Re: [newbie] Norton Ghost
There is a command line option called dd find about it at the man... man dd El sb, 08-01-2005 a las 23:54 +1300, Al Yaemes escribi: Hi all, Is there a freeware app similar to Norton Ghost? TIA Shaz Documento texto plano adjunto (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Cdrack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Kinda OT... port forwarding?
I'm not absolutely shure about windows doing port forwarding, because i did investigated for another application and didn't found a native solution. But i had success with Cygwin and the ssh. Basicly wath i did was to use ssh over the windows box with the Cygwin version, then ssh has the ability to do port forward and also encrypt the comunication betwen boxes. El mi, 15-09-2004 a las 16:06, Eric Scott escribi: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 03:16, Eric Scott wrote: Yo. I'm done some experimenting with web hosting, but I'm really quite new at it. I have a little home network with a single static IP. The internet server (Windows 2000 Server... I'd prefer a Mandrake box, but anyway) is the only computer with the static IP. I also have an ol' Mandrake 9.1 box attatched. My experience is really close to null; what I'd like to know is this: is it possible, basically, to host a website on the Mandrake box and have it easily acessable to the web? I know that the Win2k box is up to it, IIS's http ftp servers work without flaw, but is there any way that I can route a domain to the Mandrake box that doesn't have an Internat IP? sure, it's got a local IP, but that doesn't do much good. Thanx, ES -- If we stop voting for them, will they go away? Yes you can, all you need to do is port forward port 80 on the windows box to port 80 on the internal IP of the mandrake box. I haven't used 2000 in a while, but I did once use it that way, and right clicking on the network interface in question and selecting properties is how to find the place to set the port forward. I'd imagine google would be quite handy if you can't find it yourself. Okie day, seems simple enough. I found some basic how-to's via google, and supposedly got port 80 forwarded to my Linux box's IP. Problem is it seems to make no difference. supposedly I should just be able to go to http://[my.internet.ip]:80/index.shtml or whatever and get apache... right? I know apache is working okay because I can go to http://[my.local.ip]/index.shtml and it pops up with it's placeholder. what am I not doing? Thanx, ES Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux connecting to a ms sql server
Hey en php.net encontre info que te sera de gran ayuda... http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mssql.php El mar, 14-09-2004 a las 02:24, Avi Schwartz escribi: Jeb Barger wrote: Ok, I was working on this most of the day today, and there has got to be a better way. I am converting a webapp to Mandrake 10 using php, however, it still needs to connect to the microsoft sql server. Is there an easy way to do this? Articles I have read, suggest using a piece that converts the odbc connection to xml, and using php to connect that way. I am new to linux, and I know there has to be a better way. Any suggestions? It all depends whether MDK built PHP with freetds. If it was, when you should be able to access SQL Server directly from PHP like any other database. If not, then you will have to compile PHP yourself. Check http://www.freetds.org/ for more information. BTW, you have set reply-to in your mailer which screws up replies to the list. Please remove it from you kmail settings. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GPS and Linux
You can find some GPS proyects at www.freshmeat.net El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 16:49, Rick Kunath escribi: SME Server Admin wrote: There are apparently some open source things for Linux, but I've not found anything suitable just yet. Snip MS Autoroute, Infomap Navigator, Memory Map, GPS Utility, GPS VisualRoute, MapSource, Snip I am looking for Linux GPS mapping software too. Grass doesn't do what I need, Viking either. I am hoping to find something like QuakeMap under M$ for Linux. QuakeMap is a utility for displaying Terraserver topo and aerial photos in a much larger area than the limitations of the Terraserver web site. It also stores maps in case you need them while out in the field and offline. Waypoints and routes can be imported or created and displayed on topos, aerial photos, or aerials with topos superimposed. I'd like to find something that runs on Linux with these capabilities. Is there anything out there that would do this sort of job? Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS
Seems to me like you dont have CUPS installed jet, so I recomend you to install all the CUPS RPMS befor trying to install the printer. After doing that you can use the web configuration tool for cups http://localhost:631 Cdrack. El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 21:00, Steve escribi: I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
[newbie] Redirect video output
Hi to all. Im wondering if there is a way to redirect the output that goes to the monitor to another device like /dev/video0 (that is my video recording card) to create a stream or something like that. Tnx. Cdrack.
