Re: [newbie] Changing Defaults in OOo??
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:02, Langsley T Russell wrote: I've tried it on two very different machines both running mandrake 9.2 and the results are the same on both. Therefore I thought it might be some variation in the program as included with Mandrake. Whether it is a Mandrake issue or an Open Office issue the fact remains that I'm unable to change my default template to one of my choosing. Is there simply no way of doing it? OR am I simply doing something very basic wrong which I'm too stupid or inexperienced to see? I had the exact same problems in MDK 9.2! Been using Cooker the past few weeks and don't have that problem any more. I think you may be right - its a Mandrake specific problem. You could try downloading and installing the generic OO from their website. That might help. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT: Writing BASIC function in OpenOffice.org - scalc
Hi all I know this is not the right place to be asking about this but I asked on the oooforum but got no replies and thought that since there are so many smart cookies on this list that perhaps someone might know the solution to my problem. I am a REAL NEWBIE on this BASIC scripting! I've written a User Defined Function (UDF) in scalc for calculating income tax at different rates for NZ's various tax brackets. The only problem is that I need to use the builtin ROUNDDOWN function (to truncate the cents) in my UDF. I'm guessing that because the ROUNDDOWN function is not explicitly defined in my UDF I get a 'BASIC runtime error': Sub-routine procedure or function procedure not defined. Here's a piece of my code: start code ElseIf GrossPay 182 And GrossPay 731 Then RoundGP = ROUNDDOWN(GrossPay, 0) AI = RoundGP*52 PAYE = (0.21*AI)-570 AEarnLevy = 0.012*AI WDed = (PAYE + AEarnLevy)/52 Tax1 = ROUNDDOWN(WDed, 2) end code What I need to know is: 1. Is my assumption correct - that I need to include the ROUNDDOWN function in my UDF? 2. If so, how do I do that if I don't know what actual code is used for that builtin function? I've googled and googled and now I'm cross-eyed! 3. Am I way off track or perhaps my requirement is impossible? Any help would be muchly appreciated. Cheers Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:37, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 5:09 pm, José Carlos Cortizo Pérez droned on: Hi: I have a dual opteron 246 system with 4G of ram recognized by the Bios (4096M). But when executing cat /proc/meminfo, i see the system says there is a memTotal of 3073268. It seems one giga is not recognized by the kernel. I've tried mem=4000M on startup but the problem is the same. Someone can help me? The basic kernel cannot see 1Gb of RAM or more, you will need to use the enterprise kernel instead. ...or the kernel-i686-up-4GB kernel (I _think_ - not sure about your dual opteron) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:13, Lee B. wrote: I tried webmin to admin Apache 2.0 and got the following error: The Apache server executable /usr/sbin/httpd does not exist. If you have Apache installed, adjust the module configuration to use the correct path. I searched for httpd, but didn't find it...(that doesn't mean it isn't there Will Webmin work with Apache version 2? What configuration is needed? To get webmin to work with Apache-2 I had to set the following parameters in Webmin Apache Server Module Config File to add virtual servers to= httpd2.conf Path to httpd executable= /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd Apache version= apache2-2.0.47-6.3.92 Path to the apachectl command= /usr/sbin/apachectl Path to httpd.conf= /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 08:17, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:55:16 -0600 Shawn Protsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is what I have done in the past (I did not use the RealPlayer RPM). After installing Real Player (8) there is an object named rpnp.so located in /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/. Copy rpnp.so into your plugins directory. I am using Galeon 1.3.3 and Firebird 0.7 and both work with the RealPlayer plugin. Which plugins dir exactly, though. I would assume I have to create it, since I can find nothing in /usr/share/galeon, and I already have a file rpnp.so in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins. Not sure but I think the same applies to mozilla-1.4: I installed RealPlayer-8.0-6mdk.i586.rpm, RealPlayer-Codecs-9.0-2mdk.i586.rpm and mozplugger-1.3.0-8mdk.i586.rpm but couldn't get RealPlayer working in either mozilla-1.5 or firebird-0.7 (RealPlayer itself worked fine, just not from a browser). I had already created a symlink to /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so in both plugin directories, but alas... no go. The problem is that these newer versions of mozilla and firebird are compiled with gcc-3.2 but the RealPlayer plugin is compiled with gcc-2.95. Thanks to Mitch at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213234 we have a hack to get around this problem. After locating an old libgcc.a from gcc-2.96 on my system, I created the file (see attached rpnphack.so ) called rpnphack.so with the following parameters: ld -shared -o rpnphack.so \ /full/path/to/RealPlayer/rpnp.so \ /some/path/to/an/old/libgcc.a I then copied the rpnphack.so to the browser plugin directories, started firebird, tried RealNetworks' test samples at http://service.real.com/realone/test/ and VOILA!!! it works! Realplayer starts buffering the demo. NOTE: Still can't get comedycentral.com to work though! Says I don't have realplayer installed. about:plugins shows: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes and in /etc/mozpluggerrc I have the following lines: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin: rpm: RealPlayer Plugin Metafile audio/x-pn-realaudio: ra,rm,ram: Realaudio-plugin resource locator audio/x-realaudio: ra,rm,ram: RealAudio file application/vnd.rn-realmedia: rm: RealMedia file application/smil: smi: RealPlayer audio/vnd.rn-realaudio: ra,ram: RealAudio file audio/vnd.rn-realvideo: rv: RealVideo file nokill exits: realplay $file Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:39, Sharrea Day wrote: huge snip file (see attached rpnphack.so ) called rpnphack.so with the following parameters: snip Replying to my own message... ;) Oops forgot to attach my rpnphack.so... and rather than p*ss some people off I decided to just print the contents of the file here... no attachments... no, no... ld -shared -o rpnphack.so \ /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so \ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/libgcc.a Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chnage to text mode login
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:43, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 22:09, Xue-Feng Yang wrote: I made a mistake that I forgot to choose text mode login when I installed Mandrake. So each time I start my linux box, the computer goes to X-win directly. Could anyone tell me how to resolve this? MCC click on boot uncheck the load graphical login Or edit /etc/inittab and change the following line (approx line 18): id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: In other words just change the 5 (run level 5) to a 3 (run level 3). Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Building the source to reflect current config
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:00, George P. Stathis wrote: Firstly, please lose the Reply-to address. It causes replies to go directly to you rather than the list. Thanks. When I open my KDE control center, the release number is 2.4.22-10mdk and the machine is i686. OK, that is the standard kernel that comes with 9.2 on the disks. Even though your machine is a x686, the rpms you're using are compiled for x586 and makes no difference. Just FYI, it is possible to compile all rpms for x686 but not only does it take a very long time, there is little or no performance gain. So just stick with x586 rpms. The source rpm that I had already found was called kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm. That is NOT the package you want. That is a source rpm that you have to rebuild. The FTP link that you sent is for i596. I looked in the RPMS folder and there is a file called kernel-source-2.4.22-10mdk.i586.rpm. How do I know which source is the right one for me? Yep, this is the package you're after (kernel-source). Install this one if you do not intend to first update your system. I have also been trying to get the Software Media Manager to recognize a local folder under root where I have been downloading the rpm files so that the packages show up in RpmDrake but without success. Does RpmDrake offer something better when compared to simply running the rpm packages standalone? You can add sources using urpmi.addmedia at the command line. Open a