Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?
At 03:59 PM 6/27/04, John Drouhard wrote: I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Are you the only user and you have no remote access (apache, mail, ftp, etc) services running? Go with one big partition. Multiple partitions are for protecting various parts of your system from crashing if a service goes out of control and takes all the disk space. A separate home paritition will allow system services to continue running even though a user might take all available space for his files. If it's your own system and something goes wild, just boot from CDROM, fix problem and reboot again. With separate partitions you may be able to keep some services running while fixing a problem with single service, but if that situation will never happen (like on a home use machine) don't bother with so many partitions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Database Recommendations?
At 03:34 PM 6/21/04, Aidan Holmes wrote: Hello all, Can anyone recommend a good database application for my needs? I have searched the net on the subject and just get myself more and more confused about what I need to run. MySQL seems to be the one everyone raves about, but it's far too powerful for what I want.not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but if it's too complicated then that's a problem. I'm a glider pilot in my spare time and I'd like to keep a database on my flying experience. I'd like to be able to enter data such as: Flight date, duration, type of aircraft flown, solo/instructional and so on. Then I'd like to get it to report on information such as: Total hours flown Total hours in a particular aircraft type (solo and/or dual) Total hours solo and/or dual regardless of aircraft type...etc Can anybody steer me in the right direction and let me know what packages I would need to install? If this is truly the extent of your database requirements, then a spreadsheet program will suffice - try OpenOffice - it's already on your CDROM. Create a column for each data item (date, duration, aircraft, etc) - add a row for each flight. Formulas after the last row can calculate totals, averages, etc. Conditional sums (like solo hours), are a little trickier, but can also be done. This is simpler than a true database product, but it doesn't sound like you really need a database product. If you find it too limiting, you can always move to a more complex product later (and import the data you already entered). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dedicated DNS Server
At 04:52 PM 6/15/04, Travis Crook wrote: Anyone know of a way to run a dedicated DNS server that can be administrated through a Web interface? I'm thinking something along the lines of Smoothwall (firewall) where I can set up a box to be just a DNS server and nothing else. If it runs nothing else, there is nothing to support a web interface. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Konqueror autocomplete forms
I cannot find the place in Konqueror to clear the forms autocomplete history. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror autocomplete forms
Thanks - that did the trick... At 05:45 PM 5/27/04, bascule wrote: the file that stores them is ~/.kde/share/apps/khtml/formcompletions bascule On Thursday 27 May 2004 10:25 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I cannot find the place in Konqueror to clear the forms autocomplete history. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] undelivered mail notices
At 06:51 PM 5/22/04, John wrote: I am having problems getting through to the list. I keep getting undelivered mail notices. I have sent several e-mails to the postmaster at mandrax.org but have yet to receive a response. I have posted and had replies and then received the notice. Help please john I also received a bounced message after my last posting to this list. On closer inspection of the received headers, I realise the bounce did not come from this list, but actually came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - My guess is this email address no longer exists and that this misconfigured mailserver bounces messages to the wrong email address. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DNS questions
At 11:04 AM 5/11/04, Frank Bax wrote: At 09:56 AM 5/11/04, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank Open /etc/resolv.conf as root with your favorite editor and you can also have a look in /etc/hosts so everything is the same on all three boxes /etc/resolv.conf was different - change them all to match what our router has and all is well! But more questions. We have a router with dsl modem here. I use dhcp for windows clients. I gave each linux machine a static ip so I can do remote admin. Is there a way to get the ip address of nameservers from the router, like what would happen with dhcp, but still have static addresses for the linux machines? Does no-one have a solution to this nameserver problem? My Linux machines went down again today - apparently my ISP (sympatico/bell) changed name servers and the ip addresses that worked yesterday don't work today! Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DNS questions
I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DNS questions
At 09:56 AM 5/11/04, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect to the old ip address. reboot didn't help. Third linux machine and windows machines are working fine. Looks like a dns issue. What tools do I use to determine which nameserver Linux is using, what ip address that name server is providing for the server we are trying to reach? Frank Open /etc/resolv.conf as root with your favorite editor and you can also have a look in /etc/hosts so everything is the same on all three boxes /etc/resolv.conf was different - change them all to match what our router has and all is well! But more questions. We have a router with dsl modem here. I use dhcp for windows clients. I gave each linux machine a static ip so I can do remote admin. Is there a way to get the ip address of nameservers from the router, like what would happen with dhcp, but still have static addresses for the linux machines? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SETI
