Re: [newbie] Lilo on floppy
On Thursday 07 April 2005 06:33 pm, Leroy Britton wrote: I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address. ___ ~ maybe, stick in a floppy then, as root, command :- mkfs.minix /dev/fd0 or mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 10:59 am, Stephen Khn mentioned: The Horizontal Freq range: 30 - 70 The Vertical Freq range: 50 - 160 Any cluebats? __ ~ maybe FrameBuffer mode helps? best rgds 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-line updates
On Saturday 02 April 2005 06:11 pm, David Anderson wrote: I know how to update software using the Control Centre and Software update, but how would I go about doing this from the command-line? ___ ~ maybe, there are lots of ways . . . you could download an rpm then, say, move the rpm to /tmp next, as root :- rpm -Uvh file_name.rpm best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Saturday 02 April 2005 03:11 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: that a seemingly stupid message can bring out good memories ~ likewise, i too have best memories of TRS80 ~ it had terrific Manual , with interesting illustrations and great teaching method. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:51 am, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners ___ ~ maybe, someone on one of these Lists, could guide you:- .. From: linuxtv-listserver [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists Ecartis lists available on this machine: linuxtv-softmpeg Maintainer linuxtv-softmpeg linux-dvb-maintainer Maintainer list for DirectFB. directfb-cvs DirectFB CVS commit log messages directfb-dev DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. directfb-users DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. linux-dvb About IP over satellite on Linux boxes, digital VCR, Electronic Program Guide linux-dvd About DVD for Linux, our DVD API, the Margi Driver linuxtv-cvs DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. mpeg2 MPEG2 encoder mailing list vdr About IP over satellite on Linux boxes, digital VCR, Electronic Program Guide .. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall
On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows
access.
___
my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :-
___
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Sep 28 02:21:33 2002
# LILO configuration file
# Start LILO global Section
# If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash,
# restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the
option
# restricted.
#password=bootpwd
#restricted
# append = enableapic
append = hda=10011,255,63
# boot = /dev/hda
boot = /dev/fd0
# disk = /dev/scd0
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
# linear
lba32
vga = normal
# message = /boot/message
menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg
read-only
prompt
timeout = 100
image = /boot/vmlinuz8
label = sus80
initrd = /boot/initrd8
optional
root = /dev/hda7
image = /boot/memtest.bin
label = memtest86
optional
image = /boot/vmlinuz8
label = sus8_hda6
initrd = /boot/initrd8
root = /dev/hda6
image = /boot/vmlinuz9
label = SuSE_9
initrd = /boot/initrd9
root = /dev/hda5
other = /dev/hda2
label = win2k
table = /dev/hda
..
Last item, above, boots Windows2000
^^^
Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions?
.
Partition Table for /dev/hda
FirstLast
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID)
Flags
-- --- - -- - --
-
1 Primary0 192779 63 192780 Linux (83)
Boot (80)
2 Primary 192780 4883759 0 4690980 HPFS/NTFS (07)
None (00)
3 Primary 4883760 5863724 0 979965 Linux swap (82)
None (00)
4 Primary 5863725 160826714 0 154962990 Extended (05)
Boot (80)
5 Logical 5863725 57030749 63 51167025 Linux (83)
None (00)
6 Logical 57030750 108197774 63 51167025 Linux (83)
None (00)
7 Logical 108197775 159364799 63 51167025 Linux (83)
None (00)
8 Logical 159364800 160826714 63 1461915 EFI (FAT-12/16/32 (EF)
None (00)
What happens: hda1 is /boot partition max 100 MB type ext2
hda2 is M$ Partition
hda3 is Linux Swap [ reason: have Swap as a
Buffer, because M$ does not always respect linux partition boundaries]
~ all Linux partitions [except /boot ] are Reiser
Partition hda8 is for old M$ junk : FAT
{ personnally, i like CFDISK to make partitions }
...
