Re: [newbie] Slighty OT: Strange Computer Noises/Cold Boot Issues
Hi Tom, Generally cold starts where you hear whining and buzzing are from cheap fans that use sleeve bearings instead of ball bearings. OTOH, these don't prevent bootup other than if the fans are so impaired as to cause overheating before the system can complete the bootstrap process. Harddrives (and CD drives) can also produce similar sounds when cold, and it's not a good sign. Same deal, bearings. You can check by placing a rod of some sort (heck, I've used a spoon), in contact with the drives side and the other end against the bone just by your outer ear opening. This greatly amplifies the sound you hear from the insides of the drive, and pinpoints which drive. You might get away with it for a while, but it's a sure sign of pending mechanical failure of the device. Right, that settles it. Definately doing a major backup soon! I've been telling myself I should of by now for ages :) I lost an important 30g, 8 month old, IBM, 7200rpm to this symptom ;( In that case, the drive was run 24/7, till I went out of town for a week. It would never spin up again, system wouldn't boot. Lost whatever I didn't have already backup'd to CDr's. Thanks for everyones help. I shall now sit and wait for it to fail! Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Quotas
Hi, I'm experimenting with using quotas for the first time. But I cannot get them to work. I have changed the fstab and added usrquota like: /dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults,usrquota 1 2 I've also created a blank file called aquota.user in /home. But, when trying to turn quotas on using: quotaon -vgu /dev/hda5 I get this error: quotaon: using /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda5: Invalid argument I've read the mini-HOWTO and it doesn't mention this error :( Can anyone help me please? Thank you, Jord -- Jordan Elver If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.1 No Anti-aliasing
Hi everyone, I just upgraded to KDE 3.1 which went suprisingly well (Thanks for eberyones advise). One problem though. I now don't have anti aliased fonts. It's turned on in the KDE control center, but it doesn't work. How can I turn it on? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver Put the key of despair into the lock of apathy. Turn the knob of mediocrity slowly and open the gates of despondency - welcome to a day in the average office. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1
On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 10:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 10:41 pm, Miark wrote: I gotta report that I just installed Texstar's KDE 3.1 on my MDK 9.0 box and I just love it. The look is beautiful with alpha-blending, the new Keramik theme, and new icons; and I really dig tabbed browsing in Konq. Another nail in M$'s coffin, I think. How easy is this install for a newbie, Miark? I'd be interested too. I downloaded the rpms and then lost my nerve :) -- Jordan Elver The office is like an army, and I'm the field general. You're my footsoldiers and customer quality is the WAR!!! -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compiling Kernels
Hi, Just a quick question regarding compiling Kernels. I am right in thinking that I can compile additional kernels, which I specifically select to use to boot? Can I safely compile a new kernel without mucking up my current system? If anyone has a good newbie website that they know of that would be good as well. Thanks for any info, Jord -- Jordan Elver Every time you open your mouth you have this wonderful ability to continually confirm what I think. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernels
Sure, you can have any number of kernels in your system... you're only going to use one at a time, so no worries. For more info, check out http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/index.html#ku Cheers mate, I'll check it out. I'm going to be messing about with some graphics kernel stuff and don't want to loose what I have already got :) Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, How would the Lone Ranger handle this? -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernels
Thanks Damian, Remember, your first try is very likely to fail. Don't worry, after some (repeated) attempts, you'll get it right. And make sure you are familiar with your hardware. I thought that may be the case :) Thanks for the info, Jord -- Jordan Elver You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA
Charlie, As far as I can discover Jordan the best shot you have at copying DRM (copy protected) CDs is a Windows program called Clone-CD or a drive that supports DAO in Linux. A friend has a lot of PC games and has a lot of small children around frequently (, pretty shiny fwisbee me play!) so he went hunting for a back-up utility. That's all I know about it. Yeah, I already use that under Windows. I just find it very frustrating that Linux can't do this. I can't remember the commands Jordan, sorry. Open a terminal and type man hdparm or hdparm --help I'll take a look throught the archive as well. It's definately been raised here before. What help? :-) Sometimes, just talking it over with someone else helps :) Cheers, Jordan -- Jordan Elver Process and Procedure are the last hiding place of people without the wit and wisdom to do their job properly. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA
Hi, Yes, it's possible. However, making your own backup copies of copy protected cd's is only possible if you can make your burner and your software do an elaborate dance; and they both have to be doing exotic things. In linux the hardware necessities you can get; the software you cannot. There are only two brands of burner software that I have tested that are capable of creating backup copies of copy protected cd's with the proper hardware. Neither one of them run on Linux. This is a major problem and I wish both of the two burner software firms would port to linux. Either that or an enthusiastic brainiac capable of authoring a new project. Very frustrating. cdrecord seems to be the tool everybody uses, is that what is usuallu recommended? You have what looks like a PX-W1610A; correct me if I'm wrong. You can check the performance/capabilities of your drive on the following page: Thats it. When selecting a burner, and you are looking at doing bit for bit copies, possibly with copy protected material, you absolutely need to use the CloneCD burner evaluation list for making a decision. Otherwise you are walking into it blind. I recommend Liteon brand burners as a start; personally I have here a Toshiba SD-1202 DVD Combo drive that burns with the correct EFM encoding, plus does RAW-DAO 96 write, and RAW+96 read. I've been using Clone CD under windows. Copied what I wanted to fine. Obviously software, as you said above. Nevermind. Cheers, Jordan -- Jordan Elver Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA
Hi Damian, most likely. That cdrecord output you posted there was at 31% fifo fill... that's hardly a good level. And then: I suppose nearer 100% would be good :) Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Loss of streaming... Is this a DMA issue? I read some posts here before regarding turning on DMA just in case: hdparm -d1 /dev/devicename I'll look into it. Do you know how to run a benchmark with hdparm? Someone showed it a while back and I can't remember the switch. However i would not bet on DMA being the problem. As a rule of thumb, i NEVER do cd-to-cd copy on the fly. It is faster, yes, but what happens when dd if=/dev/cdrom gets stuck trying to read one sector from beneath a scratch in the middle of the burning session? At 16x speed, it's really not hard to get a buffer underrun... If you are absolutely in love with this method, try lower speeds and always make sure the original CD is in good condition. Yeah. I'll probably try a make an iso with mkisofs first in future. Is that the proper way of doing it? Thanks, Jordan -- Jordan Elver If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CD Writer/DMA
