Re: [newbie] Printer problems
The HP 722c and other printers around that model number are a special PITA from heck. HP decided to use a proprietary set of drivers, which, despite all their talk about linux support, they have yet to release to the communtiy the details. Dig around on SourceForge for the pnm2ppa project, and look thru the archives at Linux Journal and Linux Gazette on these printers. There were several _really_ good articles a few months back on getting these to run under linux -- IIRC, they are up to 600x600 bw, and maybe color as well. Not quite the 720x720 color you would want/expect, but pretty good for having to reverse engineer the drivers from scratch. Monte
Re: [newbie] how to install pronto email
Move the tarball to a temp directory, unpack it, (tar xvfz package.tar.gz or tar xvfy package.tar.bz2) and enter the directory it creates, and read the directions (README, INSTALL, etc.) Monte --- Alan Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a newbie =), and need help installing pronto email. > I downloaded the > tarball, but that's as far as I have gotten. A step by > step would really > help me, and other people in this list I hope. Thanks so > much. > > > Alan Carpenter > PC Specialist > Department of Computer Services > Virginia Wesleyan College > 1584 Wesleyan Dr. > Norfolk Va. 23502 > Office (757)455.3267 > Cell (757)449.0381 > = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much " What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Suggestions for an email client
O.K., time to jump in and stir things up a bit ;) You want about the same things I would want from a decent mail client. Netscape is a PITA, and I haven't gotten it to work right w/ 7.1, it gripes about permissions, regardless of what they are set to. FWIW, if you use fetchmail, it doesn't much matter if Netscape doesn't natively handle multiple POP3 accounts, the way I see it. But that's not the point here. My point here is that the kmail that comes with LM 7.1 is 'broken'. It is several versions old; the latest 'stable' is 1.0.29-2, LM 7.1 ships w/ 1.0.28. kmail managed to mangle more than a few emails incoming, giving them 'No Subject', etc. The latest version, 1.1.x, which comes w/ KDE 2.0Beta 2, has threading, and is supposedly much improved. But if you subscribe to the kmail list, and check out the bugs still being reported, I personally find it hard to seriously consider kmail for real use. The other choices are Mahogany, CSCmail, XFMail (and it's new gtk incarnation Archimedes), Balsa, etc. I find it kinda odd that there is really only one native KDE mail client. For now, I am sticking w/ pine, and looking forward to v.4.31 or so, when it gets threading. Monte __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Fetchamil is broken! :(
Well, I haven't had this problem myself (yet), but a few things to try might be to check your system logs, in case fetchmail is really running into the firewall, it may leave a trace in the logs. The only part of fetchmail that I would think would have problems w/ a firewall would be the last stage where it feeds it to the MTA (sendmail) on port 25. But you said you left that open explicitly. The other thing to maybe try is to run fetchmail w/ the ' -vvv' flag for extremely verbose reporting, and see what it says. Monte -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Sendmail
look on freshmeat.net for a script called 'install-sendmail'. It will walk you thru setting up everything you need. Monte -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] procmail sorting
Well... That doesn't work quite as I had intended. The whole story is that the stock kmail that Mandrake 7.1 ships with has been doing strange things to my mail, and is generally buggy as heck. Plus a botched fetchmail run partways thru left me w/ several hundred duplicate messages. I finally got the latest stable version of kmail, plus the Kleopatra version... neither was an appreciable improvement for what I wanted. So I tried using Netscape Messenger. It's worked for years, and I've got the hotkey sequences pretty much hardwired by now. Suddenly it tells me that it cant get write permission to /var/spool/mail/monte for lock files, and I may need to change permissions to 01777 on that file/directory. I did that once, and it worked. I reinstalled for some unrelated reasons, and in this install, it doesn't matter if I chmod the directory or not, Netscape still refuses to get my new mail. Fine. Time for pine, the old standby. Now I try the command listed in Jari's procmail tips, referenced earlier in the thread, and it didn't quite work. I don't know if I need to tell procmail to split the inbox file and treat it like a digest when I feed it to it, but it isn't creating any of my list mailboxes or anything. And for somereason, now pine won't check new stuff in my spool. So I try mutt. It works, but procmail still isn't. I decided that I really don't want to settle for a cli mailer unless there is no other choice. It looks like I may have to append all these various mailboxes together, and feed them thru a duplicate nuking procmail recipe, and then just have Netscape sort the messages into mailboxes. What a PITA. And I really don't want to have to hunt down and delete manually the duplicates, so I hope I get procmail running right, soon. What a mess. Monte = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much " What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sorting
