[newbie] Reinstallation Help Required
Hi Folks I have finally got my mitts on a replacement 80gb Hdd for this linux machine, MDK10. However, before I splash ahead I'd like some advice and stuff 1. It's going to be dual boot so I'd need to install the Win98se first (in a 20gb partition) and then install Mdk telling it to leave the 98 partition right? This will assume that Mdk will sort it's own partitions up right. I'd like to keep the personal files on another partition, is that feasable or is it worth just leaving MDK to get on with it! 2. Samba. Assuming I want to have a samba shared area do I need to create that as a seperate drive?? 3. For keeping all my mail folders and everything is it OK to install the new OS then move the info from the old hard drive to the right place on the new hard drive?? Or do I have to do something else. I know when I last backed up the mail folders k3b changed all the dots to underscores :( Windows had problems recognising some files and that went a bit haywire for a bit. 4. is there anything else anyone here things I should do before the transfer?? Cheers, Elwyn Awaiting your help before I proceed :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Dual Booting..
Hi Folks I've had a look around but I can only see options for setting up a dual boot system from scratch. I'd like to be able to just add windows to this machine I've got a 25gb Hdd in this machine, with linux but I'd like to put 10gb or so aside to put Windows 98 on... I know it's pushing it fine, but it's only for games (hangs head) so I can play them networked... I'm going to give CrossOffice a go for one of them TIA Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Moving System / Upgrading.... Help!
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 03:34, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 11:05 am, SME Server Admin wrote: Aftenoon :) The time has come. I am finally in a position (technically) to upgrade this computer (Mandrake 10 on a P2-300mhz PC (384mb ram, 25gb Hdd, CRRW) to the chassis of an AMD1300 (384mb ram, the rest transfers over). Just need a bit of guidance and advise before I continue... Please :) I always say, make sure you can boot into the old system if something goes wrong and then just let 'er rip. Nothing like doing to improve the learning. You really should be able to put the drive in the new motherboard and boot it up. Linux is really good about adjusting to new hardware. You may have to tweak a few things that load out of /etc/modprobe.conf (lan cards, soiund cards, etc.), but most of the motherboard stuff should be recognized and the appropriate drivers be installed automatically. Thanks :) Most of it has gone through OK. When it shuts down it tries to unmount the old network card, which isn't installed anyway, and I can't find it in the configs :( Normally I would be happy to leave it at that... But a machine I was going to use for games has, er, keeled over. Awaiting advice from here Tried backing up my mail directory and K3b made all the leading dots to be underscores?! Huh? Do I need to put anything special in to K3b to get it leave the dots in, or is that an impossibility?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting..
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 18:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 18:38, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks I've had a look around but I can only see options for setting up a dual boot system from scratch. I'd like to be able to just add windows to this machine I've got a 25gb Hdd in this machine, with linux but I'd like to put 10gb or so aside to put Windows 98 on... I know it's pushing it fine, but it's only for games (hangs head) so I can play them networked... I'm going to give CrossOffice a go for one of them TIA Elwyn If I recall correctly Win98 insists on installing on the first partition on the drive, so unless partition 1 is currently unused you may have a problem. If you can get Win98 installed, then booting from CD1 in rescue mode will get you into Linux again so a Lilo entry can be created. derek Ok, Thanks for that... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FSTab
Thank you very much for the explanation... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] FSTab
Hi Folks I'm doing a bit of, er, housekeeping. Can someone tell me of the following entries which are not needed. /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 //sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.sentinel.admin 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I can remove the Sentinel option and I've somehow got an icon on the desktop for a network drive or usb drive or something called Remote Share which I think is to do with the Sentinel link. I've 1 hard drive and 1 cdrw in this, no other usb devices yet. Cheers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FSTab
On Monday 18 Oct 2004 16:04, SME Server Admin wrote: //sentinel/Primary /mnt/Primary smbfs user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.sentinel.admin 0 0 I've removed that and it's taken that icon off the desktop... But not sure about the others so have left them... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Moving System / Upgrading.... Help!
