Re: [newbie] Fortune on login
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tyler Longren wrote: Hello everybody, How do I make fortune execute after a user logs in? Just like /etc/motd. I've read a few articles on how to do this, but I haven't been able to get any of them to work. I think that it should work simply by installing fortune and executing it in your ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~
Re: [newbie] files ending with a ~
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Veit Waltemath wrote:
Hey folks,
after running a perl-script al files an directories on a separate
partition are now ending with a ~ like file~ or directory~ and are only
visible in the shell.
How can i get this back?
I can't figure out what happend or what script you have run to have that,
but if all you want to do is removing the trailing ~ at the end of your
filenames, then you can issue the following command :
for i in * ; do mv $i ${i%%\~} ; done
HTH
Flupke
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Re: [newbie] Good book
On 22 Sep 2000, ed wrote: HI all I am wondering if anybody knows of a good linux security book that will explain firewalls,ports,scaners..etc... To use to secure my linux box and learn more about security. thanks in advance. You can already start, without spending any money, by reading the security-HOWTO and the NAG (Network Administrator's Guide). I even wonder if those are not part of the distribution (but I'm not sure...). If it's not the case, a search at www.google.com should lead you to the right place. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Pine and dialup
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
Well, yes and no.
Since pine relies on only the local mailbox in
the Linux mail spool, which only works with either
internal network mail or with a static ip domain
thing, it is not set up to talk to a pop server,
Well, errr, this is not true
You can define your inbox path (in the setup menu or in your ~/.pinerc
file) as beeing :
inbox-path={mail.myisp.com/IMAP}inbox
And, of course, this works as well with POP3.
but I thikn there is a little app or daemon
called fetchmail?? I think, that does talk
to the pop server that you specify and it
I think, puts the mails from the pop server
into the local mail spool on your machine,
therefore making it retreivable by pine.
Yes. Fetchmail is another alternative to do nearly the same work.
The difference is that you can retrieve mail from several remote mailbox
with fetchmail (I don't think it's possible with pine. Please, if it IS
possible, tell me how. It would help me.)
[snip]
Since nobody answered my first post does this mean I can't use Pine
with a dialup connection?
I don't know how it works, but I know that you can have diald
automagically connecting you to the internet as soon as any program needs
it.
HTH
Flupke
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Re: [newbie] commands problems
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now can you tell me why ?when I try to install an rpm from the Command line (Konsole)and I type :"./configure " ,or " make" ,"xmkmf" the konsole tells me :"No such file or directory,or Command not found,no target ,stop? all I want to do is install the driver for my sound card (alsa)following the instructions but it doesn't worked and other staff that downloaded it. If it is really an rpm file, then you install the thing with : rpm -Uvh file.rpm But what you tell here would rather make me think that it is a .tgz archive. If it is the case, the you have to uncompress it before being able to install it. The *usual* way to handle it, is the following : tar vzxf file.tgz cd newly created directory ./configure make su -c "make install" If the file extention (.rpm, .tar.gz or .tgz) can't help you determining the file type, then the "file" command is your friend... HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Talk Daemon
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alright i had one of my friends telnet onto my comp and log in on an account i made for him. Then i tried to use talk to talk to him but it says "No response from talk daemon" does anyone know why this is? Thanks in advance Check that the 'talk' entry in /etc/inetd.conf is not commented. If it is, remove the leading '#', save the file, HUP (or restart) inetd, and all should be fine. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~
[newbie] ApacheJServ + SSI zone properites : AAAARGH!
I'm developping a web site running under apache, apachejserv, and ssi (+postgresql, but I don't think it has anything to do with my problem). The problems are about the servlets path : When the servlets are located in /home/httpd/servlets, I have no problem to access them. But if I put them in /home/httpd/servlets/any_dir/, then I can acces them via an SSI page (ie : by adding a servlet code=[...]/any_dir/servlet), but not by requesting them directly(ie : http://localhost/servlets/any_dir/servlet). In this last case, I get an "Servlet error : ClassNotFoundException : any_dir" in the log files. I tried modifying the jserv config files during several hours and finally got it to work, but I don't know how. I fear the moment when I'll have to put the site on our main server in the DMZ. I don't think I'll be able to reconfigure it correctly, and I don't want to blindly take the current config files and put them on the main server. Beside, I don't know how to configure virtual hosting, and I'll have to do it. If somebody could show me some good docs about apacheJServ and apache virtual hosting (possibly without having to go through all the apache bible), or could give me a good explaination, I'll be very gratefull. TIA Flupke -- There's no place like ~
Re: [newbie] Is there a 'Nix command for...
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Is there a 'Nix command that will change filenames in a directory from UPPER case to all lowercase? This will lowercase all your filenames : for i in *[A-Z]* ; do mv $i `echo $i |tr "A-Z" "a-z"` ; done PS : note that the single quotes are reversed... HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~
Re: [newbie] I downloaded the .iso files...now what?
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, WarmFuzzy wrote: Hello, Which program are y'all using to turn the .iso file into a Linux distribution? I mean besides cdrecord and mkisofs. I have XCDroast, Kisocd and gtoaster. None of them seem to know about an image that ends in .iso. My only experience so far is to wind up with an unusable CD with one huge file on it that ends in .iso. I can do it fine on my NT machine at work using Adaptech Easy CD Creator. I can't understand why you don't want to use cdrecord tu burn your image. All you have to do is "cdrecord -scanbus", to see the number of your burner, then make a "cdrecord -v -eject dev=0,0,0 img.iso". I already tried use gcombust or others GUI tools to burn, and always had problems with them. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~
Re: [newbie]
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jason Ashman wrote: Out of curoiusity, what are all of your's preferred Window Manager? I currently use WindowMaker. I think it's the best compromise between a light and a user-friendly wm. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~
Re: [newbie] DVD player
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Paul wrote: Now, I know there's been a lot of trouble with getting DVD's to play on Linux. Anybody have any clue how it's done? I heard (without ever testing it) that you can read DVDs with mtv, from the package mpegtv. You should find it on freshmeat. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~
Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has
somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how)
I just want to know what to type in to make it do as I tel it
and erase all these little stupid useless directories.
If there are several directories called ".xvpics", and you want to erase
them all, issue a :
find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.
HTH
Flupke
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Re: [newbie] man select is pulling up the wrong man page
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: I'm trying to find the man page on the C api "select()" but instead it's pulling up the man page for the shell keyword "select". How to I find the correct man page? Try "man 2 select" (to select man pages from the 2nd category) or "man man"... ;-) HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~
Re: [newbie] homes directory
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Juggernaut wrote: 1. At windoze, (Network Neighborhood) I found the homes directory and pungki directory. I think I don't created those directory. And it has the same data. It will point to /home. I want to delete one of them. How can I do that ? You mean that you don't want your home directory to be shared? Then you have to comment out the [home] section in /etc/smb.conf 2. If I want to access windoze from Linux, how can I do that ? I didn't found the link to windoze computer. Do I need another program to do that ? I have tried use smbclient, with command like this : smbclient -L teteh.net(which teteh.net is windoze computer). And then, I got an error message like this : "session request to TETEH.NET failes (called name not present). Password :" How can I solve a problem like this ? smbclient is an ftp-like client for accessing smb shares. So you should be able to do it. Maybe you have to add an entry in your /etc/hosts file. Once you can use smbclient with a share, you will be able to smbmount a share to access it as if it was a local drive. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Cant Mount CD-ROM Problem...
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Paul wrote: Well, i tried mounting /dev/cdrom2 to /mnt/cdrom and it worked. When I tried mounting /dev/cdrom to /mnt/cdrom2 I still got the same error.."mount:/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" wa! =( Anymore tips? =( John Did you try to mount the device itself rather than the link? ie : if your cdrom is secondary master : mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom or if scsi emulation is enabled (which is likely, if you have a cd burner) : mount /dev/scd0 (or scd1) /mnt/cdrom If one of these works, then you just : rm /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/working device /dev/cdrom to recreate the good link. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] How do you format a zip disk?
AFAIK, if your zip drive is in hdc, a simple mke2fs /dev/hdc should create a ext2 file system on your zip drive. But I might be wrong. HTH Flupke On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello all, The subject just about covers it, I would like to know the command line (and also if there's a gui version) for formatting my zip disks to either ext2 or vfat. As a bonus, could I also get the same info for hard drives? I'm spoiled by Windows - point, right click, select 'format' - any thoughts? Thanks, Mike -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Firewall/security
Sorry, Paul, but I don't agree with what you said: a low security level can help intruders to have access to your computer and it can also give more privileges to those people. Maybe this is not the place to discuss how and why it can happen, but I think that people on this list that care about their security on internet should be aware of that. Of course, the security level can also prevent bad or stupid local users to do nasty or unwanted things. Can a guru correct me if I said something stupid, please? HTH Flupke On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: I'm using security setting of medium. Does that make a difference? I was also wondering since I'm using PMfirewall do I need to keep my security setting at medium, or can I lower it to low? I think the firewall is more a protection for things coming in from the big bad world. Internal security is more an issue for warding off stupid users. If you have no (stupid) users on your system, you can go to low security. Keep firewalling! Paul -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Sendmail
To see the state of sendmail, you have to specify the full path of the script : /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail [start|stop|status] Maybe I shouldn't say it, as it could lead to endless debate, but I would advice you to forget about sendmail and to install qmail instead. It is really easier to configure. The complexity of sendmail is considered as a security hole. HTH Flupke On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a domain name registered to my IP Address. I am trying to set my Linux box up as a mailserver. All I want to do, is be able to get mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone out there give me some advice as to how to set this up using Sendmail. I am not sure where to start. I do have send mail up and running except when I type in; "sendmail status" from the command line it says "user uknown". Any help advice or refrences would be greatly appreciated. If you need more information or more specific information please let me know. Thanks in advance, -Mike -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Fetchamil is broken! :(
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, ~*Mark*~ wrote: Monte Milanuk wrote: Well, I haven't had this problem myself (yet), but a few things to try might be to check your system logs, in case fetchmail is really running into the firewall, it may leave a trace in the logs. The only part of fetchmail that I would think would have problems w/ a firewall would be the last stage where it feeds it to the MTA (sendmail) on port 25. But you said you left that open explicitly. The other thing to maybe try is to run fetchmail w/ the ' -vvv' flag for extremely verbose reporting, and see what it says. Monte -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com Ok...I've done those checks and fetchmail is reporting that it cannot connect with localhost. It's communicating fine with the servers at my ISP and is able to bring down the mail, but it's failing to talk with my machine. I opened and edited pmfirewall.conf and added a line to the local.rules giving access to POP3 port 110 but that didn't make any difference either. Is there some way that I must configure sendmail to allow proper access? Should I set up a POP3 account here on my machine for fetchmail to talk to when it's pulling down the mail from my ISP? I'm perplexed about this cause when I was running Mandrake 7.0 all this worked just fine with no configuration. I didn't start experiencing trouble of any kind till the 7.1 upgrade, and subsequent firewall installation. I'm wondering now if it's the firewall or 7.1 that's causing the trouble. 7.1 can go, but the FW must remain. thanks, Mark Seems like you should open the smtp (25) port on your firewall. Fetchmail transmits the mail from a remote pop3 server to a local smtp server. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Fetchamil is broken! :(
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, ~*Mark*~ wrote: I re-ran the install.sh and made sure that ports 25 and 110 are indeed open. FM is still not bringing down the mail for use in Pine. I really came to like that program! Wish I could get it running again. try "telnet localhost 25", and see what happens. If you are explicitly ejected, then there is a problem with the server. Check that it is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf, and that there is nothing wrong in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. If there is no response, maybe it just canot resolve "localhost" (that already happend once to me). In this case, check your /etc/hosts. Or try to "telnet your.local.ip.address 25" and see if it is better. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Sendmail
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Dan Ferris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a domain name registered to my IP Address. I am trying to set my Linux box up as a mailserver. All I want to do, is be able to get mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone out there give me some advice as to how to set this up using Sendmail. I am not sure where to start. I do have send mail up and running except when I type in; "sendmail status" from the command line it says "user uknown". Any help advice or refrences would be greatly appreciated. If you need more information or more specific information please let me know. Thanks in advance, -Mike Yeah, don't use sendmail. It will drive you batty. Qmail or Postfix would be much better choices. There is another mail server who's name I can't quite remember that is specifically designed for small time users. I wish I could remember the name offhand, maybe somebody else can remember. Don't you speak about smail or something? BTW, qmail's claim to fame is that it is VERY secure. There is/was some kind of prize on the qmail web site for somebody to find a security hole. Far as I know the prize is unclaimed :-) It is now over. Nobody could find a hole. The $1000 prize has been sent to the free software foundation. Dan Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] file copying
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: Ok, here's an easy one, (he said) I have downloaded a couple of .tar.gz files and would like to save them to a floppy or ten. I have been through the two books on linux that are in my library, and can't find a way to do it. I think my problem is again the Windows mentality getting in the way. So I may be asking myself the wrong question and looking in the wrong place in the books. A little help here, and remember that your talking to a guy who spent an hour trying to get his pppd to come back up and it was a problem with the extension cord he was hooked up to. Ha! Thanks ahead of time, Dennis If I understand your problem, you want to make multi-volume archives. The most simple way I see to do that is to move all the files into one directory, and make a multi-volume archive with tar : tar cMf /dev/fd0 directory/with/your/files It should prompt you when you have to change the floppy. Sorry if it fails. I never did that. I just can hope it will work. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Where are the apps??
