Re: [newbie] "windows" or "start" key in 9.0
Hey, > Ever since installing 9.0, the "windows" or "start" key doesn't open up > the menu. Anyway to get it back to full functionality? And when in using command line the Win key doesn't switch between consoles anymore. :-( That was so cool. (When in Ctrl-Alt-F4 the left Win key took you to Ctrl-Alt-F3 and the right to Ctrl-Alt-F5.) -- Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disk Full notification?
Hey Barry, > When copying files from one drive to another at the console, I don't get a > disk full notification. When the drive fills up, it keeps trying to copy > until it reaches the end, then it returns to the prompt. No note saying > anything went wrong. Then I have no idea which file it was working on when > the drive filled up. The only clue is a bunch of 0 length files. The file > it failed on is of partial length. > Is there a way to change this behavior? Check if you have the partmon service enabled in running under Mandrake Control Center - System - Services. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
Hey, > Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: > I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't > get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing > around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across > the Login Manager. Its kinda hidden in Dolphin's menus. In any > case, in the Login Manager, I went to the "Sessions" tab. The very > first setting is called "Allow Shutdown" and you have a subsetting > for the Console and Remote. The setting for Console said "Nobody"; > I simply changed it to "Everybody". I logged out and logged back > in, and then tried to log out again. To my delight, I now had the > options to halt/reboot/logout. Success! I remember this setting in 8.2 in KDE, too, however as I currently don't want to install X I'd be glad if someone could tell me what to do from command line. I'll try Derek's suggestions (thanks) and make a search on my own. > Have you ever had high security?, or did you upgrade instead of install? No, I never had high security and I performed a clean install with reformat. -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
Hey Derek, >> I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a >> regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in >> /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown >> -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x >> permission for all, so, I wonder, what setting/file do I need to >> change in order to be able to run shutdown as a regular user? > Shutdown is under the control of PAM (Permissions access module?) > If you look at /usr/bin/shutdown you will see it is in fact a symlink to an > application called 'consolehelper' > Consolehelper is a wrapper which looks at the name of the symlink it was > called from (in this case shutdown) and looks it up in /etc/pam.d > If it finds a file in there with the same name as the symlink it applies the > authentication tests it finds there. If authentication passes consolehelper > will pass control over to the requested application. ( /sbin/shutdown) > /etc/pam.d/shutdown contains :- > #%PAM-1.0 > auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so > auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so > #auth required/lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > accountrequired /lib/security/pam_permit.so > In your case I think it is the last line which is stopping you running > shutdown. Probably because of your security level. If you ask for high > security, then that is what you get :) Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was "Medium"). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin
Hi all, > I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the > options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of > KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 > installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is > there a security level that will trigger those options to disappear? > I have the "Higher" security setting on right now. > This isn't tearing me apart, but its rather annoying... I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x permission for all, so, I wonder, what setting/file do I need to change in order to be able to run shutdown as a regular user? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert
Hi, >>if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at >>this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. >> >>having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no >>firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a firewall, >>ZoneAlarm is the choice. > i did indeed go to the site below and my Black Ice Defender proved > completely stealthy. thank you.. It is not a problem with inbound traffic (which you probably tested), it's a problem with outbound traffic. http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm and http://grc.com/lt/bidresponse.htm -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] System mode autologin
Hi, > I've just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 and I am quite impressed. I > just have one problem, when I try to configure autologin in Mandrake > control center to start up IceWM instead of the KDE that I initially > picked the changes do not stick. When I reboot the machine it > continues to load up KDE even though the system mode desktop I have > selected shows IceWM. Is there a config file that I can edit? Any > help would be much appreciated. I think it's like this because you're most probably using the K login manager and if it's configured for autologin to KDE then it doesn't care about any MDK autologin settings. You first need to go into the K Control Center, disable the autologin feature from there, save/quit, start MCC and configure the new autologin settings. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
Hi, > Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should > use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm > trying to research which is "best", but only finding older material. > Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default > now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. Sridhar wrote this in August: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:12:43 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> My ext2 partitions are now ext3 - I couldn't fathom the Control Centre route, >> but the command line couldn't have been simpler. >> >> For future reference - i.e. when I move on to Mandrake 9 - I get the >> impression that there are a number of problems with some of the file systems, >> with Reiser being probably the least problem. Is this right? > > I am not aware of any problems with Mandrake 9.0 specifically. I have read that > XFS doesn't like certain kernel optimisations like preempt and low-latency, but > Mandrake won't be including those anyway. I like to compile my own kernels with > these patches included (they can make a big difference to system performance), > so I avoid XFS. Otherwise, XFS appears to be a very reliable and fast > filesystem. For most normal operations, ext3 is the slowest, even with only > metadata journalling enabled (unlike the other journalling FSs, ext3 can journal > _all_ of your data, which is safer but much slower). Its strengths are in > database transaction speeds and its forward and backward compatibility with > ext2. I personally think ReiserFS is the best for home systems. It is reasonably > fast, being exceptionally speedy with small (sub-100K) files. It has had > problems in the past, but they seem to have been ironed out in the more recent > releases. JFS is very space-inefficient (each file takes about double the > space), but is arguably the fastest FS. It also has problems with fragmentation, > so you need to periodically defrag it (just like with Windows and FAT/NTFS). > > Of these filesystems, ReiserFS is probably the most complex (using features like > B-trees, etc.). It is also the only journalling FS that has been designed from > scratch, the others being the continuation of preexisting FSs. Nevertheless, it > has proven to be quite robust in actual use, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > >If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... > ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] CD burning software
Hi, >> Dose any one have any suggestions on CD duplication software? I copy a >> lot of cd's. I have tried X-CD-Roost but it only can read and copy >> from the CD Write drive. > If you want to write on the fly you will need to add scsi emulation for > your cdrom drive and then set it as your read device in x-cd-roast. > You add the emulation by adding hdx=ide-scsi to the append line in > /etc/lilo.conf for your booting kernel and then editing /etc/fstab to > reflect said change. Clever programs can also read from normal CD-ROM drives without SCSI emulation on. Try for instance k3b. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries
Hi, >> Is LBA turned on? > How do you turn LBA on? I have "lba32" (without the quotes) in > lilo.conf if thats what you mean. Sridhar meant the setting in the BIOS. Try changing it from AUTO to LBA. >> In addition, the IBM Feature Tool >> can turn off Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) on the Seagate drive, >> giving you better drive performance (hdparm can do this as well, but I'm >> not sure if that setting remains after a reboot) . > I'll check that out. Is the drive still so quiet when AAM is turned off? Almost. That's the point of Acoustic management - to make it quiter at the expense of some performance. AFAIK the drive seeks will be a bit louder. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries
Hi, >> Sharrea wrote: >> > I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different >> > geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for >> > hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be >> > much appreciated. > I can't recite the details, but a disk can be formatted with different > geometries. (I don't know if that was what I meant to say.) > Try again: In some programs (fdisk, partition commnder, bios ) I > have seen more than one geometry reported for the same hard disk. (AHH, > IIRC, it was in the bios.) Although there was a mechanism to choose any > one of them, if I chose the wrong one the disk was unreadable. > Maybe someone else can provide more insight on this. AFAIK the different reports are normal - the disk can be accessed in many ways. If it is a 1GB+ disk you only should make sure that in BIOS the access method is set to LBA, in no way NORMAL or LARGE. You can make check that at the screen right after after the memory check - the sort of table with CPU and disk info before it says "loading grub" or "loading lilo". Before info about your capacity there should be LBA. My friend's P3 800 had his 30GB disk set to LARGE and it screwed up the whole partition table when I tried to install MDK 8.2 (said something about sector 633GB conflicting with some 800GB sector... oh well). -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] GCombust permissions problem
Hi, >>> Was the CD-ROM burnt using Rock Ridge extensions enabled? If so, >>> then file permissions were recorded to the disc. This means that >>> the files on the disc behave as if they're on your hard drive, in >>> that you need the correct user permissions to access them. >> Thank you for your thoughts and help. I think I know what I am >> doing wrong. I have not fixed it yet but your info has made me >> realize what to do. Yes, I think the Rock Ridge extensions were >> enabled so I will disable those and try again. Thanks alot for you >> help. > Glad I could help. Rock Ridge can be very useful for backups, since > it preserves file permissions. For other things it can be a real > pain. Rock Ridge shouldn't be the problem if it is used properly. I am not sure about the way the frontends use it but with cdrecord -R preserves the access rights, -r sets them to a+r. AFAIK. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Fifth Open Source office suite
Hi, >>I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this, but Gobe Productive is going Open >>Source 'within the next 90-120 days' (the gap presumably being to get the >>source code cleaned up :) >> >>http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1520 >> >>http://www.gobe.com/ >> >>I've used it before on Windows, and it's _very_ nice - which is no > surprise as >>it has been developed by former AppleWorks programmers. (The four existing >>suites are StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Hancom Office). > Well, staroffice is a sun enhanced version of openoffice, so I don't think > you can say they are completely separate, I'd rather say OpenOffice is a spin-off from StarOfiice. OO was born from the opened source of SO. -- Greets Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I want a slover cdrom...