Aftenoon :) The time has come. I am finally in a position (technically) to upgrade this computer (Mandrake 10 on a P2-300mhz PC (384mb ram, 25gb Hdd, CRRW) to the chassis of an AMD1300 (384mb ram, the rest transfers over). Just need a bit of guidance and advise before I continue... Please :) Part 1. Now. I heavily use Kontact, Konqueror, Kopete, and occasionally Mozilla. I'm working at backing up and moving as much as possible into a storage area (hard drive or CD) while I do the change. What else have I missed? All personal files will be moved over to storage anyway that I can. But I don't want to lose any email. Obviously the filters will change anyway, and I'll have to setup spamassassin again! Part 2. Spec. The following spec is the new machine. Can anyone see any problems that may present itself ahead of time. It's about a year old, but all should be recognisable hardware by now (Please!) The information was stripped from Belarc Advisor. The host hardware is currently looking after a soon to demise XP installation. Processor 1.30 gigahertz AMD Duron 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 64 kilobyte secondary memory cache Main Circuit Board Board: Matsonic MS8308E Bus Clock: 66 megahertz BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 062710 07/15/9 Bus Adapters SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller Multimedia MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device SiS 7018 Audio Driver Standard Game Port Controllers Primary IDE Channel [Controller] Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] SiS PCI IDE Controller Display NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 [Display adapter] SiS 300/305/630/540/730 [Display adapter] Relisys RE767 [Monitor] (14.6vis, February 1997) Communications SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter Network IP Address: 192.168.0.7 / 24 Other Devices USB Human Interface Device Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard Microsoft PS/2 Mouse USB Root Hub USB Root Hub I don't think there will be much of a problem with that. The onboard video is not being used, the other onboard things are what are worrying me because it's all on the motherboard :( Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Databases
Hiya Folks I'm after a basic database program for Mandrake 10. It only needs about 5-10 fields but records wise could stretch on to several thousand records, and needs to allow imports from CSV files? Only for personal use... I've got Cross Office running MS Office 97 for access but it's slow and I'd like a proper Linux version! Suggestions please? TIA Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Databases
On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 01:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Thanks Björn Lundin and John Layt for your suggestions, I'll be looking into this now over the commming weeks to get it all running. Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] IRC Client
Hi Folks I currently use X-Chat to sit on an IRC channel usually 24/7 (as this machine is always on) and there are a few minor things I thought someone here could help me with :) I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says something. If not can someone suggest another program instead please? I'm getting on well with X-Chat and this would be a good addition :) Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Friday 17 Sep 2004 20:54, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:13:45 +0100 SME Server Admin disseminated the following: I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says something. If not can someone suggest another program instead please? I'm getting on well with X-Chat and this would be a good addition :) This may be what you are looking for: urpmi xchat-systray-plugin Thanks Joe I've tried doing the urpmi thingy but it didn't recognise the package. I'll go off and dig it upoff the net and do it that way... Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote: I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech support didn't scream in horror when I asked!). They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will definitely work with Mandrake 10 (and with Win 98SE, as I'm now dual booting)? Preferably an external one, as I'm not confident with screwdrivers! Or, are there any I should definitely avoid? Margot Netgear DM602 :) It is what I have here. It is an ADSL Modem and Router, easy to setup and above all, its a router, so you don't have to worry about hackers!!! :) I can reccomend this 100 percent! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Scream!
On Friday 13 Aug 2004 09:32, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Your never to old for games. Yes :) Indeed :) Despite this I am S glad I've moved to Linux though, it has taken a lot of headache out of somethings that Windows does which i don't like :( Also, I've found the files. I was playing around with Midnight Commander and found that the files were not gone afterall. I had mounted the folder on from the XP machine on the Linux machine using LinNeighborhood. Then moved the files over. They had not appeared on the XP machine. It turns out that a folder was created in the /mnt/XP/ folder and the files moved there! I've now managed to get them over, and I think it's time I sorted out some of the links and file shares across the network. Now a happier bunny. Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux / LAN Help
On Friday 13 Aug 2004 20:05, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Slowly getting my office up and running on Linux. Using Mandrake 10.0 Power Pack. MDK 10.0 is loaded and running well on my PC and laptop. I have established LAN connections and can see three of the four computers in my office. I can see the pc with XP on it. However the other pc that has 98 (used for storage) on it, I cannot see. I have set my linux machines to smb and nfs. Is there something else I'm missing. My router and hub are Linksys. Also, to move or copy files from one machine to another is there anything that I need to do as well, ie permissions or configuring routes,,,please advise. Thanks in advance. bj TGIF Right. I have been in a similar situation. I have had trouble getting 98 to access XP and for that I needed to create an ID on the XP machine matching the login details of the 98 machine. To access Linux 98, Linux XP, Linux SME Web Server I've used LinNeighborhood. Unfortunatly my file server has gone off on other vital duties and my large file space is on XP which is annoying me. With your setup can your 98 machine access your Linux machine's SMB area for file storage :) With the problem you've mentioned, can your XP machine see your 98 machine? Can your Linux machine see your XP machine? Are you using static IP or DHCP, what network parts have you got installed on your 98 machine. Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Scream!
