[newbie-it] divx
Salve a tutti qualcuno sa dirmi quale sia un bel programmino, magari con una gui che mi converta i files vob (già decriptati) in divx? Grazie.
Re: [newbie-it] AbiWord
Luigi ha scritto: Salve, ho da poco installato linux mandrake per iniziare l'avvicinamento a linux. Sull'ultimo numero di pcprofessionale, nel cd accluso, e' presente il wordprocessor AbiWord. Lo vorrei installare, ma siccome e' nel formato tar.gz, non so proprio come fare. Chi mi aiuta? Se sbaglio ditemelo !!! Apri una shell ed esegui: su root a questo punto inserisci la password di root Poi copia il file tar ball nella posizione /usr/local con il comando cp /mnt/cdrom/posizione del pacchetto /usr/local spostati sul ramo con cd /usr/local e lancia il comando tar xvzf nome_pacchetto Adesso vedrai una directory nuova con il nome Abiword- entra dentro tale directory con il comando cd Lancia il comando --- ./configure make make install Fine Se tutto va bene senza errori potrai eseguire dalla voce esegui comando del menu grafico di Mandrake abiword. Scrivimi se hai problemi. Fabrizio
Fw: [newbie-it] Installazione su pc non mio
- Original Message - From: Stefano Bigotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Installazione su pc non mio Se salvare windows è la priorità credo che la cosa migliore sia procurarsi un partition magic o un programma simile gratuito (se ne trovano in rete) . diskdrake lo fa, ed è compreso nelle ultime mdk l'alternativa (GPL) è fips Si tratta di soluzioni decisamente molto più linuxiane, è vero, ma proprio per questo motivo, secondo me, il rischio di sputtanare il vostro odiato windows è maggiore (Infatti, se non ricordo male, si consigliano scandisk e defrag prima di ridimensionare una partizione windows con diskdrake...) Come credete. Ciao Rob
Re: [newbie-it] AbiWord
Il 16/07/02 alle 17:56, Mr fabrizio borbotto': Poi copia il file tar ball nella posizione /usr/local con il comando cp /mnt/cdrom/posizione del pacchetto /usr/local spostati sul ramo con cd /usr/local e lancia il comando tar xvzf nome_pacchetto Un piccolo appunto: forse converrebbe scompattare il .tar.gz in una directory apposita (p.es. $HOME/src, in cui per ipotesi metterai tutti i sorgenti che vuoi compilare), io la /usr/local la lascerei ai soli programmi gia' compilati (quindi gli eseguibili e i dati di questi), per non far confusione e razionalizzare lo spazio su disco. Adesso vedrai una directory nuova con il nome Abiword- entra dentro tale directory con il comando cd Lancia il comando --- ./configure make make install Questi comandi in linea di massima sono giustissimi, pero' e' bene sempre avere la bella abitudine di leggere i file acclusi contenenti le istruzioni (di soliti INSTALL e/o README), perche' per talune tipologie di sorgenti (tutto dipende dalle scelte del programmatore) non e' necessariamente vero. -- L.U. #210970 L.M. #98222 S.U. #12583 - K 2.4.18-puro [Slackware 8.1]
[newbie-it] Aliasing e Fonts
Mi è successa una cosa strana! Premetto che uso Gnome su Mdk8.2. Un giorno quando ho avviato il sistema ho notato che tutti i caratteri usati nei vari word-processor (Abiword, Staroffice...), nei browser (Mozilla, Galeon...) e in altre applicazioni vengono visualizzati molto male, dire scalettati e non ben definiti. Avete un'idea di cosa può essere successo? E di come risolverlo? Centra forse l'aliasing? Inoltre come posso rendere disponibili certi fonts per le applicazioni (importati da win) senza usare DrakeFont? Vi ringrazio, Pollo.
Re: [newbie-it] Poortatile monitor TFT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 09:53, lunedì 15 luglio 2002, Stefano Sebastiani in merito a [newbie-it] Poortatile monitor TFT ha scritto: Il monitor è, come in oggetto un TFT 14.1 1024*768 Non riesco a configurarlo con XFdrake, non sò che monitor scegliere, con tutti ho un fastidioso (non definizione) effetto. che effetto? Non conosco neppure le specifiche per editarle nel file di conf! in genere i TFT hanno un refresh fisso, non puoi cambiarlo, valori bassi come 31.5 - 48.5 e 50-70 dovrebbero andare bene, vedi su http://www.linux-laptop.net/ se qualcuno ha gia' cpnfigurato un portatile simile Chi mi può aiutare? bye miKe Slackware 8.0 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 AMD R.U.#219755 R.M.#104037 S.R.U.#705 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9NFnlF/9fksDJ4y0RAqrmAKCTSmhr21/rfqxXgNflfU9m3Yl6CgCfUvIX iWa+j3y/CUgd3cLlehPOUS4= =2PbZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] floppy
Qualcuno qualche giorno fa diceva di avere problemi nel copiare i file su floppy. Bene, si inchida tutto anche a me. Non solo, ma non mi funziona neppure il cp da shell, e alla fine mi tocca riavviare il sistema. Con la 8.1 questo non mi accadeva (se non ricordo male...) Avete risolto? Risolviamo??? -- Arwan
RE: [newbie-it] Mp3
Se non ricordo male c'è anche Audiogalaxy satellite cmq vai su www.dowload.com selezioni come OS linux (se non ricordo male te lo selezziona automaticamente) Te lo seleziona automaticamente se ti connetti a internet da Linux; qualora dovessi farlo da Win o vai all'indirizzo www.dowload.com e cerchi il link per la sezione Linux (perche' ovviamente ti aprira' in automatico la sezione Win) oppure clicca qui (dovrebbe portarti direttamente alla sezione Linux): http://download.com/2001-2002-0.html?tag=dir Di Fresco Marco
[newbie] network config
Hi all, I set up a lm8.2 server at home (using 192.168.0.0 range)and had it working ok. When I moved the box to its final location, I used netconf to change ip's to the 10.89 .0. range. My problem is that when I went back to netconf to alter the gateway address, I noticed that I now have eth0 eth1 eth2, all active and using the 192.198 .0.0 range. (btw, I only have one ethernet card installed) If I disable and change the settings, they always revert back to 192.168.0.0 2 questions... a. what could cause this..? b. what files does netconf modify? -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:20pm up 2 days, 5:00, 2 users, load average: 1.63, 1.19, 1.00 This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 15 Jul 2002 10:52 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: During the evening my machine has got slower and slower, and now it takes almost a minute to open any application. I have logged out, and even halted, but it persists. During the bootup messages I briefly saw something to the effect that a compressed image had been found and was being uncompressed. Is this significant? How, using Process Management, can I identify the process(es) causing my problem, so that I can hang up? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Why does this stuff never happen to me? It is very very hard to guide someone when You've never seen the situation. OK, next time it happens ps aux myfile tail -n 40 /var/log/messages myfile then CP myfile to your email. The only daemon I am aware of that could cause this is jabberd which seems to have a severe memory leak, so if you are using any instant messenger based on jabberd, it will eat so much of your memory that swap will be used whenever you try to open a new app, which causes a tremendous slowdown. The solution if that is the problem is simple urpme jabberd which will rip out jabber and everything that uses it. Civileme No - I don't use an instant messenger. Myfile info coming up: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 1412 504 ?SJul15 0:07 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jul15 0:00 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jul15 0:00 [kapmd] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SWN Jul15 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jul15 0:00 [kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jul15 0:00 [bdflush] root 7 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jul15 0:00 [kupdated] root 8 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jul15 0:00 [mdrecoveryd] root66 0.0 0.1 1752 892 ?SJul15 0:00 devfsd /dev root 220 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jul15 0:00 [khubd] root 1010 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jul15 0:00 [eth0] rpc 1092 0.0 0.1 1544 532 ?SJul15 0:00 portmap root 1115 0.0 0.1 1484 592 ?SJul15 0:00 syslogd -m 0 root 1124 0.0 0.2 2012 1108 ?SJul15 0:00 klogd -2 root 1158 0.0 0.1 1724 808 ?SJul15 0:00 rpc.statd root 1254 0.0 0.0 1396 496 ?SJul15 0:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -pdaemon1280 0.0 0.0 1436 496 ?SJul15 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd named 1305 0.0 0.4 10236 2420 ?SJul15 0:00 named -u named named 1306 0.0 0.4 10236 2420 ?SJul15 0:00 named -u named named 1307 0.0 0.4 10236 2420 ?SJul15 0:00 named -u named named 1311 0.0 0.4 10236 2420 ?SJul15 0:00 named -u named named 1316 0.0 0.4 10236 2420 ?SJul15 0:00 named -u named root 1357 0.0 0.1 2304 1016 ?SJul15 0:00 xinetd -stayaliveroot 1398 0.0 0.4 5356 2488 ?SJul15 0:00 cupsd root 1422 0.0 0.2 2376 1320 ?SJul15 0:00 /usr/sbin/dhcpd -root 1649 0.0 0.1 1452 524 ?SJul15 0:00 gpm -t imps2 -m /root 1750 0.0 0.1 1620 664 ?SJul15 0:00 crond root 1784 0.0 0.9 6904 5076 ?SJul15 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usxfs 1809 0.0 0.9 6380 5088 ?SJul15 0:02 xfs -port -1 -daeroot 1837 0.0 0.3 4668 1768 ?SJul15 0:00 smbd -D root 1848 0.0 0.3 3740 1728 ?SJul15 0:00 nmbd -D root 1849 0.0 0.2 3672 1412 ?SJul15 0:00 nmbd -D root 2078 0.0 0.0 1380 408 tty1 SJul15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 2079 0.0 0.0 1380 408 tty2 SJul15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 2080 0.0 0.0 1380 408 tty3 SJul15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 2081 0.0 0.0 1380 408 tty4 SJul15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 2082 0.0 0.0 1380 408 tty5 S Jul15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 2083 0.0 0.0 1380 408 tty6 S Jul15 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 2084 0.0 0.1 2404 692 ? SJul15 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm -nodroot 2095 0.1 2.3 54412 11820 ? S Jul15 0:35 /etc/X11/X -deferroot 2102 0.0 0.2 3328 1412 ? SJul15 0:00 -:0 anne 2184 0.0 0.2 2432 1200 ?SJul15 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/anne 2205 0.0 0.4 7456 2468 ?SJul15 0:00 /usr/bin/medusa-ianne 2339 0.0 1.1 18244 6116 ?SJul15 0:00 kdeinit: dcopservanne 2345 0.0 1.7 20440 9032 ?SJul15 0:00 kdeinit: kded anne 2360 0.0 1.1 18632 5928 ?SJul15 0:00 kdeinit: Running.anne
[newbie] mailing list change address
hi, where can I change my email address subscribed in this list? this email account of mine is not accessible at home that is why I would like to change. thanks! -- g2 "intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent." LUN : 278414 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:02, Damian G wrote: On 15 Jul 2002 22:22:09 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for the test you just wasted three seconds of my life, one click of my mouse's life and 1k off my dsl ...but I forgive you. i will not condemn you to hell yet. i'm a very good person. *insert mysterious light coming from the sky and surrounding me* hehehheehe smoked Damian Smoked as in trout or hemp? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 6:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 15 Jul 2002 10:52 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: During the evening my machine has got slower and slower, and now it takes almost a minute to open any application. I have logged out, and even halted, but it persists. During the bootup messages I briefly saw something to the effect that a compressed image had been found and was being uncompressed. Is this significant? How, using Process Management, can I identify the process(es) causing my problem, so that I can hang up? SNIP Well those processes look OK If booting takes the normal time, but everything in KDE is slow. It might be worth trying a different KDE account or a different Window Manager. It is possible I suppose that your account may be screwed in some way ? If Linux is taking a lot longer to boot it might be something more fundamental such as a Hard Drive problem. I dont know if the syslog would show such problems, but it would not hurt to look. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anybody running the distributed net client?