Well... That doesn't work quite as I had intended. The whole story is that the stock kmail that Mandrake 7.1 ships with has been doing strange things to my mail, and is generally buggy as heck. Plus a botched fetchmail run partways thru left me w/ several hundred duplicate messages. I finally got the latest stable version of kmail, plus the Kleopatra version... neither was an appreciable improvement for what I wanted. So I tried using Netscape Messenger. It's worked for years, and I've got the hotkey sequences pretty much hardwired by now. Suddenly it tells me that it cant get write permission to /var/spool/mail/monte for lock files, and I may need to change permissions to 01777 on that file/directory. I did that once, and it worked. I reinstalled for some unrelated reasons, and in this install, it doesn't matter if I chmod the directory or not, Netscape still refuses to get my new mail. Fine. Time for pine, the old standby. Now I try the command listed in Jari's procmail tips, referenced earlier in the thread, and it didn't quite work. I don't know if I need to tell procmail to split the inbox file and treat it like a digest when I feed it to it, but it isn't creating any of my list mailboxes or anything. And for somereason, now pine won't check new stuff in my spool. So I try mutt. It works, but procmail still isn't. I decided that I really don't want to settle for a cli mailer unless there is no other choice. It looks like I may have to append all these various mailboxes together, and feed them thru a duplicate nuking procmail recipe, and then just have Netscape sort the messages into mailboxes. What a PITA. And I really don't want to have to hunt down and delete manually the duplicates, so I hope I get procmail running right, soon. What a mess. Monte = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much " What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] procmail sorting
Hello, all. I am trying to re-process my 'old' mail and get some procmail filters working, such as removing duplicates, etc. Does anyone know how to take an existing mailbox and 'feed' it back thru again? I tried 'cat inbox >> /var/spool/mail/monte' which just dumped everything back in the inbox, apparently bypassing procmail somehow. Does anyone have any good ideas on this? Thanks for your time, Monte __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] kmail 1.0.29-2
Hello, all. I am trying to install the most current stable version of kmail, 1.0.29-2 (why does Mandrake 7.1 still have the 'old' 1.0.28?). I didn't find a mdk rpm, so I got the source and ran ./configure, which bombs out claiming that I need a 'newer' version of jpeglib6, specifically libjpeg6a. LM 7.1 has libjpeg6b. Is there a relatively simple way to get this to compile w/o having to down grade my library file? Thanks for your time, Monte __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?
You can set fetchmail up as previously noted, and then either run it in daemon mode, where it automatically polls your ISP every so many seconds i.e. 'fetchmail -d 300' tells it to check every 300 seconds, or 5 minutes. Alternately, you can set it up to run from a cron script, I think the advantage of this is if you want to get fancy, you could make one script to just go ahead and poll the ISP, and thus bring up the ISP, say maybe 2 times a day. Another script, could check the status of your dial-out interface every 5 minutes, and if it is 'up', go ahead and poll for email. Both Netscape Messenger and kmail will do interval mail checking. If you have them configured to directly check your pop account, I'm not sure if they would bring up your dial-up link. As far as the cron scripts, I've seen them around, and might be able to find them again, but I haven't done them myself yet. I am getting to that point, though. As far as the other diad-on-demand option, the recent versions of pppd have a 'demand' feature that works pretty well. The real advantage of diald is that you can set up filters to control how long the link stays up, what time of day it can come up at all, what types of traffic it wil come up for, and if using an internal network, which hosts traffic will cause it to come up, if you want. The tradeoff? It can be a PITA to set up. Monte --- "Michael H. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fetchmail with diald would work. I think there is > another kind of > demand dialing too. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On 15 Jun, Tom Wang wrote: > > > Is there an email client for LM that will > automatically dial out to pickup > > > email at set intervals, then logoff? I have same > question about FTP program > > > - one like GoZilla or Filedog (Windows applications). > Thanks. > > > > > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > fetchmail does that. Although I don't think it does the > dialout part. A > > little script will help. > > > > L > > > > -- > > Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters > are an intelligence test, > > U|Force - Java Center and we who > are here have failed it." > > Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 > -Doug Camilli > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! > > -- > Michael H. Collinshttp://www.linuxlink.com > Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy > All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE > Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org > Need a Real Texas Radio Fix? > http://www.texasrebelradio.com > = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much " What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] E-mail Clients