terminal, su to root and type (ignore the #, it merely denotes the root console prompt): # urpmi.addmedia options name file://path [ with relative path of synthesis/hdlist ] ***EXAMPLE 1*** I have downloaded rpms which are stored in /shared/downloads/9_2/general. There is no synthesis or hdlist for this directory of rpms: # urpmi.addmedia general file://shared/downloads/9_2/general/ Rpmdrake will now list these under the general source repository. If you prefer to use the gui Software Media Manager: Click Add. Select Type of Medium: Local files Enter a name in Name: eg. general Click Browse. Navigate to the directory containing your downloaded rpms. Click OK. Rpmdrake will now list these under the general source repository. == ***EXAMPLE 2*** I have downloaded all the security/bug fixes and the relative hdlist which are stored in /shared/downloads/9_2/updates (hdlist.cz in same directory): # urpmi.addmedia --update updates file://shared/downloads/9_2/updates/ with ./hdlist.cz The --update option tells urpmi and rpmdrake to treat this source as the update source. Rpmdrake will now list these under the updates source repository. Rpmdrake will now list these under the updates source repository. If you prefer to use the gui Software Media Manager: Click Add. Select Type of Medium: Security updates The name update_source is automatically entered in the Name field. Type in path to the directory containing the downloaded update rpms: file://shared/downloads/9_2/updates Tick the checkbox next to Relative path to synthesis/hdlist: and enter the RELATIVE path to hdlist (in my case, same directory): ./hdlist.cz Click OK Rpmdrake will now list these under the update_source source repository. == ***EXAMPLE 3*** To use an ftp updates mirror (make sure you are connected to the internet.): # urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz Wait while the list is downloaded. Rpmdrake will now list these under the updates source repository. If you prefer to use the gui Software Media Manager: Click Add. Select Type of Medium: Security updates The name update_source is automatically entered in the Name field. Click Choose a mirror, click Yes and select a mirror from the list. Click OK and wait while the list is downloaded. Rpmdrake will now list these under the update_source source repository. == There is a website that makes it very easy to find the various sources (updates, contrib, plf, etc) and the relative commands for urpmi. Check out http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php Sorry for the newbie questions...Linux is obviously not my main OS but I do need to use it for some academic development pusposes (that's why right now, I don't really need all the security updates, I just want that silly VMware to work). Thank you for your time! No problemo! We all have to start somewhere. I've been using Linux for 2-1/2 years now and I'm still learning... gotta love it! Sharrea --- Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:50, George P. Stathis wrote: Here is finally my question: short of recompiling the kernel from the source so that my running kernel matches the source, is there a way to grab my current kernel configuration and pass it as a parameter to the make command so that I
Re: [newbie] OT -Frozen Bubble
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:20, Phil Savoie wrote: Has anyone noticed that Frozen Bubble crashes with Mandrake 9.2? It does this everytime I start it. I have a radeon 9000 video card. It wouldn't be a big deal except it is one of my and my wifes favorite games. If there is any more info needed please let me know. Works fine here. GeForce2 GTS Pro Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] financial app
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:02, Johan wrote: Any known financial app for linux except gnucash, please I use quasar from http://www.linuxcanada.com/ Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway config???
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:48, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 15:03, craig wrote: Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig /etc/sysconfig/network Parameters are GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV IIRC, you only need GATEWAYDEV if you use a dialup modem (as I do). Mine goes: $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 HOSTNAME=tbird.nofish.net.nz Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firebird nukes bookmarks
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:17, Eric Huff wrote: Anyone else experience this? Every so often, i'll notice that firebird has nuked a bunch of my bookmarks. Using tarball version of firebird 0.7 and haven't lost any bookmarks. Perhaps firebird is crashing? thus losing any info for that session you wanted saved?? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What video player software?
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:32, Iván Velamazán González wrote: What do you prefer to play DVD and those MPEG and those Windows Media files sometimes comes by eMail: Mplayer, Totem, Xine, Ogle? What is more multimedia capable? My thought: .- Totem: I still didn't tested it, but good references on it. .- MPlayer: The best references, but I have NEVER could use it. :-( .- Xine: The best that I know really and what I've been using... till it broke out. Trying to fix it. It does play all those W** multimedia files. .- Ogle: The first and easiest DVD playing software I used for a short time. I don't know all of its possibilities. I used to use xine exclusively in MDK 9.0 but with 9.1 and 9.2 I use mplayer when I want to watch more than one video and totem for only one video - mainly short mpegs as I don't have a DVD drive. Once you get mplayer working it really is a good player. Although I must admit, I've not tinkered with the settings all that much - it just works so I leave everything apart from skins as the default. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firebird nukes bookmarks
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:54, Eric Huff wrote: Anyone else experience this? Every so often, i'll notice that firebird has nuked a bunch of my bookmarks. Using tarball version of firebird 0.7 and haven't lost any bookmarks. Perhaps firebird is crashing? thus losing any info for that session you wanted saved?? What happens is i'll notice that right clicking on a bookmark in the sid pane doesn't work, or sometimes firebird crashes. After that, i'll notice a bunch of missing bookmarks. But i lose more that just that sessions worth. Sometimes it bookmarks from before, but they are usually near recent ones in the list... Don't have a sidebar for bookmarks with my version. Is your sidebar from a plugin that you've installed? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gotmail - new version works
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:05, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 Dec 2003 10:40 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Hi all for those who were using gotmail-0.79 which stopped working a few weeks ago - the new version 0.8 (beta) at sourceforge works fine. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gotmail/ Sharea, I get very little hotmail, so I didn't notice that it wasn't working. On checking I have 2 messages, one of which is a month old. I have unzipped the file to the same directory as the old hotmail script, which has worked in the past, but I can't remember what I had to do to set up calling the old script. Obviously just replacing the perl script is not working, so can you tell me what else I need to do? Thanks Hi Anne Unless your email client settings have changed it should work if you replaced the old perl script with the new one. If you're using kmail: in kmail Configuration Network Receiving tab enter the location of the email file, eg. /home/anne/.hotmail/Inbox (create the dir/file if it does not exist - your choice of path/filename) in the precommand box enter path to perl script, eg. /usr/local/bin/gotmail (that's where I put mine) choose Mutt dotlock as the locking method and make sure mutt is installed. be sure you have your config file in your home directory as ~/.gotmailrc I noticed on sourceforge gotmail release notes: [quote] Due to changes in cookie handling, this release now requires curl 7.9 or better. If you're using curl 7.10, you may have to use this option: --curl-bin 'curl -k', if your ssl certificates aren't installed properly. [/quote] $ rpm -qa | grep -i curl libcurl2-7.10.7-2mdk curl-7.10.7-2mdk I haven't made any changes to my setup. I simply replaced the old perl script with the new one and checked my hotmail and it worked. I didn't log out of kde and kmail was already running so I didn't restart anything. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 05:20, Todd Slater wrote: with some easy config, thunderbird 0.4 can launch url's. http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/mozilla_thunderbird_04_released .html Thanks for that Todd... been waiting for this feature! Bit of a bummer that the script copied from the URL wants to use another profile if firebird is already running tho. I changed it to konqueror so I don't have to worry about whether or not firebird is already running. Cheers Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URGENT: Locked out of important directory [SOLVED]