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:22, Glenn wrote: Please pardon what is probably a FAQ, but I've been running Mandrake 8.2 for all of about 10 hours or so, and my *nix experience is purely as a command line user about 8 years ago on a dumb terminal. Can anybody point me to a dummy's guide to distributed net client installation. I gather I'm supposed to go to a command line where I am to type dnetc -install (to run it as a hidden service). I walk my way down to the dnetc directory, which contains my client files, in the Konsole. An ls confirms that the executable is there. However, when I type the command, I get a command not found error. Anything in here sound like a newbie-knucklehead trick? Glenn I'll give it a crack Glenn. To make an executable run you need to check the user has permission to run it like so. $ cd dnetc $ ls -l A short example from my home directory. [michael@tirnanog michael]$ ls -l -rwx--1 michael michael 121 Jun 3 22:42 freeciv* -rw-rw-r--1 michael michael 812 Jun 19 11:49 log.txt See the x in the permissions of the file freeciv (and not for log.txt). $ man chmod for details of how to set this. The current directory (folder if you are still thinking in Windows speak) is not in the path statement for security reasons. $ echo $PATH So to run an executable use: $ ./program The dot (.) represents the current directory (not a nipple). The slash (/) specifies inside the aforementioned directory. And program is the name of the executable. Thus for my freeciv example above: $ ./freeciv would run it. Hope that helps. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:02 am, you wrote: The Mem used is creeping up all the time. Normally, that's OK as well, since Linux wants to use all the available memory -- what's not active for programs is used for disk and for cache, which is a good idea, since unused RAM is wasted. OK But having the system slow down to a crawl is certainly not normal. Some people on the list suggest the offender may be jabberd but I'm not sure that's something you installed (do a ps aux | grep jabber). jabberd is something that is known to gradually swallow RAM -- on my machine it was eating about 200 megs (out of 256) after about 3 days. anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1R10:06 0:00 grep jabber I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. Drastic it may be, but I may have to. Could you elaborate, please? Well, you just click on 'logout' from KDE which will kill all KDE and X related processes, leaving you at a console shell prompt (if you start kde with 'startkde'). Logout appears to stop X briefly and then goes straight back to the KDE login. There i s a long black screen delay before switching to the KDE login splash. The first part seems OK but there is a long delay at the loading the desktop - almost a minute - and the panel and restoring session icons are there a very long time, too. It does seem to be X, I think, as once a Konsole is opened it responds fast enough, and so does text editor. The KDE startup was extremely slow and everything else has been slow since. The system is almost unusable. Ouch. How long has it been since you restarted? 10:10am up 13:12, Whatever it is, it is being saved/restarted on bootup. Last night it was taking almost a minute to open a folder. This morning it is slightly better, at about 20 secs. I don't ask for the session to be re-started, but I suppose that the message may not be what it seems? I think the trouble may have started when I was trying to add my SCSI film scanner. Afterwards I switched the scanner off, and then told kudzu to remove the configuration, so there shouldn't be anything left. Apart from that, I've run out of ideas. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
smoked Damian Smoked as in trout or hemp? -- Michael smoked as in talking nonsense .. just like i would if i had smoked some weird stuff. ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
Hi, Did you try using a different window manager? * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020716 13:11]: On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:02 am, you wrote: The Mem used is creeping up all the time. Normally, that's OK as well, since Linux wants to use all the available memory -- what's not active for programs is used for disk and for cache, which is a good idea, since unused RAM is wasted. OK But having the system slow down to a crawl is certainly not normal. Some people on the list suggest the offender may be jabberd but I'm not sure that's something you installed (do a ps aux | grep jabber). jabberd is something that is known to gradually swallow RAM -- on my machine it was eating about 200 megs (out of 256) after about 3 days. anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1R10:06 0:00 grep jabber I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. Drastic it may be, but I may have to. Could you elaborate, please? Well, you just click on 'logout' from KDE which will kill all KDE and X related processes, leaving you at a console shell prompt (if you start kde with 'startkde'). Logout appears to stop X briefly and then goes straight back to the KDE login. There i s a long black screen delay before switching to the KDE login splash. The first part seems OK but there is a long delay at the loading the desktop - almost a minute - and the panel and restoring session icons are there a very long time, too. It does seem to be X, I think, as once a Konsole is opened it responds fast enough, and so does text editor. The KDE startup was extremely slow and everything else has been slow since. The system is almost unusable. Ouch. How long has it been since you restarted? 10:10am up 13:12, Whatever it is, it is being saved/restarted on bootup. Last night it was taking almost a minute to open a folder. This morning it is slightly better, at about 20 secs. I don't ask for the session to be re-started, but I suppose that the message may not be what it seems? I think the trouble may have started when I was trying to add my SCSI film scanner. Afterwards I switched the scanner off, and then told kudzu to remove the configuration, so there shouldn't be anything left. Apart from that, I've run out of ideas. Anne 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
Re: [newbie] IDE/SCSI CD
Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I really enjoy all the posts. I have a question that has stumped me. I have an old CD drive (40x) and a CD-RW (Ricoh MP7040A). Anyway, I set up both drives as SCSI devices. Mandrake install automagically set up the CD-RW and I added the following as to the append line in lilo.conf hdb=ide-scsi not too hard so far. I ran lilo and the drive works. I can do direct CD to CD copy...in gnometoaster. Other programs don't recognize the CD-R as a reader. I cannot open either drive through the /mnt. They're both locked. I can play CD's with CD player in the CD-R. I have the CD-R on hdb and the CD-RW on hdd. I think that something is confused between scdo and scd1. I can't seem to straighten it out. It's not a killer as I can undo the append statement to remove the scsi emulation on the CD-R and everything is back to normal, except direct CD copying. Any ideas? Thanks Linus did you change the entries in fstab as well -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Anybody running the distributed net client?