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Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall
On Monday 28 March 2005 11:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. just /, /home and one for swap (3 total) ___ ~ maybe, it handy, to have complete Reserve system on another Partition . . . kept up-to-date by a cron job to run rsync Then, IF/when lightening Strikes . . . one has a reserve system best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:43 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: This may relate to the other problems I am having. ~ maybe, if the 'learning curve' seems a bit steep . . . you might consider running a system entirely off CD . . . someone recently had good experience with 'Feather Linux' best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:36 am, OOzy Pal wrote: I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform better with Linux do to the Cache _ ~ someone with deep understanding, will prolly give you the answer . . . my suspicion is, that, the Celery is a very cut-down Pentium, and that if you move to Celery you may see NO improvement :( best resurrection ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK
On Friday 25 March 2005 12:07 am, DAN WALKER wrote: making my machine hard to hack etc. It is connected to a 34Mbit connection to the net so someone would love to abuse it. __ ~ trouble with books, is, that they tend to be out-of-date by the time they are published ~ also, not good bed-time reading :( . . . maybe, better to join a few Linux Security mail lists, and, read Security FAQs that seem apposite. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK
On Friday 25 March 2005 04:27 pm, DAN WALKER wrote: Now I am bit curious. In 1999 ~ made the switch . . . no sweat . . . there is an Linux/Unix equivalent for almost everything ~ as good, or, better No 'blue screens of death' . . . terrific stability No 'Registry' worries. Quick easy to backup entire duplicate system with RSYNC [ takes about 15 minutes to backup 6 giga ] DOSEMU is handy ~ for 1 proggie ~ 'Metastock' . . . to chart my blood-pressure :( [ the dos emulation is near perfect.] best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What prevents me from moving to Suse92
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:13 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: It is an mail list without borders. ~ the SuSE list is on-a-parity best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:22 pm, David Anderson wrote: I want to be able to mount hda1 and sda1 and copy files from one to the other ~ if, I get the drift . . . you have booted from CD and neither hda1 nor sda1 are mounted? So ~ make an extra mount point/directory called, say : /mnt2 [ say your file systems are Reiser type ] __ mount -t reiser /dev/hda1 /mnt next: mount -t reiser /dev/sda1 /mnt2 then, cd to /mnt finally, as root, give the command : tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) .. best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning
On Monday 21 March 2005 06:44 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson's email resulted: 0.6 RATWR10_MESSID Message-ID has ratware pattern (HEXHEX.HEXHEX@) 0.1 HTML_60_70 BODY: Message is 60% to 70% HTML 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 6.1 T_RATWARE_OOPS_05 BODY: Spammer doesn't know how to use ratware properly ($) 0.3 MK_BAD_HTML_04 Bad HTML form. Doesn't have beginning or closing HTML tags. The original message was not completely plain text, and may be unsafe to open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus, ___ ~ not a complaint ~ just an observation :- Spam Assassin considers message 'not completely plain text' best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4 - successful install - yes!
Remark ___ although my system is very old and out-dated, I mention this because of Mandrakes recent new relationship with Brazilian 'Connectiva' . . . several times, in the past, i have updated my KDE using Connectiva's APT package management tool ~ First Class :)) best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window
On Saturday 19 March 2005 07:49 pm, Paul Smith wrote: how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Ksnapshot will do fine ~ thus . . . Alt F2 [will open a 'Run' menu] enter: Ksnapshot . . . hit Enter best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:12 pm, Michel Leunen wrote:
mean when telling me to try xfdrake? What is it?
i do not know ~ but, taking a wild guess
. . . maybe, Mandrake's tool for setting up X-windows { XFree86 or
X-Org } [ my Linux presently is SuSE ] ?
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Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:28 pm, Paul Greene wrote: because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood ___ the web page : http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html has stuff about: Running Mac OS on other Platforms .. the emulator BOCHS may be able to do it? best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] One step forward, two backward ...
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:00 am, h k Ball wrote: gotten me back to KDE ___ ~ just guessing . . . had one Hit: Ctrl+Alt+F4 . . . one might have Logged-In as Root the, Edited /etc/inittab to change level 5 to level 3 ? best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] O/T Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:21 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
Dutch EU politician Bolkestein up front
taking care of their rights...
