[newbie] Replace Metacity with Sawfish on 9.1?
The Sawfish window manager does not seem to be in the list of packages shipping with the 9.1 download edition. 1. I see that Metacity is now the default WM for Gnome, is there any specific technical reason why Sawfish was displaced in favor of Metacity? 2. Should I want to install Sawfish as the default WM is there a good procedure written up somewhere on how to do it? Or is it as simple as using RPM to remove Metacity and installing Sawfish from the RPM's instead? Thanks, ==Keith __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mapping keys in Gnome/Sawfish Mandrake 8.0
Where can I find info for mapping keystrokes (e.g. Alt-F4 to close a program, Alt-Tab to switch among windows, etc.) ? Thanks! =Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fonts are jagged with Staroffice 5.2 and Mandrake 8.0
How can I get less jagged fonts with the above combo? I installed Staroffice 5.2 from the so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin file downloaded from Sun. Running Gnome and Sawfish. ===Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disabling Mandrake 8.0 automatic login?
How do I disable the automatic login when my Mandrake 8.0 machine is booted up? Instead of waiting for me to login, it automatically logs in as the regular user and goes straight to the desktop. Convenient, but not really secure. Thanks, =Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Find out what sound card/chip was detected?
I've run 'sndconfig' on a Compaq Deskpro (no other model info was found) and the default choice offered was Soundblaster Pro. I chose it, now the sound works. Where else besides the 'dmesg' report could I look to see exactly how the system (Mandrake 8.0) detected and configured the sound hardware? For Video information, the SuperProbe command is available which tells quite a bit about the video hardware detected, I'm wondering about an equivalent program or method for sound hardware. =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Iomega ZIPCD 650 USB CDRW
Has anyone gotten this CD burner to work with Mandrake 8.0? If so, how did you do it? I am running the 8.0 version downloaded from the web, not the store-bought version. I have not tried to configure this CDRW drive yet on Mandrake, and want to know what to check or do before I try, or if it even works. Thanks! ==Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff
If rm is still asking you about each file, be sure it isn't aliased. If it asks questions, type Ctrl-C to exit, then re-run rm as follows: \rm -rf the \ will turn off any aliases for rm, such as 'rm=rm -i'. See the man page as Mark suggested for more info. ===Keith - Original Message - From: Mark Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? 'man rm' suggests that 'rm -rf' is what you want. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Quick instructions for getting a real kornshell (ksh) on Mandrake
(The homepage for the Kornshell is http://www.kornshell.com.) Go to this page: http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/cgi-bin/download.cgi?action=listname=a st-ksh Download this file: http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/tgz/ast-ksh.2001-01-01..li nux.i386.tgz (Listed as linux.i386 in the 'TYPE' column.) Change to the directory containing the ast-ksh_2001-01-01__linux_i386.tgz file and execute the following command: tar zxvf ast-ksh_2001-01-01__linux_i386.tgz Change to the root user (su - root, then enter root password) Change back to the directory containing the ast-ksh_2001-01-01__linux_i386.tgz file and execute the following commands: mv arch/linux.i386/man/man1/sh.1 /usr/man/man1/ksh.1 mv arch/linux.i386/bin/* /usr/bin Type 'exit' to get out of the root user access. Type 'ksh' and the korn shell prompt should appear. =Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] More space for machine's hostname?
Using Mandrake 7.2. I'm on an internal network, where the hostname assigned to my machine (fictious but the real name is the same length) keithmachine.internal.company.net should be 34 chars. long, but there seems to be hitting some sort of internal limit of 31 chars. Thus, the '.net' extension of my hostname is cut off. Hostname reports it as keithmachine.internal.company. Gnome complains about the hostname when it starts. Is there a way to increase this length so that the full hostname can be expressed? Thanks! Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 - start mail server, how to attach to it with Outlook Express from Windows?
