[newbie] PCMCIA Modem suggestions
Hi -- I need to buy a modem for my laptop (Toshiba 1625) running Linux 7.0. I got hold of a NEC (Cadmus) PCMCIA modem last week to try it out. The computer could find the modem in the PCMCIA slot, but I could not connect to it. Have any of you successfully used a PCMCIA modem with a laptop/Linux? If so, how did you make it work? Secondarily, what modem would you advise getting? Thanks. pete
[newbie] File Names
Hi, all -- I am a convert to MDK 7.2 from 7.0, and there are a few things I miss about KDE1. Specifically, there are some utilities on the desktop in 7.0 that aren't there in 7.2. For example, I would like to be able to click on an icon on the desktop or the tool bar for "Find Files." It's easy to do that if you know the name of the file, but I can't find any way to find out the name. Is there a general way to find the name of a file/program you've opened (or found under the "K" button)? Thanks. pete
Re: [newbie] Re: FW: How can I install LM 7.0 to laptop?
Hi -- Mandrake 7.0 runs on a laptop -- I regularly use it on my Toshiba satellite. But I have discovered that it does not like to run on less than 64 mb memory. Others on this list have suggested that this isn't so, but I have had several bad experiences where 6.1 would run but 7.0 would not. Also, a 700 MB hard drive is a bit light. It would probably load, but you wouldn't have any room to do anything. pete On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:54:07 -0600, Carlton Dodd wrote: (Second sending, Hoping to catch someone's attention who's done this) Anyone have any work-arounds to install LM 7.0 on a laptop? I have an old Texas Instruments P75 laptop with 40MB RAM and a 700MB HDD. I have two questions: 1. Is this laptop sufficient for running Linux? With a GUI? I will devote the system completely to Linux if I need to, but I'd love to be able to run a dual-boot if there's enough space so I can learn that as well. 2. How do I actually install from the CD? Unfortunately, I cannot simply boot from the CD like you can on newer machines. The install instructions say to just make a boot floppy and then install from the CD, but my laptop only allows me to install one drive (CD or Floppy) at a time. And I have to shut off the machine in between. Can I make a floppy that will install enough so I can shut down, swap to the CD drive, and go from there? Thanks for any help you can give, Carlton 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. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere?
Kathleen -- Come now. C++ may be a pain in the butt in some respects, but it has some real advantages. and the iostream is one of them ! pete On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:38:16 -0500, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Of course, the *best* thing to do is to learn C instead of C++, thus obviating the need for iostream.h... *running away fast* Kathleen, who is learning C and liking it Digital Wokan wrote: Everyone seems to make it sound like you need to reinstall Mandrake and install it with the Developer option. This is NOT the case. I would use KFM and KPackage to find the library RPM's you need to install to put those development library files on your hard drive. KPackage has a tab for listing the files in the RPM before you select to install it. Try different lib*.rpm files until you've got the development packages installed that you need. Mark Thurston wrote: So what do I do to get the Developer version? To be quite honest, this is for a class that I am taking at school, we have to program in C++ on a Linux system, so yes I am very new at this and I can use all the help I can get. Thanks Mark - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Is there a C++ compiler somewhere? Kathleen Dickason wrote: Not necessarily. This library file (iostream.h) is missing from the Standard install of drake 7.1, though it does install with the Developer version. Kathleen Larry Marshall wrote: I tried the gcc, I actually used the command g++ at the command prompt and every time it gives me an error saying "iostream.h is not found." Is You must be real new to C++. You're going to have to read a wee bit to get things set up as it's beyond the ability of a conference like this to walk you from asking the question you've just asked to successfully programming in C++. The simple answer to your question is that iostream.h is the most basic of basic class groups in the C++ language. If you've got GNU C++ installed, this file exists on your machine. Cheers --- Larry Developer install has it. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Ethernet Card
Hi -- I had a similar problem, also a Linksys card (although a different one) and a Toshiba Satellite (again a different one) and largely solved it. The secret was to make sure PCMCIA was loaded. Once it was, the system recognized the card as a PCMCIA network card -- not as the driver that supposedly corresponded to it. Try loading PCMCIA and not specifying the network driver. On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:01:42 EDT, Philip Ferguson wrote: Hello again. First of all, thanks to everyone that helped me out earlier. Everyone has been a great help. I'm now entering the world of PCMCIA eithernet cards. I have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 PC Card. I'm using a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT Laptop. The instructions for the card say that I should be using the tulip.c drive. So, I run that graphical netconf thing, I enter in all of the stuff. I just guessed that eth0 was my ethernet card, but I can't be sure. Anyway, it fails to initialize when I reboot. Something about insmod trying to bring up eth0? Another wierd thing that happens during booting is that it keeps trying to find a directory called /proc/bus/pci/devices but it doesn't exist. Any thoughts? Thanks, Phil _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [newbie] Whats everybodys favorite email package?]