At 12:14 PM 5/1/04, JRH wrote: I have seen people here and in other places taling about SETI. I'm well aware of who they are, and what they do etc. How can I come by the software to allow me to give some unused bandwidth? http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/unix.html I'm using i686-pc-linux-gnu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Access Denied
At 11:26 PM 4/24/04, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2004 08:09 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2004 07:45 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 10:12, Aron Smith wrote: Wheel sudo? User the MCC User Manager to put yourself into the group called wheel and then edit your /etc/sudoers file so that you're able to run sudo if you can't already. there is no group called wheel in groups my bad I found it and added myself still cannot write to the directorys on the mp3 player now about the sudo? Isn't a logoff/logon required after this change? What are permissions on the files in /mnt/removable? use 'ls -l'. sudo only allows you to run a specific list of commands as if you were superuser without actually login as superuser (root). Not likely to help you in this case. You will need to know how to use vi editor to make the change though (if you don't know vi, don't try this). Open a shell, then enter: su - [enter su password here] visudo Add the following line to the end of file: %wheelALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/cp save changes. logoff root. As yourself try copying files with: sudo cp /mnt/removable/somfile [target] Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] pnp monitor
I changed the monitor on a MDK91 system, and the system still retains name of old monitor - both monitors are pnp. Shouldn't the system detect the change and update config? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen
At 11:57 AM 3/24/04, Paul Smith wrote: Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? 1) Buy a bigger monitor 2) Change resolution 3) Memorise how many times you need to hit tab key to get to 'OK' button. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
At 08:45 AM 3/16/04, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:39:47 + Olivier Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and I have use the wrong address! My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in the same way under openoffice 1.1 under linux and windows. This concerns essentialy the page breaks. Bonjour, J'ai remarqué qu'un même document n'a pas exactement la même mise en [...] You're right. I pointed it out to the oo list and never got a response. This was at least two versions ago. Also it doesn't export the exact same .pdf in win and Linux. I had to dual boot to get docs from my staff the way they were written or look forward to miles of editing. Super PITA. Lee I have this problem with OOo 1.1 docs going from one Win98 system to another - page breaks are not in the same place. In our case the original creator of doc had document fit on one page, on other machines, the might be a blank second page, or one or two lines of text on second page. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Router Question
At 08:22 PM 1/31/04, aronsmith wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 16:56, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 aronsmith disseminated the following: OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right ones?) Yep, you want straight through. This is an old compaqbox 500 Mhz and will have 128Mb Ram (I know its a lot for a firwall but thats all they had) any suggestions If it has a CDROM drive, you can't beat: http://www.smoothwall.org/ Burn the ISO, boot your router box from the CD, and you got yerself a kickass firewall, easily admin'ed with a browser interface, though I think it also comes with SSH is yer into that. ...and since you have 3 NICs, you get to have 3 interfaces: 1 internal, 1 firewall, and one DMZ, where you can put stuff like gaming rigs or other non-security sensitive stuff. Run one cable from your modem to the router, then one cable from the router to the hub (I assume you have one), then one from the hub to each machine on the LAN. Nope don't have a hub any suggestions? ( I'm cheap) Too cheap for a hub? That is cheap. You can do pc-to-pc with a cross-over cable. But this means you can only have three machines in your lan. You use straight-thru cable from router to modem and cross-over from router to pc on each of the other two nic's in your router. To add more pc's to lan you must have hub or switch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2
At 11:35 AM 1/30/04, Viking Skull wrote: Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a week now, but I'm having a major problem. Whenever I try to access the CD-ROM drive it just freezes the desktop.. I cant play music CD's and i cant do anything with data CD's either. The CD-ROM drive is a HP one and is recognised by Linux.. it just seems to crash it whenever I access it. It also crashes when right-clicking on it. The weird thing is, is that somewhere Mandrake told me it was a SCSI drive, when in fact it's an IDE drive. Can anyone help me!? Does this help? http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=CD-ROM+drive+freezes+Mandrakestart=10hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8selm=pan.2003.07.10.12.09.03.232623%40paradise.com.mzrnum=12 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Card Problems
At 09:48 AM 1/28/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again everyone. I've finally got Mandrake 92 up and running, can get to kde, got my video card configured, but somethings not quite right. When I have the resolution at 800x600 my screen is too small for the resolution, I need to move the mouse over to see the rest of the desktop. When I set it at 640x480 some of mandrakes config windows are too large for me to get to the OK buttons. I've spent hours (it seems like) choosing different configurations for the video card and have only got this one to work. The card is an S3 Trio 3d Onboard (86C386). I'm beginning to think I may need a new video card. Any more suggestions? If this is onboard video (as its name implies), perhaps there is a BIOS setting to give it more RAM? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for?