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question
Hi BJ. In my opinion the size of each partition are given acord the use you intent to give and of course the size of youre disk. i.e. if you have let's say a 80 Gb Hdd. then if youre computer is just for personal usage... the Mandrake Linux Normal instalation will use a partition named / wich is the root of the operative system... (don't get confused about the root user, that's another thing). so into this partition can be alocated all the other directories that the system needs like home, var, usr tmp. But the main reason to create partitions for this directories is to limit the size of each one to an especific maximun size. .i.e. / = 20 GB /Home = 40 GB (because is the home of each user and have to hold the user's documents like music, imgs, etc.) /swap = recomended 2x RAM Memory, let's say you have a 512 DDRAM dim, so create a 1 GB swap partition. /tmp = 5 GB 's and that's all ... there are no especific size or directive that any of the prior directories must be partitions on youre hard drive, but is easier to mantain in case of dissasters or even back up operations. i.e. If for any reason you have to reinstall youre Linux box and you created separated partitions to hold / and /home then you just have to format the / partition and youre documents will be safe on the other partition and ready to use after youre instalation. Cdrack. --- BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: SNIP Thanks Hoyt but I'm still a little confused. From your response you have one large hard drive ( I think that is what I see ). I have three large hard drives - I is perfect and the other two well not sure. My question is: If I go into Mount Points and go to each hard drive and choose the partition size and define it what should they be ? /var another /home . just what I'm not sure. I have all this space and it's not showing up usable. Do I need a swap file on all three hard drives? Also do I need a swap on all three drives? I have gone thru all my books and the net and nothing really talks about multiple hard drives. I'm really confused now on what to do. Thanks for all your help in advance, bj SNIP Hoyt, Are you using the DiskDrake tool to do this? The reason I'm askin is that /music is not an option neither is /backup. I'm not sure of you mount scheme either. Can you call a partition anything you want and assign it to part 1 thru 12 ? I went through this exercise a while ago and got a lot of suggestions from which I developed a scheme. It proved to be somewhat too generous and if I had to do it again I would set things closer to the used col. I am not going to give any advice but will because I am sending you my df. Alter it to your needs: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 2.9G 123M 2.7G 5% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 18G 4.7G 12G 28% /backup /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 66M 11M 53M 17% /boot /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 20G 3.6G 15G 20% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 34G 26G 5.9G 82% /music /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 7.7G 406M 7.0G 6% /tmp /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 20G 5.9G 13G 33% /usr /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 9.5G 207M 8.8G 3% /var I have installed everything that looked interesting so in my case reseting the part's to used would be sufficient. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy?
Have you a why..?? --- Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any linux terminals/consoles that do a little bit more than just display the characters you type? insert no joke here plz Some that would provide animations and eye candy perhaps? For example, when you typed to the terminal the most recent character would very start bright and slowly fade to a darker color as time passes. I think something like that would look a bid more interesting, anyone agree? The concept could be taken much further... I tried breifly looking on freshmeat, but perhaps I didn't look hard enough. Or perhaps there isn't such a terminal out there =O Advice? Tips? Help? Thanks in advance, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
you can check the free space of youre partitions with the df conmmand so you can have an idea if there is a space problem Cdrack. --- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...
as you should now, the swap partition acts like an extra ram storage... When you run applications, they alocates them code into the ram memori, but if you have varius applications running at the same time. (usualy... like network handler, video handler,database servers, and so) Each one of them will claim some memory space to work on. and if you don't have enough to bring them, the system will slow down and maybe hang. Because not all the programs work at the same time, there are memory alocated that is not nesesary to keep with the actual information and may be used by active applications, so here becomes important the swap space. At this point the SO takes the memory from the inactive applications and places it's information on the swap partition, feeing memory to use by active applications. When the unactive applications become active then the SO find's the new inactive aplications and does the hole thing again. The SO can use a non swap partition for this job, but the performance will not be the same, because the swap partition have's a diferent file sistem and method to access to the information. So if you are able to reinstall or install a extra disk to use it for swap job... go on. Cdrack. --- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, As I installed mdk 9.2 on a brand new desktop, I totally forgot to make a swap partition. The installer didn't complain and everything looks fine now, but I'm still wondering if it might be an annoyance for later? (The machine has 512 Mo of RAM) Thanks, -- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...