Thanks, Michael (and Femme and everybody else). That does help. I'm a recovering DOS command line junkie who was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Windows world, so I can relate to your explanation. I've got the client running when I start it manually. I'm used to it starting up on log-in (under OS/2 and W2K), but that doesn't seem to be possible unless I speak some kind of incantation over an unnamed directory, introducing a cryptic script (obtained from distributed.net's FAQ-o-mat) into it while holding my tongue just so. I'll just have to remember to start it up whenever I log into Mandrake. Thanks again all; Glenn This email scanned by Norton Antivirus software, with latest definition files, prior to transmission. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Adams Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 04:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Anybody running the distributed net client? On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:22, Glenn wrote: Please pardon what is probably a FAQ, but I've been running Mandrake 8.2 for all of about 10 hours or so, and my *nix experience is purely as a command line user about 8 years ago on a dumb terminal. Can anybody point me to a dummy's guide to distributed net client installation. I gather I'm supposed to go to a command line where I am to type dnetc -install (to run it as a hidden service). I walk my way down to the dnetc directory, which contains my client files, in the Konsole. An ls confirms that the executable is there. However, when I type the command, I get a command not found error. Anything in here sound like a newbie-knucklehead trick? Glenn I'll give it a crack Glenn. To make an executable run you need to check the user has permission to run it like so. $ cd dnetc $ ls -l A short example from my home directory. [michael@tirnanog michael]$ ls -l -rwx--1 michael michael 121 Jun 3 22:42 freeciv* -rw-rw-r--1 michael michael 812 Jun 19 11:49 log.txt See the x in the permissions of the file freeciv (and not for log.txt). $ man chmod for details of how to set this. The current directory (folder if you are still thinking in Windows speak) is not in the path statement for security reasons. $ echo $PATH So to run an executable use: $ ./program The dot (.) represents the current directory (not a nipple). The slash (/) specifies inside the aforementioned directory. And program is the name of the executable. Thus for my freeciv example above: $ ./freeciv would run it. Hope that helps. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] network config
look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ you will see files like: ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1 ifcfg-eth2 edit the first one (eth0) to suit and delete the other two, then type: service network restart (without the quotes.) That should solve your problems. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Colin Jenkins Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 4:01 PM To: linux-newbi group Subject: [newbie] network config Hi all, I set up a lm8.2 server at home (using 192.168.0.0 range)and had it working ok. When I moved the box to its final location, I used netconf to change ip's to the 10.89 .0. range. My problem is that when I went back to netconf to alter the gateway address, I noticed that I now have eth0 eth1 eth2, all active and using the 192.198 .0.0 range. (btw, I only have one ethernet card installed) If I disable and change the settings, they always revert back to 192.168.0.0 2 questions... a. what could cause this..? b. what files does netconf modify? -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:20pm up 2 days, 5:00, 2 users, load average: 1.63, 1.19, 1.00 This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice
I am trying to install Open Office 1.0 onto a ML8.2 system. Following directions at www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html#linux, I unpacked the tar.gz file to /tmp, then, as root in /tmp install, ran ./install --prefix=/opt. This apparently in installed everything correctly to /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/ The program apparently runs fine as root. However as a normal user, the program freezes shortly after completing the launch process. When I attempt to run either /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup or /tmp/install/setup, either as root or as a normal user, the setup program returns OO is already installed, Would you like to repair? Doing so doesn't change this or any subsequent behaviors, running the setup program again leads to the same message. in following the OO installation directions, I see that the setup program is supposed to install ~1.4 Mb into my home directory. This was not done, either as root or normal user. I am able to run OO as a normal user if I change the suid bit on the program file, but this doesn't seem like a safe solution. Has anybody been more successful installing OO1.0 on ML8.2? How? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Anybody running the distributed net client?
add the executable to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that the last line looks like this: /my/path/to/executable/my_executable be sure to put the on the end, so it returns the console to you.. if you don't, you might have problems. rc.local is run each time the system is booted.. so if you put the command there, it will run at boot. if you need to run it as a certain user and not root.. you can do that too. Here is an example: su - USERNAME -c /path/to/execeutable /dev/null 21 if you use that, the program will start as the user you put in place of USERNAME hope that serves you well. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 6:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Anybody running the distributed net client? Thanks, Michael (and Femme and everybody else). That does help. I'm a recovering DOS command line junkie who was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Windows world, so I can relate to your explanation. I've got the client running when I start it manually. I'm used to it starting up on log-in (under OS/2 and W2K), but that doesn't seem to be possible unless I speak some kind of incantation over an unnamed directory, introducing a cryptic script (obtained from distributed.net's FAQ-o-mat) into it while holding my tongue just so. I'll just have to remember to start it up whenever I log into Mandrake. Thanks again all; Glenn This email scanned by Norton Antivirus software, with latest definition files, prior to transmission. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Adams Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 04:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Anybody running the distributed net client? On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:22, Glenn wrote: Please pardon what is probably a FAQ, but I've been running Mandrake 8.2 for all of about 10 hours or so, and my *nix experience is purely as a command line user about 8 years ago on a dumb terminal. Can anybody point me to a dummy's guide to distributed net client installation. I gather I'm supposed to go to a command line where I am to type dnetc -install (to run it as a hidden service). I walk my way down to the dnetc directory, which contains my client files, in the Konsole. An ls confirms that the executable is there. However, when I type the command, I get a command not found error. Anything in here sound like a newbie-knucklehead trick? Glenn I'll give it a crack Glenn. To make an executable run you need to check the user has permission to run it like so. $ cd dnetc $ ls -l A short example from my home directory. [michael@tirnanog michael]$ ls -l -rwx--1 michael michael 121 Jun 3 22:42 freeciv* -rw-rw-r--1 michael michael 812 Jun 19 11:49 log.txt See the x in the permissions of the file freeciv (and not for log.txt). $ man chmod for details of how to set this. The current directory (folder if you are still thinking in Windows speak) is not in the path statement for security reasons. $ echo $PATH So to run an executable use: $ ./program The dot (.) represents the current directory (not a nipple). The slash (/) specifies inside the aforementioned directory. And program is the name of the executable. Thus for my freeciv example above: $ ./freeciv would run it. Hope that helps. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
let me jump in and say this sounds to me like named is mis-configured and her DNS is looking for the file on the internet, as long as killing jabber did not cure it. can you go to the K menu, Applications, Monitoring, Process managment, highlight ( By clicking on) any process called named then on the top menu, Signal, Kill. do this until all processes called named are gone. and let me know. there are a few services that when not properly configured can search all over before looking on the hard drive of your computer for some thing, and named is one of them. On Tuesday 16 July 2002 06:08 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:02 am, you wrote: The Mem used is creeping up all the time. Normally, that's OK as well, since Linux wants to use all the available memory -- what's not active for programs is used for disk and for cache, which is a good idea, since unused RAM is wasted. OK But having the system slow down to a crawl is certainly not normal. Some people on the list suggest the offender may be jabberd but I'm not sure that's something you installed (do a ps aux | grep jabber). jabberd is something that is known to gradually swallow RAM -- on my machine it was eating about 200 megs (out of 256) after about 3 days. anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1R10:06 0:00 grep jabber I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. Drastic it may be, but I may have to. Could you elaborate, please? Well, you just click on 'logout' from KDE which will kill all KDE and X related processes, leaving you at a console shell prompt (if you start kde with 'startkde'). Logout appears to stop X briefly and then goes straight back to the KDE login. There i s a long black screen delay before switching to the KDE login splash. The first part seems OK but there is a long delay at the loading the desktop - almost a minute - and the panel and restoring session icons are there a very long time, too. It does seem to be X, I think, as once a Konsole is opened it responds fast enough, and so does text editor. The KDE startup was extremely slow and everything else has been slow since. The system is almost unusable. Ouch. How long has it been since you restarted? 10:10am up 13:12, Whatever it is, it is being saved/restarted on bootup. Last night it was taking almost a minute to open a folder. This morning it is slightly better, at about 20 secs. I don't ask for the session to be re-started, but I suppose that the message may not be what it seems? I think the trouble may have started when I was trying to add my SCSI film scanner. Afterwards I switched the scanner off, and then told kudzu to remove the configuration, so there shouldn't be anything left. Apart from that, I've run out of ideas. Anne 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] What have I done?
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 9:47 am, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 15 Jul 2002 10:52 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: During the evening my machine has got slower and slower, and now it takes almost a minute to open any application. I have logged out, and even halted, but it persists. During the bootup messages I briefly saw something to the effect that a compressed image had been found and was being uncompressed. Is this significant? How, using Process Management, can I identify the process(es) causing my problem, so that I can hang up? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Why does this stuff never happen to me? It is very very hard to guide someone when You've never seen the situation. OK, next time it happens ps aux myfile tail -n 40 /var/log/messages myfile then CP myfile to your email. The only daemon I am aware of that could cause this is jabberd which seems to have a severe memory leak, so if you are using any instant messenger based on jabberd, it will eat so much of your memory that swap will be used whenever you try to open a new app, which causes a tremendous slowdown. The solution if that is the problem is simple urpme jabberd which will rip out jabber and everything that uses it. Civileme No - I don't use an instant messenger. Myfile info coming up: snip Hmmm, looks like it might be trying to access the CD (audio) ... Is there a disk in there? No - the only thing that changed recently with regard to CD audio is an application link on the desktop with Execute set to xmms /dev/scd0. This since about 3 days ago. I have trashed it just in case, but it doesn't seem to have made any difference. Everything else looks very normal. Two things to try 1. In superuser terminal supermount -i disable This didn't seem to make any difference. right when you begin your session (this won't matter for audio CDs but it will be required to mount and umount data cds) 2. at boot splash screen hit esc then type linux devfs=nomount This hung at the 'system server' bit, then the KDE splash screen disappeared completely leaving me with an empty blue screen and no way out but to power down. Manual fsck completed I'm back to almost a minute to open a directory on my desktop - though once open changing directories is snappy. Hope something here gives you a clue. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
et wrote: let me jump in and say this sounds to me like named is mis-configured and her DNS is looking for the file on the internet, as long as killing jabber did not cure it. can you go to the K menu, Applications, Monitoring, Process managment, highlight ( By clicking on) any process called named then on the top menu, Signal, Kill. do this until all processes called named are gone. and let me know. there are a few services that when not properly configured can search all over before looking on the hard drive of your computer for some thing, and named is one of them. On Tuesday 16 July 2002 06:08 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 7:02 am, you wrote: The Mem used is creeping up all the time. Normally, that's OK as well, since Linux wants to use all the available memory -- what's not active for programs is used for disk and for cache, which is a good idea, since unused RAM is wasted. OK But having the system slow down to a crawl is certainly not normal. Some people on the list suggest the offender may be jabberd but I'm not sure that's something you installed (do a ps aux | grep jabber). jabberd is something that is known to gradually swallow RAM -- on my machine it was eating about 200 megs (out of 256) after about 3 days. anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1R10:06 0:00 grep jabber I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. Drastic it may be, but I may have to. Could you elaborate, please? Well, you just click on 'logout' from KDE which will kill all KDE and X related processes, leaving you at a console shell prompt (if you start kde with 'startkde'). Logout appears to stop X briefly and then goes straight back to the KDE login. There i s a long black screen delay before switching to the KDE login splash. The first part seems OK but there is a long delay at the loading the desktop - almost a minute - and the panel and restoring session icons are there a very long time, too. It does seem to be X, I think, as once a Konsole is opened it responds fast enough, and so does text editor. The KDE startup was extremely slow and everything else has been slow since. The system is almost unusable. Ouch. How long has it been since you restarted? 10:10am up 13:12, Whatever it is, it is being saved/restarted on bootup. Last night it was taking almost a minute to open a folder. This morning it is slightly better, at about 20 secs. I don't ask for the session to be re-started, but I suppose that the message may not be what it seems? I think the trouble may have started when I was trying to add my SCSI film scanner. Afterwards I switched the scanner off, and then told kudzu to remove the configuration, so there shouldn't be anything left. Apart from that, I've run out of ideas. Anne Does Anne run any windblows OS's. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] failed on bootup lm 8.2
I get a few error on boot up. Here they are. turning on procerss accournting [failed] starting processing acounting[failed] I can't remember the exact verbage of this one. eth0 [failed] I do not have anything plugged into the nic, could that be the problem. I am using the usb on my cable modem. Do I need process acounting? Maybe I should just turn it off. Any suggestions? Thanks Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] failed on bootup lm 8.2
Hey Rick, I get a few error on boot up. Here they are. turning on procerss accournting [failed] starting processing acounting[failed] snip Do I need process acounting? Maybe I should just turn it off. I had a problem with that in 8.1 IIRC, I remember reading on Mandrakeuser.org that there was some kind of fault in that version shipped with 8.1. Thought it should be fixed in 8.2... Anyways, it's no system-critical service (my machine works without it) and you can remove it. I think the package name is psacct. HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 12:23 pm, you wrote: let me jump in and say this sounds to me like named is mis-configured and her DNS is looking for the file on the internet, as long as killing jabber did not cure it. can you go to the K menu, Applications, Monitoring, Process managment, highlight ( By clicking on) any process called named then on the top menu, Signal, Kill. do this until all processes called named are gone. and let me know. there are a few services that when not properly configured can search all over before looking on the hard drive of your computer for some thing, and named is one of them. 'You do not have permission Short of logging in as root, is there a way? Perhaps from the SuperUser file manager? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Still trying to post.