At 03:34 PM 1/25/04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: My luck must have run out. I spent 4 days downloading cd1,2,3 and installed Mandrake 9.2 with no obvious problems or errors. 3 cheers for the Mandrake team. I installed all the programs I wanted (No networking) and did not use CD3. I was wondering what it is for? CD3 for installing packages contained on that cd - browse it to find out what they are. Selecting OpenOffice and a language other than US-English will trigger prompt for CD3. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgraded to 92 :(
At 07:00 PM 1/19/04, Mike Adolf wrote: Problem 3: (minor) 92 swiped my control center icon from the lower task bar! Right click on the task bar - you will find options to add MCC icon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK92 - cannot print
At 08:04 AM 1/19/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 07:51 pm, Frank Bax wrote: No jobs in queue. Konica is a network printer (printing to it from MDK91 Win98 works fine). The same error also happens with a usb printer. Can you give us the exact printer make and model. I will check out Linuxprinting.org to see if there are specific instructions or issues. Konica is a printer/copier that uses HP III drivers. The usb printer is Samsung ML1210. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK92 - cannot print
At 12:03 PM 1/19/04, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:02:11 -0500 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:04 AM 1/19/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 07:51 pm, Frank Bax wrote: No jobs in queue. Konica is a network printer (printing to it from MDK91 Win98 works fine). The same error also happens with a usb printer. Can you give us the exact printer make and model. I will check out Linuxprinting.org to see if there are specific instructions or issues. Konica is a printer/copier that uses HP III drivers. The usb printer is Samsung ML1210. do you have hpoj 0.91 installed and hpijs 1.5 installed check out the wiki I know that it's HP but it supports a lot of other printers too uninstall your old hpoj first hpoj appears to be for PSC devices. Perhaps my description of Konica was somewhat lacking - this is a photocopier with an addon board that allows network printing. The printing component emulates a Laserjet III - to Linux, it looks like an HP3 connected to an lpr print server. This is not your typical PSC device. I can't find hpijs on my cd's. hpoj is not installed - neither is it installed on a working MDK91 system. A list of installed rpm's is found at: MDK91: http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/rpmSandy.txt MDK92: http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/rpmChris.txt Compare:http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/Mandrake_rpm_list.htm Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK92 - cannot print
At 10:05 AM 1/17/04, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:43:28 -0500 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to help from Bryan earlier in the week for fixing CUPS so I could add a printer. But on that day, I never bothered to actually print anything. When I try to print a test page, the following entries appear in /var/log/cups/error_log I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Adding start banner page none to job 14. I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Adding end banner page none to job 14. I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Job 14 queued on 'Konica' by 'root'. E [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 14! I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed? I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to debug. rpm -qa | grep -i ghost ghostscript-7.05-51mdk ghostscript-fonts-6.0-1mdk ghostscript-module-X-7.05-51mdk This appears to be the same (except for versions) ghostscript packages on a working MDK91 system. I tried setting LogLevel to debug, but it didn't seem to add anything useful. Time to back up and punt it looks like you have a job stuck in the print cache (I am assuming that this is a USB printer ) get rid of everything in the cache and restart No jobs in queue. Konica is a network printer (printing to it from MDK91 WIn98 works fine). The same error also happens with a usb printer. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK92 - cannot print
Thanks to help from Bryan earlier in the week for fixing CUPS so I could add a printer. But on that day, I never bothered to actually print anything. When I try to print a test page, the following entries appear in /var/log/cups/error_log I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Adding start banner page none to job 14. I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Adding end banner page none to job 14. I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Job 14 queued on 'Konica' by 'root'. E [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 14! I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed? I [17/Jan/2004:09:34:08 -0500] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to debug. rpm -qa | grep -i ghost ghostscript-7.05-51mdk ghostscript-fonts-6.0-1mdk ghostscript-module-X-7.05-51mdk This appears to be the same (except for versions) ghostscript packages on a working MDK91 system. I tried setting LogLevel to debug, but it didn't seem to add anything useful. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] default permissions
Thanks, that explains it - my ssh and desktop tests were on different users. When I created the 'real' users (excluding my userid) on this computer, I put them all in the same group so they could share files. If the name of the group is 'gwacl' and gid is 502, what code should I add/chg so that users in this group will use 664 permissions? Frank At 09:46 AM 1/15/04, Pablo Vitoria wrote: Hi Frank, The 'if[...' line means: If the effective user name and the effective group name running the shell are the same, and the user ID is greather than 99 (to exclude special accounts like root...) then set umask equal to 002, otherwise set it to 022. Since, by default, when you add a user to MDK it assigns a user ID bigger than 500, and creates a main group for that user with the same name, you should get 664 permissions when creating a file (that is what happens in my computers) unless you do it as root (user ID = 0), or you have changed the defaults in MDK and your users are getting IDs 99. Or you have changed the group policy. I hope this helps Pablo Pablo Vitoria Garcia Dpto. Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) Aptdo. 644 48080 Bilbao (Bizkaia) Tfno. 94 6015992 Fax. 94 4648500 - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:28 PM Subject: [newbie] default permissions | On a MDK91 system shared between several staff, I notice that OOo is | creating files with permissions 644. If I drop to shell and create a file, | it also has 644 permissions, but if I access the machine remotely via ssh, | the permissions are 664. I would like to see 664 all the time, so I | started some research. I found the command I'm looking for is umask and | that it is already executed in /etc/bashrc: | | # by default, we want this to get set. | # Even for non-interactive, non-login shells. | if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then | umask 002 | else | umask 022 | fi | | But, I don't understand this code. How do I fix this problem? | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer - works!