If you like the GUI, you can use the Mandrake Control Center to assign the mount point or create the new swap partition. When you finish the MCC will ask you if you whant to whrite the changes to the fstab file. And allso if you have created one swap partition and if you now the adecuated code to insert into the fstab file... go ahead. But if not, i recommend you the GUI way. Cdrack. --- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your explanations! I'll create a new partition for swap use. Can I then run diskdrake to tell my OS to use it, or do I have to manually enter it in /etc/fstab? Thanks, Alex Le ven 12/12/2003 à 15:45, cdrack a écrit : as you should now, the swap partition acts like an extra ram storage... When you run applications, they alocates them code into the ram memori, but if you have varius applications running at the same time. (usualy... like network handler, video handler,database servers, and so) Each one of them will claim some memory space to work on. and if you don't have enough to bring them, the system will slow down and maybe hang. Because not all the programs work at the same time, there are memory alocated that is not nesesary to keep with the actual information and may be used by active applications, so here becomes important the swap space. At this point the SO takes the memory from the inactive applications and places it's information on the swap partition, feeing memory to use by active applications. When the unactive applications become active then the SO find's the new inactive aplications and does the hole thing again. The SO can use a non swap partition for this job, but the performance will not be the same, because the swap partition have's a diferent file sistem and method to access to the information. So if you are able to reinstall or install a extra disk to use it for swap job... go on. Cdrack. --- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, As I installed mdk 9.2 on a brand new desktop, I totally forgot to make a swap partition. The installer didn't complain and everything looks fine now, but I'm still wondering if it might be an annoyance for later? (The machine has 512 Mo of RAM) Thanks, -- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing with a (new) second Hard drive
The only thing you have to be aware is were to install LILO, because if you install on the second master disk, and if youre computer BIOS Setup indicates that the boot must be done with the first master disk, then you will never see the LILO boot manager.. and you will be directed to youre Windows OS. So if you plan to install it on the first or second master disk, you must tell youre computer from wich HHD it must load the boot. Cdrack. --- Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 5:39 pm, j wrote: Hi there, I know this question has been asked under different titles, but believe me, I could not find a CLEAR answer: I am about to install Mandrake 9.2 and I got a new HDD thinking to disturb as little as possible my existing XP. I have currently: Primary Master: C and D drives (D is virtual) Primary Slave: vacant Secondary master: DVD ROM Secondary slave: CD R-W My questions are: 1. Can I install my NEW HD in primary-slave and later install and dual-boot Mandrake succesfully? 2. If not, what changes should I make? 1. Yes, no problem, linux does not care where you boot from. Put the drive in your machine. Boot the Mandrake installer. Let it use the second HD as the place to put its files, It should detect your WinSnooze installation, and set up LILO to boot it as you wish. LILO is the Linux Boot Loader, and it will set up your computer to dual boot both XP and Mandrake. Don't worry, Be Happy, Peace, Love, Linux- Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
you can ping to the other boxes of youre net, only if you edit youre /etc/hosts file and add the ip address and names of the other boxes of youre net. Cdrack. --- Nestor Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:43, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:53, Nestor Castro wrote: whaang (chainsaw snipping;)) * Thanks Again for your time and patience. Nestor * 1)Can you ping the other boxes on your subnet? yeaa, that, I can do If so does it work using their names as well? noop 2)Can you ping the internet using IP addresses? that`s also a No 66.102.11.99 (google) for instance. Good luck, HarM damn, that chainsaw is getting dangerously close. I`ll atach a diagram of how my LAN is connected, and see if this helps you guys get a better perspective. Thanks. Nestor. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I don't get it, if you have a line into the linux comp and a line out then you have to have two nic cards eth0 and eth1 in order to connect two cables to that computer. If that is the case then you have one nic that is not functioning. So if one is a built in to the motherboard it would seem that it may need to be activated in the bios. If it is active it should show up when you do ifconfig in console. Also you should see the active light on the back of the comp in two places. Something is missing or am I just daft? yes, there are two cards, but the one built in to the motherboard eth0 is not activated, so we can just forget about that one. I`m olnly using eth1, , just one cable goes into my comp into eth1, I can ping anyone in my subnet with it. My guess is that the routing table will show that the interface to the gateway is the inactive card (which is eth0). Please, could you post the outputs of route -n and ifconfig? Use the chainsaw before posting. LOL. here they go... [EMAIL PROTECTED] jncasmed]# ifconfig_ _eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:DB:74:3F:A1_ _ inet addr:192.168.147.66 Bcast:192.168.147.0 Mask:255.255.255.0_ _ UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1_ _ RX packets:368583 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0_ _ TX packets:2735 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0_ _ collisions:0 txqueuelen:100_ _ RX bytes:476833374 (454.7 Mb) TX bytes:289532 (282.7 Kb)_ _ Interrupt:18 Base address:0xddc0 Memory:fcfe-fd00_ _ _ _lo Link encap:Local Loopback_ _ inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0_ _ UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1_ _ RX packets:567 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0_ _ TX packets:567 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0_ _ collisions:0 txqueuelen:0_ _ RX bytes:40073 (39.1 Kb) TX bytes:40073 (39.1 Kb)_ _ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] jncasmed]# route -n_ _Kernel IP routing table_ _Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface_ _192.168.147.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1_ _127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] jncasmed]#_ arrrgh,, 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fitness/Diet software?