as with most things *nix, the answer is... it depends. If you are looking for gtk I believe balsa is the current lead contestant. Supposedly there is an Outlook (multipurpose communications) knockoff called Evolution that is on its way from the gnome folks. For now, you have balsa, and maybe CSCmail If it doesn't have to be gtk, just easy on the eyes, mahogany isn't too bad. I had some issues w/ it not wanting to work for me. YMMV. Or, you could used mutt in an Eterm. That way you have mutt's capabilities (pretty much top shelf) w/ clickable menu's. Me, I'm going to grit my teeth and use pine (gritting my teeth because of the lack of threading) and wait and hope and pray for XPine to get to a more usable state. Monte --- Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, everybody! > > I'm currently using the Netscape e-mail client along with > Kmail; I'm > looking for a client which features message filters and > search and > multiple pop accounts, better if designed for Gnome; > there's a lot of > programs, what would you suggest me? > > Thank you! > > Corrado > = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much " What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] graphical instalation]]
And I you ;) Jaguar wrote: > > I was referring to you Monte...welcome to /dev/null:) > > Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Exactly. > > > > Jaguar wrote: > > > > > > Thank you Monte...you just increased my "this guy is an idiot and belongs > in > > > my JUNK Mail filter" list by one. > > > > > > Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please, God, forgive me for having to do this... > > > > > > > > GET A CLUE!! RTFM!! > > > > > > > > Sorry. I realize this is a list for beginners, and many people aren't > > > > really stupid, they just need a little nudge in the right direction to > > > > get rolling. Been there before, will problably be there again. But > > > > this was more than I could take. Take the time to look around before > > > > asking, or if you don't know where to start looking, start out w/ > asking > > > > for pointers on that. But try to act like you're smart enough to pour > > > > piss out of a boot w/ the instructions on the heel, ok? > > > > > > > > Monte > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I never used linux before, and I the Mandrake 7.02 cd. > > > > > I put the cd on drive and reset my computer. The problem is the > > > > > instalation mode. > > > > > Mandrake doesn't start graphical-mode instalation, it starts > text-mode > > > > > instalation. > > > > > Please, if someone knows the solution for my problem, answer as soon > as > > > > > possible > > > > > Thanks > > > > > Fabio (Brazil) > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Ps: I have win95 > > > > > > > > __ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > > > > http://im.yahoo.com > > > > > > The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. > > > > > > > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at > http://webmail.netscape.com. > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://im.yahoo.com > > The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] installing acrobat reader
joey wrote: > > im a new user of linux and i want to install the acrobat reader, the > extension name is something like "tar.gz" . i try to install this many > times using kpakage but untill now no luck from me :-(...what will i > > do? Well, for starters, if you got the boxed version of Mandrake, you may have the rpm version already. check out the 5th and 6th cd's, if you've got them. If not, check out www.rpmfind.net to find 'em. If you are bound and determined to use the tarball you downloaded, then put it in /tmp, then from that directory, type 'tar xvfz some.file.name.tar.gz' This will cause some text to fly by; the stuff at the far left is the new directory that the tarball unpacked into. For more information, try 'info tar' or 'info gzip'. P.S. I think I'd recommend the rpm files, as I found a cool one on the CD's that basically acts as the plugin that allows netscape under linux to view pdf files inline. Hope this helps, Monte __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [Re: [newbie] graphical instalation]
Exactly. Jaguar wrote: > > Thank you Monte...you just increased my "this guy is an idiot and belongs in > my JUNK Mail filter" list by one. > > Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please, God, forgive me for having to do this... > > > > GET A CLUE!! RTFM!! > > > > Sorry. I realize this is a list for beginners, and many people aren't > > really stupid, they just need a little nudge in the right direction to > > get rolling. Been there before, will problably be there again. But > > this was more than I could take. Take the time to look around before > > asking, or if you don't know where to start looking, start out w/ asking > > for pointers on that. But try to act like you're smart enough to pour > > piss out of a boot w/ the instructions on the heel, ok? > > > > Monte > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > I never used linux before, and I the Mandrake 7.02 cd. > > > I put the cd on drive and reset my computer. The problem is the > > > instalation mode. > > > Mandrake doesn't start graphical-mode instalation, it starts text-mode > > > instalation. > > > Please, if someone knows the solution for my problem, answer as soon as > > > possible > > > Thanks > > > Fabio (Brazil) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Ps: I have win95 > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://im.yahoo.com > > The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Parental Control