At 06:59 AM 1/14/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf BrowseInterval 0 Browsing Off Should have some additional lines: LogLevel Info TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Port 631 Browsing On #(You need to turn browsing on if you want the autodetect stuff to work on #other networked sysstems. Your choice.) BrowseAddress @LOCAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] broadcasts to all non point to point interfaces, so your lan but not #your dial up connection. BrowseDeny All BrowseAllow 127.0.0.1 BrowseAllow @LOCAL #This denies browsing for all but localhost and local interfaces. BrowseOrder deny,allow Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From @LOCAL /Location Location /admin # # You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions. # The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who # is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks. You can change # the group name using the SystemGroup directive. # AuthType Basic AuthClass System ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Encryption Required /Location Can you try adding these lines and then restart cupsd and try to add a printer again, see if it works, if not, check the error/access log with the new log level set to see if you get additional error messages. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Thanks Bryan! I am able to add printers again. This looks like one of those cases where one says That was easy when the solution is presented, getting there is the hard part. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 06:43 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 09:06 pm, Frank Bax wrote: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Is it possible that your firewall is disallowing local connections to port 631? How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 08:25 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Frank, just to provide some background info, the cups daemon listens on port 631 for connections, both for admin and printing jobs. If you are unable to connect on that port, it would seem to suggest that cups is either not properly installed or not working. If you check for the cupsd process and find it is missing, but the cups packages are installed, then either cups is not set to start at boot, or there is some error that is preventing it from starting. One way to check on an error is to drop to command line, su to root and issue the command: /etc/init.d/cups start or service cups start. You should get some type of response back, either OK or Failed. You can check the status by issuing the command /etc/init.d/cups status or service cups status . If it tells you that the process is dead but the subsys is locked, then you know that there is an error when the script runs that is killing the process but leaving the lock file in place. Then we can start issuing commands in verbose mode and see what kind of errors pop up. CUPS daemon was not running - it's running now cupsd (pid 2699) is running... A quick check of /var/log/cups/error_log and I found a little problem with hostname, so I fixed that and cups now starts properly on reboot. We are making progress, but cups WWW Admin still produces same error: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 09:29 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Frank Bax wrote: CUPS daemon was not running - it's running now cupsd (pid 2699) is running... A quick check of /var/log/cups/error_log and I found a little problem with hostname, so I fixed that and cups now starts properly on reboot. We are making progress, but cups WWW Admin still produces same error: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Can you check /var/log/cups/access_log and tail -f the file, then try to access cups from the browser to see if an error pops up? Or just check that log for any errors in general. On my system, each job that is sent from any of the 3 networked computers results in a post entry in the access file. You should be seeing some activity when you try to access cups. No log entry when accessing browser interface. When trying to add printer through PrinterDrake, I get a shutdown entry (3 times) when Making printer available to cups. In fact, only message is shutdown message when I manually stop cups service or reboot (no message during cups startup). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 02:44 PM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:03 am, Frank Bax wrote: No log entry when accessing browser interface. When trying to add printer through PrinterDrake, I get a shutdown entry (3 times) when Making printer available to cups. In fact, only message is shutdown message when I manually stop cups service or reboot (no message during cups startup). Can you post your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file? We may want to make a change in that file from Log info to Log debug to see if we get more information. Also, assuming that you have checked the error.log and see nothing else significant there. /etc/cups/cupsd.conf BrowseInterval 0 Browsing Off /var/log/cups/error_log E [13/Jan/2004:10:46:00 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. E [13/Jan/2004:10:49:41 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. E [13/Jan/2004:10:50:14 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. E [13/Jan/2004:10:50:46 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 07:09 AM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before upgrading the system to MDK92. Actually, I think that this would depend on whether you have a printer connected when you do the install. If you do and it is detected by Mandrake, then it installs CUPS by default unless you tell it not to. You don't have to have CUPS, you can use lpd or one of the other printer systems but you do have to have something. The MDK91 install was default, except I disabled gnome and Koffice. Then I did the MDK92 upgrade. The above sequence is exactly what I described in my first email. Everything is fine until I choose the printer name and click OK. Instead of choosing the model, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. My guess would be that you are missing some necessary packages from the Mandrake core system. If I were trying to troubleshoot this, I would urpmi the CUPS software and try to bypass the printer drake utils and set the printer up manually in CUPS. Hopefully, that should trigger the right files to be installed because of dependencies and then the wizard should work again. In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 08:03 PM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10 pm, Frank Bax wrote: In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load. That is always an option but you may not have exhausted the possibility of manually selecting the printer. OK, I'll defer that option for a little while... Go to Configuration, Printing, CUPS WWW admin tool An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) In case someone can determine that more packages are missing from my system, I did a list of packages (rpm -qa | sort) on a similar 9.1 system and the problem 9.2 system - then created a nice table to compare them. It will be at this site for a few days: MDK91: http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/rpmSandy.txt MDK92: http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/rpmChris.txt Compare:http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/Mandrake_rpm_list.htm Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 09:59 AM 1/11/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:46 am, Frank Bax wrote: The print server is not connected to parallel port - it has it's own ip address. I am able to physically connect the printer to either print server or the parallel port, but cannot get either one to work. Mandrake 9.2 does not auto-detect either of these connections. When I try to manually setup a locally connected printer, I get the error in my first message. I have not been able to find the 'clues' that allow me to manually setup a printer connected to a dlink print server. Therefore, I seem to be unable to setup any kind of printer on