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Andrew Miller wrote: Loaded Mandrake 7.0 on a Thinkpad 760XL and used RPM to install StarOffice and Apache. Now I can't find them. They don't show up in any KDE application menus and the only icon that shows for StarOffice just runs the installer. I've done that twice and can't find the application. This seems really basic, but where are they? I perused the directory that StarOffice created and find nothing that seems to be an app. As for Apache, the find utility finds nothing with Apache in it. Do I have to run a second installer from the hard drive? I know I'm doing something very basic wrong, but can't figure out what it is. HelL! Andy To list all the files installed with the staroffice, issue an rpm -ql staroffice or rpm -qpl staroffice.rpm The files located in directories called bin are usually meant to be executed. Try to start them from an xterm or something. More infos about the usage of rpm in "maximum rpm" available at www.rpm.org HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] simple question
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Gary Morgan wrote: ok, I'm new to Linux, the only knowledge I have is from the books I have read. But all of them have seem to skip over, what seems to me as, simple questions. 1. I notice when I do an "# ls" I get a directory listing but some objects (files, directorys etc.) are listed in different color text, or have distinctive markings next to them (ie. directories are blue, symbolic links have the "@" symbol next to them). What do all these, besides the ones I have mentioned mean? It is due to the fact that mandrake sets up several aliases during install. type "alias" and you will see that ls stands for "ls --color=auto -F" (--color=auto for colors and -F to add @ to symlinks, * to executable files, / to directories, ...) man ls for more details 2. What are the exact differences between the install security levels? I noticed that if I install with "High" security I cannot, by default, login via ftp or telnet, even from the local machine, and I cannot restart (via ctrl-alt-del) without being logged in first, however I can do both if I install with "Medium" security. This is handled by the msec package. Look at /usr/doc/msecversion/security.txt and msec.ps for details about different security levels. You can use the msec command to switch from one security level to another (man msec) TIA, Gary Morgan HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and acron tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to study their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't fint a man page. Daoes anybody know? rpm -qi msec HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe I already saw a "defrag.tgz" package, but AFAIK, the ext2 driver takes care of defragmentation by itself. About scnadisk, there is e2fsck. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
RE: [newbie] networking question
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Once it's up and running, you don't need much. The problem is that the installers and configuration utilities utilize X windows... Yes, you can do this in textmode... but it becomes very complicated for a newbie to deal with textmode and script editing... etc. Once you begin to deal with firewalls, I think it's really worthfull to learn how your system really works and how to use commands such as ifconfig, route, ipchains, etc... But even if you are not familiar with these, you don't really need it. You seem to forget that the linuxconf client can also run in text mode. ok, linuxconf is YAUSR (Yet Another Unneeded Server Running), but it is less place and ressource consuming than X. Anyway after things are set up 32 megs or less will often do as long as the latency between your interfaces is relatively low. True. And You usually don't need much network performance between a LAN and an internet connection... You have a P100 which is normally adecuate for cable modem speeds, esp. due to the PCI bus. He is talking about a 486. Have you every tried a dual ISA 486 configuration? I can't speek for myself, but I already heard about such configurations (for example in the OpenBSD mailing list). It works, if you minimize the installation requirements... but performance is not optimal... or you can run something like the floppy based bare Linux distros which tend to work well... like the Linux Router Project... Of course, a mini-distro is also a good solution. For Mandrake, however he is best advised to get more RAM... just to permit the install to complete. Use X to set things up and test... and then he can dump X and all the X apps. It is true as long as you are speaking about the 7.1 version. Personaly, on my P100, I installed an mdk 6.1 and performances are not a problem. And I already used linux on a 486 (not as a router, but as a file server) and it worked quite well. Or, help him set it up in text mode... No problem. I can do that... :-) Flupke -JMS |-Original Message- |From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:21 AM |To: bascule |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] networking question | | |I don't agree. I have a firewall between my LAN and my cable-modem |internet connection, with the following configuration : |P100, 24 MB RAM, 300 MB HD, 2 PCI NE200 compatible nics, no screen, no |keyboard. And the average load of the machine is near the 0%. | |Concerning X, I personnaly consider it as a waste of space and resource, |on a machine that really don't need it. And I find it dangerous to add an |unneeded server on a machine that has to deal with security. | |Just my 2 cent... | |HTH |Flupke | | | |One do really not need to have much memory to make a firewall. | |On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, bascule wrote: | | hi, and what a useful answer! | | this is exactly the stuff that the books i have looked at assumed i | already knew! | | i have to admit though, that i'm a bit worried about needing so much | memory for my 486, i keep reading about how such machines make good | firewalls for smalltime users like me but i don't think my 486 can have | 64meg! | | thanks again | | bascule | | | | --- | | | | | it is my intention to one day have the 486 machine be a firewall, i | perceive that one day the uk will have reasonably priced unmetered isp | access and i want to be ready! | | --- | | I hope your 486 has at least 64megs of RAM. | | While a 486 does fine as a router, it normally does so if it |is not bogged | down with things like Xwindows. You can use X to set things up |though, then | merely have the computer come up in text mode. | | -JMS | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | |-- | There's no place like ~ ! | -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] (no subject)
You could read the smb-HOWTO and the different samba commands manual pages (smbmount, smb.conf, smbclient, nmblookup, ...) And there are more docs at www.samba.org. HTH Flupke On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: Something is not working correctly. I am trying this again after receiving a missent message. I am try to set up Samba. Using Sams teach yourself Linux-Mandrake in 24 Hours is useless. "Running Linux" is ok if you understand the C language or are comfortable in a text mode. I am a visual person and need things spelled out for me line by line or better yet a picture drawn. Anyway the user guide that came with my Linux-Mandrake distro is no help. Anybody know where I can find (or a title to ) help in setting up "Samba". Thanks in advance for any help. -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] rc.firewall
I coulnd't tell you the use of the rp_filter, but I know that I have already set up several masquerade firewall and never changed its velue. I only make sure that ip_forward is set to 1 HTH Flupke On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Victor Richardson wrote: I'm setting up a home cable-modem home behind a Mandrake 7.1 box, I've checked out the MASQ and Firewall HOWTO's and understand them. Actually, I used them with 6.0. Although, a few things have changed since then. I also searched the archives and there was only one posting that didn't answer this basic question; What does the default entry in /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall "echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter" do? Or more directly - what is rp_filter? Do I need to include this line in the MASQ/firewall rules provided in the docs? Thanks, Victor -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Mdk-7.1 and NT-boot.ini
Are you SURE that lilo (and not grub) is installed on /dev/hdc5 (check that there is a line boot=/dev/hdc5 in your /etc/lilo.conf). If this is the case, try to re-execute /sbin/lilo before make again an image of the boot sector and copy it to your nt partition. HTH Flupke On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Andrea Celli wrote: I'va a strange problem with Mandrake-7.1. In my box i've installed several Linux distributions and win-NT. I use Nt-loader (in a dos partition) to choose operative System at boot time. Now, i've installed Mandrake-7.1 in a free partition,to test it before upgrade 7.0. I choose to install lilo in bootsector of mdk-7.1 partition Then I copied this sector in dos partition dd if=/dev/hdc5 of=/mnt/dos/BOOTSECT.M71 bs=512 count=1 and added the usual line to boot.ini: C:\BOOTSECT.M71="Mandrake-7.1". This is the same procedure i followed many time and actually works to load Mandrake-7.0 and SuSE-6.4. It doesn't work to load mandrake-7.1 ! If at boot, i choose mandrake-7.1 i've got only a black screen. I'm able to start others operative systems from boot.ini and mandrake-7.1 from boot-floppy. Any suggestion? ciao, Andrea Celli -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] security
Indeed, a too high security level prevents one from being able to login as root, even in a console. This is is handled by the msec package. See the files under /usr/doc/msecversion for more infos about the different security levels and how to change it. HTH Flupke On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Michael H. Collins wrote: OOPS. I must have set the high security thing. One cannot login as root, but one can su to root. I had to do a text install, but I never saw the security question. How do I fix it, or maybe not, oh yes, only root can run X. Thanks. -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] networking question
I don't agree. I have a firewall between my LAN and my cable-modem internet connection, with the following configuration : P100, 24 MB RAM, 300 MB HD, 2 PCI NE200 compatible nics, no screen, no keyboard. And the average load of the machine is near the 0%. Concerning X, I personnaly consider it as a waste of space and resource, on a machine that really don't need it. And I find it dangerous to add an unneeded server on a machine that has to deal with security. Just my 2 cent... HTH Flupke One do really not need to have much memory to make a firewall. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, bascule wrote: hi, and what a useful answer! this is exactly the stuff that the books i have looked at assumed i already knew! i have to admit though, that i'm a bit worried about needing so much memory for my 486, i keep reading about how such machines make good firewalls for smalltime users like me but i don't think my 486 can have 64meg! thanks again bascule --- it is my intention to one day have the 486 machine be a firewall, i perceive that one day the uk will have reasonably priced unmetered isp access and i want to be ready! --- I hope your 486 has at least 64megs of RAM. While a 486 does fine as a router, it normally does so if it is not bogged down with things like Xwindows. You can use X to set things up though, then merely have the computer come up in text mode. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz
You uncompress the archive : tar zxf linux-ar-405.tar.gz then you go into the newly created directoy, su to root, and execute the installation script : ./INSTALL (or is it ./SETUP???) Then, the rest should be self prompting. HTH Flupke On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi, I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install linux-ar-405.tar.gz I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful? I must be missing a command. Can any one help? Thanks, Roman -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz
As far as I remember, you have to write ./INSTALL with uppercase letters. HTH Flupke On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Roman Bysh wrote: I think I used the wrong commands. I downloaded it to my root directory. Next, I typed in tar-xvzf linux-ar-405.tar.gz A new directory named lLINXR.install was created. I could see the install script with dark monitor. Every time I changed to this directory and typed in ./install it would indicate that the directory or file is missing. Roman flupke wrote: You uncompress the archive : tar zxf linux-ar-405.tar.gz then you go into the newly created directoy, su to root, and execute the installation script : ./INSTALL (or is it ./SETUP???) Then, the rest should be self prompting. HTH Flupke On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi, I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install linux-ar-405.tar.gz I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful? I must be missing a command. Can any one help? Thanks, Roman -- There's no place like ~ ! -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] mass multiple file erasure
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Vic wrote:
What would I type in to get linux to
erase every single *.rpmorig file
on the drive or at least under the
dir I am currently in (including the
subdirs) I already know 'rm *.rpmorig'
but it wont erase the files in other dirs
under me.
