[newbie] how do I do an absolute minimal install on mini-itx system?
Hi all, I am trying to find out some basics for getting linux installed on a mini-itx motherboard 1.2Ghz C3 Processor using a compact flash memory card as a bootable silent harddrive. Card size would be either 512mb or 1gb but the smaller I can get away with would obviously save some expense. The machine only needs to run a small program in a console, have ssh running to allow access via the ethernet port and read/write data across the to the LAN. Are there any good readme's or howto's on absolute minimal installs or can anyone pass on their own wisdom from personal experiences? Many thanks if you can help magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] not receiving anything
On Monday 31 Jan 2005 07:39, Simon wrote: On Monday 31 Jan 2005 07:07, Maureen wrote: I have reregistered for the newbie list twice and I am still not recieving anything from the list. I rely on the list for answers to problems and just look forward to others opinions. I don't understand what the problem is. Can someone please figure out what is going on. TIA, Maureen Well, your message got to the list OK, if you received it as well then all should be OK. The list is running at about 30+/- mails a day at the moment. Simon. 31 now;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Is sending remote bash commands across LAN possible?
Hi all, bit of a problem here with sending console commands across my LAN to my local group of machines. I have 4 identical machines all set up and happy to chat to each other across the lan using Smb4k. They are totally secure and not accessible from the internet.. I only have a monitor/keyboard/mouse on the main computer and I would like to be able to type a single line command into my console and have it execute on any of the other remote machines I choose it to go to. This is all user-level stuff, no su commands at all. Any help you can give is much appreciated magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [ Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple documents at the same time. ] open a konsole and type man sed sed is a powerful stream editor and given a very simple script can handle hundreds of files repeating a list of commands on each one and saving each file before moving on to the next in a list. magnet 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 Capture Text Mode Output?
konsole dmesg any good? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cannot see contents of burnt data DVD
Hi all, Installed k3b-0.11.14 and dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8 last night. On firing up k3b I get a warning: cdrdao does not run with root privileges It is highly recommended to configure cdrdao to run with root privileges to increase the overall stability of the burning process. Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem I tried clicking on the K3bSetup button via k3b's GUI and from a konsole but they both cannot find the K3bSetup2 program that is called. I closed the warning message box and went ahead and burnt a data DVD. This is what was returned in the finished report in case it can help anyone: System --- K3b Version:0.11.14 KDE Version: 3.1.3 QT Version: 3.1.2 growisofs --- Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd: engaging DVD-R DAO upon user request... /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd: reserving 2292080 blocks /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd: Current Write Speed is 2.0x1385KBps. 0.02% done, estimate finish Sun Sep 12 02:09:41 2004 0.04% done, estimate finish Fri Sep 10 16:37:37 2004 99.95% done, estimate finish Thu Sep 9 06:49:59 2004 99.98% done, estimate finish Thu Sep 9 06:50:00 2004 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 3293 Total directory bytes: 0 Path table size(bytes): 10 Max brk space used 0 2292070 extents written (4476 Mb) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd: flushing cache growisofs comand: --- /usr/local/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-compat -speed=4 -gui -graft-points -volid X101 -volset -appid K3B-DVD -publisher -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.14 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-magnet/k3bJcICfb.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-magnet/k3b1FcLFa.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames -allow-lowercase -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-magnet/k3bnABAbc.tmp The problem is that my mandrake 9.2 box cannot see any content on this DVD fromat all however when I put the DVD into my windows XP laptop drive all the files are there fine! Please, can anyone tell me what has gone so wrong here and suggest a way to get this DVD writer working correctly? Many thanks magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 9:09 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 4:11 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:14:04 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? Since the # of lines you want to remove are known, I'd suggest using the script, but use 'head' and or 'tail'. Those are designed for this purpose. sed will work too, but is more generalized. But, automation via a for loop is what you're looking at doing. i.e. 'head -17 file.htm' would print all but the first 17 lines of the file. This does not work in 9.2 - it gives you the first 17 lines. Also tail -17 gives you the last 17 lines. Now, tail +17 will give you all but the first 17 lines. Too bad head +17 does not work. Mikkel According to the man page, tail +17 does what you want head +17 to do. Not intuitive. I suggest you re-try the test that you ran above. I have tried this under 9.2 and it works fine. Thanks to all that helped. cd to the directory containing the files to be converted, then issue this command: tail +5 original_file.htm new_filename.txt Worked a treat, so I will be making back-ups first g just in case and running Mikkels' script. magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] automatic batch editing of files
Hi all, I require some pointers for the following problem please: I have 100+ files of html code, ie: page0001.htm page0002.htm page0003.htm etc... but I need to remove the first 20 lines and the last 17 lines from each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? I used to do this sort of thing on much larger numbers of pages on my trusty Amiga using a DOS script and an editor with an AREXX port running over-night but not a clue how to even start on my Mandrake 9.2 box. As always, any help is much appreciated :) magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files
On Monday 14 Jun 2004 7:08 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: magnet wrote: Hi all, I require some pointers for the following problem please: I have 100+ files of html code, ie: page0001.htm page0002.htm page0003.htm etc... but I need to remove the first 20 lines and the last 17 lines from each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? I used to do this sort of thing on much larger numbers of pages on my trusty Amiga using a DOS script and an editor with an AREXX port running over-night but not a clue how to even start on my Mandrake 9.2 box. As always, any help is much appreciated :) magnet You may want to use sed for the actual editing. You can also use head and tail to chop off x number of lines. Sed tends to be more powerful, and you can put all the editing options in one command file. As far as feeding the file to sed, consider something like: for i in *.html ; do NAME=`basename($I).html` sed -f $NAME.html $NAME.txt done (I may have some of the syntax wrong - it is that kind of day... But you should get the idea.) Mikkel Yes, your suggestions are perfect for what I need to do. Many thanks for the fast responce Mikkel. magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Warning to windows users - virused message (Re: document)
I can't get this to run. Linux says it doesn't recognise the file suffix. Maybe I need to install an emulator. :) On Friday 04 Jun 2004 4:11 pm, John wrote: This email contained the [EMAIL PROTECTED] virus. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read the document. 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
[newbie] sending email test - ignore please
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Re: [newbie] Re: Bounce when mailing to newbie list?
just my quick test. I've not been getting any mail from here for a few weeks and it's only just started to arrive this last couple of days. On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 9:06 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:05:59 +0100, Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Why do I get a reply like this when posting to the list? The post did show up (This was my reply to Anne in the 'is there an easy way to Samba'-thread /Björn You can ignore (read: delete) these without any worries. We're all getting them. :P Strange behaviour? But good to know. Then I don't need to talk to my ISP again, I had some trouble getting any mail out a while ago. /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] no video capture from tv-card
I have 9.2 installed and the machine has a wintv-go card that works fine with zapping, xawtv, nvtv, kwintv, motv and tvtime so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware or driver problem, but for the life of me I cannot get streamer to do a capture since it all just stopped working last week. The machine runs 24/7 and nothing that I am aware of had changed but it suddenly stopped capturing to hdd. This is a dump of the console output and as you can see, a blank line is no help whatsoever in trying to find out what didn't happen... [EMAIL PROTECTED] magnet]$ streamer -c /dev/v4l/video0 -r 24 -f mjpeg -F stereo -s 352x240 -t 1:00:00 -o data9/streamertestmovie.avi avi / video: MJPEG (AVI) / audio: 16bit stereo (LE) at this point the sound comes on and it just sits there until you press ctrl-c to escape back to a prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED] magnet]$ now the sound is still running so I have to start up xawtv and then exit it. This turns the sound off. No capture takes place but as you can see the console returns no information on why it didn't start the capture or if it couldn't locate some module. mjpegtools is installed. Anyone got any suggestions please? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xawtv and streamer recording sound problems
I want to get my digital vcr working again but I am stumped on where to go next for troubleshooting. It all went wrong since I left Mdk 9.0 and did a fresh install of Mdk 9.2. I previously had a whole load of scripts I could just call up via cron to record various programs from my tv card. I am running 9.2 and uninstalled all xawtv and streamer related files due to having no luck getting anything to record using streamer from the console. After installing the latest xawtv-3.9 files and also streamer I once again find I cannot record anything from the TV card. I can watch TV with sound fine in xawtv. I issue the following command from a console: streamer -o /drive1/magnet/vcr/testrecording.avi -F stereo -f mjpeg -r 25 -s 320x240 -t 0:05 -j 80 -n pal ...this should record a 5 second clip of video in avi format but no such file is created, so I'm assuming that streamer is not executing correctly but is also giving no clues as to what the problem might be as a ctrl-c just returns me to a command prompt as that is the only way to escape the command. This also leaves the sound running in the background and the only way to stop that is to start xawtv and then close the program down. Hope some of you can point me in the right direction with this as I really miss my DVCR :( magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv and streamer recording sound problems
Doh! magnet selects muppet-mode Right, Just in case anyone else reads this in the archives, the answer is in the question, as I just discovered 2 minutes after posting this! mjpeg this wasn't installed!! urpmi mjpegtools Simple really! Streamer no longer hangs, exits and shuts off the sound after recording and the file is recorded fine. Hope this is of some help to others with a similar problem. Regards magnet :) On Friday 26 Dec 2003 7:03 pm, I stupidly wrote: I want to get my digital vcr working again but I am stumped on where to go next for troubleshooting. It all went wrong since I left Mdk 9.0 and did a fresh install of Mdk 9.2. I previously had a whole load of scripts I could just call up via cron to record various programs from my tv card. I am running 9.2 and uninstalled all xawtv and streamer related files due to having no luck getting anything to record using streamer from the console. After installing the latest xawtv-3.9 files and also streamer I once again find I cannot record anything from the TV card. I can watch TV with sound fine in xawtv. I issue the following command from a console: streamer -o /drive1/magnet/vcr/testrecording.avi -F stereo -f mjpeg -r 25 -s 320x240 -t 0:05 -j 80 -n pal ...this should record a 5 second clip of video in avi format but no such file is created, so I'm assuming that streamer is not executing correctly but is also giving no clues as to what the problem might be as a ctrl-c just returns me to a command prompt as that is the only way to escape the command. This also leaves the sound running in the background and the only way to stop that is to start xawtv and then close the program down. Hope some of you can point me in the right direction with this as I really miss my DVCR :( magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 7:18 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v 50cycles/min. Cycles per second ? Ewww, that answer hertz ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: The 'Original' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Apart from the copyright issues, I would hazard a guess that you could fit 3 of the video episodes onto a CD ;-) On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 10:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:48:54 -0600 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to Joe Hill: How large were those MP3s? Each episode was around 30 minutes. Wouldn't those be 10MB files at least? The whole thing fit on one CD, so I would imagine they were not CD Quality, ie. they were probably encoded at something much less than 128KBs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D
I've had a dable with povray and the results were fast although my skills as a serious modeller are close to non-existant but it is a very capable package if you have the time to sit down and learn it. It has a loyal following of users and there are numerous websites found on google for support and tutorials and even a few forums for all levels of users. Worth a look though and it rendered very fast on just a 1.2Ghz athlon system although there is 768mb ram on board which always helps apps. Hope this might help you. magnet -- On Thursday 09 Oct 2003 1:56 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Was browsing digitalblasphemy earlier... I've seen references before but never actually entered the site. The artist claims he uses Lightwave 3D and World Builder for some projects. Ok, that's $3,000 I don't have right now. Does any know of a similar product for Linux? A high quality 3d modeling program? I've heard of blender, but haven't really checked it out... Thanks, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D
Blender is a very powerful modeller and renderer but it was all too much for me as it is complex, but if you are seriously into this kind of thing then maybe Blender is what you should look at. I installed it but you need a lot of time to find your way around all the icons, options, tools and settings. In that respect it is as complex as Lightwave ;-) magnet On Thursday 09 Oct 2003 2:56 pm, Alan Carbutt wrote: Tango Echo, If indeed that is your real name. :) Like magnet, I have been also using povray. I have the Windoze version up and running on my Mandrake box through WINE. I have been dabbling a little and I am working on adding in some of the plugins and companion software also using WINE. The linux version works well also and I use gVim to edit the .pov scripts as it highlights the keywords and such. I haven't heard of blender, but I'll have to look into it. ++alan On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:56, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Was browsing digitalblasphemy earlier... I've seen references before but never actually entered the site. The artist claims he uses Lightwave 3D and World Builder for some projects. Ok, that's $3,000 I don't have right now. Does any know of a similar product for Linux? A high quality 3d modeling program? I've heard of blender, but haven't really checked it out... Thanks, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com __ 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] xawtv sound