Can someone walk me through: 1. How to make sure Postfix or Sendmail is running on my store-bought Mandrake 7.2 install 2. How to configure Outlook Express on Windows to read mail on the Mandrake server? For instance, what are the entries for the POP3 and the SMTP (incoming and outgoing) mail server names? If the Mandrake server is foo.company.com, is the POP3 server name pop.foo.company.com or what? Where do I configure those names on Mandrake if I want mailserver.foo.company.com instead of pop.foo.company.com, etc.? Thanks! Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] invoking bash scripts
Hi Dean, Likely your system is set up (properly so) without the current directory in the path. To invoke a shell script named, say, foo.sh, type this: ./foo.sh (Notice the leading dot-slash) and it should run. This indicates that the script is in the current directory: dot represents the current directory, slash is the pathname separator. Keith --- Dean Steichen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some option I need to set to invoke a bash script? I have created a script with the #!/bin/bash as the first line and have chmod +x scriptname to make it executable but it will not execute unless I issue the "bash scriptname" command (preceed the scriptname with the command bash). Is this normal? -- Dean Steichen Mandrake 7.1 K-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] What to download to install Apache+PHP+MySQL on the Mandrake 7.2 store bought 4 CD distribution
I wanted to expand a bit on Wayne Larmon's list (from a Usenet post found by using on groups.google.com) of files that will get Apache + PHP + MySQL running together on a store-bought boxed copy of Mandrake 7.2. I bought the boxed copy expecting a complete webserver as the Mandrake 7.0 downloaded copy had. This is Wayne's list with two dependencies I found (perl-DBI and perl-ExtUtils) added in. The numbers on the left are the install order, and on the right is the filesize and exact filename on my system. I downloaded the RPM's from http://rpmfind.net. When searching for these RPM's enter only the text to the left of the version number (eg. apache-common, MySQL-shared, apache-mod_perl, etc.) To check the webserver, install the files in the order given, and point the browser to http://localhost.localdomain. If the webserver does not start, reboot and try again. The www home page "index" file is in /var/www/html/index.shtml by default. *** YOU MUST BE THE ROOT USER FOR THIS TO INSTALL PROPERLY *** To install, use RPM with a command line similar to: rpm -i apache-common-1.3.14-2mdk.i586.rpm 01 196190 Mar 22 14:14 apache-common-1.3.14-2mdk.i586.rpm 02 380292 Mar 22 14:16 apache-1.3.14-2mdk.i586.rpm 03 672579 Mar 22 14:18 apache-mod_perl-1.3.14_1.24-2mdk.i586.rpm 04 207790 Mar 22 14:19 MySQL-shared-3.23.23-1mdk.i586.rpm 05 244559 Mar 22 14:19 MySQL-client-3.23.23-1mdk.i586.rpm 06 3788729 Mar 22 14:22 MySQL-3.23.23-1mdk.i586.rpm 07 492107 Mar 22 14:23 php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm 0823842 Mar 22 14:25 mod_php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm 0926503 Mar 22 14:26 php-mysql-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm 10 268591 Mar 22 14:46 perl-DBI-1.14-4mdk.i586.rpm 1113134 Mar 22 14:46 perl-ExtUtils-PerlPP-0.03-1mdk.i586.rpm 12 184054 Mar 22 14:21 perl-Mysql-1.22_15-3mdk.i586.rpm 13 1582095 Mar 22 14:24 php-devel-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm 14 904468 Mar 22 14:24 php-manual-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm DID NOT INSTALL 583808 Mar 22 14:21 MySQL-bench-3.23.23-1mdk.i586.rpm DID NOT INSTALL 619029 Mar 22 14:22 MySQL-devel-3.23.23-1mdk.i586.rpm "DID NOT INSTALL" means that I have not yet installed these packages but probably will sometime soon. They do not appear to be needed for the Apache + PHP + MySQL system. I would like to see someone post a list of the RPM's for Mandrake 7.2 in order to have a complete development version with GTK+, etc. so that when trying to compile source the libraries, etc. are already there. =Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] ZipCD 650 USB CD recorder and Mandrake 7.2
Has anyone gotten this (ZipCD 650 USB) to work with the stock store-bought Mandrake 7.2? If so, are there any config file changes necessary? Should the ZipCD USB be plugged in before Mandrake is booted to be detected, or will Mandrake detect/configure without a reboot? Thanks! ===Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Text login vs. graphical login
Running Mandrake 7.2 - how do I set the machine to give a plain text login page instead of the graphical login? I didn't get an option with 7.2 to choose what I wanted. Thanks! Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup
Running Mandrake 7.2 - where is the "developer's" install chosen? I have reinstalled using both Expert and Custom, and have chosen "install ALL packages" but still am missing many of the howto's (usually under /usr/share/) and don't have some of the programs to compile (some programs I try to compile using configure then make say I don't have a library propertly setup, etc.) What to do without a total reinstall? Will an Update install allow these choices so that I can get all the development files installed? Thanks! Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup
Hi Ryan, That helps alot because it answers my question. I'm AMAZED that the store bought boxed version (4 CD's) doesn't have the complete development tools. So - you are saying that I need to download the two CD ISO images from the website, burn CD's and use those, is that correct? Or - is there a list of the RPM's to download that will fill in the missing development tools? Thanks again, ==Keith - Original Message - From: Ryan Le Gros [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup If youre using the distributed version of mandrake 7.2 (i.e. store bought boxed version) Complete does not come with any development tools and thus doesnt allow you to choose between workstation, development or server. to do this you must purchase Mandrake 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe or download Mandrake from their website. Hope this helps, Ryan - Original Message - From: "Keith Christian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 8:14 AM Subject: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup Running Mandrake 7.2 - where is the "developer's" install chosen? I have reinstalled using both Expert and Custom, and have chosen "install ALL packages" but still am missing many of the howto's (usually under /usr/share/) and don't have some of the programs to compile (some programs I try to compile using configure then make say I don't have a library propertly setup, etc.) What to do without a total reinstall? Will an Update install allow these choices so that I can get all the development files installed? Thanks! Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup
Ryan, thanks for that explanation and info, it answers my question. Best Regards, ===Keith - Original Message - From: Ryan Le Gros [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup Im sure you can download just the RPM's you need and install them manually in conjunction with your copy of Mandrake 7.2 Complete, however I, being on a dialup decided to just shell out another 70 bucks for Powerpack Deluxe so I cant verify this. It angers me that Mandrake would release a boxed sre called Complete and fail to say anywhere on the box that development tools are not included. In order to find this out you've got to visit their website and only thne do they tell you that development tools are not included. I wound up wasting 30 bucks on Complete thinking it was complete, when infact it wasnt. Couldnt return the Complete version either because the software had already been opened and the retailer wouldnt exchange it for powerpack deluxe, so im stuck with both versions now. Anywas as for a list of the RPM's youll need to install to make your Complete version a Developmentally complete version, I'm not sure if there is one or not, perhaps someone else on this list can answer that question. My suggestion to you is to download the 2 CD's from the site and burn them if you cant or dont want to spend another 60 dollars for the Powerpack Deluxe. A full install fo Powerpack Deluxe is 1626 pachages totalling around 6 gigs of space, compare and contrast with Complete hehe. Good luck, and flamedammit Mandrake, change your advertising scheme! People could deem this false advertisement./flame Ryan Le Gros - Original Message - From: "Keith Christian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup Hi Ryan, That helps alot because it answers my question. I'm AMAZED that the store bought boxed version (4 CD's) doesn't have the complete development tools. So - you are saying that I need to download the two CD ISO images from the website, burn CD's and use those, is that correct? Or - is there a list of the RPM's to download that will fill in the missing development tools? Thanks again, ==Keith - Original Message - From: Ryan Le Gros [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup If youre using the distributed version of mandrake 7.2 (i.e. store bought boxed version) Complete does not come with any development tools and thus doesnt allow you to choose between workstation, development or server. to do this you must purchase Mandrake 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe or download Mandrake from their website. Hope this helps, Ryan - Original Message - From: "Keith Christian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 8:14 AM Subject: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup Running Mandrake 7.2 - where is the "developer's" install chosen? I have reinstalled using both Expert and Custom, and have chosen "install ALL packages" but still am missing many of the howto's (usually under /usr/share/) and don't have some of the programs to compile (some programs I try to compile using configure then make say I don't have a library propertly setup, etc.) What to do without a total reinstall? Will an Update install allow these choices so that I can get all the development files installed? Thanks! Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] Reinstalled Windows 98, how to get Linux to boot again?