In Linux you can find almost any kind of software, no mather how easy or weird it must be. So here are some of them http://freshmeat.net/projects/dmak/?topic_id=71%2C266 http://freshmeat.net/projects/weight/?topic_id=861 Of course from a great site for Linux proyects www.freshmeat.net Cdrack. --- robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Do any of you know of a good fitness/diet software program that's run in Linux, preferably Mandrake? I'm surprised that to this point I have been unable to find such a simple program. Something like fitday.com were you can track what you eat, and produce chart graphs of weight, food, etc... I don't know of any dedicated software, probably because Linux software tends to be written by people for whom diet is merely the first word in the sentence Diet Coke is for wusses. However, something like that should be fairly easy to set up in OpenOffice. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all
have you tryed chmod -Rf 777 /mnt/backup ? (beeng root of course) Cdrack. --- Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:43:38 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 What else need I put in this line to make it rw for all, Please. I do not like to change to su every time I want to write something there. Looking in the *man mount* it seems I done all - maybe missed some? Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning change users to user (no s) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove
i didn't found the iso image... have some of you...??? Cdrack. --- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:50:03 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enlighten me. Didn't you see the pr0n? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark. -- Gore Vidal, on the bombing of Afghanistan after 9/11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise
Ok, from the begining is not an easy work to move from a windows based company to a linux one, and you must be more than a newbie to get that job. I have like 5 years of experience working on linux, making diferent tests, implementing database servers, web servers, proxys, file servers, autentication servers and moving users form windows to Linux. But none of them was an easy thing because you are not in a home proyect to see if it works... you are into an enterprice and youre boss hopes you now wath you are doing and hope no more than success from you. Nevertheless i offer you mi help to guide you to a scaled migration from one to other system. My recommend is going first with C) Linux servers with windows desktops. and if you solve all the users request from the servers... then most of the job have to been done. there are Oracle solutions for Linux servers so you have to investigate a lot by youre selve before going to youre boos's office to show youre solution Cdrack. --- Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, My boss recently expressed an interest in moving our entire company's IT from Windows servers desktops to either: A) a Totally linux based solution. B) windows servers with Linux Clients C) Linux servers with windows desktops. My question, well request really, is for any information, or suggestions of web-sites that may be of use when doing a business proposal for this. Plus any recommended software replacements plus recommendations of with linux distros to use would be very much appreciated (obviously I would like to use Mandrake as I have used this in the past.) The systems we currently use are: Win2k Servers using Active Directory (for authentication and also user information directory) DNS (Bind?) DHCP, Oracle 8i server (hosted on a cluster server) Cognos(reports from our oracle database) Exchange (email, calendar, meeting room booking, tasks etc..) MS Office 2k (obvious replacement being Open Office) Terminal Server, Remote Dial-in Users, Scan-file (scanned document management) Additionally we want to use: Electronic faxing, Web Proxying, (squid?) Thanks in advance. Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem troubles
for an easy wine configuration, you can use the winesetuptk programm. It have a graphical enviroment to configure wine. then you just have to launch the programm you wath to test from the shell like this [EMAIL PROTECTED] wine ./MiProg.exe and if works then you are done if not maybe with the next release of wine... Cdrack. --- Melissa Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 03:12 pm, cdrack wrote: Well done and i hope to keep on doing Thanks Cdrack. It should also be noted that Carren is a good friend of mine, and it's a wee bit my fault that she's now trying Mandrake! :-) PD. Wath's up with youre wine instalation...? I seem to have successfully installed Wine (I got the latest version for Mandrake from the WineHQ site), and now I have to look into the configuration. So far, I've emailed to myself the Windows .exe installation file for MessageCleaner, along with my registration information. Now I just have to figure out how to install the silly thing and see if it will work. :-) - -- Melissa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1QgzjVbXUvsE8ukRApHEAJ94tb7168tGgmHAnbo/+qNvPEaNnwCeJm38 J3f/2NZ5JqtA0ljAU+PTkw8= =czqI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare problems! Please Help!
