RE: [newbie] graphic utility
I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a screenshot and save it to a file and have it be viewable by someone who lives on the Windows platform. Anybody know the name of what I need? Thanks. Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] graphic utility
Thank you. I'll try that. I happen to prefer KDE. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Damian Gatabria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] graphic utility On Wednesday 15 January 2003 18:34, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a screenshot and save it to a file and have it be viewable by someone who lives on the Windows platform. Anybody know the name of what I need? Thanks. Jeanie if you like KDE: ksnapshot if you like commandline: add this to your ~/.bashrc file: alias screenshot=import -window root -display localhost:0 picture.pcx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RE: kiosk?
I wasn't sure what information to include in the initial email. The software that would be running is industry specific. Windows applications would be running via citrix server. The main program would be a swing gui used for processing pods of wafers. We have many creative individuals here who are bored as well. Others are just hacks who live to be a pain in the patootie. If games, browsers, music, videos etc. are able to be installed, management will NEVER allow linux in the fab. Can't allow them command line access, period. Right now, I have the only linux desktop in the entire company. That has to change (yes, I'm a zealot). Getting a linux pc the fab will make linux visible to all levels of management. If it's visible and it costs them no money (I'm using a recycled PC), management will buy into the idea that linux is the way to go. We know it is, but the phb's do not. And I have to be able to show the same level of control and security our current options have. So to top it off, whatever software might be available to help in this area has to be open source as there's no budget right now for me to do this. But I am compelled to do it. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Spencer [mailto:sdander;oberon.ark.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RE: kiosk? On November 12, 2002 03:24 pm, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm not sure if a kiosk is what will solve my problem. Advice would be very appreciated. Here's the problem: I am putting a linux pc in our fab (semiconductor) as a test to prove to management that linux is a viable, inexpensive option to utilize in our manufacturing plant. (verses new xterms at $6K or more a pop, new servers, or new windows pizza boxes). I need to prevent the technicians from hacking the box, from surfing, from installing ... you name it. They need to be able to run ONLY the guis/programs that allow manufacturing to continue smoothly. What is the best way to have the machine automatically boot into a window manager that has only a background menu pick that I can program? It does not have to start any software upon restart but that would be a plus. Thanks. Jeanie Wow, that's a tall order. Icewm would be the window manager to use. It's totally configurable to what ever you want on a desktop. What sort of apps would you want to run? Is this all possible? You bet, but we need a lot more information. Unwanted hacking or installing is easy to control, just don't release the root password. There is probably others on the list that can help but to me, this would be an interesting challenge. Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] adding a new hard drive
Diskdrake ... that's what I needed. hdb1 and hdb2 are up and running. Thanks! Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] backup system
Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. Jeanie __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] backup system
There are literally hundreds of solutions out there ... a quick search at sourceforge is what prompted me to post in hopes of finding a backup utility quickly. Unfortunately many are alpha or beta releases. And it take quite a bit of time to wade through all the hits. Currently we have only one linux machine (sad isn't it, but I am working on it). Today the sysadmin was supposed to install legato's backup system ... then he read the documentation and mandrake-linux is not supported. I've got a big fat tarball on a machine that is backed up so I have that at least. I was hoping to find a backup system that did incremental backup and is preferably client-server. A nice interface would be nice. It's pretty hard to convince windows junkies that a non-gui based piece of software is worth using. Still reading ... Jeanie -Original Message- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] backup system Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. Jeanie Depends on what your backup needs are. If they're extensive, run a search on any Linux software site for solutions; if they're simple, just write a little script to do the job using tar. The simplest would just be to tar and zip all home directories, then ftp to another computer or move to a backup device such as a zip drive. The following, for example, would back up all home directories to another machine (assuming you have ncftp installed, which I wholeheartedly recommend - it's far and away my favourite ftp client). tar zcf - /home | ncftpput -c -X /home/me/junk anotherbox.mycompany.com /home/me/backup.tar.gz In this case /home/me/junk is a file listing the types of file that you don't want included (you probably don't want to back up everybody's Netscape cache, for example). See man ncftpput for details. Sir Robin __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. LOL -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing Netscape 6.2 from CD
You might want to consider the mozilla browser 1.0 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/stable.html I'm running it on linux, windows 2000 and windows 98. I removed Netscape 6.2 from the windows machines and quit using Konqueror on linux once I had played with mozilla for a few weeks. It is, IMHO, superior. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Jerry Van Brimmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 6:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing Netscape 6.2 from CD Mandrake 8.2, normal installation. I have a Netscape 6.2.1 CD and I am trying to install Netscape 6.2.1. But, if I follow the instructions on the CD cover, every time I try to run ./netscape-installer I get the message: bash: ./netscape-installer: bad interpreter: Permission denied , without the quotes of course. I get this same message as user or as root. What's wrong? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] bugzilla install with linux 8.2