Hi, all -- I also have tried kmail for mail and have found it unsatisfactory. Quite often it will hand up on a particular EMail. The problem may, of course, be kppp, but I see it most with kmail. Dare I say it, when I return to NT and use PMMail i never have a problem. BTW, there is a chance that PMMail will be available within the forseeable future for Linux. pete On 9 Sep 00 12:29:13 EDT, Michael Scottaline wrote: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Pine for my personal e mail box, K mail for my linux mail, and Netscape mail to experiment and tune up the pop server. = I use kmail to receive mail. It can handle multiple popmail accounts (I have three diffeent ones), has easy to setup filters that work reasonably well, and has been exceptionally reliable for me (although I've read comments to the contrary from others shrug). I typically use Pine 4.21 to sent smtp mail through my ISP (unless I'm simply replying to mail I've just received in kmail. then I just click the reply button. For this list and some others, I use different free web based accounts. Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] FAX software
Hi, all - Have any of you used FAX software for Mandrake (7.0/air is what I'm using)? kfax will read fax messages, but there have to be ways to send and receive faxes. What would you recommend? I don't seem to have loaded the send/receive programs when I loaded Linux, and I'm open to suggestions. Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] kppp error
Hi -- If this doesn't work, try increasing the timeout from 60 seconds (I think this is the default) to 150 seconds. This worked for me. pete On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:54:48 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Juggernaut wrote: Hello... I tried to connect to internet with kppp. And then, I get error message like this : "pppd daemon died unexpectedly" Details : pppd : By default the remote system is required to authenticate itself. pppd : (because this system has a default route to the internet). pppd : but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. pppd : (none of the available passwords would let it use an IP address). I don't know what does it mean. Anyone can help me ? Thanks. -Pungki Pungkitry adding the option 'noauth' to your '/etc/ppp/options' file. Alan Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] FTP Command-line syntax
Paul -- thanks. I remembered the -i, but not the n. Actually, I tried -ivf, which I think was a bastard between FTP and tar. Oh well, at least the programs both have 3 letters! pete On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:11:32 +0100 (BST), Paul wrote: On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Pete Clapham wrote: Hi, all -- Can anybody advise me the command line syntax for FTP to run a script? I know it's something like "FTP -options ftp.server desired.script, but I cannot for the life of me remember the options. Hi Pete, Beter use this: ftp -in script In the script you can then connect to the server and send user/pass, like open server.there.com user name pass ... .. . close bye Paul -- ODOSCAN: keeps the Quarks off of your hard drive )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=- Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] C compilers
Kathleen -- I use gcc to program in C. It works fine, and it's installed automatically with Mandrake if you install the "developer" mode (when installing do customized, then developer). It's not as fancy as, say, Borland on Windows, but it works well. If you want a book that will actually let you learn C, I would recommend the book by Donald (I think) Kochan (the last name is correct). If memory serves, the title is Programming in C (creative title, here), second edition. It's paperback, green, with a diamond on the front cover. On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0500, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Does anyone here use Linux to program in C? I am just learning. Which compiler do you use? Thanks, Kathleen Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)
Hi -- You're having the same trouble I had/have. There's a part of your inetd.conf (I think) file where it allows you to allow or deny access to various IP numbers. Take a look at these. Uncommenting the lines in inetd.conf just starts the daemons. However, you probably have the default status of denying access to all workstations. Remove this denial. This should allow FTP. At least it did for me. Alas it probably won't allow telnet (at least it didn't for me). Can anybody out there tell us BOTH how to enable telnet to work? pete On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:48:11 -0400, Welker Donald P NPRI wrote: ftp and telnet lines are both uncommented but connections are refused even between the Linux computer and itself (including localhost). I would like to be able to telnet to my Linux box and/or use X from a remote system. The remote system has an X server, but how do I set up the daemons on the Linux computer? They don't currently appear to be running (since telnet attempts bounce). In /etc/inetd.conf you have to remove the # marks with the telnetd line to make the telnet daemon active. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Remote login (telnet and X)
Hi all -- I assume this is a response to Donald Welker's original and then follow-up query about FTP and Telnet. I agree with Greg that the config is quirky, but I disagree that it is a matter of login name/password on the local machine. I was actually able to fix FTP (but not Telnet) on my server by adjusting the allow/deny parts of the config. Now I can and do FTP from windows and Linux machines to the server even though one of the linux and none of the windows machines has ever heard of root or the name I usually go by when using the Linux Server. For FTP, find the allow/deny portion of the config (I think that changing this is what security actually does -- or at least one of the things it does), and allow the machines you WANT to FTP from and make sure those machines aren't denied. It should work. Now, can somebody tell me what to do to get Telnet to work? Uncommenting the daemons in inetd.conf will get telnetd turned on, so that a telnet command will connect to the server, but the server will then refuse the connection. pete On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:23:35 -0400, Greg Stewart wrote: Are you attempting to telnet in from a machine where you are logged in using an account with the same username/password, or a different one? I had/have lots of problems with remote logins using ssh on my MDK box, and I've taken security down to "low" through that DrakConf crap which I had to find and install manually. (sorry, I just don't like it) Apparently the rule set Mandrake creates somewhere, somehow, gets VERY fussy and limits who and how they can log in. I *have* set of ftpd (wu-ftpd, and anonftp) on the mMDK box, and cannot ftp in...Out, yes, but in, still no. It's a very quirky config. If you can, try creating an account with the same name/password on the remote machine and try getting in again. --Greg ftp and telnet lines are both uncommented but connections are refused even between the Linux computer and itself (including localhost). I would like to be able to telnet to my Linux box and/or use X from a remote system. The remote system has an X server, but how do I set up the daemons on the Linux computer? They don't currently appear to be running (since telnet attempts bounce). In /etc/inetd.conf you have to remove the # marks with the telnetd line to make the telnet daemon active. __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] KDE Resolution problem