Hi all, I am only getting mono sound when watching TV in xawtv even though the broadcast is stereo and sounds fine on the big TV. Stereo sound plays mp3's fine using xmms. Can anyone suggest where I should start my investigations please? Regards magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ignore - test
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Re: [newbie] mplayer configuration
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 12:01 am, LtCdData wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 16:50, magnet wrote: hey magnet^ i had the same prob.. dont now tho ) i cant mind if the fix was a manual edit of the mplayer config file or if it went away with the next compiled upgrade as it was some time back LtCdData On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 5:15 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: magnet wrote: I can only start mplayer up in full screen. I have checked the konsole messages during start-up for references to files accessed and have checked the contents of those config files for any settings that might cause this problem. When it is configured via the gui, once started, I explicitly set the option to NOT start in full screen mode. Exiting the program and re-starting it still causes the full screen mode to be the default but the settings are still unchanged from how I set them. What might be causing my config file to be over-ruled like this? I have the opposite problem. on call, gmplayer arrives small screen size, and when I click full screen , it goes full screen but with a small screen picture and black boarders. I suspect a mplayer problem with video drivers. nvidia have reworked their drivers for M9.1 and I'm guessing mlayer doesn't work well with it. Just a guess. John Yeap, could be right with that, although I've read about people not being able to scale their movies for some other reasons. I know everything I have here can be scaled using windows players so the files themselves are not at fault. magnet Yeap, it was the gui.conf file. I added the line fs=no and all is back to normal. Simple really, but I would have expected it to set this variable itself if you selected it in the gui preferences. A bug maybe? Cheers to all for your help. One less thing to worry about :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer configuration
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 5:15 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: magnet wrote: I can only start mplayer up in full screen. I have checked the konsole messages during start-up for references to files accessed and have checked the contents of those config files for any settings that might cause this problem. When it is configured via the gui, once started, I explicitly set the option to NOT start in full screen mode. Exiting the program and re-starting it still causes the full screen mode to be the default but the settings are still unchanged from how I set them. What might be causing my config file to be over-ruled like this? I have the opposite problem. on call, gmplayer arrives small screen size, and when I click full screen , it goes full screen but with a small screen picture and black boarders. I suspect a mplayer problem with video drivers. nvidia have reworked their drivers for M9.1 and I'm guessing mlayer doesn't work well with it. Just a guess. John Yeap, could be right with that, although I've read about people not being able to scale their movies for some other reasons. I know everything I have here can be scaled using windows players so the files themselves are not at fault. magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 6:41 am, Eric Huff wrote: I have been trying out a technique for ad-blocking i saw on slash-dot: someone made a huge list of common ad-sites and made a hosts file where the names get sent to 0.0.0.0 So now, almost always, i am spared the flashes, pictures, etc of ads. Less download time and less eye clutter. I'll send the hosts file if anyone is interested I've used the same here for ages and it works a treat. I can't remember the last time I saw an advert, although my list is only limited to 15734 servers/sites for now so I think *comprehensive* is a good description of it's abilities ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBr Temp
On Friday 25 Jul 2003 4:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:51:51 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked Dennis what this was off-list and hes not sure, so I'll throw this out to the rest. Below is my sensors output, what is SBr temp? Southbridge? http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8selm=Pine.HPX.4.43.02040 40043300.25096-10%40wave Todd Todd is correct. It's for the South Bridge chip. http://www.linux.cz/stats/mrtg-rrd/temp.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Alcatel USB330 modem
How hard is it going to be to get this modem up and running on my linux box and to get connected online? Hardware is 1.2GHz Athlon, 768 MB ram, Gigabyte mobo with 2 usb ports. Running fully up to date version of Mandrake 9.1. Many thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video capture
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 1:38 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi guys! Can any of you recommend an inexpensive Linux compatible video capture card? I am told the primary need for this card will be for converting VHS tapes to file. I saw the ATI TV wonder VE on pricewatch for about $47. However, this card looks quite basic (does it only transfer video - no sound?). Secondly, what would be a good app to capture the video once the appropriate hardware has been purchased? Thanks! I have a WinTV-Go card installed and use streamer, a part of the xawtv package, to do my captures via the coax cable running from my vcr/set-top box/aerial. I use this setup to digitise old video recordings or as a digital vcr setup with crom scripts. This card was quite cheap and performs well enough for my needs. Hope this helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nVidia driver fails to initialize at startup
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 9:57 pm, Deek wrote:
Gah, another problem:
I just recently installed the nVidia driver for the GForce FX graphics card
for linux, and installation and everything went fine, and it told me to
change the XF86Config file to use the new driver. And so I did, and
restarted the X server, and now what happens is the screen flickers a
couple of times, and it give me an error message saying it couldn't start X
Server because the nVidia kernal failed to initialize. So I go to it's
documentation page, and it says this isn't the fault of linux's kernal, but
it's the fault of the nVidia kernal, and could be due to the fact that it's
module isn't loaded. So, using the terminal X Server-less, I browse to
/sbin/ like it says and I do insmod nvidia, and then modprobe nvidia. It
loads successfully, but when I start up X server ('xdm' in the command
line) the screen just goes blank, and I have to restart to get out of it. I
was also wanting to know if there is any text editors that work without X
Server, so incase if theres nothing I can do about it I can just edit the
XF86Config back to what it was. Thanks.
try a depmod -a when you init the module
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Re: [newbie] Privacy in linux?
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 7:28 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 12:28 am, rikona wrote: Hello, There has been discussion about security, but little about privacy. Granted, Mandrake seems FAR less intrusive then M$ when updating, and with 'call home' programs. Thank you, thank you, Mandrake. snip /snip Has anyone had experience in using the host file to block ads/snoops? Does it hang the browser in waiting for the localhost to time out if the host file is used [this is a problem in Opera, at least]. Ok, in konqueror this works a charm. I'm currently blocked from banner spam etc from over 6000 servers all listed in my /etc/host file. Copy it across and you're set to go. Browsing has speeded up nicely thanks to this. It also helps as this is the only spot in my county that cannot get adsl services so every bit helps. If you want a copy derek then email me off-list and I'll send you a very up-to-date copy as I added about 25 more servers to it only yesterday. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privacy in linux?
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 3:31 pm, you wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 7:28 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 12:28 am, rikona wrote: Hello, There has been discussion about security, but little about privacy. Granted, Mandrake seems FAR less intrusive then M$ when updating, and with 'call home' programs. Thank you, thank you, Mandrake. snip /snip Has anyone had experience in using the host file to block ads/snoops? Does it hang the browser in waiting for the localhost to time out if the host file is used [this is a problem in Opera, at least]. Ok, in konqueror this works a charm. I'm currently blocked from banner spam etc from over 6000 servers all listed in my /etc/host file. Copy it across and you're set to go. Browsing has speeded up nicely thanks to this. It also helps as this is the only spot in my county that cannot get adsl services so every bit helps. If you want a copy derek then email me off-list and I'll send you a very up-to-date copy as I added about 25 more servers to it only yesterday. Regards magnet Hmm... got that wrong in last post. typo... Its actually 16000 servers. See, it's kinda comprehensive coz spam bugs me out. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] serious problem : LILO
On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:22 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2003 01:06:11 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the Nvidia file is: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run I also update the line of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file as the installation readme proposes: Driver nv Driver nvidia I think you need these parts of XF86Config-4. I repeat that the X starts fine with failsafe mode (nvidialogo) but not with the default linux mode. Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nvidia Option DPMS Option NvAGP 1 #---right here EndSection I do know that if it's an AGP card, you have to add one line to the file. See above for the modification. HTH John Drouhard Hmm, try changing that 1 to a 3. This allows the driver to try different AGP drivers to find the most suitable for your system, or just comment out that line as the nvidia driver settings default to 3 anyway. It might help solve your problems. You can always go back and tweek your settings once you have it up and running magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wont boot to X with NVIDIA
On Friday 30 May 2003 12:02 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 20:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this, I'll give this a go tonight. BTW What does depmod -a actually do ?? Thanks Jamie It should search for all modules specified in the /etc/modules.conf and make sure they're set to link at startup. SHOULD...there are times when it doesn't really work all the great, but it's a start. (Gotta start at the bottom and work our way up) Make sure these 2 lines are in /etc/modules.conf alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia alias char-major-195 nvidia Try a reboot and see how you get on. I had to add the 2nd line myself on this install of 9.1 magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] looking for a tv card for Linux
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 12:47 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello I am looking for a good TV Card to use with Mandrake 9.0. I plan to upgrade to 9.1 next month. I have searched a few web sites and so far have found a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 but it is a bit pricey for my budget. Are there other recommendations for one that will work with Linux? I do not need too many bells and whistles but would like to watch TV and listen to FM radio on my computer as well as be able to record from my camcorder on CD or DVD eventually when I get a DVD burner. Many thanks in advance! Jim I'm running Mandrake 9.0 here with a Win TV-Go card. Viewing is via xawtv and video capture [via cron-triggered scripts that call streamer] is working a charm. I can't recommend it enough, although if I was looking for one now, I'd definately consider the one with the built-in digital decoder to pick up the FreeView channels. Hope this helps you out :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ntpd issues
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 5:38 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, its b/c i had one specified in ntp.conf and its not the server that i thought it was. I changed the line that stated server ntpd server name to the IP of the Cisco router and restarted NTPD and i am getting no server suitable for syncronization found in /var/log/messages. MCC does NOT allow me to type in a different NTP server than what is listed thereit only lets me choose from the drop down menu. I do NOT want to select one of those, I want to type in the IP of my NTP server on my Cisco router. How do i change this on MDK9? TIA Rob I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. Keeps time great here. Webmin Hardware System Time I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk Hope this helps you out -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 5 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Mandrake 9.0. 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Windows 2000 Profressional 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop running Windows ME My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ntpd issues
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:22 pm, magnet wrote: I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. Keeps time great here. Webmin Hardware System Time I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk Hope this helps you out I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup IP address for ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk '. What am I missing? Anne Hi Anne, Did you try clicking on the link in the top/left of the screen module.conf ans see if it picked up the time server? Just for your info this is what that screen shows here: Configurable options for System Time Acceptable number seconds of delay between5 system time and hardware time Default time server[ ] none[x] ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk System time setting format [x] optionA[ ] optionB [ ] optionC Timezone file /etc/localtime File listing possible timezones /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab Directory of timezone files /usr/share/zoneinfo -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 5 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Mandrake 9.0. 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Windows 2000 Profressional 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop running Windows ME My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Twin head--but not
On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 8:42 pm, Miark wrote: When I install Mandrake (any release) I choose the video card it selects (SiS 5597) and then I get a message that says, Your system supports multiple head configuration. What do you want to do? And it gives me the following choices: Configure only card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5597 [SiS5582] (PCI:0:0:0) Configure only card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|5597/5598 VGA (PCI:0:20:0) There's only one card in there, and there's only one VGA port on the card, but either choice works. This isn't a problem, but I'm curious as to what's going on. Miark I may be wrong here, but doesn't twin head refer to running 2 monitors from the one card. AFAIK the GeForce Ti range have this capability but I've never looked into it yet. Correct me if I'm wrong though. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 5 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Mandrake 9.0. 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] running Windows 2000 Profressional 1 x [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop running Windows ME My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
On Friday 14 Feb 2003 9:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? What's a newbie? grin -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to cron?