MDK92. From Dlink Tech support: How can I print to my DI-704P, DI-713P, or DI-714P+ router using Linux? The D-Link router is a port redirector. For Linux you should be printing to the IP of the router (192.168.0.1) and the port named lp (lower case L and P). You need to set this up manually, Linux can not autodetect devices that are directly on the router. Also, check your printer type, there are an awful lot of consumer level printers that are strictly designed to not work directly off a network without some type of smart print server attached. People have reported problems with caching of jobs, special instruction sets, etc. Dlink has a large list of printers that they will tell you will cause problems attached directly to the router. Aha, I finally found the manual setup for network printer after clicking Expert mode. Right after giving the printer a name (but before telling mandrake what make/model it is), I get the same error as when I was trying to setup the printer as locally connected via parallel port. Failed to configure printer Printer I setup a MDK91 system last year to print through the same model of dlink router and it works fine. I have also configured locally connected printers on MDK91. This computer is different because it did not have any printers setup when I did the upgrade to MDK92. Now I am unable to setup a printer (either local or remote) on this system. Perhaps some component is missing from this system - how do I check for that? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add a printer. When I first click on PrinterDrake in MCC, I get a message saying CUPS is not automatically started during bootup, would I like to enable automatic starting - I select YES. My local printer (HP4) is not auto-detected, so I disable those checkboxes. Printer is on parallel port 0. I'm then asked if it's a multi-function printer - no. Then I get Please wait - Making printer port available for CUPS. After a many seconds, a window opens asking to give the printer a name. It doesn't matter if I change the name or just leave it as Printer, when I click Next, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. How can I setup my printer? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
Printer port was already set to ECP+EPP. I tried all possible settings anyway with same result. I plan to use a dlink 704P to share the printer, but that is not auto-detected either. When I disable all three autodetection options, then locally connected is the only option presented for manual setup, so I thought I would try to configure printer locally, then change connection type to remote. Frank At 11:22 PM 1/10/04, Troy T. Hall wrote: From the manual If you want to use a parallel printer connected locally to your machine, make sure that the parallel port mode is set to ECP+EPP or at least to one of ECP or EPP and NOT to SPP, unless you have a really old printer. If the parallel port is not set this way you might still be able to print, but your printer will not be detected autmoatically and you will have to configure it by hand. ... Also CUPS is generally used for remotely connected printers. Troy - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2201 N6REJ Subject: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add a printer. When I first click on PrinterDrake in MCC, I get a message saying CUPS is not automatically started during bootup, would I like to enable automatic starting - I select YES. My local printer (HP4) is not auto-detected, so I disable those checkboxes. Printer is on parallel port 0. I'm then asked if it's a multi-function printer - no. Then I get Please wait - Making printer port available for CUPS. After a many seconds, a window opens asking to give the printer a name. It doesn't matter if I change the name or just leave it as Printer, when I click Next, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. How can I setup my printer? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe
At 08:22 AM 11/5/03, Anders Lind wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:13:17 -0700 Carl Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the ignorance but what is portsystem. I googled, but the few pages I found were in German and seemed to be about FreeBSD. Yes, it is the packagesystem in FreeBSDit downloads, compiles and installs with only one command *BSD ports and packages are different systems. The package system works as you mention, the ports system does not. The package system does not support upgrades. You must uninstall the current release, then install the next release. The *BSD ports system is awful. It is one single large download including a very large number of software products. It will download a specific product source tarball(s), apply patches for *BSD, then install. The problems start when you install multiple products using ports system and you want to upgrade one and not others. Then you must maintain multiple copies of these big downloads. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 - Konqueror select boxes
At 01:07 PM 10/30/03, Frank Bax wrote: I'd also like to hear from anyone using 9.2 to see if same problem presents itself. On web pages with (pulldown) select boxes, what happens when you use the keyboard is difficult to describe in abstract terms, so I'll use an example. If you visit any webpage that uses a select box to choose country, then hitting the letter C will cause cursor to be positioned to first country starting with a C. If you press C again, the next country is selected. If you keep tapping the C key, you effectively scroll through all the countries starting with C, restarting at the first one when you reach the end. Konqueror appears to have a feature whereby if you tap the C key twice rather quickly (like a double-click, but on the keyboard), you are taken back to the first country starting with C. This might appear to be a nice feature to go back to the beginning, but I'd like to turn it off. We have developed forms for data entry and some of our staff enter data rather quickly - they would like to get to the second or third value rather quickly, but if they type too fast, the cursor does not leave the first choice. Telling staff to work slower is not an attractive option. Is it possible to disable this double-keytap feature? Apparently there is no setting to control this behaviour. There are two other browsers on the MDK9.1 cdrom's. Both of them (Mozilla Galeon) behave even more badly than Konqueror on this problem. I've not heard from anyone with 9.2 yet... Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm goin' mobile....
At 01:20 PM 10/21/03, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:54 pm, Grant wrote: I'll be traveling off and on for the foreseable future, and I don't want to bring a laptop. What I'd like is some kind of a setup that allows me to connect to a remote machine that I've set up and use my apps through there from Internet cafes. What do you guys think might work? Also, I'm a little paranoid of keystroke loggers in Internet cafes. I was wondering if anyone has created any kind of an application to solve that problem. Maybe an on-screen representation of a keyboard that allows you to save your click-strokes to the clipboard? - Grant Okay, here's what I do. The machine I am connecting to, which is in my home office, is set behind a firewall that is forwarding port 22 for ssh connections. Then I run vncserver with fluxbox as the window manager. I then carry in my briefcase, a mini cd that has a windows ssh client and the windows and linux vncviewer. I use PuTTy for the windows ssh client. It is free and very easy to use. From whatever computer I am at that has Internet access (Windows or Linux), I can set up an ssh session that forwards the vnc port to the local machine, and then I use the vncviewer through the ssh tunnel to access my desktop. In fact, this is how I am typing this email right now. When the rules say you cannot access personal e-mail at work, us Linux users have an advantage ;-) Could you provide specifics about command options you use to establish this connection? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Maxtor Hard Drive Dual-Slave Jumper Setting?