In the current dir :
find . -name "*.rpmorig" -exec rm -f {} \;
To erase all the *.rpmorig in your system, replace the "." by a "/"
HTH
Flupke
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Re: [newbie] NT and Linux
The technic consist of installing lilo on your linux partition (not the MBR)and make an image of your lilo boot sector. So , if your linux (and your lilo) is on /dev/hda2, type : dd if=/dev/hda2 of=~/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 Then copy the image (~/bootsect.lnx) to your NT partition, and, in NT, change your c:\boot.ini and add a line : c:\BOOTSECT.LNX="linux" (note that you'll have to change your c:\boot.ini file's attribute to do it). Next time you boot, you should see a linux entry in the ntldr menu. If you have problems, read the Linux+NT-Loader-mini-HOWTO HTH Flupke On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Fred Hamilton wrote: How can I have Linux and NT 4.0 Server on the same machine and have Linux show up on the NT start menu instead of using the Linux boot manager? Can it be done? I am getting ready to do a clean install of both operating systems. Fred -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Swap partition
I think that the easiest thing to do would be to add a 250 MB partition, so that you won't have to resize anything. Use fdisk, cfdisk, or any other disk partitionner, and create a 250 MB swap parttion (let's say you do it in /dev/hdb2). Then, initialize the swap partition : mkswap /dev/hdb2 in your /etc/fstab, add a line : /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 and activate your swaps : swapon -a And you now should have two swap partition of each 250 MB. HTH Flupke On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Edison Gica wrote: Hi all: I installed LM 7 under Recommended and the swap partition was set to 250MB. I want to increase my swap to 500MB. any help would be sincerely appreciated. thanks. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] networking question
Hi Bascule. On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, bascule wrote: i am having trouble setting up two machines to talk to each other, i'll put all the questions in this one post since they are all related, 1) do i need to 'fake' a domain for both machines to belong to or is it enough to give each machine a name? It's better to have a domain. 2)is the ip address of each nic the same as each machine or is that different? (i ask because i know that one machine could have more than one nic) No. Each nic has an IP adress. If a machine has 5 nics, then it will respond to 5 IPs. 3)do i need a default gateway or to set up any routing info if i only have two machines connected via a hub? If you just intend to communicate between the two comps, it's not necessary. But if you want for instance set up a firewall masquerading to share your connection between your machines, then that becomes another problem. 4)i know about the reserved ip addresses but does it matter which address in an allowed range is used? i have used 192.168.0.1 on one box and 192.168.0.2 on the other That's fine. 5)what other quiestions should i have asked?! Depends on what you plan to do with your network... :-) i have never connected two machines before, i have read a couple of books but they are a little over my head and seem to assume a lot, my machines both run mandrake 7-02 one is a 486 and one is an amdk6-2 400, i have installed a netgear ea201 in each machine and according to the diagnostic disk provided both are setup ok. of course until i know that linux is configured properly in both machines i won't know this for sure, any answers, recommended books, urls gratefully received, I would suggest you to read the LAME (Linux Administration Made Easy) and other books from the LDP (the NAG and SAG [Network/System Administrator's Guide],...) Thoses are available in different formats and language at http://ldp.linuxbe.org . There sure are other mirrors somewhere else, but I don't know them. it is my intention to one day have the 486 machine be a firewall, i perceive that one day the uk will have reasonably priced unmetered isp access and i want to be ready! Well, prepare your knowledge before worying about hardware (but ok, it's also important to have something to make it run...). Read as lot as you can about TCP/IP, routing, browse the HOWTOs, etc... HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] No window manager in X...
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Sam Dunham wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.0 (severl times) and everything seems to work NO NEED to reinstall when you have a problem. Nearly never! great, except that I don't get a Window Manager when X starts. My Graphical login comes up on a plain Jane X screen, I log in, and I get two terminal emulation boxes, but no Window Manager. How do I fix this so that I can get KDE up and running? Does it work if you type "kde" in one of the xterms? If not you probably just have to install the appropriate rpms packages. If it works, then edit your ~/.Xclients file and put the commands to start kde there. Thanks, Sam HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] GL Heretic...
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, lilbambi wrote: I'm also trying to get GL Heretic running on my setup (Voodoo 3 3000). I tried to install the RPM but get an error about needing 2 files. I went to RPMnet, freshmeat, and a couple of other places but could not find them. Anyone have any ideas where to get: libasound.so.0 libSDL-1.1.so.0 libasound is provided by alsa-lib-0.5.7 libSDL comes from SDL both packages are on the mandrake CD. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] automatic start of process
You can add your commands in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. This script i executed at the end of the boot process. Or you can see if it is the services proposed by the "setup" program. You could also see if there is a way to include its starting/stopping in the runlevels with tksysv. HTH Flupke On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Craig Fels wrote: Does anyone know how I can have my Mandrake 7.0 box start a process automatically? I'm running Squid and would like squid to start when the machine boots. Thanks, Craig -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Fvwm2 dependencies
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: Hi. I'm trying to install the latest version of fvwm2 on my system which runs Mandrake 7.0. One of the unsatisfied dependencies which prevents me installing is the need for a file /usr/sbin/install-menu I can't track this down! Can anyone tell me which rpm I'm looking for? You can find this by yourself. Mount your mandrake cdrom and type : for i in /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/*.rpm ; do rpm -qpl $i |grep -q '/usr/sbin/install-menu' echo $i done and it should tell you which package you have to install. For more info , man bash and man rpm HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: Compiling source, was RE: [newbie] Make errors
Did you compile it yourself or did you try "rpm --rebuild pack.src.rpm"? Maybe there is a BAD solution you could try : make a symlink from /usr/include/xpm.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h. This is not nice, but there are chances that it works. But hopefully, someone will have a better solution. If you don't get any other answer here, you could also try the expert mandrake mailing list. HTH Flupke On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Kaplan, Paul wrote: N- You seem quite knowledgeable about the rebuilding process so I will put to you a question that I asked on one of the redhat lists and has yet to be answered. I am trying to re-compile a recent wine release from a src.rpm file. The ./configure script trips when it tries to find the file X11/xpm.h, insisting that I should install xpm and xpm-devel packages, and then quits. The packages xpm-3.4k-1 and xpm-devel-3.4k-1 are both installed on my system and the file /usr/X11R6/inlcude/X11/xpm.h exists. On someone else's suggestion, I tried to CFLAGS ="-I$CFLAGS /usr/X11R6/include". Then ./configure returns: checking whether the C compiler (gcc /usr/X11R6/include ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables I also tried to CFLAGS ="$CFLAGS /usr/X11R6/include"...(without the -I) and ended up with the same response I initially had. Any thoughts? Paul Kaplan -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Problems with comp.ne2000(a) in Mandrake 7.0-2
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, iagoba wrote: Oks, I finally could made than Linux detects my Ethernet Card, thanks to all :)), but now I got the next problem, HOW can I configure my lan? I got two computers in my house, connected by a Twisted RJ-45, the other computer got W98 (and the modem to connect to Internet), how can I must configure Linux to allow it to see the other computer, and the access to Internet? To communicate between the two comps, once the two nics are properly setup, with private ip addresses, you're done. You can, for example, telnet your linux box from your windows. You can share your files by setting up samba on your linux box, ... To share your internet connection, it's another problem. You say that your modem is on your zInbl0w$ box. That's a bad, idea! You can use proxies and such, running under windows, but you shouldn't. It's not secure. The best way to do it, is to configure your modem on your linux box, and then setup the masquerading so that you will be able to browse the internet from your intranet. Read the ip-masquerading-HOWTO for more infos about that. Thanks to all for your help, you're helping me a lot in my first attempt to install this OS :) Iagoba P.D.: I got other question, I develop in C++, I got one C++ compiler in Linux, isn't it? Of course... It's called gcc. Re-P.D.: Sorry for my English , I'm Spanish HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation
I also installed XFree4.0 while I shouldn't BUT I DIDN'T REINSTALL THE OS. Please FORGET about this BAD idea! You are in a UNIX environnement! This is NOT windows! If you have installed XFree4.O and want to install XFree3.3.6, then you just have to boot, uninstall XFree4.0 and install XFree3.3.6. And you are done. Everybody should understand that if one package has problems, then you just handle the faulty package. And you don't have to reinstall the whole thing from scratch. Could it be a problem with X, the security level, the internet connection, or anything, you can repair it. Sorry, but I had to say it. Flupke On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Carlthat sounds like what I experienced when I first installed 7.1 and chose version 4 of XF86. I reinstalled 7.1 and picked version 3.6 of XF86 and those symptoms no longer occured. Alan Carl Kehley wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, development install from install and ext. cd's, and I've got a few minor problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. First, Mandrake refuses to recognize my mouse as Logitech MouseMan+, and instead keeps calling it a generic PS2. I've changed it in the mouseconfig in DrakConf, it's recognized correctly in Lothar, but I've got no support for the wheel(even as a third button). Next, gnome-ppp--what is meant by "remote name" in the config? I've set it up exactly the same as kppp, but it disconnects about 30 seconds after the handshake, and I've got no dns, even though everything is entered correctly. Finally, there seem to be major conflicts between the RealPlayer 7 Netscape plugin and plugger in Communicator, to the point where RealPlayer freezes and I've got to reboot to get my sound back. I remember seeing something similar in the list last week, but I didn't save the message, and can't locate it in the archives. Any help, advice, creative criticism gladly accepted. Thanks in advance, Carl Kehley -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Problems with comp.ne2000(a) in Mandrake 7.0-2
