Re: [newbie] RSS feeds
amala singh wrote: Thunderbird RSS feed is OK to me. Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've been googling and looking at kmail info to see how to add RSS feed. I'm obviously looking in wrong place - can anyone direct me thanks Rosemary The only one I have found for Linux is Liferea, and it works well. rob gdesklets-rssgrab -- Thanks, David Skype: dgsatimdb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to update Kernel
Hi Derek As for my experience for this week, the only best way to compile Mandrakelinux 10.1 kernel is through the Mandrakelinux Update located under System, Configuration, Packaging menus... Just search for kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-12mdk and install it. I try that for my Linux box and it works well... - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to update Kernel On Monday 21 February 2005 08:55, * * wrote: Hi, Do somebody has a nice Tutorial, how to compile Kernel on Mandrake Linux 10.1 ? Thanks! http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Command-Line.html/compiling-kernel-chapter.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MySQL
SOTL wrote:
On Thursday 17 February 2005 15:04, David G Stevenson wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
SOTL wrote:
Hi All
As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data
base using MySQL.
I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions
that are not answered in the book.
This computer is set up with all data located on a separate partition
called /home/trunk/Common_Data which allows both the Linux and MS OS
to see the data.. Yea I know strange location not using
/mnt/Common_Data/{file name or directory} but I like it that way.
Anyway I would like to place my data bases in the same location.
Currently when I create a db it is located in /var/lib/mysql/{file
name} so I preceded to copy one of the db I had made called testdb
to my desired location. Then I tried to access testdb or as the db
people say connect to testdb.
Anyway I tried the following
use /home/trunk/Common_Data/testdb
plus a few variations of this eachtime receiving the response that the
db which MC says exist does not exist.
Would some kind person please explain how one creates, connects, and
uses a db in any other directory except /var/lib/mysql/*.
Thanks
Frank
All of the following must be done as root.
Turn off your mysql server process:
*# service mysql stop
*Copy your databases to the new location:
*# cp -a /var/lib/mysql /home/trunk/Common_Data/
*Rename your current mysql directory to keep it safe until you know that
your changes are working properly:
*# mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql_backup_20050217
*Create a symlink in /var/lib/ to the new location:
*# ln -s **/home/trunk/Common_Data/mysql /var/lib/mysql
*Restart the server:
*# service mysql start*
or,
stop mysql server,
edit /etc/my.cnf
change,
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
to
datadir=/home/trunk/Common_Data/
move the data to new location (including the system mysql database)
then restart mysql server
Thanks for the help
I just checked and my version of Mandrake 10.1 does not have a
file /etc/my.cnf
Is that correct or am I missing something in my installation? If so whit
should I do? Should I just generate the file with the above configuration
parameters in it? If so am I missing other configuration parameters?
Take a look at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/option-files.html
This will describe the my.cnf file at its available options. If the file
exist it will be read and override default mysql options.
For example, here is my file:
start example file
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib
[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
end example file
On the server this came from it is pretty default.
HTH
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Re: [newbie] MySQL
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
SOTL wrote:
Hi All
As some of you are aware I started last week trying to make a data
base using MySQL.
I that light I have a nice book, some book examples, and questions
that are not answered in the book.
This computer is set up with all data located on a separate partition
called /home/trunk/Common_Data which allows both the Linux and MS OS
to see the data.. Yea I know strange location not using
/mnt/Common_Data/{file name or directory} but I like it that way.
Anyway I would like to place my data bases in the same location.
Currently when I create a db it is located in /var/lib/mysql/{file
name} so I preceded to copy one of the db I had made called testdb
to my desired location. Then I tried to access testdb or as the db
people say connect to testdb.
Anyway I tried the following
use /home/trunk/Common_Data/testdb
plus a few variations of this eachtime receiving the response that the
db which MC says exist does not exist.
Would some kind person please explain how one creates, connects, and
uses a db in any other directory except /var/lib/mysql/*.
Thanks
Frank
All of the following must be done as root.
Turn off your mysql server process:
*# service mysql stop
*Copy your databases to the new location:
*# cp -a /var/lib/mysql /home/trunk/Common_Data/
*Rename your current mysql directory to keep it safe until you know that
your changes are working properly:
*# mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql_backup_20050217
*Create a symlink in /var/lib/ to the new location:
*# ln -s **/home/trunk/Common_Data/mysql /var/lib/mysql
*Restart the server:
*# service mysql start*
or,
stop mysql server,
edit /etc/my.cnf
change,
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
to
datadir=/home/trunk/Common_Data/
move the data to new location (including the system mysql database)
then restart mysql server
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Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One of the biggest sites on the web is driven by Perl (IMDb.com). :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software
John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One of the biggest sites on the web is driven by Perl (IMDb.com). :-) True, but that's still more web-coding than I feel inclined to do :-) My point which I guess I didn't make very clear was that these apps often require no coding on the users/webmasters part, just a browser-based point-and-click interface. There are pre-packaged web-applications that use Perl/CGI or Python, but PHP is by far the most popular. John. Slighty OT: Yes, your original poster simply wanted GUI editor. I just wanted to suggest an alternative to PHP which people tend to forget in favour of the current 'popular' choice. I do feel that while languages come and go and others evolve, Perl just seems to carry on being a darn good work horse especially when there is lots of data to crunch in the background. Then again, I am just an old timer that grew up on Perl and Oracle :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting
Noel McG. wrote: - Original Message - From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hosting On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:32:42 -0800 Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. Maybe this is not exactly the best place for posting this question, but I really need help and I can't find information about it... I have some servers with Mandrake (this is the only relation with the forum's topic) that we're using in our organization. There are some intranet sites hosted there. However, we'd like to extend our site capabilities by pluging those servers into Internet and behave as a hosting server. That is, we want our site to be public to the Internet. However, we'd like to avoid ISPs, so my question is: what do I need to do about it? Where can I get the required information? I am assuming that you have a firewall/router and Internet access already. Does you firewall have a DMZ? If so, put the web servers into the DMZ and port forward the external firewall:80 request to the DMZ:80. Internal machines will still be able to access the servers but if they get hacked, they do not have any network access to your private network. --WWW(public IP) Firewall - DMZ (web servers) | private network www - DMZ via portforward = ok private - DMZ = ok DMZ - private = fails Use bind() to allow the private machines access to the webservers by url or add to hosts on firewall if available. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem problem
M.Schild wrote: I am actually writing this in linux using web email because can't get kmail/kontact going to send mail! Probably going to be a simple thing I know. I remember having that sort of problem too but cannot remember why. Not much help but it was a simple thing marsye Assuming that you have your outgoing smtp server setup correctly, and this server is in hostname form rather than IP address, check that you can ping the server, or in a shell type: telnet the_server_name 25 (Hint: CTRL-] to exit then quit at telnet prompt) this will open a smtp session to your ISP server. If this fails 'unable to find server' etc, it could be a DNS issue, is your /etc/resolv.conf being updated when your modem connects via the dhcp client? If not, find out what the DNS servers are of your ISP and add the entries: nameserver x.x.x.x for each one. Try telnet connect again. Any joy? Also, did you sign up with a diff ISP when you got the modem, if so, you won't be able to connect to the old ISP mailserver as you are now no longer on a trusted network. PS: if you browser is working via hostname lookup on the same machine this is probably not the cause of your problem as the browser needs DNS to resolve web URL's. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] alternative programs
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On February 10, 2005 05:48, Mohammed Badran wrote: Hello i need to know if there is an alternative program like 'autoCAD'and 'orCAD' as I couldn't find a linux version for them and I don't like to use wine to run these programs because of so much errors Thanks Mohammed There's QCad, http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html Never used it beyond starting it up in knoppix just to see what it does. Seconded - very good intuitive 2D package which I would liken to AutoSketch. Comes with all the dxf exporters etc. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem
Mohammed Badran wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erylon Hines Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:59 AM Exactly my thoughts. I've had this problem with the Lucent chip modems with kernel 2.6.x. The versions must match exactly (as well as the gcc version that the kernel and driver are compiled against). If you can afford an external SERIAL modem get one, because every time the kernel changes the Winmodem driver must be changed also. It is truly a PITA. Ok I will try to find a US Robotics external modem I just want to make sure that's good Thank you all Mohammed If it is truly serial - it will work. I choose routers that have a network port rather than USB for the same reason - they uses existing protocols that have been well and truly tested over the years. I even have a couple of modems here which I have on standby in case my DSL goes down. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Script for burning DVD images
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
I ran into an interesting problem today. I have some wedding DVDs that family
friends keep asking for copies of. I had been using K3b's Copy DVD tool.