Hi, > I have an 52x LG cdrom and a 16x12x40 Philips CD-writer. They are both very > loud when playing movies or copying. I decided that I do not need speeds > like this. I want to make at least my cdrom like only 10x speed. It would be > more quiet this way. In windows there are programs for this, but what can I > do in linux?(I have MDK 8.2) There's a parameter for that in hdparm. Run man hdparm from a console. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Burning issues
Hi Isaac, > I tried to use ERoaster and X-CD-Roast (just because they were the > first two in the K Menu) but neither of them ever opened. The > little disks spun in the taskbar for a few seconds, then just > disappeared uneventfully. I checked my process manager and they > weren't running in the background so I figured further efforts with > them would be counterproductive. Gtoaster opened up fine and I was > able to select the songs I wanted to burn, but when I chose Record > it gave me a stream of errors in my Client output box. which I've > copy-pasted below. What's up? > > GnomeToaster Recording Terminal > Recording 773161200 bytes to CD > couldn´t run client: Permission denied > > Child exited unexpectedly. > couldn´t run client: Permission denied > > Child exited unexpectedly. > > Child exited unexpectedly. > couldn´t run client: Permission denied > fixating CDROM. > couldn´t run client: Permission denied > CD recording process finished. > blanking CDRW. > couldn´t run client: Permission denied > CDRW blanking complete. First you might want to upgrade to the latest versions of cdrecord, mkisofs, cdrecord-devel and cdrecord-cdda2wav and your GUI programs. Next, try running them as root - kdesu -c your_GUI_program. The GUI programs usually need to be set up from the root account, allowing other users (you) to burn CDs, too. Smart programs set everything up themselves, you just need to say what user(s) you want to have the rights to burn CDs. Try and set it up, AFAIK X-CD Roast offers to setup a non-root mode right at startup. Exit and try again as normal user. If it doesn't work, try going into drakuser and add yourself to all groups which have something to do with CD (cdburners, cdrw, cdrom, etc.). Try again. :-) -- Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?
Hi Sridhar, > Mandrake Unsupported (made by volunteers) and Contribs (made by > Mandrake employees but unsupported) packages can be found at any > Mandrake FTP mirror. A list of such mirrors can be found at > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 Hooray, thanks, must have missed a dir on one of the cooker mirrors. > Also, go to http://www.pclinuxonline.com and scroll down towards the > bottom of the page. In the left column there should be a section > called "RPMS & Debs". Yes, well, and the most important ones of them are the Texstar ones? Or is there anything else you wanted to bring to my attention? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?
Hi, >> Could you please point me to an URL? Can't seem to find anything for >> mplayer. I checked ftp.cesnet.cz, fr2.rpmfind.net, ftp.ciril.fr, >> spirit.profinet.sk and hq.alert.sk. > MPlayer is on PLF > http://plf.zarb.org/ OK, thank you Derek, Anuerin and Bill. Didn't check PLF. And things like KDE 3.0.2 and Mozilla? And Gnome when available? Where is that probably going to be? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?
Hi Derek, >> Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: >> >> -- >> >> MandrakeClub >> >> The most popular RPM requests (and their status) as of 29 July 2002: >> KDE 3.0.2 > done >> Wine > testing >> Mozilla 1.0 > done >> Xine + dvdnav > done >> GNOME 2.0 > in progress >> Mplayer > done >> MySQL v4.0.2 > requested >> Opera > requested >> NVidia kernel > testing >> Transcode > requested >> >> -- >> >> Now, I wonder, can non-club members download those RPMs, too? > Absolutely. During the 'testing' period they are on the club server, and > afterwards they go in 'Unsupported' on the ftp mirrors. In any case the > people who package them normally put them up on a public server anyway. > Any package with 'legal issues' ends up on PLF. Could you please point me to an URL? Can't seem to find anything for mplayer. I checked ftp.cesnet.cz, fr2.rpmfind.net, ftp.ciril.fr, spirit.profinet.sk and hq.alert.sk. > But don't let that stop you joining the club... If I had the means and the will... One day maybe. -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?
Hi guys, Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: -- MandrakeClub RPM-voting system: Test the applications! Deno writes: "The moment we started the 'RPM-voting' system, I was afraid that we may run out of volunteers or get buried under hundreds of requests. Neither of these have happened: Ten days after the introduction, there are still less than 100 requests in the system, and our volunteers have quickly picked up and packaged quite a few of the requests in the queue." http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=52 The most popular RPM requests (and their status) as of 29 July 2002: KDE 3.0.2 > done Wine > testing Mozilla 1.0 > done Xine + dvdnav > done GNOME 2.0 > in progress Mplayer > done MySQL v4.0.2 > requested Opera > requested NVidia kernel > testing Transcode > requested Not yet a Mandrake Club member? To learn more, please visit: http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/ -- Now, I wonder, can non-club members download those RPMs, too? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] CD RW
Hi Carlos, > I am not obtaining, the CD I was formatted in windows, I only obtain > to read the file of the UDF Reader. You need to mount it with UDF as filesystem. If you don't know what I am talking about then please look up your /etc/fstab file and post it here. I will then try and give you step by step instructions on how to do it. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] normalize
Hi, >> So, to rephrase it, what does normalize do *without* any switches? > dunno, when I realized the -mix mode is what I needed, that's all > I've ever used OK, thank you anyways. Does anyone else know, please? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] normalize
Hey Tom, >> Just learnt how to use normalize, but am still confused about the >> normal and -mix mode. Let's say I have three files with the RMS >> volume of 3, 5 and 7 (1 being quietest, 10 being loudest). As far as >> I understand, normalize without switches raises the RMS volume of all >> the files to 10. Normalize in the mix mode should calculate the >> average RMS volume (5 in this case) and put all files' RMS volume to >> this level. However, today -mix gave me a higher volume on the output >> file than normalize without switches. How come? > MIX MODE >This mode is made especially for making mixed CD's and the >like. You want every song on the mix to be the same vol >ume, but it doesn't matter if they are the same volume as >the songs on some other mix you made last week. In mix >mode, average level of all the files is computed, and each >file is separately normalized to this average volume. Thanks for your answer. I have read the manual thoroughly. > So, for example, in my /wav directory, I run 'normalize -m *.wav' > IME, that this always goes thru all the .wav files, and determines an > average volume. Then normalize proceeds to show that it is either > raising or lowering (+db, -db) each individual file to the average > volume level. > Maybe I don't understand your question. Probably ;-). So, to rephrase it, what does normalize do *without* any switches? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] normalize
Hi, Just learnt how to use normalize, but am still confused about the normal and -mix mode. Let's say I have three files with the RMS volume of 3, 5 and 7 (1 being quietest, 10 being loudest). As far as I understand, normalize without switches raises the RMS volume of all the files to 10. Normalize in the mix mode should calculate the average RMS volume (5 in this case) and put all files' RMS volume to this level. However, today -mix gave me a higher volume on the output file than normalize without switches. How come? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] chmod and chown on vfat
Hey, >> When copying to vfat partitions the filemanagers often try to copy the >> attributes, too. I solved this problem by appending quiet as an option >> in the relevant fstab entries. >> I wonder, is there a better way? > uhmm.. can i see that line in your fstab?? ;o) > for a long time i thought this had no solution at all! Sorry, don't have it here at hand, but you just need to append quiet at the end of the options part, eg.__ /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat noauto,exec,users,quiet 0 0 -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] MD compatible monitors
>> >I'm looking at a Samsung 96 BDF 19" screen >> >Res 1600x 1200 >> >refresh 65Hz >> >dp .20mm >> >for $190 >> > >> >Anyone know anything about it? >> Also, its not listed on the Samsung USA site or the rest of the site >> even under obsolete models! > Sorry, actually its a Samitron, which is a division of samsung I > guess. It's in a samsung box. That'd be Samtron (not Samitron), just in case someone wants to look it up. -- Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ISOs (loop) in fstab possible?