I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) The script can go wherever you please As for cron The easy way to set it up is with webmin. Install webmin RPM and then point your browser to https://localhost:1 You will find cron setup under the 'System' Tab HTH derek Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help would be appreciated. In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... Execute cron job as magnet-- username Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if needed? When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:57 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory Any clues what Ive done wrong? Putting ./ infront of a file means in this directory. If drive1 is in root, and if the cd is /drive1/magnet, then ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh means /drive1/magnet/drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh and test.sh wont be found. Try /drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh wothout the dot in front. ok, slight typo in last posting by me... here is latest attempt: [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ /drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh : bad interpreter: No such file or directory I have started my script with #!/bin/bash so Im not sure what this error means. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron? - working now
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:14 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) There is a setup tool for cron jobs in the Mandrake Control Center. You can also use webmin, which I personally like better. The third option (which I add only for edification and illuminiation) is to hand edit the file /var/spool/cron/user replacing user with the username that you want the job run under. For the hand edit option the official methed is crontab -e. Try man crontab first. Right. Update for anyone following this thread. Found a typo within the script. Not sure if this had a follow-on effect for everything after but it all seems to be working fine now. Thanks very much for the pointers/hints/advice as usual with this problem. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kmail went awol on me
I have no idea what went wrong or why it happened, but I was reading through my emails and on some when read the header disappeared and the message appeared blank. Strange but didn't give it much thought at the time so I closed kmail down. When I tried to restart it a little later it just wouldn't from either the toolbar icon, the Kmenu or from a console. I went into my /home/ directory and renamed the directory to saved-Mail and powered down the computer completely. Rebooted and started up kmail ok, it detected the missing Mail directory and created a new one. I copied the contents across from my saved copy but then it stopped working again. I can't seem to find a solution to reinstate my old emails into kmail again. Anyone got any suggestions please? -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] text editing function required.
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:10 am, civileme wrote:
On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:46 am, magnet wrote:
I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and
am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines
and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution?
Thanks :)
---
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, os
if len(sys.argv) = 2:
print Usage is './duprem infile outfile
sys.exit(1)
HOME=os.expanduser(~)
infile=sys.argv[1]
outfile=sys.argv[2]
def userhome(filename):
if string.find(HOME,filename)==0:
return filename
else:
return HOME+filename
infile=userhome(infile)
outfile=userhome(outfile)
Goodinput=os.system('[ -e infile ]')
if Goodinput != 0:
print input file +infile+ does not exist
sys.exit(2)
input=open(infile,r)
output=open(outfile,w)
G=[]
g=input.readline()
while len(g) 0:
i=0
for x in G:
if x == g:
i=1
print duplicate +g+ removed
break
if i == 0:
G.append(g)
g=input.readline()
for x in G:
output.write(x)
output.close
print complete
-
Well put everything between the dashed lines into a text file called duprem
in your user space, then chmod a+x duprem then call it by
./duprem (fileofurlswithduplicates) (outputfilecleanedofdups)
Civileme
Wow... a reply from THE linux guru. I feel kinda humbled :)
Cheers m8. Will look into this later in the week on my day off and try to
learn something from it.
Hope the job hunting is going well for you and some company out there is smart
enough to utilise you skills soon.
--
magnet
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[newbie] text editing function required.
I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution? Thanks :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] text editing function required.
On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:55 am, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Perl will do it but you will need to make the scripted or there might be one on the net have a look On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:46 am, magnet wrote: I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution? Thanks :) Perl... hmm, didn't think of that. I know squat about writing perl so I'm off to google for a solution. Cheers for the *very* prompt reply Benjamin! :)) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv config and recording
On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 12:55 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:02:08 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:24 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: OK here's the sample command i use for my system (your dev entry may be different, video/audio formats can be changed, etc) streamer -o capture.avi -f mjpeg -O capture.wav -F mono8 -C /dev/sound/dsp -t 5:00 -c /dev/v4l/video0 -r 29.97 this will capture 5 minutes from the last channel xawtv was tuned to HTH Jerry. Well done Jerry, I typed in exactly what you stated and it started to capture the TV program to the harddrive. Playback was a bit weird coloured in places, but that is an MPlayer problem here, as I tested video on the windblows laptop and it was fine to view/listen to. Anyone want to tell how to get around the limitation of only being able to recording the station xawtv was last tuned in to? Still looking to utilise this machine as a 2nd VCR here as my tv is determined to broadcast 2 of my fav programs on diff channels at the same time when I'm at work ;-) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv config and recording
Ek 1 minute of capture created a 25mb file! LOL Next question has to be how to recode this to another format that is substancially smaller :)) On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 3:46 pm, magnet wrote: On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 12:55 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:02:08 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:24 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: OK here's the sample command i use for my system (your dev entry may be different, video/audio formats can be changed, etc) streamer -o capture.avi -f mjpeg -O capture.wav -F mono8 -C /dev/sound/dsp -t 5:00 -c /dev/v4l/video0 -r 29.97 this will capture 5 minutes from the last channel xawtv was tuned to HTH Jerry. Well done Jerry, I typed in exactly what you stated and it started to capture the TV program to the harddrive. Playback was a bit weird coloured in places, but that is an MPlayer problem here, as I tested video on the windblows laptop and it was fine to view/listen to. Anyone want to tell how to get around the limitation of only being able to recording the station xawtv was last tuned in to? Still looking to utilise this machine as a 2nd VCR here as my tv is determined to broadcast 2 of my fav programs on diff channels at the same time when I'm at work ;-) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv config and recording
On Tuesday 28 Jan 2003 5:00 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:52:14 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ek 1 minute of capture created a 25mb file! LOL Next question has to be how to recode this to another format that is substancially smaller :)) You can change the format that streamer records with from man streamer: EXAMPLES streamer -o foobar.jpeg write a single jpeg file. streamer -o quicktime.mov -f yuv2 -F stereo -r 12 -t 120 record a short quicktime movie (120 frames / 12 fps = 10 sec- onds). also see streamer --help for more info :-) Jerry *shudder*... quicktime. something about that format I don't like. Yeap. looks like I'll have to suffer the massive file sizes for now and play around with the various settings and options later. Good job this LAN has 6 hhd's to store to. 8-) When I viewed the test file I made I noticed it hadn't set any key frames so skipping through it back and forth wasn't very fast or easy. Not an option from the command line for such a feature? It's not a great problem coz should I wish to keep anything I can always set key-frame rate after editing the [oh-so-annoying] adverts out and then recode to say, DivX format. Cheers for the help Jerry, Very clear and concise. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xawtv config and recording
On Tuesday 28 Jan 2003 6:05 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 08:13 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: It's part of the xawtv package. :D Jerry Odd, I've got the stock XawTV here, with v9.0 and if I type in that command you posted I get an error telling me that streamer can't be found. Is it something separate from XawTV that has to be installed? Thanks. Yeap, same here. command streamer is not found as user or root and mine is stock V9.0 install also. tv card is win-tv Go and gfx card is a juicy gforce Ti 4400 :))) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] xawtv config and recording
Hi all, just installed xawtv on my system running mandrake 9 with a win-tv go card installed. Picture quality and sound is fine, could be improved with a better signal though, but I need a good reference website or manual to suss out how to configure it better to get recording to harddrive working and possibly scripts to allow this machine to become a virtual VCR. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 1:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why limit a perfectly good description to a single word? *g* I find it unbelievable that people could b so gullible. Or just plain greedy? Or maybe stupid is a better word. Anne I received this email on my linux box with an added bonus of a virus attachment... Kmail was a little confused as to what it was supposed to do with this extra file so it replied 15 times and every month I got $59,000,000 deposited in my bank account curtasy of the good Dr. The trouble was, the bank questioned it as their M$ accounting package received a telnet connection one night that reveiled a buffer-overflow feature on my account and all the money disappeared! Damn these spammers ;-))) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 9:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 3:50 am, magnet wrote: This I don't understand. Could you please explain to me how this works? Just for understanding :) Anne Go here Anne for a read: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html Thanks, I'll do that BTW, that reply-to line of yours isn't half annoying. I forget to change it every time, and they always bounce back. Anne Oh ok, call me an old softy but I've removed my reply-to entry now ;-) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] http advert filtering
Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs? -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:56 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:28:24 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs? Webwasher is avaliable for Linux too ;-) I personally use privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) which does an outstanding job. Greetings Ralph Doh, and I just entered approx 650 advert/annoying partial URLs and IPs :) Actually all I did was to paste/add the lines to my /etc/hosts file in the format: 127.0.0.0 bogus.advert.url and they no longer get loaded up here. I can't think why I didnt suss this out earlier, although being up half the night prob didn't help ;-) Thanks anyway for the replies peeps :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 6:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 2:49 pm, magnet wrote: On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:56 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:28:24 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs? Webwasher is avaliable for Linux too ;-) I personally use privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) which does an outstanding job. Greetings Ralph Doh, and I just entered approx 650 advert/annoying partial URLs and IPs :) Actually all I did was to paste/add the lines to my /etc/hosts file in the format: 127.0.0.0 bogus.advert.url and they no longer get loaded up here. I can't think why I didnt suss this out earlier, although being up half the night prob didn't help ;-) Thanks anyway for the replies peeps :) This I don't understand. Could you please explain to me how this works? Just for understanding :) Anne Go here Anne for a read: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Monday 13 Jan 2003 12:00 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I'm coming into this thread a bit late so apologies if this has already been suggested. VNC server will start the window manager declared in the ~/.vnc/xstartup of the user the vncserver was started from. (You are editing the correct xstartup file are you?) If the last line in the file is /usr/bin/startkde then KDE will be the desktop used. Works for me anyway. derek Derek, can you paste your ~/.vnc/xstartup entry please. I have tried changing that file and have used the same last line as you suggested before without success. I have even tried commenting out other lines in there but didn't make any difference. I have downloaded the latest version from the VNC site and all machines have had the old files removed now and the /.vnc/ directories have been deleted for a fresh start on this with the new files. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Monday 13 Jan 2003 12:05 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: From memory iirc I installed VNC/servers and set passwords up. Read through all the blurb and changed the config line to include the KDE option and then a few other versions of that option including a link to the startx, but I couldn't get the KDE environment to be loaded. At best all I could get was a window with a blue background and a white background X console window up. I believe this is the default desktop setting VNC comes with. Right-clicking bought up a menu of some basic apps and a few did work but it was nothing like looking/using KDE within the window. Being very unfamiliar with fully using a console for everything this doesn't help me much. If I sit infront of KDE screen and use a VNC window to look at the Winblowz laptop running ME it appears fine and functions as if you were sitting infront of the laptop. Getting it to view another linux box using KDE is a different beast though and nothing achieved yet. You're most likely getting mwm or twm as the window manager - so you're going to have to double check all your configurations so that KDE is the default wm - for both the regular system AND for VNC. KDE is the default on all 6 machines. I never run any other wm here so I can't see why it won't use KDE when it's added to the VNC config file. If I follow the example config files as shown on the VNC site and in the readme file to the letter, VNC still defaults to twm. Are the settings in this config file copied to another part of the system on the first running of VNC and have subsequently been over-riding the config file after I have changed it, and if so, doesn't that defeat the object of having a config file? I made the changes to the file, saved it and even tried a complete power-down of the system but still end up with twm. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 9:54 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 04:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have mandrake running on a computer with no video card or monitor on it at all? And then admin the box via ssh,vnc or something else? Essentiall you're going to need at least SOME kind of video card in the box - to install it in the first place - even if it's a cheapo low end video card. BUT, the good news is that yes, it can be setup, then after you've gotten it where you like it - you can either use VNC or remote Xsession to use/administer the machine - just like what's done in the corporate world! I run linux 6 computers here and 2 of them refuse to reboot after a power outage due to faults on their harddrives generating a S.M.A.R.T error warning of impending doom and catastrophy soon to befall my system as the harddrive is about to die! :) OK, so its been spewing out these messages for the past year and they still run ok and don't contain any vital data anyway, but my point is this; I have to reconnect a monitor, keyboard and mouse at reboot time as the process requires the F1 key to be pressed to resume the booting process. Otherwise they will just sit there waiting for the key to be pressed in silence and obscurity and you cannot access these machines as technically they are not up and running any OS yet. Its a catch-22 situation as far as remote admin goes and the only solution is to either replace the drives or keep taking the back off the computer stacks and connecting the perepherals back on at boot time to each offending machine. I have tried so many times to get VNC running KDE here without any results so far and have had to resort to the above methods or use webmin for any admin work on the other machines from my main connected/gateway linux box. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it possible to have a system with no monitor?
On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 7:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 00:28, magnet wrote: I run linux 6 computers here and 2 of them refuse to reboot after a power outage due to faults on their harddrives generating a S.M.A.R.T error warning of impending doom and catastrophy soon to befall my system as the harddrive is about to die! :) OK, so its been spewing out these messages for the past year and they still run ok and don't contain any vital data anyway, but my point is this; I have to reconnect a monitor, keyboard and mouse at reboot time as the process requires the F1 key to be pressed to resume the booting process. Can't you just disable S.M.A.R.T. in the BIOS? And also, in BIOS, set it for DO NOT REPORT KEYBOARD ERRORS ? This feature isn't available on this BIOS - Megatrend on a gigabyte mobo - so I can't see any way around the errors. Otherwise they will just sit there waiting for the key to be pressed in silence and obscurity and you cannot access these machines as technically they are not up and running any OS yet. Its a catch-22 situation as far as remote admin goes and the only solution is to either replace the drives or keep taking the back off the computer stacks and connecting the perepherals back on at boot time to each offending machine. KVM switch - but then you have to buy the special cables, and they're not cheap - and the switch ain't cheap - but they're soo nice...(I used to have one setup at MCI where I could control 64 machines from one keyboard/mouse/monitor - was bloody sweet - AND confusing - had to depend on a map to figger out which was which - and each of the servers had a desktop wallpaper denoting their name - but still got confusing when the network went south) I looked into the KVM option but as you say it isn't cheap, and 6 seems to be an odd number as most units I saw were for 4 machines and their price was too much, so buying 2 was even less desirable. A bit of a non-starter here as the cost couldn't be justified for the use the machines get here. I have tried so many times to get VNC running KDE here without any results so far and have had to resort to the above methods or use webmin for any admin work on the other machines from my main connected/gateway linux box. Granted that Webmin is a beautiful, wonderful, all-in-one, useful, saintly blessing to linux administration - but what gives with the VNC stuff? Wassup that it ain't working? From memory iirc I installed VNC/servers and set passwords up. Read through all the blurb and changed the config line to include the KDE option and then a few other versions of that option including a link to the startx, but I couldn't get the KDE environment to be loaded. At best all I could get was a window with a blue background and a white background X console window up. I believe this is the default desktop setting VNC comes with. Right-clicking bought up a menu of some basic apps and a few did work but it was nothing like looking/using KDE within the window. Being very unfamiliar with fully using a console for everything this doesn't help me much. If I sit infront of KDE screen and use a VNC window to look at the Winblowz laptop running ME it appears fine and functions as if you were sitting infront of the laptop. Getting it to view another linux box using KDE is a different beast though and nothing achieved yet. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sorry To Be Off Topic
BTW: If you respond to this email with REMOVE in the subject field remember, you will have just confirmed to this spammer that YES.. he has hit a valid email address and he will then sell it on and you will get even more spam but this time direct to you and not via the mailing list ;-)) Don't fall for the remove scam either :) Regards magnet On Friday 03 Jan 2003 11:24 am, Michael Adams wrote: Sure looks like spam. Thank heavens i am vegetarian so i dont have to taste it and find out. On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:59, K. Spress wrote: I am writing this as a simple letter if anyone in the U.S. or Canada or Europe is interested in attempting to reduce their telcom bill. Please e mail me. Also If you are interested in a linux friendly ISP. Thanks Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] == This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because, you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of marketers requesting information. If this is not the case, PLEASE accept my sincerest apologies and reply with remove in the subject field. I will remove your name immediately! == Listen to us every Sunday at 11:00 am EST at: http://www.alternacast.com EZHelp, You More Show Info http://learn.at/ezhelp http://go.to/ezhelp AIM: keniswhoiam Yahoo: kspress MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 19870108 You Finally Have A Choice In Local Telephone Service Ask Me How. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound blaster pci 128
On Sunday 29 December 2002 16:45, Scott Wagner wrote: Hello Does anyone have any experience with the sound blaster pci 128 card in M 9.0.? e.g. how is the sound quality? Does M 9.0. have built-in support for this card? Works fine here for sound output and recording use. I even connected a tape deck to it via the input plug and backed up some old tape recordings. It sounds fine and all programs detect it. magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] blocked ports?
Hi all, Im having a few problems here atm after installing gshield. It's working fine but I seem to be unable to send/receive dcc sends using xchat on IRC. Does anyone know the fix for this? Port 6667 is open and xchat works fine connecting to servers/chatting on but no dcc transfers. Also need to know what port licq uses as it won't connect at all. Connection sharing is working fine from linux box [gateway] to the other machines on this LAN and the windows laptop also suffers from the dcc block but connects fine to ICQ. Cheers magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] blocked ports?
On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 3:14 pm, mike wrote: On Wednesday 25 December 2002 08:34 am, you wrote: Hi all, Im having a few problems here atm after installing gshield. It's working fine but I seem to be unable to send/receive dcc sends using xchat on IRC. Does anyone know the fix for this? Port 6667 is open and xchat works fine connecting to servers/chatting on but no dcc transfers. Also need to know what port licq uses as it won't connect at all. Connection sharing is working fine from linux box [gateway] to the other machines on this LAN and the windows laptop also suffers from the dcc block but connects fine to ICQ. Cheers magnet I had the same trouble with DCC.Finally I went to the #xchat channel on irc and they told me to enable Get my IP from server in the settings. Settings/Setup/IP Address/Get my IP from Server This solved my DCC problem and I hope it works for you.Also you will need to reconnect to the server. Good Luck Mike Appreciate you taking time during xmas to help. Unfortunately I have always had that setting here so it must be something specific to me running gshield here Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 12:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons, and will be tediously boring to anyone who reads it. --- Zz Zz... Only j/k is was fasinati... Zzz magnet :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Internet
On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 2:11 pm, Milos Prudek wrote: Gil Katz wrote: If I'm using the Ethernet card I can ping the gateway but when I use the modem I cannot. Are you using IP address of the gateway, or hostname? If IP address ping does not work: you may have incorrect route. Check with the route command. If hostname ping does not work, but IP address ping works: your route is OK, but you have DNS problems. Check /etc/resolv.conf. Open a shell, su yourself as root and then type [without quotes] `vi /etc/sysconfig/network` there is a line in there: GATEWAY=eth0 change it to: GATEWAY=ppp0 This tells it to use your modem and not the ethernet port as your internet input device. Also worth changing the following lines: FORWARD_IPV4=true NETWORKING=yes Happy surfing :)) regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] configure script failure
On Friday 13 Dec 2002 11:58 am, ashutosh wrote: while installing some softwares and running the configure script i get the failure message similar to: ' configure : error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found.Please check your installation.' What i am missing as i think i have Qt3 installed. Hi You need to install the developer source headers for QT. I think they are on the 3rd CD. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba
On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote: OK, I give up. I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba so I can copy files and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others. Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't be seen on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor settings from 800X600 to 1024X768 and got my background sound to work.) That is the only thing that I have done. Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get the errors below logged to the log.nmbd file. I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to find out how to fix it. David snip Hi David. Have a look at your linux settings using webmin first to see if drakconfig decided to switch your linux box's IP addy/change your LAN IP range. This will throw samba off a bit sometimes. [it did when I was installing the nvidia drivers]. Webmin makes a very good base setting 99% of the time. It also gives you the option to restart the samba server from within it's pages. Also worth looking at is your /etc/hosts file to see if you have added your windows boxs and their local.domain.names plus alias's. Let us know how you get on. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?
