Re: [newbie] ip-down.local
* Kipling Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [18 Feb 02 10:59]: but whenever I stop wvdial, the fethcmail daemon does not quit, unless I do it manually. Can anyone please help? Sigh. After working briefly, ip-down.local is no longer being run. I have disccovered through experimentation that ip-down, and ip.down-ipv6to4 are not being run either. Is there a way I can observe or log what happens after I kill wvdial? BTW, the multiple mail problem was caused by my not killing nullmailer-send completely, and then starting another one. By the time I found them all using ps -A|less there were 15 concurrent processes. -- Kipling You speak of courage. Obviously you do not know the difference between courage and foolhardiness. Always it is the brave ones who die, the soldiers. -- Kor, the Klingon Commander, Errand of Mercy stardate 3201.7 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ip-down.local SOLVED!
* Kipling Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [18 Feb 02 11:59]: I made an 'ip-down.local' as follows; but whenever I stop wvdial, the fethcmail daemon does not quit, unless I do it manually. Can anyone please help? Problem solved, but unexpectedly so. I had a duplicate entry in the logrotate conf directory, and when I cleared that up, ip-down.local started to work properly. Could anyone tell me WHY? -- Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Control (was: Living in the johns world)
* shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21 Mar 02 17:10]: also they should not include any known address of john the mandrake list spammer. A practical question (I hope!) on spam control: Can procmail handle more than one address in a recipe? e.g. :0 * ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] * ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null or is it one instruction per recipe? Are there easier ways for users to initiate spam control from mailing lists? I checked googled and found much in German, but not much in English. Thanks! Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] clock keeping correct time?
* Carlos Arigós [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11 Mar 02 21:53]: Install rdate rpm. As root, type: rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu hwclock --systohc Enter I don't know how to automate this task; any idea? I added it to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local -- Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ip-down.local
This should be so easy, I cannot figure out why it is not working! I want to stop the fetchmail daemon when I am not connected to my ISP, fo I made an 'ip-down.local' as follows; #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/fetchmail -quit the file is: -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 35 Feb 18 09:05 /etc/ppp/ip-down.local* but whenever I stop wvdial, the fethcmail daemon does not quit, unless I do it manually. Can anyone please help? -- Thank you! Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unzip not in path
* Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17 Feb 02 20:15]: I just wanted to be able to see inside an archive quickly. Have you tried mc (Midnight Commander) from a console, or gmc from X? I just select an archive, hit Enter and it lets me peek inside any archive (*.zip, .*rpm, etc) -- Hope That Helps, Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email client that allows checking of hotmail
* James Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [15 Feb 02 21:31]: Does anyone know if there is an email client for mandrake/linux that allows me to check my email from Hotmail a la Outlook Express? all of them, you just need something to negotiate access to hotmail: http://www.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.html -- Regards, Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is there an easier way to install Gnone update?
* Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [13 Feb 02 20:24]: Trying to upgrade my version of Gnome to the latest from www.ximian.com/download with the suggested method of lynx - blah, blah, etc, etc. It works OK but my ISP disconnects me every two hours so I keep having to resume all the time. Can this be downloaded from anywhere else in an RPM format as I could then use the GETRIGHT download manager from my stupid ME partition to complete the download (sorry Guys, haven't found anything else as good as GETRIGHT for Linux yet!) 1. Don't know about Gnome on RPM, but I recall the Ximian script was interactive. No use if you can't finish the dl, though. 2. I use GTM (GTransfer Manager) for resumable dl's. Good Luck! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] INTERNAL ERROR at cookies.c:47: mem_free(NULL)
Hello! Links (the text based browser) was working yesterday, then today, wehn I tried to start it up, I got this (see subject line) I can use links as root, just not as user. Curiouser and curiouser... Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] INTERNAL ERROR at cookies.c:47: mem_free(NULL) SOLVED
* Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09 Feb 02 22:00]: did you run Links as root in your home dir? Good chance that the file in question now is owned by root, and you as user have no more say over it. Otherwise: good luck! Thank you for steering me in the right direction! I checked my .links directory, no problem with the permissions, but when I peeked at my cookies file, the first line was enormous, and began hmmm so I deleted that line, and links works fine now. Kipling+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I limit rebooting acces to users