At 08:54 AM 9/30/03, The Other wrote: I have a Maxtor model 4W030H2 30GB drive I would like to make the Slave in a dual Master-Slave setup. What is the correct jumper setting to make the Maxtor the Slave drive? Most Maxtor drives have jumper settings printed on drive itself, but not always. Google 4W030H2 master slave jumper found many pages which led to this one: http://www.rettesoft.hu/ftpdir/DriversMK/Maxtor/D536DX/536DX_pm.pdf See page 2-6 (adobe page 14). For Master of Single - place jumper on pair of pins closest to IDE connector. For slave - remove jumper from first pair of pins next to IDE connector. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tight VNC
I found this message in archives without any solution to help me. I had the same problem with TightVNC from MDK91 cdrom - the solution that worked for me was to upgrade the two qt3 rpms. Frank At 09:04 AM 8/30/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there! i just reinstalled mdk 9.1. after that i installed the tightvnc rpm from tightvnc.org, no problems. after that i opened the control center(not the mdk one!). there you can confugure tight vnc. but when i go to network-desktop sharing, only the following dialogue is displayed(in german): http://www.codershome.org/vnc.png anybody know what to do? i deinstalled the rpm of tightvnc.org and installed the rpm from the cd, too. but didnt work... remo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK91 does not boot
I have a system that initially had RedHat 7.2 on it, then I installed MDK91 and setup for dualboot. Everything was going very well until the machine lost power this morning. During bootup, the disk integrity checks failed. The machine is in another city which I cannot get to right away. We boot MDK91 and enter root password - then try fsck /dev/hda5 - the root partition for MDK91 system - the error message indicates the disk has a feature to new for it to handle. How is this possible and how do we get past it? Booting to RH72 produces same errors (I think the MDK91 partition is available fstab so I could migrate /home stuff). Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK91 - OpenOffice network printing
How do I make a network printer defined via printerdrake, the default printer for OOo? http://www.linuxprinting.org/distribution-printing-faq.html#q_4_2 When I double-click the printer there is no option to update OpenOffice? When I try to print from OpenOffice, printers defined via printerdrake are available to OOo (they appear as printer), but I would like to make one of these printers the default printer. When I run spadmin, these printers are not defined! If I try to define one of these printers, appropriate drives are not available. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1
At 02:33 PM 7/16/03, rikona wrote:
I have some old dbase files I may convert too. If you get
this to work, please post the result here. Thanks.
I have a perl script (from my *bsd system, but should work on Linux) that
converts all dBase files in a directory to pgsql tables, you should be able
to convert to mysql with different libraries. You'll need to install:
DBI - abstraction layer for database access from perl
DBD::XBase - access to DBF files via DBI - include a program to dump structure
DBD::Pg or DBI:MySQL - access to database from DBI
For Mysql, you may need to change DBF2PG subroutine for translating
datatypes; otherwise, just rewrite the mainline for your own purposes.
The script is written to take a parameter - if this is a filename (without
extension), then it will process just that file, otherwise, every file
starting with those characters.
Frank
- - - - -
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Basename; # for basename() function
use DBI; use DBD::XBase; use DBD::Pg;
my $base = shift;
my $dir = '/home/fbax/DBFfiles/' . $base;
my $dbf = DBI-connect(dbi:XBase:$dir, {RaiseError = 1} );
my $dbp = DBI-connect(dbi:Pg:dbname=famtree, famtree, , {RaiseError
= 1} );
while (my $fname = $dir/$base*.DBF) {
DBF2PG ($dbf, $dbp, $fname, basename(substr($fname, 0,
length($fname)-4)));
}
$dbf-disconnect;
$dbp-disconnect;
sub DBF2PG {
(my $dbf, my $dbp, my $fname, my $table) = @_;
$table = lc(\$table\);
print $fname - $table\n;
open (PIPE, dbfdump --info $fname |) or die Can't open $fname: $!;
my $sql = CREATE TABLE $table ;
my $sep = (;
while( PIPE ) {
chomp;
if (/^[0-9]+\./) { # line starts with number.
# print $_\n;
my @stru = split; # stru contains field,type,len,dec
$sql .= $sep.' '.lc($stru[1]).'';
if ($stru[2] eq 'D') {
$sql .= date;
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'L') {
$sql .= boolean;
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'M') {
$sql .= text;
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'G') {
$sql .= text;
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'C' $stru[3] eq 1) {
$sql .= char;
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'C') {
$sql .= varchar($stru[3]);
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' $stru[4] eq 0 $stru[3] 5) {
$sql .= int2;
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' $stru[4] eq 0 $stru[3] 10) {
$sql .= int4;
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N' $stru[4] eq 0) {
$sql .= int8;
} elsif ($stru[2] eq 'N') {
$sql .= numeric($stru[3],$stru[4]);
} else {
$sql .= $stru[2].$stru[3].$stru[4];
}
$sep = ',';
}
}
close (PIPE);
$sql .= ' );';
$dbp-{RaiseError} = 0;
$dbp-do( DROP TABLE $table );
$dbp-{RaiseError} = 1;
$dbp-do( $sql );
my $sth = $dbf-prepare( SELECT * FROM .basename($fname) );
$sth-execute;
while (my @row = $sth-fetchrow_array()) {
$sql = INSERT INTO $table VALUES ;
$sep = (;
foreach my $fld (@row) {
$sql .= $sep .$dbp-quote($fld);
$sep = ,;
}
$sql .= ' );';
$dbp-do( $sql );
}
$sth-finish;
}
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Re: [newbie] OT: favorite spyware seeker for windows
At 02:57 AM 7/15/03, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 3:36 am, Eric Huff wrote: Hi Folks, I'm trying to find out for my dad what the best ( free) spyware finder is for windows. When i google around, i get too many hits (bps, adaware, spybot, spywareinfo, etc). What's your favorite? I trust our list way more than a billion reviews on the web... Just to reiterate, I installed both ad-aware and spybot on my work machines just the other day. Both look good, and there's not much to choose between them. I use spybot - when I reviewed offerings earlier this year, ad-aware development had stalled over the winter - has this changed? I noticed yesterday that Norton AntiVirus (Corp Edition) is catching some of these trojans now - even though they are not virii. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Free of OE! - with IMAP
At 07:37 PM 6/30/03, Miark wrote: I've used Sylpheed forever for personal and list mail, but I've been somewhat stuck to Outlook Express for all my business e-mail because I could never find an easy _and_ effective way to convert. (KMail's import utility, for example, is easy, but doesn't work for crap.) But (!) today I found DBXConv which is free program for Winsux that converts dbx mail to mbox. It works perfectly and it's plumb easy. So if anybody out there is stuck with OE against their will, give this program a try: http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html There exists a rather simple method to convert between *any* two email clients that support IMAP. Simply setup an IMAP server, move all your mail folders to the server using your old client program, then copy them all back with the new client. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...