HI, all -- I am having a weird problem with my KDE resolution. Currently using 7.0 (Air). I changed the resolution from 1024x768 to 1280x1024, using DrakeConf and did the test to verify that the higher resolution would work. All seemed OK until I tried to relogin using the higher resolution. My monitor proceeded to click away, all black. Had to reboot and come up as Linux 3 and use XF86config to reconfigure the X file. Now what happens is that it comes up in 640x480. I can change the resolution by ctrl-alt-+ to get to 1280x1024 (the only resolution that gets the whole desktop in), but this is a pain. If I try again using DrakeConf to change the resolution to what the KDE thinks it is, I get the same thing. The error message is that it can't start the default font. Has anybody else ever seen this? And what is it that DrakeConf doesn't change when going from one resolution to another? Thanks pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] IglooFTP
Hi, all -- I know there's been some discussion of IglooFTP-PRO, where some purists have suggested it isn't the greatest thing since sliced windows, but I have to say that I just donwloaded it, and it works at least as well as the best graphic FTP I had run into previously (FTP-PM on OS/2). Significantly, I can download files I couldn't do in Netscape, and it provides navigation aids not available on the command-line version -- which I will continue to use for many things. This is a have program. pete
Re: [newbie] hello
Hi -- One of the best ways to learn to program in C is to get a good book. I would strongly recommend Stephen Kochan's book. The title is something like "Programming in C, second edition". It's a paperback, green cover, with a black diamond on the front cover. It's well written and will teach you C. Learn C before going to C++! pete On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote: Hey I just joined this group because I just bought my first version of linux (mandrake 7.1)..I don't know to much about it yet so I don't want to bug you all with stupid little questions :) but I was wondering.. I bought this mainly to program in (in C) can someone kinda walk me through how to write,compile, and link it? I know that could end up being a lengthy answer but if you can help me I would appreciate it :) Adam "the new linux guy" __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive
Marcia -- I have a zip drive that works just fine. It's a SCSI rather than an IDE, but I don't think that should matter much. A suggestion would be to put a disk in the drive, and then boot up your machine. Watch the information on the screen to see if the disk comes up (it should be something like /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, etc. depending on whether it's primary or secondary, master or slave). The number of the device will show you how linux is seeing the drive. For example, my zip drive is /dev/sdd, and the actual volume is /dev/sdd4. If you see this, it should work. If the disk is active, both your drive and the active volume will come up. If the drive comes up, but the active volume doesn't, you may have to define it in DrakeConf/Local File Systems. Hope this helps. pete On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:26:33 -0700, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installed Mandrake 7.0 complete, purchased the OS complete with CDs and guides. I used Partition Magic, Bootmagic, and the supplied graphical installer. My zip is listed in Lothar. It is an Atapi Zip 100 IDE internal drive. I even put an icon on KDE for it but it does not access my zip. I did use the directions in the guide for installation but obviously I did not do something right. Could someone give me step by step instructions for getting this to work? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you, Marcia Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] kwvdial ??????
Hi -- I had terrible problems getting Kppp to work. The problem was absurdly simple to fix. Just increase the timeout on the kppp daemon. I use 150 as my timeout, and it works fine. The program is a good one. But the defaults don't work right. Stick in there. pete On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: hello all. i am running Mandrake 7.1 and I have had a lot of problems getting kppp to work. So I ditched it and decided to use kwvdial. I downloaded the rpm installed it and everything seemed to be working nicely. It dials logsin and claims to have connected. The only problem is that when I go to open netscape it turns out that I'm not really connected after all. I am really at a loss here. I would hate to have to scrap Linuw now. I have everything else working nicely all I nedd is to be able to dialup and connect to the Internet. Please Someone help me out here. __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ -- W. B. Clapham, Jr. Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie]: deleted my swap partition
Hi -- I evidently have a similar problem. When I boot Linux (and it does work, but not well), the "swapon" command in the startup script gives the error message "/dev/sda6 Device Not Configured". /dev/sda6 is the swap partition. When I try to "mkswap", I get the message "Device Not Configured." What does this actually mean? When I installed Linux, I indicated that sda6 was to be the swap partition, and it is shown as such in the fstab. Any ideas? thanks, pete On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 01:25:12 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:44:47AM -0500, jeremy rogers wrote: any ideas anyone? mkswap /dev/swap-device and replace swap-device with the partition where you want to create the swap on. or are you really talking about a swapFILE? then it's mkswap /path-to-swapfile. -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ: 7328191 Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Flushing Print Queue
Hi, all -- Can any of you tell me how to flush the print queue? I hope that Linux has something as simple as Windows' (dare I use the term) clicking on the printer icon and deleting the jobs. But I can't find it. Thanks to anybody who can help point the direction. pete -- W. B. Clapham, Jr. Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] TELNET: How to make it work?