But I realized I could shave about 20 minutes off the time for each disk if I
saved the image and reused it, instead of rereading the originals each time.
I saved the images by selecting the Only create image option.
snip
Anyway, I took a few minutes and turned it into a reusable script. I've
attached it here for anyone who might find themselves in a similar situation.
Maybe someday this missing feature will get added to K3b. In the meantime,
enjoy.
Thanks,
DVDDEV=/dev/hdc
Youl need to change this to suit as hdc is probably most used for the
first hard disk on the first IDE channel of most default systems.
/usr/bin/growisofs -Z ${DVDDEV}=${1} \
-use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty \
-use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2268160 \
-use-the-force-luke=dao:2268160 \
-dvd-compat -speed=4
2268160 = this is the real tracksize in bytes, so this would need to be
altered for each burn.
Have a look at the URL posted yesterday...
On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 11:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm
Added to the TWiki on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DvD
Anne
HTH.
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Re: [newbie] Data Base Help
SOTL wrote: Hi All I have a problem with what I am trying to accomplish which begans with I have no idea of what I need to do technically to accomplish my objective so hence this posting. Basic objective is a data base of clients along with their address phone numbers, contact names, and preferences plus other additional fields. The eventual product of this information could be used in a number of different computers so a client server DB such as mysql or postgres or Open Office 2 will be needed. All well and good but there is a pre stage to the data base. In order to input the required data I must first output it from a number of existing data bases over which I have no control of the output consequentally there are issues with data placement and format which is easiest to explain by example. For example my database requires data to be in the form of: Given_Names | Family_Name | Address_1| Address_2 | City | State | Zip and I receive data in the format of Names | Address | City__State_Zip The cut past and text transformation options are slightly better in MS Office than they are in Open Office so I have been manipulating this data by means of MS Word and Excel to obtain the correct format which is painful and time consuming as neither a word editor or spread sheet are setup with the tools required for data editing and column formating. I would thus like to know if anyone knows of a spreadsheet type program not set up to do mathematical operations but data editing. The program must be spread sheet based so that one may see the data and provide better tools which are again best explained by example. Lets assume that one has a matrix of test data that is 20 columns wide and 30,000 rows deep, not a small matrix, with data scattered through in the wrong column. For example: Given Names for individual 1 is 1 name, for individual 2 it is 5 names, and for individual 3 it is 3 names. English names of first, middle, last are not to difficult but sprinkle in a number of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese names and total confusion reigns not to mention issues with other regions. Address can be 1 line, 2 lines, or 3 lines et. By now you get the picture of what the data is. What is needed is sort ability for all or blocks of data by: 1. either rows or columns. 2. by data from the front or back Let me explain the latter. Lets assume that you have a number of individuals in your data which have 2, 3, 4, or 5 names but all have Jr. or II, or III at the end which is not required for this application so it would be best to remove such formality in simplification. This feature would allow one to search by the last letter of the field first. Anyway by now one gets the idea that a spread sheet/word editor or database is not what I have reference to as none of these programs is geared to organizing data into the apposite column for usage in a data base. Any help suggestions or ideas concerning how to procede, which programs to examine or more applicable bulletin board would be appreciated. Thanks Frank Basically, I think that the best thing you can do is learn a little Perl, which by it's name is designed for these sorts of tasks. With a little basic help/reading, all of your tasks are achievable. All you really need to do is define the rules for which the data should comply. And then convert these to code. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the special files . and .. This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root but is in the users group. /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create files/directories here. I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted at present. Running: % df -h will show if this is the case or not. As for the macos directory, it would be proper for the permisions to be: drwxr-xr-x so, % chmod 755 /mnt/macos would suffice. If you wanted users in the 'user' group to be able to write to the macos directory, then: % chmod 775 /mnt/macos would do. Usually, I would not allow write access to the macos directory, but create a directory in the macos dir which has more open permissions. Once you have the disk mounted (assuming that the disk is not mounted in your example output above) you would need to provide more info as to what sort of data is on there (I have never used MacOS). HTH David. OK, that doesn't seem right ay, but .. hmm, what was the permissions for the macos before you changed it? If you used to be able to read, write and execute on it then, the owner root, should have rwx, and r-x for the group members .. atleast to view it right, which is why you were trying 755 .. and as root, chmod 755 /mnt/macos .. didnt work ? I'm stumped .. So I hope someone with more experience than me jumps in soon 8) snip -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem
Mohammed Badran wrote: Hi all I have a SM56 Motorola modem and I can't make it work at Mandrake 10.1 official, I have downloaded the driver of mandrake 10 from http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm And done the following commands [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# insmod sm56 insmod: can't read 'sm56': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# modprobe sm56 FATAL: Error inserting sm56 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.ko): Invalid module format [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls -l sm56 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 24, 0 Feb 8 16:26 sm56 but i can't find '/dev/sm56' in devices list at KPPP also when trying to use '/dev/ttys3' it tells me that modem is busy thanks all The module should be noted in /etc/modules.conf, have a look and see if the entry: options sm56 country=44 exists, you need to change 44 to whatever your country code is. Does 'lsmod' (as root) show it has loaded? If not, try: % depmod -a % modprobe sm56 From the docs, I see the device should be loaded as /dev/modem which should be linked to /dev/sm56. So in kppp use /dev/modem. depmod -a -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev Looks like it is just the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the special files . and .. This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root but is in the users group. /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create files/directories here. I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted at present. Running: % df -h will show if this is the case or not. As for the macos directory, it would be proper for the permisions to be: drwxr-xr-x so, % chmod 755 /mnt/macos would suffice. If you wanted users in the 'user' group to be able to write to the macos directory, then: % chmod 775 /mnt/macos would do. Usually, I would not allow write
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd forgotten to edit my email 'to' in the header. Hope this is now corrected. As regards the permissions problem - What is really needed is a command that tells all my macos files to forget _all_ their file permissions. Then perhaps I can start again...? Reverting or resetting doesn't seem to work. n. If the following two things are done before executing chmod commands... 1. you need to be root to change these files 2. the disk needs to be mounted read/write I see no reason why the these commands should fail. caveat: unless there is something in the MacOS file system implementation on linux which I am missing (as I mentioned before, I have no experience with MacOS) You cannot revert/forget file permissions as this is not historically recorded. Not sure what to suggest next. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:52 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev Looks like it is just the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos is empty. All it contains is the special files . and .. This means that the macos directory had dr--r-x--x and is owned by root but is in the users group. /mnt has drwxrwxrwx which means anyone on the machine can create files/directories here. I assume that the macos disk is not actually mounted at present. Running: % df -h will show
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of a 'Linux' solution to the problem. I'll try to find a mac applescript that batch unlocks files. I did downloaded a 'drag and drop' file program but unless I can unlock (by hand I suppose) part of the mac OS it won't work. hmm... On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:47 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried chmod +wx * ( you did mean * =/mnt/macos?) It didn't unlock any files,I'm afraid... n. su cd /mnt/macos chmod +rx * locked = not writable (or executable) permisions ? Just checking we have the correct terminology :-) On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:52 am, David G Stevenson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mounted the macos disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda112.9G 2.3G 430M 85% / /dev/hda108.2G 7.9G 266M 97% /mnt/macos is -la /mnt/macos produced the info below. nb - Notice the date Jan 1904! I checked both Mac and Mandrake clocks and thay are set to the right date and time. The other linux distro I used was quite old and various features,for example the firewire drive access, were 'experimental' and tended to crash the computer from time to time,setting all clocks back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 277082 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root92 Jan 1 1904 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 1/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jan 1 1904 Acrobat Reader 4.0/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 759 Jan 10 2003 Acrobat Reader 4.0 Install Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Adaptec Toast 4.1.2/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Apple Extras/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root534528 Oct 5 2003 AppleShare PDS drwxr-xr-x 1 root root16 Jan 1 1904 Applications/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Assistants/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 1 1904 BBEditLite Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 1 1904 Cleanup At Startup/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jan 1 1904 compression:expansion / -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1069056 Feb 6 11:16 Desktop DB -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3696794 Dec 18 18:58 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 Desktop Resetter 2.8 Ä/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Documents/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4819 Oct 9 2000 download\WritePDF_MAC.PDF -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5203 Aug 18 2002 DummyDB.