On Thursday 12 Aug 2004 13:49, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:26, SME Server Admin wrote: There are some days I want to scream at this setup! I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in LinNeighbourhood. Fine. Linux saw the XP drives, so I copied a file Why go to that trouble you should have a windows partition on 10.0 check /mnt usually its /mnt/windows but it could be somthing else. Its a read only partition but you can copy anything over to linux. After you get everything copied then delete windows(g). This machine is only Linux. Windows on the other machine, and the other machine is for a few games and some other bits of software that is not portable to Linux. I think the XP machine will go back to being 98 because I really don't like the way it changes its own settings on its own whim :( Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Scream!
Alas. If I could run my games and Ameol on the linux machine I would happily move over. Alas not. I'm feeling better today, a bit more relaxed... Perhaps the caffine is helping me relax more :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: [kdepim-users] Teaching Spamassassin
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 13:47, SME Server Admin wrote: 1. What does your local.cf look like in /etc/mail/spamassassin? # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin. # # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be # tweaked. # ### # # rewrite_subject 0 # report_safe 1 # trusted_networks 212.17.35. auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_file_mode 0666 2. Are you using bayes? Thought So, but doesnt look like it does it :( 3. Do you have auto_learn turned on? Thought So, but doesnt look like it does it :( 4. What rule sets are you using in /etc/mail/spamassassin? 5. Are you using network checks, razor, pyzor, DCC, SURBL's? From the looks of it from http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php I seem to be lacking some information. I'm going to try and modify the above mentioned file and see if that works. If Auto Learn is switched, does this mean I do not need to use shell to tell it to learn ?? 6. How are you calling spamassassin? Do you have filters setup in Kmail? Yep, one to run all through spamassassin and the other to filter it Are you running spamd? Err, Don't think so. What's that? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin
On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 03:26, Chris wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 03:44 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Now, I've got SpamAssassin working and it seems to handle the spam at the moment, but I need to get this learn bit sorted, so would appreaciate some assitance in getting this working as soon as possible please! As far as I can see it is capturing about 1/4 of the spam coming in. Elwyn Couple of questions: 1. What does your local.cf look like in /etc/mail/spamassassin? 2. Are you using bayes? 3. Do you have auto_learn turned on? 4. What rule sets are you using in /etc/mail/spamassassin? 5. Are you using network checks, razor, pyzor, DCC, SURBL's? 6. How are you calling spamassassin? Do you have filters setup in Kmail? Are you running spamd? Hmm, right, er, most of those questions will take a while to find out. However, I initally was pointed out the following URL and followed it's information. http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Scream!
There are some days I want to scream at this setup! I've got Mandrake 10 and Windows XP They'd both been rebooted recently, and setup the shares again in LinNeighbourhood. Fine. Linux saw the XP drives, so I copied a file over, checked, it was there. So I moved 400mb of documents and some mp3s to go for backing up. The 400mb files didnt make it Linux XP but the other files did ?!! Since tried another copy and it worked fine. Scream! I've had enough. I'm going to bed... And I'm going to deprive these machiens of power tonight as punishment. As it is even now Kontact locks the machine up when running spam assassin to capture 1/4 of the spam coming in. Thanks G** I don't work with computers for a living!!! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Teaching Spamassassin
Hiya Right. i've had Spam Assassin running for a few weeks now, and have built up about 300 or so messages in my Spam/missed spam directory. The actually directory is: Local Folders / Spam / MissedSpam Now, I've been into shell and done as it asked, ie type in the following string. The first one was without a dot before Mail and the second was with it in. It's not working. This is in Kontact by the way. Can anyone help? TIA Elwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/Elwyn/Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/Elwyn/.Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/* Learned from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined). [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:40, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right, before you ask, I havn't updated anything yet. I can't view ANY email at all in the mail part of Kontact. Either in the view pane underneath the list of emails or if I double click to open up the email. I can however see them if I do a reply or a forward. This happened last night, don't know what caused it and I rebooted and it went away. I had tried reopening Kontact a few times but it didnt help. So, at the moment I can only read emails by trying to reply to them :( Suggestions please? I'd like, if at all possible, to get out of this problem /without/ having to reinstall everything! I've even tried extra coffee and it doesn't help! Help! Elwyn Right. In Configure Kmail: Kontact and Appearance Fonts: I've got this set to a custom just to get the text larger, but even if I uncheck use custom fonts then the problem remains. And that's been like that for several months! Colours tab is standard Layout tab has the following items checked, although changing anything here doesnt make a blind yot of difference! Show HTML status bar Folder List: Long Folder List Message Preview Pane: Show the message preview pane below the message list Message Structure Viewer: show only for non plaintext messages Message Structure Viewer Placement: below the message pane Elwyn ___ KDE PIM users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 16:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:40, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right, before you ask, I havn't updated anything yet. I can't view ANY email at all in the mail part of Kontact. Either in the view pane underneath the list of emails or if I double click to open up the email. I can however see them if I do a reply or a forward. This happened last night, don't know what caused it and I rebooted and it went away. I had tried reopening Kontact a few times but it didnt help. So, at the moment I can only read emails by trying to reply to them :( Suggestions please? I'd like, if at all possible, to get out of this problem /without/ having to reinstall everything! I've even tried extra coffee and it doesn't help! Help! Elwyn Right. In Configure Kmail: Kontact and Appearance Fonts: I've got this set to a custom just to get the text larger, but even if I uncheck use custom fonts then the problem remains. And that's been like that for several months! Colours tab is standard Layout tab has the following items checked, although changing anything here doesnt make a blind yot of difference! Show HTML status bar Folder List: Long Folder List Message Preview Pane: Show the message preview pane below the message list Message Structure Viewer: show only for non plaintext messages Message Structure Viewer Placement: below the message pane Elwyn Although the news part works fine! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 16:19, SME Server Admin wrote: Trying here just in case :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Got a problem viewing anything in mail Date: Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:50 From: SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 02 Aug 2004 12:40, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya Right, before you ask, I havn't updated anything yet. I can't view ANY email at all in the mail part of Kontact. Either in the view pane underneath the list of emails or if I double click to open up the email. I can however see them if I do a reply or a forward. This happened last night, don't know what caused it and I rebooted and it went away. I had tried reopening Kontact a few times but it didnt help. So, at the moment I can only read emails by trying to reply to them :( Suggestions please? I'd like, if at all possible, to get out of this problem /without/ having to reinstall everything! I've even tried extra coffee and it doesn't help! Help! Elwyn Right. In Configure Kmail: Kontact and Appearance Fonts: I've got this set to a custom just to get the text larger, but even if I uncheck use custom fonts then the problem remains. And that's been like that for several months! Colours tab is standard Layout tab has the following items checked, although changing anything here doesnt make a blind yot of difference! Show HTML status bar Folder List: Long Folder List Message Preview Pane: Show the message preview pane below the message list Message Structure Viewer: show only for non plaintext messages Message Structure Viewer Placement: below the message pane Elwyn Hmm. Rebooted for the nth time and it works now :( Grr Any Suggestions?? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Got a problem viewing anything in mail
Right. I seem to be getting somewhere. I have no idea why this is happening, but the Message Body is closing up between the message list and the message structure leaving just a thick grey line with 6 dots in the middle. When the MB is back, with the ML at the top and MS at the bottom this grey line is half the thickness with three little dots in the centre of this line top and bottom. Can anybody decode this for me please? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updating
Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found to get the updates from. What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through the shell with urpmi? Ta Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Updating
On Sunday 01 Aug 2004 19:37, Björn Lundin wrote: SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found to get the updates from. What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through the shell with urpmi? Ta Elwyn Search for a thread James Sparenberg wrote ~ a month ago, where he describes in detail how to maek it work through urpmi. I think using wget url/* was involved + generating a hdlist + adding the download directory as an urpmi source. But look in the archives... I did it, and had some minor glitches, that I solved, but others have had total success. /Björn Ta :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with konqueror.