Hi, all -- I need to get telnet to work on one of our mechines running Mandrake 7.0. When I telnet to the machine, it connects and gives the "escape character is ^]" message, but then drops the connection. I can FTP the machine, so it isn't a matter of the hosts.deny file, and INETD is working correctly. How do I get the machine to recognize a legitimate telnet session? thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Server Security Levels
Hi, all - When we updated our our server to Mandrake 7.0, our FTP and Telnet stopped working. I set the security level to HIGH, but then turned on the things that had to run (i.e. DNEWS, HTTPD, and INETD). DNEWS and HTTPD work, but when you try to FTP to the site, you get the "connected" message, and then after a few seconds, you get the message "Connection closed by remote host." There is no opportunity to put in a name and password. We really need this to work. Can anybody tell me what has to be done in order to make this possible? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] INETD Problems
Hi, all -- A couple of days ago, I asked how to get FTP and Telnet to work on one of our severs, and a kind person suggested that I change the security level from Medium to Low. I tried to do this using Linuxconf, but that doesn't seem to be how one does it. Can anybody advise me how to change security levels? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] hp printer
What driver are you using? This thing should work with the DeskJet 550c driver. have you tried that? --Original Message Text--- From: bradc C Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:11:08 -0700 Hello Everyone, I have a HP DeskJet 712c, and I cant get it to work. I have tried all the install techniques and it recognizes its there, but when I try to print a test page nothing happens. Any Ideas? Thanks bradc
Re: [newbie] Linux and TFT Screens
I am running Linux on a Toshiba Satellite 1625, and it works fine. pete On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:39:47 +0200, Quaylar wrote: hi ppl ! im thinking about buying a TFT screen, and was wondering whether there could be any problems with linux... R there any known problems, things to consider, or prerequesites which have to be given...? thx --dave Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Wordperfect problem
Hi -- I also tried WP8, and it did that. A bit disconcerting, but one gets used to it. Recently upgraded to WP9, which works just like the windows version. For the price, it's a good deal. pete On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:01:02 -0400, Jeff Malka wrote: I have Mandrake 7.1 installed on my system. I loaded the wordperfect 8 that comes on one of the disks with it and it installed just fine. I created an icon for it on the desktop which starts it up just fine. However whenever I clisk on the icon to start WP, it ALSO starts up a separate console which I do not need and have to close. Is the console necessary? Can I stop it from doing that? Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
Hi -- I have used Ghost (I think version 5, but I'm not sure) to copy drives. It works fine for NT and OS/2, but I've not gotten good results with Linux. Has anybody tried the most recent version of Ghost? On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:07:28PM -0500, Romanator wrote: Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including Linux? If your partition is smaller than 2 GB, a dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hdb/output-file will do it. This will create the file output-file in /mnt/hdb. You should take care to save the file (output-file) in a directory which is not on the same drive though. If your partition is bigger than 2 GB, you're in bad luck with dd. It can only read/write files upto 2GB max (currently). To still be able to backup your whole drive, first save the parition entries to a file. sfdisk -lx will print out all the entries. Then something like "tar spcfvI /tmp/MyBackupFile.tar.bz2 -C / . --exclude=/tmp/MyBackupFile.tar.bz2". This will create a bzip2'd tar file containing all your files in /tmp called MyBackupFile.tar.bz2. If this still results in a file bigger than 2 GB (tar can also not handle this), think about tar'ing all the dirs seperately. HTH Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ: 7328191 -- Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax:[216] 523-7200 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] C Libraries - Where are they?
I would like to thank those who answered my plea for help (below). The answer from Mark Weaver did the trick. I did have to do a new install, but it fixed not only the compile problem but also the network card problem I had had before. pete On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:27:23 -0400 (EDT), Mark Weaver wrote: Pete, When you did the install did you install for developer, or workstation. In order to get all the libraries that you need to compile with you have to install for developer. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Pete Clapham wrote: Hi, all -- I reloaded Mandrake 7.0 after running satisfactorily with 6.1, and there's a problem with the C libraries. They worked fine under 6.1, but gcc can't find them with 7.0 using a Make file. Does one need to treat gcc differently with 7.0 than with 6.1? Does anybody have any ideas as to how to compile a program? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] INETD Server Problem
Hi, all -- Our internet server (Mandrake 7.0) has INETD turned on, and FTPD and TELNETD should both be running. When I sign onto the server and try to FTP to localhost, it behaves normally (i.e. it asks me for a user name, etc.). When I try to telnet to localhost, it closes the connection. When I try to FTP or Telnet to the server from a foreign machine, it connects, then closes the connection. Can any of you advise me what is wrong -- and how to fix it? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Network Card: Kudzu recognizes, Linux Fails
Hi -- I recently inserted an SMC 9432TX network card in my machine. As Linux was booting, Kudzu was called and recgonized the card. As expected, it called for the EPIC-100 network driver, as can be verified in DrakConf. However, as linux boots, insertion of eth0 fails (and is delayed), and one cannot ping anything. Can anybody advise me if I need to turn something else on? Thanks pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] C Libraries - Where are they?