Hi, I'm currentlycopying cds on the fly with the following command: dd if=/dev/cdrom | cdrecord dev=0,2,0 speed=speed -v - The problem is that I can't actually use 12 or 16 speed recording, depemding on the disk I am copying. I get a message from cdrecord saying: Track 01: 25 MB written (fifo 31%) [buf 12%] 12.4x.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 32 60 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 32 F8 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 13048 (valid) cmd finished after 0.051s timeout 40s write track data: error after 26411008 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Or normally something along the lines or an input/output error. Is this error caused because the data is not being read quick enough to pipe throught to cdrecord? Is this a DMA issue? I read some posts here before regarding turning on DMA with hdparm. Could this help? Thanks for any help, Jordan -- Jordan Elver Remember the 3 golden rules: 1. It was like that when I got here. 2. I didn't do it. 3. (To your Boss) I like your style. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA
If they aren't DRM disks what fs was written to them? Are they VFAT (Windows 32 bit format) or something else? If they're disks that were recorded not pressed at a factory; who did it, what software was used to do it, and can you actually *read the disks* when not trying to copy them? It's a variety. How can I copy protected cds. I noticve a thread earlier about cd clone on windows. It surely must be possible to copy bit by bit under linux? My drive is a Plextor 16/10/40A. Since you can't write at those speeds at present anyway (can you copy the disks at a lower speed?) you may as well try enabling DMA to see if it Yes I can. I can write at 16 if I am writing an ISO or something else. makes a difference. If your drives actually support it. The worst that could happen is probably a coaster. How can I enable that? Which drives the dvd rom and the cd writer? Thanks for you help, Jord -- Jordan Elver There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Restoring GLX and DRI
Hi, I recently removed an NVidia GF4 from my machine and put back the previous card which was a Matrox G400 Dual Head. The installation of the NVidia drivers has overwritten some files. I got over it partly by removing the xfree86-libs package and then reinstalling it. That got me X back. Now I need to get GLX and DRI working again which I believe is the OpenGL driver and the Direct Rendering driver (dunno what they do though ;)). In my XFree log I get: (**) Option dpms (**) MGA(0): DPMS enabled (II) MGA(0): Using overlay video (==) MGA(0): Direct rendering disabled Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Does any one know how I can add support for GLX and DRI back? Thanks for any help, Jordan -- Jordan Elver Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Restoring GLX and DRI
Hi, Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Does any one know how I can add support for GLX and DRI back? Have you tried using XFdrake to re-set your video card. Not yet, bit afraid of loosing what I already have :) If you can not get it done any other way stick CD1 in and rerun the Mdk installation as an expert/upgrade. You do not need to select any pkgs and can skip network and printer set-up. You can then let the installer configure and set your card. The whole process takes about 15 min. Is this definately safe? I dont want to loose any data. I suppose I just don't format anything? Charles -- Jordan Elver The office is like an army, and I'm the field general. You're my footsoldiers and customer quality is the WAR!!! -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Hangs after GF4 install
Hi, I have finally found out that problems with stability I was having are probaly due to the actual card itself. I tried this card and another in other machine, windows as well, and it crahes those as well. Gonna go back to Matrox G400 for the time being. Thanks for your help anyway. I don't suppose you know how to put back the original GLX and DRI extensions/modules? :) Cheers, Jord On Friday 10 Jan 2003 9:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:43, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi again, Doesn't sound stupid at all - but the question is how did you install the ndvidia drivers beforehand? Did you have the rpm's, or did you build from source? From source. After reading some message boards on the problem. It seemed more people were having problems with the rpms. I'll monitor how it goes and see what happens. Thanks, Jord So you're going to reinstall the driver? -- Jordan Elver You don't have to be mad to work here, but you do have to be on time, well presented, a team player, customer service focused and sober!! -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unreal Tournament
I followed the tip from Stephen and it is installing asI type this! :) Cheers, Jord You can always do a mkdir /cdrom then umount /dev/cdrom then a mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom and then try the installation again - that at least will resolve the issue with UT looking for /cdrom - !! Cheers! -- Jordan Elver There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Hangs after GF4 install
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 9:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:43, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi again, Doesn't sound stupid at all - but the question is how did you install the ndvidia drivers beforehand? Did you have the rpm's, or did you build from source? From source. After reading some message boards on the problem. It seemed more people were having problems with the rpms. I'll monitor how it goes and see what happens. Thanks, Jord So you're going to reinstall the driver? Sorry, yep ;) I'll give it a go later today. -- Jordan Elver Process and Procedure are the last hiding place of people without the wit and wisdom to do their job properly. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System Hangs after GF4 install
Hi, After the installation of my Geforce 4, my system now hangs for no aparent reason. Does anyone know where I should start looking for the problem? Is this likely to be hardware or software related? Thanks for any help, Jord -- Jordan Elver You don't have to be mad to work here! In fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that you are not. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System Hangs after GF4 install
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 10:55 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 09:50, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi Stephen, If after you've installed the GF4 you're trying to boot into a graphical login, that is your problem. You're going to need to change the runlevel from 5 to 3 so that you can login under text mode, update the video drivers, reconfigure XWindows and then you'll be able to get back to graphical login... I can already get into X, and everything is actually working, although unreal 2003 won't install ;) It just seems to have stability problems. It just seems a bit to coincidental that I installed a new card and then KDE is freezing? What do think? Do you have sample snip from you X Config that I could look at (if you have GF) ? The attachment is my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 you can check it out - but still, reinstalling the nvidia drivers generally resolves alot of issues...but hang tight... This may sound stupid, but how exactly do I reinstall, just follow the same steps as I did before? I'll try changing some XF86Config options first and see if that helps it. Thanks, Jord Thanks for the reply, Jord -- Jordan Elver What does a squirrel do in the summer? It buries nuts. Why? Cos then in winter time he's got something to eat and he won't die. So, collecting nuts in the summer is worthwhile work. Every task you do at work think, would a squirrel do that? Think squirrels. Think nuts. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nvidia Geforce 4 - Poor Video etc