Have an 8 gig hard disk with Windows 98 on the primary partition. Installed Mandrake 7.0, no problems, could boot to either Windows 98 or Mandrake 7.0 with no problems. I had to reinstall Windows 98 a few days ago, ow I cannot boot to Mandrake 7.0. The Linux partition should be OK. How do I reinstall LILO without damaging the Windows 98 partition? Thanks! ===Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Missing some programs on Mandrake 7.2
I used the "custom" install on my store-bought Mandrake 7.2 set, and some programs that were installed on Mandrake 7.0 are not there, among them: Apache, PHP, MySQL, and some smaller utilities such as mtools, compress, etc. Have these been removed from the CD set, or did I choose an incorrect install option? I checked "install everything" from Custom install, and thought that would provide me with everything I had with Mandrake 7.0 and maybe more. Note, this is not an upgrade, but a fresh install of 7.2 on a different machine. Thanks! ==Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Setting the time
Where is rdate found? I don't see it anywhere on my Mandrake 7.2 install, is it on one of the other CD's ??? Keith --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 January 2001 17:08, you wrote: Hey Fred, Does anyone know how to sync the time with an atomic clock Try this: # date -s world.std.com also my time always seems to be off by 1 hour, even if I select DST in linuxconf, any ideas? Well, I'd seen this -- some time ago -- in the linux@egroups list. I think that it turns out to be a bios thing. Have you checked to be sure the time is set correctly there? Meph rdate -s time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc Civileme __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2
Hi Al, rpm -qa | grep XFree sounds good. I now have a dead video card, when that's swapped out I'll try the command. Thanks for all your great help. ===Keith --- Altoine Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: type this command in to see rpm -qa | grep XFree and look for anything with "fonts" in the package name. Also, do you have your system setup as a dual boot? P.S. Sorry for taking so long to reply but I had killed my X server trying to compile it and had to trace my errors. Now all I need to do is figure out how to use the cvs for tdfx! Laters -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Al, OK, X -version shows Xfree 3.3.6, and Mach64 accelerated server for ATI, Patchlevel 1. Now, how do I check for font servers? I tried: ps -ef | grep font and got nothing but 'grep font' which I expected. So, how to check for font servers under Mandrake 7.2 ? Thanks! Keith --- Altoine Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Netscape, under the VIEW menu, the options to "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" are grayed out. How are these activated? Video resolution is set to 1024x768 and thus some of the fonts are pretty small. What's the solution to this problem? Thanks, =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ What version of X are you running and are your fonts servers started at bootup? Cheers -- Al __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ?
Need this to uncompress a .tar.Z file and it's nowhere to be found. I'm not talking about gzip, zip, unzip, nor bzip2, but plain old 'compress.' Anyone have it on their Mandrake 7.2 distribution? If not, where can I download it? Thanks. =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2
On Netscape, under the VIEW menu, the options to "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" are grayed out. How are these activated? Video resolution is set to 1024x768 and thus some of the fonts are pretty small. What's the solution to this problem? Thanks, =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Where are Apache, PHP and MySQL on Mandrake 7.2 ?
On an older version of Mandrake Linux, (6.5 and 7.0) the Apache web server and PHP were all set up and could be viewed by pointing a web browser to http://127.0.0.1. This brought up a test screen showing the local Apache server was running. After doing a Custom/Install ALL files installation on 7.2, I don't see this. Was the Apache web server even installed? If not, what's the quickest way to go about installing it? Is there an option that I missed? Which of the four CD's has the installation RPM's with PHP compiled for MySQL support? Thanks, Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2
Hi Al, This is embarrasing, but how to check the version of X ?? Typing 'X --help' or 'X -v' at the shell prompt doesn't give me anything useful. Also, how do I check if the font servers are started or not? Can you give me the commands for those two piece of info, then I'll reply. Thanks, Keith --- Altoine Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Netscape, under the VIEW menu, the options to "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" are grayed out. How are these activated? Video resolution is set to 1024x768 and thus some of the fonts are pretty small. What's the solution to this problem? Thanks, =Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ What version of X are you using and are your fonts servers started at bootup? Cheers -- Al __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] 7.1, remove grub and fix my Windows 98 hard drive
Installed 7.1 this weekend. The install went much less smoothly than with 6.5 and 7.0. I have two hard disks, Mandrake 7.1 was installed on the second hard drive. LILO would not install, complained about some error on /dev/hda2. I then installed grub. It gets to the stage1 prompt and hangs. I also cannot boot back to my Windows 98 hard disk even after FDISK /MBR and other old standby tricks. I have bought Norton Systemworks 2000 in hopes of fixing this problem, which manifests itself as "invalid media error." How can I fix my Windows 98 hard disk without reformatting, and how can I get rid of grub and use LILO instead (which worked fine under releases 6.5 and 7.0?) Thanks. ==Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