WolfRyder wrote: > > Being a parent, when I discovered my then 15 year old viewing porn sites, > after specifically telling him he couldn't, he lost his computer privileges > for 3 months. How, you may think, did I accomplish this? Well, when I went > to work, so did the power cords. While at home, the computer was usable by > me only. > > Ultimately, parental control isn't a piece of software on a computer, it's > the guts to say no and mean it, even if you take away the CPU or Modem or > whatever needs removing. Passwording is another way. People rely to heavily > on "something else" to do the monitoring for them instead of doing for > themselves. > I agree. I have Freesco running as my gateway right now, and I have an old terminal set up so I can watch the dns queries out of the corner of my eye as I am working in my computer/electronics/reloading/hobby room. Definitely has came in handy. If I see a disturbing site name come up, I check it out. If it is objectional, well, that was the last time anyone in this household will ever see it on my network. Perhaps a bit high-handed, but then I am the one responsible for making sure that society gets a quality product in another 4 yrs, and I think this will help steer towards that path. Monte > And I agree, hate sites rank right on up there with porn. > > If anyone would like to discuss this further with me, feel free to email me > directly. > > Carol > > At 04:42 AM 5/8/00 +0100, you wrote: > > >Hi ~ > > > >For Netscape cache files, go to the user's home directory and cd > >.netscape/cache > > > >There are sixteen subdirectories of cached pages. > > > >Personally, I'd be more concerned about race-hate stuff than penthouse > >pictures ;-) > > > >Del > > > >Hello again. > > > >I was wondering if anyone could answer a query I have? > > > >Is it possible for root to view the history of a users browser? I > >asking as I am > >writing a newspaper article about the Linux system. Here in England, > >and I assume > >elsewhere, there is great concern over the amount of control a parent > >has over their > >childrens viewing of the interent especially with the growing > >prolifiation of porn sites. > > > >This is an area that I think Linux and open source distributors could > >exploit. With > >parents as root and so able to give and cancel permissions, they would > >have greater > >control over when and for how long a child could be on the internet. If > >they can also > >view the history logs of that users browser then again their worries > >over what their > >child has viewed can be diminished. > > > >Although free software is a plus and could creates a lot of interest, I > >feel that security > >is most on the minds of concerned parents and is an area that should be > >highlighted if > >Linux is to gain more supporters. > > > >I'm sorry if this is a bit long winded but I would be glad to here any > >responses either > >to my initial question or concerning the issue itself. > > > > -- > >Andrew > >Blackburn > >England > > > > --Learning at the deep end-- > > > > > > > >-- > > > >Personal website for M.E. news, views & treatments: > > http://www.godot.connectfree.co.uk > > - home of the ME Medics Online Directory. > > > > > > > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [[newbie] Printer sharing]
Optionally, you could run samba on the the Linux box. This will make the Linux box appear as a Windows server to the Win98 box. You can share your printer, drive space, etc. Go to www.samba.org for more info. The latest version is 2.07, vs the 2.06 that comes w/ Mandrake 7.0, and the new version comes (reportedly) w/ a html version of the O'Reilly 'Using Samba' book, widely considered to be one of the definitive works on the subject. A little more work, but ultimately worth the effort. Monte Jaguar wrote: > > If you have trouble setting up the print sharing, I see no reason why an A/B > printer switch couldn't be used. just change the cableing so each computer is > on the "output" end of the switch and the printer is the "input" side of the > switch, then label A as Win and B as Linux. I haven't tried this...but the > switch is BI-Directional, so it shoould work. Maybe someone else has some > input on my suggestion > Just a suggestion, and MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS, but it should work like this. > HTH > Jaguar > > Glenn Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. I'd like to share a printer between a Linux box and a Windows 98 > box. > > The printer is connected to the Linux box. I need to be able to print TO > this > > printer FROM the Windows box. How is this accomplished? By the way, the > Linux > > box is a dual boot (Windows 98 / Linux). When running Windows on the Linux > box, > > networking is flawless. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Glenn Johnson > > The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] GCC is missing....grrrr
Welcome to one of the 'quirks' of Mandrake 7.0 ( I presume that is what flavor you have). If I recall, if you don't select 'Custom', and 'Development' during install, or otherwise explicitly specify to install the compiler, you don't get it. If you are downloading an *.rpm file, you should be able to install that no problem, assuming you have all the dependencies (required files/libraries,etc.) satisfied. HTH Monte James McLaughlin wrote: > > I am wondering why every time I attempt to compile something I continue to > get errrors about my gcc or cc is missing. I am guessing this is my C > compilerI don't get itwhere the hell is it? IF I do a locate I come > up with zilch! Nothing is out there...help.. > > I am downloading gcc but I wonder if I can even install that without a > compiler. :( > > Horribly frustrated tech.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Homemade Router/Switch... Being cheap.