Thanks for the reply Stephen, Question 1: My problem is that, when I try to play a DVD the picture has a grey box over the image. You can see the video in the background, but it's like the video has a transparent gray box in front. DVD used to play ok with the Matrox. Blow out your mplayer prefs/configs and fire it up again. (open a term and type: rm .mplayer - delete the hidden dir) Thanks, I did that. But before I got your reply, I relised that it was only xine which was causing the problem. Whenever you run xine I get the grey screen, and every app afterwards gets the same. I tried removing the old version and installing the latest but not th d5d plugin doesn't show up. Question 2: My config file is very minimal, I removed so options, which I think were Matrox specific. Could some kind person mail me an example of there config file? or point to a site that has examples? There is a wonderful proggie for tweaking your NVidia - called yanc - http://yanc.sourceforge.net/index-en.html It's beautiful! Yeah, I saw your post the other day about it, I'll give it a try. Question 3: When I check in HardDrake, it identifies the card as a Geforce 2? But in windows, it's a Geforce 4. Why would this be? Keep in mind that the Hardwaredrake only reads from the text file - so the labelling in the text file is reflected here - use yanc and you'll be right. Thats strange though, I've never had a Geforce 2, why would it show that? Thanks for your help :) Jordan P.S. Does anyone know how to get xine to UPDATE packages using urpmi? It never seems to want to update packagaes which are already installed. Specifically, I want to update gtk. -- Jordan Elver A problem shared is a problem halved, so is your problem really yours or just half of someone elses? -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recording streaming audio.
Hi there, I've been trying to do exactly the same thing! There's a program called realrekord, which I don't seem to be able to get working very well. I'm using a program from here though: http://sed.free.fr/realplay/ It seems to work pretty well, but you sometimes get stuttering in the stream. The author is really helpful as well. I have contacted him on several occasions. HTH, Jordan -- Jordan Elver I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compare Disks
Perhaps the most stupid solution, but it works: readcd for retrieving whole cd image md5sum img Thats a good idea. But I suppose calculating md5sum for each disk and comparing could take a little time depending on your machine? -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one. --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compare Disks
Thanks for suggestions, I'll try them out :) Cheers, Jord On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 3:10 am, Anthony Abby wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:59, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord -- Sure is... just sort the contents of both cd's into two files, then run comm against them. Anthony -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect. --- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compare Disks
Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Unix? What's that? Is that like Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compare Disks
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 7:42 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord Xcdroast will verify a disc write for you, of cause that assumes that the original cashing up is done write, but not withstanding an accurate read it does a fair job of ensuring the finish write to CD is a true and fair copy of the cashed up . I don't see why there shouldn't be a command line way, of reading the disk and comparing with the written disc , in the way you describe . It would be interesting to know if anyone has a method. If xcdroast a gui front end can read a harddrive and compare it with a disc then Igues the same programme can read on cd and compare it with another CD. John I thought as much. I would like a way to do this, I don't seem to get on with many of the gui cd burning software available and would like a quick command line for it. I'm sure there must be something. Thanks for the reply, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk A good messenger expects to get shot. --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix Config
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:03 pm, Franki wrote: configure /etc/postfix/main.cf pay attention to the following: $mydomain $mydestination $myhostname go to dyndns and get yourself a domain name you can use.. its free, or donation based. Please excuse my ignorance, but is it nessaccery to have a domain name? make sure /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and hosts match those in /etc so your mail server can resolve address's. They do match. All of the files in each. reload postfix: service postfix reload see how that goes. Thanks for the help. The thing is, when I had sendmail installed ages ago, that worked fine. But, sendmail is not working either and the configuration files look very scary :-/ Cheers, Jord rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jordan Elver Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 2:37 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Postfix Config Hi, I'm setting up Apache (with PHP), MySQL etc and want to be able to send mail from PHP. I've installed postfix and it's running. When I send mail from PHP, it sends and is added to the /var/spool/mail/postfix file. Inside the file are messages which say something along the lines of: 450 Sender address rejected: Domain not found This box is not a production machine (thank goodness ;-)) but for local development. I do, however need to send external email. I know this is a postfix config error. The machine does not have a domain hosted here, just a fqdn I made up for my LAN. How can I fix it? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix Config
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, Franki wrote: Stick with postfix, its far easier them m4's and the like... you might find postfix easier if you use webmin.. generially yes, postfix should have a domain name.. you may be able to get it sort of functioning without it.. but its a good idea... do you have a static IP address??? if so, try doing a lookup on it, my ISP gives all its Ip's numeric subdomains.. and they are find for a mail server... when you send mail, (or try to) what is showing up in /var/log/mail/warnings? or info, or errors that info will help us determine whats wrong.. Also, postfix in mdk9 sometimes installs wrong.. so if you don't have a head of symlinks and lib files in /var/spool/postfix/lib then uninstall and reinstall postfix.. I had that problem twice and both times manually reinstalling postfix fixed it. (and strangely enough, postfix gave no real outward sign that there was a problem, it just wouldn't work properly.) Thanks Frank. I already had a free sub domain from no-ip.com. As soon as I chaged the hostname etc for that. it worked fine :-) There is something I don't understand though. How does my ISPs receiving mail server know that the domain I supplied is legit? Could I in theory add any domain that is online? Thanks very much for your help, Cheers, Jord Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MySQL
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to remove the MySQL rpms without KDE disapearing with it? When trying to remove, it also wants to remove the various KDE rpms? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Finding Dependencies