On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 11:10 pm, Dennis Sue wrote: Hello Peoples, I would like to convert, and record mp3's to a cdr so that they can be played on a regular cd player. I've made 3 coasters trying. this is one of two reasons why windows still resides on this harddrive. Hi all, Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? Slightly off the original topic, but relevant as I need to convert these to mp3/wav format for an audio CD as these tapes are vulnerable to damage. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio -cassette input?
Cheers Bryan, this was what I was looking for, a nice simple command which worked perfectly. I dropped the rate down from 44100 to 8000 as these tapes are only speech and do not contain music. Quality seems very acceptable, although I think I will have to compress to mp3 format as even these .wav files are still rather large. regards magnet On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:22 am, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 19:49, magnet wrote: Can you recommend a utility that will allow me to record the input from a cassette player into the input plug on my soundcard? At a command prompt type rec -s w -c 2 -r 44100 myfile.wav Learn more with man rec. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remote DVD over ethernet
On Friday 06 Dec 2002 6:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 02:09, magnet wrote: Hi all, Can you view on a linux box a commercial DVD playing on a DVD player built into a windows laptop across 100Mbit ethernet? I have ogle and libs needed already installed, and have used the MCC to mount the drive to this system. I read somewhere that there might need to be an entry in /dev/ pointing to this device for ogle to be able to access the dvd. Can anyone elaborate more on this or just confirm it is possible. Failing that, I spos I'll have to resort to either converting the CD into a file (illegal and tbh a bit of a pain) or just foot the bill and buy an hardware DVD player which I'd rather avoid for a number of reasons, expense and space to mount it in this stack. regards magnet Why not just use VNC to view the desktop on that system? (WinVNC works like a charm with VNC on linux) Oh no, the dreaded VNC issue again...! :)) VNC has never worked on these machines. As you'll remember Stephen, these machines' have a mind of their own most days. VNC generates X server problems all the time here. I would LOVE to be able to open an X VNC window from the main box to any other box on the lan but so far haven't had any luck. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Getting VNC to use KDE
Hi all, I have installed VNC server on machine #2 and have started it up as root. On machine #1 I ran 'vncviewer linux2.name:1', entered my password set up for vnc and it started up into a very boring grey background with a white shell opened on it. Now... many times I have read you can have KDE running as WM but I cannot work out what needs to be added to where in the /root/.vnc/xstart file. I tried commenting out 'twm ' and adding 'startkde ' but it made no difference. Does anyone have vnc working that shows and uses a KDE environment and if so, can they share the black art of getting mine working? regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet connection sharing with Windows?
Hi, Right, just been here with this problem. Set a specific IP addy as you had for the PC and use netmask 255.255.255.0 Disable the WINS Configuration. Add gateway to point to your linux box. Here is the part I had to change for some reason. Enable DNS Configuration. My linux hostname is linux1.local.net. For host add the first part of your machines hostname [linux1] then add the last part as the domain [local.net]. Add your gateway 192.168.0.1 into the DNS Server Search Order. Add your last part of your domain [local.net] into the DNS Suffix Search Order. This got my winME laptop to connect using the linux gateway and it has no effect on samba here, and retains your choice of static IP addresses you use. Hope this can help you. regards magnet On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 5:23 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Got a 3 comp LAN. My main computer is running Linux - 56k connection and both the other comps do sharing under Mandrake v8.2 just fine. Yeah, its slow, but I let my sons browse to find school articles sometimes (with me right over their shoulders!). Anyways, my 12 year old picked up this Windows game, Earth Beyond. Not a bad looking game but its Windows only, won't run under WineX and is *online* only. So he asked me to set it up so he could play it under Windows on his machine - with my main Linux comp as gateway. So...I normally have static ip addressess assigned to our machines - like this: darkforce 192.168.0.1 (my main comp) darkforce2 192.168.0.2 (12 yr olds) darkforce3 192.168.0.3 (9 yr olds) I didn't have to do hardly anything for the Linux side of things to work like this. Windows won't find the 'Net like this though. I finally did the right-click Network Neighborhood/properties routine, added my IP address as gateway, and I had to pick automatically assign number. This worked. However, when I do this, I can't use Samba from my machine to access his anymore (or even ping each other). Change his settings back to a static IP - Samba works again, and we can ping each other - and he can't accesss the 'Net again. I can just change this everytime I want to use one or the other, but its a bit of a hassle (and besides that - Windows always asks for a freaking reboot everytime!) I'm sure there is a way to share connections with Windows 98SE and still use an assigned IP address with Samba? Does anyone else have a setup like this and can help? Thanks much! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing - SUPER EASY
On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 12:57 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 10:52 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:38, Anne Wilson wrote: Stephen - under 8.2 the MCC set up ICS without any problems whatsoever. Reading this thread suggests that Mdk have tried to improve matters by automatically installing a firewall. Is that correct? If so, I hope someone has pointed out to them that a choice would be useful g Anne Yeah, know that - but someone was asking about something so easy - and the answers were rather complex...so I threw this in the ring... Really hate seeing people banging their heads against walls for something like this without simple answers... BTW, I'm going to put up a site dedicated to tips'n'hints shortly - for both linux and M$...along with links to sites/files/etc etc I agree with Anne that there should have been a choice at the point of enabling ICS under mdk9 as to whether you want the firewall installed or not or at least there should have been some more documentation on what it did and why. I agree a firewall is no bad thing and have had one on the laptop (M$ ME) since I got it. I realise part of that install, if needed, does install the dchpd stuff needed to share a connection, and as Anne said, ICS installed and worked fine for me under mdk8.2. Maybe my set-up here isn't as simple as that which most people have. There are 6 machines in a stack here, some running 8.2 and some running 9.0 plus a winME laptop, not your normal home computer user's system. My frustration was through the way installing a standard piece of software in mdk9.0, that decided by itself to change my static IP, not tell anything it had done so, not informed the network it had changed it, then dumped me, the user, into the dark as to why a working LAN/FTP/SAMBA/SQUID setup suddenly fails to respond and then adds insult by denying me/my network access to files, breaking ftp, scripts and internet access, all for the sake of not giving me a choice. That kinda sux when it happens. Even disabling the firewall from within MCC didn't restore the situation here. Had I been new to linux I might have considered not continuing with it after such an experience, although in fairness, not many newbies would dive in with a 7 machine lan. They have my utmost respect if they do though 8-)) gShield was installed and working in 10 minutes on a fresh install, with no stinking shorewall install and no ICS requests needed through MCC. I highly recommend it. Right, I'll put my soapbox away now. Vary rarely do I have a sound-off in here, but my original plea for help followed a lot of frustration and several reinstalls to flush the problems from the system, reset up and playing about with the LAN in general trying to get everything talking again after the initial firewall install so in no way did I consider it an easy problem. Like most stuff in linux, it can be solved by one way or another, and with lists like this you will either get the answer or a gentle shove in the right direction to help you find an answer. So, for all the times I have been shoved in here g and got a result, and for all the times in the future that I'll ask for help and probably recieve it, I say Thanks to you all :) regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Remote DVD over ethernet
Hi all, Can you view on a linux box a commercial DVD playing on a DVD player built into a windows laptop across 100Mbit ethernet? I have ogle and libs needed already installed, and have used the MCC to mount the drive to this system. I read somewhere that there might need to be an entry in /dev/ pointing to this device for ogle to be able to access the dvd. Can anyone elaborate more on this or just confirm it is possible. Failing that, I spos I'll have to resort to either converting the CD into a file (illegal and tbh a bit of a pain) or just foot the bill and buy an hardware DVD player which I'd rather avoid for a number of reasons, expense and space to mount it in this stack. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 9:23 am, Richard Urwin wrote: big snip as thread contents getting big If I can stick my oar in at this point, it sounds like a hardware echo to me. Have you checked all the connections? In reply to both Peter and Richard's suggestions: I have by-passed the monitor switch box and tried a direct connection gfx card == monitor and the result is the same, so that rules out the switch box being the cause. AFAIK this monitor lead is a good quality one with duel ferrite coils fitted near the connections. It is not routed near to any mains voltage power leads. I will have a look in the local computer shop to see if they have any better quality leads available and try a replacement. Thanks for your replies. Will let you know if this makes any difference. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed
Hi Franki, It was late and I was getting tired when I tried it last. You are, of course correct about gShield just being a script. I was getting confused with the tar file configuration GUI that is an optional extra, which has to be made. Anyway, here is a brief what I did for anyone else reading this. Got the GUI to compile and install AFTER placing gShield scripts in /etc/firewall and editing gShield.conf file to suit my IP ranges. Fired it up and amazing... it started to work right away :) Now... last few questions for this query... Can I now uninstall shorewall from this machine. it isnt running anyway and I don't ever plan to use it EVER again after the last few weeks of grief it has caused me? ;-) How do get the gShield.rc script to be executed on booting the machine rather than opening up a console as su and typing /etc/firewall/gShield.rc each time? regards magnet = On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:19 am, Franki wrote: There is no compilation of gShield.. its just shell scripts.. just download the tarball from their site.. uncompress it (if you have midnight commander you can just press enter over the tarball to enter it and just copy the stuff into /etc/firewall with F5. if you don't have mc.. you should, urpmi mc) , and dump the lot in /etc/firewall then have a look in /etc/firewall/gShield.conf Possibly the best config file I have seen for simplicity.. it tells you the options you can use, and the defaults are most often correct.. The ICS is in that config file.. select MULTI=YES, and further down NAT=YES then make sure that the network address in /etc/firewall/NATS matches your internal network.. (ie 192.168.0.0, 10.0.0.x etc) thats it... when gSheild is fired up, you'll have NAT,, nothing to it. repeat, THERE IS NO COMPILATION WITH gShield. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of magnet Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 1:07 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:59, magnet wrote: Hi all, Well back from the dead once again after another fresh install following a lost battle trying to get a firewall installed and working, damn that shorewall! Machine is running mdk 9.0. So here is my question... How do I manually configure my main machine to share it's modem connection to the other 5 machines on my LAN? This is my /etc/sysconfig/network file: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true HOSTNAME=linux1.local.net DOMAINNAME=local.net GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 The other machines are all using the 192.168.0.xxx range and all point to 192.168.0.1 as the gateway they should be using. I do NOT want to use the control centre because it demands installing shorewall, which has been the biggest problem of all here causing no end of trouble with blocked ports, breaking samba and ftp. I simple hate it and the documentation isn't simple enough for me to understand how to write iptables rules yet to achieve a fully secure machine. Hope some of you will take the time to offer some advice on this. regards magnet I too gave up on shorewall. Grab gShield. Every feature you could wish for. Configured with a single simple conf file. You be up an sharing in about 2 minutes - 5 if you read the fine print. HTH Brian Cheers Brian, but I tried the mandrake rpm files which failed, and then tried to compile gShield from source which also didn't go too well. Can you explain how you set your ICS up please. My current situation is shorewall is installed (by default as soon as I used MCC to enable internet sharing) but it set to not start up at boot in services. Did you uninstall shorewall completely and not use MCC to set-up/enable ICS and just depend on gShield to get the results you were after? If I enable it, then this system changes my static IP from the required 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.1. This then throws out the rest of the network for all the other stuff I am running (samba,ftp). Even though shorewall isn't running right now, it has killed proftpd, which cannot determine the IP of this machine and refuses to now start, even though ifconf confirms the IP to be 192.168.0.1. Squid also now complains on shutdown producing errors,although this doesn't seem to affect the machine's ability to reboot. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed
I can only get damp-string services here, so it's a bog slow 56k connection here :( Didn't really want to start it up every time I make a connection, but I'd prefer to have it running at boot time. Looks like it will have to be an entry in etc/rd.d/rc.local. The GUI is quite comprehensive and has mouse pop-over help for almost all the entries you can make from it. Seems well thought out. I'd say it was worth a look at if you are interested, although it isn't strictly necessary to getting gShield up and running. You can achieve the same from just loading the config file into vi. regards magnet On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 4:27 pm, Franki wrote: What is your connection??? When I had dialup.. I created files in /etc/ppp called: ip-up.local and ip-down.local Those files are automatically run when the connection goes up or down.. in ip-up.local I put this line: /etc/firewall/gShield.rc That brings the firewall up when the connection goes up. if you have cable or dsl.. you can put it at the end of the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local which will bring it up at the end of the boot process. I have it in both because I use pppoe for my ADSL... can't hurt any for you to do the same.. been running it this way for years now with no problems.. Doesn't gSheild just rule??? :-) I've never seen the GUI config.. whats it like rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of magnet Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed Hi Franki, It was late and I was getting tired when I tried it last. You are, of course correct about gShield just being a script. I was getting confused with the tar file configuration GUI that is an optional extra, which has to be made. Anyway, here is a brief what I did for anyone else reading this. Got the GUI to compile and install AFTER placing gShield scripts in /etc/firewall and editing gShield.conf file to suit my IP ranges. Fired it up and amazing... it started to work right away :) Now... last few questions for this query... Can I now uninstall shorewall from this machine. it isnt running anyway and I don't ever plan to use it EVER again after the last few weeks of grief it has caused me? ;-) How do get the gShield.rc script to be executed on booting the machine rather than opening up a console as su and typing /etc/firewall/gShield.rc each time? regards magnet = On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:19 am, Franki wrote: There is no compilation of gShield.. its just shell scripts.. just download the tarball from their site.. uncompress it (if you have midnight commander you can just press enter over the tarball to enter it and just copy the stuff into /etc/firewall with F5. if you don't have mc.. you should, urpmi mc) , and dump the lot in /etc/firewall then have a look in /etc/firewall/gShield.conf Possibly the best config file I have seen for simplicity.. it tells you the options you can use, and the defaults are most often correct.. The ICS is in that config file.. select MULTI=YES, and further down NAT=YES then make sure that the network address in /etc/firewall/NATS matches your internal network.. (ie 192.168.0.0, 10.0.0.x etc) thats it... when gSheild is fired up, you'll have NAT,, nothing to it. repeat, THERE IS NO COMPILATION WITH gShield. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of magnet Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 1:07 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:59, magnet wrote: Hi all, Well back from the dead once again after another fresh install following a lost battle trying to get a firewall installed and working, damn that shorewall! Machine is running mdk 9.0. So here is my question... How do I manually configure my main machine to share it's modem connection to the other 5 machines on my LAN? This is my /etc/sysconfig/network file: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true HOSTNAME=linux1.local.net DOMAINNAME=local.net GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 The other machines are all using the 192.168.0.xxx range and all point to 192.168.0.1 as the gateway they should be using. I do NOT want to use the control centre because it demands installing shorewall, which has been the biggest problem of all here causing no end of trouble with blocked ports, breaking samba and ftp. I simple hate it and the documentation isn't simple enough for me to understand how to write iptables rules yet to achieve a fully secure machine. Hope some of you will take the time to offer some advice
[newbie] internet sharing help needed
Hi all, Well back from the dead once again after another fresh install following a lost battle trying to get a firewall installed and working, damn that shorewall! Machine is running mdk 9.0. So here is my question... How do I manually configure my main machine to share it's modem connection to the other 5 machines on my LAN? This is my /etc/sysconfig/network file: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true HOSTNAME=linux1.local.net DOMAINNAME=local.net GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 The other machines are all using the 192.168.0.xxx range and all point to 192.168.0.1 as the gateway they should be using. I do NOT want to use the control centre because it demands installing shorewall, which has been the biggest problem of all here causing no end of trouble with blocked ports, breaking samba and ftp. I simple hate it and the documentation isn't simple enough for me to understand how to write iptables rules yet to achieve a fully secure machine. Hope some of you will take the time to offer some advice on this. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card
Hi all, I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4400 gfx card installed on my mdk 9.0 machine using nvidia drivers 1.0-3123. I'm currently running 1280x1024 in 16bit display, although this weird effect is present in all resolutions on any of the differently sized monitors I have here. Beautiful card and all that, but for these strange ghosting images. I'll explain the effect briefly. There are multiple ghosted images, fading out to nothing after about the 4th occurence, attached to the right horizontal side of any screen image, window edge, widgets, text, and the mouse pointer. Does anyone have a clue what might be causing this? It has happened on all versions of the nvidia drivers and all versions of mandrake I have used since installing this card. Apart from this niggle, these cards are the puppie's privates 8-)) regards magnet (ok... who nicked my sig?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card
On Monday 02 Dec 2002 8:12 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 02:12, magnet wrote: Hi all, I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4400 gfx card installed on my mdk 9.0 machine using nvidia drivers 1.0-3123. I'm currently running 1280x1024 in 16bit display, although this weird effect is present in all resolutions on any of the differently sized monitors I have here. Beautiful card and all that, but for these strange ghosting images. I'll explain the effect briefly. There are multiple ghosted images, fading out to nothing after about the 4th occurence, attached to the right horizontal side of any screen image, window edge, widgets, text, and the mouse pointer. Does anyone have a clue what might be causing this? It has happened on all versions of the nvidia drivers and all versions of mandrake I have used since installing this card. Apart from this niggle, these cards are the puppie's privates 8-)) regards magnet (ok... who nicked my sig?) Have you double checked your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for any aberrations in the context of options under the nvidia device? Also, did you comment out the GLCore and dri options? It works fine apart from the shadowing problem. openGL apps all work fine, nothing strange in the config file has been added. GLcore and dri options were never there. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card
On Monday 02 Dec 2002 10:42 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:15, magnet wrote: On Monday 02 Dec 2002 8:12 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 02:12, magnet wrote: Hi all, I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4400 gfx card installed on my mdk 9.0 machine using nvidia drivers 1.0-3123. I'm currently running 1280x1024 in 16bit display, although this weird effect is present in all resolutions on any of the differently sized monitors I have here. Beautiful card and all that, but for these strange ghosting images. I'll explain the effect briefly. There are multiple ghosted images, fading out to nothing after about the 4th occurence, attached to the right horizontal side of any screen image, window edge, widgets, text, and the mouse pointer. Does anyone have a clue what might be causing this? It has happened on all versions of the nvidia drivers and all versions of mandrake I have used since installing this card. Apart from this niggle, these cards are the puppie's privates 8-)) regards magnet (ok... who nicked my sig?) Have you double checked your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for any aberrations in the context of options under the nvidia device? Also, did you comment out the GLCore and dri options? It works fine apart from the shadowing problem. openGL apps all work fine, nothing strange in the config file has been added. GLcore and dri options were never there. regards magnet OK - so, now that you KNOW the vid-card is cool, what about doing a double check on your monitor settings? (horiz. freqs / vert. freqs) Checked them against the monitor manual with all the resolution frequencies and mode lines. It is set up to match the spec in the book. I also ran some modeline generator program (cant remember its name) to check if the output matched my entries. They are identical to those in the book and my config file regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] internet sharing help needed
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 1:07 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:59, magnet wrote: Hi all, Well back from the dead once again after another fresh install following a lost battle trying to get a firewall installed and working, damn that shorewall! Machine is running mdk 9.0. So here is my question... How do I manually configure my main machine to share it's modem connection to the other 5 machines on my LAN? This is my /etc/sysconfig/network file: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=true HOSTNAME=linux1.local.net DOMAINNAME=local.net GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 The other machines are all using the 192.168.0.xxx range and all point to 192.168.0.1 as the gateway they should be using. I do NOT want to use the control centre because it demands installing shorewall, which has been the biggest problem of all here causing no end of trouble with blocked ports, breaking samba and ftp. I simple hate it and the documentation isn't simple enough for me to understand how to write iptables rules yet to achieve a fully secure machine. Hope some of you will take the time to offer some advice on this. regards magnet I too gave up on shorewall. Grab gShield. Every feature you could wish for. Configured with a single simple conf file. You be up an sharing in about 2 minutes - 5 if you read the fine print. HTH Brian Cheers Brian, but I tried the mandrake rpm files which failed, and then tried to compile gShield from source which also didn't go too well. Can you explain how you set your ICS up please. My current situation is shorewall is installed (by default as soon as I used MCC to enable internet sharing) but it set to not start up at boot in services. Did you uninstall shorewall completely and not use MCC to set-up/enable ICS and just depend on gShield to get the results you were after? If I enable it, then this system changes my static IP from the required 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.1. This then throws out the rest of the network for all the other stuff I am running (samba,ftp). Even though shorewall isn't running right now, it has killed proftpd, which cannot determine the IP of this machine and refuses to now start, even though ifconf confirms the IP to be 192.168.0.1. Squid also now complains on shutdown producing errors,although this doesn't seem to affect the machine's ability to reboot. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting multiple ghost shadow effects from gfx card