If you are being really cheap and don't need anything else besides routing, go to www.freesco.org. One floppy, setup done in less than 10 minutes (to be fair, I've done it a few times), and you are done. Monte flupke wrote: > > George Jones wrote: > > > > Ok... I have a question for all of you network geniuses out there. I have > > been contemplating the purchase of a switch for my home network. I have 3 > > PC's that need to be connected to the internet with my cable connection. I > > had thought to buy that Linksys Cable router, but I realized that I have > > quite a few network cards and enough parts to build another PC (p200mmx) > > and thought that maybe I could throw all of the extra NIC's into this new > > box, drop Linux on it and use the machine as a proxy/router/switch. Is > > something like this feasable? > No problem. I'm doing this at home. > The ipchains-HOWTO should answer all your questions. > > HTH > Flupke __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Read the post a little closer next time. He did state quite clearly that he did set the preferences options. Monte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My guess would be you have NOT gone into the MENU, Edit, Preferences, > etcetera. SetUp the thing in there and it will. > > don > I thought I knew that I knew what I thought > But now I know that what I thought I knew > Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:32:21 -0700 Michael Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > ??Advertising?? > > > > Just a guess, Mike > > > > Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > > Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon > > loading. It > > > always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE > > set the > > > preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the > > 'about' screen, > > > then it goes to the home page. > > > > -- > > > > The Penguins are coming!!! > > > > > > Michael Holt > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] remote X-login
I had ran across some articles earlier this year on this subject, but I had the links on my machine at work, and finding them again from home took me about all morning. Oh, well. Hope these help. http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/xterminals/ http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kaszeta.html Enjoy, and let us know how they turn out. Monte Claus Atzenbeck wrote: > > Now I have a second computer running Mandrake. The second one does not > have much memory and is not too fast, so I want to use this one just > as a "dumb" terminal. > > It should be similar to the X login on Solaris: You can enter a remote > host at login screen. > > How can I do this with Mandrake? > > I got the following message from a Linux guru, but I don't understand > what he is talking about. :-( > > -- Forwarded message -- > Sounds like the guy wants to have an xdm/kdm style login (like on > jocasta/chopin/etc). I expect it's probably set up by default. What > he'll have to do is use something like eXceed with XDMCP query on his > particular host. If he's on a LAN he can use XDMCP broadcast to get a > list of boxes willing to manage his display. From the login prompt he > should be able to select which window manager to use. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.02-i486
Yes. Depending on the security level you choose during login, you cannot log directly into the console as root. This is supposed to help in auditing which user became root and did something they shouldn't have when there is more than one root user. Monte Dallas Haggar wrote: > > Hi, > I have installed V7.02 i486 on my old DX2/66 PC. When I try to login as root I get >'incorrect login'. If I login with the user I created during the install and 'su -' I >can enter the root password and become root. Anyone seen this before? > Dallas > > - > Send Amazing Cards FREE by e-mail with > FREE e-Gift and FREE decoration: > www.mini-card.com/index.asp?referer=fm1 > - > Get your own free email account at > http://www.freemail.com.au/ now part of the > Webuser.com.au independent portal. Visit at? > http://www.webuser.com.au > - __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] running windows in linux
You could also give VNC a try. It is a program that lets you run an X desktop using the windowmanager of your choice from a Windows or Mac, and a Windows desktop from your X Workstation. The client is very fast, and even comes as a java applet you can run in a browser. What it does is it connects to a running vnc server on another machine on your net, similar exporting an X display over telnet. The neat part is that the connection is 'stateless' so you can open a display on one machine, close it, open it on another machine, and your workspace is preserved. It is exactly as you left it. Check out http://uk.research.att.com/vnc for the details. I believe there are add on modules to facilitate the use of SSL or SSH for more secure connections. Monte Rich wrote: > > Hi, > > I saw a screenshot on the mandrake site that had the linux operating system > running with a window open running windows. I need this because I have one > of the only cable modems in the dang country that you have to force to dial > (it sends through phone, receives through cable). > > It works fine if I boot to windows and force it to dial, then restart in > linux while it is still connected. If I could open windows while in linux I > could make it dial that way. Can someone help me? > > I also downloaded and installed mozilla 15 today... Is there any way to > start it without typing the command in the console? It keeps the console > open that way... > > Thanks a lot, > > Rich Foreman __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] FTP: 500 Illegal PORT Command