Hi list, Is it possible to add ISOs as loop devices to fstab for easy mounting? Something like /dev/hda1/iso/mdk82/Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso /mnt/image1 iso9660 loop,users Didn't work for me, said the ISO is no directory. -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] On the fly Audio CD copy
Hi everyone, Is it possible to copy Audio CDs on the fly, without the intermediate wavs on disk? I know it would be dangerous because of possible problems while reading the Audio tracks, but anyways, could it be done? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cd-rw Problem
Hey, > I can't seem to get mt CD-RW to work. I've tried Gnome Toaster, > X-CDRoast and GCombust. Nothing seems to work. The drive works fine > under Windows 2000 and I can record without problem. When I try it > using cdrecord from the command line I get the following: > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. > Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 0 seconds. Operation > starts. > Fixating... > WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. > Fixating time:0.003s > Fixating time:0.003s > cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets. > cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. > Anyone have any ideas? What exactly does the command you use look like? There are at least two problems: 1. "fifo had 64 puts" - are you trying to burn something really small? Cos there should be much more puts when burning a CD. 2. Using the -dummy switch with cdrecord only performs a simulation of the writing process, nothing is actually written. To write something you must not use the -dummy switch. I'd recommend a CD-RW for now to get you running without ruining any CD-Rs. -- HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning
Hey, > I have some ISO files (a downloaded Linux distribution), so I don't need to > use mkisofs. However, during burning, I get a coaster, then the following > disc is ok. The next one is a coaster, then ok. I ended up with 7 good > discs and 4 coasters. There were no changes made to the command line. > After getting a coaster, I'd just press the up arrow, replace the disc and > hit enter. It's a 800Mhz Celeron running a 16x burner (but I slowed down to > 8x after the first coaster, the third CD burned at 16x). > Here's the command I used: > cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -pad -data -eject -ignsize filename.iso > I pulled that off a message in this thread and changed it for my system. What does happen? Do you get a buffer underrun? Go to the directory where the iso is placed and try: cdrecord -v -eject -dummy speed=16 dev=0,0,0 ./filename.iso cdrecord -v -eject -dummy speed=8 dev=0,0,0 ./filename.iso cdrecord -v -eject -dummy speed=4 dev=0,0,0 ./filename.iso cdrecord -v -eject -dummy speed=2 dev=0,0,0 ./filename.iso cdrecord -v -eject -dummy speed=1 dev=0,0,0 ./filename.iso and see which one works for you. The -dummy switch makes sure no data is actually burnt to the disc. -- Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning
Hey, >>>>>cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets. >>>>>cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was >>>>>85%. >>Well, as long as the FIFO doesn't go empty I don't think you need to >>worry about anything. The CD-RW has a buffer of its own, so I assume >>if FIFO runs out of data there still is at least 2 megs of >>drive-internal buffer to be written and FIFO can get filled meanwhile. >>Anyways, you can always increase the FIFO using a switch, don't >>remember which one, though. (fifo=16 maybe?) > This seems to be correct. I never seem to get buffer underuns so > obviously cdrecord is being causious in some way, Cdrecord probably doesn't do anything special to prevent buffer underruns. I guess it's just your drive working fine / as expected. > Yes my writer, Mitsumi in this case has 2mb of buffer, can anyone > tell me the logic of the fact that my older writers which could not > exceed 4x write spped all had 4mb of buffer built in to them, yet > this 24x write speed Minsumi seems only to need 2Mb of buffer, the > logic of the setup escapes me. Obvious it doesn't need it, but why ? The guys at Mitsumi probably assume that you won't use their burner on a 486 with a PIO 3 disk... However I guess you're right, more wouldn't be worse. Apart from that I have 4 megs on my 8x Plextor. -- Greets Roman > John Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning
Hi, >>>cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets. >>>cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was >>>85%. >> I've stayed out of this 'cause I don't have any 800mb media, never >>tried/seen any. On another count, I prefer to use mkisofs to make the >>img, then write to cdr, so I've never encountered your missing '-' >>situation. I'm curious tho 85% is awful low. I've never >>experienced less than 95%, usually 98 to 100%. Have you tried burning >>to that media at 4x? I've also got some generic CMC Magnetics 700mb >>cdr's, $12 for a 50 spindle. I don't get good results with 'em over 4x >>tho. > yes, I'm burning here ar 8x, not particularly fast but faster than > mkisofs can really supply data without the risk of buffer underrun, and > so yes I need to reduce the burn rate , else supply a buffer , if such a > thing is possible when using a pipe, I don''t know. The lowerst point > was 85%, most of the time it's 98-100%, but if it drops any lower than > 80% experience tells be to reduce the burn rate or else. However I've > just spent the last 2 hours running the avi disc file through and there > does not seem to be any problems. Well, as long as the FIFO doesn't go empty I don't think you need to worry about anything. The CD-RW has a buffer of its own, so I assume if FIFO runs out of data there still is at least 2 megs of drive-internal buffer to be written and FIFO can get filled meanwhile. Anyways, you can always increase the FIFO using a switch, don't remember which one, though. (fifo=16 maybe?) >>Also, did you mean 80 minute cdr's, or 800MB? I've burned over >>800 mb's of wav's to a 700mb, 80 minute CD-r. My record is 79m57s ;) > As for size, these are indeed 80min discs , but if you turn them over in > very good light you can see where the lazer has been and I know that > 800mb is total max with my burner. I have to be careful here there is > some evidence to suggest not all burners can do it, I'm guessing , but I > believe some burners tracking is not quite as good as anothers, or else > the software that controls it is not up to the burners mark. whichever. > I first learnt of this when my teenage daughters kept giving me 800mb > audio discs to copy, and many burner software refused to allow a full > copy. But actually most 80min discs , and I've used all sorts of makes > and price brackets( price is no indicator of quality) will write up to > about 800mb, depending upon whether we are talking about continuous byte > streams or whether the job entails endless new files and folders., in > other words gaps come into the equation. To clear that up, there are 74 min / 650 MB (~681,000,000 Bytes) and 80 min / 700 MB (~734,000,000 Bytes) disks. You don't fit much more on them than their specified capacity, a few seconds / megs with overburning, however that's not recommended. Tom was talking about 800MBs of WAVs to a 700MB CD. That's because you burnt WAVs as an Audio CD. The Audio CD can store more Audio than Data because with data about one third of all the space is allocated to error correction, which isn't that important with Audio. You still burnt only ~80 mins of Audio, but that doesn't mean you burnt 800 MB. Megabytes refer to data capacity and minutes to Audio capacity so it's not correct to say I burnt 800 MB of Audio. Of course, there are disks which can hold up to 99 minutes of Audio, but they aren't that common. (I know, validation error, no opening tag found, insert where appropriate for you ;-) Greets Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning
Hi, >>>mkisofs -r -J -v | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data >>>-pad -eject -ignsize >>Could it be that cdrecord is just missing the final - on the command >>line telling it to use stdin? > so how would this be done then ? IIRC: mkisofs -r -J -v | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data -pad -eject -ignsize - HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Command line burning
Hi, > I use 800mb blank discs. > I get mencoder to create 780mb film.avi files which I write to disc. > b) mkisofs / cdrecord using a pipe > === > mkisofs -r -J -v | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data > -pad > -eject -ignsize > This does the mkisofs to cdrecord on the fly, however it has one > major fault, try as a may I cannot get it to work with the larger > file size. I have tried -overburn as well as -ignsize . It could > well be that mkisofs is the culprit , I don't know, on the > otherhand mkisofs has no trouble handling these larger file sizes > on it's own. Could it be that cdrecord is just missing the final - on the command line telling it to use stdin? Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sum
Hi, > Would someone tell how they are useing md5sum.Thee last > iso I missed a file that cost me a headache.Thank,s Joe IIRC you place the ISOs and the file containing the MD5 sums of the ISOs in one dir and run md5sum -c file_with_sums . HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?
Hey, >> How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have >> already recorded or "burned" just a few files? > Can't help here. IMO, cd-rewriteables's (cd-rw's) are not so good > an idea. They cost too much, and are unreliable (ie, harder to read > than cd-r's by most all devices). With cd-r's costing < 30¢ each, > rewritables just aren't worth it. I only ever bought 2 re-writes, and > that was years ago. >From my personal experience I must disagree with you. CD-RWs are great if you need to take a lot of software with you, for instance to show your friend. You can also burn it with some MP3s and use it in an MP3 capable CD-player, not worrying about that you waste spae with songs you won't want to listen to later. My noname CD-RW is readable by all the CD-ROM drives I tried it in and it works fine, as opposed to a Verbatim CD-RW which just won't work with my CD-RW drive. (Can be drive's fault, of course, but the drive works with everything else.) And last but in no way least I think CD-RW is going to replace traditional 3.5 diskettes. Concerning the original post I think multisession is the best way but you cannot add files to a non-multisession CD. >> From Tom's examples, I derived the following two key lines >> which I put in a shell script that I named "burncd" >> >> mkisofs -r -o cdimage /home/joe/data >> cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0 cdimage >> >> But I had to omit the word "eject" because I got this error message: >> >> cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for 'eject'. >> >> Can anyone explain why this error message and how to get "eject" to >> work? > doesn't do any better. For some reason usin '-eject' with a cdrecord > operation always works with my burner, cdrom2. Gotta be hardware I think the reason is that it should be -eject, not eject. HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] What have I done?