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 11:46 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday November 14 2002 04:50 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: I was trying to install Video-DVDRip with urpmi and it said: Installation failed: perl-Event is needed by Video-DVDRip-0.47-0.10.1plf libdv.so.2 is needed by transcode-0.6.2-0.20021024.1plf liblzo.so.1 is needed by transcode-0.6.2-0.20021024.1plf I thought urpmi should take care of this anyway? Cheers, Jord Since you're goin for plf, I'll assume this is online. I suspect your problem is not havin all sources. EG, rpms, rpms2, and plf all available and current. 'urpmi.update -a' is always a good idea just before tryin to install somethin. Another issue is whether you have 'curl' installed. urpmi defaults to 'wget' if curl isn't installed. OTOH, often wget will often complete successfully when curl won't, but curl doesn't re-login between each d/l as wget does. YMMV, try both before givin up. urpmi-4.0-25mdk gurpmi-4.0-25mdk perl-URPM-0.70-10mdk curl-7.10.1-2mdk wget-1.8.2-2mdk Those are current 9.1 rpms. For your version (8.x, 9.0) look for similar ones. urpmi is bulletproof, but only if it has all current sources defined for the rpm(s) you're tryin to install. Install curl, but if a 'urpmi package' fails, then immediately try again with 'urpmi package --wget'. wget's better at identifying if the package is unavailable because the mirror source you're usin doesn't have it. It also doesn't succumb to too many users (mirror) errors as easily as curl does. curl's often quicker an prettier tho ;) Thanks for the reply, I installed curl as it wasn't installed and tried urpmi --wget as suggested. How can I upgrade packages which are already installed. Do I use urpmi? When I try, it says already installed. Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
Hi, Agreed, but if I am downloading movie trailers, you'd think it would be allowed! Nevermind, thanks for everyones's help. Cheers, Jord On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 11:58 am, Technoslick wrote: Jordan, While there may be some hack or loophole that could make this happen for you, I think you just have to accept the fact that the movies you are trying to download were specifically set up for on-line streaming. As Todd has pointed out, the site does not want to allow the downloading of the movies locally. This ability to let you see it, but not take it home, is one of the most attractive control mechanisms of audio and visual streaming. The only way for you to be sure that a link brings you to a dowloadable file is to try to save its target locally. If is works, you have what you want. If it gives you a placeholder, as in this case, that's what the provider intended and the only way you are going to get past this it to hack the site or see if you can get permission to acquire the file. I hate bumping into this, too, but... T - Original Message - From: Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files Yep, I can find the file it downloads, but like Todd said, it only downloads a place holder image while the actual movie does not. I'll try and find a fix, Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 8:15 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 04:32, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into wget. It goes to download, says it has finished and nothing is saved? Am I being stupid or what? Thanks for any help, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. --- Larry Wall Tis rather strange - and you've done a find or a locate on the filename and that returned nothing as well? -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. --- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Finding Dependencies
Hi All, When trying to install something I am asked for a particular file or shared object. How can I find out which package contains that file? I know of rpmfind and I use urpmi. TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. --- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
Yep, I can find the file it downloads, but like Todd said, it only downloads a place holder image while the actual movie does not. I'll try and find a fix, Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 8:15 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 04:32, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into wget. It goes to download, says it has finished and nothing is saved? Am I being stupid or what? Thanks for any help, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. --- Larry Wall Tis rather strange - and you've done a find or a locate on the filename and that returned nothing as well? -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk 640K ought to be enough for anybody - Bill Gates, 1981 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into wget. It goes to download, says it has finished and nothing is saved? Am I being stupid or what? Thanks for any help, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compiling KDE apps
Thanks, I'll try that. How do I upgrade autoconf and automake with urpmi? It says already installed, which it is I know :) But, how do I upgrade? Thanks, Jord On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 10:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. I have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the ./configure saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from texstar and have both packages installed. So why can't the includes be found? TIA, Jord I had to edit my /etc/ld.so.conf file to include /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, then run ldconfig to rebuild the cache - as well, I had to edit the system profile (/etc/profile) to have KDEDIR=/usr and in the export section export KDEDIR before applications started to compile properly...I also had to upgrade my automake to automake-1.5 and autoconf to autoconf-2.54. I'm still trying to work through some compilation issues as well, but mostly, that works... 11 10 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! If it was easy, the hardware people ! ! would take care of it. ! !! -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading Quicktime Files
This is an example. How else could I download these files? I know of the crossover plugin, but I really would like a pay free laternative. Also, I want to watch the movs offline. Jord OBJECT CLASSID=clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=236 CODEBASE=http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0; PARAM name=AUTOPLAY VALUE=true PARAM name=CONTROLLER VALUE=FALSE PARAM name=pluginspage VALUE=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html; PARAM name=target VALUE=myself PARAM name=type VALUE=video/quicktime PARAM name=SRC VALUE=http://a1904.g.akamai.net/7/1904/51/1fdc853301b336/www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/star_trek_nemesis/images/interstitial_lrg.mov; PARAM name=HREF VALUE=http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/9f4f764750c78f/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e81787e85abb28970c7aee1d900465d736aa1c81ec4bb91e8bf063cc3f/stn-2_l400.mov; embed width=400 height=236 src=http://a1904.g.akamai.net/7/1904/51/1fdc853301b336/www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/star_trek_nemesis/images/interstitial_lrg.mov; HREF=http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/9f4f764750c78f/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e81787e85abb28970c7aee1d900465d736aa1c81ec4bb91e8bf063cc3f/stn-2_l400.mov; AUTOPLAY=TRUE controller=FALSE border=0 CACHE=FALSE pluginspage=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html; target=myself/OBJECT On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 7:03 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:32:37PM +, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, This is a bit of a stupid question, but...how can I download quicktime movs from apple.com/quicktime or wherever without a plugin. All I want is the actual file, I don't want to stream it or anything. I tried looking at the HTML source, getting the src path and pasting into wget. It goes to download, says it has finished and nothing is saved? Am I being stupid or what? Thanks for any help, Cheers, Jord The movies are probably referenced in such a way that you cannot download and save them to your HD. They may use a poster movie, which is just one frame of the movie (or any other graphic), then use href tracks and other techniques to prevent people from saving the content. What did the HTML source say? Todd -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. --- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compiling KDE apps
Hi, Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. I have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the ./configure saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from texstar and have both packages installed. So why can't the includes be found? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone else tried Texstar's improved KDE fonts?