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 1:26 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:21, magnet wrote: On Monday 02 Dec 2002 10:42 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:15, magnet wrote: On Monday 02 Dec 2002 8:12 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 02:12, magnet wrote: Hi all, I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4400 gfx card installed on my mdk 9.0 machine using nvidia drivers 1.0-3123. I'm currently running 1280x1024 in 16bit display, although this weird effect is present in all resolutions on any of the differently sized monitors I have here. Beautiful card and all that, but for these strange ghosting images. I'll explain the effect briefly. There are multiple ghosted images, fading out to nothing after about the 4th occurence, attached to the right horizontal side of any screen image, window edge, widgets, text, and the mouse pointer. Does anyone have a clue what might be causing this? It has happened on all versions of the nvidia drivers and all versions of mandrake I have used since installing this card. Apart from this niggle, these cards are the puppie's privates 8-)) regards magnet (ok... who nicked my sig?) Have you double checked your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for any aberrations in the context of options under the nvidia device? Also, did you comment out the GLCore and dri options? It works fine apart from the shadowing problem. openGL apps all work fine, nothing strange in the config file has been added. GLcore and dri options were never there. regards magnet OK - so, now that you KNOW the vid-card is cool, what about doing a double check on your monitor settings? (horiz. freqs / vert. freqs) Checked them against the monitor manual with all the resolution frequencies and mode lines. It is set up to match the spec in the book. I also ran some modeline generator program (cant remember its name) to check if the output matched my entries. They are identical to those in the book and my config file regards magnet ...and so then the same results, ay? Yea, I still have ghosting problem. regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 9:51 am, Derek Jennings wrote: The problem is not really to do with shorewall, which is in fact a very effective and highly regarded firewall, but is more to do with the Mandrake Firewall GUI which sets shorewall up in a very simplistic manner. I would advise using the GUI to set up Internet sharing, but to then go to editing the shorewall files directly for everything else. If you *open the Mandrake GUI it will alter your files when you exit it* so once you have configured shorewall do not enter the GUI again I'm not sure what GUI you are refering to here? I used vi to look at the files in /etc/shorewall/ and had the shorewall site up in the browser for reference. To learn about shorewall visit www.shorewall.net You will find some very good example configurations there. Basically shorewall is very simple to configure for a simple firewall. The file /etc/shorewall/interfaces gives your interfaces a name. net for the Internet connection, masq for your local network with Connection sharing, and fw for the firewall itself. Next the file /etc/shorewall/policy gives the general policy. Here we see these entries (in my network) masq net ACCEPT # allows internet traffic from my local network to the Internet fwnet ACCEPT # allows traffic from my firewall to the internet net all DROPinfo # Silently Drop all frames from the internet to ANY interface, and log all frames in syslog all all REJECT info # Reject all frames not defined in an earlier rule and log all frames. This basic policy will allow anything out to the internet, but NOTHING in, and NOTHING is allowed to connect from my local network and the firewall. So on its own this configuration would not allow the local network to communicate with a samba or web server running on my firewall. So to expand the applications allowed we use the file /etc/shorewall/rules which allows us to define exceptions to the general policy. Here I have ACCEPTnet fw tcp 80,25 -# This allows http (port 80) and smtp email (port25) to connect to my firewall from the Internet using TCP protocol ACCEPTmasqfw tcp 8118,ssh,domain,http,https,137,138,139,631,imap,pop3,smtp,nntp,ntp,1 #This allows the following services to connect from local network to the firewall 8118 (privoxy proxy server), ssh (secure shell), domain(53, DNS name server) -, http and https web traffic, 137/138/139 Samba, 631 CUPS, imap email, pop3 email, smtp email, nntp news, ntp time protocol, and 1 webmin ACCEPTmasqfw udp ssh,domain,bootps,http,https,137,138,139,631,imap,pop3,smtp,nntp,ntp,1 #similarly for udp protocol - ACCEPTfw masqtcp ssh,631,137,138,139 - ACCEPTfw masqudp ssh,631,137,138,139 # these lines allow the firewall to make connections out to the local networkfor 631 CUPS traffic, and Samba traffic If you do not what services the port numbers correspond to, there is a list in /etc/services Naturally an entry should only be present if the service is actually running. If you simply wanted to open the firewall machine up to the local network, while keeping traffic to the internet restricted, the easiest way is to put two lines in the policies file masq fw ACCEPT fwmasqACCEPT After making any change restart shorewall with service shorewall restart Hope that is all understandable - Just remember GUI bad, edits good :-) derek I did an iptables -L in su console to check everything is ALLOWed, after uninstalling the firewall for now to regain some control, restarted the samba server, rebooted the laptop (stupid thing!) and still samba isn't working. I also now have no ftp access to this box from any other machine on the LAN. This is the point I start to lose my temper with linux. You think you have uninstalled everything, get a reply that all traffic restrictions have been lifted to flow again, even rebooted and still you can't stop something that manages to cause failure of previously working functions, and not know what is causing it. I need some light shed on this problem coz I'm close to giving up after double-figured re-installs. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 12:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP I did an iptables -L in su console to check everything is ALLOWed, after uninstalling the firewall for now to regain some control, restarted the samba server, rebooted the laptop (stupid thing!) and still samba isn't working. I also now have no ftp access to this box from any other machine on the LAN. This is the point I start to lose my temper with linux. You think you have uninstalled everything, get a reply that all traffic restrictions have been liftedto flow again, even rebooted and still you can't stop something that manages to cause failure of previously working functions, and not know what is causing it. I need some light shed on this problem coz I'm close to giving up after double-figured re-installs. Regards magnet If shorewall is removed completely, then your IP masquerading will not be configured and you will not be able to get out from your local network to the Internet. (Unless you set it up by hand) Maybe you would be happier with a GUI based Firewall like firestarter (for KDE) or guarddog(for Gnome) (both available in Contrib)) Firestarter is quite nice. It is very similar to zonealarm in Windows. You should also check your security level. If it is too high you will have all sorts of difficulty. derek Hi Derek, I dont mind getting dirty in a text editor, usually vi, but it's the confusing way these website help pages assume you are rather well versed in iptables before you have even started to read their page, therefore defeating the objective of what I consider a help page should be. Also, they all seem to assume the user has 2 ethernet cards, one for the lan and the other to a cable modem, none ever mention using the modem or the local IP range 192.168.0.xxx.. I'm currently trying to make some sense of http://support.ddts.net/doc/shorewall-doc/html/shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm but not getting very far as yet. I was running this 7 machine home network fine using 8.2 on linux boxs and winME on laptop, all set up by hand and functioning. OK, so I may have been lucky and didn't get compromised once in all that time, but as soon as I have gone near any sort of firewalling for the linux gateway I seem to be hitting this brick wall of problems. Security has always been set at Standard here, apart from at one reinstall, but the nvidia drivers gave grief on any other setting so I reverted back to using the lowest level offered at install. Firestarter and guarddog... yeap, been there, tried them, both failed, both resulted in re-installs, twice for guarddog and 3 times for firestarter. Totally screwed this system over. As a fellow linux user I speak to most nights will confirm, this system doesn't seem to like anything that would be considered normal installing or run-of-the-mill commands without throwing a wobbler and breaking something here. I have yet to work out why though :( I need to stick with this shorewall for now simply as I have run out of options for anything else. At least this time it has installed partially and is allowing an internet connection to be used. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA revisited
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 1:33 am, Pilagá wrote: I'm sorry. I know this is a very frecuently asked question, but, after a month, I can't still get my gforce2mmx to work under 9.0 with nvidia drivers. The same card, with previous version of MDK always work great. I have tested drivers versions 2960 and 3123, and package; tar.gz, src.rpm, rpm, d'l from nvidia site, and last night te 2960 from http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake9.0/ I have installed GLX and kernel rpms whitout errors, and edited XF86Config-4 (load glx and nv to nvidia) + ldconfig -v I always end up with the same error: Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module! I also have installed, from MDK 3Cds d'l edition: kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk And Control Center report: kernel version: 2.4.19-16 Why kernel headers and source versions are different? Could this be the problem? Here I post the XFree86.9.log Any idea? Gracias Hi, time to add my few comments. I have just had to do 7 re-installs for various reasons of Mandrake 9.0 and own a GeForce 4 Ti 4400. I'm using the following files each time and this is how I installed them to work each time ok NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz Use the Mandrake Control Center to change your boot-up to NOT start up X. Once you have booted up and are at the login prompt then login as root. cd to the directory containing the above files then, still as root, type in the following commands in this order: tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz You will see a warning message pop up about some files being renamed but this is ok and can be ignored. Now type: cd NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123 make install It should report in the last few lines that the module was made and installed ok. Then type: cd ../NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123 make install This installs the GLX module... Now the bit that might help you out that I had to do to get the modules to stick and be used. Type: depmod -a That was all I needed to get the modules working on Mandrake 9.0. Make a backup of your old XF86Config-4 file. Type: cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.original Now just use vi to edit your config file and make sure the lines in Device section are changed from Driver nv or Driver fbdev (as was the default on my install) should now read: Driver nvidia At the top of the file in the Modules section, confirm that the 2 lines referencing: Load dri Load GLcore ...have been removed. Scroll down to the section Monitor and just double check it has your monitor HorizSync and VertSync values set correctly. I had to up these to the correct values as it got them all wrong at install. Scroll down to the section Screen and set to DefaultColorDepth 16 You can always change this later if your chosen resolution is supported for 24bit screen depth. Personally speaking, this Ti 4400 will not support 24bit at 1280x1024 resolution for me, so 16 works fine here. Now look at the subsection Display in the same Screen section. If the Modes line has defaults or similar in it, the add this line to replace it. Sometimes this can also cause display problems, so you might as well get it sorted now. Type: Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 These 3 sizes should be enough for most people's use. OK, now just type exit until you get back to the login prompt. Enter your username, password, then type: startx If it was anything like here, your screen will, after a short delay pop up a lovely NVIDIA logo and welcome to a correctly setup fast gfx card :) Hope that has been of help to anyone who reads this. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Shorewall - Grrrrrr!!!