Hi, all -- I reloaded Mandrake 7.0 after running satisfactorily with 6.1, and there's a problem with the C libraries. They worked fine under 6.1, but gcc can't find them with 7.0 using a Make file. Does one need to treat gcc differently with 7.0 than with 6.1? Does anybody have any ideas as to how to compile a program? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] EPIC-100 or SMC 9432 Ethernet Card
Hi, all -- Do any of you know what the driver for the EPIC-100 Network chipset is? Specifically, the card is an SMC 9432, and in Mandrake 6.1, the proper driver was Epic-100. This driver doesn't seem to exist in the network configuration menu for Mandrake 7.0. I can't believe that anybody forgot it, but what's it called now? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Apache Won't Start
Hi, all -- I just upgraded our web server from 6.1 to 7.0, and all seems well EXCEPT that Apache won't start. I checked inetd.conf, and noticed that there was no entry for httpd. Can anybody help me get this started again? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Problem with INET Services
Hi, all -- I want to use FTP and TELNET with one of our servers, and I have started INETD. When I try to FTP or TELNET to the server, I get a "connect" message (at least with FTP), and then after about 10 seconds a notice that the connection with the host has been lost. Can you advise me why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do I start INETD?
Hi -- Depending on how 7.1 works (I'm assuming it works like 7.0, which I have), you click on DrakConf as root and then on Startup. Choose the packages (in your case inetd) you want to start. They should start. You can also invoke LinuxConf and go to local file systems on the control tab and choose Control Service Activity. Click on INETD and choose to start it OR to enable it. This should solve your problem. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:22:15 -0400 (EDT), Justin Turner wrote: I have just completed installing Mandrake 7.1 under the "high" security setting and I have discovered INETD is not running. Is this normal under the high security setting? How do I start the inetd service? Any help would be appreciated thank you. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
Re: [newbie] The pppd daemon died unexpectedly!
Hi -- Don't know if this will solve the problem, but I too had the message "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly." Tried NOAUTH, and it didn't work. What DID work was greatly increasing the timeout from 60 to 600 seconds. On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 23:10:31 -0500, toyswins wrote: Answered this on another string I think, but used both and terminal based also. Results are gibberish on connect. Something isn't right or I'd get back legible data. I think that's probably the only hurdle left for my end then it'd work fine. Also, if I can figure out Earthlink, then I can work on my other ISP, S. W. Bell. Thanks for the hint, got to checking them out just today...good timing. B. B. Stanfield III KC5PIY kdm wrote: What kind of authentification are using? Have you tried changing PAP or CHAP? On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Well, sorry but having to revert to you folks for help. Get this message on dialing so the other end is hanging up immediately on connect. I've checked the various files in the HOWTO's and all seems fine. Used KPPP 1.6.22 as the dialer and to set up the system. pppd is 2.3.8 so I've provided the full fault message below. I've reloaded the entire Linux Mandrake 6.5 two times, no changes. All the startup files load okay. As root, it's a pretty system, but hit this glitch. pppd 2.3.8 started by root, uid0 Using interface ppp0 Connect ppp0---/dev/ttyS1 Hangup (SIGHUP) Modemhangup Connection terminated. Exit This is what I understand so far: The modem is found, dials and gets a machine on the other end. The other machine then immediately initiated a disconnect, (SIGHUP), then it disconnects at my end, gives me the error message. ISP is S. W. Bell. I've got the ADSL on the Windows system going fine, but it dies now and then, also I travel and need access from other locations. The dialup on LINUX would be really handy, if I could get it to work. I know there's either a bug or three and need to update to something or I've got some configuration problem. Either way, I've looked at it so long I'm not seeing it. Pointers Thanks B. B. Stanfield III KC5PIY -- ..., _ ___ ___ , ...|\ \|/ / \ \ \ \/\/ / /| [K][D][M]=== | | [] | | ^^ | ===[K][D][M] ...|/ /|\__\ /__/ /__|\__/|__\ \| ...' ' Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ESS 1868 Sound card
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:15:06 +0400, Blin wrote: can't install ess 1868 sound card. Lothar detects "Ensoniq ESS 1868", but when i try to configure it, any configuration i try to test gives me a message "bin/modules/misc/sb.o: Device or resource is busy" do i need drivers for it or does anyone has any ideas ? I have the same card, and I get the same problem. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] pppd keeps dying!!