Hey Anne, >> 4/ Did you try a different KDE account or Gnome? > I only loaded KDE. What do you mean by 'a different KDE account'? A different user account. Log out of KDE and select a different user and login as he/she. You could also try logging in as root if there is no other user you can log as into, even though this is discouraged (you should rather go offline before being root). You could also add a new user and see if you have problems in this new account, too. If no then something is wrong with your account, especially with some of your personal settings. Does this slow-dir-opening actually only happen in konqueror? What's with Krusader or any other file manager for that matter? What happens if you Ctrl-Alt-F1 and open a dir with MC? And if you shut down X ie go to runlevel I think 3 (someone please coorect me if I am wrong)? You could probably check what different runlevels do by looking at man telinit. Also runlevel 1 might be worth a try. Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] virus filtering?
Hi, > what software would you recommend for scanning for > (microsoft) viruses on a linux mail server? I'd recommend NOD from Eset, http://www.nod32.com/products/unix.htm , you can check how it performed against other AV products at the Virus Bulletin page - http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/about/index.xml . HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] failed on bootup lm 8.2
Hi, >> > I get a few error on boot up. Here they are. >> > turning on procerss accournting [failed] >> > starting processing acounting[failed] >> >> >> >> > Do I need process acounting? Maybe I should >> > just turn it off. >> >> I had a problem with that in 8.1 IIRC, I remember reading on >> Mandrakeuser.org that there was some kind of fault in that version >> shipped with 8.1. Thought it should be fixed in 8.2... Anyways, it's >> no system-critical service (my machine works without it) and you can >> remove it. I think the package name is psacct. > How do I remove the package? Thanks Rick 1. If you are in X (KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, etc.): Run rpmdrake, click "installed" and search for psacct, then select it and remove it. OR 2. From the console type su, provide the password for root, type urpme psacct. Then press ctrl-d to get back to normal user. HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] failed on bootup lm 8.2
Hey Rick, > I get a few error on boot up. Here they are. > turning on procerss accournting [failed] > starting processing acounting[failed] > Do I need process acounting? Maybe I should > just turn it off. I had a problem with that in 8.1 IIRC, I remember reading on Mandrakeuser.org that there was some kind of fault in that version shipped with 8.1. Thought it should be fixed in 8.2... Anyways, it's no system-critical service (my machine works without it) and you can remove it. I think the package name is psacct. HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Gnome 2.0
Hi Sridhar, >> Now, the question would be, what do I need to download in order to >> upgrade Gnome to v2.0? Gnome.org points to Cooker which contains many >> gnome-* files, however, which ones are 2.0 ones? Some of them are new, >> some are from March. Which ones do I need? >> With KDE3 one knew he had to download all the kde*3-* files, but there >> is nothing like that for Gnome, some RPMs are 2.something, some are >> 0.96... > GNOME 2.0 RPMs built specifically for Mandrake 8.2 are currently > being made by MandrakeClub volunteers. If I were you, I'd wait until > those are released (you don't need to be a member of the Club). OK, thank you very much for the answer. -- Greets Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB 250 Zip Drive and Linux?
Hey, > I've read somewhere that USB 250MB Zip drives do not work with > Linux. Is this true? If not, what do I need to do to get it > working? It isn't true. I have one myself and it works well. You only need to mount it as /dev/sda4 , you can also create an icon in KDE (or Gnome), you have to choose "ZIP device" IIRC. In case of any trouble, don't hesitate to ask. Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT leaving for a while
Hi Femme and guys, Since the exam time is starting and won't finish at least until June 14th I am temporarily unsu... oops, I almost used the U-word. So I wanted to say thank you too all the ones I didn't thank and to all the ones I did, too. Even though I think HTML is a poor document format, can't imagine having headers or footnotes there... anyways, at least I found out about the ". " religion. IMHO the two spaces don't look good. Just my two Eurocents. And yes, BAN ALL THE WEAPONS!!! THEY'RE EVIL!!! (Will write to you Miark one day, don't forget me ;-) So, thanks to all, and will see you. Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IRQ
Hi Robin, > I suspect the freeze problem I mentioned earlier is to do with IRQ conflicts, > but how do I change IRQs? I've looked up every configuration tool I can find > (Control Centre, linuxconf, webmin) and couldn't find anything that allows me > to assign IRQs, or indeed do much at all to my hardware profile. When using Linux IRQ assigning is handled by the BIOS, so your only chance would be to try and reserve IRQs there (e.g. for Legacy ISA devices) which then frees up and the IRQs rearrange. Another option might be to physically reseat the cards in the slots, however I am not sure if it has any effect when BIOS is handling the IRQs. Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting
Hey, >> Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of >> packages during installation, can't you? > *grin* to tell you the truth i dont know if i can switch to flat > view during installation. is there such an option during the > graphical installation? IIRC there is something like "unfold whole tree", but I don't remember, either. :-( > to find out when i get home and re-install my mandrake (maybe ill > triple boot it with gentoo as i hear good remarks about it). Good luck! Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting
Hey, >> Hmm, I always went through the whole list before (during) >> installation... > i dont think you could view all available rpm packages during installation > as many are intentionally hidden by the distro packagers to prevent > overwhelming the new users who are trying mandrake for the first time. the > list of applications that you could see during installation is the same one > that you can see during a rpmdrake session. you have to select the flat view > to get a complete listing. an example here (if i recall correctly) would be > the libwine1 packages. you would never see the libwine1 packages during > installation. i chose that as an example because i just upgraded one computer > here to LM8.2 and was able to add the libwine1 package when all was running > smoothly after installation. > i recall this topic was also brought up by civileme a couple months back > during the release of 8.1. i may be wrong so take my word with a grain of > salt. ;-) You might be right, I had the same problem with kernel-sources, which I could never find in rpmdrake. Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT guns
Hi, >> Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story >> here in Canada. > Rediculous. Criminals kill people, Accidents can kill them, too. And easy access to guns makes it easy to get guns for crimes. I think I agree with Femme. > and if you take away their guns, they will find dozens of other ways > to do it (if not other illegal guns). True, but why make it easy for them? > You give law-abiding citizens the right to arm themselves, Do they not have the right? AFAIK the laws only control access to weapons, so that e.g. mentally ill people don't have access to them. > and crime drops for two reasons. First > because criminals change their mind about going against somebody > that might shoot them, The criminal never knows if the victim is armed or not, be it in a country with less restricitve laws or with more restrictive laws. > and second because if they do try to > murder/rape/rob somebody, they'll be stopped! There are other ways to stop them - tasers, tear gas... You don't have to shoot them. > and as for the second, there are an estimated 2 million crimes that > are prevented every year in the States because people have the > freedom to protect themselves with a firearm. What country are you comparing the US with? To your first point, what country are we talking about? Are you criticizing some law forbiding anyone to own a gun? BTW: What do you think about the recent shooting in Erfurt, Germany? Do you think it could have been prevented if the 18-yar old guy wuoldn't be allowed to own two guns legally? Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting
Hey, > You know what I do whenever I get a new Mandrake distro? (well there > are a lot of things BUT) I open the software (RPM) manager, go to > flat list, and under the "not installed" part, I take the time to > scroll down thru the list and see just what was -not- installed. > Its pretty informative... even if it does take awhile. ;-) Hmm, I always went through the whole list before (during) installation... Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] To list admin (Denis Havlik?)
Hi, I lost my old email address an thus can't unsub. (because it needs a confirmation which I can't confirm since the request is sent to my old address). The old address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Could you please unsub. me? Or if I am asking at the wrong place, could someone point me please in the right direction? TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT test, please ignore
#include "subject.h" Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What would be the standard document format?