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5262 Aug 18 2002 DummySS.cwk -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3608 Aug 18 2002 DummyWP.cwk drwxr-xr-x 1 root root11 Jan 1 1904 Eudora Application Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 1 2003 Ext Devices FDG -r--r--r-- 1 root root39 Dec 25 2002 FinaleNotePad-serialNumber -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3483 Apr 19 2002 Installation Log -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26238 Jun 27 2004 Installer Log File drwxr-xr-x 1 root root14 Jan 1 1904 Installer Logs/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root10 Jan 1 1904 MacGSView/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13957 Jan 8 2003 MacGSView Installer Log File -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Export Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46080 Aug 18 2002 MacLink Import Translators -r--r--r-- 1 root root207279 Feb 1 2003 Ma(r)xTutorials drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 361 Jun 17 1978 Max:MSP/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root17 Jan 1 1904 MidiShare/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 179 Jun 12 2002 _nautilus-metafile.xml drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 Opcode/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 2000 OpenFolderListDF? drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Silverlining Pro Folder/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1209 Oct 4 2003 Snapz Pro 2 Installer Log drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 SoundAppPPC 2.7.3/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root55 Jul 24 1972 System Folder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267 Jan 1 1904 Temporary Items/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jan 1 1904 TheFindByContentFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1904 TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 1 1904 Trash/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 5621 Apr 25 2002 TypeChanger drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1904 Utilities/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 274726912 Feb 7 20:54 VM Storage [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I hope this is more illuminating ;-) cheers, Nev Looks like it is just the files that were locked.. cd /mnt/macos chmod +wx * That should get the files in order. HTH On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 am, David G Stevenson wrote: RickSisler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you post the output of: # ls -la /mnt/macos It gave this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -la /mnt/macos total 8 dr--r-x--x 2 root users 4096 Jan 8 18:03 ./ drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 Jan 8 11:20 ../ What you see there is /mnt/macos
Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem
Mohammed Badran wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David G Stevenson Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:41 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] SM56 Motorola - modem problem Mohammed Badran wrote: Hi all I have a SM56 Motorola modem and I can't make it work at Mandrake 10.1 official, I have downloaded the driver of mandrake 10 from http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm And done the following commands [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# insmod sm56 insmod: can't read 'sm56': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# modprobe sm56 FATAL: Error inserting sm56 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.ko): Invalid module format [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls -l sm56 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 24, 0 Feb 8 16:26 sm56 but i can't find '/dev/sm56' in devices list at KPPP also when trying to use '/dev/ttys3' it tells me that modem is busy thanks all The module should be noted in /etc/modules.conf, have a look and see if the entry: options sm56 country=44 exists, you need to change 44 to whatever your country code is. Does 'lsmod' (as root) show it has loaded? If not, try: % depmod -a % modprobe sm56 From the docs, I see the device should be loaded as /dev/modem which should be linked to /dev/sm56. So in kppp use /dev/modem. depmod -a -- Thanks, David hello This is what written in modules.conf file alias net-pf-4 ipx alias autofs autofs4 alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias char-major-24 sm56 options sm56 country=1 profile=0 the sm56 doesn't appear when doing 'lsmod' and when i do 'modprobe sm56' this message is showen 'FATAL: Error inserting sm56 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.ko): Invalid module format' also when doing 'modinfo' this message appear [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# modinfo sm56 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.ko vermagic: 2.6.3-7mdk 586 depends: author: S. Harris, K. Shao, A. Rosario, D. Gutson description:Motorola SM56 SoftModem Serial Driver license:Proprietary Your kernel and the kernel the proprietary closed source driver was compiled against are different. Maybe different enough to cause problems hooking the code to the newer kernel. In the first instance I would email Motorola with your OS details and kernel version and ask them nicely for a newer version. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] unlocking files?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to change the permissions of my macintosh OS 9 partition and I inadvertently locked all the mac files. I've unlocked the majority of files again,by hand,but I was wondering if there was a mandrake konsole command that would unlock every file on that partition,just incase I've missed some? Do you mean you have made all the files read-only? If so, chmod is your friend, '-R' is a recursive feature so 'chmod -R' will apply your permission mask to the directory/mount and all files/dirs within. To add user write access you could use: % chmod -R +w dirname Have a play with the option on a dummy directory so see the effect. Remember, some files need to be executable and readonly for a reason! HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bootloader
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:39:20 +1300 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO? When I tried Linux a few years ago I had some problems with boot loader and ended having to do fresh install of windows. Thanks Rosemary should not be a problem, if you need to restore it back to win for some reason, something like a fdisk /mbr or something like that could be run from a win boot disk which would reload the Master Boot Record or mbr which windows uses. No fresh install of windows would be needed either. if you don't feel comfortable doing that, you could always save the bootloader to a floppy to avoid overwriting your mbr. You could add the bootloader to the first sector of your boot partition. In the later versions of Windows (2000/XP) you can get these to boot the linux partition. You have to create a boot file of the linux boot sector which needs to be copied to the windows c:/ area and then it is simply a case of adding the linux details to the c:/boot.ini file. Hint: Google search windows 2000 linux boot has details. Floppy might be easier in the short term, but I think it is fun in a sad sort of way to see Windows booting my laptop into Linux :-) -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
Len Lawrence wrote: Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk in the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions problem (there isn't). Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. DVD media is by far a complex topic when comparing the actual media and the technology relating to the -R and +R system. The DVD players (PC drives or consumer TV recorders) do not always support all available technologies. I have a DVD recorder in my PC which supports all formats, it writes to -RW disc just fine, but my Panasonic DVD player struggles to play them (spec says it does support it). Give it a +RW disk and everything is great! I think most people buy small packs of diff types of disk until they find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the equipment :-( HTH PS: http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk this is my supplier for what its worth. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] telnet connection problems
rasta rasta wrote: hi. we're having problems with disconnecting a telnet connection. we have this custom-made shell that is run (this is run in /etc/passwd) everytime a successful telnet login occurs. but when we forcefully disconnect the telnet connection (forcefully as in not typing 'exit' in the command line) we notice that our shell is still running (typing 'ps ax' will show this) and that the shell's vmsize is increasing. after a few minutes the system would gradually slow down until it hangs. In this system we're using xinetd. we've tested our shell on another system using inetd, and the telnet and the shell disconnected cleanly. any ideas on how to resolve this issue? thanks When the telnet connection is passed to the 'custom-made shell' it is up to the 'custom-made shell' to relinquish its hold on that instance. I would look at the shell code personally. There may also be a terminal issue with the local control keystrokes not being passed to the remote server also, depend what the host os is though. Try running the shell locally, what happens when you exit? Does it still hang? Do you have the loopback interface setup, does hosts file have the 127.0.0.1 localhost in it? Try adding the ip/hosts of the connecting clients? HTH - just a list of random things I would check. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Print server setup
Aron Smith wrote: Can anybody point me to a simple method of setting up a print server? I would like to use my inkjet printer on both machines. somthing like bladerunner slowbox | | ---switch--- | HP-PSC 1210 I have a few extra NICS if necessary TIA smitty Configure the 'all in one' printer on box of choice (assuming both run linux variant). On that box set up CUPS to use the printer, also you could add the printer to a Samba share. On other computer, set up CUPS again to this time connect to remote print server where the printer is physically connected OR use the SMB:// share thru Samba. Either way you connect remotely, you will have needed to configured cupsd on the server machine. HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application development suggestion
Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi Folks, A friend asked me something about developing a management program for his store (a small one but with two computers). He need to track the sales and print bills for customers on both computers. I wonder whether it can be done using mysql and php or perl in mandrake (I myself don't have any such experience). Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Bests, Q.H. I built a couple of systems like you mention. Basically I used perl/cgi, mysql postfix. I have a web layer which is a mixture of static html templates which are merged at runtime with the Db content. The web layer drives the perl/cgi which interacts with the Db, triggering email/prints/invoices etc. so... Web | cgi/perl | mysql | postfix Authentication can be driven by auth_mysql in apache so users can update there own passwords and you can provide groups etc. Use the http.consf files and .htaccess to provide group security to scripts etc. I am sure you can do all this in php or any other language, but thats what make programming so much fun eh! HTH -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB flash drive with Mandrake 10.0 CE
--- Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have just bought a 256MB Verbatim USB flash drive to make it easier to transfer files between home and university. When I plug the drive into my USB port Mandrake recognises the drive and creates a mount point '/mnt/removable/' to which it mounts the drive. This allows me to acess the drive and read and write to it. My problem is that I would like to be able to unmount the drive without logging in as root (at the moment Mandrake only allows root to unmount the drive). I would also like to have a permanant mount point that I can link to from my home directory, I don't mind mounting and unmounting the drive manually (this is very quick in Rox-Filer). I have tried creating a separate mount point for the drive and adding a new line in fstab but when I plug the drive in Mandrake just creates '/mnt/removable' preventing me from mounting the drive at my mount point. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could improve the situation with the drive? Cheers, Matt. -- Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I understand your problem correctly , you want to change premissions for the mount point , Trychmod 666 /mnt/removable , one thing to consider this gives everyone premission to unmount the drive . If I am mistaken in this I am sure that others will correct me and the fix is very easy . d_p Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com = Registered Linux user #365305 __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trouble installing !0.02 Community
--- aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install goes like clockwork untill I get to where it sets up my printer (HP PSC 1205) then I get the message Scanner-gui rpm not found any idea ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com In my update packages it down at the very bottom of the list under bug fixes , I can't remember the file name , but I do remember reading about it's function in the description . I know it's not much , but I hope it puts in the right direction . d_p = Registered Linux user #365305 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sharing files between mandrake and osx
Hi all, I have a problem I've been struggling with for a little while, so I'm going to break down and ask here. I purchased a powerbook G4 last xmas, and since then I've only been able to network between the 2 in one direction. My powerbook has no problem seeing and accessing shares on my mandrake box, my mandrake box however, can not see any shares at all on the powerbook. The powerbook cannot write to mandrake box either. Anyone who has experience in networking linux with mac osx, help is appreciated! --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sharing files between mandrake and osx
On Sunday 16 May 2004 12:33, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 05:32, g. sanders wrote: Hi all, I have a problem I've been struggling with for a little while, so I'm going to break down and ask here. I purchased a powerbook G4 last xmas, and since then I've only been able to network between the 2 in one direction. My powerbook has no problem seeing and accessing shares on my mandrake box, my mandrake box however, can not see any shares at all on the powerbook. The powerbook cannot write to mandrake box either. Anyone who has experience in networking linux with mac osx, help is appreciated! --Gina Are you running SAMBA on both? I most definitely have it running on the linux box. Here's where my lack of knowledge about max osx comes in though: on the powerbook, under system preferences, I've checked windows sharing which says that my powerbook is now accessible using SMB/CIFS. So I'm assuming it's running there as well. --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sharing files between mandrake and osx
So it's safe to assume that you've set up the same workgroup name, and that you've got a static IP for both the G4 and the MDK box, ya? yes, that would be safe to assume. workgroup is simply, well, WORKGROUP (original, I know. :-) and they both have static ip's within my home lan. One other thing, that is probably fairly critical, I can see the printer shares on my G4 from the MDK box. just no file shares. --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sharing files between mandrake and osx
I think that this might have something to do with the firewall on the MDK machine; have you tried disabling it and then being able to share the files? Wouldn't the firewall only block inbound connection attempts? And even if it was blocking outgoing, why is the shared printer showing? If I know anything about Linux, it's pissy about permissions. Do the perms on the shared dirs on the G4 (drol) include read access for your user/others? This could include a chmod +x (do you have chmod on a Mac?) on the dirs so they are 'searchable'. Are the usernames in sync (not that this is strictly necessary)? Well, just to be sure, I did try disabling the firewall. Nothing. I also checked the permissions on the shared directory on my powerbook (yes, osx has chmod. One of the things I really like about it is that most of the CL tools are the same) I added searchability to the shared directories...still nothing. --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 CE does not properly shutdown
Installed 10.0CE a few days ago and am quite happy. However, I can't get my machine to properly shutdown. It hangs while unloading some USB drivers (unfortunately I don't have the exact message). However I think I've seen some posts about this being an improper USB patch in the 10.0 kernel. BTW, I'm running kernel v2.6.3-9. Otherwise, everything works fine, but this is a bit annoying. -Greg -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20%ers - ...seeing the world with 20/80 vision --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Painfully slow page loads
It's taking my mandrake 10 (just installed) box way too long to load a page. Doesn't matter whether I'm in mozilla, firefox or the KDE one (conqueror I think). This isn't a problem on my debian machine or on the win2K box my girlfriend uses. 9.2 didn't have these problems before I upgraded - is anybody else having this problem or am I just drunk? Thanks, Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?
I downloaded 10.0 Community to test on my Gateway 200ARC laptop and am now downloading the AMD64 to test on my Shuttle SN85G4. How do I install the kernel source for 10.0 Community? Has Mandrake left the kernel source off the ISO's again? Thanks for the advice, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?
Actually .. Maybe I was wrong. I used RPMDrake and searched for kernel .. I installed what looked like the correct kernel source from CD 3. I just compiled the latest Orinoco wireless driver and am rebooting to see if it worked. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community? On Friday 19 March 2004 17:00, Mark G. Spencer wrote: How do I install the kernel source for 10.0 Community? Has Mandrake left the kernel source off the ISO's again? Thanks for the advice, Mark I found the source for 2.6.3-4 on one at one of the cooker mirrors. You're correct, it doesn't seem to be on any of 10.0CE disks. -- 17:06:24 up 1 day, 12:47, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Computer, n.: An electronic entity which performs sequences of useful steps in a totally understandable, rigorously logical manner. If you believe this, see me about a bridge I have for sale in Manhattan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] remote X login
I have succesfully set up xdm on a Mandrake 9.2 server so that users can do remote X logins. however, I have run into the problem that even though they can bring up KDE, those users don't seem to be listed as logged in. The 'users' command does not list them, and the talk daemon says user not logged in. Is this all right and correct? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda
Thanks to the folks who responded. Well, I just wanted to let folks know that it seems to pretty much be working now. Not sure what I did. Actually to tell the truth, I am not sure that it WASNT working before! I may not have either had all the conduits activated nor known where to look to view the synched palm data. Its all pretty confusing to me in truth. I hope to ask more questions soon, once i have time to do more exploring! Actually on my initial test while the palm data is synching to linux, it doesn't appear that any data created in the desktop application is synching back to the palm. I think I have the conduits to synch, but I will have to look at it more closely when I have more time. I trust I can draw an all you folks more knowledgable about these things than I. Thanks again! On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:24 pm, g wrote: Hi folks, I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing. I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch with built in programs under mandrake 9.2 I am currently using the Gnome desktop, and have tried synching with both jpilot as well as kpilot. When I try to synch, this is what kpilot has to say about it: == Version: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) Version: pilot-link 0.11.8 Version: KDE 3.1.3 Version: Qt 3.1.2 HotSync Log 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:02 Trying to open device... 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) 22:17:08 Device link ready. 22:17:08 Checking last PC... 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... 22:17:09 [Conduit abbrowser_conduit] 22:17:09 Running with flags: 22:17:10 No Files to install 22:17:10 End of HotSync 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. 22:17:12 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:13 Trying to open device... 22:17:13 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) == There does seem to be some communication taking place between the computer and PDA as the PDA hotsynch log registers: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSynch and shows the proper date and time that I tried to initiate the synch. I have tried various settings both on the pilot as well as in kpilot. What does /dev/pilot mean? I looked in the /dev directory and found no entry for pilot. Do I need to create this? If so how? Any help would be much appreciated ! Thanks a bunch. Gideon Turner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Working Rendition V2200 Driver for 9.2?