Sorry for the test. Still trying to sort out my posting problems.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] failed on bootup lm 8.2
Hi, I get a few error on boot up. Here they are. turning on procerss accournting [failed] starting processing acounting[failed] snip Do I need process acounting? Maybe I should just turn it off. I had a problem with that in 8.1 IIRC, I remember reading on Mandrakeuser.org that there was some kind of fault in that version shipped with 8.1. Thought it should be fixed in 8.2... Anyways, it's no system-critical service (my machine works without it) and you can remove it. I think the package name is psacct. How do I remove the package? Thanks Rick 1. If you are in X (KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, etc.): Run rpmdrake, click installed and search for psacct, then select it and remove it. OR 2. From the console type su, provide the password for root, type urpme psacct. Then press ctrl-d to get back to normal user. HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Posting Saga Resolved
I am posting this message so to let others know there is a solution available for those who have to deal with ISP's that are run by brain-dead morons. First a short background. I subscribed to both the newbie and expert lists at the beginning of May. On the 22nd of my ISP, a cable company who shall remain anonymous at this time, changed their mail systems from one outsourcing provider to another. The change over went smoothly, except I could no longer post to the Mandrake mailing lists. I contacted my ISP and explained the problem. It has been nearly two months and they still can not figure it out, even after I forwarded a e-mail from Charles Davant (Thanks Charles) Mandrake to them explaining that the reason I could not post was because my ISP does not have a reverse DNS entry setup for their smtp server. During my last conversation with their tech support, I was told they could not make that change because it might cause a problem for their other customers! I don't even want to tell you what my reaction to that statement was. I was about to give up and resign myself to only being able to read the mailing lists, when I decided to see if I could find an alternate mail service that offers pop3 services which I could use for the Mandrake mailing lists. A quick search on GOOGLE led me to www.myrealbox.com. It is a FREE mail service that supports POP3,IMAP and Web based mail with no advertising of any kind. It took me less than 5 minutes to setup an account and resubscribe to both lists using the myrealbox account. A quick addition to my Evolution configuration and I can now post. I don't feel like a second class citizen anymore!!! So if you can't post or have an ISP run by morons, check out them out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation
On Monday July 15 2002 02:44 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: In a separate issue, does anyone know how to configure Kmail, the KDE email client, for an Earthlink pop account? The config in Kmail confuses me because there is a default account that seems partly installed but cannot be modified or removed. When I try to check email for my Earthink account I get 2 error msgs, one on top of the other. They are cryptic. They only say it didn't work. No clue what's wrong. I think one comes from that default pop account which is not and cannot be configured. The second seems to comes from the Earthlink account due to some mal-configuration that I haven't quite got right in that pop account. Suggestions? Maybe a sample of what is wanted at each of the setup dialogs? What's with the default pop account? Why is it there and why can't it be touched?. I dunno, you should be able to hi-lite the existing account and clk on 'Remove'. I vaugely remember with an older Kmail version (you should'a mentioned what Mandrake and Kmail versions you're using), that the account refused to 'remove'. So find your 'kmailrc' file, mine's /home/tom/.kde/share/config/kmailrc, and in that file, delete the account (ie, everything under [Account __]), with a text editor. Leave the other [...] sections alone, and save the edited file. Then back in Kmail, the default account will be gone, and you can add yours and choose pop. There's nothing real special about setting up an Earthlink mail account. As with most ISP's you'll need to specify a userID and password. Unlike the dialup config tho, don't preface your userID with 'ELN/' for mail (or news). Also, EL will probly refuse your mail unless you fill in your name, organization, and correct email address in Kmail's 'Identity' section. Tip: edit 'On %D, you wrote:' to 'On %D, %F wrote:' (without the 's) in the Composer | Phrases section, so when there's (several) replies to a post, we can still figure out who wrote what instead of wonder'n who 'you' is ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix listening on port 25
Thanks to all for the help Re: Network Security. I was feeling confident that I have got things buttoned up fairly securely and so moved onto setting up postfix to forward mail to my IPS's smtp server for delivery. Things are working fine in respect to sending my mail but now I seem to have port 25 open. As I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my ISP I can't really see any need for postfix to be listening on this port. So does anyone know how I can go about disabling it. Or maybe its not a big worry and I should just leave it as is. Thanks Ross Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation
On Monday July 15 2002 02:44 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: In a separate issue, does anyone know how to configure Kmail, the KDE email client, for an Earthlink pop account? Let me re-state the issue. I have no problem getting the modem to connect to the Internet. I have no problem sending email from Kmail. The problem is that I cannot check mail. After I click to check for email, I am prompted for and enter the user and pw (definitely the correct ones). When I click OK, I immediately get an error message. It only sayserror, without explanation. And the settings I am using, to the extent that Kmail and Eudora use the same or similar terminology, are those that work in Eudora. I think there is significance in the fact that the error pops up without any sensible delay. There is no modem light activity. It seems a fairly dependable guess that the email setup itself is not the issue. Suggestions are welcome. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] screen resolution
Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
On Tuesday July 16 2002 07:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 12:23 pm, you wrote: let me jump in and say this sounds to me like named is mis-configured and her DNS is looking for the file on the internet, as long as killing jabber did not cure it. can you go to the K menu, Applications, Monitoring, Process managment, highlight ( By clicking on) any process called named then on the top menu, Signal, Kill. do this until all processes called named are gone. and let me know. there are a few services that when not properly configured can search all over before looking on the hard drive of your computer for some thing, and named is one of them. 'You do not have permission Short of logging in as root, is there a way? Perhaps from the SuperUser file manager? Anne Well if I understand the problem su to root in a term and type 'ps -aux |grep named'. That'll return the pid(s) of any running 'named' process(es), and who owns them, besides some other info. You can then kill with 'kill -9 pid. Ignore the return that looks something like, root 24920 0.0 0.1 1664 588 pts/2S11:13 0:00 grep named That's just the grep process you just ran. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo boot loader configuration help needed
I have XP installed on the first partition of my IDE 0 harddrive (approx 35gig partiton) and Mandrake installed on the second partion, approx 5gig. XP was installed first then Mandrake with Lilo. I can boot either system from Lilo without problems I just want to change some of the defaults. Drake Zero :|) Mandrake 8.2 KDE 2.2.2 Abit KT7A motherboard Santa Cruz sound card by Turtle Beach IDE 0 - 42Gig, IDE 1 - 14Gig All In Wonder 128 AGP video with TV tuner Lite On CDRW UMAX scanner 1220S Zoom Modem 3Com Eatherlink XL - DSL connection Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI adapter On Monday 15 July 2002 07:50 pm, you wrote: i boot winxp pro using ntfs via lilo so it can be done, i'm not sure what you mean by 'windows partition, the boot partition' it appears that you managed to install lilo during the install? could you describe your partitions and where you are installing lilo? bascule On Monday 15 July 2002 9:34 pm, you wrote: I installed Mandrake as the second OS after installing WindowsXP. I set it to use the graphical Lilo loader and I'd like to make some changes in the Lilo configuration. Using the Mandrake Control Center and the Lilo configuration wizard any change I make returns the error message Installation of LILO failed. The following error occured: Device 0x0301: Partition type 0x07 does not seem suitable for a LILO boot sector. Is this because I'm using an XP NTFS file system on the Windows partition, the boot partition? How can I make changes to the Lilo configuration and have them stick? Thanks Drake0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] screen resolution
Run XFdrake -Original Message- From: Joe Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] screen resolution Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
try Xconfigurator at the shell prompt and this will take you through. good luck. tks/Dex Patel RCN Joe Harkins joeharkins@gtcinterTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] net.comcc: (bcc: Dex Patel/RCN) Sent by:Subject: [newbie] screen resolution newbie-owner@linux-m andrake.com 07/16/02 12:01 PM Please respond to newbie Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? 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
Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 11:54 am, you wrote: On Monday July 15 2002 02:44 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: In a separate issue, does anyone know how to configure Kmail, the KDE email client, for an Earthlink pop account? Let me re-state the issue. I have no problem getting the modem to connect to the Internet. I have no problem sending email from Kmail. The problem is that I cannot check mail. After I click to check for email, I am prompted for and enter the user and pw (definitely the correct ones). When I click OK, I immediately get an error message. It only sayserror, without explanation. And the settings I am using, to the extent that Kmail and Eudora use the same or similar terminology, are those that work in Eudora. I think there is significance in the fact that the error pops up without any sensible delay. There is no modem light activity. It seems a fairly dependable guess that the email setup itself is not the issue. Suggestions are welcome. Joe when you say the correct ones are you adding the earthlink.net to the user name? don't. other than that you must have a password problem, where you are using caps and sould not be or numbers and don't have the num lock on? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 5:01 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? There sure is... First of all if you are in KDE try pressing CTl+Alt+keypad plus (or minus) This will rotate you through all the resolutions defined for your monitor. Next Open Mandrake Control Centre HardwareDisplay and you can set your default resolution. Expert mode alllows you to set your video card and monitor type. Note : If you have edited your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to use the Nvidia drivers then this procedure will erase your edits and you will have to do it again. (If you do not know what I am on about then dont worry about it.) HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to force the use of SQUID proxy in LM8.2 ?