Hi, all -- I had exactly the same problem with kppd, and with the kind help of others on this list solved it by increasing the timeout period. The default is 60; I changed it to 600 (too lazy to erase a number). Anyhow, the change works. On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:53:11 +0100, Roger Pithers wrote: I have been connected to the web with LM 7.0 for a few weeks now with no problem, but suddenly when my modem dials out it disconnects at the "starting pppd" stage and gives a "pppd died unexpectedly" error, or on one occassion "Timeout expired while waiting for the ppp interface to come up". I have checked all the settings in kppp which seem to be correct and have even read the manual :-)) but with no result. I have no problems with the same modem using BeOS or Windoze. Please help, I'm tearing my hair out and there's not much left! Roger Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Apache
We run Apache. Your home page should be in /home/httpd. You may have subdirectories beneath this one, and you will probably have directories such as cgi-bin, but that is where they should go. You got the ~myusername because you put the pages in YOUR OWN home directory, not APACHE's home directory. Move them, and it should work. On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 13:10:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a domain name that is regestered to my IP address. Ok I got Apache to run on my Linux Box, but I can only create webpages that point to www.mydomainname.net/~myusername. What I want to do is creat a web page that points directly to www.mydomainname.net and get rid of the /~username. When I type in localhost or the address to my webserver I get a webpage from Apache saying that it worked. Can anyone out there tell me how to configure Apache to do this? I would greatly appreciate any refrences or information you could give me that may help. Thanks in advance! -derangedhermit Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] EPIC-100 Network Cark
Hi, all -- Do any of you know what the driver for the EPIC-100 Network chipset is? Specifically, the card is an SMC 9432, and in Mandrake 6.1, the proper driver was Epic-100. This driver doesn't seem to exist in the network configuration menu for Mandrake 7.0. I can't believe that anybody forgot it, but what's it called now? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Web mail server.
Hi -- If you're willing to pay for a commercial server, try DMail for Linux. You can get it at www.netwinsite.com. We've used it for some time, and have found it quite stable. --Original Message Text--- From: Brian Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:20:58 +1000 Hey guys, I usually sit back and watch the proceedings here, but I am after a "SECURE" webmail server program to run under Linux, I have previously looked at NT mail servers and shuddered Any help appreciated... Brian PeteClapham DepartmentofBiological,Geological,andEnvironmentalSciences ClevelandStateUniversity Cleveland,Ohio,44115 Voice:[216]687-4820 Fax:[216]523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Fortran Compiler
Hi, all -- Do any of you know where I can get a Fortran compiler for Linux? (Yes, I know C is more flexible -- and Mandrake already includes gcc, but I need to compile some fortran programs that some others created). Thanks, pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] SAMBA
Hi, all -- I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA. As one who does not like to bother my colleagues on this list, I wanted to go to www.samba.org first to see how to configure SAMBA, but navigating the site is next to impossible. Questions: 1. I assume that the SAMBA Server goes on the Linux box that is trying to access NETBIOS resources. Is this correct? 2. How do I configure the SAMBA Server so that it can access the NETBIOS resources? I've tried various combinations of TCP/IP and NETBIOS names and numbers, but none seem to work. Has anybody actually done this, so that you can either tell me how to do it or where to go to find out? Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] SAMBA
Hi, all -- I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA. As one who does not like to bother my colleagues on this list, I wanted to go to www.samba.org first to see how to configure SAMBA, but navigating the site is next to impossible. Questions: 1.I assume that the SAMBA Server goes on the Linux box that is trying to access NETBIOS resources. Is this correct? 2.How do I configure the SAMBA Server so that it can access the NETBIOS resources? I've tried various combinations of TCP/IP and NETBIOS names and numbers, but none seem to work. Has anybody actually done this, so that you can either tell me how to do it or where to go to find out? Thanks. pete PeteClapham DepartmentofBiological,Geological,andEnvironmentalSciences ClevelandStateUniversity Cleveland,Ohio,44115 Voice:[216]687-4820 Fax:[216]523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Fortran Compiler
Hi, all -- Do any of you know where I can get a Fortran compiler for Linux? (Yes, I know C is more flexible -- and Mandrake already includes gcc, but I need to compile some fortran programs that some others created). Thanks, pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Kppp/Modem Problem
Hi, all == I have a different modem problem. Kppp recognizes my modem, but when I connect with my ISP, I get the message "Connect at 46000 BPS", and then Kppp closes. The telephone stays connected to the ISP, but I can't do anything without rebooting. I suspect that this is a simple configuration problem, but I'm at a loss to say where it is. Have any of you had similar experiences? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0
I had a similar problem under Mandrake 6.1 and solved it by upgrading to 7.0. Under 6.1, I hadn't installed PCMCIA explicitly, 'cause I didn't have a PCMCIA card at that point), and even though the boot script said it was started, it wasn't. With the version of 7.0 which I later purchased (Air; I borrowed another version to see if it worked, and it didn't), PCMCIA support was queried early in the installation, and I installed it on my laptop. The network adapter (a Linksys Ethernet card) appears to work. (Can't use it for anything yet, but that's a Samba problem, not a PCMCIA problem). So --- are you sure that you've installed PCMCIA support? It may be extreme to reinstall from scratch, but this may solve your problem. On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:21:05 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Michael Khachiki wrote: I can't find any documents on how to install a No Name PCMCIA card in Linux. with out it I can't get on the net from Linux. Please let me know how should I go about installing a No Name PCMCIA (Modem and LAN) on a laptop. I have tried "man pcmcia" on the system. It showed me where I can find the pcmcia config file. when I looked in that file, I could not find my pcmcia in the list. How should I go about configuring my PCMCIA card ??? If you have a no name card, with no idea who or what made it, and equally no clue as to the drivers needed, I am afraid you have a big problem. If you could figure out the brand of it, or what taiwanese/singapore/indian company made it, you could still stand a chance. Otherwise my bets would be on a pcmcia card that is supported by Linux. I know this is not the answer you want. Paul -- Yesterday is Past; Tomorrow is the Future; Today is a Gift...That is why we call it The Present. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Crystal 4281 Sound Card
Hi, all -- I have a Toshiba Satellite 1625 Laptop computer running Linux 7.0 (Air). The specifications for the computer state that it contains a "Crystal 4281 PCI Audio accelerator and 4279A Codec software wave table, supporting 18-bit stereo, Windows Sound System and SoundBlaster Pro-compatible sound support; built-in stereo speakers, headphone and microphone jacks." When I run DrakConf on this machine, it looks for devices and finds no sound card. When I run "sndconfig", it finds a Cirrus LogicA|Unknown device 1013:6005. When I do a "cat /proc/pci", I find that device 8 on bus 0 is a Cirrus Logic Unknown Device (Rev 1), with some other data. I have two questions. First, do I want to set up this sound card as a SoundBlaster Pro or as a Crystal 4281? Secondly, How do I do it? Thanks for your help. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Oh say can you C??