Thanks for the recommendation. Just installed the packages along with libqt3-devel and libqt3 and they look great. Real improvement :-) I have only had a quick look though. I'll take a closer look later. Cheers, Jord On Monday 04 Nov 2002 11:03 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Has anyone else tried out Texstars modified fonts for KDE yet? They are absolutely wonderful !! I thought my fonts were good until I tried this... Tex has recompiled libqt3 for Xft-2 which (I think) is what makes RedHat 8.0's fonts so nice. Any KDE (or qt) application will have nice fonts. To get them all you have to do is install libqt3, Xft-2.0, freetype2 and fontconfig from http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distri butions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/ If you have imported Truetype fonts from Windows with drakfont add a path to them in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf by inserting the line dir/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1/dir among the other font paths. Restart the X server and that is it! Beautiful clear truetype fonts. Problems you might get include : Double spacing in konsole : Just select a different font to fix it. Blocky fonts in kdm : Open kcontrol as root and select a different font for kdm in SystemLogin Manager Disclaimer If you are not sure you can recover your system back to its previous state in the event of a problem, then it is probably not a good idea to try this. Tex's forum thread is here http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewto pictopic=265forum=7 derek -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions
Thanks for you help :-) On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 4:44 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 8:08 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 1:08 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, I have a partition on my drive which is purely for all my mp3s, downloads etc. The partition is FAT32 so that I can access it from Windoze too. The drive is automatically mounted on boot as root with full permisions on everything. I assume full permisions as it is FAT32 not ext2 etc? Although I can copy stuff to the partition as any user, it complains about not being able to change the permissions of the file I am copying. Is there anyway that I can mount the partition as the user I normally use? Is that a good idea? Thanks for any help, Jord In your /etc/fstab entry for the FAT32 partition add the option quiet . You will then not get that annoying message. derek It's normal, because windows doesn't use permissions. Derek's suggestion will take away the agro, but you can just ignore it if you prefer Anne -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. --- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: [newbie] Mounting/Fstab/Perms
But, I used to write to this parition in 8.2 as a regular user, but it gave an warning (something I asked here the other day). On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 6:32 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Just installed 9 and looks cool. But having some permissions problems. I have a vfat partition that I am not allowed to write too. When trying to chage the permissions to 777 it does not do it, but does not error either?! Is this behaviour expected? I don't know if I am having these troubles because it is vfat? I never used to in 8.2. If memory serves me right only root has the right to write to a vfat partition, it has been like that for me in any dist of Linux I have used. I am not sure if any changes in /etc/fstab would help you and if so I have no clue what it would be. Best Regards, Anders -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Failure is not an option. It's bundled with the software. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: SV: [newbie] Mounting/Fstab/Perms
The fstab line looks like: /dev/hda6 /mnt/data vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 I can write to the partition as root. but other users I cannot. On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 7:07 pm, Anders Lind wrote: But, I used to write to this parition in 8.2 as a regular user, but it gave an warning (something I asked here the other day). Hmm...strange...how does the line in /etc/fstab for the vfat-partitions look? Can you write to the partition as root? I am almost new to the list so I did not see your earlier message /Anders -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Unix? What's that? Is that like Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SV: SV: [newbie] Mounting/Fstab/Perms
On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 7:16 pm, Serge wrote: in the expert list i saw that to make users write to the vfat partition, you need to add quiet in the fstab Where exactly in the line do I add quiet ? -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk A good messenger expects to get shot. --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Permissions
Hi, I have a partition on my drive which is purely for all my mp3s, downloads etc. The partition is FAT32 so that I can access it from Windoze too. The drive is automatically mounted on boot as root with full permisions on everything. I assume full permisions as it is FAT32 not ext2 etc? Although I can copy stuff to the partition as any user, it complains about not being able to change the permissions of the file I am copying. Is there anyway that I can mount the partition as the user I normally use? Is that a good idea? Thanks for any help, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. --- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Preserving /home
Hi, I am about to install 9.0 on my current 8.2 box. I want to keep my /home partition intact. Will any of .kde directories affect the operation of the new KDE installation? I'd like to setup KDE from scratch. Or shall I just rename the directories and then re-install? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. --- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Preserving /home
Thanks for everyones replies. I think I will backup. If I have problems you'll probably here from me again ;-) Cheers, Jord On Thursday 24 October 2002 7:57 pm, Gavin Rollins wrote: On Friday 25 October 2002 03:23 am, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, I am about to install 9.0 on my current 8.2 box. I want to keep my /home partition intact. Will any of .kde directories affect the operation of the new KDE installation? I'd like to setup KDE from scratch. Or shall I just rename the directories and then re-install? TIA, Jord Jord, I'm sure most people on the list will tell you (as they told me..BACK YOUR IMPORTANT FILES UP FIRST!!) can't stress that enough. Next, It's always best to do a FRESH install.. some files might not want to play with each other.. even though they're from the same house...past experience here. Remember, Fresh is always best!! Hope This Helped a bit! good luck!! -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is... :-) --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [gpl] Input/output error - Alcatel Speedtouch USB hangs up and cannot re-connect