Hello, Recently I decided to give a try to LM8.2 on the office internet GW. So I replaced MandrakeSNF with 8.2. Everything is running OK, but I miss the httpd-naat service and the quick changes we can do with it, for example to have the proxy to require authentication... Is there something similar we can install in LM 8.2 ? What are the alternatives (the way to) ...: 1. Force the use of the proxy (Like SNF). 2. Require authentication to SQUID. Help me please...
Re: [newbie] recommendation needed: graphic card w open source drivers
On Tuesday July 16 2002 03:40 am, Stormjumper wrote: RE: [newbie] sound problemsam about to go out and buy a graphic card to replace my very old Nvidia TNT2 just wondering, in light of the fierce recent debate on open/close source drivers, where graphic chipsets are concerned, what are the available options with the following requirements 1. 3d accelerated open source drivers 2. decent performance thanks for any advice Probly there's only two that come close, ATI and Matrox. Matrox might not qualify for your number 2., 3d accel. Linux reports on ATI are varied and range from 'lot'sa problems' to 'works great'. Also the very latest cards, either ATI or Matrox aren't (or aren't fully) supported yet. An old 3DFX Voodoo3 or better meets both your requirements. I wish I'd never given away my old V3. Unfortunately, 3DFX got swallowed up by nVidia some time ago. XFree still has excellent open source 2d/3d drivers for 3DFX cards tho. Civileme wrote in a recent newbie post: Well, I have treasured Voodoo cards for my 3D. I surplus old test machines with other cards installed and hold the 3dfx. NVIdia drivers _are_ unstable and have been known to cause filesystem corruption. Yes, I have tested this, extensively. Only the XFree drivers, which do not provide 3D accel, seem to work all the time. Incidentally, NVidia cannot make their drivers open-source because there were others involved in the development, notably SGI and Microsoft, and NVidia's huge success is due largely to their special relationship with Microsoft vis-a-vis the XBox. So they are simply a fiefdom on the edge of empire, and probably feel at times like a flea on an elephant's back. Same things I say all the time but y'all don't argue with him ; I use a GEF2, mainly 'cause it's the very best card for the one and only app I keep Windoze around to run, M$ Flight Sim 2000, nVidia's latest 30.30 W9x driver. But I use it with Linux with the XFree open source driver, never a problem. So, IMO, if you can get by without 3d accel in Linux, get a GeForce. You might have to anyhow, get by without 3d accel that is, since M$ recently bought SGI's openGL patents, and they could tell nVidia to quit supporting Linux with closed source drivers. 'Course, that's always been a looming threat, even before the SGI accquisition (ie, Civileme's comments, special relationship with Microsoft ). The XFree 2d drivers will survive in any case. nVidia had no part in these, so you won't be completely orphaned. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE/SCSI CD
John Richard Smith wrote: Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I really enjoy all the posts. I have a question that has stumped me. I have an old CD drive (40x) and a CD-RW (Ricoh MP7040A). Anyway, I set up both drives as SCSI devices. Mandrake install automagically set up the CD-RW and I added the following as to the append line in lilo.conf hdb=ide-scsi not too hard so far. I ran lilo and the drive works. I can do direct CD to CD copy...in gnometoaster. Other programs don't recognize the CD-R as a reader. I cannot open either drive through the /mnt. They're both locked. I can play CD's with CD player in the CD-R. I have the CD-R on hdb and the CD-RW on hdd. I think that something is confused between scdo and scd1. I can't seem to straighten it out. It's not a killer as I can undo the append statement to remove the scsi emulation on the CD-R and everything is back to normal, except direct CD copying. Any ideas? Thanks Linus did you change the entries in fstab as well Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, your other programs look at links /dev/cdrom which is most probably hanging--attached to nothing Your drives under ide-scsi are /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 And you need to set up /etc/fstab entries and also the /dev/cdrom link /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 and a second entry for the other CD drive with say /mnt/cdrom1 and /dev/scd1 and erase the previous entry or better comment it out for the CD drive. the one where it says dev=/dev/hdb Finally in a terminal as root, the ONE drive where you want to play audio CDs ln -fs /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom Yep select one drive for audios and make sure you have the audio cable from that drive to the sound card, and link that one to /dev/cdrom so the players can find it. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice
It sounds like you installed OpenOffice as a standalone app when you wanted to do it as a network app (and after the install, you would run setup as a user and it would copy some configuration files to your home directory). I believe you have to add -network to the install command line. Just incase, there should be a readme file in the directory you extracted OpenOffice into. Check it to make sure -network is correct. You want to look for something about a network install. On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:54:57 -0400 Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Open Office 1.0 onto a ML8.2 system. Following directions at www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html#linux, I unpacked the tar.gz file to /tmp, then, as root in /tmp install, ran ./install --prefix=/opt. This apparently in installed everything correctly to /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/ The program apparently runs fine as root. However as a normal user, the program freezes shortly after completing the launch process. When I attempt to run either /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup or /tmp/install/setup, either as root or as a normal user, the setup program returns OO is already installed, Would you like to repair? Doing so doesn't change this or any subsequent behaviors, running the setup program again leads to the same message. in following the OO installation directions, I see that the setup program is supposed to install ~1.4 Mb into my home directory. This was not done, either as root or normal user. I am able to run OO as a normal user if I change the suid bit on the program file, but this doesn't seem like a safe solution. Has anybody been more successful installing OO1.0 on ML8.2? How? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation
On Tuesday July 16 2002 10:54 am, Joe Harkins wrote: On Monday July 15 2002 02:44 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: In a separate issue, does anyone know how to configure Kmail, the KDE email client, for an Earthlink pop account? Let me re-state the issue. I have no problem getting the modem to connect to the Internet. I have no problem sending email from Kmail. The problem is that I cannot check mail. After I click to check for email, I am prompted for and enter the user and pw (definitely the correct ones). When I click OK, I immediately get an error message. It only sayserror, without explanation. And the settings I am using, to the extent that Kmail and Eudora use the same or similar terminology, are those that work in Eudora. I think there is significance in the fact that the error pops up without any sensible delay. There is no modem light activity. It seems a fairly dependable guess that the email setup itself is not the issue. Suggestions are welcome. Well, FWIW, here's my EL/kmailrc for you to compare to yours [Account 1] Folder=inbox Name=EL Type=pop auth=USER check-exclude=false check-interval=0 filter-on-server=false filter-os-check-size=5 host=mail.earthlink.net leave-on-server=false login=tbrinkm523 pass=ᆲᆰᄇᄇᄎᆳ pipelining=false port=110 precommand= protocol=3 store-passwd=true use-ssl=false use-tls=false -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
Joe Harkins wrote: Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Go to Mandrake control centre - hardware - Xdisplay and alter. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Postfix listening on port 25
don't disable port 25, its not a good idea.. I think that you could take it off your external interface.. in /etc/postfix/main.cf I think you would look at inet_interfaces but don't do that unless you have your mail client to use your ISP's mail server.. then you can just turn postfix off. service postfix stop but if you want to use postfix, and you want it to relay mail onto your ISP's mail server. Then go back to main.cf and look for relay_domains = mail.myisp.com That should get you started. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ross Pearson Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 11:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Postfix listening on port 25 Thanks to all for the help Re: Network Security. I was feeling confident that I have got things buttoned up fairly securely and so moved onto setting up postfix to forward mail to my IPS's smtp server for delivery. Things are working fine in respect to sending my mail but now I seem to have port 25 open. As I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my ISP I can't really see any need for postfix to be listening on this port. So does anyone know how I can go about disabling it. Or maybe its not a big worry and I should just leave it as is. Thanks Ross Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone use Hancom Office?
