation. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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 RealPlayer
Try 'type time', and then 'which time', and you'll see the difference. Well I guess that wouldn't be a good example would it? lol, didn't realize there really was an executable called time. Try 'type type' and 'which type'. Then you'll see Ahhh, there we go: ~ $ type type type is a shell builtin ~ $ which type which: no type in (/home/huff/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/ jre-1.4.2_04/bin:/home/huff/bin:/home/huff/bin/ms) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised
Hi, I just had a Maxtor Ultra Series 250 GB hard drive installed as a slave. The box says it operates at 7200 RPM. It also says Ultra ATA/133. Mandrake 10.0 recognizes it but it only shows about 129 GB. The installation guide lists certain ATA cards that will only recognize 137 GB but the Ultra ATA 133 is not listed as having that restriction. Anybody else using this drive? Does anyone have any clues why this is happening? Thanks for your help. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Tranfering Hard Disk from one PC to another
Harddrake should detect the hardware differences on bootup, and offer to reconfigure things. Yeah, make sure you have harddrake running. (I always turn it off after i get a box setup). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] I am now a trator
I have spent the last 4 days trying to get ADSL back. Drakfirewall ppp+ block all. Network would give me a IP but I Make your networking simpler, easier, and safer: drop some dough on a Linksys broadband firewall/router/NAT, and then no matter the OS, just plug a computer into a port on the Linksys and it's connected. It also greatly simplifies the internal networking if you've got more than one machine running. The reason they're cross platform is that you configure them thru a web browser by pointing the browser to the router. (I know Joe knows this, but wanted the OP to know, too.) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] Displaying certain resolution @ certain frequency
Yo; I have a Panasonic E15 monitor attatched to an old Pentium 1 box running Mandrake 9.1. The default setup in the Mandrake Control Center for this particular monitor doesn't function right, so I have it set at a generic 800x600 screen @ 60Hz, which is what it is... but to display 1024x768 (The max resolution) I have to display at 75Hz (Under Windows anyway), but it doesn't let me change it from 60Hz to 75Hz. The long and short of it is I wanna tell my computer to display 1024x768 at 75Hz, and I can't do that through the easy nifty little control center... so how can I? Thanx God Bless, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] weird df output
Did anyone ever come up with a solution to the screwy df output? Heres a script I found in a forum post by Paul Morgan (I lost the original post). Might need some work to line things up a little but works ok. Cool, that's what i was looking for. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
So that's how his response read to me. Perhaps I've just been corrupted by too much sarcasm, and if that's the case then I'm in the wrong, and for that I'll apologize. ROFL! No more apologies! Make it stop! LOL! You all crack me up. I have to say, apologetic flame wars are way better than other ones we have seen. :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] themes: i messed up gtk2 themes
I was busy messing with my gtk2 themes and aparently something i did messed up some of the buttons, etc, in sylpheed claws. Does anyone know what i need to delete / edit to get all my theme-space back to default? I have not been able to figure out where the theme selections are stored. I went thru a massive delete them all and let god sort them out rampage on .kde, .gtk*, etc, but no luck so far. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
[newbie] SOLVED: themes: i messed up gtk2 themes
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 02:37:12 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was busy messing with my gtk2 themes and aparently something i did messed up some of the buttons, etc, in sylpheed claws. Does anyone know what i need to delete / edit to get all my theme-space back to default? I have not been able to figure out where the theme selections are stored. I went thru a massive delete them all and let god sort them out rampage on .kde, .gtk*, etc, but no luck so far. Charles led me to switching to a gtk1 theme, so used switch to select Galaxy, and it fixxed the buttons. Using switch to select Default didn't help. Maybe default was hijacked by gtk2? Anyway, i'm good now. Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: 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