__
~ corrupt as Hell? . . . Frits 'Bolkers' helped UK Govt cover up Pounds
8 Billion Insurance Fraud? [ he also betrayed sold Dutch Victims down
the River ]
{ if anyone interested, can privately send off-list Mainwaring
Euro-Petition }
Vote NON to new Konstitution . . . Kommission is Korrupt thru thru
. . . Kommunity Law is not applied uniformly!
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Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
On Sunday 06 March 2005 09:08 pm, Paul Smith wrote: looking for a program to organize the quotations I am getting from my readings ~ maybe, it is positive to elaborate 'how' 'what' you wish to organize? ~ do you seek a Database ~ a Spreadsheet ~ a word=processor with 'Sort'? ~ if it is Bible, then 'BibleTime' prolly has all the tools you need. best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
On Sunday 06 March 2005 09:55 pm, Paul Smith wrote: i.e., with the possibility of browsing by topic, by author, etc __ probably, a database like MySQL would suit. You could use a Spreadsheet [like OpenOffice]:- _ 1st column : site URL 2nd Column : content summary 3rd Column: Author 4th Column: Comments . You can 'Search' using keywords. You can 'Sort' best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with Ipw2200 BG
On Sunday 06 March 2005 10:49 pm, Julie Sloan referred: download the correct .tar.gz file To uncompress the file just click on it with konqueror. _ as root, you can command :- tar xzvf filename best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMware: location of the directory of C header files
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:25 pm, Paul Smith wrote: The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory _ ~ maybe, you need to install the kernel source + headers? best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: For those I make a copy called smb.conf.orig before I do anything with them, but use the '.bak' method after that, so that I can always re-read the comments of the original file. ___ ~ maybe, it is handy to note Month,Day,Year . . . as in :- smb.conf.bak_030305 best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:41 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: How necessary is virus protection in linux _ Ones purpose may be prophylactic [ greek word for 'preventive' ]~ to prevent accidental transmission of virus, perhaps, by inadvertently 'forwarding' an infected message. For this purpose one may edit 'crontab' and add a tiny script, to run a scan on ones Mail directories. crontab -e [ will open crontab, in vim, so one can add/delete at will ] For this purpose, my CRON Daemon runs F-PROT each hour, to scan my Mail directories. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:01 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: nice not to have to re-install and loose all the data. _ ~ guess it is un-neccessary to lose any Data . . . ever :-O . . . have CRON Daemon do frequent backups of /home directory, using RSYNC script . . . like :- ___ #!/bin/sh # # use rsync to backup /home to /dev/hda6 # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda6 /mnt # df cd rsync -avr --delete --delete-after /home /mnt df umount /mnt cd best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:52 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: If you don't like using vim, you can set EDITOR to your editor of choice _ JOE [joe] is nice ~ similar to WordStar, i believe. best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:58 am, Dennis wrote: Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1? _ for home, non-commercial use : F-PROT www.f-prot.com made in Iceland ~ very good :) best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:59 am, Julie Sloan wrote: Which is why I'm on my fourth reinstall. ___ ~ maybe, it is handy, to have entire duplicate system, on a spare partition . . . a matter of moments, with RSYNC best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:19 am, Julie Sloan referred: handy, to have entire duplicate system ~ for example . . . have cron daemon, once-a-week, run script :- __ . #!/bin/sh # # use rsync to backup / to /dev/hdb6 on Sunday # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb6 /mnt # df cd rsync -avr --delete --delete-after --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/tmp / /mnt cd cp /mnt/etc/fstab.6bak /mnt/etc/fstab df umount /mnt cd best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:54 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: in vi mode reflexively. I am looking forward to some day soon being able to say the same thing. :) _ your 'puter may have vimtutor' already installed. vimtutor' . . . the tutor for VIM best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk error messages
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:31 am, Keith Powell wrote:
I know that hard drives are cheap, but I don't want to have to go to
the trouble and expense of buying a new one unless I have to. Also,
it means salvaging all the data from it.