hey i had a like problem some time ago... and was because i was using Lilo with graphical. I mode try to use them with text mode and it worked. Now about runing a allready installed win98 system that was not created from VMWare... i'm not shure if it will work... i've tryed some time but did'nt worked. is bether if you create a new instalation inside vmware and i'm shure it will work fine. --- Scott Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to get VMWare working for a little bit now. I have been trying to get my Win98 OS working on my HDA parition. The problem is that every time I try to launch the OS LiLO causes and error where this: L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07, etc. is displayed over and over and over again. Does anyone know how to fix this. I've tried diabling Lilo and making a boot disk, but my disk won't boot properly. I've tried using boot floppies and CDs in VMWare and VFAT crashes. What can I do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Modem troubles
The first thing... about the modem... there are a lot of information about the real modems and the winmodems (or toy modems)... and because the winmodems are not based on standards of hardware and communications but on them own cheap technologi... is hard to make every winmodem works on Linux. The external modems (real modems) are built with hardware and software standards for communications so if you programm a driver for the standard communication protocol.. you can be shure it will work with all external modems... but if you try to programm a driver that aplyes only to some kind of hardware... there are no wharanty that this will work with all the hadware. Nevertheles if the driver you found says that works with youre specific winmodem... maybe you have to get deeply on its docummentation or get a real modem... The Second thing. Is not that MCC desn't save youre internet configuration .. is just that you are overwriting this. Let's think that youre modem allready worked... and you configure something like kppp to make a dialup connection or any other... so if you done well you will be connected to the internet any time you dial and youre configuration will be saved. But if you use the wizzard... any time you get into, will be overwriting youre configuration. If you need more help with any of this isues just mail us. Cdrack. --- Carren Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thanks for your help everyone. I ran the install and got a message saying everything installed, so I assume it worked, although I have no idea where it installed to. I never got asked to select where I wanted it installed as I would have in Windows. Unfortunately nothing works still. My modem is listed in HardDrak(SP?) but there is now no configuration tool* button available for it for some reason. I have no idea whether it is configured correctly or not, or even where to go to do that. The other question I have is, when I go into MCC and look in the Internet section. I have to re-enter my connection details in there each time I go in to try to get this working. It doesn't seem to save my connection information anywhere. I would have thought that once I hit *apply* and *OK*, those details would stay there and would still be visible next time I log in and look at them. This really doesn't work like Windows does it?! ;-) Thanks for your help people. Might be time for yet another break ... I'm finding this incredibly frustrating! - -- - Carren -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.2 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBP9UlZsqIEIT739NzEQKd/gCg+5RJ4zYJw2pzCkT/o5L7Ae601qEAoOKR YO/oIHTvZjadmDNOttAPtFZL =sh+F -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off
hey i don't think that's a contact mather. The maxtors harddrives are a litle self exlcludent thats why you can only see one of them at any configuration you use... i recommend you use separated ide cables for each one and you will see them work fine... try this before doing some thing else with the jumpers... Cdrack. --- N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:41, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I'm almost frustated. I tried to add a primary slave hdd into the system, but it didn't work. The BIOS failed to recognise the drive. Both primary master and slave are maxtors. I've double checked the jumper setting and I'm sure I did it right. http://maxtor.com/en/documentation/installation_guides/ata_installation_guide.pdf The errors were: 1. If I set hdd #1 as master and hdd #2 as slave, BIOS only recognise hdd #1 2. If I set both hdd as cable select then only hdd #2 is recognised. 3. If I set hdd #1 as slave and hdd #2 as slave/cable select ( I know this is wrong), then only hdd #1 is recognised (as slave). This maxtor jumper settings really pissed me off! I don't have this kind of trouble if I use maxtor and seagate. Is maxtor and maxtor really can't be used together? Any opinion? Any experiences? Pls help me. Thanks. Fajar. Fajar, I've had this trouble and the problem turned out to be that one of the jumper blocks wasn't making good contact with the pins. Verify that there is actually some _metal_ in the plastic jumper, or better yet, get some new jumper blocks. -- N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department, University of New Orleans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again
sorry i maybe misst youre original post...