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:27, Marco Verheul wrote: Well, sort of... I still can't figure out why I was locked out of these directories, but I managed to copy them into a new directory as root and give myself the proper permissions again. The immediate problem is solved, but I would still be interested in any ideas as to why I had the problem in the first place. Marco On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 09:25, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I had a weird accident with gFTP last night. When I was changing the permissions on a couple of files before uploading them to my website, I must have pushed a wrong button, because gFTP crashed. When I started it up again I found myself locked out of the directory where my websites are located. Still I get a permission denied. Also in Konqueror it is indicated that the directory is locked. When I open a console and navigate to the directory as root, nothing seems to be the matter. The permissions look good and the directory is still owned by me. Any suggestions are most welcome, because I really to access those files for upload. I was once stumped with a similar problem and it turned out that I had (without realising) removed the execute bit on sub-directories - that is, rw-rw-rw which of course means that you can't enter those sub-directories. So it might pay to check again. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote: et wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you mean reset the bios and make it redetect ? John I might add that I do have power supply , it seems like everything that needs it is getting power,though since I cannot get into bios I cannot tell what may be dead. If I had harddrive failure you would still be able to get into bios If I have monitor failure , that could be a possibility, though it does say no signal and the neon led lights up, which to my mind indicates it wants to work. If I had a graphic's card failure I ought to be able to get into bios at least ? If Mobo then I guess it has to be a real possility. Anything there could block my access to bios for instance ?? John I think I have found the problem. My graphics card , gforce3 has a small fan on it and it's hardly turning at all. I bet that is the problem, can one buy replacements? John yes. send us a picture of the fan you get for it. however, while I ain't sure about your particular card, I do know some fans have a control circuit that makes the fan run faster when there is more heat. I still think you need to blow out the power supply fan. At the moment I don't have an OS that can handle my camera. I've bought a new fan (12v , they don't have the exact same voltage as the Gforce3 card(2.1v)and plugged it into the main 12v supply, not ideal, though it whirls up nicely.The fan goes by the name of Crystal Orb p/n A1178 and fits the apperture and seating quite nicely . However I'm still stuck as it won't boot even past the bios. Keyboard is dead, though optical mouse lights up. I'm wondering whether Geforce3 has heat detection, and I need to somehow kick the bios into starting again. So I'd better investigate the power supply next .I will have it all out and clean it up. Yep, if you've got another PSu to swap in, try that (or borrow one). My next bet would be the motherboard. About six months ago I had a similar problem and I could still hear the fan whir on the PSU. Didn't have a power supply with enough grunt to try on my system (and all my friends have old PCs with 200W PSUs). So I pulled the PSU and joined 2 wires to see if the fan was working properly as someone suggested. The fan worked no problem so I assumed the next thing to try was motherboard. Bought a new motherboard only to find that it WAS indeed the PSU!!! So, in short, even if the PSU fan is working, doesn't mean that enough power is supplied to your system. THEN, only just two months ago, a friend's PC did the same thing. I tried my PSU in her PC and it worked no probs, so I bought another PSU for her - only to find that it was the bl**dy motherboard! Good luck! Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Script in the init dir
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 00:50, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: I can't seem to be able to run a script when my machine boots up... I copied it in /etc/init.d/ though, and I can run it from the shell (/etc/init.d/myscript start), but it's not launched at boot time. Am I missing something here? Or you can use ksysv... Copy your script to /etc/rc.d/init.d and make permissions 700 (rwx--) owned by root. Open ksysv from a terminal as root and choose linux as your OS, then Mandrake Linux. You can now drag and drop your script into the desired run levels. More info in the KDE docs. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Zip drive oddity
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:45, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I've got the usual Iomega Zip drive at /dev/hdc (master, 2nd channel) on my Soyo Dragon Plus MB. I've used it under v9.0 and 9.1 with no problems. I'm able to use it just fine now, cp'ing/rm'ing files no problems. I am getting an odd message in dmesg that I've never gotten before (this is under 9.2): Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 hdc:6end_request: I/O error, cmd 0 dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0 end_request: I/O error, cmd 0 dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1 spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. end_request: I/O error, cmd 0 dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 2 end_request: I/O error, cmd 0 dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 3 snip unable to read partition table ide: late registration of driver. I tried booting with 2 different (and known good) zip carts in, as well as with no cart in at all. Same message. I switched IDE cables, just in case. Still the same message. AFAICT - there is no harm done, after all...I am able to use the drive. Its just annonying. Is this one of those semi-harmless, non-fatal messages that I can safely ignore? You're right Ron, no harm is done and I agree, it IS really annoying scrolling thru logs/email with hundreds of lines unnecessarily. You can either safely ignore these messages or, if you don't mind losing supermount, avoid the error messages by adding noauto to the zip drive entry in /etc/fstab. I chose to add noatuo for my cdrom drive a few days ago but I think you may soon become annoyed if you like supermount and use your zip drive often. So far I've only used my cdrom drive once since the change so it has bothered me too much yet and its soo nice getting shorter log files. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Shorewall - OK to accept ICMP type 8 from all?
Hi All Can someone please tell me if accepting all ICMP type 8 packets from all (including internet) poses much of a security threat. I previously only allowed these to/from my local network but I was getting a bit peeved at the number of entries in the logs/email which amount to hundreds of lines every day. Any advice appreciated. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall - OK to accept ICMP type 8 from all?
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:01, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Better not if your machine has a public static IP address. ICMP type 8 (ping) can be used to discover the IP address through ping 'storms', and then use it for attacks to higher level protocols. Also there is the ping of death attack that can crash your machine - although maybe newer TCP/IP implementations are immune. Thanks Raffaele. Just checked the fwlog this morning after changing shorewall to allow pings last night and only being connected to the internet for one hour - and holy shite! MANY more hits than usual on ports 80 and 17300. Strange that so many hits on port 17300 all from different source IPs when I don't even know what that port is used for??? Its not listed in /etc/services and I haven't made any rules for that port myself. I'm sure there is a way to request IPtables not to log the rejected/dropped ping packets, but I wouldn't be able to tell you OTOH. Maybe somebody else already knows. I'll try Derek's suggestion and see what happens. Thanks again for your input. I've been wondering about this for ages. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall - OK to accept ICMP type 8 from all?
