Re: [newbie] KGPG
--On Monday, February 28, 2005 16:30:51 -0600 John Michael Schneiderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a gpg key, but sometimes when I see one of my E-mails in a post, it says that my signature wasn't valid. I have posted my keys on-line. -- I've also noticed this. gpg says that the email in my sent box has a valid signature but the copy I get via the mailing list has an invalid sig whereas if I just mail myself its OK. I've wondered if this has something to do with the address displayed in the From/To column in the email client. If I mail myself this column has my email address and the sig is good whereas if I get one of my posts via the mailing list the From/To column has newbie@linux-mandrake.com and a bad sig. This could be a red herring but is the only pattern I see. Where does gpg get the email address to look up the sig for from? Cheers Nigel pgp0Ouddst635.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] KGPG
--On Tuesday, March 01, 2005 22:53:34 + Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, February 28, 2005 16:30:51 -0600 John Michael Schneiderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a gpg key, but sometimes when I see one of my E-mails in a post, it says that my signature wasn't valid. I have posted my keys on-line. -- I've also noticed this. gpg says that the email in my sent box has a valid signature but the copy I get via the mailing list has an invalid sig whereas if I just mail myself its OK. I've wondered if this has something to do with the address displayed in the From/To column in the email client. If I mail myself this column has my email address and the sig is good whereas if I get one of my posts via the mailing list the From/To column has newbie@linux-mandrake.com and a bad sig. This could be a red herring but is the only pattern I see. Where does gpg get the email address to look up the sig for from? Damn, just posted a message to expert and it said the sig was good. That blows that theory or is it something to do with newbie? Cheers Nigel pgpmFEe3ntdwi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] postifx not receiving outside mail
--On Saturday, February 26, 2005 15:44:45 -0600 hackhound [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have postfix installed and configured (I think correctly). I can send email between local users, and out to the world, but I cannot receive any messages. I have ports 25 and 110 open on my firewall (router). I am stumped about what I am missing. I'll assume you are trying to have a proper SMTP server as opposed to collecting mail via something like fetchmail. If that is true then I'd suggest looking at the following in main.cf The entry that controls what mail to receive is something like mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain So lets say your domain name is foo.co.uk and your mailserver name is scooby.foo.co.uk then the above line would receive mail for $myhostname - scooby.foo.co.uk localhost.$mydomain - localhost.foo.co.uk $mydomain - foo.co.uk Another line to look for is inet_interfaces If this is missing then it will receive mail on all interfaces but if you have a line like inet_interfaces = $mydomain then postfix will reject any mail that arrives from outside your local network. If these hints are of no use to you I'll need more info on your setup or you could look at http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html which gives good examples of various configurations eg. standalone machine, local network etc. Also have you tried useing the drakconf wizard. If you type wizard into the install software section of mandrake control center you will be presented with the option of installing drakwizard. When you restart MCC a new option server wizards will be available. Selecting configure mail will activate a setup wizard that is pretty good at configuring most basic setups. I've just realised that I'm assumeing you have a static IP address, if you don't I can't help any further as I have no experience of dynamic addresses. Cheers Nigel pgpxrRh6ZIioJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer
--On Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:50:10 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to record realaudio streams? I tried using mplayer but either set it up incorrectly,or,because I use'tkpppoe' and an external modem, which uses ethernet, I wasn't able to connect. Try vsound, its in the contrib directory of your friendly mirror Also have a look at http://www.xenoclast.org/vsound/ Cheers Nigel pgpvlizQcEzuL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Upgrading
--On Tuesday, August 31, 2004 20:05:51 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:50:14 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? You betcha, massive doses of Thorazine. Is spam that targeted now, I only get spam for viagra, perhaps I should make an appointment with my doctor. Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PHP nuke problem
Hi I've installed the PHP nuke and mysql rpm's but when I try to access PHP nuke I just get a blank page. Any pointers would be appreciated. I'm using mandrake 9.1 Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unison