_
~ on the other hand, data loss is a 'Pain', thus, maybe it is cheaper
to have a couple of spare HardDisks, just to do off-site, whole-system
RSYNC backups on alternate weekends :)
{ probably takes about 15 minutes to rsync backup an 8 gigabyte system
- then unplug the spare HD and store it, off-site. }
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Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
On Monday 28 February 2005 07:32 pm, Paul Smith wrote: to make it my master disk _ a Jumper Settings diagram will be on the side of the disk. Cable Select is probably OK provided your other disk is set the same. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:30 pm, Paul Smith wrote: would like to have the smaller disk with MS Windows and the second (bigger) disk with Mandrake. ~ a couple of remarks : MS Windows may need to be in front end of disk MS Partition/format may not respect other folks boundary markers, thus, maybe handy to have a swap partition next, to act as 'buffer' . my 40 gig hard disk is partitioned like this :- _ HDA1 100 mb /boot partition HDA2 2400 mb MS Windows HDA3 linux swap 500 mb HDA5 12,000 mb Reiser HDA6 12,000 mb Reiser HDA7 12,000 mb Reiser HDA8 900 mb MS-FAT . use grub or lilo to boot anything including MS Windows. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues - apology
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 06:19 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: to use Kmail rather than ~ __ Kmail . . . one of the Best :) best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer - yext not printing as preview shows
On Sunday 27 February 2005 05:45 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Unfortunately I had email problems and lost a whole lot of information. __ nothing is lost, while it is on the list archive :) The stuff you seek can probably be quickly recovered by doing a Search at www.google.com :- place in the search-box something like :- site:linux-mandrake.com the_key_words_you_seek ~ maybe someone who knows could provide the best search syntax ?? :) best rgds __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux books
On Thursday 24 February 2005 07:47 am, Duncan Anderson wrote: but all Computer books are out of date by the time they are published most are not page-turners/good bedtime reading . . . thus, a Google Search is more likely to turn up the goods :) best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] logging off
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 08:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time? ~ maybe, it is stopping starting that puts most wear on PC . . . best leave puter on 24/7 [ sometimes have puter running for a month without a shutdown ] - just unplug the monitor power at night. ~ during spare-time perhaps you might like to do a bit of [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], or something like that? best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Forget to change the windows manager
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:25 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: change it from KDE to Gnome? ~ maybe :- startx --gnome - otherwise, edit file in users home directory : .xinitrc best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] logging off
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:48 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Effectively there are no Linux viruses perhaps it is no bad idea to install rootkit hunter, and have it run every night, by cron job :- http://www.rootkit.nl . whereas most Virii are aimed at M$ machines, it may be interesting to have a virus checker, run on ones Mail directory, by cron, hourly, to get the feel of what Virus is in fashion ~ The Icelandic F-PROT is good, and free for Home Users. f-prot updates Virus Signatures about weekly :- www.f-prot.com best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] logging off
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:51 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: The housekeeping gets done automatically, or do I need to set something up? ___ On my PC one can see the housekeeping that in done by cron, in file /etc/cron.daily [ my system is very old . . . yours will prolly be slightly different ] . . . things like log rotation - cleaning old log files. the sort of housekeeping that you will wish to set up for your self :- you can edit cron, using the command as root :- crontab -e . ~ maybe, you will like to make yourself a series of small bash scripts to be executed by cron, for automated backups, say, using RSYNC you might like cron to tar.gz your home directory at 9 am and 6 pm each day, and date-stamp the archives to a separate backup directory. maybe you want cron to backup your data files to a separate partition each 30 minutes. ~ maybe, 2 nights a week, you might like to have cron rsync your whole system to a partition on a reserve HardDisk ~ that way, when Lightning, or, Murphy strikes, you will be smelling of violets :)) best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] handy kill
on SuSE list, noticed a tiny bash script which is handy :-
...
#!/bin/sh
#
# kill process/program
#
while true
do
kill -9 `ps aux | grep -i $1 | awk '{ print $2 }'` sleep 2
done
...
remember +x - it needs chmod +x to make script executable.
it is handy when, for example, Kmail gets stuck :-
as root, command :kl kmail
- this will kill Kmail
or, if cups is not working right, then, delete the print-queue, and , as
root, command :-
kl cups
kl parallel
..
then, re-starts the cups daemon with command : rccups start
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Re: [newbie] handy kill
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:11 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: defference between doing this script, and using the killall command? ~ a glance at man killall suggests that killall is the cadillac of killing :)) best rgds __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail has died!