Try startx -- No luck, same error. The error is: redition_drv.o received improper signal, I think. It tells me it's 'signal 4'. That's about it. (sigh) Looks like I need to root my Banshee out of storage. - Patrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Working Rendition V2200 Driver for 9.2?
Hey everyone. I recently did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 from the 3-disc ISOs which I downloaded. The install was to a system running 192 MB of PC100 Ram, a Motherboard that I no longer have the specs for [ashamed face], a AMD K6-II 400 Mhz processor, and a Quantum 6.something gig HDD. The sound is onboard and the videocard is a Hercules Thriller 3D running the Rendition V2200 chipset. The install went fine, and I specified the system to boot to KDE, because I've worked with KDE a smidgen in the past, and it seemed like something I wanted to mess with more. However, I got dropped to the terminal prompt after the install and reboot and upon typing "KDE" I get an error message indicating that the driver (with rendition in the name) doesn't work. The card in question has had the BIOS updated to the latest Rendition version that was available, and everything else is running smoothly. Anybody have any suggestions? Thank you. - Patrick
[newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda
Hi folks, I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing. I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch with built in programs under mandrake 9.2 I am currently using the Gnome desktop, and have tried synching with both jpilot as well as kpilot. When I try to synch, this is what kpilot has to say about it: == Version: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) Version: pilot-link 0.11.8 Version: KDE 3.1.3 Version: Qt 3.1.2 HotSync Log 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:02 Trying to open device... 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) 22:17:08 Device link ready. 22:17:08 Checking last PC... 22:17:09 KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting... 22:17:09 [Conduit abbrowser_conduit] 22:17:09 Running with flags: 22:17:10 No Files to install 22:17:10 End of HotSync 22:17:10 HotSync Completed. 22:17:12 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:13 Trying to open device... 22:17:13 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) == There does seem to be some communication taking place between the computer and PDA as the PDA hotsynch log registers: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSynch and shows the proper date and time that I tried to initiate the synch. I have tried various settings both on the pilot as well as in kpilot. What does /dev/pilot mean? I looked in the /dev directory and found no entry for pilot. Do I need to create this? If so how? Any help would be much appreciated ! Thanks a bunch. Gideon Turner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Blank Screen on boot?
Hey Everyone, Just finished d/ling the source for Mdk 9.2. Install went ok, and when I boot up the system, it loads everything ok, and then when I get to the login screen, it goes blank. Not sure why this is happening, I got no errors during the install/boot up... Anyone have the same problem? Or am I just destined to be forever stumped? Thanks in advance, Justin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Blank Screen on boot?
Marc, No, I cannot type text there's nothing there... like when your monitor is off the green light solid though... I'm set on a graphic login. Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc Resnick Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:32 PM To: Linux Newbie Mailing List Subject: Re: [newbie] Blank Screen on boot? Justin, Are you able to type in the blank screen? What type of login are you set on; graphic or text? --Marc - Original Message - From: Mr. Justin G. Kozuch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Blank Screen on boot? Hey Everyone, Just finished d/ling the source for Mdk 9.2. Install went ok, and when I boot up the system, it loads everything ok, and then when I get to the login screen, it goes blank. Not sure why this is happening, I got no errors during the install/boot up... Anyone have the same problem? Or am I just destined to be forever stumped? Thanks in advance, Justin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How To Network Windows XP Pro and Linux Mandrake 9.1 Together
Hey Everyone, I am a new Linux user (and I mean new), and I would like to network my Windows XP Pro/Linux Mandrake machines together, however, I am very confused as to how to do this. I am not very good with Linux, but I am somewhat proficient with Windows XP Pro. What I would like to do is this: - Access files (mp3's, etc) across the network between both machines. - Test web applications built in the Linux Mandrake environment from the Windows XP Pro machine, and vice versa. - Connect to the Internet (ie, share my internet connection) from the Linux Mandrake machine. - View the Linux desktop from the Windows machine, and vice versa. I have all the hardware (NIC's, cabling, hub) required, I just need some direction. I have searched google for information, however, I was unable to find anything relevant. Would someone be able to give me some direction on how to get this done? Thank you very much in advance, Justin Kozuch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2
The scripts can be executed by root and run fine with root. Do they need to be permissible by anything else? I am not at home at the moment but I can post the exact permissions on those scripts later. -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2 Have your scripts got the correct permissions? -Original Message- From: Jason Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Crontab on MD 9.2 OK. I found another problem with Mandrake 9.2 that I can solve. My crontab doesn't run. Below is what my /etc/crontab file looks like. I have backup routines that are supposed to kick off and create tar balls of my files. But nothing happens. I don't get any emails from Cron saying that ran. Any ideas why Cron isn't running? /etc/crontab: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 00 3 * * * /root/vscan 00 5 * * * /home/laptop/laptop.backup 00 6 * * 0 /home/laptop/sunday.backups 00 2 * * * /root/updates 00 1 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl 00 7 1 * * /home/laptop/monthly.backups -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBLive! driver won't change permanently
stephen, thanks, i finally was able to configured it permanently. maybe the reason it won't change permanently is bec i just changed it in my console using su and not really logging as root. i solve it...thanks mangz On Friday 05 September 2003 01:48 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:58, Aaron G. Mangoroban wrote: hi all, i am running mandrake 9.2 on an athlon 1.4 with sblive! soundcard. i have tried a couple of times to configure my soundcard with drakconf and draksound to the snd-emu10k1 driver but everytime i turn on my computer, it would change the driver to the audigy driver. is there anyway i could make the change permanently? thanks and hope to find resolution to this soon.. linux rocks! mangz Login as root; make all the changes; try again. If that doesn't do it - at least in using the drakconf, try running sndconfig whilst logged in as root; that's generally how I do it - then again, I try not to use the MCC tools as they often misfire... stephen kuhn == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * - Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong. -- Brent Welch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SBLive! driver won't change permanently
hi all, i am running mandrake 9.2 on an athlon 1.4 with sblive! soundcard. i have tried a couple of times to configure my soundcard with drakconf and draksound to the snd-emu10k1 driver but everytime i turn on my computer, it would change the driver to the audigy driver. is there anyway i could make the change permanently? thanks and hope to find resolution to this soon.. linux rocks! mangz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech Marble Mouse
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 25 July 2003 04:30 pm, Daniel wrote: I have a Logitech Marble Mouse and I did not see this hardware in the Try the generic wheel mouse worked for me;) md 6 thru 9.1 have set my logitech trackman marble, 3 buttons, no wheel, as a default 3 buttons, with out any problems. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GMO foods
Cornerstone Community Farm wrote: 1. Original post was in error ccf, to most, myself included, your post was an obvious error, and accepted as such, and also found interesting, as i also grow tomatoes. what is of questionable acceptance, are some of replies with unnecessary quoting of your entire post and other's post. it was meant for the OT list, where we have an on-going discussion on this topic. what is with this 'OT' list? are you meaning adding of '[OT]' to 'subject:' line, or does mandrake have another mailing list? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
Anne Wilson wrote: The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very do you still have your zx-81? ria, i still have 7 of them in working condition and i am looking for more software. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The continuing saga of my non-functional CD drive
Michael wrote: ok, been hunting around the system at different files. how about posting your '/etc/lilo.conf' and '/etc/fstab'. also, when system boots, what are ide locations reported by bios? what progs are you using to burn from cli and from x-window? did you try burning cd at lower speed than cd is rated? if you can see cdr drive led during burn and cd shows partial burn, then you have 'indications' of accessing cdr drive and that you can burn, thus leading to burner prog config error, buffer size, poor quality cd, or, you picked a copy protected cd. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:05, Wade Waldron wrote: I would like to install hardware while bypassing the Mandrake Bypassing the GUI or what? Because hardware detection is going to initiate during the bootup another question is just what hardware it is that he is wanting to install. :) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie needs install/checksum help
R. L. Moore wrote: Where do I get checksum software and how do I use it on a windows have a look at http://www.md5summer.org/ peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
John Richard Smith wrote: My wife suggested that , but I told her I couldn't find the cable and the scissors wont cut. you can sharpen your scissors by closing then on a nail. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Splitting a file across floppies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a need to do this some years ago in the DOS/Windows world and found a utility called SplitZ. I still have it here if anyone would like me to attach it to an e-mail. It's 239K. Pretty intuitive. 'file splitter' v1.0, by p t ranjit, is a nice file splitter, connector, for ms, where you select size and number of split. can be re joined with out prog by 'copy /b fn1+fn2+fn3 fn.ext' or 'cat fn1+fn2+fn3fn.ext' in linux. size = 45,144 bytes, uses vbrun300.dll or later. can send booth. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .
Todd Slater wrote: A colleague has a g4 with cf card. She usually uses the usb connection one had something else. I'm not exactly excited about trying this again--does canon do something weird to format cf cards, or was this if linux looks at cf card as a '/dev/cfc1' or what ever, have you tried using dd to unloaded what is there? if nothing else, it might be a way to 'back up' what ever is on card. before reformatting card, i would contact cannon support. if it has happened to your colleague, and unless she is a total da, cannon may have a solution. just a fluke? The card is a kingston. I've never had this happen with my lexar cf card. does cannon recognize kingston? contacted kingston?. then again, if nothing important, as step hen sa id, re format it. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to config the lilo?
FemmeFatale wrote: curious...what does the unsafe thing mean? I presume its just a label not 'just a label'... 'man lilo.conf' unsafe Do not access the boot sector at map creation time. This dis- ables some sanity checks, including a partition table check. If the boot sector is on a fixed-format floppy disk device, using UNSAFE avoids the need to put a readable disk into the drive when running the map installer. `unsafe' and `table' are mutu- ally incompatible. FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt ^lazy ;) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I had this your needs if nothing posted, jrs, are you up? :) forgot yesterday was tuesday, 25 min late to golum meet. just now back in. will pull em to see if any replied to your needs. being i init 3 boot, i have not set x-wins to enabled thru user's start up files. which and how? from scanning menu doc pages thru desktop's 'linux docs' for other info, i would believe it to be in there. imbr. do you have grepmail? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users
John Richard Smith wrote: wanted to learn how to set up the graphical login window to include my session choices, ie kde, gnome and icewarm, and blackbox etc., etc. just from a quick look thru 'mandrake control center | system | user', user set up has entries for dt selections. user set up doc is in 'linux documentation' in md 9.0, may be diff vnum in md 9.1, howto's are in; howto-html-en-9.0-0.1mdk and howto-utils-0.2.9-1mdk rpms. as long as you are logging in as root, you might install doc pack, if you do not have it. it is a lot of reading, if you read all of it. but, until you do, just go thru menu pages to see what is there. then, build bookmarks to get to what you want quicker. hth. or, break them in right. install 'xstart', log them in cl with 'xstart' as login prog. :) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] what do these different things mean? KDE, Gnome, etc
Michael wrote: And one more question...what is ROOT and what is it used for? to add to what has been said... in a 'grunt' view, '1st shirt', 'hnic'. by definition, 'root' is root. as a 'user', 'owner' of all, 'privileged' over all, 'restricted' only by self. 'root user' is installed with a few safe guards, but not enough to make a running system safe from total destruction by some new to such control. i started with unix in late 70's, and as root user, locked myself out several times before i fully understood chmod. found out a couple times how easy it is to bring a system down with wild cards. it was fun learning. but i was learning at a time of 8 bit data and 16 bit address, loading os with 10 8 floppy disk into a 10 mg hard drive. after i built up my disk storage to 4 10 meg 5.25 hdd, hd1 = os, hd2 = progs, hd3 = data, hd4 = back up of a configed os for rebuild when i messed up. after a few months, i rarely took system down other than with 'sync and kill'. today, logging in as root it is a dangerous habit to get into. yet, with today's fast high capacity storage, recovery is not too bad. if you do happen to have it backed up. :) for now, you are a 'boot', do not sign in as 'root'. for now, being a 'user', less likely a 'looser'. !!! in coming !!! peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users
John Richard Smith wrote: How can I add session types ( kde, gnome etc ) to users when you are not yet on desktop. I can drop to a root terminal, but what do I call ? what are you trying to accomplish? end results? do you boot cl or x? Later I did, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# kde _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running if you boot, or, where already in 'x', this is proper. need replies to above before trying below; [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# GOT SIGHUP startkde: Starting up... kbuildsycoca running... if in x, dropped how ever to cl, return with 'alt+f7'. works for me when i 'ctrl+alt+fx' [x=1,2,3,4,5,6] from x to cl. also, cyoa. be very careful playing root. ;) [how is monitor?] peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users
John Richard Smith wrote: I had this experience with knoppix, ok don't laugh. i have had a few with k, but not like yours. I just think I would like to know how to get my session choices back in the login window. That's all. that clears it up. got me on that one, that is, i have never had to go thru setup you need. i still boot cl and type 'kde' when i use x. your needs have been posted before, i do not recall what solutions is, and grepmail did not show up anything in current lists. you will most likely get a reply answer before i can gather cd archives and pull answer. if not, will check when i get back this afternoon. i am on my way out door to finish up a control system i have been setting up. i will not be back until after 0 gmt and you will be long time asleep. if nothing posted, will pull archive and check. About the monitor, will also run some searches on screen blanker. it can be set, just do not recall how and where. later. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did move the iso images around on my hard drive and i'm sure that didn't help matters, winblows probably re-arranged some things on i have to admit, i have yet found errors when copying files under ms. but being ms bs os, it could happen. although next time i will do the checksum program and make sure everything is good before i go through hell again. a good checksum does help eliminate a lot of potential problems. i would like to see mandrake pick up on autocheck that red hat has started. i found 2 flaky cdrom drives when i tried an install with rh 8.0. most glad to see you will succumb to checksum. :) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Where do you find that? http://www.md5summer.org/ http://www.etree.org/md5com.html peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Insert Name Here
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so just a little FYI for everyone so you know who you're dealing with! (by the way, all the angry marine aggression is out of my system after being out for 2 years...wellMAYBE!) i have several friends here in mem, tn, that are ex jar heads. from there current state, i can assure you, with time, head games they played with you will one day be something to laugh and joke about. how many sand fleas did you hold burial for? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:53:18 +0100 g [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: let me know when you get over your personal problems. you can take offense to any and all that i say. that is you right and problem. obviously from crak600's, reply, he is aware that there was no intent as in your accusations. grow up. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hot swap
David Sexton wrote: Can any one tell me how to setup how swap on my Linux laptop? 'hot swap' never used it, but, until someone else with experience replies; change ftab to no dvd, 'mount -a', swap in floppy, change ftab to show floppy, 'mount -a'. easier, have 3 files, ftab-d with dvd shown, ftab-f with flop show, ftab-n with neither. to hot swap; 'cp -f ftab-n ftab;mount -a' to clear and allow removal. then 'cp -f ftab-d ftab;mount -a' for dvd, or 'cp -f ftab-f ftab;mount -a' for flop. above 3 cli's could be 3 scripts and called by 3 single names. read 'man ftab' and 'man mount' before attempting and at your own risk. if it where my system, i would try it. might not work, then again... peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
David Sexton wrote: Can any one tell me how to setup how swap on my Linux laptop? i did in post with 'subject:' line filled in. ;) please do not take offense. i am kidding with you and is a part of a 'subject:' that is being discussed. if you do take offense, then please do not read my other reply. i just may be correct in other. but, do read man's. kafaba. :P peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Launch MySQL at startup
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Jesus Hernandez wrote: Hi, i've just installed MySQL in my Linux machine, and i want to know how can i launch it at startup, as another service. Thanks, Chus Hi, You could always use webmin if you installed that, then you'll be able to configure the machine from another desktop. -- William Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help
for sure, and you need plenty. :) you may also want to look at http://www.expita.com/ peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Jun 2003 at 21:09, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Think we should tell crak600 that the appropriate screws to retain a i'm relatively young (almost 26)but my dad has been an electrical did he tell you; how to reverse a circuit breaker? remove, re insert backwards. instead of tripping, it stumbles. screw a fuse in backwards, instead of blowing, it sucks. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Jun 2003 at 20:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simple...fresh download on all 3 ISO images, didn't move them congrats. i am just now returning for a very long day. what i had intended would have been involved and lengthy. your problem is solved, i can play. btw. i am curious, you never mentioned, did you ever run md5 on 1st dl's. i could've possibly downloaded a bad or incomplete ISO image and reason of asking above. anytime you dl files and md5 checksums are available, run md5. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
eric huff wrote: http://www.samsungodd.com/eng/LiveUpdate/FWvercheck/FWvercheck.asp thanks for passing link. will pull later. i have been using norton to find most of what i have needed to know of ms os's. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17 Jun 2003 at 7:36, g wrote:
no, never ran MD5. i looked into the program and got that
uhhh feeling, as in one of those...what do i do with THAT?! i
think most of the origonal problems were just user error though.
