[newbie] Proxy on Command Line
How do you set a proxy for commandline connections? I need to use http access here at work and everything goes through a proxy. I can't get to the http mirrors for urpmi. I assume it is my proxy not setup for commandline communications. Thanks. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Proxy on Command Line
2005. február 1. 15.08 dátummal Troy Davidson ezt írta: How do you set a proxy for commandline connections? I need to use http access here at work and everything goes through a proxy. I can't get to the http mirrors for urpmi. I assume it is my proxy not setup for commandline communications. Thanks. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 I have low experiences... :( but too much depends what do you need for. you can set an environmental variable called HTTP_POXY and some progs use it, some do not. e.g.: HTTP_POXY=http://proxy.local.domain:8080 Ati That did it. I was needing it for URPMI. Thanks. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Port Changes for services
I have my own webserver and mail server. Nightly, I get emailed my security stuff. I noticed this one this morning. Do the ports on the services just change on their own? Why would open ports close and open up somewhere else? Thanks for the help. Security Warning: There are modifications for port listening on your machine : - Opened ports : tcp0 0 localhost:10026 *:* LISTEN 9312/master - Opened ports : tcp0 0 webserver.clandait:smtp *:* LISTEN 9312/master - Opened ports : tcp0 0 localhost:smtp *:* LISTEN 9312/master - Closed ports : tcp0 0 localhost:10026 *:* LISTEN 2556/master - Closed ports : tcp0 0 webserver.clandait:smtp *:* LISTEN 2556/master - Closed ports : tcp0 0 localhost:smtp *:* LISTEN 2556/master Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Printer Sharing and MDK 9.1
I have searched www.mandrakeusers.org for this solution and haven't found any. If anyone can tell me what I need to be doing or a page that has the answer, that would be great. I have a headless 9.1 server with a printer attached. I want to make this printer available to both Linux and Windows machines. How should I configure the printer to be seen and usable by all? I would assume CUPS. I can set it up via the web interface, but I don't think that CUPS will allow me to do the initial sharing of the printer. I would also assume that I should use the MMC through the command line to setup and share the printer. Is this all correct? Am I missing something? Thanks for the help. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10, 3d graphics, and ATI Radeon Mobility
I have a Compaq Presario 2100z and I am trying to get 3d graphics to work. The laptop has a ATI Radeon Mobility graphics card. As far as I can see, this does support 3d under Linux. Anyone have any experience with this graphics card and setting up 3d? Thanks. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xmms only plays when started in CLI
I have the same problem. I just open a commanline and type in 'xmms ' to send XMMS to the background. Also, if you open XMMS via the menu and you can't close it, open a commandline, type in 'ps aux' and find the line that is for XMMS. Then type in 'kill ' + the PID that the ps told you was for XMMS. It is the second column on the ps. That will kill the process and you don't have to restart X. As for a better fix, no idea. I am using MDK10CE and it has the same problem. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I go through startmultimediasound, xmms will load up and after entering the URL for the stream, it buffers the looks like it's playing - it shows a stereo signal and the address - but there's no sound and the timer stays at zero. In addition, afterwards, it will not close not via the GUI or a right click and I have to restart X. At the CLI, it works like I expect it to - I'm using 10.0 with the Official updates. Has anyone else experienced this? Any guesses about what to try would be appreciated. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ACPI and MDK 10 on a Presario 2100 Laptop
Thanks to all that replied. Actually, I totally forgot that I emailed this question here. It would have been easier to do what everyone here has mentioned. But, I recompiled my kernel and got ACPI to work from there. I ended up downloading the patch from Sourceforge. Oh well. Your answers would have been easier and faster, but atleast now I can say I have compiled a kernel and I'm not afraid of it. ;) Thanks for the answers. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le May 3, 2004 11:34 am, Troy Davidson a écrit : Has anyone setup ACPI with MDK 10 community on a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop? I recompiled my kernel for ACPI support and got it to work, but then killed my kernel with another compile and didn't make a backup. Now, I don't remember what settings I took in the kernel to get it to work. If anyone has setup ACPI on any laptop and they would be willing to share their config file, that would be great. Thanks. I have a DELL Inspiron 2500 and the stock kernel works for me. You can dowload Mandrake kernel sources and check out the .config file to see their configuration. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ACPI and MDK 10 on a Presario 2100 Laptop