On Thursday 07 February 2002 04:09, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi, I just realized that the way I configured my MD 8.1 box allows users to reboot the machine. How can I keep users from running the reboot command? How are they doing that? Check and see if you have a file /etc/shutdown.allow - delete it if it exists. Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XMMS CDs
* Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04 Feb 02 18:57]: OK... I'm sure the answer to this is so simple that it is staring me in the face. How do I get XMMS to play an audio CD? For the life of me, I can't figure it out. I assume that it can do so since you can set it to check CDDB. Someone make me feel stupid and tell me how! :) I had problems doing this until I figured out that I had to plug the speakers into the headphone jack on the cd drive. ` Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail clients
* Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [30 Jan 02 15:16]: Well, yes (I thought they all did -- well except maybe the command line thingies like Pine, Mutt, ...). My 'command line thingie' (Mutt), sorts by threads. (excerpt from .muttrc) folder-hook . set sort=threads -- Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] saytime - no /dev/audio
* Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29 Jan 02 19:07]: If you have devfs enabled (which it is by default in 8.1 ), then your audio device will be /dev/sound/audio or /dev/sound/dsp Hi Derek! I had no problem with the sound on Mandrake 7.2, but with 8.1, I have no joy, not with devfs, nor with alsa. I was therefore keenly interested in your reply above. I have NO /sound directory in dev, the closest thing being /dev/shm. Is this an easy problem to fix? I know I can make the /sound directory, but where do I find the files to put in it? Thankful and Hopeful, Kipling+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
* Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [15 Mar 01 22:51]: I have GRUB setup to boot each of the /boot partitions appropriately Hi there! Could you give me a little more detail on how to do that, please? When I try to run 'grub-install /dev/hda1' I get: /usr/share/grub/i386-mandrake/stage1: Not found. -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] Can ADOM run on Linux-Mandrake? YES!!!
* Kipling Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09 Mar 01 16:47]: when I run it, I see "Error opening terminal: xterm-color." strace reveals that adom is looking for ~/.terminfo/x/xterm-color and /usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-color. I did an rpm -ql of xterm* and found that I have an /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color which I then copied to the obove locations (changing XTerm to xterm:-) but that gives the same error message from adom, Solved it! here's how to run ADOM on Linux Mandrake 7.2: cp /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color /usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-color and optionally: cp /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color ~/.terminfo/x/xterm-color -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] 24 hrs -- not just for the military
* Shane Roppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07 Mar 01 18:23]: I'm not big on the whole military time thing here... could someone tell me how to change the time format kde2 to 12 rather than 24? FWIW, the 24hr clock is used by many who work shifts, such as medical staff (like my mother) and railwaymen. I guess growing up with it, I never figured counting to 24 caused such discomfort. For reasons unknown to me, French Canadians also seem to prefer the 24hr clock. -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
[newbie] packdrake and pathnames
Hi! I was experimenting with printer drivers, and as root, called printerdrake from the terminal: [root@localhost bkc]# printerdrake everything already installed Starting CUPS printing system: [PASSED] So far, so good! I made did my choices, and exited printerrdrake, but then found this in the terminal: packdrake: cannot open archive file /lib/modules.cz2 rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded OK, so I took a look at /lib: [root@localhost bkc]# ls -d /lib/m* /lib/modules/ so there is a directory, and no modules.cz2 Question 1: Would the absence of parport_probe explain why my printer is not detected by hardrake? Question 2: Does this indicate anything that needs fixing? Question 3: Could someone please point me in the right direction? and I will be happy to tinker away! -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake Dial-UP
* Brandon Dienar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [18 Feb 01 13:24]: I'm trying to do a dial-up to my local ISP using PPP with Rockwell chipset modem, using GnomePPP. The modem appears to be dialing up just fine, connects and goes through the authentication but disconnects straight afterwards. It does not seem to stay connected long enough to even load up a mail client or browser. Any suggestions? I am impressed that you were able to get GnomePPP to dial at all! Even after commenting out 'lock' in /etc/ppp/options, pppd was stil dying suddenly. I went to http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial and have been happily connecting ever since. -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] Re: info on harddrive optimization in mandrake install?