but let's do some thing about
you said that the problem begans after a update
process right...???
have you note that the urpmi had a bug and must be
updated by hand...??? the rpm manager was closing
wrong the data base so it causes the links
desapear
you must update this pakage by hand... unfortunately i
can't find the one you need maybe some one else can
Cdrack.
--- Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All.
Having gotten no response to my original posting on
this subject I'm
left to wonder if I have simply totally messed up my
current install of
Mandrake 9.2 with my attempts to run update and
therefore must simply
reinstall? Or perhaps my questions were just too
ignorant of the issues
involved to be addressable in this forum. If that is
the case, where can
I turn? Somehow or other I must get Mandrake running
properly. It is
unusable for much of anything but email and web
surfing at this point.
Why Evolution and Mozilla are still working I have
no idea. Obviously
I'm in need of a lot of help!
For anyone who might have some helpful advice, below
is the complete
text of my original post asking for help with this.
Thanks again for all the help and patience.
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 18:58, Langsley T Russell
wrote:
Hi all. I finally managed to update my mandrake
9.2 yesterday. I tried
deleting the lock file from the /var/lib/urpmi
file as directed by
Derek, but was denied permission. So I thought I
would change the
permissions and then delete the lock file. After
adding the permission
to the /var/lib/urpmi directory I was able to
download the update files
without even deleting the lock file. Should I
still delete the lock
file? It took about 3 hours on my dial up
connection to download the
updates but it went without a hitch, I thought.
KMail has likewise
apparently been obliterated.
When I booted up today I found that I no longer
have the icons for any
of the OO.o programs in my kicker/panel. In there
place are several gear
icons leading to nonexistent directories/files.I
checked the Office
heading on my main menu and there is no sign of
OO.o there either. What
did I do wrong? What must I do to get my OO.o
programs back?
I also now find that I have 20+ Gzip files
(actually they are packages) in my /var/lib/urpmi
directory. Should I do something with these? Are
they even supposed to
be there?
I also now have about 30 text and XML files and
about 24 directories in
my home directory Which weren't there previously.
Is this expected?
Should I remove the added permission
for/var/lib/urpmi?
Also I no longer have any sound.
Any and all suggestions will be greatly
appreciated.
