[newbie] can't login as root
Okay, got another issue, now. :) I'm trying to install a system without X, and have to go through and delete packages manually, in "expert" mode. It claims to be installing all the dependencies (including things I don't really want (like X libraries) but apparently MUST have. Every time I give it a root password, and finish the installation, I can't login. No matter how carefully I type, it says: Login Incorrect. Here's the weird part: I can login fine as another user, and use "su" to login as root, and it WORKS. I just can't login initially as root. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
flupke wrote: Check to see if there is nothing special in your /root/.bashrc or other scripts executed when you log in. Maybe there is something that disconnects you in these scripts. Well, I know what it looks like to login to a disabled account, and THAT should just drop you back to a logon prompt, but this actually says: login incorrect. Also, I can use "su -", which reads all those configuration files, IIUC. Anyway, just in case, I did look, and couldn't see anything amiss in the configuration files. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] Email programs?
Britt Selvitelle wrote: Just out of curiousity, what email programs are you all using? Which do you think are the best and have the most features? I am currently using kmail, the kde mail client, but it seems to lack some of the features I'd like to see in an email client. I've used kmail, spruce, mutt, tkrat, balsa, Arrow, Mahogany, and many others. They almost all lack encryption, and the one that has good support for that is TEXT (mutt). :( So I keep coming back to netscape, since the ONLY feature it seems to lack is encryption, and all the others fall short in other ways. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
[newbie] text install?
How do I get the installation program to use only text? I have a monochrome monitor and no mouse on the machine I'm trying to set up... -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi ! and when I do g++ test.cc -o test I get this error test.cc:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory What file libraries/rpms am I missing? Obviously, the compiler can't find the iostream.h header file. Thanks in advance. [Big Smile] I am just at this moment on the same problem ... Does anyone know where to find this iostream.h ? In Web i have read the normal gcc should have this file ... Install the libstdc++-devel rpm. Well, I already have that installed, and using the above program as a test, I get: [wolfkin@wolfkin wolfkin]$ gcc test.cpp /tmp/ccSIM0ZV.o: In function `main': /tmp/ccSIM0ZV.o(.text+0xf): undefined reference to `cout' /tmp/ccSIM0ZV.o(.text+0x14): undefined reference to `ostream::operator(char const *)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] text install?
Randall Randall wrote: How do I get the installation program to use only text? I have a monochrome monitor and no mouse on the machine I'm trying to set up... Okay, got this working. There's a totally different image for text installs. Mandrake's webpage claims that the normal image works if you type "text", but it didn't for me; I had to make a new floppy. :) -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Email programs?]
Michael Scottaline wrote: Randall Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used kmail, spruce, mutt, tkrat, balsa, Arrow, Mahogany, and many others. They almost all lack encryption, and the one that has good support for that is TEXT (mutt). :( So I keep coming back to netscape, since the ONLY feature it seems to lack is encryption. snip = It also lacks the ability to handle more than one POP3 account. I had never noticed that. :) -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] typing in licq
David van Balen wrote: Thanks for the help. It would've taken me forever to figure out about that env variable with the new qt path if you hadn't mentioned it! Even though I have licq working now, it's complaining about my config files... I'm getting messages like [WRN] Inifile: Warning, failed to find key. File = /hone/user/.licq/licq.conf Section = [network] Key = "TCPServerPortRange" There are several of these messages, all of which are different, including one about not being able to find section [startup] in licq_qt-gui.conf. All of these things that it says it can't find really are in those files and appear, to the best of my knowledge, to have a reasonable value assigned to them. These warnings don't appear to affect licq I'd rather not see them... I did think about changing the debug level but that section seems to have been removed from the menu in this version. Hm.I didn't have this problem, but then, I didn't follow the instructions I gave you exactly. What I actually did was copy all the "users.conf" file to the new one, and let it discover the attributes of the contacts from ICQ. Probably, then, there is some spacing or punctuation difference in licq.conf. Anyway, here is my network section, if it helps: [network] AllowNewUsers = 1 NumOfServers = 3 DefaultServerPort = 4000 Server1 = icq.mirabilis.com Server2 = icq2.mirabilis.com Server3 = icq3.mirabilis.com TCPServerPort = 0 TCPServerPortRange = 0 TCPEnabled = 1 FirewallHost = MaxUsersPerPacket = 100 Errors = log.errors Rejects = log.rejects Translation = none UrlViewer = viewurl-netscape.sh Terminal = xterm -T Licq -e IgnoreTypes = 1 Yours may have different values, but it should have the same order and structure. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] typing in licq