Nope, I still haven't gotten it to print yet. I cannot find any way to set up a printer with it. I wonder if it is one of the things conveniently left out of the evaluation version of it. Terry On Tuesday 16 July 2002 01:44 am, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sorry i somehow missed this email. i do indeed use it from time to time but have never printed from it. did you solve the trouble? if not i will try printing and let you know how it goes. On Monday 08 July 2002 01:40 pm, Terry Sheltra did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Anyone use Hancom Office? I just recently downloaded the demo version to try out, and I love it so far. The only problem I am having is trying to print out a document. Does the demo version allow this? If so, how does one configure it to use a printer? I try to print, but cannot select any kind of printer that I have setup in KDE, and also cannot seem to find how to tell it to use something like XPP instead. It seems to go through the motions of printing, but does not. I went to Hancom's website, but cannot find any contact information or any mailing lists to try searching. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. - -- The linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself.' That's it. -L. Torvalds shane Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix listening on port 25
Ross, You could add the port to /etc/hosts.deny so that the port is still open, but inaccessible to the world. Miark As I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my ISP I can't really see any need for postfix to be listening on this port. So does anyone know how I can go about disabling it. Or maybe its not a big worry and I should just leave it as is. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDwriting with Gnometoaster
Dear All, I am trying to burn my first CD with my brand new system (Athlon XP 1600+) on LM8.2. I have the Liteon cdrw and it is detected just fine. I did the test by erasing the disk first just to find out if that worked. It did. Then I started to get ready to set things up for recording some audio onto my disc and when I was doing that I got an error message that said: Gnometoaster failed to create its symbolic link area /home/marcia/tmp/gtoaster_cdfs, check to see if you have permission to create files. Does anyone know what I do now to get this working correctly. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thankyou. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] upgrade KDE 3.0.2
Salamat Datang di Linux Mandrake Teddy! -Original Message- From: teddy wl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 6:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] upgrade KDE 3.0.2 I'm newbie in linux, now I new in this milist. my computer was installed Mandrake 8.2, this use kde 2.2.2, How to upgrade to kde 3.0.2 in my mandrake 8.2? Sorry my english, I'm from Indonesia, but I know, all of you understand. Thank you Teddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] upgrade KDE 3.0.2
Oops, sorry about that, I hit the send by mistake. Mandrake did a small instruction sheet for doing this, should you decide that you really want to. It's actually pretty painless. The Mandrake instructions, and download are at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdk-kde3.0.php3 Have fun! Ric -Original Message- From: teddy wl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 6:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] upgrade KDE 3.0.2 I'm newbie in linux, now I new in this milist. my computer was installed Mandrake 8.2, this use kde 2.2.2, How to upgrade to kde 3.0.2 in my mandrake 8.2? Sorry my english, I'm from Indonesia, but I know, all of you understand. Thank you Teddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] problems with /etc/fstab
Here's another way to hang a system: 1. mount some nfs shares. 2. shut down one of the machines serving the nfs share without first unmounting it, and have a filemanager open to the remote filesystem 3. Now try to shut down the client machine. It will hang on unmounting the remote filesystem. (and now you learn to use alt-sysrq-r alt-sysrq-s and alt-sysrq-b) That's a good demonstration of one of the weaknesses of NFS. Unfortunately, for some of us, NFS is a necessary way of life. Imagine a system with a large central server (disk farm basically), feeding a network with 2,500 workstations, and over 5,000 registered servers. Each user must have access to any workstation, and have their home directory, and some data directories available. The only way to do that is that each of the clients is tied via NIS/NFS to the server. NIS serving the user names, and NFS mounting the home directories, and the data directories. NFS/NIS is a necessary evil. I'm not writing this looking for fixes. I've been running systems like that for years on AIX, and I'm just used to the headaches involved. I just brought it into the conversation because of the way civileme was dismissing NFS as to unstable to use. Boeing runs on NFS. As does Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, ATT Wireless, etc... You just have to approach it with the attitude that It can, and at times will, wreak havoc. And it never disappoints. ;) JMHO-YMMV Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] launching apps from terminal
switching apps from terminal On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:15:50 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to launch a gui program from a terminal, then have the same terminal available to do other stuff? Sure. Just put a '' after the command to send it to the background. You have to keep the terminal open though, or your app will close as well. Not quite true. The application should launch as a detached process. Just tried ogle from gnome-terminal and it stayed put when the xterm closed down. The terminal window will display messages from the application while it exists - don't know what happens to them after xterm exit though (xsession-errors?). -- Len Lawrence Not all terms apps are created equally. Most terms will kill backgrounded apps when they're closed. Some of the better mannered ones will try to warn you first. Others will just mercilessly slay it without warning. It's usually best to try to keep track of the background jobs you have running. Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recommendation needed: graphic card w open source drivers
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 01:10 pm, you wrote: snip Same things I say all the time but y'all don't argue with him ; I use a GEF2, mainly 'cause it's the very best card for the one and only app I keep Windoze around to run, M$ Flight Sim 2000, nVidia's latest 30.30 W9x driver. But I use it with Linux with the XFree open source driver, never a problem. So, IMO, if you can get by without 3d accel in Linux, get a GeForce. You might have to anyhow, get by without 3d accel that is, since M$ recently bought SGI's openGL patents, and they could tell nVidia to quit supporting Linux with closed source drivers. 'Course, that's always been a looming threat, even before the SGI accquisition (ie, Civileme's comments, special relationship with Microsoft ). The XFree 2d drivers will survive in any case. nVidia had no part in these, so you won't be completely orphaned. It scares me to think that MS can dictate OpenGL termslike too many other things! I use the closed-source Nvidia drivers for my Geforce, to get 3D stuff for games. I understand the implications. I don't like it though, and I agree with you and Civileme. I've got my fingers crossed that the ATI Radeon 8500 will get open source drivers with 3D support soon, since The Weather Channel is now sponsoring developement for this card. I'd switch in a heartbeat, if 3D performance is on par :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation
At 01:04 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, you wrote: when you say the correct ones are you adding the earthlink.net to the user name? don't. other than that you must have a password problem, where you are using caps and sould not be or numbers and don't have the num lock on? Those are normally good ideas but I am using the identical settings, with normal success, to check mail in Win XP using Eudora. Num lock and caps off, too. That was one of my early check-offs. And, keep in mind that the error msg appears even though there is nothing to indicate modem activity and the server is not sending the message. Further, I have tried using Netscape to check email with the same result. I suspect it's something here in the OS. Maybe a setting that Mandrake wants but that Win defaults? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation
At 10:05 PM 7/16/2002 +0100, you wrote: Well not every seems to get that phantom account. I did not. To get rid of it do this. Thanks. I'm on my way out the door to a meeting but will try this when i return. Regards, joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: CENSORSHIP: 1984-reduced.......? Now OT
July 16, 2002 12:51 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip My 2p worth - I was in China last October - well after the dates in the article. We found the Chinese people talking much more freely than we expected about past and present difficulties. One guide (remember, paid by the state) told us that the government still only allowed foreign news channels into the 4* hotels, for tourists, and that they could not be received by locals. He went on to say that he expected that too to give way in the not too distant future. He confidently talked of a large proportion of the city dwellers having access to the internet, and said that it was expected that even the government would have to admit defeat on that score. The impression we got was that change was still painful to the government, who wanted it in theory but were still afraid of it, and that many of the people, the more educated at least, had confidence in the country to change at a pace that was right for them, even if they sometimes felt impatient. Anne ~~ opinionThe biggest problem facing any repressive government is the fact that the human race doesn't 'tame' worth a damn. The Chinese government (and a few others) is eventually going to have to awaken to that, and stop trying to run their countries as though they were a collective of emperors. All rights and privileges for party members, and the back of the hand to the peasants. They get only what they are given by the magnanimous all knowing rulers. They seem to all be dinosaurs, with no clue yet that their philosophies are never going to work no matter how they're applied. /opinion If they don't believe it perhaps they should ask the Russians. On the same subject; I read this morning (at The Reg I believe) that Yahoo! caved in to the censorship demands of the Beijing government. sigh They'll cave in to anyone, won't they? -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Honi soit qui mal y pense. [Evil to him who evil thinks.] -- Motto of the Order of the Garter (est. Edward III) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone use Hancom Office?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 July 2002 10:50, Terry Sheltra did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Nope, I still haven't gotten it to print yet. I cannot find any way to set up a printer with it. I wonder if it is one of the things conveniently left out of the evaluation version of it. Terry On Tuesday 16 July 2002 01:44 am, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sorry i somehow missed this email. i do indeed use it from time to time but have never printed from it. did you solve the trouble? if not i will try printing and let you know how it goes. On Monday 08 July 2002 01:40 pm, Terry Sheltra did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Anyone use Hancom Office? I just recently downloaded the demo version to try out, and I love it so far. The only problem I am having is trying to print out a document. Does the demo version allow this? If so, how does one configure it to use a printer? I try to print, but cannot select any kind of printer that I have setup in KDE, and also cannot seem to find how to tell it to use something like XPP instead. It seems to go through the motions of printing, but does not. I went to Hancom's website, but cannot find any contact information or any mailing lists to try searching. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. after much screwing around i am begining to wonder if hancom works with cups. my only printer is a remote cups, and it simply refuses to work. are you using cups? have you tried adding another printer type? - -- Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9NJOjBwq+ZwvIN/oRAqKNAJ9JLcfa/UQAdn0YI+ei6K2MVstFKQCfW//S 4wk4O4n/l7rLqjwj9ARooy0= =SwE9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Perl Script
Can somebody tell my why this doesn't work? #!/usr/bin/perl for($x = 1; $x 255; $x++) { snmpwalk 172.17.16.$x public; } Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice
Am I correct in assuming it's impossible to do a network install with the RPM? I haven't tried with the RPM. My guess is that it would do a standard install in /opt, and then the user would have to do the network install to put the files in his home directory. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] running terminal apps from menu
Hi, This one has been bugging me for quite a while. I run LM8.2 on my laptop and I have installed Wordperfect on it. It's from an old Maximum Linux cd. Anyway, I tried to add it to the menu under Office and under 'command' I use /home/bill/Wordperfect/wpbin/xwp These are the directories and the command that I use to start from the command line. However, when I try to select it from the menu, I get the hourglass working in the taskbar, then it just disappears. top and kpm show no process(es) for Wordperfect. What am I missing here? Is it possible to add a command line app to the start menu and get it to work? Thanks and regards, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice
Am I correct in assuming it's impossible to do a network install with the RPM? Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) saith: I am trying to install Open Office 1.0 onto a ML8.2 system. I just did that yesterday (8.1 though). Seems to work fine, didn't have any problems. When I attempt to run either /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup or=20 /tmp/install/setup, either as root or as a normal user, the setup program= It's a two step process. /tmp/install/setup is run (as root) with the /net option to do a network install in /opt, or wherever else you want the bulk of OO to reside. The second install is done by an ordinary user as a Network installation into their home directory -- and the prog to run is *not* /tmp/install/ setup, because that was for the initial install. Rather, you need to run the setup program in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0 (or wherever you put it) and choose Network install. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to get CD Player to work?