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 04:34, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 03 Dec 2003 11:43 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Can someone please tell me if accepting all ICMP type 8 packets from all (including internet) poses much of a security threat. I previously only allowed these to/from my local network but I was getting a bit peeved at the number of entries in the logs/email which amount to hundreds of lines every day. If your machine responds to a ping then it may attract the attention of someone who will make a determined attempt to break in. On the other hand there are gazillions of computers on the net that do respond to ping, so why should yours be any more likely to be attacked. That's what I thought so I changed the shorewall rules to allow all pings last night. After being only connected to the internet for one hour, there were MANY more hits than usual. As regards being annoyed by the log entries you could try putting an entry in /etc/shorewall/rules like :- DROPnet fw icmp8 That should drop pings silently, and will override the default action in shorewall/policy which is to drop and log. Just added that rule, stopped, cleared and started shorewall. Will see what my logs look like in an hour or two. I never thought to add the rule (duh!) because shorewall was already blocking it with the default net2all policy. I have not tested the above because I have just started using ulogd to put all my firewall hits into an SQL database (instead of syslog) which can then be interrogated by a neat application called Webfwlog. If you want to see what it looks like go here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/webfwlog-0.81/webfwlog/webfwlog.php Looks great! Far more options than my fwlogwatch web report. And shorter System Check email messages ;) Before anyone asks how to do it. I am preparing a write up. Its a bit complicated. Eagerly awaiting your instructions. I'm definitely keen to try it. Thanks Derek for your advice. I have a hunch that the shorewall rule above will do the trick. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can you hear me now?
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:19, Tango Echo wrote: I think I was unsubbed... Just making sure things are back to normal... Ah heeear ya! Yeah, me too. Eric just resubbed me (see his post ** LIST ISSUES **). Thanks Eric. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Sorry, don't know much 'bout downloading with mozilla which I don't have much luck with anyway, but... From what I've heard, using a browser to download large files is not a good idea. Use and ftp client or a downloader app like d4x. Personally I use d4x (Downloader for X) which I've never had a problem with and supports resuming downloads. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Remastering-with-updates HOWTO?
Please excuse the cross-post but I'm hoping Greg Meyer will see this On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 13:19:33 -0700 pm, Greg Meyer wrote to Cooker mailing list: On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:06 am, Warly wrote: 2nd solution, remaster the CD. Use the config files into the misc dir into repositories. Replace the list line with list -k cooker_key_file -k update_key_file 1 cooker_path/misc/download cooker_path_/misc/main rpmlist -b update_RPMS/ rpmlist -b 9.2_RPMS/ Do you have to replace the RPMS in the Mandrake/RPMS directory with the updated ones, or does this just tell mkcd to look in both the Mandrake/RPMS and updates/RPMS directory and then takes the newer of the packages for the isos? This is what those lines look like now in the 92.conf file list -k rep_path/Mandrake/base/pubkey 1 config_path/download \ config_path/main rpmlist -b RPMS_path/RPMS Greg, how did you get on with this? Did you copy the updated RPMs into the Mandrake/RPMS, Mandrake/RPMS2, Mandrake/RPMS3 directories? What do rep_path and config_path actually refer to? I'm having a hell of a job getting this to work. I added an extra directory for plf and contrib RPMS and ended up with 6 ISOs but many files were rejected because of missing dependencies. Also the 1st CD ISO is not made which contains the kernel. I'm not actually using Cooker but want to include all update RPMs. Any advice would be much appreciated. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] twiki, etc, was LG CDRoms
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:33, Eric Huff wrote: snip http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/wiki/ Cooker is great for people that want to cook, but it sure isn't for everyone. I'll second that one! Just tried following the instructions on how to slipstream updated packages into the Mandrake CDs at http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/SlipStreamUpdates. Couldn't make head nor tail of it I'm afraid. I'll sleep on it tonight and see what happens... won't hold my breath tho, never was a good cook... ;) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:00, Dennis Myers wrote: snip Wonder how a retail boxed LG would do, I chicken to try it. I will be getting several new Sony or EPO DVDroms as replacements. Guess I'll find out in the next day or two when I get round to installing 9.2 on my 2nd PC. It has an LG CRD-8522B CDROM drive on a Microstar MS-6378 motherboard and 1GHz AMD Duron CPU. Don't know if its an OEM drive, the PC was bought as a complete system put together by a small outfit. The manual for the drive came with the system. I note the email from GC posted in the TWiki says the problem is related to LG CRD-84xx drives, so perhaps mine will be OK... time will tell. Will post the results in a day or two anyway... fingers crossed... ;) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lost root password
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:59, eric wrote: Franki wrote: I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that matters. Boot from the mandrake CD1 I did that press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt. I did that when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt This didn't work. When it came up in resue mode, I chose console and then entered, chroot/mnt. I got an error. bash no such file or directory I got help for chroot. It says, chroot NEWROOT [options] or chroot command. Chroot gives me an error, no such directory as NEWROOT Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Follow Franki's instructions but ignore the chroot /mnt part and instead choose Mount your partitions in /mnt from the menu that comes up. Then when it goes back to this same menu choose Go to console. Continue with Franki's instructions. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT optical mice
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:57, Paul M. Bucalo wrote: I'm using a low-price Logitech and Labtec for optical mice on both Windows and Linux systems in my office network. While I don't have any problems with a delay in Windows, I do have this problem in both Red Hat and Mandrake with both mice. The problem is the default resolution setting in Xserver can be too low (approx. 150 dpi) for the some brands of optical mice. Correct this by adding to XF86Config(-4) the last line under the mouse defining area, as illustrated below: snip Thanks for that info Paul. Will keep this in mind when I install the mouse. Cheers Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Compiling in 9.2 -Update - 9.2 bug?