At 09:21 AM 6/15/03, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS Office appears to load so fast - it's because most of it's engine is already in system memory prior to even launching the application. That's how Microsoft makes use of slight of hand to make things appear faster - same with IE. OOo uses the same slight of hand when installed on a Windows machine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] genealogy
At 10:41 PM 5/28/03, Owen Berio wrote: Does anyone know if there is any genealogy software available that works with Mandrake? I haven't tried them, but a search at http://sf.net shows these Linux offerings: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/ - http://sourceforge.net/projects/lifelines/ A couple of other Linux projects were listed, but no downloads were available. Lifelines has been around a long time. I heard of it 10 years ago, when I started Family research, but I didn't have a Linux machine back then so went with something else. It appears to be an active project with an update released earlier this month. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos
At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations of disks/partitions to be accessible in windows linux? I've got two hard disks, the second of which is online only for occasional backups. The first has 5 partitions: a windows one, a dos one and 3 linux ones (in that order). At present I use a boot manager for Windows, called xosl, which manages the dos/windows side of this perfectly. snip I currently have 1 of my computers running win98SE, win2000 (for program compatibility) and MDK9.1 I use XOSL as a boot manager on this machine as I can setup passwords for the different oses and make booting the winblows partitions a little more secure. All I did was to install lilo on the MDK partition that contains the /boot. I then pointed XOSL to this partition, labelled it Mandrake (as the default os of course). I set the bios to boot only fron hard drive and viola! - works flawlessly (did so with MDK8.2 and MDK9.0 as well) I set lilo to boot after 2 seconds and removed the options for the windows boot options. But all you have done really is replace the windblows bootloader with this XOSL loader,and I'm guessing, in the MBR of whichever first partition is Windblows , and then installed lilo as a linux loader in chain loader fashion. Now, perhaps this XOSL loader is more secure than windblows own, but if so I doubt by much, since password configuration to both windblows has been a feature of W98 and W2K from the start.You only have to choose to set it. So why bother with all this XOSL stuff, just let lilo be installed in the MBR of which ever windblows OS is first and chain load as before. I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to be visible in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, when booting, make their own decisions as to what is visible, which is precisely what he does not want. Now there is a utility called letterassign that runs in Windows, (and probably in Dos too, but I'm not sure) that allows you to tell a Windows system what partitions it is to see, and which partitions are to correspond to which so-called drive letters. I've used it with Windows 98SE, and it seems to work. -- hendrik OK, but I have never had any problem with getting any windblows OS to recognise any number of FAT 32 partition, whether before or after linux partitions. So it must be in DOS itself, but does anyone actually use DOS anymore ?, and in anycase your sayng DOS cannot recognise FAT32 partitions ?, really ? Really. In fact, I don't think win95 can, either. Fat32 wasn't 'invented' then. FAT32 Introduced in Win95 OSR actually. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q154/9/97.aspNoWebContent=1 And yes people still use DOS. I have a couple of DOS systems being used as dialup routers - more secure for this purpose than any of the network enabled OS's. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos
At 04:51 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:17 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations of disks/partitions to be accessible in windows linux? I've got two hard disks, the second of which is online only for occasional backups. The first has 5 partitions: a windows one, a dos one and 3 linux ones (in that order). At present I use a boot manager for Windows, called xosl, which manages the dos/windows side of this perfectly. snip I currently have 1 of my computers running win98SE, win2000 (for program compatibility) and MDK9.1 I use XOSL as a boot manager on this machine as I can setup passwords for the different oses and make booting the winblows partitions a little more secure. All I did was to install lilo on the MDK partition that contains the /boot. I then pointed XOSL to this partition, labelled it Mandrake (as the default os of course). I set the bios to boot only fron hard drive and viola! - works flawlessly (did so with MDK8.2 and MDK9.0 as well) I set lilo to boot after 2 seconds and removed the options for the windows boot options. But all you have done really is replace the windblows bootloader with this XOSL loader,and I'm guessing, in the MBR of whichever first partition is Windblows , and then installed lilo as a linux loader in chain loader fashion. Now, perhaps this XOSL loader is more secure than windblows own, but if so I doubt by much, since password configuration to both windblows has been a feature of W98 and W2K from the start.You only have to choose to set it. So why bother with all this XOSL stuff, just let lilo be installed in the MBR of which ever windblows OS is first and chain load as before. I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to be visible in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, when booting, make their own decisions as to what is visible, which is precisely what he does not want. Now there is a utility called letterassign that runs in Windows, (and probably in Dos too, but I'm not sure) that allows you to tell a Windows system what partitions it is to see, and which partitions are to correspond to which so-called drive letters. I've used it with Windows 98SE, and it seems to work. -- hendrik OK, but I have never had any problem with getting any windblows OS to recognise any number of FAT 32 partition, whether before or after linux partitions. So it must be in DOS itself, but does anyone actually use DOS anymore ?, and in anycase your sayng DOS cannot recognise FAT32 partitions ?, really ? Really. In fact, I don't think win95 can, either. Fat32 wasn't 'invented' then. FAT32 Introduced in Win95 OSR actually. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.micro soft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q154/9/97.aspNoWebContent=1 And yes people still use DOS. I have a couple of DOS systems being used as dialup routers - more secure for this purpose than any of the network enabled OS's. Frank My mistake, then. I thought win95 was fat16. Anne The original Win95 was indeed fat16 only - and therefore 2G limit. I made a typo - Win95 OSR2 introduced fat32. There were four versions of Win95, three of which support fat32. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PostgreSQL
At 08:40 AM 3/25/03, Christopher Shaffer wrote: Forgive my silly question, but I'm trying to experiment with PostgreSQL (all I've used till now is MySQL...) on Mandrake 9.0, but I have know idea what the default username/password is. Is it kind of like MySQL, with a root user? Could be postgres or pgsql - look in /etc/passwd for userid's starting with 'p'. if you 'su' to root, then you won't be asked for passwd switching to pgsql admin (or even change the password of that account). As pgsql admin, use createuser and createdb commands to create a user and database, then use these thereafter. If user and database have the same name, then that user simply enters 'pgsql' to get an interactive session. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux
At 12:49 AM 3/22/03, David E. Fox wrote: That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 command : chmod 777 * . That's because FAT32 doesn't implement permissions the same way - so a chmod wouldn't have any effect, and the permissions only reflect how the device was originally mounted. FAT32 in and of itself doesn't have permissions - at least they aren't built into the filesystem in the same way that Linux and other Unix systems do (at the inode level). Nevertheless, it is possible - even with Windows 95 to set up private and public spaces (aka drives). I've seen it done when I used to work at the local Census office here. We had a network of some 20-odd PCs all running Windows 95 - and a big server running NT. Of course, all this smoke and mirrors we had set up probably was courtesy of NT and Novell and not 95 specifically. But we were able to login at any workstation and attach our private drive or store files in a public area. I wasn't involved in IT there so I don't really know how it was done -- but Im sure it would have been easier to do it in Unix :). Kaj Haulrich. NT doesn't use FAT32 - it uses NTFS - which does support security at node level. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sundance problems
At 03:44 PM 3/8/03, Frank Bax wrote: When I installed Mandrake 9.0 - I was able to so via ftp. Now, everytime I startup the system, no network is available until I run the connection wizard in MCC (accepting all default answers). The following entries appear in syslog during bootup: Mar 8 15:17:16 video mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded Mar 8 15:17:16 video insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/sundance.o.gz: init_module: No such device Mar 8 15:17:16 video modprobe: modprobe: insmod eth0 failed Mar 8 15:17:16 video modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1 When I run the connection wizard, I get another 11K of messages in syslog, which you can see here. Any suggestions about what to change so this works on bootup? http://www3.sympatico.ca/fbax/syslog.txt NIC is a Startech ST100S (there is an RTL8139D chip on it). /etc/modules.conf contains: alias eth0 sundance alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci alias char-major-116 snd probeall usb-interface usb-uhci usb-ohci ehci-hcd above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss Solution - change 'sundance' to '8139too' in /etc/modules.conf Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
At 03:57 PM 3/9/03, Azrael wrote: Alternatively, you can use Mozilla or Phoenix, install uabar from uabar.mozdev.org and get the browser to pretend to be IE on win98. Interesting observation - this page only presents sidebar and headings when accessed with IE5 on Win98. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC
At 08:16 AM 1/3/03, ivette brusselmans wrote: Hello out there, Installed MDK 9.0 and everything works fine, except for VNC. When I type VNCviewer in terminal and IPaddress of win98 box I get following message: VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3) No authentication needed Desktop name ivette Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3 VNC server default format: 32 bits per pixels Last significant byte first i each pixel True color: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green 8 blue0 Can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel. Sorry It would appear that your Win98 box is configured for 24 bits-per-pixel. On that system - right click on desktop, then choose 'Settings' tab. Change Colors to 16-bit or 32-bit. I've heard that 24-bit should be avoided (it's not always stable) on Win9x systems, so this is a good change anyway. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] disappearing nic
I downloaded Mandrake ISO's to one machine; then used these for an ftp install on a second machine. Sometime after the installation, access to anything through the nic wouldn't work. I finally did get some results when I changed from DHCP to static ip. But now there's a different problem. Earlier this week, I happened to reboot the machine and when it came up, the system 'forgot' it had a network card. When I went into MCC, there was no card listed, but as I went through the wizard, previous setting were 'remembered' and the system worked again. Today, I happened to do another reboot, amd the same thing happened again. Am I missing something simple for the system to 'remember' it has a nic during a reboot. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