Hi -- My two cents worth C is C (for the most part, except when you get to C++). The biggest difference between C distributions is the programming environment. In the NT world, Borland C++ and Microsoft C++ (for example) both work, but you set up the "++" part of the programs differently. And the programming environment is an important part of C++ programming. If you want to learn (relearn) C, try the book by Stephan Kochan. It's green, with a diamond on the cover. On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:09:39 -0400, vern wrote: Hello, Where to start? I am still in the transition mode, coming over from the darkside (microsoft/DOS/windows/BASIC etc.) I tried to learn C about 10 years ago, when everyone had their own version. Before ANSI C was in full use. I had parts of a Borland compiler and did a few simple "Hello World!" type programs. Now I wonder if I need all new C reference manuals?? Since the advent of Linux and the GNU compilers and such. I'm leaning toward an O'Reilly book I just purchased a PERL manual (the camel book), and would like a similar book for modern day C. Do they still use "linker" processes, and what became of a.out?? Does C still equal C, or are there "flavors" of C?? Thanks, vern Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Upgrade 6-7 problem
Hi, all -- I am trying to upgrade my Pentium machine from Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) to 7.0 (Air). It gets into the second stage of install and dies, suggesting that it can't connect with the video card. I had no trouble whatsoever installing 6.1 on this machine. The video card in question is a Matrox Millenium with 4 mb of video memory. Can anybody tell me what is wrong? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA CARD
Hi, all -- I think it was my posting that started this, so I would like to follow up. I found Mandrake 7.0 and installed it on the laptop in question (the original question, that is). I told it to install PCMCIA. I hadn't done this at first when I loaded 6.1, and when the startup script reported that it was starting PCMCIA it evidently wasn't. I find now that I can ping other machines in our LAN using my Linksys PCMCIA card, and I get some evidence that it is at least trying to telnet. I still have a lot to learn about using Linux as a networking operating system, but at least the problem I was having in the beginning appears to be solved. The machine sees the Linksys card, and it works at least at a very low level. (Now, what do I have to do in order to be able to Telnet from one machine to the other -- and where is the documentation on SAMBA?) Anyhow, the problem -- at least for laptops -- seems to be PCMCIA installation, not Linksys On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:28:59 -0500, Vic wrote: Not that I would buy one (thanks very much for the warning) but do they give you your money back if you did buy one by mistake? If not I would sue their butts. On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jay Latham wrote: I'm sorry to hear that you got suckered into buying a linksys card. These guys are ripoffs. I posted a long warning to everyone about a month ago about them and their pc cards. LINKSYS DOES NOT SUPPORT LINUX!! They are just trying to make money off of some other persons hard work. Hoping someone else has written a driver for the card. At least you got an answer back from them .. when I sent in a msg about my card and linux it took a week for them to send me a msg back telling me they don't support Linux. You are correct in assuming they are wrong about re-compiling the kernel... here's what I had to do to get the card to work on my Dell laptop. Make sure networking is turned on. Reboot Go into your bios and turn off your serial ports ( most important part!!..don't set to auto or any other choice you might be offered... turn them off.) Linux should detect your card now ... Good Luck Jay Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] PCMCIA Card
Hi, all -- I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 on a Toshiba satellite 1625 laptop. Feeling that I wanted to connect it to my household LAN, I went to my neighborhood Office Max and bought a PCMCIA Ethernet Card (the Linksys version, which would appear to be the common sort available). When I tried to do anything with it, I discovered that although the signon log indicates that PCMCIA is being turned on OK, it does not see the card, and Eth0 is not initialized. When i called Linksys, they informed me that it would be necessary to recompile the kernel, which I don't believe. I assume that the Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet card is common, and that it should be recognized by Linux as being in the machine and that it should actually work. Do any of you have these? And what did you do to get them to work? Thanks. cheers, pete
[newbie] C Programming
Hi, all -- I would like to thank those of you who answered my query about taking a log in GNU c. The program was, indeed, as I had thought, correct, but the linker does not link the math libraries unless the -lm switch is present. Things now work fine. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] CRON
Hi, all -- Have any of you configured a CRON table? I would like to have our Linux Server perform a cleanup operation once each day, and CRON would seem to be the way to do this. I have looked at the MAN tables for both CRON and CRONTAB, and they are all but undecipherable. Can you advise me: [1] Is CRON the right thing to use? [2] What is the syntax for an operation call (call it CleanItUp) to be performed at 2:34 AM each day? [3] What file does the above operation call go into? Thank you very much for your help. cheers, pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Again problems reconfiguring X Server