should have asked what to do with it. we would have even told you
'where to stick it'.
there are no stupid questions, only dumb mistakes by not asking.
how many hours have you spent with it??? { do i hear a snicker }
in essence, had you run md5 first thing after download,
you would have found problem at front end.
i, and others, are at fault for not insisting that you run md5
before making further attempt of 'feeding you'. lol w/bwg
so, again, remember, check sums can be used to check a sum total of a file.
if your check sums do not match, you have a bad file. tfs.
in closing, 'live and learn. die and forget. may you learn long.'
peace out.
tc,hago.
g
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--
=+=
think green...
save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage.
send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments.
=+=
if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: win98se are you updated? w98se oem, w/o updates may not have correct support .dll's etc, for cd burner and nti 2k+ may not fully support a non updated w98se. sofware houses think every body updates. 4 - what is model of cd burner? _this_is_a_must_know_ to find out if burner program will fully control cdrw drive. when your system boots, note what your bios says about cdrom. if you can boot knoppix, you can find info in system hardware menu. 5 - what cd burner prog are you using? NTI CD Maker 2000 Plus.OEM version for my CD drive what is full version and rev number of prog? even tho it came with drive, it is possible that prog does not fully talk to burner. '2000 plus' is only insured to work in current ms os, that is, releases after w98se. a slick way out by cdrom drive labeler's is that latest vers of nt, me, and 2k, will support most cd burners of 32x and better. wrong versions of 'nero burn' are know to have been shipped with a lot of 42x burners. roxio, easy cd creator v5.2 and later will work in w98se up to 52x. i have tried nero and several other cd burner progs, and have yet to find an easier to use, cover all oems, than what roxio does, as it's name is, easy cd. 6 - are you using any type of firewall with ms? no firewalls bad. very, very, bad. how often do you reinstall from being hacked? :) if nothing else, get a freeware copy of zonealarm and install it. run md5 test on all downloads. + it is 2:00 am cdst, at mem, tn. i need to crash. get cd drive model and prog ver back to me and i will check on them tomorrow, later today. it will take a little time to verify, will post asap. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Alternative Software
Hi, I currently have 3 machines running windows, a 2K box I use myself to run Visio, and SSADM Enterprise and 2 98 machines that my children have. I want to totally remove any dependence to the man from redmond from my Office and Home. So I need to find software that's comparible (if not better) than: VISIO 2002 (Database and Software Modelling) (UML) SSADM Pro Enterprise (SSADM!) For the boys I'm looking for, at minimum, an instant messenger that will support ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. Ideally all in one box. I've seen EveryBuddy mentioned on the Mandrake site (which IIUIC) is supplied with 9.1, but I can't find it. Being an advocate of OpenSource I'd prefer solutions of this type, but I'm equally willing to pay a fair price if need be. -- William Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alternative Software
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Kopete is very good. In fact its the dogs danglies IMHO. Don't know about Yahoo though I think you have to add a special plugin. Worth a look anyway. 0.6.2 is available from the vclub site as an RPm and it installs without any problem (the newer version has a list of dependencies as long as you arm). John Hi John, Thanks for the feedback but vclub? Don't know what or where that is. -- William Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
Anne Wilson wrote: The best bet is to follow g's line of questioning, to help him find out whether he actually has the capability at this moment. maybe. i am going on experience of what i have run across here in u.s. of a., a whole lot of cdrw drive dumping, to make way for a lot of 4x dvd drive dumping. something is bad wrong for crak600 to have trouble he is having. i have had problems with these drives, both in my own w98se system and with 8 w98se systems i maintain. drives do not work with supplied software in w98se, but do work in nt, 2k, and me. reasons explained in my 6:44 am post. i have not checked out any phillips drives, and why i asked crak600 for model number so as to check phillips and nti sites. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
JoeHill wrote: IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... ms windows is 'stupid'. yet, in w98se, a '.iso' file shows as a wavy flag on a single page and of type 'iso file'. i am still at wonder as to where '.rar' is coming from. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
Anne Wilson wrote: I have a niggling feeling that I have read something about Phillips drives, but for the life in me I can't remember what or where. phillips drives had some problems a while back, somewhere around 24x time, iirc. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i told it to download NOT as an .rar file and it still downloaded that way anyway. it's a little stack of books, not a wavy flag on a single page. ok. do files have a '.iso' or '.rar' extension? if '.rar', did you try changing extent to '.iso' and try a burn? will physically take computer apart in a little bit here and get the model number of the CD drive. hope is soon, need to leave in about an hour. and will physically take it apart by removing the appropriate screws, not by getting a hammer :P great. a computer is a terrible thing to waste. ;) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?
rikona wrote: I don't seem to have one of these. Is MD supposed to come set up with one? I was going to set up a link, but I don't seem to have the dir '/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/index.html'. Did I not install something? my apologies for leaving out in previous reply. in md 9.0, may be diff vnum in md 9.1, howto's are in; howto-html-en-9.0-0.1mdk and howto-utils-0.2.9-1mdk rpms. i believe that they are installed from selection 'documentation' during a graphic install. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...
On 15 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:14, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: On 15 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:49, Paul wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO 1.0.2 I think is very slow... anyone cas post a better time? Interesting: Athlon 1200, 256Mb RAM and it takes exactly 22 seconds also. Also MDK 9.1 and OO 1.0.2. Paul Mine's about 20 seconds on a 1.2ghz Celery w/768mb RAM... I've just subscribed to this list can I ask what we're measuring here, if it's boot time then count yourselves lucky. :-) Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS Office appears to load so fast - it's because most of it's engine is already in system memory prior to even launching the application. That's how Microsoft makes use of slight of hand to make things appear faster - same with IE. Hi Thanks for the quick reply. I've just tested my OpenOffice (Using Write) and it load in 14 seconds this is on a Dual Processor 200Mhz (yes! 200Mhz) running 9.1 with 1Gb RAM a 56Gb SCSI RAIDed disk subsystem, and a TNT2 M64 32MB Video. The system is in fact a DELL 6100/200 This is quite acceptable to me or have I missed something? -- William Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO site, there is an FAQ which I *believe* explains this. If not, Google: openoffice + open faster. OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a GUI mail client? I thought that all that was available. -- William. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, someone needs to explain to me WTF i'm supposed to do here, i have been following this thread thru your various 'subject:' lines and can well imagine state of mind you may be in. if you would, please answer a couple of questions; 1 - where are you trying to download iso's from? 2 - what are names of iso's you are trying to download? 3 - what version of ms windows are you using? 4 - what is model of cd burner? 5 - what cd burner prog are you using? 6 - are you using any type of firewall with ms? 7 - who told you what His last name is? ;) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 16:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:31 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:13 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:25 am, Gareth Qually wrote: I need an e-mail program that will not only work in linux and windows 2000, but also share data. The result I want to get is to be able to have the data shared across the two OS's. Anyone know of a program thatdoes this? Try something first that has both a Windows and a Linux version, like mozilla. Hey!! how about sylpheed?? it has a win32 version... Damian Hi, Have you thought about using Pine. It too has a Win32 incarnation, and supports POP3, IMAP, Filters and shed loads more. http://www.washington.edu/pine -- William Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?