ok. Start netconf, choose "basic host informations", then fill in the requested fields in "Host Name" and "Adaptator 1". Once this is correctly done, you should be able to ping the nic on your comp and also the one in the other comps of your network. Apparently, you already have done that. You don't need to set up neither a DNS nor a gateway, as long as you stay on your local network. You could maybe fill your /etc/hosts to be able to write "ping winhost" instead of "ping 192.168.0.2". Now, all you have to do is to install and configure the servers and clients that you need to communicate between your two comps. Usually, people like to set up samba in order to be able to share files between a win and a linux machine. Refer to the samba-HOWTO and to the docs available at www.samba.org to do that. HTH Flupke On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, iagoba wrote: Thanks Flupke but my question is also, how configure the ip, and all that things in the Linux? I thing that is using the Net Configuration (netconf), as root, but I'm not sure if I must put more things than I making: I'm filling the Basic equipment Information with this info: Host Name = iagoba.HouseRed IP = 179.0.3.2 -- The other PC is 179.0.3.1 Mask= 255.255.255.0 ... = eth0 ... = ne I/O = 0x240 IRQ = 0x11 and I mark is as active, and Normal, I think that this all I must made to configure my Linux PC, isn't it? perhaps I must fill the DNS or other entries? flupke wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, iagoba wrote: Oks, I finally could made than Linux detects my Ethernet Card, thanks to all :)), but now I got the next problem, HOW can I configure my lan? I got two computers in my house, connected by a Twisted RJ-45, the other computer got W98 (and the modem to connect to Internet), how can I must configure Linux to allow it to see the other computer, and the access to Internet? To communicate between the two comps, once the two nics are properly setup, with private ip addresses, you're done. You can, for example, telnet your linux box from your windows. You can share your files by setting up samba on your linux box, ... To share your internet connection, it's another problem. You say that your modem is on your zInbl0w$ box. That's a bad, idea! You can use proxies and such, running under windows, but you shouldn't. It's not secure. The best way to do it, is to configure your modem on your linux box, and then setup the masquerading so that you will be able to browse the internet from your intranet. Read the ip-masquerading-HOWTO for more infos about that. Thanks to all for your help, you're helping me a lot in my first attempt to install this OS :) Iagoba P.D.: I got other question, I develop in C++, I got one C++ compiler in Linux, isn't it? Of course... It's called gcc. Re-P.D.: Sorry for my English , I'm Spanish HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ ! -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Packages
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Robert F. Trettel wrote: Hi,All I have a question on packages that are on Linux. Is there a web site that gives details of what the package is and etc?? I would like to be able to know what to install and what I don't need. I think I am wasting space by taking everything that is offered in the install. This way I will know what is what as to everyday use of Linux. Thanks Robert F. Trettel You might want to learn a bit about the use of the rpm command : To list all the packages installed in your comp, use : rpm -qa To have infos about an installed package, use : rpm -qi installed_package To have infos about an uninstalled package, use : rpm -qpi uninstalled_package_file.rpm To have a list of the files contained in a package, replace the i by a l. For A LOT more infos about rpm, read "maximum rpm" available at http://www.rpm.org. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation
Alan, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to be rude. I just wanted to attract everybody's attention on the fact that there is generally no need to reinstall linux. I see too often people saying "It didn't work, so I reinstalled everything." And I REALLY felt like I had to say that it is not a good solution. If you think I have been rude towards you, please accept my apologies and let's forget about it. This remark wasn't meant to be read only by you, and that's why I insisted so much about it. Again, I'm sorry. Flupke On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: flupkebecause your opinion/solution and mine differ is no reason to be rude towards me when you expound upon your own remedy. Yelling that my suggestion to help this person was 'BAD' was simply not called for and I resent it. Yelling in general is rude, but what you said, in the manner in which you said it, was pompous and condescending in the extreme as well as just plain rude. Please contemplate and consider the above comments when composing future public messages. Alan flupke wrote: I also installed XFree4.0 while I shouldn't BUT I DIDN'T REINSTALL THE OS. Please FORGET about this BAD idea! You are in a UNIX environnement! This is NOT windows! If you have installed XFree4.O and want to install XFree3.3.6, then you just have to boot, uninstall XFree4.0 and install XFree3.3.6. And you are done. Everybody should understand that if one package has problems, then you just handle the faulty package. And you don't have to reinstall the whole thing from scratch. Could it be a problem with X, the security level, the internet connection, or anything, you can repair it. Sorry, but I had to say it. Flupke On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Carlthat sounds like what I experienced when I first installed 7.1 and chose version 4 of XF86. I reinstalled 7.1 and picked version 3.6 of XF86 and those symptoms no longer occured. Alan Carl Kehley wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, development install from install and ext. cd's, and I've got a few minor problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. First, Mandrake refuses to recognize my mouse as Logitech MouseMan+, and instead keeps calling it a generic PS2. I've changed it in the mouseconfig in DrakConf, it's recognized correctly in Lothar, but I've got no support for the wheel(even as a third button). Next, gnome-ppp--what is meant by "remote name" in the config? I've set it up exactly the same as kppp, but it disconnects about 30 seconds after the handshake, and I've got no dns, even though everything is entered correctly. Finally, there seem to be major conflicts between the RealPlayer 7 Netscape plugin and plugger in Communicator, to the point where RealPlayer freezes and I've got to reboot to get my sound back. I remember seeing something similar in the list last week, but I didn't save the message, and can't locate it in the archives. Any help, advice, creative criticism gladly accepted. Thanks in advance, Carl Kehley -- There's no place like ~ ! -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: flupke wrote: Sorry, I didn't follow this tread from the begining, so I hope I won't say anything stoopid or something that has already been said. If I understand, the problem here is all the dump of the stack and registers caused by a page default or something at the end of a shutdown. I have the same problem. I think it only happens on Motherboards with VIA chips. I don't mind about it since it doesn't cause any damage, but it is nice to get rid of that bad stuff. I solved the problem by modifying the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file and change the line eval $command -i -d -p to eval $command -i -d PS : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/troubles/tquick1.html :-) HTH Flupke [...] Well, I tried my own advise and it didn't work for me either. I see the suggestion to edit or modify the rc.d files but don't know how to do that. The last time I tried to change a file I crashed the whole config and had to reinstall. By the way, I am getting very good at reinstall or new install since there seems to be something that causes me to lose my mouse and Keyboard every now and then. I keep trying to find the problem but no luck so far. I am running an AMD K6 II - 333 with a soyo 5EMA + motherboard 64 meg ram and western Digital 13.6 gig ide hard drive, generic floppy and cdrom. If there is a man page or faq that talks about editing files I would like to know. I am not trained in computers just determined to learn. Thanks in advance for any help here. OK, Dennis. Don't be afraid. To avoid problem when modifying a file that is important for the system, you just have to save before editing : cd /etc/rc.d/init.d/ cp halt halt.orig vi halt (NB : DON'T DO THAT if you never used vi... in that case, use kedit, pico or another one that you know. But if you want to give vi a blind try, once it is opened, just type "G$xxx" to go to the last line of the file, go to the end of the line and erase the last 3 chars, then type ":wq" and press enter to save the file and quit edition) That way, if there is a problem, you simply have to boot in single-user mode and put the files as they were before. But note that there is no danger here, since the file that has to be edited is only invoked at shutdown or reboot time. There is also something that can be usefull : make an archive of /etc and put it in a safe place, so that you can restore a file that you broke. For doc about safe edition, maybe you could browse the HOWTOs. There is a security-HOWTO that talks about safety in a network, maybe there is another one about safety in your system... For doc about edition itself, well, I must say that I'm a vi fan. So, I would suggest you two things : - In the man vi, I think you will find a reference to a basic tutorial. Read that tutorial. - Then, you take a cup of cofee, you start vi, and you type ':help' HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] ..it happens and now it happened to me:)
I also had troubles configuring X during mdk 7.1 install. It was because I couldn't figure out how to configure XFree4.0 with my voodoo3 2000 (has someone here done it?) and I didn't know how to reverse my choice of using XFree4.0. So after the install process, I uninstalled XFree4.0, installed XFree3.3.6 and configured it with the mandrake dedicated tool (I think it is called drakconf), and all went allright. HTH Flupke On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Mark Wolf wrote: I downloaded 7.1 iso files for mandrake. I burned the cd, it autostarted everything looked cool until I got to xconfigure. Something is broken with X because dumped me out of set and shut down linux. What do I do now. I am pretty good with the terminal window but don't want to run linux only from the command line. anyone else have trouble with the x config with 7.1 install. Any suggestions would be apreciated. Mark -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] LNE100tx / Tulip driver again
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. It doesn't work on mine for some reason. I really, really, really wish I knew why since I have about eight of these little suckers and I would like to use them. Does it show in Lothar? It doesn't appear in mine. Couldn't it be a matter of "PNP OS" in your BIOS settings? HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, michael wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a player for Linux yet. So the only way you can view it is to boot up Windows. How can we orchestrate a campaign to persuade the well paid, smart, driven folks at Apple to do so? I once saw a petition to ask Apple's people to help linux developpers. But I don't know wether these guyz are bothering about linux and open source. Honnestly, I doubt of it... -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Anthony Huereca wrote: You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a player for Linux yet. So the only way you can view it is to boot up Windows. Er...I *can* view Quicktime movies in Linux now, just not Quicktime 3. Thats why I was asking if I needed a newer version of (or something different than) xanim. (and if the only way I can view them is with Windblows, then they won't be seen here) ;-) PS Heck, I could watch most Quicktime formats on my 16mhz/16 meg Atari Falcon 030, running MiNT (a Unix variant). ;-) What software did you use for that? Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Problems with comp.ne2000(a) in Mandrake 7.0-2
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, iagoba wrote: Hi to all, First of all, I want to say Hi to all the people in this list, this is my first mail, and hope you can help me. I got some problems with my Clonic Ethernet card, I Installed Mandrake 7.0-2 in my computer, in a second partition of 3 GB, (I got Windows 98 in the other partition), my computer got this characteristics: AMD K6-2 500 Mhz. 128 MB Ram RIVA TNT 2 M64 13.0 Gb. HD Clonic Ethernet Card 10/100 MB ne2000 compatible. CD-ROM 48x My Ethernet Card is ISA, 16 bits and PnP, Linux Detect it, but in a different I/O address and different IRQ, when I put the correct I/O address (240h), and IRQ (11), when I re-initiate my computer, it says "Bringing eth0 ... [OK]" but here it finish to initiate Linux, don't loading it and don't making Anything, what could be the problem? when I change that I/O or IRQ, it says "Bringing eth0 . [FAILED]" but initiates Linux, (without working the eth0 of course). Hope you could help me. Iagoba Does it work if you boot with the wrong nic settings and then load the module with the right parameters? (insmod ne io=0x330). I also heard about some ISA nics that had to be initialized with a DOS program provided with the drivers before beeing able to work. If this is your case, you'll have to boot in DOS, run the program, and then boot linux with loadlin. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...