On Thursday 24 February 2005 03:39 am, Chris wrote: just can't start a new message, fwd, or reply to one. _ ~ maybe some kmail process got stuck? ~ as root, command : killall kmail then , as user, re-start kmail . . . maybe that has fixed it ? best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] tar'ing dot files
On Sunday 20 February 2005 05:11 pm, Arys P. Deloso wrote: Q2: How do you use the cp command to copy everything like tar does by default (i.e. for copying exact duplicate of a directory tree without tarring)? ___ ~ alternatively, without compressing, tar can be handy to copy all sym-links etc. like this :- .. tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] startx options
On Sunday 20 February 2005 09:38 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: What is the syntax for startx on tty2 in order to start a 2nd X session when X is already running on tty1? ___ startx -- :1 best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:25 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Installing from RPM packages is much easier ~ ___ ~ to install, prolly as root, command :- rpm -Uvh /path/package-name.rpm . If, later, you wish to see what version you have installed, then, command :- rpm -qa | grep package-name best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [Installation] Error on booting from cd - Unable to mount root fs
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:01 pm, James Nunnerley wrote: Can anyone assist with what the problem is likely to be? ___ ~ maybe a module. such as Reiser file system is not loading? best rgds 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 get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:07 pm, h k ball wrote: have not been able to get out of the dos mode and into the windows mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?? __ ~ maybe, log-on as User [ your personal user name ] [ not as root ] then, as User, execute command :- startx best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] minicom
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suggest a simple route for downloading minicom suitable for use in ML 8.2 _ ~ maybe, go to www.google.com then, insert in Search Box :- Minicom + download best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] minicom
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you never hear from me again it means the darn thing blew up and I was killed in the explosion:) please, be careful:-O ~ maybe you need minicom for a special reason . . . wvdial works a charm, and has excellent set-up heuristics. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] minicom
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something flashes on the screen and dissappears before I see it, almost. __ ~ maybe if you give the run command in a Console window, then you will be able to read that elusive message? or, maybe, try run-command /home/user-name/tmp/minicom_error.txt . . . then, try to see if there is any helpful output collected in file : /home/user-name/tmp/minicom_error.txt best rgds 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 get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority ___- ~ try deleting that .Xauthority file best not to use KDE to log on to Internet Log on to internet only as User. Have you yet set up X-windows using XF86 , X-org or what setup system Mandrake recommends ? best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turbotax?
On Monday 14 February 2005 07:24 am, Eric Huff wrote: have been playing with bochs, but haven't been able to get XP installed. I guess i'll try to install win98 1st, and see if xp will go in after that. __ after several hours of head-breaking, gave up in despair, but am left with feeling that BOCHS has tremendous potential as 'Virtual Machine' best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] launch applications in termial
On Monday 14 February 2005 02:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: downloaded Firefox and need to know how to launch from terminal, as cannot see it anywhere so far. _- ~ probably, if you type in the terminat, 'which firefox' , or, 'whereis forefox' . . . it may show you the path to the executable best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 03:45 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Download manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? ___ ~ perhaps, it is handy to install : findutils-locate . . . that way, you could command : updatedb and, then, command : locate thunderbird best rgds _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] supposed thunderbird download
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 05:00 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Which download manager did you use? Mike The one in mozilla a look at the default settings, might reveal the default destination of downloaded files? best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 7.1 support