rikona wrote: I don't seem to have one of these. Is MD supposed to come set up with one? my x desktop is built from accumulation of past distribs that i carry to new installs. icon for 'linux documents' is from somewhere around md 6. I was going to set up a link, but I don't seem to have the dir '/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/index.html'. Did I not install something? good question. i am still with md 9.0, as i have problems with md 9.1 dl. When I'm hungry[desperate for a quick solution], feeding is nice. :-) true, but when someone feeds you, do you look around on your own to find desert? like, more info about what you are in question about? or do you just accept answers with out further research? Your short summary would be a good beginning for a 'HOW TO find info', though. Might be very worthwhile for newbies. my knowledge gained is from having been in unix from 70's and 80's. over time, what i have learned is from a lot of reading of books, man pages and howto's. from what i have noted in a lot of newbie questions, many questions are asked because newbies do not take enough time, of put fort enough effort to find out how linux works on their own. no reflection on anyone, just something that comes about from way things are when someone is an ms windows user. ms windows is, with out question, easier than x-windows. linux is not ms and hopefully never will be. always remember, you get out of something what you are willing to put into it. if you take an easy way by asking questions with out first looking for answers, a day will come when you are in dire need of help, and no way to connect. another is, i believe, that newbies have a tendency to try to 'keep up with jones' by installing and updating every time there is a new release. what is gained, is how to do installs and updates and nothing is learned about how and what of systems themselves. what would be of great help for newbies, is for replies to point newbies in a direction to help themselves. how many times have you seen answers given without any refs to man, info, or howto's? much less hot links to places to find further info. tech lists have become more of a 'quick answer' than they are true tech support learning place. as for apropos, i have never found it to be all that helpful when it does work. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?
Marco Verheul wrote: Does anybody know how to create a symbolic link? marco, linux and unix have a program know as 'man', which is terse for 'manual'. definition for most all command line commands can be viewed by entering, in command line mode, either outside of x-windows, or in an x terminal window. so, any time you are wondering about a command, simply enter 'man progname'. in this case, 'man ln'. you can even enter 'man man' to get a description of how to use 'man'. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.
Anne Wilson wrote: Yes - but the point I was making was that the address book it was accessing contains a host of addresses from this list. and, if this is true, a gathering of names that have received said infected email should show who is infected. wake up, people... peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= beauty of real is revealed only to those who persevere. old orthodox saying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two (seemingly) simple questions
Femme wrote: OK Evolution questions. 3) Besides the preview pane is there another way to list reply to msgs unhilights the msg I am looking at in the Preview pane if I go to scroll i do not use evo, use ns, but have a question. what happens in header pane when you back out of message pane? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
to which 'subject:' of this 'thread' do you post??? or, are you making a point?? gbwg peace out. tc,hago. g . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4
Technoslick wrote: [snip] your are welcome for link. i would have thougth by now that you would have been more up with http://www.google.com/linux do not recall count on search i feed in, but link was in first 10. have a safe trip. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4
ed tharp wrote: set a man next to a fire and he stays warm all night, light a man on fire and he stays hot for the rest of his life 'cremation of sam mcgraw'. remember it well. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Are you sure that the Win95 stuff ain't actually running Drivespace or DoubleDisk ??? Cuz it would surely be unavailable via boot disk mate... being that his eudora mail is stuck in html, or just plain old because he is using eudora, it could well be that someone has hacked him and/or a virus is hiding drive. not that i would wish such a thing on an 'html head'. :) femme sems to have grown tired of him. ;) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4
Eric Scott wrote: Just for the record, it is impossible to send plaintext with AOL 8.0, I've tried it. Yes, it is also impossible to send with AOL on the web, no matter what those sites say. so you are saying that you have personally tried to use http://www.aol.com/aolmail and it did not work? interesting. did you try 'AOL 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 Alternate'? i am not questioning you because i doubt you, but it would be something that boyd maybe interested in. i noted that his original date of page is 'Copyright (c) 1998-2002 G.E.Boyd' and shows 'Last Revised: January 08, 2003'. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4
Carroll Grigsby wrote: how many newbies use html? too damn many. -- Mostly because they don't realize that (1) there is an option, (2) using HTML can be hazardous, (3) HTML is inefficient, (4) form != substance, and (5) they're fishing with the wrong bait. as i said, newbies do not care. On the good side, AFAIK we've never gotten a posting using 30 pt Gothic Cyrillian script font on a mauve background with embedded audio and video clips. lets not be giving them any ideas. :) how many newbies take time to read help files? very few. -- So-called help files often aren't. i have yet to see an email prog with ability to send text as plain or html and not contain in help how to select one of other. how many newbies make there first question 'how do i send plain text'? none -- And why would they know? They're newbies. if they can read to join list, they can read request to send plain text. how many experts use html to reply to an html newbie? too damn many. -- Not that I've noticed, but I'm not going to argue the point. Most of the HTML posts from long-timers that I've seen are from folks who are at work where HTML is the accepted standard. i think you need to look a little closer at headers. most every one who subscribes to this list is aware that there is a request for subscribers to use 'text/plain'. -- You are making the assumption that people actually read the instructions beforehand and, for those who do, that they understand the difference between HTML and plain text. if they do not know diff, they should stay out of linux. linux requires reading as well as understanding.. FWIW, I made a suggestion a while back that new subscribers be required to verify that they had read the terms of usage before they were granted access. The response was less than underwhelming. a 'toa' is really not necessary. if a subscriber, whether a newbie or expert post in html, then those who reply should reply only with 'please re post in plain text'. not say, 'oh, well', and then answer. they will get help, and from what i have seen, they will get even more help from subscribers who do not reply to html. there is no excuse for any user of aol, eudora, mozilla, kmail, ximian, ole, or multitude of other email progs, to send text/html. yet they do. -- Sure there is: They don't know any better. that is not a good reason. but, before you show how little you are aware of, check this site; http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- And how are newbies supposed to know about that address? Hell, I'm willing to bet that lots of long time users, including me, never heard of it. google and for those using eudora, i suggest you check iss sight to see how unsafe eudora is, even when using text/plain. -- I'm cool here. Never used Eudora. i did try it years back, disabled html, but still did not like it. -- What's wrong with lazy? nothing that i know of. unless it is being too lazy to disable html, or to find an email prog that either does not have html or at lest to disable sending html. :) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4
eric huff wrote: I thought that was: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man to fish and he'll drink beer all day. got to have something to drink to keep from being boarded when they are not biting. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4
Anne Wilson wrote: g appears to forget that I advocated teaching him to fish. He advocated shoving him into the river. it would be a good way for 'him' to learn to swim. :) but, no. i do not advocate shoving 'him' into a river. nor do i note anywhere that i made reference to your preferences of sports. to continue replying to someone using html, when they can disable html, is not teaching them anything, that is except bad habits. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.
Charlie wrote: but I have no knowledge whether it works with A.O.(Hel)L. or other ISPs or not. you are correct. ability to set 'text/plain' has been remove from aol email. it was there up thru 6.0. 7.0, do not know. 8.0 it is removed. seems aol wants to support bandwidth hogs. but, as said before, there are other browsers to use on aol. peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.
Tom Brinkman wrote: Content-type: multipart/mixed; So no, it's not plain text. Suggestion tho, send your email to test to yourself, instead of the list. You'll be able to check the results a lot quicker ;) Usually within seconds. 'content-type: multipart/mixed;' in header is only to designate multi parts, as opposed to single. because most email thru mandrake's lists have a 'want to buy', 'message.footer', 'multipart/mixed;' will appear in header when body is 'text/plain'. for sure, your are right on, and correct with your suggestion. peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
John Richard Smith wrote: Well I cannot be certain, because I'm not the programmer but it press 'i' during boot, then note timing of displays after pressing enter. that is if you really want to know. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