Sorry, I didn't follow this tread from the begining, so I hope I won't say anything stoopid or something that has already been said. If I understand, the problem here is all the dump of the stack and registers caused by a page default or something at the end of a shutdown. I have the same problem. I think it only happens on Motherboards with VIA chips. I don't mind about it since it doesn't cause any damage, but it is nice to get rid of that bad stuff. I solved the problem by modifying the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file and change the line eval $command -i -d -p to eval $command -i -d PS : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/troubles/tquick1.html :-) HTH Flupke On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote: I second what Ronald wrote...I went to DRAKCONF and found it there no problem and disabled it. Shutdown and there were all the things on the screen again...full screen all over the screen... I also already had the power management in KDE disabled as well. Oh, well it was worth a shot. Anyway, reboot works just fine :) Bambi "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Paul wrote: Log in as root, or run "su" Then run "setup" in a console Go to system services, and uncheck the APM daemon. it is right below the anacron daemon. After a reboot you're all set! Paul Hi. Well, I opened up a shell on my desktop, ran su, password, typed in "setup" and it told me, "bash: command not found". So I went into the DRAKCONF and ran startup, found it (under anacron, like you said) and disabled it. Unfortunately, after powering down, and rebooting, the problem still exists. I also have dmps disabled from the kde desktop (don't know if that needed to be or not). Any other possible ideas as to what it might be? (Thanks to Dennis Myers for the DRAKCONF tip) Thanks much! PS Did you see the reply I posted with the details on the screen that I'm left with? Maybe you can find a clue there... See ya... -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Telly card
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Emanuele La Rosa wrote: I would like to use TV card on linux. The point is that I've downloaded Kwintv, I installed it, but it can find my TV card (device /dev/video). I hope anybody can tell me a way to install my TVcard modell Magic TView (I ignore the chip inside because it is a present) You will find out what chip you have by issuing this command : cat /proc/pci One of the entry that will be displayed will concern you TV card. Then, before running kv4lsetup and kwintv, you have to load the appropriate module into the kernel. With my Pinnacle studio PCTV, I have to load videodev, i2c, tuner and bttv. But maybe this is not the case for you. There is a bttv mini-HOWTO. Read it for more info. PS : I think that I also had to rebuild the video devices (man MAKEDEV) HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] path
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, ryan geer wrote: ive downloaded suns sdk and cant seem to get the path set right. probably because i dont really understand the whole path concept so if you have a good source of information re: paths or more specifically have installed suns free jdk, could you drop me a line? thanks. You have to modify some environement variables in order to have the sun jdk running correctly. I have already done it, and I simply followed the instructions provided in the various README's in the package. But I don't remember exactly how it worked. If you want to avoid problems, you can choose the easy solution and simply install the kaffe package on the mdk CD. It also provides a java environement, but without the $PATH problems. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Mick Spice wrote: Hi, I have recently installed the Mandrake Gold Pack version of Linux, and most things seem to be working fine. I have two problems. 1) My sound cards is new, and not on the supported list(s). I realise that I will need to replace this with something that is supported. Any suggestions as to what to buy would be appreciated. I have an SB128. It's cheap and it works great, as far as you don't want a high-quality sound system. It's fine for gaming, listening to music and such... 2) [and more of a problem] is the fact that system seems to think that I have a US keyboard, whne in fact I have a UK keyboard. This makes life at the prompt a problem :-( with no 'pipe' character readily available. I assume that there is some way (short of a re-install) that I can fix this ? I think you can change that in drakxconf. Or you can also modify your boot files, but I don't know which one loads the keyboard... HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
[newbie] rhosts format
Hi there. Can anyone remind me of the format used in the ~/.rhosts file? I want to exec commands on a remote host in my intranet with rsh. Also : will it work with ssh or do I have to use another authentification method? And if I must, how do I do it? Thanx. Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] .src.rpm
What error message did you get? How were you trying to install them? May be you just tried to "rpm -Uvh" them. It's not going to work with that. A src.rpm package is the source code of a program. You have to compile it before using it : rpm --rebuild any-package.src.rpm will compile the sources and build a binary package in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i[X]86/ (The [X] in the path depends on your architecture). Then you can go to that dir and install the binary package with rpm -Uvh any-package.rpm If this doesn't solve your problem, please be more explicit when describing what is wrong. HTH Flupke On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, mrc wrote: Tried to install an .src.rpm and failed. Does this mean that on Linux-Mandrake such rpms will not work? mcoady -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] Administration Question
Hi Bascule, I didn't really meant that a group can own a file (even if the man chgrp says : chgrp - change group ownership). Sorry if I didn't express myself correctly. I just meant that there are permissions to a file that are specific to a particular group. I might be wrong, but I don't think it's possible to make a group member of another group. And I also think that this term "ownership" could be misleading. I rather think about a file as being a member of a group. Sorry again if I wasn't clear enough. Flupke bascule wrote: hi flupke, your answer to john's post is interesting because it says that a group can own files, i always assumed that an 'owner' had to be a user (though i never saw that written anywhere), can a group also be a member of another group like a user can? bascule flupke wrote: I think the best way to make what you want would be to create a new group dedicated to the files shared by fred and tom. Lets call it fredandtom (groupadd fredandtom). Make Both fred and tom member of this new group (by adding "fred,tom" to the entry fredandtom in the /etc/group file). Then make the fredandtom group the owner of /home/shared (chgrp fredandtom /home/shared). From now on, the files in /home/shared whose group is fredandtom and are group writable (chmod g+w file) will be accessible to both tom and fred. But the files whose group is fred or tom will be only accessible to respectively fred or tom. HTH Flupke John Rye wrote: I have two users call them 'fred' and 'tom' I need for these two users to be able to share files (usually text). Both users are members of their own groups named for their usernames. How should I go about this? 'fred' may NOT have access to 'tom's files and 'tom' may NOT have access to 'fred's files. I intention is to create a directory named say: /home/shared or similar in which these two users can drop the exchange files. As I remember if I make both of these users members of the same group the each is able to 'see' what the other is doing? or has in her directory. That is not an option in this case.. Suggestions are most welcome. Cheers. John -- -- New Zealand - Home of the Americas Cup --
Re: [newbie] Administration Question
I think the best way to make what you want would be to create a new group dedicated to the files shared by fred and tom. Lets call it fredandtom (groupadd fredandtom). Make Both fred and tom member of this new group (by adding "fred,tom" to the entry fredandtom in the /etc/group file). Then make the fredandtom group the owner of /home/shared (chgrp fredandtom /home/shared). From now on, the files in /home/shared whose group is fredandtom and are group writable (chmod g+w file) will be accessible to both tom and fred. But the files whose group is fred or tom will be only accessible to respectively fred or tom. HTH Flupke John Rye wrote: I have two users call them 'fred' and 'tom' I need for these two users to be able to share files (usually text). Both users are members of their own groups named for their usernames. How should I go about this? 'fred' may NOT have access to 'tom's files and 'tom' may NOT have access to 'fred's files. I intention is to create a directory named say: /home/shared or similar in which these two users can drop the exchange files. As I remember if I make both of these users members of the same group the each is able to 'see' what the other is doing? or has in her directory. That is not an option in this case.. Suggestions are most welcome. Cheers. John -- -- New Zealand - Home of the Americas Cup --
Re: [newbie] LILO boot time
You changed your /etc/lilo.conf, but did you execute /sbin/lilo after that? HTH Flupke Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi again, I have got Linux installed on hda1 after ditching Windoze a couple of months ago now. When at the lilo prompt I have to wait 5 seconds for it to boot the kernal or press enter for instant booting. I know it is petty but how can I configure lilo to boot Linux instantly with out the prompt. I have looked into /etc/lilo.config and messed about with the timeout option but it has no effect. Therefore the waiting time command must be within another file but where? As I said it is a petty issue but it has become a bit of an obsession with me now. -- Andrew Blackburn England --In the pursuit of knowledge Everyday something is aquired-- (Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching) ICQ 50762100
Re: [newbie] Command execution
When you ask your shell to execute a command without telling him where
it is, it looks for it in the directories specified in the $PATH
variable ("echo $PATH" to see it).
When you specify a directory (here : the . directory [=the current
directory]), it will search the command in the specified directory.
NB : If you don't want to be annoyed by that, you can add the ./
directory in the $PATH environnement variable. (PATH=$PATH:./)
As simple as that.
HTH
Flupke
Barry Winch wrote:
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command.
If I am in the directory where the programme resides and type the programme
name, I get a:
"bash: programme name: command not found" message
If, from the same directory I type ./programme name everything works as
advertised.
Thanks
Barry
Re: [newbie] About blackbox window manager
Thanks a lot for your help but I could configure my menus, finally. I just didn't saw that there was a "session.menuFile" entry in the ~/.blackboxrc file. Now, I can have my menu the way I want. But Paul still can't set the window raising as he want to do it (raising a window when he clicks anywhere on it). And I would also be interrested in knowing how to do it. Thanks again Flupke Andy wrote: hey can i know how to configure it. I was able to do it from the blackbox site. What did you have troubles with? - Original Message ----- From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] About blackbox window manager Hi Paul. I usually use Blackbox. I really like it! But I never figured out how to configure its menus. I didn't find any deep documentation on the official site or anywhere else. I suppose it is just because I didn't search correctly... I'm afraid I couldn't help you much in that matter. But I could install several bb applications (bb-pager, ...) However, I currently use mdk 7.1 hydrogen, and the menu configuration provided with it really fits me! But I'm still wondering how to configure it! If you (or anyone else) can help me, I'd be really glad. TIA Flupke Paul wrote: Hi all, I am toying about a bit with Blackbox. Some things puzzle me, though. Is there someone here that is a bit more proficient with blackbox? Thought I'd ask first, before throwing around a bunch of questions... Paul )0(---)0( What you are when you are not trying is what you really are )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Why MPEGs are so slow??