LTR }}:{(
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Re: [newbie] Sound and video
Rick is rigth you can use aumix to adjust the volumen level. No mather if you use a simple speaker set or if you use a home treater audio sistem.. they will recive the same output from the pc. so install aumix then execute them and ajust the sound volumen levels and you are done. Cdrack. --- Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 06 December 2003 12:38 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Actually my questions are dumb questions. First: is there a master volume control in Mandrake 9.2? I can only hear sound when the amplifier of my home theatre is at its maximum. I hope you read my reply to Rick's error below before you downloaded and started attempting to install 64 bit drivers on an Athlon. Yes, I did. Happily I got two replies from you. I am nor receiving many posts from the list. I do not even get my posts. Onward and sidewise; master volume would be aumix, or kmix or alsamixer, or alsamixerGUI or what are you looking for? Which sound server are you using? Sound server? I do not follow. Do I need a sound server to get sound? One of those should work to do what you want, but if you're outing through a home theatre system amplifier you'll have to experiment to find which line adjusts what. Yes, it is a home theatre with an amplifier. If you're talking about the PC speaker system called Home Theatre by marketting weenies any of the mixers should do. No, it is not a computer with speakers attached. It is a full home theatre. In other words it's easier to figure out when you're looking at the system g Second, I want to install the NVIDIA drivers, and there are the IA32, and the AMD64, both supporting my Geoforce3 (Platinum) card. My processor is an Athlon 1.4 Ghz. I reckon the 32 and 64 refer to a 32 bit OS and a 64 bit OS respectively, but I am in doubt about the AMD bit which might refer to the processor. Thanks for allowing me to dumb-ask. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:MDKA-2003:030-1 - Updated rpm packages fix database locking bug
try install any package from the Mdk Cd's and see if it apears on youre menu... maybe it recover the lost ones... Cdrack. --- Ramon PS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I had updated my mandrake 9.2 box before this announcement about the rpm package fix. Thus, how do I rebuild the contents my lost Gnome's menu? TIA, -Ramon. -- Início da mensagem original --- De: Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake.com Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Data: 4 Dec 2003 22:59:20 - Assunto: MDKA-2003:030-1 - Updated rpm packages fix database locking bug -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 __ _ Mandrake Linux Update Advisory __ _ Package name: rpm Advisory ID:MDKA-2003:030-1 Date: December 4th, 2003 Original Advisory Date: November 18th, 2003 Affected versions: 9.2 __ Problem Description: A bug was found in the way that rpm locks it's databas e in that it prevents update- menus from running properly and can cause the loss of KDE, GNOME, and other WM menus. This package provides a better locking mechanism that should prevent this improper behaviour. Update: The previous package did not properly clean up the loc k file when issuing a -- rebuilddb. This has been corrected by these packages __ Updated Packages: Mandrake Linux 9.2: 5a7d4e0190682abe166b17a118190a8e 9.2/RPMS/popt-1.8- 22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm efb414e3a448df5fc93b2ea2b406a921 9.2/RPMS/popt-devel- 1.8-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm 92fcf6313c18cd7a2560a2048413b65f 9.2/RPMS/rpm-4.2- 22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm 31b96f97bd118da225712fb90e85c530 9.2/RPMS/rpm-build- 4.2-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm b4a660755ea552a3a5c0fac6b710aca2 9.2/RPMS/rpm-devel- 4.2-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm e22f65d372d51bf2ab7ab3f76514c466 9.2/RPMS/rpm-python- 4.2-22.1.92mdk.i586.rpm ee86f05cea9c34cb8e5505989d1b6bbc 9.2/SRPMS/rpm-4.2- 22.1.92mdk.src.rpm __ _ Bug IDs fixed (see http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com for m ore information): 30 - Rpm lock on database causes KDE menu to disappear when i nstalling RPMS 118 - rpm --rebuilddb error __ _ To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed autom atically for you. A list of FTP mirrors can be obtained from: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php All packages are signed by MandrakeSoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrake Linux Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys -- keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net 0x22458A98 Please be aware that sometimes it takes the mirrors a few hours to update. You can view other update advisories for Mandrake Linu x at: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/ MandrakeSoft has several security- related mailing list services that anyone can subscribe to. Information on these lists c an be obtained by visiting: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/mlist.php If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_linux-mandrake.com Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07- 10 Linux Mandrake Security Team security linux-mandrake.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/z7xImqjQ0CJFipgRAp15AKD1oVJFmuniTCLsHy9CZYW++W4 rEgCfYgn2 frhIpUE1FfTxkEPXVbACW+k= =YoI+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! http://antipopup.uol.com.br/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get Wine working?