Just a guess here, but I had a similar problem when trying to access the SuSE update servers via ftp thru a firewall. If I recall correctly, it has to do w/ the firewall and using passive mode ftp vs. active mode. In active mode, the ftp client contacts the server, and the server responds on a different port to start the transfer. In passive mode, the client contacts the server, the server responds back on the same port, and the client initiates the transfer on another port. Basically in active mode, the firewall sees an 'unsolicited' incoming connection 'cause it doesn't match a previous outgoing connection on the same port, so it is denied and you get the Illegal PORT Command b.s. I don't know if a firewall plays into your setup or not, but this is what was going on in my case. YMMV Monte --- Ross Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear there, > > I have a problem about configuring FTP server (wu-ftp) on > linux Mandrake 7. > I can connect to the ftp server on clinet side using ftp > command. > But when I type ls, I alway get an error: > ftp> ls > 500 Illegal PORT Command. > 425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused. > ftp> > Do you have some idea about that? > Thank you in advance. > > = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much " What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] MDK7.02/FreeBSD and Networking
Jaguar wrote: > > I already have MDK 7.02 installed, and was wanting to try out FreeBSD, I would > like to know if there are any known conflicts/problems with running BOTH OS's > on one 13 GB drive? > > The main reason for this is because I have read it is easier to setup a home > network, I have tried with MDK and so far not achieved my cable modem sharing > or the network...:( > But if someone wants to make a point form TXT file (containing the click here, > add this, click there, check that, etc...) for me, on setting up this freaking > thing, I would happily stay with MDK. I have read IPchains/masq, Samba, > networking, and a few other HOWTO's, and it has left me more confused, than > when I started. I think where I am stumped now is the broadcasting (because > the sever light is _NOT_ flashing on the hub) from the second NIC in my Linux > box? > Opinons? > Jaguar > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com. Have you looked at the Trinity OS document at http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html It is Redhat/Mandrake-centered, and covers many aspects of getting a functional and _secure_ network running. Some of the security things may not apply (i.e. be necessary anymore) to a Mandrake 7.0 system w/ the msec features, but cannot hurt. Monte __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] EZ permissions problem
Jon wrote: > > Pak Wing wrote: > > > This is a strange one. I managed to install StarOffice fine as root. > > > > As root, you're meant to have permissions for everything! > > > > I didn't do "/bin/sh" though. running under bash worked fine. > > > > Pak > > > > Monte Milanuk wrote: > > > > > I have a Sun Microsystems StarOffice 5.1 CD that if I recall right came > > > bundled w/ my RH 6.1. I would like to install and use this w/ my > > > Mandrake 7.0 install, but when I mount the cdrom and cd to the > > > directory, either as root or otherwise, I receive this error: > > > > > > [monte@ishamael]$ /bin/sh > > > [monte@ishamael]$ ./setup > > > sh: ./setup: Permission Denied > > > [monte@ishamael]$ > > > > > > As I said, the error is the same whether I try it as a regular user or > > > as root. I have the partition mounted using settings in /etc/fstab of > > > > > > /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom/ iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 > > > > > > rather than that supermount stuff (Yuck!). I have a hunch that the > > > issue may be tied to the permissions set when I mount the cdrom, but the > > > problem seems to persist regardless of whether I mount the CD as root > > > from the command line, or as 'monte' from an icon in KDE. Any ideas? > > > > > > Thanks for your time, > > > > > > Monte > > > > > > __ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > > > http://im.yahoo.com > > Looking at the man page for mount and at your fstab makes me wonder if maybe > you should add exec to your options. > > /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom/ iso9660 user,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 > > Also, if you are going to install staroffice might I suggest