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:09, Sharrea Day wrote: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/include -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=init -c init.c -o init.o init.c:463: parse error before `_Bool' init.c:464: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype init.c: In function `one_highpage_init': init.c:465: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c:465: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once init.c:465: for each function it appears in.) init.c:466: `pfn' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c:467: `page' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c:471: `bad_ppro' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c: In function `free_pages_init': init.c:529: `_Bool' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c:529: parse error before `bad' init.c:530: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [init.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm' make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/mm] Error 2 UPDATE: OK, so I downloaded another kernel-source from a 9.2 mirror tree (1st one was from mandrakeclub. Still no go... same error as above. Looking at the file /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm/init.c doesn't help because I don't understand the programming language used. That is, I can't tell whether the function is previously declared or not (actually, I don't know if its even supposed to be). Is this a bug? Should I report it? If so, to whom? Looks like I'll have to go back to 9.1 ...bummer! :( Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2, no menus on install
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 06:01, Derek Jennings wrote: I also lost my menus after performing an online upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 If you run update-menus -d You should get verbose messages and it will highlight any malformations in the menu files. In my case it pointed out to me that /etc/menu/menudrakeentry had a malformed line that read ?package(menu): needs=fluxbox icon=applications_section.png section=Fluxbox/Styles/ title= charset=utf8 The null entry in 'titles' is not permitted. I just inserted some text there and ran update-menus again and my menus reappeared. Derek, thanks for this info. Each time I edit the menu either as root or user, I get an entry for fluxbox with no title causing most of my menu to disappear. But thanks to your info the problem is solved. Thanks again! Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT optical mice
Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the cursor actually moved (and it was not a slow system). Just curious as to whether all optical mice are like that because I'm looking for a cordless mouse for another friend and have noticed that there are more mice to choose from in the optical range. So can anyone tell me if your optical mouse causes a delay before the cursor moves? TIA. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] diskdrake
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:24, John Richard Smith wrote: What package installs diskdrake ? [root]default# which diskdrake /usr/sbin/diskdrake [root]default# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/diskdrake drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT optical mice
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:06, HaywireMac wrote: I use a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical, and I would never go back to balls (insert crude joke here). Me neither... besides its not so bad being a chick ;) No sign of any delay, very responsive and smoooth as...well, something very smooth. If this friend was seeing problems with an optical mouse, most likely cause is an inappropriate surface, esp something reflective. It needs to be on a matte surface (God, NO! not cloth, never ever use a fabric/cloth/whatever mousepad, it picks up dirt and oil from your hands and it's disgusting...)...sorry, bit of a sticky point with me, that one. Cordless, I'm not sure about, but make sure you don't have any interference nearby, like a cellphone, radio, large block of Plutonium, etc. Many thanks to all who replied. And with good news too! Glad to hear they're not all like the one I tried. Now I'm starting to wonder if I did indeed use a shiny surface... ummm... most likely I did. Duh! Oh well, that settles it then: a cordless optical mouse. Cheers Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel Compiling in 9.2
Hi all I need to build my own kernel so that I can use my satellite card for internet connection. The driver is compiled with gcc-2.96 and requires the kernel to be compiled with the same. No problem in 9.1 but having just installed 9.2, the make dep gives an error: /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/scripts/mkdep -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -- acpi.c acpitable.c acpitable.h acpi_wakeup.S apic.c apm.c bluesmoke.c cpuid.c dmi_scan.c e820.c elanfreq.c entry.S gx-suspmod.c head.S i386_ksyms.c i387.c i8259.c init_task.c io_apic.c ioport.c irq.c ldt.c longhaul.c longrun.c mca.c microcode.c mpparse.c msr.c mtrr.c nmi.c p4-clockmod.c pci-dma.c pci-i386.c pci-i386.h pci-irq.c pci-pc.c pci-visws.c powernow-k6.c powernow-k7.c powernow-k7.h process.c ptrace.c semaphore.c setup.c signal.c smpboot.c smp.c speedstep-centrino.c speedstep-ich.c sys_i386.c time.c trampoline.S traps.c visws_apic.c vm86.c .depend make[2]: *** [fastdep] Error 139 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/kernel' make[1]: *** [_sfdep_arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk' make: *** [dep-files] Error 2 Does anyone know how to get past this error? I'm using the config from the current Mandrake kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk. Any help much appreciated. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel Compiling in 9.2
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:21, Joeb wrote: Sharrea Day wrote: I need to build my own kernel so that I can use my satellite card for internet connection. The driver is compiled with gcc-2.96 and requires the kernel to be compiled with the same. No problem in 9.1 but having just installed 9.2, the make dep gives an error: big snip Does anyone know how to get past this error? I'm using the config from the current Mandrake kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk. First, let me say that I don't know the answer to how to fix your compile, but I do have a couple of things for you. First the -wall in your make file will cause all errors AND warnings to stop the process. If you don't want warnings to stop the compile, remove the -wall. Firstly, I apologise for the long post. Joeb, thanks for your suggestions. OK, removed the -Wall (in 2 places) from the Makefile and got past the error but it stopped on another error: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/include -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=init -c init.c -o init.o init.c:463: parse error before `_Bool' init.c:464: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype init.c: In function `one_highpage_init': init.c:465: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c:465: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once init.c:465: for each function it appears in.) init.c:466: `pfn' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c:467: `page' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c:471: `bad_ppro' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c: In function `free_pages_init': init.c:529: `_Bool' undeclared (first use in this function) init.c:529: parse error before `bad' init.c:530: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [init.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm' make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/mm] Error 2 Looked at the line containing _Bool but don't know what any of it meant so dead end there. Second and more important, have you tried just compiling the drivers as a module and using insmod to use them? If you do compile them as a module, you will get an error about the kernel being compiled with 3.x and the module with 2.96, but it may still work if you use insmod -f mymodule (the -f says to force the module). On the otherhand, it may not work. On one of my boxes with a winmodem, the driver must be inserted with the -f because it, too, has an object file that was compiled with gcc 2.96, even though I am using gcc 3.3. Just tried that but it wouldn't load the module even with the force option: # insmod -f sm200d_lnx.o Warning: The module you are trying to load (sm200d_lnx.o) is compiled with a gcc version 2 compiler, while the kernel you are running is compiled with a gcc version 3 compiler. This is known to not work. sm200d_lnx.o: unresolved symbol _mmx_memcpy sm200d_lnx.o: Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license and it has unresolved symbols. The module may be trying to access GPLONLY symbols but the problem is more likely to be a coding or user error. Contact the module supplier for assistance, only they can help you. Think I'd better stick to re-compiling the kernel under 2.96 since I don't really know what I'm doing with this. Don't know if either of the two items will help or not, but you might try them. Thanks very much for your suggestions/advice. Thought perhaps the kernel-source package I downloaded from Mandrake Club may be at fault so I'm currently downloading it from a mirror 9.2 tree. Will keep trying. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 torrent, I was wrong
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:35, Tom Brinkman wrote: Keep an eye on that link below. When you see downloaders drop off to just a few, and there's still enough 'connected complete' people, then it'd probly be OK to abandon BT then. I've kept mine up since getting the iso's last Wednesday. I've got upload limited to 50% of my connections capability. I can hardly tell BT is still runnin, while doin other stuff with the connection. IOW, I've still got 100% down, and the 50% up I have left over just means it takes a second longer to send an email ;) -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just another comment: Over 4,400 people have gotten the complete iso's, but only 318 are currently still online to upload them to others. That's not very nice. Seems a lot of people got theirs and then selfishly disconnected. The torrent idea depends on people staying online specially after they're d/l is complete. http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ I've just finished downloading the torrent ISOs with my satellite internet connection. I only _download_ via satellite but uploading is still via dialup modem. If I leave my torrent running for others will my measly 3 kbps help or hinder the torrent network? Not sure what to do so any advice will be much appreciated. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Texstar's break
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:24, Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner wrote: | [http://www.pclinuxonline.com] | | I will be taking an extended break away from pclinuxonline and building | RPMS for the wonderful Mandrake community to pursue some other | interesting projects that may actually lead to a paid position. Its | been a fun ride and I really hope you have enjoyed my Mandrake rpm | packages over the past 6 releases as much as I've enjoyed being able to | offer them to you. Enjoy your Mandrake 9.2 and I will catch up with all | of you sometime after the first of the year. Regards, Texstar ' Thank you, Texstar. Thorsten And yet another thank you Texstar, for your contribution to Linux, especially Mandrake. Like everyone else who've tried your rpms, I really enjoyed them. Thanks and good luck with your new venture. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Good news .. and a question
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyhow, a couple of issues I'm having. First and foremost the user account I'm running under is having some permission issues. For one, the FAT32 partitions I created (/mp3s) gives me access denied errors every time I drag and drop mp3 tracks from a CD-R onto the directory in the file browser. I tried to chmod the directory and chown the directory all to no avail. For a normal user (ie. not root user) to access a FAT32 partition, you'll need to mount the partn with the following options: user,umask=0 and do not store any sensitive data on that partn as it will then be read-write accessible by all users. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:49, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Ditto on that Error 404!!! On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:47, Poogle wrote: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 H:41 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:26 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: 9.2 is out for club members Good luck, HarM Saw that, but I am not able to connect to a tracker, how bout anyone else? Likewise - error 404 For me clicking on the torrent in the browser starts btdownloadergui which promptly gives me an error message: GOT BAD FILE_INFO or similar A clue anyone? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Permissions solution
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:14, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 00:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure thing Eric.. I delete them as soon as they arrive, but this message should bring forth many more. I'll send one a non-sms one on. Hey Eric, sms messages have dissapeared:) Good for you!!! Good luck, HarM Yep, they've gone!... blasted him into oblivion. CHEERS Eric! Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection problems with 9.1 and Open Office Writer won't start.