Hi all, After many installs and messing about regaining some usability of this system and network, I used Control Center to install and activate the Internet Sharing across the network. As before, it installed Shorewall, which has been the #1 culprit in causing all these reinstalls as it just shuts the machine down re: internet usage. So I'm turning to the wisdom of the list once more for some serious help in getting this horrible piece of protection to actually work for me and not against me. I've googled the problem looking for advice but so far am just coming up with results about it being a new feature (M$ jargon for software that doesn't work?) of Mandrake 9.0, and very little on deep explaination of configuring it using vi to allow all 6 machines to access the internet via main gateway machine. I am using the standard IP range 192.168.0.XXX format for all machines here: 192.168.0.1 linux1 mdk 9.0 (gateway modem) 192.168.0.2 linux2 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.3 linux3 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.4 linux4 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.5 linux5 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.6 linux6 mdk 8.2 192.168.0.253 laptop Windblows ME As soon as I installed it, local machines went off-line and samba was also blocked across the network. I have followed the recent posting Ports to keep open for samba? and have edited the shorewall rules file to match for now. I still have internet access/browsing/email from the fw machine but local network is still offline. I went to the laptop and tried pinging the other machines, all responded except the fw machine. I have tried pinging from fw machine to the others but it just times out. Any help will be appreciated on how to get this firewall working correctly. Regards magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NFS Impasse
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 3:23 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 05:53 pm, you wrote: Hi again, Do you have any entries in your /etc/hosts.allow or in /etc/hosts.deny? I keep reading in these HOWTO pages about the fact that NFS is inherently insecure so adding portmap: ALL etc etc in /etc/hosts.deny is a good thing to do and likewise, adding to /etc.hosts.allow the IP's of the other 5 machines. Yes, /etc/hosts.deny has all denied and /etc/hosts.allow has the ip addressess of the comps on my LAN. I just had need to reboot the main machine, and as it booted up I got an RPC error again and the NFS network cannot be seen/accessed. Tried searching for then in MCC = NFS mounts but nothing came up. I don't know - when I was first setting up NFS I got RPC errors but it was because I didn't have things set up correctly. Am I just an idiot and have done something wrong or is this a known problem on Mandrake? Same problem has occured on mdk8.0/8.2/9.0 here for me. regards magnet I don't believe you're an idiot! :-) As for what the problem is - I'm not sure. I wish I was enough of a guru to just tell you. I'm sorry. BTW, I'm using v8.2 here. I've got 9.0 ordered. I'll let you know once I get it in, installed and see what happens. I hope you get it working soon! Well I'm on nightshifts atm (day off, or is that night off?), so here I am, it's 05:30, nothing else to do so I'm going to try following that url from start to finish on all 6 machines. I'll let you know how it goes as my main machines is running the V9.0 distro, and the other 5 have V8.2. regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can I use Samba on my Linux LAN
Hi all, I've been having quite a few network problems with my 6 mandrake machines recently. All have Samba set up and working so each of the 6 drives can been seen, read and written to/from on the token Windows laptop. So here is the question Can I set up fstab on each Linux machine to mount all the other machines using Samba so that I can dump using NFS? Regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) note: network is feeling a little sick lately :( My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Keeping accurate system time
Hi all, Digging thru Webmin I came across a page to enter the host/address of a time server. I have searched google and found only ONE UK public server on IP 199.165.76.11 but if I use it and request webmin to sync the time my system clock is reset to the year 1969. Now... have I lost the plot on this or am I simply doing something wrong? As usual your help is appreciated :) regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time
On Thursday 03 Oct 2002 5:22 pm, you wrote: - Original Message - From: magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 13, 1901 9:56 PM Subject: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time Hi all, Digging thru Webmin I came across a page to enter the host/address of a time server. I have searched google and found only ONE UK public server on IP 199.165.76.11 but if I use it and request webmin to sync the time my system clock is reset to the year 1969. Now... have I lost the plot on this or am I simply doing something wrong? An easier way than installing daemons and goodness what knows else is to install xntp (you'll find a package via rpmfind) and then, as root, type ntpdate ntp0.strath.ac.uk That NTP server, and its University of Strathclyde sister at ntp1.strath.ac.uk, have rarely let me down :) There are other ones, such as ntpx.ncl.ac.uk (x=0,1,2 or 3 - University of Newcastle) and ntp2x.mcc.ac.uk (x=a,b,c or d - University of Manchester). Unfortunately most of the lists of NTP servers are out of date, but these ones all work. Alastair Thanks Alastair. Installed it from mdk8.2 CD3, and it worked fine on main machine. Any suggestions on how to get the other 5 networked boxs to sync their time with the main box? regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware acceleration support for GeForce 4
Hmm. Athlon runs fine here. I added the line mem=nopentium to my lilo.conf just in case anyway. Running GeForce Ti 4400 here and it is fine, albeit under 8.2 for now [damn these servers are slow 9.0] ;-) You need 4.2 version for the latest nvidia drivers to work. Im unsure if 9.0 supports this card still in the gfx card install section. Just choose as unknown card and carry on but do not set the system to startx automatically for you. This allows you to boot into a command line which makes installing the gfx drivers a lot easier. I had to manually install the nvidia drivers after setting up the system using std vga modes supported on this gfx card. You are correct about needing to alter XF86Config-4. This is a painless thing using vi at the startup console tho and should take 10 minutes max to complete. visit http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/index.html and have a read making notes where needed and get the latest nvidia drivers and store them on your system. make a note of the full path to aid you later. Just follow the instructions and welcome to linux running a top quality fast gfx card running in beautiful 1280x1024 24bit technicolour :) Hope this helps you out. regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake 8.2 and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! On Sunday 29 Sep 2002 3:51 pm, you wrote: It's great to be using Mandrake again - 8.x had issues with the Athlon processor. Anyway, in 9.0, when loading I'm given a choice of which XFree86 to choose - 4.2.x, 3.3.6 or 3.3.6 with experimental hardware acceleration support. I thought 4.2.x had this (I can use HW accel support in 4.2.x in SuSE), so I went with 4.2.x. In Mandrake's config util, is there a place to select HW accel that I'm missing? If not, then I need some help activating this (I'm guessing a modification of the XF86Config-4 file). Any help or insight that can be provided will be greatly appreciated... Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I assign IRQ's manually
On Friday 20 Sep 2002 3:20 pm, you wrote: My system basically works. I have an Nvidia agp video board and I am having trouble getting agp graphics without crashing. If I use the kernel agp module (agpgart), I crash almost immediately (Which is supposed to happen with the Intel 440LX PCI bus) If I use the Nvidia AGP, it takes longer but I almost always crash. Right now I am running without agp, which seems kind of pointless. I think I might have an IRQ conflict since it looks like both my video card and a TV tuner card (ATI TV Wonder VE) are using the same IRQ. So, can I assign IRQ's manually? (To at least one of these cards) How do I do it? Mandrake 8.2 system. Dell Pentium II 233, 128 megs memory Thanks! John Herzfeld Do you have an entry in your XF86Config-4 allowing the system to choose which AGP module it thinks will suit your system or did you specify? On current nvidia drivers it defaults to 3 - driver chooses, but maybe changing this to 1 or 2 might stablise your system. I had great fun getting this Ti 4400 card installed and working but it was worth it :) Regards magnet Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] gfx card driver question
Hi all. I just checked on www.europe.creative.com for a linux driver for their gfx card: 3D Blaster 4 Titanium 4400 and it came back blank, no drivers available. Am I correct in assuming this card can use nVidia drivers ok on Linux and if so, can anyone suggest how they got this card to work on their system please? It's a lot of money for a gfx card, but no good if it cant be used. Regards to all magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gfx card driver question
On Friday 06 Sep 2002 3:39 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Magnet, Use this link http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php and that will sort it out for ya. Well I kinda went round the sites and did it all manually in vi but the end result was it is installed andthe glxgear test reported 3000+ fps. However, harddrake doesn't recognise the card as a videocard but lists it under Other Devices as the following: Vendor: nVidia Corporation Model: Unknown Kernel Module: Unknown Bus Type: PCI Informations: This device hasn't been identified by HardDrake, please send `/proc/bus/*' files and this device ID `10de0251' to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any way to get this card recognised as I get the feeling that although it's installed, the system feels as if it's still running on SVGA mode. lsmod shows agpgart is in used by 3 and NVdriver by 10.Both are untainted. In mcc I cannot configure X-display as that screws up the system. Is there a command in console to show what x config is in use and it's settings? I know this is a lot of questions to ask, but this has cost me hard cash and I dont feel I'm getting the performance out of this card. Regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gfx card driver question444
On Friday 06 Sep 2002 9:47 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:34:37 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a lot of questions to ask, but this has cost me hard cash and I dont feel I'm getting the performance out of this card. If you are using the Nvidia drivers you are getting all the performance available. You did not note which you are running but you will get your best performance at 16bps. Do not be concerned about the card not being recognized. The GeForce4 is to new and is not supported by the XFree data base or/and thus not by the nv driver which is used in 4.2.0. Were it not for the Nvidia drivers you would not be able to run X at all. Charles BTW: Cheers for your help so far :) Im a little concerned that browser is stll scrolling a bit jerky. I was hoping for something a tad smoother or is this a fault of the browser? Did some more searching for info on the XF86Config file and it turns out running version 4.x.x as on here, that if the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 exists then that is the config file the system is using. Phew... coz that's the file I've been working on all day getting this to work :)) I think I'm all sorted here for now with this. Just need to see where stable performance gains can be made. First target would seem to be getting the AGP port to utilise 2x mode rather than the default 1x it is currently running... but that can wait for another time :) Thanks again magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LAN problems
Hi, having some probs with my network... I have one laptop running ME and 6 mandrake machines running samba. The laptop has no problem read/writing files from any location to anywhere else. It also has icons on it's desktop to double-click to open a share. Also these shares are mapped as different drives. ie: linux1/home - F:\ linux2/home - G:\ etc... What I was trying to do was set up the RC5 clients on the linux2-linux6 machines to use a shared buffer on linux1 machine, and that's when the prob hit me... How do I specify on a command line on, say linux2 box, the full path to a directory on the linux1 box? regards magnet Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines: 163839 - Mdk 8.2 163840 - Mdk 8.2 163841 - Mdk 8.2 163842 - Mdk 8.2 163843 - Mdk 8.2 163844 - Mdk 8.0 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TV card and recording to disk suggestions please.
Hi all, Can anyone suggest a good TV card so I can record a program and save it to disk, much like a VCR? What software would be best for this? My system is: Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 mobo, Athlon 1.2GHz cpu, 256Mb ram and 80Gb HDD, SiS 8mb gfx card. Linux Mandrake 8.2 running. If anyone has such a setup running, I would appreciate hearing what you are using and how easy/hard it was to set up correctly. Many thanks magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
Hi all and Charles, Confession time here and a possible lesson for anyone else reading this having weird problems. Due to my computer being in a custom made tower, I have been doing some work on it lately and it seems I slightly dislodged the HDD lead from the mobo!!! It allowed booting up [just] but maybe the heat build-up had some effect by the end of the day causing the lead to lift enough to break the connection on a few data lines. Sorry to have wasted everyone's bandwidth with this problem. Charles, I added that line as you said there were issues with AMD and 8.2 as it may avoid problems I might have encountered further down the line. Many thanks for your suggestion . regards magnet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups
Hi all, I have installed Mandrake 8.2. The computer runs 24 hours solid, but lately I have been coming in from work and the system is unresponsive. I cannot click on anything, the keyboard appears to have no effect but i can still move the mouse pointer around the screen and the clock is still showing the correct time. Any suggestions how to get this install running as smoothly as 8.0 will be appreciated :) thanks magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