the Admin > install? > > I believe the command is > > ./setup -net > > This allows you to run a base copy from any user you might have Read the dox > for some reasons why this might be a good idea. > > My setup is /Office51 owned by root and set readonly for all including > root. (Could be written to CD!) > each user has about 3-5 meg of files and a link to this directory. I can try > different Distros or upgrade this one without affecting my Office51 Yep. That did it. Thank you very much. Now I just need to get my Corel WordPerfect 8 CD to work... anyway, for those who are reading, the one thing that did hang me up a while (w/ the StarOffice setup) is that I would go to setup as the user, and it would prompt me to put the files in /home/monte/Office51. Fine, did that. Then, when I ran the /home/monte/Office51/bin/soffice script, it would setup things and try to install files to /home/monte/Office51... Oops! Had to run the initial setup as root, installed to /usr/local/Office51, then ran /usr/local/Office51/bin/soffice as 'monte' to set up the files needed in /home/monte/Office51. Another StarOffice question: What's up w/ the 'install-kde' script? It copies basically everything in the entire filesystem (/, /mnt, /usr, /bin/, yadayada) to /~/.kde/share/ What's up w/ that? Takes forever, for one, very questionable for two. Any ideas? Monte __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] EZ permissions problem
I have a Sun Microsystems StarOffice 5.1 CD that if I recall right came bundled w/ my RH 6.1. I would like to install and use this w/ my Mandrake 7.0 install, but when I mount the cdrom and cd to the directory, either as root or otherwise, I receive this error: [monte@ishamael]$ /bin/sh [monte@ishamael]$ ./setup sh: ./setup: Permission Denied [monte@ishamael]$ As I said, the error is the same whether I try it as a regular user or as root. I have the partition mounted using settings in /etc/fstab of /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom/ iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 rather than that supermount stuff (Yuck!). I have a hunch that the issue may be tied to the permissions set when I mount the cdrom, but the problem seems to persist regardless of whether I mount the CD as root from the command line, or as 'monte' from an icon in KDE. Any ideas? Thanks for your time, Monte __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0
Jake Pettengill wrote: > > Hi, > > My name is Jake and I bought your Maximum Linux magazine #1. I enjoyed > the magazine but i have trouble installing the Linux Mandrake 6.0 in my > computer (h.p) I have install it several times now, but failed to work. I'm > don't familiar with Linux but I want to learn from it. I'm going to explain > you what happens when I try to get in. > > 1- Turn on the computer and choose Linux > 2- In my screen it appears The Penguin > 3- and I'm asked for a login, wich I type jakepp (the one I typed in the > installation) > 4- then I type my password (333666) and i get this: > > Last login: Fri Jan 28 14:42:48 on tty1 > [jakepp@localhost jakepp]$ > > After this it stays like this, i type "help" and it gives me a list, > I also typed "Tab" key and it gives me another list. > > I am trying hard to get it to work but I think is time to ask for help > from people who know, I also followed the 12 easy steps from the magazine > and I also tryed to do it in Workstation and Custom but failed to do so. > > I would really appreciate if you can help, thank you! > > Sincerely > Jake Pettengill > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Congratulations! Apparently you have gotten a good install (so far). What you are seeing is a command prompt, similar to the msdos prompt you may be familiar w/ in M$ land. You really need to get a beginners book, like Linux in a Nutshell, or Running Linux 3rd Ed from O'Reilly Associates. But in the meantime, try the following: 'startx' should start your X Window session i.e. gui desktop, assuming it was configured properly during install. If not, well, you are about to have a much rougher intro to linux. If you did get a decent desktop to come up, click on an icon that looks like a computer monitor, and you will be in a terminal (like an M$-DOS window), and continue. 'cd /usr/doc/howto/' , then 'dir' or 'ls | less' and press 'Space' after you are done reading each screenfull. This is a listing of all the HOWTO files on your system. They may be archived w/ a *gz extension, so log in as root, then return to the same directory and type 'gunzip -r *', which will recursively unpack everything at and below this directory. Then type 'emacs Unix-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO' and read it _all_. If you get tired and want to quit emacs, try Control-x Control-c. Then read 'DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO', and if by now you are feeling a little more comfortable, good. Next time you fire up emacs, type 'Control-h t' for a tutorial on emacs. Granted we put the cart befor the horse here, but you didn't need to know much about emacs to get this far. Alternately, you could use emacs to read the Emacs-Beginner-HOWTO. Note that none of this requires a graphic desktop. It all works just fine w/o . If you find emacs to be too much, try 'vi /usr/doc/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO' to try the vi editor. Enjoy, Monte Milanuk