I haven't actually done this but if you have a profile default then unison -ui text -batch will run unison in text mode and the batch option means do not ask any questions so any conflicts will not be copied. However it still asks for the password for the remote system. To get round that you would probably need to write a script in something like expect in order to supply the required password. Good Luck NIgel --On Monday, February 09, 2004 23:24:29 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to run Unison as a cron job? The tutorial indicates human intervention between the file comparison and copying unless I'm missing something. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 urpmi db behaviour questions
I also get this message on 2 different machines. It hasn't bothered me too much as eveything seems to work fine but I'd be interested to know the cause. Cheers Nigel --On Monday, January 26, 2004 23:20:54 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following warning everytime I install a software package with urpmi: There was a problem during the installation: medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] POSTFIX in wrong time zone
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:42:33 - Kerwick Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a Mandrake 9.0 server which hosts our intranet. I have just one small problem, my postfix server thinks its in the (-5:00)EST time zone when the box itself is in the GMT Time Zone. Consequently all of my mail logs are out by 5 hours, how do I get postfix to use the correct timezone ?? Postfix gets its timezone from /var/spool/Postfix/etc/localtime (on Mandrake 9.2) As root copy /etc/localtime to there. That what fixed it for me Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] POSTFIX in wrong time zone
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:11:33 -0500 (EST) Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:42:33 - Kerwick Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a Mandrake 9.0 server which hosts our intranet. I have just one small problem, my postfix server thinks its in the (-5:00)EST time zone when the box itself is in the GMT Time Zone. Consequently all of my mail logs are out by 5 hours, how do I get postfix to use the correct timezone ?? Postfix gets its timezone from /var/spool/Postfix/etc/localtime (on Mandrake 9.2) As root copy /etc/localtime to there. That what fixed it for me reading this reminded me that I hadn't done this for my new 9.2 installation. Just done it so see the different time stamp on this from my previous message. Don't forget to stop and restart postfix for this to take effect. Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transfer files from laptop to desktop
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:00:41 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a number of files (~1GB) that I want to move from a laptop running Win2000 to my Mandrake 9.1 desktop. I have a Linksys router that both machines can access. What would be the best way to transfer the files all at once (USB serial, FTP, etc.)? Not to familiar with the methods themselves, other than possibilities. I have a Zip drive, but I would hate to do it so many times and the laptop does not have a CD burner. If this is a one off exchange I'd go for FTP, however if this is something you want to do on a regular basis have a look at unison at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ This programme syncronises files or directories on different machines and WILL work cross platform (although I've not tried that myself). I use it to keep my desktop and laptop syncronised. Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Who uses AC97?
I have an AC 97 soundcard on 2 of my boxen and both work fine. Hardrake reports the following Soundcard ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller Module i810_audio Alternative drivers snd-intel8x0 Mandrake 9.1 automatically found and configured sound on both boxen without my help. Don't know if the above helps at all but good luck Cheers Nigel On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:11:15 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Margot is having a problem. If you use AC97 on-board sound, will you please tell us what HardDrake calls your card, and what driver it is using? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix mailserver
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:34:09 -0300 Yves Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone has some good resources on exactly how to configure a Postfix mail server. According to a doc that I followed I should be functional, but I'm not as of yet. I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.0 Have a look at http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/90c/en/Server_Conf_Guide.html/wiz-mail.html If this is not flexable enough for your needs try http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/90c/en/Server_Conf_Guide.html/service-smtp.html which uses webmin. I have never used 9.0 but 9.1 comes with a pretty good set of defaults. My server collects mail for a domain and users (that sounds posh but is just me and the missus collect mail via pop3) and the only things I alter are: Use domain name for outgoing mail Receive mail for domain Send outgoing mail to my ISP Good Luck Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 on oldie laptop