Ross Slade wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have exactly the same problem with licq... Haven't found a workaround/fix yet.bet someone else has though :-) Installing Licq 0.75-3a worked for me. You will have to do things in a certain order though, to keep both KDE happy and Licq happy: First, backup your ".licq" directory (to ".licq.bak" or whatever; "mv .licq .licq.bak" works). Use "rpm -e licq*" to uninstall the old Licq and the Licq-data rpm. Download Licq 0.75-3a and Licq-data 1.5.1 from the Licq home page, and follow the pointers to get qt 2.0.2 from rpmfind. It's important that you get 2.0.2, not 2.1.0, since 2.1.0 and Licq don't seem to get along (at least, they didn't for me). Then install them in order: "rpm -ivh qt..." (if you use "-Uvh" you might screw things up, since KDE depends on qt) "rpm -Uvh licq-0.75..." "rpm -Uvh licq-data-..." It should work with "-ivh" for those, too, but I didn't use it. Replace your ".licq" directory. If you run Licq at this point, it will crash. This is because it has to be pointed at the new qt version. You need to use this before you start Licq: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt-2.0.2/lib If you don't want to run that every time, you can put it in your ".bash_profile", or, if you want anyone on your system to be able to run Licq without that, you can put this in a file: #!/bin/sh export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt-2.0.2/lib /usr/bin/licq and run that file instead of Licq. If you do this, you need to make sure to call that file whenever you want to run Licq. I put that in "/usr/local/bin/licq" and use that for my KDE menu entries and in my Autostart folder. KXICQ works fine...and has the odd added feature too, lke being able to quote a message when replying. That is enabled by default in Licq, too. I apologize if this seems overly long and detailed, but I have two excuses: This *is* supposed to be the newbie list, and If *I* had had this email last night, I would have spent 10 minutes doing all this, instead of three hours and endless "Uh, oh"s, as I installed, uninstalled, and re-installed, trying to make everything work again. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] Another installing programs question
Lance Carrie Borden wrote: What do you do if you ever want to uninstall a program that you installed from a .tar file? Keep your installed .tar files in a directory for them (I use /usr/local/installed) and use tar to get a list of all the files in that .tar file, so that you can "locate file/in/the/tarball" and delete them by hand. If you don't have the space to actually keep a copy of every installed .tar, use tar to get the list, and save it to a file, appending each list to the file as you install more stuff. Sometimes the .tar file builder will have an uninstall script, but that's rare, and might not work if you installed without the install script. On a side note, I am unable to get tar to even show me a list of a tar archive, so this might not work properly. It doesn't give errors, just stops. -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] Installing Programs
Lance Carrie Borden wrote:
I've got the concept for installing those programs, but what about directories?
With the rpms, it seems automatic (the programs "know where to go"). What about
.tar files? It says we untar these in the working directory -- is there a
specific "working directory" in Linux, or does that just mean wherever you
happen to have it?
Yes, wherever YOU are working, right now. Usually the home
directory of the person doing the install, though some people
use /tmp (I wouldn't) and some people make a special directory
under home or usr for all that.
Then, for the actual installation...will its Makefile find
the "right place" in the Linux directory to install the program? If not, how
should I choose a destination?
Often the makefile will install it in the right
place, with the "make install" command. If it
doesn't, you should read any config files it has
to find out where it expects to be, and if it has
none, you can usually put it in "/usr/local/bin",
which is the officially correct place for system-
wide programs that are specific to the local installation.
Also, if you are the only person who will ever use this,
and want to keep things easy to back up, you can make
a "bin" in your home directory and put it in there, so
that when you backup everything, you can just backup
your home directory and know that everything is in there.
Finally, should I be installing each an every program as root (I tried
installing StarOffice as root, but never could figure out how to give permission
for user to run it)?
If you do not install it as root, you should put it
in "/home/yourname/bin", unless it insists on going
somewhere else (as StarOffice may). Even then, you
should put a symbolic link ("man ln" for details) from
the place it was installed to your "bin" directory.
If so, do I log in as root to install, or do I log in as
user and then use the root console to install?
Either. Shouldn't make a difference.
--
Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text
On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man;
The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
Re: [newbie] usb wheel mouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then what is the usb option in ntsysv that can be started at bootup? I thought it was for usb devices. Apparently some USB functionality is in 2.2.14, which is the Air kernel, but officially, I don't think it is supposed to be supported until 2.4. Some reviewer was able to use his USB mouse during the INSTALL for Mandrake (and was REALLY impressed...). -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