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:17, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, This weekend I finally convinced friends of mine that a Linux installation on their computer was a good idea and installed 9.1 for them. (First time I'd done this as I'm still using 9.) The actual installation went well but connecting to the internet doesn't work as this particular computer has 2 modems: an internal one possibly a winmodem, possibly just broken, and an external Hayes V90 voicemodem which usually works well with Linux (I know because it used to be mine). When I tried to set up the internet connection in Mandrake Control Centre, there was no response from either modem but harddrake appears only to have detected the internal card (hp56 I think). Would I be right in thinking that creating a symbolic link from /dev/ttyS0 (to which the external Hayes is connected) to /dev/modem would enable the system to find the correct modem and hopefully solve the problem? harddrake doesn't detect my external modem but it works fine. I think the problem is the network setup in MCC is broken in 9.1. Edit the files by hand: /etc/sysconfig/network add the following line: GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 if the following line exists, you can delete that line: GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.x.x Restart the network with: # service network restart The other problem was that Open Office Writer wouldn't start - the splash screen came up and the hourglass on the toolbar turned for a bit, but then . nothing. Anybody know what the command would be to start it from the command line so error messages can be seen , or which log might contain info about this? You can start openoffice from console with: $ /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice I recall having this problem at some stage (long ago) so it will pay to kill any soffice.bin processes that may be running before trying to start openoffice. Your views and any suggestions would be appreciated. It's the first time I've managed to convince someone else to run a Linux box and I'd hate to see them turned off the idea because of these basic problems. Agreed. And good one!, another convert... Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install from floppy?
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:55, Scott wrote: I want to install mandrake, or some version of linux on an old PC that has a 500 MB hard drive (currently with windows 98), no network connection, and no option in the BIOS to enable booting from the cdrom drive. I want to be able to run at least Apache-Mysql-Php and word processing. Any suggestions on the best way to go about this? Make the boot floppy disk. On the first CD is a directory called images and you use the cdrom.img file. Go into the this directory and use the following command in linux: # dd if=cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0 For further info see the file on the first CD called install.htm. It also explains how to make the boot disk from Windows or DOS. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktops and their progs
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 05:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question for ya'll today is: is there any reason that I need to stick with KDE native (would that be the right term?) applications, or can I freely use those Gnome applications I like in KDE (and, presumably, vice-versa)? The reason I'm suspicious is that after having a working palm sync scheme with Kpilot, and then trying it with Evolution, Kpilot had a lot of trouble and it seemed to be because Evolution had switched the deamon to gnome-pilot . . . I've never had problems running Gnome apps in KDE or vice-versa (been using KDE for 2 yrs now), however I don't use evolution or kpilot so perhaps that's not much help. Hopefully someone else is using those two specific apps in KDE and can comment. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] logrotate
On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:27, mike wrote: Thanks, Fajar I edited the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog to daily instead of weekly. Under /etc/cron.daily I have logrotate* so I should be good to go. Mike, JFYI: the command to force log rotation of /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages would be: # logrotate -v -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog NOTE: Using the default logrotate config file for syslog (/etc/logrotate.d/syslog) will not only rotate /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages but ALSO rotates a hell of lot of other logs like /var/log/auth.log and /var/log/user.log for example. Look at the list in the config file. You may want to first create your own config file just for /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages that you can use whenever the need arises. You could just copy /etc/logrotate.d/syslog to /home/user/mysyslog and remove all other logs from the list in this file and issue the command: # logrotate -v -f /home/user/mysyslog Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:48, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I think e2fschk is a front end that invokes the correct fsck.* program. If you type man fsck.ext3 you are shown the e2fschk man page. On my MDK9.1 there is no fsck.reiserfs command, only fsck.ext3. Could it be an alias? How 'bout /sbin/reiserfsck? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:30, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:36 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics! http://www.msnbc.com/news/971914.asp?0si=- Did you read his report? It was reeaaally scathing, no wonder Billy was pissed. I have the .pdf if you want it. Yes please, I like a copy. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem connects OK but apps can't locate hosts
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:46, Joe Janzen wrote: I've searched the archives and tried some suggestions for similar problems, but without success. Mandrake 9.1 was just installed. I launch KPPP and everything seems to work as the connection is established. However, web browsers fail to load any pages and I can't even ping anything except my own IP that my ISP assigns me dynamically (I've tried IP numbers, not just hostnames, and I've tried both as root and as a regular user). Here's some info that might help: snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 If you made the above GATEWAYDEV change manually, did you restart your network afterwards? # service network restart What is in /etc/resolv.conf? Ummm... can't think of anything else... Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't open Mozilla while Thunderbird is running?
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:31, Terry Sheltra wrote: I've just installed Thunderbird 0.2. One problem I have is that while I'm using it, I can't run Mozilla (even if I try to start it without clicking on some link in an email message). I read around Bugzilla about this problem, but have absolutely no idea what people are talking about (I'm not all that programming-savvy). Could someone help try to explain how to fix this problem in more simple terms? Downloaded 0.2 today. -- Renamed the old thunderbird install directory -- created a new temporary tbird directory -- copied the file to the new directory -- changed to the new directory -- untarred the tar.bz2 file -- moved the actual thunderbird directory directly under /usr/local -- changed to the /usr/local directory -- removed the temporary tbird directory # mv /usr/local/thunderbird /usr/local/old_thunderbird # mkdir -p /usr/local/tbird # cp /home/sharrea/downloads/thunderbird-0.2-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 /usr/local/thunderbird/ # cd /usr/local/thunderbird/ # tar xjf thunderbird-0.2-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 # mv thunderbird ../ # cd ../ # rm -Rf tbird/ -- Fired up thunderbird and checked my email. -- While thunderbird still open, opened mozilla and checked my email. Both working fine. Perhaps you don't have separate .thunderbird and .mozilla directories in your home directory (ie. ~/.thunderbird and ~/.mozilla)? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't open Mozilla while Thunderbird is running?
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:42, Anne Wilson wrote: I ran into problems when I had Mozilla and Netscape installed together, for that reason. Question is, how do you make sure that you get the two directories? Certainly the default install of Netscape commandeered the existing directory, even though the website told you not to allow it. The only way that I can run both netscape and mozilla at the same time is to have 2 separate profiles. I use Default User from netscape and sharrea for mozilla. This is not the solution if you want to share email between the two. I used to use the Leave messages on the server in one email client when checking email - and remove mail from the server when checking email in the other. Hardly ideal! Gave up on that idea and haven't opened netscape in approx 8 months now. Hopefully someone else knows how to run netscape from its own directory instead of sharing mozilla's... Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't open Mozilla while Thunderbird is running?