Has anyone setup ACPI with MDK 10 community on a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop? I recompiled my kernel for ACPI support and got it to work, but then killed my kernel with another compile and didn't make a backup. Now, I don't remember what settings I took in the kernel to get it to work. If anyone has setup ACPI on any laptop and they would be willing to share their config file, that would be great. Thanks. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Apache 2, virtual hosts and SSL
Stefano, I was reading up on Virtual Domains and Apache and found this. Seems they are doing what you want and show how to make it work. http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/qmail/2002-07/msg00011.php Hope this helps. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am running MDK 9.1 with Apache 2. I have multiple Virtual hosts, all described in the vhosts/Vhosts.conf file. Unfortunately, SSL only works with https://localhost/ . None of the other alias (https://mymachine.madomain.net/ , https://myvirtual.host.org/ , https://othervirtual.host.org) work with SSL. Certainly there is something I am missing. Using Webmin, I discovered that there is the ssl directory where the _default_:443 virtual host is defined. What do I have to do in order to set any other of my Virtual Hosts to accept SSL connection ? Thanks a lot. Best regards /stefano Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting System Temperatures
You'll probably get better help with that question if you asked it on a C progamming list or maybe if you Googled around for some info. Just a suggestion. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If i'm in C, how can i grab the system temperatures? Or how about the load and all that jazz? Do i make a pointer? If so, to where? -Cody Harris Linux Rox My Sox! Check out HCHS! http://vectec.net Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. Registered Linux user #315598 Registered Linux Computer #200951 Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Creating a directory
I am trying to create a directory with a datetime stamp as part of the directory name. This is for backup purposes so I know when a directory is backed up. This is what I am trying to do on the commandline: datedir= date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S mkdir /tomcat$datedir But, all I get is /tomcat. I do a echo $datedir and it's empty. The reason it's empty is the space between the '=' and the command 'date'. So, I try: datedir=date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S but I get an error saying that it can't find command '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'. I try putting it all in quotes, but that just echos out the command again like it's a string: datedir=date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S or datedir='date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S' echo $datedir date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S So, I tried this: date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S | mkdir and that failed. So did: date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S time.text mkdir cat time.text and: date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S time.text mkdir time.text How would I go about capturing the datetime stamp and then using that to create a directory? Thanks for the help. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating a directory
That didn't work for me. I did figure it out by doing: datedir=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) echo $datedir 20030717161622 Thanks for the help though. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:43:05AM -0600, Troy Davidson wrote: I am trying to create a directory with a datetime stamp as part of the directory name. This is for backup purposes so I know when a directory is backed up. This is what I am trying to do on the commandline: datedir= date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S mkdir /tomcat$datedir date is a command, so if you want to assign its results to a variable you need to use the backticks (`). So, you'd have: datedir=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` mkdir /tomcat$datedir I wasn't sure if you wanted that to be a folder inside /tomcat, or if you want all folders to begin with tomcat. If the former, then don't forget the slash, i.e. mkdir /tomcat/$datedir HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Standard Out Redirecting