Aktion isn't good at decoding mpg. I only use it to read .mov files. You should try the smpeg or mtv packages. HTH Flupke Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hello! I tried to use aKtion to play my MPEG files, and the speed of playback is ~1fps. What is the reason of it? System: PIII-500, ASUS V3800TVR nVidia based card, XFree 3.3.6 Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Koly
Re: [newbie] Removing a windows partition
I think that it is safer not to extend a partition. I think you'd better change your FAT into a linux (ext2) partition. This is easily done with fdisk (or cfdisk. This one is a bit more user-friendly). Once this is done, you can make an ext2 filesystem on it (with mke2fs) and mount it somewhere in your system. IE : If you need place for personnal files, you could mount it in your /home directory or something like that. If you don't know how to proceed to transfer your /home (or any other part of your linux filesystem) to your new partition, the Harddisk-upgrade-HOWTO (or mini-HOWTO. I can't remember) should give you some good hints. If you are still lost with it, scream for help on the list. (Or browse the list archive. This has already been answered) HTH Flupke Eric Mings wrote: I originally setup my disk with both linux and a windows partition. I am no longer using windows on this machine and would like to remove the partition without risk of damaging my linux data. Ideally I would like to be able to expand one of my linux partitions to take advantage of the new space, however making a new linux partition would be an acceptable option as well. How can I do this without the possibility of damaging my linux system data? Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [newbie] Setting lilo to dual boot 98 from seperate drive???
Aaron wrote: Linux is on the primary disc (hda) and win98 is on the secondary disc (hdb). I tried adding it to lilo but when I choose win98 at boot it doesn't do anything. Do I have to do anything to win98 to make this work? What do I need to do? Thanks, Aaron Could you post your /etc/lilo.conf file and describe what exactly happens when you try to boot zinblows? (or maybe you will be able to solve the problem by yourself if you read the man lilo.conf) Flupke
Re: [newbie] high security server and ftp and telnet
rharvey wrote: I setup a linux box with the server choice and high security. I finally found the place to turn on the web service. http web services are running now. The ftp seems to be installed. all the info I have found says its all set up but I can't ftp into the server. I need ftp to upload my web pages. I also want telnet. It does not work either. i can ping the server. I can go from the server to other computers thru telnet. First, make sure you have the telnet-server package installed. Then, enable the telnet and ftp servers in /etc/inetd.conf. I think you just should uncomment the lines corresponding to the servers. After you have done that, I think that it should be ok. But if you care about security, I think you'd better forget about telnet and install ssh instead. Is it the security level? maybe the servers are not enabled with the high-security level (this would not be surprizing. And even rather normal. telnet is NOT secure!!!) do i need to re-install and set the secutity level down? Even if you decide to change the security level, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REINSTALL LINUX! In fact, in theory, YOU NEVER HAVE TO REINSTALL LINUX Everybody should be aware of that. I see too often people saying "It didn't work so I reinstalled". Sorry, but that is NOT the solution. We are here in a unix environnement. Forget about the BAD BAD EVIL habits you had with Mikr0$oft. (sorry for the shouting, but I really want to focus everybody's attention about this point) The security levels are handled by the msec package. Read the files in /usr/doc/msecversion/ for details about security levels and how to change it. How do I get access to the services.. ( I do not have the gui auto loading. i can startx but i can't get any of the gui's to run..kde...gnome..ect...) To access a graphical login from a root command prompt, type "init 5". To automatically load the GUI login screen at startup, change the line id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: in your /etc/inittab file. No window manager comes when you start X because (I think that) they are not installed in the server installation. Install them from the mdk CD. so I guess any info sent on how to fix this will have to be no-gui commands. Not anymore... :-) thanks in advance Robert HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Window manager(KDE,Enlightenment,BlackBox...)
I don't like KDE or gnome. I find them too "resource consuming". They can be usefull for people not wanting to learn how to really use linux. Linux newbies generally like it, but once they discover how much it wastes memory and CPU, they change their mind and use the "power" of the command line. I usually use blackbox. It's light and fast. Just what I need : a graphical interface, but no silly unneeded features. Enlightenment is pretty cool, too, but I fear that E 0.17, with the integration of efm, will show the same waste of resources as KDE or Gnome. But what I like in E, it's that, unlike KDE or gnome, it has its own personality and features. It is not intended to look like Zinblow$. Flupke On Wed, 17 May 2000, Michael wrote: Who uses which for what? It seems each of the "session types" ie. WindowMaker, After Step, Enlightenment,Gnome, KDE,etc has its proponents. I'd like to know what you guys think is the best . -- -michael brower- "Dancing with Penguins" Registered Linux User #175480
Re: [newbie] Untar
You just have to mount your floppy and treat it like any other tgz archive: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy cd /tmp tar zxf /mnt/floppy/kxicq.tgz HTH Flupke On Wed, 17 May 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: OK here is a newbie question. I downloaded kxlicq and I want to try it. It is on a floppy and off course its tar.gz format. I am reading the manual (page290) how to uncompress it but it does not make sense to me. How do I do it??/ If it was on my HD it would be easier but I have no idea how to go with the files being on a floppy. -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface! This message created with Linux!
Re: [newbie] reaching maximal mount count
Do you believe me if I say that it's because you mounted your HD the maximal number of time before an automatic e2fsck? :-) Don't panic. It's normal. It will do that each time your HD has been mounted a certain number of time. (I don't know how many) If this annoys you, well... Don't turn off your comp. :-) HTH Flupke On Thu, 18 May 2000, Wade wrote: Hi List, During boot up this morning I saw a new message that said; /dev/hda5 has reached maximal mount count mount count check forced ??? What have I done to generate this 'mount count check'? After running through the mount count check all seems to be well and running smoothly, but I just want to know how I caused this and how I prevent it in the future. Much thanks, b/web Wade PS - Thanks for you help with my list subscription Denis!
Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)
This seems weird... :-(
What does it say when you try "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"?
If that doesn't give any error, then you must be able to
"echo 1 /proc/.../ip_forward" as root.
If it does give an error, Check that the file exists (ls -l
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward) and that the kernel has everything he
needs. Maybe you have to build a new kernel, but I doubt that this is the
case. There must be another problem. I don't know which one. :-(
If the ip_forward file doesn't exist, build a new kernel (following what
they say in the HOWTO).
If it does exist, I'm out of ideas. Post your question on the expert list,
or another mailing list about ipchains.
HTH
Flupke
On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I read the HOWTO some more and with your help modprobed the
nessesary modules and this is what happens afterwards.
echo /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
echo bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission Denied
echo whoami
echo root
any ideas
Mike
Here is the list :
ip_masq_vdolive
ip_masq_user
ip_masq_raudio
ip_masq_quake
ip_masq_portfw
ip_masq_mfw
ip_masq_irc
ip_masq_ftp
ip_masq_cuseeme
ip_masq_autofw
HTH
Flupke
On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry trying to understand the HOWTO and it's not straight
forward. Which modules are suppose to be modprobed. It
lists several but all I want to do is share a internet
connection(for now:).
If you just want to share your connection, you just have to go through
some easy steps :
First modprobe the necessary modules. They are listed in the
ipchains-HOWTO, and should already built with mandrake. The kernel should
also already be properly configured.
Then enable the forwarding :
echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.
If that doesn't work, that means that I was wrong and that you have to
make a new kernel.
Then you tell the kernel to masq the packages that come from your intranet:
ipchains -A forward -s a.b.c.d/e -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ
where a.b.c.d is the address of your local network and e is the number of
bit set to 1 in your netmasq (255.0.0.0 - 8, 255.255.0.0 - 16,
255.255.255.0 - 24)
Then you set the gateway of your router to be the one of your ISP
For your intranet computers, the gateway is your router.
That should do it. Of course, there are a lot of other possibilities with
ipchains. Thats why you should read the ipchains-HOWTO step by step.
Maybe I forgot some steps, but these are the main ones.
If you have problems, tell exactly what is going wrong and post the output
of the ipchains -L command.
HTH
Flupke
On Thu, 11 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been setting up a samba server with adsl connected
to several win98 boxes. I was told that to share the dsl
connection all I had to do was set up IP chains. I then
downloaded the current ip chains howto and am now completely
lost. I read the first 4 chapters right up to where you set
up the win98 boxes. Do I have to recompile the Kernel (I
have never done this before); I am running mandrake 7.02.
I was assuming that the IP chains was already built in. Is
there a easy way to set it up. I don't mind recompiling but
could use any suggestions or help that anyone could put
forward.
Thanx in advance
Mike
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Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)
Here is the list : ip_masq_vdolive ip_masq_user ip_masq_raudio ip_masq_quake ip_masq_portfw ip_masq_mfw ip_masq_irc ip_masq_ftp ip_masq_cuseeme ip_masq_autofw HTH Flupke On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry trying to understand the HOWTO and it's not straight forward. Which modules are suppose to be modprobed. It lists several but all I want to do is share a internet connection(for now:). If you just want to share your connection, you just have to go through some easy steps : First modprobe the necessary modules. They are listed in the ipchains-HOWTO, and should already built with mandrake. The kernel should also already be properly configured. Then enable the forwarding : echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. If that doesn't work, that means that I was wrong and that you have to make a new kernel. Then you tell the kernel to masq the packages that come from your intranet: ipchains -A forward -s a.b.c.d/e -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ where a.b.c.d is the address of your local network and e is the number of bit set to 1 in your netmasq (255.0.0.0 - 8, 255.255.0.0 - 16, 255.255.255.0 - 24) Then you set the gateway of your router to be the one of your ISP For your intranet computers, the gateway is your router. That should do it. Of course, there are a lot of other possibilities with ipchains. Thats why you should read the ipchains-HOWTO step by step. Maybe I forgot some steps, but these are the main ones. If you have problems, tell exactly what is going wrong and post the output of the ipchains -L command. HTH Flupke On Thu, 11 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been setting up a samba server with adsl connected to several win98 boxes. I was told that to share the dsl connection all I had to do was set up IP chains. I then downloaded the current ip chains howto and am now completely lost. I read the first 4 chapters right up to where you set up the win98 boxes. Do I have to recompile the Kernel (I have never done this before); I am running mandrake 7.02. I was assuming that the IP chains was already built in. Is there a easy way to set it up. I don't mind recompiling but could use any suggestions or help that anyone could put forward. Thanx in advance Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet/SSH
I don't think so, but I once saw a kssh package. You have to have ssh installed first. I think that's what you need. HTH Flupke On Sat, 13 May 2000, Wade wrote: Hi List, I turned on Telnet and told it to connect to one of my remote domains, and no probs what so ever. The remote servers I use have SSH available and I would like to make use of it and was wondering if I can use kTelnet to make an SSH connection? Thanks, b/web Wade
Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop
from your telnet session, you could try to kill KDE : ps aux |grep -i kde |grep -v grep kill -9 [PID] PID is the PID of KDE (the number in the 2nd column after the "ps" command) If it doesn't work, try to kill your X session HTH Flupke On Thu, 11 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, My KDE desktop is not responding to the mouse-clicks. I am not able to open Netscape, console etc. I can access the system through telnet and does not want to reboot. Any suggestions ? Thanks - anil
RE: [newbie] KDE Desktop
How right you are, Ron! I always forget this usefull utility (pidof). Anybody knows why it is located under /sbin? I usually don't include /sbin in my $PATH. Flupke On Fri, 12 May 2000, Ron Greer wrote: Eesh that sounds like WAAY to much command line :) try: kill -9 `pidof kwm` -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop from your telnet session, you could try to kill KDE : ps aux |grep -i kde |grep -v grep kill -9 [PID] PID is the PID of KDE (the number in the 2nd column after the "ps" command) If it doesn't work, try to kill your X session HTH Flupke On Thu, 11 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, My KDE desktop is not responding to the mouse-clicks. I am not able to open Netscape, console etc. I can access the system through telnet and does not want to reboot. Any suggestions ? Thanks - anil
Re: [newbie] multiple xsessions
Try just "xinit -- :1" or "X -- :1" If these work, then there must be something wrong in your startx script. If this is the case, check the way that it passes the arguments when starting the server. HTH Flupke On Fri, 12 May 2000, quaylar wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2000 09:29:50 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote: quayyou left out a space between the second dash and the colon. startx -- :1 ^ ^ i was told this by someone else too...but i get the mentioned error message although typing it correctly.. startx -- :1 it still doesnt work.. Alan quaylar wrote: hi all. i would like to know how to start multiple xsessions on diff. vt's. i know there is the command startx --:1 which (should) start another xserver but this produces following error : Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages what am i doing wrong ?...is there an option in x-config files i have to set in order to get this working ? thx in advance... --quay
Re: [newbie] 3Dfx
That means that the device-3dfx package comes as a src.rpm package. It is source code. You have to compile it before install it. It's really easy, you will just have to type "rpm --rebuild device3dfx-...-.rpm", then only issue an rpm -Uvh command. But it's clearly explained in the 3dfx linux driver page. Just do as Ron said, and it will be all right. HTH Flupke On Thu, 11 May 2000, John Bullerwell wrote: What's that last part about the binary RPM? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 4:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 3Dfx "A.CAnela" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know how can I install the 3dfx drivers and Glide for Linux in a Mandrake Linux System?? Hi Visit linux.3dfx.com and select the drivers appropriate for your 3dfx videocard. You will need to compile the source RPMS. There is enough information on the site to enable a novice (if that is what you are) to complete all steps. After the drivers are installed and tested in both 2D and 3D modes, you can use a Mandrake 7.02 binary RPM which allows users other than 'root' to use the drivers when installed. Ron -- Ilmainen Internet @ http://www.nic.fi/
Re: [newbie] VMware 2 run Linux/Win together!