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:01:15 +0100 Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed mandrake linux 9.1 on my old toshiba laptop (166mhz and 48meg of RAM). The installation and smoothly, I just had to disable pcmcia configuration and the pcmcia daemon. I have two major gripes with my installation: 1. The GUI looks horrible. Everything looks big and ugly. Several windows (the mandrake configuration window for ex.) appear much bigger than the available screen space. 2. The system is horribly slow. I know I can't expect much from my clunky laptop I don't have any great answers but don't give up. I'm running 9.1 on an old HP omnibook with a P166 and 48 Meg and the install was a doddle except for sound which took a lot of trial and error. (The sticker says designed for windows 98) My screen is running at 800x600 and looks fine. My only suggestions are, are you running at 640x480 perhaps or is the virtual screen set to a larger size than the actual screen? Speed wise avoid the heavy desktop environments like KDE, I use ICEWM with the Rox filemanager. When looking at what you want to run I see no real problems except possably Java. I haven't really used any Java apps for a while but when my main PC was a P166 I gave up on Java apps because they were painfully slow. Why do I use a 166 omnibook, because they are small, light cheap and great, I love them OK, I cann't watch movies, but I've got a TV for that, but I can write reports, do spreadsheets and listen to ogg files, who wants more. Good luck Nigel PS. I will never buy top of the range hardware again. My next upgrade is from my 500MHz desktop to a second hand 2.3GHz that the owners selling for a quarter of what it cost a year ago. What is there in Word 6 that the average user needs that wasn't in Word 2 that ran on a 386? Sorry, but I sometimes think that software is designed to run at a speed that encourages you to upgrade. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] newbie questions
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:53:15 -0500 Wilson, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the Redhat kernels. I am assuming you CANNOT compile a RedHat kernel in Mandrake. Personally I don't bother about catching a Linux virus but I protect my mailserver using antivir mailgate for linux (see http://www.hbedv.com/ ). This is to prevent passing something on to somebody and because my wife uses windows. This can be downloaded from http://www.hbedv.com/download/download.htm#AntiVir%20Mailgate%20for%20Linux Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to sto menudrake altering my icewm menu
Hi folks I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and whenever I customise my icewm menu menudrake overwrites it. How can I prevent this? Cheers Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing downloaded rpm packages
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:05:54 + I have to confess that I have never really worried about it when downloading from a reputable site. This is probably laziness rather than a good policy. Nigel Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I find the programme has one shortcoming: if there is no GPG signature, it does not tell whether or not the MD5 checksum is okay or not. For that reason - when rpmdrake shows there is no GPG signature - I do an rpm -K *.rpm from the console, to at least verify that the checksum is okay. HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/QXfowC/zk+cxEdMRAkQ2AJ9Cc7oeAThfmGPHFLRcp4+rVU8tnQCgx/Am 0Q9EN9kKu/EjNzV3S5xH8U4= =QZq9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing downloaded rpm packages
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:39:15 -0700 I believe this means there is no signiture in the rpm package. I normally get a warning message with the option to stop or continue anyway. If there is no pgp signature in the package you can't check it so either continue anyway or don't get it. I have always just continued anyway with no problem so far. Cheers Nigel Any opinions expressed in this email are not necessary those of my wife. owenb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded Fax2Send Complete -2.1-13 RPM for i386 following the Mandrake Clubs note that a free package was available. I checked and found that the required additional files were already installed. But when I attempted to install the package I got the following message. Signature Verification Error The signature of the package Fax2SendComplete -2.1-13.i386.rpm is not correct. No GPG signature in package I stopped at this point. What went wrong? I noted that the required files listed /bin/sh three times. Why the redundancy? Thanks, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lightweight text editor
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:22:38 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at Nedit (www.nedit.org), this is part of the 9.1 distro and probably earlier but I'm a new convert. No tabs though. Cheers Nigel do you by any chance know of a cool lightweight text editor (hopefully wiht tabs) ? -- a la Editpad classic if u've ever used it in windows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