Odd. That worked. I just sent it out via 2 and I got the info. Never would have thought of that. Thanks. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You could try java -version 1 test 2 test.error to see if for some reason it sends the info to stderr eric I am trying to redirect the version output of Java on a computer. I run the command: java -version test The commandline will then print out the version of Java and test will have nothing in it. Is there some other way to capture the version? I am putting this in a script to check if a computer needs a newer version of Java before a program can be ran. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Standard Out Redirecting
I am trying to redirect the version output of Java on a computer. I run the command: java -version test The commandline will then print out the version of Java and test will have nothing in it. Is there some other way to capture the version? I am putting this in a script to check if a computer needs a newer version of Java before a program can be ran. Thanks for the help. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Checkinstall
Charlie, Thanks for the help. I got checkinstall installed without a hitch once I updated urpmi. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quoting Troy Davidson; Thursday 03 July 2003 01:02 pm: whack I'm not running as Root. You will actually get a prompt to enter in the root password and then go on from there. Excellent. Running as root when it isn't needed tends to be unhealthy for the system. Too much hanging out for the entire 'net to take a swing at. s'kid-idiots will take over whatever they can find open and vulnerable. I don't have a contrib source listed. I'll follow the other directions and see what happens. Thanks for the help. Any time. Holler if you have any trouble. Someone is always around to help out. g Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Yeah, I also. ;-) Peace; C. -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 13:54:40 up 15 days, 19:11, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.03 A pain in the ass of major dimensions. -- C.A. Desoer, on the solution of non-linear circuits Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Checkinstall
I am trying to install checkinstall from RPMs. I go to install the checkinstall RPM and it says it needs the libcheckinstall RPM. So, I try to install the libcheckinstall RPM and it says it needs the checkinstall RPM to install. How can I tell an RPM where to find another RPM needed for dependencies? I am just clicking on the RPM in Konqueror and installing from there. Thanks for the help. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Checkinstall
If you're just clicking on the RPM in Konqueror and installing from there you must be running as root; which is probably not the brightest thing to be doing. Or are you getting the root permissions needed, password required dialogue? I'm not running as Root. You will actually get a prompt to enter in the root password and then go on from there. I don't have a contrib source listed. I'll follow the other directions and see what happens. Thanks for the help. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quoting Troy Davidson; Thursday 03 July 2003 08:44 am: I am trying to install checkinstall from RPMs. I go to install the checkinstall RPM and it says it needs the libcheckinstall RPM. So, I try to install the libcheckinstall RPM and it says it needs the checkinstall RPM to install. How can I tell an RPM where to find another RPM needed for dependencies? I am just clicking on the RPM in Konqueror and installing from there. Thanks for the help. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Hi Troy; If you're just clicking on the RPM in Konqueror and installing from there you must be running as root; which is probably not the brightest thing to be doing. Or are you getting the root permissions needed, password required dialogue? Have you added a contrib software source to your software manager yet? That's where those files come from I do believe. If you don't have contrib listed yet just use the; http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon easy urpmi page to pick one. Then use; urpmi checkinstall command in an Xterm as super user to install it. The dependencies will be taken care of by urpmi that way. You can use the software manager in the Mandrake Control Centre to install it if you like using the GUI. Once you have taught the software manager utilities about contrib, P.L.F., Texstar, whatever goodies repositories you add with the scripts generated by the easy urpmi page. I do believe it's a hell of a lot easier than chasing dependencies manually. Unless of course you're on a quest for knowledge type mission. You'll also get the proper versions of the apps you want for the version of Mandrake you're running, and won't be trying to install incorrect or 'cooker' RPM versions that would tend to break other things. If you do want to play cooker wait a bit, a beta of 9.2 should be available shortly. Then we can all try to break it. g Good luck. :-) Regards; Charlie -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 10:51:59 up 15 days, 16:08, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.15, 0.10 A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.
Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.cgi-bin.com/ Enjoy! Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know of a site or book that I can get to build a hit counter on my web page? I have been using a commercial counter that was free if I allowed their small add but now they are going to full charge and I can not afford that for our small business. So I want to build a hit counter and have it on my server in I am guessing the cgi.bin. Any suggestions or point me in the right directions? I have googled all over the place, and no luck. TIA -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'Uninstalling' Wine
Thanks for the answer. I knew it had to be simple. But, I have deleted the directory that I did the make's from. Do I need to reinstall Wine so that I can then do the 'make uninstall'? Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 4:42 am, Troy Davidson wrote: Ok, I built wine 20030408 from a tar ball file. I have to do all the 'make' and 'make install' stuff. Now, I have to uninstall wine. How would I go about uninstalling this build? TIA. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** make uninstall -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'Uninstalling' Wine
Derek, Thanks for the answer. I have seen that checkinstall mentioned before but wasn't sure what it was for. I will take care of this when I get home today and let you know how it went. Again, thanks for the answer. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yep. That is what I expected you to say. You had better read this http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php? name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=10 derek On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 3:36 pm, Troy Davidson wrote: Thanks for the answer. I knew it had to be simple. But, I have deleted the directory that I did the make's from. Do I need to reinstall Wine so that I can then do the 'make uninstall'? Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 4:42 am, Troy Davidson wrote: Ok, I built wine 20030408 from a tar ball file. I have to do all the 'make' and 'make install' stuff. Now, I have to uninstall wine. How would I go about uninstalling this build? TIA. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** make uninstall -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enemy Territory problems
What computer did you download the game to? If it was the one that installed correctly, maybe when you transferred the file to the other computers it became corrupt. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just d/l'ed this game, 258 megs, and I can't get it to install on 2 out of 3 machines. It installs just fine on my 9 yr olds comp: 900mhz Athlon T-bird, Nvidia 2, 384 megs Ram Won't install on my 12 yr olds: 1.3 gig Duron, Nvidia 2, 384 megs Ram or mine: Athlon XP2100, Nvidia Ti4200, 512 megs Ram This is the message we are getting on both machines: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scripts]# sh et-linux-2.55.x86.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Enemy Territory 2.55Extraction failed. Signal caught, cleaning up Any ideas? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde 3.1 problem, no mouse
This has happened to me before. I solve it by doing the following: 1. CTRL-ALT-F1 (Drop out of X) 2. Login as Root 3. Type 'mousedrake' 4. Click 'ok' 5. CTRL-ALT-F7 (Get back into X) Doing the Mousedrake reinitializes the mouse. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting David E Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I seem to have lost my mouse... It was working fine, and I switched to some stuff on the second desktop. For whatever reason I haven't been able to get the mouse to move again. I'm a bit crippled, trying to select between windows via alt-tab, using keyboard maneuvering (no kbd shortcut to change desktops). I managed to be able to rightclick on desktop and bring up a task / desktop window. But this is tiresome. I have stuff I need to keep running. Short of restarting KDE, is there a way to restore the mouse? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day
And mine. ;) I love doing things in the background so I can work on other things. This will come in handy. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:34:38 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu June 12 2003 09:07 pm, JoeHill wrote: nohup gkrellm That definitely gets added to my bag of tricks... Thanks for the tip, Joe! And to mine. You are the bee's knees Joe (don't ask - ancient UK colloquialism). -- Len Lawrence -- Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning. -- Marlo Thomas -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NOTICE: CNet no longer support LINUX download !!!
Oh I agree that it's silly when the US tries to use strong arm tactics in other countries. But, remember, if there is a presence of a company in those countries, they can still take the offending site to court in their own country. Anyway, just cause a site is in another country doesn't mean that a company still couldn't attempt to bully the offending site with a lawsuit. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good luck getting sites, in, like, say Panama to comply. Too many countries that would (yeah!) tell the US to get fscked, which would only hurt the complying US companies. I think the courts know this, the long arm of the US doesn't extend EVERYWHERE yet. There are still a few countries yet that have nothing to lose by telling the US to get Fscked. Thos wil always harbour technology (and funds) the US finds objectionable. Cheers Jason Troy Davidson wrote: Makes me wonder if this is the beginning of the SCO fallout. I know that there hasn't been any ruling on anything yet. But, why couldn't SCO use the DMCA to shutdown any site that is distributing anything to do with Linux? This might just be the beginning of a scary road we are heading down. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here's a mistake in the making! http://download.com.com/1200-2002-997312.html 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] 1st Linux Email!