Hi, There was a thread here the other day regarding a problem similar to this. The subject was pipex xtreme or something like that. Richard Morrell mentioned something about BT not doing something at their end of the line. Sorry, can't remember exactly what :-( Search the archives, I don't know where they are either though? HTH, Jord Quoting Malcolm Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Recently Smoothie has been dropping connection almost every day. Below are excerpts from the log files. Any suggestions would be welcome Malcolm My environment: I have a small office running on Smoothie GPL 0.99 patched up to #12. (patch 13 gave me hassles, so I rebuilt up to 12) Smoothie supports 5 workstations that use HTTP and a server that sends SMTP mail / collects POP3 mail. Hardware: Pentium II PC, 32Mb Ram, 2GB hard drive, Alcatel Speedtouch USB. For 3 months smoothie behaved itself. Then it started freezing 2-3 days. I rebuilt from scratch. It continued to freeze. When I plugged in a keyboard monitor, it only froze 1/week. Had a feeling it had to do with power settings - suspend/standby. Checked APM settings in BIOS - disabled all suspend/standby. After 3 weeks, it started dropping connection almost every night, and does not reconnect. I have to manually connect from the web interface every morning. Sample of logs 14/09/02: PPP section of log == 19:01:54 pppd No response to 3 echo-requests 19:01:54 pppd Serial link appears to be disconnected. 19:01:54 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:54 pppd Connect time 3547.5 minutes. 19:01:54 pppd Sent 29896654 bytes, received 41627433 bytes. 19:01:54 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:54 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:54 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:54 pppd write: warning: Input/output error (5) 19:01:54 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:54 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:55 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:55 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:55 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:55 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:55 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:55 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:55 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:55 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:55 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:55 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:55 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:56 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:56 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:56 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:56 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:56 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:56 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:56 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:56 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:56 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:56 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:56 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:56 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:56 pppd Connection terminated. 19:01:56 pppd Using interface ppp0 19:01:56 pppd Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp1 19:01:56 pppd Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access 19:01:56 pppd Modem hangup 19:01:57 pppd Connection terminated. Smoothwall section of Log: == 19:01:55 smoothwall PPP has gone down on ppp0 - ___ gpl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.smoothwallusers.org/mailman/listinfo/gpl SmoothWall Stash - Buy Our Stuff! http://cafepress.com/smoothwall -- Jordan Elver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [gpl] Input/output error - Alcatel Speedtouch USB hangs up and cannot re-connect
Thanks, but I think I copied this message to the wrong list! Doh! Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 18 September 2002 3:50 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:10 am, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, There was a thread here the other day regarding a problem similar to this. The subject was pipex xtreme or something like that. Richard Morrell mentioned something about BT not doing something at their end of the line. Sorry, can't remember exactly what :-( Search the archives, I don't know where they are either though? HTH, Jord Jord: You can access the mail list archives at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -- cmg -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Windows - Where do you want to go today? MacOS - Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux - Are you coming, or what? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Server
Thanks for everyones replies. I'll give ProFTP a go :-) On Friday 09 August 2002 6:17 am, Arto M wrote: ProFTP is worth trying! ArtoM - Original Message - From: LtCdData [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP Server On Thursday 08 August 2002 18:52, Miark wrote: Jord, I run one using ProFTP. I started using it because it was more secure than the WU server and because it is easier to configure. I've never looked back. Miark Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Hi, Just wondered what FTP Server you guys would recommend? I've heard of wu-ftpd which a lot of people seem to use. But ProFTP looks pretty good especially since it has Apahe like configuation. Anyone run an FTP server? :-) get gproftpd it makes proftp very easy to use LtCdData -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. --- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virtual Host
I think you need to put the ip address of the host machine where the * is, and you need one virtual host entry per site, even is it is specified above in the http.conf. HTH, Jord On Saturday 03 August 2002 3:51 am, William R. Nash wrote: Hello, I'm trying to learn to how to do name-based Virtual Host Support. With apache HTTP server Version 1.3.22 I went to the /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts directory I edit the Vhosts.conf file and added the following lines NameVirtualHost * VirtualHost * ServerName www.paulding-linux.com DocumentRoot /home/Paulding /VirtualHost I restarted Apache and I get a error when I try to goto www.wrnash.net you do not have permission when I try www.paulding-linux.com same error when I delete the lines I added a get my web site back. any help on this thanks Bill Nash. -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Starting a program on a different virtual desktop
Hi, Is it possible to start a program from the command line and get it to open on a different virtual desktop to the one I am currently using? Like: /path/to/program :2 To start it on desktop 2? Thanks for any help, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk 640K ought to be enough for anybody - Bill Gates, 1981 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Running stuff at boot
Hi, Bit of simple one. How can I start/run scripts at boot? It's Apache that I want to run, but I would like to know how to start other things as well? TIA, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. --- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running stuff at boot