After your trial period, you cannot boot your virtual machine anymore. As simple as that. Flupke On Thu, 11 May 2000, Drake X wrote: Anyone know anything about VMware? I was looking at their website (vmware.com) recently. They say you can run both Linux and MS Windows on 1 computer at the same time in their own virtual desktops! They have a 30 day Linux trial copy to download. I don't know what happens after the trial period ends though.
Re: [newbie] RPM TRouble...please help!
I suppose that it is because you don't give to rpm the right name of package : Once a package file [foo.rpm] is installed, it is recorded in the rpm database as beeing the package "foo". So you have two choices : Query the installed package : rpm -ql foo or query the uninstalled package file (and add a parameter that tells rpm to look in the file, and not in the rpm database) : rpm -qpl foo.rpm I suppose that this is the mistake you are doing. For (a LOT) more info about rpm, get the "maximum rpm" book downloadable at http://www.rpm.org. This doc is REALLY usefull, and the explainations are simple. It's worth the time to read it. HTH Flupke On Wed, 10 May 2000, James McLaughlin wrote: I have a system running Mandrake 7.0. Whenever I run rpm -Uvh foo.rpm (or ivh)it runs through the ## and brings me back to a prompt. Then I querry the rpm that I just installed..and it says "package not installed" The current RPM I am trying to work with is the gcc.rpm that came on Disk2 of my distro. Does anyone know what would cause mandrake to run through the motions...but not really install the package. Is there a command that will tell the rpm database to refresh itself and in turn Mandrake will recognize that the compiler is installed. If not...I really don't want to go through all of the ^*( to download the tarball and compile the compiler myself...ugghh..what a pain :( A friend of mine throught it was something to do with my bash file within root... Please help...I cant get any SQL or HTDIG working without a gcc g++ compiler installed :( THanks Kat
Re: [newbie] Got X started, now how to start Gnome?
You can start it straight from the text console : xinit -e gnome -- :1 Or first start a "nude" x session : xinit -- :1 And then, from the xterm that will appear (put the mouse cursor in it to give it the focus), start whatever wm you want to try (enlightenment, blackbox, gnome, window maker...) HTH Flupke On Wed, 10 May 2000, Anthony Huereca wrote: I finally got that second X session thing to work for me (that "startx -- :1" thing). The only problem is it starts up in KDE, and I like Gnome more. So how do I get it to start up in Gnome instead of KDE? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] watch what you say on this list
Well, I also had the same problem while answering to someone stating that a program told him that "his kernel was an asshole" or something like that. I really don't apprciate this kind of mail sniffing. I find that outrageous. I sent them a mail, asking for explaination, who they were to afford to watch my mail, saying that couldn't let a robot judge the content of an email, etc... Of course, I didn't receive any answer. I really think we should do something against those people. I don't know what, but we have to find something. Thinking about those guyz makes me sick! Maybe adding a word like "porn", or "asshole" or something like that in *EVERY* mail sent to the list would annoy them enough. Or if everyone could send them a mail to ask for explaination would convice these guyz to leave us alone and let the ineternet be a place of freedom. Maybe others will have better suggestions. I usually don't smile about other's problems, but I'm kind of glad that this didn't happen only to me. Flupke On Mon, 8 May 2000, WolfRyder wrote: Following is a copy of an email I am sending to the "filtering" site that linux-mandrake uses. This is in reference to the email thread about "Parental Control". I received an email just now saying my email was " inappropriate subject matter ". It was logged by you. I don't understand why, though. I was answering an email on a listserv of which I am a member and we were discussing filtering software for Linux as opposed to parental monitoring. I don't understand why I was singled out for this type of monitoring when the other people the list used the same word as I, but were not censured (as far as I know). You can bet I won't be discussing the merits of software filtering on that list again. If they use this service to strike fear in the hearts of it's participants when discussing possible writing of filtering options, it's not a site I wish to respond to at all. I am therefore unsubscribing right now. Carol MIMEsweeper ChineseWall Server: CN=NS005/OU=DSRV/O=Texas Utilities --- - Mail-Info From: WolfRyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ TU To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05/08/2000 07:42:46 AM Subject:Re: [newbie] Parental Control -- -- 'ChineseWall Job' reports: TXU automatically screens all e-mail for inappropriate subject matter (i.e. material that is discriminatory, hateful, vulgar, pornographic, sexually-explicit, or obscene). This e-mail contains information that is considered inappropriate for the business environment and has been logged and will be reviewed to determine final disposition. If you have any questions, please direct them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' porn ' found! Mail has been archived!
Re: [newbie] network configuration on boot
If netconf doesn't do it automatically (but it should!), add the line : alias eth0 3c509 in your /etc/conf.modules file to have the module automatically loaded by kerneld. You can add the other lines in your /etc/rc.d/init.d/network file. HTH Flupke On Sun, 7 May 2000, _lee _kinkade wrote: So, working with an expert, i found i can get my ethernet card to work if after boot I type in the following: /sbin/insmod 3c509 /sbin/ifconfig eth0 ip.address netmask netmask /sbin/route add _net network_addr netmask netmask /sbin/route add default gw 24.5.225.1 metric 1 How do I get this to happen automatically on boot? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
Re: [newbie] OT - Quake
No problem. There you have : ftp://ftp.lokigames.com/pub/patches/quake3/linuxq3apoint-1.16n.x86.run And not far from there, you also have the patches for the other loki games (heretic, railroadtycoon II, myth2, ...) You d/l the patch, run it (as root if you want to install the stuff in /usr/local/games/quake3), then you replace the quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 by the one that stands on your Quake CD. Note that if don't have enough place or don't want to waste it, you can just make a symlink ;-) (but it takes more time to load the game and the arena's, of course) If your GL drivers are correctly installed, you just type : cd /usr/local/games/quake3 ./quake3 And then... YOU FRAG, YOU SHOOT, YOU KILL! :-))) HTH Flupke On Sun, 7 May 2000, Marcel wrote: I would be very interested in running Quake III in Linux using a Windows Quake III CD. I'm running a dual boot and I'd love to play it Linux. My efforts to find this "patch" were fruitless. If anyone has info on it and where to find it I'd be greatful Thanks volvox ------ flupke wrote: ...This WON'T work if you have the full win CD and want to play in linux with it. In order to do that, you have to download a patch (I don't remember where it is, but you will no doubt find it at tucows or something like that). HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Configuration
Type netconf at a root prompt. You can also do it with linuxconf. Or if you are new to linux and like mental masturbation, you can do it with the "modprobe", "ifconfig" and "route" commands. It's really interresting and instructive, but it may sound like a waste of time if you don't want to spend several hours understanding how it all works. HTH Flupke On Mon, 8 May 2000, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Installing Mandrake 7 there is a option to setup a dialup connection or a LAN. I want both. How do I get back into a 'setup' program to install the LAN support? Glenn...