Just to elaborate, the reasons that only the 2nd and 3rd worked is because you need to access Webmin through a secure connection. That's why there is the 'https' and not just 'http' on those links. Just FYI. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 5:43 pm, Keith wrote: WOW, Webmin is incredible! Stephen Anne, I tried both current suggestions, both worked, and found another old e-mail, and clicking on the SECOND one below worked. Thanks Much..Linux is a whole new world again. http://localhost:1 https://localhost:1 http://127.0.0.1:1 https://127.0.0.1:1 The second and fourth ones should both work - the other two definitely not. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xfishtank
When you put an '' (ampersand) at the end of a command, that tells Linux to put the process in the background. xfishtank was running, but you didn't see it. Try typing the same command in, but excluding the . Or, if you have already typed in the command, type 'fg' to bring the application to the foreground. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does this program do anything? I'm using KDE with Mandrake 9.0. I opened up a terminal and typed in xfishtank -b 50 -f 15 -r .1 -d . Nothing happened. What else do I need to do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTP Server
Quoting Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Don't got no X. MCC doesn't need X. Login as root and type 'mcc'. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] need help with greek!
Manolis, Seems that the majority of people here don't use Greek. Is there a Linux group in your area that you can direct this towards? You might get better help with an answer there. Here is a list of LUGs in Greece: http://www.linuxhq.com/users/groups/greece.html Sorry we can't help you better. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am I the only one that has this problem? don't know what to do Στις Κυρ 08 Ιουν 2003 00:15, ο/η manolis έγραψε: Hi guys! After my installation of mandrake 9.1 I have one little problem. I use the greek keyboard but I cannot enter punctuation notation marks on vowels. for example I can write Γεια σου but if Itry to put a tone in the ι with the : key and then the i key, I get no character. The problem exists in all the programs. I did not had the same problem with mandrake 9.0 . Any ideas? please help. Manolis (A very newbie in the world of linux) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL?
Quoting Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to continue the connection sharing that I've been running with the PPP setup. You actually don't need to do this, unless you want to. Even if the ISP only gives you one IP address, the DSL modem will take that address. Then, you can have the DSL modem do NAT (Network Address Translation) and connect all the computers directly up without having to share the connection. 1). Do I connect the DSL modem to the hub and then direct my machine to communicate with the IP configuration they give me? Yes. 2). Assuming that is the case (Yeah, I know all about _assuming_) will the current configuration of connection sharing continue to work with the DSL? In other words, is all I have to do is reconfigure my internet connection to use the DSL and the other machine on my mini-lan will still see it using the current connection sharing configuration? Shouldn't have a problem, but I'm not 100% sure on this answer. 3). Provided this all works as I think it will the next step is to download the 9.1 images. Are there any gotchas I should be worried about? I haven't had any, but others seem to have problems. I have now installed on 4 machines without any problems. 4). Will 9.1 also do the connection sharing like 8.1 does? I never did it in 8.1 or 9.1 so can't answer that one. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL?
Quoting Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey gang we definitely need a newbie How2 on this also a list of questions to ask the DSL provider Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/ Specifically for your second question: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/installation.html#AEN275 Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL?
You can have yours after I get mine. ;) Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 10 June 2003 10:26 am, Troy Davidson wrote: Ask and ye shall receive: Can I have a 6 pack of beer and a circular Italian food object? (otherwise known as pizza)? PS Could have been worse, I could have asked for a cool $million$! :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NOTICE: CNet no longer support LINUX download !!!
Makes me wonder if this is the beginning of the SCO fallout. I know that there hasn't been any ruling on anything yet. But, why couldn't SCO use the DMCA to shutdown any site that is distributing anything to do with Linux? This might just be the beginning of a scary road we are heading down. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here's a mistake in the making! http://download.com.com/1200-2002-997312.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java in Netscape
Hmmm... that's strange. I have never had to change permissions for the plugins for my machine. Are you running at a higher security level? My security level is default. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 09:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 22:13, Troy Davidson wrote: Login as root, and go to this page: http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/pi_moreinfo.cgi?PID=10048 Download the plugin and you are all set. That did it, Troy - Thanks! Looks like I spoke too soon; the java plugins show as being installed in about plugins, but only work when I'm logged in as root. How do I change permissions of the plugins so they work when I'm logged in as myself? Rich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] root password expired.