Anybody done a bugzilla install with 8.2? Apache's stuff is set up differently on linux than on every other OS I'm familiar with so I think this is where my problem lies. I can get index.html to view but that's it, for some reason all other *.html and *.cgi don't work. The error is the file url[*.html|*.cgi] cannot be found. Please check the location and try again I would be grateful for any suggestions. Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
We had a similar problem. We had weird symptoms such as a logger looked like it was running away, find made the machine hang (had to use the power button on that one) but only sometimes. Turned out to be flaky RAM. As soon as we replaced it and doubled it, all was right with the world. We used http://www.memtest86.com/ for testing the RAM. Jeanie -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:39 am, you wrote: Hi all, I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I am. My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking for is ideas for establishing what the problem might be. Basically, I installed Mandrake 8.2 a few days ago, and it's crashed once or twice a day since then. I was tolerating it, until this morning's crash when my root partition was damaged. Now I want to get to the bottom of it. When it's crashed I can see that my CPU meter is suggest a very high CPU load (around 4 lines high on a standard xload meter). Various things lock up, generally my web browser. I'm suspicious of mozilla/galeon at present, but don't really know for sure. Eventually the whole thing dies, and I can ctrl-alt-F1 etc to get to a shell, but if I run anything (like pine) the whole thing stops, and eventually I can't do anything (like login from another prompt). At that point I have to reset my computer... As I said, this morning the disk was damaged by this, and I had to manually run fsck to fix it up. Annoying. Anyone experience similar weird problems? I'm going to try not running any mozilla based browsers for a while, to see if that helps at all. I'll let you know if it does. Thanks for any help you can offer me! Pippin Barr how much memory do you have? is it shared video mem? how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) also type cat /proc/interrupts and let us see that. did you install (clean, format all linux partitions?) or Upgrade? try running top as the first thing when you see the slowdown. my guess is no free hard drive space (in say /etc or /var), or a lost swap file. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mysql
I need to learn mysql. I looked at bookpool and there are too many books to pick from. Can anyone give me a recommendation? I'm a C/Java programmer so it doesn't have to be too basic, just thorough and preferably not put me to sleep. Jeanie __ This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] To American readers (slightly OT)
Never heard of it. Jeanie -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] To American readers (slightly OT) poogle wrote: I am suddenly getting various virus/worms sent to me (Klez, Septic) viewing headers shows a common pattern, they all contain smtp-server.tampabayr.com a visit the www.tampabayr.com gets redirected to what appears to be a militant organisation concerned with nuking people. I'm curios, is this a well known organisation in the U.S ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
I give them to my teenage daughter who then nukes them in the wave for about 3 seconds (cool patterns result) She then hangs them on her wall. It looks pretty good especially when she has the black light on. Yeah, it's probably not that great on the wave but she's been doing it for about a year and I can still heat up my tea. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 1:27 PM To: Newbie at MDK Subject: [newbie] What to do with old CDs Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
the url to cryptonym intentionally left blank. Security is an pet area of interest to me, where have you gotten the info on what Ashcroft is doing? -Original Message- From: shane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$ On Friday 24 May 2002 12:18 am, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Well, Brian it was all over the internet news, including the Register, August 1999. And you can still find the story at www.cryptonym.com where they exvaluated the security danger from it as nothing abnormal, since the only reason the NSA would want such a key is to save a little time. and ashcroft is actively fighting to get a backdoor put into rsa encryption. check what the aclu has to say about tech sometime. -- Give me ambiguity or give me something else. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?
Thanks to everyone for their help. Installed the xinetd rpm and everything is working fine now. Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?
I did a find as root from root. I have an /etc/xinetd.d/ but there is no xinetd.conf or inetd.conf anywhere. Nor is there a daemon process for either. I guess I should explain why I'm looking: cvs. The cvs manual section 2.9.2 says to edit the /etc/inetd.conf file if one wants to use the pserver. I'm trying to use my linux box as the client ... the server (where the repo is) is running HP-UX. When I try to checkout for example, I get the error unknown command cvspserver. I looked in /etc/cvs/cvs.conf and /etc/xinetd.d/cvs and everything looks ok as far as it goes. Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?
It is not running and there is no /var/run/xinetd.pid. I installed the OS just a couple weeks ago, could something simply not have been installed? Jeanie -Original Message- From: Gerald Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] - inetd.conf file? On Tuesday 14 May 2002 03:39 pm, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I did a find as root from root. I have an /etc/xinetd.d/ but there is no xinetd.conf or inetd.conf anywhere. Nor is there a daemon process for either. I guess I should explain why I'm looking: cvs. The cvs manual section 2.9.2 says to edit the /etc/inetd.conf file if one wants to use the pserver. I'm trying to use my linux box as the client ... the server (where the repo is) is running HP-UX. When I try to checkout for example, I get the error unknown command cvspserver. [gerald@gail gerald]$ ps ax | grep xinet 1670 ?SW 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfile/var/run/xinetd.pid also look if there is /var/run/xinetd.pid -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?