Hi guys, I see everyone recommend not to save/share documents as .DOC since it's a closed format. So my question is, what format should I use? Requirements: 1. Must be able to at least contain tables and pictures (preferably embedded) apart from the usual formating. 2. All the major apps (OpenOffice, StarOffice, KOffice, maybe also AbiWord) must be able to open and save them. TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] enterprise kernel sources
Hi, > So you have to install the kernel-source RPM for your kernel from > your CD's. I am using the enterprise kernel. Is there a difference between the actual sources? TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources
Hey John, > Say, where does the newly created rpm file end up, after checkinstall. To be honest, I don't know. I haven't yet tried it, just read the docs after recommendation by others. But I bet it's configurable. ;-) Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources
Hi, > I need to learn how to create rpm files from tar files. > I feel that it falls into two parts, preperation and action. That would probably be best done with checkinstall http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ which is a tool that you run instead of make install. Of course, you must run ./configure and make beforehand. > I want to experiment with alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9.tar.bz2 > checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/linux > checking for kernel version... expr: syntax error > expr: syntax error > expr: syntax error > failed (probably missing /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h) > [root@localhost alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9]# > This oneseems to like my system, but it would seem I also > need version h first , what ever that is. I am geting the same error with 0.9.0beta12. :-( HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't post to newbie
Hi, > I need some help because I can't reply messages to the list. I only > can send mails, but not reply. This are the symptons: > final-recipient-field: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] > action-field: failed > status-field: 5.0.0 > remote-mta-field: ESMTP > diagnostic_code_field: smtp; 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your > hostname, [200.9.212.55] I had the same "host rejected: cannot find your hostname" problem. I sent a mail to my ISP with a copy of a mail just like you posted and they fixed it. To point them into the right direction you need to ask them to fix "host resolving". Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New silly Question. ;) Recommend good file manager?
Hi, > I need a semi-decent one. KDE uses Konqueror, and I tried GWC?... for > enlightenment. > I hated GWC *or whatever its called*. Any ideas? :) I also can't find any good file manager. Waiting for Windows Commander to be ported to Linux, but in the meanswhile I settled with Emelfm. You can also try gentoo. goo luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...
Hi Sridhar, > I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which > is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word > "defenestration" (without the quotes). Here's what I got: > defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech > assasination method, via SF fandom 1. Proper karmic retribution > for an incorrigible punster. "Oh, ghod, that was _awful_!" "Quick! > Defenestrate him!" 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to > get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from > the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out > a window. 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that > it will improve matters. "I don't have any disk space left." "Well, > why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps?" > 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto > the screen). "Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon." 5. The act of > completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS > (typically Linux). > Can anyone verify this? Which part would you want to be verified? The Czech "assasination method", that's true, however I wouldn't use the word "assasination". Defenestration was an act in which angry citizens threw the "lords" or "aldermen" (can't think of a better translation) out of the windows of the town hall. As this act has proved effective it has been practised a few more times. The term itself is probably derived from the German word "Fenster" (window). Actually, the text you posted is an exact copy of what is found in the Jargon File, http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/defenestration.html . HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Icon Question
Hi, >> >> One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on >> >> properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the >> >> icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other >> >> icons or you can choose a .png or .xpm file. Pick up a new icon and it's >> >> done. >> >> > I've received 3 identical answers, but it doesn't work here! Nothing >> > happens when I click on the icon in the dialog box. I can change the >> > icon by right clicking and then selecting "Edit File Type". >> > Unfortunately, this also changes all of the other, similar, non-embedded >> > icons on the desktop. >> (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) >> :-( >> >> You are supposed to click "Properties", not "Edit File Type". >> Then click the icon image and choose another one. This really should >> work. > Isn't this a thread from about two months or so ago? Yes it is, as I said in the mail my ISP's mailserver didn't want to send mails to the list so I had to wait till they fix it and it took the two months. I thought it still might help someone. Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] par for linux?
Hey, >> What else do I want to know? Everything ;) Seriously, though, I've seen >> mention of rar a few times on this list and it started to bug me that I >> didn't know what it was. >> >> I've never needed it, but a google search for 'rar linux' turns up some hits, >> including one for a rar utility for lniux you can get from cnet. It's >> shareware, though, and the author wants $35. That's too much for a simple >> archiving utility. > There is a Freeware version of rar for *nix called unrar: > UNRAR 2.50 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-99 Eugene Roshal UnRAR can only unpack RAR archives. Cheers Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] uninstall .tar.gz
Hey everyone, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( RK>> Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed RK>> from a tarball? > Go to the source directory of that app and do "make uninstall". > Onur Kucuk > This depends on the make script. If it supports uninstalling, you > can do > > make uninstall > > Good luck > Paul > I think that the best way to handle the installation of tarballs is > through checkinstall. Use it to create an rpm based on the tarball, > then you can uninstall the program with rpm if you want to. No need > to mess around with 'make uninstall' anymore, which may or may not > work. I highly recommend this program! > > Narfi. > > ps. The project's home page is http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ Thanks to everyone and a special thanks to Narfi, this looks like a cool app. Thanks again Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Icon Question
Hi, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( >> One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on >> properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the >> icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other >> icons or you can choose a .png or .xpm file. Pick up a new icon and it's >> done. > I've received 3 identical answers, but it doesn't work here! Nothing > happens when I click on the icon in the dialog box. I can change the > icon by right clicking and then selecting "Edit File Type". > Unfortunately, this also changes all of the other, similar, non-embedded > icons on the desktop. You are supposed to click "Properties", not "Edit File Type". Then click the icon image and choose another one. This really should work. Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SbLive
Hey, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( > How do you switch the analog output on the soundblaster live to > digital? In windows there was creative software to do it. I am > running digital speakers as it is and now have no sound. Thanks. You should be able to do so using the emu-tools which you can download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1 . Either you configure the .conf file (which comes with the rpm) or you use emu-config with the appropriate option. Hope it works for you, the package doesn't seem to work for me. It gives me a "SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument" error. Hope you have better luck. Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: no windows
Hey, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( > I was looking for a cheap laptop to install Mandrake. > Unlike home made towers, it is quite difficult to buy > parts, so I had a look at the net in order to find computers > without windows. I found an interesting home page: > http://www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk/products/nowindows.htm > At the beginning of the page, they give a few links related > to Microsoft's unfair practices, with sounds good at a first > glance. But in the paragraph "Not to worry, I'll install Windows > myself", they say: > "We do not ship PCs with blank hard disks.". When reading > a bit further, you understand that this means, we will not ship > without windows. AFAIK you can uninstall Windows, remove it from all storage media and give the installation back CD to the retailer for a full refund. It is in Micros~1 Windows' EULA. There has been a bit of fuss about it maybe a year ago IIRC when Linux users in Australia (again IIRC) wanted to use Linux and didn't want Windows preinstalled and they found this in the EULA so they went back to the store and got the refund. Now I hope I am not mixing another story with this but I think a similar thing happened later in the US and the Linux users organised a group trip to return Windows and Micros~1 welcomed them with a "Microsoft greets the Linux community" banner. Well, this everything is IIRC, so anyone please jump in and correct me. Thanks Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] par for linux?
Hey, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( > RAR format is an archiving format that is very popular in europe & > japan. mostly popular with Warez ppl too b/c its algorithms compress > better than .zip Please just don't make it sound like an evil warez dood program. It's a great compression utility ever since... well, it was before '96 that I remember it was better than ARJ or ZIP and competed with UC2. > it was invented in Japan IIRC too. AFAIK it was programmed by Eugene Roshal, who I think I recall is Ukrainian, but I might be wrong. The official site ( www.rarsoft.com ) itself is run by a company in Finland... well, I don't think there is anything Japanese about it. ;-) Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Lilo Problem
Hey, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( >> Rich, two suggestions : >> >> If you run KDE or GNOME, open "Control Center", type in your >> root-password, and select "Boot". Then, select "Boot Config". Now, in >> the upper right corner, click "Configure". This opens a dialog-box, >> called "Bootloader Main Options". Here, you can select the "boot >> device". I guess you can choose whatever here. >> >> If still in trouble, post two files to the list : >> 1. : /etc/lilo.conf >> 2. : /etc/fstab > I'm not sure that I understand the second part of your answer. Where > exactly do I put those statements? In the boot loader? This meant that you should send a copy of the files named "lilo.conf" and "fstab" which can both be found in the /etc directory to this mailing list. Copy their contents to a mail and send it here. HTH somehow Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is there a DVD authoring application for Linux?