Re: [newbie] Mutt or Pine
I also had problems with mail on my mandrake. I discovered that the problem did not come from the mail reader, but from the mail delivry agent. I had postfix installed, and I never figured how to configure it. (if someone knows where I can find easy docs about it and about mail configuration in general, I'm interrested.) But once I uninstalled it and installed sendmail instead, all went fine and I hadn't any problems anymore. HTH Flupke On Sun, 7 May 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: Howdy all, I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my Pine MUA to, but I cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to set it up. I would appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to point me to another how to (unless of course it is written for a complete spoon!) and give me some straightforward settings so I can get (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. I am gettting frustrated with underdeveloped GUI's. TIA, Wayne
Re: [newbie] OT - Quake
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: I've heard there's a download of Quake available for Linux and I would like to try it out - could someone point me to where to find it (hopefully RPMS) and let me know what to copy? I've never played it before but it looks cool. You can download it from http://demo.quake3arena.com/QUAKE/linux/linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh But there must be some mirrors near you to download it faster. NB : This WON'T work if you have the full win CD and want to play in linux with it. In order to do that, you have to download a patch (I don't remember where it is, but you will no doubt find it at tucows or something like that). HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] browser history files
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi again, Can anyone help with this question as I need it for a newspaper article I am writing about the Linux system. Is there any way root can view the web browsers history content of a particular user or how long a connection has been for? For the history, it's really simple : each user's history is in his $HOME/.netscape/history.list file. This file (as ANY other file) is of course accessible by root. About the lenght of the connection, could you be more precise, and tell what exactly you want to know? If you are talking about monitoring each tcp connection, (ie : watch "which computer is accessing which internet site"), this can be done with netsat. I beleive, and I don't know if you agree, that one area in which Linux can grow is with the security it offers to parents who worry over how much time is spent by their children surfing the net and what it is they are viewing. Of course there are programs that stop particular material and sites being viewed, but my experience of them whilst in windows was less than impressive. Sure! Again, you monitor each connection currently in use with netstat and you can setup a firewall to precise that "This computer cannot have access to This site" or "Nobody can access this computer on the ftp port" and things like that. The tool to set it up is called "ipchains" and has recently been discussed on this list. Err, I won't even tell you my feelings about windows in that matter... :-) (anyway this is not the place to discuss about it.) Therefore with the concern that is being voiced about the internet's content and the lack of control parents have over what their children can view (in England anyway and I presume elsewhere) I feel that this is an area that Linux can exploit. By showing parents that if they owned the root account they are free to view the files and actions of their children and even dis-allow permission to the internet if they are on a night out and worried that their fifteen year old, or worse, their baby sitter, may be running up a huge bill on the telephone, may be one way to increase the interest and popularity of both Linux and the open source movement. This is true. But at the moment, this kind of monitoring requires usually a knowledge about TCP/IP and a "rather deep" (but not TOO deep, yet) understanding of the OS that most people are not ready to afford. I think it's just because they are kind of "afraid" of comuters, and don't want to spend the time needed to learn how it all works (just my point of view!!!). Nevertheless, I'm sure that soon, developpers will create tools to make all this easier. I'm not in favour of the "to make it work, just click here, and click here" philosophy (cfr KDE), but I realize that it could help some people. Well sorry it's been so long winded but your comments on my question or on the subject as a whole would be appreciated. Well, I think that if you are going to write about linux (in a positive way!! ;-) ) in a magasine or any publication, it's worth the time to read and answer you. Keep on spreading the good word! HTH Flupke PS : Maybe you could mention freeBSD, openBSD, and such. Those are other free unix operating systems, but they require a somewhat deeper knowledge of computers and networks. -- Andrew Blackburn England --Learning at the deep end--
Re: [newbie] Downloading from the FTP Sites Linux Mandrake 7.0
On Sat, 6 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi, This may be a stupid question, how do you download Linux Mandrake 7.0 from the ftp sites? Should I create folder and copy each item their respective sub folders? Or, should I hold down the SHIFT key, and then highlight all of the files beginning with RPMS - and so on... Is this the long way? I am copying it to my NTFS partition. I'm waiting for my CD to arrive. Any help would be appreciated. Roman I don't really understand why you want to download the distro if you're gonna receive it on a CD in a few days... But anyway, you have two choices : find an iso image. This is a single file holding the whole CD. Easy to take. Or you can download all the directory structure. To do this, I think the most efficient and easy way would be to use an ftp client (such as [I think] PROftp) or use wget. In both cases, the program will recreate itself the directory structure. HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] dialup in Autostart
I think you should take a look at diald. It is a tool to automatically establish a ppp connection when a request to internet is done. HTH Flupke On Sat, 6 May 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi, As I have free calls to the internet 24 hours a day 8^) I would like to have my modem start dialing when beginning a session in KDE. I tried placing kppp in autostart but it only brings up the connection box (obviously) I would like it to just start dialing when the GUI starts. Is this possible??? -- Andrew Blackburn England
Re: [newbie] CRON
If you run mdk 7.0 or higher, there should be a line in your /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime already containing the necessary hdparms to optimize your hard drive. Look at this script and modify it following your needs. I think it's the best thing to do. HTH Flupke On Fri, 5 May 2000, Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: And how do I run, say: hdparm -d1 /dev/hda on every startup? Thanks
Re: [newbie] /etc initrunlvl
On Sat, 6 May 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Just a quick question. In /etc there is /initrunlvl that when in command line mode is highlighted in red and flashes!!! Just a little syntax note : if it is in /etc, it is not called /initrunlvl. /initrunlvl is in / (=root) Giving the 'whatis' command I got the reply 'nothing applicable'. It is also completely empty or unrecognisable as when I try and have a look at it with vi it attempts to make a new file. It is owned by root the permissions are 'lrwxrwxrwx' which I understand (does the l mean link) but why is it flashing in red and what does it do? It is a symbolic link. It flashes because the file it points at doesn't exist. HTH Flupke -- Andrew Blackburn England
Re: [newbie] scsi drives
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello, I'm getting ready to put together a new system and I'm considering using a scsi hard drive; can anybody tell me if there is much or any performance gain by doing this? Definitely yes. SCSI HD are no doubt faster than IDE. I've seen quite a few posts on these lists about problems with scsi cards / scsi devices with Linux; is this normal or should I expect things to go smoothly? For this point, I think you should consult the hardware-HOWTO and the SCSI-HOWTO, in order to be sure you take linux-friendly devices. HTH Flupke Thanks for any advise, Mike
Re: [newbie] Mandrake-7.02.i486.iso ???
On Sat, 6 May 2000, mendes wrote: Hello Thanks a lot. Can I simply mount the CD with Mandrake-7.02.i486.iso on a P-133 with CD on the other side of the lab and then use it to install mandrake on the old 486? Yes, but it is not necessary to burn the ISO image. You can mount it from your hard drive : mkdir mdk mount -o loop Mandrake-7.02.i486.iso mdk and the files will be accessible in the mdk directory HTH Flupke Regards Eduardo There is a way to do a net install via FTP (and maybe HTTP too). I've been tempted to try it, just to say I did, but haven't needed to. It involves making a boot disk which contains an extremely small version of linux. You boot off the disk, and then into the installer, where you input the address of some ftp site which contains Mandrake. However, finding a non ISO of the i486 install might be hard. Blashpemous as it sounds, Red Hat might be a better choice for your particular installation. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake7/install/pages/install.html Has pointers on where to start. Pedantic as it sounds, you'll probably want a fast connection. Regards, Nathan - Original Message - From: "mendes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 9:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake-7.02.i486.iso ??? Hello Is Mandrake-7.02.i486.iso an image for 486 SX? I have an old 486 SX machine without CD rom but if a netcard. Could someone give a help on how to install Mandrake on such a machine? Thanks a lot. Eduardo
Re: [newbie] A little security....
On Sat, 6 May 2000, Andy wrote: Its great everyones talking about windows firewalls, but what about Linux firewalls. I have heard that a 486 with linux on it can become a great firewall for a business. Yeah. Sure! I have a pentium 100 with 24 MB mem and 300 MB HD, and I configured it as a firewall between my intranet and the internet. It works great! Take a look at the ipchains-HOWTO (and others like ipmasquerade, firewall, ...), you'll find everything you need. HTH Flupke - Original Message - From: WolfRyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] A little security We've been told by a couple of people on the net that this product sends info on all sites you've visited to their tracking site. Don't know if it's true or not, but different ppl have told us this. You might want to look at "Conseal" at www.consealfirewall.com. There's a 15 day trial before purchase. We've also used LockDown 2000, but are going with a different product today. Carol At 02:19 PM 5/5/00 -0500, you wrote: Hey ppl, I just received this info on "Zone Alarm" for those of you still having to have WinDo$ for a second OS. You can find it at http:www.zonelab.com and it is "Free" for personal use only. For business users $20. Just to maybe give a little security for WinDo$. Off Topic a little don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] A little security....
On Sat, 6 May 2000, quaylar wrote: Am Sam, 06 Mai 2000 schrieben Sie: Its great everyones talking about windows firewalls, but what about Linux firewalls. I have heard that a 486 with linux on it can become a great firewall for a business. hmm...i also have a question to this...cuz im planning to set up a firewall on a 486 also acting as a proxy server to the internet for my PII 350..but..isnt that 486 slowing down my inet connection for the PII ?? No, as far as you don't have a *REALLY* fast internet connection. It won't affect your LAN's performances, and since internet connection are not often faster than 50 - 60kB(ytes)/sec, this flow isn't high enough to saturate your firewall. Of course, this isn't the same for a firewall between, for instance, a 10Mb and a 100Mb network... At least, that's what I think. But I may be wrong. (please tell me if this is the case.) HTH Flupke - Original Message - From: WolfRyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] A little security We've been told by a couple of people on the net that this product sends info on all sites you've visited to their tracking site. Don't know if it's true or not, but different ppl have told us this. You might want to look at "Conseal" at www.consealfirewall.com. There's a 15 day trial before purchase. We've also used LockDown 2000, but are going with a different product today. Carol At 02:19 PM 5/5/00 -0500, you wrote: Hey ppl, I just received this info on "Zone Alarm" for those of you still having to have WinDo$ for a second OS. You can find it at http:www.zonelab.com and it is "Free" for personal use only. For business users $20. Just to maybe give a little security for WinDo$. Off Topic a little don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Root Password
On Fri, 5 May 2000, hopper wrote: On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2000, David Smith wrote: Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are granted super user permissions. Thanks in advance. Dave You could add the user to the ROOT group, using userconf (as root). This question is sort of along the lost password lines. If I loose the root password, am I totally screwed? No. You can boot and type "linux init 1" at the lilo boot prompt. You will be dropped in a single-user shell without being asked any password. From there, you can change root's password. But I don't think it will work with a too high level security (can someone confirm?) If it still doesn't work, you'll have to boot with a cd that a has a live system on it (like the slack or suse CD), or use a tiny distribution that hold on a few floppoes (sorry I can't remember the name). From there, you can mount your root partition, and change the etc/passwd or etc/shadow file. HTH Flupke Thanks, Nathan
Re: [newbie] backing up...
Special files are files that represent a device. You should read a book about linux basics, it will be explained. To make a backup, use the tar command instead of cp. HTH Flupke On Fri, 5 May 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am trying to back up my Mandrake installation into a backup partition. When I do so, I get a message that XXX special files will not be copied. What are special files? Does this compromise my backup? I wanted to back up the entire installation in case I screw something up... Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [newbie] Newbie Question
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Craig R Bathurst wrote: I just installed ver. 6.0 on my computer. It will be a duel boot suation with Windows 98 as the default OS. Linux is VERY NEW to me. It's like working in MS DOS again. DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT AGAIN :-) Can anyone recommend a good book (like Dummies Guide to Linux) that will will explain step by step how to work with linux? You can find lots of usefull informations at http://www.mandrakeuser.org And there are a lot of good books too. I have one called "linux expert ressources" that helped me a lot. There is also the "linux bible". No doubt other people will provide good titles too. But once you have the basic knowledges, you will find the info you need un the man, HOWTOs, LDP, and other infos provided with your distro. Is there a graphical interface for Linux (like windows) that will make it easier to use Linux? Yes. There is. If you installed the appropriate tools, type XF86Setup at a root prompt, and it will bring up the config program. Once you ared done with it, type startx, and it SHOULD work. If you have problems, please post a detail of your hardware configuration. HTH Flupke Craig "Those who do not learn from History, are doomed to repeat it". Author unknown