On Friday 04 February 2005 08:00 pm, NE MASANGANE wrote: Mandrake 7.1 and I want to install the operating system but now I use windows xp pro ( NTFS ) I need both operating systems in one machine. 1.. How to install the operating system in these situation ? 2.. How to do partition on the hard disk in these situation ? 3.. Linux mandrake 7.1 can support internal modem 56 kbps ? __ partitions: _ what i did ~ _ HDA1 about 100 mb for /boot [after installs i used grub/or, lilo, to boot all systems] HDA2 about 2500 mb for Windows HDA3 about 1000 mb for Linux Swap [ put swap as sandwich between Windows and Linux, because Windows formatting does not always respect 'boundaries'] HDA5 Linux system about 15 gigs HDA6 Linux system about 15 gigs [ 1st backup of whole system ] HDA7 Linux system about 15 gigs [ 2nd backup of whole system ] YMMV best rgds __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror won't start
On Saturday 05 February 2005 01:39 pm, Marc wrote: I am using KDE with Mandrake Linux 10.1 and I have a similar configuration on 2 separate machines. On one of the machines every thing works fine however on the second machine Konq wont start. _ ~ maybe, if you open Konsole window, and execute the command :- which konqueror . . . it will tell you where is 'executale' is located ~ maybe, somewhere like : /opt/kde3/bin/konqueror Next, if you Command, in Konsole window : /opt/kde3/bin/konqueror Konq will either Start OK, or else you will probably see some 'protest/error' output in the Konsole window? best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Booting from Virtual CD
Dear List, as I do not have a CD, is it possible to download an ISO Image, and, them Boot from a virtual CD ? thanks best rgds __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Booting from Virtual CD
On Friday 04 February 2005 10:53 pm, Aron Smith wrote: It looks like it is possible http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/totw/2000/october.html Terrific ~ thanks a ton :) , The article says :- __ With one simple mount command: mount /tmp/suse-7.0.iso /mnt/iso -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 That tells Linux to mount the image file /tmp/suse-7.0.iso at the location /mnt/iso. It contains an iso9660 filesystem of course (-t iso9660). The image is mounted readonly and I use the first loopback device (/dev/loop0) to mount it through. It's really that simple. Now if I do an ls /mnt/iso I get this: TRANS.TBL boot/ disks/ floppy/ lib/ opt/ root/ sbin/ tmp/ var/ bin/ dev/ etc/home/mnt/ proc/ rr_moved/ suse/ usr/ What would the next step be ?? ~ maybe, to make the boot modules 1.44 floppies, then, boot from the floppies, next, mount the iso image again, and finally, to point the Install program to the iso image directory mounted on /dev/loop ?? again, many thanks best rgds ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie-it] wheel mouse Logitech e Mandrake - RISOLTO
Ciao ragazzi!!! Ho risolto il problema. Doveva inserire la riga Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" nella sezione Mouse, ciao a tutti. Riccardo
Re: [newbie-it] wheel mouse Logitech e Mandrake
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh, io l'ho impostato anche il MouseManPlus direttamente nel file di config di Xfree4... beato te che ti funziona! Che dipenda forse dal fatto che uso l'enlighment? Ma non direi, visto che come dici, funziona anche sotto KDE. Ma hai anche te il Logitech? Si ho un anch' io un Logitech, però dimmi una cosa: da root ti funziona e da utente no? Se così fosse prova a controllare se hai i permessi di scrittura sul file /tmp/imwheel.pid, altrimenti non so che dirti... -- Vabbene ragazzi, provero' sabato quando torno a casa, se non funziona... installo win per sempre!! Scherzo...
Re: [newbie-it] wheel mouse Logitech e Mandrake
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Varotto Riccardo wrote: Salve a tutti! Ho da qualche settimana installato la nuova distribuzione Mandrake Linux 7.1 e lo scelta come mia installazione principale dopo aver usato da tempo la RedHat6.2 . Qual'è il problema? NON RIESCO A FAR FUNZIONARE la comoda funzione di wheel del mio mouse Logitech come dichiarato da Mandrake. Premetto che sto usando il nuovo Xfree4.0, Gnome ed Enlightment. Io uso HelixGnome+Sawfish e XFree4.0 e la rotellina funziona benissimo. Anche con Kde funziona: posso solo dirti di controllare che sia impostato il driver MouseManPlus (DrakConf -- MouseDrake). Ciao Eh, io l'ho impostato anche il MouseManPlus direttamente nel file di config di Xfree4... beato te che ti funziona! Che dipenda forse dal fatto che uso l'enlighment? Ma non direi, visto che come dici, funziona anche sotto KDE. Ma hai anche te il Logitech? Ciao!! -- Sebastiano Cordiano ___ Riccardo Varotto