httpd isn't in there. Probably due to compiling from source. How can I do it manually? On Monday 29 July 2002 6:39 pm, you wrote: Run ntsysv, and place an * next to httpd. It will start every boot then. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Jordan Elver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 1:29 PM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Running stuff at boot Hi, Bit of simple one. How can I start/run scripts at boot? It's Apache that I want to run, but I would like to know how to start other things as well? TIA, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Unix? What's that? Is that like Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What is XFS
Its the XFree86 font server I think. Jord On Monday 22 July 2002 7:21 pm, Klemm wrote: Hi One question What or who is XFS I found it in the list of running processes under KDE System Guard Process name - xfs Login - xfs and command - xfs All other processes are run under login root or then under my login. That one is not and makes me worried or curious. any hints ? Klemm -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one. --- Larry Wall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Smoothwall/No-IP.com
Hi, This is a bit of a shot in the dark, I just don't know what to check for :-) I have Smoothwall box connected to an ADSL line, this acts as my firewall and gateway for local machines to connect to. On one of the machines, I am running Apache on port 80, which I can view from its IP or Hostname within the local network. The Smoothwall box is setup to forward port 80 to the internal IP of the Apache box also on port 80. I am then using No-IP.com to keep track of my dynamic IP and forward to my Smoothwall box, which should then forward to my internal Apache machine. I cannot view the Apache box but I am pretty sure that the No-IP is working, because when I turn off the port forwarding, it says Host Not Found, but when I turn it on, it just times out. Does anyone know what I should be looking for? I seem close, but not quite? :-( Thanks for any pointers, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk ... when men were men and wrote their own device driver ... --- Linus Benedict Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Running stuff at startup
Hi, I need to load a kernal module in order to get my webcam working properly, but doing this each time can be tedious. If I want to load it at boot, where should I put the line (or script). It has to be run as root (you probably already knew that :)). TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk 640K ought to be enough for anybody - Bill Gates, 1981 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wget
Hi, Thanks for that, but already tried more or less the same. The problem is (probably explained beter this time :-)) that I get a 403 HTTP error as the directory browsing on the server is turned off, so wget can't find the files (I assume). Any ideas? Is it possible to get files only over a certain size? Say over 10k? TIA, Cheers, Jord Quoting Jussi Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's all in 'man wget', but in case you're a lazy reader, read this: wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.gif http://www.server.com/dir/ or wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.jpg http://www.server.com/dir/ etc. Cheers, J. On Tuesday 02 July 2002 22:03, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Could anyone advise me how to use wget? I am trying to download a whole directory of images, but directory brwosing is turned off :-( So wget can't follow them, does anyone know of any good sites that I can look at? -- Hi! You have reached 555-0129. None of us are here to answer the phone and the cat doesn't have opposing thumbs, so his messages are illegible. Please leave your name and message after the beep... -- Jordan Elver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wget
Hi, Could anyone advise me how to use wget? I am trying to download a whole directory of images, but directory brwosing is turned off :-( So wget can't follow them, does anyone know of any good sites that I can look at? I know wget *can* do this! Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk How do I read MIME files??? Quietly, while pretending to be trapped in an invisible box. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.3
I have looked on Mandrake site and no mention of 8.3, I assume you mean the latest cooker from one of the mirrors? On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:27 am, you wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:06 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Been searching the net for info on Mandrake 8.3 i.e. when and what it will include? Anyone know of any links or anything please? oLurk (don't post) on the cooker mailing list. It is _not_ intended to be a discussion or support list. Please don't interfere with the developers communication http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 oISO's of 8.3 have been available for a few weeks (6/05), d/l, beg, borrow or steal 'em(I havt'a resort to beggin ;) But to answer your query, newer glibc, kernel, gcc, KDE3, etc ... with all KDE3.01/Gnome/other apps re-compiled to be compatible with the new stuff. Think of it as RH 7.3 or SuSE 8.0, but with some good 'ol Mandrake patience to fix the bugs first ;) Not for the faint hearted, but IMO _much_ better than an 8.2 install with a KDE3 upgrade/co-install. I'm not sure 'cause I don't use it, but Gnome2 is the other alternative besides all the other WM'rs. KDE3 in this early beta of 8.3 works well ;) -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD Ripping Tools
Does anyone know of any good dvd ripping tools or resources about dvd ripping etc? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Teleport Pro
Hello, Does anyone know if there is a tool (with docs) similar to the windows program teleport pro? Its used to download website to disk or to grab certain types of file from websites. TIA, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Quicktime
Hi, Does anyone know how to play QuickTime (mov) under Mandrake? Also, is there a plugin available for mozilla? Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver Web Developer The InternetOne UK Ltd
Re: [newbie] Desktop Publishing
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 05:52, you wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2001 11:04, Kevin Fonner wrote: I want to get into graphics and animation, but at the same time I am beginning to use Linux more and more. Do any professional graphics editing, desktop publishing, and animation programs exist out there? graphics editing - gimp, should be on your installation disks destop publishing - Ice Sculptor from chilliware http://chilliware.net it is commercial and costs about USD $80 animation - no answer for you there, someone else might have an idea Blender - www.blender.nl for 3D animation -- Jordan Elver Web Developer The InternetOne UK Ltd
Re: [newbie] cd writer for linux
I also use a Plextor and it works fine. Jord On Tuesday 19 June 2001 16:59, you wrote: It was Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:52:30 -0500 when Carlos Cifuentes wrote: I want to buy a cd writer for linux but i dont know what machine work in linux Can some person help me? Any decent CD-RW will work, IDE or SCSI. I use Plextor, which is great. Paul -- A day without light is like, eh... night! http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.99 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