* walter hanagriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11 Feb 01 16:40]: I reasked my original questions with this info incase somebody has already tested it with a quantum fireball Everything I have read says before you tinker with your hardware, back-up your files! http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html is the article I used. "If you are using current hardware (i.e. your dirve AND controller AND motherboard were manufactured in the last two to three years), you are at considerably lower risk." but adds that every user is responsible for the well-being of his box. Very safe options are listed as -c3 and -m16 with more adventuraous options listed as -X34, (or) -X66, -d1, and -u1. For myself, I used -c1 -m16 -u1 and doubled my throughput. Good hunting -- Kipling+
Re: [newbie] Failed to activate ppp0 with error 2
* Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [14 Feb 01 00:19]: did you recently compile a new kernel?? Actually, no. I did something even more reckless for a Linux Newbie- I tried to configure postfix (ohhh, nooo!) One of my doomed attempts included a visit to Linuxconf to try and find a hostname that postfix would not choke on. As part of that, I needed a device name, so I picked ppp0. Then the error message started appearing in my boot sequence, so I went back into linuxconf, but the entry I had made was no longer visible. Postfix still hides 1/3 of my outgoing messages, (the message you answered was the fourth attempt, this time via StarOffice) but if I can get the samll stuff fixed first, then I'll worry about cranky behemoths like postfix. Thanks for your efforts! Kipling+
[newbie] Failed to activate ppp0 with error 2
Hi! I did something, and now I get this as part of the line: Bringing up interface ppp0: Failed to activate ppp0 with error 2 in the boot sequence. How do I fix this, please? Kipling+
Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems
Till Kamppeter wrote: It seems that you have an old version of CUPS with a bug. See http://www.mandrakeforum.com/commentShow.php3?sid=20001116101952pid=75 and go to http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001214090405 You will find updates for all CUPS-related packages there. To fix your problem, you need the "cups" and "libcups1" packages. Till I had a similar problem with my Canon LBP430. The new CUPS and drivers work. Thank you for the pointer, and thank mandrake for the update! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
[newbie] Login/font problems
Happy 7th day of Christmas! (7 penguins a swimming?) The message I sent earlier this morning has not yet appeared, so hear is some more information on the same problems. The Linux login works almost to the end. The last entry I can read says : Running Linuxconf hooks Then something about fonts skips past as the Aurora screen is cleared for the Login Window. The screen goes black, then some colours flicker across the top half in no coherent shape, and then I am back at the text prompt, the first two lines of which read: INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3 INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal Things just sit there, and when I do the Vulcan nerve pinch (Ctrl-Alt-Del) it goes back to Aurora, with the entry X Font Server marked with an orange X (all the other entries ahve green checks) and finishes off with a reboot back to Lilo. From Lilo, choosing the 'failsafe' boot, Text option gets me to the login prompt /root, and when I enter 'startx' (I read that somehwere) I get more output than I can possible read in the time it is displayed, ending with the following: ---snip--- _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect errno = 111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) ---snip--- 1. How can I fix this from the terminal? 2. How can I capture the whole of the 'server output?' Thank you for your help, Kipling+
Re: [newbie] CDROM not always there-Solution!
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, you wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2000 05:00, you wrote: Bringup a terminal...su to root...then type kpackage it's still in the version...just not in the menu. and rather broken till you reach KDE2.01 Civileme Thank you for the prompt reply. My question was unclearly worded, for which I apologize. Your suggestion of using KPackage would probably have worked if the disk had an rpm package on it, but it does not. It is rather a directory with half a billion files, and a setup script, and I needed to get Linux connected with the script. I finally gave up on the non-existent icons on KDE, and loaded (rebooted?) Gnome. Violia! Something called Midnight Commander had an icon on the desktop which connected me with my whole HD, even the Win95 partitions. There was also a CDrom entry visible as a subdirectory of /mnt, from which I could double click on the setup script, and all worked out. I realize most of the talk of graphical environments has been concerning KDE, but for this newbie, Gnome came through. Kipling+