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:58, Terry Sheltra wrote: I do have two separate directories (.mozilla and .thunderbird). Mozilla still refuses to run when Thunderbird is running, giving me some obscure error, to which I have no idea what it means. The message reads: Error launching browser window: TypeError: Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] has no properties However, if I have Mozilla running, and then run Thunderbird, things work just fine. Assuming each program is also installed to its own directory (example: /usr/local/mozilla and /usr/local/thunderbird), then I don't understand how they can affect each other. Very strange... Maybe someone in the thunderbird forum might know the solution to this one. Sorry I can't offer any help here Terry. Good luck. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't open Mozilla while Thunderbird is running?
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:31, Terry Sheltra wrote: I've just installed Thunderbird 0.2. One problem I have is that while I'm using it, I can't run Mozilla (even if I try to start it without clicking on some link in an email message). I read around Bugzilla about this problem, but have absolutely no idea what people are talking about (I'm not all that programming-savvy). Could someone help try to explain how to fix this problem in more simple terms? Haven't tried 0.2 yet, still using 0.1, but Thunderbird should be using its own directory in your home directory - ~/.thunderbird . Mozilla has its own directory, ~/.mozilla so they shouldn't be sharing prefs and mail. Did you untar the downloaded tar.bz2 file into its own directory? For example create a directory like /usr/local/thunderbird and untar the file into that directory. I will download and install 0.2 today and let you know how I get on. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iptraf
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did man iptraf and found no mention of the flags meanings, the ones that show up on the output, not the ones you use to start up a process. file:///usr/share/doc/iptraf-2.7.0/Documentation/cmdline.html for full documentation file:///usr/share/doc/iptraf-2.7.0/Documentation/manual.html you may have to change the version from -2.7.0 Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Three weeks ago the south-eastern coast of Australia was hit with winds that blasted us in excess of 140kph - causing damage and panic, loss of power and utilities, homes, a few lives - how come y'all don't hear a damn thing about that back in Yankland? Not a one person mentioned anything in the past three weeks about it...hmmm? Yet - the entire world has to know about a storm that hits the US...strange that is, don't ya reckon? Yeah... an' the South Island, NZ got hit with 170kph winds just a few days ago an' notawordaboutit??? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast error
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:21, Bryan Phinney wrote: If you are trying to play these in a standalone CD player, you should be aware that CD Audio is slightly different from data or playing disks in a computer. Standlalone players are sometimes less forgiving of slight irregularities in the disk format. My wife's car, for instance, has a cd player that can play burned audio cds but only when they have been burned at 2x or less. As soon as I try to burn them at a faster rate, the cd player will report irregularities with the cd or do screwy things, like skipping certain tracks or reporting a disk error when it gets to particular tracks. My own car cd player will play cd audios recorded at any speed. Jeez! Just burnt another audio CD at 4x and it wouldn't play on my PC from my CD-ROM drive or the small stereo system in the kitchen. But after reading your message I tried it in the car stereo and voila! it works! And so did the other 7 CDs I thought were coasters! So now I have 8 bl**dy CDs all the same :) Sorry, I wasn't very specific there. I didn't actually copy on-the-fly, I ripped the audio CD to hard drive and then burnt to CDR. Each song plays fine from the hard drive. I even deleted them and ripped again several times using various apps, all with the same result. Just as a test, reduce the speed to 1x for recording and then see if it helps, if so, then I would suggest that the problem is not with the burner but with the player. Because I copied and pasted the command into konsole I forgot to change the speed from 4x. Will try that on the next one. Getting somewhere now anyways... Thanks for your help Bryan. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xcdroast error
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:28, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 01:39 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Well I'm real glad to hear I'm not the only one. I had 7 coasters and thought it had something to do with that error when trying to copy a music CD. So can someone please tell me if there is such a thing as DATA ONLY CDRs? Just thought perhaps that's the reason for the coasters...? You want to make sure that you are either using some good generic scsi drivers in the burning program or that you have correctly identified the drive type. Small differences can result in major problems. Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24, Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' How do I know if this is a good driver? I've included the output from one session as an attachment. Also, if you are trying to burn at max speed and get coasters, you may want to try specifying a reduced speed for burning. Most CD Burners try to read the available speed off the media but the media is not always accurate, I routinely get CD's that report a capable speed of 24x but end up coasters if I try to burn that fast, I have to drop it to 16x for those. I always specify the speed - 8x for CDR and 4x for CDRW. But after the first 2 coasters I used 4x for the CDR which obviously didn't help. They all have the same result of playing the first 3 songs fine, then from the 4th song onwards... nothing. Even tho all songs are correctly listed in xmms. Got so desperate that I tried Windows with winamp which played almost all of the 4th song then died. I gave my old HP9310 CD-Writer to a friend whose system couldn't take this new USB CD-Writer. Never had a problem with the old one but haven't used this new one all that much. If you are copying other CD's, keep in mind that Copy Protection can mess things up. If you are copying someone else's ISO, you may want to mount it as a loopback device and check the properties. I have had initial configuration difficulties with Xcdroast and K3B but have both working now without any problems or errors. Sorry, I wasn't very specific there. I didn't actually copy on-the-fly, I ripped the audio CD to hard drive and then burnt to CDR. Each song plays fine from the hard drive. I even deleted them and ripped again several times using various apps, all with the same result. Happy to help if you give me more details of your exact situation. I tried burning from the command line, xcdroast, k3b, and eroaster which is the program I use the most. I also tried burning as root user. Data (backups, etc) works fine with this burner on the same CDRs. However I burnt MDK 9.1 ISOs which wouldn't work from my old CD-ROM drive but worked in my newer CD-ROM drive on another system. I haven't tried burning a different audio CD yet but will give it a go today. Maybe its just that particular audio CD. Using MDK 9.1 with a BTC 5224UI External USB 2.0 CD-Writer (52x 24x 52x). Your help and advice is much appreciated as always. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today $ cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -pad -audio /home/sharrea/music/wav/*.wav Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'CDWRITER' Identifikation : 'IDE5224 ' Revision : '001H' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1951488 = 1905 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: audio 27 MB (02:45.09) no preemp Track 02: audio 32 MB (03:14.82) no preemp Track 03: audio 43 MB (04:17.42) no preemp Track 04: audio 29 MB (02:56.98) no preemp Track 05: audio 27 MB (02:45.73) no preemp Track 06: audio 37 MB (03:40.73) no preemp Track 07: audio 26 MB (02:38.80) no preemp Track 08: audio 25 MB (02:34.41) no preemp Track 09: audio 33 MB (03:22.08) no preemp Track 10: audio 33 MB (03:17.70) no preemp Track 11: audio 22 MB (02:14.26) no preemp Track 12: audio 30 MB (03:01.09) no preemp Track 13: audio 25 MB (02:29.25) no preemp Track 14: audio 22 MB (02:15.26) no preemp Track 15: audio 27 MB (02:43.73) no preemp Track 16: audio 27 MB (02:42.28) no preemp Track 17: audio 20 MB (02:04.29) no preemp Track 18: audio 26 MB (02:36.78) no preemp Track 19: audio 22 MB (02:10.86) no preemp Track 20: audio 29 MB (02:56.86) no preemp Total size: 579 MB (57:26.50) = 258488 sectors Lout start: 580 MB (57:28/38) = 258488 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP
Re: [newbie] xcdroast error
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:30, Eric Huff wrote: I was burning ISOs of redhat 8.0 to a cd using xcdroast and got this error: cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0)(using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 The burn completed but I'm wondering if the cd's are corrupted somehow. So far I've burned 2 of the 5 ISOs and both produced this error. I'd appreciate it if anyone could clue me in on what's going on and advise me should I try to install redhat with them or paint reindeer on them and set them around the coffee table at Christmas? Well, i got the same thing, and didn' tknow of any problems. IIRC i googled a lot, and other people get that, too. Hopefully someone here has a better answer eric Well I'm real glad to hear I'm not the only one. I had 7 coasters and thought it had something to do with that error when trying to copy a music CD. So can someone please tell me if there is such a thing as DATA ONLY CDRs? Just thought perhaps that's the reason for the coasters...? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] openssh Security Update
Hi All Just wondering if anyone knows what the story is with today's security updates for openssh. The 9.1 update mirrors list: openssh-3.6.1p2-1.2.91mdk.i586.rpm openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-1.2.91mdk.i586.rpm openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-1.2.91mdk.i586.rpm openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-1.2.91mdk.i586.rpm openssh-server-3.6.1p2-1.2.91mdk.i586.rpm while the announcement from Mandrake list: openssh-3.6.1p2-1.1.91mdk.i586.rpm openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-1.1.91mdk.i586.rpm openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-1.1.91mdk.i586.rpm openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-1.1.91mdk.i586.rpm openssh-server-3.6.1p2-1.1.91mdk.i586.rpm I've downloaded the newer ones but not sure whether or not its safe to install them. AOK do ya think? Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger sutff
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:51, Angus Auld wrote: Hi folks, I'm using gaim v0.66 w/msn plugin. It seems to be working OK, except for the past couple days I've been getting this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (13:43:47) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You are running a version of messenger that requires an immediate security update. Please visit http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx to complete the update. Obviously I can't get the update from MS. :-| The message comes up each time I login. Maybe I won't be logging in for much longer? Anyone else get this message? Yep, get that using kopete and also with the MSN Messenger plugin for MozillaFirebird. I get the feeing that M$ will be blocking access to OSS clients in the near future. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dialup problem
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: This sounds awfully familiar. Go to /etc/sysconfig and look at the network file. It should have something like this: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true HOSTNAME=darkforce.com (yours would go here) DOMAINNAME=com GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 If your network file does not have this, edit it, then as root do a service network restart and try kppp then. Let us know what happens. Ron I'm sure you just hit the nail on the head! I take back my earlier advice, got a bit mixed up and forgot the correct file to edit. Don't know how I could forget since its the first thing I do after a clean install. Bet Ron's advice above fixes the problem. It is a bug in MDK9.1 where the gateway is incorrect for dialup modems and it is necessary to add the GATEWAYDEV=ppp0. And Anarky, don't forget to restart the network after editing this file: # service network restart Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:47, Anne Wilson wrote: A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the right voltage, merely falling back to 2x if the mobo doesn't have the later standard agp? Anne, which mobo do you have? I'm using a Soltek SL-75KAV mobo with an nVidia GTS2 Pro 2x/4x graphics card. The manual for this mobo says it is AGP v2.0 compliant and supports 1, 2 and 4x modes (66 MHz). IIRC the BIOS setup has a choice of 2x or 4x mode - I have it set on 4x I think. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Apps - Firewalls
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:46, Heather/Femme wrote: Seen all this. ZA got smart, it generates an encrypted sig file for itself now. Makes sure it can't be compromised either... and it is not easily killed in newer versions. Sides, that kind of attack is pretty sophisticated the avg ZA user won't be affected. Yes its possible it will get thru...but if you see ZA isn't in your tray anymore wouldn't you be suspicious? I know I would. Sure hope ZA is a lot smarter these days. Two years ago my Win system was compromised simply by clicking a link on a web page in IE. ZA was disabled but still showing as active in the system tray, the packet sniffer I had running crashed and the AV app was totally fsckd. A file containing web passwords was emptied and a pretty screensaver was installed which kept appearing every minute. That was the day I decided to see what this Linux was all about and I've never looked back since. Not that ZA can really help much in those situations. Clicking on the link merely ran the script as the one-and-only user on Win98SE. I feel much safer in Linux browsing the web as user (not root) - although sometimes I wonder why, when the most important stuff on my system in MY DATA. Couldn't give a sh*t 'bout the system, it can be restored, my data can't. At least the stuff that hasn't been backed up. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining - I LOVE LINUX! Oh now paranoia is creeping in... off to do a much overdue backup... I swear I'm getting lazier. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dialup problem
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:33, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with linux) ... thing is: it connects to the isp ... but any website one tries to browse to ... it says 'could not reach host' .. or something like htat .. so it actually connects, uses the password ... logs in ... but then everythign is like if it were offline. Ideas please? In MCC (Mandrake Control Center) Network Internet DrakConnect run the wizard and tell it to use the modem as the internet connection. Alternatively I think you can just edit /etc/sysconfig/drakconnect and change the type to modem: type=modem and then restart the network with: # service network restart Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SCO reversal
So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:10, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:20:38 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some one need to run nmap against your IP address and then diff it with nmap aginst 127.0.0.1. Yankl Any volunteers? 66.176.44.125 I show this on 127.0.0.1 Port State Service 21/tcp openftp 22/tcp openssh 25/tcp opensmtp 37/tcp opentime 53/tcp opendomain 80/tcp openhttp 111/tcpopensunrpc 139/tcpopennetbios-ssn 443/tcpopenhttps 621/tcpopenunknown 631/tcpopenipp 720/tcpopenunknown 783/tcpopenhp-alarm-mgr 953/tcpopenrndc 2049/tcp opennfs 6000/tcp openX11 1/tcp opensnet-sensor-mgmt 32770/tcp opensometimes-rpc3 32771/tcp opensometimes-rpc5 Output from: # nmap -sS -O 66.176.44.125 - Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) sendto in send_tcp_raw: sendto(3, packet, 40, 0, 66.176.44.125, 16) = Operation not permitted Interesting ports on c-66-176-44-125.se.client2.attbi.com (66.176.44.125): (The 1599 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) Port State Service 80/tcp openhttp 5050/tcp closed mmcc Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 786 seconds - BTW, my dynamic IP address (203.173.202.78) will likely show up in logs whilst scanning your IP address. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kpdfimport rpm
On Thursday 14 August 2003 16:16, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Anyone know where to find mdk rpm for kpdfimport? google turned up sourceforge or rpmfind.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kpdfimport/ or http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kpdfimportsubmit=Search+... Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