[newbie] KDE Icons
Hi, Does anyone know where the icons for the menu items in KDE are stored? I keep trying to add items to the menus and then can't find the icon in the list. But I can find the icon manually. So, I need to know where to copy the icon too? TIA, Cheers, Jord
[newbie] Current IP Address
Hi, I'm trying to write a bash script which needs the current IP address that I have been assigned by my ISp at any particular moment. How can I do this? TIA, Jord
Re: [newbie] Current IP Address
Hi, Me again ;-) How can I check to see if my computer is currently dialled out or not? TIA, Jord On Friday 08 June 2001 13:43, you wrote: Try and grep out the information you need from the command /sbin/ifconfig. If you're root, all you need is ifconfig, since it's in your path name, however any other user, ifconfig is not. But that command will give you a lot of info, one of which is the IP address. Something like the following command should give you the IP address. /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d -f 1 Since it sounds like you're using a dial-up account, you'll substitue eth0 for ppp0. (I think that's what it's called, been a long time since I've dialed in. Just run the ifconfig command when your dialed in to see what it looks like.) But that command will weed out just the IP Address and print it out for you. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! | Hi, | I'm trying to write a bash script which needs the current IP address that | I have been assigned by my ISp at any particular moment. How can I do | this? | | TIA, | | Jord --
[newbie] Icon Zooming
Hi, I'm using KDE 2 thats comes with MDK 8.0 and I'm using Icon Zooming for the icons on my panel. But, some of the icons don't zoom, does anyone know why or how to fix it? Cheers, Jord
Re: [newbie] CD Writer
Thanks for evryones help. In the end. I just updated my system using the install disk and it found it and configured it! I'm now burning away ;-) Thnks for evryones help, Jord On Friday 01 June 2001 19:56, you wrote: Jordan, this is what worked for me. Edit /etc/modules.conf, and add the line alias scsi_hostadapter1 ide-scsi This tells Mandrake that you have a SCSI adapter, which is in fact implemented by the ide-scsi driver which makes IDE drives look like SCSI. Then do 'cdrecord -scanbus' to see what SCSI devices it can find. I get: scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' 'D.09' Removable Disk 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 10X8X32 ' '8.JZ' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * which tells me it has found the drive. Remember the 1,0,0 stuff, that is what the burner program needs. The burner program I use is gcombust. On the Burn tab, there is a CD-Recorder device options section, which is where you need to the get the 1,0,0 stuff in. Mine starts with Scsibus 0, Target 6, Lun 0, because it thinks it is going to burn a CD on the Zip drive :-). If I click the detect SCSI drive button, it changes to Scsibus 1, Target 0, Lun 0. That means it's going to work. When you do a burn, don't forget to uncheck the Dummy test run option, or you will be confused like I was :-). John On Saturday 02 June 2001 04:45, Jordan Elver wrote: I've just got a cd writer after all your wonderful advice last week ;-) I have it installed and working. But not as a cdwriter. it works as a cdrom and Mandrake found it, but what now. All the tutorials that I have found refer to using lilo and using modprobe etc, but I'm using grub, not lilo?! Any help or url's would be helpful ;-)
[newbie] CD Writer
Hello, I've just got a cd writer after all your wonderful advice last week ;-) I have it installed and working. But not as a cdwriter. it works as a cdrom and Mandrake found it, but what now. All the tutorials that I have found refer to using lilo and using modprobe etc, but I'm using grub, not lilo?! Any help or url's would be helpful ;-) TIA, Jord
Re: [newbie] CD Writer
I did. From the install cds, but if the burner isn't working as a scsi device it won't work ;-) On Friday 01 June 2001 10:13, you wrote: Hey, Try going to www.tucows.com and getting some Burner software. Install it and see what happens. -Original Message- From: Jordan Elver [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] CD Writer Hello, I've just got a cd writer after all your wonderful advice last week ;-) I have it installed and working. But not as a cdwriter. it works as a cdrom and Mandrake found it, but what now. All the tutorials that I have found refer to using lilo and using modprobe etc, but I'm using grub, not lilo?! Any help or url's would be helpful ;-) TIA, Jord
[newbie] CD Writer
Hi, I am going to buy a cd writer soonand I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions or good experiences to share? Thanks, Jord -- Jordan Elver while (!asleep()) sheep++;
[newbie] Backing Up Mail
Hi, If I want to backup KMail including Mail, Config, Filter Rules etc. Which locations/files need to be backed up. I think that all the Mail is kept in my home directory as Mail but I don't know where anything else is? Any ideas? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver while (!asleep()) sheep++;
[newbie] rm 'ing stuff
Hi, How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? I thought there might be an alias in .bashrc but I can't see anything in there? Any ideas? TIA, Cheers, Jord
Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff
Thanks everyone. Gonna track that alias down somewhere ;-) Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 02 May 2001 13:01, you wrote: They do have an alias. I don't remember where it's defined, though. Until you find it, you can do rm -f, but please be careful. --- Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? I thought there might be an alias in .bashrc but I can't see anything in there? Any ideas? TIA, Cheers, Jord __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Zip Disk Ownership
Hi, How can I mount my zip disk as another user other than root? Or, how can I change the ownership of files on the zip disk, at the moment it says 'Operation Not Permitted' even as root? TIA, Cheers, Jord
[newbie] Permissions Problem
Hi, I'm newish to Linux. I've got Mankdrake 7.2 installed and working fine apart from a little permissions problem. I'm using my workstaton as a web server as well for local development. I also use my workstation at work for the same thing and in order to keep current copies of everything I'm working on I use a zip disk and swop it between computers. I have the apache root set to be /mnt/zip. My problem is that I need the zip disk to be owned by nobody so that the web server will work properly (i.e. when I try to upload files via PHP, I get permission denied), but the zip disk is always mounted as root. How can I have the zip disk owned by nobody but still be able to edit the files on the disk without having to change user? I'm using supermount (or whatever). Thanks for any help, Cheers, Jord
Re: [newbie] Linux programming languages
On Monday 16 April 2001 14:33, you wrote: What language is used by most linux programmers? Any Pros Cons about different languages? C seems to be a favourite and Perl, PHP.