On Tuesday 27 Jul 2004 13:14, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 02:45, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote: Press F5 when you put a new disc in? Elwyn Thanks that works. What does F5 do I never had to do that before? It refreshes the Konq window - so apparently you were seeing cached data in the Konq window - hence why I always tune my EIDE drives, and rarely use Konq (Rox works, Nautilus works sometimes for large data caches, MC works great, the cli even better) Thanks when I get over some other problems I intend to investigate mc and cli works but not better much slower and more typing. It refreshes most things. Works on Windows so wasnt really surprised it worked here as well :) In Windows I was also used to Shift-Click a link to open in new window, and in Konq it's Ctrl-Click :) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 20:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:25, SME Server Admin wrote: Hiya I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email. At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking for something I can use that will handle it for me, one that can learn if that's possible? TIA Elwyn If you're really wanting to filter spam, why aren't you using your local postfix setup with procmail? stephen kuhn - proprietor Um, er, um, I dunno... What do those things do? Kontact does very well what I need for it now I have found SA. I don't want to make things tooo complicted Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 05:22, Rob Blomquist wrote: FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf? I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can figure out what you are asking. Rob Ahh, a man with more understanding of these things than I ;) At the moment I'm building up a collection of spammissed and then will do the next set of instructions :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact
Hiya Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing, there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without fruition! Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 11:23, Poogle wrote: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml Ahh thank you :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 21:19, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: I believe you set a date that restricts the length of time Kmail stores a email in a folder before an automated deletion process takes place. Must be in the settings someplace but as I don't use Kmail can't help there. Hence it expires (i.e. ceases to exist, kicks the deleted bucket, runs out of time...) On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:19:04 +0100 SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing, there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without fruition! Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please? Elwyn Gotcha! THanks :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote: At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and have been unable to find it again. Can anyone here point me to it? Thanks Marc A quick session on Google revealed the following: http://www.claymania.com/unix-viruses.html http://zdnet.com.com/5208-1105-0.html?forumID=1threadID=3583messageID=74251start=60 http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5785842995.html http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200209/linux_malware.xml Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 16:13, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 23 July 2004 01:25 am, SME Server Admin wrote: | Hiya | | I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email. | | At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking | for something I can use that will handle it for me, one that can learn if | that's possible? | | TIA | | Elwyn There are several, but quite a few of us use SpamAssassin. SA takes a bit of teaching, but once you parse a couple of thousand messages it gets extremely good at filtering out the junk. It is on your disks, and probably already installed. To begin your adventure go here: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticle; artid=15 http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/spam.html http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html http://www.rulesemporium.com/ Thanks, gone for a look :) I may be gone some time. Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 18:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewar ticleartid=15 http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/spam.html snip These two refrences do not resolve on the server. The Columbia Link has gone, but the other is there hidden away... I think I've bookmarked it here somewhere.. Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for the brother of FrontPage for Linux
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 21:16, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program similar to FrontPage for Linux. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul What about Quanta Plus?? It's probably already installed :) Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] difficulty reconfiguring Kwallet under mdk 10.0
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 22:52, g2 wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2004 08:41 am, Peter Watson wrote: Run /usr/bin/kwalletmanager then open kwallet from the icon in the system tray and you will be able to access the configuration settings and un-enable kwallet. HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland I've done that , Kwallet now runs all the time, but Kwallet still wants a password before firing up :( Is there a way to get Kwallet to open up and run without asking for a password? I've tried changing it to nothing and it won't take it :( ?? Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 12:07, Bryan Phinney wrote: arts is the default sound system in KDE. You can, however, turn arts completely off and use OSS directly, you just won't get sounds in KDE or if you do get sounds, they won't coexist with other items such as xmms. To disable arts, disable it in Configuration, KDE, Sound System by turning system sounds off. However, as a first step, let me recommend that you add the PLF repository, or Charles' repository to urpmi and install xmms and xmms-arts plugin from those sites to make sure that you have the newest versions. Also, you might consider switching your hardware sound drivers from OSS to ALSA which is a newer architecture and might be better supported under newer versions of Mandrake. Thank you very much for all your help :) I've been having some other problems with my Mandrake 10 installation for music, and this is the 2nd reinstall... I've disabled sound and for once Xmms has now managed to and is playing MP3s :) Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] XawScreen
Hiya Is there a log file entry somewhere for XawScreen? I'm trying out a TV card and it keeps crashing. Or rather, all it does it starts to load then just vanishes??? Running Mandrake 10 Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 14:32, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I am stumped as to how to get around the insert cdrom4 message when I try to install some softwares with rpmdrake. There is a 4 CD pack for members of Mandrake's website... Otherwise everyone else has a 3 CD pack HTH Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10
Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others wont work :( Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc For mp3encode for example I've got the following settings Encoder Command Line: -p 2 -l 3 -b %b %w %m Encoder File Format: ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.ogg If it's encoding to MP3 surely the extention of the file format should be mp3 not ogg? The error message I get is Invalid Encoder Executable Check your encoder config Which is where I am stuck. Help! Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 18:47, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:10:20PM +0100, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? MandrakeSoft can't package mp3 encoders due to licensing restrictions, so you'll have to download and install an mp3 encoder like lame. If you add plf to your urpmi sources I think you can get lame and other mp3 encoders. Ahh, I see :) Thanks for telling me... If you don't need the tunes for a portable player, I'd recommend sticking with ogg anyway; it's better and free. Todd Ok. Winamp can cope with OGG can't it?!? Down the line I'm planning on getting an iRiver HP 120/130/140 whatever and that does OGG Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] X-Chat
Could anyone tell me where X-Chat keeps its logs. I know I've got them switched on but I don't know where they are stored. Anyone?? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X-Chat
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 15:43, Dan Gordon wrote: /home/username/.xchat2/xchatlogs Ahh yes, thanks found it :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