How can I get CD Player to work? Got the following error message: CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to /dev/cdrom There is a music CD in the CD drive There is no file /dev/cdrom file on my system, but I do have a Sony CD-RW and I can mount and umount, read and write to it. Also tried XMMS but can't play a music CD on it either, and cannot find any help-button on the control window that XMMS starts. The XMMS control window image is way too tiny to read, anyway. Also, how does one access this list's archives? I've saved about a thousand messages in my Kmail Linux folder, but can't find any on CD Player. joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What have I done?
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 02:38 pm, you wrote: BIGSNIP root 24920 0.0 0.1 1664 588 pts/2S11:13 0:00 grep named That's just the grep process you just ran. OK - done that. Doesn't seem to have made much difference. Seems to me that I should kill anything and everything that I safely can then re-start so that only the stuff that's really needed gets loaded. Problem is, what can safely go? Anne no if you kill it, it will come back when you reboot, and in fact you may have to turn it off in the boot up menu, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: CENSORSHIP: 1984-reduced.......? Now OT
On Saturday 13 Jul 2002 2:26 pm, you wrote: Hello folks, Another one of his rants. :-) THIS is important. THIS might be about the last chance for us all - NOT just the Chinese, but Americans and Australians and everybody else! Please - get into it.. http://www.peek-a-booty.org My 2p worth - I was in China last October - well after the dates in the article. We found the Chinese people talking much more freely than we expected about past and present difficulties. One guide (remember, paid by the state) told us that the government still only allowed foreign news channels into the 4* hotels, for tourists, and that they could not be received by locals. He went on to say that he expected that too to give way in the not too distant future. He confidently talked of a large proportion of the city dwellers having access to the internet, and said that it was expected that even the government would have to admit defeat on that score. The impression we got was that change was still painful to the government, who wanted it in theory but were still afraid of it, and that many of the people, the more educated at least, had confidence in the country to change at a pace that was right for them, even if they sometimes felt impatient. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDwriting with Gnometoaster
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 08:48 am, you wrote: Dear All, I am trying to burn my first CD with my brand new system (Athlon XP 1600+) on LM8.2. I have the Liteon cdrw and it is detected just fine. I did the test by erasing the disk first just to find out if that worked. It did. Then I started to get ready to set things up for recording some audio onto my disc and when I was doing that I got an error message that said: Gnometoaster failed to create its symbolic link area /home/marcia/tmp/gtoaster_cdfs, check to see if you have permission to create files. Does anyone know what I do now to get this working correctly. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thankyou. Sincerely, Marcia Marcia, this is maybe a two part problem, first: check your permissions in userdrake and make sure you have cdwriter as one of the groups. If not add by highlighting your user and then click edit (just in case you didn't know). Then if that doesn't fix it or if you haven't done this, go into gtoaster and click on preferences. On the tab called common which may be the first one up you will see a line called Temp Files , change what is in there to /home/marcia/tmp without the quotes and whith marcia replaced by whatever your user name is. Then at the ISO9660 tab at the bottom it shows ISO Temporary files, change that to /home/marcia/Burn again without the quotes and with your user name. Now that file Burn must be created in your home directory since it is not automagically made. ( I would do that first if you don't have one already). The last thing is, if you do not have the latest version (beta5) on the Gnome Toaster I would get it first as the mandrake rpm at http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/download.html#download install the beta5 as it works better and is faster. Once installed the above has to be done or redone as I recall. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice
to butt in, i used urpmi to install the latest mandrake rpm for openoffice.org and it seems to have done a network install, obviously i was root to installl but as a user the menu items are all there and they work bascule On Tuesday 16 July 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote: Am I correct in assuming it's impossible to do a network install with the RPM? I haven't tried with the RPM. My guess is that it would do a standard install in /opt, and then the user would have to do the network install to put the files in his home directory. Miark -- 'Today Is A Good Day For Someone Else To Die!' (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] fstab (long post)
Hi All, In two previous posts I submitted the following. I only saw the first appear so I am resending both messages as one. Sorry for the long post I decided to put an old Creative DVD 2 X in a Mandrake 8.1 box along with a 32 X CD-ROM. Unfortunately, only the DVD (I think) is mounted although both the DVD and CD-ROM show up in Hardrake When I run kdc the DVD shows up as the block D device but it Hardrake it is a block C device. ( I hope that this is correct because I was using a friend's DSL connection to do massive updates) Anyway, if it isn't I hope at least this conveys the idea. I installed autofs to see if this would resolve the proble but to no avail. Civileme suggested that I forward my fstab and get rid of autofs Here is my fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext1 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cd rom auto auto user,isocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,ro,n oauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,isocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=85 0,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 How would I lose autofs? Thanks Frank McKenna True strength les through gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?
How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already recorded or burned just a few files? After reading volumes of messages on this list, plus the recommend HOWTO on this subject, I finally figured out how to burn a CD under Mandrake 8.1. It's regrettable that there seem to be so many extra hoops that Linux users have to jump through to get some of these very basic tasks to work. I still do not have either xcdroast or Gcombust working because they each require nuisance configuration steps. But I prefer command line operations, anyway . . . once I can finally get the correct syntax worked out. In this case, the most concise and helpful explanation came from Tom Brinkman, although even his required some interpretation and adjustment. Tom described his approach this way: 'bdcd' cd_image 'bacd' (in the dir where the wav's are) or 'biso' filename.iso alias bdcd=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -data (need to make cd_image first, eg, 'mkisofs -r -o cd_image dir') alias biso=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 alias bacd=cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0 -pad -audio *.wav From Tom's examples, I derived the following two key lines which I put in a shell script that I named burncd mkisofs -r -o cdimage /home/joe/data cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0 cdimage But I had to omit the word eject because I got this error message: cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for 'eject'. Can anyone explain why this error message and how to get eject to work? Also, would someone please explain why dev=0,0 works but dev=0,0,0 (which other examples use) does not work? In my shell script burncd I have actually built in some additional functions including variable input options and a log to automatically keep a record of all of the CD's I burn, etc. But it is really neat that those two simple lines are all that anyone really needs to burn a CD. Thanks, Tom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Server Side Includes
Server Side Includes work only if the file is 'index.shtml' i.e. I have 'index.shtml' which includes 'footer.shtml' at the bottom and this works fine. However, if the file has any other name is fails: http://bunyip.apana.org.au/index.shtml http://bunyip.apana.org.au/test.shtml 'test.shtml' is a straight copy of 'index.shtml' - same owner/group, same permissions but the include does not work any more. etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf contains: --- AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml --- The above file is very close to default, and overall only a couple of added virtualhost's have been added. Any clues please? -Ross -- --- Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. {My web page died..RIP} ICQ: 9391313 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Posting Saga Resolved
On 16 Jul 2002, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: I am posting this message so to let others know there is a solution available for those who have to deal with ISP's that are run by brain-dead morons. I had a similar experience. The cable company I'm using for broadband (for reasons I won't go into here) apparently has their mail server misconfigured in a way that makes it impossible for Linux-based machines to download email. I tried fetchmail and every mail client I could think of. Calls to tech support were met by, We don't support Linux. So I continued to use my old provider (evansville.net) for email, and use the cable company for the connection. Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:01:59 -0400, Joe Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Yep, there is. You can find it in the Mandrake Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Perl Script
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:33:38 -0400 Leonard W. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody tell my why this doesn't work? #!/usr/bin/perl for($x = 1; $x 255; $x++) { snmpwalk 172.17.16.$x public; } Thanks I'm just learning perl myself, but, in order to make a system call in perl, you need to either do: 1. system(snmpwalk 172.17.16.$x public); or 2. $result = `snmpwalk 172.17.16.$x public`; Those are back ticks, not quotes by the way. $result is just the exit value of the program. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server Side Includes
