Re: [newbie] i need some information
John Mario Osorio wrote: i need some information: i heve my linux to work on the internet, do i need some kind of patch to protect the system of hackers attacks or things like that, i really apreciate if you can help me John M. Osorio ColombiaNet tech support some patch? to check you computers security all I can offer is a an addy were you can read on, security issues you should watch out for... http://packetstorm.securify.com/papers/unix/Secure.Linux.for.Newbies.v1.1.txt thats the url have fun John
[newbie] CdR
Hello, just want to get some ideas, on a buy I want to make. I want to get a cdrw, any clues which ones are good under linux (mandrake 6.0). Thank you in advance John K.
[newbie] Xwindows
I have two machnes running on my network. one dual 200 192 megs of ram, and a amd 450 with 64 megs of ram. I log on to my amd machine, and I try to start up xprograms. I remember my unix teacher showed us how to do it, a year ago. I forgot how to do that now. What do I need to do, to get xwindows programs to run on my terminal from the remote machine? Thank you John K.
[newbie] shutdown
I am trying to get shutdown to send a warning message to other users... the command should be something like shutdown -k now mesg But it just sends shutdown canceled.. on red hat system, that works and I never have a problem... I tried it on 2 mandrake computers, and they both have the same results. Any clue what I am doing wrong? Thank you JK
[newbie] Kernels
I have mandrake 6.0 venus running on my machine with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I was reading about the 2.2.13 kernels that you can get from cassini and cooker Will this affect my machine in any way? 'cause I am going to use a kernel from a newer version? Or it does that not matter? Thank you in advance JK
Re: [newbie] Kernels
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, JK wrote: I have mandrake 6.0 venus running on my machine with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I was reading about the 2.2.13 kernels that you can get from cassini and cooker Will this affect my machine in any way? 'cause I am going to use a kernel from a newer version? Or it does that not matter? The kernel does not depend on any other packages. You can safely update. LLaP bero Thank you for the help:)
Re: [newbie] what is?
Westbrook wrote: I was under the impression that the swap shouldn't be any bigger that 128 since Linux won't read anything bigger anyway. Am I wrong? Thanks Russ - Original Message - I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb You can have multiple swap partitions. but I dont suggest it. I have 190 some megs of ram and a 13 gig, I only set aside 100 megs of swap.
[newbie] rpm updates
Thanks Ken and Alex for the cron error. One other problem I am facing,. I upgraded the kernel, lilo and lynx. Like the update web page says. That was easy and fast. Now I read from a previews post that you can remove the old versions of the lilo and kernel once you upgrade to the newer versions. If so, how can I go about removing the older version of the rpm? 'cause under the krpm it shows the old and new kernel with the same header, and when I try to uninstall the old rpm, it says something like there are multiple copies and it cant figure which one it wants to uninstall even if i select the one i want Thank you John K.
[newbie] cron error
Every time cron runs the below thing is what is sent to the root user. I logged on as root to install a new rpm I downloaded and it said I had mail. I checked mail and 8 messages were based on this error. Any clue how to fix the error? /usr/bin/news.daily: /var/lib/news/.news.daily: Permission denied /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file Thanks in advance John
Re: [newbie] virtual terminals
Every time i switch to ctrl alt f1 f2 or some other virtual console, then try to switch back to my xwindows, my machine freezes. Keyboard locks up, and monitor goes blank. I have left it a few times, just sitting there for 5 or 10 minutes thinking maybe it was slow in responding... but nothing, the only way to reboot the machine then is hitting restart or turning off the power completely... any clue on how to fix that? The x starts at startup, and the kde login manager is the one that starts up. (basic info) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well u can start multiple X sessions ... (be careful abt your resources though like ram etc)... ALT-F1 then startx -- :1 then CTRL-ALT-F2 and startx -- :2 then you have one X on CTRL-ALT-F7 and another on CTRL-ALT-F8! the one and two after the colon is the display number (i think) so it can be anythigna nd need not be sequential ... in fact this works as well but i dont use it often (unless i mistype) startx -- :!
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
Granted, Mandrake should have fixed the problem before it came out with the new version. BUT, they have the next best thing. They offered a update and they tell you exactly what to do. I as I have said before started using linux 4 months ago. I felt the need to switch once I started hosting moos on my machine. Red Hat was cool caldera was ok, and so was slack. But Mandrake is easy to upgrade and maintain compared to other version. Jeanette Russo wrote: I really don't want to argue this point but I will say one thing. I have both Red hat 6 and Caldera 2.2. I have not updated either of them and both run fine. Not so with Mandrake 6 which has serious internal problems that require fixing right away. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced Jeanette Russo wrote: I can't believe I have to install a kernel in my brand new install to fix this. I have no idea how to do this. I just Mandrake Soft should have fixed this in the boxed versions. This problem has been out for a long time and now I wasted $39 time and effort on Mandrake 6.0. How could this possibly be the most bug free version on Linux when you have to replace the kernal right after you install it. Oh, give me a break. It's a download and ten minutes of your time. Would you prefer a broken kernel and the fsck-on-reboot problem you've got now? I know I'd just bite the bullet and grab the download. Don't think that any of the other distributions are any better. A kernel is trivial compared to the 140M worth of updates Red Hat has issued against their 6.0 effort. Debian's last official release ships with 2.0.34 and an X distribution that hasn't been current for quite awhile. I don't recall Caldera's 2.2 (their latest) having any small amount of updates either, a kernel was included there too. Slackware STILL doesn't ship with libc6, something that's shipped with other distributions for at least a couple versions. Mandrake (and all other distributors that I'm aware of) release a distribution with a version number. Updates to that version don't typically get streamlined into the retail packages. Think of the support nightmares that would cause! Just because Microsoft feels the need to support 3 versions of Win95 and 2 versions of Win98 doesn't mean everyone else should take on that burden! 6.0 means 6.0 means 6.0. Not 6.0 + some unknown set of updates. You probably could have saved yourself about $30 and bought a distribution from a vendor that slipped the updates into their burned discs. I posted yesterday about LSL releasing a new "updates" CD that carries the various items that have been released since the official releases of the major distributions. I don't recall the price, but it wasn't very expensive. If you feel it's too much effort to download the update, pick up the CD. You've been reading this list for FAR too long to claim that these kernel updates were "sprung" on you. The issue has been known for quite a while. Didn't you account for that when you bought your copy? If you knew it was a problem, why didn't you ask the vendor if they included available updates on their CD? Sorry, but you've hit my "whining" threshold... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Linux and modems
I am having a hard time figuring out how to set up multiple modems on a linux box. Does anyone know how I can install 2 modems on one linux box?