Ze, Restart the computer and put it into single user mode. At either LILO or GRUB, type 'linux 1' at the prompt. Then, once the computer has started, go into a terminal and type in 'su'. You won't need to enter in a password. Type in 'userconf' and change the root password. Reboot the system and you should be all set. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Ze Ji Li [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, My root password expired. I can't su and login from the terminals. Is there anyway I can reset it? Thank you. Ze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL
I hate to sound stupid, but why couldn't you just go with any DSL provider, and get a DSL router-hub? Then, the router can do NAT and firewall and you can put any number of machines behind the router. Just a thought. Not sure if you have already thought of that or not. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DSL
Hmmm It might just be the FUD that they are trying to get you to believe. It might just be a salesman who doesn't know what he is talking about. Worst case scenario, you can order the DSL and when they come out to install it, let them do all the work and then spring on them you use Linux. The installer might just let you get by without installing the software. If the DSL can connect to a router than you don't need the software on your machine. It might be that the DSL modem connects via USB and needs special drivers. Find out the actual software they need to install and what modem they will be using. Post it here and maybe we can all help you out. Or better yet, let the installer come to your house, sit at the computer and try to install their 'special' software. ;) Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The local DSL provider keeps telling me that I have to run special software (ether 300 or some such blather) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java in Netscape
Login as root, and go to this page: http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/pi_moreinfo.cgi?PID=10048 Download the plugin and you are all set. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My transition to 9.1 is complete with one exception: getting java to work in Netscape 7.02. When I installed Netscape on my laptop, it was version 7.0 and came with java that installed automatically. A couple of days later I installed MDk 9.1 on my desktop and downloaded Netscape. This time it was version 7.02 and java was not included. I downloaded Sun java 1.4.x and installed it per instructions, but Netscape does't recognize that it's there. I did the simlink thing to ~/.netscape6 and ~/.netscape to no avail. I also went into the KDE control panel and added the links to the plugin panel. No dice. Exactly where is Netscape looking for its plugins? Opera finds java with no problem at all. Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE logout
Sir Robin, I have the same question. I think that the answer is in autologin. If you autologin, you only get the logout/cancel window. But, if you do a normal login you will get the full logout window. The times that I have seen the full logout window with autologin is if I have switched users. I'll be interrested to see if anyone has any solution to this. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know which file governs whether the logout window gives a full set of options (reboot etc.) or just logout/cancel? On my office machine the former always come up, but at home I usually get the latter, but it occasionally switches to the former for no obvious reason. I've tried using MCC to allow users to restart, but with no effect. Sir Robin -- A Perl script is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE logout
Oh, I don't disagree with it being silly. If this is the case, I would love to see it changed in the next version. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If that's the case, then it's a bit silly. I'm sure most of those who use autologin do so because they are the sole users on their machines, so if they log out, it's because they want to shut down or reboot into that other operating system. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wheeeeee - cable modem madness! :-)
*cough* http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-gnutella/ *cough* Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now somebody recommend a good peer-2-peer app so I can go download Evanescences Bring me back to life grin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logging Out
Jim, Thanks for the info. I do want to keep the autologin on the one computer and I think this is the problem. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting James Henry Maiewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Having just had the same problem, I can say that (thanks to Joeb's help) using Mandrake Control and selecting the boot icon, then DrakBoot gets you to a place where you can select No, I don't want autologin. This solved my problem in 9.0, and assumes that you don't want auto login (or want the dragon more). In 9.1 (but not 9.0), removing the login applet than re-adding it, also brought back the dragon (until a reboot), if you have knowledge such that this datum would be of help to you in solving this problem some other way. regards, -Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