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:01:17 +1000 Ross Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Server Side Includes work only if the file is 'index.shtml' i.e. I have 'index.shtml' which includes 'footer.shtml' at the bottom and this works fine. However, if the file has any other name is fails: http://bunyip.apana.org.au/index.shtml http://bunyip.apana.org.au/test.shtml 'test.shtml' is a straight copy of 'index.shtml' - same owner/group, same permissions but the include does not work any more. etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf contains: --- AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml --- The above file is very close to default, and overall only a couple of added virtualhost's have been added. Any clues please? -Ross Are you running 8.2? I had all sorts of trouble getting Apache to play nice when I upgraded. Luckily, I saved my httpd conf files from 8.1. In a moment of frustration, I just copied them over to /etc/httpd/conf, and voila! Todd -- Todd Slater There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not. (Floyd Dell) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:55:30 -0700 Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already recorded or burned just a few files? I don't think you can write more than once to a CD-R. A CD-RW you can, but I have yet to try this in Linux. After reading volumes of messages on this list, plus the recommend HOWTO on this subject, I finally figured out how to burn a CD under Mandrake 8.1. It's regrettable that there seem to be so many extra hoops that Linux users have to jump through to get some of these very basic tasks to work. I still do not have either xcdroast or Gcombust working because they each require nuisance configuration steps. But I prefer command line operations, anyway . . . once I can finally get the correct syntax worked out. snip Thanks, Tom. I prefer the command line for burning, too. The biggest help to me was: http://www.linuxdocs.org/sln/cdcommands/ See also the man pages for cdrecord and mkisofs HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Mark Twain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server Side Includes
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:55:45 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:01:17 +1000 Ross Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Server Side Includes work only if the file is 'index.shtml' i.e. I have 'index.shtml' which includes 'footer.shtml' at the bottom and this works fine. However, if the file has any other name is fails: http://bunyip.apana.org.au/index.shtml http://bunyip.apana.org.au/test.shtml 'test.shtml' is a straight copy of 'index.shtml' - same owner/group, same permissions but the include does not work any more. etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf contains: --- AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml --- The above file is very close to default, and overall only a couple of added virtualhost's have been added. Any clues please? -Ross Are you running 8.2? I had all sorts of trouble getting Apache to play nice when I upgraded. Luckily, I saved my httpd conf files from 8.1. In a moment of frustration, I just copied them over to /etc/httpd/conf, and voila! Todd Oops--I spoke too soon. I have the same situation here :(. Looks like I'll have to investigate. . Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:55:30 -0700 Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already recorded or burned just a few files? I don't think you can write more than once to a CD-R. A CD-RW you can, but I have yet to try this in Linux. i don't know about linux but i would think leaving a cd in open mode of a multisession type would work. no? -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] debugging, compiling, building, and executing c files
After much trial and error on my md box, I gave up on emacs, and decided to use the 'gcc' and 'make' commands in the terminal window. I have successfully managed to use gcc to debug, but am not able to use 'make'. When I type: $ make /home/aru/prog/weekone/2-17.c The program returns: make: nothing to be done for '/home/aru/prog/weekone/2-17.c' I gained nothing from typing: $ make --help Also, after the file is made, how do I run it? This is kinda important for my class, so If you can help, please do so! -Aru Sahni
Re: [newbie] debugging, compiling, building, and executing c files
To start, please try not to send html text, as most people will tend to ignore it. Also, you don't need to have the font at 16 or 18 pt, as most people can see either 10 or 12 pt. Anyways, to use make you must create a makefile. If you don't have one, it will return make: nothing to be done for whatever.c. Do a google search on makefiles, and you should be able to find a tutorial or howto on makefiles. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 11:07 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, Aru Sahni wrote: After much trial and error on my md box, I gave up on emacs, and decided to use the 'gcc' and 'make' commands in the terminal window. I have successfully managed to use gcc to debug, but am not able to use 'make'. size=4 When I type: $ make /home/aru/prog/weekone/2-17.c size=4 The program returns: make: nothing to be done for '/home/aru/prog/weekone/2-17.c' size=4 I gained nothing from typing: $ make --help size=4 Also, after the file is made, how do I run it? This is kinda important for my class, so If you can help, please do so! -Aru Sahni Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 09:53 pm, you wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:55:30 -0700 Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already recorded or burned just a few files? I don't think you can write more than once to a CD-R. A CD-RW you can, but I have yet to try this in Linux. i don't know about linux but i would think leaving a cd in open mode of a multisession type would work. no? You should be able to do it with a multisession and fixate tag. Then the disk will be readable but you can still append new files. I say should HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ipchains question
I need to make a port enables on ipchains. but I cannot find how to do it. any ideas please let me know the port is 6901 Thanx in advance Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] debugging, compiling, building, and executing c files
to use the 'gcc' and 'make' commands in the terminal window. I have successfully managed to use gcc to debug, but am not able to use 'make'. based on the way you are trying to compile a single .c file, i' m not sure you really need make. to compile a .c file and get an executable just do a [user@localhost user]$ gcc -o outputfile source.c that will create the outputfile executable which you can then run simply by calling it: [user@localhost user]$ ./outputfile that should be enough to compile and run .c sources. HTH Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Hobby
On Monday 15 July 2002 11:26 am, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sunday 14 July 2002 2:08 am, magnet wrote: If you are ever in West Thurrock, Essex somewhere near the PCWorld store [M$World] please take the time to pop in to chat with their upgrade assistant and confirm that no... you cant play Linux on an X-Box or PS2, altho you can get a high-score on uptime. Trust me, she will ask if the game Uptime can run on an X-box or PS2! *sigh* All I went in for was to ask if a particular gfx card had linux support (I had nothing better to do), and yes, you guessed, no-one in the whole store could answer. ;-) One for the non-British list members :P Out of interest (as some slashdot and kuro5hin items are difficult to understand otherwise) ... which US computer stores are equivalent to PC World? At PCW employees only know, at maximum, about what's physically there on the shelves, extended warranties are pushed, you pay the full manufacturer's price unless someone's feeling generous, attempts at haggling are met with the Stare of Death and (as noted) PCW is a Microsoft fiefdom. The only good thing is that they usually have an excellent stock of Belkin cables, including obscure ones. Alastair Alastair: Large bodies of water don't seem to make any difference -- most of them here are idiots, too. Say Linux and they get the panicked look of a deer standing in the middle of the road, or else they edge towards a phone so that they can dial 911 to report an evil terrorist hacker on the premises. I did get lucky once at a local store when I was buying the guts of this system -- the clerk was doing graduate work at NCSU in Computer Science, and was a long-time Debian guy. He gave me some good advice, and even sent me a couple of followup e-mails. Sadly, he has soon afterwards completed his degree and moved on to much bigger and better things, so it's back to the blank stare/panic response. As for the original post: Could we cut out this emphasis on uptime? It's a sensitive subject for us older guys. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get CD Player to work?
Josef Lowder wrote: How can I get CD Player to work? Got the following error message: CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to /dev/cdrom There is a music CD in the CD drive There is no file /dev/cdrom file on my system, but I do have a Sony CD-RW and I can mount and umount, read and write to it. Also tried XMMS but can't play a music CD on it either, and cannot find any help-button on the control window that XMMS starts. The XMMS control window image is way too tiny to read, anyway. Also, how does one access this list's archives? I've saved about a thousand messages in my Kmail Linux folder, but can't find any on CD Player. joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com devfs doesn't quite do all it was advertised to do yet... you need a manual link In a terminal window use su to become root then ln -fs /dev/(whatever the CD drive is) /dev//cdrom Make sure the cable (audio cable is attached from the CD drive toi the sound input (either a sound card or 4 pins on the motherboard.) Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to get CD Player to work?
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: How can I get CD Player to work? Got the following error message: CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to /dev/cdrom There is a music CD in the CD drive There is no file /dev/cdrom file on my system, On my system /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to a link in the /dev/cdroms directory. You could try, as root: ln -s /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/cdrom and make sure the permissions are 777 (r-xr-xr-x). Your CD drive might not be cdrom0 though. but I do have a Sony CD-RW and I can mount and umount, read and write to it. Also tried XMMS but can't play a music CD on it either, and cannot find any help-button on the control window that XMMS starts. The XMMS control window image is way too tiny to read, anyway. Yes, that does seem to be a problem - with the Ultrafina skin on a 1280x1024 screen the text is legible but the buttons are not. There is a doublesize option on the OAIDV menu on screen, or in the dropdown menu, or Ctrl-D. That simply magnifies everything, giving a rather blurred image. Also, how does one access this list's archives? I've saved about a thousand messages in my Kmail Linux folder, but can't find any on CD Player. joe -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Server Side Includes
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:55:45 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:01:17 +1000 Ross Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Server Side Includes work only if the file is 'index.shtml' i.e. I have 'index.shtml' which includes 'footer.shtml' at the bottom and this works fine. However, if the file has any other name is fails: http://bunyip.apana.org.au/index.shtml http://bunyip.apana.org.au/test.shtml 'test.shtml' is a straight copy of 'index.shtml' - same owner/group, same permissions but the include does not work any more. etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf contains: --- AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml --- The above file is very close to default, and overall only a couple of added virtualhost's have been added. Any clues please? -Ross Are you running 8.2? I had all sorts of trouble getting Apache to play nice when I upgraded. Luckily, I saved my httpd conf files from 8.1. In a moment of frustration, I just copied them over to /etc/httpd/conf, and voila! Todd Oops--I spoke too soon. I have the same situation here :(. Looks like I'll have to investigate. . Sorry, forgot to mention that...no, I'm running 8.1 -Ross -- --- Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. {My web page died..RIP} ICQ: 9391313 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com