Hi, for an easy configuration but less optimizated you can use the WineSetupTk configuration tool, i'm not shure if it is on the Mdk 9.1 cd's but if not try to findint on the net. or use the winetools that you can find at www.winehq.com Cdrack. --- Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed Wine on my system from the cd (mdk 9.1) and I'm wondering how to proceed. In the documentation on Wine HQ all sorts of configuration tools and scripts are mentioned that I just can't find. Can anybody tell me what to do or where I can find a clear tutorial. My goal is when all is running to install TopStyle and give it the ultimate test, so if any of you out there have done this, don't hesitate to tell me how you did it... Regards, Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] windows networking
Hi, on my prior Mandrake sistems (9.1,9.0,8) if you whant to use the DHCP option, you must have a HDCP server that provides you the control of the addresses over youre net. So if you don't have it, the easyest thing you can do is use the static ip address assigned by youre selfe. For using the linux PC as a server it must have the 2 network cards on it and one must be connected to the adsl device and the other to youre network hub or switch. then use the DrackGW option of the mandrake control center on Networks and Internet. This is and wizz that will guide you to the sucssesfull internet sharring. (my english isn't good at all but i'll do my best to help you.) Cdrack. --- Chris Savchick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Mandrake Linux 9.2 up and running on a PC I hope to use as a file server. I have two additional PCs running Windows 98SE in a peer-to-peer network configuration. One of them also supplies an ADSL connection to all PCs in my network (I used to have 3 running 98). The ADSL PC runs WinRoute Lite, acting as a DHCP server, to accomplish the internet sharing. (Ultimately, I'd like the Linux PC to do that and act as a firewall as well, but one thing at a time here!) I am having a hard time getting my Linux PC on my windows network, to say nothing of getting it internet access. In the LAN configuration screen, I set my NIC to DHCP and click Activate, but I get nothing. I must be missing something... any ideas? Is there a good tutorial available somewhere that tells me how to accomplish this? Any common problems I need to be aware of? Linux is completely foreign to me!!! Thanks, Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux behind proxy
Hi people, i have installed Mandrake 9.2 and i need to use the internet access over the network. A server on the net is administrating the internet over a proxy server, and i wath to connect with it, but i can't find where to especify the port of connection. At the internet options there are an option to specifi the addresses for the http and ftp but there are no option to specify the port to use with it. Have some one any idea...??? tnx. Cdrack. __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux behind proxy
you are rigth with the browser thing but the mail client like evolution or kmail, doesn't have this option to put on. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had much luck with MDK's internet connection wizards, I find it easier to configure by hand. There are various places where to configure the proxy. For Mozilla, you go to the Edit-Preferences-Advanced-proxy and specify there the name and port of the proxy. I guess there's something similar for Galeon/Konqueror etc. For command line programs like wget/lftp you set up some shell environment variables, like ftp_proxy=http://proxy username:proxy password@proxy.name:port number (my proxy allows only ftp over http, that's why I have http there). You can put these entries in your .bashrc configuration file. I can be more precise if you need. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, i have installed Mandrake 9.2 and i need to use the internet access over the network. A server on the net is administrating the internet over a proxy server, and i wath to connect with it, but i can't find where to especify the port of connection. At the internet options there are an option to specifi the addresses for the http and ftp but there are no option to specify the port to use with it. Have some one any idea...??? tnx. Cdrack. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing .bin files
you can allso use the rpm -Uvh X.rpm.bin --- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2003 01:46 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi, I want to install the latest Java runtime Environment (JDK) from Sun, which is a selfextracting rpm.bin(?) file. How do I install it? With the rpm manager? Any advise is most appreciated. su to root, chmod +x ???.bin and then execute it by ./???.bin or sh ???.bin. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] windows network connected
just a thing... the linux secure option from the boot loader means some thing like on windows fail proof mode... where you have running only the escential services and is used to fix some thing that doesnt work... like video settings or services that hang the system. the secure option doesn't mean about information security. Cdrack. --- Chris Savchick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies. I have my linux PC successfully connected to my network with internet access now. I think I was selecting linux-secure from the bootloader instead of linux. That locks everything down doesn't it? If so, that was my problem. Now on to Samba! Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two versions of application
for an easy rpm remotion go to Mandrake Contrl Center then on the Pakage remove and the find the pakage you wanth to remove... and that's it. Cdrack. --- Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 20:20, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 18:41, Johan wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:32, Johan wrote: Hi, I need to install an rpm but it complains that it req python[2.3] I suppose an older model that's now installed? snip I haven't really dabbled that much in 2.3 yet but the only time I found a difference was in importing the date module i.e. using it to print the current time and date. Shouldn't be any other reason than that the rpm was built by someone who didn't have 2.3 on his/her system yet. Good luck, HarM Thanks for the advice but ...it complains that rdiff_backup.Main is missing..when I want to uninstall the rpm...rpm says it is not installed. So I installed mdk 9.1 on my spare drive...it works without complaint. I will ask some questions on their maillist. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