Hi: I would like to author my own DVDs so that I could archive all of my digital images on DVD (complete with menus, etc...) and play them for family and friends on a DVD player. Apple iDVD application (packaged with any new machine with a "SuperDrive") does this. Is there a similar application available for the linux platform? The only things I can find are some projects on freshmeat which are only in the planning stage. Ideally I'd like to burn the DVDs on an external firewire DVD writer. Thanks, Mel __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Email client that allows checking of hotmail
>Does anyone know if there is an email client for >mandrake/linux that allows me to check my email >from Hotmail a la Outlook Express? Assuming Hotmail is just another POP3 mail server, most of the common E-mail clients will fetch your E-mail from your Hotmail account. For example, I use a @yahoo.com E-mail account for my mailing lists and I retrieve them using Sylpheed. I used to use KMail for the same thing and it worked fine also. You jsut need to configure the account settings properly in your EMail client (the POP3 server name, username, password,etc...). Let me know if you have any specific questions concerning setup. Good luck, Mel __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] uninstall .tar.gz
Hi, Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed from a tarball? TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] change ownership & group
Hey, > I just upgrade my linux to Mandrake 8.1 from 8.0, but now I can't change the > ownership or group in windows partition (/mnt/win_c and /mnt/win_d) the > system said that action not permitted (not enough permission, when I try to > change in properties) even I login as root. I try by using console and GUI > but the result is same. Is it any special thing to do that I miss? *In* the windows partition? I guess that's not supposed to work, since it's vfat. Right, anyone? Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] kernel sources
Hi, > I found Kernel-source on the 8.1 CD that I had downloaded. It's on > CD#2..I believe it's called kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm > Terry > the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the > second installation CD. > Alaa Thank you very much. BTW: How come the package is not mentioned anywhere in rpmdrake? Thanks again Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re(8): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Hey, > Do you know how GSM mobile phones became an international standard? The > Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland) agreed on > a common standard for mobile phone communications. The Nordic countries > don't have the largest populations of any countries in the world, nor are > they necessarily the most advanced countries in every area. The only > reason that GSM became a standard was through mutual agreement, rather > than competition in the mobile phone area. No other country could agree > on another standard, because all the different companies' and countries' > interests were too divergent. In the states, they have yet to achieve > even a nationwide GSM coverage because of all of the competing standards. > Talk about a nightmare scenario! Just to clarify, AFAIK the nordic countries established the NMT standard, which stands for Nordic Mobile Telecommunication (or Telephone?). GSM was created by the Group Speciale Mobile (sp?), later renamed to Global Standard for Mobile communication. Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kernel sources
Hi everyone, I am trying to install the alsa-driver, but I don't have the kernel sources. Can someone please tell me where to get them from? My kernel version is 2.4.8-26mdk. Mark recommended ftp.kernel.org but I think it'd be better to get the sources for *exactly* the kernel I have. I'd appreciate any ideas or links. (BTW: They are not on the installation CDs. And I tried kernel-2.4.8-26mdk.src.rpm but I guess that's not what I am looking for). TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] emu-tools
Hey, >> > --- Your kernel must be compiled with loadable modules and soundcard >> > support and without any integrated emu10K1 soundcard drivers. >> How do I check, please? > Look for > "CONFIG_MODULES = y" for the loadable modules support > "CONFIG_SOUND = y/m" for soundcard support and > "CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 = m/n" for non-integrated emu10k1 soundcard drivers. > y = yes (compiled directly into the kernel) > n = no (not included/supported) > m = module (included as module which can be loaded but not compiled directly > in the kernel) > In your /boot directory there should be a file called "config-[your kernel]" > which I think is the config used for your kernel. You can search this file, > for example: > $ grep -i CONFIG_MODULES /boot/config-2.4.17.13mdk > CONFIG_MODULES=y > $ grep -i CONFIG_SOUND /boot/config-2.4.17-13mdkenterprise > CONFIG_SOUND=m > --> (plus many more listed) > $ grep -i CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 /boot/config-2.4.17-13mdkenterprise > CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m > --> (this was already shown in the long list from the above search) > OK (and in my case knowledge on this subject is _very_ limited). Well > anyways... even tho I couldn't help you with your soundcard problem, at least > you know a bit more about your kernel now ;) Don't worry and thank you. ;-) Greetings Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Frontpage?
Hey, > See how many errors are found on the w3c validator on a page created > with Frontpage. Frontpage makes sure it works on IE but they don't > really care how it looks on any other browser Frontpage is > basically for "IMHO" people who don't know how to code by hand. > Everybody has to start somewhere..but it's kind of like using a > boxed cake mix and calling yourself a chefor actually mixing > all the ingredients yourself. > I haven't found any WYSWYG editors.in a decent price range > that will code to pass w3c...which will pretty much > insure your pages look uniform on most browsers.and > platforms. Try 602 PRO PC Suite from http://www.602software.com . It is a free office suite, not unlike StarOffice or OpenOffice. The main difference is that very few know about this one. And it doesn't have some of the less used features like presentation software (aka Powerpoint) or database thingies (StarOffice's DB2 IIRC or Access). I guess one could compare it to KOffice (but) for Windows. Direct link: http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/ TechTV short review: http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/downloadoftheday/story/0,24330,3361510,00.html Hope you like it. Greetings Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] emu-tools
Hey, >> I installed emu-tools 0.9.4 but whenever I am trying to run >> emu-config it gives me: >> SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument >> I checked the tools' docs for such a thing but it is not mentioned >> there. >> Can anyone please tell me what it means and how to fix it? > Well I know zilch about monitor power management but I don't > understand what you mean about "trying to run emu-config". I'm > using emu10K1 with the tools so perhaps I _may_ be able to help if > you explain what you mean by running the config. Well, as far as I understand there are three executable files installed from this package - emu-config, emu-dspmgr and the script one, IIRC. The script is calling emu-config to perform things. Now, whenever I run the script or the emu-config file (e.g. with parameters to enable rear speaker support) I get the error message mentioned above. I don't exactly recall what command I was typing but I can try again and tell you tomorrow. Thanks. Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] [OT] "NOT" acronyms (was Wanting to replace / or run these windows apps.)
Hey, >> WINE means Wine Is Not an Emulator. ;-) >> BTW: How about LINUX = Linux Is Not UniX? What do you think everyone? > GNU/LINUX = Gnu's Not Unix, and Linux Is Not Unix, eXactly, either. I actually only wanted to ask what everybody thinks about my invention "LINUX = Linux Is Not UniX" but as I see, I didn't invent anything new, did I? > That's taken!, GNU Gnu is Not Unix Nor is Linux ;-) Anyways, LAME = Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. :-) Cheers Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] KDE and Gnome
Hi everyone, And thanks for all the responses I got to this thread. A.G.Diaz, > i use xfce but since the original poster prohibited the expression > of reasons for preferring other desktop/window Managers i just watch > this thread from the sidelines. *grin* Thank you for adhering to my question and not bringing up the lightweight environments I am currently not interested in. Again, thanks to all, and a bitter "Argh" when remembering that 2 days ago nobody responded to my "monitor power management" and "emu-tools" questions. :-( Anyways Greetings Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to change property: default user login without password
Hey, > My linux installation logs in with a specific user without prompting > for a password. How do I change this so that it will ask for a > username password? Go into the Mandrake Control Center (run mcc or click onto the desktop icon) and under boot options find the autologin option and disable it. Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] [OT] "NOT" acronyms (was Wanting to replace / or run these windows apps.)
Hey, > As far as Windows emulators go, there are several options. > 1. You can try Wine (WINdows Emulator), WINE means Wine Is Not an Emulator. ;-) BTW: How about LINUX = Linux Is Not UniX? What do you think everyone? Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE and Gnome
Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for you. And please let's not talk about other WMs, I would only like to "compare" *these* two. Thanks IA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [OT] SASA ( was Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?)