No such file /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd chkconfig --list | grep xinetd comes up empty chkconfig --level 345 xinetd onerrors because there is no xinetd I thought xinetd was installed as a basic part of linux. I think I'll just install http://www.xinetd.org/pub/xinetd/ unless someone hollers back that this is not a good thing. Thanks. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Gerald Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] - inetd.conf file? On Tuesday 14 May 2002 04:53 pm, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: It is not running and there is no /var/run/xinetd.pid. I installed the OS just a couple weeks ago, could something simply not have been installed? what happens if you start it /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start What does chkconfig --list | grep xinetd say? xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off If its off in 345 do chkconfig --level 345 xinetd on This will get it to start on boot -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ssh problem?
I'm trying to get CVS to work from my linux box across to the server which is running hpux and I get this error. I thought my problem was that ssh was not installed on the hp machine. It now is installed but I still get the following error. ssh: connect to address a.b.c.d port 22: Connection refused I tried watching the packets in ethereal but it didn't give me any info that helped. Is something not running? Have I configured something wrong? How can I determine if the problem is my box or the other box? TIA Jeanie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...
I had a problem getting my Netscape bookmarks into Konqueror last week. If you place your Netscape bookmarks, bookmarks.html not bookmarks.htm, into the ./mozilla directory. Then from Konqueror's menu bar, select Bookmarks Edit Bookmarks... This brings up a popup File Import Mozilla Bookmarks You'd think Import Netscape Bookmarks would be the correct option but mine was greyed out and I was told that the bookmarks are pretty much the same in both Mozilla and Netscape. The above worked well for me. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Brian Koppe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks... First off, thank you for the help copying my Mozilla bookmarks - I didn't realize it was so easy. Two other things: 1) How do I import my Mozilla bookmarks in Konqueror and 2) I have a friend who use(d) IE and I just got him to try Linux - how would he import the IE bookmarks into either Mozilla or Konqueror? Thanks! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained
SO6 has not crashed on loading windoze doc files (File ... Open) for me but it does crash when using the spell checker (not every time, just sometimes). My system is a clean install of 8.2 with office 6.0 (no upgrades anywhere since I've only been up and running since April 23rd). I tried emailing a word document but my email is via a citrix server and I haven't figured out how to get it to open documents on my pc (the linux one) since it gives me no options and automatically uses what's on the server (Word). My only other complain is the page preview ... I dare you to get out of it if you're not printing. I hate to say it but if I don't have the luxury of time, it's Word for me. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 8:42 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained OK - This got a nice little flame war going, but didn't really address the question. Is anyone else using SO6 - not the other flavors - and seeing the same behavior as I am? A friend who just upgraded to 8.2 has SO6 crashing on every doc file he's tried to open by any means so far. Not my experience, but then he did UPGRADE, while I have done clean installs. Maybe it's all to do with some font settings or something. Now if everyone who replies to this can please refrain from saying anything vaguely antagonistic, it really would be nice to hear of some comparable experiences. I paid for this SW. Just because I pay for Windows and expect it to fail doesn't mean I will put up with it from Sun. Oops! Shane you are SUCH a bad influence ;-) Brian On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:56, Brian Parish wrote: Just a quick note on SO6. I have seen claims here that it opens everything faultlessly and that it crashes and is totally useless. It turns out that both are true :-) Try to open a word doc file received as an attachment with the Open in StarOffice dialog - crash! Try to open a word doc in the same way from Konq - crash. Open SO6, then use the File Open on the same docs - no problem. It may not be faultless, but used this way it looks pretty good to me so far. Hopefully Sun and/or Mandrake will make the open with way of doing things work soon. Could actually be a Mandrake issue I guess. HTH Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] bookmarks file from netscape to konqueror
It worked! Thank goodness. I am trying to get the same exact functionality on my linux box as I have on my windows box. Thanks. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Ralph Slooten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] bookmarks file from netscape to konqueror I don't know much (if anything) about KDE, or for that matter Konqueror, but afaik the bookmarks are pretty much the same in both Mozilla and Netscape. Just try using the Import Mozilla Bookmarks, and if that does not wotk, give a yell ;-) Greetings Ralph On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.2's Konqueror and want to port my bookmarks from Netscape. I currently have all my bookmarks in Netscape on my windows machine. Now that I've got my linux machine, I would like to port those bookmarks over. Here's what I did Bookmarks Edit Bookmarks... This brings up a popup File-- Import Netscape Bookmarks Import Mozilla Bookmarks Export to Netscape Bookmarks Export to Mozilla Bookmarks Ack!! Import Netscape Bookmarks is greyed out. The other three options are NOT greyed. The one I need is the only one greyed out. Why is it greyed out? Anybody else had this problem? And how did you fix it? Workarounds? Jeanie -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