Re: [newbie] Wine Documentation
Steve Philp wrote: Doug Reid wrote: Does anyone know where I can find documentation on Wine? www.winehq.com If you have 6.0 installed and the mans also, just do man wine and will get detailed info on what it is, how to install etc...
Re: [newbie] True quality!
Steve Philp wrote: Just caught this tidbit in the Linux Today press releases and thought it should be brought to everyone's attention. Mandrake seems to have "won" the quality award with their 6.0 release. LSL's upcoming "Linux Update" CD contains all the released updates for the major distributions. Their release shows Mandrake having the FEWEST UPDATES! Congrats to the Mandrake team! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes congrats, indeed. I started using linux 4 months ago, and well I was using red hat, and I was not pleased at all. I switched to Mandrake 6.0, and well, since then. I feel like support has been better (with this mailing list), updates are known once they come out, with their detailed updates web page, and overall performance is excellent:) Keep up the good work Mandrake team
Re: [newbie] PPP/InterNet Connectivity - What fixed it, but I don't know why or how...
Steve Philp wrote: That "gentleman" was me. In your original message, you had written that you were trying to get a 6.0 SPARC system up and running. Does Mandrake ship a SPARC version now? As for my "useless comments", I'm pretty sure you just ended up on the bad side of the average. I'm generally helpful when people post questions that actually apply to the list at hand. Congratulations on getting your system up and running. And for why it probably didn't work the first install: you probably chose 'default route' for the Ethernet configuration which conflicts with bringing up PPP. When PPP starts, it attempts to set it's interface for the default route, rightfully so. If you've already got a default route, the attempt fails and you get what you got -- a working connection, but nothing working. No amount of resolv.conf tuning is going to help that. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mandrake 6.0 does not ship sparc from what I can remember. They have more info of that on their home page, if I am not mistaken they are planning on a release, but I do not know if it will be 6.0 and or in the near future.
Re: [newbie] Networkd Card Probs.
Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: TJ McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 2:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Networkd Card Probs. I have a Linksys16 nic much like your card with support for rj45 and bnc. In order to use coax I had to boot to dos and run a setup program to set the card to bnc. You might have to do the same. For linksys network cards, the set your network card to tulip compatible. Unless linksys finaly came out with drivers
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2
WHERE did you get G2 for Linux? The only thing I could find from Real.com was RealPlayer 5. :-( John Thats the web page you should go for the linux version of G2 http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html
Re: [newbie] Can't compile program
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im new to linux. Iv figured most of the basic stuff like connecting to the internet sound, printer etc. Now that im connected I want to download stuff. I downloaded kicq im not quit sure how to go about compiling it. I would appreciate you help. I thank you in advance to your replies!! Thank you! Jerome [EMAIL PROTECTED] There usualy is a file called README (all capitols most of the time) just type more README, and it will tell you how to compile the file. At least so far all the progs I have complied come with that.
Re: [[newbie] updates icon]
Michael Scottaline wrote: Todd Linnertz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: updates icon Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:20:04 -0500 From: Todd Linnertz [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I click the updates button on the KDE desktop I get an error: Could not execute program MandrakeUpdate. What is this suppose to do and how do I get it to work? Thanks, Todd Linnertz = were you connected to the internet at the time? That just gives you a list of ftp sites around the world, then when you select the the ftp you want it connects you there, and you can download the files for update. Now check to see if you updates is linked to fule updates.kdelnk it should be in your directory /Desktop/updates.kdelnk. when your kde directory is made.
Re: [newbie] upgrade
Alan Shoemaker wrote: AxalonI upgraded telnet via the KDE desktop upgrade icon. Now I cannot telnet in. I assume that I didn't get the server part of the split package when I upgraded. If this is the case, how do I obtain the server part of the telnet package? Alan -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] upgrade On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, DJ wrote: hmmm... it wasnt but is now and works fine.. kinda makes ya wonder what else may not have gotten upgraded:) I checked every box by hand when i upgraded to 6.0 to make sure i had everything Maybe my carpel tunnel is spreading:) thanks later:) 6.0 Shiped with the client and server in the same package, the update splits these into seperate packages telnet and telnet-server. Steve Philp wrote: If it's not installed, that would be a 'roger!'. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon I had the same problem when I upgraded you have to download the following file and install it .. ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/updates/6.0/RPMS/telnet-server-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm Update that file, and it will work again.
[newbie] Video problems
I am running a number nine I128 with four megs of ram. my monitors hsync is 30-95 and vsync is 47-150 res is 1600x1200 max When I was running RH 6.0 it could handle 1280x1024 at 24 bpp now I am trying to set my monitor to the same res and depth, but it will only hit max of 1280x1024 at 8 bpp Any help on what I can do to fix that little problem? I am using mandrake 6.0 TIA John K.