Hey, >> > > Oops. The dangers of plain text humour. There is no "metric" setting >> > > for TCP/IP packet sizes. I was kidding. Back in the day SmartAss >> > > SysAdmins used to blame slow performance on "fat electrons" which tend >> > > to get stuck in the curves and bends of printed circuit boards. >> > > "Sunspots" was another good pseudo explanation you'd offer to >> > > particularly stupid users. e.g.: >> > Reminds me of a friend who had just started working for a local >> > Telecomms. company - a senior tech had told him to always make sure that >> > the lines ran *down* into each house, because the "current" wouldn't flow >> > uphill. ;-) > I personally like to blame gamma radiation. http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cosmic-rays.html http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/sunspots.html http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/phase-of-the-moon.html Have fun Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] monitor power management
Hi, I am using XScreenSaver and the only saver selected is Phosphor. Now, I tried to set power management options in both XScreenSaver and KDE control center (hope I got the name right) to different values but neither seems to get noticed by the system. It always "freezes" phosphor's output after a certain amount of time (5 minutes I think) and a few minutes later it turns off the monitor. How and where do I change those values please? (BTW: Power management is set to APM in BIOS and every BIOS PM setting (suspend, doze, off) is set to disabled. Also have PnP set to No.) TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] emu-tools
Hi, I installed emu-tools 0.9.4 but whenever I am trying to run emu-config it gives me: SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument I checked the tools' docs for such a thing but it is not mentioned there. Can anyone please tell me what it means and how to fix it? TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Having trouble accessing USB Zip drive
Hey, > Can someone please let me know how I access USB Zip drives using > linux I had a hard time trying to make it run until I tried the most basic thing. 1. Create a dir called "zip" (or anything you like) in /mnt 2. As root type mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip 3. Modify /etc/fstab and add an entry for the zip drive if not already automagically added. you can copy it there from /etc/mtab for example. Good luck Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] cd-rw
Hi, >> I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new >> installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created >> in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It >> mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. > With which program did you use to burn to the cd-rw in Windows? I > know that Adaptec has this "wonderful" way of dragging and dropping > through your Explorer to add files to it, and if you did it in this > way, ONLY Adaptec can read the file. I had this problem one too > about 3 years ago. It freaked me out, so the first thing I did then > was to copy all my files to the HD via Windows, uninstall Adaptec > (basicallt threw it straight in the bin afterwards), and then used > Nero. Shortly afterwards I began with Linux and never looked back. You formatted the CD as UDF, either using DirectCD od PacketCD. As this works nice in Windows, I am not sure how to make it work in Linux. The two files there ensure that a proper driver for reading the CD is installed when the disc is inserted into a non-CD-RW drive under Windows. So you have two choices - either you check the docs (man) for mount and see if there is some kind of UDF file system mentioned and try to mount it with that, or you access the CD under Windows, copy the files to disk, perform a "long" or "full" format of the CD and then burn it the traditional way, using either WinOnCD, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning Rom or similar programs. If you have more questions I'd be glad to help you. Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] HP Printers
Hi, >> Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about >> drivers and support? I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would >> like to have a bit > I am not a fan of HP for Linux printing...They are not really into supporting > the drivers nor do they want to get 'into' the game. > A better choice is Epson or Lexmark. They are both very Linux friendly > companies and their devices and software work with Linux. Correctly. I disagree... according to www.linuxprinting.org their suport is fine. Let me quote, "As for the DeskJets, HP recently released an open-source driver kit for the bulk of its modern consumer DeskJet line. After finishing a lengthy patent search, with version 1.0.1 they made it free software by removing the "for usage with HP products only" from the BSDish license. So HP is near the top of the heap in terms of free software support for its inkjet devices (Free software driving Epson Photo printers still produces better color quality)." (taken from http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html#hp ) I personally haven't tried their HPIJS driver yet, but I think HP is on a good way. Epson might have better quality (under Linux), though. Good luck anyways Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[4]: [newbie] Automatic Windows Mount
Hi, >>>> My windows driveis automatically mounted when I go into Linux. >>>> How do I turn this off? >>> comment the entries in your /etc/fstab by placing # marks before >>> each line. >> I wonder, what should I do so that the drives don't get mounted but >> I can mount them with a simple mount /mnt/win_c without specifying >> all the filesystem type and the like options? A simple user,noauto >> in the options? > putting 'noauto' in the option list ought to do the job I think. > Check out 'man fstab' and 'man mount' for a full list of options. Thanks, I already did that, just nitpicking if there is a way to mount my windows drives using mount -a and don't have them mounted at boot time. Thanks again Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Printers
Hey, > Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and > support? I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would like to have a bit of > information before I outlay the cash. I have a DeskJet 930C and it printed the test page during MDK install pretty fine (but *so* slowly :-( ). Haven't tried more printing yet, just to let you know the test page works (with CUPS). Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Automatic Windows Mount
Hi, >> My windows driveis automatically mounted when I go into Linux. How >> do I turn this off? > comment the entries in your /etc/fstab by placing # marks before > each line. mine would look like this: > #/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat ro,uid=501,gid=506,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > #/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat uid=501,gid=506,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > #/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat uid=501,gid=506,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 I wonder, what should I do so that the drives don't get mounted but I can mount them with a simple mount /mnt/win_c without specifying all the filesystem type and the like options? A simple user,noauto in the options? TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Cron
>how do i tell cron to run them? i have no idea >where the cron configs are You schedule command lines to be executed by the Cron daemon by using the crontab utility. You should read up on this utility in the man pages (type "man crontab" in the terminal). A much easier way, however is to use KCron (a graphical front-end to crontab that is included in your distribution). If you haven't installed it yet, go back to your install CDs and install it. To start it, just type "KCron". I believe there is accompanying documentation in the help menu. It's pretty easy to use. Good luck, Mel __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeing new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Fetchmail Configure
I've just recently started using fetchmail myself. You'll want to first get procmail (the Mail Delivery Agent that comes in your Mandrake distribution) configured first, and then configure fetchmail to fetch your mail and have them processed by procmail (which will sort them and put them in the mail folder of your choice, etc... with "recipes" that you can write). About the best fetchmail documentation that I've found is the on-line documentation (type "man fetchmail"). It's not step-by-step, but if you read through it, it's not too bad. You can find some good introductions to procmail for newbies from the www.procmail.org website. I found Nancy McGeough's overview for newbies at the following site especially helpful:http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ After reviewing the fetchmail and procmail documentation you may still have a few questions, but hopefully these will give you a start. Good luck, Mel >Hi! >I have download the new fetchmail-5.9.6.tar.gz >I like to configure into my Linux Server. >Is there a step by step guide for configure >Fetchmail for Linux. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Shell Script
Hi: If I understand you correctly, you have a shell script that you want to invoke from an icon on your desktop. There no need to "create an executable" if the script does what you want it to do once invoked. Just create an icon on your desktop. In the properties of that icon, there should be a field where you specify the command line to be executed when the icon is pressed. Fill in that field with the full path and filename of the script. I've tried not to be too verbose, but let me know if any of this requires further clarification. Have a nice day, Mel __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RESOLVED: Why does fetchmail see my messages, but skip retrieving them?
Hi: I figured out the problem. I reviewed the man fetchmail documentation again for the "No Keep" option Lee Roberts referred to (Thanks, Lee) and then tried including the -K switch in my fetchmail invocation. This, however did not solve the problem. While scanning some of the other options, however, I noticed the -a switch (which says to retrieve all messages even if they had been marked "seen"). Looking back at the log file, I noticed that the mail server had indicated that the one message was "seen", so it appeared that the message was being ignored for that reason. I then invoked fetchmail with the -a switch and everything was working fine again. For some reason, the mail server was marking the messages as seen, even though I don't think I had ever had anything to do with those most recent messages before. At any rate, I'm going to include the -a option from now on. Thanks again to Lee for taking the time to offer your thoughts. Have a nice day, Mel --- Mel Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:55:07 -0800 (PST) > From: Mel Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Why does fetchmail see my messages, but > skip retrieving them? > To: Newbie Linux - mandrake Mail Group > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi: > > I've recently started working with fetchmail to > download my mail from two pop3 servers. Everything > was working as advertised until yesterday. When I > examine the log file, I see that fetchmail is > getting > into the accounts and seeing the messages, but then > decides to skip those messages and not flush them. > I > have done nothing to change my fetchmail > configuration > recently. My fetchmail.rc is exactly the same as it > was when everything was working fine. Does anybody > have any idea what the problem is? I've included > below 2 excerpts of the log file for comparison (one > when it working, one when it stopped working): > > 1. WHEN IT WAS WORKING: > === > fetchmail: 5.7.4 querying > pop.ktchnr.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (protocol POP3) > at Thu Jan 3 01:35:53 2002 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK InterMail POP3 server ready. > fetchmail: POP3> USER mroman0837 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command > fetchmail: POP3> PASS * > fetchmail: POP3< +OK mroman0837 is welcome here > fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder > fetchmail: POP3> STAT > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 12882 > fetchmail: POP3> LAST > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 > fetchmail: 1 message for mroman0837 at > pop.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (12882 octets). > fetchmail: POP3> LIST > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages > fetchmail: POP3< 1 12882 > fetchmail: POP3< . > fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 12882 octets > fetchmail: reading message 1 of 1 (12882 octets) > fetchmail: About to rewrite Return-Path: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rewritten version is Return-Path: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > fetchmail: About to rewrite From: Multex Investor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rewritten version is From: Multex Investor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > fetchmail: About to rewrite To: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rewritten version is To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > fetchmail: about to deliver with: procmail > fetchmail: flushed > fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > fetchmail: POP3< +OK mroman0837 InterMail POP3 > server > signing off. > > 2. WHEN IT WAS NOT WORKING: > === > fetchmail: 5.7.4 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com > (protocol > POP3) at Sun 06 Jan 2002 10:38:35 AM EST > fetchmail: POP3< +OK hello from popgate > fetchmail: POP3> USER f24012 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK password required. > fetchmail: POP3> PASS * > fetchmail: POP3< +OK maildrop ready, 1 message > (10286 > octets) (357708 6291456) > fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder > fetchmail: POP3> STAT > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 10286 > fetchmail: POP3> LAST > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 > 1 message (1 seen) for f24012 at > pop.vip.sc5.yahoo.com > (10286 octets). > fetchmail: POP3> LIST > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 message (10286 octets) > fetchmail: POP3< 1 10286 > fetchmail: POP3< . > skipping message 1 (10286 octets) not flushed > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > fetchmail: POP3< +OK server signing off. > fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this > query > fetchmail: Query status=1 (NOMAIL) > > Any insights would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Mel Roman > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Why does fetchmail see my messages, but skip retrieving them?