Hi again -- I would like to thank those of you who told me how to get into XF85Config to reconfigure the X Server to work with my new mouse/video card combination. At least the machine works correctly in :"pure UNIX" (i.e. black-screen non-graphic) mode. I am confident that I know what sort of PS/2 mouse I have (and when I issue startx, moving the mouse does move the X on the screen), and I am confident in the video memory on my card and on the settings for my monitor. HOWEVER, when I issue the startx command, the screen turns the gray color/cross-hatched pattern with the mouse's X that one sees when one first configures the X server. The KDE does not come up, and one loses control of the machine. It doesn't hang, but you can't do anything. Typing does nothing, and you can't open a shell. Can anybody advise what's happening? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] SMC 8416 card
Hi, all -- Does anybody know what the NIC driver for the SMC 8416 card is? It isn't under SMC (but then neither of the other two SMC cards I am using is there either). The card in question is an older ISA card, and I suspect that the linux support is by the chipset rather than the card manufacturer. Thanks for your help. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.
Hi, all -- I have loaded Linux-Mandrake onto a new server and have an odd problem. I configured it on a Pentium-II with a Millenium-II AGP video card while our old server was operating on the old operating system. When everything worked more-or-less correctly, I moved the hard drive to the final server, a Pentium-Pro with a Millenium-II PCI video card. Everything else about the two machines is identical. The new server works fine -- until you want to log onto the machine to make changes in anything. If you do that, the machine hangs. Does anybody have an idea what the problem is - and more important how to solve it? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 07:42:53 +1100, Des Wass wrote:
Does your machin boot straight into X?
YES IT DOES. FOR MOST PURPOSES, THIS SEEMED LIKE THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAY TO GO
Are you having these problems when you fire up X or anywhere - even
command-line.?
DON'T KNOW. BECAUSE IT BOOTS DIRECTLY INTO X, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO DIRECTLY INTO
COMMAND-LINE
I ASSUME IT'S POSSIBLE, BUT HOW TO DO IT ISN'T REAL OBVIOUS
On 31/12/99, Pete Clapham said:
Hi, all --
I have loaded Linux-Mandrake onto a new server and have an odd problem. I
configured it on a Pentium-II with a Millenium-II
AGP
video card while our old server was operating on the old operating system. When
everything worked more-or-less correctly,
I
moved the hard drive to the final server, a Pentium-Pro with a Millenium-II PCI
video card. Everything else about the two
machines
is identical.
The new server works fine -- until you want to log onto the machine to make changes
in anything. If you do that, the
machine
hangs. Does anybody have an idea what the problem is - and more important how to
solve it?
Thanks.
Pete Clapham
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio, 44115
Phone: [216] 697-4820
Fax: [216] 523-7175
EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[newbie] Apache Server -- server refuses connection
Hi, all -- I am trying to run Apache Server on Linux 6 and have a very frustrating problem. It was running fine, but I needed to change the name and IP address of the machine and to copy a bunch of zipped files to the html area of the server. Now, an attempt to access the server gets the message that the server is refusing connection. The directories are all drwxr-xr-x from root to document root (and beyond through all appropriate html directories), and the owner of all htm, jpg, and gif files is nobody:nobody. Does anybody have an idea what is wrong? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Apache cgi-script configuration
Hi, all -- I need to configure my Apache server so that it can recognize a file without an extension as a cgi script rather than as text. I assume that this is handled with the AddHandler statement in the httpd.conf file, but I can't figure out how to do it. Do any of you know how? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Apache/public_html
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:53:17 -0800, Ken Wilson wrote: Are the permissions for the directories you want people to be able to access world readable? This is necessary otherwise only the owner of the parent directory will be able to see anything in it. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') ***snip*** Hi -- This is what I thought was the problem. However, I can't find any place in either LinuxConf or the httpd.conf file where one sets the permissions or where one can change those permissions. Can you point me in that direction? Thanks. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Apache/public_html
Hi, all -- I am the one who needed to allow users to ftp various web documents to their home directories and then have them visible on the web. Several of you answered me that one should put these web documents into the public_html directory and to be sure that the UserDir public_html statement existed in the httpd.conf file. Well, I did this. Users have public_html directories on their home directories, and these directories have html stuff in them. But when I try to go to the directory, I get the "Forbidden" message. Clearly the directory exists, and there is html there. But I can't see it. I suspect that there is some configuration step that needs to be done in order to tell the browser that the "public_html" directory is, in fact, public. Can anybody advise me what it is? Thanks. Cheers, pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 697-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