Re: [newbie] Setting up a Print Server without a static IP
I hope I understand your question properly: You have an internal network using dhcp and you want to print to one of your internal connections (the NetPort?)? Correct? Well, if my understanding of your request is correct, then you should be able to use dhcp to assign a 'static' ip address to a given hardware MAC address. Try reading thru 'man dhcp.conf' Monte -Original Message- From: Wendell E. Gragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 7:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Setting up a Print Server without a static IP >I just installed an Intel Netport Express Pro/100 and would like to set up >Linux to print to it. The only problem is that, being on a Cable Modem, I >cannot get a static IP address. Is there any way to set Linux up to print >to a server that uses an IP that is obtained from a DHCP server? > >Thanks, >Wendell Gragg > >
Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: > > I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs > > with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ? > > I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both. > > Windows programs can be on NTFS, but I want program source, > > images and videofiles to be accessible from Linux. > > > Linux DOES support FAT32 using the VFAT filesystem type. Don't know > about NTFS, though. > John Haven't actually done this myself, but Linux does support NTFS read mode, and the write mode is in alpha/beta mode, i.e. use at own risk. The read-only mode is reported to be fairly stable, though. I believe you would neet to recompile your kernel to enable these options though. Monte
Re: [newbie] Installing a New Distro
Seth Gibson wrote: > > Is it possible to install a new linux distribution but still retain all my > personal files. . .ie crossgrade i guess is what im asking. Thanks all. Depends. Did you partition /home as a separate partition? Thats normally the easiest way, so that in your new distribution install, just make sure that you keep that partition as /home and do not format it. Otherwise, you would have to back up your personal files and restore them after the new install Monte
Re: [newbie] PS/2 Serial mouse problem on Mandrake v7.0 install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am trying to Install Mandrake 7.0(Air) but have a problem with mouse > autodetection. > My PC motherboard has a PS/2 mouse port (which is disabled in the BIOS) but I > prefer to use my Genius Serial 3 button mouse on COM port 1. > > When running the install program it autodetects the PS/2 port but then the > serial mouse does not work. The Install skips over the mouse installation so > there is no way to switch it back to serial. To Install using just the > keyboard with TAB , SPACE and ENTER keys is very very heavy going !!! > > This new graphical install looks very nice, but you try to install with the > keyboard ;( > > Melvyn Pearce > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you try using the Custom or Expert install paths? I used the Expert path and it gave me a choice of what mouse drive I wanted to use. Monte
Re: [newbie] Drake
> Cesar Lincoln de V Cavalcante wrote: > > I downloaded the Mandrake 7.0 iso , and I had to install using the > keyboards (my serial mouse was not reconized). > > Why Drakeconf doesn"t work ? It works only with paid versions ? > > thanks > > Cesar I downloaded and burned the 7.0 iso file also, and I had no _major_ problems (so far) I did run thru the install about a half dozen times, playing w/ different options, and I did have my mouse not work initially about two of those. I usually noticed this at the first screen and just opted to reboot and try again, and it always detected the mouse as a generic ps/2 (good enough for getting going, it's a ps/2 intellimouse) just fine. DrakConf works fine. No offense here, but make sure you are running it as root. Hope this helps Monte
[newbie] 7.0 howto's?
Does anyone care to enlighten me where the HOWTO's in Mandrake 7.0 are hidden? So far I haven't even been able to find them on the CD that I burned from an *.iso file. Thanks for your time
Re: [newbie] Hello
> ³¯¦°¤§ wrote: > > Hi, > Could you tell me how to enable telnet service? > I can telnet others but cannot let others telnet. > Mandrake 6.1 & 7.0 are the same. > Where is the "switch"? > > > Thanx > Well, first off, try looking up information on the telnet daemon, i.e. 'telnetd'. This allows you to be a telnet 'server', and allow telneting into your box from outside. Try 'man telnet' for the client side, or 'man telnetd' for the server side information. I can dig around a little more later, but you would be better served in the long run to find it yourself... nothing wrong with a 'push' in the right direction though. ;) I've been in the same situation myself before, and probably will be again in the future. We all have/will be. Monte