Hi: I've recently started working with fetchmail to download my mail from two pop3 servers. Everything was working as advertised until yesterday. When I examine the log file, I see that fetchmail is getting into the accounts and seeing the messages, but then decides to skip those messages and not flush them. I have done nothing to change my fetchmail configuration recently. My fetchmail.rc is exactly the same as it was when everything was working fine. Does anybody have any idea what the problem is? I've included below 2 excerpts of the log file for comparison (one when it working, one when it stopped working): 1. WHEN IT WAS WORKING: === fetchmail: 5.7.4 querying pop.ktchnr.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (protocol POP3) at Thu Jan 3 01:35:53 2002 fetchmail: POP3< +OK InterMail POP3 server ready. fetchmail: POP3> USER mroman0837 fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK mroman0837 is welcome here fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 12882 fetchmail: POP3> LAST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 fetchmail: 1 message for mroman0837 at pop.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (12882 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages fetchmail: POP3< 1 12882 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 12882 octets fetchmail: reading message 1 of 1 (12882 octets) fetchmail: About to rewrite Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rewritten version is Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: About to rewrite From: Multex Investor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rewritten version is From: Multex Investor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: About to rewrite To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rewritten version is To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: about to deliver with: procmail fetchmail: flushed fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK mroman0837 InterMail POP3 server signing off. 2. WHEN IT WAS NOT WORKING: === fetchmail: 5.7.4 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Sun 06 Jan 2002 10:38:35 AM EST fetchmail: POP3< +OK hello from popgate fetchmail: POP3> USER f24012 fetchmail: POP3< +OK password required. fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK maildrop ready, 1 message (10286 octets) (357708 6291456) fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 10286 fetchmail: POP3> LAST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1 message (1 seen) for f24012 at pop.vip.sc5.yahoo.com (10286 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 message (10286 octets) fetchmail: POP3< 1 10286 fetchmail: POP3< . skipping message 1 (10286 octets) not flushed fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK server signing off. fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query fetchmail: Query status=1 (NOMAIL) Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Mel Roman __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Question!
After installation of the Apache 1.3.20 with SSL (mod_ssl-2.8.4-1.3.20 + openssl-0.9.6b) under Mandrake 8.0 I got some problems. apachectl stsrssl returns many warnings like: [Warning] Loaded DSO libexec/ uses plain Apache 1.3 API, this module might crash under EAPI! (please recompile it with -DEAPI) but finally starts successfilly. If somebody knows what is the difference between EAPI and DEAPI and how to recompile all nesesary modules (or all of them in the process of the server's installation) with DEAPI. Thank's in advance. Roman.
Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations
I stand corrected - thank you. I have been mounting my local NTFS partition read-only for quite some time, but did not know that SAMBA allowed you to write also. Aside from the SAMBA clarification, does anyone have any other thoughts about the pros and cons of getting into the Mac architecture? --- Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mel Roman wrote: > I know that you can > > similarly use SAMBA to serve files to a Windows > > client, but I understand that this would be more > > limiting (the linux box cant write to the Windows > > partitions, etc...). > > The Linux box *can* write to Windows partitions > (using Samba). > > Randy Kramer > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations
Hi everyone. I´ve been playing with linux (ML8.1) for a little while on my home machine (an old P166). Our family is getting to the point where we need a second machine, so I´m trying to decide on the merits of going with a PowerPC (Mac) architecture (perhaps a new Mac G4) instead of Intel. I forsee my current machine being used primarily as a linux box (file/print server, database server, secondary desktop for me). We would use the newer machine as the primary (user-friendly) desktop that all family members will be comfortable using. One of the things about the Mac that caught my attention was that its new OS X is basically another Unix variant. Aside from being more stable than Windows, Im hoping that each machine would be able to easily mount the others file systems. Has anyone tried this? I would expect it to be simply a matter of starting up an NFS service. I know that you can similarly use SAMBA to serve files to a Windows client, but I understand that this would be more limiting (the linux box cant write to the Windows partitions, etc...). I know that several distributions (Mandrake, SuSe, and Debian) come in PPC flavours, but I sometimes wonder if they will continue to find it worthwhile to develop for PPC. Although I expect that we would usually use OS X on the Mac, I would eventually want to someday put linux on that machine also. How does everyone else feel about the future of linux support for the Mac? I would be interested in any thoughts/experiences people have concerning Mac vs Intel architecture (either relating to the above or in any other respect). Thanks in advance, Mel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Resolved: Problem printing to Epson Stylus Color 777
I changed to the 680 printer driver, as suggested by one of the respondants. My Epson Stylus Color 777 is printing beautifully now. Thanks a lot to both of the people who responded. Mel >Hi, >I also have the 777 and in 8.0 I used the 680 >drivers and upped the dpi to >360 in qt-cups. You can fiddle with the settings >to suit your wishes, but >the main one is the dpi. They default to like >180 or something. They work good in 8.1. -s --- Mel Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:37:28 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mel Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Problem printing to Epson Stylus Color 777 > To: Newbie Linux - mandrake Mail Group > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello all: > > I've been trying to get my Epson Stylus Color 777 > printer to print properly under Linux Mandrake 8.0 > using CUPS, but am having some difficulties. When I > print a simple text document, text is printed very > lightly and little grey dots are printed in the > background. I suspect there might be problem with > the > driver. The driver info is as follows: > > Epson Stylus Color 777 > CUPS+GIMP-print v4.1.5 > > Does anybody know what's wrong? Is anyone else able > to get their Epson Stylus Color 777 to print > properly? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Mel Roman > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Retrieving Yahoo mail with K-mail - Here's how
There's been a lot of discussion about how to retrieve web-based mail with the K-mail client. This is actually pretty easy if your Web-based mail server supports POP mail clients. I use KMail to retrieve mail from my Yahoo account every day. In fact, I get all my mailing lists that way. It's simply a matter of setting up an account in KMail for the Yahoo mail account and then setting the correct options on your web-based Yahoo account). Here's how: Configuring your Yahoo account: == Log on to your yahoo mail account and select Options. The go to the "Pop Access and Forwarding" section and select "Web and Pop Mail Access". Setting up a K-mail account to retrieve from Yahoo == In KMail, go to Settings > Configuration. Under "Incoming Mail" press "Add" to create a new account for K-mail. Specify Pop3. In the "Add Account" form just fill in your personal info (a nickname for the new account, your Yahoo logon id, password, etc...) and use the following: Host = pop.mail.yahoo.com Port = 110 You should then be able to download from your Yahoo account. Good luck, Mel __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ghosting with Norton 2001 supports Linux EXT2 FS
Dan LaBine wrote: > > Actually folks, Norton Ghost 2001 works just great with Linux. We have > several dual-boot workstations at the office, with each having it's own hard > drive for each OS. We ghost'em all the time and it's a piece of cake. Been > using it to Ghost our main IDE drives on our servers and firewalls too. By > using "Mobile Racks" in our servers, we've got back-up redundancy and if a > server went down ( not so far though! ), we can be back up and running in the > time it takes to reboot ! > > Dan LaBine > Registered Linux User #190712 > > On July 7, 2001 08:40 pm, you wrote: > > Scott, > > > > For some bizarre reason, I am getting mail returned, so I thought I'd > > post this for Scott and any one else asking about ghosting Linux. > > > > As I am not familiar with Ghost 6.5, Norton Ghost 2001 and Drive Image > > support Linux ghosting. However, if you are using Reiser FS, I'm really > > not sure. Why not go for a CD R writer?. In the long run, it's much > > cheaper. > > > > Roman > > Registered Linux User #179293 > > Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Talk about a time saver. Roman
Re: [newbie] Safe to use "shutdown -h now" from KDE session?
David Nelson wrote: > > Hello, > > It would be nice to have a quick way to shut the system down without having > to log out of KDE then hit the shutdown button. Is it safe to use the > shutdown command from a terminal or a shell script durring a KDE session? > > Thanks > David Nelson David, I don't think you can do this. You must exit the GUI shell. Even the terminal is working from within KDE or Gnome etc.. The "kill" and "shutdown" commands will work if you exit to console outside the GUI shell. Roman
